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Probably premature since it appears that 23andme ignored the FDA for six months.

Great that they are supporting bitcoin but encouraging people to deposit coins to build a balance at namecheap is the wrong way to go about it. Bitcoin's sweet spot is in making payments trivial, no need for a balance held on their servers.

If you want to use bitcoin, you cannot trust third parties to hold your coins for you.

As far as I know, this is untested in court for online documents. There is an argument that says that each HTTP request is an act of publication, thus updating the copyright date to that point in time. It's not a view I subscribe to personally.

You are mistaken if you think it's an alternative. From their site: "Buttercoin is a free, white-label bitcoin exchange"

They make money on game licensing for sure, but the economics of consoles is based on the falling cost of production over the lifetime of the console. That's why consoles have 5+ year lifespans.

Cash doesn't leave a publicly available audit trail of every exchange.

Yes, it parodies the usual scaremongering responses given in response to leaking/whistleblowing: pedophilia, terrorists, dirty bombs etc.

Try reading Henry George for an externalities based approach to land ownership.

Java stepped into a natural void. There weren't many safe GC-based languages being used in the Enterprise at that point.

> What government policy led to the dominant monopoly of Standard Oil?

Where did their mineral rights come from?

I can conceive of property existing without government.

Wow, the comments are so heavy and downbeat on this story. There seem to be 2 main arguments:

Various people are saying it's a pyramid scheme and therefore a con. I don't see it myself. A pyramid scheme generally doesn't have a physical product and crucially requires a number of tiers recruiting new members. Origami Owl just appears to be a straightforward direct sales model akin to Tupperware or various cosmetics parties (e.g. Avon in UK). The reps buy stock, arrange the parties and sell it. That seems to be entirely legit.

The second bone of contention is with the use of the word "designer" as a name for the sales reps. Hardly the crime of the century. Tupperware call their reps "consultants" but they don't charge consultancy rates. It's just in keeping with the theme.

I think we should be celebrating this young woman's initiative in seeing a market, finding a product that fits and building out the business.

Just do go build -compiler gccgo hk to build using GCC

Principle is the same in any language. They all provide a way to parse the arguments passed in. You need to examine those and call the right code based on the argument name. Look for something called ARGV or similar in your language. For example:

node.js - http://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/process.html#process_proce...

python - http://docs.python.org/2/library/sys.html

ruby - http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-2.0.0/ARGF.html#method-i-argv

Are you asking how to do this in Go or how to do it in general?

Here's how the hk app does it: https://github.com/heroku/hk/blob/master/main.go#L120

Basically it reads the arguments to the executable and matches them against a built-in list of supported commands and dispatches appropriately.

You misunderstand. If you did that then your name would appear on the competitors pages as the funder of edits to that page.

If you need control over the version and features of the browser your employees use then disable automatic updating and use a management tool instead.

So you think perpetuating the use of Java in the browser is a reasonable response to the security risks it presents to those corporates?

This action by Mozilla raises awareness of the fact that Java security updates are too slow and too opaque and it's time to change to something else.

I doubt it. Apart from the odd algorithm demonstration I haven't found a need to enable Java in my browser for the past 10 years.

But it's still illegal to publish pornograpy in Iceland isn't it? http://www.althingi.is/lagas/nuna/1940019.html#G210

An earlier commenter mentioned that he/she found it unpalatable unless it was cold

For the same reason they don't count the cost of refrigeration of soylent

Iceland isn't an online utopia, as the current proposal for online censorship demonstrates: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/feb/25/iceland-seeks-i...

Although, for the most part, it has good intentions.

Not a very convincing argument. See for example, http://jsbeautifier.org/

I think it will stand the test of time. The simplicity and explicitness of its syntax means anyone can understand a Go program within minutes. That's going to be a huge positive for code maintenance in situations where the original application team has moved on and code has to be maintained by 2nd or 3rd generation programmers.

The web is characterised by all code being visible by default, e.g. "View Source" in every browser. It's agnostic on whether you can charge for that source code, but in practical terms it's pretty tough to publish openly readable source and expect people to pay for it.

Great resource thanks!

A 100MB per request is going to seriously limit scalability (or inflate hardware costs at least)

Because HN users upvoted it

I do this exact same thing