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I think that the key difference between the human filter bubbles of old (in Germany we call that “Stammtisch“, after the table where the village pub's regulars meet to mutually confirm their shared beliefs) and the new filter bubble in social media is that the latter gives more of the appearance of professional journalism, with all the expectations we associate with that. And even if what we see in the social media bubble actually is professional, balanced journalism, it's still a much narrower selection compared to what we saw in the age of mainstream mass media.

When we watched TV news or skimmed a newspaper, we would also selectively focus on our favorite topics. But other topics at least momentarily grazed or attention while we mentally tuned out or skimmed for more interesting headlines. With highly personalized online media (and yes, the social media filter bubble is just one method to achieve that) we are losing that weak connection to out-of-focus topics. The worst part is that we do not even notice, because when our personalized digest contains a certain amount of content that would be on general news we feel our desire stay up to date already satiated.

If real news (as in what would have made it into mainstream mass media) would somehow disappear from our personalized feeds (leaving them with only the necessarily personalized stuff like niche hobbies, friends and very local content), we would go back to consuming more mainstream news channels again, making us less vulnerable to viral fakes and the like. Unfortunately, this is not anywhere close to a solution since there is no way Facebook could do this (and they would not want anyway).
It is an awesome time to be alive, but I do wish we'd start doing more interesting stuff with our technology than simply streamlining the ability to buy stuff. Convenience is wonderful, and I make use of lots of modern technological improvements in that regard, but I'm skeptical as to whether any of it has really made a measurable improvement on my standard of living.

https://medium.com/the-mission/silicon-valley-has-a-problem-... is largely what I mean.
I don't blame the tech industry, necessarily. It's society as a whole that seems to have developed such a warped set of values, and I have no idea what to do about it.
The NHS definitely uses a fancy wizard system to asses and diagnose patients and to decide what doctors should do in frontline cases. It's basically exactly what you're describing, an expert system, except that there isn't really any AI involved: it's just a massive network of IF-THEN rules for healthcare workers to carry out, to make sure care is standardised and best practices are followed and kept up to date with research. As you might imagine, there are codes for absolutely everything. The code system is called snomed, and you can download the full dataset somewhere.

What's more, its definitely open to the public, except it isn't really promoted at all (it's only open in the interests of openness, you're not really meant to use it.) As such I can't find the URL for the life of me. Perhaps they closed it.

Any doctor or nurse will know about it, perhaps someone can post the link.
My guess is that its a mixture of indoor position tracking of your phone and infrared/computer vision for the products that detect a product being taken.
a kernel exploit doesn't help you much with a docker style container. Also docker is not a VM. And iOS/Android are already way better with sandboxing than our desktop environments.
The left-wing viewpoint on this is going to be that it's an economy that increasingly works against low-income/homeless people (who are less likely to own a smartphone or always have it charged and on them). Sure when it's a one-off, no big deal, but if it lets a store have lower prices and provide a better customer experience, then more and more stores will adopt it.
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Except when you're using multiple Spring libraries with XML config and are running on servers without access to the general internet.

I tried all the listed tricks to get the schemas into the shaded jar and none of them worked. So now I have to put big fat warnings in my README.md files that "yes, there's a bunch of errors on startup, and yes, there's a 60 second delay, but you can ignore it".
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This is cool. Interested to know how customers can return their product once they come out of the store. Just place it back ?
No one takes a Zestimate seriously in real estate (not realtors, not banks), so there's no need to create a free competitor.

Financing still lives and dies by the professional appriasal; as long as banks prefer that, Zillow has zero pull.
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I'm... confused what you're upset about. Are you upset about the leading "Chart?"

This is very, very easy stuff for functional programming. Most of the people I know in ML, talented ML folks doing data science within the org I work for to do exciting things... they actually aren't huge fans of the way Python does things. They're huge fans of the libraries Python has to speed up ML work. F# has a real lack there (surprisingly!).

But like, saying that you like:

Chart.Line(data).WithTitle("smth").render()

as opposed to:

Chart.Line(data) |> Chart.WithTitle("smdh")

seems to me like 6 of one or half a dozen of the other. Especially since when you're reusing any given part of the pipeline, the ML way is alot more terse.

And it's not like Python is devoid of hideous examples of poor language design. For example, self parameters. All we're told is some new age mysticism about how "explicit is better than implicit", but somehow that doesn't apply when we need higher order functions and we're using private function with lambda names to try and signal to readers that, "Sorry I needed 2 statements in my list comprehension and Python talks down to me like that guy from Timecube because of it." Why is explicitness valuable there but not on tuple construction?

And it's not like Python doesn't make you arbitrarily choose between List.function and list.method with no seeming decisions to make.

Which is not to say Python is especially bad. It is to say that you may have normalized Python so much that you forget all computer languages are somewhat arbitrary.
I can't tell if your comment is tongue in cheek or not, but I highly doubt they will make people weigh themselves when they walk in. If they aren't confident in their image recognition technology they would improve it rather than throw in an additional method of tracking.
What happens when parents walk in with kids? Does little Bobby need his own account for everything he's going to touch and pickup?

What if I walk in with a friend on our way to somewhere else and they don't have an account and I'm just getting something quick, do they not get in and wait outside? Everybody in the video was just one person or all had an account/phone.

Overall, I hope this works and expands. Checkout lines can be a hassle at times.
More great stuff from Kelsey...

My tldr; konfd writes out k8s configmaps based on other k8s resources like secrets, configmaps, etc. Really useful for writing out complete config files into a pod namespace without relying on external config backends.

Question: While looping on a syncInterval is certainly clean and understandable, it feels suboptimal when all the templates sources are themselves watchable with a k8s client. Benefits of switching to a watch model:

1. Speed: It'd be nice to have the template rendering fire immediately after a source secret changed versus waiting for syncInterval.

2. Resource Utilization: Switching from syncInterval to a watch should save significant cycles by avoiding reprocessing templates when config hasn't changed.
Of course they would have the money, but things work fine for them right now.

And they are not technology companies.

I agree with you, a lot of that data would already be available. The question is how much more willing Amazon would be to sell the data, compared to supermarket chains. Probably it's not difference.

I was just extrapolating what the OP meant.

I personally would really love shopping like that.
No need to. In particular Mac has TextWrangler and BBEdit, the former of which is free and similar to Notepad++ for basic functionality. (Edit: I should add that I first found Notepad++ while looking for TextWrangler for Windows).
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Ask HN: Who is bridging the economic divide?
In the late 1950s/early 1960s, Arthur Rock brought finances from the East Coast, where the money and advertising was, to the West Coast, where a new industry based on silicon processors was developing. This was the beginning of the Silicon Valley venture capital industry.

Now, Silicon Valley is where the money and advertising is located. Venture capital expects young companies to move nearby. It seems to matter a lot who you know. In short, SV now appears to be the 2010's analogue of the 1950s East Coast.

Meanwhile, in the rest of the country, costs and wages are low. The money pumped into the economy by low interest rates has pooled in coastal cities with ties to the financial industry. Like a gardener with a clogged hose and only control of the spigot, the Fed can't fight deflation in the rest of the country without driving inflation sky-high in the financial centers. The economic divide is visible in political results, with the interior clearly unhappy with the economic status quo.

So, which VC's and startups are bridging the divide? Who is arbitraging the economic differences between inflationary coastal cities and deflationary interior? What techniques and strategies are they using? Who is going to be the next Arthur Rock, bringing money from where it is to where it is needed?
It's just a starter job, people shouldn't rely on them as a career, it's their fault, bootstraps, etc. etc.
They screw up for me about 60% of the time. Alcohol is annoying but understandable. More problematic is the weight sensor that misreads the product after I set it down and forces me to wait for an assistant to click a button that says it's okay. I'll occasionally get the register that isn't calibrated properly and then I need assistance for every item. That's fun.

I have given up on bagging as I check out. It goes crazy every time I open a bag and set it in the bagging area. So now I just pile up my groceries and bag them when I'm done, which wastes everyone's time.
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This trick popped up as the top post on r/lifeprotips a few days ago. The top comment was someone whose kid figured it out.

"Would you like to buy me one set of nunchucks or 2 sets?"

https://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/5g9pai/lpt_mot...
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If you've ever entered a grocery store, both of those things have already happened.
Instapainting.com. And I've been showing HN ever since.
(2), of course, has the advantage of obscuring past mistakes and producing a nice smooth chart.
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Home appraisal in the real estate market is often not very rigorous. There's a basic set of rules the vast majority of professional appraisers use to derive a market estimate. It's weighted heavily toward "comparable" (homes with similar size, room configuration, etc.) nearby recent sales with adjustments for certain renovations, condition (e.g. deterioration; estimates start from an assumption of "good, working condition"), and possibly other factors.

Actually computing the market value as a "cost-to-build-today" is rarely done, at least for home sales the typical consumer is going to be involved in.

And those appraisers can be very biased in either direction.
Since this is my first submission on hacker news, I'm a bit overwhelmed by the amount and quality of the responses. I'll try to address critiques individually but in order to not have to repeat myself continuously I wanted to thank everybody for their time and energy this way. Your feedback is much appreciated and I'll use it to debug the idea and the manifesto.
How do they know you're you? Do you scan your phone on the way in / out and get tracked via RFID or do they do facial recognition?

If it's the latter there's no way I'd use something like this. I love Amazon (as a retail customer) and AWS, but no way I'm self registering my face with them.
Yes he is in tech (developer). And yes, he was at the doctors. I think it's his official diagnosis. So he is now for 1-2 month on leave. Luckily, being on "sick" leave for such a long time is no problem in Austria. So he won't have problems getting the job back and he still receives normal payment.
How does this handle produce? The assumption seems to be that everything is packaged.
I would love to find a FE web guy.
And soon a growth/marketing hacker (we have a small 4-digit budget set aside for this)

This is a bingo-style/slot-machine/fantasy-sport type app.

We are currently using an online excel table as an MVP!!!

I can offer some help with js or by adding endpoints on the backend.

This is not an open source - we are very revenue and growth driven...
When it is installed and working it could be part a "The Culture" like utopia. But even if it has an error rate as low as 0.01% and ruins the lives and careers of people because of technical mishaps it can make their lives a dystopic nightmare.
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Text Wrangler is lot nicer than Notepad++ for random ascii/script stuff. For bigger projects, use Sublime or some other IDE(ish) editor.

In addition to big IDE I have TW running all the time for notes etc.
First, I just want to compliment you on getting this far with customer acquisition. And, getting some customer traction before considering talking to investors is great!

I have personally been an early employee at a venture funded start-up that ultimately didn't succeed soon enough at paying customer acquisition and ended up selling intellectual property for only a bit more than it cost to develop it. And, then I took a go at the solo bootstrapped thing like you have been doing. I developed an enterprise type web app for a particular industry and have had potential customers tell me that is really cool and premium but their felt need wasn't sharp enough to make room in the budget and spend meaningful money. So I know what it is to build something and not get to a good market fit with paying customers.

In looking at your situation it would seem critical to understand the backlog of customers that you mention.

Are these customers who have already committed money/signed contracts? Or, would these be considered more like warm prospects?

How long are they having to wait between decision and implementation? Do customers in this backlog know what kind of wait time they are facing under your current solo part-time commitment? Are they willing to wait? Or, are you losing customers to other competitors or internal solutions because of the wait time?

What is the dollar value of your current backlog? If for example it was another $2000 in monthly revenue that is committed but at risk if you don't deliver fast - I would encourage you toward greater commitment try for a small business loan or take on your more personal sources of investment that you mention in option 3. On the other hand if the backlog is something more like $500 in monthly revenue I might suggest that you continue with #1 because your growth curve might already be slowing down.
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This exists in the US, too. I saw one at Giant in Pennsylvania when I was home for the holidays.
What do you do with your children? What about your non-Amazon co workers who came out with you to get lunch? Do they stand on the sidewalk while you shop? Do you swipe them in? Do they get swiped in as guests (who then shoplift cupcakes?)

Don't get me wrong -- this is exciting and impressive -- but needing to swipe in to enter a store is, I think, a very significant change to how we think of stores as public places.
The secret is to hate the environment and just use the plastic/paper that is already there.

For me: When I am doing my weekly food shopping, I just use plastic. When I am grabbing something I forgot or picking up beer or something during the week, I just leave everything in the area, pay, and then bag with my reusables after the fact.

These days I only need human interaction when I buy booze, and that consists of a cashier eyeballing me and approving it.
Yeah, but how accurate are appraisals? Several years ago I was reading about an analysis that found that Zestimates were about as accurate as appraisals are 80%+ of the time.
It ought to, yes. More specifically, immutability means that you cannot observe sharing. What this means is that it's easy to break sharing and if you rely on it for performance you might face difficulties.

But you can create it. Names are shared:

let x = [1, 2, 3] in [x, x, x]

There are more exotic ways, too.
I think that Bitcoin is like a cash. But instead of images with dead presidents, you have many 0&1 in your "wallet".
Now What happens If you sell/buy something for cash? It depends on laws in your country.
Yeah, I'm fairly certain that guy was trolling, but to make this post actually worthwhile, there are a ton of ML libs accessible from F#, http://fsharp.org/guides/data-science/

Lists a bunch though the R interop is probably the best/most fully formed IMO.
Supplemental reminder that tech exists largely to eliminate jobs. Whoops, that was a typo- I meant to write "increase productivity".
real (part of the Metro group of retailers) and IKEA do it in Germany (and have been out of the evaluation phase for some years).
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Other interesting possible implications of this:

1) The inability to pay with cash (or debit, or check, etc..).
2) No need to carry any form of money in the store.

Taken to an extreme where every store runs this way, will people have a need for cash, credit cards, or anything else? Why not just have your bank account attached to your Amazon (and every other account) and have money taken out directly?
I worked on that project (Shopping Buddy) and a few later iterations of it. This was before the iPad, we had these huge IBM super rugged tablets on the carriages. We used something like Zigbee to triangulate the precise location of the carriage in the aisle, so we could tell whether the cart was at the beginning, middle or end of aisle 5 or aisle 6 and target ads appropriate for where you were. There was a small scanner for you to scan your groceries as you went. It was ridiculously expensive to outfit one store w/the tech so we ended up with a simpler version using Motorola MC70 handheld scanner guns and ditched the exact triangulation and instead went to more generic stuff where we would just check which AP you were connected to so we would know which third of the store you were on (produce, frozen foods, or middle of the store). That system then got ported to iOS and Android so you could use your phone instead of the scanner. The original version despite its issues was pretty advanced for the time (mid 2000s).

They still have the mobile / MC70 version rolled out to the entire chain now, it's very successful from what I hear.
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I bet everything is written using Win32, which would make starting over easier than porting.
I've seen that being required of very small software houses selling to bluechip corporations. There are professional services like Iron Mountain that specialize in code escrow.

I'm not a fan of it, it's a stupid idea frankly. But it does exist in the wild.
Not every single question needs to be potentially incriminating. They can also just be part of gathering information. Maybe you know an honest and hard-working immigrant. Maybe you know an employee of the ISI. They don't know, that's why they ask.

It's typical for law enforcement to ask about your neighbors, but that doesn't mean having neighbors is incriminating, or that starting with "do you know your neighbors?" would be part of some underhanded interrogation tactic.
This reminds me of the story about unmanned stores in Sweden https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/sweden-ope... where you just walk in with a smartphone with a app, buy and checkout all by yourself
Unfortunately I wasn't able to afford to have a professional appraisal done for every house my realtor showed me. I'm glad you were in a different position.
So, you drive around trying to catch Amazons on your phone?
I would have liked to be in the scrum meeting, and proposed the David Blaine use-case.
> no legitimate circumstances where someone would want or need to sell amazon gift cards at less than their face value.

Absolute statements like this are so hard to back up.

For instance, if you live in Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea, or Syria, Amazon.com gift cards are worthless.

I know I received some AmericanEagle gift cards as a promotion recently, and unloaded them for less than face value just because I had absolutely no need/want to use them.
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For Junior interns salary is very competitive with even Big4. Total compensation lags because of no housing, though.
Here in Chicago the Jewel/Osco chain of grocery stores tried handheld scanners mated with the self-checkout systems about 10 years ago. I lived near one of the test stores.

It worked pretty well, but from what I heard the shoplifting rate was a lot higher than the comfort level of the store's executives. There really is no way to check that you've scanned every single thing in a large cart full of goods. They experimented with things like random checks from cashiers, but that just added to the labor and confusion. The project was scrapped a year or two later.

RFID could fix that if we're really close to being able to scan a whole cart full of goods in one sweep (which the Amazon project seems to imply). But then you have an issue where every single vendor to your store needs to be inserting compatible tags into the packaging. That adds cost and logistics.
> each realtor I talked to brought up how terrible Zillow was before I ever mentioned it

So people who take percentage of the deal disparaged a tool that would net them less money...quelle surprise.
There are zero children in the video, as well.
Because I happen to like XML and Grandle is painful slow, requires tricks like a background daemon to cache build related information.

Also Maven is a project format in NetBeans. Just need to open it and its goals are mapped to IDE actions.
When you refinance the bank usually hire someone independent to estimate the value of a property.

I did it before Zillow, and they start with the property value as estimated by the city for tax purposed and look at recent sales that are similar in the area, and adjust.
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From time to time, Zillow rejiggers (that's a technical term) their algorithm, resulting in sudden readjustments of estimates. Given that the Zestimate itself is presented as a fairly wide range, the error margin is hardly hidden.

Also, it is important to remember that no appraiser from Zillow has actually looked at your house; the data is drawn entirely from sales data, public records, and volunteered information. So there's no way it can really account for every factor, nor does it even try. And there's a lag; the market can change faster than Zillow can. It is, at best, a rough ballpark estimate of what's going on in your neighborhood.
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