skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was supposed to be a currency it's a commodity.
Actually, there's at least one. There are essentially cosmic death rays that travel at the speed of light, undetectable until they reach us. I wish I could remember what they're called, but they're generated by black holes consuming stars, and they have far more energy than the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.

It's implausible that one will hit us, but if you're looking for a scientific and logical motivation, it's a possibility.

Also, colonizing mars is a necessary step toward avoiding what happens when our star reaches the end of its life. May as well start while we have the opportunity.
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I surely hope you are correct for the sake of the workers of WF, but...

If you work for AWS, you are either software engineer or linux/network admin. And that means you bring high value to Amazon. So yes, Amazon would treat you well.

But as you go further down the value chain, your treatment will get exponentially worse. And I can't imagine cashiers and stockers being viewed as high value makers by Amazon.
Kobo has a fairly excellent selection of ebooks, some of which have DRM, but there are straightforward tools for removing it, if that's your cup of tea.
Just nope out of the whiteboard interviews. There are lots of places that need you that don't do them.
I wouldn't call myself an expert by any means, but I learned most of what little I do know from three sources:

1. Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schneier.

2. The Matasano Crypto Challenges: www.cryptopals.com

3. The Stanford cryptography courses taught by Dr. Boneh online (still waiting on the second one).
To me, MongoDB is the most shocking aspect of their stack. What are you doing with a non-ACID compliant database?

I've personally had a transfer of ETH worth tens of thousands of dollars just go missing, despite 30+ confirmations on the tx on the blockchain itself, which took about 48 hours to resolve with their support team. If you can't credit your clients properly despite the fact that all transactions send/received are on the goddamn blockchain, you're doing something wrong.
I wonder how many people do this and if it over inflates piracy figures or physical book readership
They are partially independent but not orthogonal. Unregulated markets are never fair.

This is why it's a hard problem. Regulation creates another route for corruption, but is also the only way to keep corruption in check. We still haven't figured out an objective set of rules to avoid corruption, monopolies, and unfree markets.
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I'm telling all my friend about this, with shoddy quality public domain books flooding Amazon/Google.

Thanks for all your work!
NASA doesn't have the same objectives than Musk regarding mars. And I did not call Musk an idiot.

Look, I understand people can have dreams that I neither understand nor approve. As you correctly pointed out, as long as they don't divert tax payer money to fund them, I'm more or less fine with it.

Yet, when I see someone doing something that I consider silly, or even suicidal (for mars the term is almost appropriate), I feel compelled to at least say it loud. Like if I saw Franz Reichelt just before he jumped from the Eiffel tower[1]. I would say "don't do that, you'll kill yourself" and nobody should blame me for saying that. Well, in the case of the colonization of mars, to me that sounds like a terribly wasteful and dangerous idea, and I feel compelled to say it whenever the subject comes up.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gsnVntGoxM
It would be nice to be able to see the whole transcript instead of just that tiny scrollable section.
> They were asked to bring their own laptop, and use their favourite editor, with the language of their own choosing, and setup a test environment.

That's a really nice way to make someone a lot more comfortable. I do have to ask, was any part of your judgement affected by those choices?
I wonder if there could be a "good patent troll" business model where you file patents on all kinds of user-hostile, anti-consumer bullshit like this and then sue any company that does it?
Agreed. If text and look & feel are the same.

I know the poster mentioned that text was rearranged but based on the google description snippet text both appear different enough.
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Another viewpoint here.

I was at a Target recently and noticed that the website price of an item was about two dollars cheaper than in-store. The clerks I spoke to at first wouldn't do the price-match, which was a bit frustrating. Eventually they did it, though so maybe it was just that store/clerk.
"Customer service chatbots, for example, need to be trained to detect the complexities and subtleties of human communication."

Yes, but for that to be economically a net win, way fewer man-hours will be spent training systems than now are spent by humans doing customer service. Net result will be a significant job loss.
I haven't seen official Amazon vans -- they're using normal people's cars here.
If they were inclined to, they could easily deprive you of enough water not to kill you but make you very cooperative. I'm not saying they would do it, I know very little about Japan and how it works there. I just know the tactic isn't unheard of for interrogations in the US and some other countries.
All of Cory Doctorow's books are available DRM free and free-as-in-beer free from his website, craphound.com

He's always made a point of that
The first article is about a temp worker dying. One guy. The second article is about Amazon Germany, specifically that the security company they hired, allegedly hired neo-nazis.

You don't seem to have an agenda, you absolutely have one. What happened to that temp is tragic, but you can't get more isolated than 1.

> Anyway, here's reporting about how their warehouses used Neo-Nazis

You mean the company they hired that then hired some shitty people? I don't get why Amazon is now responsible for that.
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This sounds like an argument against backup plans in principal.

The idea of backups is to have another, "just in case". You can't always know, so have as many backups as you can afford.

But here are some concrete examples of threats that make earth a bad deal while leaving mars workable:

A nuclear war would like leave mars untouched and destroy civilization here. Even if earth is still "inhabitable" is doesn't matter if all the human on it are dead. Human Martians coming back a generation later and start anew or integrate with any meagre survivors.

A religious inspired genocide that works. If some group somehow got it in their heads that "technology is bad except for the purpose of destroying other technology" this would be bad. If this group goes to war with western democracy and wins it would be worse. This does sound a lot like one specific group that is currently not able to reach mars, and likely never will be able to no many how many western democracies the attack.

Any disaster that destroys then is done. Imagine a super-ebola that kills all humans. Because germs don't have a reliable space program mars is save and can wait 50 before sending scientists to check it out and trying to repopulate.
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I'd argue that crypto currencies are a fundamentally new asset class, neither fish nor fowl. To become a useful "currency," yes, stability is a desirable quantity. What it is "supposed" to do is not a useful concept here. What it does is much more important. Currently, bitcoin is still more a highly-speculative, bubble-prone asset class with some of the qualities of a currency, some of the qualities of a stock, and some of the qualities of an asset like gold. It is incorrect to pigeon-hole it as any one of these.
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At least for GNU, it is valid to prefix the signal specification with SIG.

cf. https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/opera...

Appears to be the case for BSD as well:
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/bin/kill/kill...
You'd probably be amazed to know how much a pair of sweat pants and a T-shirt can cost. Zuck's hoodies don't look cheap.
> Block Storage Volumes are highly available, fast, and inexpensive – $0.10 per GB (free during the beta).

This is significantly more expensive than AWS S3 or Google Cloud Storage.

The last time S3 charged similar prices was in January 2014: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-update-new-m3-features-...

edit: I'm keeping this comment up in case other people have the same confusion I did.
Hi folks, I'm the guy who started and runs Standard Ebooks. It looks like it's been given the hug of death at the moment, sorry about that! While I try to beef up the server you can see all of our productions on Github: https://github.com/standardebooks/

You may also be interested in our toolset (GNU-compatible only at the moment, we're working on converting everything to Python but we're not there yet): https://github.com/standardebooks/tools

I'm happy to answer any questions anyone has. We're also more than happy to have new contributors, if you're interested in working on and proofreading a public domain ebook that you've been meaning to get to.

Some of you have mentioned concerns about the modernizations we do. The key word I think is "light modernization". Mostly that just means bringing spelling up to modern standards, and removing a lot of hyphens in words that are no longer hyphenated. A common one, for example, is to-morrow -> tomorrow. Another one we recently added was lacquey -> lackey. Generally we leave punctuation and grammar alone. I liken this to modern books replacing the "long s" character--it's just presentation that doesn't affect the meaning. Modern readers would rather see "successful" instead "ſucceſsful" even though the latter is what was originally printed.

I struggled for a long time with my desire to see older books with modern spelling and typography, versus preserving the intent of the author and original publishers. Over time I've come to realize two things:

1. Many books back in the day were heavily edited by the printer and publisher without the author's input anyway, so you'll get various editions over time that look totally different. Jane Austen books are a good example of this--early editions often have a pathological overuse of commas, while later editions published after her death just remove a lot of them without comment. So when we're producing our own ebooks, we accept that there's a level of editorial discretion involved, and that "the author's intent" was a very fuzzy and often totally ignored topic hundreds of years ago anyway. How can we tell what the author's intent was in the first place, if various printers and publishers have meddled with the editions for hundreds of years already?

2. For those of you who want to read the originals in their totally unedited form, other projects like Project Gutenberg or Wikisource already have those faithful transcriptions for you, and places like Internet Archive, Hathi Trust, and Google Books have the page scans for you. By lightly modernizing our own productions, we in no way diminish your access to the painstakingly-preserved digital editions; we're just adding another option for you to read.
You seem hell bent on defending change regardless of what I say. What's such a hard concept about not degrading the user experience? Nobody stopped to say "Hey, everyone is using avatars based on the box shape, won't changing the shape of the box make everyone's avatars look like shit?"

Apparently not, and that's the problem. It's a minor thing at the end of the day, sure, but it's also a symptom of a larger issue.

Sorry if I seem testy, but this is a recurring problem. Making things more "modern" while sacrificing usability, and as mentioned, I place nil credence on their "testing".
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I heard of Bonobos quite a while back but never handled a pair of their chinos until about a year ago while shopping at Nordstrom. They certainly hit a price point for people that would get sticker shock from some brand like Adriano Goldschmied, but the quality of the pants is a bit out of line even for $90... so I guess there is a bit of irony in Walmart buying them :)
Recent studies [1] have found that genetic markers for intelligence strongly predict adult outcomes, even when controlled for social-class origins.

[1] https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/handle/10161/12447
If your docs approve it, then you should probably be doing it!

And if your docs don't approve it and you want it anyway, pay out of pocket! I don't see how this would be detrimental to a single-payer system.
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I suspect that's related to the high degree of speculation and the lack of commodity backing.
I've done a few interviews with junior lawyers for my newsletter OppsDaily. I've encountered several individuals who want better technology but don't have the pull at their firms to actually get it implemented.

Here's one, but there are 2-3 more that fit this pattern:

"My job industry is Law.
We are still using paper files for cases.
Software would make it easier to file and search for case information.
I personally would Pay $1500 for a business license for this type of software, but I can't speak further with a developer because my boss is old-fashioned."
Every Instacart shopper currently working for Instacart hates Instacart.

citation needed

As the engineering manager actually looking at our NPS scores from our shoppers it's disheartening to see this kind of blatantly wrong trolling on HN... if you actually have any insight (other than outdated and wrong news articles from last year), I'd love to see it.

I'm personally excited for the opportunity this affords us -- completely validating this space and market.
>It's extremely naive and arrogant to spend the resources to colonize Mars than try and make more places habitable on Earth.

>It's even more arrogant to believe that a Mars society will be any different or better than the society on Earth.

100% agree on both points.

Spacex is just selling dreams. Sadly, people today are so enamored with technology that they easily buy into such dreams sold by these companies....
That still isn't a proper reverse chronological sort (tweets still display out of order according to some magical backend fuckery), and that's before the constant injection of the "What you might have missed.." into my timeline no matter how many times I click the "I don't want to see this" button.

New stuff top, old stuff bottom. This is the simplest concept in computer science.
You bet. What are our lives worth? I think spawning a new world is a fine use.

Also, that "lives" figure is counting the descendants of the people that eventually make a life for themselves on Mars. Those descendants won't get a choice, and one could argue it's unethical to put them in that position. So any analysis of how many lives Mars is worth must take this into account. And if it's anywhere near successful, a few million lives is at the low end.
Posting this here because I just came across it, and it's a beautiful replacement for Workflowy that I've been using.
You missed an opportunity for a good pun.
I understand your point but strongly feel that the value of being self critical as a developer to be limited, specifically in this context.

Without proper feedback, I'd say it's akin to editing your own novel. Sure, you might get to the point where you have no typos and you've rephrased some pointless sentiment a thousand times until it's just right, but your editor is the one who's going to tell you to throw the entire first chapter out because you're assuming prior knowledge about the story you're trying to tell.
A few years ago, this happened to me as well. I filed a DMCA complaint with their hosting company and in a few days, the offending website was down.
It's down 17% from its highs a couple days ago. That's not something to blow off.

If this was the stack market or the dollar people would be screaming for HFT heads. Just look back to the flash crash that didn't even last a day.
Clean litter out of forests... for free? Visit the sick... for free? People don't like being truck drivers because they like driving trucks, they like being truck drivers because they like eating, sleeping, and raising their families. The unemployment rate is currently above 0, despite their being no "shortage of work to be done," because plenty of work that could be done doesn't have anyone paying in exchange for that work.

Who's going to pay people to do the things that are more useful, but don't fit in to the standard capitalist system? You? Some benevolent billionaire? The government, if we raise taxes and increase social spending to an extent that makes plenty of Americans recoil in instinctive horror? Yeah, I do think of the poor truck drivers, because I don't want them to starve.
They aren't try to have a currency. They are trying to build a network and sell shares of that network backed on the term "currency".
It is 1) an invasion of privacy

I'm not so sure here. This patent only applies to Wi-Fi connections onto the Amazon owned network. So the client device must first broadcast their SSID (public), request access to a private network, then request data through the Amazon router (Inspected/Firewalled by default). It's Amazon's prerogative to block ports or IPs at their discretion as every router or VPN does.

2) anti-competitive behavior

It's definitely anti-competitive in spirit if they reduce information access to competitors - whether it's legally anti-competitive is probably a gray area and my guess is that the patent filers have already taken that into account.
Glad to hear it's not a scam, but why did you steal basically the entire site content and concept from another website? How does that square with your 'law' #18. Don’t ever take credit for others' work. ?
"doesn't mean that's the way it has to be"

Sure, but it does show how speculative Musk's plan for a "self-sustaining city" is. There is no such city on Earth. What makes him think it would work on mars?
Check your local Costco, they had some last time I was in. I forgot what it cost but I imagine it's a lot cheaper than Whole Foods.
> Perhaps this is a good side project for me to delve into ;)

By all means, please do. There are no alternatives out there to calibre. I think its an excellent app once you get used to it, but competition is healthy.
Make no mistake, if you hand me a smashed LEGO tower and ask me to "fix it" (and pay me to do so), then I'll definitely take some creative liberties along the way while rebuilding it.
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This is a great discussion of company culture, treatment of employees, worker cooperatives, etc., but I hoped HN would go deeper into the business and technology implications.

What is the strategic logic behind this move?

NYT, WaPo, WSJ, Bloomberg all take the same line: this is about Amazon's expansion into brick-and-mortar retail. They need a physical footprint, knock out Instacart for delivery, accelerate Amazon Go, and so on.

But is this really Amazon's play here? Seems to me this is just the superficial and obvious rationale, and these analysts completely missed the bigger implications.

Since Amazon said they're not renaming the stores, how can this be about Amazon's brick-and-mortar expansion?

Seems more likely that Amazon's strategy is actually the opposite of this.

Instead, maybe the bigger opportunity is to "Amazonify" a good brand, good people, good merchandising and thousands of relationships with good suppliers.

Customers already trust Whole Foods and they like the assortment, but (1) only a small percentage of the population has access to a store, and (2) an even smaller percentage of the population can afford it.

What if this is about taking the Whole Foods concept online in a big way ... make it dramatically more efficient, aggressively lower prices, and deliver all this goodness to a far larger percentage of the population?

Whole Foods market share is less than 2%. Amazon could turn this $13 billion business into a $130 billion business by plugging WF into Amazon's existing apparatus for merchandising, pricing, inventory control, online sales, logistics, and direct-to-consumer delivery.

Taking WF market share up from 2% to 20% is a much bigger opportunity than going the other direction, and just using WF stores to sell Amazon's grocery assortment.
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Thats nice, thank you. gonna have to checkt this out :)
The OCaml implementation used to be hard-coded in the type system, but has now been rewritten (in 4.02, I think) using GADTs.

https://ocaml.org/meetings/ocaml/2013/proposals/formats-as-g...

https://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=6017

The compiler only does syntactic desugaring of format strings now.
Maybe it's because music and video can be easily consumed during the duration of a visit, whereas books take much longer? "Check out what I have on the server" makes sense for music and much less sense for books.
Where are you located?

I found my last job through Indeed. Typical channels work, job search sites, finding specific company career pages, etc. If you want to be in academia (which I don't recommend), then search for labs through university pages.

Even the Who's Hiring HN threads usually have a couple bioinformatics positions listed.
"Just because people collaborate from all over the planet to make the pencil, doesn't mean that's the way it has to be"

I agree. I think smaller cycles of dependency are possible (and for the sake of stability maybe better). But we probably have to figure that out, before we go to mars ...
Implementing this in stores would be a huge ethical issue.

Future versions could also be more malicious, such as modifying the price or even availability of the item on a competitor's website if possible.

This is why we need to keep supporting both technical solutions such as VPNs and https, as well as political solutions like net neutrality.
>"Walmart was definitely not the image they were going for originally, ..."

This was my thought too, you could go into the brick and mortar Bonobos store(Guideshops) and get a fitting, a consultation and they would offer you local craft beer. This seems like the antithesis of "one stop shopping."
I did contact you. I sent you 3 emails and you're yet to reply to any.

I'm glad you're not ripping off your customers, though.

It's just a shame so much of your site is copied from mine.
Sadly thats not the norm. A lot of those (otherwise great) text tools ship with horrible defaults and suffer from poor discoverability. Sometimes it's both combined and somebody actually contributed such an improvement but nobody bothered to turn it on.
The underlying engine is the same as in Beta, but the product itself is built with different flags, default settings, and other features. For example, add-on signing is optional in Developer Edition, so it's better suited for developing Firefox add-ons than Beta. Similarly, we may ship new versions of the DevTools into DevEdition before they're ready for the broader Release population.
That would show them!
I have tried that, I've been scouring old hard drives for the last few weeks. I also had the file "encrypted" on a True Crypt Container in Dropbox, but I deleted the container in 2012 before the file was lost. (One of the stupid moved I made) Dropbox will/ can not help me recover the file.
Every Metro I've been to seems to have it.
Is it plausible that a cosmic death ray from afar could be so tightly focused that it didn't irradiate the entire inner solar system but only Earth?
Since it's browser based you won't be loading 350mb, you'll be loading one page at a time.
This is more like EBS on AWS, which is also $0.10 / GB-month for gp2 volumes.