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Response from Blizzard: https://us.battle.net/forums/en/bnet/topic/20760626838

Our recent update to the Blizzard Battle.net desktop app made sure players could properly use features like logging in to Battle.net via a social network, or joining a Blizzard group via an invite link. To facilitate these features, we updated the local webserver to use a self-signed certificate to be consistent with current industry security standards.

For those interested in more detail, using these features requires your web browser to communicate with the Blizzard Battle.net desktop app. Previously, the desktop app used a certificate signed by a public Certificate Authority, meaning that no modifications to your system certificates were necessary; however, this technique is incompatible with Certificate Authority policies and we can no longer use it.

While some browsers such as Chrome and Firefox are equipped to handle browser-to-app communication techniques, the changes were necessary for other browsers. For the time being, the desktop app generates a self-signed certificate that’s unique to your machine and configures your system to trust it.
Good point - it's even more obvious

https://static.highsnobiety.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/t...
Goldman did not get burned on subprime. They got burned on self-underwriting synthetic contracts and listening to MBAs rather than quants to justify not hedging them. If you have not watched "The Big Short" you should watch it.

This move by Goldman is based on learning. They will trade against the clients. Except they would hedge it.
The Malicious UN Addresses “Poverty” in the United States
YC does not control HN. So that won't get you banned but trolling for a ban just might.
That explains shareware, demos, and perhaps DLCs. We're talking about non-transparent costs via RNG and loot(boxes). Its not that people don't wanna pay; its that it works better to give them some free cocaine to get them hooked. Nothing new; in the physical world we call that "sampling"
I'm not a financial expert but I thought the value proposition of Bitcoin is that it is not a fiat currency.
The point is that there is no property of python that allowed them to build a successful company that any statically typed language don't have. It is a completely unnecessary detour.

The cost of doing it right from the start is negligible.
Did they do a find/replace of “NVidia” to “NVidia Japan”? It is strange to attribute everything to the subsidiary.
Anti-trust is there for cases where society thinks

1) the free market doesn’t work because it is too hard for competition to enter an existing market or for existing competition to dethrone a market leader.

_and_

2) the big player(s) take (too much) advantage of their position by engaging in ‘anti-consumer’ practices.

Given the existence of Android, Apple isn’t in position 1. So, do you think (2) alone is sufficient for taking legal action? The common thinking is that the market will take care of it by by bankrupting the company doing it.
Why not manage them the way people manage Chromebooks? Make a system image with the printing and scanning set up, write an installer, something.

If a machine gets trashed, you either restore from the system image, replace some parts (ex. hard drive), or maybe just install a new machine.
It's why we always do rightsizing and never numerical estimates. You can calculate delivery dates by counting stories * average story time - very fast, very simple, and amusingly at least as accurate as detailed time estimates. Has an interesting side effect of tying scope to delivery. So if you want to reduce delivery time, it's clearly understood as under control of stakeholders and done by dropping stories. If you can't rightsize to a reasonably narrow range (we use 1-5 days) and have to estimate (e.g. sifting stories for prioritisation purposes), t-shirt sizing usually works ok and gives the required info without opening it to abuse.
GSCO is not doing this for retail clients.
Who's gaming social media? EVERYONE, from every kid to every mom-and-pop store to every corporation on the planet. Why is it that people who are butt-hurt about the past election only want to talk about "the Russians," when (I'm betting) that a large chunk of users on this site are getting paid to do so as at least part of their job. If <insert Fortune 500> had the resources of a nation-state, do you think they would suddenly develop a case of ethics, and stop scaling up their efforts to play the same game that Russia did/does? Do you think China is ANY LESS involved in the same activity? Or Iran, or NK, or Israel, or the US?! I wish people would wake up and realize that the only winning move is not to play.
This is a good introduction, and a very useful abstraction. At Morgan Stanley we have built a PL/compiler and tools around a method of logging like this -- logging algebraic data types and live querying out of them with Haskell-like comprehensions/pattern-matching/etc:

https://github.com/Morgan-Stanley/hobbes
Defective Concrete Foundations in Connecticut Has Homes Crumbling
It looks like we're both in agreement that there are legal requirements beyond "just transfer all the money to my son".

Point being. When the client ask "transfer the money to my son and close my account", he usually doesn't mean "take 30% off, transfer what's left to my son and close the account".

You can have a look at France. I am not sure what paperwork is needed to make it legitimately, it's non trivial.
> They got burned by doing the same with subprimes

I really doubt getting bailed out should be called "burned". More like they realized they could get away with murder.
"most TLS libraries" is vague. Microsoft and Apple each include one with their OS. The Microsoft one definitely accepts total garbage as a valid CA root. I know because my employer pushed such a root to enable their MitM proxy and it worked fine... in Windows (and thus IE/ Edge). They had to replace it because Firefox and other systems threw a fit.

I'm happy to be proved wrong about this, but my experience tells me "most TLS libraries" is misleading even if technically true.
No, I am trying to say that the, "You have to pay tax or be tortured" is ridiculous. You're not going to be tortured at all. You're going to be penalized just like you would if you failed to follow any other law on the books.
I have a question

Is there a service anyone knows about which will print your email and send it with tracking of receipt or signature, so you can prove what was physically sent?

Or you mail it to them and they open your mail, scan it and forward it on with signature required, with your address as the return address?

Because righy now you can only prove that the ENVELOPE was received, not what was in it.
I also get the impression that some people view using dynamically typed languages as a badge of honor, taking more expertise to harness the greater 'expressive' power, all whilst juggling the types in your head. Bad programmers can't use them properly, but if you're one of the good ones then you're not held back by rigid types.

I'm one of the dumb ones and just let the computer do the checking for me.
You're right and maybe its more about providing the YC participants with a vested interest in the overall success of all the YC companies than providing them with a guaranteed income for life.

You'd want to size it to provide enough equity to turn the 15,000 participants into active evangelists of the larger network of YC companies than just their own individual startup.

And yes it is expensive. There are definitely significant parallels in that sense to the larger UBI discussion :)
That fact that Facebook even thought they could handle the problem of truth and objectivity in news, an issue dating back centuries, with a cute little flag, speaks volumes about their naïveté.
It's probably faster to verify that your Go code is working as intended, but many would argue that dynamically typed/interpreted languages are faster to write code in than statically typed/compiled languages. Others would argue that the pure "writing code" part isn't the majority of what takes up a developer's time. There's no one right answer.
It's not just the social angle — projections in VR and AR aren't tangible, whereas physical objects imbued with dynamism are tangible. Here's a really good article on why this matters so much: http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesi...

Now, once we have a holodeck, where the virtual objects are made tangible, your points will hold. But until then, tangibility is a key difference (and perhaps not the only key difference, but this should suffice for now).
I was trying to say that if some post-YC VC comes up short he/she might say "WTF does YC know..."

Hear that often enough and loud enough and the shine that is YC's will be less. Clearly YC / Sam benefits from being up the food chain not down it.
Ironically it might be a lot easier to raise money as long as there is less substance to the company. Dreams of getting in on the ground floor work so much better to woo investors with visions of Dropbox and Airbnb in their heads than a year old start-up without traction.

Besides that after that year the start-up will likely be out of runway and so in a much harder position to negotiate from.

If I were to run a YC backed company (which I won't be doing) I'd definitely use demo day to it's full potential.
You go with the price when the transaction actually goes through.
If the trolling gets me a response from one of HN's most famous members then so be it

edit: You gotta admit, my point isn't groundless. I would disagree that it's trolling since HN is owned by YC but if you're right about them not using their position to silence criticism I respect that
An array of psychological attacks are used to separate players from a lot more money that they'd have willingly chosen to part with if directly asked up front. Seems like trickery to me.
So... fuck the license agreement. They can't sue everyone.
Seems like that’s appropriate for a bank. Anyone else care to comment or share context?
> You'd want to size it to provide enough equity to turn the 15,000 people into active evangelists of the larger network of YC companies than just their own individual startup.

They already do this, for free. The YC alumni network is a vast resource and a substantial force behind the recruitment of new start-ups.
The “bad boy” of Google will be missed. For those not in the know, he and his wife have had an open marriage for years and Eric keeps several apartments around SF for escorts.
Also, in the US at least, doctrine of first sale means NVIDIA's power in this space should be close to nothing.
I wrote one in a week, at least two times. It is not that hard to integrate Stripe or something like that, but so many API hosting services just don't.
Nope; you can target pages that are liked only by young people (e.g. Snapchat) and then just discard the few old people manually.
I don't think they would cash all of it out anyways. That is, if Satoshi is just one person
I use it through Keras and my job gets done.
> It's more like they want to fund 1000 startups so that 100 are sustainable.

That's actually good, not bad. 100 companies that work out long term are much better for the founders involved than two that are unicorns.
Marriage is a human right. Denying marriage is denying human rights, thus explicitly labelling that group sub-human.

QED.
Read that book for the first time this year. Loved it :)
Also Hal Finney and others who helped in the beginning may have left sums of BTC behind (RIP). A personal anecdote, somewhat related: In the early days, I mined several blocks from the wallet itself, on an AMD Sempron or Duron, at about 800-900mhz. Even then, this took a few days and then weeks before eventually becoming impossible with the advent of mining pools and GPU mining arrays.

Speaking for myself only, some of us just lost or discarded them because they had no value, and mining them was more of an act of altruism, so while it was fun seeing the numbers go up, it was easy to lose track of a wallet. I don't think electrum seed phrases were around yet at that time, either, or I had no knowledge of them if they were.
Catalan pro-independence parties keep their majority in snap poll
Nothing is worthy of worship, not even good people.
They don't want commercial cloud and bare metal and "machine learning as a service" platforms to be based on GeForce cards. Such a service is either insignificant in it's size, or based in a Datacenter.

I would not stress about this on my own hardware for my personal or company internal use, even if it is a full rack or more in a Datacenter. Nvidia is not going to be able to tell the difference to a rack in my basement.
Also. This past year to date has evinced all time historical low volatility in major currency crosses. Difficult to make the case based on sheer volume that fiat is being abandoned for crypto. But players hunting for alpha tend to go where the action is:

Traders Lament Death of FX Volatility as Torpor Tanks Returns

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-10/traders-l...
i think this is a misconception, and most of the payers and players of F2P games are actually adults. (and in fact, companies target adults, for the simple reason that they tend to have more money than kids, who are usually more or less broke.)

but of course some players are kids. so what?

just because kids play games doesn't mean we have to go full-collective-control -- kids have parents that can act as proxies for their individual will until they're of age.

and i strongly disagree with the idea that companies using psychological tricks to motivate people in any way materially weakens the argument for individual autonomy.

of course every action that every person takes is the sum result of the multitude of influences tugging at them, but again, so what: either i have the freedom to make the choices i want, or i am compelled via (ultimately) physical force to do something else. that's the difference i care about.
The really weird thing about eBooks is that you're not really buying the book. It's more like giving you a license to view the book. You can't really resell an eBook, or a Steam game.
Specifically, the anti-circumvention parts.
Look at TPC workload generators, those have a knob you can turn to control the size of the database.
Does this mean web push notifications are coming to Safari on iOS?
> Masked comic book vigilantes aren't ever going to be a reality on the mean non-virtual streets of cities but on the Internet it seems we're confronted with something pretty much equivalent.

Or maybe a bunch of actual researchers and government agencies working without praise while someone else writes a sensational story to take all of the credit. And the people believe it on the merits of it being the story they want to be true.
The Secret Racist History of Clickbait
Obama could personally call any world leader and talk about taxes, privacy, regulation, etc. with authority.

He would also be generally pragmatic, likable, and qualified.
JavaScript is still being developed. Browser makers are not slowing down on adding JavaScript features. There is even a Binary AST proposal for JavaScript.
You're commenting on an article in which a small soft drink company has just sextupled it's share price by changing its name to include the word "Blockchain", and you're not seeing a tulip angle?
I'm really not. They lobby for special legislation around all their specific works. Mickey Mouse should really be in the public domain by now. They should respect those laws and move on to new trade-markable characters and learn to rebrand themselves. The fact that they are so big that they can be granted special exemption is pretty alarming.
Huh? Just about every library is blocking? Maybe x years ago. Get with the times.

And yeah, of course there's no single unified solution - the JVM landscape isn't restricted to a single programming model. That's actually its strength.
Just because not every solution, every model works well together, doesn't mean that "the solutions don't interop" in general. (what are "the solutions"?)

And your general statement about "ergonomics that are hard to find elsewhere", yeah, that would really need a bit more than a small promise example to back it up...
I've been using iOS and Mac's native notes app to do that. In my opinion what these solutions lack is an integration between both note-taking (I sometimes like to write a few sentences relevant to a document, and I'd like to have it shown right next to it) while also letting you have the individual documents available in PDF or whatever if you need. Notes app does it perfectly now after iOS 11.1 and High Sierra.

An example is this screenshot from my notes https://imgur.com/a/xuZqW
If other browser engines became very popular it says something about how bad/limited the default offering is. It usually takes a lot of work before people switch away from defaults. People continued to use IE for years for example
> I would hate for the loot box model to move beyond video games. Can you imagine going to the store and having to buy a mystery box filled with groceries, which you may or may not need or want?

Its already there, targeted at kids! Its all the collectible toys in food such as chips.

Wuppies, flippos, "voetbalplaatjes" [1], are just a few local examples.

McDonalds Happy Meal toys must be a world-wide example?

[1] https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voetbalplaatjes
I honestly can't tell if this is a serious comment.
Also, bitcoin as it stands right now is pretty useless compared to other cryptocurrencies. The value of bitcoin long-term is tied to the core team's ability to make the necessary changes to the protocol and to do it fast before another currency overtakes the lead of the cryptosphere. This is not gold, this is a world of software that changes and evolves constantly. The bubble for bitcoin might burst soon, but other coins that provide actual value will take its place.
And bnetd for an open BattleNet server:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bnetd
Ah, I gotcha, that’s a good point. I still do believe that these decisions for dynamic languages that can later be contorted aren’t just a symptom, but I don’t have any way to prove it.
Lyme Disease has been known to mimic the symptoms of so many diseases that in medicine it has the distinction of being known as "The Great Imitator".

Also, tests for it are not completely reliable, some people have it and go undiagnosed or are misdiagnosed for many years, and there are all sorts of anti-medical-establishment conspiracy theories surrounding it. As a result some people think that symptoms or diagnosis of just about anything could really be caused by Lyme Disease.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompStat
I remember the recent Groupon debacle on this, where the CTO was formerly of Mozilla.
Given the amount of secrecy Satoshi has demonstrated before it'd be shocking enough to see the coins move much less move to a well known address (e.g. coinbase).
I am so glad that I can live without these tips. As I grow older, every year I feel the need to cut down on my essentials. My .vimrc gets shorter every year. Earlier, I was so annoyed by the default parentheses highlighting yet so dislike the solutions of adding more lines to my .vimrc, I was forced to do some research and found out that all I need to do is to delete the plugin from /usr/share/.... I deleted the entire plugins folder there. I felt like Picaaso.
Facebook drops 'disputed' tags for news stories
I learned by playing around with the Grub bootloader in Linux VMs launched with Vagrant. I deleted every non-essential line of code in the bootloader config, and then stared at it & the Grub docs until it made sense. My ultimate goal was learning how to turn a Linux container into a bootable VM.
What's with all the extreme negativity with Bitcoin and its trading price on HN? I've been noticing that in all the BTC related threads recently.

Yes, this is possibly getting too large too fast. Yes there is a chance this is a bubble because the barbers and shoeshine boys are talking about it. But there is also a chance that we genuinely are at the beginning of the transition from Fiat currencies to crypto (beginning of the S-curve mass adoption). And given that we live in the digital connected age dealing with a virtual concept, it takes a lot less time for things to catch on and spread like wild fire, as opposed to other transitions in history like snail mail -> Email (which also was not that slow).

And if at all that crypto vision does come true, the value of BTC and some of these other top cryptos would be worth a _lot_ more than it is right now.

Again, this could go the other way and it could all come crashing down soon and maybe the hype dies down. But I feel a majority of the HN community is just waiting for that to happen which I did not expect.
True, but as a parent, if its disclosed in App Store, you can do the math for the kid and decide if you want them to play the game or forbid it and offer an alternative, more fair game.
Wow, okay then.
If Bitcoin is not inherently stable why do you think it will become stable in the future? Do you believe it is subject to manipulation by parties other than central bankers? I don't understand this line of thinking but I am not an expert so I am curious to hear your perspective.
How is this different from Dropbox's PyAnnotate[1] which was released a few weeks ago?

[1] https://github.com/dropbox/pyannotate
"Worship" has at least two senses:

> 1 : to honor or reverence as a divine being or supernatural power

> 2 : to regard with great or extravagant respect, honor, or devotion a celebrity worshipped by her fans

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/worship

I strongly suspect 'cairo_x assumed you intended sense 2. If you meant sense 1, I don't think that's very well supported by either the submission or the world at large. Are you aware of a significant number of people who believe Fisher is divine in the supernatural sense? If you did intend sense 2, perhaps you weight that word more heavily than is used in common parlance.
I can picture these poor souls vividly. Millions of lines of python, flowing like the mightiest of rivers. Nobody really knowing whence it cometh and goeth.

A hero arises, offering a sacred herb to calm the torrent and light the golden path. The hero is elevated, yet they continue to pray
They can't price-differentiate FP64 compute out, since ML uses FP32 or even FP16. They tried discriminating FP16 performance but frameworks switched to using FP32 units and downconverting to FP16 after. They can't kill FP32 performance since that's used for gaming. They tried killing the virtualization, they tried differentiating based on clustering, they tried every reasonable technical procedure. So now they're falling back to legal means, to defend an artificial price distinction that has no reflection in card features that anyone cares about.
> But fraud doesn't explain the financial crisis.

Fraud is the only thing that caused the financial crisis. Period.

Fraud from the top on through the bottom. The guy lying about his income to the mortgage broker who knew the dude was lying (and likely told him how to do it effectively), to the ratings agencies lying, to the wall street banks lying, to robosigning, etc. etc. etc. It was outright fraud every step of the way and almost no one who participated in that market has clean hands.
Except you should realize 99% of Disney's "works" were ripped off of public domain (and expired copyright) works, which they THEN (after making billions) lobbied to have copyright extended so nobody would ever be able to do what they did.

It has to be one of the sickest corporate abuses ("anti-consumer, anti-society") in US history.
Interview with Robert Mosolgo – Creator of Graphql-Ruby
The patent itself (as a document) is public domain, usually as an application before it is granted. If somebody wants to reprint, remix, or repurpose that document they are free to do.

If you want to demonstrate "reduction to practice", certainly including source code for a working implementation can shore up a patent.