skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the consumer can only gain from such entries into the market. AmazonBasic products are often just a standardization of a simple product in a market with too many options. Consumers trust Amazon to deliver on their promises and when confronted with a choice between 800+ USB hubs, I'll choose the cheapest option that is guaranteed to work. There is almost 0 utility for the consumer in choosing a "better" USB hub than AmazonBasic's offering but the downside of choosing a "no-name" hub is measurably significant.

The genius in AmazonBasic concept was in realizing that building the better mousetrap doesn't always mean building the best mousetrap, it means building the best mousetrap for the price. There are so many goods with a market that falls into just two categories, ones that work and ones that don't. Whichever brand is able to gain consumers trust in knowing their offering will work will quickly rise to dominate such a market.
What does it say about the world we live in where blogs do more basic journalism than CNN? All that one would have had to do is read the report actually provided.

I don't think I'm being too extreme when I say that, apart from maybe PBS, there is no reputable source of news in America. If you don't believe me, pick a random story, watch it as it gets rewritten a million times through Reuters, then check back on the facts of the story one year later. A news story gets twisted to promote some narrative that will sell papers, and when the facts of the story are finally verified (usually not by the news themselves, but lawyers or courts or whoever), the story is dropped and never reported on again.

Again, if the only thing a reporter had to do was read the report to find the facts of the case to verify what is and isn't true, what the fuck is even the point of a news agency?
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Millions of lives are more important than a few "local economies".
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A well-timed announcement for April 20th. ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture)
If you have a successful product there will always be a competitor. I think that is a good thing.
In principle why should it matter whether a particular species is native or invasive? Regardless of whether a particular species spread to an area naturally or were introduced by humans we have to deal with them as they exist today. And certainly some mosquito species are invasive to the areas where they live now.
Those are stats for the Apple TV third generation. The fourth generation is significantly different and uses more power but it's hard for me to find an exact official number from Apple. I don't think it's much more though.
Some laptops had similar issues (e.g., a Lenovo, whose support issues caused me to rage-quit Lenovo products forever).
Millions of people if you go back a few years
First, it's on the same page. The discussion of Liam starts 3 lines below the number 2204.

Second, the video clearly states that the gold from iPhones is recycled. It would be clearer to say that the phone parts which happen to contain gold are put into refurbished phones. It's not extracting the gold at all, and that's why it's misleading.
Jackson wasn't a founder, so that last question is a little odd.
TL;DR

Per legal requirements (and at a loss), Apple recycles monitors and computers, but not iphones.

Summary-of-summary: 15 words. 5 seconds.
I suspect that there is a tendency for people to use the term "tl;dr" when what they're looking for is "abstract". But I don't know if that's what EliRivers had in mind.
Code is here:

https://github.com/jcjohnson/densecap
Biased against what? Science? How long until we get rid of the 'religion is against science' narrative?
and botflies, no-see-ums, and black flies.

I hate those bastards. I don't care if it causes an eco-catastrophe. Just don't want to be bitten anymore.
Google Apps users are spending a lot more time in SaaS apps, says new research
I'm not in the US, but if it's anywhere similar to the situation I live in, media outlets will either:

1. Make a small apology for not sharing the truth that's not going to be very visible on their website.

2. Just ignore the facts. Their work is done, they're moving on to different stories and pretty much forgetting this one.

Now, if 1st case happens, and it happens very rarely, you can bet that the apology is not going to be read by as large amount of people as the original story was. Therefore, a lie will become a "fact" in the eyes of regular people.

Example: the most popular newspapers in one European country next to mine shared screenshots of a very popular porn actress's video, but claimed that it were porn videos of the (female) president of the country next to it.

Of course, this was a blatant lie, the head of that news outlet made a public apology (over Twitter for sure, not sure if he did it over his news outlet), but if you ask Regular Joe, that story still remains true, because the apology made nowhere near the impact as the original story did (as you can imagine).
I wonder if the best way to get them to change though, isn't to sue for damages suffered from their deceptive business practices.

It's also definitely a licensing issue for their pharmacists. If they can't store and handle customer records (special needs, interactions, etc) they shouldn't be in business.
Star.Ships – occult history that aims to provide, “the restoration of context.”
STFU, Bob! I don't want to read an entire article.
Can we go shorter?
Intel Begins Shipping Xeon Chips with FPGA Accelerators
The Danger of a Single Story
A British friend told me to mostly ignore articles from The Daily Mail because they were British equivalent of US tabloids like National Enquirier. Worth keeping in mind here.
As a data analyst the best data repositories have the least features
A couple thoughts:

- With Redshift, you can just click a couple buttons in the AWS console to create a new DB and try it out. When you're done experimenting, you can shut it off.

- Citus is open source, so you can experiment on your own hardware.

- If you already have data as CSVs in an S3 bucket, it's a couple SQL commands to load it into Redshift. I don't see as nice an import option for Citus.

- Citus is designed to support mixing operational and analytic workloads. Redshift is just for analytics.

- Citus Cloud plans start at $1,800/month. Redshift clusters can be made a lot cheaper by snapshotting and spinning them down when not in use.
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Twinfie is a real-time Selfie app, in which you and your friends selfies are taken at exactly the same time and are beautifully stitched together instantly. Every Twinfie is unique, full of surprises and guaranteed to bring a smile on your face every time.

Download at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/twinfie/id1067607201?mt=8

Explainer Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSDEMd9-nog
Is this an observation or have you done/seen this in action?

I ask because for my next project I'd like to tackle the issue of having to keep lots of Databases up to date with their stored procedures. Kind of wanted a common library of procs that any DB can access. I've seen third party Software do DB versioning etc but too expensive for me. A few do it via package management, but keen to see how others are doing it!
The problem is that fields don't advance in a continuous process, but its in bursts of stop and go. This state with a lack of progress and entrenched thought schools is prelude to another fracking of the unknown. Somebody in all this science looks on the "outliers" and will connect the dots.
And the truth is, that not the science community grants the ultimate reward- but society and economics, via application.

You can assemble a thousand followers, claiming that electrons are little golden dwarfs, running through the metal if fed with potatoes, but the world wants chips without chips, so what hinders science? Globalization, border-lessness, in a ironic twist, cause where can that industrial revolution flourish and reward overcome all prejudices?
When the potato religion/ideology is the same everywhere, there is noway to run too for the first battery maker.

One of the charlatans is not one. Better to feed a hundred of them, for the one to prevail.
The reason AmazonBasic's offerings tend to dominate their respective markets isn't because they are the cheapest option. They dominate because they are the cheapest option which you can trust to work and continue working for whatever is considered a reasonable lifespan for that category of good.

You're right in that people care about quality, it's just that quality products don't have to cost as much as you think they do.
The open source community is terrible at UX, Android is the first usable mobile OS based on linux with a good UX and I'm typing this from my Ubuntu laptop. Second, Android is already available as open source and there are a few open source distro, they are not thriving. Finally, we're all greedy so let's not be judgmental here :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWsx1X8PV_A
maybe I'm dumb but I'm missing the part where Android is a proprietary trademark.
Mathé's 2-Angel proof is really nice, or at least the summary is appealing -- he imagines a 'nice' devil, shows it can be beaten, then proves that if you can beat the nice devil, you can beat the mean one.

This is one of my favorite problem solving strategies -- reducing to a more obvious solvable situation, then filling in the chinks and gaps to expand back.
Why are there 32 different versions of Node.js?
Security and open source announcements via Twitter
Ambiguity strikes again! (I was as puzzled as you are, but I think I figured it out)

The problem is we don't know what happens after/when we introduce those genes into the environment. Humans are spreading the gene by releasing the modified mosquitoes - not them having offspring.
>How likely would it be for a seller to even be in a position to ship orders from multiple websites in the same box? And how would Amazon find out without buying things on competitor websites and checking return addresses?

Well firstly if you do something stupid like FBA multi-channel fulfilment, AZ may catch on. I don't mean shipping different orders together, I mean shipping from the same warehouse.

If the value is significant, I wouldn't put it past amazon to place a test order. Probably unlikely, but when you're breaking your business agreements, do it properly.

I have heard horror stories of people doing well selling some product buying from the manufacturer, and Amazon went to the manufacturer and bought on condition they don't sell the product to anyone else.
Why You Should Stop Installing Your WebDev Environment Locally
They're also discussing how to commercialize it (and tax it), which is an important aspect of legalization. It's likely that many provinces will choose to control sales through state-controlled companies.
Botbot is nice but does not solve the issue of mass-searchability.
Legalizing sale and taxation through govt supported venues, much like how alcohol is sold in Canada. Still illegal to sell it as an individual without a permit from the govt, as is the case with alcohol in Canada.
I agree with most of your comment, but here are two nitpicks.

>This is what makes the cult of science dangerous, not the word "bitches".

Nobody said that, so there's no need to burn your strawman there.

Science is all about the method and proper use of critical thinking, so you could assume it is a direct contradiction to have a vapid attitude of shitty reposts of forced-meme-tier macros that are often inaccurate, without trying to think about it an instant because it's nice virtue signaling (IFL in a nutshell). But you're right, he could write it explicitly.

There's a nice writeup of this problem on the language log [0], arguing that science is basically filling the role of biblical parables.

>Woo-pushers have appropriated the vocabulary of science indistinguishable to a layperson.

They are not responsible for that, and honestly, nobody is. Recently, I read the description of some machine learning algorithm that was filled with buzzwords and dubious physics analogies to a point that I thought it was a clever Sokal, but after some reading all of it was genuine. That's just how jargon works, you assume that the one who using it understands what he is saying, as long as he's using it seemingly properly, but you can't know unless you have a sufficiently good grasp of the semantics.

[0]http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003847.h...
What Markdown standard does this editor use? Commonmark (http://commonmark.org/), Github Flavored Markdown, or something else? Is it possible to specify which standard to use?
The hard part for physicists to accept is that the theory requires the speed of light to change.

It would be interesting to see how the theory behind the Unruh radiation works with "The quantum vacuum as the origin of the speed of light" (http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.6165#)

Or also MOND (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Newtonian_dynamics) Which also has predictions based on very low accelerations.

It seems like the theories could be related.

(says an ex Nuclear physicist who's now doing computers).
Did you buy or lease it new from the dealership?

Any time I go in for service they ask if I've registered for the package yet and bug me to do so (presumably so I get the dealership card and they know I'll be back).
Passports indeed. Sorry, autocorrect.
Were such systems widespread (and known), people would be pissing and shitting out in the streets. Or you could move to an undeveloped country lacking such infrastructure and encounter more of that same. Interesting case of blowback.

Of course people living off the grid will be quite content with their composting toilets, reminding us that they were right all along.
Amazon isn't manufacturing these products either. They're just cutting out the middleman and going straight to the source in exactly the same manner as grocery stores do with their private labels.
Yeah, as long as it's poor black people and South Americans who cares? </sarcasm>
But then you become a slave of those pesky humans and their whims, while trees grow freely in forests where they didn't face much danger from humans before the industrial revolution.
> It works well for Amazon because they only pay you lots of money once they know you're the type of person that will put up with their unending stream of shit.
In the UK we don't have human-biting mosquitos, yet we still have plenty of dragonflies.
BTW, 268 comments from 2 years ago : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7339092
I can see how this might be helpful to new students. How will you convince students that your course is better than your competitors?
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What were some of the query features that caused you to choose Elasticsearch over pg_trgm, because pg_trgm supports regular expressions out of the box.
That is actually a really good idea. A national lottery to decide who presses the switch. Lots of people will enter.
> First, it's on the same page. The discussion of Liam starts 3 lines below the number 2204.

And 2 lines above the gold it says 61,357,800lbs of total material, in a figure much more clearly connected than the ostensible paragraph.

When Liam is introduced on that page, Apple explicitly says it is "a line of
robots designed to disassemble 1.2 million phones a year." Unless you think the average phone weighs 61 pounds, it's obviously not responsible for the total material recycling chart above.

Nobody could possibly read this report and come away thinking that Liam is recycling millions of dollars of gold.
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I think you're being too extreme.

Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and to a lesser extent the NY Times are all still reputable, even if they all still produce occasional junk. I don't believe there is a single reputable news source on earth, if the qualification is never producing junk articles.
> Since then, something interesting has happened. Various teams around the world have begun to build their own versions of the EmDrive and put them through their paces. And to everyone’s surprise, they’ve begun to reproduce Shawyer’s results. The EmDrive, it seems, really does produce thrust.

That's a misleading statement. I'm passingly familiar with a few of the experiments they're referring to, and none of them both produced significant results and were performed by groups which seemed un-suspect. I'm not aware of any peer reviewed paper on this stuff, and I don't personally know any non-laypeople who believe there is anything actually remarkable happening here.

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> Some of those reporters are contracted to write five or even 10 posts per day. It's not like a NYT or WSJ reporter spending three weeks or three months on one story.

Vice doesn't necessarily fall out of that category either. Smack dab in the middle is the statement:

"I still had outstanding questions, which I asked Apple ... The company has not yet responded."

The number of times I've read a developing story that has had that or similar in it is countless. Apple isn't known to have an army of PR representatives waiting for the next question to come down the pipeline, but it begs the question of how long they waited before publishing the story and just hoping they can update the story later while it's still getting pageviews.
what about stepping down?
Huh? $110k is low. $90k is the starting salary at a lot of companies in the Bay Area for an entry level software engineer.

Myself, I make $160k base salary at a small company in Palo Alto (was offered that at 2.5 years of experience), and know I could've gotten a lot more elsewhere.
The WHO recently declared Europe "malaria free". http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-health-europe-malaria-idUKK...

It seems that at least some of the reason why malaria is so prevalent in sub-Sahara Africa has to do with poor housing, poor management of drainage / sewers, and poor roads.

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jtm/2012/819563/

I'm not ruling out eliminating mosquitoes per se, but the United States and Europe managed to largely eliminate malaria in the 1930s-1940s without eliminating mosquitoes. So before I'd start advocating the elimination of entire subsets of species, I'd ask how the US and Europe were successful in their efforts, and wonder why we can't apply those lessons to the rest of the world. Maybe the money spent in targeting the elimination of mosquitoes (which cause a lot of problems) would be better spent in general health and sanitation (the lack of which also causes a lot of problems), for instance.
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Finally... a place to make sure my left pad module works cross-version.
what about Canada's responsibilities under certain international treaties to prohibit the production and supply of drugs?
Wow... "My wife just lost her job, and I'm not sure how/if I can pay the rent this month. So yeah, I'm right in that category. Only I'm not ashamed, I'm angry."

That's not middle class, that's called living paycheque to paycheque, or hand to mouth.
Node.js has that 60's free love nudist colony experiment feel.
> It was thought that the cold English climate made English stomachs hotter than those of their Mediterranean neighbours and so better able to digest a meat like beef, which was also more tender in England as the cattle fed on pasture.

I see nutrition science hasn't improved much since Shakespeare's time.
Okay, but I've seen my share of various engineers and different people are motivated by different things. That means, I know people who love taking things apart but don't really have much interest in building stuff from scratch. They love to take apart and modify mostly. And I wouldn't classify those I've met as lower-skilled.
This is fascinating stuff. It is also good to see more and more respectable names looking at this. Good things will come from that regardless of the overall outcome of the emdrive.
> often ignoring that their favorite language's libraries/runtime/compilers/vm is most likely implemented in the very same languages they are putting down

I don't see how that's an argument against a language being "superior to C or C++". You can't create a self-hosting compiler for your language without having already created a non-self-hosting compiler for your language. That means every language is going to have to be "bootstrapped" in terms of something else first. C is the usual candidate just because there are a plethora of useful compiler/runtime/vm-ish libraries people like to rely on for "language prototyping" that expose C bindings—and there are very few other languages than C/C++ that have zero-overhead, zero-friction C binding support.

Rust is one of those languages—and it does indeed look like things are going in the direction of new languages getting prototyped/bootstrapped with a Rust compiler/runtime/vm instead.
That's super unlikely to happen. At least with a product like this. Jacking up the price would just encourage other manufacturers to do the same as Amazon: release a cheaper product. What Amazon has done is best for the consumer.
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hahaha touché. I was kinda peeved someone asked me on what grounds I like something (what grounds are needed, we like what we like?) and I thought the best way to turn that around was to ask GFK about what they like (-:
Perhaps I'm an outlier but this was my progression.

Got 90k job out of college in NYC. Worked on a legacy PHP app with some Python, Java, Hadoop occasionally in there.

Negotiated salary to 100k + 10k bonus after one year and good performance reviews.

Next year asked for a bonus increase. 120k total now.

Started getting bored at the job. Asked around, got a 135k offer from another company. Went to my current employer and said if I don't get 150k I'm leaving. They said they could do 140k. I went back to the other company and told them their offer and they gave me 150k.

It has less to do with skillset or language choice than it does with just being able to negotiate and iterate on offers and take the opportunity when you can.
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That's not a backport, that's just a port. Backporting would be converting XBox One games to run on the 360.
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VW to pay each U.S. customer $5,000 to settle dieselgate: Die Welt
"I'm not sure why Julia itself should make it difficult to "do the right thing" when exceptions occur..."

Untyped, sometimes incorrect, exceptions, https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/12485 and related.
Curious word choice: "economic conseqences"

What do you imagine they will be? What about economic benefits?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Convention_on_Narcotic_...

How do they get out of this? I've read that this is a big holdup in US federal drug law reform.
I did. How did I misrepresent it, and how am I overstating the results of the study I cited? How am I abusing the scientific method as a whole? When you make these grandiose claims it would have been nice to provide at least some form of accompanying argument, rather than just stating it as fact.
Ah, that was it. Thanks.
It looks like someone got banned for submitting a PR as a hypothetical solution which a core team member disagreed with, why would I ever contribute to a project like that.

Other people seem to agree on that point: http://danluu.com/julialang/
> Instead of just killing random things

There's nothing random about it, they're the transmitters.

Should we also be against antibiotics? It's just random bacteria.

> Nature evolves. Other mosquitoes and viruses will come

Guess we should have left polio to it's own ends. And all vaccines are disrupting the natural order of things. Best not worry about any of it because there will always be another disease
According to freakonomics, not a single person in the entire world can make a pencil from start to finish.

Now a car? NO WAY, not even Musk.

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/i-pencil/