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   by shipman05 8y ago

   You would think that sort of discrimination is a thing fo the past, yet.... http://www.chicagotribune.com/g00/business/ct-bias-hiring-05...
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   by shipman05 8y ago

   "States will be more accountable to us and can cooperate and compete for citizens." Translation: a corporate tax race-to-the-bottom that ensures lower tax revenues for all three states with zero net-new jobs.
3. 93.▲
   by shipman05 8y ago

   Agreed. A few more parentheses is all the sentence needed to convey its meaning.
4. 94.▲
   by shipman05 9y ago

   "With this vessel, Yara will reduce diesel-powered truck haulage by 40,000 journeys a year." That's a lot of jobs. No news to HN readers, but figuring out how to handle surplus labor without (often violent) societal upheaval
5. 95.▲
   by shipman05 10y ago

   Next up on HN, "Practical Guide for Casting Out Demons and Drowning Swine"
6. 96.▲
   by shipman05 10y ago

   Thanks for the update. The typo had me misinterpreting things. Now it makes more sense. Assuming you're part of the team? Keep up the good work.
7. 97.▲
   by shipman05 10y ago

   But the "--master local[1]" setting they're using for Spark will run it on a single thread. And, in the article they state "The algorithm took around 500 seconds to train on the NETFLIX dataset on a SINGLE processor, whi
8. 98.▲
   by shipman05 10y ago

   Why test distributed computing technologies on a single core? Am I missing something?