skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have never eaten any top class wagyu, but I occasionally eat Shizuoka wagyu and I have a very good butcher in my town (in Shizuoka Japan). I have also eaten wagyu style beef from Australia. I don't know if it was representative of the quality that Australia is producing, but it was quite a bit cheaper than the wagyu I can get in my local area.

For the beef I ate, there would be no need for double blind. The texture is quite different and anyone could pick it out. I do not know what cut it was, though. Wagyu tends to be sliced very thinly in Japan, so it really could have been anything.

I've seen some Australian wagyu style steaks in the super market, but I'm not a fan of that style of steak so I've never bothered to try it.

If what I tried was representative (and the article seems to suggest that it might have been), they still have a ways to go. However, there is wide range of quality in wagyu in Japan too. I can believe that it is possible that there are individual foreign producers that can produce top quality wagyu. I suspect that the low price, high volume fare will probably never quite make it, though. Just looking at the cattle farms near me (if you can call the back yard sized lots "farms"), I'm not sure that a large producer would be capable of replicating the conditions. Some of the farms near here have 10-20 head of cattle! They have attention lavished on them by the farmer. And I don't live in a famous wagyu area by any means.

Anyway, it's just a data point, but I hope it proves interesting.
Somebody needs to work out how you drop of packages for Amazon while driving passengers around for Uber.

Actually - not completely crazy - how willing would you be as a passenger to take a few detours to get a saving on your taxi bill?
I've got a suspicion that Amazon has been trialling/building this in the UK since their purchase of Yodel, perhaps earlier. A number of times some bloke in a car has turned up and delivered me a package. No uniform, no branding. Just a phone running Amazon software.

I can't say it's the greatest experience.
Managers are supposed to get all that money in exchange of making sure that relationship is always near 1/1.
I have lived in Baltimore my entire life and this comment is an enigma. I assume this is some type of jab at crime, but IMHO, Baltimore is perfect for this kind of operation. To name a few reasons:

* Urban environment. Lots of deliveries in a short period of time.

* Amazon DH is conveniently located near I-95 for easy access to the city as well as I-695 and surrounding suburbia.

* Traffic actually isn't that bad compared with other urban areas.
TFA actually suggests having a "RenderAsEmail" method on the "Report" object! That right there should have been a hint that this line of reasoning is flawed. It would result in things like mixing presentation logic along with business logic in the same class. The author realizes this but does not seem to see it as a red flag.
This would be a great addition. After non lexical lifetimes this is probably the most awaited post-1.0 feature.
Reminds me of XSLT.
Failure of Yahoo’s Alibaba Spinoff Would Have Messy Consequences
Even if everybody on death row were guilty beyond all doubt, I don't think it is right to sentence an innocent person to kill another human for any reason.

I wouldn't want it on my conscience, so how can I demand if of someone else? No innocent person deserves that responsibility.
Isn't it related to phantom types ?
Could be different rates for different cities, as well as different size of packages perhaps (e.g. upto 5lbs pp 18, 10lbs pp 20 etc..), since it's BYOC (thanks Uber..) it also might be related to your maximum distribution range, the further you are willing to go the more you are getting paid since it increases your fuel costs.
I find the use of all-caps to be non-idiomatic. Take `LAST`, for example.
Biofluorescence not bioluminescence.
My theory is these jobs need to last only long enough for society to get it's head out of it's ass and introduce a universal basic income policy
How was the experience bad? I never see my UPS delivery guy so I can't imagine it matters one way or the other to me how my packages "magically" show up on my front porch.
IrDA is a much more recent and relevant example of a similar concept than Bell's photophone. It had a short run before being largely replaced by a radio-frequency technology - Bluetooth.
But unfortunately it is the one a lot of C#'ers reach for because it is the smallest amount of code in that language and often results in the least refactoring effort.

A properly designed model in C# like suggested is a large number of lines of code. And then because there is no pattern matching, you have to hand-roll your type checks/casts and make sure have that method throw an unconditional exception at the end for literally impossible states. Then if you make a change to this model, i.e. you add a new "SuspendedUser" subclass, you have to make sure you go through the codebase to update all those places you wrote a hand-rolled "pattern match" against that type. Because the compiler won't warn you about an unrepresented state on your type checks. And so then you have to make sure the whole project team is aware and you have to make sure new hires are familiar with the patterns being used. So yeah, the problems just snowball and then you wonder why you didn't just use a more appropriate language in the first place that has already taken complete care of all these trivial programming issues.
Yet saving 5 minutes of FS (F for Fun) can decrease passion, causing a net negative effect.

In other words, maybe you're both right and it's not about saving time per-se, but about cutting BS.
It's articles like this that give Perl a bad reputation.
Externalizing the parking fines. Clever.
Ymagine: a fast native image decoding and processing library
Sherry Turkle’s ‘Reclaiming Conversation’
Every business will have an order price factory in it. Prices aren't just picked by the roll of a dice!

If you're trying to model the inner workings of a business, you probably don't want to be starting with the customer's view of it...
I think this should have been posted as a "Show HN".

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

(Assuming you're the author. Otherwise it should have been just a normal link submission.)
Who would buy a print of a FB post?
Installed by default doesn't mean turned all the way up by default.
This was a joke, like that it's unbelievable that this is real-life and not some Bourne-type film...
No uniform? The least Amazon could do is send their drivers a hat and a sticker, or something.
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Well if your phone comes with a 1440p resolution, you should expect graphics to match that, too, which means much larger file sizes by default.
In an ideal world, I could agree with you.

But in the reality of things, having a central repository with a voting system that is significant and trustable enough is very important - for example, when you need to choose between apparently similar libraries. And a star on Github - rather, a good number of stars - does count much more than any number of stars on any other service in the programming community.

I say this not because I have a particular love for Github - I also use Gitlab for some projects, and it's very good - but just because it's the way it is.
I live in Baltimore (after NYC, SF, Boston). Love it here. Downvoted your comment because it is uninformed and adds nothing of value.
I think https://www.fpcomplete.com/school/to-infinity-and-beyond/pic... does a nice job of explaining a lens:

> At its simplest, a lens is a value representing maps between a complex type and one of its constituents. This map works both ways—we can get or "access" the constituent and set or "mutate" it. For this reason, you can think of lenses as Haskell's "getters" and "setters", but we shall see that they are far more powerful.
I am not sure I would call this obfuscated. The only real confusing piece of that code is if the reader doesn't know that you can use most punctuation characters with s///g
"GetMailPolicySingleton()->SetSendingMechanism(Email::SMTP)" ;)
> Its a little bit more work

That's probably the understatement of the day. The Play developer console is such a pain in the ass to work with that I'd rather not.
When amazon prime now launched in miami, they were using a temp agency to staff the drivers. Last time they brought me stuff in a city/euro-style-delivery van with amazon branding on it. I've also seen amazon branded shirts on delivery guys in their own cars too.

Lots of delivery services will be competing for freelancers (Shyp, postmates, favor, amazon)
Never heard of this guy or his program, but Christ, what an asshole.

"In particular, I disagree with immigration policy. Immigration to my country harms me, it harms my family, it harms my people. Whoever invites or welcomes immigrants to Europe and Germany is my enemy. Immigration is the huge corporations' interest, not peoples' interest. I am not against helping refugees, but they would have to be kept strictly separated from us Europeans, for some limited time only until they return home, and not being integrated here as cheap workers and additional consumers. Immigration unnecessarily defers the collapse of capitalism, its final crisis. The earlier the system crashes, the more damage can be avoided. Possibly a civil war in Europe. Not to mention the loss of our European genetic and cultural heritage."
We've had packages delivered by an individual similar to survelx, and the guy clearly smokes in his car as the package stinks of smoke and it even penetrates the items inside on occasion (clothing). Issue here is that he's not bound by company policy of smoking in a company vehicle, so he's free to smoke away.
Sounds a lot like LaserShip which Amazon already uses sometimes here on the east coast. Minimally trained people delivering last mile packages using their own vehicle. Results are.... mixed.
Well, it is obvious that the CFG model (of core grammar) is over simplified in the speech and somewhat misleading even though there is ambiguity in it. Anyway, it is just a simple talk. But I think the speaker is not really talking about programming language but more about computational linguistics...
I don't know if you were trying to joke, but in case you weren't: I use and like Gitlab. Just not for sharing open source projects.
why couldn't you do both?
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Google modifies First Click Free policy from 5 to 3 Articles per day
In the US they have been using Laser Ship. The delivery driver is usually some dude in their personal car with a Lazer Ship magnent on the side. Not sure if this is similar but they don't look like UPS, FedEx or DHL drivers.
Uber will surely let you deliver packages soon. They already do lunch.
I agree. It's truly scary how willingly people welcome a system that commoditizes the workforce literally nothing more than a number per hour. I mean, the absolute only thing standing in the way of everybody who signs up to work for Amazon Flex is a self driving car, same with Uber. I understand that supply for these jobs is pretty elastic, but if the workforce doesn't protect themselves, people who become dependent on companies with payment schemes like this will quickly find themselves hurt. A basic income would offer so much economic and social protection for a workforce for tasks like this.
Also the energies, specifically of the more penetrating gamma rays (very energetic photons). And the more dangerous stuff has shorter half-lives, so it wouldn't take all that long to get the full picture.

WRT to nuclear weapons, we can determine what the fissionables were, where they were mined, and some details of design all from sniffing the air downwind.
I never knew how to feel about it. Eiffel was centered around contracts, surely there must something more to it than `assert`.
I was thinking the same thing. I recently had something from Amazon delivered by a woman (same as you mentioned, no uniform or any indication she was with Amazon at all) who turned up with 2 young children who got out of the car and were running around in the car park outside my flat while she came in to deliver a package. I was confused at the time but this would definitely make sense.
I'm sure faster compile times are at least part of it.
> Traditionally you just check the value before assignment. And if you do this your entire problem "goes away".

I wouldn't say spreading null checks and forgetting them all over your code makes any problems "go away".
My theory is these jobs need to last only long enough for self-driving cars to get commoditized.
I so wish c++ would let me code like this without getting in the way with it's OOishness. Recent gripes:

- got a few bit flags per struct, need to know if there is at least one instance with the flag set (a counter per flag). I cannot bit-pack the flags without duplicating the flag getter/setter/destructor code.

- no way to declare static linkage funcions as friends (the linkage is forced to external). so i need to expose types that are implementation detail in public header.

would be nice if c++ could get some RAD-slanted design work, instead of trying to get all RUSTy
Uber Pool for things.
EULA prohibits use in EU countries with large immigrant populations
It'd be valuable for you to complain to Amazon when that happens. They probably can't get feedback on a service like this except through complaints like that.
A 'sending mechanism' property on the email object that defaults to SMTP?
A fully wrap-around, ultra-thin invisibility cloak at the microscale
I suppose you could add more methods, e.g sendEmailViaMailGun. But that results in the invoker having to have if-else logic (itself a code smell) for selecting which method to call, which is bad for SRP. You could try to fix that by encapsulating that logic into an EmailRouterStrategy class, but that's just another dependency you have to inject, which is not ideal according to TFA.
will the customers be able to rate the deliverer à la uber?
I think this a pretty important issue here as if the IRS does come after YHOOfor the tax liability from spinning out BABA then it won't be fun at all being a YHOO shareholder.

How much pain might YHOO be in for?
Well consider the stock has already gone from $50 at the start of the year to $27.60 now. it could be in for another halving in value.

Now consider if you are an employee of YHOO here is your situation:

- your options are underwater

- the only asset you own that wall street likes was just sold off in the most expensive and disastrous way possible

- your CEO has outlived her honeymoon phase so she'll have to do something to save her job, this usually means massive layoffs to show that you are getting costs under control

- Silicon Valley is in a phase where anyone with a pulse can get a job.

What do you do? Do you stay and stick it out with a company that could see their stock got to $10? Or do you start talking to the Facebook and Google recruiters who start calling?
Simple solution = rating system a la Uber.
Don't reform advertising
That's not even an article, it's a single graph. An unsourced one at that, with no methodology provided. It is essentially worthless eye-candy.
"One of the properties of good OO design is that code that operates on data is located close to the data."

Says who?

I say the point of good OO design is to have very clear focused responsibilities for classes, very clear layers of abstraction, and concretely declared dependencies.

This way I know my business logic doesn't sprawl, is discoverable, can be replaced modularly, and tested extensively and throughly.

This author sounds like he has no idea what it takes to actually build a maintainable code base of domain-driven business logic.

The fact that he actually thinks "Order.SubmitForPicking(), UserAccount.UpdatePostalAddress(), and Basket.CalculatePriceIncludingTaxes()" are examples of good OO design is LAUGHABLE.
This approach couples your data layer with your business logic, negates the ability to use mocks, and makes refactoring WAY harder than it needs to be.
I've had the same experience, also in the UK!

But as to it not being the greatest experience, well, yes they are not always as professional as real courier companies. And a lot of the time they've just said "User24?" while handing me the package, so Amazon probably need to put a bit more effort into training. And I wonder how easy it would be to provide fake ID to Amazon and just steal a whole load of admittedly random packages? But, maybe that was the point of this possible trial, to identify issues like that so that the launch experience would be better?
This 'weaponized brain' bullshit arises out of a very legitimate fear of the US military, the right-wing nutcases that pull its strings, and its extensive history of unethical human experimentation. If DARPA is seriously interested in reducing TBI then perhaps they should consider conducting fewer fraudulent wars.
It won't take many packages returned because they smell of smoke for that to become company policy.
I imagine that people will be doing both. I already see a lot of people driving for both Uber and Lyft. Soon there'll be drivers delivering packages and people
> a very long term hazard such as a radioactive waste dump

That part is an oxymoron because radioactive waste decays.

If you really want to stack future archaeologist bodies like cordwood, think of industrial waste, or coal plant fly ash waste, or mining waste. The half life of cobalt-60 is about half a decade... in a million years that a pure ingot would be "mostly harmless", because 1 over n to the 200000th means there won't be much Co-60 left in that ingot... For a good laugh assume a 1 Kg ingot how many years until the last atom decays? Sooner than you'd think. On the other hand arsenic, cyanide, and organometallics are forever, in a billion years you could crack open an industrial storage vat and kill everyone at an archaeological dig. Assuming their biochemistry remains the same, and they're not using drones to do the dig...
Awesome, brilliant idea and very well executed it seems
It's neat seeing the progression over time:

The first world map published in Japan (1671 version of a 1645 map):
http://www.wdl.org/en/item/11851/#ddc=912&languages=jpn

1785:
http://www.wdl.org/en/item/14749/

1816:
http://www.wdl.org/en/item/11838/

People of Many Nations (early 1800s):
http://www.wdl.org/en/item/4353/
Fantastic article. Here's a little bit more about what was discussed. And some real life applications.
In London you see them working for food and other delivery services on the side quite often.
Bet even money on a coin flip you choose from a set of 4, discarding first toss. Bet against last result every time. This would maximize your gain if the results hold. I'm not convinced they do, but the MC suggests it does.
I thought that because they were making money on the side, and therefore would be either a company, or sole trader, utilising their car that (in the UK anyways) it would fall under the banning a number of years back.

info:
What if I don't need light right now? Can LEDs transmit data at levels a human eye can't see, so as to not irritate us under day light?

Also, could lightbulbs have IR transmitters alongside the ordinary light, again so as to not depend on the visible light?
And fuel, and vehicle maintenance, and maybe the personal liability insurance.
We are still in the process of updating our site. Your point is duly noted. Our product actually automates repetitive marketing tasks like emails, social media posts like tweets / facebook etc... depending on leads's behavior. We are building something similar to marketo and pardot but more simple to use and very cost effective.
NOPE! That could imply that they are employees and we all know that's impossible ;)
Well to be fair, "not the greatest" doesn't mean it was bad. Just probably not as super friendly as the marketing photo they chose. :-)
The first example is pretty bad. It could just as easily be "Each shirt costs $6. How much do 7 shirts cost?"
Drivers from Amazon (and only Amazon) consistently flag first-attempt deliveries as "Unable to deliver package", then successfully deliver the package the second time around without any issue. And although these deliveries could be from either Amazon-Randoms or Amazon-Yodel couriers, the issue is still a recurring one.

Trying to get any sort of resolution out of Amazon is impossible, as they insulate their logistics department from any customer service complaints. All you can do is point out that it happens nearly every delivery.

Plus it's just plain weird, that some guy in joggers turns up and hands you a package. There's no way to associate the courier as a courier, and as such my first thought is usually "Why does this man have my stuff? Did I just let a random guy into my complex?"
Of course he would deny that.
We just moved on to the best hosting package available in Godaddy. But the site is still slow :(

They want us to move to a VPS and we need to migrate our site to a better server soon
> Regarding Richard Glossip. I don't know him or his case.

Please read the rest of the post before commenting. It's possible to believe all of these things at once:

(i) An eye for an eye is useful and works.

(ii) Glossip should not be in jail, and even less so, killed.

(ii) pg is correct in his reasoning for why US should not have the death penalty.
If you need proof that not everything DARPA does is going to immediately commit mass murder, consider the internet you used to post your teenaged witticism.

I take it you've never heard of Skynet?
You do realize 'defense department' is a euphemism for the world's most powerful military which has engaged in numerous regional conflicts in recent years, conflicts which have destroyed several countries, displaced millions and resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths?

Yeah, do you need a teenage witticism to understand that or not?
> and introduce a universal basic income policy

here we go again with this...
What's wrong with such jobs ? AS mentioned by Amazon you don't need to work 9 to 5, you can just work for extra if you need. Even if you HAD basic income this kind of part-time job could make sense to make a bit more money that the nothing you would get to survive on your own.
The examples given seem to be a bit of a strawman argument. Sure, asking a single, focused question tests less for understanding than the multi-part Common Core examples. But at least from what I remember, you'd be drilled on all the different permutations of these kinds of word problems anyway, so the net effect is the same.

Also, I really don't see how their reasoning follows on their first example. 3 shirts, $4/per shirt = $12. 7 shirt, 6 buttons/per shirt = 42. All that multiplication is, on the integers, anyway, is repeated addition. The only real difference I can see is that you can do the first example on your fingers and toes, whereas you'd have to scratch some tally-marks in the dirt or on paper to do the second if you don't know multiplication tables.

What I wonder about with these Common Core curricula, is whether students will ever get enough practice working through mathematics operations to really be comfortable with it. 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, etc. Maybe five or ten minutes, every day; they were probably graded enough to make us do them, but not enough to really matter. Most of the Common Core style math worksheets I've seen require far too much rewriting the algorithm from mathematical notation into grade-school English to ever allow that kind of repetition.
I really wish I'd known about these organizations before I moved. Shame on me, for not getting involved.

Thanks for the links.
You do know that you cannot enforce non justicable conditions in a contract they are automatically null and void.

Ie you can not go against EU law just by amending a contract.