skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I know this is going to be morbid, but the problem with the geriatric crowd when it comes to technology is that they have a tendency to die.

I actually thought about that too... but if you think about it relatively, the expected lifespan of someone who's 70 in 2015 (10-20yrs) is nearly an eternity in technology.

And those who are in that age group currently are very reluctant to change. It's just part of getting old. I can't see new generations of older people being much different. Maybe more accepting of change, but not actively seeking it like someone in their 20's.

>Facebook is the family friendly zone for sharing photos and short notes, and it's increasingly only that and nothing else.

I don't see this as a bad thing, but as a huge positive. Look at movies. There has even been a push in the decade or so to PG-13 everything to make more money.

But unlike movies, where they destroy stories in the name of making them Family Friendly, you can just move your non-family friendly content somewhere else. Which is personally exactly what I do.
... until they decide they're bored with it and force you to migrate gigs of photos off the service before shutting it down. No thanks.
It's http://www.amazon.com/sameday
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http://images.anandtech.com/doci/9248/3.PNG

This graph makes me wonder if adding heaters to SSDs would be a good idea.

But I think in terms of longevity for data storage, we really have regressed. The largest number on that chart is only a little under 8 years. I have data much older than that on magnetic media, and it remains usable.

I remember 10 years@10K cycles was the norm for retention specs in MLC NAND... 8 years ago. It changed to 5 years/5K cycles not long after that. Now it's 1 year and <1K cycles?

Fortunately I have an X25-M in my laptop that hasn't shown any problems, but then again I did opt to pay a little more for the model with older 50nm flash instead of 34nm...
Prime really doesn't have anything to do with 2-day delivery. They wouldn't be able to afford to ship everything by air for free.

The advantage of Prime is really that you can have everything shipped for free without worrying about minimums. Well that and all the other perks, like streaming video, photos, etc.

They now have warehouses located within 1 day ground shipping distance of everywhere in the continental US. It's not that hard, I doubt they need more than a dozen locations.

That said, and I have run into this, if your item isn't commonly ordered and is in one of the warehouses that isn't close to you ... they will adjust the delivery date and still ship it to you over Ground. I have called to complain and they said that Prime 2 Day guarantee only applies to Prime items that are geographically close to you. If it it's a Prime item and for whatever reason it has to travel pretty far to you, no 2 day delivery. I've had items arrive a week after order and they still considered that OK and quoted some legalese. Now, this happens rarely, but it does happen.
I don't see any reason why Apple wouldn't allow you to rely on some id that only makes sense for your use case and can't be used in any malicious intent. Also see my reply to therealidiot.
There's an order of magnitude difference (at least) between accessing memory vs unzipping. The constant space overhead isn't great either for small strings.

For big strings like web pages, we already do use zlib (via gzip).
> slides that will be consumed by every media org and denizen of the internet need to be denser.

Dual use could be achieved by interspersing one-sentence explanations and summaries among the information-dense graphs, charts, etc. Meeker's deck has some of that, but could have used more.
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Definitely an important difference. They are not actually open if there is a license fee.
Ever since I moved from California to Maine delivery times have gone from 'two day shipping always shows up on time if not sooner' to 'whenever'.
For binary assets, why not just rent a cheap digital ocean box? You get a 20GB server for $5/mo.

Throw up an nginx install to forward part of the site to github, and downloads direct from disk, and you have a nice - and fully customizable - project setup.
What happened here? Why was the title changed back to NPR's more clickbaity version?
Which still gets redirect to:

http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=8729023011
We should start discussing how they can shut themselves down and rid the world of the blight that SourceForge has become.

RubyForge folded and the world was better off.
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Hey, this is really cool! There are a couple of key differences between the two services (mine doesn't aim to be a service), but I see a lot of common themes as well. I'll definitely keep track of Servant in the coming months.
There are so many more reasons for declining search volume. It could just be that your users are starting to type terms directly into the address bar.

Or that browsers have gotten smart enough that they're autocompleting facebook.com instead of just letting you search for facebook.

I do love a good Google trends "research" dive but I'd hardly consider it good enough to cite for a scholarly paper. There aren't even real numbers, just relative search volumes.
You can find your epsilons and deltas in the definition of an open ball. They are just two different ways of writing the same idea. For example, in Definition 2.1, the 'h' in the open ball F is your epsilon and the 'h' in B is the delta. In an epsilon-delta proof, you show that for all |x - c| < delta, |f(x) - f(c)| < epsilon. The open ball B is just the set of all x satisfying |x - c| < delta and the open ball F is the set of all f(x) satisfying |f(x) - f(c)| < epsilon.

Any epsilon or delta that you choose implies a set of numbers satisfying those conditions. Those sets are open balls. By using them, you don't have to say things like "all 'x' such that ...". Which method you prefer probably depends on what you're more familiar with and how you tend to think. Open balls can be easier to visualize, if that's how you think.

Note that not just any ball will do. Closed balls are open balls that also include their boundary. That is, they use a less-than-or-equal-to instead of less-than. Which you use can make a big difference. An open ball on the real number line is just an open interval, an interval excluding its endpoints. It's easy to generalize: an open ball in a Cartesian plane is a circle excluding its border. In three dimensions, it's a sphere excluding its surface . . . and that's why it's called a ball.
Never had that, but it probably varies by location. In fact, often Amazon would deliver earlier like on Sunday.
I've noticed that Amazon has totally changed my shopping habits from 3-5 years ago. Clothes and household expendable items are almost entirely purchased on Amazon (even if I just want to try on a pair of boots). Prime Subscription or Pantry takes care of most of the rest. I don't need to drive to Costco anymore or spend time walking around Wal-Mart. I look forward to the day when my Whole Foods order can be delivered fresh to my house every week.
I thought that the article was worth it but it is completely stupid. The reason of MySpace curb is because Facebook started, they aren't two independent events.
Interesting that they have a pretty url already generated for the page and then redirect to something that's completely unreadable. It seems like you'd want to have a single, readable url to have people sharing with others, if they copy and paste the url from their browser.
Just like with any product ever, if the product is popular and produces value, it will stick around. Products come and go all the time, the difference being with Google that since they are so big and have countless products, the company doesn't go away when a particular one fails. Many products fail in this world, but often the company that made the product also goes away, so you have no one to complain about going forward. Google is easy to pick on in this regard.

If this same product was released by a company you had never heard of, would you use it? Would you honestly believe it to have a greater chance of survival?

My suggestion is to simply judge this product on its merits, and accept that nothing is guaranteed, whether it's made by Google or not.
Physicalism grew out of materialism with the success of the physical sciences in explaining observed phenomena. The terms are often used interchangeably, although they are sometimes distinguished.
Uhh... no. They have their own physical machine ('the BMC') with unaudited low level access to your physical machine. It's therefore two machines.
I'm sure people do all kinds of things. My question is, do the people running exit nodes actually get in legal trouble for traffic that happens to transit their routers? It seems to be an accepted bit of folk wisdom that they do, but I cannot find many actual, documented cases where it has actually happened. This leaves me wondering whether the widely-assumed legal risk is real or just an urban legend.
Hey all!

John and at appreciate all the discussion and feedback.

We're absolutely delighted to have struck a chord with developers, the intended audience of this piece, and with accountants, who have managed and passed down this technology for 700 years.

We're working through the backlog of comments and will reply where we feel we can add some value.
Hahaha, you guys have it so good. Here in Bolivia there is literally one store, not a website, a store. A Sure PC store that has same day shipping but only for orders over $250.
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This makes sense, and I understand that most people find it highly convenient.

Just to offer a different perspective: to me, the valuable part of sharing life events is the engagement with another person. IE, the extreme convenience (broadcasting 1-to-30 people) undercuts the reason for sharing: connection.

(I also have recently identified concerns I have with group mechanics, and this no doubt influences my perspective.)
Hmmm, I never really thought of it like finger - that's a good analogy! I think there is potential for many other use cases rather than just for others viewing information about you though.
Would Amazon have done this years ago if it wasn't so bent on avoiding sales tax (and thus locating warehouses far from buyers)? Did potential Amazon competitors miss out on this opportunity?
When amazon was pressured into charging sales taxes in many states, I predicted that it would likely translate to same day delivery. They used it as an opportunity to bring the product closer to their customers. I know i'll be using amazon even more now.
A cute thing is how Portuguese "real" has two different etymologies, one from Latin regalis 'royal' (from rex 'king'), and one from Latin realis 'actual' (from res 'thing'). That can produce some funny jokes (like a title mentioned elsewhere in this thread by motobol, "A real história do Real").
I like that interpretation, that sounds more plausible to me.
Works really well, yes, but it has considerable latency for real time video.
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This is illegal in Australia, no bill of rights /constitution to safeguard anything so when the spineless maggots we have as our elected legislature say "warrant canaries are illegal" [1] then we are fucked, it's illegal, and the extremely long fight to convince the next batch of spineless maggots to vote the shit out of existence, begins.

1 - https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/03/australia_out...
This should probably link here instead: http://www.kpcb.com/internet-trends
The narrators so quickly and casually disregarded the complete annihilation of the textile manufacturer...
First, if you are at the 40th percentile for pay (and you are not a 40th percentile worker), even without the other potential job offers, you should have a conversation about increasing your salary. Have you gotten any raises or promotions? If not, or even if you have, you have a case to ask for more. Most companies like to stay in the 3-5% range for typical raises, but if you are under market but are a great employee they want to keep, they can usually go higher, maybe 10%.

If you are a little more cutthroat, and have an appetite for risk, you can try the following technique. I have personally used this technique to get raises as high as 21% and 27% from an existing employer. It involves applying for one of these jobs and getting an offer letter in hand, taking that to your current employer and having them match or beat it. You have to be prepared to walk away from your current company if this goes wrong, and you can only do it once at that company. Compared to the more civil way described earlier (which will max out at 10%), this way can get you 20-30%. The risk is that your current employer will refuse to play ball and call your bluff about wanting to leave. Or they may give you the money and try to get rid of you later. If this happens, you will at least have a higher salary to start negotiations when you start searching again.

The first time I tried this back when I was a PHP developer making $55k back in 2009. I got a raise to $58k, but I thought I deserved more. I got a job offer for $65k and took it to my employer who matched, but the new job was 20 miles closer to home and had half day Fridays, so I thought my current employer needed to beat the offer. I told the new job I was conflicted, and they increased their offer to $70k, which I accepted. You have to be willing to walk away if you play the counteroffer game.
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I think it's great exercise, but why don't they just use an absolute scale for parent's income? "About $2,400 in annual income separates the bottom two dots, while nearly $1 million separates the top two", I would never have guessed this either.
This is a good point jasmine!

We'll read that document and incorporate the ideas where they're helpful.

Thanks!
So, Picasa w/unlimited storage? I'm not joking. It seems that's what it is.
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Amazon also has their own delivery service in some areas. Some of the shipments I ordered come with AMZN_ML or so.
It can be significantly simplified by removing the junk:

http://www.amazon.com/b/?node=8729023011

The rest of the stuff is probably used to track how you got to the current page.
> I look forward to the day when my Whole Foods order can be delivered fresh to my house every week.

You can do this today with Instacart.
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Does anyone have insights/guesses into the reasons behind the cities where this has been rolled out? It doesn't seem to correlate with market size. Is it:

- regulation

- supply lines

- weather

- internal politics

??
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Conversely the conscious mind can also make it harder to learn things.

I refer to the "Inner Game of Tennis" by Tim Gallwey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieb1lmm9xHk

As a teacher he tries to distract the conscious mind so learning can take place.
Software distribution used to be done via FTP sites, separate from the project web pages, documentation, issue tracker, etc. iBiblio [0] will still host stuff for distribution. There's also Savannah.nongnu.org [1] which is an old fork of the SF code.

[0] http://www.ibiblio.org/share/

[1] http://savannah.nongnu.org/
Facebook would like to thank you for giving them the opportunity to monetize your son's cancer.
Have you tried Instacart or FreshDirect? (I believe FreshDirect only works in the NYC area)
Instacart has been awesome in Chicago.
Potentially.

Right now, I have more faith in a specialist small company (e.g. Smugmug [disclaimer, no affiliation]) which charges for their product than Google who offer it for free ... and then, not ... and then ... repackaged ... and then ... RIP.

Sorry, you must understand that there are now enough people out there who have been on the receiving end of Google's careless approach to their end-users (note, I intentionally did not refer to us as customers).

Announcements like this used to excite me. Not anymore. I hope one day things will be different.

[Edit: downvoted as expected. Feel free. Just come back and upvote when it's your turn to get on the Google support rollercoaster].
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Yeah, like, how is that any different at all? This is Ford going from saying "we won't license our patents to anyone" to "we'll agree to license our patents"? I guess that's um, something… ?
Which immediately gets redirected to:

http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=8729023011
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How does the subscribe-and-save work as your child grows and goes up diaper sizes?
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Still completely meaningless from a human-readable perspective (you know, unless you memorize page node identifiers :) )
The Greek oracles had all fallen silent. The final voice heard by the bicameral mind was "the great god Pan is dead."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_%28god%29#The_.22Death.22_...
Thanks for the great translation. One clarification for readers: The tense in the first sentence of the translation is a modal "would have", which is used to indicate indirect quotes in French. What it really means is that Uber engineers did try to remotely encrypt data, Revenu Quebec says.

Penultimate paragraph: "Another investigator, carrying out A RAID in another office..." "Un second mandat" hear means carrying out a second set of orders.
First off hyperinflation is when "monthly inflation rate exceeds 50%", US monthly inflation was ~1% though this time period. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation So, clearly the US never had anything close to hyperinflation even with the oil shocks.

Second, a ~6% annual inflation spike due to increased oil prices is significant. But, the US baseline inflation rate from 1970-1990 was ~6% so the oil shocks at most explained 50% of US inflation.

For a country to turn a ~0.5% monthy shock into 50% monthly price increase means something else is clearly very wrong with their economy.
Same here.

I'd say about 1 in 3 packages I order end up being delivered a day earlier than they quoted.
Jaynes uses the Odyssey as a post bicameralism work. The Odyssey was written well before any of those people were alive.
DASH is more a protocol to make many quality levels available in a single stream in a standard way. You could add a Pied Piper track to a DASH stream easily.
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Amazon's S3 has been around since March 2006, so almost 10 years. That's a much better place for anythinig you want to stick around than Google.

Amazon has my loyalty for the very specific reason that they don't release half-assed products and then pull them even when they have millions of users.
Hey filearts!

We agree 100% as discussed in the docs.

We also believe that classifying expenses as debit-normal on the income statements, thereby obscuring their contra-income status is part of the puzzle.
Pro tip: Don't write to disk when in the fridge, and don't leave your SSD's in the oven.
As a Amazon.com customer since the late nineties I don't get the "Prime" subscription model. I have a e-ink Kindle, I buy MP3s, electronics, many books there on their Market Place and I use AWS.

But why should I care about "Prime"? Either Amazon cares about long term customers or not, but don't try to force me to Prime by showing full screen "Prime" advertisement (with a little "no thanks" link) at every purchase. I don't need same-day delivery, but I don't want worse delivery times than before Prime has been introduced (which happened).
Author here. I'm currently interning at Mozilla with the goal of writing the "advanced" companion to the TRPL (The Rust Programming Language book): TURPL (The Unsafe Rust Programming Language).

In the process I'll need to wrangle various members of the community -- particularly core team members -- to determine the things that we actually intend to guarantee in safe code, and what unsafe code is allowed to "do".

This post was intended to kick off that effort by:

* Making it clear that stuff is unclear

* Asserting my beliefs on what things should be

* Getting the whole internet mad at me so that they can explain what it should actually be

So, please, single file: Get Mad On The Internet At This Guy
My best and completely uneducated guess would be location to warehouses. Maybe even cross-referenced with typical orders in the area and Amazon's actual ability to get some amount of those typical orders to door-steps same-day.
From my masters project covering this I recommend http://www.amazon.com/The-Fractional-Calculus-Applications-D...

ended up coding up something similar but less general than Podlubny's http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/36570-ma...
Unless *nix is your IDE. :)

http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/series/unix-as-ide/
Would be great to see the results from this without the provided point.
Unfortunately for publishers, it's pretty hard to implement that sort of ad block detection reliably.
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What would make you say that? These are all large, urban places which are known to utilize Amazon.

Indianapolis is the only city that's confusing to me, but they have a warehouse there, and it is located close enough to ship to other locations within the 1 day timeframe.
Probably a combination, but I'd guess that proximity to their distro centers is the biggest factor.
In the UK supermarket deliveries are well established. My family gets 2 or 3 Ocado deliveries a week (they have a Prime equivalent where you pay £11 a month to get free deliveries on orders over £40, within a one-hour time slot, usually available at about 24 hours' notice).

Add that to Amazon, and I basically now only shop in shops when size/fit or feel are crucial — clothes, shoes, etc. And I really resent this — I'm trying to figure out the brands and sizes of jeans and so on that I can just reorder online as necessary, but shops screw this up by changing their ranges all the damn time. I feel like there must be a market opportunity there ...
I think this way scales better - it's easier to visualize than the massive gap would be. And where we are in the news cycle is to focus on problems common to all classes, not the problems that divide classes.
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