skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> First, they un-aggregated charges, so that a $1 pledge costs $1.37, and ten $1 pledges costs $13.70

According to what I’ve heard, this was requested by credit card processors, because people would revoke the patreon charge, not understand why they’d be charged such a random amount every month.

Instead, they were supposed to charge every patron for every creator separately, and make it clear on the bill for which creator that is.

I fully expect that they will have to keep this unbundling.
Patreon is based in San Francisco and has over 100 employees

Neither of which are immutable laws of physics. I feel for those employees, but between giving money to them or to the creators - I'm giving to the creators.
Then that just means everyone will call their first X mbit/s "high priority" and then relative priorities are unaffected and nothing can be privileged.
hey!

yea we don't have pink hair – basically it was really hard to get the color palettes working right in all kinds of different lighting conditions, so we didn't include rare/custom hair.

we'll get better at it :) thanks for using the product!!
This is a market ripe for disruption but I really don't get the negative publicity to publishers.
I think people mix up two different things.

- You see research that is funded by taxpayer should be available to public is a fair assumption.
- But not all research generated through this is valuable or worth reading.
- Journals do the job of looking at all the submitted research and selecting the best research. The value that these journals add is of curation.
- However that curation comes at a price. That price might be things like exclusive publication rights and so on.

Nothing prevents Dr. X from publishing his paper on his own website but then no one will take it seriously. Personally, I think this is the correct thing to do. We should all work towards deletigimizing the journal cartels and rather rely on social media and technology to detect credible research. Remember that Bitcoin's foundational paper was written by someone whose real identity is not even known.
Yes, this was probably a very isolated incident. Keep telling yourself that.
That's not cynicism. let me tell you a secret. Businesses are there to make money. It's surprising, I know.

Another secret while we're at it: adults run businesses, and have strategies that they hope are rational. Again, incredible, I know; I though companies were run by impulsive 14 yo with black and white minds.
> mentally ill

> responsible

Broadly speaking: choose one, but not both.
I think the two possible issues are:

1) Job availability and remuneration. CS is a high ROI profession currently. It pays well, has lots of open jobs for it, and takes relatively low investment to get into. If it wasn't so, they'd be much less talking about its gender gap.

2) The treatment of the minority gender in a particular field. There might be low males in primary education, but those that are in the field, do they find themselves at a disadvantage? Do they feel like the majority female create a toxic environment for them, making them feel uneasy about working in that field?

But I'll add one more:

3) People in STEM might actually be very open minded and progressive, much more open to talk about issues and much more interested in fixing them, and not letting bias be truth. This might be why you hear about women in stem and their difficulties, while you rarely hear about the difficulties of women in other male dominated fields.
Safari on iOS works correctly and opens the App Store.
Maybe not even one whole server. Could just be one virtual machine.
There was a substantial blowback from both creators and patrons. The problem wasn't really the switch to having patrons cover overhead, it was that no attempt was made at all to aggregate pledges in order to reduce that overhead. This disproportionately affected patrons who pledge small amounts to a lot of people.
To tell which document (transaction) of a given pair correlated ones was issued earlier, which is called "timestamping". But you don't need consensus (as in Byzantine generals problem) to do that, you just need timestamping protocol.
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This is absolutely correct. I am a lover of anime and approve of this statement
It sounds like the basis for claiming this ICO has an investment component was that Munchee made marketing promises about how much money you'd stand to gain from participating.
Why in the world would a school have public access wifi for phones? That is about the worst network policy I have heard of.

Also bottle necking WiFi will not make people think the WiFi sucks but that the IT Department sucks by both students and staff.
No, that "not all at once" is precisely what made it insane.

All at once is good. Their credit card fees have a percentage component (1.9% for Stripe) and a fixed, per-transaction component ($0.30 for Stripe).

All at once means that fixed component gets charged once per month. Moving to a one-transaction-per-pledge model means that fixed component is multiplied by the number of pledges, which dramatically increased costs for users like me with a bunch of small ones.
I've seen no evidence or mentions of that particular rationale. They claimed they un-aggregated to support their "pay up front" model and start charging pledges on the anniversary of the pledge date.
vanity... definitely my favorite sin :)

it does tap into a lot of human emotions. one of the reasons we decided to pursue this area.
Look how good it is to be customers and not the product? You get to have apologies.
Japanese lunar exploration company ispace raises $90M
thanks for finding this, we'll fix it!
I'm building some games for this topic for my startup [1]. But we won't have them ready until the spring.

[1] http://www.simcase.io
Boy how much I've wanted to fool around with neural networks and machine learning. It would be really fun.

Except thanks to my AMD GPU, (and especially on Windows) there is zero ability to.
It's interesting that Swift is a static language, despite having the lightweight modern syntax similar to Python or Ruby. Though I suppose Go is the same way.
Equating Salma's ambition here (make a movie about an important minority historical figure) with Harvey's and then calling it small and selfish? Seriously?
Would you recommend this book to a newbie trying to build an MVP?
MIRI recommends Game Theory: An Introduction by Steven Tadelis

https://intelligence.org/research-guide/
The practice of charging for subscriptions to information that benefits the public good seems silly. Publishing fees make sense, researchers would work the costs into their grant proposals and taxpayers would ultimately bear the cost there instead of in university departmental budgets.

But I also know nothing about running a journal. Can someone explain the cost structure of an academic journal, and why a model like publishing fees wouldn't work?
I agree. This is a slide down a bad slope as people will now expect a hand slap the first time (at least).
No, they’re making significant losses, and according to rumors, credit card companies are seeing too high refund rates with Patreon, and are asking them to either fund that, or unbundle the payments.
Agreed. I can easily afford the fees they were adding, I'd be totally fine bumping my single monthly payment by 3% + $0.35, that's pocket change to me. What bugs me is the clutter/volume (mental, email confirmation, and credit card transaction) associated with splitting my convenient single monthly payment into more than a half-dozen separate charges throughout the month, depending on whether each creator's campaign is on a monthly or per creation basis on top of increasing each of those sub payments by that same fee.
Saying you're sorry and not doing it is good enough for me.
I learned Game Theory from this Open Yale course:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6EF60E1027E1A10B

24 excellent lectures by Ben Polak.
Will they do anything about its terrible performance? According to [1] the Windows Defender causes a 5x increase of Chrome's build times and it delays a process start by 260 ms.

[1] https://twitter.com/BruceDawson0xB/status/940747236614574080
Not so. A PKI could have been put in place and would have allowed "strangers" to securely authenticate and set up a secure session, but I suppose the expense was not deemed worthwhile. Also possible is that such a session would be point-to-point, and an area handshake, while possible, would have been less reliable and more complex, while also loading the bandwidth with more radio traffic and thus increasing the noise floor overall. ATC running costs would have increased as well.

So it's not that it couldn't be done or is inherently insecure, it's that a choice was made (either by omission or by intent) to not do it.
I'm not promoting php's use, just pointing out how benchmarking against a years old of anything is pretty useless. Which is another indicator the article was of low value and interest, providing no real, meaningful insight into those different languages.
My kids figured out that the online target.com prices are much lower than the local store, so they still shop there but price-match everything at the register.
People tend to drop type providers in F# for non-trivial programs, because the benefits need to be extreme in order to justify adding flakiness to the build. Type providers also have the problem of yielding errors to people who may not be in the best position to fix them. In a bigger team, it may be better to have one part of the program be yield errors at runtime, but still compile, so the team can keep on working until it is fixed. (The alternative of course being code generation, which is triggered intentionally.)
Well at least LiberaPay got their minute of fame from this fiasco. Their stats shot through the roof.
https://liberapay.com/about/stats
Is AlphaZero really a breakthrough in AI?
Facebook can't use 200,000 workers making that a meaningless comparison.

Really, Facebook has more limited growth potential without becoming a different company as they can only make so much money from social media. On the other hand you can have 1,000,000 people working for you if you are simply managing work outsourced by others.

Foxconn has 136.12 billion in revenue and 1.3 million workers. Facebook has 27.64 billion USD Revenue and plenty of profit but fewer ways to grow Revenue.
> This was requested by credit card processors...

Patreon, to my knowledge, has never said this. The move would be understandable if it were true, but they've instead offered different rationales (like "creators want to be paid out faster on new pledges"). If this were the reason for the new model, I can't think of a reason Patreon wouldn't publicly say so - it would've won a lot more sympathy.

Do you have any evidence this is the case?
Since I haven't read other user reports here, I'll chime in and say I get most of my groceries from Shipt (in conjunction with a local grocer/retailer, Meijer) and it's been a fantastic, reliable service. The shoppers have been uniformly courteous and great at communicating if an item isn't available (you can opt to have them use their best judgement in these scenarios, and it's always worked out well). The experience of getting anything at a large grocery/general store delivered to your house within an hour or two is addictive. I really have nothing bad to say about it - competitors will have to compete on price.
How could one profit off of this? Buy Apple stock now?
Games are often male dominated and the culture can be toxic.
In my humble opinion this is the beginning of end of USA. Unless USA gets rid of its anti-Asian immigration bias this is going to be the trend.

While India's higher education is fucked up China is making some progress. Very soon it will be far easier to find reasonably good ML/AI talent in China than in California not to mention much lower costs. Also, given the large population problems where human inputs and human actions go as training data I think China would be a very fertile ground.

A lot of those engineers are going to leave Google and start their own companies and eventually the entire Eco-system is going to move there.

This has already happened with the low end tech jobs with India. If you are having a 30 people QA team in USA you are probably stupid. Just hire some Indian company at 1/5th the cost.
The same strategy works with people. Intentions matter because they let you reason about a person's likely future actions, but often the only way to ascertain another's intentions is to scrutinize their actions as opposed to their words.
Haskell is one of the most strictly static languages around, and its syntax is super light weight.
Disable javascript and you won't see any ads. Sometimes you don't see anything at all, true, but in those cases the close- or back-button quickly solves your problems.
A security robot is being used to shoo away homeless people in San Francisco
I'm assuming this is US-centric. What's the approach to visas?
This is true, but it's also true of a lot of other non-cast iron cookware. Lots of pans are oven-proof.
> So, why should the Open Source community be so damned forgiving

Because the point of free software isn't to shake down anyone. Because we're better than that. We want to make sure software stays free, and punishing people doesn't often help. Almost all copyleft enforcement is done without judges and courts, and that's how it should be. We want more friends, not less.

This is not to mean we're pushovers. It just means we enforce free software as gently as possible. Once the software is free, there is no more conflict to resolve.
I disagree that it has anything to do with man vs. boy.

The phrase "play like a girl" is a reaction to "throw like a girl" and "fight like a girl", which meant to do those things in a less than effective way. Now that phrase is being redefined as a statement that girls can do things just fine and doing something like a girl does not mean doing it badly.
To me it's very strange that someone is using some alternative to google captcha which has 2 obvious advantages:

1) it's not hackable

2) with every click you contribute to the driverless cars vision improvement.
> Rather, state and local governments impose these regulations because they're short-sighted.

See, I don't think this is always true. In my city its more like "state and local governments impose these regulations because they're _paid by Comcast and that's ok because money=speech_".

Calling it short-sighted is letting them off the hook, IMHO.

"We didn't realize that this company paying us to put up barriers to competition would use those barriers to prevent competition later" is right on the verge of being ridiculous.
It most certainly doesn't. You even confuse blockchain and Merkle trees, and
call into existence some weird term "distributed blockchain".

But then, consensus problem is a problem of establishing a specific value for
almost all participants. Which implies that the value is established, which
means that the protocol terminates. Blockchain was not designed to ever
terminate, so it's not a consensus protocol even if for no other reason.

Otherwise, what parts of blockchain exactly establish a common value among
participants and what exactly is this common value?
Competitors include:

* Azure Cognitive Services (REST-based)

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service...

* Amazon ML (REST-based), including Polly, Rekognition etc.

https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/?nc2=h_l3_ai

AI-as-a-Service is a interesting space that is likely to grow over time.

Part of the problem with doing AI in-house is that it's really hard/expensive to get large corpuses of correctly labeled data to train your algorithms on, so what these folks are really selling is a set of trained model weights exposed as an API.
You had one job, Patreon: aggregate payments to eliminate fixed transaction fees for the people exchanging money through your platform, replacing them with a percentage fee. You set the percentage too low and then, instead of simply raising it, you tried to stop doing the one thing that made you useful: eliminating fixed transaction fees. It's a pretty good corporate apology, but it demonstrates a surprising lack of understanding of their business.
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It's probably not so black and white. Companies are ultimately comprised of people, who may or may not be trying to manipulate you. With all the hostile corporate nonsense out there, it seems strange to categorize every supposed act in good faith towards the customer as a manipulative lie.
First and foremost: what is consensus problem?
Having owned a very cost effective and enjoyable Thor, I thought the same thing when I saw the headline.

Thank you for the reminder.
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I'm sorry, but the statement "crypto is dangerous [...] because it's very, very easy to get a piece of it" is just batshit. I can very, very easily get many, many things, and most of those things aren't really dangerous. There is no correlation between how easy a thing is to get and how dangerous it is.

You're being tolerated because most of the people here seem very nice and they allow that sort of thing, but I felt spouting insanity like you do over and over, well, that sort of thing should be called out. Apologies to the offended.

Bitcoin has many problems. That it's somehow bad because "you can buy for just a dollar" is not even close.

The argument could be made to say that statement isn't even realistic. Why would someone pay $1 for Bitcoin and then $10-20 in transaction fees? Pragmatically, this would be an immediate, minimum 80% loss of value. One would think that to be enough of a disincentive to "buy for just a dollar", no?
Most of the stovetop cooking I do is just heating up rice or noodle dishes that I make in big batches. Those I make with big cast iron dutch ovens. The enameled ones are awesome.
Fermat was able to prove Fermat's Last Theorem for n=4
An article on fining a TV "news" station which is in one portfolio with Food Network and Travel Channel of some media giant, and suddenly... fascism!
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That assumes some of this isn't baked into the price already. But yes, if you think the market hasn't factored in any one or more of these potential actions, then buying the stock would be the most logical way to profit...
Thank you! I'll add it to the list.
Are there good open source solutions for journal publishing? (HTML abstract, PDFs, comments, ...)?
I think I've shown your original contention is wrong, or at least incomplete or simplistic. I'm not qualified or inclined to debate US law.
This is great. I had an idea similar to this, with the added concept of being able to generate animated emojis using video and either keeping the audio of the user or generating synthetic audio from text.
Or, Keynes was wrong and he is responsible with all the boom and bust cycles and inflationary theft.
One strategic reason is that it removes a disincentive to use GPL'd software. If I believe that screwing up an image build once is enough to permanently revoke my entire company's license to use Linux, the strategic thing to do is to not use Linux for anything.

(I think people can legitimately disagree as to whether this disincentive is a thing people actually take into account)
And it got projection and infix functions recently, so some of its initial clumsiness (compared to K) is gone now.
You're complaining that a company is framing a certain situation in a given way and yet that's exactly what you're doing here, framing it in a different way trying to convince us of your point. I don't see the difference.
Does this section on Istio apply to your use-case?

> If you want to implement mutual authentication and encryption for workloads, you can use istio auth. Specifically, for a workload in Kubernetes, Istio auth allows a cluster-level CA to generate and distribute certificates, which are then used for pod-to-pod mutual Transport Layer Security (mTLS).

https://cloud.google.com/security/encryption-in-transit/#ser...
I love the $1 price point.

One of my pledges is to a favorite author. $1/month means $12/year. She puts out about a book a year, at about $12 in Kindle format, so my pledge means I'm at least doubling the amount of revenue she gets from me annually (and I'd suspect significant portions of that $12 go to Amazon, agents, publishers, etc.).

I can do this casually, for a bunch of creators I like - comic artists, activists, authors, indie game devs - and it's not just me doing it, either.
I tried it, and I know there is a lot of work behind this, but you asked for an opinion and here it is: I look nothing like the emojis, I could not identify myself with them.
To be clear, although this is a seven year-old, cheese-grater Mac Pro, the GPU is new, and is clocked higher than the one in the iMac Pro.
Ripple overtakes litecoin as the 4th largest cryptocurrency
In some AWS blog posts, AWS discussed how to build a single sign on using cognito.
Data Visualisations Powered by Neural Networks
This is particularly relevant right now. The swift-evolution mailing list is currently discussing adding a "dynamic member lookup" protocol to Swift to enhance interop with dynamic languages like Python, Ruby, and Perl. You can see the proposal here[0].

[0] https://gist.github.com/lattner/b016e1cf86c43732c8d82f90e5ae...
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yeah we decided against that because it would interfere with sharing frequency – people are much more willing to share images than voice/video. plus animation makes content volumes much harder to scale.
Children given unsupervised access to the internet is ridiculous. People freak out if a predator lives int heir neighborhood but they let their child be accessible to millions of predators via their phone or table.

This is why kids initial exposure to porn is 8 in the US and 10 when kids are getting addicted. This is all happening prior to puberty.

I still remember working with children and teens and found out, through the police and parents, that a few of the kids 11 to 15 were using their webcams to get people to buy them stuff online. This was in the late 90s.

I am a dad of 5 now. I don't own desktop computers and they are in common areas. When my oldest were teens they were their phones but they are in my room after 9 PM. Saved the drama of messaging fights and drama. No phones at dinner, no phones on family events unless it was end of the visit. My job as a parent is to help them become awesome adult selves and learning not to be addicted to anything from drugs, alcohol, laziness or phones is part of being a parent.
Read up on the Jones Act for example: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/9/27/16373484/j...

All shipping to PR has to happen via US companies on ships built in the US crewed with US citizens, increasing the price of any good shipped there (basically everything)

Unsuprisingly, not having to pay taxes only offsets that to a certain point for people with somewhat normal incomes. And having rich people move there is of limited value if you basically waive all or most direct taxes.
There should be a configurator with 2 links, if you are on mobile and don't see it, please use the github repo: https://github.com/cristijora/vue-light-bootstrap-dashboard
Too late, the damage is done.
Because girls usually loved shiny-but-useless objects. Meanwhile boys preferred work tools. Horse happened to move from work tool to shiny-but-useless thing.
This youtube channel has proven invaluable to me: https://www.youtube.com/user/JimBobJenkins

His book is also great (http://gametheory101.com/textbooks/), but mostly a reiteration of the videos.
That was our intent (though we can always be clearer). If your regulatory environment requires that level of encryption, you'll want to use something, like Istio, that provides pod-to-pod mTLS (likely via a proxy or service mesh or both).

Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubeflow
Very new, "pre-seasoned" plus oven-seasoned once.