skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The burden of proof, in this case, should be on the e-cigarette industry. They are selling an addictive recreational product, consisting of a new combination of substances, with a novel delivery method (that involves deep inhalation). It would be naive to let them play the game the cigarette industry has played for decades, that is trying to dodge the burden of proof for safety and spreading uncertainty.

And let's not forget that, for a novel product, the baseline for safety is not using the product, not using something that is known to be extremely toxic.
Time-Machine-style backup with rsync
Hipster Biz!
Rather than having a "sign up" link and a "Plans and Pricing" link, I think it would be better if you had just 1 page, and had the signup form be the focus of the site (the call-to-action).
Rhodia Webnotebooks use Clairefontaine paper so if you want blank paper you could try those. I really like the dot grid paper which I find to be a great balance between blank and regular graph paper http://rhodiapads.com/images/dotgrid2.jpg
You get no value from the free air you breathe?
Slow cooker soup recipes. You put a bunch of stuff into the slow cooker, let it sit for 4-8 hours and are awarded with an awesome meal that will last you several days.

One favorite recipe from a friend:

Ingredients:
•	1 (16 oz.) pkg. dried green split peas, rinsed
•	1-2 ham hocks, depending on how much of a carnivore you are.
•	3 carrots, peeled and sliced
•	1/2 cup chopped white onion
•	2 ribs of celery plus leaves, chopped
•	2 cloves of garlic, minced
•	1 bay leaf
•	1 tbsp. total Spices: Marjoram, Thyme, Rosemary, Savory, Sage, Oregano, and Basil
•	1 tbsp. seasoned salt
•	1 tsp. fresh pepper
•	1 1/2 liters water
Preparation:
Layer ingredients in slow cooker in the order given; pour in water. Do not stir ingredients. Cover and cook on HIGH 5 hours or on low 10 hours until peas are very soft and ham falls off bone. Remove bones and bay leaf. Mash peas to thicken more, if desired.

If you want healthy - I go for smoothies in the vitamix. Mostly some mesh between fruit and green smoothies.
I don't think that either ZFC or ZFC/AFA dominates the other, just that the AFA bakes a framework for infinite streaming structures into the heart of your mathematics. You immediately lose extensional equality in favor of bisimulation, for instance. The point is more to see what centipede mathematics feels like than to claim greater power or expressiveness.
John Camack has some interesting things to say on this, http://functionaltalks.org/2013/08/26/john-carmack-thoughts-... and http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1g1mvx/john_carmack... .
I think that probably it will get out of stock quickly. It's a marketing move that gets reported by major news sites, and raises interest among non-tech people. If everything goes smoothly, probably it will get less coverage.
It took me a while until "Heroin" got under my skin, but when it did, it got all the way under. You have to listen to it as loud as you can possibly stand, and not repeat it too often or it will give you an immaculate headache.
First, you just launched, so congrats!

Second, I do have some feedback:

-You don't state the problem you're fixing. You have to make the prospect aware of a problem they're having before you show them the light. And even if a prospect visits your site knowing they have the problem you're trying to solve, reiterating it in very clear terms will only make them more encouraged to buy your service.

-You need visuals, like images of restaurants, dishes, happy customers, happy owners, etc, stuff that'll elicit an emotional response.

-Given the nature of the product, I would include a very simple graph to visually convey the concept of increasing revenues.

-You need testimonials or case studies. As a restaurant owner with a lot on my plate already, I need to know your product actually works and is worth implementing. A case study about how X restaurant discovered some hidden trends in their customer behaviors and tripled revenue in a year will make me more likely to pull the trigger.

-Your hook needs work. "The best way to forecast for your restaurant" doesn't present a problem or a solution. Something like "Easy sales forecasting that'll keep your customers full, and your wallet fat" might be a little better. (That could be a lot better, but I'd need a few hours).

Hope that helps!
I moved in 2008, and the rents have gradually been going down. Usually involves a bit of negotiation with the landlord, as legally they are allowed to raise it in line with inflation each year. Or moving out, which is a hassle, and ends up costing. So fine if you are moving anyway, but otherwise it depends.
The Incredible Shrinking Plane Seat
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6622034
Read Later - a Facebook archiver
We're looking at integrating with POS systems but that isn't very easy.

http://paulgraham.com/schlep.html
That seems to be a sign that they _are_ taking a significant financial hit, or at least are afraid that they will soon. I'd rather see people using e-cigs sold by big tobacco companies than real cigarettes though.
Precisely because of that I have "click to play" for all plugins in Chromium. I feel a million times better about it, and it's a very minor hassle.
The cable companies are pretty terrifying to mess with. In Seattle, the city wants to provide gigabit fiber to residents, with a pilot project in many neighborhoods. Unfortunately, the champion of that effort, Mayor McGinn, is probably not going to win reelection and Comcast has already bought his challenger.
Trello: just as fun when playing alone
Android isn't the problem, Google is.

The problem begins with the installation of every android device when you're asked to register a Google account (same process with the Apple ID in iOS). [Sure enough you can use the phone without a Google account or an iOS account but your excluded from each ecosystem]. For me - as an iOS user - I got a much worse feeling using the Google ecosystem than Apple ones because of one simple fact:

Google can get much more value out of the data you're generating than Apple does using it to later 'enhance' your experience for all other Google services (Google Search, Gmail, etc.) showing ads. Knowing everything about my daily behavior ('When is the user active? Was does he do? Where is he? ...') will lead to a perfect profile to sell the right ads.

At Apple you at least got the change to opt-out even using the ecosystem of the unique ad identifier. Correct me if this is possible using a Google account on android as well.
Obama 'not told of Merkel phone bugging'
5 Design Blogs that Every Developer Should Read
There are a lot of libraries out there and over the last dozen or so years, based on functionality, some have become much easier to work with than the same functionality was awhile back. Then again, some libraries like libcurl have generally been quite good and straightforward to use.

As someone mentioned, CCAN was on the front page, but generally there hasn't been the same sort of organized directory to find the C library best for a particular problem.

For myself, I go off of what I've used before, what others maybe have recommended, or sometimes just search for something that does most of what I want. If I need to write it, so be it.
It's pretty clear you only have a surface understanding of the e-cig industry, the big tobacco owned e-cig lines are crappy disposables. You might start with one, but pretty soon you move on to a proper personal vaporizer with a decent battery life.

It's not clear how exactly harmful they aren't, either. The truth is, no one knows. They certainly haven't done any harm to me thus far, and we aren't yet hearing reports of vapers dropping dead, so I think it's safe to assume they're relatively harmless. (at least in the short term.)
AngularJS Developer Discussion - LinkedIn
To the people asking about Excel, the obvious answer is: most non IT literate people don't know how to use it. My Uncle always asks me to knock up very basic charts to track how his business is doing because he doesn't know how himself.

1) More information - I want to know what kind of statistics you can show me (ideally in layman's terms), something like a graph. Then some more details on the technical info - what do you mean by trend? Can you predict sales in the future?

2) Do you actually have any usage data from a restaurant for this?

3) It would be nice to see your personal background - why did you invent this? Did you have a problem that needed solving that was hard with conventional software?

Basically what I'm getting at is I don't really understand what I would get from your product. I can see a table of things I sold and a rainy icon. Great, but if I'm a restaurateur presumably my till will dump something like this at the end of the day?

I get the impression that at the moment you're selling an answer, not the answer to a posed question. People need to look at your site and immediately think "Yes, I always wondered about that and I can see it would help!"
Exactly - they're my favorite to sketch and jot down ideas in and totally worth the investment in the short term.
I'm talking purely about aethetics. I couldn't give a toss about what ever excuses you have for the massive usability fail of Metro (and it is seriously lacking as a desktop user interface) in a discussion about personal preferences with design aesthetics. But who cares about a level headed discussion when people like you can instead post condisending fanboy BS...
thank you for this level-headed response. some of the vitriol around here is toxic.
First, electronics ironically last less...

Everything I have on paper I did not lost, even when it got damaged for whatever reason (like a flooding...)

But I already lost lots of electronic data (specially with some bad flukes, like dropping a backup HD on the ground, and then figuring the original broke down too for some reason)

And lots of electronics.

Also finally, using paper to write in the bus or metro here in Brazil does not make people point guns at your head, while using electronics does. (I am not kidding, I got robbed at gunpoint a couple times)
God that annoys me. He can explain things properly, so assumes moving his arms around will make it clearer.
Retirement is for the Young
You simply can't get any meaningfully-large group
of US citizens to agree to raise taxes. On anything.

Really?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/08/us/politics/in-california-...

I was one of the voters that voted for the increase. I don't mind paying taxes most of the time; with them I buy civilization.
I think the css-columns thing is flawed anyway. I'd much rather see:

http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-regions/

It's the only thing that makes sense if we want to allow that type of design on the web.

It appears: http://adobe-webplatform.github.io/css-regions-polyfill/ works fine in eg. Firefox - but their example page degrades horribly with javascript disabled -- but that shouldn't be insurmountable -- the easiest might be to simply patch the layout with an onLoad or something (have the static site show something similar either without columns, or using css-columns or something...).

edit: formatting
>First, you just launched, so congrats!

There is no site behind this that is publically available. It looks like a glorified contact form to me.
> The song Heroin has so much dissonance

I bought the album in 1987 during a school lunch break. Someone saw, and wanted to play it in the common room. There are many really nice tunes on the album, but unfortunately Heroin was the first song that got played so that record got taken off pretty fast.
I'd guess that the majority of users have automatic Windows Update turned on, since that's the default setting and what Microsoft recommends. The only people who have the base level of Microsoft operating systems (or don't apply patches between service packs) are the ones who are so clueless about security that they're not likely to have gone out of their way to install a third-party anti-virus tool.

If they assume that most users apply all "critical" Windows updates in the order that they're pushed, the anti-virus vendor could snapshot their reference PCs before each update and record the hashes of all Windows files. It's possible to determine which updates have already been installed on a machine (there's an option for this in the control panel, and the information is probably stored in the registry).
Plus the mod makers selling rebuildable atomizers and battery casings.
Hey, yeah I totally get it. Just drive home the WHY, WHY do you need to help them understand their customers' behaviour patterns? What are the benefits? Honestly I can't say that enough :)
BT's has different IP/wireless network for the owner and the public users piggybacking off it. Public is also restricted to I think 512kb/s
But it is obviously Harlem and not what people usually mean by "in Manhattan"
> That being said, when I switched to e-cigarettes, it was very easy to switch back to regular cigarettes.

Not easy at all for me. Cigarettes taste so disgusting, I could never go back to them.
I didn't expect it was necessary to spell out the details of the arrangement to support the validity of the approach. The purpose of the suggestion is to approach the problem differently to achieve a successful outcome.

Administering this type of procurement arrangement, while certainly important to all the points you have raised, has very little to do with the success of building and delivering healthcare.gov.
I'm pretty sure it is to do with keeping the volume of support calls down; they try to lock down everything they can.
Is it really custom if its got the 53 logo all over it?

I'm all for having a nicer looking collection of organized Moleskines (already have 10 'normal' moleskines on the shelf, easily spotted among the noise) but I abhor the idea of my 'customized' set nevertheless looking like they were published by 53.

If there's an easy way to remove all branding, I'd be into this in a heartbeat ..
I as a non-smoker can buy an e-cigarette, so one should judge the safety of the product on its own, not compared to something that is clearly harmful.

Methadone, for example, is used for harm reduction. It's only available as an prescription alternative to a harmful addiction. And still, substitution therapy is treated like any other form of medicine, i.e. the industry has to prove the merits of their product before it can go on sale.

Nicotine patches, which are available OTC to the general public, at least had to be proven as safe in clinical trials.
Deleted my post because my mobile screwed it up before I was finished. All good points. FizzBuzz is so simple that it can be regurgitated too or lifted from a Google search on your phone as you're talking with the interviewer. That so many can fail with so many examples is terribly troubling.
Not relevant.

http://finance.wharton.upenn.edu/~acmack/Chapter_05_app.pdf
The reason linear filters don't work for upscaling, say a Lanczos or Sinc, is that the base supposition made for generating the filters is that the source is "bandlimited" -- that is, all images are samples of some source which can at most vary once every pixel. Problem is, while that works very well for regions that are supposed to be smooth -- textures and stuff -- it fails at edges, since edges have infinite bandwidth. The result is a wash out as you can see for linear/bicubic interpolation.

Of course, it does work almost perfectly for downscaling, because in this case we're not creating any edges, just reconstructing the original edges -- an those vary at most once every pixel.
Your right. I should have started all of the above sentences with "most of the time".
This is my only criticism, the vernacular and wordplay on the website is sometimes confusing. Having made it through, I'm definitely interested in their product though.
Knowing nothing about the food services industry, surely this is something you do once for each menu item and then forget about it. For instance, if you know a cake needs 100g sugar, 100g flour, 100g fat, 1 egg per portion then it's trivial that if you sell ten cakes, you need a kilo of each thing.

And actually this would be interesting to chart - does this actually correlate to your kitchen usage? Ideally there should be no wastage in ingredients, but what happens if you find out that each day you're selling 10 muffins but using 20 eggs?

I think an ideal-ish system would be either to integrate to the POS system or have some kind of iPad/tablet app so you can tap in orders as they come. Just needs to be a basic counter that tracks how much is sold throughout the day. If you have POS data, then you can be even more canny and see finer resolution data (e.g. early lunch vs late lunch).
Excellent, I'll look into getting a copy of that. I have several of his other books (GEB, I Am A Strange Loop, Metamagical Themas, etc.) but only got about 1/3rd of the way through GEB before setting it aside to focus on other stuff for "a while". Unfortunately "a while" has turned into over a year now, so I guess it's time to get back to it. :-)
One Schrodinger's cat in a box is another Schrodinger's identity in a commit. You just cannot be sure ;-) (sorry, couldn't resist)
Yes, I'm afraid that it's there marketing strategy. I think it works for Nexus 4 and gain them massive attention with the people. I'm just hoping that they will not do it again because there are more people now that are aware with the Nexus line and waiting. I know some people that are waiting for Nexus 5 but have a deadline for themselves. And if they don't get Nexus 5 immediately, they will just buy a different phone. Looks like a miss customer for Nexus.
When I interviewed for a coding job about 15 years ago I was asked to talk the interviewer through some code. Nothing very exciting, just a very basic loop.

It turned out that 3/4 of the people applying for the job _could not code at all_. They weren't just bad coders - they had never coded anything in their lives.

It's _those_ people that FizzBuzz catches out.
Having worked in both I realise recently. You can stick to the corporate world. Get told to use Java, Oracle, etc. Get well paid. Have decent career prospects. "Just write code".

Or my current position which is to develop the in house database, in the language if my choosing. Get to experiment with new technologies. Design it all myself (so no one to blame if it goes badly).

I would be better paid in the first job, but its way less interesting.
I was making a funny about them launching unintentionally by making this submission.
> There is no reason why the Fed's actions would particularly benefit the stock price of Amazon, Netflix and Tesla.

These are not the only stocks benefiting, but they're great examples.

> Providing easy money should give a boost to all stock prices...

I don't know when you last checked, but the S&P just hit a new all-time high this past week, and the Dow achieved a new all-time high last month. The NASDAQ is within striking distance of 4,000, a level last seen in 2000. So yes, easy money has boosted all stock prices.

> ...in fact the Feds actions should give the biggest boost to low risk investments since they are the closest substitutes for what the Fed is buying.

No, that is not how this works. The Fed's actions encourage (if "force" is too strong a word for your liking) investors to bid up riskier assets because it's damn near impossible to find returns anywhere else.
How one small American VPN company is trying to stand up for privacy
Mind Games - Play Online Mind Games - Free Online Games
Put your visual acuity and memory muscle to the test in this label based, brain training challenge.
> Let's be honest, you just need to know how are you going to deal with the file, not what kind of file it is.

How you are going to deal with it is a function of what kind of file it is, so to know the former you need to know the latter. The internet Media Type system is far from perfect, but much better.

> You need something along the lines of - this resource is readable text - this resource is binary data - this resource is an image

If that was really all you needed, you wouldn't need the subtypes in the internet Media Type system, while experience in the real world has shown that you do need that information.
For my last year of classes, I made something similar, though for a lower cost.

I used http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/ to make a custom dot grid to accomodate my large handwriting, imported it into InDesign to create 200+ numbered pages of the grid and then added a few pages front and back of reference items. Finished up with a color cover of my own design, and then sent the resulting PDF to an online printing service, Lulu, and the resulting 8 x 10 notebook was quite nice.

It didn't have the feel of a Moleskin but the spiral binding was pretty resilient to the daily abuse, the thick cover also held up perfectly, the paper was thicker than normal notebook paper, and it was nice having a notebook which fit my writing style perfectly. Total cost per book was around $15.
Well, it's possible to have free cash without being profitable on paper. For instance, remember that depreciation is a major expense for capitalised assets (such as fulfillment centres, data centres, computer equipment, real estate, etc.) but isn't actually a hard cash expense, just a formal expense. The hard cash expense came at the time that the investment was made, i.e. when the data centre or what have you was actually bought and paid for.

So, the difference between that "virtual" expense and actual cash is one accounting category that free cash can come from. There are others.
Don't waste your time being sad about this. Paper products will exist approx. forever, long after either of us is dead. If you watch the video, the book is actually a work of art. It's not like people printing 10 copies of TPS reports that nobody will read, just to file in a filing cabinet.
> (too bad one of the mods seems to disagree...)

This is back on the front page - and at the #1 - so my last mention doesn't make sense anymore.
"Willingness to pay" is different from "ability to pay" -- your willingness to pay will be greatly affected by the price of competitors or neighboring markets, for example.
How do features like this affect wifi congestion in the long run? I have 14 wifi networks at near full strength visible from my home office already.
I really don't see how this would work. Just because I put a certain number of miles on my vehicle, it doesn't mean they were accumulated in my home state. That would end up being a tax for out of state travel.
Leadership aka Advertising
1. Most consumer-grade machines don't come with install disks.

2. You can't put compressed copies of essential files into the AV software itself for a couple for a couple of reasons:

- Microsoft will sue you for distributing their intellectual property without permission (and is not likely to grant such permission, since they can't control the quality of the third-party software).

- These files are not static: they could have been modified by any Windows update, and might be dependent on other updated files.

Keeping track of the hashes of "known good" files might work, but you'd have to account for files that were modified by Microsoft patches.
I should probably just ignore such a dismissive reply, but here goes:

It is relevant because your claim is that investors are over-valuing the future cash flow of companies like Amazon, because they are using the current 0% interest rate to compute the NPV of these companies.

However, a smart investor would, like you, predict that the current interest rates will not last forever, and so will not use a formula for NPV that implicitly assumes the current interest rate will last forever.

You can't just point to the "standard" definition of NPV and somehow claim that this automatically leads to wrong valuations by investors.

please give future comments as arguments, not links. While my PhD is in economics, not finance, I'm familiar with the mainstream literature. I'm not saying I'm 100% right all the time, but if there is disagreement between us, it isn't because I lack basic education in the field.