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Yes. This is somewhat newsworthy as it's another example of Uber/Lyft's interest in becoming more broadly-based logistics companies. However, grocery delivery already exists. It's just remained something of a niche.

My speculation is that the reason is some combination of "I want to look at the produce," "I don't want to pay $10 for delivery," "I'm just not organized enough to sit down at my computer and input my order," and "I've always just gone to the grocery store."

Personally, I find Walmart to be a mediocre grocery store that I only go to because it's convenient. Given the other options that already exist for me, I would have pretty much zero interest in getting delivery from Walmart. I'd be using Peapod if I wanted it.
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It would also reduce traffic in cities.
*BSD and GNU/Linux eco-systems are a bit different in this regard, but on other OSes usually system programming languages that aren't part of the OS vendor offerings tend to have a hard time getting wide adoption support.
I think there is a difference in kind between "do these steps manually to understand them" and "hunt down these versions of packages on various websites around the net". It's true that you might learn something from doing the latter, but it's different from what you'd learn doing the former.

Edit: a generic point that I'd make is that just because something is hard, and there's a reason it's hard, doesn't mean that it has to be hard in every possible way. This is another version of the distinction between accidental and intrinsic complexity.
Isn't this a bit going the wrong way somehow?

Growing up, mom went grocery shopping once every 2 weeks. We'd load up 2 or 3 shopping carts that filled 8 or 10 grocery bags.

One auto trip every 2 weeks for groceries.

With all the delivery services for restaurants, groceries, and more and more sundries, the trips to my house are made for less and less 'stuff' per trip. More trips per household obviously means more gasoline burned.

With Amazon or FedEx, at least it's a truck on a route with several dozen deliveries to make. But this Uber/Lyft scheme looks to likely be 1, maybe 2, deliveries per trip.
I worked with a guy who used to work at the head office of a Canadian grocery chain.

Apparently the grocery shopping habits of UK/European consumers is considerably different than North Americans and so something that works in one market doesn't necessarily translate across the Atlantic.

In the UK, my old supermarket had a couple of aisles of prepared chilled meals. Lots of variety, and a lot of it was pretty good quality. You just don't get that in North America, and apparently it's because NA consumers tend to go to the grocery store once per week, where in the UK it's multiple times per week. So over here the convenience meals are frozen and icky. Blurgh!

Similarly, I could imagine the economics of delivery would be vastly different. The UK has tightly packed cities with high population density, meaning your delivery vehicles don't have far to go between stops. NA has large spread out suburbs with lots of driving to get anywhere...
9/9 members suffering from delusional hypothermia is extremely unlikely. Can you provide a reference for a single similar mountaineering incident? I can provide a lot of references to deaths from hypothermia in e.g. the Himalayas and I've never read/heard of a remotely similar circumstance.

Hypothermia doesn't just happen to experienced mountaineers - they need to make mistakes; usually one member is affected before others. There are steps you take to deal with the condition - of which tent cutting and nude running really isn't one. Massive simultaneous delusion might be possible, but it needs a much better supported explanation
High tech but often as cheap as stallholders. I did tech support for one big firm at some point, and their IT was shockingly old. I asked why and was told that's how you shave profits in lean years -- which is fair enough. When you've been around as long as these guys have been, your priorities probably don't include "being fashionably high-tech".
why should I pay when I can use Google Alerts for free? There are also thousands of free web monitor services out there. First 3 alerts for free won't cut it for me.
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Thank you for the well written rebuttal and points.

Highly educated people are exposed to more ideas and theories leading them to less likely BLINDLY believe what "authority" figures say/claim and that they (the highly educated person) could be wrong due to or that not enough information is known [at this time] to make or change their own determination of what or who to believe. They are more likely to be open minded because they are cognizant of blind spots.
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Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webvan as early as 1996.
Not every religious person is a hardcore bible reader who does not question anything. In fact, most believers I've met are in the opposite end: they know most of the tales of the bible are just tales, and accept the scientific methods and explanations. They just believe there's also a god or something out there.

Regarding the degree thing, you may or may not acquire them. The degree just requires you to demonstrate a certain knowledge and skills, but not necessarily problem solving and answer finding. If you apply yourself and have good teachers, you can certainly learn it, but it's not that much different of a situation than when you're working in some job or doing things by yourself. It's not necessary nor sufficient, and definitely not even in most cases.
I agree. I was wondering why this is such a big deal. When a "neural networking" computer has a flash of inspiration and creates a screen play for a movie, and creates a virtual world based on that screen play. Then we'll have a something to talk about.
How did you guys keep vegetables fresh for 2 weeks? That's usually why i go a couple times a week. Usually buy a pack of meat to have for a few nights of dinner, vegetables to use as well. Then get more once it's used up.
In part your VP has already provided you the solution "allocated headcount for a large team". Question is can you keep all the balls in the air successfully while you go through the hiring cycle.

I have talked with many CIO's who have gone through similar transitions in their own career. Starting as very technical and needing to transition to managing people, corporate functions and major projects. These transitions and letting go of personally being the smartest technical person in the room is often difficult. You move from your comfort zone of being very competent into a "newbie" role trying to figure it all out.

Each company is different. Your description makes it sound as though your company hasn't really thought it through very well - "just give him resources and he will figure it out". Sometimes this kind of sink or swim approach works but it could clearly end badly for you and the company.

You are no good to the company if you seriously burn out and crash. It feels like you need to push harder on the getting training and help. And, make sure your headcount lets you hire somebody in a support role that can hopefully take care of a lot of the little details of running your department.
That's a very complicated question. Common Lisp has many implementations, with different strengths and weaknesses. For example SBCL and CCL are good general purpose implementations. They're fairly performant, especially SBCL, properly optimized code can compete for C-like performance. ABCL gives you Java integration, not as nice as clojures for example, but perfectly usable IMO. ECL has a fairly small footprint and is good for embedding, it can also compile down to C I think. Clasp is a newcomer to the Common lisp world, it compiles to LLVM and provides C++ integration. It's creator uses it for chemistry and nanotech simulations, so he has many C++ libraries he wants to use with Lisp, so he wrote an implementation. There are also commercial offerings(LispWorks, Allegro CL) that come with additional support and their own graphical IDEs.

When I switched from Clojure to Common lisp a few years ago, mostly I really like using multi-paradigm languages. Clojure code wants to be functional. Common lisp code has no such preference, and with the excellent OOP support it's a pleasure to use. Basically it's generic function based, rather than class based, which means that your methods are owned by your generic functions, rather than your classes. This gives you much more flexibility and power than "standard" OOP. I can write software in the style that best supports the problem I'm trying to solve. Other great features include the condition system, basically exceptions on steroids. Very few languages have something similar.

Another one of my favorite features is that the standard has been stable for decades. The core language hasn't changed since 1994, so the ecosystem continues to evolve constantly, but the core stays stable and it isn't unheard of for code written in the 80's to run with little or no modifications. I like the idea that my code might have that kind of longevity.

I could go on, but you get the general idea of having an extremely mature and stable language with many implementations that all try to solve different problems, with sufficient portability that fragmentation doesn't tend to happen(like in the scheme world for example). And personal taste of course, It's just a pleasure to use for some reason. I don't know why, but I'm just having way too much fun playing with it and trying to explain it to others.
Perhaps the media host would receive less DRM take downs and a more accurate 'relevant content' prediction model since the true origin of content is confirmed.
Justin Frankel from Winamp released a tool for fake movie sounds for Windows way back when, it's call Nullsoft Beep. Quite funny!

http://www.1014.org/code/nullsoft/nbeep/
We have a local place that does your grocery shopping for you but they charge a markup of 20-25%. That seems like a lot at first, but for $40 worth of groceries I'm only spending $10 to not have to drive to and from the store, and walk around for 30 minutes collecting items. Saves me an hour total or 45 minutes on the way home from work.
Many consider Windows 7 to be Vista 'done right', but Vista paved the way for that to happen with breaking changes you described.
See my explanation for why this matters here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11830140
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> most believers I've met are in the opposite end: they know most of the tales of the bible are just tales, and accept the scientific methods and explanations.

You clearly do not live where I live.
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As someone who has used Sainsburys, Asda, Tesco and Ocado. There is much room for improvement in the ordering process. Ocado are the best, but they are expensive.

Sainsburys pulled their dedicated app and you have to use the crappy mobile web.
The argument for passwordless authentication reminds me of crash-only programs. Basically, if you have two modes of operation, a normal mode and a recovery mode, then why not just use the recovery mode for everything?

The next step, which a lot of skeptics don't take the time to think about, is that you can easily combine multiple channels when doing passwordless authentication.

So, one-factor is to send a magic link to your inbox. A second factor would be to also send a link to your phone. a third factor would be to also send a link to a friend's phone. That would prove that it's your inbox, your phone, and that you trust that friend. You're adding entropy by adding channels instead of characters.

Even if someone managed to use technology to stand in for your inbox and your phone, and took over your account. You could still recover it by having your friend vouch for you, because that's a whole 'nother layer of complexity the attacker would have to overcome to convince your friend not to trust you.
> The computer that runs the VR (including the AI controlling the behaviour of the NPCs) might well be conscious, but the NPCs themselves are just pixels.

Where and how the information processing actually occurs to produce this intelligence doesn't seem relevant. The NPCs are individually either as intelligent as a person, and equally distinct, or they are not. If they are, they may be conscious. You said they are so intelligent, and therefore, you have no idea whether they are or are not conscious.

> It might sense some electrical signals originating from you and your friend's bodysuits, but that isn't going to feel anything like the experience you and your friend are having.

I don't see how that's relevant to whether the game system or NPCs are conscious.
I would pay a small premium for a 'pick up at store' service like I can at some retailers. Buy the item online, go to the store, go to the customer service counter and pickup the your purchases.

Imagine just going to the grocery store drive-through and picking up your groceries that you've chosen beforehand.
There is a huge range of billion dollar tech companies whose past disagrees with you. Consider all those deseptive titles / adds / business plans ...
Love the new UX, hopefully YouTube contacts you for integration globally!
They remember and pre-load your order for you, but you can modify it freely before making it. I'd agree with the sibling comment though - they're not standout good online experiences, and I haven't tried any of them on mobile.
One version was that one of the members of the group was a spy (naturally, no one in the group knew it) and they all got killed because the scheduled meet-up went wrong, so it was pertinent to not leave any witnesses.

Also, check out Devil's Pass movie from 2013, it was not bad and explored the incident in some unusual way.
holy crud! CFAA already allows TOS writers to define any behavior as unauthorized & therefore a felony. Congressmen need a way to look strong on security without completely breaking rule of law. We should issue them nerf guns or something.
Sure, Walmart provides jobs in your community... But they cost state and federal taxpayers in a significant way.

Walmart's business model depends on state and federal government assistance to their low-paid workers:

http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/the-high-public-cost-of-low-...

It is true that Walmart brings in local revenues through sales and property taxes, however this is more than offset by the assistance state and federal governments have to provide to low-wage Walmart workers:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/15/...
The first thing I think of when I think of places YouTube's UI could be improved would be to simply allow logging in without bringing you to a completely separate screen (the generic Google login screen), which interrupts the content you were viewing.
This. In my parenting life, I feel there are so many decision where you have to choose between optimizing the short term or the long term. I tend to favor the long term and my philosophy is roughly: the difficult path becomes easier and the easy path becomes more difficult.
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I think those slides try to convey the same idea, as the famous paper "Out Of the Tar Pit" (although, I'm not sure author read the paper)

Reactive and functional approach don't help you to deal with the essential complexity of your problem, but they do minimize incidental complexity, the primary source of which is the mutable state.
I am not sure where you live but this is pretty common in the north east (ShopRite etc.). To me though, I feel like there are misaligned incentives when employees pick food vs. the customer picks the food. Why should the employee care if the bread is going bad tomorrow instead of a week? The added time-savings just don't offset that concern for me.
I think your "pithy answer" won't stand up to actuall polling.

Highly educated low-wealth/low-income people tend to be socially liberal and probably skew socially leftist (think postdocs, school teachers, humanities PhDs).

High-wealth low-education people probably skew to the right (self-employed craftsmen, sports people, "old money" heirs).
I will read more about Haidt, thanks for the links.

Where do you think those different mindsets come from? Is it totally random biology, something about childhood upbringing, or some situation in life?
Anybody interested in this would also be interested in the amazing work of Glenn Mcdonald:

http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html
Mine are always one off orders. I'll log on, choose an hourly timeslot for delivery and then browse down a list of products i've purchased before (both online and instore) and chose which ones I want to be delivered. It takes about 10-15 minutes to do and they will deliver everything right to my door. It ends up being a huge timesaver compared to having to go to and from the supermarket and pick everything out.

I tend to place an order about once every 2-3 weeks, and supplement it with "top up" shops for fresh items (meat, veg etc) in a mini-supermarket on my way home from work every so often.
At least in the Northeast US, Hannaford has started offering this. Personally, I'm not interested but I see the benefit for some people.
Packaging means "better than just loading something and having it pee in the global readtable". It doesn't solve the problem that read macros compete for the same characters and clash.

Documentation for merge-readtables-into:

"If a macro character appears in more than one of the readtables, i.e. if a conflict is discovered during the merge, an error of type READER-MACRO-CONFLICT is signaled."
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I think these scam ads are the bread and butter of most of the advertising networks numerically; certainly on Yahoo all you see is ads like this and for Jim Cramer's stock tips.

Why don't ESPN and other brands affected by this sue them into oblivion?
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I'm in a similar situation and have no idea how to solve it.

I've been thinking of pulling together a mastermind of other programmers-turned-executive so we can talk about these problems together. I'm seriously peter principally-ing over here. ;)

Anybody interested?

Me:

Mid 30s
Director of Technology
Team of 10 + part timers.
No College.
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This suggested that they were freaked out by infrasound caused by a Karman vortex street caused by wind flowing around Холатча́хль.

It's plausible, as it happens elsewhere, but has anyone checked to see if this does actually ever occur on Холатча́хль?
If it meets the guidelines, this might make a good "Show HN". Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

I'm curious to read more about the app's uptake by journalists mentioned on the landing page. I've come to think landing pages are about the only way to break out of standardized format of the app store where good and bad apps look very similar and think there's an opportunity to tell people why it's worth the time to go to the app store and wait for the install.

My caution [since it's in the title] would be that only among a segment of software developers and then mostly when a project is open source, the technology stack is marginally relevant...no matter how much it matters to the developer after spending months working with it. I mean for the typical lay person, even "uses the cloud" doesn't matter because conceptually it's just part of their phone.

Good luck.
I like this fragment in the "Uber" segment: "The basic business plan of business is:

Investors write us checks.
We do business.
We write investors checks.

That's why there is business. If the investors just wrote all the checks, it would be philanthropy. This leads to lots of confusion. People are endlessly worried about stock buybacks, because they think that the stock market should be a way for businesses to raise money, not to give it back to shareholders. But it has to be both. If the shareholders never got their money back, then why would they put money in in the first place?"
Justin King (former CEO of Sainsburys in the UK) said that their data showed that people start ordering groceries for home delivery is when they start a family.

After a few weeks, when (usually) the mother of the new baby is willing to venture out, she will visit the grocery store to buy extra things.

Turns out that the spending level of online groceries doesn't drop, but the spending level of ad-hoc in-store purchases does, resulting in an overall increase in spending.

This is true for my family. The UK also has seen an increase of convenience stores which carry a 5% price premium. People like to by a little often, than to buy a lot every week.

The behaviour of grocery shopping has shifted a lot in the past 5 years in the UK.

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>It's kind of hard to explain why they did not take boots or at least return for them.

-That's presumably just what (probably, obviously this is pure conjecture on my part) the three bodies found apparently heading back to the tent were trying to do? Return to retrieve their kit, that is?

I'd reckon fleeing in panic is why they didn't pause to put on their boots and kit in the first place; something caused them to leave in a hurry. What that something was, however, we obviously do not know; my money would be on munitions testing, but YMMV.

Now, I didn't see any details in the Wikipedia article or on the (fabulous!) looo.ch site that the rescuers found any inexplicable tracks in the snow, suggesting either that whatever tracks there was had blown over OR that whatever scared them was airborne or at the very least a fair distance from their tent - or, for that matter that the rescuers happened to be encouraged to leave out some details, further indicating the authorities were involved.

I agree an avalanche sounds very unlikely, though - both based on the terrain and the fact that at least some of the victims were experienced mountaineers; they simply wouldn't have set up camp anywhere they deemed vulnerable to an avalanche in the first place.
I saw a pretty convincing video that showed that Phoenix lights were just falling flares.
I appreciate your empathy -- it was an intense experience and one I was ashamed to even share for years.

I think what was most sad for me was the loss of the illusion that the justice system had anything to do with justice.
Having been in a similar situation, try to decompose the problems. It'll be much easier make sense of it in simple chunks then group them into buckets.

Next don't do it all yourself--it's suicide. Delegate those responsibility groups one at a time as you catch that new owner up to speed. If you don't know yourself, then point/pair them with someone who does.

Once everything is delegated your new job is helping those new managers succeed and focusing on the things where you uniquely bring value.

You can do this, just take it a step at a time. It only feels insurmountable looking at it all at once, it's an illusion.
while they dont have drive throughs, this is pretty common at many stores for no fee

http://www.walmart.com/cp/1105733

http://www.homedepot.com/c/pick_up_in_store

https://www.macys.com/m/campaign/splash/buy-online-pickup-in...

http://www.target.com/c/target-shipping/-/N-551st

http://shop.nordstrom.com/c/buy-online-pick-up-in-store
> What really does my head in is that a default Debian install can pull down 2 megabytes a second from a server over SFTP, and a default FreeBSD 10 server can only do ~800 kilobytes per second

Shouldn't be that much of a difference. You might try OpenSSH from ports, maybe the HPN patches will help if you're on a high latency connection.
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