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I have saved thousands of dollars thanks to Amazon. Not because I bought from them. No, but because I use their app to compare items and get a price match. Nearly every major store (Walmart, Target, Home Depot, Best Buy, Staples, Office Max/Depot) match or beat Amazon. With Amazons app I can instantly scan all my products at a store. I may only save 2-5 dollars per item, but I do it every time I shop.

The other day I save $40 on a price gun from Staples. It was 89 in store, and 49 on on Amazon.
I bought a Brother laser printer with toner for $80 shipped in two days. Happy Amazon consumer here. You'll have to rip Prime out of my cold dead hands.
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The article specifically mentions Echo. My point was that the prevailing sentiment on HN seems (to me) that Echo is a good, useful product, not an evil spying device.
Average joe here: pre-ACA, I was uninsurable. My pre-existing condition was having had an organ removed in my 20s. No one would insure me when I went to buy it.

Post-ACA, I could once again buy health insurance.

I consider no longer being locked out of the US medical system a substantial help.
>don't be a wuss about your credit score.

I don't get this statement. Not protecting your credit score can cost you real money. Yeah, the whole thing is a racket, and I frickin' hate it, but, pretending like you can ignore your credit score without impact seems counterproductive.

I would really rather see this whole racket of a medical billing system held to account versus advocating that we allow them to punish us in any way for not playing their fraudulent game.
I don't know how helpful this will be OP: but thinking about problems in your domain and writing about your solutions is a good way to establish competence. It's the difference between organic leads vs active advertising. The former has the client coming to you and the latter has you chasing the client.

Which of these do you think works the best? In my experience its the former by far (all of the people who have sought me out had the most reasonable and interesting project.) But I do understand that in the beginning you're going to have to grind to get anywhere (share your work where ever you can) which means putting in A LOT of unpaid hours doing research and development for new stuff. It's worth it though.

If you keep working on your portfolio and learning new skills then you will never have to look for work again. Just think of the security that would bring: To know that if anything happened to the company you're working for (or you get fired) you can sign a new contract the very same day. Would be amazing for most devs... But in my experience this can only happen if you specialise.

The problem is, there is too much competition for the skills you listed. As an example, if you were to learn some skills in say - big data or AI then you would be much more competitive. I know that's a big ask but one thing I think is true about the tech industry is that anyone can succeed if they put in the effort. In the end its a meritocracy, so the good developers quickly go to the top and the bad ones are weeded out... Remember companies ARE looking for good developers all the time, you just have to make yourself heard and do something worth showing (this doesn't necessarily mean applying to a company. Get creative. There are a lot of ways to stand out)

Good luck OP
Gold box (and so much of prime day) seemed like warehouse spring cleaning days.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04...

http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/crime/article536103...

Can we agree that the conditions for lightning are fairly predictable, and staying safe is pretty straightforward? Whereas "just don't be where all the people are" is by definition advice that most people can't or won't follow.

Honestly I don't think this point is really debatable. Unpredictability is a core characteristic of terrorism. If tomorrow all Americans decided to spread homogeneously across the country and never congregate in large groups, terrorists would think of something else. If it were predictable and avoidable it wouldn't be as scary, which is the whole point of this conversation.
Bed bath and beyond too. We ordered some cleaning product on Amazon that was delivered by BBB recently so I checked the price. We paid 3x on Amazon.
> cash value of a sandbox escape/jailbreak of iOS on the black market...guarantees that you won't see any widespread malware

Why would the black market pay huge sums for a sandbox escape or jailbreak -- unless it's for malware?

If the answer is "for use by intelligence agencies", well that's malware by any reasonable definition.
Have you actually watched formula e? The race is so quiet and uneventful that they have a dj playing shitty edm music.
> so its not some unlimited spout of money you can abuse like medical insurance

Apropos of outliers, this type of attitude is problematic and emblematic of issues in the US.

"Needing healthcare" is not "abusing medical insurance".
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It's not just perl; the screen capture code apparently references GWorlds, something I frankly have not seen since writing software in the 1990's for pre OS X APIs. It's so old that Googling for gworld hardly has any relevant results.

Most of the sample code for those APIs was deprecated by the mid 2000's

Unless the attacker had some unique reason for using that, which seems unlikely, that really does put the code at about 10 years old or so...
My impression is that the tent-restricting social issue that has held the Democrats back in recent years is abortion, not gay rights. I'd be interested to hear if you have studies or polls showing otherwise.
And, NewEgg also generally has excellent customer service, in my experience. So, it's not like I'm trading away convenience or confidence in the vendor. I've bought hundreds of more items at Amazon than NewEgg in the past several years, but I'd bet my gross dollar spend is similar at NewEgg because I've bought a half dozen servers and computers.
That's really disappointing that you list an outlet like Breitbart with all the other reputable publications you name in an otherwise well formed argument.

What a sad state of affairs when we've legitimized a publication that identifies itself as central to the political movement that's brought together the xenophobes of our society.
Evergreen: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews

Tl,dr: None of these stories [the news] have relevance to my life. Reading them may be enjoyable, but it’s an enjoyable waste of time. They will have no impact on my actions one way or another.
Where do you wind up going instead? I frequently wouldn't even know where to go to buy, say, a pair of lacrosse balls and adjustable sprinkler nozzles for a better price. I'm sure there's better deals to be had somewhere, but is there a go-to? Or a search engine that does particularly well deal-hunting?

Maybe that's a sign they've trapped me.
I agree. But that shows the key isn't a lack of anonymity, but a larger collection of other factors.
Depending on the item, I almost always price compare either Newegg vs. Amazon or Walmart vs. Amazon. The Walmart ecommcerce experience is drastically improved to what it was 4 years ago... prices are good.. and the new shipping and ready to reorder feature.. its so hard not to comparison shop.

With Walmart drastically increasing their instore pay and providing better than retail avg. advanced scheduling + Amazons poor pay and working conditions for distro workers Amazon doesn't even even have a moral advantage. (According to my radio Walmart distro workers even start at above 16.50/hr, and thats in a rural area...)
> You immediately arrive at computationally intractable sums/integrals.

So we instead sample from that posterior.

Unless you think MCMC is also obsolete, in which case I’ll see myself out.
Other countries often have much stronger advertising standards regulation and consumer protection laws.

In the US the attitude seems to be more "will I get sued over this"?

That said the FTC does seems to be on the case in this instance.
The issue I have with NewEgg is returns. There's always some condition, or expensive fee for return shipping. By comparison, Amazon makes it very easy
I build products in India. You do not understand how the technology works. Driverless technology is AI based i.e. it learns the same way a human does. All it requires is training, a lot of training, 10000 hours or more. I am working on self-driving tech and I can _show_ you the technology works even in hills of the Himalayas where there are no road signs or lane markings.
Fair enough, name collisions are becoming very hard to avoid.
This is another big one. Amazon is filled with garbage products. It can be very hard to tell what's quality, anymore, and the reviews aren't trustworthy the way they used to be.

I used to read reviews on Amazon religiously even if I was buying somewhere else. That habit has kinda faded, though it's still one of the better sources of real world product knowledge.
Great. So I'm hungry and miserable but it's fine because I get to experience it for several extra years!
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Obamacare does include a bunch of tools to help keep overall healthcare spending down. As far as I'm aware, they have helped. But there's a long way to go.

I'm actually not sure the BHCA or AHCA or whatever it's called now has much in it besides slogans and major spending cuts which aren't aimed at making care less expensive -- they're aimed and reducing the overall amount of care provided by shifting costs to those less capable of bearing them.

That's a pretty big contrast.
> This is no different in essence than Searle's Chinese Room problem, which at its core asks "If the parts aren't conscious, how can the gestalt be?"

The answer to that question is “consciousness is a property of the interaction between the parts, not of the individual parts.” Or, alternatively, “consciousness is not a well-defined objective property, just a vague incoherent concept that has lots of emotional attachment, but which you can't analytically say is or is not present in any entity or aggregate.”

The Chinese Room is useless as anything other than an as an overly elaborate illustration that there isn't a useful, clear understanding of what “consciousness” means.
Morally everyone is entitled to any digital data they have access to, legally or not
I agree with your statement here but it should be noted that a lot of cyber security is the joke about running away from a bear. I don't have to outrun the bear, I just have to out run you.
I can personally vouch for Moonlight - I am working on a contract with them right now and didn't have to race to the bottom on pricing. While I certainly couldn't _live_ off this single contract it does not hurt to have your name in the hat for the companies that are looking.
I think you know the answer. Just look again at your sentence that starts with : However ...
Is that a common acronym for electromagnetic solvers? It can also deal with health and the power grid depending on context.
Is that new? I don't remember ever having that experience, but I haven't had to return anything in a long time.
I am merely noting that it exists.

If I want to see an event with electronic music that might involve carnage, I watch SpaceX launches.
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Did you read my reply? You've arrived at the same number I posted in my TL;DR... $37.5MM.

The point was never for her to come out ahead, just less behind.

Why does this matter?

I was simply pointing out that she achieved exactly what she wanted. Better optics. :)

People commending her and commenting how amazing, how selfless, how fantastic it is that she donated all her proceeds to charity.

Understand that her primary motivation in donating was the write-off, not charity.

Otherwise, if she was feeling so chummy, why didn't she instead divide her almost 50% share among the employees that helped build her company? Hint: there's no write-off for that.
Ah...missed it, but knew that couldn't be right.
You don't even need to be comfortable with assembly and tuning -- just take it to a local bike shop and they'll do it for a small fee ($50 - $100)
So Amazon gets a list of everything you're interested in offline as well, even if you don't buy from them. Sounds like win/win for them!
>It took Milo saying "maybe pedophelia isn't that bad" before there was enough of an outcry for him to be fired.

Your example is nonsense and disproves your point. Read the transcript, that is not at all what was said:

http://heavy.com/news/2017/02/milo-yiannopolous-pedophilia-t...

An actual quote: "I do not support pedophilia. Period. It is a vile and disgusting crime, perhaps the very worst."

You say you don't feel there is as much accountability for talking heads on the right, yet here is a clear example of a talking head on the right being misquoted ('conveniently abbreviated') and actual, real consequences occurring.
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Music for the masses by Depeche Mode

Syro by Aphex Twin

The inevitable end by Royksopp

Dead can dance by Dead can dance

Ghost in the shell soundtrack by Kenji Kawaii

I also listen to a lot of podcasts lately though I tend to tune them out and they become mostly white noise.
Get the New York Times? No seriously, there are long form publications that provide what you want with the model you want. I like Gizmodo. They do some interesting pieces once in a while. But I don't see myself paying $5/month for it.

I am not a fan of advertising as a model for the web. It sucks in terms of UX, and it sucks in terms of motivations for the content providers. This is how we get WikiHow and W3School, and Wikipedia clones. Problem is that it's a model that's simply more profitable than anything else we've tried so far. And you can shame people into paying or try to coax them all you want, but it just won't make as much money.
The problem isn't that everyone's jobs will be replaced in the short term. The problem is that enough people's jobs will be replaced that the negotiating power of workers in more and more labor markets will be broken. This happened with manufacturing in the 1970s. Unions had a huge amount of power in the 1950s and 1960s, and could halt production if minimum standards of compensation weren't met. But the advent of the computer (along with major policy shifts and cultural shifts) basically eliminated this power, as it became easier to automate or outsource labor.

Automation and outsourcing are two sides of the same coin: once the price of domestic labor eclipses the price of a non-domestic alternative, negotiating power vanishes. Entire classes of people move from stable positions in which they have bargaining power and sufficient protections to the positions we see today, which are often short-term, at-will, unstable, and often very low paying. This leads to what seems to me to be the most serious result: when you feel that your job is insecure, but your livelihood depends on that job, you are much more susceptible to exploitation. People in the service industry are beginning to feel this, and more and more industries will feel this in the coming years.
> The video player deciding what quality you want is a good thing

It's an extremely annoying thing actually, especially when it changes after I manually set it to 1080p. This is why I use mpv to watch stuff from youtube nowadays.
What I wouldn't give for 5 more books of equal quality to PAIP...
> And what is a data scientist then, if their work does not involve analysing data and presenting their analysis?

This is a dead giveaway that you have no idea what you’re talking about. You’ve captured about 5% of my work.

The rest of the time, I’m writing software (ETL pipelines or real-time services, including tests), debugging some distributed system, collecting or cleaning data, or gathering requirements and developing feature specs with other folks.

Fortunately for you, you nailed the Mac-using latte-drinking part!

EDIT: Reading your comment history on regression and k-means. you _do_ know what you’re talking about. It is hard to get models into production, so I’m surprised to see your snark here. What gives? Do you have experience with DS who don’t deliver?
I've noticed this as well. I used to have a Neato XV21, but I got tired of dealing wiht costly filters and that it ate all of my cables. I do miss it because it was efficient and notified me when the dirt bin was full.
Ask HN: Do you become emotionally attached to your old tech?
I have an Early-2011 MacBook Pro and recently upgraded to the most recent MBP. The new MBP is collecting dust because I find myself always preferring my old machine... It is like an old trusted friend who has seen me through stupid things (like writing that email to an ex) and awesome things (like writing code that I thought was beyond my ability). I realize the new MBP is a superior machine, but just can't seem to let the old one go. Have you experienced this phenomenon? How did you overcome it?
Just think of these guys as very well-paid pen testers.
In Florida, Blue Cross Blue Sheild had a plan called Go Blue pre ACA/Obamacare, it was a kind of bare minimum coverage but monthly premiums were like $80 and BCBS of Florida carries one of the best reputations and has one of the largest networks of providers.

Something like 80,000 Floridans lost that policy because it didn't carry the minimum services under ACA/Obamacare. But it wasn't just losing the policy, they were never able to afford the new blue cross blue sheild policies, having to purchase from a new insurer most of whom had reputations as fly by night operations (many not existing before ACA and shutting down 1 and 2 years in), and finally losing the good BCBS network.

Here is a copy of the actual letter sent out by BCBS when they had to cancel the policy: https://www.floridablue.com/blog/my-policy-being-canceled-no...
> I mean, if you go into a jewelry store with a gun and declare that everything is free you can get everything for 100% off (probably just the one time, though).

Maybe not even that; they are obvious targets, and as such precautions are common.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2001-05-08/news/010508027...

> Can't do that with jewelry on Amazon.

You can try, once you learn where the fulfillment warehouse is.
I know Foxit Reader.

SumatraPDF is fairly minimalistic, it is a single executable file that runs without installation. Foxit has far more features than SumatraPDF, it is more like the slim sibling of Acrobat (no insult intended!). (SumtraPDF.exe is something like 3.5 MB, Foxit's msi package is something like 70 MB, IIRC)

But Foxit never has given me any reason to complain. I have across a few tricky PDF files that took forever to open in Acrobat, and Foxit (and SumatraPDF) handled those without trouble. Plus, it installs a PDF printer, which is convenient on pre-Windows 10 machines.
That's a great way to discover interesting content. Thanks for posting!
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donate it to some one who may have need for it.
My newegg account got permamently banned so I shop at Amazon. I don't even know why.
Ability to generate candidate paths in continuous search space is a bit more general than pruning prebuilt search tree.

Search tree is an approximation of continuous search problems and needs to be built by someone. This approach builds its own search tree.
Wirecutter found an improvement over last year (0.54% of deals good value vs 0.008%).

https://twitter.com/wirecutter/status/884900863218769920

Will have to wait for their full write up but there genuinely were a lot of quality items for the lowest price ever.
The merging is fairly narrowly windowed in time (I think ~hours not >1 day). Sometimes the mods will send you an email (if you have one stored in your account profile) and ask you to repost with a front-page bonus attached. But yeah, timing is everything :).
Clarifying a few things so that people get a perspective on your post is about.

>>In Indian malls, there are so many helpers standing around that if you lift up a merchandise, you'll be jump scared by someone asking you how she can help you.

This is because most people can't use these things properly. Its easier(and cheaper) to put a lift operator than to have people damage lift and having it repaired/replaced.

>>People are also used to asking the prices of the items, even though just flipping around would reveal the tags that clearly earmarks the final price (all tax and details).

Very few do this. Those people who ask generally do it because we are price conscious, absolutely nothing wrong with that.

Look at the wester society, bulk of the personal finance problems there arise because people spend money they don't have.

>>Personally, I usually go on weekdays and I can have about 3+ people buzzing around me trying to help me decide what I want to buy.

Again easier to help you shop quickly this way, than having tens of people pile up in the store.

>>If I hire a wash-helper to just wash my clothes twice a week, it will cost me just about ₹1000 ($15) (or even less) a month in Bangalore.

Most people would and do buy a Washing machine for something like this. You must be rich.

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Let's be frank this no-driverless cars is just political talk. When those cars arrive, these people will be the first ones trying to convince public about it.
Please add pricing. And tip; to get startup founders, don't subscribe to the silly moniker that startup's price themselves too low. I look at the low, mid and high end price by volume to estimate any new costs now and 6 months down the line. Way too many overpriced services cause it's in vogue right now based on VC's saying it is. Certainly what you are doing is interesting. Nice work.
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Maybe the market doesn't need it?
Agreed, NewEgg customer service is excellent. Easy returns. I've probably spent more in raw dollars at NewEgg than at Amazon, even though I've made maybe 10x as many Amazon purchases.

Edit: I have NewEgg Premier though, so I get free shipping on certain items and free RMAs. Cheaper than Amazon Prime. I'm always amazed NewEgg doesn't get more love around here.
I wish I knew how to overcome it. My 1541 drives and Commodore computers take up so much room.
Lu Xun also advocated for romanized Chinese instead of characters, citing time wasted for students in achieving literacy, however this part of his character (as well as no doubt his support for Esperanto and the apparent anarchist affiliations alleged here) have been airbrushed from history by the Chinese government, who praise him and have a government audited version of his life taught in schools while removing these politically unfortunate aspects of his character.

In short, a collection of superfluous historic tidbits does not make a regional affiliation for a language fundamentally grounded in the etymology of another.
Hmm this might be a good idea for my next side project. How much would you pay for this and why does https://github.com/project-open-data/csv-to-api fall short?
It's a good point. Thanks for making it. I do read everything, including fringe publications. In the continuum of publications, everybody will find their tolerance for unacceptable to be different.

Thanks for your honest comment. I did think about your point before including it.

Edit: and i am sorry for offending you.
Game Programming Patterns - without a doubt. Own it in print, but usually only read it online. To me it's a more exciting read than the GoF book

http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/contents.html