skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All that is very nice in theory, but who is doing the "cut down"?

By definition it has to be some entity more powerful that the entity that is cut down. And who should control that entity but the majority of the society?

So, we finish with the (very imperfect) solution of a democratic government. We should recognize that it's going to be a lot of interest trying to corrupt it and we (the people) have to keep watching and steering.
Meanwhile, "Red Hat slams into reverse on CPU fix for Spectre design blunder" [0]:

> Red Hat is no longer providing microcode to address Spectre, variant 2, due to instabilities introduced that are causing customer systems to not boot.

[0]: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/18/red_hat_spectre_firm...
I thought this was good
http://www.alldaydevops.com/

youtube 100 live sessions recorded.

hangout format works...
You know, there are blind people working on software. Some of them might want to read the detailed fine print in the enormous gif at the end of this post. Shame.
Very unlikely that the Cape Town drought will break any time soon. The city is in a Winter rainfall region, so there's little chance of significant rains before May or June, and even then -- and assuming that rainfall returns to something resembling "normal" -- it will take several years for dams to fully restock. A single rainy season ain't gonna do it (unless there're some pretty catastrophic rains. ;)
Three candidate cities are in the same metro area (DC).

* Montgomery county, MD

* Northern Virginia

* Washington DC
I'm surprised to see Miami make the list, since they're going to have so much work to do over the next 50 years to deal with rising sea levels. I'm not at all sure that the city will still exist in its modern form in 2050, and surely Amazon is planning that far out too.
Schiphol has really long taxi times. Like 20 minutes from touchdown to doors opening. If it's a hub then you can multiply taxi time by two which means the best part of an hour is spent just taxiing when many flights across Europe only take about an hour or two anyway.
If it doesn’t end up somewhere on the silver line in northern Virginia, I’ll eat my hat.

Plenty of housing, transit straight to the city or an international airport, convenient access to the nations capital for lobbying, in the middle of us-east-1, a large population of tech workers, lots of local universities, right in the middle of the east coast...
I have finished Solidity tutorial on CryptoZombies.io. It was fun but it did not teach how to setup or to deploy Ethereum project on the Ethereum network.

Right now, I am enrolled in https://www.udemy.com/ethereum-and-solidity-the-complete-dev...

It looks good but I haven't finished it yet.
Take a look at what’s happened to Seattle and you’re liable to say “no, thank you.” The gentrification, the homelessness. The overall wealth inequality.

I mean, sure, Amazon invested billions in Seattle, but those billions went to people who lead end of days capitalist lifestyles oriented around giving that money right back megacorporations like... Amazon. Suggesting the Amazon’s investment will be meaningfully local is kind of comical. It’s a multinational, and the people who get that money will give it right back to multinationals. That’s how those people spend their income.

Amazon isn’t trying to promote ways of life that don’t revolve around cheap foreign goods, soul crushing work, and an isolated, lonely existence. The lucky place that lands HQ2 will have more of all these things, and a lot less humanity. It’s good for business.
Google "what percent of Americans face hunger" and get back to me about one tenth of one percent. That is a number you made up in your head just now.

Extreme might be saying we should compare America to the poorest nations on earth. If you compare America to its peers the average American earns less, and the country has worse infrastructure.
Well, yes. Your answer to your question is correct I think, and a good reason to do it this way.
I have found that Origin and Ubisoft's thing scan your HDD and add their Steam games to their respective libraries.
They missed a great opportunity to do this as a game show. Pit the mayors against each other Survivor-style and vote one off each week - they could've even staged it in the Amazon.

But yeah in all seriousness this is obnoxious.
I think that's beside the point. I could come up with a more general example too...
The 1969 Easter Mass incident
I have used this to test a business directory to check how it handles long company names.
if it is a tech HQ they want to at least move to the east coast so they don’t compete in talent.
I assume Detroit has a lot of the same problems that St Louis has, they are both great little cities with an up and coming tech industry but hiring skilled talent and conniving them to move to the area is a nightmare.
I'm so glad Kansas City wasted all that time pandering [1] to them. I bet Sly really thought he'd make a dent. Absolutely not surprised though.

Oh well, same old same old. Look at all the dots on the edges.

[1] http://www.kansascity.com/news/business/article180878701.htm...
It's pretty wild. At one point, I forgot to renew my health card and had a bit of a fall that tweaked my wrist. I went to the clinic by my house and they warned me that I'd have to pay out-of-pocket for the services, but I could submit the receipt after renewing my health card and get reimbursed.

Doc felt my wrist, asked me to go to the radiology clinic next door for a digital X-Ray, and to come back to discuss what he saw on it. Doctor visit: $30, X-Ray: $30.

When the two options are: use your provincial health card or pay cash, costs can stay relatively low.
> Amazon will work with each of the candidate locations to dive deeper into their proposals

Breaking the process into stages like this will create a bidding war where Amazon can then go to each city government and extract more benefits. I'm usually against tax payers funding things like this (ie:stadiums) but I still selfishly want the location to be somewhere in the NYC/Philly/DC corridor.
Are you saying that honor killings are not a thing in muslim communities? It's okay to call out a problem in a community, even though other "communities" (like the mafia) also have problems. If we can't talk about problems, how can they be solved?
Same metro area.. totally different politics, rules, and regulations.
If Canadian cities were in serious competition I think there'd be more than one of them on the list. There are a good number of American cities smaller than Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg and Ottawa/Gatineau on the list, let alone Montreal and Vancouver. I suspect that Toronto is the token Canadian city and won't get serious consideration.

I don't blame them, in this era of Trump hyper-nationalism there'd be a huge blow-back for choosing a Canadian city.
Probably a "Dear John" letter.
That's definitely not the whole point of headless browsers, that's more of a side-effect.
The whole point of headless browsers is rather automation and testing.
If no one governs your rights/freedoms, you don't have any.

There is no difference between an unchecked corporation and a corrupt state. The answer doesn't lie at either end, but in a balance.
You know what Lua, Python and Swift have in common? None of them are as immediately accessible as Basic.

Visual programming languages like Scratch et al have risen for a reason.
I remember 2015 or 2016, everyone was hyped about Deep Learning. Everyone was talking about DeepDream, Tensorflow, etc.

I guess 2018 will be the year of blockchain and cryptocurrency.
Coreboot uses proprietary blobs, so using it doesn't ensure running open source nor free code.
The article doesn't dare touch on the idea that online communities may actually be detrimental to good social interaction. We evolved for face-to-face. In-person relationships are rich, rewarding and not as prone to miscommunication.
I was going to say that Indianapolis is probably a good choice simply because its airport is an international freight hub, as well.

Proximity to an international airport that can easily handle Amazon's shipments has got to count for something, right?
It is a PDF link which is fully searchable!

Granted, I don't know why they couldn't just put it in HTML.

At the very least they should change the link text and/or add some alt text on what exactly they will be clicking on
> We can’t begin to imagine what would go through someone’s mind after reading that message,

Sure we can, it's simple. It's what would go through your or my mind if we received it.

My first thought would be "amusing-someone's hacked the warning system, better check online... yeah, it's bullshit".
I believe the main problem with AMS is terminal capacity. The runways can handle plenty of traffic, but they're constrained by terminal space. They're building, but the current plans are only increasing capacity by around 10%.

It sounds like the Dutch government is trying to reduce the need for AMS to grow further by making it possible for tour operators and maintenance operations to take place at Lelystad.
Please don't come to Austin. There are enough of us new people here.
The way things are today and the way they need to be to ensure a censorship-resistant secure public ledger are not the same. Core is working toward that, security is first priority, then optimize performance after that.
Hasn't Google already planted their flag in NYC and Toronto for their "smart city" kiosk surveillance & advertising network?

https://www.wired.com/story/google-sidewalk-labs-toronto-qua...

https://gizmodo.com/nycs-free-wifi-service-is-turning-into-a...
Cloudflare also reserves the right to investigate you and your data. See https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/ section 11.

I'd say this goes way beyond the theoretical means of (illegal) access CA might have.
I'm hoping it'll be northern Virginia or Washington, D.C. We already have Amazon stuff here and plenty of tech companies in Tysons Corner, Reston, Herndon, etc. and plenty of universities in close proximity so it wouldn't be a huge stretch.
I rarely use GoG but every couple months when I log in there's a notification that a game or two from my Steam library was added to GoG.
My guess is that Amazon isn't _seriously_ considering all 20 cities equally.

Instead, they privately already have 2 or 3 particular cities in mind and the other 18 cities are just there for negotiating leverage for the 2 they really want. The problem is that the cities themselves don't know if they're "really in contention" or just "disposable chess pieces".

Again, that's just my guess.
Oakland county to the north of Detroit and Washtenaw county to the west of Detroit are two of the wealthiest, most highly educated counties in the country.

And the cities surrounding Detroit have a lot less problems than the city itself.
That is probably the entire point of making it a competition. Make the cities compete against one another. Perhaps once a city is a finalist it’s leaders get together and say “we’ve made it this far. What can we do to close the deal?”
I can't draw a sharp line between cultural and personal criticism.

As an example, I find certain genres of modern music distasteful for their lack of harmony and musical value. I can't really tell if this is cultural or personal criticism. Is this essentially the point that the author is making?
NYT walked through a process of elimination and concluded it will be Denver.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/09/upshot/where-...
It seems interesting that Amazon is not terribly concerned with the cost of labor. Several cities and states on that list have very high labor costs (Boston, New Jersey, etc.)

Good to see they are more concerned with talent and infrastructure rather than just bottom line costs.
Hello, read the Guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

and FAQ:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Useful to know:
HN is created and run by (VC group) Y Combinator -- so one of the main focus (initially) was startups
http://www.ycombinator.com/

HN was written (the web server part) by Paul Graham, one of the founders of Y Combinator
Read his website here: http://www.paulgraham.com/
Curated list of the best programming talks
Story of how Freshworks dissects and derives insights from over 50TB of raw data
The title is a little misleading - I was expecting cloth made from rockwool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6FWPTZjwLo
Why would that be? I live in Indy, and it just seems like the only thing we have going for us is an abundance of Amazon warehouses.
Detroit fits most of your criteria but has fallen off the list. Perhaps we already have enough rich guys in town:

http://michiganradio.org/post/who-owns-downtown-detroit
> escape form the US government.

Curious what specifically would be different between Canada and USA polices towards amazon.
You mean the new tax law that's more in line with the rest of the world when concerning corporations? Those damn US isolationists acting like the rest of the world! Next thing you know the globalists will start insisting on strong borders and immigration controls.
Drone comes to the rescue of two swimmers in Australia
I am a massive fan of the band Phish. There is no band better than the worst Phish performance. I believe this.

Phish isn't what it used to be. This is objective; there are more wrong notes and the songs are performed more slowly, some of the really technical stuff barely gets performed anymore. I am harshly critical of this because I know what the band is capable of.

You wouldn't (maybe you would) believe how other fans react to my criticism. Outright denial plus I'm obviously there to ruin it for them. It's a childish reaction. Don't like criticism of your favorite things? Wear earplugs.
> Here now we are trying to make it as difficult as possible to read those same documents by computers.

They're as easy as ever to read, as that's necessary for the documents to be displayed to the end-user.
Into the Implementation of Spectre
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Maybe they see an opportunity to be the first major tech company with a headquarters powered by tidal generation.
I don't see DC happening though. Not enough land to build. Traffic is a mess.

But wouldn't be surprised if they pick NoVA.

Not sure much about MD, I think VA traditionally had a more favorable tax structure.
I feel as though there are too many cities. I'd be curious to know what the top 5 are. My picks, in no particular order:

- Boston

- Dallas

- Atlanta

- Chicago

- Denver

In all likelihood it'll be Boston or Denver.
They already have a few thousand people working in NYC offices
I believe that one of these is the most likely winner.
I guarantee someone in North America has said the exact same thing about your country :)

Everyone wants to be somewhere else.
I think Newark set the bar on the financial discounts: $7B [1] so far, but we just changed Governors, so we'll see. I think it meets all the other requirements you mentioned, but I think we got knocked on Infrastructure on some list a month or two ago.

[1] http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2017/12/10_reasons_for_ama...
> (4), (5) and (6) have nothing to do with rail funding.

Oh yes they do. There is a total lack of redundancy in the German network, which was only recently shown when that Rheintalbahn tunnel caved in during construction and took out the major traffic artery above for months.

1) Suicides: they can be prevented by walling off the tracks, which is thankfully done for the new high speed routes and as rework to existing routes. In addition to preventing suicides these also prevent wildlife accidents (a herd of sheep, for example, caused an ICE to derail in a tunnel once).

Ad 5) this could be solved by removing at-level crossings (and remotely supervising those which cannot be removed) and by reworking those bridges that get often hit by cars. This is a lack of funding.

Ad 6) walling off the tracks would help there too. Or providing enough rail service even at nighttimes...
Maybe there are just there as a bluff to create arms race among the rest.
Working with Red Hat Linux (RHEL) in a Vagrant Box
This whole shtick reminds me of a time when one of employers was getting a new office. Lot of places were proposed so that people had to travel less. But it all came down to BCP or business continuity plan. The plan stated both offices needed to be at least 9.5 miles or 15 kms apart. In case of service disruption atleast one office should be up and running.
Doesn't run on an iPhone/iPod
Google’s Fuchsia OS on the Pixelbook: It Works
Yeah, there's funny concentration of options right by - and including - Washington D.C.
HQ2 will not work. Amazon grew in Seattle because of its access to H1B labor from Asia, liberalism, and attitudes towards business and work. Much of the rest of the country is North Korea business-wise. There is no way Seattle management will allow half the revenue to flow to another office. I'm sure the board thinks the two HQ's will compete, producing incredible productivity. Workers compete, management destroys. Two executive management sets competing for control of Amazon's hundreds of billions in revenue will just destroy each other.
Ter uma prótese fixa num dia? Sim é possível
They probably decided way before announcing the RFP process.
Surely in a hub and spoke model the hubs should be in places in the middle of nowhere that nobody actually wants to go to. Why does it makes sense to have the hubs in London, Paris or New York? They should be significantly far away from the city that they can grow easily (not really possible in the UK, though).
Thanks, I totally missed that. Apparently I've developed some sophisticated circuits to avoid clicking on random gifs in the morning.
Easy access to three airports, the Turnpike, New York City, lots of college educated people from surrounding areas and tons of universities within a thirty mile radius. They also already have offices there for Audible, and a huge distribution center in southern, NJ.

It is possible, but I think unlikely. For all those good points, you can get them in other cities with lower cost of labor, lower taxes, etc. Though taxes might not count for much given the wheeling and dealing states are willing to do to get the business.
>"In the beginning was the web, and it was good. Content came along. Some was good, some was cats. Then paid sites with sign-up. Then search engines. Then ads."

Your history of the web is woefully incomplete, even for a joke.
I wonder if New York is just New York City, or New York Metropolitan region. I guess including Newark makes the latter unlikely, but with IBM shuttering a chunk of its operations here, the Hudson Valley is full of empty IBM office parks and desperate local governments, while close to infrastructure.
I'd imagine a drone that size can handle 25-30+ MPH.

I routinely fly my DJI Mavic in 20MPH winds and it handles fine. You have to be mindful of how long it'll take to fly back upwind, but actually keeping it in the air is a piece of cake.

There's a huge difference in stability between sub-$100 throwaway drones many of us have played with and "serious" units in the $1,000+ range. Even on sport mode, you'd have to work pretty hard to crash a mavic in an open field (i.e., short of flying it sideways into a tree). I'm sure commercial, life-saving drones that cost 2 orders of magnitude more are on yet another level still.
Ah, we have the Adam Smith article again.

As somebody interested in these for many years, there is a periodic rewriting of this article.

The beats are always the same, Smith not actually like evil neoliberals (whoever that is) think. He also wrote 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments' and so on. Admittedly this is by far the best one I have seen in many years.

Nothing in the article is really wrong, and it is completely correct the same analysis Smith used can often be used against people on both sides of politics.

I would tell people not only to focus on Smith but rather see him in a broader context with Hume, Ferguson and there English predecessors.

Overall we need to value individual freedom of choice both socially and economically, we need to strongly protect human rights, the political power must be limited and so on. Free people working for themselves, their family or friend, their community can achieve things that are beneficial for all if these interactions take place in such a framework.

> Thatcher’s restructuring of the economy was as much a product of the ‘spirit of system’ as any Soviet strategy

While this critic is certainty true we must also realize that if you accept Smith and the Scottish ideas, we need to find some way back to the ideas of individual liberty and limited power of government, specially government and business working together.

So there is still a very, vary large difference between going towards such a system or to go towards the Soviet union.

Here is a good podcast about Adam Smith:
> http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/06/otteson_on_adam.htm...
So is the GPU more or less 'performant?'

That's right - the CPU is faster at completing the job, though the GPU executes instructions more quickly.
The U.K. Has Appointed a Minister for Loneliness – Time
Ability to hire international workers with ease would be huge.
For starters this whole immigration thing seems different.

Canada welcomes immigrant workers. Even fast-tracks their applications (within 2 weeks) to work in Canada.

This way Amazon can hire anyone, anywhere in the world (within reason) and they'll be able to move to Canada without any immigration issues.
How do you ensure that your deletion code runs in the context of the hosted page but before that page can run any of its own code?
ASO Factors and Trends 2018 – Expert Survey
I wonder if this is more or less likely to make that a reality.

Amazon Web Services to set up East Coast corporate campus in Fairfax County
https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2017/06/08/amazo...
Connecting a computer running an unsupported OS to the Internet is straight up negligence. You are basically asking to get hacked.
What Silicon Valley tech jobs pay the highest salaries?
Yes, it's wrong. Microsoft's own title used to be longer, too.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076660
The alternative view is that 'power abhors a vacuum'.

If we, the society, don't fill it with a government and try to control it (admittedly not an easy, and always imperfect, endeavour), it will be fill by something that have not our interest as a priority.

Of course, this doesn't make sense for people who think, literally, that "there is no such thing as society" [1].

[1] http://briandeer.com/social/thatcher-society.htm
Firefox on Linux
Will you open-source it?
For some reason it doesn't work on this page :)

EDIT: Ah, because of: Refused to load the script 'https://hi.kickassapp.com/kickass.js' because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive...

This actually reminds me I should start using this on my projects.
Suburb region of Durham is part of the bid...there's LOTS of land left there.
Well, obviously and critically immigration for hiring from the necessary talent pool.
Particularly if you consider a fast server-side app combined with perceived performance enhancements like Turbolinks. I know it didn't have the most popular start, but these days Turbolinks is rock solid and basically removes page reloads with a single line of JavaScript. It's an effortless improvement.
Singapore Airlines is a premium carrier that that is known for conisitently maintaing a young fleet, the take away is not that Singapore was getting rid of 10yo planes but that they did not buy more as replacements.

http://www.airfleets.net/ageflotte/Singapore%20Airlines.htm
My past year of slime-making with my daughter educated me on the chemical name of Elmer's School Glue, aka Polyvinyl Acetate.

PVA is one of the steps in the vinylon process.
I agree. Nobody seriously thinks they are going to pick Miami.
Ok, done. 15% are 'food insecure' which is a broad range including 'skip a meal sometimes'.

15% worldwide live on less than 1.25 a day. So again, comparing America's poor with the world is like night and day.