skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...my orders with free shipping due to price threshold tend to be significantly slower than Prime, often taking weeks for items of all Prime eligible items.

I've had the opposite experience (and posted about it here before). Since I joined Prime last year, I've had issues with the guaranteed 2 day shipping taking 3-4 days or sometimes a week. I don't live in the backwoods either; I'm well within the Atlanta metro area (though not quite inside the perimeter). Before I joined Prime, even a non-Prime eligible item would tend to arrive in 1-2 days.

I did call Amazon about the issue several months ago, and they offered me gift card credit equal to the non-Prime shipping cost of all shipments that didn't meet the guaranteed date, and since then I've only had one late shipment. It definitely pays to contact them about it; I know from working for a company that sells on Amazon that the customer is treated like royalty whenever there's an issue, whether it's with Marketplace or Amazon direct sales.
It looks useful, especially for sharing something confidential with people who aren't fluent in Terminal (e.g.: "pick what I've sent you, copy to Desktop and execute"). Would be nice to get it packaged via brew/apt-get.
The expectations we put upon ourselves or are put on us can be higher than what we can achieve - being moderately well off and intelligent in the richest country in the world makes it very easy to be a disappointment to yourself or others, despite whatever success you may feel - it will never ever be enough.

This is keeping up with the joneses, just instead of the shiny new TV its a more ephemeral "life experiences" and success. Now, with the internet you're not even competing against your neighbor, you're competing against the world. Guess what - the world is always doing something more interesting, being more successful, having more fun than what you're doing. HN in particular exacerbates this issue. For some reading about successes is inspiring - for others it just shows them how far of a gap they have to go.
The number of generated key pair to find "facebook" + keywords must have been gigantic, maybe even so much that it could be used as a kind of rainbow table which would allow people (or three letters agencies) who can access it to attack hidden services that use one of the .onion for which a corresponding private key is known.
The important part, in my view, is "arrested". We have a police force that feels empowered to arrest people for what they say on Twitter and Facebook. And this wasn't the only occasion.

The effect of this kind of thing on what we feel free to say in public shouldn't be ignored.
As someone who buys video games on Amazon relatively often and isn't a Prime member, this is nothing new. Every now and then a game will drop in price a bit but be Prime Exclusive, and then a week or two later it will go back to its original price and be available to everyone again. It's mildly annoying, but I think this article makes it sound like a much bigger deal than it is.
It's not really ironic - Tor is used for spam all the time.
It's not a new idea, but a very effective one. There was an article on here a while ago where someone converted a 5K iMac screen into a "real" picture hanging on the wall, complete with wooden frame and white point shifting:

http://www.claybavor.com/?p=407

discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10900439
I can't speak to the Danish and Canadian media, but the American media also glorify Barack Obama, Malala Yousafzai, Amit Singhal, Russell Wilson, Chris Rock, the Dalai Lama, Beyoncé, Bruno Mars, Prince, etc. Also the only major motion picture depicting Zuck makes him look like kind of an asshole.
> My other objection is that Boaty McBoatface, somehow represents the will of the people. No it doesn't. It represent the will of people who bothered to vote on an issue most people likely don't give a dam about. If a choice was demanded of the whole population then Boaty McBoatface would never have won.

This can be said about the election in pretty much all western societies. There have been several occasions where I myself have not voted in the UK elections. Does it make those elections any less valid? Same can be said for the US as well, where even those who voted found that majority rule didn't matter in the end [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele...]

Maybe we should follow the Australian way where people are forced to vote or face a $100AU fine. But then democracy right, it should give you the right to not vote.
our hugboxes aren't working.
I love that John Carmack took the time to comment on the article, providing some background.
snippets.glot.io glot.io run.glot.io
┌──────────────────┐ http ┌──────────────────┐ http ┌──────────────────┐
│ glot-snippets │◀─────────│ glot-www │─────────▶│ glot-run │
└──────────────────┘ └──────────────────┘ └──────────────────┘
│ │ │
http │ │ http │
▼ ▼ ▼
┌──────────────────┐ ┌──────────────────┐ ┌ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─
│ couchdb │ │ postgresql │ docker │
└──────────────────┘ └──────────────────┘ └ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─

Almost works. I just pasted it as code.
A lot of stuff not up to standard got knocked down in 1989.
There is no Amazon site for Ireland.

I can buy things from any of their sites. However...

- Amazon.co.uk refuses to ship a number of items outside of Great Britain.

- Amazon.com has expensive shipping (obviously), and now this thing.

- Amazon.de doesn't usually help. Besides, I can't read German.

Looking at the Grand Theft Auto example, it's available from Amazon.com but not Amazon.co.uk; the latter, as mentioned, refuses to ship it to me. Amazon.com... might not; I can't tell, now can I? It refuses to let me add to cart without having a Prime membership.

So it looks to me like they've done exactly that.
People not using a relational DB drives me nuts when it clearly is the right tool for the job. Possibly that is his issue. Something that is a perfect match for a relational DB and instead use a "NON-SQL" DB for a project.
No need for a plugin if you are running Linux or OSX:

# Bandwidth trottling, enabling 150kB/s on port 80

sudo ipfw pipe 1 config bw 15KByte/s

sudo ipfw add 1 pipe 1 src-port 80

# Bandwidth trottling, disable

sudo ipfw delete 1

More useful stuff here as well, please star the repo :)
https://github.com/logotype/useful-unix-stuff/blob/master/us...
‘Skywand’ Uses VR and Autonomous Drones to Capture the Perfect Shot
Given only a limited set of inputs in a limited space...

I believe you are making the edge case here, simply because that's where our technology is.

The alternate position is that given a rather larger set of inputs, over a rather larger space, an intelligence could appear to outsiders as being as conscious ans sentient as they are, even though what we're talking about "under the hood" is some simulacrum of sentience, not sentience as we humans experience it.

This is the "if a computer plays chess as well as a human, is the computer really playing chess? Or just mechanically moving things around?"

My point is that with some larger solution space, the question doesn't matter anymore.
Paul Krugman once called elevators "the most efficient mass-transit system ever designed."
> An image built from a reproducible-build-only distribution (if that exists)

Yeah, that'd be amazing. Know of any?
I like how the dying subject of the thread has already asked you to take this elsewhere and you are ignoring his wishes just to proselytize your belief system.

How ironically selfish of you. (Which I don't think you intended, but...)
So you know how the Bush family is in bed with the Saudis (bandar bush for example) - after watching bitter lake i am more convinced the Saudis did it, but the neocon Hawks and bush family was complicit.
I'm curious about this as well, but it seems that the disparity is fairly constant and not just extreme for ages >75. The rate for men is over 4x that of women for ages 15-24 and over 3x that of women for ages 25-44.

There seems to be a variety of possible explanations for the difference [0] (which is common across several countries). One of them is that cultural male gender roles make seeking help a shameful thing, so males are less likely to seek assistance for suicidal thoughts [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_differences_in_suicide
[1] http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00406-003-0397-6#/...
A worse alternative is having an inconsistent and lacking onboarding procedure, where there is no checklist in any form. I've seen that happen, very talented people coming on board and having nothing to do for weeks, not even having a computer ordered for them before they started.
This is true for the right wing too. For instance, I remember Rush Limbaugh talking in 2008 about how he wanted the Obama administration to fail, which unfortunately is a matter of our people failing, our armed forces failing, our businesses failing, etc.
I've used the site in the past when trying to preview distros. Website design aside, it's not bad.

I totally understand the security risk, but really, as long as you're only spending a few hours with the VM to see what the distro is like, exactly how much damage can you do in a VM anyway?

I was thrilled to try FreeBSD with KDE pre-installed to play with, since I had tried previously to manually install a desktop environment on FreeBSD and borked it.
How is this better than using gpg in symmetric mode, perhaps with its own wrapper?
And considering onging projects (webextensions, e10s) it should be fairly obvious that even if they started today it would still be a multi-year project just to get to a point where pain-tolerant users might be willing to use it.
I can't remove them as a user. I can't be sure that they won't add more of this third-party stuff. I can't trust their claims.

This is like the case of online searches on Unity/Ubuntu. A non-essential, irremovable (non-destructively), annoying bit of software on my system.
yup... FT is one of those where you have to google for the article title and click the link from there. The title on FT is the same as the hackernews header. So to read it you can google this:

"Microsoft and Alphabet shed $60bn of value"
How My Dog Saved My Life
This is definitely true. Back in the pre-Prime days (ie, 5+ years ago) Amazon would send your package as soon as they possibly could, and even with the super saver shipping you'd still often get your order less than the minimum 5 days.

Now I'll order something on Amazon (not a Prime member) and they'll sit on the package for a week and then overnight it to me.

I'm not a fan. Paying more for faster shipping didn't used to mean that cheaper/free shipping always took longer, it just meant that you were guaranteed to get it quickly.
FEC reform is the number one thing that the US federal government needs but no member of Congress will ever touch. All presidential campaign funds must be 100% publicly funded. I don't care how much more it taxes onto federal tax or how un-American it is. This shit will never end otherwise.
Exactly. I do memes, cultural references, academic references, and everything else here to liven up dry discussions. Yet, I had no intention of twisting those specific lines into something else because the thread would just get retarded. Like it does elsewhere.

We're here and reading but just like HN quality level to stay where it is. :)
> Another downside is that it's difficult to isolate Ion-aware code from the more general purpose "business logic" in an application, due to the absence of a serialization layer producing/consuming POJOs; instead it's common to read an Ion structure from the wire and access it directly from application logic.

This is indeed a common pitfall, especially since traversing Ion is slow and expensive. I've squeezed up to 30% performance gain by converting Ion data to POJOs up front and just using those.
Using Atomic Design in modern web development
Tell HN: Apparent AWS Issues
FWIW, there are two separate threads [0] [1] on the outages mailing list [2] (starting at ~1719 UTC) discussing AWS issues.

status.aws.amazon.com [3] reports everything is normal, however.

There's also been reports of more widespread issues, affecting Youtube, Reddit, and Twitter.

[0]: https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2016-April/008942.html

[1]: https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2016-April/008943.html

[2]: https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages

[3]: http://status.aws.amazon.com/
Would you mind elaborating on this? I'm afraid I don't know what you mean.
men don't deal with aging as well as women do. cranky old man syndrome is a very real thing
All the data you mentioned was already vacuumed up, "ingested" through the NSA's illegal surveillance dragnet....you know - the one for "fighting terrorism" ?
Looking at the about page, this seems to be maintained by some college kid:
http://www.osboxes.org/about/

So I'd be tempted to cut the guy some slack and assume that any oversights are from inexperience rather than malice.
> Why does it have to appeal to 4 year olds, who have zero understanding of or interest in what it does?

You realise that those 4 year olds grow up right? And that by possibly catching their attention and imagination at an early age it might even make them more interested in the area and maybe, gosh, make them want to become researchers and scientists when they grow up and tackle issues like climate change.

And the very people objecting to it now will be retired, dead or moved onto a more senior position and then care less about it.
Indent each line by four or more spaces.

The markup documentation is linked from the FAQ, and the FAQ is linked from the bottom of each page.
See here for an example of this concept, although this is about buying rather than renting: http://sf.curbed.com/2015/10/8/9913302/victorian-disembowele...
Around OSX 10.4, there was a transition from PowerPC to x86 architecture. It was handled by bundling a JIT interpreter called rosetta [0]. It ran at pretty much the same speed as if you ran it on the original architecture.

They had already done something similar in their first arch transition, 68k => PowerPC [1].

Point is, binary compatible is possible. Far from easy, sure, but it's been done before. The question is, did CPU evolve so much it became impossible to translate from one arch to another ?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(software)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_68k_emulator
Typing out a lengthy phrase on a phone keyboard, without being able to see any visual feedback because the letters are replaced with dots, is an exercise in frustration.

I do this on a regular basis because I have an entire sentence as my LastPass passphrase.
Please don't create a farm of separate accounts to comment with here. HN is a community, and doing that undermines the community. Anonymity is fine, of course, but we need you to participate in the community in good faith, and that means giving your fellow users some kind of identity to relate to.

You've also inundated this thread with many repetitive comments using your different accounts. That's not good. HN is supposed to be about quality, not quantity.

You've also taken the thread off-topic by turning it into a generic screed about "death acceptance culture". When discussions pass from the specific to the generic, and from the personal to the rhetorical, their quality declines.
I agree with the Australian way, so long as there is an option for "Nobody".
Its definitely nice to know (pending, you know, some actual peer-reviewed analysis of this case) that telomere-lengthening treatments are possible in humans, but that's only half of a "successful therapy against human aging." What are the actual health effects? We still understand aging so poorly that no single biomarker really represents "biological age," and certainly there is no scientific consensus on what the root causes are (which may or may not include: telomere degradation, mitochondrial DNA damage, breakdown-resistant protein plaques, weaker epigenetic signalling, and the list goes on.)
Who pays for all the plastic-bags that are floating in the wind on the side of the road?

In any case, a ban is dumb. My state has a plastic-bag tax to pay for the externality. Its minor, and it helps people remember that plastic-bags cause real pollution... without necessarily hitting people with a hammer over it.

Most people move on to reusable bags because of a minor tax. So it was effective as well.
Apparently there was a movie that China didn't approve available on iTunes that might have triggered the stoppage.
It's also the reason why tech people shouldn't be so dismissive of politicians, lawyers or the social sciences: they've been wrangling this shit for hundreds of years.
Sorry, clickable links:

[0]: https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2016-April/008942....

[1]: https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2016-April/008943....

[2]: https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages

[3]: http://status.aws.amazon.com/
Sure, and that's a fair point, but perhaps those humans shouldn't have the authority to impose their whimsies on the entirety of their neighbors because they think it's a good idea.
What are you talking about? Every open source license I can think of requires you to distribute the license with your binary: GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT, Apache, etc.
I'm curious who that custodian would be that would not incite a shit storm.
I did a very nice researched blog post on how to solve homelessness in SF and then decided not to publish it. The problem is that I'm very analytical and logical about solutions to social problems and most people, including the internet mobs, are not. It's very difficult to convince people that what they are doing in the short term is actually disastrous when the thing they are doing satisfies an emotional need they have now. The best we can do is make arguments that shift the burden of responsibility from one civic agency to another.

To answer homelessness, we need to understand the responsibilities of our civic institutions, the limits of their theoretical jurisdictions and the underlying causes of homelessness. Ultimately, your view on who is responsible stems from your understanding of the purpose of different forms of government. My views start from a strict constitutionalist point and then evolve as various judicial outcomes have moved the goalposts.
sure, but people usually obscure their location by using a vpn, not going through the hassle of going through tor.

So what I've written:

>so I find the mashup of tor with facebook to be kind of bizarre.

is even more so if anyone's reason is "I really, really, don't want facebook to know where I am!" I mean I just don't get it. Especially to the tune of 1 million people.
In Dallas, the externalities involved litter, not waste disposal. That's why Dallas included non-reusable paper bags as well. Granted, they aren't banned here; rather, there is a per-bag fee (tax) to cover the cost of those externalities.
I don't see this as a problem at all, as long as these commenters are representing the opinions of Hillary. I actually believe that people/organizations should be given an opportunity to respond to these comments "officially" using the same channels that commenters make use of.
Today's new building for the "rich" is tomorrow's housing for the poor.
I recommend you start with a modpack.

That said, not just any pack will do. My absolute favorite is TPPI2; I think it's by far the most professional one, but it does require a pretty hefty machine. If it doesn't work, then there are a number of smaller/more specialized packs that likely would.
"It's not propaganda when we do it!" - Every Politician, Ever

Kidding aside, I'm not a fan of astro-turf avenues of engagement. There's no point 'discussing' with a shill. Much like there's no reasoning with a hungry, rabid dog when you're holding a delcious cut of steak. Though the analogy may be flawed, it is worth considering how intensely votes are courted, generally speaking.
that age group was particularly interesting because I would assume men and women in that age group would face the same exact pressures. So the usual explanation of 'men are forced by society to be successful which drives them to suicide' won't be applicable.
Maybe their neighbors should work on electing better humans.

Someone needs to write the laws. Laws need to be updated over time, as society changes and our values change.
>But the CPS were very clear that the police should not have arrested him, and that they definitely should not have charged him, and that the CPS would not prosecute.

The police didn't have the authority to charge him - they needed the permission of the Attorney General first and they didn't bother to get it.
My favorite misconception!

Here in Ithaca NY, Collegetown used to be a sleepy neighborhood of large divided houses rented to Cornell students.

About 20 years ago they began densifying like crazy. 2-3 story houses for 8 people became 8-floor apartments and studios. And you know what? Rent is higher than ever! Everywhere!

Once you build up you can charge higher rents, which means the landlord next door can charge slightly higher rents, and so on.

Building housing almost never lowers rents for the non-rich, unless there is a massive recession (Florida), or an equivalent rise in wages. People build dense housing because they expect people to keep coming...
Yeah, my impression is that if you are a decently organized company it's a piece of cake. If you have mountains of technical debt, spaghetti code and no build processes, dozens of SaaS products, zero documentation, piecemeal authentication/security, etc... it can becomes quite onerous.
At first I liked the idea, but then I remembered what a beuacratic and hostile nightmare it is to build in San Francisco (and CA in genera) and quickly turned against it.

Would it not have been sufficient to offer tax incentive carrots instead of making it a requirement?
Good luck enforcing an unconstitutional law.
Google link: https://www.google.ca/search?q=Microsoft+and+Alphabet+shed+%...
Article body: http://pastebin.com/5Jz88y3Y
Can confirm, "my" SNRI's package insert (it is about one meter long, in small print) warns that when starting treatment there's an increased risk of suicidal thoughts/suicide, especially in people under 25.

Fun fact: The package insert also states: "It isn't completely clear how antidepressants work, but they can help increase the Serotonin and Noradrenaline levels in the brain." Very confidence-inspiring :-/
Completely agree. I don't believe authoritarian dictates are a way to achieve good aims in this century. And yet we must live with this type of organisation, for now, because we are still developing the alternatives...
You used to be able to buy blocks of public addresses from ARIN (and I guess you still can[0] but only under special circumstances[1]) but the IPv4 public assignment table is essentially full. You could buy blocks in class A (i.e you would own X.<all>.<all>.<all>), class B (X.Y.<all>.<all>), or class C (X.Y.Z.<all>).

The class assignments themselves are now either a result of an RFP (for special class IP blocks like multicast) or historical significance (basically, who grabbed it when it was available). XKCD had a comic in 2006 mapping the IPv4 assignment table[2].

I don't know much about IPv6 other than that its address space is so large that you essentially don't need to use NAT anymore, so I doubt we'll ever deplete it.

0. https://www.arin.net/fees/fee_schedule.html

1. https://www.arin.net/resources/request/ipv4_countdown.html

2. https://xkcd.com/195/
So long as the city is the one issuing the permit that allows you to build, then arguments about who the relevant authority is aren't really germane. The authority is whomever can grant you the permit, even if it puts you afoul of a different law.
Removable batteries have been around for at least 75 years, so I assume that if there were an infinitely-lived battery, it still wouldn't be in an Apple device.
I lost him at: "I think homebrew is an awful piece of software that should never be used by anyone."