skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_room_occupancy

I put the term sub standard in quotes for a reason. It is only sub standard by crazy American cultural standards. Most parts of the world would have no problem with such housing, as attested to by comments here about how common this is in Japan.

But in the US, SROs have largely died out as a market based solution. Many of them today in the US are part of the shelter system, which creates substantial differences in reputation, quality, application and intake process etc.
Purely speculation, but it seems at least that this would greatly increase friction.
Matthew, there is my personal collection of entropy sources for your reference. That stuff is addictive!

- True quantum source:
http://whitewoodsecurity.com/products/entropy-engine/

- Atmospheric noise:
https://www.random.org/randomness/

- Avalanche Effect Generators
http://holdenc.altervista.org/avalanche/
http://ubld.it/truerng_v3

- Great deck about overall entropy engineering
https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-15/materials/us-15-Potter-U...

And of course "lave wall" we mentioned just takes the cake:
https://sploid.gizmodo.com/one-of-the-secrets-guarding-the-s...
Well, those things are inseperable in this day and age, especially for a company that depends on internet communities.

"Voting with your wallet." Or to paraphrase the way Polonius put it in Hamlet, one of the key differences between sane and insane is what people do with their money.
We can afford more road maintenance.
...which is still baffling! The core value of Patreon is microtransaction aggregation. This isn't just "product management screwed up a feature", it's product management doesn't understand their own product at all. Crazy.

It's like designing a fancy new electric car but leaving off the wheels.
Unfortunately there is no true common app that really puts you in front of all YC companies yet. Because TripleByte charges companies a fee for each person hired, not all YC companies work with them. And because Work At A Startup is so new, not all YC companies are using it yet.

You'll get the most reach by using both.
Looks like HN effectively DDOS'd justice.gov
> video games simply because they are biologically-predisposed to enjoy violent / high-stakes competitions more intensely.

You're making the assumption that all games must be competitive and violent and therefore women will enjoy it less.

That is wrong.

Not only women enjoy video games as much as men, they already outnumber men in gaming in many markets.

Every time you make an assumption, think if that assumption is being driven by gender stereotypes.

"Since there seems to be a strong chance that the root of the problem is innate / hormonal / biological it's not an issue that's "easy" to even rationally discuss, let alone solve, as you keep stating throughout the thread."

No, women liked technology, then they were pushed out by a hostile culture. The problem isn't hormonal or biological, it's cultural.

The problem isn't women not liking violent games, is men treating women like shit.
I had cancelled my pledges and re-added them all today (and added one even). I know unfortunately a lot of creators will never get back a good chunk of their pledges, but I feel it's important for us to both revoke our money when a company makes a bad decision... and resume it when they make a good one.

Companies recognizing that good decisions make them money is the key. If they figure they're going to lose money no matter what they do, they're less likely to take our feedback into account.
There are many sources to develop an understanding of game theory. To build mastery in game theory, check out Osborne and Rubinstein's text. The authors offer it as a free download (http://arielrubinstein.tau.ac.il/books.html).

This is the text used by advanced graduate students, the material is explained precisely.
At the point I saw it, it felt that I was giving something valuable without knowing what I'm getting in return.

Knowing that I don't have to fork out any information visiting "Who is Hiring" makes it a tough sell.

I think there is a question on why here. Lets say you add company job listings: why see them here and not on angellist (shows lots of information) or who is hiring (no commitment) or the companies job page.

The beginning of the page mentions all big name companies which I would already know and would just go to their pages for job postings where I can better prepare my CV. It might be VERY different if the companies here are small and unknown, and are somehow vetted or show unique YC information about them. Angelist is too expensive for a 2-3 man shop just out of a batch.

I guess I picture a YC official page to be about segmentation, not open-wide job listing competition with other big sites.
EDIT: reread your comment, you're offering hypotheticals I suppose.

I'm okay with the public through the government mandating open access, so they have to then pay the open access fees and we'll all be happy to do it.
What about code being 'deleted' that git diff does not catch?

Is there a recommended external diff tool that ameliorates these issues?
And I really like their model. You sent a fixed amount of money to your account once and then distribute it over time as you like. For a 100€ load this is 60¢ in fees. Withdrawing euros to a SEPA bank account is free. Totally awesome!
Similar. In my mind, I always pair this with "Morning of the Earth" another classic surfing movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_of_the_Earth
This actually worked in the UK with the "poll tax": a widespread boycott rendered it unworkable and eventually caused reform.
Ok, but you know at one point milk only cost ~$0.25. So your fiat currency became massively devalued over time.
The Environmental Cost of Internet Porn
Was a Sonic Weapon Deployed in Cuba
> A big problem (that we arguably created ourselves) is a patron could pledge to a creator on the 25th of a month (granting a patron 5-6 days of access), get charged, and then get charged again on the 1st of the next month (granting the patron 30-31 days of patron-access). Pro-rating didn't seem like a right solution for the first charge since becoming a patron unlocked all the content immediately. So imo we should just (like a Netflix or any other subscription) have your first pledge grant you 30 days of access, whenever it was created -- and have this forever be your "anniversary date" of charge -- if you pledge Jan 25th, you'd be charged again Feb 25th.

You could keep your charge date on the 1st of the month, and just not charge for that first month if they are charged up front. Let creators choose the length of their grace period: 3 days, 10 days, two weeks. Creators get paid, don't feel pressured to provide refunds, and patrons get a little sign-on discount.
You can let them watch mundane videos for hours and be all "eh, well" or you can intervene and try and steer their attention towards more productive things. It seems like kids have fewer and fewer toys these days and more and more gadgets. Maybe that's part of the problem.
Because in many cases, those administrators don't even realize they're breaking the network. They just run a botched config that they inherited from their predecessors or something like that.

You might say that they're clueless and shouldn't be allowed near networking equipment (and you might even be right) but it's not going to change a thing. For the foreseeable future, working around broken environments is all we can do.
Does this add an abstraction layer over services like Mailgun? It wasn't obvious from the README.
That's exactly what I did and it's worked out great. I'm getting upwards of 300Mb/s using powerline adapters. They were netgear brand, I apologize I don't remember the model, but I think it had "1200" in it. A lot will depend on what else you have on the breaker, from what I understand. But for my purposes the performance was more than adequate.
FCC's own chief technology officer warned about net neutrality repeal
This makes sense, but for me the question becomes.. why would bot creators choose Edge/IE and not some other browser? Random chance?

As a sidebar, I really enjoy when authors throw interesting colloquialisms that I've never heard before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village
I used to weigh 245 pounds. I am a lot smaller these days.
Briefly: there's _tons_ of style things eslint can't even warn about which prettier will just automatically fix. Most dramatically, eslint doesn't know how to wrap long lines.

Also, though, eslint offers a bunch of non-style code correctness checks, which is something prettier doesn't even try to do. So the general advice is to use eslint with all the style rules off, and use prettier to handle style.
I don't see how a 'wallet' doesn't handle the CUF... Patreon should already have the money in what is basically a pre-paid account. You just have a minimum amount that can be paid into the wallet. There should also be pay in/out schedules so things are aggregated/automated on both sides. They could even make interest off of the floating money and work a bit like a bank. This should be their bread and butter, optimizing transaction cost. Plenty of other sites do this sort of thing for real businesses, I don't see why it is so complex...
> Instead of using M&A to buy revenue or users, which is a disastrous strategy in Silicon Valley, Apple looks to fill asset holes in terms of technology and talent.

Um, Facebook buying WhatsApp and Instagram or Google buying YouTube wasn't a disastrous strategy.
They should have thanked Brian Krebs, though. To be honest. Didn't he call out Jha long before anyone else knew?
You really shouldn't make blanket statements like that. While I'd definitely recommend using existing category 5 wiring if it's available, I'm getting close to 300Mb/s via powerline adapters, so it really comes down to your individual situation. For me it's been more than adequate.
Another Reason to keep a close eye on your children's phones and need adult supervision.

"Users are swarming young girls and asking them to do inappropriate things. And the live-streaming app hasn't been able to stop them."

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2017/12/...
I just want to say that I found Matrix's synapse server pretty easy to setup.
Lots of industrial stuff related to various types of testing. Performance matters some, but I'm not hard real-time.

However, everything has to work, reliably, in less than ideal environments--mostly high-voltage spikes caused by differences in ground potentials.

USB is a PITA because while data is differential, connection detection is not. So, spikes cause USB disconnects and drivers never cope with that.

CAN is a PITA because it is limited to 8-bytes per message. Good for transducers and 8 bit microcontrollers--not so good for complex control and 32-bit microcontrollers.

Ethernet hits a really great sweet spot of fully-differential and nice single packet size for a 32-bit microcontroller--program like it's 1989, baby.
A Republican lawmaker urges FCC to delay net neutrality repeal vote
What kind of action could they have taken that you would believe would actually stop this from happening again?
Isn't that normal, desired and expected?
ABB is technically a Swedish-Swiss multinational corporation, and was formed by merging two 100-year-old companies in 1988.
No better business than forcing your supplier to reduce prices (or preventing them from increasing them).
The Tesla Model S weighs significantly less than most pickups and large SUVs on the road today. Tesla's heaviest, the Model X, is significantly lighter than the GMC Yukon, for example.

I don't see the logic in this argument. Electric vehicles are not going to destroy the roads.
indeed not even close to being that large. But super easy to use and only focused on NLP.

Disclaimer: I work at http://www.monkeylearn.com/
In winter climate regions an average everyday car with studded tires is very damaging to roads. In my town you will get a fine if you leave studded winter tires on into the spring.
1) Amex launches blockchain-based business payments using Ripple [27 days ago ] - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-blockchain-amex-ripple/am...

2) Ripple and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Partner to Create Open Source Payment Platform [2 months ago] - https://ripple.com/insights/ripple-the-gates-foundation-team...

3) Michael Arrington Has a New $100 Million Hedge Fund That Will Be Valued in Ripple's XRP [ 2 weeks ago] - http://fortune.com/2017/11/28/arrington-xrp/

Plus there is a lot of FOMO going on since the past month or so over Crypto, esp. Bitcoin and people are trying to 'get in early' on the next big thing like Bitcoin, hence Litecoin, Etherium and Ripple have had hockey stick rise in price...
Fascinating then-and-now pictures of buildings in downtown L.A
Also make sure that tokens have nothing to do with the performance of your company to get around regulations
Yes, look up the MSDS on anything like this -- BLO has Cobalt-Manganese salts.
yes, i understand, but it's interesting how such a large corporation can foster those kinds of brand associations.
I still haven't received the last three issues. Seems like support is responding at least... I should contact them!
You pay to have some handle the transaction details for you. It's a service. You are free to mail dollar bills, though you'll use a service you need to pay for there, too.
Backward R in the logo: this drives me nuts. To any readers of the Cyrillic alphabet it says "Ya". So this says "Yaetargetable Decompiler"

I can't be the only one!
> To avoid this, they needed to do Charge Up Front (CUF) to ensure that any access to gated content was paid for. But that creates some confusion

But if you actually ask people whether they want the first couple charges to have weird timing, or whether they want to pay significantly more in credit card fees that don't go to the creator...
Have you looked? There are better savings accounts with proof of stake systems. There are programmable components with ETH, EOS, Lisk, various others. There are bank/savings accounts that can be signed up for with a web browser (smartcash). The list is endless.
At that point, you could have your captcha-breaker wait for the page to finish rendering, screenshot the relevant portion of the page, and solve from there. Seems easier than trying to download and stitch together the transparent GIFs or decode the jumble of HTTP requests.
Great post. Intuitive framing and great application/extension.
Maybe cat -v?

$ git diff | cat -v

However it's considered harmful: http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/ ;)
If the output of a git command was raw text sent to stdout, like cat, then I would argue that escape sequences should be ignored and passed through unmolested.

But the output of git tools is colored (if enabled) using terminal escape sequences. Given that, the output should fully comply with the appropriate terminal escape sequences and should filter the ones the author has discovered.
I believe that also is the case on the tappan zee bridge. IIRC when going south bound cars don't have a toll but commercial trucks do.
It probably needs a profile for the MZ format. And probably for 16-bit x86. I'm considering trying it on some .com binaries, to see what it does (since it said it can handle raw binaries). I doubt it'll work immediately, because I doubt that their code handles memory segmentation properly, 16 bit pointers and data, etc.
very interesting. Is there any kind of forum where you can state a problem and someone can suggest what AI/ML to try and apply to the problem?

We have an IOT platform where we have thousands of sensors gathering all kinds of data for all kinds of industries, there are lots of interesting things we could do with the data. A lot would be around predicting the future, other situations is about classifying complex data streams as a certain kind of events which we can then use as alarms or information for decision making.
For every smart buy like YouTube there's been dozens of utter failures. MySpace. Netscape. Flickr. Softimage.

It's to the point where being acquired is the kiss of death for most start-ups. Sure, you get your exit, but your product is toast.

Apple has a very particular culture and it's difficult for other companies to integrate into that. Google was more accommodating, like with Nest, but even then they realized they had to restructure and make Alphabet for it to actually work.

Sure, Google bought YouTube, but they also bought Boston Dynamics and fumbled it.
Both Bertel & Ed were writers/editors at The Truth About Cars. TTAC is a fabulous website if you're interested in the auto industry, but their perspective and target demo is mainly the automotive sales industry. Dealers and the supporting network around them.

Their anti-Tesla bias is strong and well-documented. They've had legitimate criticisms but take what they say with a grain of salt.
> I only lost a few, but it already has me poking around at different options for the future.

Same here. Nobody is going to trust Patreon not to do something equally damaging again. It's nice they've reversed this, but I really can't think of anything that will bring back the trust they just trashed.
Good question!

Right now since we only target software folks, you're correct that the two services do indeed overlap quite a bit. I think the differentiation will be more clear once we expand beyond software engineers, which we're hoping to do soon.

The two services also differ in that Work at a Startup does not attempt to do any technical vetting; simply start conversations. The reasoning for this is that when founders are hiring their first handful of employees, it's often more important to find people that believe in your company's product/mission rather than people with a particular background. Founders are often constrained by how big of a "friend tree" they have to shake. Simply put, Work at a Startup gives founders the opportunity to pitch a lot more potential early employees than they'd otherwise have access to.

All this being said, TripleByte is certainly still a great option to go with for a lot of folks and does indeed have a close relationship with a lot of YC companies!
A lot of that debt is bonds where they borrowed against their own cash for tax reasons. Interest rates are so crazy low it's cheaper to borrow your own money than pay taxes on it.
legitimate employment == full-time job I guess
> Except stocks represent ownership in real companies making real products.

But what does that mean in practical terms? Sure, if the company gets bought out you might get some cash, and some companies still pay dividends. Aside from those cases, though, shareholders have no direct claim on the company's assets, and only the largest shareholders have significant influence on the company's board. Most profits made by shareholders come from selling their shares to another investor, not from the company itself.

> If one person owns 100% of a company and there is zero trading, it's still an extremely valuable property.

Assuming the company is solvent... plenty are not, despite a positive stock price. They are trading on the expectation of future improvement, not present value.

> If one person owns 100% of a crypto, it is worthless.

Every cryptocurrency (every non-commodity currency, for that matter) starts out owned 100% by someone. That doesn't make them all worthless. Say I create a new currency with one million units, wholly owned by myself. If I stop there, no one else will value my currency. However, say I also arrange to sell widgets (standard market value $100) in exchange for 100 units of my new currency. Now my currency has value, and people who want widgets may well be willing to trade other goods or services for it—perhaps not 1:1, due to the lower marketability, but at some discounted ratio. This makes more goods available; people who have no need of my widgets may still transact business using my currency and accept it as payment. At this point I no longer possess 100% of my new currency and it has taken on a life (and market value) of its own. Even if I stopped producing widgets the currency may well remain in circulation as a marketable commodity.
I completely disagree for the exact same reason.

Progress of humanity, etc.
Production is not even the biggest problem. You also need nationwide maintenance and parts supply networks. That's the big advantage of the established manufacturers. They already have these networks in place. It always amazes that I can get almost any part the next day when I go to a dealer.
Very interesting then-and-now pictures of buildings in downtown Los Angeles
Wait, osascript can inject HTML and Javascript into the DOM? How is that okay?
MakerSupport also gained from Patreon's mistake:

Their rank improved 8,324,736 positions vs Liberapay's 824,569 positions. MS is now rank 578,982 and Liberapay is 586,177 vs Patreon's 461

Data from alexa.com:

https://archive.is/y3CJ9

https://archive.is/txACk

https://archive.is/lkMkp
What? You control the endpoint. No need to MITM when you can just make your browser do what you want.
Krebs almost never knows anything before "anyone else". Before the public or other journos, sure.
Most people on the street do not fall into the categories you list here.

When I was homeless, my comments on the internet were full of typos and other problems. People dismissed me as a delusional lunatic. Etc.

If anything, I am absolute proof of how wrong you are, yet you will not acknowledge it.

My claim that there are solutions that can be both profitable and effective is not an assertion that we should abandon people with Down's Syndrome.

I think the best I can say is that you and I are talking past each other. That still doesn't make it a positive experience for me to have my ideas so completely dismissed, but I don't really expect that engaging you further will go anywhere good.
For a much simpler threat model, the FAA is also deadly serious about laser illumination of aircraft and will involve local law enforcement and the FBI. Don’t let your buddy who got some crazy powerful laser pointer be stupid and point it toward an airplane or helicopter.
I like to listen to podcasts a lot, which is pretty common. Typically I'm going to consume a fair number of individual podcast episodes during a month, but they're all from a wide variety of podcast creators, many of whom I'd like to support on Patreon. I'm not going to pledge $10 to every single podcast I listen to, because then I'm paying hundreds of dollars a month for podcasts. I also don't want to send a bunch of money to just one among the many podcasts I like. I'd like to spread out my support across the different content creators, each of which I feel has given me something of value.
Coinbase is the surprising one to me, since it is the only one on the list that operates at the application rather than network level. And there's no mention of bitcoin theft anywhere in the report, just DDOS.
Not sure it was graphs. I think #4 creator Amanda Palmer posting in open revolt asking her patrons to sign up for email so they could follow her somewhere else might have helped:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/15819420

It turns out the whales remember when they were minnows.
AI, bitcoin, and street gangs with ICOs: we really do live in a cyberpunk future.
It's semantics: I believe the wording or the typical agreement states that you may not charge a customer more for using a card. It does not, however, prohibit providing a 'cash discount'.