skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wondered about this too.

It wouldn't take many bedraggled homeless people to drive out the paying-near-or-above-retail customers, so my guess is that there aren't very many homeless and/or extremely visibly poor people in Clayton (or at least the neighborhood where the Panera store in the article is located).

WP says (in the demographics section of the article on Clayton, Mo) that Clayton "In the St. Louis region, Clayton is well known for housing a wealthy and educated young professional, often dual-income population" and "About 5.0% of families and 7.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 9.5% of those under age 18 and 3.2% of those age 65 or over.":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton,_Missouri

Also, I think that having a staff member positioned at the door explaining the payment procedure ("cheery employee Terri Barr greets everyone at the door and spells it out") and having employees watching you while you pay might deter long-term poor and homeless people from even stepping inside.
Thanks again, I am the OP, and the study referenced by Krugman clearly supports my mish-mash of warmed-over Marxist invective, so it's much appreciated.
Observation 1 is disappointing.

It seems like it should be the easiest thing in the world... pay what you feel.

There is a chain of places that operate under the same model here in Melbourne, Australia but without any suggested prices or cashiers ringing up the "bill". I've been there a few times and it always seems straightforward - drop the cash in the box on your way out. (http://www.lentilasanything.com/index.html)

I'm sure some patrons are financially struggling but I can never tell who they are. Many of the staff are newly arrived refugees and I imagine one of the goals of the chain is to provide meaningful work experience and social integration opportunities.
SEO is shifting to Social SEO.

Essentially what you like on facebook, tweet or with a +1 button will become the higher ranked content.

Link building is a dying concept

Social gives us what we want, great content rising to the top. It is the future. Develop great content and engage with your followers and network.

Traffic will follow.
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DWave just published a paper in Nature that shows that they have built a 8 qubit quantum device. This could be legit. However even if what they say is 100% true and correct, it's still not a 'general' quantum computer, it's only wired for one kind of optimization problem, and it's only 128 qubits which will not allow you to do things current computers can not yet do. You need closer to 1000 qubits for that.
Haha, I like how nobody said anything when the topic was how Microsoft copied Apple, but people speak up to defend the opposite!
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Right. The world of software is much more biological than people dare to admit. Change is a fact of life and every piece of software needs to continuously adapt (both at the side of platform interfaces and the side of user requirements), or die.
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It even has an incomplete version of Emacs. Emacs!
For ideas on getting started visit http://rails-bestpractices.

That being said the only way to really understand best practices is to build a large app, with users and a live DB, then try maintaining it over time. Only then will you see how architectural decisions positively or negatively affect your application and your own engineering experience. You'll see why, for example, fat models and skinny controllers make your life far easier as your codebase grows.
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I've been hearing some good things about Riak lately and their masterless implementation seems quite interesting. Did Riak ever make your radar and, if so, what were the disadvantages that made you choose MongoDB?

Were I to guess based on the video, I would say lack of a Perl client and you'd probably end up having to roll too many of your own solutions on top of it?
I love the idea that a man can sit down behind his desk, think for days, weeks, months, years or even decades and come up with something which is so abstract and beautiful explaining natural phenomenons with simple mathematical formulas.

It takes some serious entrepreneurial skills and mindset to embark on a problem which is seemingly impossible, and never giving up until the solution has been derived.

Inspirational, to say the least!
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Really? I choose it every time I have a choice.

Especially with a Rails-like framework like CakePHP, I find that my programing time is lessened dramatically because of the framework, and my processing time is much lower than Rails because most of the servers I work on are optimized out the wazoo for PHP instead of Ruby.

But your mileage may vary.
I completely agree that the current system is broken. I just disagree that we should abolish the system entirely. Some very smart people saw this need and I don't think they were wholly wrong.

Personally, I think the problem with patents is the are of the "who did it first" variety when they should only be of the "no one would have come up with this without me" kind.

That is, if your "idea" involves scribbling something obvious down and sending off for a patent as soon as possible (e.g. this new in-App purchase patent is a good example) then it shouldn't be patentable. For me, I would see something patentable in how Apple did the iPad. Everyone was trying things in the tablet space for years but it wasn't until the iPad that we all finally got it.

I would also make patents shorter and non-renewable. Renewable patents are just a monopoly on ideas.
As mentioned by someone in the "boot the Linux kernel in your browser" thread, don't read this if you are patting yourself on the back (meaning you should read it: all of it).

Fascinating; I had read very little about him before this, so thanks.
I would have loved to see the message on that other eatery's protest sign.

Do you remember which place it was?

I was just looking at what I think (may be wrong) is the Panera location mentioned in the article: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...
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wow, it is projects like this that get the imagination going and makes you feel bad for putting off a problem set that might have frustrated you at the time.
It would be nice to see Skype integrated into XBOX Live. We might be seeing that experience grow in value, keeping more eyes in the network by building out their interactive communications feature set.
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My nephew likes maths, so I am thinking of gifting him a maths puzzle book on his birthday. But, I am looking for some recommendations on story books.
I was looking at software product development area. As the head count increases people started to feel different.Do we have any company that put restrictions saying "we don't hire more than X no.of people? " .
Check out the comments for something that might work (haven't tried it myself)
I also see a problem in the current shift in technology we see from websites in document form to full-features webapplications (HTML5, JS). Google is pushing this shift, too. But search robots still don't execute JS. Therefore it is not easy to develop a modern webapplication for users with good UIs and at the same time optimize for search robots.
Yes, it should be as easy as
autocmd BufWritePost,FileWritePost *.coffee :silent !sass --update <afile>
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That is not overlooked: it's just that everyone agrees on that, so there's no need to 'discuss' those facts. The consequences of it have been spoken of at lengt, in both moving and practical ways.
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Searching for "tcc" and "tcc unix" returns nothing helpful.

Searching for "IOCC" returns nothing, and "IOCC Fabrice" returns a site that is caching HN in realtime, and it's your post.

Any help?
And Vi of course ;)
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cd /bin for binaries. I just tried telnet, but fails as "no network"
Great read. This is something you come to assimilate as you get older -- unless you are very wise, very young. Or perhaps it's cultural. But it something you are aware of from very early on. And so, so many folk fight it.

To put a geek twist on it, this behaviour always reminds me of kipple; the concept coined by Philip K Dick. I remember first reading about it -- in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- and being quite struck by the idea.

There's the First Law of Kipple... 'Kipple drives out nonkipple.'

http://www.43folders.com/2007/12/12/dick-kipple
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To build on your comment (which I think is spot on), we've mostly seen data visualization used to build interfaces designed to discover new things from data. Data visualization (currently) seems to be about letting the brain do what it does best and discern patterns from a bunch of data.

But when we get into common tasks that have memorized workflows, visualizations might be too clunky of a way to work at it. For any given task, we all have learned a certain workflow that meets our needs in terms of efficiency, complication, and power. These goals aren't always the same goals as a visualization.
> It takes some serious entrepreneurial skills and mindset
> to embark on a problem which is seemingly impossible, and
> never giving up until the solution has been derived.

Nothing specifically entrepreneurial about that, really.
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the patterns are awesome
You make them move.
What really stands out here is prostitution. It's the only item on the list that punishes a consensual agreement between two adults. An agreement that doesn't affect anyone else in any meaningful way.
"Regardless of who's side you're on in this you have to accept that the value of what's contested (who came up with / owns / started Facebook) is worth much, much more than ~$65 million (the original settlement amount). "

If you mean the value of Facebook, of course it's worth more. But nobody would give them the entire value of Facebook, not even close. They settled because, apparently, their lawyers thought it was the best deal they were going to get. Otherwise why settle in the first place?

They're not trying to get the settlement undone because they didn't like the settlement itself. They're just claiming that Facebook lied about how much money exactly they were getting as part of the settlement.

"No sane lawyer is going to advise them to settle for a fraction of what they might actually have a legal right to. Too much money is on the table."

Well first of all they did settle, originally. And by the way, they refused to pay their first lawyers (who did the settling) for 2 years. Recently, a judge ordered them to pay their lawyers.

"The crux of the argument (for me personally) is whether or not these guys hired Zuckerberg to build the original version of what became Facebook."

They did hire Zuckerberg to build their site. This is not contested. I'm pretty sure it's also uncontested that Zuckerberg didn't copy any of their code or anything. How similar the two ideas are is something that's pretty hard to say, though.
This looks awesome! I'm just starting to learn ruby and was going to look today on whether there was a way to run it in a browser very easily. Wonder if this is the answer
It’s only a few lines of code, or a button… pay up
I think the point of the explanation was to provide some intuition as to where the Exp[- 2 pi i k n / N] in the formula comes from. If it's easier to think of that as a sinusoid then your way of thinking about it is better. If it's easier for you to think of that as spinning your signal around like a phasor then the OP's explanation is useful.
Really, every time I hear of PHP I honestly ask myself: "why on earth would anyone want to be using PHP in this day and age?"

It is like seeing people trying to cure cancer with leeches.
Async.js - asynchronous control flow in node.js and the browser
There you go: http://bellard.org/
Same concept, but Russia-specific: http://roskomvzyatka.com/

Seem to be more populated with data.
You can build your own custom Linux distribution, run it in your browser, and share it with others using http://susestudio.com/ — it might not be what you're thinking of (as it's only a few years old, not 10 years), but it does what you mention (and more).
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How long until you see the prompt?
I think the choice between family (because it's not just children who aren't compatible with a 18 hour a day 6 day a week work life, partners are likely to get pretty hacked off with it too) and start ups relies on a particular model / vision of what a start up is.

The reality is that it is possible to start a company based on a 5 day a week 40 hour work week and I've seen people do it. Yes, they're probably not the largest and most aggressive companies but I've seen people build good teams, good products and go on to make good money while still having plenty of time with their family.

I don't know anyone who founded a Google or Facebook following this model but frankly that's not where 99.9999% of start ups are heading regardless of the founders commitment to them.

I can understand why an investor might be wary about putting money into a company being founded by someone for whom it wasn't their number one priority and as an investor you're concern is primarily around getting a return on your investment but that doesn't start ups can't be done and done well by people taking a more balanced approach.
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It isn't so much the "normal" company thing, I think, as having a good work/playthings/life balance. The main reason none of my personal/toy/experimental projects are languishing on note paper or electronic equivalent is that my balance is very wrong and getting worse!

He is presumably working for a good company (or at least one that is good for him) and has time management skills himself.

That, and a brain to be envious of plus a supply of inspiration!
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Yep, as a rough estimate children take all of your time and for the first few months at least it's 24 x 7 because it takes a while to get sleeping sorted.

I've got a four week old daughter at home (and another two year old daughter) and on top of my regular (non-demanding) working day, commute and all the stuff around the house, last night I managed to skim read about two thirds of a graphic novel (while feeding my youngest).

That was the sum total of my achievements above and beyond the basics.
http://rails-bestpractices.com/

bad link.
Because that's the frequency component you want to measure. Repeat at all the other frequencies you're interested in to get the whole spectrum.
yeah, there are quite some companies which try to automate one or more aspects of SEO. but in doing so they create - their own, proprietary - magic SEO numbers. they advance (and in the long term lock-in) their client, but not SEO as a whole.

i'm talking more of a wordpress for seo approach.
Jonas Boner of Akka fame gave a very interesting talk at one of the Scala meetups in S.F. last year. He said he'd fallen in love with Erlang but over time had to grudgingly admit it was just too hard to convince people to deploy it. The Akka project was an attempt to bring some of the key Erlang concepts over to a more commercially palatable platform (the JVM).

I'd love to see Erlang really take root but the story of his experience wasn't encouraging.
yeah, already got that under another post - sorry :)
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And you are very proud of your Javascript templating library.
I grew up in St. Louis as well, I always loved the St. Louis Bread Co. It's right across the street from (what was) my dentist, and we would always eat there after an appointment. Was the highlight of any dentist visit, I can assure you!

Glad to see it's doing well, and being charitable to boot.
That's possibly the most intuitive explanation for what the maths is actually doing that I've ever come across.
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We started our company just after the birth of my second child and then my daughter was born as we were in the early days. We are pretty much self funded (we've had some seed funding but not a lot) and it's been a long hard slog but all that work is now paying off.

I have to agree strongly with:

"You have to push yourself to get to work, and do good stuff everyday. Because your family depends on it. You don't settle for mediocrity.

- You get a counter-balance that keeps you in check. Especially when you are successful with doing something fun it is very easy to burn out. "

and

"You raise kids that get an entrepreneurial outlook on life. They think it is natural to have your own company, to be the boss of your own life"

made me smile. My daughter, now 5, was trying to sell me her drawings the other day.

My children are my counterbalance and my drive - there is nothing better than kicking back and talking nonsense with them or getting involved in their stuff. There is nothing more important than making sure they are fed and have a secure future (in which to make their own choices)

I noticed in a recent interview that when Tony Blair was the british PM his wife expected him to get up in the night to feed the baby still.

One of my girlfriends relatives says "if you want something doing ask a busy person." and I reckon that is spot on
Anyone know why he used 2.6.20 ? I tried compiling a 2.6.38.6, but it doesn't boot. It's stopped at "Starting Linux" and CPU stays at 100% all the time.
Well, trivial from a code perspective. I would presume that attempting to fix it from the servers would not work, unless they can 302 to an SSL server, but I don't know exactly how that would work, if ClientLogin can handle that.

Additionally, as noted elsewhere, security fixes are distributed to more devices and faster than os upgrades for Android devices.
Of course, we don't have software patents in Europe, but I want to keep it that way.
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Not any well known companies. Lifestyle businesses, maybe.
Why are you quoting invented dialogue?
I think people that live on the bleeding edge have know this for a while, especially devs that live on the bleeding edge.

I've always said software that isn't currently being developed is dead.
Australia what a great place for freedom.
In related news Einstein failed to transcend homo sapien
The repeated requests for that kind of law modification have effect of moving the Overton window [0] in the direction of stiffer IP enforcement. Even if the bills fall flat one after another, they move the bounds of discussion towards heavy-handed IP rules. Preparing grounds for small, creeping changes.

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[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
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>>Let's say we're unlucky enough to live in that 20.3 µSv/h environment. [...] yearly dose

Sigh, when writing that, you knew that the radiation dose will certainly be much lower in just one year.
And with all due respect to you, you seem to not be considering the employee's point of view at all. An employee exchanges his time for money. It is not fair to assume that because an employee doesn't want to exchange ALL of his time for money that he is not passionate about his work or your company. He could be very passionate about these things but also have other priorities, such as rest and recovery from a full year of work, spending time with his family and friends etc. And, again, with all due respect to you, I don't ever want to work for someone like you. I, and every other healthy social individual, have other priorities besides work. You seem like the kind of person that demands his employees to put in ungodly hours to achieve the goals of your "mission", but I could of course be wrong about that. It would be a service to all us employees at HN if you could drop your company name so we could avoid it if we ever would hear of a position with you.
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I'm not sure there is a rise of Erlang. Not even sure there is a rise in Erlang concepts.

Disclaimer: I didn't read the article as the site is down for me - probably not written in Erlang. And I'm an Akka user.
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coffee-mode.el provides the same functionality for emacs. Automatic compilation of any *.coffee file on save can be enabled by

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I just tried out my ansi_colours.sh [1] script and it mostly worked.
A few notes:

wget is available, and it would be cool to piggy back the linux network stack through the browser.

cut & paste support is a must for any terminal

The space characters are very narrow. Needs to be monospace.

All fairly minor compared to the coolness of this.

[1] http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/ansi_colours.sh
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Fun command to use:

reboot -f
> When he adds X, we can run Firefox inside Linux inside Firefox inside Linux :')

Skip the middle man, output gtk via html5 http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2011/03/15/gtk-html-backend-upd...
(I don't actually know if it still has dependencies on X11 :P)