skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That customer is likely to purchase coffee or something at Starbucks. Half a day is quite some time to go without having something to drink or having a bite to eat.

Presumably Starbucks has calculated this. There's new one near me on 53 and 3rd that has plenty of sitting space, and the food is arranged differently (more like Pret I guess). And there's a sign posted outside that anyone can come and sit without having to make a purchase.
The coffee shop is, for many people - especially those starting a company or working on their own - their office.
Only news such as this has the potential to unite humankind.
How many Starbucks customers buy just coffee?

This is shown to be a hit in European cities, where just based on a guess espresso and coffee is more popular. The majority of Starbucks customers are probably buying mixed specialty drinks.

Watching a Sbux barista make just a few drink, they probably go through a gallon jug of milk in minutes at peak times. How much fresh chilled milk can this cart hold? Not saying there's no market, but taking on Sbux seems a bit mis-targeted.
DevOps Donald
28 seconds to start a Wheelys? It takes longer than that to make a pour over coffee...
Don't forget that AWS came out of Amazon's need for infrastructure. Amazon is dogfooding with AWS, and that's one of the reasons AWS remains in the lead when it comes to cloud compute platforms. They keep launching new, useful services, that come out of real business use cases.
"This all happened under the impact of a kind of fanatic religious ideology called economics -- and that's not a joke -- based on hypotheses that have no theoretical grounds and no empirical support but are very attractive because you can prove theorems if you adopt them: the efficient market hypothesis, rational expectations hypothesis, and so on. The spread of these ideologies, which is very attractive to concentrated wealth and privilege, hence their success, was epitomized in Alan Greenspan, who at least had the decency to say it was all wrong when it collapsed. I don't think there has ever been a collapse of an intellectual edifice comparable to this, maybe, in history, at least I can't remember one."

This is something we need to talk about. It's true. The german "Ordaliberalism" is at work in the greek debt crisis at this moment. I'm sure there is some superficial mathematics at work to prove the ideology. But where is the criticism?

So Ask HN: Where is the macroeconomics rooted in scientific principles and empiricism? I'm sure it's there but policy makers don't look like they see it. Everyone is talking about big-data... where are the papers that prove or disprove economic theories? We have the data. Let's be scientific and kick out ideology like all did with the "Deutsche Physik[1]" - it's time for it.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Physik
this is totally true. IBM isn't really a technology company anymore. they're in the business of buying and selling smaller services companies.

also expect compose to be totally different after about a year (source: i've worked for a company that was aquired by IBM)
Heard about deep links? what about deep search?
Not all national debt is foreign debt; in the US, a vast majority of the US debt has historically been held by domestic investors.
I agree, it could work. The problem people have is that AirBnB is unregulated. Normally you do have to share rental income. There may also be local regulations prohibiting rental, sublets, short-term rentals, etc.
Except you don't get a bill, you get a receipt that gets buried in tons of junk mail.

And as I reply to this, I decided to check my AWS console, because there is an instance for the life of me I can't terminate.
Given our various economic and political systems, is it just not possible to build something this large and complex, and have it all ready to go on the same day (whether on time or late)?

I wonder if it would be better to build and contract these things in stages, in blocks of usefulness.
Thank you very much! I'll look into that!
Twitter owns Periscope, which has much greater potential IMO. It is amazing to drop down into someone's life from far away and talk in real time.
The test app will print this error: "the bitwise complement operator is ^" Calling having to build/run an app to see that simple and short answer is not "evidence of magnitudes more friendliness than anything that anyone could possibly write in a comment". It's really the opposite. If the answer is that simple why not just write it there and then add a clarification saying: "by the way, the compiler will also help you with this because we know how hard it is to get rid of the old C habits"

Imagine asking somebody if the sky is blue and then instead of getting a simple "Yes" answer you get a piece of source code you need to compile and run to see that "Yes".
Fair points about both the memory requirement and Bowtie - also, 20 BP is really small, so while BLAT seems to find 20 BP hits correctly, it doesn't find 20 BP hits with mismatches. Why be so memory stringent? This is genomics, after all... If you're adverse to rolling your own, I'd look into BWA-MEM as a solution (which has more adjustable mismatch scoring than Bowtie), or figure out how Primer-BLAST seems to do specificity checks for small sequences so well.
Saigon is a bustling city in a developing country. Don't expect western style living.
Voat is a media aggregator and community platform developed in C# ASP.NET MVC 5.
Dependencies and attributions
Voat uses SQL server and .NET framework 4.5.

Quoted from:
https://github.com/voat/voat
Instagram Photo App in Node.js
The Ilyushin Il-62 shares exactly the same configuration (high tail, 4 engines on the back) as the British VC-10. I think the VC-10 predated the Il-62, but I might just be expressing a prejudice and assuming the Soviet plane was a clone. I always thought the VC-10 (and the Il-62 for that matter) was rather gorgeous, apropos of nothing. The VC-10 as a Western four engined large (for the time) narrow body intercontinental jetliner competed directly with the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8. It's fair to say it did was roundly trounced in this competition. I don't know why exactly. Possibly late to the party. Possibly the victim of superior US technology and/or salesmanship.
That kind of spinoff only happens when activist investors demand it. I think Jeff Bezos and his true believers still hold a significant portion of the stock.
We are applying to YC Fellowship '15 and we'd love to hear you opinions on a part of our application. We hope we'll learn much that way and it'll be fun for you, too.

Basically we are building a website where digital nomads can share and discover itineraries and then group together to share accommodation costs. We are working on a 120-word killer summary and have come up with these options https://docs.google.com/forms/d/16F2dgr77o7uHHwAfgSCXlGSl1zO.... We'd much appreciate both your harsh and nice feedback. Thank you!
It's only possibly illegal if they clearly price at a loss. But that's extremely unlikely since their marginal costs are zero.
I'll assume this is an AMA then :-)

So how easy is it to ride one of those bikes? Do you have to be particularly strong, and what if you have say 50km to ride in a day to visit all the consuming destinations?

I think this could be popular in Australia. We hate Starbucks - it flopped in Australia and there are only a handful of them open in tourist hotspots. Aussies tend to be snobby about coffee and know the name and children's names of their barista. You may do well in AU if the coffee is top-notch. Although the market size is quite small here compared to the US of course.
Have you tried changing regions in the console?
This is the exact reason why I refuse to give amazon a non-prepaid visa card.

Where I live, every grocery store sells them without requiring ID.
The README is very light on content. Any discussion of lossless audio should include a FLAC comparison. FLAC is already sadly undersupported (ahem, Apple). Could the submitter shed some light on what makes SELA different from its predecessors?

Personally I wish we could see Lossy FLAC support from all distributors and players, it's the smartest encoding I've seen. But also totally ignored in format discussions.
You might want to edit this comment, not good for a CEO to essentially say his customers are mad to pay what they do for his product. Bring's to mind this guy who destroyed a much larger business with a similar comment: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1573380/Doing-a-Ratne...
Only if they can average 0.25c, which seems unlikely :)
Exactly. Put blue theme on the update stream on Google+, restrict text to 140, and call it the next version of Twitter. Collect accolades.

AFTER that happens, announce the migration of the Google+ base to "Twitter."
> Part of the value that LinkedIn adds is that there is some degree of authenticity to the resumes.

Can you explain this? I can add any company and whatever job title and list of responsibilities I want without any verification.
Anyone know where Qdoba and Chipotle source their rice from?
How do you think Newton would have reacted if someone said "Pentaquark" in front of him? Think he would have understood when just the word was said? Musk is talking about Newton getting all of modern physics when all he has heard is two undergrads chat on Hacker News.
There are some interesting psychological reasons why people hang out in cafes. Procrastination is one of them. When you're at a cafe and you have your laptop out, there's a similar social pressure that exists in the workplace or university classroom that sort of discourages procrastination (eg watching YouTube videos) and encourages being productive. I remember reading about this in NPR or Psychology Today, but can't track the article down now.
> instead of 200 ad-hoc remakes of the same thing

I think that's a good argument for including the syntax, though it raises me from 'anti' to 'ambivalent'. But yeah, figuring out random coder's favourite OOP implementation style is an annoyance. Here Crockford seems to be a bit part of the problem: he seems to recommend a whole new approach every couple of years. His recommendations to never use 'new' (and now, don't use 'this') make it a pain to use other people's objects.

I wonder if a better consensus might be the best of all worlds.
I don't know... IBM is really really big. Even if 20% of the company is technology-focused, that's still a huge number of people. They supply the finance and defense world with machines, operating systems, and compilers and they also provide support for them. They also have a research division that routinely publishes at all of the top conferences.
Is there a map of that shows where all of the Wheelys are in real-time? I'd love to see one in Boulder!
Where in the bay can I try your coffee?
In my experience, float tanks are "fine" but nothing that great. Typically you can rent them by the hour, and I got the feeling that to truly experience one, you'd need to do it for multiple hours, or perhaps even a day.

Apparently Feynman enjoyed them, and even smoked marijuana before entering them on a couple occasions. Not something I'd do, but, I can imagine that would add to the effect.

One warning if you try the tank: the water is extremely salty...so if you get an itch anywhere on your face, be sure the water doesn't contact your eye... man does it burn.
Something similar to what you say now was said by people when Starbucks was just beginning. "The majority of Americans just drink Folgers and don't care about arabica coffee"
> The film’s success spoke to floating’s ongoing mystical allure. After sports teams such as the Philadelphia Eagles and the Philadelphia Phillies installed float tanks in their training facilities in 1980, they won the Super Bowl and World Series respectively. By the middle of that decade, celebrities from John Lennon to Robin Williams had acquired tanks.

Err... John Lennon died in 1980. The Eagles lost the 1981 Super Bowl. What other inaccuracies might be in the article?
I think we are in agreement.

Since I was talking about the stock market I assumed it was obvious that I was talking about Twitter the corporation that won't cost in 3 years.
Yes, we probably are. Not much of what you write makes any sense. Cutting prices is obviously not illegal. In extremely rare circumstances if the pricing is clearly below cost, you might have something. But that's even more unlikely in the software or service industries.
Its kind of disheartening when the websites for Free Haven and Mixminion don't even have HTTPS as an option.
I couldn't help but think of the recent "What is Code" article and thinking they could just swap this one for that.
Woah, cool. Didn't realize it was on GitHub!
Haha, Montreal isn't only known for it's gaming sector. (it's also where much of the online porn industry is engineered)
Magic Leap stated last month that they have solved drawing black "with light" due to collaboration between their artists and engineers. It will give them a huge advantage if they can get production costs low enough.
Have sent a mail to emily@support, would love to have a response.
But is it even profitable? Operating profits don't include capex. And data centers full of xeons are expensive.
a guess: it's not particularly profitable as a stand-alone business. Amazon is burying all aws' capex in their general capex.
Running more aggressive vacuums that will clean up "old" tuples/tables is good for off-peak times. See Josh Berkus' short three part blog series on postgres' vacuum/freeze:
http://www.databasesoup.com/2012/09/freezing-your-tuples-off...

and his python script for doing this:
https://github.com/pgexperts/flexible-freeze

Also, note that long running transactions can prevent cleanup of tuples. Look for old xact_start values of non-idle queries in pg_stat_activity (particularly "idle in transaction" connections) and old entries in pg_prepared_xacts.
Did you know the source for Reddit is on GitHub?
There's a lot of people to control instances who never see a bill. That's a different department :D

This is the #1 benefit of B2B vs B2C. It's someone else's money.
I guess I'm wondering what this offers Starbucks customers that Starbucks does not or cannot, which will steal marketshare? The advantage to a franchisee is obvious, but not so much for Starbucks customers
Space Jam sequel is definitely happening with LeBron James
Shame you're being downvoted. 2 billion is not that big a number and I found it surprising since other databases are using GUID's and UUID's and similar to deal with that problem. There was an unfortunate lack of explanation for that in the article.
yes, this headline is a perfect example of Maciej's recent complaint: "The other part of our exponential hangover is how we build our businesses. The cult of growth denies the idea that you can build anything useful or helpful unless you're prepared to bring it to so-called "Internet scale". There's no point in opening a lemonade stand unless you're prepared to take on PepsiCo."

Why not back this company to, you know, sell good coffee and be a success on its own terms?
Yes yes yes yes yes. These kinds of implementations mapping code into intuitive interfaces is where "programming" needs to be headed. Let us take advantage of our natural reflexes by mapping code to more than just text and syntax highlighting.
So, where is a great codebase for somebody who wants to learn?
Thanks! Super excited to make this public.
Former Amazon person here.

This is totally wrong. Amazon retail has been running on AWS for years.
Operating profits take a charge for depreciation of capital assets over the (tax) economic life of the asset. So, AWS is charged between 1/36 and 1/60th of the value of the server per month for 36 or 60 months. (Exact schedule of depreciation is facts and circumstances dependent.)

But it's not like they're making a profit just because the servers are "free".

Source: I ran tech ops for an e-commerce company you've likely heard of for ~half a decade.
Losing a wallet experiment in South Korea
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not.

When I'm the "thing" being sold, the onus is on the vendor to provide a value that keeps me there.

LinkedIn seems determined to be as anti-user as possible, and as someone who values my privacy instead of social networks, I understand where OP is coming from.

Just deleted my LinkedIn account because there is no value for me there.
Is there any repository of knowledge for learning these best practices?
Probably need to factor weather in to any projections of annual income.
Liveblog of YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki's Keynote at Vidcon
I recently wrote an article about this for DZone, wherein I interviewed three "expat devs," two of whom live(d) in Hanoi.

https://dzone.com/articles/expat-devs

If you have any questions about living in Vietnam and dev culture in Vietnam, drop me a line.
niggax
"More importantly, Wheelys is about pour-over coffee rather than the Italian-styled coffee drinks like lattes and cappuccinos that many popular U.S. chains now use. “If you like the taste of coffee beans, pour over tastes way better,”"

Lots of effort in sales but what about the end product, coffee? In my home town, Melbourne, where the locals are raised on expresso, Starbucks was run out of town. [0]

Wheely appears to be a trojan brand for expanding other products as well as coffee at the expense of existing franchises in fixed locations. An Uber for fast food products.

[0] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-08-07/32188, http://munchies.vice.com/articles/this-is-why-australians-ha...
Would you kindly explain why do we need YAMF (Yet Another Media Format) when we already have FLAC?
Word Runner stimulates brain through frustration
oh god i wish there was more reddit news
Apple and Samsung caused this $104B company to cut 15% of its workforce
I've been a few times. I think a good session is 90 minutes. 60 seems too short for me but 90 is good enough to get the full experience. You really have to know how to relax though.
The U.S. partly mitigates this by subsidizing service to smaller airports, via the $250m/yr Essential Air Service program [1]. This was part of the deregulation bill, thrown in to mollify representatives of smaller towns and rural areas, who otherwise would have opposed deregulation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_Air_Service
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Tried this out a few months back. Wrote my experience up here - http://impossiblehq.com/sensory-deprivation-tank/
Apparently John Lennon used a floatation tank in 1979: http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1988/Bio-Lennon-Kicked-Heroin-H...

The Eagles did lose the 81 Super Bowl, but maybe it's a typo for "made it to the Super Bowl", which is considered an achievement in itself in sports? (particularly if the team had a poor track record the years prior)
Often the software and OS APIs on that system are glossed over in favor of the hardware or the graphical shell. The Exec[1] was a marvel at the time -- and in some ways, still is. I don't know how much ARexx[2] preceeded AppleScript, but it was also, something that other OSes seldom got right.

It took other user-oriented operating systems about a decade to catch up, and in fact, the hardware everyone raves about in the Amiga fell behind far sooner than the system software.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exec_(Amiga)
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARexx
Time to buy some shares?
How to Live a Rich Modern Life Without Debt
I played with a lot of Swedes on a MUD, and of all the content creators they were the only ones able to spell correctly.
"William Ellsworth Spaulding, the director of the education division at Houghton Mifflin who later became its chairman, compiled a list of 348 words he felt were important for first-graders to recognize and asked Geisel to cut the list to 250 words and write a book using only those words. Spaulding challenged Geisel to 'bring back a book children can't put down.' Nine months later, Geisel, using 236 of the words given to him, completed The Cat in the Hat." -- Wikipedia

Dr. Seuss: Language hacker
CRTC says big telecoms must share FTTU fibre-optic networks with competitors
2 years ago I was there and retails already run on EC2...
GQ Teens: LEVI'S
Anyone know where most of the money is going to be spent? R&D, sales?
I'm skeptical too. "The experts", e.g. HBGary, get pwned worse than having a bunch of crapware on their desktop, but it's for the same types of mistakes:

"So what do we have in total? A Web application with SQL injection flaws and insecure passwords. Passwords that were badly chosen. Passwords that were reused. Servers that allowed password-based authentication. Systems that weren't patched. And an astonishing willingness to hand out credentials over e-mail, even when the person being asked for them should have realized something was up. [...]

Most frustrating for HBGary must be the knowledge that they know what they did wrong, and they were perfectly aware of best practices; they just didn't actually use them. Everybody knows you don't use easy-to-crack passwords, but some employees did. Everybody knows you don't re-use passwords, but some of them did. Everybody knows that you should patch servers to keep them free of known security flaws, but they didn't." [1]

Granted, this doesn't prove that experts are generally unsafe, and maybe somebody with a beef with these ones in particular would say they're just semi-knowledgeable salesmen cashing in on the cyber scare, but it lends some weight to the idea that too many experts aren't much safer.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/02/anonymous-speaks-...
Thanks, means a lot.
Informmix isql tool used to have a form mode, where one could:

* select table or form from a list, hit enter

* then a form with all fields would show up

* one could populate some fields with query condition, e.g. name = 'xyz'

* then hit enter and tool would run a query

* then one could navigate prev/next through the results.

I was not fond of this, but some folks in the office still swear by this and ask if they can have a tool like that for postgres. I sent them to psql, but just typing SQL gives them heartburn.

I must admit some of them were quite faster with isql than with psql. This tool helps a bit, but still hoping for the form mode.
What's the compression ratio?
Agreed on this advice. When I was new to AWS I kept receiving a bill for a few cents that obviously wasn't worth my time to resolve, but still really irritated my why I couldn't find a running instance. Turns out the running instance was in a different region and I didn't know the EC2 server list displayed only one region at a time.
Linked In spammed me once when they reached some sort of milestone. The email had no remove-me-from-this-list link or way to tell Linked In that I didn't want to receive emails. I found the CEO's email address and forwarded it to him, asking him to remove me from the mailing list. He sent back a nasty email and deleted my account.

I've not looked back and my life is exactly as it was, minus a few unwanted emails.
Better coffee that is less expensive?
It really feels like they design the thing to make that happen.

I got stung for over $100 just as a casual user, because I never guessed that I had to click through all the (slow loading) regions to see the instances and volumes and snapshots I might have burning money.

The web interface is a total clusterfuck.
A lot of crap I see isn't Deep at all, it's just prior knowledge being re-applied to a more specific scenario.
Trickle-Down Economics Must Die, Long Live Grow-Up Economics
There's one in San Diego called Flot and the owner recommends at least two hours. I booked it and must've floated for closer to three, which was about right. It had three stages:

1. Mind racing, everyday worries at hand (~45-60 minutes)

2. Thinking through actual concerns and whats important (~30 mins)

3. Complete relaxation

It's an incredible experience if you devote the time to it, but to really feel it you need to get through the first stage which can take over an hour. I left happier and more peaceful than I had been in some time.