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When HN starts posting Pro-bitcoin news, it means it's a good time to sell.

I bought in when HN perpetuated the market debasement the last two times, when it "crashed" at $450 and $600 CAD. Both times, there was substantial fear, uncertainty, and doubt surrounding bitcoin in the HN comments (look them up yourself if you doubt me!). I adopted the position that I should be doing the exact opposite of what HN was recommending.

I'm still sticking to that position. I'll probably diversify greatly at this point with other altcoins, so I avoid the drop, then I'll buy in at the lower price. in around 30 days, I'll post back to see if I was wrong or not.
I looked back at your story a couple of times but couldn't figure out how the outraged attacks are being rewarded. I do feel like you might be on to something in how critical comments are often the most discussed. Think about how the single like "thank you" or "thanks for that" comments are hidden as being empty of thought.

I don't have any solutions but have you seen this CGP Grey video called "This video will make you angry" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc which says that outraged ideas are the quickest to spread.
I'm surprised people read Amazon Go as shoplifting friendly.

My first thought was: wow, and they made it much harder to shoplift. In a regular store you can just tuck an item in your jacket. With this tech, they know when the item left the shelf, that you were standing there, and that it left the store with you.

Sure, it's hackable. Everything is hackable. But this actually seems like an anti-shoplifting measure to me.

Heck, I could imagine them installing this system in a normally staffed store just to detect shoplifting!
Except Zillow actually does show a range. If you look at the Zestimate details on a house, you see something like this:

"Zestimate $472,603", and immediately to the right: "Zestimate range $425k - $506k". The little question mark reveals:

"The Value Range is the high and low estimate market value for which Zillow values a home. The more information, the smaller the range, and the more accurate the Zestimate. See data coverage and accuracy table."
> too idealistic - why aren't the people who "aren't working full weeks" today focusing on learning and reaching higher education? The logic doesn't work for the people already in this target group, today.

There are many reasons. "Not working full weeks" doesn't always mean "not busy". Some of the reasons are:

- they're taking care of children / sick parents

- they're themselves sick or disabled (including various psychological conditions that can make you unable to perform effectively as a worker in this economy)

- they don't have a way to find a job that would let them earn more than they get from benefits (going to work in such circumstances is stupidity from economic POV)

- higher education they need costs money they can't get due to reasons listed above
Anything more than the two presets "es2015" and "react" (we never should have shipped "react" on by default, we just didn't have a pluggable parser before) required configuration in Babel 5. A regular complaint that we had was that the Babel <5 configuration was really annoying because it involved three separate whitelists/blacklists
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You won't regret bootstrapping as long as you can and owning 100% of your SaaS not sharing your profits with others.

Reading your other comments it does sound like you could use cash/credit to increase your google ad spend and onboarding more customers faster that would be a good use of funds. Could you hire another contract employee to speed up getting people on board?

If you can get signups from your adwords spend who sign up as paid in less than 30 days you could increase your spend in adwords on a credit card paying the balance each month to avoid interest charges. Stream line your on-boarding process to get customers on board.

Adwords can go from printing money to shredding money pretty quick so use caution of course. But I think funding extra adwords with a credit card would be a nice way to grow signups if you can speed up your onboarding process.

On bootstrapping . . .

Being able to set your own pace, call your own shots, don't give that up.

Inspiration:
DHH Startup School Talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY

He also talks about limiting your work hours each week, give yourself blocks of time to work on your SaaS so you make the most of your time when it's available.

Feel free to email me if you want to bounce ideas around through email . . . HNusername at gmail.
Maybe this is an artificial shortage. Because it is getting cheaper to manufacture these products now. Maybe something new coming out & we need to pay for it, at least the R&D.
If you want anybody to listen, you're going to have to keep repeating it.

It's a good start. I can support software literacy. Now you need to state your plan to get there just as concisely. Probably not as easy.
Thanks, seems interesting, I'll have to look into those suits.
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Factories are not able to produce enough physical goods to keep up with demand.
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I worked a few different jobs in grocery stores, and I agree.

It wasn't a job that had a future for me, and at some point during the last job there, I realized that I needed to find something else or I was doomed to a life of barely having enough money to get by each week.

Luckily, it wasn't that I didn't have skills, just that I wasn't using them for profit. But I'll never forget my time there and how soul-sucking it can be to do the same things over and over with no real interactions with the people I was helping.

Could I have been quirky like the cashiers in the story above? Sure, but that isn't me. And I know a lot of customers would have complained about it, because so many customers love to complain, rather than just enjoy things that are happening around them for what they are.
This is an incredibly powerful comment, I was just looking to see myself if this psychologist have children of his own and came to the same conclusion that he doesn't. The absolute arrogance to not have children of your own but preach to others how they should raise theirs...

-edit -> and be in your late seventies, having long forgotten what it is to raise kids or see your peers raise their own kids.
But I go to coffee shops for the productive atmosphere. I think baristas (and bartenders and sommeliers) will always have a place even in a post-work world.
Thank you for sharing mwseibel!
I respect your view and how you value human interaction, but I think you're only seeing a part of the picture.

Maybe I'll miss out on these interactions with these friendly people who sell me stuff but if it means I can get my groceries done faster so I can go meet my actual friends faster, there's a clear benefit to me.

And this is one of the many reasons why automation has always won in the long run.
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Didn't we all agree to NOT let the AGI out of its box?

...That being said...

Instead of presenting the agent with a 2d plane of pixels, they should be presented with a sphere of pixels, with their POV inside.
They DO show a range, it's just in fine print next to the number. You have to look for it, but it's not hidden at all.
Ok Amazon, why not do this?

Skip the whole stocked shelf thing entirely. Have a website setup that customers can build a shopping cart, then just show up and pickup their "pre-bagged" groceries. The benefits to this are obvious.

1) No shop lifting.
2) Car friendly (you could have multiple drive-thru pickup lines)
3) Convenience for the shopper (saved lists, common items, don't have to walk around the store)
4) The store, could just effectively be a warehouse.
5) Possible to automate almost all of the work.

And before you say "what about produce?". Well, you could have a automated "imaging" station upon goods receipt that customers could use when building their cart. Or, offer really good return policies. Either way, the convenience would far outweigh the produce problem.
Agreed. I intentionally didn't use units of my wealth numbers to indicate some "absolute" measure or wealth.

10x more food, land, or whatever.
> Who is building and planning for this new social utopia once people no longer have to bag groceries?

I grew up in a country (Finland) where people bag their own groceries. The table behind the cashier just has a bit more room and some dividers, so even 3 customers have room to bag their own groceries simultaneously.

So an utopia without the "grocery-bagging class" is certainly possible.
Can we just call them interns? I've known many people who got paid nothing while in an internship, so paying them $800/mo shouldn't be a problem.
If I can ask, what's your alternative to breaking changes?

Most of the time when I see a large library make breaking changes, it's to solve a problem which can't realistically be "fixed" without breaking changes.

And even if they can provide a "shim" to allow people to use the old way of doing things, people see that the same as they see maintaining an old release. That you need to upgrade to the latest version or you'll be left behind.

I'm not trying to put words in your mouth, but it seems like the only options left are to "never improve" or "get it right the first time". And obviously the latter isn't possible pretty much at all.
Just to be clear, I'm not asking just to gripe about funding difficulties. I see a huge differential, and I would like to know what strategies are being used to arbitrage the difference. Is there something an everyday Joe can do, or do you have to be in finance? I am interested in the economics of the situation. I'm not an economist, but as far as I am aware, it is unusual to have two regions with a common currency and labor market, to have such a large differential in economic conditions. It's like if oranges sold for $1 in Florida and $10 in Minnesota, and nobody was shipping oranges. I figure someone has to be making money on the difference - how?
A few years can mean pretty big changes. Salaries for a good Software Engineer in a city like Shanghai are on the rise. Mega teams for lowly skill work yes, but definitely much less so for skilled workers.
My understanding is once you have selected a photo, they upload it in the background while you're doing other things (like typing the caption). If you decide to cancel it, I believe (hope) they delete it from the server.

But it's the specific photo, not your whole album (that would be pointless ( and expensive) to do).
So...

What if I have a large shopping run, like for Thanksgiving? I have a ~$400 cart worth of loot. Where will I sort and bag my goods?

They should make Amazon Go like a 7-11 rather than a Whole Foods.

Are the item prices any less?
He seems to take the stance that it is safe to ignore problems until they are large problems and he references Y2K as an example. A large part of the reason Y2K wasn't a problem is that fixes went out for potential issues before they happened.
Any kind of pay break would be abused to no end by employers.

Not to mention that one still needs to pay bills and live while in the apprenticeship, and minimum wage already doesn't cover that. So you'd be in a situation where only those who already have money would be able to afford to do it, much like unpaid internships. This leaves lower income people worse off than they were.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12986759
Since there is no chance of UK supermarkets adopting a Spanish philosophy I think these people would be happier, and no worse off, if they were put out of a job tommorow.

Well it sort of depends on where you want to shop. Staff at my local M&S and Waitrose are always up for a chat if you want it (certainly the older generation seem to like this, and it probably keeps them coming back). But the guys at the Tesco Express are clearly only interested in keeping the lines moving as fast as possible.

In all cases they also have the option of self checkout if you want to save time and avoid the chit-chat!
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Ya I've actually seen a number a few shops making real moves in that direction, at least here in Vancouver. The OSS ecosystem is obviously pretty immature but I think it's getting good enough that it's starting to seem like a pretty viable option.
Right. The money is there. But the economy is structured around money being spent only when you absolutely have to - so it doesn't reach those nice things while there are more directly profitable things like bombing the shit out of Middle East...
This isn't related to ZKPs but may help you figure out a strategy to your game:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault_tolerance#The_...
Can you get more up-front commitments from current clients, prepay for a year for a discount? This could let you pull the plug now on the day job and focus fully on your own project. The idea of that part of the class was that businesses often both customer and even suppliers to fund themselves, and that alternative and creative financing solutions can be negotiated.

Also, as others said, you might be able to find a small business loan since you already have cash flow, via traditional or other methods (online lending).
Have you considered that life isn't all about efficiency? People shop because of the experience. This is why book stores are coming "back," eBooks just aren't cutting it for people. This is why "smart lights" won't ever truly take off, people don't want to log onto an app to turn their lights off.
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Most people here are assuming there are RFID tags on every product.

But I think they are watching the shelves and visually identifying when a product leaves, what it was and who took it. And if they put it back on a different shelf, a different camera sees that and it is removed from the person's "shopping cart".

They are using their internal employees to train the AI or AI's (maybe one per section of shelf).

Imagine a Kellogg's employee assigned to watch each of their cereal boxes and make a list when someone takes one.

That's how I think they are using AI here. Hundreds of them in the store.
> Do we really want to start trying to write applications in Excel? Can you imagine the horrible spaghetti code that would result in? Imagine how much code you're going to have to write to express even mildly complicated concepts? Imagine trying to maintain one of these beasts.

Have you not worked in business much? Or software development (or b2b software development, or vertical integration software development, or...)?

Everything you mention in these few sentences has already come to pass, almost as soon as Excel was released. You would not believe the ungodly horrors we software developers have seen since then...then been forced to maintain, or re-write, or attempt to document.

/sob

I once found an ANN implemented as a set of Excel worksheets - thankfully, this wasn't a real-world system, but rather a tutorial designed to help teach ANNs to those with only Excel knowledge...but I know that someone - some manager, likely - somewhere out there - has chosen to add this beast into his or her own Excel worksheet system, and that it lurks, waiting like Cthulhu for a hapless sacrificial victim.
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I've actually considered upcloud, but they have a limit of 5 IP's per VM.
What incentive does the lender have? The involved parties are the seller, the buyer, their agents, and the originator of the loan. All of these people are working to close the deal at the negotiated price. The originator of the loan will hold the loan for somewhere between 72 hours and 30 days, so they don't care.
I can't speak for the others, but I don't care about whether or not his intent was to come up with a hoax device. I saw the pictures, immediately recognized it as something that was commercially produced, and then saw Obama praise his ingenuity, MIT invite him to campus, and all sorts of companies send him free stuff, all based on the lie that he actually built something.

There's nothing wrong with taking things apart to figure out how they work. I did the same thing at his age. But I wasn't pretending I built them. And we shouldn't hold his actions up as something to emulate.

That isn't to say I'm not concerned with the overreaction teachers, administrators and police had to the device. As far as I'm aware, the only reaction that they should have had—hey, that device has exposed mains!—didn't happen.
Hi Michael, how does one conduct customer research? What questions do you ask? How do you know you're doing it right? Are there any good books on customer research?
yeah, and not at all in a self protecting way as they see the flood of shit coming at them.

you're all idiots.
If youre on EBT/WIC, what % of those folks have both a smartphone, Amazon Go installed AND an amazon account?
If Amazon Go can save me from participating in the scripted conversations the cashier must initiate to keep her job, it's already paid for itself.
I'm assuming that the position on the shelf has very little to do with adding the item to the cart. I'm guessing that taking the item out of range of a scanner and into range of your phone is what does it.

I've not seen anyone so far suggest that people will still work at the store. There will still be people who help customers do what they need, but instead of mindlessly scanning groceries, they'll be there for the things people actually need help with. Returns, price problems, finding things, lifting heavy items, etc.
I wonder if you could estimate the condition of the house based on a street-view picture of the outside. There is probably correlation between outside upkeep and interior condition.
Fixed lookup time. A trie (aka radix tree) 3 levels deep with 1 million entries has the same lookup time as a 3 level deep trie with 5 entries.
As I have posted in the past [1], you do not need to be an expert to understand the basics of global warming. You need to be an expert to doubt it.

That's why it is so significant that so few scientists doubt it. Not because reality depends on some sort of popular vote of scientists, but because expertise increases the opportunity for doubt.

Also: you are reading about a scientific topic on the blog of someone who got famous for drawing cartoons. Ask yourself, if you are a developer, how seriously you would take a blog post from Scott Adams about whether bubble sort is actually faster than quicksort.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12961996
They use both: http://www.corelogic.com/products/appraisersuite.aspx
Wow. Use it from time to time. Great site and very useful. I had no idea that it came from here. I think I first saw it linked via reddit. Thanks!!
Its a dick move clearly but the post was flagged, a hacker news moderator spoke directly to the issue saying the post was unacceptable, various others had a more productive positive discussion including calling out the negative poster.

You can even make a negative, frankly slightly whiny post calling hacker news a trash fire and STILL have a productive discussion here.

The human race is just chock full of assholes and if you make yourself visible by raising your head above the herd you will inevitably become the target for some of them. Each community of course should do what it can to promote a positive asshole free discussion but its still a semi free internet and assholes have email/irc/twitter accounts.

Beyond keeping it positive yourself which the author hasn't done you just have to deal with it and move on. If someone calls you terrible and you look in the mirror and know its not true then shrug it off and move on.
Agreed. I also think this touches upon a larger issue outside of development.

There is something about being behind a keyboard that makes people much nastier than they would be in real life.
Many people know the phrase - maybe they even remember it from history lessons. But understanding what it means is often absent (as with many concepts one doesn't use) until one for some reason starts thinking about it more.
"those with the means of production have hoarded the benefits"... totally agree, for example, Elon Musk's Tesla should be Nationalized ASAP. </sarcasm>
These drives have several enterprise-specific features. Like most enterprise hardware, you are paying a premium for these features. If you need these features, then you will pay the price premium. If you don't need these features, then the drive will seem overpriced.
The person coding the webpage usually isn't the person who made the stupid password rules, so if putting in this metadata was considered industry best practice I think there is a decent chance it could become widespread.
First, I'm offended by your characterization of my argument as "bitching," as though our concerns are unjustified.

At any rate, you bring up two points: First, that etcd is insecure, which is a problem in itself that needs to be addressed. Communications between K8S and etcd and between applications and etcd need to be secured, and K8S itself needs role-based ACLs in the core.

Second, for the Vault use case, the best practice is not to place Vault tokens in etcd that grant direct access to any secrets. Instead, the best practice (as Kelsey's vault-controller project does) is to pass a "wrapper token," which is a single-use token. The application consumes the wrapper token (hopefully quickly) and exchanges it for a longer-lived token, which can then be used to access the secret data.

Once the wrapper token has been used, it is subsequently worthless to someone who has direct etcd access. And Vault's auditing capabilities can help you detect misuses of wrapper tokens.
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> Unmodified C, C++, Go, and Node.js programs run as processes on Web Workers

Surly they don't mean _unmodified_ binaries do they?

My guess is that programs must be compiled down to asm.js or WebAssembly, but they provide the compile-time library hooks/fake-library-headers/runt-time harnesses for those programs to _potentially_ not have source level changes _if_ they stick to the OS call supported subset.

Very cool proof of concept, if it really does work and can be generalized, it could be a killer app for the WebAssembly effort!
There is a ton of low-hanging fruit in just making the basic logistical details of programming more accessible. (Try to imagine explaining npm to the average Excel user.) Now this project may go after that and produce an incremental improvement that finds a niche in education or wherever, or it may pursue a re-invent computer science, boil the oceans strategy and end up with a smoldering heap of nothing after much effort.
Browsing Facebook sounds like passive social interactions with friends that you've deliberately chosen, rather than passive social interactions with whoever your local grocery store employees happen to be. It doesn't really sound that much worse to me.
Paid to talk to you? What kind of dystopian grocery store do you go to?
I'm sure that Trump voters are vomiting at that.
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This sounds lovely. I live near Boston, Massachusetts and have a distinctly different experience.

> I don't mind waiting in line for 3 minutes. Or 5. It's never longer than that, even if the cashier discusses the latest news with the old lady.

If I go to the Stop & Shop, I spend about fifteen minutes in line on average, and the cashier is consistently rude.

That being said, when I go to the more "local" stores, I have similar experiences to what you've described.
Wow. It's a really well written notebook with an interesting problem and equally interesting solution.
I agree. Also, Marxism didn't appear out of thin air - it was a response to real and perceived problems of the people living at some point in the past. So even if solutions don't ultimately make sense, the problems they've observed are worth thinking about.