skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Current gamers already have gaming PCs, so there isn't much of a benefit.

Even for people that don't have gaming computers or consoles, you can put a decent one together that costs less than one of Google's phones
It runs Ubuntu. I doubt Nvidia wrote their own drivers for basic things.
>I stare at my iphone and start to wonder where I get to change my dns settings...? So I've just spent five minutes poking around and I haven't found it yet. So I've just googled it, and apparently you need 3rd-party apps to do it...

Took me about 30 seconds. Settings -> Wifi -> Tap the info icon for the network you're on -> Configure DNS.
I made my first website 22½ years ago. Even as a raw beginner, I knew it was considered sloth and Very Bad Form Indeed not to specify image size in my markup.
Access to people with money, and enabling them to funnel their money into your pocket.
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Law prohibits a lot of places to built it. I remember Palo Alto had some condition. In SF, I think it doesn't have a good foundation to build tall building. It's either that or the architect here is not great.

The slanting, sinking high-end building terrifies me.
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Ah, you'r right. But it still doesn't work to bring that Abu Ghraib into this at all. The story then becomes that she was just part of a broken system and isn't responsible?
> 2D-dead-reckoning for regions of the video frame

That is, in fact, how video compressors work. It's called motion estimation.
TIL!

I've only ever seen it used in the generic sense online, a bit like the way we talk about "a hoover" when we mean "a vacuum cleaner".
The real big issue here is not the agents -- although there's built-in systemic conflicts of interest that the industry engenders -- it's the people above the agents that really benefit from this system...

The companies who normally take about 50% of that commission from the agent do not provide anywhere close to the kind of value that they charge for.

These are the real winners and gate-keepers in the current system. These are the people that pay millions for lobbyists to keep the status-quo.
Frankly I am pretty happy about this.

Patreon has over leveraged themselves via VC investment and they have nowhere to go but up.

Creators are not wedded to middlemen, especially those who provide little value.

Other companies such as BitPatreon, SubscribeStar, etc have recently started to gain marketshare, albeit a small one. It continues to grow.

Princess Leia said it best: "The more you tighten your grip, Patreon, the more creators will slip through your fingers."
Customer support, maintaining a secure infrastructure for payments etc. This is not something that every creator wants to spend their time on
Student tuition, maybe. State taxes, no. Do you suggest that people should just move directly to government supported private research institutes?
Some really quick unsolicited feedback (while I acknowledge upfront I know nothing about your business except what I gleaned from 10 seconds on your website): You say your model is "freemium" but I don't see a way to pay for anything on your website? That's not freemium, that's donationware. I'm not aware of any business like yours (consumer-focused desktop software) that's been successful as donationware, are you? If not don't expect to be the first.

I wouldn't read into the survey results, while better than nothing, look at what people do, not what they say they'll do. The survey results are great if you want to dig into the subconscious rationalizations people have for not donating, but it's not going to help actually get people to pay. Instead look for real-life examples of products like yours that people are paying an amount for that you'd be satisfied with (if you have examples like these I'd love to see them, I'd love for the model you're trying to actually be viable, I've just never seen it succeed).

Finally, the business model for this product seems obvious to me: Charge a subscription for users that want to use sync more X than some threshold Y.
If you were a content creator with no technical know-how, how else would you set up a system that would let your supporters donate $x periodically, also assuming no technical know-how on your supporters' part?
How will working for FAANG fuck up people's lives?
I suspect that dealing with complaints or appeals does not scale well and therefore they just do not (or even can not) do it?
Wrong. The listing is an invitation to join a pool of potential instructors. If you're selected to teach, you of course get paid.
Why should it be an investment? And why should we prioritize current winners' investments over the possibility of new entrants into the field?

Property taxes are another way that California is extremely regressive. Since property tax is paid based on the purchase price rather than market value like in other places, and since adding additional housing means that your property tax gets reassessed at the new value, tax policy highly incentivizes reduction of housing supply.

California policy can be summed up as: "I don't want any more people here after I moved here; but please bring on the jobs and the rising property values."
Thanks didn't know.

I have visions of them sueing 'Tor' now, because they're the real ones.
So now anyone who has ever owned a terminated account is a Typhoid Mary and as Google refuses to provide any details about their bans and cuts all communications with banned accounts, it's like being exiled by a commandment from high above. People talk about possible future AI abuses but here we are with people getting abused by an AI system right now. Being banned from ever having a Google Play account is a death sentence for an Android developer, especially since anyone who ever comes into contact with you risks being exiled by association.
GR isn’t always offered at the undergrad level
AltGr-e :)

Depends on your keyboard, of course.
So how does this argument convince the population who has invested into their homes to suddenly want to devalue their property?
I'm starting to suspect that the major cloud vendors are well along on pulling a classic "embrace, extend, extinguish" gambit on that front.

I'm sure there are a percentage of people operating in the cloud who stick judiciously to an open-source stack, and remain masters of their own future as a result. But it seems more common to spread some open source icing on top of a cake made out of ingredients like Beanstalk, Redshift, S3, Lambda, etc. (Or name your favorite non-Amazon cloud vendor's equivalent.) Those companies may be just as locked into their closed-source software vendor of choice as people were locked into Microsoft or IBM or whoever back in the 1990s.
Do people go to grad school for the money though?
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Reality is self interest.

When self interest cuts the next generation off at the knees, it's no longer so well connected to reality.
Just a hypothesis.
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If you think Ubisoft is going to put their new games on a Cloud streaming platform. It's going to be exactly like Netflix vs Disney.
So, who wants to make a bet on how long this "experiment" will last? I'm thinking 2 years before Google gets tired of it and abandons it, and another year before it's taken behind the shed.
It's a matter of policy for them to never disclose anything but the vaguest possible details about the case if there's any suspicion of wrongdoing on the user's part.
I don't think it's likely to have been "planned" deliberately, as the result is an annoyed user. I think it's the result of naive A/B testing, without examining the deeper reasons for the results. "Oh wow, clicks are up 50% with the new layout!"

Of course, if you did discover the true reason for the increase in your click rates, you'd probably stay quiet about it. So maybe it's a bit of both.
I'm not sure if I'd call it my favorite anymore but I probably use reddit the most.

I'm thinking of golden age in terms of the power available to webpages/browsers. This would be when HTML5/webgl/etc features had just gotten implemented, plugins like Flash and Java were still supported, and Firefox used the old extension system. All of the old web was still there alongside the cool new stuff. Now the old stuff is gone and the new stuff is getting ruined.
> they do have a name associated with dropping products after a year or two

Totally a concern. When OnLive closed people lost all their games, no refunds. While if you went to the store and bought a physical disk. It'd still be yours.

The average console quality game is about 50 or 60 bucks nowadays. If you are an active gamer, you could lockup and lose hundreds or even a thousand dollars when they decide to close it.

Most of Google's services are free, but paid ones I'd hope they wouldn't as easily abandon too.
Just to share for anyone interested in the Rails gems I'm using.

An asynchronous worker manager is helpful for handling cron jobs, mail tasks, and various batch processes that can be loaded into memory (mostly Redis) but processed later.

I use the gem Sidekiq which, as is, provides a UI and API that I rely heavily on. I might just not know the best practices, but I definitely find this valuable.

The BI tools are not something found in most ecosystems. Not to mention dead simple setup. I use two gems, Ahoy and Blazer, which together provide a simple API for event tracking and saving database queries.

[1]: https://sidekiq.org/

[2]: https://github.com/ankane/ahoy

[3]: https://github.com/ankane/blazer
Open source doesn't make money for the same reason music doesn't make money. It's very hard to charge for content directly nowadays. What people do pay for is user experience. The money in open source flows to cloud hosted open source services on AWS / Azure, the money in music content goes to Spotify, the money in TV shows goes to Netflix, ...

Agree / disagree?
Realistically, if Patreon didn’t exist, most of the creators on it wouldn’t be getting any donations, or at least much fewer, and they certainly would not be consistent and monthly. Having a base platform that people trust to put their credit card in is a big deal; that’s basically PayPal’s whole shtick.
.. or macOS
> Are there any specs about the hardware that you used, or that anyone else can share?

Everything you need is either on http://wiki.nesdev.com or on their forums. I know because that's what I did with my NES emulator - I explicitly didn't want to look at any source code and instead wanted to implement everything only based on the docs.

Granted, what's on the NESdev isn't always easy to grok, up to the point of being really confusing sometimes. What I've found really helped is gradually setting up a test suite based on various test ROMs I could find, which even allows you to implement some parts of the emulator TDD-style once you get the basics up and running.
>Shouting and insulting people is no way to have a discussion.

Says you! I don't enjoy the flaming, but things have gone too far to the other side where you can't anything online or you get CoC broken over it.
PayPal monthly subscription button on Wordpress site. I’m sure there are WP plugins that make this stupid simple.
> This refers to the torturers

You're right. But it's still a reaching argument and it doesn't work. It kind of strengthens the idea that the director is trying to stir controversy by saying "she wasn't as bad and was just a product of a bad context..."
Several minutes' searching failed to find a single real-world example of this happening with open source software specifically, and I don't recall hearing about any such case either.

All of the liabilities I found for open source software involved intellectual property cases.

Are you aware of any cases where this has actually happened? Because, if not, it sounds more like the standard boilerplate disclaimer that lawyers tell you to include just in case anyone ever does try such a thing, rather than a protection against a thing that has actually happened.
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> I worked in the Bay Area for a few years. As some one from Bangalore, the difference was night and day. Overall quality of people, scale of challenges, money and in general career awesomeness are just unmatched.

You pay for that "awesomeness" in premium housing prices.

> Economics is above everything, and eventually people will just make it work.

The economics are working. Home owners are sitting on increasingly valuable assets.
How would facilitate this kind of relationship between creators and consumers otherwise?
Thinking of the problem as a nested for loop it's intuitive to see how you get 1000 combinations without the numbers being unique but I dont see how to get 720 combinations as the answer when each digit is different. Can you explain where 720 combinations comes from in the context I mentioned?
Thanks for checking, I stand corrected then. Whenever I've tried they've usually been listed as robocallers so I guess it's just your luck.
In terms of raw information processing. Focus, perhaps? Prior to taking psychedelics, I would struggle to process information, though I was an avid reader. Recall seems markedly improved too. Again, it is all anecdotal. It is a non-trivial problem to even begin to measure cognition, intelligence, consciousness, etc.
One of the strangest parts about mortgages to me is the "point" system lenders use to sell buyers lower interest rates. They offer a lower interest rate if you "buy points" rather than applying it towards your down payment. It seems like lenders are prioritizing their short term profit over their customers' long term financial stability.
> As someone who believes in the free market, I of course do not object to wanting to negotiate rates, but if no agent is willing to do it, well then, they're just charging what the market will bear. You are, of course, free to sell your home and take on the liability yourself.

This is exactly why I've sold my homes FSBO with an actual real estate lawyer. Real estate agents are rarely lawyers and their training sometimes seems to give them the idea they are legal experts - they are not. The point I was making was that the agents both made mistakes and neither were held accountable. The reason the agencies stepped in was to fix the mistakes (legal mistakes) that were made. There are other ways to sell a house that do not require an agent that do protect you as a seller (or a buyer). I don't use agents anymore because of this and I've had nothing but a more positive experience given that the information from the buy side is much more accessible, and cheaper. I know what I'm looking for and I'm well capable of setting up searches to find that. Realty agencies know this and are trying to protect their vested interest by playing new games like "premarket" opportunities. I don't see how they're progressing the experience, but are only making moves to protect a legacy model. Very similar to how ridesharing has been, overall, positive disruption.
Why doesn't the AppStore/PlayStore have a pay what you want feature for apps
I have two apps on the Appstore that are free to download and while I never have any intention of charging a fee for this app, it doesn't mean I wouldn't want to make money if someone WANTS to pay me. This type of feature is great when downloading music off a site like Bandcamp. Lots of small bands have their music listed as 'Name your price'. I've even downloaded music and then gone back later and paid them because I really liked it. Most users probably won't pay and that's fine but shouldn't the platforms enable users to spend MORE money if they want to?
> Then the page won't be responsive

That's a benefit, in my view.
Its almost like they want to be regulated.
Well. Then let’s see the public transport being built first.
why not in other sprawling regions of California.

"My songs are of time and distance. The sadness is in you." -- Wintermute

Distance is time. Time is money.
Exactly. This is deeply troubling to me. I'm going to assume the best and apply Hanlon's Razor and think that this isn't their intent, but it will certainly be the outcome.

I really hope they reverse course, and soon. They are creating a world I don't want to live in, and as someone who loves Google products and has a lot of my life wrapped up in them, I'm actually starting to worry about getting infected with Typhoid myself just through accidental association.
The content they host in blogs is minimal.

They handle payments for creators. They keep the list of patrons and what tier they're in, and they have some integrations so you can automate some types of rewards for your patrons.

Their premium service adds some new stuff, like handling merchandise.
If her client isn't providing a return, she should drop them. The fact that she doesn't means that the 3% she is hoping for is enough to cover all of that hassle. And most sales aren't worth the hassle.
Correlation doesn't imply causation. I've seen plenty of people go into nonsensical ramblings without drugs involved. Or maybe your friend was "awakened" to pseudo-spirituality first and then got into psychedelics? That seems very common as well.
Some people - strange people - actually prefer a gamepad as an FPS controller, probably because that's what they grew up with. Nobody prefers extra input lag.
It’s essentially a blog, and it’s not a super well-designed one either. The main benefit from that system comes from the ability to limit viewership to only patrons.
I just wish there was a way to run OSX on a high-performance server, or a cloud virtual machine, for continuous-integration purposes. The iMac Pro doesn't cut it, and is a pain to host anywhere. I'd like to test-build applications for OSX alongside CI builds for Linux and Windows, and there's no sensible, legal, scalable solution for that.
watching it. I understand sacrifice, but honestly a chicken coop is more spacious than their new "bedroom"! I also understand that 700 sqf is way better than cave living, but still, for how long would I live in there?
https://blog.usejournal.com/google-wrongly-terminated-our-ne... story of another startup.

And mine too. I had a small utility calculator app with some 100k download and play store suddenly deleted the account. The app was in partnership with someone. No reason nothing. No way to restore.

Play stores auto termination policy sucks to hell.

Update: I just saw the post back. Since it went viral google reinitiated their account to probably shut the matter (instead of fixing the main cause of issue it seems)
> The industrialized countries are already so poor that the birth rates are so low they are rapidly going extinct.

Country wealth and birth rates are not positively correlated, and due to immigration, countries can have positive population growth even as their birth rate is below replacement.

> For Wall Street, I still have the letter back from Fisher Black at Goldman Sachs saying that he saw no opportunities for optimization on Wall Street. I sent lots of resume copies, went on a few interviews, had not yet heard of James Simons, and got nothing.

To conclude from this, despite everything that has happened in the interim, that math is unemployable is an, uhm, mistake. As I recall, President Obama was lamenting the brain drain to Wall Street speaking precisely of the number of math PhDs lured there from more fruitful pursuits. Not to mention, as I recall there is an equation bearing Mr. Black's name, the accurate/efficient solution of which has had some importance in finance.
Here I would say that creating something new is different than selling or giving away something existing that someone else created.

> Surely such a claim would be thrown out in court and then all cases such after would be dismissed with prejudice, meaning the judicial example would already exist.

Afaik not all courts all over the world work that way, besides of course there being hundreds of courts with different rules that all would have to go through that at least once for a creator to be able to rely on that.
Well, fuck. In 2017 they operated at almost 120% of income:

> Overall, Mozilla invested $24M in this work in 2017. Total revenue and income support to the Mozilla Foundation in CY 2017 was $20.6M.
Patron does not provide the streaming service. For Twitch and Youtube you get to actually have your content served to viewers.

Patreon is just a website and database with a blog. I read once they have 300 engineers, and can't figure out why...
There is a story around UT that Weinberg heckled her during a lecture of his when she asked about the convergence of a series and promptly got a talking-to by the department chair. I hear he’s been much better behaved since.
10 * 9 * 8

The first time you pick, you have 10 different numbers to choose from, the second time, 9, the third time 8.
Patreon doesn't provide a service similar to Twitch or Youtube. You can post links to videos hosted on those services, but you can't host videos on patreon itself. You can only post text and images.

Patreon is basically a blog that requires readers to be logged in and pay for access to each blog. Creators usually use Patreon in conjunction with another public content distribution platform, like YouTube.
Pivot to a product that doesn't require Google approval?

All the top apps today come from big companies. Mostly Google, in fact. The era of the app startup is over. Why do you want to compete with Google while under the control of Google?

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever. - Orwell
I want to emphasise this "Anything paired with a physical device. People will judge the value based on the hardware and software experience together." This is THE future growth market IMHO
> For example, Valve will keep updating/supporting/hosting events of CSGO even if it has <1Mil active users on PC, but I can totally see Google pulling plug on it and burn dedicated followers.

Bad example because CSGO has been sitting at #2/#3 on steam's active player charts for years and years. Consistently ~10x the player count of, say, Rainbow Six Siege. Continuing to invest resources into a game with CSGO's player count is just all around solid business strategy, particularly since it has ~500k concurrent users at any given point. Active player count would be way, way over 1Mil.

TF2 would be a better example, but I don't know how much (if anything?) Valve is still doing with the small TF2 community. It still has a respectable 50k concurrent user population, but has Valve been ignoring them? Are there still updates for it?
I thought it was particularly ironic that Google is launching it's own game studio five days after closing it's own VR movie studio: https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/google-spotlight-stori...
Gaming PCs need to be upgraded on a 2-4 year basis if you want to keep near the top-of-the-line. One of Google's phones can cost $600-$1000, which is significantly more than a new console. So I'm not sure why you even bring that up, as if there were no economical difference between putting $500+ on your credit card, and trying out a $15-$30 month subscription.
Their live presentation already showed the input lag.
I don't know about the person you are replying to but I don't have any problem with a flat fee becoming the norm.

I was just commenting on that even buying a home I would want a realtor, which many people here believe they don't need.
There is no reason to doubt the translator just because you don't like the study's result.
From a preservationist angle, this would be a terrible path for games to go down. Any exclusive games released using Stadia would be impossible to play once the servers shut down because users don't have any access to the software.

Even if MMOs shut down, there is usually an opportunity to write a new server by reverse engineering the client. I can't really support anything about game streaming unless it was tied into an actual game you could install or play without relying on their servers to exist.