skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those benefits are regressive which results in the them barely moving the needle for working or middle class families. It goes back to the original comment in this thread that it is implemented in such a way that it has a nearly opposite result to its supposed intended effect.
Just because a problem is hard doesn't mean we should abandon it. Maybe start with limiting the "instruments" available for <del>gambling</del> investing. Get rid of that one that bets on market volatility, for example (although that problem kind of solved itself as the investors in it lost their money).
I learned this from one of the best recruiters in finance. I can't take credit for it.
It depends what you're optimizing for. Sometimes when Walmart's customer satisfaction goes up, their revenues go down. https://web.archive.org/web/20130524132122/http://dailyartif...
I'm mildly surprised no-one has so far drawn the similarity to full-disclosure. Because let's be fair, this practice is full-disclosure.

Of bad practices.

And as we've seen over the past 2+ decades - FD works. Once you draw attention to an insecure system, resources to fix it will be found. (Enough of the time, at least.)
I agree that was what jumped into mind when I read it as well.

I guess it's obvious but -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphic_maxims
In some sense it feels like Amazon is progressing along a similar trajectory as Facebook:

1. Start company with a minimally viable product

2. Hire smart people to iteratively optimize the usefulness of the product to attract as many users as possible. Incentive structure rewards maximizing new users

3. Product reaches "peak usefulness"; seemingly everyone uses it / loves it

4. Re-focus business efforts to maximize revenue (e.g. stuff ads everywhere). Incentive structure now puts greater emphasis on rewarding short-term revenue increases

5. Revenue climbs as usefulness declines; users begin to abandon the product

6. Company continues revenue-maximization strategy because data on user dissatisfaction / abandonment significantly lags behind data showing correlation of "ad-stuffing" with more revenue

7. User abandonment is finally apparent enough that management realizes it should do something; commence back-pedaling efforts to try to "win users back"

Seems like Amazon is approaching step #5 right now. Will be interesting to see how this plays out over another year or so.
I think the point being made is about incurring unwanted technical debt, rather than about the skills of programmers. A macro enthusiast can leave behind a codebase that requires substantial expertise or siloed knowledge to work with.

It's not that you can't trust people to make good decisions or invest in understanding what they're doing. It's that in real life people take shortcuts. Time constraints, deadline pressures, a brief skimming of a StackOverflow answer with no followup or further exploration - any of these can lead to code that does the job, is ignored until only one person is left who understands it, and needs to be parsed out and refactored. I think you can only trust programmers with macros (or functions, or pointers, or object-oriented programming) if you have good practices in place to handle technical debt (clean naming, clean separation of concerns, adequate testing, etc.).

As a side note: the other big part about macros is YAGNI. Macros are fancy, but I've yet to come across a use case for it that can't be replaced with a simple function call. I'm also curious about how one would test a macro.
I didn't want to say anything because I've learned that I'm rarely the norm but I agree with you about same day delivery.

I've ordered stuff from Amazon to Sweden sometimes because their selection is so much bigger and I don't mind waiting several weeks for it to arrive.

Well you should know that we often order from China these days and with zero shipping cost it might take a month to arrive.

Doesn't matter, I'll wait.

But something tells me this attitude is far from the norm among people.
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> you don't think people exchanging goods and services using money as an intermediate exchange (aka capitalism)

That isn't capitalism, you just described a market. Markets existed for thousands of years before capitalism was created.
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Yup, you’re burnt out. Happens.
First thing, take care of yourself. Take a break. Work outside tech for a bit. Work in anything that keeps you occupied and around people.
You’ve built companies and learnt things. You can do it again. You just need to not think about try for a bit.
And spend more time with family. Keep yourself grounded.
You’ll be back.
It's at least a neat coincidence, and maybe something more.
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I would suspect you get downvoted because you imply that it's mostly "older white men" who are deranged. Is Rodrigo Duterte a white man? Is Prayut Chan-o-cha a white man? In fact, it seems that most of the countries where it's legal in one form or another are lead by white men. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_cannabis
Maybe this is another lie my teacher told me, but is the US now responsible for Syrian Civil War?
for the Netherlands, check out tweakers.net[1] for your computer parts (they have an extensive price guide that will show you which webshop has the best prices and delivery speed). If you need them in a pinch, MediaMarkt/Saturn usually has what you need at a premium.

for living room furniture... Most of it is from IKEA

[1]: https://tweakers.net/pricewatch/#highlightCat:14
> This exploit is different than the one the FBI used on the child porn site though

I was wondering if this was related to the Playpen case. I thought the FBI refused to release any information on that (and subsequently charged were dropped against several of the people they arrested).

Who has discovered with was the Tor Brower's socks5 setting?
Yes, that was a careless mis editing on my part. Thank you for highlighting it.

What I meant to say was that yes, you had more room in a 747, but overall passenger flight safety these days is amazingly high in an absolute sense and a massive improvement over flight safety of the 60s and 70s.
"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently." -Warren Buffett
Right, but when I say 'base state' I'm referring to the big-bang of humanity. Those world powers that were able to impose their will evolved out of the same 'base state' as those who had that will imposed upon them. That is to say, Western imperialist powers weren't extraterrestrials that came from other worlds to spread capitalism (although it may have seemed that way to the colonized).

I guess ultimately what I'm trying to say is that the anarchist experiment has been run (and, as you say, had been the norm for plenty of time), yet here we are. And if we were to run the experiment again, after a sufficient amount of time, I think here we'd be again.

Though, I'm curious as to how you think advancing technology would navigate around the issues of humans generally coalescing into a government-ruled state.
FYI the authors of this book are authors of the "forecast" R package (used in the book, but also popular in general)

https://github.com/robjhyndman/forecast
> Causality can't run from vet school being expensive to veterinary practices being profitable.

Yes, it can: expense of getting into the field limits competition.

Now, long-term steady-state eventually the market should adjust so that the people are willing to pay the up front cost because of the actual rewards, but real meaningful effects are often not long-run steady-state effects.
A similar thing is happening with auto loans. There's a ton of bad car debt out there, and easy credit has inflated car prices and (I believe) helped disincentivize auto makers from building cars that are actually affordable. There's no market for simple and cheap if you can get something nicer on credit and not look poor.

There's a reason the Dodge Journey retails for 4k+ off msrp. With the inflated mspr they can get the bank to write a bigger loan. That way you can buy a journey at a "discount" with room to roll your existing bad loan into a new, even worse one.
Ask HN: What sources of tech product reviews do you trust?
I'm in the market for a new widescreen monitor, but find myself distrustful of anything I come across organically.

Between rampant review gaming and sponsored content, Amazon doesn't feel like a viable place to discover quality products anymore. A Google search for "best widescreen monitor", amid similarly problematic ads, returns listings from niche websites like "TrustedMonitorSales.com" that are clearly just paid articles and SEO-optimized listings of referral links. I trust news sources that I respect (eg Ars Technica) to deliver unbiased reviews, but they don't review all tech products I'd be looking to buy.

So when searching for new technology, what methodologies do you guys follow / what review sites do you trust to give you honest, informed reviews of products? Are there any review websites that you still consider trustworthy in the face of unrelenting and creative pressure from advertisers?

PS: I also trust the HN community to give honest reviews on this (mostly because it'd be inefficient for a monitor company to peruse HN for questions asking about monitor purchases) so if anyone has a widescreen monitor they love for coding/gaming, let me know.
Why does the accounts system have to use that mainframe?
Have mercy, Think of the infants skulls!
I know procedural macros are different in how they work and more flexible, but the problem remains the same: you can't really look at any macro definition and go i know how to use this.

A vector of tokens is not the syntax a programmer can parse without the grammar definition that the macro implements. It's still foreign unless it is well-written to match existing language constructs.
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That won’t really help in general because you can go try to sign up with an email address. It has to tell you if the address is already taken or not.
Higher class than Walmart... yes. That's the whole point of the comment.
I think the problem is precisely that society is being squeezed to the point that many people's support networks are breaking down, forcing them into moving to keep up with labor demand, for the sake of keeping labor supply cheep and powerless in the market. We are being offered a perverse choice at the outset, and being resistant to that coercive influence is the form that privilege takes. For the modestly privileged it's a difficult choice, and for the very privileged it's an easy choice.

> Except for the long period of paid maternity leave, there's no reason someone in the US couldn't have what the Italian woman has. I know several parents that live close to their extended family and get help watching and raising their kids all the time.

This is the part about which we disagree. You are generalizing from several people you know to say there is no reason someone else can't do it. The reason is that not everyone is lucky enough to know the kind of people you do. When you say "someone" it sounds like you really mean just yourself.
My favorite book on customer development is "The Mom Test"[0], by a YCombinator alum. The name is terrible, but the content of that book is golden. He tells the terrifying story of talking to customers constantly as they wasted a million dollars building something the customers were not going to buy. There are various ways the customer pays you before the product is ready, and if they aren't paying you, they aren't really interested. Payment can be in the form of time (they meet with you), personal reputation (they recommend you to friends), company reputation (they arrange a meeting with their boss, or coworkers), etc.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Mom-Test-customers-business-everyone-...
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Now that's an interesting idea. I wonder if it could work in practice? If (a) fraud is obvious enough to invite this; (b) most fraud as such; and (c) the long-term downside to fraud is way worse than the upside?
Geospatial for BigQuery just went Beta:

https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/gis-intro
We ask people to pair-program with an interviewer on a realistic task. No tricks, no brainteasers. We just get to see how people do the job we want them to do.
That isn't what the parent said:

> Detect when the customer is tired or stressed and show higher prices. Detect price conscious customers and show them lower prices.

Has nothing to do with supply and demand.
Oh, I thought you were talking about the issues as a macro writer. Now that I reread it, I think you're talking about as a macro consumer. Is that right?
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That's what you get for accepting rich kids from corrupt families of the most corrupt countries. Donated farm land from Russia, Ukraine & Brazil? Murky titles and legal fights? I'd be shocked if this was not donated by some corrupt government official.

"Students, alumni, and environmentalists are targeting U.S. university endowments, saying their investing practices are often out of synch with schools’ professed values."

The endowments are obtained mostly by Harvard alumni, this means that the schools professed values ARE exactly in sync with its endowments.
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Maybe there's a slight chance that they just want to undermine Tor and make people question its security.

But honestly, the parent's idea seems quite likely.
You're kidding, right? There is an unsealed speaking indictment from the Department of Justice [1] that details the GRU hacking operation that released the DNC emails.

[1] https://www.justice.gov/file/1080281/download
What about ATV? Seems like those guys have plenty of ham spectrum bandwidth...
What law did the government pass that forced the banks to ignore their risk assessment processes? Particularly, supposing you can point to some law or intervention, why do you suppose the banks are so childish and naive that when a law forces them to do one thing they don't want to do (make dumb loans to low-income groups), they'll respond by over-generalising and doing a whole other bunch of things they hadn't up to that point wanted to do (make dumb loans to middle- and high-income groups).
Try searching "airpods" (a registered trademark of Apple) and you won't find a legitimate Apple product until the third page. Even if you search "Apple airpods", the first page is filled with knockoffs of the product I'm clearly intending to purchase.

In frustration I simply walked to an Apple store and learned they price-match Best Buy and Walmart (not Amazon) with up to a 10% discount - I found the Amazon price on walmart.com from my phone and successfully gave myself free same-hour delivery.
Its criminalization is seen by conservatives as fighting back against what the counter-culture of the 60s unleashed.

When the basis of objection is largely emotional facts aren't all that helpful.
There are millions of SKUs. On any popular search result there are hundreds if not thousands of SKUs, not all of which are of equal quality. The organic search results (and partially the paid ones) already rank things and will often swap spots frequently during any 24 hour period if they're otherwise close to even in relevance.
FDIC insurance. A private insurance market for bank accounts sends a price signal about reliability. Subsidizing that insurance in a way that doesn't eliminate the price signal and the customer risk, like requiring 20% private insurance for 90% of the account face value and the govt providing the remaining 80% insurance at the same price or at a discount, could make sense if insuring more accounts was a policy goal. Having the government ensure everything for free with no internal price differentiation just tells banks they might as well go wild.
> My Prime membership expires in a couple months time, and this time I'm not renewing it, after being a member for several years.

Like many other in this thread - I have already canceled my prime membership for the first time since 2004.
In Belgium and the Netherlands, bol.com is the biggest one. Question is of course if they can keep their market share.
Can you really call TOR a tool to "protect users from government oppression" when the project itself is majority-funded by the US Department of Defense?
Ok, this is some seriously dystopian stuff. One can hope this is being blown out of proportion by the BBC, but its hard not to see this as a solid reason to think long and hard about technological choices that facilitate real time evaluation of peoples societal "value."
Great. Now I'll be able to use up my monthly data in 2 minutes instead of 10 minutes.

Edit: I don't mean to poo-poo the advance of tech, but this really highlights the disconnect between what's possible and what consumers actually want/value.
But if someone adds a <script> element to some template in your CMS and it doesn't get filtered out...

It would be nice if browsers implemented an <endscript> tag and refuse to parse anything below it as a script. It would raise the bar on injection attacks for very little additional complexity. Slightly troublesome in that all of your buttons and similar would have to just call already defined functions (no inline code), but that's a reasonable tradeoff I think.
It would not have to be retroactive. I don't believe that there weren't existing laws violated that could have been pursued. For instance, there's a documentary called "Small Enough To Jail" about Abacus bank - a small family run bank that was the only one to be prosecuted for mortgage fraud due to NINJA loans, although practically every bank was doing this at the time. That's just one example.
An unstated problem of trying to gauge customer (or prospective customer experience) is orthogonal to this article: people are very reluctant to tell you to your face that your baby's ugly.

I have had the experience of launching a product where people gave the idea rave reviews, were willing to pilot it (and the pilots met their success criteria) but garnered almost no sales. The fact was though it addressed what CxOs claimed was one of their top 3 problems, they just didn't want to do what was necessary to actually deal with it. (I think if we had actually had the problem ourselves we would have known this).
It's my experience that at some organizations, there is effectively no learning anything new beyond the hiring date from any outside source. They may hold very general training for uselessly shallow/fad stuff like "how to be an innovator" or "what the cloud means for our business" but those are generally not substantive efforts to improve the effectiveness of employees. They often set no goals and have no consequences for anyone. They're check boxes/busy work for upper management.
One other, and somehow more troubling alternative to safing money, could that Amazon's homegrown warehouse management systems and fulfillment software are reaching some kind of limitation.

Seperating inventory not just by article but also supplier and / or inventory owner is no small feat. But if Amazon's IT environment is not able of doing it, this is opening all kinds of issues. None of them really good in the long run.
I took an interview today and was asked a simple problem which I immediately answered with linear time complexity. The interviewer then went on to say "no I'm looking for a specific answer which involves a trick".

Literally said those words.

Eventually figured it out but I came away with a bad impression of the company. Not the kind of stuff I judge people on.
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Unfortunately a lot of people in security are quite childish and will often shame and blame developers publicly. Troy describes this with large companies, but I see the same happening all the time on Github or privately during security audits. There will be an open source project full of volunteers and some asshole will come up and point out that they shouldn’t use the userland prng of OpenSSL or that they should not use AES CBC or some minor issues like it’s the end of the world. They often do it in a very mean way which will of course trigger the developers who will in turn refuse to apply changes. You then have this escalation on both side and it is the kind of thing that makes us, the security community, look bad. After that people complain that we can’t teach developers about security...
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I have a totally different sentiment to asking and receiving these wuestions. To me it's playful and fun and can establish how somone thinks and communicates. Asking questions like these I might do with my friends just for fun
And then if you figure since you're in the neighborhood, why not poll older folks in Vietnam? After a while, one might see where I'm going with this. And if you need a hint: on balance, I'm not convinced of the claim.
Absolutely. It's really more relevant with services you can't directly sign up for, such as an internal service in the company where user enumeration helps you find a target when the error messages are different.
Canadian salaries are better than the UK but not as good as the US.
This was written in 2014. What's the js macro scene look like today? Has Sweet grown in usage/utility?

Also, does this macro system have a concept of quoting/unquoting?
Those are patriots and leaders if you ask me.
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Content Security Policy can do things very close to that. You can't say "don't load anything after this", but you can whitelist script sources and forbid inline code.
Think of the type of person that would suffer through this type of indignation. And, the type of person the gleefully puts people through this kind of hazing.

Sounds like perfect formula for building toxic workplaces full of people with personality disorders.
You absolutely did if you look at your comment. But whatever helps you sleep at night sir.
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> I will tell you right now that embarking on such a study will end poorly.

Source?
This is addressed in the article. There were numerous instances of internal security teams trying to effect change, but were completely ignored by the powers that be.
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>It borrowed a lot from WiFi's adoption of OFDMA that allowed a lot of the bandwidth increases

Um.... WiFi doesn't get OFDMA til 802.11ax, which isn't even finalise yet.
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Ugh, its 2018. Why no web version?
I'll also note that the human body produces its own molecules that bind to cannabinoid receptors. Physical exercise is one of the triggers for the body to do this.

It's thus not surprising that some of the benefits of exercise on the brain are seen when cannabinoids are ingested.

See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocannabinoid_system
wow, talk about not appreciating your audience.

no man or woman on the street with a job not in the information economy would care to digest even your excellent linked doc.

TFA target audience is not even someone that understands that the Internet and the Web are different things.

It's a wonderful doc, wonderfully presented. With every mom and pop retail business needing a website these days, this is a really great explanation for them, so they can start to understand why they want https.
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