skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> having a centralized company handle it and take a cut is not the way to go about it

Any suggestions, given the "tipjar" model doesn't seem to cut it (as per the article)?

Personally, I like it (especially as a consumer). One bill per month for as many artists I want to support on the platform, one location to look up updates, and emails only when the artist themselves posts something (and the monthly bill). I imagine that, as an artist, losing that 5% cut is fine for not having to deal with CC fees, chargebacks, account transfers, and so forth.

I dont' find the emails I receive via Patreon onerous, myself. Especially when I'm explicitly supporting the artists triggering the emails. Perhaps I'm just supporting fewer artists, or clicked the right account boxes.
Well in some cases it really is more efficient.

[func(x) if x in collection if cond(x)]

makes a single pass over the data and gives you a list, but

list(map(func, filter(cond, collection)))

makes two passes and requires some extra function calls.

I think the real reason is perceived legibility on the part of the Python core devs. I seem to recall a document from a while ago in which GvR himself came out in favor of list comprehension style. "Explicit is better than implicit".
Would you? Would you like them to detain you unjustly for your entire life for example?
Personally, I'd prefer the state to act within the bounds of Justice.
I think that they are using Bigfoot. Personally I prefer the jQuery-less version littlefoot.
A lot of companies could learn something about packaging from this. Expensive items should come in expensive boxes. Apple has known this for a long time. Cheap packaging leaves the impression that the item within is cheap, which, in turn, leads to dissatisfaction with the purchase. Good packaging has such high return for a relatively small investment.

Edit: Let me clarify that I don't think this is a logical practice, just that from a business perspective it makes sense.

Edit: I am told this packaging is limited to the review chips. I stand by what I said though.
Please note that if the price of these potentially acquirable companies fall, the value of Apple and its cash hoard will fall along with them. Apple doesn't exist within a vacuum.
"Many American citizens have a criminal record for the crime of being an American citizen."

It's better to have the tone of people owning up to their actions and then moving forward rather than saying the US is just giving out criminal records like candy and it's not anybody's fault.
I think decent paper ballots combined with machine counting, combined with voter ID verification (yes, I went there), combined with some kind of reliability program for poll workers would be a full spectrum kind of solution. It's not one thing that is breaking down here, it's several.

We saw with the Wisconsin recounts that only a couple cities had questionable issues and not enough to change the outcome (this time).

We saw in Michigan and Pennsylvania recounts that something more troubling was going on with Detroit and Philly and the real truth got hidden from public view when the recounts were abruptly ended in those places. I think there was evidence for fraud in certain Detroit precincts, but since that fraud involved Democrats, the media was silent on the issue. It got swept under the rug very fast.

I bet if we look harder we find fraud in Dade County, the state of Nevada, the state of Colorado, and also likely Arizona. Lastly, if we are going to be completely honest, California is allowing illegal immigrants vote in large numbers. Mind you, I'm not anti-Democrat, I'm just anti-fraud.

Verifying ID is a huge step towards ending most of the problems we have. The rest is stopping ballot stuffing and corrupt poll workers tossing out ballots.
> need to turn it off separately for each person you support

This doesn't seem unreasonable, particularly since many offer early access to content, and these emails are the gateway to that content.
You're completely right. There's also a predictable syllable stress pattern. I taught a friend once to read Polish out loud fluently without understanding it.
I've run into the same thing. Someone I'd been following launched a Patreon, and I really wanted to support them, but I'm uncomfortable about the monthly subscriptions. (One part of my thought process - I don't want to offend them if I unsubscribe/cancel at a later date, and maybe they're counting on that recurring money for their income.)

Fortunately, that person followed up by launching a Kindle book, and then a paid email series, so I've now sent them far more money than I would have as just a Patreon contributor (approx 3yrs worth so far). Maybe it's best if Patreon is just one of many revenue streams people offer.
well, sure, it's not uncommon even for ppl who speak the same language and use the same letters to pronounce things differently.

the point is I don't think Latin vs Cyrillic in Poland's case was driven by Polish language phonetics per se. I would venture to guess this had more to do with political/religious affiliations etc.
As for (ii): I’m not exactly high-rep with 1.9K rep, but that is pretty accurate. The rep-mining that went on in the beginning and the resulting atrocious quality turned me off completely from SO Documentation. I don’t answer much, but if I do I put in a quite some effort to provide a well-thought out answer and with Documentation it seemed like that was not appreciated or wanted anymore. I don’t really care for the rep, but I was slightly pissed off that you could get massive gains on the main SO site by posting absolute garbage on Documentation, because for me that felt like SO had jumped the shark.
The Estonian method is too complex to be easily proved to be secure. You have to play a cat-and-mouse game ad infinitum to keep up its integrity. Simpler systems are less costly over the short and long term, and more secure by default.
How strong a rule is this? Or is it regional?

http://buscon.rae.es/dpd/srv/search?id=BapzSnotjD6n0vZiTp is from the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas, 2005. It shows several examples of accented capital letters, like LA NACIÓN in the headline of a newspaper, and the phrase "ESTÁ PROHIBIDO FUMAR DENTRO DE LAS DEPENDENCIAS DE LA EMPRESA."

That said, La Nación itself doesn't use accents when capitalized. On the other hand, you can see "EL PAÍS" several times at https://elpais.com/ . On the third hand, the El País in Uruguay doesn't use the accent http://www.elpais.com.uy/ . But it does uses ALCANZÓ in a headline http://a2010.kiosko.net/02/06/uy/uy_elpais.750.jpg .

http://procedimientospolicialesargentina.blogspot.de/2016/04... has an interesting mix with the blog title "DIA DE LA POLICIA DE LA NACION ARGENTINA" and a poster image saying "DIÁ NACIONAL DEL POLICÍA".
Places to promote your software company
"Your view of Apple laptops seems to represent only a small segment of the market. While Apple was on the rise, they were still only 3rd behind Dell and HP in market share by 2007 [0] and are roughly 5th over the last few years [1]. They presumably look better on a revenue rather than units basis, but they were never the sort of singular force you described them as."

Yes, that's correct - which is exactly how we are looking at Tesla.

I have no idea what laptops low end, price constrained buyers bought (and continue to buy).

This is a good analogy to Tesla cars which are also priced out of that category.

I am in the market for a very high end, full sized luxury car and I am troubled that by some measures there is only one supplier of those, currently. This is coming from someone who owned two successive A8s over an 8 year period and has lost all interest in that, and any other market entrant, based on an ICE. My current interest level in new press releases for A8/7/S feels exactly like how I suddenly felt in 2004 or so when news of new laptop models suddenly failed to register even a blip.
Many open-source projects simply don't have the resources to adequately test their products or provide support. Contrast this with a large company which has the resources and the willpower to provide support for their software. Often the best of both worlds is a large company/organization that dedicates its resources to an open-source product, but that's not always the case.

But this issue is never as black and white as "open-source is more secure." There are many other factors that go into the security of a product beyond its source code being readable. Deciding which factors matter largely depends upon your unique threat model.
Or... you can do all of that in a 4-line loop, without any of the harm to readability or additional code-bloat that's especially important for websites.
+1. This is a delightfully concise version of what my wife and I did.
Rust uses a similar (but significantly weaker) system called "affine types" underlying its borrow checker.
> Maybe? Electric cars existed before TSLA and electric cars will exist after TSLA.

Go watch "Who killed the electric car", then you'll understand what a travesty the EV1 was. Electric cars have always been compliance cars before Tesla. Heck, Bob Lutz credits Elon Musk with why they build the Volt.
Not OP, but I've occaisionally found that it's very hard to send messages between my own machines, because most platforms are based on users - not machines.

I can message my wife from my phone to her phone, but I can't message myself from my phone to my PC. At least, with most messaging programs.
People misunderstand corporate debt because they analogize it to household debt but the analogy doesn't work because most household spending is consumption whereas most business spending is investment.

When a business makes $1 of profit, it's that business saying "we couldn't find a single project across our entire organization that we believe would have given us a higher expected return than that dollar sitting in a bank account."
This seems like a problem that requires multiple approaches to fix. Since the election, I've been thinking that a system with these features would be ideal

1. Electronic machines powered by OSS
- Provides fast counting, and potentially better UX in scenarios with large number of items to vote on
- Ability for the public to review the code
2. Machines print copy of ballot that voter can verify before being placed in a secure ballot box
- Provides auditable backup record
3. Machines give the option to print a second copy of the ballot with a unique code. This code can be used to verify selections later via some kind of online interface.
- Gives the user one more check on ballot integrity
- Allows voter to keep voting record anonymous if they choose

I think this would balance pros/cons of pure paper vs. electronic voting systems
That's why I think our current cryptocurrencies will just get destroyed by government centralized (that is, no block-chain) crypto-money attached to each of their currencies.

But well, governments won't move fast.
Or, maybe, there's a legit good or bad reason that he is unreachable? But let's just jump to the conclusion that he was blackbagged and in a CIA black site.
There remains no evidence of this happening, despite countless leaks from the intelligence communities of all involved countries. The members of Five Eyes, formerly BRUSA, explicitly don't spy on each other according to the agreement. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-24715168
How did I get my first 100 users?
Also, you can't just stuff a ballot box--the number of people voting has to match the count of registered voters, so if you are stuffing you have the problem of also dealing with somehow getting rid of the legitimate ballots.
Why in heaven's name did he travel to the US?
There are ways to build anonymous but auditable voting schemes.

Same goes with money, these things called crypto currencies are digital money offering various levels of anonymity.
Only if recruited is a euphemism for the LEO version of "given an offer he can't refuse".
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That's a fair point. However, alimony can most certainly extend beyond the age of majority for the kids, and marital property is usually divided in such a way as to compensate a woman for taking time off to raise kids. Social Security also allows divorced women to partially receive benefits based on their ex-husband's income, even income earned after the end of the marriage.

Regarding my lack of faith in the HN community, I like your attitude, and I also take downvoting seriously. Unfortunately empirically the comment was downvoted, so obviously not everyone agrees with us. It's become politically (both here and elsewhere) unacceptable to have a belief that perhaps being a woman in America isn't so bad. I think it's worthwhile to have this discussion, but I'm not interested in having my head put on a pike for it.
"Sure, no, they could, no, software term, if you want to, independence, because of how the software works, see previous, for any that support them, because that's what it's valued at right now.

Any other easily-googlable questions? :)"
The sold listing is interesting because of the price on it. I worked for a company that was founded to make electronic nav equipment for sailboat use in 1979, and the 'test bed' cost close to $100K, a 39' Ericson. The listing shows $54K. I checked out comparable Ericson's and they are in the same range.
When I was on the other side of the coin, I was working for a particular company. A significantly older guy, like really freaking old, showed up in the cubicle one day, a contractor. I was pretty much the gang leader and instigator of any crimes in the nearby vicinity. So when we were going out to lunch, I dropped by and asked if he wanted to tag along. He thought for a second and said sure.

He had the best stories. He was a sailor and had raced the Boston Bermuda race. He had a lifetime winning streak over William F Buckley. He taught celestial navigation. He'd been a dresser for Rudolph Nureyev. Absolutely the best stories.

He was dead 6 months later from prostate cancer he already had. One of the most outstanding characters I've ever met in the Valley.
I can confirm that christina_b is correct and sbarre can rest easy knowing that nobody is being defamed.
Will the GigaFactory operate on weekends ? 1400~ car per day .. I'd love to see that on video.
If you can vote online, and on paper, and the paper one always trumps the electronic one, then a fraudulent party would just fake the paper ballots and send them in for everyone in the country. Everyone who depended on the electronic vote would then no longer control their vote.
Effectively turning an asynchronous conversation (e.g. email) into a synchronous one (e.g. phone call).
One of the most important implications being that with services like this, creating content that a few people love is now as viable as creating content that many people like.
Does your bank account, credit card, etc. count as digital money? Your account balance is just bits somewhere.
The thing is sometimes you find something helpful, but don't think they are exactly an artist. I'm slightly ashamed that I couldn't figure out how to put the batteries in the Amazon wand they'd sent me, a quick search and a YouTube video showed me what the instructions missing hadn't, tug it forcefully.

That kind of thing isn't useful enough for patronage. But it would be nice to be able to throw a nice little tip.
mixing them with other coins doesnt crush all hopes of traceability. Swapping them for other coins may help hide the link, but just adding them to a wallet with other coins will taint the other coins rather than clean the stolen ones.

In your example the stolen coins are in wallet X and Y and using the blockchain we can determine exactly how much in each wallet comes from the stolen coin.

A true mixing service takes the coins into a wallet and sends you coins that are from another wallet that has never had any contact with the coins you sent in. This is what breaks the chain you can trace.

Altcoin exchanges let you clean your coins by using an altcoin as the mixer. Essentially you send BTC to an exchange, buy an altcoin, transfer altcoin to another exchange, buty bitcoin. You now have much harder to trace bitcoin.
That's total out and out bullshit and I'm surprised anyone dared post that on here. We're intelligent people you know and the "Muh Russia" narrative is not only dead, it is also buried. It was an out and out lie that only got traction due to the media being completely partisan and focused on creating outcomes instead of doing their job which is to objectively report on current events.
For the kinds of videos that I find most helpful and am willing to pay for (eg, how to fix my broken whatever), I imagine the creators would get a steady stream of one-time donations, as various people's $whatever broke, and they found the video. As of now, they get nothing, which has to be worse.
Yeah, it's not possible (or perhaps just a really, really bad idea) to do "always on" oncall with that kind of SLA. Either people will be constantly missing it, or you'll burn them out really fast. The SRE book talks about this, I think, in terms of the minimum number of people and distributed offices you need in order to do a robust oncall rotation.
And as you add more manpower to your attempt to defraud a paper-ballot election, you increase the number of co-conspirators. As you add co-conspirators, the likelihood of being undetected drops dramatically.
http://offpeak.io/all-cities url broken to Istanbul

Also, this site should definitely add Tbilisi, Georgia
Every consumer who doesn't use credit cards also bears the fees since it is rare to find a merchant that offers a "cash discount".
A tiny bit of model checking never hurt I guess.
I am fully on board with tackling the social issues that prevent equalizing education. I guess my hope is that a spread of smarter kids will find a solution, when we've spent the last 2,000 years failing to find solutions to unequal classes.

So basically deus ex machina :P
He is not a US citizen -- do those rights extend to him? (no snark, I don't know)
Are you looking for something for free or open source?
Is it fraud if you declare a wrong birthday on your bank account? Don't they get that information from your documents, instead of relying on you to answer it?
I would feel pretty let down if this thing showed up in what looks like a totally pointless Pelican case. Plastic waste is a huge problem. This type of behavior is not part of the solution.
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One thing that I think is overlooked with digital is the ease of it being replicated and backed up. Paper ballots can be destroyed.

I really like the systems where there is an original easy to use paper ballot, that gets fed into a scanner for immediate counting with the ballot being stored securely in a box below the machine. It seems that the ballot could also have a scanned image stored for posterity.

At that point all the digital information can be immediately backed-up, replicated, and so on. It seems like it's the best of both worlds...
Those of us that don't live in metropolitan areas are happy to distribute the costs.
Fast Good Cheap. Choose two.
I would add nautil.us to that list. But yeah, that's essentially the entirety of what's worth reading online in terms of traditional "news".
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Corporation caught in a scandal over censoring political speech against the right?

Better have the The Verge write a puff piece on them.
I suspect they have plans to make this into some form of browser feature, if it's successful and they make good experiences. It is a task people normally use websites for, and in the past that was enough justification for Mozilla to turn something into a browser feature.
That's idiotic, securities do not spontaneously split on their own. In a split, agents agree upon how it should be carried out, specifically to avoid this problem.
We have updated our list of online services where you can list and promote your software company and now list over 300 services where you can promote your software company or startup.

We also now include over 70 software marketplaces and app stores .. great places to find a new audience for your software.

Let me know if you have any questions and if you know of any great services to add to this list.
He ran a carding forum in the past, malkit.ws and then malkit.su.

Virustotal passive DNS shows that it was hosted for a time on the same server as his old irc, irc.voidptr.cz

https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-address/188.190.99.148/info...
The trend of wanting to give every citizen random ids tied to their identity is very scary. Also 'WE" won't give anyone anything. It will be a registration with a government agency that will eventually lead to their rights being violated by the govenrment at some point in the future. Why is it people want to do the government's job of infringing on rights with some faux altruistic intent.
Many, many countries are brutal, totalitarian dictatorships. Doesn't mean we have an excuse to sink to their level.

I couldn't imagine this story coming from, say, Germany or Sweden.
Heads up the the author: The Reddit and HN links in the timeline are switched :)
Do you mean this? http://orgmode.org/

Can you track time with it?
The real intrigue for me is the 1900X which is 8-core similar to 1800X, 1700X and 1700. I understand the 1900X will use the ThreadRipper MoBo, giving it access to 60 pci-express lanes. What could be the best use of this say compared to the X370 Mobo and its 16-something pci-express lanes ?
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AMD has always done pretty good on packaging, relative to intel for their retail packages. I remember my prior FX-8350 came in a metal tin.. of course it couldn't be reused (because of the opening to see the cpu), which is the only real shame.

On the flips side, the special edition packaging for Overwatch was so extreme, it just felt really wasteful, as I had no intention of keeping the russian doll boxes in boxes.

I think there's room for something in the middle.
People use cash as a shorthand but it's not literally dead cash sitting in a bank account. That $250B is sitting in index funds and T bills where it's indirectly funding all of those businesses that are investing in sustainable housing and improved appliances and a billion other things.

Apple just believes those companies have a better shot at accomplishing those goals than Apple does and it's fine letting them continue.
If it doesn't have to be really fast, you can simply binary search fetching no more than 29 lines from the file. Or you can interpolate the expected location of the hash and read a block around that location. This could get you down to reading only one or two disk blocks if the actual position is never more than half a disk block away from the interpolated position. It could be more but given that we are dealing with cryptographic hashes I would expect the interpolated position to never be too far away from the actual position.
I wish I had seen this comment before wasting 20 minutes of my life reading the real thing.
??? Google's been doing this at scale for a while.
The license to for such illegal actions became legal after 9/11. This is nothing new. Police abductions happen in the pretty USA too.
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You want Patreon to send you a CV and then you will interview them?
> He could call his attorney have him release a statement right?

How many people traveling to the US from the UK, just to attend a conference, have an attorney they can call in the US?