skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's because the price has risen dramatically leading people to go to alternate proteins.

Even though I have far more money now than I did 10-15 years ago, I eat far less beef because it seems that the price has maybe more than doubled. This tracks in the commodity pricing for beef. In Feb 2002 beef was ~$1/lb at commodity pricing. Today it's about $1.85/lb. In 2015 it hit a high of $2.72/lb.

I'm not sure it's a bad thing to be honest. Beef isn't my favorite meat, and it's definitely not the healthiest protein.

However, chicken prices are way up as well.

On the other hand, pork is very cheap, ~$.70/lb wholesale, and has stayed pretty steady.

http://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/?commodity=beef&months...
If you want to ding the seller further, leave a negative feedback response (for the seller) on that order.

Mark the reason as "item not as described" and don't add any additional text that would allow the seller to claim the feedback was "product related / a product review".

Speaking from experience as an FBA seller for the past seven years, those are nearly impossible to dispute with Amazon's seller support staff...even when the buyer is incorrect (ie they contact you via the messaging system and admit to buying the wrong product or misreading the product description). Enough negative feedback ratings and the seller's account can go under review and/or be closed.
> if you know that the third-party seller has done this

Is there an easy way to determine this?
Excepting the coast, the western half of the USA is desert and mountains. There are scattered cities (Denver, Salt Lake City, Phoenix/Tuscon, Las Vegas, Boise, El Paso, Spokane), but most of the territory is relatively undeveloped and sparsely populated. (This is a good thing in my opinion. Covering every bit of land with city is a miserable societal goal. So is strip mining all of the land for fossil fuels and minerals, or turning it all to pasture.)

Here’s a map: https://johnstonarchitects.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/pop_l...
PG offers unlogged tables for non-acid ephemeral data.
I actually understand what you're saying, and for the most part agree. I travel a lot (have spent only 30-60 days on my home soil per year for the past several years) and always print the stages of my trip out in a folder (flights, hotel bookings, etc.). We may do it for different reasons though - I hate trying to find a specific email attachment or download on my phone at a counter with people waiting behind me in line - gives me anxiety.

That being said, as a developer I don't see any reason to be anything other than excited about this. I think you've been pretty lucky to have never run into an issue while traveling. I've had my fair share of run-ins with last minute gate changes, too-tight layovers, incorrect signage at overcrowded airports, etc. If I could build my own little Twilio integration that alerted me the second a gate change occurred, that'd be awesome (and super fun to build).

Then again, we're living in the golden age of integrations right now and I get overly excited about all of this shit : )
"Enterprise sales" is a very interesting problem. There are 4 companies in this batch that are attacking it from different sides:
(1) Scribe – Automating sales development representatives
(2) Upcall – Outbound calls as a service
(3) Clover Intelligence – Voice analytics for sales
(4) Riley – Lead qualification as a service

B2B businesses rely heavily on sales - a great sales team can make or break the company. But for folks with a predominantly technical background, sales as a function, remains at best a mystery, and at worst something they make fun of (because sales people are often different from technical people - there is a lack of understanding between the two).

It is great to see more technical people entering "sales" and are trying to understand it.

Sales is often (mis)understood as a slick-smooth-talking meeting/phone call that magically convinces an unwitting customer into paying for a product. Companies like the 4 mentioned above, and several others that are playing in this space, are attempting to bring data and rigor to this space.

It would be a net better outcome for everyone -- less annoying calls for a prospect and more focused approach for the seller.

I am fascinated by the intersection of analysis, software, and sales. I wish the best to these companies!

edit: formatting
Andrew Ng resigns from Baidu
He Forced Me to Make Money Online and the Results Were Staggering
I agree strongly with the statement about games, and it's not just about service. When I was younger, sometimes pirating was the only way to get a game... it wasn't always easy to find a copy. Music has definitely improved too, unless you use a pure streaming service at least.

Meanwhile... the BBC will make you seriously consider the merits of piracy. It's 2017, and some people really haven't figured out that when you back people into a corner online, they can just pirate their way out of it.
My comment is only to reflect that the "Chris Dixon" was added by the submitter. The guidelines recommend using the article title for the submission unchanged (with a few exceptions).

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Correct, look at this page for an example:
https://www.bedroomlan.org/projects/mcasm

// Minimum Microcode file.

cond OP:4;
cond uaddr:3;

signal /MEMIO = ....1;
signal MREAD = ...1.;
signal MWRITE = ..1..;

field REGMOVE = XX___;
signal MAR <- PC = 01...;
signal IR <- MEM = 10...;

start OP=XXXX; // A tiny fetch instruction
/MEMIO, MREAD, MAR <- PC; //
hold; // Same as MEMIO, MREAD, MAR <- PC
hold, -MREAD, IR <- MEM; // Same as MEMIO, MAR <- PC, IR <- MEM

// End of file.
Investing in Software
#Vaastu brings overall happiness and prosperity. A book by Dr. #PuneetChawla
>even today you just go slamming more RAM into the machine if you need it

Hmm, every software gig I've had in the past 5 years that's exactly what I've been expected to do because the extra ten bucks a month for a bigger VM is wayyy less expensive than engineering time. Interesting times.
Only cunts do this. Disgusting.
Errrmmm.... okay so the nature of prostitution (and probably even more so forced prostitution) requires the performance of tasks that degrade the product to such a degree that issues are off-putting for the customer.

Or in other words, customers will notice the smell of untreated sexually transmitted diseases. Pregnancy is also noticeable and not profitable, what with being fat and eating more. I'd bet that this sort of education is something that Planned Parenthood's abortion providers are fully aware of. Let's not forgetting getting beat up by the johns and nutso clients.

So while human traffickers might put off a visit to the doctor, pregnancy, disease, and injury will drive both the trafficker and the prostitute into a formal medical setting at some point.

Unless the trafficker decides to work the girl into an early grave...
Everyone seems to think they know how they'd run the company better.
I didn't find a single reference other than this as to what he is going to do post resigning.

>I will also explore new ways to support all of you in the global AI community, so that we can all work together to bring this AI-powered society to fruition.

It is true that AI is the new electricity which will change practically everything in our lives and it is good to see that alliances like OpenAI are forming to democratize the knowledge, this is because giant companies hold a monopoly, they are the only ones who have the sufficient data to do any meaningful research at all.
> On a recent visit, Ciarlo estimated she had saved at least $100 on prescriptions for standard generic steroids and antibiotics that in total cost her $6.

I'd say that's practically free.
The Aeroplane Flies High, Turns Left, Looks Right and Might Reach Its Destination
They're not ripping people off, they're Moving Fast And Breaking Things!
I had the idea for upcall several years ago around the time a similar enterprise service that went through YC (elasticsales?) was starting up. So I am biased but it is a good idea. Sales and marketing is about targeting the appropriate customer so no one on either end wants to waste time. Spam would be calling everyone and hope someone buys what you are selling. So upcall is great for B2B startups without a budget for sales hires. (Maybe startups will also focus on sales from the beginning rather than shying away from it like VCs complain about.)
I also replaced my Nexus 5 with a OnePlus 3. The OnePlus 3 is so large that I develop finger pains reading on the subway. It's ridiculous.
At least in Canada, portable card readers are the norm. Specifically to counter fraud, you no longer expect to hand your plastic over to an employee who brings it behind the bar. They come to you with a wireless machine, and you insert your own card. It blows my mind how the U.S. is 10-15 years behind the rest of us; the technology behind "debit cards" in the U.S. compared to that of Canada and Europe is almost laughable. The refusal to perform a one-time upgrade to new tech, while continuing to absorb the costs of rampant fraud is completely senseless.
I would have bought this one: http://a.co/7XcZoUf

Is that one a fake too? Going by the "Lenovo" seller and the fact that the seller also sells a ton of other Lenovo branded stuff makes me feel better, but who knows...
I think that's the problem: the company doesn't seem to have a sustainable business model, or at least a model that justifies their current valuation.

I'm not sure most people would be able to do any better than Dorsey is doing, since I don't see how the company is sustainable.
The ones that debuted on Demo Day 1 https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/20/yc-demo-day-winter-2017/
At least on OS X if you try to maximize it will give you a stern warning.
We are aware =) This is why we re-implemented the entire language syntax (not just turtle graphics).
Wow, I'm amazed at Andrew's list of accomplishments. I mean any one of these would be a career capstone for most people

- Stanford Professor

- Founding lead of the Google Brain project

- Author of one of the most famous and loved MOOC's

- Head of AI for Baidu, built up the AI team in both China and the US.

- Founder of Coursera

And I see from wikipedia that he and I are roughly the same age :(

Engineers are often seen as a cost center for most businesses, which means you'll eventually hit a compensation ceiling If you want to elevate yourself into one of the engineers you hear about that is able to break through the compensation ceiling then the below is one of the best ways to do so.....

> My team birthed one new business unit per year each of the last two years

If you can directly tie yourself to a Pnl then you'll always have more options than someone who is considered a cost center.

I hope that what ever he does, he takes some time of first if he needs it. I'd hate for someone like this to get burnt out.
I'm confused at the "Aimed mainly at Tor" part. A lot of these techniques use Javascript and the Tor browser blocks Javascript in general and warns strongly against enabling it. So it seems that part of the technique will be ineffective against most Tor users.
According to their site, they sell the "Aaron" and the "Mira".
As podcasts become bigger and bigger I've been afraid of something like Breaker succeeding. Thanks to RSS/Atom it's currently a very open medium. Anyone can start putting out content and I can consume it on any device and app I choose, download episodes for on-the-go and offline listening, transfer the files easily between devices—even to "dumb" MP3 players that never had an app ecosystem—and move my subscriptions around with the common OPML format. There's no tracking or analytics peering over my shoulder, unlike so much of modern media that's become enslaved to data: as a listener I consider this a feature.

I'm quite willing to pay for podcast content, and I do. I've been a paid subscriber to The NoSleep Podcast ever since they started offering the option, at $20 a season. They use a service called Nanacast, which collects my payment and gives me a unique RSS feed URL that I can add to any podcast app. No arbitrary centralization or gatekeepers required.
Developer gets a Game Boy emulator running on the Apple Watch, because he can
I am really skeptical of this. Most retail stores sell at a 1.5X-2X markup from wholesale, and the big grocery chains around me have massive private label businesses. This statistic might be missing the extra profits they get from owning their own food brands as those might belong to separate companies?
Yea, none of those seem to match the scale of the proposal in the article.
We (skymind w16) build dl models on prem for customers after licensing our deployment software. We sell to fintech,telco, retail, car makers, plane makers and device makers. On prem and connectors to sap turned out to work.

Flynn will be great for education and proof of concepts.
I received a paperback book sold by Amazon LLC just yesterday. I am hugely disappointed as it looks like a botched photocopy to the point where it is hard to read at all. WTF
That was my first reaction as well. I really liked Pownce and I think she did great work on it. It was sad to see it shut down.

The embedding stuff (oEmbed?) was pretty great too. I wish it was used by more people.
What? JavaScript is enabled by default on the Tor Browser Bundle, and users are not actively encouraged to turn it off.
Python Insider: Python 3.6.1 is now available
Perhaps my alternative title could have been 'or how people learn not to smash the pumpkins'
Ask HN: What kind peering agreements does Netflix have?
It makes little sense for any ISP to peer with Netflix because of the amount of traffic Netflix pumps into their network while receiving pretty much no traffic. Do the ISPs peer with Netflix to give their (ISP's) customers a good experience ? Does Netflix also do subtle arm twisting to make the ISPs agree to peer with them ? Or does Netflix pay transit to a big backbone carrier and let them push the Netflix content through the provider's peering ?
Thus far, "properly" has been elusive - I.e. we know it when we see it, but not beforehand​. It has been easier to instruct people to look at past concerns in similar projects and tick off which ones are relevant based on current constraints and requirements. So it is not a one-time task to set the "properly" needle right, but a continuous one to keep adjusting it as the cases evolve.

The way abstractions are usually laid out is by trying to generalize a concept, usually along simplistic lines without attempting to substantiate it. Beta abstraction provides a substantiatable route which could involve a bit of repeating before the abstraction surfaces. For example, the Pixar cars don't form a class hierarchy with a "car" base class - there is only one class "car" and the variety is generated by configuration (need to pull up ref for this, as I read this long ago). This may not be an obvious step for someone not in the domain.
except they don't? You could choose to not buy 20 chairs and... get 1 engineer for a couple months?

Meanwhile you have things like ad campaigns that have "unlimited" budgets. Hell, there's tripling staff size in a year without some matching revenue growth!

Chairs don't kill startups.
Kodable is hiring for Sales – Help teach over 7M kids computer science
Only reading the headline was enough to remind me of Brazil[1]. The movie, while being based on the very premise of a typo ruining lifes, also has the most telling lines in it - the one everybody trying to rectifiy such an issue is bound to get told[2]:

Mistake? We don't make mistakes!

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(1985_film)

[2]: https://youtu.be/6OalIW1yL-k
So why not create multiple accounts? ToS usually advises against sharing credentials.
We don't eat much meat at all in our household because it seems like all meat, beef especially, has become simply too expensive. Ground turkey remains pretty cheap, so when we eat meat that's pretty much what's for dinner.
Ng's wife's company, Drive.ai, has made more progress in less time and with fewer resources than anybody in the autonomous driving space. So it's probably a billion dollar company. I wonder if that has anything to do with it. There's a lot of money in autonomous driving startups that can deliver results.
Why not use auto fill? I consider that a decent defense against phishing attempts. Now I always think twice before entering my name and password.
Everything you see today will remain free for personal users.
So, there's a problem here. When you expose human eyeballs to UV light, you risk causing serious damage to your retinas. You won't feel the pain, but you could easily go blind. It would probably take some time, but the damage is cumulative -- a little here and a little there turns into a lot down the road.

So, you need to protect your eyes from potentially damaging UV light when you work with these things. But I don't see any of the models in this video taking care of their eyesight with regards to this product. That's something the manufacturer needs to deal with, unless they want to be the target of Asbestos-scale lawsuits.
Andrew Ng leaving Baidu
Wtf is "git flavored markdown"?

Do you mean GitHub Flavoured Markdown? It concerns me that people writing software somehow mix up Git and GitHub as being the same thing.
Hey Rootsudo! While $100,000 is not a lot of money to start something (w/ brick mortar), I would buy a large piece of agriculture land and start a poultry farm.

There is a huge subsidy in my country right now for Agriculture start-ups and it is something which could be scaled very well using the modern poultry farming techniques.

It's kind of a retirement plan I have in the back of my mind, but given the right capital I would start with the execution of the same in no time. :)
Thanks everybody for piling on to explain how and where I'm wrong.

I read all the comments and I'm probably two or three percent closer to understanding this. Maybe I'll devote some more brain energy to it later :)
This is why we don't offer this feature. This feature is one of the major offenders for lastpass in the past. It's very easy to get wrong and expose vulnerabilities.
That was the case with Linux Command Line. It appears to be the case here as well
>> "YC’s recently developed Investor Match system"

Here's a YC blog post on this:
https://blog.ycombinator.com/investor-day-software/
Loosely peaking the wave function of a quantum mechanical system specifies for each possible state of the system the probability of finding the system in that state. Actually it is not the probability but the probability amplitude, a complex number from which you can derive the probability by squaring it.

Assume you have two identical fermions, say two electrons, the first one in state x and the second one in state y. State means everything required to fully describe the particle, for example position and spin. Therefore x stands for the first electron being in a specific position and having a specific spin, similarly for y and the second electron.

Let A(x, y) be the probability amplitude for finding the first electron in state x and the second electron in state y, i.e. the first argument of A is the state of the first electron, the second argument is the state of the second electron. Now swap the two electrons, take the first and put it where the second one is, take the second one and put it where the first one was. Also change the spins as necessary. The probability amplitude is now A(y, x), the first electron is now in state y, the second electron is now in state x.

The important thing is now that the two electrons are identical, you can not tell the difference between the situations before and after swapping the two electrons. Had you painted one electron blue and one red, then you could easily tell the difference, but without that you can not. That was the entire point of swapping the electrons, bringing them into exactly the state of the other one.

But if you can not distinguish the two situations, then it better be the case, that they have the same probability, i.e. A(x, y) = A(y, x). But that is not quite right, A is the probability amplitude, not the probability. It turns out that there are actually two valid possibilities, A(x, y) = A(y, x) and A(x, y) = -A(y, x). As mentioned at the beginning, you get the probability by squaring the probability amplitude, so that the minus sign in the second case vanishes.

The first possibility is how bosons (particles with integer spin, for example photons and gluons) behave, the second one is how fermions (particles with half integer spin, for example quarks and electrons but also helium-3) behave. Now we finally arrive at the important point, what happens if both electrons are in the same state, i.e. if the first electron is in state x and the second electron is also in state x. Then the probability amplitude is A(x, x) and we have to satisfy A(x, x) = -A(x, x) because electrons are fermions.

But there is only one complex number identical to its negative and that is of course zero. Therefore the probability amplitude and in consequence the probability obtained by squaring the probability amplitude are both zero, which means that the probability of finding the system in the state where the first electron is in state x and the second electron is also in state x, is zero. The two electrons or more generally two fermions can never be in the exact same state.
"A Wavelet Tour of Signal Processing" by Stephan Mallat is pretty good if you've got a background in signal processing at the undergrad EE level. Math heavy CS may require some recollection of linear algebra and numerical algorithms.
I assure you, I read the whole piece, and only responded to your earlier comment because the piece is so dreadfully shallow and one-sided.

Sure, the experts fail. And at the periphery of hard science -- psychology, diet -- we're starting to learn how little behavioral guidance limited studies can provide. No argument.

But this is such a shallow indictment. What about the numerous examples of successful expertise all around -- civil engineering, aircraft safety, weather forecasting, novel drug therapies, market interventions like cap-and-trade? All these sorts of expert-based interventions have social policy implications, and they have been generally very successful. I might owe my continued existence to one of them.

Yet, Taleb's indictment gives no way to separate this kind of "good" expertise from the "bad" ones. So it's vacuous as a critique, and the article is an embarrassment.

Note: Taleb has some good ideas. His notion of "skin in the game" in markets and policy, and his awareness of heavy tails, for example.
Please don't start with this flimsy retort. GP has a legitimate question that happens to contain race as an important factor to his hypothesis
I just set up a Windows 98 system last week!

Installation of win98 is so quick, so easy, compared to XP.

But websites don't render so well in the win98 version of IE. I don't think it knows about CSS.
In both cases a five year old child could tell the difference in an instant.
They were at some point.
i find it pricy too, I cant imagine what someone in a lower cost of living area(than sf, so everywhere) thinks of the price. Packaging waste is a big complaint my friends have, easier to swap out reusable packages if its at a store. And I have to go to the store anyway for perishables(eggs/milk/etc), so blue apron doesnt even save a trip to the store. id buy this too
Telstra’s Gigabit Class LTE Network
I'm not the OP but natural gas is MUCH better for the environment than oil or coal.

Many consider it a stepping stone in between now and a future with no hydrocarbon fuel.
Little app to see HyperCard stacks in Mac OS X
I have no problem with this. Cars are incredibly dangerous, cause over a million deaths a year. I have no problem with every single car being constantly tracked.
Why is so much memory needed for deep neural networks?
One day we'll realize that these big companies have been looting our natural resources with the full collaboration of the government.