skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like the investors are trying to cover all the bases on their coffee portfolio...

From the article:

> "Peet’s recently acquired “super-premium” coffee companies Stumptown Coffee Roasters and Intelligentsia Coffee."

> "Keurig said the acquisition was done in partnership with “strategic minority investors” that are already shareholders in Netherlands-based global coffee and tea company Jacobs Douwe Egberts B.V., including Mondelez International and entities affiliated with investment firm BDT Capital Partners. Jacobs Douwe Egberts owns Maxwell House and Keurig rival Tassimo, among other coffee and tea brands."
Thanks! (/s) I expressed a positive sentiment to counter your negative one. If you simply want a list of all the facts about the human body, you know where to look.
Yeah, it says it "supports" mine (Hong Kong) but whenever I type in my phone number that's what it says.
Bear in mind that while my job is in dynamically-typed languages, I'm fluent in Haskell, and have done non-trivial work in it. Go wouldn't be as large an upgrade for me if Haskell hadn't taught me so thoroughly what static type systems can do. I'm not just "a dynamically-typed programmer who just discovered Go and thinks its the best thing since sliced bread" or something.
Do you really think that the bigots, angry mob or lowlifes would be capable of telling a secular Arabic name from an Islamic or Christian one?

Good luck with that! Try convince them first that "Syed" the first name of the Muslim terrorist who carried out the San Bernandino attack is a secular name and not Islamic one then we can talk about your "Final Solution" for the Muslims.
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Milton Friedman was a longtime advocate of a basic income, which in his precise parlance was called a Negative Income Tax. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtpgkX588nM)

Leftist politicians have blocked this at several points, alas, although it is probably the most humane and effective method of delivering help to the poor. It also has the advantage of getting more people to, you know, actually file tax returns.
Well the good news is that LTE-U appears to be for the 5 GHz band, not 2.4 GHz. You would think that it would be easier to put micro cells in the home gateways (using the bands they already own) vs. rolling out a new capabilities on the 5 GHz band in the client (I mean won't they have to wait for Apple/Android to switch to a new generation of chips?).

I guess the bad feeling is that the unlicensed bands would be used for a subscription service, whereas WiFi is controlled by the consumer (though in practice each ISP ends up using WiFi).
Presumably an emergent entity formed in part by the activities of the brain.
This tastes a little like "pull the ladder up behind you". WiFi operates on unlicensed spectrum, and Google et al greatly benefit from it. Now someone else wants to use the spectrum, and they shouldn't be allowed to? It's just funny to me.
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And the A-10 is overkill for counter-insurgency. It doesn't have a primary mission anymore.
I think consumerism is the incentive to work, even with a basic income. If your state provides you with enough for food, shelter, clothing, and a little discretionary cash, it'll show. The friends who work and can afford nicer houses, tastier food, and newer clothing will notice. So will the people you take on dates.

Ultimately, I think people will want to work. It gives them something to do and the money to afford things they want but don't need. If everyone followed Keynes, we would be happy with working ten hours a week to maintain a 1930s standard of living.
I think it's a question of barriers. You can't charge tens of thousands (often totaling hundreds of thousands) of dollars and many years for a professional degree and expect folks to buy it over other options that cost far less time and far less money.

I'm not saying coding bootcamps are panacean, but hiring does occur at such places and their cost (again, in terms of time & money) is a fraction of the cost of traditional professional education.

Professional education will need to adapt. I've heard of disaster-prone areas producing doctors in a matter of weeks. 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.
Agreed. I really love coffee and the Starbucks Ethiopian Yirgacheffe made on the clover is one of the best cups of coffee I've ever had.

It consistently out-performs all the other extremely high end coffee houses I have been to. There is an Intelligentsia in my neighborhood where several of the baristas have coffee beans tattooed on their arms and hands as a symbol of their dedication to the craft, yet they cannot produce a better cup of coffee made by this machine at than the "McDonalds" of coffee houses. Pretty surprising.
I remember designs for DNS-like services on alternative blockchains where you were supposed to pay the miners in Bitcoins after the fact. Or the miners could be paid for processed blocks by a central organizer (e.g. the central bank if we think about a banking application people seem to be desperately searching for some reason).

There has to be an incentive for miners to work with the network, but it doesn't have to be intrinsic to the network.
> The CEO of Keurig just sold a bunch of shares last week to pay the taxes on his options. Not being able to wait a week cost him close to $1,000,000.

I highly doubt he's crying.
I suppose it depends where you come from in terms of whether or not you believe the poor are mooching and lazy or simply disadvantaged.

Presented with the ability to continue education without needing to worry about putting food on the table, most people do in fact continue their education. Basic income is "basic" by nature. Very few will aspire to be a basic income earner for their lives. Even better though, even if they DO choose this path, they can choose otherwise at a later date and correct that mistake. That's the beauty of the system.

BTW, this is borne out by the data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINCOME
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Walmart isn't known for being a great place to work. If people can live at minimum without having to work, Walmart can kiss its artificially cheap workforce goodbye.
Yes, with the correct blade design, wind turbines could work on Mars, but they are probably not a great idea, because they will have a low specific power output (W/kg). Cost to transport items to Mars is mostly based to weight, so any power generation system should be mass-efficient, and play to Mars' strengths. Spare parts and maintenance are also likely to be issues, and dust will probably cause issues with any exposed parts or moving seals, so turbines are likely to cause problems.

Mars has lower insolation than Earth, but a significant amount of sunlight reaches the ground, especially in the UV spectrum (because of Mars' thin atmosphere). Solar panels which are more efficient at shorter wavelengths (compared to their Earth-bound bretheren) would generate more power than wind turbines of similar mass. The Solar panels also have the benefit of being solid state devices, thus they require no maintenance other than occaisional clearing of dust, and they even operate quite well and for a long time when that is not done (as demonstrated by NASA's probes and rovers).
Regarding "inferior": It's fast enough and it doesn't crash (at least for me). That's probably "good enough" for most people to not care if there's a better solution.

"lack of control": The Comcast provided hardware gives me an IP via DHCP and I'm able to disable all those useless firewall features. So which features am I missing and why should I care about them?
Armor design has advanced a lot since the 80s. I'm thinking the A-10 was actually significantly more effective against a contemporary tank than it is against a modern new production one. Sure, it could definitely still get a kill, but not as easily, and as you point out, other aircraft could do so more safely, without exposing themselves to danger.
Do not trust Verizon in the slightest.

They already violate their open/unlocked agreement for LTE and prevent other LTE devices from coming on their network and prevent theirs from going on other networks.

They are going to do whatever they can get away with.
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The inbox-like features ARE the fundamenatal UX/UI. I don't want a mail client, I want a gmail client, and IMAP/POP3 are terrible replacements.
Because they're running software you do not control on what is generally sub-par hardware.

It's too cheap to get good, enterprise-grade equipment for home usage that will have no problems and allow you to turn all of the knobs.
It didn't work for me either. Maybe it times out? This works, at least for now: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?strip=1&q=cach...
Yes, you're correct - loop holes don't break the rules. I conflated those two concepts. I meant to just ponder whether that clause is a loop hole or an intentionally allowed construct.
I have to wonder if this result is due to increased evaporation (from the dam surface) or increased transpiration (from non-irrigated and irrigated fields). With oxygen isotope analysis the two can be distinguished.

This type of analysis reveals that trees are responsible for about 80% of all terrestrial rainfall.[1] In contrast to man-made desalination facilities, this water falls freely as rain instead of being owned and controlled.

Global deforestation/desertification is perversely convenient for those interests vying to control water, since in a very real way it eliminates the competition.

[1] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v496/n7445/abs/nature11...
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What's crazy about it? Given the popularity of Keurig right now, this is practically like buying a printing press from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
Congressmen are basically helping themselves.God Bless United States of America
I know! but there is a big difference between "sharing" an article, and "liking" an article and having it show up on friends' feeds. its the difference between actively and passively sharing a viewpoint
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This will probably fall on deaf ears, but it's worth a shot.
My pet peeve is that speaker phone quality was better on cheap flip-phone vs. what you get a smart phones. This caused me to start using a headset. For home meetings, my cordless phone's speaker phone is better than any cell phone, even though it's using "MagicJack".
employers who are just looking for bodies

I think a lot of bad stuff gets done by employers when they reach such a state. It's very analogous to website owners who just want to create a volume of views, regardless of quality. Or to game companies that want to extract as much money from their players, regardless of the experience they are producing.
Europe is doing all it can to produce a new Hitler. The anti-Muslim rhetoric can be insane at times, but it's no lie that the imports are from a very different culture and are unlikely to assimilate to a more western one, especially when they outbreed their western counterparts.

What concerns me is that all this money and rage will be spent in reaction to these tragic events that kill either less than 100, around 100, or around 3000 people tops. Earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and disease routinely kill far more and yet suggesting we devote effort to solve the engineering challenges of controlling our planet gets tossed aside as just as crazy as the suggestion that it's possible to control immigration with a wall.
I'm not saying out education system is perfect AT ALL, never would I say such a thing, I'm merely pointing out that the kids not chattering at each other about stupid bullshit and instead doing stupid bullshit on an iPad isn't the problem by a long way, and reversing the inclusion of said iPads will not fix anything either.
Can you really say that the parent comment lacks an understanding of the basics, or is somehow misinformed in their opinion?
People aren't always going to agree with the things you say or the way that you choose to say them. That doesn't necessarily mean that they're wrong or ignorant.
Can someone in the HN community please just remake Sparrow? I'll give you my money right now.
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What sorts of implications might there be if we actually had a way of fixing the atmosphere? I imagine that it is intimately connected to other aspects of the planet.
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| Boutique coffee is all about nuance- it's like Scotch, or bourbon, or tobacco.

For the record, bourbon (and I assume Scotch, but Im much less familiar with it) is about as industrial as you get. The labels might have pictures of old men and occasional far fetched stories, but 99% of the bourbon on shelves is made in giant industrial plants.

In a lot of ways its a lot like Starbucks. They have beans from various places, sell a story about shade grown artisanally produced, etc. At the end of the day, both bourbon producers and Starbucks probably strike an economic sweet spot with regards to nuance and scale.
They don't know that you aren't a serial killer either. Should they surround your house, just in case?

I think you need to multiply P(is a criminal) with <severity of the crime>. If they suspect somebody of being a serial killer, more scrutiny seems appropriate than if they suspect a small time burglar.
Like many things, clients could do with some usability enhancements. E.g. encrypted mail. Without which, I find it off-putting.
The alternative result could be construction in very cheap housing given the predictable price floor for 100% of the population. If you can be sure your tenants will pay rent then you will want them at your building. The low-medium quality housing stock may suffer as the people on minimum income could be priced out while those who work may want fancier digs.
> all it would take is one class action to get off the ground

What would be the cause of action? Why aren't the manufacturers of microwave ovens sued under the same cause of action?
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20 or so SSIDs beaconing adds up to a lot of airtime. Consider:

* beacons are sent at a low "common" rate, perhaps 6mbps
* beacons still include the preamble and the DIFS before that
* 802.11n/ac get high bandwidth from aggregating multiple frames

So all those trivially small beacons take little bandwidth but a significant amount of airtime (which is a significant amount of potential bandwidth for faster clients with multiple frames to send in one aggregate)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_coordination_funct...
Why would the rent increase?

The rent is actually somewhat controlled in Denmark as well.
Rereading OP's comment, I misread it a bit and responded to the wrong part. You're absolutely right, progress on Unicode in Tcl stalled out after the low-hanging fruit of UCS-2 was achieved.
Shrinkers, reducers, minimizers -- all are the same thing and all operate using the basic ideas outlined in the original Delta Debugging paper.
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I think the mods try to do that manually, it's just a matter of if/when they're around
What you're describing as the "but on a computer" era is also known in education as the first stage of the SAMR model: Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, and Redefinition.

This is a well known pitfall in technology integration. I don't think a lot of people in this thread are giving due credit to educators - it's their job, and there's a lot of smart people in education who have just as much common sense as the armchair teachers who think otherwise.

http://www.emergingedtech.com/2015/04/examples-of-transformi...
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A lot of work has gone into ancestry by the tribes and finding old records along with tribal sites not destroyed, but quoting old numbers without current research is just wrong.
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Indeed; more generally, you're assuming people have any idea at all how the device in their hand connects to the internet, or even what the internet really is (it's a series of tubes!).

Most people live in a state of ignorant bliss.
I'm curious how low that workforce could be paid, though.

I mean, lets pretend you get $400/w from the government, and you are okay living on that. Now lets assume you decide you want a new toy, or some general spending money. Your base government income has your rent and food paid for, but you want fun money.

How much time is that fun money worth? Would you work a whole week for $50? What about $200?

I also wonder if there's a bit of a mental incentive to push you to better yourself. If you're working a week for $200, maybe you consider it a waste of your time. So, you fight for a better job, maybe through training or education. Now you've got plenty of fun money, but you also start to raise your base lifestyle (and income requirements).

I don't think any of these are absolutes of course, i'm just curious what would happen in these sort of environments. Everything i say here is a question, not an answer.
Perhaps part of our minds is a "module" or "function" that helps us infer what is in the minds of others based on their behaviors. No doubt this would be helpful in social animals. This "module" infers what is in our mind based on our feelings and behaviors. Then we ascribe agency to that "mind", give it a name, and call it "I".
Murdering millions because millions might die? Forgive me if I can't follow you.
There's no inherent morality to the corporate bottom line (one of the biggest flaws in "free market" thinking is that if a theory is beautiful, it must also be moral). If corporations can get the government to help subsidize employment, they'll do so.

The only solution to exploitation is to make "do nothing" a viable alternative. Right now, in America at least, welfare is a difficult and humiliating process. Employment is the only way to have any dignity at all, and employers exploit that - they underpay for awful jobs, and force employees to rely on welfare anyway. And this isn't even considering all those whom, for whatever reason, aren't really able to work. Physical or mental health, family needs, and more can all impair the ability to do a job even if one is available, and the government supported alternatives are, again, difficult and humiliating.

If employers were forced to compete not against humiliation, but rather against choice, they'd have to make the jobs suck less and pay more. Even burger-flipping would need to start getting decent treatment, the kind those of us in high demand jobs have come to expect.
From what I've seen of D(I haven't used it in detail) there isn't enough materially different(like say Rust) to warrant the loss of libraries and IDE integrations available to C++.
It's not about long range. It's about getting more usable spectrum in crowded areas, or areas where the carrier failed to win a bid for sufficient licensed spectrum.
Why are you getting downvoted for this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history

You'd have to be somewhat detached from the historical record to seriously suggest that all of these, or even a majority, were the result of socialism.
Under the assumption that everything you have and get is just and fair I agree. It is a strong assumption though, and It deserves to be examined.

Externalities: Do you contribute to pollution? If so should you not then pay a fair price in compensation to us all for that privilege?

Rule of law: Do you derive rent, or benefits, from property? Are you not dependent on society to define those property rights, and enforce them? Should you not pay a fair price in compensation for that privilege?
In principal I like the idea of a basic income as well, but I too wonder about what services/assistance it will replace. For example SNAPS/food stamps would seem to be a prime candidate.

But I wonder (and this is an honest question) are we, as a society, really (practically, politically, and philosophically) going to take a hard line with someone that lost their check at the local casino - and tell them "tough luck, sounds like a hungry few weeks ahead"?
That's just not true. Regardless of language there is always a portion of the code where you need to be careful with performance. I have spent endless hours tweaking map performance in .NET, for example.
Nowadays there's a fix for that: trolleybuses with batteries. Still much more flexibility than streetcars, while running off of electricity.
Looks like a great effort. Appears that you can use it 5 times before you have to create an account. One enhancement might be to "Lookup my ip address" but it is provided on the page so you can easily copy and paste it.
But not enough money?
"...to keep a woman in line, you have to beat her on the rocks once in a while."

"I agree."

The audience laughs it up. Disgusting.

I used to work for the CBC and I think most of my colleagues are utterly ashamed of this outside the context of looking back on the wrong parts of our history.
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And you are limited by a 30 year old standard (IMAP) with an insane message format. Building a truly new email experience would require a new protocol as well.
Yeah, it's frustrating. I was using Sparrow until it got acquired and then shut down. Then switched to Mailbox... which then got acquired... Whoops.

I ended up so frustrated I created my own email client in my spare time and half accidentally got into YC S14 haha. You can check it out here: http://www.slidemailapp.com

I'll admit, as a previous poster said, it's not without it's flaws but we try hard and we really do spend all our waking hours improving it since it's our baby and we love it to death. We've been beta testing the private current release with a lot of Hacker News users and I think we're fast approaching something really awesome!

Feel free to email me at vu0tran@gmail.com for a beta invite and would LOVE to hear your suggestions of what you'd like to see in an email client!!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313425
The FCC prevents devices that knowingly cause interference. I think this is an argument that the tech should be banned because they can prove ahead of time that it will interfere with other devices.
You have no idea how much some managers love this idea.

I know I had a former boss that loved to try using the outlook "unsend the stupid thing i sent" feature.

Little did he know the cients could turn that bit of functionality off. He hated when we replied to the emails he had "purged".
The average home user, sure, the ISP AP may be fine. But for the average reader of HN I suspect it would not be.

I can't use an AP that does not allow me to fine-tune QoS and just tinker in general if packets are not flowing in the way that I desire.
sure, but that is paramount of environments not being in sync, and inaccurate pre-production testing.
The institution of a basic income was a primary factor in the downfall of the Roman Empire. Once people grew accustomed to it, they supported any politician who increased it, regardless of any other factors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cura_Annonae

"Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses."
-Juvenal
Spark and Outlook seem to be the most delightful to use.