skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>Of course, the "unnecessary" waiting: for a table, for a waiter's attention, etc. are suboptimal

yes, they're very suboptimal. and whether or not it's an iPad that's used to fix the problem, it's probably some type of basic tech. this is the opportunity that i'm talking about.

if you don't experience the frustration of the wait time, then congrats... guess you're not a customer then.
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They have credit /debit cards linked to parent accounts.
> opt-in is good (see: organ donors)

I prefer when people have to specifically say 'yes, I want my dead body to go to waste instead of saving lives'.
I didn't know what Soluto was, so I went on your main page to find out what it was while your service was down. All I saw was "Service Disruption :( We are experiencing problems with our cloud infrastructure More information..." Nothing else to click on but that one link for support. So when I clicked on it, still didn't know what it was and so I scrolled all the way down and clicked "About" then yet again I was greeted by the same alert. I understand your service is down, but does it have to take your whole site with information on your product with it just to show your service is down?

Anyways my 2 cents.

Regards.
Looks great! A web feed (and/or email notifications) of selected shows would be helpful.

By the way, a similar service for album releases: https://muspy.com/
People from the sixties now run the government -- are they questioning it?
I wish more people would ask this sort of question. Not that reading about the latest spook news or reading about people crusading for government reform isn't at least marginally interesting. Certainly it is. But put this in perspective in terms of actual impact on your life. Generally, the NSA or any enforcement agency does not send me junk mail and spam. They don't try to influence me to pay for things I don't need; they don't put my reputation at risk through some bizarre concept of "sharing" (as in giving people's personal details to corporations or whoever might be scraping Facebook); they don't generally annoy me and care less about it. That's not their job. They do not set out to do that.
The government is not sitting on a mountain of personal information, run by 20 somethings and "in search of a business model".

When you distill things down to their essence, Facebook is a next generation junk mail company. (Despite how things may appear to the naive user, they are not the medium. They do not enable connectivity, they merely utilise what is available. They are not a network; they use a network: the internet; they are a website with access control.) The amount of information they have is like nothing any direct mail company has ever seen. The level of invasiveness of marketing with this much personal information at the ready is potentially devastating; and when all is said and done, Mark Zuckerberg may have less scruples than the worst of the worst direct marketers sending you junk mail. And he can have a much larger effect on your life than someone filling your mailbox you junk mail.

The government has to follow rules. They have to be accountable. In theory, at least. By contrast, Facebook, like a direct marketer, does not have a similar mandate of representation and accountability and Facebook will do everything in its power to try to bend and break the rules. There is very little to reign in Facebook.
yes, and they are probably the best example i'm aware of so far, however i'm not a big fan of their menus... or at least the way they're laid out. like a big selection of movies to choose from, i get hungry/anxious just trying to make a decision. too many good options!

would be great if i could have a few highly-recommended favorites (either theirs, my previous, or friends), and then i can always go "off-road" and dive into the long tail of options if none of those are what i want that evening.

but yes, +1 for CheeseCake Factory.
Someone should wrote a bot to submit pull requests with these metafiles.
US only? :( A service like this that existed for all online services (country independent) and TV channels (eg: Netflix UK, Netflix US, iTunes, HBO...) would be awesome.
Seems I can get a potential mentor and investor from this thread :) I also need a designer.

Oh, I am a developer, btw.
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They're here, they're called adjuncts.
> so what is "from a German perspective"?

The video details the world events at that time that question if Germany was really the aggressor the Allies made it out to be, or if it was instead provoked into a war step-by-step.
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That is true, but that type of tactic was rare and came much later on. The vast majority of the deaths came via disease that was introduced completely unwittingly by the settlers, and spread on its own far beyond the points of contact.
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Except that there are no ads on that site and this guy has done a lot to help the RPi community lately.
yes it does depend on context; probably diff solutions for diff types of restaurants.

that said, can't see how more efficient systems / process would be an inappropriate benefit for almost any of them... even at the high-end, some systems would probably help both customer and restaurant.
Pretty cool. A mix of http://tvcountdown.com and http://eztv.it/countdown/
「。。。国際結婚はどう？」「まったく興味ありません。」 , but I trust my recollection of her response less than of his, since my brain was still reeling.
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If the quality is too low, though, the benefits to communication from seeing your partner's facial features synchronized with their voice disappear, and people won't bother using it.

If software identified the user's face in live video and transmitted just that at high resolution, discarding or compressing the rest, how much efficiency could be gained?
Are you sure? 23andme.com apparently does it for $100.
Re whitespace being significant: you can use explicit braces and semicolons instead, certainly with let and do-notation.
"Apple needs to open up the protocol and allow an API gateway so regular SMS messages can get through."

Apple creating an API wouldn't accomplish much, since Apple still wouldn't have access to the SMS message streams. The mobile carriers would have to route SMS traffic to Apple's gateway, and they're not likely to agree to that, since SMS is a huge cash cow for them.

One possibility would be to cut SMS out entirely, by convincing the senders of these messages (banks, etc.) to connect directly to Apple's API instead of sending SMS. But the problem is that Apple's service is proprietary, and all the people on Android phones will be on competing services with different APIs. So banks would have to figure out how to talk to all these different APIs. This isn't a compelling issue for banks to be spending their efforts on, since any customer who wants to receive their banking alerts without using SMS already can: these alerts are also available via e-mail, which is an open, universal and standardized protocol.

An alternate approach would be for Apple to create an e-mail to iMessage gateway that would give each user a dedicated e-mail address that would forward to their iMessage stream (similar to the many e-mail to SMS gateways that currently exist). Users could then subscribe that e-mail address to their banking alerts. Another advantage of avoiding SMS entirely is that it's an unreliable protocol, in which 1-5% of messages are lost[1]. So if your alert is actually important, you may not want to entrust it to SMS in the first place.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS#Unreliability
That's right. It's double-bad when things like that happen during the weekend so time-to-reaction is slower. All will be better tomorrow.
Nathan,
Great inspiration you are. I've read your thinktraffic posts and always enjoy. You have many great things to say.

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Keep up the hard work, and stay writing.
SLAs are worthless, because just getting your money back does nothing to repair the damage to your business. It's like if someone in your family died from food poisioning and the restaurant gave you back your $10 for lunch.
> I think the attitude that Facebook is addicting actually has more to do with people becoming bored with the service and noticing how much time they actually spend on it.

This is still something Facebook should solve. Facebook, despite its public groups and pages, still fosters incredibly insular communities, and those can get tedious very quickly. The reason Tumblr and Twitter have any popularity is that they encourage finding and following new, interesting people. They have a lot more novel content and it's easy to explore and find more of it. If Facebook gets seen as the boring, traditional social network (which to some degree it has), then that seriously damages its credibility.
I've changed the title to try to be more informative. It seems to be a fair primer, though, so perhaps worth something.
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If you're not trained in economics, or experienced in finance, it is best to assume--based on your comments-- you have no idea what you are talking about. Reading the op-ed pages of the NY times, unfortunately, does not give you either the information or perspective to judge the games Krugman is playing. If you do have this kind of training and this is what you got out of it, it seems you didn't get your money's worth or you have a vested interest in polishing someones ego. But there is nothing original, insightful, or discriminatory in anything you have written in this thread. Which is pretty typical of Krugman's supporters.
No, of course not. Error handling is just one example. The monad interface makes handling that problem you mention---wiring errors through the value pipeline---much easier.

And the monad part is only just the "just" and "bind" functions. Everything else is about trying to make Python more explicit with its errors: "explicit it better than implicit", right?

Monads allow for easier composition of "values in context". That context might be error, or nondeterminism, or continuation, or state, or logging, or parsing, or parallelism, or simulation, or probability, or graphs, or prolog-like logic, or streaming, or many combinations over the previous.

And in every case, you have the same interface.
You are right, I shouldn't have said that. Sorry.
Which was explicitly the reason for allowing semicolons and braces in Haskell: autogenerating code.

I think you should need to use a language for more than a week before writing a blog post about how much it sucks.
Exponential growth in some areas.

I don't think peoples lifestyles have changed all that much in the last 30 years. In 1982 you could point to computers, networks, and cellphones and say these are going to get far more popular. But, medicine, car millage, and battery power while improved are not that much better.

PS: What's so striking to me is how little science fiction has changed over that time span.
I'm going to break the "Don't mention my age." rule to write this post. Only because here it's relevant.

What you use and how you use it has a lot of factors besides age. It has to do with your friends, their friends, where you live, what school you go to or what job you have, etc etc.

I'd like to share an anecdote about umwelt. A few days ago, I walked into a coffee shop. I sat in that coffee shop for two hours.[0] When I first walked in my jaw hit the floor as I scanned the room. Everyone had tablets, young, old, there was no common pattern. There was one person I could see reading a physical book, and two graphic designers in the back with Macbooks. My first thought was "Either I'm living in a bubble, or coffee shops are a bubble.".

I figured that if this is what it looks like in suburbia, then it must be even crazier elsewhere. That's when it hit me. If silicon valley developers do their work in coffee shops, and all they ever see there is mobile devices, then they'll naturally develop for mobile devices. But then mobile is new, hot, and growing all the time. IIRC mobile sales have already outdone consumer desktop and laptop sales.

Are developers choosing mobile because it's new and big, or because they see it in coffee shops all the time? Probably both. They're not exactly mutually exclusive. Just like how you have to ask if consumers are switching to tablets because laptops are too bulky, or because they're more usable, or because that's where the focus of every up and coming developer is right now? Probably a combination of all three and more.

All of that might have seemed pretty obvious to you. Well it wasn't to me, heres why:

1. In my circle of friends, everyone still uses desktops or laptops. Having only a laptop seems to be a result of financial concerns, not a lack of demand for a desktop.

2. At my school a handful of people have tablets. Me being one of them. A group of kids asked me what kind of cellphone it was when I first used it in class.

3. Among my friends Facebook seems to be the dominant communication medium, alongside telephone services. I only use the latter.

4. My school has uncommon demographics, The vast vast majority could be described as one or more of the following: Nerd, Hipster, Extreme anime and manga fan, Gamer. So I guess I myself sort of live in a bubble. I don't even own a cellphone.

I live on the west coast of the US. Not exactly a remote location.

[0]: This was the first time I've ever actually sat down in a coffee shop.
Here is a benchmark result of msgpack, json, bson and protobuf: https://gist.github.com/4348013

An important point we should consider here is that actual performance depends on implementation.
Causes of Defect
Because he expresses uncertainty in more than one of his take-aways. He uses stronger language when he has more confidence in the idea.

"This may have..." or "I believe" or "this seems" all suggest he isn't stating fact and is instead thinking out loud about the possible implications of his experience.

In other words: it's obvious the author knows he is reflecting on anecdotes.
You might not realize it, but your first sentence is an example of what makes "too many girls ... feel that it [the technology field] is more of a 'guys' area."

When people say "sexism," that's a big part of what they mean. It's not necessarily treating women as if they're inferior to men, but rather creating an environment -- sometimes knowingly, usually not -- where women don't feel comfortable or welcome because they are women.

Pinching butts, whistling, making sexual advances, hiring unqualified men over qualified women, etc. are all ham-handed ways of creating that environment.

But sexism is also embedded in things like our instinct to comment first on a woman's appearance, call them "girls" instead of "women," and constantly sexualize them in small and seemingly insignificant ways.
Yes, their menus are the weakest part. But it would be an excellent restaurant to try something electronic, since it's "fun".

The other thing I like (at some high-end steak or seafood places) is when they roll a cart out with the meats of the day. Or, Chinese Dim Sum carts. If there were a way for tech to replicate that, I'd be quite happy.

Also for delivery or takeout, there's huge potential to show off daily specials and such.
The only reported outage I'm seeing is Storage / South Central US - https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/support/service-dashboard...
What does the I in IED stand for?
This is a basic feature of all the private TV trackers i've been on. I've yet to see a good one that's publicly available and not associated with some piracy site.
Could you expand on soft landing? Flying high and crashing and burning are somewhat self explanatory from a fund manager's perspective, but I'm curious what you meant by soft landing.

Do you mean a 'life-style business', or trying a few smaller ideas simultaneously?

(Genuinely interested, not sniping or anything).
You can still cover real food in fat and sugar and salt.

Someone eating food bought only from Michelin starred restaurants is going to be in trouble unless they're careful about what they eat.
Did you guys see this video?: http://vimeo.com/53261709
Github uses MessagePack for their internal RPC protocol.
I hope so. I've been using my old Nokia N900 after my touch-only Galaxy Nexus got stolen, and having the slide-out keyboard is wonderful.
jacquesm: As a "third world person", I don't think the West owes anything to us. It's actually a very Euro-centric and arguably racist model of the world to believe that only whites have agency and that everything hinges on what whites did or did not do.

Nonwhite people are perfectly capable of killing themselves (and whites!) in huge numbers. Genghis Khan, Shaka Zulu, the Aztecs, and the Arabs conquered lands and put many cities to the sword. Islam radiated out from the Middle East to the Atlantic and the Pacific, with sword.

What do you think Genghis or Shaka Zulu would have done if they invented guns and ships first? They're human. They would have conquered Europe and enslaved Europeans. Indeed, many Europeans were enslaved by North African slave traders.

Europeans do lose battles. It is racist to think otherwise. Didn't the Japanese win the Russo-Japanese war? Wasn't the Muslim world on the offensive when Europeans were in disarray? Weren't China and India the centers of the world economy for hundreds of years?

All civilizations rise and fall. Europeans had a great run from 1492 to 2008. China is currently the top dog, even if many people in the West haven't realized it. And they didn't get rich from Western aid, and they sure didn't benefit from the export of that oh-so-Western ideology of communism, thought up by a dead white guy named Karl Marx.

They created their wealth and are lifting a billion plus people out of poverty.

When they're on top, which they already are, are you going to still claim that the West is the sole driver of history, that everyone is what they are because of Western action or inaction? Or will you agree that China (and India, and all the others) are human too, and can build up their own societies without "help" from the West? Because China doesn't want your aid and it sure doesn't want your pity. But it'd be happy to sell you a chip for $199, as an equal partner in a trade.
Awesome.

Give me an email notification option for when they'll be aired and this will be perfect.
TheTVDB.com has an API for this: http://www.thetvdb.com/wiki/index.php/API:GetEpisodeByAirDat...
Well, at least you are consistent, sticking to the ad-hominems and staying well clear of any kind of substantive support for your silly little claims.
As an American who has a slightly hard time figuring out when new series of less popular panel shows air in the UK, agreed completely.
15 year olds definitely want to have "compatibility with different systems" including the source of their pay packets, allowance, and access to resources - ie old people and their old email.

But it turns out email, even if used infrequently, is still important. It's easy to have multiple accounts sit there indefinitely. Not controlled by one fatcat pulling privacy strings and strategizing your online activity.

Meanwhile another million blue 'f' logos are printed, each destined for a shopfront window, cash register, door. Beckoning the registration and sign up and sign over of your stuff. In return, FB tells a few advertisers about you and your stuff. And FB also reserves the right to build the mechanics of your social communications, private and public, the particulars of which will be in accordance with Facebook's sole decision and strategy in an advertiser-hungry world... And other things without notice and so on.
I don't think picking one type of weather event from one geographic location over a relatively short time-frame is going to be representative (however I am by no means suggesting you intentionally picked data that favoured your argument).

This more encompassing study shows a definite trend, although I accept my use of the word 'exponential' was ill-advised without concrete evidence to back it up:

'The data show that the number of such events is rising. Munich Re, one of the world's largest reinsurance companies, has compiled the world's most comprehensive database of natural disasters, reaching all the way back to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79. Researchers at the company, which obviously has a keen financial interest in trends that increase insurance risks, add 700 to 1,000 natural catastrophes to the database each year, explains Mark Bove, senior research meteorologist in Munich Re's catastrophe risk management office in Princeton, N.J. The data indicate a small increase in geologic events like earthquakes since 1980 because of better reporting. But the increase in the number of climate disasters is far larger. "Our figures indicate a trend towards an increase in extreme weather events that can only be fully explained by climate change," says Peter Höppe, head of Munich Re's Geo Risks Research/Corporate Climate Center: "It's as if the weather machine had changed up a gear.'[1]

[1] http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=extreme-wea...
Routine gene sequencing sounds like a nightmare to me, more on the level of some dystopian Gattaca than a medical miracle. If those devices are not open to scrutiny, if independent reviewers cannot guarantee that genomic information will remain secure and will never leave the device, then they should not be trusted and patients should refuse to be sequenced. Even then, we would have questions -- could a school sequence every student's DNA, and have these devices check for markers associated with "undesirable" ethnic groups (perhaps by claiming that those markers are correlated with poor academic performance, just so they can pretend to be a meritocratic system)?

We have already had a glimpse of the darker side of gene sequencing:

http://www.nature.com/news/genome-test-slammed-for-assessing...
"You sweat, you die". That's what I have learned watching those survival shows (Survivorman, etc)
Like the concept, but the implementation doesn't really click with me. The ideal for any task-tracking system is to require as little manual overhead as possible. Typing in stuff and clicking boxes is not very appealing. The Chrome extension is a lot more interesting.

Using coins to purchase in-game rewards is a good idea. User-defined rewards, nah. Probably not.

There's too much conceptual overlap between Habits and Daily. I'd get rid of Habits entirely (who really wants "micro-tasks"?), except as an API thing.

If you want to make something exceptionally cool, integrate with RescueTime and Fitbit.
How much is patio willing to say the bulk of his income (consulting) is due to him being "Internet famous" and that cannot really be replicated without brute force persistence and luck?
I don't have the same definition of 'them' that Halliburton's DoD has, though.
Do whatever you want - no excuse
23andMe doesn't fully sequence your genes. They just look for specific patterns.
99% of people from the sixties are not running the government.