skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine the advertising opportunity they have on this service. CPG companies spend billions of dollars on advertising in stores and via coupons and have no real way to measure ROI. This service could change everything, not only can they measure ROI - they can target coupons to specific people based on demographics. I think the potential is huge, no surprise that Google is loosing money on Google express and probably this service too, but if they can manage to get millions of users on this service - they can make up for all that in no time. Google has deep pockets to afford this service. This is similar to how they invested heavily in YouTube and now its a cash cow. I think this opportunity is bigger much much bigger
If you say so

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/mission-impossible-hardenin...
There is some evidence that they were not toppled violently. Specifically, some of them are face-down but with noses intact. That suggests they may have been lowered carefully, or at least tipped onto something soft, rather than knocked over by man or quake.

But I still think there was plenty of violence to go around. Start reducing the food supply and human beings get very violent very quickly. No population has ever sat and quietly starved to death. We turn on each other in a battle for resources.
> Changing /usr/local instead of being sane?

Better than most OS X programs, which seem to have paths like /Applications/Something.app/Contents/Resources/SomethingElse.app/Contents/Developer/Frameworks/Resources/Something.dylib/Contents/Resources/MacOS/Resources/Frameworks/Something.dylib/Contents/Developer

Case in point, an excerpt from the program Lipo's usage text:

fatal error: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/lipo: Usage: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/lipo [input_file]
>> "...(better yet) a large one with incompetent management."

Luckily this is >75% of large companies, IMHE.
How scientists solved the peculiar case of the missing asteroids
we use cloudfront and nginx for most of our infrastructure - kinda hard to move to surge right now.

ETags is not viable for this kind of a setup - it pretty much means triggering a nginx reload which is what a cache-busting signature avoids.
I find Inbox to be good on mobile and Gmail good on desktop browser. Even if they do close the Inbox website, hope they'll let the mobile client stay.
This is, legitimately, one of the most comments ever written about the job search process on HN. Employers run a portfolio strategy for candidate selection, much like sales guys run a portfolio strategy with regards to leads. Making the wrong decision on a candidate/lead is totally acceptable. Missing an opportunity with a candidate/lead is totally acceptable. Spending time investigating a candidate/lead which doesn't work out is not just totally acceptable it is the entire freaking job. If an employer has a 100% acceptance rate on candidates or a salesman closes 100% of leads that is an alarming signal that the process is out of control: they're clearly not exposing enough people to it!

Candidates need to understand this.
I enjoy going to the store to get food.
8,000 new apartments for Seattle is a drop in the pond, no wonder the rents are going up. It's building crazy little amount of housing! With a population of 650,000, even if Seattle were growing only at the rate of the US population of 0.7%, then they would need 4,500 new apartments. But they're growing much faster, like 2-3% per year, for quite some time. No wonder housing is getting pricy. They need to build 30,000 to 40,000 apartments per year for a while to relieve the shortage. Most of these new apartments will be more pricy, because they're new construction, but with time it will even out.

>Even in my tiny midwest town, they're building tons of new urban-ish apartments. And the rent in those units is always $1,000 over the average for the area. It's sending the entire towns rents up (even for ancient, crummy buildings).

I'm not sure the market works that way... These new apartments are more pricy presumably because they are more desirable; new construction usually is. In 30 years, they will be back with the rest of the rates. How do these new apartments increase the rent of the other apartments? Why can the land lords of the crummy apartments charge higher rents? Is it because there's not enough apartments or is it because they are behaving in anti-competitive ways?

There may be some macroeconomic ways to get back to more affordable housing without building, but they all involve devaluing current housing in some way.
Why is everything 404ing on AngelList?
After clicking into a person or company I get a 404, is this happening for everyone?

www.angel.co
Isn't it just a PR stunt? When she took over everyone was praising Yahoo and I'm sure investor confidence went up. Now that Yahoo is spiraling anyways it looks bad in retrospect, but if Yahoo had even managed to hold steady somewhat I think the hire would've been viewed as a total success.
It's pretty easy to google his name and come up with a picture.
So after having asked you to expand upon the topic, I ended up reading a few articles on the matter. While they were all very thorough and informative, your summary above was by far the clearest and most succinct. Thanks very much!
What are your thoughts on this sort of technology?

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sect2=H...

Summary:
Cytotropic Heterogeneous Molecular Lipids (CHML) are used to treat patients with multiple cancers. Numerous studies have been conducted in cellular, animal, pre-clinical and clinical trials. Results showed that CHML, as a biological molecular missile, can easily penetrate through the target cancerous cells to perform programmed cancer cell death (cancer apoptosis). Furthermore, CHML has produced anti-cancer angiogenesis and induced immune function increase. CHML was used to treat 592 patients with cancers in clinical trials. Results confirmed the following advantages of CHML treatment: non-toxicity, high response rate, high quality of life, and high survival rate for these patients. The protocols include local injection, arterial drip and intravenous drip to treat cancers of liver, lung, skin, breast, brain glioma, colon and rectum, stomach, head and neck, leukemia, malignant lymphoma, sarcoma, malignant melanoma, myeloma, and metastasis cancers, etc.

Response rates (CR+PR) were as follows: liver cancer 77%, lung cancer 68%, skin cancer 94%, breast cancer 83%, brain glioma 78%, colon and rectum cancer 80%, stomach cancer 50%, head and neck cancer 78%, leukemia 83%, malignant lymphoma 71%, sarcoma 43%, malignant melanoma 67%, and myeloma 50%. No (0) episodes of grade II or above adverse reactions were observed.
Tumblr is a content machine. Killing 90% of your userbase means killing most of your content.
I'm not sure about the US but in Canada it's certainly not true that everyone has data plans (in fact as far as I can tell unless you have a company sponsored phone, data plans are in the minority), and SMS remains a cheap communication method that is more or less guaranteed to work.
From the article they're simply entering the "delivery" market...picking up items from retail stores and transporting them to willing buyers...obviously a markup is implied...the cost of convenience...

There's no holding of inventory...thus no storage-related overhead...

When I was in college one of the jobs I had was at a combination "feed" mill/agri-center...the boss was 85 years old and made a speech each year when he distributed Christmas bonuses....

He bought the business as a young man back in the late 30s...

He never failed to mention that people relied on what we produced in their everyday lives...he was proud of the fact that he had never laid an employee off...

He told us, "People will always want good food when they sit down at the table, and we're part of making that possible..."

A truth in the last century...a truth now...

Investing in providing one of the basics of life...hard to question the logic...
I just compared 3-4 different cars and configurations with pricing on TrueCar.com and TrueCar was always cheaper. In one case TrueCar was cheaper by almost $4k.

It is a known fact now that you can go directly to a dealer and get a better deal than TrueCar these days so wonder if this service really adds any value!!??
If you were robbing people and paying no taxes I'd want the government to do something about it. Likewise when the rich rob everyone and pay no taxes I want the government to do something about it.
From the couple of discussions I've had with Rogers, he seems like he's too grounded and aware of the world to actually pursue weakened encryption. Plus, it would make the IAD half of NSA's mission almost impossible. When I've heard him speak (to mostly non-technical audiences), the systemic issues he laments are not the state of encryption, but talent drain from NSA because of falling short in fulfillment/compensation, and that US companies aren't forthcoming enough about breaches to support quick/comprehensive response.

From my impressions talking to various people who've worked within these sorts of organizations, NSA's two huge problems are loose interpretations of USSID 18 (how much collateral spying/passive collect is too much?) and partnership with organizations to whom USSID 18 does not apply.
"Modern CPUs are designed to exploit data-level parallelism via vectorized operations and SIMD instructions. Arrow facilitates such processing."

How will Arrow use vectorized instructions on the JVM? That seems to be only available to the JIT and JNI, which is a frustrating limitation.
abysmal tooling? ... extremely primitive concurrency support?? Are you talking about Go?
Perhaps instead of a master key, they have a machine to make any specific key. It takes a device ID as in input.

I don't know if that is really practically different than a master key.
Neo: Who are you?
The Architect: I am the Frank Law, the architect. I created the Matrix. I've been waiting for you.

---

Someone please go arrest this voyeur before he deletes the evidence.

If he was some low level engineer i would perceive this as unintentional. That's not the case. Unless the title "chief software engineer" means something else in China... https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-law-2b14b790

From my sleuthing experience, deleting things [the github repository] usually means some kind of wrongdoing; not necessarily related to the erased.

It is my belief this was intentional.
Thanks for this! Firefox alternative: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/hide-unwanted...
I actually haven't looked at pricing for awhile.

Yeah, I should be able to get quad core absolutely garbage SoCs for $5-10 now in sufficient volume.

Still, the LTE modem assembly is going to be a lot more than that.

If they had said maybe a $25 phone? And they were making several million of them? I'd believe it.
Fear of violent crime. I'm not saying it's reasonable (statistically speaking), just that it's there.
No, the quote says the original Polynesian settlers brought the rats, not the much later-arriving Europeans in larger ships.
Why don't you pay your workers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11121092
It's a profound talk, but incomplete in my view. It's mostly that we're culturally far too used to linear and predictable (culturally only because we know very well about randomness, laughter and surprise is wired in our brains). Also, we cannot predict the path, nor the number of possible paths that will approach a given structure.
As Wal-Mart rolls back, Google rolls in.

Sounds a bit "me too" wrt Amazon
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I would like to add that interviewing requires quite different skills from engineering. A good tech interviewer has to be a good engineer, but a good engineer might not be a good interviewer. I have seen good engineers with poor ability to read people, with strong bias of "curse of knowledge". They are more likely to fall for saleperson-typed candidates.

Therefore, a hiring manager should have the ability to tell which engineers are good interviewers, and give more weights to their opinions. Pay extra attention to those interviewers who is more of a big talker and less of a listener, if you have to ask him/her to interview. If one can't be a good listener to his/her teammates, I can't imagine he/she would listen to and observe a stranger with any substantial effort. Unless he/she is a genius in reading people, his/her feedback can be mostly ignored.
Henry Ford, Innovation, and That “Faster Horse” Quote
AKA People who can, do.
It seems to make sense for having a fleet of self-driving cars. I think they're gonna go head to head with Uber within a decade.
I dunno - if you look at the data, there are fairly clear clusters of people who are 'probably good' and 'probably not so good'.

'Programming' is necessary but not sufficient for product engineering and that is what most of these interviews are trying to tease out. Good companies will balance out 'programming' with other rounds like 'technical design' or 'pair programming' or even non-technical rounds with business analysts or product to gauge general ability.
This Biomimetic Anthropomorphic Robot Hand Has to Be Seen to Be Believed
NetApp to Slash 12 Percent of Workforce
There have been many players in this market, old and new. And when you don't have warehouses to automate and extract efficiency, you need people to do the picking. It takes me quite some time to do my own shopping, knowing my store's layout, knowing what I want in advance. I only see low, low margins.

I mean, this is the opposite of self-checkout efficiency. They're putting more people into to the cost of the product/service.
Interestingly Uber say they're in the logistics market too

I wonder if grocery delivery is the MVP for an automated delivery market
It's just a term of art specific to media. There is no conspiracy here.
Google usually operates in high-margin industries. This is the opposite. I've had the "privilege" of working in this one. You're talking all kinds of players working against each other for perceived self-gain with individual companies constantly pushing costs down to the point their staff can barely break even. And Google intends to compete with that using something with higher cost?

Pretty crazy. I was unsurprised they'd use Costco and Whole Foods while targeting two areas that already pay too much for stuff. Love to see them try that in my area where people go for whatever costs the least most of the time. Lots of true premium services have gone out of business with what's left being those that approximate premium with right compromises to keep cost down. That's probably true across most of the States.

The biggest flaw in all this is what these companies keep ignoring: impulse buying. The big stores put what you need as far away from you as possible. Then, you have to exert physical effort to get to good deals while seeing, at arms reach, all kinds of profitable items. This is a hard to quantify, but big, chunk of grocery revenues. So, these companies doing online deliveries or personal shoppers have to make more money than the competition while leaving out one of most powerful techniques for making money.

Always operating at a disadvantage, there. So, we're not going to see such things proliferate. Those with the most capital, negotiating power with manufacturers, and proven techniques win here. Almost always.
They want your purchase data.
> they're simply entering the "delivery" market...picking up items from retail stores and transporting them to willing buyers

Thus gaining the ability to track a lot more about what people buy/eat, in addition to their their current tracking what people read (google-analytics), where they go (android), etc.

> the cost of convenience...

...plus the long-term cost of giving Google more details about your life.
New firmware finally fixes Surface bugs, but Microsoft should do better
That would make sense if the grocery bags were waiting to be picked up for delivery without that adding any additional cost (as I mentioned, it takes me (quite some) time to do my own shopping, imagine shopping from a list in a store you might be unfamiliar with)

Let's say $300 shopping list (and cost of transport is 0):

Grocery store profit: $6.00

Time to shop for $300 of groceries: 40 mins.

Dollars/hour/40mins: ?

Where is the profit here? $10/mo subscription does not cover it. Ads, coupons?
Per peter303[1] and Google, a Judgment Debtor Examination in federal court is pursuant to Rule 69 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and local rules authorizing magistrates (non-judge judges) to conduct examinations of judgment debtors.

Also see JUDGMENT CREDITOR: MOTION TO COMPEL- SAMPLE OF AUTHORITIES[2] from the US DOJ:

In United States v. Teeple, 286 F.3d 1047 (8th Cir. 2002), the IRS served a summons on an individual taxpayer, because he had failed to file tax returns. When the taxpayer failed to comply with the summons, the United States filed suit to enforce. The district court ordered the summons enforced over the taxpayer's Fifth Amendment objection under the act of production doctrine. The taxpayer was held in contempt for not complying with the enforcement order and was incarcerated.

[1] http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/the-new-bill-collecto...
[2] http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/tax/legacy/2006/0...
So wait, you banned the account? Or you deleted the comment and warned the account?
So sad, I got a nice tplink for my mother and installed openwrt to gain some more control over the device. Unfortunate to see this support go away due to government.
Iran cyberattack planned if negotiations failed
Working at Apple, EBay and IBM Was Nothing Compared to Starting Our Own Company
People like shopping
I did neither; the warning is in lieu of banning.

Users flagged the comment, which causes it to be replaced by "[flagged]" unless you have 'showdead' set to 'yes' in your profile.
I've been having many discussions about this with another engineer friend. Is it really fair to call Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon salaries "market rate". My impression is that they're generally in the top 10% of pay, if not higher.

I think maximizing your compensation is great and everyone should spend some time on it. I just think having expectations of Google pay from a startup is a guaranteed recipe for disappointment. Read: I've heard of zero startups that offer that level of pay.
Agreed. Would be great to get an alert only when the issue is closed. That could also work as a rough voting system.
I don't think you're arguing with me, because that was exactly my point as well?
Lexabyte: Tuning the application front end
Because it's opt-in, not opt-out.
This is my favorite thing about Go.

All language arguments aside, Go coders are usually pragmatic and humble and Go code is usually simple and explicit.
Python Puzzlers – 2016 Edition
When Turkle describes her clients' concern, it's a concern with quality of interaction, not quantity. The studies mentioned later deal with quantity: people who text more spend more time with friends.

I don't blame the researchers for studying this, it's easy to quantify. But it also doesn't provide much insight.
I feel like there is a lot of disrespect for our ancestors when we try to apologize for our "luck" or "privilege".

If one's own parents labored and suffered to create value and provide for their child, does that child not deserve to enjoy the fruits of that labor? If that child honors their parents by continuing a tradition of hard work, albeit more comfortably, why does he need to feel ashamed of his success? At which generation do we disinherit the sacrifices of those who came before us?
Not to knock you or that wonderful project, I actually upvoted your post, but I still have to add this:

> "Charity is the drowning of rights in the shithole of mercy."
-- Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

People have the right to a fair shot at life. When that is achieved, we will not have "done good", we will merely have ceased to do atrocious evil. By which I don't mean to knock generosity and volunteering at all, I really hope my reply doesn't come across that way. Of course it does a lot of good, for all involved parties, and every life saved and every meal or even smile given counts. I still would call it a workaround rather than a solution, in the context of "mercy vs. rights", but it's a workaround that doesn't keep us from looking into long-term fixing of things, so I don't mean it as a "yes, but", but really as an addition.
The "organization" at startups is to do whatever makes sense and to not waste energy on internal politics. Obviously, that requires the founders to be naturally well-aligned in what they do.
Out of curiosity, why would you want to reflash an Ubiquiti AP or router? They tend to be extremely feature rich, since they target enterprise and professional customers.
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You're looking for go-plus [0]. Set the Format Tool to goimports, check Run Lint Tool on Save, check Run Go Vet Tool on Save, and add these vet arguments: "-shadow=true -shadowstrict=true".

You may have to leave off that last argument for your own sanity. I found that 'shadowstrict' drives you mad at first, but you end up making better code for it -- mirroring my general experience with all the things about go that annoyed me at first.

[0]: https://atom.io/packages/go-
I have a similar experience with interviewing Java developers in offshoring projects, and I started to think like that, until I was involved into similar projects done in other languages and came to the conclusion any mass market programming language suffers from the same sins.
When I was laid up in bed with an injury and used Amazon Fresh for groceries, the impulse-buy was extremely powerful, and took a different form.

Groceries would sometimes be delivered within hours, and plenty of pricey electronics and media could be had simultaneously. Prime now covers much of that draw. Speed is critical to capturing that impulse now.
I don't think there's a conspiracy. I get it's a totally normal thing for in-groups to use slang, and that everyone in the business world does it, and all that. I'm not saying they're evil or out to get us. They're just people doing their thing. But it's still a bullshit term.
Startup times are largely going to be a thing of the past in Java9. Improved code cache, out of the box optional AOT compilation, and the modularization work is going to be great.

I am running several (albeit Kotlin) daemons right now that are using less than 256MB of ram on my machine. Everything on the JVM is configurable.

At some point, I think it's just simply a matter of taste. If you want to be closer to the metal, then Java (and I'd even argue Go) isn't really the right language for that.
Ok. Just link to examples where it works vs modern processors while avoiding failures of Itanium etc. Outside of embedded space or constraints: HPC or at least desktop-grade stuff. That should either strongly support your claim or settle the debate depending on quality of evidence.
What's the difference between Option B and onsite whiteboard coding? Aren't you violating your employment contract all the same?
Unimaginable Revenue Ideas from Successful Social Applications
But there's a metalevel theory there. After spending years failing to learn music, I finally hit a few sweet spots. I couldn't be more wrong before. But knowing how failing can lead to knowing, how being wrong helps you map the possible space to home in the right leads you to a very different approach on discovery.
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So, maybe they're diversifying?...and maybe they're betting on being able to provide a more reliable service...?

They certainly have a bit of capital to burn...
Negative income tax
I dismissed it and only watched it because it was linked on this HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11123374