skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see what's so surprising about the statistics. First of all, the footages they described were for just 2 days, so that's a small sample, which means that many of the large numbers may just be due to volatility.

"60% of customers asked the waiter to take a group photo?"
If a large percentage of customers come in groups (which makes sense), then that doesn't seem surprising.

"17% of people bumped into someone while texting?"
Maybe it's a small restaurant?
What rings the weirdest to me is: food coming in 6 minutes.

Maybe this is a cafe/snack place of some sort

It's a good story and it gets the idea right, but I would like to see this measured further.
That reads exactly like something I'll see blockquoted on Snopes in the near future.

I'll probably be at Snopes because I'm replying to a Facebook repost by an older relative, the kind who forwarded pearl-clutching emails before they joined Facebook.

There are more than a few cafes and restaurants that I've seen in Philadelphia that have a sign indicating that as a restaurant, they do not allow the use of laptops or phones, and as best as I can tell, it's had no negative effect on how busy they've been.
Surface Pro 3: Not ready for the business professional
Dominant Players Over Time (NBA, Chess)
The current golang protobuf api / implementation is unsuitable for large scale system. See https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/Golang-nuts/vxJNXdiM... for discussion (you have to scroll down the thread a bit).
Whistleblower: NSA stores 80% of all phone calls, not just metadata – full audio
The problem with the term "organic" is it's broad and not well defined. It's like "agile" in our space.

There are some standards varying by country some government enforced some not, and those standards have changed over time. This data seems to encompass data from many countries over a long period of time. This means how something is classified in the organic bin or not in highly inconsistent in the data set.

The paper seems thin on how they classified the data as organic or not, looks like they took that source data's word for it.

I am very skeptical anytime someone uses such vague terminology such as organic. Most compounds considered "synthetic" are technically organic in a chemical sense. When does something become synthetic? After all many forms chemical synthesis involves basic forms of human preparation (mechanical separation and cooking). How much human modification of a raw material crosses the line into syntheses? Manure vs compost vs fertilizer. The distinction varies by country/law/standard/organization/person.

For instance the paper says they included "biodynamic" techniques as organic. Never heard of this before, looking into it it seems akin alchemy, mixing spirituality with farming protocols.

The "natural" vs standard medicine debate overlaps in many way with this issue and is full of pseudoscience that pervades and pollutes the information available.
You tell me. Those comments being downmodded also marked my user as "dead". I only post to myself now (on my original user).

That's despite those are my first ever downmodded comments, and I don't think I've said anything quite so horrible to completely kill my user.

HackerNews is the most f-cking hostile news site I've seen.
Not that it's ever going to happen, but can't they just blur the faces of the customers like they do on Cops?
An "organic presence?" WTF?
Instead of making yet more laws to patch the mess of old laws (ad nauseum) how about getting rid of a law, i.e the Land Tax. Then brick and mortars would have a natural improvement in their circumstance competing with online retailers.
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>"Abstract

>"Demand for organic foods is partially driven by consumers’ perceptions that they are more nutritious. However, scientific opinion is divided on whether there are significant nutritional differences between organic and non-organic foods, and two recent reviews have concluded that there are no differences. In the present study, we carried out meta-analyses based on 343 peer-reviewed publications that indicate statistically significant and meaningful differences in composition between organic and non-organic crops/crop-based foods. Most importantly, the concentrations of a range of antioxidants such as polyphenolics were found to be substantially higher in organic crops/crop-based foods, with those of phenolic acids, flavanones, stilbenes, flavones, flavonols and anthocyanins being an estimated 19 (95 % CI 5, 33) %, 69 (95 % CI 13, 125) %, 28 (95 % CI 12, 44) %, 26 (95 % CI 3, 48) %, 50 (95 % CI 28, 72) % and 51 (95 % CI 17, 86) % higher, respectively.

>"Many of these compounds have previously been linked to a reduced risk of chronic diseases, including CVD and neurodegenerative diseases and certain cancers, in dietary intervention and epidemiological studies. Additionally, the frequency of occurrence of pesticide residues was found to be four times higher in conventional crops, which also contained significantly higher concentrations of the toxic metal Cd. Significant differences were also detected for some other (e.g. minerals and vitamins) compounds. There is evidence that higher antioxidant concentrations and lower Cd concentrations are linked to specific agronomic practices (e.g. non-use of mineral N and P fertilisers, respectively) prescribed in organic farming systems. In conclusion, organic crops, on average, have higher concentrations of antioxidants, lower concentrations of Cd and a lower incidence of pesticide residues than the non-organic comparators across regions and production seasons." //
The $35 price point is the lifetime hosting plan that normally costs $1/month. There is no way to determine what "higher-end" plans he is referring to. Possibly the $70 lifetime hosting plan?
A few:

+ "Pitch Anything": he presents an algorithm for pitching your deal or idea at the start of a negotiation. His "three forces" approach works really well when done correctly and I use it for a lot of our enterprise sales.

+ "The Pyramid Principle": not really about negotiations, but corporate communication in general. I find a lot of technical folks get stuck "in the weeds" when negotiating or presenting and this provides strategies to get away from that. Senior executives or whoever you're negotiating with rarely cares about the details at the start of a conversation. Structure accordingly.

+ "How to Win Friends and Influence People": not really negotiations but I find 99% of our negotiations go well when we have good relationships and rapport with those we're negotiating with. Showing an interest and human appreciation for those you're talking to is crucial.

Good luck!
We live in exceptionally turbulent times–and will for another decade or more
food STARTS coming in 6 minutes. That could mean a basket of rolls and some olive oil for dipping. Or maybe they have all the salads pre-made so they can whip out the salad course.
Is William Binney a ranking NSA official? Has Binney been caught lying about the NSA? I didn't think I needed to specify Alexander and Clapper.
If VR really gets traction it's probably just a matter of time until Facebook releases a Second-Life-like MMO VR platform tied in with their social network.
There will always be good MMORPGs that are subscription fee based, but the majority of VR experiences will be ad-supported with paid premium options.
> Before even opening the menu they take their phones out

> 26 out of 45 customers spend an average of 3 minutes taking photos of the food.

It's like instagram and pinterest and all the other feel-good platforms are making us less efficient.
So long as what tagged it is in there too, there should be enough power to make useful decisions easily.
Well, the people who work in the fulfillment centers are poorly paid. The software engineers, managers, and other employees that work within the organization are generally paid very competitively with companies like google etc.
Architecture Issues For eHealth Interoperability
Assuming they have the skill, time or budget to do that.

It's a restaurant...
Last time I was in a restaurant the service was slow because the server wasn't watching their tables. We were on the bar side and had gotten menus (and drinks) from the bartender. At least 10 minutes later we hadn't even seen a server yet. That's nothing to get upset about given the place we were in, but it's also not a good way to run a business.

I don't think anybody at the table had their phone out for more than a minute, and no pictures were taken.
No kidding. The horrible grammar is reminiscent of those letters, too.
I think everyone who has ever owned a laptop has had an issue at one time or another with the laptop failing to go into deep sleep when they close the lid. I don't think a one-time occurrence, however unfortunate, is enough to dismiss the SP3 entirely.

Now if there's a high incidence of failure to trigger deep sleep being reported among SP3 users, that might indeed be a serious problem.
The same thing is true for the vast majority of the Wikipedia edits attributed to the US Congress. Not only are most if not all of them written by staffers and other government employees who almost certainly not receiving any direction to make the edits, they're almost all innocuous spelling or grammar edits and a large portion of them aren't even on political pages.

I don't know if I'd attribute it to public service so much as boredom and personal hobbies, though. The headline, of course, is the same as in this case - that "the government" is making Wikipedia edits, with malicious implications - though there have at least been some cases of vandalism, probably by staffers.
Also, what about all the good things Hitler did?

None of the good deeds matter anymore once the level of bad deeds exceeds a moral threshold. Just as there is redemption for exceeding your past bad deeds with present and future good deeds, so there is damnation for doing the opposite.

Now, we can argue till we are blue in the face about what the moral threshold should be, but it varies from person to person, society to society and civilization to civilization. In this day and age, Ed Catmull (arguably with intent) conspired to harm other human beings' earnings, something that not only affects those humans directly, but indirectly their immediate families as well.

Correct me if I am wrong, but you appear to speak from the perspective of someone who is financially all set, without monetary concerns that can adversely affect your children's education (public vs private schooling, college vs no college), a family member requiring expensive healthcare (chronic disease, terminal care) or concerns about home ownership. In my mind, you being free of such burdens (for whatever reason), are free to take the other (higher/lower) road of thought. But just because you are not affected by someone artificially limiting your income, does not mean others who are affected should shut up and suck it in without calling out the perpetrator for what they did. In their mind, and for many here, Ed Catmull is now damned.

You are welcome to call it silly minded and simplistic, but that does not change the facts of this case.
Beautiful website indeed; there are a lot of carefully crafted details, especially for navigation.

I genuinely wonder though what to do of it. I can't seem to see what people do with all this data; what does one get from knowing how many steps, run, calories, subway stops and hours of sleep were accounted for in a day, every day.

I can see how one could be rigorous enough with his training to see value in some of it, similarly I would see myself trying to improve my sleep patterns. But really, so far, people I've met use this as yet another distraction.

I have yet to meet anybody who has been leveraging the data they collect; most (all?) people I know eat healthy, exercise and sleep well do so without relying on devices. Now, once we're able to track real health related data continuously, we may be able to detect illness or problems as soon as they arise and effectively create a feedback lookp. But from where I stand, as of today, these things are just gimmicks.
Nah, probably easier to keep pretending that it's super-simple to manage humans at scale just because it's easier to reason about.
Is there a baseline that could be established to dictate what bad weather is? So that the decision is taken away from both the pilot and the passenger?
Not German, but man, that sounds like me. I must have the windows open 24 hrs—no matter the weather. I need fresh air.
> Caml uses non-deterministic garbage collection, whereas python mostly uses reference counting (in CPython). This is another case where the first system was safer in one aspect.

I certainly would not call CPython's memory management approach "safer" [1]. As you can see, CPython has a nice accidental memory leak trap door there, OCaml does not.

Also I see little value in partially deterministic memory management like in the case of CPython's ref-counting + GC combo.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8025888/does-python-gc-de...
Let's not forget the extension: The Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol for Tea Efflux Appliances (HTCPCP-TEA)[0].

The Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP) specification
does not allow for the brewing of tea, in all its variety and
complexity. This paper outlines an extension to HTCPCP to allow for
pots to provide networked tea-brewing facilities.

[0] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7168
Yes, I know about appetizers.
For .NET developers I can recommend Fluent Migrator. Works brilliantly with Octopus Deploy.
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Folks, stop trying to solve problems that have already been solved. Especially if it was Don Knuth who solved it. When that guy solves something, it stays solved.

In this case, you're up against something Don Knuth solved and then Leslie Lamport made more useable. You really want to compete with those two?
I am generally pleased with the good availability of locally grown organic food where we live in the mountains of Central Arizona.

If people don't want organic food, I could generally care less except for one thing: efforts to put legal roadblocks in the way of locally grown food. For example:

A few years ago our Senator Jon Kyle, after taking large campaign contributions from Monsanto, submitted the American Food Safety bill that was prepared by Monsanto. This Bill would make home gardeners, local community gardens and small local growers jump through the same hoops as the multi billion dollar food corporations. I believe that it was generally accepted that this was an attempt to force people to buy from the large food conglomerates - at least that is my belief.
Bitcoin has tons of reasons to appreciate it, especially technically.

That doesn't by itself make it a good idea to actually use, of course, but you'd have to be blind to miss the wonder of what Bitcoin brought to technology.
If this is real it has to be Times Square/Theater District IMO so that is unlikely to be a factor.
There are a lot of different use cases. For me personally i upload audio files that arent available on streaming services suchs as Spotify or rdio. Then i am able to stream/download them in the app. To play the songs on my laptop/desktop i just set the Dropbox/Drive folder as a music folder with Spotify.
It's strange. I've had waiters ask if we're ready before everyone at the table has even closed their menus. I recall being taught to use the menu as a signal for whether you're ready or not. Is that not a thing anymore?
Leasing space in existing datacenters. Put in some cheap ESXi/KVM hosts and sell tiny VPS instances on them.

"Support" consists of remote hands tickets with the underlying datacenter.

edit: looks like OpenStack, actually.
I go to places like this when I'm NYC, which has been a few times in the last year. Its probably Katz's Deli or Grimaldi's pizza or similar. Its one of those destination restaurants where you send a pic of yourself eating to yoru friends and family. It would be interesting to see similar data from Olive Garden-type chains to see if anything has changed in that space--probably a little. Mobile devices also make people more tolerant of a wait, particularly in line.
I had heard of egg shells in coffee from an old-time Navy man. I had assumed the calcium neutralized the acidity. This appears to be a better explanation. I wonder if ship cooks still put the morning's egg shells in the coffee?
> If Firefox has vulnerabilities in the source right now, you do little to protect yourself by compiling on your own.

You do more to protect yourself than taking the same vulnerable source and compiling it with Mozilla's "reproducible build chain".

If the source itself is corrupt then having a verified build of malicious source is completely useless.

With Gentoo you can verify the source itself matches the "trusted" upstream source and then build it with your own trustworthy build chain.

And before you go "what if your build chain isn't trustworthy huh????" think about it a little further... if your own local build chain can't be trusted you're already screwed even before you download anything from mozilla.org, just as you'd be if you downloaded a "bit verified" binary from mozilla to run on your already-pwned local operating system.
NORTHERN Canada? I doubt anyone has servers there. Or is it because cooling is cheeper?
> This post seems like an instruction guide created by some restaurant union/organization to speed up the time and improve profits of restaurants by making people feel bad about using their phones.

I'm a little confused about whether you essentially agree or disagree that the scenario(s) in the post are valid. If this isn't really a problem, as implied by your scepticism in the first few points, then why would there be any concerted effort to solve the problem?
Anyone know a similar tool available to OSX or if its feasible to port or recreate this for MAC?

I'm not too familiar with what file libs or utils can be used to handle this as the author says this relies on a linux specific header file and tool.

See https://github.com/Xfennec/cv/issues/6
I'll give you one small example. I started using a sleep tracking app on my iPhone because I have bad onset insomnia and don't sleep well. After one weeks use I noticed that the nights I went for a short 20 min walk before bed I had a much better sleep score. I also fell asleep faster.

Another thing I noticed was that I feel asleep faster if I didn't listen to music or podcasts. I've listened to them for years thinking it helped me fall asleep more quickly but using the app for a week I was able to prove that false. Obviously my data set it very small but the changes seem to be working.

If you collect data on lots of different things all of these small changes/improvements you make could add up to a noticeable difference in quality of life. The holy grail of course is software that can analyse all of these data points and recommend changes.
Can someone tell me what is the point of this self obsession with tracking?

Why do I care to document where I went or which rock I climbed. Has narcissism finally become socially acceptable?
Understanding Binary
Hey first thanks so much for downloading the app. I really appreciate it!
If the app is importing music that you didn't know you had then those songs must be in a hidden/obscure folder. Either that or some songs aren't tagged incorrectly. The app tries to read id3 tags for every song. If they are set incorrectly, then that could be your issue.
Thanks so much for downloading! There is a feedback feature where you can make requests suggestions.
"You need to Google your way to success"

I suppose that says it all! What a brilliant demonstration of exactly why you should be ignored.

Keep up the good work, you are a fine example of modern reasoning.
It is not only to protect the few pages on which you enter sensitive data. All traffic should be protected from man in the middle attacks.

Also if all traffic was protected, attackers wouldn't know which one is worth hacking; now it's still quite obvious.
I can't even begin to express how ass-backwards this comment is. Genocide of natives and internment not only constitute existential threats to democracy; by the time either of these happens, democracy is already long dead (excluding voting and other basic human rights to only the demographics most aligned with your interests generally doesn't count as democracy. The US today would probably impose massive sanctions on the domestic US of WWII or especially the US of westward expansion).

What you're saying, albeit you managed at least a bit of tact, is that Japanese internment and the genocide of Native Americans don't count as military-assisted oppression because "it was just the minorities".
It's not crude. The comment was stupid. It was ill informed, blunt and a complete lack of understanding.

I don't need a source to prove it. The comment speaks for itself.
Your remark sounds as if it is the company's fault to act like this.

1) The first part is exactly how the EU was designed: operate from one country, reduce your overhead. Maybe it is not Amazon's fault that they comply with the rules?

2) The second part is exactly how the Congress wanted its tax laws: if you bring money home, pay your taxes, if you don't, we are not involved. Maybe it is not Amazon's fault that they comply with the rules?
> -Werror is hardcoded in the configure script, which is a very bad idea, and the opposite of portable.
using -Werror is a guarantueed build break whenever the build is tried on a system the original developer had no access to.

I think that is exactly the point; if the thing does not build, people are going to complain loudly and things are going to get fixed. Warnings are usually just run-time problems waiting to happen, so they may as well be considered bugs.
This is a motherfucking website. And it’s fucking not completely perfect
> Unfortunately, reality is messy and complicated and not a computer program.

> Nah, probably easier to keep pretending that it's super-simple to manage humans at scale just because it's easier to reason about.

This canard about libertarians [1] not understanding the complexity of the real world is oft-repeated, but it is misguided, and comes off as condescending to boot.[2]

The likes of Hayek and Friedman did not contend that reality is simple; they contended that it was complex -- too complex for economic systems based on expansive government intervention (socialism, mercantilism, etc) to grapple with and produce satisfactory outcomes.

They advocated a free market system on the premise that it was the best way to handle this complexity, not on the basis that it doesn't exist.

Now, you are free to question whether empirical evidence bears out either point. But it is ignorant to suggest libertarianism is based on eschewing complexity.

1. Here I am referring mostly to libertarians of a consequentialist lean. Libertarians of a mostly deontological lean are orthogonal to this discussion because whether or not they understand the world's complexity is mostly immaterial to their policy prescriptions, as they are concerned mostly with morality, not outcomes.

2. Usually unintentionally, I would hope, though it seems that at least with mpyne it is not.
It's not a big stretch. It's not a stretch at all. It is valid case law.

The end.
I don't think the parent comment was saying that $1/month attracts _only_ pathological customers.

Like you, I have a bunch of $1/month servers used for different things (mostly VPN, as I live in a country where many web sites are blocked), and have had mostly good experiences. I have also had bad experiences (providers going out of business without warning, servers down for a week with no email response etc.). You are right - always have backups and a backup plan.