skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a huge fan of the cooperative model, and I eat at Arizmendi all the time. But I think the main reason for their success is they just do one thing: one pizza per day, and they do it really well. You don't know exactly what you'll get, but you get the gist of it, and you know it will be good.

Compare to Bakesale Betty down the street in Oakland, which is not a cooperative, and just sells really good fried chicken (or tofu) sandwiches. They have a line around the block too. Both of these places have about 10 feet of standing room between the door and the cash register.

I think people are realizing you don't have to be the Cheesecake Factory and cook everything under the sun with a huge dining room in order to make money selling food. It's a resurgence of takeout and small menus and Cheeseboard was way ahead of the curve on that game.
Neat thread. ast to Linus's response to ast's initial post:

> Of course 5 years from now that will be different, but 5 years from now
everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5.

It's interesting how computer science intellectuals of this era "knew" that "superior" chipsets would draw everyone to things like Sun's Sparcstation instead of plain ol' IBM x86 machines. Most interesting is being able to read their assertions, verbatim, from old Usenet posts hosted on a (presumably Linux) server farm "in the cloud" from a laptop running Linux x86-64 machine not physically connected to a network in any fashion--forget the "WD ethernet card!"
I wrote a mail client, console-based, with integrated Lua-based scripting.

I had to resolve the same problem you mention here. Me? I chose to support Maildir. Exclusively. With nothing else. It kills the client for some users, who want IMAP, etc, but for me it works well.

http://lumail.org/

I think with the right abstractions you can go far, but using Maildir to get started isn't a bad choice. SQLite will suffer if you have many many many messages. I know that having handled large email volumes in the past.
It looks like there will never be an Amazon Fire Phone 2
And in many cases, if a city tried to put a (much cheaper) paramedic crew/ambulance in a firehouse to cover calls like this the union would point out that it violates their agreement with the city.

So we go on wasting resources, talent, and ability.
In this case it's doubly silly, since the Super Bowl is being played 80km and two counties away in a different city for which SF has zero responsibility. Undoubtedly a few of the visitors will stay in or visit SF while there, but probably not all that many since it's a 2+ hour drive with traffic and there's no direct mass transit option. Seems like much ado about nothing, or perhaps an excuse or rationalization.
All I see is that early adopters who made a purchase are happy with it. That out of the way, if anything a 100k car with 250 odd mile range if you drive nicely simply proves the technology is not ready for the everyday driver.

Get to the point you can deliver 300 to 500 miles per charge at the same price point the average car purchase is at and call me. Its a rich man toy that you have to adapt to live with and don't even get me started on trip planning. I am not routing around my car's limitations.
The Cheese Board has reproduced... in the form of Arizmendi Bakery:

"Forty years ago, Berkeley's now-famous cooperative, the Cheeseboard, opened its doors. In 1997, inspired by their own success, they helped open another bakery based on cooperative principles. Arizmendi Oakland debuted that year on Lakeshore Avenue, named after the Basque labor organizer.
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The endeavor was a hit, so what next? They decided to open another bakery, this time in San Francisco. Once again the group, along with members of the Oakland store, graciously imparted their knowledge of cooperative business practices and shared secrets of their recipes.

In October of 2000, Arizmendi Bakery San Francisco was born. The Cheeseboard's gift to us has become our gift to the neighborhood."

http://www.arizmendibakery.com/about
Escaping Solution-First Development Through Impact Mapping
Am I missing something?

In "regular" Reyes (and I may just have this wrong - I was unaware that the hybrid technique you describe was common) I though you were a) locally approximating surfaces and b) applying local shaders. These shaders are typically inferior estimates of the BSDF at that location compared to other techniques, but can be very memory efficient.

In the hybrid approach you describe, you avoid at least (b) above by doing the shaders by path tracing, say, but localized to where your rasterizer has discovered. So you aren't benefiting in anything but speed, so this seem more an implementation detail than anything fundamental.

So I don't see how dropping this sort of detail from any introductory course is anything but sensible. There should probably be a discussion of space/speed/distributional issues in general, but at a higher level.

Again, I'm not questioning why anyone would want to implement it, just why anyone would find it odd to leave out from an introductory course.
This is idlewords's concept of investor storytime[0]. The only difference is that here, the author thinks it's a good thing.

[0] http://idlewords.com/talks/internet_with_a_human_face.htm#ad...
The fed doesn't experience risk. It has full control over the size of its balance sheet. There may be other problems with QE4 in the form of Operation Twist II but risk to the Fed isn't one of them.

Also your claim that "the liquidity is not passed on to end consumers" besides being debatable, doesn't answer the claims made by the parent poster. If the Fed so chooses it can prevent yields from rising, which means that the US government will not have higher interest costs.

In sum, the entirety of your argument comes down to the something, something hyperinflation which your heritage link makes explicit. We've heard that story before. There's no reason to think it will be any more accurate this time than it has been for the last 50 years.
I've always thought Parse to be a very bad name for that product/service. Fortunately, Google has learnt that parse.com refers to Parse.
great explanation. many thanks! hochreiter is genius!
Sentiment Analysis with Word2Vec and Logistic Regression
While SF's mayor plans to kick out or hide as many homeless as possible to make way so Super Bowl partiers won't be offended or feel obliged to partake in some extrajudicially-unprosecuted hate crimes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10130589
Apple Watch: 8 weeks and 9 pounds
Right, the browser gives you an "Only secure content is displayed" notice and the page works fine.
You obviously need to address the core issues of homelessness first. But then what? Once someone has marketable skills, mental health treatment and is in a better condition to contribute to society, do you ask them to leave the city because there isn't anywhere they can afford to live?

Unaffordable housing may not be the reason someone is on the street, but its definitely a problem on the path away from that situation.
I can't comment on some things (like the line ups at super charger stations) but other things I can. You say "it's an hour from your house", if you are at your house, why wouldn't you just charge at your house?

200 supercharger stations worldwide, but that's not counting electric vehicle charging stations, plus the station in your driveway. All gas stations are further away than the tesla station in the garage.

Yes, the cost of the vehicle includes the cost of building supercharger stations, but then again, the cost of gas includes the cost of building stations too, so maybe a bad comparison.

I see where you are going with your arguments, however they don't all apply. I think the most valid thing you said is perhaps the line ups, but again I can't comment on that, not to mention gas stations have line ups... so there's that.
I realized in a discussion thread on Literate Programming styles that majority of my comments nowadays have moved into the source control commits. Then you somewhat get the best of inline comments in your source control annotated view of the code, including that the comments truly only stay attached for as long as they stay relevant (walking backwards in time as necessary to see the history of that line).
Google Denies Europe’s Antitrust Accusations
It can't be that since their foreign reserves which include foreign currency holdings are declining. The recent turmoil started with an attempt to lower their currency but this quickly got out of hand when their stock market crashed so they had to start supporting their currency. To do this they sold foreign assets for foreign currency which they used to buy their own currency.
Tesla P85D First Product in History to Get Perfect Score from Consumer Reports
some pleasant tree patterns:

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(the first 64 gray codes, as columns)
Are these paid shopping comparisons, or whatever Google finds itself and tries to usefully show to users? If it's the latter, your statement should read as follows:

If Google purports to be a search engine and then gives preferences to search results that benefit their users (making Google indispensable), it's ethically similar to an fiduciary adviser recommending things that make his clients rich (making himself indispensable). Being indispensible has its own benefits and value.
I usually try hard to not link against 'installed' libs but instead directly compile external dependencies from source as part of my project. That way I don't need to have different libs for different build configs or VStudio versions. CMake can import sources from locations outside your source tree, and these source locations can be relative to your project (e.g. on the same directory level). That way you don't need any global system settings, or centralized locations, everything can be relative to your project. I actually prefer this also on OSX or Linux.
There really ought to be a nostalgia section. Some of us don't want to continually relive the 80s and 90s.
New York City Says It May Sue Verizon for Failed FiOS Promises
Knuth thinks they're pretty cool too and talks about them in TAoCP volume 4. The pre-fascicle of his discussion is available in gzipped PostScript.

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/fasc2a.ps.gz
10 Ad Blocking Extensions Tested for Best Performance
Aerospike in Docker
That the founders and the investors have to believe in a product is undeniable. If we agree that "believe in" means "believe that it's gonna catch on and make a shitload of money", not necessarily "make the world better".

But why should you care as a founder if your employees believe in your product? Your employees are professionals, pay them to get shit done and that's it, why do they have to believe in your idea of "Uber for strippers", or "twitter for baby sitters"?

The only ones who have to believe are the ones who put their ass on the line for a potential big reward. And startup employees are not in this category.
The homeless folks say the San Jose State's MLK library is the only non-commercial place around that's climate controlled and tolerates their situations.
Ever worked with affiliate ad funnels before? Everything looks like it was coded by the bosses 14 year old son. Pages served under https containing tracking pixels under http, iframes sourcing http endpoints, various obscure analytics setups without any semblance of ssl...

And when all your impression pixels are refused because of insecure content warnings (because your server is serving over https), your impressions stats dive harder than a lead zeppelin.

What's broken is the total lack of standardization for any of these companies, which makes sense given that most of these guys are slinging diet pills and brain supplements to the LCD; Great devs don't usually gravitate to industries like that.
Votes (and over-interpretations thereof) aren't relevant to violations of the HN guidelines. Obviously your comment was the one that polarized the topic, or rather moved it to a more inner circle of hell, since it was already polarized plenty.

Don't do any more Molotov cocktail-tossing on HN, please.
Toby

Given than flarum.org is down due to moderate traffic, any immediate plans to include sometype of content caching within Flarum?
I'd call Furbies a net negative.
People using Google search are not customers. They are visitors to a free web site where you can type stuff into a box, and other stuff appears of that web site's choosing. There are various assurances made or implied about what that stuff consists of. Those come from the website itself, so you're foolish if you completely believe them.

How about people who use other free stuff? People who load up GNU/Linux and log in to a Bash promp --- are they "GNU customers"? Does GNU have a monopoly because the users don't bother to find out about other operating systems and believe all the evangelizing which tells them that GNU/Linux is the best?
You forgot to mention the blog, which stands for "web log", that is, a log of an individual's experiences on the web.

In particular, one way to make your site discoverable was to write to bloggers that might be interested in it.
Nope.

He lists that there's no Windows IDE, which is far from being able to run the program everywhere and using whatever I want to use to build it (as I have said it). I also think that .NET languages (like Visual Basic .NET and C# .NET) are not a good starting language, even though one of them was my starting language thanks to my high school and my college (both taught me Visual Basic .NET for one year). Plus, he states that Swift is open source at the moment, which, as far as I know, is not true. He didn't mention any of those three points I made.

EDIT: Replaces .NET with .NET languages.
It's like we have to recycle this every few years
Assemble Your Dream Team
I don't know if I'd amend that statement that far. Even if there's a supercharger on the route, we haven't yet talked about the time required to let the car charge back up for the remainder of the journey.

If you're on a 400 mile road trip, you can drive the first 250 or so on a fully charged Tesla, but then you'll need to stop for a half hour at a Supercharger and let your car charge up to get the remaining 150 miles. If there's no Supercharger around and you need to stop at a conventional EV charger, be prepared to wait an hour or more.

Because of the non-trivial time increase once you go beyond the initial range of the car, I know I'd be less likely to want to take trips beyond it, even if they were technically doable.
Consumer Reports scoring system is always weird, and tailored to the preferences of whomever creates it.

Declaring a car perfect that has some pretty severe limitations in terms of range, etc is pretty ridiculous, but that's pretty standard fare for them. Or touting 85 equivalent MPG when you can purchase a similar gasoline vehicle at a significant discount vs. Tesla that performs as good or better.

In ye olden times with CR, you essentially lost 10 points for not being Honda.
Perhaps emergency social services would be a better use of resources. Btw SF has social services people/volunteer orgs canvassing the Tenderloin during most daylight hours distributing resource info... it's almost impossible
to not cross their paths on the fin district opposite side. The issue is that emergency social workers whom can be assigned to a specific person to intervene until they're in a better situation are what's most needed. Not all homeless people know how to fill out forms, navigate, keep appointments or can stick to getting their basic needs met by themselves/know what to do next for whatever reason/s; some do too, sure. The U.S. really needs centrally-coordinated assigned caseworker management for social services so that all needs (food, housing, health, $, edu, work, mental, dental) can be met and addressed, not the patchwork /hit-miss system-of-infinite-cracks it is now.
This looks enticing, but a few problems..

* No mention of Exchange support (not a biggie because Davmail exists, but still)

* No mention of proxy server support (got burned by this on Airmail and still can't use it to this day)

* No demo

* Nothing about a return policy

I really want to try this, but I'm not going to drop $10/$20 sight unseen, sorry.
I'd argue that the above questions aren't well formed. Gender equality is such a sticky issue that it's really important to use precise language.

For the first question, it might be fair to say that the average amount men can lift is more than the average amount women can lift. However it's really important to realize that given 2 individuals of different genders, there's no reason to make any assumptions about which one is able to lift more weight. You could just assume, and if you had to assume, you'd be most accurate by assuming the man could lift more than the woman, but why assume?

Be very careful when taking a statement that's accurate wrt to populations and applying it to 2 individuals in the population.
And GP's point doesn't matter if it's the women doing the hiring.
Docker isn't perfect – Issue #216
>I don't know a way of doing that in any of the C style languages

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_49_0/libs/optional/doc/html/...

https://www.google.com/#q=maybe+in+c%2B%2B

...and also I couldn't resist...

char* response(messy* message) {
body* b = message->body;
return b && (b->text) && b->linecount < 11 && b->text[10];
}

...for a C-ish like language. And that's without creating a "do-notation" macro to erase the &&, as the Haskell do-notation erases the >>=.
> I worked for a stretch at a startup where I was asked to "believe". The company's core values were made into wall artwork and recited aloud at staff meetings. It was all eerily similar to my Catholic upbringing. Including the guilt. "Oh, you want to leave work at 5? Yeah, that's fine. I just thought you really believed."

They appear to have tried to imitate Facebook's culture, with the infamous "Move Fast and Break Things" slogans plastered everywhere.

This is part of the reason why startups-imitating-successful-startups is bad logic and a perpetual problem.
Doesn't 1472 women seem almost too low to be believable?

I would have expected at least 0.1% (37000) of the userbase to be men posing as women. Admittedly '0.1%' becomes meaningless when there appear to be at least 5million fake accounts, but the numbers are nevertheless shocking.
IIRC The android version of YouTube supports this

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2015/07/22/you-can-now-watch-vert...
Even if you have the money in the bank, if I didn't salary for 2 years, I would want founder equity
Haha I thought the same thing. This read is gold just for insight in to his sense of diplomacy during the early days.
Welcome to the World, Drone-Killing Laser Cannon
> Are these units temporary housing for people on the street? What does the path away from homelessness look like in the bay area, with real estate costs and rent as high as they are?

It starts the same way it starts everywhere: by getting sober, getting into a decent shelter, and becoming marketable as an employee. The cost of housing is neither the first barrier nor the primary one, and someone who is sober and marketable can always choose to seek work and housing elsewhere if that really becomes the primary obstacle.

Don't forget that although the cost of housing in SF is very high, so is the minimum wage. And the City has a lot of programs for people who are gainfully employed but struggling with the cost of market-rate housing. What they don't have is housing for someone who spends 20 hours of every 24 lying on the ground cracked out and shitting himself. No landlord can tolerate that kind of behavior, not even a publicly-funded one. It's a health hazard, a danger to other tenants, and does too much damage to the dwelling; never mind the fact that such a tenant will never be able to pay even token rent.
I think the title is misleading, but have to agree with the content.

How many times do you go to some technical project page and have no idea what the project actually does? Sometimes you get a vague description, sometimes you get a list of features, or worse you get a changelog for the front page.

If you want people who don't know anything about your tool to use it, first make sure they know what it is, then give them a reason to use it. Ask yourself: "What is X? Why would I use X?" If you can't answer that easily on your project's page, then people who have no idea what your project is may never know.
Vagrant is best for setting up development environments, that way you can have as close to a production style environment as possible. Along with this you can set private IP's for each project, so 192.168.10.2 can be your LAMP stack project, and 192.168.10.3 can be your Node project.
Version one, while a nice client, had some serious bugs/missing features that eventually made it unusable for anything more than a light personal email client.

I'll give it another chance, also, props on making the upgrade free in the app store... mucho appreciated!
It depends in what aspects. Certainly technological progress has not been declining since the '80s. American GDP has more or less been steadily increasing since the '60s. While I too have the feeling that America is on the decline, I have not found any solid evidence to show in what ways America might be declining.
I'm also Chernobyl kid! :)

I was born in Romania in May of 1986 about 700km from the plant[1]. My mom tells me stories about how all the pregnant women in the area were encouraged to eat pre-packaged food (no fresh veggies, for example), and drink powdered milk.

Luckily, I was almost completely developed by the time of the disaster (born May 8, meltdown happened April 26), but I am very cognizant about some health problems that people affected by Chernobyl might have, notably thyroid cancer[2].

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Chernobyl,+Kyivs'ka+oblast,+...

[2] https://www.mskcc.org/blog/study-reveals-genetic-causes-thyr...
However, we don't need a perfect measurement, just a reasonable one.

For example, you might try to wait for all stylesheets to have loaded, and then run requestAnimationFrame until the latency is below some threshold (say, 100ms) to represent a somewhat-loaded-and-not-too-laggy page.

The point is, you want some measure that plausibly excludes ad-related resources since clearly you don't care how long it takes to load those. It'd also be polite to be transparent about the limitations of your measure.
There is no such thing as a "search engine monopoly".

The word "monopoly" doesn't mean "lack of viable alternatives", except colloquially. (Colloquial uses of the term are not appropriate in context; that is equivocation.)
> You obviously need to address the core issues of homelessness first. But then what? Once someone has marketable skills, mental health treatment and is in a better condition to contribute to society, do you ask them to leave the city because there isn't anywhere they can afford to live?

There are plenty of jobs in the rest of the state or the country, places where you can get an apartment for a couple hundred bucks a month. Given a choice between living on the streets in San Francisco or working minimum wage in Turlock, I know which I'd choose.
If your founder(s) aren't listening to senior members on things like this, run don't walk.