skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even the Kmarts in New York City (where lines at Target are routinely insane) were like this.
I love meat but I've always struggled to reconcile my love of eating it with my love of animals. I would be happy to pay a premium if it meant I could get meat-like taste without the guilt
Free 2-day shipping was an absolute game changer. Customer reviews was also a huge competitive advantage that brick-and-mortar retailers lacked since it let you quickly identify which specific product was most popular for what you were looking for: much better than asking a store rep for their recommendation.

I'd really be interested in a graph that showed some growth metric like revenue or number of orders plotted against a timeline of when Amazon introduced certain features. I remember seeing one for Facebook that was really illuminating.
Since it's more income to bill for rocket science than bicycle science, there's no incentive for many to simplify UI standards. Right now we are stuck with "rocket science" web-based UI's and JavaScript brain surgery.

Don't get me wrong, HTML browsers are fine for most documents and document navigation, but don't scale to real GUI's easily.
Err, yes, yes they do if it's going to be used as justification to pass sweeping new police powers.
WeWork is a cult. I find the way that they attempt to control their employee’s lives deeply alarming.

Don’t want to take my word for it? Go read some reviews on Glassdoor.
The people who were arrested had nothing to do with it, and were released (after being subjected to 36 hours of questioning) [1].

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/12/23/gatwick-drone-ar...
> When I first messed with it, it lacked generics even though Delphi supported them.

Unless you mean in the "delphi mode" specifically (which i'm not sure how it handled generics support), this isn't true since Free Pascal introduced generics support before Delphi did and sadly when Delphi introduced generics they decided to make them incompatible with Free Pascal's syntax (which i personally prefer since it is more explicit).
The 1.0 version was not very good, at least to this meat-lover. I tried it at White Castle several months ago and I'd never order another one. Here's hoping the 2.0 version is good enough to move me further in the vegetarian direction.
Huh ... 126 years. I wonder if our children will ever see Facebook, Samsung, Amazon, Wal-Mart or Google fold one day.

Sears is/was the Amazon of the 1920/20s. All things must pass eventually.
I discovered this website in a comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18853446) to this post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18853232). I'd like to repeat the comment I made there (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18855110):

DoorDash is a YC company (#8 by valuation as of October 2018) [0][1]. Could we get some insight here from people working with DoorDash?

[0] https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoorDash
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Google Voice doesn't actually provide cell service, though. Whatever telco you use with Google Voice will still have realtime access to your location.
Not sure if arresting innocent people is any kind of progress
It’s remarkable how many silent downvotes you get when you tweak something that people think is cool. C’mon guys. Refute what I said.
> "Is it the philosophy that the customer doesn’t know better and you have to tell them what they need"

Yes and no. One of the only people to have ever done that successfully that I know of was Steve Jobs, and that's what made him a one-of-a-kind genius billionaire. Believing you can do the same will cause your wheels to spin endlessly without going anywhere. It's pure hubris.

On the flip side, it certainly can help to have some insight, intuition, or flash of inspiration for a product or service. When you have the idea, then you have a hypothesis. Don't treat a hypothesis like a fact! This is where people make the biggest mistake.

Your goal is then to find evidence related to the idea. The evidence will tell you whether the hypothesis has potential or whether it's completely bogus.

Two big places you can find evidence: competitors and customers.

If there are already competitors in your field, that's a big piece of evidence that your idea has merit. If there are no competitors, that doesn't necessarily mean that you don't have a chance, but definitely take it as a sign that there's probably a good reason there's nobody else doing it.

If you can find customers, it's nearly proof that you're onto something. Just be cautious because sometimes people will say they like your idea and genuinely believe to themselves that they would pay for it but then actually not in reality.

> "How do you sell first?"

The biggest way that I know of is basically just communicating with people. Find a way to get someone on the phone or get them to open your email or even see them in person, and then pitch your idea to them.

If you're selling a service then it isn't too difficult because you can just verbalize the service and gauge their response. When they like your idea it will be very obvious because they will get excited. If they're not excited then you're talking to the wrong market or your idea/hypothesis needs to be reworked.

If you're selling a product it's essentially the same, but you may need some simple mockups/pictures just to help communicate the idea. You really do not need a full fledged working product or even an "MVP" for this.

The concept of an "MVP" is a huge source of confusion because it assumes you know what "minimally viable" even means. How can you build an MVP when you have no idea what to consider "minimally viable?" The MV part of MVP completely depends on your customer. No customer, no MVP. (This may not quite apply if you're building something specifically to fulfill a need that you have.)

Hope this helps!

By the way, please take this with a grain of salt. This is my personal experience from a couple of failed startups and zero successful startups. I'm clearly not an expert.
Not sure what you mean by "optimal performance". Your body needs a finite daily amount of each essential amino acid for tissue growth and repair. If you're an athlete you might need more at times, and some health problems can cause usage of particular aminos to spike, but the requirement is always finite. Consuming more than those amounts has no proven benefit (unless that protein is meant to displace calories from carbs or fat, which is a completely different topic).

Optimal daily intake of all essential amino acids is easy to achieve with any sensible dietary habit, even for very active adults. If you're consuming adequate protein each day, given your activity level and health, then the amino profile of your protein intake is completely irrelevant unless your diet is really goofy.

I'd encourage you to read that Forks over Knives article.
Yes I need to hire a React dev right now :)
They arrested two people that they later admitted had nothing to do with the event in question. [1]

What counterpoint are you making here?

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-46709353
Used Twitter app in 2010-2015? Their public API gives your precise location
Here is an example:

I'm not citizen but working as a dev. I have an old passport which doesn't have bio-metric security features. However, I have a valid residence permit card (it already has bio-metric features). Revolut app which is UK based bank accepts my residence permit in identification process without checking my passport. Just scan it via the app itself and there you go. There is literally no bank in Germany (including N26) that accepts my residence permit card. I constantly have to fight with every company providing any online financial service, because their online video identification process (known as Post-Ident which is run by Deutsche Post) only scans bio-metric passports.

How come? If this thing (residence permit) is a valid ID document, then why is everyone asking for passport? My identity has already been approved by immigration office.

If residence permit is not a valid ID document, then why issue it at first place?
A couple was detained for 36 hours before being let go with no charges and an apology from the police.
For clarity, the two people arrested were released without charge.

Although not before the press had smeared their names and faces across the whole country.
If you need to factor the number 21, this is a great way to do it.
That's a great question.

I asked this to a vegan some years ago. She explained that there is an entire culture of food surrounding meat. Meat-based foods are described in terms that sound wonderful, and people often describe how much they love those foods. She doesn't get to engage in that part of our culture because she doesn't eat those foods. It disconnects you from the people around you, and you feel left out.

In Philadelphia, eating a cheesesteak sandwich is an experience that connects you to the people and history of the city. Besides just being a tasty food, it's an iconic part of the local culture. People like engaging with their culture. And for another reason, as this article[1] explains, one restauranteur wanted to create a casual place where a non-vegan could order a cheesesteak and decide, hey, this is pretty good even without meat.

[1] http://www.philly.com/philly/food/20140320_And_the_best_vega...
The average shepherd-boy-with-a-slingshot from the past could probably find a practical solution to this particular problem.
Did you read that article? They actually say when to NOT do a website first.

I found their web-first arguments mostly unconvincing. And kinda hand-wavy on certain points. Two relevant points, rapid MVP development and instant updating of your app I have to agree with. But the idea that desktop software pricing translates to people being willing to pay more for a website is a crock. People think websites should be free. It’s not just users who think that. I have to educate my clients why their business app that needs a login, data storage and access controls is not “just a website” and why they have to pay me significantly more to make it happen.
I think you missed the point of that section, the meaning is "don't be boring, try to be interesting". But I agree with you (when assuming the other meaning).
And what makes you think Xorg is male? ;)
You gotta compare it to the cost of a traditional commercial real estate lease, that’s what makes it a good or bad deal.

(I don’t actually know what a comparative traditional lease would cost).
Ah yes, to be clear I'm referring to Delphi-compatible generics. FPC generics I found out about later.
Not to mention Apple's Shortcuts -- haven't used it but it seems to be in the same vein
I'm just a sample size of one, but I'm willing to eat it if it tastes good. I think the biggest problem is habit (or I guess that overlaps with culture). People are hungry and see a burger for a decent price and know it will be acceptable. A lot of foods you can just add chicken or ground beef to.

I've had some fantastic vegan food, but the only vegan food that's a commodity for me is Indian food or faux-meat products. So convincingly good faux-meat is probably the easiest way to move people.

My big problem is that most meals without meat I'm not satiated. This also happens when the main protein is fish. For salads I hear a bunch of people joke that you get tired of eating before you get full. I also think this is habit for me. I'm not sure if meat alternatives address this.
Well-being of animals is distinct from slaughtering them for food. The beef I buy comes from cows that roam in fields, usually in Ireland. They're not unhappy then, as I can attest having grown up in the countryside. And the fact there are so many of them means the total lifetime happiness (of the cows at least) probably outweighs their death, if it's done humanely.
So, instead of language bindings for the UI builder, you need an in-language implementation of or binding to a client for the GUI markup language output by the UI builder? While I like the idea of a generic UI markup languages, it sounds like you've replaced the problem you want to avoid with a bigger one.
Can you find an in between job. Maybe it does what you do now mostly but has some aspect of what you want to switch to?
> Sabotaging infrastructure is as easy as loosening or cutting bolts on a bridge.

The issue there is that someone has to walk up a bridge with tools and start loosening bolts. Drones are somewhat remote, in that they could hide in the bushes some distance away. And most of all, I can see drone operators thinking "it's fun" as they are not damaging or deliberately flying into planes. It's wrong of course, but in their minds they don't see it equivalent to cutting bolts on a bridge.
I always wondered if my night owl tendencies were nature or nurture (staying up late for inexpensive long distance and calling night-only BBSes) and I've gravitated to a career that embraces that mode (SRE, Operations, on-call positions) .

It seems that society seems to value the 'get up early' more than the 'stay up late' ability.
If I may humbly ask, what is your definition of bloated? Bloated in technical sense that the software does not operate within your determined hardware constraints (valid!) or the philosophical sense that it has more features than your needs (also valid of course)?
Your application essay is probably where you would talk about why you want the opportunity to finish your degree and what benefit you will bring to the institution. Highlighting appropriate adult behaviors like "taking responsibility" for you child etc... Your real world experience will definitely help you.
I was thinking if an image is injected, it'd be injected by a script loaded from the plugin thus trusted.
They bear a responsibility to the flying public (i.e. us).
Overly anthropomorphized but still a bit of a tear jerker. Perhaps in the future a Disney movie with a happier ending?
Didn't they say, that maybe it was their own drones? https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2018/1229/1019460-gatwick-dron...
Its worth investigating the increased use of Subaudible tones to demarcate commercials. These subaudibles are originally intended to be captured by your phones and tablets in order to allow the company to track you across multiple devices through their microphones. the tones are also used to detect commercial ad presence for analytics companies or suites used by advertisers.

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

One could use these tones to 'detect' a commercial and avoid it, or strip out these tones entirely to promote operational security amongst devices.
You might be surprised at what admissions might think. Stuff happens and people (including admissions) know that. In your application you are even given the chance to explain that sort of thing (it makes for a more interesting story if you ask me!)

My advice would be to also reach out to the department admin and or department chair of the department you are interested in (CS at USC?) with a brief email. Even try to arrange a visit. If you get a chance to speak with them, explain you are nontrad student with industry experience and prior college credits with a minor blemish on your record. I can't imagine why they wouldn't let you in!

Disclaimer: I'm a prof.
That still seems like a breaking change to me, as kdwxg already observed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18855734
I fear the reason is that the pools of VoIP numbers have already been exhausted as a resource for setting up’accounts.

Ie: some firm is renting VoIP numbers for a month for $1, creating accounts on 100 services and then moving to the next VoIP number.

Perhaps the VoIP firms support this whenever they get a block of « virgin » numbers before putting them in their regular pool of numbers for rent.
I'm not sure I understand the question. You need to install it on both your iPhone and your iPad for sure. But universal apps are the exact same binary. But a lot of developers prefer to create 2 different app, 1 for iPhone and 1 for iPad for various reasons; charging separately for each being one possible reason.
I built a device to do this many decades ago. An electronics magazine published a schematic for a "voice/music discriminator". This was a simple analog circuit that ran the audio through a low-pass filter and then detected sharp cutoffs. Voice has those, but music without lyrics doesn't. It's not perfect, but it cuts off ad blithering before it gets annoying.

(I should find that thing. It's in my garage somewhere.)
Once the idea of alien UFOs became widespread, the number of reported cases rose. Once everybody has the idea that drones may be flying around airports, will people start misidentifying and reporting other phenomena as drones (causing chaos)?
> It will happen if you vote blue.

Unfortunately it is a matter of voting blue enough, not just blue. In some areas politicians, even Democrats, regularly relate to their constituents by bashing "East cost liberal elites" despite having degrees from Ivy League schools. If Doug Jones had said that a liberal arts education is valuable for developing into a well-rounded citizen his race would have ended then and there.
So, are we going to have "rockstar-managers" and "ninja-bosses", too? Awesome.
I know what you mean - but you also hear some horror stories about funeral directors. They're an industry that gets to take advantage of uninformed consumers at a vulnerable time of their life.

I'm not sure We, or any other company even remotely connected to Silicon Valley, are the right people to fix that, though.
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if they're going to use it as a justification to pass new powers, then yes they absolutely do
I was indeed wondering about how niche this was. Are there any reliable usage statistics for, say, how many people currently use a VR browser daily?

(And to forestall the inevitable comment, I understand the potential of VR, and have since the 1990s VR wave. What I'm wondering about is actual sustained (that is, non-novelty) use.)
It is viable just fine as it is, i'm not sure what you have in mind.

In any case C++ support for Lazarus is almost impossible due to the work needed and the projects that will need to cooperate - i go into details here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15893362
I guess even if we try chemo-spatial things.. we'll end up reusing linear network topology knowledge. But then.. I see radial wave local interactions and diffusion laws.. Just a thought.
I think this is now incorrect: https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/08/business/sears-future-bankrup...

yup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18858494
Since we're talking web and not native, your metaphor works only if your "rocket science" is performed with used swimming pool materials and your "brain surgery" with gardening tools.
You missed the point of that section, the meaning is actually "try not to bore other people"
They do have a responsibility to intending passengers who are being inconvenienced and put out of pocket solely on the basis of a corporation being over-reactive.

There's really no disadvantage to airport authorities acting like this and only positives for them in protecting themselves from financial risk in the case that there is a drone. Plus, perhaps new powers will be passed that prevent them having to actually invest in anti-drone technology. Double-win!
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Sonder is also quite a pedestrian word in German, as in "sonderangebot" (special offer, or sale!)
"Most" doesn't mean "only". Non-heme iron is real, I promise.

No, it means that the Non-heme is less bioavailable i.e less efficiently absorbed from the body.
Oh yeah, single static binaries are awesome. I think it's one of those things that helped make Go super successful as well.

If Go had a RAD, well, it'd be very enticing to me. Sadly they have only touched on UI a little. If you want to write something with Win32 API it's not too hard and there's plenty of good libraries, but sadly there's no VCL equivalent. I'd like that.

I guess in that sense Lazarus is still useful. But, I don't find myself needing a RAD too much. What I would've used a RAD for I find Python + Qt to be usable enough for.
You might be interested to hear that anti-drone net guns are already on the market to address this.

This [1] is a handheld one, though automated permanent installations that use acoustic signatures to track drones have already been installed on embassies and such.

[1]: https://www.dronedefence.co.uk/products/netgun-x1/
The recommendations have never been the selling point for me.

Instead, the thing that got me to use Amazon was that it provided you with access to a long tail of books—and later, other stuff.

Bookstores and record stores did do "special orders", but there was a lot of friction in the process. You'd have to find out about the book, visit the store (twice!), and if what you wanted was even available, you would wait a few weeks for your order to be bundled in with the next shipment from the publisher.

Amazon removed all of that—and the reviews even made it less risky. Want to read the next book in a series? Check out the reviews and if you want it, done deal! Need some obscure technical title? It'll be AT YOUR HOUSE next week.
I'm 35...I've too considered nursing or PA for the same reason. I know I'm "young" but the writing is on the wall for the age bias.

Nursing/PA is decent pay, always work opportunities, can't get outsourced (easily). You also don't have BS job interviews. If you have updated certifications and aren't an ass... Hired! You also get continuation education too!

I also like that it's hourly. The hospital needs you for OT? More money. As you get older and have more money, less expenses you can choose to work less and enjoy free time. Unless you are freelance or consulting, software doesn't have that flexibility.

Maybe in a few years...
Remember when a pilot at Heathrow said a drone crashed into his plane a few years ago? After an investigation and lack of any evidence, I think the consensus was that it was probably a plastic bag.
Yes, you are right. My ignorance shows, but I am still hanging on to my opinion of cellular automata.
isn't it kind of rocket science?
What counterpoint am I making? I thought that it was perfectly obvious - that they had caught the previous person(s). I had not heard that they released them - I kind of quit paying attention once they made the arrests.
Yeah this article does a great job of painting Lampert as heroically struggling against foes that turned out to be insurmountable, but there's a lot to suggest he was simply siphoning the wealth out of the company, with this being the final and inevitable result.

Couple of HN links with the opposite slant to this article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18085640

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18244870
it's also possibly cheaper to pay up front -- 20k vs up to 30k if you pay on the installment plan afterwards.
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What are the actually serious downsides of having a repo for each project again? Serious question. Mercurial supports Subrepositories for example. Just define your rules for pulling stuff.

From my own experience, if you are arguing about whether use convention A or convention B, the answer should be to have C that allows both, and then configurations on top of C for A and B.

This applies for example to lookups in the dabatase by an index.