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Harry Lime: Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long Holly.
I want the Web that was originally intended: One source of data, the document, which allows you to be as expressive and semantic as you want. Clients read this data and implement it in their own way depending on how you're reading it, what kind of client you're using (screen-reader, etc.), whether you're on a mobile or a tablet, etc. No need for this responsive design bullshit that just wastes a ton of money and time for everyone involved.

You may be asking yourself, how are we going to "design" this web? The answer is still CSS and JavaScript, with the added use of web components. Web components attach behavior and styling to your elements, and can even allow the browser to interpret new elements for you that inherit from other elements or components. This means that `<div class="the-actual-element">` goes away, and we are left with a tag name that actually tells you what kind of content there is inside, class names that specify "mixins" to load in styles or event bindings for multiple elements, and the content of the element can be styled in any way.

All that aside, I still wonder if HTML is the "right" language for the job. Sure, it's in use everywhere, but why? Could we make something better and lighter for browsers to interpret, so that the same document could be parsed quickly by an API client of some kind? I really like the significant whitespace of Haml, and especially Slim's DSL which lets you just define new elements without prefixing them with '%'. Although Haml is pretty sweet, a language looking like Slim would clearly be less annoying to type out given most of your elements are totally custom. What I'd really like is a language which combines Slim for document layout and Markdown for copywriting:

article#the-name-of-my-article
title
The name of my article
preview
This is a preview of the article content. It's parsed with _Markdown_.
content
This is the *actual* article content, parsed with **Markdown** as well.

- [A link](http://news.ycombinator.com)
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Well, typically the users decide what is and isn't a bug. The developers can always say "I intended it to do this". ;)
Thank you, you summed it up better than I could.
Most countries discriminate between citizens and non-citizens. As a non-citizen here (US) I'm actually not too upset by this.
As a French living in the US, I share your sentiment. Western Europe's quality of life is ridiculously high, I am not sure if that is reflected very much in the way we measure QoL but that's my experience.

I thought that public transportations in Paris sucked, that was before I had to ride BART. Same goes for homelessness, crimes etc... I love SF, there is a ton of amazing places to hang out at etc.. but damn, I do miss Paris.
"Third world" means a place where the average people have appalling living conditions. And, yes, compared to the average central/northern European living conditions, U.S. average living conditions are appalling. And your use of cheap smear words like "racist" designed to appeal to emotions is not going to change this. Who trusts what the U.N. says?
"The Art Of Charm" podcast has some great episodes about that stuff. Check out some of these: http://theartofcharm.com/best/
For one, you might find the bill boards from the SVP, that shows minarets (the tall part of a mosque) depicted as rockets, or the one where they show white sheep kicking a black sheep out of Switzerland. I think it is a good example of how 'direct' Switzerland can be if you are a foreigner there. (I still love the country though)
It's absolutely capitalistic, but there are many people who would call it economically inefficient or irrational. After all, a capitalist can choose to freely exchange his capital for higher-priced goods of the same quality as lower-priced goods instead of those lower-priced goods.
You're right in general, but if two groups use a common software platform and write the rules of the contract into it, there's less need to build up an enforcement regime.

I'm not sure exactly how you're interpreting contract enforcement leading to violence, so I'll try to explain a little more. Two people make a financial agreement, hire lawyers, and depend on a powerful police force and and penal system to enforce the terms of their contract. This increases the need for armed police, prisons, etc. As more people and institutions are given the right to enact violence to enforce these contracts, people become more desensitized to violence and arrest and more opportunities for abuse present themselves. Abstracting this enforcement into software also distances the enforcement from the culture and removes some of the negative psychological effects on people of carrying out that enforcement.

That's on the smaller scale. On the larger scale, nations feel pressure into increasingly more arms races to keep themselves on an even level. Abstracting enforcement of agreements into software can have the same effect as the introduction of diplomacy into international trade. While it didn't eliminate war, it offered an alternative to straight-out aggression between tribes. Groups that used to stay to themselves and interact with each other only on disputed borders were able to cooperate on a much higher level by establishing representatives inside each others borders.

A smart contract system is a neutral, diplomatic ground for the Internet. Today, the Internet resembles in many ways the world before diplomacy. There is a persistent, escalating cyber-war between nations. People can move in between nations, but there's no real neutral territory that every nation would consider fair. By having a mutually-agreed and verifiably trustworthy software platform to enact contracts, there can be opportunities for new types of deals that are more mutually beneficial.

Will this suddenly eliminate war and hostility? Of course not. Neither did diplomacy. But almost nobody thinks we should go back to a world without any diplomacy, and once we have neutral and fair systems to conduct electronic business, few will want to give it up.
When could you justify using Mongodb if at all? What benefit does it get you? It's enough of a soresight for me to stop put off using Meteor.js until an alternative DB has matured
You completely misunderstood my statement because you have no idea what democracy is.
No. It lagged about a year behind the windows version (2003->2004, 2007->2008, 2010->2011, no 2013 equivalent), for 2016 they should be both at the same time. Also, regarding the features, it used to lag, but since 2011 it achieved almost feature parity (minus the addons, that are downloadable extras, like PowerQuery, PowerMaps or PowerPivot).
Can you explain how you think you need to be mega rich in America to have a good life?

Most of the US has a low cost of living compared to eg Switzerland. In most of eg Texas - most of the US actually - you can live well on $50,000 to $60,000 per year.

You're aware I'm guessing of the economic metrics of the top 50% in the US? It seems obvious to me that in fact you do not have to be mega rich to live well. The top 80 million Americans in the labor force would likely qualify as having at least as good of a life as the median Swiss standard of living.
I have to wonder, which is more efficient/beneficial for the society, two people both working 7.5 hour days, or one person working 10-12 hours and another staying at home.
I wonder just how big a non-binaries feed is these days. A tiny engineering company I worked for in '98-99 had its own Usenet server with a no-bin feed going into a SPARCstation 2 (think 386-486-class x86, equivalent) and it kept up just fine.

A couple years earlier I'd been one of the senior admins at Texas.Net (now DataFoundry) and helped build out what eventually turned into GigaNews, which used multiple dual-proc Sun E450s.. I think they're still one of the "biggest" Usenet providers these days.
Don't confuse criticism with complaint.
There are likely some historical reasons. Here's a quote from The Times from 1860:

If this [exodus] goes on, as it is likely to go on…the United States will become very Irish….So an Ireland there will still be, but on a colossal scale, and in a new world. We must gird our loins to encounter the Nemesis of seven centuries’ misgovernment. To the end of time a hundred million spread over the largest havitable area in the world, and, confronting us everywhere by sea and land, will remember that their forefathers paid tithe to the Protestant clergy, rent to absentee landlords, and a forced obedience to the laws which these had made. (The Times, quoted in The Nation, May 1860)
Not particularly. A deposit is a liability of the corporation; the cash on deposit is an asset. Where do people imagine these things typically exist? In the absence of legal requirements to the contrary, money is money -- it doesn't typically carry along requirements to physically segregate it by owner, intended purpose, etc.

My company owes money to vendors, customers, and contractors, too, in the ordinary course of business. At any given time we have probably a few dozen creditors. How many deposit accounts do you think we have?
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More money would make me happier. I'd give up a few Saturdays for it. One day a week is enough rest. Besides, few pleasures compare to productively working.
Negotiation: http://www.negotiationgenius.com/

Networking: http://keithferrazzi.com/products/never-eat-alone/
I feel the urge to crawl through wikileaks all of a sudden.
here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_immigrant...

Switzerland 2,335,059 immigrants, 28.9% of population

United States 45,785,090 immigrants, 14.3% of population
Toastmasters is a phenomenal resource for improving one's public speaking and improvisation skills.
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And you're picking an unusually great company.

I think her point is more that the benefits she's talking about are average for the Swiss, they're to be expected wherever you work by default and they're not just for tech industry workers.

In the US, they're something so unusual that you feel lucky for having them, even if you work in the tech industry.
But gets() isn't just one unsafe function all of the classic string functions are totally unsafe, and most of their safer replacements are similarly bad. They do things like take buffer size and then will truncate strings and leave off the terminating zero. So then the next string function will blow up.

I think really when people manipulate strings in c/c++ they use the safe functions that come with frameworks.
Plus the Romansh area in Graubünden: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romansh_language .
By evolution, or by socialization?

And if it is by evolution, that immediately presents the trivial solution that we will naturally evolve to relate better to machines, making this a nonissue.
If you were a woman, you'd have two dozen kids by now.
Can you please provide a link/source to this? I can't find the AMA'er saying this and a google of parts of what you said only link back to this HN post.

Edit: Ok so it WAS in that thread just not something that the only "verified" person said. I'm inclined to believe it's true however it hasn't been confirmed and posting it here in quotes like that given the title (indicating the person running the AMA said this) is misleading at best.
I ran one of the biggest EFNet IRC hubs at Texas.Net up until we pulled the plug in '98 due to smurfing attacks. :)

Since then a bunch of friends and I have run a tiny multi-server network after we all moved off the public networks.

Started a new job this past February, and I asked my boss during the interview how we handled inter-person communication since we're scattered all over the country. "We have our own internal IRC server if you know what that is..." I said "THANK YOU JESUS!" and he cracked up.

IRC is definitely still out there and heavily used.
I think a large part of this is the 1 Hour rule. Where when things are really bad whatever you can do in 1 Hour that improve things slightly get done. Then Repeat.

People basically just keep chasing local Optima until the unholy mess becomes self-sustaining as real improvement becomes more difficult and you can always look back and say, well at least we have "backups" even if it's just a copy on another disk in the same machine.
Are you hung up with the speech vs text thing? Because that's so not the point.
From what I understand it was never a magic the gathering exchange.

The original author reused an old domain for the bitcoin exchange afaik.
Absolutely no problem. Great read for the weekend!
Sweden is also grappling with serious economic problems (as is most of Scandinavia in fact).

For example, in dollar terms Sweden's economy hasn't expanded since about 2007.

They have a ~7.8% unemployment rate.

They have about twice the household debt to income ratio of American households, and have a present debt crisis among those households:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/09/sweden-economy-idU...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-23/sweden-s-d...
Not really, no.

I actually have a decent understanding of what's involved regarding Ethereum, but assume for a moment that I don't.

Statements like "a formal agreement between two or more parties" are of little use to someone starting from ground zero.
Here's an analogy. In some churches, the faithful will kneel in order to pray. Now I come along and say that praying 200 times per day will lead to better health. We put this to a test, and find it's true. But there are conflating factors - is it the praying, or the physical exercise through kneeling, or doing it in a church, or all of the above, which lead to the outcome?

A Kneelologist could stop, be happy that it works, and promote Kneelism as a healthy activity. But a non-kneelologist could point out that it's similar to calisthenics, which was already known to give similar positive results, is simpler to understand because it doesn't require the prayer component, and can done by people who are against prayer or don't have ready access to a church.

(Or for a real world example, the asanas from hatha yoga are used as exercise, and called 'yoga' even though yoga is a much broader topic.)

The scientific approach would address some important factors: 1) is the effect real and reproducible?, 2) when should be be used instead of other forms of treatment, and 3) what are the possible conflating factors and can we disentangle them to improve 1) and 2)?

Applying that to NLP, and making this up because I don't know the details. What if NLP is an incorrect synthesis of real-world observations that were already known at the time NLP was developed? In that, the ability of NLP to predict similar effects is not surprising. Other psychology models developed since Bandura's work in the 1960s also need to "predict" that behavior rehearsal can be an effective treatment.

Instead, what new predictions does NLP make which are different from other behavioral models? Can those predictions be tested? Or failing the ability to make new predictions, is it a simper model which it at least equally effective as other models in describing behavior?

That's where the science comes in.

NLP might work. But so might cognitive psychology, and with seemingly fewer worries about charlatans.
White male privilege doesn't mean you have it easy. It's just that as a black person or woman or both, you have it a lot less easy.

DjangoGirls is no "silver spoon" by any means. It's hard work and many of the participants struggle to get through the tutorial in a day. Still, this "silver spoon" as you put it, doesn't come close to equalizing the evident discrimination.
I'm in a similar boat re: broadcast TV. Whenever I'm in a place where I can't escape it (doctors' waiting rooms are the worst, as is the house of a certain family member who is a total TV junkie) I'm absolutely overwhelmed by the sudden increase in cognitive load I experience just by being in that environment. It really feels very invasive.

I recently started using an adblocker. (I hate to do that to content providers who are dependent on advertising for revenue, but I don't wish to consent to being tracked by advertisers, and in light of that I've been left with little other recourse.) Since then, I've developed a similar sensation when I experience the unblocked Web. The sudden jump in noise levels is jarring, and almost feels like a form of assault.

By contrast, I really don't mind subway ads. They're pervasive but easy to tune out, and I have absolutely responded to them. The most recent instance of me checking out a company I learned about from an ad on the train was a few hours ago, and I'm seriously considering purchasing their product.

The article suggests a way to explain this contrast that's very plausible. It had never really occurred to me that perhaps I view advertising as this interesting sort of Veblen good. So perhaps that leads me to think of some kinds of advertising as pure noise not just because of the high noise but also because of the low signal.
I think, in the case of a bank or banking-like-entity, it's really easy to argue that commingling deposits with corporate funds makes it much more likely for things like.. what happened at mt gox to happen.

If you violate professional standards while providing your services, even in the absence of requirements to the contrary, you're putting your clients at risk, probably to an unethical degree depending on what assurances you gave them.
"The example is pseudo-code and assumes a future with smart-property domain registrars."

Exactly. That's the problem. There has to be a much larger infrastructure which handles ownership of real-world objects for this to be useful. There are already smart-property domain registrars. MERS [1] and DTC [2] already do that, for mortgages and stocks respectively. But they don't need Etherium.

[1] https://www.mersinc.org/
[2] http://www.dtcc.com/about/businesses-and-subsidiaries/dtc.as...
ClojureScript with Enfocus (https://github.com/ckirkendall/enfocus/) in the front-end, and Clojure with Enlive (https://github.com/cgrand/enlive) in the backend. It's not a SPA. I started it a while ago, before React/Om. If it were now I would write it as a SPA and use some React wrapper, probably Rum (https://github.com/tonsky/rum).

As for HTML/CSS, no framework at all. I'm interested in simple, minimalistic, innovative design, and I don't think frameworks help to achieve that.
> I never said anything about rape victim behavior.

You certainly implied this.

> I see nothing wrong with connecting the logic of a rapist ("consent is not important") to OP's comment and denigrating this destructive attitude wherever I find it.

The fact that you equate these two even abstractly is very surprising.

> I find your comment thoughtless and reactionary.

Likewise. Good day.
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But household income adjusted to PPP isn't the only quality of life indicator. For the 'median' family in the US, they can expect to pay far more for health care and transportation.

US PPP income is highly skewed because the US dollar is very strong, and a basket of consumer goods in the US is very cheap. Healthcare and education on the other hand are astronomical, and certain items seen elsewhere as 'luxuries' can be required in many parts of the US (one or two cars, for instance).

Anyhow, most quality of life surveys put the US at around 10th, which I think is pretty appropriate based on what I've seen (both statistically and anecdotally).
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3fe92x/im_ashley_ba...
There was another long and widely exposed article about an American citizen going to Europe (France IIRC) to treat his father's cancer. He said that healthcare spirit only would have been worth it, more human and less a business than in the USofA.

I guess we should all travel to get perspective on our local environments and see what's possible with different organizations and beliefs.
> a certain like-deviantart-but-good startup

Is this a thinly-veiled reference to pixiv?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3fe92x/im_ashley_b...
Tagged pointers really have nothing to do with late binding. They're useful anywhere you have a data that is sometimes small enough to fit within a single pointer-sized chunk, and sometimes isn't. Strings are a good example of this: short strings can be tagged pointers, and long strings can be dynamically allocated. As another commenter mentioned, some C++ implementations use tagged pointers for std::string.

Another example might be a big number library, where numbers smaller than the pointer size could be implemented as tagged pointers, and larger numbers would be dynamically allocated. A C++ big number library could easily do this.

Whether it's worth the cost depends on how expensive memory allocation is, how expensive pointer indirection is, how many objects are able to fit within a tagged pointer, and how expensive the tag check is. Typically the answers are, a lot, a lot, a lot, and a lot. And dynamism doesn't change the answer much.
Maternity leave in America is basically unpaid vacation. In most countries you get paid maternity leave.

Vacation time is also the lowest (2 weeks) compared to Europe which on average has 4 weeks of vacation time.

Where did you get your information about healthcare from? Very affordable healthcare in America? Seriously, what are you smoking?
I think quality was the result of no-margin business. They could have fixed it (through training & skilled/hired employees) if they had good margins. Today's TC article was bang on - http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/31/why-homejoy-failed-and-the-...
I can only infer from the picture of a person on the couch two-thirds of the way through the article that this is about "Prof. Manjul Bhargava": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manjul_Bhargava
I don't think the comparison with an ordinary company is useful. They weren't mingling money paid to the company with money owed (which is normal), they were mingling client money, which they have no good reason to touch except under explicit instruction from the client, and their own funds used for operating expenses.

Companies which explicitly hold other people's money are usually held to higher standards in holding it (Solicitors, Banks, Estate Agents, etc). For example deposits are usually held in a client account, separate from other corporate funds, and not usable except for the intended purpose. The reasons for this are obvious, as it makes fraud far harder to perpetrate, and Mt.Gox not doing so is a red flag given the business they were in. Even worse than this, this wasn't a corporate account, it was Mark's personal account!

http://www.sra.org.uk/solicitors/handbook/accountsrules/part...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3fe92x/im_ashley_b...
Well I agree that patriarcal culture (of which veils and minarets are symbols) has nothing to do in central/northern europe. I don't care about freedom of religion, I care about being freed from religion. And it sounds like the swiss do too. So if that was suposed to make me think that democracy as opposed to parliamentary regimes is a bad thing, think again.
Microsoft wants to gain some browser market share, that's the only reason they changed the functionality to make it more complicated to change the default browser.
I get what you are saying but when you deal with managing other people's money I think it's a different story. It's a safeguard to prevent you from dipping into funds that are spoken for. Now you an still dip in (and may need to) but by having the accounts separate it's a conscious decision to dip in instead of a just a CC swipe away...