skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
McDonalds' food is awful by what standard, precisely? From a health standpoint, sure. From the standpoint of a foodie, yes. From the standpoint of pretty much anyone who is accustomed to nicer food, in nicer circumstances, sure.

But McDonalds isn't competing on the dimension of "quality" as other restaurants might define that term. McDonalds is competing on scale and consistency. A Big Mac [1] in Jakarta tastes identical to a Big Mac in Cleveland. A pack of fries in Moscow tastes identical to a pack of fries in Istanbul. If you walk into a McDonalds in any part of the world, barring a few local specialties on the menu, you know exactly what you're going to get, and exactly when you're going to get it. That's pretty damned remarkable.

McDonalds runs a marketing and logistics company, not a restaurant chain.

[1] Insert Pulp Fiction reference here.
I wonder if adverse selection will apply where people will abuse this for high frequency transfers of some sort.
> Stay as schemaless as possible. It makes it easy to add features. All you need to do is add new properties without having to alter tables.

And at the same time they use and praise Postgres a lot, so it cannot be about NoSQL.

I am wondering what they mean exactly. From my own tendency, it should mean use a few very big and narrow tables in the form of "who - do - what - when - where", eg "userA - vote up - comment1 - timestamp - foosubreddit", and also "userB - posted - link1 - timestamp - barsubreddit"

Then in the same table you get kinda all events happening in the site, and you are somewhat schemaless, in the sense that adding a new functionality do not require schema change.

If someone with inner insight can confirm this is not too far from what reddit team meant, I'd appreciate.
That clearly makes sense economically, and I know this already exists (car insurance, for example), but I don't think many people would agree with this on a social level. A security camera with great AI might only follow the black people in a crowded store because it makes sense statistically. But putting people at an unfair disadvantage for what they can't control is a slippery slope.
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ARE YOU SERIOUS!?!?!!

Try living somewhere outside of the upper middle class. There is almost nobody I know who can get out of that kind of unexpected debt. "Most people" budget for a car, and don't buy a new one at 20. How about those people who take the bus?

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/medical-bills-cause...

Nearly two out of three bankruptcies stem from medical bills, and even people with health insurance face financial disaster if they experience a serious illness, a new study shows.

Among families who were bankrupted by illness, those with private insurance reported average medical bills of $17,749 compared to those who were uninsured, who faced an average of $26,971 in medical costs. Those who had health insurance but lost it in the course of their illness reported average medical bills of $22,568.
You are cherry-picking my words. My Asian wife proves I'm not a racist, period. White racists are pretty much exclusively hateful towards anyone who isn't white. Neo-Nazis, KKK, if you're not a "certain kind" of European, they don't like you. But you know that, and you are reaching. I have a former coworker with the surname "Dhillon", whose ancestry is Punjabi. Maybe you are south Asian, or maybe I'm completely fucking wrong in my assumption. You're not black, and as you said you grew up in a mostly white area. You are no more an authority than I am on any of this. The only difference is that due to the demographics of the particular region of the country I was raised in, most of my friends, neighbors, and schoolmates were native born African Americans. The notion that, because of the color of my skin, I have no right to comment on what I saw and extrapolate it refutes logic. Does this mean that you, as a non-white person who lived in a predominantly white, rural area, are immediately disqualified from commenting on the odd habits of the whites (you labelled them hostile to non-whites) in your neighborhood? Doesn't this mean you are doing the same thing that I did?
I vaguely remember reading somewhere that they figured out a way to run their collector on stock Linux; I think the price they paid in exchange was (even) lower throughput (trying to track down reference so I know I wasn't daydreaming) (yes, I daydream about GCs).

A while ago, I read through the kernel patch they provided, and it was basically adding batch APIs for mremap so you don't have to have a TLB flush for every call. Also because all mutator threads needed to be paused at a safepoint while the remaps happen, so the batch API has much shorter pause time.
Even believers must admit that God is essentially mysterious; if there was a creator who wanted its presence known unambiguously, then it wouldn't be a frequent point of contention.

Rather, I think this an issue with the human psyche, which is complex, but unambiguously real. Whether or not there's a God, there are many who clearly want to believe in something which is omni-present, and I'm guessing that for those with no faith, or for whom their faith doesn't scratch that itch, they fill that gap with a fictional Good Guy Government that protects you while you sleep.
>What I read was a discussion of how coddling is crippling. That the parents who were financially capable of insulating their children from pretty much any sort of failure were actually setting their children up for failure when it matters most.

With the money and businesses some of those parents got, they aint gonna need success anyway.

Some might even become Presidents, like their fathers, despite being idiots.
It may be that the Inca never used gold as currency, but it would be hard to substantiate that claim, I would think. The reason the Spanish valued it as currency is not because of some quirk of the Spanish, however -- it's univerally a good currency (though not the best). Unlike bartered goods or services, gold is readily divisible and transportable, transfers without any skill, and stores indefinitely.
"There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs."
- Larry Flon

The same applies to programming paradigms.
How We Founded a Positive News Organization
Second everything you said.
Honestly, I think it is worth skipping cryptographic anonymity for doable now.

If you want anonymity, post from an Internet cafe on a laptop you bought for cash on Craiglist.
Nuance spills the beans on September 10 iOS 7 launch date
Religion vs Science
"...those that do [show creativity and original thinking], will do so regardless of reward or risk."

I disagree. I think that there will be some people who will be creative no matter what. There will some people who won't be creative no matter what. And there will be some people in the middle who could swing either way.

As an example: I think that Steve Jobs would've been creative and ambitious no matter what. But I don't think that Wozniak would've been ambitious if it wasn't for Jobs pushing him.

Certain environments foster creativity and experimenting. US colleges are full of weird intellectuals with crazy ideas. OTOH, Your typical, say, police department (or most government agencies...) is not.

The environment that we live in will tend to sway people in one direction or the other. (... just look at the environment of S.V. or YCombinator...)
Dishwasher Cooking: Make Your Dinner While Cleaning The Plates
out of curiosity I started looking at the x1000, found a page where you can buy one:

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php...

$2,800 for pretty low spec hardware. Surely it only appeals to people who have fond memories of their Amiga 500? I knew two people who owned them when I was younger, always jealous! but that seems like an insane amount of money to spend on something that is seriously dated. What am I missing?
I'll leave aside the comparisons to tent.io, app.net, StatusNet, and many other services...

Considering that most Twitter users seem quite comfortable with publishing their posts for all to see, marketing a Twitter competitor as a post-Snowden measure seems somewhat opportunistic to me, especially when there are many other benefits to decentralized/open Twitter replacements.
ISS is not stable. Our company used to have the corporate website server going down multiple times per day. Even the developers working on .Net projects would have to restart their servers multiple times per week just to keep them up.

That being said desktop Linux stability (Ubuntu/Mint) is a bit of a joke. Ubuntu is the worst offender, and tends to change drastically between versions. (On a side note Fedora is stable as a rock, but is very boring)

This has been my experience, different people likely would have different outcomes. I've never had to restart any of my linux servers.
what's a good rate for music for games? I can see two situations - you either find an artist whose style you liked/suites the game, and pay them for an original composition, or find an existing song that suits the game and pay a "licence" to use it.

I have no idea how much it costs to do either - i'd really like to know.
I work in the foreign language education business, and so am naturally curious when I meet someone who speaks English without accent, but should have an accent. I have met 7 people that speak with no accent, but should have one, e.g. moved to the US from Taiwan at age 21, but is now 31 and speaks with no accent. They all told a similar story. They listened to the same piece of audio content thousands of times. For one it was an episode of Friends, for another guy it was a Bill Clinton speech.

If you want to make progress, I suggest finding a piece of content 15-30 minutes long, and listening and repeating everyday for a year. Once you have memorized the content word-for-word, then you will be able to stop hearing meaning, and actually hear the sounds.

You could also spend time with a book which explains differences like the 'th' difference in 'thin' and 'then'. I assure you that book will not help you. Many native english speakers don't distinguish between 'pin' and 'pen' but no one confuses 'thin' and 'then'. Trying to learn a bunch of rules will not work. You have to learn to hear the difference, and the only way to learn to hear the difference is to listen to the same thing over and over.
If you want to make bitcoin really attractive to merchants, this might do it.
I believe the name is making a portmanteau of RSS and trust, hence trsst.
Cool, thanks. I wasn't clear whether you were talking about functional programs, but I can believe that it works for them.
This is really about Judaism (Torah) vs. science, but I think it applies to the general religion vs science debate.
> Given these principles, at what point in existence does one qualify as having human rights and on what basis do we identify that point?

That's an important piece of the argument. Is personhood innate (in which case it must begin at conception, sicne there are no other bright lines in development that make universal sense across culture and time)? Or is it a social construct (in which case we have no right to see abortion as different from Roman infanticide)?

In other words, is personhood and human rights innate, in which case you must be a pro-life extremist if you are willing to seriously argue that? Or is personhood socially recognized and constructed, in which case you must accept that abortion is infanticide but also that infanticide is ok if the culture says so?
The thing is both of these are relatively extreme viewpoints. Very few on the right want abortion to be punished the same as infanticide, and very few on the left are willing to acknowledge that if abortion is ok, then infanticide must be too (but there are some, see NARAL and Planned Parenthood's defence of killing fetuses born alive after failed late-term abortions).

> In establishing the criteria for human life, we should consider as many implications as possible.

Doesn't that mean we should leave it up to local cultures to sort this out for themselves? If Rome wants to mandate infanticide in the case of severe birth defects, bully for them.
Do you really expect me to buy the idea that your company failed because Gigabit was too expensive? Even if 100Mbit was far cheaper, there are plenty of workarounds to cheaply increase throughput.

I assume by no-brand you mean custom built, and also assuming you mean the cheapest available, in which case even one gigabit interface may have been difficult, seeing as 32-bit 33mhz bus capacity is barely above gigabit speed. In any case, the money you saved on Sun gear could have built you a sizeable PC cluster and even with several 100Mbit interfaces would have been more powerful and cheaper. Really I think it wasn't built on Linux because Sun was the more robust, stable platform. But I could be crazy.

While i'm being crazy, I should point out all the other things you mentioned can be planned for. Anybody who's even read about high-performance systems design should be able to account for too many reads/writes! Geographical distribution is simple math: at some point, there are too many upstream clients for one downstream server, capacity fills, latency goes through the roof. A DBA knows all about schema woes. I thought service-oriented architecture was basic CS stuff? (I don't know, I never went to school) AWS didn't exist at the time. And the maturity level of your software in two years will, obviously, be two years more mature.

All of these problems are what someone with no experience or training will run into. But there should be enough material out there now that anyone can read up enough to account for all these operational and design problems, and more. But if your argument is that start-up people shouldn't have to know it because hey, I haven't got time to figure out how to do it right because I have to ship right now, I don't buy that for a minute.

There's a paper that some guy wrote years ago that goes over in great detail every single operational scaling issue you can think of, and it's free. I don't remember where it is. But it should be required reading for anyone who ever works on a network of more than two servers.

As an aside: was it really cost that prohibited you from porting to Linux? This article[1] from 2000 states "adding Linux to the Traffic Server's already impressive phalanx of operating systems, including Solaris, Windows 2000, HP-UX, DEC, Irix and others, shows that Inktomi is dedicated to open-source standards, similar to the way IBM Corp. has readily embraced the technology for its eServers." And this HN thread[2] has a guy claiming that in 1996 "we used Intel because with Sun servers you paid an extreme markup for unnecessary reliability". However, it did take him 4 years to move to Linux. (?!) A lot of other interesting comments on that thread.

[1] http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/526691/Inkt...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3924609
You're totally right, of course, but you can't blame folks for trying.
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The sqlite locking model can eat 1600 inserts before breakfast with only minor lock contention. The whole file lock doesn't take effect until the moment the write is ready to go to disk.

http://www.sqlite.org/lockingv3.html
Maybe the port was started on Qt4 and only now released?
Am I the only one who feels that the colors are not good enough. I didn't like any color associated with the theme.
Writes were generally quite fast so the next write rarely got queued. Also we ran it single-threaded. When we moved to Postgres, that also gave us the opportunity to safely switch to phpfpm without worrying about the lock issue.

The nice thing about Postgres as opposed to SQLite is that we finally got "searching" as a feature. ;)
yep - the default art assets tend to have a style that people can recognize. But sometimes that's hard to fix since you don't have budget to make new assets. I guess it must be up to the developer's creativity to break the mould - and not many can achieve that.
Uh, isn't the primary purpose of Twitter to make your posts PUBLIC?

Edit: I guess the focus is on the private messaging aspect, which I never use. Perhaps this is more popular than I realize.
Don't post "X is down" posts here. An hour later, you end up being wrong.
I almost double checked if its not 1 April? How will they make money?
Hey Potato, that's sad you don't want to go to hacks anymore. Code reviews are either done in private before we announce the winner or within 7 days after the event.

The slide deck thing is a persistent problem and one we're not happy with. I think that kills it for everyone and its disappointing when judges are impressed by them. To change this, starting this Fall we'll be the first hackathon to disallow power point presentations and require teams to demo if they'd like to win.
> In my opinion, principles exist as a fallback when you don't have enough information, time, or intelligence to reason something fully.

OTOH, in Heisenberg's viewpoint, scientific theories are projections of first principles onto data.

> This is because the world is not black-and-white, while principles are, so they will let you down if you rely on them too heavily.

So what about these two principles:

1. Whoever has the responsibility should have the power that goes with it.

2. Since knowledge is local, power should devolve as far as possible towards local households, neighborhoods, and communities.

Do those fit with your critique or are they something else?
It's not. Referential transparency and immutability (or lack thereof) is a big deal, especially when it comes to multi-threaded code.
Julian Assange on Google's intertwining relationship with the State Department
>Take a cough suppressant

The medical evidence for taking cough suppressants is poor.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1002%2F14651858.CD001831.pub3

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136%2Fbmj.324.7333.329
Unfortunately until coinbase support non-US banks, we could only watch and sigh! :)
Could this be considered a derivative of Sous-vide[0]? That is, the mason jar technique is cooking in an air-tight container and temperature is at least somewhat regulated by the dishwasher. Have I had access to a cheap sous-vide machine this whole time!?

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sous-vide
I love Linus' followup to this later:

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 linux@horizon.com wrote:
>
> > But perhaps slightly impractical.
>
> There are just few laws of physics it violates.

Yeah, yeah. You avoided a few laws of phsyics of your own.

[...]

My plan was more interesting, I feel.

http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0506/5308.html
Just in case you didn't trust your photos/albums/comments with Facebook (or Google), you could try a privacy respecting, user-owned, self-hosted solution (self-hosting coming soon):

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So, use a unique password and/or a throwaway email?
Intel’s Bay Trail Is a Game Changer
Neither of these arguments stack up. COGS went down went the dollar went up. That meant gross profits went up. If rent stayed the same, retailers had more flexibility to cut prices and they chose not to.
is there any internet cafe that allows you to reach the open web without asking you for identification first?
That's largely the problem. Hospitals can't charge (or even quote prices) until after providing the care in most cases - because it is time sensitive (and the "customer" may not even be conscious). I agree that it's a crazy situation, but the burger joint model is not a valid alternative.
Even on desktop Firefox it displayed the "Unresponsive script" ... (Script: http://rriepe.github.io/1pxdeep/js/less.js:8) warning for me at the first load and I had to press "Stop script" five times. But after reloading the page it seems OK.
"What have you made?"
"Who wants it?"
"How do you know?"
Zero? Sounds like they just want an excuse to cut the budget. Middle schools in Iowa pull a similar con by making standards artificially high to take pre algebra. The consequence is very few students taking calculus; thus the district has to fund very few AP classes or students taking freshman college classes at school district expense.
I'm guessing that you misread forefathers as "founding fathers", but still, you're giving greater credence to my argument.

In abolishing slavery, lawmakers in 1865 made it clear that regardless of how profitable slavery was for slave-owners, it was bad for mankind and would not be tolerated.
Zuckerberg: These Internet Services Should Be Free For Everyone
Just got my Chromecast that I ordered in July and am profoundly disappointed. For a device with such high potential, it really did not deliver on the promise.

Here's what I expected:
1) AirPlay alternative via Google Chrome/Chromecast.
2) Reasonable picture quality and fit.
3) Possibly an office alternative to Apple TV for presentations.

While yes, this thing can project your browser tab on to the TV, there is severe lag, washed-out colors, and most importantly I have not been able to play HTML5 videos in full-screen mode. Could be user error...

Amazon Prime Instant Videos do not play in full-screen mode either. But then again, I didn't really expect SilverLight to work with Google's products all that well.

Picture quality is terrible. I only tried it on a 720p TV, as tab mirroring reportedly only supports 720p. Colors are washed out and lighting is off. Not a big deal, but I also did not get 720p all the time, connection seemed to fade in and out. This is on a completely not busy N router and nothing else streaming.

What really got me though was spotty support in YouTube and Drive Presentations going off-screen. YouTube has a nice library of international films. I really like watching old Soviet movies from my childhood. They are free to watch and I was stunned when Chromecast reported that the videos I was trying to watch are not supported, even though there is a chromecast icon in the player itself.

Lastly, Google Presentations ended up being cut off when projected in fullscreen (yes here it's fully supported, but not on all videos... go figure.). This last bit basically killed my hypothesis that we could get these for ever conference room and project from both Macs and PCs. I was really hoping this would work...
Thalmic (YC W13) is hiring a Product Manager on the MYO team
Your entire post history is defending the NSA, snarky comments that add nothing such as '[citation needed]', and general negativity/patronizing 'well actually...' or 'I can't believe anyone...' type statements.
I think I remember reading him saying that git became popular because he created it. In other words due to hype.
Growing up with an lowly Amiga 500 and high-end PCs upgraded yearly, I never understood why it took PCs so long to catch up in terms of graphics. There were literally dozens of video card companies competing in the 2D market, and years after they "beat" it in resolution and color, the performance was abysmal for gaming. None of my top of the line ATI, S3, Matrox cards ever had true sprite support, and would often slow down with any serious movement on the screen. It wasn't until post Voodoo2 era, that I felt the PC had finally caught up, and that was through brute force.

Anyone have any idea, what held the PC back? Patents or lack of VESA-like support for specialized features like the Amiga had?