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I cancelled it because I was buying crap I didn't need. I cancelled it because I noticed the prices of items rising. I cancelled it because I felt guilty about a huge truck delivering an AM radio. I cancelled it because I was having problems with third party sellers.

The real reason I cancelled it; the prices went up. It was slight at first, but after reading feedback, I noticed a trend. They all bought their item at a lower cost than Me.
If the robots don't run a significant risk of crashing, they'll probably lose to those that do.
AWS and Prime are winners. So is marketplace, he says. Maybe financially for Amazon, but from a customer standpoint I think marketplace is a real failure. It's the reason I tell relatives not to buy on Amazon, because several got burned so many times by accidentally buying from dodgy sellers, thinking it was from Amazon.
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If anybody needs an invite I will gladly invite =)
Yes, an Erlang process can be interrupted at any point, unlike Go/Haskell, but this is at the cost of bytecode interpretation. I'm not saying it is bad, but there is a tradeoff.
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or didn't. First time blob downloader was disable Google updated it with new downloader that worked on Debian.
What size/stage are you looking for? There are a lot of groups in this space that are pretty commercial already.
Yeah? Is Wireshark illegal too? Because I could get the same data by taking a pcap.

The bits are on my computer. I get that I can't just go redistributing it (legally), and that youtube probably doesn't _like_ it, but if it's illegal (and honestly, maybe it is in the US given how ridiculous copyright and licensing law is there) that's ridiculous.
Depends on the family. My mom taught me DOS.
Thanks for your reply: i didn't had this problem with the script, maybe because i got a lot of RAM ? Obviously if you got 2GB and start 6 apps with the script your PC will crash. i'll improve my script with your help thanks.
Could you point to a UCSF .edu page validating the mRhythm study and this app's connection to it?
The only thing that irritates me about youtube-dl is that by default it will try download audio and video tracks separately and then remux them on your computer. While it's a cool feature, I don't think this is what most people want 99% of the time.
I think this is the PR so far:

https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/858
guycook's lament is about the findability of the project for laypeople, not about its interface. The interface is not an issue when laypeople can't find the project in the first place.
aria2c is absolutely awesome for dev ops.

A lot of regular download clients got problems if you have 1000+ servers downloading 100MB+ and hit a lot of stragglers. I find aria2c very reliable and performant comparing to other client.
Structured logs are awesome and a great idea. For the next few decades while standards come and go and everyone gets it all implemented across the board, yes it sucks to write grok patterns for the flavor of the week, but once you do it a few times, it takes maybe a few hours of work to get some app cluster with moderately logging flowing into ES with all the right types and all the edge cases accounted for. From there, ELK is such a Swiss Army knife that it's worth the trouble, since then it's e.g. trivial to fire PagerDuty alerts off if you hit some exception-level log lines, or post metrics about your logs, or put them on some queue to flow into some big data pipeline thing.
Seems like a big playground...
Simplest way I know is asking about the employee churn. "How many have quit in last N years"? If it's uncomfortable to ask a manager or recruiter then find a team member and ask.

This is culturally and geographically dependent though. In a tech hub kind if area, holding a job less than a couple of years isn't strange, in my home town where an average tech employee is 45 and not 25, I'd run if the average employment was lower than 5 or 10 years. So it depends.

If a third of the team quits quit last year that's a pretty good sign that the environment is toxic. And it becomes only more toxic since usually the talent leaves first.

Oh: also if you have kids - the killer question is "does everyone in management have kids"?
It's part of the SQL-92 standard http://flylib.com/books/en/4.343.1.38/1/
"It's a reasonable thing to wish for, but it's not a reasonable demand to give in to."

This is a brilliant sentiment, and a brilliant quote. It applies in so many conversations...

I just wanted to express my appreciation (and my intention of stealing this quote many times in the future!).
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Yep. Several CSRs told me "Oh it's out of stock" (not explaining the 404, or no "marketplace" vendors). I escalated. Then I was told the Chromecast was not sold due to "too many complaints". A supervisor then flat out denied that, as well as denied there being any ban on any such product.

I asked about the Apple TV. After other lame "stocking" issues, a supervisor said "oh, we don't have licenses to sell Apple TV" and went on about how there's all sorts of legal issues.

It's vile for a company that's supposedly pro-consumer.
Oh, I meant common within the field of social geography. I noted that they'd talk about shibboleths of various sorts (language, accent, dress, manners). I wouldn't expect your average person to know about it but it's not obscure in any way for the type of article this is.

OTOH, I first heard the term it was from working with academic institutions in the UK, because Shibboleth seems to be the favoured form of SSO there (though apparently it came from the Internet2 group, which is US).

So anyone doing SSO or SAML etc would probably have heard the word and you'd have to be fairly incurious not to look it up :-)
Sure, but it flatly contradicts everything Bezos says in this letter, and elsewhere, about Amazon being customer-focused rather than competitor-focused.

A truly customer-focused company would sell the products its customers wanted, even if they competed with the company's own-brand products. And demand for these competing products would be seen as a spur to improve their own.

I personally don't think the Amazon's talk of customer-focus is entirely marketing fluff, but I do think it's unevenly applied. Petty, anti-customer, monopolistic business practices have been a mainstay of the tech industry for years, and it's inevitable that they would infect Amazon to some extent.
My grandma (and probably my great grandma, I've no idea) grew most of the food she ate.
But lots of people got to feel important along the way and that's what matters
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Chrome is just the framework. Would an application written in Qt or .NET count as a "desktop application" by your definition? Chrome seems like a pretty sensible choice for a team with limited resources considering its portability and large existing install base.
FWIW

> Since the end of April 2015 and version 2015.04.26 youtube-dl uses -f bestvideo+bestaudio/best as default format selection […] If ffmpeg or avconv are installed this results in downloading bestvideo and bestaudio separately and muxing them together into a single file giving the best overall quality available. Otherwise it falls back to best and results in downloading the best available quality served as a single file. best is also needed for videos that don't come from YouTube because they don't provide the audio and video in two different files.
1. Grass isn't always greener elsewhere.

2. You're young and have time to learn from mistakes.

3. Do what you want and don't overthink things.

4. Remember that if you make a move and don't like the new job you might want to find a third job that's good rather than going back to the first one, so try to find a job that's at least as good as the current one before you make a move.
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> join these two tables based on the key relationships I've already defined in my schema

This is almost exactly what "NATURAL JOIN" does. It is like "JOIN USING" with a pre-filled column list.

However, this isn't decided based on the schema, but based on equal column names. So you need to apply the dicipline as noted by the parent comment.

See also the sibling discussion thread at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11450187
All I've been waiting for is the damn thing to actually launch and run!
Been using it for a while. Great for hacks, downloading 360 VR videos, downloading all videos for a channel.

Was happy to see it here, it's nothing new, just a great tool, great job of surfacing it HN!
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That's been the default since April 2015,so `youtube-dl url...` is sufficient to get either the best single-file video (if no ffmpeg installed or non-youtube video) or to get both the best video and the best audio remuxed.
I have a backburner project: stream a Twitter search for 'youtube', extract the most talked-about videos, then download and create movie barcodes[0] for them.

[0] With my script: http://timbennett.github.io/movie-barcodes/
I'd have more sympathy if youtube hadn't removed the "preloading" feature on the android app - I was an avid user of this feature for train journeys where I have little signal. Now I'm using downloaders. These sort of violations are always of the company's own making.
Link in Apply HN is wrong
More link at bottom of https://news.ycombinator.com/applyhn is wrong.

https://news.ycombinator.com/apply?p=2

should be

https://news.ycombinator.com/applyhn?p=2
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What's wrong with right-click?
It's not an arbitrary dataset. To be taken seriously you need to beat SOTA on several standard benchmark datasets where only reaching SOTA on one is already hard.

Or alternatively, reach comparable level of validation accuracy with significantly less compute or memory usage (computational complexity).

Or alternatively, reach comparable level of validation accuracy with only a subset of labeled samples + unlabeled samples (sample complexity).
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The limitations we find in HK are broadly the same in every big, old city -- New York, Boston, London, Tokyo, Istanbul, and most any other place that got its start as a major population center before the early 1900s.

Even if we throw out tunneled trains, something like Chicago's El will be miles more efficient in a dense urban core than trying to cram thousands more cars into streets that weren't designed for them.
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I believe you are correct! I was wondering about this too.
Very true. Only Rembrandt could paint a "new Rembrandt". This is just a very good imitation - not that that makes it any less impressive as a technical achievement.
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Indeed, this is also what always annoyed me.

I suspect that this has to do with the fact that NATURAL JOIN is intended to work for sub-SELECTs and VIEWs, too. On those, it is quite hard and error-prone to determine "foreign key" equivalents.

Also note that restricting NATURAL JOINs to tables wouldn't be a good solution here, either, because that would prevent you from ever JOINing more than 2 tables: When JOINing 3 tables, you effectively do have some kind of sub SELECT after having joined the first two tables, which is then supposed to be joined with the third one.
The best way to detect this is to see the working conditions for current developers. Then notice the vibe around the room.

Smiling people are a good sign. People that come to greet you and talk to you (even if you are not yet hired) are also a good sign.

Refusal of that tour is a bad sign. People that seem grumpy, tired, or angry is a bad sign as well.

You could also find a developer in the company cafeteria (or something similar) after the interview finishes and ask him/her about the company
Edit: this (old) tutorial shows how you can do it yourself: http://zarria.net/nrmphoto/nrmphoto.html

I think a flat bed scanner is great for creating those maps.
Just scan your peace 4 times each time rotating it 90 degrees.
I'm amazed many people do not know about it, considering it is installed via brew together with mpv, lol.
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I use this rule for business, it never failed me:

If you have a doubt, there is no doubt.
I like it!

There's a professional AI racing series being planned at the moment. The FIA Roborace [0] will be travelling along with the Formula E championship races in a year or two (their initial schedule is very ambitious). But it's quite a different beast, a 2200 lbs downforce racing car that should be able to do 100 mph+.

But this stuff should be doable by amateurs (with a few bucks in their pockets) or student teams. All the best for OP's effort, I look forward to seeing footage from your races!

And if you act quick, you might be able to beat the FIA RoboRace and become the world's first autonomous full-scale racing series!

[0] http://roborace.com/
The old backprop from the 80's / 90's is still in use and the primary way to train deep nets. We tend to call it SGD (on a composition of differentiable functions) nowadays but it's the same algorithm.
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The textbook example of how bad cases (or pretexts?) make bad law.
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Interesting article but I think the demand side also needs some more reexamination. It is very strange that SV mantra is "teams need to move there". Doubly silly since we're mostly talking about software companies. If you break that mentality some of the demand issues will go away.

It feels like a very dogmatic mantra "it just works better". VCs should try to reexamine and disrupt startup financing by not being clustered in one place (which is one of the top arguments for moving to SV other than talent pol being there which is kind of self fulfilling).

"Move to where your initial customers live" would be a decent counter-mantra. Make it a differentiator as a VC that you come to the startup and don't make them come to you.
I do trust OWS (although I'd like if they made the Signal iOS app build reproducible - there's an issue report about it). But I don't trust the people I'm conversing with, and they need my phone number to reach me on Signal. I guess I could use Google Voice or another service to register an anonymous phone number, but that's not a great UX, especially if I'm recommending the same procedure to the person I'm conversing with. (Oh, and the app doesn't seem to support multiple identities... I really should just look elsewhere, I suppose. It's just that I have a lot more faith in OWS's ability to deliver properly engineered systems than, well, anyone else's.)
SMPlayer, which I use, includes some sort of yt downloader, not that I ever used it.

As for the SEO - I haven't had any problems in the last years. First or second hit was a working webpage that gave me the downlaod url (not much options though).
I'm pretty sure the '-f best' setting is the default for updated versions of ytdl, so no real need for that.
> When React is big pretty much all their selling points go out the window

You can't be serious. React's selling point for me is that it enables me to write web apps in a whole new way. Coming from an Angular background it's amazing how much cleaner, better and more pleasant it is to work with React. To bring up file size as the main selling point is just ridiculous.
This is about 2 steps longer than most family member capabilities.
I'd have to agree with you. I cant see how the fitbit data was important in the decision making process.. it was mostly just an extra confirmation. Definitely something the patient can verbally provide to the care team in most situations.
New Zealand is a state of Australia, so if you could enable it here too that would be great.
This makes the assumption that secrecy is 'bad.' Tax evasion is illegal; secrecy is not.

On another note, nearly all of Silicon Valley uses Delaware corporations and it isn't about secrecy inasmuch as its about legal protection and lower costs. Anyone even remotely interested in using Stripe Atlas is participating in using the advantages of Delaware.

Delaware has a minimum franchise tax of $250; California's is a minimum of $800.

Delaware also has a highly developed canon of corporate law precedents, so legal outcomes are far more predictable. You also have easier exits since in California, a majority of each share class is required to effect a corporate change, such as a merger, acquisition or IPO. So common stock holders could veto an exit even if preferred classes vote 100% for the exit. So one guy has one share of common stock and another guy has 50k shares of another class.. The common guy, with his one share could block an exit, since ÇA law requires a majority of each share class.

If you want to reduce the attractiveness of Delaware, increase the attractiveness of the alternatives, lower fees, lower taxes, increase predictability in legal outcomes and become more 'friendly' to corporations. It would be interesting to see how many Valley startups would stay in CA if they were forced to incorporate in CA. I would suspect that Vegas would become the new San Jose.
> Not sure who is doing big data with Erlang, or why anyone would want to

Riak?
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How will you make money? You made no mention of it in the post, and it would really surprise me if there's enough money in this market for you to be able to deliver the sort of return VCs are looking for. This may be a better candidate for YC's nonprofit track.
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Then Amazon is going to have to become much much better.

I live in London, UK and do not use Prime. I've almost stopped using Amazon altogether now.

Why?

1. Delivery - For our flat, their network either fails to deliver, mis-delivers or screws up in some other way far more than they succeed. There is no option to choose the one postal service that shines for my property: Royal Mail. Anything I order from Amazon may turn up eventually, but certainly isn't going to arrive whenever they claim. This is my #1 reason for abandoning Amazon.

2. Range and choice - Either you can't find what you want (the range within cycling for example is extremely limited) and have to look elsewhere, or you're swamped with marketplace sellers and what feels like a million grey goods. The Google engineer's "Which USB type-C cables are good" illustrates the sheer number of items that are of shoddy quality but are represented on the site as being of quality. There is simply, too much crap and not enough quality.

3. Price - I simply don't find Amazon the cheapest at almost anything. On their site it looks cheaper, always discounted, but if you take the manufacturers' SKU and Google it one quickly finds a whole load of places selling it for the same price or cheaper, also with free postage, or cheaper to the point that postage is irrelevant.

4. Bundling - Amazon Prime Video really isn't as good as Netflix, Amazon Prime Now isn't beating Shutl for me in London https://shutl.com/uk/, free postage hasn't been compelling (point #3)... but somehow bundling all of these things together into an
~£80 per year subscription is supposed to make a range of sub-par offerings value for money?

5. Warranty - I've purchased things on Amazon Prime, thinking they were covered by Amazon's customer service, only to discover that the obscure market place seller is really the seller and so my warranty complaints go back to them. They've been overseas and uninterested, and I've had to simply write-off the value of those items. If I buy elsewhere I can factor this in a lot more and choose a reputable seller. Depending on the item, i.e. I recently purchased a 40" 4K Sony TV, then I really want to be sure these high value items are going to be covered by a company that delivers great customer service... John Lewis in my case. There needs to be a Public Service Announcement in the photography section for the sheer number of lens that wouldn't be covered by warranty.

I actually view Prime as nothing more than a hook, to keep shoppers too lazy to look around under a spell of "this is a bargain, you're receiving great value".

In reality what Amazon once was is a long way from what they now are and Prime is a mask for that.
I interviewed at one place where the manager who was supposed to see me turned up an hour late, sweaty from a cycle ride and said I was too early. He consistently got my name wrong during the remaining half hour, and poured scorn on his current reports.

- If during the interview, they ask you if you have 'firing skills' and how you motivate unmotivated staff, that's a strong indicator also. The company was based 20 seconds from the edge of a airport runway. Repeatedly during the interview, we had to stop talking as the noise from jet engines wouldn't allow normal conversation.
Using Wireshark is sort of illegal in Germany.
Maybe they switch to alternatives (larger, further away) at around this price level. Other commentators have noted that you don't pay much less further away, just get much more house than you need. An increase in supply and subsequent drop in prices would be absorbed immediately given the other conditions (appears to be the claim).
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Erlang's fault-tolerance becomes really useful when you wrote a server that manage hundreds of thousands of simultaneous connections (a chat server being the typical example). With Erlang, each connection is managed by its own lightweight process (no callbacks, no promises, etc.). If a lightweight process fails, it doesn't bring down the other processes. Moreover, BEAM can signal other processes about the failed process (Erlang' supervision trees are based on this mechanism).

In a traditional architecture, you would use one thread for each connection (let's ignore the issue of the memory used by each thread), but when one thread fails, it would bring down all connections instead of just the failing one.
You might want to change the name if you don't want to be associated with the largest online drug marketplace.