skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon Restaurants is a great service which has been around for some time now, at least here in Seattle. I use it pretty much exclusively now instead of other similar services I've used in the past. The minimum order is much lower ($20 instead of $30 or $40 a lot of other services add), there's no delivery fees, and your driver is tracked via GPS with guaranteed delivery windows, so you have a much better idea of when you're order will actually arrive. There's also a better selection of restaurants than other services.

That said, the UI isn't quite as user friendly. It feels bolted on top of Prime Now, so you don't really have a typical menu, a regular shopping cart is used and shared with Prime Now which just feels a bit off. I think it would feel much nicer if they built a website specific to food ordering instead of trying to shoehorn it into Prime Now.
I'm also assuming that 70k figure is heavy on overtime and bonuses are meager. Such a shock they can't find labor!
As someone else has already said, the biggest shortage is skilled labor, not unskilled.

Trouble is, it's unwise to dedicate months/years of training for a single job that may not be there when you graduate, and it's unwise to train someone when they could get poached by the next company not willing to shell out for training.

I also wonder how sticky their wages are. If a business can endure not filling a position until they can find their person willing to work for peanuts, why offer more? It's amazing how little bargaining power workers have even in this extremely tight labor environment.

I'd be shocked if the Republicans that now control most layers of government will be willing to step in and help this situation, and I doubt they'd know what to do to help even if they were willing.

Does anyone here know a good way out of this situation?
In fact: https://github.com/google/material-design-lite/tree/master
Ask HN: How would I make a shorter power adapter extension cable?
This comes from apple with 18 foot length. http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MK122LL/A/power-adapter-extension-cable

I would like one that's just 1 foot long. Very short version but same ends.

I tried cutting one in half and connecting wires but that's not gonna work. How can I make one professional if apple doesn't sell one?
That's a really good point, kabes.

At Graphcool (https://www.graph.cool) we're working on exactly what you're describing. We're putting a lot of work into optimizing for the best possible performance while providing a powerful and flexible API. The key for this will be combining GraphQL and serverless technologies like AWS Lambda to implement your business logic.

Concerning security: We're currently testing a new permission system with a group of beta testers which leverages the Graph structure of your backend to specify data access rules.
> Only people I declare "other" and bad can be guilty of virtue-signaling.

???

My definition of "virtue signaling" is the practice of loudly proclaiming that you believe X because of the benefit to your reputation from people seeing you proclaim X and not because you particularly care about believing X (and maybe you don't), a "they love to stand and pray in the street corners" thing.

I find it hard to believe that people in this pledge are using it to enhance their social status; there are a lot of people in the pledge, and coverage tends to focus on aggregate behavior (e.g., how many people from Facebook have signed), not individuals. Only one signer is quoted in this article, at the very bottom. And I think the people signing are genuine in their beliefs.

Meanwhile, quoting the comment above: "Trumps pre-election stuff was BS, nothing will be done." It's BS that people wanted to hear, and it got him elected to the most powerful office in the world. It is, quite literally, stuff he proclaimed because it enhanced his social status that he didn't actually care about intrinsically.

I'm not sure what this has to do with people being other or bad (unless you think that virtue signaling makes someone other and bad, but I didn't say anything like that).
What do the various static site hosts offer in terms of analytics?

I can always add in some javascript analytics, but with the prevalence of ad-blockers and tracker-blockers it would be nice to have to some analytics coming from server logs to help create a complete picture.
Math for Machine Learning [pdf]
You're getting confused between cardinal and ordinal numbers.

Ordinal numbers (0, 1, 2) map to the world as amounts, and certainly it seems 'real' that there can be "one of something" in a way that it isn't that there is "zero of something" (though it isn't, really.)

Cardinal numbers (first, second, third) map to the world as rankings or positions. Positions, further, often almost always map to distances from an origin. "First" really almost always means "the item that is +0 positions away from the origin." The person who wins a competition ("first place") is zero positions down the leaderboard. The "first" book on your book shelf can be found +0cm away from the left edge of your bookshelf. Etc.

With your cars, you're talking about a third thing, though: serial numbers. "Car 1" is what you might call the first car you bought (if you were planning on buying several), because we conventionally assign serial numbers to things starting with 1. But that has nothing to do with counting or ranking; it's just a convention (as can be seen when we choose to use an alternate scheme, like UUIDs, for labelling items in a database.)

What we're talking about here is the relationship between counting and ranking: between cardinal and ordinal numbers. Since they're both abstract, and not structurally connected in any important way, there's actually no "essential, required" way to relate them to one-another, and we have to just make one up. Some people relate "first" to the natural number 0; some people relate "first" to the natural number 1.
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Ha, not in all cases:

http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/772/1/the...
I looked this car up because I had no idea what it was, and indeed it's safety record was the second hit:

https://jalopnik.com/horrifying-crash-test-against-a-modern-...
I've long thought that Haskell is much more intuitive than any engineering languages out there for people with no programming experience, since it builds on mathematics that everyone has already learned. It's great to see functional programming placed at the center of intro-level programming teaching.
I don't have ADHD but I've used both drugs for work, and Adderall works better, but Modafanil is not addictive. Modafanil gives you a similar hyperfocus without the euphoria of amphetamine. It has a high tolerance curve. It also has a flatter dose response curve (i.e. taking two modafanils won't give you twice the effect).
I doubt the 70k makes $12 an hour. Likely a supervisor making say $20 an hour.. comes to a base of 42k.

Other 28k he would make in 17 hours of overtime per week (Remember you get time and a half for overtime), for a total of 57 hour weeks.

Not out of the question hours in a busy factory. I did some of those in college summer days...
It's speculation, but my take would be that there are two missing pieces:

1) Inadequate pay.

2) Unwillingness to train.

If you don't have the exact skills that the company wants, they won't hire you. But they will complain that they can't find anyone even though they are really only offering unskilled level wages.
While that is an unfortunate situation, I would actually imagine Amazon's entry to this market (which they actually entered over a year ago), would be good for the restaurants. Many thought they had some diversity in the early days with Grubhub and Seamless until they merged. Now there are dozens of services overlaying to deliver for restaurants, companies like Uber Eats, Foodler, Doordash, Postmates, and many more.

Amazon here is a me-too play here, and I'd be shocked if they reached the concentration to sink a restaurant given so many incumbents.
And you need excess income to accumulate wealth.
Yes Android is particularly complicated, but not to the point where 3 experienced developers building an app in 8 months is in any way remarkable.
I think I have like 2 or 3 amazon apps on my phone. Some have a tiny 'prime' or some other logo to differentiate them, but I can never tell instant which app to do what.
I agree this comment is neither. Sorry for having emotions.

Checking my comment history I fail to see these several times by your group of henchmen though.
> what other cross-platform are out there

Qt, wxWidgets, Gtk,...

> The Slack desktop app isn't bad, though I'm not sure if you've tried it.

I have to use it for the job. And yes, I think it is bloatware, memory hog with a non-intuitive UI.
Cool! This is actually a potential resolution my team has. We use Slack to communicate and kind-of-sort-of put documentation in VSTS, but really we only use VSTS for source control and project management. The real 'this is how the system works'-type information falls into the cracks.
For a machinist, generally not, as there is usually a formal training program, either company based or through community colleges. Though an enthusiastic person with good technical aptitude could definetly pick it up via on the job training.
I guess I consider dysfunctional families to be part of the injustice of our society. As you say, anxiety is the default state, it's there to keep us alive. So we should blame the family for not being nurturing or the culture for not helping individuals learn how to deal with life, rather than blaming the individual or saying they have some disorder.

Low self-esteem isn't advantageous. But getting anxious or depressed when life isn't working out I would suggest actually is advantageous. Being at the lower end of a bell curve doesn't make something a disorder.
Funny you mention Elkhart because I live right next door.

Their main industry is RV manufacture. When the economy is rocking, RV sales go up, the Elkhart has a big lack of workers. When the economy is rubbish, they all get laid off and move elsewhere.

The metro area here has over 550,000 people. Not New York City, bit big enough that there SHOULD be enough glass installers, or at least a pool to train enough glass installers form.
Not even slightly isolated examples:

https://archive.org/details/Sutton--Western-Technology-1917-...

Neither Americans nor Russians wanted to say much about this, especially after 1945. So, memory hole.
I'm always -- well, occasionally -- pointing developers on my team to the Schelling Point Wikipedia article[0] because it's a concept that seems fundamental to developing maintainable code -- perhaps maintainable anything.

The basic question is: where do I put this information that I -- or another perhaps entirely new developer -- will likely need at some indeterminate point in the future so that he or she will be able to locate it as quickly and effortlessly as possible?

Some possible answers: README, docs, knowledge base, a variable name, a test, a code comment here, a code comment there, email the team, tell a co-worker, etc...

Ultimately, I guess the answer comes down to a set of cultural habits and practices grounded in some assumptions about human nature.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal_point_(game_theory)
Ah, the old 'more people are being prescribed medication over time, which is clearly causing more people to be prescribed medication.'

It's not at all tenable for other externalities to bring underlying mental illnesses to the forefront, nope, not at all.

What lazy thinking.
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Thanks for the advice! What are some examples where a teaching language has followed these points and succeeded?

What is the weirdness and/or pet features you see in Pyret?
The Trachtenberg System of Speed Math
Don't quantify security. Just do it.

If people ask, just doing my day job'

edit: care to explain the downvotes?
You mean like a virus ?

I found it a weird analogy because I couldn't figure out who are supposed to be the Spaniards. Is it Google because they are up against a competitor that is massively entrenched in the office suite market ? Or is it Microsoft because they seem to be expanding their presence.
I have a lazymorphic site generator that I'm working on, so it'd be web dev as well. I saw that there's an A-IDE for web, so I'll be giving that a spin.

Were you following this tutorial? https://medium.freecodecamp.com/building-a-node-js-applicati...
> The urban areas in the South are no more or less religious than the North

Yeah... that definitely has not been my experience of urban areas in the South (mostly Atlanta, Dallas, and Galveston, assuming the latter two are considered "South").

It's subtle enough that I don't doubt that it isn't particularly noticeable from the inside, but as an outsider it was obvious to me.

Along with the general religiosity, there is also this pervasive assumption that everyone is a Christian that feels rather oppressive. I've only found Utah worse in that respect (the only state where I'm a gentile).

That said, Data is not the plural of Anecdote, and my personal experiences could certainly be far from representative.
They don't ignore wealth inequality. Wealth is harder to measure and because many people's wealth has already been taxed once there's little political support to be had for proposals to tax it again. Of course that leads to runaway inequality, but 'x has too much money and should just have to give up some of it' is not a winning political platform unless you live in a communist country where there's some sort of sociopolitical consensus in favor of that idea (and even communist countries struggle with this in practice and usually end up with corruption instead).
I'm not sure what your point is here, I didn't say anything about equality of outcome, I just pointed out that existing policies probably impact inequality and may not be the most desirable set of tradeoffs to make.

For instance, very high tax rates on very high income won't come anywhere close to ensuring equality of outcome. For example, a hypothetical 75% tax on $10 million of income still leaves $2.5 million of after tax income. Please note very carefully that I'm not arguing that would be a sensible policy, I'm pointing out that even such a dramatic departure from current policy would leave lots of room for inequal outcomes.
> Amazon restaurants has by far the worst drivers though, I think compounded by tipping before they deliver, and no ratings system

A friend of mine is a Dasher. You do tip before they arrive, and they have no idea how they've been tipped--they just get whatever the total of all the tips of their shift are... I've never been so disincentivized to tip.

The rating system also sucks because the app will force you to rate your last experience if you haven't the next time you try to order. Lots of five stars from me because, when I'm trying to get my dinner to my house ASAP, I can't be bothered to give an accurate and fair rating.
Let's do this experiment: let's have all businesses double whatever wage they are currently paying. Is there still a shortage of workers? No? Ah, in that case, we have solved the problem.
Hi - Sashko here, manager of open source at Meteor Development Group.

We're committed long term to Meteor and Apollo both, and view both technologies as critical to the long-term success of the company. Apollo originated as a project to improve the internal data system of Meteor, but we saw that it was useful in a wider context. Today you can use Apollo with Meteor or with any other JavaScript or native mobile technology.
That's pretty much what we do.

The difficulty lies in determining what counts as a moral wrong. Some societies have left this in the hands of the judge (or feudal lord). Most modern societies require legislatures to write down the wrongs and have judges enforce them as written.

In this fellow's case, society decided that it was NOT a moral wrong. Many people (including the judge) may feel that what this person did (spending money that wasn't his but was available to him because of bank errors) was immoral. But others may feel that it is not ("Hey, he never lied to the bank - that makes it their problem."). As a society, we have decided that we won't let the judges declare something "wrong" unless the legislature had previously criminalized it, and in this case no existing laws applied.
Hmmm...I wonder why S&P 1500 was the benchmark? It's kind of an atypical bracket for S&P companies to compare. Why not the more common 500, 1000 or 2000?

Is it because the statistics come out in M$ favor when only looking at the 1500 bracket rather than 500 or 2000? Hmm...
SharePoint has been crap in the past, I'd agree with that, and Outlook is poor when it comes to HTML standards, but the rest of O365 seems solid to me. Other than SharePoint, what in particular do you see as weaknesses in the O365 lineup?
There's no fast way out of the situation. Training and education is ultimately the answer, but to fill today's jobs, that needed to happen 2-4 years ago. So today, I think we're up a creek in any case.

Still, best get to training and educating people ASAP, because 2 years from now is coming sooner than most people think. We could complain about how much it costs to do this, or we could just shut up, do it, and then enjoy the sweet, sweet tax dollars that those high educated, high earning workers throw off.

The article talks a lot about under-investment in infrastructure like roads and bridges. I guess I'm making the same argument in the end, I'm just pointing out that people are infrastructure, in that you can't do business without them, just like roads. So maybe we should invest in them.
> Sure, if you're an expert (...)

> I'm not a VC (Version Control) expert, and most people aren't being paid to be VC experts.

I agree that git could probably use some UI improvements, but to counterweight that - you're a paid professional, it's expected of you to learn the tools of the trade. It's like saying that carpenters are not being paid to know how to use saws and powerdrills.

You can simplify a tool only so much before it starts losing its utility.

--

People's refusal to sit down and spend literally half an hour learning to use something is astounding. Is that the "distraction culture" at work?
Oddly enough the policy closest to this that I've seen in the US was purposed by Sarah Palin.

"Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell announced Friday that every eligible man, woman and child will receive $2,069, thanks to dividend payments from the state's oil royalty investment program distributed annually. On top of that, the checks will include another $1,200 from the state treasury to help offset soaring fuel prices.

The one-time energy boost was proposed by Gov. Sarah Palin and approved by state lawmakers last month. Palin has since been tapped as the running mate of Republican presidential hopeful John McCain.

"The royalty dollars that flow through the state are the people's wealth," said Parnell. "The $1,200 resource rebate goes to that philosophy.""

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/26564403/ns/us_news-life/t/alaska-...
The Physical Web and EVRYTHNG
This is a great point. We need to provide researchers with options that don't kill their career prospects. One idea, which we're working on at Authorea (authorea.com) is to help researchers write their documents online so they can be easily published as preprints. This way open access can be achieved in a manner that goes beyond a PDF or Word doc, and researchers can still play the game so long as it exists.

Some more info here: https://www.authorea.com/123679/d8cErAb_olPC5CvcWWwsig
I also thought that "average of the bottom 50%" was a weird metric. Seems like using the 25th percentile would make more sense. And there could be a significant difference between that and the mean-of-the-lower-half.
Technically you could cut it to length, and reconnect wires by soldering them together. Then cover up the patch with white shrink wrap tubing. It probably wouldn't look "that" bad.

Heat shrink tubing: https://www.amazon.com/3M-Shrink-Tubing-Length-Width/dp/B000...

Just stick that on the wire before you soldier, then move it over the area you soldiered, and use a heat gun to shrink into place.

Good luck.
Slack’s top engineer suggests that Google do “blind assessments” for hiring
Working Remotely in Cafes and Possibly Even Surviving
Does that mean your food delivery depends on the package delivery schedule? "Sorry your pizza is cold but we had to deliver a TV first."

For myself, I usually prefer to just go and pick up myself; that's almost always the fastest option.
OK, let's agree that that defines 'loopholes' in this context but still what is meant by the overall comment? Why ask about building a tower without loopholes?
Good to know, but my criticisms of the IDEA apps are that they tend to be resource hogs. Perhaps this isn't the case for IDEAVim. Further, my main draw to vim is that I can use it right in my terminal--I don't like having to switch back and forth between my terminal (tmux) keybindings and those of my native OS. It's not for lack of effort either--I keep trying the new GUI hotness, but it never lasts long for the aforementioned reason.
Thanks, I didn't know that. That certainly explains the high polished look of Apollo combined with the seemingly non-existent business model.

I tried Apollo Optics - horrible brand name BTW, everyone I mention it to here in Germany thinks of the eyeware retailer - and while it was easy to integrate and nice to look at, it provided little actual value compared to existing tools in the same space of performance monitoring.
Why did cutting one in half and connecting wires not work? Are you sure that it was fully connected? Did you try soldering the wires together?
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If it's quartz, I don't think it really counts as high-end. High-end watches are all about jewelry, romance and human involvement — AFAIK they're always mechanical, with more & more complications the higher-end they get.
I get why you feel like that, I really do, but it all seems a bit hand wavey to me. 99% of the time with semver you can unambiguously tell whether it should be a major, minor, or patch bump (of course there are edge cases though).
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We decided to ship Apollo under a different name to avoid people's preconceptions that a tool released by the creators of Meteor would only work inside the Meteor platform. What we are seeing is that the JavaScript community has been consistently moving towards focused, decoupled tools, and it made sense to build Apollo in that way. Meteor has also received many improvements to make it easy to work with npm packages, new JavaScript features, etc.
They don't deliver to me and I'm in the middle of the peninsula. Amazon Fresh and Prime Now don't deliver here either.
To be precise, adderall is amphetamine salt, which is different and slightly less potent than methamphetamine.
"Picking parts and playing favorites is what has lead us to the current state of affairs."

Citation Needed

Should we not require drivers licenses or car registration?