skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a major opportunity for competition here. A complete open source stack for what Patreon does is already available as free open source software:

https://github.com/opencollective

A sex-positive alternative to Patreon could be up and running within a month. A lone developer could make a viable side-business for them self living off the 10% fee + having their own collection project. This would be good for the OpenCollective org as well, as this would bring more contributors to their open source ecosystem, further strengthening their platform.

The tricky part will be finding a payment gateway that doesn’t prohibit adult content. Yes, cryprocurrencies would also help here, but a lot of people still just want to use their credit cards.

P.S. For the record I think Patreon is a great service, but I don't think they need nor should be the only "recurring payments platform" available.
I feel that this is one of the basic operating principles of the UK....
TIFF too; possibly PDF, and no doubt other formats as well
[pdf] Comments on 'PILE OF POO' Derivatives: Feedback on PDAM2 October 2017
Norfolk/Virginia Beach?
"scared for our lives" sounds like the same line police officers trot out and repeat over and over when they kill someone they ought not have. I think that sort of claim evokes a negative reaction when it seems like the sentiment is unfounded based on the circumstances because it feels like the person saying it isn't being genuine but just trying to manipulate people.
The linked document contains a summary of comments on various proposals to the Emoji subset of Unicode. The entire thing is definitely worth a read, but a notable excerpt:

1F979 FROWNING PILE OF POO: Question on the justification for encoding this character, and whether
it will encourage the encoding of other emotions on PILE OF POO; request to remove character.

MICHAEL EVERSON:
This character is damaging to both ISO/IEC 10646 and the Unicode Standard. It is bad enough
that the ESC came up with it, but it beggars believe that the UTC actually approved it. Organic
waste isn’t cute. The existing PILE OF POO character was added for compatibility with Japanese
telco sets. It is a pity that Apple followed Softbank rather than KDDI in its reference glyph, since
a coil of dog dirt with stink lines and flies is surely the only proper semantic. The idea that our 5
committees would sanction further cute graphic characters based on this should embarrass
absolutely everyone who votes yes on such an excrescence. Will we have a CRYING PILE OF POO
next? PILE OF POO WITH TONGUE STICKING OUT? PILE OF POO WITH QUESTION MARKS FOR
EYES? PILE OF POO WITH KARAOKE MIC? Will we have to encode a neutral FACELESS PILE OF
POO? As an ordinary user, I don’t want this kind of crap on my phone. As a representative of the
National Standards Authority of Ireland, I have to wonder what possible good could come of
encoding such a character. Bullying, perhaps? Requested change: Remove this character from
the PDAM and reject its encoding.

ANDREW WEST:
I'm concerned that this character will open the floodgates for an open-ended set of PILE OF POO
emoji with emotions, such as CRYING PILE OF POO, PILE OF POO WITH LOOK OF TRIUMPH, PILE
OF POO SCREAMING IN FEAR, etc. Is there really any need to add a range of emotions to PILE OF
POO? I personally think that changing PILE OF POO to a de facto SMILING PILE OF POO was
wrong, but adding F|FROWNING PILE OF POO as a counterpart is even worse. If this is accepted
then there will be no neutral, expressionless PILE OF POO, so at least a PILE OF POO WITH NO
FACE would be required to be encoded to restore some balance. I recommend removing
FROWNING PILE OF POO pending further study and public consultation on the need for
additional PILE OF POO emoji.
This sounds like darwinism. Evolution is a law of nature, not a law of society.

What you say is true for species that don't have language or civilization. But since humans have technology, evolution happens in our minds, not in our DNA.

And new ideas don't necessarily require new people.

> radical decisions

Like what?

> People living longer will stay in power longer and keep the status quo alive.

What kind of prediction is that?
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VeeR VR Editor Officially Launched for iOS and Android
Slightly Offtopic:

If you are interested in how similar devices might have been made 100s and 1000s of years ago you should check out the latest videos on the Clickspring Youtube Channel [1]. Chris is building a copy of the Antikythera mechanism (mostly) without using modern tools and he is doing a stellar job.

The quality of his videos and his attention to detail is _amazing_! If you are into this kind of stuff you will most likely end up binge watching his whole channel over the weekend.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCworsKCR-Sx6R6-BnIjS2MA
The parse.com acquisition didn't go so well.
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I don't see apache or MIT projects or communities complaining about that. They seen to accept that as reality.

I see GPL communities talk about freeloaders a lot and complain about licenses they don't use (!) being freeloader.
As others pointed out this study may not be scientifically conclusive and I am not in a position to comment on that.

What strikes me is our lack of preparedness for advances is anti-aging treatments that will inevitably come. Even adding as little as 20 years to the average lifespan will have enormous (devastating?) implications for the economy and society. Especially if the treatment will be expensive and not available universally.

I keep hearing about the urgency to focus on research in the safety of AI, but I have not noticed any urgency regarding the consequences of anti-aging medicine.
Spectiv
Yes in the UK. Or on the rest of Europe. In many other places which consider themselves free, there are a lot of things you can't say on TV, "Fuck" being one of them.

There is no beeping on German TV at all, though you may be prosecuted if you say something illegal (slander e.g.).

In in a globalized world we're ending up with the lowest common denominator.
Linkedin is the worst, in my experience. I was repeatedly shocked to find people in my suggested contacts list that should never have been there.
> Let's say an undergraduate/graduate/researcher who wants to find all research groups/professors working in a certain field has to scour the web to find a handful of labs that are interesting to him. With Labit s/he will be able to filter all laboratories/research groups that might be interesting to him/her. And as user base grows the benefits of having all labs connected into a single network will yield even more benefits.

This requires you to actually get "all the research groups" to migrate their sites to your platform, which would be difficult to achieve (particularly if you restrict them to a design they don't want).

I have strong reservations about your apparent aim of making a single for-profit company the gatekeeper to the websites for every research group.

An alternative way of making research groups discoverable would be to create a directory of researchers that links to their existing websites, rather than trying to replace them.
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The ability to leverage performative victimhood invalidates any claim that you are weak.

If you are actually weak, you will do anything not to draw attention to your self, as you will not be able to control the perceptions or actions of others.
We are.

But as long as we still can do the things we want, I do not see it as a problem ... but well, yes, since we have to struggle hard to just controll our devices a bit, because the rest does not care and so they can allmost implement whatever spware they want - it is a problem .
This is a meaningless statement.
> imagine that in 1920, the Canadian military marched over the border and robbed some banks

The international law on this is rather complicated but I believe that those affected would have a case against the Canadian government, as well as being covered by the US bank insurance system.

However, in the case of Equifax, personal data isn't the property of the person (in the US system) and so you don't have a case. You'd need to have an EU-style data protection system rather than a US system which treats data as free speech.
This university computer has been calculating prime numbers since 1999
It is possible to get a certificate that allows to sign other certificates on your domain? For example you call Verisign and they issue a cert for *.mycompany.com, then you use that to sign another certificate for accounting.mycompany.com?
Minimal task queue and module pattern for JavaScript (ES5)
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Demystified abbreviation soup:

WG2: http://unicode.org/wg2/

ESC: Emoji SubCommittee of WG2

PDAM: Proposed Draft AMmendment ( http://www.unicode.org/faq/alpha_soup.html )
Couple of days ago I had an idea about a minimal module pattern that does not need Babel>Browserify etc. It is implemented in ES5 without any dependency and seems to work as expected. Maybe I am missing something obvious (anti-pattern?) so feedback is appreciated. Github: https://github.com/IbrahimTanyalcin/taskq
Server-Sent Events (SSEs) are actually a thing. Sure, the client must establish a connection with the server first, but from then on data can be streamed from the server. Similar to websockets, but then a one-way connection from server to client.
> choosing not to hire someone

.. which is also an option in the "drive out the poor people" scenario, no? Also, have we given up on the idea of making businesses try to obey the law?
The benefit is not in the software or service per se. It's in the network effect the existing service already has.
Nothing. It was not even a newsworthy event. Someone somehow managed to get a story published somewhere about it.
How many of those patches have non zero chance to be accepted and how much time would it take to actually hop through all obstacles to push them? My answers are 1.) a few 2.) a lot.

Majority of Linux contributions are paid by various companies. It is not volunteers working for free, it is companies paying.
It's not dead while the ad industry money still flows in. We need to rein in them if there's to be any hope for things getting better.
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I’m sorry, but when you mention all headers need to be sent, what are you referring to? I have working SSE implementations where I only send out the headers once and then pipe minimal data to the client while the socket is open.
Out of complete curiosity, and knowing nothing about these technologies:

How does these system avoid interference with other cars? Say if ten exact same car, with the exact same model of LIDAR are on the same street / crossing. Can I expect some noise being received by the sensor?
I do think that it is valid to point out people who might be harmed by the policy they are opposing, but I fear that the language used appears to engender a sense of exclusivity of victimhood; e.g.:

> Stand behind your women and LGBT creators.

The gist of this is probably that Patreon is being called upon to stand behind all vulnerable, oppressed, or marginalized creators, but their language keeps using explicit categories that effectively imply 'everybody but able-bodied heterosexual white men'. I find that implication of exclusion to be troublesome, because it polarizes the debate (a clear 'them' versus 'us' separation makes itself felt), rather than attempting to find common ground.

Don't get me wrong, I support the general critique they are presenting. But language is a powerful tool that can make allies as well as alienate — I feel that their radical use of language (whether intentional or not) may unwittingly achieve the latter.
I regret that this lady may be losing the ideal conditions for a hobby she enjoys. That's a terrible reason to block affordable housing development.
Out of the Syrian crisis, a data revolution takes shape
>Facebook banning reproductions of 19th century paintings, etc.

My favorite example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._One_Book_Call...
LOL -- "Why Do Software & Apps Suck?"
6 Lessons Learned as the Co-Founder of a €10M SaaS Startup (Hotjar)
Well, on the anti-death side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C25qzDhGLx8

On the pro death side I think the book Risen Empire has quite interesting take on that as well.

Edit: Put in the wrong link to a 24hour long video, fixed now
AMD vs NVidia novice here.

My untested understanding has been that even though AMD is performance-to-dollar higher performance than nVidia, it is plagued by not having a stellar software support that nVidia enjoys either via CUDA and consequently to cudaNN, software drivers not as fully compatible with games as is nVidia. AMD has OpenCL but I understand that most vendors / users are not exactly great supporters for OpenCL.

Since the hardware is just the trojan for software and nVidia has solved that problem, will not having the s/w support be a great factor for AMD not getting the same value as nVidia? Unless AMD puts in great effort to get its software game as good as its hardware, is it still DoA?
In some Louisiana parishes, over half of inmate phone fees go back to the prison
This artist mash characters with their game enviroment
Anecdote: dropped an iPhone 6 to the bottom of a pool. Failed spectacularly bringing it back up a few times. Total about 2-3 minutes submerged at around 2m.

Put the phone in a rice bag for 2 days, charged and it's working fine :)
I am working at a very large software company, don't know whether that qualifies as enterprise code :).
Yes, if you do customisations of open source software which could reveal trade secrets, I wouldn't expect this to be back-donated, and you could do that only with permissive licenses in the first place. But the large majority of open source software means just using it, and if it gets modified at all, it consists of bug fixes an small enhancements, that can and are back-donated to the projects. And as you wrote yourself, Sony tries to get the changes which don't disclose their trade secrets into upstream to reduce the merging load.
> suckless UI system

What about IMGUI? https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
I think if there were no number six, the universe would continue to exists as it does right now. We wouldn't notice anything different.

We live in a universe that is absent the integer called pleebix. We're not sure where it would fit on the number line, but one of the candidate locations is between seven and eight. We're OK. Our universe adjusted perfectly fine to the fact that this integer is missing. We don't even notice the hole because everything is ideally consistent around the fact that pleebix does not exist.

If six was missing, the universe would be similarly consistent. No one would notice anything out of whack.
Holy shit i first read it as something like "The Twelve-Factor Authentication app" and thought this was some sort of sick proof of work based authentication system that makes you go back and forth 12 times through multiple parties just to sign in.
My mental history of Patreon may be wrong but I thought they came of trying to out-permiss Gittip.

Setting up a CCBill account for adult content doesn’t seem like it’d be that big an ask, for an organisation so outwardly committed to supporting their customers.
Monopoly in what? There are plenty of sites that specialize in sex cams, private shows and amateur porn, so why not just go there? There are legitimate reasons to avoid adult content in your private site as it is very easy to get into serious problems where as site owner/administrator your are legally responsible: underage actors, abuse, prostitution claims (where it is illegal) etc. just to name few.
could you consider the notion, that all the progress and innovation impediments you link to age-related conservatism are actually at least partly related to the disease of aging itself? how would that change your opinion?
> All social networks should be required to enable social graph portability

Not just that, they should be required to export all public data/posts in a neural interchange format, so that othwer apps/companies can buitl on nthier data.
I don't think the acquisition price is base on the number of users but the potential users in the future and the value of each user. Considering the growth mentioned in the article and the young user age, it's not that surprising.
What is the network effect of Patreon? Whatever it is, I don’t consider it to be very strong. Many creators are discovered through their own channels first before their fans learn about their Patreon.

OpenCollective made its way into the recurring payments market with relative ease. “All” they needed to do was cater to an underserved niche (open source) that could be serviced better on its own stand-alone platform as opposed to being one of many categories on Patreon.

Something very similar is happening with Kickstarter. See Fig as an example of a specialized crowdfunding platform that’s carving its own niche by catering specifically to games.

https://www.polygon.com/2017/8/10/16125828/fig-first-profita...
It's been available for years....

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/ID...
Porn is legal. While GP might be semantically incorrect, the point is that porn has been a legal part of American culture for at least 100 years. It makes absolutely no sense to discriminate against processing payments for one of America's largest entertainment industries.
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Great idea, I think that is done in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS-based_Authentication_of_Na...
As a soldier myself, I respect what you have done for your country. And as a non-English speaker myself, I would have found it difficult to sympathize with this text a few years ago, having difficulty understanding why the Americans complain so much about everything ;) However the more and more I learn about America the more I have come to sympathize with viewpoints like this after hearing about their everyday problems. Of the pornography artists that use Patreon that I know, a disproportionate amount of them are LGBTQ (I suspect it is a form of escapism), and it no longer surprises me at all that they are worried this will disproportionately harm them with the threat of homelessness. Many of them are young and cannot afford medical treatments for mental diseases (which are increasing in America), and while the difficulty of getting a job is already quite difficult, getting one and keeping it with untreated ADHD is even harder. For these friends, drawing pornography is not only the a way of expressing themselves and their identity but also the only way to avoid staying off the streets.

I might have also said "suck it up, get a job" to my friends a few years ago, but after knowing several of them with ADHD and other problems who cannot afford meds I can no longer say that. The American system is cold and unfeeling and would grind young people like this into dust if they had no other outlet. Patreon gave them an opportunity to put food on their plates and live under a roof, and now it is being taken away. I would be scared for my livelyhood.
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Another petition rejected (although I do understand it was somewhat in jest). I do wonder what the point of these petitions are if the government basically refuses to act on any of them [1]. I guess it's nice because parliament debates the issue (on some occasions, a few times they just refuse [2]) then gives a public response of why they're not going to do what the petition asked for.

[1] https://petition.parliament.uk/#petitions-with-response

[2] https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/173199
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Eve is kind of a different thing, I think. Hardly anyone is actually roleplaying in Eve, for one. For another, most tabletop RPGs give you a fighting chance at being the hero, whereas in Eve you're overwhelmingly likely to be Faceless Extra #54265. There's nothing wrong with that, necessarily, but it scratches a different itch than RPGs.
Patreon is a company, so the decision is financial. Disallowing adult content kicks off many people who make them commission producing adult content, but allowing them may prevent other content producers from chosing to use Patreon. I really have no idea which group is larger in terms of commissions.
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Setup another domain nsfw.patreon with the same authentication and shared database, so most people won't see nsfw content there.
I actually shudder at the thought of playing D&D. The idea that I have to make up a story as I go along and am dependant on what the DM thinks about my decisions, just does not appeal to me.

Considering I have never played D&D, I could very well be completely off the mark, however there is nothing that was said in the article that changed my mind, but (and this is important) this is a purely personal view of what I like to play.

I can see the appeal to other people and salute a game (and genre) that brings people together and away from being glued to a screen or computer.
> but that would probably need messing with GPG in some way.

That's exactly why I didn't do that: the OpenPGP standard is extremely complex, good libraries to do that kind of thing just don't exist, and it was unclear what compatibility issues I'd be adding if I did that.
I meant payment processors.

MasterCard, VISA and PayPal all will refuse to do business with you, or pressure you into changing your business, if you're found to be in the pornography or prostitution business. Even if that's legal in your country.

And in Sweden, banks are now collecting fees for getting cash, or paying in cash, of about 10$ each. So you can't really do anything as customer or company without MasterCard or VISA anymore.

At this point, these systems should be split up, or replaced by an international payment standard with nationalised implementors.
First, there is absolutely no way your link is related to this conversation. Second, your tone and use of belittling phrases like 'holy PC war' are way over the top. All in all, this is a very weak comment.
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Obviously the solution is to allow composing poo + face or face + poo like how we just got face + skin tone modification characters. This pushes the issue down to implementations. ;-)

On the point of emoji composition, wtf were they thinking with their half assed skin tone only stuff. Why can I have all these wonderful accurate skin tones, but my beer is always pale golden, and symbols such as the check mark and heavy cross out, are only green or black and black or red respectfully, to say nothing further of the panorama of colour in the symbolic box character sections and how irritating it is I cannot select which colour I want my zodiac symbols.
The beauty of this lies in how simple it is. I love it!
Would you not be "literally scared" for your life when faced with the prospect of becoming homeless? I would be. Why is it a "tearjerker speech" if that is your situation and if you want that situation to be taken into account as they do? If you think they're lying say so. Calling this a "tearjerker speech" strikes me as dishonest.
This'll really suck.
> For people that don't want to spend Bitcoin on timestamping it is possible to (ab)use Certificate Transparency logs for the same purpose: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Binary_Transparency

To be clear, OpenTimestamps doesn't require you to spend money to create a timestamp, as it has a set of public calender servers that pool timestamp requests, allowing all OTS users to share the same BTC transaction (which itself is paid out of donations).
The letter doesn't say they are more likely to make such content, but that the negative effects are more harmful to people who are already more vulnerable.
Best font ever... why not?
I'm reinventing a wheel available for any computer/phone instead of a wheel that can fit only on cars of a specific brand ;)