skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
35-45% of wealth as a raw figure is inherited, if you consider wealth ownership by the top 1%, that is a hell of an advantaged start. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/social-mobility-memos/2015/01...
Ask HN: Would you check into a hotel if they gave you a local smartphone?
Would you choose a particular hotel if they gave you a free mobile travel assistant that you can use for Internet, Google Maps, currency conversion, discounts on food, drinks, activities as well as Wifi hotspot for your phone?

We're aiming to make global travel easier and the first thing we want to do is help people get access to Internet beyond the free public wifis, without the need of looking up local SIM providers, renting a pocket wifi and no roaming fees.

We think this solution will be useful but in order to make it free for travellers, we're partnering with hotels. We're also looking at potentially partnering with AirBnB hosts and help them make their host experience better and generate extra revenue.
Maybe Sears as a predecessor to Amazon?

Kodak

Polaroid

Blockbuster

Research in Motion / Blackberry

Motorola

Nokia

Sun Microsystems

Yahoo
Not to mention that in the original example IValidator is invariant...it can be far more flexible by making it covariant (IValidator<out T>) so that GetAllValidators can also be used on more derived types.

And then you can do for example:

var validators = GetAllValidators<EntityBase>();

Where validators might be IEnumerable<IValidator<EntityBase>>. Compile-time type safety is preserved and each individual validator's generic type can be any type that is derived from EntityBase.

:)
I work in Service Department. As a regular part of my job, I put images in emails. I have to show people how to do things, and putting them as attachments and not inline would not be helpful.

At my old job, as an engineer, I also put images inline. I got emails all the time, or calls, asking why is this? The easiest way to show someone is in an email, with a screenshot.

Its not any different than an article in a newspaper or on a webpage with an inline image. It actually just works.
This is a Walmart counterattack. Walmart is on the verge of capturing large swathes of busy "middle-class buyer" pickup orders.

Amazon saw it and responded quickly.
John Mackey http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/12/business/12foods.html
If your concern is an attacker that can do 128 bits of work, you've got other problems (like reality).
> world demand for paper set to double by 2030

We have failed.
A source code release (even under a non-free license) would be much appreciated for those of us who would rather actually attempt to build this for non-RPi platforms ourselves than wait for the vendor to get around to it (if they get around to it at all).

Right now, there doesn't seem to be anything aside from the RPi build (the download page for which also requires me to login with my email address, so I didn't proceed to actually download it). That's a shame.
This study claims 67%[0] of millionaires in the US are self made, with only 8% having inherited all or most of that wealth.

[0]http://www.fa-mag.com/news/most-millionaires-self-made--stud...
[0] is a presentation on SIMD targeted at game developers. It has a lot of valuable information about instruction set support and how to make effective use of vector instructions. [1] is a HN comment that summarizes the content.

[0] https://deplinenoise.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/gdc2015_afr...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9312856
My response is to avoid buying ebooks from Amazon if possible.

Most of my purchases are from Weightless Books [1] which sells only DRM free books and magazines.

Granted, this is a limited and small market (SF related stuff) but if I have a choice of getting a book DRM free from a vendor or getting it from Amazon, I would avoid Amazon, even if its price was cheaper.

[1] https://weightlessbooks.com/
Important Invoice Types That Will Boost Your Small Business
The Amazon services imperative sounds like a driver toward internal markets.
What about Amazon fresh?
Good old investors, so short sighted, they only care about the next 3 months. Whole Foods probably would have been better off as private company, especially with the culture they were trying to create.
There have been studies and the vast majority of millionaires in the United States are still self made, whereas Europe is largely old money.
I haven't yet tried Idris (or even Haskell), so I could be misunderstanding, but surely in a pure language, a function with a type of String -> Int can't 'blow up', it can only output an Int? So if you want to tell the difference, you'd use something that outputs a (Maybe Int) rather than an Int, which'd be a wrapper around `cast` that does validation you want

Looking at the interfaces tutorial[0], it gives an example of something similar:

readNumber : IO (Maybe Nat)
readNumber = do
input <- getLine
if all isDigit (unpack input)
then pure (Just (cast input))
else pure Nothing

[0] http://docs.idris-lang.org/en/latest/tutorial/interfaces.htm...
Grocery stores are a tough market with razor thin margins. Whole Foods has a ton of competitors like Trader Joes that happens to still have organic options.

Since I did not see it asked, any idea if we will see some new Prime benefit at Wholefoods?
Neural networks in 3d with webGL
It's probably correlation information that allows them to pull further diagnostic information.

Mind sharing what information you have which makes you think they were hacked? :)
Applied vs theoretical. Since the applied kind of knowledge won't stop pouring down on you as long as you stay part of the active workforce I honestly think that it would be an absolute shame to not "waste" the education years on theoreticals. It's quite literally the last chance in most persons' lifes.
Why not? The important part is commute. 50hr work week in a job you like with a reasonable commute is no problem for your health. 30hr/week in a job you don't like with 2.5hr in traffic each day is much less healthy.
The text said that they begin in the age of 15 or 16, so the "duale Ausbildung" system is meant by that, because "Dualstudenten" are usually 17 or 18 when they start. The "Dualstudium" combines the practical "Ausbildung" with an applied science bachelors degree like CS, EE, mechanical engineering and so on, so it double the stress, but you'll also get a lot of work experience, a bachelors degree and an apprenticeship diploma. Also you will get paid.
Because, of course, when you hack Youtube you put a hash up there.
Ordered the book based on the fact that it helped you make these connections and hypotheses. Must be a good book.
What a completely tone-deaf, condescending position.
A lot of time when companies like that get acquired, someone is hoping to profit on the difference between the purchase price, and the value of the company when the management culture switches to wringing every last bit of productivity out of employees. Amazon might have a more strategic goal, but the above strategy is a common one.
Hannafords has a place an order and pick it up model. Anecdotally, based on my local store, hardly anyone uses it. I suspect it's a narrow niche where people are happy to order on their computer but want to save a few $$ on delivery.
Are they all even owned or are some leased?
http://isup.me/youtube.com
If that's the case, it's not a free-market economy, and you won't get those benefits of the free-market economy.
Uh, what? I know I'm a poor loser, and all the poor losers I know, know we're poor losers. We don't exist in an arena where that's embarrassing. That's just you lot.
maybe coz of this:

>> In his last State of the Union address, President Obama said America should emulate Germany’s knack for producing skilled workers — “high-school students with the equivalent of a technical degree from one of our community colleges.” He was referring specifically to fields like engineering and computer science, but he could just as easily have been talking about high-end cooking
I'm closer to Whole Foods' nearest distribution center than an actual Whole Foods. The nearest Whole Foods is almost 40 miles away.

If this works out for Amazon, I wouldn't be surprised to see Walmart try and buy Trader Joe's. They own Aldi, which has made a big push to compete with Walmart's reach outside cities. The nearest Aldi is closer than Walmart, and that's already not far away.
And they don't own the real estate so that point isn't valid either. Not sure about trucking but would be surprised if they own their whole distribution network.
...because that wasn't true enough. Sure addiction isn't cool, but moderate amounts of light drugs (canabis) make a great party, unfortunately.
I don't mean to be a naysayer, I don't really know what this means. But with all of the euphoria I'm hearing regarding Amazon and the doom-and-gloom regarding "traditional" grocers, I can't help but remind myself how horribly bad people are at predicting the future. Most of the people I'm hearing make predictions about what this means have been wrong about everything to this point.

Not saying it won't be a game-changer, but it is fascinating to watch people extrapolate this out to the extremes as soon as the news hits the ticker.

To put it another way- if it were that obvious that buying Whole Foods was going to make Amazon the dominant grocery seller, why weren't people predicting that they would do it all along and asking what they were waiting for? It isn't until Amazon acts that people say "Oh yeah, that was the right move."
The logical extension is that he only feels more productive after his fiddling and this new setup he came up with, not actually more productive.
Not so.

For the last 20 years, Costa Rica's been making the kind of policy stances that used to pretty reliably get Latin American countries invaded by the Marines:

1. pro-environment
2. very pro organized labor
3. leftist economics
4. constant criticism of the US's policies by the Costa Rican foreign office

Yet no invasion.
I don't know. But I occasionally find files with names like foo(username's conflicted copy).db.

I do the Keepass thing too, and this has happened with it's files as well, but that doesn't seem to cause any problems.
Or Bezos was at home and jokingly said "Alexa, add Whole Foods to my shopping list".
Doesn't mention e-cigarettes. Hmm.
Yep!! That's what's commonly misunderstood about the "invention of zero". Positional numbering is the part that's actually innovative. This hit me when I was a math teacher and trying to consider our algorithms for arithmetic from first principles. I was teaching high school students how to work with exponential expressions with variables, which seems very esoteric, unless you realize that you've been doing it for years implicitly.
It's an encrypted, base64 encoded, traceback w/ some other data. They could get it from logs, but it comes in handy when individuals are reporting issues.
It is funny trade that I like Atom's UX(e.g. layout, short keys, etc.) more than VSCode's, although performance is ok-ish (v1.17.2). Coming from Sublime, Atom is more familiar than VSCode. It's also funny that I wrote c++ before and Visual Studio is the best!
Really? Slack is bringing in 150m/yr. They can't make money with that product at that rate?
I'm not suggesting Amazon will never fail, I was rather talking about that they seem to be essentially solving the socialist planning problem, for a limited but ever-expanding section of the economy.
YouTube is hacked
Screenshots
http://imgur.com/a/6Otp6
I don't think that's the right metaphor. Amazon is still selling to match demand and doing an incredible job. The USSR dictated what and how much to supply of things and people just had to make do.

Amazon is becoming like a chaebol/zaibatsu. The problem I see is them controlling businesses across to wide of a spectrum. They're in retail, computer infrastructure, media, now food. Bezos himself owns a newspaper and a spaceship.
The point is that the term "simple" is inherently subjective - there are plenty of concepts that are simple and intuitive once learned, but are hard to learn.

Also, mathematical formulas are essentially a different language. If people don't speak it, then it's a moot point.
This is Hacker News?
What guarantee would there be that you don't backdoor the phones before handing them out? (not saying you would, but it's a potential attack vector)
I didn't expect the outage to last this long. Neither did they, I'm sure.
Even better, I have an adblocker and have no problem with the article.
Indeed, I think this is precisely the point.
Yup, I've gotten it a couple of times this morning. I bet they're quite aware and are working on fixing it.
No mention of what Facebook's business is anywhere on the page.

Here are some actual hard questions that would probably get you fired from the position of "Vice President for Public Policy and Communications" were you to post them to the official FB blog:

- can a company which makes money as an advertising platform and data broker really protect the privacy of its users when that is directly at odds with its fundamental mission?

- is there value for Facebook in figuring out how to remove fake news or content from terrorists or dead users from its platform vis-a-vis continuing on with business-as-usual?

- is there actually any room for someone within the organization at Facebook to ask questions like this without violating implicit or explicit company norms about how Facebook is discussed, internally or publicly?
Deal or No Deal? End-To-End Learning for Negotiation Dialogues [pdf]
I think most of the time I just assume it's #1 and then check into the issues to see the number/severity of the current problems and if any important things are being neglected.
In this part of the country, it seems like Kroger's ClickList service has been very successful. I'd imagine other larger chains in other parts of the country are doing similar things. Sure, it's not delivery but if you are driving right past the store on the way home and don't even have to get out of the car, it's a pretty close competitor. That's especially true in smaller communities where Amazon's grocery delivery doesn't yet make sense. Might this be a partial reason that Amazon is making a bet on the grocery market?
I'd say it's the general normal for people with low IQs, many of whom happen to be poor.

However, when a poor person wins the genetic lottery and is born with a high IQ, that's a predictor of moving up a socioeconomic quartile, as well as increased lifespan and lower chance of smoking.

Conversely, a child of a rich person that has inherited wealth but regressed to the mean tends to become poorer.

It seems that general intelligence is the driver behind both accumulating wealth and living longer.
I know that there are some stories about bad experiences in the fulfillment centers, but keep in mind that those positions are temporary seasonal work by unskilled labor.

The tone of your writing suggests that you are OK with treating these people badly. If a company treats some set of its workers badly, what stops them from treating other employees the same way?
In this case, they may treat SW engineers well because there is a lot of demand for engineers, and they have to be treated well to retain good folks. That is not comparable to the good culture that OP claims WF has.
> Disclaimer: I work for AWS, but my opinions are my own.

> I don't think you have much to worry about if you're a WF employee. Amazon actually treats their employees very well.

Normally when people say Amazon abuses their employees, they aren't talking about AWS.
One thought. People still like food and food things and being social, and the "farmers market" feeling. Even in a future which makes online grocery great for mundane shopping, people still need stuff to do.

Whole Foods already has bars, cafes, and restaurants. Maybe Whole Foods locations turn into places where people can hang out, try new things, and buy online grocery delivery (or pickup delivery as well)?

Who should be trembling in their sleep even more so with this news:

-Blue Apron, HelloFresh, Plated, etc

-Drizzly, alcohol delivery, etc (I think absolutely doomed)

-WalMart? (Maybe completely different customer sets)

-Target, Kroger, other grocery?

-Instacart (I think absolutely doomed)

Whole Foods is a large cafe/fast casual business. I assume competitors in that space aren't scared at all yet... but I would not necessarily sleep well if I were Starbucks or Chipotle. Amazon seems to play to win, and they usually win. Do they want to play is my main question.
The productivity of the whole tech industry has just increased!
I'm in the process of uploading a video, and that is still working properly. However, trying to playback some of the videos I just uploaded is hitting an error.

Seems to be a partial outage.
And there is another study saying this is bullshit and rich people tend to be rich and keep it in there familie in US as well.
Amazon is now (or more so now) like Evil Corp in the Mr. Robot kind of way. You can ship your Evil groceries via Evil Prime purchased via voice-command with your Evil assistant device paid for with your Evil credit-card. Evil.

Frankly I don't buy as much from WF anymore considering that what they carry is much more like "organic junk-food" than actual food.

If you really want to support the "cause", find yourself a local farmer or CSA to buy from and support them directly.

https://www.localharvest.org/csa/
Hotspot Shield 6.8.12 Elite for Chrome Free Download
I think this is to bolster fresh and prime now. As far as I know Fresh is currently limited to very few areas. This might allow them to extend that. Prime Now in my areas has a very limited grocery selection from Amazon itself, but also delivers from a local chain that I see as a Whole Foods copy cat. This will allow them to drastically extend the groceries they make available themselves and get way more control over what's available.
Confirmed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14568693
Tesco use their supermarkets in the UK for collection of items ordered from their website, like home electronics.

I never used it, but I'm not really in Tesco's target market for non-food stuff.

https://www.tesco.com/direct/click-and-collect/
Says what research?
What is the equivalent to "shaking" in QM? I'm trying to figure out why it matters whether you shake the box or not (i.e. could the shaking simply not have an effect if you're not looking?)
Also their user onboarding literally forces a unknowing user to create a GitHub account then star their specific repository.

Making GitHub stars ultimately meaningless, if they ever meaned anything.
Don't forget splitting on word boundaries and/or whitespace - going from a string of text to an iterable collection of words (strings).
Chat services usually have an import service. At least for their more famous competitors. Doesn't Slack allow you to export your message history?
How do you measure those results? Especially in fuzzy fields where they very much influenced by "political affection"
That's a great point, but then someone might be so panicked they take the more dangerous "fix" than just sit out the risk. I know I would totally obsess over it if I knew about that minor risk, for example. But this is why everyone should get the option, perhaps.
I was in an urban organic-ish grocer last weekend and I saw they had meal kits. I'm surprised more places don't do this.
Here is a relevant issue for that feature: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/1749

edit: here is the best issue to vote on: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/14909
Videocardz (the source) has been right far more often than not. Still a rumor, but credible.
I strictly use spaces for indentation (and alignment never) but I don't hate on tabs, they have a right to live in my code. So I like to sometimes place a sprinkle of 2 or 3 tabs at the end of lines where no one will notice them probably anyway.

I think it's the best of both worlds, really.
There has been a bit of friction on that very point...Now we just agree on "four spaces all over the place".

I know for a fact that an auto-formatter like `gofmt` or something would have avoided at least one argument, so it would probably would make the code better in some respects.

That said, I like the whitespace. I like that it forces you to think about how the code is formatted and it tends to make the code a lot less verbose.
Or maybe Amazon sees its new checkout technology (that knows which items you buy automatically) as so special that it's better to roll it out at stores it owns than sell to existing retailers?
> Good old investors, so short sighted, they only care about the next 3 months.

Yeah, darn those investors. How dare people with pensions, 401k's, IRAs, and other investments expect some kind of return on their investment? It's disgraceful. /s

EDIT: The sentiment against investors is rather ironic considering the amount of equity collectively held by HN readers.
Why? Instacart uses humans to pick inventory from a "warehouse" and deliver it to the buyer. Amazon needs people to pick and pack, they can't just use robots to store cereal boxes on the nearest shelf in the grocery store. I bet Instacart was a major reason why Amazon bought WF. Actually, didn't Apoorva work for Amazon before creating Instacart?
I like to watch videos before going to work and them being down has my morning in a funk.
Why are your ebooks so large?
there's Vim-multiple-cursors on Vim that works really similar to the ST multicursor

https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors
> I would argue that for most people who actually still use email for communication with peers, images and attachments are an afterthought.

Are you actually convinced of that, or are you being inflammatory? Because, in 2017, it's hilariously far afield of most folks' email use patterns both at work and at home. Do you only ever communicate using text -- and plain text at that?

I work for a small software company - ie, full of nerds. We use screencaps marked up in email ALL THE TIME to communicate about changes and whatnot. Sure, I guess we could put it in a Word doc or HTML doc, but why bother when we can do it in the email client?
Desalination requires a lot of energy and is very costly.
Vitorio,

thank you for taking the time to write a detailed response. I agree with all of what you said. I have one small aspect on my project that I would like to improve. Specifically, it is the layout of the food dish information and how it is presented for a single dish.

Example: https://bestfoodnearme.com/best-food/7

I do not have that much traffic to the site now, maybe 30 - 50 new visitors a day, but I do have an accurate idea of how they are using the site through Google analytics.

I did consider trying some multivariate testing via bandit algorithms instead of A/B, but at my current traffic numbers, this might be a bit too early.

I will try to find some local designer meetups as you suggest, I am very close to NYC.

Thanks again,

Ty
How many of those billions will the average employee get to see?
Amazon has it on trial already:
https://www.amazon.com/afx/nc/aboutpickup

Not for me either, but not everyone wants or can have groceries and/or packages sitting on their porch all day.
> their marketshare only ever got as high as 30%

You write that like it was a failure. It was HUGE! In the context of the ms monopoly, it was an unbelievable and largely unmatched success.

Secondly, having a third browser overtaking it was not a failure either, but success in the goal of providing viable alternatives to the stagnating ie.
You shouldn't judge an article based on who wrote it, whether it's Garry Kasparov or someone "in the field" of AI. Sure, people are more likely to listen to Kasparov because he's an intellectual megalodon. But by dismissing anything not written by an "expert", you're making the exact same mistake.