skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. :(

I also started looking into using CSS grids to make the tab sizing better but that created it's own problems. I need to spend more time working on it.
That isn't what I said. I said that the notion of gun rights as essential to resisting tyranny is self defeating. Guns themselves may be useful in this respect, but gun rights cannot be.
> It's a bubble.

> It's not a bubble.

> Why can't people see it's not a bubble?

> I got into bitcoin when it was still $x so I'm holding even though I know its a bubble.

> <Quote from a famous person about a bubble>

> <Link to an article about bubbles>

Here is a summary.
Radio Amateuring Like It’s 1975
No better time to start one.
> Shouldn't an exchange be able to handle volume? Seems like a basic requirement.

Exchanges have incentive to handle as much volume as possible to make as much via fees as possible, but no site can handle infinite volume. The coinbase app has been climbing the iTunes charts into the top 20 the last couple days. Just before the site went down the price was running up by hundreds of dollars per minute, attracting tons of trader traffic trying to profit from it. Even if they have basic scaling measures in place for the basic infrastructure, they most likely experienced unprecedented exponentially increasing volume that was inevitably bound to break something
Everything is very interconnected. The underdose and overdose numbers are determined in isolation, just as any good scientific experiment should.

Casual observation reveals that vitamin D overdose results in hypercalcemia, a condition treatable by vitamin K. Vitamin E overdose results in hemmorrhaging, a condition treatable by vitamin K. There are no known symptoms of vitamin K overdose. Vitamin A overdose (from retinol) can be treated by vitamin E and vitamin K.

Magnesium is balanced with calcium. Sodium is balanced with potassium.

So naturally, I wonder what happens when you supply vitamin K in excess, then determine the overdose amounts for the other fat-soluble vitamins. Once that number is found, reduce the K by steps and repeat, until you have the recommended minimum ratio of K to the other vitamin.
I'm curious what the implications are that all these exchanges go offline whenever there is a huge spike in bitcoin.

That being said, anyone care to elaborate how the price of bitcoin is determined? I mean it's easy when there is a large central bank monitoring this figure. However, how exactly does it work for bitcoin? What makes it worth the $15K value when there is no "goods" to back it up. Are there anyone here buying bitcoin as an investment?
Lightning network protocol has reached version 1.0 and they've demonstrated videos of it working.
Same experience for me. The University of Washington headache clinic recommended Vitamin D and Magnesium supplements and it made a marked difference in my mood. Turns out having constant mild headaches is pretty depressing.
> How are low-profit pursuits going to pay for everybody's UBI?

They aren't. Any functional Basic Income is going to be funded by taxes that effectively fall on capital, whether directly or via taxes on business income, and be self-limited based on productivity.
Or, use a heated panel. Reposting a link another commenter added:

https://products.currentbyge.com/transportation-lighting/led...
They appear to bundle pledges by the creator's numeric ID, so if you pledge $1 to 15 creators who signed up today, you'll get charged one transaction - but if you pledge $1 to 15 creators who signed up at various times over 3 years, you'll get charged up to 15 transactions. It's incredibly confusing as a customer to see this occurring, since I ended up at one point where one transaction contained a single pledge and the second contained ten of them.
I think the relationship is as tenuous as being a good cook or a good chess player. Coming up with a unique recipe for cake or a good strategy for checkmate is about equally comparable to writing good code.
I do wonder if after the Ether "flash crash" recently (https://blog.gdax.com/eth-usd-trading-update-5d8142b5bdc1), if Coinbase / GDAX instituted some sort of "circuit breakers" on their exchange to prevent this type of thing from happening again. Bitcoin and the other cryptos, trades at a pretty low volume relative to their market cap, so if a lot of people we're trying to dump large orders this morning to take a profit at the new ATH, I could see that causing similar issues that they may have been trying to prevent.
It looks like they are charging a flat fee to everyone regardless of how they pay. I think the CC companies tend to get mad if you charge a fee to people paying credit at stores where paying by check or cash is an option. IIRC you can also get around it by having a cash "discount".
Previously: patron pledges $1, patron pays $1, creator ends up with some amount significantly less than $1, depending on all the fees.

Soon: patron pledges $1, patron pays $1.38, creator ends up with $0.95.
Depends on your timing. In late 2008 or early 2009, I saw GE below $7/share, and I knew it was an insanely low number, but I didn't have any spare cash, and I didn't have the guts to borrow money to buy it.

In retrospect, I should have put some of my IRA money into it - not a lot, maybe a few percent.
Actually, this is a game itself. I used to play it with friends growing up -- we called it "Mao." It's a card game where you are penalized for breaking the rules (at least one person must know the rules in advance). You are allowed to pause the game at any time and guess what a rule is, and the players who know the rules will confirm or deny your guess. You'd be surprised at how quickly people can pick up rules like "only face cards may be played after a 7" or "if an ace is played, the next person is skipped."
There's plenty of use cases where you need to store data permanently and in the open, as well as use cases where you need data to be massively redundant.
Hobbes put it best:

"No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death: and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short."
I run Kubuntu 16.04 LTS.
> Users of NYT are sending request headers with sixteen kilobytes of tracking data.

How do you see this? What tools in the browser?
I believe the general rule is that merchants can't charge customers more for CC payments than they do for cash payments. I assume Patreon doesn't take cash payments, so there's no issue there.
Well, the general AI doomsday fundamentalist argument proceeds as follows: you tell an AI to cure cancer. It can’t, so it spends some time recursively improving itself, then it finds out that the cost of curing cancer is C, but the cost of killing all humans (and therefore indirectly curing cancer) is C’, where C’ < C. Boom all humans are dead.

If you’re a smarty pants you tell the AI to cure cancer AND not kill all humans. But because the AI is so smart it comes up with something no human would have ever thought of, like putting all humans in eternal cryostasis, thereby keeping them alive AND eradicating cancer. No matter what you do, the AI will outsmart you because recursive-self-improvement, and humanity dies.

That’s what Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and others are worried about.
What makes it worth 15k is that people will pay that much for it. The price is determined by buyers and sellers, trading with each other on markets called exchanges.
Do you know why they batch the pledges into several payments and not just one big payment?
Oh certainly, I did not intend to be dismissive of their work.

My goal in a tldr is only to minimize the number of seconds it takes to digest some essential concept.

I wish for every article here someone would write up a 1 sentence tldr and a one paragraph tldr+, to help us track more happenings in our head at once and to help choose the ones we decide to spend our deep reading time on.

But of course your point is valid, shoulders of giants and what have you...
Er, sorry, yes, the video /formats/ are unfortunately defined by the available media encoder backends, but it's more that I don't have to write any platform or media backend specific code to e.g. show video from a webcam, have a video player control, or record and save audio, etc etc. So your code remains the same, all you need to do is bundle codecs when shipping, or make sure you use formats that the default media backends of most platforms support.

This might help: https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_5.5.0_Multimedia_Backends

If you get a format that all of Directshow(win), AV Foundation(osx) and Gstreamer(linux) support, you're pretty much set. Something like mp4 container with h.264 video and mp3 audio is pretty standard these days.
The PhD pioneers
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15869233

Though this one seems to have gotten more attention.
If there isn't now, and this fee structure is very unpopular, there probably will be. Their service doesn't strike me as something which is particularly difficult to replicate.
I wonder if the answer is to have levels within the pledging system? If you pledge only one backer we take x% or cents. If you back 2-10, we charge this x-t% or cents. If 100, no charges at all. This will provide incentive to people to back more creators too.
I believe they frown on advertising different prices for different methods of payment. If this fee is applied to all transactions regardless of the payment method used (which appears to be the case) then the card companies won't care.
I really wish QtNetwork was better. I recently went and had to replace QtNetwork with our own event loop because it is extremely unreliable on Windows. The only mention of this is a footnote in the API docs:

http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qabstractsocket.html#waitForBytesWritt...
Those surfaces are quite a bit more expensive than asphalt, so most companies won't put them in unless they are incentivized through something like a non-permeable surface tax.
In just the past year we have seen instability of states such as Venezuela, Zimbabwe, and even US.
Given the incentives involved (and history of exchanges, everywhere, before regulation) a good fraction of that is wash trading. (A better measure for the risk at hand is the effect of small out-of-market bids and offers on the overall price, i.e. how much it costs to move the price $1.)

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/w/washtrading.asp

Disclaimer: This is not securities advice. Do not buy or sell anything based on this Internet comment.
Presumably by getting people to take a drug with unexpected side effects? That doesn't seem particularly likely, but I don't think it's wrong to be paranoid about this. Defense in depth. Don't give the researcher the means to take arbitrary actions, and don't give it general reasoning ability.

Protecting against narrow AI will keep us plenty busy. Consider a narrow-AI penetration tester that falls into the wrong hands. Protecting against that sort of threat also helps protect against general AI threats.
Amazon Opens Registration for .BOT Domain Name
The problem is that google (or alphabet) is just catastrophically bad at most customer relationships (except for ad buyers, though even then it's iffy). They treat all the content creators on youtube like users instead of customers. And they don't care about building a platform, ecosystem, community, etc. that supports the creators, they're willing to just let things flap in the wind and hope for the best.
Thanks much! Found it way more usable than Little Snitch and the price is fair. :)
Define Your Mission Statement AFTER Market Research
FWIW OpenBazaar has not dropped Bitcoin as a method of payment, just chosen to diversify payment options.
It’s a mind virus breaking out to infect all the world’s humans
People asking this question clearly do not understand the stock market and how it works...
We are all competing in the same market, so why on earth, I should save you time and effort and give you this kind of info?
Just think about it, would you go and give your secret sauce to your competitors?
I need to know if this is something I can use in production.

- What are recommended minimum C# / CLR versions?

- Do you plan on implementing first-class support for the full .NET framework?

I would like to know how much thought you've invested in future direction.

- Do you have a plan for incorporating the C# 7.2 Span stuff?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15731233
Discussed here-

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15870555
Automated Test construction, Regression testing made easy
Wow, I hadn't seen about:performance before, it's pretty nice.
All automated tests (unit, integration, functional ui) are regression tests

I wish I had a way to get this across to people. Even Glenford Myers, who I otherwise have great respect for, wrote some forty years ago that a test that doesn’t find any bugs is a waste of time. Every formal test I’ve written is a “waste of time” because if there’s a bug, I already found it while writing the test. The actual test is there simply to make sure the bug doesn’t come back.

If we can’t get this simple idea right, we can’t have a productive discussion on unit tests vs $OTHER_TESTS, etc.
This should be seen in the context of the article Yudkowsky is replying to. Collet's position is that runaway AGI is impossible, and in support of that, he claims that it is impossible for AI technology to grow super-linearly. In his refutation, Yudkowski has merely to show that it is not beyond the bounds of possibility.

Of course, insofar as he is also putting forward the view that the risk is significant, he is also putting forward the opinion that it is quite plausible - at least plausible enough to take the scenario seriously. That argument can survive occasional stalls in the rate of technological advance, if that is indeed what we are seeing.
I imagine they've spent a lot of time already beefing up their infrastructure, you can anticipate high loads but until you know what that looks/feels like, you cant compensate for it. They'll get there eventually. It'll just take some time.
I came home yesterday and started singing a particularly famous christmas song that I will not name in fear of infecting you with the virus. But I hadn't heard the song anywhere, or at least I could not remember. Out loud, I began to sing it, right there in the kitchen, and when I realized it I felt fear. Now it's gone again, and I don't know when it'll come back.
Introducing the React RFC Process
Wasn't there something recently about Patreon having problems (legal/regulatory) with the way they were bundling all the contributions for a user and only submitting a single card/processor transaction for the total?

If so, that might explain why they want to effectively unbundle everything again, even if it makes everything worse for everyone.

The marketing-weasel language of their "robust question and answer page"[1] is a little hard to take regardless of actual reason though.

[1] https://patreon.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005631963-W...
You mean a Surface Pro?
Is Amazon liable if your packages get stolen? If that is the case, that could explain why they want a "key" to your house.

Why else would this do this?

Oh, wait they are bleeding money.

>The amount of money that Amazon lost on shipping — a.k.a. the net cost of landing all those brown boxes on your doorstep in record time — reached an all-time high of nearly $7.2 billion in 2016, according to GeekWire’s analysis of the e-commerce giant’s financial results.

I would be curious to see another person's take on how much Amazon loses on people stealing packages per year.

[1](https://www.geekwire.com/2017/true-cost-convenience-amazons-...)
I feel like we'll be lucky if we can even get artificial hearts by 2025 that don't significantly increase the risk of stroke. The various tech seems to be around, but I don't know if the experience to combine it all does.
Lets all just thank the big central banks for pumping so much liquidity into the markets that people and companies are mostly clueless on what to do with the money.

And now everything seems like a good investment, you see average companies maling little to no profit acquired for billions, the housing market growing year-on-year, the US stock market up ~20% YTD. What’s the surprise?
You seem to be dealing in absurd hypotheticals here. In most countries in the world, having your nation state fail on you is a very real risk. It doesn't fail all at once, so it's something you can plan for. Having wealth outside of the banking and financial sectors that's not also in physical form is something that's very valuable for this purpose.
Existing charges. But it's hard to imagine Patreon would intentionally triple their service fee costs to themselves by charging pledges individually instead of in aggregate. The only thing that's changing is the service fees they're charging users.
Could you please not post snarky dismissals of other people's work? I realize that PR-filtered bigco tech articles aren't the greatest medium. But when you hand-wave this back to "the same thing that has been done for thousands of years", that's the kind of cheap internet discourse that degrades and ultimately destroys a site like HN, which is trying for something at least a little better.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
Systems Thinking: A Product Is More Than the Product
That doesn't provide the benefit of batching, though. (Of course, now neither does Patreon.)

Have you considered putting up a hosted version that batches Stripe charges?
Like Apple, they break up charges into arbitrary batches on their side, but I did not ask them to provide guidance on what their batch limits are. Apple sometimes waits days to charge me, and often distributes charges randomly across multiple transactions, so clearly there's some kind of optimization limit that's reached at scale.
I know the subthread went in another direction, but: vitamin D increases the absorption of calcium. With minimal vitamin D synthesis from sun exposure in northern Europe, it makes sense that extra dietary calcium would be an evolutionary advantage. Hence, lactose tolerance. So OP's comment made sense even while confusing vitamin d and calcium.
Ruby 3x3 Progress
C&C Tiberian Sun had that in the 90s. You could tweak a lot of parameters as well!
The ice melting is not the cause of seawater warming. Ice melt may indicate seawater warming, but the OP is correct that in itself it does not affect sea levels.
I'm not surprised there are no LEDs with heaters. Seems like it would be integrated into the housing/lense.
What's your site? Would love to take a look.
If it's that easy, we're doomed. Even if goal alignment works, you can't make people use it. And even if they did, whose goals would they have it align with? The goals of evil humans are plenty bad enough.
You just described LINQ
I'm a creator who uses Patreon. Most of my support is $1 pledges; I have a couple small pledges I make to other creators, as well.

I heard about this entirely through people talking about it on Mastodon. Didn't get any email from Patreon about this, not even lost in my spam folder; the only email I have from Patreon going back for a while is "hey you got paid", "someone made/changed a pledge", and "someone commented on one of your posts".

I'm not anyone huge, I make about $800 a month on a really productive month, and I don't make videos which is sometimes all Patreon seems to care about - I quit subscribing to their creator newsletter because it was nothing but chirpy articles on why and how you should be making video content!!11!! - but I kinda feel like, I dunno, maybe I should have had, like, some email in my inbox about this?

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I really hope that everyone (including me) is misreading the detailed explanation of How This New Fee Structure Works, because it sure does sound like they're going to be imposing a 2.9%+35¢ transaction fee to every single pledge before they add up all of the pledges you've made to the dozen creators you might support on Patreon, instead of after. Which adds up really quickly.

If this is the case, I guess I get to see if being a Featured Project twice on Kickstarter is going to be of any help in getting into their new invite-only Patreon-alike d.rip...

edit: They updated the FAQ page on the new fees to address the concerns of the per-thing creators like me. https://patreon.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005631963

>Q: How does this impact me as a per-post creator?

>A: As a per-post creator, your patrons will see the 2.9% + $0.35 service fee added to all paid posts. For example, if you are a per post creator making two paid posts per month, your patrons will be charged 2.9% + $0.35 for each paid post.

(Italics mine.)

are they, like, completely unbundling all of their charges from each other now? Why are we even using Patreon any more if that's the case?
But how can MoviePass change the royalty structure?
It shouldn't depend on the payment processor; if the credit card payment is going to Patreon, they can batch up the charges however they way (e.g. they could batch up all of one customer's donations for a week to 50 different artists, and process a single transaction with their payment processor for the whole amount. They would then only be charged for a single transaction)
>No one really anticipated what we all are currently experiencing

Actually, those in the Bitcoin economic space have been saying this was going to happen for ~3 years

Hyperbitcoinization - Daniel Krawisz - March 29, 2014
http://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/hyperbitcoinization/
From reading the Authy docs, it sounds like all your Authy data is encrypted before leaving the device, so if the encryption works, it should be pretty secure. You can also turn off the multi-device support and backup, if you don't want those features. But tome, the risk of losing my single device and being locked out of my accounts is too high without it. I just wish Authy was open source so it could get more security review.
Why should we wait till 2018?
Let's start the Great CSS Battle right now. Me & my team have been using Fela as our major CSS-in-JS solution for about half a year. We used to work with srylecomponents before, but I just cannot get the idea of writing CSS & HTML in JS without JS syntax. For the same reason we switched from JSX to our own helper. Probably I will write the article one day which will show what we've lost in performance (spoiler: almost noting) and what we've gained in DX (spoiler: enormous boost). In a nut shell,I hope that 2018 will be the year when JS components will combine structure, presentation, behavior in one place, so developers will be able to replace three syntaxes with only one. That's what we did half a year ago...and our live won't the same again
HyperBitcoinization – Daniel Krawisz – March 29, 2014
I benefited from the Apple IIe program in schools back in the early 80s. (Mentioned in the full article.) Still programming today, and have no idea what I'd be doing now if not for that pivotal situation. It gave me the idea, the motivation and the confidence to pursue an engineering degree. Before that, I had no idea what I wanted to do after high school.
Nice link. I'd not heard of them.

This shows what can be done:

https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/myprojects/mit-challenge-2/

OK so this is hardcore, but even if a few of the modules were completed that would prove something.