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What I'm seeing is the classic regulation vs. non debate.

What's missing is recognition of the historical precedent of regulating what people can/cannot do with their money in the USA and China's proposed plans to follow suit.

Before the JOBS Act, for 70+ years the American Securities and Exchange Commission was very specific about what non-accredited investors could do with their money. [0]

While China does not have an "accredited investor" status, its version of the SEC put forth a proposal in 2014 that would create accredited investor regulations almost exactly in line with the American SEC's regulations. [1]

Intent may be worth looking at here.

China sites terrorist financing and money laundering as problems with ICO's. I don't know the veracity of that concern, but I do know that citing terrorism, child pornography, prostitution/human trafficking, etc. are nearly impossible to argue against and thus can be used as a means to pass regulations/legislation that is rife for abuse (see the USA Patriot Act).

On the other hand, China banned exchanges allowing people to buy bitcoin in Yuan back in 2013, but today support for buying bitcoin has returned (from the article).

It seems both China and America (via the SEC) are trying to figure out what to do with ICOs. Regulation seems inevitable, but each country has thus far taken a different tact.

Does any of this make regulating/banning ICOs right or wrong? I don't know, but that seems like a different debate.

[0] https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/retrieveECFR?gp=&SID=8edfd12967...

[1] https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2015/10/75384-crowdfunding-...
(See "Challenges: Policy and Regulatory Challenges) section)
There's a bit of a terminology confusion here. When they say "spinlock", most people mean a pure spinlock that spins forever until it succeeds.

"Mutex" on the other hand might have a fast-path that spins a few times before inserting the thread onto a wait list.
First, thank you for your reply and your work.

Second, I include myself in the users of ripgrep (and the silver searcher before), I also dislike the slight waiting time when I have a better alternative.

Third, I'd like one those to be a default package in Debian.
Yes I agree, after thinking about it a bit more and reading all of the responses I get the impression that this model works best if you are hiring people who are capable to make these judgement calls, and those who can't will likely not last very long within the company
> YT doesn't own the copyright of the videos they host. The best YT could hope for is a ToS violation which is pretty toothless.

They own distribution rights. I haven't looked at the contract to see what that covers specifically, but typically it would not allow the same degree of rights as original ownership, though it would include more rights than normal end user purchases.

This can have some interesting loopholes which is how my aunt used to have a library of "screener" videos but that's another story...

> in your alternate universe you are legally bound [...]

Yes, you are legally bound to follow legal agreements. The repetitive wording should be a clue as to how iron clad that is, logically at least (even if hard to enforce).
He also flies... :-/

Elon is cool and all, but his fanboys are making the whole thing really ridiculous. Btw, it might even be true, but can we falsify it? Exactly as in religion (to give it in Karl Popper's terms).
<Is this common at a lot of companies?

Everyone I've been in: Fortune 5, small biz, govt monopoly, r&d lab, retail

One example: a legal department vs. Sales&marketing. Legal believes they can veto marketing decisions. A fuzzy plan to use CPMI was initiated by marketing. Legal said "you must stop"

Marketing said "buzz off, you Legal, are in the 'advice' business. We exercise our right to ignore it."

Several members in sales marketing kept in close contact with legal... Before and after... And were quickly transferred.

Btw, the decision went to the BofD who naturally gave no reason to stop.
Ansys, Abaqus CAE, Dyna, Optistruct, FEKO, AcuSolve, NASTRAN, ... The list goes on and on.
Each bigger DE or partial DE has a huge ecosystem of numerical software around it to approximate solutions for real world applications.

High and low electro magnetics (Maxwell), Navir-Stokes, ...
Ok, so for learning the tech, I would recommend the following guides and articles:

Wallet & Web3 Browser:
- https://parity.io/parity.html

- http://metamask.io/

Solidity:
- https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/solidity/

- http://solidity.readthedocs.io/

- https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/07/12/build-server-less-appli...

Interacting with Ethereum:
- https://geth.ethereum.org/downloads/

- http://truffleframework.com

Tutorials and whatnot:
- https://souptacular.gitbooks.io/ethereum-tutorials-and-tips-...

StackExchange:
https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/
PDFium used by Chrome internally uses Foxit PDF library to read and extract information from the PDF.

Google basically bought Foxit's library and open sourced it - but looks like the open source version isn't keeping up with the upstream commercial version of Foxit because the latest Foxit reader doesn't seem to have this bug.
Even the most expensive tomatoes at AH suck in flavour compared to the cheapest you can get in Spain or ITaly.
> In my opinion BeOS was technically superior in the sense that it was far more pervasively multithreaded, which meant UIs never locked up just because they were waiting on some slow computation or network resource. I still believe it's the case that BeOS on circa-2000 hardware was more responsive than any UI I ever used before or since, including MacOS X on 2017 hardware.

Not true at all, the BeOS ui locked up plenty when using any real apps that is. GoBE office suite would slow BeOS and its ui to a crawl, Mozilla would too, a few IDEs that were around did too. Trying to do anything beyond dail-up networking was a joke. There are a few other apps that did slow BeOS as well but they escape me as I haven't really used BeOS in 15 years.

BeOS was no more than a toy OS, I lost interest in it because Windows 2000, FreeBSD and Linux were more stable and just as fast on 2000-2004 era hardware.
I've been there. Verbal agreement to substitute most of my usual pay for three months in exchange for shares, only that part of the agreement wasn't written down, the shares never came, and when the three months ended the CEO was shocked, shocked, by the significantly higher invoice.

Fortunately, I had written proof that I'd told them this was going to happen (the bottom of the previous invoice), so I did get paid, but I never did see those shares. Shares are a gamble anyway, and if the CEO doesn't read invoices I don't see them lasting very long — I don't loose sleep over this mistake, just use it as a lesson for the future.
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From that link:

> There's no way without knowing what the decorator does whether to endow the method being defined with an implicit 'self' argument or not.

How about letting the code object decide if it's a method or a function, using a meta-object protocol to track when a code object is a method? Frankly, Guido's arguments boil down to "I can't see a nice way to not have it", not "here's a good reason to prefer this style".

> But compared to which languages?

Plain python.
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> First off, bubbles are a side effect of the money cycle which is created by central banking -- both the Dotcom and 2008 bubbles were created by the Fed selling money below cost, building a massive carry trade in, for instance, houses.

I agree, though I think at the root it's created by people investing irrationally and the wisdom of crowds that comes with it. Part of that can be mitigated by good regulation.

> Secondly, if there is a crash, the best thing to do is nothing. Let the people who invested poorly get wiped out-- it's better for the economy.

This is quite a harsh and risky thing to say. It is the fair solution, however sentiment and trust plays a big role in economics. If big(ger) banks had failed back then it would have been much worse for everyone.

> Bailouts are part of the game-- thats how they scam us. Bailouts don't protect us (that's the con.)

I think the scam actually happens through the years prior to the bailout, when institutions close their eyes to the bubbling up of the economy. Once the crash moment is reached there is not much left to do.

Thanks for the book reference, I have a very long flight tomorrow and I was actually looking for some books!
Sorry because I forgot that the juicer is connected to the Internet. Don't get me wrong I love technology but my first thought is we need failsafe backups (:
Clearly a very bad move for China.
Richard Dawkins, KPFA, and the Illiberal, Un-American Left
Talk is cheap, executing is valuable/hard/scary.
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The question comes down to if Chinese hanzi and Japanese kanji are the same alphabet or not. It's not clear what the answer should be, but for Unicode, it was absolutely necessary to treat them as the same alphabet, if they were not to break the 64K character limit (it's dubious Unicode would have seen its modern universality if it weren't a compact fixed 16-bit encoding, especially since the genius of UTF-8 encoding was a rather later addition).

Another point that is commonly missed is that Han unification was first proposed by East Asians (not ignorant Westerners), specifically the Chinese (which is why the Chinese don't really object to Unicode but the Japanese do).

A side note: it's interesting that you bring up ä as an example, because ä is actually a typographic unification of two very distinct letters. In languages like English and French, the diacritic is a diaeresis: a mark, derived from Ancient Greek indicating that the vowel is to be pronounced separately rather than as a diphthong. In languages like German, it's an umlaut, where it's a typographic reduction of a superscript e. They are in fact very different characters that merely look the same.
My girlfriend had an emergency while I was in UK and we had to wait around 5 hrs to see the doctor and had to go through series of rooms each getting progressively smaller than the pervious one. First room had hundereds of people. This was a smallish town near london.
At this point there are enough scams to make people cheer for the ban.
Perhaps a better answer would be regulation in a similar way to more traditional IPOs.

>> an securities sale that doesn't ask them for their ID, and thus doesn't meet securities regulations

Perhaps it's just not a good idea to have such a thing?
Or perhaps the seller side of the equation, where you can't run an ICO without being registered and regulated, is needed.

I know, this circumscribes some of the allure of the whole area - that it's free of regulation, that it democratises finance etc etc. But like other avenues in life, perhaps we are being shown why the regulations exists in meatspace in the first place.

BTW I'm not trying to argue that all regulations and government actions are correct and useful, I'm very sympathetic to the idea that we are over-governed and over-regulated, in lots of ways. But perhaps not here.
https://coinmarketcap.com/assets/useless-ethereum-token/

250USD as in yesterday.
Was that meant for me? I'm for abstracted teaching. Let them accomplish complicated things with comparatively little theoretical understanding.

Letting them sink their teeth into logic and algorithms is much more fun and engaging than sitting them down and giving them the memory allocation talk before their program crashes out because they sliced off the nul-ending from their char array.
self-reported and therefore not reliable.
I'm aware of this, that's why I mentioned it. I didn't accept the bribe and am happy for this to be published under my real name.
You only argued a portion of the point I was making. Simply making a cryptocurrency isn't enough. Differentiating in a way where I would be convinced to buy it, now that will obviously take genius since the mere creation of a cryptocurrency is commodity code. And it's not fair to say that just launching an ICO will mean an influx of money either, that is, token buyers are just shoving money into anything, because I can show you failed ICOs as well.
I wonder how it became Zeta OS, which was sold over some shady TV channels here in Germany.
TDD in CSS – fad or reality?
Do you test-drive your CSS code? What has been your long experience in this? Was this concept of test-driving CSS, an experiment of the past?
Tidy Data [pdf]
Indeed. Not to mention that German politics has both a "Christian Democratic Union" and "Christian Social Union". Let's not pretend that the West is a nice cleanly separated secularist utopia.
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We have a regulation against fraud already. New proposed regulations are about banning unvetted token sales, to preempt possible scams, which is limiting people's contracting rights when there is no evidence of a crime - only a possibility of a scam based on a generalisation.
No. 2013 was a lot of clones of bitcoin with a few parameters changed. Nowadays ICOs I'm seeing involve a lot of very hard work.

The risk is that the teams may way under-estimate how much work it is (And I think that's what's going to cause them to fail)

but they are a lot more ambitious than you are characterizing.
Isn't a land value tax punitive to poor people who buy cheap land which then becomes valuable for some reason?

Let's say I have low cash flow and bought a reasonably priced house in silicon valley in 1975. Should I basically be forced out of my house in 2010 because a bunch of ultra wealthy companies opened offices a few miles away?
Unless you have state run health care, in which case a law enforcing seat belt wearing (I assume that's what you meant?) could save everyone money.
You don't understand why this community is butthurt over the way ICOs work, they're getting a very bad deal with the traditional investing route, so they're furious over other people getting great deals, calling all the projects a scam and celebrating government influence...

Very good HN very good.
Are you... are you trying to prove his point?

>Holy narratives batman

Postmodern narrative analysis as gloss.

>you have ulterior motives for being so disingenuous

Straight into the ad hominem.

>when people who have secure livelihoods in whatever form attempt to "educate" or dismiss the complaints others

Some other form of privilege you just thought up.
The article does say why they are giving Houston that title.

"That’s why 94.4 percent of households in the Houston area have cars—1.8 each on average, according to analyst firm Cox Automotive. Only Dallas has a higher percentage."
OpenZFS is a joke compared to the real ZFS in Solaris. OpenZFS is so far behind Solaris ZFS in features and stability.
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> It's cumbersome to install. apt-get install npm && npm install bower && bower install ... this is about when I give up

Half the things I've ever installed were far more complicated than that.
I have yet to see a good technical implementation of microservices. It always seem to get messy, inefficient and hard to organize.

Everything seems so hard. To follow and debug requests for example. How do you do that in a good way? Running a local microservice application is another.

Maybe microservices is good for very large corporations, but even then I am not really convinced since it seems easier just to learn one bigger codebase that is structured well rather than digging in to many different ones that may be writter in different languages etc.

The hype is so big and the benefits are very unclear. At least to me it seems like there are only negative aspects of doing microservices.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_2:_Judgment_Day
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What I don't get about USA mentality is that Americans collectively pay >600B/year to fund military[0], trillions worth of pointless wars[1] via taxes and are happy about that, but when it comes to paying some extra to fund their own and fellow citizens healthcare (which costs nearly twice less than military spending[2]), suddenly it's somehow against free market and "American spirit". Is it a paramount of government brainwashing, lobbying or something else?

0. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/02/how-us-defense-spending-stac...

1. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-usa-funding/u-s-cbo-...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_the_United_Stat...
> So supporting configurable options takes resources away from implementing useful features.

Customizability is a very useful feature for many people.
It ultimately comes down to what flavour of politics you subscribe to. The key question is whether you think that the public should be protected against the abuses of the free market, or if the free market should be a complete free-for-all. For example, Dodd-Frank solved a concrete problem, and there have been countless studies that show it it responsible for stabilizing the US economy.

But ultimately, wanting to die on the ICO hill is a bit odd. I thought it was fairly clear (at least, it was fairly clear to me) that the whole "industry" is mostly powered by hype -- which leads to people being swindled out of their money. Wanting to protect a completely unregulated industry's ability to fool people into wasting their money doesn't seem like a sane or sustainable position (that's how economic crashes happen).

> Keeping me out of Uber's seed round is a violation of my rights.

First of all, this is a story about China. Second of all, it's a story about ICOs and not non-ICO startups. Third of all, is it also a violation of your rights to not be able to fund companies in countries that are at war with your country (which I assume is the US)? Is it a violation of your rights to not be able to fund illegal activity? I'm just trying to gauge at which point does your view on "the inalienable right to invest in anything" stop short? I would expect that China is trying to come to a decision about whether ICOs should be made illegal or more regulated.
Since growing myself, I have found a whole new appreciation for vegetables. For all these reasons the stuff you buy in the shop can never be as good (at a reasonable price anyway). It takes very little expertise to grow vegetables yourself, that are better than 90% of the stuff you can buy in the shops.
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What's the article name? For me it's "Harvey wrecks up to a million cars in car-dependent Houston"
:-)

> Third, I'd like one those to be a default package in Debian.

Yeah, I'd love that too! I know there have been people pushing on this, but AFAIK, it's stalled on "how do we package Rust applications in Debian."

(I don't use Debian and I'm not terribly familiar with their policies, so I'm not really familiar with the details.)
i'd need proof that it's the middle class that invests in ICOs and not money launderers.
We need an new youtube alternative.
Is it better than ack-grep?

I've been using ack-grep for years, seems fine.
Oops, my mistake, sorry!
>> Differentiating in a way where I would be convinced to buy it, now that will obviously take genius

Evidently it doesn't really though, because we're in a stage where these are magic, and people are investing based on a little bit of hype which becomes self-sustaining.

There are lots of altcoins out there, most with not much value, but slowly trickling along. And there have been lots of ICOs of dubious value.

I obviously don't know what it takes to persuade you, personally, to invest. But it seems not to take much for the crypto-currency world at large to dive in right now.
I have been using Jira at work for the last 10 months or so, and have been using trello for personal stuff for more than a year and a half.

I dunno, but Jira doesn't looks so bad to me.

To be quite honest, "Jira sucks" really looks like a meme to me, that people carry around for some reaons.

I am not a jira enthusiast, nor i am endorsed/funded by atlassian in any way. Jira is a tool to me, and it does it job.
> separation of state and religion

FWIW as I used to be misinformed about this: Germany does not have a meaningful separation of state and religion. We have no state religion so it's not a "Christian nation" strictly speaking but there are a lot of things preventing us from being a secular one:

* the constitution establishes that the German people have a duty to "God"

* recognised (publicly incorporated) churches have special privileges, like enacting taxes on their members, which are collected "for free" by the state

* employees of the Catholic or Protestant churches are subject to church law, which often overrides ordinary labor protections

* Merkel has repeatedly stated that Europe and Germany are defined by Christian values and that her stance on certain topics (e.g. homosexuality) is guided by her Christianity

* we have a blasphemy law that criminalises insults against religious beliefs or deities (rather than individuals or religious groups)

(there are more examples but I think this is sufficient to prove a point)

> I hope that you're wrong and at least according to current polls >10% doesn't seem like a forgone conclusion

So do I, I'm just going by their trajectory in state elections. I don't want them to get a single seat but I know they are still the go-to protest vote and there are a lot of upset voters.
Can you point to the statute where you get that interpretation from? Preferably with court proceedings that show that a judge has actually decided that that is money laundering. Because I find that statement incredibly hard to believe.

Not to mention that you're completely ignoring GP's point, which is that it seems that money laundering may be occurring in an ICO. Is your claim that people only use ICOs to transfer money from a savings to a checking account to pay their VISA bills? Seems to me like there's a more airtight argument you might be able to come up with, given your self-proclaimed experience in the topic.
Or maybe designers should learn to respect the platform's widgets' look and feel, which the user is familiar with and has possibly customized according to their preferences and accessibility needs.
Well you could imagine someone uploading a ton of files with this bug to some service that generates thumbnails of PDFs files and overwhelms it
Postmodernist thought has merely moved down the food chain. It is now to be found on the Trumpian Right, with its "alternative facts" and its belief that perception = reality. See in particular Scott Adams (yes, of Dilbert fame) and his narrative of Trump as a "master persuader". http://blog.dilbert.com/post/139541975641/the-trump-master-p...
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It also is updated very often (I guess to keep step with all the non-public APIs it probably uses). Almost every time I run `brew update`, youtube-dl has an update ready. This might inflate its download stats a bit.
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his job there is to think, talk and send emails. that's doable 16 hours a day (minus some disruptions) for average person and i don't think Elon is average.