skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm just going to take a guess, but i'd be willing to best people sitting down and coding are not the greatest source of customers.

I take the train to work in Boston. On my way from the station to my office I pass 5 starbucks. Everyone has a line out the door. Those customers that come in once (or more) a day, grab a coffee, and then go are the key to their success.
Oh, thanks, just noticed the little thing in the bottom! :) It's time for another cup of coffee, it would appear.
The sun, albeit indirectly.
I lived in Cambodia for 2 years and am now living in southern Taiwan. I loved Cambodia and also love Taiwan. There is too much to write about. In short, for a first timer to the region, I'd say go to SE Asia. English is better in those countries than China/Japan/Taiwan. I have not visited South Korea. The thing about SE Asia as opposed to eastern europe is... It is cheap and warm all year

If you have some connection to east Asia, maybe you would prefer there, but for a bare bones bootstrap, SE Asia is great
Like data engineering? Stealth-mode big data startup is hiring founding engineer
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You will:

- Be a founding member of the team that builds the next generation of ETL software.

- Come up with novel ideas on how to make complex technology user-friendly, and then turn those ideas into robust software.

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- You love data engineering.

- You build robust and scalable data systems three times as fast as other developers.

- The JVM is your friend.

- You like to work independently and drive the direction of a technology stack.

- You’re living in or willing to move to San Francisco.

Even better if you also:

- Have experience with Scala, Cascading, and Docker.

- Know the ins and outs of current big data frameworks like Hadoop, Spark, or Tez, but this is not an absolute requirement - you're a quick learner!

- Have startup experience.

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Off topic: it's really strange to arrive a page only containing "content" and no ads, navigation etc. this is no normal anymore :(
Dogs can catch balls that fly along parabolic paths. I wouldn't go looking for conical structures in the dog's brain to explain how come they have such astonishing mastery of conic section geometry.
This design is definitely more pleasing to the eye, but I think I'd rather have less whitespace and more content on the screen at once.

I feel like I'm in the minority on this, but reddit's design is one of my favorites. It's information dense, but still functional.

From TFA:

and loading posts in an <iframe> gives the opportunity to
display content while the user waits. A preview of one of
the trending posts from the sidebar? You bet. Ads while the
next link loads? Sure thing.

Please, God, no. This would kill reddit for me faster than anything.

EDIT: I just noticed that the thumbnails for articles had a read time estimates. That's a really good idea.
While it is sexy to brand this (especially for media) as a 'threat' or 'will take on' Starbucks, that should not be the focus and it should instead be about delivering maximum value to its customers, which are likely going to be different customers than Starbucks customers. Starbucks customers go there for the customer experience, not for the coffee - there is better and cheaper coffee elsewhere, even McDonalds (literally).

I hope they are laser focused on their demographic and who their customer is rather than try to be the universal solution to coffee. A challenge will be how do you deliver the same exciting experience on a coffee stand without having the focus becoming operations and churning out coffee as quickly as possible. Most people can probably grab coffee at work for free if they wanted to but they choose to go to coffee shops for the "cool factor", and to feel like they are taking a break from their normal routine. If the person(s) running the stand need to be super friendly, engaging, fun, etc. if this is going to really take off, and experience shows us that is no leap of faith as you operationalize and expand locations so quickly.
Mushroom Networks' Streamer gets role in NASA's LDSD test launch
Just so you know, AWS RDS has Postgres instances starting at $13/mo hourly, or as low as $9.25/mo if you pay up front for a 1 year reservation.
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." The Little Prince.

All woo-woo aside, ooshy gooshy feelings won't get us to the moon, cure cancer, decrease childhood diseases, or feed a billion people with the land usually used to only feed 10,000.
jot should be jottt.

Keep up the good work!
now thats some nice growth!
There's a lot of value and comfort that people get from the kind of spontaneity involved in face-to-face communication. If you have to plan a virtual meeting, you loose that. As well as the benefits of walking around to meet with people.
But these are not actual lifetimes. You can't kill people by updating a billion computers for the same reason you can't have a baby in one month with 9 women.
Why wouldn't those apply anyway? Anyone can rent out a room, condo, or a house, just by posting a classified ad, and landlord-tenant law applies. Nobody has to share information with the state under normal circumstances, but if there's a dispute, the courts apply the appropriate law. The same sort of framework could apply to Airbnb rentals.
It's really going quite swimmingly! Thanks for asking.
> gold prices as an alternative way to compensate for inflation

The price of gold is in no way an alternative to compensate for inflation. I mean, at least for those countries where consumers don't use most of their money to buy gold.
From a paper on the Kepler project[1]:

"Kepler has observed over 156,000 stars simultaneously and near continuously to search for planets that periodically pass in front of their host star (transit)"

From the article:

"The confirmation of Kepler-452b brings the total number of confirmed planets to 1,030." — and I have verified that this refers specifically to planets confirmed by Kepler, not just planets in total.

From Wikipedia[2]:

"four, including Kepler-296f, were less than 2 1/2 the size of Earth and were in habitable zones where surface temperatures are suitable for liquid water."

These figures give us an approximate sense of the number of planets that occult their host star, as a proportion of the number of stars surveyed.

TRIGGER WARNING: SKETCHY BACK-OF-THE-ENVELOPE MATH

259 stars within 30 light years

1030 / 156000 = 0.00660256410256 (fraction of Kepler-surveyed stars possessing Kepler-confirmed planets that transit)

4 / 1030 = 0.00388349514563 (fraction of significantly Earth-like Kepler-surveyed planets)

259 * 0.00660256410256 * 0.00388349514563 = 0.00664102564102 or 0.66% (chance of a transiting Earth-like within 30 light years)

And that's not even factoring in planets that do not transit their host star.

[1] http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20100030619
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_exoplanets_discovered_...
I disagree. A long term plan can be extracted from data, the physical constraints of the world, and knowledge of the human condition. The hype of a great leader, messiah, or single white man at a podium, is totally overrated. If it weren't we would have already run into one that cured all our ills.
Hi Matt. My co-founder and I are trying to figure out how much time we would have to make a transition to full time. If you could give us any more dates like this, that would be very helpful. For example, over what time period will interviews take place? When would we be notified of our acceptance or rejection? Thank you!
Solubility of ionic compounds is a function of pH in every case I'm aware of. Care to keep trying?
The campaign page is full of typos. Just read it in an ambiguous European accent and it will all make sense.
One privacy issue I'm seeing is that it seems like the users device still needs to make a request to get the metadata? So the retailer could use fingerprinting of requests to track people around. I wasn't entirely clear on where the metadata comes from so I could have this wrong.
Because the Bluetooth text spam and Bluetooth image spam was such a raging success!
Huh. It seems I'm the only one here who finds value in LinkedIn.

Yes, it has led to actual, paying jobs. It takes some management on my part, but it's a lot easier than hunting around from site to site, or going to meetups, or any of that other stuff.

Do I get spammed? Sure. That's why I have a specific email account for them. Some of the spam is quite informative. I learn about openings early on, and can often find the hiring company by taking the text of the spam and searching the various job boards.

I get genuine requests, too. I take the time to respond to those just as genuinely.

For all the talk of the importance of networking around here, I'm kind of surprised at the antipathy. It's very low effort, just a few minutes a week.

I regard a lot of the complaints as symptomatic of the overall industry. I finally started going to meetups, and the signal-to-noise is just as bad, if not worse.
I fully agree that there is a tendency to oversimplify the way online discussions are sorted. This often leads to a system where the rich get richer and it is difficult for new comments to get their audience; is it even obvious what an up or down vote means? I am not sure, but it might help to have a multi-dimensional voting system so there is a possibility to agree/disagree with a comment without signaling bad quality.

For the second part, I think that in such a case it should be possible to connect the question ("what do you think about docker?") to the overall topic even after it was created. The structure should be flexible in a sense that a topic can grow in all directions and can be referenced in multiple discussions.
If you do it right, the users will perceive it as free upgrades.
> Twitter, people will become tired of making excuses for their huge P/E ratio and move their money to somewhere else that will actually make them a return, celebrities will become fickle and move onto the next big communication network.

Twitter wont die, it will get bought by someone (probably Google). Twitter is perfect for celebrities, they don't need another network. It's the common person that doesn't have much use for it.
You're probably right, but we do buy coffee, snacks and even food (salads or sandwiches) since we're there for hours.

But yeah, you're absolutely right, might not be the main source of customers as more leave than stay with their coffee :)
I really like this and I'm interested in buying one and having someone run it here in my area.

What I'm not clear on are the coffee/food costs and margins. The FAQ says you can make $250-600/day. I assume that's gross. It doesn't say what it costs to order the beans, etc. Hopefully the costs are exploitative.

Does anyone know what standard margins for coffee/casual food is?
Surprisingly, Voat (Reddit Alternative) Runs on IIS (ASP.NET)
By that logic a Hummer is carbon neutral.
Definitely not a source of beans!

Here's what happened when Tom grew his own and had a celebrity cupper and Sweet Maria herself try it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kvpwYw6u0U&t=4m47s
Interesting that it rose about the same amount as Microsoft's cloud revenue which was around 90%.

Anyone has numbers for Google?
36% of Amazon's operating profit is now from AWS. That's crazy!
Hi, my name is Tomas Mazetti. I'm one of the founders of Wheelys. I also like the outdoors, though not unreasonable so. I am from Sweden, home of the swedes.
Plus, the franchisor can penalize the franchisee, or revoke the franchise outright. Years ago, I overheard a conversation in a Baskin Robbins in which the owner complained about getting dinged for using his own chopped walnuts.
As a user of Chrome on iOS, I absolutely do not want this. Is there a way to turn this "feature" totally off? I've been looking through the links and didn't see a mention of it.
Please take a look here before making fast judgment. This was done by Ronald Kuhn with our collaboration:

https://github.com/akka/akka-meta/blob/master/ComparisonWith...
> Since when can memory leaks only be observed from within
> the language itself?

The issue you linked has to do with leaking local variables during a panic, and if uncaught a panic will bring down the entire process. I don't see how you could observe such a leak.

> Additionally, the entire issue brought up in the
> deleted comment was in relation to threads, an argument
> of a lack of user-defined destructors wasn't brought
> into question at all.

As party to the original comment, it didn't bring up threads at all. Nor does the issue you linked above, #14875, relate to threads at all. To paraphrase what I remember of the original comment, it was "I stopped using Rust when I got to the Dining Philosophers chapter of the book and found that it taught newcomers to leak memory like crazy, via a bug that has gone unfixed since 2014." It contained no mention of which bug that was nor where the leaks were, hence the numerous follow-up comments asking for clarification.

> The original comment mentioning this issue was lacking
> so in confrontational qualities that the responses he
> or she received here and on twitter (how I myself
> arrived here) were entirely unwarranted.

I can only guess that the original poster edited their comment between the time that you and I read the post, because the original version was quite confrontational. What responses do you believe are unwarranted? All the ones here seem courteous, and I haven't seen any on Twitter (I would appreciate it if you could link me to these).
I think you might be using flash to play the videos. I've used the site on a 5yr old macbook with Chrome and haven't noticed issues.
The entire cloud is growing at a similar rate. Comparing market shares seems more reasonable at this point:

https://www.srgresearch.com/articles/aws-market-share-reache...
NGINX is pronounced “engine x”
And my name is Maria De La Croix, the other founder of Wheelys. As seen in the video..
> There are some API standards for background checks between businesses and agencies

Can you list some or are you referring to LinkedIn?
I wouldn't be surprised if there are dwarf species that aren't used commercially. Or they could just use young plants and toss them out when they get too big or sickly.
So... it's a coffee cart? Everything old is new again. edit: bonus video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c59xce_nW5w
"Most cities in the world allow for non-stationary selling. That means as long as you keep moving you won't be needing a permit."

Hardly. Many cities (essentially every city in the Bay Area, for example) either outright ban peddling on public property or thoroughfares or requires a license for it.
> information about users won’t be saved until they click a link, so the beacon owner will not know anyone was nearby until they visit the website

It sounds like the metadata is sourced from the bluetooth-broadcast, not via a separate request.

However, the specification itself[0] only has room for the URL and the telemetry data, so how they achieve this in practice is questionable.

[0] https://github.com/google/eddystone/blob/master/protocol-spe...
Rent and costs has spiralled in the big cities, meaning that a customer that sits half a day with a laptop costs Starbucks money. Starbucks profit is in Take Away.
Every customer at Wheelys is a take away customer.
I think the key point here is raidz3 -- exactly why I've been running a FreeNAS server for the past 4 years. That and backing it up to Crashplan in case of a multi-drive failure.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/03/technology/innovationnation/...
That is crazy. AWS revenue is nothing compared to their total revenue, right?
profit is the key word: Amazon has historically operated w/ a profit of slim to none.

http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2014/9/4/why-amazon-has-n...
Honestly, it's the growing realization that despite all of my efforts, I haven't done anything worth feeling proud of. To me that feels like I've lived a waste of a life.

As you can tell, this is an ineffective strategy for motivation.
Oh, was that you? I thought it was some hired hipster!
> I learn about openings early on, and can often find the hiring company by taking the text of the spam and searching the various job boards.

This would be great if it could be automated somehow: paste email to a macro job board and get links to matching posts.
Most vs. many. You can't say "many cities I'm familiar with have policy X therefore most cities everywhere have policy X".
I wonder how much of that is people forgetting to shut down unused EC2 instances
you have to go to Connections and search a 1st connection name before seeing his/her email and contacts. You won't see that if u go straight to the person profile. What was previously a 1-click process is now more like a 3-click process. A resultant of Linkedin seeming to be incredibly agressive on monetizing?
Coffee margins for cafe's are about 20-25x, keep in mind without daily grinding you'll be losing most of your pre-ground product within a 48 hours of unsealing.

Casual food is usually marked up at 4-5x.

(Managed supply/sourcing/pricing for a chain)
The FCC ruling to make the internet a utility has arrived. The feds can do whatever they like whenever they like and you must like it.
On Android it does, and assuming that it uses the Push Notification API via WebServiceWorker, the user should be able to globally turn the notifications off (as they wouldn't be device-specific).
There are same crazy nerd which enjoy themself (I don't know why) to decrypt credit card data coming off of a magnetic stripe scanner: https://www.parthenonsoftware.com/blog/how-to-decrypt-magnet...

But I agree with you, an un-encrypted reader of magnetic stripe is very easy to find or build. The security is like a door in the desert.
Indeed. And it's very possible that the .NET OSS ecosystem will grow dramatically soon, once its core components, compilers, and build tools finish being open sourced and become stable on non-Windows platforms.

The article accused people using .NET of not choosing to work on hard problems. I suspect that's it's the other way around. People working on hard problems have chosen other tools that they felt were more appropriate or effective at the time.

For example, if people doing hard things felt that a Linux hosting environment was most suitable for their solving hard problem, that basically ruled out .NET. Once .NET applications can be safely, reliably run on Linux, the case for using .NET becomes much stronger.
From the article: "Mazetti estimates that in a decently trafficked location in a dense city, a Wheelys coffee shop might do $400 in revenue per day and keep about $200 after the cost of goods."
I think people tend to care about these things when one nation is subjugated by another, more powerful one, which tends to exert its dominance.

Hence the 'weaker' nation feels deprived of its history when its proudest moments are appropriated away.
"Most cities in the world" and "every city in the Bay Area" are two total different things.

It baffles me sometimes that to many readers of Hacker News are so US centric.
AWS contributed $1.82B of the $23.18B in total revenue for the quarter.
kevin, as YC design guru, do you think a large sign on the top would be wise?

I was thinking of something like a two sided /\ sign on top would increase the amount of signage, and increase the height of the signage. A large sign on top that reads "COFFEE" or similar and can be read from a block away might be advantageous. And if need be, it could fold __ flat when not in use (or when local signage laws prohibit it).
The only reason I ever set foot in Starbucks is for wifi and a seat to work from.
How Big Data Can Save Us from Our Next Water Shortage
> It's the common person that doesn't have much use for it.

As a common person myself, I disagree. I've used Twitter twice to complain at companies who were ignoring me through their normal support channels. /s

In all seriousness, that's what I find Twitter good for. No way in hell can TWTR make money of my pattern of use, though.
I don't think you can solve that 100% with current mobile VR headsets, and any game that separates your in-game movement from your actual physical movement will cause some people to feel sick.

I think developers are learning how to work with the hardware though, and things are getting much better. Plus the hardware itself is improving on that front too, for ex:

http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/5/8153101/valve-boss-gabe-new...

The Vive is quite a step up from the Oculus Rift DK2, and having played with it myself, that claim actually holds up pretty well.
Awesome! After reading this story years ago in college I coded something up in php to make a universal image generator as well. I love Borges literature; I really recommend it for anyone who loves math and short stories. Some of his other greats are "Funes, the Memorious" (about a boy with a perfect memory that drives him insane) and "The Lottery of Babylon" (about a town that uses a lottery to coordinate all activities).

You can read all of Borges' short stories in English in one volume:
http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Fictions-Jorge-Luis-Borges/d...

I really recommend it.
Making an Evernote note is great with do. I don't have to launch the app and risk switching context. Same with Todoist, Salesforce chatter, and more. The idea of one way UX (not just react-style unidirectional dataflow) where the user has a view for just data entry or retrieval is a powerful one.
Even if you serve the most fair trade ultra organic coffee there is, it doesn't cost you more than 30 cent per cup (Most cafés spend 10 cents. You sell that cup for $ 2, or more, since this is 2015 in San Francisco, and the world is mad.
Seems like Google does not like to share details on a regular basis:
http://fortune.com/2015/04/24/google-cloud-numbers/

Side note: numbers between Microsoft and Amazon are not directly comparable because Microsoft includes SaaS solutions such as Office 365 in their cloud revenue. So it is not Azure versus AWS.
It must be why it keeps crashing.
What emacs mode is that in the screenshot?
I bought and paid for something called an "Ad-Free Account".

It doesn't make "perfect sense" to me that an "Ad-Free Account" would deliver ads to anyone. The name strongly suggested that the visitors to my gallery would be free from ads. That's exactly what I wanted and what I was happy to pay good money for.

Sure, you could say it's my fault for not reading the fine print. But you have to admit that the very name of the account was highly misleading.

I'm glad they changed it so now my visitors are free from ads as the original account name led me to believe. Still, it sucks that they used such a misleading name in the first place.
Happy to provide some quick feedback on your coding style:

Please don't use initial blocks to initialize values, use an always block with reset. That will also solve the issue of having multiple drivers per signal (bad). Also, don't load memories from the RTL, do that from the test bench (using hierarchical references).

initial begin
$readmemh({`OLDLAND_ROM_PATH, "decode.hex"}, microcode, 0, 127);
rd_sel = 4'b0;
update_rd = 1'b0;
alu_opc = 5'b0;
branch_condition = 4'b0;
alu_op1_ra = 1'b0;
alu_op1_rb = 1'b0;
alu_op2_rb = 1'b0;
mem_load = 1'b0;
mem_store = 1'b0;
mem_width = 2'b0;
pc_plus_4_out = 32'b0;
instr_class = 2'b0;
is_call = 1'b0;
update_flags = 1'b0;
update_carry = 1'b0;
cr_sel = 3'b0;
write_cr = 1'b0;
spsr = 1'b0;
is_swi = 1'b0;
is_rfe = 1'b0;
i_valid = 1'b0;
cache_instr = 1'b0;
exception_start_out = 1'b0;

end

If someone knows of a community like HN that can write great Verilog, let me know.