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My two cents...

As I like to group things in threes, my explanation for Amazon's success is that they had better leadership principles, better execution ability, and a better theory about the future (all business strategies make an implicit or explicit claim about what the future will look like) than any direct or indirect competitor. Could at least some competitor have been better than them at one of those? Perhaps. I don't think any competitor matched them along all three of those dimensions.

Amazon's '97 letter to shareholders gives you a taste as to their theory of the future. Everyone already knows about their ability to execute. Most already know their leadership principles. From an anthropological perspective, I find it relatively insightful to revist them from time to time. Here they are:

(1) Customer obsession.
(2) Ownership.
(3) Invent and simplify.
(4) Leaders are right, a lot.
(5) Learn and be curious.
(6) Hire and develop the best.
(7) Insist on the highest standards.
(8) Think big.
(9) Bias for action.
(10) Frugality.
(11) Earn trust.
(12) Dive deep.
(13) Have backbone; disagree and commit.
(14) Deliver results.

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To speculate even further... suppose someone were to ask me, "Distill the insights Bezos & Co. made into a single element so that I can understand what Amazon is. What is that one thing or what is Amazon really all about?" What would I say?

Benedict Evans would talk about a machine that makes more of itself.

Scott Galloway would talk about storytelling and its relation to cheap capital.

Ben Thompson would talk about an entity with multiple moats that takes a cut of all economic activity (or maybe just describe some version of an aggregator).

Many others would talk about the virtuous cycle of lower prices --> more customers --> etc.

I would say:

"Warren Buffet had a breakthrough insight - the competitive moat - in the 60's that ended up dominating business thinking up to the present (and will continue to be important/fundamental into the future). Bezos & Co. made an insight of similar importance. Namely, the actual value of an asset truly does outstrip your present understanding of its value, and outstrips your present understanding in a very significant way.

No breakthrough insight is sui generis, as it is constructed using already existing conceptual elements. Buffet's moat was there in the financial statements, and already intuited in a vague way by successful investors and managers before the 60's. The same can be said about Bezos & Co. It's a truism of managerial economics that the point of business is to move under-valued assets into higher-valued uses. Amazon both took this to heart (they internalized it) and they recognized that the true extent to which an assets value outstrips your present perception of said assets value, was an order of magnitude greater than anyone thought before."
> You just have to have […] the ability to take 6 months off

Agree with everything except that. I've founded multiple companies while being employed full time, albeit not "startups."
I disagree. They said they have encrypted some files on the scammers computer by planting supposed banking credentials which they did copy without any consent. Having watched some similar experiences in YouTube I can say theft of banking credentials or personal data is commonplace. They probably did prevent misuse of some stolen banking or personal information.
One of my college classmates (at a very expensive U.S. liberal arts college) used to quip "The more you pay, the less you stay." We had two 13-14 week semesters per year (1-week break in each, Thanksgiving in the fall and mid-semester break in the Spring), with a 6-week optional January term between and 14 weeks for summer. Sticker price was $45K when I went there and is now $70k.
Counting in lifespans is pretty senseless though. If your beef is with that then it would be much more effective to charge women more for social security than men. Smokers should get a social security discount along with obese people. Use actuarial tables from life insurance companies if you want it to be fair based on what people are expected to get out of it. Finally, the rich don’t really outlive the middle class by enough of a factor to matter (especially compared to the ones above).
Fair enough. But some people just downvote anything even neutral about something that they hate.

That's a funny story. But I have a funnier one. Not long ago, maybe the last time LinkedIn came up on HN, I created a test LinkedIn account as Mirimir. Or at least, I attempted to. Given that I use VPNs, I got a cellphone text authentication prompt. But Mirimir doesn't have a cellphone, so I blew it off.

And here's the funny part. A few days later, Mirimir received email from LinkedIn, inviting him to join Mirimir's network on LinkedIn!
Important point, these were UN sanctions that Huawei was violating. That means China also agreed to them.. and not in some minor vote... they are a permanent member of the UN Security Council, and therefore have a veto they could have used to reject it entirely... and they don't need anyones permission to use their veto. So it's safe to say China also agreed to sanction Iran, which they failed to do.
My comment was a direct response to you having Sweeney's name in the post I responded to, I had not read the earlier post where you mention investor classification. Why use Sweeney as an example if you think he's an exception, which he is.
It seems like you're being sarcastic, but you're exactly right.

Investors don't give people money for plans and research because they don't mean anything. It's easy to make a plan or find a hypothetical market.

The only people who get money without customers are founders with huge exits on their resume already.
I like the concept that the mining industry has developed. Its calle NSR ( net smelter return). A company will loan money to another miner that has a deposit but lacks money. The miner will use the money to build the mine and when they send their ore to the smelter, will pay back a percentage of the value of that ore to the company that loaned the money.
Replace miner with student. Company issuing the NSR with teachers.
Is this going to be a text-free browser?

Trying to display/read small text in VR really shows up the limitations of current tech.
Thread on consequences of the Lebowski Theorem (on super AI)
When I read this in August it was fascinating. Since then an immediate family member was diagnosed with cancer, and it all feels so much more real and painful :(
Self-flying drones are here and they're mind blowingly cool
When the ice melts: the catastrophe of vanishing glaciers
If a person would steal my banking credentials there is absolutely no doubt I would do everything to prevent them using it.
You can definitely retrieve multiple values, stored as k/v pairs at once with SSM parameter store.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/ssm/get-par...

Just use the --recursive option.

I'm of the opinion that AWS just doesn't like people using SSM Parameter store w/ KMS encryption as the main solution b/c they realized too late that they missed an opportunity to charge money for it.
This just means that phone numbers make for terrible identifiers because there's a fixed number of them and they're transient.
If you throw 1000 random ideas against the wall, 10 of them could stick, 2 or 3 of which would be solo founded. Look, solo founding works, right?
I think student debt is the safest of all. It can't be discharged in bankruptcy anymore. Further, it's typically guaranteed by the government on top of that. Credit cards are a poor comparison I think.
+1, post strikes me as a bit paranoid
Were these people that actively work on projects that depend on this data for their business to remain viable?
To expound, why people are taking issue with word choice:

fet·ish·ize - verb - Make (something) the object of a sexual fetish.

Ergo, fetishizing the technology prolly isn't what you meant.
Kestrels tend to not be lit up after sunset. Also note this was not a household drone, police believe it was to "industrial specification" based on visual description from ATC staff who saw it. (That's also likely as a lot of drones e.g. DJI have geofencing around airports)
From his original comment:

> it is funny that the meat reduction movement is looking at such impractical and immature products instead of simpler solutions such as bringing veg friendly cuisines to the fore.

I don't disagree that ventures like Impossible Burger are a convoluted way to reduce meat consumption. But I disagree that introducing vegetarian cuisines is a simpler "solution" -- if we mean to actually solve the problem -- for the reason that he states in his next paragraph: it's very difficult to voluntarily give up the cuisines you've lived your life on, and this includes the many meat-centered cuisines found in non-vegetarian cultures. Meat-alternatives may be complicated and difficult, but so is the problem they hope to solve.
I know a lot of people who laughed at the following ideas because they're so "bad": Uber, Twitter, Bird/Lime, and Instagram.
Yep. This is probably the only egregious default. And that's horrible.

It should, like any other Linux server, be available via ::1 and 127.0.0.1 without credentials. Better yet would be to automatically run a credential script on install to bootstrap, as this project focuses on ease of use of node.js and modules.

I had my own bugs as well that I reported, to no avail. I did find solutions myself.
See also: Google's support for Go, a language optimized for bus factors
Yep, here's Liberace (famous pianist, here an actor) being the funeral analog of the car-salesman in the '60's movie "The Love One": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoZ5dTQa_2E
This happens so often, I would not be surprised if it was a widely accepted business process. The MBA's come in and run a good brand into the ground. It happened a lot with bike brands.
How Complex Networks Explode with Growth
I don't know if I'd say that. "Tech" is a really big field, and most areas don't have anything to do with eroding privacy.

Unfortunately, many areas that would have been "safe" years ago, like games and standalone applications, are moving in the direction of violating privacy by phoning home and sending "telemetry" data, but there's still a lot of areas that are good.
This isn't an issue I've come across. I've always put customer IDs in logging data, which is fine according to GDPR. Names, or other PII for that matter, shouldn't be in there, period. Stack traces are actually fine, just make sure you rotate your logs. Error and debugging logs are covered in the GDPR.

Third parties lying to you wont get you in trouble, it'll get them in trouble with the GDPR enforcers, so it's not worth doing that sort of "what if" exercise.

I've worked for organisations of many sizes. Basic data sanitation (aka, don't be daft) is enough. Give the GDPR a read, it's clear enough for almost all cases and isn't nearly as bad as some folks here on HN would have you believe.
Are "industrial drones" and "100mph+ fixed wing drones" real concerns? I would think idiots with consumer drones are the major concern.
The question was how do you detect it. You obviously can't detect it until it's broadcasted because until then it's all happening in secret.
That's not quite the same because we recognise the copyright in domestic law. American copyright laws aren't being directly applied in other countries - different countries can have different laws on dealing with copyrighted material.
Somewhat unrelated, but doesn't this principle apply very often in agriculture? I can see this as one of the reasons why only 12 plant species provide 75% of world food. [0] I should say I take it as evident that raw food is only a fungible commodity insofar as it adapts to market needs (which are not necessarily immediate consumer needs).

[0] http://www.fao.org/docrep/007/y5609e/y5609e02.htm
>We can not obtain them to feed them as input, our real-world machines can not process them if we could...

I'm not sure about this. We often make calculations with computer representations of real numbers. We can calculate quantities based on algebraic or transcendental numbers with arbitrary precision (optimizations, navigation), or we can use them as a basis (image processing) and represent rational numbers in their terms. Real numbers are all over computer applications.
I had found that list, but it doesn't really come with any kind of interpretation.
4K OLED comes to Dell's 15-inch XPS, Alienware and G laptops
Is Modern DevOps TOO Complex?
Once you factor in all the software jobs not in SV, I'm pretty sure this is the general case. We aren't in a life or death battle like doctors, we aren't poring over endless tomes like lawyers, we can fix mistakes with a commit instead of rebuilding fallen bridges, we can work from home a lot of the time, the list goes on and on.
Why is it his right?
it also gets pricey if you have a lot of secrets. $0.40/secret
These were UN sanctions passed by the UN Security Council. China is a permanent member of the SC and has the ability to unilaterally veto any action. They voted in favor of the sanctions that Huawei violated. So Huawei violated Chinese law and US law (by involving US companies)... it's just that the Chinese don't care to enforce the sanctions they agreed to.
Meeting people is useful for education & learning.
In hindsight, Bezos was playing chess while the retailers were playing Uno. I'm generally suspicious of a CEO making that much of a difference, but in this case, clearly, his vision was worth billions in business advantage.
I generally don't recommend EPI for interview prep. I've found that the questions are overtuned in difficulty, and don't resemble anything I've seen at even my Google, Facebook, etc. interviews.

I echo what the other poster said - Interview Cake, LeetCode, and CTCI.
Advertising enables product discovery, price discovery, and so on. That should be enough to answer your question.

Putting up a sign in front of your shop saying "New Mousetrap - Improved Design" is advertising.

If you make a better mousetrap and nobody knows about it, your mousetrap is irrelevant.

Sure, not all advertising generates benefits to society, just as not all products do.
Russia to Mitigate U.S. Sanctions Through Bitcoin Investment
If you're using path prefixes you can retrieve all of them easily using the AWS SDK[1,2].

One of the things that we do is to prefix all of our SSM keys with a prefix based on the service name (for example, `example-api/`) and fetch them by path rather than individually.

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-go/api/service/ssm/#SSM....

[2] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaScriptSDK/latest/AWS/SSM....
massive data hordes for D&D too.
IMO a great idea and could flip the table on ivy league schools and other institutions that favor political connections over an individuals potential.
Nintendo Wii
Going Off the Rails: A Brief History of Interactive Storytelling
I think it's pretty clear that they meant using the technology to fulfil a (sexual) fetish.

Granted, it's not ordinary usage, but in context, I think the meaning was decipherable.
> over the top of an existing country

There was no existing country, it was British territory, and Ottoman, and others. The last time the place was an independent country it was part of the ancient Kingdom of Israel, around 2,200 years ago. And now it's an independent Israel again.

Same place, same people, same name, same capital. Different laws and government though.
You are thinking of a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS).
Update: thanks again for all the suggestions! Here's what I've done...

re Edit) removed the period, hopefully that helps

re Edit 2) fixed the 404 issue: was a rare bug

User flow) I've now added Guest Pass login which will
improve user flow in areas. I'm curious what exactly are some of the flow issues you hit more specifically.

re Edit 3) I switched to a monospaced font for the timer :)

EDIT #A: I've made the "signup/login" banner button to navigate to the registration page (with option to see login) instead of the login page by default. This should a much better flow as most users clicking the button will be those registering. Thanks for the tip!
For me, it depends on the store.

Some places feel "well-curated": they may not have a ton of books, but it seems like the books they do have were carefully chosen. Maybe there are "theme" collections (local authors, ghost stories for grownups, Russian authors", etc) or well-read staff members making recommendations. I love browsing these places.

Other places seem to go with the "pile of books" approach. There's a lot of them, roughly organised ('fiction') and many of them are obvious tat ('Lose Weight the Dr. Oz Way' or something. I find it easy to leave these places without buying anything.
Does anyone know the latest findings from studies that linked soy consumption to estrogen increase in men?

The impossible burger being non soy based was a huge selling point for me...
You commented this on both of the top comments. Bias is showing.
The Church-Turing thesis has more to do with what a human can achieve than what is physically possible. I think your position appears section 2 here: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/church-turing/

...but whether or not it's Turing's, it's still a valid position to take. It just strikes me as a trope of human history to identify the limits with our limits. Kind of like how we once thought we were the center of the universe.

Yeah, it seems unlikely that we'll ever watch a neural network perform an action that would yield an unprovable result, but given that we can't know either way I think it's more fun to think that it's at least possible.
Quite a lot, actually.

Node-red is simple. It's meant for "talk to this api and do this thing". There's no real thought to flow, or queues, or any of the details of message passing infra.

NiFi has queues at every level, and full customization of each. You can set each to either overflow a queue (and delete old messages) or force nodes to wait until handling is completed.

There's also a strong sense of provenance in how data is handled. Auditing is baked in at every layer.

Provenance and credential storage also allow me running my NiFi with my Reddit credentials to share the access to you, without ever exposing the credentials.

Node-Red is a prototyping tool for making quick and dirty JS implementations of stuff.

NiFi is a professional data routing engine.
Why not just build one yourself when you really feel you want? Won't it be twice (or more) the fun? Isn't a previously bought one going to be equally illegal after such a "bright idea"? Be careful and have fun anyway.
There is emotional pain and then there is physiological pain.

Drugs and alcohol alleviate emotional pain and have physilogical "pleasure" effects in some cases. But most of the negative effects that are frequently talked about are physiological.

Apples shouldn't be compared to oranges. A good comparison would for example be to compare the pleasures of drugs against the emotional toll caused by the negative sociological effects (can't get jobs,stigma,less friends in some cases,unintended harm to loved ones,etc...)

People take medical drugs like anti-depressants all the time knowing full well long term use can have side effects and even in the short term there can be severe side effects.
Truth. I think that might be a reason why none of the retail incumbents, not even the ones with a by-mail background, did well. If you were an upstart, by-mail-only internet company, you didn't need to know how to run a bricks-and-mortar retail chain (of large size).

It is probably relevant to consider Amazon's (limited) forays into bricks-and-mortar establishments. They have had about as much impact as the online versions of the legacy retailers.
>No real-world machine learning algorithm can use the real numbers.

That depends entirely on what one means by "real numbers".

See previous hacker news discussion of a different paper on real numbers, here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17291752
here (old but gold DEFCON18 talk) Pwned By The Owner: What Happens When You Steal A Hacker's Computer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwpg-AwJ0Jc
Going to a CC I got the feeling that any professors who weren't fresh out of their own education who taught there were those who'd lost their passion and were happy to just totter along until retirement.
>Good. This does exactly what Nasim Taleb argues and forces the college to have "skin in the game."

This philosophy operates under the assumption that colleges should be beholden to an economic system that values individuals solely for their ability to grow existing capital.

It's a recipe for cultural stagnation.

Where do we develop entirely new modes of thought and expression [and potential new sources of wealth] if we deprioritize every activity other than those that optimize for the growth of existing wealth?
Yeah, I feel like this model is a form of private taxes that is more ripe for abuse. Just do it bigger and more efficient (and with transparency and oversight) with public education.
Just go to a library and bring headphones?

Coworking spaces for the most part don't seem interested in catering to you. It's easier to find people who don't mind an active noisy environment than it is to please people who demand a quiet workplace.
I don't see how unit testing prevents that stuff either. How do you write a unit test for a corner case if you've missed it? If you're aware of it's existence, why not just update the code to handle it?
China agreed to sanction Iran when they voted in favor of multiple UN sanctions. As a permanent member of the UN security council, they could have vetoed it.
If the words of some random person on the internet can dissuade you from being a founder then you're not cut out to be a founder.
Not just different glibc's, also Unicode versions.

I constantly have to update my towupper() function for my safelibc. musl is hopelessly behind, and glibc is not much better with Unicode support. ICU constantly has breaking changes, but at least keeps its tables up to date.
Unicode itself changes its tables every year. This year we had 6 changes there.
DB or Web clients really need to pass the unicode version in its API: like "sorted according to Unicode 11.0"
I, too, hate the "come down" more than I desire the reward, which makes me averse to many of those things, as well as gambling. I have a hard time following sports teams too closely because I hate to "lose" more than I like to "win".

That said, I don't have the same reaction to alcohol; the cravings when I regularly partake are stronger than the desire not to. I'm sure there's a whole spectrum of folks from averse to addiction, to easily addicted to anything.
Also you can do pickup at Walmart on a ton of items and have it in an hour or less—and usually at the same price or lower, now that Amazon charges sales tax; very few places have prime instant or whatever the same-day service is for Prime.
it's a free service that allows you to bypass some paywalls like nytimes, wapo, and wsj. it strips out everything but the text.
I’ve seen a lot of results regarding net protein synthesis with respect to amino acid profiles, and in general, higher concentrations of specific amino acids were tied to greater synthesis. (Especially Leucine through mTOR.) Is this misleading somehow?
I have pretty bad depression and mindfulness (metacognition/awareness of your emotions) have a lot to do with memories. I'm often not "aware" that I'm happy/sad/angry, etc. and my memories reflect that. Just taking a moment and thinking about what I'm currently feeling can be surprising to me.

I think this relates a lot here, people who are well aware of their emotions may observe the effects the drugs have on them, not just when they're high/coming down but also it's affects on their day to day lives.