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React is not about doing everything for you. It's about creating discrete pieces that can be composed into more complex UI elements. Ember, Angular, etc, are all doing too much imo. I much prefer the granularity provided by React.

Regarding JSX, I was a little put off by some new 'bastard' JS format but all it really does is allow you to write HTML in your JS code and have syntax highlighting and all the benefits of those tags being first class citizens in the language for a change. This allows you to write much more clean HTML inside your JS without a ton of commas and escape characters, etc. I personally think it's worth it, but JSX is optional- you can always write pure JS which is what the JSX crosscospiler spits out for you.

Take some time to play around with it, the lightbulb moment hits pretty earlier for most people because this isn't a radical change compared to most of the big JS libraries out there.
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I think Berlin is unusual. Construction happens very slowly here. Things don't get fixed quickly. And there is a lack of desire to change the city too much, physically.

As an example, the paving on the pathways is in a constant state of being repaired because the design is such that the little stone blocks pop out very easily. Many of the side roads are still cobbled (and a nightmare to cycle on). People don't worry about it.
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I just sent a message. I addressed it to Anil (Last name redacted because I don't know if you want that info on HN or not) because that's what twitter said your name is.

If for some reason that doesn't go through, could you please text me at 360-970-0361? I'm petrified of speaking on the telephone. I used to work in call centres; they've left quite the mark on me. When I speak on the phone I go into instant panic attacks.

I'd be happy to meet you in whatever part of town is best for you. I'm staying in Roy (between Tacoma and Oly) so time wise I'm only limited to when the transit gets to Seattle as I can usually find a pretty early ride to the Roy Y.

Thank you again. This means so much to me. The fact that I had multiple people offer in such a short time frame lifts my spirits and kind of makes me tear up a bit.
It's not that tensors are particularly hard to reason about. It's just that the way they are represented as multidimensional arrays hides very well the fact that they are element of a tensor product (hence tensors). Natural operations like, well, the tensor product are often not even available.
read the paper (well, skim it) - you might be interested to see your interpretation is a very common perceptual bias. They claim that this is harmful since it decreases perceived competence (as if these traits are somehow in a zero-sum tradeoff).

Be that as it may, the thing that some might find off-putting is not 'surviving cancer' but appearing to be using that to gain sympathy points in a job application.
I don't "check" my email, it comes over push notifications. So it doesn't discriminate between personal/work emails.
A very relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1494/.
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Basically the crowdsourcing here means that YLE published a article saying (shortened): "Tell us what kind of web trolling you have been targeted by and in what situations. We'll compile an article of peoples experiences"

The term "crowdsourcing" isn't really used in Finnish. Apparently there exists a translation for it ("joukouttaminen"), but I haven't ever heard anyone use it (not that I've looked too hard).
I'm not sure what you are saying here. That by past standards they were not totally horrible, or that becoming colonized was a fair trade due to all of the "benefits"?

As an example, Japan nor China was never colonized, they were totally ass-backwardian to late 19th century and appear at least to foreign eyes quite modern nowadays.
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From the S1:

" In October 2015, our former Chief Financial Officer, Erik Bardman, resigned from the company to focus on matters related to a past employer, including an investigation of certain accounting practices entirely with respect to such past employment."

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If you consider the evolution of homo sapiens and it's predecessor, homo erectus, you have about 1.98 Million years where their diet would have been rich in Vitamin C; berries, fruit, vegetables etc.; their primary food sources, supplemented occasionally by meat when available.

Farming only began to develop around 20,000 years ago, causing grains take a bigger role in home sapiens diet and reducing the relative Vitamin C consumption. Meanwhile we didn't physically evolve during that time.

So one might expect that our bodies are evolved to thrive when Vitamin C intake is high...
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It's a good thing language and society are fluid despite being held back by people who are unchanging in opinion or operate on religious zeal.

The function and intention of marriage has changed through time and locality.

To pick a singular aspect of a complex social construct and use that to base its purpose and definition on is myopic.
I should update my knowledge of Gaming PCs to 2015, then. What are the latest trendy high-end systems nowadays?
Thanks for the link. I'm semi-familiar with that blog. A lot of the info provided is really solid regardless of where you're at (if it's the one I'm thinking of.)
Not at all a good salary - they will most likely get developers that have tried out some of these technologies and they will have to train on the job - people with these skills are sought after (£50K+ outside of London). Guess most important will be your personality profile, math skills and willingness / ability to quickly acquire skills.

Problem is that government organisations in the UK (and elsewhere) have to "grade" the post / position they are hiring for. The grade then defines the maximum salary they can pay on permanent positions.

Outcome of that is that there are armies of contractors where the posts then can be graded similarly but the pay can be much higher.
We're not talking about "every country in the world" though. We're talking about England, where your definition has not applied since 2013.
What exactly was wrong with the way negotiations were handled? If by in-secret, that is par for the course for a number of large trade agreements.
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Well, there is a bit missing in this story. The City Palace was actually demolished during the GDR time and replaced by the "Palast der Republik" (the palace of the republic). This Palace of the Republic (which did not really look like a palace very much) was then torn down in 2008 to make place for a reconstruction of the pre-GDR building.

I think it is a bit sad that Germany does not leave more GDR-era buildings standing. They might not always be the most visually appealing buildings (just like the GDR was not a very appealing state in many regards), but they still represent an important part of Germanys history.
> "I don't really see the benefits of space elevators, to be honest. At an altitude of 100km the gravity is still virtually the same."

You would have made the first 100km of the journey more fuel efficient, is that not a good enough reason?
There's probably a small amount of passive income to be made from slurping all the book recommendation threads and creating a nice simple web page with a bunch of Amazon (.com and .co.uk) referral links.

You could mention how often the book has been mentioned on HN.
I dispute "often". I honestly can't think of cases other than certain scientific calculations where they are more appropriate than fixed-point numbers.

The fact that scientists had so much input on the early design of hardware and programming languages means that floats are often a performance hack that exchanges semantics for speed. But that's hardly necessary in most applications.

And if hardware and language support was better for fixed point numbers, floats would be seen as the bizarre special case that's only appropriate in rare cases.
I would say that Dark Souls is still fundamentally driven by mechanics, as most of the gameplay stems from you adapting to various enemies/AI patterns and physically learning to overcome them, while the depth of the story is mostly up to you to piece together.
Do 10% speedups really matter for its success, if both libraries are ultimately calling into CUDNN? I do not think so.

Right now, Torch/Caffe adoption is really good with lots of research code being released for it (even from within Google DeepMind). So it will be interesting to see how this catches up amongst the research and developer community.
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Flagging this since you just posted it a day ago.
So if someone is infertile then their marriage doesn't count in your eyes either?
Balloons float because dense air in the lower parts of atmosphere pushes them up with buoyant force. They lose the ability to float way before they would reach LEO, let alone GEO.
I think this loop actually still only builds the graph -- what `scan` would do. The computation still happens outside of python. That is, in tensorflow they perhaps don't need `scan` because a loop with repeated assignments "just works"... Let's try this:

It seems like in TensorFlow you can say:

import tensorflow as tf
sess = tf.InteractiveSession() # magic incantation

state = init_state = tf.Variable(1) # initialise a scalar variable

states = []
for step in range(10):
# this seems to define a graph that updates `state`:
state = tf.add(state,state)
states.append(state)

sess.run(tf.initialize_all_variables())

at this point, states is a list of symbolic tensors.
now if you query for their value:

print sess.run(states)
>>> [2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024]

you get what you would naively expect. I don't think that would work in Theano. Cool.
I'd love to see a study using actual cancer survivors and a control - who do not in any way include this information in their resume or discussion or clothing - and see if anyone is digging into personal medical history as part of their hiring practices. Probably have to apply for a different sort of job than retail though.
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This kind of thing is an advantage of Airbnb. Our litigious society has resulted in overly sanitized public spaces - no hotel would have a rope swing on a tree because of safety/liability concerns. We need to realize that it is not worth ruining everything to marginally improve safety.
Presumably this is why they completely repackaged JIRA a few weeks ago. http://www.cio.com/article/2989783/atlassian-takes-jira-beyo.... Now they have the broad corporate-focused packages that will play well on Wall Street. They also have upside growth from the repackaging that can drive speculative pricing beyond what their current financial statements would justify.
You realize that a farm has another (more organic) use for solar energy, right?
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> Marriage is a strictly defined cultural phenomenon
> ...
> with the original intention to continue the family by having kids.

You need to review your history on marriage including, but by no means limited to, what the bible has to say on such matters.

The biblical view of marriage is vastly different to simply "a man and a woman wanting to procreate", itself took on and in places redefined millennia of tradition that pre-dated it, and given how much of that definition the church now ignores (allowing divorce, no longer requiring the stoning non-virgins, to cite two of many examples) I don't think ignoring something that isn't actually stated in the text anyway should be a significant problem.
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> and you stuck solving the rocket equation again

Yes, but only for 2km/s, so there's that. Also this system can be used on other bodies such as Mars and the Moon.

But yeah, I'm more worried about the 1000g than anything.
> Unless you build an elevator with a height of 42'164km (geostationary orbit) - but that seems unrealistic to me.

Actually, much of the point is to build one that is significantly taller than that. The idea is that, if the center of mass sits at geostationary orbit, the elevator doesn't actually have to hold itself up. Centripetal forces do the heavy lifting. Try the wikipedia link posted by gp - the first thing you'll see is a very clear diagram.
I'd expect that a not-insubstantial portion of the residents of the Hollywood Hills have made their living/fortune directly or indirectly from the movie industry.

That's neither here nor there. People want to see an attraction. It's on public parkland. The residents, whatever their motivation, do not have a right to prevent that. They could petition the city for better access (hell no, they won't do that), or policy change. Instead, they use connections and money to do things like:

- illegally threaten tourists with the use of fake signs threatening civil or criminal sanctions
- personally harass visitors
- hire security guards who have been told to threaten people with trespass and arrest, illegally

Just like David Geffen's famous 'fake driveway'. Amazing how everyone in Malibu knows that it's not a real driveway. That he had no right to paint the curb red or yellow indicating fire lanes, etc. The police know it. The towing companies know it. Yet, every week, they book, ticket, and tow someone who also knows it (there have been cases where people have parked there with a print-out of the whole saga pinned to their window, to prevent the usual story, which is "well, we know it's not real, but you didn't and you parked there, so you were ignoring the law").

My sympathies are ... lacking.
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Appears to be only CUDA from the code. Also no distributed systems support released. Also, I cannot get it to work since this morning.
> I'm not saying its communism which will take grip of the imagination of people. But it might be some other radical idea.

There are some very effective specific radical ideas I'm aware of which stood the test of the time. They typically involve otherworldly entities and an immediate but also the eternal punishment for disbelievers.
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I am very thankful for Hover and Pinball. They made me want a faster and less buggy computer. This resulted in wonderful mishaps -- deleting Win system files, recovering into Vector Linux, trying Win 3.11 for WG, and finally ending up in Win98 SE. All the in between is free knowledge. All due to Hover running at 3FPS on my Cirrus Logic onboard gpu/100mhz cpu.

In my heart, the reason for Hover -- to plant a seed forging low level algorithm programmers.
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Actually lasagne is pretty good, I wasn't targeting you (but then you're pretty good at winning kaggle competitions so perhaps there's a connection there, no?)...

I'm thinking mostly of Theano, which, from a performance standpoint, appears to have died the death of a thousand inexperienced cooks in the kitchen. The ~1000x performance regressions that it invokes when a junior data scientist goes off the rails and ends up with a python inner loop amidst GPU kernels is just depressing and seemingly unfixable. Hopefully, TensorFlow will be better if only because it was written in a world now very aware of Pixel's Law.

Mxnet is awesome, but perhaps a little too parameter servery for my personal tastes, and I'm now wondering what the point of CGT is now other than to be Coke to Google's Pepsi. I also think the whole deep learning framework business model just took a torpedo amidships (and not long after the layoffs at Ersatz).

Finally, I had never heard of Chainer until today, thanks! That said, without autograd functionality, the people I work with would probably stick with Caffe + cuDNN.
They could. But that's not the point for the residents. They don't want that, either. They want secluded peace. Next to a world famous tourist attraction. They don't want construction, they don't want traffic. They'd gate Hollywood Blvd if they could to stop people even getting up the first of the streets towards the sign.
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I didn't realize that they weren't based in SF, since they have a large presence here. In fact, the Chief Legal Officer cited in that filing is based in SF.

According to statements made by the founder[1], the move to London was designed to make them more integrated into the global economy ahead of their IPO. That tells me that they aren't moving again any time soon.

[1] http://www.afr.com/technology/atlassians-farquhar-justifies-...
I'd have thought sperm/egg freezing would do the trick.
Why do I need an algorithm to find a good business, buy shares, and sit on them forever?
Nail. Head. I'm a contractor, you pay for my time. Want more work? Pay me.

I find permy types to be the ones that can't shut off from work.
Computers trade most effectively with technical indicators. These are things like price history, volume, etc. These trades are very effective in the short term, where trades can happen in terms of seconds or milliseconds. This is where computers excel and humans fall short. This sort of trading is based mostly on breadth. If you look up the fundamental law of active portfolio management, you'll see that breadth is less effective (exponentially less so) than skill is.

In the case of the long term, however, trading is done with fundamental indicators. These things can be more or less intangible and have to do with market events, people, and other indicators of company value that are hard to translate into math. Using fundamental indicators for portfolio management is what humans are better at, and these pay off in the long term (see Warren Buffet). These trades are done with skill, which, as I stated earlier, is exponentially more effective at creating gains than breadth.

In short, it takes a huge amount of breath to get the gains required by a relatively small amount of skill. Computers are better by far at breadth, while humans are better (for now) at skill. This, I think, is why humans still trade.
> Does she claim that the member of the Parliament is a paid Russian troll?

No, she doesn't - first of all, Peter Saramo is not a member of the Parliament, he is a civil servant who is working at the Parliament (as the head of secretaries for Grand Committee, whose task is e.g. to prepare legislation for EU matters.)

Second, she doesn't claim that Saramo is a paid troll. He is clearly paid well enough by the taxpayer (that's me); his hobby is to be a fellow traveler of trolls.

As to the rest of what you ask, this is yet another typical example of methods in trolling - throwing about many unclear and therefore unrefutable implications. As a Finnish proverb says, "one fool can ask more questions than ten wise men can answer".
No description of how often the author actually changed jobs?

There is definitely a happy medium and early career job hopping might be more productive than later career job hopping.

As an employee the only thing you have to invest is time and really not as much of it as you would think IMO. Invest it wisely.
IANAL either, but I think the prohibition is on items that threatan life and saftely rather than trespassers property.

From Wikipedia:

> Mantraps that use deadly force are illegal in the United States, and there have been notable tort law cases where the trespasser has successfully sued the property owner for damages caused by the mantrap. There is also the possibility that such traps could endanger emergency service personnel such as firefighters who must forcefully enter such buildings during emergencies. As noted in the important US court case of Katko v. Briney, "the law has always placed a higher value upon human safety than upon mere rights of property."

Thinking in those terms, a few spike strips on your lawn should be fine.
The problem is not providing better access. That's what the populace might want. The residents, who are already happily interfering and obstructing, illegally at times, don't want that, and certainly don't want the idea of 'night access'.
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I think it's just prohibitively expensive at the moment. 100km (I think it would have to be a lot more anyway) is not much in terms of space exploration. And even then you will always use the majority of your fuel for acceleration towards and deceleration at your destination (however fuel needs for deceleration might be much lower if you can do some sort of atmospheric braking).
I don't see why you have to bring this kind of thing into a perfectly fine science story.
I grew up in Berlin in the 70s and early 80s, and I remember some bombed-out ruins that were slowly crumbling. A bit of a post-apocalyptic sight. The ones I remember were close to the wall between east and west Berlin - real estate that used to be city center but now was very much at the margins. Maybe that was a factor in not redeveloping some properties for a long time.
"A candle against the sun" or something like that.

I wonder if the gamma bursts from nuclear testing are discernible from the solar noise? It would reduce the distance to about about 60 light years.

If some ET were looking in our direction, I imagine the radiation signature would look like camera flashes on the far side of a dark stadium where a pyrotechnic performance was occurring on stage.

So long as your eyes are not blinded by the main event, a burst of sparks off to one side might catch your attention - if you are watching during those precious few years when such events happen, and the orientation of all relevant celestial bodies are favorably aligned.

Now, having put it to words, it becomes a hopelessly unlikely signal.
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> And as a member of that Society elected to the Parliament?

No, not elected. A civil servant working at the Parliament.
I don't know: I'm not aware we've ever been asked. My guess is that our church would if we were allowed to, but that the diocese and Lambeth Palace would overrule it.

I do know that [family member], who is gay and married, has said that she feels welcomed in our church and that she wishes she'd had one like it to support her when she came out.
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I don't know why you're being downvoted, those ideas make perfect sense to me. Thoughts about how we want to structure our society should drive decisions on technology, we shouldn't have to adapt society to new technology if the society decides against using it.
You mean the computers that can't even understand the sentence "We saw grand canyon flying to chicago."
> Land is monopoly.

Only in the same sense that I have a monopoly on my Toyota.
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