skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Children take cues from more sources of authority than just their parents. Having the state send the signal that "these devices have great potential for ruining your mind" is a strong and, as a parent, quite welcome signal.
I posted a commenton how I read mathematics [1] I would be able to not jump through so many hoops if universities got what they contributed.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15911888
And apparently something similar is happening in France with Springer (and next year Elsevier): https://www.soundofscience.fr/755 (article in French)
I think it's kind of obvious - most of those pictures you face in the captcha are bridges, cars, street signs, these are free training data for google cars.
yeah – it's definitely not perfect. we are quickly making it better. in particular beards are very limited because there are no good existing datasets/trained networks for them, so we have to do everything ourselves.

thanks for mentioning, we'll improve!
For such a strong statement as that, some context is critical. Many readers are doing mental math based on American pay rates, and concluding that this can't possibly be true. Indeed, the access cost cited won't be anything even slightly approaching 50% in a first world context.

In less well off developing countries, you are absolutely and completely correct in every way, shape, form, and manner. The cost for access to literature can be greater than that of the salaries a department pays its basic research faculty.
China: Minority Region Collects DNA from Millions
blaming scientists is misplaced. This is a policy-level question, for which the policy IS evolving fairly rapidly. The scientists are also rapidly updating and most papers have pre-prints available via arxiv or bioRxiv, etc and the NIH and many other funding agencies require open access soon after publication. Lastly, many scientists end-run the publishers and make the print copy PDFs available on their lab websites.

In no way can I imagine how blaming scientists for working within the established incentive structure to advance their careers helps advance this issue.
What is the crime here exactly? Breaking up the financial cartels? Regardless, I have no doubt that the government will do their best to use this as yet another opportunity to steal wealth from their citizens.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/storystock.asp not to mention the public company manipulations, scams and out right fleecing of investors.
Since nobody else has yet, https://xkcd.com/1882/
Can the funder make a stipulation that private journals are authorized, but not to be paid for with funded money?
> Second, if it is only about a set of shared ledger with multiple trusted parties, what is wrong with an API layer integration? What exactly is the value creation for a full fledged system?

> But, if we have a permission-ed server which can add stuff to an enterprise blockchain doesn't it make the whole thing a lot less secure?

You're asking the right questions and this is pretty much a summary why the enterprise use is unlikely to use blockchain the same way as the public, if at all. Enterprise/banking may be interested in a distributed ledger as a datastructure, but other tech which provides a similar results already exists.

Unfortunately if you look at most of the "big (company/bank) starts (experimenting with/using) (Bitcoin/blockchain)" news, they very rarely say why and how.
Do you have a source for these rumors. This is the second comment I've seen on this post suggesting this but I can't find any supporting evidence.

According to Patreon's blog posts the unbundling was entirely related to the "date of first subscription" problem.
Yeah, I have dreams of using crystal field splitting to help design semiconductor lasers in bandgap.io, which would be a nice applied group theory problem. Its about 3 years out on my roadmap!
Federal Reserve hikes interest rates for third time this year
And that's why the older model worked better: a donor would pledge $1 to twenty creators, and would get charged one $20 transaction fee at the beginning of each month.

The creators ate the Paypal fee (usually 4-5%), and then Patreon collected an additional 5% for simply coordinating these exchanges with their service.

I doubt there were many people who only pledged $1 to one creator and that was it. But if that was truly a problem, then sure, one 35-cent charge per month would be reasonable.
Now imagine that, but for reading up on experimental treatments for a rare disease that you or a relative got.
Now you just need to compile a JavaScript interpreter from C++ to WebAssembly... Makes me think of “The Birth & Death of JavaScript” talk [1].

[1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
What is the mechanism by which it has kept money from being invested in the US?
It seems to me that patreon thinks that its customers are the creators, and so it has been focusing its effort on pleasing them. In fact it is quite clear by asking "who pays the money" that their customers are in fact the patrons.
How do you feel about going under the knife of a surgeon who got through college that way?
Don't be daft. People said the same thing about the NSA sniffing traffic before Snowden, and big fucking surprise, it turned out to be true.
That's what they did before the announced fee changes. After the fee changes were supposed to go into effect they we're no longer aggregating pledges. Madness.
before twitter/fb patreon would've never happened
Maybe it's just me, but, I think it's so fucking stupid that it costs money (which goes to private businesses) to spend money in the modern world.

(and no, bitcoin doesn't fix that at all)

I think if we were in an alternate universe where the government managed a free utility for digital payments no one would find it strange for a second.
(2015) http://hasgluten.com, filtered list of gluten-free ingredients in 5 languages

(2016) https://priceeth.github.io, my dashboard to track prices

(2016) https://github.com/runwithmark/runwithmark.github.io, still running 1mi/day, but runkeeper closed their api

(2017) http://mempa.io, password manager, read more [1]

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[1] https://medium.com/@0x0ece/mempa-a-modern-deterministic-pass...
I came here to say the same. I was not expecting a huge graphic with a cartoon naked ass to show up on my work system.
Corporations are composed of people. That is part of the reason they act like people.
Perhaps then they should find a business model that doesnt rip off their customers.
Stainless is a good alternative to cast iron as long as it’s thick enough.

Cast iron has only one major advantage and that is due to its mass it holds a ton of heat which makes searing on it very easy.

This is important as the vast majority of thin and light cookware basically goes cold when you dump food on it regardless of how hot it was.

So cast iron allowed you to control the temperature well and cooking or searing food on low heat after a long pre heating period.

With good mass stainless steel cookware and a good induction cooker you can easily achieve the same results as a good cast iron even better as a good induction cooker would allow you much finer control over the temperature of your cooking surface.
there are some awesome mastodon communities that have moved off twitter because they are trolled too frequently on there, and aren't empowered to make their own rules to prevent that. If you're discussing somethign PTSD-inducing, for example, this struggle is so real and hard.

There are communities, for example, that block other communities that are 'freespeechers'. i.e. communities that don't ban people for sayign things that the former community operator deems as racist. At first I was like, "that's messed up, it's too subjective". But then I remembered that actually, unlike Twitter, that decision to block the people didn't affect me. They're allowed to create their own community how they want, and I'm empowered to join or self-host my own.

Pretty cool that vulnerable and very very helpful communities have tools like this.
Yes, because governments and their financial sector cronies have a history of brilliant financial decisions that benefit their citizens.
> The new fee structure is consistent with them desegregating the payments but it is not clear why they would do that.

From what I've read, the credit card companies are complaining about partial refunds, which apparently occur much more often with Patreon. If I've got 10 creators I'm supporting for $1 each, and I decide I need a refund for one of them, well, Patreon only ran one $10 transaction. Now it's kind of a pain in the ass for the credit card company because I'm telling my credit card company it should be 10 transactions @ $1 and I want to refund $1, but what they see is one $10 transaction.
>Nor would anyone have thought that "record low sea ice" meant a record minimum if you hadn't brought it up

You honestly believe that "record low sea ice" doesn't refer to the lowest amount of the year? There's no point in continuing to discuss it with you then.

Alert receives 5 hours of daylight on March 7th. It receives 18-20 hours at the minimum. One makes it worth talking about, the other doesn't. Alert receives 0 hours of daylight as late as February 27th, so depending on the year, I'm not wrong.
Normal apartments usually do.

But there are also businesses that rent rooms or studios by the week, without a lease. Much like a hotel (and some of them also function as hotels), they can simply refuse to rent to a problem tenant next week so they don't need any of that.
Algorithmia is great. They're hosting one our summarization algo's https://algorithmia.com/algorithms/SummarAI/Summarizer
Thanks for the detailed response. In the interest of total transparency, I have to say I'd be a little concerned with installing a keyboard app that sends photos of my face to servers in Russia, particularly with everything going on right now.

I'm not sure what could be done to alleviate that concern, and perhaps I'm being paranoid, but for now, that has stopped me from using the app. Obviously a 10 year old wouldn't have that concern, and perhaps that is a different problem.

I hope you understand--nothing personal.
How do you compare the roadwear problem to the one of massive pollution caused by burning millions of gallons of petroleum every year to move these vehicles around?

I'm not sure a Model S is in the same category of vehicle as a Honda Pilot. What point are you trying to make?

Agreed that funding the roadways should be a topic of discussion (also because it's private contractors - often with connections to those authorizing public funds).
That is how it currently works... I get one patreon transaction a month even though I have weekly pledges. That's part of what made this change so frustrating and greedy
The bitcoin price isn't controlled. Supply and demand.
> I remembered when friends were back in the Napster times shook down for a few grand.

RIAA asked infringers for about $2 per infringed song. That seems a pretty fair price--it's only about twice what it would have cost for the people to legitimately purchase copies of the music.
Garbage article. "I told someone they were bad and then they said ok. The end"

Why would you even post this? Do you enjoy wasting your own time?
Inflation Spikes in Britain
monkeylearn.com is kind of in the space too albeit not as large.
Mastodon 2.0 speaks ActivityPub now! https://activitypub.com/

I made the world's first public ActivityPub implementation a little over a year ago: https://distbin.com

Now I have https://mastodon.bengo.is

Now I need to iron out interoperability bugs: But I look forward to the day that you can respond to a mastodon post anonymously via distbin, and vice-versa. And on both sides the conversation should render as threaded, etc.
I think his point is that any words used in an apology are meaningless, because we have no way to differentiate between a genuine apology and a PR apology based on the words.

Instead, only pay attention to the actions that follow, because those cannot be faked.
>Notwithstanding, to me it feels awfully wrong that the state, and not the parents, prohibit the usage of anything (that does not harm others directly).

They aren't saying it's illegal for kids to own phones. They're saying kids can't have phones at school. As long as the state is running the schools, that seems well within their reasonable area of authority.
Uh, Thor and Tesla dont get to ignore GVW standards just because their tractor is heavier.

You are correct about these electric trucks not paying gas tax though. Thats a problem.
Researchers can determine what smartphone a photo was taken on by analyzing it
Maybe they felt the cost of fighting fraud there would be too high? Scammer signs up as a patron to his own account with stolen credit card, gets paid, Patreon can't charge the (now-cancelled) card at the end of the month?

They could delay payments to creators by a month to combat this but then they're holding the funds for a month, which brings you back to the original problem of seeming like a bank.

This seems like something Stripe could address, maybe.

EDIT: Just saw the other reply that explained this is how it currently works. I'll leave my original comment up though
This reminds me that the EU had a proposal last year about mandating all publicly-funded research to be open access. I'm curious to see what will become of that.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/05/dramatic-statement-e...

https://ec.europa.eu/research/openscience/index.cfm?pg=opena...
Of course, this is nonsense. Here's another data point; in this case, a female, American conference speaker was jailed at the UK border: https://medium.com/@rachelnabors/wtfuk-73009d5623b4
Next to political bullshit, this kind of nastiness has to be what I least want to see on HN, although I can only speak for myself.
> if you think the market hasn't factored in any one or more of these potential actions

And if you believe that, I have a bridge you might be interested in buying.
amen he hits all my points.
>I remembered when friends were back in the Napster times shook down for a few grand. Same with Bittorrent's earlier years. There was no amicable "Plz quit this and were good".

The recording industry did offer an amnesty at the start of their campaign. It required you to promise to delete all existing illegally-downloaded content and promise not to engage of file sharing of copyrighted works in the future. It was called Clean Slate and very few people signed up for it, and it was criticized for various reasons, but they did offer it.
I was about to say SQLite, it seems perfect - binary, fast, easy to update cheaply in place, immune to escaping et al problems (if you use prepared statements, not glue SQL with + of course), reliable, available in most languages (even for C and C++ the integration is trivial - it's a single pair of files drop in) and on the CLI, stable, the history data is very row/item oriented and not totally heterogeneous or free form, etc.

I totally drank the SQLite koolaid a long time ago.
The legal system can't reliably provide for redress and restitution in the case of actual fraud, because the legal system can't pull money from thin air. In something like a classical Ponzi scheme, the fraudster simply does not have enough assets to give everyone back what they're owed.
If they bring the money back here to pay people or buy things in the us, they get taxed, but they don’t get taxed if they pay people in other countries. So it effectively makes the US more expensive for that money.
Like this? https://publicaccess.nih.gov/
Not sure I agree with the urgency angle to this analysis. Sure, if sales and the influx of cash slows Apple will need that cash to pay off its bonds, but...

1. There's no reason to believe that's going to happen anytime in the near to distant future. They are in the midst of a super upgrade cycle which figures to result in record profits again when they report in January and that growth is likely to continue for the foreseeable future.

2. Pulling the cash from overseas doesn't make sense simply because they can issue bonds at a far lower rate, practically zero, than what they would pay in repatriation. I'm not so sure if the repatriation rate were lowered permanently that they would even bring much back at all. If it were a one-time benefit, then sure. If/when they need cash they can hold their nose and pay the tax rate, but I would argue that the market has already priced the supposed tax penalty into the share price. To put it another way, if they were granted a one-time repatriation rate far below what they would be forced to pay currently, you would see the share price jump because that is effectively adding billions of cash to their balance sheet from the federal government's.

3. Going back to the first point, if sales did slump they would probably need the cash anyway with or without the bond issuances. Hoarding enormous piles of cash to avoid taxes is a luxury of the few extraordinarily profitable international companies of the world, not those that have diminishing sales.
> I don't think the ISP's problem (opportunity) resides in the scenario you're describing. The problem is the top .0001% of Internet destinations congest the ISP generic network interconnects. Hence, these larger vendors (Netflix, Akamai, Cloudflare, Amazon, Google, Apple, etc) either pay the ISP for direct network peering or server hosting to sustain acceptable performance. However, this typically leaves the cost of growing internal network backbone capacity on the ISP. I believe the scenario you are describing would allow ISPs to offset this capital cost to both the big content providers and the biggest consumers.

I really don't understand what your point is ... how does avoding load on the internal backbone leave which costs of growing the backbone to the ISP?!

> The point about torrents and bitcoin is that these applications are particularly burdensome on routers because of the amount of connection requests as compared to a fairly manageable HTTP or RTSP session.

Uh? How is the number of connection requests relevant to a router?!

> As I mentioned above, server co-location and direct network peering is already a thing that many larger ISPs offer on a non-discriminatory basis.

Non-discriminatory is no enough, it has to be free or at cost. They are a monopoly, and as such non-discriminatory is still a monopolistic price.

> However, most new businesses will piggyback on existing cloud hosting (AWS/Google/Azure) or CDN (Akamai/Google/Cloudfront) arrangements.

Which isn't necessarily that bad, as long as there is competition among CDNs. A CDN ultimately is just a different kind of transit provider.
Alternate title: doubling down on not just doing the right thing and using GPLv3.
Probably something like IAS's video viewability tools[1]. There are some big players in the traffic verification space as advertisers like myself don't want to pay for garbage traffic.

[1] https://integralads.com/capabilities/video/
I care about the actions, not the words. Was substantial action taken to prevent this from happening again? That's what I actually care about.

The fact that this was a dramatic mea culpa does not matter. I have every reason to not pay attention to how contrite they sound.

It's like being apologized to by a drug addict, for stealing. The apology has no content.
I admire the certainty of the naysayers on this thread. I only wish I could borrow their crystal ball.
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I wish that's all it took, but there are some severe procrastinators for which that's not enough.

For others, yes, some people you have to remind to eat :)
Yes, I'm aware that an article from January 2017 has data backing up an assertion about global Bitcoin trading volume from 2012 to 2017. What is your point?
Well, for computer science, that does seem to be the case. But not for engineering, physical sciences or math. And considering that most people are granted a degree before they enter the workforce, I don't believe it can entirely be the workforce culture that's deterring them. So I guess I would argue that it's just as likely to be how we message technology as how we treat women in the workforce, if not both.
they aren't in Russia, they are in AWS :)

if we kept it in Russia latency would suck + we'd have to comply with local regulations we don't want to deal with.
Yes there were other boom and busts. But Keynes makes sure of it. According to Hayek (and many others), Keynesian spending policies are not a solution to unemployment or economic crises. On the contrary, they are a real threat to economic stability.
You missed that the fee was going to be paid by the patrons, not the creators. Instead of being charged 1$, you would be charged $1.37ish for EACH pledge, meaning distributing your (for example) 35$ budget out to a bunch of different creators would screw you over.
Well, something that's gotten elided in a lot of the outrage is that moving the transaction fees from the creators to the patrons would have given creators 3-5% more money on the same amount of pledges. And while it seems "no duh" to point out that a $5 pledge is literally worth five times what a $1 pledge is, in terms of revenue, that means that many creators could have lost a surprising number of $1 pledges and still come out even (or even slightly ahead). I ran the numbers for several Patreons, big and small, based on what I could scour from Graphtreon, and the amount of money most creators lost over the last few days would have been largely offset by the money they'd get back.

I'm not saying that this makes the change a good idea, or that it was communicated well, or that there aren't some really interesting business dynamics that are likely to come up one way or the other that will piss off creators. (There are only six creators on Patreon who have more than 10,000 patrons as of now; to earn that $450M valuation, Patreon may need creators who have hundreds of thousands of patrons.) I'm just not convinced this would have been the Patreoncalypse.
Yep. And don't forget bundling.

Telecom operators do not want to be dumb pipes.
Ask HN: Where best to sell a side project?
Hi,

Since June, I have been running a cryptocurency-related side project.

I run a subscription service coupled with a data website.

To give you a rough size of the project: I have +200 unique visits / week and +2,000 page views / week. I have +500 users out of which +20 paid for a premium plan. All numbers are steadily growing.

I don’t have much more time to develop the project and I would like to move onto something else. I don’t want to let it die though.

Where would be the best place to advertise my site? I don’t want to go on Flippa, which is filed with scams/low value and I believe that my project is not big enough for FEInternational.

Thanks.
All words have framing. Don't make me link Zizek.

More seriously. My takeaway is not "I wish Patreon hadn't issued an apology", but to beware promises without binding contracts or strong signals of fidelity.