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I agree that there is just enough food, maybe not enough. But then again, I'm dropping weight. So maybe a good thing.

I got faster making meals over time.

For me right now time is more important than money.

I don't think have ever eaten more roasted beets, carrots, cauliflower, kale and broccoli in the last two years, than I have in my life. (and enjoyed.)
I think the problem he is describing--somewhat poorly--is when the "third space" just happens to match some other scope above, and therefore is syntactically valid, but not nested the way one initially thought.

Those kinds of problems can be hard to track down.
NYSE has minimum share price/market cap requirements, so Blue Apron will get delisted if this continues for more than 29 consecutive trading days.

i.e. It could easily become one.
> my wife thought it would be helpful for me to start cooking, as she was getting stressed out with our 2 years old.

This seems like a good opportunity to see if there is more labor (emotional or physical) that your wife is doing that she could use a hand with.

> My wife doesn't have nag me about what I what I want for the week's dinner

Meal planning is work. She is doing a job for the family. She is trying to include your preferences in the calculus of meal planning. Balancing nutrition, variety, individual preferences, cost, and difficulty is a non-trivial problem to solve every week.

When you say she is 'nagging' you about what you want for dinner, take a step back and consider what that is telling others (including your wife) about how much you value that work.
"You sound like a robot....try asking these questions instead"

Thing is, any alternative questions will then start to sound robotic too: I already receive plenty of cold-call emails that try to mimic a more authentic voice.
Sure but its only a matter of time before they get delisted.
What if electron is already near its final form? That would put them near parity with Falcon 9 in terms of development, but without the proven track record yet. Just saying the goals are different and progress toward them has to be measured based on those goals.

Cessna doesn't compete with Boeing, and it's not clear Electron and SpaceX are playing the same game either.
Buran was of similar vintage and could land autonomously. I don’t think there was anything preventing the Shuttle from having that capability, other than a lack of desire. As I recall, the hardware was fully capable of it except for being able to lower the landing gear, which the astronauts insisted on being manual because doing it at the wrong moment would be fatal.
>"Is there sufficient evidence deep learning will solve these higher order planning tasks?"

What are those higher order planning tasks? I'm not familiar enough with the problem domain.
That "famous slide" really rings true for me. F# allowed me to forget (or at least not worry about) a TON of OO design patterns. Data goes in, transformation happens, data comes out.

I do like that F# is very practical about OO though.[0] I feel that the language often strikes a balance of programming paradigms that enables me to be very productive.

[0] https://eiriktsarpalis.wordpress.com/2017/03/20/why-oo-matte...
Trapping is a form of vigilantism and subject to the same problems. What happens when a little kid walking with their parents runs over and picks up the box randomly, and gets show in the eye with a paintball?

There is a reason we don't want a society where that kind of thing is OK.
Strange the SEC didn't get involved. Promise of a working fusion reactor is HUGE. Yet they harassed Musk over some tweets.
You opt-out by using third party cookies, what do you expect it to do without having access to that?
This reads like an urban legend. I’ll have to shake the rust off my OChem lab experience and try some synthesis.

Kidding of course, but I it makes wonder how easy this would be for an amateur to synthesize. The consequences being making an entire town nauseous makes this whole thing pretty enigmatic.
Disturbingly, the accidental message of this glitterbomb booby-trap video is that you will probably not face legal consequences for stealing packages from peoples' property in broad daylight, so even the best security cameras are effectively useless.
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> I've always thought there's a much simpler language struggling to get out of Python

I agree, although I suspect we have different ideas as to which parts of Python would be included in that simpler language. For example, I quite like the consistency of "everything-is-an-object".

FWIW some of the Python core developers have started to express a similar sentiment. Especially in the last few versions, where Python has got much more complex with the addition of type annotations and multiple `async/await` features. I wonder whether the retirement of the BDFL will slow down Python's rate of growth, or accelerate it?

> nested generator comprehensions behave differently than nested list conprehensions

I haven't come across this - could you give an example?
"Blackbird" refers to several species of actual bird, not just the plane. "The black bird ate seeds" and "The blackbird ate seeds" are both reasonable sentences, and they do potentially sound different.
What would you expect it to do differently in those cases? That seems like the API is following how most people would think about those operations as you'd expect in a language which isn't trying to be immutable.
Why at this valuation do you think it's attractive? $30.5 billion is a hell of a price to pay for a business with only around $2 billion in revenue.
Yes, in fact because you can work infinitely hard at digging a hole and filling it back up again we would certainly not want a world that distributed rewards according to the labor theory of value.
Wondering if it has anything to do with this https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-machine-learning-algorithm...
I think, of course depending on country, most trash is burned. Assuming they vacuum it up and put it in the trash, the microplastic bit shouldn't be a problem, the the CO2 emission might.
Thanks to inflation, penny stocks are now stocks that trade under $5.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/pennystock.asp

Also, penny stocks tend to be fairly illiquid with very marginal market cap and tend to trade on OTC/pink sheets and not on major stock exchanges.

So blue apron is penny stockish, but not quite there yet. We'll have to see if NYSE gives Blue Apron the boot.
You can disagree all you want. The point is that you can't force your disagreement on me.
HN being what it is, I can't tell if this is intended as satire.
This gets used a lot in language learning, especially in the Japanese learning community where people are trying to memorize thousands of Kanji characters. Like the article says, the idea is that recalling a fact when you are on the verge of forgetting it causes it to be reinforced, increasing the interval before you will next forget it. Using the Japanese language SRS tool WaniKani (https://www.wanikani.com) I’ve memorized around 900 vocab/characters in the past three months (which is actually kind of slow compared to most people).

This has been a fun experience for me. I’ve always felt like my memory was poor compared to most people, but now I have proof that with the right strategy I can remember anything I want.

> Some researchers also believe that semantic priming is a factor.

When learning a new Kanji in WaniKani you are given a mnuemonic to associate with it. I find that my retention is much better when the mneumonic feels strongly associated with the shape/meaning/reading of a character.

Another thing that I’ve found helps retention outside of SRS is using/encountering an item outside of a study session. The surest way for me to remember a new word is to hear it in a show or song where I fully understand the context it’s being used in. Also if the thing you’re memorizing more of an abstract idea, then explaining it to someone else is a great way to reinforce it for yourself.
One of my biggest gripe is how python have a hidden non-declared agenda to have syntax as far from C as possible.

its really not giving language any usage benefits when you cannot use ternary expressions, ! as not, !=, increment operators.

Also, PEP8 is very very presriptive, you are disallowed to do violate any rule, even when if you need to to make the code better. (I feel shunned by the community for not liking 80 chars line hard breaks)

Python3 migration was not planned well - the lack of back and forward compatibility gave users a legit reason to stay with python 2 forever. I've seen some conference talks where end users/projects being shamed for not jumping on python3.

GIL in python is something that was talked about 5 years ago and will still be talked in 5 years. It limits the ability of python to reap the benefits of better hardware.

This may be minor, but I really missing ruby rich set of collection methods: take_while, group_by, sample. Yet I can see a point in extracting that to a external library.

Of course, all this does not mean python is not good. Builtin pip/venv, adrequate unicode in python3, some of fantastic libraries(numpy/scipy, bokeh) making it indispensable.
These just opt you out of browser options, cookies, etc. I'd like to see a tool that actually removes real PII from these co's databases. Know of a tool around that does it?
If it's out of principal, I'm surprised it took him this long, but hey, we all have our own breaking point

My personal breaking point is coming.

In the early days, I would post on Facebook a couple of times an hour.

It's become less and less as Facebook became more and more obnoxious, both on the front end and the back end.

Today, I'm down to using Facebook only on weekends. And even then sometimes it's only on one of those days. Facebook has made it easy for me to not care about it anymore.
If your intention is for someone to take the CCTV into their private car or residence, that is also very different from putting a CCTV on your porch.

I'm not saying the thieves are in the right here. Just that crimes don't usually cancel each other out.
We use a similar service that's closer to a CSA + recipe cards. We get a basic recipe and a bunch of raw veggies/locally produced products.

Meal planning is work. Grocery shopping is work. Cooking is work. We've decided that cooking is the work we enjoy, and the other parts are work we'd rather pay someone to do for us. We are more than capable of putting together a meal plan, we just value our time more than money and have found the right service to pay to help us in that regard.
You are preparing, mixing, cutting and cooking everything yourself. You're given the raw ingredients just like you'd buy yourself at the grocery store and given an easy to follow recipe to do everything yourself. If you've never cooked before, you are definitely in their target demographic. The recipes are generally simple enough and explained well enough that it would teach you the basic cooking skills you lack.
This isn't true. A significant amount of CO2 and other waste products are emitted when producing plastics.
damn dude you really are a Pfhreak.
You want to use TypeScript? Does it run natively in the browser?
Investors aren't stupid and realize a company doing a reverse split just to maintain the minimum share price is doomed.

See also: $HMNY.
Its basically a trip to the grocery store + a print out of a recipe with nice pictures.

Not a bunch of half cooked stuff you slap together.

I think learning to cook is an excellent use for the service (but not maybe one they love long term)
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Tangent:

Tip from a long-time husband: If you often have the perception of your wife "nagging" you, there's probably a relationship-antipattern in effect that you'll want to deal with as soon as you have the emotional energy. IMO, perceived nagging can be the narrow end of a big wedge between a couple.
I know, right? What with all the 'treating other humans with dignity' and 'respecting the work they do'.

Wild.
I only used them once and one of the meals was the most complicated hamburger recipe I'd ever made and I didn't think it was really all that good.

I half suspect there are motivations behind making the recipes for these services complex and a little exotic. If they had four ingredient recipes that took 10 minutes of prep, I daresay a lot of people would think "I'm paying 2x to 3x what I would pay in the grocery store for that???"

I'm glad to hear they're simplifying things though. The only reason I'd use something like this is if they did a lot of the pre-prep so it really is a quick meal on a weekday night when I really just don't have the energy to do more than minimal cooking. (Especially when there's so much in the grocery store that's partly prepped these days.)
> It's really hard coming up with your one-liner in plain English

Sometimes libraries are there to solve problems that you only have when doing a certain thing a lot and you are involved in that any way. That's when abstractions happen. CQRS/DDD are quite established enterprise patterns, these are not for everyone, on the contrary. Probably you don't want to do this.
Feature request: replace glitter with indelible ink to eliminate microplastic pollution.
> Real world software engineering [is] 70% managing emergent complexity, 20% people

Gosh I think I will put this on my cube wall. I haven't really heard it put better.

Its all plumbing and the tough questions are "Does replacing these pipes with this pipe make the system less/more extensible/complex". The rest is people.
> ubiquitous accurate facial recognition

You mean like the system in China? No thanks. Never underestimate the propensity of any government to violate human rights when given the power to do so.

If a choice has to be made between the two, a government that respects human rights is far preferable to a country without crime among citizens.
This fear of the cops is only a thing if you actually believe the cops will respond. Package thieves know the average response time will give them plenty of time to get away. These types of videos just re-enforce that to any would be thief. The amount of news coverage with video evidence showing the thieves NOT getting caught does not give pause to one thinking "maybe I can get away with it too".

I know I've made lots of comments about police response in this thread, but I'm not trying to come across as too negative. However, there's a reason this type of crime is prevalent. Police cannot be everywhere all of the time. At this point in time, I personally would be more worried about the homeowner staging a trap with a shotgun rather than a glitter bomb. That would be legal in Texas.
There may be different ways to more or less model the same thing. The trade-offs may be machine efficiency, human grokkability, prove-ability (mathematically analyzable), and accuracy (sometimes approximations are good enough, and gain on other features).

Perhaps related: Factor tables for AI: https://github.com/RowColz/AI
Agreed, and I think those fall flat because they are trying to hide the fact that they're automated. There's nothing wrong with automation—just don't try to lie about it! Personally, I favor direct conversations over automated research. Even at smaller scale, it's just way more useful.
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Note how almost all languages you take as shiny examples of virtue post-date Python: they all learnt from it so much, particularly on things like the stdlib. Python’s stdlib was the gold standard for a long, long time (the “batteries included” slogan was effective for a reason - they really were!). This was not by accident - Guido and others have always had the utmost care for good developer experience out of the box. How many languages pack an editor ready to go? Or a way to install modules with a single command? Not even Java, with all its commercial might, ever achieved that - it barely got a REPL last year, which Python has had for what, 20 years now?

What people decry about “the Python ecosystem” is simply a function of its success as a generalist computing language over 25 years. Nobody uses Typescript to build Linux distributions; nobody uses Go to build lib-gluing GUI apps; nobody uses Rust to write spreadsheet formulas. Python does all that (and more), and this of course resulted in a sprawling community, with tools pulled every other way. If any of your new shiny languages will ever achieve a similar level of popularity, you can bet their ecosystem will also become a complete mess.
Cops don't treat retail businesses that much different from individuals in my experience.

If you have video evidence plus a person in custody, a license plate, or an address, there's a good chance of an arrest. If all you have is a picture, then they will blow you off.

>Cases that never get referred to the prosecutor due to lack of evidence

That's most cases of misdemeanor property theft though.

No evidence, video and no idea who the person is, or a he said she said between neighbors that's probably better dealt with through a civil case.

In the vast majority of these cases the problem isn't that the police/prosecutors are being wilfully ignorant, it's that there's nothing they can realistically do.
Maybe just one of those "all-encompassing" privacy policies that 'privacy policy generators' spit out?
But, for instance, if you click on a link from another app like Slack, they open in the 'default' or highest priority container.
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I feel you :-) I could very well be that interviewer, reaching for a framework to do something that can be easily done in vanilla JS, but feeling that the framework will make it even simpler. (E.g. after using a framework that will handle syncing my state with my UI I find that I don't want to do the same with plain JS). But I've had my share of arguments that made me appreciate the opposite viewpoint as well.
> Delicious food, but there was no leftovers.

I don't understand why do you want leftover food?
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I'm going through ReactNative now and holy christ it's framework Inception.

Literally, EVERYTHING is a framework. You need a framework to build your framework. You don't just learn React, which is a framework, you need to learn all the various navigation frameworks or other sub-UI frameworks, or the networking framework etc.

Wtf is going on. I don't want to learn a framework just to render a button.

"But then how will the button know when data has been updated" or "how will component X know thing has change etc." seems to be the running theme of most frameworks.
Roasting vegetables seems so obvious in retrospect and, even for a group, it's actually much easier to control doneness. I'm not sure why it mostly only appeared as a technique (outside of root vegetables and squash) relatively recently in the US.
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2 apps I've used in the past for this that I like are mnemosyne (https://mnemosyne-proj.org) and Anki (https://apps.ankiweb.net/).
> They get some of the best because they actually want to change the way access to space works.

Are they really that concerned with getting "the best"? From what I've heard, they expect you to work insane hours. That pretty much limits potential employees to those without a family or a life outside of work.

Won't they just end up with the majority of their employees without significant experience this way?

In many ways though I guess it operates very much like a startup. They sell dreams to get employees.
And in LISPs you'd call a framework maybe protocol or driver. Same difference. A high-level "web request dispatching and handling" library will take just as much control over your code no matter how you call it... (See weblocks, clack etc in CL - they all very much limit your code)
You're asking on HN, so the answer is probably a "no".

Relative value of time and money might be different outside of this bubble.
Packages used to require signatures more often but it's a pain to both parties because that requires either evening deliveries to catch people at home more often or for people to stay home which is only an option in a small number of jobs. So now it's only for very expensive items generally.

As for delivering to neighbors you have the same problem of actually finding a neighbor that's home and then you've got the chance of dishonest neighbors.

Most packages I get delivered they will tuck it in the most out of the way part of my side porch so they do try but only to the point it causes them hassle. If it's a flat envelope package they'll tuck it between my storm door and the actual door too provided it's unlocked (sometimes).

It's really a question of priorities I think and the raw numbers where package theft is relatively rare. For the delivery company their job is done when the package hits the correct doorstep so there's not a huge incentive for them to go around hunting for a neighbor to give it to or find a clever hiding spot, both of which would eat up time.
I'm always surprised when people are enthusiastic about Pandora. maybe I just haven't tried it enough (and/or recently enough). when I use Pandora I find that it plays a bunch of related artists that don't actually sound very similar. for instance, if I make a Death Cab for Cutie radio station, I just hear a bunch of mainstream indie rock from the mid/late 00s. I'm sure that modest mouse and dcfc are very close on an association graph, but they don't really sound anything like each other.
They are deemed as far riskier.

If you are flying a $20 million dollar satalite, do you fly with the 6 million dollar proven launch, or the 5.999 million dollar unproven launch?

Now if the unproven guy cuts the price to 3 million dollars, the math changes (insurance can step in, etc).

I don't think they could have charged much more and gotten to where they are.
It's my understanding that the labor theory of value is only concerned with "socially necessary labor," and not completely valueless labor -- digging and filling in a hole ad nauseam.
So you can eat it for lunch the next day.
Ah sorry. I was imagining we were talking about the porch camera.
>> Hard to sell your workers on changing the game when you've got that mindset.

I don't think the workers would care if a launch cost $10-50M more than it does. If I worked there it would make me uneasy that they're looking for more funding for a mere $500M. It already makes me uneasy (and I don't work there) since I really want them to succeed with BFR and their Mars ambitions.
> Are you preparing, mixing, cutting, etc.

Yes.

> Could someone who has never cooked use Blue Apron as a starting point to learn basic cooking skills?

Somewhat; it won't, e.g., teach you knife skills, which are important for both safety and speed in preparation, but it will give you exposure to a wide range of cooking techniques and what they produce.
This is something you hear all the time, why?
If the camera is visible and not pointed where it can see inside a neighbor's window, you're fine for video. For audio you probably want to restrict it to inside your home.
> I guess I still dont understand. Why should a private company be required to support a cause they dissagree with?

By that argument, you could conclude that anyone has the right to refuse services to any race, gender, sexuality. We have deliberately made laws to prevent this kind of exclusion. Now you suddenly want to bring it back?

Of course, the difference is that if you are white, male and straight, you're not part of the "protected" persons, and you can be denied service by anyone.

And people wonder why there might be an increase in white people shifting further to the right?
Your comment is a great argument for languages that make compromises to be good at some domains and not others. I’ve hated every general-purpose language I’ve ever used, and the ecosystem mess is probably why.