skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 350 USD is expensive, but it "competes" with a lot of the small consumer products that have just one or two speakers, one amplifier

What I'm saying is it just shows a lack of understanding of how sound works to think that more speakers/amps would ever sound better than less speakers/amps in a tiny box. Throwing more tiny speakers in there is always going to make it sound worse.

Bloody marketing. And they'll probably be successful with it too...

Seven speakers!! Did we say it has seven speakers?!! The HomePod Pro next year will have ten!!!
Tax form generation isn't working, which sucks. But the UI and everything else is nice. Would be good to view gains by date ranges (Eg. month, prior year, etc.)

Would also be good to login in via method other than Coinbase after the fact.
I'll be sad to see my local B&N disappear, but it's not unexpected: the writing has been on the wall for years. I generally hang out in the cafe, drink coffee, read magazines. If I see a book I like, I'll probably buy it on Amazon.
It's similar to the International Mathematical Olympiad, but it only has 20 countries from the part of America that speak Spanish or Portuguese + Spain + Portugal. So it's easier than the IMO, but the problems are quite challenging anyway.

There are several gold. silver and bronze medals awarded each year. There is a complete list of the results of last year here: http://oc.uan.edu.co/component/k2/itemlist/category/62-olimp... Autotranslation: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&js=y&prev...
considering the $14 million dollars Barnes and Noble executives have siphoned off already

I don't know, $14mm for the executive team of a company with tens of thousands of employees and 600+ stores doesn't seem crazy to me. Maybe you think that smart, capable, experienced executives grow on trees, but you're wrong. And what smart, capable, experienced executive would ever want to take this job when they probably have much better options with companies who aren't dying?

Would you want to go be lead developer on the Nook team right now, knowing that you probably won't have a job for long, that your equity will be declining in value, that it'll be miserable unless you can miraculously figure out a way to turn things around? Would it be unreasonable for you to only be interested in doing that if you were getting paid very well?
I meant I won't manage calendars with my own domains. I'll be using a personal Gmail account to manage my calendars and contacts. But no critical emails will pass through Gmail and no financial or similar accounts will be tied to it.
Deletion of BACE1 enzyme reverses Alzheimer's disease in mice
Must depend on where you are, unless you’re making a broader point about their awfulness.
I have, but the comments I read were from the AMP lead, who I assume has fully drunk the Kool aid since they probably signed up for that job. I'm more curious about his/her team members. Google hires smart people. I assume they are free thinkers.

Edit: I'm pretty vocal in those old threads calling out AMP as a walled garden play, FWIW. I remember AOL's early days.
I likes this article. This point, though, seemed off:

I would double-down on what we can offer that Amazon can’t: enthusiastic staff that can find and upsell books...

But it's already been proven, sort of, that this isn't what people want, at least in sufficiently large numbers. That kind of underscores the difficulty of recovering this franchise.
Property-based testing seems to be an interesting idea and fairly easy to trial and then recommend to my teammates. The js library I stumbled upon even has TypeScript support and plays nicely with mocha, both of which are directly relevant to my work (https://github.com/jsverify/jsverify)!
It's destructive, and Amazon can get away with being a crap book store now. I've ordered many thousands of dollars worth of computing books from them over the years. In the past six months, and especially the past couple months, "new" books come with massive creases, scuffs, and dents. Or a bad print with hard-to-read text. A copy you'd never buy in person, or B&N would knock something off the price because of the damage. When you paid $80+ for the book, it sucks.

I haven't been returning the books for two reasons: When you get ten books in the mail and eight of them are damaged, and some of them are immediately useful, are you really going to go through Amazon's return process for all of them, photograph each one, package, ship, etc.? Second, I just know that if I do this, it will contribute to some poor schmuck losing his job at a fulfillment center, or some LAZR driver getting taken off their route, because DATA-DRIVEN.

Now I just order used books, sadly most of the vendors are on Amazon so I can't really take my business elsewhere. At least I don't feel quite as ripped off when my "Like New" book arrives in "Good" condition. Even sweeter, those vendors don't sit on my order for a week for funsies like Amazon does if you resist their PRIME offering.

Has anybody else been receiving damaged "new" books from Amazon lately?
Maybe, but it seems a weird argument to make during record low unemployment. Yes, I'm aware of labor force participation rates, and that the pay for many of these jobs is too low, AI is predicted to destroy jobs, etc, but that's not what we're talking about, right?

Amazon employs way more people than B&N, the company they put out of business. Maybe those jobs should be better (OK, they definitely should), but that's different from saying there are no jobs, isn't it?
That may be true, but the Cocoa version was still better in terms of performance and usability.
Safety is exactly one of the reasons why you'd want the complexity of software laid bare out in the open, rather than hidden as a black box of unknown size! Your own comment laments the clarity of two entire levers to control PTO versus an "opaque software stack" - why is it a forgone conclusion that that stack must be opaque?!

To address another objection of yours about unknown modifications, this too is an aspect where openness buttresses safety. Rather than blindly trusting that the software has not been modified (because such methods are unknown to you), the proper way to verify integrity is by being able to compare checksums or reflash, knowing there is no hidden state.
Mathematical Foundations of the GraphBLAS [pdf]
My software development experience lies far outside of the web/mobile app development world, so perhaps this idea already exists...

Similar to how PG and RTM created Viaweb (a web application that allowed non-technical people to build online e-commerce sites), are there any sites/tools which allow non-technical people develop non-trivial retail/online purchasing iPhone/Android apps?
Slack could be a good option, it has group calls and screen share, but my company won't pay for it.
I skipped over those because I think they're totally irrelevant. See the "rearranging deck chairs on Titanic" part of my comment.

Yeah, they could have managed the holiday season better. They could have a better strategy for ecommerce. So what? It doesn't fundamentally change anything. It maybe delays the inevitable for a year or two? But in the end, B&N is almost certainly going out of business.

EDIT: I guess there are two other possibilities:

1. B&N finds another B&M strategy that works beyond just selling books. But it's not clear what, given their financial situation, existing stores, employee base, etc. Either way, lots of layoffs between here and there.

2. They pivot to selling books online solely. This actually seems likely, at least for awhile, because it's a decent brand, and they're already doing this, so this would just mean shutting down all their stores. But all these employees are still losing their jobs in that scenario.
Ironically, Amazon Books stores have big floor area for electronics.
There will be a Chrome extension called “Add view image button” within the next 24 hours.
I can see how the author views this as company mismanagement, but I'd offer a possible counter:

Online is killing retail, full stop. High touch sales models everywhere have lost profitablity due to "showrooming" -- curation and upselling aren't profitable for B&N, and they won't ever be again. To adapt, management needs to move to a lower touch model based on thin margins, web sales, and simpler stores. To do this, they need cash and they need to make staff cuts.

Everything in the article fits perfectly with this course of action.
Sure, that mattered in the 1930s but does it really matter any more?
The Root of the DNS (2017)
False; the syntax before expanding macros is an AST, so is the one after. It's an AST-AST transformation.

In context, this is about producing an AST in a "base" language without all the language extensions the actual user program uses.
He's saying the arguments of the post are irrelevant. Sure they could have hired seasonal workers for the holidays, and maybe had better results, but either way they are doomed.

I haven't bought a book at a retail outlet in probably 10 years. There's just nothing about the retail experience at B&N that's even worth the effort to drive there and park. It's not salvageable.
Yikes - this is bad. Criminalizing embeds (and hyperlinks, it sounds like?) is a swing at the jugular for the Internet.
> you can write memory bugs in Rust, by design

Unless you're talking about unsafe rust, that's wrong. And if you ARE talking about unsafe rust, well you can do the same in Python.

I do agree that python and rust are both "memory-safe" languages. I'm not sure about the other kind of safety rust provides though: thread-safety. That's really where Rust shines: you can write concurrent program and be statically guaranteed to have no data-races. I'm not sure how this transposes in python.
As I understand it, they deposit a layer of oxide on the first layer, pattern it, and preferentially etch in order to allow selective interconnection to the existing layer, then deposit fresh layers of silicon on top to do it all over again.

Chemical vapor deposition or sputtering is how they do deposition. Put wafer in vacuum chamber, suck out all gas, then make the desired compound form by zapping targets or cooking exotic gases like silane.

Sometimes, as with top-end solar cells, they'll even change the material from layer to layer.
> There are still places where callbacks are better)

Like? I am genuinely interested in knowing the drawbacks of promises and places where a callback like structure is more favourable. By the way, I am not contradicting you, just trying to learn.
Even the payments part is addressed in the FAQ link I shared previously [1] and in a separate page about payments. [2]

While I'm sure that we would have to take certain things with a pinch of salt, since Germany is a Fourteen Eyes country, for me this amount of attention is something I haven't seen elsewhere (and not at this price). As I mentioned above, the social responsibility and other factors also heavily influenced me when I did the switch to Posteo.

From the FAQ: [1]

> "How can Posteo be anonymous, when I’m paying by bank transfer or PayPal?

> Credit is always added to your Posteo account anonymously – regardless of whether you pay by bank transfer, PayPal, credit card or in cash. We do not attach the data we receive with payments to the email accounts. We developed our own system for this in 2009, with which all payment processes are anonymised.

> The payment system is the core of our concept of data reduction, above all, because we keep payment information strictly separate from our customers' email accounts, we do not attach any user information to the accounts – and can thereby ensure the fundamentally anonymous use of our email service. You can find out in detail how the anonymisation of payment processes occurs at Posteo on our payment info page."

[1]: https://posteo.de/en/site/faq

[2]: https://posteo.de/en/site/payment
Browser extension that restores functionality by end of the week?

(At least Bing has really good image search.)
> Maybe, but it seems a weird argument to make during record low unemployment. Yes, I'm aware of labor force participation rates, and that the pay for many of these jobs is too low, AI is predicted to destroy jobs, etc, but that's not what we're talking about, right?

Admittedly, I'm driving the conversation towards a general problem from this specific example. But I think that even if I accept the premise that right now, things are OK, we still need to prepare for the future that's coming. Automation is coming for truck and taxi drivers, for restaurant workers, for the last remaining factory jobs. It's even coming for relatively skilled workers in some fields. It's not directly what this post is talking about, but it's the context in which this post takes place, and we shouldn't avoid it.

> Amazon employs way more people than B&N, the company they put out of business. Maybe those jobs should be better (OK, they definitely should), but that's different from saying there are no jobs, isn't it?

Amazon employs more people than B&N, but B&N is by no means the first or only company they have destroyed, and there are more to come. And as soon as Amazon can make the same amount of money while employing fewer people, they will do so. Every company does. The cycle repeats, only this time more people lose and fewer people gain.
This is making me sick. Seriously horrible.
I'm watching an AI agent right now learn to play Texas Hold'em and after 75,000 hands, starting with zero knowledge, it plays about as well as some of my friends.

What should I try to teach it next?
Fraud allegations shake Ola; company HR and admin head being investigated
Well, the deckchairs could be rearranged on the titanic to make room for the women and children getting on lifeboats.

In American Capitalism, we prefer arrange them into a large pile for the captain to climb up on top of so he direct the drowning of the women and children as he waits for the private helicopter to warm up.
Because a lay person is basically completely unwilling to use Linux? If I tried to set my mom up on Ubuntu she’d just go buy a new computer and not tell me.

It’s really easy to get all sanctimonious about free software, but 99% of the population doesn’t even know what Linux is.
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Not sure I got what your rhetorical question is about. You don't have to provide any first name or last name or a real name. I've also linked to the FAQ and the payments explanation in another comment above, which go into more detail about what information they avoid collecting, storing and processing.
Smart people with mortgages at valley rates seem to get a lot less smart when they are looking at their own contributions.
Yea I'd assume being the top of anything when ranked against the population of a set of countries is pretty amazing. It's funny that not even (quite literally) the best of the best can obtain any leeway from colleges.
A monad is most simply described as the quantum superposition of the state of being (or not being) a burrito.
This article also explains TFA's confusion about not finding examples of 'lede' earlier.

The variant spelling was an old practice, well-known to Safire & the other "old hands of journalism" mentioned (such as Herb Caen), as inside-jargon – but its initial practical value came from its distinction from the 'common spellings' for similar concepts.

But Safire writes about it, in 1990, because just around then it's starting to sneak out into wider usage. Safire concludes his reporting and wordplay-around-the-word with:

But [lede] has earned its place as a variant spelling, soon to overtake the original spelling for the beginning of a news article. That's lexicographic news, but I have learned never to put the story in the lede.
Every Walmart I've been to they're shuffling people out at pretty impressive speeds.
It means things don't usually get better until you admit they're not as good as they can be.
Yeah, I can't eat anything that smart, like this or an octopus.
Parent post may be referring to the infamous Pirate Bay, from which you can obtain links to torrents of textbooks. Another source is Library Genesis, which is a russion site hosting many technical books - the URL changes sometimes, but a quick search should help you find it. For journal articles, check Sci-Hub. Happy reading!
Whenever I have ordered online from BN the shipping has taken a ridiculously long time, as in weeks not days. I'm not a huge fan of Amazon so if BN had at least been able to do 2-3 day shipping they would have had my business. Regarding their retail experience, it wouldn't surprise me if some executive is selling them on the concept of long checkout lines as it results in people buying more books from the discount tables at the front. It is very unfortunate that corporate dictates operational policy to individual stores like that, I have always only had positive experiences with BN employees so I wish them well.
> Now, it's definitely sad when people lose their jobs, but that's kind of the devil's bargain we've made with capitalism.

It's not so much a "bargain" as it is how we discover which jobs are useful. Capitalism is very efficient at exposing useless labor, and this is a good thing. Having a bunch of humans laboring at jobs no one needs or wants is wasteful.
Former Goldman Sachs Exec Named to Slack’s Board of Directors
They'd probably be better off finding an executive who works for 100k/yr but believes in the company.
You don't think there is space in the United States' market for even a single major brick-and-mortar retailer of books? I find that pretty hard to believe.
It makes a lot of sense, and though what I say may sound a bit ridiculous, I don't think most people are capable of making such decisions. They'd rather have some mindless entertainment than moving stuff (we already know this from what's shared on social media, and how TV news and reality shows thrive).
Everything Starts with the Who
What happened to the word burning? We don't use it anymore?
Total agreement on that point.
> L.A. is also less out of touch and it's a better place to connect with the rest of the country.

Never thought I'd ever hear that coming from anyone, much less Peter Thiel.
I think this will lead people to search for better alternatives. Removing the core part of a major product won't do any good to google.
The view page button is often broken and shows a page which doesn't even contain the searched image.
Honestly, I think Promises with async/await and try/catch are good enough for a lot of use cases. Certainly lightyears ahead of callback hell.

IMO the next big thing will be Observables.
SPCAI: 2018-02 Speedbump 19m
Why not just use Markov chains to generate nonsensical though realistic text of words that really tend to occur near each other?
we still need to prepare for the future that's coming

I disagree, honestly. Not because I don't think all the things you're saying will happen will happen, but because of all the things that are also going to happen that we're not talking about, because we don't know what they are. Yes, tons of jobs are going away (although I think it'll be 10-20 years for most of these, not 3-5 years like many seem to think), but what new sectors, opportunities, jobs, etc. will be created? I'm an optimist, so I genuinely think we'll adjust and adapt. I think we'll end up with most people doing jobs that don't exist today.

I could be wrong though.

However, no one knows the future, and the prediction that tech will destroy more jobs than it creates has been made since the start of the industrial revolution. So you basically have to fall back on the claim that "this time it's different". Which has also been made repeatedly during that time period :)

But honestly, at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter whether we should prepare or not, because we won't. Not in America at least.

There is no chance in hell that our political system will get its act together in the next two decades to get ahead of this problem and put policies in place for a bad situation that's coming but hasn't arrived yet. Look at all the problems that we know are problems because we're already living through them that we won't even fix now. We just put patches in place (maybe) and keep kicking the can down the road. Seriously, if half the jobs in America get destroyed in the next 20 years, it'll take us 40 years (or violent revolution) to address it.
In context, the article says exactly this What’s this intermediate syntax tree? It’s an almost entirely superficial understanding of your program: it basically does paren-matching to create a tree representing the surface nesting structure of the text. This is nowhere near an AST, but it’s just enough for the macro expansion system to do its job..

That is completely false. If the code happens not to use any macros, they are the same. One is exactly as "superficial" as the other.

Macros write code in the same language that the human user; they use other macros and even recursively themselves sometimes.
vim, and I still love it.

I'm considering writing my own native desktop app that has the keyboard shorcuts of vim that I use, but I'd be able to customize it more.. maybe a 3d world where my open files are like mine craft blocks.. and my build process is like a river.

Who would use it?
Heroku Opensources Oclif: Open CLI Framework
I've found these distributed companies are only interested in considering candidates who have 'remote' work experience.

Another of life's little Catch-22s I suppose.
It isn't me you have to contend with, it's math, and the real world data on the correlation between wealth and happiness. Your right wing strawmen aren't going to be of much use there, I'm afraid.
Autocad/inventor->OpenScad/FreeCad

I'm sorry, but that is a complete joke. The distance between gimp and photoshop or darkroom and lightroom is tiny compared to the distance between even base autocad and the open source alternatives. And that's before we start talking about autocad variants like Civil3d and all the third party tools that are built on top of autocad.
That doesn't seem to work either. If you right click and copy image address / open in new tab, the website opens and not the image itself.
Calibre is fantastic, and open source too! It's primary a library management system with all the features you could ask for, but there are also open source plugins to remove DRM that make it a go-to for creating libre libraries.
Yeah. Sharp edges are all the more better for cutting, it seems.
Actually, competitive esports players consistently play at a higher refresh rate than what is displayed (CS:GO in particular).... the main reason is that the computer is computes the inputs at the framerate, regardless of whats shown on screen.

This leads to a more responsive and fluid response to your input commands... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjWSRTYV8e0
You got a good laugh out of me after reading through a little bit of the vocabulary. And the tongue in cheek humor is the cherry on top.