skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few years ago my wife and I were coming back from a road trip to visit some friends and family in Canada, and we crossed back into the US at the Detroit/Windsor crossing. We were basically running on fumes by the time we got through the border, so drove around the Detroit side a bit in search of a gas station (it took a while to find one that wasn't clearly abandoned or in complete shambles).

One thing I noticed is that among all of the boarded-up, graffiti-strewn buildings, homeless people sleeping in the gutters, abandoned houses and cars, the one shining beacon of normalcy was the McDonalds. The building was in perfect condition, the lot was clean, lights were on--it was very striking in contrast to the almost post-apocalyptic looking area of the city that surrounded it.

I can totally understand why such a place would naturally attract people as a place to congregate in a neighborhood as poor as that one. Inexpensive food plus a building that not only still functions as shelter, but has electricity, bathrooms, heat/air conditioning--all things that you may very well not have at home (assuming you even have a home).
The fair alternative could be to not count any streaming video service traffic towards your data usage.
Better training, more incentives to be passenger focused etc. might be the reasons.

In fact in some contests these private guards performed 5x better than TSA employees in catching the bad guys/bad items while actually doing it lot faster.
Healthy food does have something to do with the amount of calories it contains. It's not the be-all or end-all, but if you're consuming less than you use, you'll lose weight.

Weight is by far one of the largest risk factors for a huge number of medical conditions and problems, so I'd be amazed to hear how calories/nutritional content of food isn't related to health!
Bizarre how the article seems to present this as a hopeful and positive thing about McDonalds.

To me it is just another indicator of how broken American society is. A fast food place serving terrible and unhealthy food is becoming a gathering place for poor people who are probably the ones most in need of a healthier and better lifestyle.

It is also a sad reminder of how society has gone so utterly wrong when the cheapest food is the absolutely worst food.

This is of course not McDonalds fault, but society has allowed huge chains pushing cheap unhealthy food to the masses flourish. It isn't just about the food, but the sort of cultural wasteland a place like McDonalds is. Everything mass produced and equal everywhere. A country priding itself in diversity is drowning in homogeneity.
Even more reason to clarify.
TeamPostgreSQL[1] is a pretty good web interface for Postgres. It has SQL autocompletion too, with completion for schema objects as well as SQL keywords. It is free.

[1] http://www.teampostgresql.com
Sure it's great that people research things.

>> For a given size transistor the GaN element will switch considerably faster than the Silicon equivalent.

Most of the delay today is because of wires, not transistors.

See figure 1 at http://www.monolithic3d.com/blog/previous/3 .
Correct me if I am wrong, but this doesn't sound like a problem with Postgres. It seems like a problem with the author's specific implementation (self-signed certificates) specifically on Heroku.

Anyone else take something else away from this piece?
Unfortunately ad technology and creative companies are not using the VPAID standard properly. Essentially VPAID is simply a JS file. One really bad VPAID I seen is generated through Adobe Animate CC and meshed with a bunch of custom code with jQuery in it. The image assets are all oversized because Samsung Galaxy S6 edge supports 2560 x 1440 and it wasn't resized to fit desktop proportions. The VPAID standard doesn't constrain the designer in terms of payload and how many connections to send.
How web search data might help diagnose serious illness earlier
So, you're offering financial incentives for poor people to hook themselves to big pharma, with the condition that they go through with the "treatment". Nice. And bonus points for managing to frame the conditional part as a feature, that's some serious corporate bullshitting skills...
> It's cool to hate McDonalds, I know and I don't care. All my friends would never take their kids to McDonalds. They even don't take their kids to the movies. This is our generation nowadays, all they want is an 'organic', 'low fat' and 'please don't hurt' sticker on their overpriced crap food without having a clue how nutrition really works. Especially here in Europe people position themselves as heathly when hating McDonalds.

It's not that it's "cool to hate"; it's simply that some people see a connection between 30%+ of the population being obese, and a certain type of nutrition, of whom McDonald is [seen as] the poster child.

Of course, at the other end of the spectrum some will "Blame it on the genes©", and that's fair, but all in all it is reasonable (which is different from "arguable") to have a "strong dislike", not "cool".

Anecdote is not evidence; on top of that, each and everyone is positively (oh, and subjectively) certain he has has a healthy lifestyle.
Chrome and Firefox look exactly the same to me

edit: from your comment below, maybe you're on Linux? Sounds like you're seeing the same thing as this subthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11903444
Exactly. And the author doesn't bother to explain.
Launchpad Online: Introducing the Google Sheets API v4
Google Inbox is also blocked on Edge, which is sad. I wonder why they're blocking it. As you said, Edge works fine with most websites, it's not IE6...
Simple chase AI via heat propagation
Ask HN: Remote work and benefits
Question for remote workers in the US. For those who work for a company based in state A and live in state B, how does it work for your benefits? Especially health coverage. Different states have different requirements/laws/regulations. Is it sometimes a problem if the health insurance company provided by your employer doesn't operate in your state of residence?
Ubuntu’s container-style Snap app packages now work on other Linux distributions
I saw your "dead" comment, thought it was valuable. Your previous comments didn't appear to be antisocial so I vouched it.

Your karma went up since then so apparently some people agree.

You're still flagged for whatever reason, so whatever you write will still be invisible until someone using showdead comes along and decides it shouldn't be hidden.
I congratulate the Google Fonts team The redesign job looks gorgeous and elegant in terms of UI and UX too but can I make a few suggestions if possible?

1- Can you please add a double view button at the top to toggle between «List» and «Grid» views for maximum convenience?

2- At the risk of sounding a bit pedantic but some example sentences for the Arabic fonts don't look perfect.

For example, for the «Amiri» font, it's الظلال أخفت القمر or more naturally أخفت الظلال القمر and not الظلال أخفى القمر
[1]. For «Lateef» and without going over a lot of MSA grammatical rules, this is the more correct version of the example sentence انطلق صوتُ مسجّل عبر مكبِّر الصوت المنصوب أعلى الباب.
[2]

[1] The shades hid the moon.

[2] A recorded voice went off through a megaphone/speaker mounted above the door.
Thanks for footnoting Dallas. Aldi being German I thought of a different example: that approach is how we ended up with France, Germany and Lorraine (of the famous Alsace-Lorraine fights between F & G). It was the three sons of Charlemagne...still very visible today!
We've banned this account for repeated abuse using sockpuppets. I explained this at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11904067, but want to add here that this (seemingly in-passing, but really the point) smear of Y Combinator could not be more of a lie. Telling such lies in a persuasive-sounding way, while never substantiating them, is this troll's specialty.

We go out of our way to moderate Hacker News less, not more, when people criticize YC. But that doesn't mean anything goes, and in this case the abuse crossed the line a long time ago.
Perhaps if American ISPs didn't abude their monopoly position we wouldn't need regulation. Unfortunately, they do and will continue to abuse their monopoly positions unless forced to do otherwise. They had their chance to not be jerks, they failed, and now they're regulated.

Also, cable companies and ISPs have consistently been rated terribly by consumers in recent years. Most citizens view these companies as utility providers and just want them to deliver cheap consistent service. Title II makes sense in that context.
I wish the article had expanded on the unsuitability of community centers due to their bureaucracy. It just mentions it in a couple of words and never elaborates. It seems like it should be easy to provide just a simple public space with basic amenities, without even any activities (which is the low bar set by McDonald's). The big exception of course being that food isn't served, but running a little competent sandwich shop or something is far from impossible (every bus and train station I've been too manages that).
If you keep answering I'll keep asking! :)

How many degrees of side-to-side motion can the frame take before it falls down? I'm thinking of getting two of these, putting a touchscreen on each one, and having them play joust. The objective would be to touch a dot displayed on the other players touchscreen. The things I come up with...
Maybe twice a month. We typically stop there only when traveling now. We might stroll to the one a half mile from our house for dinner once in awhile otherwise.

McDonald's isn't a large part of our mostly wholesome diet. I feel good about what my kids eat on a day to day basis.

Also, I'm the mother. It's not really germane to the issue, but everyone in this thread assumed otherwise.
That's always an appropriate state of mind. And luckily, that story is already in the public domain: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32522

As are a few others: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/33399
Did I miss any clarification about The Offer being given to everyone being laid off? I'm assuming so. Overall, pretty generous of them, and good for Zenefits for trying their best to weather the mistakes that were made without punishing employees more than they have to.
Maybe, except the author doesn't clarify what exactly the problem is, or that s/he's offering a solution. A solution is only viable if it's both discoverable and understandable.
Sacks has opened the first envelope. [1]

Let's see when the second one is opened. My guess is if Z2 doesn't hit their goals, sometime next spring.

[1] http://www.design.caltech.edu/erik/Misc/Prepare_3_Envelopes....
Reading these corporate E-mails always makes me feel numb. "We have a great future, we will realign priorities to make things even greater. You are fired. We wish you all the best for your bright future, wherever it is as long as it's not here."

Reminds me of another E-mail from a while ago. "Thank your for your great work on this project. We will have a great thank you dinner in a great restaurant. (3 more paragraphs of the same). For cost saving reasons only directors and higher are invited, not you. It will be a fantastic dinner with a lot of fun".

Are they all psychopaths who don't understand what they are writing?
The actual explanation for that video is moisture content, not preservatives / artificial ingredients.

http://www.snopes.com/six-year-old-happy-meal-doesnt-rot/
Very impressive performance loading considering the number of fonts. Curious if they are just loading an incredibly stripped down version of each font for the preview and then lazy loading in the full font if you click to edit the text. Either way thumbs up.
Perl introduced a "strict" mode a long time ago. Although it doesn't force it on you, virtually all modern Perl programmers use it by default.

As an extra security feature Perl also supports "taint" mode, which "taints" all user-supplied data as potentially hazardous to the program. This was used more for CGI, but it's still a simple and powerful security feature. Unfortunately, it was never adopted like 'use strict' was because it would more often get in the way of the programmer.
these things are more complex than simply being shaped by the all powerful media.

This notion itself is becoming more nebulous with the rise of social media. Traditional media has lost much of its power, and much of that power has been taken over by social media. When the media merges with and to a large extent becomes us, what happens? I'm not so sure.
Gifted Children and Adults–Neglected Areas of Practice
Links from half a decade ago are irrelevant here. The claim that pagination only benefits advertisers is ironic, given we are discussing a Google page.

The point of pagination in this case is to reduce the client-side processing load and up-front bandwidth consumption to view the page. This isn't a news article. It's a set of nontrivial binary files being downloaded and rendered using javascript.

The OP of this thread complained that infinite scrolling plus lazy loading put his browser under heavy load. The first respondent accused him of wanting everything loading up front. I merely suggest a middle ground.
My interpretation is 9% got laid off with 3 months severance, and everyone else in the company got "The Offer" which is 2 months severance.

My experience has been that severance generally gets less generous over time.
>"Instead of two teams, one is a pure back end, and one is a pure front end - consisting seven people overall - a ninja team of five can do both."

...said the manager.
Web devs as a group seem to be ridiculous. Note this doesn't mean everyone just a greater incidence of such.
Dropbox is cash-flow positive
Actually, one of my best friends in Texas is a "Redneck Liberal" but he's more of the "slightly to the left of Mao" sort than he is a Libertarian.
Right -- it seemed fine until "The Offer" showed up. You know who takes offers like that? The people who can find new jobs really easily. It's a recipe for losing good people.
OP here. That's entirely correct, Postgres deployed correctly is secure against a MitM, but since Heroku has not issued a trust root, they are not.

Edited to add: As a user of Heroku Postgres you can't configure Postgres correctly, Heroku is supposed to do that for you.
Introducing free http optimizer and analytics service
The Dos and Don’ts of Taking Your ECommerce Store to Trade Shows
How about 2 weeks..
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Why This Canoe Costs $100,000
I think this is more along the lines of false dilemma, no?

oh I see this is an alias for that. false dilemma, false dichotomy and excluded middle are apparently all the same thing.
Actually everyone should be free from being criticized, except for the people with the authority to do so. That goes double for people doing hard work and triple for people doing work that every joe shmoe on the internet thinks himself an expert on.

In other words, my spouse can criticize my parenting everyone else can go frack themselves. Full stop.
You're not being dense, not at all. I was in a hurry and not clear enough:

Sound is different of audio signal.

Audio signal is whatever way you arrange to represent signals in the audio range of frequencies and, usually, dynamic rang. Sound is a physical phenomenon caused by variation of pressure on air that we can listen to.

So, the transfer was usually done by audio signals, transmitted electrically via copper wire (and, sometimes, magnetic coupling in some modems). You could, of course, convert these audio signals to sound by picking up the phone (or wiring the modem to the sound card), but this was just for you to listen to. The communication was not depended on sound itself.
Hey I like going to McDonalds with the kids now and then too. But if this is the only nice place to go where you live I find that truly sad. I love taking my kids out eating but my favorite places are different Italian restaurants. Some area really good at making thin Italian pizza and other are really good with the pasta.
Aldi Süd cashiers learned the prices. They actually choose prices that were easier to type and as few different prices as possible. Barcode scanners were installed in 2000 in anticipation of the Euro introduction.

Aldi Nord cashiers learned three digit codes (around 800 ones). Scanners were only introduced in 2003 because they started to sell loose produce which is weighted at the checkout. Additionally, that allowed them to get away with less training.

The checkout speed dramatically decreased since then. Before they had to pick up each and every item they often entered the numbers faster than you could load the items onto the checkout line.

6000 items per hour was the target before. Now it's around half which would have gotten you fired back in the days.
Of course you can see the full list at /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/StdExclusions.plist.

One of the biggest is iPhone backups from iTunes. If I were a normal user and my MacBook didn't boot up tomorrow, I'd be surprised to find my backup didn't include critical files like this. For example, apps that are no longer in the App Store but are in your backup can be restored. Once you don't have that backup anymore, they can't.

It's just one of the reasons Apple users are forced to have multiple backup services if they want reliable and complete backups.
Really dislike the ng-click navigation for opening individual font pages. Those clickable elements should be anchors, to allow opening the pages in new tabs.

There doesn't seem to be any usability case for breaking a basic browsing convention here.
Do Aldis in the U.S. bag your groceries? In Ireland, you would have to bring your own bags, or buy their thick plastic ones. And then the cashier would tut-tut you if you took too long bagging your own groceries.
I doubt it would stay there for even the next few decades. As crazy as it sounds, I imagine at some point it would become cheap enough to launch into space or in to the sun. I mean, it wouldn't make economic sense. But at some point it would be worth the cost if only so that we don't have to listen to the irrational and ignorant braying of the so called 'green movement'.

They're like the kids in high school who decided they were avowed communists, except now all grown up.
In all fairness, Smokey was a male bear.
Exploring the Benefits of Cloud Computing
Oh shoot, that means that when the local Sinclair station sell gas for less that at a nearby Chevron, Trader Joe's & Aldi are going to engage in a price war which will somehow end up bankrupting Safeway, ultimately resulting in a nationwide A&P hegemony. Or something.
Interesting on the WARN act. I didn't think it applied in Arizona. Or is because Zenefits is a CA based company?

It's interesting to me in that in most companies, if you're not happy, they counsel you out (or start documenting performance) and then you get nothing. If this were a deliberate "We need to get to 20% reduction" then they would have just picked another 11% to go.
Inside Pete Lau’s Plan to Rule India’s Android Market with the OnePlus 3
Can someone explain to me why Google Fonts doesn't provide proper cache headers, still?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29091014/how-do-i-levera...

Why disallow caching? Unless I'm misunderstanding something.
When I go to a web page, yes, I expect the page to load completely and be done with it.

No scrolling needed. Show 1 page of content, and use AJAX to quickly load new page content.
If you're referring to DSL/Dial Up companies, the infrastructure was already in place for that. Phone lines have been around for decades. Anyone can start a DSL/dial up company, but what good is that? The technology is outdated.

To be competitive in today's market you need to be running fiber. Depending on where you're located, fiber is scarce and running it isn't cheap.
Thanks for being skeptical...we love skepticism!

We agree that our model could be used for dangerous motives. However, there is little debate about the effectiveness of ARVs. That is why incentivizing treatment uptake is important and not an underhanded method to get people hooked on big pharma.
Yes. And anyone who was WIP interviewing.
I will always upvote something like this, but I am wondering: why write it in C++? I didn't really read the whole thing, but I skimmed a bit, and didn't see a lot of advantage taken of the higher-level facilities of C++. It seems like you've picked a route that gives you all the disadvantages of using C, while simultaneously destroying the possibility of it ever being self-hosting.

Still, a fun project, and you have my upvote. :)
Yeah that is my issue with the whole thing. I don't blame McDonalds. I blame the rest of society for being such a big failure that a multinational junk food maker becomes the community center for poor people.
How to attract a never-ending supply of clients
Romanian tax law is really weird; I'm guessing this is probably related to the IT worker tax exemption.

Good advice for most of the rest of the world though :)
I regularly have to email SaaS companies and tell them the service I just signed up doesn't work correctly in Firefox.
Don't assume everyone is starting from the same point. There are many successful people from all walks of life in DC, but you also see people imposing on others in public. Sure, it's only the worst 5% that's causing problems but get enough people together and that 5% can get really annoying.

I also often see people complain about their own ethic group a lot, though this is more about class than race.
I stand corrected! At least until the latter days of dial-up.
I know this thread is about Weasels... but can I just use this opportunity to drop a recommendation for one of the funniest documentaries ever made:
https://www.amazon.com/Pursuit-Excellence-Ferrets/dp/B000RL2...

(I think it's available to stream on Prime)
The current situation (importing ByteString or Text for
performance) is pretty good IMO. Haskell doesn't have Map
or Set or anything in the prelude, so I think it's
reasonable to leave powerful packed text types out as well.

Interesting. Maybe all we have is a community problem then? Since `String` is right there, and `Text` is both an additional dependency and an import away `String` gets used in situations it shouldn't.

Try going to a python or java developer and telling them
"array access should return an optional type instead of
throwing an exception on out-of-bounds".

Alright, I think we have synthesis. From a Python programmers perspective the Prelude issues are somewhat trivial. From a Haskell programmers perspective it's offensive to good engineering. So it depends on your perspective:)
Yup. If there were more eateries that made as much effort to be kid-friendly as McDonald's (and I'm not talking about the food, I'm talking about the toys and the playplace) I'd get out more.

It's actually quite frustrating because my kids and I are vegetarians and while the wrap suits me just fine, my kids get stuck with their mediocre grilled cheese sandwiches (vegetarian children are still children - they think the wrap is weird).

It's not that I need every place to go to the lengths the clown does. I don't expect Pita Pit or my local felafel place to build playgrounds. I just wish there was a second chain providing this kind of product.
Click-bait. Random desires when it's clear that emacs is the same solution.
Yes, the company I'm at now has the 'unlimited time off' policy. Which has been shown to reduce the amount of time off people actually take, and means they don't have to pay out vacation when you leave. And that's on top of the perception that they're being kind to their employees. A triple win for the company.

But that's exactly why I want my 80% time to be officially recognized. I don't want to feel guilty or worry that I haven't justified my existence when I'm not there on Fridays. The contractual 3-day weekend means a lot more to me than an extra 20% salary with strings attached.
I may have missed something but the one comment I saw from dang was that any flagging of stories about the Orlando events was done by users, not mods.