skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a time when Starbucks in our area had pretty much gone to the dogs (years earlier, some of their shops were actually run pretty well and could serve a good espresso, particularly when they still had the manual bars). There were a couple of Peet's, significantly farther away but still within occasional range, and they were then significantly better than Starbucks at that time.

At that time, Peet's seemed to be proceeding more slowly and setting a certain quality level ahead of rampant expansion.

If they are moving into Keurig / Green Mountain, and selling properties to DD, then they are just another corporate customer.

Mars (yeah, that Mars) came in and bought another local outfit in a nearby city. Fortunately, the deal I guess left the actual shops out of it, or they reverted a year or two later to independent ownership. They rebranded and are still / once again busy serving up a good product to loyal customers. The original brand name appears now to have moved into a stable of similar names and products that I expect to see floating around corporate settings -- hollow, genericized echos of what they once represented.

I suppose all this is getting more than a bit OT for HN. But I'm older, "lives on coffee" kind of guy. And I've found that big and/or public money just does not produce an exceptional product, in that market.

A bit frustrating, when those same forces force out the local operators. Fortunately, the one that has opened near me is in a town that can afford it and is surprising me with more of a population that is embracing the shop than I would have expected to be present.

And yeah, there is "make it yourself." But there is also something social -- and simply "getting out of the house" -- to heading over to the local joint and maybe striking up a conversation.
I hope Peet's doesn't get so big now that their coffee suffers. That would be a horrible shame.
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You're assuming that there has to be a 'leader' of some sort. A blockchain network could be you and I. It could be my neighborhood, my city, or a group of companies that wish to participate. Any blockchain platform that can support smart contracts, of which each smart contract can have whatever 'token' of value it chooses.

I can make a token and call it 'potPlantCoin'. That token can be valued at '1 potted plant' of a certain size in my neighborhood blockchain, whereas, the token is backed by a potted plant... I could then effectively have a distributed, decentralized ledger in my neighborhood that uses the value of a potted plant as the means of exchange. I don't have to worry about any other network than the small amount of processing power within the nodes in my neighborhood.

Maybe that example helps you understand how the blockchain doesn't need a 'leader' or something like bitcoin that is 'so far ahead'. Bitcoin is completely irrelevant in my neighborhood. Sorry, no crystal ball here, but I do have an extremely high degree of certainty =p
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This helps achieve the objective in general semantics of 'silence on the objective level.' In other words, that none of us have access to reality unfiltered by our senses and our linguistic programs, so it is best to not make statements that assume we do.
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Presumably the long arm of the US judicial system. I doubt they'd send drones after you in a non-extradition country, but short of that there's a lot they could potentially do to make your life very unpleasant.
The Nexus 4 also has HD voice, at least on T-Mobile.
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That's a variation on the 'but whey don't the theme'. In this case it is a valid question though, because the atmosphere of Mars is almost 200 times less dense than Earth's. So you'd need a pretty big machine to get real power, the advantage is that mars gravity is 2.5 times or so less than Earth so making a large windmill is a lot easier than it is here. You might even get by with very thin shelled blades.
To be fair, you'd be surprised how many criminals seem to seek glory for their actions and then wonder how they get arrested afterwards.

Just ask all the criminals who stole things, got involved in selling drugs, etc, then boasted about it on Facebook. There have been cases of criminals boasting about their killings online, or their plans for mass attacks. I remember the shock when one of these crimes had turned out to have been planned on 4chan or another similar site.

People who break the law are often driven as much by personal fame and glory as anyone else, and both the internet companies shutting their accounts and the police and security services carefully monitoring them are good ideas for just that reason.
That seems to work out to around 25 cents per 12 floz which is not a whole lot cheaper than the cans from costco.

A four pack of two-liters is $4: http://www.samsclub.com/sams/coke-4-2-liter-bottle/prod96004... which is 18 cents per 12 floz.
After Paris Attacks, French Cops Want to Block Tor and Forbid Free Wi-Fi
Remains to be seen, right?
Few know that Green Mountain Coffee (now Keurig Green Mountain) was started is still headquartered in Vermont. (GMC slowly acquired Keurig in the 90s, based in Massachusetts).

I have been living in VT for the last several years, and I'm pleasantly surprised by the sheer scale of unicorns this state has produced over the last 10 years: IDX (sold to GE Health for $1B+), Dealer.com (sold to Dealertrack for $1B+), and Keurig ($10B+).

Let this be an inspiration for entrepreneurs outside of Silicon Valley and other innovation hubs!
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As a policy proposal, it is packaged with eliminating highly moderated welfare systems. That is, welfare systems that allow gov't policy to exert a lot of control over vendors, how/when/where aid is administered, and so forth. That and the fact that bureaucrats in Washington in charge of administering welfare aren't required anymore when it becomes merely a monetary transfer.
This! HD Voice is amazing and honestly I wish I could have a dumb phone that could do Skype calls and HD Voice. Honestly the only reason I like having a smartphone is the better call quality for (some) voice comms.
Previous discussions of Pullum's critique of Strunk and White:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=557618

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=566335
Probably the result of hiring some consultants. ;-)
I think you have a misunderstanding of what a blockchain really is and/or what Ethereum is doing. Provide some reasoning to your claim, I'm not even sure what you mean...
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There are no clouds on Mars, so why do you need an inefficient, labor intensive system to complement an efficient, reliable, and predictable one? NASA rovers and probes have been getting very good results with solar panels, do you think they would have gotten better results if they also had wind turbines?

I think you can make a strong case for bringing along hydrazine (or at least hyrdogen to make methane in situ) and/or substantial battery banks (if you can't manufacture batteries in situ), but the case for wind power is even weaker on Mars than on Earth (and it is quite weak on Earth).
In addition to the other answers many of the ISPs provide their hardware on essentially a rental model. The benefit to that is that if you complain loud enough they'll replace it on their dime: the detriment is the same as with any rental though, typically they overcharge you versus what you would pay if you bought it yourself. Your mileage will probably vary, but I've certainly saved money in the long run owning my own equipment, even paying for my own replacements versus storm damage and similar.
Not more money but more inflation. Since no intrinsic value is created, the value of the dollar would decrease as more dollars flood the area.
Not to mention, if you're old like me, you remember paying (I think?) $100 and then eventually $49 for eudora / upgrades for eudora. In approx 1990 dollars. We now live in a world where people pitch tantrums about paying $10 for an app, and expect perpetual upgrades for that price! So simultaneously expectations have skyrocketed and prices have plummeted.

Part of the problem is, unlike say Pinboard, an email client doesn't feel like 1-3 devs worth of work. The protocols are horrendous, you have to understand the quirks of lots of servers, etc. Plus all the UI and backend and search work. I'm not sure it's approachable as a small indie company.

There's also, of course, bad behavior by large companies such as mozilla: Thunderbird made it very difficult to build an indie email client because you have to compete on merits and against free, but they eventually got bored and just quit making it. Not to mention competing with free/ad-supported. And the semi-annual YC/vc supported email client company.

Not to mention what is coming close to active sabotage of productivity apps by the ios and mac app stores (lack of trials, lack of upgrades, etc).
We had half the Caribou stores in our area convert to Peet's, and the other half were shuttered. Then the Peet's that remained closed about a year later.
> Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

As a CEO I'm not sure which of those two explanations I'd prefer.
I'm guessing the perceived burden of debugging when dealing with function chaining (especially when you consider side effects from inheritance, it can get ugly). This is actually a case where operator overloading could allow for more maintainable code. Usually it's sort of a selfish design choice which provides marginal developer happiness and considerable ambiguity and bloat (in my opinion).
Study of Minneapolis dynamic priced lanes shows tolls as proxy for congestion
I believe the reason we need to coerce people into paying is because economically if you don't let people volunteer to pay, it just doesn't work. Excuse me if I don't have the sources for this as it was my Econ PhD friend who explained it to me.

I wonder if the argument against it is something like this: imagine for every person, they have some amount they are willing to contribute to said scheme. However, unless the total amount needed to fund such a project is small, if you don't force everyone to contribute then the cost will be significantly higher per person. Then, because it's higher than what some people want to pay, they choose not to pay although they would have otherwise. After that happens, the price increases more, and this effect continues.
The Goodreads top books list is just a popularity contest. People vote for the books they recognize.
The metaphorical beachhead has no value:

"During the advisory council meeting, in response to questions, Gerstenmaier also made it clear that NASA didn’t require a vibrant commercial presence in low-Earth orbit as a staging point for missions deeper into space."
Ug. Carousel solved so many problems for me. Is it just that people don't like having multiple apps? Is the barrier to entry too high? I thought carousel struck a nice balance in not really forcing anyone to use the app, if they were simply on the receiving end.

I hope Dropbox keeps their word on incorporating the carousel functionality into the main app. I don't particularly care what they want to call it.
My brother and I started a "member/concierge" primary care network for uninsured/under-insured patients. Members pay $20/month (individuals) or $15/month (business plans) and the patients can set appointments to see an ARNP/PA for $10 copay or the MD for $25 copay. Most primary practices can't take this issue into consideration because your copay is set by your insurance policy.
>I don't want to be treated by a doctor who only has 8 weeks of training, but I don't think it's a bad start to a more, immersive, apprenticeship-based program that allows candidates to earn decent money while learning the full profession.

I think we need multiple grades of doctor. Even something as simple as being able to stitch up a wound is useful and could lead to positive health outcomes for those who couldn't otherwise afford a trip to the doctor. Better to get some healthcare than have all doctors be the best possible, but inaccessible to the masses.

I'd liken it to gas stations that also have small garages that can change your oil and top off your fluids. You'd probably never want to have them replace your transmission, but oil changes alone are in high enough demand that I'm sure they make up a good portion of all visits to mechanics.

I'm guessing that a similar situation exists with doctors; physicals, vaccines, and a handful of common diseases (like colds) probably make up a sizable percentage of visits. There's a market for someone who can just handle these cases and pass them off to the higher grade doctor when the need arises.

To an extent we have this in the form of various grades of nurses and the dazzling array of specialists that now exist, but it's not quite there yet.
>say "नि".codes; # returns 3

How is "नि" 3 codepoints? There is only two: न and ि . Could this be a bug?
generally I've found that an article (bad or good) sets the topic for really interesting discussions and points of views here in HN
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Yes, who ever thought that aircraft could be used against skyscrapers right? Only in Hollywood.
Original paper here : http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/282/1812/2015...

"Here, we review the evidence of an anthropogenic Amazonia"
>they want the properties (or at least the hype) of Bitcoin's blockchain without Bitcoin (or any other alt-coin) the currency.

A blockchain without a currency or decentralized network is called a database. All banks currently use one already. There is no reason for any of this. Think of it like intranet (blockchain) vs. internet (bitcoin). Sadly, many do not realize this.
This is the number one reason I love static analysis tools like ReSharper for coding. I write a piece of dodgy code, and it tells me "Hey, this could result in trying to access a null pointer", or, "Hey, dummy, this conditional is logically inconsistent and the block below can never get executed" or "Hey, you can rewrite this great big loop with a simpler LINQ statement." Then after a few times of doing this, I internalize the rules, and start doing it on my own.
Not intentionally. I can't find the source right now, but I recall an article mentioning medical practitioners being trained for massive natural disasters (e.g., Haiti) in a matter of weeks.

Obviously these people were trained to perform a very narrow range of tasks, not unlike a coding bootcamp student would learn Rails and be virtually ineffective with just about anything else.

Even the article conceded these practitioners weren't ready to be full-time doctors, but the point was that they could do something in the field without years and years of formal education..
I happen to think that Keurig is worth acquiring at 28 times their trailing four quarter earnings (it might be a bit high, but that's the price of acquiring). However, you're partially mistaken on those numbers.

Marriott had $753m in net income in 2014. You're referring to just one quarter. They've done $854m in net income the last four quarters (20.8 pe ratio or so).
That's true. Most 2.4GHz networks beacon at 1Mbps, which is because they are typically configured for compatibility down to 802.11b and beacons are transmitted at the lowest enabled speed.

Here [1] somebody collected measurements of time eaten by beacons at few configurations. Not a complete disaster, but still somewhat significant. For example, at the place where I am now, I'm receiving 67 beacons per second (all at 1Mbps), which, according to those calculation, wastes 17% of airtime.

[1] http://wifinigel.blogspot.com/2013/08/its-well-known-rule-of...
Mars has a day-night cycle.
Are you familiar with Bitmessage?

The mining incentive can just as easily be usage of service provided by the network which uses the given blockchain.

Even if the miners weren't interested in consuming the provided services on their own, the network could rely on miners being rewarded with services which they then sell access to.
Multiple reasons.

(And they pretty much boil down to: "why put hundreds/thousands of expensive cell towers in the sparsely populated cornfields and plains that cover the country")\

1) The USA is geographically massive. Infrastructure between isolated "neighbouring" cities can be hundreds of kilometers. Cell towers, needless to say, are more expensive when attempting to cover a larger geographical area.

2) The population density varies dramatically

3) There are many rural pockets of thinly-distributed populaces, which can make the ROI lower in aforementioned large coverage areas

4) There are many mountainous, isolated communities, whose topography negatively affects coverage

5) Unlike Finland, where coastal/southern communities contain the vast majority of the populace, and nobody living up north,[1] the US Midwest contains a large populace, thinly spread over an enormous area... [2]

Copper landlines are reliable and simple to fix.

Cellphone towers are expensive, have a limited range, are highly affected by topography, and thus only make sense in areas above a certain threshold of population densities. And even still, living in a neighbouring community of a metropolitan area, you may be out of range of the metro's cell towers, and the ROI for your smaller community may not justify the expense!

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Finland#/media...

2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_states_showing_pop...

Size comparison: http://overlapmaps.com/index.php, or http://www.ifitweremyhome.com/compare/US/FI
Sceptics deny 'climate crisis' as international climate talks continue in Paris
Just drop into some country with Ebola.
Aluminium is an excellent material for printing photos onto, and when I saw this it was the first thing I thought of. Too bad you don't offer that material yet because you could make some really cool art to hang on your wall which would look fantastic and last for a very long time. Here is one example of a supplier with a very limited selection of shapes: http://aluminyze.com/ Now imagine having them print a big skyline photo of a city and shipping it to you to have the sky cut out. It would look pretty amazing, and generating the vector path wouldn't bee too difficult if the image had suitable contrast (or the object in silhouette).
Also OmniGraphSketcher, a wonderful and unique utility that Omni divested from. Kindly, they open-sourced it;[0] sadly, the project shows no activity since last year and would seem to be abandoned.[1]

[0] https://www.omnigroup.com/blog/setting-omnigraphsketcher-fre...

[1] https://github.com/graphsketcher/GraphSketcher
And yet, people still don't make a new pot when they take the last of the old.
There is usually no coffee supply connection between the company operating coffee shops and the company producing retail coffee for sale.

The Dunkin' Donuts coffee you buy in the grocery store is made by JM Smuckers (the jelly company), which also recently purchased Cafe Bustelo.
I was trying to omit the threads with no comments. "> 4" would have been better.
I don't think the carriers would want to, a traditional voice call is 'less expensive' than a HD Voice call.
I have a co2doctor[0,1] kit, a 20lb capacity tank from amazon (bought new - you can get them used but then you don't know where they've been or how clean they are...) and filled it for about $30 at Carbonic Service[2] in Santa Clara.

0. http://co2doctor.com/ (site down at the time this comment was posted)

1. http://www.ebay.com/sch/co2doctor/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg...

2. http://www.yelp.com/biz/carbonic-service-santa-clara
I worked on the desktop client for several months up until the first public beta release.

No, Mailbox for Mac has been a fully native app since inception - which is how you get those nice fluid gestures.

What happened next I have no idea, since I left the company. If I have to guess, we incurred a lot of technical debts during the sprint to beta, and they were doing some major rewriting to fix them. Before it was finished, the project was axed. The new version was released nonetheless to support sunsetting.
I think we need multiple grades of doctor.

Isn't that where nurses come in?
I asked this a while back when it came out, sounds like it doesn't.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10334154

Update: It looks like they have a public Trello board for voting on features. Go vote for snoozed emails!

[2]: https://trello.com/b/hxsqB6vx/n1-open-source-roadmap
Yup but those are the only libraries for Python that'll use the GPU. The rest are mostly CPU-only (PyBrain, quite slow as a result), built on Theano (Lasagne, pydnn), very specific to a particular problem (Caffe) or written in a non-compatible language (Torch).

Given that it supports 2/3 of the big general purpose libraries, it's good enough.
This is a fair rebuttal, but pointing out US vs EU/Japan obesity does not in any way establish causality. We're both merely arguing correlation:

Me: Healthcare access is positively correlated across time with lifestyle disease.

You: Healthcare access is negatively correlated across space with lifestyle disease.
There's a reason one of the classic books in conversion optimization is called "Don't make me think!"
Peet's bought out our Caribou and took quite a while to remodel it before re-opening. It was open as a Peet's for maybe 6 months and it closed for good. I just don't understand how they came to that decision.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10685815
No no -- one counterexample out of the approx 154M men in the United States disproves that point. Logic!
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War Games didn't feature a Commodore machine, it featured an IMSAI. It might have helped boost mainstream interest in computers, but by then Commodore was already a big, well established company and - I believe - hadn't yet thoroughly burned their reseller network.
You're totally right - my mistake.
You're including children in that.

Also, this would presumably replace Social Security and other welfare costs (or retirees would be excluded).

And finally, people would still be working. I'm sure the taxes I pay would more than cover the cost for giving it to me.
Your original question is invalid because the questioner would never ask it if they only used E-Prime. Let's re-phrase your question with E-Prime: "Describe E-Prime to me, I've never heard of it."

You get the idea now? The very form of the question affects your understanding of the answer. Through the description you receive, you begin to understand what E-Prime means to those that came up with it. In E-Prime, you literally can't state what it is to anyone else because that would go against E-Prime's rules.
I've read some convincing arguments where they calculated that keurigs are less wasteful than brewing because of the tiny amount of coffee in a pod, versus large scoop of grounds you are using in a coffee pot, which translates to huge resource savings in growing the beans.
Presumably, C interop is the cause of C++'s problems because it was the impetus for carrying forward all of C's warts into C++. And it is the solution because it allows you to put C++ code behind a C-compatible interface so that you can use it from a language that isn't C++.
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I was going to say this, but you beat me to it.

I think there are a lot of smart people on HN, but that doesn't mean they're all interested in all the same things. Tweaking wifi settings just seems like a waste of time to me, and boring to top it off. My interaction with my AP stopped at setting the ssid and passphrase.
SOPA and PIPA endangered the profitability of the tech industry. FN merely hate non-white people, and that's far less objectionable.
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