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Blue Apron is not for people who want to _eat_, it's for people who want to _cook_ but don't want to shop, transport things home, or meal plan.

This is where the price premium is worth it to some people.
How are they prepped beforehand? I just watched several unboxing videos and everything is whole. Poatoes, fennel, bok choy, limes, onions and even herbs were all whole. There is literally no difference than grocery shopping except theirs is in a box and mine is in a bag.
Think "corrupted file", not "corrupt official". The key difference is that there is a primary purpose for their existence (a file stores data, a scientific process produces good and reliable findings), and something can be corrupted (no longer suitable for its purpose) without malice involved. To call an official corrupted, you need to allege malice, to say that a file is corrupted, you only need to show that it's not valid for its purpose. It's not a good choice of a word anyway, you could make exactly the same valid point without any of the ambiguity.
With Android Oreo's install-unknown-apps permission does F-Droid do updates without prompting for each package?

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>>And I am telling you women already do similar work to janitors.

No you claimed Housekeeper is similar to Janitor, and I explained in great detail why a janitor will make more than a housekeeper and it has nothing to with the gender of the employee but the fact that it is different work with a different value proposition to the people hiring do to the work

>So, I regret trying to engage you

I understand, I would hate to be proven wrong as much as you have been in this exchange.

>One of the reasons people talk a lot about the lack of women in tech is that it is a highly desirable job. You know that. You know that janitorial work and plumbing is not nearly as cushy, attractive or well paid as IT.

I dont know that, nor is every job in IT "highly desirable" or "cushiest, best paid and most prestigious jobs".

Rack and Stack Tech, Factory Floor Techs, various other hardware level jobs are not the "cushiest, best paid and most prestigious jobs" in fact they are viewed many times within IT as one step above janitor jobs.

If you want to limited "IT Jobs" to Devs then maybe. I still do not believe sexism by employers are the driving factor behind why there are not more female programmers. Which is the crux of the argument, that employers pay women less.

The reason there are not more female programmers likly starts with pressures around the 10-12 year old range, if you want to see more female programmers target pre and early teen development.

>When teaching was a male profession, it paid better than after it became a female profession.

And you attribute that to sexism. there could be no other cause? I have not done the research I might if I have some free time, but I find it highly suspect it would be only because there are more females, likely there was some other factor at play, if the statement is even true at all
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Nah, I was much faster with a knife and a bit of practice than with a mandolin, and mandolins can only do certain things. I liked the mandolin but it was also a pain to clean vs a knife.
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I had this same concern after seeing what they send folks for one meal. I had reached out to Blue Apron with this concern (I didn't have a subscription) and they told me that they are (or will be?) implementing some recycling program for materials, but it sounded gimmicky since most of the packaging is things like plastic bags and foam.
Something is going to happen in the North!
To clarify - not just rent one place for a month, but pay the organization a monthly rate and then move to any of the places whenever you want.
Sure, but why do I need that crap on pages without rich media? And why do I need to wait for my browser (since it's on a computer other than the latest model iMac) to spend 20 seconds rendering that mess of JavaScript before I can view that content (text OR rich media), when it could display vanilla HTML faster than I can blink?
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1. If you know the teams you'd be on, pick the company with the team you prefer.

2. If you don't know the teams, just pick the better offer. They're very similar in a generalized sense.
If Cuddy's phony research got into TED talks and books and a lecture circuit, why should non-phony criticism be locked up in journals?
No way.

The harborfront has undergone a massive transformation the last couple of years and is one of the most dense residential areas in the city now. Also, it is projected to add 280,000 residents and 190,000 jobs in the coming years.

The city has reiterated time and time again that Toronto is a waterfront city, and they will continue to invest and prioritize heavily in this area.
Or, you know, civic engineers. Google could hire some of those.
I'm learning German with Fluent Forever, and though it's a bit early to have a definitive opinion, so far it's going really well, far better than any of my previous attempts. Fantastic method.
Ask HN: What functional programming language(s) do you use?
And what are your thoughts about it/them? Feel free to mention both pros and cons, and anything else, like what you use it for, market demand (perceived), community, docs, tools, etc.
> they would be extremely likely to invest that money in a variety of financial instruments, making that capital available in the market so it can be put to good use

This improves the supply-side of the economy, but doesn't do anything to stimulate demand for products. Today, lack of demand is a larger problem than increased output. The labor share of GDP has been decreasing since the 70s, and its starting to hit levels where people are having trouble affording as many goods. Although investing is a good use of funds, arguably redistribution (a type of demand-side stimulus) would be more helpful today.
I used to do Hello Fresh regularly too, but I quit using it after about a year. Thing is, it's about 7 euros per meal per person, and when you're comfortable enough to cook the meals yourself, just getting the ingredients from the grocery store takes the cost to about 3 euros per person. Which saves about 20 euros per week. As someone said above, teach a man how to fish. The recipes are quite useful in that regard though. That being said, it takes a bit of extra time to compile your shopping list, so I guess you need to factor that in too. But since you need to go to the grocery store anyway, I think it's negligible.
I've seen plenty of meal kits at the grocery store. They also have a ready foods in the Deli as well as frozen meals.
It is in a sense a victory for the trolls (or, if you want to put it as charitably as you possibly can, a strategic retreat). With the moderation system we have now, it's the best outcome we're going to get.

What I won't sign onto is an endless series of septic threads maintained just to illustrate how inadequate the moderating response to this problem is.
Theoretically, yes. But anyone who has tried to implement scientific papers will tell you it's far harder. The papers often lack critical details and implementation hacks: all the little rough edges that go into making a production system work. They also lack context in many cases, so you spend more time reverse engineering the paper than figuring out how to make it work.
Sure, of course. But there aren't any.
As a city who has been on the verge of bankruptcy, I'd say this is a welcome life line to some of its residents.
To a degree. Often things are portioned so there is less measuring.
Erlang - it does stuff that's handy for me in the real world.
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> One example of BFT in use is bitcoin, a peer-to-peer digital currency system. The bitcoin network works in parallel to generate a chain of Hashcash style proof-of-work. The proof-of-work chain is the key to overcome Byzantine failures and to reach a coherent global view of the system state.
One of many possibility for innovating in funding: sell access to their data to companies for commercial use. Offer a robust API and clean downloads of data sets in a wide variety of forms—they can let people use this freely for research and non-profit, but I bet lots of companies would pay for it. Not only access to the user-generated content (e.g. to construct a concept graph) but also access to their traffic data (e.g. what articles are viewed most often, what articles are spiking right now, etc).
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Seems really fun! Couple reservations I have. Do you have to wear a harness? Are people going to be telling me what to do? Isn’t it expensive?
My big issue is Redshift not working in Wayland yet.

https://github.com/jonls/redshift/issues/260
For me it's going to the store and getting all the ingredients. Either I can't find it (obscure ones) or they come in bulk and I can't consume all of it after making the meals.

I don't use any of these meal prep services, but I know people who do and they love it.
You are right, the blog post explains how to run a private testnet
I don't have any problem with being proven wrong. You haven't proven anything I have said wrong. You are merely being contemptuous and not engaging in a good faith fashion.
I am checking out F# myself. Still early, but seems interesting and powerful.
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My cynical answer to that is:

They may have considered that... and not cared. Their job was to pump up the number of subscriptions, sell Wall Street on their growth metrics, and then cash out in an IPO.

Blue Apron truly doesn't feel like a company built to be around for a long time.
This is obviously a very personal story so I'm not trying to shit on it, but isn't "sneaking in" just sitting in on a class? Professors don't care, you usually don't even have to ask, but if you did it seems like most people welcome it. I turn up for talks at schools I don't attend, its not like there's security at the door.
I know there's quite some aversion to NoSQL around here, and generally I don't care much as I'm seldomly dealing directly with databases.

But recently, I've been exposed to a fairly big and complex SQL one with several references between entities and lots, lots of X_has_Y tables. This makes me think that with growing complexity (which seems to be a general trend), NoSQL databases seem more practical at some point, or at least something less rigid than classic relational ones. I'm not saying SQL is obsolete, but it seems like its domain of usefulness is shrinking.
P.S. Thanks to all who reply.
and it was a pain in the arse then, and it's no better now.
Ultimately, they're hamstrung by the fact that by nature of their business, they have to limit selection. I haven't encountered a single set of recipes from Blue Apron that didn't contain at least one that I absolutely hate, taste wise - and that's what I hear from others as well.

So what they do is, they teach you how to cook. At some point, you'll lose the fear of it (because it really isn't hard). The moment you add the first ingredient of your own, just because you like it, you're pretty much lost to them.

The one useful pivot I could see - but where I can't see the feasibility - is you picking recipes a la carte, and they ship the ingredients prepped. (That's where the major time sink is - and people are always willing to pay to get back time).

That requires a huge number of customers, figuring out how to keep prepped materials fresh, and tremendous automation to be possible. It's a far cry from "we ship these 6 meal kits to you"
Why don't you just look at https://news.ycombinator.com/active? (via https://news.ycombinator.com/lists). Most if not almost all of those stories show up there.

Btw since you brought up the point, we moderate stories less, not more, when they're about YC or YC-funded companies. That's literally the first rule of HN moderation:

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=...

That doesn't mean we don't moderate them at all, since the internet would drive a truck through a cheap ploy like that. But we do err on that side, since keeping the good faith of the community is more important than any particular story.
I spent 10 minutes writing it. I simply replied to the email when I received it in my inbox this morning. But the reason I offered this perspective is precisely because I want to see wikipedia continue to succeed, and to thrive! This is the same reason I donate to them. But I've heard many people complain about their nagging about donations and I think they'd benefit from hearing from an outsider on how they're increasingly coming across. They can do better. I think highly enough of them to believe that honest critical feedback would be valuable to them.
As a chef I'll never use a service such as this, but I can certainly see the value.

Have you seen what most people eat when single, and just want some food? It's abhorent.

I have more than a few bachelor friends(or those that use to be), and the food they consume is, well I'd say I wouldn't feed to my dog, but that doesn't quite cover it.

I know they are busy professionals, and I cannot honestly say I have eaten the most top quality foods myself when I have been tired, but they exist from day to day on those things.
No, it doesn't. I've been doing it for something close to a decade now --- and, in fact, now have it pretty close to automated. I programmatically follow the people who write the worst racist and misogynistic and homophobic crap on this site. This is a problem I've studied, and one I think you know I've spent real, measurable, expensive time on here. I don't think you can dismiss what I'm saying so easily.

Individual flagging does not work to recover toxic threads. Flags are too slow and too invisible. By the time the worst stuff gets knocked down, its authors --- almost all of whom have no meaningful reputation on this site --- have reached the win condition of having guided the thread into hellish nerd litigation in which even the reasonable people grappling with the issues are made to write comments that serve trollish ends.

Flagging is what we have, and I'll continue to do it just like you will. But it does not work. It is inadequate to the task. This problem requires sitewide intervention, and until that happens, it is a rational, reasonable, moral choice to flag this stuff off the site as a harm mitigation mechanism.
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I vacuously agree with you. See other threads for my opinion on TED talks.
> "Most applications today run on a database technology that was introduced in the 1970s. We built ours on ideas that were tried and discarded in favor of that technology."

Not entirely true, but nuance often precludes persuasion.

Many of the ideas behind NoSQL databases can be very valuable, given the right context, but there are a lot of good reasons relational databases have been the de-facto default over the last four decades.
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Spin the ranch off as an upscale brand.

"Blue Apron Reserve", "Blue Apron Farm To Table", etc.
Ask HN: Good alternatives to disqus?
I have a small blog that I've been designing in my spare time. I've been looking around for all kinds of comment systems but don't have the money nor time to host one myself and rather despise Disqus. Any suggestions?
Thanks for the technical correction. That also being said, I think that definition is terrible and that anybody trying to understand what a relational database is would be better off not reading that article.

Yes, I agree that most types of data can be stored in tabular form (or an "n-ary relation" per Wikipedia). I'm just wondering what concrete types of data one would rather store in a document.

I don't think there is a good example. The decision to store some data outside of an RDBMS must have more to do with the processing model or something else.
In the US, most major grocers sell big brand products at roughly the same price. There's variance week-to-week as sales come and go, but if you were to plot the prices of P&G, Kraft, or Nestle products at stores in a specific area, there would be strong overlap.

High-end grocery stores do not tend to sell these brands -- You'll find 0 P&G products at a Whole Foods or Fresh Market. So in that sense, they are selling the same exact products.
Why? Blockchains are about distributed consensus. What part of WeWork (a single entity)'s ownership of properties needs distributed consensus?
> Can we really assign the disparity solely to microaggressions against women?

No. Did I suggest that? I don't think I did. All I mentioned was structural disparity, which is likely multivariate. Microaggressions is a strange thing to jump to from the conversation, compared to say, the effect of video game marketing on preferences, the attitudes of parents and guidance counselors, or parental fears about internet predators and private PCs for children.

I don't have data readily available on this, but there weren't that many women declaring CS to start with, and I kind of expect that if we divided CS freshmen men into 'has written a program before' and 'has not', attrition rates for women would track the 'has not' fairly closely.

> Would we feel the same if the split were 75/25,or 51/49?

I don't know where the bright line is, and there probably isn't one. If it exists, it'd probably exist be between those to ratios. But the fact is it's more imbalanced than either ratio suggested, which should probably motivate policy changes more strongly.
It doesn't seem like that's true in the USA. To look around for comparison, I looked at Chili's menu for a popular dinner item: https://www.chilis.com/menu/fajitas-enchiladas/chicken-enchi...

Menu price depends on zipcode. For New Jersey, the price was $9.79 before tax and tip. Californa was $9.99. Also, most national chains like Applebees, Chilis, TGI Friday's microwave their food. The end result is a meal that Blue Apron customers wouldn't consider to be the same quality.

Blue Apron may be overpriced but I can't think of any restaurant that sells comparable meals (similar ingredients) for the same price. Also, actually going to the restaurant is often more of hassle than just staying home and having meals delivered.
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HelloFresh added a surcharge of £4.99 for the best meals in each box (salmon/steak). I used it a while ago but stopped because it just felt too expensive to be worth it and I forgot to cancel a box I couldn't use. They phoned me a few weeks ago and offered a nice discount on two boxes, I'll probably use them at some point but every box I want has that surcharge and I doubt I'll come back properly. You can skip weeks further ahead than just one now though, that's a nice comfort.

I actually think they might've dropped the price on the base box.. but something about that surcharge just triggers a "this isn't a deal any more" reflex in me - it's really offputting for me and has definitely stopped me considering it seriously again.

Also all their recipes are available for free, I don't see their moat. Their recipes and food are good though.
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Doesn't look like a spreadsheet to me.

It falls more into the space that are occupied by Podio[1] and Zoho Creator[2] - where you basically create small apps to support your business workflow.

[1] https://podio.com
[2] https://www.zoho.eu/creator/
While I’d love to see a new Mac mini, calling the processor it currently uses as “woefully outdated” is a bit hyperbolic to me. Haswell is still a fantastic core and works well for the intended audience of the Mini. If the Mini was sold as a high end machine, then sure, the processor it has wouldn’t live up to expectations, but as it’s always been a small, lightly powered machine, I think it’s not as bad as this post made it out to be.
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Why the Christian God, and not some other religion's ?
If you live in a high-cost city like SF or NYC, it's only marginally more expensive than groceries for a similar meal.

I've started using Good Eggs for weekly dinner kits with my SO and have found the meals to be tasty, healthy, easy to prepare, easy to clean up, and we enjoy preparing the meal and sitting down to eat together.

We're both fortunate enough to be in high income professions, and the convenience is worth a few extra dollars/meal to us. It doesn't break the bank.

As for the restaurant comparison, sure we could get cheap takeout for $10 per person, but it wouldn't be anymore near as healthy, and it wouldn't involve any cooking together. A similar quality meal at a restaurant would probably be at least $15 per person.

The point being is that, there are people who value the convenience these kits provide. But I am dubious as to whether there are enough to justify Blue Apron's valuation.
What else do you do with 100B in the bank? If they just paid it out to the engineers (yes please, thank you!) half of them would retire after two years.
> I do strongly believe that Cuddy was overly punished for being a woman, and being prominent in the field.

Theres a pattern of successful women receiving extreme levels of hate (Kathy Sierra et al). I'm not aware of this happening to guys.
China is doing a pretty good job of building giant cities without much local consultation.
While I disagree with the idea of people not wanting to shop for their ingredients, as a chef, I cannot help but get behind anyone that wants to learn how to cook.

For the record I believe you have the nail on the head, as to the value of that service.
This a most irresponsible post. The situation was somewhat complex and not easy for outsiders to parse out of the crossfire. You state one side's position as fact, quoting only one highly tendentious Gruberish Apple protagonist in support. Is this how fairly you'd like to be treated in public if you got into a spat with a major company? Please have a little thought for the welfare of others before you type.

In any case, it's water long under the bridge now, and Dash is an excellent app used my many developers (including within Apple). Trying to poison the well is in pretty bad taste.
> I also can believe that she faces hostile criticism that isn't equally distributed among all the other researchers who used weak, but previously acceptable standards.

I agree that this is true, but at a certain point it seems like a justified reaction to unequal importance.

Other Gelman targets like the "himmicanes" paper generated a bit of media attention without any real consequence. Power poses, meanwhile, have become a major pop-science hit. They're still being widely read and promoted, even by tech conferences and news orgs like the BBC. And Cuddy in particular has chosen an aggressive non-scientific promotion campaign while her co-authors have made more honest attempts to take on the replication question - if Carvey was getting the same amount of flak I'd be more concerned that something unfair was happening.

If power poses don't work, it seems like a much worse indictment of academic social psych than most other failures to replicate - the results were widely touted and are still being raised to public acceptance even as they fall apart. The challenges to stereotype threat, priming, and the IAT are even scarier - those results have become well-established and even enshrined in law.

Throughout the replication crisis, my greatest frustration has been the inconsistent narrative coming from researchers. They're simultaneously demanding formal academic critiques instead of blogs, ignoring those critiques when they do exist, and then replying with the same sort of informal aggression they decried in the first place.

I think you're exactly right that Gelman's aggressive approach is motivated by the field's unwillingness to acknowledge anything milder. And seeing responses like Fiske, Cuddy, and Wansink have largely convinced me that there's a major double-standard at work between the level of seriousness applied when attacking critics and the level applied when presenting results as academic truth.