skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I listened to a talk by Amazon's CTO, Werner Vogels, where he was explaining that Amazon's entire strategy is to build an infrastructure for itself, then rent that infrastructure out to its competitors. That way, increased competition can actually fuel your growth. The talk was about APIs, but Amazon views APIs as a general term: "Fulfilled by Amazon" is an example of a non-technical API.

Likewise, I think Amazon's self-funded retail operations are largely a break-even enterprise. Other businesses have been successful with this -- Costco comes to mind -- but the scope of capabilities Amazon is looking to develop is staggering.

If they can build a completely vertically integrated retail platform from procurement to payment to delivery, basically they're operating a retail enterprise without taking any inventory risk on themselves. Which is what this article means by "capture a significant portion of US retail": if they can provide merchant services to investors, it turns Amazon into basically an investment bank. Amazon takes a retailers money, turns it into inventory, sells it, takes a cut, then returns money. The only inputs and outputs into the Amazon machine are money, and it turns retail operations into an investment product.
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It isn't the author who started using the term this way. She's referencing something that has, of late, clearly become part of the vernacular in the startup world.
I am skeptical of the delete button. According to a random article I found (first result when I googled "police body camera delete button") the officers do not have that ability: Taser doesn't incorporate a delete button — "Once it's recorded, it's recorded,"

http://www.thewire.com/national/2014/08/how-do-police-body-c...
So then we're left with a word that is too abstract to be useful. If you tell me "this game is misogynistic", I have no idea what to expect.

A serial killer that targets prostitutes is a misogynist. So is a college kid that says "Kate Upton is hot".
1. It is deliberate.

2. It is merciless. (Would the city really lose out if it gave three rides for $2.50 and then one for $2.45? They already have a 5% bonus (whose main purpose is to trick you into a -20% bonus) would a 5.03% bonus be unheard of?)

3. To achieve fairness, this system burdens the entire city with a cognitive load.

It's not theft, it's fraud. "But how can it be fraud?" you clamor, all of the terms are spelled out clearly. The fraud is not in the financial transactional terms, but in the trust to place in our leaders.

We entrust them to choose fares and design a fare-paying system that is merciful, fair and doesn't enforce an undue cognitive load. This system violates that trust. How can they expect the public to remain peaceful and satisfied while they're deliberately infringing on our trust in this way?
Thanks for the the funroll-loops reminder, some of those bug reports from the early days were class

"HOLY COW I'M TOTALLY GOING SO FAST OH F*"

USE="GAPING_SECURITY_HOLE"

(Source: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74072)
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Now if only Google could develop a way to serve static text content without using JavaScript!

(All I get is a B with twirling gears in it...)
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For a company that prides themselves on style and design, that is one ugly press release.
Since this comment isn't coherent, I'll just address it by sentence:

1. No.

2. Ok, and?

3. Yes.

4. Nobody made that argument.

Worth noting: with that last sentence, you transitioned from someone arguing about semantics to someone arguing that we are too confined by the concept of misogyny; you allowed your agenda to seep through. Unsubtly.
Haven't gotten into Django yet; previously worked with Rails and fell into its welcoming embrace and now playing around with PHP5+. But it's exciting to see new releases to powerhouse frameworks, and I hope to really get into to it one day! Thanks for the glowing review. :)
Yes, if that's revenue rather than profits.
The author's point that "curvature imputes stiffness" conflates several different and distinct mechanisms, and offers an inadequate explanation.

For the examples of the pizza, the leaf, and the corrugated sheets, the stiffness is due to the fact that the bending moment of inertia of the cross-section increases when we fold the pizza or the sheet in a particular way [1]. The Theorema Egregium shows that such a structure can be made from a flat sheet of material, not that this construction imparts stiffness to the structure.

The example of arches show the well-known arch action in mechanics, where forces are carried through pure compression without any tensile stresses, which makes it appropriate for using stones to make the arch [2]. In principle, one could make a triangular "arch", i.e. part of a truss structure, where we use two straight rods joined together at the top [3]. This shows that its not really the curvature that is giving the stiffness.

The example of hyperbolic paraboloids shows arch action in one direction and beam bending in the other.

The examples of the egg and the can show that it is hard to break a surface when it does not have stress concentrations [4].

So the point is that there's a lot of classical solid mechanics at play here, of which the author seems to be unaware.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bending

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arch

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truss

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_concentration
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This guy turns "GamerGate" into a diatribe on corporate America. What? The recent terrible aftermath of all this "GamerGate" stuff is a direct cause of big companies leveraging geek and gamer culture to sell stuff? How does that make any sense? It's not the big gaming companies that drove Anita out of her house. How is this even related?
It's a classic "password" is not a good password situation. Peoples passwords are way too common, its not surprising celebrities got hacked they're going to be just as likely as using a weak password as any young adult.
Having your bones broken still hurts, even if you're a socialist. Also "that disability check you'll be getting will do quite nicely as down payment if you don't want your (parent|siblings|significant other) mailed to you in pieces."
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This appearing at the same time as a post about designing a personal knowledgebase ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8270759 ) makes me wonder how reasonable it is to link this sort of natural language fact extraction and querying system to such a knowledgebase.

I suspect it might be expecting too much, but I'd love to integrate my browser history, people I've contacted, where I've been etc. in order to produce an easier way to search and find some webpage (e.g. when I remember some contextual information about the day or the place when I visited a page but am unable to find it by re-googling)
Thank you for all your feedback in the "ShowHN" post. We have fixed the font issues and increased stability along with a lot of other reported bugs.
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I am not sure what kind of retail you are referring to (offline grocery perhaps?) but most ecommerce retail operations are running margins significantly higher than 3%. 10-30% is more typical in my experience, and 40-60% for operations selling unique products they make themselves.
UCSC, early 2000's: About 15 of us. Faculty interaction was nearly unavoidable, working in labs was a great way to help pay for beer, as they were next to the class rooms and study halls. That said, you could only pay for beer with that cash, as costs of rooms and tuition in Santa Cruz is not student friendly.
This is a longstanding Blogger bug that happens when cookies are blocked. They haven't fixed it because you and I are the only people on the planet who whitelist cookies.
you know how i know you all are not from the northeast?
I haven't watched her videos. I tried watching the first one when it came out and got bored.

I did however end up watching one the critiques of her videos. If you haven't, I'd say you may doing yourself a disservice if you don't watch some of them before recommending anymore of her videos to others. There was a scene in Hitman which she grossly misrepresented to fit a narrative of misogyny in videogames which I found shocking.
Why should "rounded" and "large" be classes?

Isn't

<div class="button buy">...</div>

plus a bit of SASS

.buy {
@include big;
@include rounded;
}

enough and more correct?

If you embed "big" in the HTML, how do you go from mobile to desktop? Maybe that button should be "big" on desktop, but only slightly bigger than normal on mobile. If you specify its _role_ rather than its presentation, it becomes very easy to override the style in CSS with @media selectors.

PS: BTW, <button class="buy">...</button>, no <div> needed.
I have thought about this too, but in the country I'm currently living (France), it would be too much of a mess with the licence / legal side - if somebody gets really sick after a dinner, that could end bad.

That being said, it's a great idea and I would love to work on this one day.
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This surprises me.

I was a seller 5 years ago on Amazon and seller support was terrible. They use automated bots to ban your seller account and then offer no recourse or support beyond scripted emails.

I would think that if sellers like me were bringing in that much revenue for Amazon..that they would treat me a little better.

I guess this is the textbook example of why any sort of monopoly is bad.
I honestly don't see this taking off. There's just too many existing alternatives, and it will lose steam as the days pass.
Sounds like he's re-invented BandCamp.

(Which is awesome, and really doesn't need re-inventing.)
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There is of course a market rate for total compensation much more so that there is more just salary. When companies compete for you, they do so by offering more than just salary. You can tell potential employers whichever number you want. If want to tell them your previous compensation that would be reasonable.

Money is fungible.
My AMZN shares are in a Roth IRA. I can wait.
There's some point in one's early musical education where you learn that all music follow patterns. And you think "how limiting," because the only patterns you know are major scale folk melodies and 3-chord rock. But as your pattern library grows, you appreciate how even the most avant-garde music follows patterns too, and without grokking the patterns you couldn't hear everything.

Company pattern recognition must seem limiting to someone who's only seen a small number of companies. But people who've seen 10000 companies can appreciate a range of patterns that would astonish someone who's only seen 100.

There are investors who focus on just one kind of company or founder, which is reasonable for part-time investors who want to leverage their particular experience. But in order to expand the universe of startups, YC specifically looks for promising new kinds of teams (though OP wouldn't be the first 40ish female founder new to programming to go through YC.) I hope Ms. Byerley will give us a chance to help her.
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The CRM/sales video is impressive. Congrats.

After reading the HN tile, Zoho immediately came to my mind (maybe the starting Z? ). Are you targeting the same customers ? Zoho Creator looks similar in functionality.
What the rest of the news world doesn't get, is that Vice and Comedy Central are winning because they feel sincere.

It's all about sincerity and authenticity. Why do young people still connect with Vice, The Atlantic, The Guardian, BBC, WSJ, The New York Times, Slate, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, Craig Ferguson, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Reddit? Why does a generation who grew up distrusting the establishment (Fight Club) and main stream media trust 'these' mainstream media sources.

Satire is the new Walter Cronkite & Brian Williams & Matt Lauer. Lauer sounds like a puppet, Colbert sounds like a leader. People don't want authority figures telling them what to think directly. We are post modern now, we need to form our opinions by mocking things that don't make sense. People are only willing to hear the truth if its somewhat veiled in hyperbolic mockery and rhetoric.

Vice and Comedy Central cross the authenticity of the WSJ/NYT with the entertainment of MTV and speak to the Nickelodeon generation in a way FOX/CNN/MSNBC seem unable to even grasp. (Even the pandering of VOX/UPWORTHY/SALON/GAWKER and the outrage division of journalism is starting to feel pretty damn stale, insincere, and produced.) And they can't grasp it because they are too busy clutching to the coattails and wiggling their heads up the asses of an antiquated but equally bored voting block, baby boomers.

It's telling that one man owns at least part of Vice, WSJ, and Fox News. They all pander to different populations. He doesn't care if he sells three different narratives, as long as youre paying attention to one of the things he is saying.
Yes, the CCNx was the first implementation of NDN and the NDNx they currently using is fork of it.

AFAIK Parc is still receiving some part of the NSF funding to continue working on CCNx.
Gross or net margins?
We're talking about a game in which, all parties stipulate, your playable character can physically assault a stripper. The gross misrepresentation is Sarkeesian's belief that the game encourages players to do that, refuted by the fact that a number at the top left of the screen in fact decreases when you do.

That's the disclaimer you want me to accompany my recommendation with?
When you all-capped the LOT I was expecting you to be looking to buy hundreds or thousands of pounds of lego. I was a bit disappointed to see that you were just looking for a few tubs. But it looks like you got some good answers so have fun!
This is a common argument, but doesn't really stand up to close scrutiny.

To be clear I'm referring to the "misogyny exists in the real world, so displaying misogyny in creative works is merely being realistic/accurate" argument.

This is a sound argument if made in a vacuum of no additional information. Unfortunately for gaming this argument falls apart once you consider the sheer mass of portrayals of misogyny in games but the relative lack of portrayal of other social issues.

In other words, a trope (and now we delve into the thesis of Sarkeesian's entire series of videos).

Her last video was very good and delves into this argument in specific. The gaming industry seems incapable of portraying "gritty" and "bleak" without shoving dead women in your face. Need your protagonist to realize the gravity of a situation? Show violence against women. Need to project an air of despair and injustice? Violence against women. Need to express the true evilness of the bad guy? ... You guessed it.

This suggests that portrayals of misogyny in gaming is more than an attempt to be even-handed or realistic. IMO Sarkeesian is correct in stating that portrayals of misogyny is used stereotypically and excessively for dramatic effect, and in doing so is ultimately dampening the very effect they're trying to achieve. When gamers see dead/hurt/maimed women everywhere always they cease to be truly shocking and horrifying, and instead simply become mood-setting decor.
except the linked article is on engadget...
There's nothing technically wrong with this, but one could make the argument that once a project expands beyond a single developer, you have a greater chance of namespace collisions with vague class names like `.large`. Eventually someone will come along and make a `.large` class for headlines that will make your buttons have 36pt labels.

Edit: I have a suspicion that most attempts at "semantic" CSS are a symptom of a slightly OCD designer wanting to write pretty markup, which is, in my opinion, probably the last thing you should be optimizing for productivity.
Everything Carmack says is absolutely correct. You will never win an argument on technical details with him. He knows this stuff front and back and inside out.

But he is way over stating the problem of latency. It is certainly a problem, and lower latency is always better, but it's an engineering problem, one that will eventually be solved. We have the necessary hardware to do this right now, the problem is our current state of the industry puts hardware and software developers way too far apart, and puts startup programmers and mathematicians too far apart, too.

Of far more concern is the UX issue. NO ONE has any clue how to design intuitive UI metaphors for VR yet. Oh sure, first person shooters are obvious. But what about everything that isn't a game? Speaking from experience here [1], it is a pain in the ass to be constantly taking the head set off to switch between apps, to fiddle with the phone, to have to take it out of the headset rig to use the touch screen. What is first and foremost needed is a VR window manager.

Carmack is an excellent mathematician who understand how hardware works almost intuitively. He is not a designer; just look at Doom 3. And he does all of his work in the dark. If we were talking about web technology, people would dismiss a project for being so closed and inaccessible. We've come to expect open source for web tech, but for some reason we still have a view that default state of game tech is closed source. If VR is going to have the adoption rates necessary to have a healthy app ecosystem for users, it needs the low barrier to entry that open source provides for developers. It needs parallel, competing framework development. I don't want Oculus and Samsung to be the only arbiters of how to design VR code. I don't want users with $500 burning a hole in their pocket to be the only users who can experience VR. We can't even get people to pay $3 for a smartphone app now, adding extra hardware cost is just going to make that worse.

We need creative people hacking away at the problem in their bedrooms and garages. Carmack is pursuing a model that requires startup capital just to get to play around. I'd rather reserve that level of effort for real content, so we can eventually have real content.

[1] I'm doing this open source and I'm interested in collaborations. Please check it out and consider contributing: https://github.com/capnmidnight/VR
My guess is that people who are making all those commits are often pretty much indifferent about their
jobs (as software engineers) as well.

In general, just because you're passionate about something doesn't mean you'll particularly enjoy a day job in that field - just ask all the people who were passionate about doing science, but have quit their phd programs.
Yes, I was just following the example on the site but something like .btn.important would be even better.
I'll congratulate you on not specifying a time duration for your meal. Indigestible material can cause a blockage in your colon, which can cause severe pain, damage to your colon, and even death. I suggest chopping the hat up into very, very small pieces, and eating them over a very long period, such as a month or longer.
Just wondering, why sell and not raise additional funding? Or is that something you already explored?
Copyright and trademark infringement are different issues? There might be overlap but I don't think those are factors in Sedo's business nor are they what people mean by domain squatting.
Yawn. Garth Brooks does not inspire me to try this.
Well, I agree with you that he has some of the best analysis on Apple.

But the takeaway is that his quality content represents only a drop in the ocean of his worthless one-line microthroughts and general blabbery and whining.
That 1% means nothing without knowing how much of that retail revenue currently goes through e-commerce. But I have sneaking suspicion that there's still a lot of room for growth.

Also, outside of the US Amazon has just barely started to expand beyond books. In most countries online retailers are bracing themselves for the moment Amazon starts eating their lunch.

Unless Bezos suddenly has a change of heart, this growth strategy could go on for many, many years.
Giant paywall.
It's free in the sense that they don't have to offer that at all. Obviously there is some kind of attempt at profit in the system on the MTA side of things. I'm not really sure how your argument would work with my unlimited card, but yes, "Hah."
We are absolutely interested in feedback like this, keep it coming!

Indeed the first chapter is tough - we learned that through various iterations with many reviewers. Eventually we decided to just introduce you and skip the meta talk about methods and stuff. That should be in the "Welcome" passage before the actual chapter (included in chapter 1 - free download). If you didn't find the argument to let you know whether or not the book is for you we might have to refine this section and bring out our main points more.

Personally I am not convinced a starting chapter that told you how the book is going to teach you things would help that much with deciding whether you'd be comfortable with said book. It might be much more helpful to have a more advanced chapter as a free read oftentimes.

Eventually Meteor in Action will be a printed book as well, so that theoretically you will be able to browse through all chapters in a book store of your choice. Always assuming they carry Manning book, of course :)
Installer crapped out for me, giving a gzip error. Also, I'm not wild about self-extracting and executing archives. Would you mind perhaps just posting a .tgz that can be examined before installing?
You make a good point, so I'm going to try to refine mine. You're right that a small minority of readers and gamers actually follow criticism compared to reviews. I think the influence of criticism on authors is much much larger than the influence of criticism on game designers, though.

It has to do with the way we train people to write books as opposed to how we train people to make video games. English degree programs often spend as much time on literary theory as they do on the practical aspects of composition. Most CS and video game design programs are almost entirely practical. I think this has allowed literature to move alongside and even in front of the culture at large while video games lag the rest of the culture.

Maybe this explains why we've gotten used to plenty of topics and themes in books that are still stunning in video games. Think about how shocking it was to some people that we could play a gay character in Fable or Bully. Nobody even notices when a best seller has a gay protagonist.
Yes, I know about the -S flag. But CFLAGS, etc comes from Makefiles so inspecting the object files (which I already have) is easier than re-invoking the compiler with -S added to the command line.
Can't see the graphs on mobile :(
Wasn't Brak that character on Space Ghost about 10 years ago? In case that helps...