skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, there are both a Quora response and a Forbes article decrying their regression in free shipping (or non-Prime) timeliness, with some people suggesting that it is intentional. Most recently I made an order of three items from Amazon and had the chance to cancel all three items two weeks later, before it made it out the door during the "preparing your shipment" phase, and buy them from a local retailer the same day.

Several years ago, it was the case that any items bought from Amazon were processed within two to three days, and the shipping carrier was responsible for any delays. It seems like a strategy to convert more customers into $99/year Prime subscribers.

I don't know why either. It seems like they are reminding their customers that online shopping is not more convenient than the alternative.
I don't know category theory, so I defer to more knowledgeable people here, but that sounds strange:
"Functor it understands how to take doStuff and execute it on the value inside itself, then spit out a new Optional. You don't lose the int-ness or optional-ness."
So if I map a function, that takes an int and returns a string over an array of ints, this array stops being a functor? Or is it just a Swift thing?

And, as always, I urge people spend an hour of their life and get the explanation of all this from someone who knows the math but still able to explain this in plain English:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhuHCtR3xq8
To the best of my limited knowledge, it's all 100% correct.
This whole thread is really interesting but I think it misses a key point: developing countries. The issue with these pages getting larger is that it creates two webs: one that work on the slower networks of less developed countries and another that works for the richer world.

It's often suggested that we'll solve poverty by providing education and given the internet provides a unique opportunity to learn then surely we benefit as a species by ensuring there isn't a rich web and a poor web? This risk is compounded by rich people being in a better position to create better learning opportunities.

Much like there's a drive toward being aware of the accessibility of your website (colour blind-check tools, facebooks image analysis for alt text tags, etc, etc) we should be thinking about delivery into slower networks in poorer countries.
One of our initial marketplace platform inspirations was 99designs. I was really drawn to the idea of building a brief that was a text/link based representation of what I wanted our design to be. As I began my own time/money planning for marriage (I'm thinking ahead, but I'm at that age..), I kept asking.. Why can't I do something like what I did with 99 designs, and get a bunch of vendors to use my brief and respond back with proposals of service?

Re: connecting couples to wedding planners. Currently we find that only a small number of wedding actually use planners (< 20%). Evolving our initial thought of connecting couples to vendors, we could connect our clients to these wedding planners. Our initial thought was to offer something like this as a premium service, which would be our initial service plus a wedding planner who would help pull everything together. They would handle all the back and forth, pulling all of the details out of the couple, and also be there physically the day of to make sure it all goes off smoothly. The real question is do we start up market or down market? We're experimenting now.

Thanks for your points, they may really help evolve the product.
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Yes, having pulled a permit myself I can attest that it's 10% drawing, 90% badgering and debating the exact meaning of the code, in all its glorious ambiguity.
It's completely true! I'm probably pretty good at programming because my father had connections to a gov't lab and got me an internship. I also really wanted to get good at math... had my parents or myself known that most math professors/grad students will talk to anyone about anything within their subject for as long as they'll listen, they might've driven me to the local college and brought me to some prof's office. Nobody I knew had any idea of that though! So yes it's privilege to have all these connections... but even knowing you can just walk in and ask is a privilege. Privilege is really subtle.
Propaganda is, by definition, anything which promotes or publicizes a political cause or POV.

No, it isn't "anything" which promotes a cause or a POV.

It's the presence of manipulation (and as applies to astroturfing campaigns, such as the "Correct the Record" antics appear to be) false pretense that make it propaganda.
Definitely. They could, targets were using it, they were known to tap backhaul microwaves/satellites, their own guideance in high-assurance side was using link encryptors between sites, its in their commercial recommendations (NIPSOM Industrial Security Manual), and so on. Everything in the world to make you think somebody was tapping your line and that they might.

So, some groups that were wise went ahead and deployed link encryptors. Black programs, follow NIPSOM and SAP supplements, sure as hell used link encryptors so good [1] we can't buy them because... national security. I sure as hell used end-to-end crypto and VPN's for anything significant. Google and Facebook... treasure troves of PII and I.P.... didn't for reasons I can't imagine. Result was they got intercepted in bulk by something that's been a known risk for 20+ years. Take NSA out of picture and they should've still thought the lines might get tapped by crooks or foreign spooks.

So, yes, Snowden leaks mostly just taught us what we already knew in greater detail. People ignored it then, some ignore it now, and yeah problems happened.

[1] http://www.raytheon.com/capabilities/products/high_speed_net...
and the .kkreiger beta only uses 96k! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.kkrieger
This was for Santa Clara County which feeds ISEF, Cal State SF, and ISWEEEP. ISEF is the driver of most forms, and everyone follows along so that the path to ISEF is smooth.
Yeah, if you check the repo it's running the code in a specialized docker container with no network access.
that's because the moon landing was staged! wake up sheeple!!!!!!
This ruling is unfortunately another example of how our courts and our system of checks of balances has totally failed. The idea that the FBI can eliminate your 1st Amendment rights by issuing you a letter flies in the face of everything that a free society is based on.
I'm not sure how much the price is relevant... I've been using ASUS routers with tomato firmware, which are pretty competitively priced (not quite $10, but not produced less than 300mi away either).

I'm only bringing this up, because pricing for common hardware in other parts of the world are different, and don't necessarily reflect the quality of materials or software used.
While it's a pretty picture, it's all wrong. The coast line is pretty much fractal. There's no real "straight out". Zoom in a little, and you will see your perpendicular line is not perpendicular.
15 years ago the average PC had a CPU < 1 GHz and less than 1 GB of memory. Everything is relative.
Right, that works fine so long as you only ever go up the hierarchy, but going down the hierarchy would require a prefix search, which is the one place where trees actually do win over hashes.
This isn't high risk though. It's low risk. However, just because something's low risk doesn't mean it's worth the investment.

The problem here is that you could make this same argument about almost anything, a la Pascal's Wager.
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I appreciate the use of plain english, but it doesn't help understand why these things are good or important. Like, ok, monads avoid double-containering. That's... nice?
It makes sense to me.

A religious person in pain without hope looks at suicide as an option and thinks, "I've got it bad now, but it's only going to get worse if I do this..."

Whereas a non-religious person is thinking, "I've got it bad now, but if I do this I won't have to feel anything ever again"
This is HN, I think it's fair to assume that this isn't news to anyone here.
I am on the verge of migrating to Gitlab, excited to try the new build out.

Are you planning on releasing the improved search capabilities into the CE branch; if so when?

Thanks
Whole article tl;dr: randian libertarian idealist buttcoin people are extremely surprised to discover that a black market economy turns out to actually contain real blackhats.
Complained about this a year ago, few people cared: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9565929

What's so amazing is that they're only hurting their own business. Nobody sane is going to buy a $99 Prime subscription to buy a $10 Blu-ray or a $60 game. We're just going to discover that Target or Best Buy sells it online for the same price and offers free shipping, and buy it there.
Thank you, Pieter, for your sane approach. The comments here demonstrate aptly the power of your words over the HN community. I lost a father and an in-law to cancer, and your post simply nails the target for me. I wish I'd read this back then.

Then again, as you demonstrate, we need not focus on the things we cannot change. Spending time with regrets is time wasted. Thank you!
You can make $150K+ by doing some really mind numbing work. I am seriously considering almost halving my salary to do something that gets me excited to go to work again.

Anyways, like other people have mentioned timing can be very useful. In trying to leave I was offered raises and from one guy a chance to take on whatever role I wanted to. Still leaving though.
I don't need Euros, that is true. The Euro is a crucial part of the global economy and hundreds of millions actually do need it day to day.

That is not the case with bitcoin.
"The web is the first truly cross-platform development environment."

No it isn't. Not even close. It's maybe the first cross-platform development "environment" of which millenials are widely aware. But it's only an "environment" in the most ecological sense -- it's a collection of ugly hacks, each building upon the other, with the sort of complexity and incomprehensibility and interdependency of organisms you'd expect to find in a dung heap.

"Last but not least, the web's primitive is a simple page, which is far more useful than an app as a primitive"

For whom, exactly? You're just begging the question.

I'll grant you that "installing" an app is more burdensome for users than browsing to a web page, but the amount of developer time spent (badly) shoe-horning UI development problems (that we solved in the 90s) into the "page" metaphor is mind-boggling. In retrospect, the Java applet approach seems like a missed opportunity.

The proper reaction to something like React, for example, should be shame, not pride. We've finally managed to kludge together something vaguely resembling the UI development platform we had in windows 3, but with less consistency, greater resource consumption, and at the expense of everything that made the web good in the first place. And for what reason? It's not as if these "pages" work as webpages anymore.

A proper "application development environment" for the web would be something that discards the page model entirely, and replaces it with a set of open components that resembles what we've had for decades in the world of desktop application development.
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1. You're reading something I didn't say. Edit: What should have been obvious is that some people are criminals.

2. This is a religious question. Whether Bob goes to hell or not is irrelevant to whether you've done your job well. Bob's responsibility was to be a good criminal. The CEOs responsibility was to be a good CEO. Both of them failed.

edit:

"If you have met a sociopath in real life, it isn't simply a myth that they are charming and appear normal."

It's absurd to diagnose someone as a sociopath because they steal from you. The problem is not that there are thieves in the universe, it's that you handed one the keys to the henhouse. That they lie about it, and manipulate you, is evidence that they are rational, not that they are crazy. If you feel betrayed by people other than your friends and family, you have boundary issues. Blaming your own failures on others is a good way to repeat the same mistakes over and over again.
> I've checked out servo and compiled and started it in release mode - it required 600MB RAM and 700% CPU to load google(!) with the same speed as my little firefox with tons of extensions - forgive my ignorance but I've expected more from the hype.

Thanks for the bug report, but I can't reproduce. According to the built-in memory profiler, Servo uses 39 MB of explicit allocations to load google.com, which is well in line with other browsers even without a whole lot of optimization for memory use.

A large amount of CPU usage during initial pageload, on the other hand, is a feature, not a bug. Using more resources lets us get the page loaded faster, which not only shows you the page faster but also typically reduces power consumption since we can get the CPU into an idle state.

> Rust programs consume so much resources that it could just use a GC instead of the complex manual memory management.

Manual memory management isn't about some broad notion of "resource consumption": it's about having low-level control of resources, which can not only reduce memory usage but also eliminate pauses. I think it's very unlikely that the JavaScript garbage collector could be made thread-safe without regressing performance (which is what you presumably mean by "just use a GC").

> The syntax and the standard library is as 'modern' as in cpp - I'm not as impressed as I was a fan of Mozilla.

Just to name the first features that come to mind: Rust has a module system and hygienic macros, which are syntactic features not in C++. Rust comes with a standard library that includes networking, which isn't in C++.

> Search the internet for optimizations, my firefox feels like as fast as chrome - sometime even faster. It just needs some tweaks.

Those "tweaks" are in fact likely to be slowing down your browser.
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This is a social problem, not a technical problem. Encourage your social group to not use proprietary walled-gardens to plan and publicize their events. They'll all be better off for it.
Growing bacterial colonies of botulism might be inherently riskier than day-to-day contact with sick people. Growing bacterial colonies of what's on your toothbrush just ain't.

Growing bacteria in agar is something that was completely de rigueur in elementary school when I was in elementary school in the 1980s. If this is a high-risk activity, I'm sure you'll have no problem finding some account of it every having done any damage in the conservatively hundreds of thousands of times it was done.
I'm not sure if this is the thread you were thinking about, but I don't see much about the appearance of the founder; rather it is all rightfully focused on his miserable failings and running his company into the ground: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11327341
Fair enough.

Apple needed to put more thought and effort into their launch if they were considering becoming a mainstay in a completely different political/cultural market.

Others have pointed out that China's closure to outside (software) tech. has helped them as an incubator, but really I think American companies have failed to bend their policies to the degree necessary to continue to exist (in China). Google for a while has tried to resist censorship, but it's really a question of whether a company wants the one billion Chinese citizens to have access to their products at all, or if they would like to be shutout.
Yeah those are the only one I got to so far...as for the greyed out items, I've only been using this for myself but just started implementing features for others such as the getting started tips. I'll add your recommendation as well
Plastic bags are not an economic question. Most voters in the Bay Area do not want them used at all. Local ordinances against plastic bags have wide-spread popular support.

Plastic shopping bags cause serious problems for sea life as well as some terrestrial creatures. Plus they result in pervasive, long-lasting litter that most of us in the Bay Area are sick of looking at. There are simple alternatives like bringing reusable bags that make these problems go away.

This is is not an ill-considered initiative by some faceless bureaucrat. At least in my county most of the predicted benefits have been achieved with minimal inconvenience to the citizenry. [1]

[1] https://oaklandnorth.net/2014/09/22/alameda-county-ordinance...
The U-4 (unemployed + discouraged workers) for March was 5.3% as opposed to the U-3 (unemployed) of 5% [1].

1. http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm
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Great to know it's useful so far! I plan on continuing to add features
> Collaboration, in contrast to many other valley companies, isn't a big priority. Since we only hire senior (Finder) devs, each is capable of taking on one or more projects almost solo. So where you'd have an ~8 person team at Google, Netflix has a single developer. There are pros & cons to this approach, I might talk about them in a future article. The practical upshot is that everyone does what they think is best for their particular project (others are encouraged to provide feedback but the ultimate decision is left up to the project owner [who is not a manager]).

Love to hear more about this sometime.
What about the people whom Theranos failed to deliver accurate test results to? They are the losers here.
Hahahahahaha, yes they do.
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>maintaining their privilege

You mean worked hard to provide their kids with a better future.

The parents who are gung ho about their kid's education are usually the new upper middle class type.

The biggest privilege these kids have is that their parents care about their education. Money does not provide much of an advantage.

The Internet has been a great equalizer in terms of educational resources.
That's the point. You do leave fingerprints on things you touch. Fingerprints that can be copied.
They've been doing it for over a year, so it's very unlikely it's only an experiment. The Amazon forums thread complaining about it has 267 participants, and was started in December of 2014.

https://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon/ref=cm_cd_notf_thread?_e...
Without going into detail that violates an NDA or reveals who I am, I've seen the back-end database/billing/network monitoring infrastructure for the three largest mobile network operators in Pakistan. It's scary. The banks in PK are worse. The lack of giving a fuck (or clue) is endemic to the region. People in south asia build their networks the same way they build their municipal electrical grids, in-premises 230VAC electricity, and municipal gas pipeline networks (in a very scary slapped together way).

This may be partially explained by a brain drain effect where everyone who really knows what they're doing on a *nix platform leaves the country to work for $70,000+ USD/year somewhere outside of PK/IN/BD. Those who are left are very far from the best network security, network engineering or sysadmin talents.
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He doesn't just use the MEAN stack. He coined the term.
Very true, I guess the distinction I'm trying to draw though is between having articles talk about men's clothing vs. having comments on an article about a company with a female CEO quickly go to her physical appearance when the subject at hand is the company's performance. When Facebook makes missteps, I don't think discussion on them quickly jumps to Mark's hoodies.
Thanks, that's really why I made it, it was easier for me too. Even though I memorized all the classes, it's easier to just filter through a visual demo to test out the look and feel quickly.
That's 1 Uber of value lost!
Absolutely this. I've become completely unforgiving on this, especially with mobile apps. I am far too frequently left wondering if the devs—or, more likely, their managers—missed the part of the documentation that allows them to easily store data on my device for their app to use.
I bought a usb 3.5" drive last year, just to have one, in case I need it... though I no longer have any floppy discs at all, and half my computers don't even have cd/dvd/br drives.
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"Super secret information leak! Oh no, please don't read it" = "Sale! 50% off! We are losing so much money!"
"Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't know about your local tech industry, but in west coast tech companies I've worked at, and among my friends, people of all backgrounds have thrived.

If anything, I see very FEW people who were born with the proverbial silver spoon on their mouths.
>Private roads predate our current public road system

Private roads as a concept? Societies have built and maintained public roads for millenia.
Why didn't you quote the next sentence, in which I directly addressed the possibility that TFA is wrong about "Bob"?

Let me guess, YANAL? In USA, it ain't libel unless it's provably false. If "Bob" could prove that, why did he run?
You are not refuting EFF's claim that the FBI can use the NSA's "terrorism" data for common criminal cases. All you are saying is that there are procedures that the FBI has to go through and that it's not a new thing.
> Someone who's actively working through it will pause, they'll hesitate, they'll get things wrong and have to correct themselves.

Candidates who know the solution can and sometimes will do the same. Sure, you can try to catch candidates that try to fake it, but then the process becomes a cat and mouse game between the interviewer and candidate that distracts both parties from the real purpose of the interview, which is to find the most qualified candidate for a position.

None of this would be necessary if the interviewer simply used a lesser known question (or better yet, a more practical question adapted from something taken from the part of the codebase that they'd be working on) to begin with.
"police and the government then have the authority to search through your entire life in your pocket just because you are pulled over for a broken taillight"

This is the classic Snowden formula. Establish a false premise that has no faith in the government or constitutional rights, then continue to paint a picture of a dystopian future.

This guy should be writing sci-fi novels...

[edit: I predicted at least 5 down votes as I typed this. Don't disappoint me ;-) ]
As someone who completed their PhD in biometrics, they do not use heuristics to authenticate. Though that terminology is very broad. There's usually a match score threshold which is a heuristic based on some measured false acceptance rate, but with regards to determining the actual match score - it's often much more complex than a few heuristics.
This [1] is apparently the data released. I am no physicist but that page doesn't exactly inspire awe among the curious minded.

They do explain how a couple of undergrads were able to use the data to create something meaningful in the original release article but that specific site can definitely use a UX designer, or two.

http://opendata.cern.ch/search?ln=en&p=Run2011A+AND+collecti...
What is the real world risk on this as a percentage in your estimation?