skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>And why is the payment processor doing that? Because they're afraid of the government.

AFAIK, the only place government wrings the hand of payment providers is for terrorism or they want to specifically choke a political actor.

In Patreon's case, I'd imagine it has to do more with fraud, or more specifically how the "big" payment providers won't touch porn. (After all, the big porn sites have been processing credit cards since the dawn of the internet, just not through the same avenues as a eCommerce store would go through, if the government really cared, those sites wouldn't be able to process credit cards either).

I see Patreon uses both PayPal and Stripe as their payments processor - Stripe has pornography spelled out in its term of service as prohibited, and PayPal is far less lenient when it comes to breaking their ToS. I can imagine as Patreon grows, Stripe and PayPal (who in turn might be getting their screws turned by Visa and Mastercard), might start forcing Patreon to deal with these creators.

It's a very unfortunate spot Patreon is in, and I hope they aren't forced to cleanse their platform.
I have nothing against erotica/porn and nothing against LBGT, but yeah, the open letter writer seems to be using "Why won't you think of the LBGT community?" line as a talking point, probably because accusing a company of being anti-gay is an effective weapon nowadays... somehow, saying more of this community uses their sexuality to make money (through Patreon) makes me feel "I'm sure the LGBT* accountants and bus drivers would disagree with this..."
I am not sure who you mean by "we". I don't hate the elderly. Do you?

I think immigrant retirees to Florida are acting rationally, seeing a benefit in the free market of real estate and taxation regimes. I'm pointing out that this creates externalities and perverse incentives.
Of course they were.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/feb/17/johnezard

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/books/up-in-smoke-goes-...

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/rape-murder-and-...

One of the heaviest anti-semitic places in Europe, then and now.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-16678772

http://forward.com/news/world/188764/german-hate-mail-comes-...
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I thought this would be about building the minimal input parser and line printer, instead you just _import_ the terminal from Qt and be done with it. This is not minimal by any stretch of imagination.
GP said:

> GPLv3 basically killed all momentum and it wasn't because GPLv3 was better. At least not from a business point of view.

I was pointing out that this is not entirely correct. There are quite important improvements in GPLv3 that are "better" from a business point of view. Very few businesses care about the "tivoisation clause", and some businesses may actually benefit from not having to worry about being provided GPLvX software that they can't modify.
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Maybe ClojureScript is doing something Clojure doesn't at compilation time…
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Stereo image matching - specifically semi-global matching. The general idea is still considered a state of the art method.
Nice wording:

"just knowing that they want to create and entertain and that their skills lie in a sexual area."
But you are probably offering less money than in big hubs.
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But Leonardo, AFAIK, didn't claim that those things were readily doable...
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What do you use integrated graphics for on VMs? Genuinely interested, I haven't used VMs beyond web dev and occasionally trying out some new distro of Linux.
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An image to illustrate the issue:

http://aperiodical.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/footballs-...
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Doesn't make a lot of sense

1. "Your fuzzy position on “adult content” vs. “porn” gives you the freedom to discriminate at will. And it makes content creators live in fear of that discrimination, itself leading to self censorship of important viewpoints."

2. "[...] we also must listen to and represent those who simply make porn. Who want to be creative with their porn, yes, but most importantly want to be self directed."

So it's not about the fuzzy position of Patreon but about disallowing porn it seems.
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This is a good example:
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/software...

Basically a sheet is a blank canvas on which you can drop tables or charts or other things.

You can see on the left the list of the sheets, and within the list of the objects they contain.

It has all sorts of benefits over Excel's one grid approach:

- You can display two tables, one above the other, and the first can overflow without pushing the bottom table off-screen

- You can display two tables, one above the other, and the columns do not have to be aligned / have the same width (I am sure everyone using excel ran into this problem), same thing for row height for side by side tables.

- If these tables contain data, it allows to separate logically data on the same sheet instead of relying on empty columns as a convention. You can then filter the two tables independently but have both always visible on the same sheet

- Makes more sense for positioning charts vs tables

- Preserves the full flexibility of a generic excel grid, i.e. one object could be a table containing data, the other could be some complex calculation, etc. Excel has some ways to present data in a similar way but at this stage it is just summary data, not a generic spreadsheet
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Not 'intelligence', but 'capability'. There are plenty of intelligent-but-not-capable people out there, and plenty of capable-but-not-highly-intelligent folks as well.
> AMD is a clear winner now on Linux.

It depends what you value. I've consistently bought Nvidia hardware because of the proprietary drivers.
Ask HN: Anyone have a good solution for managing multiple pptx for events?
Anyone have any tips for software that can manage multiple powerpoint and/or PDF files and switch seamlessly between them? I always ask for PPTX format but then some people complain that fonts aren't preserved. I need to manage multiple large PPTX files for an event.
Demographically it is a rather odd group too. It basically includes most of the humans on Earth (i.e., first language is not English) and excludes what comes down to heterosexual cisgender able-bodied white Americans/Australians/British/Canadians/Kiwis.

That kind of exclusive categorization of people is harmful to the debate, and comes across as trollish.
Not only that, but they have a guy who AFAIU spent his 20% time to build this feature (i.e. e2ee using GPG), it would take minimal resources to implement it as an add-on. I guess with all the usage data they have they know how much the general public cares about privacy. It's sad not even the Googlers who care can push some of these "higher good" features without being reassigned to some mundane shit.

https://github.com/google/end-to-end
I'm with you on puritanism, but it's not about "a nipple" it's about porn.

"[...] we also must listen to and represent those who simply make porn. Who want to be creative with their porn [...]"
It would be great to hear from an insider, but it seems to me like they are having a little difficulty establishing organization around roles/permissions. Also the GitHub repo hasn't seen any commits in a month.
Who's building Linux in 2017?
“Trusted with guarding”
Nope
Excessive chargebacks raise the cost of accepting cards overall. This lowers the value Patreon can provide to their customers.

I suppose they could bifurcate the two and offer low- and high-risk plans? Not sure what it would take to implement that, though.
The thing is, there are three kinds of things people want from games journalism:

1) Consumer product reviews, as if games were fridges or TVs.

2) Artistic engagement; either trying to be the "Roger Ebert of games", or the NGJ approach of self-interrogating the reviewer's feelings while playing the game, or the cultural studies/media studies approach of techniques and influences.

3) Sense of belonging to a fandom, like sports, and competing for victory. Either within the game or between competing fandoms.

The trouble with (1) is that it's at best dull and very easily degenerates into payola.

(2) had the potential to be far more interesting, but collided very badly with (3). Critique requires standing at a distance. When people identify themselves very strongly with the object of critique, they turn critique of the thing into criticism of themselves, and get very upset.

And finally (3) has the same problem that football(+) has long struggled with: hooligans, "ultras", and extreme partisanship taken out of the game. For football, this was to streets and pubs. For games, it's voice chat and forums filled with a never-ending torrent of abusive language.

Eventually gamergate provided an opportunity for (3) to mobilise, nominally against (1) but in practice destroying (2) in the process.

(+) "Soccer"
Patreon has to follow the terms of their payment processors. If they want to be involved in porn they'd have to add a separate high risk payment processor for those content creators.

I heard porn sites have a CC processing fees of 20+%.
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I understand, I simply don't believe that this is a rational decision due to risk assessment. I believe that that is just an excuse. Or rather, that a high amount of the risk involved is not due to customer behaviour, but due to potential pressure from self appointed guardians of morality. As part of this discussion elsewhere people were linking again to an old engadget article about these practices, which in turn linked to this court opinion, which is well worth reading:

http://media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/rssExec.pl?Submit=Disp...

Here is the engadget article:

https://www.engadget.com/2015/12/02/paypal-square-and-big-ba...

I think strong regulations, something like: Visa/Stripe/PayPal/Amazon have to service every business that is not illegal, would also help these companies against such "moral guardianship". They don't have to look like they are defending the rights of perverts to their other customers.
Voting has the possibility of changing zoning laws. For some reason it's just not happening. If these few areas in California and North-East had similar density to cities in other countries it would help a lot.
Seriously, who thought it was solved? Anyone who has used any voice interaction can tell that it's just not there yet.
Pivot Tables were invented by Lotus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pito_Salas
I spent last Sunday's lunch explaining to my girlfriend the revolution that being able to compute your longitude was (I could not help myself). There were prizes offered by the trading companies and governments to whomever would devise a reliable way to determine one's longitude.

Conceptually, it's interesting that longitude is mostly useful only if you know your latitude (that's because 1degre of change in longitude does not translate to the same distance traveled whether you're at the equator or at the pole.)
While I can't speak for the physical part of construction, I know that the Structural Engineering part was until semi-recently (2007-ish) pretty manual. My flatmate graduated at the same time as me and worked in a local engineering firm in Edinburgh and I was always curious what his work involved. It turns out there were a LOT of extremely manual calculations performed with pen and paper, with datasheets containing commonly used calculations for how structures should behave under different loads and the properties of various materials you could plug into these calcs.
Let's hope he's right. Life is a cycle and without death the world will be a very boring place.
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Not when it becomes impossible to exist as a business without relying on such intermediaries, e.g. VISA or MasterCard. Then they are a monopoly, and can't choose their customers anymore.
besides tax, what are ongoing costs composed of? i think that you will find that a house can be made in such a way that besides tax, there isnt much cost. and you dont have to have insurance to own a house, people think that because lenders force you to buy insurance. and, once again, if the house is designed properly, there isnt any need to buy insurance for it. and bringing up depreciation and op cost makes absolutely no sense.
Which experiments? I'm not aware of much in the gender diversity 'sciences' that would rise to the level of being called an experiment, except for the sort of neuro-psychology that Damore cited and which he got slated for (because they show biological reasons for differences in subject interest)
That's not it either. Q4 guidance has actually gone up over the previous estimates. Because their business is cyclical, it should be lower than Q3.
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I came out of it feeling like it was a great foundation, and ready for me to hack and customize without having to start the project from scratch.

Suckless looks great tho. Thanks for the link!
From the middle of the 19th century, there was a myth in the western world about being a "superior race". For example in France Jules Ferry [0] said "it is a right for the superior races, because they have a duty. They have the duty to civilize the inferior races."

It went much further than skin color differences, my own ancestors in the Western part of France, were called "animals like people" by Parisian politicians during the 19th century.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Ferry#Colonial_expansion
Spreadsheets exist because it would take programmers weeks to produce, what it would take a afternoon to do it in excel.

Plus most of the time these are one time throwaway efforts done to quickly arrive at results and make decisions.

It will all begin to make sense when we think of Spreadsheet work as programming and not something separate from it.
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I would be very surprise if people took that fork seriously.
I did a linguistics degree before doing my computational linguistics PhD 2005-2010. In Australia we don't do any graduate coursework, so the last maths class I took was when I was 15 or 16. I'm now pretty good at these things. You can see my work here: https://explosion.ai

You might be interested in the machine learning library I wrote for spaCy: https://github.com/explosion/thinc . The backward propagation can be understood quite simply with callbacks.

The main problem I had, and I think you're having, is that the notation around calculus is just hopeless. It's even worse when you're trying to map between the equations and backpropagation, because what you need is slightly different. I also find the notations for functions really bad.

The other thing you need to get used to are the ways linear algebra overload the operators. This is just data, not concepts. Personally I find it much easier to just work in the Einstein summation: https://obilaniu6266h16.wordpress.com/2016/02/04/einstein-su... . Once it's debugged, you can translate into faster calls to numpy.tensordot.

Don't go back to school. School's fucked. It'll take you three years to do about 200 hours of learning. Hiring a tutor would be vastly better if you need some help.
What? This was posted (to HN) after trading closed.
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As to why violence and war is more acceptable I believe the answer lies in that intimacy and explicit content is much closer to home, its relatable, it attracts feelings and is also easily accessible.

On the other hand war, violence and gore are really a far away concept that does not resonate with a lot of people. Its also an established ok-thing so it being all around us in the form of entertainment makes people even more numb to the subject.
I don't think that is how it's intended. I took it to be the typical US centric view, in which case "not speaking English" translates to "not speaking the locally dominant language".

Also note that the language in the article is not exclusionary. They explicitly say: This is hurting the vulnerable among us, who are disproportionately XYZ. They don't say it only hurts XYZ, they don't say it hurts all XYZ, they say it hurts vulnerable people.

Do you think this isn't a relevant point to make? I think it is. It shows that even if the practice isn't prima facie discriminatory (and isn't intended as such), its effects are.
I suspect in part this had to do with them losing some of the early series that brought people to the site and not finding any good replacements. I mean yes, Zero Punctuation is still based there. But stuff like Extra Credits isn't, nor is the Jimquisition or MovieBob or god knows how many other past series.

Nowadays, popular web series like that bring in more interest than written articles do. Alas, they didn't quite find a new golden goose after some of their original ones left, so they ended up with Yahtzee as the only real attraction there.

Probably also doesn't help that gaming news sites aren't the moneymaker they used to be, with the people that visit them generally not paying for subscriptions or clicking on ads.
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> The higher level of attention needed to understand the geometry could distract a driver’s view away from the road for longer than necessary which could therefore increase the risk of an incident.

Whoever wrote this reply wasn't entirely serious.
I don't understand your point. Fuck is said very often on UK tv.
> recently in LA, had a very excited Uber driver tell he just bought a house near Topeka, KS

The 1,500 mile commute sounds like rather a pain, though.
Well AMD has a cyclical business, and a Q3 to Q4 drop is always expected. But Q3 outperformed and Q4 guidance was raised, while both are massive increases from last year.

Simplifying an announcement that exceeds expectations and raises revenue trends to "a drop in revenue" is absurd.
This is a good comment other than the first sentence which feels unnecessary (I didn't downvote it for)
One reason I moved from Android to Windows phone was because of the massively unpredictable performance (lag due to background stuff happening).

One reason I moved from Windows phone was the massive delay in switching apps.

Now on iPhone the animations are annoying, yes, but they are at least consistent in length, meaning I expect them and know how long to take a (tiny) pause. I know some work is happening that’s being disguised and that’s why they can’t (all) be turned off.
you're welcome to die whenever you want, just don't speak for the rest of us.
Typo from the blog :
"to move related works" => "to move related words"
Glaring typo in the title: it should say progRamming.
I don't see how this thinking is any different than banning abortions. It's not your problem so shush.
>>Try copying a sheet into another workbook that has conflicting names.

This is really like copy pasting code from one namespace into other, with code in both spaces having same variable names.

You really need to think of a spreadsheet as a function. It must have single responsibility and must be called by another sheet to be used.
"Remove all the poor people" is a policy that's been tried before with considerable social costs; it breaks up communities and tends to move people to places that are cheaper because they are worse. The city is the greener pasture - that's where the jobs are.

Low income housing does tend to act as a subsidy for landlords and low pay employers. Perhaps we could shortcut the misery of a whole bunch of people having to move and just raise wages directly, e.g. via a rise in the minimum wage?

Tying minimum wage to some function of house price and interest rates would be amazing.
Those two things seem to be separate enough. Not only is there a very blurry line in between the two, but also creation of the disallowed content is much safer to do there than to apply to a shady studio to get yourself out there.

So the second question would propably be why is porn disallowed in the first place? Is it the payment processors who don't want to deal with chargebacks? Something to do with investors, perhaps their own "morals"?
There seems to be a social media type feed with posts/new publications that you can like or comment on [1]. But I'm not sure what value this really adds, as people who want to use social media to engage with other scientists already are, using Twitter (or Pubpeer, if they want to be more criticial).

[1]: https://labit.io/global
I don't see how is this even related? The video is the typical misinformed bashing of feminism, etc.
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As a resident of Alaska, it is frustrating when there is huge and important news happening locally that is difficult to find coverage for, but a snow storm in New York (where the media mostly live and work) gets wall-to-wall coverage even on "local" stations.
Wow, 60k USD for a home, incredible.
That's an older home then probably? Here in Belgium the absolute minimum would be double that, those would be the smallest, oldest buildings with nothing of insulation or modern comforts.

Here a building-stop has been announced for 2040 as all available land in flanders will be used up for homes!
I don't believe that the arrow of causation runs that way; how does selling the CDO at any price push the house price around?
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> Your hand is likely to smudge R-L systems unless you're left handed which most people are not

Arabic was originally read Right-to-Left, but written Top-to-Bottom, leftwards, on the scroll so smudging by right-handed writers wasn't an issue. A completed scroll was then hung sideways on the wall for people to read. In fact, by writing Arabic T-B(leftwards) instead of L-R(downwards in columns) like Greek was at the time, smudging became less of an issue. The Arabs could roll up the left side of their scroll sooner without smudging or pausing, whereas the Greeks had to leave the entire column they'd just written exposed while the ink on the bottom rows was drying.
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Agree. As a white straight guy (although English is not my first language), who actually lived through a war in my country, I find this “_literally_ scared for our lives”, disgusting self victimization.
> simply astonished at how affordable it is to have your own land and a house, all while being well within commuting distance of the city

This depends on the city and its planning regime. I'll agree that in many cities ownership+mortgage is much cheaper than rent, but I'd be interested to know where you can "just" buy land and build a house.

(Also, not having buildings insurance, which is not actually all that expensive, is a very big bet on your fire safety)
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And if the sum is 1, something REALLY bad happens? ;^)
With (most) arbitration clauses, you can't actually sue at all. You have to go through a private arbitration firm, which can set pretty much whatever rules they want - including things like basing rulings on religious law [1]. Compared to that, I'm pretty sure there'd be nothing illegal about rules to defeat the hypothetical law firm, like requiring complainants to show up in person.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/business/dealbook/in-reli...
Your example falls under the purview of negligence in tort law. Nevertheless an arbitration agreement may supersede a potential lawsuit.

The widespread use of forced arbitration seems ripe for examination by the SCOTUS. I'm no lawyer, but it seems like a fairly blatant violation of the 7th amendment.