skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shelves need to be checked, faced and re-stocked on a daily basis. Someone is already checking every shelf in the store every day, so the actual labour cost of changing paper price labels is remarkably small.

Electronic shelf labels could facilitate dynamic price changes, but this is likely to be highly unpopular with customers. The mere presence of ESLs could imply volatile or manipulative pricing and undermine customer trust.
In washington you have to wait, a long time, for a clerk to come over and check your id and unlock the checkout machine. it's obnoxious
Compared to Apple that artificially created a consumption cycle of one 700 USD (Now 1000 USD) device per year?
You are encouraging people who aggressively believe in the restriction of rights (or worse) for large segments of the population.

It's one thing to say we can't silence them. it's another to say we have to listen, or give them access to any sort of private platform.

oh and I would be careful with these people. These bans started because one of these guys had an argument with his dad. He was freaking out and his dad called him a nazi, so he stabbed him. Some of these people are extremely troubled, potentially violent, individuals.
The United States declared war against the government of Germany, not "Nazis." It's in the declaration, twice:

JOINT RESOLUTION Declaring That a State of War Exists Between The Government of Germany and the Government and the People of the United States and Making Provisions To Prosecute The Same

... the President is hereby authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States and the resources of the Government to carry on war against the Government of Germany

The responsibility for starting World War II falls squarely on Germany, not some udnefined group of national socialists.
How is Fairchild Semiconductor so different from PayPal? Both have insanely influential and successful alumni. I could have picked General Magic (Pierre Omidyar, Andy Rubin, ...) but they are less well known.

How is Bell Labs so different from Google X? How is Bell Labs any different from IBM San Jose Research (SQL, photoresists, Gray+Agrawal, relational databases, reliable databases, ...)
I'm starting to think it is less about foreign investments, like a few other comments have noted, and more about changes at the top end of the middle class.

Along with the large amounts of growth, wages in the upper middle class have really increased a lot. If you look at tech workers, it was pretty common to see average tech employees pulling in $75k-$150k a decade ago; today employees at a similar level and set of skills are pulling $200-350k. As a result, there's a ton of money in the high end available to purchase housing in the area.

Saving for a down payment is a challenge, but less so if it's relatively easy to tuck away an extra $100k a year. This is likely available to a tech earner but not the Seattle hair dresser, unless they have also increased their asking rates for a haircut the last few years.
Tinder is doing a lot more intelligent matching than you think. The CTO of OKCupid (which is owned by the same parent company) was on a podcast a few weeks ago where he briefly discussed some of the algorithmic challenges of Tinder. They include:

- it may not seem like it, but Tinder does try to pick people it thinks are most likely to produce a match, based on-- to be brutally honest-- your attractiveness (as determined by who has swiped for you) and the other person's

- it then orders them approximately from most likely to least likely, but it has to know how often to start over, because eventually as you go down the list you'll eventually start running into people that you're less likely to swipe right on than the people you already passed up

- carefully arranging things so that "super likes" have a reasonable chance of producing a match while also not inundating very attractive people with nothing but super likes from people they will never respond to (which would drive them off the service)

It's a tough challenge and Tinder is not at all a "dumb, simple" dating app.
Well it's either greedy, scheming tech workers or greedy, scheming Chinese speculators. Isn't there a pattern here? The problem simply must be caused by powerful, scheming outsiders. Despite lack of evidence, as this comment is a great example, defying the claim of lack of such by GP as if it simply hadn't been heard.
Man, I hope you don't use grep very often (by default it uses exit code 1 when it doesn't find anything).
Sure nazism is 1000x worse than blm or antifa, the only problem is that nazism doesn’t exist anymore. The NSDAP was disbanded in 1945. Antifa and blm are still active today

> see a “nazi”, punch a “nazi”

> pigs in a blanked, fry them like bacon
I suppose because modernising existing systems is tedious, error-prone and expensive. The latter two in principle apply to implementing new systems as well but at least those are exciting and, well, new.

You'd be hard-pressed to find a single company that relies solely on digital processes. In terms of digitalisation everyone seems to be talking about AI, AR, robotics and technologies like Blockchain. However, while certainly interesting those aren't the main avenues for bringing about digital transformation.

Replacing paper-based processes and doing away with the need for physical presence to conduct business are.

So, Walmart will soon have robots running up and down their aisles while at the same time we still largely rely on paper for invoicing and accounting.

We'll soon have self-driving cars for all our wonderful commuting but we still haven't figured out how to use technology for remote working to make travelling to a ridiculously expensive place called 'office' a thing of the past.
It should come as no surprise that housing is appreciating as rapidly as it is. If someone is going to loan you $500,000 at 3% and that property is going to appreciate at 8% a year, you'd be a fool not to take that deal.

We really need interest rates to get back in line with what it costs to loan people money.
> They're cheap, and that's relatively expensive/difficult to automate.

that's a weird thing to say, because burger flippers ARE automated -- 99% of the work of making a McDonald's burger is already automated, only the remaining hard-to-automate 1% is left for the humans.
>Does unwillingness to accept Nazi ideology make you intolerant?

Yes, Intolerant to intolerance.
This is part of the problem with these debates that I've noticed: it's an attempt on the one hand to carry on the debate purely in terms of free speech, abstracted from the contents of any particular ideology.

And yet, part of what makes you "wrong" to oppose speech of particular groups is that you are just as bad as them. That's a judgment of the "wrongness" of a particular ideology, being directly appealed to, to justify a position on free speech.

For some reason that's supposedly not a slippery slope toward widening the scope of "free speech" to include things destructive of democracy.
Why does the title read "(2014)"? This seems to have been published today. It's new content, even though it's probably internally prepared in 2014.
But understandable considering the incentives. Grad students and postdocs cost so little but accomplish so much, the whole system relies on them. Just need to keep selling them the promise of opportunity. Unless something changes I can't see this getting better anytime soon. The cult aspect of many top PIs strongly condemning people leaving or considering non-academic positions also doesn't help.
Erm, this is china. In Urumqi, the official time is still the same as Beijing but stores open and close much later.

However, they still have an unofficial separate time that locals use to coordinate the meaning of noon, morning, and night.
>In the same way consolidation among trucking companies is outside the NTSB's jurisdition.

If the NTSB licensed trucks, and there was only enough road space to license 100 trucks per city, I'd be perfectly fine if they decided that 50/100 trucks had to be locally owned.

Usable radio frequencies are a limited resource, we have a vested interest in allocating those resources efficiently and fairly. The argument is what constitutes efficiently and fairly.

Is it fair to award licenses to the highest bidder? How about the tallest station owner?

Regardless of how they allocate licenses, they are still making a choice that determines who gets access and what viewpoints are represented.

I see no intrinsic reason that "highest bidder" is any more fair than "lives within 100 miles of the radio station."
Flexibility.

Everything you're describing has more limitations than putting a mobile robot on the floor, and the robots require no additional accommodations in store design.
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I would like my sunset to be around 8:30 pm every day. That way I always have daylight after work. That's just my preference, I know it wouldn't work for everyone.
There are people in this thread claiming antifa and BLM are responsible for most violence in the last few years. The arguments being put forth by 'the other side' are not what you claim, and 'these folks' are going to couch their arguments the way they want.
>"There's limited evidence available that it's foreign buyers primarily responsible for our high house prices"

There's actually lots of evidence that hot foreign money is driving the prices up. There's also been a trend by developers to develop properties to attract this type of buyer.

See:

https://www.nytimes.com/news-event/shell-company-towers-of-s...

and

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/25/planne...

and

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/real-estate-news/ar...
Obviously they're buying other houses as well, and not only students but other foreigners as well. This example is just a good illustration of toothlessness.

Also obvious is that increasing demand on one type of housing puts upwards pressure on the prices of other types of housing because they are (in part) substitute goods.
It is implied in the article, yes, but i dont see a reason why these robots shoudl not operate at closing hours or if it is a 24/7 then at a time when the number of visitors is lowest, say 3 or 4 am.
One of the main purported benefits of DST is that it in effect moves some of the extra sunlight from the longer days of summer from the morning to the evening, where most of us are in a better position to use it.

That's because without DST as the day lengthens the extra daylight is split evenly between morning and evening.

But WHY does it split evenly? It's because we historically use noon as our reference. We think of noon on day N+1 as being exactly one day after noon on day N. Noon is a sensible reference, fairly easy to determine with ancient technology.

Suppose that instead we had historically used sunrise as our reference. By definition, then, sunrise would be 8 AM every day. As the days lengthened in the summer, all of the extra daylight would then have shown up in the evening automatically.

It's interesting to ponder whether or not such a reference could have worked. I think that in the days before clocks, when the sundial was the most sophisticated timepiece, this could have worked quite well. It would also fit in well with work schedules, meaning people who needed to wait for light to work would be going to work at about the same time every day. It would also fit in with animal sleep schedules.

With clocks, though, a noon reference is easier. A sunrise reference requires a much more sophisticated clock, or it requires frequent manual adjustment.

Nowadays, though, clocks easily have the sophistication to handle that. We probably could actually reasonably handle using sunrise as our reference, and have our clocks adjust daily to keep that so.

It would mean that a given clock time on day N+1 is no longer exactly 24 hours later than that same clock time on day N, but I don't think that would matter for ordinary life. I'd be willing to put up with that if it means I get the benefits of DST (more evening light in summer) without the two big discontinuities a year.

Edit: to be clear, I am assuming that if we did a sunrise-based system instead of a noon-based system we would still do time zones. 8 AM would be simultaneous everywhere in the zone.

[1] In this comment "day" refers to sunrise to sunset.
I suspect it would work the same if the script was stored in a TXT record for a domain being queried.
Do they glue stuff in? Use special screws and connectors just for the hell of it? Use software checks to prevent the system from operating correctly if components have been replaced?
Same! I've never used amazon as much as I have in the past 8 months when the firstborn arrived.

And congrats!
https://www.apify.com/pricing

This is the best pricing page I’ve seen on mobile, hands down. Pricing pages are so often broken completely, or a list of boxes (difficult to compare plans). This beautifully handles both. Well done.

https://imgur.com/gallery/i5WvP
mostly because the pay is shit, raise the prices and pay people more, or go out of business, and someone will replace you if the demand is there. That's how it's supposed to work.
> virtue of refusing

cant do that with all the brainwashing about respecting your elders.
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As others have mentioned this obviously isn't a secret but the environment at top schools is very cult-like especially in certain labs and pursuing non-academic tracks is looked down upon. The problem arises when you are objectively more accomplished scientifically than your peers and you think you might have a chance and realize that it will take 2 postdocs, 10-15 years and more politics than science to get a tenure track job these days.
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Oh, I was joking about .moe, etc - I reckon .geo would be far more useful!

But my main question about the moon was quite serious - how would you access the moon with this? I couldn't quite understand how this part from the executive summary would translate to an actual DNS request:

"One special GeoRegistry must have a server assigned to every cell on the planet. This GeoRegistry will be called the default GeoRegistry named "earth." (The names of the other planets will be reserved for interplanetary geodata.) The default GeoRegistry will be used when client queries do not specify a GeoRegistry name, or when the specified GeoRegistry does not have an assigned cell server."

Kinda cool that .geo predates Google Maps by about 4 or 5 years!
Considering the fact that Walmart's last FY earnings were something to the tune of $124.62B,[1] regardless of technical debt or other factors I don't think spending less than 1% of that to do a (probably) much needed upgrade is a hard sell to anyone rational.

[1]: https://amigobulls.com/stocks/WMT/income-statement/annual
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It's the same in Canada. Everyone blamed the Chinese for the increase in housing prices. When they actually got the data, non-resident purchases of residential real estate in metro Vancouver barely broke 10%. It's much lower than that in the suburbs of Vancouver and Toronto.

It's the 90% of Canadians with access to cheap debt and fueled by "real estate never goes down! It's now or never" that pushed prices so high.
Other people have done longitudinal analyses and have talked about how there was also a shift in ~2011 as he launched the birther movement.
The article was written in 2014. If, say, a letter from Mark Twain got published for the first time today, we'd put the year it was written in the title.
I think the email itself is evidence of crime. Why bother with recovering the data when the absence of it allows the prosecution to portray the worst imaginable criminal scenario. They actually shot themselves in the foot because no matter how bad their crime is it cannot be as bad as erasing the data and degaussing 3 times. The prosecution can claim the absolute worst has happened. And they have no way to prove them wrong. And a murder weapon (the email)
Well, one can use ockhams razor and plug the aggregate finance stats and household numbers in for each country: foreign investment will likely be related to the residual. That is, whatever amount is left over after domestic statistics and aggregate lending are taken into account. We don't have an accurate primary source for foreign investment, but we can reason.

The rba website would be my first stop in aus for aggregate finance stats available publicly. The Abs has some construction/hiding investment data, but there are some issues with definitions you'd need to take into account. And our neighbors across the pond, although I'm not a kiwi, I imagine will have very similar structures and data.

Additionally, such a simple model explains house prices quite well since the 1990s, across various markets with various levels of foreign investment, so we would need very good reasons to insert a "foreign investor" cause in there.
Why not just allow more or denser housing to be built? You could take all that foreign cash and turn it into high paying jobs! I mean sure construction jobs aren't high paying, but with enough automation, those jobs could turn into high paying software jobs. Just get rid of all the building and zoning laws and allow companies to innovate as much as they want.

Optionally, you could still ban foreigners from buying in places where things are already built out.

It just seems such a shame, to see so much economic loss on both sides (both for purchasers and those who'd have benefited from more jobs or higher paying jobs).

This is a disturbing pattern I've been seeing playing out in many countries: politicians and the sometimes the voters that elected them have insufficient economic education to make optimal decisions, leading to economic losses - the prime example being what happened in Venezuela.
I think the sunrise is a better fixture socially, and maybe the sunset is a better fixture biologically. Noon is just an easy to measure compromise for the above two.

Social life and timing mostly revolves around how early you get up. "Its late" kind of means "I am behind schedule to get enough sleep before waking up".

Biologically, we are programmed around sunlight. Whilst our mornings aren't really controlled by the biological clock (that is what the alarm is for), the evening really are. Besides, the for many people, the evening is what separates 'civil life' from 'private life'.
Everyone fails to recall the Startup had been struggling for almost 7yrs. The buyout was a big Hail Mary move for their long-suffering
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Not only held on to them but still making new ones, I hang around in an offtopic channel for a framework I don't even use any more because I made friends with a bunch of the people in there, hell I'd say half the channel doesn't use that framework anymore but a lot of us are solo devs in companies that aren't software companies so it's become our de facto water cooler.
Thanks for the questions! So I'm currently working on making both the licensing and distribution APIs support whitelabeling via a CNAME DNS record, but at the moment, no, it's not supported. You can set up a proxy server in front of either API with your own domain (similar to how you would integrate e.g. AWS S3 behind your own domain using their API), but that's about it for now.

And for your other questions:

1) I'm not sure I'm understanding you 100%, sorry. But it seems like you're asking about pricing changes for Keygen itself? I don't plan on hiking up prices on customers without due notice (even then, all past pricing changes have grandfathered in current customers' plans), and if they decided to part ways with Keygen because of a pricing change (e.g., maybe their volume doubled and I ask them to upgrade to a larger plan to support the additional traffic) I'd be more than happy to help them with a transition plan so that their customers don't suffer, but that would of course be on a case-by-case basis. Is that what you meant?

2) No, I don't think I would have an issue with a vendor mocking my API endpoints to make sure their software continues to function. Better yet, they could purchase an on-premise install and run the APIs themselves via Docker, and even purchase an additional license to modify the on-premise server's code to meet their needs.

Vendor lock-in sucks, so thanks for asking these questions. I'd be happy to hear suggestions you may have on how I could better deal with the vendor lock-in fears a lot of companies seem to have when integrating third-party APIs (understandably so).
Since you did not give a simple one line command I am going to assume its difficult to do that in vagrant.

You dont need to mess with a config management tool when you have docker.
everything in vancouver is priced as a supermansion.
It's showing a small bump in 2004 after Bt cotton was first introduced, and a precipitous drop in suicides in 2006, when Bt cotton had more wide-spread adoption.

Thanks, Alexa. I actually didn't look much at the graph, one way or another. My point was simply that in a country as large as India (or even not nearly as large), one should be looking at at local rates (and local factors of potential causality) not simply national averages, if ones wants to make heads or tails of a complex set of claims like these.

Your conclusion ("was likely unrelated") differs with what the authors of that study put forth in their abstract, BTW.
I would hate to be agreeable on the internet but I think you've covered this from an Australian perspective fairly accurately.

Simply removing the capital gains tax discount would help to prevent speculative investments.

There has been much talk of negative gearing being the issue but those with a short memory don't realise it has been around since the 80s and operating with out much fuss. It was the CGT discount combined with negative gearing that really got the property snowball rolling.

Further, I believe a land tax would help to cool the market in perhaps a more controlled manner.
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Well, in English, you can't say "16 o'clock", can you? You can only say "sixteen hundred hours" (which sounds terrible, if you ask me).
Yeah... it's also tough, many real estate investment trusts and companies have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders to seek a great return on investment. If there's no margin in the affordable housing game, it's not going to fulfill that obligation. :/
Has anyone done the calculation yet for what would have happened if it collided with Earth?
> The next step is to use genuine data.

Or the way the world is going the next step is a startup that sells an arm that tricks smart watches into thinking they are on a human arm that is exercising regularly...
This is how we get such a complex tax code that is abused by special interests. It's so easy to say, "go tax that person over there. He can afford it"
Nope, real life occurrence. A variant includes mashing Enter on a valid rm line but on AZERTY keyboards that may mean fat fingering the nearby asterisk key.
Antifa is certainly not anti-hate. They very much hate anyone that doesn't agree with their narrow-minded worldview, and they condone violence against those they hate. While they are anti-nazi, they are aligned with them in their level of bigotry and violence. Violence is never okay.
Depends on where you are rendering the Markdown.

In Jekyll with kramdown you can use {.toc} to get an automatically generated table of contents.

On Github this doesn't exist, so you have to use an external tool like https://ecotrust-canada.github.io/markdown-toc/ (Google "markdown generate TOC" for alternatives)