skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course. If history has taught us anything, it's that no company, product or individual has ever remained 'on top' for eternity. Everything gets superseded and replaced by something better, it's just a matter of when that happens rather than if.

As for search in particular, yes again. There are plenty of ways a search engine could work better than Google. It could read your mind and figure out what you intended rather than having you try and write out your search query.

It could actually answer questions in purely conversation English (or any other language), like what Ask Jeeves tried and failed to do years ago.

It might have results somehow tailored to your interests in a much better way, and basing what comes up on both people/sources you trust, relationships between them and new pages and your exact intentions.

Heck, it could just be better at finding generic pages than Google is at the moment. I'm sure you've come across tons of situations where you searched for a certain specific technical term, right? And then found all the results were ones that only had the most vague similarity to what you wanted, with the term you cared most about it in grey and strikethrough form underneath the result? Even a search engine that realises you want a certain term in a certain context (say, a discussion, or a long form article) would do better than Google at the moment.

So yeah, there will be a better search engine at one point. Quite possibly one that completely changes how searching works in general and finds results that are far more accurate to what you actually want than anything available at the moment.
yea but you are on your own if you use newer stuff than what distro provides. distros and microsoft probably picked stable versions that they tested and know that they work.
> Someone with the most to gain from buying Twitter would be a relative outsider who wants to enter the social space, or get access to influencers and their valuable ad draws. In my opinion, these are Verizon, Amazon, and Yandex.

I think you are spot on on this Verizon, Amazon, Newscorp or even Sony, but why would Yandex buy it?
> Security is already outside the room and when they hear the first loud noise they will know to come in.

My impression is that security was not there by accident.
Is it common in US to call security on such occasion?

It is not very sensitive and respectful to bring such news with gorillas behind your back.
I am not at all a linguist and not at all an expert on either writing system, but as a layman looking at both the Chinese and Ancient Egyptian writing systems, one similarity seemed really striking - the notion that a typical word is composed of a 2 parts - a semantic, pictographic "root", combined with another part that indicates pronunciation.
Equally like, anyway.
If you've never heard of nationwide reciprocity of concealed carry licenses then you simply don't know very much about the subject, it's probably #1 on our long term wish list right now, seeing as how 42 states have shall issue or better concealed carry regimes that create a confusing patchwork of laws, reciprocity here but not there, etc., a perfect thing for the Federal government to apply itself to.

And I'm not surprised you haven't heard of the ITAR effort to put most of the nation's gunsmiths out of business, it's very new and still fairly obscure, but are you telling me you see nothing wrong with the general concept of destroying their livelihoods and the work they do for us?

I also gave myself great wiggle room in the "20,000" laws and flypaper bit; are you telling me you can't think of one gun law that makes no sense at all, perhaps one that hasn't worked out in practice? Maybe a relaxation on "the shoulder thing that flips up"?

And, again, ignoring any of the "extreme" items in my wish list, You. Can't. List. A. Single. Thing. to give us in return. If you're asking us to "compromise", but have no idea what you're willing to give up to get what you want, how should we view your offer?

As for your opinion that this makes half the country "look like nuts", "We don't care." We'll just keep piling up the legislative victories in our free states, and sending enough Congresscritters to D.C. who know better than to cross us to keep the Federal government in relative stasis. And it looks like we'll help elect the most pro-gun President since JFK.
All you need is this one weird trick.
At least we have wtmp/utmp that can be reliably parsed, unless musl libc is used.
I assume you are referring to parking requirements.

Even if you can go without a car 99% of the time (like by using ZipCar), the one day you want to bring home a large appliance or piece of furniture, monthly Costo haul, etc. what are you going to do if there is no place to safely/legally stop within several blocks?
I don't think it's sustainable to not spy on users or to not serve ads. Keeping user data adds to relevancy and if there is no revenue, there are no relevancy engineers.
strikingly similar to WAD - https://github.com/rserota/wad
22 Migrant Women Held in Pennsylvania Start a Hunger Strike to Protest Detention
My original idea was going to involve a dependency on one of the bad words lists available on npm, but then I saw the API censors said words and thought, "Oh, that's easy."
basically yes.

http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarte...
> A popular sentiment is that binary logs are evil and the only way to properly log information is by using plain text.

> I don’t particularly care about the argument between plain text versus binary logs. However, if your reasoning for not wanting to use binary logs is because they are opaque and can be corrupted then you should take a close look at your log rotation or archival process. If you are archiving logs by first compressing them using something like gzip, you no longer have plain text log files.

I found quite a few people disliked binary log files due to concerns around their portability. Specifically when they depend on a platform-specific utility to read them. If they are compressed using a standard algorithm, it alleviates concerns about portability.
In the last 40 years the number of people living with 2$ per day half ed?
So the $$
So what actually got better there? I think what happened is that food is cheaper but also more crappy.
This article is full in propaganda it seems.
"I just don't understand, if the vehicle is totally autonomous how is it going to get down my friends mile long driveway that is little more than two gravel tracks with grass in the middle and find a place on his grass to park while missing all the ruts."

We could do that in 1985. We used to test our DARPA Grand Challenge vehicle (a Polaris Ranger ATV) at a horse ranch, and watched it climb dirt hills with ruts and avoid ditches. You profile the terrain ahead with a LIDAR and choose a driveable path. You can detect potholes, dropoffs, and ruts. You build a height field from the sensor data and run a planner.

The hard part is out-driving the LIDAR range and going faster. You can't profile terrain more than tens of meters away; you're looking at the ground at an oblique angle and can't see holes and drop-offs. We didn't have an answer for that. Stanford's team did; when the near part of the road profiled OK, and the far part of the road looked like the near part of the road, they'd assume the far road was drivable and speed up. We overdesigned the off-road capability and went too slow. But we didn't crash. The vehicle was eventually donated to UC Santa Cruz, where it was used for various projects for years.

The remaining hard problems all involve other road users.
I'd say humans are much more resilient than you think, and Indians probably even more so, because they are used to hard life.

Or, to say it another way, many parts of India or other countries at this latitude have never been "suitable for human habitation" compared to e.g. France and her tempered climate. But humans adapted to this place, and will adapt to 2 degrees more if needs be.
You actually have to allow it per-website per-visit (not even per-session).
Considering that we can do this stuff on freaking Mars, I think we can handle your friend's driveway.
The numbers are a secondary item, nitpicked by the commenter above.

The original parent was discussing how the banks were involved. I was attempting to bring the discussion back around to the original comment, rather than have the discussion be de-railed by a sidebar about exact amounts.

It's interesting, and I am interested, but this whole conversation does nothing but to take away from what the first person was trying to express.
In Britain, Soul-Searching on ‘Brexit’
Yeah, like I said in response to another comment:

> My original idea was going to involve a dependency on one of the bad words lists available on npm, but then I saw the API censors said words and thought, "Oh, that's easy."
> I just want to say the style of the article and it's direct, terse language really captures the gravity of the situation and seriousness of the subject.

Quick comment about how your it's instead of its caused an English parsing error in my brain:

I read until the comma and because I saw it's, I assumed I missed a word in the first part of the sentence - I though it may have been something like "I just want to say I evaluated the style of the article and it's direct, it's frank, it's spot on!", but re-reading it didn't reveal anything I missed. I then considered some less common writing styles/expressions. None of that worked out, so I read past the comma and figured out what happened. All this happened in the span of a second or so. Not sure what it was about this particular sentence that caused me to stop at the comma, I don't think it happens often.
The story is very important and thanks to NY Times for covering it. However, calling it "Turkish" history is a few thousand years short.
Thanks a lot guys. These are very valuable pointers. On a more general note, would you always prefer running Linux natively on your laptop to using it in a VM or through the new Windows 10 Bash Shell? Does it give it you any added benefit?
Put more succinctly: tell them what and why, let them figure out how.

Aka, the golden rule of the Product Owner/Manager.
it does seem a US thing http://geography.about.com/b/2006/06/28/do-all-rivers-flow-s...
Consciousness is the experience of being.

If there is an experience of what it is like to be a thing, then that thing can be said to be conscious.

Such things may be some subset of or superset containing "things with brains." But the idea that it is uniquely human seems absurd.
Isn't it obvious? Look at him, look at what kind of people he is looking to hire. He is not looking at people that are mature, balanced and harmonious. He is looking for people to burn with passion and work enormous efforts. Well when you conduct your life like this you can't have too many outcomes but most likely one of those worthy of drama awards :)
For who is wise enough these simple priciples are everywhre around us to observe and learn.
I thought that only works for video? Wouldn't you want navigator.getUserMedia for audio only?
You're confusing me with one or more others in this sub-thread, all I've mentioned in my single other comment was about the number of fatal accidents and the like, I've not even commented on disparity of strength issues here.

In short, I said nothing that you said I said...

I commented on the assault on Clarence Daniels simply because it made a big stir in RKBA circles and therefore I know a fair amount about it, and I felt you were misrepresenting its lessons, as well as possibly the law.

And misinformation on when you're allowed to use lethal force is downright dangerous, although this case is relatively close to the threshold, depending on how effective the perpetrator's choke-hold was (it was said to be not very good). I also presume this 62 year old man was a lot more fit and strong than an "80-year-old grandmother" (especially having watched my parents make the transition from late '60s to early '80s or thereabouts in the last dozen years, kinda scary).
I think Elon Musk is extremely smart and talented but I also think he's been extremely lucky so far (but his luck seems to be running out lately).

Since Paypal, he's been on a winning streak and this has just boosted his confidence to stratospheric heights - As a result, he probably bit off more than he could chew.
I'm curious as to the reasons why you believe only those possessing degrees in engineering can be competent engineers? I understand there are specific things in the course requirements that would be very different between an engineering degree and a physics degree, but I would assume that so long as someone has the requisite understanding of the more foundational elements pertaining to the relevant fields, and the drive and discipline to do so, they could conceivably pick up the additional knowledge without the necessity of a formal degree. Am I wrong in my assumption? Is there some reason this doesn't hold true in engineering? Just to be clear, I'm not asking this to be combative, but as someone who has no experience attending college, in an engineering field or otherwise, I'm genuinely interested to hear your thoughts.

I’m also curious as to how you define being mentored as an engineer? Is it a requirement to serve under more senior engineers for some specific amount of time? And does this require that the mentee be lower than the mentor on the corporate hierarchy? I won’t purport to speak for Musk but I’m fairly sure he’s been mentored extensively by people like Tom Mueller and Gwynne Shotwell, in addition to others, over the years.

You also mentioned in a higher post that you prefer leadership that has “gotten their hands dirty” as opposed to “business types” and this may be the only area I can really offer direct insight into. Whatever your opinion of Musk may be, I think it would be a mistake to describe him as someone who doesn’t get his hands dirty. I’m a technician at SpaceX which makes me fairly low within the corporate structure and even I have had a chance to interact with Musk, as well as a number of other senior execs, on relatively minor issues pertaining to my work. He, along with many other senior engineers within the company, are often very hands on even within the production environment here.
I'm curious as to how you'd update the icon for a file type. Would you have to update the inode of every single file of that type? That can't be too efficient.

I'm sure there are ways of getting around the problem, but having lots of duplicate data (even if each icon is very small) isn't generally a good idea (but perhaps this is an exception).
Not saying it wasnt a well written article, but why is this on HN?
> If you're not a globalist, you're a Nazi for having loyalty to your fellow countrymen

Mind elaborating?
I don't know anything about alt-right symbolism. I do have an aversion to essentially calling someone a Nazi for expressing what appears to be, at face value, a legitimate opinion.

Free speech is under more and more pressure every year, and unless you have been living under a rock you are aware of the mounting evidence of that. Right here, one thing that seems evident is that the way to win any argument, or shut anyone up, or in other words essentially censor them is to call them a racist or a Nazi.

Maybe you're not wrong, and I hope I am not enabling anyone to spread hate, but I guess my gut feeling is that I just want to express an opinion that we should be very careful about labelling people or ideas as basically racist or Nazi-esque without hard evidence they are as such, because we otherwise easily censor them--I don't believe there is any better way to do so? Right now it appears it is perhaps too easy to accomplish this.

I think people have a right to freedom of expression and I don't want to see that go away.
I will mash two sayings together here in order to summarize my interpretation of the author's point: A rising tide lifts all boats, but some boats are more lifted than others. And that's fine.

Not sure if I agree with it but the NYT has a predictable tone when it comes to these sorts of things.
A bit of an oxymoron. You're free to do anything... Without money to do anything
The submitter presumably thought some HN readers would find it interesting, and it turns out they were right.
For a little bit of perspective on this, this is helpful[0]. If you can stomach the demeaning of brexit voters ("the world's losers") the graph showing the percentage change of real income shows that the "99%" middle and working class-- which were really in the top quintile world wide--have seen little growth in income while the top 1% and everyone else has seen substantial income percentage increase. Of course, in absolute numbers, the top 1% had a larger share to begin with, so percent change signals a substantial increase in wealth in absolute terms...which also means the bottom 80's increase isn't that much absolutely too.

I feel like despite the abrasive manner of norikki, s/he brings up an important side of this story. I personally am in the top 5% of income in the US, so I can say my place is comfortable, but we should be mindful of the working-middle class in the first world too.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/06/27/the-l...
I mean, you do want trucks that are able to go over a bridge to be able to go over it.
Just because some villains started out being for law and order doesn't mean being for law and order makes you a villain. Being for law and order is the "we're the good people" disguise that villains hide in until they show themselves to be villains. But NOT being for law and order doesn't make you a "real good person". The correlation is probably strongly negative even.
The reason I included this link is because Putin in his governance of Russia has followed the general economic strategy he presents in his doctoral dissertation, and so the document helps us understand the reasoning behind his decisions.

As to codified policy, Putin is an authoritarian ruler in a country with little rule of law, and so he does what he wants, no matter what the laws happen to say.

ivan_gammel, I strongly suspect that you are quite aware of all of this, and are attempting to mislead readers as to what Putin is up to and why.

Let me make one more comment. Putin believes that the road to becoming an advance industrial power is first spend a half a century focused on natural resource extraction, and only then turn to developing advanced industry. I think he is here trying to emulate his interpretation of the economic history of the UK and the US.

But this mistaken, and in two ways. First, in the US and the UK mineral extraction and industrial development proceeded in parallel, not sequentially. Secondly, more recently countries have industrialized by focusing on industry directly, and especially exports, as in the cases of Japan, China, and South Korea.

I think part of the problem here is that Putin greatly mistrusts industrialization that is successful enough to compete on global markets, because it requires independent commercial enterprises, and he is an authoritarian who wants to retain control of the economy, and this is much easier when you are focused on natural resource commodities.

In any case, the whole matter of Putin and his economic views just illustrates the general problem that Russians have never figured out how things work in the modern world, and are always trying to do things in ways that are still half back in the authoritarian, agrarian ways of their past. As a result they get off on paths that succeed for a few decades, but eventually stall out.

It's so sad, Russia could be such an amazing nation if it could just get on the right track.
It's essentially class warfare, when cars are seen as a symbol of wealth, status and mobility. It's not car vs. bike. It's the status quo vs. a competing idea that, if it takes root, unearths a value system based on owning and using an expensive personal item that devalues precipitously as soon as it's driven off the lot, adds a hefty environmental cost, etc: the automobile. And that upheaval is going to cost powerful people money.

Also look at: public transportation.

It's no wonder that higher economic mobility people have chosen essentially a private town car company (or at least a virtual one, that undermines things like workers rights) to replace personal car ownership (at least partly so) and not a bicycle or public transportation. The illusion of the status quo is still there - except that it's enhanced, as you're paying a premium for someone else to do the stressful work for you.

As an American that has explored Europe, it's just not the same thing. Trains are amazing, people flaunting wealth by buying enormous cars is seen as a faux pas. City centers are turning into car-free zones. Being simply a pedestriann isn't see as a backwards thing. Cycling is taken much more seriously and things like safety regulations and road-side checks are a Thing.
In operation, there were two events I was told in confidence by current and former employees that I would rather not disclose publicly. Without going into specifics, they both related to operational deficiencies in launch systems (hardware in one instance, software in another) that were not disclosed to NASA prior to launch.

This hits me particularly hard as this is not an industry where you ask forgiveness rather than permission. I was involved in situations with a separate contractor where we diagnosed technical problems days before a launch that in all likelihood would not have affected any other systems.

We still went to NASA, admitted our faults, and provided an analysis of the situation and mitigating steps we would take in order to get their blessing. They worked with us and we didn't disrupt the launch schedule, but we were fully prepared to if that was what it took.

For the design aspects, I admit it isn't my forte and I'm taking the word of other engineers who may have their own biases. In short, the use of many small engines used together (e.g. Falcon Heavy using 27 Merlin-1Ds and MCT using 9 Raptors) makes a lot of people who have been doing this for much longer than I very uncomfortable. This is especially true given that they are planning on launching Falcon Heavy missions so soon without having tested the cores operating together extensively (to my knowledge, at least).

I'm sorry if this comes off as overly aggressive or biased. I do really think that reusability, automation, and low cost are important goals to work towards. I also even think that SpaceX is making some of the greatest strides in the industry. But I'm very uncomfortable with the company that seems (at least to me) to be disregarding established knowledge that was gained through the hardships of an earlier era.
So for example, the Mexican Army being used to round up hundreds of drug cartel members makes them equivalent to the SS then? Rounding up large groups of people is not a sufficient condition for being equivalent to Hitler.
"But the most glaring omission of all in the report is no mention of trade unions – not one case history citing an innovative trade union response nor one recommendation about how gig workers could win greater bargaining heft. Unions could, for example, develop into fully fledged worker co-operatives hiring out workers to gig employers and providing benefits as members of the co-operative. There could be a reform of collective bargaining. There could be a wave of apps in which gig workers band together, share information and even act together. That the report could identify no such initiatives, nor think of any of its own, is a telling indictment."

Hypothesis: The reason that we're not seeing any kind of worker cooperatives is that the people who have the leadership and technical skills to create them from the digital ether are too busy being lured to a handful of towns in California promising them vast riches to propel the engines of economic violence.