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One thing I'd add to these principles: I always emphasize when I teach programming that there's no magic. There's always a reason behind everything and regular folks like you can understand it. There are people (even among tech community) who like to say something is "magic" or "beyond one's comprehension", but don't take their words seriously. Mysticism is just intellectual laziness. Don't indulge in it.
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Reminds me of the shortage of BMWs. I only want to pay $10k for a new one, and I've been searching for ages. Obviously there's a shortage.
Might you have any good resources about hard fairness vs eventual fairness locking?
This would be great for the Canadian north where food is incredibly expensive due to the cost of shipping and storage. For example a 2 liter bottle of orange juice is $30, 4 liters of milk $10. the UHT milk could bring that cost down if it can be stored in bulk for long periods of time.
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I am always impressed by the quality and depth of the commentary on HN. After having read the articles posted, I gain a lot of value by having my perspective challenged many times over in the comments.

As HN is focused on tech only, do you guys know of similar communities (quality of commentary/discussion) around the web that focuses on other niches?
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We use Algolia for the docs and commercial website of GitLab and could not be happier. You immediately notice the speed. Interesting to see how much effort went into that. Also cool to see the term hybrid tenancy.
I'll just point out that every two-sided marketplace in existence uses tons of data and behavioral techniques to get "suppliers" (e.g. drivers on Uber, hosts on AirBnB, sellers on eBay, manufacturers on Alibaba, etc. etc.) to offer the best buyer experience at the lowest cost.
About fifteen years ago, I had a housemate who was from Italy, and she thought the milk I bought (standard US whole milk) was gross and, she said, "tastes like cheese". I had already been exposed to shelf-stable milk on a previous trip to Europe, so we soon figured out that was the source of the issue, but reading this article suggests she may have been exceptionally perceptive with the cheese comment.
Correct! I am aware. It's why I hate Trump so much.

"I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half" -Jay Gould
There needs to be a right balance between bot and human. Personally, I think bots are a replacement for UI, not a replacement for real conversations. I want to use a bot when I activate a credit card for example. It's a glorified "activate" button in lieu of actual UI, but if I have fraud on my card, I want to talk to a human, because I want a conversation, not a substitute for a series of UI decisions. We're on track for developing an "assistant" bot of our own here at Reamaze. Our starting point for AI at Reamaze is a bot for assisting agents with responses, not customers.
It never occured to me that Yevtushenko is known in the West. Why it's even the case?
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"Do aggregators change prices based on geographic location of the buyer"

Anecdotally, I booked a flight a few weeks ago through expedia.hk for an itinerary that was not even available through expedia.com. I'm not sure if they geotarget, but for Expedia at least, the TLD you go through matters.

I've also found a South American carrier (I forget which) to have significantly different prices depending on whether the website is in Spanish or English (alas, they wouldn't accept my US card through the Spanish site).
Whole milk lasts longer than other kinds.
You are never as rational as you think you might be when it comes to shopping or anything else.

And advertising drives the economy and is quite literally the reason the company you work for is in business - so it's just not that simple to say "it's all bad" because it isn't. In fact it's quite the opposite.
Shut off the water, power, sewerage, fuel, and food supplies.

It'll sort out pretty quickly.

Most of the population will want out. The remnants won't have much by effective resistance.

As the French tankers learned in WWII, superior armour & firepower without coordination and communications as well as force unity doesn't buy you much.
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Falun Gong is not an ethnic group, and a lot of their stories don't stand up to scrutiny.

Organ harvesting from prisoners still happen, but the extent has been greatly exaggerated.
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A fun logic/strategy game to play with your friends and family or against the sneaky robot characters.

AppStore: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/play-cornered/id1073394566?m...
GitHub: https://github.com/bsyk/cornered
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You are right. It is also my experience that some graduates from technical schools are much more knowledgeable than some graduates from college. But the point stands, the two types of schools are serving different needs. We need both.
That's interesting. But that also means that the central bankers think a 0% rate of inflation is acceptable, when non-zero inflation is needed to stimulate growth through lending.
The article states that jurors who saw both were slightly more likely to convict. That is, the effect of the slow-mo was reduced if they also saw the real time.

It doesn't address the ordering question.

Thanks for the links. A lot of data there. Hope I don't reach the wrong conclusion. ;)
I didn't discover UHT milk until I moved to Germany, and went to the supermarket. It seems that every culture has its own grocery taxonomy, so I had to ask an employee where I could find the milk.

She pointed me towards the milk aisle, and I was amazed that none of it was refrigerated. Sure, you can buy fresh milk in Germany, but it seems that UHT is considered more the "standard".

I have to say, I preferred the taste to either American or Japanese milk, and fell in love with the convenience of being able to keep a case of the stuff in my pantry.
Chatbots are great if they assist me with quick actions, like viewing my order/shipping status, and when it's obvious that I'm "talking" to a bot. What gets annoying are chatbots that start with "how can I help you?" and attempt to use natural language processing on my reply to guesstimate a response. More often than not I end up frustrated, wishing there was an 'Operator' button that I can use to talk with a real person. It's way easier and more comforting to be talking to a real person behind the business when I need something.

It's distressing that more and more chatbots are spawned every day to take the human element out of customer support or when engaging with a business. Chatbots work when they're a complement to human customer support, but when they're up front and center they tend to be distracting, frustrating, and their attempts to act human often amuses me. I do like Kik's and Messenger's approach to a bot and I think they are on the right path.
Oh, when I read the title, I wrongly thought it's Digital-Free Trade Zone, a trade zone without any digital methods. :D
Try the "writing excuses" podcast. Is not screenwriting, but many many of the same elements apply. Also, screenwriting is ultimately meant for the screen, so that intently means a collaboration with someone visual. Talk to people who will be honest with you, but only once you've finished at least a scene. Your idea, the thing you want to write, can get lost if you listen to too many people before getting it down and out at least once.
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In a related way, I often talk about the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle of Metrics. The more you measure with the intent of adjusting the process, the more people intentionally and unintentionally drive their behaviour based on the metric. So it's a real skill to minimise measurement so that you are able to control the areas you need to control without creating incentives for people to do bizarre things in areas you didn't think about. It always drives me crazy when managers start measuring things "just in case I want to use the information in the future". It pretty much guarantees unpredictable behaviour of the workers.
There are actually three. Vat pasteurization is the oldest, it involves holding milk at 145 deg. F for half an hour. High temperature, short time (HTST) pasteurization involves bringing milk to 161 deg. F for 16 seconds. And Ultra-pasteurization, or the ultra high temperature (UHT) process, involves bringing the milk to 280 deg. F for 2 seconds.

Time is money, so vat pasteurized milk is more expensive than HTST milk which is more expensive than UHT milk. The downside of higher temperatures is that more of the flavor compounds tend to be destroyed in the process. This has a secondary effect of driving the milk producer towards lower milk quality, since it all tastes the same after the UHT process.
This has been my experience, until recently. I started not booking ahead and just using the Hotel Tonight app to get something (literally minutes before i get on my flight). I feel like one day i'm going to get screwed, but so far I've never slept on the street (around 20 months of doing this) and the rates are often no more than $160 CAD for great hotels in midtown [area sucks, but its where the office is]. I also like that it shows currency in my local currency, not the destination currency.
We're talking about an aging population. There are a lot of costs associated with that.
I spent a minute looking at this and I still don't understand what is being offered.

Is it a bluetooth HID device to pair to an emulator app?
Is it an actual Z80-based system?
Why is it called a ZX Spectrum? Because it looks like one?

I miss my Russian ZX80 clones. One stayed pretty true to the original format, the other one was a whopping desktop AT case with two 5 1/2" drives. Both, ultimately, were plagued by soldering quality issues, given their back-of-the-garage heritage.
> companies can benefit by using bots to enhance human-to-human conversations, not trying to replace them altogether.

I think you hit the nail on the head here. Bots should be a complement to human conversations, not a replacement. Having a bot doesn't mean you hire less customer support agents, it just makes them more productive.
Ask HN: Would you use a recurring self-emailer?
There are a lot of things I need to remind myself and the best way to get them would be as a morning digest email from myself to myself. Or potentially at different times of the day.

Would anyone else use such a thing?
In what scenario is North Korea a threat to the US? Their ICBMs can't reach the US, and their military is similarly unequipped to be mobile.
Their promo video from a year ago tells you everything. [1]

They thought they'd get to self driving cars pretty quick. They didn't (yet).

[1] https://youtu.be/bx1-im6i8uk?t=1m40s
I always fail to understand why silicon Valley is hell bent on AI for everything, replacing dangerous jobs with machines is good but why everything else? Are everyone supposed to be an engineer at Silicon Valley? I mean if all jobs are replaced by machines, how would someone earn to buy or use Silicon valley's "products". Prices are going up not down
I learnt a bit from listening to this Podcast from Radiolab.
http://www.radiolab.org/story/update-crispr/
Are you really wasting your money though? Having someone read and critique your work is extremely valuable, even if you rank low (well, it is if you're willing to listen). I cannot emphasize the value of constructive criticism enough. My degree is in creative writing, and by far the biggest value I received from college came through both offering and receiving criticism.

I've never received an evaluation from The Black List, but if you actually get what their FAQs promise, "Your evaluation will include an overall rating and ratings on premise, plot, characters, dialogue, and setting, all from 1 to 10. It will also include brief answers about the script's greatest strengths, weaknesses, and commercial prospects." I think the price-to-value ratio of their service is quite good.
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Passengers ignorant of the company's treatment of their drivers, and other shady tactics are.

This is such a mindblowing thing to me; as you can't throw a rock without finding site after site, blogpost among blogpost among forum post among social media share/tweet/post of this-among other instances of Uber conducting some very ugly, clandestine business that screws drivers over and because they're so damn convenient people just ignore it completely at best-shoot the messenger with a .50 caliber barrage at worst.

None of this is more prevalent than in my city subreddit of /r/austin where people are convinced that the city banned Uber/Lyft when every news outlet in the city wrote at length how the former bought a referendum over fingerprinting rules (which Uber complies with in more profitable cities), lost said referendum vote, and then left of their own volition after targeting a(n admittedly unpopular) councilwoman.

That hasn't stopped the overriding narrative that we forced the company out unfairly.

It's a weird phenomenon to behold. They treat their workers like utter crap; I wonder if you took some of the tactics they employ, apply them to any other sector and make them as public as Uber's have been-if anyone would stand for it. Or does the convenience factor of Uber compared to a cab make it easier for people to engage in rampant whataboutism?
I hate to say it, but you should switch to a different major (forget Math) if you have below average study habits.

In the beginning math might be about intelligence (basic logic) but after Calculus (which is the beginning for a math degree) you get into true math classes that require EXCEPTIONAL STUDY HABITS.

You don't need that much math for programming anyways? (gaming maybe).

Skip the math and start programming! Get any job you can programming and then go back and "fill in the gaps of your math logic". You will realize that you need WAY less math than you would get in a math degree. WAY LESS.

Your job will most likely pay for classes as well.

Hope that helps!
Your numbers might improve, but there is a change if you don't find good candidates, you have to fill them in with bad candidates. This could make things worse in the long term because all those poor candidates results in a reinforcement of the assumptions that men are better at <insert job>.

Except for politics, can't be bad at having an opinion ;) Or jobs that any human should be able to perform.
Ah, but don't forget Clarke's three laws:

1) When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

2) The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

3) Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
I like to read this as M.D. rejects tools. Which is pretty stupid, but wasn't Crichton writing about expert systems in Andromeda Strain back in the 1960s?

That they didn't make an inch of progress in 50 years shows the influence of The Guild.
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Ask HN: What are some useful certifications to get?
While I have my personal opinions about certifications in general [such as AWS or Azure etc], what are some of the useful certifications to get ? More from street credential point of view as opposed to truly learning something deep.
LAN is 100% cheaper on the Spanish website. I had no difficulty booking using an AU credit card. Also sells return tickets with a total cost less than the cost one way ticket to the same destination. Weird business model but my wallet was happy that I figured it out. :D
Do you not use SR-IOV for GCE?
Intentionality plays a role in most criminal definitions. The exceptions are the strict liability cases like statutory rape or DUI (just to name a couple). I think the law looks to intentions because it's very human to base our judgments on our sense of the person's intent. Beyond me why it developed evolutionally (or if it's just a very recent phenomenon), but we have a soft spot for good intentions.

As to the case at hand, I have similar questions. I would think in the U.S. this would have just been a felony murder case where intentions are irrelevant. Agree that a first-degree murder charge in a robbery case would be odd (unless the robbery was a cover story for the planned murder??).

As for sports, the pendulum seems to shifted in the other direction with most rules of the 'strict' variety. And I would agree with you that any rule that can be formulated as a strict rule, should be.
> This is such a mindblowing thing to me; as you can't throw a rock without finding site after site, blogpost among blogpost among forum post among social media share/tweet/post of this-among other instances of Uber conducting some very ugly, clandestine business that screws drivers over and because they're so damn convenient people just ignore it completely at best-shoot the messenger with a .50 caliber barrage at worst.

Yes you can. Here in Australia literally nobody that doesn't browse HN gives a fuck. I can't name one person I know IRL that knows anything about Uber other than that it's 1000x better and more convenient than the taxi service here.
http://www.economist.com/node/1873493
Ironic example, since iPhone is the only flagship smartphone that doesn't have wireless charging.
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Perhaps, but having 60% of the local populace embracing the same ideology isn't.
The US has many walk in clinics - they are usually attached to a pharmacy/chemist or part of a large retail store (CVS minute clinic etc) and you see a Physician's Assistant (PA) instead of a regular doctor. If it's more serious then they will send you to urgent care or your regular doctor. The cost is usually < $100.
Actually there is on victim here: other web-developers. The same reasons we do not allow drugs in competitive sports: soon everyone has to do them to be able to compete.

Edit: unless it was for medicinal uses, rather then performance.

That aside, the laws are still unjust.
You should not have to ask for a refund if, after reasonable time after the original estimate has passed, the cab has not appeared. Of course, Uber is also free to screw around with the customers to the extent that they will acquiesce to it.
> E.g. add a bot that will instantly reply to frequently asked questions to decrease the load of your customer support team. And when the bot doesn't understand requests, don't make it say "sorry I don't understand", just leave the question and a human will reply later (and maybe send a message with expected timeframe for human response).

Why not just present your users with your FAQ and a search box prior to them chatting with an agent? If most customers write in to support on questions that they would've found answers to via an FAQ, wouldn't that work? You don't need a bot for that, and it's just more load on a customer to try and understand the interface to the bot.

I think bots are going to be big in customer support or in conversations between a customer and a business, but I feel like a lot of bots are being built to try and replace the human connection between customer and the business, which I think is the wrong approach.
What happens to those people if the dollar plummets in value compared to native currency?
> I don’t see us turning the workforce situation around unless we somehow manage to transform our negative imagery about immigrants and start to aggressively seek out productive young, educated immigrants from around the world.

He lost me primarily at this point. From my perspective this makes no sense at all.

I work grueling 12 hour shifts on an assembly line. My fingerprints have worn off some of my fingertips I work so hard; cuts and scrapes all over my hands and arms from handling product and adjusting machines all day. The other day I stood up too soon while ducking under a belt and a sharp edge put a deep gash in my back.

Yet, I have a 2 year degree in mathematics and spend every minute not on the job programming, reading and learning. There is no other opportunity in Western NY for anyone with an associates degree.

I can't afford to commute an hour to work, and I have a broken down vehicle I can't afford to fix because I'm paying tens of thousands of dollars in student loans back for a worthless degree. I live with my parents, who themselves can't get full time jobs (I surmise age discrimination is the biggest factor) with graduate degrees.

America is not what it's made out to be. Neither is this ``education'' that's hyped up in the media and online. While I was growing up my parents couldn't make ends meet while they were both working. Now, as a full time worker, I see that I definitely cannot make enough to live on my own, a single white male.

Obviously, then, the answer is to accept more immigrants, so there's more competition for the dwindling number of jobs mentioned in this article (due to technology...).

> ... the gains in average education and health of the workforce over the last 50 years are unlikely to be repeated ...

Well no-shit sherlock.

People are pitched great promises by institutions and universities, only to find out that there's no job for them after 4 years of their lives and $100,000 of debt have been spent. Basically, they bought another (probably more expensive) house when they can barely afford the one they have. Further, there's likely high competition for anything outside of the medical field.

And good luck getting a job in IT unless you know someone (c.f. the latest SO survey).
How much is the monthly UBI in your plan?
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Ask HN: What is the biggest question that isn't being asked right now?
In the mid- late 2000's the question was " why do housing prices keep going up regardless of events/geography". What is the question why are missing now ?
I can confirm this on my end as well. Switching out Comcast equipment for my item router and modem has effectively doubled my speeds.
I'm a big fan :).
There's a fair bit of discussion of crime scene data gathering beyond video: CSI-type stuff. Makes the point that when you have a big budget to gather a bunch of data, you have a lot more leeway to paint a narrative supporting your theory.

Would have liked to have been given a more concrete example of this, because I don't have a strong enough imagination to really understand that scenario. Finding the suspects fingerprints in more places around the crime scene? I don't know, I guess that could help convict but could see it just as easily distracting the jury and muddling the case.
If the goal of universities is to pass on "deep knowledge", then I would argue that the vast majority of such institutions are utter failures at their mission.
There's generally one piece per issue on some recent element of economic scholarship. This generally does mention the article in question.

Contrast with, say, The New York Times, which to the best of my knowledge entirely fails in this regard, even when specifically discussing scientific or medical research "a study", and author(s) names are about as much as you can hope for), and I'll nod slightly to The Economist.

I ran across a Los Angeles Times piece a few months back which rather pointedly did reference several sources, with hyperlinks. A practice I applaud highly.
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or "Slow-Mo Killed the Video Star"
I use Kayak, and it always kicks me directly to the airline to purchase. Does that get counted as the airline selling its product directly?
It's a sci-fi novel ;)