skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No Commercials: I don't see them. That's one of the biggest things about 'cord cutters'. You can't reach them with TV commercials. So, advertisers have to figure out another way to 'reach' me.

No Schedule: I watch what I'd like to when I'd like to. I never care what's 'on TV' or when something is scheduled. I watch things when I'm in the mood to and have the time to. The idea of specific weeknight lineups or specific programs bringing an audience to another seems silly and quaint.

No Access to Cable-Only Programming: I have no access to cable-only programming. If you lock your content down to your cable TV channel and your app that requires me to login with my cable account, I can't see it. And, no, I'm not going to pay $50 a month to get cable to see your TV show.

A majority of the time, if I'm sitting on the couch, I'm playing a game, watching YouTube, or watching a movie. So, yes, there's a pretty big difference between a typical TV watcher and a cord cutter in terms of advertiser reach, access to content, dollars spent, and schedule. As more folks take this approach, more of the industry has to adjust to keep pace.
Yes. I tried watching it after moving to Seattle (cliché, I know), but couldn't bear it because of the laugh track.
Can't wait until I turn 60 so I can finally justifiably call people with inferior skills than me - noobs.

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I know one older gentleman playing a FPS. He is not very good, but better than the majority.

It's all about community though. If you play on the same server or a not-very-popular game, you would soon know all the "regulars". The actual game is there just to hook you in. You stay for the community.
Not so much “evolved” changes, but human bodies definitely undergo differences in shape depending on use and context. Just look at athletes who start playing different sports from a young age – some of the difference is genetic and selection effects, but training definitely also affects muscle mass, joint flexibility, etc.

The nutrient-deficient and unvaried diet, poor hygiene/concentration of people, and difficult menial workload from farming gave us very high infant mortality rate, higher disease rate, shrinking height and all sorts of health problems, repetitive strain leading to bodies just completely worn out by age 50, etc.

As people started eating better etc. after getting away from a peasant lifestyle, average height increased by 30cm, infant mortality went way down, life expectancy and quality of life for elderly people went way up, etc.

Our bodies to some extent started reverting to their “natural” shape, but of course being bottle-fed, wearing rigid shoes, sitting inside all day staring at close work from birth onward, a diet with increasing amounts of refined sugar/starch and plenty of alcohol etc. has certainly had its physical effects, and is leaving us with small jaws, dental caries, warped feet, inflexible ankles (unable to squat e.g.), decreasing levels of physical strength, back problems, diabetes, dementia in old age, ....
the OkCupid blog post/announcement has some discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15985368
Hey everyone. I’m part of the Beaker browser team (we use the Dat protocol). As Max’s colleague, it’s been extremely disappointing to learn about his behavior, but I’m proud of how the Dat team/community has stepped up in the last week.

Here’s my statement on the situation and how the Dat community is moving forward:

https://taravancil.com/blog/dat-leadership-changes/
Some assets are more volitile than others. I feel that we are moving backwards here in terms of restating obvious and extremely basic principles. Anyway, I’m not at all convinced that BTC is different in kind relative to, say, normal FX trading. The spreads do tend to be higher, though. What’s far more interesting to me is BTC’s resilience as an asset in spite of massive, demonstrable (and frankly, predictable and preventable) failures like MtGox.

Edit: Think about shares held in a startup. Those are insanely volitile. Does anyone need to reminded that they aren’t rich until they convert their shares into cash?
I mean, the casino is more obviously bias towards an institution.
You really don't see a difference between linear tv programming with 25% ads and on-demand ad-free streaming?
And do you also have a 'key insight' about what is the right thing to do?

Maybe you are just talking about false accusations, but what you said sounded like the words of a sociopath.
> universities usually spoonfeed you information at an absurdly slow rate

I have to chuckle at that. I went to Caltech. A year of high school physics went by in about 4 lectures. I had to study about 40-50 hours a week just to keep from drowning. I would not have survived without help from the professors, TAs, and fellow students.

I don't disagree that a motivated, talented person can learn all that on their own. I've seen it happen, exactly once. The rest just employ ad-hoc hacky workarounds.

BTW, at the time Caltech had a specific policy that financial means would be no barrier to admission or attendance. They'd do what it took to make it work. I attended a very ordinary public high school in a working class neighborhood.

> matrix math is a piece of cake too.

But you have to know what it is to even recognize that it is the path to a solution.
28 co-sponsors to overturn #NetNeutrality vote
It did 43% less than the Force Awakens on the second week, so yes it is a dud when compared to its siblings. (apple to apples comparisons).

If the next Mercedes E Class Model has 43% less sales than its predecessor, then yes it is a dud and if I was in management i'd be worried.
I haven't successfully used Bitcoin yet, but it was my impression that the $20 or $50 fee was for a reasonably fast transaction, and you could get slower performance for less. If I'm transferring a large amount of money between financial institutions then I expect to wait anywhere from 24 hours to 3 or more days for it to complete. So I'm wondering if a Bitcoin transaction would be significantly cheaper if you were perfectly happy to wait a day.
Automated package lockers are a relatively new thing in the US. Most apartment buildings don't have them, especially ones that weren't built in the last few years.

In terms of Amazon lockers, they're also not that common outside of cities. Some are on private property where you need access to the building to access it. Even when they are available near you, a lot of them will be full around the holidays. I had a package that I sent to an Amazon locker where it got automatically returned to their warehouse because the locker was full when the driver tried to deliver the package.
I was going by what sort of lifestyle you can live with that income range. You can rent a nice apartment in a nice part of town and support a family on your salary. You could also go out to the suburbs and live in a largish house. You get one or two trips abroad with your kids each year.

We are not talking about country clubs, yachts, or first class airfare here. It is not the 1%. It is between working class and upper class. What else would you call it?
In general, analog chips are easier to fab because less transistors are involved and thus minimum feature size isn't as important. Typical parts have merely a handful of transistors.

Cutting-edge analog ICs are a different beast, though. Tightly controlled processes are the norm and post-fab trimming is common.
> none of the people involved would have any complaint afterwards.

Rating the buyer's satisfaction depends a heck of a lot on your timescale. For many drugs and many users, sure, it's a net positive out to infinity.

But in the midst of an opioid crisis, we need to acknowledge that many people are having their brains broken in a way that their short term preferences (yes, more fentanyl please!) are completely out of sync with their long-term ones (shit, I wish I hadn't destroyed my life).

Treating the drug market like some idealized commodity exchange seems naive and harmful.
Arbitrage and equilibrium in the team fortress 2 economy
As usual, the claim that #2 could possibly be due to pilots misinterpreting visual evidence is tossed out as a hand wavy excuse despite the fact that the cases investigated by the Pentagon are (allegedly) corroborated by targeting systems, radar and satellite images, and possibly more evidence not disclosed. The entire point of the revelations was that after bringing to bear the entire analytical arsenal of the Pentagon there is no obvious explanation remaining for these cases other that these objects indeed exist and have an unknown origin. (This doesn't mean "aliens.")

The entire story hinges on the credibility of the Pentagon officials and pilots interviewed. If they are credible with regards to the narrative around just how many resources were used to generate alternative explanations, then the media should stop building up strawmen that these specific cases were due to pilots being fooled by their visual system.
Is it part of the simulation that I have discovered that I was living in a simulation? If I have decided that I want to stray off from the simulation, how would I know I am just playing part of the simulation to live differently?
History of Bitcoin
The moral angle is indeed the mindblowing part, but I wanted to sollicit the acute minds of hackernews to shine a light on the practical aspect of it.
How come so many Germans rent? The US doesn't seem the odd one out here.

For example, UK, Belgium, France it's normal to buy a house. Or at least want to buy a house.
“Synthetic Embryos”: The Wrong Term for Important New Research
uBlock Origin, Decentraleyes, Privacy Badger. You are not obligated to watch ads. Don't fall for the lie. Your computer, your rules. Google are already rich enough.
I have a Deskcycle too, and I love it. It's as smooth and quiet as the site says.
Want to become a hacker?
> One thing that is certain is that there are more commercials now. If you watch an episode of The Big Bang Theory sans commercials, you will notice that it is only 17 minutes long! And that includes the 60 second intro. So 13 minutes of commercials for 16 minutes of actual content. No chance I'll be going back to regular TV.

I get my episodes of BBT from iTunes. You’re correct that BBT episodes are shorter than most other mainstream shows (at least in my own library). They are often only about 18-19m, other episodes reach 21-22m as well. I don’t see any below 18m in the past four seasons and stopped searching beyond that. Alternatively, most of the half-hour shows I watch are consistently about 20-21m, so BBT is definitely providing less content overall.

As for the assertion of 1m intros with BBT, that's 3x longer than reality. I scripted simple controls for controlling iTunes via my phone so that I wouldn’t need to reach for my kbd or trackpad. I set the FWD time to 30 seconds and the BACK time to 10 seconds. Jumping ahead by 30s is appropriate for most shows that I watch, whereas BBT requires me to also jump back by 10s (it has a 20s intro).

Few sitcoms still have 1m or longer intros. New Girl is about 5s, down from around 30s when it started. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia dropped from 1m to 30s. The Sarah Silverman Program dropped from 22s to 17s in 2010. I see the overall trend for typical broadcasts as gradually reducing intros (excluding shows on HBO, etc; those still have very long intros but also no commercials).
You mean the kid who disassembled a clock radio, intentionally made it look like a bomb in a suitcase, used it as a distractant in multiple classes, eventually got appropraitely disciplined for it, but then got tons of free stuff, scholarships from universities, free money and swag, and personally invited to White House by the President?

Yeah, heaven forbid anyone be treated that poorly.
No offense but you sound like my aunt who would tell me all the time that video games would make me stupid. But I wouldn't be working in tech today if it wasn't for my passion for video games.

(note: I also limit screen time for my kids)
Economics of Minecraft
This video game helps doctors save lives
Real life has product placement every time you go outside in civilization. I'm getting upset about you guys getting upset over something so trivial.

Edit: read further down and I have to say that I've never seen (or noticed) anything so blatant as characters going on about features of a car. That would indeed be frustrating.
"Believe me, that is solidly middle class..."

I don't live there, but even $200k seems solidly upper class.

"In 2012, 9.1% of New Jersey households have annual incomes of or over $200,000, and 17.5% have incomes of $100,000 or more."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_Jersey_locations_b...
In my apartment building, there are package lockers along with the mailboxes, and the empty package lockers have keys in them. When you get a package, the key is removed and put in your mailbox. You thus try the key in the lockers that don't have one and leave it after removing the package. I'm curious how "automation" can improve significantly on this system.
That subreddit no longer exists.
> How is keeping data local a good idea?

Sometimes you want to avoid competitors, or foreign governments, or intelligence agencies from accessing your data. Sometimes you want to avoid any kind of tracking or metadata analysis. Sometimes you want to avoid external points of failure.

Often it is cost - even including wages, AWS or GCP are a factor 10 to 100 more expensive than what you can run on rented dedicated systems from a local hoster, or by colocating. Even your own datacenter can be cheaper, and end up with identical uptime.

And then there's a question of trust. A simple question: Would you trust a Chinese SaaS company to securely store all your customer's data, and run all your services? Would you trust a Romanian one? Why would I trust an American one?
Careful or you'll have everyone in this thread screaming about blue beams.
Bitcoin will be more relevant soon because there is exponentially more gold/silver/platinum/uranium in the solar system than on Sol-3.

It would be silly to ship in paper every 2 years so people could trade "cash" while working at the methane harvesters and excavators.

Just keep that price constant and we can finally move forward.
How recreational marijuana in California left chemists in the dark
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Linking_and_Embedding
So your definition of "solidly upper class" is the top 10% of earners? That's a pretty loose definition IMO.
I always thought that this was ripe for theft. I mean key is there... Instead of having a key, they could have mechanically programmable combination lock.. and leave the key on paper in the mailbox or email or SMS, w/e.
Dear god what a terrible story.
If I knew I was living in a simulation, I would be terrified of causing it to crash. It's actually the best reason to worship the creator of the universe that I can think of - there's no logical reason to think they are perfect, but it's so terrifying to think there might be a bug in reality that psychologically it might be necessary to deny the possibility. Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum
What is it about bitcoin conversations that turn HN into a Reddit-esque sarcasm pit? We can debate difficult topics with civility.
As Matt O'Dowd from PBS's Spacetime likes to say, it's never aliens.
No offense but you went from consuming video games that make people stupid to producing video games that make people stupid and that's a success story?

That's like my kids getting a job at the production company of Dora The Explorer and me thanking all the 980 hours a year on average they wasted on TV consumption.
Yeah. For years, whenever the promotion ends, I ask for internet-only, and they counter with a discount if I keep cable tv. I'm certain they are doing this to artificially prop up the cable subscriber numbers. Content notwithstanding, the basic-basic tv service is so bad. You have to use their digital adapter becuase all the channels are encrypted and the picture is so bad becuase it is standard def coming over the analog input. The digital conversion happened 10yrs ago, why are they still expecting people to pay extra for HD? And even when you do pay for the HD service and special set-top box, the UI is terrible, and they compress the streams so it is not even the full quality anyway.
Well, if you suddenly vanish, then you know...oh wait.
...unless you live in basically any western country (except the US) that have high quality Public Service TV, where commercials and product placement is not allowed.
I could see them as hyper advanced metamaterials with effects we don't entirely understand. Materials science is still a very empirical field with lots of physical experimentation, trial and error. We can observe with SEM, x-ray etc. without fully connecting the dots to the end result. Sort of like dropping an iPhone X into the hands of a Victorian era scientist, who just dismantles it and sees it's a bunch of metal, without a chance of ever being able to reverse engineer it. It's just too advanced.

But this is probably nothing.
DBCLI – Modern Suite of Database CLIs
In theory, sure. In practice, we can do better on the Web interface side than Google Groups does.
BART was the first modern transit system. Computer control. Active suspension. Solid-state motor controls. Card-based fare collection. Air conditioning. All new technology. All special-purpose. It took over a decade to get all that debugged.

Now it's antiquated, and keeping those one-offs going is hard.
It's easier to maintain old electromechanical systems like NYC's than 1960s electronics like BART. The NYC stuff is mostly standard General Railway Signal equipment, with some Union Switch and Signal stuff. Many railways worldwide used those components. Siemens sells compatible relays.[1]

Think of where you'd be today if your transit system ran on OS/2. The NYC transit system is still running hundreds of computers on OS/2. It was the best system at the time.

[1] https://w3.usa.siemens.com/mobility/us/en/Documents/F1-F60%2...
While I agree that today's volatility is nothing new to Bitcoin, I doubt that you have observed price falls for over a decade, given that Bitcoin was introduced on 3rd Jan, 2009.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin
2017: The Year in Color
Please don't haul flamebait in here.
I've been using dlink wifi cams outdoor for about 5 years. Based on a few minutes info from their website, looks like blink has a great usability design. I'd put this on top of my list for my next security cam purchase. Amazon reviews are mostly favorable.
> As a Greek I have experienced some of these consequences first-hand, in the form of capital controls and cross-border trading restrictions.

If the most dramatic consequences you had to face from the past decade policies, you're probably pretty affluent among the Greeks (which isn't surprising here on HN, I don't think anyone here is part of the 30% lower incomes of his country)

> I simply struggle to accept that an individual should suffer the consequences of an incompetent or malicious government in what should be a fundamental right (trading and securing your wealth)

You're free to assign the priority you want in the role of State, depending on the personal believes and values, but I personally think there are more fundamental rights than trading or securing your wealth, and I'm not shocked to see a government making trade-offs between those rights.

In normal time, all those rights should be preserved and defended, but in troubled times it, I have no problem seeing a government cutting back the free trade right in order to provide food to everyone, or education, health, safety or whatever human basic rights I feel more important than business freedom. Call me a socialist if you want.
Types being code depend on people writing them (as is the rest of the code :) ). I guess you’re lucky/smart that your code base is just simple types.

Quite often people construct complex type hierarchies just because they can (or don’t know better). And it’s a pain to wade through and coerce to what you want it to do.

I’m very much on the fence between static and dynamic typing, having used (and probably abused) both. I prefer a “pragmatically” typed language, but I haven’t come up with a proper definition for it yet :)
Even ignoring the moral failings of your suggested course of action, it may be advisable in such cases to consider the actions celebrities in similar circumstances have taken. They do, after all, act on the advise of layers, PR-, and crisis communications experts paid in the 6-figures or more to handle such cases.
Star Trek gave us a few excellent episodes. I don't think any of the series have been excellent overall, although I'm probably in the minority opinion in that.
Yeah, They added and keep increasing the "broadcast tv fee", and added a fee for more than one digital adapter. So far still cheaper than Internet-only.
I worked in small scale fabs back in the day. One and a half inch wafers. It’s not nearly as hazardous as you make out, but it does require training in chemistry. I’m a physicist, but I also did a pre-med, so I had the necessary chemistry background to be safe.

Sputtering requires a small amount of high vac equipment - diffusion pump plus LN cold trap is fine. Sputtering titanium plus gold is straightforward and non-toxic. Etching the pattern requires small amount of aqua regia, which is, of course, a strong acid, but can be easily neutralized to non-toxic by-products. Aluminum evaporation and etching is even easier. The complexity and cost comes in four areas: nanoscale features, large wafers, high throughput, and a process that doesn’t need professional chemists to perform.
I watched a lot of TV and commercials as a young kid on Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and Disney channels, commercials ranging from baby dolls, batman and Lego. I wanted a lot of the stuff they showed on TV, and I got gifted a lot, but not everything. I come from a middle class norwegian family which meant that we could afford a lot of toys and stuff, but not everything at once. I don't think it influenced me that much, but I certainly tried to influence my parents to buy the crap which I had seen on TV. In retrospective, I wish my parents had said "no" more to the crap I wanted and received, I didn't need it at all and it was all a matter of my parents saying "no" more.
I hadn't heard about that deal but that explains all the surveys recently about whether Ooma customers were interested in video as part of their security offering.
I understand the OP’s ‘lowest common denominator’ comment to mean all good but unique features can’t be included in the abstraction. For example, only Google has Streetview or anything like it, so you can’t abstract it. As a result, you end up not using the abstraction for the most part.
Interesting niche and approach. Thanks for pgcli btw. Good luck!
I've sold and transferred over $800k of cryptocurrencies to a US bank over the course of 3 days. I could probably have done it faster if I tried. This was through Gemini.
Because there's no inherent value and it's just traders making up theories, I would conclude there's this set of game theory:

1. Buy bitcoins or release media PR to pump price
2. Buy future shorts
3. Sell a large enough order to trigger margin calls and stop losses
4. Profit twice from your BTC sale, and short sale
5. If you believe the price will return, buy back in cheaper
than you sold due to other panic sellers
I still prefer to watch Frank Underwood telling me how good Monument Valley is than having my show stop and sit in front of old fashioned ads.
So, is TV the Nigerian Prince of media now, because only the less mentally/technically able fall for its low brow offerings?
Copyright holders sell you crap despite non-crap being readily available.

Copyright holders have no intention and have made no moves to replace carp, or to make non-crap readily and legally available.

Why should I buy crap from copyright holders?

Netflix, Steam, and Spotify have shown that once you provide people with non-crap, people are more than happy to pay you, and piracy all but disappears.