skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh please, Microsoft uses React in production. Skype app is built on React Native. The business value of a startup has little to do with the tech stack, by the way.
Not really that lame or uncommon. It keeps costs down, makes replacement easier and faster, less inventory, etc. And happens all the time in lots of industries - lots of examples here about same engines indifferent states of tune, same engines and parts with different ECU / fuel injection maps, happens in electronics with chip binning, and lots of devices that have special keys to unlock more functionality or better performance.

What’s wrong with blurring the lines between hardware and software? We do in app purchases all the time, and if standardising hardware across all product levels makes things more efficient anyway, why not?
Decision trees for interpretation of the law are fraught; talk to a lawyer about where the line is.

The reason for not automating communications is in the post. The CRAs have carte blanche to straight-up ignore anything which they think comes from an automated process or a firm/organization specializing in helping people with their credit.

Could you potentially automate some of the record keeping? Possibly. Could you automate the sending of paper? Certainly. Automating the receipt of paper is tricky since, for all the predictable reasons, someone last living at 123 Maple St will have a lot of difficulty telling the bank or CRA to mail them at 1234 Commercial Parkway Suite 666 to discuss their credit. (You can do it, and I have done it, but expect to be put through some identity verification hoops.)
All the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic airports are busy and have non-ideal airport layouts.

That said, Philly is still moving forward with their expansion/improvement plan and fundamentally is one of the few major airports in the region that can practically expand without insurmountable environmental/political opposition.

If PHL is handicapped in some way, I would say the ground transportation experience is one of it's larger problems.

- It has a parking crunch so it runs out of parking, or you wind up with a situation where even if you're a high-earning person, you're still going to have to park in economy and lose a bunch of time with a slow bus to the terminal because the garages are full.

- The Airport Line is infrequent, so transit doesn't work for anyone who values their time.

- Not unique to Philly, but the traffic situation on the highways means Uber/Lyft don't solve transportation issues to the airport unless they put the HQ in South Philly.

- Switching terminals is a bus or walk, no people-mover or the like. There are at least post-security connections.
IMO he meant sell the property and rent for Yourself. invest the proceeds.
Yeah, I'm a bit surprised at this.

Pittsburgh is probably really close to ideal. I can't really think of much of a downside.

It has a lot of universities, and the programmers are quite good (the ex-CTO of Modcloth? had a video where he pointed out that the Pittsburgh office was quite a bit better than the SV office). Your factory workers will be out toward the airport and your knowledge workers will be downtown. It's a very old city, so it is quite a bit more pedestrian friendly than most. And, because it's old, it has a really good arts scene. And Pittsburgh has a woefully underutilized airport.

The only downsides are weather: 1) Lack of sunlight--Pittsburgh is almost as bad as Seattle in that respect and 2) Winter--Northeast winters SUCK.
On Keras:
>>On the other hand, it tends to make it harder to customize models, especially during training. More importantly, the static computation graph on the backend, along with Keras’ need for an extra compile() phase, means that it’s hard to customize a model’s behaviour once it’s built.

What does that mean, customize models during training?

Also, how are dynamic-graph architectures performing vs. models where the architecture doesn't change? Are they winning competitions?
That is not how people on juries think. Forcing people to make a binary choice when it is not possible just results in miscarriages of justice.
React and similar libraries were made to alleviate exactly this problem.
I lived in Philly for grad school in comp sci. There's a reason why software folk do their grad school (or undergrad) at one of the places you mention and then quickly leave. No tech scene, the city always felt unsafe, and there's nothing spectacular about the city other then it's close to some better cities (NYC, DC). Amazon needs to find a city with some tech scene already and with an interesting community for employees to come join.
dont say it
Part 1 of this series https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/09/the-un...

starts off with a story that sounds like a modern retelling of To Kill A Mockingbird: A white woman has consensual sex with a black man. Later she becomes worried about what other people will think and accuses the black man of rape. He then undergoes a sham trial and is found guilty and punished. The big difference is that in To Kill A Mockingbird, they at least pretended to have due process giving the accused a lawyer and allowing him to confront his accuser. The modern version doesn't even have a pretence of due process.
If we assume that a supervolcano blocks out the sun enough to prevent crops from growing for two years and that increasing the 72 day buffer is impractical, then how could we ride it out without mass starvation?

I'd guess there'd be a lot of sudden interest in energy-efficient LED grow lights and there'd be an over-supply of beef in the short term because there's no food for the cattle, so we might as well eat them.

Long term, it's all about being able to have enough indoor hydroponic/aeroponic space to grow enough food for ~7.5 billion people, which sounds really difficult and impractical.

I find it interesting that one possible benefit of Elon Musk's Mars plan is that the same space/energy/resource efficient food production technology that will be needed on Mars is the same technology we would need on Earth in order to ride out certain catastrophes. By creating an interplanetary "insurance policy" to ensure human survival, we may improve our ability to survive on Earth.
CLT beats Denver in housing costs and traffic/commutes handily, so I'm similarly confused -those are poor reasons to eliminate CLT currently.

The nature around Denver definitely beats CLT though, especially if you like mountain sports, but NC also has beaches.
> in Ocaml, that `@@` is placeholder that tells the code preprocessor where to insert the actual code for the implementation of `get`.

Where's the documentation for this? I'm only familiar with `@@` as a low-precedence no-op operator which helps to cut down on parentheses.
Search for "trespass grow" to find a lot of magazine articles and videos on the subject.

I may shake my head at clear-cutting and overgrazing but I'll say that I've never been chased off public land by a rancher nor fired upon by lumberjacks. The marijuana growers are ... unique.
i'd love to make a little userscript to redirect articles from cnn.com to here, but i don't think there's any way to extract the .com url from the .io pages.

also -- compare to cnn.com from 1999: https://web.archive.org/web/20000817204102/http://www2.cnn.c...
You seem to be under the impression that for one person to receive wealth, another has to lose it. That's not actually how any of this works and is an incredibly dangerous way of thinking.
The thing is, this patent grant wording seems to say that if you are using React, and Facebook infringes on your patents (software or otherwise), and you defend your patents by suing Facebook, you lose the right to use React. So I think it's good to be aware of that.
lol you're mad about downvotes when you admit you 'couldn't care less' about a wall that was borne out of pretty awful racism
I benchmarked Keras+TF vs PyTorch CNNs back in May 2017:

1) Compilation speed for a jumbo CNN architecture: Tensorflow took 13+ minutes to start training every time network architecture was modified, while PyTorch started training in just over 1 minute.

2) Memory footprint: I was able to fit 30% larger batch size for PyTorch over Tensorflow on Titan X cards. Exact same jumbo CNN architecture.

Both frameworks had major releases since May, so I am sure these metrics might have changed by now. However I ended up adopting PyT for my project.
I think the biggest issue with Toronto is the fact that every American tech worker (60% of the probable HQ2 labor pool, conservatively) would need to get a Canadian work visa before being onboarded. Sounds like a horrible, horrible headache for both Amazon and prospective employees.
You get that this language is a joke, right?
I moved to Denver from LA and I can tell you they're having a laugh to even use the word traffic here.
its been ages I have watched any news from a narrated source.
My advice (more so after last election) pay money for news. free is way worse!
A friend of mine runs a farm bureau office in a rural Northern California county. She has to deal with pot growers, who need some of the same services regular farmers do. Not fun.
Fair enough. I guess I my question is: FF is a funded community effort. Is there a non-funded community effort?
I honestly applaud the endeavor. Too bad though they only include the main headlines.

I personally very much like the approach of my preferred newspaper that offers full, mobile, text only editions of its web site.
Well, Yahoo was designed to be a web directory, which eventually evolved into portal (until mid of 2000, Yahoo search would still show "directory").

Google was all about search at the beginning. I still went to Yahoo and MSN for news and information. But I think some time after mid 2000, a lot of folks began to shift from going to portal to get information, to typing keywords "news" in Google search. Somehow we are hooked to typing keywords. When Google finally released news.google.com now users could have a quick navigation of current events. This behavior is manifested in the era of social media. So many people are now getting news from logging onto facebook / twitter. To verify, as a smart reader I would search on Google, hoping to find a full version from reputable news sites.

In some countries/culture, portal is still preferred. e.g. Yahoo Japan being one. There are still some values of Yahoo.com; I still go there if I am looking up finance news or some pop-culture entertainment news (no other new sites do better than Yahoo on entertainment news broadcast).
Its generally the case that those people made more harm to their capital than good, and in that case, anyone with spite to the "wealthy class" should be pretty happy.

I once read that if Trump had invested his entire inheritance in an index fund, he would be much richer today.
You can also produce hydrocarbons from water and air and use the existing infrastructure and vehicles.
Getting H1Bs is an even bigger headache, and much of Amazon's potential workforce isn't American.
LA #1 woohoo http://www.businessinsider.com/us-cities-ranked-worst-traffi...
> If the wealthy are trying to spread their wealth around, they are failing miserably.

Are they? Most of the tech industry would stop existing without wealthy people investing in VC funds which in turn invest in the services we use all day.

I wouldn't be surprised if most of every industry would up and vanish without investors.

The wealthy used to hoard their wealth and not spread it around. You know what that was called? Feudalism and/or mercantilism, depending on which part of the system you look at. It has largely been agreed that this was a bad system because people generally do not enjoy being peasants.
I am quite paranoid about extensions stealing my data and identity. How do you ensure that level of security with Brave etc? is it open source?
Don't feel bad, I also assumed this had something to do with Convnets before actually clicking through.
I'm not sure what our government is thinking.

Police in 2016 used a "military helicopter to descend on an 81-year-old Grandmother's home to seize a single marijuana plant."

"Mr Holcomb said he was told that as long as he did not demand that a warrant be provided to enter the property or otherwise escalate the situation, authorities would file no criminal charges."

So, give up your fourth amendment rights, or else? For having 1 marijuana plant?

Source:
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/national-guard-and-police-in-military-style-helicopter-descend-on-81-year-old-s-home-to-seize-one-a7348666.html
> California, which by one estimate produces seven times more marijuana than it consumes, will probably continue to be a major exporter — illegally — to other states.

Here lies the unique situation in California; even before legalization in California, it was the home of not just it's black market cannabis industry but it was already a supplier to other parts of the country. It seems then that state level legalization will not be able to fully replace the illegal cannabis industry in California. This is a really interesting problem since other legal states are inclined to not push for legal interstate trade of cannabis.

If MJ was legal federally, what framework for trade would states be inclined to support? It seems it wouldn't be in most states favor to want trade since CA and a few large producers (or early legalizers) would capture the market. Perhaps weed that crosses state lines would be taxed in both states allowing states with shortages like NV to import weed initially while still giving local growers the advantage of a lower total tax rate.
Key point: Government of Myanmar is responding to a terrorist attack. This is no more a "genocide" than USA's war in Afghanistan.
I'm not denying that companies do charitable things, but I think where to build your headquarters is much more fundamental than whether to give money to a kids' sports team. Would your former company have made decisions about the parameters of their core business based on the interests of Little League?
Pretty common occurrence - http://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN1AM0C3
This is awesome! Maybe its time to get the fluff out and get back to basics :)
I think people do these kinds of things all the time. People walk out of a starbucks with 4 dollar bagels everyday and pass homeless people.

And people everyday choose to have something for themselves even though there is much more value to another individual if you donated it to them.

The rich are vilified, and hence no-one wants to identify himself publicly to be a villain, as simple as that.
Amazon set up shop somewhere that they might not be able to buy the government? Not likely. They're staying inside US borders--sorry, Toronto.
Alright, you got me. I went back and re-read the thread and I misunderstood what lisper was saying. You're right. I thought the OTHERWISE clause would run for null or undefined, but lisper does mention a third Boolean value. Your points above convinced me that that wouldn't work well (at least in Javascript.)

I still disagree about the argument from authority, but I think that's subjective.

Warm regards.
I noticed that people pushing Philadelphia never mention its bad crime rate. Amazon might not be explicitly mentioning that in the criteria, but I'm sure it can't help.
They also wrote a paper on how it works:
http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~schulman/docs/imc11-thunderping.pdf
Handy Bird
This is awesome. I really don't understand why a new page would load so many stuff and then it hangs at some place. Sometimes I was wondering whether it was loading the whole world. Maybe we should take some steps back now to keep our site SIMPLE but COMPLETE. Just like Hacker News itself or Lobsters(https://lobste.rs) or Pxlet(http://www.pxlet.com/) so that we would not be distracted too much.

Maybe technically Google's AMP is a good help on boosting the loading speed but it only works on mobile devices and it takes much effort to make the site adaptable to AMP.

Usually a modern website would load lots of third party libraries, ads from different advertising platforms, social media sharing modules and analytic modules etc. All these would make lots of HTTP requests and increase the response time. How would they not be SLOW?
Is there a good reason to believe that picking a city that doesn't meet their criteria would be good for the city? If amazon brought a new HQ and 50k jobs into any smaller city or a city with declining growth, it's a crapshoot as to whether it would improve the city or just turn it into a "company town". A city where all the best-paying most desireable jobs are all at with the same company is not a healthy city.
I'm currently on Project Fi and I like it quite a lot. Travelling through Europe was seamless (these were countries that Fi has an agreement with; I assume otherwise I would have to purchase a local SIM, as I had had to do before Fi.) My biggest complaint is a 5-to-25 second delay between pressing the "call this" button and the line being picked up and actually dialed. Very occasionally I'll have a call that doesn't ring, but I had had this with previous providers and with greater frequency. Costs less than Straight Talk and you pay only for what data you use. I'm on WiFi most of the time so my data costs are pretty minimal.
Glad to see they have the Spanish version alongside English. Now, how about some other languages... Arabic please!
>Downloading embedded web browser

Is it used only for authethication? Can a native web view used anyhow (electrino)?
Really? I fall into the assumption that most people are near my age... and I was not born too recently.
> Cell coverage would certainly be fixable, though, if the local officials commit to reasonable planning approvals, and can convince carriers to play ball.

Well, there's the Kindle Whispernet thing. I'm in Australia and was impressed when the first Kindles came out and "they just have 3G, no configuration/questions asked - and Wikipedia is free." The high-level involvement and agreements required for worldwide "just works" connectivity (which is not technically amazing, but politically impressive) means that fixing local cellular would likely be a shoo-in and require no drawn-out anything. Chances are the HQ building(s) will have cell towers factored in at the blueprint level.
Investors don't actually have to own the wealth to invest the wealth. Hence investment firms. So if Jack built a company from the ground up, and Jill inherits money from Jack, who then has Sam invest that money in the markets, Jill is suddenly being a productive member of society? Except for the ownership bit, it was Jack and Sam actually doing the value adding. Jill is just a rentier
Responding to a terrorist attack clearly doesn't justify the deliberate massacre of civilians, either legally or morally. Most people don't exonerate Bashar al-Assad's crimes against civilians because the Syrian government suffered terrorist attacks (which it very much has).
If humans disappeared tomorrow, like with the book Aftermath: Population Zero or the Life After People show, then all our machines and civilization stop working and begin to fall apart soon after (Las Vegas might stay powered for 2 years before the Hoover Dam pipes clogged up and satellites longer).

If something changed the physics of our planet so that all modern technology stopped working, such as in the Dies the Fire book, then although most humans would starve, the survivors would start over with a medieval society (plus being able to use the scraps from modern world). That's the fundamental difference.

A world run by machines could exist after us and continue or build it's own civilization, which presumably Skynet would be able to do if it had won. The Matrix is more mixed, because the machines need humans to satisfy a lot of their power needs.
Yeah, some of the CUT are like this 10, 20 hp difference only in software because they don't make enough to justify different engine components.

Diesel trucks tend to be like this too. If I recall they put the same 7.2L engine in a bunch of F-250 to F-550(although there your also paying for better built frame/suspension) models.
I like PyTorch better as well. Note however, that one of its dependencies, gloo, comes with the infamous PATENT addendum. You won't be using it unless you do distributed training tho.
So... Facebook wants employees that do as they are told and not to correct obvious mistakes?

I find that hard to believe.
What it takes to get funded in the Midwest
They were tasked with making signs that would be deciferable for the entire time the site was hot-something like 10000 then later 100000 years. Let's see you do better.
The fascination with the Avro Arrow is a mixed blessing for Canada. On the one hand its confirmation we could be technological leaders, but on the other hand it lays bare exactly how Canada has failed for the 60 years since to push the envelope.

As a country we really need to look forward. Not talk about that one time we almost, just about, did something amazing - but then cancelled it.

Its not mentioned in the article, but at least when I was taught about it in school the subtext is the Americans forced the cancellation. Discussion about ICBMs making long range bombers obsolete (and therefore interceptor planes like the Arrow) weren't brought up.
Yes, Rex-Ray is EMC specific. Take a look at Robin Systems (https://robinsystems.com/) for stateful containers. They have examples of running hadoop, cassandra, mongodb, etc all on commodity hardware.
I wonder if all of our ancestors were potheads until weed was made illegal. Was it such a problem that it had to be made illegal? History doesn't show much about weed abuse. Though we've come across the problem of alcoholism in those days too.
75-100 in a month iirc
Alias ls to echo "Segmentation fault"
when I read the title I thought of qr codes but didn't see them scrolling through, curious now though
Why, can you be more specific
I wonder if it would be possible for the whole world and all activities to end up being "owned" by one company?
Paper is rendered entirely server-side.

Taking out a full-page newspaper ad is an attention-grabber. Taking out a full-page pop-up is merely an annoyance. Why does this perception exist? Why isn't digital space regarded on-par with paper space?

Because of this, digital ads sell for much, much less than paper ads. And so ad-supported companies have to use 10x as many ads to get 1/10 the revenue. And these ads can gain more info if they run in the client.

I use uBlock Origin, uMatrix, DuckDuckGo, and HTTPS Everywhere for a mix of adblocking and privacy. uBlock Origin lets you block specific or wildcard DOM elements - literally anything on the page. Sometimes I even block annoying photos that are not ads.

uMatrix lets you block or allow different file types from different domains. By default, you get all CSS and Image files from any site, and all Javascript from the original domain. The drop-down makes it easy to update the allowed file types, then just refresh the page. (The downside is sometimes each refresh will just load 1 more script, so it takes 15 minutes of adding another domain, refreshing, domain, refresh, until the whole capcha or all images load.)
Similar to other "sin" taxes. Lettuce is not taxed at all in California but the fork to eat it is at over 10% in some locations. Using taxes to control behavior is seen as wrong by some, but they are not likely to be in political office.
Violinist earns tons of money from the subway