skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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"We thought you may be running low on toilet paper, so we sent some for free. If you're not, then just tick no and we'll take it back, or [from a comment that was deleted shortly after it was posted] pass it to an Amazon neighbor for a $2 credit."

T+1
"We've noticed you appreciate our pre-emptive notifications, and hope we've been helping you out. We'd like to opt you in to our pre-emptive ordering system, so we can help you forget those small essentials. We've included some complementary, ripe, seedless avocados less than 1 day from the tree they were picked from as a sample of the power this feature can offer; this freshness can't be bought in shops."

T+2
"We've opted you in to our pre-emptive ordering system, where we will send you those daily essentials and special seasonal must-haves. There is no commitment. If we ever send you some thing you don't feel you need, we'll happily take it back at no charge and no effort from you."

There is definitely a business model there.
I wonder how many times they've pre-shipped that subwoofer I keep throwing into my cart and then deciding to "save for later."
Where free means: Orders under $35 are just $5.99 per order for Prime members.
It will all be properly announced within a couple of hours but somehow I can't stop myself reading these previews and leaks.

I'll be glad when they set Photos free from Google+. I hope they do something with Hangouts too.
More like a college student or equivalent age in the late 1990s. Of course these generations are always a bit arbitrary, especially at the boundaries. There's obviously not a big overall generational difference between someone born in, say, 1978 and someone born in 1982. But, on average, I expect there are a lot of differences in attitude, on average, between someone born in 1970 and someone born in 1990.
> It went something like this: 1. New President comes in with a new plan.
2. President freezes prices and/or bank accounts.
3. President fails.
4. President gets voted out or impeached.
5. Repeat.

Yeah... no. Between '64 and '85 we were living under a military dictatorship. No president during that period got voted out let alone impeached.
There are over 800 million devices that support it.
It means it's teaching (or attempting to teach) the field of accounting using terms, concepts, and styles of thinking familiar to developers, instead of starting from square 1.
Nope.

Source: theatre major, masters in education
> What a shit headline.

We changed the URL last night (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9616643) but forgot to change the headline as well. (It was "Jawbone sues Fitbit for stealing its talent and trade secrets".)
This is anecdotal and not 100% related, but I had Prime for awhile for the fast shipments. When I signed up, Prime was substantially faster than the average standard ship times. When the cost of Prime went up, I cancelled because it wasn't worth it to me anymore. However, I noticed my stuff was still arriving fast. It wasn't marked as "Prime", and it wasn't guaranteed 2-day delivery, but it was much faster than I remember the average standard shipping to be.

I am wondering if the Prime shipping infrastructure is the cause of this...everything is faster now, and it would cost money to artificially slow non-Prime shipments down, so they get the ancillary benefit of Prime-ish speed.
I predict that soon there will be Dash Button [0] like devices embedded in packaging (and/or appliances) so that they can estimate when you are likely to run out of something. First thing you know is more detergent arrives at your door and when you check the existing pack you find that you are indeed running low.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/oc/dash-button
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There are so many things I like about this data presentation:

- it uses percentiles rather than absolute numbers (though, some scaling would be great, e.g. on the top axis),

- it presents a full dependency rather than squeezes it to a number or two,

- it makes you engaged by prompting to take a guess,

- it shows other guesses.

I added it to my list of good examples of data vis/presentation.
Eh. Local businesses aren't great about their web presences on average. Especially if you own a house and sometimes need a random local service, the Yellow Pages can actually be handy.
I can't say I use mine a lot but I do use it.
Yeah I slowed down heavily around 2 years ago. The original value prop of connecting me with my friends is all but gone from the platform. It reminds me of AIM which started off as a great chat program, but AOL added too many features and ads. The original reason why I wanted to use AIM was peppered with so much bloated software cruft on it, that it became to frustrating to use. 12 years later, I'm at the same point with Facebook.

The only reason I still have it is because I have friends overseas and it's the best way to keep in touch with them if I need to get a hold of them; otherwise I don't need it.
Seriously!

How this was done was wrong.

SF writes: "Mirrored projects are sometimes used to deliver easy-to-decline third-party offers, and the original downloads are always available."

It's wrong because it's disingenuous - an insincere representation of the GIMP maintainers package, to include adware in the package.

SF insufficiently differentiates this "gimp-win" project with the small, coded byline: "Brought to you by: sf-editor1" (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-win/files/)

Let's be blatant and honest: this is "SF-GIMP" not GIMP. It's being operated here under the guise of the authors and currently not sufficiently identified as a fork.

SF skirts "adoption responsibility" by simply writing a post to some unrelated blog article after the fact and create a collection of unrelated "deceptive ad blocking" website tools.

RECOMMENDATIONS TO SF:

* Be up front and bold about "adopting"!

* Free software or not this adoption stinks!
Presentation slides should be as you describe... but slides that will be consumed by every media org and denizen of the internet need to be denser.
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This is my issue with the theory - it's very euro centric. Somewhere like Papua New Guinea where the millions of highlanders had no contact with the rest of the world until the 1930s just don't fit the theory. Presumably they'd have to be bicameral before and in a very small period of time full conscious - doesn't sound plausible.
OP might be too young to know what fingering (heh heh) means. :)
educated guess.
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The problem is that the $10MM likely isn't held in cash, it would be held in primarily assets like stocks that are resistant to inflation.
> the military is glorified by civilians.
> It's almost unpatriotic to criticize it

I think that's because many people are unable to separate the idea of criticizing the decisions the military makes, or the fact that we're at war in ${Country}, from having respect for the courageous men and women willing to be soldiers.

You can see the same divisive narrative in the discussions of Bad Behavior by Police in the US (any criticism is derided as "hating the police", rather than opposing behavior), or in the discussions about Snowden's revelations.

Loving and Supporting someone doesn't mean that you agree with their behavior, nor does it mean that you don't hold them responsible for poor/illegal/destructive choices. I can hold deep respect for our soldiers and the jobs they do, while still feeling that we should not be sending them to kill/die in remote locations, or while criticizing the way we treat our enemies in prisons. For many people, they seem either unable or unwilling to take a nuanced view like that.
The first option there is the same scam that record clubs used. In the UK, at least, any goods sent to you speculatively are yours to keep for free; any attempt to collect payment is illegal.
Think about it like this: if you give everybody some money, but they already have 1000 X that much money in the bank, then prices don't go up much. The rich have a lot of money, and they're buying stuff too. They matter as much as anybody; no, they matter 100X as much as everybody else.

All tax plans are of course entirely fictional of course.

And as for means-testing, the line about limiting it to folks above/below a certain income certainly sounds like meanstesting. What else could that have meant?

OH! I meant to respond to the parent comment. Sorry for the confusion!
http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=br_imp_ara-1?_encoding=UTF8&node...

That's a horrible url. Why not use something like http://amazon.com/news/free-prime-same-day-delivery? Is there some significant advantage to identifying the page with non-human readable identifiers in the query string that I'm not aware of?

Otherwise, very cool. I just wish it was in more areas.
I'd like to see a coding session with vim/emacs with an on screen keyboard map from someone skilled enough to convince me to start learning. Any pointer?
First of all, I'd say it's a bit much to claim that psychotherapy is a quack profession [0] - even if you've had some negative experiences with it yourself.

I'd rather say that if you've been diagnosed with a mental illness, and you are able to keep it in check or feel that you're making progress using only diet and exercise (no cognitive or behavioral tricks, for instance), I applaud you.

Exercise is moderately more effective than no therapy in for reducing symptoms in cases of mild depression [1], but that's it (as far as I know).
I'm sure you belive in your recommendations, but as research literature and experts of various fields disagree with your opinion, I don't.

As for your note, I'm not sure what you mean about "hard-core mental illness", and the whole "chemical" thing is debatable [2] (i.e. "chemical imbalance" is in many cases not the complete truth), but no one is conflating mental illness with the moods and regular ups and downs of life. Real mental illness (i.e. diagnosable disorders) is what I am talking about, at least.

[0]: http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1996-13324-001

[1]: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD004366...

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopsychosocial_model
How about distributed/crowd-sourced warehousing?

"We sent you a box of (commonly used item) because we though you might be out. Don't need it? Hold onto it and we'll credit your account $2 if you'll drop it off at a neighbor's house when they order it. Otherwise, let us know and we'll pick it up."

Or just make this process opt-in and let your customers volunteer to make some Amazon cash.
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0,1,infinite is a nice rule, but it certainly complicates a spec. I just cannot comprehend something being unbounded when we are talking about characters we use to communicate. Given the number of possibilities of 64-bits or 128-bits, I'm having a bit of a tough time thinking that their isn't a bound on what we can type into the computer.
Amazon Prime Now delivers within 1 hour, from early morning until midnight.
I really like this idea FWIW. That said, there's some big barriers to making it a reality.

I think it'd be difficult to get enough external services to integrate into the personal service for grabbing Github/Yelp/etc. data. There'd have to be a standard of some sort that people were willing to build with. External services that want your data will ask you to oauth directly to Github et. all, or go around you to figure out who you are instead and then scraping pages.

You'd need enough people demanding to keep their data private to make it worth apps' time to do that.
But how can the police arrest these wealthy business? They create jobs!
> Is there some significant advantage to identifying the page with non-human readable identifiers in the query string that I'm not aware of?

Sure. When your organization uses a custom CMS and creating pretty URLs requires approval from multiple departments and takes days (or weeks) and you want to throw up a page all quick-like.
It doesn't actually. The $35 minimum for for getting same-day delivery for free; you can get same-day for $5.99 for prime members and $9.98 for non-members.
Gaana.com was hacked, Information of 10M users compromised
I would like to follow your lead, but in some ways it feels selfish of me and thats why I stick around on FB. I live quite some distance from my family and it is the easiest way to share photos of my family with all of them without requiring them to all get a new account somewhere else.

Are there better more private solutions that are still very convenient for everyone from my 15 year old niece to my 80 year old grandparents? I also am friends with just about everyone I've ever had any sort of meaningful interaction with and I hate that I am constantly scrolling through my news feed seeing stuff that I could care less about but just doing it to pass time. I would love to shut Facebook off if it didn't mean losing the ability to share photos with my close family and friends.

Maybe its just a matter of paring my Friend list down to about 20-30 people (from about 350) but I'd still like to stop offering my personal information to a megacorp to sell out to their advertisers and who knows who else.
Meanwhile that laptop battery I ordered from Alibaba 2 months ago just shipped. They said it should arrive in 30 - 45 days. Yesterday I just got a new blade for my bandsaw, it was shipped 10 days ago.

Isn't it amazing what our expectations for shipping times are now.
Huh? Sorry, but that's just wrong. They do have add-on items which have to be bought at the same time as other items to get the free shipping. But I assure you that I routinely get free Prime shipping for single items that are well under $35. It's the norm.
That's true if the point of a presentation is to inform. But often the point is to impress or confound since that makes people think what you're saying is more substantial than it actually is.
There is also Messenger.com which would appear to do what you want.
I experienced the opposite last year. after cancelling Prime my shipments became extremely slow.
Or in other words, it's the placebo effect. Bugger, I was hoping it called upon the Golden Lord of Darkness who shines like gold upon the Sea of Chaos, the Lord of Nightmares who made the Four Worlds, and could destroy our entire plane of existence.

Oh, no wait, that's "chaos magic" from an anime series, in which there's actually such a thing as "chaos magic".
The technicalities are the entire point!

If the fundamental nature of reality can't be analyzed technically, what can be?

The evidence that things are non-physical is quantum physics experiments showing that the fundamental components of existence lack the properties of physical things.

The two slit experiment shows that photons behave in non-physical ways.

The indeterministic wave function shows that reality does not depend on strict physical laws but on randomness, and randomness is not mechanisitic. Materialism is based on mechanics but quantum strangeness violates mechanics, therefore mechanics is empirically wrong.

The Schrodinger's cat situation shows that reality is dependent on observers--but matter is said to exist without regard to observers at all. The physical moon still exists when you aren't looking at it. The Schrodinger's moon does not--just as Berkeley claimed in 1713.

Bosons show that two objects can take up the same space at the same time.... but physical things cannot occupy the same space at the same time. This is like saying that you can drive a bulldozer into a house but the bulldozer and house don't have to destroy each other, that they have the option of happily occupying the same space. The materialism hypothesis would say this is impossible. "Physical" things do not behave like bosons, therefore bosons aren't physical things.

The evidence that the materialism hypothesis is wrong is quantum physics, where things don't behave in the ways that the materialism hypothesis claims they should. Therefore the materialism hypothesis has been falsified and refuted and is wrong.
Only if the store sold Apples under the expectation that everyone could eat their Apples first before paying and genetically modified the Apples to have hidden rotten parts.
Their abuse compliance team has yet to get back to me despite the fact that I gave them my driver's license. It's been like 3 months.
Not soon enough. My son lost out on a job opportunity because of a photo of him published in fb when he was in grade 9. It's just a massive invasion of privacy, and for what? The "make a buck off the internet" guys hit the jackpot with that one.
>implying they're actually worth anything
Using the KeyChain approach is perfectly valid since you are just making sure your own unique_id, which has value only to you, is never lost. You are never storing an id which might be used with malicious purposes, which was the intention of Apple in the first place.
Update: Lots of opinions here. I posted this question to a few startup FB groups. Here are some of the answers I got from founder CEOs in those groups:

- CEO of an NYC startup: "We certainly don't have a summer Friday policy, but I'd say in general I don't love Friday afternoons. People definitely leave pretty early. We had to move our meetings back to the afternoons." [I assume he's saying they did that to keep employees from leaving]

- European startup founder: "Same thing at publishing companies in London, more or less all year long. I'm not sure why there's those policies in the media space. I'm not planning on setting up anything like that… we're not a billion dollar company yet"

- Startup founder: "Yeah if you do summer Fridays are for banks, big cos, you know the place where people take this for granted... do not recruit people who want this."

- Startup founder: "As an east coast company we don't do that, but there certainly is an expectation to take more vacations and have more flexibility during the summer months. The main and obvious difference here versus the west coast is that you guys have nice weather year round"

- Startup CTO: "[At my last large media company gig we] had Summer Fridays but you'd visit the office at 5pm on Fridays and we'd usually all be there. To me, it's like the startups that have no vacation policy ("if you want to go, go"). Trust your employees. If you hired right, they'll appreciate the gesture but only take you up on it when it makes sense. That said, when people do use it, I think the 'Summer Fridays' don't guarantee there are post-work events (people could get an early start on skipping town)."

- Startup accelerator founder: "This is not some new phenomenon; This has been going on with startups for many years - even pre dotcom. Work always happens at these post work events and people take time to recharge - if you hired right, you need not worry, as people with shit to do stay and do it, and others get more efficient, if even for a short while. It is also a great time to recruit folks and I know I have seen a lot of folks hiring recently."
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I didn't realize this. Somehow, this doesn't seem like a good idea to basically be on Doxycycline forever...

Most antibiotics are not effective agains Lyme, since it is a spirochete, and can end up in your spinal fluid.

Last time I had Lyme, I took Doxycycline for 6 weeks. that drug is pretty damn awful to take all the time.

Can you show any data that doctors are prophylactically prescribing antibiotics to people for Lyme? If that is the case, I'd assume that "living in connecticut" is a sufficient risk factor?
I totally agree, trying to be a very closed community never helps!! Now, they even shut down submission for users with no recommendation from one of their elite members!!
How many hours of sleep do developers get?
It can sound silly, but I'm curious about this. When I read stats about commit times and or the post from wark milson (http://warkmilson.com/2015/05/15/three-years-of-logging-my-inbox-count.html#time-spent-checking-email), I feel developers get 5 hours of sleep every night.

If you want to tell about yourself, please do.
(You can also talk about the amount of coffee you drink to balance)
It's more attention-getting to portray it as "this one weird trick to stop inflation", sadly.
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Not sure why you would need approval for a pretty URL and wouldn't need approval for the design and content in general. Couldn't those be lumped together for approval at the same time? It just seems subpar for a company of Amazon's size, especially when most CMS platforms have support for pretty urls.

Not sure that the design for this page went through any sort of approval process though :)
Absolutely amazing achievement, and sickening all at the same time. I never realized the scale and magnitude of WWII, or how distorted the view of our world is according to mainstream media.

Well worth the ticket price to support future work like this.
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No it isn't, because no payment is required to view the page in question.

How it works is that your browser downloads a page. That page contains scripts and links. Thanks to blocking software working on your behalf, the browser picks and chooses what of that cruft it should activate and what it should ignore.

Nobody has a right to make your computer fetch unwanted content and throw it in your face.

It's like looking at a tray of hors d'oeuvres, and choosing a few that you like, avoiding ones you don't find palatable.

Anyway, not long ago, I obtained a full refund for a bag of apples that were rotten, even though I ate some of it. That is normal.
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I might be missing something but the source of the actual iOS app doesn't appear to be on their Github.
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Ah yes, AutoArchive.

Much as how AutoRecover (Word) is not AutoSave (N++), AutoArchive is not Archive.

Archive is the manual process of dropping your mail into another folder when you've processed it from your inbox, in order to keep yourself organized. AutoArchive, as the link suggests, is an automated tool that will age mail from your archive folder (and rules-based folders) into older storage folders, for technical reasons - folder capacity is finite, but we can make more folders.

Confusion between the two is probably exacerbating the Inbox Zero crisis.
The assumption that inflation exists is taken into account when setting interest rates on loans. So borrowing / lending activity does create money in the form of an IOU. The money doesn't become "real" in a money supply sense until the IOU is paid out, but the effects of high inflation can linger long after the government stops printing money.

Under normal inflation scenarios this would be largely restricted to the financial sector which can be managed by a central bank, but with the type of inflation Brazil saw at times, this permeated even simple business transactions. Something that would be as simple as "Oh, we've done business for 30 years so I know you're good for it, just pay me on Friday" becomes an interest-bearing transaction.

Basically, because inflation is so high, individuals have to charge interest on even the smallest transactions. This makes people more reluctant to loan, but even the most basic real-world economies don't function without credit; and when you issue debt, you are creating future money supply. In stable, low inflation scenarios, the central bank can adjust to this by increasing the money supply accordingly. But if you stop issuing currency, money does not stop being created.