skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the article kind of summed up BK's history in one line:

"He’s Burger King’s 21st CEO since the company was founded in 1954"

That's literally a new CEO every 36 months since the company was started sixty years ago. That's just boggling.
Sweet. That's another website on which I'll be fighting Google Accounts.
Good point, but I think we all know that long hours aren't sustainable day after day after day.

As a guy who has worked 13 hour days while having a kid when it was required (as well as 2 night binges on the weekends prior to a Monday launch), I do get sick of the "less likely to work late when its needed" stigma against married people. I'll work late when its needed, in bursts. What I won't do is work 80 hours a week for 3 months so my boss can continue on with the delusion that I'm being as productive as 2 people working 40. We all know that's bullshit, and science says so.

Its funny, because the 20 something single guys I work with (anecdotal of course) don't seem to be willing to sacrifice personal time. They'll work late on a Tuesday, but getting them to work late on a Friday or come in on a Saturday? Not happening.
Off the top of my head: large banks, insurance companies, automotive, military contracting, commodity agriculture & energy.

[Edit] Actually, this made me think, what precisely is in the bay area that I'd want to target. The obvious answer is companies whose major priorities are VC and/or other acquisition events and the ecosystem they create.
> I didn't understand any of that when I was younger.

Nothing to be ashamed of though, plenty of people never learn that particular lesson.
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I'm sitting here in a Travelodge in Scotland and their WiFi access amounts to 30 minutes free then I'd have to pay for it - NOPEKTHX.

So I'm using my android phone as a hotspot - it's probably more secure than attaching my laptop to the hotel's service anyway - plus my plan (3's The One Plan) allows unlimited hotspot use anyway, so why not.

I remember being in a decent hotel in Singapore a decade and a bit ago which had wired internet access and I was curious and ran wireshark on my laptop booted into Linux - it was a horrifying sight of port scans and SMB exploit attempts.

I laughed.
Thanks for the replies guys.

I definitely gave up too quickly I think (not saying that how it was would have turned out though, it definitely needs to be reworked).

I think just the sheer emotion behind the other people I was working with thinking I could shut it down, and other personal circumstances is what drove me to "abandon" it for 4 months.

Hopefully what I'm working on now will prove that there is still some substance behind this idea.
Thanks for your answer.
Can I create extensions for Schema.org types then ?
even with Facebook's 97.35% they still confuse me with my toddlers :P
Congrats to team twitch. It was one of the first offices I walked into that made me wish I worked in a place like that. So much energy. So much fun.
It's not a "shortcoming of maps". It's a difficulty in data representation. It's hard to clearly display more than two metrics in a chart. If geography is one of your key metrics, a map is perfect.
Watch this video here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTNX6mr753w

Basically, they brought a guy close to deadly hypoxia (lack of O2). Throughout the process they asked him to perform basic tasks to test brain function. Toward the end they asked him to push a button to end the procedure. They told him that not pushing the button would result in his death (don't worry, he doesn't die). The hypoxia basically resulted in his brain not being able to discern his imminent death and he wouldn't push the button.

This was discussed as a means of "civilized" death penalty since the victim didn't realize their fate at the last moments of their life. Arguments against it is that perhaps the victim should know they are going to die.
Where did the data come from? Is there info for any other ISPs?
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Very well said. We actually saw a lot of the exact problems you outline. Largely because of this, as we matured as a company we moved towards the approach you suggest.
You seem to be overestimating the amount water we use for lawns.

Agriculture uses 77% of all water in California. Residential is less than 14%, with half of that being indoor use.

I am all in favor of low water gardening, but you are not going to save us from the drought by getting rid of lawns.
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I'm really more interested in packet loss/reliability than speeds when I'm in a hotel. 5Mbps, 50Mbps, or 500Mbps, all are fine if they work reliabily. When they don't, they're all equally bad. Trying to use Skype or SSH in the evenings in a hotel is frequently a horrible experience.
Yeah, I was confused by that as well. I don't see how you could have any books of any sort and not notice the discrepancy.
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CIE-LAB, or anything that is based on how humans see, rather than the phosphors in old CRTs. HSV/L are just a simple linear transformation of RGB, which corresponds to the phosphors available to produce CRTs, not the vision properties of the human eye. HSV/L was a good approximation when computers were too slow to do the transformations, but it's an appallingly bad space for doing automated color palette generation.

For example, note how the hue dimension of HSV ( http://krazatchu.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/hsv-rgb.jpg ) has weird nonlinearities (green is much, much wider than yellow, for example) compared to the Munsell color space ( http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/MunsellCo... ) which was experimentally derived from experiments on humans.

HSV is ok for color pickers where a human is picking a color, but it makes no sense when you are picking the H angle and generating color based on it, because a constant H angle delta does not correspond to a constant change in human perception at different base angles. In other words, if you have a base color at some X degress of H, and two accent colors at X+30 and X-30, you won't perceive the two accents as being the same distance from the base, X, because different H angles are perceived as different color distances at different points in the spectrum. The transformation from H to perception space is not linear.

And that's just hue. L, S, and V (pick two!) have their own issues, with different hues being perceived as different lightness or saturation at the same L or S value.

(Sorry for a late reply)
I think this was definitely an emotional failure, and not an actual one. The sheer emotion behind the two other people I was working on this with telling me they don't think I should pursue it further is what put me over the edge, and why I abandoned it for a period of 4-5 months.

I think there are legs here, and I have a plan to test out this concept again with a relaunch.

Thanks for the feedback!
Emotionally this is a roller-coaster for sure. Just wanted to point out that your situation is not unusual and not necessarily a failure :-) Good luck with your current work!
I would wager most are staying at chains where they hold status and don't have to pay either way.
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> Not really.

Yes, really. Competition in academia is fierce. Professorship positions typically have dozens to hundreds of applicants each -- and all of those applicants have made significant contributions to a field of research (PhD) and then some (postdoc). Non-academic qualifications such as outreach, teaching evaluations, and so on are an important dimension along which aspiring academics can differentiate themselves.

> What scandal?

If the girl helped put together the paper and wasn't listed as an author, that would be a scandal. If you search Jud's name on google and a petition to add someone to one of his papers pops up, even the most rational person would assign a nonzero probability to the possibility that he did, in fact, wrong her. It is a SEO/PR problem.
Whats the reasoning for using light utilization? Never seen it used in terms of cost saving strategy. Usually its medium vs heavy vs ondemand.
Angular's data binding is nice and has sold me on using that framework. As fairly point out in the blog post it can slow down the browser with to many DOM updates. This looks like a decent solution to have the DOM update when you want them to happen as opposed constantly with Angular. Generally this only problematic when you have a large amount of data being rendered on the page.
Just as another data point, Subway is 100% franchised. Out of 42,000+ stores worldwide, zero are company-owned.
I don't really understand this reaction. It just seems a little immature to me. It's like "I'll show them!! I'm NOT going to try lisp. haha"

Whether or not lisp is worthwhile to learn has nothing to do with how some people advocate for it, right?
In my experience high speeds means exactly that.
I guess there is the "standard" of two dashes before the sig
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I think all of those bits of advice that people give have some merit, but there is a large amount of uncertainty.

I think that software developers are like people and people are like herds of animals. They will move into a few areas and start grazing based on what the other animals are doing.

So you have flocking behavior that plays a large part.

Like the your product is a reef in the ocean, and the customers are schools of fish that come by.

Except this ocean has many more reefs than there are fish to populate them.
I don't know - but answering a question with "I don't know" does not imply that we should pick an answer just because we don't have a good answer.
Why? You don't really give any reasons.
The example with dashes made me chuckle, because there actually is a standard for setting off a signature --- two dashes with one trailing space. Searching for this works tolerably well in my experience; if it's in a message and not more than X lines from the end, it's a pretty reliable indicator.

Where Mailgun's library looks really useful to me is in parsing HTML mail (ironic that a supposed semantic markup language makes this problem harder to solve, but that's the net for you...)
In the eyes of the tax man there are no mistakes. There are only audits and fraud. Better have your stuff in order when that audit rolls around anything more than a few pennies out of line and you'll be looking at months of extra work even if you're a small company. Looking back at a decade or so of your paperwork will turn up a ton more that you'll have serious issues documenting if you didn't take care of it at the time.

That gets expensive in a hurry (tax lawyer, fines, interest, surcharges).
I think some religions object to dismemberment.
I'm not sure if that is valid justification enough to avoid abolishing the death penalty, but I think it does touch on a concern I have with the "life imprisonment is cheaper anyway" argument.

The reason generally cited for the higher cost of executing somebody is the lengthy appeals process. Why is it that this makes executions more expensive than life in prison? Do people sentenced to life have fewer appeals? If so, why? Do they simply choose to appeal less, or are they not afforded as many opportunities to appeal? Unless they are actually guilty, either possibility is problematic. In the first case, that means that innocent people sentenced to life are giving up on justice. In the second case, that means that innocent people sentenced to life are being denied justice.

One of the other common criticisms of executions are that they are final; finding out that somebody was innocent after killing them is useless to that person. However if for some reason people sentenced to life are receiving fewer opportunities to be found innocent since it seems less important or time-critical, are we seeing any real benefit?
I don't remember the name for it off the top of my head, but Yum! brands do their best to 'create' items that use ingredients already in their stores. If I remember correctly Taco Bell has 26 ingredients that everything on their menu is made of.
I am pretty sure Parson's previous company, Parson's Technology, was boostrapped as well. He used, and apparently nearly lost, the millions he earned on that sale to fund GoDaddy until it was profitable.
here's a post you might enjoy:

http://www.smartmotorist.com/traffic-and-safety-guideline/tr...
What's going to happen to people streaming Nintendo Games? Are we going to have another youtube situation?
You remember the affair of a tiny payroll processing company in Baltimore? Is there some news source about them that isn't in the local Baltimore media that I missed? I had to give Google News a custom search range just to find those local hits.

If that's the kind of firm you're talking about, I agree. Don't use tiny fly-by-night payroll firms. Just use SurePayroll or someone like them.

I'm serious: that's a good point you have. When I said "the norm is to use a payroll firm", I should have said "big payroll firm". There are a lot of little firms out there, and I wouldn't feel safe using them either.
Virgin Group was born out of Richard Branson's Virgin Record stores. The stores started as a mail-order business, advertising in his own magazine, which he started at 16. The name Virgin is a reference to his and his business partners' inexperience in business when they opened their first record store.
we had this exact convo @ lunch today. The worst is the double charge for "Turbo" bandwidth. No one charges for bathrooms why charge for WiFi the incremental cost per user is less.
I'm having a real hard time finding where the GAE 1.8.0 compatibility is mentioned in that document.

Most recent explicit mention of version compatibility seems to be:

AppScale version 1.6.5 was released December 19, 2012.

Bugs fixed in this release:

- Update Java AppServer to 1.7.3

- Update Python AppServer to 1.7.3

But even aside from that, are you really saying that your compatibility with GAE's releases is lagging by more than a year? The 1.8.0 version of the SDK was released in May 2013.
It's quite rare to see companies disclose those details.
I don't think that's true. In my experience, the very best companies all refuse to do this. If you leak an upcoming Google feature or promise something to a customer that doesn't exist, you get fired. Same at Facebook and Apple, or Blizzard.

I do think it's much more common in highly competitive markets with no barriers to entry. Google/Facebook/Apple have pretty strong moats and large diverse markets, and can afford to release products "when they're done" and not talk about them until then. People in very competitive, low-margin markets often need the sale now. But then, people in the latter type of markets quickly get filtered out of the marketplace regardless of what they do.
It's definitely worse to get your first infection of the virus as an adult.

In the looking I've done today, I haven't seen anything real definitive about whether the vaccine makes this more likely or not.
Congrats to the Twitch team!
> In other words, the costs of making mistakes is internalized. I think externalities are a bad thing.

"undo" is a pretty important, nearly mandatory feature for a transfer mechanism. Especially if you're talking about large sums. And we've known how to do it at scale since the 70's.

> Insurance and regulations (and by that, I assume you mean government regulations) are not the same thing.

Both create transaction costs, and those costs become significant at scale. edit that's why I group them together.

> How's that?

Firm holding my BTC or handling my transaction makes a mistake, is hacked, etc. If my money is tied up in their system when this happens, too bad for me.

> What do you mean by that?

Only that escrow is not unique to bitcoin, and you can escrow other currencies (or anything). One of your grandparent comment's argument only makes sense if escrow is unique to bitcoin.
What's a youtube situation?
It's so common that most people think this is how every one works.

I worked with many sales people who got CEOs later, because they made big sales, but most of them, because they sold stuff they didn't had, because they didn't really know the customers.

In extreme cases, this leads to overworked devs and rich sales people, when the devs are good and the features aren't that hard to implement. If the features are too hard, it leads to angry customers and the company losing much money.
I would guess the main reason is that it would be too gruesome for anyone watching the execution. Also, decapitation seems almost like desecrating the condemned person's corpse, which might be considered a cruel and unusual punishment even for someone considered to be deserving of the death penalty.
It would be interesting to know whether companies that are bootstrapped are statistically more likely to succeed than VC-backed companies. Do founders who risk their own capital have fundamentally different approaches to business than founders who are spending other peoples' money (VC funds)? Do they do more market research before starting their companies? Do they recruit different kinds of employees? Do the founders have more business experience? Does anyone know if any research has been done on this?
I'm only 1 season in, but clover is nice.

A part of the grass thing I think is the fairly recent desire to have a pure Fescue/Bermuda/etc grass lawn.

I don't remember why, but a few months ago it popped into my head: You know, when I was a kid in Harlingen, there was clover everywhere. We'd pick a bit out of lawns as we roamed the neighborhood and chew on it. It's been decades since I've seen a neighborhood like that...

So I bought some clover seed and spread it around. Within just a couple weeks (4 or 5 days of daily watering at the outset to establish it) it was crazy green, spread through most of the lawn, while not being disruptive to the grass. The grass actually seems to be benefitting. It is chocking out weeds OTOH, so win win win. Overall my lawn is a whole lot brighter/greener/more-alive and it doesn't take more than the twice weekly watering schedule allowed by DFW's water conservation ordinances.

Now at the height of summer my lawn looks better than most of my neighbors and unlike the retirees' manicured lawns I'm not out there watering with a hose (a loophole the water conservation ordinance allows to please the demographic) daily.

I just thought it was noteworthy that there's a middle-ground between green painted gravel like Sun City, AZ, and golf-course lawns.
Yeah, but agriculture feeds people. Lawns... look nice?
I don't think that you are interpreting the linked article correctly. The normal belief is that there is no gene transfer with grafting. The article claims that there can be limited gene transfer at the graft point, and that if you cut slices at this point and grow them out by tissue culture, you can propagate a true "graft hybrid", unlike the slightly more common "graft chimera". While the seeds resulting from the plant that grows from this in-vitro propagation might be interesting to study, the seeds from the fruit grafted on to the original tree are well understood to be remain true to the fruit (scion) and not the rootstock.
Another non-technology company, longtime in the making is Arthrex - http://www.businessobserverfl.com/print/ENTREPRENEUR-OF-THE-...

"Schmieding takes a shot at those who choose the easy route to entrepreneurial success, writing: “The era of personal sacrifice and risk taking has been replaced today with venture capital and IPOs that use other people’s money as collateral"
I am surprised that others concurrents let Google buy it considering it was the only "serious alternative" to some functionalities of youtube.

The monopoly of Google on video streaming is even stronger now
To contrast, there are a group of McDonald's stores near my office that are testing a linked drive-thru timing application. There's a scoreboard visible from inside the work area that ranks all the local stores in terms of drive-thru speed and service time. They've gamified the system.
"You must be logged into Google+ to view this comment" spam will be returning to twitch chats....

Either way, congrats to the team. As a long time user, I can't help but feel that this will only hurt the twitch.tv experience in the long run though. Maybe the improved stability for other regions will be a large enough benefit to offset any other changes.
Do we? Human beings tell half-truths and lies pretty frequently. I bet if you examine the history of your own utterances for the past several years. you'd find that you do, too.

There are obviously different scales of truth-telling and deception. "It's your baby." is a lot different than, "Ah - I can't make it. I'm just too tired!" But it's still lying. In fact human lying is so frequent that a lot of the smaller lies we tell to be polite or avoid hurting feelings barely even register as lies, even though that's what they are, plain and simple. Clearly Kant's maxim that lying is permissible under no circumstances is false.

In business lying is rampant. You are competing with liars. Marketing is institutionalized lying. People are constantly embellishing the features of their product so that it purports to do something magical when on closer inspection most features are much more mundane. Sales is even more about convincing the person you're talking to that they can't live without something they probably can live without. In other words, being a good liar is pretty much a qualification for the position.

Does that make it ok? No. But does it mean our expectations are lowered? Yes. So when someone goes out of their way to come clean and tell the truth at great disadvantage to themselves, especially in business, we should recognize that for the exceptional event that it is. I don't think that makes lying more acceptable - but it incentivizes truth-telling.
I don't know if this counts, but Veeva Systems IPOd at north of $4 billion on a grand total of $4m in funding
Well, there is a middle ground involving heartier plants that require little watering (and less maintenance to boot).
I'm not 100% sure, but I think IKEA was bootstrapped for pretty long time. But I can't find any reference about this:(
At 6MPH and, I'm assuming, a non-trivial time for even "loading" and "unloading" a car, I would not be at all surprised that the total time it would spend reracking cars would end up being significantly longer than just leaving them where they are and taking the extra time to fetch them.
Actually, I'm pretty sure that this was planned and budgeted for very early in the project. This is highly specialized gear that you cannot just build smaller, let alone shop around for a maker closer to you.
This isn't capitalism, it's the opposite of capitalism. It's regulatory capture and government corruption. Most major ISPs are cable companies, and most ISPs/cable companies have a cozy legal arrangement with municipal areas to lock out competition. The free market is not in operation here.
But majority of their long-term success has been attributed to their ability to borrow money from larger banks like City. The growth of Virgin Records could not have happened without their battles with the banks.
I don't see why not - I mean these are unlikely to get included in the official Transit spec, but sure, being able to build a common set of shared extensions seems mighty powerful to me - I had a bit of fun with this today when putting together the example for the blogpost https://github.com/swannodette/transit-js-example/blob/maste...