skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most guys I know play Xbox/PS4 and some mobile games. I know maybe a few people who play computer games on top of that, and plenty of people who just play mobile. PC games are generally seen as 1. extremely expensive since the cost of computers is high especially if you dan't build one yourself and 2. only for hardcore gamers. Most console gamers I know don't want to compete with the PC gamers, its like when I play Call of Duty and get slaughtered every single round but worse. The atmosphere is one in which you win at any expense, even that of the game being fun to play.

These perceptions may be wholly inaccurate but they will remain until demonstrated otherwise.
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Russians and Eastern Europeans eat vegetables, even in winter, at almost every meal. But these are veggies that are easy to store through the winter: root veggies like beetroot, cabbage and potatoes, not leafy stuff like letuce or cress, which obviously does not store. The Americans stereotypes about this part of their diet is indeed true. They also like to have fruit for desert, even for feasts, sometimes offered before pastries or cakes. They associate Christmas with eating sweet oranges or clementines as well, not just cakes or meats.
Bitfountain also has a great Android class set, which for the life of me I don't understand why it's not listed on their main page, but you can directly access it here.

https://fedora.bitfountain.io/courses/android

It's normally $149 for lifetime access, but they runs sales on it as low as $49.
It very much depends on the guts of the meter what it will indicate. "Something" is not a very scientific measure :)

The biggest factor are the ways in which the sample is taken and what kind of algorithm (if any...) is used to determine RMS. Simple meters simply rectify the AC current, add a small capacitor and a resistor to drain it and measure the DC voltage across the resistor. More advanced meters will use an isolation stage with a pre-amp driven from the auto ranger that will present the wave-form in one piece and suitably scaled to a DA stage where the sampling will take place. This allows for pretty good determination of the actual voltage (which in the case of AC has been agreed upon as root-mean-square, whereas, if the circuitry is bunk could easily become 'peak' or even 'nonsense').

Anyway, we're all in violent agreement that this measurement is bogus and since that is all the quantitative info there is I'll let it go here.
Just as I think you can't allow money to solely guide outcomes, you also can't allow intelligence to solely guide.

It's a fact that I'm somewhere on the right side of the intelligence curve. If I just laid about and waited for the state to funnel me vast sums of other people's money, society is worse off than in a world where I need to create something of value in order to be paid.

Taking away the incentive to create value (by annually confiscating the rewards) leads to a terrible outcome, and I believe a more terrible outcome than today. I agree that money has too much influence today, but that adjustments should be made methodically and carefully to prevent massive unintended consequences.
Even among my less technologically advanced friends and family there's maybe only a handful of people who still watch shows regularly on cable television. My in-laws watch TV shows but they record them and skip over the ads. Pretty much the only thing that I know of that anyone watches on cable and still sits through ads is live sports.

Watching cable networks flail around and completely fail to understand that their business model is not relevant anymore is always hilarious. Now that Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu have really good original programming there's even less of an incentive to have cable.
I will take the liberty of answering for Thomas here.

Most importantly, write a lot of comments, over years. Karma is primarily an odometer. I get 2X the karma per comment, but Thomas writes 4X the comments.

Develop a beat on which you are known as a source of expert, reliable knowledge. There are other security people on HN, but Thomas is fairly reliably stapled to the top of any thread about security. That is not not justified.

Write well. Have a voice. You can pick out most of Thomas' comments, and virtually all of his value-adding comments, immediately by his writing style. He's one of the five best writers on the site, without question. (Honest opinion rather than playing praise-my-friend-and-cofounder. It's not a close call.) You could ask him "Thomas, I am going to name one item in your kitchen. Write about it for two minutes. Ready? Parsnip, go." and it would be one of the ~10 best written comments on HN that day.

There exists an observation I can make here about choosing which threads to participate in, which would have the effect of increasing one's karma but which is not necessarily something HN wants to encourage. I have 100% confidence that "Boosting my karma score" is not the reason why Thomas chooses threads to engage in, but be that as it may, I'll add it for completeness: the high-heat low-light threads about nerd politics result in getting lots of upvotes for fairly little effort, regardless of whether you conform with HN's community norms or whether you are the designated contrary voice. (Designated contrary voice is worth a lot of upvotes if you do it well.)

Not related, but worth mentioning in case it isn't obvious: he really, really doesn't care about his karma score. Profoundly does not care. It happens to reward him for being "message board nerd" (his favored phrasing for this psychograph) but Thomas would play message board nerd for free and, indeed, at substantial cost.
i tried that excuse with a cop once after being pulled over for not wearing my seatbelt... she was not amused.
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> Then why don't you wear a helmet when you're walking on ice as well?

Because bikes constrain falls. Millions of years of evolution plus my own personal practice means I'm pretty good at falling safely. But when I am wrapped around a bike, a lot of that goes out of the window.

Also, I'd like to see some stats on your "not very likely". In 20 years of adult riding, I've fallen twice at low speeds hard enough to crack a helmet. And that's not counting the time as a kid I knocked myself unconscious on a low-speed ride.

> because you forgot your helmet

Is this a problem people have? When I'm not riding, I clip my helmet to my bike. This doesn't strike me as a particularly challenging habit to develop. Maybe just keep necessary equipment together? That sounds easier than trying to decide whether the odds are small enough to risk traumatic brain injury.
You're lucky! Mine is 1.1.
Oh, and you need 200 of karma to create a poll.

I'm still not there yet, and I lost a lot of karma because of it. This is a post of mine that got 31 points - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8339667

And it was picked up by somebody with more karma that created a poll about it and gained 71 points on that - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8339900

That was a bit unfair..
quite nice for say extensive lexical dictionaries and fixed compression indexes.
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Because people spend a trivial amount of time cycling vs driving on average, and because impact energy involved are generally 1-2 orders of magnitude higher.
Heroku has open-sourced the product they use to upload WAL files to S3. Can confirm (not with S3, but with Swift) that it works fantastically:

https://github.com/wal-e/wal-e
This is so true. I almost never pay "normal price" for classes on Udemy and always buy them on a discount. This is true of a lot of the other networks to.

I also subscribe to the BGR Store mailing list which sends out notifications of discounted classes across a wide range of MOOC offerings. It's a bit tedious to wade through the emails, but it's worth it to keep track of the discounts available.
> If you quit your day job, you’ll most likely fill your schedule with low-value activities to put in a regular workweek and feel the pressure to build or sell too early.

This is too broad a generalization. Yes, some people will not spend their time the best way. And they probably shouldn't be the ones quitting their day job. But the people this quote doesn't account for, the ones who quit a day job to focus on a product, are more likely to be successful.
I don't understand why advocate against it, which people are actually doing in this thread. It's baffling. It's like advocating against the seat belt.

It's a safety measure. It doesn't preclude better infrastructure. Yes, there should be better cycling lanes. Many countries do exactly that whenever cycling is envisioned, they build better infrastructure. But you don't wear a seat belt because the roads have potholes, you wear them because they save your life and prevent injuries regardless of road conditions.

Is it really terrible that people have to wear a helmet? Of course the focus should be on better protecting bikes (they're vastly different types of vehicles), but I'm not shedding any tears over people who claim they will stop biking because helmets ruin their hair. It's simply a basic preservation of health.
Nice for fixed indexes such as all words in all latin alphabet languages.
I think it's worth mentioning that re #1 this is because of the increased probability of falling off while riding at the limits of human reaction in a dense pack. It is also worth noting that there is no demonstrated prophylactic effect from wearing a helmet in those situations for life-threatening head injuries.
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> I'm not saying those things aren't cheaper for bigger players, but that the playing field is more level online than it is off, at least in part because the production cost per unit is much, much less.

I don't see how this is a relevant metric. The only thing that matters in that regard are how much economy of scale favours the big players. It might be cheap for anyone to start offering books online, but there is only amazon.
In the face of a breathless and narrative-toeing media, you can only win by using the same tools as they use.

You can't fight fire with fire - the more loudly you decry these policies the more rapidly you alienate moderates and hard-liners alike. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Rather, I think change has to come from one (or both) of two places.

Firstly, inarguable grass roots initiatives, such as crowd-sourced direct democracy, which alter the fundamental structure (I.e. That nation states and representative governance are the only way to go) upon which arguments rest.

The other is to give your opponents enough rope with which to hang themselves - to which end the snooper charter may eventually play. If this government put forth a statement decrying the UN, moderates may scratch their heads and wonder. Hard-liners will join in, as they have against human rights, but moderates will be turned off.

Either way, this war (for it is war) must be fought in the battlefield of minds, and with subtlety. The most powerful idea is the one that you think is your own.
I see a great device model to handle this. It monitors the audience and when some jerk brings out their phone a set of high powered stage lights zeros in on them and blinds them. Hehe, I'm dreaming of course.
> People who wish to buy shit also exist. Some of them might actually want info about their options.

Sure, I'm sometimes one of them, but that doesn't mean I want information about my options mixed into the middle of a news article. If I'm in the mood to buy something I'll go to shopping and review sites to find information about it.
For anyone that is particularly interested in this specific story, this article is almost an exact summary of the the book Birdmen by Lawrence Goldstone. He frames the story as a rivalry between Glenn Curtiss and the Wright Brothers, but also goes through all of the business missteps and failed attempts at establishing a monopolistic market from which they could extract rents from for the rest of their lives.

I would highly recommend as a case study for what not to do if you reach a groundbreaking development.
The definition of End-to-End encryption is that _only_ the participants are able to read their messages.
I don't think the gp post or mine mentioned any statistics so I can't respond.
> I'm not saying helmets don't work, I'm saying it's not very likely to hit your head at high velocity on the ground if you were going 10 km/h.

Because if you fall over while walking, you're likely to manage to get your hands down before you head hits the ground. You have nothing to lose by getting your hands down quick.

By contrast, when you run into problems while cycling, your instinct is to try and regain control of the bike. You don't immediately drop the handlebars, You keep your hands on the bars and try to steer/brake. Moreover you're likely to go over sideways and only one hand tends to be able to break the fall.

A fall from a bike and a fall from your feet is a massively different thing.
agreed!

one pleasant side effect is you'll be walking down the hall at the office and be thinking "i can totally do a series of judo rolls and move along quicker"
No. The helmet, in the ideal conditions for which it is designed, should /crush/. Cracking is a non-ideal failure mode as it absorbs much less energy.
The ad-free historiy of cable also tells you the future of Netflix and other streaming services. Bait...and switch!
Isn't that the exact threat model that the CERT researchers followed? The Tor Project found only 115 relays (6.4%) in the network that was emitting the signal.

That's not the aforementioned Globally Passive Adversary. So by their own measurement the Tor project failed. That said, they took steps to mitigate the exact vulnerability these researchers exploited.
You spend way more time reading an article outside of twitter than you do reading @fats stream of thought.

Many many many people don't use it like you do but almost everyone use it as a way to find new content and so thats where twitters opportunity is.
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No, they just shift the party that can see the referrer to whoever runs the link shortener.
A question for those who have done more thinking on this than I have:

I see cable TV going the way of the dedicated phone line - a bundled benefit you get for a very small fee on top of the primary benefit, which will be the internet connection. The overall cost of a subscription will remain roughly the same, but the cost will be allocated to the internet connection: much like mobile carriers are now basically free voice+text across the board and the cost of the plan is based solely on the data tier you want, what I see happening in the future is that both cable TV and home phone are going to be small add-ons to your $90-$120/month internet bill. In many markets there is virtually no competition present to prevent this, and in those where there is, collusion seems to be a foregone conclusion.

This seems inevitable to me given the rise in cord-cutters and, as a recent headline pointed out, the "cord-nevers". Is this what's going to happen?
The article makes a confusion between cable companies (Comcast, TWC, Charter, etc.) and TV/content networks (Time Warner, FOX, Viacom, etc.).
I'm sorry, but you really have no basis for saying that "if I didn't have it it'd have been a much worse day than the very mild headache I got from it."
The Dutch are able to dispense with helmets only because they have pervasive, well-maintained bicycle infrastructure and flat terrain. I'm on the fence about helmet laws in the U.S., but given our road conditions I think everyone should choose to wear one.
Wow. Cloudflare is the perfect company to push DNSSEC forward. DNSSEC seems incredibly complicated and prone to amplification attacks, and I trust Cloudflare to get it right. :)
In the larger scope they are related if they can be converted back to cash. I imagine if assets are family photos or other maybe important items which have no value. But if they have monetary value I can see govt's position in freezing access to them.
It might work for low end or previous generation games

You may be right that the cloud tech needed to support the best XBox One and PS4 offerings isn't there yet, but Nintendo has been pushing under-powered hardware for generations now. And I don't know about you, but most of my Steam games would work fine on state of the art hardware from the early 2000s. A pseudo-incumbent like Nintendo and a potential disruptor like Valve should absolutely be thinking this way.

And I don't think TV software should be an issue. Virtualization should be a trivial problem for tech companies of this size.
what's wrong with the one your working with on Finimize.
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most likely, but i'd suspect any time your helmet was utilized, the rest of your body likely fared much worse and would need hospitalization anyway. In short , i wonder why they look at overall hospitalization rates and not specifically at chronic head injury. It's like saying tissue purchasing went up in the winter, therefor people must be more depressed because you use tissues for crying, totally missing blowing your nose and cold season.
I agree with the quote on the first paragraph: "it doesn’t make sense to leave your job before having a good indication that you’re working on a real business opportunity."

... but the title omits the "before having a good indication" part !!

I'm actually in that quandary right now (when to quit my day job and focus 100% on my startup). Right now is definitely not the time, since we don't have the "good indication" part, or even a finished MVP.

But once we do have a half-decent MVP, we'll need to focus on customer validation, which means in our case getting to actual sales meetings, and that takes a lot of time.

Also, if you're building a product (especially if it's innovative and can't easily show it before having an MVP), having a "login screen" alone won't cut it.
You've grown up in what is probably the best place in the world to ride a bike, which makes your experience enviable but not typical. Here in the car-dominated USA it's a lot more dangerous to ride a bike because we're "sharing" the streets with fast cars that are sometimes inattentive or even aggressive. Plus, the maintenance of the streets themselves sometimes conspire against you, it's easy to lose control on a pothole or slick crosswalk marking. I have had a couple of falls where my head whacked the pavement, and was very glad I was wearing a helmet.

Edit: This video says you're 30 times more likely to be involved in an accident in the US than in the Netherlands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2THe_10dYs
Also, I clicked on kelvin0 and the only thing the profile says is YCOMT which appears to be You Came On My Tits (at least according to Google).
You're not really making any sense. By your own account, they are making money by accepting deposits. They aren't losing money by having branches because they make money on deposits they wouldn't have had without branches. All you've really said is "banks make money off deposits"
Is someone's experience that martial arts skills help in bicycle falls? For me, the falls have been too different for the experience to transfer, and I think that's mainly because I'm wrapped around a rigid bike frame.
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It astounds me how much US TV airtime is devoted to adverts - roughly 18 minutes out of every hour, AFAIK (plus any split-screen advertising shenanigans).

In the UK, (outside the BBC, which doesn't have adverts) TV broadcasters are limited to an overall average of 7 minutes per hour, with limits of 12 minutes for any individual clock hour (which drops to 8 minutes during primetime).

The BBC's Natural History unit deliberately inserts ten minutes of "disposable" content that can be cut from the program when it is broadcast on commercial channels (e.g. the 'Yellowstone People' segments that were included at the end of episodes of 'Yellowstone' when it was broadcast on the BBC, but are dropped when it's broadcast on commercial channels).
I think Pluralsight has consistently higher quality classes than Udemy, but that Udemy also has some great classes. You have to spend a bit more time looking at reviews before you buy on Udemy. Also you end up having to accept the fact that sometimes you will end up buying a course that isn't worthwhile.

As an example of a non technical class; The Secrets to Drawing on Udemy is Amazing. I am a (bad) hobby artist in my spare time and this class has done more to help me with my drawing skills than any other book or class I've tried in the past; my kids have been going through it too and they absolutely love it.

https://www.udemy.com/the-secrets-to-drawing/#/

This is two of the benefits of Udemy over Pluralsight

1) On Pluralsight I would never see this class (well not currently anyway) because it doesn't fall within their accepted domain of classes.

2) I paid the $30 one time for this class and I can go back and review whenever I want and let my kids go back and use it a year later and not have to pay another subscription fee.
In time series analysis picking the right time scale is everything.

Let´s do a small experiment:

One hot summer day I measure the temperatures in my home town between 6:00 and 12:00 and I get some data like this:

6:00 - 10 C

...

12:00 - 32 C

Now I make a small regression analysis and say that at 24:00 we are going to die a painfull death because the temperature will raise with a probability of 95% to 70-80 C.

In this case I obviously forgot about the periodicity of daily temperatures.

The global temperatures have a periodicity of ca. 400.000 years. Therefore any analysis based on a time period shorten than 400k years has the same problems as my summer experiment.

>> the end of the century our planet might be experiencing environmental conditions never previously encountered by our species

- 2*2 might be 5...

- at the end of the century I will be dead and "our species" will be only one of million other species. For example the dinosaurs loved the 12 C more and had a happy life on the ice-free antarktis a couple of million years ago...
My roommate called me recently that the TV was not working at home, because his girlfriend wanted to watch TV.

As it turned out, we never plugged the cable into the TV, we have lived in the same house for 3 years and neither of us ever watched cable TV during that time. (we do have a cable subscription because where we live you can't get cable internet without the TV and radio part attached...)

I never understood why someone would pay a ridiculous amount of money (compared to say netflix) for a cable subscription and still think it's OK to be watching to ads for 25% of the time...

It's time for cable companies to accept the truth: their technology and business model is old fashioned (a free harddisk record to "pause" TV is a solution to a problem that should not exist!).
It's amazing to see the splurging of anecdotes again about this topic.

For anyone that has an interest in an informed opinion from someone that knows a small bit more about risk, please take a look at this Spiegelhalter paper:
http://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f3817.full?ijkey=I5vHBog6...
Client or server side? (I guess maybe the oracle side "hints" have another name, but my Oracle-Foo is not strong enough to remember the name query plan?). I have seen some really big shops that the only way they could keep their app running in production was a fair bit of server side hints. Which then really sucked because someone fixed the casing on a table name (say "Orders" to "orders") and made it fall out of the query plan. Whereas if they were done as hints, they would have kept working.