skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a really tricky question.

Everyone searches in a different way and for different things. While I might easily find what I'm looking for on ddg, someone else might not.

I think the main reason why most search engines fail against google is because they haven't yet figured out in depth how and what people search for and what they find.

Google just has a better algorithm finding things. Peiple are happier using Google.
> in regulated/safety-critical industries such as automotive, aerospace & defense, medical, etc...

I don't know that I agree. I'm not familiar with with aerospace software, but I see a lot of the user-facing bits of both automotive and medical devices/software. While the bits that are safety-critical may be rock solid (I've yet to see it fail in person), the UI design, maintenance, and UX in general leaves a lot to be desired.

For example, in my car, if the audio system is being driven from the bluetooth connection, you can't load the navigation screen. It will just spin forever. Switch to AM or FM radio, switch back to navigation, everything loads fine. How is that fantastic?

As another example, one of my doctors' office recently switched to using this big heavy cart thing for taking vitals measurements. The device is expensive, so they don't have nearly as many as they might have patients at one time, so I had to wait until one was free. The UI was slow and clunky (at best). To beat it all, the last time I was there all of the machines were shut down at the same time for scheduled updates (which was required to be done at a certain time, while the office was open), so it was back to the thermometer and blood pressure cuffs for me.
Where would you suggest looking for a more up-to-date overview of this sort and depth?
> and the old company is now owned by the new company

That isn't necessary. The old company could legally just cease to exist, with its assets transferred over to another entity.
What and odd thing to say:

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/fact
Don't know why I thought it was 12. Good catch.
...are you assuming a 0% tax rate?
Appreciate it.

It also reveals a weird logic I can't wrap my head around. If you vote, and you think others should vote, you believe that we have significant influence on politics. So if we abandoned our military dominance, what other country is going to fill that power vacuum? Do we trust their country with that power, a country which might or might not have a government that is influenced by its populace? Honestly, who are the other players that would likely make such a move... China, Russia, and the EU? Well, unless you're particularly fond of two of those governments, I don't like your odds.

Isn't it better to just keep the military dominance here, with a government influenced by the people, pretty much half of which are strongly opposed to the mobilization of that power? Absent some unintuitive answer to that question, I don't see the consistency of a person who thinks we should "get out and vote" genuinely wanting to degrade US military dominance.
> Freedom of expression must be allowed. With this freedom comes all sorts of problems, but these types of problems are not unique to the internet. Unpopular speech is a necessary consequence of free speech and it was decided long ago, during the drafting of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, that the advantages of free speech outweigh the disadvantages.

It seems as if there are a growing number of people that no longer believe this statement. It's unfortunate and I never thought I would see free speech be devalued (in the US), but I regularly see calls to restrict speech.

I agree with this paper that anonymity must be protected, but I worry that current and future generations will continue to move away from these principles in the name of inclusion.
IIRC, Jane is a Caltech PhD scientist. I imagine she is making a strong contribution to Julia ecosystem.

The general problem of diversity is ubiquitous in tech, sort of rough to call out a young startup over this issue. Most good companies strongly desire diversity in their teams because of the real benefits diversity provides.
I've never had a mortgage so can't speak for OP, but I would imagine for some people the stresses of debt and recurring repayments outweigh having a bit of extra money from investing elsewhere.
More about being somewhat young, handsome and charismatic. White skin and blue eyes sure helps, but to some extent only.
I particularly liked this line:

> React to the anonymous information unemotionally. Abusive posters will be encouraged further if they get irrationally irate responses. Sometimes the most effective response is silence.

For every case of abuse, there are more cases of good use of a service and we should focus on those and not let the malicious ones become the loudest.
Whats with the / in the help for sorted?

Help on built-in function sorted in module builtins:

sorted(iterable, /, *, key=None, reverse=False)
Not just creatures: fungi, plants, and bacteria all have it. Also

Cave fish that haven't been isolated as long (more then 3 million years) still have it. So it's really really weird that placental mammals (which includes all non egg laying or marsupial mammals, including us) don't have it. It lends additional support to the Nocturnal Bottleneck theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocturnal_bottleneck
> ... writing twatish answers. It has been a problem on stackoverflow.com too, ...

I'm most annoyed by answers "you shouldn't want to do that" from shallow experts. I can bare "you shouldn't want that, that's a horrible idea because ..., but if you must you could do it like that:" from deep experts.

I can bare the tone if the response contains actual information, but not if it's just the tone.
Saving this comment as I might go down the same route a few years from now.
Why do you think it is not elastic?
> > ship-launched cruise missiles for ground attacks.

> Ship launched cruise missiles for close air support? I'm skeptical.

Perhaps you should be skeptical, but that's not at all what adrr said...
Reading your second last sentence made something click for me: potential customers in the market are being exploited in more than one meaning of the word.

From https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/exploit

verb
[with object]
Pronunciation /ɪkˈsplɔɪt//ɛkˈsplɔɪt/

1. Make full use of and derive benefit from (a resource)
‘500 companies sprang up to exploit this new technology’

2. Make use of (a situation) in a way considered unfair or underhand.
‘the company was exploiting a legal loophole’

2.1 Benefit unfairly from the work of (someone), typically by overworking or underpaying them.
‘these workers are at particular risk of being exploited in the workplace’

noun
Pronunciation /ˈɛksplɔɪt/

1. A bold or daring feat.
‘despite a series of colourful exploits, his agents obtained little intelligence of value’

2. A software tool designed to take advantage of a flaw in a computer system, typically for malicious purposes such as installing malware.
‘if someone you don't know tweets you a link, it's either spam, an exploit, or probably both’
The number of weaknesses we have are huge. Anyone you see at the top of any hierarchy has usually mastered taking advantage of some of them.

Here is just one collection - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
Related: Can we have a rule that crowdsourced data is public domain?

E.g.: Amazon reviews, IMDb reviews and data, YouTube videos, etc. Most of this data belongs to our culture.
I recently walked through a park at night, and noticed that the deer were still up and about. Then I noticed that all along the enclosure there were bright white street lamps. It struck me then, how inconsiderate this was for the deer.
2 cycles or so, I think. In my experience, this cost is usually overwhelmed by the inherent (to this class of algorithms) cache misses.
Other sources are saying the problem happened at booster separation. Maybe that was the initial cause and the actual failure developed some seconds later?

Not sure how to reconcile that with this audio.
(I work in higher ed IT) If you're a small school, with most of your income from teaching, COTS solutions can indeed work well.

But if most of your money comes from research, things can get interesting quickly. Research usually means high diversity, with the requirement for speed. This is fun. I wouldn't change my job easily.

Typically, uni's outsource <10% of their IT. Higher ed is not a very big or profitable market segment. Regulatory and compliance requirements can differ wildly, even between neighboring states or provinces, and especially if subsidies are involved. So, even less attractive for standardized software. That's why the COTS offerings are limited. Don't be surprised if you hear about larger uni's spending tens of millions on ERP-type systems. Not everybody can afford that, though.
Live Server in Python
Amazon needs to improve the way it ranks products. I think it is unfortunate that, once a company gets a good grasp on market share, they blatantly disregard the user experience.

Examples: Pinterest/ Quora subscription gate
I swear, every time I think of something, someone beats me to it.
Not surprising considering the lobbying power of German car companies who are investing in this field.
Now that you say it, I was mostly thinking "you can buy unusual foods and quality meat and produce in Northampton".

Which obviously isn't what people normally mean by "food scene", my brain just approximated the topic as "well, it's better than all those rural places without any good grocery stores".
Robotic bees could pollinate plants in case of insect apocalypse
Eh I work off State so walking to/from work or lunch I see a LOT of those orange envelopes on lots of cars, plus having a desk right near a window means seeing lots of busy parking attendants. I just sort of guessed wildly heh
In my experience your comment has very little grounding. I have an extensive science publication record from research supported by NASA. Aerospace and aerospace technology (as opposed to science) is more sensitive to top-level agency strategy changes.
It, like the rest of the economy, is only real because enough people believe it's real for the mass delusion to hold.

We sure can do some cool things when we all delude in the same direction, though.
New rideshare aggregator app – needs your help to bring price transparency
> You end up with a three-way triangle of trade between high-tech components like microchips and turbopumps from Earth, supplies from Mars, and precious metals aerobraking down into Earth's gravity well.

AFAIK it makes even more sense to try and lift manufacturing out to LEO and beyond, rather than sending raw resources downwell. Earth has plenty of natural resources that aren't extracted because there's no need, but which would be still cheaper to tap into than having them sourced from space.

This is why it's fashionable now to talk about "cislunar economy". Instead of sending raw material planetside, you'd "reinvest" extracted metals and volatiles into supporting and expanding space-based capability, ultimately leading to a small and somewhat self-sustaining economy, which could then maybe trade with Earth, offering products that benefit from being manufactured in microgravity (optical fiber is one example of such product today). I imagine such space-based economy would end up being the primary trade partner for Mars, just by virtue of being upwell.

> I don't want to mirror previous stupid decisions on Earth of undervaluing potential colonies, but the Moon has very little it can offer Earth...the geology can't support the production of fuel, water, food, and metals like Mars is capable of.

Not like, but enough to matter, at least in term of fuel and raw resources. Food, well... we have to figure out how to grow it in space anyway, so this doesn't make Moon farm any less likely than an orbital farm. Point being, Moon is a pretty useful destination. It's close and has resources, which puts it in a position of being key element in expanding space-based manufacturing and operations.
Your team can’t function without third party software logging database access? What exactly does your team do?
I didn't say a word about Kissinger.

If you need to pretend someone is arguing something they've never argued so you can disagree with them, you really need to take a step back and ask yourself what the fuck you're really doing.
my favorite cheat is using locals() with string formatting something like this:

def example_cheater(color, flavor, age):

template = 'I am {age} years old and I like to wear {color} hats and eat {flavor} icecream'
return template.format(**locals())

Obviously a contrived example, and it can be argued that using locals() is not very pythonic, but I think it makes the code look much nicer.
I'm sorry, but this is a ridiculous statement. This isn't just about labor contracts. Contracts between businesses need to cover lots of different eventualities and edge cases. They need to acknowledge and adhere to a variety of laws, depending on the jurisdictions involved. Disclosures must be made. Eventualities must be planned for. Nobody (for the most part) wants to go to court to resolve something that could have been headed off in a contract.
They are the centre-right coalition of all centre-right political parties in Europe. It is beyond laughable levels how they corrupt they are. You can predict their stance 100% of the time by assuming it is the business friendly position.
I believe that you will see the value of it when the company actually uses it and not something they are calling scrum.

Tasks can’t be locked once they are not necessary anymore. The timebox idea of freezing work for a week is about “requirements” and not tasks. The goal is to have a somewhat stable target at least for that sprint.

Working with stakeholders directly is one of the reasons agile methos were “created”. If you can’t collaborate with people who care and know about the project you are doing it wrong.

The duration of the meeting or doing it or not is not set in stone. These are initial guidelines and the team should adapt once everybody is familiar with what they should do.

Here is the thing, the basic layout of any agile process is to “teach” people to do what they would naturally do if they cared about their work: collaborate, work together on problem solving and help each other.

Once that part is achieved, the initial process doesn’t need to be followed anymore as long as the values are kept.

From your story it seems like none of that is being done and that why you see no value.
If Duolingo can do it, why can't Google!
Doesn't Feist preclude copyrighting raw data that wasn't created through some creative spark? That's in the US, granted, but I'd hope similar principles would apply in other jurisdictions.
The cynicism is a mechanism for those who cannot do anything to relieve themselves of the guilt for not doing as much as those who can and do do things. Let it be. There is no value in winning over these people. They cannot contribute anyway.

Publicly pledging and giving away money is a good thing. The anonymous quiet giving misses out on the huge contribution of bringing attention to the cause. The cause always escapes the cynicism. You may not, but that’s okay. The end goal is achieved.
I've used state machines on the job. In fact, entire architectures are designed around finite state machines. I've also solved a complex logic problem a senior engineer couldn't solve by implementing K-maps.

And of course my opinion is in the minority because nearly everybody under the sun complains about how useless college is and how things should be taught with more application without realizing that things are taught minus application for a reason (so that you can apply things generally instead of specifically) and that many of the hot technologies are just re-purposed PhD research.

Also, the effort many students give to college is less than average (at least from personal experience going through a private engineering school) and probably for most college students. So their complaints are really just the result of laziness and lack of responsibility more than anything.

A minority opinion does not make it invalid or worth less, unless you have evidence to discredit it.
Yeah, that conversation would be on the lines of:

America: So, did you kill him? Because killing is bad.
SA: No, we didn't.
America: Good enough for me. Since you didn't kill him, any ideas on how to get CNN to ...
SA: Well, we have a party at our embassy in Turkmenistan.
America: Awesome! We'll send out the invites! Or you will. Someone will. Awesome thing, invites. I've sent bunches!

I just don't see that a video chat is going to help.
Microsoft's patent move: Giant leap forward or business as usual?
Agreed. Synchronous chat is good for small teams who are working on the same thing at the same time, and for banter during lunch break.
Progress and Soyuz don't use the same launch vehicle. Progress currently uses Soyuz-2 booster (Soyuz-2.1a specifically) while Soyuz uses Soyuz-FG.

Soyuz 2 is a new generation booster that has a pretty bad track record due to the quality control issues. Soyuz-FG is old generation booster that had a perfect track record until now.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_(rocket_family)#Variants
IMO the title is a little misleading - I read 'EU drops rule' as that the EU had removed a rule / cancelled it.

Should probably be something like "EU states that telemetry data collected from self-driving cars may be subject to copyright protection".

Then the bigger discussion should probably be - 'What is telemetry data?'.

If telemetry data is _any_ data collected from a car that could be remotely accessed, then in theory I'd argue that digital oil sensor readings, digital odometer readings and digital tyre pressure readings are all telemetry data if they are stored in a place that can be remotely read.

If that's the case - it could lead to the situation where car manufacturers demand (by law) that you are only allowed to service your car with them and not be a mechanic of your choice.

That may start as a small inconvenience that luxury car owners may be able to afford but as those features come to lower end models it may hurt average or less well off consumers.

Further more, what happened to 'facts' not being copyrightable (generally speaking).
A Failed Launch May Ground the World’s Astronauts for the Foreseeable Future
`Libraries` and `My Documents` an absolute mess, agreed. I've given up and just work from a personal folder that serves the exact same role but doesn't have any special Windows status, which is a pretty serious indictment of those "helpful" features.

A sincere question: why are you an Insider? After the Windows 8.1 issues I'd be really gunshy about getting early anything for Windows. Are there upsides to that, or is it pretty much just a public service in the same sense as running nightly Firefox builds?
This is really the opposite of what happened.

The wealthy did not sell assets at above market prices, they in fact sold them at bellow market prices. Remember when they were trying to sell assets, they were exchanging these for cash. The problem was that the cash that they were getting in exchange had above market returns.

What was happening during the financial crisis is that even the safest private assets were risky illiquid and had low expected returns.

Some estimates say that marginal "safe" private assets had a expected real returns of around -4% after adjusting for risks and liquidity.

But since central banks were not aggressive enough, not creating enough inflation and unwilling to use negative interest rates, the returns on cash was like -1.8%, way above what you could get with safe and liquid private stores of value.

Investors wanted to get their hands on this government paper having above market returns so they attempted to sell private assets and stockpile cash. This is clearly visible in the shooting up of excess reserves in banks. Investors were hoarding cash. The low inflation and relatively high 0% interest rates (compared to market rates) was a huge subsidy to those who wanted to get out of the private markets, stop investing in the real economy and hold government paper to protect their savings.

Destruction of the economy, throwing workers to the curb was basically subsidized. Investors were being shielded from the markets by the government. They kept their government paper promises to be redeemed in the future when private markets looked more favorable. Central banks allowing cash to have returns above market put the private investment markets in a gridlock and economic activity slowed down significantly.

Cash is effectively an IOU from non cash holders to cash holders. This means that the above market returns investors got by hoard cash was a implicit subsidy from poor unemployed to rich savers. The unemployed and underemployed effectively subsidized the destruction of their own jobs.

When jobs returned and workers could buy stuff again, the savers' cash, now worth above what they could have gotten in the private markets, also flowed back into the asset economy and bid assets prices up and made them more expensive to those who were just starting to have money again, at just the time when they were buying again. People who had been the poorest during the crisis were effectively paying the bill for the subsidy that destroyed their past careers.

It is crucial that central banks run a counter cyclical monetary policy and that inflation is kept higher than usual during a crisis to avoid all this from happening. It is crucial that cash doesn't become a subsidy to divestment and crowd out private investment like it did. When the private markets return -4% (risk and liquidity adjusted), government paper should return less than -4%.
That sounds like a loophole that courts outside the US will soon start to not accept. Though, the recent House of Fraser 'sale' was more of a transfer of worthwhile assets only, excluding employees, which is the same loophole you describe.
>can be done in 2 minutes

Citation needed. Extra credit for WikiHow step by step with badly drawn art.
... however, it's a great feature if the use case is "protocol for client-server network communication," which was the design goal for protobuffers. It follows the "permissive in what you accept, strict in what you emit" design philosophy.
How is the $2.81B into scooter companies in 2018 distributed?
> 4. A CASUALTY: “CHECK OUT THIS ARTICLE I SAW”

Wait what? If only there was some application out there that could queue up article sharing to an appropriate time.
Somehow I missed that Microsoft removed the ability to create new ReFS volumes in regular Windows 10 Pro. Quite frustrating, thanks for the heads up.
There is some prototyping, but not nearly enough IMO, and it doesn't hit the news that much.

I agree about desert trials (or better yet, somewhere dry and cold near the pole). I'm not sure why this isn't done - whether it's just a money issue, or there's less benefit to be had from such test than we think?
A mortgage (or the lack thereof) has a guaranteed rate of return. Any investment that would beat most mortgage rates doesn't.
> Streetwear has become so ironic because the lines have blurred between haute culture/high fashion and bargain basement designs

I was under the impression that haute couture still is its own weird world, far distanced from anything reasonable. Just look at some of the shows:

Relatively wearable Armani: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpgaJD5hISc

Random Givenchy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQGbOOKpTd0

Bona fide art pieces from Guo Pei: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1ew-tsk8KA

(and those were just some random sampling from youtube search for haute couture)

Nobody is going to mix those up with some random cheap street vendor clothes.
> But say what if your employer commits a crime and you contract says you are not allowed to talk about it?

If I remember right, that case is explicitly covered under whistleblower laws.
Yes, exactly. Bitcoin and Mars don't belong in the same sentence.