skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use alot (to view and send mail) + notmuch (to index) + mbsync/isync (to retrieve mail). It was painful to configure, mostly due to needing scripts for syncing up tags with IMAP folders.

So far its been worth it. Instantaneous search of all my email ever. With a properly configured mailcap file HTML emails are rendered ok (still have problems with links) and attachments open in external programs as well.

Since `alot` is written in Python and can be extended with Python hooks for almost any event it has been easier for me to customize than emacs.
> How interesting to see Amazon and Walmart making major acquisitions on the same day.

One is for $13.7B, the other $0.3B.
> They would be smart to lean much heavier on the jet.com brand in the future when it comes to recruiting.

They are doing just that. Have had a couple of contacts from them, and always as jet.com (with a throwaway line in the second paragraph about their exciting recent acquisition by Walmart).
If this was the strategy, it would not require the complexity of an acquisition and a price tag of $13b.

-David
TL;DR People who stay in their hometowns are more likely to be Trump supporters than those than move away. Digging into the data shows these Trump supporters are more likely to be economically disadvantaged. People who return home after moving away often come back for good-paying, niche jobs and this helps the local community. Recently migration trends have slowed this "move-back".

I recently attended a high-school reunion and I probably could have written the same article from my experience. I grew up outside a small city in a fly-over state. Those that left either came from the upper-middle class and/or performed extremely well in high-school (with a few exceptions).

I met up with many of my old friends that are very smart men and women that seem to be "stuck" working mediocre, unfulfilling, and low-paid jobs. I also know many very, very average people that came from some means and somehow have a very nice, well-paying career (which is awesome for them!).

It is no surprise to me that smart people feeling trapped in their lives without economic opportunity nor hope for opportunity in the future, will be attracted to an authoritarian that preys on fear.
Saying that you're being recruited for "special projects" and then once you talk to them more you realize its clearly not the case.
I've always found the cause to be extensions as well. Usually a version conflict or something. It's so difficult to debug though. Always takes a while just to get everything you need to finally dig in.
While I think its extremely interesting and exciting to colonize Mars, both out of curiosity and the trickle down of new technologies that would be developed in the endeavor, I just don't personally feel any particular emotional drive to do so because humans might otherwise go extinct. I have a child and so have a very strong instinct of wanting to do everything I can to help him to survive as well as his children and grandchildren. Similarly I want people on the other side of the planet, whom I have never met, to survive simply because I know they exist now. Once I start to think beyond maybe 300 years these feeling deteriorate rapidly. If I think about our species being wiped out in 10,000 years I hardly have an emotional response at all.

Am I alone in feeling this way?
Who's "we"? AFAIK Elon's current plan involves passengers paying for tickets out of their own pockets. That doesn't cover other overhead costs (like the creation of the necessary structures on Mars to sustain a colony) but it's certainly a significant step towards bringing costs down enough for people who want to go to do so.
Ask HN: Advice on potential alternative tools for managing supplier SKU data
Disclaimer: I've uhm'd and err'd about asking this here for a year or so, but as it's Friday evening here I'm seizing what's left of the day.

Background: For a new project, I am a reseller of items from a single supplier. Said supplier provides a ~25,000 line Excel sheet with SKU info on a sporadic basis. The number of available SKUs goes up and down. The Excel sheet is valid until a newer one supersedes it.

I currently take the supplied Excel workbook, keep it native Excel and run various calculations, transformations and formulae across it to make suitable input CSVs for Magento Community Edition, eBay and Amazon.

My issue is that the spreadsheet has passed 100MB and the quantity of calculations is making it unwieldy and difficult. File -> Save takes close to 90 seconds (i7 4790K, 32GB RAM, Excel 2016), and Excel is unusable during this time.

I'm using Excel because a) the source material and and CSV output for the various platforms are easily made from it and b) I know Excel pretty well. This thing has morphed into a catch-all tool for what I do, and I fear Stockholm Syndrome is creeping in. It's portable at the moment, rather than being spread across 5 different workbooks

My question: what should I consider for alternatives? I am coming to a point where I can afford the time to learn a new thing, should that be more appropriate.

If Excel is the answer, that's absolutely fine, too -- your advice and feedback is very much appreciated.

Thanks in advance, and happy weekend to you.

Edit: macOS is my primary platform, I have a recent-ish i5 ready to go with Windows, Linux or something else Intel-y.
>[maybe] there's no such thing as a "real" Linux desktop.

That may be the simplest answer, but when people talk about "the year of Linux on the desktop" they're talking about something in particular, right? Or does any Linux system count? Android smart TVs? Routers? Mall kiosks? Car infotainment systems? Bluray players where the only interface is a Java program? Or are we only counting systems where we can drop to a shell? In which case, do we only count Android phones that let you install bash, or only ones that can be rooted, or do we count them all?

It's not a logical inconsistency, and it's not incomprehensible. It's a simple question: at what point do you differentiate "it runs on Linux" from "it's Linux on the desktop"? Because if my router counts, Linux won a long time ago.
Obituary: Helmut Kohl
As a startup founder who dealt with numerous legal things on the ops side, there's clearly room for a lot of improvement. While Clerky seems to focus on the startup's side of the problem, it seems like Justin is tackling the firm's side of the problem (that allows company's like Clerky to take their business). This is really interesting to me and I would definitely bet on anything Justin leads. Really excited to see where this goes.
If I can work 10 hours to have my needs met, I'd rather work 40 hours so I can travel 4 times more and have 4 times more cool stuff.
MAny astronauts, on their path to being selected as a trainee for NASA will spend a year in Antarctica maintaining telescopes etc
I understand the chain-rule. I understand using the derivative to minimize error. What I want to know is, what math is applied where to architect better models? Preferably with examples.
It's a pun on "14!".
Why can't you use libraries? You're rewarding people for reinventing the wheel.
I actually don't remember what it tastes like (had it a few times as a kid), only that it was really disgusting. I must have had the industrial "fake" kind rather than the good stuff they sell fresh in turkey.
> Honestly, if people enjoy living in a closed box, they can do it on Earth, they don't have to go to mars.

This is a disingenuous strawman argument, and you know it.
I use a Linode instance for a personal OpenVPN server and the bandwith for me is at lest 2-3x bigger. This is a huge deal for me for the same price.
it's okay, the important thing is that people who do not understand anything about the internet are making legal decisions with respect to its openness and competitiveness.
I liked the way The Magazine worked: they sent you a link which set a cookie.
Direct link https://research.googleblog.com/2017/06/supercharge-your-com...
> cares more about various intangibles beyond just the value-for-money

Very much, like many premium businesses part of what they are is to ensure everything will be lovely, easy, and just happen. That is the added value. Take that away and you're competing against ASDA etc. Premium brands need to keep that, it is a very valid market but must be looked after.
Amazon has no ethics, so I don't know why you think it would be an issue..
Admins update submission please
Poor decision making like this gives capitalism a bad name.
They need some kind of context input.

-GPS position, intent/goal, domain etc.

I'm at a dog show I would want breed etc.

I'm on the street I just want it come back dog maybe dangerous dog, friendly dog.

Also, would be cool/scary to just get back movable object 1, person 1, living movable object 3 etc. and if I give it multiple scenes from a video it knows person 1 is the same person 1 and if I name (them) Tony it keeps tracking tony.
...And it wasn't working.
> Coffee shops, schools, and airplanes all block certain websites.

Do they do it to block bandwidth hogs like video streaming sites (and "think of the children!" content, in schools), or is that coffee shop blocking review sites, info about competitors, etc? I think that what they're blocking and why is more important than the fact that they're doing some blocking/redirecting in the first place.
The timing of all of this is rather unfortunate, because I am currently on a boat on vacation with limited wifi. I have updated the copy of the website and will continue to make changes to it in the near future.
Implicit Bias
hey, founder of interviewing.io here. no need to feel bad =) though you're always welcome, in any capacity!
I doubt anyone cares how much they cost. Some will care how they look. When you get all your clothes from Costco, you probably look like someone who dresses at Costco. Whether that matters at all is up to the individual.
Brains have the equivalent of memristors. Changing the value of the memristors gets harder the more charge it has. That is why spaced repetition as a learning method works as a memory technique.

When we sleep the brain organsizes and decides what to keep/forget. Artificial intelligence probably needs to emulate sleep.
My current company did the same for me, flew me in from another country and I got an assignment for three days, while I wasn't directly pairing with anyone part of the task was to interact with the team on a real feature(albeit code from these tasks are not used as stated on the NDA).

I got to see not just the team I ended up in but the company infrastructure and day to day, it was what convinced me to come.

And they got to see me working and communicating with the team, they gave me a task and I delivered and so they were not hiring me blindly, I refused offers before from companies which I believe didn't interview or test me properly.
Meh, good PR departments.

I'm amazed that people still shit on unions constantly and think "I can get a better deal on my own". You would think illegal wage fixing would have woken people up a bit to the fact that companies are not out to give you a deal.
Which is why the UK scores low on corruption indices. Silly foreigners handing brown envelopes to each other - just make it legal!
>I often wish that password entry for things fully under your control (i.e. when there are no retry limits aside from brute computational power) would come with limited brute forcing support.

This part. I misunderstood the comment. I thought by 'limited brute forcing support' they meant to limit the brute forcing process. The sibling comment also thought the same thing so I didn't doubt it.
I don't think your numbers for Germany are right. According to [1], the rate is 25% for people aged 15+. It's twice as high for people of low social status compared than people of high social status [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoking_in_Germany
[2] http://edoc.rki.de/oa/articles/reEi8wDOV3B1g/PDF/25UH9cUwefu... page 4
> Microsoft could have added some unified Unit type but they did not, which makes this irrelevant.

It's not irrelevant - you're using Task/Task<T> as an example of the non-generic base type/generic subtype pattern being necessary, but it isn't.

IEnumerable<T> extending IEnumerable is a consequence of C#1 not supporting generics at all, and the non-generic version would not be necessary if it had. I was just using it as a common example of the boilerplate the pattern incurs.
Being in the same physical location doesn't mean they have the same connectivity though. With colo cages, once you get big enough you get to choose your upstream providers.

I get 15 ms better ping to Frankfurt Linode compared to Vultr, for example.
It seems that you're implying blatent disregard for the environment and pollution began (and possibly ended) in China.

That is distressingly revisionist, and/or ignorant, history.

You're more than welcome to consult the actual record.
Having done both, and having once been an otherwise unemployable 15 year old, I'm saddened by this development. I learned some valuable skills at that job. I'm not sure there are many other entry points to the job market for young people that want to or need to work.
You mean like that opportunity to work at Bonobos* ?

* Owned by Walmart
A fair amount of other people would I suspect argue that your idea of images as external content in mail messages is a regression to the bad old days.

* http://jdebp.eu./Proposals/gnksoa-mua.html#NoAutoFetchExtern...
for as long as I've had proper internet access on my phone. since 2009 at least.

it's great too, because it's forcing retailers like best buy to at least be mildly competitive in pricing. I will actually buy things at best buy now if I really want them immediately, but it often requires telling them to give me the online price since it's marked up in store (which I guess is another form of this price comparing behavior).
If they don't have an ASN. It also means they don't have their own IP address space and could not build a transit network.
Dreams and Dreaming
That's a fantastic initiative to offer world literature. FYI: A while ago I've started the World Classics Bookshelf - http://worldclassics.github.io The idea is to use plain text with markdown formatting conventions (for richer typography e.g. beautiful quotes, em-dashes, etc.). See The Trial by Franz Kafka as an example -> https://github.com/worldclassics/the-trial (in the Manuscripts plain text source format). The second idea is to use a (standard) static website builder (e.g. Jekyll) for building the online books (from markdown) and to offer different book / page designs (kind of like the Zen of CSS Garden e.g. the Zen of Book Designs). See https://github.com/bookdesigns for some examples incl. the "classic" GitBook style -> http://bookdesigns.github.io/book-git Anyways, keep up the great work and publishing public domain world classics. Cheers.
LOL. They already have a MotoG phone they sell at a discount. The only catch is they spam you with ads. It's too bad they can't have a little more integrity when it comes to stuff like this.
Keep in mind there's also increasing evidence that HDL/LDL are symptoms, not causes of heart disease. Maybe the strongest is the failure of drugs that lower LDL and increase HDL - they don't make people better.

E.g. Eli Lilly's Evacetrapib: tested on 20k patients over 24 months, LDL down 30%, HDL up 125% - but zero difference in cardiovascular health outcomes. Needless to say it failed the trial and has been scrapped.

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/05/18/now...
This would be great to run a security camera still feed through. It could completely eliminate false positives.
Startup School was a blast. Connecting with like minded people, getting some sanity check and verification from YC alumni was awesome.

We're Gruply - Instagram for Learning (https://www.startupschool.org/presentations/452)
Don't assume you know why truck drivers do what they do…
Great point. It would be nice if that's what they're doing.
I think OP means vector notation in the research papers, not using vector operations and representations at the code level.

That said, it can be useful for the beginner to implement a basic NN library from the ground up, to understand how the vector processing works, as well as what is going on step-wise with backprop and such.

Once that is fully understood, the next step of utilizing true vector processing libraries can be taken, and so on - eventually culminating in using and understanding libraries like TensorFlow.

Having the background of the lower levels gives you an appreciation and even insights when you transition to higher level frameworks.

That's just my opinion, though.
The 'Commute Deck,' a laptop alternative with a custom keyboard
1. It is a free service that no one is forcing anybody to use.

2. I still haven't got around to writing/finishing up anything other than the core functionality of the service.

3. The reason I posted here is primarily to get feedback on the core functionality.

4. When I do get around to creating the TOS and Privacy Policy etc., what it will essentially state is that a) no human will look at the images and b) all images will be (automatically) deleted within 24 hours from the time they were uploaded/processed. While it is not hard to write this down, it is not high up on my list of priorities at this point in time.

Thanks for your feedback all the same.
Create, not yet... although there are a few automated biology lab solutions in the wild... but it might help refute a number of dubious findings if it's able to spot methodology problems.
Have you ever worked a minimum wage food service or warehouse job before? I have, and believe me, it's hell. I spent my high school years working as a cook at KFC. Hot summer days spent making $3.35 an hour standing over pressure cookers full of 400 degree hot oil and lifting 50 pound baskets of deep fried chicken out of them. You get a 15 minute paid break every 4 hours, and a mandatory 30 minute unpaid break for lunch.

I'm not saying its ok to be inhumane or break laws and treat your workers like cattle. I'm just saying that if you've never worked at a minimum wage unskilled job before, you probably don't realize how much it can be hell, just due to the nature of the work. The same thing can be said for lots of labor like farming, construction work, mining, etc.
I guess Microsoft's plan if someone's Surface has a problem is to just give them a whole new one?
Every reputable seller also has email. In Amazon's case you don't even need that, you just need to click a button.
I always have unusable cell reception inside of Fry's Electronics.
They started using SHA-3 before it was standardized?
Well Lewis was a genius after all.
I think your comment is a non-sequitur. I am highly invested in my 401K and IRA but I would much rather have returns over the next 10 years than the next 3 months.

If your retirement is 3 months away, then sure you should be thinking short term, which actually means you should be moving away from stocks entirely. Investors that are really that short term should be in bonds or cash.
It wasn't "mere suggestion".

She told this guy to kill himself repeatedly. She encouraged him to do it. She badgered him about it. After he did it, she didn't call the police to ask them to try to save him. She wanted him dead.

The judge did not tell this woman to kill herself, so your hypothetical situation isn't the same thing. There is no slippery slope here. Freedom of speech does not extend to harmful speech. It is similarly not legal to tell people to go out and commit acts of violence.
I get the sense Walmart's internal heirarchy has the same problem as GM's.

I.e. that they've both been around long enough that their management is staffed with people who owe their live to the company, and therefore have a very different perspective on it than anyone outside the company.

Feed enough corporate rah rah and keep knowledge workers from seeing any of their low level employees, and I imagine it would start to look pretty good.
Consider the scenario where I don't already hold bitcoins, but would use them for a transaction. It is very possible that by the time I obtain them, then go to make a transaction an hour later, that I could lose over 10% due to fluctuations. It's not that I physically can't, its that I would be stupid to rely on bitcoin as an exchange of value when there are other options with less volatility. Yes bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are in their infancy and inherently volatile at this stage, but the volatility until now has been lower such that we are willing to accept losing 1-2% in a transaction for the perceived value of transacting in bitcoin over a fiat currency. With volatility at these levels, that value proposition goes out the window. Adoption of a currency is always a function of how stable it is as a store of value, and wider adoption is what sustains a higher value. Speculation is not able to sustain a higher intrinsic store of value, hence my hypothesis.
Yes, pressure will most likely exist on the job... maybe even without internet access... but not on a whiteboard.
> the political climate appears to be reluctant to even start building them.
I had the same experience however not with whiteboards but with take-home assignments, I was looking for a job while still working crazy hours at my previous company.

I often had to code in the late hours of the night or pull all-nighters for days straight to deliver these tests, and most of the time I got rejected with barely any explanation, one time the company just ghosted me and didn't even give me a proper rejection.

It wasn't just a defeating experience, it was affecting my sleep and my health.
Someone else posted that this is why they think Amazon may have filed this patent - a sort of "Good Guy Patent Troll" move.
Thanks to the YC team for the opportunity. Our advisor (whom is also Sequoia backed) had a breadth of knowledge. Listening to his advice to other teams was very valuable. The next best value was watching the partners conduct Office Hours.

Would definitely love feedback for our presentation https://www.startupschool.org/presentations/355

And if you're an immigrant living in the US, I'd love to chat about the experience. Best of hard work to everyone.
Colonists don't take round trips, otherwise they would be visitors.
Switzerland's 2 largest supermarket chains Migros[1] and Coop[2] are structured as cooperatives, generating yearly revenues of ~28 billion CHF, each.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migros
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coop_(Switzerland)
Open Source Search Engine to Learn Anything
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I also immediately thought of kibbutzim, just as a counterexample for debate. (Full disclosure: ex-volunteer)

From Agriculture To High-Tech: Meet Five Kibbutzim That Became Global Powerhouses
http://nocamels.com/2016/03/successful-israeli-kibbutzim-ind...
Agreed. Seems like its a commodity to be traded, a black market currency for criminal activity (i am not bothered by this), a currency for countries that need a way to buy goods outside there normal means. All the currency aspects are really cool especially as a means of freedom BUT its value is 100% based on speculation and trading not because of real value.

It is cool and i am not hating on it and people are getting rich from it but it's value isn't because all of a sudden average people are using it to buy groceries or pay their bills.
And the employee's get a paycheck in return...
No. I reject your idea in its entirety.
Amazon didn't terribly Amazon-ize the culture at Zappo's, AFAIK; that's at least an existence proof that they don't always do that.