skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those prices are comparable to services like Peapod which take orders the day before and plan out at least relatively efficient schedules. Especially if they're moving to a yearly flat rate subscription to get people to make more frequent orders, I don't see how this can work.

But I wish them the best of luck, it would be wonderful for them and their customers.
I seem to have a flashback just now when github's battle cry was that they didn't accept VC money.
Steve, thank you for your comments.

Our metrics to date seem to disagree with your speculation about people not having the time to cook. There are also a host of products that Instacart carries for occasions other than dinner, like sundries, snacks and beer. These are our most popular items. Also, I agree that it would be a terrible experience for the customer if items arrived expired or broken - which is why we take such great care to make sure that those things don't happen.

We've also found that a 3-hour delivery is very convenient for most customers, and it's by far the most preferred option. With regards to delivery from grocery stores themselves: please try ordering something from one in the next hour.
Or do you claim that antibiotics are also homeopathy and spiritualism?

Non sequitur/strawman/slippery slope.

Nope. Not a non-sequitur because it also fits the themes of:
a) items which must be used as directed otherwise results are lessened or negated, b) affect bacteria in relation to the human body and c) could be claimed as magic/voodoo by your exact argument.

Not a strawman, because most other medical chemicals must be used as directed, and are not dismissed as homeopathy as a result of this. Your argument must be taken as given, not as you wish it to be applied.

Not a slippery slope, because I am not arguing we must take tylenol and antibiotics to be homeopathy if this crystaline deodorant is also homeopathy, nor am I arguing cascading results of one declaration of the other. A comparison of like things does not constitute a slippery slope.

* What is your problem?

Ad hominem.*

Again, no - and ad hominem attack would be for me to state "you have a problem with the deodorant, therefore your statements are wrong or untrustworthy". I did nothing of the sort. I merely asked why you have a problem with the stuff after otherwise dismantling your argument.

Did you read the rest of the thread? I'll concede that my specific quotation does not, in isolation, appear to be a "No True Scotsmen" fallacy, but considered with the rest of the crystalline deodorant alternative thread, and with spritualist arguments in the form of "It doesn't work if you have unrepented sin/if you don't pray hard enough/maybe you need to fast longer/maybe it's just not God's will", my comment makes more sense

By my reading the rest of the thread is by many other commenters, some state the stuff works for them, some state it doesn't. Some claim you have to use it right, and without things that are claimed to be confounding. They aren't religious arguments, they may be incorrect arguments, I don't have the understanding of it. Some commenters seem to be a bit more hand-wavey than others. Some simply state they only get results when the salts are applied to clean skin, and in absence of other product, and may take a couple weeks to become effective. That seems reasonable to me for a number of reasons.

Some of the claims that seem overzealous such as "never needs to be applied again" are a bit much, but that same guy later says "never needs to be applied again, maybe once a week". Such a statement could be religious addling, or could be the result of a non-native English speaker having a problem with correct phrasing or translating an idiom.

Point being, your claims are unwarranted, and are fairly judgmental in a way that is more "anti homeopathy/religious" than anything that is fact based. Your claims of religiosity only really work if you twist some of the stuff said hard, and pretend multiple posters are one person.
Update: Wow, that was easy! It's now available on Marmalade. (package-install 'eredis)
I think they've been able to demonstrate quantum entanglement getting past the latency problem; the light beam has to be continuous (you have to know you want this communication for as long as it takes for the photons to make the journey) but by sending one entangled photon and monkeying with its trapped twin at the source, it's theoretically possible to get near-instant communication over any distance.

Still, as important as latency is here on planet Earth to the financial trading witch doctors in New York, Tokyo, and London, seems odd no one's been able to monetize this idea as yet.
Identica (StatusNet) is open source and federated. For some people, those are negatives. The "walled garden" approach is a very attractive business model.
Amen. I drastically cut back my use of Twitter and Facebook several months ago and have not missed them at all.
I don't understand the ins and outs of this website, or the scoring system. As far as I can tell, my score "went down" because I made an honest (but negative) observation about former world chess champion Gary Kasparov on some previous thread.
I'm using the Svbtle WordPress theme on my blog @ http://lylemckeany.com.

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Good point.

I think at least they can first call you before they attempt to deliver the package. If you are not there, then just keep the package for the next day's delivery. This will avoid the delivery failure and save time of both sides.
Well more interesting stuff. My Googling yielding woefully incomplete references for your keywords. So "a long time" means what here? Some pointers would be useful here. I'm interested, help me out here.

I know there was a book giving long reworking of Black-Scholes for Levi-Stable distributions in the early 2000's.

Of course, while you described the sophisticated approach, from Black-Scholes to the Gaussian "coupela" to the OP, the unsophisticated approach has a lot of traction still.

If we're ranging around all our interests in the market, I'd offer what I might hope would be the Minsky comment; "the fault, dear Brutus, lies not with our models but in our selves". Gaussian models reappear because they have "predictiveness". The problematic sides of the more sophisticated models are tolerated for the same reason. Greed tempts us always to irrationality jump from what Keynes called uncertainty to mere probability.

Btw, what do you think of Doug Noland of prudentbear.com?
New Google Tools to Make the Search Engine More All-Knowing
I always kind of thought that Venus would be a neat place to preform "grey goo" experiments. Lots of matter and energy, and really the only thing you are going to do is make it a nicer place. Worse case is that it remains Venus.
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This is exciting.

Seems like what Gabe is doing is what Google wanted to do with Chrome OS...without the OS.

I could definitely see Valve becoming a competitor in this sense with a cross-platform app + document experience that works smoothly on most desktop devices. The question is whether they can expand this sort of system onto tablets and phones.
Probably. I don't even care about Facebook anymore. It is just an XMPP server for me.
No, normal people aren't even aware of the existence of Linux. That's primarily where GNOME (and Unity) have gone so badly wrong: optimizing for an audience that doesn't exist.
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Data suggests iOS may be the most popular gaming platform of all time
What's long? a year? twenty?

And to answer that question and others is why we(humans) have bothered with Space Lab, Mir, IST. You can Google answer.
I went to a talk with one of WebVan's early employees, who actually went on to found Kiva Systems, the robotic fulfillment system Amazon just purchased for something like $750 million.

He seemed to insist the reason WebVan couldn't be profitable was because fulfillment was too expensive, which served as inspiration for Kiva. Having people walk around was too slow and too big a cost center.

Obviously this is biased, but still an interesting point to throw in here, since it doesn't look like something they've addressed.
This is another symptom of Google's extreme "let's make algorithms do what people usually did".

Actually humans can't process all the video uploaded to Youtube, and never did. Viacom sued them for $1,000,000,000 (billion) and more rights-holders were lining up behind them to do the same. Not just for money - a lot of very powerful companies wanted Youtube shut down for good, and were willing to throw real resources at making that happen. Google put ContentID in place to placate the rights-holders in order to save Youtube's existence. It would literally be sued into oblivion and no longer exist if it weren't for ContentID. So there are issues, but don't think Google just did this on a whim.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_air_conditioning

> Superior energy efficiency can be designed into new construction (or retrofitted to existing buildings). Since the U.S. Department of Energy was created in 1977, their Weatherization Assistance Program[25] has reduced heating-and-cooling load on 5.5 million low-income affordable homes an average of 31%. A hundred million American buildings still need improved weatherization. Careless conventional construction practices are still producing inefficient new buildings that need weatherization when they are first occupied.

Compare that with German standards for energy efficient buildings.
If you are in Chrome, you can do Incognito Window
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I think this is really cool. Lots of people make productivity systems, but very few people can say they've utilized them as successfully.
True and since the pre-planned sale was at $12 and the current price is $3, assuming the stock scaled the same his $3.9M payday would have been a $975K payday, $480K after taxes. Quite the difference.

And of course if you were one of those folks who were forced to give back options [1] before the IPO, you are probably pretty pissed off.

[1] http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-57322150-17/zynga-to-emplo...
Yeah, if I'm headed to my cottage or some place without Internet access I make sure whatever games I want to play are updated then I switch to offline mode.

Sometimes I can go straight to offline mode but to be on the safe side, switch before you lose network access.
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No, the article was a gross generalization.
There was a microphone sent to Mars once, but it was on a lander that crashed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_polar_lander#Scientific_in...

Edit: Correction, twice, one was also sent on Phoenix but due to a design defect it was not used: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_(spacecraft)#Mars_Desce...
I have trouble taking a concrete prediction seriously when it's deduced from such vagaries.
Same day delivery services like these have existed in Japan for years. They're wonderful.

But they lend themselves to low weight/high value goods that are easily shipped. And to highly concentrated population centers where the higher costs of same day shipping associated with operating a warehouse or retail store in an expensive environment can be amortized over higher margin goods.
A CD? In 2012? Windows and OS X haven't fit on a CD in almost 10 years and you can barely find a copy of OS X on DVD.

Most (legal) Windows and OS X users aren't downloading and installing the OS from cd/usb/dvd. Most Debian users are. Restricting size decreases download time and decreases the difficulty of finding installation medium with sufficient space.

Also, since it's more work to install additional packages on non-apt-based OSes the benefit to installing initially is greater.
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Of all the files on my system, the only ones that even hit the normalization issue are explicitly meant for human interaction. OS files typically aren't named using non-ASCII characters.
Came back to add this, seeing as you're not interested in responding.

I don't really care if you don't like Techdirt, and by extension, the person who wrote this (that's me) and think that everything cranked out there is a pack of lies.

My issue with your claim here (beyond the fact that I'm about 95% certain you didn't even read the post) is that by saying "Techdirt fudges the facts," you're calling all the sources I quoted in the post liars, including the owner of the site that was taken down (Dale Porter/LendInk), who showed up in the comments to give his side of the story. His account syncs up remarkably with the narrative in the post.

So, you can hate on Techdirt if you must, but be careful about who else you're suffocating under your blanket statements.
why isn't there more outrage ?
App.net is not Twitter. It's an infrastructure, upon which new social services can bloom. It's AWS.
If this is used for anonymity it is completely understandable for potential customers to want to know EXACTLY how anonymous this makes the number.

That's like Sony saying "give us your personal info, CC numbers, etc... don't worry we'll take care of the rest" and they turn around and store it in plaintext or md5 on an insecure database.

Also, if it turns out that this service is somehow unlawful or could get shut down / interrupted by law enforcement then I want to know that before I invest in them as a customer.

TL;DR - It's never wrong to question something; especially something like this. If they can't answer the hard questions now then they don't deserve our trust.
There is no such thing as pure black on your computer either - your monitor does not have an infinite contrast ratio.

So this is a pretty pointless rule, since it's impossible to violate it.

The human eye uses relative colors, not absolute ones. So the darkest color on your artwork IS black, no matter that it returns some light.
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What are the markings on the vehicle in this picture for? Are they some sort of visual tag for self calibration?

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/msl112511/m11_0404...

They're also visible in the pictures from Mars:

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/674846main_pia16011-43_16...
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> Publishers are very much at fault

I don't see how. From the publisher's point of view, it's completely legit: A video that mixes public domain imagery with original additions. Any news org that covered the landing without including some of NASA's public domain images or video would have everyone (rightly!) saying "Their Mars coverage sucks!"

Even if they don't have original additions, it's in the public domain; publishers can do what they want with it, including merely slapping their watermark in the corner and uploading as-is.

I'd say that nobody's really "at fault;" rather, the widespread availability of technology to easily and cheaply download, remix, upload, and stream video is presenting new use cases which our existing notions of content ownership simply haven't had to deal with before.

The solution will be through some mix of better technology (i.e. smarter scanning algorithms), better modeling of the problem domain (maybe the next version of YouTube's Content ID program will address the issue of situations like this), and changing social and legal norms.

In the long term, I believe that one day, people, businesses, laws, and private agreements like ToS will work out an equilibrium where expectations of ownership and use are clear to everyone, penalties are considered reasonable and proportionate to offenses, are enforced consistently with few false positives or negatives, and people mostly manage to get along -- in contrast to the current free-for-all environment where none of these things are true.

Unfortunately, "the long term" may be very long -- I'd say 30-60 years. Also, while my assessment may sound positive on first reading, the previous paragraph actually leaves substantial space for very distopian scenarios -- where (for example) permanent ownership is considered reasonable, fair use no longer exists, the expectation is that copyright violators will be jailed, financially ruined, and/or permabanned from the Internet, those penalties are swiftly and surely enforced by extremely invasive monitoring of all computer activity, and anyone who tries to make waves about the situation is dismissed by the media establishment as a fringe lunatic, and can't effectively organize due to the intense restrictions on the Internet.
Why should those computers[1] go to landfill when they're perfectly capable of doing whatever is needed by the owners? Especially if the "extra functionality" that needs all that power is, well, what?

There are continents where Internet speeds are not great (or are expensive) - some of those are first world countries too. (EG Australia).

Many people don't care if they can bash the arrow keys on a Google Doodle. They just want to send a bit of email and do a bit of gentle web browsing; maybe a bit of light office work and some pdf reading.

WordStar and WordPerfect sold a gajillion copies and are fondly remembered by many. Abiword would cover the needs for 90% of its users.

[1] and all the copper; lead; rare earth heavy metals; aluminum; plastics; gold; etc etc.
The first time i wanted to learn HTML and CSS,i happened to come across the W3fools page.So i followed their advice and their recommended resources.What do i get?Tons and tons of STORIES about secure code,best practices,patchy examples,and some sections clearly marked "This notes are out of date".Man,i have barely learned to switch on a computer.What are you talking about??
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Thanks for the advice! Why do you say that?
Something more like this?

https://bagcheck.com/bag/382-bagcheck-technology
> "...Some folks have started voicing hostile opinions..."

A little late to the game, there.

This post ignores two important points:

1. There are a lot of much better sites out there (linked to from W3Fools, even). Selectively highlighting a single post is misleading.

2. W3Fools is not so much for the benefit of W3Schools, but for people who link to W3Schools as reference in blog posts, SO answers, etc. There are lots of great reference sites (MDN!) that provide much better material, but circumstances have given W3Schools a lot of GoogleFu. That needs to change.
My guess is that he's asking for $50 because he doesn't want to attract people who won't extract significantly more than $50 worth of value.

Regarding your comparison to FB: price is certainly not just about cost; it can also be about establishing the right signals to potential customers and non-customers. In this case, I suspect the signal is "if $50 doesn't seem like a great deal for this product, you're not the target customer".

Aside from attracting a particular kind of customer just by setting a price at all (e.g., eliminating huge swaths of automated spammers), this can potentially create a positive network effect. If you're someone who wants to follow a social news feed, which society sounds better: the one where everyone involved cared enough to put up $50, or the society where botnets can easily create thousands of accounts per day?

There's a lot to be said about free-for-all ecosystems; but they're not the only solution.
It's really for people without a car. I have plenty of time to cook, but shopping for groceries without a car is annoying. Taking more than two bags at a time on the bus really sucks.
I signed up after reading this post!
False dichotomies are fun and all, but let's be honest. Does it really either have to "die a hero" or "become the villain"?

The whole point is that Twitter has become the villain, and that App.net is providing an API infrastructure, not a closed social media experience owned by advertisers.
Ask HN: How do you meet like minded/purposeful people?
I've got a number of 'good ideas' going on the side - like most I imagine. Most skills I didn't have to start work on these ideas I've tried to learn and develop. There are just some things I can't learn or do.

How do you go about meeting people who are interested in helping others develop ideas? Google+ seems to be great starting point but are there places dedicated to bringing smart people together? Say, you want to speak to a front end developer or a database engineer? Outside your friends circle, where would go looking?

The StackExchange sites are a good example but are rather formal and text bound.
That Wikipedia article described USPS PO Boxes. Private companies (Mailboxes Etc, etc) have offered similar services in the US for years, although they are not technically a PO Box. They may have similar requirements, but the link that you provided does not discuss it.
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Who actually likes getting magazines from the cable company or car dealerships foisting other services? Isn't there room for a different kind of business model? Vimeo is a good example. Unlike Youtube, Vimeo doesn't advertise and charges users for premium service. And for a certain types of content producers that makes it a much more attractive platform. Hence you generally see artistic works with high quality standards there vs. attention-grabbing fluff.
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Don't forget about people who don't have cars.

I absolutely loved Ocado when I was living in London. Tesco's was four blocks away, and Sainsbury's a kilometer. Getting groceries home on the bus is no fun.

Damaged goods were refunded no questions asked (the yogurt pots had a habit of bursting).

If I could get the same service in this area, I'd do it at the drop of a hat.