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> why not do it?

I just watched a Twitch stream, two gamers casting Starcraft 2 games. Each time they got a donation - the main source of income of many streamers on Twitch - they were very very nice to the person making the donation.

I sure see the need and that that is what they have to do, but the whole thing is cringeworthy. There are two scenarios here for someone being nice to other people:

- They are nice because they feel like being nice

- They get a reward - they get paid

At least to me which one feels natural and nice and which one feels like an abomination and awkward and unnatural is quite clear.

The whole concept of "reward", of getting "paid" (does not have to be money), sure has taken off. There have even be suggestions to pay kids to go to school.

But mostly, I already made my points so I refer back to my original comment in response, have we come full circle?

If you rely on outside rewards it is not the same result at all. If you are nice because you are paid instead of because you are a nice person and like the other person, or if you read because you get a reward instead of because you want to read, I claim that this is not the same outcome by a long shot.
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If someone else said this already please forgive me. The worst ads are the one with a phony close X. You click it and you are driven to the webpage anyway. It seems to me you could test for this.
This is very good advice.

I would change the last point to: Don't work overtime unless you, personally, get something out of it. That something might be not getting fired. But if it doesn't get you anything... Don't do it.
Even if it is, eventually it won't be as profitable. Inefficient markets will quickly become efficient as equilibrium is reached. There is no free lunch.
> Via IQ tests?

Just the fact that you recognize an IQ test as such, allows me to mark you as intelligent. Very objective. The actual score, sure that is much more subjective.

> when I use a neural network instead of a table

That really depends on the degrees of freedom. Which are unlimited for IQ tests. First I could change things that have nothing to do with the test itself. Like reverse the A, B, C, D order, or put them on the left. Or simply device a never seen before kind of test, instead varying only the geometric shapes.
>It does have legitimate use cases transferring value digitally being the primary case

I am not convinced that what is being transferred here is value. It's transferring data, but I am not convinced that it is valuable. If it was out only option, then I guess I'd see the value in that, but in the current landscape, I'm not convinced that it is an efficient and sensible way of doing what it is trying to do.

>also providing means to accept digital payments with little to no fees.

Fees are variable. In real world volume (which it can't touch or sustain yet), the network cannot sustain the volume and the fees are exorbitant. I know, you'll say "it will get better, infancy" etc. but I'm not convinced. I don't see the value of decentralisation here so the overhead looks massive to me. And in the end, if bitcoin takes off as a successful alternative for high volume low fee transactions, the centralised industry can compete and they have the upper hand: Centralised version has orders of magnitude less overhead so they can make the fees cheaper than BTC always if it came to that. So that advantage is moot.

>Also you invest in whatever your countries currency is via time, so buying BTC with fiat is no different.

No, it is different. When I earn money, I intend to use it or invest it. I don't see my money as an investment which will appreciate in value if I "hodl" it. Money itself is not an investment. You invest with it.

>Deflationary currencies also don’t contribute anymore to hoarding than high savings rates.

[Citation needed.] Deflation literally is economic crisis where people hoard and refuse to spend which brings economy to a halt. Central banks use their policy to encourage people to spend. Deflation is our "crisis" state.

>Bitcoins main issue here is that it’s not a country’s main currency.

It is an issue but IMO it is quite a bit far from being the main issue. Bitcoin is technologically incapable of being any country's currency right now, the throughput alone is not even close to enough.
I have to steal that one - rings very true, i feel
> That's orthogonal. What you propose translates to that while the law is not changed (which can take decades in some cases) we should let people suffer rather than "skip technicalities" when we can.

You misunderstand me. I am saying if the law is wrong, she should win (and so should everyone else, every time, while the law is wrong). I am also saying if the law is wrong, it should change or be struck down. I am not saying she should lose until the law is changed.
We really, really don’t need Coalitions, Committees and other crap to tell us what ads are acceptable. This stuff is so straightforward that it’s mind-boggling we are still debating it:

1. Don’t be annoying: NO sound, NO video, NO auto-anything, NO flashy animation, NO obnoxious bright colors. What is so wrong with the discreet images and text that newspapers and magazines have used since forever?

2. Don’t disrespect me: NO treating my data plan as an infinite well for downloading crap, NO ad networks that can’t be bothered to have proper security, NO obscenely-complex tracking scripts, and NO trickery to make me click (pop-anything, delayed loading, etc.).
You are ignoring political risk eg in 15 years that state government changes the rules and sequesters the money - this actually happened in the UK to the SERP pension I lost mine for a small uplift in the state pension when they changed the rules.

You also ignoring the time value of money 100 million to day is worth more than 10 million for 10 years
This is a very good, professional response.
> So moral of the story is to never sign your ticket.

But doesn't this mean if someone can assault you and steal the ticket they can claim it themselves? Sounds like both have risks :/
> just doesn't seem like fun time to be dating

That's an understatement: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/soloish/wp/2018/02/12/it...
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You nailed it. People don't get promoted for leading pedestrian projects, they get promoted for leading challenging, innovative, groundbreaking projects.
That may be so. But it is also illegal to piss at the end of the platform in the NYC subway.
Emacs (other text editors are also available).

The great thing about software (and I definitely do include interactive/UIish stuff here...) is that the barrier to entry is pretty low. No need to do anything special just because you’re “prototyping”.
As a Marine he was always my favorite Marine. (Even over Chesty) He straight up confronted an attempted facist coup! (The business plot for anyone interested)
lol, identity politics is almost the opposite of neo-Marxist class warfare. In fact very wealthy people love identity politics (over issues such as poverty, homelessness, taxes, government) because it doesn't threaten their way of life. Why do you think some of the most esteemed universities are so focused on it? Because it's just the right amount of palatable for wealthy people, without making them feel bad about themselves; they'll never voluntary relinquish their wealth, but sure they'll learn your pronouns
Wonder how much is brand recognition, and how much is the promise of firmware updates...
I can't really tell from your comment history if you're from the US or EU, but I'm going to guess the US.

Your view on what should be platform's rights, kind of implies there is supposed to be as little regulation as possible.

And the problem with that view is, if you ask people why they are still using FB, given the knowledge of what they do with user data and privacy, the most heard excuse is that they feel they have little choice to use an alternative!

If you add to that the consideration that it is in the very nature of social network effect that this choice will be diminished to a singular monopoly (a social network is not very useful if your friends/family aren't on it), then you have to admit that the power in "people's right to not use a platform" is absolutely miniscule compared to your desired "platforms right to do what they want".

And it is that very imbalance, what regulations are intended to solve (or at least push somewhat towards fairness).
Judges that aren't on specialized tribunals aren't expected to, and mostly don't, know the law (because it's quite impossible) - they rely on the Barristers to inform them, then get their clerks to do some digging to see if the briefs are on point. The higher up you go in the chain, the more clerk time they have to research and the more control they have over how long they take to put out their ruling.

Junior judges are more reticent to rock the boat - they have less resources, less understanding of how the judicial boards and other oversight mechanisms work, etc. Old greybeards generally stop caring - either about bothering to change things or about how 'safe' their ruling will be on appeal. The most active in tossing bad precedent out the window generally end up being the ones that get appointed to higher ranking courts.
It's fair to say computer's of today can turn off as well as the computers of the 90s.
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Kind of feel like we already know that brains can do general purpose computation...
It depends.

I watch plenty of maker/electronic/mechanic channels on YouTube and having them recommend a product to me would definitely be more effective than putting an ad on social media or between videos.
Where are all the Microsoft (and Symbian) fans saying how if Nokia adopts Android instead of Windows Phones it will fail badly...? (oh, the irony)

It's still very early days for Nokia's rebirth, but just imagine if they had only switched to Android back in 2009/2010 when Nokia still had double Samsung's market share in all phones, and its brand meant a lot more than it does today, even if it's still quite not forgotten.
Ooh, that sounds really handy! I've been using Arch with ramroot[0] on my USB for this purpose, although it takes a minute or two to transfer everything to RAM.

[0] https://github.com/arcmags/ramroot
The major problem with the email-patches workflow is that it is a pretty poor experience for the new and occasional contributor, who will generally find that their email client makes a complete pig's ear of their patch. What I'd really like to see is a web UI that seamlessly interacted with the trad email workflow, so people who prefer a web UI and especially people who are just making a single drive-by contribution could work that way without having to start by setting up git-send-email. You could also make the web interface keep track of which patches are still unreviewed so things drop through the cracks less often...
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Didn't knew that Nokia still sells smartphones :O

EDIT: added the still
We should ask our judges not to legislate from the bench by giving narrowly construed decisions contrary to the written law that apply to nobody else. Either every lottery winner in the state is legally right to remain anonymous and collect (be it via changing to a trust whilst remaining anonymous or however) or every one is not. This is not some extreme example and I can definitely see this coming up again.
I was waiting for something like this to happen ever since the whole hashtag started rolling...
It’s not fair to apply one era’s standards to people from another era, but it is fair to hold people accountable for shitty culture that was recognized as such at the time. For example, Loving v. Virginia was decided in 1968, at a time when 70% of people disapproved of interracial marriage, and half thought it should be illegal. There is nothing wrong with judging those people for failing to meet a moral standard that was recognied, even if only by an enlightened minority. Morality is not decided by popular vote.

As for Atari:

> Holding board meetings in hot tubs, asking a secretary to get in with them. Doling out “the best-looking secretaries” like prizes to the star employees. Code-naming the home version of Pong after a female employee whom Bushnell said in 2012 “was stacked and had the tiniest waist.” Making a 1973 game called Gotcha, with joysticks replaced by a pair of pink silicone domes, meant to look and feel like breasts.

Even in the 1970s, people knew this was wrong.
Note that Firefox' autoplay blocker breaks some video sites because the Javascript assumes the video is playing when it really isn't. However, with Firefox, videos never autoplay. Chrome's autoplay does not always work, but it doesn't seem to break sites.

I can't seem to find the issue, but in the Safari issue tracker, the point was made that given the way HTML5 video and APIs work, it is impossible to reliably prevent autoplay without breaking some sites. It seems that Firefox went for "reliably prevent autoplay" while Chrome went for "without breaking sites".

FWIW, I switched from Chrome to Firefox because of the autoplay issue.
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There isn’t an INTRINSIC conflict of interest. The ideal is fewer, more expensive ads with higher conversion rates. Is there a stable operating point, though?
Self-driven children are the next logical step after self-driving cars.
Well there another addition to my hosts file. Being redirected to 0.0.0.0.
Huh? You could still have all those benefits if you took the lump sum. Just put it in index funds and extract as needed. Stocks deemed too risky? Put it in bonds. It will still be better than the pathetic interest rate offered by the lottery's annuity.
Removed my comment because I think it was insensitive. The point I am trying to get across is that some people enjoyed working there but that doesn't change that some did not and just because some did doesn't make it a healthy work environment.
I am sorry you got downvoted. I have been to Bakersfield. I absolutely consider it undesirable.

I don't know if you realize it, but oil is, in fact, a big part of the economy in Bakersfield. And air quality is terrible because of it.

https://www.bing.com/search?q=bakersfield+economy+oil&FORM=E...
Didn't love it :).

Seems like the initial list of complaints he's responding to are chosen to be the most superficial (and easily argued against) ones.

And things like this:

"these self-assured statements are being made by Americans who spend an AVERAGE of 5 hours per day watching television,"

Again, seems like he wants to create the weakest possible version of those he's debating against. It's irrelevant to the argument.

In articles like this, I'd prefer to see the author present the strongest possible case for the other side of the debate, and then argue against _that_. It doesn't make me want to examine his counterpoints very deeply if he's manipulating the argument by positioning the other side as foolish or easily disproven.
I think that's reasonable and would not be surprised if the judge says that the harm placed on the individual by the state just for participating is too large, legally. But I would also not be surprised if public's right to know trumps all.
Of course! We're huge believers in creating a transparent platform that talks about models at a high-level for general understanding, but also want to make sure we include and cite the relevant original source code, and applicable research papers backing the model.

We're not trying to build something black box, or tied to proprietary infrastructure/APIs that'll cost you money. The models are free for you to use, download, and extend, according to their respective license. You can deploy the model on your own servers and use it as many times as you like, without paying a single cent. You can further fine-tune/transfer learn the model for your specific deployment, if the out of the box model doesn't work exactly how you'd like.

We're both trying to empower engineers with Machine Learning, we just hope to accomplish that through making it transparent and free to use, so that they're extensible and flexible for whatever use case you need. Along the way we also hope that the developers can learn a bit of ML as well, so they can better leverage the models for their use case!
That's some interesting insight. We trialled £7 per user per month for https://usebx.com, but found our corporate clients were our main income source (paying >£500 per month for customised deployments). We've recently decided that we'll try offering the hosted service for free to single users in the hope that it attracts more corporate customers. Pricing really is an art that I didn't give much consideration to before I started trying to run a SaaS! Glad you are finding your optimal pricing structure... I feel we still have a long way to go yet!
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I don't understand -- you already are allowed to form an anonymous trust. That's not the issue.
My next phone will be a Nokia, having exclusively bought Nexus devices since the Galaxy Nexus.

Google's last few phones have been plagued with problems, and them withholding software from their niche hardcore fans was the last straw.

If only Nokia had got in on the Android action earlier and realised that Symbian/Ovi wasn't up to it.
> For sites like the author of that article creates though, which are often described as "brochure websites", those tools simply aren't needed, and yet there is conforming pressure within the community that pushes developers to make sites like that using the new tools, which is overkill and can turn something simple into something complex.

I understand what you're saying, but the bottom line is that "the conforming pressure" is illusory. At the end of the day the engineering team must deliver a product that works to specification and is not difficult to maintain, that is the only real pressure, there is no rational justification for choosing a tool that is less likely to accomplish that goal when a suitable one already exists. If someone is in charge of building a "brochure website" and they select a complicated SPA pipeline with many build steps as the solution then they are objectively doing the wrong thing and that's the end of the story, nothing in that scenario reflects on any aspect of the actual tools.

> You can't pretend that people conform to social pressures.

I don't, but those people are the problem, not the tool.
I don't think the parent was talking about writing bad code. I think he/she was saying not to stress about writing good code too much. Those are different things.
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Please read the conclusion of the article. According to the author, the problem isn't the Atari culture of the 70's, it's the culture of today that celebrates perceived misogyny there instead of its inclusiveness.

"If it isn’t the women of Atari who paint a bad picture of Nolan Bushnell, it’s the culture he created there that, decades later, has mushroomed into something else. It’s a culture where bragging about “stacked” secretaries as late as 2012 garnishes Atari’s mythos instead of muddying it. It’s a culture where Carol Kantor’s groundbreaking research isn’t evoked as often as a hot tub purchased to lure in new talent. It’s a culture that, today, celebrates the sexiness of Atari’s early women employees more loudly than their contributions. If it isn’t the women of Atari who paint a bad picture of Nolan Bushnell, it is his braggadocio attitude, his carnival-barker hype with a chauvinist tinge, that does."
Emotional detachment. During the low moments, remember that it's just a job and, as long as I'm being paid, I shouldn't care too much about all the bad shit that's going on around me.
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...what young people always do to their elders but once the shoe is on the other foot you'll realize the wisdom of all that outdated advice.

Nope.

My experience as a parent is that I have gone down the path towards intentionally deciding what philosophy I wish my children raised by. Random advice based on what others did is usually inapplicable. It is like receiving advice on discipline from someone who spanked their children. There is no point in even trying to explain to them why you think that what they did is wrong.

If I happen to get advice that fits, then great. I'll take ideas from anywhere. But I strongly doubt that I'll regret my choice to teach children what it looks like for them to be treated with respect, or to decide that it would have been wise to do all of the standard things that the previous generation did that left children without that.
Must be that Finnish Sisu[1] at work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisu
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His comment while accurate was probably a bit dramatized for effect.

My guess is he is a consultant hired to do a typical project (i.e., help me move X into the cloud, help me re-architect our data model for big data, help me implement AI for our dog walking app) and at that point he just shows them they aren't ready for it or flat out don't need it.

It's just my guess, but it's what consultants do. The bad ones are happy to take on your project and charge you $400 bucks an hour. The good ones unfortunately, deal with the dilemma of turning down lucrative work in the spirit of doing what's right.
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If you have labeled data (meaning that you know where proper splits need to be made) it's quite easy to build a DP based classifier that minimizes the error over training set.

For example, if you were building a model that spits out 0 for no split, and 1 for split, you can easily make a simple cost sensitive linear model that takes into account previous decisions (something like HMM).

Viterbi algorithm would be the DP step.

For some, to me unknown, reason CNN performs well if not better than DP based HMM.
Myspace was pretty much dead the moment facebook arrived. It's true that companies like Facebook can be replaced, but they almost never coexist or directly compete. Chat services usually split geographically. Wechat in China, Whatsapp outside of the US, snapchat in the US.

Anecdotally I know very few people who simultaneously use multiple messenger apps or switch around a lot. (For the reason outlined in the post before, you lose your network).
You're right, my comment was better aimed farther up-thread than yours. I wasn't attempting to police the direction, just note that the tangent started with little explanation and possibly some misinterpretation.
This is spreading like a plague in Europe as well.
Not bad for a dead company. Uplifting :)
That is an awesome question, we haven't found any yet but are actively looking! We'll let you know if we find some good ones :)
I bought Nokia 3 when it came out because I needed a new phone and I just need a basic phone. I didn't do any deep feature comparison but I like it.

1. It's solid Android phone.

2. It's vanilla Android with frequent updates. No crapware and up to date.
> You also ignoring the time value of money 100 million to day is worth more than 10 million for 10 years

The "now" and "later" lottery payment options do not offer equal nominal amounts, so it doesn't make sense to just say "you're ignoring the time value of money". The regular payment pays out more nominal money because of the time value of money. You could argue that they're getting it wrong, but that's a radically different argument.