skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BitPay alone has 50k merchants: http://blog.bitpay.com/2015/03/10/heartland-payment-systems-...

Coinbase has 38k: https://www.coinbase.com/about

Gocoin has 5.5k: https://ihb.io/2015-01-29/news/gocoin-announces-5500-merchan...

That's already 93.5k from merely 3 american bitcoin gateways. Add the rest of the world (China, etc) and it is clear there are 100k or more.
3. Why is my employee taking so much maternal leave when I need her to be here?
Right, the key numbers that you've implied are that Scenario A pays out the same whether you use the current artist payment scheme or the one suggested in the post.

It becomes clear that the scheme suggested in the post doesn't make sense either... so I accidentally left "Everything is Awesome" on repeat all night and now this month indie band X gets 1c from me instead of $5, even though I still listened to their album 20 times like usual?
Thanks for the encouragement. Did you do something similar yourself?

I'll give it a bash, I think, based on your words. Just think of the influence that comment might have had on his future life if it does pay off. Thanks again!

Edit: I see from further up the thread you've got a complex situation of your own underway. It's great when you've two native languages at home because English seems to always be an easy third to pick up.
I suggest that you develop a thicker skin when dealing with feedback. Not everyone thinks what you are doing is helpful or beneficial. I can't speak for Swartz, but his article clearly says that he considered ALL news to be bad and even unhealthy, including your 0.1%. So to claim common ground, or to speak for him, is self-serving.

As for Grasswire, I think your solution to trying to improve the news won't work. As someone who previously ran a collaborative fact-checking site (which included a factcheck watch that monitored the main fact-checking sites), I think fact checking is over-rated. Most people are not really that interested in fact-checking the news, or in even reading fact checks. Fact checks themselves are in most cases just as biased as the reports they claim to fact check.

Nonetheless, I am genuinely interested to see how it works out for you.
Do you seriously contend that the problems plaguing Detroit are a result of their residents' collective failure to organize their lives properly? I think most people agree that the rampant poverty in Detroit -- and the resulting unpaid water bills -- are largely a result of city-level mismanagement and the evaporation of employment opportunities resulting in tax-revenue death spiral. We're talking about a city where the police sometimes just don't show up in response to burglaries and the school system doesn't provide city-wide busing. And you're here lecturing the entire population of Detroit about financial responsibility.

Perhaps there are some Detroit residents who, if they were just a little more organized, could get themselves into a better situation. But some of them are just in bad situations no matter what they do. And who knows, maybe some of them haven't paid their water bills because they have decided that food, shelter, and medicine are more important. But nah, best to leave them with no running water. Otherwise, how will they learn?

Edit: I suspect if the city of Detroit offered the deal you're suggesting, there would be lines for it around the block (though even these lines would contain only the people who had transportation to get to the line, had someone to watch their children while they worked, etc.).
These (and race included) are such confusing things for me to reason about. On one hand, equality is of course the goal for everyone. However, these arbitrary numbers - "one to one", as you put it - often(always?) end up as their own special form of discrimination. It's a sad state of affairs when we must use one form of discrimination to fight another.

I wish i had answers, but all i see are problems.
Please don't try to deanonymize people who aren't sharing their own details - individuals are being frank with personal, sensitive financial information in this thread and that's a good thing.
You can't downvote submissions. Lurk more.
Aaaand its gone... and I bet with gazillions of the user's bitcoins (this is becoming a classic)
"Provably" how? Many people learn through a class and go on to speak a second language, so what's the proof?

Sure, eventually you just have to use it. But as an adult learner, you can get going a lot faster by using your knowledge of other languages, understanding of rules, and so on, before jumping in, and it's not always practical for people to just take off and spend months or years in a foreign country in the hopes they'll learn a language while they're there.
Under-representation of females in the IT industry is not a matter of hiring. Look at technical faculties all over the world and check their gender ratios. Or go to a gender-equalized party and start talking about technology, see what happens.

I'm not a misogynist, I like woman. But this lawsuit is not going to change anything, because it attacks just the symptoms. Women need to understand first that they really are just as good as men, consider Maire Curie or Ada Lovelace good examples.
It's a cruel irony that being in a protected class might make it harder to get a job.
It's an uphill battle, but one day there will be one female engineer for every male engineer, one female PM for every male PM.

Why is this a desirable outcome?
What version of osx do you have?
I don't disagree in general but the 1-to-1 ratio is not going to happen.
Splitting with everyone is better because it gets the majors on Spotify which you need to give the service legitimacy.

Major studios are bringing brands to Spotify, indies are draws but aren't big draws. They will put their stuff on Soundcloud and stream it for free to get ears to get concerts.
> I have told her that I'm willing to buy a man-made diamond, but she won't have any of it.

Larger high grade colorless man-made diamonds aren't priced all that differently than wholesale natural diamonds and have the significant downside of having almost no resale value. Even if buyers pay 60% of wholesale for stones, it is still better than nothing.

Putting aside "fake" or not, unless you're buying colored diamonds, I don't see much point in buying lab made stones right now even if you're only concern is how pretty it is.
Not particularly surprising. In the ancient world, men were often killed in various ways (conflict, hunting accidents) or enslaved so the gender ratio was quite skewed.

I mean, typical ancient warfare meant you attack a town, kill/enslave all the men and boys, rape all the women, and ensure your culture's dominance over them for the next generation or two...
Moving Codecademy to ES6, Webpack, and React
Yeah, unfortunately kids get pretty clever about this and resist doing language acquisition that isn't necessary.
Artists are frustrated. And lite listeners should be too.

Artists who don’t like it or aren’t getting enough value — either through payouts or marketing - should simply opt out of the system (if they can; in many cases control might rest with their record label or another rights holder). Some artists never opted in (the last time I checked, this included AC/DC) or withdrew part or all of their collections (Taylor Swift).

I’ve watched the Spotify model appear in the ebooks marketplace, through services such as Oyster and Scribd. They target readers, and ultimately seek to ensure large payouts to investors, platform owners, and large publishing partners. Authors have largely been treated as an afterthought. Kindle Unlimited is even worse, demanding exclusivity and lowering sales of many authors.(1)

I believe the time has come for recording artists, filmmakers, authors, and other media producers to band together to fight unfair or predatory platform practices. Subscription services may be great for consumers, but they don’t pay enough to the people who are creating the products that draw audiences in the first place.

1. http://www.kboards.com/index.php?topic=202571.0
:sigh: RIP buddy.
Perhaps a bit of a stupid question but I've always wondered: how do companies that offer self deployed services like AeroFS or Github Entreprise avoid being hacked by dishonest customers to bypass their pricing plans limitations? Or is that simply not a concern?
Luckily they don't auto-unmute if you press play. So I just quickly hit mute then play. Their annoying behavior only costs a single keystroke.
Sounds like an equity refresh(er). Companies will grant refreshes to vested employees like you (i.e. past the 1-year cliff) to incent and award performance, and they are often given in lieu of a larger yearly cash bonus, which totally makes sense given the cash-strapped nature of most startups.

However, what they won't tell you is if the company has gone through any recent rounds of financing, you as a common stock shareholder have been diluted, and getting a refresh often times only brings you back to your original ownership percentage, if that, so getting a refresh is really only bringing you back to square one in a lot of cases.

In your case, it sounds like your additional grants were substantially more than refresh level (5-20%) which worked out pretty great. In my (limited) experience at 2 larger SV companies - 1 public, 1 private - they both "awarded" refreshes, and I would be surprised if most companies didn't. It's a win/win for the company - they can continue to raise cash through financing and use the cash to fund operations vs. paying out employees, and they can also "incent" their employees to work harder and faster with the promise of future riches.
Not really, or at least it doesn't have to be. Some ambitious and competitive persons may work very hard to publish more papers than their colleague. But for those that don't feel like playing this game and are immune to the comparison with more prolific researchers, it is possible to work very little in a low profile institution.
Not necessarily. There are a lot of things that the article left out. Number 1 is that the Y chromosome is about 25% of the size of the X chromosomes and is also the fastest evolving portion of the human genome. Since this was a DNA based study, you have to control for this as well. I assume they have, but I don't know for certain. Additionally, aneuploidy (XXY, YYX, etc) may also account for some differences along with chimeric (2+ genomes per person due to fraternal twin merging in womb) anomalies. You also have to control for outliers such as Ghengis Khan and those types of mass rape and pillaging, as he has skewed the statistics a fair bit.

Still, if they controlled for all this, it is an AMAZING finding. That only 6% of males will reproduce is fantastical, especially within an agrarian society. I would love to know of other mammalian species that have such low reproductive rates compared to females.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_chromosome
electric motors are more efficient than gasoline powered motors, so there is some real gain to using cars of that type. however, the electric energy still has to be generated by something, and frequently that something is a coal, gas, or oil burning power plant. its still better than burning the gasoline in the car engine directly but not a fundamental solution.

the fundamental solution is to drive less, to carpool more, and to reorganize our communities to make effective public transportation a focus instead of an afterthought. we have to find ways to meet the transportation needs of people without using so much energy to do so.
You found yourself smiling and nodding at daycare teachers who were saying things you could understand less than half of?
A possible solution to that is to mandate that all men also be given maternal (paternal?) leave when their partner has a child.

It would not completely eliminate the imbalance, since of course not every woman who gives birth has a male partner, but it should at least improve the situation.
It's so strange that people often lump US & UK into the same group. They're vastly culturally different in many ways, opposite even.
> It's an uphill battle, but one day there will be one female engineer for every male engineer, one female PM for every male PM. And no woman will be afraid to go and do her job.

okay, i'll jump on this grenade.

will there one day also be one male nurse for every female nurse? one male elementary school teacher for one female elementary school teacher? or one male social worker for every female one? receptionist? hair stylist?

how about one female oil rig roughneck for every male roughneck? one female coal miner for every male? how about plumber, or roofer, or underwater welder? and garbage truck drivers?

what about the female civil engineers? structural engineers? physical plant engineers? construction foremen? these people build things too, arguably things even more real-er than stupid smartphone apps.

it's funny, back when programming computers and managing tech projects was (perceived as) low status work for nerds who didn't fit in anywhere else, i didn't see much if any hullaballoo over the lack of females in these roles. now that all of a sudden everyone including celebrities spends their entire day glued to the internet like a bad crack habit and people are getting rich off ones and zeroes, it's all of a sudden a real big deal and really super duper important. like i said, funny.
I think skylines mods are non-sandboxed (meaning you can do what you want code-wise, note the mod that adds reddit posts to your game internal chirper) that would concern me from a malware perspective
I don't have hard evidence, but a parallel story has been unfolding since about a year about the rampant and brutal rapes in ... India.
Ruby-on-rails backups with the help of Gem
Functional JavaScript with Lionel Ritchie – A Beginner Challenge
TBH, when you stumble upon a really useful parameter space, it does seem like magic.

Also, these days I'm reading Max Tegmark's "Our Mathematical Universe" and, being immersed in that argumentation, the whole "real vs unreal" dichotomy seems a bit transparent. Anyway, having formerly played a bit with computational physics, I'm primarily after what's useful.
Thank you... personally, I like the loose typing, and once you understand how it works in JS, then it becomes a very natural choice for moving data between different systems... this is how I brought node.js into a few places, either with build events for web resources, or for data migrations/pre-processors etc.

JavaScript is very usable by most people, and when you understand it, it gets a lot better. Since node.js/io.js with the likes of browserify you get a pretty nice module system as close to in the box as you can get. With es6/7 and things like BabelJS you get a lot of modern features as well which makes functional composition really easy.

I understand the visceral hatred of JS... I simply don't agree with it. There are a few odd corner cases that are fairly easy to understand and avoid... The problem is that some developers want JS to behave like language X. They have TypeScript which is becoming similar to ES4/C#, there's coffeescript which brings in hints of ruby and python... There's closure and a host of other options too.

In the end, it comes down to taste... I try to stay closer to JS/ES proper, and simply avoid Prototypes for the most part in code I write. I find that function libraries that operate against plain object instances are easier to reason about... treating data as idempotent (even without actually cloning objects) helps too.

JavaScript really has some beautify functionality to it, and I've felt this way for a very long time (back in the 90's even). I think it's when people try to bend JS, or the browser DOM to their will that they get burned... as opposed to actually learning how to use JS.

It's not the best for every use case... but it's a pretty good option for many of them.
Bijan sabet – Postmates and Starbucks
> That coupled with CONSTANTLY turning explicit music on my playlists to the "clean"/"radio edit" versions pissed me off to no end (I know why this is happening and I find it completely unacceptable).

Why is this happening? Bugs the hell out of me too
Or it could just be that he doesn't base his entire self-worth on how much money he has accumulated or view himself as a failure because he hasn't maximized said money.

I don't know which it is myself, so my presented theory is just as speculative as yours, but -- and I know this might be a big surprise to some here -- you can live a very comfortable, happy life without ever being a legitimate early-retirement-capable dozens-of-millionaire.
SpaceX’s only competitor needs Russia’s help to survive
So the solution is to reduce also the productivity of men? Looks more like a punishment to me.
>I had previously thought that maybe hunter gatherers practiced polygamy but it faded away as we become more agricultural.

I would have thought otherwise, there is very little incentive for you to labour for the tribe if you have no skin in the game, so to speak. So they would give you a wife otherwise, why fight for them? Why hunt? Why do anything to benefit anyone other than yourself? Since you have nothing to lose, you can even steal from them since no one you care about suffers.
Complex accounting isn't a good reason to pay artists unfairly.

Having said that, the accounting doesn't have to be that complex:

1. When paying out an artist, list out the (anonymous) users who listened to their music on Spotify.

2. For each user:

a) Show the what percent of the user's total listening was spent listening to that artist. (e.g. 40%)

b) Multiply the amount the user paid by the percentage from (a). (e.g. $10/month * 40% = $4)

3. Sum all of the amounts from #2. (e.g. $4 + $3 + ... = $total)

Also, accounting would only be a problem for Spotify. 99% of artists would prefer this model, even if it meant more complex accounting.
Under monogamy, women who previously would have become part of a powerful man's harem now reproduced with a man who previously would not have reproduced, therefore reducing the female/male reproduction ratio.
Yes, and if you hire -for example- black paraplegic dwarfs you are going to deal with even more discrimination lawsuits.

Of course this isn't like it should be, is just the historical legacy of homogeneity on communities, is been this way for millions of years so it will take a lot time to change it.
It is worth pointing out that at least the "natural reactor" theory is not crazy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor Though it is unclear to me how such a process could go critical, in much the same way that one of the biggest challenges with building a real bomb fission bomb is not so much getting it to explode, but keeping it from exploding gently.

Whether we have the data to parse out something to this level of detail on Mars when we're still arguing about what killed the dinosaurs on this planet I'm substantially more "meh" about. But it is not, intrinsically, impossible or stupid.

The same goes for the alien hypothesis... but even taking the possibility seriously, I'd submit that A: we don't have enough evidence to eliminate the possibility that Mars could have once had an intelligent civilization but B: even moreso, let me underline that, even moreso, we have no evidence to suggest that it ever did. Such speculations would be pure science fiction right now. Right now we still know very little, full stop.

And I'd observe that the stories about these civilizations, viewed through modern technological eyes have some really weird aspects to them, such as, why would a civilization with technology capable of destroying planets (and, in this case, really, really destroying them, Death Star-style, not merely sterilizing the planet which is literally ten+ orders of magnitude easier [1]) only settle on Earth after the disaster? We're not planning on waiting for Earth to go bad before heading to Mars... we're pretty much only blocked on the requisite tech and on cosmological scales the instant we have it we'll be there. There's little reason to believe that a technological civilization of that scale would actually be destroyed even by its home planet going up in smoke. I'd submit the most likely hypothesis is that they were indeed written by humans thousands of years ago, who ultimately had no idea what technology was going to look like. (Heck, even we futurists are still only grasping at smoke in terms of what we'll have 50-100 years from today, to say nothing of trying to guess thousands of years ago....)

[1]: http://qntm.org/destroy
I joined a startup in the late 80's. By the top of the
bubble in the spring of 2000, I had pre-tax equity on the
order of ~$10 million. Pretty good for a grunt in a cubicle.
I was not a manager or any kind of super-star engineer.

Within a year, I was laid off and the stock had tanked 95%.
I had broken all the rules of investing and rolled up a nice
pile, but eventually got burned big time.

I would estimate my gross proceeds from stock sales at a
little less than $1 million over about 10 years.

Shoulda, woulda, coulda...
All of these seem possible, to some extant for humans. First, war kills males. A lot of war could potentially kill the majority of males.

Second, infanticide exists within the historical record. SO does slavery, castration, polygamy etc. It doesn't seem far fetched to imagine a highly polygamous society where the majority of men are denied partners by one or more of these.
I enjoyed Paul Haddad's take on this approach: https://twitter.com/tapbot_paul/status/568133811591974912
I am pretty much scared from this.

I mean, not only NSA and such organization were theoretically able to get a photo of you without your consent, you they can get an actuall 3D reconstruction of your whole face.

Just... Scary.
It also fits quite well with where those tracks typically play during the game.
This is something I often ponder, and there are even more obvious targets for the sort of argument you're making. I typically think of the ASPCA -- I think the ASPCA is wonderful, and I love animals, but should anyone be donating money to ease the lives of animals when there are countless people, as you say, "dying of want"?

More realistically, though, I think we should understand that different people have different philanthropic interests. Maybe by offering a new cause we expand the total amount of money that people give, instead of taking money from the causes you deem to be more worthy? And isn't there an issue of autonomy here? I suspect we agree that nobody has to give money to anyone at all (except through taxes), so why not allow them the freedom to give in the way they find most meaningful, even if it does not have the greatest 'objective' impact?
A company with good family leave policies shouldn't care, or even notice if you are male or female. Part of reducing discrimination should be taking away the idea that women are the only ones who can take care of a kid!
> Wonder if they're doing some testing...

Effective A/B testing should be per-user and not per-page-load.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_%28negative%29
Fraternity House Stories
How about the print versions?
Detection of black holes at the LHC could indicate parallel universes
I think it's better and more useful to ask "Why is my company so dysfunctional that I can't afford to have someone out on vacation?"

Remember that the difference between someone taking maternity leave, and someone quitting, is that people come back from maternity leave. If your company is so short-staffed that you can't afford to have someone out of office on maternity leave (or paternity leave, or even just a normal long vacation that they've saved up PTO for), then what are you going to do when those same people simply quit? The net effect is the same: you are now even more understaffed, but it's a permanent problem instead of a temporary one.