skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Say you you could make infinite cheap copies of a car or a TV, would anyone make a better one?"

There's a flip side: if you could make infinite cheap copies of industrial robots, how many more people would start making cars?

Creative output becomes input for other creative output. Rachmaninoff wrote "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini" because nothing prevented him from re-using Paganini's work. Today copyright would prevent that.

IP laws are meant to help incentivize production of new stuff. But they also raise a barrier that keeps people from using old stuff to make new stuff. We have to balance those two things.
It's designed as a library that browsers would use to render the content, as far as I can tell. So C++ is fairly sensible in that respect.

Whether even one of the major browsers will support it is the question, and what the pages will look like in other browsers (if there's any fallback) remains to be seen...
Sorry to hear about your experience, but to be fair, I have to admit that I personally had just one bad experience in about 25+ visits of restaurants in Germany and Austria due to Groupon and Daily Deals offers. That location turned out to be overcrowded and the staff rude.

The other visits were pleasant or at least we had no complaints afterwards. We DID go back to some of the restaurants (even without coupons) and recommended some to friends. Some others aren't really nearby, so we might not visit them again, but I'd recommend them as well.

However, I first google for reviews of the restaurants/companies before buying a deal. I'd not buy a deal for a restaurant with no or only mediocre reviews. And I present my coupon before ordering - that would have saved you from the bad experience with the first bottle of wine.

Of course, it greatly depends on the restaurant. If they don't plan the Groupon project, they may get overrun shortly after the deal. And the tip problem is already mentioned - so staff isn't always glad about "deals customers." I've even heard discussions with "deals customers" on a neighbor table that insisted of getting money back because their bill was lower than the deal.

Worst I experienced was not with a restaurant but a deal for a walking tour. The company was totally overbooked, promised to provide more dates for tours, but never delivered. Even 6 weeks after the deal, customer service turned out to be great and refunded the deal promptly.

A friend of mine bought a deal from a small photo studio (90% discount) - and yet (about 5 months after the deal) waits for a confirmation for an appointment: "We are fully booked until at least end of next month." Hopefully, the studio will be still in business at the time he gets an appointment (or he gets a full refund).

Its not Groupon or Daily Deal to blame for bad experience, but the business owner. But due to the growing popularity of the deals, places are more likely to get crowded after a deal. And because Groupon and co think that "the more, the better", they approach businesses as well that don't deliver great service all the time or are just unable to handle the amount of deals sold.
الان نتيجه الشهاده الاعداديه جميع المحافظات بسرعه عاليه
It's a nice idea, but I doubt any JS+Canvas or JS+SVG implementations are fast and memory efficient enough to implement this. They probably don't have enough low level access to UI or network APIs either.
Bing Deals not available on Windows Phone?
Thanks for the info :-)
FYI: 10% isn't standard: 15% is standard, 20% is good, and 25% or more is for great service.
The onus could just as fairly be applied to Groupon itself as to its customers; shouldn't Groupon be helping the restaurants it does business with, by encouraging/reminding customers to tip servers fairly, and not harm the staff of its business partners?
No. Tower is, hands-down and no questions asked, but it's not free.
Will Content Marketing become the 911 for Marketing?
Don't know about the Nook, but I have a Kindle (had it for 3 months already) and I use it everywhere.. in a bus, bathroom, waits on a queue... and the charge is good enough that I can take it for a weekend and not worry.

It should definitely last for 4 paperbacks. Maybe your Nook is the color version?
Portable threads (to me at least). Boost has had them for some time now and they work well.
I really like nose (http://somethingaboutorange.com/mrl/projects/nose/). You can simply run "nosetests" in the root of your project, and it will locate and run your tests.

nose will adjust sys.path to make sure your tests can find the packages they're testing. This may depend a bit on the layout you're using for your project, it has always worked for me so I have never had the need to look into HOW it works :)
That's exactly the idea that popped in my mind when I started reading the article (except I would have done it for free).

How successful is it? What are the advantages compared to eg randomtextgenerator.com?
Women and their enemy within
Is there a Bubble 2.0?
Of course it's easy to understand and I sympathise with her but it doesn't make it enjoyable!
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Yes, but none of that was a surprise (we knew about Unity, Gnome and KDE 4 long before any of that hit the distros), we could influence the decisions (arguing in favor of other directions) and, if enough people disagree with the the leaders, they can always make a viable fork.

You can't force an open-source developer to work on something he/she doesn't like and agree.
Groupon customers are poor tippers

And that stinks. I was a fine dining waiter at one point in my life and lived on tips. Because of that I always tip on the full value of the meal regardless if I have a gift card or coupon.
while not exactly true, it is true that the American-Israeli bond only took its more familiar form after 1967. Up to that time the closest Israeli ally were the French [1]: "France was Israel's main weapons supplier until its withdrawal from Algeria in 1966 removed most common interest from the relationship, and France became increasingly critical of Israel".

Regarding American-Israeli relations[2]: "During Lyndon B. Johnson's presidency, U.S. policy shifted to a whole-hearted, but not unquestioning, support for Israel. Prior to the Six-Day War of 1967, U.S. administrations had taken considerable care to avoid giving the appearance of favoritism."

Regarding Russia, at the very beginning they were pro-zionists, wanting to undermine the British influence in the Middle East. But quickly the USSR became a menace, whether threatening directly or by proxies[3]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France%E2%80%93Israel_relations

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_%E2%80%93_United_States_...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Russia_relations
Yes, it's a tax thing. A lot of restaurants base your taxes on your gross sales, assuming you will get 10-15% in tips. Coupon deductions are not calculated in this gross.
> America does benefit from a healthy relationship
> with Israel and, more importantly, from Israel's
> existence

How?

Edit: I am really curious. I don't know much about this topic.
Don't kid yourself. Reddit has gotten to the point where reposts continue to make the front page because even if a lot of people have seen it, not all have. And I have noticed that the same comments will garner karma.

The problem with websites like Reddit is that they suffer from the so called black swans. A good post can garner karma in the thousands, but a bad one will only have a negative one or two. So, reposting is a great strategy especially when new content is so hard to come by.
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Agreed she/he shouldn't have to but from one everyone is saying it sounds like that is the reality.
I took the same Groupon deal with a similar outcome (although we stated from the outset we had a voucher so no awkwardness about stuff we'd have to pay extra for). That said:

* This is in London, which doesn't have the same "tipping culture" as the US. Sure hospitality jobs don't pay great, but both my wife and I have worked them in the UK and you can definitely get by without tips. Getting snippy about a drop in tips is nowhere near as justified here.

* We each bought a cocktail before ordering (£8 each x 6)

* As is becoming the norm in London, "optional 12.5% service charge" (good luck ever opting out of it though) was a separate line item on our receipt and it was calculated off of the face value.

* I specifically checked the terms of the offer and the menu options prior to buying the voucher. Despite choose from "the tapas menu" you actually get to choose from "the Groupon version of the tapas menu". The latter being about half the size.

* I left an extra tip at the end mainly because I know the economics for the merchant on running Groupon deals. In hindsight neither the service not the "special" treatment you get as a Groupon customer warranted it.

Because of their attitude I won't be back, that's the cost for making an assumption about me as a customer. I'm still undecided whether I'll use Groupon again though. Maybe seeing this insight into this restaurant was a good thing?
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IAmerican tipping culture: there is a near-involiate presumption that wait staff gets tipped N% of the order. Customary practice recently is N is 20. Theoretically, tips are tied to service received. In practice, variation from societal norms is vanishingly rare in polite company.

Waiters in higher priced restaurants do make better tips as a consequence of this. That might matter if the culture were designed. It was not, it merely came to be.

FYI, apart from suffering social opprobrium, the big reason to always tip is that wait staff are taxed on your imputed tip whether you give it or not. This leads to compelling social justice reasons to tip even if one does not share the culture.
IA64 defined an official ABI for C++, other platforms are also adopting it (though that means breaking with any previous ABI), but it remains outside the scope of the C++ standard.
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My perspective is that there is a systemic disconnect between what serves the restaurant's interests and what serves the staff's interests. A Groupon promotion may help fill empty seats and sell off perishable inventory, but that may not be a benefit for the staff that work for tips.

This is a massive problem for the consumer, because the promotion is for some specific food and drinks, but not for service. If the restaurant is unable to motivate the staff to like the deal, you may have to negotiate separately ("I know these deals can be a PITA, but we intend to tip on the face value of our meal"). This isn't the customer's fault, of course, and I sympathize with the OP for crossing this restaurant off his list: Why return to a restaurant that doesn't work out how to make their staff happy about the promotion?

A bigger question is whether this is an isolated incident or something to expect when dealing with similar deals. From what I know about the way small restaurants are managed, I would expect this to happen on a fairly regular basis.

One possible solution: The fine print of the deal could levy a 15% gratuity on the face value. Customers who want the freedom to tip less should exercise the freedom to pay the face value of the food and beverages. If I was offered a $100 dinner for two for $40 plus $15 mandatory gratuity, I don't think I'd bark about it.
They always have.

The Edison Company used its patent portfolio to keep people away from owning theaters and importing European films.

Paramount, MGM, etc, were considered independents back then and fought back furiously. Then they consolidated vertically to own the theaters as well as the production, which opened the pathways for censorship (the Production Code) - when you only have to influence two or three companies, it's easier to get your way when you threaten a flat-out religious boycott.

NBC killed FM radio in the 30s by way of the FCC: it only came into its own in the late 70s.

NBC killed TV in the 30s by way of the FCC: it only came into its own after the technology had advanced enough that NBC and the other big radio players could continue their vertical monopolies in the new space.

Bell Labs killed a nascent answering machine in the 30's - of course, back then, it was the size of a refrigerator. It used magnetic recording. The next people to use magnetic recording was 3M decades later.

To cover this stuff in depth, read Tim Wu's "The Master Switch."
I tip because that's how my society operates. I tip well^ because it means I get above-par service.

^well is relative to what they expect, so this is where the quality of the restaurant is factored in by myself.
I can hardly afford the time it would take to do that.

Besides that, I think my assessment of the situation is solid. It is much more cost-effective to make your developers (who will follow you, as they have huge investments on your platform already and wouldn't be willing or able to switch) move the direction you want than move in the direction they want. In their position, being able to do whatever is convenient for them regardless of how inconvenient it is to their users, I'd do exactly the same.

It's a delicate act of balancing your inconvenience of moving along with your vendor and your cost of migrating to another. As long as the second half is kept high enough, they can do a lot of inconvenience on the first.
I would love to hear a rational explanation of this from someone who supports the bill.
I skimmed the whole thing before realizing I had parsed the headline wrong.
This doesn't address your question about culture, but the one time I used Groupon the sheet we printed out with the coupon on it specifically asked that we tip on the full price.
this is something that probably isn't clear to people who don't live in the US -- wait staff in the US make around $2-3/hour. they aren't paid a living wage. they rely on tips as their primary source of income, and tips are usually shared with a bartender/busboy.

if a restaurant runs a groupon and all grouponers tip on the post-coupon rate, the wait staff will be taking a rather large pay cut for the length of time that people are grouponing. i know i'd be grumbling if something my company did resulted in me making 50% less for a month or two.

more expensive restaurants and meals mean more expensive tips because the wait staff is more experienced, better trained, higher quality, and do more work. one person at a higher-end restaurant can give high quality service to fewer people than one person at a low-end place, and meals at a higher-end place usually take much longer. yes, the average tip is larger, but the frequency in which they receive tips is lower. yes, they make more, but not that much more.
What usually happens, is that you take what already exists and build on top of it. Without being able to do that, you'll have to not only recreate that technology from scratch, but you also need to make it different enough so it's not similar to the patented technology.

Overall, for the world, it's much better to be able to use prior knowledge without much or any restrictions, the way humanity has always evolved before patents or copyright even existed.

Imagine someone patenting the wheel. The others would be forced to re-create the wheel in a different way, instead of focusing on using that technology - the wheel in this case - to create something new, like a carriage, or car.
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Those are the norms in the United States, which has a tipping culture that is more or less unique compared to other countries.
I tend to find a bare "nosetests" catches a little more than I want it to, so I generally specify at least a test directory.
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(in the US, not Europe)
Did you read the article? While the headline is about raising an entrepreneur the advice is to raise adventurous and curious children and to provide stability and dependability. Hardly threatening ideals.

Sure- forcing your child down one path isn't right, but this advice is almost specifically not doing that. There's no 5 step plan involving a specific major or school or anything.
Numerous innovations (like the bandage that saved Gabriel Giffords' life), numerous American companies doing R&D in Israel (Intel is fabricating their upcoming Sandy Bridge line in Israel), and of course, military relations (weapons/defense technology, American weapons caches in Israel, intelligence cooperation, stuxnet).
What do you mean by reparenting an element if not the nesting example given on the SASS homepage?
Plain old `git gui' is worth looking at. Better keyboard support than GitX (though this is not saying much) and the UI for committing lines works better. If I've made a big pile of little changes and I'm trying to split them into multiple commits, I've found git gui way better than GitX.

The history view of GitX is better than `gitk --all', though, and of course having both history and day-to-day duties in the same app is useful.

There is another app called GitY, which I hated immediately. It shows your unstaged changes and your staged changes and your untracked files all in the same window, which I found very confusing, and there doesn't appear to be any way to add individual lines into the index, which is something I do all the time.
Perhaps it's `first' as in `most on people's mind'?
Sigh. Yet another otherwise-smart person who appears completely oblivious to the distinction between design and "making stuff look pretty".
This always strikes me as odd. Personally, had I heard about it, I would never come up with bubble sort myself, nor any of my friends I asked about it. The most intuitive sorting algorithm is obviously selection sort. I'd even say that merge sort is more conceptually clear than bubble sort. Bubble sort is not much easier to implement than selection sort either. It has no interesting properties which make it worth considering (unlike, for instance, insertion sort). The only possibility of one knowing bubble sort is by hearing about it on algorithms classes, and in that case one already know heapsort and quicksort, so that there is no need for bubble sort.
To sum up, I fear bubble sort in production much, much less than, say, selection sort.
The plan is to make the rendering engine an auto-updateable library, that's independent of the browser's release schedule. Thus, users would stay current faster.

On the other hand, there will be a versioning system, so that authors can specify what version of the technology they are targeting. So if the spec changes, compatibility modules can be created akin to how Adobe apps open documents differently if they are CS3 or CS5 documents, interpreting them according to what version they are.

Usually, layers can be built with new features, where only the very basic aspects of your design require a certain feature set, while others can be optional. In some scenarios, the user will have an outdated system and the author has REQUIRED a higher version than what is installed. Then a built-in prompt to update could be displayed, maybe with an option to view anyways, with the knowledge that it may render incorrectly.

Long story short, there are many things that can be done, and we certainly will learn a lot along the way, but I think we should definitely try.
To me sites like Yelp and Urban Spoon have too much signal to noise ratio as well. I readily admit I am a food snob. And not the tasteless, this place is expensive so I have to be seen here type. I am very critical of food. I have a culinary degree and I have a refined pallet when it comes to food. I eat at hole in the wall joints as well as 5 star restaurants and the only thing I care about and judge a restaurant by is the quality of the food.

I am constantly depressed by the high ratings that establishments receive on sites like Yelp and Urban Spoon only to go in and find that they are average at best. I have been to places with 95% positive ratings on Urban Spoon and walked away very disappointed in the quality of the food. I have seen fast food restaurants like KFC and Taco Bell with 9x% ratings on Urban Spoon. Meanwhile I have went to places with a 60% to 70% rating and the food has been out of this world.

When those sites where small, unknown and mainly frequented by foodies, it seemed like the quality of the ratings where much better, now they are little guarantee of quality. Now days, I really only use them to tell me what is around and to weed out the really bad joints. If a place is below 50% positive review I avoid it above it and it is a crap shoot.

The problem is people go out for dining experiences for a variety of reasons and they rate a restaurant for all those varieties. Being a foodie, I could care less about anything but the taste of the food. If it has the explosion of flavor I am looking for, I don't care if I am eating it on a paper plate in a plastic chair. Ambiance has no value to me where others it does. The demeanor of the wait staff has no value to me (other than the amount they will be tipped) where others it does.

They really need multiple flags on these sites so that people can rate the different aspects accordingly (I have not been on Yelp in a log time, so forgive me if this has been done). For me the only flag that counts is quality of food the rest of the weight being put into the positive and negative rating is just noise for me. While others may value something totally different and want to see the ratings weighted based on that.

These sites are a great start, but they have a long way to go, before that can seat you at the table you want to be at, with any degree of accuracy. The only value I have found is that they prevent you from ending up in a place that is really really bad. Then again Taco Bell has 9x% rating in my town, so even that is not a guarantee.
State machines are anti-modular.

State machines are anti-abstraction.

State machine code is hard to read.
Generally speaking more expensive restaurants have better trained and more experienced servers that are more attentive hence deserving in a better tip. The percentage is really just a hack as a rough estimate of how much work a server had to do. While not always true a meal costing $100 will probably require more work from a server then a meal costing $50.
I use git add -p to split apart what I intend to eventually fully get into the repo. Usually, this means separating whitespace cleanup from meaningful commits. Sometimes I use it to make my commits "distinctly describable" -- instead of a big commit saying (in effect) "I did lots and lots of stuff generally to do with BigTask", I am able to describe various steps of that work, e.g. "Refactored models.", "Added supporting .js file for foo mechanism.", "Migration for bar process.", "Controller method and view for baz form."

Generally, I reserve the "make sure it works" step for just before _pushing_ (i.e. making public), rather than just before committing.

I always use either `git commit -av` or `git add -p`, so I can preview what I'm about to do. I never use the freewheeling `git commit -m`.
To Phish or not to Phish...
Found this in my inbox this morning -- just had to share... :)
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the company is Tower Bridge Exhibitions and doesn't have a trademark on "Tower Bridge", kicking people off to give a company a shorter handle is wrong.