skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no reason to couple the order-taking and the order-fulfilment. At fast-food Mexican restaurants which take the order at the counter, give you a ticket, and hand off your finished product sometime later (I'm thinking of District Taco in DC or Pancho Villa in the bay area) throughput is noticeably higher, particularly because they can make more orders at the same time.

The one downside is limited backpressure on the order line, so you can end up with more people filing in than there are seats (or sometimes even space to wait for your order). Not as much of an issue for takeout-focused joints.
Russian oil oligarchs appear to be source of conning people about Fukushima
Yes it's ...one big First World Problem type of whining...

Online ordering is the way to go. There is a huge variation in the size of the burritos from order to order, but it's not worth writing more than a sentence about.
If I were malicious I would setup a wifi network with the same name and password in the vicinity... I wonder if anyone else thought the same or did.
The author hasn't even begun to describe the mental juggling that you endure when trying to order for multiple people, especially when you're going off-menu or asking for omits/adds. Half your order crosses the boundary to server B and you're still trying to make sure server A has everything down.

With practice (and telling my kids they're locked into their favorite order for the next 10 years), I've managed to hit 80% accuracy. Short of writing it down (and no, their fax-in form has no room for customs or mods), I'm not sure how to get it any better without slowing the line to a complete halt.
This is a good question, and I sometimes do put too much time into answering questions on Math Stack exchange. Right now, though, I'm fairly happy with the time I put into this simulation.

First of all, there's the fact that I did this on a Friday evening, after I came home from work. (I spent about six hours on it, and maybe another hour or two on Saturday morning). There are probably more productive uses of my time, but it was fun, and the most likely alternative was probably something like "read reddit" as opposed to "do something productive". It's nice to have leisure-time activities that are at least marginally related to my career.

Speaking of which, here's a few reasons that this was helpful for me:

1. I got a little better at programming in Mathematica. I use Mathematica a lot for both my teaching and research, so it always helps to practice.

2. I learned about a whole field of physics called contact mechanics, which I otherwise wouldn't have been aware of. It's part of my job as a math professor to know about random things like this.

3. I got some experience with modeling in applied mechanics problems. This may be helpful for me in the future -- as a professor at Bard, I regularly have to supervise senior math majors who want to work on research-level problems. The next time a senior who's interested in applied mechanics wants a research problem, I'll have one available.

That's how it's helpful for me, but I suppose it's less clear that this was helpful for the rest of the world. I guess, at the very least, it certainly seems to have entertained a bunch of people, and maybe someone learned something about modeling or differential equations or physics.
I don't know, hotmail, aol, yahoo...I see them all at about the same level of general ability.
How to explain it to your mom: "Tor is a method for encrypting Internet traffic. Most of the nodes are operated by the NSA."
Thanks again for the advice.

Do you have a link to House? I wish people naming projects would realize that the Internet is dead and all we have is the Googlenet...
While this is great for a theoretical model, most professionals also try to put forward spin on the cue ball, to offset the collision and break apart the rack further. You may have noticed small white burn marks from the heat generated by the cue ball spinning on the felt, from the location where most people break.
I'm slightly surprised to see regex being used to parse and retrieve arguments from a function's source code. I would've normally assumed this to be a bad idea.
Hi! This seems like a neat website -- kind of like early reddit.
I think the idea lacks in creativity and utility. But then again so do most social apps. I agree that HN is not then place for this sort of thing.
I like the idea but having clicked on the top five or ten examples:

I think you need some prominent and excellent "hero" examples of what you'd like to see on the site. Pick something reasonably pithy (e.g. off the top of my head Pike's simplified regex implementation) and annotate it and make that the top link (or one of the top links)
Thanks for the help. Piecewise has the same problem, whereas the If is taking forever. How long should I wait before I kill it?
You should consider filing a formal comment with DOT about your experience, and especially your surprise at the unexpected charges. This is straightforward using the Comment Now button on http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=DOT-OST-2013-0... . DOT is currently evaluating my complaint against BA on this subject.
Honestly, please don't use sticky footers. I curse CSS not because that's difficult, but because it's possible. :/
What does the name mean? Nothing on the site or rudimentary Googling. Seems like it'll be a tough url to share verbally without having to spell it out.
Queuing theory at it's finest! Bravo.
It looks interesting.

I would like to see the ability to search by language by clicking on the [language] part of headers though. Also maybe being able to view annotations by user.
I laughed and upvoted.

Next time, poke fun at TSLA or NFLX.
The "absurd greeting" thing is a trend in the quick-serve restaurant business.

At first it was the "make the manager loop the dining room every 10 minutes" idea, then it transitioned into the "Hey, howzit goin'?" opening at the Taco Bell drive through[2], now it's the sushi-house irasshaimase! being screamed by everyone when the door opens.

[2] On a recent Ask Metafilter thread, someone was honestly asking if the new McDonald's drive-thru greeting ("Welcome Back!") was the result of face-tracking cameras and/or license plate storage being implemented at the store level. It took a lot of pages to try and convince the OP that this was just the corporation trying to be mushy/friendly/feely to the customer and nothing more. I still don't think he was convinced.
assuming there are lots of bitcoin retail options (only one in my town and that is me), there are definitely scenarios where using bitcoin is preferable to dollars even if btc is to rise rapidly. some are futuristic: 1. merchant discount (from, say, no chargebacks) 2. merchant slight discount where the cost of not using credit payment processor savings is passed onto consumer 3. ease of use (I would like to touch my smartphone screen to pay for something) 4. more bitcoin exchanges make procurement freeish and immediate (possibly through an app) 5. quasi anonymity (buying something no one else has to know about). 6. ?
Leading people to ruin is not ethical. Ripping vulnerable people off is not ethical.

Where did you get this view on ethics? It certainly isn't most peoples view, for sure.
Assuming there's no friction on the table, the chances ought to be pretty high that they'll all eventually go in.
What a horrible password. 12 characters, 2 common English words (w/ common transformations) separated by a punctuation mark.

They would have been better off using 12 random lowercase letters. It would have more entropy and be easier to type on mobile devices.
Why do people care about screen readers? Is it because they are good people and want to make sure sight-impaired visitors are able to access their content? Or is it because they have contracts that require 508 compliance?
I'm upvoting simply because you said 'smallest thing I could built'. That so often gets missed in great projects. Good work.
It doesn't have to make money. He said he's thinking of building an app, not building a business.
That, or they also know that they can offload the cost onto the cities whose governments are willing to pay for it, instead. In such cases, why would the teams spend the money themselves?
It would be better if there were user profile pages.

And a URL structure like http://kurikku.com/user/hello-world would look nifty in my opinion.
It would take an incredible 777 to have 550 passengers - most are around 370. (The 550 max certification number is to do with how quickly the passengers can evacuate etc and only possible with very high density high crew cattle class only setup.)

It is debatable if each passenger should pay the same share - those up front have bigger heavier seats for example.

You also need to take into account the belly cargo - up to 30 tons on a 77W. That is a very significant revenue and profit centre for airlines. 30 tons is also very close to how much the passengers together weigh!
Seems kind of silly that I would have to order online first, considering that the Chipotle I'm writing about is literally a quick walk down the stairs of my office building. It's literally right downstairs. I go there often. I always, always get the doge-speak "hai therez" and "welcomez" as I enter. It's kind of hilarious. But yeah, I prolly oughta try the online ordering... I'm just afraid they'll screw up and I won't find out until I'm back in my office. Oops, that's a First World Problem.
Well, me. I loved the show (yes, even later seasons[1]) much like I loved "The American President"[2], but would vote against the man in a heartbeat. They do some pretty despicable things while in power[3]. Plus, I notice we end the series in a war.

Re-watch the series and look at what a citizen of this land would get from the White House. It is not a great picture of an administration we would want.

Of course, no TV administration is going to be a good thing. Drama requires conflict and over 7 seasons a lot of rules get broke in a heroic manner. In real life, we call that abuse of executive privilege.

The only thing I can say is President Santos and his education plan is worse for every rural area and budget.

1) Although in later seasons, most of the writers wrote the Republicans as villain of the week instead of honorable adversaries

2) Martin Sheen is amazing in that too

3) not to mention the whole lying about the President's health and never mind the Vice President
It would help a little bit, but part of the reason of wearing dark sunglasses is to totally obscure the eyes. They're used as anchor points and if an algorithm can't find them, it is going to have trouble, especially in an identification task like this one rather than verification.
Please stop being facetious, libertarianism != anarchism.

Libertarianism recognizes the value of governance, don't get confused, but it asserts that certain individual rights as inalienable.
More ties than we thought
Is this really the 'last stronghold' of slavery, or is it the last place where slavery isn't hidden away from prying eyes and is somewhat accepted.

From what I understand human trafficking and slavery are alive and well.
frankly, gold is "lost" all the time
FTFY "... their trolling better represents economic policy than Bitcoin"

A money is a refrigerator for productivity, not an abstraction over goods and services.
Nice, I sub'd it. You should post your projects there or on a blog! I can tell you already I feel more drive towards getting these done and sticking to it for 12 months.
I totally agree, it's sad when interesting links die, and it's sad when a search term is extremely generic.

Here's what I've got, pasted out of my notes:

House has been successfully implemented in Haskell, I'd assume that Haskell would fit your criteria. Admittedly, House is an experimental OS, rather than production one. But they have managed to implement everything from kernel though network stack, to a rudimentary GUI.
[link broken, see search results below]
2005
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/943

House is a demo of software written in Haskell, running in a standalone environment. It is a system than can serve as a platform for exploring various ideas relating to low-level and system-level programming in a high-level functional language.
More details are available in our ICFP 2005 paper: A Principled Approach to Operating System Construction in Haskell.
http://ogi.altocumulus.org/~hallgren/ICFP2005/
http://programatica.cs.pdx.edu/House/

terse wikipedia article on House
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_(operating_system)

short LTU thread on functional systems programming
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/943

...oh, also there's a book, "Unix System Programming with Standard ML"
by Anthony L. Shipman
2001

Was free online, link is broken, available via archive.org:

http://web.archive.org/web/20040531113417/web.access.net.au/...
http://web.archive.org/web/20040531113417/web.access.net.au/...

I just found that, have not read it.
Jesus wept. To elaborate: Focusing on pedantic lists of software techniques which have not and cannot be shown to produce predictable outcomes does not an engineer make. No definition of engineering could encompass the fragility and unpredictability of software projects and solutions.
For example see Michael Bublé.
> In practice, you have to specify the dependencies
> manually anyhow:

In practice, everybody is using https://github.com/btford/ngmin and this is a non-issue.
Can you test http://www.atlantic.net/cloud ? It has slightly lower price than DO and larger SSD Disks. I would be interested in seeing the results.
At the moment it's for public peer code reviews. But in the future I was thinking of having team features and integrate with git repos.

What do you guys think?
I think stating that manpages are short is a little inaccurate. The average may very well be 4 pages, but the standard deviation is probably high (bash, gcc, ssh among others have long man pages). A few commands nowadays also have multiple man pages because people don't want to search through all the crap that's in a normal manpage (ie git, gittutorial, gittutorial-2, Everyday Git, ...).

People likely aren't going to use manpages-tldr for 4 page man pages. They may use it for gcc which is 17549 lines (without an examples section and examples are littered throughout the page, meaning you have to already know what you're looking for).

According to Wikipedia, man pages have been around since 1971[1]. Man pages were designed before a paradigm shift from systems oriented to user oriented design and are usually written in a manner that makes them easy to write, not easy to read. If you think about the first time you looked at man pages, they were likely difficult to look through and you just got used to it; that's what happened to me.

I would guess that most people would like examples of basic usage. The examples section of man pages is normally near the end but it's location isn't really standardized. I normally end up searching "/^[[:blank:]]*EXAMPLE" and if I don't find it I google it.

This doesn't mean that man pages are not useful when you know what you're looking for. They can be particularly useful for c code to supplement the headers themselves.

I think forcing man pages to be something that they are not isn't much better than having a bunch of nonstandard variants. I am not saying that the examples shouldn't be added, but man pages are very technical when most people probably want a layman example before the technical details.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page#History
Your comment sickens me.
It's a japanification of the word "click". I don't know of any other meaning beyond that, though.
A February startup health check
Look at the numbers for US prisons. Compare them against your favorite place with notorious prisons. Except for China's, which is still significantly smaller than the US prison system, you will find the US numbers so vastly mindbogglingly larger that you might hesitate to take the bet that the US brutalizes and unjustly imprisons fewer people.
I think we have benefitted from the same stackoverflow thread =) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1057564/pretty-git-branch...
One of the leading villains of Breaking Bad is most definitely the US healthcare system. There is no doubt that in either show stellar acting and writing are what make the show, but part of stellar writing is touching on the anxieties of your audience.
Speed and workflow, previously. Mercurial has made up most of the difference in speed, so now git is better for some things ([temporary] topic branch workflow and history clean-up of such branches before merge is more likely to be used by git committers even if hg technically has that now, speed in a few cases, mindshare) while mercurial is better for other things like syntax, or dealing with gigantic repositories -- like Facebook's[1], but only because Facebook engineers decided that functionality was easier to add to mercurial than to git.

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7019673
we have had hundreds of thousands of people die

Yes, as compared with around three thousand. Incomparably more innocent people killed by the actions of the USA and other western nations. The arrogance, the lack of understanding that life is similar in other countries, the unquestioned greater value of the life of an American than the life of a ragged brown man we pick up in a far off place that we shouldn't have been in at all. Now more than a decade later all that's clear is that I will spend the rest of my life despising the countries in which I am likely to live.
No, that looks interesting, especially with the ratings. A few years ago I remember reading various blogs and having it drilled into my head that there's a lot of money to be made with niche websites.

Also, this talk for startups reminds me of these points: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY
That's a transliteration of "click" in Japanese.

Of course, Japanese has its own writing system, and "click" is written as クリック and pronounced roughly as "kurikku").
> The executives describe their business in a thick jargon of corporate culturespeak including "our unique food culture" (translated: take Mexican cuisine and remove all the rich vibrancy of actual Mexican culture and replace with a pleasant, clean, efficient retail ambience right out of the movie Her)

Oh, yes, why don't you start off the article by pointedly reminding us that you are far too smug to ever consider eating (gag) fast food.

Oh, and then why don't you follow up by implying that "pleasant" and "clean" are anathema to authentic Mexican cuisine and culture. I'm sure that'll go over real well.

The rest of the article may be packed with brilliant insights, but after that intro I'm really not interested in finding out.
I posted some APL code, which is known to be hard to follow without lot of comments. I see how it can be useful.
http://kurikku.com/s/52ef0f9ce4b0630f318682b3/apl-generate-p...

I like how you can do nested comments. The problem is it's not easy to see which comment goes where (I think you can just add a color code to the comments to indicate which color the comment is in response to.)

Great work, I think you can turn it into a real product.
This seems to be a very unscientific approach. It doesn't appear that the tests were run on a multitude of machines. The digital ocean machine could've had malfunctioning hardware, or been a rare occurrence of a overloaded server. While I'd say this may not likely be the case, but you'd have to be a fool to make a decision based on just one machine from each provider.
Somehow I don't think maximizing entropy was their intention.

What they really shouldn't have done is put it on a screen that was broadcast on national tv.
Based on the "2 years" anecdote above, maybe it's something they could have got around to while completely revamping iOS. There are about few primary moving parts and OP indicates it's a known issue that can be resolved on clients. Too bad Apple has no control over that client OS, right?

It's not a big problem to deal with. There is no motivation to fix it. It's not that Apple is doing anything purposefully. It's that they aren't, and won't, do anything to help since they know that OP (and that ilk) are not their customers. If OP didn't want to "lose" all his friends/network, he would have just got a 5s and shut up.
Chipotles is such a hipster crap bucket. I can't believe people actually stand in long lines and pay good money to eat that wannabe faux texmex at a sterile no atmosphere cafeteria counter. If you are one of their many lost patrons, please do yourself a favor and go to a real texmex restaurant (or actual mexican for that matter) and discover what real food is like.
In terms of social network infrastructure, recognizing whether your user is a rape victim, or any victim, and analyzing their communications to determine if they are being bullied is a valuable asset. Instagram displays an eating disorder help line if you search for "#ana," "#mia," or other eating disorder related hashtags. I once had Facebook delete all my messages from a certain person because they thought that person was bullying me - which they weren't. What baffles me is that this professor is being sent to "training" when their work is ultimately wanted out of social networks.
Lots of blinking and flashing when I mouse over stuff, and it's not clear what includes a comment and what doesn't.

Also I really liked that documentation thing someone showed us a while ago... It put code on one side and annotation paragraphs on the other, and despite being very simple I think it did a very good job of making the code and annotations easy to read.

[edit] Oh nevermind, I understand.. the colors indicate a block of lines that relate to a single comment. I think that would be clearer if the color didn't break between every line. It's still tricky mousing over things though. If you go straight down from one line to the next, the comment doesn't change. You have to mvoe away from the text entirely, then back onto the line you're interested in.
I use Git because everyone else does. And I'm not ashamed of that; I think it's pragmatic. However, I think I would prefer if the crowd had converged on Mercurial instead.
It would be great if you could integrate with an IDE in some fashion. I'm thinking that this could be a way of formatting comments in code that then becomes beautiful annotation when viewed in your platform.
Thanks for the suggestions. Originally the plan was to have comments in the margins. Then I had analysis paralysis so I decided to do what was easiest right now.
For me (and I realise this won't be popular) - AngularJS is an abomination - every time google plays with front end code they make every attempt to turn it into their own language one that has as little relation as possible to the underlying code that's happening. As we all know, abstractions leak, please avoid and use one of the many other libraries that people can actually follow through and debug without having to learn Angular first.

I speak from bitter experience with a product that ended up being two months late because of the decision by a junior Seb to use Angular - I highly recommend avoiding it and learning JavaScript properly and then picking the best tools from NPM that you need.
Many .io and .me domains have sold for 5 figures. buy.me went for over $155,000.
I have personally sold many for 4 figures.
This is a serious problem and I'm gonna let him finish, but I get a huge amount of schadenfreude from hearing about the suffering of someone who sends a lot of group MMSes.
not in Japan
So that's not a MVP. You didn't find "the" feature that they needed badly enough.

I can say that because I was there trying features and getting the same "I need this, and that" you're talking about. But honestly, it should be "I'm giving you only this." and they should tell you "Where do I send my money?". I'm exaggerating a little bit.. but not that much.
AFAIK, this does not work with Git in Windows. I will try it at home where I have Lubuntu and see. (If it works, I'll make an alias for it.) Thanks.