skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of the major bottled water brands are owned by companies that also make sugar beverages, so there's no reason for them to sell it for less.

Also there's probably not a big price difference on their end. Bottled water is usually purified then remineralized to get a consistent product.
The consumer of metrics that I give a hoot about are a few key team members, the COO and CTO. I go to "# of copies" hit 6, and I'm done.

I'm not a total luddite btw, Most of what I do is project based or operations in transition. So metrics are either evolving or we don't have a consensus over what matters. So the building process of automated dashboard isn't a high roi activity.
Sorry, but did I or anyone else here claim to believe that?

I was only trying to explain what the original poster might have meant with their parenthetical.
Ironically, TechCrunch, the publisher of this amusing rant, has an app:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aol.mobile...

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/techcrunch/id526058642?mt=8
Island boulders reveal ancient mega-tsunami
Why not? In fact, why not go even further and enforce that all websites have only a black serif (or monospace) font on a white background? No more screaming colors, moving parts, confusing adverts - just plain content.
Here are some blogs on using 3D Touch in Swift: http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift.html?q=3d+touch&age=90
Yes, but that weren’t startups.

You know the company ALDI? They never took a single loan. Many German companies operate similarly, never taking large risks.

But US startups are taking billions in VC money, and often instantly fail again.
But the ability to project a disinterest in compromise is how our elected officials wave the bloody shirt in pursuit of electoral capital.

Where's the media outlet that specializes in moderation and compromise? There isn't one. Perhaps reason.com but not in an electorally interesting way.

You have generators of stories of barbarism on the Right and stories of oppression on the Left.
So, basically, we reduce the revenue for the businesses around there, and decrease the enjoyment of an area. Wonderful!

Or, we could support proper densities so that real public transit makes sense. #buildup
Or just use ad blockers to block app download notifications on the website
As another commentor noted, this is the way every system is implemented. It is simple, slightly inefficient, and deals with most of the nasty problems that arise when dealing with time on all systems today.
I love the TED talk by James Kunstler on urbanism. Here's the bit where he addresses blank walls:

https://www.ted.com/talks/james_howard_kunstler_dissects_sub...
I think the article's argument is framed terribly bad. It's not about "increasing traffic jams". It's about bringing back a vital and necessary balance in our infrastructure, city planning, and our cultural approach.

You can not solve automobile traffic and long travel times by adding ever bigger roads/overpasses/tunnels without facing exponentially increasing maintenance costs, expensive land requirements, and massive works projects. On top of that, the surrounding property value and economic generation plummets as roads expand and become congested.

Everything points to an urgent call to scale back our automobile oriented country: for our health, humans lives, economy, foreign policy, and environment.
I read the story. Very similar to the OP. You mind sending few more links of your favourite Murakami stories?
Which is a huge problem: there are felonies which should not be felonies. Felonies are supposed to be major crimes, crimes for which death is warranted (but which, for various reasons, modern society punishes with over a year in prison).

'Failing to comply with a police order' on its own should probably carry a small fine.
I think you might be missing the forest for the trees. Stereotyping based on race is what you're describing, and it's still racist. Someone in the US refusing to hire a black guy because black men commit crimes at a higher rate is "discriminating based on the perception of the person's criminality". That doesn't mean it isn't discrimination based on race, since their perception is deriving entirely from "that person is of a race that commits crimes at a higher rate".
Is that an answer? What's the optimal ratio? On what does change in that ratio depend?
What I love is that the gallon jug costs the same, or less, than the 12 oz bottle. The cost is all in the packaging.
I don't think there's an overblown credit at all. An active democracy can get a lot done. U.S. history class shows us that successes, failures, wars, schemes, rebellions, etc. go way back on all kinds of issues. The U.S. democracy, for day to day issues, was a constant battle between all kinds of stakeholders. I'd argue it's been a plutocracy far as economic system going back around 100 years. Nonetheless, the basic freedoms (esp press/protest/speech) and occasional willingness of the people led to resolving many, many problems over time. Even intelligence community got a nice shake-up back in Church committee days with various FOIA extensions letting us dig lots of dirt on them.

I agree that neither direct nor representational democracy solve anything by themselves. The people's ability and willingness to take action (and wisely) is the important part. However, the democratic systems provide extra assurance that this can happen. Speech, press, privacy, etc protections ensure a situation can be assessed, information can get out, people can organize, and so on. A much stronger foundation than the alternatives. Much easier than regimes where they have to sneak around with thumb drives and Tor hoping there's not enough infiltrators to get them all busted.

So, democracy is a good foundation to build on what author describes. The other stuff allows arbitrary actions by rulers to counter anything supporting personal empowerment. In a democracy, that might be countered in a new election cycle or court ruling. I prefer a democracy. However, I'd love to live in one where the people put their effort into what mattered and held their government accountable. They stopped doing that in mine quite a while ago. That's why it's screwed up.
This just seems like a failing of the text editor.

But, if you can't input the character...you can't input the character.
Thoughts on the new employment report
I actually did not mean that specifically about representative democracy, but all democracy. I think the democratic ideal is essentially rule by the majority, which someone at odds with would call "tyranny". Representative democracy, foundational laws, independentish courts, all move away from the democratic ideal in their own ways. Each mechanism has its own positive aspects and poor failure modes, like democracy itself. When people say "democratic", they're usually assuming some of these also.

With respect to mass surveillance, I don't think representative (vs not) currently has much bearing - I believe that most people are presently not opposed to it, whether by (not understanding the technicals, propaganda, not affecting them, feeling powerless to do anything about it).

The prominence of electronic surveillance is quite new (two generations), so widely-held hard-learned moderating laws (eg "Natural Rights") easily remain unapplied.

Courts themselves are part of the government doing the surveillance. They inherently consider themselves as having jurisdiction over everything (even though historically so much as been non-legible), so they're predisposed to thinking that gathering additional information cannot hurt. So they're no help either.

Which is why I think if mass surveillance is going to be curtailed within the next several generations (eg before societal collapse where expensive lessons get internalized as "sins"), it has to be through technical means. Poor technology design and adoption have gotten us to this point by making it so everybody is doing everything in the clear (TLS encrypting the link to your chosen surveillance broker is not security!). So perhaps with a modicum of people caring about their own privacy, combined with the (seemingly) natural swing of the (de)centralization pendulum, responsibly designed privacy preserving systems can be adopted instead.
Looker. Looker is the best. It's an upfront monetary investment, and the language you most need to know is SQL, but I love it dearly.
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When the event occurs that wipes out the ability of humans to live on Earth, no amount of money spent on space exploration will seem like it will have been too much.

Such an event is coming sooner or later, from one source or another; probably not in our lifetimes but we're so far off from good solutions that "we have plenty of time" is not a good excuse to not be investing in space.

As an "average (tax paying)" person there is a list a mile long of shit we spend tax dollars on that I'd rather cut over space exploration, with the military (over $500 billion a year) being an obvious start.
That's why we haven't had anyone start smoking in decades..

Soda sales are down but obesity is still up, so the calories are coming from somewhere. If you believe the other common stories, we're drinking the calories.

I'd wager they come from the rise of coffee-based beverages - which would not be considered soda - but I don't have data to back that up.
Really cool analysis. It's especially fascinating to see how BigQuery is so simple to parse and query and can easily give you access to powerful information like "What's the best time to post this on reddiy?"
So - this is interesting. The thing that I always look for is how the system deals with all of the time issues that come up. For example, how does it deal with Daylight Savings, or a leap second, or adjustments to time, or the daemon getting restarted, etc. I don't see anything specific to this library that handles these scenarios.

Is there any system out there that has a good design for handling these issues?
There are thousands of very profitable businesses that never raised a nickel of VC. Case in point, I never worked for a VC funded company, yet every company I have worked for has been profitable.
A is not true. There have been many studies on eye witness testimony that disprove everything your saying. The reality is that our brain fills in many, many gaps.

B, you completely missed the point. Just completely missed the point to read that sentence the way you wanted to, "many of the details are completely meaningless to the premise that is presented" has nothing to do with memory. That's why it starts with "Even if we believed someone could have a memory this crystal clear...." So why are you even bothering to argue about memory with me when I gave the memory the benefit of the doubt in my argument?
A. Great guide, and thanks to Instagram for doing a writeup of the new API.

B. I don't have a new iOS device, but hearing about 3D touch makes me immediately think of right-click, and how Apple traditionally eschewed such an interaction. Or at least made it difficult with one-button mice.

This comment from the OP was particularly interesting:

> For Instagram, 3D Touch is much more than a 2015 version of the “right click”. The interaction adds another level of depth and carries a different intent. You aren’t yet committed to navigating to the content, but it's clear that you are interested. With this in mind, Peek and Pop gives you a glimpse of what lies ahead and lets you quickly back out to continue browsing.

Isn't a "3D Touch" a physically more demanding action than just a traditional tap? Why should the former be associated with a "quick peek" and the latter with a committed selection, rather than vice versa? (Besides the fact that 3D touch isn't yet available to the majority of iOS users?). Not a criticism of Instagram's decision here, just funny how things can seem counter-intuitive in the written description of them. Though in practice, it makes sense...a deep-click to preview, then a release to back out of the modal, is easier than a single-click to preview, than another single click to close the modal.

In a traditional OS interface, a single-click was used to signify a non-committal selection, and a double-click signified action. And that makes more sense as a double-click, like a "3D touch", takes more time and physical pressure. Of course the problem with a double-click is that double-click speeds among users can vary quite drastically, resulting in false positives and negatives. Will 3D touch mitigate these issues or fall into the same trap? Again, haven't experienced it but everytime I hear of the description of 3D touch, it doesn't sound much different than "click-and-hold"...which more or less worked OK in such apps as Kindle on IOS (for highlighting).

Is there a distinction between a traditional click-and-hold, versus a singular 3D deep click, and then a 3D-deep-click-and-hold? Seems like there could be more ambiguity there than there was in the slow-single-clicks vs double-click problem.
This is one of those USA-vs-everyone-else things.

If you grew up in the USA you're used to quoting paper size in inches.

If you grew up anywhere else, you're familiar with at least A4 and A3 sizes from the ISO 216 standard.

In case you're wondering, ISO 216 series of paper sizes begins with A0, which is exactly 1 square metre in area with an aspect ratio of 1:√2.

The square root of 2 comes about because you produce A1 by cutting or folding A0 along the longest edge. A2 is produced by halving A1, A3 by halving A2 and so on down to A8.
But how else can these sites get access to your contact list and call history?
the point is that holistic can be easily used as a cover for race based discrimination and that this is what is happening at harvard and elite universities. when you look at the quantitative disadvantage for asian applicants in terms of SAT/GPA, I think it's clear that homogeneity cannot explain this away. it's also a little absurd that they publicly place so much emphasis on diversity and "interesting" applicants when the actual student body of ivy league colleges is filled with bland wealthy strivers of all races.

the interpretation in your last paragraph is even worse in a way for faust and harvard: only children with the right parental financial resources and support would have been able to "Build an airplane, climb a famous mountain, invent something, be a sailor, race sled dogs" before the age of 18. it is also hard to see why an academic institution cares so much about such things.
See, I agree, but this is what this article looks like on my phone: https://imgur.com/VqchKIp

Perhaps one should become a good example of an enjoyable mobile experience before one starts throwing stones.
> "MS wants desktop devs to" (undeniably true)

What makes you say this, the publishing of a third app model for Windows, messaging, some combination of the two, something else?
Ask HN: Looking to purchase a software-defined radio, any advice?
I'd like to use it to experiment with and explore interesting parts of the spectrum. For example: decoding digital television signals, seeing what my cellphone sends/receives and how it encodes it, downloading weather satellite images, and so on.

I've no experience whatsoever in radio, only in software. Where should I start? What should I buy to begin with? Any general technical advice?
Read "Evian" backwards and you have all you need to know about the bottled water industry.
"To save something"? Like people's lives? If you're under 35 in the US, you are more likely to die from a car collision than anything else. If you're under 14, you're probably just better off playing with the stuff under the kitchen sink.

And tell me about this amazing new energy research that will be cheaper than gasoline and better for the environment. I must have missed that TED Talk.

You're offering solutions that don't exist yet in order to block the solutions that do.
I can't choose one, but I'd cite:

* Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind, for explaining so much personally and culturally so concisely.

* Everything on this list: http://jakeseliger.com/2010/03/22/influential-books-on-me-th....

* The Lord of the Rings, for its combination of story, interior drama, and (underrated) political economy.

* Blindsight by Peter Watts.

* Heart of Darkness by Conrad, who seems more prophetic all the time.
It has never been clear to me that the US has any actual gain from being "the reserve currency." The usual story is "goods are cheaper; vacations are cheaper" and meanwhile goods and vacations are extremely cheap already.

Since all currencies are fungible, you're only a multiplication-by-the-exchange-rate away from any other currency.
Drunken Security: Sorry for the downtime, Server is up again! :)
No one would consider 500 metrics on a regular basis. In the "holacratic" context, however, it might be valuable for the worker to be able to consider different metrics today than she considered last week. It might be difficult to decide ahead of time which metrics will be useful. With too few metrics, that very decision might undermine holacracy.
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky

These are the most intelligent and well written books I've ever read. Authors are amazing at thinking clearly, and expressing their ideas. Stories are fantastic, and the author's philosophies are amazing and mind-expanding.
+1

I always found it best practice to quote text. Makes the debate a moot point.
Does this apply to legal language?
R can also read both CSV and TSV just fine. Just use read.csv() or read.table() as you want. Same goes for Pandas.
Or if you want the abridged version check out the tldr feed:
https://twitter.com/cliffmasstldr
There is no conclusive proof that eating too much sugar causes diabetes.

http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/24/five-diabetes-myths...
For now I think Starbucks et al are benefiting from being culturally identified as more upper/middle-class. Obesity stereotypes seem to have fixated mostly on a "people of Walmart" type image of the fat, slobbish lower classes. So even though a 12-oz Starbucks caramel latte is far worse than a 12-oz Coke, it gets a pass.
UI's are becoming overloaded. Apple insists on not adding buttons to iOS devices or mice. You end up with double click, triple click, click and hold, click hold swipe, the volume button takes a picture, four or five finger gestures nobody knows, gestures in general, etc. At the limit dicoverability starts to approach voodoo.

Not saying it's right or wrong, just stating a fact.
What I think would be more likely is a collapse in demand for US bonds, which would cause a collapse in USD because less people have to transfer their local currency to USD to buy US bonds, therefore decreasing demand of USD, thus lowering it's price.
To make any difference on the Eastern Front the Nazis would have needed an awful lot of nukes - one or two low yield weapons really wouldn't have made much of a dent in Soviet forces.

Even if the Nazis had managed to nuke the D-Day beachheads - they were still going to lose to the Soviets.
It works by finding commonly shared article links, which can be tweets or retweets.

We're working on adding email registration as well as making our topics available to users who don't want to register. Right now, we're using twitter login because it's an easy way to facilitate account creation.
Do you have a link to your product?
What are some examples of the type, style or demographic in the community you want?
Not really. In US cities with good rapid transit lines, you still have plenty of congestion. If road capacity opens, there will be a transit rider who views the drive time as acceptable and will just convert back to driving. Conversely, if you remove traffic capacity, some drivers will convert back to rapid transit or time shift their commute.

Basically, road capacity is a free market and people are paying with their time, more than their money. For the people that absolutely must be somewhere at a specific time, they are forced to pay a higher cost in time to accomplish that. For others with more flexibility, they may not view the time cost as acceptable and will choose another option.
The dollar is denominated in aircraft carriers.
"I wish Washington Post defaulted to https"

This can't be done because if you just type "washingtonpost.com" into your browser or some algorithm creates links out of plain text (like in an email)... the default is always http:// The internet expects http://yourdomain.tld to always work.
John Green, the author mentioned in this wikipedia article, has a TED talk that talks about Agloe: https://www.ted.com/talks/john_green_the_nerd_s_guide_to_lea...
Do you actually believe that this is the first time that someone has posted a made up story to Missed Connections? I'm sure people have been posting made up stories since day 1. Made up stories on the internet are not novel. I'm sorry. Publishing fake stories has been around since publication. I guess you didn't actually read what I wrote. While the authenticity is not important, the believability of any piece of writing is paramount. Especially when that piece is trying to be passed as authentic. You would think that would go without saying.
Yeah, this is the deciding factor for me, too. The point of delimited text files is to find some compromise between machine-efficency and human readability. CSVs are generally much less readable than TSVs, but have less ambiguity, too. With TSVs, it's hard to tell if a tab space is actually a tab or just multiple spaces.

And with developers (especially Python devs) setting their text editors to translate tabs-into-spaces, copy-pasting TSVs results in data corruption. Or even opening a TSV in your text editor with default settings.
this follows directly from what she said.
Beautiful People Are the Hardest to Draw: Interview with a Courtroom Artist
It's like the voltage regulator on your car. The car's alternator is pumping out power and the regulator is topping up the car's 12v system (actually 13.9). The regulator doesn't want to create an over-voltage situation and so dumps any extra power to a resistor, turning it into heat. On an electric train, instead of a battery the regulator is pushing power back to the third rail. Once the rails max voltage is reached, when it is at capacity, everything else is turned into heat via resistors on the train.
These two books are must reads for sure (Or must listens, both are well narrated in audio book form)

* The One Thing By Gary Keller and Jay Papasan

* Soft Skills By John Sonmez
Installing an app for everything is not what I call an enjoyable mobile experience...
One of their projects was on the HN front page a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10293368.
Principles of Mathematical Analysis by Walter Rudin
Admissions offices curate the incoming class. In doing so, they have multiple objectives: maintain a high standard of intellectual ability and engagement, admit a heterogeneous student body so that people are exposed to others who are not like them, and preserve the particular character of the institution (a specific brandy of nerdy at Columbia/Chicago, the hacker ethos at MIT, etc).

An admitted class that's mostly homogeneous (in race, interests, gender, whatever) is just as much of a failure as an admitted class that's stupid.

The purpose of an elite college's admissions office is not to admit the top N students on some metrics, nor is elite college your "just reward" for being in the top N percent of your year on some metrics.

As with tech employment, there is an element of having the specialization an employer wants, an element of "culture fit," and an element of being able to do the song-and-dance that appeases the gatekeepers (the SAT is a lot like a coding interview).

As with dating, it's not "academic performance in, admissions out." The college has a personality too, and it has to like you.
How to Build a Naive Bayes Classifier
‘Netflix and Chill’ Lawsuit, His [Junk]Just Ended Up in My Mouth
I've been looking at this one: http://www.wimo.com/dx-patrol-sdr-wide-band-receiver_e.html