skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GitHub is a set of UI tools built on top of a command line interface. It is not an extension to git. You can still use git normally. You can use other UI tools built on top of git. That, by definition, is not an extension.

And the logical leap required to think that somehow GitHub was built, years ago, as part of a strategy for Microsoft is bordering on insanity.
Putting an important decision such as ending ones life behind a single point-and-click action is really bad UX. There should at least be a number of "Are you sure?" prompts and two factor authentication as a bare minimum.
>Feel free to show me which part of the criminal code "not making money" falls under.

I don't really know anything about US laws, but I think they do have to act in the interest of their shareholders, i.e. make them more money.
I think one of my main concerns with "autopilot" is that for a lot of drivers, it will absolutely make the roads safer for them and those that use the roads around them. Consequently, for some safer and more-alert drivers, it has the potential to make driving less safe.
I’ve used it for a few sites at this point. Haven’t used v3 but it’s been a great resource. It’s a cool experience coding a website with a compiled language, especially swift.
For about the last 10 years of online "journalism". Hate it.
Have to make room for Haiku :)
Robin Williams had Lewy Bodies Dementia which had no cure.

His brain was disappearing before him and he knew it.

Unless Anthony Bourdain had a terminal illness that was destroying his brain and who he was as a person, this is not comparable.
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That's somewhat incorrect. 90% of PVC pipe is buried in the ground because it can't be in an exposed area "subject to physical damage" which basically limits you to underground or in the ceiling (usually interpreted as over 8 feet above the finished grade). In addition, the NEC requires PVC to be supported every 3 feet whereas EMT only requires support every 10 feet. You'll also see a lot of bending PVC with heat boxes (which often leaves dark patches). As an added bonus, PVC sun rots. PVC pipe and boxes (esp schedule 40) become extremely fragile after a few years in the sun (you can break it by accidentally bumping it).

Running PVC looks unprofessional. It's generally true that if an electrical installation looks good, it is good. If you're running PVC everywhere above ground rather than EMT, you'll be in for a very difficult time when the inspectors arrive.

The glue is not for water-proofing (it's to keep the pipe from breaking apart -- esp during wire pulls). If it's underground, you'll be using THWN (waterproof), so the water doesn't matter. For that reason, no primer is needed. The reason for "electrical glue" is that it's much lower quality and much cheaper (you'll see contractors use whichever glue is cheapest regardless of color).
Good to know! I’ll start reading into it and let you know if I find anything.
This doesn't give any additional information, his gruffness was part of what made him famous. I dont think that was a source of sadness for him. I was talking more to the effect of Asia Argento being seen with other people last week (not that I think thats the reason, just identifying possible causes).
Disclaimer, I work for a chatbot startup that is doing really well in the Nordics. In two years we have grown from 3 employees to almost 100. Chatbots are a real big thing, our business is stronger than ever, end-users and our customers are engaged in this! We solve real business problems, we integrate the chatbot with existing business systems. With this is mind, chatbots are not perfect, but most end-users are forgiving and accept this.

Chatbots are not a fad, its a real thing, and you will only see more of them in the coming years.
he wasn't referring to that one word, but the cadence and style of the her language in general.
> it's a facepalm to imagine that any dollar they spend isn't in their own long term interest to make money

This is true, but "long term interest" for Microsoft means 30, 50, or 100 years from now. People seem to forget that people actually liking your company is important for long term profits, and therefore doing good things is quite easy to align with the notion that companies only do things that make them a profit.

I find myself saying this a lot - companies are by definition amoral (lacking a moral sense or understanding), not immoral. Just because they are driven by profits doesn't mean they don't do things that are moral or good, as many good things are in the interest of a company's profits. Especially their long term profits.
> Are there any safety concerns?

> Not really, aviation expert Douglas Drury from the University of South Australia says.

Not a common need (thankfully) but windows also provide a way to look into plane as well, say in times of emergency or a hostage taking. That’s one of the reasons you’re required to open them when you take off and land.

I wonder if their answer to that is a live video feed of the inside of the plane to the tower.
Today it wouldn't matter; as you can't seem to find an associate to help you with all the empty boxes up above.
The EPA used/uses fake email addresses to dodge FOIAs during the Obama and Trump administrations- guessing they all still do something like this. Scott Pruitt apparently has 4.

>During President Barack Obama’s first term, then-EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson came under fire for maintaining a separate agency email under the alias “Richard Windsor” — a name that derived from Jackson’s family dog when she lived in East Windsor Township, N.J.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/20...
Flying is already awful, allowing airlines and manufacturers any more leeway in how badly they treat customers is unacceptable.
For me, the biggest issue with “virtual windows“ would be the lack of parallax. It would be very jarring to not see the view change as you move relative to the window.

They could implement head tracking to solve this, but that breaks down as soon as more than one person need to look through the same window.
well, how dare they!?!?
I commend your Lawful Neutral alignment.
There is an excellent documentary called "The Bridge" about people committing suicide by jumping off of the golden gate bridge in SF. Given the height of the bridge, it takes 4 seconds before you hit the water, and some people survive it. They had interviews with people that survived it -- and they basically all said that as soon as they let go, they realized it was a mistake. That all of their problems were solvable, except for the one they just made.

I do recall one man who did not survive, who seemed at peace during the video of his fall -- he was one who I think perhaps did not regret the act, but was the extreme outlier in that regard. If you are 85 and dying of painful cancer, I can also see it being an act that makes sense, made to decide one's own fate. But MOST people seem to grow out of their suicidal phases, and realize it was the wrong choice, driven by bad thought patterns. In the same way that people try to help addicts or people with eating disorders try to obtain better thought patterns, suicidal ideation seems to me to be largely a broken thought pattern we should help people overcome, not an individual decision one should respect.
Access to means of suicide matters. Most suicidal ideation is temporary and most suicide attempts are impulsive. Men are much less likely than women to attempt suicide, but they are much more likely to die, because they tend to choose more lethal means.

In 1998, the UK reduced the maximum pack sizes of paracetamol (acetaminophen) tablets. We saw no reduction in the number of people who attempted suicide by paracetamol overdose, but a 43% reduction in deaths by that means.

https://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f403

There is some evidence to suggest that gun control is effective in reducing deaths due to suicide.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26396147
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29078268
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29852823
I'm a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and in my opinion that's a very concentrated portfolio. You're taking on a material amount of company specific risk. I would consider diversifying your stock investments.

Myself, I like investing in close-ended funds (CEF) or otherwise known as investment trusts. I can overlay some active management whilst having a fairly diversified portfolio. I tend to try and buy the CEF when their discounts are wider than usual i.e. a 5% discount widened to 15% to 20% of NAV. Then I sometimes sell when the discount narrows. I switch between different CEF in the same sector if I find one with a better discount i.e. US small cap.

There are a bunch of gotachs so be careful. Some have wide discounts because they are managed by bad managers or they have expensive debt or preferred equity in the capital structure. So do your own research.

If you're in the US, check out: https://www.cefconnect.com/closed-end-funds-screener

In the UK, I use: https://www.theaic.co.uk/aic/find-compare-investment-compani...

I would also say that this market can be inefficient. Investment advisers don't like it because it doesn't scale well.
I'm fine with being cautious about Microsoft. I think at this point it's no longer necessary, but sure I can understand that. But the EEE plot-line is a 20 year old joke. It's not funny anymore.

It's never time to stop being cautious about megacorps.

To think that Microsoft spent $7.5 billion for altruistic reasons, without a plan to actually turn a profit on the purchase, is dangerously naive.
Yes, but it's pull, not push.
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Seems to be a lot of indexers here. I am always curious if/how people plan for the volatility risk (and implied personal financial risk when vol spikes) from being purely indexed in their portfolios...
Yes, 50% reduction of the weight of just the fuselage would sound much more plausible.
What happened when you complained to Uber?
>The most probable reason is genetics.

This isn't true.
Not just the window materials but all the aircraft structure that is needed to support the windows to sustain pressurization.

The reason why windows are shaped as they are is to withstand the constant pressure changes without suffering catastrophic fatigue stress failure.
I don't believe you are the master of your own existence. Did you decide what to eat this morning, or rather is it the product of your habits and cultural forces and family choices and genetically based preferences? IMO free will is an illusion, and this is part of the reason why stigmatizing mental illness is so pernicious. We say "get over it, everyone gets depressed" or we say "omg, I'm so OCD lol". Not really, though, these are complex neurobiological disorders that scientists don't understand well and doctors don't have great treatments for. If you're severely depressed or schizophrenic, your capacity to lead a normal life is vastly reduced, you can't even go through the daily rituals/motions that everyone else does. You become separate from society, and peoples' saying that you're rich, you're doing well, get over it: that makes it all feel worse. Add on top of that potential drug use, increasing suicide rates in society (we know they are contagious, it spreads like a virus), and of course the more advanced age of these recent celebrity suicides.

So, are severely mentally ill people truly capable of living normal lives? Are they capable of making clear, level-headed decisions? I highly doubt that they were truly masters of their own existence if they decided they'd rather stop existing than suffer more illness.
IMO that issue can be tackled by making laws prohibiting financial conflicts of interest removing the incentive to be untrustworthy. Then we get civil servants in office again.
this has a huge spin/politics feel to it, when you get to "it used to be easy to make fun of Microsoft, but.. I have grown up"

I call BS -- it was very grown-up of Microsoft to abuse repeatedly their clients and partners, and it is just and right to call them out on it.. that one statement is obsequious whiteash, plain and simple.
50% of the weight of the bare fuselage. Something was lost in translation when the article was being written.
http://everydayhappy7.com/2018/01/26/every-couple-things-rel...
So much this. Everyone wants to fix things by just changing X without taking the time to see the effects that will cascade. There are a lot of worthless jobs in all these systems and those people buy houses and cars which employs other people who buy clothes and food which employs people who buy health insurance. We can make health care better and cheaper but it requires will we don't have. These same people can now be employed in jobs we really need like elder care, etc. But everyone would rather keep their $80K office job where they spend half the day on their phone and fb.
I think that analogy brings up a good point. Does someone consciously choose to succumb to dying of cancer? And this probably evolves into a discussion about choices and free will.

I guess what I'm trying that isn't isolated to depression and mental illness. If you have asthma you use an inhaler, but you should probably not smoke.

If you have clinical depression there are medical ways to address that, but you probably should not put yourself in situations that will make that worse.
I bet they watched House of Cards and thought, hey it works for Zoe Barnes...

Edit: I hope she does not have the same character arc of Zoe Barnes, which I won't spoil.
That's a bit of a shame. I get where they are coming from, but the place in Ueno my girlfriend and I rented out was cute and we didn't hold any wild parties, even if I did get the evil eye from some old guy in a convenience store.
And they're often essentially an alternative for a first-level support person who is reading off a script and may not speak English very well. So even if chatbots are a fairly sucky experience most of the time, so is frontline support a lot of the time.
Why? They have other members that are pretty openly hostile to open source, and specificly linux itself.

Such as vmware and allwinner who refuse to release kernel sourcecode for their products.
CLIs are still vastly more productive for repetitive tasks and are quite passable as an API. For one-off things GUIs are usually better.
I think what you're referring to are distinct from chatbots. Chatbots are meant to take input from a user and do a wide variety of tasks like a customer service representative would do, Twitter bots usually do just one thing.
The argument is, "just because some of the biggest companies on the planet have started equipping their carpenters with specialized screw-hammers, doesn't mean that they wouldn't be better off using the right tool for the right job".

For my part, I don't want it to go anywhere. Javascript powers some of the most interesting and exciting things in the world of software right now - but that doesn't mean that it's the best solution for every problem.
I would definitely fly this if there is such an option. And so would many others, if at least some of the savings are passed on to the consumer.
I thought we are talking about Microsoft?
But yes, some parts of Red Hat do not embrace open source :)
Definitely.

A pivot is like a "Hail Mary" pass... risky and unlikely to work -- something that only makes sense when time is running out and you have nothing left to lose.

Or... if your company pivoted when the end wasn't near, the leadership was greatly incompetent, which means you pretty much never had a chance in the first place.

Interesting to note: the poster read the signs and made the right move at the right time in any case.
Yes. While details vary between countries and languages, I believe the general interpretation is that a warrant involves a judge.
Learning languages for which there are lots of jobs might sound attractive, but let me offer a different perspective: it is difficult to shine and become renowned in well-established ecosystems because so many people have so much headstart. Sure you might be able to get a job, but you will also be much easier to replace.

In contrast, new and exciting ecosystems (like Elixir) give you the opportunity to become a big fish in a small pond. There is the risk that the language/framework will never become popular (and maybe even fizzle out) but at least you will enjoy your time with it.
Like self driving cars freeing humans from the tedium of driving while they could be doing productive things; applying AI to chatbots could free humans from ever having to chat online. Ever.

Imagine how humans could do more useful and productive things. More time for study and contemplation. AI powered chatbots could relieve us from the burden of ever having to chat online.
Redfin, Zillow, and Opendoor can’t disrupt real estate agents
This blog post from a psychiatrist is a good read for people interested in this debate: http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/25/in-defense-of-psych-tre...
The what? LOL

Some of us living and working in less "privileged" countries (I'm from Greece) don't have the luxury of having disposable income to invest, especially tech workers that are paid way less than tech managers.

I don't know exactly how things are in the first world countries, but the only disposable income goes as spare cash for emergencies, health problems and other similar activities.
Would you kindly provide the link to the particular course of your university? Thanks :)
I think your response misses the point of my post. The point wasn't that they're trying to undermine Open Source, the point was that they fundamentally and unavoidably make their huge profits by extracting rent from a platform that they try to force everybody onto. They don't sell support, expertise or individual products. They get you in, lock you in and then charge rent. In infra teams in the UK at least the guys used to call it "Microsoft rent" with a straight face. The motivations of a company where that has and always will be the game plan are antithetical to someone who identifies freedom of coding with freedom of thought and expression.

"We are pro open source except our entire business model which is build around a closed source platform on which we sell closed source products"

Yeah they're worse than they could be but that's not really the central point.

The legal thing you asked for a source on:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
Some people dissent from this reading of the case but it's also not that important, in practice they act like this.
It was a while ago. About 1cm diameter, reddish-purplish. Looked very concerning, intuitively, and reminded me of the horror stories I had read about modafinil occasionally causing life-threatening skin reactions.
“leaking classified information is bad regardless of your ultimate aim”

No, this is not a universal absolute truth.
These Web 2.0 service names are getting out of hand.
No expert here, but....

I think the impulse to suicide can arise in people of sound mind who are (or who feel) trapped by their circumstances and see no way out.

Job loss in late middle age combined with financial load (mortgage, kids in college, increasing medical costs) added to declining health and energy with which to meet life's challenges and maybe add in loss of spouse through divorce or illness - I can see how events could leave someone of sound mind feeling locked into a chronic path of decreasing rewards and agency, coupled with increasing stress and loss.

It's not clear to me that suicide is an irrational choice in such circumstances. It's certainly not the only choice, and it's terribly painful for those left behind, but I think it can be rationally chosen by someone who is not otherwise mentally ill.. No idea what proportion of suicides might be in that category.
Not to be too curmudgeonly but you don't have to guess, almost all those CLI interfaces have a manual and a --help function. You can't ask a chatbot what its options are.
Fun (actually it's not very fun) story... Some years ago I went and visited my parents house where I grew up. I actually found my old computer in the attic, that I hadn't used since I was 15-16 or so.

I was excited to see what it contained. Among it was a bunch of saved memes (remember when memes used to last like a year instead of 15 hours?).

I also found AIM chat logs that I decided to look at. I was absolutely shocked by what I saw (I mean, really floored).

I was SO ... so.... so..... incredibly negative. I mean, where every word was scathing, hurt, defensive, judgmental, awful. It was absolutely painful to read, BUT, it showed me something really eye opening which was that, I think fairly early on in my life I realized I was like this and I tried everything in my power to do things outside my comfort zone and to force myself to grow past negativity. It really pleased me to see that because it showed me my efforts worked, as currently (and at the age when I visited my parents, maybe 29 or 30), I'm generally very happy, not judgmental.. I do get irritated at some things and I'm not perfect of course, but I would give myself an 8 out of 10 on the carefree/happy/non-judgmental scale.

So, all in all was a good, albeit super salty, experience.

Edit; I Should probably mention I do reserve quite a bit of judgment (cough* you dont use vim????) in my technical sphere, but this post is mostly referring to personal things.
I didn't mean trivial in the sense you mean. I mean trivial in that, in comparison to other human interactions, the variables are more limited and therefore lower hanging fruit for automation.
Before Facebook and smart phones became so ubiquitous and with all the features that MySpace lacked i think MSN/AIM were everyone's go to communication tool.

Think of the wealth of data they had in their hands and let slip away.
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True in all aspects of life; even business.
it depends on which platform and language you develop, but for a java IDE, IntelliJ fly circles around Eclipse or Netbeans, in matters of performance and usability.
Even the dumbed down IntelliJ-CE is a better alternative, until you stumble on the lack of Spring integrations.
( _IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition is the open source version of IntelliJ IDEA_ from http://www.jetbrains.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=983211 )

for everything else, Emacs ( spacemacs ) will suffice.

( if the open source requirement is removed, i used visual slickedit for many years, for many projects, before IntelliJ ).
A lot of people don't notice it, but Japanese apartments and houses have paper-thin walls with no insulation. People may think they're being quiet because they don't hear the person next door (since people generally live here knowing that they should avoid being noisy). But no, blasting music from your phone speakers, stomping around in your boots, throwing your bag on the floor, and sparking up a blunt is shit everyone hears. Yet try politely telling someone they're being a little loud and they get pissed because there's no way you heard their 2AM phone argument while they're drunk and blazed as fuck.

If the apartment next to me ended up being an airbnb spot here in Japan, I'd do whatever I could to either get the renter evicted or move out. I have too much experience with people having zero self-awareness when they come to Japan, and I couldn't possibly deal with having new people coming in twice a week and trying to explain that yes, you are indeed noisy as fuck, and yes, people actually don't party 24/7 in this country because some people do work.
I'd like a "billing" tab on their website the most.

Always having to ask for permission is tiring.