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So what happens when they put pickles on a burger ordered without them /s

The big issue with fast food is cost. It's usually eaten by those in a rush and the poor. It just seems ridiculous how complicated and expensive the menus gotten.

Even with the coffee, which they seem to be pushing hard. Is now obfuscated under 100 unnecessary drinks.
My understanding was that it was created to mobilize the military and transport resources across the continent, not to make it easy to cut off enemy routes.

But likewise, I have no references either.
The murder for hire charges were dropped. No evidence of them was shown in court. Because they knew they couldn't win on that one.
Ask HN: Is it normal for tech companies to test for drugs?
I'm an engineer at a small-to-mid size Bay Area software company that recently began rolling out a drug testing policy.

The policy is to perform "random drug testing on a regular basis" as well as testing any employee "reasonably suspected of using illicit substances". The messaging we're getting from senior management & HR is that this is a normal thing for a company to do, and is part of becoming a mature company. This strikes me as odd and not true, but I haven't worked at that many tech companies. Is this a normal policy in the industry? Is this a huge red flag? I'd love to hear input from the HN community on this.
They remodeled the Seattle Northgate location and put in screens. Was not an easy experience despite some pretty slick software. They will have to retrain their customers to the new system (much like they trained us to use the extra value meal numbers back in the 90s).
You know there's a dozen sites that took its place, the largest larger than SR 1 ever was?
Matlab is no free and R often has confusing syntax. Why would you use it over Julia (which it looks like, syntactically)
Especially when USA citizens are dying from prescription medication overdoses at a rate higher than illegal drugs.
That charge was dropped. It was never brought to court, and he was not found guilty of that. The murder for hire charges were just to make everyone agree with them, it was about opinion, not truth.
One of my friends is caught in a similar trap. He has been at the same company for 20 years, and his skills have degraded completely. He is a middle manager and he's been interviewing for the past year with zero success. The technology he has been working with is so out of date, no one is willing to give him a chance, and frankly, if I came across his resume, neither would I.

He is the product of getting far too comfortable early on, and being afraid of change. Once you let that sink in, then you get stuck and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. I don't see him getting another job soon, and if he gets laid off, I think he's seriously fucked.

Meanwhile in 27 years, I've had over 10 jobs. I have no problems learning new technology, or jumping into a codebase and making code fixes the first day. I have a long trail of friends from all of my previous companies that I could call up and go for lunch with that day, and I still feel energetic about coding and learning the newest and latest. But I haven't been there long enough to effect change the way other long-timers have, and hence why I'm still a programmer as opposed to a tech lead or architect, etc.
I believe that Lyft doesn't have to compete globally with Uber to be a successful business in its own right. I also believe that Uber isn't immune from being crippled by competitors that operate in a very small but key subset of Uber's markets.

There is very little network effect with Uber. Sure, you can hop off a plane anywhere in the world and open Uber to get a car, but that is a very small number of people overall. I would contend that most people use whichever ride-sharing service is available and most economical in their own city, and if that same service is available on the rare occasion that they travel, then bonus.

Of course, if Uber beats everyone else to the punch with proprietary self-driving cars and undercuts prices profitably, they win. There seem to be some very large issues with that, however.
The "think of the children!" appeal to emotion doesn't usually garner sympathy here.

I strongly disagree with your statement and where you're placing blame for the issues of peoples' lives being ruined. Drug users are the ones ruining their lives and their families if they have them with their addictions. They are consuming them, whether the "choice" of consumption is theirs anymore is anyone's guess, but the choice to not so much as attempt be clean is. There are support groups, harm reduction strategies, and rehabilitation avenues for most users of physically addictive substances.

Do you believe life imprisonment is the correct answer for every bar and liquor store owner in the world, or every pain management MD that is overprescribing Oxycontin? At the worst, Ulbricht has no worse social effect than these people.

I say this as someone whose own life has been "ruined" by addicts, has had my own issues, and who has seen my families' lives ruined by them the same. It is not the fault of the supplier. It is the fault of the user.
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The largest downside is the rocket needs to be strong in more than one direction which adds a lot of weight. Sub Mach 1 first stage will save a little net weight but significantly less than you might diets assume.
I don't think PNaCl guarantees timing determinism.

Not sure what you mean by "code signing" in this context.

The API attack surface is a non-issue; it's already accessible by any page that serves a PNaCl object.

There's a small performance deficit but it's getting smaller. AOT compilation and caching of compilation results is possible; asm.js did it.

I already mentioned shared-memory parallelism (it's just about done); did you read what I wrote?

Standard cross-browser Web APIs give you access to those devices already.

Same-origin is a strait-jacket --- a necessary one. "Break the Web's security model" isn't a desirable feature.

"Elegance" is just a point of view. From another point of view, "duplicate everything in the Web platform" is not elegant.

As for maturity and bugs --- having multiple interoperating implementations and real specifications is a good way to drive competition on quality ... and to distinguish "this is a bug, fix it" from "hello de-facto standard!"
This.

The people eating McDonalds and the people paying for food delivery are not the same people. I'm pretty sure their intersection is statistically insignificant.
You wouldn't like Saudi Arabia much.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Saudi_...
It's scary good. I've had it prescribed to me twice - once when I had my wisdom teeth out (a fairly significant surgery, they were bony impacted) and again when I had a hernia repaired. Both were 5mg, 30 pills. I took 'em all. This was years ago, but I still remember to this day _exactly_ how good they made me feel. Scary stuff, I'll never fill a prescription for these again, I don't give a shit what I have going on.
Windows is, and has always been, king. There's some halk-baked shit that doesn't behave nicely on Windows, but that's largely self-inflicted.
I take full responsibility for all substance abuse in my life.

I will, however, note that doctors, pharmacists and pharmaceutical companies make money on the front end of opioid addiction, and then the same groups make money on the back end as addicts work to break their addiction.

There must be lots of Opioid Mansions somewhere.
MIPS has numerous defects. There is a legacy wart in the form of a delay slot that doesn't match modern pipelines; this causes all sorts of annoyances. The MMU doesn't use a hardware-walked tree, cutting into performance with cache misses and even code execution. Forming addresses requires a silly number of instructions, or alternately you give up and just load relative to a specific register. The architecture fails to specify a coherent fully physical cache, causing all sorts of performance-killing trouble in OS kernels. There are wasted bits, commonly in the "shamt" field. The "hi" and "lo" registers interfere with scheduling multiplication and division.
They did register under the international class 009 FYI,
and Right to register and right to use are two different things. And usage may have been amended. Click on their prosecution history tab here: http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=87042422&caseType=SERIAL_N...

And in there statement of use it says: The mark was first used by the applicant, or the applicant's related company, licensee, or predecessor in interest at least as early as 08/22/2016, and first used in commerce at least as early as 08/22/2016, and is now in use in such commerce. The applicant is submitting one specimen for the class showing the mark as used in commerce on or in connection with any item in the class, consisting of a(n) specimen-a.jpg: Screenshot of "www.chowdr.us" website using mark specimen-b.jpg: Screenshot of Google Play Store using mark specimen-c.jpg: Screenshot of Apple App Store using mark.

So if you used it before august 22, 2016 you should fight it!
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I'm sympathetic to the damage done by the "war on drugs". We need to change laws, creating a website that allows for murder and other horrible crimes is not the right approach.
That seems to be the direction they're moving. Several flagship McDonalds have popped up around NYC with fully self-serve computer ordering kiosks. I haven't been yet, but people are talking about them -- people who I've never heard talk about McDonalds before.

They've got a pretty big gulf of social-class-stigma to get past, but it seems like McDonalds is at the beginning of a comeback.

Delivery might be a guilty pleasure gateway.
Its a quite serious issue here in Dayton Ohio. The other day we had two parents overdose with a five and two year old next to them saved only because the five year old left and got help. It two three doses apiece to revive them. I write entire sections of the city out of my mind because heroin has proliferated so quickly. Ohio really needs a savior.
McDonalds probably has better research on their own business than you do. They wouldn't do this unless they believed it would be worthwhile.
are they? I thought these are just other companies which happen to use NVIDIA hardware.
There has to be a name for this-- Godwin's corollary , or something.

FWIW, people living in poor rural areas, the rust belt, Reservations, etc. are surviving, true, but doing so in conditions that aren't quite first-world.
> Ultimately, McDonalds will have to transition to being a full-service vending machine.

I wonder if Japan would be a testing ground for such a concept. They already have pizza-ready vending machines, for example.
100% correct. Thank you
> Bash is perfectly fine if the machine can be installed with less than 100 lines of code

It is always tough to predict the future; something < 100 lines can easily grow over time. It is nice to start with a tool like Chef/Ansible/Puppet which can more easily grow as the project grows vs Bash.
I completely agree that the sale of assassination, children, organs, human trafficking are deplorable and thats definitely regrettable if those things showed up on the silk road with consistency and were allowed to remain.

But I was under the impression that ross ulbricht was being convicted mainly for drug trafficking and wasn't charged for any of those other things.
Louisiana's notorious corruption issues are probably going to be an issue in drawing meaningful conclusions from such a comparison.
>Do you believe life imprisonment is the correct answer for every bar and liquor store owner in the world, or every pain management MD that is overprescribing Oxycontin? At the worst, Ulbricht has no worse social effect than these people.

There's a substantial difference between social drinking or overprescription and facilitating the large-scale sale of hard drugs.
> It can't.

Why did you cut off "we nevertheless treat it as invalid."? You're misreading that line, and actually in agreement on what to do. It's the bit pattern that is valid, which is how you can parse the code point and see that the code point is invalid for UTF-8.
Cruel and unusual punishment. The judges kept alluding to the volume of the sales; thats just the nature of the technology, not the nature of the crime. There was also language in the original sentencing that he was "privileged" (i.e., white) and therefore deserved an absolutely absurd sentence. You can rape and murder somebody and spend less time in jail.
Ghostbuster for the 2600 game was idiotic has well, I never figured out what the hell was going in that game.
Under what context, can you say? I assume not all your own doctors, etc.
Uber at least makes an argument that it is a public good. That the laws that it is breaking are unjust, and for the most part, Uber does little to hide that it's breaking them - Their behavior is more akin, at least in theory, to Nonviolent Resistance. Silk Road, on the other hand, was blatantly violent, and clearly not willing to stand up for it's beliefs

(As a former Uber FTE, I got out because Grayballing was a thing, and because their argument of public good very clearly didn't hold water from inside the bucket, and I maintain that pretty much the same will happen to Kalanick when all is said and done. But the facade of peaceful tearing down of injustices - The very real statistics that show that you can hail an Uber to the bronx while black - are enough to put them in an entirely different class, at least until investigation got really started)
Also "static analysis vs runtime checks" is a red herring --- PNaCl and Wasm are basically identical in those respects.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14448155 and marked it off-topic.
If you are used to python, and think that VS Code is very nice, you'll be blown away by the tools and functionality that proper VS offers.
What they have to do with the ISA is making implementations of this instruction set common and worth owning for non-hobby toy reasons outside of companies or large projects doing embedded systems development.

THAT is what will drive the network effect for success, low prices, and making it a commodity that can be worked on outside of simulated environments.
I don't think the silk road had those, those were other sites afaik
McDonalds in Singapore had home delivery a decade ago. It was how I got through college :)
There are countless part time jobs, but fewer interesting ones. That's a little picky on my side, however at the same time there are so many companies looking for developers full time you would think a few more would become part time friendly as a way to differentiate themselves.
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A couple things to note:

1. This is new loss excluding 'employee stock compensation and other items'. Anecdotally I've heard that Uber offers, particularly for advanced technical positions, are extremely stock heavy. This could be a big exclusion. It's also a bit of a double standard since so much was made of Snap's recent losses which were largely stock based compensation driven.

2. Past discussions on HN have noted that Uber counts the full Pool fare as revenue but this is not the case for Uber X or Uber Black. So if Pool is a rising share of rides (I've heard it is) then Uber will show strong revenue growth without a proportional growth in net income.

And a question:
How long will Uber's investors tolerate the current situation? The company is losing money at a record setting pace, has a new scandal every day, and has seemingly no plans for a liquidity event. Even though the on-paper growth is fantastic people must want to get their money out. If this was a public company there would be a huge sell off.
That motive doesn't really make sense. A huge conspiracy to frame someone for a crime who was already going to get life?
Not at all. People should receive treatment instead of mandatory minimums, but we are a country of laws. Change the laws. Putting up a website that operates like the wild west where anything goes is not conducive for a stable society. Classifying my comment as a "think of the children" is not exactly fair discourse. I'm being fair to your comments, maybe be fair to mine. Families are sometimes affected and it's reasonable to think of them. Families are part of society and families contribute to the stability of society.
I took Castaneda's experiences as reflecting his impressions of reality under the influence of both a powerful personality (Don Juan) and drugs not as a description of scientific reality itself. His books offered considerable philosophical truth as well an understanding of how others might experience reality. I consider them worth reading.
As you know, because we've warned you before, this is unacceptable behavior on HN. We've banned this account.

Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.
I actually took an entire class in business school about this exact topic -- "Catastrophic Risk Analysis". Great class, the teacher was a former astronaut (among many other things).

And you're right, you basically can't predict things like this -- but a great many catastrophic risks that can be prevented are ignored because the event seems much less likely than it is due to the scale of the impact being so large as to be unimaginable by many. Climate change is a chief example; but there are plenty others throughout history in business, warfare, and science.
was dianne his wife?
Check your Chrome extensions. There is a high probability that one of them might be adding it to all .js files downloaded from websites.
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Lots of parallels between your take and that of this author.

I'm more skeptical than you guys about the Saas/cloud "plumbing" space. There's lots of open-source software out there and I think that value extraction – largely from PMs and devs – will be tough.

BTW, good call on Slack becoming a unicorn. ;)
It says in the spec that the number of replacement characters can vary, so it's hard to blame Unicode for a bug caused by two parsers making different numbers.

(Unless the argument is that there should be an official required number, which is a different discussion entirely.)
> There's a substantial difference between social drinking or overprescription

We're talking about lives being ruined. I know many alcoholics that are "social drinking", every day, to the detriment of their own careers and family lives, being run through the court system DUI after DUI. I also know many who, after a back injury, are still on Oxy years later, just finding new doctors that will re-prescribe them Oxy again. I know people whose teenage children then started stealing and taking the Oxycodone from their parents' supply. I have a friend currently sitting in prison for opiate-based drug offenses as well -- much to the detriment of his immediate family.

These situations were facilitated by these very institutions. Alcohol distributors may be the kingpins and bars the corner dealers, pharma companies the kingpins and MDs the dealers. SR was a proxy and gateway to substances that in some cases are far less dangerous than the ones our own country seems completely OK with.

These are consumption-side issues, as you seem to agree with -- I am drinking a glass of wine right now, not four bottles. The same can be said about a lot of potentially socially destructive substances that were available on SR, and other illegal-in-many-states substances such as marijuana are generally accepted as virtually harmless in comparison to oxy or alcohol.
No, it's not. He ordered the hits. He, himself, did it.
My point is that my expenses are low, that's all.
I wonder if they are adding delivery options due to pressure from franchisees. McDonald's is really a real estate company[0], so I would've thought it's better for corporate if people are coming into the stores. That keeps the real estate valuable and means they can charge higher rent.

[0] https://seekingalpha.com/article/73533-mcdonalds-is-a-real-e...
That would be super cool. In the meantime, The Dodo is higher level kit featuring a 6502 processor. http://www.dodolabs.io/
Is anyone using Quipist.com
It's a social media platform out of silicon valley with a hidden club of users. I'm noticing some VCs using it.
Considering the cost of UberEats delivery (5$ in Canada, 40 pesos in Mexico) Doesn't seem like it's worth ordering food the quality of McDonalds
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Kratom is an even better candidate in my opinion. It works very well for pain management and anxiety relief, and it’s both less dangerous (e.g., no respiratory depression) and less addictive (although still certainly habit-forming) than synthetic opiates. People use it to help kick addiction to opiates because it contains mild opioid receptor agonists. The DEA considered banning it late last year, but there was considerable backlash, and I doubt the new administration is going to move on it for a while.
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Interesting coincidence with this news coming out the day I finished the Nick Bilton book. I do highly recommend it for anyone interested in the Silk Road or in drugs or in e-commerce. What I found most fascinating was to hear a true "Breaking Bad" tale.
I am on Quipist it was invite only but I think they have opened it up to the public.
This is awesome!

I had to build a 4 bit computer in college and it looked almost exactly like this (less breadboards and components though). The professor wrote the textbook herself. If she made it into a webpage I imagine it would be a longer version of this.

To date is one of my favorite classes I took.
You should come to the McDonalds on Clark and Wrightwood in Chicago. It's in one of Chicago's most affluent neighborhoods, and the breadth of people I see there is nuts.

There are no less than three groups of senior citizens who come every single day for breakfast. There are a number of people who go there all of the time because they like it. They show up in $100k cars because they want something from McDonalds.

I grab breakfast at McDonald's all the time. I can afford to pay more for food, but I really love McDonalds breakfast. It's fast, convenient, and unlike other fast food restaurants it doesn't taste like a poor version of better food. McDonald's taste's like McDonald's.

That being said, I only order delivery when I'm with other people, so I can't really see myself utilizing the service often. I can, however, see someone ordering like 100 McChickens (or happy meals) if they've got a huge group of hungry kids.
Not sure why there are a bunch of people being negative to delivery to McDonalds. Sometimes I just want a burger instead of a Sandwhich or a pizza. I think it adds variety to be honest.
yet to be proven
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It isn't new. E.g. islamic "miracles" are debunked mostly by "christian sciencists" and vice versa, and between various flows of one, and these camps do not hesitate to produce a mass of papers that actually have some science and analysis underneath (like linguistics, history, astronomy and so on). So come on, no one except opposing fanatics will do that while in sober mind.
I imagine using Uber Eats would actually degrade the value image of McDonalds' product. I'd rather have a clown car than a duck-taped jalopy deliver my Big Mac and fries.
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...and here is a project to make a discrete 6502, which currently isn't commercial but might be:
http://monster6502.com/
you should just blog about whatsapp selling and sell your services; other than selling to Chinese on wechat I have no idea what this even is or how/why it works.

below you said you are running whatsapp sales for b&m shops, but how do customers find you? afaik whatsapp has no discovery features.