skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Title is incorrect, the $0.35 is for every pledge, not for every (monthly) transaction.

I really dislike this move. I like to support creators with small monthly contributions, like $1-2/month. Because I pledge to a lot of creators the overhead remains small for the people I support.

With this new model Patreon is raising its prices for me with ~30%, or another way of looking at it Patreon is decreasing the payout to creators from ~90% to ~65% for small pledges.
> For one thing, it uses extensive mathematical jargon that won’t make any sense to beginners

In Germany this is the usual style for lectures for absolute beginners from 1st semester on - even commonly for people who don't major in math. This style is even not uncommon for 1st semester math lectures for student who don't major in mathematics or physics.

Hardly any faculty has a problem with this - they love it that the math departments weed out "unsuitable" students in their lectures so they don't have to

If you don't believe me and know a little German, here are two common German textbooks about linear algebra covering about 1.5 semesters of linear algebra for math majors:

- Gerd Fischer - Lineare Algebra: Eine Einführung für Studienanfänger (note the title "Linear Algebra: An introduction for freshmen" - I am really not kidding)

- Siegfried Bosch - Lineare Algebra

Even more: I know a lecturer from Hungary who had very direct words about how relaxing he considers the curriculum for math majors in Germany (he is used to a Sowjet-Russian-style-inspired math program).
How trainers and coach can help align sales and marketing
Itemized deductions
https://smartasset.com/taxes/income-taxes#tax-calculators
Top Project Management Influencers of 2017
No, it's just poorly managed. Use Gemini, which is 10 faster and much cheaper.
More like how Sears used to work but with more locations so you don't have to go (as far) out of your way on your commute from work. You order stuff from a vast catalog (Amazon website) and then when it's available you go pick it up. The advantage is the selection of goods and that you don't have to actually do the shopping. No hunting through aisles and such, just in and out.
Coinbase GDAX is down
This is from September but maybe its posted again now because the change is/has shipp(ing/ed) to users?

Personally, I prefer to go the other way and use a local environment subdomain with local stuff anyway (ie local.foo.company.com rather than foo.dev).
This is one reason why WinRT initially only had async APIs.
It’s nice that Amazon wants to own that but I don’t want that service. They can keep it.
for all functions, f(x) = f(0) + f'(0) * x for x very close to 0
They aren’t misconceptions, I’m questioning some currently held assumptions. You are still talking about electric right? Why are assuming I’m unaware of your claims? I’m aware of e.g. error corection problems but I would definitely not say it’s impossible.

Photonic systems have plenty of error correcting schemes.
Why wouldn't I expect them to correct any abuse, when they explicitly state that they will do so?

If they just went, "We'll do our best, but if anything goes horribly wrong you're fucked, sign here," then whatever. I wouldn't sign up for it anyway, but at least they'd be honest.

But to say that they will "correct the problem" if anything goes wrong, but force you into binding arbitration, is just wrong.
How I Built This - This is a podcast from NPR that interviews founders of businesses. They have had the founder of Southwest Airlines to the founder of Atari to the founder of Chipotle. There are some tech companies involved but it is always interesting hearing the stories of the founders on how they built their business.
It's not free. NYT relies on a subscription model.
Circuit breakers do not matter if other exchanges continue to trade the same currency. It would just cause the exchanges that do the circuit breaker to possibly hurt their customers.

The only effective circuit breaker is some form of synchronized method, but will the different exchanges cooperate? They really should put in circuit breakers this week across all exchanges so that when really bad stuff the panic doesn't destroy tons of people. It will be bad, but at least if the trades can complete and things unwind in a moderately slow fashion, it won't just 100,000 attempted transactions per second with random successes.
Yes, but even the largest known gold heists are, for the most part, smaller than what we're seeing in bitcoin.
Are you speaking of a literal filter? Or is this more of a personal practice?
Used to be you could read tech news written by people who were both knowledgable and enthusiastic about technology. Now it seems to be mostly paranoid, technophobic clickbait.
Very good analysis, and a correct conclusion that memory bandwidth is the bottleneck (at least for Matrix fused multiply-add intensive workloads - like feeedforward NNs and Convnets). We have done experiments on the 1080Ti (484 GB/s) and for 32-bit FP training (convnets on tensorflow), it is close in performance to the P100 (717 GB/s).

The other point to add is that SIMD operation for GPUs is what gives them efficient batched reads from GPU memory for each operation.
To be clear, I'm agnostic of the guy's motive -- I'm just genuinely puzzled how, if you spent most of your waking hours supporting AI startups and expanding the tech industry, you could possibly see that as "inevitable" and not something that requires a ton of hard work. Surely if this was all just inexorably happening on its own then everyone at YC would be out of a job?
This is a solid idea, but his dataset is too messy and incomplete to draw conclusions with much certainty. He notes that it misses many ancient and especially Eastern generals just because they don't have Wikipedia entries, but even for the ones he does have the data isn't consistent enough to support his methodology IMHO. To do this right would be a lot more effort.
Exactly. GDAX and other exchanges charge less or no fees to the market makers to increase liquidity in the market. (Basically lessen the spread and increase volume on the order book).

From the exhanges POV this is useful because more orders = more money for then.

From the market traders POV (the taker) this is useful because a lower spread and more volume means there is less chance of buying something they can't later sell.

For the market maker, they make their money on volatility (aka the movement if the price). If they think the price is going up, they will offer to buy at a price higher than the current highest buy offer. This reduces the spread and increases the odds of someone taking their offer. They will then later sell those coins, and make a small profit on the movement.

If they think the price is going down, they will place a sell order cheaper than the lowest sell, and then buy back later, making small profit whole keeping the same amount of coin / stock / whatever.

Basically a "market-making" trader is less in it for long-term, and more interested in making money on the movement.

Aside: You may have also heard of "short selling". This is when a market maker is betting the price is going to go down, but doesn't have anything to sell. In a short sale, they will borrow the stock/coin from someone else (such as the exhange or their broker), and sell it, promising to buy it back later to repay the loan of said stock / coin. Easy way to bet on perfornance of an asset you don't owb, but dangerous since if you are wrong and price goes up, the person who loaned it to you will want you to repay it back sooner rather than later, costing you money!
Yes, it is. Thanks for your moderation.
You should give it a go, it's not hard to configure, and it allows you to trivially use several languages in the same file, which is really practical in many cases. It also exports nicely to HTML and PDF (via LaTeX)
This is doubly weird because Patreon only charges users once per month, so they are really only paying one transaction fee per user. They also charge VAT for european pledgers, already bringing up the pledge amount by 25%.
I'll second that. For all the attention DL/ANNs get... there's still a lot of legwork going on out there using linear models, basic trees, etc. IIRC this years kaggle survey ranked Logistic Regression as the #1 most used model by a long shot.
I do not think it would be difficult for someone to setup a website and scam newbies into buying 'bitcoin', handing over credit card info and taking wire transfers. Perhaps even act legit to start and then segue into only processing part of transactions as real. Quite a ponzi. I don't think is a stretch either. There isn't anything comparable that people would give you money for and the key really is the overwhelming interest and publicity combined with people who have no clue what they are buying. As long as (as with any ponzi) people don't withdraw more than they actually have this could go on for quite some time. Madoff had it much much harder.
That would be really great, an organization, owned by its members, that would manage the site.

It just takes someone to launch this, and very hard work
"We want to run an exchange that the entire world will use for this crypto-currency that's become very popular and has increased in price 1000% since it became widely known."

I think I would have predicted that they'd need to run at a very large scale, and be able to handle massive spikes. Whether or not I could have convinced them to make the investment is another story.
I read, "a lockbox that you can put on your front porch," as a realtor-style lockbox that holds a key to the house and needs a pin entered to get the key. For what you wrote, it likely wouldn't have the same slowdown.
Aligning strike plates (catches, hinges, etc.) is a gigantic pain in the ass. It's not just using a screwdriver, it's getting everything to line up correctly, and potentially using a chisel, wood putty, etc. to make the correct cutouts in your door or frame.
This has an intuitive interface and computes quickly. With 2 competing bills in the House and Senate that haven't yet been reconciled and formalized, a calculator like this is never going to be perfect, but at least we can begin to see the implications these proposals could have on our tax liability.
>> For non-competes, NDAs should suffice.

With all that complaining about signing away your right to sue and work, why do you think it's OK to sign away your right to speak? Serious question.
> Which is clearly not enough, as detailed in the article.

40$ is actually close to the market rate of time saved for a large percentage of people driving on that road. So, you might not think costs that don't evenly map to dollars as equivalent, but clearly the market disagrees.

> around in circles on a private track.

Easily tracked and an exception could be made, but most people would not feel the savings as worth the effort. Remember laws are thousands of pages long first and second order objections can easily be included.

PS: In effect every road in the US is a toll road, you might not agree with the prices and exceptions but people still pay billions.
I'm in Europe, never had a delivery guy call me.

Either I need to be home to get a delivery or I have to rely on them giving my parcel to the concierge. Which is often more of a hassle as he finishes at 5 and I'm often not home in time to get my parcel from him.
This is such crap. If they really were committed to making things right in the event of a problem, they wouldn't have to fear being sued.

I mean, even if you have the best of intentions, it's still nice to have all the cards stacked in your favor for your own protection.
That's a great feature. I have a smartlock and it's insane how hard they try to keep it from being convenient to use -- in the same of security of course.
The appropriate calculation is the amount of it took to find the issue, divided by the probability of not finding the issue.
Decoding an air conditioner control's checksum with differential cryptanalysis
“We will invest to help you growing if and only if you stop acting like a VC bonfire charity and start operating like a business"

I could well imagine investors to occasionally say that. The fees may have been a condition for getting the capital.

The backwardness of the timing is well within the range of weirdness that can be expected from a compromise that was a difficult struggle to get.
Like any traded asset it's just based on the current buy and sell orders, same as with the stock market
Garbage in, garbage out. If your data set comes from scraping wikipedia, you're going to have these kinds of flaws and omissions. What's the alternative though, other than to hire an army of grad students? If flawed, at least it's interesting. I wish the author had gone into more detail about counterintuitive results (like Rommel), but part of the point of an exercise like this is to find instances where the model disagrees with common wisdom. If you jump straight to rejecting the model without asking why, you don't learn anything.

Some other thoughts:

- Analysis is limited to results of individual battles. That's a very narrow slice of a general's actual job.

- He ties WAR to overall W/L, which isn't great but the data doesn't give you many options.

- The model rewards "underdog" wins. This sounds like a decent proxy for skill, but it seems like a big part of the job is avoiding being an underdog in the first place.

- Army size and casualty figures for anything pre-17th century (and that's generous) are extremely suspect.
I really appreciate you writing up and sharing your migration story and raw opinions, as well as all the great code you've written. Thanks you!

I've done some xulrunner app development as well as IE ActiveX control browser extensions in the past, including various implementations of pie menus, and I would like to learn more about the latest Firefox, Chrome and Safari extensions APIs, so I can implement pie menus properly for those platforms.

That's why I'm so happy to be able to read your migration story and raw opinions! Reading about you experience is even more valuable than reading the source code itself! Thank you again! ;)

I've implemented pie menus in jQuery for web pages [1] [2], but they really need to be rendered with transparency in their own arbitrarily shaped popup overlay windows, so they're not confined to the browser window, like I was able to do with ActiveX controls in C++/MFC and also X11/TCL/Tk back in the 90's [3], and with NeWS in PostScript back in the 80's [4].

I noticed that Safari extensions have an API for creating popover windows called SafariExtensionPopover [5] [6] [7]. But they must be rectangular, and the documentation doesn't mention how their position is defined (but I presume they appear beneath the cursor or invoking toolbar item). So there doesn't seem to be an obvious way to position or shape them. (Could you get the popover's window, and set its position pixel-perfectly regardless of borders?)

As far as I can tell, Safari's popovers are only good for traditional linear menus that pop up below the cursor or toolbar item, because you can't even control their position to center them on the cursor like a pie menu requires.

Do you know if there any way to create a pop-up window in any position or size, and even to set the background color transparent, so I can make arbitrarily shaped and popup windows? Even rectangular overlapping popup windows would be better than having to clip them to the window frame.

Do you have any suggestions for how I should approach the problem, please? What kind of browser extension API do you think could be designed or modified to support arbitrarily shaped pop-up windows for pie menus and other techniques (like tabs sticking out the edge of the window [9], for example)?

(The X-Windows SHAPES extension [10] is a terrible example of the worst possible way of doing that! ;) )

[1] https://github.com/SimHacker/jquery-pie

[2] http://donhopkins.com/mediawiki/index.php/JQuery_Pie_Menus

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnC8x9x3Xag

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMcmQk-q0k4

[5] https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/To...

[6] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariextensions/s...

[7] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariextensions/s...

[8] https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/53646

[9] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8042726

[10] https://hn.svelte.technology/item/15325226 (search for XShapeQueryExtents)
Yeah, I'm just saying, you just gave them a key to your house, which is probably a mistake, and you'll probably sign the arbitration clause because why wouldn't you make two mistakes for ultimate convenience?

Most companies will take as much as you give them. Seems like an easy win in this customer demographic
Amen. Like always it is all about the Benjamin's. They are a for profit business. The best thing you can do is switch to another service with better rates. Most people wont do that.

I currently give $38 a month to 19 creators ($2 each, I don't really have much to give). So that is like what $13 in fees for me. I think not.
I know for a fact that Amazon does employ package delivery people in my area. They are not contractors or hired by contractors. Amazon fulfillment is a massive organization.
I'm not sure they've got the boundary between Reference and Explanation quite right.

They seem to be thinking of the Explanation category as less than formal, and of the Reference category as organised around individual items (a list of methods, or command-line arguments, or configuration options).

What a lot of projects miss is formal, complete-and-correct documentation of what the program does and doesn't promise to do, independent of any user-controllable knob.
Cryptocurrency has a huge problem, and it’s not the bubble
I'm not at all familiar with any of those terms (C2P/P2C mailbox. Secure S3. fTPM Support)

What exactly do those things do?
Coinbase doesn't support Tether so it should be okay.
Have you tried the built-in titlebar setting in Customize? There's an option at the bottom to turn on the regular system titlebar so that it displays as a normal window.
Probably. Could be an interesting data science project. One thing I'm not sure about is how easy it is to make new wallet addresses. Do you know?
In basically the same situation, here's what's helped me:

1. Hard limits on screen time (e.g. no screens after 5pm)

2. Basketball, tennis, chess (find a social activity - physical ones are a double whammy)

3. Personal training

4. Spend time learning - I spend a good portion of my free time learning about my craft, but also about other things. Variability spices life up a bit.

5. Working from coffee shops

6. Writing. Serves mainly as a way to process my experiences, and the large positive feedback has been rewarding. (example: http://www.programmerfu.com/2017/04/20/fast-is-slow-slow-is-...)

My most recent strategy has been to wake up, make coffee and bust out an hour of focused work before I do anything. My wife works with me during this time, which is nice for accountability and togetherness. Generally, getting that first hour out of the way without "easing into it" with reddit/HN gives me a feeling of accomplishment that empowers me to tackle the rest of the day. And if I'm unmotivated the rest of the day, I know I've gotten a decent slice of work in already.
Friendster and napster were central systems that were shut down for legal reasons and were replaced with other more distributed systems. Btc value is derived from its distributed "anti-fragile" nature which would require a lot more effort to shut down.
Selenium has done wonders for me too. It's sad that so many patients have to find this information on their own. Glad to hear your doc is on top of it.
Well, the issue is we are not building general AI systems at all yet. If and when we can, the game changes, and we pretty much cannot figure how it will until it happens.

There is no other general intelligence at this point that can rival human intelligence, we have a systems sample size of 1. Making predictions based on such a wide range of possible technologies is hopeless at this point.

Why would a fixed placement general learning computer system that takes input from millions of possible sources evolve in the same way that a mobile robot with general learning intelligence? Will both be possible? What about swarm intelligences?

Too many questions with no possible way to answer them.
Yes many movies are released internationally before they are in the US. When I lived in India I got to see most major releases before the US release. I assume Malaysia is a pretty similar market.

Ha, all the way back and to the sides are my favorite type of movie neighbors.
I generally agree with you, but you imply everyone has a front porch let alone owns space in front of their home door which they're allowed to use for permanent installations.

I bet their designers thought this through and while I think your "cool computer vision project" argument still stands, I believe the real reason is that everyone who owns/rents living space actually has a front door with space for packets behind said door.
This is an odd but apparently widespread phobia.

Do you not have a housekeeper, or a landscaper, or dog walker, or anyone else who goes into your house when you're not there? It's pretty common for service personnel to be in a house doing stuff.
Thanks for all your work. If you had a donation option, I'd be happy to limit my contribution to what I've gained from the past ~10 years of usage with literally no expectation of continued development.
Would like it to consider IRA/401k contributions.
The mini-crossword is free as well as some of their full crosswords.
People place orders saying they will buy it at x price and these are matched with sellers. I recommend checking out poloniex to understand how a crypto exchange works. Coinbase isn't actually an exchange rather they have to buy Bitcoin from elsewhere and then sell it directly to you and that's part of why the price on coinbse is always higher than on real exchanges
If this interests you, I would also recommend checking out http://open-source-economics.github.io/Tax-Calculator/ and https://github.com/open-source-economics/tax-calculator.
We paid off two World Wars with those taxes. Those times coincided with the creation of the middle class as we know it today. The fact that the US exploded onto the world stage at the same time should provide some hope to people who worry that high taxes will prevent growth and stifle business. Granted, the US was filling a power vacuum left after Europe tore itself apart, but it's still showing that strong growth and high tax rates aren't mutually exclusive, and in fact may be correlated.
I would guess they're also likely the first stop for new entrants, as they're (or were?) the only US based exchange, easiest to use, and insured by FDIC/Lloyd's.

Coinbase has been my recommendation to anyone new to the scene who wants to buy/use bitcoin.

And obviously once finished, move all funds to paper wallet.
Roy Moore's camp is also asking the yearbook be handed over to a third-party for analysis but so far the request has been ignored.
See what sticks, iterate and improve.

For those with pets, get your own Amazon Locker installed on your porch...
Well said.

It's not important everyone becomes a proficient programmer - it's important kids are exposed to the ideasand given the knowledge and oportunity to pursue it further if they want.

Like with most other school subjects.
If you accept money on behalf of creators, you probably need some kind of financial service provider license.

Handling chargebacks+fees might be a bit annoying as well.
Coinbase is just a broker with a bunch of customers. It connects to all the BTC exchanges in order to execute all their orders. They don't own bitcoins.
I had about $60 BTC in Nicehash. I'm aware to not store BTC in places like this, but given transaction fees, it's also not something where if you're working with a small amount of mining (just a single GPU) that you can transfer out daily without getting destroyed for transfer fees.

I'm guessing there were a lot of users like this.