skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My suggestion would be: Don't over think it. Depending on your customer segments just retraining your staff might be much more important. I prefer keeping my "interactions" with my food to a minimum and I sure as hell won't "login" to communicate with you about my food. Well trained staff should spot unsatisfied customers and get their feedback.

If you really want feedback just get your service staff to care more honestly about the customer. Change the line from "was everything alright?" to "what's the one thing we could have done to make your stay/your food even more enjoyable?". You will get a lot more relevant "datapoints" than any sophisticated database driven survey.

In my opinion data driven approaches do only improve personal relationship businesses when these are already well running. But even then I guess it is rare that someone would come up with the same idea as Schultz's of trying to maximize the time customers spend within Starbuck shops. Most likely a data driven approach would have gone with optimizing for a fast turnover of the seating area.
I know that is how things work, but isn't that the sign of a fundamentally broken process. Shouldn't each representative be required to vote in a way that is blind to the success or failure of a piece of legislation.

It seems like such a process would automatically bias votes against the will of the people and in favor of the lobbyists, since at the end of the day it is the lobbyists that are actually paying attention to your voting record on issues and are likely to withhold campaign donations during the next election.
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I just saw a Myspace ad on ESPN this afternoon. That tells me they're not gone...
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Many things could go wrong, I am not saying it did, or would, but could. Perhaps it was too crowded, perhaps she was really tired, perhaps she is not confident with her english, perhaps she was not feeling well otherwise. Also, US cities are quite strange compared to european cities, they are not exactly pedestrian friendly. Check out the front of the venue: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=morial+convention+center+new+...

All in all, cut him some slack, he as a very valid point. They could have solved this easily, yet they chose to treat him like he doesn't matter.
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You could just make your own(very effective) trap with household ingredients: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf22399231.tip.html
In terms of Windows, developers are already entrenched in the system either through lock-in or business decisions imposing Windows on them. Those types of developers are unlikely to abandon the platform no matter how much Microsoft treats them like cattle.

On the other hand, I'd say alienating the developer community would prevent hackers from making things for new(er) Microsoft platforms like Windows Phone or Azure. Things that might have been the killer app for that platform.
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You are super awesome. I have been programming for years and I still don't know how to do some of the stuff you've done for your websites. I'm sure I could easily learn how to, but then it's easy for me because I have the advantage of years of experience. To be able to get to where you are within 3 months is astounding to me and that tells me something about the validity of your approach, so I'm gonna shamelessly rip you off the next time I need to learn a new skill.

Somebody hire this person!
"I think, we are very fortunate, to be in this realm of easy and cheap CPU. good technology, back in the old days, were critical to putting out amazing games. This was simply due to the fact that without the crazy tech, you wouldn't have anything worth playing."

i am regularly shocked that 'world class developer a' has no idea about, e.g. bsp trees and partitioning - which are fundamental (or at least good VSD in general) to why e.g. Quake shipped when it did and not 3 years later. and when people moan about memory speeds etc... also the shocking amounts of memory used for simple things.

a couple of years back i replaced an utterly broken vsd solution in a 'AAA' game for the current/last gen consoles - the memory footprint was around 1mb, with about 640k of that being totally uncompressed PVS data as bit vectors, but it lived alongside horrendously wasteful systems that managed to use whole megabytes to do tiny things in the world - much less than, you know, drawing all of it. :P

also, do note, you can finish a shippable game in a week if you just force yourself. with a month or two constructing a usable fps with physics basic ai and loading some 3rd party environment, meshes and animations is completely feasible even with little prior knowledge. finishing things is the ultimate skill it turns out...
>DDT is safe.

[citation needed]
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Couldn't this be achieved in some sort of other way? One that does not require hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment and electricity? Couldn't a regular PKI message digest on the transaction list work?

I suppose there's something I'm not getting about this.
Who would speak at an event that charged speakers to do so?

These events may charge $2000 a head, but it doesn't cost them $2000, or even $5, to let a +1 watch your talk.
NSA, US government, tyrants everywhere, watch Google carefully for how it's done. For a fickle crowd like Hacker News, you can seize their liberty and human rights easily - just distract them with shiny new things.

For shiny new toys, some people will rationalize anything ;-)
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but in the poll you linked to, the question that's most relevant to Amash's amendment was the following:

17. Do you think that the National Security Agency's surveillance of telephone
call records and internet traffic does or does not intrude on some Americans'
privacy rights?

Does Intrude: 74%
Does Not Intrude: 22%
No Opinion: 4%
No problem. Glad I could help.

Yeah, with Objective-C, you've already seen how fast tech changes. But beyond practicalities, have fun with whatever you do.
I'd say it goes deeper than that, touching on the meaning of marriage. The speaker was put in the position where he had to choose between his spouse and a talk. He chose his wife, in accordance with his marriage vows. I can't see that it is sexist, as the logic doesn't change if the gender of any party is changed.
I didn't dodge the question, because I agree with the first part -- Russia is a horrible country with a corrupt government that imprisons/kills activists and journalists.

I only disagree with a minor detail you mentioned -- there would be no difference if he was female, because in Russia there is no discrimination against women (at least not more then in any Western country).
Maybe I'm missing something here, but from his very brief description of the methods used, I thought that there was at least some "method" or "logic" to it.

But then I brought up:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tension_myositis_syndrome

Which seems to indicate that the "treatment" is something much more vague like...journaling, support groups, therapy...?

Pardon the stereotype, but I'm imagining some old women's knitting group or something...or all the stuff about "repressed anger" "childhood abuse", etc....if that were the case, wouldn't women's circles, group therapy, individual therapy, anger management classes, spontaneously start curing people of their pain? I don't see anything specific about this method.

Maybe I'm missing something very basic? Distraction and getting your mind off of it is a well known way to deal with pain. I didn't think that was new.
Thank you, just did this. My rep (Bill Flores) voted "no".
> As a counter example, I have been to a number of conferences where the speakers/presenters/panelists and volunteers were expected to pay the full registration fee,

At TechEd, Microsoft picks you, guides your session abstract wording, reviews and changes your slides, specifies your clothing, tells you when to show up for booth duty at the Microsoft booth, and pays you for it. You're basically a community mouthpiece for Microsoft. This is very much a vendor event.
Joel said it best: Smart and gets things done. That's really all you need. They don't need to be rock stars or 10xers or top 1%. You just need to be able to give them something to do and have confidence that it will get done in a timely manner and the code won't end up on Daily WTF. They need to have enough passion to bring some new knowledge to the table once in a while without you explicitly telling them to go learn about X. They need to get along with their teams. I think if you just push hard for those simple things, you will end up with some top tier developers anyway.
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it would just get vetoed by Obama

This would be extremely important. At the moment Obama's principle seems to avoid the subject as much as possible. And if it is addressed just blaming the "system". By vetoing it he would take personal responsibility for this scandal, something he will try to avoid at all costs.
It is very close, especially when you consider that a million more Americans voted for a Democrat House candidate than a Republican one.

Republicans have a 33 seat majority, despite losing the popular vote 48.7% - 47.6%, thanks to rampant gerrymandering after the 2010 election.

I did a (meaningless) back of the envelope calculation, and found that if the number of representatives were proportional to the popular vote count, and the same percentage of Democrats voted for this bill, then the bill would have passed.

Of course, it probably wouldn't have made it through the senate, since the non-talking filibuster allows any single member to effectively veto any bill brought up.
Hard work is half of what equation?

Is the equation 'success in life as measured against everyone else,' or is the equation 'success in life as measure against yourself'? If the question is the latter--which is the only question a person should care about--then hard work is very close to 100%. This isn't an emotional claim, it's a rational and evidence based claim.

The reason that there is a rightful reverence to hard work is because working hard is the variable we can change. Not only that, it's guaranteed to produce results. If you intentionally build 180 web sites in 180 days, you will get better. You may not get better than someone more intelligent, but you can't be that person, you can only be who you are.

Not everyone can be everything, but anyone who does nothing will be nothing.
The completely random "oh hey this one guy just updated his status" push notifications are at least a step above the arrogantly imperious ones they had going for a few weeks prior to that: I very nearly uninstalled the app after getting a push message reading simply "Update your status."
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Or they could just go to New York New York Las Vegas and see that stealing the small Statue of Liberty is no small feat...
> Arbitrary list? Why not use Google, Apple, Intel?

Hardware is much more important than software. Low level software (like operating systems) is much more important than web applications or services.
Out of curiosity, what do you see as the difference between Common Lisp debugging and Clojure debugging? I'm mostly experienced with Clojure (my CL code consists of a few trivial programs), but it seems like Lisp in the right environment (Emacs, paredit, SLIME/nrepl) is a joy regardless of which Lisp.
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I was wondering if there are other alternatives out there like Xamarin. I've used their Mono for Android software and was good but sadly, the prices went too high this time so if you want to use Visual Studio you need to add a good amount of money to make it true. :(
You would not believe how many of my managers complain to us about how heavy and uncouth their laptop is to carry around. We actually had one guy apply for workplace compensation after his back caused him problems - he blamed it on carrying around a laptop + case.

I think you'd be surprised at the uptake of this kind of device in the corporate world if it was marketed correctly.
this brushes over the most obvious reason and its evidence almost immediately.

i've always felt that taking other people's money, i.e. venture capital, before you have a viable (i.e. running and profitable) business is almost certainly a bad idea and its indicative of desperation. its a massive and risky shortcut in many cases.

nobody i know who was successful in business even entertained the idea, let alone did it. they saved money, scraped it or just poured their spare time in to succeed. starting out e.g. £100k in debt but with £100k in the bank just sounds dangerous... in my experience people are terrible with money, especially if its not their own in any way...

if you start properly without taking other people's money in the form of loans, credit or venture capital then failing is exceptionally difficult regardless as to anything else...
You likely see it all the time and don't notice it.

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Abbc.co.uk+"has+their"

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anytimes.com+"has+thei...

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aguardian.co.uk+"has+t...
Transpiled asm.js code beats the pants off non-asm.js code in almost every regard. Period. I have not seen a single case where code heavily leveraging the JS GC heap, etc. will outperform the typed array, virtual heap, etc. style even WITHOUT the benefit of asm.js's AOT compilation.

It's possible, of course, but I've never seen it. And I certainly haven't found any way to achieve it with a compiler. If you have, let me know...
Playback is cloud-to-device, not device-to-device.
(although actually there are many examples where the prerequisite money is needed - this is where you should realise you are not equipped to start your business and learn how to make money before trying to - you aren't automagically entitled to a chance to fulfil your dreams - you need to earn it and it might actually be impossible, deal with it)
>You call my logic ridiculous, and then you reiterate my entire point.

No, the 'point' you've been trying to push during this entire conversation is that proprietary software gives the end user the 'freedom' to choose not to use it, but somehow you claim that developers don't have that same 'freedom' when it comes to not using GPL licenced code, which of course is a big lie.

>Whereas the MIT and BSD licenses provide just as many freedoms as the GPL, without enforcing anything.

Stop trying to muddy the water with the meaning of the word 'freedom', we've already established that GPL is about rights, these rights are not provided by permissive licences at all. Again, GPL licenced code assures that the source code will be made available to end users, permissive licences assures nothing of the sort.

>because they have the capacity to cause significant harm to our industry.

How can they cause 'significant harm' to our industry? Furthermore how has GPL caused the 'industry immeasurable harm' which you claim it has?

>And whenever I come across someone like you, it is made apparent that the GPL is more of a religion and an a political statement

Yes the good old communist/religious/political card which always gets thrown by GPL haters when their arguments fall to pieces.

And you're not even close, I've spent my entire professional career writing software which know in the vast majority of cases has ended up being proprietary. I have no problem whatsoever with charging for software, and unlike Stallman I see nothing unethical about proprietary software.

My viewpoint is that of a developers right to set any conditions they want for THEIR code, which includes permissive, proprietary or copyleft. If I as a developer want to release my code under a licence which makes sure that any recipients of programs using MY code will also have the source code to those programs available, then that is my right (under the legal system we have now).

It doesn't matter if my motivation is that of wanting the source code of any enhancements made to my code (most likely motivation from a developer perspective), or if my motivation is political/philosophical (FSF), I still have just as much right as any other developer to set the conditions for using my code.

And neither of these motivations are in any way inferior to your motivation of wanting to make money.
I don't think a lot of people know this. "Yes" votes are "given out" by party leaders as favors to to those who are willing to play ball so that they can please the folks back home when the outcome of the issue is already assured.

When a candidate makes a big deal during a campaign about how they voted against the grain on a particularity thorny issue that pleased a lot of voters in their district, take it with a huge grain of salt and a hard look at their broader voting record.
Link just worked for me. Looks interesting; I'd love to see an example -- even just a hello world.
Regardlesss, something about the redis query returning a zero balance was triggering bad behavior in the billing system.

Also, reading between the lines in the incident report made it sound as if there might have been multiple teams involved in the troubleshooting and not communicating perfectly. For example, were the redis admins informed that customers had been getting billed repeatedly when the decision was made to restart the billing system? Did they have access to the billing system logs which might have contained errors related to redis being read-only?

All in all, big props to Twilio for starting to get customer accounts credited back within 11 hours of the first trouble and even more for their wonderful open disclosure.
Guess not much PR or marketing from the Knockout folks. I have used knockout in couple projects and it has work well.
Failures due to such irresponsibility should not be tolerated, either.

I appreciate that you are very committed to reliability. I also have worked on (telecom) billing systems. However, what are you suggesting here? Should all Twilio's customers find another provider? (Do you have a suggestion?) Should they just not use a service like Twilio's? Should Twilio quadruple their prices so they can throw up enough hardware to do all this in postgres? Should we all fly over to Sicily to protest outside antirez's house?

Incidentally, in the late '90s I sat in on a few sales efforts in which Lucent pushed their "Datablitz" in-memory database for mediation and billing of call records. So, it's not as though nothing similar to this has ever been done.
Lobbyists aren't the only problem.

The House majority has 33 more seats than the minority, despite losing the popular vote by over a million votes. To me, this is the epitome of how broken Washington is. Pennsylvania has 13 Republican representatives and 5 Democrat reps, even though Democrats won the popular vote, 50.28% to 48.77%.
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I think to be a successful startup, you need to exist somewhere between 'grand visionary' and 'lean'. The startup I work for now could be described as a 'grand visionary' company. Our CEO is a very wealthy non-technical guy who is self-financing his 'vision' of what he thinks a travel website should be. The company is definitely going to fail (as do 99% of all startups), mostly because this 'vision' is extremely complicated, muddy and at times incoherent.

On the other hand, some companies are the opposite. They are some companies that are completely driven by A+B testing. They 'pivot' to a completely new idea every other week. These companies all end up doing some kind of project with the word 'analytics' somewhere in it. These projects are almost always crap, and their success is mainly tied to how aggressive their sales/marketing people were.

Being 'lean driven' is a bad idea, but abandoning all lean ideals is worse.
New Orleans right now has the highest murder rate in the US. It is not only a very dangerous city, it is in fact currently the most dangerous city in the entire country.

http://www.npr.org/2012/07/05/155986277/new-orleans-struggle...

Leaving someone out in a strange foreign city of this nature to just deal with it is absurd.
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Unfortunately, adoption of this great technology is limited by crippleware license. You have to pay even for just developing applications. Of course, you can use starter edition, but it's useless because of size limit.

The same story is repeated again and again. Tool vendors think more about profits than about growth and adoption. Sun limited usage of server side Java on Linux which allowed PHP to occupy linux server side niche. When it understood that it made a mistake, it was too late. I am afraid, we will be developing mobile applications in JS in several years' time.
Does anyone know if you can stream non-online videos? Like if I have a video file on my computer and want to play it on my TV, does Chromecast allow for this?
> So then, what is the purpose of terrorism? Is it equated with just plain old psychotic mass murdering with no other purpose than the joy of inflicting suffering? No. Terrorism is about obtaining a political result.

Of course that's the purpose of it. That's why preventing an overreaction would be more effective at fighting it than falling into the trap of getting trolled by them.
It must be one or the other. Take your pick. I know which one I'd choose.

Windows Phone has been doing remarkably well for the niche it holds. I mean, it is in the dark shadows of Android and iOS, but a couple of years ago it would have been held as stellar smartphone results.

Given that WP is estimated to be licensed at between $20 and $35 per (even though shenanigans see Microsoft returning all of that money to Nokia, it still counts as bogo-revenue), and there were some ten million Windows Phone devices activated, yes, that sum absolutely is accounted for by Windows Phone.

And then you have the fact that Microsoft makes patent money on FAT (on every single device in the world that uses FAT SD cards and the like), ActiveSync (patent licenses), and their portion of MPEG-LA...

...there is remarkably little space left to hide the enormous sum they supposedly make from Android.
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Answer: UbuntuOne

In fact, they're even considering full-blown AES 256 encryption on all your devices backed-up data.
This and 4chan & fark.
Whipping in the United States Congress is far less effective than in Parliament. There is no equivalent to the three line whip and the party leadership can't expel members. The most they can do to rebellious members is take away their preferred committee assignments, and even there they are hemmed in by tradition.

However, particularly for Republicans at the present time, there is always a looming threat of a primary challenge if ideological purity is not maintained.
From the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2006:

WHO gives indoor use of DDT a clean bill of health for controlling malaria

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2006/pr50/en/

"Extensive research and testing has since demonstrated that well-managed indoor residual spraying programmes using DDT pose no harm to wildlife or to humans"
Thanks for the correction. I agree about the significance.
Repeat after me:

Microsoft 201X is IBM 199X

Then everything starts to make sense: Surface. TechEd. Windows Phone.
The general message is this: you don't put a new UI over the top, you add your own services (videos displayed, music store, books, mags, etc, etc). There is a small amount of leg room for making minor UI tweaks such as the welcome screen layout, general colour scheme, etc - but that's it.
Wow, the equivalent Yaesu is over $180 bucks. Thanks for the tip. I'm occasionally on 20 meters around 8 to 9pm mountain time around 14.250 +- 20khz in case you play with HF. Congrats on General!
The author seems to have advice that sounds interesting, but from a casual reading he doesn't seem to say why his advice is correct. Why is single-spacing to short? Why is line spacing 120-145% of the point size? Why is Times New Roman bad (I personally think it is really bland, but what is his reasoning)?