skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who cares if this is a PR stunt? It answers the question quite truthfully, they aren't hiding the fact they have a food stylist who cooks the ingredients in a different way, tactfully places the meat, condiments and salads for a good picture. It's a known fact that in every industry involving photography; clothes, food, beverages, cars, electronic products is altered via Photoshop. Perfect lighting and a great photographer are about 90% of the work and the last 10% is usually minor alterations as seen in the video.

Another reason that explains why the burgers look amazing in the advertising is because the food stylist has access to where ingredients are placed and what ingredients he uses. In McDonald's stores they just use whatever ingredients they have on hand and if you've ever worked at McDonald's or know someone else who has or does, then you'd probably know a lot of their salads are frozen/refrigerated compared to a food stylist who would have access to the freshest ingredients that haven't been frozen.

You could quite clearly see the food stylist laying out several pieces of cheese on a plate, several pickles and carefully placing where the sauces went. The meat looks bigger because it was lightly seared in a pan and most likely not ingestible. Everyone knows meat shrinks when you cook it and you can see the stylist cooking the patty in a pan, and then holding it on a George Foreman looking grill, making sure it browned evenly.

The bottom line is: nothing ever looks the same as it does in an advertisement and the fact that people still complain and bring this up amazes me. We live in a society where nothing we see in magazines, TV, the Internet or newspapers is real most of the time.
The broken zoom-in/out is probably a bug and should be fixed soon. I think you're confusing rem with vw/vh, rem has nothing to do with pixels AFAIK. 1em is equal to the font-size of the element you're applying it to while 1rem is always equal to the font-size of the root element i.e., <html>.
None of the charts make sense to me and the "percents" don't seem to add up in either direction. I sadly can't get or trust any information from them
The point isn't that Microsoft also has its keys loaded.

But right now, nobody can ensure that any other keys will be able to be added, mostly because it is up to the hardware vendors to implement that, and windows right now is the only one giving them an actual incentive, i.e. money.

Most people will agree that SecureBoot itself isn't evil, quite the contrary, that it is useful, and that it is useful to everyone. But right now, the minimum hardware vendors have to implement is "boot Windows with SecureBoot and be able to disable SecureBoot". The point is, how do we get others to be able to use SecureBoot just like Microsoft is allowed to from the very get go.

The problems in user freedom do not arise from SecureBoot as a technology, they arise from Microsoft being in from the get go, giving incentives to hardware vendors to ensure that things work for Microsoft, and that's it. Unless a way can be found to also reliably sign other systems (Linux, BSD etc.), SecureBoot and Microsoft's position as the a priori trusted software vendor make for two classes of software: Software working out of the box (=Windows) and that not working (=everything else).

There is no incentive whatsoever for manufacturers to give people control over their computers, and that is the crux.
Do you have technology that can detect the impact of the virus?

How about having/naming like a viruspedia which users could edit the nature of the virus, side effects, causes and loses and impacts.
I'm no economist, but AFAIK market forces are defined by the way people buy/sell goods.

Your analogy fails to draw a parallel since you have only one side, the seller. Also, you're talking about reselling here, where the main debate is the sharing of music.

However I fail to realize where you deny this is "the market". Consumers are making their demands known by pursuing alternative ways of obtaining a good. Seems pretty market-y to me, regardless of the means.
While this is theoretically correct, it goes against the principle of the web.

Write the content, provide some structural guidance (paragraphs, item lists, etc...) and let readers decide how to render it.
The author starts off with a nicely logical analysis of whether companionship is worth it, backed by anecdotal evidence from her life. I think she doesn’t give enough evidence for her conclusion that people don’t “provide satisfaction and relaxation” – she only mentioned one story, and didn’t describe any times when people were good – but at least she tries to base her decisions on evidence. And then at the end she says “perhaps our solitude is just saving up energy for companionship” – and then stops there, assuming that that first hypothesis is right (and concluding based on that assumption that being around people is worth it, after all). Where did all her logic go? She has given no evidence of any kind for that, unlike everything else she discussed before. She’s wasting her previous painstaking analysis by ending with an unsupported storybook, feel-good decision. That’s too bad; it makes this article significantly less useful as a guide to deciding whether going out is worth it in my case.
> Disadvantage is more verbosity

Type inference cuts down the verbosity tremendously.
Biographies and Conversations
First prove that a computer is capable of 'free speech' and forming opinions. And if, in the very unlikely case that a computer could form an opinion even slightly related to the human world, then the issue may become relevant.

However, it is extremely likely that a computer will never genuinely form its own opinion about human issues such as birth control or racism.

But what about animals? Just because we lack the ability to understand their communication (computers 'trick us' because they appear to communicate in human dialect) doesn't mean they aren't harbouring controversial or illegal views - should animals be condemned for theft and tax evasion?
In my past I worked in a small racing team in Germany. Still young, there were two things I learned from my co-pilot who was a known race driver in the late 80s:

1. 'It's not the speed that kills you, it's the sudden stop.'

2. 'always better, never perfect.'

It took some while until I understood that the petrol head was a better philosopher as I thought.

Might be that you discover tour own thoughts in these two quotes too?
Many device makers seem to have no problem selling Android 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 phones that have no chance in hell of ever getting upgraded. Not sure why that would be much of an issue for Nokia, although, personally, I'd like to see MS enforce upgrades from manufacturers vs allowing a 'wild-west' Android-style ecosystem.
If I walk into a McDonald's, I know that $5 will get me a cheeseburger, some fries, and a drink. I know what it'll taste like, and I know the food will be ready in about 2 minutes. I'm sure Bongo Burger is amazing, and now that I've heard of it I'll have to try it next time I'm in Berkeley. But for all I know, a Bongo Burger might cost $10 and have a half-hour wait before they get my order cooked; that's not always what I'm looking for, and that's perfectly fine.
US military surveillance future: Drones now come in swarms?
Unfortunately, hacker news has no downvote. You are saved.
Programming is the most important part of making software, programmers are right ...
I am systems analyst
Florida Governor’s Office Has Staff "Recall" Thank You E-mail
With the luckiest job in the world...
I'm not discouraging debate. I'm simply saying that arguing morality will fail to sway market forces, and the fact that record labels believe in the exact opposite is foolish, and bordering on ignorant. The record labels can stand on the side of "good" until they go bankrupt. Pyrrhic victories do nothing for the bottom line.
Sencha was an easy choice to get our MVP in the hand of users. We have more critical features to work on that are orders of magnitude more important to our users.
The girl herself cares and is naively lamenting about it while not realising her lack of perspective is part of the problem. It's the whole point of the article you dum-dum.

Read before you comment.
Really...?
You have nothing against them, except the belief that they should't accept who they are?
We bin people like that because, before the bins, we just assumed there was one and that people who weren't in it were bad. Now we know there are two, and people might simply be in a different "good" rather than out in the "bad".
Two words that keep fast food on everyone's mind:

DOLLAR MENU
Good on ya, Dan.

I would recommend you looking into becoming financially independent using techniques found on http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/ within five years of joining the workforce (perhaps you are almost there already).

That way you can do business/coding/design at your own pace without worrying about having enough to pay the bills.
I agree.. the problem is that "meaningful" technology often takes much longer to come up with, create, and is often harder to monetize even once created. Government (e.g. DARPA) is a big supporter of this kind of development, but there's just not as much fast money there are there is in Silicon Valley's VCs.
Oh, I agree with you in terms of big conferences.

I suppose I should have defined "conferences" more closely, which for me includes workshops, workgroups etc. Right now, my subject isn't the biggest, so people usually know each other, each other's interests and what most other people are currently working on.

So yes, different experiences with conferences here. However, you are obviously right that the bigger the conference, the less constructive the overall discussion. This in a way corresponds to the aforementioned amount of readers targeted. If you aim to reach a broader audience, discussion will be less in-depth, if you specialise and focus on a smaller amount, discussion is more likely to be more relevant.
The basketball reference is a good one - even if you're the best player you've ever known coming out of HS, the odds of making it in the NBA are obscenely low.

Spending every weekend and vacation throughout childhood hacking really limits your perspective on the world. Sure, you might get the inspiration to write a GitHub that targets developers. Then you have things like Instagram, Facebook & Basecamp that require actual life experience to understand the need.

Get out and experience the world, take the liberal arts classes, make friends with 'normal people', get laid, work some shitty jobs The Man - whatever it takes to expand your mind. There's a lot of things that a middle-class, tech-obsessed geek just out of high school, no matter how bright, just doesn't get.
_what_ is this: http://imgur.com/SZtC9

and why did it show up while playing ?
This.

Her conclusion was emotional, not intellectual. I'm fairly confident that was intentional.
The bun doesn't shrink evenly. It strinks more under and above the ingredients - essentially sagging and hiding them.

I aggree that if it shrunk uniformly, then it would make the contents look proportionally bigger.
Definitely Web Scale!

http://nosql.mypopescu.com/post/1016320617/mongodb-is-web-sc...
New video. Can't say I'm not jealous, but it's certainly good motivation to succeed... To do things like this.
I've had good experiences with Thinkpads, Ubuntu has their own list:

http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/desktop/
So you can load this from a schematic format, parse it, get all the element symbols loaded in the right places, grab and render the fonts and place them appropriately, and construct a well-formed output like https://www.nerdkits.com/media/circuitlab/20120620-democircu... , all in 1/30th of a core-second? With a bunch of disk seeks in there too?

Of course, we could devote engineering effort to bring that 10 seconds down by an order of magnitude, writing a fully custom PDF (and EPS, SVG, PNG, ...) rendering engine, but part of the beauty of elastic cloud computing is that we can make better use of existing components -- even if it's less efficient from a CPU time perspective -- because the CPU time is cheap and programmer time is expensive (and better used elsewhere). There's a balance, of course, but making well-informed tradeoffs is what engineering is all about.
Evopsych stuff is still speculative bullshit, IMO. I'm rather glad she left it out.
Depending on the aggressiveness of the corporate culture, the first point of contact also gives the client one non-sales throat to choke.
>We evolved from social primates into other social primates. You're adding a lot of psychological stress at a fundamental level when you don't live the way you're bred

Hardly. Few people choose to live in caves, and a life of doing so would probably be more stressful than normal, despite that it's what we're bred for. And I'm pretty sure going to a bar or a rock concert was never part of the ancestral environment.

If you tried staying in, found it made you feel much more stressed and so switched to going out that would be one thing, but that's not the experience the author describes at all.
I have difficulty believing these poll numbers. How can 46% of Americans be full-on young-Earth creationists, when I've never met one? I think there must be some flaw in the way they're asking the question, apart from the fact that the phrasing of the question seems to presuppose the existence of a guy called "God" (I would replace with "a god or gods").

What about missing poll options? Surely there must be some young-Earth creationists out there who nonetheless believe the human race is over ten thousand years old. In fact, there's a whole term for this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Earth_creationism

I am fond of pointing out (as it annoys many people) that not only is intelligent design not incompatible with evolution, but also that "intelligent design" is pretty much implied by the tenets of most monotheisms. If you have an omnipotent god who sets the initial conditions of the big bang, then he can hardly fail to know perfectly well that the initial particle trajectories he programs in will lead, inevitably, to the formation of Earth and intelligent life thereon. Assuming that said deity had a choice in initial conditions, the fact that he chose the initial conditions that he did must mean that he designed everything in the universe, since from an omnipotent being's point of view setting the initial conditions is perfectly equivalent to setting everything up from scratch at T=1.37e10 years. (The alternative is that you have a deity who can't predict the outcome of quantum events, but what kind of crappy omniscience is that?)
So at least that post makes 7.8 appear like nothing but a minor skin upgrade. Why is that interesting in any way? Any poor buyer of current Lumia phones is still never getting an upgrade that fills in all those gaping holes in the feature set.
Rebuttal: http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/were-not-censoring-you-just-y...
Well, enough of that. Here's a new theory: There are no bins, there's a continuum of behaviours, and there's no good or bad.
It isn't 60 seconds if I have to wait two weeks for an invite code...
By your analogy, then, if I bought a cup of Starbucks coffee and proceeded to give it to someone else that person is a thief?
At which point does "considering the wider impact of what you do" cross into "pandering to people with an inflated sense of self-importance" though? I've seen endless discussions online where the latter isn't even acknowledged as an actual possibility. In particular, it seems North Americans are far more eager to side with an offendee than e.g. Europeans.
Maybe not so much legally, but in any other way it might not work so well. It only takes someone to summarise the course of events as "Inman incites mob to exact revenge on audacious lawyer", and suddenly Carreon is the victim.

Of course, the mob's lust for blood achieves nothing but self preservation, and even if the claims are baseless, we're observing each day the consequences of its actions; mostly in the form of Carreon building up his case with ostensibly supportive evidence, and dragging other websites into the fray who had no involvement except to allow people to comment.

But, I dunno, I'm not the greatest advocate of internet vigilantism.
It doesn't sound like she needed help. It sounds like she's realised she doesn't want or need as much social interaction as our culture leads you to believe you "should" - and she's living a successful, fulfilling life. If that's not validation for such an approach, then what is? Why should I want to be "better"?
The Internet of people
If you have been to max last year, you would know it has more to do with release cycles.
Negligence Suit Filed Against Cycling Website [Strava] Over Accidental Death
San Fran Muni's new logo is a clone
Solving a problem? Are you looking at the right places?
Third, there is at least some merit to the idea that dropping the bombs wasn't just meant to scare the Japanese - it was also meant to demonstrate their power to the USSR.

Absolutely. It's possible that the invasion of Japan that was prevented by the bombings was not going to be the one that most people think of. I've always felt the atomic bombings had more to do with sending a message to Stalin than with sending one to Hirohito. At the close of WWII, the Russians were making some very ominous moves in Japan's direction.

Was it worth 200,000+ lives to keep Japan from spending the next several decades as a Soviet satellite state? Very possibly... but I wasn't there, and the people who were sacrificed certainly didn't get a chance to make their views known.
Pah - we had a guy doing this 70years ago with just a gyro compass and a prop shaft counter.

And he managed to hit London most of the time.
I find Peter Thiel intriguing. He is either inconsistent in thought or he is a great practitioner of double think (he may even be somewhere in between).

This fund appears to be a global credit bubble surfer focusing on the influx of macro capital into Silicon Valley. He has argued against doing things that were akin to "globalization", yet this entire fund is essentially providing capital to do just that (scaling out things that have already been proven). He asks everyone to do "0 to 1" companies (develop new technology), whilst simultaneously investing in "1 to many" companies which require simple scaling out to be rather profitable (or sold to another company).

I think Peter Thiel is boundedly rational (aren't we all? -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounded_rationality).

He is akin to an entrepreneur who realizes that things are just about to get crazy, calls out the crazy, but still raises massive amounts of money and levers up just because he knows he can benefit from it.

I respect that. That is flexibility in thought. I should practice double think more often.

> Mithril .. will seek “growth” opportunities — start-ups that have already raised some venture capital and are looking to ramp up significantly. According to Mr. Royan, the firm is looking globally but is not interested in pre-I.P.O. companies or companies on the verge of going public.

> “We’re looking for inflection points,” Mr. Royan said. “We’re not looking for companies that are a done deal; we want companies that are about to hit a growth stage.”

This sounds like a tulip broker where one takes a levered spread on the delta between the credit of today and that of tomorrow.
Surface presentation Fail
Humans may in general be hardwired for social interaction, but not everyone is. In fact, there's an entire spectrum of need for social interaction, ranging from constant need to none at all.
HN outperforms on all those points
Two paths to greatness
The design and implementation of LZW
Start Up Tools We Actually Use
Quite a lot if you don't want stuff to break.
In related news, I hear crowdfunding is now legal. I'm a part-time single founder without an idea working a four-hour work week targeting a 1% slice of a massive market... anybody want to invest?
Is the notion of copyrights obviously the default moral position?

I think attribution rights probably are. The grant and transfer of long term distribution rights is less clear.
Python 3: time to get on or get off.
It is now more than 3 years since Python 3 was released but so many people are delaying to update the drivers, libraries and frameworks that they have developed and released for Python 2. Python 2 is finished folks. Time to move on to Python 3. Embrace it and stop grumbling. Python 2 is now yesteryear. Digging your heels in won't stop the future coming. If you are the owner of a framework or library or driver, please thoroughly support Python3. If you just can't come to terms with Python3 then it's hard to see where you are heading with that position in the long term. If you really really oppose Python 3, then isn't that effectively saying you are finished with it? Thanks goodness an ever increasing number of drivers and frameworks ARE now supporting Python 3 (to a greater or lesser extent), which is starting to make the laggards look somewhat less relevant.
If anyone knows anyone at SFMTA or Method, we would love to speak to them! :)
You remind me of a time my youngest son was coaching me on Master of Magic. He told me to go into the town with a particular unit "...and wreck his shit".

That's a gamer attitude: Wreck his shit. If you aren't comfortable with it, then you are likely to have trouble with a gamer social environment.
I'm pretty proud, this is my first submission on the frontpage and it's number 1.
I'm new to this...so with IFTTT and Zapier, are they hand building their own APIs to these services?
The Turing test, psychopathy, and a shot at redemption
Based on my observations, I'd say it actually does alternate. My theory is that the motor speed is slow enough and consistent enough, as is the friction, that the motor consistently overshoots by half a pole when it stops. Thus, it moves in the opposite direction when turned back on. If it was moving faster, it might well be random. What's the chances of it displaying bifurcation then chaos? :-)

Given that the period of my oven is bang on 12 seconds, averaged over many revolutions, I think it's probably a synchronous motor.
While they don't care I think it will make some people think. It might give even a few the idea for their future career; this was a very good short about presentation and it did show some of the tricks of the trade.

Plus for me its fun to see it.
Damn, now I'm really in the mood for some Mos Burger. Fast food that looks exactly like their pictures. http://www.flickr.com/photos/kalleboo/5997808382/lightbox/
Breathtaking Photographs Of Animals Inside The Womb
Startling, magical and jaw-droppingly beautiful in equal amounts.
Because we rarely ask our muscles to work that way. Deadlifts, especially, strengthen our bodies against the most commonly encountered stresses. While bench presses are commonly recommended, I think overhead presses and bent rows are more helpful at preventing injuries.
I'm just 'arguing' that pitting static typing against dynamic typing using specific languages as examples isn't necessarily the whole picture. Saying that static typing will save you from attempting to call methods on None in Python is a fallacy. Saying that Haskell's static type system will save you, is possibly correct.

My original point was that it's possible that we (programmers) focus more on issues that could be with static typing (of some implementation) just because it seems like a group of problems that could be 'easily' solved. I.e. 'the grass is always greener'
The Disaster at the Fed
Great post, I generally agree with it. But the homerun lure is too strong right now. If it were me, I would probably step up and swing if I were in your shoes. If funding is easy, let it be easy and do what you have to do when the climate changes. Adapt
Do I really need to create an account to play this game?
Or, he could just heat the water in the thermal mug! (assuming it's non-metallic)
Who cares? There are going to be millions if not billions of Secure Boot ARM devices manufactured. x86 doesn't make this not a problem.