skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only if you have a really good case for using the remaining 115 seconds (as opposed to the hour or so, plus serious physical effort, needed to wash your clothes).
I'll throw in the excellent 5 ingredients 10 minutes http://5ingredients10minutes.com/ from Jules Clancy, most of the recipes can be found for free on her blog at thestonesoup.com 10 minutes required a bit of training, but it's almost always easily cheaper, faster and better than random food for order.

There's really no need to spend 4-7 hours a week prepping food if all you want is a decent and healthy dinner - though spending time preparing something fancy for friends and family is a rewarding activity in it's own right, but that's an entirely different matter.
I do go to the store (and the farmers market) and buy groceries, and cook, all the time. I've recently been curious about Blue Apron as a relatively low-effort way to expand what I cook and how I cook it.
> No corporation with a good tax team pays anything more than 20% of taxes.

That's not true. Companies with large domestic brick-and-mortar businesses that account for most of their income often pay a lot more than that. CVS pays about 34%. Costco and Walmart pay about 30%. Most of the tricks with foreign tax havens or intellectual property licensing don't work for their kinds of business.
I draw the line at Human and Not Human.
Beauriful but over engineered for its niche and utterly useless.

700bucks for abag squeezer? Something went terribly wrong.

It feels like they aimed to produce some advanced robotics and built the wrong product. Could turn this into a limb for amputees, makes more sense and actually good use of the resources.
If they use the upstream kernel, yes. Linus Torvalds has been very clear that security is not a priority.

"We have one rule in the kernel: don't break userspace. Everything else is kind of a guideline. The whole security thing? It's a guideline that we shouldn't do stupid shit. But people do stupid shit all the time and I don't get that upset." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mg5_gxNXTo#t=8m28

Imagine, Torvalds said, that terrorists exploited a flaw in the Linux kernel to cause a meltdown at a nuclear power plant, killing millions of people. “There is no way in hell the problem there is the kernel,” Torvalds said. “If you run a nuclear power plant that can kill millions of people, you don’t connect it to the Internet.” Or if you do, he continued, you build robust defenses such as firewalls and other protections beyond the operating system so that a bug in the Linux kernel is not enough to create a catastrophe. http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/business/2015/11/05/net-of-...

And the Linux kernel has a track record for not being the world's most secure piece of software. Which is fine, it's a project he started for fun.

It's certainly possible to pay people for a kernel that they'll stand behind commercially. If you're using, say, a RHEL kernel and a bug or vulnerability is discovered that impacts you, by all means get upset at Red Hat. If you're using a Fedora kernel, though, you made the choice to use it. It's completely unfair for you to get the benefits of running a kernel you put neither time nor money into, and not also the risk of running that kernel.
Where I come from, if you aren't paying it forward, you aren't grateful. (You are also probably hurting yourself, in that problems with it are problems for you, too.)
IIRC, the overall US corporate tax burden is one of the lowest. The idea that it's so hard on corporations is, AFAIK, a talking point of corporate lobbyists. I'm open to any actual evidence, however.

Even "double taxation" is a talking point. Generally, money is taxed when it is transacted between entities: When someone pays a business (income), when you buy something (sales tax), when an employee is paid (personal income), etc. It's not taxed when it sits still. Money is double-, triple-, and in fact infinitely taxed, using the same definition, as it moves around different entities in the economy. The idea that the transaction between a corporation and its owners should be treated differently is very convenient to a select group of people.
> the decrease in food waste

Can we tell how much food waste Blue Apron is saving? I remember reading that they're extremely picky about what they're willing to ship out and end up wasting quite a bit to send out "perfect" ingredients.
I haven't used Blue Apron, but they do all the prep, which is often the biggest time suck in cooking something complex. Anyhow, if you find that part relaxing, I think that just means you're not Blue Apron's target customer. That's fine, but insufficient for making claims about whether or not Blue Apron is a good solution in general.
Introducing the next generation of Jump
Inside a BART car, a crowd can't scatter, so you favor the other side of the fight or flight reflex.
> Is it not extreme to claim that all software developers are racist and sexist, and are all "white straight male"?

I never saw that claim in the article. She did claim that white, straight men dominate fields of technology and robots, but that doesn't seem controversial to me (though I would happy to see evidence against it).

I'm not sure that either of your points diminish the argument of the article. I didn't get the impression that the author thought that developers are purposefully creating racist robots. To me, she was saying that those who suffer bigotry the least will also be the least likely to account for it in the systems they design because they see the world as less bigoted than it is and has been. Sure, in hindsight, the two examples you mentioned can be explained as poor sources of information. But if we're going to avoid bigoted tech & robots, we'll need to catch those issues beforehand, and I think her point is that more diversity would lead to better foresight on such things.
Some very popular phones have a barometer[1]. If you are getting data from a bunch of phones, and most of them are legit, then you'll have a good idea of where the air pressure 'should' be, and if you get a barometer reading that is outside that data set by a standard deviation you can probably 'guess' that it is not coming from a phone at the same lat/lon as the other ones.

[1] https://www.phonegg.com/list/303-Cell-Phones-with-Barometer
Spoken from a German POV, it's quite simple: racism. When you're an immigrant and no one wants to hire you because you have a non-German family name (illegal in theory, hard to enforce in practice!), you have four options: be stuck in low-level menial work for the rest of your life, rely on food stamps/government assistance ("Hartz IV" in Germany), turn into crime life or start a small company (costs ~ 50€ or such for a fully-liable company, and for a sorta-limited company "UG" a bit more).

Also, immigrants usually do not carry cultural dead weight - once again I refer to Germany. Starting a company is not really popular here, as you will be socially shunned if you fail (even if you not end up bankrupt in the process, but that's another can of worms). Germans are risk-averse to the extreme, immigrants usually not.
Here is Carrots. https://vimeo.com/214030931
Can you ask them?

Make the user take a pic of the store, then check the EXIF for the timestamp. The pic should be very easy to shape-compare with other submissions of the same store (hardware doesn't move much, as opposed to faces), and the pic should never be exactly the same (refuse submitting twice the same pic).

Other solutions require the participation of the store: Dynamic QR codes, microphone authorization, or a website on the store's Wifi internal network.
For those outside ATL, ATV = Atlanta tech village [1]

1: http://atlantatechvillage.com
Is it time for a developer's guild?

Like if most iOS developers were part of the guild, and if Apple made too drastic a cut like this, the guild would disable all of the apps in the store for some number of days until a compromise could be reached between Apple and the guild. Not to single Apple out - we seem to be seeing a lot of these unilateral decisions in tech lately.
this person doesn't think they work for the constituents

https://theintellectualist.co/fcc-chairman-looking-to-gut-ne...
Blue Apron is a piece of junk, environmental issues aside. The whole concept of not telling someone they can only make a certain subset of meal combinations and not any 3 meals, only after they've taken your credit card is such a dark pattern. I refuse to give them business after that. I filed a complaint about this and they ignored it.
IIRC credit card companies do a similar thing to reduce fraud
Pretty crazy that the header UI still breaks on desktop Chrome for me when I try to scroll up with a video playing, and when my window gets too wide, the banner image stops expanding and just attaches to one side. These are core components of their most important product surfaces. I'm actually completely baffled as to how they have stayed like this for so long.
Why is that unreasonable? If I write a complex piece of software, and something goes wrong, the blame is on me. As you say, there's no way to claim that it is without bugs.

Why, when I use someone else's software without so much as telling them, let alone signing a support contract with them, does the blame shift to them? My responsibility is to deliver a service, not to write software. If writing software is the easiest way to do it, great. If using someone else's software is the easiest way to do it, great. But I'm the one running the service, either way.
Looks like they are getting a bunch of free press.
You might like the EEVblog teardown videos. There is indeed something strangely compelling about a knowledgeable person providing an unbiased running commentary on somebody else's work.
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You misunderstood me: I'm not saying the states shouldn't be competing for business.

I'm saying states shouldn't be allowed to give tax breaks to individual companies and not to others. That's effectively having different tax codes for different companies.

It's is analogous to having different laws for different people (which, I assume would not be constitutional).

The point is to create good economic environments without allowing corporations to play states against each other.
This is somewhat orthogonal to your point, but my cats are also perfectly capable of eating through a plastic bag enclosing dry foodstuffs (left a sealed bag of cat treats on the counter one day, found it chewed through and empty the next).

It does seem likely to me, however, that the number of insect species capable of eating through plastics and also breaking the plastic molecules down must surely number greater than one.
There is no better case study for this than Pokemon Go, where the interest in spoofing location reached unheard of levels (outside of state actors). This is a good writeup:

http://engineering.shapesecurity.com/2016/08/pokemon-go-api....

Basically sign your API requests with the most obscure function of phone context variables imaginable, and recognize that if you get so popular that it's cracked, you can just hire a machine learning team anyways. And pin your certs!
> it is very apparent that the current tax rate is determining their behavior

That isn't necessarily true. It could be due to other laws, such as the one that allows them to stash money overseas tax-free. Perhaps that's the law that should change.
Whenever I make a recipe I end up guiltily throwing away a ton of food two weeks later. Is that better or worse than throwing away lots of packaging?

What am I supposed to do with 90% of the smallest bunch of scallions the supermarket will sell me after I use the 10% the recipe calls for? I know, I know, I'm supposed to have 5 other recipes that I either know or can invent at the drop of a hat that just happen to use all the same ingredients. But how realistic is that for those of us that aren't amateur chefs and don't really want to become one?
> I don't get the outrage though.

I'm. It sure it's outrage (for most) so much as a massive internet-wide SMH after Bloomberg reported that the $700 machine (now dropped in price) does nothing your bare hands can't do: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-04-19/silicon-v...
What about them? They are just as prone to the same problems
I'm not aware of any previous model, although I've only been paying attention to Social Security for a couple years.
Although food waste in a landfill is probably better than non-decomposable waste (all of Blue Aprons individual packaging) in a landfill.
Offtopic but I just want to say that I'm really happy to see that YC is becoming more gender-balanced. I've been following the videos on startup school and in the last office hour session, there was at least one female cofounder per team.
"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations"

--Orson Welles
Chinese (especially Mandarin) already has a number of ways to write phonetically: with homophones and systems like Bopomofo and Pinyin. There's no lack of options and no need to introduce yet another one.

It reminds me of some of the past movements to reform English spelling rules. Taking things a step further, why not just replace every extant writing system with IPA? Sounds like fun. Surely nothing could go wrong.
A new tutorial on analyzing runtime performance in Chrome DevTools
Not at all, I was genuinely curious. Thanks for the detailed response, I understand what you were getting at.
I really disagree. I've used the app maybe 2-3 years ago and looking at their website, it doesn't seem like the main UI or features have changed much. If I didn't know what the app was, going on their website I would think it's a Buzzfeed clone given all their listicles and clickbaity headlines.
Realistically, it's probably reclaimed byproducts from fruit/vegetable processing, e.g. carrot shavings from making baby carrots out of whole carrots and so forth
I had a quick look at the examples and while they are written in python, they are not pythonic at all. `list_flatten` should use list a comprehension and probably use `collections.abc` [1] for the isinstance test. The `reverse_bits` function only works for 32 bit systems and should use `sys.intmax` [2] to find out how many bits to actually reverse. And `bit.subsets` will mutate the argument you gave to it to calculate the result (which is probably not intended). That's all the examples I looked at so far.

I know that the title says "minimal examples" and the goal is not make it "production ready", but as a learning resource you should always make sure to provide good examples, because that's what the students will use and write later on.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.abc.html#colle...

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/a/24944155/1191373
Yeah, I agree there is a lot less time saved in this case, both in a relative (percent time saved vs doing by hand) and absolute (actual time saved) sense. I also feel though that the Juicero is squarely aimed at a market of people who think they have no time at all for anything.
Aside from the fact that I didn't claim it was a universal rule, are we drawing big conclusions from sample size n=1? How about looking at the amount of money developers made from app store vs google play by year?

http://bgr.com/2016/07/20/ios-vs-android-developers-profits-...
this is just ridiculous
> The same thing applies to Juicero: If I really want to start making fruit juice, I'll buy myself a decent juicer and get fresh, local fruit because it will always be cheaper than whatever they're sending out in their little pouches.

It's different because making fresh juice is more time and labor intensive than "just buying a juicer" (try it... I did). Want bananas in your orange juice like Dole sells? Now you need to combine that juicer with a blender, etc. Peeling a bunch of oranges by hand takes time. Making fresh juice by hand is completely not worth it.
It might, but they've only shipped about 1M Switch units, which is a rounding error compared to the ~2B smartphones in use. If Nintendo really doesn't want to port/emulate because they want to prop up their hardware sales (or because they dislike touchscreen-only controls), they're acting very much against their best interests.
If you're in a situation when the personal safety of you or someone else you're with is directly being compromised with physical assault, you'd better be fighting back with everything you've got, including your bare fists.
I don't know about google cloud endpoints, but AWS gateway is an absolute nightmare. Configuration is awful and communicating errors from backend to client is a travesty. The lowest of the low hanging fruit to compete with AWS on. If GEP is remotely coherent it will be a clear win.
Reasons why CEO's make millions and I don't:

- Business Network: If I had a billion dollars, I would never have been able to acquire Instagram. I wouldn't even be able to get a seat at the table. Zuckerberg closed it in record time while talking to a company that wanted to be on it's own

- Market Knowledge: I thought the iPad was the stupidest device ever, Steve Jobs didn't. I now have 4 at my house along with two of those stupid iWatches (actually they're pretty nice)

- Portfolio: Marissa Mayer wasn't paid what she was paid because the board expected her to perform well, she was paid her salary (and golden parachute) because the company was dying and they had no idea what to do. Mayer had an idea of something that might work, but why on earth would she risk her awesome résumé with taking on the risk of a company on it's last leg?

- Access: If my daughter has a birthday, I can schedule an early day to be home and celebrate with the family. When Steve Jobs came down with cancer, he was required to disclose his medical details publicly because of the fiscal impact it could have on the public stock

- Job Market: I'm a programmer. There are jobs everywhere for me. If the CEO of Uber loses his job (fingers crossed), it might be a looong time before he finds a new one and even then it's not likely to be remotely similar to what he does now. I mean shoot everyone loves Gabe Newell, but if he lost his job, what are his options? Not as many as me.

Look, I'm not saying that some CEO's pay isn't exaggerated. I'm just saying that I'm not worth nearly as much as a talented CEO. If the company your 401k/pension was invested in hired me as CEO, you better believe you'd grab your pitchfork.
Tip Sheet: The ins and outs of commuting by bicycle
> you're the target for the 375GB+ datacenter version

Keeping in mind that that version costs $4/GB, which is about half the price of adding more RAM. Which means that while it can be good storage for ZFS or a database, it's still not a particularly effective cache in such a machine.
> That's not globbing but using the regex matcher.

Indeed. I'm just using the regex behavior to show that perl's regex matcher uses a general optimization to defeat patterns like the ones Russ is discussing using a strategy orthogonal to handling backtracking.

But Russ doesn't talk about using this strategy to optimize glob(), so it's worth pointing out that it could just as well be used in a glob() implementation.

I.e. just try to find a fixed part later in the pattern, and if it can't be found fail the entire match.

> I'm curious why the graph displays [perl]
> as exponential on linux, where it should be linear.

The glob() routine in perl uses a fork of a BSD glob which ships with perl: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/blob/blead/ext/File-Glob/bsd_g...

> pcre2 performs much better than perl btw: it
> errors with match limit exceeded (-47)

The pcre2 library will still perform better if you adjust the match limit so that the pattern actually matches, e.g. with --match-limit=1000000000 to pcre2grep. That finishes in around 1s with PCRE, 10s with Perl.

But in general a regex library can't be said to perform better just because it errors out with a match limit error sooner. That just means it's compiled with different defaults.
Incredible. Does this make Juicero the first mass-market example of chindōgu?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chindōgu
Even Apple products might only have one or two custom-machine parts, and they're usually the enclosure, which the customer can see and maybe makes the prettiness matter to make the thing seem luxury. They don't have tons of internal separately machined components (it's all injection-molded, I think), and I'm sure they look for cost-cutting opportunities in internal components too (Tim Cook's background is in logistics, after all).
I mean, ants have passed the mirror test.
I doubt any classed manufactured drugs would become legal in US unless major (1st tier) drug companies figured out a way to actually make money with them, no matter their potential benefits to consumers. Profit potential has by far the most influence on what flies politically.
Be Me for a month. My metabolism is so lazy, i can gain weight, even eating less than 2000 cals per day. I can gain weight just looking at food, consuming less than 2000 cals per day, with moderate exercise.
Listicles are not how it's mainly used. It's basically a chat app. Most of the activity on the main feed is people looking to chat. And there are very active groups.
Would've been interesting if China adopted or developed an alphabet system to make it better suited for movable type printing earlier on.
Subsidies to corn farmers don't go to bioplastic producers. Corn husks aren't exactly a scarce resource and would otherwise be left rotting in the field.
They could have (and seems should have) created an elegant manual press, maybe with a crank mechanism of some kind. Would have arguably taken about the same amount of counter space and I still think that something beautiful yet manual would have played with the demo. Think pour over coffee crowd... a bit of easy manual work makes you feel like an artisan. Still would have packet subscription, still would have app potential for expiry notices and subscription management.
> "You don't have to think or plan anything."

Yeah, and you lose a lot of what makes cooking cooking.

You put effort into something, your satisfaction goes up. Extend this to how you live your life, and learn the secrets of being happy.
As someone who's worked with faxed API docs before, that's usually just the tip of the iceberg of despair. Never again.
Apple, Google, and Valve are creators, and they're also providing the service of being middlemen for you. They deal with hosting, serving, taking payments, so on and so forth. There are AAA companies that have found Steam so much better for distribution that they no longer sell any other way (look at Paradox Studios, for example).

And while you're locked into Apple (not that anyone is forcing you - and Apple basically created that whole industry), with Google and Valve, you're free to run your own setup and deal with all the middleman stuff yourself. 30% to hop onto their infrastructure and let them deal with bad payments is a pretty good deal.

In short, you can always tell the people inexperienced in business in these conversations, because they think that 30% is a crushing 'take'. 30% is actually pretty damn good - normally in retail it's what you'd get, rather than what they'd take.
That's a cute piece of mechanism. I can see how they got into that overdesign. There must have been insistence that the pack must be crushed between two flat plates. Once you insist on that, it gets complicated.

I once got a chance to look closely at the mechanism of SF's JCDecaux overpriced automatic street toilets in SF. Those cost about $150K each. The mechanism is all Telemecanique industrial control components. If you built a washing machine that way, which you could, it would cost $5000-$10000.

Compare the Portland Loo.[1]

[1] http://theloo.biz/
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