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Oh yeah! A topic I know and about people I actually know!

> Basically, very complex board games that are intended to simulate real-world strategic situations.

Yes, and they aren't just war games. They are games involving humanitarian crisis's and what not. See the game Aftershock[0] as an example (both designers are friends of mine).

The reality is, using games to "game out scenarios" are an interesting tool, even in tech. Think about things like game days, where you take down parts of a service to see what happens. Its better to solve these problems in a "game" rather than in the real world. Think beyond war, but anything that involves challenges.

"AFTERSHOCK: A Humanitarian Crisis Game is a boardgame that explores the interagency cooperation needed to address the emergency and early recovery phase of a complex humanitarian crisis."

Some really interesting things.

[0] https://paxsims.wordpress.com/aftershock/
As interesting as an idea as this appears, I am hesitant to think that it would do anything other than distract me even more.
Haha wow good catch – updated!
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It's no secret that the 2013 Mac Pro was a failure and a design mistake. Apple admitted as much.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/06/transcript-phil-schiller-c...
That's totally fine. I do not even a little bit agree with you, but it's fine to be a hard libertarian or an ancap. But most people aren't ancaps, so a persuasive argument against ICO regulation is probably one that doesn't depend on your audience themselves being ancaps.
Q was the subject of an awesome presentation by Tim Thornton at YOW! Lambda Jam 2016.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGIPmC6wi7E
> Why shouldn’t people be able to take risks they’re comfortable with?

Because when enough of these nimrods makes the wrong decision at the same time, you get catastrophic failure and the rest of society is left holding the bag.

They then go whining to the government which, in turn, enacts regulations to keep these things from happening again.
Thanks :-) You can read more about my personal view here: https://mat.tm/joy/#why
Sorry for ranting. I've been reading articles like this one for many years now, and I've certainly learnt a lot through them. Lately though, it feels as though we as a profession are just going around in circles, not making any real progress.

More and more, these articles remind me of schoolyard wisdom, the kind people love to throw around because they sound wise. "Winners never quit." "Quitters never win". "Quit while you're ahead". Taken individually, they all sound perfectly reasonable and wise. Put them together, and clearly there's something wrong.

This article strikes me in the same vein. "YAGNI. Keep your code as simple as possible. Focus on your code as it is right now, and not what's going to happen in the future". "The only constant is change. Business requirements are always in flux. The mark of good code is the ability to change its behavior without overhauling everything". Taken individually, they both sound perfectly reasonable, but put them together, and something is clearly wrong.

Maybe it's time we accepted that there is no one right way. No one all-important metric or rule that trumps everything else. That simplicity is important, that conciseness is important, that DRY is important, that being able to adapt to future changes is important. That good code finds a balance between all of the above, without sacrificing one on the altar of another. That instead of writing articles trying to elevate one over another by attacking strawmen, we should instead present realistic code examples, thorough which we can have a grounded discussion on how best to find the balance between all the different qualities that comprise good code.

It's not going to be as easy or fun as simply declaring "X considered harmful", but it's going to help elevate the quality of our discussion, and help our profession progress to the next level.
So, I actually know the guy in black (Rex), and he's actually really good story teller. He runs this blog: https://paxsims.wordpress.com
I don't. I think the allegations against Weinstein were severe enough that they could have stood alone, and didn't vastly benefit from the cultural change that Susan started with Uber. The point being made was that Weinstein might not have happened had Susan and Uber not happened, and I'm not sure I agree with that. Which is NOT to say I discount anything that did, which I'm guessing from voting I did not express clearly enough.
It's trying to settle itself as the silver of bitcoin's gold. Since it has solved the scalability issues bitcoin is now facing since its inception, the expectation is in the future people will use bitcoin only for big transactions and storing value, and litecoin for paying coffee.
If we're just recapitulating the statism-vs-anarcho-capitalism argument, we can probably put a bow on this part of the thread and everyone agree to disagree.
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Will be easy, i think to evade:

- setup a system that looks like it will increase value of your token over time

(as MUN case: “As more users get on the platform, the more valuable your MUN tokens will become”)

- don't make any promises about increase in value/income about your token.

- let people discover and share, or promote on side channels.

IANAL but as far as I searched, I guess as long as you don't make any value increase claims etc, you are totally safe
The case where you can actually know why is the best one. More often than not there is no obvious reason why the damn thing is open.
The allegations against Weinstein are mostly years old though. Is it just coincidence they were raised in this current climate? Fowler's revelations contributed to an environment that made it easier to speak up.

Edit: The reason I find Fowler somewhat unique is that her background, credentials, writing skills, etc, made her hard to dismiss. It was very believable, perhaps to some that might have tended to challenge similar stories.

So it seemed to open a door for women that had similar stories, but not the same level of gravitas. It also primed the media to pay attention to this area.
>Sure there are lots of people who are buying crypto because they think they'll make loads of money but a significant portion of us are in it because we dislike the infantilizing ways the current banks hold us hostage.

...But if you were beaten and robbed on your way to the bank, that check would be worthless to the thief. If your bank went insolvent, the FDIC would cover your $60k. What happened to depositors when Mt. Gox went belly up? What happens when that same thief hacks your wallet instead? There are many positives to our current banking system which you seem to be dismissing. Namely accountability. Perhaps once these things are well regulated and backed by legitimate business it will see mainstream use. But crypto is literally nothing but a speculative game and means for laundering money at the moment.
I don't doubt the quality of GT, but rankings, especially the worldwide variety, are absurd at their face, and they are part of this self-destroying system that is causing runaway education costs.
Hmm, good catch. Let's see how it plays out :-)
Storify was a good product, used it in the early days. Shame to see it going down.
Let me guess, do you live in USA by a chance?

My first hand experience (2017) is that US banking oferring (from a european guy perspective) is a eyes opening experience.

* There is no instant bank wires (free ones) between major banks. Or at least the same days ones, working reliably through most of banks.

* You get paper checks from your bank :)))))

* Small business (sold a car, got a return from landlord) give you money on checks, also accept only paper checks if you need to pay them on the spot (in the office).

* your bank charges you a monthly fee, to protect you from overdraft (wtf is this on debit account??), he shall block from happening at the begining - we call it "protection racket" in Italy.

* boa/citi and others have websites with design from 2005, not to mention mobile apps..

* you can't send money from bank account to a different
bank to your unsophisticated friend (plumber, maid, or mr sandwich) just knowing his phone.

* when you withdraw money from coinbase to your connected US bank account, you pay 1,5% of face value. WHAT? PERCENTAGE FEE? This is USA banking thing, as the very same coinbase, charges fixed 0.15 EUR fee per no matter how big wire if you're european.

* major us banks got two factor just two years ago in terms of security.

* tap to pay (we call it paypass) is also almost 10 years after europe.

* first chip card in citi was offered to me in 2015 or 2016? Still magnetic (easily copied) card is used in majority of points in the USA

etc..

Some of them are chaning in the last two years, but mostly for sophisticated customers, small banks, and people not being able to use those features between different banks. It will still take a lot of time to catch up with a Kenya from Africa...
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I agree with the author that performance optimizations for the vast majority of the code we're writing are usually not addressing significant bottlenecks, but they should still include benchmarks.

I put them here:
https://jsperf.com/advancedweb-test/1

The for loop executes 20.64x faster in V8.

Again, I think that iterator functions are great and should definitely be used, but it's important to know the cost.
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If the coin represents ownership of a resource (or a right to a resource), it can be a security (though it might be a derivative instead, governed by a similar but entirely separate set of rules).

Being a security does not mean it can't also be something useful; it just means that the security aspects of it are potentially subject to securities laws.

EDIT: Beanie babies aren't securities because you actually the beanie baby. However, a piece of paper entitling you to ownership of a beanie baby could be a security.
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Then you will greatly relieved to hear that as of 2010 all major browsers cache content delivered over HTTPS.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/174485/262789
https://caniuse.com/#feat=websockets

Most nativity support it now.
This honestly sounds like snake oil. It’s even got all the requisite buzzwords.
The thing is, the real world development is not as fun as Computer Science, some parts at least. Think of it as a recreational activity, similarly to reading belletristic or listening to music.
Notes from my KX/kdb experience:

1.) The in-memory DB .exe was around 500 KB. Imagine that.

2.) The Q language syntax, while consistent, is fairly arcane and throwback to decades past.

3.) The documentation and driver support is abysmal.

4.) It's supposedly extremely fast, but I can't help but wonder if this is a lot of successful PR and hype (like hedge fund bosses insisting on Oracle because it's the only db that 'scales')
Wait, async/await and co-rotines are completely different concepts, aren't they? the former just separate the moment of execution from the moment of receiving the result, the latter allow to execute the code in parallel. In browser the parallelism is only possible with web-worker.
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"But to address the direct issue: there are few, if any, Uber stockholders who hold 10,000 shares of the company but would somehow not qualify as an accredited investor."

The article suggests there are folks who exercised 20,000 options (presumably representing one share each), but who had to borrow the money to exercise and to pay tax. Are you suggesting these people probably qualify as an accredited investor, or that their situation is unusual?
Even better, I should sell just a paper (well, an electronic one) stating you own some thin air.

That's basically what this is:

https://www.star-registration.com/
Clear but has UV filters. What kind of light does the dot projector use? Maybe it sees the glasses as a wall.
Not OP, but GopherJS is an emulator:

> GopherJS emulates a 32-bit environment. This means that int, uint and uintptr have a precision of 32 bits. However, the explicit 64-bit integer types int64 and uint64 are supported. The GOARCH value of GopherJS is "js".

Joy doesn't seem to be:

> [Joy ships] a minimal runtime only when it's needed

> Most existing Go code does not yet compile to Javascript. This is because most of the standard library still needs to be translated to Javascript. This will be a focus of the 2.0 release. Signup for the mailing list to follow along with the progress.

This has some obvious consequences in how they differ. For example, if I look at [0][1], GopherJS results in a huge amount of code bloat because it includes a translation of the Go runtime. A basic example 33 LOC grows to 44 LOC on its own, but with the GopherJS environment that becomes:

> 1470 LOC and 45kb, uncompressed and unminified. The bulk of which is the builtin library.
It will only compile what it needs to. So if you declare types that are never used, they won't show up in the resulting code. This goes for core packages too. If I change that code so it requires "fmt", the result explodes to 12845 LOC and 624kb ("fmt" imports a LOT of stuff).

(In GopherJS' defense, minification slims it down to 21kb, and the example probably is missing a production code compiler flag)

The examples on the Joy webpage look a lot more minification-friendly and easier to integrate with other JavaScript.

[0] http://legacytotheedge.blogspot.se/2014/03/gopherjs-go-to-ja...

[1] https://gist.github.com/rolaveric/9407509
Have you seen the requirements to get accredited? How do you get there starting with a modest capital without taking insane risks?

But beyond that I don’t understand why regulation on investment is seen as ok, but regulation in loans to prevent people to drown in debt (which is kind of worse) is frowned upon. I’m not even the most liberal person, but if people are free to lose more than they have (or buy guns, or destroy their health with sugar, or what else) then why are they not free to put their money where they want?
From an issue in the GitHub, it sounds like GopherJS has a slightly different goal; it is attempting to make it possible to compile existing Go libraries / projects, whereas Joy is more focused on new projects built specifically to run in the browser.
The line is extremely sharp in this case.

None of the things you refer to has any meaning as it pertains to the private spaces within privately owned casinos. A casino lobby in Las Vegas is not considered a semi-public space like a mall. That was settled a long time ago (it's why the porn pamphlet people can't go inside the MGM and pass those pamphlets out in the lobby).

All the privately owned casinos in Las Vegas can legally do this. A challenge to it in court wouldn't get anywhere.
It sounds like you know the life codes pretty good, Maybe the girl will move with you to work at Famous Corp in 2019? It might take a ring to persuade her. I lived in Taiwan 3 years as a teenager, I loved the country, so I know a little about living there. At 27 there is still plenty of time to get everything ready for what will be your future. So as long as there is a plan it will work out for you. I think that maybe Famous Corp doesn't want you to tell the Boss because it is actually their way of saving face for "poaching" you or they don't wish to get entangled with your present employer. It is actually pretty standard procedure, whats different is that you are actual friends with your boss.

The main problem seems to be ,should I tell my boss now... because he is your friend the only answer is yes. anything less will likely haunt you for years. Famous Company does not need to know who you told about their offer, so do not tell them.
Tell the boss now, then go get the offer, with a solid offer in hand ask the girl what "we" should do, then ask boss what he thinks. I'm sure that whatever advice they give will be better than anything else you will find.
I think you’re greatly overestimating the popularity of your opinion. If a ton of people didn’t agree with me the SEC wouldn’t need to step in and put a stop to it. It’s that so many people want to do this that they are now meddling.
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as long as they don't promote 'increase in value' and 'gain on your investment' they are safe.
Perri-Benzene

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/10/us/perrier-recalls-its-wat...
Hey, I just saw this on the Github WASM thread, looks cool! I'm interested, but if I may request, you should highlight the missing/non-fully-functional keywords. That's my main concern, and from the main page it sounded like this was a fully working Go. Yet the Github issues seemed to highlight several missing keywords.

While this may not seem like a big issue, having to conceptually know what works and what doesn't is mental overhead, so reducing that overhead by making it super prominent would be great for me. Thanks!

This looks really cool btw, once I have a better idea on the completeness of this, I'll definitely try it with React! It's the one thing I failed with GopherJS on, React integration was difficult to keep performant. I'm excited :)
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And, in fact, even if you make $50k a year, you can invest up to low-thousands in RegCF regulated issuances, or even more in a Reg A+ mini-IPO issuance.

By and large, the entities pursuing 8-figure ICOs are those that (a) don't want to spend $10,000-$20,000 to engage with the SEC and adhere to their disclosure rules, and (b) aren't credible enough to raise from accredited investors.

What's crazy to me is the notion that a business venture that can't scrap together $20,000 should somehow obviously be entrusted with $15,000,000 of retail investor money.
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Its not clear to me what "flaw" you're referring to. NTFS is reference counted and can easily accommodate other behaviors. By default, it prevents deletion, unless a process specifically permits deletion, in which case, the file can be deleted.

This makes a whole lot of sense to me as a user, because I don't want to worry about open files being possibly deleted from disk.

>open a file, then create a hard link to it. You now can't delete that hard link (because the file is open), even though you just created it. This is not a problem on POSIX because it correctly distinguishes a file name (represented by a directory entry) from a file (represented by the inode).

This is not relevant to the topic.
> definitely a bubble, really cant deny that anymore

You could be right.

But I don't understand everyone's certainty that cryptocurrencies are a fraud-bubble-scam-Ponzi-mania.

The growth curve fits both exponential and logistic (S-curve) functions.

Exponential growth is unsustainable, while logistic growth describes most technology adoption. Halfway through the cycle they're indistinguishable.

When there's 98% agreement this is a bubble about to burst, my instinct is that the conventional wisdom is wrong.
OK, if you really want to go as far low-level as possible: My mother, back in the 1950s, worked on at least one CPU where the instruction set could be changed with patch cords. So is the configuration of patch cords a "runtime"?

;-)
The author stated below that co-routines are translated to async/await. for me it seems to be completely different concepts because golang co-rotines allow to execute the code in parallel which async/await can't do.
> Comcast basically said, You're pushing too much stuff, pay up or we'll throttle you, and throttle they did.

It's more complex than that. And in any case Netflix gives CDN boxes to ISPs for free.
Those guys basically rule the world politically or economically, and Susan won at the Financial Times. That doesnt seem right.

The other people have a extraordinary larger impact on global economics and politics.
> People who call Bitcoin a 'Ponzi scheme' , type of plant or apply whatever reduction on a very complex and innovative product are just mind boggling to me.

You are mind-boggled because you have created a strawman; a caricature of what the "bitcoin non-believer" looks like.

Your mind would be less boggled if you accepted that there are valid points on both sides in this case. People who question bitcoin's current valuation or utility often have valid points, but if you immediately interpret their points to be as extreme as possible, of course they're mind boggling.

Similarly, people who are bullish on bitcoin often have good points and sound reasoning, but it's quite easy to also paint them with a brush which makes their positions and points mind boggling as well.

It's good to have some empathy and to actually listen, especially when it's about subjects that are so divisive. The most divisive things are the things that should least be divided further by constantly misrepresenting each side's points.
Is there any more to this story? All these patrons did was wear MAGA hats? As a progressive I must say these actions only stoke the flames. We're never going to be able to work together if we can't talk to each other and we're never going to be able to talk to each other if we can't associate together. This isn't the path forward.
You can find plenty more to downvote here

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=danjoc

But I will highlight a few key points I've made recently,

1) Racism and death threats against Ajit Pai and his family are not acceptable. At all. Users making/upvoting death threats should be handled with zero tolerance and reported to authorities. NN supporters around the web are doxing Pai and harassing him at his home. Simply pointing this out on HN results in invisibility powers. Sickening.

2) Verizon throttles Netflix? Not NN. Netflix throttles Verizon customers? NN. This offends my sense of fairness. The biggest supporters of NN (Apple, Google, Amazon, Netflix, etc) are complete hypocrites. NN should apply to them too, or not at all.

3) The ISP owns the network, they can manage it how they want. If you want to manage the network, then you can buy your own network. My general belief is the government should not be legislating how we manage network traffic on our own networks.

4) People LIKE zero rating. T-Mobile Binge On is proof of that. Zero rating is not NN. NN supporters are arguing that zero rating is unfair to their startup no one ever heard of. From this vantage point, NN becomes a subsidy for small startups at the expense of the general population that wants unlimited video streaming on their mobile network.

5) Forcing cable companies into BGP peering agreements, at cable company expense, to provide a fast lane to direct competitors in video entertainment businesses... that's just "WOW. I can't even." It certainly won't end well for cable customers. That expense will be passed down to the consumer.
Do not know about impact but Ronan Farrow's Weinstein story was published in October and put together over the course of a ten month investigation [0]. Susan Fowler's blog was posted in February. I'd imagine Farrow probably started on his story before the investigations started; especially since Weinstein was a well-known story. If Farrow's article was posted before Fowler's, I want to say that there would still be the same reaction. A lot of people had no idea about Fowler and Uber but people definitely know about Weinstein.

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/from-aggressive-ove...
Can you explain the heatmap in more detail? Im not following when you say Stockfish believed it had an advantageous position at move 19.
>the federal government would have authority to override those laws.

Yea i guess thats more of an example of inaction. I was looking for a specific regulation that helps telecom companies.