skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a misconception - they claim to track inventory source, but I don't believe it for a second. There are warnings all over seller blogs and forums not to commingle inventory because you'll be held responsible if Amazon sends another seller's counterfeit product to a buyer on your behalf. People have experienced this en mass - including myself, I was dinged for selling a "generic" item instead of the name brand item while I actually sent in the correct name brand item. It was a Ninja blender. It seems to happen to every seller who commingles eventually.

On top of that I once sent in a box of items that was checked in twice several weeks apart. Amazon sold double the inventory I sent them on my behalf and paid me for the sales of products I never sent them. Stories of phantom inventory are common. It can get crazy - someone [1] sent in a shipment of four items and 72 were added to their inventory, which Amazon happily sold for them after checking with the fulfillment center and insisting that the inventory was correct. This sort of thing shouldn't happen if you're actually tracking inventory. Also, their system shouldn't allow a shipment to be checked in twice.

[1] http://www.orensmoneysaver.com/2016/06/turnover-tuesdays-ama...
WeWork Is Said to Weigh Bailout That Hands Control to SoftBank
That's true with TV ads. You can't tell a huge whopper in a TV ad without lots of people seeing it and saying "WTF? I can't vote for this guy."

You can, however, promulgate specific conspiracy theories in highly targeted ads that the majority of people never see. If 0.1% of people believe some crazy theory, you can show them ads linking the opposing candidate with it.

Perhaps almost everyone believes some crazy theory.

In the future, everyone will be fooled for 15 minutes.
My experience is that even with the most awful transit system it is possible to make group trips with multiple families together with one card using one person's car. Even in a city with no transit at all surely you can find someone once a month willing to drive in exchange for free access to the lower prices on stuff, it's just common sense. Now Costco versus other options is hard to say, but their prices on certain things are hard to beat.
Before changing jobs, I was in a WeWork location at DTX in Boston. There were many rooms that were empty, but Puma was paying for an entire floor so maybe they were making the difference up with large corporation clients?
Clash over Surveillance Software Turns Personal in Germany
> When? webrtc is like 10 years old.

Well, 8 from initial release. 18 months from first stable release.

Far as I understand it, lag and overheating are hardware/network problems. Considering the amount of development going into both of them, that situation is only going to improve but of course I don't have a roadmap.

FWIW I haven't noticed problems with either and I don't have a mind blowing setup.

I look at what browsers are doing now compared to 1999, there's no way I'd want to go back
Seems like the sign up flow is broken.
Unity also does animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8NeB10INDo

But it gets really pedantic arguing the semantics of web flash - fundamentally it was only showing on a web page because you installed the browser plugin or it. Today browsers might have stopped supporting arbitrary library plugins like that but now you can write them in webassembly for the same ends. Its just that nobody has actually gone and done it yet.
Or a download + dosbox were searching for.

A 700MB download is a non-issue. An implicit 700MB download every time you wanna play is insane.
This is the legacy Wal-Mart took over by acquiring Jet.com in 2016. They were a brand new site with millions of products in their catalog, yet didn't actually stock a huge portion of them. When I bought a wifi router from Jet, they simply ordered it for me from the Newegg website, and paid Newegg more than I paid Jet. It arrived in the Newegg box with the Newegg invoice.
I'd swear blind that game was cursed. Almost every 8-bit conversion (including the C64 version), and some of the 16-bit versions were terrible.

ISTR the Sega Master System version being the most playable.
I lived for a year and a half in Hyogo-ken, Japan during uni, mostly with a host family so I didn't criss-cross the country or anything but one of the grossest washrooms I have ever been in was in Kobe near the train station. It was like built into the wall and was just absolutely disgusting with no sink or anything. And I lived in China for a half a year and saw some pretty nasty toilets, but nothing as gross as that. Also, pretty much all combini washrooms are nasty too... But yeah, on the whole Japan appears cleaner - they learn to clean in school since they take turns being on duty for it and have to clean their own stuff, not just in high-school either. I joined the tea ceremony club at my uni which took place in this little traditional style house behind the school and once a week I was on duty in the morning to scrub the tatami. I think other countries should take that lesson and build in cleaning duties.
>> But people still understand that they need to put gas in their car to make their car go, and if they run out of gas, their car can not go. We don't have to know what gas is, but it is still a quantity of something.

>> But our concept of files and data is becoming so abstracted that we do not even know where our data is anymore, how much we need, or how long it takes to transfer it. But until we have much more bandwidth and storage, there will be problems.

I think you're mixing up analogies at different levels of abstraction... yes people know they need to fuel their vehicles, and they know they need to plug their computers into power or charge the battery, and connect to the Internet. People probably don't know much about fuel injection, and plenty of them probably don't know what a spark plug is. It's possible that they also don't really need to know what the underlying storage abstraction for data is.
Flash died because Steve Jobs knew that it would cost Apple much money since the to grossing App Store items have always been games and Flash was what most of the web based games were programmed in. He couldn't cash in on that market plus it was a direct competitor. He had the leverage and opportunity to do so... so he defamed and killed it. Jobs was all about innovation... as long as it was coming out of Apple.
Pro Pinball Timeshock is my favorite pinball game.

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Pro_Pinball_-_Timeshock_19...
For some prior art in this space, it may be useful looking at ESR's shipper:

http://www.catb.org/esr/shipper/

And some blog posts he's written on it:

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?s=shipper&submit=Search
Do you watch videos on a computer monitor or a tablet or a phone? They are all the same thing these days.
> More than 100% of its profits

Anyone mind explaining how more than 100% is possible?
You make $5 profit on A, and -$1 profit on B. Your total profit is $4, 125% of which comes from A.
Regardless of whether wealthy folks' cars are allowed on the road, streets need to exist in order to deliver goods, run buses, and carry disabled passengers to their destinations.

Congestion exemptions for disabled transporters and other social goods can be enacted to eliminate the regressive risk of congestion pricing.
I hope this spreads.

Team games---LoL, DotA, Overwatch---have been twisted and distorted by their respective companies to try to fit the wishes of their playerbase, who generally play these games solo. Thus team games steadily become less and less team-oriented, or more team-oriented, at the cost of ham-handed algorithmic authoritarianism (e.g. role queues).

But if stuff like this takes off, maybe companies will be more true to their vision and less pliable.
Deep localization of protein structures in fluorescence microscopy images
The Clap Is Back
Costco is the only place in Japan where I can find decent French cheese. I am not sure how it happened, but there it is.
It's not really a privilege escalation, but a method for completely bypassing memory protection. So keeping cryptographic verification outside the CPU is not enough, if you end up having your sensitive data in the RAM anyway.
In this case it looks like merely switching between different methods of tobacco consumption due to changes in the society. Cigarettes win vs pipes and cigars both in price and in time requirements.
And so much easier to store! I've also given up on liquid - you cannot taste the difference.
Soda bread, but just buy some instant yeast and keep it in a jar in the fridge: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0001CXUHW/
An Introduction to Serverless Functions for Data Science
Couldn’t agree more. The people make up the democracy and they are (for a lack of better word in this instance) stupid and not demanding for a change (of laws, legislature and the people representing them). While banning ads is a solution it’s like treating the symptom and not the root cause - educating masses and giving them a way to practice. active citizenry which is the foundation of democracy. It’s it’s way to hard if not down right impossible to be and active citizen. The system has evolved such that the masses have no time. Capitalistic system promotes a lot of good thing but the downside it’s the masses participating in it mostly have no time for anything other that working. Even for them to go vote is so hard. Even if they make it there it’s hard to understand the ballot and who or what they are voting for. Once they have voted there are basically done till the next voting cycle 2 years out. There is no way for them to keep tabs on progress, voice against things they object or keep their politicians in check. They best solution today is to “call you representative”. Even if you do what do you tell them? It’s all quite like a spaghetti which is quite hard to untangle.
Man if only the democrats hired Cambridge Analytics. This sandbox would be insanely different.
I use the shelf stocking example because that's actually illegal in the US.
Can dang or sctb fix the title of this to the correct one?

"How to fuck up software releases"
At least in the Bay Area I can pay for a yearly membership just by the savings on gas.
Hi, I need you to come in and work on proving Fermat's last theorem for four hours, just to see if you're a hidden gem.
The population is something like 70% Chinese. How are you going to randomly assign locations and NOT have a Chinese majority............
All the Trump administration did is

So trump is trying to kill CAHSR? Got it. Or are you trying to claim that gutting funding will help CAHSR?
Geneticists retract study suggesting first CRISPR babies might die early
My wife and I have experienced three layoffs between us, two of them after the 2008 financial crash. We used to lean left but were not at all politically involved. We had comfortable positions with cushy benefits. After getting laid off the positions we found paid less and did not include benefits. This experience really opened our eyes to what life is like for average working people in this country.

We both have personal connections to Asian countries that have socialized medicine, but here in the supposedly advanced U.S. we were only able to get insurance because of Obamacare, and that insurance is so expensive and has such a high deductable that we may as well have been pouring our money down a toilet. Things are better now but the feeling doesn't go away.

These experiences radicalized us. They made us really cynical about our capitalist system and receptive to the voices of progressives like Bernie Sanders and movements like Occupy. It's made us really have sympathy with the concerns of poor and marginalized and working people.
They paid their inside sales team insane commissions relative to industry standard, plus overall staff bloat to masquerade as a tech company.
Before they accepted American Express they only accepted debit and cash. I remember having the American Express card and being excited that I could finally get cash back on Costco purchases and have a credit card vaguely backed by a company I trust.
What we had 20 years ago was an insecurable proprietary plugin for web browsers. It wasn't standard, nobody could audit it, it was just a corporate product.

And where we are at now, where Macromedia got bought and Adobe slowly drained its lifeblood and killed its products, is what happens when you try to build systems on top of holistically proprietary foundations. Nobody owes you their enduring survival and you are totally dependent on whoever owns the platform to give you their blessing.

Its a lesson Apple developers often love waxing poetic all over the front page of HN about on the regular.
I narrowly avoided layoffs when I worked in the enterprise space for years; finally got spooked enough after a very large merger that I left to go work in the start-up space.

Got laid off two weeks ago with not much to walk away with except a weeks salary. There were severe cash-flow problems, and I get the impression that those that remained at work are potentially facing some more layoffs soon.

Sort of freaked out for a day or so and started grinding through the "find a new job ASAP" process. Thankfully the market where I live seems to be doing well, so I have a new gig to walk into next week.
The open air storage pond in not ok, but I think the fuel fire scenario is greatly exagerated. I'd have gas masks and plastic suits for family members just in case the site needs to be evacuated. Probably not but it doesn't hurt to at least be prepared.
If only the democrats hired Cambridge analytics. The sandbox would be insanely different.

Data is the new oil.

Left leaning people control companies with more data than anyone else.

Right leaning people control companies with more oil than anyone else.
When you get counterfeit electronics, you can usually tell right away. The packaging is off, misprinted, often has a Chinese name in small print on it somewhere. The product looks fine from a distance but up close, the mold alignment is off, it's too light, it feels cheap.

More often than not you roll your eyes and use it anyway, because most of the time it works well enough, for a while at least.

Branded food is a lot less likely to get a pass on any of those. We have a strong sense of what it's supposed to look like, smell like, taste like, feel like; we might put up with less from a clearly marked store-brand copy, but a name brand that doesn't taste like it should sets off alarm bells. And exactly reproducing a commercial food product is hard.
Good habit formation can't hurt, but don't neglect the fundamentals. The thing that's pulling your shoulders forward is not some mental weakness on your part, it's an imbalance in muscle tightness and weakness, like a tent pole with regular guy wires on one side and yarn on the other. You need exercises to strengthen the lower traps like floor Y's and chest supported dumbbell row, plus face pulls and scapular wall slide.

https://1h6wllf3f4qfut1832zlo21e-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-... (upper cross syndrome diagram)

https://www.t-nation.com/training/top-priority-for-lower-tra... (prone Y)

https://www.menshealth.com/fitness/a19521507/chest-supported... (chest supported dumbbell row)

https://www.t-nation.com/training/whats-your-weak-link (scapular wall slide)
You can make a game today in Godot / Unity, export to HTML5, and drop it on itch.io to play in browser in minutes.
considering modern society relies on Diesel trucks and fuel oil-burning ships to feed itself, those numbers don’t seem too crazy. If we stopped using fossil fuels tomorrow we’d have mass starvation everywhere within weeks.

So I guess it depends on what you mean by abrupt. I think we could certainly do something like add a $2/gallon tax on gas and diesel fuel without that happening, and it would reduce driving and emissions, but I would see the politicians who passed that law getting voted out at the next election as the people refuse to have their current standard of living lowered.
Why is this more controversial than Apple sending URLs to Google?
> This seems to mean LinkedIn can't sue to prevent scraping.

Zillow and similar companies have shut down numerous startups which relied on scraping their data.

How is this different?
Yep, exactly like that. IMO you want to be the single best page on the internet for something like that. More interactive than a Wikipedia page, broader content than a news item, etc.
Amazon's retail experience has been sliding downhill since going public, but that's fine because shareholders are the customer now
The Millennial’s Guide to Philosophy: Sartre
Anybody remember FantaVision on the Apple ][? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL7V5nfmveI

Vector tweening in 1985. Though not interactive. (and I think the video is sped up a bit)
There is a section that addresses that specific point:

> The Landmarks Preservation Board protects the facades of historic buildings, but not their interiors. Thus landmarking led townhouses once divided into multiple apartments to be converted into single-family mansions for the incoming super-rich—serving only to further inflame the speculative energies that skyrocketed the prices of the buildings they preserved.
Why not a fruit bearing tree?

Is it a prion risk or other health concern? or just people being squeamish / worried about misuse e.g. "haha that apple you just ate was made out of my grandpa" type thing.
As the article said the TAM for political ads is only a few hundred million dollars. That's not worth the increased scrutiny.
You should expect to get the same product if you buy the same product, though, whatever the quality.
Anyone growing up in Australia in the 80s would remember the "Do the Right Thing" TV ads. I think they were quite effective in making littering socially unacceptable, along with the threat of a fine.
I wonder how much of the TV problem comes down to the plague of audio engineers creating tracks that you have to turn the volume up on to hear the quite parts? I always need to have my TV at a higher volume than necessary to deal with this. "Silicon Valley's empathy problem" has been a meme for a while now but with awful sound leveling and stuff like not seeing the battle of Winterfell because of how I "tuned my TV" it seems creators are increasingly out of touch with consumers.

And then there's the ads at a higher volume.
High Availability is not compatible with a MVP, because MVP is about iteration
been burned twice (Lenovo, Motorola) with "yes we will" followed by months of "we meant maybe" followed by months and then "no, we won't"

Tablets get less love than phones too. That said, my recent expriences have been better than prior, but still somewhat dire.

"two years and its junk" is a pretty bad rule. it feels like formalized planned-obsolescence.
During 1999-2000, I helped hundreds of people learn how to use Flash. I was, looking back now, probably one of the top experts on Flash 4 at the time in the world. The twist - I was a 15 year old living in a tiny African country called Lesotho.

Lesotho is pretty isolated from the world. Nobody even knows it exists. Living there, Silicon Valley might as well be on Mars.

However, we used to get issues of Wired Magazine from South Africa, and these came with shareware CDs. These CDs included 30-day trial editions of Macromedia Flash.

Flash was amazing at the time. Being able to create interactive animations blew my mind. I learned Flash 4 completely inside and out. I knew every single feature, every single quirk.

Of course living in Lesotho, there was nothing I could really do with all this. Most people around me didn't even know how to use computers. Flash was several layers of abstraction away from that.

So I used to spend all my time on Yahoo Chat's Web Design chat rooms. Mainly hanging out with nerds in the US. We used to have countless people drop by in the rooms every day asking questions about Flash. Mainly people working for web design agencies in the US. I was the resident Flash expert. Flash questions always were referred to me.

In the 2000s Flash rightly got a lot of flak. I'm not sad it's gone. But it was really something special, especially in the late 90s.
Why do you say it doesnt work?
Sadly, it would not work in Windows 10 though. I know because I tried with Mac Mini 2011.
> Either have long term storage, or drop nuclear. There’s no in between

And burn coal instead, spread heavy metals and CO2 around and slowly poison everyone.

That is the alternative, we saw it in Japan after the Fukushima accident. Oh, btw, Tepco has announced it will discharge further nuclear contaminated water in the ocean as they ran out of space to store it.
Amazon's position and efforts against counterfeits:

https://www.aboutamazon.com/our-company/our-positions
Is it the same stunt as Bitfinex and LEO backed by USDT "backed" by dollars? How is the lawsuit working for NY attorney General by the way? These guy just feel untouchable… it's unbelievable what they can get away with…
It was Robotron.

Christian Gingras reverse engineered the entire game from scratch AND patched a fatal crash in the game that eluded the original developers for years.

http://www.robotron2084guidebook.com/technical/christianging...
You're right, they shouldn't of fed the homeless.
> you'll never again be able to experience Fortnite as it was 24 hours ago - ever.

Isn't that true of all one-time events, not just digital ones? I'll never be able to attend a Beatles concert or see "The Empire Strikes Back" on opening night or be celebrating on the streets of New York City on V-E Day.
Why can't Linux provide a stable driver ABI for compatibility? E.g. in addition to the unstable one. Like FUSE.
Ah. You're looking for "rusk". Google "Greek rusks" and you might find something that approximates the shadow of what you had.
why not use proxycrawl to do the scraping? that way you would avoid the blocks, especially for the google queries you do. I mean for your example it's ok but as soon as you start to get serious there will be problems with proxies
This is at odds with the article. IH (whom I'm a big fan of) makes a good case that it wasn't a hoax at all, but he didn't talk directly to the family like in this article. I'm not sure which to believe.
My friend from India purchased something for his wife while visiting me. It did not fit her so next year when he visited me he returned it at Costco. They took it back no questions asked.
The year 2500? Who knows what technologies we might have available by then (e.g. fusion power enabling cheap energy to the point where we can do carbon capture and reverse warming).

What we are already seeing is that we are trending away from a baseline scenario by electrifying transport, energy generation and energy storage. And it’s probably harder to predict politics than the climate but right now I only see that trend continuing. There are some unfortunate anti-nuclear steps being taken but eventually enough solar and wind will get online to replace them. Emissions in the USA have trended down thanks to fracking and coal being wiped out.

Sea levels will rise but new land in the arctic will open up for human habitation and agriculture. Wars and migration may certainly happen but we’ve had plenty of that in the last 200 years without the end of civilization.
I sometimes visit a Brisbane development forum which cannot fathom my suggestions to adopt "the big dig" with our city riverfront freeway. They all see this as a waste of time, and I still see this as returning 100+ year value to something precious: waterfront is too valuable to waste on cars.

The ground is amenable to tunnels. We should be getting rid of the flyovers.
I use a variant of this: a 2-quart bowl with hot tap water sits in the microwave, which is small and relatively well insulated. I also use this when doing overnight pre-ferments during the winter.
As soon as you are doing business with American citizens, the SEC can and will get involved so I imagine Telegram sold Grams to americans.