skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. They are not making paper out of stone, they are mixing limestone in plastic. No doubt there are some benefits to it (less plastic is used - though not 80% less because limestone has higher density), but marketing this as "paper" is highly misleading.
Amazon acquires Whole Foods
>I totally agree that stratification at age 10 is pretty terrible, but stratification in universities seems like a very different story.

What would it add that the choice of university and major doesn't? The math kids at MIT aren't so different from each other.
front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14568468
In my experience as someone who has been in-house counsel and now outside counsel for a variety of tech startups and software development shops, and has watched this happen in the careers of a lot of people around me (usually while being the sole 'suit' in the room), the transition you are describing usually happens in the late twenties or early thirties.

It is basically the transition away from the last vestiges of a "school-like" mindset to a "career" mindset.

In the "school" mindset, your primary form of social rewards are from the people you spend your day with - when you are a kid, your friends are all at school, and even though you go to school to do schoolwork, it is still where you see your friends. In the "career" mindset, your primary social rewards are the people you spend your nights with - which are friends who you do not work with, and, importantly, your family.

In other words, as a young 20something, it is easy to still be in the mindset that the 'fun' time is when you go to the place you spend all day at and do so with a bunch of cool people. A lot of jobs, as a result, try to recreate that 'school' experience with a gym, scheduled fun activities, playtime, etc. Howev er, when you are in your late 20s, even if you don't necessarily have a family or are an introvert, the appeal of this lessens dramatically, as you naturally spend more effort trying to carve out time for your own interests - whether they be your family, your hobbies, or even just solitude and meditative peace. Accordingly, it is really just far less important that work have a bunch of perks that require that you actually be there, than for work be a professional environment that respects your time and is financially and intellectually rewarding enough to be "worth it."
KFX just started rolling out in recent months.

As the parent post said, the only way right now to "crack" is to dodge it. To have Amazon send you a copy of your book for a older device or older version of the PC software that doesn't support KFX, so they have to send you a crackable format instead.

I haven't done anything with Barnes & Noble in quite some time, but I've been curious to try a eBook purchase from there to see if their current DRM is any more friendly.
Great comment - I think a lot of people go to universities expecting vocational training and are deeply disappointed by all the "useless" stuff that is actually completely irrelevant for a lot of jobs.

Edit: I'm from the UK which is probably closer to the US system than the German one.
Oftentimes it's a funding issue, but not always. Even in large metropolitan cities where each student pretty much receives the same amount of funding, there are still massive differences in the quality of education. Unfortunately the issue goes much deeper than funding and involves issues like the wealth of the surrounding neighborhood, the culture of the students and their parents in that neighborhood, etc. Even if two schools in the same city get about $10k/year for each student, if one school has a median family income of $100k and the other a median family income of $15k, there is going to be an absolutely massive difference in educational outcomes.
My extended family has a similar spread of opinion, and I'm glad we can discuss and accept the differences. I think it's important to identify and interact with people you respect who have opposing views.

If you can simply dismiss differences in opinion as based on ignorance, lack of insight, prejudice, echo chamber effects, etc., you don't have to evaluate your own opinions as much.

And repeated exposure to weak opposition to your opinion also serves to strengthen them, with a kind of meme-inoculation effect.
I wonder if they will keep the brand or change it to Amazon.
> Imagine a textbook where all the diagrams were at the end of the chapter and you had to keep flicking between pages to refer to them. You have to imagine that as it doesn't exist, for some reason.

I don't know if you are joking, but this was not uncommon for quite some time. It used to be that color printing was much more expensive than black and white. Text books often only had a few pages with illustrations and images in color. The color printed sheets were added last so they ended up exactly in the middle of the book.
At work, we've been using Elixir. Because of the Erlang interop, I find myself looking at a lot of Erlang code that hasn't really had any reason to be touched in years. It's really bizarre seeing a project with no commits in the last few years and having to decide if it's abandoned or feature complete.
Yup, that's exactly what I do. I sync over the database and library over to Nextcloud to have it available on both of the operating systems I'm using.

It's also synced automatically to an external hard drive connected to the Raspberry Pi, so I have two backups (one online, one offline) in case something goes wrong.
I started out with Atom even though it was slower than VSCode because of its richer plugin ecosystem, but these days VSCode has all the plugins I need so I've switched to it full time and haven't looked back and it's even mostly replaced local vim for me, which Atom never did because it was so slow.
Said it will operate as a standalone business for now.
Which means the CIA leaked it to the bad guys years ago. Everyone already knew the CIA and law enforcement were hacking wifi routers and blaming it on the Russians and Chinese.
Report: Amazon is gobbling Whole Foods for a reported $13.7B
> electronics book that I could read to further improve my electrical engineering skills

I think you might need a different book. Electrical and electronic engineering are rather different fields.
FreeCAD in space
I wonder if they'll roll out the tech they showed a few months ago for the store in Seattle where you didn't have to check out.
It's not just you http://YouTube.com looks down from here
Indeed. Awesome news...
Better buy than Slack for $9B.
"Da $#&@?!"

Sometimes I forget just how big Amazon is.

... But it's nice to know I can get my artisanal, single-source, Fair Trade, organic, small-farm, no-GMO cucumber water with one day shipping now.
I feel a personal attachment to this question because I could have written it two years ago down to how much money we raised and how successful we were at the time. I see the right advice in this thread but I want to highlight from my own experience.

* Reach out honestly to family, friends, and coworkers, today. If there is some idea of pride or ego holding you back and influencing you to keep it to yourself and deal with it "like a man" kick that shit to the curb now. What you are trying to accomplish on a personal level for yourself, your family, or your team, is much more important then that.

* Personal resources like happiness, hope, drive, passion, etc, are finite but they have much deeper reserves then we could ever imagine. If like me you frequently feel like you've "lost" any of the above, know that you do in fact have much more, and, like mentioned above, you can find help from others especially in this regard.

* Talk to others with similar experiences. HN is a good start but it is not the end of this conversation. There are many smart and well meaning people here. But only so many have been through what you have and small details such as where you are dealing with these problems, where in life you are at this moment, and what your life has been like, do matter and you should seek people who can relate as well as the many who don't.

I'd be happy to share some of my personal failings in this regard if you want to reach out. I don't imagine I have all the answers or even ones relevant to you personally, but who knows.

benjamin.stanley.jones@gmail.com
> Facebook is where people... form support groups...

Geez. I hope not.

This brings up one a "hard question" we need to consider: discretion.

Many categories of communication are modeled really well by modern technology, including social networks. However, there is a real dearth of discretion-oriented communication available.

Privacy concerns are obvious and being discussed, but we're not really discussing discretion as a healthy part of our lifestyles. Some things need to be shared, but only with particular people or groups. This is absolutely social communication but it's basically unaddressed by any social network I can think of. Group discussions that revolve around substance abuse, significant health issues, survivors of violent crimes, etc. Even less structured conversations with loved ones that are about sensitive issues: health problems, money problems, relationship problems, etc.

And it's worth mentioning that these goals seem to be at odds with the goals of our governments (surveillance) and our social networks (data collection and mining).

Whatsapp (closed source encryption aside) helps a bit for one-on-one communication or permanent groups (like families), but doesn't lend itself to the conversations you might have with a counselor, priest, spouse, or support group.

It may be that "social networks" are entirely for public discourse, but they don't seem to be modeled that way, with "friends", "private" messaging, and so on. In the meantime, we have no real medium for this type of communication and I suspect it's actively hurting our culture and society.
Exactly. The problem is that you lose searchability. On the filesystem, Calibre organizes your library in a series of subdirectories named by author. If you want to find a book by title, or some other criteria... or even when it's a book with multiple co-authors and don't know which one Calibre selected as the primary... then you'll have a bad time.
>Yes its flawed but not to the extreme like you suggest. One of the biggest problems we have, and this I think is common to almost all countries, is that there is very little emphasis on applied knowledge and much more on theoretical knowledge. The duale Studium is a better way to attack the problem than anything else currently out there IMHO.

As I've argued in a differnet post, the problem isn't too little theoretical knowledge, it's that uni is just seen as "the highest" and people who just want practical knowledge go to a place which is supposed to give you deep insight into the theories and research in your field because it gives the status qualification.

>Another problem we have is that motivations are flawed for our Professors. Many Professors want to conduct research and don't care about teaching the material, on the other hand you have some Professors that don't want to research and would just enjoy teaching the material, yet everyone is incentivized to conduct research because its the only way to progress. I think this is fundamentally wrong. Its bad for the students and bad for the professors. If a professor just wants to teach he/she should be allowed to focus on that area and be judged by how well his students can actually apply the learning they acquired in the course. If a professor wants to research he should be judged by his research.

This follows from my point above. We mix "I just want a job students" with "give me moar theory" students and the profs who (anecdotally) love dealing with the second type (explaining things to interested newbs is stimulating for insight) have to dumb down things enough so the job hunters can get their employer mandated checkmark

>There are so many other problem areas as well, for instance, I think we should allow much more mobility between disciplines than is currently the case. I've studied computer science and although I'm quite familiar with computational finance I would probably not be allowed to get a Phd in Finance since I've never taken business/economics courses. Although if you tested me on any number of financial subjects I wouldn't have a problem describing how to model/analyze/forecast the data. So there are a lot of arbitrary hoops that keep people down and force you to not to change you field of study.

That I actually have to disagree with...I know loads of CS and EE majors in economics, the reverse less but also. Especially at the PhD level, as long as you did something relevant, you can get in.

> Its also very difficult for older people mid career to get a degree and increase their personal capital that way. These again are just some problems that we need to address but "flawed in the extreme" - I tend to disagree on that one.

This is indeed a problem, but for example my alma mater has started offering part time degrees, with 25% of the workload required per semester and twice the allowed maxmimum study time. So there is change
Par for the course in the US tech industry.
> Private sector unions are great for collective bargaining, though I prefer they abstain from broad political platforms (immigration, for example), as these are so far removed the intent of the union. I tend to view these Unions as being political vehicles first, collective bargaining agents second. That isn't a compliment.

The feature you're describing is not an accident. Lobbying for restrictive immigration laws (not just political platforms in general, but that specific platform and issue) is the exact reason that unions like the AFL originally gained the size and political power that they have today.
Likely, but I've worked with a lot of people who will do that and also turn around and give you shit for leaving at 5.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14526156
Missing a few from Amazon as well
They have also made Calibre look a little less crappy on high definition screens, and added a conversion to .docx: https://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/twelve
> people are smart. People have _always_ been smart

I don't disagree, but I think there's more to it than just that.

Our raw mental capabilities may have always been the same, but how smart we are also depends on our learning. Learning gives us extra leverage. If you have two smart people and one of them was trapped by themselves all their life on a desert island and the other learnt a lot about (say) maths and science, then the latter person could in practical terms have greater intellectual capabilities.

Over the centuries we've made great gains in mathematical tools, scientific knowledge, in democratizing education and in disseminating knowledge. And this means over the centuries we've (as a species) obtained more leverage that we can apply to our raw mental capabilities, giving us (overall) greater intellectual capabilities.
Sharing Economy: How Much Are People Really Making from It?
I usually look a small repos so I haven't had this problem so far. I'll see how it goes as I continue to use it, but the plugins (go-plus) have already made a huge difference so far :o
Seven Powerful Actions for the Digital Transformation of Human Resources
The only correct response to that is, "No, I haven't. Please fix your email client, or learn how to use it properly."
Apple Hires Sony’s Jamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg in Original Content Push
How I Stole a User's Siacoin
So sad to see the divide between iOS and Android platforms.

Half of this stuff I can't run.
What's the big difference between VScode and Atom? Why would I move to a fork?
VS Code has practically all of the features you mentioned from both Atom and Sublime Text 3.
I have to strongly disagree with your "cargo cult" and "waste of time" comment. Everyone has different needs and expectations and I have found managing my email in Emacs to be quick, easy and straightforward. This could be in part because I receive more mail that I need to read and comparatively little I need to respond to directly.

While I do use Emacs as an IDE (I do some work in Clojure), I have another instance that I keep open and use solely to manage myself: email, calendar, list of to-do items and their status, miscellaneous notes, etc. At one point I had separate tools for each of these functions but over time I've decided that specialized tools aren't really worth the hassle. Emacs works just fine and everything is in one spot and easy to find.
Is it moral to respect the wishes of the dead, above the living?
Here's my attempt at compromise on the "corporation" thing. They're in the same basic category as churches and social clubs. And these different types of non-profit organizations have to go through a process to be recognized by governments. I think we can agree on that. People can decide for themselves whether you're being misleading with how you use the term and what you say makes them different from, say, Google.

The only assumption I made is that you would be opposed to a union election in every workplace in America on an annual basis. If that's wrong, let me know, and I'll actually be quite thrilled.
Amazon to buy Whole Foods
Show HN: Cloud Storage Manager for iOS (Swift Demo App)
You would like Rails.
Zen and the Art of the World’s Deadliest Motorcycle Race
Managing migrate and seed Rails tasks on Kubernetes while rolling deployments
So's your mum.
I think we're circling back, KDFs are definitely not suited for hashing passwords. For example, you wouldn't use SHA-3(password) as a password hashing function, but it makes a fine KDF.

If you're thinking of PBKDF2, it's a "password-based" KDF as its name hints. While both password-based KDFs and password hashing functions seem to have common properties, I think the term "password hash" has caught up more (specifically thanks to the password hashing competition).
morality is subjective, so chose for yourself? ;)
Kasparov says that machines don't have purpose, passion or curiosity. This is typical expression of meat machine privilege.

The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID). Feeling purposeful and not feeling purpose is just utility function giving feedback.

Is passion anything else than utility function configured so that the machine does not wander aimlessly and idle? If the machine has lots of freedom to choose its actions and it chooses to avoid 'side quests' and prefers one issue over all others, does it have passion?

How about curiosity? Consider phenomenon that is hard to predict and the machine can't recognize it. Is it curious if it has been programmed to investigate, poke around and learn. When boosting algorithm increases the weight for incorrectly classified instances, isn't that a primitive form of curiosity?

Kasparov also says that AI does not make us obsolete. I assume that obsolete means that if meat unit is removed from it's environment, others (society) don't miss it's contribution. What does 'us' mean? I interpret that as 'AI does not make all of use obsolete.' This is most likely true since for foreseeable future. If not for any other reason than comparative advantage. The oversupply of meat machines has already made many of them undesirable (overpopulation).
How to Optimize Google Chrome for Maximum Privacy
And here I was thinking that this was going to devolve into a series of Betcha I Can / Hold My Beer anecdotes.
She said "Nunn-McCurdy breach"

cf [1]: <The Nunn–McCurdy Amendment> "requires notification to the United States Congress if the cost per unit goes more than 25% beyond what was originally estimated, and calls for the termination of programs with total cost growth greater than 50%, unless the Secretary of Defense submits a detailed explanation"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunn–McCurdy_Amendment
Jailbraik for the humanoid robot Pepper
It shows how innovation is evolving in there.
Ethereum Classic Becomes First Crypto Research on Bloomberg Terminals
I switched from Atom to VSCode a while ago, but I still miss a very good git extension (which I can't find now, sorry) which put timeline marks by change size in the bottom of the editor window to allow easily viewing diffs. The best regex railroad viewer extension I found was also much better than in VSCode. As well, VSCode seems to have some bad UI paradigms, for example, using Prettier, syntax fails pile up obnoxiously. I suspect all these differences are because Atom had better UI access for extension developers. I'd switch back to Atom but I found it had a few glitches and VSCode has stronger features such as debugging and code comprehension built in.
Power BI, Microsoft’s Business Intelligence set of tools, is getting smarter
Amazon is buying Whole Foods for almost $14B
Aw, poor Blue Apron.
I'm pretty sure VS Code's window management does not match up. For instance, VS code doesn't allow nested horizontal window panes inside vertical window panes, which is super useful for large displays.
Seconding the other guy, what are you talking about? The only part I'd agree with is the "laxness" that is seeping in, but that is more because we are following our US brethren in dumbing things down so "no child will be left behind", while still sticking to a 9-13 year schedule in education - even though knowledge and complexity has increased A LOT since those times were set. Heck, we even tried shortening it to 12 years for gymnasium because the industry chamber wanted "more workers" and then noticed the kids are completely overloaded
It's probably pretty weak for me to admit, but I accept calendar invitations on my phone. As you say, accepting them in Emacs or Mutt doesn't seem worth the hassle (I get a handful a week).

At this point, it's pretty rare for me to get an email that I need to read that I can't, mostly those are spam or sales messages. Where I work, the company uses the "G Suite" of products.
If the brick and mortar grocers weren't scared of Amazon before, they sure are now.
SoftBank Robotics Pepper robot jailbreak released
Individuals can block instances they don't like. Abusers seem to filter into those with lax or nonexistent moderation policies, so it's not that hard.

Here are some suggestions:

mastodon.social: It was initially populated by furry Twitter and LGBTQ communities, and we're pretty good about onboarding people with culture primers every time there's a new flood of people. For the most part, this goes well, and it helps that the admin and moderators are amenable to keeping it a safe space for marginalized identities.

mastodon.technology: Probably what most people on HN will prefer.

The links in this post are good: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14567465

So far, popularity of instances is a pretty good guide for how well-run they are.
Oof. I wonder what this means for Whole Foods culture and employees.

If you don't know, John Mackey, the CEO / founder, is a major believer in conscious capitalism and of empowering his employees.

Whole Food employees get paid pretty darn well with some crazy good benefits for their industry and line-of-work (UNION FREE most of the time too!).

WF banks on them being true believers and motivators of the cause - including dedicating a fair amount of paid time to trainings. I've heard mix stories about how Amazon treats employees. I wonder how that will mesh.

So I guess I'm asking:

* What is going to happen with employee culture?

* What is going to happen with all the "Fair Trade" deals WF has in place that might not be the most economical decision now?

* Here comes store automation and hefty lay-offs?

Source: Worked at WF for 3 years
I wonder if they're going to implement Amazon Go in Whole Foods
https://www.amazon.com/b?node=16008589011
I should have said:

> it doesn't exist anymore
I think that it's fair to say that, in the past, people were (overall) a lot more ignorant about the character of the world and the universe, and that this led them to (overall) believe a lot more incorrect things.

This is not to beat our chests in a "we're better" kind of fashion, but just to acknowledge that we have the benefits of the knowledge that people who came before us built.