skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of the biggest advantage of not having an actual TV in the house. We watch everything on demand ad-free on YouTube, Netflix, Xfinity Streaming and Prime Video. The ads on TV even in kids specific programs are horrible. On non-kids programs it's absolutely something kids shouldn't be watching.

Another huge advantage of not having actual TV in house is that we need to watch everything on PC or tablet. This adds friction in the process compared to just taking remote and press button. Also small kids typically will need parents help to watch anything instead of just starting to flip channels by themselves and exposing themselves to all commercial nastiness in very early age.

Finally, once everything you want to watch is on demand, you have very different mindset. You never rush for specific time to watch TV. Time after dinner can be some activity. There is no compulsion that you must be first to watch GoT right along your friends. All that silly competition dies out. Now a days we watch many movies and TV series many years after they have been released and we absolutely don't feel as if we missed out by not watching right when they came out. Entertainment exists for us instead of other way around.

I pity parents who still haven't figured this out and have actual TV sets in their houses.
The weird thing is Tinder and Okcupid both have the same parent company, Match Group. Why do they want two similar apps?
BCash is a fork of bitcoin that appears to offer lower fees for transactions.
You don't have to risk anything. If the trend continues, at some point one would be able to rent the mining power required.

On top of it, if you are a small miner, and you can't afford capital investments required to keep up with latest mining hardware, while loosing market share, you can use your soon-osolete hardware to make a one last buck. A big buck this time.
Hmm. What does "easy" mean to you?
TV really is dumb now. Maybe it always was, and we're just now realizing how dumb it is. That is, maybe we're getting smarter and are getting used to better tools. TV is a one-way channel, meant to be consumed. Desktops, laptops and mobiles are all two way channels, meant to be interacted with; superior to the TV model in every way.

When all you have is TV, though, you can acclimate yourself to all kinds of rubbish. I'm sure in the future when we have a superior protocol or way or doing something, we'll look back and wonder why we thought X was ever a good idea.
Wow you're good at connecting dots. I bet you were good at those numbered dot puzzles as a kid.
> An efficient money laundering rate is anything north of 50% (100 dirty --> 50-70 clean).

That's supported by what I read in "Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground" by Kevin Poulsen. Book's about Max Butler alias Iceman who ended up as in the higher echelon as vital gear of a carding gang. They'd have people who'd shop and resell the items instantly, as if new. The shoppers also need to get paid, obviously.

Blockchain's entirely public, so Bitcoin is terrible for money laundering. Not any better than USD.

Monero is apparently anonymous though. Though I take the term anonymous with a huge grain of salt since its always a relative term, not an absolute binary flag.
Don't understand why I'm being downvoted. Don't put your coins on an exchange, ever, unless you want to risk them being lost. This is cryptocurrency 101.
For heaven's sake, we're not completely sure how Damascus steel was made, and that was done by humans hundreds of years ago, with thousands of samples lying around the world. And we're just supposed to assume that because we've tried all the combinations of alloys we can think of, there are no other possibilities?

Have some imagination. Think about nano-layering and quasicrystals, to say nothing of stable-island heavy nuclei and other exotic forms of matter not ruled out by physics as we know it. Come lecture me about impossibilities when you've finished solving solid-state physics, mkay?

Those aren't technically "alloys"? Fine, but that's a useless nitpick in the face of the actual question under consideration. Reading through the mistakes of science-illiterate journalists and politicians should be a reflex by now; you don't get any points for proving you have a better technical vocabulary than they do.
A Pentium chip would probably seem like an incomprehensible material to Alan Turing (and not just because of the awful instruction set), because even though all the materials were known at the time, the design and fabrication techniques and mind-bogglingly fine granularity and complexity of how they are combined hadn't been conceived of yet.

I agree the reporters probably flubbed the word "alloy" for lack of a better understanding of science or a better term to describe it.

An integrated circuit is a fine grained combination of several different kinds of metal and other materials, but they're meticulously arranged and sandwiched together, not just melted together into an alloy.

At what point do you draw the line between nanotechnology and alloy, when you have the technology to 3d-print each and every atom?
Who is seriously going to try and execute a 51% attack? It would be so incredibly expensive, you would have to keep spending more as people added hash power to shut you out, and most importantly if your attack worked you would instantly undermine the security of the blockchain making all the currency you've stolen worthless!
I think it's actually a photoshopped combination. I found images of all of them, and none look quite right (and all details this is missing).
Not to mention networks like TBS have been caught speeding up shows like Seinfeld so that they can squeeze more commercials into the timeslot.
Match will be setting the incentive schemes, but not the policy. I imagine the incentive scheme is pretty much being shaped by the massive gravity of Tinder.
Good idea. Make it appearing on home page now, :)
Every time someone is like: “what? You don’t have cable you weird person you!” This is why. Got tired of paying a premium for commercials and over the years the commercial breaks got longer, and longer and longer.

Hey cable subscribers...go ahead and channel surf and take some stats on how often a commercial is playing as you iterate through each channel.

It’s ridiculous. Netflix is alright with me.
This stuff makes me worried about the future. We'll have this massive AI/computer machinery making more and more decisions without any recourse. This will be the ultimate faceless bureaucracy.

At work I can almost every day hear someone yelling at his health insurance company because something has been f...ed up. Once they start hiding even more behind automation how can you resolve anything?
I can't take any criticisms against Bitcoin Cash seriously when the authors knowingly refer to it as BCash. It's not just a shortening of the name, it's part of a concerted effort by detractors to distance the chain from the Bitcoin legacy.

Any author that purposefully uses the term BCash is, on the face, incapable of being objective because they're advertising that they're detractors already.

The Bitcoin Core (no on-chain scaling at any cost!) crowd asked the on-chain scaling fans to "fork off and leave". Now that the coin is doing very well in terms of market value and especially in growing merchant adoption, they're desperate to push the narrative that it's a scam or dangerous or can't be taken seriously. They know that if they can't destroy Bitcoin Cash now, it has a reasonable chance of eventually overtaking the legacy Bitcoin network in every important respect.
they could of nationalized the banks, but no instead they just give them handouts

but yeah, I wonder why they didn't decide to save bear stearns, maybe it collapsed and that was the reason they decided to save the rest

best source about the 2008 crisis? I really like noam chomsky and michael lewis' work
Is this a recent change?

IIRC the standard is:

22 minutes for 30 min shows

44 minutes for hour long shows

You can go to RARBG and check the MediaInfo for any show.

So you get 16 min of ads every hour. So a quarter of each hour is ads.
Natero (YC S12) – Hiring a python developer to own integrations
I think it's still a bit different. On Twitter, you still sort of fear retribution from the people within your bubble, since it's encouraged to "roast" and win arguments by getting more likes. I get the impression Mastodon is more forgiving, which makes me want to try it out.
When you're reading books your brain is working on visualizing what you've just read
So it is either trivially defeated by commodity cellphone/wifi jammers, or has a huge risk of false positives.
Certainly not running open source software on commodity hardware. Other than that I don't know, same as for 90% of Blockchain companies that get the same level of investment or more.
Netflix is just skipping intro for you.
Against the Law: Countering Lawful Abuses of Digital Surveillance [pdf]
> glacial pace relative to solving real world problems / hazing

Sorry, I can't agree. My experience in post college real world problems was I was very well equipped to do so, compared with other newly minted engineers. And the techs who didn't have degrees weren't even on the radar.

> the only one

I was regularly assaulted in public school for being a nerd. Does that count?

> mom and dad

Mine were very special to me. But they were mine, and I'm heavily biased. Stepping back a bit, I don't believe they were exceptional, or better than the parents of my friends, etc.

> empathize

Get up and go comes from within, it is not installed by parents.

I wanted real bad to be a ham radio operator as a teen. I could not remotely afford to buy the equipment. I tried to build my own, but utterly lacked the skills, and could not get either the tools or the parts. Nobody helped me. I didn't know any hams, or anyone who knew anything about electronics. It was extremely frustrating.

For me, being at Caltech was very much like someone turning the lights on. I was around people with similar interests, classes were fun (despite being terrifyingly hard), lab equipment was all available, it was heaven. Nothing like public high school.
If you do a double spend attack of any significance, the other party will notice. Unless you are doing something completely anonymous, the other party will also know who you are and be able to pursue other remedies (eg. sue you for fraud).
> How can you be so sure of that? ... Do you think we could figure out a material designed by a being a million years in advance of us?

It's a fair question, but I'm pretty sure we could. We have constraints: we know the object can be stored in a warehouse, we presumably can infer it can be touched, and can be seen.

Even if it were of alien origin, wondrously advanced, made of some kind of matter that fits outside our standard model of the universe, we would at least know it interacts with light, with the electromagnetic force. We understand that force very well, so we could still characterize it. And that's if it's something deeply weird; deeply strange. (And if it were really that bizarre, it'd be the discovery of the century and obscene to keep it locked up in a warehouse somewhere.)

Far more likely, it's just made up of atoms (which is what we'd expect, given its temperature and density are within the realm of 'objects that can exist on earth in a warehouse'), and then we can use all our normal techniques just fine and it's not a problem.

> Do you think someone from 500 years ago could analyze a microchip or some superconducting ceramic?

Again, to emphasize, this is a valid question -- but we've already gone past that threshold. We can see individual atoms now, so there's not much further to go when it comes to the question of what things are made of, at least to a rough approximation.

However, the next question would be "can we make it?" and the answer to that is very different. If someone gave us some electronics from the future, we could still find out what it's made from quite easily. Understanding how it works and how to re-create it would be vastly more difficult, and possibly beyond us. But this is true of the past too; there were ways of making steel and concrete in the distant past that we've long lost the knowledge of how to make.
I really wondered about his political acumen and general well-being when he insisted that PS Vita had "all the games."
Warren Buffett "lost" around $200 billion of his investors money during the 2008-2009 financial crisis. Obviously no investor lost a dime unless they sold at the bottom, and any that held are well ahead.

This was to establish that the mere act of losing investor's money isn't fraud. And it's not a question of "intrinsic motivation", it's solely aa question of what they actually did.

Warren Buffett doesn't commit fraud because he tells his investors he's going to invest their money in equities, which has risk. If Berkshire Hathaway goes to zero because he made poor decisions, that's not fraud.

The ponzi scheme was fraud because he was paid to invest the money, but did not do that, instead he spent the money on himself and hid a bunch with his family. How hard is it to understand the difference between doing what you agree to do with someones money and stealing it?
It would incur a huge opportunity cost for them to switch over, especially because they would tank bcash by doing it.
I read this on mobile and got a still image and a progress spinner, with no way to scroll.
Thats a great story, thanks.

Edit: /s for clarity
Just think about what you are saying. Even if you don't like Reid, you should know he didn't get to where he is by being an idiot.

Does it make sense to make your most SHADY kickback deal based on Aliens??? Something that will get TONS of press coverage even with nothing fraudulent going on.

If Reid was looking for a quid-pro-quo, he would be working with the Mega Resorts on the strip (MGM, Caesars, and even Republican Steve Wynn). His decisions could massively benefit them, and sitting as an honorary member of their board could be profitable.

When you go to rob the bank you drive the easiest to forget, most common looking, plain colored mid-sized sedan. You don't drive an Ice Cream Truck blasting death metal.
That's the only explanation you can imagine for why a rock musician and a ufo geek might have emailed each other about the ufo program?
Incredibly moving. One of the more impactful interactive reports by the NYTimes.

There’s talk about trying to get Aung San Suu Kyi to the ICC. People complained about Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize, but all objective reports show credible allegations of true modern genocide (shocking for a word meaninglessly bandied about so often) in Kyi’s case, giving the prize a new low with a recipient going from Oslo to The Hague in no time at all.

(EDIT: The link is even more moving in fullscreen on a desktop. Excellent photography.)

(EDIT2: I'm aware of when Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize and for what. The irony of going from oppressed recipient of a NPP to oppressor standing trial in The Hague doesn't change.)
How would you determine the culprit? You can't even prove that there was an intent to roll back a particular transaction.
Let me count some scenarios:

* a miner losing its share in the competitive game could make a one last money grab before its hardware is obsolete

* BCash backing miners losing confidence in success of BCH could just damage the whole space, for revenge or and profit

* complete outsider like an angry government could try to disrupt the space to ban all crypto or at least heavily regulate it / buy some time
It looks like this app can be installed from F-Droid or directly from an apk. Signal can also be installed from an apk. It seems like you could install lineageos or something on a phone, then install those from apks.

Even with Google stuff installed, I've got myself logged into a number of devices. So I guess I'm missing how it makes it difficult/awkward to use it on more than one.
That's pretty incredible how something seemingly innocuous can have tremendous power if wielded properly. Some of the Side-channel attacks that people come up with are really outside the box and clever.
8,760 Hours: How to get the most out of next year [2016/PDF]
We are not all electrical engineers.
It's perplexing. You have different products for different market segments.

My guess is that OkCupid isn't raking in enough money compared to it's siblings, and it was given a directive: make more, or die. And right now its management is thrashing about trying to find a formula to survive.
Basically an Islamic minority being systematically executed or ejected from their homes. Thing is this has been going on for at least a decade, I remember going to a tech meetup about mesh networks that had a few Rohingya's who were about my age at the time that were going to Seattle Central College or similar.

IIRC they took some phones running Serval Mesh back, but not much else happened. They were pretty interested in building communication infrastructure so they could document the (at the time) slow moving atrocity.
Okcupid with real names is like facebook without any privacy controls. You can filter on cities, interests, languages, .. to search people. Most users have answered hundreds of personal questions and give away even more info within the essays. A lot of personal information.

You can't search people on Tinder or Bumble. There's also way less personal information on Tinder or Bumble. (I don't know Hinge.)
I'm with the Buddhists.
No, but you can show that there was an intention to double-spend coins.
There’s a good chance the commenter you replied to meant confusion with Plex the streaming media server, too.
I'm going to send your comment to the NFL (on be half of all the anti Kaeperick morons who blame him for the lower ratings). Even the British PL (football aka soccer) has a small # of adverts.
Well, try explaining for a 2nd grader the concept of nuclear weapons, and why people seem afraid of NK having them.
Fees for things like local channels and local sports are endemic now, and it seems the current stealth price increase in vogue is increased fees for mandatory equipment rental.
I quite often see objects in the sky that are unidentified to me. Whether they are unidentified to mankind is probably doubtful. I'm still new to ornithology.
It’s called bcash in hopes that too many newbies won’t go deposit bitcoin into a “bitcoin cash” address and sadly lose it all.
But you don't have to use real names[1]. This is such a non-issue, it blows my mind people are freaking out about it.

[1] https://twitter.com/okcupid/status/944255764193038343
Yes, we should respect founders who try and fail but the amount of praise for a company with such little value doesn’t make sense. This praise for the failing founder would make a lot more sense if the company was chartering new and interesting ground.
The goal is to make it simple and inexpensive. Since it supports microtransactions in the sub-cent range and is irreversible, it would beat credit cards in those regards.

The most expensive step would be opening a channel, but there is work on reducing that cost.
Last time I used it the kbfs required an Internet connection, have things changed?
Any organization/individual/government who has enough money that they aren't interested in cashing out and is also interested in medium/large scale economic disruption.

China, Russia, UAE, USA, sci-fi terrorists, evil villains, illuminati etc. (I'm only mostly joking)
Didn't Apple shut down their .me or whatever it was called services some time ago (and AFAIK that was even a paid service)? What happened to the websites, blogs, emails, etc that were hosted by them?
tl,dr: No arguments about the main point.
Yes, I've used minimega to run a bunch of Harvey VMs for experimental use. https://github.com/Harvey-OS/harvey/wiki/Using-minimega-to-r...
I've always felt that dating websites dig into our personal data on a different level than social media platforms. This seems like it might be the next step in that evolution, to really drill into us, and encourage our privacy erosion.
This is why I dislike it when people say "Bitcoin has a first-mover advantage". This is like saying Neils Bohr had the first-mover advantage when it came to Quantum Mechanics. Bitcoin is the Bohr model of blockchains. It was a huge first step, but it's not the last step.

We have yet to see Schrodinger's blockchain, and all of the altcoins claim they are it.
Nice read, thanks.
From the WaPo article I linked above:

> When federal dollars are included, just five states are spending less in their poorest districts than in their wealthiest. Nationwide, the average disparity drops from 15 percent to less than 2 percent
To clarify, the P in P-type stands for positive free charge. Phosphorous is actually an N-type dopant in Silicon, where the N is for negative free charge.
It sounds like you're joking, but you aren't!

It'd kind of beautiful, actually.

https://vitalvegas.com/excavators-hit-mother-lode-wtf-las-ve...

It makes me wonder what it will look like when they tear down the building storing old Star Trek: The Experience junk. The UFO conspiracy theorists are going to have a great time with those photo.
take a look at any bitcoin price chart and draw out 3 days? if you're thinking that 266k/day dump is going to move the market, it's not.
Not sure if you’re being facetious or maybe english isn’t your first language, but I’m trying to give people the benefit of the doubt over the holidays, so here you go: his employer took away his current show, stopped playing reruns of Prairie Home Companion, which had been on the air for decades, and renamed the current version (it has had a new host for a couple of years). So far all we know is his story that he accidentally touched a woman’s back under her shirt while consoling her, apologized, apologized again via email, had apology acknowledged and accepted.

While an employer may punish an employee by firing them and destroying their legacy as they see fit, they thankfully can not put anyone behind bars. Obviously nothing has gone to trial, and the accuser hasn’t even spoken to the media.
Yes it would. This article is surprisingly ignorant of past discussion of the %51 attack.
> if you listened hard enough

_that_ is the key. If The Fourth Estate is doing their job you shouldn't have to turn down the MSM noise to hear The Truth. Facts should be the majority not some passing fringe moment.

And don't forget Bush's follow up lie "Mission Accomplished" wasn't scrutinized as it should have been.
Very helpful. The new Noscript is a huge departure and the lack of text for icons makes it much harder to learn it transition
BTW, I was on partial financial aid from Caltech. They fronted me a loan, which I paid back after graduation. I'm sure they would have provided a full ride if my father couldn't pay anything.
Can you share your complete code? Having trouble with the launch.py step.
Cryptsy was a middleman, he specifically covered this case. Bitcoin never got hacked.
If double-spend detection rather than prevention was enough, you could build a much cheaper and more efficient payment system than Bitcoin.

What makes Bitcoin interesting is the fact that you don't have to resort to the legal system for final arbitration.
>If Reid was looking for a quid-pro-quo, he would be working with the Mega Resorts on the strip (MGM, Caesars, and even Republican Steve Wynn). His decisions could massively benefit them, and sitting as an honorary member of their board could be profitable.

Are honorary board members paid?
When kings fight, princes rise.