skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It makes sense. Good servers are compliance professionals, whether you or they know it or not, and their pivotal role in the experience means that the good ones can make good money.

But I know that I've not gone back to restaurants precisely because I didn't like interacting with the staff, or I didn't like how they interacted with my guests.

And looking back, the most specific I could be about it was "well, the waiters were kind of intense." You know what I mean. They were professional, they did their job, but ... they were intense. And they didn't need to be; we're going to give them 20%, but they don't know that. So they're ... slightly intense, forward with their presence, so you won't dare undertip, instead of melting into the background and letting the food and ambience dominate.

In a restaurant like this guy posits, waiters aren't compliance professionals.

On the other hand, in a tipless restaurant, they aren't paid based on merit, so maybe they won't be as motivated to do a great job in the parts of their work that require concentration and diligence.

But they're doing a job that a robot should be doing as soon as possible, and a whether my server is good, great or okay isn't going to affect how my food tastes.
I think you mean the russian carder, the Silk Road heroin vendor sounds as professional as one can be in such a situation.
I have had consistently worse service from restaurants that I know share tips. There is no reason for a server to do better than their coworkers which brings everyone down to a common denominator.

This is in Massachusetts that does have a tip credit and where servers rarely get paid the statutory minimum wage if it is a slow night (against the law but it happens). Just for reference, the server minimum wage is $2.63/hour. If you can't make enough in tips because its a slow night and one of your coworkers is bringing the tip average down, your incentive drops off dramatically as well.

For something like this to work nationwide, the tip credit has to go.
I think people only complained about developing for Android because iOS was so easy with a handful of devices to develop and test for.

That and the media needed something to write about.
It must be something with safari as it is very slow on my iPhone running iOS 6
I'm in nearly complete disagreement with the author here. I guess it helps that I've been burned more than once when using code from two third parties where party A reached into the "private areas" of party B's code. Rather than working with party B to resolve the incompleteness of the solution, they work around it and then push it to everyone. Later, when party B makes a change ("Hey, it's private, and the public interface doesn't change!") and suddenly breaks A's code - there are a bunch of un-related other parties which now have a nightmare on their hands.

Case in-point (of which there are many, I'm sure): QExtSerialPort. The author needed access to underlying Windows functionality that Qt didn't publicly provide, however, there was this nice, private header file laying around they could use. The Qt team later decided they wanted to remove the contents of that file, because no one should ever be using it. Anyone who wanted to build QExtSerialport had to go and grab the original file, and put it into the correct location. If they had instead submitted a patch to Qt to fix the problem, many hours would have been saved.

The author might get more points with me if they added "keep private usage private," but instead they are advocating accessing private internals of 3rd party tools in new open-source projects, which restricts the original developer from making changes without impacting users of the third party tools. Privacy is important - if you want to go around it fine, but you have to expect the price for you and your users, to hand-wave around that is naive at best.
Your personal value is not how much you take, but how much you give. You are a resource.

Some resources are richer than others.
So, if fitness functions are not used, why were they abandoned, and presumably there must be a metric to which teams are held accountable - what is it?
Didn't David Bowie do this 20 or 30 years ago?
Maybe because we are lazy, and we think that abbreviations save time/energy, which is obviously a wrong assumption.
What a waste of perfectly good heroin.
I am building a product product. It has customers. It is a heck of a lot of work. (I'm also building an info product.)

It may be surprising to you that my customers actually don't care how many hours I want to work, but only about the value I deliver to them. I don't get to wave a magic wand and work 10 hours a week and keep all my customers, though I'm sure my competitors would wish I tried.

The place I see "lifestyle businesses" working best is where the market is unattractive to larger competitors due to size, difficulty reaching clients or others. There only select markets where this is the case.

Look, I love all the lifestyle business stuff and I'm adopting some of the tactics myself, but the suggestion of this article and your comment that the hours you work is solely a matter of choice is bullshit. You have to give up something, normally money or proximity to family and friends. Or put it a lot of work upfront building a business that you can then coast on.
It sounds reasonable in a racist society. The cooks are probably immigrants, possibly illegal, and can be paid low wages to perform a rote task. The servers have to smile and be nice and handle customer complaints, and will determine whether people come back more than the food. (Just look at Yelp reviews... people don't care about the food, they care about the service)
Maybe obfuscation can work after all?
This is total nonsense!
The problem with MIT's neutral stance is highlighted in the report and the one which I find particularly interesting.

However, the report says that MIT’s neutrality stance did not consider
factors including “that the defendant was an accomplished and well-known
contributor to Internet technology”; that the law under which he was charged
“is a poorly drafted and questionable criminal law as applied to modern
computing”; and that “the United States was pursuing an overtly aggressive
prosecution.” While MIT’s position “may have been prudent,” the report says,
“it did not duly take into account the wider background” of policy issues
“in which MIT people have traditionally been passionate leaders.”

IMO, the MIT fraternity (particularly the faculty) should have been a bit more proactive in this regard.
Decent article. Correlates with the stagflation we have seen and the fact that hedge investments like gold have been correlating to growth investments the past few years. The fact that we have a global recession / stagflation makes it even more interesting. Thankfully technology and software specifically as an industry seems more immune than most to the slow growth.
I'd guess terminal users consume more cognitive resources than GUI users. Are they on average fatter than the latter?

Just a speculation.
If AT&T Is Acquiring Muve, Why Are They Still Negotiating With Beats Music?
Inside Bitcoins NYC Keynote: Is Bitcoin the New Financial Order?
My experience growing up in the U.S. was that there is a strong desire to inculcate a certain Americanness there as well, and resistance to people failing to integrate and adopt it, though it might not be to the same extent. As a superficial but very visible aspect, we started each day in elementary school by saying a Pledge of Allegiance to the American flag. There was also a strong focus on American civics and history throughout schooling, often with a general tone of American exceptionalism, and a normative view of what it means to be an American. In high school in Texas, this was even supplemented by a normative view of what it means to be a Texan, though those of us not from Nth-generation Texan families tended not to take that part seriously by that age.

As far as schooling goes, Denmark is more liberal than the U.S. when it comes to choice, because there are school vouchers (not sure if true in Sweden). If you prefer not to use the state system, you can get a voucher equal to the prorated per-student cost of public education, to spend on private education instead. One of my colleagues uses this to send her daughter to an English-language school, rather than a Danish-language school. The U.S. doesn't have any similar program that will let you choose a Spanish-language school over an English-language school (and there is huge political pressure against Spanish-language schooling, because it is seen as a failure to integrate into proper Americanness).
Interesting dropping this 2h before the PFC Manning verdict, and during the week of hacker conferences.
I stand by the rest of your comment as well. I personally believe it's a stupidly short-sighted endeavor that at some point he will want out of, but to each his own.

My comment on the legality of it stemmed from curiosity on what would be necessary to "take himself private" at some point.
A good point. Or merging in changes from master, if you like it that way.
My first SaaS app. Any thoughts?
Hi HN,

I'm wrapping up my weekend side project, and it's time to get feedback. I got inspired by unbounce and optimizely and decided to build a service for bloggers to increase blog conversion by helping them easily test different versions of blog posts with different headlines, images or keywords and show how their audience engage with simple analytics. The co-founders of unbounce and Kissmetrics signed up for it and gave me some pretty good feedback. So I'm just wondering if any bloggers would like this idea and sign up.

Love your feedback. Would you use this for your blog or company blog?

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Cheers,
Gilman
Abuse of the abuse button
First, I think you mean far less elastic. In economics the more elastic two variables are with respect to one another, the less independent they are - implying the zero-sum-game the author suggests. Second, in any business if your margins are that slim chances are you're already being creative like that, making all kinds of tradeoffs wherever you can, or you're fixing to close your doors.

Juggling and heroics make the variables of a business much more dependent on one another, not less.
Ask HN: Recommend an SMTP service for infrequent sending to a large list
A client of mine runs a site with around 30,000 members. I need to find an SMTP / mail service for this site. Mostly it will be used to send single 'notification' type emails to the users, but on occasion (max 4 times a year) they need to send an email out to the entire user base.

So far I haven't found a service that would be cost effective for this kind of use. Services like mailgun seem to require a large monthly subscription for bulk mailing of that kind of size, which would be pointless when most months they won't be sending to the whole list.

I've tried Amazon SES, which seems to be ideally priced, but it's just so damn slow, and also has a 10,000 emails per day limit.

Can anyone recommend a service that would suit this usage?
Even in America, part of polite bar culture is buying an especially good bartender a shot or a drink. It also makes you a quick friend who might conveniently forget a couple drinks on your bill :)
Google's main goal for Android should be to achieve something similar for Android, like it was achieved for Windows. I think it's doable, but it requires some technical expertise (the easy part), and a lot of will to do it, to convince other OEM's to get on board and support the standardization of hardware and software (the really hard part).

I'm also not sure Google wants to do that so badly. I think they're pretty content and comfortable with how Android is working right now, generally speaking.
great feedback, thanks! we're looking to reorganize the homepage and be more clear on what we're doing and what the value proposition is
People complained about the web too, we just don't make a lot of noise about it now because we've given up on many aspects of it.

For a long time websites were designed to fit a lowest-common-denominator screen size - 800x600 or 1024x768 - and anything larger just had padding or other void space added.

Hell, most websites are still like this. See: NYTimes, IGN, etc. Fragmentation exists on the web and it causes many of the same issues as it does for native-mobile, it just isn't new, and it isn't very controversial given that we've thrown up our collective hands and quit trying to take advantage of everyone's browser windows and just resign ourselves to wasting pixels instead.

Screen size fragmentation is still a big deal on Android because we haven't resigned ourselves to throwing black bars up on screen and we're still doing our damndest to make good use of each individual screen size.

On the other hand, browser API fragmentation is a huge deal, and people do complain about it incessantly, for good reason, and it shares fundamentally many similarities with Android API fragmentation. Want to build your new thing with Canvas or WebGL? What's the penetration like, how many users even have browsers/machines that can handle it? New CSS tag? Sorry, not supported in many still-shipping browsers. Pretty much the whole "IE sucks" meme comes down to API and implementation fragmentation.

Complex apps on the modern web involve miles upon miles of compatibility hacks to work out the implementation differences for the same API, as well as different API support levels entirely. This is a big deal, and a huge time sink, and people rightfully do complain about it.

tl;dr: Fragmentation on the web is a problem and people do complain about it. The only thing that isn't complained about is screen size, mostly because we've taken a huge cop-out to avoid it.
I think that in a tipless restaurant, the manager becomes even more important. In this case, you wouldn't express your displeasure at bad service by giving a poor tip; you would instead get the manager.
In Spanish it's "escalera", close enough :P
This is something I wished I had while learning Vim, so I went ahead and built it. Let me know what you think.
Japan goes beyond that. In many 'tipless' cultures they will accept tips anyway. In Japan, they will give it back to you. I have heard stories of Japanese waiters running after customers as they leave, to return the tip.
Do you have references regarding the "Denmark is loosing jobs at an astounding rate" statement?

It doesn't seem in line with the fact that the unemployment rate has been dropping over the last couple of years, or that it is in fact lower than it was in the 1990s.

I know the unemployment statistics doesn't necessarily give the true numbers, but you can't just state something like that without references.
You shared a great example. Thank you!
If there is a flat 18% service charge, why not just add 18% to the base prices and get rid of the service charge? Or does a restaurant have to 'hide' these costs as an added percentage in order to make their prices seem reasonable?
> There's almost no excuse not to use Scala if you're deploying on the JVM.

Well, there are many excuses. Scala is a messy language* and I have Clojure which IMHO is a better alternative for JVM development.

I used both Scala and Clojure and settled with Clojure since it fits functional programming better. Scala is OOP with a bit of FP. Clojure if FP with OOP in case you need it desperately.

* "messy" as in "let's throw every feature we can think of into the language!"
He's in prison actually.
Those of us who believe MIT deserves some blame for subsequent events do so because they could have asked the prosecution to desist, as JSTOR did, or at least downgrade the charges to a misdemeanor, but chose not to. That amounted to an implicit endorsement of the prosecution, which would have been difficult to pursue without the support of either MIT or JSTOR.

The report appears to find that MIT should not have changed its neutral stance, which is disappointing, and I'm skeptical. Here's a quote (IV.B.3):

Given the lead prosecutor’s comments to MIT’s outside
counsel (see section III.C.3), MIT statements would
seemingly have had little impact, and even risk making
matters worse—although this information was not shared
with Swartz’s advocates.

It does reinforce what we already know: that the public prosecutor was mostly interested in collecting a scalp.

Update: Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, Aaron's partner at the time of his death, has released a statement. Full disclosure: Taren's a friend, Aaron was a friend, and I'm not exactly a disinterested party here.

http://tarensk.tumblr.com/post/56881327662/mit-report-is-a-w...
Conversely, I always tip cash for the opposite reason.
The prices just aren't there for me to care just yet, I'll wait for a $99.00 or less price point before considering smart locks, but there should be a huge market in the smart home space.
I think it's more about supply and demand. A good server is harder to find than a good cook. Let's also not confuse a "cook" with a "chef" (who is responsible for purchasing, menu design, teaching the cooks, etc).

It's possible there are other factors at play here, but I don't know enough about the situation to bring those up.
Sure, but mathematical language only applies to very specific concepts. You're free to talk about the applied domain (if not pure math) using informal text.

Programs need to be interpreted by a computer, and as such need to be written in a formal language everywhere, and as such has a larger amount of concepts that need to be formally modelled. More concepts means we need more descriptive names to be able to distinguish them.
Why not just up the prices and the wages instead of the sneaky service charge? Is that too honest in the restaurant business?
This is great. Glad to see this happening in the medical community. Wish it would happen with Congress and government as well like so many have suggested. I will say the web UI Github has provided on top of Git gives me hope for these initiatives.
Maybe this varies from country to country, but in Mexico "escalera" means ladder, and "escaleras" means stairs (or the plural, ladders, with context disambiguating).
Haha! Wait... That was funny until the part about vi.

Vim is the best editor ever and you should use it! Your editor is bad and you should feel bad!
"no doubt I'm already paying for the service, but five days later, I'm still awaiting setup."

I'm a long time OVH customer and I can ensure you that your contract term will start only when you get your server.

As far as I know the first 1000 "3euros" servers got sold faster than they thought. Now they are building new ones. Be patient, your server is coming. ;-)
You should consider reaching out to the folks at CopyBlogger. They might be interested. All - have you considered writing a guest blog post about this new product?
Apparently this model didn't work so well, since they are now closed?
http://thelinkery.com/blog/
I agree with you on some points, it's a lot of work to earn passive income and during my first year trying to earn passive income on the side I lost money and incurred in a debt of around 50K USD... but last month I finally got the hang of it, and after putting 30 hours a week after my fulltime job during my first year of trial and error, last month I grossed 10K merely working about 10 hours a week after my fulltime job... That said, it's possible and it's not in its entirety bullshit.
The food service industry is supported by a huge mass of people who just do their jobs, a small group of people who want to be stars but probably won't, and a tiny group of stars who can actually earn enough money to live well.

Any of the recent food star autobiographies will tell you that life in a kitchen is a 60-80 hour grind, every week, and that investing in a restaurant requires only slightly less foolish optimism than buying a boat.
Regardless of the actual site/format the quantifying of truth part seems like a big, interesting problem.
Any good resources on that? A nice proof of concept?

I'm trying to wrap my head around it.
I don't know. If I was you I'd just research the whole quantifying part and try to design some conceptual algorithms for that.

http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/ is somewhat tangential to that. Just putting the link out there.
There's also a bunch of QA sites that force your to take a side, but I don't remember them right now ;C

And couldn't you do that with existing QA sites?
Like Klout for truth, haha.
>Android is going to have more variation than Apple

Absolutely. However, what struck me as crazy is the sheer number of devices per manufacturer. There are more than 100 devices there -- for Samsung alone. I get that they put out different devices for different locales. But I can't imagine the overhead in having that many devices in all kinds of different sizes.

What gives?
Does anyone know the reason as to why this is true:

"However, to give the tip money to every worker would be illegal. The law is historically very clear — the $220 in tips belongs to the two servers only, and cannot be distributed to any other employees." ?
If tipping weren't customary, then I'd agree with you that the service charge is just an obnoxious way to hide the true price (a la ticketmaster). But in US restaurants, the diner's expectation is that they will pay 15-20% on top of the listed prices for the tip. So long as the no-tipping policy and 18% surcharge is made clear on the menu, I don't see a problem with this.
This is pretty much what I did for my Masters, in 2000.

I also applied a triangular mesh to the surface, extracted textures for each triangle, and then tried to optimize edge flips to minimize blurriness in the resultant triangles.
Have you considered trying Indian or Sichuan? At least in the UK, it's easy to find a vindaloo curry or some kung pao chicken, which are rather spicy.
In France most white collar workers have the "cadre" status that was originally only used for managers. It somehow means you are free to organize your work time under the condition to work a certain number of days per year (often approximately 218) and have your task done (or at least give the impression you've done at much as possible).

The legal number of hours per week is still 35 (or more + RTT days) but the time you do over the legal number is counted as "overtime" only if your manager requests that you work more and that is very rare.

In many companies the real work time is much higher but I can't give you a realistic global value.
Can we have a moratorium on calling dodgy ebook sellers mlm scam artists and doddgy time share sales men hackers
But I know, somewhere on this earth, there's someone who needs me.

This. No matter what relationships are dropped or attachments are taken from us there is nothing more beautiful than the friendship and love that is waiting for us out there. Hope drives this. All it takes is for us to seek it.
You get the added benefit of not relying on global state. Which you have to do anyway if you want to parallelize your test suite execution.
Great job. I actually thought about using them previously due to the good reviews, but did not want to ever have to look at their hideous old site. I'm going to try them out now!
It's quite a pretty site, but the home page loads very slowly on my quad core I5. Something about this page is hanging up the dom onload event pretty significantly - Network tab showing about 7 seconds. Got a screenshot of the network tab here: http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3769/9399721127_a63086e535_o.j...

Luckily the api docs and tutorials are unaffected and load quite quickly.
About the square/rectangle example, what would be the solution? The Square subclass should not verify equality with width and height or it should not even exist? Or something else?

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Wikipedia:
If Square and Rectangle had only getter methods (i.e., they were immutable objects), then no violation of LSP could occur.