skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're confusing things a little: we're not talking about restaurants per se here.

I don't know whereabouts in Europe you are, but you have to imagine a store like H&M where you generally place goods on a countertop to purchase them. In Japan, those countertops usually have a nondescript tray also lying on them, and it is considered impolite to hand your payment directly to the cashier--instead, while putting down all of your goods for purchase, you simultaneously put your payment into the tray.

There are of course restaurants where they'll hand you a bill and you bring it up to the counter -- at least in the US. For example, in the Kansas City, Missouri region you'll see this both in the sit-down tex-mex chain-restaurant El Maguey as well as smaller sit-down cafes (the one that's coming to mind is City Diner, which is by the River Market). But that's not quite what we're talking about here.
A "flash crash" in equities is not the same as a "flash crash" in bonds.
Often they are just not used, though.

Probably contrary to the Japanese custom as described in the article I personally always feel slightly self-conscious when using them (to hand someone the money). It feels distant and maybe a bit impolite to me, though I don’t know how shared that feeling is. (Please note that I’m not claiming that using the tray is somehow inherently impolite or distant. When it comes to etiquette the concept of universal truth is even more problematic than it otherwise already is.)

My usual approach is to hand over the money directly if there is little time and the cashier is already looking at me, expecting the money, and to put it on the tray if the cashier is currently still doing something else and I have a bit of time to properly prepare the money while the cashier is looking elsewhere. (It basically gives me a proper place to put the money when the cashier cannot yet directly take it.) I’m not sure how shared my feeling and my approach on this are among others.

Also, in my experience cashiers differ wildly in how they will use those trays to hand you your change. Some will use them, some just won’t. I never payed any attention as to whether there’s any pattern to that, though. I mean, is the proper use of that tray part of the instructions when starting somewhere? Is it just personal preference?
Exactly my thought when I saw the line "to produce beautiful display text" with an example that would have been atrocious on any GeoCities page.

OTOH, the time on the internet when GeoCities was hot was a wild time. I wouldn't mind if the web would get a bit less serious and more light-heartened again. :)
Not to mention this classic, which was probably his original claim to fame: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3663197
Show HN: Oscilloscope, a Hystrix dashboard with spice
Consider that many software installers ask you to accept terms of service. So, using "Accept" for the button feels very dishonest.

An alternative I would consider "honest"? Hmm... "Support us by installing this bundled software" maybe.
Why Women Do She-Commerce Better
No, let's keep white hat on...
No offense intended, but my eyes can't handle a body text color of #666 this early in the morning.
How to Thrive in the Age of Megadrought​
Yeah, that does raise the question of why they chose a company that doesn't normally do what they were looking for in a fulfillment center. It never really covers why exactly they chose Heritage Paper over a different company that focused on smaller ecommerce orders instead of freight.
No, you're not 'running late', you're rude and selfish
If you now have many centralized systems... Don't you by definition have a distributed system?

Not in the sense that it matters to the customer.

You can have a customer connected to their local centralised shipping centre before confirming an order, so every customer who would be supplied from that centre is seeing the same real-time stock indication. If supplies of a product the customer is trying to order are low, you can manage expectations accurately, for example warning that the product is almost out of stock and saying you'll confirm the order within 15 minutes to deal with races, or providing a "we're holding this for you, but you need to complete your purchase within X minutes to guarantee it" system as many on-line event ticket systems do.

You can certainly have distributed infrastructure and logistics behind those local centralised shipping centres. You still have to physically transport the products there from your manufacturing facilities or suppliers. You still have to do marketing and PR. You still have to do your corporate accounts. However, you have 100% isolated your customers from the distributed aspects of your business, and those aren't going to result in a bad experience for a real life customer just because a delivery driver was stuck in traffic for 10 minutes and arrived later than scheduled with the new stock.
The URL seems like it has something to do with pranking :)
About 3,000, with 1 sample/second.
It's a succinct explanation of why this particular passing might be relevant to this specific site. Maybe as a preemptive answer to others who might be wondering the same thing. Being succinct might come across as cold.

In order to come across as less pejorative, maybe I would have changed "some Silicon Valley executive" to "a Silicon Valley executive". But the rest is fine on the face of it.
Python 3.5.0b2 is now available
The Go client has already been updated. We'll be updating the Ruby and front end JS client. Hopefully the community will jump on updating the other clients once we release 0.9.0. It's a super simple protocol so I don't imagine it'll take much work.

The binary protocol is probably much less useful now. HTTP + GZip of the line protocol will already saturate what our storage engine can do at this point. In fact, I'm going to close that out right now...
Adam Curtis' Politics of Confusion
This is already available for emacs!!!! (evil laugh) Emacs has thought of everything!
I agree, but it makes for a good story. It is amazing how much detail goes on behind the scenes in shipping product. A story like this where "logistics outsiders" re-create this stuff from scratch and then write about it is quite entertaining. Good for them, they figured out something that works and had a fun time doing it.
I first thought this was some site about pranking startups...
Java is definitely not dead. As others have said, it is alive and very much kicking in Enterprise systems. Infact, if you or anyone reading this has an inkling to live overseas and few years experience and is at Senior Engineer or Team Lead level (corporate titles) it is great to leverage. Offshored locations around the world (note, I don't say Outsourced, still within the company) cry out for people with experience and international experience to inject to their teams for 1-n years.
Their profile states they have one - I checked the profile to see if they were a shill, they mentioned a startup. I think it could be pertinent; I don't see there being harm in asking, they don't have to answer.
Glad to see Emmet has a site. I really love it too.

A tip for those wanting to create hiccup[1] using emmet-mode on emacs:

div>ol.count>li.item*6

Gives:

<div>
<ol class="count">
<li class="item"></li>
<li class="item"></li>
<li class="item"></li>
</ol>
</div>

Now, if you suffix it with a |hic

div>ol.count>li.item*6|hic

Then you get beautiful hiccup!

[:div
[:ol.count
[:li.item]
[:li.item]
[:li.item]]]

[1] http://hiccup.space
Eight years ago, more than three years ago today.
ScummVM has been maintained on GitHub for a few years now: https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm

The downloads are still on SF, though. That's unfortunate.
This is a really clever move by Google. Put these out there, then lower the PageRank score of anyone foolish enough to use them!
gifs are not web3.0!

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http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2620/index.htm
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Intensive Care Paramedic here. Crush injury is a risk, but usually after more prologned entrapped, without blood supply to the affected area. Usually >45mins - but sometimes less. We carry drugs to counter the effect of the sudden release of toxins that damage the heart.

What is more risky here is not the release of the vicitim - but the potential for a failed release. What if 100 people tried to lift the bus, but it turns out they wernt strong enough, resulting in the bus just pivoting on the spot. That pivoting might have crushed the injury further - leading to significant more damage. When we extricate patients - we always aim to do it in a controlled environment. Even when they are sick, slow and steady is often best.

One of the worse worse worse things bystanders often do is pull objects out of patients. i.e. if you are stabbed, and the knife is still in you - do not pull it out.

I think bystanders think they need to do "something" - but sometimes doing nothing (i.e. dont pull the knife out) is best.
What? No `blink`? Useless.
Thank you.
An analysis on BetaList would be very interesting. I'm adding it to my TODO list! :)
9 Mistakes to Avoid When Designing an App
British city councils seek to prevent driverless cars
That should be doable if you're batching data together. The next build will actually do this automatically for you if you're writing into the Graphite, CollectD, or UDP inputs. It buffers some updates in memory to batch them in a single write to the underlying storage.

Might be worth another look for you when 0.9.0 comes out :)
Instead of 20 pages of investigation, he admits he could have simply gone on LinkedIn and searched for 'mspy' - LOL!
Why is the competition designed in such a way that it is an advantage for a competitor to "run test versions of their programs twice weekly ahead of a final submission"?

How does it work? You submit your classifier to some server and it is run against what? The data set that determines your final score - hopefully not.
Great, now someone needs to write a "disable animated fonts" extension.

Extensions required to make the web usable:

AdBlock: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/

NoScript: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/

Toggle Animated GIFs: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/toggle-animat...
Thank you. Let me know how it goes.
Thank you jonesetc, the min I can do is to acknowledge the great work of the researcher that found the issue and patched Redis! Thanks to his work we'll be a bit safer :-)
Why not weight results by the number of training attempts, and publish the number of attempts along with the results? You wouldn't have to disqualify anyone, but over-submitting would embarrass the cheater and hurt their score.
So that's all great and trying to help and all, but.. a crowd that yells at the top of their lungs to a driver till he goes in tears (in place of actually guiding him to properly move the vehicle), and thereafter tries to lift the bus using nothing but brute force.. isn't this like creating a problem and then trying to solve it?
Windows 10 Inside a Power Adapter
I guess if I knew they would help I would. It seems like it would be a multi year undertaking with acquiring all of the background knowledge.
Redis 2.8.21 and 3.0.2 are out fixing the issue. The patch was provided by Ben Murphy directly (the same researcher uncovering the issue). So two times thanks to Ben. Moreover he was gentle enough to wait my geological times to integrate the patches...
NY Times has been blocked for years in China.
Same here - I thought some of the effects were just very subtle, until I opened the link in Chrome! Oh well, most of our client traffic is not Firefox so this isn't such a huge issue.
Wanted to see some clever startup pranks. Disappointed.
Native multi-model can compete with pure document and graph databases
Ray Kurzweil: Humans will be hybrids by 2030
I would say that this is almost more of a "developer design link" than a "designer design link". As in an engineer/dev can implement these "effects", in code without touching graphic editing software.
Thankfully, using FF, I miss out on most of the "fun".
That is the least of things to worry about.

Talk to any face to face financial advisor and they will tell you to buy bonds not bond funds. (You never hear this in the financial press, funny...). The issue is that bond funds don't behave much at all like bonds do because they are always trading to keep the maturity distribution constant. This in turn throws off the logic behind the idea that at age X you should have Y percent of bonds and Z percent of stocks.

If you are doing the "put $50 a week in your IRA" thing, you can't even buy bonds because the denominations are way too large period, but it is even worse if you want diversity.

I'd love to see some kind of ETF with an expiration date that would behave like a bond, give diversity against default risk and be denominated to be a tool for the ordinary investor.

Trouble is it is hard to get anybody excited about bonds today and if interest rates ever go up, bond funds will be a bloodbath -- PIMCO will lose more money for investors than anyone in history, not because they did anything wrong but just because that is how the cookie crumbles.

With that backdrop it might be 25 years before people will buy a new debt product.
> Do you just create a separate account on the Mac?

Yes. It's the easiest option and you can always remove the personal account if work doesn't allow it.
Gawker Writes Vote to Unionize
It doesn't make sense mathematically because it isn't a mathematical notation, it's linguistic in nature.

In Europe, '4th May' is shortened to 4/5.

In the US, 'May 4th' is shortened to 5/4.

Neither is right, wrong or illogical.

I'm from the UK, but have spent a lot of time working with US based clients/colleagues. They only way I've found to avoid confusion and ambiguity is to use YYYY/MM/DD.
I heard someone saying he'd use a version of Netscape so old nobody will exploit bugs in it. Security by genealogy.
PC Hidden in a Plug
Startup RANK = boring. Startup PRANK = fun. Needless to say I was disappointed.
Same thing here, "Oh man, I can't wait to send them a million new fake visitors!"

-Fake techcruch article generator

-Automated fake VC calls
> Satisfaction from seeing "fruits of your labor" improve the condition of everyone is also a source of happiness. I don't think it's worse than happiness from having a good family life.

Yet you seemed to want to draw a distinction between happiness and a lasting impact. Though the distinction was perhaps just with the family/local impact.

> I also don't think there's some kind of "altruism" that isn't ultimately just another way of getting happiness - maybe a more intellectual one, out of the feeling of doing something one considers morally good.

Right, but a family-related happiness is less because it's just a result of chemicals (oxycotine?) that are related to survival, a sort of failure mode? You said yourself that it is less fundamental. What is fundamental? And why is your derivation of happiness higher than those who go by the supposed more base instincts of focusing on their family? Because the hormonal causes are harder to pin down and analyse? So what? Something more complex and harder to describe is better?

If you feel happy, I think the distinction of why is unimportant.
I'll blame rounding. :)

It's not easy, but it's doable.

There are other ways to reach a million in 8 years, but this is a pretty sure-fire one.
Are Emoji ruining the English language?
Awesome. My sites will be all fire from now on.
"When making headers or display texts on your website, you'll often want to stylize your text in a decorative way."

Oh dear.

"..with minimal effort to produce beautiful display text"

The original fonts are tweaked painstakingly by a designer. The "effects" are like putting lipstick on Mona Lisa.

Web site design is now a branch of publishing and design and Google is one of the larger corps operating in the area. This is like... I don't know, offering a high end DSLR with a physical button to add instagram filters and lens flare to the original image. Well, for free, but the decision process to add these features gives the appearance of amateurism and lack of respect for good design.

Schoolkids will love these exciting tweaks, no doubt.
I would be more worried about them overdoing it and flipping the bus over...
Ask HN: Where can I hire workstation for 3D rendering?
Hi, guys

is there some service you recommend where I can hire high performance workstation for 3D rendering in 3D Max?

Thanks.
Yeah, I can say the same about Lojban community. Most Lojbanists study and use Lojban to better know how we think, how can knowledge be better represented. As for other languages a lot of Lojbanists speak several major languages each so this means that Lojban can't be replaced by another major language.
Set up and configure OpenVPN on your own CentOS 7 server
> The market, on average, doesn't just want profits from a tech company, it wants significant short-term growth in either revenues or userbase, and if the latter reaches saturation the former will occur.

Small correction: it's not the "The market" that wants that, its the owner/investors/stock holders that want it.

Which is why I have an easier time trusting a small company owned by its founders, than a big, publicly traded company.

(Iirc github is still privately owned, but they have taken significant investments, so it's somewhere in between).
I taught myself coding HTML by hand using Hippie. I regressed and switched to Frontpage because it was so "easy". I then went over to the Dreamweaver and stayed there until I learned server-side programming, which put me back in the text editor, where I've happily been since.

Even with my stupid page of links nobody other than me cared about, it was still exciting learning HTML and being able to publish whatever dumb things I came up with online on Geocities.

Image counters, web rings, and that analytics company that gave you free analytics but you had to put there little square logo on the bottom of the page and anybody could click on it to see your stats. Those are some fun memories of my fledgling web years, circa the mid-90's.
Astir (αστήρ) means "star" in greek. I imagine that's where the G102 got its name from!
Most vocal chats in Lojban happen through the internet.
Seeing these comments I think website address does matter in some cases.
The whole article tried to elaborate on the problem of crowds, did you read it thoroughly enough?
nostalgia ...
It amazes me to think that back then how we all collectively agreed that those spinning, scrolling, blinking geocities type designs were cool - and tried to imitate them. Now a decade later, collectively laugh at them. This seems common in fashion - but is it true for other art forms as well? How then some art survive the through time and are viewed as beautiful by number of generations that follow? I mean, could we point to some web designs done years back that would still appear tasteful and clever today?
I would not get in a moral panic about Emoji ruining English. After all: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fred/emoji-dick

Emoji is a bit of fun, and the argument that it has poisoned young people's ability to learn true English is weak, because English is not going away any time soon.
Designers Who Want to Earn More Money
This fails if "in Chicago and London"
Also impressively in 2008 they were serving '30+ million hits per day, 500-600 per second' on 5 machines with one engineer. They were the '#13 website in the United States' for hits at the time. I think their machine / engineer situation has expanded substantially since - fancier matching algorithms and instant messaging complicated things.

http://blog.codinghorror.com/my-scaling-hero/
http://listverse.com/2007/08/01/top-10-silly-website-names/
> Why is the competition designed in such a way that it is an advantage

See my comment & links at the bottom of this page. For some reason HN always puts my comments near the bottom, even when they're getting many upvotes. (I'm guessing that HN has a comment-editing penalty from editing my comments too many times, but I'm not sure, or maybe it's from times I must have insulted the mods here.)

Edit:

I constantly get "submitting too fast", so I'll reply here.

Thanks for the info kefka. Yeah, I'll happily agree with that linked comment, that the childish crude moderation techniques used here have been hurting a once great community. It was the exact same scenario for me as for that guy. Seems I got rank-banned immediately after confronting dang about the trends of excessive downvoting and increasing side-project criticizing on HN.
My thought is that the "a-" prefix in this sense probably comes from the Germanic use "to show a state, condition, or manner"; http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/a-#Etymology_2 . It's no longer used to make new words, but the "a-" form remains in many words, including abloom, aflame, and abuzz.

The first known use of the word "astir" is from 1765, says Merriam-Webster at http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/astir . This is what I would expect if "stir" was a word, "a-" was a possible mechanism to create new words, and eventually people started to use "astir.

Etymonline gives a first known use as 1823: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&searc... :

> "up and about," 1823, from phrase on the stir, or from Scottish asteer; from stir. Old English had astyrian, which yielded Middle English ben astired "be stirred up, excited, aroused."

The root "stir" has a longer heritage. Etymonline at http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=stir&allowed_in_fra... says:

> Old English styrian "to stir, move; rouse, agitate, incite, urge" (transitive and intransitive), from Proto-Germanic * sturjan (cognates: Middle Dutch stoeren, Dutch storen "to disturb," Old High German storan "to scatter, destroy," German stören "to disturb"), from PIE * (s)twer- (1) "to turn, whirl" (see storm (n.)).

Hindi is another descendant of Proto Indo-European, so that may be where there's a connection to "asthir". However, do bear in mind that the surface similarity is false - astyrian would be linguistically closer to the Hindi than astir.
That's exactly how I interpreted the 'insulting' comment. We tend to compatimentalize ourselves at a rational level, but sometimes fail to see the 'bigger picture' of our mental patterns and the impact they have.
How the Cash Flows in Spotify Streams
So it's not only $500, but $500 + John's salary which I think is far higher than this.
This is not an idea, it's an implementation.
Ah, really? If you don't mind, what degree to you have and what's the 'specialty occupation'?
(For some reason HN always puts my comments near the bottom, even when they're getting many upvotes

I think it's because you don't have many upvoted comments in total (maybe?). I upvoted you here, though.)
I think that's a ridiculous simplification.
Evidence for what? Sounds like a good thing that they used the same API as Google for their maps to me. Like how Google used Sun's API for Java.
The vendors are always very mindful of every cent they put in extra in the product that doesn't give a meaningful effect on the bottom line (i.e. increase sales or prevents sales from falling off).

As long as customers are buying the product and not requiring this feature it will not be made available as it will require using a 16MB EEPROM instead of the 8MB one.
I have no qualms with the address, it says exactly what the site does. Perhaps people should read thoroughly.

What I have qualms with though, is that you got my country flag wrong. You put a Zambian flag on Zimbabwe.
Cool story bro, but it give me hives just reading it. "We didn't know anything about physical order fulfilment so we hacked our way into a local optimum, rather than asking anyone who knew".

Or, as we say hereabouts, a month in the lab solves a day in the library.

But it only cost $500! Well, I'm sure that'll come as a lovely surprise come payday when John discovers he's working pro bono.

Also, that product looks disgusting.