skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to me that suicide in tech is talked about a lot (more than in any other profession, except for maybe armed forces), but I have never seen data that it is any more common than in other professions. Can anyone point to some actual data on that?
I don't have suggestions for tools. I will suggest that your question would likely get better responses if you gave more details concerning what you hope to study and what types of tasks you need tools for.

What social media platforms do you wish to examine?

What kinds of things are you hoping to study?

Etc.
Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon chip still can’t beat last year’s iPhone
How is having microservices vs monolith increasing your development time? We have a lot of microservices, and I feel like having each piece of functionality silo'd with proper service boundaries only speeds up development.
Yes - there's the ability to generate the raw html of a plot or a JS script and div that can be embedded in an HTML doc.

Source: http://bokeh.pydata.org/en/latest/docs/user_guide/embed.html
Hey it looks like your debian/main page install path does not sign packages or use any trusted channel.
Twitch has run over HTML5 for the better part of a year (maybe longer).
> For example, what if she was given 216 phones to fix per week, and she fixes 46 per day?

I'm sorry; I'm confused. In that case, the equation would say that there are P = 216 - 46d phones to fix after d days. This isn't the same equation as the given P = 108 - 23d, although its right-hand side is proportional to the right-hand side of the original.

(That is, I'd agree with you if we were given just the ratio (phones to fix per week)/(phones fixed per day), but we're given more than that. Perhaps it's important to notice that we are given an equation (left-hand side = right-hand side), not just a formula (right-hand side by itself).)
I think no generation has really seen their criticism of the new generation as "kids these days" prejudice. If they did think that, they wouldn't say the words with such conviction. But, that is kinda what it looks like, right?
The rate difference only benefits hedge funds if USDJPY also plays along. That trade has fx risk and you're making it sound like a sure thing. If USDJPY goes the wrong way, the trade loses money and the average joe whose savings account is roughly flat looks pretty smart (in relative terms).
That's super cool.
Yes. You can't deploy the same ad on FB and Twitter and Pinterest the way you can do a TV spot and deploy it on any channel large or small.
HEK sounds like: https://github.com/mozilla/MozDef since Mozilla makes Heka

Have you tried that? I wonder how Mozilla likes it
I'm 25 and most people I know my age use this app heavily. Maybe not 20 in such a short span but I would still expect heavy use pre takeoff. I don't think this is entirely an age thing especially when we're talking about 20 and 30 years olds.
The whole concept of "being good at prediction" is extraordinarily difficult to back up. If you were even a few percentage points better at prediction (especially economic predictions) than the average person, your life is pretty much made. You would literally be better than the average person at seeing into the future. There is a 1% of people (Warren Buffett and James Harris Simons for example) who are significantly better than the average person at predictions, but chances are some random Australian on a tech forum is not part of that 1%.
What Was the Author Photo?
Planning for Disaster
I don't "get" Snapchat any more than I get Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. etc. These social apps (which are about as social as reality TV is reality) all are more about promotion than communication. In order to get into these apps you need to have a personality that seeks constant attention from others and external validation. The platforms are all about "broadcasting me and tracking the acknowledgement of me", which is great if you're advertising a corporate brand but kind of sad and self-absorbed if you're a person.
But cost is the problem, isn't it?
It says there's a 50 hours limit per month but I don't see a place where the time is recorded?
This probably isn't the best place for this response and I sincerely apologize in advanced for my crude response but... BuzzFeed and this type of social media can fucking kill itself, I believe there is no place for this on HN.
Looks good, definitely going to try it out.
I feel like besides what he said, which was not well thought out of at all. India has bigger problems. I've visited it a few times and always come across how a few major cities (Bangalore/Mumbai) are the go to cities, while the government doesn't care about the outstanding issues such as the poverty rate/electricity fiasco and how that's affecting things like agriculture. I remember watching a documentary about how farmers were complaining their crops were being reaped by government ministers but nothing could be done due to the overly bureaucratic judicial system which it's self is a mess
We've been down the rabbit hole for a while now, and we've decided it's not so bad down here. Now we are browsing for curtains and a good rug to make the place feel more like home.
Show HN: Stupid MLP Sparsification
Machine Learning the 2015-16 NBA All Stars (The Story of a Rookie Dev)
http://github.com/fatalfame/nba_machine_learning

I wrote a python script to machine learn data from historical nba stats and attempt to predict this year's all star roster. Links to my results can be found in the readme file on git. I welcome any feedback or contributions. Or if you just want to take a look, enjoy!
It doesn't have to be gold of course, but in absence of "royal fiat" as you put it... gold has uniquely superior natural properties to most other candidates (rare, fungible, can be divided into extremely small quantities without destroying it, does not tarnish, limited industrial use).

Silver has most of these qualities however it is second only to crude oil in its industrial usefulness (best conductor of heat, best conductor of electricity, shiniest metal when polished, antimicrobial/antibacterial, whatever you call its property that makes it suitable for photography, etc).

Of course you are correct about the use of spanish dollars... this was the origin of the US dollar, which was originally specified as certain quantity of silver in the Coinage Act of 1792. In colonial times it was not uncommon to cut a Spanish dollar into eighths (like a pizza pie) to make change... this is why even today we call $.25 "two bits" and why until a few years ago stock prices were quoted to 1/8 precision. Ironically most markets are electronic now and there are (coincidentally?) 8 "bits" to a byte to so maybe we never should have changed that at all ;)
Obvious misdirection of human attention? Snapchat is a fantastic app.
This is some of the worst investing advice I've ever heard. High valuation glamour investing in the way you describe has been widely discredited by academics as leading to poor returns. You can in fact slice the market into valuation deciles, and your returns on 5-10 yr rolling averages will increase as you step down to cheaper deciles.

Further, high valuation stocks are subject to much greater crashes while annual best deciles upside is spread across valuation deciles. Meaning High value stocks tend to be a poor bet.
Nice presentation! Thanks for the link!

The particular nit you pick here is a fair one, if you take my comment literally, rather than as the (over?)simplification of a complex concept I was trying to summarize.

Yes, in absolute terms, an atomic clock will have excellent stability over the long term in its own frame of reference. As long as you don't need your atomic clock to match any other clock in the universe, the long-term stability is excellent.

The particular topic being discussed here, though, is equipment that is designed to synchronize events across a large area. Even atomic clocks that are literally 100% accurate will diverge if installed in different locations. So if you want your atomic clock to actually be able to tell you what time it is (in a way that matches up closely with anyone else), you have to constantly be adjusting it to match a common standard (e.g. UTC)

These adjustments are a form of instability, since to correct for changes, you have to make your seconds either faster or slower than they actually are locally, on a constantly-changing basis, or you have to step your time and have less (or more) than (Y - X) time actually elapse between timestamps X and Y.

As soon as you move beyond a single frame of reference, you can't have both short and long term stability.

I suppose I could have used a different word than 'stability', but that seemed to get across the underlying effect best. I suppose another way of saying it (that is more correct) is that atomic clocks are great for telling you how much time has passed (in your local reference frame), but not so great for telling you what time it is. GPS is great for telling you what time it is, but not so great for telling you how much time has passed (in your local reference frame).

(The best clocks for timekeeping, of course, are atomic clocks disciplined by a common reference like GPS, which gives you the option of deciding your own long term vs. short term tradeoff however you'd like. But the original question was "why do we need GPS at all, and not just atomic clocks?".)
Show HN: SpendRight – Learn the issues behind products you buy online
RAML and the others have a lot of value simply as the source of truth for your API definitions. You need to hold that somewhere - and probably share it with others - and a DSL specifically designed for documenting APIs is a good place. Where else would you hold it after all?

However, as developers we love to reach for the stars, so surely that's not enough? Surely we should be able to generate complete, working systems from the RAML (or whatever)! I would say that's a pipe-dream, just as it always has been, and just as it always will be. You might be able to generate a few stubs from RAML (or a UML diagram), but annoyingly, those are also the easiest things for a developer to just crank out anyway, and you'll be up to your ears in compiler soon enough.
Comedy Hack Day
It seems that when you put money into the hands of the public broadly, they consume goods and services. When you put money into the hands of the top few %, they have much less need for additional goods and services, so instead they invest it, which drives yields down and (consequently) asset prices up. The real question, then, seems to be how do we get money into the hands of tens of millions of grasshoppers and not just a few ants.
I don't know why you were down voted. I gave you a +1 to balance things out.

I also am preparing for a continuing slow burn (i.e., slow and steady downward trajectory in our economy and the world's economy). I would bet that there is less than a 10% chance the there will be a huge crash this particular year.

The thing is, and the reason I basically agree with you, is that preparing for a long slow downward economic trajectory is the same as preparing for a possible crash: maintain your health (physical, mental, spiritual); without going crazy, try to reduce your debt as much as is possible while still caring for our families; when possible spend some non-working time on education to learn new skills.

I think it is important to keep a cool head though - I believe that your last sentence was an overstatement.
For about the last 10-ish days there was an aufs bug in the latest supported kernels that caused zombie processes to pile up and chew up CPU.

I don't know how much I can say publicly, but the tl;dr is that it really sucked for my ops and support colleagues.
Being a teen seems like a lot more work than it used to be :(
thx @travisoliphant the requirements are not clear in the docs. This explanation makes more sense.
i would say bokeh is more similar to d3 than highcharts (although my under-standing of highcharts may be off)

1) you can create any viz you want to - you have access to very low-level elements and can build up anything from them
2) it's liberally open source licensed

why i initially got sucked into bokeh over d3 is that:
a) I prefer python
b) I find it more intuitive (d3 always messes with my head)
encryption at rest would be quite amazing.
What library is the user using? It doesn't look like anything I've seen so far and he doesn't say anything about the environment he's using to create his game, so it's not easy to follow.
Hey nextos, I am interested in beginning a project in a related area and would really love to ask you some questions that few but a metagenomics researcher could answer.

Could you send me an email at okolobeta@gmail.com if you're willing? (Or provide your contact info?)

Thanks so much!
A couple of people hating on this. Despite the obvious fact that you can in fact get lost on a trail, the progress of autonomous rescue drones doesn't just end at following trails.

Once they're able to detect trails and follow them looking for people, the next step would be detecting signs of where they might have wandered off trail, or (especially in snowy conditions) detecting and following where they have started their own trail.
I might be missing something big, but isn't chemical equation balancing just a system of linear Diophantine equations[1]? If it is, you should be able to solve it in O(n^3) time by converting to Smith normal form[2]. Unlike Hermite form, which the paper mentions, you don't need rational arithmetic or floating points.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diophantine_equation#System_of...
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_normal_form
Q4 was the first quarter ever with negative growth: http://twitter.com/JasonAbbruzzese/status/697532872824070144...
Well, yes, because then your ROI would be huge for the money you're putting in.
Highlighting the best and brightest can backfire
I forgot the really important difference between bokeh and highcharts - you can throw 100k points at it and have it be fully interactive without your browser blowing up!
I don't think Donald Trump ever advocated murder, unlike the rest of them. Advocating keeping a bunch of murderers out is not the same as advocating murder. You can argue about him tarring too many people with the same brush, but when entire nations (like Saudi Arabia) follow this murderous religion, and act this way, I don't see how it's really invalid to not group them together. It's not like murderous Muslims are some tiny little extremist cult; they're the norm in that whole region. And it's not just Saudi Arabia's government: when Egypt overthrew Mubarak and had elections, they elected an Islamist group.
T-mobile, to be sure, I didn't look at. But with that plan, "if you are in the top 3% of users" (which 60GB/month is likely to be, especially as that's just one of those four users), your data use will be slowed to 2G speeds.

"typical download speeds of 40Kbps-200Kbps and upload speeds of 20-80 Kbps"

Snapchat is going to get pretty painful pretty quickly.
Neat, me too.
It would work in the same way as opening any encrypted mailbox works. Your password is used as the key to decrypt your mailbox when you login. The same key could also be used to search the email.

Right now they're already telling you that they scan every email. So yeah, you would have to trust them that they do in-fact discard they keys and don't allow decryption in other scenarios. But large companies with tons of cash to lose if they're sued, will rarely blatantly lie about what they're doing.
Don't expect the very first Tesla Model 3s to cost $35,000
I'm looking forward to this algorithmic feed, as much as I like the simplicity of the firehose of tweets. The reason I avoid twitter right now is because I end up following a few people that I only care a little bit about, yet they dominate my feed disproportionately. It'll be a lot harder for Twitter to figure out relevance for their users though, compared to Facebook, considering the lack of user actions they have in comparison. (It's a much more passive platform)
I've worked with API Blueprint as it seems to have the widest support across API tooling providers, along with a sane syntax. It's really nice to be able to spec out a blueprint and then simulate an API [1]. Also being able to run tests on the real API, but based on the API docs which describe expected behavior, has exposed many bugs [2].

I just recently watched the "Microservices Summit" from microservices.com/Datawire [3], and the most-repeated lesson from Netflix, Amazon, and Yelp was to design API-first, not data-first. As engineers we tend to design an API around our data -- but developers have to interact primarily with the API, and then with the data. With API spec tools we can quickly fake an API and try to interact with it, then find out what sucks and rewrite it, all before sinking time into the actual implementation. SendGrid does this, and their API has been a breeze to work with [4].

The last step is to use a client SDK generator like Apimatic [5] -- but that only works if the API actually conforms to the docs. It's probably difficult to get an entrenched codebase to switch to spec, but for any new API I wouldn't do it any other way.

[1]: https://github.com/localmed/api-mock or https://apiary.io

[2]: https://github.com/apiaryio/dredd

[3]: https://www.datawire.io/microservices-practitioner-summit-wr...

[4]: https://sendgrid.com/blog/quickly-prototype-apis-apiary/

[5]: https://apimatic.io
If a disagreeable change is made, you can always just fork to a new chain. Are banks scared that the mining syndicates will hunt down and attack their forked chains?

What good would that do anybody?
> However, the while you were away feature shows me things like opinions about voting, or holidays, or what co-workers are doing and saying, etc - Yah - it's in my feed, but I literally don't care. I spend 8 hours a day with my co-workers and hear all their tweets first hand.

Mute them on Twitter if the unfollowing isn't socially acceptable?
I want to help you figure this out. Email in profile.
I thought the license was incompatible? Also, what does this mean for BTRFS?
>when and how it showed up (or not) is a separate issue.

I don't think new data will help. We know the changes in the human lineage; even if we knew their functional meaning, we cannot conclude whether they are adaptive or not; fixed alleles reveal little about their fixation time, etc.
Linux-ready dev board beats BeagleBoard-X15 to the AM5728
I've heard that the more that you talk about it, the more it is likely to happen...
In principle, it seems you could handle the heterogenous case by designing an `Any` struct and (at least in C++) implicit constructors to take various types (int, T*, ...). At some point this starts to feel like designing a custom ABI and the complexity may not be worth it, but it seems there should be a way :-)
I'm very skeptical. No doubt Snapchat is game-ified somewhat, but I have people aged 12 to 53 (and all ages in between) snapping with me and not a single one of them has ever mentioned their snap score. I'd bet most don't even know their score.

Trophies aren't really all that unlockable. Within the app, any trophy you haven't unlocked is a lock icon with ??? underneath it, so you don't even know what you need to do to achieve it. You can go online to find out, but neither my 12-year-old daughter nor my 17-year-old sister have bothered to do it. They just don't care. That's not what it's about for them.
Zombie code: When maintainability goes out the window
Why do you claim that mainstream psychiatry is ineffective? How do we know that people simply aren't taking advantage of mainstream psychiatry (to the degree necessary)?
See also http://uavchallenge.org/, plus Andrew Tridgell's talk from LCA 2014, 2015 and 2016 :D
I want someone to hack our coffee machine to brew a cup before alerting...

"Something went wrong, take this..." :D
The drug war is only one of many reasons that I am apolitical. I don't accept that I have a legitimate choice -- to me, voting would be tacit acceptance of the legitimacy of our political process.
> Money represents an obligation for society to provide you with something of value.

It means that the important part is the obligation and the real value, not the units which get used to track this obligation. Under market-based social norms, if you give someone an awesome massage, then they now "owe you" for it. Perhaps this is in terms of making a website, or cooking lunch, or whatever. The most general form of this is a promise of a favor-not-yet-specified - but that concept needs some unit to measure whether or not you're "even" after making that promise.

The benefit of this is that lots of people like to receive a favor-not-yet-specified, because it can be turned into whatever sort of thing they need most in the future.

In short, that is what money represents - a promise that someone made to provide something of value to whoever winds up with that money.

Now, not any old promise will work well, since the other party wants some kind of guarantee that it can be redeemed later for something of value. This is where the banking system come into play: it creates money by convincing debtors to sign believable contracts to pay the bank back. In the past, it used gold and silver. Notes were convertible to hard currency at banks, and there was a general expectation that you could trade those for the things you wanted at a later point of time. But again, it was that expectation that was important, not the note, and not the commodity backing it.
Agile Maturity Model
Bad day I guess...
Some products are chosen, by consumers, because of one thing...simplicity...an easily intuitive UI, use-ability..the product fills a need, just as it is, when introduced to the market...

Scaling up is difficult for such products...

It doesn't matter to consumers that a business needs to monetize...they don't care; they weren't even aware that it needed to...they are satisfied with the product they know, as is...

This is something we in the industry get wrong, so often...
As someone who has attempted suicide and been hospitalized twice for being suicidal, I will suggest that how you talk about it is a huge factor in whether it makes it more likely or less likely.
So fantastic that the amount of time and energy this girl and her peers dedicate to its use is well directed? And here I'd thought it only enables one to send photographs to one's friends, with a scoring system to encourage the development of addictive behavior.
> Why specifically would they want the growth of their investments to follow the rule that the derivative of the revenue is proportional to the revenue?

Well, I think more precisely they want the growth to be at least exponential; they'd be happy with super-exponential growth (increasing, rather than constant, k over subsequent intervals.)

They also want a minimum value of k.
"Oh, yeah, that's just like seeing someone in person and not recording anything about that conversation, and they had that on people a million years ago."

/s
It's true that some really lost people in wilderness find themselves off-trail, maybe fallen into steep terrain or on the wrong side of a ridge after coming down hill.

If people are intentionally in trail-free 'true' wilderness, such as snowy high country, they are also much more likely to carry PLBs, leave flags for wayfinding, know how to use a map and compass, etc.

However, a huge amount of search-and-rescue expense is spent looking for less-prepared people who turned the wrong way at a fork, or who broke their leg 10 miles from the trailhead, etc. This technology still seems useful to me.
Ehh...

1 - Yes

2 - Good luck with that

3 - Take a look on DNA computing (wikipedia et all)
India, under the Raj was being plundered. PLUNDERED. Here, watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7CW7S0zxv4
Very cool. Flags I commonly see/implement (curl to Python or Ruby usually) include -o (download) and -k (ignore ssl warnings -- you might want an warning comment if you implement that one).
The real wage–productivity nexus (2014)