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I love coming across old sites like that. So much nostalgia. :)
You must be United Statian who thinks that every organization must exist for profit and othervise it is evil communist, including garbage collectors, social security, police and military, educatiın, ambulance etc
This is a good point. I used to frequent DemocraticUnderground back in the 2004 days during the Kerry campaign. It was as bad an echo chamber as anything we see today. The alternative site was FreeRepublic (or 'freepers', as we called them). However, the fact that you didn't have to go to that site or see those people's opinions if you didn't want to, made a big difference to how vitriolic the whole thing felt.
They claim to have a dollar backing each Tether.

They've printed 1.6 Billion Tether.

They are completely opaque in every conceivable way that could inspire confidence in them.

Yes, we've thought of it and dismissed it repeatedly.
From many conversations, and my personal experience, the reliability of prime for two day deliveries has gone way down. It's generally a day or two before the item even ships in my region. Amazon is also failing to handle rampant knock-offs mixed in with legitimate products.

It seems pretty brazen to increase the cost of Prime in light of those issues, even if it is only the monthly subscription. I'm sure it won't actually hurt them since they have such a strange-hold on online retail, and even with these issues they do still offer the best service by far, but it really seems like Amazon needs some competition.
Can You Arrest People Before They Commit Crimes?
> Surprised that NYC doesn't have service in tunnels.

They don't? Damn, then the internet and telecom and providers in the States are really f*cking their customers up, pardon my French, but that's the gentlest way to put it. Let's say that I can understand that the US is a big country and that you cannot lay fiber over such big of an area as dense as it happens in certain parts of Europe, but to not have metro tunnel coverage for biggest cities in the world is just laughable. The Eastern European capital from where I'm writing this comment has had such a service for at least 5 years, if not more.
I'm sorry but the implementation of the speculative execution or the branch predictors was not available at all.

Could you tell for example that AMD wasn't vulnerable to meltdown but Intel was by looking at any docs? Not really.
If these represent 70% of cancers overall and ~40% of the US population will get a cancer diagnosis at some point then it seems likely you can find many populations with more than a 5% chance of having cancer.
I don't want to work for a company that expects me to spend a weekend (or fractional weekend) working for free. If they're trying to draw me away from my current employer, they need to do better than that. :shrugs:
I believe the author is being derided for being inefficient to the tune of 33000% or so.

It's like buying 300-some-odd napkins and a similar number of pens so you can scribble a phone number on one.
No reputable bank would take part in this (or at least not give its name), as it's illegal
That doesn't at all scare you? Is there anything that they could be doing with your data or money that would make you think twice about using prime?
> There is no reason to think that the people who figured it out would have been aided by having more internal documentation.

Why not?
It varies quite a bit; it's 50€/year in Belgium/Netherlands/Luxembourg, and 70€/year in Germany/Austria, for exemple.
Birds may navigate using quantum entanglement
Show HN: Universal APIs for Cloud Storage, Messaging, Social (Android Library)
I actually quit it, because most of the times I'm perfectly fine waiting extra time, and am ok with holding certain items in my cart until I accumulate $25 to get a free shipping.

They seem to artificially add delays to processing to discourage me, but I don't really order anything that I need immediately.

Not having prime also prevents me from impulse buying.

Also, majority of things that you purchase on regular basis, such as cleaning supplies, vitamins etc are often much cheaper in local store and are less likely to be knock offs.
I cancelled my Amazon Prime membership about a year ago and haven't looked back. I end up spending less money per month on things that I really don't need and my house is no longer filled with endless cardboard boxes.
Yup

Although you can also install microcode with the iucode-tool, the example above only checks the downloaded archive.
Terrible offer for Prime Video in Europe indeed, but also very cheap as standalone, around 3EUR/month. I’m not sure what the long term plan is. I’d assume they will add live streaming content (football, olympics etc)? That’s what really brings people in front of the screen.
Really, whenever you change the channel, buying patterns change - people do not buy the same in malls as in department stores, nor in department stores as in small shops, and so people do not buy exactly the same things online as they do in supermarkets or malls. The channel shapes what is bought.

Most shopping online still has an implicit power-law dynamic because of its two-dimensional layout, where being "above-the-fold" or "top of the list" garners the majority of customer attention (and therefore sales).
In my opinion the issues are close to the surface because the social enlightenment that much of the US experienced is a very recent thing. The best example is how the views on homosexuality has shifted in the last 20 years but it's also shown in views on race, poverty, and drugs
I just load up my cart and when something is needed right away I buy Prime for the month. Sometimes I forget but usually I cancel right away.

My amazon activity is much less than it used to be. Too much cheap and down right counterfeit products.

The 2 day Prime shipping is great...but it’s been taking forever to just get my stuff shipped out.
> Is there anything that they could be doing with your data or money that would make you think twice about using prime?

Realistically speaking, probably not, no.
Other comment are right but you also forget about salary (which are lower, so purchase power is smaller)
OpenCL is irritating for graphics development, because it doesn't integrate as seamlessly with the rest of the graphics pipeline as GL compute shader does. Unified approaches such as GL compute shader or Vulkan are much more convenient.
Comfort is the premium you pay for.
What is sleazy about this is that before I never needed such a thing and now I do.

But I also don't order as much I did. So I might cancel.
Here's food for thought.

Does this happen with experienced positions open in other departments?

Are experienced CPAs interviewing for the new position in Accounting required to balance an example set of books?

Are experienced Sales interviewees expected to go out and sell a sample product before being hired?

A lawyer for Legal expected to write a sample brief or appear before the court in a sample trial?

HR expected to do sample HR things?

Think about it.
Meh. I enjoy take home assignments because I can add that as a skill to the resume when done and some are actually pretty fun. Now I doubt I'd do something like "here's a CloudFormation template with a hundred different resources, now make it work with another cloud platform," but something like "build a few docker containers running nginx through docker compose, and automate some random manual tasks through scripting" is doable.
KRUSTY stands for "Kilopower Reactor Using Stirling TechnologY".
Thanks for the awesome suggestions.

Coming Soon - On my list
Volume - On my list now!
Decreasing Trade Volume - any suggestions on how to notate it?
Excellent. Add some examples of good/bad use of each law and you’d have a fantastic resource.
Oh yes, that's a silly miss from me :-O
Thanks!!
Not all of Europe. It's £8/month in the UK. But lots of things say they'll come next day, and then usually do. And the movie selection is arguably better than on Netflix.
Franziskaner weissbier is also one of my favorites, right up there with Weihenstephaner hefeweissbier. Both are top 5 German beers in my book for sure. They are both extremely easy to find in California (SF Bay Area) as well, which is great!
Ask HN: Has Amazon.com gone downhill?
I recently moved back to the US after many years abroad and started using Amazon again, buying around a dozen items w/ Prime.

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1. Most items don't ship for around two weeks.

2. The tracking is all over the place (the delivery windows are mostly incorrect due to #1).

3. The reasons for delays are - from what I can see - totally made up (per my private conversations with the product-maker, or due to localized weather which just doesn't exist).

4. The directionality of the packages en route is illogical (ie, a package is in one state then in another, two minutes later).

5. Their live chat support agents consistently give further incorrect information/explanations regarding the problems I listed above.

6. Not to mention the problems I read from other HNers about fake reviews and knock-off products.
Why we should all think before we speak
They should do a tiebreaker/encore where the stair is also to be used by an achondroplastic dwarf with a stride length of 28".

That requires some futzing with the comfort formulas, and still trying to make that work with code and average-height people.
The comfort you never needed.
That’s true. I’m well aware of this. I downloaded a few of these databases and tried to match my moms results in exactly the way you mention. I couldn’t get the vector of mutations from the lab.

Perhaps these databases would be more useful if drug companies were allowed to put new drugs forward faster.
I propose a middle ground with "whorenalist".
You're assuming that I have an infinite amount of disk space to dedicate to arbitrarily large frameworks that are 'required' by simple applications. If every app you used required 200MB of baggage to run, you'd quickly run out of disk space. I'd rather use my disks to store more valuable things, and, on another note, most definitely do not want to encourage the proliferation of .NET/mono.
I'm not sure if they're artificially adding delays or just prioritizing Prime orders over yours, that has always been my assumption.
All one needs to know about Platform Design in a handy recap
NetHack
Northgate, West Seattle, Delridge. There are lots of suburban enclaves within the city.

Seattle has plenty of walkable parts, but I grew up in a working class suburban neighborhood within the city where driving to the store was most certainly necessary.
> The Eastern European capital from where I'm writing this comment has had such a service for at least 5 years, if not more.

I won't deny that the agency responsible for New York transit is incorrigibly corrupt, along with the New York State government that is ostensibly responsible for holding them accountable.

That said, there is cell service in most stations (I think they finished the rollout recently, so it may be in all stations now). You don't get cell service in all tunnels, but that's because the New York subway system is very old. For comparison, that's the case in London as well: you get cell service in most of the below-ground stations on the Underground, but not necessarily in all of the tunnels.
This was the perfect strange comedy for my Friday morning, thank you for sharing!
Bit offtopic. Would you recommend clojure as a web development programming language? I am from a python background and want to learn a new language. Previously thought of Rust and Haskell, rust seems to be too low level and carries mental burden of manual memory management and haskell seems too complicated for me. Thanks in advance
If you don't mind waiting longer and have Prime, they often offer a "refund" credit. I currently have $5 in digital credits for items I didn't mind waiting a week for on Prime.

Only downside is that the incentive rotates and some of them are simply terrible (prime pantry, women's fashion, and home services for example).
I personally don’t even track my delivery times. I order things off amazon so quickly that most of the time when I get a package I had forgotten what I ordered, let alone exactly when I ordered it. It’s nice that packages come in two days but I often don’t really need something that fast so I don’t pay attention. I will continue paying happily for Prime.
H/t to Joel for writing this as well as posting it on his own site.
$150 is real money.
Honestly, just make it into a bullet point list: your reformulation of the ideas is WAY clearer and requires no additional explanations. Maybe add graphical examples if you must, but referring back to the text of the original site actually makes yours worse.
how are measuring "better"? If it wins you a contract, then the market has judged your fancy-checkboxes as "better"
I still play Morrowind regularly (it came out in 2003), and I sometimes wonder if gamedev would be more sustainable if we focused on increasing the half life of games. I think that approach is more viable with single player experiences, since multiplayer is more dependent on a critical mass of players.
While I’m not sure I get $156/year worth of value from Prime, or even $99, I share my account with 2 other close family members, and together we place enough orders for it to be worth it. Same with Costco etc. — so as long as These services remain easy to share, the price increases are aren’t too bad.
I think this could be tempered by a "check in everything you've got after __ hour(s)" time limit. Maybe allow requesting the problem details whenever ready and expecting a response within a given time frame?

This definitely ups the pressure, and things like hardware/internet failures would muddy the waters.

It sounds like even a commitment guaranteeing opportunity for discussion & feedback would be enough to satisfy several commenters here, but that is rare for liability reasons when employees are turned down.
The reaction on Hacker News compared to the reaction on Designer News is great.

I think the problem people are struggling with is that it's a site created mostly for fun and delight, but the message is about "UX", which people generally think of as a way to maximize efficiency.

Products don't always need to be relentlessly efficient to be considered useful or "good". Some products are created for you to just enjoy.
After having stepped into a Best Buy for the first time in a while, And living in walking distance from a former RadioShack, it’s not that these things are $5 cheaper, it’s that they either just don’t exist in person or they are like 1.5x as expensive if you do find them. Couple that with the fact that I can shop online while waiting for the bus, and we’ve got an unbeatable advantage for online shopping
:) thanks for clarifying
Walmart, Jet.com and Target offer free 2 day shipping if you order $35, $35, or $25 respectively. It so happens in my area, all three use Fedex ground, which tends to be more reliable than UPS.

Additionally, most items that cost less than $6-8 each tend to be significantly cheaper at Walmart or Target, or you can by a single item rather than a 3-pack, which is a common Amazon strategy.

If you buy a decent number of higher price items, Amazon tends to have a price advantage, so the $99-per-year Prime subscription is worth it. However, you will throw a bunch of money away if you are buying a handful of small-ticket items from Amazon on a regular basis.
4-6 hours for one interview is fine. For 10-30 positions?

When you already have a 60+ hour role and may also have travel+++ ?

When other firms are moving faster to the real meat of the process?

If you assume a freshly graduated engineer with the summer off who is only applying to your firm, then a 10 hour assignment is reasonable. Heck an unpaid internship for the summer is fine for both sides.

If you're in a competitive market hiring for reasonably normal positions, you'll have a bad time.

Firms that are offering unique, incredibly highly compensated, strategic positions can require substantial effort and investment by candidates. Or firms where there is so much competition for a few roles that they can be exceptionally demanding despite low pay and poor conditions.

You need to make an honest assessment of where you really fit to see if your demands are reasonable.
> my house is no longer filled with endless cardboard boxes.

You can throw in in the trash, you know :)

Cancelling Prime is probably good for the same reason I shouldn't have gotten a Moviepass. I now have one less thing blocking me from watching a mediocre movie.
I've had almost the exact opposite experience. I often get Prime deliveries the next day, even when I order in the late afternoon or evening.

I'm in Southern California, so maybe the greater density here means different systems ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is so obviously problematic and yet Amazon fails to correct it -- leaves me feeling very suspicious of their motivations and erodes the goodwill i had for them.
As someone who has been in the cryptocurrency space for many years and loves the tech, the space is still very much the wild west in terms of risks, scoundrels, pick-axe salesmen, and idealists looking for salvation.

So many avenues to take advantage of others.
Feels like artificial, because they give a week time range and they ship it around the end of that range. The actual shipping then takes about 1-2 days. If they use their own shipping, which they do on Sundays then the product is delivered on the same day they shipped.
Don't recognize most of them but the other day I learned Nokia was incorporated in 1871 and it is still around.
I think most users should and would add python libraries with pip3.
That's a very fair point. Might be that to a certain degree people feel in debt with the person who offered them their time, thus making a positive business decision easier.
I've had the amazing opportunity to stay at Hoshi Inn (4th oldest on the list)! I keep the card on my desk (https://i.imgur.com/AyWUGhg.png :-)

The courtyard garden the inn is built around is absolutely stunning, and the hot springs were the best out of all the ryokans we stayed at in Japan. The best part though is the hotel is actively managed and operated by the family - these wonderful people will meet you at the door.

There is concern about the future of the hotel, as the son who was assumed to take on ownership of the inn passed away suddenly, leaving the responsibility to the adult daughter. She's seems exceptionally capable (not to mention is incredibly pleasant), but she is unmarried/childless and seems unsure of her desire to marry or assume ownership of the inn. Clearly it would not be the same if the business continued on operated by someone outside the family.

I highly recommend watching this short film about the situation: https://vimeo.com/114879061

edit: replaced "bloodline" with "family" as I've been told Japanese culture resolves bloodline continuity issues via adult adoption.
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I originally got Prime for video when Netflix annoyed me by splitting out DVD and streaming. (Of course, I ended up back with Netflix too :-))

I always figured I could just pool purchases and get free shipping. I didn't anticipate my change in behavior. So many things that I could spend 30 minutes to pick up at a local store, I can now order from Amazon and get them before I'd make it to the store anyway.

I also travel a lot. So having confidence that I'll get a package before I take off on a trip is worth a lot.

It's also the case that a lot of the fillers I used to use to get free shipping like books, CDs, and DVDs, I don't order much any longer because of online content.
Thanks for the info!

I tried your site and I saw that it adds the VAT when the user selects their country. Since the order page makes network requests to ChargBee, I guess they provide all that functionalilty.

Would you say ChargeBee is also a good solution for small one-time-payments?

When you say it abstracts away 'most of the pain' - what pain is left?
There should be more eagerness to identify when problems and issues are more difficult and less well understood, as well as the nature of this difficulty/complexity -- even in online discussions. That is a valuable contribution.
I've stopped shopping at amazon, but the prime subscription I expected to expire annoyingly auto-renewed itself. There seems to be an (intentional?) lack of prime account management features. The only user facing options seem to be "cancel now" or "email me right before auto-renewal". I don't see a way to simply turn off automatic renewal.

On the other hand I think prime was a useful influence on other e-commence sites. Shipping times have become dramatically shorter in recent years.

So, thank you Amazon for forcing your competition to ship faster while allowing your own site to become overrun with fake reviews and crappy knock-off products!
Interesting idea. Could actually build that semi-inside this website as well.
It will vary greatly based on whether the product is fulfilled by Amazon or not. If it's Prime-eligible it should show up on time (even at great cost to the workers delivering them, sadly). Despite appearances, Amazon is actually an eBay-like marketplace of thousand of individual sellers.
It seems like they're putting THIS IS A PYRAMID SCHEME on top and people are still buying into it.

(Admittedly, pyramid schemes usually do work if you're the one starting them and you don't get caught. It's also nice to see someone starting a pyramid scheme that doesn't involve blockchains for a change :) )

One thing that makes me skeptical about this post is talking about "sweeping instagram" in the title and "hype" in the post, but the best evidence for how wide it's spread they can muster is

> The trend has been picking up speed over the last few weeks. My colleague, Danielle and I, could only find examples on Instagram stories but it’s entirely possible that it’s spreading on Snapchat too and we just don’t have the right friends.

Like other supposed worldwide youth crazes, until I see better numbers it could be that something like 100 (ok, 128) people in the whole world have done this and it's not half as big as it's claimed to be.
Poor people in NYC don't typically drive into Manhattan.
Recently Amazon upped its minimum order for Prime Now (2 hr delivery) -- used to be 20 euros, now it's 40. I cancelled my subscription because of that, but the customer service was courteous and refunded the unused months fairly quickly.
Most major metros have camera lens rentals that let you get access to glass that would normally be out of reach.

Renting a 200mm F2 was a blast since it's a very specific lens that I could never afford but was amazing to see what was possible with it.
Scrum does not discourage adding additional tools as needed. It tries to provide a minimal framework and nothing more.
Goodness - that brings back memories! I remember finding NetHack on telnet at college and losing rather more time to it than I should have...
Plenty of people have sub 200GB hard drives.

Visit your favourite website and have a look.

Here's a bunch of new products under 249 GB: https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&I...

note that some of these only have 64 GB.

For these people every bit of storage is useful.
Until I read this article I didn't even realize I could get Prime monthly. Back in the day when it started it was a one time fee, $70? I paid it, and Amazon has been charging me since then. Like all subscription services, you are supposed to deiced once and forget about it. I worry about the concentration of power in the hands of Amazon. But I love my Kindle and I love Prime.
In the off chance that you are torturing someone and incompetent enough to allow them to escape. I bet that's happen a few times.
Of course you can sue CBP. https://holdcbpaccountable.org/category/all-cases/
> Afaik the tax situation in Europe is super complicated and you have to charge the tax of the country the customer is from.

What's the relational behind such a complex tax system? Sounds like a good way to discourage people from trying out business ideas.
I'm going to guess you're in the minority.