skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the last big Blue Apron thread I participated in, I found it a bit suspicious how many people were just rabid about the company, the product, and the service and how it was "simply gourmet and such better food than [insert fast casual chain]" and "how dare you compare the quality!", etc.

I'm not so paranoid to think that the whole crowd were interested/biased parties, but I can't help wonder if they've convinced themselves that the absurd cost is actually worth it. I've tried it and I don't find the quality to even as good than that of say, Modern Market or some other slightly-upscale eatery.
> If we realize that the decentralized application will always be costlier than its centralized alternative, we must ask ourselves: why do we need decentralization? Then, we will really know what blockchains are for!

Are you really asking why money should be decentralized? Also do you realize that bitcoin takes about 30 minutes for an irreversible transaction, while credit cards take 30 days before you can spend the money that someone gave you.
"Once again, airlines (or is it just United) making boneheaded decisions."

This is a United problem. I've refused to fly them for several years now (and even paid more because of it). I'm not surprised this happened again. Their employees simply do not care about passengers, period.

I suspect this is a cultural issue mixed with some self-preservation because of the merger.

Needless to say: I will continue to not fly with them.
EU considers second record fine against Google
I'd suggest running this by the Git project, considering they applied for a received a trademark specifically to crack down on use of the Git brand like this, and wrote up a pretty detailed post earlier this year:[1]

> this is necessary to prevent dilution of the mark for other uses, but there are also cases we directly want to prevent. [...] For example, imagine a software project which is only tangentially related to Git. [...] We don't endorse it, and it's just using the name to imply association that isn't there.

Given that this has basically nothing to do with Git but is instead built around the GitHub API, the name here is a little problematic.

If it weren't the case that this is already such a problem, I'd say you missed out on the opportunity to call this "GitNotified".

1. http://public-inbox.org/git/20170202022655.2jwvudhvo4hmueaw@...
So that's the beauty of it being a nuclear reactor as opposed to an radioisotopic thermoelectric generator. An RTG will be very radioactive at the time of launch, a nuclear reactor need not be. As long as one doesn't start the reactor before launch by removing the fuel rods, it's practically inert. One might even start the reactor only when the probe is confirmed to be on an escape trajectory from Earth to avoid the possibility of contamination.
Even if large traditional car manufacturers switch to electric vehicles at scale, won't Tesla have quite a headstart at least when it comes to their battery production capabilities?
These companies are going to get absolutely destroyed when the big supermarkets come on tap.

Several are working on identical services where you pick up, curbside, the ingredients and instructions in a bag, and pay significantly less for doing so.

Why have your ingredients mailed to you when a supermarket on your way home will offer the same thing for 50% cheaper?
We use one of their (numerous) competitors.
I forget which of The Innovator's Dilemma and The Innovator's Solution had the section on electric cars. But back in the 1990s it was projected that on current trends, electric cars would become viable around 2020. And explained why it was likely that traditional manufacturers would fumble the ball, all offer hybrids, and in the end most would go out of business because they couldn't make the transition.

It is worth reading those books and understanding the thesis. Because it is directly relevant to the current situation. We are looking at the gas -> electric conversion, in about the projected time frame, and all of the reasons for why traditional manufacturers were likely to fumble are all there. And the creation of hybrids that you point to is as relevant to the survival of traditional car manufacturers as the creation of sail/steam hybrids was to sailboat manufacturers roughly a century ago. (News flash, the big ones all made those hybrids, and none successfully made the transition to pure steam ships.)

This is not to say that Tesla will be a big player in the all electric age that is coming. But its odds are better than Ford, Toyota and GM.
RoHS is a limit on toxic chemical concentrations in materials used for electrical equipment to limit environmental and public exposure to a few egregiously toxic compounds (i.e., the solder in a radio can have a maximum of 1000 ppm of lead, but no more). You're probably thinking of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive which is the one that set recycling goals for electronic waste.
"The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money." [1]

[1] http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-american...
I wonder how many of the traditional manufacturers will have as secure a supply chain as Tesla for the battery capacity needed to build much more than a hybrid dominated lineup.
Sure, but the management of software design needs some serious work. We know how to manage the actual engineering process, but the design work still feels like black magic half of the time.
Lavabit now accepting signups for those who have promo codes
ReCAPTCHA is OK but it still falls through to the inaccessible traditional CAPTCHA enough that we banned it and other similar solutions on gov.uk properties: https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/technology/using-captchas
If only that. Take the well-known case of a woman who overheard a private joke between two men on a programming conference and posted an outraged message to social media, which promptly got one of the men fired.

It's not the person who got hurt that "leveraged modern technology to broadcast that opinion to as many people as possible" - it's the other person, the one who overheard stuff and got offended. This is why many start to feel afraid voicing their opinions - because even if you try to keep it to a small group of your friends, there's no telling when someone decides to rebroadcast it publicly on the Internet, and then all hell breaks loose.
There are some glaring issues w/ the Rust Qt crates, namely subclassing things like QWidget. But it is high priority [0]. This is essential for using Qt as many things are not "signals" but instead overridable protected methods. I started a embedded browser PoC [1] until I hit these limitations which forced me to use C++ [2].

And many other static langs (i.e. not-python) have issues with their Qt bindings (e.g. Go [3] which can't compile via MSVC which some things like the QtWebEngine stuff need). Sadly, for advanced UI (e.g. complex tree views, docking, etc) that is cross platform and looks native, Qt is all there is, and it's reliance on C++ makes it a bit tough to use across languages. A maintained C iface for Qt is really needed.

0 - https://github.com/rust-qt/cpp_to_rust/issues/53

1 - https://github.com/cretz/rust-qt_cef_poc

2 - https://github.com/cretz/qt_cef_poc

3 - https://github.com/therecipe/qt/
This is a huge wake-up call for everyone here on Earth: if you still haven't either watched Kubrick's Odyssey or read the books, you're missing out.
Whether manufacturer hostility is in fact bigger than state-imposed burdens, I agree it is a significant factor. I thought about elaborating this point with my comment about "right to repair" but left it out for the sake of brevity.

I think an aspect of this "right to repair" would be the ability to seek legal action against manufacturers who deliberately interfere with this right.

However, the relationship between repair shops and manufacturers need not be hostile. I don't know the stats for this, but would it not be reasonable to think that many people purchase cars based on the recommendation of a trusted mechanic? I certainly do. Mechanics are generally going to recommend vehicles that are either easy to work on or aren't in the shop often (or both).
Could you elaborate on "core contributor to a major open source project"? Do you know examples of that?

I'm a relatively core contributor of druid.io project, struggling to get a touristic visa (2 failed attempts).
It probably does hamper progress, but China never had free speech since the cultural revolution so it's not like things can get worse, the free speech situation is still much improved from the 70s and the 90s (the 80s were a rare period of relatively free speech). So any political changes will be yet another turbo boost on the economy.
So it doesn't matter where they are flying? The comment to which you are replying isn't talking about the cost, but the propaganda value. Plus if they have to fly, let them fly over a military base, not a populated area.
Ammonite, scala-REPL: 1.0.0
I imagine most seasoned professionals placed on a PIP will probably already have a reasonable guess if it's a BS posture or honest attempt to fix a problem. If not from the get go, definitely by the first 1:1.

I guess, it doesn't really matter what the company calls this process or how it's presented, only how it is conducted. If you even mildly agree with the reasons presented for it, and you get positive feedback soon, it may work out, otherwise it most surely won't, regardless of the honesty behind it.
This crosses the Internet boundary too - see e.g. the well-known case of a guy who lost his job because someone overheard his meatspace conversation and decided to post it on-line...
@mitsuhiko has been working on one: https://github.com/mitsuhiko/snaek

and there's "pythonium trioxide", but I've gotten the impression that its more of an exploratory project: https://github.com/PyO3/PyO3
Technology and Population Density Trends
Just in terms of size, elephants have larger brains than humans, and we are arguably more intelligent.
>Screenshots also work in Rails system tests.

Do you have a link or something about how to make that work? About two weeks ago, I was struggling with screenshots and pushed it back to my to-do list.
Only men?
Your statement sounds like anthropomorphism of the temperature of the universe.
Solar power plant lights up abandoned nuclear project
AFAICT, QT has its own implementation of signals and slots (events and event handlers essentially) which is a pain for Rust's ownership model and it also has a code generator that deals with some of C++'s limitations, making it harder to generate usable bindings. If that weren't enough, there is no native (clean) Rust way to do C++ inheritance which is another big pain.
Always relevant for informational purposes when chip manufacturing is discussed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4
Ran into this same issue.

Read here: https://www.realartists.com/docs/2.0/uninstall.html

It uninstalls them if you logout
In the last 30 days, I've flown international on 4 airlines... United, Alaska, China Eastern, and Korean Air.

United was easily the worst, Korean was easily the best.

China Eastern wasn't great either - yet it still had better customer service, amenities, and a more comfortable seat and landing.
They've been trying with the low power server market (better $/W ratios) but I don't think I've seen much fanfare about their offerings. It's still largely been in ARM's court for that still, though it's still a niche space comparatively.
> When it comes time to buy my next car I'll probably end up going to traditional car dealerships, looking around, test driving, and picking something through a traditional channel. It's just the path of least resistance and there's a lot more variety.

I believe Tesla is gearing up for the car purchase after your next one. You're currently thinking in terms of a car that you'll be driving. For those cars, you're right, there are other car manufacturers that will be more successful.

However, once cars are fully automated, the entire game will change. Market leaders of today will be up-ended. That's when I believe Tesla, Google, and anyone else who has driverless technology will take over the industry.

That goes double for the taxi companies like Uber, Lyft, Juno, etc.
As a crypto fan, I try to pay close attention to the critics. Its tough to find someone who understands the tech and doesn't think it has some chance of success.

Having said that, Tim Swanson has some good critiques of bitcoin/blockchain. http://www.ofnumbers.com/
He does work for R3, the banking consortium which isn't creating blockchain technology, but distributed ledger technology.
Apereo CAS v. 4.2.1 Release
The same is more or less true of bonds though, no? Bond value is determined by perceived credit risk and people's feelings about the future direction of interest rates in general. Of course, eventually if you're correct you do indeed get paid by the borrower with a bond. However, the stock market will eventually fall in line with realized earnings. The only real difference is that the bond market's time horizon is fixed, whereas the stock market can stay irrational for a finite, but arbitrary amount of time.
Introducing a constraint like this, however, motivates the manufacturers to innovate making user-replaceable parts better instead of discarding the entire concept just because they can.
Old monitors were not blurry in good condition, and the distortions from applying un-needed AA to these fonts don't resemble what an out of focus monitor will do.
I tried it out for 2 weeks. It was fun to just throw stuff together, and cooking things I normally wouldn't have tried. Although I don't regret those 2 weeks, I doubt I'd try it again.
> no sense that there is an existential threat that needs combating and then all involved can go back to the farm and "study war no more."

That much, at least, I'd call a good thing. A watchful peace, or a world where violence simmers rather than boils, is a realistic goal, but attempts to permanently end war have a history of semi-permanently ending peace instead. Think of the Peace of Versailles, which will be 100 years old in two years...
Clang also supports MSVC mangling. I've never tried it with bindgen, but it can be done.
Unless such financial advisor is Warren Buffet, who said "Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing."
Will I even be buying the next car after this one? Most people own cars for 8 to 10 years. We could be looking at rental cars in the future by that point rather than outright ownership.
Markets are wonderful things, and it doesn't always pay to be first.

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/10-battery-giga...
But with decentralized control it's not a decision, it's a proposal.

A lot of people feel like Bitcoin etc. are Stick-it-to-the-man endeavors. In the long term I think they will be disappointed.

I think the real benefit of this sort of decentralization would be if multiple governments took an active part in its operation. America could propose something but it wouldn't take effect if they can't convince the mining majority of China,Russia,France,Australia,Nigeria and India. No one entity can unilaterally make a decision for their own benefit.
I don't quite understand how a corporate policy like an "intern buddy" can be compared to a ghetto or even how it remotely hurts you in the same way that an unspoken "boys club" office setting would. A corporate policy like that is pretty clearly an impersonal management-type fluff program that does not solve every problem that could possibly arise from sexism, but that serves a resource for a few people desperately in need of it (and pretending that there are not people desperately in need of it is part of the problem). Furthermore, refusing to participate in a program that could give you connections and special insight out of some misguided principle that we must maintain the appearance that everyone is treated equally is very strange to me. While you were refusing assistance out of principle, your colleagues were offered opportunities, encouraged into management, etc. at varying rates based on process that can in no way be described as meritocratic.
Actually since there are so many more men than women in tech, most things you describe happen more often to men than to women. For every women who nobody listens to in a meeting, there are ten men who nobody listens to in meetings. For every woman who doesn't get promoted there are ten men who don't get promoted - and so on (running with your example of 90% men).

Maybe sexual harassment is different, because men are less likely to make a move on other men, and if there are fewer women obviously fewer women will make moves on men than vice versa. Unfortunately the scale of sexual harassment is very difficult to gauge as so many different things are being lumped together. For some sexual harassment is "disagreeing with a woman" (as seen in a recent Pando article on YC which will not make it on HN), others have legitimate complaints. Still, why should the tech be worse than other walks of life in that regard, except for the disproportinate gender quotas? (Meaning if more men hit on less women, odds are higher for unpleasant incidents/bad apples than if less men hit on more women).
Well, because the discussion is about labelling people based on non-technical personal attributes. You're discussing the exact opposite type of label.

If you honestly don't see any difference between somebody being called "the web guy" on a daily basis and making assumptions about your skill based on that title, as opposed to somebody being called "the black dev" on a daily basis and having people making assumptions about skills based on that title, then I don't think anything I say here can possibly make a difference.
Wasn't Shawn Henry the "Cyber guy"?
tldr; With enough rocks thrown around, you'll get a few that look crafted.
> Is it better to use a paper towel is biodegradable and produced through sustainable tree-farming, or use a reusable cloth towel that increases demand for environmentally unfriendly washing machines and laundry detergent (and spend money on sewing machines and thread to repair holes)?

If someone has gone to the effort to buy responsibly sourced paper towels, I think they would also own responsibly sourcfed and environmentally friendly detergent. And of course the cloth would usually be washed with other items, and so not that much more water would be used. And, is thread really a cost here for home repairs?

I think the more realistic version of your scenario is:

"Is it better to use a non-biodegradable paper towel which was not sustainably produced, or to use a resusable cloth which needs to be thrown in with the other laundry occasionally, and which after many months of use may be relegated to a toolkit grease-towel, or thrown out and replaced?"

Lastly -- the OP may have been over-specific in talking about "full environmental and social cost", but there is plenty of room to move from where we are now to "enough social costs so that poor people don't leave near factories which give them asthma and lower their life expectancy, and to mitigate the effects of human-caused global warming."
Accepting reality and feeling like there is nothing you can do about it is the very definition of "normalization". You can accept reality, feel that it's flaws are not "normal", and still strive to make it better and more normal.
We've quite obviously banned this account. Would you please not do this here?
Have you seen this one: https://github.com/dgrunwald/rust-cpython

The extension-module feature might give you what you want
Or as they say, the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
Are these roughly the same 1MM people who used them the prior week? I haven't looked through their filings but wonder what the repeat customer %/churn is.
Blue Apron seems to inspire surprisingly passionate discussions here. Detractors tend to be very negative and even a bit hostile, and I suspect that maybe puts fans of the service on the defensive or makes them feel like they have to praise it more than it really deserves. So far this thread is very civil though.

I've tried it and enjoyed it. I found it to be a high-quality service. Negative points were (1) trash; (2) I didn't like most of the vegetarian meals, and I'm trending towards a more vegetarian diet; (3) I prefer to cook simple meals at home that generate leftovers (so that I don't have to cook every night), but BA meals tend to be complex, messy to prepare, and do not create any leftovers. These three points were easily sufficient to stop me from using it long-term.

(1) is a topic of a lot of argument. Some insist BA creates mass amounts of waste compared to normal grocery shopping. Others contend the difference is much smaller or even nonexistent when looking at "average" grocery shoppers. I'm in the middle. I think the waste is exaggerated, but still greater than what the average shopper would produce.
IANAL, but that's not true since Jan 2017. There is a 60 day grace period, but only once per validation period.

http://www.immi-usa.com/60-days-h1b-grace-period-2017-final-...
I switched to MobX and can't be happier. Performance is never a problem and everything is just simpler and easier to understand. I think you should give MobX a shot.
Who are the people investing in ICOs? Does anyone know? Which countries do they tend to live in and why are they so speculative?

As a developer, I think giving so much money, no strings attached, to a team before a product even exists sounds crazy and kills incentive. I must be missing something.
Well, if Goldman Sachs says so... eye-roll
I've found that learning new tech is orders of magnitude simpler than whiners on the internet make it seem.

I put off learning Rails years ago because post after post talked about how hard it was to get it right, how the person behind CDBaby totally failed to make Rails work for him, etc., etc. Then I sat down to learn it, imagining it would be a long month, but I learned the basics in 2 days. The exact same thing happened with React. I put it off for so long, thinking it was so hard after reading so many posts. It turns out that it's pretty straightforward.

There's still an element of fear before approaching anything new. A voice in my head says "maybe I'm not smart enough anymore to understand this new tech, which looks like it was engineered by aliens." I need to remind myself that I have been able to understand and master everything I have attempted. But the posts out there make it seem learning something new is very hard.
> Unfortunately "fundamental value" doesn't mean shit in a popularity contest where you have a lot of retail money investing in whatever they happen to like.

The stock market is fundamentally not meant to be an algorithm mapping company statistics to valuation. Treating it as such is nonsensical.
I've read plenty of traditional manufacturers working on self-driving cars too. They just don't seem to be as visible as Google/Uber/Tesla etc.

I've been following Audi for some time. [1]

[1] http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/politics/alba...
> Their interpretation was that github is upset they are viewed as sexist, so they want to figure out how to change their public reputation, without actually changing anything.

Good ol' Diversity Theatre :/
If you signal a thing that you don't believe, as is assumed that GS was doing in the hypothetical you are responding to, then you have behaved deceptively. You are free to argue that GS does believe that Tesla is overvalued, but it is not relevant to an argument which explicitly assumes the opposite.