skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect the audience of people who really like Cards Against Humanity leans towards people who like being "politically incorrect", because the card game often inspires people to be incredibly offensive. It seems likely that their audience includes lots of 4channers, shitlords, extremists, racists, or any other group of people known to be generally offensive.

By making moves like this, they're showing everyone else that they aren't actually so bad - which is an interesting business decision. So maybe if you're a really sensitive person, you see this kind of thing they do with their money, and don't feel too bad about buying or playing an offensive game.
>The Chinese government outlawed cryptocurrencies in September 2017.

Wasnt it just ICO's?
There will come a reckoning when these kinds of analysts realize they simply weren’t working hard enough to understand the value that crypto currencies, and specifically bitcoin, bring. They’re useful.
Please don’t steal my bank cards.
At least in the US they make good looking but affordable car like the mustang, camaro, corvette,...

In europe it’s really rare to see a car that doesn’t look like a potatoe.
>Most people view ASD individuals as seriously cognitively impaired and they are often seen as low IQ, so I have trouble with your assertion.

Popular culture stereotypes autists as being highly intelligent.
Is it mandated that every top level comment on HN has to be some kind of cynical, nit-picky whining? Lighten up. This is incredible.
What Each Myers-Briggs Type Was Made to Do – Astroligion.com
Did they actually buy the land they said they were going to buy to keep an eminent domain lawsuit open so that The Wall can't be built?
What don't we get?
Although this is the not so subtle secret about gold isn’t it. If you invested in gold simply due to the inherent industrial value, you’d never get in at this price.
Maybe they're poor because they're constantly wasting money buying frivolous things online instead of paying their bills.
That's an excellent point, really.
yes, but they'll make it up in volume. /s
Just about every architecture works like this because ultimately to drive a screen you need to send display data down the wire in order.

Modern systems are so capable that using raster interrupts wouldn’t add anything but if you change the display without Vsync you can see that it still works by scanning lines.
>We excluded all Canadians. They already have universal healthcare. They’ll be fine.

Yikes. I certainly got a laugh out of that, then an overly reflective period of what I'm grateful for, especially the benefits afforded from being north of the border.
> It seems likely that their audience includes lots of 4channers, shitlords, extremists, racists, or any other group of people known to be generally offensive.

It seems likely that you're generalizing way too much from your own experiences.

I know plenty of people who play CAH and they're far from being the "4channers, shitlords, extremists, and racists" you claim.
What a sad ending. I used to live in Texas where the houses were all very similar, with mono-culture yards that required constant water, fertilizer, and mowing.

I now live in the Bay Area, Oakland specifically, and something I've really come to appreciate here is the lack of any sort of ordinances like you've run into. In fact, having a green grass lawn is frowned upon for all the environmental reasons you call attention to. I bought a house in the Oakland Hills last year and we're surrounded by large trees, native grasses, ferns, and dozens of native or drought tolerant flora. Few of the yards are fenced in, which allow wildlife like deer, foxes, turkeys, coyotes to roam freely between the houses. The trees support dozens of different species of birds. And while there are tons of spiders too, very few mosquitoes. And this is still in a city! And do I have to water it? Fertilize it? Mow it? No. I have a crew come through once or twice a year to clear out overgrowth (required for wildfire safety) and that's all the maintenance that's required.

I really wish more places in our country would allow native plant life to thrive around our cities, we'd all be better for it.
Map makers add fake streets to mark their maps?
Reminded me of Jules Verne's Propeller Island, a city on a massive ship in the Pacific Ocean, inhabited entirely by millionaires.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propeller_Island
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How can such a boring game have such a large following?

The gimmick wears out in like 15 minutes.

Edit: these downvotes. To think I pegged HN for a community with good taste in card games.
Food for thought: how nutrition impacts cognition and emotion
Wow, $15m for 3,300sqft [0], with a yearly upkeep of close to $1m. I guess when you're that rich, the annual costs are just chump change

[0]: http://aboardtheworld.com/sites/default/files/Residence-1001...
Yeah I realise that. Even if it does work (noting currently most BCH blocks are tiny) then the chain will grow by ~135Gb per month (the entire Bitcoin chain is ~145Gb). Running a full node means you now have to buy a hard-drive (or two) and hope your internet connection isn't capped. You also have to be OK with really slow block propagation (which you really shouldn't be).

There are some very good reasons for small blocks and higher on-chain transaction fees.
As Cryptocurrency will evolve, and zillions of great other blockchain implementation will be out there solving real-world distributed data problems, bitcoin will be a piece of nostalgia no more than that.
Err sort of... perfect competition is an ideal that has reasonably close analogues in the real world--otherwise the idea wouldn't be very useful. For example, some agricultural products are this way without the kind of government interference you are suggesting.

And your assertion about information asymmetry having nothing to do with free markets is actually addressed in the economic literature on perfect competition.
All exponential decay processes have half-lifes - or rather, half-life is a metric that describes the scale of an exponential decay rate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_decay
$15 is a roughly a single meal. Are we suggesting that $15 spent towards entertainment is exceptional or excessive for anyone below middle-class, ? If that's true, than surely we're worse off than we're all aware of.
I know a few people who have invested in BTC and they cash out any profits that they get over $100/day. That way they are making a decent amount per transaction. So they take that cash and use it as they normally would.

It's more of an investment for them, I'm not sure if they actually use BTC to buy anything.
No, you're not "that poor", if by that phrase you mean that $15 is a life-or-death decision for you, and every last cent goes toward survival.

But there's a large distance between that and having enough money to fund every level on Maslow's hierarchy, and there's a larger distance between even that and not noticing a $15 expenditure at all. Maybe they have a budget for things that make life worth living, things other than ramen and a cardboard box, and they spent $15 out of that.
Looks like it. https://cardsagainsthumanitystopsthewall.com/
Yes. This is often true of all kinds of legally shady behavior, not just contracts. This is why things like class action litigation can be important, and other aggregation mechanisms. (There might be something to crowdfunding challenges in cases like this)
Oh, you mean when we talk about news about technology? You mean what we've been doing for years?
> how are you using it to enrich your life?

Selling them for way more than I bought them.
go for it if you like horoscopes.
Come again? If that were true, then the clock would advance past the actual time of day 2 hour for every month (30.5 days to be precise). And that would mean that in 6 months, midnight would be at high noon. So...
Why don't such hitpieces talk about the non-liquidability of bitcoin? Sure the price is 15k right now, but can anyone actually convert a large number of coins to USD with this price? Wouldn't this trigger a sharp decrease in price as soon as people start seeing people selling their BTC?
The other thing is that because of CAFE standards, there is convergent evolution towards maximally aerodynamic blobs.
I have a feeling that it's a smarmy communication for legitimate legal concerns. That doesn't make the relativism any less legitimate but, :shrug:
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Why does BitTorrent seem to have a higher down speed when it's being observed?
The cynic in me wonders what shifty benefits patrons could get from effectively owning their own little mobile legal patch of whatever country is the flag-of-convenience. (In this case, it seems to be the Bahamas.)
The Evolution of General Intelligence
It's less about the game itself and more about the people you're with when you sit down to play it. You get to know what they're squeamish about, what their prejudices are, what they're passionate about, even their fears. They say that many a truth was spoken in jest and giving someone license to say aloud dirty, disgusting, or even downright reprehensible thoughts will get to the core of someone's worldview faster than anything else. Think of it less as a game and more as a communal word-association test.
I am dismayed at how little people care about this. If more people (not even everyone) had some basic knowledge of plastics and the will to rinse the containers they recycle, sorting would be much more efficient. But I'd be willing to bet that most people use their recycling bin as a kind of funny second trash can. I know my roommates do. We got fined and they still put dirty paper towels and plastic containers with food on them in the recycling bin (since technically these are made out of recyclable materials). Effectively though, the recycling is being used like a special garbage can.
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This is exactly why I don't think ETH has any long term value aside from its potential to unseat bitcoin as the dominant cryptocurrency. I just don't imagine even an ideal world of distributed applications running on ethereum to be worth billions. The demand for obnoxiously slow running distributed/trustless applications is extremely small in the scheme of things. Most real world cases in need of "programmable money" will just deposit to a centralized site where all the programmatic features will execute and then distribute back the result. Trustlessness just isn't that valuable outside of the currency itself.
So one of the problems is that if you really believe that Bitcoin will keep going up then it is hard to spend it as you are most likely better off saving it.

What I have personally done is to take out small chunks whenever Bitcoin increases, 1% maybe or even less of the total bitcoin I own and treat myself to something nice like a new desktop perhaps.

Lately some of my coworkers have started using mobile wallets for Bitcoin and it is common for us to pay each other if someone pays for everyone in fiat for lunch for example. It's still hard to find places that accept Bitcoin but I see it popping up here and there which is pretty cool.
My kneejerk response is to downvote you, but I'm bigger than that.

I'll just refer back to IDIC: Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations.

It might get old for you, but other people enjoy the creativity of combining things in new and interestingly subtle ways.
The blog post says in the end that IBM does allow benchmarks.
10btc? Sure. Just one exchange trades more than that within some hours.
This is an area where I get pretty excited about EVs. You don't have to hinge a literal block of metal downwards so it doesn't end up in passenger's lap. The sled design provides a ton of lateral rigidity that's hard to match.

It's no wonder that Tesla destroyed the competition on safety. There's also probably still improvements to be made given how new EVs are yet.
Economically nobody is created equal and as important as it is to liberty its meaningless when applied to economics.
Which startups died in 2017?
In Memoriam. RIP Name, when, type of exit (folded, bought), the cause of death. Notable accomplishments. Lessons learned. Links to announcements, post mortems. Let's put 2017 to rest.
This theory is plausible but I don't think it's a perfect explanation. Someone else has pointed out that Apple does the same thing and does not run afoul of money transmitter regulations. But I would point out that Patreon has faced a ton of heat for this decision, they KNEW they were going to, and they could easily have said "We had to do this so we didn't run afoul of money transmitter regulations."

My theory is that this is mostly making people angry because it addresses the pains of a different group of creators.

We know that Patreon exhibits a winner-take-all dynamic, in that the largest creators are orders of magnitude more successful than the average creator, similar to music, books, and other entertainment markets. (I suspect that Patreon also has a "whales" dynamic, where a small number of patrons are responsible for an outsized proportion of payments, but that is not necessary for this explanation).

The largest creators on Patreon face a free-rider problem with the existing system. Someone can subscribe, access the back catalog of content, then cancel without ever reaching the batch date. The largest creators are probably giving Patreon the feedback that this is a major issue. Since the largest creators make up 80-99% of Patreons revenue, the solution for them is to make the first month an immediate payment, but to do that means you need to get rid of batching.

Small creators also face the free-rider problem, but most aren't doing it as a professional enterprise (by definition they don't make a living off it). They face less of an risk of piracy since no one is motivated to pirate everything, and they care less in any case since the stakes are lower. The patrons who support the small creators mostly are supporting many, so they will have to pay a much larger tax to PayPal and Stripe under the new system, but since this isn't really where Patreon's bread is buttered, their concerns did not control the product decision.

Other explanations (fraud, money service regulations, unwillingness to take on technical complexity) can explain why they didn't follow any of the obvious mitigation strategies (like prorating the second month) but they don't explain fundamentally why this change is being made despite the obvious harm it causes to vocal prior fans of the company.

The fact that Patreon is trying to put an altruistic spin on it is just normal business behavior.
I've played it several times before with a pretty wide range of people.

Without fail it just devolves into who can put together the edgiest answer. Then after 2 or 3 rounds everyone just comes to expect it and gets bored.
I think the causes for it, particularly why we are apparently unable to adjust it are.
Why Google stores billions of lines of code in a single repository (2016)
If charity works great, why doesn't government-mandated charity work even better?

There are a lot of things, like civil defense and firefighting and road building, that historically started working more reliably when they became government-run instead of depending on volunteers or private industry. What makes charity different?
HN loves anything that shits on bitcoin right now. Probably a lot of people sore they didn't buy in and so they want it to fail to validate their decision.
Yes, exactly! When someone asks you to name the statute that gives you a right, they're asking, "Who's your tyrant?"
Personally, I got bored with making sour grapes comments on the internet in like 1995. To each their own.
The problem is that even though there's an "infinite" number of combinations, they're all just some form of "edgy"/gross-out humor.

It's just not that interesting after a few hands.
It used to be pulped and used to make cardboard in Britain, for example at Carrongrove Mill.

http://www.baph.org.uk/forum/topic/carrongrove-mill-denny/
I can guarantee you that there are Texans who prefer their F-250 King Ranch diesel fine-tuned six different ways to Sunday more than any fancy foreign thing.
Honestly, having experience what are typical jokes for 4chan, CAH is a very friendly game – I never seen anything really bad there. It is mostly about vulgar sex jokes, which you usually don't use in real life, there is not a lot of actual incorrectness.
Yeah, all those dreams I've had of creating a boring card games shattered.

You've really cut me to the core.
> I was going to buy a bitcoin or two in 2013 when it was $400 and my co-workers at the time, but darn I didnt.

It went up to 17000$ exactly because people like you didn't buy it. If everyone bought a bitcoin we'd be looking at perhaps 0.01 per btc.

It's like people feel that 5 is the best number to place their bets in that one roulette machine and they wish they had learnt of it a year ago. And adding to the misery now there is a huge line blocking everyone trying to cash out their chips.
To be perfectly clear, I am not saying IQ scores are completely meaningless. I am saying they probably do not measure some sort of objective, DNA-based trait of "smarts". You cannot separate these scores from a very long list of environmental factors and I am very leery of the mental model we have that people who test well are some sort of innately superior beings rather than people who have benefited more than average from an accumulation of societal and parental investment of various sorts.

I am very leery of the power of IQ tests to justify entrenching The Haves and Have Nots. Our mental models have scary amounts of power to shape outcomes and this mental model seems to justify classism as a kind of manifest destiny.

One of the videos linked here in reply to me has some smart authority figure type asserting that university students all have IQs above average. That seems pretty well tautological to me. One would hope that those getting more schooling would do better on tests. But that fails to genuinely prove that what these tests measure is some fundamental personal trait unrelated to the fabric of your life experience.

I was homeless for nearly six years. A lot of people wanted to see me as stupid and incompetent during that time. Those classist perceptions helped deny me opportunities which helped keep me poor which helped deny me opportunities. I can never seem to get that across to well off people that their tautologies simply entrench class based outcomes and really say nothing about personal competence.

When we design a world that closes doors to people arbitrarily, we design a world that actively wastes human potential. This makes all of us the poorer.
The-copenhagen-interpretation-of-ethics
https://youtu.be/ZVOD5D4IArw?t=164
that piece of property looks beautiful
This is an issue with liquidating most stock portfolios also, so I'm not really sure what you are getting at. This is usually worked around by people unloading in smaller increments over a longer period of time, just like people do with say a stock vestment.
A similar ripple is happening as China scales back on coal.

Coal gets mined in Utah and shipped on unit trains out to Stockton, CA and put on freighters to China. A local developer is trying to move that port to Oakland but upwind of a residential area. He'd been turned down a few times but he tricked an administrator into a bad contract which the city has rejected. A lawsuit was filed.

http://nocoalinoakland.info/tagami-files-for-summary-judgmen...

http://www.wri.org/blog/2017/01/china%E2%80%99s-decline-coal...

I don't think Tagami will have demand but the lawsuit goes on.
This is only true if you have no idea of how many milliseconds are in a day.

On the other hand, it IS very close to a day, which is neat.

But it's not exactly a day. Within a few miliseconds, days drift quite a bit because of shifts in the center of gravity and the moment of inertia.

The Three Gorges Dam and the Boxing Day quake both measurably changed the rate of the Earth's spin.
They took the money and put it where it seemed like it would have the biggest impact. The people who paid $15 should all be very happy to have been a part of this. For many, especially those with little income and high economic insecurity, holidays are very tough and actually result in working few days having less money at a time of greater need.

To those seeking to criticize, it was not meant to be a perfect example of anything. It is also very relevant that this was done by a company who could have kept that money and sent a Christmas card with something snarky, and it would not have hurt their bottom line.

One of the coolest things I've read in a long time.
Both the article and the study note that this may be exclusive to Mensa. Spelling out how you chose the participants and acknowledging a potential bias is how you do science.
> you've likely had positive experiences with research as an undergraduate.

This guy is really really out of touch with reality. People that go get PhD’s are driven. I know many that had entirely shit experiences with undergrad research, horrible advisors, but new what they wanted and were darned determined to get it.

>Also, you've been a good student in school, scoring at the top of your class on exams and projects. And you've probably been praised throughout childhood for being a smart kid.

Umm, hmm. This is actually a problem. He’s looking for less diverse, vanilla, 1% kids. Sure, the entrance criteria are smart kids with good grades. Likely the best and most driven will be the scrappy ones from really odd backgrounds with few “projects” of official nature and even fewer actual undergrad research experiences. I hate people like this that walk the walk of “diversity” but then they go off and try to find the exact same as themselves, silver spoon kids of academics. If you look at the really successful people, they have some really interesting and truly diverse backgrounds. Just my .02

If you want to get a PHD, do it because you love learning, teaching, are extremely creative and have tremendous follow through. Are you a person that constantly thinks, “why am I here?” The. Get out and find a job, it’s not worth it.
The Chinese government has already relaxed the proposed rules somewhat, in response to criticism that the increased standards were actually impossible to meet with current processes and equipment. And this article fails to mention that many of the Chinese companies in this sector were grossly negligent in their handling of the "contamination" - of course no one wants to say "our buyer in China had their license revoked because they were literally pouring toxic waste in a river" but that's the sort of thing that was going on.

There are business opportunities here, too. The more positive one is in automated (mostly computer vision based) sorting systems. Automated sorting that's clean enough for China's new standards is possible with existing technology, but there are a lot of opportunities for both new entrants and existing companies in the sector to improve speed and reduce costs. In the long term, this is definitely the path forward.

The second opportunity is for other countries in the Asia-Pacific region that are less picky about environmental regulations, to buy American recycling exports, clean them up to Chinese standards, then resell to China. In the short term, I expect we'll be seeing a lot of this.
I recall reading about this in the early 2000s