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Nintendo is perhaps the last remaining large company that makes significant effort to include whimsy all over their product experience.

Of course, some of us remember that Apple used to have very whimsical behaviors and interactions throughout their software too, but that has been bludgeoned out of the OS experiences over the last several years.
How Facebook’s Product VP Finds Focus and Creates Conditions for Intentional Work
Microsoft’s Q# quantum programming language out now in preview
You lose the ability to differentiate your product or offerings and become a commodity supplier to the actual distributor. If the customer comes to your restaurant or calls you to order tacos, it's because they want your tacos (or they read your Yelp reviews and thought you were worth taking a chance on). If they order tacos on UberEats, they just want tacos, and anyone's tacos will serve.
In the Middle Ages, the Upper Class Went Nuts for Almond Milk
We understand his broken incentives and allegiances. But most people have at least a small amount of allegiance to and empathy with the general population. Perhaps they won't necessarily listen if the opposition is weak, or if they think they can get away with it.

But Pai has tens of millions of people vehemently opposing him. He is probably recieving jeers and hate mail and rude gestures every time he goes out in public. And people have even started harassing his family - at what point does the money cease to be worth it? Most people would have given up under a hundredth of that backlash.
Yeah I agree with this. Spotify is a good experience. Save one. Their security is shit. After having my account hacked for the unpteenth time I finally threw in the towel since they clearly are not interested in securing their damn service and jumped to Apple Music. The UI is not as good as Spotify but I don’t worry about my account being hacked every week and their catalog is bigger at Apple Music. My wife found some obscure ass Pakistani tune she loved since she was a kid in Delhi. That was hardcore. Spotify never had much desi stuff.

I hope Spotify fixes their security woes. Either way I have no reason to leave Apple Music now.
I'm not sure why it makes a difference. If it doesn't work when statically compiled it won't work when dynamically either. Given things like intellisense prototyping and exploring should be faster.
Microsoft releases free preview of Quantum Development Kit
The "problem" is that Nintendo consoles usually have a decent amount third party titles, but they a) tend to be of niche genres b) most Western Nintendo consumers specifically buy their consoles for the first party titles c) either Nintendo or the publisher does a poor job of marketing them in the West (because of a and b).
Up to $304 already, good job guys!
New Teams Features
tldr:

>Parity’s stance is this: It is our hope that the community would get behind a rescue of these funds to help all the users that we can.
Around 2000, MIT had a number you could dial (toll-free) and ask a computer about the weather. It would keep track of where and when you were talking about during the conversation, so after asking "will it rain in Boston today" you could ask "how about Thursday" and then "how about Rochester, NY" and it would read you Thursday's forecast for Rochester. A very cool end-to-end demo of conversational tech.
Thanks for the link, that's very interesting.
So if I don't "strike" my children, I'm not disciplining them? My kids would beg to differ. They are incredibly well-behaved, and I have never physically hurt them as punishment.
McAllen, Texas: Cloudflare opens 119th Data Center just north of Mexico border
What does hitting your kid when they cry resolve? A kid doesn't get to watch TV. They cry. They still don't get to watch TV. They get used to it and stop crying. Why does hitting need to be involved?

Does your boss hit you when your less productive at work?
What's different is this with Google home mini, rather than speaker size? I can't find any reason for buying it.
>has the solution y = 1/(1-x)

1/(1-t), not 1/(1-x), right?
Kids will play with toys all day long, whether or not anyone is paying attention.

The effort, and thus the payoff, was on the parts of the parents, no?
A dictionary explains a word’s meaning. I‘m going by the dictionary. You’re free to make up your own definitions, but according to the dictionary, a toy is intended for children. Video game consoles are intended for all ages (equally), so they cannot be considered toys.
that indeed could be an advantage. on codewars it sometimes takes a while for tests to run.
Violence begets violence. Using violence teaches kids to be violent, aggressive and anti-social even under the guise of discipline. This is well known in child development. It also doesn't work. Even the worst behaviors can be managed effectively without resorting to violence.
Monsters Inside Me ep. 3001
Keep in mind that one's personal experience may not be representative of the "average" person.

> single-player games

I get obsessive about some games. A completionist, one might say. And when I've achieved what I want to in the game, I suddenly wake up and realize I haven't been outside for a week and I've ignored my friends, family, and colleagues. Worst, the guilt of that realization can be so overwhelming that I am tempted to ignore it and simply start another game that takes over my consciousness.

I've observed similar behavior in some others. It was most obvious among World of Warcraft (WoW) players when I went to university. I knew more than a handful of WoW players who dropped out of school because they found their in-game social circle more important than just about everything else in their lives. Rather than studying or going out, they needed to be present for the next raid (WoW session).
How is that obvious? I have two kids that respond quite well to rational incentives. On the other hand some adults I know respond to irrational incentives all the time.
That's why it's such a big deal that Bitcoin (derivatives) are now trading on regulated exchanges in Chicago and New York.

Whereas before those millionaires may have been reluctant to open an account with (i.e., send all their identity documents to) some unregulated crypto exchange, they already have brokerage accounts that can now or will soon be able to trade them.
Elsagate video generating bot-creators also figured out the same thing. Unfortunately, people think this is smart marketing, I see it being the same as those old SEO tricks people used to do, like putting 20 catch-it-all words in their page title to get search hits. It's just pollution, just like producers making their songs the loudest. I think it just makes it worse for everyone. To me these titles kinds of titles have the exact opposite intended effect, they kinda make me sick actually. Just like this whole article tbh.

For every fad there are a few people who benefit the most I guess.
What weird is that my kids are watching these channels and the ads playing on the iPads are Nicorette and car ads. To make things weirder, they use my Google account (I never smoked, nor do I visit any car sites or watch car videos).

Good job Google! Great ad targeting!

/s
There are laws about child performers, their parents, and the money they make. I wonder if they apply here? I'm sure the relevant state regulators have looked into it with this kind of money at stake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Child_Actor%27s_Bil...
I think the problem stems from ISPs also in large part being the telecommunications platforms. The internet is impeding their ability to sell TV channels and telephone subscriptions, so they are trying to wring that money from their internet businesses.
All I see is child labor. The reason they make so much money is because they are able to skirt legal limits on advertising to children.
Saying the error message was terrible is barely rude at all. The only real problem with it is it's non-specific. And the poster edited their message to change the wording immediately anyway, the maintainer was only annoyed because GitHub emailed him the original contents of the comment.

So the maintainer took an extremely minor just-barely-qualifies-as-a slight and decided to react about as bad as you possibly can. It's awful.

And I'm not projecting either. zenspider had a legitimate complaint and a real question, both of which I care about. The complaint still hasn't been addressed, and the only way I was able to get an answer to the question was to ask here on HN. But that answer isn't visible to anyone else who looks at that PR (i.e. anyone who sees the changelog entry and wants to know why the CLT are now required), which I guarantee you is a nonzero number of people.
This whole thing relies on users to essentially enforce the trust web. No way this works in reality.

Eve won’t try to establish trust with Bob directly. She’ll establish trust with Bob’s grandmother who doesn’t know any better. She’ll essentially phish her way into the trust network. After convincing Grandma to accept a single EveCoin, Grandma will perform any currency exchange for Eve and let Eve buy whatever she wants with BobCoins.

When your premise is that “it is crucial that users take direct peer-to-peer trust relationships seriously”, you are doomed to fail. You cannot expect security to derive from the average person being extremely diligent.
I think it is only higher quality audio.
I spoke with a local restaurant owner when she started hosting Uber Eats. Apparently, Uber takes a cut, but they're not permitted to mark up prices to accommodate that. So it's great for volume, but terrible for margins, especially when the restaurant industry is not exactly known for high margins in the first place.

The Uber Eats site is very vague about all this:

"How much does it cost?

We collect a service fee, which is calculated as a percentage of your sales on Uber Eats. Have more questions? Fill out the interest form and a Uber Eats team member will be happy to answer them for you."

https://about.ubereats.com/en/restaurants/faq/
http://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/04/spanking.aspx
I once saw a mother in a grocery store with her two little ones in the cart. The older child smacked the smaller one. The mother quickly smacked the older child and said emphatically "We! Don't! Hit!"

It doesn't take a scientific study to realize that teaching children not to be violent by punishing them with violence is confusing. Especially to a small child.
Spotify remains a far better experience and product than Apple Music. Why not buy Spotify?
+1 for Recurse Center! Doing a batch right now and I highly recommend it.
Curious what makes them your favorite? I kinda like the ninth.
Amazon's Mechanical Turk service launched in 2005.
Most states employ some cryptographers as public servants. The Soviet Socialist Republic of Estonia would have had access to some of the best, but not anymore.

I'm kind of surprised that the American ambassador wasn't given a quiet hint that the Estonian government was curious about their thoughts on the choice of hardware.
Generally, you want someone who is a legal/policy nerd for the regulated industry to head that industry's regulatory agency.

For most industries, the only people who are interested enough to become legal/policy nerds are either people who work in the industry in legal/policy executive positions, or a small number of academics who specialize in those industries. The academics are usually a little too theoretical to deal with actually running an agency, and so that pretty much just leaves people from the industry.
Children are absolutely rational when you present the incentives appropriately.
Arguments about reality that resort to the dictionary are never satisfying. The dictionary needs to reflect reality, not the other way around.
solicit large donations from individuals who cannot afford such donations

How is a donor's financial wellbeing the solicitor's problem? Sexy cam streams may be a total waste of money but at least it's not going to give you cancer as well as a short-term thrill.
I've been thinking about options as a way of doing that. But if anyone is selling put options on bitcoin, they're... probably not wise.
I don't mean to over-intellectualize, but here's an interesting question:

Which is more of a commodity, a specific child that other kids would enjoy watching play, or someone to edit videos and plan content?

I would say that you can hire out editing in a lot of cases or even video planning, but some people are just more magnetic than others.

It's a somewhat uncomfortable truth but some kids are more... endearing than others? That is to say, there are some channels with kids that other kids would quickly bore with.
I'm not sure I agree with the last bit- can you be good at a business if you have absolutely no passion or skill with the material? If all you bring to the table is business skill, can you beat out the guy who has business skill and is also really passionate about dry cleaning technology?

I've always been obsessed with power optimization & energy efficiency. I'm endlessly motivated to chase it, through all the drudgery and boring crap. But I have no interest in mixed drinks. I can't help but think I'd make a better home efficiency contractor than bar owner.

Locally, one of our most successful new bars was founded by a career bartender who loves the scene, the drinks, the kitsch. He & his compatriots identified & filled a nightlife niche that few could have.
I so completely don't understand the mindless things people watch on YouTube. My kid loves watching videos of people providing excited (cartoon-like) commentary over some third party playing a video game.

It is like getting high on the suspense of something that is going to happen, but there is never a disappointment because its so stupid and mindless it doesn't matter if that thing never actually happens. Personally, it just seems like mindless crap to me, and yet people get absolutely fixated on it.
>So now I have to pay for every news site that have interesting articles coming my way?

Those interesting articles cost money to produce. So yes, paying for them is very reasonable.
I think the warnings are of precautionary nature.

But if you want some studies:

https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/brain-scan-studies-porn-user...
A dictionary describes some common uses. It is not comprehensive or authoritative. It changes with the language, not the other way around. Language defines the dictionary, sometimes with a very long lag. Several people have told you of a definition not present in whatever dictionary you referred to. This is meaningful.
Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures Inc. are coowners of The Pokemon Company, but Nintendo is the sole owner of every related trademark.

It might be possible for Creatures Inc and Game Freak to have The Pokemon Company create a Pokemon game for PlayStation (it's not known how ownership/control is divided), but it couldn't use the name Pokemon, the Pokemon logo, or any of the existing Pokemon characters.

And regardless of who owns Pokemon, Nintendo is the one selling Game Boys and DSes to play it on.
Yes, that's exactly what happens when economic uncertainty sends the price of gold higher.
Selena Gomez – Fetish Dance Video – Alberto Clark
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14235021
Don't be so judgemental Consider your experiences are not universal.

I'd rather do, literally, almost anything rather than spend time with my family of origin. They are very, very toxic and abusive people.
Google fiber is a perfect example. Google for gods sakes couldn’t make an entry. They tried! Google! And barely got into a handful of cities and a very small portion of those cities to boot. If google can’t become a competitor no one else stands a chance in hell. That’s just the reality. Maybe wireless tech will change that but I’m not holding my breath. Even with MM wave stuff.
And anything that can be computed on a classical computer can be computed with pebbles, the practical limits matter. ;-)
Chinese rooftop climber dies in 62-storey fall
Dislcaimer: I work at Google but not on this team. And I'm a Sonos owner, so I think my feedback is relatively unbiased.

I got a demo of two of these in my friend's house the other day. The sound quality is exceptional. In a stereo pair the sound was loud and clear throughout the range with good bass as well. Very impressed, plus it's just a nice looking device imo.
It sure sounded like at least a suggestion...
Getting into the enterprise business smashes any remaining cultural whimsy.
Whenever I buy a new piece of electronics (say, a new iPhone or a new laptop), I call it my new toy.

Toys aren't just for kids, just like fun isn't just for kids.
The Information Doesn’t Want To Be Free
ZFS = Z File System, a next-generation file system from oracle
ZIL = ZFS Intent Log
SSD = Solid State Drive, a type of long-term data storage system with better read/write speeds than an HDD
NAND = not actually an acronym, but a type of logic gate. Not AND.
Hundreds of Model 3s Spotted at Tesla Factory
preferred != required
For a less silly and inflammatory example, how about feet? Because there certainly are foot fetishists out there.
1967: "I bet in 50 years we'll have flying cars!"
2017: AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here And We're All Fucked
I was really happy to find this too, as the update experience (and system software in general) has been pretty terrible on previous Nintendo home consoles.

I wonder how much of Android they are using at the low levels? Android has recently gotten much, much better at applying system updates, adopting ideas from Chrome OS. Building on Android would be a really low friction way for them to get started on the system software, since they're using a Tegra chip, and it could also explain the improvement in general system software quality in Switch over Wii/Wii U.
Watch an Algorithm Turn Winter into Summer in Any Video
BBS was a totally different phenomenon... a network based community of interest.

Facebook is different. It is a scaffold built around your existing relationships. Like a scaffold, it appears to support that fundamental structure.

But unlike a scaffold, it tries to shape the underlying structure. Unlike a BBS, whose constraint was enabling people to access, it is optimized to maximize consumption of itself.

Facebook can be a community, and used to be more community like, but it’s designed to be something entirely different.
> Wrong question. When everyone is invested is it a bubble?

No.

Once everyone is invested the pool of potential new investors has been exhausted and the bubble pops.
I’m fairly certain it’s a bubble but it’d be foolish to short. Altcoins are in a bubble as well—Potcoin being valued at $64mil is just one of many examples of coins with zero or close to zero utility valued at absurd levels merely due to their visibility as a cryptocurrency (much like dot coms in 1999).

Ultimately, the mania present in a bubble can persist longer than one can stay liquid, i.e. Bitcoin could double or triple before the bubble bursts, which would trigger a margin call on a short position.
I'm increasingly convinced this sort of rhetoric is about advertising values to attract founders who care about alignment thereof rather than any real indication of their own investment choices. Social Capital isn't exactly focusing their money on getting poor kids from the hood into upper-quintile careers.
It wasn't my complaint.

And no, that's not a good description, because it gives me literally zero information to go on in order to find out what the workarounds were, how many formula actually needed them, and what the problems were that necessitated this.

> Remember that maintainers of projects like Homebrew have to deal with an endless stream of complaints and feature requests

Yeah, that's what happens with popular open source projects. Good projects are able to handle this in a way that doesn't alienate the community or future contributors. The fact that MikeMcQuaid is doing this for free does not remove the obligations he has to the community.
I attended a talk recently given by Exercism's creator (Katrina Owen) about the trials and tribulations of being an open source maintainer, and how success can turn a technical problem-solving delight into a thorny people-management tarpit. A process that programmers may not initially possess the skills to handle.

One big takeaway was how thankless and un(financially)compensated the task often is. If you find Exercism useful, I strongly recommended clicking the "Donate" button at the top.
No it is my opinion but a reasonable conclusion to come to.

--> Battery wear is a measure of device age, or a good proxy for that in most cases. --> Apple wants people to keep upgrading their hardware --> primary reason to upgrade is old, slow device --> Apple ensures devices get slow as they get older.

If it was really Apple acting in the users interests, then it would be a user option, not a secret setting in the code.
If they bought soundhound for the tech to bake into their own service, they'd be competing with Shazam. If they bought Shazam for the tech to bake into their own service, soundhound would just exist as an alternative. Seems like an attempt to buy the "name brand" to get tech and inherently beat the competition at the same time.

Note: I've never heard of soundhound though, so it might be popular in some places. Shazam is like the name-brand of music recognition though, to the extent of being a verb.
You have broadened the category widely enough to include both audiences. Given that guys typically watch gaming streams and undressed females for different reasons, I think there's finer distinctions in terms of which the audiences don't overlap.
Since you deleted the original comment, it's hard to evaluate it. I think you should have left it there.
+1 to not underpricing yourself. At the lower prices, you will get a lot of low quality clients. If the problem is big enough, they're willing to pay.
Replace a few words and you have the present day situation.
It's quite alarming how often I see this happening in my town. The council and state government did some legislative fidgey widgey to allow "small bars" to open with less restrictions (ie, they don't need 5+ bouncers, licensing is cheaper). As a result every 20-something decided to open some kind of gimmicky bar, and in the course of a year we had around 80-90 new venues open with another 30-40 the following year on the back of grants being given out.

I think by the end of the second year (2015) maybe 40 of the original venues were still running and only about 10 of the ones that started with a grant. Lots of the survivors have changed hands multiple times, and currently the most successful ones are owned by larger bars/organisations or the casino (we've only got one...). In the first year, places were closing withing WEEKS of opening even when they were full every night.
> The psychological gap between working in a cafe because it’s fun and romantic and doing the exact same thing because you have to is enormous.

The implication is that a day of "fun and romantic" work has as much value to the business as a day of "paying the bills" work.

In reality, "fun and romantic" work probably meant a) receiving the pastries from the zany French pastry chef, b) eyeballing the staff to make sure nothing is on fire, and c) doing little else to keep the business afloat.

I say that because the author mentions feeling "vaguely dirty" about having less than a 50% margin on a croissant with cheese. But the whole job of the "fun and romantic" owner is to get that margin as high as possible by saving on costs, figuring out what the patrons want, and then figuring out what they're willing to pay.

TBH, "fun and romantic" is thinking you can figure out the business side of an NYC coffee shop by the seat of your pants. Running a coffee shop by ignoring the business side altogether needs a different descriptor than "fun and romantic."
I am not sure what your point is. Do you mean that him being a (very well paid) hypocrite invalidates his criticism of social media? Or you just want to point out that his alternative is barely any better?