skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see some advantages in what the author says, but I don't think the tech industry is a particularly good metaphor - for example, suggesting high-quality pictures of food will convert better. I've not ever been involved in the business end of a restaurant, but I've eaten in a few, and I can't believe that "converting" people who are reading a menu into people who have chosen something is actually a big problem - 99.5% of customers surely manage that one way or another.

Similarly, I'm not sure that providing reviews is obviously a good thing for a restaurateur - they hardly want to show you negative reviews of their dishes, and if they only show the positive ones it's obviously useless. I sort of see what he means about people saying when things suck, but surely if the restaurant knows one of their dishes is crap they'd be better off fixing or removing it than showing it with poor reviews.
Nah, I was ready for children 3 years ago, just hadn't found the right woman until two years ago. Now I'm the proud parent of a 1 year old. I never wanted to have kids until about 3 years ago. I knew I wasn't ready then. Our kid wasn't an accident, she was planned, and I am glad that our plan worked out. She's a delight, and I love every minute that I spend with her.

The decision to have a child isn't about vanity, or narcissism. You have to put up with being kicked, vomited on, abused and hated when you become a father / mother. That comes with the territory. You have to put someone above yourself, and it really is a humbling experience.
Ok, so I am a Bitcoin fan and I am a demurrage fan but I couldn't figure out how you could combine these two.

5% of all coins disappear per year. (BTW: Gesell's Wörgl had a much much higher demurrage.) I read this would be equal to the block reward which I guess is the asymptotic value and not the truth from day one (constant block reward as opposed to halfing block reward like bitcoin with 5% demurrage will lead to an equilibrium).

Proof of work: Approximately the amount of money goes into mining that newly mined coins are worth. If the client shows me that I have less in my wallet every day, the block reward is simply worth more. The proposed system means that 5% of the freicoin's money reserve is spent on mining per year. Today's banks most likely burn the same order of magnitude of world's money supply. Hmm, might work but it's a waste of resources to burn 5% of the world economy to keep book of transactions.

Proof of stake: As mining might get excessively expensive if the value of Ƀ rises faster than the reward halves, proof of stake is an option to bring this waste of resources to an end. In Freicoin this would directly reverse the demurrage.

I assume the developers of Freicoin picked 5% exactly because of these issues. Else 25% would be much more reasonable. 5% is the average weekly volatility of bitcoin and was the average daily volatility last year. $ vs € have this volatility yearly. Calling this demurrage is a joke.

[My approach was to have - high - demurrage be cashed out evenly to people as a basic income. Only problem is that you would have to qualify as a natural person to get such a cash-out address which would lead to very very schizophrenic scammers or to total control if governments pick up the idea.]
The code tag does nothing, do this instead:

Text after a blank line that is indented by two or more spaces is reproduced verbatim. (This is intended for code.)

http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
As evidenced by the large number of merchants that accept semiconductors as payment for goods and services.
Lots of gays want to adapt kids and have family actually.
Who is this comment responding to? Surely it's on the wrong thread, since FISA does not give the "police" the ability to surveil "almost anybody" withot "bureaucratic hoops".
Chrome isn't at fault for this, though. It's a combination of people wanted to test out and play with the new stuff (a good thing), and not being thorough enough to add all the extra vendor prefixes where possible (which is a waste of time on some things if it won't work anyway).

I wrote a library to abstract the code needed to access the user's webcam through the browser. I had to hold off an experimental launch for around 3 months before I could say it was widely supported, and not just by Chrome.

For experimental stuff, I don't think it's reasonable to hold back like that. It's a great way to check the robustness of an implementation, or the viability of an idea, before it becomes mainstream.
The exhaust will clear itself if it's only snow. It's quite hot and will melt the snow very fast.
No offense to you, but I think they asked older people, not people in their thirties.
At the high end of moving out (rich people), California is unappealing because it's budgetfucked. Education, transportation, public services, and everything else will suffer for a long time. This leads to their crazy high state income tax and crazy high sales taxes and municipalities doing insane additional taxes for businesses on top of everything else.

The Bay Area may be the best place to create Show Me Your Food 13.0, but I think you can build things elsewhere with nicer conditions.
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No, because that would be illegal, and a possible conflict of interest for me.
Seriously??? That's very surprising that someone who reads hn hasn't heard of something as popular as instagram. It was a big deal on hn when fb bought them. even a quick search on hn shows over four thousand results. I don't buy it unless you're new to hn or the internet.
1 million req/day is 11 qps; a few million req/day isn't enough to knock over a Pentium III.
Sen. Feinstein, who I've voted for since I was 18, just lost a huge chunk of the respect I had for her.
Fuck!
Sorry but this experiment works only on Google Chrome.

Fuck indeed.
Creepy indeed. What happens if #2 has kids... and he's still unfulfilled?
Also: STAY WITH THE VEHICLE.

In general, if you're driving somewhere remote and something goes wrong, you're almost always better off staying with your vehicle vs. setting out on foot for help. There are obviously exceptions, but as a general thing, it's true.
This quote doesn't add to the discussion and is also incorrectly attributed to Churchill.

http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/speeches/quotations/qu...
Yes, he sounds like a sanctimonious cunt and he hasn't even gotten started.
You probably need to offset the line coordinates by (0.5, 0.5).

This is because the Canvas path coords describe the center points through which the stroke will be painted. So a vertical black line drawn through the coordinate (100, 100) wirh line width of 1 will render so that its minimum x coord is 99.5 and maximum x is 100.5. Since most render targets are 1:1 mapped to actual display pixels with antialiasing, what you get is two pixels of 50% black. To get one pixel of 100% black, the coordinate should fall right in the middle of the display pixel, i.e. 100.5 in this example.

Hopefully that makes some sense (typed on a phone...)
I imagine that would be correct, yeah. If you don't specify to cache something, it shouldn't be cached. If a proxy out there still caches it, I'd consider it broken.
What would you say about the criticism that people like Tata, Mittal or Ambani can get ahead by virtue of being powerful enough to evade the crippling permit and protectionism imposed by the Indian state. Such people have an interest not to open up India to competition too quickly as to jeopardize their businesses. In other words, they are part of the power structure that's preventing or retarding reforms.

Eventually, they will want to open up the local markets and reform the bureaucracy, but at a slow enough pace as not to interfere with their quasi-monopoly position. Slow growth or stagnation is producing a net "rent" for the powerful few, while prolonging misery for the rest.
One of the big criticisms Rippetoe makes of machines in the book Starting Strength mentioned in the article is that because they can cause unbalanced muscle development and increase the chances of injury over the long run.
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Ask HN: How are you using the time between Christmas and New Year?
I would like to know how you guys are using the time between Christmas and NewYear.
Do you spend it with your family? Or was Christmas already to much family overload?
Are you using the time to try out new technology/frameworks? Or are you working on side project? Or whatever?
Sure, I'm biased because I moved here from NYC, but also check out Nashville. You can live like a Columbian drug lord on NYC (or California) freelance rates.
The Manhattan Institute is an explicitly conservative political organisation. That doesn't inherently invalidate any of the conclusions they draw, but readers should be aware that they have been made with a pro-free market, anti-big government mindset. Others may draw quite different conclusions from the same facts.
Because the customer wants to pay in freicoins, and tools exist (or will exist - I'm talking from the future) to make acceptance hassle-free, and the value will be stable long enough to convert into the currency of your choice.

(Of course the macroeconomic recession-proof nature of demurrage currency makes it desirable for merchants as well, and the zero-interest loans are a boon for entrepreneurship. I'm just saying even if you're skeptical, that shouldn't be a barrier to acceptance.)
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I don't get it either, interest isn't inherent to a currency, when I hold dollar bills I don't accrue interest, but if I put them in a bank, or other security they do.
I worried this would be the intrepretation. I didn't offset "with no desire to contribute to the gene pool" with commas, meaning I was still just describing myself. I know plenty of people who want to adopt and/or want to have their genes involved in a surrogate child or what not.

I suppose I could have just elided the "gay" part, but then it would just be the same as referring to anyone who doesn't want kids as opposing evolution. I don't really understand the argument anyway I suppose. Are we supposed to just be machines of evolution? Pump out kids, toss the normal ones and try to weed out ones with traits to promote? Eugenics?
Hello,

Have you tried setting a redirection rule on your bucket so that when the 500 error occurs, S3 will automatically retry the request? You can set a redirection rule in the S3 console, and I think the following rule might work:

<RoutingRules>
<RoutingRule>
<Condition>
<HttpErrorCodeReturnedEquals>500</HttpErrorCodeReturnedEquals>
</Condition>
<Redirect>
<HttpRedirectCode>301</HttpRedirectCode>
</Redirect>
</RoutingRule>
</RoutingRules>

This will redirect all 500s back to the same location, effectively re-trying the request. This should cover the random 500 case but I'm not sure that it will work 100% of the time though.
Would rather have more parks and forests than more people. Carry on.
I'd really like to know the stories behind some of these. Why is favicon the second most searched for entry in Wikipedia in China?
good read, but more of a reddit material than a HN
Why would anyone want to make an interest free loan with an arms length party? I understand that from time to time these things happen, like KIVA, but seriously why would I lend out my money for the opportunity of not getting it back?
This is where people get really confused, and most of what you read mis-frames it badly. The way US law has always worked is that our intelligence services and military can legally collect any and all communications between non US persons (ie. not a citizen, resident, visa holder, or company incorporated in the US).

Now, this gets complicated if you have communication between two non US persons transiting a system in the US. Under the old FISA law there was no provision for handling this case, and there was a very credible legal argument that unrestricted collection of such communication was entirely fine under existing laws and presidential directives. So, after 9/11 the Bush administration decided to use that argument to compel various US telecom providers to grant access to these non US communications. (They did other stuff too, but that's the big one that the FISA law changed.)

People legitimately got freaked out at various things when the FISA situation went broadly public. And it really is a bad idea for the government to be able to press companies into providing foreign intelligence collection capability with no oversight. However, the intelligence community had actually been complaining about exactly this situation for decades earlier, because their conservative approach (prior to 9/11) had been to push everything through the FISA courts (which issued an order intended for targeting US persons). So, members of congress already had a bill mostly written to reform FISA for this case of non US person communications transiting US systems. That's the basis of the current FISA law.

So, that's where this whole warrant-less wiretapping thing comes from. The executive branch can now authorize collection for up to one year if various criteria and oversight are met, including a reasonable expectation that the collection will not contain any communications between US persons. And that authorization has the power of a warrant in that it can be used to compel service providers and telecoms to comply. As always, if all parties are non US persons and the systems used are outside the US then FISA doesn't apply at all, and the targets are simply fair game.
If I lived in a non-urban area, I'd probably keep an Iridium handsets in my car again. $500 or so for a used one, and you can get cheap plans.
The first author says "we" and "me" and "I" and talks about their own experience, including some consideration on what they may be missing.

The second author says mostly "you" and projects their own experience onto every childfree couple. That's pretty presumptuous and, as you noted, narcissistic.
thieves don't like Android phones?
The less sensational title: Revenue alone doesn't matter, you have to consider it in context.

If the question is purely, "What is a ballpark MRR for a Series A SaaS company?", this is a helpful thread: http://www.quora.com/Software-as-a-Service-SaaS/What-are-ave...
Is this statement based on your experience working in quality focused restaurants?
Id like to see a decrease in the number of external devices we rely on. Progressing towards an input/output device that is integrated into or onto the body somehow is what Im waiting for!!
Ha! Nobody there I ever heard of.
Somehow, I don't think this represents the future of transportation.
I had a philosophy professor who taught Existentialism, and he told us the story of how he almost froze to death while hiking . How he started to hallucinate that death himself had come to take him away. Eventually, he said he became calm and accepted his fate, and that freezing to death wasn't a bad way to go. Too bad he retired that semester, what an interesting guy.
But if this were true, wouldn't we be in deep trouble as soon as just one deflating currency or commodity existed? All wealth would be hoarded in the form of that one thing. And gold exists.

Even if you are correct and the existence of gold is detrimental to the economy, I don't see how you can prevent the effects of an existing devaluating currency/commodity by creating a new inflating one.
>I don't understand why people are saying "I have so many things left to do and so many places to visit, I can't have kids now". But you can do all that with kids and have even more fun than doing all that by yourself...

Exactly. I have a 2 year old, two months after he was born I founded a security company (so you could say I'm a hacker). I have visited more places in this 2 years than in the 32 years before that. It's crazy sometimes, all the work, no sleep, wife hates me when I come too late from work, etc. But I love my son, I wish I could have 100 like him. Matter of fact I can, but wife doesn't approve :) Protip: If you want kids DONT wait until you have a nice job, house, car, etc. by that time you are in your 40's and it's way more difficult.
"Fortunately, I don't do anything complicated in the cleanup zone - mostly closing handles and freeing memory"

Closing handles could cause an error! Take a look at the close manpage; there are three error conditions:

* The argument is a bad file descriptor

* The call was interrupted by a signal

* An I/O error occurred while reading or writing

Reading or writing? Yes, as it turns out, closing a handle may involve I/O to perform the last synchronization of the file.

It sounds like you would ignore errors caused by closing the handle, and you would signal whatever error caused the cleanup to be entered.
Don't you fuel asset bubbles by targetting 0% interest at all times ?

If your incentive is to just get rid of your money because of the inherent penalty, aren't you tempted to, say, buy overpriced houses, to use a recent example ?
Yeah if you have a toddler, 3 companies, and have lost 30 lbs, I'd love to know what time-management system you do use.
I have a strongly negative reaction to straw man arguments.

Maybe I can be more helpful:

Being a programmer is like being a novelist. You need to be able to construct a plot, but you also need a powerful vocabulary. I'm saying C helps develop your computer vocabulary, and you're saying the programming analog of "but it doesn't tell you how to invent interesting characters!" Totally different parts of a useful experience.
If you're talking about an eInk device, you'll be in a world of pain if you want worthwhile PDFs, which are generally non-reflowable. I've done a big list of such PDFs for iPad (and other tablet) owners here:

PDFs For Free
http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2012/03/22/pdfs-for-free/

Your best bet is to stick with ePub on eInk.
Can't you visit those places together with your kids?

I was 38 when we had our son and I already regret being so old. There is the worry of staying fit and healthy as long as possible to be there for him. Also, his grandparents enjoy him very much. Should my son wait as long as I did to have children, I would already be 76 - so probably much less joy with grandchildren. And lots more issues like that.

If you have a kid, being fit and healthy suddenly becomes so much more important. Sure, I wanted to live before I had a kid, too. But the reality is that dieing would bother me much more now than before having a kid (yes I know it wouldn't bother me anymore once I'm dead...).

Also, pregnancy becomes more difficult and risky for older women. And if you have a kid and decide you actually like it, might be nice to have some spare years to create more. Just saying...
It's easy to own commodities futures, but hard to use them to buy stuff directly. The closest you can get is having a brokerage account and using the debit card or checks to make purchases, liquidating investment portfolio as you go. But even there, you're using USD as the unit of account.
5% fixed seems pretty arbitrary. Would be nice if this could be variable to get the desired liquidity properties, in some kind of feedback control system. I doubt there is one permanent ideal depreciation rate that could be determined ahead of time.

I realize that would be harder to design but isnt a fixed depreciation just a hacky band aid solution compared to a properly designed "control system"?

The ideal target variable might be: what % of existing money that was transacted per month perhaps? Make 50% the target and adjust the depreciation to track this target. Then we get into a debate about that 50% number, but at least we are getting closer to measuring the effect we want.
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This is a particularly weak false dichotomy, coupled with a particularly weak strawman.
I hate stuff that auto play music full volume on opening the page. That said, looks like an interesting experiment. I'm glad that people are using the Web Audio API, hopefully the more people use it the more browsers will support it and it will be updated.
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Get one of these:

http://www.harborfreight.com/1200-lb-capacity-cable-puller-3...

http://www.harborfreight.com/4000-lb-capacity-cable-winch-pu...

http://www.harborfreight.com/8000-lb-cable-winch-puller-543....

http://www.harborfreight.com/manual-strap-winch-95541.html

It's only $15 for the cheapest one (they have other types too that mount to the car). Also get a long strap to go with it in case the nearest tree is not close.

You don't want an electric winch anyway - you never know if you'll have power in an emergency.
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Nope, it's implied, due to the last phrase of my comment above. It may not have been consciously intended, but it is an implication of making that statement in the first place.
It's not merely efficiency, though--the reason that these types of ideas suck is that they only care about buy-in from customers. What the customer thinks would enhance their experience. What the customer thinks would be nice "too many choices oh noes!".

The fact is that for the true clients in the market (the restaurants), we need to look at what makes their lives easier. And over the course of centuries, we've figured out more or less how to optimally use humans to service diners.

Take the idea of perks for frequent diners--this functionality is already exposed in most bars and restaurants if the customer comes back frequently enough to be recognized by the wait staff, and if they aren't so damned obnoxious that the restaurant wants to get rid of them.

Electronic menus for a place with 20 tables could be an outlay of around 4-10K, assuming you need only one tablet per table (you won't) and that the tablets won't ever break (they will) and that the customers will appreciate the move (they may not) and that there is no backend integration (there should be). Or, the owner can spend half that (say, 5 grand) on an 2 additional servers at $2.13/hr (in Texas) and "rent" them for a split 40 hrs/wk and better service. That's just silly.

Taking the example of Tex-Mex food, the same basic palette of food in storage can be combined in many different ways to provide variety to the end user, all with little extra cost to the restaurant, and so why bother simplifying a menu? You needlessly increase the data entropy of the choices offered and in so doing force yourself to have to purchase more varied ingredients (bad) in order to provide fewer perceived menu items (also bad). It's just dumb.

The problem of too much choice, bad descriptions, or not remembering last food ordered is very strictly a diner issue, not a restaurant one. Solving it, despite the relatively large amount of work the restaurant would have to put forth, would result in little payback. The places where people spend enough per-plate to justify that outlay already have quality staff kept on specifically because they can keep track of that and give the high-touch to their select audience.

This really is a great example of somebody trying to use tech to solve problems that don't exist for people in an industry they don't understand.
I couldn't agree more.

That's pretty much my stock answer when, after complaining about how much my kids eat out of me, I get the "you-chose-to-have-them" look. Having kids forces you out of you comfort zone, forces you to constantly adapt, evolve, go with the flow of life. As painful as it may seem sometimes, I believe it's all worth it.

You also hit the nail on the head with your second point. Without going to the extreme of living vicariously through another being which can never be healthy for either party, looking at your child grow up and go through the fascinating steps of learning life (steps I've long forgotten), I can't help but feel a little bit of myself feel that amazement myself.
Huh? Didn't Feinstein speak on the floor of the Senate 4 years ago in favor of the exact bill they just renewed?
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