skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bezos creates a boiler room. Bezos, to me, is the most Machiavellian man alive and the arms race he started is being emulated by the likes of Jack Ma. This will not lead to happier people. Spying, advertising, fake and low quality products and constant consumption and consumerism is the goal of scamazon. I do like whole foods, a bit expensive, I use co-ops when possible to source food, but Amazon will make sure to gut headcount and compromise on quality anywhere possible to make an extra penny. Bezos farms all this money simply to be the richest and to play with rockets in space while we all suffer from shrinking middle class, lower education standards for most, cancer and an energy crunch. Bezos is dangerously smart, possibly the smartest business man alive or ever, but he is just not a good man. Every one of his successes requires the original to be sacrificed at their hands. using their infrastructure - aws - guarantees that if you are successful there Bezos will steal your model and compete with you.

I knew whole foods was falling at the hands of Costco, organic for cheaper, but whole foods had great variety and did try harder than all the other big-chain food stores.

Every scamazon victory feels like a loss of the world.

Time to bust this trust. Time for regulators to start breaking scamazon up.
It's just a lighthearted comment about the age of the site/company.
Not really, certainly not those who sailed ships.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Earth
I stopped thinking the AHA were credible after they stuck dogmatically to their 'salt is evil' message despite the complete lack of any evidence to this effect, (and some evidence that low salt consumption is problematic).
Well this is a huge exit for WholeFoods which was seeing fewer and fewer people enter it's stores and increased competition from value grocers introducing organic foods. A number of articles asked if WholeFoods had a future in this new environment. As for Amazon, I see this more as a real-estate play to help them further their new push into grocery and the no-checkout process.
I switched to Outlook because I got too many "see my comments in orange below" :-(
I don't think it is obvious. I have headphones I use for mixing, because of the frequency response. I don't use them to listen to music. Quality depends on what you are measuring, and no one claims a perfect frequency response necessarily means it sounds good. Often the opposite, since we use those types of headphones to find the flaws. So to ME, it's obvious that this is NOT about being a proxy for quality, and I'm inclined to believe that it is about what it claims to be about.
What Are Digital Marketers Using Web Development For?
Weren't there reports that the NSA paid RSA to make flawed crypto the default?

https://arstechnica.com/security/2013/12/report-nsa-paid-rsa...
Maybe have a look at the list here: https://www.tuc.org.uk/britains-unions

* Association of Educational Psychologists

* British Air Line Pilots’ Association

* FDA ("The union for senior public sector managers and professionals")

* Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association

* Prospect, the professionals' union

There are a lot more listed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/public-list-of-ac...
the compiler knows the failure modes. if the file doesn't exist, the printf isn't reachable. if the file isn't at least X bytes long, the printf isnt' reachable if bytes 10-20 can't be parsed as a number the printf isn't reachable.

it's just showing if you get through these 50 checks, by the time you get to printf the bytes will have been converted to what you need, or the program will have already errored out.
Seeing the photo the author chose... If that's what he had, that's really not what lokum is.
Surprised nobody has mentioned turning the heart back into a star.
The kind of people who would want to do this are the kind who would be willing to put up with discomfort and danger. Even on Earth many people voluntarily participate in sports or other activities that involve extreme risk or danger, or visit and live in dangerous and challenging places. It sounds like this experience isn't something you'd want, but that's not true of everyone.
Seems likely to be a defensive patent.
Unionization fails when an oligarchy can reliably imprison union leaders. Looking at the track record of developing countries, this is the typical path, not a lack of interest by local workers.
Anyone know if they'll pilot Amazon Go approach at some of these stores? I don't think it's nearly ready for scale but could see it working out for certain locations...
>without macros

Type systems are macro systems, it's just not obvious because type languages are very different from expression languages. The main "innovation" of Idris is hammering harder on this front. And in any case, the fact that most type languages are logic languages gives people with a formalist bent a warm feeling in their stomachs.
I've found that avocado oil is really expensive. I've only been able to find it at my local Whole Foods. Haven't checked Trader Joe's, though I'd wager that if they did have it, it'd be a bit less expensive than WF.
Fun fact: Publix is the largest employee-owned grocery chain in the US.
I'd argue, in turn, that your experience, regardless of how many people were involved, is divergent from the way in which email itself is moving in the broader market of users.

Images as links to something else, that require an additional step, are an inferior substitute to inline images. Here in 2017, it's possible to build an email that includes tables or screenshots or other rich media that exist as part of the email itself.

This is commonly viewed as a benefit. 20 years ago, I, too, was resistant to the idea that email should be something other than plain text, but I was wrong. That ship has saild. Email today is a rich document, and rich documents often include meaningful inline images that should be stored with the document.

Again, that YOU don't like this doesn't mean it's not useful or widely used by other people.
Judging by the quantity of crapware in existence, the answer is: yes.
Swedish commuters validate tickets using NFC microchips implanted in their hands
Seems more likely that Amazon got this patent to prevent some other brick and mortar store from acquiring it and blocking Amazon.com.
Shit, for $120 you can get a near perfect fit tailored shirt shipped from HK (if you're ok with massively high latency and waiting for someone to come by and take a dozen measurements).
The focus of many in high-assurance security after 90's maybe was that using compromised OS's or hypervisor's maintaining security properties is best done with a hardware architecture that does the crypto at CPU level on individual processes, pages, and so on with the chip being the trust boundary. They've spent a while trying to improve on security and performance. Edmison's design was last one I saw that I liked with great section on prior work:

https://theses.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10112006-2048...
It was.

Nobody educated thought the Earth was flat. But Christopher Columbus miscalculated the size of the Earth, and everyone else correctly calculated it.

There was no way that Columbus's ships could cover a distance equal to the width of the Atlantic + the width of the Pacific + the width of North America. They would've all starved to death before they reached their actual goal: the islands east of Asia (or Asia proper).

It wasn't a calculated risk to find new land, they were trying to go to existing land and Columbus was just convinced that it was much, much, much closer than it actually was. Despite the fact that pretty close estimates of the size of the world had been calculated for a long time before him.
Doesn't mono-traversable/classy-prelude solve this?
The problem here is that people that use in store WiFi are too cheap to pay for their own 4g bandwidth. So these folk are frugal not big spenders. They will need to work with telcos to deep packet inspect customers triangulated to the store locations. And then to stop people shopping online.

With destination shopping, e.g. to buy a new sofa or bicycle, customers have invariably been online already and chose the store that way.
How do they compare to Gant? I've always liked Gant's sizing but not their prices so always buy their steep sales.
I checked presentations on AR and every video was either low quality or I didn't even understand what it was about.
Maybe those are one and the same thing---being born into a poor family, you inherit the attitudes that kept that family poor. At least, I expect that's a contributing factor. Obviously there's more to it.
How convenient for him that only his exact products will produce the desired effect.
> You sound like you know this is irrational, but you don't care.

It sounds to me like this person simply cares more about the prospect of living on Mars than about being wealthy, or being safe. There's no rule that says that a rational person must care about their own health, wealth, and safety above all else.
There is atomic oxygen, a lot of CO2, even water vapors (appox 20ppm) in the atmosphere. Sulfuric acid can remove water from many compounds, plus sulfuric acid will decompose to water and sulfur trioxide at the right temperature.
Hi Justin,

Welcome back to the game. What happens to the other products in your incubator?
When I was young, my parents described Turkish Delight as being basically Applets & Cotlets, and that sounds like an accurate description based on this article. Substitute rosewater for apple/apricot/whatever juice and you've got Turkish Delight. Am I missing something? At least in the northwestern US, Applets & Cotlets have been a thing for decades.
When that bill was signed into law, it was a clear indication that the 9/11 terrorists had indeed won (achieved their goals) and our own representatives and President had just handed them that victory willingly, albeit rushed and unscrutinized. Requiring a 2/3 majority before passing legislation that brings down the whole country is a great idea indeed.
> I didn't see any ideas on supplementing the 62.5% less gravity. I can't imagine what that'd do to your body after years of living in it.

Another way of looking at it is that if you have medical problems that make it hard to walk in full gravity, low gravity might make the difference between being stuck in a wheelchair and being able to walk.

Ignoring for a moment the optics of sending our old people away to Mars, I think a Martian old folks home could actually be quite popular and successful.
This analogy is confusing because it is incorrect in some fundamental ways. You aren't just opening a box and seeing one or the other color. The measurement itself determines a role in the outcome that you couldn't predict in advance.

It is more like you get to choose to measure only one of the red, green or blue channels. If you send a message containing which channel and the measurement, the other person can do the same measurement and find the complementary value. Without the channel and the original measurement the other person just sees random behavior.

The spooky part is that I don't choose the color channel to measure until after the entangled balls are separated
Somebody who is currently living off of their investments should probably have moved most of them out of volatile investments like stock anyway.
Been working here all day (East Coast US). Would be helpful to know where in the country it's down when posting this.
I actually have no problems with interviewing using a whiteboard, but asking someone to code on a whiteboard (as I have been asked to do in all but 1 interview that used a whiteboard) seems monumentally stupid.
> Earth has managed to kill a whole bunch of it's inhabitants in the past.

Yet all our ancestors have survived. I don't see why we, who are considerably more intelligent, who can predict celestial events, who can store food and water for years, who can build nuclear-bomb-proof bunkers, can generate energy from urianium dust, would do worse a job at surviving than tiny mouse-like animals 65 million years ago.

https://www.amazon.com/Scatter-Adapt-Remember-Survive-Extinc...
California is not the only place people interview.

There are lots of jurisdictions where moonlighting clauses are enforceable. In all of the places I know of they do require you get paid for it to count as moonlighting.
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This is why as I look to the future that my two year old son will inherit as an adult, I'm going to make sure that he has a really solid grasp of philosophy.
The cutting edge of today's technology and science are all digging deeply into age old philosophical questions that haven't seemed so relevant until recently. Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality in particular are going to beg us to answer questions about Ethics, the nature of Consciousness, and the nature of Reality.
Challenge will be that folks who shop at Whole Foods (aka Whole Paycheck) are already relatively price insensitive compared to people who shop elsewhere. Instacart was such a good match for WF because it's the same demographic of people who are willing to pay a lot for convenience. Your average Publix shopper is likely to be much more price sensitive.
I'm not sure I can agree–seeing 'ſ', where I'd ordinarily expect to see 's', was briefly confusing at first, but I quickly derived from context what it must mean, and found my surmise confirmed in further perusal of older texts.

On the other hand–I'm not sure that someone, who has written an Emacs minor mode to perform automatic ſ-insertion where it is grammatical to do so, is necessarily best placed to speak to the general case here.
I have 11gb of books and less than 11gb free on my device. Although I don't use the content server I do use calibre companion to wirelessly connect and sync select books based on author or tag. Even if I were syncing the entire library calibre is a nice way to manage metadata and sync and calibre companion is a nice search interface.

Also a single central location + backup ensures that your books are unlikely to be lost.
It is a book at the intersection of fiction and non-fiction. Every chapter is followed by a section explaining quite precisely what was dramatised and what was real.
How to make a cinemagraph, or a moment frozen in time
> My response is to avoid buying ebooks from Amazon if possible.

This severely limits what ebooks one can read.
I used to torrent DRM-free epubs and buy the paper copy so I could support the work without appearing to support DRM. Lately though I've been skipping the torrent part and just buying the paper books.
this is a shot across the bow of instacart and even uber and walmart. amazon wants to own all consumer data so it can know what you want to buy before you do. it's a strategy that's hard to bootstrap, but they're already been at it for 20 years. whole foods fills a retail direct distribution hole in their product line that their own automated grocery stores are just not ready to do.

this is they type of acquisition that seems a little puzzling at first, but makes sense in the context of their overall strategy (unlike most acquisitions, which just remain puzzling since they're usually ego/prestige plays).
I'm interested in this as well.

So far, all I've found is some research that artificially lowering LDL or raising HDL may not show clear correlation to lower heart disease risk- not quite the same thing as saying LDL isn't generally correlated to heart disease risk:

Broad overview:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cholesterol-conundrum/

Studies references (but not cited) in the article above:

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe0801608

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1107579
A worldwide disaster happens and all of humanity on Earth dies. Wouldn't it be nice if humans, as a species, could continue living on Mars?
No offense, but you sound like a person who hasn't been outdoors a lot, not even on an overnight hike.

I assure you, there are places on Earth that are effectively as remote and frontier-like as Mars, where you can comfortably die, knowing that no assistance was coming or possible.

If your goal is to make Mars hospitable, I suggest you do some back of the envelope math to see how much energy it would take to divert some water comets onto Mars and then to terraform it to create some sort of rudimentary atmosphere.

That should hopefully rid you of the naivete and hubris about space frontierism.
Well, if successful, it will be a great leap forward for Amazon to advance its grocery vision. Maybe some kinda deal will be given to Prime members? Amazon Go Wholefoods? For the employees, it is neutral, if the company keeps underperforming Amazon will surely do something about it.
Yeah, just like that oh-so-reasonable 1-click purchase they patented. Good thing they never abused that patent.
Because no one wants neuormorphic hardware, we want 16-bit hardware that allows us to do math. Contrary to popular opinion, neural networks is more about math than biology. Having 1-bit or analog weights/activations is a royal pain.
Not without CPU support. Intel SGX, AMD SEV (sort of), and ARM trustzone (if you want to do a lot of work) make this possible.
> But Christopher Columbus miscalculated the size of the Earth, and everyone else correctly calculated it.

There's a difference between being wrong and being irrational.
I just published an article about our experience from Startup School. https://medium.com/@a13n/a-review-of-y-combinators-startup-s...

Also, here's our presentation video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07ljML9g0Yg
Agreed. Cardiovascular disease is definitely multifactorial, as are most diseases without a known genetic cause. Even those diseases with a clear genetic abnormality, the other factors contribute to the development of said disease.
Their new control panel brings them up to par with Digital Ocean's in my opinion: https://cloud.linode.com/linodes (requires login)
Or get woken up by your robot and told what to do (probably dance).
There'd be a lot more flying triangle chokes in MMA, that's for sure.
HN readers tend to have lots of disposable income. They also tend to fall for hobbies with lots of room for discussion, debate, and nuance.

Gourmet cuisine fits very nicely between the two :)
Out of curiosity, what is the reason for this article being "flagged"? I found it very relevant (I do have to deal with gov paperwork time-to-time).
why would they? It's less secure, and less usable.
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Sometimes one needs a ruthless capitalist to act as the midwife of innovation.
Actually those 10k hours are a (semi) myth: it may take a bit less to get started [1] and it's all about deliberate practice, not _just_ practice.

The „secret” is hid in plain sight: just do stuff. The more - and diverse! - you do, the more you learn. You know more, you can do more, so you can learn more.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MgBikgcWnY
Wild Oats was bought by WF, but that purchase was later reversed.[1] I used to be a Wild Oats shopper myself.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Oats_Markets
How to make $300M in two months betting on groceries
That is actually not very surprising. If you consider all the people in India, poverty and malnoursihment is still incredibly high. But there is much prosperity in the cities ... but healthy habits (like exercises, gym) have only recently started taking root. So obesity is more common amongst well to do Indians which in turn leads to cardiovascular diseases.
It's also a movie by Paul Verhoeven.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Delight_(1973_film)
ironically, both websites serve predominantly scammers who need SMS to verify with various websites to commit fraud.
Binge watched many presentations. This must be close to sitting through the Disrupt Conference at TechCrunch. Sigh.
Unusual weather in Antarctica leads to rain and a Texas-sized melt
The question here is, what good is a collection of all validators? If you want to perform validation, you're starting with an item (to validate) and you know its type, so it shouldn't be a problem to get the correct IValidator<T> for it. If you really need to have a common base for all validators, explicit interface implementation is a better choice than hiding methods with new:

interface IValidator
{
bool Validate(object item);
}

interface IValidator<T> : IValidator
{
bool Validate(T item);
}

abstract class Validator<T>
: IValidator<T> where T : class
{
public abstract bool Validate(T item);

bool IValidator.Validate(object item)
{
var typedItem = item as T;
if (typedItem == null)
throw new InvalidOperationException();

return Validate(typedItem);
}
}
It's precisely the fact that Coconut oil is 100% plant-based, saturated fat that it IS healthy. The notion that saturated fat causes heart disease has been thoroughly debunked as sham science. It's the inflammation in the arteries stimulated by excess sugar consumption (refined carbs, table sugar, soda, etc) that causes the problem. The body sends cholesterol to the scene to patch the damage.

Reference: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/magazine/what-if-it-s-all-...

Best analogy I've heard is "Gee whiz, everytime I see a fire, I see firemen. I guess firemen cause fires". Cholesterol does not cause heart disease all by itself.

You'd think scientists and the media, by this time, would have stopped relying on Dr. Ansel Keyes for their rationale for what causes heart disease. His 1950's "Seven Countries" study was an example of cherry-picked data to support a pre-determined outcome that was desired.

Reference: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/07/the-sugar-co...

Finally, I can show you cultures, such as the Inuit, who's diet is almost exclusively saturated fat and protein and which are healthy (as long as they stick to their native diet). I challenge anyone to show me a culture who's diet is primarily sugar-based which has comparable health.

Reference: http://www.theiflife.com/the-inuit-paradox-high-fat-lower-he...
In the Kim Stanley Robinson series on Mars (best Sci-Fi series ever, you should read it), they first 100 colonists train in Antarctica, because it's the closest conditions on Earth to Mars (and even then, still quite far off)
Yeah, I just bounced off that when trying out OfflineIMAP; thanks, setting a new app password helped.
> Honestly, if people enjoy living in a closed box, they can do it on Earth, they don't have to go to mars.

Or perhaps some people care about things other than their immediate surroundings?
Thanks for the update.

But it was HP which promised commercial products soon, not me :)
As Musk's plans describe, the problem is that today that intersection is nonexistent. It's perhaps on the order of $10 billion dollars per person, with a minimum flight of 10-20 people all paying that.

But it doesn't need to be a loss leader. If that cost was reduced by some 5 orders of magnitude, more people could afford it, and that intersection could grow enough to be viable.
Search and sort through your DropBox photos by people, places, and thingsFINALLY
As it describes all these (what would have been at the time) technological advancements inside the house, makes me wish the US preferred new buildings like they do in Japan.
I don't understand why anybody would seriously use such a service. IMO, the risk of accidentally leaking confidential information and/or breaking privacy laws is just too high relative to the benefit of not having to host something like it yourself.

Also: where's your privacy statement?
> But it's theirs to waste.

Not quite, since as Musk admits in this paper, he expects this madness to be "a huge public–private partnership".

So yeah, he expects tax-payer money to contribute.