skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ironically, part of their pitch to customers is "By cutting out the middle man and delivering ingredients at their freshest."

I also see it from my own perspective: As blue apron gets millennials cooking again, more and more of them will remember what the grocery store was for -- as they will now experiment with recipes on their own, buy their own ingredients, maybe attend a farmers market or two and meet the growers of their food and support local farms. As grocery stores become more convenient to check in/out, Blue Apron's value goes further and further down.
If that were true, we'd see the evidence in Hollywood. But nobody knows how to make a realistic fully-simulated video. The reason everyone believes that it's just around the corner is because those academics talk with authority on the topic, and the still frames look pretty convincing. But still frames are completely different from video -- the human visual system processes video differently.

I've written about this before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13892671

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12461883

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13893305

The only technique that we know produces realistic video is if you mix actual, real footage with simulated content. That's very effective, but it's unsatisfying for obvious reasons. I think it hints at a way toward fully simulated realistic video, though.
What’s new in PiCluster 1.9
Even a $2.2B investment couldn’t solve LeEco’s money problems
I guess NYC and SF have more in common than we realized.

We have our own spitting lady:
http://nypost.com/2017/04/24/notorious-spitting-lady-loses-i...
I don't need to cite the studies about harm from alcohol.

I was disputing your claim that "drinking has no benefits compared to water. period"

You're clearly wrong on that.
Whatever you do, don't get a Jeep Wrangler, unless it's a four-door model or one of the longer wheelbase ones...
As per your second argument, according to the same reasoning no products manufactured using forced prison labour like that of the US prison system should be legally sold.
One company I worked for (international) had the new CIO visit our office. He said "don't worry there will be no layoffs". Two week later they started and shortly the whole office was gone.
Ask HN: Best PHP Framework? Drupal? Laravel? Codeiginiter?
I have been assigned to build a Drupal 8 "CMS" system. After working for sometime with mild success there is a possibility to use another framework to build a more flexible and robust platform.
With international shipping there and back I don't know if you'd still like that. But I'm game :) SaaS: Sorting as a Service.
Strongly agree with this. I showed this thread to my coworkers and they sneered at the assumption that our lives are to be built around our jobs and the people at them. Don't get me wrong, we really enjoy each other and our jobs, but if our boss decided one day this was the new norm, we'd quit so fast our own necks would break running for the door...
I've upvoted you, but this has bugged me for awhile.

While I understand that we should be calling it a DDOS, it isn't an 'attack'; so that seems a little severe.

Can't we just go back to calling it 'slashdotted'? =)
Computational Metamaterials
Musk is not an engineer. Leading engineers without being an engineer does not mean leading engineers without being technical.

Of course a leader must understand, at some level, what their followers are doing, but sufficient technical knowledge != is an engineer.

Take Kennedy + LBJ and the space program, for instance. Two leaders, less technical than Musk, and they still made the moonshot happen.
> Already did that for a batch, about 150 partial sets as a result. Those would then need to be completed and checked by hand, I don't think that can be done profitably, but maybe there is some way.

There's likely someone who's willing to pay X% of the set's price for a bucket that has a 95% chance of having all of the pieces, and a 100% chance of having too many pieces, including some that don't belong in the set, since you'd want to err on the side of caution.

But even that might not be profitable.
It doesn't "count" from a psychological perspective until it really starts impacting your life in negative (and measurable) ways.

A common example might be "keeps you up at night" — which can happen to people from time to time, but the moment it starts damaging your relationships and ability to live comfortably it becomes something that might be a part of a clinical diagnosis (simply "hearing voices" isn't a problem on its own without other factors).

If the public could learn one thing about psychology I think it should probably be that there's never "just one thing" when it comes to identifying problems. A single compulsion doesn't mean you have OCD, for example.
Wonder if there would be a copyright issue with selling original sets as well? I'm not a lawyer, but I believe in the US you can't copyright a recipe but you can copyright a recipe book.

I wonder if though, down the road, you could setup a web site with the complete inventory of pieces that you cataloged, and let people pick and choose what pieces they want for a specific order.

Then just put the pieces through the hopper to pick/pack individual orders. Maybe get a super accurate scale, weigh pieces when catalogging and weigh the end sets to help ensure order accuracy?
In Lisp style, there is a "local maximum" (global?). Deviations from the style are obvious losers. In C, there are many choices, which are all viable.

int main(void)
{ FILE *f = fopen("commands", "r");
if (f)
{ char line[512];
while (fgets(line, sizeof line, f))
{ ... }
fclose(f);
return 0; }
else
{ printf("failed to open file\n");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } }
"Do these people come with?"
> In principle we can make computers much more secure and in practice some groups actually do.

In principle we could, and yet in the 20-30 years of common interconnected computers we haven't.

> If we get some decent information out there and stop enabling people with the mentality that computer security is an add-on product

This isn't just about getting "information" out, and if it were only information people would've fixed it decades ago. The problem is that there are no incentives. The cost of making products actually secure, dwarfs the cost of getting a product out that makes money. The cost of being found out with a massive security breach pales in comparison to the amount of money to be made on being first to market, or having dominant share.

> I doubt google or microsoft will be significantly harmed by a "cyber-weapon", and I don't think most end-user devices with automatic updates enabled will either.

Linux based Android and Microsoft Windows are currently full of holes and have been exploited now for years. And this is happening by small groups of people who do it for a few dollars or to spy on a company - none of them have the full backing and resources of a nation state.

To think that this problem will suddenly be solved by doing more of the same "educating people" to me comes across as a bit naive. It hasn't worked this long, it won't suddenly work now. Incentives need to change.

Punishment for a security hole needs to increase significantly, entirely new tooling needs to be enforced or some other solution needs to be created.

This is one of those cases where the solution is seen as so drastic that people will want to just ignore or dismiss it. Thinking to themselves, no-one can really be advocating for that it'd impact everything. It will - making our digital systems secure will be hugely expensive. I see a Y2K x 10 style concerted effort as the only way to get things to change - but hopefully someone out there has an idea more likely to be implemented.
If by "good", you mean "a bunch of filthy lies".
> Does anyone know how to stop junkmail?

It's the vast majority of mail and keeps the USPS in business. I guess we could ban it and jack the price of stamps way up, but I have a feeling that would be unpopular.
The exchange starts at https://youtu.be/wW5vJyI_HcU?t=45m17s

I'm not sure I see this from your perspective; multiple people in the crowd clap after your point "C", and much more clapping is heard when he sits down. If I were forced to classify the behavior (edit:specifically at 48:08) I would choose "smartass". The entire discussion is interesting in light of what happened recently with Uber/Kalanick.
Big discussion of Blue Apron's valuation, business model, competitive moat, etc. here yesterday, for those who missed it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14646679
What about adults having shorter hours? Standard work-week in my country is 37.5 hours. If I were so cramped on time that I had to stress to get shit done in the middle of my job-day I'd be job hunting.
You can tell where it's attempting to phone home, and if the attempt was blocked.

If you're that concerned with telemetry, you might take a glance at Apple's privacy policy. Unlike MS with Windows 10, to my knowledge they have not released a statement of the user info they send home.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/10/20...
For those hitting the WSJ paywall: https://t.co/6jFYZkEC6V

It'll give you a Twitter referral which should bypass it.
I would agree that it was exceptional. But I would also argue that how your people perform during exceptional situations is what makes or breaks teams and companies.
No. First Sale Doctrine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
Again with the evidence-free Russian attribution hypothesis.
I can generate a cheaper shipping ticket for PostNL for you. Mail in profile
Why only one cache when you can have several?

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/resurrect-pages-isu...
The vast majority of Wannacry victims were running unpatched Windows 7, I'm not sure why you'd want to avoid security updates. If 1 year isn't long enough to defer feature updates maybe the business cost of switching your entire workflow to a new OS is justified.
The problem is that the US has no moral high ground here. We too have prisoners manufacturing goods below minimum wage, and while you won't be jailed in the US because of your political affiliation, you definitely can be jailed because of your religion, ethnicity, etc.

If we applied this to foreign transactions, foreign countries could easily use the same grounds to block goods and services coming from the US.
aand we broke it.

Web archive to the rescue: https://web.archive.org/web/20170628072214/www.commander-kee...
Hey everyone! I just did a quick video on Magic Wormhole showing how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SXCLAlpD70
Perhaps, but there's no systemd, which is a huge win.
"Real Estate agents provide an entirely 100% superfluous service".

While I definitely agree that the amount of money realtors get for selling a home is ridiculously high, the above statement is definitely NOT true (and I've sold several homes through a realtor).

Realty is often a more risky business than people think. People often only focus on the houses that sell quickly, not the ones that sit for a long time. A realtor can invest many hours in selling a home and get nothing if it doesn't sell. I had a home on the market more than a year (and it was a fairly new, nice home at a reasonable price, it was just a bad time to sell). We gave up, and if it had not been for a deal that came up a short while later, my realtor would have gotten nothing for that year's worth of effort (I had negotiated commission with her originally, due to her selling the home I was originally interested in, and I re-negotiated commission on the second deal).

Again, I'm not saying that the commissions aren't too high -- they are. And it is a lucrative business if you want to spend all of your weekends and evenings showing houses. Personally I think it's a good short-term career for young people who are single. Money isn't everything, and I would not even consider doing the job as a married person.

Also, not all realtors are made equal. There are a lot of them that put as little effort as possible into selling your home, and just hope that realtor.com listings will get them a buyer without putting much into it. However, the best realtors do put work into selling your home, and their network and ability to find buyers is of value. I just don't think it is worth what they charge for it. But, then again, given the hours/days they have to work, I guess I'd want to be paid very well if I was doing it.

In some ways it is a bit like doctors (talking about in the U. S. here) -- it takes a long time to go through med school, and many come out up to their necks in debt, so by the time they are done with residency they feel they have earned the high fees they get paid (and/or they just need them so they can get out of debt and finally be profitable). Of course the medical profession is a complicated mess, so there's more to it than that.
I have never seen what value Blue Apron provides,

Their meals are overpriced for what you get from what I have seen, I fail to see their value over simply buying the stuff local and and finding a recipe online for free.

for their $60 per week to get 6 small portion meals I can buy over 2x that number of meals shopping at my local store, + snacks and other household items
Slackware ?
> The spectrum shifted towards consumer welfare very early on

You seem unaware that Bork's Antitrust Paradox only came out in 1978 [1]. Yes, it's not surprising that its views would appear in cases from the '80s. Here's prof. Orbach in the Washington Post on Bork's influence [2]:

> Antitrust was defined by Robert Bork. I cannot overstate his influence. [...] Antitrust [in 1960] was about protecting small businesses. [Bork] built a full framework about how antitrust should be more about economic efficiency than about helping small businesses. [...] He wrote a sentence: Congress enacted the Sherman act [ed - the main antitrust act] as a "consumer welfare prescription.” The Supreme Court adopted that sentence in 1979. That is the stated goal in antitrust today. It is a big deal. A huge deal. In antitrust, it’s operational. Robert Bork defined it.

> In antitrust, antimonopoly law, it is easy to think about why big is bad. The view is, "Big businesses are bad. We should protect small businesses. We should not have big businesses." So that’s what happened in the history of the Sherman Act, between 1880 and 1960.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Antitrust_Paradox

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2012/12/20/antit...
Are you making 'seh' rhyme with 'meh', or mostly with 'say', but saying it's subtly different? (If only there were some sort of phonetic alphabet eh...)

I would say it's most like the long 'a' in 'fate' or 'mate'.
I don't have information to validate or dispute this but the argument a co-worker of mine always makes is that Tesla (and Musk) are 'propped up' by government money and never should have made it this far.

I would be interested to get your take on this assessment.
That's very impressive to do by hand, 10 Kg or so back into sets takes a week by hand, how much time did this take you?
Found the designer's personal page: http://jamespants.com/
Writing Parsers Like it is 2017 [pdf]
rclone [0] has great support for B2 [1]. The functionality you want is also available with rclone simply by making a B2 remote then a local encrypted remote which saves to your B2. This will encrypt everything locally before you save it to your B2, and it also has functionality to mount as a system drive. Plenty people do (ahem did [2]) the same with Amazon Cloud Drive's previously unlimited storage.

0: https://rclone.org/
1: https://rclone.org/b2/
2: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/23/amazon_drive_bans_r...
Drupal is not at all similar to Laravel or Codeigniter. Drupal is a CMS, while Laravel and CI are frameworks.

If you just need a CMS, there are tons of open-source CMS already built that you can use commercially for free. Why spend time/money building a new one?

At this point, Laravel is so widespread in the PHP world, you might as well just use it. They have a smaller version (Lumen, I think?) that is probably faster to learn and much lighter-weight.
DevOps is a moving target right now, and a lot of great fundamentals are linked here already. I'd also recommend subscribing to, and reading old issues of:

https://sreweekly.com/
http://www.devopsweekly.com/
https://lastweekinaws.com/
https://weekly.monitoring.love/

The last two are fairly young, but have good content so far. I wouldn't call it a well-curated list, but there are tons and tons of great posts are linked (in loosely chronological order, as weekly mail blasts tend to be).
They are infix notation, not infix operators.

a raisedTo: 2

vs.

a ** 2
When senior people that you have a personal relationship with, who are no higher than first level managers and not necessarily managers at all, tell you that the company is dying. Been there twice.
Don't be so serious.
I am very curious what Salzberg has to say about this. They do seem to have done a good job out-maneuvering the direct competition. However, looking through their website, it does seem hard to find a niche they can play when the inevitable 'me-too' introduction from a behemoth comes. It's also kind of comical how they preach the "Eliminating the costly middleman" card even though all they've really done is become their own version of a costly middleman.
Want to hear something scary?

Lead traffic engineers make less, according to the web, than I used to start them at.

Programmers, on average, also make less than I used to start them at. In 1998, depending on experience, I'd bring them in at about $120k, plus bonuses and benefits.

Suffice to say, I see serious issues.

One of the best things about training is that you get the exact skills you need. I had no moral issues with pushing research to a local university and then poaching them.

It's a damned shame, I think, that businesses often refuse to invest in their people. I hired people because they were able to do things that I could not. If I could have done them, I'd have not had to hire them. Frankly, I'd like them to be able to do their best. That means ensuring they have the tools they need. One of those tools is an education.
No, it's not the same thing at all. There is a distinct difference between your own internal dialogue and hearing voices. When you are hashing out things with yourself, you perceive yourself as the source of the voices/thoughts.

On the contrary, when you hear voices, they are like an intrusion. You do not perceive them as yourself, nor as your own thoughts, but as if someone else stepped into your head and said something that you were not contemplating, in a voice that sounds nothing like your own.

A lot of people experience this phenomena when they are just on the verge of falling asleep. Now imagine that same thing happening when you are wide awake.
I just purchased a home. Basically as a buyer the buyer's agent is paid out of the sellers end of the sale. The fee paid to the sellers agent really, but the seller pays in the end.

So... I can not have a buyer's agent and pay for it anyways. Or I can have an agent. The only advantage of having an agent is that getting showings is a little easier and you spend less time on the phone.

Houses have showings on Saturday/Sunday and offers are in on Monday in hot markets. There is no time to negotiate reducing the price in exchange for not using a buyers agent. If you have a complicated offer it might not get selected. People are waving inspection and financing contingencies in some markets.

I think it more or less comes down to buyers and sellers being kind of stupid. Heck... just about everyone I dealt with throughout the process was kind of stupid. The lender (at least the one I finally ended up with) and home inspector were both competent. Everyone else demonstrated they had no idea how to do their job.

I walked into so many houses with rat poop and dead insects everywhere. Houses were priced and bid on with only a weak correlation between the location and quality of the house and what people offered. It's obvious neither the buyers or the sellers knew whether what they were looking at was any good and major deficiencies were not being priced in. A house could be right next to an active commuter rail (not a stop, just the track) and it wouldn't be reflected in the price!
Awesome resource on differential geometry applied to graphics: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/DDG/paper.pdf
It's not dumb at all. It's helping people who are polite and considerate to you.

If every interaction you have with someone is positive, when they ask for a small favor that is 100% part of your job anyway, of course you say yes.
That would only be fitting.
I think for most of the people in their target market, if it saves them an hour (or more) of shopping, looking up recipes, etc per week, that more than makes up for the $60.

I tried a couple of these services and while I liked the convenience, I couldn't stand the waste -- a couple dozen little plastic jars and baggies each week going into the recycling.
> It's also kind of comical how they preach the "Eliminating the costly middleman" card even though all they've really done is become their own version of a costly middleman.

Without sounding crass or like a broken record, thats all most of Silicon Valley startups are: the new middleman. More efficient, sure, but still a middleman. I believe the colloquial term is "platform".
this was my reaction exactly. who knew the vc community was actually just supporting podcasting. it's kind of like how NCAA football incidentally supports the olympics.
Effort doesn't alway equal results and we shouldn't be praising them not attaining their stated goals. (or perhaps they are, and their goals don't matter to their customers -- students)

I'm just a single point of data, but none of my friends ever found the career services people to be helpful in any meaningful way. In my world, their success rate is 0%.
I understand that Vulkan is more efficient for the CPU, not the GPU. However, because it's low-level, giving more control over the hardware, it can enable new techniques that weren't possible before.

Do any of these new Vulkan (or Metal or DX12) techniques actually exist yet?
I'm sure Squarespace can pick up the slack :P
It's extremely easy to induce a computer to make a DNS request. For example, embed an IMG tag in a web page pointing to the attacker's domain. Anyone loading that page will get the malicious DNS response.
> Prefix notation is hard, at least for people whose native language is S-V-O, and not V-S-O.

Note that in the imperative mood, English is normally VO, with an implied second person subject.

That's pretty much exactly what prefix notation is.

In “add six and two”, “add” is the verb, “six and two” is a composite direct object, and the subject (“you, the reader/listener” is implied.) This maps quite nicely to (add 6 2).
Because of mass, the number of neurons, how many calories we can toss at them, and how many calories a fetus/newborn can be guaranteed.

Even if you have trainable brain, with neurons that can communicate with more percentage of the brain than a primates. You're still on a diet of hundreds of calories instead of thousands.

Looking at smaller animals cognitive abilities is newish. But does look like it will be going interesting places.
Is it just me, or has every farmer's market I've ever been to been a terrible disappointment? The produce isn't as reliable as a good grocery store, and when it is, there's never enough of it.

Sample size: New York (Brooklyn and Manhattan) and Los Angeles.

FWIW, cooking isn't an interesting side hobby for me: I cook pretty every meal my family eats from scratch, and it's hard enough planning and executing 21 meals a week without dealing with artisinal suppliers.
Uber drivers on Travis Kalanick’s resignation: ‘I don’t give a damn about that’
The Mosquito, a plane from WWII, was largely made of wood and is considered one of the best planes from that era.