skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering they are pushing cost for vehicles, vehicle maintenance, insurance, payroll taxes, fuel, unemployment insurance and uniform onto their workers, I'd say they are paying peanuts. You'd have to shortsighted to see why this is worse than a normal job. I'd also guess that the rates will drop the minute they get some traction, just like Uber.
Much of what you describe is technically possible but poorly supported by the platform.
In case you didn't make it to the end of the page, there's a "bonus" map of Lake Superior.
Main complaint is when the person lies about delivering it if they can't make the promised date. Then they drop it off the next day with little repercussions.

I've also had problems with companies using alternative shippers for cold-packed stuff, presumably because it was cheaper. Then it sat in someone's hot car for 12 hours and was delivered with room temp ice packs. Sure it was delivered on the right day, but not well.
I'm a big fan of DPD's system except for the fact that their optimiser always tries to deliver to our house during school pickup - their software doesn't allow for any time exclusions and sometimes their drivers don't respect deliver to neighbour requests, otherwise their service would be perfect.
> I don't think the drone plan was ever a serious short term consideration for 99.999% of Amazon's business

Right, but where would it be a serious short term consideration? Where's that .001%? If it's not in dense urban areas like Seattle and Chicago, I'm not sure where it would work, and those are the very areas where they're launching Flex.
Can someone suggest a better hosting platform for us? It don't think Godaddy is helping us scale. We are on the ultra premium hosting option and the site cannot even handle 100 users at the same time.
Dunno, I'd say it happens more often than not. For us they use a combination of DPD, Hermes, Yodel and Royal Mail/Parcel Force. We have Amazon Prime and live in a fairly out of the way location so it's probably a combination of those two factors.
Which API? There are many different APIs within one application. You can't really start at one of them, you'll first need to decide what the parts of your program that need APIs between them are going to be.
The problem with the ongoing commoditization of work is that it causes it to lose value. As a result the economy becomes more efficient. However the question is who benefits from this increase in efficiency?

It certainly isn't the worker, whose labour becomes cheaper every year (there hasn't been an increase in real wages for over a decade now in the US). The consumer certainly benefits from lower prices. However who arguably benefits the most is - as always - the proprietor of the production factors: ie. Amazon, which supplies the jobs, the technology, owns the storage facilities, etc.

Now: As a net result over the whole economy, the efficiency gains achieved with these new work contracts are beneficial. However these gains are unequally distributed between the proprietors (ie. Amazon and it's shareholders) and the employees. While incomes for many employees have stagnated for over a decade, the shareholders of Amazon keep getting richer (https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&...) creating more inequality. This is why we need a universal basic income policy. To allow everyone at the very least dignified living conditions.
Thousands of 'directly hackable' hospital devices exposed online
Rust really seems like the next step in system programming.

Would it be possible to have this lifetimes/borrowing stuff in a scripting language?

Like, I care about who owns something, but I don't care about what something is?
Didn't they recently release an API for the developer console?

I imagine you could now write some gradle code to do most of it automatically...
Too little, too late.

Google Play makes you jump through a bunch of hoops to ship an oversized APK, and the tools they provide are totally inadequate. (For example, see this years-old bug affecting expansion files: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=61344)

Raising the basic size limit to 100MB doesn't fix any of the underlying problems. In fact it may make things slightly worse for users, because some developers who would otherwise have been forced to ship variant APKs or an expansion file (more work for the developers, but easier to download for users) will now just ship a single bloated APK instead.

When you get an app update, why do you still have to download the whole thing? Why not a binary delta? For that matter, why can't the developer upload a binary delta to the store? The Play Store holds golden copies of each version of the APK, after all. Instead, we have the clunky expansion file system, and each developer has to do the work.

When shipping variant APKs to different phone sizes / architectures / etc, why does the developer have to build and upload each APK separately? Why can't the Play Store just do the "app slicing" automatically? In most cases it already has all the information it needs.

I realise that all this stuff is hard work, and my complaints really boil down to "Google should do all that hard work for me". But they have thousands of engineers working on Android and Google Play, so I don't think it's too unreasonable.
See "American College of Gastroenterology Guidelines for Colorectal Cancer Screening 2008" pages 3 and 4: http://s3.gi.org/physicians/guidelines/CCSJournalPublication...

Summary: Usually age 50, but age 45 if you're African American. If you have a family history of the disease, then maybe screening at age 40, or 10 years younger than age at diagnosis of the youngest affected relative. With positive genetic tests for certain cancers, screening age may be 20.
I'm not even 40 and have to get an annual colonoscopy (down from semi-annual) because of an "incident" a couple years ago. By the time my friends start having to schedule their first, I'll have had 14 or 15. But I don't think trying to get people (men in particular) to start screening earlier will help. Polyps can form and mean nothing and that could lead to a lot of unnecessary medical procedures.

I can't speak for Alex's situation, but doctors I have spoken to about mine seem to be keen on looking for genetic markers. That may be a better way to determine who should start screening earlier.
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Package delivery is never a good experience in the UK

i have my packages delivered to a friendly shop nearby - to my house, it's a nightmare.

The collect+ system also works reasonably well, i take that option if offered. (where it's delivered to a local cornershop or similar and you walk to pick it up)

I really feel there should be a gap in the market for "last mile" delivery to be solved properly, but i suspect there's not enough money to slow things down, and residential delivery is inherently difficult anywhere that doesn't have regimented street layouts.

Try addresses for all lo - if no reply, deliver to pre-arranged local shop.
Text/email alert allowing redelivery to address or changed address within an hour or two, for a premium fee (bicycle couriers and other instant courier delivery)

that would solve all of my issues anyway..
> basic income

this is not the place for discussing this here, but the inherent problem with this basic income idea is that there's no way to provide such money in developed countries which are already indebted to the bone. Unless you decide to seize savings and declare the country a communist dictatorship or something.
If we're capable of solving the challenges of self-driving cars, finding a way to implement large curb-side or driveway-side mailboxes with cameras and RFID trackers, or a "fetchbot" that retrieves a box from the car and rolls it into the house, seems like a trivial hurdle to overcome.
Great article, and the comparison of the different models cameras are perfect examples of how far Apple have come to be reckoned as one of the leading brands. In overall, I think the price for the iPhone 6s is outrageous...
As, no doubt, does "final solution." But that's really not something you'd want to use casually.
We are the drones.
The death penalty is to the left what partial birth abortion is to the right. When groups are making emotional pleas to push their agenda then you know you are being played.
My grandfather used to design fairly big radio transmitters. He told a story of walking after dark in the nearest town to a transmitter with a colleague who had been a wireless operator on a ship. The colleague could read the news headlines from the streetlights.
> The point was to show how when you're thinking in a language that supports algebraic types and pattern-matching, you automatically exclude states that can't exist.

That should be the default line of thought in OO too!

I admit it's easier to do with discriminated unions, but that doesn't change the fact that the C# class is still a common but poorly designed type in C#.

The job of any type system is to make invalid states unrepresentable. F# has powerful tools for that, and make it intuitive and succinct. C# has fewer and less powerful tools, but it's still possible (and usually necessary) to use those tools! The equivalence of F# DU's are C# class hierarchies, and the equivalent of pattern matching is virtual methods.

Inheritance and virtual methods is a really verbose and horrible way of going about it, but it's the way of going about it in C#. You have to use classes for the state here

Since there is a deleted time only useful for the "Deleted" state of the user the user state shouldn't be an enum. It's one of the pillars of decent OO design: a you don't have a field in a type that is only used for some state of the type: that state should then be a subtype. The possible state values for the user is ActiveState and DeletedState { DeletedTime }.

If a person wrote the C# class in that way out of ignorance rather than laziness, I bet they would write the F# type as a normal record type too!
if nothing else, most of these operators have immense nicknames. Now I just need an excuse to involve a flaming x-wing in my code...

Operator Nickname Function
======================================================
0+ Venus numification
@{[ ]} Babycart list interpolation
!! Bang bang boolean conversion
}{ Eskimo greeting END block for one-liners
~~ Inchworm scalar
~- Inchworm on a stick high-precedence decrement
-~ Inchworm on a stick high-precedence increment
-+- Space station high-precedence numification
=( )= Goatse scalar / list context
=< >=~ Flaming X-Wing match input, assign captures
~~<> Kite a single line of input
<<m=~m>> m ; Ornate double-bladed sword multiline comment
-=! -=!! Flathead conditional decrement
+=! +=!! Phillips conditional increment
x=! x=!! Pozidriv conditional reset to ''
*=! *=!! Torx conditional reset to 0
,=> Winking fat comma non-stringifying fat comma
()x!! Enterprise boolean list squash
0+!! Key to the truth numeric boolean conversion
~~!! Serpent of truth numeric boolean conversion
||() Abbott and Costello remove false scalar from list
//() Leaning Abbott and Costello remove undef from list
Can we agree already to not have to tip? I don't want Amazon to realize this money-saving practice at my expense. We don't tip UPS, we shouldn't tip these guys. Nobody tips me for pushing code to git.
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And I'd count it as "using my content in a way I did not authorize", but HN seems okay with that.
You might be surprised by how much money the Australian government spend of agricultural research. They spent $50.2 million alone on just meat research in 2013-14 [1].

This is a key market for Australia. We'll crack it eventually :-)

1. http://www.industry.gov.au/AboutUs/Budget/Documents/SRIBudge...
Yeah I don't get what the comment was getting at either. People robbing drivers, I guess? (Although I've never heard of such things happening)

I agree with your points though - something like this would be perfect for the city!
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E-commerce companies have 2 points of contact with the customer - the website and the courier. It makes no sense whatsoever to me why there's this ongoing race to the bottom on the courier side of things while companies spend more and more on the website side. I suppose at that point they already have your money, so what if this delivery experience is awful?

Yodel are worse than useless, and I can't see this being much better.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted, that's precisely the problem with most jobs like this.
So now you can be working for both Amazon and Uber all day!
Can be being not worse than
Equatorial Guinea, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Jordan, Somalia, Yemen, Sudan, Palestine, China, Singapore, Belarus, Taiwan, Afghanistan and Egypt and possibly North Korea considered as being left or right?

And what about the universal human rights? "The right of every individual to protection from deprivation of life" and "no one shall be subjected to cruel or degrading punishment."
This was published over a year and a half ago, and I believe it was timed nicely with a16z's investment into BuzzFeed. I would argue that a Facebook stream looks more like the future than a Twitter stream these days (just look for the most prominent icon in the candidate debates). It might also be worth mentioning that quality may not be the right metric for news, rather it's probably consumption. Consumption is also easier to measure.
I'm still waiting to see cashiers disappear in supermarkets. Or bakers, since bread and cake production could be completely automatized by now. Strangely they are not going away. I wonder why...

People who predict extinction of jobs are usually wrong.
They do it in Japan with Japanese beef too, give it a try sometime: http://www.eataku.com/post/15570448565/is-this-the-greatest-...

I personally agree, every time I go back I eat there at least once.
He's probably been watching a bit too much of The Wire.
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The blank vans, oftentimes actually rental vans, are actually Amazon Logistics. This is Amazon's own delivery operation in the UK, and all Prime deliveries in my area use this service. It's been years since I have seen any third party delivery providers for Amazon orders.
Not really. Hiding activity in the Arctic isn't exactly easy and if Exxon wants to know what they're up to, they can just check Shell's filings with the EPA and State of Alaska.
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Hosting like godaddy tends to not differ in performance between their lowest and highest packages, they just differ in cheap resources such as space, bandwidth, "number of allowed email accounts" etc. Processor, memory consumption and maximum concurrent users don't change.

Do you know anyone that is familiar with setting up VM's or managing servers? If so, hit them up and get them to set you up a linode vm (or whatever other provider you want) with nginx. If you don't, perhaps looking at getting a contractor to set you up.
He even uses the word "discriminate", and yet behavior like this is encouraged and celebrated.
Source: https://redox-os.org/index.php?controller=post&action=view&i...
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Digital Ocean hits the sweet spot for me with both pricing, availability, speed, and ease of getting up and running for a project like this. You can have a new server up and running in 30 seconds and locked down within 10.

Bryan Kennedy has a great write up to help you get it set up and locked down: http://plusbryan.com/my-first-5-minutes-on-a-server-or-essen...

We put our own twist on it which improves on his base (mostly security related): https://github.com/codelittinc/incubator-resources/blob/mast...
Why limit to one? Perhaps a fair logistic syndicator, where companies send their delivery requests when they've exhausted their permanent staff capacity.

Maybe something like milkthemiles.com - make the retailers agree to your demand pricing not the inverse (tm)...
Google Is Teaching Cars to Drive Like Humans
I'm pretty sure you can download a Prezi presentation. It's ugly (upwards to 200mb for something simple), but it can be done. Or at least could, I really don't like it, but a friend of mine uses it and he always downloads the presentations.
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Spot on. You replace your "anemic way" with first-class functions and namespacing, it ends up being the same thing.

With currying, you do away with OO and parameter initialization altogether.

@curry
def SMTPSender(host, message):
...

emailSender = SMTPSender(host='localhost')
# partially evaluated fn with `host` fixed
emailSender(message=message)
My mom is a college math teacher, previously a high school math teacher, and helped develop the current Texas standards. She knows a number of the folks who wrote the California Common Core and has high praise for it in principle.

In practice, she is quite frustrated when she tutors my daughter. She has worked with her Over FaceTime, using Pearson's own remote tutoring app, and over a two week "Grammy Camp" in the summers.

Thanks for posting the side-by-side. I wish they would tell the parents something like this, once per testing period or so. My undergrad is in physics and I too struggle with how to help when asked.
http://blog.printf.net/articles/2015/05/29/announcing-gittor...
The only impediment to the repeal of the death penalty is the will of the American voters, so that is where you should direct your outrage.
Apple at least are finally trying to address this, with their new "app slicing" feature. It's just surprising it's taken so long.
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Teachers will complain about absolutely every change that's imposed on them. Perhaps it's because there isn't really an undeniable way to know what's good and what's bad (unlike most jobs where profits make that clear) so every teacher assumes what they're doing it good and any change must therefore be bad. Or maybe it's just a job that attracts people with that kind of personality.
> However the question is who benefits from this increase in efficiency?

Who benefited from Ford making cars more efficiently ? Their employees as well, since they could buy cars on their own at cheaper prices than the then available cars.

Productivity gains improve life for EVERYONE, even the poorer ones. There's so many examples I don't even know what kind of point you are trying to make here.

Improvements in agriculture make food cheaper as well, which makes it possible for even modest household to have 3 smartphones on top of food of the table, and go on vacation more than 0 times a year.

Sometimes when I read comments here, I get the bizarre impression that nobody has noticed the massive increase of purchasing power that society got in the past 100 years. I must be living in a bubble.
I think most people would be perfectly happy to walk to the street and open the car with a code they just received per text if that saved them some money.
Are Uber lyft and everyone other one of those companies pushing the same costs out to their drivers?
via this great article: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2015/09/28/beyond-ad-blocki...
> When I was taught math (and it really wasn't that long ago), we were never allowed to use calculators, and we did sheet after sheet after sheet of additions, subtractions, multiplications, divisions, polynomial expansions, equation simplifications,

A child can do sheet after sheet of calculations and co-incidentally get the right answer, without having any understanding of what they're doing.

They can manipulate these symbols because they've memorised a routine. But because they lack understanding they stumble when they move onto something more advanced - they need to forget what they thought they knew, re-learn it properly, and learn the new thing.

I agree that the first example is a confusing example to use, and that there doesn't seem to be much difference.
That's because you are looking at the wrong problem.

The biggest problem with common core is that it codifies social promotion under the guise of "schools know better" while linking promotion to money received by the schools.
What I don't understand, is why I can't pick my delivery slot for free.

Everybody has jobs. Everybody finds it annoying to buy something on line. You never know when it's going to turn up. You have to take a day off, and hope your driver is competent at his job.

Why can't you just say "I'll be at home on Thursday after 5pm. Call me on #555-333-9999 if you have any issues". Courier delivers the package after 5pm on Thursday.

One delivery. No wasted delivery attempts. If an attempt is failed, charge me for it.
He cites both Business Insider and Pando as his own success stories.

The folks from Pando (Paul Carr et al.) used to relentlessly mock Blodget and BI for their catastrophically bad journalism.
UK Prime customer getting terrible service from Amazon delivery - I think you're right, I complained the other day that Amazon are the only delivery people who demand I come down to the building entrance to collect my package instead of delivering it to my door.

Prime is an important part of Amazon's strategy, if they're not going to actually deliver packages properly then they're screwing themselves over.

I'll see how it goes but if there's many more problems I'm cancelling Prime.

EDIT: WTH am I getting d/ved for?
Sounds a lot like a Commodore 64 or TempleOS, but in those this was/is considered an advantage.
>What's OIBIT?

Opt in built in trait. These are traits that implemented for everything by default. They are generally marker traits for some kind of functionality. The standard library has Sync (shared memory thread-safe) and Send (thread safe to send over a channel). Some more detail can be found in the RFC[1] that implemented them.

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0019-opt-...
It is ironic when a forecast temperature increase of five degrees is seen as "progress". On the global warming front everything seems to be too little and too late.
DPD are a fine example of how it should be done. It's just a shame the current home delivery option is such a lottery.
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After looking through the article, I think that "one Irish China expert" is just the world's least elegant way of referring to an Irishman who is an expert on manufacturing and works in China (among other places):

> … the Irish CEO has built a contracted network of around 100 trusted factories in Shenzhen, China’s manufacturing heartland, to supply technology companies including Apple, Beats and Xiaomi.
I guarantee that they have this feature planned out and are just waiting until they have enough drivers that firing some is an option.
Genuine question, what better solution is there on the market at the moment?

I like the idea of binary deltas and expansions if handled well, and I imagine a service that makes it easy for developers to distribute in this way would be a goldmine.
Unless we can rate the delivery person, AND somehow verify that the person ringing at the door is indeed the person making the delivery, say by checking through an apps on your phone that they should be at your door now, and a pic of their face.

Worked for Uber...