skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its kind of funny. These Silicon Valley types make $150k, but still can't get a girlfriend
Thanks for posting this! The body almost looks like an elephant.
Serious question, would it ever be possible to implement circuit breakers like the stock market does for Bitcoin? Without safeguards, and the nature of 24/7/365 trading of Bitcoin, this all feels like teetering on the brink of catastrophe.
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Look at it this way: these services are like banks, but their traffic is more like a news site. It's literally the most challenging aspects of both worlds.
What needs to be enabled in ublock/umatrix to actually complete the survey? I got to the very bottom but clicking submit does nothing and I didn't feel like debugging anything deeper. I rarely do surveys but the shirt looks cool.
In other words, for any useful transaction... Bitcoin isn't instant at all.
It's perfectly acceptable from a legal and regulatory standpoint for a merchant (Patreon) to bundle together several small charges into a single transaction for efficiency; Apple and Amazon both do this for digital purchases.

The payments to creators are a separate series of transactions. If using ACH, there should be minimal fees.

On the one hand, Patreon probably needs to charge more to meet its costs. On the other hand, it's doing so in an incredibly poorly-conceived and messaged fashion.
Here is the C# support:
https://cloud.google.com/dotnet/
There are some huge differences between the dot-com bubble and cryptocurrencies.

Firstly, practically everyone who invests in cryptocurrencies knows that there is a chance that they could drop massively - Nobody is being deceived. If anything, I would say that most buyers tend to underestimate the technical accomplishments and the amount of vision behind most popular cryptocurrencies.

Secondly, unlike companies, cryptocurrencies can never* go bankrupt. They cannot be shut down by any single government. There will always be developers with machines somewhere willing to mine coins.

It's already possible to build businesses/services on top of blockchains and these businesses have a huge advantage over regular businesses; they can never go bankrupt. Also, they are completely autonomous. There was a lot of publicity around DAO (and its subsequent failure) but in spite of this, there are already value-creating businesses based on Blockchain technology which are currently operating under the radar: e.g. IOTA is a cryptocurrency but it's also platform that lets users buy and sell data directly from internet-connected sensors also Siacoin is a file-storage service, Power Ledger is an electricity marketplace... There are many others.

Another huge advantage of most blockchain-based businesses is that anyone with hardware (or virtual machines) can participate in the value-creation process and be rewarded for it.

* Unless maybe there is another massive Carrington Event... But even then it's unlikely that the blockchain of major cryptocurrencies will be completely wiped out.
Videostream is a good Videostream replacement. New version is not a Chrome App, beta at https://getvideostream.com/ ;)
During the dot-com boom in Atlanta back in '99-'00, agencies and, to some extent, startups around the city were known for hitting the strip clubs for client meetings. It was pretty rife out there within the industry.

I doubt that would even remotely pass today. Just because some practices were "acceptable" over a prior timeframe doesn't exactly render it acceptable today.
That's more of a sad fact, depending on the person I guess.
> They aren't hiring these models as equals, but for the misogynistic dynamic

Interesting, my mind goes straight to this being incredibly demeaning toward the legitimate male attendees of the party. Didn't even occur to me that somebody would have the opposite interpretation.

That'd be my only thought at the party. "They had to pay this good-looking person to pretend to talk to me." I don't see how this is misogynistic? I just see this as an extreme degradation of the males involved.
I thought SALT and Student Loan deductions were eliminated? They're still listed here. Am I missing something?
Well, the point of this microservice is to determine which service is supposed to listen on which given port (or vice-versa).
Sure, /etc/services can be edited locally, but that means the local administrator already knows such service-port-protocol mapping. And a conflict may occur later on at any OS package update.
Also, this microservice is intended to be queried from anywhere, especially from restricted systems (e.g., from Android devices) where it is not possible to access such admin configuration files.
Actually, this was developed out of a real need in one of the Android apps I'm working on: DD-WRT Companion
RAII really is a brilliant design, it both (mostly) solves the problem of manual memory management and is easier (for my brain at least) to reason about than deterministic (shared_ptr, Obj-C/Swift) or nondeterministic (managed langs) garbage collection schemes. Once I grokked it I've never looked at managed langs the same way again.

In C++'s defense it's not like the language or the compilers encourage you to use shared_ptr, but it's also true (mainly for legacy C-interop cruft) it doesn't do enough to nudge you to write code in a proper RAII style, nor to enforce correctness WRT ownership.

I like that Rust forces you to explicitly opt out of RAII and/or single-owner semantics. (Those are the "defaults" in C++ too, but too easy to implicitly or accidentally opt out of). On the other hand you can write Java in any language, and from the little Rust I've read, newcomers from managed langs will often daisy-chain enough smart pointers in a row to put any 13-year-old who just downloaded Unreal Engine to shame.

The last time I took a serious look at Rust I thought it took things too far in the other direction; you weren't able to use two (nonoverlapping!) data members of the same struct in a function, and the suggested workaround was to wrap it in a smart pointer. Has that issue been fixed now?
This is pathetic. Either don't hire women to be there or just hire a bunch of strippers. I say this as someone who is irritated by both sexism and political correctness run amok.
I can imagine that - we had a Pentium II 400Mhz with an onboard Nvidia riva TNT - the onboard part made it fast... And outcast, C&C 3 and AoE II came out that time
I don't enjoy it; it already feels like nobody ever smiles at or talks to me when they aren't getting paid to, why would I ever want that feeling to extend to social events?

Talk about a nightmare.
Hold up, they take one charge on my PayPal and if I understand this correctly, they are going to charge me for each of my pledges?

So, 4 x $1 pledges that are taken as one charge will now cost me $5.52 ($1 + $0.35 + $0.03) * 4))?
Yes that's the only sensible choice if you want to minimise suffering. Maybe in the future we'll have benevolent AI. Without that, it looks like we increase a ton of suffering.
No, your point is even more trash than that.
You're using the legal system... by negotiating away your right to sue.

Don't sign the agreement if you don't like it.
I'm fairly sure this is tied to anti-money laundering rules (but would be happy to be corrected). Basically, if Patreon bundled patron payments and then paid them out to creators, it could be construed as transaction laundering.

The basic problem is that it would be cheaper for everybody involved if Patreon would charge each patron a bundled amount for all their supported campaigns, and then pay out to each creator everyone's support to them. This means that there are N + M transactions, where N is number of patrons and M is number of creators. However, due to a myriad of rules, they actually need to pay out N * M transaction fees, because each patron's contributions will be going more or less directly to each creator (minus Patreon's cut of course). The extra fees more accurately represent the cost of doing business with credit cards.

This article explains the AML rules in this area: https://www.trulioo.com/blog/transaction-laundering-a-growin...
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What's the issue with this exactly? The models are getting paid. Presumably no one is compelled to work as a hired model at one of these events.
But they did hire them. Pedantry aside though, what's wrong with having a boring party?
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But 1 block is something like 99.9% safe.

Even 0 blocks is somewhat safe, as long as you keep resubmitting the transaction and the other person doesn't spend those funds in an earlier block before yours gets included.
Great question.

I posted a related Ask HN the other day asking about who’s using the api and for what tools:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15861468

Unfortunately I’m never made it to the “ask” page so it never got traction
Any significant change to the language is certainly going to take time and careful attention, so I'm not surprised the guilds and typing stuff hasn't fully seen the light of day at this point. Performance progress is certainly welcome...while I applaud the goal of 3x speed over Ruby 2.0, I'd be quite content with only 2x, which I suspect is a more realistic target.
Greedy Patreon.com, I already deleted my account.

You need to send an email to:
disable@patreon.com
The Senate and House plans do different things with these deductions (house eliminates, senate curtails) and it's not at all clear what will come out of conference.
Discussions about climate stories on HN have tended to get derailed by climate deniers injecting "facts" or little calculations/conjectures that seem to refute bodies of peer-reviewed science into the discussion.

And after a while this diversion of attention is irritating. Not a down voter, but I'd assume that's what's going on.

Now, about "the other side" being unscientific -- HN down vote behavior does not have much to do with the content of peer-reviewed scientific papers. So I don't agree with letting HN down voting behaviors drive your decision-making about climate science.

For climate science, a good place to start is the just-published 2017 (U.S.) National Climate Assessment, which helpfully summarizes the peer-reviewed science. See: https://science2017.globalchange.gov
Ya, and with limited supply, as more bigger richer companies strongly focus on gender diversity, it will make it worse than it was before for the rest of the industry. The problem will have to be corrected in the universities before it is in the industry. Many higher end CS programs are making great strides here, so I think it will happen in a couple of generations.
Something I haven't though of before - with paper newspapers, there is no way to opt out of ads, and those are also subscription based. Why is the internet different? There is no opt-out for newspapers. Presumably they are getting less revenue than the customer agreed upon if the ads aren't displayed or aren't clicked on. Is using an ad blocker effectively stealing?

Note: I use an ad blocker primarily as a means against malware.
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Can we not?

I'm still holding out hope that Sam will come participate on HN one day. I assume you don't know him on a personal level.
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Hi - I'm Yana, Co-founder of Token.
You can download the app via www.jointoken.com/app.

The reason you were asked for the phone number is to make your life easier and to text you the link :)
Enjoy token and let me know how it works for you.
Stay safe.
Even though it claims to be critical, it is not that critical. I almost felt that I’m reading an advertisement for an amazon product
Exactly, the odds that something else wins are very high, but picking the winner is going to be difficult and possibly not profitable. Really, look for something that can scale to a billion users while incentives are linked to being useful not being an investment as they have different optimizations.
Concerns about Bitcoin's energy use are overblown
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Here's a perspective on the former issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZakJFqdpRY
The largest bit coin address has 130,248.45240828 BTC so for it to reach 1T USD. 1 BTC would need to be worth 7.7M USD.
Is there a list of restaurants that you work with available?
They buried it, but their NIPS 2017 paper is linked in the article.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.05357
"The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in 'Metcalfe's law'–which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants–becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's."

-Paul Krugman, 1998
Imgur was reporting being over capacity just this morning.

By most engineers in the field it is a difficult problem with ongoing work.
That's not the problem anyone is having with this.
No need for conspiracy theories.

These services are like banks, but the traffic they handle is more like a news site, due to the extreme volatility of cryptocurrencies. Super-security combined with extremely large traffic fluctuations.

Whoever is on PagerDuty at Coinbase these days - I feel for ya.
That's fine until its inculcated into every commercial agreement going forward, and you have no legal power to challenge the entire system.
Procedurally generated but still symmetrical maps would actually be really interesting. It would be like having a new battleground to explore every match without giving an advantage to either side.
knows that there is a chance that they could collapse completely - Nobody is being deceived

I think this is your bias based on the people bought in within your circle, but when technologies like this hit the mainstream, that's never the case.
I too think this is pretty crass and as artificial as so much else in SV. But to play devil's advocate, aren't they hiring more women, but instead of employees, they're hiring contractors?
They just happen to be hiring women whose gifts are more physical and social than technical.
And why shouldn't those women be able to work?

For me, I don't mind anyone being hired or contracted for skills in guest relations, marketing or any position or work need. This bothers me though, because it's a contrivance being used to not only help their employees have fun, but to mask a systemic flaw, which is just too much in the SV culture of always killing it, everything is amazing, fake it till you make it, false value creation and other cultural negatives that prevent true growth and benefits to the part of their society they are primarily responsible for: their work force.

This is really generalized, though, but it would apply to more than a handful of SV companies.

But I do think that they're living up to the letter of what you're saying, but definitely not the spirit of it.
How incredibly cringeworthy. Glad to see Silicon Valley companies continuing to meet my expectations.
It's misogynistic because it commodifies women. Having a woman to talk to is something that you can just buy, like a car or a nice meal. They're not treated as people, just as consummables.
As a chrome app dev (Videostream is our app) the transition has been really annoying. They've given us ample time to prepare for the shutdown and we've developed a new app, from scratch, to work outside of the Chrome app world but they (as engineers tend to do) did nothing to mitigate the disaster of a transition. Through blogs, tweets, etc. directly pointing to the webstore, we have years of SEO built up all pointing directly to what will now be a dead link.

We've been pestering Google for a way to have a redirect or link on that page that says "get the app for windows and mac in its new home over here" but they haven't been very responsive. It's such a shitty way to treat developers who chose your ecosystem and who you did a certain amount of convincing. They have done this to us once before, with their wallet for digital goods, where they shut that down and developers lost any recurring subscriptions they had on the platform.

Basically, google is brutal if you develop on a platform for them that they decide to axe, they really don't think of the people and companies and how they will be affected and we now think twice before choosing to use anything they maintain.
The linked site (taxulator) also takes state taxes into account if you select "itemized" deductions.
"If you want more women at the event, hire more women at the company and create a culture that encourages that."

-- Yes, some magic wand will solve it?

If they are tech companies and engineers are the primary value drivers, and only 16% of CS grads are female, what kind of rock will they find balanced workforce?

Companies hire because they need people to feel a role, (eg. engineers, marketing, sales, hr... etc).
If they need more engineers they have to deal with the workforce supply issues, where only 16% of applicants are female.

They are a business that need to build and sale products, and not a charity.

I live in NYC, and they have the opposite is here, most PR or fashion firms are more female dominated...

It is, what it is. Not sure it justifies hiring models to balance the gender ratio in a party, but the workforce imbalance is there to stay as long as there is such an imbalance ratio in CS grads.
I was in Atlanta from '78 to 2000. From '80 to '93 I owned several businesses. I had clients come in and ask to go to the strip clubs. I declined. We offered cab money. I suspect some of my employees went with them but I was never in the know.
It wouldn’t be so bad if they had male models also. Actually, I’m sure someone could make that into a winning business.
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If you ride the guide in its entirety (or the text of the PSD2 at http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX...), you would see that one-to-many transactions are fine under the PSD2 regulations.

The most likely reason for the change in fee structures is that Patreon simply needs to charge more money.
Have you ever heard the expression if an expert tells you something can be done, s/he's prolly right. If s/he tells you it can't be done it's not quite certain.

Im not convinced that our understanding is quite there to say it can or can't be done.
If that is the concern they can go after tax havens, there is where the billions are.
> In 2013, charging customers a clearly-notified fee for accepting credit cards was authorized for all merchants; most simply choose not to.

The federal ban on charging fees was lifted, but many states (including New York and California) also still outlaw this at the state level.

In addition, merchant agreements often prohibit it - for example, merchants that take American Express cannot charge fees for any transactions, even the ones that run on Visa or Mastercard.
Why not both? It's not really a single-dimensional scale; it is perfectly feasible to be simultaneously misogynstic and misandrist at the same time. Proof by existence.
That is a single address.
Isn't it very reasonable to assume that persons with the most bitcoins will have them distributed among multiple addresses?
With a smaller focus, and the inclusion of some of the more obvious factors left out, this might have been interesting. In its current state it misses so many factors it renders itself less than worthless.

It's a ranking of a few popular wikipedia articles, based on metrics drawn up without any connection to the realities of war.
Patreon is presenting this as solely as an improvement for the sake of the creators (see https://blog.patreon.com/updating-patreons-fee-structure/). If it's a necessity to Patreon alive, they're not presenting it as such. I have yet to find a creator who is not upset about this change. And they seem to be ignorant or uncaring about the uproar it's caused.

This is the end of Patreon if they don't course-correct very quickly.
Coinbase probably deals with lots of bot trading. Most consumer-facing startups deal with human-scale behavior, not bot-scale.
My school recently got rid of their own book store in favor of Amazon Locker locations. Its fantastic. Basically its a storefront with a bunch of lockers in it and a counter. Most items get either free two day or one day (most school supplies and textbooks are one day). I get an email with a barcode and I head over and scan it and the locker opens up. Only downside is that its about a 10 minute walk from my dorm. You also get returns dealt with much faster since they can instantly verify you're actually returning the product.
This only tells me what would happen next year. What about 5, 7, 10 years out?
The distinction is arbitrary and appears to be generally used to highlight the most important things of the year through a person, group of persons, or event involving people, which is obviously quite wide. If you want a person of they year in-depth individual profile, you are welcome to look elsewhere, but that general type of thing is obviously important to many others and is true to what the series is. No flaw there.

> The entire "silence breakers" is simply about creating medial rage against people who are not yet proven guilty which is in my opinion immensely stupid.

I suspect your disapproval of the choice is motivating you to discredit the article series as meaningless, which is a flawed argument to take. Not to mention that many people have made apologies and confessions. If you think this is about "medial rage", you are missing the point. This is about progress on a huge cultural problem that has pretty much been in existence since the days of early men. This selection is highlighting the people who have helped drive that progress recently.
This doesn't include Pease, which makes quite a difference.

I don't believe the AMT exemptions you're using are correct (although they are widely reported). The bill updates the "original" AMT amounts from 2012, which need to be inflation adjusted.

I made these accurate graphs that include everything. They also compute your state taxes for you.

Senate: https://jsfiddle.net/4ec6eLz5/
House: https://jsfiddle.net/bsjryfLo/
>I don’t understand how YouTubers expected to never have advertisers try to scrutinize what they’re supporting or putting their name next to.

For one, because they shouldn't have a say. They should pay for views, and that's it. If they don't like a specific program, they can not sponsor it -- but not try to affect regular ad rotation through all kinds of videos a users sees through their ad money.

Because with the latter way, advertisers also get censorship power over content providers. Which is something only the public should have (view or not view).
I don't know about Stripe or Whatsapp, but I know coinbase has had an average of 30,000 new users a day for a while, with spikes of over 100,000 new signups in a single day around thanksgiving.

It's absolutely bonkers amounts of growth!

Edit: more concrete numbers:

In January of 2016 they had around 2.6 million users.

On November 29th they announced they had over 13 million users.
The comment about I/O instructions really comes from the microprocessor wars of the 80's. Intel and Intel influenced processors had I/O instructions and Motorola and Motorola influenced processors did not. So it was a thing to argue about. The difference really amounted to nothing in the end.

RISC processors tend to not have dedicated instructions for things (it's in the name). They also tend to have reduced access to regular memory (load, store), much less an entirely separate memory bus dedicated to I/O. So processors like the ARM can't practically have I/O instructions. If you belong to the faction that believes that I/O instructions are the way to go then you would consider that a weakness of RISC processors… :)
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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."