skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mean the kind of people that can't afford a car, yet are stuck in decaying suburbia that can't afford to keep up infrastructure and where it's hard to provide social services to a far-flung population?

People for whom the American dream of a car for everyone has left them stuck in one place when they can't afford that car. People that need an expensive car because it's the only way to get to their far-flung job, or get groceries, or go a doctor's appointment? Where even if there's a bus, it only runs a few times a day and may require long transfers to go across town.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/01/suburbs...

https://www.wired.com/2016/07/cash-strapped-towns-un-paving-...
"McDonalds probably has better research on their own business than you do."

This is never something you should believe in a major, for-profit company heavy on management. Those companies have people investing in all kinds of BS all the time everywhere from top to store level. That includes McDonalds which is easy to verify by just listening to the employees talk about management and company politics.

Now, it may be a good idea that might have come from someone thinking well. A big company investing in it across the stores isn't proof of that in any way, though. One needs more details.
I think there is a difference between longevity and stagnation. You are describing stagnation, but I don't think that is what the SA is about. When people see the former, they may assume the latter. This is understandable - people make all kinds of simplistic generalizations to reduce cognitive load but like any bias it is one you should be mindful of.

In hindsight I see longevity as a mistake - because this bias exists and it limits opportunity even when misapplied. Also I find it does take more work - or at least more attention - to stay current when you aren't being pressured by your job.
Those rural towns only exist because they are subsidized by everyone else through taxes. Close the loss-making post offices and roads servicing those towns and everyone would be forced to move. Problem solved.
There is a McDonalds with a kiosk on my drive to work. The drive-through gets backed up out on to the street, so I started parking to go in. There's often a short line at the counter, but if you use the kiosk you can literally place your order within 20 seconds of stepping through the door.

Maybe it's because I grew up within a couple miles of the headquarters of McDonalds, but the only people I know that don't go to McDonalds are health nuts. That being said, the stores around here are way nicer than the ones I've gone to in other parts of the country. I think proximity to the HQ probably keeps the franchisees in line, plus there are a bunch of corporate owned stores which are amazing.
I think you're trying to make the point that the reason for long construction timelines is directly linked to safety. In a way, that's indirectly supporting Thiel's point. Why can't we have both? I don't see a reason that we can't have a more responsive, swift building and infrastructure development and a safe construction environment.
That’s not something that should be handled inside an async function (and therefore not in this example). If you don’t want to continue a promise chain, terminate it:

.catch(error => {
process.nextTick(() => { throw error; });
})
Credit card breach at Kmart despite using chip and PIN technology
In my experience.

In Croatia you have to be very much in pain to be prescribed opioids. The strongest pain killer i got is Voltaren, for toothache. A friend got opium, or some derivative of, when he got chopped up because of cancer (same goes for other major surgeries).

We have good, state employed, doctors.

I have seen some heavier drugs prescribed by shrinks, but i don't know how (physically) addictive they are.

If you ask me, the whole USA medical thing is broken by design.
I read this book when I was back in university, and thoroughly enjoyed it! The social change at that time was enormous.

Boats were once the fastest way to send a message (faster than horses). The railway suddenly made it much quicker to communicate, and within a generation was quickly followed by the telegraph.

The effects of the telegraph on language, as people found cheaper ways to send messages when they had to pay by the character, are having modern parallels with SMS and emojis.
> I wish dearly that I could just enter my own order on the POS system when I am in such places

Visit France. Not only the burger quality is much better there, but also you can order yourself on self serve POS systems for almost a decade. They're also implementing restaurants where your food gets brought to your table.
In the specific cases I'm talking about the 'ticking all the boxes' was rather subjective and not adequately explained in the RFP.
In real fireflies, the individual clocks have slightly different frequencies. The inverse of the protocol is no protocol: stop syncing and let the blinks slowly fall back into chaos.
What do you think the courts don't understand about technology that's relevant to this case?

You're saying he's just a middleman, but that's what he's accused of being: a guy who brokered millions of drug deals between suppliers and consumers, and made a ton of money doing it. Why does it matter that he did it via a darknet website or in person?

Being a drug network middleman is illegal, no matter how you do it. And he was one of the largest in history.
McDonalds may not be bespoke, but it's consistent. A Big Mac tastes the same from downtown Manhattan to rural Podunk.

There's a definite market for people who want that and don't/can't/won't make the drive.
That's it. Diversity of crime plus arrogance in execution usually equals a strong punishment.
I'm medium-convinced that Kubernetes will take over the world as soon as someone makes it trivially easy to do k8s dev on a MacBook. Looks like this could get there.
I was stuck in middle mgmt after just 7 years in the industry. Although I had been at 3 different companies it still felt like a rut. I ended up going back to get a PhD in a topic I was really interested in. It worked out well, in that now I can focus on things I like. Also with the PhD employers seem to focus less less on whether you now a particular tech. Though financially it's probably a net negative.
No, there absolutely isn't. Huge numbers of people have their lives ruined by alcoholism. It is exactly, precisely morally equivalent to hard drug sales. There is no difference. I say this as a former hard drug addict.
I also present you with this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore_line
because you experience repeated cycles of pain, take pills, then relief, then pain, take pills, then relief.
As far as burger places go, McDonalds is kind of terrible vs a local burger joint. I have burger places nearby that deliver but even if I didn't I could call UberEATS, Grubhub, Eat24, etc etc to just go pick up the food and bring it to me.
"Fear" doesn't sell in SMB/Owner-operated businesses as well as it does in Enterprise. Most security selling is "Fear" based.

SMB looks at potential post-event loss vs cost of buying a preventive security solution (Reducing losses). Most security solutions are not priced as insurance premium are determined. The ROI of security solutions is not compelling for SMBs. That is why security solutions targeting SMBs don't succeed.
This is simply false, and moreover, false in each of its particulars.

First: as the appeal opinion clearly states, there's still an open case against Ulbricht for the Force-related murder-for-hire scheme in Maryland. The charges have not been dropped.

Second, evidence of the murder-for-hire charges was presented in court. It was an element of the conspiracy charge. Not only was it presented, but it was presented in a way that Ulbricht's defense was obligated to rebut it.

Finally, the murder charges were presented again during sentencing, and proven to a "preponderance of evidence" standard during that process as well.

These details are all spelled out in the appeals decision.
I wonder if they'll follow delivery with breakfast subscriptions. (Do people really eat any McDonald's food besides Egg McMuffins and coffee?)
Lack of immigration. But that didn't prevent a Sarin attack either.
Author addresses this in the conclusion:

> My biggest worry was that I’d just move the problem to another place: instead of an ever-growing inbox I’d have an ever-growing starred items folder. But a curious thing happened. My heavy inbox burden shrank a bit after the first processing session. And it just kept shrinking. My new starred items burden feels qualitatively different. Staring at a bold to-do-list inbox makes it all too easy to throw up your hands and close the browser. After all, even if you were to pick one of those emails and take care of it, it’d probably be replaced with 3 more, like a hydra, by the time you returned to your inbox. The ground is constantly shifting under you. On the other hand, your starred items folder only ever contains things that you put there. You can look at it, pick one thing to do, do that thing, and look again: there is now one fewer thing! You and you alone decide when to process incoming mail and star new messages. This might seem like an academic distinction, but let me tell you, it feels worlds apart, and I actually manage to knock off my starred items at a regular pace. They don’t pile up.
He sold those prescription drugs on the site too though.
Machines could definitely make the food more accurately than the sad husks of human beings who have no where to work but mcdonalds.
Oh. Learned something new today, thanks!
Psychologically. Instead of constantly feeling okay (the pain is gone, you keep getting a prescribed amount and no more), you are reminded every few hours that with the drug the life is good, and without it the life is miserable. But you cannot alleviate the pain unless you break the rules (the prescription).

Once the prescribed regime is broken, and the psychological restraint is broken, too, there's little left to stop the usage from spiraling up, to an overdose.
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Poor person here. Inflation has made it so it's not even really an option. Everyone has removed their dollar menu and jacked up the price which is what I order off of if I was in a hurry. It's cheaper and effective for me to the burrito hole in the wall and get a massive burrito for 4 bucks than go to any fast food place.
"That charge" (there are in fact several of them) wasn't "dropped":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14457569
If you're after 'The Most Compatible Free Office Suite', in terms of file compatibility, user interface/experience, etc, you can't go past WPS Office (wps.com) for Windows or Linux.
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I mean it is no Kaby Lake ;)
Both Uber and Lyft are integrated into Google Maps on Android.
I'm not trying to contradict Solomon's reply, but I lead our partner-centric solution architect team and we do send a good portion of our time in the same sort of engagements the Office of the CTO do, just in the context of three party (Google+partner+customer) opportunities. It's fun and I'm hiring (MTV, Bangalore and Paris).
Not to mention drunk 20-somethings that are responsible enough to not get behind the wheel.
I once used McDonald's delivery for a board game event in Japan - we were playing Food Chain Magnate and just got in the mood.

It was late (took almost an hour) and I live in the Tokyo 23-ward area. I wasn't very impressed; I could have walked to the closest station and picked up the food with far less hassle, and no delivery charge.

(YMMV)
A monopoly is a monopoly, either it can be driven by greed or by laziness of web devs.
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Are you asking if I'm interested to know why?
I've worked with people where every task was a user story. E.g.:

Title: Reveiw code for feature X

Description: As a OUR-APP product manager I want to understand how feature X is implemented.

Acceptance Criteria:
AC1: Feature X is documented in the wiki in context Y.
AC2: ...
The tracking code is definitely in the file. The checksum has changed, the last file modification timestamp is well after the deployment time, and I can see it when I download it straight from the S3 API.
>"The Google Compute Engine is really easy to use, and the browser console makes it easy to treat it like a Linode or Digital Ocean type host, if that's all you want."

I agree, the browser console is really fantastic. Does anyone know how this is implemented?
I'm not saying Purdue acted like an angel, but their actions are twisted into a sinister plot.

Sinister plot? It's very simple economics: Our drug has one distinguishing factor from other drugs: 12 hour dosing. If our drug loses that distinguishing factor, no one will prescribe it.

It's a basic economic incentive.

No one is claiming Purdue wanted to addict patients. They're not that evil. They're just a massive corporation focused on making money.

If Oxycontin didn't work with a 12 hour interval, why did the FDA approve it for that? Why is it in the label if it couldn't be supported by clinical trial data? Was the FDA asleep at this switch?

Three obvious explanations immediately spring to mind: Fraud, incompetence, and/or corruption.

It's not as though the FDA hasn't approved many drugs over the years with dubious efficacy.

1) insurance companies won't pay for it [since it's not in the label], 2) some pharmacies won't fill a script for anything but Q12h dosing [because it's not in the label], 3) FDA/DEA oversight [because it's not in the label], 4) minimize diversion and abuse.

The first three are problems for doctors doing the prescribing, not Purdue. None of those explain Purdue's actions, save that it might reduce the number of pills sold... which is exactly what I'm claiming is their motivation for pushing their dosage schedule.

The fourth is literally the problem caused by the dosing schedule pushed by Purdue... so you'll forgive me if I struggle to believe they were especially concerned about addiction or abuse.
"How do we get people on freebasics access to Snapchat? We make it ourselves of course!"
Purity is not a really property of functions, but of optimizations. A pure function is simply those functions for which a "pure optimization" is desirable, and that ultimately depends on what you care about. Every impure function can become pure just by finding a context where the side-effects are moot. (Redirect all output to /dev/null and suddenly you won't care if your printf calls get elided or memoized.)
One of the killings is traceable to an investigator. Four others were not.
A use case that I really like is as a sidecar on every EC2 instance for local async store-and-forward, where you need to deliver data somewhere, but want to be able to handle large bursts of traffic without a massive spike in latency.

This use case assumes you generally don't trust the network and really, really don't want to block if the network is temporarily flaky.
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The classism and lack of respect on display here at HN, when you simply mention a popular restaurant chain, is pretty astounding.
I think a lot of the discussion gets wrapped up in the gameplay perspective, but it's trivial to make a "worst" game - maybe a text file renamed "worstgame.exe," or something I can slap together in JS/Canvas in two minutes.

A meaningful "worst" is so much more. Nowadays, it's spending $70 on a game that doesn't deliver anything it promises. Or, in the "good old days", saving up for a month and buying a game that's barely playable. Or, in this case, a game that had huge hopes, a significant license, and ended up being a frustrating mess. A school project can't be as much of a failure as a high-profile failure, and context matters.

Maybe even then the distinction belongs to Pac Man on the 2600, which is commonly cited as the biggest reason for the video game crash.
>Who are the losers in this case? Probably the very wealthiest individuals (not "the 1%" but the top 10-100 richest people), since it limits their influence.

I would guess the opposite is probably true. The top 10-100 likely have very strong influence over the media, either due to just owning media outlets or due to business relationships (e.g. buying advertisements not related to politics). If people without those relationships can't buy advertisements, then the people who influence media in other ways benefit.

>IMHO ads supporting some issue would be fine

So it would be fine for someone to spend a few million on anti-immigrant ads a few days before an election where immigration is a key point of disagreement between the two front-runners?

>Sure, if you control important media or people then the limits can and do get bent quite a bit beyond their intent, but it still sets a limit.

Why exactly is the existence of a limit relevant? People will receive information about the candidates, and many will decide how to vote based on that information. I don't see how it matters whether the information comes from paid advertising or from control over the media. Some individuals will decide what information the masses will see. Those people have enormous influence over the election. I don't see how it matters if they got that influence by paying for it directly or indirectly.
Disclosure: lead eng for azure containers and kubernetes founder here...

a) For the longest time, I've wanted a "TTL" extension for Kubernetes objects, maybe this is a good excuse to build it. But concretely, since you are paying for the VMs in the cluster (IaaS) the Pods you deploy are "free" (until you run out of cluster capacity, of course)

b) The right way to do this is Kubernetes namespaces. You can specify a different Namespace in each user's draft config file that will place each developer's containers in a different namespace.

Now that I write that, though, that seems like too much work. We should probably automagically build a unique namespace for you...
Yes, he apparently did.

But it's not clear where the idea came from. Some say that it was his mentor Roger Thomas Clark aka Variety Jones aka Cimon. Some say that it was DEA agent Carl Force aka Nob. In any case, it's clear that Ross was initially shocked by the idea.
I've been building PCBs for this series in my spare time for the past couple months, this last weekend I finished the design for the ALU: https://github.com/lelandbatey/custom_cpu--ALU

I've then been having them manufactured in China for, which you can have done for ~$15 for 5, shipped. It's very satisfying to have finished fancy PCBs to solder together, and I've learned so much about electronics, PCB design, and small scale board manufacturing since starting this project!
>"It's fun and I'm hiring (MTV, Bangalore and Paris)."

Might you have a link for this role? Do you have a way to get in touch? I didn't see any details in your profile.
Might be a stupid question, but if you have any hardware from between that moment and the moment when you removed the email, which run Outlook or any other program, that makes local copies of files, you can try to disable its connectivity and get wallet from it.
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So I went looking at this number to see how it stacks up to existing drug distribution.

The US market for illicit marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, and heroin was just over $100B in 2010. This lines up well with estimates that legal marijuana in Colorado was around $1B. If we're going to look at how big this guy was in absolute terms, his global market was the size of a single illicit drug in a single state.

This is where I run out of data. What's the usual sentence for single-state single-drug distributors? My impression was always that it took huge infiltration operations to get the management with more than a few years on technicalities, and the only way to get more than that was to hit them with charges like murder, bribery, or conspiracy.
Completely false.

I've worked at 6 companies and that never happened.

Never heard of other companies doing it either.
jaw drops
Nob was apparently a very dark influence on him.

And nobody was actually killed.
> Check the sources, they're mostly investment bank and accountancy consultancy sales documents.

While true, these are usually the only estimates that exist. Maybe once every ten years Pew or someone will do a study, but not often. Even though I don't put much faith in these numbers, it's at least nice to be able to read through the original decks and see what the claims are.
Advertising and expanding around the globe would be a good place to start. It's not cheap to find/put top-notch staff on the other side of the world to expand a business, open offices, recruit drivers and customers, etc.
I thought they couldn't even prove that the people to be murdered even existed.
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I've read a lot here. I live in Kentucky, which as part of the midwest, is as or more affected than others.

Giving people access is not a solution. Prescribing opioides or heroin is not a solution.

For all that think drug use is a personal issue and should be legal, you are wrong. Drug use affects EVERYONE. It affects the parents, the family, the friends first. And when a user becomes desperate, it affects innocent people.

We MUST end the drug epidemic by any means necessary. No, I'm not saying lock people up for weed...that's stupid. But America needs to be tough on opioides, from both foreign and our own pharmaceuticals.
I didn't understand your comment, can you elaborate?
My take on learning C is that you just need a C compiler and your programs are simple enough that you do not need anything from the system besides reading and writing file handles.
Swiss court fines man $4,000 for 'liking' defamatory posts
RS is still beta though, so while they're the future, RCs aren't going anywhere for a long time. In general use RS (or even better, deployments) and don't worry about it.
I've never heard of such a thing for engineers, but I have heard of it for production line workers. (eg. assembling servers and PCs)
It depends. They have a printing press. So, do you consider their taxi business the printing press on the way to create the ATM or the Bank?
I am 20+ years in and am just realizing the truth of this perception. I knew that it was more and more acceptable to move around, but missed the memo that staying put is more and more unacceptable. If no change is 1 and constant change is 10, I am probably a 6. This is a wake up call to pick up more and more newer things. The trick is to balance staying relevant with chasing the shiny object and changing just for the sake of change. Change is only good if it is better.
Is funny how so many people are trying to lowball crime simply because it's done using computer, as if computer is some pure tech with no evil possible. Bernie Madoff got 150years for a non violent crime. Also scale always matter, hacking in neighbour WiFi is not same as putting ransomware in million systems.
> What makes that a problem is prohibition.

No what makes it a problem is the debilitating addiction. It doesn't matter if you buy heroin from a dealer or from Walgreens, it's probably going to ruin your life.
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Native ads will prevail. And the kinds of promotion that is blended in the content. I believe it is already happening.
If your machine is throttling the CPU during benchmarks, all bets are off. You need to disable all power management and energy savings or else figure out why your machine is causing a throttle to kick in (likely thermal management). You can't compare any results (even relative to one another) until that issue is resolved.