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Your idea is interesting so I tried to think of things that employed it in the past.

Basically, you're arguing for stronger creation tools for a narrow domain.

The spore creature creator seems to be an example. It was awesome for the variety and I wish that portion of the game could have been taken up more my the industry as a content creation tool for devs.

At the same time, models in spore look pretty same-y - as is the problem with all procedural content.

Still, same-iness is not always a bad thing.
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Cryptography-related code is incredibly easy to fuck up, and the tiniest mistake can completely break your security model. A mistake that could be insignificant in other kinds of code, could easily be critical in crypto-related code.

Thus, you reduce both the amount of mistakes and the impact of mistakes by avoiding crypto where possible.

EDIT: Yes, this includes using existing libraries. It's not just the implementation of the primitives themselves where issues occur.
Know plenty of European programmers without a degree. High pay and easy life in the middle of EU.

The job market is not so good as in the US but what you're saying is simply not true.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/15/brexit-how-a... is a good background article.
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I was thinking about big fines for noise and the like. If not paid by guest make the owner pay. But this needs time to be implemented (in law and in practice) and nobody has an financial interest to do it. So instead of that, what you have is all kinds of groups that request what sounds to me to be very absurd laws.
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The original Macintosh really seems like it borrowed a lot aesthetically, in addition to the similarity in operation:

http://lowendmac.com/1984/macintosh-128k/

http://www.righto.com/2016/06/y-combinators-xerox-alto-resto...
There's a reason that AAA open-world games like GTAV are using rather limited procedural generation, too.

The problem is that to create N pieces of satisfyingly unique procedurally generated content, you need M pieces of content that were carefully designed within additional restrictions to make them combineable in various fashions - making them harder to create. Then you add code to glue that all together. If you think M=0, that just means you've hardcoded your content in code.

When N >> M - e.g. you're generating thousands of similar-yet-distinct roguelike levels, trees, etc. - procedural generation can pay off.

But even for large-scale world assets, it's frequently the case that N < M. Making the content non-procedurally is going to be cheaper - fewer limitations to worry about, and fewer pieces of content to actually generate. A few clever tricks - rotating, retexturing, tweaking a base model, etc. - let you make a lot of non-procedural content without creating each piece from scatch, and lets you stretch that content to appear like you have more variations than you actually do.
What does that matter if the terms are changed?? The attacker exploited a contract that will be given new terms by the vast majority of the parties involved, which prevents his exploit.

You could possibly claim that the contract requires 100% of all parties involved to amend, but I don't think a contract with such a larger number of parties has ever been dealt with by any legal system.

Add to that, that the attacker almost certainly committed computer fraud, and the attacker seems to have little ground to stand on. Contracts (or loopholes in them) don't give you the right to break other laws.
this indie game designer's perspective: almost all new/modern "hit" computer games are just a revival of the mechanics/elements of some previous hit game. sometimes with little tweaks, always with a different superficial skin. very rare that a new hit game is truly novel.
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That's because they were reactionary monarchists. The nationalising was a throwback to 18th century imperialism. That's a rather extreme form of "conservative". Its not like we're talking worker self directed cooperatives regulated by government for the public good.

Marxist in first international was about extending democratic principles to the organization of labor. When you have a single party dictator snatching up enterprise, you don't have first international.

Besides, the terms are for camps more than anything. It's an affinity, not a taxonomy.
If I were a Tibetan and had earned a Ph.D. in US. I probably would have been a member of the Tibetan elite, I would not be writing in the HN comments section here, but in the NYT opinion section to condemn the Chinese government by now. Wouldn't that be more realistic?

I am sure my cousin in law would not agree with whatever I could have written in NYT as a member of the Tibetan elite though.

What I am saying is that the elite may not represents the best interests of the people they claim to represent.
Keeping it Broad Brushstrokes, it may happen that overall the British vote to Leave yet Scotland vote to stay.

Then there will likely be a fresh referendum in Scotland and Scotland will leave the UK and remain in the EU
Both browsers and mobile frameworks can deal with session cookies just fine. JWT doesn't solve anything there.
It always seems like a loss to me Joe's blogs read he's still selling the Midori C# OS to some extent, and either sees no real downsides to it or doesn't want to talk about them. Like, on the page introducing the series, he says his biggest regret is it wasn't out there so "the meritocracy of the Internet could judge its pieces appropriately," as if perhaps the big problem was just misjudgment in a non-meritocracy. (And, hey, the Internet's judgment sure has its warts too.)

It's fine to try to salvage good ideas from a project that failed at its initial goals (and MS seems to have!), or even to hold on to thinking the basic ideas were good even though the implementation failed. But if he could just be candid about what wasn't right, he could spread those expensive insights you get by actually building a thing, and show a real ability to learn from failures. Who wants a postmortem that doesn't discuss what went wrong? How useful is it to talk architecture if you aren't clear about downsides and tradeoffs?

Concretely: What did the decision-makers who finally canned Midori dislike? What were the performance bottlenecks (and numbers) after all their tuning? Had they given up too much safety by the time they had it performing well? Was it a compatibility thing, and if so what are his thoughts on an approach to that? Was it just going to take too much investment to finish? I think a little candor about the limitations, downsides, and hard-to-swallow parts of Midori could advance the thinking about its basic ideas much more than a lot of posts about implementation tricks.
Same here. My former boss demanded C# for all projects (he's more of a web guy). I protested, but lost. Now we have a ton of hardware interfaces and image processing/analysis routines which are unnecessarily complicated, difficult to maintain, and often slower than they should be.
Isn't Turkey considered Middle East? Wikipedia says it is.
Since most of these seem to be parents or grandparents letters to their children or grandchildren, they're not supposed to be all-weather advice. If you have kids, you understand the morals and priorities that you attempted to raise them with, therefore you will speak to that shared understanding.

If you're trying to say "different people in different situations have different requirements"...

Yes, we know that. And?
> I installed the Prime music app and found the catalog to be so limited (albeit "free" with my prime membership)

I wonder, how does the Prime endgame looks like for Amazon? Assuming almost every Amazon member upgrades, will Prime be profitable without a huge price hike? Something's gotta give at some point.
Since I can't give some coins as I live in another timezone - if you have Paypal I will donate a few bucks.
The two are not mutually exclusive. Either way, my article (http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2016/06/13/stop-using-jwt-fo...) argues neither.
It is, and 3.8% of all immigrants fits my definition of "almost none".
Some demographics:

Remain: establishment, scientists, under 44, high education, mid-to-high income.

Brexit: right wing, extreme left, xenophobes, low income, over 45, primary school education or lower

Sources: many, see for example the latest YouGov poll https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/docume...
>writing an OS in C# and gain insights into what is wrong in C# Performance-wise is great

In some ways, yes, but was C# ever intended to be a systems language? No, and that's obvious from its design. So, what is this really telling us? That the language has issues when used in a way it was never intended to be used?
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Better remove that again. It is extremely dangerous to store any kind of credential in Local Storage. Cookies are the (only) correct place for storing credentials.
Welkeys, la conciergerie airbnb 2.0
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After re-reading your post, it doesn't actually make sense.
Every case is different. This made sense for Amazon because if you're already a Prime subscriber, you may consider using less of Spotify/Pandora/Apple Music/Youtube RED down the road. And if you're not, Prime just became a better value proposition and becomes harder to resist.

You're spot on about the ecosystem. This move is more of a hedge against Apple and Google than against the independent ones, although it will hurt them too. They'll become acquisition targets for companies that want to become a 'media company'. Yahoo tried this [1]... Verizon wants to [2].

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2015/01/27/marissa-mayers-mavens/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go90
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Offtopic, but I wonder what do you intend to gain by writing "$word" instead of "a word".
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Stockholm and Zurich would be my two contenders for a European SV.
Case sensitivity in any programming language is crazy. I can't for the life of me see a valid engineering principal that accepts IsTheOne() and istheone() being different bits of code. Oh sure at a technical level the computer has no problem with... the problem is restricted to those oh so error prone humans.

Can anyone here honestly say that if they were doing a code review they'd agree that solely a difference in case would get their approval?

And don't even get me started on filenames that only differ by case. If that's a good idea then I think trailing whitespace should be significant too!!!
Mindfulness (for 45 mins to 1 hr) helps a lot in combating procrastination. The catch is that if you are a procrastinator, you will procrastinate on trying to meditate also.
Another benefit is providing a standard way to access multiple services at once with a single token. It is possible to force a logout on the server side if a problem arises, and you wouldn't need to store these invalidated tokens in the database because it'd likely be a small blacklist you make available to all the servers (and a blacklisted token would be in that list only until the expiration time).
Interesting about portrait mode monitors, and overall. Was the DG Nova the same machine mentioned in The Soul of a New Machine? Read it a while back.
I am pretty sure that a lawyer who did good work for $80/hr would be in high demand.
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Please don't post any more political-religious-race war comments to HN. We don't want them here, and you've done this repeatedly.
Does this mean that certain classes use the referendum as proxy class war ?
>I'd also write a very different letter for wealthy families. For them, asset protection is far more important than savings. They often spend more energy dissociating themselves from their wealth via trusts and other tax-efficient games than they do actually building savings.

I've always found it weird that so many rich people think this way. They should be less risk averse then other people. If you're rich then you should make yourself a safety net and chase a high risk-reward strategy with the rest of your money.
aren't smart locks a better solution?
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IsTheOne() and istheone() are different bits of code.
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I've had now 5 AirBnB (and copycat) experiences and none were like this. It was everytime a simple "Keys are here, other stuff is there, have fun" Kind of Situation. Never something as romantic as you describe it. How do you find those?
Beyond procrastination, for those of us that have trouble focusing, this sort of thing is no joke.

In 30 seconds, we can go from fully intending to do something that we should do to better ourselves to reading HN submissions and commenting on them.
Doesn't matter. JWT can be read on the client, but it's not necessary. From a typical client's point of view, the auth token is just a string. Doesn't matter if it's a JWT or a random string. The difference is on the server side — checking a signature vs. looking up in a database.
I was talking abstractly about both contracts-as-code and literal-text-contracts somewhat interchangeably, focusing mostly on the effect rather than the implementation. Sorry for the ambiguity.

A well-established mechanism for text contracts to say "this means exactly what it says" would be quite useful for a wide variety of applications, though it would be limited by the need for minimal interpretation of natural-language text.

A form of contracts-as-code would also be useful for the much narrower set of applications in which code can completely describe the implications/performance/etc of the contract.
No. The problem is that people who currently own houses want their properties values to go up.

The solution to all of this is to build so many houses that rent prices and housing prices are driven into the freaking ground. But the rich people who own all the land and buildings don't want them to happen because it would hurt their profits.

The enemy is not airbnb. The enemy is those who are using the government to protect their investments by preventing the free market from building.
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As an Arch user, I agree with some of his points regarding the community. In particular, the attitude of some Arch users annoys me as they think all other distributions are inferior.

Arch is great. It's a local minima. It's the closest thing to LFS with binaries done right. I think minimal binaries are a key thing of Arch. They get rid of a lot of complexity. By avoiding heavy patched packages, I've found Arch much easier to debug and maintain.

But IMHO NixOS/GuixSD are the future as they tackle a big set of issues most distros ignore. Namely making sysadmin transactional and reproducible. Perhaps they're not ready for prime time yet, though.
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The Great Lakes compact was presented in the US Senate, passed through the House of Representatives, and was signed by the POTUS. All these are democratic organs that all the US citizens contribute to elect, meaning that all the states had a say in it. Palestinians don't have a say in what Israel does with their water, resources, economy and land.
"One can’t help noting how often in the novel physical beauty is assumed to be an indication of good character, while ugliness is the manifestation of some moral flaw. This seemingly superficial but sadly accurate observation of how humans make judgments will become all the more important as the book progresses and as the monster—whose ugliness, size, and obvious abnormality are ultimately what make him a pariah—takes over the narrative and tells his own sad tale."

This makes us wonder who the real monster is?
This is really cool Matt, but here's hoping your appointment ends before January 2017 just in case the orangutan wins.
What makes you think Prime won't be profitable? It's $99/year/person (or more if you bill it monthly) even if you never buy anything from Amazon ever.

Their licensing fees for media content are variable, but they will have a large install base and market leverage.

Prime is essentially a warehouse club at this point, but Costco/Sam's Club doesn't throw in movies and music streaming.
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The most interesting thing about many naive Americans' view of the Nordic 'paradise' is the lack of understanding as to how it is able to exist: a small population of homogenous people of similar ethnicity, shared culture, and history that has high GDP per capita and low levels of corruption.

These same people tend to be on the side of unrestricted immigration and mixing of cultures and ethnicity.

What they don't understand is that the average person will not want socialism if it means taking from one group and giving disproportionately to another. This is why America will never successfully have Nordic like social systems, and why some of the Nordic countries themselves (Sweden) are already beginning to show signs that the system will not work if is abused by some groups in ways it wasn't before.
Trust means if you make a deal with them, they'll abide by the terms.

Trust does not mean they won't negotiate hard to get the best deal they can. Trust does not mean they are obliged to show you their cards. Trust does not mean they value your time as you would.

I suspect you'll be very disappointed if you consider the latter to be trust issues.
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Yeah, its definitely Buzzfeed click bait, but there are other interesting indicators of California's growth. For example, California surpassed a number of states in average GDP per capita in the last few years. For example, in 2009 Illinois was ahead of California.
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Did the Alto have a graphical chat system?
For me at least, its more.. don't stand out, hide in the crowd - I've never been one who's good at blending in, I don't need one additional thing to make me a target.
Let's wait a week to see if London is still in Europe.
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Interesting approach...
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The problem is enforcing the law. I'm pretty sure there are enough laws against subletting in N.Y already, they are just hard to enforce.
As most professional programmers do not get to choose which language to use the best way to learn functional programming that you can actually use is to implement pure functions in the language that you are required to use. Look at classic texts like Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs for guidance on the abstractions rather than on the specific implementations.

I write as much as I can in functional style even though I have to use VB.Net.
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That would be No Man's Sky®.
The liability shift only matters if the potential loss outweighs the cost of running all transactions as credit until your issuing bank and hardware support the US Common Debit AID is greater than the potential fraud liability.

For a grocery store <1% per transaction and 3% per transaction is a pretty huge difference, one of my local stores that only takes debit cards still doesn't support chip cards because of the madness with the US Common Debit AID preventing them from enabling the EMV support on their terminals.
To quote myself: "in general"

There are exceptions, sure. But, on the whole, war brings death, destruction of infrastructure, disruption of families and communities, and overall negative results for both the human condition and the environment. There are probably valid reasons to wage war; but the US is a nation of hawks and war profiteers at the highest levels, and has been for decades (refer to Eisenhower's military industrial complex speech, and nothing has changed since then except the numbers, both monetary and in human lives, are bigger and the wars more frequent).
It is impossible to procrastinate if you practice mindfulness meditation for 45 mins to 1 hr.

There's plenty of good research in to the benefits of mindfulness meditation, but I've never seen anything go quite that far.
Nice! I started using Gyroscope a few weeks back and think it is a fantastic app. Never realised it was written in React Native, and this has prompted me to look closer at this framework for our own development work.
This fits in well with Amazons' existing services. Surprised they didn't do it long ago.
> In cities like NYC what Airbnb needs to do is to pivot and build their own hotels under the Airbnb

Why would they do that since their business model is to take as little risk as possible while making a lot of money? it's just like Uber, the law is someone else's problem in the "sharing economy". You can't rely regulate Airbnb out of cities. You can only catch people who illegally sublet their appartements.
That's a pretty uninformed understanding of US culture and history, the western legal system dates back far longer than just a few hundred years (over a millennium).

A more apt comparison is the post cultural revolution government, which occurred during the last century.
Yes, this is the eternal 'intelligent design' vs. 'natural process' question, in a new light. I agree that artifacts look more convincing if they are designed (by a human), but there is still no reason to object to using a computer to help generate a multitude of variants of something based on the original design (constraints), from which one can choose what they like. At the same time, there is nothing wrong with (much) less involvement on the part of a human in generating natural objects - landscapes, trees, planets, or even animals, as nobody has designed (originally) these things in the real world.
It's not a moon, it is a quasi-satelite.*

We know of multiple, but this appears to behave like an actual moon more accurately than the others.

"https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-satellite
So you agree? Our ideas of right and wrong are largely arbitrary so we aren't actually very good people compared to our ancestors. Your main concern is that the examples I used to show that aren't as good as showing that we arbitrarily eat pigs but not dogs?

Your argument using consent seems to be more arbitrary than it needs to be. The legal definition of consent isn't the reason we don't allow those things. That's just a tool we use to decide if it's a crime. The reason we don't allow them is probably because it can psychologically harm the children. I'm not sure about the reason for animals but it's probably more similar to the reason we don't eat dogs but we do kill and torture them. That is, it's not for the benefit of the animals, but something arbitrary in our culture.
Apparently it's been 'open sourced'

https://archive.org/details/functional-programming-python

ps: once upon a time I stumbled upon a FP article in python dealing with designing (not applying known patterns) function call protocols to solve aritmethic problems. Asked on HN already but nobody could help. So just in case it rings someone else's bell .. feel free to reply.
For a second I had to look if this was from the "limit theory" guy but no, RIP LT.
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