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Actually, parental involvement tends to correlate to the middle class. Some studies show there is as much neglect and drug abuse in upper class neighborhoods as in the ghetto. Two career couples do not necessarily do a good a job of finding time for the kids. It is solidly middle class families that tend to do a good job of covering essentials while also having time for the family.

It is more complicated than that. Some other factors are: Schools in "college towns" tend to be better and "neighborhood schools" where less than 5% of the kids are bussed in and the rest live in walking distance also do better than average.

I am not saying poverty is not a problem. I am saying that spending per capita on students in public schools does not have a good track record for correlating well to student outcomes.

Also, if you look at "The Tipping Point," it indicates that poor neighborhoods where middle class and better people are a certain percentage of the population fair much, much better than poor neighborhoods where those people drop below a certain percentage of the population. The lack of adequate "wisdom" being readily available seems to do more harm than lack of money per se. When it falls below a certain threshold, things rapidly come unraveled and you see crime and other problems shoot through the roof.

We are not doing such a great job of creating community in the world today.

I am not saying money doesn't matter. But I do believe that there are a lot of things that matter more and that cannot be solve by simply throwing money at the problem. Hopefully, that makes more sense.
Don't forget about the OS, you probably didn't write that software either (you are doomed)... and even if you keep your password on paper or in your head, there could be a keylogger when the time comes to use that password.
The Mac is Steve's baby.

The i in iMac means internet.

Back in early 2000s, the prevailing silicon valley view is that the internet is and will forever be the greatest thing ever.

The iPod was already a success. Adding a phone to it is merely a formality, and an annoying one at that considering how much negotiations and concessions and leverage had to be applied to Verizon and Cingular before they settled.

But when writing trios, the best is always last.

An internet communications device, an iDevice, is really the evolution of the iMac.

The state of mind at Apple back then is that everyone absolutely knew the iPhone will be ubiquitous.
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Ethereum is a bet that contracts will be able to become digitized, decentralized and trustless to a greater degree. Forget about the technicalities for a second. If it's theoretically possible - what's the value of that tool?

In theory you could deploy a democracy as a contract. You could deploy a currency with a deterministically democratic central bank. You can create crowdfunded employee-owned work communes that pay dividends to member holders.

From a global perspective, if you ask yourself - is there anywhere that could benefit from such a system - and the answer is "yes" - then I think crypto is a great hedge against legacy systems.
You can write Go programs in a certain style that doesn't use GC. It's the equivalent of not using malloc in a C program.
This seems awfully skeptical. The http://nerves-project.org/ project (which puts Elixir/Erlang on bare metal) seems to be gaining some success, and the BEAM VM is considered "near-realtime" and notably features no "stop the world" GC, doing it on a per-node basis (all of which are cheap to create/destroy and are entirely isolated).
Just to flip it around, for the fully-loaded cost of sending 2 people to 1 conference that requires travel by plane, you can hire the keynote speaker to come to your office and train 40 people for 2 days. This kind of arrangement is generally more cost-effective and inclusive since it doesn't require multi-day travel commitments.
It's amazing how unpleasant most media sites are to read. Medium may still be better than most, but, like Gruber points out, they've been heading down a bad "growth hacking" path lately.

What really blows my mind is how awful so many websites from old publications with high-quality print editions are. A lot of these publications had quality standards for advertisers, and they worked hard to design nice-looking print layouts. As a result, even if there were a lot of ads they were at least unobtrusive and often kind of interesting and worth looking at in and of themselves. But it's like publishers are somehow incapable of thinking about a website the same way they think about a magazine.

When I end up on a website that takes fifteen seconds to load, makes text jump around as different ads are displayed and hidden, autoplays video, and pesters me with popups I wonder if anyone who works at the publisher ever actually uses their website. I mean, who, in their right mind, could ever think they were providing an even halfway decent product?

I have absolutely no sympathy when legacy publishers who peddle terrible, low-quality product struggle and go out of business. I mean, I hate to see media power consolidating into Facebook's hands, and it sucks when people lose their jobs, but these publishers have no one to blame but themselves.
> Does Golang have some hidden ... feature

No.
Over the last couple years, I've been exploring this. I can't provide any answers, but I've found all the usual recommendations useful. CBT, Watts, Stoicism, yoga, mindfulness.

Of those, the last -- mindfulness -- has been the most crucial.

I cannot usually control my reaction to stimulus, but the hardest part for me (and in others, now that I observe them) is the identification of the event trigger.

Once you identify what causes things to happen[0], it's much much much easier to adjust the behavior. The event notifier pattern has been most useful for me.

[0] after all, it's kind of ridiculous that a bad incident in traffic will affect my interaction with a colleague.
You're trying to redefine private.

Is the list of doctors you visit private? I could probably discover such information, but it is considered private.

Your address is usually public unless you go to lengths to obfuscate it. You can go to Hollywood and get a map of where all the movie stars live. And, the white pages list your phone number unless you opt out.

Birthday has never been publicly available until this voter data leak. Not good.
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This is one of the reasons I enjoy using Nim; it's that exact split, but within the same language. It's quite a mind-bender to begin with, but damn is it powerful once you've got the hang of it.

For example, today I was doing some homomorphic encryption experiments, and leveraged the GNU GMP library for some integer calculations. Crossing that "boundary" in Nim was the easiest thing I've ever done. Take a high level "ref" type (`Int`) which is actually `type Int = ref mpz_t`: This means I can write nice high-level procs over the top of the low-level GMP types, but also just de-reference any `Int` to pass it to the "real" GMP functions as needed!

I'd love to see other languages explore this, too, as I think it's really powerful. It's my biggest gripe with Node.js: FFI is a bit "ick" the last time I tried it!
No, and this is a growing problem with many public spaces becoming privately owned, like giant Malls/shopping centers taking over town squares. This is a constant battle world wide against developers and private interests, it should be a battle online too, we should be refusing to use proprietary communication platforms.
There are a whole lot of companies you don't want to work for then. Few employers will word it quite so explicitly. But I'd say event attendance is an implicit perk at lots of places. Its considered mutually beneficial.
I completely agree with you about the value of conferences(for my industry) and I've stopped attending them. I find trainings generally more valuable, though they are frequently pricey. One alternative I've also considered is the ability to work remotely/disconnected for a week or so to focus on researching a new technology or skill. For a self-starter I think this could be a great use of time and money for all parties.

Obviously for any of these scenarios to work you need an employee that wants to learn, and an employer who is willing to invest in their employee's growth.
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Capital one takes it a notch higher and Sponsors their employees to attend two conferences. I agree with all the points noted by article. Even though majority of conferences are a waste of time if you already read hacker news. They still do help as noted.
Attending conferences isn't about watching a few keynotes many of which are recorded anyway.
Rule #1: Don't let the people vote, otherwise they might vote the wrong way.

For some reason, Britain forgot about that rule and let the people vote on Brexit. You can be sure they won't make that mistake again.

EDIT: I'm obviously being sarcastic here.
We need a futures market for crypto currencies. It would massively aid in hedging and price discovery. It would be easier for the price to adjust down to since there would be an easy way to short them too.
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You know it's bad when one of the threads in your race condition is a human's fingers.
Yes, and IME they are a big step up from twitter, particularly Reddit.
Browsing the web with 5-10 open tabs is enough to use 100% of my cpu (Firefox and chrome). I wonder when and how things got so wrong.
It said from the DMV. No evidence of that here.

Also, "reselling government data" implies that the government explicitly gave permission to a business selling your data. I doubt that's true. More likely, these entities gathered data from whatever entities they could, probably various private companies from which you've made online purchases.
But a single keynote is far less effective than a 2 day conference in terms of what you learn. Send 2 people. Have them prepare conference notes and present to the 40 when they get back. It will be keynote x 10 (things you learn outside a single keynote) x 40 (all the employees that get to learn from the 2 that went).

Keynote is such a minor part of attending a 2 day conference that 10x is a conservative estimate.

Edit: And that's just "things learned" that doesn't even count the 20-30 conversations had that can spark collaborative efforts.

Keynote is minimal.
None of your postulates are accurate or well-defined.

--I don't know what 'physicalism' means.

--Mainstream science doesn't even claim to know what consciousness is, let alone what it can be reduced to.

--Science does not operate on the principle of causation. The point is to make falsifiable predictions that can, when verified, be considered as evidence that your hypothesis for how things work might just be how they work.

There is just so much we don't know. Using science to justify some new-agey claptrap about determinism is just malfeasance.
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No, it's really not. How do you allocate a data structure on the stack and then call a function passing a pointer to it at a polymorphic call site in Go? (A polymorphic call site is one in which the compiler cannot statically tell which function is being called.)
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Yes, the only reason that anyone cares about their date of birth is that in recent times it has been something that can be used in identity theft. Back in the pre-internet days, nobody cared. People had their SSNs pre-printed on their personal checks too.

The solution to all of this data privacy hysteria is to change our approach. The possession of common facts about a person should not be sufficient to masquerade as that person.
All you have to do is throw a rock at the button on the wall, and a gate will drop on its head. Wait, that's Rancor.
A more likely use case for Bancor is some SMB (store/restaurant) or content creator issuing tokens to be used for membership reward/points or for voting on a new video/project idea, not for Augur/Steem/Gnosis 2.0 to issue an ICO.

I question if their massive ICO was primarily backed by the marketing promise of restaurants issuing their own currencies.

Even if that were the case, I'd still be concerned if this protocol can only be safely used for small-time operators, while any token with any semblance of scale on the chain is thoroughly gameable.

On a side-note, Emin Gün Sirer made a lot of noise about re-entrancy exploits present within the DAO in the months preceding the hack (
http://hackingdistributed.com/2016/05/27/dao-call-for-morato...), so I wouldn't take his concerns about the Bancor codebase lightly, and may even be inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt vis a vis FUD.
How do you know if your birthday isn't in some publicly accessible government database somewhere? Did you try to find it? Did you hire a private investigator (who has quick access to all those databases) and ask them if they can find your birthday?
I'm fine with it being a perk, I meant I'd leave if it became mandatory like those awful company retreat perks.
Let's assume we're talking about developer conferences. Because that seems to be the only kind where we get contention about the value of attending.

Entrepreneurs conference? Can't build that start up on your own. Sales conference? You'd be derelict in your duties if you are not networking over every possible shill you can.

But programmers? Well. We're just expected to glom into some dark corner and crank out code, right?
Possibly dumb question: What is the point of a futures market for a currency?

I understand why futures markets exist for e.g. oranges (seasonal production cycles) and jet fuel (to avoid storing a years' worth yourself). But currencies are available 24/7/365 and have zero storage cost.
Nobody has restricted this conversation to the legal sense.

Is your daily schedule, when you go to work,drop off your kids, what route you take to work protected legally? No, but you probably wouldn't want to share that information publicly either. Yet, in the future, a data breach could reveal such information, and a business could seek to resell it.
Now, now. I assure you once the permitting issue is resolved I'll deliver your bridge.

I just need another $10,000 :p
Why don't you switch to Project Fi? It's a network service from Google in USA which has coverage in lot of other countries internationally.

Disclaimer: I am just a happy Fi customer
You can short on Polinex and Bitfinex...
This is getting off-topic and deeply nested, so I've emailed you. I agreed with everything you just wrote and encourage you to pursue any of your ideas.
The BEAM is admittedly, a very interesting option for embedded systems.
Its a reasonable question: a lot of these articles (which I dont necessarily disagree with otherwise) uses phrases like this one does:

"raised a record $144M" and "raising 9-digits cash"

Which isn't true. They raised 0 USD, and selling whatever the equivalent of ETH they did raise would likely crash the value significantly, such that they'd never see $100M+.

If they sold slowly, and if ETH value stayed relatively stable during that time, and if the exchanges were reliable for large, frequent withdrawls, and if all of this didn't raise huge red flags with the banks and governments in their jurisdictions, there might be something to it. That's a lot of ifs.
I think you have a point there. In a previous company we had Scott Meyers come in for a week for a lot of money and I felt the level of C++ skills in general and also the willingness to learn went up a lot.
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I'm not really familiar with the development process between ZFS on Linux and ZFS on BSD, do these pull requests usually get merged upstream for use on BSD, Solaris, etc?
I feel like the biggest thing missing from OCaml is a Cargo-like build tool (probably using OPAM under the hood for dependency management). It would also be nice if OPAM had better cross platform support. The only way I could get it working on Windows was through one of the distributions that bundled Cygwin.
The Butthole Surfers were arguably more well known than The Slants. I'm reasonably sure that the name was a homophobic slur. They appear to have had a trademark back in the day, since expired/abandoned.

https://trademarks.justia.com/758/05/butthole-surfers-758053...
I've known many the employee who's learned nothing, and achieved nothing attending conferences. The presupposition that conferences are instawin somehow is flawed methinks.
In support of what you said: yesterday I took a couple of hours off to visit an art gallery with my mother, visiting from interstate. The permission I had was "hey folks, I'm going to do this", knowing that they could say "actually we need you here" if it wasn't okay. I've worked in retail, in warehouses, as a medical scientist, in call centres, in various forms of support, and in none of these lower-level jobs could I even dream of doing such a thing.

I get my stuff done and have the same work ethic I always have, but I have a lot more flexibility as a white-collar worker.
But it's missing the module system, which is IMHO OCaml's best feature.
Pointers are a specific type reference. As they are the only type of reference built-in to the language, it is common to use the more general term "pass by reference" to mean "pass by pointer" when discussing C.
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So do you consider your daily schedule, gps locations of where you go, to be public information?

Nothing about the definition of public or private restrict either to being protected by the government. I can consider some information private without it being protected in the legal sense.

That said, I expect that any government entity that released my birthday would be held responsible for a data leak.
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1) You may not be aware that there are futures markets for all fiat currencies, e.g. the USDX for dollars.

2) Currency futures markets exist to allow you to bet that the value of the currency will decrease, by offering to sell you the currency at price below the current market rate in the future.

In markets where there's no easy/legal way to bet that prices will decrease, asset bubbles are common, as "bulls" bid up the price, and "bears" just sit on the outside waiting for the bubble to pop.

If bears could bet that the value would decrease, this would lower the price of the asset today. In this way, price signaling can allow the market to reach an optimal shared opinion about the "true value" of an asset.

There are a lot of cryptocurrency bears who think that the long-term value of Bitcoin and Ether are approximately zero, that cryptocurrencies are in an asset bubble, and that this is wasting valuable time and money that the economy should spend on other things. By betting against cryptocurrency, bears could help to end the bubble in a safer and slower way.

(Or so they say. Sometimes future markets can exacerbate price instability when the whole market behaves irrationally.)

(The other reason futures markets exist is to allow people holding the currency to reduce ("hedge") the risk that the value of the currency will decrease. Thus they can make small bets against the currency, and if it rises, they'll still make money, and if the value falls, well, at least they'll win their bet.)
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It really doesn't need to be a conspiracy to be effective. "Manufacturing Consent" is worth a read.
I'm working on it in Rust right now. Hopefully should have a patch up today.
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https://daringfireball.net is a classic, but good one.

Also, I have been reading a lot of https://hackernoon.com lately.
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If it were, I would let the government know that's not okay. Hackers would be one step closer to being able to sign up for a credit card under my name.

If it's true that that information is out in the wild now, then I expect government to tighten their tech security procedures.
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Sure, the OP may very well have a conflict of interest. At the very least, he has the conflict of interest of wanting to draw attention to his own post. Hanlon's Razor would suggest that the OP simply went overboard in finding criticisms, where only a few would do.

But independent of intent, the logical arguments about trading phenomena make sense, and what's worse, the code smell is very, very real. If you want to see the source for that screenshot, here it is in all its gory detail:

https://github.com/bancorprotocol/contracts/blob/f198f7d6658...

Oh, they say it's exposed for unit testing! Let's grep the codebase for fixedExpUnsafe... nothing. Oh, and it's in the same file as the business logic; the only test for that file is for the end-to-end logic. "Forget the unit tests, the integration test will catch it." Yeah... Not the type of code I'd bet my business on.
Seriously, trustless networks are only good for arbitrage. Everything else doesn't need trustless when its all your own thing you control. Its just a lot of overhead and complexity you don't need then.
I don't know why, but the comment I originally replied to really bothered me and I thought of a simpler example.

If women understood men perfectly, there wouldn't be so many examples of classic male-female miscommunication. AskReddit threads are a testament to this. Take person A who only speaks Chinese and person B who speaks English as a first language as well as perfect Chinese. For some reason they often have misunderstandings, why would this be? Probably because person B doesn't speak Chinese as well as they think.
No evidence here that you can get someone's birthday from any state-run DMV
ICOs implementations have varied, such that while your points about inverse value and transparency of fraction of offering may hold for some, ex. Bancor w/ it's "hidden ETH cap" announced at 80% full [1], it does not hold for many others, ex. SONM capping at 331,360,000 SNM for 117,337 ETH for a pre-determined max ~$42 million ICO [2]. Whether or not the SONM-style, Bancor-style, or some other style of ICO has "most frequently" been done is an open question?

[1] http://www.newsbtc.com/2017/06/06/bancor-ico-starting-june-1...

[2] https://ico.sonm.io/
Same here. I'd be perfectly happy not being paid to attend conferences, as long as I don't have to use up vacation time to do it.
In my experience conferences are just a huge waste of money. I can leisurely read everything covered at a 2-day conference in half a day, and I don't have to suffer through people trying to pepper in memes.

I only go to them because my company pays for them and I can find conferences in cities I want to visit. As an industry we're likely wasting billions on conferences where people just hang out and network with people who can find us better jobs.

I actually tried to stop going to them, but my boss insisted because he doesn't want the budget to get cut.
64 bytes seems like an arbitrarily short limit for passphrases; it's going to be hashed at some point anyway (preferably with a decent KDF designed for the purpose) and 64 bytes is nowhere near long enough for natural English language text to be used to derive 32 bytes of entropy (estimates of English language text are ~1.5bits of entropy per character).
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