skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like some algorithm messed up. It happens. Nobody and nothing is perfect. I imagine you generally appreciate the results of that very same algorithm (a spam filtered experience) as you search the web.

File the reconsideration request. If that doesn't work, THEN you've got something to complain about.
In my experience $7 CPM is a vast over-estimate for ads on YouTube.
Oh dear god, I remember that. I wonder how that conversation went internally after that....
Monstrous Vampires: Cameron and Friends About to Bleed the NHS Dry
Must everything be an "app"? Whatever happened to programs or god forbid unabbreviated applications
Your race has nothing to do with whether or not it's a good place to work as far as happiness goes. I am about as anti-PC as it gets. I can see you are a jaded individual but that's no excuse to post garbage that has no credible evidence backing it.
Google has their own page on employee diversity:

http://www.google.com/diversity/index.html#chart

If you click the "Tech" tab, they self-report as 59% White, 35% Asian, 2% Hispanic, 1% Black. Note that the ethnicity data is US-only (the gender data is global).
There are vacuum-rated expansion joints.[1][2] They have metal rings integrated into the flexible component to prevent inward collapse.

Interior tube smoothness remains a problem. The Hyperloop air bearings float at only 1mm ± 0.5mm. Even fixed joints with that tight a tolerance are difficult. Anything other than plain tube (access hatches, etc.) will have to present a totally smooth inside. Not impossible, but runs up the costs.

[1] http://www.ethylene.com/flexijoint.php
[2] http://www.garlock.com/en/products/style-204-evs
US data hack is an excuse for new regulations on internet: Analyst
"top-tier rich white men" this is not funny, this is stupid. I stopped reading after that.
Polls show Greeks will vote YES
> The relocation and hiring bonus’ stated values were pre-tax! That was a huge unexpected blow to the pocketbook.

(Perhaps off-topic) Isn't that the default? Doesn't every company do that -- pay you the bonus and then Uncle Sam (and friends) take a cut depending on the tax situation?
Because it is safer, faster, cheaper, greener?

But mostly: http://smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2088#comic
It's probably different in different fields. In CS it's common for the dissertation to be a compilation of several published papers
can you drop me an email? martin@getcodified.com
I'll toss another idea out there - a 20 piece is a LOT for one person but could be an option for 2 adults or even a single parent and two kids.

And if you can reel in 2 - 3 people for a "healthy" chicken entree you sure bet can sell some insanely high margin soda and fries x2 or x3 which I'll bet pushes total avg ticket margin higher than the 10pc.
When the road is home
Right. The one thing I never forget about McD's is that drinks are pure profit for them. The drinks are less than 10 cents a gallon for them
I believe memcached uses a similar algorithm for storing objects in its heap space. It's a nice way to strike a balance between waste and speed.
Your Facial Bone Structure Has a Big Influence on How People See You
That a lot of white and Asian people work there isn't evidence that it is only a good place for white and Asian people to work there, however.
> Your race has nothing to do with whether or not it's a good place to work as far as happiness goes.

agreed. and I never said it did. Point to where I said that and I will send you 5 trillion US dollars. You can't, therefore I never will.
What Happened After the North Dakota Oil Boom Went Bust
I really did not understand much from the article. What do they exactly want? ELI5 anyone?
Lol, reminds me of my last start up job...

Good thing I quit.
Yeah but that doesn't explain the identical pricing.

If you charged even $7.00 for the 20pc, it'd be close enough still.
On Journeys
You'd think but such a big jump in height cannot be explained just because of better diet, according to some people. Some think it is because of additive given to cows etc.
Show HN:platform(like gumroad) that payout through bank account(idea)
Covers global

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9786010
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I thought this would be an article about the state of hiring in silicon valley or the tech industry. Is this supposed to be sarcasm? It's actually hard to tell and makes the author look bad.
Indeed, you'd need to ask non-white, non-Asian employees about their experiences there.

Here's a post from November 2014 about a black woman's experience at Google: https://medium.com/thelist/the-other-side-of-diversity-1bb3d...

It's a very interesting read, I recommend it.
This is exactly what McDonalds stores in the Seattle market do. The 10 piece version is $4.59 ("regular price") while the 20 piece is $5. They even package the 20 piece as two boxes of 10 pieces each.

I commented on it to a store manager--he and I chat a lot, I eat at McDonalds far, far more than I should--and he said that franchisees do it because corporate rebates them a ton of money for the promo price, company-owned stores do it because that's what corporate tells them to do, and corporate does it for a reason that is unknown to anybody outside of Oak Brook, IL.
Here in San Diego, when I try to buy an sausage & egg mcMuffin, they always try to sell me two, because it is the same price as one. The only logical explanation I've come up with is that when I gift the excess sandwich to someone, it anchors the brand in that person's mind. Viral marketing of sorts. Or maybe they want to fatten me up, so I return in the future to order more food. It could also be that there is no rationale other than that they've found it to increase sales. Maybe they can't explain why it increases sales, but they do it because it does. Sort of like A/B testing in web.

They also employ other gray marketing tactics, for example on the combo menu they'll put the price for the "small", however if you neglect to specify a size when ordering you receive the "medium" by default, which results in your total being more expensive than you thought it would be. I guess because of their disclaimers, its not legally false advertising.
Oh, don't get my wrong. I think the project is interesting, and it's obvious open hw is the way to go - especially if the design can be kept both simple and useful.

I don't really see anything wrong with having the cable be shorter (ie: an open platform smart card).

Lets just say that from a practical standpoint, I'd be much more interested in getting "most" people to use s/mime and/or gpg with keys and encryption on a dedicated device -- no matter if that device is a re-purposed Android without a baseband chip, running some open Linux based OS (full distro or something like Replicant) -- or it is a smart card, or some kind of dedicated open hardware.

The cascading idea is interesting, but probably more useful in a more adversarial scenario than most people need. Good for running drugs, or a revolution (or insurgency) though ;-)

On a serious note, I do see some real overlap between this military grade approach and "normal" use-cases. Especially for people that find them selves at odds with their government. Be that FBI targeting #occupy in Zuccotti Park, the German intelligence services/NSA spying on elected officials in Germany -- or people opposed to current policies in China, or advocating gay rights in Russia.

We live in a time where there's enough oppression to go around :-(
Why+There+Are+So+Many+Types+of+Typing+Tutors
That doesn't seem to be the case, at least for UTC. (Do scientists use a special calendar that reflects Leap Seconds more quickly?)

http://datacenter.iers.org/eop/-/somos/5Rgv/getTX/16/bulleti...

"Leap seconds can be introduced in UTC at the end of the months of December or June, depending on the evolution of UT1-TAI. Bulletin C is mailed every six months, either to announce a time step in UTC or to confirm that there will be no time step at the next possible date."

(That said, saving them up until the next Leap Year would mean a maximum discovery-to-implementation interval of 8 years, rather than the current 1 year max.)
There are lots of services for that.[1][2] They usually start out free, then gradually crank up the price. What's new here?

[1] https://www.siteuptime.com/
[2] https://www.pingdom.com/
Hyperinflation sequence for banknotes:

http://oeis.org/A051109
I wonder whether McDonalds optimize their prices. Probably? Seems like an easy win.

If so, the answer might be that McDonalds price the items this way because empirically this is what yields optimum profit — and nobody knows a deeper answer.

In fact even if the pricing model was suggested by someone based on a psychological theory, if the empirical finding was that it was worse, the change would be reverted. So, even if a human suggested the change, they could be only accidentally right --- and again, nobody would be able to tell you the truth of this.
It could also be that they priced the 20 piece at a reasonably high margin and the 10 pc was half of that to begin with. Then they experimented and realize that demand is inelastic to price.

From there they just kept stepping the price up and discovering it was the same as the 20 pc and that's the equilibrium we are in today.
> If you're asking whether they "learnt" their lesson ...

I don't think that is the question. I believe the point being made was that the free market punishes this sort of behavior. You don't rely on the company's officers learning their lesson, or following the spirit of some law - you rely on market forces killing the company that passes over superior candidates.
I just want to point out that while the decoy item directs people to the less expensive choice (20pc) it's also the more profitable choice. Two 20pc orders of McNuggets cost more than one 40pc order.
I have to admit, for a brief moment when clicking the link, I did expect that.
in my area Burger King sells 3pc French Toast Sticks for $.99 and 5pc for $1.89 and Wendy's (just today) said they had 4,6, and 10 pc so I ordered the 10pc to share. 4pc is $.99 and 6pc is $1.69... If I had known I would have just ordered two 4pc for $1.98. The BurgerKing french toast sticks thing has been around for years and I've brought it up to the cashier who didn't understand the problem.

If you don't see this at fast food just look around the next time you are at the grocery store. More and more the general shopping public assume buying more equals less cost per piece without checking the math.
I did not. A single persons observations are not indicative of even a general 'reality', nor a convincing data set.
A couple of important thing to note about the Japanese taxation system for stock capital gains: (1) Japan has no concept of short term vs long term capital gains for stocks. The tax rate is a flat 20% no matter how long you have held the security, and (2) from about 2003-2014, said rate was only 10%. These two factors make personal trading in Japan a potentially much more lucrative affair than in the United States [1].

>Another day trader, Takashi Kotegawa, who’s known as BNF, made more than 2 billion yen, according to a Bloomberg News report at the time. Efforts to reach Kotegawa were unsuccessful, and it isn’t clear whether he still trades.

IIRC "BNF" now owns a prominent building in Akihabara (he likely still trades). I forgot the details of the reasoning, but I remember reading something about the purchase about 5 years ago on 2chan.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_gains_tax#Japan
Thanks for the link. I don't however see any evidence to support the initial assumption that it's "perfect" for those races.
Nice design and intuitive interface! Slack integration is top notch :)
I think this is the coolest use of a drone I've yet seen
Really cool read; had me learning a lot about economic theory. That first blurb about The Economist was enlightening!

Not many are buying Chicken McNuggets for their entire family because 68% of sales are for a 10pc meal that feeds at most 2 people. The reality is that people are buying chicken nuggets for themselves and/or another person. Not many can stomach 20 nuggets at once, and certainly no one wants leftover McDonald's.

(According to the author's discretion, I may be taking that sales data too seriously.)

To me, this seems like a symptom of McDonald's collapsing in the States. I wonder if the author's mistake was searching for a lesson from a nationally failing franchise.

Provocative article, nonetheless! Good share.
normal person: I've noticed over the course of 40 years of real life, thousands/millions of direct RL observations (including.. wait for it... wait for it... seeing, hearing, reading, testing, etc.), that on most days when I wake up, in the morning, and I don't have a blindfold on, and the windows don't have drapes closed, etc. then it tends to be bright, and well lit in the room from that Sun thing.

post to HN:

> do you have any data to support that? cite the paper URL k thx plz? you obvious degenerate superstitious uneducated fuck

HN: a certain percentage of you are annoying as hell. grow up. use your fucking brain. go outside sometimes.
I recall going to Burger King recently and they had a small ICEE for $1.00, medium for $1.25, and a large for $1.00. No special going on.

I was surely confused by this pricing, but after reading this article it all makes sense now.

I imagine many people looking at the menu and thinking there is a discrepancy or perhaps an error in the menu, something to surely take advantage of. Most people might not have planned to purchase an ICEE with their meal, but then again who can turn down a "free" large ICEE for a buck? I didn't...
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Well I'll happily turn down a giant cup of sugar any day. You'll have to pay ME to drink an Icee.
"That's why I really think we should start a movement of publishing everything, and trying to deal with simpler models/systems we do understand before going up to models with so many unknowns that the results are basically a dice roll."

I would love to see this implemented, and encouraged in every lab around the world! It's not like we don't have computer programs that could collate all the data?

I don't think I will ever see this happen; because the truth is Not what companies want. They want a drug/theory they can sell. It's a money game to these pharmaceutical companies in the end. Companies, and I believe many researchers want positive results, and will hide, cherry pick the experiments/studies that prove their hypotheses? I know their must be honest, addenda free researchers out there, but I have a feeling they are not working for organizations with the money to fund serious, large scale projects?

Take for instance, Eli Lilly--whom has a history of keeping tight control over their researchers. The history of Prozac is a good example of just how money produces positive results;

"Eli Lilly, the company behind Prozac, originally saw an entirely different future for its new drug. It was first tested as a treatment for high blood pressure, which worked in some animals but not in humans. Plan B was as an anti-obesity agent, but this didn't hold up either. When tested on psychotic patients and those hospitalised with depression, LY110141 - by now named Fluoxetine - had no obvious benefit, with a number of patients getting worse. Finally, Eli Lilly tested it on mild depressives. Five recruits tried it; all five cheered up. By 1999, it was providing Eli Lilly with more than 25 per cent of its $10bn revenue."

(1) I love how Prozac was tested on mild depressives. Don't current prescribing guidelines only recommend the administration of Prozac for the most seriously ill--the clinically depressed? Actually--no, it's still recommended for for a myriad of disorders? Wasn't Prozac proved to be only slightly better than placebo? If you dig deeper, their are some sources that don't see any benefit over placebo.

(2) Wouldn't patients/society benefit from seeing all of the studies Eli Lilly presented to the FDA? Not just the favorable ones? How many lives would have been saved if this drug was given an honest evaluation--if every study was published, and put through statistical calculations in the 90's? Think about the millions of patients who suffered terrible side effects of this once terrible expensive drug? Think about the birth defects that could have been prevented?

So yes, I would love to see everything published, but I don't think the business cycle/politics will ever allow it? They want results! They want money! They want endowments! It's a sick game, until you are the one needing help. Help that only honest, good science can produce?

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2007/may/13/socialcare.me...
I'd received an email on my corporate email address from some courier service claiming that they weren't able to deliver a package to me. The email also contained a link which upon clicking took me to a page which displayed the message "congratulations! You've fallen prey to a phishing attack".

Later we realized that this was a test conducted by the firm (a large investment bank) that I work for!
I wrote some Perl years back to take the fight to phishers. You would provide my script with the field names and POST URL of the HTML form within the phishing email, along with some generic types for each form field. There were types for firstnames, lastnames, email, addresses, usernames, passwords, social security numbers, and credit card numbers. The script would generate fake but real-looking values for each of these things--the credit card numbers would even pass a checksum test--and then post to the URL. It would do this as fast as the remote end would accept them with the aim of filling out their database (typically a text file on some compromised server) with bullshit data, making it hard to pick out the legit data from victims.

It worked wonderfully. I used it through proxies when I could and watched the phishers try to block me or even attack me back.
I've been told altitude and atmospheric pressure has a measurable effect on recipes.
My brief interactions with that company made it obvious it needs a lot of grown ups.
Sorry, I know this isn't reddit, but speaking of the economics of McNuggets this classic monologue from The Wire is too good not to revisit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvq3Pf3j61c
but battle ships are tug boat problems: http://www.defense.gov/dodcmsshare/newsphoto/2000-12/001207-...
Are you also hooking OS APIs or the machine feels almost completely real? I mean, if the attacker can detect that some APIs are hooked they can infer you are using some kind of honeypot.
In my experience, ordering a 20pc McNuggets will guarantee having to defrost/fry a new batch of nuggets to fulfill the order. Ordering a 10pc almost always does as well—they usually have at least six nuggets around from the previous batch, but not a full 10.

If the primary cost of the nuggets isn't in the material, but in the equipment-time and labor-time, then it would make sense that 6 would cost less (can often be fulfilled from leftovers), 10 and 20 would cost similarly (require cooking one new batch), and 40 would cost more (requires cooking two new batches serially.)
Yes, it is amazing. However, it is quite annoying to have to switch on js just to view the site. ( Actually it would be kind of cool to get it as a deck of punch cards. )
I bet most people don't even look at the price.
> A single persons observations are not indicative of even a general 'reality', nor a convincing data set.

I've noticed that over the course of 40+ years that almost every morning, when I wake up, and the windows aren't closed, not wearing a blindfold, etc. than it tends to be "bright" from "daylight" due to the Sun. And by golly I see lots of portrayals consistent with that, from other people, in all the books I've read, and on TV, in movies, magazines, photos, second-hand statements from others in direct conversations, etc. All consistent with that. With the obvious exceptional cases that every adult, non-retarded person takes for granted. Duh.

> A single persons observations are not indicative of even a general 'reality', nor a convincing data set.

show me your data? cite a paper URL k thx plz!

you are one of the dark patterns of HN. you are the kind of commenter which makes HN a crappy place to interact. shame on you. grow up. or go somewhere else. or just keep your mouth shut.
I used to work as at Google and it was my worst job ever.

It was not for Google directly though, but via a temp agency for a Google project.

Google rented an office building just for the project with temp agency HR on site and a few Googlers that were mostly in management and supervising things.

Contracts were structured in a way to avoid having to pay benefits and to be able to maximize pressure on the the employee with extremely short notice periods.

The turnover was enormous, almost everyone hated working there and 30-40% of the employees were reminded weekly by HR that they're on probation and will get fired if their performance isn't better next week.

Basically a modern day sweatshop.
Yeah I think killing babies is awesome too.
”I guess the real question is, "Are we willing to walk the talk and support the companies that are standing up for users on this issue as well as privacy?"“

An interesting question.

So on one hand we see that we have some kinds of companies that can provide useful global services (facebook, google, wikipedia, sourceforge (before ads), mozilla, github, etc), but it is impractical, unsavory or counter productive to make "users" pay (because we're not only passive "users", but active contributors to the services facilitated by those companies.

The "solution" found by those companies is to extract the needed money from other companies in exchange for advertisement.

On the other hand, we can print money to give to banksters only to satisfies their shareholders, and with no benefit whatsoever to the general population, on the contrary.

What if, instead, we printed money to give to those internet companies and associations providing useful services? They wouldn't then have to use advertisements, and therefore could better protect the privacy of the users/contributors.