skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I remember, Instacart's main business was Whole Foods delivery. When Amazon bought Whole Foods they obviously lost that market, but there was some optimism presented because now suddenly every store has to compete with Amazon and would look to Instacart as a ready-made provider of this service.

But I am not so sure this will work out. Instacart builds some of their fees into item prices. If you're shopping at Whole Foods you're already signaling some price insensitivity, and you likely won't notice a few nickels added to these already premium items.

However if you shop at somewhere like Safeway, this may not work. The price competition is way more intense and consumers are much more sensitive to the price of essentials.

Maybe the idea is that anyone who orders groceries from a hip mobile app like Instacart is someone who can afford the convenience premium? I am just not convinced that they can really ever recover from Amazon here. Plus these other chains may want to do business with Instacart today, but in the long term they'll probably invest in their own delivery services and cut out the middle man.

Instacart is a pretty legit business, but $4.2B is a lot for a middleman in an industry that is synonymous with low margins.
Except when your friends take pictures of you and upload them. Facebook doesn't need you to have a device to affect you every single day
Or, Facebook could just not do that stuff.

Part of the problem is that FB still compiles and uses data on people even if they're not FB users. FB assuredly has plenty of data on you, and uses that as they see fit, regardless of if you've agreed to their terms or not. I would hardly consider that to be 'zero effects'.
I would target the channels whereby the funds from their massive advertising sales are being routed, probably

Facebook have no business in the EU unless they are selling advertising to EU companies
> Seems to me that American cars are not competitive (outside of America)

American cars are very competitive in china. They aren't competitive in europe and japan because of laws protecting their own car industries, smaller roads and expensive gas.

> It's because they are large, fuel inefficient monsters.

Which is what american people want. The top 3 selling vehicles in the US are all large trucks for a reason.

> But times have changed.

It hasn't. The top 3 selling vehicles in the US are trucks - Ford F-Series, Chevrolet Silverado, Ram P/U.

You might not like it but you can't blame american car manufacturers for wanting to build cars that americans like.

There is a reason why small european car companies aren't doing well in the US. The markets are different.
Xkcd's classical correct course battery staple is about 40 bits is entropy, while being selected uniformly at random from a fairly large pool of words.

I can assure you that the average user wouldn't get above 15 - 20 bits with self selected words. That's often worse than most current passwords.
Snapchat is micro-vlogging/live-streaming, Facebook is personal LinkedIn
It's the modern version of a trade war between the US and the EU which targets massive online monopolies which the EU doesn't have.
I'm using Laravel Spark for the SaaS I'm building. It's fantastic, I highly recommend it. The one caveat is that if you're doing some odd billing scheme (e.g. aside from just one or more tiers at set prices), it might take a little extra work.
It’s quickly not becoming this, unfortunately.
Do you have a link to his explanation?
When I was 10, a classmate hit me over the head with a folding chair in defense of the reality of pro wrestling.

The adult fans might know it's fiction; children are still figuring out where that line sits.
Unanswered emails were the bane of my life
It will only hit Ireland. Thanks to some trickery they only pay 0.03% taxes on their revenue in other EU countries. Wont be a big loss.
Excellent - so it's not a lack of transparency, but bad copywriting/marketing.

The paragraph reads like IC is responsible for the increase, not the retailer itself.
Swing dancing is wonderful, and is very compatible with the analytical nerd brain as far as building up something beautiful from components, expressing yourself within a structure, getting physical exercise, etc etc.
Hence "directly", I read it as.
> But, at least for me, the industry has done a decent job of competing with piracy on convenience.

It has, but the fragmentation that you mentioned is starting to seriously erode this progress. If the situation worsens on this front, I can definitely see a resurgence of piracy, again because of convenience.
If I could be given a bit of latitude to generalize for a second, I've noticed that America has a very "self-focused" culture wherein the individual is often seen as being solely responsible for everything relating to their self.

That makes a lot of sense but I've seen this often taken to extremes such that the perspective is used to absolve various levels of government, corporations, and organizations from responsibility over making decisions about common goods or on the behalf of others (things like healthcare, safety/protection, insurance, privacy, etc.).

So this position from Facebook seems (to me) to be a very American approach to take. ie. "We give you a plethora of options to secure your information, thus it's on you what information we get. After that, once we have it, then its ours and not yours anymore."
Point is that the UK government already has a tax regime. It has no incentive to fine Facebook so much there's a risk of it leaving. The ICO already said that it doesn't intend to use its big new fining powers under GDPR anyway, as there's no need.

The rest of the EU is a bigger question. The EU is desperate for cash. It faces a huge budget shortfall, member states that don't want to pay more and it can't raise a corporation tax itself by treaty. Repeatedly fining tech firms looks like a nice way out for them.

But that said, hopefully the UK will repeal GDPR eventually along with associated EU nonsense like the cookie law.
Could anyone using SQLite FTS share their opinion/story? I'm especially interested in indexing hundreds of gigabytes.
The US has software patents. The EU has GDPR. China has rampant IP theft. Russia has corruption. Every large market has peculiarities, it's the cost of doing business.
Like the enduser cares about whos fault it is. Netflix could at least allow the loading of custom subtitles.
Oh it's 2018, being friends with all of your exes is just the norm, so you can constantly live in the past, never letting go..
At least sometimes I'm grateful that I'm living in 3-rd world country, where most of the people including police don't realize that copyright even exists (every Windows XP in police I saw seemed to be pirated, LoL). I can use torrents at 1 GB/s without any fear. I don't have much choice anyway, legal services usually completely out of touch with their insane prices and provide very limited selection, so they don't even close to compete. I don't know anyone who would pay $10 for album, it's ridiculous pricing. Make it $0.01 for song and someone might pay that for easy of use.
It's not FB who is in the wrong, they have no control over your friends' actions.
some constructive feedback: i had no idea that the markups were from/by the retailer, as opposed to instacart.

consider changing the messaging there? until now, i was under the impression that the markups were just another way for y'all to make some money off of me.
A few more things instacart does that really bother me:

1. The time slot changes as soon as you click checkout, what I mean is while browsing I'll always see "Available Within 1 hour" then when it actually is time to checkout that option is gone. It happens virtually every time and I've never seen it happen the other way around or happen while shopping and refreshing or going back and forth between shopping and checking out. This leads me to believe it's an intended trick they are using to get people to shop even if the time they want isn't available.

2. They don't provide drivers with any sort of cart to actually deliver the groceries with. One delivery driver had to lug water bottles and other heavy items from down the street where he could find parking into my building and up to my apartment. Amazon Fresh gives their drivers a handcart to help with deliveries.

3. After several orders of mine were never delivered and Instacart offering a $5 credit (after wasting hours of my time waiting for their large delivery window) I had a driver tell me that drivers get to keep orders that are not delivered and sometimes they pick really good orders and say they couldn't be delivered.

I still use them because it's convenient but wish they would treat their users with more integrity and also manage their delivery drivers better by providing supporting tools like a cart or keeping tabs on drivers that may be taking orders for themselves.
>additionally, for virtually all stores on instacart.com now, we are simply passing on the pricing that the retailer has given us (which may or not be marked up from their internal prices -- but we do not control)

IC is responsible for signing the contracts they have with retailers, IC is also the most visible partner for the end-user. As you can see from this thread, attempts to kick the blame down(up?) the supply chain will only fall on deaf ears.
Where is the ToS you agree to for the involuntary profiles they create of you if you've never used their service?

https://boingboing.net/2017/11/08/involuntary-profiling.html

"Facebook is well understood as being a major customer of third-party data-brokers, who compile huge dossiers on people based on their spending, internet and phone usage, employment history and so on. In addition, Facebook encourages users to upload their entire address books to the system to "find your friends," and users generally don't appreciate that they may be leaking sensitive information, including nicknames, private numbers, and connections to the system.

Facebook mines this data to create "shadow profiles" of its billions of users. These are profiles that are filled with data about you that you have never consciously provided to the system -- data mined from third parties, including your friends, but also those spooky data-brokers. Facebook's shadow profile system was first confirmed in 2013 when it accidentally leaked users' shadow profiles to them along with their own data, something the company says it will never do again out of (ironic) respect for the privacy of the people who provided the data that goes into your shadow profile.

Facebook's shadow profiles are involuntary and there's no opt-out. Facebook has shadow profiles on people who don't use the service. For example, even though I'm not a Facebook user, multiple people have uploaded their address books containing my email and phone number to the system, allowing Facebook to create a profile of my contacts by looking at who lists me as a contact."
Pacific Passages
Lille's isn't so bad except for the fact that Lille-Europe pretty much only has Eurostar and Lille-Flandres is most everything else. It's walkable but a bit announcing.
Ah, well if you could go back in time to last week, you could have made a fortune with put options on VIX ETFs before some of them failed. Volatility being at such a tremendous low is definitely unusual and the possibility of ETF failures was baked in. Maybe in a few years we'll see a movie about people with foresight making money off of that event.
Leaving doesn't mean erasing all the profiles. It just means shutting down local corporate presences. It'd suck for the employees but Facebook can run things out of Palo Alto just fine.

I'm not sure what it'd involve for contracts and payments. But many EU firms have US legal presences too. They could easily buy ads on Facebook through their US presence. Multi-nationalism works both ways.
Why wouldn't they? It's their business and you have the option of not doing business with them.
It's about time things started being unfair to corporations the same way they're unfair towards individuals.
And if someone tags me in a photo?
> What $349 speaker will beat the HomePod and provide the same features?

None, I'm not considering those features, only audio quality.

> Comparing the HomePod to a class A amplifier is nonsensical. Nobody is pretending it's competing with that segment.

The author is implicitly:

> The HomePod is 100% an Audiophile grade Speaker

Your absolutely right, it is nonsensical, it's _physically_ in a different class all together. The author has gotten out his spectrum analyser or whatever and measured a relatively flat frequency response of a sine-wave and concludes... this is good audio: Except, "No" says every amplifier and speaker designer ever.
I thought based on your opening sentence that you were going to say having no understanding of the problem worked out okay. So are you saying you were unproductive at your old job?
Burned in subtitles maybe?
I'd like it to be "You can choose who can save and retain your stuff"
Google would happily accept patches to enable support for it.

AMD hopefully has a team writing such patches now. It makes business sense for them to do so.

Google is getting even more price gouging from Nvidia than the general public, and has even more incentive to level the playing field.
Not true anymore (changed last year after the new VAT laws)
Why is empire in quotes? We are most definitely an empire - the largest that'll ever exist on earth. We are the only global superpower.
I'd argue there is no way to properly communicate to the average facebook user how their data is being collected and used in a way that is transparent but not confusing.

For example, explain to someone who is illiterate in technology how the act of you "tagging" your friend in a photo is to offload image labeling work to train a deep neural network to infer your friend's face.

If you radically simplify the issue in line with GDPR by saying something like:

"Whenever you tag a friend in a photo you to help teach our computers to recognize what your friends face looks like"

It makes it seem way more terminator/ominous than it is to the average person.

Ok now do the same thing with all of the nlp, voice etc... data points.

I just don't see how facebook is going to deploy a worldwide education effort on big data effectively.
Absolutely. Performance on the server costs money. Data breaches cost money. I'm sure someone can quantify whether using a jQuery plugin instead of a React component has a cost associated with it, but I'd venture to say it's on a magnitude of order less than server-side concerns. I don't know that I'd say priority should be 100:1, but at least 10:1.
No need to panic, but yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picric_acid

> In the early 20th century, picric acid was stocked in pharmacies as an antiseptic and as a treatment for burns, malaria, herpes, and smallpox. Picric acid-soaked gauze was also commonly stocked in first aid kits from that period as a burn treatment.

On the slightly positive side, picric acid also sublimates, but I'm not sure how long it would take for evaporate from the first aid kit. On the other hand, sublimation also increases the surface area of any metal container for forming metallic picrates.
Without a citation, I doubt this claim and wonder if you have any personal investment in or relation to Facebook or a similar company whose profit is generated by selling or buying personal data.
Human breast milk is a poor source of vitamin D, that's why it is recommended as a supplement.
What financial incentive do they have to show me Memes over what I want to see?

Because you scroll and scroll and scroll through the feed looking for something you actually wanted to see, and all that extra time spent is "engagement".
I don't understand what is the profit for movie companies in narrowing down their own market.

The movie company sold the rights to show that movie in the UK to some other company instead of Netflix, probably for more money than Netflix offered them.

Also, you're paying a fixed monthly fee, and unless you're part of the small minority that travels a lot, you're not likely to drop Netflix over not being able to watch certain movies in foreign countries, hence they didn't lose anything.
And why is that a good or acceptable thing? Why should one's personal data, and how that's used, be paramount?
I'm not emotional about the Barbary Pirates. I simply think that pointing out that a country cared more about its merchant interests than another country's citizenry isn't exactly deeply insightful. Also, I don't agree that a country that had freed itself from monarchy less than a generation earlier can be described as 'unburdened by the legacy of monarchy' particularly given the origin of common law in the US.

To be a merchant paternalist, you generally need to be powerful. I thought it was important to point out that the United States was not powerful at that time, and barely managed to protect its merchant's interests some of the time. Your comment about merchant paternalists not caring about leaving others in fetters, both iron and structural, doesn't really apply to that particular conflict.
Can anyone speculate on why Apple has never made iTunes purchasing available as an online store? It's the prospect of installing iTunes that keeps me away as well.

I've used Google Play when I couldn't find something on Bandcamp because it lets me purchase and download the album in a browser. But even then you have to have an account.
I'll be honest, I've been selling EU wide for a while now (~2 years), only abiding by UK laws for the LTD, and before that with a Belgian BVBA. There's all the laws which I never thought about, and no one ever said anything about it. Sure, it's not sustainable long term, but now I can fix all of it because I actually have a profit.

So, you can either be afraid and dump a lot of your money into "doing everything right" or start right away and fix shit later. I'd say don't be discouraged by the seemingly spooky EU laws.
Or, FB could just not do that stuff.
Instacart hasn't lost Whole Foods. You can still get deliveries. (Though who knows whether this will last, or whether it can compete on price with Amazon's own offerings.)
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1. You can enter arbitrarily C++ code (gdb can only call some functions, it cannot even instantiate c++ classes)
2. Variables in Inspector's scope are never optimized away by the compiler
3. You can use it with default optimizations flags (In gdb you often want `-O0 -g`)
That's in no way relevant. I want to know how much more it costs to use Instacart vs going to the store, and I don't care what their costs are just what mine are for using the service.
That's an absolutely ridiculous idea and a good way to destroy the amount of users you're getting. Do you whitelist Gmail? Then it's piss simple to sign up to multiple accounts. Do you not? Good luck a massive portion of the internet to sign up...
I generally trend towards flights because US trains are pre-emptible by commercial traffic. My experience has been delays are de jure versus the exception.
I have a hard time seeing how you came to your conclusions about point 3. The rulings seem crystal clear and are explained in normal language. Take the google shopping case:

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-17-1784_en.htm

Seems very clear what is wrong.

I'm thinking that perhaps it's a good thing that future companies like FB can't take off in Europe. The need for a product like FB is clear, and if the rules prohibit FB like companies from taking root, then it gives grassroots or open source a chance. We'll see.
The GDPR is beautiful and an example of the best outcomes democracy can produce. The winners are pretty much everyone. It's sad that the US can't implement public policy like this.
I have this book! It's delightful and absolutely introduced me to a new perspective when I was a kid.
Tell that to the horses whose jobs were replaced by machines and cars during the industrial revolution. Now what use do we have for them? Entertainment. That's it.

I've often heard supporters of that so-called fallacy invoke the idea of humans maintaining and repairing robots. That's a pretty weak argument. Warren Bennis has the right of it:

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
There's the cookie notice that every website with FB tracking code has to display to you and not track you until you give consent (e.g. by continuing to use the site). If your friends do something you don't like like uploading photos of you, FB has nothing to do with it - it's your friends who gave them the info and lied that the data they upload is uploadef rightfully.
In Iceland, Bitcoin mining will soon use more energy than its residents
I guess the next question is; how long until both Instagram and Whatsapp alienate their users and they switch to the "next big thing"?
A lot would be before tax optimization not after ;)
Miracle – A JavaScript Sega Master System Emulator
Extrapolating this concept in various and biased directions... you could say that intelligence, behavior, and evolution (defined as physical iterative behavior across successive reproductive generations) are products of random changes/mutations, reinforced by gradient descent in the form of Survival of the Fittest.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/1j7hce/lpt_whi...
We need a social network experience where users own their data, and are presented with a simple and user friendly interface that connects this data with their chosen friends. Currently we have user data mined en masse at great privacy risk and for endless profit, ad infinitum.

Facebook has not decayed because of an influx of new users beginning with this "eternal september", but because of the pointed decisions by its leadership to choose greed over respect for its users. The paramount decision is the decision to go public, necessitating indefinite growth at any cost in order to satisfy investors. It must have been obvious to Facebook's early employees that a Facebook at the behest of investors would increasingly dilute the user experience, and yet only now do they lament what they created.
I was about to argue that Netflix is still not viable for Linux users but then I googled it and apparently Netflix now works out of the box in Google Chrome.

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/watch-netflix-natively-linux-e...

Does that include Chromium though? I think probably not. I will give it a try in Chromium but if that doesn't work then I will not be able to use Netflix still.
I believe McDonalds locations inside Europe do follow EU laws, so yes.
That is an opinion - it doesn't prove your claim.
Departing the Ruby ecosystem is a dealbreaker in many situations. Crystal is faster but you’re gonna spend more time reinventing the wheel and building common tools that are sitting on the shelf in Ruby land. Not picking a side here, just trying to point out why Ruby is still very popular.
> I'm glad machine learning as a field has taken proactive steps to avoid these exact kinds of issues.

Yeah about that, I've got some bad news...
>Facebook will do just fine, they had years to prepare and an army of lawyers.

Microsoft had years to prepare and an army of lawyers too.
It is documented here:
https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/master/tensorf...
We're adding larger and larger costs for smaller and smaller improvements (as is to be expected, you start with the low hanging fruit and then move up the tree).

Other countries are paying the price, but does that mean the US should? If it isn't worth the cost, why should the US follow other countries off the cliff?
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