skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our local Kroger has that along with tons of cheap, organic stuff. They also focus on quality of produce, service, etc. They can't match Whole Foods in how well the store is run since they're cut-throat in cost cutting. They do just good enough that all kinds of customers tolerate them. Gabriel's Worse is Better applied to grocery stores haha.

I'm totally unsurprised by the article seeing Walmart, Costco, and Kroger are one-stop shops for regular and organic items at much cheaper prices. I expected this to happen to Whole Foods. They should double down on the better shopping experience (less crowds) and offering obscure items big retails are too greedy to carry.
I've been reading a sci-fi novel, "Pushing Ice" by Alastair Reynolds, and the "Incident Pit" term is used a lot in it.
People prefer to be infatuated with immortality/longevity and I imagine working cryogenics would be an absolute market success with those insulated people.
That would probably be a matter between you and the other party (the video never touches the app's servers). There's nothing stopping you from drawing up a contract yourself, but I don't see any reason for this app to provide something like that.
Nice work.

I expected 6 proof by pencil and paper, but this have 6 proof that can be run and verified in the browser by the computer.
The data chatbots are coming
Hackintosh style which isn't legal BTW. It works well though.
This is a good point. If you want to access the Indian market, your problem probably isn't building a plant, or finding competent labour, or buying materials or logistics. It is the licenses and permissions to operate, and the relations to government officials. And if you can purchase an existing outfit that has at least some of the needed licenses and permissions and has some existing government contacts, contracts and agreements, then it is easier to ramp up business.
I used to shop only at whole foods, happily paying $200 for 3 paper bags of groceries. Then in 2009 their CEO spouted some libertarian crap how he was against healthcare reform. I was shocked that whole foods wasn't run by hippies. At that point I did some research and found that the 365 store brand that claims to be organic actually just buys ingredients from china that china claims is organic. Who is verifying it is genuinely organic, the crazy libertarian CEO? I doubt it!
I'm a long time Spotify fan using it on everything from my Mac to our Shield TV and Echo. Music is a staple of my life and I regularly spend my working day listening to Spotify.

Call me an optimist but I see a huge opportunity to capture additional $'s from less price as sensitive people like me. I'd happily hand over more money to the artists I actually like and listen to regularly but no platform gives me the means to do that (ala twitch cheer). They should start building premium features that connect subscribers more intimately with artists through gigs, merchandise or content. I see a lot of headroom in the price - $14.99/mo for 6 accounts (family plan) IMHO is very cheap.
In case you are actually being serious, the odds of that happening are very normal.
I wanted to update my comment to readjust it to reword the part your criticised. but I cannot anymore sadly enough. Is there some kind of timeout period after which you cannot edit it anymore?
At least until we have some sort of mind-control technology, which would probably be used for far creepier purposes if/when it did come into existence.

But indeed for now, that analog hole can still be... penetrated. ;-)
I'm pretty sure leaking a sex video without consent is already illegal in most countries. And you can sue the other party for a lot more severe crimes than copyright damages.
> The company's only goal is profit and this is very evident when you hear their libertarian CEO speak.

> You can want to make as much profit as possible while ALSO doing the right thing ethically.

OP even said that their ONLY goal was profit. Of course as a company in a society like ours you have to make profit. It's when that becomes a priority that obscures all others that people find it distasteful.
> Chernobyl-style "bio-robot" "liquidators"

Anybody that isn't familiar with the "liquidators" should watch Chernobyl 3828, a Ukrainian documentary about the cleanup of the worst part of the roof with comments by the people currently working their two-minute shifts as a "bio-robot".

http://www.telecon.kiev.ua/eng/projects/chernobyl_3828.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfDa8tR25dk
I learned a lot from this, so thank you.
An Introductory Recommender Systems Tutorial
Again, there is no debate among historians about why the states seceded. See the final link in my previous post.

> You'll notice no mention of slavery, but instead the perversion of federal power. The only mention of the word slave is the oppression of not only Virginia "but the southern slave holding states".

The perversion of federal power mentioned is the new government's coming actions to eventually kill slavery. Again, the governor of Virginia said as much (“The Northern States must strike from their statute books their personal liberty bills, and fulfill their consitutional obligations in regard to fugitive slaves and fugitives from justice. If our slaves escape into non-slaveholding states, they must be delivered up.”) Again, no other cause is mentioned by any of the states.

> For these states, they were not seceding "because slavery" they were seceding because the Federal government was bypassing Congress to start a war and had no intention of taking up arms against the south.

They didn't like Lincoln's call for volunteers to bring the seceding states in line, yet they had no qualms about immediately raising troops via draft (via the first conscription law in the United States) to fight against the Union. Why is that? You noticed that your Wikipedia link about the timeline of events leading to secession is all about the history of slavery regulation in the United States, right?

Your quotes are proposals of what to do with Southern states that seceded, not the cause of secession.

You're going into mental contortions to disagree with historians. Why?
Memes, seems like
> Indians are generally too stupid and banal in conversation IMO

Way to generalize 2b people. Wow!
Not the author, nor an expert, but I'm guessing it could be setup so that the 'OS' throws and interrupt when it receives a transmission signal requesting the REPL process [1]. So whatever normal processes that the device needs to run would get paused by the interrupt signal, and the REPL process would start up.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system#Interrupts
I say no. If you've never read Bill Bryson, you're missing out on a unique perspective of travel writing. It's not so much the locations but the personal narrative that I enjoy.
Why do you trust the whole foods brand? Do you think the libertarian CEO goes to china to verify the ingredients are actually grown organically? Do you think the bush administration holdover in charge of the organic label goes to china to verify things are grown organically? I don't trust china, john mackey, or the FDA to guarantee genuine organic.
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That's mainly an Apple problem though. The integration with Android is very complete, and I don't think there are any features that Google Music gives you that Spotify doesn't.

And that's a good thing given the fact that Google Music (like most Google services that are not free) is only available in the US and a handful of other countries.
"Most of us are here for evidence-based discussion."

So far the evidence has been "I talked about x and a few days later I saw an advert for x".

It's absurd cringy nonsense.
Uh, your friend did not invent that nickname. It has been around for more than a decade and is used commonly including in media articles about Whole Foods.
> Hint: they don't run around in happy green fields.

Some of them do. I actually check the code on eggs before buying to make sure I'm getting those from free-roaming chickens.
For $12m it seems like a bargain.
Its a golden corral except your plate costs 2-3x as much and you don't get seconds.
Related white paper:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g3TQsyCVHT8Z5vzqXiOJ0mZx...
yeah +1 to this. Perhaps Rumuki is just a new material source for pornhub? :D
Thanks for mentioning food cooperatives as another way to purchase high-quality food. I think the cooperative movement has a long way to go on terms of making cooperative ownership and purchasing broadly accessible, but it's a uniquely empowering business model in today's world.
Once upon a time I was given a helium foil balloon as part of a goodie bag from a job interview (long story - I also got an ipad, one of the first in the UK). I brought the helium balloon home with me, just for its novelty - I hadn't had a helium balloon in many, many years.

I weighted it for neutral buoyancy - this required slight re-weighting every so often as it lost volume. It became almost like a pet, following people around the house in their wake, drifting around depending on the airflow - this often leads upstairs because warm air rises - and yes, one night it did make its way into the bedroom.

It was more charming in an anthropomorphised sense, though, and in no way scary or disturbing.
"God:

"Oh come off it! You're not now talking to your Sunday school teacher, you are talking to me."

Someone once said that it isn't philosophy if it doesn't make you laugh. (If it only makes you laugh, it's not good philosophy.) It may have been Smullyan.
>Days later, she learned she'd had a stroke

Don't you have to get to the ER within hours when you have a stroke?
Likely because you're viewing it more than 45 years after it was drawn. Our ideas about information visualization - and the tools available for creating or - were a lot less sophisticated back then.

I actually think the graph is great, once explained. It gives a good visual summary of both things it's trying to convey (the overall point, and the different speed at which incidents can develop).

Also interesting to think of this writ large. How many companies do you know of that are hanging out in the middle section without realizing how close they are to a point of no return?
From the FAQs:

> How do I know my partner won't abuse my trust?

> You can't. However with Rumuki you have the discretion to only grant playbacks when you can keep an eye on them. You also have the option to revoke all playback grants and delete the recording if trust is ever lost.
Any war stories on the SQL Server Database Engine Tuning Advisor? How significantly has it affected the performance of the system?
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I've been in my local WF a few times and see what you mean, but never felt it to be worth the premium. I do most of my shopping at Trader Joe's, which has many of the same advantages but is also cheap.

I can see it if the choices are WF or a crappy Giant or Safeway....
Sifting through data looking for the unseen is one thing but this has got to be the biggest waste of time ever. AirBnB giving people a place to sleep. Yes, strangers in your apartment building..like you know your neighbors anyway.
I've had better luck with Mariano's than Jewel for produce, but as you say, that may be highly dependent on the individual store.
What is the worst thing about G Play Services you can't turn off?
So if you end up being ejected from a group it was justified because you didn't belong there. Nice logic.
Could you elaborate on "technical homogenisation" please?
Steam Users map. Find someone to play together. Compare your games for playing
With respect to accounting, you don't recoup your investment (where you purchased part of a company) by collecting licensing fees (which you'd have received anyway) from the same company.
I wounded if this could be considered a cartel in this context?
I don't have any issue with the banner change but is there any announcement anywhere why the change happened at all?
Indeed. Remember: accept them with both hands and briefly inspect them. It's the polite thing to do.
It's an interesting idea, but I don't think it will work in practice. These moments happen naturally because the couple trusts in each other. Convincing my girlfriend to download a specific app so that we can film something is a bit odd.

People don't care that much about how things are encrypted or about complex security mechanisms, they want something that is easy to use. Snapshat is easy to use for example. Everyone knows that a snap can be saved like everybody knows that I can film a phone playing a video. Given that the practical security of both apps are the same, people will go for ease of use and Snapshat wins there.
> neither party will have any desire to do something underhanded like recording the video from another phone.

Well... The viewer needs to request permission from the partner, and may want to bypass that. Furthermore, a given video may have more than two partecipants, and the app seems to be limited to pairs of people. In such situations the video will need to be shared with those people too.

The most secure option is to have one encrypted copy of the file and only that, and decrypt only when viewing it, and only temporarily. Even then it's possible to make recordings of the content as tiny hideable cameras are sold everywhere. I'm not dismissing the work done, but if someone is as careful about security to use such an app, they can also do the best thing and not record at all.
A lot of graphs don't make any sense unless you view them as part of the talk they're presented in.

I see a lot of bureaucratic NHS slides that are meaningless until someone talks you through them.
I think both of you are correct. Just dumping links for the record:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BDrdalsj%C3%B6kull is the glacier. "Mýrdalsjökull is an exceedingly wet location, with models suggesting it receives more than 10 metres of precipitation annually"

Here is 30 yr avg annual precipitation (1970-2000) from the Icelandic Meteorological Office http://www.vedur.is/vedur/vedurfar/kort/medalurkoma_a/ (Katla is under the deep blue southernmost area).

The caldera has pronounce subsidence, as seen at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katla_(volcano)#/media/File:Ey...

For a bonus, about halfway down this has a picture of the glacier after a minor eruption: https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=372030
What's wrong with 'local'? Serverless is a terrible word to describe this.
For typical Gamma radiation of about 1MeV photon energy or higher, you need about 1cm thickness of lead to reduce the radiation to about a third (by a factor of 1/ℯ). One order of magnitude of radiation hardness (reduce radiation to 1/10th) needs two centimeters of lead. That's getting heavy pretty fast.

Radiation intensity inside your box depends on the thickness t: I(t) = I₀·exp(-tρμ)

t: thickness, say 1 cm
ρ: density of the material, for Lead 11 g/cm³
μ: absorption coeffcient 0.1 cm²/g [see ref 1]
I₀: intensity outside of the box

...import numpy as np...
In [5]: np.exp(-0.1 * 11.34)
Out[5]: 0.32174370422037013

I(1cm) = 32,2%, I(2cm) = 10,4%

[1] http://www.eichrom.com/PDF/gamma-ray-attenuation-white-paper...
I think there is a lot of feedback, mostly constructive criticisms. I would encourage you to embrace a lot of what everyone is saying and not to take it personally. You've done far better than most developers: you authored something and shared it with the world. To this day I'm still too afraid to show HN or Reddit my work.
>(...) certain titles enjoy a reputation as ‘travel’ classics while falling way below more general standards of literary achievement. Patrick Leigh Fermor’s A Time of Gifts depends on these standards being dispensed with entirely.

Say what? If anything, it's the inverse.

Most travel best sellers are trite. Fermor's writing is with the best of them, and not confined to travel writing at all.
But if I don't comment the conversation isn't about me anymore!
In all fairness, I find this (and only this) criticism unsubstantiated/nitpicky.

Many systems are relying on the statistical improbability of 32-hexdigits uuid collision (name-dropping one - Disque).
I couldn't quite grok what this was supposed to be from the information on the site. What did help was their one-line description that it was basically a distributed implementation of java.util.stream.

I didn't know what java.util.stream was either, but this document made it clear: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/ma14-java-se...
cp is designed to copy data across file systems.

dd is designed to copy raw block data across devices.

Sure, you can abuse both for either purpose, but seems rather misguided to call it out explicitly. What did you intend to gain by doing it?
Yes, although in Soviet Union, they still often had other names and functions (as a movie theatre, or a grain warehouse, or whatever).
PHP 7.2 to get modern cryptography into its standard library
hasn't the file system improved to the point where this is less of a problem?
Cars decline in value; why not homes, too?
Reading from /dev/zero and writing out to RAM with a more optimal block size of 256K yields a throughput of 1,536 MB/s

Actually, in this article, Linux writing to RAM is slower than MacOS writing to SSD. Hard to conclude that "it's just OS X being slow". I suspect the hardware used is wildly different from the one in the original article.
Probably the fact that Google Play Services can update itself without your approval or consent, so Google can push any antiprivacy feature to your phone they want without your knowledge at any time.

Play Services meets basically every definition of malware.
> A company's goal should be profit.

No. You've confused means with purpose.

A company with investors has to make enough profit to give the investors a fair return. And any company needs enough profit to reinvest in growth. But profit alone isn't a sustaining motivation. One entrepreneur I know sold his first company back in the 90s for >$100m. As he was working on his next venture, he said, "Profit isn't the point. Profit is permission to continue."

The purpose of a company is generally to create value for a given audience in particular ways, often ones that have a broader impact.

For example, the purpose of the New York Times is to inform readers about the things that matter to them and to the world. They do that because they see journalism as necessary to a healthy society, a healthy world.

If you approach the same audience and tools with a goal of pure profit, you end up with things like supermarket tabloids, viral clickbait, and Macedonian fake news farms. Those have a much higher ROI than real journalism; they're going to be much more profitable. By your theory, they're better companies. But they aren't.
iTunes purchased music has no DRM. Ironically, we have moved to prefer services with DRM.
Ask HN: My less skilled coworker earns more than I do, What do I do
Hey HN,
I'm a junior dev with a master's degree and I earn 27k + good benefits in France. When I got hired, I was told salary was non negotiable and it would increase every year according to performance. Fine by me, the salary is low but the benefits are good and I need to get pro experience.
I have good skills for a junior dev according to my experimented coworkers (3-5 years of experience). I have more skills than expected in a junior developper's profile because I work a lot on side projects in my spare time to learn new stuff. I also contribute a lot to the life of my project and do my best everyday.
Now the thing is a new junior dev, my age, arrived on the project and was hired with a higher salary (29k + same benefits). He's way less skilled than I am (needs help for basic Linux commands, is not really autonomous for anything...). His skills are fine for a junior dev, but I don't really appreciate being paid less than he is. He agrees with that, and so does our team (we discussed it, we are open about our salaries because we believe it's in our best interest).
I of course don't have hard feelings towards my colleague but I believe I should be paid more than I am. I don't know how to bring the subject to HR without sounding jealous of my colleague. I also don't want them to lower his salary. Is there a way to resolve this situation?
Shopping Becomes a Political Act in the Trump Era
Linux bash scripting the awesome part3
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1319/showcase-of-beau...
This is an interesting idea you put there, labels would like to see a weak Spotify.
not even analog nowadays - literally spinning up any broadcasting software and one play-back later generates copyright-free digital repro.
>If you want to see what the world looks like somewhere, you can get a pretty good idea from the internet. VR tourism if it happens will only make this worse.

Travel writing is for when you want to read and be assisted in understanding what the world is like somewhere. Not when you want to see what it merely looks like.

>And we're heading into a time when the pendulum of public opinion has swung against the foreign. How can you sell travel writing to a Brexit market?

At the golden ages of travel writing Britain was not in the EU or EC in the first place. And being against immigration in one's on countries is not the same as being "against the foreign". The British were much more cautious of others in their own province, and much more xenophobic and even racist in the days when travel writing was cherished (and things like "orientalism" etc).

In fact, globalization can be said to make the world a more or less homogeneous place ("come to Britain, enjoy Indian food" or "come to Japan, eat at our McDonalds"), where travel and travel writing in extension, loses its interest.
You need to think about it more deeply. The perfect "achievable" life is to go to college, get a degree, secure a nice job, live a comfortable life, buy a car and a house for your family. If you made this choice like %99 of the people, then you're probably getting into debt. College tuition, car loan, mortgage, bills, etc. You probably have a 9 to 5 job because you need to pay for all this stuff every month. You're on life support and your paycheck keeps you alive. It sounds pretty dramatic and maybe you can still travel once in a while, buy some random stuff... But here is the trick - you're probably dreaming about becoming rich. You're probably working on a side project after work that will magically save you from all this mess. You're using what ever time and energy you have left during the week in order to focus on your dream. It's your main priority but you don't have enough resources to make it happen because you have other responsibilities - paying your bills.

That's what it really means. Look at successful business people like Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, Jobs, etc. The sooner you work on becoming rich, the better. Don't get trap into security and comfort. Focus on your main priority.

Does it make sense?
> things I do in private

When you let it be recorded and the recording be possessed by someone else, it's practically public, as you can't control what'll happen in future and there will always be mean people that'll try to bully you for that sort of thing. I'm sad that it's caused you harm, but I guess in such situations showing confidence might work.