skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have repeatedly had poor experiences with Wal-Mart and Target online. The first time was when I found that the website "inventory" had nothing to do with the in-store inventory, so the "in stock" item was not only completely out of stock, but there was no incoming stock for weeks. The guy in electronics showed me his inventory computer.
The second time I ordered a camera lens, also "in stock" for in-store pickup. It was supposed to be available in a week, but after I waited a week they cancelled the order, no reason given. I've had Amazon cancel maybe 1% of my orders.
The third time Target refused to sell me a gift card online, even though I was using the same credit card I've used multiple times in the store. (Ironically, I was able to buy it at Wal-Mart, which I believe is the first time I successfully purchased something electronically from them.)
I did buy a couple sleds from Wal-Mart for delivery, and that was good; They came from a local store so it was fast and not nearly as expensive as mailing something. I hope they improve.
plot twist: amazon and walmart merge to create walmazon
Yeah, best solution I've seen(but haven't had a chance to use in anger) is P4-Fusion(P4 backend, git views).

Perforce was always the gold standard for stuff like this. Did a great job at not only providing locking but stuff like seamless proxies and other solutions to common problems in that domain(like a usable UI).
Well one might also argue that there are much more unsafe factors out there nowadays than before though. I guess the increasing inequality and social segregation also has something to do with it. Generally, the modern life is just factually much different from the life 100 years ago.

Though I definitely agree this shouldn't go too far. There was this article that I just read a few days ago, that stated that Iceland was able to drastically curb teenage drug/alcohol use with some measures, which included after school interest clubs etc. and especially, a law that prevented them from being outside after 0:00 (summer) or 22:00 (winter)... which I certainly find way too draconian. You'd definitely still want to give the teens much more freedom even if it entails a risk of them getting influenced by some negative factors. Still, it's their life and you need to let them learn stuffs and explore on their own.
OK, I tried it at home. Another PC, another Provider, Chrome Version 56.0.2924.87, no uBlock, I even tried it in Inkognito Mode. The result is the same. https://imgur.com/a/Bo4Kq
Isn't it easier just to do that stuff with your hands?
I think the value of these systems is when you have your hands full, or when getting out your phone or other UI is not convenient.

"Alexa, turn on the lights".

"Alexa, let the cat out".

"Alexa, did I lock the door?"

As soon as there are enough of these, it'll take off because it'll be useful. None of these things need real intelligence. Sure, intonation won't be great. But the convenience will override the imperfection.
So are people standing behind you.
I am married to a Turkish muslim girl and she is still alive :-) (I am catholic).

I admit though that her family is quite progressive in this regard, for other girls it would be much more problematic.
Destroy America by advocating for diminishing the scope of the first amendment?
Yep! Only difference is that FPGAs use much smaller lookup tables (LUTs) -- typically 4 or 6 bits in and 1 bit out. For comparison, this project's ALU EPROM has 21 bits in and 16 bits out.

Also, FPGAs have real registers. This project is sort of faking registers in some places by wiring output to input in some ROMs. (Which is a clever idea, but flaky and eats a lot of space in the ROM.)
Your experience is correct that "...many tech jobs on Wall Street..." but many non-tech trading/quant/exec jobs on Wall Street certainly pay far more. Those are reasonable places experienced tech talent go because many quant/analyst positions use the same skillsets as the tech world.

Also, the market salary in SF/SV will generally need to be higher. The cost of living is outrageous even compared to NYC.
I'm pretty sure it's a genuine delete button.
The fact is that automation replaced jobs (good thing!) yet rather than the 'savings' being returned to the labourer, so that she no longer needs to work, it is passed to Amazon. That person who was replaced would no longer need to work, at least not that job, in an ideal world. Rather than the automation improving the lives of the workers, it causes suffering by means of making people either unemployed (unemployment itself is not bad, it is only bad within Capitalism because the worker is unable to sustain herself without the State) or to move them to yet another job.

In some respects I believe the re-purposing of humans for other jobs may be worse.
To the suits, we are little better than chimps.
There's a third 't' in your 'http:' that's breaking the linking.

I live right around the corner, so I might be in touch!
This is true, but I think it tends to favor established players. Look at YouTubers. I follow a few Youtubers and have for years. They all seem to be moving over to Twitch and the Paetreon model for support, specifically the Amazon Prime method. This is in part due to the lessening of Youtube's $$/view. I think this is great for them, and I pay them to continue doing what I love for them to do. However, I find that there are less and less people entering the 'market' over time. Is this a bad/good thing? I have no idea, just an observation.
In the NeXT days, a program could be compiled as a "fat" binary that would run on multiple supported CPU architectures.

It made things easier for developers because they only had to ship one set of installation media regardless of the CPU the user had.
Yes, it's really bizarre, even the application/website itself has a whole guilt-trip gauntlet when you choose to deactivate your account. Not to mention that you cannot actually ever even _delete_ your data, you can only put your account into a suspended state of stasis.

The only people I know of who have success in their facebookian encounters are:

+ activists
+ artists (who connect under pseudonyms)
+ businesspeople (who connect under the umbrella of their company)
I know someone who smacks their lips loudly when eating. Although noises in general don't irritate me as per the article, this person's eating noise riles me. Like another commentor, i think it's just a manners thing.
I believe the term you're looking for is homogeny.
Isn't this kind of the point? The NZ governments goal was to increase private investment, not make a return. They succeeded -- Thiel put $6.8m to work in NZ that he may not have otherwise.

Many countries do this. For example in the UK the British Business Bank will become an LP in a VC fund acting as a multiplier on capital raised.

You may not agree with the government's decision, but you can hardly blame Thiel for making use of it.
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I see CNN and Fox News do the same thing, minus the sources. At least with sources you can click through and form your own opinion from the data.
Cesium will not work for large datasets and generaly it's very slow, otherwise Melown allows you to upload enourmous large data scales and works fast.
You certainly won't get it if you continuously undermine liberal institutions that promote inclusivity and cooperation. Once society starts attacking those institutions wars tend to become a self fulfilling prophecy.
The sooner they admit TFS is dead and commit 100% to git the better.

In fact, I think everyone should use git :)
> the recent changes to the movement scheme

What was changed? I don't remember how the game worked when I first tried it.
Genericity with functions
"Diversify Chief" makes me cringe a bit. Makes me think of the modern-day version of the "Political Commissar" - there to make sure that you're always towing the Party Line.

Not that I'm against diversity or anything, I just don't like how it's enforced as a goal unto itself.
CSIRO develops electronics-grade graphene from soybeans
(first, I should say I didn't read the article... I know, I know)...

BUT, something about this reminds me of simulated annealing. Just throwing that out there.
Never heard of the anti-adblock thing before. That's nice to be aware of.
I only got the Dot a couple of weeks ago and for me it's worth the $50 just for playing music. Anyone who thinks it is a "glorified radio clock" might want to just take some time to think about exactly what it's doing. I'm kind of amazed by it.
I feel like we're already starting to see the effects of Amazon's attempts to become profitable.

Their customer service has certainly gone down the drain, and their whole website is littered with cheap garbage from Alibaba.

To me, it looks like they pulled the typical bait-and-switch we see every day with mobile apps: Offer something great for free. Then, once you've cornered the market, start squeezing every penny out of your users and cutting corners everywhere.
Beat the odds for startup hiring with group recruitment
Hey, it's completely cool if people want to peacefully protest the actions of the government and speak out about what they think are wrongdoings. The more eyes watching them back and keeping a close tab on their activities, the better.

It's curious to me however how many folks only like to protest when a guy is in charge who has the letter R next to his name....
Isn't this what channels are for? Doesn't Go have this already built in?
Mine has largely been relegated to "decent non-portable Bluetooth speaker". Google's Home doesn't even support Bluetooth, but you can "cast" to it.
None of what you've said would make any sense for anyone who agrees with the list of synonyms for "Obtuse" which I posted in my previous comment.

Those synonyms are from a dictionary, and they are all insults.

So I have to conclude that either:

- You have a radically different definition of "obtuse" which you somehow consider a non-insult and which is non-standard usage

- You're intentionally beating around the bush in order to avoid admitting to understand the difference between an insult and a constructive criticism :)

These are just my two hypothesis, but if you have others, I'd love to hear them.
I think this would be better the piper+citc. While the virtual filesystem aspect is nice the perforce model is far inferior to git's. (IMO) Of course Google has tools on top of it. But it's not fair to compare a VCS and interface to it to a complete development infrastructure. Hell, with the content addressing of git it would even make it easy to build something similar.
Google has a different budget, Melown is a startup based in Prague with 10 great developers.
Another example is the kinds of statistics that are often used, which tends to assume large amount of workers being hired for things like manual labor jobs.
Oh, hm. I reread it, and it still kind of looks like that's what you're implying. I guess I don't really understand the overall point you're trying to make outside of anecdata. Sorry :\.
All true!

But that said, I don't know of any author that wouldn't give you a gratis copy, oh, ok, maybe an old 'draft' that is 'close' to the publication.
You could suggest a private service if they want your participation.

Something like http://spokt.com
I agree about the zero rating thing being ok to most people, but my guess is the FCC was trying to walk a line clearly and didn't want to create any grey areas. Net neutrality means net neutrality means net neutrality and so forth.

The problem is really that once you allow any sort of packet discrimination, for lack of a better way of putting it, you open up questions about what's "slow", as it's all relative anyway. Better to just not go there.

I'm a strong supporter of net neutrality, but don't see that as being the only way. I just am deeply skeptical that the FCC and government would enforce the sort of antitrust regulation and encouragement of competition that's needed to achieve the same aims another way. If the FCC and federal legislators were encouraging antitrust suits, and banning bans on municipal broadband, etc. I would feel totally differently. But to me it seems like it's obvious they're there to protect entrenched corporate interests at the expense of small business and consumers.

I sincerely appreciate Pai's comments about regulation inhibiting expansion of new ISPs and broadband delivery, but it seems like a con to me without concrete examples, and without doing other things that are consistent with that. If he gave a damn about expanding broadband access he would be fighting tooth and nail to support municipalities that have wanted to do it but haven't been able to. Maybe he has and I'm not aware of it, but his rhetoric seems empty and one-sided.
Oooh, nice catch! Made the fix, will be updated next time we release.

EDIT: Well, I tried, Vzhou beat me to fixing it.
Some good alternatives, for when you just want quick and easy parallelization:

Joblib[0]: 'Embarrassingly parallel for loops'. Basically just write a generator and get multicore processing on it. Pretty straightforward.

Multiprocess[1]: This is a fork of the multiprocessing module. The biggest benefit to me (the one time I used it) is that it's easier to create shared data structures for multiprocessing (which I couldn't do with multiprocessing.Pool). Last week I had to do a really long graph calculation that only needed to return a result for a very, very small fraction of the arguments. Joblib stored all of the null results as 'None', which tore through my RAM after billions of relatively fast calculations before crashing. But using a shared dictionary and multiprocess.Pool and imap_unordered, I was able to use mutlicore processing, adding items to the dict only if the right conditions were met, and discarding the 'None's. RAM use was very minimal.

[0]: https://pythonhosted.org/joblib/index.html
[1]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/multiprocess
But why are types a problem?
Less nutritious than before does not mean that the food is not good for you. You say "more carbs than minerals"... I'd argue that plants have ALWAYS been more "carbs" than minerals, otherwise we would be eating rocks. Why put "carbs" in quotes? Because that is a misnomer for the "more mass" argument you make. Plants are made of many different substances that include carbs but also a large amount of fiber. This is highly variable based on the plant.

Should we be doing more to promote restorative practices for soil in agriculture? Yes! Are fresh fruits and vegetables not good for you just because their mineral levels are lower than historical numbers? No! Eat colorful foods from people who practice the farming practices that you deem important. The market will force a movement in practices on a larger scale.

Eat well :)
For those who aren't familiar, Samantha Power was (until recently) US Ambassador to the UN. Before that, she was an journalist, author, and activist.
Using logistic regression to predict parking difficulty
Ever heard something about statistical significance?
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Do you know if weatherspark used public or private data sources? I've been working on some open source data visualization tools and if the data sets were public perhaps we could build something with weather data sets in mind.
The lookup table part, sure, many fpgas use that. The clever part of this was turning a ROM into a flip flop.
If you live in Germany and pay yourself a salary from an Estonian company, then you will only pay taxes in Germany and no taxes in Estonia.

The 20% Estonian corporate tax does not apply to salaries for non-residents, but for things like dividends.

P.S. Leapin is a company that specializes in accounting for online businesses looking to establish a presence in Estonia. You can find some more info on this stuff on their website:

https://www.leapin.eu/faq/receiving-funds#what-taxes-do-i-ne...
Holy cow, it sounds like they reinvented Clearcase!
We added the capability to queue moves through/into unknown territory. Before you had to keep on clicking & moving, clicking & moving.
This makes little sense. Certainly the court itself should be able to find some expert which weighs in on the matter as a third-party instead of letting the sides involved spin their own stories? Would that be complicated?
Right - the point is that it would be non-clean room.
Until the next botnet arrives...

Instead of all this someone should sue whoever makes these devices. Once some money is on the line we will see security improve pretty rapidly. As a bonus we will see less gimicky functions that nobody really needs (I'm talking to to LG)
You can still ask me that XD
Talk about an echo chamber of left wing fascists. Do you left wing nut jobs even have any clue what conservatives like Thiel stand for or do you just knee jerk to "ban em, ban em all"? I mean after calling them names of course.
You really need to read more history. a lot more history. Maybe try some scholarly works on a culture you are not familiar with so that you're less inclined to rely on your default assumptions.

I put it to you that many conflicts are not so much the result of inevitable animus between diverse social groups, but the willingness of some people to opportunistically exploit a power vacuum for their own advantage by convincing members of one population to scapegoat another one. Rene girard has written extensively on this topic and argues that it may be a fundamental tendency.

You keep appealing to homogeneity, but show me a homogenous group and I'll find some fault-lines in it. If that proves difficult, I'll just create some. Once I have two groups who believe their interests to be divergent I can set them against each other and exploit the resulting instability for my own ends. It's really easy to play people off against each other if that's your overarching objective.
Using inaudible high frequency sound to verify device proximity
I never really minded advertising on the web, personally, until a few years back. Two big negatives prompted me to install an ad blocker. The first negative was the increasing presence of malware reports in advertising. The second negative was the horrible tendency of advertising towards UI intrusiveness (full screen pop-overs, autoplay video, etc.) and causing the performance of the page to significantly slow down.

From my perspective, advertising is not terrible in itself. Advertising that punishes the user is terrible. Make the user experience of an advertisement good and useful, and get rid of the nasty malware stuff, and I suspect there will be a lot less motivation for ad blockers.
This works:

> snap disconnect <snap>:<plug>

Then you can reconnect with:

> snap connect <snap>:<plug>

dbus mediation is something that Canonical developers added, IIRC.
The title is making the assumption that the future of AI isn't glorified radio clock.

Also, what's definition of "future". Academic research paper or project? Or, something deployed and used by millions. I tend towards the later. And by that metric the future is now.
If you just listed the core principles outlined here for anyone I don't see how they could find anything disagreeable. This sounds great, especially points a and b.
It's still 1 core for multithreading (on the python part).
The order was, of course, deliberately vague in its wording. The NYT provides a succinct translation:

President Trump on Friday moved to chisel away at the Obama administration’s legacy on financial reform, announcing a series of steps to revisit the rules enacted after the 2008 financial crisis and setting the stage for a showdown with Democrats over the future of Wall Street regulation.

After a White House meeting with the executives, Mr. Trump signed a directive calling for his administration to identify potential changes to provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act, crafted by the Obama administration and passed by Congress in response to the 2008 meltdown. A second directive he signed will effectively halt an Obama-era Labor Department rule that requires brokers to act in a client’s best interest, rather than seek the highest profits for themselves, when providing retirement advice.

The executive order impacting Dodd-Frank is vague in its wording and broad in its reach; it never mentions the Dodd-Frank law by name, instead laying out “core principles” for regulating the financial system, including empowering American investors and enhancing the competitiveness of American companies. But it amounts to a broad grant of authority to the Treasury Department to find ways of restructuring major provisions of Dodd-Frank, directing the secretary to conduct a sweeping review of existing laws and make sure they align with the administration’s goals.

Mr. Trump’s action on the fiduciary rule will have a more immediate impact. His memorandum directs the Department of Labor to review whether the rule may “adversely affect” investors’ ability to access financial advice — and if it does, he authorized the agency to rescind or revise the rule.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/03/business/dealbook/trump-c...
The issue of intonation, here, isn't a technical one. I did my third years' internship in a 3 people startup, lost in the middle of the french countryside. And we were working on a software that could generate complete weather bulletin for any european city (>50k inhabitants) or simply deliver a personalized voicemail (with names, dates, past purchases) like any human would do. In fact people were calling back the number we gave, asking for "jeremy", the bot. It was really good and it was less than 1k lines of python code (embedded in django).

So, if Amazon wanted it to be something more than a marketing fluff then could -probably- do something about it.
I've found that going on my lunch break helps. I buy stuff for lunch, sometimes stuff for dinner, while I'm already in "work mode" and energized, vs going after work when I'm tired. The stores aren't that crowded at lunch time either.
As someone who has to live with the consequences, I'd rather not watch it all burn to the ground, thanks.

If the choice is Pence or Trump, well, I know little about Pence. But I know enough about Trump that I'd take Pence...
That wouldn't be surprising at all. Alibaba has long been building its own logistics for Taobao in China as well. It's quite a natural development of affairs I guess.
Reminder: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/01/29/amazon_q4_pro...

> That's because Amazon, as best I can tell, is a charitable organization being run by elements of the investment community for the benefit of consumers. The shareholders put up the equity, and instead of owning a claim on a steady stream of fat profits, they get a claim on a mighty engine of consumer surplus. Amazon sells things to people at prices that seem impossible because it actually is impossible to make money that way. And the competitive pressure of needing to square off against Amazon cuts profit margins at other companies, thus benefiting people who don't even buy anything from Amazon.
Which is exactly the take-away he wants you to have.
It appears that was the point. It's not like he sailed in and viciously took advantage of everyone. I suspect this is on HN for a very specific reason.
> Google's dev infra is pretty amazing and it's at least a decade ahead of anything else I've seen. Every single ex-Googler misses it quite a bit.

This may be naive but why not recreate it as an open source project?
Now we need tools which delete those annoying "you are running an ad blocker" popups. For sites which do that, right click on "Inspect element"in Firefox, mouse around in the element tree until you find the popup node, and do a Delete Node on it. That usually brings the content back. An add-on to assist with this would be popular.

We're going to need browsers which render original pages on a non-visible page, ads and all, then extract the good stuff from the DOM and put it on a visible page. Then the site can't tell if you're blocking ads.
Yeah I'm not sure that all those vegans are aware that they should take zinc supplements.
Not if your hands are busy, or your place is big, or you're already snuggled on the couch and you just want 1 thing to turn on/off.