skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to me that there’s some middle area where the person doesn’t understand Bay Area culture but they’re not being rude or hot headed, and yet their genuine questions get downvoted.

I do think there’s some kind of “you can’t discuss that” attitudes on here about certain topics. Diversity stuff is an area I can imagine reasonable and even good comments getting downvoted. Sadly I don’t have any sources, but this is my intuition after reading HN regularly.
Scala / Play Framework does in fact have an out of the box solution for this:
https://www.playframework.com/documentation/1.2.2/crud

Edit: This was removed in Play Framework 2
Google Translate only works if you can provide lots of training data.

If the language dies before a substantial amount is written down, the training data will never exist.
> So now I have to worry about counterfeit pills showing up from Amazon?

No, because that would land them straight in jail.
This is not a useful data point, because there is a much larger set that this doesn't meaningfully contribute to.
HN and other "distributed moderation" sites tend to quell any discussion that a fraction of the userbase strongly dislikes. Most people don't vote on most comments, so highly motivated people have more say on a particular topic. In some cases, this is a correction mechanism, such as when people with physics education downvote the proponents of fringe theories; in other cases, it may hide useful information, such as in a debate about morality or a similar less certain topic that people acquire strong opinions about without having such high confidence.

However, I find it hard to justify calling this "censorship" because it is the site working as intended. Controversial topics are avoided because the goal of the site is ultimately recreational. There are many things you can't discuss on HN because the userbase just isn't interested, but nobody would argue that HN censors discussions of, say, the hardcore music scene in the Bay Area.
It's not enough money to live OP's lifestyle in the bay area. SLC was given as just one example of a city where it is.
Captain Bezos takes us one step closer...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-kdRdzxdZQ
By the way, it's stupid that we still can't have user-defined emoticons.

We could have enriched our online culture with a flourishing set of shared emoticons by now!
Unpopular opinion on HN: I prefer the new keyboard to the old one. Sure it feels a bit weird the first week, but after 8 months typing with it, I can tell you I won’t go back to the old one.

And yes it breaks too easily. And the touchbar is useless. But I like the keaboard.
Nice write up. I love reading these kinds of postmortems.

Unlike a lot of those I read, it sounds like you actually set out with a good set of requirements and really understood the problem.

I had a good experience using Prometheus as well for a smaller project (server monitoring). It’s interesting to know that it can handle so many metrics and scale so well to more complex problem areas.
Absolutely! Some time ago, Amazon began mixing their inventory with FBA (fulfilled by Amazon) inventory. I've purchased books and small electronics from Amazon (sold & shipped by Amazon) that turn out to be counterfeit.
Do you know which episode this was?
There's absolutely zero chance prescription meds will go through the same "just send us stuff and we'll throw them in a big shared bucket" process regular items do.
The target market is dominated by seniors, who no longer have to drive to a local pharmacy and hang around the store while waiting for the subscription to be fulfilled. I am frankly surprised no dominant online player has emerged yet. Perhaps the shipping costs were a constraint?
waste of lifetime... get a proper os.
With regards to 1) the two are basically synonymous.

communist country == dictatorship

(with the possible exception of Uruguay and Nepal)
Yeah, I switched and am pretty happy.
Yes, but they have absolutely no experience in this marketspace. It's fundamentally very tricky from a fraud perspective -- you have customers using various kinds of reversible payment systems (credit cards, ACH / SEPA bank transfers) to purchase assets that can be irreversibly sent elsewhere. It's also very customer-support heavy, and as another commenter mentioned, these companies may be loath to onboard the large numbers of support staff required.
Would you assume I'm right-wing if I do not use politically correct terminology? Will slowing down change my world-view or simply the language I use to express it?
You have around 1-2Kg of bacteria in your body right now. The inflatable bubble won't help you. You'll also probably die if you kill all of these bacteria as some of them are co-living with you.
I use lens cleaner on occasion. If it's good enough for a telescope lens or my glasses, I'm confident in it working for my monitor.

That and/or Kimwipes. Those things are magic.

https://www.staples.com/kimwipes/directory_kimwipes

edit: Dammit. In Canada I can never find them not in bulk, though.
I had wondered that.

Disclaimer, I'm long SQ.

If you're following AMZN, SQ, or PYPL, you probably saw the headlines back in April:

Amazon's Next Mission: Using Alexa to Help You Pay Friends

Firm looks to make voice commands the next wave of commerce

SQ and PYPL took a small dive on this news, even though at face value, its quite silly. Amazon would probably have a much better time trying to buy PayPal for Venmo or Square for Cash App but also to compete in the small-biz transaction field that Amazon tried and gave up on. Building out such a service based on Alexa users is wacky, and there doesn't seem to be a pressing need to let loose your wallet via voice.

Personally, I think it's somewhat unlikely that AMZN would acquire PYPL due to a clash of cultures when it comes to customer service. (Amazon's: Very good. PayPal's: Legendarily evil). This reputation may also be the reason PayPal has kept their own name off of their Venmo acquisition product until very recently. I think there is a very slight chance that AMZN would try to acquire SQ. It would allow them to really break into small-vendor retail where they have failed with homegrown solutions before, and give them instant access to a growing P2P transaction market. Everybody loves to speculate about such acquisitions, though.

...But it would certainly be funny if the only reason Amazon made that press release was to butter up one of those two companies for acquisition, either by decreasing their share value or exerting pressure on them internally to agree to a deal before they face Amazon's competition.
This does look like a death blow from multiple angles for ES.

I think ES does provide a service that people want regardless if it hurts Pharmacies and it doesn't hurt consumers if they want to pay for the service; but maybe it affects drug prices in other ways?

If the Cigna deal fails to go through they both owe some billions, coupled with Amazon in their space, ES looks doomed.
"…Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos says he was trolling members of the media when he said he couldn’t wait for “vigilante squads” to attack journalists. ..."
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/milo-yiannopoulos-wa...

"After meeting with North Korean dictator, Trump calls press America's 'biggest enemy'"
http://money.cnn.com/2018/06/13/media/trump-tweet-media/inde...
"language constructs a way of thinking" -- I wonder to what degree this determines things like a country having little prospect of economic success.
You're right that there's no science in David Mitchell's argument, but I'm not seeing any science here proving that "more bacteria on your phone is bad for you".
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No standard home construction even with brick - can withstand powerful tornadoes. Even if the walls withstand weaker tornadoes the roof will most likely not and it will probably result in a complete loss anyway.

You would need very thick reinforced concrete to be sure of surviving most tornadoes. And you'd have to solve the roof problem.

You are severely underestimating the power of tornadoes.
Sure, and that's a troubling change. But I would rather have debate involve facts rather than hyperbole and appeal to emotion. As far as I know China still has elections every 5 years. There are plenty of real facts about China that are concerning. Let's focus on those rather than invented ones.
This 100% happens.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/style/2014/11/26/how-miria...
When this^ woman was murdered, I attempted to post on Facebook: "I bet this woman was not a terrorist." to which I was told the attempt failed.
After troubleshooting, such as trying again or posting something else, I felt very deceived.
That preliminary phone interview will also help you to establish your credibility and expertise before they get a look at you. In case you aren't a young white or Asian man.
Seems totally doable in Chicago.
As an aside, Etsy has really more hurt themselves. There is a conversation upthread about counterfeits on Amazon — Etsys problem is the flood of generic Chinese goods on sale as “handmade”.
I see now that we've been talking about "touch screens" in this thread, but I've been thinking of that as meaning the multi-touch screens we're all so familiar with now (and of which the Microsoft Surface was the first demo I saw). It looks like the Prada had a capacitive screen, but not multi-touch. Maybe multi-touch was the thing, which is why the Prada was forgotten? Maybe not, maybe the iPhone just won by marketing and deals with carriers. Beats me.

In any case, I'm quibbling, I didn't know about the Prada before you mentioned it, which makes your point. Thanks for the pointer!
I think that’s the wrong question to imply. What it is is an illustration of how big media behaves due to its own implicit ad well as explicit biases. Of course HN isn’t mainstream, but it also experiences some of the same symptoms.
Do you have an example of one? I'm curious what features they provide over ad hoc memoization mechanics.
There is more to life than the bottom line. Your conception of life as some sort of great march to technotopia (or whatever variant) is just one viewpoint among many.
SLC is not a nice, dense urban city in the way that Berlin is. It thus would not provide OP's lifestyle at any level of income.

It is disingenuous to equate the two.
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I find SQL queries (select, insert, delete...) to be fairly friendly. It's kind of like semi-broken English where you fill in the blanks. My first programming language was Python, and SQL queries weren't a big deal, once I knew how to order the clauses.

Though, once you get into more advanced things like stored procedures and triggers, SQL becomes a little hostile.
You can explain Apple’s problems with a much simpler albeit banal reason: its sheer size. It has grown massive.

They took over the old Sun campus in Sunnyvale while the UFO was under construction, and shortly thereafter the word was that those teams would be remaining there long term as the HQ was already overbooked. Apple also bought up a lot of space in San Jose a couple of years ago.

Apple pioneered small and fast teams of veterans. But it doesn’t scale well to this size. It’s a challenge to effectively coordinate hundreds (thousands?) of teams building various integrated hardware, software, and service components.
https://pmags.com/talus-vs-scree-what-is-the-difference
Yes. This is the essential flaw in utopianism. Utopias always feature a foundational philosophy, an aesthetic as you describe it, and it has yet to be demonstrated that there exists any non-trivial example which everyone could agree is the "best."
IBM Builds the World’s Largest Facial Image Dataset to Battle Bias in AI
Maybe you take internet points entirely too seriously. If you find that getting downvoted has emotionally wounded you, I recommend abandoning all your accounts and creating new ones with zero karma (presumably much less than your old ones.) This will teach you to disassociate internet points from your sense of self-worth.
But not a custom icon as part of an attack ad calling one of the candidates a criminal. There is a subtle difference.
It wasn't directed at your post, sorry. It's the rate-limit response HN gives - users who are "slow-banned" see it on posting more than 1 post every 5 minutes. Another form of censorship, as others can post when you cannot.

As to your specific points:

> Would you assume I'm right-wing if I do not use politically correct terminology?

Frankly, yes. Politically correct speech appears to be today's shibboleth[0].

> Will slowing down change my world-view or simply the language I use to express it?

Slowing down a poster will reduce their ability to express their viewpoint, diluting it among other posters.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth
I'm with you man. I walked into an Apple Store and tried the keyboard and said 'no go' but later I said I'd give it a try and it is just fine. Macbook for two years now.
The post is there, just flagged. Had plenty of (mostly terrible) discussion.
> I can already get my pharmacy prescriptions from mail order fulfillment houses...

Having just spent two weeks calling daily to get my daughter's specialty medication sorted out, I'm all for Amazon's customer service approach entering this space.

When Amazon promises a resolution/callback, I trust it. Express Scripts promised me callbacks not once, not twice, but four separate times without ever making one.
And who could forget the Fire Phone debacle?
Offline map (osmand~), i bookmark places I visit
I make sure I ask the patron's name (and to write a note about it in my bookmark), comes in useful if I happen to visit the place another time
I don’t believe that for one moment. It’d end with a fine and a scapegoat getting fired. Is Elizabeth Holmes in jail?
oh and also we did an interview with the DevOps lead for both source control and build system around Windows, so check that out too if you want: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsXiKLLaH4M
Neanderthal vs. ND4J – Vol 2 – The Same Native MKL Back End, 1000 X Speedup
> advancements in art

I don't think art is a linear progression.

> It might be a sensitive topic

You're telling people of non-dominant cultures that their art and "artisanal trinkets" are, at best, a worthless waist of time.
Pet peeve: people who actually touch their smartphone to their face when calling rather than just hovering near their ear. The layer of grease on the glass afterwords is absolutely disgusting, and on exactly the area that you touch with your fingers every two seconds. Why would anyone do this!?
>But it doesn't compose with shift for selection.

Yes it does. Ctrl+Shift+E selects the text up to the end of the line.
If those cities are perfectly reasonable places to live, but Berlin is where you want to live, then you should write an article with a premise that reflects how you feel that American cities cannot compete with Berlin.

I'm going to repeat myself one more time because you seem to be missing my point: I am saying the premise is flawed. I am not comparing Miami to Berlin, I am saying that the author is insisting on certain prerequisites and then saying that his family can't afford to live in AMERICA at all.

If you can't agree that this is disingenuous then we are going to have to agree to disagree.
Conservatives do seem to see themselves as people who don’t get offended.

I wonder what causes that.

There seems to be an idea that the things that offend them are, like, “naturally” abhorrent, so it’s not offense so much as, like... digust in satanic things, virtue in “common sense”, etc. There’s a whole language to talk about things that carefully avoids the concept of “being offended”.
TL;DR musl attempts to query every resolver in parallel. This can cause problems if:

- If your resolvers are VIPs for the same process or machine, you can triple you DNS load and overload some crappy DNS dispatchers

- If you try to use multiple resolvers that resolve the same names with different records, you can kind of make it work with glibc but you will have severe problems with musl. This is a bad idea in the first place though
I think you misread that post. He was quoting HN's forced cooldown that's imposed if the system thinks you're in some sort of heated flamewar. I assume he means to suggest this is a form of soft censorship tied into the internet points system (which is to say, it seems like he's agreeing with you.)
The downtime would be for a network connection failure and not because your 'fearless' NoSQL container didn't work as expected. If a transient networking problem like this is a big deal for you, you can easily add either more nodes or move the node to a place with more reliable networking.
The Signals of Reassurance
Same boat here as well. Three of my keys continuously either don't register or register multiple times. Took it in to an Apple store and they fixed one (for a short amount of time) and quoted $800 in repairs (and 5-7 day turnaround) for the other two (to "replace the laptop frame"). Replacing a keyboard (or even just keys) should not be this hard.
True, maybe shipping was a constraint. can any random guy ship drugs ? isn't some special supply chain required ?

Another guess is that changing habits(especially since buying drugs is an infrequent event, and that we're dealing with seniors) and creating trust we're other reasons.
this happens all the time. wall street makes money from stocks going up and down, they are designed to react to anything by sending stocks up or down.
you can confidently buy some CVS Walgreens stock because I bet that stock is climbing back up within weeks
Since it goes outside the current media narrative it is ignored.
>you should always know at least one level below the framework you are using

I run into this problem whenever I'm interviewing for devs on my team. As a java shop, we usually get people who come in and claim to be proficient in Spring, but when I start asking them questions about the underlying technologies they blank.

My favorite weed-out question when I'm worried someone is too tied to a framework (especially when its one that isn't actively in use on a project) is to ask them to give me some examples of the limitations of it. To me, being able to recognize the things your favorite framework is not able to solve effectively is the best indicator that you aren't using it as a crutch.
Downvotes aren't 'censorship'.
Some sample videos would be nice, preferably 4K (both Firefox and Chrome support it via flags)

Update: I have found some YouTube videos serve AV1 when using Chrome Canary with AV1 flag set. To check, right click video > Stats for nerds

Haven't found 4K one yet...
Nothing like watching someone eat a juicy, savory burger and then wipe their hands on their pants and continue typing. Something I see way too often.
> Language loss and change is a natural process that’s gone one forever. It’s only because we now have the means to be aware of as well as means to salvage that we even care.

Just because something is doesn't mean it's right. Tooth decay is also a natural process, as is myopia, and cancer.
I don’t know where you read that US users are declining but based on the last earnings call it’s still growing!

Is it growing as fast as other regions? of course not! FB already captures some 80% of the US population...there isn’t much space to grow left! If from now one they loose some users a quarter and regain them the next quarter that is still amazing!
My wife tries to do this. She's not allowed near my Old Macbook Pro (good keyboard one from 2014) after she eats. The PS4 and Roku controllers are totally gross, so I keep alcohol prep pads nearby for those (not on my laptop of course).
Amazon owned part of LivingSocial and also operated Amazon Local. LivingSocial eventually sold to Groupon.
Hell, I thought "full stack" meant all the way down into OS drivers, and ability to debug damn near anything.
You appear to have missed that this thread is discussing a specific person's choice to live in Berlin and not the article.
What to buy instead? My 2015 MBP has been a wonderful machine to work on, and there's no way I'm getting one of these little gray turds. So, I'll be using Ubuntu for my daily driver, which is fine. But that last generation MBP is so nice, what other hardware compares?
It’s what I mean. Losing the TCP session is more or less the only thing I care about with my vpn, ssh, and occasional cifs session. A dead putty window is 98% useless.
The webapp now lets you post things, cant edit as much as you can in the native app but has basic filters etc
The first part of the article:

Neanderthal vs ND4J - vol 1 - Native performance, Java and CPU

https://dragan.rocks/articles/18/Neanderthal-vs-ND4J-vol1

HN discussion related to the first part: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17375306

Neanderthal on GitHub: https://github.com/uncomplicate/neanderthal
Wow! super helpful!
More generally the idea that "language constructs a way of thinking" is called linguistic relativity [1].

I've been interested in the general idea since reading 1984... where language shaping and limiting thought is a central idea. But I'd be curious to know how much scientific support this idea has.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
On that last point, the reduction in toss up counties is largely due to the increased sophistication of (anti-democratic) gerrymandering. Migration is an issue, but a separate issue.
Great post, though this bit stuck out for me:

current_zip = meta.IntegerField(max_length=5, blank=True)

You should not store zip data as an integer as they can start with 0. Zip codes use numbers, but aren't actually numbers themselves (leading zeros, no arithmetic, etc). Plus, someday you'll want to ship something to Canada.
> the price of tuition includes a lot that has nothing to do with education, and a lot of this is stuff people wouldn't pay for if given the choice.

This is a very good point. There are colleges that are quite a bit less expensive, but as a whole the fact you can get a loan for pretty much any amount without needing to justify the return on investment guarantees that colleges will keep increasing their expenses to get students to spend their debt at their school.
China is a country that many of us believe is only capable of copying and not innovating, hence the misconception.

Size doesn't really come into it. If it did, we would expect similar outcomes with with other large countries like India (which is innovative in its own way, but not to the same extent), Indonesia (large market, but little visible innovation), etc.
It's likely they'll integrate on the ecommerce side of things, not on the supply chain side anyhow - the economy of scale that amazon has for shipping will be beneficial.
Pillpack is a very useful service, particularly for people who take multiple medications. You get a little pack with the date printed on it so you never have that "did I take my pills this morning?" question. Their pricing is fine, and delivery is always on-time.

Only problem I've seen is that they often (and I mean OFTEN) forget to apply medication savings cards, which adds up to quite a lot of money. I had to complain about this eight or nine times and ultimately escalated to one of their founders, a guy by the name of Eliot, to get this addressed. However, they may have fixed the problem as they haven't overcharged me so far in 2018.

Prices are set by insurance and shipping is already free so I can't see how Amazon would improve on that. I imagine their margins are razor-thin, but it's pretty clear this sort of service will be how everybody gets their medicine in the next couple of years so the volume makes sense for Amazon.
How Hedge Funds Used E-Commerce Product Data to Predict Fitbit's Stock Price
Being from Europe, this has not been my experience at all. I'd be hard pressed to find anyone who has actually studies Latin.
I don't think it would take long at all for a company the size of Facebook. They already have the core functionality implemented