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I think this is a great comment as it implicitly acknowledges that /stories/ are at the heart of everything we do. Every action we take expecting a reaction is based on a story we are telling ourself about causality.

I would argue that we need a healthy balance of dystopian and utopian stories but we also desperately need more complex stories. The human brain is already primed towards very basic linear cause and effect, when in fact we are embedded within very complex systems (social, economic, etc) that have very non-linear cause and effect loops.

The blindness you mention here is one that I often see as trying to create change with a very very limited set of causes and effects in the implicit theory behind it. I also think that much of the polarization towards "good actors" versus "bad actors" is a result of overly simplistic stories.

I'm not exactly sure how to create stories that help us build the capacity for understanding and appreciating how complex systems operate, but I think we desperately need them.
The British Empire did it successfully for centuries.

These days, it doesn't even take an army. Anglophone chauvinism is actually growing in many ways. In another generation or so even Japan will have a sizable expat class that stops bothering to learn the local language.
I tried the new Firefox and it is very fast, at least for some things. I'm working on a side project that really taxes the browser so I occasionally will test on the other browsers. The old firefox was very slow for my UI where I would drag things around. Now it is very nice. Maybe better than Chrome. But I do have a few problems. This is too bad because all things being equal I would prefer to use Firefox. So the problems...

First of all I am working on a windows machine. The standard UI elements on Firefox are incredibly ugly, as in they look like something from a java application 15 years ago. That is enough reason for me not to use it. Edge looks the best and Chrome is only very slightly behind.

Secondly, the project I am doing is a sort of programming environment. The debugger on Firefox is not working right for some reason. I am debugging dynamic code (as in code that is not loaded from a source file but instead entered by the browser user). So when I when I tried using Firefox I quit becauseI couldn't debug the code I was writing in the app.

The last reason I don't want to use it may not be a great on but I'll say it anyway - the rendering is a little different between Chrome and Firefox. That maybe Chrome's fault. I think I fixed most cases in my app, but I still have errors of a few pixels. In my particular case I am probably going to target Electron also (or even exclusively) so it makes sense to work more in Chrome.

Just to add some additional info, Edge works really well. In most cases it uses render rules more like Firefox, which is what makes me thing Chrome is the problem there. The main problem I have with Edge is that it works really well until it crashes. I can really tax the browser if I am working with a lot of data and Edge seems to die the fastest.

My main conclusion is that the Firefox team did some great things, but it is going to take more work to really get it to be an all around better or even equal browser. That will be a tough task but I would like to see them do that.
Shinsei bank is no better for business accounts. No help given. Just has hard to open. Only one branch for business accounts in all of Tokyo
>But yes, there should be a general rule and practice that bills don't address multiple unrelated topics

You sure about that? We always hear about the 'bad' attachments to bills, but it's a negotiation tool. Many 'good' bills came to life via the same process, bills which never would have seen the light of day otherwise.
The problem with the Alt-right on the internet is that they often are just trolls trying to be as offensive as possible.

The actual alt-right political movement is just a very small group. I don't think many outside of that small group actually hold the racist and misogynistic views that are expressed on these forums. It's often just backlash at the rapid change in culture. People want to break the new rules of discourse.

The bigger problem is genuine right wing views then get lumped in with the alt-right. Speakers like Ben Shapiro get called alt-right when their views are not racist or misogynistic. Before long people view many right wing views as hate speech. The more they do that the more people react by saying actually hateful things as a backlash. And so the divide grows.
I bet Ethereum futures come within a year or so. Now that the banks are executing trades for one, it’s much easier to add more.
patio - any thoughts?
One thing discord fails at accomplishing is voice activation in their web browser client. If anyone from the company is reading I will gladly write you a python/scipy program that will do the correct real-time DSP for voice activation if you implement it into your platform.

It's a window, an fft, a filter around a primary frequency range, an integration, and an N second timer since the last time the audio crosses the threshold.

Discord's current implementation drops in the middle for words! It's crazy.
To be honest there is so much variability that it's hard to call the US extreme.

For example, in The Netherlands (at least at my previous university) for Computer Science, BSc is 3 years, MSc is 2 years, PhD is 4 years.
Non-research programs ("HBO") are 4 years for bachelors, 1 year for masters.

In Japan (at least at my university) for Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering is 4 years, Master of Engineering is 2 years, PhD is 3 years.
Futures exchanges will have to buy large sums of underlying assets (one reason for the recent spike.) So, in the end a lot of exchanges will be some of the largest crypto holders.
From Wal-mart to Walmart. Saved you a click.
As a footnote, I'm not sure how Goldman are going to novate the transactions - as in, will they actually issue 2 transactions on the blockchain?! I don't see a real need for that, given that the blockchain protects against such risks to a large extent. Maybe their definition of clearing for bitcoin is different to that for standard derivatives, in which case they will probably just help their non techy clients (i.e. many of the hedge funds in Mayfair and Manhattan) execute bitcoin transactions.
So I think we're just talking by one another and about different concepts entirely. I'm not questioning whether punishment as a deterrent works at all. Obviously it does. I guess my emphasis on the morality imperative implicitly led people to believe I was indeed questioning the notion of punishment as a deterrent. I think, given a better medium and more time, we could have cleared this up much better. At any rate now I'm actually interested in how you arrived at your prison views, since religious rationalizations puzzle me endlessly and I'm always out to see if a religous person who arrives at a good conclusion in my view has any insight to offer me in convincing other religious people to change their ideas as well.
So, your argument is that they're completely different due to things which are completely irrelevant in the eyes of the law? Ok.
Website looks open-source too, FWIW. https://github.com/pioneerspacesim/pioneer-web
Facebook please, don't make another chat app
We're absolutely looking at it! Please join our discussion, we'd love to talk about what you're building and if we can help and/or what you'd like us to OSS.

Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubeflow
Yeah this is a deal breaker for me too. Phone number is also no good. If you want to target people who value privacy, offering email and password signup is really a bare minimum.

Also, I do online shopping on my desktop browser much more often than I do on my phone, so the lack of a web app and web extension makes the app much less usable for me.
Another question (this is just my ignorance) but...if BTC has a fork, does that mean that the new fork has a new entire supply? I thought the "value" in BTC is that there is a limited supply and it can't be degraded like a fiat currency. If you can just keep forking...how is that not immeasurably increasing supply just like the ECB and Fed do?
I wouldn't really say their client works in that sense considering how notorious it is for flunking out in completely random ways (i.e missing push-to-talk release events, suddenly deciding your speakers or mic don't exist, not lighting up people who are speaking, the UI randomly blanking out, etc). It's probably the worst of the bunch in terms of bugs other than maybe Skype. Not that anyone picks their chat/VoIP client based off that either way; we all happily used the 2011-era Steam client, and that was a legendary kind of awful.

Also, I can't be the only one who can single out Electron/CEF apps just from how bad the input delay is. It gives me the feeling of it being made of cheap plastic.
Just recently I learned about StopGap[0] after my neighbour attended a fundraiser. The ramps.org mentioned in sibling comment looks pretty US-centric but StopGap is based out of Toronto.

[0] http://stopgap.ca/who-we-are/our-vision/
Net neutrality would preserve content for online services by preventing ISPs from acting as service gatekeepers; it would have minimal effect on ISP competition, which itself was minimal even before the effort at general regulation rather than slapping-down individual egregious violations in the pre-2010 case-by-case regime.
We're looking at a bunch of deployment packaging solutions, helm is probably one of the top ones!

Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubeflow
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Of course any powerful intelligence can understand that we wouldn't really want that. The question is why would it care about what we really want? Its core values would be that more paperclips is good, and doing what humans really want is evil if it results in less paperclips.

Currently, we don't know how to properly define "do what I mean / do what we really want" goal in a formal manner; if we had an superpowerful AGI system in front of us ready to be launched today, we wouldn't know how to encode such a goal in it with guarantees that it won't backfire. That's a problem that we still need to solve, and this solution is not likely to appear as a side-effect of simply trying to build a powerful/effective system.
We're always ready to talk roadmap - anything in particular you'd like to see integration-wise?

Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubeflow
It reminds me of privileged people who dont care about safety nets, rich people who dont care about high taxes, innocent people who couldnt care less about throwing weed dealers in jail for 10 years, healthy people who have no concern for healthcare costs...

People lack the imagination to really put themselves in others shoes. They are shitty and cruel when they cant empathize. And they have little incentive to try.
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Why would Visa/MC do that? It doesn't seem any different than metering any other service (eg Mailchimp invoicing monthly vs per email).

I'm not saying you're wrong- I just don't understand what leverage the CCs would have.
Why is deflation bad?
Nice! Something like this is super-important for user experience.

This is a problem we've thought a lot about with Pyret, and have different concrete solutions. Rather than use heuristics that turn long-running computations into errors, we capture continuations and yield to the browser periodically. This allows long-running computations to eventually complete, while allowing the user to fully interact with buttons and the page while it's happening. This generalizes to nice abstractions for functional event loops and ways to manage asynchronous APIs for novices.

The Doppio JVM and the Whalesong compiler for Racket have similar underlying approaches.

It's quite a bit of effort to work around this inherent limitation of the browser's evaluation model for web-based IDEs!
This is really cool.

I toyed with the idea of visualising travel time using colour heat maps.

London tube map https://tubermap.com/

(in the options you can turn on 'times').

I'd love to see the transit authorities themselves put together something that encompasses all the possible forms of transport. Metro/bus/cycle etc.
Tangent, anyone know where there's an altitude/elevation map of the NYC subway tunnels? Everything I've ever been able to find assumes they're completely 2D.
> He then wrote a $6,000 personal check for the reexamination fee... “It’s definitely not a drop in the bucket for me,” he says.

> Swildens tells me from his home in Los Altos Hills, near Mountain View.

I can't help but feel that he's not being totally genuine here
It doesn't make life any easier on Android, because you can install apps remotely through the Play Store.

All it does is drive away privacy conscious users who generally aren't willing to hand out phone numbers to random websites.
Land wealth was also weighted to early adopters.... Gold wealth was weighted towards early adopters...
What's wrong with push-to-talk?
> Has anyone discussed the future of forks with respect to futures?

The reference bitcoin index for futures is well-defined: http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/files/bitcoin-reference-rate...

I would guess that this was done in collaboration with the relevant exchanges. So forks are pretty much a don't-care for the futures that begin trading in the next two weeks.
May I ask what field you are in and how you managed to get your foot in the door without a college educations?
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The problem is that that $1 pledge is no longer just $1. It's bait and switch math.
I’ve never heard of Shinsei bank. My accounts are at UFJ, and obtaining them was my second proudest achievement in Japan after my driver’s license.
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I love this site. I bet there are many college students going through the Bitcoin Diet right now...
Author here. This originally appeared in 2005, when I blogged on a different platform.
The Nazis built good rockets.

Just because you don't like someone's politics doesn't mean they can't do other things well.
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> Swildens ended up selling Speedera at a discount to Akamai for $130 million

You’re not the only one.
They could be paid by parties that don't like Bitcoin, though...
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Did you actually read the link?

Seems like she very specifically wants to draw LESS sympathy for herself, at least over this. From her description, her husband doesn't seem keen on letting his disability slow him down or prevent him from living life either.

As far as the demanding accommodations go, I think ramped entrances and handicapped parking spots are pretty reasonable standards, ones which have been legally mandated for many years now. While I commend your father for finding folks who respect him to do business with, I cannot agree that it is morally wrong to demand equal access. The American Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act both exist because it was determined that equal access to public businesses and accommodations is a moral imperative, and a right even. I don't think the author is out of line for being frustrated that in 2017 it's still difficult to do something as benign as go out to eat with someone who uses a wheelchair.
Honestly, it could mean some really bad things. But as another comment pointed out, they'd need a financial incentive to counteract the bad press. And oh would there be bad press.
Discord is a carrier, not a social platform. Its communities are isolated bubbles. To join them you need an invitation. This is completely different from something like Facebook or Twitter where anybody can join and immediately begin harassing existing users. If you invite somebody to your Discord channel and they start harassing you then you can simply ban them. There is no need for Discord staff to get involved.
Anecdotally from living there for a few years, it was way more common to meet older expats living there with little to no Japanese than it was to meet younger expats, so long as they weren't totally brand new. There's quite a few people who went there during the bubble period that seem proud of the fact that ordering a beer is the extent of their Japanese despite living there for years.

Its much easier to learn the language now with the internet, and Tokyo offers near free lessons all over the city that are staffed by volunteers. Had one friend who came in with absolutely zero Japanese and by the end of his first year was understanding conversations. I see the opposite happening.
Whatever you do, don't invest in quantum computing.
> sent back for remedial history class

Holocaust deniers aren't people that just haven't heard of the event because they weren't paying attention in nineth year. They believe that there's a global conspiracy to perpetuate a lie, and that that conspiracy is effective enough to fool most of the world (but not them!).

I don't think sending such a person to a lecture told by "them" is going to change their mind. It's much more likely to perpetuate their persecution complex.
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It's obsolete and only needed because their software is broken.

Skype, Google Hangouts, teamspeak, ventrillo, mumble, and tox all support my microphone and voice activation correctly.
Unless you can find a way to implement a way to reverse a hash efficiently using a quantum algorithm, I wouldn't hold my breath.
Here's 1,605 pages of defined behavior. What language are you comparing it to with more completely-defined behavior that can be translated to efficient native binary code for as many different architectures?

https://www.iso.org/standard/68564.html
It tends to fail to register the key being released for one, even occasionally on the desktop client.

Last time I tried it the browser app was especially prone to this, to the point of rendering push-to-talk completely unusable.
Where do you find these assessments?
Basically extremely low chance of windfall, plus transaction costs. Most brokers charge you to place an order; even if the price is just a few pennies, if your chance of that order actually being filled is one in an extremely low number, you're still losing money on the deal. Additionally, "good till canceled" orders (which is what you want to use here) are time-limited on most exchanges, typically to 30 days. That means you need to spend mental bandwidth refreshing them every month, which for something that has an infinitesimal chance of paying out, usually isn't worth it. (I basically let my order lapse after a month because I forgot about it.) The orders exist because out of millions of market participants, somebody's going to place one, but it generally isn't cost-effective for that person to be you.

With regulated exchanges like the major stock ones, you also have to worry about your transactions being invalidated, eg. in the 2010 flash crash nobody who did this actually got paid out because the exchange said "Oops, software glitch" and canceled all transactions before settlement (with the stock market, you don't actually receive the stock until 3 days after you make the transaction).
Hey, you are the developer aren't you :)

I will attempt to come up with a test case. Mostly I just noticed when resetting Firefox or with a new install, "hey this is snappier than usual" until I install uBO. Not sure if it's resources, UI responsiveness, or rendering speed. uBO is awesome, and I appreciate all the work.
When I contacted them back in April when they were doing this, they mentioned changing over to billing monthly based upon when you first started backing a creator.

So instead of being charged once at the beginning/end of the month, you would instead be charged on the monthly anniversary of when you started backing someone.

I'm not sure they're (thinking about) switching over to this (yet), but I've seen mention of this in comments online, so, could be.

EDIT: They are:

> To do that, we need to move our payments system to treat your pledges like any other subscription service. In other words, we need a system that charges patrons at the time of their initial pledge, and on the anniversary of their pledge each month thereafter.
The way I read the parent comment is that using DRF helps you building a truly RESTful API.

I think the "it" in the sentence:

> DRF makes it almost impossible if used correctly.

Refers to

> claim to make "REST APIs", but they fall so short in a lot of aspects
It's safe. There are fewer homicides in the entire country of 125 million than just the city of Chicago each year.
First of all big fan of Pyret. And I (the author) did something similar in the past and I totally agree it's the way to go. What I did is exploded every JavaScript program on statements, wrapped function calls with thunks, and then converted the program and every function to a generator and inserted a yield statement between every other statement.

See https://amasad.me/js-debugger

It worked well enough and was able to build a couple of demos on top of it (last time I checked chrome broke some of my demos so try them on other browsers). However, I think it's quite a hack and that the proper solution would be to build a JS VM. There are still issues to be worked out there like the problem that you can't instrument native code (say an event handler, or built-in functions) and that there are things that are inherently synchronous in the browser that you can't make async (e.g. event bubbling).

However, one of Repl.it's goal is to support every language ever existed so building and maintaining our own virtual machines would be quite an undertaking for our 3 person team.

What I'm hoping for is that we sometime soon leverage WASM to compile down an existing JS VM.
> Because quite honestly? I’d read your business plan any day. Your résumé would look better on top of a funding proposal, than under a cover letter.

Wow, what a way to sum up such an topic! Thanks.
Aye. My Vitamin D pills are 1,000 IU and recommended to use 1 per day. I will up that now.

This sort of info is awesome. Thanks, HN.
Coinbase fully insures all digital currency against losses resulting from a breach of Coinbase’s physical security, cyber security, or by employee theft.

If you're in the US, fiat deposits are covered by the FDIC just like bank deposits up to $250k:

https://support.coinbase.com/customer/portal/articles/166237...
Why would it get you kicked off?
> How many companies will hire the arbitrator that is pro-consumer?

Are the arbiters really hired by the company?
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No, the forked coins and the original coins aren’t fungible. It’s more like me saying “show me your dollar bills at the time of the fork and I’ll give you an equivalent amount of Monopoly money”. It’s not going to be worth anything unless you somehow convince a bunch of other people it’s worth something, and even then it’s likely going to be worth far less than the original coins because fewer people will accept it and it will be easily attacked due to lack of hashing power.