skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having worked in an actual McDonald's store back in those days, the holding temperatures on the coffee pots were set higher than normal drinking temperature.

The reasoning for this was because people would buy their coffee in the drive-thru or lobby and take it home to drink. The whole concept of actually drinking it in the car was not considered when the holding temps were specified by corporate, not to mention spill-type accidents.
I was doing this sort of thing back in the 90's with a product called AbirNet SessionWall. Managers in the gov't department I worked for wanted to know how much time their employees where spending on the internet and what they were doing.

This is anecdotal of course but I can't imagine what were were doing back then was unique or isolated. It's trivial.
This thread had me really confused for quite a while. I thought it was one person replying to their own messages.
One with a frustrating name. It's a shell, not an OS. One of my projects is an OS for TI calculators, and loads of people don't actually understand what that means.
Well, that took about thirty seconds to load. I know nothing about Meteor but this is not a good example of a web site, so I assume it isn't a great example of Meteor.js either. Does it have caching capabilities?
Hot Coffee is an important documentary for all Americans, but parts of it are especially relevant to those of us who work in tech. The movie shows how arbitration clauses, enforced by many telecomm and software companies, threaten our constitutional rights to bring civil charges against the firms. As one expert in the film puts it, we'd be better off to adopt the term tort deform.
Sorry but what's the point? Like what issue with amazon search are you trying to solve?

Cool weekend project either way. Props.
WOW. Thanks! I'm coming from a non-technical background, but I'll give it a shot.
What's a "top 15" accelerator?
I had no idea. I'm running Windows 8.1... I'll see if I can find it. Thanks!
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My CPU pegged and Chrome was unresponsive for about five seconds while the page loaded. If they're trying to attract users, that didn't help to win me over.
Quite fitting, really.
Good question -- it's not really solving anything, it's just a different way of viewing Amazon products in a slightly more slick interface. It might save you a few seconds on a search, or it might not.

I mostly just wanted to play around with the Amazon API and AJAX calls. Thanks!
Which API are you using? Didn't know they had a product API.
Thanks for the feedback. I still think that if you go the a cooking website and you suggest to people to eat mud you can't expect a serious discussion about the nutrition values in mud as meal. This is called common sense. You don't dry your kid in a microwave, you don't eat dirt, and in certain circles you don't use PHP. This is my opinion and I am not going to change it just because HN editorial stuff does not like it. Hope that help. :)
Good job! See now if I use your server I won't get ads for every single item I do a search for ^^
Yeah, or websites could just allow actual links. I don't see why hackernews (and twitter, etc.) can't just render <a href="http://somereallylongdomain.com/stupidlylongpath/?what=thisi... short!</a>
I think you are correct. Koster seems to get a bit too political in his article, but I think there is room in gaming for a "subsidized" system, albeit more like HBO: one subscription base, content creators get paid essentially based on their number of users/viewers. Such a system does not have to be exclusive of course.

Side note: I also read A Theory of Fun almost a decade ago and it is still one of the better books I have read on the subject.
I did it back when I worked for a major private university (enrollment 25k+). It was simple, add a tap to the fiber coming into our network (we had redundant fiber connections to our particular little niche of a network, and conveniently, there were taps on the market that would aggregate the traffic from both fiber connections), pipe it to a monitoring server and run the logging + monitoring tool of your choice.

My boss barely understood what I was doing, his superiors certainly didn't know anything about it. We were not part of what would be considered the university IT department either -- we were just some random organization within the university. Who knows how many different people on hops above us were doing the same thing. And I was capturing the full traffic (not metadata) of people who would normally take even extra offense at this sort of thing going on. Not because the traffic contained SSNs or credit card details or something like that, but because the traffic was sensitive in a more private, personal way (I can't go into the particular details any more).

Unfortunately, this brief story doesn't have a juicy ending. I didn't do anything nefarious with the data. I didn't use it to spy on anyone. I simply used it to watch out for attacks against services on our network -- I thought I was doing something positive for the users of our services. But reading the parent post made me pause for a moment and consider that all these things I'm reading about and taking issue with in the news today (the NSA, eavesdropping, etc), that I did something similar, albeit on a much, much, smaller scale myself, many years ago when I was younger and more naive.
Well yes there is obviously some clean up work on that side, naming Go as go is a bit unfortunate. I guess my original idea still stands, it is not very smart to judge programming languages using their current popularity. This picture can and will change. You can dig up better evidence than that indeed url.
Amazon insiders: Good, Bad and Ugly
Check out Amazon's Product Advertising API: https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/advertising/api/deta...

It supports Item Lookup, Item Search, Cart Creation, etc. Pretty cool!
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Why do they keep old logs if they're just monitoring for illegal/commercial/malware stuff?

And if they were very concerned with exposure of sensitive data, they wouldn't be logging it.
The jury made a number of findings in the case, one of which was that the warning on the cup wasn't large enough nor sufficient enough to convey the dangers of the temperature of coffee that they serve.

I'm sure they also took into consideration that Stella Liebeck originally asked for $20,000 for damages and had tried to negotiate several times before the case went to trial; she clearly went to some length to avoid this.
And you didn't set it up so that you can get "up to 8.5% in referral fees when the users you refer to Amazon sites buy qualifying products"?
Sorry, I'm still someone who doesn't get it. Coffee is brewed hot (195 - 205 degrees F), and I personally like it to be freshly brewed as I drink it.

Detail often missed: she had a lid on the styrofoam cup, properly placed. It wasn't an open cup. The cup and lid were of low quality and, while they passed at lower temperatures, deformed at the serving temperature, enough that the lid popped off, causing the spill.

In addition to the serving temperature, one aspect of McDonalds's liability was the quality of the cups and lids: squeezing a coffee cup, with contents at the serving temperature, shouldn't cause the lid to pop.
Because of griefer trolls. Forcing links to show the destination is basically 0 effort on the system side and pretty much completely undermines them.

(that only answers the HN part, I'm guessing that is much of the reasoning, I don't know it for a fact)
I get the same thing. I knew it was not AT&T but I called anyway asked for a manger then another manager explained it to him and I haven't got one since. I'm sure AT&T can quickly figure out who is sending this stuff.

I also get voicemails from my "Google Specialist" letting me know that my "first page ranking" is ready. I can't get rid of this one.
I was born in 1997, so the only Mac I've ever owned(a 1GHz eMac) has never run anything that wasn't UNIX or UNIX-y. (I toy around with OpenBSD on it now)
Someone should make a subreddit for people looking for other hackers to live with.

(I'm in a similar situation)
I was thinking about why this didn't exist already, just days ago. Great way to start playing with Latex.
Interesting. Basically, this seems like a way to set up a dev environment with a set of packages that aren't installed globally on the system. Sort of like Python virtualenvs, but for any software package.

Could be very useful, but if it is actually aimed at developers (as opposed to sysadmins) and their workflows, it needs mechanisms to get and install software that doesn't necesarily go through the usual packaging workflow with all of its checks. If the scl equivalent of 'pip install Pillow' only gets the latest available official RPM, the utility to developers will be very limited.
I think the crux of the matter with regards to the coffee temperature is that it's a drive thru restaurant.

While handing over a live chainsaw is at best inadvisable, it is all the more so to throw a live chainsaw into the juggling pattern of a clown on a unicycle.
So then you do not understand that some people find more music in a year that they like?
Also https://github.com/kerlnel but it doesn't appear to be active.
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Electricity companies can only sort of store electricity: they produce electricity, and it is consumed at some rate by users; this is why electricity is priced differently in many areas during "peak usage hours": because electricity is more like bandwidth than you seem to realize. If you have a difficult time modeling this, try to model electricity in a world where everyone is using renewable energy sources like wind or solar (and if you find that "preposterous", hydroelectric is very common as a primary electricity source in many areas). I can see a strong argument for switching to some kind of billing based on the peak load you contributed to, but that turns into a pricing model almost as complex as Amazon Glacier ;P.
My point stands that if the guy is so incompetent that he can't figure out which state he's looking at, he shouldn't be writing an article critical of a mapping system in the first place. I'm more of a hardware hacker than a programmer, therefore I don't go around writing articles criticizing the latest version control system; I'd end up making a fool of myself as I wouldn't have a clue what I was talking about.

And just to be clear, I actually agree with him that the new Google Maps seems less useful than the old version.
Agreed. For anyone wanting to know what these files are, they're LaTeX; text files mixed with meta information.

Detailed explanation of LaTeX: http://latex-project.org/intro.html
Software to work with LaTeX: http://latex-project.org/ftp.html
Not at all. There have long been obvious differences between north and south china, but the Yangtze isn't the border between North and South, it's the heart of the South. North China is divided from South China by the Huai river (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huai_He).

Chinese civilization is essentially the story of intensely farming a flood plain. But China has two such plains: the Yellow River defines the north, and the Yangtze defines the south.
While not a binding arbitration clause in a EULA or ToS, one relevant example to use in tech would be Naval Ravikant (AngelList founder) and the other defendants in the ePinions case. Had arbitration clauses been signed as part of employment, they probably would not have gotten fair equitable relief in that case.

For anyone curious, here's the origin claim as filed:
http://www.siliconbeat.com/entries/Epinions.pdf

More info:
http://www.siliconbeat.com/entries/2005/12/09/epinions_settl...
Just a few years ago Valve was being lauded for giving developers a viable new channel that took a very small slice of the pie (~30%) compared to what had come before (>90%). Plus the indies that have managed to get on have consistently noted that the before & after revenue is like night and day.

Not soul-sucking. There are other things to complain about Valve, but 30% for their services is not one of them.
I get the impression that if this wasn't calling on a third-party API (ie if you were indexing the product listings yourself) you'd be able to give more "instant" results, but this is a cool take on search on Amazon (although obviously inspired by Google and other instant search features). I also imagine Amazon would blacklist you for harvesting their product listing, although since you're still giving them referrals maybe they wouldn't. I guess if you called it "aggressive caching" you might get away with it, heh.

While you're re-thinking product search, why not consider higher-resolution/larger thumbnails, a few more products per "page", etc...? I'm not advocating a Pinterest clone or anything like that, but the initial load (10 items in 2 rows) looks a little... dated and spartan.

As said before, cool short-term project. Would be interesting to see a few more features built into this, especially if it made your search "competitive" with Amazon's implementation.
What every founder fears.
They keep the logs so they can use them in after-the-fact investigations, and for research.
Can an algorithm solve Twitter's credibility problem?
Your point (a) is ridiculous. For example, I could fruitfully divide the population of China into two groups, male and female. They're different in ways that are often useful to know.

North and South Chinese have been obviously different for many centuries. One of my favorite stories about this concerns the development of affirmative action in the late 14th / early 15th century:

> In 1370, the first Emperor of the Dynasty, Chu Yüan-chang, who expelled the Mongols in 1368, reinstituted the great Civil Service Examinations, which had been suspended by the Mongols. In 1371, 75% of the degrees from the national examination had gone to candidates from the South of China. This displeased the Emperor, who believed, with many traditionalists, that Northerners were morally more worthy -- from the area where Chinese civilization had begun. The examinations were thus suspended until 1385, but then the geographical division of those who passed did not change. At a special Palace examination in 1397, all of the 52 candidates who passed were Southerners. Borrowing from the Josef Stalin school of bureaucracy, the Emperor had two of the examiners executed. In a subsequent retesting, all the successful candidates were Northerners.

> By 1425 it was decided that places in the national examinations would be reserved by region, with 35% for the North, 55% for the South, and 10% for some places in the middle.

(sourced from http://www.friesian.com/discrim.htm)
Phones need a "report spam" just like email.

Phone companies or device manufacturers should use those reports to trace bad actors.
The people who are insisting on watching the Superbowl during that peak load moment you are contributing to that load much more than someone browsing a few we pages or someone like me that decides to watch the game later (if at all). They are even contributing to peak load more than people who watch 100x as much Netflix if they happen to not be watching much Netflix at that exact moment. There is something unique in character to that Superbowl experience that is making it fundamentally more expensive to the world than other possible uses of bandwidth, and that needs to be modeled as a cost to someone.

So, much like electricity (which is difficult to store and had to then be modeled as a real-time capacity), bandwidth needs to be priced differently during "peak hours". This is obviously much more complex as peak hours is defined by some decentralized notion of "what is popular right now", which is why the current approximation turns into something like "if you create this weird peak demand by offering the Superbowl on your website for coordinated live viewing, you should pay for this peak load increase, not the guy whose usage is small and distributed over time".

Sadly, that approximate solution leads to seemingly-unfortunate consequences (hence all the arguments for net neutrality), so what we need is to really think through how to get users, as opposed to content providers, to pay for this in a content-unaware fashion. If you seriously don't want to address this and want to insist that bandwidth should be flat-rated like this you are not going to be able to achieve net neutrality :(.

As for the spaghetti argument: you really really should be thinking about your bandwidth usage. The reason we don't have horribly wasteful electronic devices is partly because they would cause electricity bills to go up for the people using them. If you had a washer/dryer that used a thousand times more electricity than other appliances you owned, or you had a holographic television that used a thousand times more electricity than a lightbulb does, you would start to limit how often you washed clothes and watched holovision, and this would be a good thing: it would lead to market incentives to create similar devices that used less electricity.

Effectively, someone has to pay for the increased electricity cost of the world as it transitions to holovision: either users need to pay more for their electricity bill each month or the holovision manufactures need to subsidize electricity for them. The latter is what we don't want (we want net neutrality), so either you increase everyone's flat rate or you bill just the users using the holovision. The former penalizes people who don't have a holovision unit and leads to inefficient electricity usage. To bill users, either you bill people who own holovision (which is largely equivalent to what we don't want) or you just bill by the actually-relevant metric: usage. The best option is billing users for usage of electricity.
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Ray Tracing Jell-O Brand Gelatin (1987) [pdf]
Why do you write [an entire kernel, an operating system, an RDBMS, a web application framework, ...] and offer it for free? Sometimes, the journey of creation and the sharing are more important than any remuneration you might otherwise get.
That coffee you carefully sipped on probably wasn't as hot as the coffee she spilled on her lap. It's pretty unlikely it was hot enough that if you'd spilled it you would have required re-constructive surgery on your genitals.

He said 195 - 205 °F, which would do that kind of damage, pretty much instantly. That said, I find it unlikely that most people actually enjoy coffee that is that hot. When coffee burns your tongue and you have that annoying (thankfully, temporary) lack of taste for a couple days, that's typically around 180 °F.
What he is saying is not bullshit, it's fairly accurate, but just way overblown with the "spying" drama. It should be common sense to keep your personal life at home and use work provided resources for work related stuff...
Checked my personal domain... $9.00

Checked the same domain sans a hyphen... $23.06

Someone squatted on it to sell it for a markup, asked for something like $150, I laughed at him over the phone. Joke's on me, I guess.
Amazon need to increase its profit. The best way without increasing price from the already steep discount compared listing price are have better discount from huge volume publisher. Publisher balk as their profit margin will be affected. Amazon increase price due to no better term. That is purely logical business decision.

However, the extending shipping time as a punishment part from amazon is not.

(Disclaimer: i work for publisher and a writer myself)

(Edit:typo)
Wert thou jesting, sir?
Or maybe they are spreading bad ideas, we won't know unless somebody reviews them.
That's very interesting, thanks for linking to it. I've never heard of it but it can come handy.
Excellent point, I would love if you could provide a source that might indicate the amount currently provided by renewables?

EDIT: the wikipedia page commented above says about 13% was renewables in 2008 ...
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption )
Intern looking for place to stay
Hey all,

This is sort of a long shot, but I'm a software guy who's going to be interning in the Valley (Los Altos, specifically) and looking for a place to stay from 6/1-8/10. I like to play and compose music, but I probably won't be bringing any instruments with me as it's a hassle to get them on planes. I've been searching for a sublease on places like PadMapper/Airbnb and such, but a lot of people are unsure of their plans or want a more permanent tenant. Any help you guys have would be much appreciated!
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Ask HN: Will software/media piracy ever be taboo?
My friends are professionals. They have enough disposable income to afford the occasional media product. Yet they still pirate software and media.

I can understand doing this in college when there is no money. But now?

Worse, some of them want to break into the same creative industries. So they're willing to steal from the industry they're trying to gain a living from.

What am I missing? I will say that I'm in the minority.
Probably one of the ones listed as "Bronze" on this list: http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/10/these-are-the-15-best-accel...
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued this decision, not the Ninth Circuit court that handles appeals from California.

The CAFC is the patent appeals court and takes this case because there were patent issues in addition to the copyright issues. The result is that the decision doesn't have the precedential force in the Ninth Circuit that a real Ninth Circuit decision would. It has little or no precedential force in any US court since the CAFC doesn't routinely take copyright cases.

Being the patent appeals court, the CAFC is captured by the patent bar and known for corruption, IP maximalism, ignoring Supreme Court precedents, and being regularly overturned by the Supreme Court, often in 9-0 decisions. [0] The best evidence that specialized single-subject appeals courts are harmful to justice is the CAFC's abuses. Another decision to harm the software industry by a court that is on a crusade to make software illegal is hardly a surprise. Google should consider a petition for Supreme Court review.

OP is right, of course, that Google and Android are still looking fine in this case.

[0] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/how-a-rogue-appea....
Thanks for posting this. I've been looking for intuitions about what's so special about the normal distribution.
Yes, assuming a current efficiency of 20%, then potentially 1/5 of the number could be required (ie, if we got all the way to 100% efficiency somehow).
I regard that as a frivolous lawsuit. As unfortunate as the outcome was, simply put it was her own damn fault. If McDonalds provided her with the coffee with no defects (to the cup for instance) then there was no negligence on their part. Obviously if you spill a hot drink on yourself your going to burn yourself.
What is the difference between that and selling someone a hammer and then they crush their hand with it?
Admittedly from my perspective here in Ireland I may view this differently from yanks. We drink a lot of tea and good tea must be boiling when you add the teabag, also drive-throughs are a lot less common so you will typically not have your beverage in a moving vehicle.
I think it would be really interesting to download the entire listing and watch how volatile everything is, especially the item prices. Searching would definitely be much faster as well.

Thanks for checking it out and thanks for the suggestions!
Oh you devil!
No, there's hot and there's "almost boiling" and they'd been told several times to stop keeping the coffee that hot but somehow it saved time. Key words from the lawsuit "fused labia." It was not minor burning.