skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are dozens of easy alternatives, I can think of several off the top of my head

1. Allow no-chargeback services that must be text-message verified.

2. Accept adult-content payments, but don't release the money until after a chargeback window (e.g. 60 days), thus isolating the credit card from any risk.

3. Pass-on the chargeback rate (I imagine it can't be higher than 20%) to those wishing to do business as a cost-of-business fee.

The fact that these aren't happening to me suggests it's not primarily about money.
definitely! I don't know if you have heard of Rabindranath Tagore (Nobel laureate). I do have favorites for the writer and I think his works have been translated. Will look into this.
your thinking of Alston Christmas which is September 1. Every lease I had in Somerville, Medford, Cambridge, and Quincy all were for September 1.
I'm not inclined to agree. Some holidays are just not as popular with québécois folk (Thanksgiving is another example). A long weekend in summer based around a holiday the majority of the people in the province don't particularly care about is perfect for moving.
Are we stuck with cement?
You are correct. Cryptocurrency is never stored on any one computer in a blockchain. It's stored on the blockchain itself (the record of truth). The thing that is stored locally is a private key. That key can be written on a piece of paper or copied to multiple devices. That's the key to your money, and it's spendable from anywhere so long as you have the key.
I'm a big fan of the MOOC, even though it didn't explicitly cover it, it basically explained what people mean when they say "we don't know why neural nets work", which is that our previous generalization bounds would imply that neural nets would not generalize well, but in practice they do.
>>It doesn't affect the "good guys", because we value their craft more than other crafts.

This is wrong. It's more expensive for very boring reasons; there's more fraud and therefore more risk for the payment processor. This means lower margins or higher prices. It's all actuarial science determining if serving a given market makes business sense. There are plenty of businesses which are this way, see for example flood insurance. High risk thus low margin thus nobody wants that business.

Good guys and bad guys doesn't come into it, and pretending that this is somehow oppression of the poor helpless craftsperson does nothing to help anyone.
i experienced a lot of those issues too, but in the end i reckon serverless is the right way to go
I think it's more about a town of 20k becoming completely altered by the influx of 200k people who came in as a group in order to reshape the area.

Even if they were exactly my demographic (age, ethnicity, spirituality and all), the explicit intention of reshaping where I call home by these non-natives would give me pause. I think GP was trying to convey a similar feeling.
> Meekness is a positive trait in the LDS church.

Nominally, sure, just like other Christian religions. There are still plenty of big expensive houses in the Salt Lake area.
> I'd kill to be outnumbered by Mormons
> I grew up in Utah

Makes sense then?

> It's different than if 200,000 Muslims were moving in

Ugh.
I had fondue in Los Gatos, and the meat what in cubes, cubes!!!!
France has a problem with long lived institutions - they get filled with "union tenured" staff and new work suffers. I have heard that the French are well aware of this problem and when they establish an institution they set the budget and longevity for it. At the end of that time it is shut down and all the released people must find new jobs based on their merits. A long process to get rid of dead wood, which in the USA would be long gone.
Sounds like moving was a good choice for you?
"A Universal Training Algorithm for Quantum Deep Learning" https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1806.09729/
"Meekness is a positive trait in the LDS church."

With the self-aggrandizing titles they have and the architecture they have in Utah, I don't think 'meek' is exactly a word they understand, nor 'Truth' considering Smith admitted it was all a lie in court (and was busted for being a disorderly person and an impostor in 1826, about 4 years before Mormonism began) and their internal motto is "Lying for the Lord" as told to me by a former Mormon parishoner who joined my 'church' (we don't pray to any deity.)
Yes.

Seems like this would be a fairly straightforward proof of concept experiment to fly outboard on the ISS. Basically a couple of charged screens with force transducers on the screen mounts. It would seem this is within the bounds of Figure 1, The Dipole Drive Accelerating Within a Magnetosphere.

Wish this paper had been published a year or two before SpaceX launched Elon's Tesla. They could have tested a new interplanetary drive.
I really appreciate your comprehensive suggestion. It definitely have opened up options for me. Among all your suggestions I think I would go with

> - Some "classics" can be considered middle grade (warning: some of these reflect racist and colonialist 19th and early 20thC patterns of thought): Robinson Crusoe; Peter Pan; the Jungle Book; Alice in Wonderland; Black Beauty (not racist, it's about a horse); Dr. Doolittle; Just So Stories

> - The Harry Potter series starts off at an advanced middle grade reading level and gradually increases to a young adult reading level

> - Another thing that might be fun would be books of myths from various cultures. I remember reading a big book of Norse myths and another of Greek myths around age 8-9. You could probably start with a collection from a culture you're already familiar with, which could assist with understanding.

Also, thank you for the complement about my writing!
I would encourage you to propose that you your rep, of course, as I'm all for better pricing of externalities.

But there are a number of important differences between a person driving a private car for personal use and a company operating a business. An important one being that the business can possibly monetize the externalities, while individuals living their lives generally don't.

As an example, when I park my bike at a municipal rack, I don't make any money directly from that. I at most use one space, and on average use zero. But if I can make a profit from putting a rental bike at a municipal rack, I have an incentive to consume as many spaces as are profitable. On average I might use hundreds.
I would argue that the worst part of their culture is their pattern of transferring an entirely confused notion of reality onto their children.
What a world we live in, where a company can operate however it would like. Using up public roads and sidewalks, relying on 911 when things go awry, and pushing all the responsibilities to the community.

Things sure sound funny either way.
>They are Democrats AND Republicans...

As of 2016 they are the most heavily Republican-leaning religious group in the U.S. [1]

Technically, there's a Democrat in every city in Utah, but let's not pretend they're a microcosm of the country without a very distinct culture.

[1] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/02/23/u-s-religiou...
Right. If one interpretation is wildly wrong and there is another blindingly obvious interpretation that is correct and relevant... Why would we ever give someone the benefit of the doubt?
non-euclidean is an ill-fitting name, It's just extra dimensional, still within euclidean constraints, and generally not even making full use of a fourth dimension,

These games only explore allowing overlapping 3-dimensional spaces with clearly defined boundaries between those overlapping 3D spaces.
I always wondered about how much the pollution really bothers outsiders. I always thought it would be cool to work in China and see things happening except ... yeah long term exposure to that level of pollution kinda worries me.
> while betraying which way you, personally, are "polarized" on abortion

I'm curious what side you think I fall on, seems to me it could be argued either way. I have no strong opinion on it and picked it purely because it's an evocative example. Perhaps too evocative!

Some other examples might be terrorism, animal rights activism, transgender-as-mental-illness. Including both sides can be legitimately and understandably very upsetting for some people; in other cases we demand equal representation.

Are situations like OP's an inevitable product of the tyranny of an algorithm, one that errs to the safer side of excluding results?
Cancelling is difficult and requires speaking with a human who will haggle you down to about half price. They are very pleasant and low pressure, but you must talk to them.

Hearst newspapers are more porn-like. They offer subscription periods with bizarre terms (3, 7, or 13 weeks) make it difficult to pay without a credit card, and forget to tell you that certain days count as multiple papers because of some special insert. If you make the mistake of giving them your credit card, you must cancel in a narrow window, and renewals are usually timed to skip credit card cycles so you don’t see a charge every month.

I am a weirdo who actually likes newspapers in paper form, but I gave up on my local paper because of bullshit like this.
Sorry for not being clear. My comment about difficulty was relative to installing a "hard drive" today. Back in those days, reading manuals and modifying configurations was normal and expected.

In the mid 90's I rescued a PS2 8580 with a huge 20MB disk that sounded like a washing machine...$8500 brand new. Loved the Model M keyboard -- though didn't know what it was at the time -- and kept it well into the 00's.
The prisoners reasoning is wrong.

> if he hasn't been hanged by Thursday, there is only one day left - and so it won't be a surprise if he's hanged on Friday.

This belief is FALSE. The moment of surprise for a Friday hanging takes place at 12pm on Thursday. Of course, this also happens to be the moment of surprise for a Thursday hanging. In other words, at 11:59am on Thursday he will not know if his hanging takes place on Thursday or Friday. At 12pm he will be surprised to know for certain which one it is: it will be Thursday if he hears a knock and it will be Friday if there is no knock.

The prisoner holds this belief because he makes the FALSE assumption that his moment of surprise MUST occur at the sound of the knock ON THE DAY of the hanging. The prisoner correctly understands that there cannot be a moment of surprise on Friday but, due to this assumption, incorrectly reasons that a Friday hanging cannot be a surprise. It will be a surprise, but he will experience that moment on Thursday, not Friday.

The prisoner pictures himself at 12:01pm on Thursday wondering how he could possibly be surprised for a Friday hanging. He doesn't realize he has ALREADY been surprised by the news of his Friday hanging. That moment occurred one minute earlier (12:00pm)!

The remainder of the "paradox" text is rendered nonsensical because the reasoning is based on the apparent impossibility of being surprised by a Friday hanging.

TLDR

The prisoner makes the following faulty reasoning:

1) The moment of surprise must occur on the day of the hanging (FALSE)

2) There cannot be a moment of surprise on Friday (TRUE)

-> Therefore, a Friday hanging cannot elicit surprise

-> Therefore, Friday cannot be chosen as the hanging day

-> Therefore, Thursday cannot be chosen as the hanging day, etc

#1 is assumed to be TRUE by the prisoner. Unlike the other days, the moment of surprise for a Friday hanging occurs the day before when he does NOT hear a knock at 12pm. Therefore, #1 is false and leads to the false deductions
Looking out the window and seeing trees and mountains.
Absolutely. It's sort of like "Lemon Socialism": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_socialism
The French Send Messi Led Argentina Home
Not from the extension (not that it would be against Mozilla's ToS if it did). It has other nice features to make our users' lives better.

Thank you for judging my business without even knowing it.
I agree that your solutions are obvious; so obvious in fact that I find it highly unlikely that they didn't occur to patreon. What does the likelihood that they thought of these things and didn't do them suggest?

Consider:
All of those options require patreon to do significant work to accommodate that business on their platform. All of them also have significant profitability implications for everyone involved. All of them require vigilance to ensure that all content which should be subject to those rules is, and that you have clearly communicated the nuance of which charges are subject to which rules and fees.

Still sound easy? Maybe you should apply for a job there!
There are often creative ways to achieve such goals. For instance, I worked for a subsidiary of a larger company, originally an independent company of a few hundred people. After the Glassdoor review average became particularly terrible, one day it was folded into the parent, diluting the negative reviews and making them impractical to find. Not surprisingly, over time the whole company's average deteriorated.
I recall a magazine that bought and published articles that were certain not to offend anyone. It was called Reader's Digest. Haven't seen a copy in decades, yet it persists to this day.

There is a crowd that will pay to have what it's exposed to restricted. I guess they would not want Patreon to create a separate, less-restricted service. (The name 'Patreon' itself seemed carefully chosen.)
It's actually an example of the market mechanism solving the problem, you're just ignoring a few actors here:

The payment processor of Patreon has an interest not to deal with the porn, therefore declines the business.

The payment processor of competing actual porn platforms has a market niche to take exactly that business.

All the middlemen that are required here (for complex reasons) get paid for making it happen.

Nothing is lost, therefore no inefficiency, therefore no failure. The money not spent on one performer through Patreon can instead be spent on any other performer wise enough not to rely on Patreon for payment.
Have you actually done this, or are you repeating stuff off the website? Because everyone I've talked with about kubernetes federation says it's really not ready for production use.
I feel this needs more of a description
> Despite significant academic interest, there is no consensus on its precise nature and consequently a final correct resolution has not yet been established.

This is, frankly, embarrassing.
In absolute terms there would almost assuredly be more homes than less in that scenario - thereby putting downward pressure on housing costs, not upward. This is Economics.

Moreover - there is no real competition for land
(specific plots and waterside aside). Even in Vermont's largest urban area (Burlington) you can literally go one kilometre in any direction and find tons of open space, even you go a few more, it's empty.

Developers can go almost anywhere - if one spot taken, you can literally walk in almost any direction and find suitable land.

Which is at least partly why places like Vermont have average home prices of $192K and California (mostly urban) has average home prices of nearly double that. [1][2]

In light of the basic economics here, the parent commenter has the onus to prove his more cynical position that this is 'all some kind of evil rent ploy'.

Because it's not, and if it were, it would be the dumbest ploy ever, because there's no surplus control or surplus capture. People can build next door to move outside of the supposed economic control.

[1] https://www.zillow.com/vt/home-values/
[2] https://www.sacbee.com/site-services/databases/article132559...
the best answer is to distribute power as broadly as is compatible with the goals of the organization and fight centralization

in political terms, this is called distributism/subsidiarity
Solely? No. Significantly? Yes.

I'll google your new BC hydro, of which I know nothing. See what's what. But that doesn't change the situation with USA's dams.

Further, any hope of restoring the pacific salmon runs requires removing hydro. Among many other measures.

You didn't answer my question. So I'll try to restate it: At what point will we have enough solar and wind capacity to moot hydro?

I can't speak to the chub situation.
I only use Uber because there's no other transportation except for the 4 hour bus ride one-way.
"soft skills are dead" is not expressed that way. It's expressed as "the cofounders should be tech", and other such advice which emphasizes the technical capabilities of the cofounders and early hires, and to not trust "suits". Not taking a side here, but just saying that the valley does tend to emphasize a lot on tech over other aspects of running a business.
> FYI, while it does sound interesting, modern pop music doesn't really use swing. Probably because "straight" music is more dance-able.

More probably because swing isn't as easily manipulated in a Digital Audio Workstation as straight is.
The irony of this statement is that cars created the modern, rigid distinction between street and sidewalk. The term "jaywalking" was around before cars, but its modern meaning was heavily promoted by pro-automobile interests in the 1920s:

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/transport/2009/11/in_defe...

Cars don't need to drive on the sidewalks, in other words, because they already took over everything else (and in doing so relegated all other transportation modes to what was left).
They have a energy source, but they actually not using it. They need the energy source to charge the giant capacitor.

But just imagine that after it has been charged to the nominal value the energy source get's broken, and as an emergency measure you just blow up all the conductors and make the two capacitor plates fully isolated. Does the device continue to work? For how long? How do the capacitor discharge?

In their description the particles never hit the plates, so the plates don't discharge. In the real word it's more complicated, but it's an usual assumption for this kind of problems. The real word has these nasty details that reduce efficiency, but they may obscure the main ideas and problems.

If you still are not convinced, just make a hole in both plates and put a isolator tube between the holes. Also, put some isolator around the plates. Make all the plasma only go throw the tube.

Now the calculations are more difficult because it's no longer the electric field of a perfect plate capacitor, but any finite capacitor has problems at the border. If the hole is small enough the using the formula of a plate capacitor is good enough. Let's see a graphic, were the double lines are the insulator and the +++ and --- are the plates:

entry
╔══════════════╦ ╦═══════════════╗
║++++++++++++++║ ║+++++++++++++++║
║ ║ ║ ║
║--------------║ ║---------------║
╚══════════════╩ ╩═══════════════╝
exit

The efficiency will be abysmally low, because you will have a huge starship with a tiny motor, but the important detail is that the effect will be there. Do the plate discharge?

Moreover, in their calculation they assume that the 80% of the energy is transfer to the kinetic energy of the protons. Where does their calculation change in the model? The efficiency must be also 80%. (Perhaps as efficient, but with a smaller thrust.)
>Try doing something that is actually effective - like staging a protest - and you'll be charged with "unlawful demonstrating". How is that freedom?

The 600 or so people who were arrested did so on purpose as part of the protest. They went there with the goal of being arrested and they staged a sit-in of a Senate office building in order to accomplish that goal. There were tens of thousands of other protesters marching through the streets who weren't arrested, asked to leave, or even bothered.

>There are plenty of countries around the world that have real free speech.

I don't know of a country in the world were taking over the atrium of a government building and refusing to leave when the police order you to wouldn't get you arrested. What countries are you thinking of?
This is a good measure: divide number of Nobel winners by total student population. By that standard, EP seems to be top ranked. The problem is that the last EP student who won the prize was enrolled in 1960s. Many other winners were all the wY back in 1800s. It seems that EP was one of the best institute before WW II but then something happened and things went downhill. This could be great case study.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_École_normale_supéri...
I'm Mormon, live in Utah, and am fairly involved in Mormon culture. I've never heard of this project except via Hacker News. If an LDS builder has a plan to build a community, it doesn't mean he's trying to populate it with Mormons. He's even quoted as saying so in the OP.

This has nothing to do with Mormonism. Reporting trying to trace a connection is merely pandering to the fact that Mormons being weird makes for a more interesting article, and earned your click.
> adult transactions: There's not that many of them

I genuinely wonder how true this is. Does anyone know of any stats/data that have been released about it?
> "It was nice that I could walk around China freely and not have to worry about thieves unlike in the US."

Fun fact as a counterpoint: Sure you can walk around China freely without as much threat to your personal safety per se, just be prepared for that two year old child beggar on a leash will come running up to you and instinctively step sideways when you try to start walking around.

I mean, it's fair enough that China has blocked YouTube and github and Wikipedia, but the sheer whataboutism as justification blows so far past any iota of credibility.
I don't think it's conscious ploy by people to drive up housing prices - most of the people who tend to object the most are those who have lived in an area their whole life and intend to live there until they die, and so they won't realize any house price appreciation within their lifetime. Rather, I think they actually mean what they say: they will miss the open wilderness and historic character of the area if it's developed into a new-age urban development.

The reason that such trifling (to outsiders) concerns can actually block housing developments is because there's a strong selection bias in land-use planning. Current residents get a vote, while future residents get no vote. Moreover, current residents often have strong relationships and lots of friends within the area, so they may get more than one vote. So democratically, the loss of undeveloped wilderness in some other area of your town counts more than the gain to a non-resident of having a place to live.
Hello fellow anglophone in Montreal! I too assumed thought that was the reason, but turns out it's not: the party that created this conflict one year in the 1970s by adding two months to all leases which ended on April 30 is the Quebec Liberal Party, who are federalists.

Apparently back then Canada Day, which was then called Dominion Day, was simply less of a big deal than it is now.
On the Wikipedia page for a gridded ion thruster, it says that no power is consumed by the grids if nothing impacts the grids.

But I suspect that that's a situation like the way in which you can compress a gas in a cylinder without raising the temperature: "all you have to do" is to move the piston only when it will not contact a gas molecule. All the molecules will bounce off the piston while it's stationary, and the temperature won't go up. However, that requires a Maxwell's Demon to supervise the motion of the piston, and it's inevitable that the temperature goes up.

Likewise, in this situation, you simply cannot avoid having ions impact the grids, and that's where power is consumed.

However, in a normal gridded ion thruster, a lot of energy goes into ionizing the reaction mass, and you have to carry the reaction mass. This merely does away with the need for that.
I wouldn't dismiss Hulu, but they're also very obviously not in the same league. For one, they're US-only. Handmaid's Tale is aired on other channels/services worldwide.