skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a workplace environment with a shared kitchen it absolutely is worth it to an average manager to avoid the spills and mess of grounds and keep everything in the pods. This is where I saw most Keurigs first, and then it seemed to "hijack" its way into the household because people got addicted to the convenience that they enjoyed at the office.
They could do a Louis Vuitton and make their trademark an integral part of the password design. Or pick a nice QR code and trademark that.
Agner Fog's guides and the Intel reference documents are the best resources that I've found:

http://www.agner.org/optimize/

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/architectu...

IACA, perf, pmu-tools, and likwid are very useful tools.

https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-architecture...

https://perf.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page

https://github.com/andikleen/pmu-tools

https://code.google.com/p/likwid/
you've just described san francisco's sprig (getsprig.com), except they have three dishes for lunch and a different three dishes for dinner.
Gamification should have some sort of reward, though typically arbitrary like "leveling up" or "gold". One could suppose that a filled progress bar could serve the same purpose.
Idioms: Building High Performance Networking Servers Using Tcl (2006)
And then they sell you a subscription. To your coffee maker.
> Is your life really going to be so much better if you can make your coffee in 1 minute instead of 2 minutes?

No. But if I have fifty things to do every day, one of which is making coffee, and I can shave a minute or two off of each one, I've saved lots of time.

> what bothers me is the commoditization of every last thing in our consumer driven culture.

A guy picking coffee beans could say the same thing about your pre-roasted pre-ground holier-than-Kuerig choice.
After Taxes (federal) Taxes (state) and Rent (insane) more then half of that 100k you reference is gone. Without a gold spoon it's not as easy as you make it seem. Food for thought, I had more disposable income making 65k/Year in Florida then I do making Far more in the Bay Area. I'm not saying that there are not benefits to living here but it's not a golden ticket. Also, clearly you don't have a family to support.
When I nap, even for 20m, I dream. Grogginess comes if I take longer than 20 minutes or so - although if I time it right, I can hit a non grogginess event again after 1.5 hiurs. Sleep cycles, I guess
Performance Comparison of Wikibench on ‘m3’ Instances
Why should they be so privileged as to be able to take and hold your property? I can't think of any other private business that is just gifted this kind of racket.
Expected taking into account the eBay v. MercExchange factors for injunctive relief over patents
> For what it's worth, I did quit; partially because the pay was so low for the 55 hours of week they expected developers to put in.

Agreed. That's outrageously low, and you definitely made the right choice in quitting.
> "It won't be particularly satisfying, but in that dystopian near-future, it will be one of life's few remaining pleasures."

[expression of cynicism detected]

[content override triggered]

[querying for user's linguistic analysis based on previous communication]

[synthesizing praise for walled garden using user's linguistic profile]

[deliver praise to recipient instead of ungood sentiment]

Seriously though, we're already filtering Facebook posts based on "relevance". We're a really, really thin line away from silencing posts based on the sentiments expressed within.
i would make it coffeescript like syntax and add in underscorejs functionality -_-
Agreed, I've lived at a wide range of places, from nice suburb near Dallas to mid-sized "cool city" like Austin to international metropolis like Shanghai, and SF is by far the least livable place (especially cost adjusted) in my opinion. Nice weather, cool culture, but very, very broken infrastructure and government and pretty much anything that has to do with policy and regulation.
I'm not saying that progress bars are not part of Gamification, but this article makes it seem that Gamification is only about progress bars.
instead they get hit on the head.
The report they received was a shooter in the building who had shot two people and was holding the rest of the people there hostage.

If you were in charge of the police, what would your response be to such a report?
If you have 50 things to do in a day then coffee is the least of your worries. I also don't understand this really weird optimization mindset that some people have and that they apply to every single activity in their life. Some of my greatest insights have happened while I was just daydreaming or in general just doing nothing. Sometimes people should really stop and smell the roses.
When your proprietary coffee delivery system costs $50/pound and people still buy it, is DRM a surprise?
Really? Really?

Are you serious?!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_mass_destr...
It verifies that there was an extinction rather than assimilation, although this was already the conclusion of archaeologists based on other data. The physical remains of the Dorset culture are totally distinct form those of the Thule. Thule oral traditions tell of encounters with the Dorset during their Eastwards expansion. The Dorset were in contact with viking populations in Greenland, whose accounts can be interpreted as showing the rapid replacement of the Dorset by the Thule. Finally, some small, isolated Dorset populations may have survived until later European contact, although they soon died out as well.

The Thule expansion into North America is thought to have coincided with a change in climate, so it's possible the shift in climate caused the collapse of the Dorset. It's also possible that contact with either the Thule or vikings passed on diseases that could have decimated the Dorset. However, the remarkably close timing of the replacement does strongly support the hypothesis that the Thule themselves were the cause of the Dorset collapse.
You can get a Smart Car for $99/mo - not sure why more people don't figure that one out.
I was curious, so I looked up the relevant state law:

22651.07(3)(c)(2) states that:
Prior to paying any towing, recovery, or storage related fees, a vehicle owner... shall have the right to... Retrieve his or her vehicle during the first 72 hours of storage and not pay a lien fee.

It seems that these tow yards may actually be violating the law by preventing people from retrieving their cars.
India Opens 15M Bank Accounts in Modi’s Inclusion Drive
So what's your conspiracy theory? The author was lying about all the citizens waiting at the impound lot?
>I can't think of any other private business that is just gifted this kind of racket.

Banking is one of such businesses.
Destiny: le jeu permettra d’explorer plusieurs planètes, dont Vénus
You bring up legitimate problems, but again, they aren't unique to web apps. Physical computers can be compromised too. They can be compromised in manufacturing before they even reach you. There's never a guarantee of security, just trust that you are using a secure product.

Improving the trust model has almost nothing to do with how much of the computer you have administrative access too. Secure computing means trusting those who build and maintain your computers and the software that runs on them. It's less possible than ever to do everything yourself.

There are big privacy and security advances happening because people have lost so much control of their data. People are trusting others more than ever with control of their computers, and that means certain demands for trustworthines that didn't manifest when people felt better about their data because they knew where it was physically stored.

Moving the easiest point of attack on a system to the external network just means we have to be more explicit about what we do with each other's data. We have to learn to trust each other, and that means developing systems that are transparent, auditable, and free, but it also means developing cultures that promote trust and proof of trustworthiness, because that's where real security will come from.
> succeeded w/o juicing from other google businesses?

Now you're changing the terms of the question ... getting a a boost from other businesses is different from "bundling". You didn't get sent an Android phone, nor in any way forced to use one, when you signed up for Gmail, or started using Youtube. Those services were very nicely supportd on the iPhone before the first Android phone ever launched. If you're going to say any positive association at all counts then they've never produced a an independent product since the original Google search, but that's not a very interesting statement - why would they launch something new and not make it work with their phones? It would be stupid and actually put them at a competitive disadvantage compared to the iPhone.
Well, public libraries also need funding in order to do their curation.
i lived there for 2 years during a non-insane period of time (2006-2007) and made 100k, and everything was a pain in the ass. you literally could not even walk down the street a single time without dealing with some kind of fucked up problem. looking back on it in retrospect, it was even worse than it felt, but i was young, and liked to party. like most people there.

such a beautiful city, too. it really kind of broke the illusion for me. still wonderful to visit though, because you live in a fantasy-travel bubble instead of having to deal with day to day life.
Making web versions of classic Unix utilities has been a successful business model.
At Theneeds we liked the NYTimes one: http://www.theneeds.com/404 http://www.nytimes.com/404
Hah, yeah like it's really viable to commute from the central valley. :( it takes me 30min to get from 92 to Ralston (2 exits)
I used to work for a BioMedical company that paid $500 a trip for guaranteed couriers to pick up plasma from a medical facility and get it to an airport (in a short time frame) to be shipped half-way across the country, where the same thing had to happen in reverse... The treatment they performed on the plasma cost the patient $15k, and there were several times where a helicopter was brought in to navigate around gridlock, as the cost of a second treatment was an order of magnitude greater.

Something like this would be incredible for allowing access to specialized medicines at drastically lower costs. There were many locations that they were unable to get guaranteed couriers, and hence couldn't offer their treatment at any price...
The practical consequences of these algebraic properties are numerous:

• It’s easy to write good tools for writing, editing, refactoring, analysing, and visualising programs, because the language is really simple. If it’s easy to write good tools, those tools are more likely to exist and be correct.

• Functions are good basic units of behaviour. This fact is used in most paradigms. The fact that is not used explicitly in most paradigms is that function composition is a good basic way to combine behaviours. (Functional programming being a notable exception.)

• Small, modular parts are generally easier to understand than monolithic wholes. Being able to really easily decompose things into small parts helps you write correct programs more easily.

• Naming is hard. You can choose to name your intermediate state when it makes your code clearer, but concatenative languages are the only ones that never require named state. The intent is to use names mostly to describe behaviours and how they relate.

I have been working on a statically typed concatenative language, Kitten, for a little while now. It’s working in the same problem space as Rust and Nimrod—making low-level programming feel high-level by using type system features to make high-level constructs have low-to-no runtime cost. It’s still a research project, but you should keep an eye on it: https://github.com/evincarofautumn/kitten
Can you (tm) a QR-code?

Things that are printed have copyright. Copying them is not allowed. If the machine has a camera and can recognise the printed material on the cup, then it cannot (legally) be copied.

In order to prevent -replay- refill attacks, the machine has to destroy the cup too after use.

Depressing if my suggestions are true :(
There is no rigid definition of what features a process should have before it can be considered gamification. It's largely about the experience and driving engagement, largely using game theory and UI design. Checking off a bunch of boxes in order to see a progress bar increase certainly sounds like it fits, even given an unfairly simplified description such as that.
Sounds awesome! How far do you plan to go with personalization? Will the site change depending on the user? Or will it constantly morph based on the habits of the average user?

Thanks for the response. Installed on my site http://gumwall.com.
What People Cured of Blindness See
Anyone see an analogy here with startups? I do.
The biggest advantages of a fixed wing over a quadrotor are endurance and range. A fixed wing can carry more payload with less energy. The ability to glide if the engine goes out is a bonus, but probably not the driving reason to select it as a platform.
Filtering based on sentiment? Oh, they're way ahead of you there: http://money.cnn.com/2014/06/30/technology/social/facebook-e...
Again, this was in Berkeley (2009 or 2010). The cop said I'd have to go to court and pay the fine there, and told me why. I actually thought it wasn't a bad idea.
Out of curiosity, what do you use as your primary editor/IDE for Lua?
Why employee referrals are the best source of hire: infographic
> Also, clearly you don't have a family to support.

Nor does the prototypical HNer. Though I am helping my dad buy a house.

> Without a gold spoon it's not as easy as you make it seem.

What do you mean? I definitely don't have a golden/silver spoon, but have been able to save up a good amount despite ludicrous NYC living & taxes.
> If you have 50 things to do in a day then coffee is the least of your worries.

It seems like people who do 50 things in a day are those most in need of mild stimulants.
I teared up when I learned that Manfred’s last words to the concatenative programming community were “I’ll be around again!”—and he died only twenty days later. I’ve read a lot of good things about him, and it only cements my high opinion of him that his last message was one praising others for their accomplishments.
Where I work there is a machine that dispenses coffee (Americano: basically an espresso plus piping hot water to fill the cup up). Such machines are more expensive than the typical office Keurig, but for an office of any size not prohibitively so. For office coffee it's actually quite good, and far and away better than any swill out of a Keurig I've ever had the misfortune of drinking.
NgBind, moustaches, and the viewmodel
I want generic programming like Rust.
I hear you, I really do.

Most of the coffee I drink is $5 a cup local artisan-roasted pour over. But I can't tell you how many times popping a pod in the Kuerig as I rushed out the door saved me - and gave me the time to smell other-than-coffee roses.

It's presumptuous to pick one thing you like taking the time to do and accuse those who choose to do other things slowly of not doing anything slowly.

For most people, Kuerigs aren't destroying mindfulness or presence, either by force or as one of a thousand cuts.
All the people who pick up coffee at Dunkin, Starbucks, and McDonald's seem to think so. The cost of Keurig over making your own is a pittance compared to the multiple you are paying at those places, but millions do that daily.
Then just about everything is gamification, even ticking boxes on a tax form, if you go like that about it, or seeing your station close in on a subway map as you travel :) If we invented the term "gamification", it was to signify a little more than "nothing" in the first place.
I can't say anything about wild fire conditions, but even a decent hobbyist drone will not have problems with thermals in calm weather or slight winds. A commercial drone will be even better.
> one study can (almost) never be conclusive but hopefully you realize that your alternative hypothesis is less likely given the data presented.

I might be setting myself up to look dumb, but I don't realize that. Obviously there's something causing the phenomenon, but as far as I can tell, the data does not contain any good clues as to what it is. It could be that people perceive women's actions differently from men's. It could be that the women in question actually are more abrasive in general than their male peers and the people's comments are an accurate reflection of reality. It could be that people perceive abrasiveness equally, but they are more likely to complain about it from women because they have lower expectations of men.

I'm not espousing any of these ideas — and I'm definitely not saying your explanation is wrong. Like I said, I don't feel qualified to support any hypothesis here. But I don't see how this study supports any hypothesis more than the others. Where do you see it?
That is a very cool idea!

When you mentioned the shipping container, I was thinking about a heavy lifting helicopter that plucks an entire shipping container off the cargo ship and drops it on an 18 wheeler already on a highway (or on a train already in motion...). Bypassing the bottleneck at a port could save a lot of time and money, too.
How is bundling different than getting a boost? I really think they're the same.

And google made the services work better on their phone (eg turn-by-turn navigation, better gmail app).
You actually fell asleep, but didn't enter a deep enough sleep for you to actually notice it. You can't tell if you're in NREM1 sleep.
> and Firefox refuses to connect to it at all due to weak ciphers:

It's not a weak cipher. I get the same error, but the cipher the server selects is TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_128_SHA (0xc011). If I've got my SSL best-practices straight, that's not a bad choice.

The server, however, also selected SSL 3.0. My understanding is that you can't use that cipher with SSL 3.0 because it didn't exist. Firefox thus aborts the connection; note the error: "…cipher_disallowed_for_version" (of SSL).

I've seen this before on a server I had, and it had the same behavior. I'm nearly certain this is a bug on the server side, perhaps in OpenSSL. The server I had made some pretty nonsensical decisions in the server hello, such as the above with Firefox, and with Chrome, selecting TLS 1.0 even though that was disabled. I asked about it on SO[1], but never got a reply. (For me, it's no longer an issue; we enabled TLS on that server for hopefully obvious reasons.) Firefox and Chrome's client hellos are pretty similar, but not the same, and I never figured out the difference that caused the server to choose SSL or TLS over the other.

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25146651/why-is-nginx-sel...
I'm the author and I'll take that as a complement... I think.

My take on really slick polished valley hipster corporate pr is if you've got the resources to pull that off, sure, do it.

But if you don't it's like a bad special effect in a movie, usually worse than no special effects at all. As they say in that field if you don't have the flash it's all gotta be in the script.
I have no affiliation with this, and I am only on the first chapter, but you may find this interesting: http://apionrails.icalialabs.com/book/chapter_one
We changed the url from http://www.notarychains.com/ since this seems to be where the substance is.
... by something lowered on a tether. If you think that's comparable to touching a rotor, you don't know much about rotors. mv^2!
Heavily implied the Eskimo's killed the Dorset. Just in case no one is paying attention.
I regularly use randomness to make (small) decisions in my life. I look at my watch and decide based on the last digit of the seconds. (Often, I just want one bit—even or odd.)

Without this, I'm indecisive all too often, in the stupidest of places. Choosing what to order at a restaurant, for example, used to be a bit of a pain; now I just select a few acceptable choices and then decide randomly. Similarly, it's also how I vary up my walk home: even, I take a left turn, odd—a right.

It's a surprisingly useful little trick!
I'm guessing you're exaggerating here but I'm curious - how could someone with decades of experience not do FizzBuzz? I can't wrap my head around it.
Not really. Only if a hash table lookup is the first part of every iteration of the for loop.

It does allow some recursive algorithms to reduce their algorithmic complexity significantly, however.
You know perfectly well people are paying for the convenience and easy cleanup.

Starbucks coffee -- $1.75 for an espresso shot that uses 0.25 oz of beans -- is $112/pound, so the k-cup is a bargain.
A cursory Google search shows that not only are companies making Keurig-compatible cups, but also Keurig-compatible coffee machines, so people who want them could get those instead. Funny that the end consequence of this may be that a whole ecosystem around this format ends up continuing to dominate despite the fact that all of the players are selling knock-offs and the originator of the idea has moved on... it's IBM PC-compatible all over again.
Domain without dot (http://uz)
http://uz is a domain without dot.

(HN doesn't allow to post url without dot. that's why I add as a text)
I buy all my used books at goodwill. Its cheap and they always have all the popular books.
This reminds me of the Boeing YC14 blown wing (1). It looks a little like a fully structure-contained implementation of that concept.

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_YC-14
I have met true "rock star" engineers that work at: Adobe, Akamai, Amazon, British Telecom, Bloomberg, Cadence Design Systems, Cisco, Disney, eBay, Goldman Sachs, Heroku, HP, IBM, Intel, LinkedIn, NASDAQ, Oracle, Pixar, Rackspace, Reuters, Salesforce, Toyota, VMWare, Wells Fargo, and Yahoo! just to name a few.
US govt still paying one civil war pension (2013)
"Start with the customer and work backwards" :-)
This doesn't work... Nintendo tried it with the gameboy. The boot rom would extract the nintendo logo from the cartridge and display it on the screen. If it wasn't correct, the game wouldn't run. If it was correct, the theory was that trademark would prevent 3rd party games. But the judge ruled it was being used as a functional access control device and not as a trademark, so 3rd parties could include the nintendo logo in their games.

LV uses pure trademark law; it's not functional. That's why their protection stands.
That's exactly my point, though (and was to the French guy below). Your original point was 'have people in the US been arrested after being wiretapped or spied on over the internet?' Yes.

The argument is always made that they were 'planning/conspiring' a particular act, something that's rarely taken through to prosecution/conviction, it's a well known harassment technique (as was overtly surveilling people with 'undercover' cars and foot patrols) by the FBI and the larger city police departments.

So yes, people have been arrested for expressing their views, which were caught via surveillance, because law enforcement abused the information they had and brought trumped up charges. The UK examples I gave was because I'm more familiar with the stuff here - the US has a great and grimy history of abusing surveillance powers, from Hoover's FBI onwards.
Customs and domestic security nightmare. Random manufactured crap could range from things that the government doesn't like (drugs) to things that might be dangerous (enriched uranium) to things that are very bad (like weaponized anthrax or the fictional Fusarium spirale[1]).

[1] http://mycorant.com/book-review-spiral-by-paul-mceuen/