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> Amazon were to struggle with Whole Foods, the first thing they do will be to lower labor costs and food costs.

They'd do what any company that doesn't want to end up bankrupt to do. Attack the easy parts first (overly expensive infrastructure, etc) then hit the two major cost centers: labor and food costs.

If it comes down to two options: lower wages/quality of food or a company that no longer exists, the former is probably the better alternative, no?
Also approaching 50. I'd have bought the HD600 or HD650, but I still have these old Sennheiser HD580s, and they're just as comfortable and sound pretty darn good. As for amp, I still have an almost 20 year old NAD receiver, and the headphone output of that is still the best sounding headphone amp I've ever heard, flat out.
Except for the majority of middle class people like somewhere in between. They can't afford premium, but want a little more assistance than ALDI.

Basically, there's three market segments, not two.
That's interesting. I wasn't aware that there was significant recharge from human-managed/created basins. It looks like >50% of the recharge in Santa Clara county is non-natural. But it also looks like it still falls short of the demand from pumping.

[pdf] http://www.valleywater.org/Services/Clean_Reliable_Water/Whe...
Your comment reads like something from "Things I Won't Work With" by Derek Lowe.
>This code wouldn't compile, for starters.

Thats the point. You need an `IValidator` interface.
It does both. I can do some inference but definitely does type checking. Here's a Pycon talk from last year about pytype: https://youtu.be/IDm_YIQihhs
Coconut oil isn't healthy and it's never been healthy
Are you the aforementioned co-founder by any chance? Geez
Definitely agree about Fry's. I grew up loving that as a treat. I've since been to Turkey and had 'proper' Turkish Delight and like them both.
YC SS helped us a lot, thanks to everyone making it happen.

We just launched Tuiqo (simple document versioning) and this is our presentation: https://www.startupschool.org/presentations/215
They aren't required, it's certainly possible to have a number system and not a writing system. But for anything where you need to do non-trivial arithmetic or accounting you can't just do all that in your head and memorize the results. You need some way of recording the results in a persistent way, even if it's just tallies carved into a piece of wood. And I imagine any culture that figures out a recording system for numbers would pretty quickly (in historical terms, so like years or decades) develop a writing system. I could be wrong of course, I haven't really formally studied ancient history.

Aside: Is Quipu not a writing system? I thought there was some evidence indicating it was.
> Computers use base two because their most natural unit can occupy one of a couple states

Not really. That's just the way things worked out, mainly due to how electronics (transistors) work, and with the miniaturization of electronics.

Babbages Analytical Engine was designed as a base-10 machine, mainly because this was the most efficient way to represent things using gears (and with all the friction that entails especially with large numbers - lot's of ingenious mechanism was designed by him to work around this limitation).

Even ENIAC, which used vacuum tubes, was base-10; this had to do with a number of reasons (reliability of vacuum tubes, war rationing issues possibly - at least when it was designed; there are probably other reasons as well).

Other bases have also been tried, but base-2 is default mainly because its easy to create simple circuits (especially miniaturized) to represent such states, and replicate/connect them efficiently (essentially, once you have a NAND or NOR gate represented, with transistors or anything else, you have the basic building block for the rest of a computer).

Other than that, there isn't anything particularly unique in regards to binary representation (base-2) for computation versus other bases.
> 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?

It's not directly at odds with its fundamental mission. If FB violates the trust of its users and maybe even law, then they lose customers and revenue. It's important for them to respect privacy as much as it allows them to avoid controversy. For example, if a news story reported that FB violates privacy laws, and then they were sued for it, it would be a huge loss for them.

Ultimately the real issue is that there are no laws concerning how social media users' data is protected. There are huge fines for leaking personal medical information, but only for medical instituons. This is effective, have you ever heard of a nurse that leaked std info about a celebrity? Similarly there are fines for leaks of data if a company can accept credit cards.

However social media sites can store whatever information they want with no protections, and it's fine. To me, this is a tremendous oversight by the government to not protect the privacy.
> I can't understand why anyone thought it was a good idea to attach the previous message to the bottom. Most people just accept this as the way email is and never question how unbelievably stupid it is.

In addition to the obvious idiocy of sending someone a copy of what they just sent you ... I think it's funny to realize how this behaviour actually has quadratic space and bandwidth complexity:

If a thread is 10 message long, you have to store and transmit the data of 55 messages.

If a thread is 100 message long, you have to store and transmit the data of 5050 messages.

Or in general, if a thread is n message long, you have to store and transmit the data of n*(n+1)/2 messages.
While I agree about lack of feedback, any feedback at all opens a can of legal worms. Companies don't avoid it to be malicious or disrespectful of your time - they avoid it so that they don't have to worry about law suits over interpretation of that feedback.

It sucks for candidates and it sucks for companies - but it won't change with current laws on the books.
Whole foods is vastly larger than the majority of organizations world wide. Remember the world GDP is only ~80,000 billion so there is a rather small number of Organizations with 10 billion per year in Revenue.

But, if your just mean billion plus dollar orgs then something like : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Farmers_of_Alberta is an interesting comparison. Further, measuring the success of such organizations is hard especially when they are not trying to make a profit. I mean how do you measure something like the US Democratic and Republican parties?
Is there any reason they would get a different amount per share than other shareholders? I'd assume it would only depend on how much stock they have obtained either by purchasing it from the market, using the stock purchase plan (where they can buy it for 85% of market price if they agreed to keep it for 2 years), or the stock-grants that were given to employees.
I wouldn't say obviously. From my perspective Obamacare is fascist even as I support it compared to the alternatives save single-payer national healthcare.

What other ideology than fascism best describes government coercion of its citizens to engage in business relationships with the insurance companies to ensure their profits remain at certain levels?
> "the poor are trading years in the future for pleasantness now"

> This also describes how a lot of people are poor.

I suppose we should be cheered by your qualification "a lot of," since it seems to indicate that you at least have to acknowledge your growing awareness that some, if not the majority nor vast majority, of the poor are there for structural reasons, rather than shortsightedness.

What of those who are there for reasons other than shortsightedness? What of those for whom shortsightedness is a result of mental health issues? What of those who can see ahead, but see no bright future and are making rational choices in the face of that?

Fortunately, having qualified your remarks in the way you have, you have opened yourself up to a responsibility to think critically about those whom you have dismissed. I wish you the best in that.
Because oftentimes the new UI is designed by someone who read too much on whitespace and aesthetics and sacrifices information density.

AmEx recently redesigned their site. Before, I could easily see all my credit card transactions with minimal clicks and scrolling. Now, everything is enlarged by 1.25x (probably a poorly done responsive design) and I find myself scrolling a lot more.

The Gmail iOS app redesign from last autumn was poorly done, too. They waste precious horizontal space on your phone to display a circle with an avatar or the person's initials. I don't need that shit for email. I just need the sender's name.

If designers focused on providing the information a user wants with a minimal number of interactions, I think there'd be less hate.
Maybe. But how have some of Amazon's other acquisitions gone? I believe Audible and Zappos were largely left alone after they were bought, but I could be wrong.
My comment came across snarky. I apologize.

I agree cs 101 is not the world. I also agree some concepts cannot be simplified and it shouldn't.

My point was what you hinted towards when you say "distilling things down". My gripe is that most people that have taught or guided me have had no inclination to do that. I would have had a much smoother learning curve for it.

I also feel if there is a concept that can be taught by one person to another, it can be slowly be presented in increasing order of complexity than be presented all at once. That feeling of slowly building or adding complexity is underestimated and hard.
> Sales occur every few weeks knocking 20 to 40 percent off of items. I think their shorts and pants are exceptional and worth the $50 to $70 you can get them for during sales.

Is selling most of your stock during sales profitable? If so, interesting business practice and I'm curious if it's more common than I thought (J. Crew could be doing the same).
I do something similar; building an arbitrary thing gives you a good window into how they actually approach solving a problem.

One key difference - I use the same task for each interview, which while boring for me, makes it easier to transfer my score between candidates. I initially had some colleagues that I've worked with for years do the interview to calibrate what a ninja would look like on that test, which I've found very useful.

I've also considered doing real-world problems, but my concern is that 1) they tend to have too much back-story and context, and 2) it would be hard to calibrate the difficulty. Perhaps that's unfounded.
Uh, dude, this was written in the context of rationing and austerity.

A kid whose had his sugar rationed is going to consider Turkish delight in a totally different way than a kid in 2017
http://www.seattletimes.com/business/workers-complain-about-...
People need to stop expecting feedback.

Hiring a candidate is like going on a date. It's a mix of background, personality, appearance, communication skills, confidence etc. And like a date each interviewer's opinion of you will be different.

And so asking feedback (a) is pointless since it may force you to change things that don't need changing, (b) clearly demonstrates you weren't the right candidate which may hurt further chances and (c) may be counterproductive since the interviewer may lie or be uniquely identifying faults that others don't find.
Whoa, really? Is this analysis available publicly somewhere? It would be really useful for further research on this topic.
Ask HN: What are ways to solve the chicken-egg problem for AI/big data startups?
The chicken and egg problem is usually talked about in the context of marketplaces (see [1] for some resources)

Recently, we've seen an influx of AI startups for which the value prop lies in the scale of their data. It's a chicken and egg problem in that it's difficult to get data unless you have customers, and it's difficult to have customers unless you have a clear value prop. What are some strategies to combat the chicken and egg problem in this case?

[1] http://www.guidetoyc.com/the-guide/6-users-distribution/
By the end of it, I decided I should just apply for Junior positions. I also got the advice that I have to take a couple months off to study for them. So that's what I did. (Not easy to do when you have mortgage to pay and a family to feed)

.. or spend time with. What's grating about the interviews you describe, where it's comp sci 101 versus experience, is that it punishes people who have years of experience in the field and established lives outside of work. Meanwhile, the 25 year olds comp-sci grads have it fresh in their minds, so appear more qualified.
Blame Hsieh. He is given carte blanche over Zappos as long as he meets his revenue targets. Full stop.
Check your top comment.

Duales Studium is hardly a novelty. As I said it's actually from the 70s.

What is relevant to the debate? Relevant is that the Dual Education model im Germany is diverse and offers different tracks for advanced degrees. The Ausbildung is not the end of education, but for many it is the entry into further adavnced education offerings.

Let's look at your original claims:

* the dual education is bullshit

Says it all.

* Duale Ausbildung" has nothing to do with universities

In reality the Ausblidung enables further education offerings.

* Worse, if you don't buy into the "dual education" thing, you can't get most of these jobs.

Ensures that people actually know something about their jobs, beyond training on the job.

* Don't trust German unemployment statistics

A rather useless recommendation.

* it's all about weeding out people at a young age so they're not allowed to attend the "free" university.

That's wrong. The dual education model addresses people who want a more practical education. Making a choice does not mean 'weeding out'. The education model allows people later to move on to more advanced education tracks and many do.

So your arguments were mostly unfounded and failed to see the dual education system in the broader context.
Is this a regular ecommerce valuation? Would be 2x revenue @150 Mio [1].

[1] http://www.retaildive.com/news/report-bonobos-raising-100m-t...
There is certainly a xenophobic strain in the Chronicles of Narnia, most evident in what is otherwise my favorite book in the series, "The horse and his boy." I can only think that to Lewis's ear, the word "Turkish" had a certain brutality to it that contrasted well with "delight" and paired well with Edmund's perdition.
In the U.K. both the Co-op (a consumer owned co-operative) and John Lewis/Waitrose (a worker owned partnership) have similar revenue figures to Whole Foods.
I am not pro basic income.

https://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/p/ir2.html
I have 8 years of industry experience and feel the exact opposite. When programming in Ruby I am forced to not fully express the concepts in my head. We do TDD but our tests are humorously thin; typically covering none, one, many. Idris proofs are tricky but more automated and powerful than writing tests. And I can still write tests in Idris.

To go beyond "protocols", UI form data to server response back to UI display in a web app is a source of major bugs. So many things are broken. Recently I had to add a spurious lap infant to book a flight due to JavaScript template being broken when rendering 0 children.
As a consumer of services, it's not more convenient for me than clicking the Lastpass (or your password manager of choice) icon and filling in the login form.

Plus, I imagine some people may have multiple email accounts, and would have to hunt through them to figure out which one they used to sign up with.

(Similar to my problem with StackOverflow; I can never remember which identity provider I used to sign up with them, and end up just clicking on all of them in order until one lets me in. For all I know, I might have multiple accounts.)
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AmazonFresh has never been about delivering groceries--it has been about learning last mile logistics in cities.

With this move they can a) accelerate that and b) kill Instacart.

The press release they are working backwards from is:

"Amazon today announced today they will deliver their own packages in most major cities in America, reducing their reliance on Fedex, UPS and USPS by up to 70%"
Feedback is extremely valuable. But you should take it with a grain of salt. If you are rejected several times, with feedback, and some of that feedback happens to overlap? Definitely something to consider fixing.
Calibre is written in Python
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I lost my father to lung cancer.

What always puzzles me is if the lower socioeconomic class is disproportionately affected by smoking and money issues, why are sin taxes the only political solution?

Some interesting fact on the quitting front, there are some vape shops that actually help people quit by gradually lowering the amount of nicotine over time.
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A key mapping function sounds like one of them more easy things to add into a piece of software
As long as I know that coding/algorithmic interviews are part of the process, I prefer whiteboarding. That's because it puts a lot more pressure on the interviewer to spot my bugs, if I have any. At this point, I'm a pretty good whiteboard programmer, and I know how to code to minimize bugs, but it does make things a bit more forgiving.
I was going to mention Meh. Their stuff is hilarious. And yep, it's the original Woot staff, long after they sold their baby to Amazon.
> 1. they will be locked into one color

No, this is wrong! As someone else commented, this is just not knowing something. The weirdness of the quantum entanglement comes from the fact that the behavior of each cube is experimentally correctly described by equations based on the cubes continuing to change color randomly.
Bezos will then start putting pressure on farmers. I don't know how these things work in the states, but the dairy industry would be the prime example in the UK.
Well academic research can be a very practical field too. You have to have some intellectual tools (mathematical reasoning, statistical reasoning), specific techniques, proofs etc.. which you apply to your problem domain. The most theoretical of which would be pure math or pure models of systems.

Innovation derives from working from basic principles and logical reasoning about a problem. Understanding the math is seen as important than just using it. You don't have to pursue pure math e.g. proofs but you should understand the usefulness and limitations of the mathematical tools you work with.

Those tools have utility in solving problems as we progress as a society. Otherwise you are in some sense operating blindly.

So education should be obtaining these intellectual tools to reason and think critically about things concerning humanity. Moreover one should seek a diversity of tools and ways of thinking. I feel like this is a huge driver of creativity.

For finance, the number one hedge fund was founded and run by a mathematician. Black-scholes, game theory... Signal processing... it's unfair to not get this exposure!
Wrong. I am not telling any company to treat their employees like crap to squeeze an extra penny of profit out of them.
Why does it prohibit recursion? Tail call optimization can prevent stack overflow
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Why? Do you have a needle fetish? Most people aren't trying to go out of their way to get unnecessary tests. They aren't exactly fun; they are usually actually kind of unpleasant.
I've recently switched to start working with Microsoft products, with both this and their Dynamics 365 platform. It really seems like there's a huge opportunity here for guys like me to bring years of experience hacking on UNIX systems into the Microsoft world because there's a lot of "this is how it's done" and legacy systems thinking.

Many of the developers I've seen working in this space seem a few years behind, so I'm excited to see this published here. Gives me faith that I'm making the right call (even if it is a bit painful to develop for these things. XML and all.)
It's not to ensure their profits remain at certain levels, the profits are capped, not floored.

The reason for this particular market is because health care costs in this country have gone out of control, and a major factor in that was people without insurance not paying bills, resulting in higher costs.

That's not facist simply because you don't like it.
Is there a mirror of the article?
I agree whiteboards are great for all those things. But they are terrible as a way to write actual code. The problem is that many whiteboard interviews have you write actual code on the board, and all of the inefficiencies involved in that.
Consider the possibility that you may have your personality built in a certain way that led you to structure your business to depend on you? Maybe deep down you kind of like it to be this way, only that now it's being increasingly too much and you can't shoulder it all? I know that I have been guilty of that kind of attitude in my personal life. Maybe you could benefit from talking to a psychologist? If only so that you could get some leads on what literature you could study to explore this. It is very enlightening and freeing when you start to understand the reasons behind your personality.

And yeah, I deducted all of this from your username :-p
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Walmart is the closest thing to "discount, no-frills" in the US, however it's 100% a facade. Their prices are realistically no better than chain grocery stores like Kroger, yet they do a very good job convincing poorer people that they are. Walmart is also really really gross. It doesn't matter where in the country you go, it feels like a hospital, and mysteriously the people always look like they're one stop away from one.

They spent a lot of money and energy trying to roll out in store pickup, 2 day pickup, and online grocery shopping, which I have been reasonably pleased with, but I think this is slowly becoming a death sentence for them. The one thing they're missing is the brand.

ALDI doesn't have as much dominance yet. Trader Joes has a bit more, and is all around a great store and reasonably priced compared to Whole Foods.
I think it's ok only if he cannot send email from your account.

There was an Ask HN a few weeks ago about a guy that someone sent an email resignation letter from him to his boss...