skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon is also pretty bad with services in Europe. Amazon Germany is used to try out new services and was also the test region for Prime years before Amazon US got it. The Prime advertisement and nag screens are so annoying on Amazon Germany, so many now many use Amazon UK and US which have a far better user experience and things are cheaper as well. The packages come from the same warehouses anyway. And Amazon Germany's warehouse label now all packages with a Prime package. And the package come on the next day. (Due to introducing Prime as testing object in Germany many years ago, the delivered slowed down from 2-3 days to 4-6 days for any non-Prime member) Maybe it's the fault of their chaos. No wonder the Amazon Germany webshop is running on an years old software version, with good but long gone features like sorting items by lower prize or popularity, but otherwise rotten experience. It used to run on the 1999-ish version until 2006 or so, basically unchanged. The US version got several new relaunches back then. If an Amazon exec reads this, please do your A/B tests and product testing somewhere else and scrap the old forked codebase of Amazon Germany.
As a proud New Zealander it pains me to point out that the All Blacks still fall way short of the benchmark set by the parent comment - i.e. beating the second best 95% of the time.
You have to be very careful with discounts in some situations.

The case that we ran into involved a product that required a fairly large amount of time investment on the part of the user to be valuable. Our customers that were willing to devote a fair amount of up-front time and 30-60 min per day to our tool were getting a pretty massive ROI, both on the time they spent and the monthly subscription cost. Those that weren't putting in the time got very little benefit. But we also found that when salespeople gave discounts for the first few months, our cancelation rate was significantly higher. We were much better off losing potential customers during the sales process because the customers we did end up signing had higher LTV and Net Promoter scores.

The lesson learned was that high/full price increased the investment that customers felt in our product and triggered their impulse to get their money's worth. Discounts signaled customers to make a shallow evaluation of the product and ultimately sabotaged our value proposition.
Have you never seen a woman speak at a conference? If so, did you see anybody threaten her?

Are you from Saudi Arabia?

Disbelief requires no evidence. It only requires a story that doesn't square with your experience. And this one definitely smells fishy.
> You'd probably agree that this is a typical usecase for a productivity app.

Actually I can't think of any app that matches the abstract problem you describe. Can you give a specific example? Usually the answer to these problems becomes much clearer in the context of a specific app.
> The trucks will likely drive at 45 mph so it would take 65 hours to cross the country. Still a huge improvement.

By "likely" you mean one guy in a Tech Crunch editorial mentioned that would be efficient. Driverless trucks could look totally different because they don't need to house a driver (and their sleeping quarters) and be much more aerodynamic.
Comprehensive benchmark of the most important (and recent) algorithms in RL. Extremely modular so that it's easy to implement your own algorithm and straight-forwardly compare its performance in many different continuous environments.
I am a happy user of it!
Black people are more likely to be convicted of drug crimes even when they use drugs at the same rates as white people. Similar for traffic crimes.

Many crimes are poverty-related theft for subsistence, which rich people never need to be tempted with (as they get handouts from their parents) aren't particularly relevant if someone gets a job that eliminates poverty. And childhood poverty is correlated to race.

So yeah, screening by criminal record is intertwined with structural racism.
I Have Some Really Fucking Awful News
Is it possible that you now (like most consumers) have been conditioned to expect apps to be free? Meanwhile, nobody expects anyone to give them a pizza or a beer for free.
You can continue to rely on the automated systems for avoiding collisions. The intelligence is more with dealing with the decisions that the AI can't make.
What will make the smartwatch take off is probably not fully understood yet. I have my own theory (below), but first an analogy.

When Steve Jobs announced the iPhone, he first teased that he was releasing 3 devices:

- A widescreen iPod with touch controls (huge applause)

- A revolutionary mobile phone (HUGE raucous applause)

- A breakthrough Internet communications device (tepid, confused applause)

But what drives iPhone growth and usage today? It's the third one, BY FAR. Heck the whole concept of "an iPod" has been taken over by streaming music services, which fit firmly into bucket #3.

So it's possible--I would say likely--that the true value of a smartwatch is not yet fully understood by us today.

Based on where Apple is teasing their efforts, I would guess it's some combination of:

- Personal health monitoring, and eventual connection to your doctors and specialists and researchers.

- Authentication, configuration, and activation of ambient computing. Basically--the key and control panel to everything around you. You get in a car and it sets the seat, drive controls, thermostat, etc. to your preferences--which are stored in your smartwatch. Same thing at home. You sit down at your computer and it unlocks and decrypts. You tap your watch on a register to pay. You tap your watch on the subway gate to get on. Etc.
132 chars (derived from old line printers and PCL defaults)
Seeing the Error of Your Ways
Many users on the same IP, IP is registered to a cloud hosting company, etc. They'll never have perfect detection but you can do pretty well without much effort.
You're right about the target audience, but wrong about the reason.

They don't quote a price because the cost of the product they sell makes up only a small percentage of the overall cost. The vast majority comes from consulting and product customization, which is billable by the hour. And since you don't know the prospect's exact need during the initial engagement, providing pricing would be silly.

Source: I work in that exact market. When a prospect asks for a price up front, they basically fail lead qualification. As the saying goes, if you have to ask how much it is, you ain't the target audience.
Most of the points you have made here are grossly incorrect. Here is the reality :

Flipkart is a local company

No its not. The VC money invested in it is counted as FDI, and even its holding company is based out of Singapore. So it does not enjoy any such advantage. Its been several years since Flipkart stopped operating on the inventory model, it operates on the same marketplace model as Amazon/Snapdeal.

The article claims Amazon is "nipping at their heels".

It's true, but the gap is much wider than you might think. Amazon pushes how they surpassed Flipkart in traffic, but in actual sales, Flipkart has a pretty large lead.*
Nope. The difference is in the range of only ~20% now. Flipkart does not have a magical conversion ratio that it sales can be a multiple of Amazon despite lower visits. You might have been misleaded by considering the figures of the seller side as well. Need to consider only marketplace revenues.

Anyways, I wouldn't count Flipkart out yet. Amazon is spending money like crazy, and they have deep pockets, but so does Flipkart.

Flipkart does not have pockets of its own. Its running on investor money, which comes with conditions unlike Amazon which can invest its own earnings from US and elsewhere, well justified owing to earnings growth potential.

The real current winners are Indian consumers, getting heavily subsidized goods.

Can't agree more with this point. FYI Amazon and Flipkart are nowhere close to the magnitude of cashback offered by Paytm (backed by Alibaba).
Aussie startup Spacer.com.au eyes $4b Asian market
How about instead of anchoring or negotiating or special discounts or sales or any of this nonsense, we have a simple agreement: I, a customer, will give you money for a product/service, and you deliver that product/service as described with no conditions, strings, or other such insulting attachments and we call it a freaking day?

When did commerce get so bloody hard?
Show the collision or it didn't happen. Sure it wasn't sum instead of md5sum?
Trains can't haul produce and other refrigerated product.
http://www.amazon.de/Putins-verdeckter-Krieg-Moskau-destabil...

It is in german though.
API Management 'a la carte'
Thanks for your actually useful answer.
I'd like to be added. ID: unrealhoang.

Thanks.
Don't forget C) attempt B and jacknife your truck across several lanes killing the occupants of the car that runs into the side of your trailer...
Because that's not how the economy works. Companies are designed to make money, and "solving the inequality" only costs them money, hurting their employees, their investors, and their other customers (services may decrease if stretched too thin). Stop worrying about making a social justice war about everything, and do your job well.
>You're implying that people will produce quality news content for free?

Yes.
or, apply full brakes, apply full audible warning and swerve at the last possible moment, while calling the emergency services to put them on alert.

But how common is your scenario ?

I consider this a more critical failure :

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration suspects that as many as 28% of commercial truck drivers have sleep apnea.

The Sleep Medicine Division surmised that nearly a 250,000, persons fall asleep while driving each day of the year.

Nearly half of semi-truck drivers have admitted to actually ‘drifting off’ while driving a long-haul route.

https://www.hg.org/article.asp?id=29866
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> Do people generally receive "horrific threats" because they're good at their jobs?

If by people you mean women, then yes.

You don't seem able to say exactly why you find this so hard to believe. Could it be that your experiences are limited?
Real friends don't care if you are on Facebook or not.
It's not just the jobs. Self-driving trucks will transform an industry where large amounts of humans are necessary into (yet another) industry where capital is the only thing that matters. Once trucks are self-driving, larger companies will gain the advantage and one of the main economic sectors dominated by small to medium companies will become dominated by large international businesses.
Interesting reading this. I stop mine still at generally 78 chars. This allows it to print in a large enough font to be fit on a single 8.5x11" page without any extra wrapping.

I have also used 130 chars as the limit and printing source code on green bar paper. But at least to me, it just isn't worth it, IMO functions should never take more then 1 screen to view and that includes the limit of 78 chars and roughly 50ish lines. This makes code easy to grok and helps to make sure a function does only 1 thing. Not that there are not some exceptions but that is my general rule.

The 78 chars also comes from some older printers that had margin issues and if you went to exactly 80 they would wrap or add a blank line. Yea, I know, mostly stupid today, but it keeps the code super portable, predictable and very readable.
No matter how good your analysis, data collection only told you what happened in the past.
And don't forget when the company can't monetize data well enough (because the only people making money on this garbage are the ones with 20% of the global populace) the company goes away, if you're lucky gives you a way to archive your whatever or fetch it via an API, after which you either are locked into the Shiny And New service that everybody likes because it's shiny and new, or have a massive XML/text/zip file full of garbage you know you're never going to take the time to sort, and rinse and repeat.
Not really. Been out here 10 years and "The Times" tends to refer to NYT. Seattle Times is referred to in full generally; the only other competing paper (now dead) was referred to as the PI (post intelligencer). At least in the circles I ran in, which was mostly finance/tech.
I don't really know anything about this, but if stderr is really slower on Windows, I would suppose that's a userland library thing. I would not know why that would be slower at kernel level. So that problem might not even arise under the Linux emulation.
i like the readme, but before i check out the project.. what's the license?
As I understand it, programming the 2600 is mainly occupied with the task of squirting the right pixels onto the screen at the right times, which involves very tight timing constraints.

Although that hasn't stopped the demoscene from doing some pretty amazing things with the hardware:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrhJ9wDNWm4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZSlzdJ3yR8
That is the multicast dns rfc, and says .local is used for zeroconf and not manual site-local configuration:

Any DNS query for a name ending with ".local." MUST be sent to the
mDNS IPv4 link-local multicast address 224.0.0.251 (or its IPv6
equivalent FF02::FB)
> Disbelief requires no evidence.

Interesting. So is Atlanta rapper BOB right to say the earth is flat because he's never observed its curve? He personally thinks the idea of earth as a globe is fishy.

Its funny, I'd say to him that his feeling of fishiness has no merit and that he should be forced to justify his claim of disbelief.
> I'm a recruiter (yeah, yeah, recruiters know nothing) and I'm going to call this as a fail. It's INCREDIBLY hard to get even one person employed. The bar is so high at most employers that almost every applicant gets rejected.

To be a bit blunt here: I've only experienced once that talking to a recruiter helped for anything. (OK, twice if I'm generous, it wasn't a recruiter, it was a hiring manager at a consulting company and I ended up rejecting the job.)

I have however sold myself in a number of times the last few years.

So if anyone in recruiting needs a good idea, here is one:

* do get back to devs with updates, not only customer

* know what you are talking about, don't ask if I still know how to bike (or program) just because I haven't been doing it full time in 12 months

* do sell

* in Europe
PyGraphArt: Python code to make GIFs from graph algos
Exploits Using .xlsx Files
A couple friends and I made this (UI still a work in progress) to solve this exact problem: https://www.soundcasts.net
On the flip side, how ketchup got from Asia to America:

http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/12/02/248195661/...

http://languageoffood.blogspot.com/2009/09/ketchup.html

Spices get around; I guess people try not to be bland and boring.
Teach fundamentals of computer science without computers
Disruption nothing, this is going to be an economic apocalypse for huge swathes of the country. We've never seen an automation wave like this one. It's exciting times to be alive for sure but I'm also legitimately worried if we're going to be able to handle it as a society, if anything is going to tip us into needing basic income, this could be a serious contender.

It's not even just the trucking, it's truck stops, highway diners, tiny motels all over the place, there is a massive amount of infrastructure that was built because of and for truck drivers and their needs, and that's still not it because there are tons of small town economies built on the last job that pays well without a college education that more or less anyone can do.
> If the railroad puts a refrigerator unit on your boxcar and it breaks down, too bad - they won't reimburse you. A trucking company will.

Insurance?
This quote sums it up "When The Times introduced a paywall, the number of people looking at their digital service dropped by 98.7% (from 22m to around 300,000), yet the switch was a huge financial success."

Now that some of the crazyness of Internet Advertising has fallen by the wayside (lower CPCs == less crazyness), it becomes important to pay people who will research things, write eloquently about them, and convey the information you seek. I have really been enjoying Blendle[1] and their model. Happy to pay for decent content, not willing to pay for content I don't read. A good mix.

I hope more publications buy into that model.

[1] blendle.com
Thanks Google Photos
Not quietly, no, but it's no less inevitable.

History is full of jobs that have been automated away, and few of those historical examples offered a more obvious and large payoff.
Man, I hate noticing spelling mistakes hours after posting.

I meant pull to just "give up" and "clean out"
Any source or reasoning for 10x? I've got some software that saves a certain type of business about 40-70% on tech support measured in time to resolution (and time spent). Plus it provides a large bonus in "can actually solve an issue invested of telling customer to keep trying to repro".

If a tech costs $5000 a month and a company can save on one tech, only price it at $500/month?
You obviously don't have one, and if you do, you've horribly wasted your money. Even on day one it launched with more use than that.

I can set or check my thermostat, control any light or group of lights in my house, get an Uber to pick me up, have the morning news headlines read to me while I'm making breakfast, check traffic on my way out the door, add notes to my to-do list as they cross my mind, and add things to my shopping list with my face still in the refrigerator.

Those are all things that come out of the box with no custom code. With the additional skills I've personally written I have it tell me releases and showtimes at my nearest theater, I can ask if the garage door is open or closed, and a few other half cocked ideas.

The Alexa skills kit is quite easy to get your head wrapped around and the limit really is your imagination.
That's not a user problem.
The Encryption Farce
Docker-Clean: A script that cleans docker containers, images, and volumes
Engare, a videogame about the mathematical beauty of Islamic art
Amazon is not doing a great job either. They shipped a Macbook Air when I had ordered a Macbook Pro. They didn't release my replacement until their supposedly superior system registered my returns. I had to contact their support to tell them that it was returned a week back. After all the song and dance, they shipped a Macbook Air again as replacement. How is that for a market leading performance!
You know that's been pretty true for me, too. Often when one gig looks like its winding down I've met people and formed strong enough relationships that something else pops up, but this last startup was a mismanaged mess that fell apart for me in five months, so I sort of got caught by surprise.
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>> The hiring process should be focused on discovering strengths, not uncovering weaknesses. Everybody has weaknesses.

This.

Walking into an interview wigh hiding your weaknesses as a goal sets up
Completely the wrong dynamic. Plus what kind of success for the interviewer? I have found a perfect person? Or I did not look hard enough for flaws?
I'm with you on that one, but much less skeptical about say 20 years.
That would be racist.
> This is literally more than 20% unemployment in less than 5 years

First of all - what? It's not 20%, nor is it happening in 5 years... Neither of those numbers make any sense.

Secondly, accuracy aside, the same arguments were made all through the 70s, 80s, and 90s about manufacturing automation. And guess what, those jobs are gone now, but society didn't crumble.

It's not like his is all brand new people - it's happened over and over again for the past 200 years. Read your history, and realize that we will repeat it.
Bernie sanders agrees http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/12/bernie-sander.... I don't want to make this a political platform but nothing exists in isolation. Hillary is buying anonymous commenters on reddit and facebook and threatening internet freedom in the worst ways possible. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/21/hillary-pac...

Under Hillary, expect large corporations to grow larger and forget net-neutrality, and "offline" neutrality.
if they don't give you a price, it means they don't want your business. if you don't reach out and ask, then they really don't want your business.

they're saving everyone involved a lot of time.
Grafi.js – JavaScript Image Processing Library
This sounds similar to the problems crypto deals with, with their neglible advantages using polynomial algorithms and stuff like that.
Read my comment 30 minutes before yours. I'm pretty much conceding. This was also 5 years ago on a rhel4 machine, fwiw.
Segfaults are our friends and teachers
In your description a debt created in return for consumption today and honored in the future is like a wormhole in space-time. Unlike iron or steel, personal labor is a real resource capable of time travel. A psychiatrist can work 40 hours or 80 hours this week. Presumably society is better off if he works 80, so we promise him more money (future demand) in return for his services now (supply pulled forward, especially if he retires earlier than he otherwise would). In theory, as you imply, future generations are better off since you have "accelerated" economic development which is usually net positive. In reality, taken to the extreme, you wake up one day and find that you have been born into a world of neonatal debt slavery to retired psychiatrists who you never met and (especially without population growth) the entire system collapses and reboots. This describes Japan: a country with 300% debt to GDP and flat to declining population, where babies are born into a headwind of sovereign debt.
I think it's believable. Go read the Twitch comments when a woman appears on a popular stream.
If you don't have a Wall Street Journal subscription, a Google redirect link might help [1]. Alternatively, here are a few choice quotes from this biting WSJ editorial:

Is anyone in charge at the Justice Department, or are
junior prosecutors running the joint?

[...]

Such assertions were as false in Brooklyn as in San
Bernardino. Two hours and a half before a deadline on Friday
night, the government withdrew the case after “an individual
provided the passcode to the iPhone,” according to legal
filings. This second immaculate conception in as many months
further undermines the FBI’s credibility about its
technological capabilities. Judges ought to exercise far
more scrutiny in future decryption cases even as Mr. Comey
continues to pose as helpless.

[...]

Yet forgive us if this “conversation” now seems more like a
Jim Comey monologue. The debate might start to be productive
if the FBI Director would stop trying to use the courts as
an ad hoc policy tool and promised not to bring any more
cases like the one in Brooklyn.

[...]

Meanwhile, the White House has taken the profile-in-courage
stand of refusing to endorse or oppose any encryption bill
that Congress may propose. If the Obama team won’t start
adjusting to the technological realities of strong and legal
encryption, they could at least exercise some adult
supervision at Main Justice.

[1]: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
You have a really great insight about teams often wasting lots of time and effort because people don't really know what other people are working on. I've experienced this myself and I would love to find a solution. I started reading your post with a lot of excitement.

That said, I don't have a clear idea about how you are going to actually solve the problem. The features you describe - laying out goals, tracking tasks, communicating - sound like all of the dozens of other project management and collaboration software - Asana, Ah-ha, JIRA, etc. There are tons of these apps, and none of them quite solve the problem. They might have decent small businesses, but none are really blowing up. How is your product different? And, how are you going to break into this very crowded market?