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Visited Aldi and Lidl in Germany and I am sorry but I can't help hating those stores. It all looks so cheap and barebones that I get depressed just being there. And then the whole experience with the cashier is hyper stressful and they are so blinding fast at scanning the groceries. It is like you are subject to some German Blitzkrieg or something.

Interesting with the article that they explained why it was so fast. I actually just thought Germans were super fast at everything in general.

I could't figure out how to pack my groceries as fast as they scanned them and get time to pay without holding up the line.
I haven't followed this project, and know very little about rendering, but I saw in your updates you ended up moving the voxel generation off the GPU and onto the CPU. How feasible would rendering on the CPU be for your engine? Is it highly specialized towards using GPU features, or could it be reasonably distributed across multiple traditional CPU cores?
>Don't forget Amateur Radio Field Day is in 11 days!

Holy crap, already? I haven't been messing with radio stuff lately but man, it really does feel like field day 2015 was just yesterday.
Well I guess that is 2/3 of the problem taken care of!
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Most votes are already bought and manipulated by the handful of people who own the television coverage of the election, by tilting that coverage in favor of their favorite candidate.
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I don't think Chromification is any better.
> It was surprisingly easy to teach to people. I remember showing a new engineer who'd never seen any Haskell before monads on a whiteboard and he after I explained monoids and functors and then monads, he just nodded and said "oh, okay, makes sense".

Could you share your monad teaching technique?
There are healthy choices at McD, but why do so many give sit down restaurants a pass? Some of the big name ones will load you down in calories, fat, and salt, and just hide it behind foodie names and portions.

Yeah McD ain't the bastion of good health but not many places are except maybe a boutique spot
Chromium of all browsers gets pestered all the time by Google services. It's... odd.
Why do you go to McDonalds at all? Are there no healthier alternatives? Is it a price issue?
Is it? The complaint at the time was the number of websites that outright blocked non-IE browsers rather than just letting the non-IE browsers try their best to render the pages, closing the web. Just because the tables are now turned it's appropriate for Google to break the open web? It seems evil from the standpoint of trying to support an open web (the arguments are the same now as they were back then), and it seems peculiarly childish and immature for a company as big as Google.

Not to mention if you were going to do it based on standards support and caniuse.com statistics, it's Safari now that is the one that lags behind. Shouldn't Google also start blocking Safari now? Isn't that closer to "fair play"?
The trouble is various incarnations of silicon-based transistors are the best we know how to engineer right now and for the foreseeable future. There will probably be a stall for at least 5-10 years after silicon scaling ends in the late 2010s/early 2020s while we try to develop a suitable replacement that can continue to the ultimate physical limits.
You always have the option of running a local npm cache/registry. We do for npm and artifactory.

Not exactly the same as vendoring dependencies, but it's a decent compromise in some situations.
As a bona fide erlang head, let me instead suggest that you direct any such efforts at http://www.ponylang.org/ -- in which you can have the actor model, but do low level programming, with high performance, while being as safe as Rust and having (in my personal opinion) better affordances.
I agree they are sometimes too fast for you, but when you're a student the savings are well worth it, often half the price of a normal supermarket
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> I think you make some good points, though I think some of your remarks are a tad too aggressive.

If you decide to share your opinions on things you don't know about as if you do know about them, then I'm not sure what you're expecting. Warmth and acceptance?

> You can make the same point about alcohol: people routinely ingest large amounts of alcohol and can still engage in lots of physical activity, despite it being a depressant.

Yes and I will, because that's the entire point of what I'm saying. Just because something falls in the broad category of "depressant" doesn't mean it's going to make you lethargic.
I was in one a month ago out of curiosity and that's exactly how I would describe my experience.
I'm honestly having a hard time understanding what you're talking about because Netflix is not bringing fiber to Comcast's regional NOC, nor is Comcast performing any traffic shaping whatsoever on Netflix traffic when they're not honoring their peering agreement.

Literally neither of the things you said should be forced to happen have been requested by Netflix or Comcast.

Netflix didn't want to pay anything for housing Netflix's server in Comcast's datacenter, rather than continue to pay Comcast for their peering agreement and network upgrades required to honor their peering agreement.

Comcast said "no", and stopped peering with Netflix (very briefly was this actually happening, Netflix quickly acquiesced). This sent Netflix's traffic to Comcast users over the greater Internet, which is slower. THIS rerouting is what caused the slowdown, not any slowing via network devices. The Internet, as a whole, is slower than a direct connection between Comcast and Netflix. That's the whole reason for peering agreements, after all. Comcast never targeted Netflix with any kind of slowness, with hardware or software.

So again, I'm confused why you think this has anything to do with "running fiber" or "intentionally using a 100Mbps port". Neither of those things have happened.
At least for the last incarnation in 2013 Aldi Süd took offers from 14 companies, chose 8 which delivered a proof of concept, then chose 3 to fully implement the software which was then field tested for three months.

They also have full rights to the source code and in-house developers to do small changes.

The hardware is supplied by a different company that also has software on offer. But apparently that is not good enough.
I remember about 8 years ago when Aldi first appeared in my hometown and my parents would occasionally shop there. I hated their self branded foods. Now my wife and I shop there all the time and their own branded stuff is actually pretty good. Lots of people agree it's become much better. Occasionally produce is under-ripe and their selection is definitely smaller than other stores, but it's great for a lot of things.
It probably helps that Google's applications encourages their users to open spreadsheets in Google Sheets, instead of office software running on the users' machines.

If you work on a web application where users can generate reports that contain input from other users, and a common workflow is for users to download those reports and open them in Excel, they aren't going to be happy if your site is a vector for attacks. Saying "Oh, but it's an attack against your laptop, not against our servers; WONTFIX." is going to be tough to justify.
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Known as employing Germany's fastest typing cashiers Aldi introduced this quite late compared to other grocery stores. They experimented for many years to get the same speed and the result where these huge and multiple barcodes per package.
I debated moving rendering to the CPU at one point. The CPU allows you to use much more creative tricks, but of course lacks the ability to crunch tons of numbers in parallel to the extent that a GPU can. It is possible, but the question is - is it worthwhile? :)
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SF -> NY latency is about 7x speed of light[1]

https://ipnetwork.bgtmo.ip.att.net/pws/network_delay.html
What about the 10 million people that died during the Holocaust, or the 30 million people that died in the Great Famine (or, for that matter, oppress and enslave African-Americans for 300+ years)? Obviously too little/poor regulation can allow corporations to commit truly awful atrocities, but I've yet to see any private enterprise cause a fraction of the damage that states around the world have.

But I digress -- in any free society people will eventually cause horrible things to happen, it just seems to me that the government inevitably causes much worse things to happen.
I'd love to see a search interface for all webfonts, powered by an open database of data from across all the major webfont providers.
If this interface is independent of Google fonts, then you can apply it to any set of font data.
Have you looked at the ingredient labels? They are still crap. Salad is Iceberg lettuce, may as well eat cardboard. Salad dressings are high sugar highly processed fat free crap. Wraps are made with HFCS and a bunch of preservatives.

(Not saying most fast food is better, but McDonalds is about a 10/10 on the crap-o-meter).
>unhealthy food

and food at other restaurants are magically healthy? Come on.

I lived in a poor neighborhood, heck I grew up in one. Our McDonalds was mostly a place to get breakfast and coffee and such and a lot of seniors spent all day or at least the morning in there reading, socializing, etc.

Meanwhile across the street you can get all a 3,000 calorie fettucine alfredo at the italian place. Or go to starbucks and get a 550 calorie frappucciono. The idea that only fast food is unhealthy is a bit much.

>but society has allowed huge chains pushing cheap unhealthy food to the masses flourish.

People will go where they want. Choice matters, you don't have to go to the mcdonalds, but it has cheap coffee and cheap breakfast. 300 calories for a McMuffin isn't the society destroying thing you seem to think. In fact, these people hang out at McDonalds because its usually the only place that won't chase them out after x amount of time after buying something. In poor neighborhoods there aren't a lot of boutique coffee shops with wifi or Paneras where hanging out is the norm. McDonalds as a hangout predates those by decades. If anything McDonalds is unusually progressive in this way. I know its un-cool to praise McDonalds, but I think Ray Kroc had his heart in the right place and sincerely cared about customer service and the experience of his customers.
I agree if people have no time. I don't watch any TV, but many people do watch a lot of TV so the "no time" is more a prioritization issue for many, watch TV or prepare food.

"It's similar to why poor people buy poor-quality shoes more often, as opposed to one high-quality pair once a year."

On the contrary, poor people buy poor shoes because they are cheaper and they don't have enough disposable income to afford good quality shoes.
I can understand, the McDonalds in my hometown had the ball pit and all the 1950's fixings until about 5 years ago when they ripped it all out and did the same but the real killer was that the ball pit was replaced with a bunch of gamecube stations.
> Please explain to my mother how this system would work.

Instead of casting your vote by giving it to a single person you give it to many different groups interested in keeping the election fair. These groups can be anyone -- advocacy groups, political parties, independent auditors, or local governments. They all receive your vote, verify that it's correct, and sign their name below your vote on a public ledger which can't be tampered with without everyone knowing.

Hell, you don't even really need a digital blockchain for this kind of system to work.
the computer science / computer programming problem I'd like to see solved is, keeping projects "fresh" and open/accessible enough that people like this could feel like they were learning in an unencumbered way, and at the same time contributing something useful to an existing project, while at the same time pushing the capabilities of what available open source projects can provide.

"Reinventing the wheel" projects absolutely litter public source nodes; believe me, I know why people do it; but my dream is the dream of software that most of us have given up on, code reuse, "reentrancy", shared libraries, etc.

Maybe something like a "wikipedia of source code".

I'm not discounting the benefit of doing a project to learn about it; what I'm saying is, too bad it's not code that will be useful for anything else without a lot more work; and too bad work is going into something that is not reuseful-able.
They refuse to increase settlement free capacity. Level 3 can pay for the bit-miles beyond what they are carrying in return for the ISPs, or Netflix can do what every other company does and lease lines as needed.
What you need is some kind of abstraction layer so that you can expose only the functionality that non-technical users need exposed. Check out www.parkmycloud.com for example.
I really hate the idea of having a web interface to my database anywhere, no matter how secure they say it is. Social engineering (over direct "hacking") lends itself to circumventing technical security.

No matter their technical security (Although I'm super happy they test phpmyadmin!), I still wouldn't trust it on my servers.

Granted you can lock phpmyadmin down via ip restriction, vpn, etc - that's definitely good, but, if you can forgive a bit of generalization, those measure tend to be above people's head or too restrictive for those using phpmyadmin.

If we do connect to a database using a GUI (usually an app instead of phpmyadmin), however, my preference is through an SSH tunnel. This lets us connect securely (over SSH), and still allow MySQL to not be globally accessible from the outside world - meaning, you can still using MySQL's built-in network security features (bind-address and username hosts, along with firewall restrictions) to lock down MySQL.
Why would you not use Erlang though? Performance?
> It all looks so cheap and barebones that I get depressed just being there.

Can I ask which part of Germany you've been to – or rather which Aldi (Nord or Süd)? There's a surprising amount of difference between the two and I've always found one of them far nicer than the other.
Most Apple OSS stuff is released under Apache (Swift 2.2 is Apache 2), so probably?
>I swear, when I hear some fellow "liberals" talking about their own rural underclass or Republicans or Christians

It seems like intolerance follows pendulum shift every 30 years or so. Liberals have the new intolerance, its just incredible how much disdain there is for everyone who isn't to the left of Elizabeth Warren and my god, the SJW stuff is out of control.

I have no idea if we've hit a peak with this stuff yet, but its hard to imagine how much worse in can get.
The only alternative to complete control by a monopoly should not be complete control by governments. There is a middle ground and it's proven to be quite functional.

Look at how this is solved in other places such as Canada or the UK where they instead force the ISPs to lease lines at reasonable rates. It's caused a massive shift in cost and speed of connections.
I just don't like McDs because honestly the quality has gone down since I was a kid. Part of that is the whole fear of saturated fats found in beef tallow which made the fries great. But honestly, the burgers are just okay today compared to Five Guys (I'm not kidding I think they do burgers better but their fries are junk). And I tell you some folks I know make more flavorful burgers than even Five Guys, but good luck getting the recipe out of them.
What kind of attitude is this, really?

Is parenting some sacred thing, immune from analysis or criticism? Does parenting happen outside the realm of logic or reason, where all decisions are good, and any attempt at measurement or objectivity is worthless?
Thank you, I appreciate it, but I have been given a fair shot, and I failed (or however you want to label it).

I still came out better in the end, with a more developed skillset and better reputation.

There are thousands of people out there just like me, waiting to prove themselves. These are the people that deserve funding. :)

I met my first investor on reddit, a total stranger who took a chance on me. Hopefully I can reach a financial position at some point to give another person a chance as I was given.
I can definitely understand that sentiment. That's the main reason I like working at super-early-stage startups. Zenefits, though, sounds like you'd have all the rough parts of that experience (eg long hours) but little of the upside. And, because of both their size and their recent trouble with regulation, there's probably very little of the "get out of my way".
> ... I can't help hating those stores. It all looks so cheap and barebones that I get depressed just being there.

Then why go there? Normally, you enter most stores by choice, so after a couple of (negative) experiences, just stop visiting them.

Can't speak for all Aldi and Lidl stores (not even in all of The Netherlands), but in my hometown a new Lidl store is actually better than just looking cheap and barebones. Wide aisles (sp?), less garbage of empty boxes and packaging material, friendly staff, great parking space. And still you're not paying for additional services and special/luxury items (which aren't there).
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In which is revealed the genesis of pron's worldview.
There are also some nice C99 syntax features like compound literals that may not be supported by your C++ compiler.
Cooking for yourself is only cheaper if you've already spent the money to outfit your kitchen. There's a big up front investment in terms of ingredients and tools.

You can spend $50 up front, and then eat for $3/meal by cooking for yourself...

Or you can just spend $6/meal at McDonalds.

If you only have $10 in your pocket you really don't have much of a choice.

This is, I think, the most important thing to understand about poverty in a capitalist system. It is much more difficult to make good investments when you have very little liquidity.
I agree cooking for one is not supported by - at least here in Germany - most super markets. Packaging is too big. The trick when I was cooking for myself is cook larger portions and put these into the fridge. Vary them when eating and don't try to keep raw ingredients instead of cooked food.

Cooking for two is no problem though, especially if you cook the right things. Cooking for more then 2 and you really have no problems with ingredients going to waste.

And you can buy some ingredients for cheap that last, e.g. I buy Japanese rice in 5kg or 10kg sizes, easy to keep in good condition for a long time and much cheaper than 500g from the super market.
Poster below is kind of right that you're never going to get an in depth answer for free...

But a few key points that separate the two:
1. It's very easy to make 50% percent a year on a few hundred thousand. If you can't even do that, it's not worth even bothering to compete. It's VERY hard to do the same with a few hundred million or worse, a billion.

2. With regards to #1, the key difference is market impact. When you start trading a non-trivial percentage of a symbol's average daily volume (eg; 10%+) you start having effects on the price. A dumb strategy would be to just place market orders for the full amount. Someone will just place a cascading set of limit orders that you'll hit as soon as you wipe out existing liquidity on the book. A slightly better strategy might hide the total order. A much better strategy will place thousands of small orders of random sizes at different times across different exchanges to simulate organic market activity and attract liquidity. This order sizing is probably based on both predictive models and analysis of the full exchange feeds (that are both very monetarily and computationally expensive to use)

3. Sophisticated algorithmic trading will either try and get the market to do something (eg; place orders in such a way as to elicit a reaction from the market) or use non-market data in combination with market data to make decisions. These approaches add external entropy and allow for more theoretical alpha than reacting to lagged market signals.
No one is free from criticism, what they're free from is being forced to listen to it. No one's making anyone else here participate in the discussion.

Performing hard work doesn't make you immune from doing that work poorly, and it's kind of alarming to me that this insular attitude is so popular on HN.
Yes, exactly. This platform is very affordable and would make a great introduction to a sumo-type robot competition using bipeds. But not shoving robots around a la RoboOne, but hitting a target drawn on a touchscreen. Its something Ive been tinkering about for a while.

I appreciate the answers. Best of luck with the project!
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ok, so write C++ classes that don't let you access raw pointers. I mean I understand that C/C++ languages are less safe than, say, Java - but that is the whole point. The lesser safety gives you better performance. If you don't care about bleeding edge performance, you should probably choose Java or Python or some other language that is much more flexible and easier to use
amazing work on Voxel Quest, I have been following this since the start and it made me want to carry that same engineering excellence in my open source projects!
Thanks for the insight, this is wonderful. I love when idioms are translated word by word - or better said use the same words in different languages. Thanks!
Spoiler alert: it will not work. The people in the cart factory attaching the chain will have tested that as well.
But there are also lots of complaints that tomatoes aren't as sweet as the used to be. Or that modern giant strawberries and watermelons and other fruits aren't as sweet or tasty as old varieties. Even the apples you mention, people say that red delicious apples really aren't that good. Despite being the most popular and the biggest and reddest.

And none of that should be surprising, because no one tastes these things before they buy them. They judge based on appearance entirely.

Sweet corn is much sweeter than traditional corn because it was traditionally bred to be that way. But regular corn, and other staple crops like rice, wheat, etc, are just sold based on weight. They also do moisture tests and subtract the weight of the water content. But as far as I know they don't measure or care about sugar content.
It doesn't feel like an effective use of space; what is it about McDonald's that makes it a better focal point than a community center or a space built specifically as a gathering point for the community?