skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but from what I have heard is that for many people the system might occasionally travel with a user, but it is played while attached to a TV an overwhelming majority of the time.

Why go off of anecdotes? In a recent investor Q&A Nintendo revealed their own figures that show 30% of people primarily use it in portable or tabletop mode [1].

Personally, I primarily used it in portable mode until a few weeks ago - and now I use it docked to a TV much more due to Mario Odyssey benefitting from using separate joycons.

> If you are looking at the success of Nintendo's home consoles, the Wii is a huge outlier.

Only if you don't consider portable consoles like the 3DS, where Nintendo has been dominant for a long time. Even against the technologically superior PSP/PS Vita.

[1] https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2017/171031_2e.pdf

Edit: it's also important not to confuse sales volume with profitability. If modern, 4K console games are as expensive to make as EA and Activision claim the underpowered nature of the Switch is a benefit to Nintendo as it keeps their development costs down.
Why are videos / channels clearly target at children allowed to be monetized and show advertisements?

Further, why would any parents allow their children to watch them?
I propose we call the object "Rama".
From a technical standpoint, it's far easier to provide no connectivity at all, but there's not much revenue in doing nothing.

There's a lot of revenue in charging both sides for connectivity, so it doesn't matter which is "easier", only what is more profitable.
I thought maybe I had made an error in writing or editing that implied that b-trees were not self-balancing. So I reread it twice. Maybe I just don't see where I implied otherwise.

That doesn't mean that the amount of computation and memory comparisons done doesn't vary based on the order of the input.
This is possibly the worst financial advice in existence.
What's wrong with rich guys becoming richer? Isn't that the entire process of capitalism? Someone else will come along and topple the monopoly right? If the ISPs cause problems for the consumer there will be a large amount backlash so much so that nobody is going to want to use the ISP. Woops there goes another monopoly.

Most everyone here is a capitalist I'm quite sure of it. You can try refuting your capitalist roots but any one person could say the same of yourself,
"Why does that really rich overpaid programmer get all of that money. Let's repeal 'profession neutrality' and take his means to make money away."
What are you going to say in response?
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I haven't used apple music before, but spotify's ml recommenders are really impressive, and most of my favorite songs and artists were recommended to me via its "discover weekly" playlist. Its apps are super slick (cross device play/control is really handy!), especially compared to itunes.

Just buy a month of premium ($10/month or $5 if you're a student) and try it.
Sure.

You will go broke first when the price first doubles.

Then them will go broke when the price crashes.
I don't think it's that they couldn't, it's that they consistently choose not to. Nintendo's first party titles are arguably much stronger than those of Sony and Microsoft, but Nintendo is not particularly interested in the graphical power arms race.

They'd rather build something that fits in the pricing segment they've always been in, and maybe try to innovate on how people interact with the console.

Their strategy makes Nintendo somewhat unattractive to AAA third party developers but they're profitable on every system sold, and they sell plenty of copies of their major franchises.
It seems that the middle-man adds value. But, as the middle-man becomes the portal, it can control the customer. With this control, it can control prices. And as such, the restaurant-owner pays, and loses margins.

It is hugely unfair, as the restaurant-owners get caught in a winner-takes-all situation for the middle-men, and are forced into a race-to-the-bottom.

I think it serves well as a prototypical example of what's wrong with the digital economy. This is something everybody should be thinking about. Some people are already reporting about it though: [1]. Quoting:

>	Our	focus here	is	the	“uberisation” of	the	economy	by	which	we	mean	the	destructuration	of
the	value	chain	by	new	intermediaries	which,	through	the	use	of	digital	technologies	(mainly	apps,
smartphones and	online	payment	systems),	capture	part	of	the	value	at	the	detriment	of	traditional
operators. Not	only	taxi	companies, hotels,	restaurants,	retailers, but	also	insurers,	banks,	travelling
services (beyond	the	reservation	services)
,	operators	in	the	agri-food	chain,	etc.	are	likely	to	be
challenged, with many	more sectors thereafter.

[1] http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/image/docum...
"I'm becoming more convinced that Bitcoin must be in a bubble."

Well, what else could it be?
Microsoft Quantum Development Kit
Announcing the New Spotify Web Playback SDK
To Devil's Advocate the Devil's Advocate: This isn't a "sexualized streaming" issue, this is an issue of people donating money they don't have or can't afford. Outside of a personally invasive police state, I don't see a way of stopping this beyond some sort of flags for people who donate too much, similar to how gambling addiction is dealt with.
They didn't fail because the margins are narrow or because the hours are long. They failed because they didn't love the minutia of running a restaurant. They aren't the kind of people built to work long hours. Some people handle long hours like it's a breeze.

When I went to school, you could pick out the kids who were going to fail on the first day. Not because they were stupid but because you could tell just from talking to them that they wouldn't enjoy coding for hours on end. They were only there in the first place because they had a mixed up idea about what a game programmer actually does.

What's more, besides having a selectively edited vision of what a job actually involves, we wrap it up in an identity. We ask kids, "what do you want to be when you grow up?" So even when a lot of people are pretty sure they don't want to do a thing anymore, guilt over quitting and fear of not achieving their identity pushes them forward.

If we were smart, job shadowing, even for adults would be ubiquitous. Our attitude would be, so lets see if you can even handle 8 hours of this before we go much further. We would ask kids, "when you grow up, what could you do for hours on end and still be happy?"
That's like saying "If every millionaire wanted a bar of gold my stash of gold bars would be worth more."

It's not wrong, buuuuut....
You can have Humphrey Bogart in a science fiction thriller!

You could have someone who looks identical to Bogart, but that isn't Bogart.
Add yourself to https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring (other job ads are against the guidelines)
Oh, not this again :-/

I see it mentioned at least 10 times a day.
If the issue exsits within the software of such a big player, don't bother investing time (e.g something built for Google Docs, or Stripe Analytics...). If it's in the wild and a BigCo could do something, try it.
Hunger is a solved problem everywhere there is a free market.

It makes sense for countries to protect their domestic food production as a military asset - cutting off the food supply is a common warfare tactic. Subsidies also come about because of powerful agricultural lobbying interests. As to if subsidies reduce hunger, the evidence is scant to none. There is plenty of evidence, however, that they result in inefficient misallocation of resources, such as water.
Lol this false equivalence is so tired.
The company was probably founded some time before the service launched...
Indeed. The worst use of this will be forged political speeches. What happens when you can fake any video of anyone saying anything and then feed it to the social media outrage machine?
>and they ban anything with actual nudity pretty aggressively.

Framing it as if they only ban aggressively for actual nudity is unfair. They ban aggressively on all kinds of fronts, including very subjective criteria, they just do it very inconsistently.

For all I care, they can do whatever they want. But I do feel like they are hard to take seriously until they decide to apply their rules equally. They do not. They have egregiously played favorites in a way that is surprising for such a big and respected entity as Twitch.

The thing that sucks is, the irresponsible ways that Twitch and YouTube behave hurts everyone, because they try to sell ads on content they know advertisers wouldn't like, and when advertisers wise up they overreact and become adverse to supporting small content creators. They would rather have "safe," big content creators instead, where they can feel like they're getting their money's worth.
My mom, who I won't let have admin rights on her own laptop, wants bitcoins for Christmas. She told me "it's like a giftcard for the internet, and people are getting rich from them."

I'd buy them for shits and giggles but the transaction costs are ridiculous.
The biggest upside compared to other code challenges I tried (HackerRank, CodinGame) is that the code is ran on your machine, and the pass/fails are from unit tests. So you code using your editors in a real development environment rather than in a web based sandbox.

Also, as the checks are from tests, there are no single right answer. I've seen some code challenge services (can't remember the name) that would mark fail if you didn't write it exactly as they were expecting, to the line break.
Seconded. They did say it was oddly rectangular/columnar.
For those who don't know, this is basically the plot of a classic science fiction novel, Rendezvous with Rama. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendezvous_with_Rama)
Ask HN: Tell me realistically what will happen after December 15th (FCC)?
To invoke a higher authority:

Bitcoin: my answer to the repeated questions. No, there is NO way to properly short the bitcoin "bubble". Any strategy that doesn't entail options is nonergodic (subjected to blowup). Just as one couldn't rule out 5K, then 10K, one can't rule out 100K. Gabish?

https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/939526347730407424
If your goal is to create something great focus on ideaLs instead of ideas.

An ideal is your an improved version of the/a/your world according to your vision.
> How many times can you mine Zelda nostalgia in an age when kids have dozens more, and often better titles available for $0.99?

LOL no.
my theory is that one day soon china will crack down even more on bitcoin to combat tax evasion and clear the field for their own cryptocurrency. once it becomes a serious risk that major players could ban it outright, confidence might never recover.
Can someone please provide a non-paywall version? I remember there is a site for this...
I'm terrified to see what happens when the generation of children who are being sold out to Facebook/Google/etc by their parents from birth grows up and ends up in positions of power.
> Further, why would any parents allow their children to watch them?

Do you have children?

This is one of those things where when you're talking about it or thinking about it, it's common sense. Of course you're not going to let them watch TV! Or Youtube!

But then when you have a kid who is _just_ not stopping to cry, and you happen to be working from home this one day, and can't afford a babysitter or daycare, and you're tired and terribly sleep-deprived, you ... just resign to it, you give them your smartphone and off they merrily go and you're a little bit of a headache free, for now.
FTC, FCC Agreement to Coordinate Consumer Protection Efforts
Let's assume you're already invested in Bitcoin and you're sure it's a bubble. What's the best strategy going forward? I've been convinced that it's a bubble since 2011 or so so if I'd sold everything because of that I'd sold it at a fraction of the current price. On the other hand you don't want to hold it forever, as you assume it's going to crash at some future point.

I think slowly selling on the way up is a good strategy. For example everytime it doubles you sell 10% or 20% (depending on the risk you are willing to take). At https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=345065.0 there's a better description of this approach and at http://bitcoinsavingsplan.com/ there's a calculator to check scenarios with different numbers.

Any other better approaches?
The article never offers a proof of the claim that the child earned "$11M in one year". Did I miss something? I don't consider Forbes a reputable source.
That is also a totally good suggestion but we don't have to be mean about other good suggestions.
I can't name names, but the idea is you find other ways to extract the money. For example the benefit could be offered as part of a person's employment or it could be done through rev-share partnerships with retailers and consumer services companies.
How, really, does a CDN make your site faster?
It's a five-part essay -- you have to click on the links to the left to get to the other parts. It may be from there (I can't get the site to load right now either).
That's my point though. These sex appeal focused streams are almost all in the IRL section, not the top games section. You have to specifically go to the IRL section to find them, aka you have to go out of your way to get there.

Compare the game focused sections like PUBG, or League of Legends, or World of Warcraft. These sections of the site are clearly the dominant and original viewing categories on Twitch from the beginning. If you just want to watch a game then you can go to these sections and do that.

On the other hand if you want to watch for the streamer then the IRL section is there to cater to whatever type of streamer you want to watch, including streamers who have followers based on sex appeal, not game finesse.

It feels like manufactured outrage to me if you are going to the IRL section and complaining about the contents. Because the IRL section isn't game focused in the first place. It is personality focused, and sexual appeal is going to be part of it. You also have streams of buff shirtless guys working out in the gym on IRL, just like you have streams of women in tight clothing. If you go the IRL section and start complaining about it not being game focused that's just silly.
December 15th?
I replied generally above, but this is pretty much what I'm doing too. In addition, I think you can usually use extended university coursework to meet prerequisites in a degree program at a different school, if not count some of the credit toward the degree. So that helps mitigate the risk somewhat. Of course it won't line up as nicely as if you just do everything through the same school, but it doesn't have to be entirely for naught either.
I was thinking about this since they are "somehow" for NN.

I believe they want NN to be gone only in places where they can be their own ISP (as they try in Africa and India with internet.org). In US they already have the market in their hands and NN actually gives them certain protection so Verizon can't make their version of facebook and price them out of the market.

US without NN could be much more expensive for Facebook. And as much as i hate Facebook this is the reason for NN. I can't understand why would anyone think that Internet is not utility like electricity and water. It is crazy how can get people confused and some people even here on HN are against NN.
FCC, FTC announce partnership to police internet after net neutrality repeal
I deleted this comment. This isn't the right forum for this kind of thought.
I think this is a really weird situation.

This 6year old did not make $11M. His parents did. His parents edit the videos, maintain high production value, market the channel, make a constant stream of videos starring Ryan.

It's a pretty weird situation. It is kind of insane how much money his parents are raking in because of this
I, for one, will not act like I knew it all along.
I looked at this the other day. There is about one recorded Bitcoin blockchain transaction, ever, for every $1000 of current valuation.

The early transactions were at a much lower conversion rate so they would be of larger BTC that tended to raise the average $/txn. But if Bitcoin as a payment network were growing exponentially, we would expect a large proportion of transactions to be relatively recent and at recent valuations.

So either:
A. Bitcoin is used for transactions of over $1000 on average, or
B. speculation is driving up the valuation far beyond its utility.

In either case, it's clearly not about frictionless microtransactions anymore.
That'll make all the "fake news" links a very interesting affair.
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Ok, but you also seem to be doing math that assumes salary is fully loaded headcount cost; fully loaded cost is (rule of thumb) 1.5-2.5x salary.
Not much different from cartoons/channels targeted at children on television IMO.
Is there any real difference between this and targeting children with advertisements on good old fashioned TV?
Oh people COME ON!

I love Bitcoin and other crypto currencies but driving yourself into debt to buy in is grossly irresponsible. Worst of all these will be the same people clamoring for regulation when they lose all their things.
Kids cartoon TV shows are essentially longform mechandising gambits, with kid-oriented advertisements on top, so it wouldn't be entirely out of bounds.
It seems likely we are only one or two tech breakthroughs from not even being able to trust our own eyes. It's going to get strange.
Sonic Fangame has a malicious DRM, activating when trying to hack it
Ask HN: is there any way to switch off the iOS “slowdown when old” code?
Recent news says iOS slows down devices with old batteries - clearly to force hardware upgrades.

Is there any way a user can turn this off?
The only reason we suspect that it is cigar-shaped is because its brightness changes (by a factor of about 10) with a somewhat regular frequency. But this indicates that it is tumbling, which would probably not be great for a ship designed with a long shape to reduce interstellar friction. Another potential (but less plausible) explanation is that it is not elongated and tumbling, but just blinking at us somehow.
Nah NN has been implemented in various countries across the world. Fox News won't tell you that though.
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Taylor Swift is back on Spotify, which is the only artist that I ever noticed missing (and on Apple Music).

Personally I think Spotify's recommendations, radio stations, and app (both mobile and desktop) are just more pleasant to use than Apple Music and iTunes.
Maybe get a CDS on those mortgages?
BBSes weren't collecting psychological profiles, facial recognition data, credit card transaction histories, public records, etc.. to build profiles with which to manipulate their users on a mass scale. BBSes didn't encourage users to share information about their friends and family who weren't on those BBSes with them. BBSes didn't follow their users around on other BBSes and document everything they did or said on them. BBSes didn't track their users' physical locations 24/7. They also didn't have psychologists on staff helping them to figure out how to make their services as addictive as possible by exploiting various flaws in human psychology. Nobody ever said "if I stop using this BBS I'll lose contact with my friends and family".

Beyond the very basic fact that people sometimes communicated with each other over BBSes, there is absolutely no comparison between them and what is happening right now.
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Sorry, Yes
Wrong question. When everyone is invested is it a bubble? When everyone is invested in bitcoin going up, it will keep increasing.

Stop calling them tulips. The most “educated” answer is that you don’t understand them. Stop pretending you do. A thing like this is the first off, many rules of economics don’t apply.
This is cool research, but it should be noted that it's a pretty basic extension of prior work on video prediction:

"the robots can predict what their cameras will see if they perform a particular sequence of movements. These robotic imaginations are still relatively simple for now – predictions made only several seconds into the future – but they are enough for the robot to figure out how to move objects around on a table without disturbing obstacles"

There is no effort at all at modeling the world at a more abstract conceptual level, so pretty fundamental ideas/changes will be needed in order to do 'long-horizon' planning/imagination.
Could it maybe be about getting 8-10 figures of dirty money out of <insert country here> and into Switzerland?

I mean, if I had made a killing out of the various petty crimes available to public officials and wanted to retire on that, what's my other option? Trying to ferry precious gemstones through customs?

I'd take the transaction fee, the challenge would probably be finding an exchange that would let you cash out that kind of money.
>I feel like if these files revealed anything groundbreaking they wouldn't have existed. If there was anything that needed to be covered up, it wouldn't have been done on the books, classified or not.

Of course. This was nothing more than a completely absurd bit of theater put on to throw meat to His tinfoil hat wearing, Alex Jones watching base of supporters.
FCC and FTC outline how they’ll cooperate after net neutrality vote
Pay for it or forego it. Don't steal.
There could be more ISAs than they have customers depending all on the needs in each case. But it's no big deal because everything targets GenAsm and the machine code differences will be specialized away

Yeah so this is the point I'm quibbling with. I have no doubt it's technically possible. I'm saying that it will hinder adoption, and they're probably underestimating the diversity of software components that generate native code, and underestimating the cost of modifying all those components.

Something like Xen succeeded because it designed up front to be a trivial modification to kernels -- i.e. paravirtualization.

This sounds like a whole new architectural element. They're not only changing the interface between the CPU and the compiler; they're also changing the relationship between the kernel and the CPU (aside from there being a different ISA.)

It's good to test assumptions, and I wish them luck. But after being somewhat excited about it, I feel it's just too ambitious. I'd love to be proven wrong though.
What they should have said was "FCC explains how net neutrality will be protected without Title II"

I know it's not a popular opinion around HN, but I'm not a huge fan of Title II.

EDIT
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IMHO, better alternatives are having the FTC require 100% transparency on all information disclosures (how they use your traffic data), 100% transparency on network management practices, and 100% disclosure of agreements with content producers. Personally, I'd rather have all of that than Title II.
The company was founded in 1999.
You're absolutely right. When I was writing this I wasn't quite exploring it from the perspective of creating a successful business, but rather taking on a project from start to completion, which is something I (and I think a lot of other people) struggle with.
That's a nice way to frame the type of position (long vs short) against the type of market (bull vs bear) in the context of supply vs demand.

Thanks for sharing.
This looks pretty cool. And since it hasn't been mentioned here yet, Advent of Code 2017[0] is ongoing right now and there's still enough time to catch up. But you can always go back to years 2015 and 2016 to sharpen a new language on.

I've been learning Elixir for this year's challenges and it's just the right amount of challenge required for understanding the idiomatics and idiosyncrasies of a language.

[0] http://adventofcode.com/
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