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> 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.

Very few online stores give you a choice of delivery service. For me Royal Mail are the absolute worst (DPD are ideal, others are close), but it seems to vary by area. I find Amazon gives you a lot more choice than any of their competitors (they integrate with four or more different "collect a parcel from here" services, in London you can almost always find a pickup location very close to wherever you are). I mean if you live somewhere where Royal Mail are better than XYZ then a Royal Mail-only store is better for you than Amazon, but I don't think anyone's better in general. (Also in London you have Prime Now as an option).

> Either you can't find what you want (the range within cycling for example is extremely limited) and have to look elsewhere

Oh? A week ago I was looking for some specific bike accessories (to go with a specialized bike that I'd bought from the one shop in London (perhaps even in Britain), but even they didn't have the accessories for it); on ebay they were badly described and the range wasn't good. Amazon had what I needed. Maybe a specialized online bike store would have an even better range, but I don't want to have to figure out and trust a new store for every product category I might want to buy; I want a generalist, and Amazon is good at that.

> 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?

Doesn't it? Their video isn't as good as Netflix, their music isn't as good as Spotify, I'll take your word for it that Shutl is better - but a year's subscription to Netflix and Spotify and Shutl and ... would cost a fair bit more than GPB80, the Amazon options are good enough a lot of the time, and having it all integrated in one place is valuable.

> 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.

I would agree that the UI isn't as obvious as it might be, but it's still pretty easy to see who the seller is

> They've been overseas and uninterested, and I've had to simply write-off the value of those items.

What? No. If they're not honouring their warranty, do a credit card chargeback.
I suspect a lot of the current griping over hiring practices is due to this. Small companies cargo-cult hiring practices from Google/Amazon/Apple/Facebook, but they forget that these companies have huge numbers of good applicants who are willing to jump through hoops just for the opportunity to have $BIGNAME on their resume.
So thats why so many frontpage articles on HN are blogspam versions of comments copy-pasted from reddit threads, in contrast to linking the actual threads directly? That explains a lot.
Wouldn’t work here. I’ve been to the housing meetings.

Basically, if San Francisco tried that, then the entire affordable housing budget would be taken up just buying enough land. As it is, the mayor’s office of housing and community development is going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on maybe a few thousand units. Not very efficient, and not nearly enough to make a major impact on the housing crisis.

Streamline the process, and you get branded as a traitor to the people and undoubtedly a peon of the greedy and corrupt developers.
Who did before? Also, this solution would work with a newer release of wkhtmltopdf.
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Oh god yes. At one company, I'd see an article trending on HN and think, "Oh fuck, some suck-up's gonna email to everyone, and the CTO will publicly pat him on the head for confirming his prejudices."
Apply HN: the off grid tech park
Problem: Developers are often pressured into a life of working on less-than-interesting projects because the pay is steady.

Solution: Make living more affordable and reduce the pressure to generate income by developing an off grid tech park which will become a lifelong network of developers, engineers and permaculture enthusiasts.

What I've done so far: In 2015 I set up an LLC and purchased 5 acres (2.5 hours from Los Angeles) of amazing land. I have lived there for months at a time with another developer - other developers have stopped by for hackathons and summits.

What the goal is: create a place for developers, newcomers, engineers and entrepreneurs to come together and ALWAYS have a place to live and learn. A place to try all your cool projects without the fear of failure.

Business model: Tech park and incubator model. I've left this intentionally vague as this business aspect of this concept needs the most attention. I am certain there is a good way to capitalize and it will be shaped in part by early members.

Why now is the right time: there is a perfect storm for developers: a lot of us can make money remotely. An internet connection in remote areas is now affordable and fast. Solar technology prices are plummeting. The permaculture movement has given us mountains of useful literature over the last decade. Land that was almost unusable for a tech park 20 years ago is now prime.

There's also a big future in bringing technology experts and permaculture together - these two disciplines need to mingle more and I believe working off grid brings the necessity that leads to innovation.

I do realize that there's a lot of pitfalls in anything involving land ownership as well as developing communities - my commitment is to bring on legal experts which is another reason I think YC would be so helpful.

Edit* here's a dropbox with some images, all taken from the land. Also a video with some coyotes. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/vvu448eyg1887l7/AAAPu488tKIdnPfHI...
> AFAIK, Erlang is still (as of 2016) the only distributed actor model implementation with preemptive scheduler.

It is one of the open issues with Golang.

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/11462

User aclements notes:

> @GoranP, you can think of the Go scheduler as being partially preemptive. It's by no means fully cooperative, since user code generally has no control over scheduling points, but it's also not able to preempt at arbitrary points. Currently, the general rule is that it can preempt at function calls, since at that point there's very little state to save or restore, which makes preemption very fast and dramatically simplifies some aspects of garbage collection. Your loop happens to contain none of these controlled preemption points, which is why the scheduler can't preempt it, but as @davecheney mentioned, this is fairly uncommon in real code (though by no means unheard of). We would like to detect loops like this and insert preemption points, but that work just hasn't happened yet.
But with third party apps they can't do user tracking or showing ads everywhere.
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Overengineered workarounds for peoples (access) rules where an alternative is cc/cv away. That brings nothing to anyone.
Ask HN: At what point does your side project become your job?
I run www.propertywizard.io and also work full-time. I launched in December and I am at £544 monthly recurring revenue. The cost to run is roughly £1k a year, so I'm profitable if you don't take into account my time.

I have a child and a mortgage to upkeep so I cannot leave my job until it is making significantly more, however, I know it needs my full attention to reach that stage.

What would you do?

I'm wondering if I should seek investment to cover my living costs. I'm not sure investors would be happy knowing their money is literally buying my time?
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How did you get the WhatsApp integration?
> The problem is so bad, I know lots of people - myself
> included - who hunt for projects first on Github, and
> Google a distant second.

Seriously?

I search with `site:github.com` all the time.
Sure, but that's not the point, the point is most people are intimidated by a command line and don't want to have to learn it to accomplish the thing they're trying to do
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I'd like to add a quick note:

This project is in very early stages - I was going to wait a year before even pitching it to anyone. My big concern is in people uprooting their lives to join something that's not a sure thing yet.

That being said - all are welcome to visit or work there with us - PM me to schedule a visit if you want.
I think they should do the opposite. Even as a young guy their product is very valuable, or was, but they're destroying it piecemeal, closing the unprofitable services and not realizing that the value came from having all those services in one place.

They need to massively cut costs and write down a lot of their value. Their portal with all their services could easily be a cashflow-positive sustainable business. But because they were once big they're not willing to do what it takes to be sustainable now that they're small; instead they're selling off all the good bits to fund wasteful moonshots.
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People shop around to get the best deal, especially on large or ongoing expenses.

Corporations shop around to get the best incorporation deal, which includes taxes, knobs on taxes, import/export regulations, legal climate, etc.

If X shops around and finds a legal means of getting what they need cheaper, they go for it, whether X is a person or a company.

Both at the personal and corporate level, the more financially well-off you are, the wider your shopping reach is. For somebody making $30k/year, a couple of percent difference in exchange for upheaving your life isn't going to be worth it. But for some entity making $300M/year, a couple of percent is a lot of money, and it's worth seeing what they can do to shave those points off their taxes. People with a lot of money also have much more mobility to move to a lower tax area of their choosing, and still travel where they want.

So in the comparison to shopping around, you really can't fault this type of corporate action, until they actually go illegal. You need to deal with the incentive structure these people & companies are looking at from their perspective if you want their money to stay in your jurisdiction.
Teaching people is incredibly hard and usually does not work. For years and years we have tried teaching people about gpg and it has done nothing.

Its also incredibly difficult to make federation work, amd even harder when you want to hidemeta data. I am sure OWS would love to develop solutions for all of those, but they simply do not have time for it, not because the want to protect their costumers.

Its opensource, and you can send them a pull request where you solve federation. Currently you sound like an intiteled brat who does not understand the concept of time constraints.
Or I can just create a new account like I've done for years. For a guy who's been moderating this website for years you're pretty silly.
FWIW, mpv (a very good fork of mplayer) integrates youtube-dl by default. So you can do `mpv "https://youtube.com/..."`.

In fact, VLC does too.
I actually emailed Amazon asking for other couriers to be an option as I hate everything about royal mail. They "lose" loads of mail, they lie by posting "you weren't in" cards when I'm working from home all day specifically to receive a parcel and if you want to pick up a failed delivery you have to travel at inconvenient times to a hard to get to location. This was around the time Amazon dropped them for certain categories of delivery; I doubt I had much, if any, impact on their decision but it felt good. When I've used other companies I've literally been able to follow the van on a map on real time, and my heart always sinks when having ordered an item and clicked on the tracking button I see "tracking isn't available on this item" as it means royal mail will be involved. They only survive because of being a state monopoly which also benefits from junk mail which they require to stay a viable business.
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I'm not going to take a letter that uses silly names seriously. That's grade-school rhetoric.
but manually downloading each image/webm in a thread is not fun. i resort to use httrack and it works wonderfully.
>Seriously?

>I search with `site:github.com` all the time.

Yup - I find that Google's index isn't always as fresh as Github's, and being able to filter by code vs. repository vs. issues and then by language if necessary is a great help.

Basically, for me, finding open-source projects is a real unsolved problem!
what is the point of taxing corporations?

Well, then just tax the income of the employees and shareholders!

But what is the point of taxing income? After all, they have to spend that money sooner or later to buy things. So instead just have a sales tax!

And away we go: you can chase down a bunch of rabbit holes of "why tax this when sooner later people have to do that, you could just tax that instead!" and end up with cycles of taxing corporate profits, taxing incomes, taxing sales, taxing land...

The real issue is that the only reliable way we know of to maintain civilization is to have some sort of government. Whether you want it to be ultra-minimal or not actually makes no difference, since even a "contract and property-rights enforcement and nothing else" minimal government still needs some money to run, and can't just rely on random charitable donations. So it will sooner or later have to capture some percentage of the value generated by its presence in order to fund itself, and that means tax.

But the instant you tax one thing, people find a way to avoid it and do some other thing instead. So you tax the other thing, and then the thing they go to after that, and sooner or later you have to have at least a nominal tax on everything just to cover all the bases and make it impossible to (legally) completely avoid taxation. Which in turn means the question is not "why do we tax this", but "what is the correct balance of how much to tax this vs. how much to tax that vs. how much to tax that other thing, in order to achieve the revenue necessary to support the government we've decided to have".
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It strikes me that with Microsoft working with Canonical to bring an Ubuntu like command line to Windows that it probably includes something like apt. This doesn't completely address your larger point but it probably would make the process easier.
table.* doesn't really do any better. Database evolves, table's structure changes and you get various bugs and unpredictable behavior. From elusive exceptions to memory hogs to network bottlenecks, depending on DBMS, data itself and data access framework you use.
They'll know you visited the site before? Why would I want to lose functionality to mitigate against that?
San Francisco is around 40% Chinese. If you look at indicators like unemployment, single parent births, education level the Chinese population is as different from the Caucasian population as Caucasians are from Black Americans. Chinese make a very strong and strangely unrecognized contribution to San Francisco economically and socially.
Well it lists 2 pro studies and 1 against, and it's only more then fair to link both sides/proof. But i think this matter is very person specific; and certainly not as black/white as told. Can't find any studies on this that have been done on twins or triplets, for me that would have been more interesting then subjective personal experience(s).

Some people perform better under hard deadlines and pressure, others can't cope with pressure at all. I would not be surprised if same applies to people performing with a lack of rest/sleep.

Though I never said or meant to give the idea that it doesn't have any effect, nor if it always have the same affect. I merely wanted to point out there are quite a few cases, situations where i think being tired does warrant a badge of honour. And that going that extra mile, even when super tired, where others give up is (very) honourable.

And calling it a day, and accepting you can't find a solution that working day, is not very honourable (in my humble opinion). And yes there is more to life then work, but that's not the point i try to make. :)
Absolutely. I'm also an example of that. 15 years ago it was difficult to see my PC tower closed and without the entrails exposed, I was always trying strange Linux distributions and stuff like BSD or BeOS, and I configured everything I could in OSs and programs.

Now, if my hardware fails I just call tech support, I mostly use Windows, I almost never spend more than 5 minutes configuring anything, and any program I need to compile from sources is basically a no-no except if it's something I really need or can't avoid. In fact I'm so lazy that I tend not to install games that aren't on Steam, after being spoiled by Steam anything harder than double clicking to install game in each of my PCs seems like too much work to me.

In other aspects I don't think I'm so different from 15 years ago, this laziness with technology may be the aspect where I think age has manifested the most!
From the business customer standpoint, any company that has a location-based element in their daily activities may stream their data through the engine. It in turn performs continuous clustering on the data and displays real-time results on an interactive map. By using the map's features the company analysts may, for example:

1) See the details (count with demographic info) of the flow of people congregated within their selected polygon boundaries.

2) Set handlers that monitor any given area for unexpected behavior and respond to changes automatically by invoking their predefined logic (ex. a retailer gets notified of an unexpected increase of customers at a shop and may want to take action by notifying suppliers or deciding to offer a sale at good prices).

3) View snapshots of the map's history to identify trends of people masses. For example, a large company would want to know if people congregation is increasing within their area of interest over the years, months, days, or not.

4) We hope to push forward from the [3] use case and simulate future behavior of masses by performing deep learning. This could enable predictive analytic as a potential use case as well.

The beauty also comes from the point that such information, we believe, is invaluable to governments, defense agencies and any researchers in general. In return for reduced SaaS expenses, companies can donate anonymized data to the public engine. This way we can collect data from multiple different angles and, basically, approximate the behavior of the entire population. This public map would be available for all to use, including the data generating users themselves, if they wish. We hope to classify congregations to identify the reasons of their formation. Users want to find what people are up to and what is the most trending at the moment - maybe it's that free concert at Old Town tonight. Governments want to see that the concert gathered 100 000 people and growing - way more than was expected, maybe some additional forces should be allocated for peace-keeping. Maybe some locations form constant traffic jams or some regions of the city are just too densely populated - this could help in urban planning for users just like yourself!
Not to mention potential web or mobile applications that could be built on top of this.

We see many use cases for the engine and understand that some may even emerge completely unexpectedly as the project grows. That is why our main goal for the moment is to build out the engine topology itself and then enhance it with analytical features demanded by our clients/users/community.

If You would like to know more about this, do not hesitate to ask. Thank You for the questions, btw!
Right, but their tagline suggests that their primary customers will be public defenders. I don't know much about that market, but I doubt that they have much of a budget for tools like this.
They've started sending doctors, cops, clerks, etc. to jail for taking bribes. They're encouraging people to organize stings when asked for money. It is a struggle but things are actually changing.

You have to remember that Romania wasn't all that "clean" even before Communists came and Communism is basically "the state as a criminal organization". Old habits die hard.
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

1. Impose tax on corporate revenues, not profits

2. Regulate market capitalization of corporations
By the way, those 7.8Kb of Mithril include stuff that React doesn't have: router, fetcher, promise implementation.
Reddit is a massively double edged sword. I hang out in some of the video game subs like /r/3DS and /r/PS4. The communities there are nice and well moderated.

Then there's /r/TheRedPill, /r/KotakuInAction, and several other bastions of racism, homophobia, and misogyny. My personal use of the site makes for a strange sort of dilemma. Unfortunately, the gaming subreddits are really the best place to keep track of all the disparate news sources for my favored platforms. :-/
Sequential order IDs are also mandatory in Germany. At least I remember that we had to make sure in one project that the order IDs had no gaps and were sequential.
This will be far more exciting to watch than regular racing. Look at Formula 1, they keep changing the rules in order to gimp the cars for safety reasons. Get rid of the drivers and we can let go of the safety limitations.
XML is not meant to be written primarily by hand (although I agree some XML languages could be more elegant). The markup part of XML is for the machine; if you remove it from your example, you'll get x=−b±b2−4ac2a, which is, basically, the text content that was meant for the humans.

Now, as a machine language XML is much better than troff or TeX, because it's very easy to parse: it's basically a syntax tree, the result of parsing those other formats, you don't even really parse it, just deserialize. Naturally, it's a very good interchange format. Technically it would be a much better option than a full-fledged JavaScript parser and typesetter because it would've removed the parsing part. (And this is only one of the advantages.)
It seems more that we now have a snapshot of Rembrant as he was when he died. Assuming that the man were immortal somehow, his style would continue to progress, each painting building upon the last. If this algorithm were to do that, it'd just be deviating from what we now consider a Rembrant. I don't think we'd appreciate when an algorithm spitting out pictures akin to Picassos Rose Period suddenly decided that Cubism was more his thing.
Also, coroutines (while also cool; I admire Go and its efforts to bring concurrency to the masses) are not actors. Actors can be persistent and have lifecycle.
Cool, that sounds like some legit concerns to me. It's a shame that we can't install a shared lib for electron, but then perhaps thats the browser...