skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some quotes from a 3 month old article about Amazon and physical grocery[1]

“The whole premise [of online grocery] is that you’re saving people a trip to the store, but people actually like going to the store to buy groceries.”

“A bunch of smart people at Amazon have been thinking about re-imagining the next phase of physical retail. They want more share of the wallet, and habitual, frequent use of Amazon for groceries is the ultimate goal.”

"Long term, a stronger grocery business could position Amazon to become a wholesale food-distribution business serving supermarkets, convenience stores, restaurants, hotels, hospitals and schools. "

"A group of Amazon executives met late last year to discuss the disadvantage Amazon faced compared with grocery competitors such as Wal-Mart and Kroger because of its lack of physical stores and customer apprehension about buying fresh foods online. They decided they needed something more to jump-start Amazon’s grocery push beyond plans already under way for the Amazon Go convenience store, modeled for urban areas, and drive-in grocery pick-up stations suited for the suburbs."

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-20/inside-am...
I agree. I just heard this [1] podcast about the Oneida company. It was one of the first companies to show that paying and treating the lowest-paid employees very well and being very profitable are not mutually exclusive.

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/06/09/532303452/episo...
This used to be indicated by version numbers:

- 0.x = version in some beta/alpha/unstable state

- 1.x = version in somewhat stable/complete state
Meh.

This deal is about expansion, not about tapping into 431 measly location. Amazon knows they can set up satellite warehouses a lot faster and cheaper than they can create a store.

Let's be clear. Whole Foods is not a commodity food supplier. They enjoy high margins because they have cultivated quality and consciousness into their products. They did to food what Apple did to computers. They added the right mix of intangibles with a sense of mission and purpose that people can many buy into. Add on top of that, and Whole Foods adds an expertise procuring a catalog of high-end suppliers for both packages and fresh foods and the safe handling of those foods.

This deal should significantly improve Amazon's food delivery offerings. As a food snob and target demographic, I can say this will significantly improve my chances of using Amazon's food delivery service. I've used it in the past, but wasn't satisfied because I was disappointed with the quality and selection. It wasn't bad, it just wasn't great.

I suspect most people will not be willing to buy the high-end products, but that's not the point. The point is the high-end/high-margin products will be available so shoppers won't have to go out and do supplementary shopping to get the "good stuff". If online grocery shopping is going to become viable, they need to make sure they reduce the need for supplementary shopping as much as possible. Having a leg and data from a real grocery store will help them figure out what they need to do to improve.
I recently switched from vs code to atom, before that I was on webstorm.

Loving the hydrogen plugin to evaluate lines or js expressions inside the editor.
https://atom.io/packages/hydrogen
Created a fb group for this scenario: https://www.facebook.com/groups/665825200225224/
> Some people like me thinks this is a newsworthy discovery.

Because you don't understand math. Binary arithmetic is a painfully obvious development. A bored high-schooler predisposed to mathematics would figure it out in an afternoon.

And we've documented cultures using mixed base systems in the past. All this would have taken is a single person to say, "Hey, some things are easier if you do it this way" and taught all of their kids to use that system.
The I Ching hexagrams don't represent numbers. They're not ordered numerically and any of the traditional sequences and they're not used to perform arithmetic. The individual lines represent (AFAIK) 2's, 6's, 3's, and 9's depending on whether the line is male or female, moving or static.

The correspondence between the hexagrams and the binary numbers nothing more than a necessary consequence of the representation chosen: the number of states of a string of 6 characters in a system of 2 symbols.
The idea that I can't criticize pathological behaviors by investors because I myself invest in things makes about as much sense as saying I can't criticize bad US policies because I live in the US.
That is what Instacart and Shipt are. Marketplaces that pair people who don't want to go to the grocery store with people who are willing to go for them. Exchanging time for money.

Same as Uber, but instead of moving people, they're moving milk & eggs.
Nearly all shape recognition datasets have a restriction that you can't use unless you are an academic. I feel like that Open Sourcing data sets will allow us to be more democratic with data

Just because something is open source doesn't mean it can't have an academia-only restriction. Data sets should cost money in for-profit uses, open or not.
An equation is compressed, which helps give it its precision, and can create an illusion of simplicity. Just like "a witch did it" is compressed, but if you expand it all of the complexity is inside "witch" and "it", and as you expand "it" you might arrive at some true simplifications in the untwisting sense like physical laws that make you wonder about the need for "witch"... But even if you expand the math it's still all together one of the simplest ways to describe something. That's why I like programs more, there's less implicit compression and it's easier to expand things you aren't familiar with. And there's the formalization of Kolmogorov complexity you can use for things.

As you say, informal explanations are great for understanding and bringing clarity, a lot of the time they're just used to help expand the unfamiliar math, but also a lot of the time they trade off precision, conciseness, or accuracy. At worst they complicate things with twists and relations in the informal explanation that don't exist in the real deal. Sometimes that might be helpful in the same way technically unrelated mnemonics are but it's important to point them out.

The conflation of simple, easy, concise, precise, clear, intuitive.. is the root of the issue when discussing what makes a good explanation.
There is no doubt that IRV would be superior to what we use today, plurality voting.

However, if we achieve the momentum necessary to reform voting in the United States, it would be a shame to squander that momentum to receive IRV rather than an easier and better model such as Score voting or Approval voting.

More on the matter: http://electology.org/approval-voting-versus-irv
Obamacare is obviously closer to socialism, I think that was one of the main goals. His full article adds more context: http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/blog/john-mackeys-blog/healt...

I disagree with almost every word of it, but I don't think it contradicts the idea of "conscious capitalism" or treating your employees well.

He also sort of regrets his "fascism" comment:

> "Well, I think that was a bad choice of words on my part ... that word has an association with of course dictatorships in the 20th century like Germany and Spain, and Italy. What I know is that we no longer have free enterprise capitalism in health care, it's not a system any longer where people are able to innovate, it's not based on voluntary exchange. The government is directing it. So we need a new word for it. I don't know what they right word is," Mackey says.

- http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/01/16/169413848/who...

Although, fascism doesn't just have "an association" with dictatorships, that's literally what it means. Government controlling industry is basically a side effect.
Does Amazon Whole Foods Deal Suggest Walreens RiteAid FTC Approval?
This deal implies that Amazon could be competed in the prescription / pharmacy business as a next step. This seems to suggest a larger brick and mortar competitor would be positive in the short term.
> It was really surprising to me to see a country which presents itself as a modern, progressive force in the world having cigarette vending machines on almost every street in the country.

This surprised me, too, the first time I went. Seeing 12 year olds smoking in public spaces was really, really bizarre. The only logical conclusion is that the German government and/or populace simply doesn't care about reducing cigarette usage.

> A recent study shows that the overall rate in both whites and blacks is about 15%, while in coloureds it is 40%.

What are "coloureds" in this context? Typically blacks would be categorized as "colored".
As a loyal Whole Foods shopper I am EXTREMELY excited by this development. The worst part about grocery shopping anywhere is waiting in line. There are a ton of jobs at Whole Foods that have nothing to do with running the cash register, and as long as Amazon keeps those jobs intact I am all for the automation revolution.

I have never worked as a cashier, but I can't imagine it's a very fun job. Automating out those jobs seems like a win-win, as long as the former cashiers can find a job doing something else.

Edit: For anyone wondering where my perspective is coming from, see this: http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-go-grocery-store-futur...
Unit costs can only be determined after enough runs permit you to take the spent budget and divide by the number of units built. What you're describing is a projection and it only holds if the full run is built. If it gets cut short, the unit costs are higher because of the non-recoverable costs.
Hopefully it is mostly a strategy for Amazon to cover another type of business amd another type of selling point. Broadening their spectrum. Hopefully.
I haven't had good experiences with Shipt.

1. It wasn't available in my city initially. I'm still not sure if it is. I checked fairly frequently and was never notified. That was at least a year and a half ago.

2. Applied for an iOS gig with them after they posted on HN. I've been building apps for clients for 5 years now. Never got a reply. I even followed up with their lead personally via email. Nada. Just seemed weird since they kept posting to HN asking for talent.
Totally agree. There is tons of synergy in this deal with what Amazon is today and what they'd like to be tomorrow (more dominant than they already are!).
This might not be the answer you're looking for, but if you don't already have someone in mind, then you should probably build you side project on your own.

Also, basic html and css is all it takes to build a webpage. (Well, technically you don't even need the CSS...)

JavaScript is definately not required. Responsive CSS is a bit nicer to have to make the website mobile-friendly, but this is all you really need:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<style type="text/css">
* {max-width: 100%}
</style>

Build with what you know or want to learn, and if someone comes along, great, and if not you should be just fine.
Maybe you can talk about what your looking to create.

Or, maybe build it as an API and people find it useful and build front ends for it.
Search engines rank sites (in part) according to the number of other sites that link to them. Wikipedia is ranked very highly in Google largely because many, many sites link to Wikipedia.

The PageRank algorithm to compute these kinds of rankings was one of Google's early innovations, and was the secret to its initial dominance over the early-2000s search engine market.
For example, there is a reason[1] why round avatars are a bad idea.

Although I must say that twitter.com seems to have improved in terms of keyboard navigation and the visible keyboard focus.

[1]: https://twitter.com/MattNavarra/status/875389431372533760
> My tl,dr is that I think university or something should have the explicit goal of teaching "useless" knowledge with the aim of giving deep understanding.

If you'd ask me which knowledge I found useless as a student and which I find useless now, after several years of work experience, the answers would be pretty different. Not only because I changed but because the world changed. I think "useless" or useful knowledge is not the problem we should worry most - I think teaching education is where the distinction should be made.

In my opinion there should be research universities which teach knowledge from the cutting-edge of research (maybe at the expense of didactic quality). On the other hand there should be something (akin to the fictional FH you described) which focuses on training on the job with professors that are not only qualified in their field of expertise but also good teachers. I don't see the FH, or
"University of Applied Sciences" like they tend to call themselves nowadays, to fulfill that role in any way, because the professors there are neither researchers nor teachers. (I have a degree from a FH and one from a regular German university, so I know both systems)
Um... apparently not to you but to many of the readers here (as we can roughly guess by the upvotes) it does matter.
I can't seem to find any info on Facebook working with the Pakistani government on that blasphemy case. Got any?
I think both directions are basically going to the same destination. I believe we should worry more about the "artificial human" than about "artificial intelligence". To get to the artificial human there are several paths, biological (with genetic engineering), cybernetics (gradual replacement of body parts with non-organic artefacts), robotics (non-organic from the start) and software (brain emulation).

I believe all those paths eventually lead to the same kind of difficulties in predicting what kind of world they would bring.
Mainers checking in?

I haven't used it yet, but I just went to their website. I picked the store that I pass on my way home from work. Next available pickup is tomorrow at noon. They gotta go same day if they want people to use it. That or it's popular at this particular store, who knows.
Google Chrome Launcher with Limited Renderer Processes
I used this some time ago and had a problem with cross-platform access and database corruption with copying it. Have you seen any issues with that?
It's hard to say what length should be because it could mean different things. How many u8 values there are? How many graphemes are present?

If it's just counting how many u8's in a slice, that's trivial. But storing the total number of variable-length graphemes isn't. I assume that's why Data.Text's length function is O(n), and other languages that have UTF-16 or UTF-8 strings also have length functions that are linear.
Looks like it may have started in 1966 with a story by Ursula K. Le Guin. She called the device an ansible, which is what it was also called in OSC's books.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansible
A prettier prettier (for JSX)
pls no banerino
Yes, effectively that's what the smartphone will function as - a loaned portable Wifi device.

We don't expect that people would use our devices for personal use? I'd expect them to use their own devices for their own personal apps.
Coloured, not colored: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloureds
"the poor are trading years in the future for pleasantness now"

This also describes how a lot of people are poor.
Yeah, if I don't find anybody, I will try to do it by myself. The backend will be made in Spring and I thought about using some template engine, like Thymeleaf to do the front. But I'd prefer to work with REST APIs.
Perhaps if the new UI's actually improved presentation of information rather than being an exercise in aesthetic wankery that makes the site less usable?
Resistance to change has no boundaries.
I guess you're thinking what if the phones get hacked by someone else and steals personal information?
Avatars thought to be in a squared container looking bad in a round container... it's logical.
South Africa has some very specific definitions[1] for this type of thing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloureds
Because they cannot even align button text in vertically?

- https://i.imgur.com/532Mdva.png
Zappos CS, front office, creative staff (etc.) got to keep their culture. Zappos warehouse workers got shafted.
obligatory https://xkcd.com/1770/
I counted the Bill of Rights as zero, because I was thinking it didn't go through the normal amendment process, and was enacted at the same time as the Constitution itself. I just skimmed wikipedia and it looks like I was wrong about that.

I had a funny feeling I was going to learn something when I posted my comment :)
8 straight? I've done it if you don't count the lunch my wife put in front of me that I didn't remember eating. There is also some value to taking a break. I've walked away from some problems that made may head hurt - only to solve them while playing foosball.

Once I was playing foosball while the site was down. Someone walked in, quite unhappy about seeing the dev team playing when he thought we should have been fixing. Explaining that we couldn't do anything about it - ops had server issues that we could not help with. There is a time to work and a time to play. I find I'm best with 2-3 hours of work without distraction.
Sure but scope is required in order to create the monopoly, which only Amazon has currently. They can distribute to a thousand stores at once, and a startup competitor will not be able to compete, especially because the switching cost is so high for a customer like Target since it's hardware instead of the traditional software model. If everyone is using Amazon Go, then the network effect is established and shoppers won't download a separate app for something else.
Does not seem that you know much about German education.

Duales Studium is the equivalent dual track education for University education. The company I work for participates since several years and they are very happy to do so.
Vuoi bene al tuo cane e al tuo gatto? Rivolgiti al veterinario
This Is How You Trick the Media: Give Them a Juicy Soundbite
Pity that cellular data is way too expensive to compete with broadband, cause I tend to think it's the best chance.
Mostly around data visualization for quarterly reports. Occasionally I make infographics for stakeholders that involve some unusual data visualization / presentation that is more artistic than the usual bars and lines. A tool like this would allow me to build the template for my periodic infographics and then I could enter the data on a website and have the infographic generate on the fly. I've used d3.js for something very similar in the past, but I find d3.js to be a bit complicated and this would be a lot easier to share with less technical team members who I would like to eventually own the creation of these reports.
I can see some improvements on font and icon rendering, though.
What percentage of instacart's business is tied to Whole Foods?
Show HN: Deathnode - scaling down gracefully in Mesos
Left to their own devices, my daughters are turning them off
Call it a comeback: Typewriters attracting new generation of fans
When I first started to be interested in this area, it occurred to me that it might be something like a 'stretchy' spacetime i.e. the particles are actually locally connected but appear unconnected if you use a static spacetime as a reference as we tend to. I guess something analogous to the idea that someone moving close to c experiences time different from someone in a slow moving reference frame.

Unfortunately, I have neither the experience nor ability to progress that thought much further so, if someone wants to go off and get a Nobel from it, feel free...
My guess at the answer is that effectively the public debate will be shaped as a compromise between ad peddlers, spooks, and people who have nothing better to do than complain on Facebook. I'd rather have terrorists in my news feed.
would add to that, perhaps, "and for foreigners". Tobacco sales in developing countries are huge. China alone keeps them in so much profit that almost don't care what happens in America.
> A recent study shows that the overall rate in both whites and blacks is about 15%, while in coloureds it is 40%.

Worth knowing that "colored" is a loaded term in American vernacular, and may provoke strongly negative responses depending on context - I know that's not how you're using it, but many would not, and might take it amiss therefore. "Black" is a denotative equivalent lacking the same connotations, and what I'd recommend using instead in discourse with predominantly American interlocutors.

To your point, I gather there's a class divide along racial lines in South Africa, just as (albeit more sharply defined than) in the US, and would wonder whether that's more where the correlation lies. I think it must be here - that's my observation, at least, anecdotal though it be.
Sworn testimony is anecdotal. And while anecdotal evidence does have some credence, it doesn't beat a real study.
guess John Mackey probably worked these into the terms of the deal. The glass half full view is hopefully - the employees have more time and are more focused on interacting with customers and educating them about all their esoteric inventory!
"Do people actually meet legit partners and friends from apps? I've never met anyone off Tinder (I'm not all that cute really), dating websites are a wasteland and all the people I've had meaningful relationships I've met at things I like to do. Sure we have meetups, but they really just facilitate what we use to do with flyers/posters before. Meeting people still takes work. No one meets of Internet chat rooms like in the AOL/Seinfeld era. The Facebook generation of social networks wants you to only connect with people you already know."

More and more couples are born in an online enveronment, a lot of whom in dating sites/apps. I've met a long time ex-gf on an MMORPG and she could well have been the girl of my life. There's a lot of wrong in your own comment. You're talking about a universe you seem to know little about with way too much certitude.
Instant view: Amazon to acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B
This whole post would be so much more productive if "Tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment." was defined upfront for everyone to debate.
The hypothesis is far-fetched, but the story surrounding it is very interesting.
WF most likely will fail under Amazon (if WF must adapt to Amazon's business methods), opening the market for local competitors and similar national chains to absorb that market share. Great opportunity for Aldi on the low end and Trader Joe's on the high end.

Groceries are not APIs.
After a few initial hiccups, my wife is sold on Walmart's grocery pickup service. For short-range delivery, they are also experimenting with "terrestrial drones"[1] which I have seen around town once or twice.

1. http://www.chainstoreage.com/article/different-kind-drone-ro...
Well, I'm looking to build a modern and robust opensource anonymous imageboard software (most people here probably know about 4chan), as all the existing usable alternatives are written in PHP and the code is 10 years old and barely maintained. Yes, maybe I will try to do the front end by myself and also provide rest api on the side, if anyone was interested.
And the desire to needlessly overdesign UIs has a similar bound. All change is good change, right?
I quite like wholefoods. Now that Amazon will own it I feel less likely to support it.

Amazon is a cut throat profit making machine at the expense of human exploitation.

Wholefoods felt like the little guy who was trying to do things differently from mainstream supermarkets.
This unconscious bias went unnoticed to me (as expected, per definition). Thanks for pointing it :)

So far, my experiments with other shampoos where conducted a bit ad hoc. They're all anecdata. When I try with vinegar, I should try to rule out other causal factors first. I probably haven't done that in my first try. Otherwise, we can never be sure.