skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Odwalla made a big deal about their juice being "natural" and not pasteurized. Then they had a contamination problem. One person died, 66 sick, sales down 90% afterwards.

Reminds me of Chipotle. As they were switching to their organic supply chain, they ran a rather insulting, emotionally manipulative ad campaign [1] implicitly slandering any and all competing restaurants for not being organic. As with all organic food marketing, their product was presented as the only alternative to disgusting poison.

They even made it into a fucking phone game. [2]

And then this same supply chain was not properly quality controlled, and it poisoned a bunch of people. Empty Chipotle restaurants give me some measure of schadenfreude.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUtnas5ScSE

[2] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chipotle-scarecrow/id6894702...
It's local optima - they get the 50% price dip from buying 100% instead of 99%, because it saves the monopoly money by killing competitors before they spring up, but the lack of competition hurts the consumers because the monopoly has no incentive to drop their prices or really innovate until a competitor with the ability to drop consumer's costs by MORE THAN FIFTY PERCENT comes along.

So even if a competitor with 10% cheaper goods comes along, the consumer sticks with the monopoly 100%, for fear of being dicked by the consumer's 99% prices.
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Real insurance involves a gamble. You pay a small amount to get what is essentially a lottery ticket. You win if disaster happens, giving you money to deal with the disaster.

Would you buy a lottery ticket if it was known to be a winner? Sure! Would anybody want to sell it? No! That isn't a viable business model.

What you are looking for is more like welfare. You have a problem, there is no gamble, you don't have the money, and you expect "society" to pay. That definitely isn't insurance.

Those are the options: insurance, welfare, self-pay

Imposing a duty to handle pre-existing conditions on "insurance" companies is forcing a business to provide welfare. Obviously, people will switch from the cheap company (or none) to the high-quality company when they get a problem. The tax on people without "insurance" is intended to discourage this, but it is ineffective because "insurance" costs more and because people will still switch from cheap to fancy.

In any case, we've invented some pretty fancy health care. Giving it to everybody would exceed our GDP. This is obviously unworkable. The situation only worsens as we invent more. How do you propose to limit usage, if not by price? Would you just promise everything, but let people die on waiting lists? Would you rate and rank people, perhaps on a point system with extra points for politically-connected people?
Location can be used to update the default, on first run. There's no reason why that has to be the same for US and Indian users. That's the point I was making all along which you haven't understood.

Second, can you give me a reference to back up your claim that Android has an API that tells you whether the user prefers km or miles? We're not talking about language or locale here (things like en-IN) but distance units.
What happened to Stuart Schrieber after he was a student at Harvard ?
That may be true historically, but is it not possible to design them in the future with that goal in mind?
Didn't they already break up? Back together so soon?
I don't get that, "You're under arrest for having smoked weed in the past even though you have nothing on you!"

Makes no sense.
The same applies to markets too. In general, no static human-made system won't eventually be corrupted if some humans stand to gain from that corruption. Corruption needs to be fought actively and continuously.

--

On a tangent, I don't believe regulation-free markets are even possible; power and money are inherently connected (money itself being a form of power), so you'll always have "money in politics", and if governments were to suddenly disappear, then private actors with money would start performing their functions.
ArkOS had builds for Raspberry pi, Odroid and other boards. You could use it to build your small server
But who gets to say what's fake news and fake journals, who gets to be the gatekeeper?

A few years ago the Beall-list added the Frontiers journals to its list of predatory journals, which generated quite the backlash: http://www.nature.com/news/backlash-after-frontiers-journals...

There is quite a bit of 'regular' research published in Frontiers and they do have peer review, but also a lot of crap (a similar point can be raised for Nature's new Scientific Reports, but also for PLOS ONE, which all cost money to publish in). The border between 'predatory' and just 'kinda crappy' journal is hard to set. The big difference between most predatory OA journals and Frontiers is that Frontiers at least responds to criticism.

Edit: Some similar criticism on Nature Scientific Reports:
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2016/06/15/mor...

and for PLOS ONE: http://www.omnesres.com/blog/plosone/
GIFs are too heavily compressed, with too few colors, etc.

Pretty much all iOS apps support live photos; you can iMessage them; you can even download apps to get the video file or convert it to a GIF.
Is this enough to beat voice recognition software?

If you thought fake news was bad before wait until these 'secret' recordings start getting released and reported on.
> This seems worrisome for the privacy of builders. What if someone wishing to stay anonymous built and distributed a Go binary from a system where GOROOT included their home directory and revealed their identity? Am I misinterpreting something?

Anyone who cares enough about this must be sure to use a nondescript username / path for creating binaries.

Sniffing around for paths and filenames (and other compiler artifacts, like date/date formats/time zone/time of build, version numbers, locale/language markers, debug symbols, UUIDs, copyright strings, format strings) is an extremely well-known technique for investigating the origin of a suspect binary -- anyone who has ever heard of "malware attribution" is sure to know about this.
Paid feature requests. If the user (like the GP) wants a certain feature and don't want to implement it himself, accepting his offer to pay would benefit both parties.
Awesome, exactly what I was looking for for a long time. I'll see if I can contribute something.
Looks like you're spinning up containers for each session (i tried killing vnc server to see what happens.. that session dies, but you can start a new one with a different ID.

next, the 1TB disk you're providing is probably a bottle neck -- trying to create a 500gb file with dd. Will let you know how it goes.
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'The sum is greater than its parts'.

There are lots of fun little features in iOS.
[super]<class> and [sub]<class>s (or simply 'subitems'). Like in superview and subviews, group and subitems, superclass and subclass.
Yes, it's all bogus marketing, but people mocking Juicero should be reminded that bottled water and luxury fashion goods of any kind are all multi-hundred billion dollar markets, not to mention any of the trillion (?) dollar commodity prepared foods segments. Many of these industries differentiate through intellectually-nonsensical lifestyle marketing.
Ever bandied the concept about that some folk may not ever buy a self driving car?

GPS/maps struggle to find most of the places I go, i doubt anybody will release a self driving 4x4 anytime soon with the ability to map and navigate fire trails/off road/national parks/river crossings). Like eventually they might but it's not going to happen anytime in the next decade. Hell I've seen people put vehicles in places and situations that manufacturers would have a heard time believing so good luck getting software coded in a way that would let you do it (maybe if we could get a "she'll be right mate" sudo command overide for the navigation/control systems it could happen?).
> Leaders are willing to take a 100x salary...

"Leaders" take a huge salary because they can.
Imagine when entire videos can be synthesized.
This isn't a jibe at Amazon, but I wouldn't call it Principles. Principles is something you adhere to when there's no financial gain involved. When defense contractors use the terms Values, Excellence, Honesty etc - it just undermines the effort.

There should be a better word to describe this, perhaps Weights and Constraints when making decisions at Amazon. It's difficult to come up with something as good as Azimov's laws but for humans.
> Also allow for common violence if a company strays too far from customs. If a CEO is shown to pollute the water ways there is always an AR15 out there.

I come to HN so that I don't have to read such stupid, knee-jerk, badly thought through opinions. If you have to, post this in a Facebook comment thread, but not here.

What do you think would be the consequences of legally allowing lynching? And I mean all consequences, not just the ones you intend?
The bags have DRM, and it’s used to prevent you from accidentally using bags after they’ve gone bad, or accidentally using third-party bags.
Paywalled, web link does not work for me, site hijacks back button.
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Interview ghosting ;-)
People who use Apple products generally use Apple full stack.

They'd open the App Store on their iPad, browse for an app, and iCloud will install it across all their devices.
https://godbolt.org/g/XKAZOb fixes the bugs in the sample code in the parent post.

If you compile with -O2 then iota_sum_const_alloca and iota_sum_array are both evaluated at compile time.
I interned there last year. They really want to get this point across. Like, I had to sit through an entire day of orientation repeatedly telling me this in different ways. We even had "fun" games to re-inforce the principles lol. I was going to be there for a maximum of 2 months, but nope.

But hey, the tech was really cool. My team was amazing, we went on multiple team outings during my short stay. Office hours were very relaxed - I came in whenever I wanted and left the office when I liked. My manager gave me full ownership of my task. I had all the resources in the company if I quickly wanted to test something.

Just tone down on the principle force-feeding.
Impressive.

But also enabling the next gen of "Mom, I'm in Mexican jail. Quickly wire me $2,000 so I can get out." scams.
They do if a company is able to do anything but make and sell products. The end goal of any company is to become monopoly.
The medium is the message.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message
I don't understand the outrage against unroll.me. From their privacy policy:

>> We may collect, use, transfer, sell, and disclose non-personal information for any purpose.

They told me they gonna sell my data and now they sold my data. Bloody bustards!
Please read up on ZFS. Once your inner computer scientist has overcome the "blatant layering violation", you will understand how they minimise the encryption cpu effort with much caching, and how they leverage transaction groups to reduce latency impact. The corruption issue is being addressed by very large blocks each with their own checksum (outside the crypto container), scheduled onto independent devices and a scrubber to regularly re-validate the integrity. Yes, yes, this was published a bit after the linked article.
Incoming:

Either the registrar provides a free forwarding service (e.g. Google Domains), or I have a $5 DO droplet which has a postfix server running that forwards email to a free gmail account. I create a new gmail account for each domain I want an email address with. e.g. for awesome-domain.com, I have a corresponding myname.awesome-domain@gmail.com

Outgoing

Depending on how much I care about the domain, I'll either setup gmail's SMTP (which shows it's using Gmail to send on the receiving end). Or I use some like Mailgun or Sendgridwith correct SPF, DKIM, DMARC settings. Usually their monthly free tier is enough to cover my needs for sending emails.

I can dig up my postfix forwarding setting if you really want.
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Already done:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohmajJTcpNk
It's not necessarily filtering when it's a aggregated. Hard to achieve uniform coverage though, correct, and not all the topics which have happened may be touched on (even in a one sentence or less)
It just complains about Ad-blocker to me. Disabling it works.
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It's the filtering which conforms to the wishes of the newspaper's editor, rather than the personal tracking profile of the individual reader. Hence why the various newspapers have known political positions - because their editors in the past put them there, and their readership now expect it.
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Thanks, why the fuck does Swift keyboard need access to all my emails?
If a monopoly is hard-won and not being abused, what's the problem?
The page is unreadable on mobile :(
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This is pretty cool (although, I have no idea what other technologies exist for this kind of thing), but it's definitely not convincing enough to a human listener. This sounds like it might be convincing enough for some programs like "Hey, Siri" but it's not gonna convince your mom. You can listen to the samples on the page linked here and you can immediately tell that Obama and Trump don't sound quite human.
I always get very suspicious when I see somebody talking about "extreme feminism". The feminist content I see in the Guardian is of the "we'd really like women to be treated equally to men" kind, which is perfectly ordinary feminism I thought.
I don't have experience here but can those boards practically power anything meaningful? Is there any success story out there of someone moving all their data to the pi?
If you're going to claim they're advocating violence against men you're going to have to cite your examples.
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I did the same and failed. I failed in a very specific way which annoyed me a little bit and which left me thinking how superficial this process is.

But 1. i extended my knowledge 2. i came closer to working for google than ever 3. if you really wanna work for google / <company> you will try again and even optimize those superficial 'issues'
Yeah, I've said it before and I'll no doubt say it again but - although I used to be a big fan, and still read the odd piece on The Guardian - one of the things I realised around the time of the Brexit vote is that The Guardian is basically The Daily Mail for Lefties. They have this slick veneer of intellectualism, they're generally more subtle and, yes, they appear to fact check rather more carefully, but the spin and the somewhat shrill tone are nevertheless there. I can't really deal with them any more, but I could say the same of any newspaper these days.
This is plain disgusting. My wifes employer (not Amazon) has a similar concept to reward bonuses for teams and this causes a lot of mobbing against her and her colleague (also mother). The reason less bonus got paid out were sick leaves, well they don't call it that way, but it boils down to that.

Reason for her/our sick leaves are not that we are sick, but kids < 4 years are just more often sick when going through all the various childhood diseases. Kindergarten will phone you and you have to pick up your sick kid within an hour. Then one of us has to stay at home and watch the sick kid until the doctor says it's ok to put them back in kindergarten.
What would it take to make a C API to a binary format parsing package? If you have an itch, you are the best one to know how to scratch it. Everyone else might not see the simplicity that you see.
Google pop-up may be blocked in uBlock Origin depending on where GA is declared
Adblock actually acquired flattr to do exactly that.
I use the w520 w/ubuntu 17.04 and love it. 1TB SSD, 12GB ram I think... good times. Would recommend.
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Interesting - I like the shaky nature of it. I think it genuinely adds to the experience. Motion stills are nice but I don't feel like live photos should be polished, it feels better with the quality issues.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_open_access_publishi...:

"Complaints that are associated with predatory open-access publishing include

Accepting articles quickly with little or no peer review or quality control, including hoax and nonsensical papers.

Notifying academics of article fees only after papers are accepted.

Aggressively campaigning for academics to submit articles or serve on editorial boards.

Listing academics as members of editorial boards without their permission, and not allowing academics to resign from editorial boards.

Appointing fake academics to editorial boards.[34]
Mimicking the name or web site style of more established journals.

Misleading claims about the publishing operation, such as a false location.

Improper use of ISSNs.

Fake or non-existent impact factors."

One could say they prey on society's trust in science.
GIFs are too heavily compressed, with too few colors, etc.

Technically GIFs can have as many colors as you like. Each frame can have its own 256 color palette, and any transparent pixels are left the color of the pixel from the previous frame, so you can build up a full color image over time. This is silly and you'd never actually do it, but still, it is possible.

Technical explanation and demo: https://notes.tweakblogs.net/blog/8712/high-color-gif-images...
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The avs postulate fails to explain the explanation of the events of november, 1963, and is therefore falsified.
Alloca is non-standard and apparently a C11 compliant compiler can choose not to implement variable-length arrays - there's no standard way of allocating on the stack.

Also - are you utterly certain your allocations will always be small? Could someone craft some input to your program to have you allocate more, and possibly use up the stack in some environments? There's environments which have much smaller stacks than have RAM available.
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If yes, what's the reason behind it?
First, code written in a rush, caused by tight deadlines will push nearly everyone to write sloppy code. That doesn't make someone a nnpp.
Even the best hackers will create substandard work under heavy pressure.

What you can do is start writing tests.
Cover the pasta you're working on and use common coding standards.
With some examples at your hand on how to improve things, meetup with your lead and explain him your sorrows without criticizing him.
Tell him what makes it hard for you and others to work with the code.
He'll also have valuable ideas for improvements.

Real nnpps are less common than you might think.
Not really, writing a good enough formal ISA spec is quite hard. More so if the architecture is quirky.
That kind of thing has been speculated on repeatedly. Nobody's really built a system to do it that's ever caught on, but there seem to be an increasing number of attempts as the online advertising model continues to collapse. I think we'll see a mainstream effort at some point, and at the moment with rumours of an ad blocker being built into Chrome I think it may well come from Google. They already had a sort of prototype microtransaction system, it's not at all inconceivable that they could expand that programme. And with their own ad network already running, they might be able to make the transition very easy for people who're running Google ads - they are theoretically in the position that they could say okay, anybody visiting a Google Ads site using Chrome has the choice to see the adverts or pay a small fee, the browser will handle it smoothly for them and the payment will go through the existing AdSense arrangements with the site owner.
I think its good if a tech like this is publicly available. It will be used by comedians and satire outlets and over time raise awareness about possible fakes - pics/video or it did not happen... Well, no problem anymore ;-)
This site has a "demo" section featuring only Soundcloud clips. Uses to much the present tense "In a world first, Montreal-based startup Lyrebird today unveiled" and "Record 1 minute [...] and Lyrebird can [..]Use this key to generate anything" but has no actual product or beta version. Adobe had a much more impressive sneak peek of a similar product called VoCo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3l4XLZ59iw
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There's nothing wrong with printing bad literature. The problem was their lying about being a traditional publisher that only accepted high quality manuscripts, flattering people to fleece money out of them.
What people don't realize is that it is YOUR responsibility to make your research any good. Peer review won't significantly improve your research, and btw it is very rarely constructive criticism, and it certainly doesn't make you feel you and reviewer are in the same team (but you should be in a perfect world). So what the author of original article confirmed here is that he can falsify results, his name, etc. But that's ON HIM!
WTF indeed. And they have a camera in there too... I wonder if they take regular pictures with it once you open the door.
This is perhaps a great example that proves that not all publicity is good publicity.

While they flew under the radar, they weren't widely mocked, and they might even have succeeded in building a following. After all, on face value, K-cups are similarly ridiculous, where a pricey appliance is used to make a single serving of product from an even pricier single-use packet, complete with DRM where they were locking out unofficial cups.

And yet, Keurig has sold a lot of their brewers and officially-licensed cups, and it turns out the single-serving model was an advantage rather than a drawback.

It's undeniable that Juicero's own promoters can lay on the spiritual-tinged marketing drivel thick, and they were swiftly slaughtered in the court of public opinion with one slickly-produced viral video. Perhaps the lesson is, even if your model is pure BS, don't do something that could be mocked in three minutes, and used to entertain at your expense.
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I know a couple of people that work at Juicero and unlike 99% of you I've actually tried the juices. To call it a scam is harsh. There are legitimate concerns with supply chain, what foods can be mixed together because of acidity and preservation, etc. I've tried a bunch of the juices, and I didn't like many of them but I could see how people who were into the green juice would find it appealing. The pomegranate was really delicious however but The yield was really low. I don't think that's one you could just squeeze with your hands. I think they should have done a blind taste test to see if the press actually had any value over hand squeezing because some of the ingredients would be harder to squeeze.

The price used to be higher for the press, I think it was $700-800 which I thought was ridiculous. I even made the point that they could replace the press with two books and someone standing on it. The wifi connectivity was dumb and you really have to be dumb to think that was useful. The drm and "checking" of the packets was a little more than an excuse to not squeeze anything more than their own packets.

But the juice itself is definitely something that is superior if you're into that juice. I heard a ton of celebrities love it, but you can't sustain a business with just celebrities. As with most things like this, I doubt they care as much about the press as the subscription to the juice packets. Personally I think they should embrace this and come up with a line of juice packets that are hand squeezable.