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I agree with your sentiment. And I think it's true in a place where we expect growth --but in places like Japan or Italy with decreasing numbers of workers, this makes sense. So, in that world there is a place to automate these jobs away so that we don't need retirees or near retirees making sure you don't trip on a broken sidewalk or a car is reminded to wait for pedestrians as the cars cross a pedestrian way.

More of the world will enter into pop stabilization and decline and this is where this will fit in. Where it will not fit in is in places still experiencing pop growth and few prospects for rewarding jobs.

On the other hand I'm a bit Orwellian and I do see value in people doing these kids of small quotidian things which are the basis for human fabric since civ --that is, engaging in small transactions which reinforce human connectivity.
im not sure this is a problem that needed to be solved. The issue of ordering groceries has been solved by existing supermarkets, in my case i can order everything I need on a weekly basis from Tesco for a small delivery fee. The last thing i want to do is go back to shopping in store, there are smaller local shops for little items but i cant see me using Amazon go in lieu of my existing grocery store that delivers.
This doesn't take into account the value of forced social interaction. Seeing a human at the grocery, exercising patience if the line is a little longer than I would perhaps like, being forced to engage in conversation with my neighbor...There is a value to these social behaviors and value to how they shape psychological development. I worry about the world where everything is catered to Me and I, and I can go about my life without interacting with the people I'm forced to share space with.
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The article uses the actual sales price as the "accurate" number.

As with anything, the 'value' is what a willing and able seller and a willing a able buyer agrees to. An appraiser attempts to determine the most likely price for something (in this case a home) within reasonable amount of marketing time. The appraisal report will usually specify the expected marketing time. I think in most areas this will be 3-6 months, some areas longer and others shorter, depending on the market.

Of course, appraisals effect prices, because most buyers need to finance, and most financiers won't do it without an appraisal that is at least as much as the purchase amount. (That is the "able" part of the willing and able requirement).

Two appraisals performed on the same property at the same time can come back with very different numbers. I have bought two houses in the last 4 years- both had 2 appraisals done, and one the values were almost almost 17% different- a difference greater than most of the "errors" that the articles notes for Zestimate vs sale price. On the other house, the appraisals were came back with nearly identical values, but the first appraisal was done wrong. Still this value (the appraised value from both appraisals) was 16.2% higher than what I paid for the property.

My experiences are just as anecdotal as the articles, though. But I have spoken with real estate professionals all over the country that have the same experiences repeatedly with appraisals.
Here's my speculation on the technology behind it:

Tracking. A lot of tracking.

You don't need deep learning and car sensor technology to do simple rfid tag pick up/drop offs to detect what you have in your cart.

No, this technology probably fully tracking your every movement in the store. It may use rfid tags to detect what you have, but that is not the main tech.

When you walk in and scan your phone, a camera array will scan you to create a footprint on who you are and link it to your ID. Then your every movement will be tracked by various cameras throughout the store.

You walked 3 steps, took a step back and looked at the advertising on the right? We recorded it.

You went to the cereal aisle first? Picked up a box of cereal and then put it back in favor of another one? Yup, we recorded it too.

If this is indeed the case, then the correctness of what is in your shopping cart is going to be very, very high and there will be no need for an honor system, randomized checks, or other mechanisms to prevent inaccuracies.

Shoplifters will probably get away with the first shoplifting but will probably get profiled immediately and unable to do it multiple times.
> Automating a job like this gives more [...] money back to people who buy groceries

Honestly, I think this is never going to actually be the case. Why would a grocery store lower prices just because their costs went down a bit? Neither the demand nor the supply has changed, nor has the price people are willing to pay for their groceries.

If nothing has changed but your costs, why lower the prices when you can simply report increased revenue to your shareholders? If competition comes along, a quick "we're premium, they are cheap" marketing campaign (or buying them out) would probably cost less than lowering the prices to match.
We published the story of why we did this at https://medium.com/best-buy-developers/we-built-you-a-playgr...
Isn't the same thing true for a 3 level deep hashmap of hashmaps?
That sounds like an echo chamber to me. Hardly healthy for a society, let alone an individual. Such alienation from your neighbors!
I actually have a yearly discount advertised but not have not spent the 10 minutes to code it. Stupid of me, I bet I could get several people to commit to paying a year for 2 months free.
> It doesn't help the rest of the world speaks English while Chinese pumpers insist that eventually everyone will speak and write Mandarin, which is syntaxtually and linguistically a lot harder to learn and use. I'm certain Japanese thought the whole world would eventually learn Japanese...in 1989.

Okay SV has its advantages but this is just American imperialism at its finest.
As such, I find a stronger S/N here despite the elitism.

Despite? I've only been on the internet for 15 years, but I thought elitism was the only way to increase s/n ratio.

I've seen elitism enforced through selecting _who_ can talk or _how_ the people talk to eachother. But I've never seen anything but "GOML" change interaction for the better. Even this "Dear Javascript" can be seen as a flavor of GOML.
What is "the substance" of the Valley?

(legitimately curious, please don't take my question wrong)
That's how I understand your comment.

Shops in the place I live in are fine, but I've heard about "greeters" in America, so it wouldn't surprise me at all if there also were paid people to talk to...
It comes off as weird because he claims to see a connection that I don't. As I mentioned, there is no concept of "revolutionary language" in Soviet or general Marxist thought. The connection to pronouns rests on that being a real thing, so there's nothing left to help me see why social justice-themed legislation has anything to do with Marxism in his mind.
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Other people don't share your values, nor should they, nor should you expect them to. I would rather have more humans working these jobs, but minimum wage laws prevent that.

There's no reason why your human interaction would suffer if you truly value it. With the money and time saved, perhaps people now go to the cafe and talk more often, or perhaps there's now a vendor outside the shop where you can get a conversation and a coffee. More than likely there will be a solution that i can't even think of.
> Don't multiply to make it sound like something

I'm not being disingenuous -- the 2014 farm bill has a 5 year life time -- there'll be another big debate when it comes up for renewal in 2018.

The way that I described it is the same way that everyone on both sides of the isle describes it, because it's honest and accurate -- the bill has a five year life time and changes every five years. So if you want to talk about the cost of the farm bill, you talk about the total cost over five years.

> That works out to less than 100 million a year. To three significant digits that is 0% of the budget.

I think you missed some zeros.

(As an aside, Google has a cool feature where it will do math using words so that you don't screw up w/ the number of zeros: https://www.google.com/search?q=half+a+trillion+divided+by+f... -- I find this super helpful b/c I always drop or add zeros when there are so many)
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13083180
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Alphago was actually trained directly on game state (plus some extra computed state like "how many liberties will I have if I play this move" or "will I win this ladder"). A huge number of pro games (and countless amateur games) are available on servers like KGS in a nice computer-digestible format.
I disagree that Angular 2 is a completely different framework. Rather, it's like Angular 1 re-imagined for the ES6+ world. Many of the concepts are the same, like data binding, "scope," and Dependency Injection. The big change is moving to new syntax and a new foundation on object-oriented concepts. The framework had to adapt and shed some of its custom solutions to what are now available standard in the language.
Wat. Some of the best developers I know learned 'on the job'. Software is a 'craft' after all. I think all of technology is a craft.
Do you guys have a general concept of monthly cost for e.g. DigitalOcean or similar, just to handle the hosting and bandwidth for a Piwik backend or something similarly not Google? At your scale I'm sure it is well beyond anything I could afford to subsidize given my present responsibilities, but this might possibly be an easier conversation to have in general were it more widely known what kind of costs we're talking about here - I get the impression that part of the GA-related upset may just have to do with the fact that people don't really understand the magnitude of the problem under discussion. (Or I hope so, anyway.)
It will when windows file explorer will support sftp out of the box
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13099949
I think you're falsely equivocating the British-inspired American Common Law system with a fundamentally, institutionally different Chinese concept.

Even French and other European nations which use Civil Law instead of Common Law systems operate a good bit differently than the Anglo law systems. In fact, Chinese Law is kind of a Civil Law system mixed with Soviet Socialist Law and Traditional Chinese Law, so you'd have much more luck comparing German Law with Chinese Law.

But to then equivocate between US and Chinese law, calling them basically the same, it ignores larges differences and for seemingly no benefit.

If you wanted to say Hong Kong law system and US/UK law systems were so similar that the differences in this conversation aren't worth discussing, that's one thing.

But Mainland Chinese law, the Socialist Law system, is very different. Their Western Civil Law + Soviet Socialist Law + Traditional Chinese Law system is different, especially the Traditional Chinese legal influences, which is the topic of discussion here: how native Chinese companies can often navigate traditional law while foreign companies are held to a more strict western-influenced civil law standard.
I heard the Matthäus-Passion and could understand the lyrics I wept

Which parts made you weep?
I just read those few pages of the thesis. It seems to imply that concurrency has some sort of 'locking' or 'coordination' component. The 'Thinking in Parallel' article makes no mention of either of those concepts - Quite the opposite.

In French, the word 'concurrent' literally means 'competitor' - Which in our case implies competition for computational resources (E.g. specific memory locations) - On the other hand, the 'Thinking in Parallel' article talks about how to partition resources in a way which removes the element of competition between processes - So the word 'Parallel' seems fitting.
What are some best practices for evaluating ideas before building anything. You mentioned talking to users which is good advice but assumes that an industry has been identified already.
But in his view, feminist thought is a source of the "lies", so his critique of feminism is an essential element of the interview.
Last one - so if a fab can produce wafers at say 14nm - is there something else that can be stopping it from producing 14nm NAND flash? I mean apart from the quality.

I imagined fabs like 3d printers. I thought the toughest part is the design, and once you have it, there's now plenty of places where you can print it.
I took the essence of his essay to be "communities that are primarily negative about things are hurting themselves because they push out the people who are in a position to help them".
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It also depends on the state and stage of one's life. For instance, as a student, I loved chatting up clerks in grocery stores. I actually met my SO this way. Being older and working full time now, I would vastly prefer to never visit any store ever, and buy everything on-line. It's not cheap enough yet though, so that's why today after work I'm visiting the cheapest store around to restock my fridge...
Is there a possibility of remote for this position?
the "tax" part is obviously important (dividends are taxed while unrealized gains are free until security is liquidated). what most people ignore when doing these types of analyses is that a bird in hand is worth two in the bush: your risk of loss in the non-dividend payer is always 100% whereas your risk of loss in the one with the historical income stream is price - dividends received.
If that's the case, that this is a solved problem, they should have showed that off!
Yeah, all definitions are module level unless they are scoped in let or where blocks (someone correct me if I'm mistaken)
That wouldn't necessarily work for every site though. Some JS single-app routers default to using the # symbol as a routing delimiter instead of slashes.
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Ah yes the cliche practice of making a loose blanket counter claim based on false assumptions to suggest that any critical view of China is inherently flawed due to the bias of being American.

I wonder if you even live in North America, the difference is night and day.

If I was in China and a company violates my IP and trademark, what punitive measures are enforced to ensure that my brand is not damaged as a result of knock-off products that ultimately turns out to be unsafe?

What if you bought an iPhone only to discover it was a fake and customers are uploading burning batteries with the Apple logo on WeChat and Weibo?

Clearly such practices are not allowed in North America or Europe and I can rest assured that there's very little chance of that continuing. There's no middle ground, it's

A) did you use their trademark?

B) If yes, you broke the law.

C) Enforcement of the consequences.

D) Scares everyone else to follow the law

What possible context do you need here to justify trademark violation? Does China understand the value and role trademarks play? Without a clear authenticity, you can't control the quality, and the consumer and the producer lose. The economic loss as a result of not enforcing is great enough in the long term that the Western nations have long adhered to it.

Being fair to China, it's still a growing economy and it's learning all these pieces. I feel like the future Chinese economy will be very similar to the US, and only then, will it truly shine. Unfortunately with a communist themed leadership where a central government is controlling everything, such maturity will not come in time and it will ultimately be it's undoing.

The rule of law is interpreted as it is. Context should never be used as an excuse to say that the law doesn't work. Clearly, in the US or Canada, any trademark violation is enforced swiftly.

Are you seriously trying to suggest that is the case in China?
Try changing the number of bedrooms. That used to have an effect, even for the same square footage. In one case, 2 bedrooms came out higher than 3.
I actually always translated the lean startup model as the scientific method for startups in my head and while explaining to others.

My question: how do you apply that when you have tens of visitors/users? Not nearly enough to have a reliable ab test.

Edit: so far he answered only one question. Not much of a AMA, right? Maybe remove it from the title.
This could be something really awesome. There is a lot of space for a new method of interaction with software that is independent of voice and touchscreen. Specially with AR and VR. If done right, this could be as big of a game changer. Possibly as big as the Scroll Wheel or Touch screen. Here is an older but related TED video that speaks to some interesting use cases: https://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potent...
You're missing the point. May appraisers are under the thumb of the mortgage brokers. See http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/12/bill-black-mortgage-a...

[I]n 2007the New York State attorney general sued First American: relying on internal company documents, the complaint alleged the corporation improperly let Washington Mutual’s loan production staff ‘’hand-pick appraisers who bring in appraisal values high enough to permit WaMu’s loans to close, and improperly permit WaMu to pressure …. appraisers to change appraisal values that are too low to permit loans to close” [FCIC 2011: 92].
The devaluation after brexit is no larger than the one after the financial crisis in 2008. In fact it's probably smaller I think. Inflation rose to 5% approx from a base level of around 2% and that's with oil being considerably higher than it is now. So your prediction of "The consequences are predictable - prices rise, inflation rises, the cycle repeats, and eventually the economy breaks down altogether after sovereign default becomes a real threat." didn't happen then, it likely won't happen now. Why? Because inflation due to currency fluctuations is different to the type of inflation caused by an economy overheating.

Hell the bank of england has been printing money for 5 years and if that didn't cause runaway inflation I don't see how the pound weakning somewhat is going too.
I'm not talking about salary or social status. I'm talking about doing the actual job. There is nothing full-filing in a routine, very basic job (scanning items back and forth). A plumber is more interesting in this regard.

Another useless job: A door-man.
This comment makes me suspect you may have never been to a farmer's market, or a market hall (of which Barcelona has some of the world's most glorious examples).

While it's possible that some people "want groceries as cheap and fast as possible," I don't think either of those is true of the hundreds of people I join at my local market every week.

I go there mainly because I like buying directly from the producers. I want there to be independent farmers in the future too, for reasons of taste, culture, ecology, and food safety.

But I also enjoy my interactions with some of the sellers. Some people probably go mainly for that reason. The market is full, despite a big ugly multinational supermarket 100m away that has cheaper (and worse) versions of just about everything on offer. That supermarket is also full, though I think the reasons why are not as simple as market efficiency.

A lot of us will continue to share the parent poster's opinion, and hopefully in sufficient numbers to keep all the little bodegas going. Because we care about food, and we care about living among humans.
If people really shop "because of the experience", then this technology is nothing to worry about as it will fail in the market.
Ask HN: Has there been follow-up regarding Amazon employee's suicide attempt?
This is in reference to the suicide attempt of last Monday. Have there been any protests by employees? Has that person's manager been pushed to resign yet?
I'm afraid there isn't one!
I don't think your view is unpopular. Plenty of people here would agree with you but it's an overly romantic view of the world.

The problem isn't that Amazon is doing this and that this will drive out those mom&pop shops. The problem is that people will choose to go to Amazon and willingly destroy the mom&pop shops. The consumers are more culpable for the destruction of those mom&pop shops than Amazon. By placing the blame entirely on Amazon you are taking agency away from people which in my opinion sounds more wrong than a nice neighborhood losing its charm because of Amazon Go.

What people don't realize is that economic forces are completely within their control and it's their daily choices that add up to neighborhoods maintaining their charm or turning into Starbucks and Amazon Go automation factories. There is a sustainable way to drive innovation and it requires people to be cognizant of those daily choices. I don't think you can make people come to that realization by stopping or delaying progress.
Was cut and pasting the title too hard?
It doesn't matter what people like, what matters are the facts of the situation. I'm arguing that answers like yours are self serving reinforcement of your own ideas about morality which blind you to the possibility that you're just wrong in thinking that everyone is on the same playing field.

That does NOT mean we aren't all personally responsible. It means that you should consider having compassion and less contempt for people who fail where you succeed.

Are there cases of pure gluttony and laziness leading to obesity? Damn straight there are, and I'm not arguing otherwise. But whether you believe me or not there are real challenges that _some_ fat people face that you (presumably) and I just don't have to deal with.

Think of it this way, if someone is born with only one leg. They still have all the same personal responsibility you and I have to live their life as an adult. But both of us will understand if they struggle with certain things we're able to accomplish with ease. You wouldn't dream of saying that person lacks personal accountability because he struggles with walking.

So why do you presume to know FOR SURE that everyone who is fat got that way because of a failing of personal accountability? Perhaps they were just born without a leg... so to speak...

I hope you'll reconsider your position. At least to admit there is a possibility that other people have unseen handicaps that you just don't have to deal with.
I put women because they seem to care more about kids. But men are fine too. That's not my point. My point is some very successful people have trouble creating families which is not sustainable for the human race as it is.
I think if someone made a vending machine that actually makes coffee the way a barista would, instead of pouring hot water into dried powder of random chemicals, I'd never ever visit a coffee shop again. But as it is now, vending machine coffee tastes so bad it's almost a separate category of awfulness (and don't get me started on vending machine tea...).
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I don't know if "problematic" is the right word seeing as even with manual memory management you have to do the same techniques. The problem is with allocation/destruction in general within the core loop.
if you don't notice it and don't put it bag you pay for it, just like in a normal store. That's what I'd assume at least.