skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are all startups led by manipulative people? Nope.

Your friend made the right choice.
I understand the dangers of monopoly, but I wish there was a stronger argument here.

We've seen this sort of thing happen before, with Walmart. And none of these arguments worked! Walmart is big and dominant. It killed off smaller places, but people don't care because it has mostly everything and is cheap.

"This convenient good thing is actually bad!" isn't super convincing I guess....

EDIT: the ultimate irony being that Walmart/Amazon are the "ideal endgame" of market capitalism. Razor-thin margins everywhere, people get things cheap.

But how do you get cheap goods? Pressure suppliers, pay workers as little as possible. The _best case scenario_ for this economic model leads to a terrible status quo. And the only difference between this and other industries is the size of the slice of the pie the C-suite gets.
It's not news investors should give a great deal of importance to, but it is news aimed squarely at investors, by Tesla itself.
Anything that can go to dynamo, can go to s3, especially at that volume. And you get proper multi region replication, read/write capacity based on actual usage and instant scaling.

I stay by my comment that dynamodb is a joke wrapped in thick layer of marketing crap.
I just tried it and it worked for me
Why do you think businesses like "unlimited" time off so much?

"Unlimited" means "no accrued time".
Basically, they didn't figure out shit. What a waste of a read.
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and those are taxes all citizens of our country pay.
>I'm converting a codebase of Javascript of about 200+ js files to Typescript today.

Pity you! I fear such tasks.

As mentioned,take advantage of async/await. Also, make sure you wrap everything in modules and access from outside through module exports.
Perhaps somebody can explain the situation to me a little better. As far as I understand the situation, in any democracy you have the right to assemble and to vote for anything you want (though of course if you actually ACT on something against the law, well that's the definition of illegal).

I know this is a very prickly topic, but is there something I'm missing out on here? As I understand it there has been a Texas secession party in the US, and though it's not popular it's treated as protected political speech (of course when the South did try to secede they were stopped by force of arms).
Campbell–Stokes recorder
Direct link to the Dynamo Whitepaper PDF:
http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon-dynamo-sosp...
You can also have a look at the technique used here to create collision-free sequential unique IDs across a cluster, even if it is just for inspiration: https://www.npmjs.com/package/cuid

Example:

c - h72gsb32 - 0000 - udoc - l363eofy

The groups, in order, are:

1. 'c' - identifies this as a cuid, and allows you to use it in html entity ids. The fixed value helps keep the ids sequential.

2. Timestamp

3. Counter - a single process might generate the same random string. The weaker the pseudo-random source, the higher the probability. That problem gets worse as processors get faster. The counter will roll over if the value gets too big.

4. Client fingerprint. For example, the first two chars are extracted from the process.pid. The next two chars are extracted from the hostname.

5. Pseudo random (Math.random())
Facebook and Google have enriched their early investors in relatively straightforward ways. I mean, Facebook delayed its IPO and took a while to get revenue going, but it was still only about 8 years from "thefacebook.com" to filing for IPO.

Uber has been around for 8 years now and it's asking for billions more from its investors to prop up massive operating losses while it takes longshot bets in heavily competitive spaces.

This is basically a story of investors thinking that the magic bullet for more Google/Facebook-style successes was giving founders unilateral control of the companies, and then saying, "Oh, wait."
That's probably true, though only because you've chosen that specific problem (and even then - I wouldn't claim that any level of incompetence is out of Pepco's reach).

How about the fact that DC still has a lead contamination problem that was, at its peak, 20-30x worse than the one in Flint, MI? Is that a problem that makes you think the 680,000 residents of the city, who pay all federal taxes and overwhelmingly want to be recognized as a state, deserve the same representation as the people of Wyoming or Texas or New Hampshire? DC's lack of representation is shameful - the textbook example of cynical, undemocratic partisan politics.

Puerto Rico absolutely deserves better representation and all the aid necessary to help them rebuild, but DC's situation is ridiculous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_contamination_in_Washingt...
In order for antirez to have a point, let assume we built an experimental environment with cameras to observe how people behave.

Let say we want to observe how eye contact is being made, in which order, and to whom and at what rate when a test person enters a group to introduce themselves. Variables we adjust are among things like hight, age, gender of test subject, gender distribution of the test group, appearance of strength, social economical status signals, gait, posture, and olfaction.

Then we take a base line, and compare that to when we change a single variable. The question to be answered is: which variable has no effect, which variable has biggest effect, and what is the underlying reason when an variable has an effect.
What small businesses? Local business competing with Amazon were killed off more than a decade ago by Walmart.

If the status quo when Amazon started was a high minimum wage with strong unions and employee (or at least local) ownership, this might be a more compelling argument. As it is, the capitalists in Bentonville are losing out to the capitalists in Seattle because the former rely on massively state-subsidized labor while the latter just axes the labor all-together.

I'm not saying it isn't a problem, but this isn't something that was created by (or even made worse by) Amazon. This is an important point because without a proper diagnosis, we'll never find the cure.

Also, Amazon beating Walmart is an exemplar of free markets at work -- one competitor besting another on merit alone (actually, even DESPITE massive federal and state tax incentives propping up the losing side!) Maybe the conclusion you should be drawing from your dislike of the status quo is that free markets aren't a panacea after all?

Finally, I'll note that Amazon distribution facilities -- for all the valid criticisms -- at least pay a (barely) living wage in many areas. Walmart pays substantially less.
"The vast majority of people do not have the skills to use the internet as a source for good knowledge."

And this is known how?

The aristocracy considers the people ignorant and prefers it that way, but history shows this is not always objectively so.

The ideas of freedom of information, of freedom of expression are repugnant to the aristocrat (who always consider they know best), but these are founding principals of so far the most innovative and productive societies history has known. As opposed to aristocracies which are feudalism and stagnation.

“Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat. It’s true! Liberal governments always develop into aristocracies. The bureaucracies betray the true intent of people who form such governments. Right from the first, the little people who formed the governments which promised to equalize the social burdens found themselves suddenly in the hands of bureaucratic aristocracies. Of course, all bureaucracies follow this pattern, but what a hypocrisy to find this even under a communized banner. Ahhh, well, if patterns teach me anything it’s that patterns are repeated.
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
Literally no entity with more than one line of business has each line of business growing at the same rate. This implies that the successful LoBs are "clickbait" to subsidize the less profitable LoBs.

Familiar (counter) example - loss leaders in supermarkets.
It's in the first sentence.

> While Puerto Rico suffers after Hurricane Maria, much of the U.S. media (FiveThirtyEight not excepted)...
I was obliquely referring to the F-35 program, which is forecast to cost ~$1.5tn and is estimated to have created ~100,000 jobs within the services and via contractors, subcontractors and suppliers. The F-35 is a dreadful aircraft that is grounded indefinitely because it keeps trying to suffocate pilots, but it has kept a lot of factories busy and made a lot of senators happy. Lockheed Martin proudly trumpet the fact that there are suppliers for the F-35 project in 46 states - that's a lot of pork to go around.

The US defence budget is lousy with pork-barrel projects. The Army Chief of Staff has repeatedly asked Congress to stop buying new Abrams tanks, but the tanks keep rolling off the production line nonetheless. The services might be facing deep sequestration cuts, but there's been no let-up in the procurement of expensive and unnecessary hardware.

http://www.businessinsider.com/congress-approves-useless-mil...
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/01/28/pentagon-tells...
>So subsidize it with dedicated law enforcement presence rather than tax relief.

I don't know how you reckon that it would be any more popular to have tax-subsidized, deputized loss prevention officers at such stores. Seems it would just feed into the outrage over "public servants stationed at Walmart?" "Tasing someone for shoplifting?"

Edit: But here's an idea in the same vein: go find cash-strapped families that would benefit from a one time infusion of money to do the long-term cheaper option for grocery shopping [1]. Say, they purchase in bulk and learn how to cook and coordinate monthly supply runs (rotating for fresher items etc).

They would be able to pay back a huge rate of return with just a fraction of the savings, which could then bankroll a virtuous cycle expanding the program.

Why hasn't anyone tried that? Or why hasn't it worked?

[1] The Vimes boot theory that is often quoted here.
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Yes. In grad school I had a prof from Puerto Rico and she said she always had to convince officials that yes she was a US citizen.
You know Puerto Rico has its own political parties, right? I would hope you're also aware that the party in power is center right. If Puerto Rico were to join as a state you'd more likely than not find its politicians trying to retain their own party ties.

At least do some research.
Thank you for that clarification.
BART (SF Bay Area Transit) Gave Out 17000 Rides Worth $3.5M in 2016
Racket took the baton from Eiffel: https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/contract-boundaries.html
*Unless you are a ISP.
Free markets aren't a guarantee that things aren't repugnant (and likely the opposite -- most winners in free markets are repugnant in various ways).

Free markets are a travesty of economics; bring back competitive markets.
For me, Amazon is a long way off from threatening my local supermarket and other local retailers.

Would I buy clothes from Amazon? No, I like to try them on first. Returning stuff by mail is a pain.

Would I buy expensive home furnishings from Amazon? No, I like to see, touch, try these things before I spend a lot of money.

Would I buy perishable groceries from Amazon? No, because deliveries happen when I'm at work and I don't want perishable food sitting in the sun for three hours on my front porch.

Do I buy toilet paper from Amazon? No, because it's easier to pick it up at the store when I'm there for something else anyway, than to get it delivered and then have to deal with disposing of the cardboard box it came in.

And with anything Amazon, I'm worried about counterfeit goods.

So what do I buy from Amazon? Inexpensive, low risk, low margin goods, and the occasional book.
Not much of a process, more like:

1. Learn about thing

2. Read about thing

3. Play with thing

4. Create something else using thing

5. Steps 2-4 in any order, any amount of times.

The hardest thing for me is to apply my knowledge. Sure I can read all I want about a database tech, but if I don't have any data to put in it, it's hard to feel like that is real knowledge, or to even keep that knowledge around.
This is why this “net neutrality” nonsense is so dangerous. It’s an invented issue meant to weaken the FTC by transfering the power to regulate the internet to a government agency that doesn’t have anti-trust authority. The FTC made Amazon possible because, in the 2000s, it used anti-trust to keep local and state governments from taxing and outlawing internet sales of products. Now that Amazon is powerful, it’s lobbying to prevent the same power from being used against it. This is what net neutrality was created for. Nobody wants to slow down your Netflix.
> Ideally, Lakens says, the level of statistical significance needed to prove a hypothesis depends on how outlandish the hypothesis is.

> Yes, you’d want a very low p-value in a study that claims mental telepathy is possible. But do you need such stringent criteria for a well-worn idea? The high standards could impede young PhDs with low budgets.

Watching someone try to be Bayesian without using Bayesian techniques is painful.

> There are also new, advanced statistical techniques — like Bayesian analysis — that, in some ways, more directly evaluate a study’s outcome.

Almost as painful as watching Bayesian analysis described as "new."
There's another more important problem for that specific situation: statehood (and the equivalent representation) for D.C. would require a constitutional amendment.
I think it is rather likely they were aware of the connotation.

And the comment you replied to is also likely aware of such. That's why they pointed out a global cooperative body making noises about Puerto Rico and decolonization.

Also, your mention of Haiti is confused; it was a French colony, not a colony of the UK or US.
DC as a federal city should not have Senators or representatives. People aren’t supposed to live here, it’s just supposed to be a safe place for the federal government to sit that isn’t controlled by a state. It certainly shouldn’t be a major metro region.
As long as competent politicians exist (a misnomer?) to break up true monopolies I say let incumbent industries pay the price for failing to innovate. Why should we have car salesmen for example? A new car is more or less a homogeneous good so why does it need a middleman? I would buy a car from amazon in a heartbeat. Why should I have to wait in line for a teller or a free lane for self checkout at a grocer? Because that’s how we have done things for years we should? Because Amazon began as a book seller and has no business in disrupting other industries? Haha that’s laughable.
> > taxation without representation

> Residents of Puerto Rico don't pay Federal income tax.

As an immigrant I get to both pay federal taxes and can’t vote, so no representation. :)

Just pointing out they’re not necessarily correlated.
I was 35 and had two kids when I went through YC in 2013. My cofounder was roughly the same age and also had two kids. We weren’t the oldest and we didn’t have the most kids. The idea that YC is just for 20-somethings and consumer/tech apps is a myth that may have been true early on, but is no longer based in reality.

It does help to have a low personal burn rate. If you have high expenses, it’s difficult to quit a decently well paying job to start a startup. But that doesn’t have anything to do with YC. If anything, it’s marginally easier with YC backing because at least you can slow down the personal burn.
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Puerto Ricans are eligible for social security and Medicare, so they’re getting something in return for those. Puerto Rican corporations also don’t pay federal corporation tax.
> Your argument says Walmart is also unstoppable, at least without further tweaks --- and yet, we figured out how to solve the Walmart problem.

You're proposing that the solution to "the Walmart problem" is to create a company even worse than Walmart, a company that drives other, larger companies out of business? Whereas Walmart put out the mom and pops, Amazon is putting out the Bestbuys and shopping malls. There is no difference. But people are celebrating this, and heralding a coming age where no one has to work (caused by Amazon-like processes and robots replacing retail workers and other jobs), without really considering the complete disaster that this would entail. The solution is not even more supercompanies.
You can also google stories about people who don't believe New Mexico is part of the US.
Ask HN: Has anyone learned to speak Hindi?
It doesn't look like its a particularly difficult language to learn all things considered, and at work would provide a very different and hopefully positive experience for someone like me, a stereotypical caucasian American. Does anyone have any experiences or resources to share?
... and presumably they are also preparing to drop that program in about 3-4 years.
Puerto Rico isn’t “poor.” It’s GDP per capita is higher than Spain, and just below Italy.
I think it is a worth noting that there is a difference between Dynamo and DynamoDB. One is a powerhouse academic publication that shook up modern computer science and one an enterprise tech product based upon Dynamo.

It is the 10th anniversary of Dynamo as a CS milestone.
I think it has to do with it being on a reserve
Code generation is, in essence, the ultimate static construct since it allows you to compile any feature you would achieve through late binding and reflection, but with a static code path. Which in turn lets you leverage the compiler toolchain more and bring more errors towards compile time(where they're cheap to resolve).

Dynamic languages can always lean on runtime features, but that's also their peril. Late binding deprives you of leveraging the tools in favor of "trust me".

In both cases you can get a maintenance nightmare, of course. The point as I see it is to move things toward the runtime when the error case is not troublesome, and towards the compiler when automating in more safeguards would help.
Think of QuickCheck/test.check but with better integration into the language.

This makes it much more likely to be used but it's fundamentally the same set of ideas.

A really cool idea I'm playing with at the moment is using fuzzing/static analysis based generators to feed spec/test.check.

I think it will help get past the, imo, biggest issue with generators in that they can miss exceptional cases in the code.

E.g. If (x=="jack and Jill) {exceptional case} is unlikely to be triggered with standard generators but "easy" for static analysis tools to solve.

> Also, with enough heavy lifting you can actually encode all of that in the types in a dependantly typed language like Idris [1]

In theory. In practice it is multiple orders of magnitude harder to prove properties in Idris than it is to spec them using property based testing.
Of course, this was when floppies was higher quality too.
There are shitty startups, just like there are shitty enterprises.
> DC as a federal city should not have Senators or representatives. People aren’t supposed to live here

Then return the parts of the current district on which residences (other than official government ones like the White House) sit to the original states.

Because people do, in fact, live in D.C., and those people are currently governed (and taxed) without representation in the federal legislature.
It's also been 11 or 12 days since the hurricane hit Puerto Rico. But for the first week, the reporting seemed pretty sparse even though it was obvious they had been hit really hard.
@dang, can you swap it out with this one?
Hard to do isn't a deterrent, it's a market. Making it criminal simply creates a criminal market.
> As an immigrant I get to both pay federal taxes and can’t vote, so no representation. :)

Well, generally constitutional rights don't fully apply to us non-citizens. Don't think that's a very meaningful argument in this context.
> so many people I know don't really know that Amazon Prime Video exists, or if it does exist how to find it. Likewise for Music.

I know these things exist, but I don't use them much even as an Amazon Prime member. Why? Because Prime Video UX is poor compared to Netflix (and Netflix is no great shakes either, but it's better than Amazon), and Music has a pretty poor catalog and again a pretty poor UX.
Ask HN: How to approach Front-End development if you hate it?
How can software engineers who hate front-end development acquire the necessary front-end skills with the least amount of effort?
Pretty cool. Of course, the serverless version doesn't have too many regions yet, so some of the advantages of strong global consistency may be less useful. But I'll keep my eye on this regardless.
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> It pains me that my generation, a generation of people who dream of being makers and business owners...

Not just business owners, but startup founders. Also, emphasis on the "owner" not the "maker". There's no real fetish for hackers disconnected from business ownership in the zeitgeist.

Why would a temporarily embarrassed monopolist support monopoly busting?