skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would also argue that any store I've been to with a self checkout line tends to have a majority of the use. I find them faster. My wife was hesitant the first few times she used them, now she prefers them as well. I would argue that odds are you & the people in front of you, who often are in a hurry, will be faster than the person who checks out people all day & is suffering from fatigue & boredom. I would also argue that most people in a checkout line want to get out of the checkout line as soon as possible & with no errors.
>I've yet to flag a post just for being infuriating

On the contrary, these are the posts you need to examine the most carefully. A strong emotional response is sometimes a defense mechanism against cognitive dissonance. Flagging something because it made you angry is just sticking your fingers in your ears. If it's objectionable, you should be able to articulate why.
I don't know any about Rust, but indeed Fabien has a really good one about game engines.
spying is illegal yet everyone spies everyone, how can you explain that?
I think it is important to note that implementation of the currency is separate from its value.

The system for trading ownership of bitcoins does not care for the value of that ownership.

The value we, outside of the system used for logistics of trade, place on the bitcoins is then affected by their scarcity.

To the system, it doesn't matter if the scarcity is caused by loss or by hoarding. But this can affect our valuations.
The VAE "coder" is modelling a distribution p(z|x), and the decoder is modelling a distribution p(x|z).

I like these slides: https://home.zhaw.ch/~dueo/bbs/files/vae.pdf
If someone can access your etcd, they can write new pods to run into it which will then be distributed to nodes to run.

Those new pods could reference existing secrets, be in any namespace (e.g. kube-system), and are exactly the same as root on all k8s nodes.

Because of that, having access to etcd is equivalent to having admin cluster access. The secrets are no more secret if they're encrypted in etcd or not since anyone with access to etcd can launch pods that will decrypt arbitrary secrets.

This is true iwth vault as well. Once secrets are in vault, access to etcd will still result in all secrets being available to the attacker. The threat model is no better.

There are plans to encrypt them in etcd for the sake of them not appearing in backups and because people like you constantly bitch about it, but it doesn't mater and saying they shouldn't be called secrets because of this is FUD.
The article (on economist.com) claims that [e]conomists "would call" it an institution.
>Most of us aren't planning for the next industrial revolution.

The value of labour will continue to decline. While your labour has value, saving up as much money as possible and putting it in index funds seems like a really good idea.
I usually don't comment about these type of posts, but I felt I had to speak out here when the author of this article has been an offender of the things he's trying to promote. Perhaps he has just "seen the light," but I have my reservations.

Specifically, these lines got to me:

>If we focus on solutions, focus on helping others, focus on sharing ideas, we’ll be in a better place. We’re all part of a broader community and we all have an impact on it. We can either have a positive impact or a negative one. It’s entirely up to us.

> This is the reality the community faces. We can either work to fix it or we can continue digging a deeper hole for ourselves.

At my company, we were using Lerna [1], a library to help manage mono repos. It wasn't perfect, but it worked. So I thought I'd contribute. I spent a good deal of time replying to issues, fixing bugs, and working on new features.

This was at a time when the author was mostly absent. Without the amazing help of gigabo [2] and hzoo [3], the project would have grinded to a halt. As new users rushed in to use this relatively new tool, there were many new issues and feature requests.

When the author did make his presence known, he was not very helpful [4] [5]. These are just the examples that stood out to me as a contributor. Most people understand that 1 person can't be expected to maintain a big project like this, especially when they are busy at Facebook bootcamp. That's why it had 2 additional members to help. Unfortunately, as a result of [5] above, the author decided he no longer wanted [2]'s help and removed him from the project. He removed a huge contributor because he disagreed with him and failed to openly discuss the issue. Ironic. I stopped contributing immediately. As a result, Asini [6] was born.

The thing that really pisses me off about this post from the author is that he's promoting open communication, sharing, helping others, etc... when it's the complete opposite of my experience with him. Maybe he just had a bad day on those days, maybe it was something else. I don't know him personally, I can only assume things based my interactions. Regardless, this was some extremely poor handling of an open source project.

It looks like he's active on the project again, but it doesn't look like much has changed. [7] [8] [9]

Mr. Kyle, if you're reading this, I really hope you'll follow your own advice. If I have misunderstood your actions in the past, I'm open to being wrong.

[1] https://github.com/lerna/lerna
[2] https://github.com/gigabo
[3] https://github.com/hzoo
[4] https://github.com/lerna/lerna/pull/255#issuecomment-2289545...
[5] https://github.com/lerna/lerna/issues/334#issuecomment-24639...
[6] https://github.com/asini/asini
[7] https://github.com/lerna/lerna/pull/255#issuecomment-2523322...
[8] https://github.com/lerna/lerna/pull/386#issuecomment-2640725...
[9] https://github.com/lerna/lerna/issues/408
> delivering fresh food isn't easy with their infrastructure

Don't they already have pretty widespread grocery deliveries?
'For evidence just look at how many people opt to queue in the self service aisle, even when there is no queue at the human alternative.'

I'd noticed that too here in London. TBH I feel I get better and more 'human' interactions from the people that police the self-service checkouts than behind the counters, because generally they're trying to help me when I need it.
It's funny that for as much as you may have seen written about 'truthiness' (false statements that "feel" true to some people), I've yet to see anything about 'falsiness' which would be the inverse. That is, true statements that "feel" false.
I'm interested to see how this plays out since China has such a large user base compared to US.
The problem is that, everyone responds by saying "people don't HAVE to work now", but whenever you talk about people not being able to earn incomes, there isn't much thought put into how they will live. All of the effort is going into things that will eliminate earning opportunities for people, and little or none going into how to support the people who can no longer find work.

I'm not going to argue that we should hold back innovation to preserve jobs, or that we should have people working 40+ hours per week as our goal. The simple fact is, however, that attitudes and government policies are really far away from supporting a 'post-work' society, and are actually getting further and further away.

People who control capital in western societies - and are the primary beneficiaries of automation and other techniques that are causing many jobs to disappear - already feel like they pay too many taxes, and are generally good at finding ways to make sure they pay less. Even a level of basic income that would provide a poverty-level standard of living for people feels politically impossible right now.

I don't fully disagree with you, but I find a lot of these "post-work" responses to be really hand-wavy.
Seems like this story should really be linking to the Leap Motion blog with the announcement.

http://blog.leapmotion.com/mobile-platform/
I don't think this is "control", the appraiser [sp?] did not have to agree to do that.
It's amazing how this combines just about every cutting-edge trend and hot topic in technology, both good and bad:

- Elimination of low-level jobs

- Elimination of cash

- Deep surveillance (cameras everywhere, online tracking)

- Assuming it works, it will seem pretty magical!

(edit: formatting)
I have exactly the opposite view. Until very recently modules in sbt required a scala Build file. There is not one single file where you have a view of everything - plugins, build properties, sbt file, and sbt scala file. I prefer maven over SBT any time of the day. Have not tried Gradle, so cant comment
> The thing is while NAT is horrible for what you're saying, it probably did more to improve security than anything else, which wasn't it's primary goal.

Are you defending NAT? It sounds like a Vietnam era construction: you had to destroy the Internet in order to save it.

We now have a seemingly entrenched tree-structured (i.e. centralized) network again, the very 1960s architecture we tried so hard to get away from.
Appraisers absolutely do pull numbers out of hats, because appraisers who regularly fail to write down a large enough number will stop getting calls.
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Running your applications in Erlang is its own microservices architecture. Each process is essentially microservice that can interact with others on any node in your cluster by sending messages. Everything is handled for your by the runtime. Processes on a different node? No problem, they're easy to discover and if a message does go to another node the serialization is handled for you. Erlang is so powerful I'd actually invert your question.
It may not have been their conscious intent, but it is the implicit assumption behind the question. Otherwise, the question could have been framed differently, such as:

"I think that is excessive and we could readily cut it by 10%, leaving 16 billion (or whatever -- not checking my math here) to put towards other causes. What good could governments do with that amount?"

"We spend X amount on (presumed frivolous expense, such as gold jewelry, haute couture or backyard swimming pools). What might be a better use of those funds if we could convince people to spend it differently?"
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what are they, I'd love to try them out
so far I only know about TextWrangler
I use Zillow to give me a ballpark number for prices in an area I don't know well. My experience is that they are usually within 20% of the market price, which coincidentally they say on their website. For a free automated service, Zillow is great. If you want a better number, do your own comp analysis, or hire an appraiser.
RFID tags are way to expensive to scale. The margin for one of the products might be just a few cents, so with RFID tags they might have to sell at a loss or rise prices. This would eliminate the cashier, but at least in germany the wage/item scanned is way cheaper then RFID tags.
>Which legal base allows them to overwrite my local laws? I really dont get it.

It's the other way around. The laws in your country have no authority over the FBI.
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Did you ask them or do you expect Amazon to read your mind?

Where do you get such sense of entitlement? Amazon didn't ask you to write it you volunteer your own time and resources and now you are telling Amazon what they should do.
The end of an era. LLAP.
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Very interesting, good analogies and information for me to think about.
The HN commenter literally threatened to sue the developer, even calling the developer a "good target". That sort of combative language is toxicity.
Spot on.
I think the most interesting thing in the article was (paraphrasing): You can write up a report on a conversation you have with a Pakistan official, and it becomes classified. Are you then expected to no longer discuss the same topic on your next meeting, because the report you wrote has a classification on it?

To me this whole SNAFU boils down to the two FBI agents assigned to the case not doing due diligence in their investigation.
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And let's not forget most tech workers will eventually be let go. There will always be a need for the Rock Star Programmers, but the rest of us are, and will be very expendable.

I find the denial here ironic. Tech workers are very replaceable. I don't care how special you think you are, or how integral you think you are to your team; one day most of you will just reminisce about the good ole days. No real barriers to entry + this information getting easier to learn yearly + no unionization + no real concern to save jobs you feel are beneath you + a generation who quotes Ann Rand = a huge swath of new homeless. Yea, some of you can go home, but many will be holding their battered Mac Book, and their cute tee shirts. I'm not picking on you guys, just watch the smugness. Or, be careful what you wish for?
See a doctor, get a referral to an ergonomic specialist.

Immediate action: try wearing a wrist brace, at least on the right hand. This will make a lot of activities difficult to do. That is the point.

In 1993 I went on a multi–night bender writing a gopher server that could also speak HTTP, using a keyboard and computer that weren't mine which didn't have a wrist rest. At the end of the bender I had a working gopher server, but my wrist had swollen so badly I couldn't type anymore (while the bones of my hand ached badly, the surface skin was numb). It took six months of working with a wrist brace to undo the damage and to this day it resurfaces from time to time.
Why bother scanning before ownership is verified then?
thats different, they can only spy on me when i use their resources. Traffic that never leaves my country (unlikely & rare) should theoretically not be spied on. Also is spying actual illegal?
My current best guess is, basically what you've suggested.
The Amazon Go page says "Computer Vision" which means "Cameras, Cameras Everywhere!". It also says "Sensor Fusion," I bet that means at the very least "Wifi and Bluetooth," with which they'll use to place your location on a virtual map of the store. That location could then be compared with the computer vision object tracking location to "double check" that you really are at that location. And so on.
It'd be nice, for the stores, if they didn't have to bake so much "attrition" into their accounting.
I have tried similar services in the past. Eventually the quality of the designers goes down as the community grows, how are you going to tackle that?
We spy on you, you spy on us. Then let's trade information (withholding the juicy bits for ourselves of course). Say it with me everyone: loopholes!

Not that something being illegal has ever stopped governments before.
> But when I read it (as a layperson), I was surprised how relatively first these experts believed it would happen

Remember, the same experts predicted flying cars in the 1960s. We are yet to have self driving cars.
I think it's along the same lines of "Your browser is LEAKING your IP ADDRESS!!!1".
I would assume RFID would be more accurate to begin with. Seems like there's a lot of room for errors with their proposed technology.

BUT what if their goal isn't to make razor thin margins at grocery stores, but to test out their tech on human tracking. You've got to believe that they have a more long term plan than making a better self-checkout.

They can now tie in your Amazon Go app with you as a person. Most likely all the sensors and cameras in the store will be both tracking you via your app with Bluetooth, but also perhaps body heat sensors and the like that track you based on your unique body pattern.

Then they can tie this in with your Amazon Prime account to better improve recommended purchases to you, they can tie this in with your Prime Now account and your home address and more immediate delivery needs. Drones, Kindle, Echo as well.

The goal is deeper analytics and tracking on individual humans. That's how Facebook makes their money, and Amazon can perhaps have deeper data on individuals than any other company tracking browser cookies.
"People want groceries as cheap and fast as possible."

What evidence do you have for this claim? A study of some sort?

It is also obvious from reading the news that some people do not want this.

"They don't go to the grocery store for social interaction and forcing the majority of people to pay extra for something that only the minority get value out of is not a competitive strategy."

Again, this sounds like hearsay or a personal opinion.
I think the main issue with the transition of Babel 5 -> Babel 6 was a cognitive one. A few CLI one-liners don't really address this. Babel was zero-config and now it's not. I now need to understand what presets and plugins do and how to order them to get desired results when transpiling.

Ultimately, it was inevitable and I think it was a very good thing! I'm really happy that Babel 6 exists. But figuring out your Babel presets and plugins is undoubtedly another thing that we have to think about when we start a project. Similarly with JSLint/JSHint -> ESlint.

Thank you for your great work, I use Babel daily and Flow sometimes (less often than I should).
That is exactly what does not make sense to me. That would assume the FBI is some kind of world super power, which i am sure they like to think of themself.
Your baseless presumption aside, my response was more general than related specifically to this article.
The price, considering the specs, doesn't make any sense.

I already can buy SSDs under 45 cents/GB, with more IOPS and faster sequential writes.
Dogs are creative as well, though not as much as humans. The comment I was replying to simply asserted that people have something a machine inherently cannot. I wonder what that thing is, and if the writer thinks it's a machine-vs-nature issue or a humans-vs-all-other issue.

FWIW I don't believe the assertion in the slightest. I do believe it is quite likely to have an AGI that does not recognizably exhibit conciousness but that, to me, is irrelevant.
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Combo it up with augmented reality glasses to highlight nearby items that combo well with what you just purchased. Pick a recipe and it can guide you to the ingredients you need. Lots of potential for upselling =) I don't even think it's all bad.
I'm not sure it would be as contentious if you were running your own analytics software. But some more privacy-aware users (myself included) have serious reservations about Google's increasingly pervasive data collection.

The fact that Homebrew uses Google Analytics means that it provides Google with more data, even if you don't hand that data over to other companies after the fact.
>Some of that can be used to support the lost jobs //

It can, that's clear, the problem is convincing the people who didn't lose their jobs that they should take a take hike to support the others; that's not an easy sell in Western Capitalism at least.
Keep half of them to unstuck the automatic cash registry, watch buyers and restock the shop.
My stepfather owned a bar for some decades. It's not quite as social as you would imagine. A great many people go there to drown "around" people, but not necessarily to drown "socially".
I like to take my time shopping. Look around read labels, check what are people are buying.

The part that kills me is checking out. I have always wondered why the cart can't scan your items and when you push it through a reader at checkout it just has everything totaled and charges you. The cashier can now bag your groceries. You could even have the cart recheck your purchase amount when the items are removed to be packed.

Someone out there hurry up and figure out the details :)
The Paper is here http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v10/n11/abs/nnano.2015.2...

It's actually pretty easy to read and interesting!
I first saw this here: http://nautil.us/issue/34/adaptation/how-do-you-say-life-in-...

Nautilus, Quanta Cosmos... all of them great publications for futurists
I'm the creator of a popular open source project (but not Babel-popular). I don't have a problem with people complaining about my work; if anything, I wish they would complain more - That way I would have a better idea about which parts need to be improved!

I think that the author has no grounds to complain here; he's one of the lucky ones. I wish I was in his shoes and have people yell at me in desperation so that I could fix their problems (whilst travelling around the world). That sounds like a dream to me.
Reaction mass. Find a way to aim it and fire it (use a spring or other non-explosive, human driven way to accumulate energy) in a particular direction. You could use it to move an astronaut around in space.
A better approach is to spin off a new system and give it a new name

Great point. I think some developers or teams feel compelled to update the latest even if they are happy with what they have because using an older version number gives the appearance of being behind the standards and practices. In a case where changes take place to the extent that it makes the previous framework difficult to recognize or breaks compatibility in a big way, this pressure would ease if the new version just had a completely different product name, as in a way that's what it is anyway.
You think that sites that are unable to come up with sensible password rules will be able to get this right, on a large enough scale to make it useful?

In terms of the metadata, you've more or less covered it, but the only way it has a hope of being useful is if it's provided by some community-minded third party.
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Yes, that's the thing. Total compensation for apprentices (for most employees really) is their pay, plus the experience gained, which can be considerable.

But US wage law very rarely makes any exceptions for apprentices like this, so it's rarely worthwhile to bring them on unless they already have some training.

Unfortunately, much of the legislative consensus in the US is that minimum wages do not have any effect on employment levels, even of the young and inexperienced. Many municipalities and states are in the process of raising their minimum wages (for all ages) to $20 AUD.
That certainly seems to be the solution so far.
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James, I reached out to Sebastian, on multiple occasions in January to apologize. Phabricator via the chat feature, Twitter(blocked), email, etc. I can't even remember all the mediums. So if you can pass it a long that would be cool. Sure, Sad state got a little personal, but I'm not too stubborn to admit when I'm wrong. I'm sorry it affected the team so much, obviously not my intention. Just tried to use hyperbole to bust the Javascript echo chamber.

I used Babel since the beginning when it was 6to5, and seeing the Babel 6 change was rough to say the least, and I made it personal when I shouldn't have. It's just software in the end.
This is an excellent point. For thousands of years, the default was every interaction was social. The idea that you should be able to walk into a standardized store and converse with a clerk like they were an automated sales droid is only a fairly recent phenomenon. These faceless, purely functional transactions - they are exception, not the norm.
What if they've solved every one of these problems? Would you like this technology then?

What does it take for you to be on board? Would you ever be on board, or would you keep coming up with problems you think you have with this?