skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's ok to spy on your political enemies as long as you spy on everyone else too?

The real issue is whether it's ok to spy on everyone. Spying on everyone means spying on your political enemies too, and your specific focus on the political enemies is ignoring the important debate. You're effectively arguing that spying on everyone isn't important, as long as you don't spy on your political enemies.

> But you're right, I'm not interested in conspiracy theories. That's why I said we should investigate.

And waste time and resources on a completely stupid premise. Spend your political capital more wisely.
"should have had a backup" is not a defense for a tort of negligent interference with a business.
Can't the review system help deal with this problem? I always check reviews of the product and vendor to make sure it's legit.

Only a few could get burned before the vendor is flagged as a counterfeiter which would stop further purchases. That should reduce the amount of money you could make scamming people and make it a less viable criminal business. Amazon also seems diligent in refunding people as well.

So the solution might be that Amazon should invest more in shutting these accounts down faster but I'm curious if reviews are an immediate stop gap solution here until they get around to regulating each bad seller.
Yeah. It was by no means an unexpected or even unanticipated thing. It wasn't hard to see coming.
Changing account again...
After reading the comments, no one asked about "which"SaaS business model. Yes it is extremely possible to bootstrap a SaaS business alone depending on which model. Example: help a reporter out that peter shankman grew into a Monster of a SaaS business.

Another example? GroupOn. Was a email newsletter first.

I've seen a group of guys go sign up for Wordpress and were generating $2,000/month themselves for a kickstarter-like concept by using plugins. Not all SaaS businesses require a programmer, especially these days.

Will certain models require a programmer at some point? Maybe. Maybe someone just wants to build 10 SaaS newsletter sites that all generate $1,000/month each... $10kMRR in total with no need to hire a programmer.
I wonder how much of this is non-programming jobs going away. I think sysadmin jobs are going away, and those aren't coming back.
> I often receive more annoying robocalls on my personal phone than welcomed calls from unknown numbers. My usual solution is to quickly google the number to see if any scam reports are available and then quickly answer if not.

My strategy is generally just not to answer and let them leave a message if it's an actual person. Unless I have some reason to be expecting the call, I think that most people nowadays would find it reasonable that calling someone who doesn't have your number might result in you having to leave a message. If it is an actual person, I'll very often call them back immediately after listening to the message.
They penalize and hide non verified reviews mostly now unless super helpful.
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Please don't post ideological sound bites to HN. They sound like they're saying something but actually are unsubstantive, and don't connect into a conversation in a meaningful way.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13955445 and marked it off-topic.
>Are you claiming that choosing to indulge in drugs that you know are addictive and potentially lethal is without a moral dimension?

Are you claiming that tens of millions of people got a pop-up box asking them, "Are you sure you want to abandon your children, alienate your family, and ruin your life? This operation is irreversible!"? Remember, one of the major ways in which the opioid epidemic has spread was medical doctors, of all people, prescribing heavy opioids for pain management.

How do you think these things happen?
Why do you think Keynes is well-respected? Have you read "A General Theory"?
PCs took a lot longer to stop innovating, but they were (and still are for desktops) an open platform.
I've had new several hard drives turn out to be in fact refurbished (and in one case quickly failed).

I got refunds but nothing beyond that, even with in one case offering evidence that this looked like deliberate fraud due to half-cleared SMART stats.
Got it. That makes sense. That is a pretty neat use case if it is sensitive enough.
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It's trivially easy to run into counterfeit products on Amazon. Here's an example I pulled up in 2 minutes of searching:

https://www.amazon.com/Apple-A1385-Adapter-Charger-iPhone/dp...

I see two sellers offering an iPhone charger, ostensibly genuine and new, as low as USD 3.19.

Compare with the Apple listing for the same item for USD 19:
http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MD810LL/A/apple-5w-usb-pow...

There is no way you can be selling the genuine product at that price and be making a profit. I don't know what Apple's wholesale price for chargers is, but it is presumably more than USD 3.19.

Amazon has lost at least two orders from me recently because I had no confidence that I would receive a genuine product.
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If the rules are to not include pricing information and you include pricing information, how do you possibly get upset over it being taken down?

Reviews are long-lived, that pricing info is probably out of date in a few months, but the review will live on for a while, and lead to confusion (Especially since, I assume your reviews were well written, giving them more credibility, and thus leading to more confusion)

There is also the problem of confusion over price of a product and its legal implications... if you go to a store that relies on box stickers for pricing, and the stickers only have a price, and there isa box there with a wrong (lower) price on it, the store has to sell it at that price in most states... im sure the law wouldnt kick in over a comment, but you cant blame amazon for guarding against the swarm of people who's sole purpose in life seems to be to get one over on other people
You get to review the product but when the sourcing is all thrown together all you're really doing is dragging down the rating for the overall product (Quickbooks 2017 in this case) and not the source of the specific item you were shipped.

My issue had nothing to do with the product itself although I suppose if enough 1 star reviews start to build up then Intuit and other larger publishers that might actually have some leverage with Amazon will start to take notice.
The problem is that the counterfeit products are being mixed into the legit ones too. It's nearly impossible to determine ahead of times if you're going to get a real one or a fake.
Please don't post snarky dismissals here.
An old write up, but it shows the style of repl programming. I have been using Common Lisp since the 1980s, and for me it is all about using a bottom up interactive programming style - same as programming in Haskell, Ruby, Python, Scala, etc.
"In fact FIDONET and the like probably had already met that bar, in an early PoC sense. Lots of folks in that space had the vision of at least a nationwide network of 24x7 connected bbs' if not the entire picture. You also had a lot of guys working in private industry, who operated small "national" or regional networks between a few sites at that point."

Also, distinct from BBS culture, many people in 1990 had telenet[1] access (not telnet) from local dialups and could connect to computers all over the country in that fashion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telenet
Ugh… yeah, agreed; reading that was painful.

To reiterate:

• Chinese characters are called hànzì¹

• modern Japanese uses many hànzì, calling them kanji² instead

• katakana³ is used in modern Japanese to write words of foreign origin (loanwords) as well as onomatopoeia and is romanized as katakana, not katagana

• hiragana⁴ is used in modern Japanese to write okurigana⁵, particles, and certain words, and is romanized as hiragana, not hiregana

Here’s a typical (and extremely simple) sentence in modern Japanese that uses all three:

この文はサンプルです。

This is a sample sentence.

この: this (hiragana)

文: sentence (kanji)

は: particle (pronounced wa) (hiragana)

サンプル: sample (loanword; pronounced sanpuru) (katakana)

です: particle (pronounced desu) (hiragana)

――――――

¹ — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_characters

² — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanji

³ — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katakana

⁴ — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana

⁵ — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okurigana
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The closest equivalent I can think of is scikit-learn [1], which also gives you a unified way of using many different algorithms. I wouldn't say the two are really equivalent but both are excellent and a joy to use. One major difference is that, as far as I know, caret is mainly a standardization wrapper for other R packages' functionality, while scikit uses its own implementations.

[1] http://scikit-learn.org/stable/
It's generally understood that the theorem, and in particular the 1/1/2 and 3/4/5 integral triangles were known prehistorically and independently 'discovered' in several places. It's not possible to know what the earliest recorded statement was, because we only have tiny fragments (more commonly, fragments of copies of fragments of later documentation of oral traditions) of what actually was recorded that long ago. Finding such a statement only says that its the earliest we're aware of, and even then its always contingent on a variety of factors.

These sorts of discussions always seem to devolve into "10,000 generations ago, someone who lived near where some of my ancestors later lived might have known more mathematics than people who lived near where your ancestors lived." [The 'That means I'm better than you.' is usually not explicit] Which is boring.
That's why I worry about this area of technology, especially in the context of the history of AI in the past. The hype factor is extreme, but there's very little domain expertise at play.

I have a relative who is a trucking regulation consultant. It's not some trivial business... there are a lot of moving parts.
The sad thing is we pay more for electricity if it is generated by wind power, because of a "green tax"
I still don't understand escort or strop clubs. I mean why? Is it the food? If I want to see a half naked woman missing teeth with a meth habit I'll go to Walmart.
You're getting downvoted but your vocalization has some merit. I looked at the link and decided not to bother reading it since it'll probably get closed down in a few years, so what's the point?
Ah, so not a fake, but a bad substitution. Does show, though, that sellers can't get attention when it is needed.
> The contestants are there of their own free will and the sports are actually pretty safe.

So were most gladiators, it was a an actual job for many of them, not everything was like on Hollywood movies.

People should read more old actual sources of information and watch less movies.

As for being safe, tell that to the ones that have spoiled their future thanks to major injures to member or head concussions.
A node can handle many more than one shard. So you can basically have 10 nodes, 8 shards with 5 replicas each. (Just an example)
I am sure you think it's an argument and I am well aware that in the liberal media you would find much support for this but it's complete and utter nonsense to me.

There is nothing that indicates she couldn't have said no or that she was pressured, that se feels pressured is another things but it has nothing to with sexism.

The continuing expanding of the definition of sexism is the real issue here and it's unfortunately being misused in many situations by both women and men.
Yes, feature-wise Gajim is one of the best. Unfortunately the UX is pretty bad :(
I don't know if similar things existed for C++11/14. But, it doesn't exist for C++17.

I faced the similar problem. I invested some money in Effective Modern C++(Scott Mayer). It covers the language part. I borrowed a book for C++11 concurrency. But, modern C++ lacks high-quality material at one place like Golang/Rust(the language guys have very good documentation, not boring and good enough to learn quickly). There are tons of scattered example.
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I don't understand what this comment means. A biologist would argue that spread and colonization is inevitable when local resources are exhausted/scarce.
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It is if the market wouldn't exist without people being forced to work at night. The difference seems to be very hard to understand.
Well, your point is subjective: NYTimes is best and Medium is worst.

Yet, if at least 1.4% of their 60m readers disagree with you then it can be a sustainable business.

I'm not sure I understand why you care that they have 150 employees. Both Medium and Stack Overflow think at least 150 people is needed to monetize their sites, yet you only dislike one of those businesses.
Correct - if tech is still getting H1B visas, that means there are jobs that the companies claim were unable to be filled by US citizens. They have to go so far as to post two conspicuous notices of the application for visas in their workplaces [1].

https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/FactSheet62/whdfs62M...
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to HN?

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13955389 and marked it off-topic.
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It's probably of value to note that that diagrams that everyone is talking about are not part of the original text.
https://github.com/tvaneerd/cpp17_in_TTs/blob/master/ALL_IN_...

This comes pretty close to what you're asking for I believe.
I think we should give credit where credit is due - Apple has "solved" three form factors:

- the laptop

- the tower workstation

- the smartphone

Maybe we should use something other than laptops ... maybe there is an as-yet-unforeseen device that our computing work should shift to. Until such time, we use laptops, and apple solved the laptop with the macbook air. There's nowhere to go from here but spec improvements. That's why they are desperately adding weirdo things like the touchbar - the form factor has been solved.

Same with tower workstations. You're not going to beat the cheesegrater mac pro. All you can do is bump the specs. This is a good thing - they solved that form factor. Unfortunately Apple has other priorities than churning out low volume, non-sexy updates to an under-the-desk device.

Finally, the smartphone: Apple solved that form factor with the iphone. Everything since then is really just an iphone with different sizes and different little details. They are all just monolithic touchscreen slabs. Maybe there is some new form factor waiting to be discovered, but that's a new product category - that would be real innovation and would be a jump just like the jump from dumbphones to smartphones. But for now, what we have are smartphones and they are all really just iphones - because the problem has been solved.
Sealed batteries are why I always wanted a thicker phone. Adding an external battery case adds a huge amount of bulk to the phone, whereas adding capacity inside the phone adds only moderate bulk.

But I'm using an iPhone 7+ and for the first time since my last dumb phone, I have no battery life complaints. So while I'd still add more battery life if given the choice, it's not been an issue for the past 6 months.
And since they don't have access to said features you get some crazy framework libraries as poor man's replacement for language features, like doing OOP in Motif, all those byte code manipulation and aspect oriented libraries in Java or now the pile of code generation tools in Go.
I had a 2012 MBP that was dying and I replaced it with a Windows10 laptop (Spectre from HP). After setting up bash on here, I'm pretty happy and in some respects happier. There's some weird things still (pasting into a terminal is one), but I can no longer justify the 2x cost for a Mac that is buggy, limited, and has crap I don't want forced on me.
Ask HN: What's a common tech question you get asked?
What's a common question about tech that people ask you a lot? Mine is "so what is coding?"
Self-Driving Uber Gets in Accident in Tempe, Arizona
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The main appeal for me is the possibility for substantially decreasing compile times. The current include system really precludes a lot of work in this area.
> The artists were detained but no further action was taken.

See, the detainment was part of the performance. It symbolized the futility of consequence, commented on the ephemeral attention of the general public, and highlighted that no one is surprised that tracey has naked men jumping into her bed
The worst part of Uber's situation is that they have priced themselves out of any reasonable path to further fund raising. Even a successful IPO would be a huge down round.

I've never understood how valuations computed from white powder are strategically in the best interest of... anyone? Maybe someone more clueful about the nuances of VC can enlighten me. Even if Uber can make the Google suit and the harassment culture go away, I still don't see how they can ever justify that valuation. Every car company is about to ship (or has) some form of auto drive and there are no strong barriers to competing with Uber on ride sharing. Transportation is a commodity.

How's Lyft doing?
Exactly. Today Uber relies on the owner/driver for the capital behind the vehicle, the vehicle acquisition, servicing, insurance, etc...

Current car-sharing business (car2go, zipcar, etc...) already had to figure out all those parts, the only piece missing for them, like for everybody else so far, is the self-driving technology.

> That is a fraction of what Uber can mobilize

I don't understand your point. You're saying Uber will have random people buy self-driving car for them, service it etc... and let Uber use it? They'd effectively become a pico-bank in a very risky investment... Or am I missing something here?
MacOS is great for development, and has tons better app support than Linux. Some people consider that worth the extra $X over a Windows laptop.

No, hackintoshes require a lot of effort.
That's a graph of total heat gain / time which does not have a half-life. If you take A/10 years the A/20years them A/30 years... the graph looks like that, but you not getting warming in years 10-20 just averaging over longer time periods. Basically, it's graphing a short spike in temperatures and a rapid return to normalcy as a much slower decay.
This is waffle. 'Western Science' is an abstraction. The 'official position of Western Science' is not an accredited publication as far as I know. More to the point, if you have criticisms of individual scientists (the ones who contribute to science [ i.e., people all nationalities and places on Earth) ] who 'discount other sources of knowledge' please be specific. They may or may not have a point. We can't know unless you specify.
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F-35 is actually STOVL. Short-takeoff, vertical landing. Which allows it all of the flexiblity you mentioned above, but in combat the F-35 does not take off vertically.
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I was a bit confused by the article, but it sounded like unless the seller opts out and pays extra fees, it is always FBA.
I bought a phone battery on amazon. Looked legit, was the top result for my phone. It was counterfeit and wouldn't work. I don't even know how to get a battery because the phone stores didn't have it anymore. Can't trust amazon.
I think the Apple patent is mostly about using your phone as trackpad while docked.
I feel like there's so much idiocy going on with Amazon sites. How can such a successful company make something so idiotic such as the current Amazon.com? It's beyond belief.

People visiting Amazon.com intending to buy various items:

a) want the shipment and customer care to be handled by Amazon. (Since they have showed that they area really good at that kind of thing)

b) want to have the goods vetted for basic safety etc etc.

Basically, Amazon needs to rewind/rebrand/remove its second-supplier Bazaar style listings from its main index.

Maybe the could display a two column search result page? Most people have wide screens now. Amazon-handled to the left, rest of the world to the right.
It was, but mostly regardig portability.

One of the reasons I found some pleasure writing Java instead of C++, even before it got a JIT, was the portability story.

Writing portable C++ code across the many commercial compilers available back in the days when the only standard was the C++ARM book, wasn't particularly fun.
It is growing, gradually: ontologies, word embeddings, mechanical dynamics prediction, but it will take some time. I don't know either why there isn't more of a push to bring together all the common sense resources.
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>This means that people who have never written code before are writing code as a job of work, and are writing it in simpler-to-learn languages.

It would be interesting to know if the share of developers with formal training has risen or fallen in the past 12 years. I would have guessed it has risen in spite of a large number of JavaScript wielding web designers.

There used to be quite a lot of DIY programming using VB6, VBA, Excel, MS-Access, dBASE, FoxPro, etc, at a time when professional IT departments and cloud services were not as widespread as they are today. In my opinion these technologies were a lot more accessible than the current web platform.
Faster compilation times and metadata for improved tooling.
Wow, you have a different view of "solved" than I do.
“It’s hard to hire people just for money,” says Konrad Kording, a computational neuroscientist at Northwestern University. “The top people care about advancing the world, and that means writing papers the world can use, and write code the world can use.”

This is the really cool thing about the AI community.
It's a good point. Terrorizing an urban population with $200 drones doesn't seem like an unrealistic scenario. How would a tool like the F-35 be used to combat this situation? I think it would be fairly useless.

Here's a link to an article about a cheap drone being shot with a Patriot missile: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39277940
Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about 'Reference Source', although AFAIK that's only the equivalent of CoreFX, not CoreCLR
Well, a substantial portion of the technology Uber uses was developed by the exact same standards and processes as Waymo, at least ;)
Perfect advice. Most bottlenecks are not because of coding details, but algorithmic or architectural concerns.
> JavaScript is no longer an edit/refresh language.

That's weird, my edit/refresh experience didn't disappear, even after adding Babel/typescript.

In fact, maybe you could say it's more advanced and powerful after adding live reloading?
I think I'm going to apply late with ContractIt and if accepted, use YCs expertise to help Abe too (the CEO of Jentu), because he would really benefit from YC: but he's the type of guy who won't know until he knows because he got burned. The dude put Millions into Dev, got burned by hawks, and is pretty traumatized by that. I'm being patient..
The problem is that it can say "Sold by Amazon" and still be co-mingled stock some third party seller tossed the same SKU on.

So there is no way to even know who the actual seller is. Amazon could end this particular fraud literally overnight by no longer co-mingling, but I suspect that would be wildly expensive for them to do.

Your method is fine for actual accounts selling scammy things - the problem is when those accounts send in product to Amazon and Amazon decides to mix it in with the legit stuff.
The whole business model of Uber was about no legal compliance.