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Is this really a serious problem? Anecdotally, 9 out of 10 visits to a coffee shop, I just get coffee and leave. 1 out of 10, I am meeting someone, usually to go over some business. In the 21st century, this typically requires Internet connectivity.

Not offering WiFi or putting time limits on it would make me feel unwelcome. Feeling unwelcome will make me not want to patronize said coffee shop the other 9 out of 10 times.

What's the secret sauce that makes Starbucks so successful? They made it a comfy place to hang out...the "3rd place" between home and work where you can go and feel welcomed. Schultz is always talking about it. Obviously, Starbucks is one data point, but I think there's something to it.
You can tell a good coffeeshop by the ambient temperature they maintain. If you're cold, they want you to get it and go.

I'm lucky to have a coffeshop/arcade nearby. The owner wants you to stay, hang out, play games, read some comics. Sometimes I've gotten 3 drinks and food throughout the day. It's not a great study/work location especially when you get distracted watching someone else play a new game on the projection screen but the ample seating means no one walks in and goes "oh...well, guess I'm getting it to go"
That's a bummer. I like the ability to go hang out at a coffee shop on off hours, do a little work and a little websurfing while I down a cache of caffeine.

However, I have seen some of the true hobos who are using it as an office, and taking up more than their share of space. It even happens at restaurants that will let you order only a coffee.

We seem to have a lack of public spaces in the USA. At least, public spaces that have wi-fi and power outlets which you don't have to rent by the hour.
The specific provider data is recent, but the 'here's what we'll reimburse for what procedures' data has always been public, as far as I know.

I think this is a link to it, but I'm not 100% sure -
http://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Medicare-Fee-for-Service-Payment...
HAL/S (High-order Assembly Language/Shuttle)
http://fukushima-diary.com/ is where i go to get my non-officially sanctioned news about the disaster.
Of what to whom? VLC fixed the vulnerability themselves, and upstreamed the fix themselves.

They do complain that Secunia didn't inform or issue an advisory on upstream projects - if VLC had not taken the initiative themselves to upstream the fix then all other apps would still be vulnerable.
my local starbucks is always freezing which makes me want to leave even if i meant to stay
Why is this? Would anyone with a better understanding of the situation care to explain why it would be faster?
Mandates on parking spaces are strangling America’s cities
Sure.

On the other hand they have been caught lying and downplaying Fukushima several times.

Public statements in these kind of highly debated public/political cases also serve the role of "damage control".
A court that is supreme, in the sense of having the final say, but where arguments are only ever submitted on behalf of the government, and whose judges are not subject to the approval of a democratic body, sounds a lot like the sort of thing authoritarian governments set up when they make a half-hearted attempt to create the appearance of the rule of law.

It does sound like that. I agree. But so far as I can tell, even the the most strenuous credible arguments against the FISC don't argue that its judges have the "final say" over surveillance issues; FISC judges issue warrants which can be overturned by federal courts. The FISC isn't "supreme" and is in fact subject to the judgements of SCOTUS.

As I understand it, the warrant process used in domestic criminal law is also not adversarial, implying somewhat that the second part of the topic sentence of this graf might mislead.

Another error, this one more egregious:

None of the judges of the FISA court were vetted by Congress. They were appointed by a single unelected official: John Roberts, the chief justice of the Supreme Court.

Of course, this isn't actually true; every sitting FISC judge was approved by the Senate, since FISC judges are appointed from the federal bench.

The article also cites sources selectively, which is unsurprising because it doesn't do any actual reporting but is instead an editorial analysis; so for instance it captures what the law professor who spoke to the New York Times believes, but misses what Orin Kerr, a GWU law professor and widely known expert on computer crime law (and, as I understood it, one of Weev's advocates at appeal), has said about the same process. Kerr has the (mis)fortune of not speaking through the prism of the mainstream media, but directly from his blog.

By way of bona fides, before I'm again asked how long I've worked for NSA: I think the FISC process is extremely bad and poses a long-term threat to civil liberties. But to read this article, you might come away with the idea that the solution would be to fix the FISC, when in reality what needs to happen is for Congress (which retains the authority to abolish FISC entirely) to establish some kind of bright-line rule about the limits of "foreign" surveillance (now that so much foreign traffic routes through the US) and to ensure that foreign surveillance is firewalled off from the rest of the government.
Yeah, I'm asking for a valid list and it jumps as soon as you enter one, which is not that useful on that part of the tutorial, I'm going to change it, thanks.
Also, just so everyone knows, it's pretty easy to negotiate down your bill. The reason healthcare is so expensive is so many people don't pay it. If you are willing to pay say 40% of your bill it's already 25% better than medicare.

This. My Dad is a surgeon and the stories I hear are incredible. Once he operated on a child whose insurance was out of network. So the insurance company writes the parents a check to give to my father. Instead, the parents decide to cash it and never pay for the surgery. So, the parents literally make a few thousand bucks from having their child operated instead of paying that.
> So, does that mean it's safe to say that Erlang must copy the memory of values sent as messages between processes?

Theoretically not since Erlang data structures are immutable, but outside of binaries which seat in a shared global heap the benefits was never considered to outweight the complexity costs (aliasing analysis and others), so messages are copied indeed.
Good show, but I wonder how far we can really push the web browser, how will this affect desktop/native apps? We have already canvas and webgl and all but I dont see a web photoshop version competing with the real deal, how come? We're here giving access to "web-scripts" to more and more OS functions and closer to hardware, and yet the most productive apps are native, hm?
I suspect fuel efficiency based on load factors is a very bad proxy for space usage, as fuel efficiency will be calculated as an average, whereas infrastructure is (necessarily) dictated by peak usage. This is true for all modes, of course, but because mass-transit is much more efficient at the high load factors that occur during peaks, it ends up being much significantly more space efficient as well.

[Especially in the U.S., automobile infrastructure is actually often excessive even for peak usage, due to things like ill-considered minimum parking regulations and local politics ("I widened roads! Vote for me!"). But that's a cultural/political problem, not a technical one.]

Another factor in favor of mass transit is that it tends to result in much more focused development around transit networks, resulting in denser and more walkable communities. The fact that it "can't go everywhere" is actually a benefit when it comes to the urban form...
Medicine doesn't really follow supply and demand. If you install more CT or MRI scanners, you do more scanning. Demand follows supply. This is not helped by it only rarely being the patient who pays directly (usually insurance or taxpayer). People tend to do what their doctors suggest and go where their doctors say to go. There was a great article on this I read about a year ago. I thought it was in the Economist, but can't find it. Wikipedia is the best I can find sorry. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supplier-induced_demand
From that link, it sounds like she gave Gabe Newell an ultimatum after the project she was working on had already effectively been sabotaged from within.
So being interviewed about the NSA kills your brother? How does that even remotely make sense?
If you were passionate about a project and believe that, had you been trusted enough to be given adequate resources, you could've built something great for the company you loved...no amount of severance can completely eliminate the bitterness.
This reminds me clearly of "A Scanner Darkly." That is Phillip K. Dick's prophetic novel where a surveillance grid consisting of half of the population, the scanners, spies on everyone else.

"Whatever it is that's watching, it's not human, unlike little dark eyed Donna. It doesn't ever blink. What does a scanner see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does it see into me, into us? Clearly or darkly? I hope it sees clearly, because I can't any longer see into myself. I see only murk. I hope for everyone's sake the scanners do better. Because if the scanner sees only darkly, the way I do, then I'm cursed and cursed again. I'll only wind up dead this way, knowing very little, and getting that little fragment wrong too."
I think being able to pay 200$ for a taxi is not the same as needing it the most.

That is true. On the other hand, it is, so far as I'm aware, the closest anybody's managed to come to reliably, consistently figuring out who does.
Non-Tech Struggles
Perhaps in busier cities, but since I live in central Maine, that's not necessarily the case.
I just grabbed my radiobiology textbook off the shelf (Radiobiology for the Radiologist, for those keeping score). It claims that the latent period between radiation exposure and the appearance of a malignancy is years. The shortest is for leukemia, which averages 5-7 years. Solid tumors can take decades to appear.

This is certainly in line with the doctors' claims.
You don't think people with cancer research which clinic to go to? I know if I had cancer I dam well would.
I mean that online dating is not leaving us; online dating is here to stay; online dating is obviously a service that people like using and get something out of. I was disagreeing with the parent poster about why online dating is here to stay, not that it is here to stay.
"The NYC group Right of Way says: 'After NYC cycling fatalities increased twofold in 1999, police rushed to cover their, er, reputation by claiming (without analysis or supporting data) that cyclists are to blame in 75% of cycling deaths. ... The truth is just the reverse, as listed in our report, The Only Good Cyclist (PDF).' According to Right of Way, over 90% of pedestrian deaths in NYC are the fault of drivers. And research from Toronto shows the same thing for car-bike crashes. Most at-fault motorists who kill cyclists and pedestrians get off the hook. A study by the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition shows that three out of four at fault drivers were never even cited for hitting and killing pedestrians. 22% of fatal pedestrian crashes involved hit and run drivers, yet, none of the runaway motorists were found or charged. In New York, 70-92% of drivers were at-fault in killing pedestrians and cyclists, but 74% didn't even get a ticket. (RightOfWay.org, 1999) The story in Austin is similar."

http://bicycleuniverse.info/transpo/almanac-safety.html

Some recent headlines about how NYPD handles car-and-bike collisions:

"Another Cyclist Killed at East Harlem Intersection, NYPD Again Blames Victim"

"Motorist Havoc: Two Dead, Five Hurt, Kids in Critical Condition, No Charges"

"Cleared in Traffic Court, Hit-and-Run Killer Still Employed at NYC DOT"

"Leroy Comrie Bill Would Force NYPD to Report to Council on Hit-and-Runs"

"Hynes: No Charges for Curb-Jumper Who Blew Red and Killed Pedestrian"

"NYPD: Pedestrian Killed Himself by Running Into Stopped Police Cruiser"

"Cyclist’s Brother Says NYPD Closed Investigation Into Unsolved Death"

"Immune From Prosecution, Curb-Jumping NYC Motorists Claim More Victims"

"Irvin Gitlitz, 83, Was First of Two Pedestrian Fatalities Wednesday" (which notes, "The truck involved in the crash that killed Irvin Gitlitz did not have required crossover mirrors. The driver was not summonsed," and for the second fatality, "No summonses were issued")

...and those headlines are just going back to April of this year. http://www.streetsblog.org/category/issues-campaigns/nypd-cr...
> from developers who are not used to working with compiled languages.

I am used to working with compiled languages, 9 million lines of C++ on a embeded costum hardware.

Now I know of course that it would not be that bad but still, I dont want to compile more stuff, I want to compile less stuff. I'll let the VM do the compilling for me.

In the grand sheme of thing these discussions hardly matter, its just a 'cool' topic to fight about. Neither with HTML or HTTP size is a big issue, almost never the bottleneck.
Because how else would you implement Agda? Hah!

The idea of managing side effects as a type (monads) still hasn't seemed compelling to me in terms of development time. Here I agree with Liskov in saying that it's a bit over the top[0]. Most of the quality I see with Haskell has to do with strict types, not the handling of I/O errors as types themselves.

Not that I want to bash it.. Learning haskell has actively changed how I approach all my C/C++ development, and gotten me far far far into the weeds of now learning Agda as a prototyping language for designs/semantics[1].

The world may or may not need Haskell. However it's certainly a better place now that it has it.

[0]: She said this at a talk she gave at work.. It was similar or the same as her "The Power of Abstraction" talk, dunno if she makes the same comment in every presentation though.

[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy5C-mlUQ1w
I haven't been able to figure out how to match a one-sided word boundary using git-grep. For example, say a file includes the word "router". You can do this to match the exact word:

git grep -w router

But what if you want to match just the word boundary at the start ("rout") or at the end ("outer")?
Seems like there might be an opportunity for something in the middle ground between neighborhood coffee shop and full-on coworking space.
Hi I'm the author. Yep Mac is done and just being submitted for review. I just couldn't resist announcing the iOS version.
>We need more nuclear power and less nuclear scaremongering.

And why not more investment in solar power and renewable energy sources, instead of a potentially dangerous industry that produces extremely toxic waste, and can fuck everything around it in case of a terrorist attack, meltdown, etc?
Mr Yoshida is a true hero, and I send my condolences to his family & friends.
Did you read the article or the headline? It makes very little sense that such an accident can have no effect on cancer risks. It may not raise the risk appreciably. Maybe the risk would be greater of Fukushima had been a coal fired plant(s) instead. But even people who know nothing about nuclear power can see the flaw in such a statement, and I think that sort of thing undermines any message that follows; which is unfortunate because you're right about us needing more nuclear power.
Even getting lab work done is ridiculous. There isn't any discretion, risk, variability or uncertainty involved. A cholesterol test is a cholesterol test. I needed a bunch of tests a while back and pay for them myself. The labs don't put their prices online - you have to call. And then you have to talk to multiple departments because they just aren't setup to tell you pricing and require fragments of information from other departments. Astonishingly I did eventually find somewhere that posted prices, and they turned out to be a quarter of what would have been charged from the regular lab.

I wrote more about it here https://plus.google.com/110166527124367568225/posts/eiThZXx7...
That's all well and good, but when was the last time you saw a cyclist getting pulled over for running a stop sign? Or speeding (Which they tend to do down the large hills we have, and then continue on to blast through intersections at 40+)? I can tell you the last time I saw a car getting pulled over, just a few hours ago. Just because you think it's 'safe' to bend the rules, doesn't make it safe or legal. It's highly hypocritical of cyclists to complain that there aren't enough legal safe guards for them when they ignore the already established ones that are designed to keep all vehicles on the road safe.
Exactly, catering to the the growing logizomechanophobic segment is so hot right now.
Cookies with an expire of session and secure flag set: yes.
But this should be more secure, and stored for 1 session implicitly.
She told Gabe after she was fired that he should either fund the project she was working on personally or give it to her. Its not much of an ultimatum because she was already fired and had no bargaining power. Its pretty awesome thing for Valve to do, all things considered.
Life expectancy is a terrible proxy for quality of healthcare delivered.

For example, if you eliminate traffic accidents (of which the US has many due to it's low density), US life expectancy is near the top globally.
I'm alienated from coffee shops because of laptop users. I'm around electronics all day. When I go to the cafe, I want a break with a cup of coffee with a friend.

I don't want to see one person hogging a table for four, or overhear business phone calls and headphones.

I'm not saying that I'm important either, but these are the reasons why I will choose one cafe over another.
Malls track shopper’s cell phone signals to gather marketing data
In the Introduction, under functions:

f = m*a
f(20) = 20a

Which is ok, but then farther down:

f(a) = m*a
f(20) => 20a

This seems incorrect, since I was expecting m*20. On a separate page, this seems to work fine, though.

Otherwise, quite nice.
> Well when I type on a on a 10 inch tab - two thoughts cross my head A) This is not working B) This could work given a bit more size and refinement.

A bit more size and refinement, a nice keyboard, and a stand gets you a 11-12" laptop.
Have a look at LFTR, a much safer reactor design that produces much less waste.
So is the one by me. When I asked the barista why, she said it helps keeps the fruit-flies away from the bakery items. I just bring a sweatshirt with me when I go.
The Surf Office
Yeah diminishes the effect of any stimulants for that matter, so people on adderall and ritalin should be interested in this to battle inevitable events of insomnia.
I usually dose about 200mg starting the day now, then basically based on the amount of Tea I consume throughout the day (and thus caffeine) dose about 200-400mg more right after diner along with a brew. But i'm quite lightweight, and for depression/anxiety higher doses are needed. It improves your REM sleep, promotes alpha-wave activity and stimulates dopamine production. Caenorhabditis elegans lived longer on it, and it even helps cQuring cancer..list goes on.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2774573/
Yeah, after re-reading that appears to be the case.
Is this what medium.com is doing?
Hi I'm the author. I took a lot of inspiration from Soulver. I basically wanted a smarter Soulver with more programming constructs and better treatment of undefined variables. Hope you like it and OS X version will be out in a couple weeks.
You're in a different segment than me. I'm sure there's a few coffee shop customer segments and most of the folks on HN probably fit into the segment that this policy will alienate.

This would be beneficial for me. There's a really nice coffee shop in Brookline, MA (borders Boston and connects to the T) called Cafe Fixe. They make a great espresso. I try to go with my girlfriend every so often.

If I go there and there are no seats available, I leave without making a purchase. I know the same people sit at the tiny coffee shop for hours at a time. I'm sure the business lose hundreds of dollars (if not more) per week because seating isn't available.

This type of policy will probably help small specialty coffee shops more than the big chains.
re: paying for building roads, http://www.frontiergroup.org/reports/fg/do-roads-pay-themsel...
are there any kind souls that could help please explain the difference between dropbox datastore, firebase and parse? thank you.
Actually, Secunia comes out of this looking clueless. It has never been the responsibility of application developers to fix vulnerabilities in third-party libraries (like, ever). But they did anyway -- keep in mind that this is an open source initiative, not some large company with code monkeys ready to rumble.

Furthermore, Secunia doesn't seem to realize that VLC doesn't do static linking on all platforms (lol) -- I mean, why even go after VLC? This was clearly an ffmpeg problem. What a bunch of amateurs.
What the early NASA program did in the 50's and 60's was only made possible by accepting risks that would curdle the blood of today's risk-averse NASA administration. The U.S. has a long history of very chivalrously protecting its women-folk from such "front-line" service. It wasn't until 1988 that the first female pilot was cleared for combat in the USAF, let alone test-pilot duty! The U.S. army, unlike many of its allies, still does not permit women in front line combat, although they have announced their intention to change this.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/24/us-usa-military-wo...

Reflecting the danger of the job, the first few classes of astronauts were required, by president Eisenhower's directive, to be military test pilots. These were men whose profession necessarily required them to accept a large degree of risk. Had one of these early missions resulted in fatalities the government would have been able to draw on past experience explaining the death of test pilots to the public. This requirement would not change until 1965 when scientists holding PhD's would be permitted into the program. This explains why NASA was not considering women in 1962. None existed that met the President's requirements. If you want to call somebody sexist for rejecting Miss Kelly, look no further than the oval office!

Valentina Tereshkova, for comparison, was not a military test pilot, or even a pilot at all. She was experienced with parachuting, but only in an amateur capacity. She did not compete with men and become an astronaut purely based on merit. The USSR's space program decided specifically to send a woman into orbit as a political statement and to see how female physiology stood up to space travel. Several women were considered for this honor and Tereshkova was chosen as much for her proletariat background as her parachuting experience. The first woman in space was a symbol, nothing more.

The second woman in space, and the first to perform a space walk, would not come along for another 19 years. Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya was a test pilot and a real cosmonaut, not just a symbol. She deserves the credit Tereshkova usually gets. Sally Ride would become the U.S.'s first female astronaut a year after Savitskaya's first mission, but this was only made possible by the perception of relative safety offered by the shuttle program and NASA's creation of the mission specialist class of astronauts. Had the challenger disaster occurred prior to Ride's first mission, it's very possible the U.S. might still have yet to send a female astronaut into space.
It's pretty obvious that hierarchy performs a necessary function. The focus should be on approximating a hierarchy of merit. Perhaps employees should be hired and tasks assigned by weighted vote, with a handicap for those who've performed well on a company betting market which predicts when x employee will finish a task and the quality of his/her work. The whole process could be made anonymous, provided the market is a play money affair.