skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The suppliers consider the packaging to be a form of marketing/branding. They want it to look a certain way with key information, regulated or marketing, on various parts of it. The goods at my local grocer are packed with all kinds of info and graphics. Store brands often do the same thing. Customers love it much like they love variety on the shelves, symmetrical presentation, and interesting displays.

Aldi, like Costco, aims for a "no frills" segment that basically doesn't care how they place looks. They want to go in there, fine exactly what they need, get it cheap, and get it fast. This lets them do things like just drop boxes instead of neatly arrange products or cut beauty/info out of packaging in favor of barcodes. Ugly stuff that gets other segments to stop shopping at a place.

So, there's a few tradeoffs that apply before we even think about a company pushing vendors to do it.

Note: "Walmart offers their suppliers." They're same suppliers in many, but not all, cases. There's one or more companies that literally do nothing but put different names on the same stuff to make it look otherwise. Dirty, industry secret. ;)
People aren't useful. Hammers are useful. It seems hard to go from useful -> intelligence, and hard to go from intelligent -> conscious.
Ocean Trash Criticizes Ocean Trash
Just because some UI looks pretty doesn't mean it's well-designed. I sat there staring at that page for like 2 minutes, trying to figure out where I was supposed to click to get more information, before I realized I had to scroll down. Perhaps I'm old-fashioned, but I don't consider that good UI.
Not necessarily. You may never be able to sell that stock after you exercise your options.
Uhhh, 20 GB free...

I'm just a third-party, but if you were to get in touch with the IPFS team to host a limited amount of IA content as a proof-of-concept, I'm sure it would be a great publicity for both of your organizations.
For the life of me, I have no idea.

I replied above in another person's comment that it is no longer out of the real of possibility that one of FB's business models is to covertly financially support these click/like farms so that they encourage ad buyers like myself to keep spending $5 here and $10 there on advertising with the belief that it's actually working for them.

Pay some group of kids $100 in VN ($100 goes a LONG way there) to create and manage garbage accounts, and then like the smallest and newest of FB pages that pay the $5 or $10 to advertise so as to make it seem as though that person's ad is successful.

On a side note, isn't it strange that these farms seem to come from developing countries/areas?

Why wouldn't FB work harder to delete these fake accounts, especially if 1) they've been called out on it, and 2) FB page owners who have advertised in the past are pissed off about it.

If FB sweep deletes these accounts once a year, as both M and J claim, then why couldn't they increase the frequency?
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I don't think they're reinventing anything. Google Fonts has been offering webfonts for many years. All they did here was change the website.
I think it would be pretty cool to see giant diamonds used in unexpected new applications in homes and buildings.

> A diamond's exceptional properties (it is one of the hardest natural material on the planet, the most effective heat conductor, and largely unaffected by most acids) make it ideal for drilling, grinding, and cutting.

I'd also like to see someone incorporate a layer of diamond into a CPU heat sink.

Just because...
Edit: Agreed.
Nah. If we forgo nukes then you'd see the whole world scrambling to build nukes to protect themselves and our conventional advantage would get nullified. We need them more than other nations do.
Is particle physics about to crack wide open?
No, that's the least British thing I've heard of.
The attack surface for a web application like phpmyadmin is the entire codebase of that application. The attack surface for mysql over an ssh tunnel is basically only the sshd daemon and its authentication configuration.

I think most people would agree which one exposes a greater likelihood of being hacked. Of course you can secure a phpmyadmin installation against even being accessed by attackers (I've done this in the past myself), but there is still a chance of such security measures being accidentally botched compared to the sshd configuration.

I don't feel strongly either way, if you are confident that your security measures on a phpmyadmin installation are solid. I for one, security audit or not, would never expose a phpmyadmin installation on a publicly accessible URL.
Not everyone wants to write the most idiomatic C++, so writing variably C-ish code in C++ isn't really all that uncommon nowadays. If you're a C programmer but you notice C++ has a convenient feature (or features) that you might find useful in a pinch, hell, maybe it's worth it to bite the bullet (although that's not to say that using C++ in lieu of C can have its drawbacks, though)
While being watched by stone human-lions that are adored by birds.
https://github.com/kripken/ammo.js/
> designed from the start to die or be consumed

We're just talking about being publically traded here, a company doesn't have to die or be consumed to be able to make its investors whole.
"Noting that Princeton's a pretty good head start" is so angelic a summary of that comment that I'm guessing you happened to agree with it. People judge snark as mild when (i.e. because) they agree with it. That's human, but no basis for moderation, nor for community, since it just leads to tribes of people smacking each other.

Btw I didn't threaten to ban. I try to be careful that way, and this was a "please don't", not a "we ban accounts that do this, so please don't".
Senior BI/ETL Engineer working with DataStage and OBIEE.

Working on www.appsulagam.com : "Tamil language" content based mobile app discovery site. Learning Python, machine learning and text analysis for this project. Would appreciate any feedback/comments/help.
I've done something like that for the CPython bytecode compiler: https://github.com/darius/500lines/blob/master/bytecode-comp...

"From clean specs" didn't really hold because the bytecode VM needs better documentation. I started to address that with a version of the VM in Python (cutting down Ned Batchelder's byterun): https://github.com/darius/tailbiter and I've started a very spare-time project to redo the parser as well (in the same repo). It'd be neat to see this getting used in a compiler course -- CPython's about as simple as a popular compiler gets.

(I agree with the grandparent that it took a lot of time to learn all I needed to about CPython internals -- and for the parser there's more to learn.)
I can't tell if this comment is sarcastic or not. $9 croissants? I never thought I would defend McDonald's - comparing that place to an outhouse along with your croissant comment just comes across as being incredibly privileged, and not in a very nice way.
<What is your objection to mechanically processed meat?>

If it meets your definition of "meat", by all means stick with it. Just be aware of what MSM really is.

<neither chicken nuggets nor the beef patties at McDonald's are made with mechanically separated meat anymore>

The beef patties never were (it's illegal -- do you know why?) Their chicken nuggets originally were.
> A truly large refactoring is one that you want to try long before getting everything to compile.

That's a luxury that may not be available :-)

Here's a case study of industrial use of a refactoring tool provided with a dynamically typed language:

…

"A very large Smalltalk application was developed at Cargill to support the operation of grain elevators and the associated commodity trading activities. The Smalltalk client application has 385 windows and over 5,000 classes. About 2,000 classes in this application interacted with an early (circa 1993) data access framework. The framework dynamically performed a mapping of object attributes to data table columns.

…

Analysis showed that although dynamic look up consumed 40% of the client execution time, it was unnecessary.

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A new data layer interface was developed that required the business class to provide the object attribute to column mapping in an explicitly coded method. Testing showed that this interface was orders of magnitude faster. The issue was how to change the 2,100 business class users of the data layer.

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A large application under development cannot freeze code while a transformation of an interface is constructed and tested. We had to construct and test the transformations in a parallel branch of the code repository from the main development stream. When the transformation was fully tested, then it was applied to the main code stream in a single operation.

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Less than 35 bugs were found in the 17,100 changes. All of the bugs were quickly resolved in a three-week period.

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If the changes were done manually we estimate that it would have taken 8,500 hours, compared with 235 hours to develop the transformation rules.

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The task was completed in 3% of the expected time by using Rewrite Rules. This is an improvement by a factor of 36."

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from “Transformation of an application data layer” Will Loew-Blosser OOPSLA 2002
North Dakotans Reconsider a Corporate Farming Ban, and Their Values
But is that transparent or they pollute the source code?
The First Rule of Prioritization: No Snacking
Pricing index:

USD 399 : 570

EUR 399 : 640

CAD 519 : 577

GBP 309 : 624

KKD 2990 : 645

HUF 124990 : 638

CNY 2799 : 608

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HKD 3098 : 571

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That's so true. All the text and photos and the users that need them will move off Facebook to a new platform where you don't broadcast yourself.
Programming may be considered respectable in some circles, but it's not always blood-free.
If it was France it would probably be a delicacy.
The Dubious Power of Power Poses
From the article:

>> It’s possible that some data is backed up at local bases where investigations originated.
Yes it is. It is a bug, that may be exploitable. There's no contradiction there.
Hi everyone - I work at Coursera and wanted to share a blog post that should help clear up some misunderstandings about where courses from our old platform will go after June 30th:

https://blog.coursera.org/post/145882467032

The most important thing to know is that hundreds of courses will NOT disappear from Coursera. The vast majority of courses have already or will be updated and transitioned to our new platform in the coming months. Please read the blog post for more detailed information.

I'd also like to address questions around the payment model on our new platform. Coursera is 100% committed to our mission of providing universal access to education, and the move to our new platform does not in any way affect our mission. Anyone who demonstrates that they are unable to afford the cost of a course or Specialization can apply for financial aid. You can learn more about our financial aid program here:

https://blog.coursera.org/post/131756940057
Indeed, or even just an Engineering Manager to deal with the day to day management activities.
Reading through the claimed advantages compared to Lets Encrypt:

- Install it automatically. Well yes, certbot will install the certificate for you, it's dishonest to claim otherwise.

- Not just for one domain. I happen to have one LE cert with three domains on it.

- Wildcard support. One genuine claim.

- Two different advantages that both mean "we also offer OV and EV certs". OV certs in particular are a marketing exercise and nothing more - do you really believe any end user anywhere opens up a certificate, hits "details" and scrolls to the right part where they can check if an organisation is listed, and THEN considers what they find when trusting the site?
Your App loading speed is same in both Firefox and Chrome latest versions.

IMO, I would recommend you to support both Firefox and Chrome.

Let me give you an example,
I had never heard of Polarr Editor. Then one fine day as I browsed the Chrome store I found it to be pretty good. It even has a web version for both Chrome and Firefox. But it lacks so much exposure.

Same goes for webflow.

Why lose consumers?

Conclusion,
There are some Apps in the Chrome web store exclusive to Chrome that suffer from the inexposure to Firefox.

Most developers use both Chrome and FF alternatively as they wish. And FF's share of users is more tech oriented.

1% of web browser share equivalents around 1 million users or more.

Now, the math is self-explanatory.

Hope it helps.
That's a pretty stupid reason not to have backups. If anything, a lack of backups makes me feel like any safeguards for protecting PII would be sub par.
I think you are using that term wrong. Acqui-hired is used when a small startup is acquired by a larger company, chiefly to hire its founders. It does not apply to larger companies like Dropbox. Dropbox would simply be acquired by a larger company.
Why the secrecy surrounding surveillance? At the very least, secrecy about surveillance and how much surveillance goes on makes that surveillance seem improper. Secret interpretations of laws, secret evidence collection, secret trials (or at least trials with all documents sealed). The USA is getting it's own secret police! That has turned out well a lot of times in recent history, so I'm looking forward to it.
Whatever Scala devotees may believe, I think FP and OOP are irreconcilable opposites which means if you really get into FP you're going to hate doing what the industry demands of you in your day job, ie. OOP. Maybe FP will one day become the dominant paradigm but until then treat it like alcohol - too much and you cease to function in the "real" world. I exposed myself to Rich Hickey's Sermons From The Hammock a few years ago and Clojure just blew my mind. Since then I get a churning feeling in the stomach when I have to dealt with OOP, ie. Ruby, PHP, Python. The effects are irreversible so beware - immutable data mixed with pure functions is a potent drug.
You can now find a response from us below.
Yet your entire post is judgmental text applied to some vague out-group...
It is really nice to see someone in the game industry with honesty and integrity. But at the same time, it makes me sad that it stands out as being so incredibly rare.
In almost a decade of shopping there this has never happened to me and I'm one of those bastards that reads the receipt as I'm boxing the groceries before I leave.

I joked with a cashier about this, once ... she said, deadpan, "it beeps when it scans". I'm guessing they're listening for two beeps when they're expecting one? The store keeps stats on the cashier's times so I'd imagine there's some training and probably some things only an Aldi cashier could speak to about how they manage to be quick, accurate and deal with the 30 or so customers a day who (used to) come in expecting to pay with a credit card (they're now accepted at Aldi in the US).
Yes, github sticking it to the most oppressed of minority groups: straight white dudes.
true. I did. I enjoyed the panel entitled "bugs in the system" as it aknowledges the complexity I'm hinting at.

I'd like to see more study of natural ecosystems in such a way that we adapted the human behavior around the already-occuring processes, and less modelling of the planet around 20th century suburban design ideals etc.

one of the largest factors that I contend will emerge will be the rebirth of local food production, perhaps technologically assisted in some regions as needed, largely due to our passing of the "negligible shipping costs" tipping point as well as improved understandings of locality, microbial cultures, and multi-celled organism interactions etc.
I had done couple of projects before and one of them was somewhat successful. I made around $1.5k from that. Giftcardzilla an aggregator for discounted gift cards. I had to shut it down after Google Penguin update.

Currently building AppsUlagam.com (apps world) as a mobile app discovery site for apps with Tamil language content.
NullPointerException can usually be prevented by using FindBugs annotations. This is a work around for a fundamental design flaw in the Java language, but I find it's pretty effective.

http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/manual/annotations.html
Everything in ZeroTier is open source except the web UI for my.zerotier.com and currently the Android and iOS GUIs. (The latter might change soon since we made the apps free.)

ZeroTier's root servers run exactly the same code as ordinary nodes. They're just "blessed" in something called a "world" (see world/ and node/World.hpp) and run at stable IPs with a lot of bandwidth. There are currently 12 of them divided into two six-node clusters:

https://www.zerotier.com/blog/?p=577

The role of the root servers is pretty minimal. They relay packets and provide P2P RENDEZVOUS services for NAT traversal. All of this is built into the ZT protocol (see node/Packet.hpp). Technically any peer can do what the roots do but the roots exist to provide zero-conf/no-bootstrap operation and a secure always-on "center" to the network.

It would in theory be possible to create some kind of consensus system whereby the world could be defined by the community, but we'd want this to be extremely sybil-resistant otherwise someone could take down the whole net by electing a bunch of sham nodes.

ZeroTier is being used for Bitcoin stuff, payment networks, etc., and we do get attacked. We've had several DDOS attempts and other attempts to attack the system. So far nothing's succeeded in impacting it much.
Yup, basically all food stores are sitting, but clothing shops all seem to be standing, weirdly.
I posted this after reading the various posts regarding Barefoot Networks exiting stealth⁰.

They've (jointly?) developed P4 and have tooling to compile it down to their new switch silicon, Tofino.

Hard to say exactly how impressive all this is considering how price sensitive and competitive merchant silicon is.

They could, for example, have glued a large FPGA to a huge amount of network I/O and then developed a P4 compiler to their FPGA fabric. Who knows?

P4 seems to be attempting to be a CUDA for switching, except more open. Barefoot, I presume, is betting on producing the most efficient, by whatever metric, hardware implementation of it.

⁰https://hn.algolia.com/?query=barefoot%20networks&sort=byDat...
I know there are hundreds of C compilers and that I am just reinventing the wheel. But my main goal is just learning. I have already written another compiler before, but it was just for a toy language. For this reason, I would like to build a compiler for a "real-life" language, and C is an important but yet small language. I want to master the whole process of a fully working compiler for a "real-life" language, and afterwards continue to build on top of this knowledge, since I have been doing research on automatic parallelisation, and I am interested in optimising compilers in general.

Even if this project doesn't turn out to be useful for a lot of people, I hope at least to inspire a few people to tackle big problems.
That does sound like a better way to explain it.

My post was just layman speculation, as I'm not a biologist/ecologist.
Many younger people today find it hard to fathom, but the suburbs and fast food car culture were not (entirely) a capitalist plot executed by General Motors and McDonald's to brainwash the populace into unwitting wage-slave servitude.

The WW2 generation built and adopted all that voluntarily, because they like it and think it's a much better way of life than how they lived before the war: in densely packed, dirty cities; unable to remotely afford a car; being obligated to cook for hours every single day before you could even eat a meal, and then often going to bed hungry because there was just not enough food to go around due to the Great Depression.

They moved to the suburbs because they generally view having your very own car to drive places, and being able to pick up dinner on the way home in five minutes, as massive lifestyle improvements rather than impediments.
> But you seem to ignore all cases other than if someone wants to do, let them, even if the decision is spur of the moment because they just experienced something horrible and haven't given time to process it fully

I generally believe that government shouldn't protect people from themselves. Again, I'm only arguing against using force of law to prevent someone from taking their own life, not talking someone down from the ledge.
> The groovy compiler supports including source code line numbers and variable names in compiled jar files

I haven't used Groovy since v 1.8, and certainly didn't know about this facility then.

> why would you expect that Groovy can be compiled and then decompiled to Java?

It worked in Groovy 1.0, and the decompiles to Java were useful back then when Groovy often had unexpected behavior.
Because they want to dominate the web as much as they can from the clutches of Google.

Another view, is to tighten their grip on the Enterprise consumers. Since, MS Office is their last remaining undisturbed stronghold.

Disclaimer: These are just views ;)
The cynic in me says the gaps will be for whoever was being investigated and triggered this corruption.
More detail but less beauty. I'll take a second whack at it. Ignore the details, consider the premise. The university library was under renovation. He wound up in charge of safekeeping a pile of journals. So he stacked them neatly by year and decade:

- The 1900s Physics Journals: 1" tall
- The 1910s stack: 2" tall
- The 1920s stack: 4" tall
- The 1930s stack: 8" tall ...

I'm reminded of Feynman's tale of the Bell Labs scientists who had a view of suspension bridge construction. Marked the progress week by week on the glass, watching the cable slowly fall into parabolic shape.
"When they lowered the milk price by one fourth to 46 cents recently (which is way too low to cover production cost) all other chains responded within a few hours for their store-brands."

They tried this in my area maybe last year. Aldi dropped the price of milk and some other stuff to ridiculous prices. It went from around $2 to $0.60-0.70 at Aldi with Walmart, Kroger, etc following by dropping to $0.99. Aldi ships milk on racks with little else in their dairy selling that fast. Competitors, that I'm aware, all hand stock milk with tons of other products selling fast. Employees were exhausted from wave after wave hitting the milk section and so much milk stored that they couldnt get to other products. Convenience store owners were also posing as regular customers to buy basket loads of it over course of a day despite policy of 2 per customer. Results were so devastating to big players they backed off and didn't price war Aldi again in my area. So far. Milk went back up.

I thought it was hilarious they'd even try given they're "as much overhead as possible" organizations going against an essentially "zero overhead" organization. What did they think would happen? Lol...
For comparison:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunoia_(book)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constrained_writing

I recommend finding people with letter-related synesthesia and showing them your friend's poetry!
Actor based modelling of physical entities and of "Ai"/NPC behaviour is reason enough I want to explore Erlang/Elixir for a video game engine. I even considered a two binary approach, webGL in an electron app talking to an Erlang/elixir backend "local server" that's distributed with and launched by the electron app. All of that mess was to avoid writing my own physics engine and OpenGL bindings. The Erlang/Elixir ecosystem is woefully under equipped with tools for 3D graphics and/or physics simulation, so I personally welcome anyone's contributions to this area.
Unless you signed a contract that says you'll go to IPO, or they have some other means of coercion... sounds like boohoo for the VC.