skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose it depends on the place. If you tip well you can spend a long time in Starbucks without ever getting hassled. I drop 50c to $1 for each drink, including "free" refills.

I worked for another corporate coffee company and we never gave any customers a hard time for staying for hours or holding meetings. It was the same philosophy we had for re-doing drink orders no matter what the complaint. Sure, some small fraction take advantage, but for every illegitimate complaint you ferret out by putting up resistance you will irritate at least one paying customer, and that's a customer you lose forever.

The economics might work out differently for an independent coffee shop, but I doubt it. I find it far more likely that many coffee shops are opened by people who aren't that great at business or customer service in the first place and just think starting a coffee shop would be cool.

In sum, spend as much as you like on the products you want, and don't worry about it. If the shop decides you're a drain on the business, it's up to them to ask you to leave, and lose you as a customer forever. That's their calculus to decide, not yours.
The autism concerns are almost certainly overblown

I don't mean to pick on you, but this is exactly the kind of thing so many here have a problem: that some people still equivocate and hedge because they think "hey, who knows?" in spite of all the evidence being on one side. How many studies will it take to convince you that there is no link at all between autism and vaccines?
What leads you to that logic? Why do you need to justify your presence?
I'm skeptical.

Twitter's beauty resides in its 140-char limit: authors of Tweets don't feel burdened to write long messages, and readers know the messages will always be short and sweet. Sure, authors can circumvent this limit by linking to blog posts, but followers hate clicking on links so there's a disincentive to do so.

With these new changes, Twitter is making it easier for readers to visit linked content, but they're also making it easier for Tweet authors to be more verbose. Before, I had to painstakingly craft my 140-char message; but now if I'm having trouble doing that, I can just use the Tweet as a title and write my full message in an embedded text box. But isn't this just reinventing the blog?
I like your thinking even better than mine. Although I don't think sarcasm translates well to this format.
Yes! I knew I heard this idea somewhere before...

I like games. Lots of people do. But it's always the innovative, creative, never-been-done-before games that are the most fun. The common games can be addicting, but I wouldn't necessarily say satisfying.

The concept of corporations designing games for people to play sounds like a more organized and centralized version of what they are already doing. My credit cards give me points, the local Japanese fast food restaurant has a frequent buyer program, and grocery stores give me discounts if I agree to give up information about what I eat.

In general, I don't like these games. I am not going to alter my spending habits just to get 250 more BankPoints. If they give me points anyways, I will of course cash them in, but I don't like the feeling of being manipulated by large corporations via a game.

On the other hand, the companies seem to love it. I haven't seen any data, but considering how popular these 'games' are, they must work. And if they work by themselves, imagine how much better they will work when they're consolidated into a a website, which catches on like a fad and all the cool kids use it. Once the cool factor wears off, the industry has already been transformed to run all games on the defacto gaming website (SCVNGR in this case). So there's really no down-side for companies, and customers will think they're getting even better deals than they used to, because now it's just so easy to play games -- rack up points, earn achievements, get discounts.

I don't look forward to the days foretold by Jesse Schell, but it feels inevitable. The people who like playing corporate consumerism games today will be thrilled to take it to the next level on a popular website where companies are constantly trying to drum up more 'fun' (spend more, save more). I'll try it out, like I try out most new tech, but I'm not expecting to have much fun.

At least we know Seth Priebatsch will be having fun.
Let's be Logical
E-mail me: noah@noahc.net. I'd be interested in seeing if I can't help you.
Plus take his offer on backing up the data. I'm assuming it's valuable if you backed it up.
Thanks rgrieselhuber. It was very touching to see someone put in words what I learnt myself in past 1.5 years. We may not have co-founders, but we find people like us all around the world thanks to this connected world.
Why would your private keys be lost? They're not transferred at any time. That's kind of the point of private keys in an asymmetrical encryption scheme.

All the agent forwarding exposes you to is someone in the middle routing requests they generate to authenticate against your computer, which is automatically responded to by your using an agent. If you don't use an agent, it'll ask for your password to use your private key.

edit: using a second agent on the middle computer without agent forwarding exposes your private key, because the agent on that computer needs to be able to respond to its outbound connections. Agent forwarding prevents this from being necessary. It's specifically built to prevent what you described as the danger.
With a powerful enough vision coupled with a devotion to be the greatest, anything is possible. The world is just boring when we are 'stable' and 'normal' just for the sake of being accepted by people who don't have any dreams.
Ask your dr about xanax at the soonest possible hour. I have no interest in collaboration with a mad man.
post the email headers here
As my accountant likes to repeat that cliché over and over, "Even-though figures do not lie, lairs can figure" - All I was saying is dead simple, and this is actually the values I was raised by, one should treat some one else's money 70 times more carefully then one's own.

I am sure not everyone would agree to subscribe to this rule, but I do.

By all means it should not take you $33M to recognize that you are in the wrong direction, the first 2-3 should do the job, unless you choose not to see what is happening in front of your eyes.

This is to be said to the founders and investors altogether.

Cuil was a joke, an expensive joke, period.
I'd offer to buy the computer back for a little more than he paid. Sounds like he got a really good deal, so it couldn't cost you too much.
New ASP.NET Security Vulnerability could allow access to web.config
Oddly enough, I had a blind customer call me to ask something about my service BitBuffet. She sold music online through us and took a minute after I solved her problem to tell me how great my site was for the blind.

I had no idea! I just follow most best practices for the web, but it really made my day to know I helped her do something she always wanted to do! Warm fuzzies indeed.
I have a feeling there will be a surge in programs with REPLs that support pasting multiline scripts, and sites that provide games and applications in the form of easily-copy-and-paste-able code listings. Really, the only difference is the level of automation.
FWIW, I very much like the UI.
Google Voice On The iPhone Comes Full Circle As Apple Accepts GV Mobile
Well, browsers have prevented that for years. More to the point, whatever evils UI design is capable of are certainly being committed by that catastrophically disarrayed mess of a website. Maybe a few more irrelevant widgets, tactically-place banners, out-of-sync but identical flash movie ads, and thumbnail-jammed iframes would do the trick...?
He got your email because he has your laptop - same for the backup software. Depending on how valuable your information is consider a sizable monetary amount to get the name of the person he bought it from or just offer more than the laptop's value to get it back and end it. Consider reporting to the police what you're doing... if a physical/in-person exchange of the information occurs and he didn't take you up on your offer, the police might be able to legally influence the buyer into giving up the details of the seller/thief since the buyer committed a crime too.

Good luck.
Intel microcode lives in SRAM. It can't survive a power cycle, and so has to be loaded on every boot.
Anatomy of good keywords: 4 important metrics to measure how good keywords are
Are you sure it's a "paywall" and not just an account sign-up? I made a throw away account for NYT years ago and it seems to access the page fine, I wasn't aware they had activated a paywall yet?
Yep, I've seen affiliate traffic go for stupid prices, were they could not possibly be making money on it.

I've seen websites set up, just for the purpose of earning money of affiliates.
Why don't they just change the rules by lowering the granularity? An actual trade could only happen every minute or so. What is the biggest argument against that?
I think location is likely to be more important than either. My possible bias is that my father works in real estate and he thinks Starbucks shares the crown with Wallgreens as being to real estate siting what Wikipedia is to SEO.

I have about five coffee shops I frequent in my small town. The best location in town is in the station, and it is physically impossible for them to avoid selling $1k every weekday morning. The best coffee was at my favorite Sunday hangout and they were about as easy to get to as Customer Service at Google. Three coffee shops have thought they could make that location work.
Good to know - thanks :)
> That gives first-class status to the "HTML version"

Erm... you make absolutely no sense here?

Of course the "HTML version" (aka hello we're talking about web pages here) is the main resource, what else would be, unicorn and ponies?
When I was younger, my mother had her wallet stolen. The person who stole it sent it back to her (including her ID, credit cards, etc), minus the hundred or so dollars in cash.

While I would have been furious, she was completely okay with it. She calmly told me, "The person who stole it clearly needed it more than me."

Now, this isn't to say that stealing is okay. It's certainly not, and I'd be pissed. However, this person knows what he did was wrong. He really seems to hate what he had to do to get the computer. But he clearly needs it. Maybe he wants it so he can get a job, or wants it so his kid can succeed.

Try appealing to this side of him. Find out why he needs it. I doubt it's so he can watch YouTube videos, based on his email. You can buy a cheap desktop (or even laptop) for a few hundred dollars. Offer to trade a crappy computer for yours. (I doubt he wants you to buy it back; he seems to care more about the computer than money.)

The person almost definitely doesn't need a computer as good as what you had stolen from you, and he's already feeling really guilty about it. And, if he agrees, you can try to find out who actually stole it and tell the police.

Sure, it's unfair you'd have to drop a few hundred dollars- but consider it a donation. (Depending on the circumstances, you might even be able to figure out a way to legally donate it to him through some sort of organization- which would be tax deductible.)

After all, giving him a computer could change his life. Think about how much your life has improved by merely owning a computer; something most people on HN take for granted. You could turn a bad situation into one you're really proud of.
The article focuses on the founder's Hypomania, but here's the elephant in the room that no-one's talking about:

Quote:

"But it is hard to tease out what Norman and Suzanne Priebatsch — a biotech entrepreneur and a financial adviser at SmithBarney, respectively — bequeathed ..."

His parents, who were successful in their fields, took the effort to groom him from childhood. Nurture is definitely at least as important as nature in this case, IMO.
So basically the article boils down to "it will cost more money to increase density".
The problem with this argument is that TV is one of the few mediums that is seeing its usage rate increase. There was a recent survey that made news by claiming that TV had dropped ten percent in the "most important gadget/device in your life" list until people actually looked at the data and noticed that over two years "flat-screen TV" (a separate item on the survey) had risen to 10% on the list... It is hard to make a serious claim that TV is not getting better every year and the fragmenting of the market has brought niche programming that would have been unheard of less than a decade ago. The claim that TV was the new opiate of the masses was made long before Shirky came onto the scene and it will continue to be made long after he is dead. The television landscape is in a state of rapid flux, the delivery mechanism will probably be radically different in ten years, but in thirty years when children need to go to a museum to see what a newspaper looked like they will still be watching TV.
Basically, their policy is to prevent your program from changing in functionality after they approve it. They don't want you to be able to add features, etc., after it's approved without rereviewing it.
The Most Powerful Word In The Human Vocabulary: Perspective
Investors frequently look to others for votes of confidence in a potential deal, whether it's PG wanting multiple-person teams or VCs who close when other VCs take an interest. The "vote of no confidence" argument is for why having multiple founders is an indicator of success but does not directly imply causality.

There are plenty of actual reasons why multiple founders would be a cause of success, but they rest entirely on having the right cofounder:

* Having a cofounder keeps you committed, if your cofounder is committed.

* A startup is a ton of work. Make sure your cofounder understands this from the beginning. Especially watch out for the chicken/pig situation.

* A startup is an emotional roller coaster, so make sure you surround yourself with people who will hold you up. Actively avoid anyone who creates excess negativity or drama.

This all seems obvious now, but I made the mistake of being too careless/lax with all three of these points. The temptation is to assume that you will work things out. Trust, but verify, preferably before you put in time and money.

Now I'm a single founder. I'm looking for a cofounder but am rather picky. If I miss my chance at YC funding due to lack of partner, I have other options. If I were to rush the process and take on a bad relationship, it would probably doom the venture.
If you want to buy a toxic asset that won't die, buy some BP stock.
I guess I'm the odd man out. I will happily be paid to code someone else's software for six months, but I lose interest in my own stuff after six hours.
That's okay--a 1tb hdd backed by a 128gb ssd page cache should be almost as good as 1tb of ssd for desktops and laptops.
Report to police.

Do not let him create a secondary market for stolen laptops. It would become an economic incentive for the stealers to steal more laptops.

Research has shown that tolerance of public crime gradually leads to an increase in major crime. (Read about this in one of the pop economic books, not sure which). Do you want to keep your city a safer place to live?
Did Apple kill smashing ad for Newsday iPad app?
Not extraordinarily unusual. All you have to do is align the focal plane of the lens with the camera sensor. Usually this is done with a metal flange of greater or lesser complexity. Here he just had to adapt the threads on the lens to the threads on the camera body. Twenty minutes in any well-equipped machine shop.

Modern lenses are very complicated, because they work to cancel out all sorts of subtle and troublesome distortions, but a lens can be very simple indeed. A Lensbaby[1] is just a single lens element attached to some stiff bellows.

And that's it.

You could hand it to Robert Hooke and he would nod in comprehension. He might find the plastics more interesting, but the point is, you could have built a Lensbaby at any point in the last three hundred years.

You can get even simpler than that, as my link notes. Poke a hole in a body cap with a hot needle, and you've made a pinhole "lens", which is thousand year old technology.[2]

1: http://www.dansdata.com/lensbaby.htm for an excellent review. He's actually reviewing a Lensbaby 2, which uses a doublet instead of a single uncoated lens, to reduce chromatic aberration and flare, which is quite missing the point, I feel.

2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_obscura
Funny related sidenote: the Chinese government was at one point so paranoid about buying processors from western companies that they initiated the creation of their own CPU architecture and began fabrication. They had a fear that outside CPUs could be programmed to be disabled (either remotely or under certain scenarios).

In any case, the processors were reportedly quite bad and the whole thing was eventually dropped.
'Nothing ever gets settled' seems a staple of internet discussions, at least in places I've lurked.

I rarely, if ever, see it discussed how a particular argument could be settled. Instead, they all branch out into n-ary tree style growths - one core question becomes a couple of supporting points, becomes a mass of key points each with a different importance weighting for each participant, some pick-n-mix arguing for the easier nodes which may or may not include some artillery citations being lobbed around, followed by a hunkering down into fixed positions as the argubattle dies out, tenuous support structures collapsing under the confusion.

What sort of shape do you imagine a transformative discussion on pointer arithmetic might take? What transformation might it result in, and in whom? Is the point for one person to learn what another knows, or for both to explore the topic to generate completely new information, or both? How would you declare, in advance, end conditions (would you?)?

A serial discussion doesn't seem a great vehicle for arguing or discussing - the more deeply nested it is, the more specific and time consuming each point is, the harder it is to see the wood for the trees.

Instead of arguing whether forestry companies should pay more tax due to environmental damage, you end up arguing whether it's right that in Minnesota, under regulation Foo.Bar paragraph baz, any company which owns more than 140 hectares of land more than 80% of which is forest, and employing more than 10 people, and which falls under the definition of a Forestry company as specified by Jones vs. Calson 1884, must submit their year end accounts under Revised Minn. Accounting Regulations instead of New Minn. Accounting Regulations. Then each of those points opens for arguing. It's very fractal - every point of contention is potentially a whole full-sized argument.

In short, as a discussion on the internet lengthens, the available conclusions approach 'it depends [on the specific situation]', although Godwin's Law intervenes to prevent this state being reached. Human Nature abhors naked indecision.
If something like this happened to me, I'd take it as an opportunity to upgrade my laptop to something better. If you consider it from his point of view, he just dropped a couple hundred for hardware that was stolen. If he just gave it back, then he'd have lost all his money for nothing. So he's willing to pay a bit extra to get a 160GB hard drive to duplicate the important data and give it back, because hardware is replaceable, but data isn't. It'll make him sleep easier at night, knowing he didn't completely do the wrong thing.
Incidentally, this is why I encrypt my disks. I really wouldn't want someone who traffics in stolen property to have access to all my personal information.
You may well be able to trace it at least part of the way (or all if he was dumb enough to use the laptop at his work or home Internet) by looking at the full email headers, which usually retain the hostnames and/or IP addresses of each system it went through along the way. Including the origin IP of the laptop, indicating where it was at the time the email was sent.

Who runs your email services? If it is your local ISP, they may be able to get the IP address from the logfiles, though larger companies will probably brush you off.
Nice work, Michael. The city needs more events like this.
When you do...Please don't crush your developer community.
Agree. I think we'll see more of these pop up because there's a great market in India for duplicating existing business models in the US (Groupon, Foursquare, Skype) because of the new 3G spectrum auction. I'm just sad that I don't have the balls to give up a new job in the US to go back to India.
Yes, but then the resellee is down a laptop, and wouldn't get another good deal like that. Unlikely that he would accept said offer.
Of course the solution to the predicament is simple: contracts. Alas, as with so many things, a well-armed third-party is getting in the way.
The most powerful word in the human vocabulary is: Yes.
Author pretty clearly knows very little about number theory. It needs a lot of optimization, pruning, and caching to be useful.

Nice simple lisp intro though.
Is it ethical to link to facebook and require flash to show a few images?
Seconded. With your data, and the name of the real thief, you have a chance at both getting your data back, and getting a judgment against the thief for the value of the laptop.

It's not a guaranteed chance of course, but I would go for it.
Not sure if this is what you're referring to but it's interesting and relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory
Good point, I'm sure some people would argue that "no" is also pretty powerful. We are faced with so many decisions every day that our ability to say no is pretty important.
brevity is the soul of wit.

less air in the packaging.

If I had my druthers, all articles would be bullet points.
As much as this pleasures every software-engineer-neuron in my brain, this kills what's so great about Twitter - it's brevity.

Twitter + Tumblr/Facebook Angst = #NewTwitter = #FailTwitter :(
Maybe something like this...

//How's my coding?

//1-800-NO-ONE-CARES

Although I had trouble coming up with what to say in the phone number. Any suggestions?
Ask HN: Challenging Ochocinco..
Decent idea considering the service or just really, really bad idea?

Rivalgrams.com
cOOL !!!!!!!!!!!!
Now, now. Let's not go vigilante. There's a site dedicated to that stuff if the OP is interested. It's called Reddit.

Edit: By the downvotes, I see that apparently HN is not above internet mob justice. My mistake, carry on.
I don't work in the industry, but I'd imagine some of the cheaper budget chips don't make profit on their own--they require the more expensive non-defective chips to break even.
You know what, you're correct. I was mistaken, sorry.
I think "power" has a strong case to make.
It probably makes more sense if you think of people as the product being sold and not as the customers being sold to. Then again, I'm not sure that the people involved would like to be thought of in that way...
Whether or not the title was a good choice was merely a matter of perspective ;)

Every human being in the world should read this article; if we can all truly comprehend this text, the world would be a better place.