skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the UK, pharmacies sell pharmaceuticals, healthcare, beauty and toiletry products.

I was really surprised when I last visited the US to find a pharmacy with a deli counter, electronics aisles and a fridge full of frosty beers. It really was just a slick, well-stocked convenience store.
There was an "What If"[0] on xkcd about the ocean and ships' weight. The question itself was innocuous, but inside a parenthesis was this sentence:

(Marine fish biomass dropped by 80% over the last century,
which—taking into consideration the growth rate of the
world’s shipping fleet—leads to an odd conclusion:
Sometime in the last few years, we reached a point where
there are, by weight, more ships in the ocean than fish.)

I'm afraid of the future. Very, very afraid.

[0]: http://what-if.xkcd.com/33/
Trash the Dress or Nah? – JetMag.com
Maybe it's worthwhile to spend more time and brains on saving our environment. At least until we are able to leave this planet. Which I don't see in the near future. We are able to walk on the moon, build atom bombs and heal deadly diseases. Are we smart enough to not destroy this planet?
"Making simple software and charging heaps because we are hip and edgy..."

Every time I see things such as these I think: 20-something, doesn't understand money ($20/month seems "too much"), doesn't understand business, not much sense of humor either, mostly pissed about other being succesful...

The kind of people who write M$ with a dollar sign.
“The working group should not agree to freeze whatever syntax Chrome ships”
Nicotine has a lot of really great qualities, but anyone trying to justify smoking or chewing tobacco for its medical benefits is in denial.
My favorite thing about smokers is when it gets cold outside and I get to watch as they squirm making the decision as to whether its worth freezing just to have a smoke.
Your code may f * * * ing work, but my server f * * * ing loads
Those fees for "operations" are there for a good reason. Otherwise, us smart techies would hack it.

I heard a talk by someone at a mega tech company that has their own internal cloud for their teams, and they "charge" each team based on usage. One team stored lots of file with 12,000 character filenames with zero contents. Since the company only "charged" for file size, that team had a tiny charge!
C# also begets MSSQL.
Haha, yes, that's why I didn't use wide the first time!

Not sure how they'd describe blagging.
Public companies do not have a "fiduciary duty" to put profits ahead of morals. Whatever made you think that was the case?

Executives are beholden to the board who is beholden to the shareholders. If the shareholders don't want this, they can force change at any level.
How did you conclude that this was a "remark from an outsourced, minimum wage, offshore worker" ? The author was talking to a Verizon customer support.
Or distinctly inelegant and unable to scale to f*ing working for HN.
prior to the ACA she was previously unable to purchase health insurance on the private market due to a food allergy (a precondition).

This is a common misunderstanding. For most people in this situation, the laws on the books already took care of the problem. If she already had healthcare insurance at her previous employer, if she could show continuous coverage, she would be able to continue to purchase healthcare insurance privately, despite her preexisting condition.

Whether the private insurance would be affordable to you is a different question, but it's not true that a preexisting condition was, before Obamacare, a complete roadblock to acquiring coverage privately.
Swiftian parody is not just mean. Actually, with some exceptions (like the "modest proposal"), it's not mean at all.

And, most important of all, to fit Swiftian parody it would have to be Swiftian-level good. This is subreddit level humor....
I didn't say you get out of money transmitter rules. Just that Paypal's "currency exchange" reading and analogy is wrong - see: "...a person who accepts real currency in exchange for virtual currency, or vice versa, is not a dealer in foreign exchange under FinCEN's regulations."
> If the client needs a Christmas promotion, and you
> deliver the best product in the history of promotions --
> on December 29th -- it's worthless.

Isn't the point to set a deadline that allows the product to be built to a certain standard of quality? If you only ever have time to write untested copy-paste "code that fucking works" then you don't have a problem with your development approach ... unless you're convinced that's the only way to do things.
Please, stop talking in memes.
- Global Sovereign Debt / Currency Crisis

- The US Police State

- Increased Chinese, Japanese rivalry/aggression
While Indian newspapers were over the moon about Nadella’s elevation

Racism/nationalism fail #1.
It is changing, like everything, adopting to having less fish and animals. Interface is changing, it is becoming hostile with human life, more demanding and unforgiving, reflecting us in every step and way.

"What can I do? I am only one person?", throws plastic wrapping against the wind.
I managed to read the article before it went down, it was a pretty good read. Hopefully it comes back up soon.

Anyway it makes a good point that business objectives come before "best practices" which I agree with, but you need to be careful when cutting corners that you don't actually sabotage your business objectives. The real discussion is actually on a risk level: if I cut corner X, I can potentially make revenue Y unless cutting corner X causes a problem and I incur loss Z. Cutting that corner is only good if

P(no problems | cutting corner X) * Y > P (problems | cutting corner X) * Z

If this equation looks tough, it's because it is tough. This is not an easy decision and you really need to be on top of your game to choose correctly. Alternatively, Y must be much bigger than Z and you have some faith in your shortcut. But for most dev work, a lot of the time you're going to be getting that equation wrong if you just guess it and it's why so many experienced devs will tell you not to cut corners.
How are they still relevant exactly? They're doing some interesting things, but I know dozens of people that rarely if ever touch an MS operating system every day, unthinkable a decade ago, and they're missing out on nothing. I can't think of a must use piece of software that launched on an MS platform (outside Xbox) in the last 5 years. That puts them pretty low on the relevance totem pole.
Well, if you're going to do it now's the time. I'll have two kids in college next year, and a third in a few more years. That'll probably run about $300K when all is said in done.

So taking a few tens of thousands of dollars cut for ten years is that.
It does help. In terms of output farmed fish are far and away the most efficient of livestock. It's been a few years, but if I recall correctly farmed tilapia produce 1kg per 1.1kg of feed. That's incredible compared to beef or even chicken.

Also, encouraging well run fish farming operations takes pressure off of the wild stocks. In terms of eating meat, you're doing it right.
Pharmacies aren't really a kind of store in the US, they are a department that might be found in a supermarket, big-box general retailer, etc. Even "drug stores" like those operated by CVS are basically a convenience store plus the health and beauty departments of a big general retailer plus a pharmacy. Retail pharmacy is a store feature to generate traffic to sell general consumer products, not the central feature of the store.
So, What Do You ACTUALLY Do As A Product Manager?
That's a crap default and a crap name. It should be prefetch_all_keys=False. (edit: and some documented reason WHY you would want to do such a thing)

I ran into this recently when making my own s3 sync tool, because the commonly used tool is completely broken (requires something called a 'config file' to function). But I didn't pay it too much mind, because I forgot the price discrepancy for ListBucket calls.

PS if you want to see what boto is doing do this:
logging.basicConfig(filename="boto.log", level=logging.DEBUG)
That sort of naive techno-utopian response isn't helpful at all in the face of reality. We lack the ability to stop the degradation of our current environment. That doesn't bring high hopes that we could undertake the exponentially more difficult task of building a new and better one in another planet, not before we run out of time.
Process is Poison
Reducing software development practices down to these cute catchphrases is a bit disingenuous. If you're writing throwaway code for a client with loose constraints and a tight deadline you'll write code differently then you would when you expect to maintain a long term relationship with a client who expects a high degree of correctness. I'm tired of these trite articles espousing some cute mantra holds as if it's some universal property of software development.
I think the actual Django manual is One Scoop, at least if you already have a basic understanding of webdev and Python. It's fantastically well written. I downloaded the PDF version and read it pretty much cover to cover to learn Django. To me, Two Scoops picks up right where the manual leaves off. Maybe the biggest problem is that the manual maybe doesn't present itself as totally valid linear resource.
As has been repeated many times here, there is no legal "fiduciary duty" that requires profit maximization in lieu of every other business goal. They don't need a reason any better than good PR.
I find the Olympics unbelievably tedious. It's just physical trials. Wanting your country to win is fine as long as you don't take it too seriously.
Hasn't this article been on HN already last year? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5020421 just with a slash in the end, as far as I can tell
This Email Made Me Feel Bad
Isn't it? You don't seem to previde any specifics.

Plus, whether it's your experience or not is irrelevant. The general consensus is that they do both. You won't find many people in the industry believing otherwise, not many unsatisfied customers in their forums.
Basically an article that says a lot without saying anything at all. Learn to code if you want to or if you need to, but stop pretending that knowing how to write some markup, trying out a REPL or writing some quick scripts will give you some mystical insight as to how software works. Then of course "coding" by itself doesn't mean anything without elaborating on the particular paradigm and language properties.

At Axiom Zen we use tools such as Google Analytics for tracking interactions with our material, GitHub for internal collaboration and project management, and Intercom to connect with our users as well as monitor their use of our products. Without a foundation in coding, it would have taken me much longer to adopt these tools.

Really? At best, when it comes to Git, you're just learning a file system model and basic use of a shell. Assuming you're not using a GUI or GitHub's browser interface, which is likely.

I like people learning to code by their own volition. I don't like vapid fluff.
Agreed. But when you're on BART and attempting to do anything other than lok at it, it can feel very precarious.
Or not take it to any extreme and just remove the most unhealthy products? Possibly replacing them with something on the healthy side of "neutral", without going into "only organic" craze either.
>Fiduciary duty trumps morals.

That's an anti-corporate fallacy.
In networks there'll always be failures.

So I think it's still necessary to deal with the problem of your distributed database becoming partly disconnected and partition.

And as long as there is consistency (though eventual) in case of such severe problem I personally could live with it.
Better than staying available by all means but having to fix up inconsistencies and vex clients.
There are a lot of people who have found that one or two cigarettes a day keeps depression at bay. There are biochemical reasons to believe them. Who are you to tell them they should have to get a prescription SSRI?
No it f*ing doesn't. Site down.
I buy holiday supplies (Christmas tree lights), birthday cards and chocolates for my wife at CVS. They are always open and usually have a good selection of items. They are never really too crowded either. I'm in the US.
Contrary to popular belief, granola is not really that healthy.
What are the "most unhealthy" products, exactly? Where do you set the bar?
It won't make you feel better, but sadly the extinction of species is as much a part of nature as the death of an individual organism, with nearly all species that have ever existed having gone extinct. Given that, I think the small kindnesses you are showing towards your fellow biosphere inhabitants are about all you can do. IMHO.
Refinements under the knife
"This way, though you may be accruing technical debt, you are also accruing revenue immediately, and you can reconcile the debt over time."

The last part of that statement is troubling, because it happens so rarely. I think a lot of devs want to lean towards more engineering "up-front" because they've been smacked repeatedly with the business reality that the first version of that code is what you're going to be stuck working with, and building on top of, for a long time.
Microsoft is an awful company name, that back in the day could make a little sense, but it lost it a long time ago.

But it doesn't matter because they made successful products and could develop a recognisable brand...
I haven't seen the film, but the sound track is a classic by Phillip Glass, part of which (Pruit Igoe) was used on the GTA IV radio/soundtrack.
- Mixing disease consequences for causes and seeing pain killer drugs as a cure.
Most people 'in the industry' don't use their products, they just respect how slick their marketing is and how successful they are at making money.
As someone already said, we should not worry about our planet, for it is going to be here, long long after we are finished. We should be worried about ourselves. We rely on our planet for our existence and the current state of our planet hangs on a fine balance of its constituent elements.

If we were to change the balance, the planet would not die, it would only enter into a new different state. But we would surely die or at least most of us would.

Some of us think that sooner or later, humans would be able to colonize other places in Universe and then our survival would not wholly rely on Earth. That is certainly possible. But how far into the future would that be possible and whether we would be able to survive another hundred years of drastic pollution of Earth is anyone's guess.
This is a great story--unfortunately, it's just that, a story.

It's not surprising to me that there are people recklessly over-fishing, but without any numbers, no government can take action to stop it.

On a tangential point, earth-life has survived five mass-extinction events, and a future one is almost certain. This doesn't negate the tragic, useless destruction of life, but the earth itself--and some form of life on it--will endure.
It's simply astonishing that the "Vista shut down menu" meme continues to come up after all this time, and that the wrong lessons continue to be drawn.

Between Windows Vista and Windows 7, Microsoft changed exactly one thing. They replaced the two icons with a single text label that said "Shut down."

Nothing else changed. There was still a fly-out menu. There were still half-a-dozen options that users vaguely understood. They still had strange labels like "Hibernate" and "Sleep." There was still a "Log out" option. There was still a "Lock" option.

Turns out, none of that was the problem. The problem was that people didn't understand what the power icon did. Replace the icon with text that said "Shut down", and suddenly they knew what it did, and started clicking on it. They stopped opening the fly-out menu, and the "Paradox of Choice" went away.

The lesson is not that you should stop offering choices to your users! You can offer simplicity and choice at the same time. Just stop replacing text labels with confusing icons.

Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000 had a "Shut down" text label. Windows XP had both an icon and text. Windows Vista had an icon but no text. Windows 7 went back to just text. The only design that caused confusion was Windows Vista.
These options aren't mutually exclusive. Yes, there are bad operators out there. But there are also cases, I believe, like I outlined.

The danger of ignoring it is that if we blame really bad outcomes (like the banking crisis) on a malicious plot by a bad player, it's too easy to dismiss as a one-off event when the problem may be systemic.
i agree with you but i also understand the authors. there are trolls on reddit and other places that promote not buying the book and getting it off bittorrent.
A tcpdump Reference
That's a change by the original author of boto. I don't think he was an Amazon employee that far back...
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Angular and Polymer, sitting in a DOM tree. B-i-n-d-i-n-g.
The Design of the Mac OS X Shutdown Feature
Nginx + SPDY is faster than CDNs
Check out MimicDB [0]

[0] http://mimicdb.com/
Merger of angel investor groups heavenly for startups
Politics, politics, politics.

Like the last 50 decades at least...
Ron Fricke was involved in the making of this film. I whole heartedly recommend his two films Baraka and the more recent Samsara. The latter is the most stunning film I have ever seen and I recommend that everyone should see it. It is absolutely amazing! Baraka is fantastic too.
I kind of agree with garnaat's reply, if they just suddenly change the default from TRUE to FALSE they're going to break backwards compatibility with anyone using the library and worse still in a really subtle way!

All they can really do at this stage is add a warning to the documentation and hope that new people using the library figure out the significance.
The California Drought, As Seen From Space
I switched to using Python from Java for coding interviews and it almost felt like cheating. List comprehensions and the like don't necessarily trivialize many interview problems, but they certainly make them much quicker to solve.
Again, I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you w/r/t policies outside of the ACA, but weren't we talking about health insurance and a guy that makes $96k? In looking at the tables for Health Insurance Marketplace subsidies, I just don't see the major impact here.
That would be the nicotine stimulating the release of glutamine and dopamine. The value there is in the nicotine, not in the tobacco. You can get nicotine separately from tobacco trivially.

The false choice of cigarettes or SSRIs is silly.
...unless your sloppy code hides a security bug which, when exploited, costs them money.

When we work hard to write elegant code, we discover the patterns that allow us to write better code when crunch time comes.
the problem with NOT fixing the layout issues is the negative reviews on amazon... which hurts sales. Ever see an amazon book that's well rated for print and poorly rated for the kindle? happens a lot and amazon combines the reviews into both books. Unfair and the authors can do nothing!
I fully support sanctions on Iran as an alternative to all out war. Maybe the author doesn't understand how many conservative leaders in U.S., Europe and Israel want to pull the trigger. I oppose this with all my being, so if sanctions are the alternative, so be it.
The two preconditions you state explain exactly why preexisting conditions often were complete roadblocks to insurance. If you didn't have previous employer-sponsored insurance, or you had ever become financially unable to afford to maintain continuous coverage, you were SOL.
Whatever made you think that was the case?

Probably because public companies frequently use this as an excuse for their immoral business practices. Examples? Basically any health insurance company in the US.
I think you are death wrong about this.

Learning code even pseudo code will teach you to think about how you solve something, it will allow you to think with the developer and most importantly you will be able to have informed opinions about the development phase.

The world would be a much better place if more people knew about coding, what it is and what it isn't.

Thats at least my experience from working with developers and being able to do some coding without ever calling myself a developer.
Anybody considered that life was then not restricted to planets? That's a 'modern' conceit. IF the entire soup of the much-denser smaller universe was room-temperature, then life could have existed in any dust-cloud or water-rich soupy place. It may have been life from a real primordial soup that settled onto planets as they formed.
And yet, are you still eating meat? Fish? What are you doing for your part?
I thought this was worth a post due just to this quote

"A lot of the difficulties that Apple ran into with Copland were due to an inability to manage this complexity. The scope of the project was just more than the organization and processes we had could deal with."

It turns out technology is the easy part. Organization and management is the hard bit. As companies and products have grown, I'm curious what things other HNers have seen that works/doesn't work?
It stores everything but the object
Identity in total is obviously more gray than the one sentence can provide, but its sentiment is important. And that's all it obviously is -- sentiment -- not a statement of fact.

The world is an awfully large place, but its cultures are more widely distributed than ever before. Therefore a citizen has much better opportunity to form a morality or philosophy that is independent of the place they live. That is the sentiment, free and able to join your other points of cultural context.
I'm pretty sure they've always been behind the checkout counter. Most (all?) stores that sell smokes keep them somewhat guarded to prevent people (particularly minors) from stealing them.
I also found it interesting that they felt the need to include a photo of Satya looking chilled out in a hoodie. Just feels really forced - it seems completely out of character based on all of his other imagery / appearances elsewhere.

There is nothing wrong with the guy wearing suits to work if he wants, but it seems that they're trying unnecessarily hard to make him fit some sort of cool geek stereotype.
The only real difference I see is whether or not I personally know my way around the language in use. If I don't know much about it (Haskell comes to mind), I have the candidate explain how to read the code. Doesn't happen often frankly, but I find it quite interesting, also gives me insight into how well I can understand stuff the candidate is explaining.

I suppose the only thing that would make me frown is if the candidate was evidently a huge language zealot and wanted to use nothing but their language of choice. But I've never interviewed such a person actually.
I know what I think it means, maybe we should argue about semantics? Perhaps a better comparison would be witches or ghouls (legion means demon or devil in the Christian tradition).
Just reminded me of a story about the designer Peter Saville (from the film 24 Hour Party People)

Tony Wilson: "You've got the posters? It's the fucking gig!"

Peter Saville: "Yeah, I know - it just took ages to get the right yellow."

Tony Wilson: "The gig's over."

Peter Saville: "I know."

Tony Wilson: "It looks fucking great actually - yeah, really nice. It's beautiful - but useless. And as William Morris once said: "Nothing useless can be truly beautiful."'