skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What even is a delivery-only restaurant? A restaurant is literally defined as a place you go to eat and pay. A fine dining experience is composed of front of house and a back of house.

So Sprig is not a place you go to eat. There is no front of house experience. It's a thing that makes something to deliver to you. That's a fulfillment service.

Here's something to think about, most restaurants don't offer take out or delivery services. Because it undermines their value. They want you to sit down and enjoy in their decor, talking to their staff, eating their food, and most importantly they want exacting control and consistency. That indeed is how you build up trust and repeat visit.

But you're also conflating two behaviors here.

When you think about ordering delivery it's because you're trying to satiate a craving. You want that one thing form that one place. Delivery is an augmented service to the restaurant. It's how DoorDash can exist. But it's also why In 'N Out Burgers sued to not have their food be delivered. And it's also why the bottom half of the DoorDash's platform are not good experiences, it's a restaurant being pulled to be something it's not.

But that's not what Sprig is. They don't offer the same thing every day, they are relying on you to trust the top level branding alone and by browsing the options. It's a production facility with a delivery network.

When you want to your favorite meal delivered and when you want to order from Sprig or SpoonRocket or Munchery are coming from two different places. The former is hacking a restaurant, the latter is purchasing products.

Then lastly, it's not about licensing requirements for weed and alcohol. It's that they're inherently different products whereby immediate fulfillment is possible aside from transporting a human being.
Yes DynamoDB is indeed quite expensive - and increasingly so as data size and traffic grows. The whole point of distributed datastore like Dynomodb is to scale out massively by compromising on many database features and flexibility, but what's the point if it becomes so expensive at large scale?
There are ways to counter this. For example, it can be said that Facebook isn't your bathroom. (Yes, this isn't exactly solid argument, sure.)

Still, I'm absolutely sure it's best to keep private stuff to oneself, and parties you trust. With understanding of full consequences of doing so. If one trusts Facebook, they'd better think why do they do so, as their trust may be misplaced.

I think one of problems is that when users post data they don't even think they send it to Facebook - they believe they send it to their friends there.
Name and shame campaigns might beva solution. I don't know how know how I would feel about it it this but it's an opportunity for pressure.
Yes. If you don't understand one layer below the code you wrote (a rung below on the ladder of abstraction) then you cannot understand if you are even using the correct abstraction (if the library is doing the thing it says it does when you call x). You literally have no idea what your code does, or even should do.

A linked list is a perfect example. If you use a linked list, you should know the basic properties of a linked list. When given one from an unfamiliar library, you should go read its code. You should run some basic performance tests on it. You should separate it from your code via some basic delegating api, so that you can replace it with another implementation in the future.

And concurrency is another example - do you need, and does, your chosen library give you parallel execution, or merely asynchronous execution.

This isn't as onerous as it sounds -- you do it all the time. But blindly trusting any software without a proof of its correctness (encryption is an example of where you might not understand ecen the interface layet of the software, but use it directly anyway) is a dangerous habit.

If there's magic there that you don't understand and you choose the library, when that magic fails to satisfy some goal you need to understand why so that you can fix it, implement your own workaround, or swap it out with a library that does what you want.

If you use a concurrency library, and don't understand threadpools, block in a thread and threadlock your application, you are in trouble.

If you use IEnumerable, and don't filter out the results before you toList, you are in trouble.

If you use monads and think flatmap is stack safe, always, you are in trouble.

Note you don't need to know ALL the tricks. Just the ones employed by the functions you call.
Those are here in silicon valley already.
data science teams aren't that magic. We can't fix a low margin business model
I've discussed the same thing in other threads. It always comes down to some notion that people have to learn skills to exist in society. This is true but I've always argued with educators and parents that the time for that is grade or middle school. If people cant do Calc or don't know where the Battle of Bunker Hill actually took place society will not suffer. My generation should be the last to have this nonsense crammed down out throats.
If they do this in the USA, imagine what they do back home. Wild stuff.
There's KDE Kirigami, which will create programs that run on GNU/Linux/Android/iPhone from what I understand. But I have not tried it myself yet:

https://dot.kde.org/2017/01/02/kde-releases-beta-kirigami-ui...
My, I guess I wasn't pessimistic enough. I mean, a bunch of evil investors trying to squeeze money out of a company is one thing, but now you're telling me plain incompetence is enough?

I guess we still have a long way to go before we make software right.
And how are they hitting that person with a tracking pixel and associating it with the pseudo-account?

It's still creepy, but it's likely more about determining knowledge of the friend graph (i.e. suggesting 2nd degree friends via a connecting pseudo-account) than about ad targeting.

Though yes, as soon as that pseudo-account could be tied to an actual account, Facebook could use passively gathered info to target you.

The creepiest part about Facebook is the sheer volume of facial data paired with social connection data. With access to that, even if you have never been online in your entire life, there's a good chance I could take your driver's license photo and know who you associate with.
I don't care about 10 years, I would love 6. This would be the first shot I have at 5 with security patches.
Top-notch editing work and presentation, really impressive.

Don't want to get diverted into politics but I was appalled by not only the incident itself but the fact that Turkey then summoned the US ambassador in Ankara to complain about DC police trying to break up the fight. This is not a healthy sign for the future.
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Today the UK generated more power from the sun than its 8 nuclear power plants
Well, they basically have no idea -- it says in bold letters "Please note that not all locations were identified."

For reference, Wikipedia claims Chipotle has 3,010 restaurants. So at least 75%.
This is called a "scoop", when a journalist reports something that is not known to the public before they would normally find out about it.
Heh. I will note that plenty of people will defend both cases on the ground of "consenting individuals". Including the things like indentured servitude, child labor, poverty wages, and dangerous work conditions.

Anyhow, I agree that other people may judge the situation differently than me. (I'm sure that for a given ethical conclusion, there's always some ethical system that disagrees, so if you're after certainty, you've picked the wrong topic.) You asked; I answered. If you don't like the answer, just fill out the refund form.

Intro courses aren't meant to fix anything. They're meant to wake people up to the topic and prepare them to dig further, either in other classes or on their own. If you're arguing that more should be mandatory, I could get behind that. If, on the other hand, you're arguing that no education is better than some education, I'm not persuaded.
Addressing modes on the 68020 are kind of crazy. In addition to some relatively straightforward improvements (scaling for the indexed mode, options for larger displacements on both the displacement mode and indexed mode) they also added something called "memory indirect" modes. These allowed you to dereference a pointer in memory in a single operation. In these modes you have a base register, a base displacement, an index register (with scale) and an outer displacement. The index register could be applied either to the base value or to the fetched "outer" value.
FWIW, the CDC 6600 and Cray instruction set architectures also had this address vs. data distinction in their (scalar) register files. Both could do basic integer operations, but only the address registers could be used for address calculations in load/store instructions, while only the data registers could do floating-point.

(Strictly speaking, the CDC 6600 didn't have load/store instructions per se. Instead, any time you modified address registers A1-A5, a load to the corresponding data register X1-X5 took place from the resulting address. Modifications to A6-A7 caused a store from X6-X7 to the resulting address. It made for such tight code!)
Yes, but the instruction set wasn't. Orthogonality in an instruction set basically means that you know what basic instructions a processor supports, which addressing modes it supports and that allows you to create all possible combinations and they will just work as expected without gaps or strange insertions and if you look at the opcodes you'll be able to make sense of them.
Or my understanding is that the US can revoke their diplomatic credentials and expel them at any time, and that tends to be a more common response to a serious crime than actual waiver of immunity and prosecution.
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I interviewed for the Intentional Programming group at Microsoft back in 1993! Their demo back then was amazing. I thought they'd have something out within a few years, and 24 years later I don't think anything commercial has come of it.
Yeah, I think J Edgar Hoover figured this out early in his reign.
For the most common apps, no, it's not slower in my experience on Nexus 5, 7, 10 and some Samsung tablets.

For older devices, there are performance improvements in the ahead-of-time compilation with upgrades in major versions of the OS.

That helps. Lack of multimedia hardware support for older devices in newer apps can still be an issue.

Running Lineage OS 13 on a nexus 10, I see great performance for all the default apps and google apps. The main source of performance issues I see is apps that do not support the multimedia hardware (eg. arm neon on Nexus 10). Some video apps such as Directv now, HBO GO don't use neon, overheat with high cpu use as a result. Those that do support neon work great, including Netflix and Hulu. So it also depends on app support for hardware.
That's my understanding too. Although I believe that the US could ban those individuals from having immunity in the future and eject them from the country, which is certainly what I'd advocate for here.
They are international now, right? I at least think I have memory of running across them in Canada.

The file name in question (thanks, heywire) is "us.json". I'm left wondering whether and how much of an international scope there might be to this.

While the version of their web site that I'm receiving by default seems to be geo-centric to the U.S. and doesn't mention foreign locations, Wikipedia has:

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

Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (/tʃᵻˈpoʊtleɪ/)[6] is an American chain of fast casual restaurants in the United States, United Kingdom,[7] Canada,[8][9] Germany,[10] and France
The hypervisor could throttle the workload even if it lit up the entire physical node (which is unlikely). The CPU could also throttle itself, the instances where Prime fried CPUs were due to overclockers forcing high frequencies and voltages AFAIK.
Way around the paywall..

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:7Af3Xw...
Does anyone have a list of VCs that are specializing in investing into AI startups?
Funny you mention Farragut, though not British I often bring up Nelson or Churchill.
Is this story available in more detail somewhere?
This article lightly describes how immunity might work, but despite the title fails to present any recourse besides the obvious "maybe we shouldn't let those specific security guards back into the country after they leave."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/05/17/h...
> oscilloscope graphs of the sound waves

I agree with your point in respect to the over-emphasis of particular leaning styles in the classroom.

At the same time the oscilloscope example is intriguing, since I could easily imagine research scientists using FFT, and wavelet decomposition to classify bird-calls as primary research. So I wonder if there is anything intrinsically wrong with the idea of using an oscilloscope in the classroom at lower-levels as part of a teaching strategy?

Meanwhile drama classes might be trying to get students to mimic bird calls - which also seems like a valid learning experience.
> consciousness can be suspended, yet the organism retain intelligent function

If what you are saying is true, you have just pointed out that consciousness is separate from brain function, which materialism is unable to explain

>Cotard's delusion

Interestingly wikipedia states that something like 50% of these people also think they are immortal. These people are very confused about their consciousness. However, that doesn't mean that they are not conscious.

>The materialist explanation of conscious experience, then, is quite straightforwardly that it is an epiphenomenon of some kinds of brains but not others, and thus in no way suggests or implies there's any sort of mystical business going on.

Could you please offer some evidence or explanation for how this works? This is completely a conjecture, and there is no known scientific mechanism for how it works. Simply saying "It arises from the brain" is another way of saying that "it arises from material processes", which is merely circular reasoning, unless you can provide some support for it.

Please, if there is any good explanation for how consciousness works, post it here! But simply saying "scientists believe that it arises from matter in the brain" is not a good explanation. My point is that there is not one single good explanation from the materialistic camp for how it works. And actually, given a materialistic worldview, it is literally impossible for consciousness to exist. The reason is because Consciousness has no material component. My perception of pain may perfectly coincide with my neurons firing in my brain. However, my perception of pain is something completely different.
I would agree wholeheartedly.
That's actually why I gave up on avoiding it (after leaving my fb account dormant for ~5 years). If I'm being tracked anyway I might as well enjoy the social benefits of the platform, which are not insignificant.

FB absolutely knows more about me than any individual person at this point. I've decided, for good or ill, to accept that and leverage it; rather than feeling upset about my inability to enforce a right to privacy, I've decided it's more important that I should be able to enjoy being myself rather than having to hide everything. If powerful forces wish to abuse that, they can, but I'm happy to have that moral argument.
Definitely, it’s not a perfect comparison — it just seems to me that a company with somewhat low revenue and an altruistic mission should do everything it can to be lean.
I've just finished that and second the recommendation - while the ideas have been around for a while, the presentation of them in that book is outstanding.
No, this generally doesn't involve immediately cancelling your existing card, sending you a new card and canceling the old one when it arrives is a much smoother experience.

Who doesn't ship next day anyway?
Costa Rica: Survival Skills for Foreigners
Thanks for posting it! Very cool article and in-depth piece.
2amp powerbank ? Compute stick can run Linux (Ubuntu) or Windows depending on which you get...
LineageOS 13 is the continuation of CM 13. It's Marshmallow, but there are the latest security updates.
'“If we require our agents to write a full justification every time think about if you wrote a full justification every time you used Google. Among other things, you would use Google a lot less,” a lawyer told the court.'

Wow. Of course performing a search through such private information should be done with far more care than is taken in a typical Google search. Except to this guy.
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I can't speak to its behavior on iDevices, but regarding the complete video: As far as I can tell all the clips analyzed were from the video footage in the original NYT report[1] of the incident, which is linked in the very first paragraph of this article. Personally, I think this is a rather good example of reporting on something that perhaps entailed a bit of a judgement, but providing ample and well-documented evidence of how they reached that conclusion. If you disagree, you're more that welcome to go to the source material and come to a different conclusion.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/us/turkish-embassy-protes...
> > Basic, more modern human principles shouldn't be left to democratic vote

What process should be used to decide which are these modern human principles that are too important to be left to majority rule, and who gets to participate in that process?
He has framed himself as simply an investor in Maple as of late, but he's trying again with Ando. The food is very good and delivery is handled by Uber Rush couriers.
The question about programming tools is fascinating. There isn't a minimal consensus about its evolution.

My two cents is it's more about usability than anything else.
Show HN: A native Upspin file browser for macOS
I agree to many their phone seems to be a status symbol and a big part of their connected identity. More than a couple times I have been made fun of for my "ancient" 5 year old smart phone, but I only use it for basic texting and email, so why bother upgrading when it still works fine?
I'm making >10x the average working hard and I know people that worked with me doing 100x working harder (not all time, but at least in the past just after we stopped work in the same place). I know that there is a lot of variables to analyze, but it is clear for me that I can pull myself out of poverty directly to a rich life with just hard work. It wasn't clear 5 years ago when I spent most or more of what I earned every month (even it been 4, 5, 10x the avg).
I've tried all of these delivery companies thanks to VC-subsidized promotions, and none of them get me a better meal than Costco's excellent frozen and refrigerated prepared foods (Sukhi's, Giovanni Rana, Ajinomoto, etc) which I keep stocked in my refrigerator and freezer and which are ready within 5 minutes of me deciding I want to eat one. The Costco food is quicker, cheaper, and tastier.
Recent tip posted on HN for how to get the text. Worked for me as of a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14389986
It appears to be part of Turkey's new nationalist media strategy. See a similar incident in the Netherlands with some crazy details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Dutch%E2%80%93Turkish_dip...

> About twenty police officers, forming a special forces unit, the Dienst Speciale Interventies, masked and equipped with body armour and automatic weapons, arrested ten members of Kaya's bodyguard, on suspicion of illegally carrying firearms

> A stand-off ensued for several hours in which the Turkish minister refused to leave the car.[7] Just after midnight, a special heavy tow truck, a lift flatbed, was driven into the yard and prepared to vertically hoist the 3.5 tonne car on the flatbed, with the minister still in it, to transport her back to Germany.

(Turkey is probably long past its last free election and we're going to have to work out how to deal with one of the largest European NATO members being an Islamist dictatorship)
Tilt is shutting down
Tiny Arcade – Space Invaders etc. in the palm of your hand
> Doing nothing is an even bigger risk.

True. But Mozilla is betting on servo which I see as a big question mark as well. Are you sure that people will download firefox over chrome when servo lands? How long before it will finally ship? 1, 2 years? Was there a market research before hand? Like I said its a big question mark. Cant blame me if I have doubts after Firefox OS.

> I don't understand why "you shouldn't even try to improve" is such a popular sentiment on HN, of all places. What possible benefit can complacency bring? Why advocate it?

I dont know and I dont have something to do with it. Personally, I think the popular opinion on HN is pro Rust and pro Servo.

> I'd be more than willing to hear your technical thoughts...

Wait, are you using the "if you cant talk technical GTFO" card on me? We are straying from my original comment.

To make this perfectly clear:

Im not against improvement. Im against Mozilla's poor business decisions. You can see that was my point in the original comment.

No im not downplaying all your hard work. But ive seen this happen before. Happened to me as well. "Oh this will be great when it ships" at the expense of the company. Im trying to give an alternative opinion here contrary to the constant positive reinforcement when Rust and Servo is posted on HN. Nothing personal.
Likewise in New zealand. I've always heard the argument that the US is bigger so it's harder to change (for everything - POS, the metric system, any kind of regulation etc).

Even after a decade in the US it amuses me that NASA can run a fleet of vehicles on Mars, that the country produced places like silicon valley, and that American ideology is one of entrepreneurship/innovation but as a country we struggle with changes the rest of the world has decided are worth the effort.

It makes me wonder what the US would be like if we weren't still wasting huge sums of money on healthcare and credit card fraud etc!

Of course some may say that the US is what it is because of these things...
Great analysis, but I must ask the obvious question. US citizens attacked by foreign entities on US soil. What gives?
I can't even read the thing. The scroll keeps snapping back to the top. (iOS 10, iPhone 5S)