skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife has a store on etsy selling handbags, and frankly, the traffic has gone done over the past year. She has a great reputation, and she still makes sales, but not because of Etsy. It's simply a store front for her where she can direct people that she finds via other avenues, such as Facebook and referrals. I imagine part of the reason of the decline is the fact that she focuses on higher end handbags, and doesn't try to compete on price. I've told her that she's isn't going to compete with Asia on price, so focus on quality and custom work.

Not to mention the fact that Etsy has done nothing to improve the sellers experience in years. Sure, they put out some new way to design your store front with something more custom, but practically speaking, it lacks critical features. She literally sent a customer to the store to pay for the bag via Etsy, and the customer couldn't find the PayPal button to pay because they didn't offer PayPal through the custom storefront.

It's really bad when your store prevents a legitimate customer from making a purchase, and that's literally what you are selling. Seriously.
If I wanted to search a discussion thread I'd rather use a search function.
I seem to have missed it in the article and from reading the comments here, but what exactly is Uber's reason for moving away from Twilio? Are they building their own comms & SMS infrastructure in house? Are they big enough now to work out bulk deals with Telcos in each country? Are they spreading their load across multiple comms providers?

In any case, I would have thought the move would have been planned well ahead, giving Twilio time and notice to try and entice other huge customers, possibly even Uber's rivals to step in and take up the capacity?
I don't really get it either. I actually like smartwatches, but I own a Pebble Time Steel (recently bought, post-bankruptcy) because it is still the best smartwatch for me. The screen is always on, it does notifications well, fitness tracking is decent, and the battery lasts 7+ days.

But it seems like a lot of people really want the bright colorful screen, even if it makes the device less effective as a watch.
BNP Paribas signs global Snapchat deal hunting for millennials
Ah, 16MB 30-pin SIMMs. One of the reasons they were not popular was that the first 16Mbit chips was 400 mil, making them pretty tall
> ISP's in other countries, even ones of similar scale to the US

Which are those countries ? India, China?
> buyers also need some sort of discovery platform

These platforms exist in all sorts of places outside of marketplaces. Pinterest is essentially bookmarks for shopping. Ditto Wanelo (and other similar sites for different demographics/verticals). Certain Instagram networks are all about products. Babylist is to baby showers what The Knot is to bridal showers. And these are just what I can think of off the top of my head.

Greenhorn merchants love marketplaces b/c they want to market themselves at any cost. But I'm close with several former Etsy sellers who, once they achieved traction with their products, decided to build their brands on their own and not compete toe-to-toe with copycat sellers (which drove them bezerk, btw). Shopify + Facebook ads + Instagram can go a very long way.
Part of the problem is that due to differing radios, antennas, etc your phone can still "hear" the WiFi AP, but the WiFi AP can't "hear" your phone.
> It would be nice to have a shred of evidence for claims like this. "Constantly exhorted ... that they were superior to all other Asians" is almost certainly pure fiction.

I'm not an expert, but it is consistent with cultural and historical details I've heard.

It's ironic that you say "It would be nice to have a shred of evidence for claims like this" yet don't attempt to provide any evidence for your claim that it "is almost certainly pure fiction".
Wow. Let the maintenance begin.
Is there a deficiency in some cultures (Chinese, also maybe Jewish) that lends itself to profit above quality?
That's a real shame. My wife has a store on Etsy and is downstairs right now sewing up another handbag. So it's kinda tough to hear that the reputation she's worked hard for on Etsy with the solid ratings, and with the hard work she's put in, the Etsy brand itself is turning people away. Etsy provides just enough to make it easy and worthwhile to use the system, but I wonder if she's legitimately losing sales this way.
Sorry, I just don't buy it. I spent a year in Japan and they had lots of great foods that I have only found pale imitations of elsewhere. But they also lacked foods that I love and can find in the allegedly culinarily impoverished United States. And I can say similar things about other places I have traveled (including Puerto Rico), although without the same sort of supreme confidence.
Given the choice people prefer not to cram into crowded cities. Cars bring flexibility and freedom.

The current trend is to go more urban/inner suburban. That more due to the cycle of aging property and best value than anything else.
As far as I know Uber goal is to replace all of the 3rd parties APIs/products they're using with built in-house. So I guess any company having Uber as a major customer should be concerned.
Girls Who Code Founder to Ivanka Trump: Don't Use My Story
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereum/#markets
You need to visit more of the US than just the Bay Area, CA. Bay Area seafood is pretty weak overall as there's not that much left locally. It's mostly imported. In fact, most of the stuff in CA isn't that great; you need to go up to Oregon and Washington to get really good seafood at regular, non-exorbitant pricing.

If you go to the East Coast or Gulf Coast (especially), you'll find a very different seafood culture. It's cheap, plentiful, varied, and part of the local food culture.
> "Constantly exhorted ... that they were superior to all other Asians" is almost certainly pure fiction.

It's not.

The Japanese race is a unique isolate, having no known affinities with any
other race. In some extreme versions, the race is claimed to be directly
descended from a distinct branch of primates.

"First, they implicitly assume that the Japanese constitute a culturally and
socially homogeneous racial entity, whose essence is virtually unchanged from
prehistoric times down to the present day. Secondly, they presuppose that the
Japanese differ radically from all other known peoples. Thirdly, they are
conspicuously nationalistic, displaying a conceptual and procedural hostility
to any mode of analysis which might be seen to derive from external,
non-Japanese sources."[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihonjinron
As noted by the article, the largest segment of Apples revenue comes from services, and that segment is going to decrease within the next few years. The "Apple Tax" will be the downfall of Apple (and the "Google Tax" of Android). Apple is sacrificing long-term profit for short-term. It seems that it is rather hard to make a good amount of money at the moment when your customers sign up through the App Store.

Apple Developer Program = $99 annually
(or Developer Enterprise Program = 299 annually)

30% cut of one-time, in-app purchases for content and digital goods.

30% first-year and 15% second-year cut of in-app subscription purchases.

Add in the cost of development, overhead, taxes and anything else and it is really hard to make money selling at the pricing rate that the majority of people are willing to pay for an app.

This would explain why many companies are shifting to creating apps where someone has to already be a member to use it. I'm just waiting for Apple to decide to change the terms to include physical product sales. That's when the ish is really going to hit the fan.
I get that this exists, but it literally never seems to trigger for me. The situation GP brings up happens constantly despite this feature being enabled.
Source paper is here:

http://theorangeduck.com/media/uploads/other_stuff/phasefunc...
Yes, point well made. This is how taxes work. In this case I was highlighting that the company itself does not have to cover the majority.
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Gotta love their company culture video https://youtu.be/ZSYJhfD3BWk
What 20 lines of code, and what has the amount to do with whether the criticism is constructive or not, and valid or invalid?

"Doing things this other way would serve us better, for this reason" is constructive criticism by definition. Non-constructive would be "doing things the way you do them is stupid".

Responding with ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, with "don't write any bugs lol", or with "just do extra work" is ignoring feedback.
Split them up to Apple Macintosh and Apple Mobile, open source iOS and MacOS so other companies can use them.

The Baby Jobs.
> However, I'm also not convinced that comcast's prices aren't as high as they are

The math is for you to see.

> It's also because they are really bad at providing it.

And how many ISP companies do you have experience running ?

> My point is that Comcast is more interested in providing a return to their shareholders than they in providing effective and satisfying customer service.

What is wrong with it ? Has worked well for Google.
Your mileage may vary, but my NYC grocery routine involves a nearby no-frills supermarket (Key Foods) and a trip to a local Asian Grocer. There is usually a 40-60% discount in price at the Asian Grocer. Red Peppers costing $1/lb at the grocer; spinach is $2 for a much more generous bushel compared to the supermarket's offering; seasonal berries and other fruit tend to be unpredictable, but I have seen blackberries and raspberries at $1.50 for a container that would cost +$3.00 in the store.

Obviously, NYC has a major markup on produce, but the cheap prices at Asian Grocers are not a regional thing. Growing up in the suburbs, my family always opted for the Asian-owned grocery store over A&P or other supermarkets. I think Aldi's may have a similar agreement with distributors.
Talk – Mozilla's answer to the online comment problem
You mean like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler%E2%80%93Feynman_absorb...
I was surprised to see that it's written in Python... I was expecting something lower-level for this type of application.

The other thing worthy of note is that it appears every single packet will need to be processed through this application; necessary for it to do its job, but will likely have a significant effect on performance.
> The private key is stored on your phone

i'm reminded of theo deraadt's answer to a slashdot question back in the say about making a bootable openbsd firewall on a floppy. his response was along the lines of, "firewalls are supposed to be among the most reliable things. floppy drives are among the least reliable things."
I don't disagree you will see orders of magnitude differences between people by some measurement.

The problem is that nobody defending it is specifying what measurement will yeld those orders of magnitude difference, and what is its relevance. Claiming a difference without telling in what dimension is an empty claim, and that is exactly the problem with the 10x developer idea.

(By the way, yes, there are plenty of problems nobody on Earth could ever solve. That doesn't follow from the fact that easier projects fail, but it's not false either.)
It's not just Americans. The dream of having a place in the country that is your own personal property is about as close to a cross-cultural norm as you can find. English country houses, Roman villas, French royal hunting lodges... even the nomenklatura in the Soviet Union had their dachas.

Americans were just the first culture to make it practical for large numbers of people to actually do it.
There are only three world class cities in America.
Media are based in the city, their reporters (and their friends) live in the city and in their worldview, everyone lives in the city?
Thank you so much for your timely reply! Re-applied, but I haven't received any conformation message from boards.greenhouse.io, please let me know if I succeeded this time.
That's the business model of Zara, and there's nothing wrong with it. You can't "steal" something if it's public domain.

If you die off because some Chinese seller "stole" your idea which by the way you came up with first, then you deserve it because it means you didn't execute well enough.

I think this kickstarter culture has done more harm than good for makers because it made them chase instant gratification instead of substance. If you look at what happened to all the ambitious Kickstarter hardware companies, there is not a single one I'm aware of that's on their track to wild success.

People used to actually pour in their time and money (not just a slick youtube video) and risk all their reputation to build something that matters to them. I think at some point people decided to believe that you can take the shortcut via Kickstarter, but it's increasingly becoming clear that there is no such thing as shortcut.

It still sucks for them that these inventors are not rewarded for their brilliant ideas, but then again, I think if you are really serious about your product, you should invest more into it and make sure things like this don't happen.
imo a pretty poor way to protest the administration.
For those that don't click through, the only exception is tuna. It lives deep enough in the ocean and is clean enough to get around the "must be frozen" rule.
Where will they get traffic? That's a fundamental reason people choose marketplaces like etsy in the first place and it's not easy to replicate without a lot of experience or luck.
You can, but if you have significant volume or a diverse customer base, it can be a huge pain in the butt. Sort of like running your own mail server in some ways.

They take care of all of that. That's worth something.
Shortcomings should be addressed by forking bitcoin into yet another altcoin and demonstrate the proposed improvement over there. We now have 700+ alternative "altcoins" in circulation, most of them demonstrating pretty much nothing at all. Real breakthroughs are once in a blue moon, while all kinds of useless criticisms are plentiful. In that sense, we do not want to have a "legitimate discussion" but to observe legitimate altcoins embodying improvements, while they are performing in the real world.
America has lots of rad cities with strong economic opportunities: NYC, Boston, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, LA, Austin, Denver, ...
I've used this for almost a year to power my firm's website design.

HIGHLY recommended!
Same. Also, real soda is poison.
Didn't they already cure it? Magic Johnson had it, but now he doesn't. Or do you mean "cure it for non-basketball-millionaires"?
I've heard too many horror stories of people blowing through their data caps because Wifi Assist was too aggressive.
Nice, but nearly everything on their online store appears to be "Sold Out"?!?
Time-division multiplexing. The router has to wait for everyone else to stop using the band—and then take that opportunity to tell them to all shut up for a moment—before it can say anything. And it has to finish what it was saying before it does even this, because it has guaranteed its clients it would send packets of certain lengths by certain deadlines. (Plus QOSing: as the person owning a router, you almost always want your established wi-fi connections to take service priority, so that your phone coming gradually into range as you get home doesn't kill your family's downloads.)

Add more antennas, and you can say more things on more channels at once. "Enterprise-grade" multi-antenna routers (e.g. routers in conference halls) negotiate new connections much more quickly.

Cell towers are essentially a whole bunch of antennas (or a few antennae in highly-MIMO setups, so effectively the same thing) so there's comparatively next to no latency for sending "unexpected" packets to the tower.

(Establishing connectivity with a new cell is still hard, though, since it takes a moment for a handset to get the tower's attention when the handset doesn't yet know where precisely the tower is for MIMO-beamforming to kick in. This is ameliorated by many cellular ISPs mirroring connection state between neighbouring cells, so that when you move from one cell to another, the new tower is already "expecting" you.)
Nihonjinron
Efficiency is not the goal of human life. Why not put everybody in a dormitory and feed them gruel? You could even run the bunks on three shifts. That would be efficient, right?
If you believe this, you should be happy to put your money where your mouth is.
You could program press and hold of any key to do whatever you like. Or you could use the copy paste buttons on a contour roller mouse. With autohotkey, you can make any key, do anything. The sky is the limit. You could make press and hold c equal copy.
Java Clean Code – Line Spacing
Super congratulations for successfully reading the "messaging" tea leaves and capitalizing on the trend. I admire the vision. I would have never in my wildest imagination predicted the extent to which text messaging became a killer app on mobile--to the point where we have dozens (hundreds?) of different apps to choose from. I still don't see the appeal of messaging apps, but their popularity is undeniable. People don't even seem to mind the fact that all of these apps do fundamentally the same thing yet are largely incompatible with each other.
Will it run Linux?
no way, this is not only technically better the music succeeds artistically as does the creativity of the video simultaneously.

it's a very nice work.
Some pictures to put it in perspective: [0]

That country's recovery from being the only nation ever to be nuclear-bombed, to becoming the world's second best economy, while peacefully maintaining some of the world's safest, cleanest and most orderly cities, is one of mankind's most admirable success stories.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/japanpics/comments/59l1am/historica...
"didn't mention coal in your original statement."

Correct. You brought it up along with the presumption that I'm in favor of it.

>You are somewhat misrepresenting the energy situation in Germany.

Actually I think you are:

"The coal plants currently under construction include: Mannheim, Hamm D, Datteln, and Willhelmshaven. Between 2012 and 2015, six new plants went online."

Plants take a long while to go from planning to complete. These plants were ALL planned and approved before Merkel made her decision. No new coal plant has received a permit since 2009, 2 years prior to Fukushima, meanwhile many others are slated for early closure.

Coal is most assuredly on the way out in Germany, NOT, as you seem to presume, making up for all of the lost nuclear power.

>Fukishima was a major accident and resulted in zero deaths to the public. You wrote: "I don't see the problem being that nuclear can't be made safe." and also seemed to approve of an entire county abandoning nuclear power when they are using power sources orders of magnitude more dangerous.

I approve of them abandoning both, which they are doing. It wasn't ever going to happen overnight and it is ridiculously unrealistic for you to expect that it will.

>You now say that you meant "acceptable risk" - unfortunately that is a somewhat meaningless subjective term. You can only compare a choice against its alternatives and since we know we need to generate terawatts of power for our civilization to function, the real question is what is the relative risk from generating power from different sources.

Do you have a problem with the risks presented by wind and solar which are both replacing the power from the nuclear and coal plants which are slowly going offline in Germany?

Do you have a problem with this trend continuing? I don't.

>Fukishima was a major accident and resulted in zero deaths to the public.

573 deaths are attributed to it, and it's projected that between 130 and 1100 deaths from cancer will be attributable to it.

>If you demand zero risk when producing terrawatts of power, you aren't going to find it.

I'm okay with the risks presented by the solar and wind. Most importantly there are no large scale tail risks for solar and wind, unlike nuclear. Falling off a roof is typically easier to mitigate than cancers following nuclear disasters, too.
BBM blew it though. They had huge traction in 2009 and wouldn't let other platforms access it because they were selling a lot of phones and BBM was one way of keeping users tied to their platform.

That's why in 2013, BBM was released on ios and later android. but by then it was too late, they were losing a lot of marketshare.
> Other colleagues maintain that we should be able to
construct large, uniform neural networks that can learn to do all that minds might
need. I do not see much hope of this, because of fear that any very large such
network would be prone to accumulate too many interconnections and become
paralyzed by oscillations or instabilities. How could we stabilize such systems ?
My answer is that one might have to provide a variety of alternative sub-systems,
decoupled enough that if each part should fail from time to time, the rest could
continue to function so that not all the system will all fail at once. This means that
those parts must be suitably insulated from one another.

Looks like Generative Adversorial Networks ?
If… Big words for a machine no one has used yet. I look forward to the reviews but it doesn't look like a MacBook killer to me. Maybe it competes with the base level MacBook. But it clearly doesn't touch the MacBook Pro.
Now that I've read the abstract, it looks like that's exactly what they're doing. They tried both dual targets and quad targets.
What is your favourite Raspberry Pi Project? Have you monetized any?
Curious to know what are the raspberry pi projects hn readers are working on. Also has anyone managed to monetize any such projects to a profitable side business?
You don't like languages that the average human being can make sense out of but you do like Clojure? Did I read that right?

You read that almost right. See, I don't think the average human who's fluent in English but not SQL will be able to properly understand anything but the most basic queries. Sure,

SELECT * from users where username = 'remotehack';

is going to mostly make sense to the average person (but what's the * and ; for?), but then so will

(select users (where {:username "remotehack"}))

The brackets won't make sense, of course, but we're talking about reading it, not writing, and they're not terribly important to that.

Now, give that same average person

Select Distinct On (u.username, u.email)
u.username
,u.email
,l.browser
,l.login_time
From users u
Join logins l On l.username = u.username
Order By u.username, login_time Desc

and do you really think they'll have any idea what to expect that to return? This no longer reads like English.

And no, when I ask for declarative schemas, I'm not asking for ORM. I'm asking for a system where I say what the schema is instead of saying how to create it, just as I say what data I want rather than how to retrieve it. This is not incompatible with any of the fundamental concepts of relational databases.
We'll see what it opens at :)

For the record, right now Google shows TWLO at $23.65 after hours from an end of day close at $33.94.
Can we really stop China and Japan from hoovering up fish and whales? Historically we have not had much success.

Also why should America have to be the fish police, on top of all the other polices we are. What if I would rather spend the fish police money on universal healthcare and free college tuition for fellow Americans?
You have added to the list of differences between wifi and other standards, but you have not actually shown where the timescale comes from starting from first principles. Why 10s to connect? Why not 10 ms or 10 minutes?