skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know the source of the claim in the referenced Forbes article, but in my recollection the claim that 8 out of 10 businesses fail applied to restaurants – tho even a a cursory review of Google search results related to that don't seem to support it particularly strongly.
For instance, a major part of scientific research is done in US, isn't it?

A good part, roughly on par with Europe, Japan, Russia, and China (number of papers is hardly a measure of scientific production anyway):

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/20k5dk/top...

Does that mean that the US tax payer should be the major contributor to an hypothetical worldwide scientific activity?

All tax payers on this planet (at least those living in a country with sizeable research spending) already contribute to the worldwide scientific knowledge. I believe this is a good thing.

[edit: typo]
The goal is writing safer code, but that also comes with some costs. The interesting question is which costs can the project afford.

Otherwise yes, it could even be rewritten in Ruby, as falcolas suggested...
> but we aren't bad people because our ancestors made terrible decisions

True; we're bad people because we're still making terrible decisions today, but you can't run an empire without breaking a few countries.
It is opt-in, because it depends on the STL, which many shops forbid.

I have always been on the C++, in the C vs C++ wars, but I am also aware of all those developers that just code C with a C++ compiler, hence opt-in.
> sexual harassment should be a 'go straight to police' offence, not a hr reprimand.

Police requires evidence and it's often much harder to prove in criminal court than in civil cases - just look at the different OJ Simpson trials.

When you walk to the HR office you don't need any evidence at all and the judge is sometimes a 25 year old HR person fresh from university. That's a much lower bar to pass than going to the police and meeting a judge.

Sexual harassment in the workplace is so much more than what is strictly illegal. It may not be possible to make it illegal to look at someone in the wrong way, but there's no law against that being written to your HR file and having an impact on your future career.
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Actually we don't. Because the likelihood of someone else executing as well as you depends entirely how far out towards the edge of the innovation bell curve you are.

Beyond a certain point you can't be copied because you're literally the only person or company in the world who can execute.

Obviously this depends on talent. Mediocre talent is much more widely available than exceptional talent. So if you're not exceptional, you'll be copied.

If you're talented you can be first to market, but you'll be copied sooner or later.

But if you're truly exceptional you can't be copied at all, because you'll be combining exceptional imagination, exceptional execution, and exceptional access to resources. If you happen to combine those and provide something enough people want, you win your niche.

At this point you can only be imitated poorly. Sometimes that's enough to for competitors to survive around you. But it's a precarious existence, and if you continue to innovate you'll always be ahead of the competition.
By looking at the page's source code: seems to be a custom visualization created using d3.js.

Experience could be improved by allowing to navigate between the "slides" using space bar and by scrolling [0]...

[0]: How To Scroll - https://bost.ocks.org/mike/scroll/
Of course, you could also just open the developer console of your browser.

By the way, didn't we have a "boss key" for situations like this?
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Our railway system was built by competing railway businesses with lots of inefficiency, it was nationalised, made painfully efficient (Beeching etc) and franchised out to businesses. This is the next stage where demand is catching up with the network and old routes are reopening.
> Or are there really nice bosses who are just complete assholes to women with zero crossover?

That's an unnecessary dichotomy. A third possibility is that there are asshole bosses who have additional tools in their arsenal when it comes to harassing woman employees.
You, also, seem to be confusing photography with Instagram.
IANAL, but when you say "team admins", do you mean their teams in the workplace? If so, then I would assume that it is all property of the company, in the same vein that work e-mails, documents, and source code generally is. I imagine it is mentioned in the small-print of their employment contract or IP agreement. If the conversations are being had during working hours, with company tools, then wouldn't the company "own" those conversations?
I think this issue/misunderstanding roots in the somewhat loose interpretation of the word startup. A lot of my friends claim to have one, when all they really have is a business idea and maybe a couple of lines of code. Does that mean they are a real startup? By its definition, sure, but in reality what they have is more of a playground than a real business.
I have noticed a dramatic change in tourist behavior in the last 4 years or so. I literary have been hit in the head by people welding selfie sticks too engrossed in getting pictures of themselves to pay attention to others in a crowded area. What's worse is the people who are repeatedly asked by staff to refrain from doing something and just blatantly disregard instructions. I never saw this happen before the age of smartphones and cheap DSLR cameras.
>Did everyone go to the native model when ad-pocalypse hit e-mail and everyone started to use spam filters?

Actually, yes. Everyone started creating opt-in email newsletters. The smarter marketers started creating niche newsletters that appeared to not be associated with any particular brand, then worked in mentions of their benefactors everywhere they could. That's native advertising.
What do you see being disclosed? The origin has control over the windows it creates and nothing else.
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In C, yes, type-punning with union is valid. However, in C++, it is considered undefined behavior and may get removed by the compiler if it sees fit.
If it's truly misaligned incentives [ie universities are more likely to promote researchers who publish in "top" journals], then it seems like a high-powered university needs to change their criteria for promotion. Instead of requiring publication in top journals for promo, look at other metrics for quality [I imagine this differs some from one field to another].

Imagine if every conference charged speakers for speaking, and in order to get promoted you had to speak at those conferences. It's the same thing. Except most software engineers are happy not paying to speak at conferences because their promo doesn't require it.
This ratio has not much meaning because it really depends of the context which is unspecified. Consider software projects where people just throw ideas at the wall to see what sticks. The ratio could be much worse than that.
That is not true, because it is possible to get rid of the publishers entirely.

The only thing that would be needed are people in charge of formatting and such, because some fields do not use LaTeX yet (this need concerns mostly biology, chemistry, and medicine). But that could be easily covered by small local businesses for a teeny tiny fraction of the costs of current subscriptions.

The other thing that costs money already exists: archives that take care of making papers available and preserve them for the future. These services would need to be reinforced but that cost is also ridiculous compared to what is currently spent as subscription (the operational cost of arXiv for example are only a bit more than what a mid sized university pays for Elsevier subscription alone…).
I can see both sides of this argument and I'm not sure I fall squarely on one of them. I've been on both ends of this.

While I have been on vacations and taken a lot of photos I enjoy while on them, there is something to be said for being present for the experience. That's why, I typically set aside a certain amount of time to take photos, and then I put the camera away. Now, with smartphone cameras, I feel more inclined to take photos of every experience and post them, and I have had second thoughts when doing so- feeling less than present and more involved in putting it on display for others. I guess it's the social aspect that is causing this- taking photos for photos' sake, just for one's own use, I guess is at least somewhat different? Not sure.

It's the same thing that frustrates me about people that take pictures the entire time during a concert. They're missing the experience so they can capture a fraction of it for later instant-reminiscence. What happened to just actually having the experience instead? Sure, snap a shot or two and then enjoy the show, but why watch an entire live experience through a viewfinder or the back of a camera, when it's right there in front of you?
>Also, not all open access journal are charging author, that is a lie installed by publishers lobbying (and this is how they actually spend money). You can research "diamond open access" or "overlay journal" for some examples of economical models where journal are high quality, open access and free to submit to.

Those all seem to be sponsored. That won't scale to every paper unless some large organization funds it. The biggest open access journals all charge.

> it includes literally zero work from the publisher.

As long as their expenses are >60% of revenue, I find this hard to believe. If you think they're wasteful, you can run your own and try to spend less, but denying their costs won't convince me.

>The only thing that publishers provide is reputation/prestige

Like I said, this model doesn't fit with the numbers we have about their margins. I'd at least expect over 50% profit margin if they were merely extracting rent, and probably closer to 90%.
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Looks like d3.js -> https://d3js.org/
It looks pinterest really stalled. I wonder what their valuation is now.
Overall sentiment of this article is generally correct. Lots of minor errors throughout. One major one that caught my eye:

> to increase brand awareness and thought leadership (and those cannot be measured).

Brand awareness and thought leadership absolutely can be measured through polling, search volume changes, etc. Be wary of any marketing that is being sold to you where the claim is the benefit can't be measured.
Bonuses are often paid in stock units or options, so there is that pressure.
Because sexual harassment is comparable to a dispute relating to McNuggets?
It's about sales and it's very far from an implementation. One major issue is the EU, I heard on the radio (BNR) that it is not even legally possible for the Netherlands to banish sales of goods that are not banished in other parts of the EU. It's a nice discussion-starter though.
how did Mr. Beeching manage to close all those lines?

In the 60s, it was all centralised.
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To cite just one example, Elsevier consistently reports over $1b/yr profit on $3b/yr revenue. Not exactly "almost nothing".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsevier

https://libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/mit-open-access/open-acc...
> narcisstick

perfect
As the Beeching Report [0] itself states on page 6, in 1963 on gross revenues of £474.7m the total deficit was 33%; £-159.3m (net receipts £-86.9m, interest and charges £49m, capital interest £23.4m), which is 1.3% of the 1963-64 Public Spending of £12,000m.

[0] "The Reshaping of British Railways" http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/BRB_Beech001a.pdf
Really? The only thing that comes up via Google is Colbert using it to satirize the right.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Years_of_Rice_and_Salt

> The novel explores how subsequent world history might have been different if the Black Death plague had killed 99% of Europe's population, instead of a third.

it's an interesting effort to imagine human civilisation guided primarily by buddhism and islam, without christianity ever ascending.
You are talking about a difference in platforms, not in stores and services they provide. Pretty much all the app stores on all the platforms charge 30%. They also offer substantially the same services.
Self driving cars will almost certainly use much more energy than regular cars. It will reduce the cost of shipping by a lot, increasing the amount of things which are shipped. It will reduce the price of taxis a lot, so people will drive more. And it will make long commutes and road trips much more convenient.
http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2015/...

> Forensic experts at the Michigan State Police have been helping to clear the backlog, with the help of millions of dollars in funding appropriated by the Legislature.

> Worthy said Detroit's kit-testing initiative has identified 2,616 suspects — including 477 serial rapists — and that 21 convictions have been secured. She said 106 cases are actively being investigated and 1,350 cases are awaiting investigation.
I'm male but I have the benefit of being surrounded people of various genders who talk openly about stuff like this. I can only conclude that a great deal of everyday sexism and sexual abuse can be near invisible to men.

Some things can be hard to believe, because, being indentified as male, one tends to see the civil sides of most men.

My advice is to generally be more observant of people in social situations, like parties, lunch hours etc. Especially in corners, corridors etc where they may assume not to be overheard.

Sometimes, venues, clubs and flats have their own geography of fear where some women feel a need to actively measure up space in between themselves and other people. If you have friends who may be subject to this, try asking. At the right occasion.

Especially a SO may be a good place to start if you want to hear general experiences. It can be as simple as "common sense knowledge" of whom you don't want to be stuck with smoking a cigarette on a balcony at a mutual friend's house party or family get-together.
I think the problem is often that we do, we're just not cognizant of it. A lot of sexism is so normalized that the edges of more destructive behavior (jokes and the like) never signal to other men that someone is abusive or demeaning to women. I've had to learn be conscious my self of not indulging casual manifestations of these attitudes, in the same way that "casual" racism is no longer socially permissible.
It's not, in it's default configuration there is no xcode so there is no git.
In this case I think the approach taken by the US is better -- set aggressive fuel economy standards and let the market either

a.) figure out new technologies for much better fuel economy

b.) figure out electric vehicles are cheaper

My point here specifically is not that the numbers the US chose are correct (let that be for another debate), but that this method of effectively restricting/"banning" gasoline cars is better for everyone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Average_Fuel_Economy...
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Biology is one of the most female-friendly STEM fields out there. I've met female biologists, plenty of them. The article describes astrophysics as 90%, 95% male at many of these universities. I think it's likely that the issues aren't quite as systemic in fields which are a little more diverse, but that doesn't mean the issue isn't a cultural, systemic one in astrophysics.
Sure, but what does that get you? It's proprietary because you don't get any of the four freedoms (even freedom 0, because you technically don't have the right to run the software without explicit permission -- and you can forget about modification and distribution). Yes, you can copy the code, but what are you going to do? Frame it?
And we forget what the camera replaces: people breaking pieces off and bringing them home.

If Instagram means that people are too busy taking that perfect selfie to carve their name into something, then god bless Instagram.
Comparing with the hoops Linux or Windows require you to jump through doesn't make this less of a hoop.
It's not useful comparing Universities and private companies in these cases. In the United States, Universities behavior on discrimination and harassment is subject to Title IX and the government can investigate and audit how a University handles and performs in these areas.

The view that HR is only their to protect the employer is a dubious or nebulous, maybe both. The function HR plays will vary by organization, but even with the cynical view that they only exist to protect the organization, protecting the organization also means protecting the organization from lawsuits, government sanctions, etc. from improper and illegal behavior.
'over' can also be used to indicate something took place throughout the whole timespan. Short form of 'over the course of little less than a decade'.
There's an issue logged about this:

https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/122
Thank you for the correction, but my point stands: unless it's signed by Google's OS key it won't be able to cross that boundary. Although since ABC is a major investor in Uber...
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Did not realize the depth of this. I guess I now understand why Europeans had decent immunity to it.. it was that or die.
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I agree. But that doesn't make this less of a hoop.
Here's a list for starters.

http://www.cntraveler.com/galleries/2014-11-04/no-selfies-so...
I guess the lesson is, if you can't distinguish yourself by doing X, instead try distinguishing yourself by criticizing doing X.
The large open access journals that don't have independent funding charge rates within the same order of magnitude. What evidence do you have that an order of magnitude reduction is actually possible at scale? How do you explain the expenses of both traditional publishers and open access ones, and how would you eliminate them?
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Based on your description, it sounds like your wife has experienced a decent amount of harassment. (I include that extreme bullying in it.) When a number of individual assholes are allowed to continue being assholes, and you need to have a "look out for yourself attitude", that is a systemic problem.

I'm genuinely curious what your wife's take is - she may see it a little differently from you.
I try to write original content but still a long way till I reach the Hacker News level. LinkedIn looks great for non-technical posts though. I also have a huge network on LinkedIn.
Also, as far as I know eww is now the main emacs ecosystem web browser. Works just as well as w3m and lynx do for me.
You said

> Suppose God doesn't exist. Then ... middle, middle, middle,...Contradiction. Thus by "excluded middle", God does exist. I have never seen theology do that.

Here is a summary of Anselm's argument for the existence of God:

> 1. It is a conceptual truth (or, so to speak, true by definition) that God is a being than which none greater can be imagined (that is, the greatest possible being that can be imagined).

> 2. God exists as an idea in the mind.

> 3. A being that exists as an idea in the mind and in reality is, other things being equal, greater than a being that exists only as an idea in the mind.

> 4. Thus, if God exists only as an idea in the mind, then we can imagine something that is greater than God (that is, a greatest possible being that does exist).

> 5. But we cannot imagine something that is greater than God (for it is a contradiction to suppose that we can imagine a being greater than the greatest possible being that can be imagined.)

> 6. Therefore, God exists.

(Emphasis mine.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontological_argument#Anselm

But really, you don't even need something with such a close 1-to-1 mapping for fpoling's comment to be reasonable. Consider the Banach–Tarski paradox. In both cases, you're talking about "something that cannot be experimentally observable or constructable" -- a perfect being, or a certain disjoint decomposition of the 3-ball -- "and then apply logic".
> Not trying results in 100% failure rate.

Depends on how you define failure. I define business failure as "losing my money in a failed business", and by that measurement, not trying results in a 100% success rate.

EDIT: Actually, if you want to be pedantic (this is HN after all), by this definition, not trying results in a 100% "non-failure" rate.
Ew. Reminds me of the infamous Sony toolkit...
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I suspect most of these people are already depressed, and the validation they find in social media staves off the more severe feelings.

Or it's become something of an addiction to them, and a lack of validation (either a lack of "likes" or an inability to post) results in withdrawal, which can cause depression and shares some behavioral symptoms with depression.
Anecdotal of course, but .. Having lived in both the USA and German, as an outsider (Australian), I can honestly say that I think most German youth are quite okay with their own understanding of their history, and that in fact it gives them an awareness of the dangers of politics, and moreover of the dangers of The People themselves, in the modern context, in granting their leadership heinous powers for which they, The People, then fail to take responsibility.

Many German friends I made, expressed the desire that they not - for example - see what happened in Germany, happen in the United States of America. A concern I, of course, share.
But we don't even need the publishers at all! There are already free venues for publishing documents!

It's also not even obvious that (anonymous pre-publication) peer review is better than just publishing everything and letting anyone and everyone comment on it just like anything else shared publicly on the web. I mean, for just one example, it's a big deal that researchers don't already publish everything!
BuzzFeed has a crazy amount of real, good journalistic content. I wish they used a separate domain name for their real journalism so I wouldn't have to take the "real article or clickbait" gamble every time I click a buzzfeed.com link.
I am frustrated that it's 2016, and we still can't tilt windows diagonally.
Seriously, this is less useful than the headline. I wish people would stop exclaming "clickbait!" on any and all headlines.
What about setting the dirty bit with a boolean while you're working, but then before saving, do the diff to check if the file really needs saving?
This was in the context of British Rail having just wasted a huge amount of public money: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_rail_transport_in_G... . Beeching did the job he was hired for and did it well: he wrote a report that identified which lines were profitable and which weren't. The politicians who took action based on these facts are the ones who bear the responsibility for those actions.
You're ignoring all of the companies they bought.
This is actually the fault of the new Task Manager in Windows 10. If you click the "Details" tab, you should see all processes.

There are a lot of things that only show up in the "Details" tab. Any user who needs to kill a process in Windows (which is 70% of Windows users) will quickly learnt that the "Details" tab is the only one that matters.