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I'd like to get rid of tipping too, and I'm inclined to agree with you that service charge included (suitably noticed) is not a terrible intermediate to get there.

However, that said, restaurateurs need to realize that it changes the business model. Their waiters are no longer de facto independent contractors that have aligned incentives. Instead they are regular wage earning employees that need more management attention. It's fairly easy to see the impact if you go to a restaurant with a service included threshold (e.g. party of six) and try it both ways.
Then charge customers more. If they won't pay more, your product might not be worth it and your business was never viable.

Anyhow, my opinion as someone in the restaurant business, the blogger's business had plenty of flaws.
> retirement is included

I’m not holding my breath for my European government retirement benefit to actually be useful in thirty years, to be honest.
A lot of this makes sense but I have a bit of a fear that google is trying to kill the URL to make people more dependent on google search.
Adventures in Game Development is the perfect example of the risks of giving assholes your money for crowdfunded projects.

The guy that runs it spent years bragging about doing drugs and drinking to all hours of the night with nothing to show for it and then shits on his backers for asking about the progress of the project (none).
> 4k is only 8Mpx.

It should be noted this is only true if you don't zoom in at all, since no phone camera has optical zoom :(
UI framework for any MCU
Analogies, by definition, are never exactly what they say they are
I think it would be very unusual to refer to the mode as the average, especially if it wasn't close to the median or mean.
> There's no need for a weird problematic proprietary format.

The reason we need AMP now is that you can't otherwise preload a page in a privacy-preserving way.

Webpackaging will allow doing this without AMP though: https://github.com/WICG/webpackage/blob/master/explainer.md

(Disclosure: I work at Google on making ads be AMP.)
Isn't the check barcode -> put on the tray -> check new barcode again a way to stop double checking the same item, if someone is too clumsy?
The first Flash game that I released [1].

I had been programming for about 6 years but had never finished anything of substance. The game took about 6 weeks of working on it between classes (and with the help of a friend with the polish and graphics). It went on to be played millions of times and made several thousand of dollars in ad revenue. Even 10 years and a PhD later, this is one of my biggest accomplishments.

It was one of those moments that makes me feel like now I can actually do this (this feeling seems to repeat every few years...).

[1] http://www.mindjolt.com/stay-up.html
This is part of the reason that “service included” places don’t pass it through to the menu prices. It’s a mistake to be the only ones doing it (the Bauer review I linked to above just quotes the prices directly, “nobody” mentally compares by adding/removing the 20%).

Since you lived nearby, I always felt that the location was unlikely to succeed. Is there actually a lot of foot traffic there?
Interesting. A 400 BC version of the Matrix!

Thanks for that.
> We just didn’t foresee it being wirelessly available at McDonalds, for free.

Sorry about that.
...I'm legitimately not sure how you comfortably fit that thing in your pockets. I can make it go in, but it's not comfortable; I can't imagine walking around with it all day.

You're somehow either wearing very pants from me, or you have a very different comfort tolerance.

(This is very reminiscent of the discussion I have with people who tell me they can fit a Nintendo Switch in their pockets...)
Also, parents should parent. And people should take care of themselves. I'm not saying doctors should start teaching anything. I am definitely saying that they should NOT be prescribing statins flip-ly when getting someone to diet and exercise is the correct answer.
One thing I never understood is, how does a black hole evaporate, even via hawking radiation? Doesn't the matter it ejects just fall back in?
Not saying you are wrong, but I don't think you would be getting some of the largest companies in the world globally using the Google platform if there was a risk to its future.
That kinda only makes sense if you define "everywhere" as "everywhere people currently want to go".

There are _huge_ swathes of Australia that probably don't have a single passable road within 100km. Once you get much more that a couple of hundred km from the coast, Australia is effectively empty. Any population is way down in measurement noise.
Well, they also lied they couldn't break into that iPhone to try to get a court ruling that made it unnecessary to use expensive contractors or secret exploits. They lied that cryptography is blocking them a lot in general when the data shows that's rare. The NSA also had attacks on most mobile OS's, backdoors in ISP's, and so on feeding stuff to FBI who supposedly had no such capabilities.

Btw, the big ISP's being backdoored with high-bandwidth, Tor nodes on same networks drawing people to use them is about the worst-case scenario for Tor. Global visibility into traffic patterns on top of huge, attack budget for partial or full defeats of the technology. Plus lots of storage to keep as much encrypted traffic as they can as long as they can. That lets them hit today's systems or encrypted data with future attacks.

I assume NSA sees it all. I assume the FBI gets a part of it which will grow over time, concealing how they got the information. I did anonymous activities using equipment bought in cash over WiFi and HTTPS-looking connections to blend in with the less-interesting crowd. If worried about publicity, use cantennas so folks can't see your face on camera. Preferably suburban areas with more empty space and trees than cameras. Maybe Tor, too, but just don't use it anywhere near devices or a residence that's obviously yours.
Little black ants
Like others, it depends upon what you mean by important.

In grad school I helped another PhD student by writing control software for a device used to assess the locality and severity of brain lesions. I got a tee shirt for doing that work.
Whoa that's wrong. Average == mean. Always. In Excel, in NumPy, the average() function calculates mean.
> All they do is send you a “love letter” and people have reported receiving future packages just fine.

well, that's what the end user sees, but we can't pretend to know what happens behind the scenes from a data perspective, and how that data might be used in the future.

> They require a court order to open your package and even then can’t charge anyone with possession.

this is not true. only first-class mail (13oz and under) is subject to any fourth amendment protections at all,[1] and your mail can be opened without warrant if it comes from overseas.[2] USPS can also x-ray and use other imaging techniques on whatever they want, they even describe it as a best practice.[3]

this isn't to say dead drops are a better idea; there are plenty of reasons not to go that route as well.

1. https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/contactUs/faq.aspx

2. https://help.cbp.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/114

3. https://about.usps.com/securing-the-mail/best-practices.htm
I’d have to say the headless server infra/features for Windows server 2003. The previous dev quit saying it was impossible, but as a new engineer I didn’t know any better.
I wrote a data collection and messaging framework for devices with a few MBs of memory, that had to stay powered-on and connected to a TCP socket server for about a year before they were going to be accessible again for maintenance etc. A bug in the code that could require a reset of the device could cost the company a big client. I couldn't find any ready-made solution that would satisfy all of the requirements. So I wrote, tested, documented and deployed it in a month almost single handedly. Two and a half years later, that code is still serving them.
I think most people would agree, making it the average belief (by mode!)
The most important code I “wrote” was merged with code from my wife and produced a tiny human executable.
Link to the Kickstarter?
At the moment that's how it works. If it's true that things are moving in to telegram and other encrypted chat platforms then it could change. It makes it simple enough for the average person to do.
Yeh because they may be researching things interesting to the CCP so they usually grab a few and question them
I am not venting at anyone, but expressing my concern over the damage being done to something I love.

I have insulted no person and I have proposed a positive agenda of having the STEM field step in to get rid of these grievance study areas from universities.

The only one insulting anyone personally is you.
I assume they are intentionally conflating median and mean to elicit a more emotional response since they specifically mentioned median and omitted mean.
The hard part in my eyes is the marketing/advertising. Getting a landing page built, on-boarding customers (every customer wanted custom development to fit their business), getting well written app store listings written, getting support + documentation written for the customer. Videos, images, graphics, blog articles. We'd be up against startups who get $15m+ in funding and have a 7 year head start.

I think the market space is beaten down. At first, we were going to do a free beta. That attracted nobody. Then $29/mo. Well, will you look at that? It's not profitable undercutting everybody because of something we didn't think of: support. Ok, let's try $99/mo. Well, that kind of works, but people are coming and going way too quickly. What finally worked is to do $99/mo per user, with a minimum of 3 users. All other companies in this space pretty much charge a $750-$3k onboarding fee because they have realized what a time suck you'll be.

I have proved I can build pretty much any SaaS platform (which I'm sure 100k people here could do). In my opinion, it isn't the technology part that is hard (CRUD API endpoints are trivial to say the least). The super hard part technology wise is good user interface. Naming technical things easy terms (your item in inventory... is it an item or a kit/bundle? ok... how many channels do you sell it on? ok, well, you have 3 listings that are linked to your kit/item. Try getting that concept across)

Plus, after people choose a system, they invest a ton of time into it (their entire business lives and dies on it. Sync inventory + pricing for Amazon/Jet/Walmart/Shopify. Purchase orders. QuickBooks exports, yada yada). Not a lot of people signing up left and right, and if they were, they really probably weren't worth the headache (anybody can make a "mom and pop" e-commerce shop, but if you have no business/orders, all you have to do to fill an 8 hour day is take out your aggressions on the person on the other end of the phone supporting your failing business inventory software wise)

I'm down to write whatever, but we need marketing + advertising + everything else I just described.
People are already building 802.3af and 802.3ad based office LED lighting systems at 48VDC, since it's much cheaper to run cat5e around a big building.
its been found https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/tiny-ho...
I think open source contributions / patches depending on the project can be helpful and impactful.

Merely giving back in any sense helps. Sometimes open source patches are not important in themselves, but taken as a whole make a big dent: A good portion (1/3? 1/2?) of my contributions are very trivial (typos, package updates, etc.)

I use a few things to track open source contributions: OpenHub (https://www.openhub.net/accounts/git-pull), and a new thing called sourcerer.io: https://sourcerer.io/tony.

It goes back to my first patches which were tiny and failed to conform to the project's code standards :P I hope this can be encouragement that little wins build up.

There are also projects I've made that I personally deem important, but aren't known or are in a niche space. For instance, unihan-etl (https://unihan-etl.git-pull.com), a tool for extracting UNIHAN (https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr38/). If someone is in a situation where they need an extraction of Chinese/Japanese/Korean unicode characters, this tool can save them a lot of time.

There's more to the story: It's also a building block of a larger project, cihai: https://cihai.git-pull.com. I am planning on making this project a spiritual successor to Christoph Burgmer's cjklib (http://cjklib.org)
Inequality is a big problem.

In the meantime, retail and restaurants are going to have to come up with a transportation system for their workers. Time to helicopter in the help... then shuttle to where they need to go.

Until there are robots that can do the work either remotely run by chefs/cooks/retail or removed entirely, there needs to be better transportation systems to allow people to live elsewhere and work in the metro/city if the metro/city is unwilling to fix the rent/housing problems.
Coffee shops have become nearly all day affairs. Like a bar, the key product has really high margins and you don’t need many employees. So once you sell enough {coffee, tea, beer, wine, cocktails} to cover your rent plus a handful of employees, you start making a (small) profit.

tl;dr: Hot water is cheap!
I added support for the middle finger emoji to the WhatsApp iPhone app.

Unlike other messaging platforms, WhatsApp provides their own emoji graphics to ensure backwards compatibility even on old versions of the OS that don’t support that emoji natively.
It can't help with getting voters though. At least until new voters come around and old voters get phased out.
I think I can agree with this with regard to modern phones, but not universally.

For instance, in the early days on the iPhone, anyone who upgraded every year was getting a huge improvement each time. The iPhone 3G brought 3G support, so you could actually download things at a reasonable speed. The 3G S had a huge and very noticeable performance increase across the board, and the 4 was the first with a Retina screen.

Another example... for PC games, I really wish I could upgrade my GPU each gen. Especially when you're in charge of adjusting your own performance settings, the extra headroom you get from a new card always feels super nice. (Whether the increase is really all that noticeable is perhaps debatable, which I suppose would go to your point...)
I don't know how comment response notifications work on HackerNews but... I just responded to the thread above. Let me know your thoughts.
Agreed.

It's seems like it must be either Hawking radiation OR white hole bounce not both.

If Hawking radiation evaporates the black hole then there should be no matter or energy left for white hole to ouput in the future.
I was really surprised Apple discontinued the SE. I'd expected them to quietly update the internals again.

The people who own SE's all seem to love owning an SE.
Yep, it's creepy, Kafka-esque.

McLellan and cohorts are saying they're not allowed to be mock ed.
AUFS or something?
Hmm, nothing too sexy. The most important code I've written was a tool to automate some business logic for schematics generation, hard to quantify the exact cost savings but it saves a couple of million/year (cost of writing off hardware built on a bad schematic) and hundreds of hours of engineer time / year.
> Do international tensions actually reach down to students, if they obey the law and manner of respect?

Yes, international tensions are often about things that aren't illegal, and even where they concern things which one state views as illegal, they often target people suspected who may not always be guilty. And even if they target only the actually guilty, when it relates to communication systems, that can have impacts on people several hops removed from an actual target.
Same. I don't think anything I've written is really important in the grand scheme of things. Important enough that someone will pay me to do it, yes. But not important, really.
If the two of you manage to pull this off, please update us. I would love to see a story of people meeting in the HN comments and go off and build something. I'm sure it has happened on here, but I never hear about it!
So you feel like these people control the university administrations, while their fields drop in importance, funding and staffing?
I did the same for an area related to mental health. Generates about $5k a month, so nowhere near your level, but it pays for the kids to go to one of the best school in the Santa Clara Valley. So for me, it’s the most important code I have ever written. Second most important is code that does some video and audio stuff that runs on about a literal billion devices.
Ember was the first web framework I tried to learn. Maybe my mind is too dense. Couldn't really figure out shit. I guess for a simpleton like me my mind works best with micro frameworks react or vue. I work as frontend engineer now.
I stopped years ago.

I used to fiddle with my vimrc, but then I got frustrated whenever I had to had to use vim without the complex setup, so I just learned to use vim with mostly defaults. I used to fiddle with my bashrc/zshrc, and then I used fish, which has most of the features I need anyway. I used to mess with global coding style configs, and now I just commit them to the relevant repo.

Maybe I'm getting old, but it's just not nearly as interesting as getting stuff done. The last time I messed with it was when I tried to get Rust spiffed out with the Rust Language Server, but I ended up not using it.
You are mischaracterizing the research. His submitted papers were not "the data", they were the input. The actual data is how the editors reacted to the input.
At my previous company I created a buildpack that allowed our proprietary runtime to run on Cloud Foundry (an open source Enterprise PaaS like Heroku). I built the first version in my spare time in a couple of evenings. It made our software and company compatible with the platforms of major players in this space, including SAP, IBM, GE and Siemens. The compatibility made our tech and our company much more interesting to these companies. In fact, the company was acquired by Siemens last year for $730M.

If I would not have built it, another engineer in the company would have done it a couple of months later while explicitly being assigned the task. I proved that it worked within a couple of days. The code powers tens of thousands of deployments today and is also the basis for running on Docker & Kubernetes.
I’m sorry, but if the barrier to entry for publishing is a few weeks of revising made-up papers, that’s still a gigantic problem. The hoax succeeded.
No one is forcing anyone to live in sf. So this too is subject to market forces.
Ridicule is not the most collegial method of criticism, but it can be very effective.

And I think here it's the only possible one.

Can you seriously imagine the journal accepting an article even slightly negative about the field?
Right... Trump's exact words:
Yes, if we don't get what we want... I will shutdown the government. I am proud to shutdown the government
for border security. I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. I won't blame you for it.
I will take the mantle. I will shut it down.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t7bYWM9zAw
Filter VBA Project While Loading a Workbook and Export Print Area Range to HTML
I read the first book and I liked it conceptually. Sometimes I feel like sci-fi authors try too hard to follow "show don't tell" [1] when it comes to characters' emotional state, but this author tells us at every point explicitly how astounded or confused the character is, almost to an absurd degree.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show,_don%27t_tell
I hope not as that is too depressing for words if true.
NotPetya an “act of war,” cyber insurance firm refusing to pay out
Consider adding forward-secrecy and encrypting the payloads (beyond the Tor transport) as Richochet does neither.
> working in a minimum wage job?

Why is being a line cook in a relatively high-end SF restaurant a "minimum wage" job? Especially when severs in the same restaurant are apparently bringing home $80-90k a year?

I don't disagree with your point, but one issue in SF and elsewhere in the Bay Area is that tech worker salaries have skyrocketed while wages for everyone else have been relatively flat. Why is that happening and what if anything can be done about it?
CoinJar with PayID
No, it's not. Average can mean mean (any of them: e.g., geometric or harmonic as well as arithmetic), median, or mode.

Usually, people using “average” outside of a specialized context where some other average is the conventional default mean arithmetic mean, but that's not the only thing it can mean, and, frankly, it's better just to avoid using “average” to refer to any summary statistic and just use the specific name for the statistic you want to use.
My biggest problem with using the Darknet, messaging apps, or old school methods such as dial a dope or hitting up the guy on the street corner to buy drugs is the same. How can I really trust someone willing to break the rules and sell drugs or other non legal goods? You lay down with dogs you get fleas!! Last thing I would want is to eat, smoke or snort something from someone I have never met even if they have a 5 star rating on a darknet review board. Don't even get me started on messaging out to someone whos' contact info is written out next to a pay phone or on a bathroom wall and the likes!
'Remembrance of Earth’s Past' trilogy is spectacular. At the risk of this becoming a list of everyone's favorite novels, I'd put the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons in the same league as that trilogy.
WattleBabes – Wattlebird
It's cool to see serious tradecraft applied to this stuff. Especially compartmentalization.

And yes, using traditional shipping systems is a serious problem for old-school dark markets. I've thought off and on for several years about the potential for using dead drops with accurate GPS. I mean, geocaching. Many years ago, when I was dealing LSD, it was pretty common to use dead drops. But then, they were typically rental lockers in bus and train stations.

I agree that ubiquitous surveillance is a problem. However, it's ~clueless customers and low-level distributors who'll most likely get pwned. And they won't know anything important about the operation overall.

Anyway, time will tell.
Anonymous, decentralized transactions using dead drops only works with side-channels for reputation, or with security deposits.

Side-channels for reputation like posting cryptographic proof on darknet forums isn't scalable or reliable.

And security deposits without a third-party adjudicator just move the trust issue around without eliminating it.

One ideal solution could be a cryptocurrency with on-chain confirmation of the real-world transaction by both parties after the fact.

When both parties to the transaction can point to a series of successful transactions through a web of trust, then the central marketplace for reputation or escrow is no longer needed.