skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why? It's a manifestly crazy investment, but why is a mortgage broker on the south side of Chicago expected to have enough innate technical knowledge to qualify Bitcoin as an investment, but not for an NYSE-listed stock? To the overwhelming majority of investors, both are fundamentally opaque instruments; you buy because other people are buying.

To me, this indicts Bitcoin's most aggressive promoters, not the investors.
Defy the Stars: What’s the real difference between man and machine?
Good question.

I was looking into this a few years back, and ended getting my BS in-person, at the big state school nearby. It paid off well.

That said, these are other online options I considered.

Portland State University -- has a BS in CS that's fully online. They also have an option for people who are getting a 2nd BS, from another field.
* https://www.pdx.edu/computer-science/progrgam-preparation

Harvard Extension - Bachelor's in CS
* https://www.extension.harvard.edu/academics/undergraduate-de...

Arizona State - BS in Software Engineering
* https://go.asuonline.asu.edu/

I had a co-worker during one of my internships going through this program, at SNHU, fully online & remote, and he liked it a lot:
https://www.snhu.edu/online-degrees/bachelors/bs-in-computer...

Just some food for thought. There are many more options. Good luck!
Here's a thought experiment, imagine you are a young male looking for random streams because you're bored. You see a) one stream with speed runs done by a female streamer who is not scantily clad but actually has a lot of skill and is trying to garner views by being a good gamer. Then, there is a b) 23 year old female streamer who isn't really playing games but is merely doing stretches in yoga tights. What will you probably click first?

When talking about aggregate, the small delta counts. This swings those uncommitted to looking for sexual content as well as attracting those purely looking for sexual content. To be fair, there are more hardcore sexual content out there that is just as free, so why would the population just looking for soft porn go to Twitch to do it?

It sounds more to me like they are competing more than just having different audiences.

EDIT: and more importantly, these sexual streamer are taking advantage of it, while avoiding other sites devoted to sexual content where competition would be harder for them.
They try to emotionally manipulate their viewers into donating to them. Or they try to form a real bond. There’s some clear mix of genuine value for the lonely donators and id assume emotional abuse on the part of the streamers.
I remember the first few years of facebook (back when you had to have a university email address to sign up) and I genuinely think it was a positive, value-added-to-the-world kind of experience. I had good friends on there and we would share things, discuss different topics, and in general just interact with each other in a way we weren't able to before. There wasn't even a "news feed"; you just visited someone's page and looked at what they had posted or posted something there yourself that you thought they would appreciate.

Facebook is nothing like that anymore, and while there's certainly a lot that's changed, I think there are two specific things that turned it into what it is now.

1) Every single thing you do; posting videos, sharing your thoughts via text, leaving comments, joining a group, etc. runs on a point system. Everything is scored via "likes", and not only do you evaluate how good a post was based on the score it receives, but Facebook does too. The higher the score the higher your post will appear in other people's feeds and the more friends it will be shown to. Facebook even shows a post to a subset of your friends to judge how well it will perform, and if it receives a lot of likes it will be pushed out to a broader audience. You are, quite literally, playing a game.

Not only does that change your value system from "hey I found something that <friend> would like and I'm going to share it with them so we can talk about it" to "hey I found something that will get me a lot of points"; it also means that trivial content rises to the top. Cat pictures are kinda-neat to everyone but not extremely meaningful to anyone, while a thoughtful post on a specific topic probably doesn't appeal to everyone, but it will mean a lot to a few people. But with the one-vote-per-person rule, the thoughtful post gets buried.

2) Advertisements displace real content. YouTube, for all it's other flaws, has a very straightforward ad model. Ads essentially just piggyback on videos. If you make a really good video that means that lots of people will want to watch it, lots of ads can be shown, you get lots of views, and all three parties are happy without interfering with each other's interests. With Facebook, ads don't piggyback on other content, they replace it. If you are a company and you want to advertise yourself, you make a post and then pay have Facebook show it to more people and place it higher in their news feeds. Real content gets pushed down. And what's worse, there's no real distinction between ads and content. I believe you can even pay to boost your own posts, even as a normal user.

I think that there are going to be problems with any social platform, but Facebook is gross. It's a social game that exploits people's natural behaviors and ways of thinking, and does it without them realizing it to make a profit.
E-government in Estonia, all fine and dandy[0]. But there is so incredibly much low hanging fruit to fix on an administrative level, all over the EU...

I recently completed an advanced level of "Kafka quest": a 40-day fight with the city administration of Leuven, Belgium. The goal? Change the marital status of my Latvian(EU!) girlfriend in the Belgian(EU!) civil registry. From "undetermined" to "single".

-"No, we can't accept printouts from an electronic service. It doesn't look like our examples, nothing at all like what we have."

-"But it's the only marital status the Latvian civil registry gives out since a few years. Have a look at this explanation on the relevant Latvian government website. In English. With a Dutch translation I made to help you."

-"I'll have to ask my boss."

-(two weeks, several emails and phone calls later) "OK, we can accept this document. You don't even have to get a court stamp to legalise it. But it needs to be translated. To Dutch. All eleven pages, even if we need only that single word "single". No, google translate for the relevant bits won't do. No, you can't translate it yourself. It has to be done by a certified translator. Here's a list."

- Leuven official sends me a list of certified translators. No certified translator for Latvian on it. I find one online, in a city 100km away.

- Certified translator translates the 11 page document for us. Gives us a discount because it doesn't need a certified translation.

- Make an appointment a week in advance (the fastest possible) with the city government, then back to the Leuven city hall.

-"Ah, when we said it the civil registry excerpt was free of legalisation, we meant the original only. The certified translated copy needs to legalised. By the court of the city the translator is attached to."

- Back to the translator in the city 100km away, to request legalisation by the local court of her translation of a source document that is free of legalisation.

- Wait another two weeks for the stamped document to arrive by snail mail.

- Make another appointment with the city services.

But fear not, for there is hope! In a few years, so I learned, standardised paper forms will be developed to exchange this kind of information within the EU, hopefully eliminating the need for certified, legalised translations.[1]

[0] ...except for the fundamental conceptual insecurity of voting from home of course.

[1] http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELE... for a bit more context.
As good as we can, consider it done. But that's still not the same as being able to trace the wiring or to follow the mechanical linkages.

What I found really interesting is that they have no problem understanding vacuum tubes but fail at understanding transistors which are essentially the same thing only going from a literally transparent glass tube with inner bits that you can see to a little black piece of plastic with three metal legs sticking out.

There's a lesson in there somewhere.
Googled for details - indeed it looks like the device is using a wake word. Ironically, one of the first search results [1] was about a glitch that made the "mini" version actually record 24/7.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/11/technology/google-home-mini-...
You could try not letting your network get consistently congested.
Samsung Pay: The Third Time’s a Charm
https://youtu.be/xm4mDO4XGIE
Dang, I should go try and reapply, also e-resident, also got rejected pretty quickly.
Good to know the guys are open to re-evaluation.
Says over 10M IOPS in the link from microsemi, so… maybe a typo?
Electromagnetic water cloak eliminates drag and wake
Initialisms are acronyms.
We already have such tools. This is an example: http://fotoforensics.com/

An issue that the same algorithms that can be used to differentiate between real and fake can be used to train AIs to make better fakes. But here, the fake detector has the advantage in the arms race.

Another approach is to use cryptographic signatures. Some cameras sign can sign pictures to ensure they are original.
I feel like this is just describing the human experience. We go through cycles of obsession and focus, and then a realization that our obsession and focus has kept us from other parts of our lives. We adjust, and then repeat the cycle.

It could be video games, but it could be lots of hobbies, or work, or a new relationship, etc.
There is only evidence of coups only in cheapo banana republics, where life is cheap, stakes low, and few care about there being evidence or not. Big western countries can't afford to leave evidence in any internal meddling.

Heck, even the "final solution" orders weren't put in signing, and that wasn't even a regime that cared much for their public perception in the matter...

http://www.historynet.com/did-hitler-sign-a-document-authori...

(Besides, absence of evidence, as any scientist knows, is not evidence of absence).
Yeah, I don't play many games either, and I picked one up recently. It's a wonderful console to use. I really did not expect to like the portability so much, because I've never been interested in portable consoles. But that ability has turned out to be a really nice feature.
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1M in NVMe mode, 10M in nonstandard mode. I don't know if there's any software that can use the nonstandard mode.
Please supply said search, I’m trying to find out if there is a firewall between Google Assistant and Google ad targeting but it’s very difficult to find anything.
what dictionary did you look sex toy up in? mine doesn't have it, because sex toys do not exist.
Isn't the purpose of the example to make it hard to just trivially deduce y? If you know y = 1/(1 - t) then yeah it's undefined at t = 1. The example given doesn't seem to lend itself to that though, and a lesson is to know when your tooling isn't good enough.
in the cold war? not really..
Companies selling to "the Unbanked" may be willing to pay a fee to someone bringing those otherwise unattainable sales to them. Not sure, but perhaps something like LendingCircle?
TetraVue Says It's Flash LIDAR is (much) better than the rest
It's all downhill from 1st grade. Poor kid already reached his professional peak.
Opt-in is a decent enough method. But "Occasionally re-prompt a user" is a horrible idea, in my opinion. From a user perspective, that's kind of like the software forgetting the options you set. The very first time that something re-prompted me about something I had already opted-in to or out of, I would feel intense rage that it's asking me something that it had already asked me.
Why is "Google Home Max" weird compared to "Google Home+"?

Especially given that the small one is "Google Home Mini".
Just a quick correction, the Wii was still PowerPC based like the GameCube. It just took both the GPU and CPU and upped their power a bit, but was not different from the GameCube in any real significant way.
They'll do it eventually. It's too tempting not to. First they have break the barrier by getting a physical presence. They can slowly get to their main objective by rolling it out piece by piece. (Most) People won't even see it happening.

They are addicted to data because it pays and they're willing to do anything to get it. They dumped wireless data when doing Streetview photography even when they didn't have a reason. They captured location data from Android users without consent and secretly uploaded if later when they had connectivity. They have no credibility left in my opinion.

Wait for super accurate per person voice recognition and imagine the profiles they'll build.... Better ask your friends before you visit their place to switch off the telescreen!
Do any of these programs offer a way to trade experience via testing for credits? I went the hands in way 20 years ago and have done really well with it, but I sometimes wonder if having the degree would be helpful.
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Trolls seem to be doing just fine. It's also cool to be a fact checker but if you think the fakers have lost then you're naive, they're stronger than ever.
Yeah, sadly it is legally allowed to spam company contacts.
Does MacPorts have anything like Homebrew Cask? I know it's technically a plugin/addon, but it owes its existence to the Homebrew tooling and ecosystem it's on top of.

The ability to very easily install full GUI apps, or closed-source ones, is absolutely indispensable for automatically configuring Macs in many large environments, especially those (like a former one of mine) that heavily used Puppet for provisioning.

If MacPorts is lacking in that "umbrella package manager" functionality, I'd be stuck using both it and cask if I switched (and, given my positive experiences with Homebrew core and cask, I have no plans to).
I just got a couple of Minis on Black Friday sales (2 bundles; 1 Chromecast, 1 Chromecast Audio), and am extremely impressed even with those. The far field microphones are so sensitive, I can literally whisper and it'll pick it up. Also the speaker is very clear for its size.

Sure there are quirks but the ability to control Chromecast is great, and also the audio is impressive for listening to Podcasts such as DotNetRocks from my phone.

I hooked the bundled Chromecast Audio to the Line In on my Asus Sonar Deluxe 1.3 HDAV on the HTPC, which connects to a 20 year old Rotel Preamp + Amp combo (separation of concerns!), and equally old (but since then refurbished) Infinity Kappa speakers. Sound quality is great that way, so I didn't see the need for a Home or the Home Max which I knew was coming.

So I can say stuff like. "Hey Google, play {some album, artist or playlist} on the PC", and it'll cast to that if I want the big sound. It is way easier than navigating Spotify on my phone or using the Spotify software on the HTPC itself (which is limited to 1 account, with the hassle of logging out / in).

I wish Google could publish server software for Win10 so that I could cast to that as a Chromecast target rather than go via the Chromecast Audio. However I understand there's probably DRM reasons why efforts for this to happen were shut down.

As a PS, my 7 year old son absolutely loves talking to Google. It's pretty impressive to hear him figure her out.
Have you tried speeding the video up? It still sounds choppy, but the earlier part of the sentence will still fit in your working memory.
This might work will for Kindle books, but this is anti-skimmer though. And on the web you need to appeal to the skimmer who is trying to decide if your article is even worth reading.
There's a big difference between having concerns about something like porn and wanting to ban it for the society.
This is a basic assumption historians take. They assume sources have biases and agendas, and try to figure out what is true. It isn't a perfect system, but no historian takes a source at face value.
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>>> Which is more of a commodity, a specific child that other kids would enjoy watching play, or someone to edit videos and plan content?

The parents are much more important for the business. They are true sales people, they do a ton of marketing, they optimized the revenues perfectly and they edit the videos accordingly.
It sounds insane to me, but some banks offer home equity credit cards, to leverage your home to buy clothing or other items.
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How is this legal?

I have seen cable providers and channels go after each other, but never this.
Other way around. Acronyms are the subset of initialisms that are pronounceable.
Thank you! Full disclosure, Blaze is my second software business, and has been going for 22 years now. My previous one ran for about 8 years.

In short, it is really about providing great customer service. I am lucky enough to work in a small town where word of mouth referrals are critical, and doing a good job and genuinely caring about your customers gets you noticed and gets people to stick to you loyally.

Plus I have a genuine love of learning about how other businesses operate, and get a kick out of improving how they can run using my software.

But as I get older, I find that my energy levels aren't suited to one on one development and constant support, hence my second all cloud based SaaS startup in my sig - really it is phase 2 while I scale back my personalised face to face customer support and explore a more distributed way of doing things on a global scale, rather than local.
There are some pretty strict rules about advertising to kids and this is one way to fly under that radar. It is also why these people make as much money as they are.
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Calling it an addiction is problematic, IMO. Clinically, gambling is still the only officially "recognized" addiction that isn't an actual substance one abuses, so there's very little academic rigor applied so far to other behaviors that we talk about as being addictive. Sex addiction (which I bring up because it's also one of these "brain-becomes-addicted-to-hormones-that-make-you-feel-good concepts) has been blamed for many a sexual harassment lawsuit in which the "victim" of the "addiction" attends a luxurious "treatment facility" for a week and is then "cured" until their next "relapse". The business model is shady as hell, and even the most well-meaning anti-porn groups base a lot of what they say on very shady science like brain scans that happen to look similar, when you can get a lot of activities to yield similar brain scans. Therapists who approach it as a symptom of other issues (attachment issues, for example) rather than an addiction have had more success actually breaking habits, but rigorous research is hard to come by in that field so far.
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I believe that this doesn't trigger a mandatory report, however, it would be reasonable to expect that the IRS will ask every major bank for large incoming transactions from e.g. Coinbase, audit every one of those who hasn't listed any capital gains on their tax report, and charge the appropriate taxes+fines. Of course, they don't have to do this now, they'll start next year after everyone has filed their taxes, but they can review it a few years later if they wish.
Why? What's different than normal fame where you can still be talked about on the Internet?
Well, fine. But as someone who has a lot of experience with people telling me to stop playing video game because I’m not a child anymore (as have many if not most young adult gamers), it seems to me that people who call video games toys just reinforce that narrative, so it‘d help if they didn‘t.
With great power comes great responsibility. If you want to make money or social capital out of providing some innovation, you have some obligation to think about the negative externalities that will result and come up with a way to minimize them.
Net Neutrality’s Holes in Europe May Offer Peek at Future in U.S
Man, if only instead of buying a Jet ski these poor souls would find socialism.
Which exchange did you use to buy IOTA? You can't really buy IOTA directly with USD, right?
Yesterday someone linked me such a stream and it was just a pretty girl with a deep cut shirt.

Didn't look like porn to me and she wasn't really entertaining. It's more like the people want to satisfy their fantasies and buy the attention of a pretty girl. Clearly in a non sexual way otherwise they would turn to cam girl sites.

Is this bad? I don't know but I don't have a problem with it. I feel like it's sad that people feel like they have to buy the attention of another person. But this happens with male streamers too.

I watched a guy in the IRL section since I wanted to see what the guys stream and he was letting people insult him for money. It was really strange to watch.

I don't understand alot on twitch. But I don't see the pornography on it either.
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> Assassination Files is sensationalistic

when talking about actual files pertaining to an actual assassination (noone debates asssasination I dont think here)? what should they be called instead?

'the recently released information possibly tangentially related to the events leading to the transition of the 35th and 36th us presidency'?
Mini breaks are fine. Just blacklist certain things from your breaks if you find they're bad for you. I find "boring" breaks to be the best - sleep, looking at nature, chatting with a co-worker.

Discipline only goes so far. This doesn't happen if your motivation is high enough as you'd just lock back into the project once you've regenerated.

Treat motivation as a supplement. You might be looking at HN as your mind craves more motivation.

Think of people, not cash rewards. Who will this project help? Users? Stakeholders? If you have to think of cash, think of how you could spend it on making other people happier... donations to the poor, buying mom a gift, taking your child to a theme park.

You might also be motivated by creative impulses. Bookmark projects you admire. It can be roadmaps and devlogs. Open them up again when you're feeling demotivated or need a break.
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Bitcoin Is the Total Opposite of a Ponzi Scheme – Here’s Why
And the disclaimer to the meme: it’s worth pointing out that Soylent Drink gets about 2.5% of its calories from added sugar while Ensure Original gets 27% of its calories from added sugars.
I am quite nonplussed by your linguistic prescriptivism. It is, however a moot point in a discussion about Nintendo's products. I appreciate your efforts to remain cordial, however.

(In case you didn't get it: All of those words once meant or possibly still currently mean the opposite of the way in which they're being used in this comment. Language is what you make of it.)
I signed up for brain.fm (http://brain.fm/) after it was posted here a year or so ago. Can absolutely recommend it!
Two Firms File Bitcoin ETF Applications in Wake of CBOE Futures Launch
Yeah, DRAM chips are the only ones that currently offer the right balance of performance and capacity per die. NAND and 3D XPoint dies are too big and too slow per die for this use case, so they're better used as nonvolatile storage to flush the log to in the event of power failure, not as the primary log storage media.

I expect it will soon become common for high-end enterprise NVMe SSDs to include a few GB of DRAM accessible through the new Persistent Memory Region feature, so that they can be accessed through simple PCIe memory read and write operations, but will automatically be preserved by the SSD in the event of a power failure. It won't be as fast as a NVDIMM, but works with existing form factors and platforms.