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It wasn't satire, but I enjoy that you thought it was :)

I agree that society benefits when we have succinct, easily understandable laws for lay people.

That said we are currently moving father away from that target, rather than nearer.

I would argue software is doing the opposite. It started extremely obscure and has slowly but surely moved in a direction where a majority of people can learn to understand it in months.

Example, a 3 month "bootcamp" can now teach a lay person to write HTML, CSS and JavaScript and accurately predict the output of the interconnections of millions (billions?) of lines on code.

You might argue the bootcampers don't truly understand what the kernel is doing. This is the point though, thanks to abstraction, they can grok it without needing to dive deep.

I don't think there will ever exist a world where lay people will understand legalese. However, I do believe we can build a world where people can be trivially self taught and then grok new laws, and even write new laws of their own.
So is there a good explanation of why banks would use Ripple and why it's better than their existing options?
I think most commonsensical people are starting to realize how big of a bubble this is. I mean Facebook is used by one BILLION people DAILY -- and it literally knows almost everything about its users. To say that XRP is even remotely as valuable as FB is just so trivially untrue, it seems pointless to even argue.
There are markets with people buying and selling Ripple. This fundamentally changes the situation and makes your analogy not useful. Clearly you're joking, but clearly Ripple has more to it than your silly story, and nobody would ever conclude you are worth $6T. Your math is flawed in that is not backed by a market at all, but Ripple's is.

I'm not justifying its valuation, but your argument is fallacious.
> Employer-sponsered plans are banned

No need to ban them, which would likely be challenged successfully in court. But removing the tax deduction would come pretty close to ending the practice. If you look at why employers started offering sponsored health insurance, it all came down to tax incentives that, if they were forced to offer equivalent pay, would be subject to payroll taxes.
> "This reminds me of the popular opinion that all you need to do is recycle to stop global warming. Or don't buy a house you can't afford and there will be no giant credit bubble."

I strongly doubt anyone believes that their actions alone can stop global warming or destructive financial cycles, however, there is still merit in individual actions. They do have an impact, though you have to consider these actions over the long term to see it.

Consider how the market for electric cars developed. I'd suggest the electric car market started getting mainstream acceptance after the launch of the Tesla Model S. However, it took a long time to get to that point. Consider how the market for electric cars looked in the 1990s. There was some activity, but it was largely a hobbyist market. However, those early adopters, though small in number, kept the market progressing until it was ready for mass acceptance.

Using your recycling example, it also took many years before people took recycling seriously. There's still plenty to be done to improve recycling practices further, but it's clear that the situation now is far better than it was 30 years ago. If you consider the work that had to be done to get us to the point we're at now, it's clear it would've taken the work of dedicated individuals to go against the grain to start making recycling normal, even if their initial impact was small. We can either build upon this foundation, or squander the progress that has been made.
Ripple has retained a majority of XRP currency. So at any moment, buyers can unknowingly transact in something akin to an IPO, without actually owning a part of the company, or having voting shares. In such a case, you're just forking over money to the company, not to other XRP owners. Reeks like potential Ponzi.
Quantum entanglement is such a neat phenomenon, but secure communication feels like such a boring application. How much extra security would a quantumly protected communication channel provide over just using some really heavy encryption sent in a normal manner?
I remember seeing a bumper sticker in silicon valley that said "Please Lord give me just one more bubble". It looks like their prayers have been answered with cryptocurrencies.
Sadly even if we achieve quantum communication it will be only be for military and governments as we have already seen how government and law enfrocement all over the world has been against secure communication between people.
> I got ~160 WPM without learning touch typing.

...what? What kind of error-rate? How long could you sustain that? How'd you manage that speed having to glance between source and keyboard?

I'm pretty sure I was the fastest in my high school typing class (because I already knew how to type very well by then) and at my best I could stay a little over 100wpm for a minute or two without any errors, but it was hard. I could maybe get up around 120-130 transcribing speech and letting minor errors slip though. I doubt I get much over 90wpm at my best these days but it's still fast enough to draw the occasional "whoa!" from people watching me. 160 seems... crazy if you're not touch typing, and way above normal even if you are.

[EDIT] sorry about the tone, I'm not saying you're lying, that's just... wow. Crazy fast. Must have really surprised some people, haha.
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Your girlfriend just gave hers to me because she didn't see the point of it, so the hacker coin market just crashed, losing $6T.
That's the point, with a credible currency you don't need to know the people or companies you're trading with. Instead of peers, you trust that the currency used for trading is somewhat stable — so it makes sense to trade using that currency.

With a single company to trade with, or a tiny cryptocurrency, you are trading with a very, very small fraction compared to an established global currency.

I find it amazing that people are not getting this.
You can find the citations here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripple_(payment_protocol)
No, Ripple’s market cap is completely fictitious. The circulating supply is tiny and if this “billionaire” tried to liquidate a significant portion of these ripple tokens, it would crash the market. Look at the 24h trading volumes for xrp.
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Cancel time-remaining if you quit cooking early. Leaving 12 seconds on the clock won't fly with OCD types, surely?

If you wanted a minimalist microwave though, you could have it reset each time the door is opened or after a minute or two of inactivity.
Um, no. You can critique the present as being flawed in some manner without necessarily wishing to go backwards. Your argument seems to rest on the notion that we are at some sort of optimum and any changes to society will inevitably make things worse. You overlook, for example, the possibility that the GP is able to imagine superior future(s) the most probable one and is expressing disappointment at our failure to pursue them.
Nice one! I'll keep my eyes peeled for a release and give it another crack. I think all those creaky old scripts still work.
Is it really a Silicon Valley bubble?
That's not true. His girlfriend bought one for $10. It's not a large market, but somebody thinks they deserve at capitalization of $10T USD. Or are you saying that cryptocurrencies with limited float compared to full circulation are likely to have distortions in their valuation?
It all depends on what I am doing. Lately, my everyday carry has been a Benchmade H&K 14440SB. It's small and cheap enough that I don't worry about losing it. Prior to that, I usually carried a Benchmade 943 Osborne. Right now, it sits on my desk, in my home office, so it gets used. (I have a couple of Benchmades that don't get much use.) My Kabar Rigging Knife is my only knife with a leather case; so, if I working outside and don't want a knife in my pocket, I might carry it.
The difference with composer is that in most cases you're getting the exact version from github, including the full .git directory. No minification, no "the tarball doesn't match the source". And most composer packages have 0-5 dependencies, whereas most npm packages seem to have 10-20.

But too-many-dependencies is a problem there too.
Automation is about doing more with less. Washington strives to less with more.
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I don't think I'm missing the point. And I'm not saying people aren't effected by chemical levels and biological systems I don't fully understand... what I am saying is, anyone who tells you they have a wonderful life and then tells you they are depressed is leaving out something important.

Now for the critique, the OP didn't really make it clear who's idea of a wonderful life it is. I also use the word secrect as a way to throw some shade, because the word secret implies the owners knowledge of the secret, which is not alway the case here, I should have just said "... has a secret."
I'm surprised to see this as "new" because there has been work published since the late 60's [1] and widely known since the early 90's [2] showing that depression is often no more and no less than "having depressing thoughts". That is, if you can persuade the person to believe that they don't have a good reason to be depressed, they stop showing signs of depression.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Seligman
[2] https://books.google.com/books?id=qreACUdDAc0C
As said by others, market cap is not enough. There needs to be a better metric that takes in to account "true" market depth. I say "true" b/c the market depth on CC exchanges is generally accepted to be BS due to widespread spoofing/wash trading.

Basically, the total market value of the coin should be the maximum USD (or any other reference currency) that could be extracted by continuously selling (an unbounded amount) of the coin until the price approaches 0.
Ripple is a scam to round up as many Bitcoins and Ethers as they can. When bitcoin is $200,000, Ripple will still be $2-3.
meat... will get you more easily fat if compared on calorie (for) calorie (basis)

I think that's exactly wrong. I can think of no mechanism by which, say, 1000 calories of excess fat+protein would cause more net fat gain than 1000 calories of excess carbohydrate.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments or take HN threads into flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
In case you're interested and aren't already aware:

UC Davis seems to be investing a bit in ASD research. This one, for instance, focuses on girls:

http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/mindinstitute/research/gain/ind...

..and there are a few others. Most focus on the intersection of Children and Autism in some form or another.

Alternatively SciAm ran an article a while back around just this issue of how and why we're "missing it" when it comes to recognizing ASD early (or at all) for girls.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/autism-it-s-diffe...
About as well as any of the Wars on X.
Try reading this : https://books.google.com/books?id=qreACUdDAc0C (the title is somewhat misleading because it is more of a history of experimental work done in the 60's and 70's in this field than it is self-help text).
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I’d suggest the authors to change the name, I thought it was about PL/I at the first sight.
Ask HN: What specializations can you get a job in with entry level experience?
Examples of specializations:

- Management

- Web

- Mobile

- Security

- Systems

- Embedded

- ML / AI

Let's say "entry level experience" = a degree in Computer Science, just to have a relative standard. Many first jobs for devs are in web/mobile, but what about others?

Further, if you have experience in the specialization(s) you're mentioning, what qualified you for that job (number of years in dev, specific qualifications, etc.)?
> but somebody thinks they deserve at capitalization of $10T USD

What? Where on earth did you get that? Because his girlfriend bought one for $10 from the story, you've now created the idea that she did the math, considers it a worthy investment and knows the full market cap? What if she just wanted $10 of entertainment for the evening by buying a silly coin and talking about it? That seems like a solid investment to me, much cheaper than a movie for example, and does not imply that she thinks the full value is worth $10T USD. She could easily be a rational investor who thinks no such thing.

A market composed of numerous entities trading large sums of money is a much better system to decide the price of something. One person making a single purchase for unknown reasons is not a "market".
Well, I've read Snow Crash yesterday.

How interesting...

(Anyone who read the book can relate...)
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Internet archive says 2006. Could be earlier of course.
If you have a link to a good study, I would be interested in reading.

Regarding beard, curiously enough I’ve just started using a bread maker. Takes 5mins to setup in the evening and can be timed to have the bread ready when you wake up, recommend.
It's definitely not. A fact which a lot of people tend to ignore when discussing net neutrality.
A perfect system would penalize SEO (appearing relevant) and reward actual relevance. Of course, this is easier said than done.
From my experience, it's because as they kick in, you suddenly have energy and motivation you didn't have before, but you still have the suicidal thoughts until they become properly efficacious.
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https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7807 ("Problem Details for HTTP APIs") may interest you (but just for clarity: I only know about it, but haven't attempted to apply it to any situation)
I was paraphrasing a period of my life. I didn't go on Lexapro for 2 years following that. Before Lexapro I was doing all of the non-medical stuff I mentioned. No need to tell me that what I experienced is false - it's my own life, afterall.
Probably because there are many comments along the lines 'it's just life circumstances! Just change those!' without regard for the disabling effects of depression, the difficulty of unilaterally altering said circumstances, or known failures of prior attempts to do so. What's not helpful is to have people with little first hand experience of a situation offer a simplistic causal diagnosis and then treat the problem as solved-by-identification.

It's kinda like the conversation where someone is trying to describe a problem with a piece of software or UI trope, and people chime in with unhelpful workarounds rather than addressing the issue itself.

substantive discussion about facts or statistics or science

Given the subjective nature of consciousness, dismissal of anecdotal responses as counterfactual or invalid is intensely alienating to the depressed subject.
If Zuckerberg tried to liquidate a significant portion of his Facebook stock that would also crash the market.
I am also very disillusioned with the psychiatric profession. The way they prescribe drugs seems no better than guesswork.
Two years ago my dad having what I recognized as parkisonisms and akathisia but the psychiatrist said it wasn't possible because they had stopped giving him haldol. But then when she saw him, she said why we didn't come sooner (it's always the patient's fault) and quickly prescribed akineton. This has helped a little, but he has never recovered fully. He had also been on various antidepressants since 1994, Cymbalta, Velafax, Quentiax, Seroxat, Mirzaten, Ladiomil, probably more. I mean, what's the use? What is the actual use of taking those pills for decades?
Well... Kenton, now you've now got my brain stirring on whether or not the perceived complexity & opacity of ocap is an artifact of how tightly it has bound itself to the concepts of OOP (as something of a personal character flaw I find OOP to be fairly obfuscating beyond trivial domains for whatever reason), and whether or not FP concepts applied to a similar domain as ocap might provide me with clarity in security design/implementation the same way FP gave me clarity in program design/implementation eventually.

None of which I really have excess time to noodle about, but is now unavoidable. Thank you, sir.
There is a good writeup here: https://medium.com/@twobitidiot/i-see-you-xrp-fcf151feb96d
Marc Stiegler suggested having a set of standard authority bundles for when you're installing more or less standard app types. (Of course this raises the question of getting to a standard designed with users' interests in mind.) Then an app wanting undue authority would have to incur the pain of getting users to install it in a special unusual way.

(He made that suggestion back before Android etc. existed.)

People are pretty OK at judging and tracking what to entrust other people with. This suggests the problem shouldn't be impossible, but that our interfaces don't map well to those familiar abilities.
Actually, it's a very nice illustration of creative problem solving.

Your totally unnecessary commentary added nothing.
If you say so!

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AFAICT it's getting harder to convert between the various forms of play/virtual money and actual money. When the bubble pops, good luck exchanging alphanumeric strings for actual stuff. There's some seriously shady stuff keeping it inflated... https://twitter.com/Bitfinexed
Don’t you need SPDC to get entangled photons anyway?
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I thought the eyepatch was already well explained as a tool to keep one eye used to the dark, in order to make it easier to switch between being on the deck and in the hold.
>Cheap or even reasonably priced food is usually rubbish or requires so much cooking that the savings on the food itself are countered by the price of cooking it.

A good electric pressure cooker can cook things very efficiently. It's even better than a traditional pressure cooker because it's insulated. You can cook dried beans with it easily, and dried beans are cheap. It's good for rice too, which is also cheap. Add some frozen vegetables and eggs and you have a reasonably cheap and healthy diet.
"He never considered earning money with anything other than painting. When he had no money he lived in friends' apartments. He faced and accepted poverty and hunger. Picasso did not compromise. Same with Van Gogh."

I'm not sure that Van Gogh is a great example of someone who never compromised or gave up.

He wanted to be a preacher, but nobody liked him. He also painted, and continued that after giving up on preaching. But nobody liked his paintings either, so he killed himself.
Others may be interested to note this blog post from about a week ago by the CTO relating to npm's outage handling [0]. I'm not sure if I would classify this as an outage, but this seems to be the official narrative [1]. Given that status page was updated relatively quickly, I'm guessing that at least something like this procedure kicked in.

I am a little shocked at the brevity of the procedure. I am guessing by the blog post pointing out the brevity that I am meant to be shocked, but if I turned out that 310 word procedure for downtime I'd be pretty confident it was not good enough. I'm not confident that I would be able to read that document and understand what to do if I was the one on pager duty. Maybe it would be different if I worked there and perhaps the procedures are more granular and each of the stages well explained in other procedures. Maybe.

I'm finding it hard to understand what npm does that is so different to other languages' package managers that it can have so many problems and such bad public relations. Linux distros have repositories that handle packages with far greater sizes and quite a few are purely voluntary efforts. They also manage to include package signing as well. I've known of a few hiccups, but none that been handled quite so bad as to completely undermine my trust in the tool altogether.

Is there any compelling technical reason why we couldn't have a tool that works more like go get for node? For those that haven't used it, you just point it at a git repository.

[0] http://ceejbot.tumblr.com/post/169045932039/how-to-handle-an...

[1] https://status.npmjs.org/incidents/41zfb8qpvrdj
This is the naming scheme for all PostgreSQL programming language extensions.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/server-programmin...
I was very depressed because life was shit, and the symptoms were preventing me from fixing the issues causing it.

So I take antidepressants not to fix the issues, but to alleviate the symptoms so that I am able to take on the actual problems.
I think given how hard it is for people to write even relatively simple bug-free smart contracts, I don’t think this is likely to happen any time soon.

Aside from that, one of the saving graces in the American system is all of the friction points between various jurisdictions that prevents government from being ruthlessly efficient. I’m not sure that it would at all be a good thing if we could actually correctly codify and automatically enact the will of the people.
"... unless it is misleading or linkbait": https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The article title is both, so we replaced it with representative language from the text.
We need a new war on wars on things, to end all wars on things.
I pretty much just use the internet to browse the web (where I care about burst speed a lot) and to watch the occasional video online. I come nowhere near the kind of caps you are talking about and don't care at all about sustained speeds.

Your plan would mean that I end up paying more money while those that need the sort of sustained speeds you're talking about pay less.

Why do you want to be forced to pay for something I don't want or need?
Mine is a REST API monitoring service - because I needed one!

http://www.apilope.com

Going to rework the landing page a bit to make it more benefit/monitoring oriented, I don’t think ‘testing’ is compelling enough as a keyword.
I'll quote the Android Guidelines on error messages here, because they summarize it well into a single sentence:

> It's not my fault

> Be gentle in how you prompt people to make corrections. They want to feel smart when they use your app. If something goes wrong, give clear recovery instructions but spare them the technical details. If you can fix it behind the scenes, even better.

You can find the other design principles of Android quickly summarized here: https://developer.android.com/design/get-started/principles....

These design principles are important for any developer, on any platform, and they're short enough that they're easy to remember.
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