skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To answer some easy questions:

>> The idea the author floats that this type of place could ever be open with no staff present is ludicrous.

No on has ever said the store will have no staff present. At the very, very basics: it sells alcohol and is in the United States. It has staff present. Not to mention security, stocking, etc.

The value proposition is a lower margin cost and better customer experience, not zero staff.

>> The store has a bunch of ready-to-eat and semi-prepared bundles that hit a very narrow niche in the grocery market. There are a few pre-packaged name-brand products, but everything is arranged in a highly regimented manner, and the store is very small. It's revealing to note what's missing: any fresh produce whatsoever.

What does this have to do with the store's ability to scale? How does pre-packaged food (perishable) differ from fresh produce (perishable) if they decide to stock produce? Are you worried about Amazon's ability to handle logistics?

An initial test location in a limited space (this is downtown Seattle) has to have customers and they identified pre-packaged food and consumable items like wine as what the customers in the area wanted, not a scaled down Whole Foods.

>> And what about the software itself? Do the cameras keep track of the inventory correctly? What if a customer puts a product back down in the wrong place? How much awareness does the software actually have? Is it tracking your phone or you? Does it attempt to deal with scams (can you bring an empty boxed meal kit into the store, replace a new one from the shelf with the empty, and then walk out)?

The store has been in private beta to thousands of Amazon employees for over a year. It's safe to assume they're confident in their technology. Other tech sites have been given permission to try and trick the software. They failed.

>> Now, I don't think Amazon is really thinking that sort of thing is imminent, or that they are actually going to make money from this store. This is a vanity experiment, nothing more. They are getting lots of free advertising from a credulous press, and that's plenty sufficient for them.

Even if this were true, you fail to make the case here.
VPN’s: A non-technical explanation
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Also note that transactions that consume multiple UTXOs on one chain lead to privacy leaks on other chains.
One of the bigger features of P6 is that it can use modules written in other languages such as python.[1]

Are you aware of the compatibility with Perl 5 that I mentioned in my prior comment in this thread? If so, why do you discount it?

[1] https://www.perl.com/article/plotting-with-perl-6/
So what is losteverything talking about? How do they charge people different prices if the prices are printed right there on paper?
> But it is the first organic currency

I'm guessing Taleb hasn't heard of Cowry shells [1]...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowry#Human_use
Even if the system doesn't do this directly, it's easy for a contractor with the data to do as much if the data is highly accurate.

I hope that some mitigations are being put in place by limiting data accuracy to relatively wide windows (and the wideness of those windows will need to vary depending on how busy a thing is).
This is about how long people stay at the same job, not the framework stability. In my experience people hop from job to job often enough that you'd be regularly training people on a language unless they already knew it when hired. So a language that people already know or has a low learning curve is usually preferred for many companies.
What’s innovative about this? I feel like I’m reading an Amazon Alexa or Google Home ad.
EGallon
"Which is why Bitcoin is an excellent idea. [...] not because it is a cryptocurrency, but precisely because it has no owner, no authority that can decide on its fate."

Another one not grasping Bitcoin. Bitcoin is owned by the miners as evidenced by spec changes.
From: https://wsdotblog.blogspot.se/2018/01/crews-monitoring-land-...

> If we start removing material or blasting it from the hillside, it will actually make the area more unstable, creating fissures in other areas and would likely release larger amounts of debris in an uncontrolled manner. For some perspective, we’ve spent the past several years blasting rock from the hillsides along I-90 as part of the project to stabilize rock slopes and add more lanes. When we blast, it’s in very small sections and then we excavate any loose material after the blast. Over the past five years we’ve removed a little more than one million cubic yards of material – or about 200,000 cubic yards every construction season (April through October). The Rattlesnake Ridge slide is made up of about four million cubic yards of material.

> Also, blasting an unstable hillside simply isn’t safe. In order to do a controlled blast, crews need to drill into the hillside about 20 to 40 feet to put live charges into the hole. With the hillside moving, being able to drill accurately while also not causing more instability would be incredibly challenging. Even if the holes were drilled accurately, there’s the possibility that the charges won’t go off, meaning the crews would then have to sort through millions of cubic yards of debris looking for live explosives that could go off. It’s just too dangerous of a situation to put workers in.
The driver ToS apply to whoever installs the driver. That is you, not Hetzner.
Will be interesting to see a feature comparison with all of the other existing voice-controlled speakers out there. Seems like a couple of recent blogs posts linked on HN were saying that Apple was starting already behind the competition in this space.
I'm looking forward to DEF CON in Las Vegas. I'm also hoping my employer provides us passes to RSA and JavaOne again this year.
OutSystems 101: Aggregates vs. SQL Queries
Thanks for the feedback. Here's an issue to track the request: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/14664 and I added it to our Missing features section with https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/commit/ddfc9ee1....
the originals are:
ethereum - https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/White-Paper
bitcoin - https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
The public should provide a fair exchange here.

Allow Sidewalk Labs to build any infrastructure they like irrespective of laws.

Once done, hire whitehats/blackhats, and if they are able to access any information, shutdown the project.
Immediately uninstalled because of exactly this. The "We rate websites on privacy" value proposition didn't quite mention "(and we will force you to use our search without asking)".
I didn't know it was a thing!
Ah, so it fights online ad profile generation and tracking from ad networks. That's laudable (and useful).
The firefox situation had more to do with the extension bypassing typical review processes than with engineers seeing the problem but not voicing their opinion. Many Mozilla engineers learned about that debacle the same time that we did.
Presumably because it’s less work to support ERC-20 tokens. I don’t think you’d need to run a separate full node for each token.
What I like about OutSystems
How to Hack an Intelligent Machine
Not quite what your talking about, but yes we can manipulate small (very!) objects today with light, using a technique / setup known as "Optical Tweezers"

https://blocklab.stanford.edu/optical_tweezers.html
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When jQuery was young it was not alone.

What are the current Dojo? Or the current Mootools, prototype?
Freemasons and Ritual Murder: The Story of William Morgan
Plenty of cryptocurrency chatter on HN these days anyway.
Video demonstrates the marvel of CRT displays at 380,000 frames per second
Twitter mocks President Trump's shutdown photo
One of my go-to lunch spots offers a discount if you have an in-state Drivers License.
We are going back to 15 years ago when we had element behaviors in Internet Explorer that let you package up the HTML, JS and CSS into one file - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms531426(v=vs.85).a...
Gah. Crypto news? More like cryptocurrency. Wait. No. More like news for cryptocurrency traders.
Yes, You Can Now Buy Bananacoins, a Cryptocurrency Linked to Banana Prices
Read the FB Manifesto.
Sentiment Analysis: Concept, Analysis and Applications
Interesting ECMAScript 2017 proposals
Do googlers hate you?
Great explanation, as far as I recall that is exactly how it works.
It is, but code updates still happen. Nodes aren't all identical.

As these things change, the contracts have to be exchanged with every member of the cluster which would not only add significant communication overhead, it would also bypass those compile time guarantees.

That's before even considering things like hot deploys where the code is updated live, while running, mid-execution.

The contract enforcement becomes akin to the goals of WSDL, which added a ton of overhead with minimal benefit aside from making consuming APIs easier for statically typed languages because of generators.

Is the overhead worth the difference from...

Client (this message will fail on this server) -> don't send

to...

Client -> (this message failed)

Especially when talking about a cluster which you own...that benefit is questionable at best.
Backbone, ember, angular, web components. They're all ok and perfectly usable but they're losing to react by a wide margin.
Profile generation maybe: if it clicks randomly, the ad network doesn't know what's a "good ad" for you

Tracking I'd say less: your browser is loading the ads embedded in various sites and reveals more than if it just blocked.
I don't know. I don't understand why people like these devices generally. And the less said about Siri the better.
> It's best to admit as soon as it's clear what's happening that you are doing something entirely new

Larry said something similar on day one.

> and let the old project live out its own lifecycle.

Larry did exactly that. It's still living out its own lifecycle and will for another N decades.

> re-using the name of a once-well-loved and established language is a bad move for both the old and the new versions.

I agree that this has likely turned out to be the case for Perl 6.
Yes they are all completely open source.
Thank you, I appreciate the detailed response :-)
Hopefully without mining and selling user data. This might be the real killer feature.
Perform Google search -> Tools > All results -> Verbatim.
Well after a quick google search on the topics I listed:

Here's one for python:

https://m.wikihow.com/Start-Programming-in-Python?amp=1

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https://lifehacker.com/5736011/learn-how-to-code-part-i-vari...

http://lifehacker.com/5742493/learn-to-code-part-ii-working-...

http://lifehacker.com/5742494/learn-to-code-part-iii-arrays-...
http://lifehacker.com/5742495/learn-to-code-part-iv-understa...

These are in JavaScript which may be helpful if you wish to build a webapp but the concepts are the same in any language.

These are the basics you need to learn. Start with the python one and work through until you understand each lesson completely. Then try changing some of the code from the lessons or making something similar and get it to work. After take a look through the JavaScript one so you can see the same concepts in a different syntax. Don't worry too much about it unless you want to learn JavaScript. This is just to help you recognize the things you learned in a different form to show they are universal concepts. Try and see if you can figure out how it's different or similar to python.

Keep looking through different beginner tutorials and writing small one file programs until you feel like you're not learning enough. Then move on to something a little bigger.

At the same time you may want to start looking into how web apps work. The difference between client and server side code. How the browser makes requests to the server to access your api. It's a fairly different process than standalone programs and if this is your ultimate goal you should begin looking into, at least a general idea, of how they work.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-web-app-and-how-does-it-work...

https://selftaughtcoders.com/how-web-apps-work/
Spring Creator Rod Johnson: What Went Wrong with Enterprise Java – The New Stack
I think you're not understanding what he meant by context, the context is that just before then he'd said it was a mistake to give the UK electorate a leave/stay questions, he meant he'd simply give France a stay/stay question, i.e.:

Would you:

1. like to stay in the EU as is or
2. like to stay in the EU with minor tweaks?

It's too complicated for the peasants to understand apparently.

But if given a leave/stay question, he thought France would vote leave like the UK.

He then went on to have a rant against all the unwashed who'd lost out because of globalization gobbling their livelihoods and how they should damn well be pleased to be screwed, if you're not a university educated elite it's your own fault for sucking, politicians obviously aren't meant to represent you or your views.
People who use Uber, AirBnB, Deliveroo and similar companies are only fuelling this race to the bottom. Maybe one day it will catch up to them, and then it will be too late. Use your leverage while you still have it, Comrades.
What happens when you strap a camera to the bottom of a plane
> Not to mention the huge loneliness and depression epidemic, with actual tangible effects on mental and physical health, and wether one can openly smack their partner and electrocute their body parts is quite far from a priority.

I don’t claim to understand BDSM, but I do know a fulfilling sex life helps with depression, and that being outcast for your sexuality can cause depression and loneliness.

Sex can be one of the few things left for the homeless and the dispossessed, and has been part of human culture since before the invention of medicine and money, never mind health insurance. Dismissing it as a luxury makes you sound like a French aristocrat (ironically, given where the ‘S’ comes from).
You can uncheck that option in extension settings at least in Safari.
I feel exited about home assistants in the same way I am excited about home automation: the premise seems useful in a general way, but I struggle to think of use cases that have a meaningful effect on my lifestyle. Also - I can't shake the privacy concerns.
Putting aside 10% towards high risk / high reward investments can help balance a portfolio. Stocks are less risky but still a gamble, bonds are safer depending on who is backing them.
How can you release a music player when your music ecosystem is completely broken? iTunes is so bad I have to pay for an app (Waltr) to put music on my phone.

And Apple music sounds like garbage. I don't need a high-quality speaker to stream garbage.
It wasn't really difficult to contribute to them about a year or two ago. I've contributed a couple of cheatsheets (for example, clicking on the info icon when searching for "nmap cheatsheet" will reveal my GitHub username), which were, at the time, considered a low-hanging fruit way of contributing instant answers.

Later on, I was later on added to the DuckDuckHack Contributors team[0], which was border-line spamming, up to the point where I had to redirect email notifications from the DuckDuckGo organization to my non-primary email address. Occasional email is fine, a dozen or two dozens of emails in my inbox almost every single day was not.

And finally, I am aware that there was some grand change about how people contribute to DuckDuckGo introduced relatively recently, which makes my experience a bit outdated.

The combination of their actions after I've contributed to them made me pretty uninterested in the idea of contributing more instant answers. Nowadays, I only suggest bangs from time to time, which is as easy as filling out a form[1].

[0] https://github.com/orgs/duckduckgo/teams/duckduckhack-contri...

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/newbang
"with the help of a Perl 6 expert" So it's not backward compatible and you need an expert?
Thanks. Quite interesting. Wish I knew more about macroeconomics.
There are multiple notification systems available, I find that the twitter account tends to have a lot more info about hyperlocal and situational events vs the text-based system. I've just never straight up heard the outdoor one go off except for tests.

Folks in SF that want to sign up for the texts can do so here: http://sfdem.org/public-alerts
if this works out well then it will no doubts bring a breakthrough to all the future YC and 500 Startups batches. can't wait for that to happen!
Google culture is jerky in it's own way though. The demonization of James Damore was disgusting. Trying to silence educated voices from responding to request for comments on the topic is wrong.
IMO, what happened with Ethereum was not exactly the correct economic perspective. More like the ethereum devs went on to support the Ethereum and ditched the coin. Bitcoin Cash/Gold on the other hand seems fine.

> except perhaps for the friction entailed in getting it listed on Coinbase

And therein lies the rub. I'd say its not only Coinbase but exchanges in general. My understanding is that even the worse of exchanges like HitBtc charge 25 BTC to list a coin.

So, if you have plans to make at least 25-30 BTC to get through the exchange doors, count me in :P
>Coming this year in a free software update, users will be able to play music throughout the house with multi-room audio.

Interesting that a key feature that the competition already has won’t be shipping at launch. I wonder if this is related to the Homepod’s previous delays.
Very cool... Some areas for improvement I noticed off the bat while using the app:

* Scrolling sometimes feels slow.

* Doesn't seem to work with 1 password autofill. Not sure if 1password, DuckDuckGo, or both are needed to address this.

* Would be nice to be able to use Google as a search engine (though I admit I could just go to google.com first).
I'm glad to say I have no memories of perl
I want more money and the same amount of widgets, because then after I buy my widget, I have more money leftover to buy thingamabobs.

But if I earn less money, even if widgets drop in price, I don't have enough money to buy a thingamabob.

And really, how many widgets do I need? My garage is already stacked full of them and I can't even fit my car inside.
This is unfortunately the way Chrome works right now. If you revert search settings they disable the whole extension. We are actively trying to find a way around this behavior.
Fully agree - the whole AoPS range of books and courses are just amazing. Highly recommended for all kids.
Artificial intelligence is going to supercharge surveillance – The Verge
How do amber alerts work? When I lived in SF I got SF-related alerts. I don't know enough about how they work - but it sounds like tech that could be re-used for major emergency alerts.
I don't know that it's particularly innovative, but it is nice having the option.

Personally, I use Apple Music and am looking to do more with HomeKit, so it adds a few things there.
KGI: 6.1“ iPhone to Have Single-Lens Rear Camera, Aluminum Frame, 3GB RAM
Nvidia is going to have a difficult time enforcing that in the EU (where Hetzner operates).
I'd like to see other terms as well, incl. distributed ledger stuff.
I still don't see how this is true, either in this case or in Dynamicland - neither of those seem to OCR programs from the piece of paper. So you still do classical programming alone, and only get to play with the results. A piece of paper may contain the actual program behind system's reaction to it, or it may contain a picture of a cat - the contents are irrelevant; it's the dots that matter.
No you don't.

Source:
The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Performance by Phinney and Volek
Skiers hurt by flying rocks, avalanche on Japan volcano
The state can broadcast emergency messages, it doesn't need to send them individually to some database of cell phone numbers.

Alert About Missile Bound for Hawaii Was Sent in Error, Officials Say
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16140761
I have perl5 in production and we are pushing to migrate that codebase to python - for the plain and simple fact that it's getting harder and harder to find people with any interest in perl5.
I was curious about the "fake" site they used in their example, creepysite.com. I was pretty surprised to find that it redirects to google.com by an HTTP 302 redirect.

Good marketing for duckduckgo.
Hulu and YouTube TV Close to 500,000 Subscribers
Spectre Explained
Thanks for shedding some light! Your Social Networking ideas sound innovative indeed and it sucks that it couldn't pan out to be something viable.

Maybe it was ahead of its time.
I’m interested in one as a new speaker. I don’t expect I’ll enable Siri. I want to use it as an AirPlay target.

I was previously considering a Sonos, but the Airplay2 support will be baked into the OS so I don’t need to use a clunky 3rd party app.
Generally I am positive about this but I'd have to give some feedback that tag containers/managers are not automatically bad.

At the moment it seems like this tool just flags tag containers (e.g. tagcommander, google tag manager) as a "tracker network" which they are not. Of course, a tag container might contain tracking beacons and tags etc but they might also contain benign other scripts (e.g. for A/B testing).

I would prefer it if these sorts of tools blacklisted the tags inside the container (they are just loaded via ajax like everything else), rather than the containers themselves.
There are pros and cons depending on your personal situation. Having that workforce profile can be liberating if you have the right skill set to keep you on track and organized. The freelance/GIG economy has a lot to offer not only younger workers but veteran workers looking to add more tools to their toolbox.
https://latechnews.org/los-angeles-gig-economy/
P/E is nearly useless because it counts capital expenses against earnings. A much better measure is cost of revenue.
I'd consider rethinking this view.

Being torn into and being called a moron, useless, pathetic, etc. leaves deep trauma that will bleed into other areas of your life. Even if you're tough and think you've brushed it off.

The idea that we're duty-bound to inflict emotional cruelty on people when we think they've made a mistake is probably the cause of most of the suffering we see in the world.

You can tell someone that their code is very bad and make sure they get it, without trying to twist the thumbscrews and make sure that they feel rotten to their very core.
Sorry for the confusion, we were discussing OVH support. I've never had that problem with Hetzner support.

> When contacting OVH support in French, I generally receive very good support. I sometimes wonder how good the response is when they receive the same question in English.
Apple is rarely first to market for anything. They didn't release the first mp3 player, they released the best one. They didn't come out with the first smart phone, first tablet, or first smart watch, either. They rarely shine in feature-to-feature comparisons, either. The iPhone did less than the blackberries it destroyed. It just did the important things better.

It will be interesting to see how the Homepod plays out. If it's successful, it almost certainly won't be because it out-features the competition. And they almost certainly haven't lost because they weren't first to market.
Add a Shared Google Doc to an Arbitrary Google Drive Folder
I am not sure if any of these programs are still around, but older, generic forms of insulin are available for free or greatly reduced price at many pharmacies to qualified applicants.

http://www.needymeds.org/
Is a non-profit group that helps provide free/low cost meds.

Many pharmacies listed offer free/reduced price insulin.
http://www.freediabetestestsupplies.com/free-diabetes-medica...