skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also known as Usenet's Law [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14561801
Of course Go players probably saw it coming. Also, Google knew that he needed to leave good impression, not just beat the best human player.
Completely standalone, or integrated into the Amazon infrastructure while maintaining the Whole Foods brand and product line? I could see Amazon using whole foods as a kind of local "base" for grocery delivery services. Having a physical store to offload perishables onto if online demand doesn't match supply really makes sense.
What about "whatever you're using"? It probably doesn't seem well thought out, but is there any other answer? Personally I don't care. I use spaces in Python because of pep8 and tabs in PHP or JS depending on whether or not the file is using tabs or spaces already. Sometimes I realize I checked in a file to git with tabs instead of spaces so I go back and run a find and replace to match indentation. Is that so wrong? Shitty question IMO
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Amazon is buying Whole Foods for $13.7B
The Polynesian history of the (european) middle ages keeps getting more interesting and mysterious.

Evidence for polynesian contact with the Americas is mounting. Regardless, the medieval coonization of all the pacific islands is evidence of seamanship and navigation skills European mariners didn't achieve until well into the age of sail. European sailing was much more trade/cargo oriented & we know a lot less about "pre-contact" polynesian maritime cultre so it's hard to do put the technologies side-by-side. That said, it looks the polynesian ability to aim for and land on small remote islands circa 300CE was not surpassed by any other culture until the 18th century.

Then there's the strange case of Easter Island with it's giant stone statues. Giant stone statues & "how-the-f%£$-did-they-do-this" megalithic monuments have existed for a long time (EG the sphinx), but these are usually produced by populous civic cultures. "High civilization" to use an out of date term. For a tiny island to produce this kind of an artistic culture without obvious predecessors or descendants is strange.

As always in prehistory (in the literal, "before written records" sense), what we know is very little. But, it wouldn't be hard for me to believe that surprising numerical or mathematical systems existed there. It's a culture that has surprised us to the point of disbelief several times.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14568468
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Poor Instacart too. Can't imagine they'll keep them around for long.
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Last time I've used Notepad++ was around 5 years ago and this feature was there already so it's there for a while. I'm glad that I could help.
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What does this mean for Instacart I wonder? Will Amazon shut them off from their stores?
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Amazon buying Whole Foods for $13.7 billion
Checkmate, brick and mortar!! Amazon is eating the world.
More generally if you like functional programming, the archives of the "Functional Geekery" podcast are a great resource:

https://www.functionalgeekery.com/

There's at least one episode that's devoted to Idris:

https://www.functionalgeekery.com/episode-54-edwin-brady/
"meat units" posting stupid comments like that one are indeed obsolete...
You mean in term of "where are they graduated from " (which school/uni) ?
I was thinking exactly the same thing except that WF might be a less profitable business.
(on the other hand people were pretty quick to downvote/re-establish the truth)
I'd be curious about what this also means for Instacart given their strategic partnership with Whole Foods and their direct competition with Amazon Fresh.
Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods in $13.7B Bet on Groceries
pretty sure that's the partly the motivation behind the acquisition
It's nice to see non-union employees treated well and paid well, not because of any negative feelings toward unions or unionization, but because I think it shows that you can be a successful capitalist without trying to suck every ounce of productivity and profit out of your lowest-paid employees.
Probably. Which is good, because AmazonFresh has much better inventory control and tracking than Instacart—which has none.
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Walmart is acquiring Bonobos for $310M
I thought that this was a recently added feature. Turns out it has been there since at least 2011 (based on a forum thread about it). Will have to try it!
Somewhat off topic, but I have had a weird thought circulating in my head (triggered by reading Red Plenty) that I wanted to put out there:

What is the relationship between a centrally planned economy as for example Gosplan was trying to run in the USSR, and the presence of these huge market-like but centralized entities like Amazon and Wal-Mart inside a free-market economy? This becomes particularly interesting because Amazon apparently does not have any particular interest in turning a profit.

A central problem faced by Gosplan was the collection of high quality data about supply chains and the estimation of the utility function of consumers. I would say Amazon is in a pretty good position to do both right now.

Another question, somewhat related: At what point does it become profitable for Amazon to lobby for more redistributive taxation? This might sound paradoxical because you would assume that Amazon represents the interests of it's owners, who would probably suffer under such a taxation scheme. But shouldn't there be a point at which giving more disposable income to poor people will boost the overall income of an entity Amazon (since Amazon doesn't sells many flat-screen TVs but not as many mansions or yachts)?
Let's not go overboard with those "psychological experiments". It wasn't like they were injecting you with radium. They simply ran different newsfeed algorithms and tested for correlated change in behaviour.
Wow... all the articles I've been reading about Whole Foods lately deal with how they're hurting, and losing market share to more affordable competitors like Trader Joe's.

If this is about Amazon thinking they can turn things around for Whole Foods, then it will certainly mean drastic changes to price, selection, and employee structure.

If this is about Amazon using a brick-and-mortar chain as a tool to help Amazon's own ventures (e.g. grocery delivery, local storage for same-day deliveries, product return and support locations, etc), then it will certainly mean drastic changes what a Whole Foods store even is.

Either way, I can't imagine a course in which Whole Foods as we know it isn't basically over. Which doesn't necessarily bother me (I migrated to Trader Joe's and similar competitors long ago), but does seem like a big deal in the grand scheme of things. The grocery industry was heading in a Walmart-ish direction... and Whole Foods was almost single-handedly responsible for bringing a counterculture into the mainstream, and forcing all the other chains to reverse course and up their game.
Once you've reached an appropriate security margin you shouldn't pour more resources into making it even slower. You don't typically need to choose between performance and security in a general sense, because you can achieve very good performance with very good security. Slowing down your password hashing function any further than is required is overkill, and won't improve your security.
As for the title problem, at first I was wondering whether that was a rare grammar usage that I didn't know about!

But then I realized others have mentioned it, too. Admins have proven to be fast on these things... IDK why they don't correct it.

Last time I wrote a comment that people didn't like, I got banned. Still, after nearly 3 months, I have only limited access to ycombinator. But this the admins don't see...
Interestingly, Kasparov is considered as a great intellectual in the West, while in Russian-speaking world he is known for support of some utterly controversial theories, e.g. Nosovsky-Fomenko pseudo-historical bunk (see, for example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Thfip4Owz8 [RUS]).
China is the primary contributor. It certainly isn't the only one! Plastic control is a worldwide problem.
Amazon to buy Whole Foods Market in deal valued at $13.7B
Cache of the now removed page:
http://web.archive.org/web/20170616071238/http://startupscho...

Also, as a startup that apparently was counted in the stats, it's unclear who was invited to post and who was not; for the matter, I didn't even receive a notice that some of the startups would be posting presentations.
Probably o/t for the article:

My own experience is very dated, but in the late 80's and early 90's I attended public university in both countries.

Back then it really struck me how infantilized the student experience in the US was; but also how much more we actually worked, because a little arbitrary structure is pretty helpful for manic 19-year-olds.

For the self-motivated, academically serious student it was a kind of paradise with slightly shabby institutions, some of them very very old. Most professors, even the famous ones, were accessible, but in lieue of "homework" you were expected to keep up on the reading, for which at best you got a list of books (at worst: go figure it out). Nobody seemed to care at all about grades.

Even then, when public universities in the US were cheap, it was remarkable how much cheaper studying in Germany was, from the minimal fees to the ubiquitous subsidies. Student housing in California was a racket - the dorm cost way more than a shared apartment - but in Germany it was so laughably cheap you never really minded the bad parts. We even had a semi-official student bar with 1DM (50c) beers.

I think partly because of the freedom, partly because of the low cost, and partly because working-class kids mostly didn't go to university, there was basically no attention paid to the need to one day make a living. I didn't stay long enough to find out if that was a good or a bad thing; I did my best to avoid that question in the US anyway, and paid the usual price for it.
https://twitter.com/dkberman/status/875701677504024576

"Amazon did not just buy Whole Foods grocery stores. It bought 431 upper-income, prime-location distribution nodes for everything it does."
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Looks to me like the ultimate war between grocery stores in the US will be fought out between Amazon/WFM (premium, delivery) and ALDI/Lidl (discount, no-frills).

As a German I'm amazed by the "food haul" videos on YouTube and the positive feedback for ALDI US (belongs to ALDI Süd), Trader Joe's (ALDI Nord) and Lidl (part of Schwarz Gruppe, they just started in the US yesterday).
Amazon is getting too big.

How's this for an investment strategy... Long AMZN, short a basket of all other mid to large retailers & grocers.
While I fully agree that it's great to see employees treated well, Whole Foods is not an example that you can be a successful capitalist this way. They worked well for a while but the reason they got bought now is because they struggled over the past years. Probably unrelated to their treatment of employees (US groceries is very competitive at the moment) but AMZN didn't buy a hugely successful company.
Well...isn't Whole Foods brick and mortar?
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More pop AI garbage. As a rule, pretty much any article about AI from someone outside of the field of AI or CS in general is going to full of these vacuous, overly broad arguments. Stephen Hawking is guilty of this too. Basically any mention of "AI" and "dystopian" in the same sentence is a red flag for this kind of stuff. I wish that as a website we could just ignore these articles.

No, BBC. Gary Kasparov is not an AI authority. Please don't treat him like one.
This is exactly what came to my mind. I hope Amazon keeps the Whole Foods culture alive and let it run independently.
Browsers have had these things called :bookmarks" for a while now, Safari also has the "reading list" for exactly your use case.
The impression I got was that the store is more of an R&D project. It didn't work super well or scale with number of people so they had to artificially limit food traffic to keep it working. I'd be surprised if they rolled that out in an environment as busy and complex as Whole Foods stores so fast (or ever).
He is wrong but he has a point. Computers are currently good at head's up.

The ultimate test is playing in full table tournament against players with very uneven skillet. If there is one good player in the table, he will be able to recognize and exploit differences.
FINALLY, I'll be able to take notes while scuba-diving.
If Amazon acquisition of Zappos shoes is an indicator, Jeff Bezos let Tony Hsieh (CEO) continue to keep the culture. Hsieh said in past interviews that Bezos if fairly hands off. There was still some business "synergy" in the acquisition because Zappos logistics got integrated into the Amazon warehouse in Kentucky.

Whether Bezos treats Whole Foods the same probably depends on whether he has confidence in existing management. It's also possible he has ambitions to totally remake WF into something else. In that case, it doesn't matter what managers are there because Bezos wanted the Whole Foods market presence and not the management team.
Trader Joe's could also play a role. Basically also Aldi, just the other part (Aldi North whereas Aldi stores in the US are run by Aldi South). They have the money and motivation to really fight back and know how to achieve the same cost level as Aldi/Lidl.
Maybe, but the fact that they were just acquired by a company notorious for abusing its low-level employees shows the limitations of this model (as did the pressure they began to face from investors to tighten up on that front when they started to become less profitable).
VScode is not an Atom fork. It's only built on the same tech (Electron)
In fairness, this is because 1) password breaches are the lowest common denominator of hash function discussions in which developers participate, and 2) developers have it beat into their heads not to use e.g. MD5 for password storage, but they don't typically receive the same lectures (with the same vehemence) for things like MACs.
Perishable goods like groceries are one of the few businesses that Amazon is not in yet. My guess is that Amazon is looking to take Pantry to the next level.
What an exciting development! It will be interesting to watch Amazon apply its logistics experience to a large-scale groceries operation.
The major difference is that if Amazon stop running well then someone else will come along and replace them. Whereas government is a monopoly, so if it runs badly then it doesn't automatically get replaced.

Now, democracy is supposed to fix this, by allowing you to vote for a different supplier of government every few years. But because of the voting system in some countries (like the US and the UK) it's actually really hard to do this, because everything gets turned into a black/white struggle between opposing forces, rather than lots of options being available for you make a choice between.
This, if correctly publicized, would be the best motivation in getting huge amounts of people to stop.

Think of a slogan like "Only the poor still smoke" or "it's what losers do" and how it would impact people. Suddenly you'd be embarrassed of being seen smoking.
Don't people learn how to use their OS's file searching capabilities anymore?
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Margin on them asparagus water is tremendous!
The first time I encountered it I was kind of taken, thinking "okay, neat". Since then it only serves to annoy. I agree completely.

The only other case I like scroll hijacking is disabling it, or completely changing the behaviour (eg. horizontal parallax effects and other animations).
I think Zappos is a probably a pretty good proxy. They too had a very different culture to Amazon at the time of acquisition, but I believe it has largely remained intact many years post-acquisition.

Amazon as a company has many flaws in its culture (if we are to believe the reports), but they seem to do acquisitions pretty well and know when to leave things alone and let them do their thing.
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The day I sell a company for $13Bn I will declare myself successful. Not everything is going to be a a half a trillion dollar company.
[Syncthing](https://syncthing.net/) is the perfect tool for the job. Set Calibre's directory on your PC as the main folder, and it'll propagate changes wherever you want.
If that was true, we would expect the American Bible Belt to have some of the cushiest prisons in the developed world.
Probably in the long term. Over the next years, the technology is not likely to be ready for the number of customers a wholefoods can have.

But the stores should work well as distribution centers for grocery (and other) deliveries.
Self driving cars, sure. But self driving stores will change the city even more
Considering Amazon has been developing technology for walk in, and walk out checkout, and owns a robotics company, there might be a lot less of them.
The observation was made in "Theory of the Firm" a long time ago that companies tended to be command economies internally, rather than having internal markets; and the hypothesis supported that this is due to informational costs.

WRT redistribution, I suspect the shareholders would jump on that.
Could be assimilated with the Amazon brand. Say, Amazon Whole Foods (AWF for short).
Or one-hour shipping with Amazon Prime Now, which is beginning to crop up in a lot of places with Amazon Prime Fresh.

I tried Amazon Prime Now in Denver yesterday to buy some fruit. I went for the free shipping in a 2 hour window instead of the $8 one-hour shipping.

I never used Amazon Prime Fresh, because of the monthly fee and sense of commitment that forces. But when you can get a lot of the same stuff (eg, fresh fruit) without the monthly subscription via Amazon Prime Now, it's more tempting to try out.

I'm a little worried about how big Amazon is getting, though.
ALDI Nord and Süd have some family issues and probably won't combine their US ventures. I see the Schwarz Gruppe (Lidl, Kaufland) as the biggest contender in the US. Kroger is probably gonna have a very bad time.
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> Slow security is good security.

This is simply not correct. There are a few cryptographic problems where slowness is the solution, but in most cases you want your cryptographic algorithms to be fast.
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I agree. The point I was trying to make was that the choices between strata at the post-high school level are all quite good, unlike the choices that are presented at age 10.
You should put some way of contacting you in your HN profile, or message me if you're open to remote work.
When they list the fears they forgot an important one: discrimination.

Of course, discrimination has always been a problem but I'd like to believe we see some progress in "classical areas" (for instance sexism). The problem with AI is that it is always pigeonholing. As a result myriads of new classes of minorities which are so small that they neither have a name nor a voice will emerge. For instance, you get rated for creditworthiness and somehow you're not typical re: attributes x,y and z. You get a bad rating but you can't really complain as the algorithm probably didn't take things like sex or race (directly) into account. However, it could be that your FB posts are enjoying above-average amounts of likes from people with low education and this may raise red flags etc...
From using Agda it is fairly similar since both do theorem proving by programming in a unified language vs Coq which has separate languages for programming and proving. Where Idris excels is a standard library focused on systems programming, things like good console input/output support that Agda doesn't focus on.
Agree on the getting too big; how's this for a political strategy... bust the trusts again

EDIT: and for those pointing out (correctly!) that amazon doesn't violate antitrust, http://www.yalelawjournal.org/article/amazons-antitrust-para... is a good article
I think something similar happened with IMDB and Twitch.
The acquirer stock price often falls after an acquisition. So probably not a really good strategy.

Conglomerates have happened in the past. They become very big until they stop making a lot of money and people realise that they could be more efficient if you split them up. Amazon and Google can afford growing so much because they have a very successful business line. If growth there stops they would likely start selling some parts.
It wasn't an experiment to see how people were able to recognize different animals at different times of the day. They were deliberately altering people's moods just to see if they could. That may not sound like much but considering they did it over thousands of people, there's no telling the cumulative effects over people's mental health as a result of their poorly managed experiment.
tl;dr uMOOC tutors are qualified to immediately and directly help you in a specific MOOC.

In the case of CS courses (which is what we are focusing on for our initial launch), it's not enough for someone who wants to be a tutor to know C or Python. They must have taken the course on-campus, or a very similar one, or completed the MOOC itself. In the case where a tutor is not familiar with the material in a specific course, we gently push him/her to enroll in the MOOC's current run.

To take things a step further, one of our tutors completed the CS50 MOOC back in 2013 or 2014, when the second half of the course was taught with PHP. He said he was going to enroll in the MOOC again and do the later assignments, which now involve Python and Flask.
Aldi/Lidl have really taken over in the UK in the last 10 years. I'm not really sure how they manage it - more, smaller stores?
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I don't think large monopolies really point to everyone moving toward a planned economy; they're the natural tendency of capitalism and the opposite is only maintained by vigorous regulation and intervention.
A large business has a lot of tools at its disposal to snuff out upstart competitors in a permissive legal environment like we live in today.
Except there is prid3 in being poor in this country.
Nothing Amazon does makes sense immediately. Only in hindsight does the strategy emerge.

What would be also helpful would be for Amazon to disrupt the wine and liquor sector.
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Looks like they were hacked. Not sure what the hash represents but i am sure someone will decode it shortly
> Here comes store automation and hefty lay-offs?

... or just expand and move people to new stores. Seriously, what's the yearly turnover for front-line positions?
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