skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heh. I've seen this at family gatherings, my grandmother would be happily mingling with everyone and entertaining young kids while my grandpa would be grumpy in a corner.
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Except we're not machines. "You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else," as Tyler Durden would say.

Some might say the next logical step isn't to wish to live forever, but to die, and hope your genes and ideas live on. We're not the eternal ones in this universe, no matter how big our capacity to wish for that.
This submission is surprisingly not satire, and misses the points of the arguments around whiteboard coding. (the added interview stress and the limited real-world applications of the code in day-to-day work)

It is not an accurate measure of candidate technical skill, hence the rise of take-home tests. (the submission reminds me of the blog post "I Won't Hire You If You Can't Pass These Programming Questions Because Otherwise You Suck" that was written awhile ago but I can no longer find. That post backfired hilariously because author provided the wrong solution for one of the questions.)
Just read the comment from one of the creators: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11528776
I pulled some WHO data for a collection of North American and European countries over the last thirty years[1], and while it's factually accurate that US suicide rates are at a 30-year high the rate remains middle-of-the-pack for developed Western nations. The "surge" is a small absolute increase from the 30-year baseline.

That does not make it any less tragic or less deserving of attention, but we should pick appropriately-scaled policy solutions instead of those we might use for a crisis. (The NPR piece today about suicide rates in Greenland strikes me as an extreme crisis.[2])

It's also worth noting, for all the people pointing out economic causes for increased suicide, that economically-battered Greece has by far the lowest suicide rate in this group.

[1] http://imgur.com/OKnsBF4

[2] http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/04/21/47484792...
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"I believe many mental illnesses ... can be characterized as contagious."

I can believe that.

Social cognition, attachment theory, mirror neurons, etc.

Swarm Intelligence has (for its time?) a great primer on social cognition, how our brains resonate with each other, how children use their parent's brains and emotions to regulate their own, etc. http://www.swarmintelligence.org/SIBook/SI.php

I lived with a paranoid schizophrenia. It started making me crazy too. Took months to shake that off.

And I can definitely confirm that anxiety is contagious, from personal experiences.
You have to create the algorithm to reverse an arbitrary AES-256 key, which is considered to be impossible, so that doesn't really make a difference. Your comment about current computers fails to grasp the scale that we are talking about here:

> It would take 10^38 Tianhe-2 Supercomputers running for the entirety of the existence of everything to exhaust half of the keyspace of a AES-256 key.

Let's assume that Moore's law is true for forever. In 300 years we will have a super computer capable of cracking a single AES-256 key in 37 millennium. However claiming that Moore's law will stay the same for 300 years when many think it won't last 30 is foolhardy.
I'm a fan of white-on-black too, but whatever setting/addon you are using to acheive that effect seems to be very broken. It's unfair to blame BMFW for a problem created by, and unique to, your specific configuration.
This seems to be true across a few different high-income countries too. (When you look at low income countries there's still a difference, but it's much less[1])

So far things it might be are:

1) similar levels of attempts between men and women, but with men chosing more lethal, less survivable methods

2) women talk about their emotions more and thus people spot their signs of distress earlier

3) stigma means men don't seek help

4) men just don't seek help, but not because of stigma

There's big pushes on men to get them to talk more, which is good but misses the point. There has to be some service there for them to use, and I'm not sure those services exist or are good enough. And many men are in the care of specialist mental health services when they die by suicide, so they've already asked for help.

Older people have very high rates of suicide. But it tends to be masked a bit because older people are at increased risk of death from a bunch of other causes too.

[1] http://www.who.int/gho/mental_health/suicide_rates_text/en/
I think you may also be misconstruing the point. Saying that fingerprints aren't passwords is _not_ the same as saying a fingerprint shouldn't be required to unlock a phone.
(as with most web logins, its userid + password. But shouldn't be one or the other)

The key point though is that security tokens must be changeable/revocable and and bio-metric data is not-so-much.
Daesh according to the docs found written by Haji Bakr, the ex Iraqi military officer who was the chief architect of that group, have their own sect http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/islamic-state-file...

It's a mix of Sururiyya, which is influenced by Wahhabism and Ba'athism where a state is ruled by a vanguard party. They removed the disloyal parts of Sururiyya which called for questioning inept leaders and replaced it with the unwavering loyalty obligations of a typical Ba'athist dictatorship.

The fact that Saddam era henchmen who clashed with KSA over the pillaging of Kuwait are running Daesh, plus the propaganda coming out from them calling for the removal of the house of Saud as custodian of the two holy mosques, and considering Saudi military defectors and political dissenters make up the majority of Daesh recruits it seems suicidal they would support them in anyway. Maybe there are political opposition in KSA doing so but even that would risk their own status since Daesh proved they don't care about agreements when they invaded Mosul and promptly executed the local elite who helped them get in.
> I did a very nice researched blog post on how to solve homelessness in SF and then decided not to publish it. The problem is that I'm very analytical and logical about solutions to social problems and most people, including the internet mobs, are not.

Upvoted for being the most HN intro ever. Could only be more at home on Reddit.
I'm not going to remember the exact age, but the actuaries had a look at this question. Even if all medical conditions were treatable and no one ever died from disease, the average age of death due to accident would be somewhere around 400 years.
This viewpoint is 100% not supported with evidence from any jurisdiction on the planet. The only way to lower rents/costs for the poor without disastrous social consequences is to increase supply of market rate units. There is not other solution which works.
It would be very likely that Apple was following by "the rules".
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11548216 and marked it off-topic.
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The term 'achievement' will just be different. Right now artists feel personal self worth when they receive large amounts of acclaim for their work. This is true in any creative work. Us, working professionals, being freed from work, will seek to achieve other things--like building the next awesome x y or z--I think that will still give us the feeling of achievement we long for.
How exactly will you differentiate with Clearpath? When I think of a standard platform for outdoor robotics, I think of them. Or adept has a line of Pioneer outdoor robots. What is your competitive advantage over these already established companies?
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So your initial claim was a gross exaggeration. You initially said there was no "constructible" countertop at all, thus making it impossible to build. Now you are saying it's not only constructible, it's possible to comply by modifying off-the-shelf components.

I hope your critique of the bans on plastic bags and happy meal toys is stronger than this.
I don't understand the logic in this. How does "we don't want a removable battery" imply "we don't want an infinitely-lived battery"?
Couldn't disagree more with the author. How many developers need to implement their own binary-tree? This is why code-bases become convoluted with six different implementations of standard data structures.
> "I messed up my browser's settings" ...

Wrong. I changed my browser's settings to perfectly reasonable values. White text on a black background. Now I'm reasonably upset because my browser looks messed up.
CouchDB has really good, built-in versioning of documents so that may be one reason.
"Yeah, Marissa Meyer was hired to save a dinosaur from the tarpit, and has done a mediocre job at it. She isn't even that bad - she's no Carly Fiorina - and I've never seen her ethics challenged."

That's how I look at it. I'm still a fan of Meyer due to the great work she did at Google. That's where she showed her talents. Yahoo was a terrible situation... aimed at the ground calling for "Ludicrous Speed!"... and she failed on an attempt to turn it into a winner. Maybe wasn't greedy enough for shareholders or something. They'll make less money than they wanted to. (shrugs)

Honestly, of the various failures, that's the kind that bothers me the least. People tried to do something good for all parties but screwed up. Least they tried and didn't just suck wealth out of the company while setting it up to fail. Like recent IBM CEO did and similarly left mess in hands of a woman who will take fall if she can't 180 it. Actually, I haven't even looked at that story in a while so I don't know if she's even still there haha.

Anyway, I'll judge Meyer on her next play as Yahoo is an outlier.
If you want to try it out, I'll leave this session open while I prep for a talk next week.

Hello only supports 1:1 chats, not group ones, so this may not work immediately for you.

(Edit: Link removed. It was nice meeting those of you who dropped by!)
you know what they say about opinions...
Two things in favor of EVs for the autobahn:

1) They generally have lower drag numbers than gas cars.

2) Diastances in Germany are less than in the US, so you're probably not going to bomb along for as long of a time.
I don't know of any other place that has this "outlets within X inches of counter edge" requirement, or really any accessibility requirement imposed in a blanket fashion on residential construction. Since that means most accessibility builds and mods are custom by nature, there is no market for standard components for most things. Tubs and showers are the main thing I can think of off the top of my head.
You just have to sell it properly -- the boat has a silly name because voters were thumbing their noses at the science authority.
If they were marked as being paid representatives, this wouldn't be a story. Plenty of people working for all of the campaigns participate in social media.
Sigh. If you hire using know it or not questions about binary trees, then you finally get to hire people who can study up and answer that specific question in a manner Pavlov would approve of.

That does not mean the candidate will be able to design clean APIs, know how best work with different types of data, or even how to troubleshoot existing code.

Still, pat yourself on the back, I mean, your entire team can answer a specific trick interview question, and that's all that matters, right? Right?

Sigh.
Right, but over age 75 one would expect both men and women to be facing the same pressures of potentially (a) stopping work and (b) losing a spouse due to death. It appears that both of those can disproportionately affect males in our culture as men are pressured to work hard and provide for their family [0] and when a spouse dies, men do not have the same "social and familial connections" as women for support [1].

[0] http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00406-003-0397-6#p...

[1] http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/352844
The title wreaks of an elitist programmer/manager. I don't want to work with you.
It used to work; unfortunately, Apple removed ipfw from recent versions of OS X.

The new method uses dummynet and pf but isn't reliable and I've never got it to work consistently, despite trying for hours and hours.

The only method that works reliably on recent versions of OS X is the free Network Link Conditioner. It is absolutely bulletproof.

Edited to add: Network Link Conditioner seems to use pf and dummynet under the hood; you can see the rules appear. But there's an interaction with the nlcd daemon that I don't understand yet. I want to do protocol-specific bandwidth throttling and I've not got that to work with nlcd interfering. But if you can live with throttling all traffic on the box, NLC works a treat.
There isn't an exit when accessing an onion address - the identity of the client-chosen part of the circuit would be unknown to the hidden service operator.
This is wrong. Both the students at Cornell and Ithaca university got wealthier, and more people moved to the area/stayed as a result of the schools expanding over the last 20 years. There was a natural increase in demand, which resulted in new construction, and which ALSO resulted in higher rents. If housing in Ithaca had kept up with demand prices would not have exceeded inflation and quality of the unit.
What restrictions do you perceive to exist?

On reddit, all they have to do is create an account. They can attest that the account is official wherever they want.

The issue that arises with this article is that the people using reddit perceive paid comments as an abuse of the channel, especially when the for pay nature of the comments is obscured.
It might very well be because of other factors, as said in the article:

> "She calculated that in 2005, unmarried middle-aged men were 3.5 times more likely than married men to die from suicide, and their female counterparts were as much as 2.8 times more likely to kill themselves. The divorce rate has doubled for middle-aged and older adults since the 1990s, she said."

There has been huge changes in our societies concerning the role of men and women, their relations, when/if they have children, the type of jobs available (which many are soul-wrecking pointless work), the food we eat, the move towards atheism, the increase in material wealth, the Internet...

There is a myriad of possible factors and we need some serious studies before we can reach a conclusion. You can't just say "it's because capitalism" and be done with it.
It makes one suspicious, to the say the least, to see someone from a politically well-connected family like Shriver interview someone similarly well-connected like Holmes. The odds are high that they know each other and have reasons to scratch each others' backs.
And Apple has one of the best chances to make real change here because they can afford to spend a hell of a lot of money without their short-term business being hurt.

They could, for instance, speculatively set up entire facilities in new areas, hire staff, and experiment with parallel development of the same products to measure how well the new bring-up is going.
Suicide is rising because basic needs aren't being met.
Planned obsolescence can be seen as a revenue stream to some.
I'm not willing to completely gut the First Amendment and abolish free speech.
Plastic bag litter is not a "market failure" any more than litter of soda cans or dirty diapers is.
> Poorer countries don't have as high a suicide rate

You have to be careful when comparing suicide rates across countries. They often don't count the same thing.
Germany is also slightly smaller than Montana and nearly 10x as dense as the US, greatly reducing the relevant distances people regularly need to drive.
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I don't feel comfortable attacking such a poor country on the prince of their networking gear.
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You might look into PriceBlink. It's a pretty slick extension that automatically finds better deals for the items you're browsing.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/priceblink/aoiidod...
Yeah I clicked through the link looking for further explanation and only found suffering.
Calm down. Probably some engineer made a mistake that caused a bunch of items to be incorrectly labeled as prime-only. A bunch of vidya nerds couldn't buy they favorite shooter anymore, made a post about it, and Amazon rolled back.

As others have pointed out in this thread, this makes no sense as a deliberate move.
Because there's no rationale for excluding either other than to limit the product's lifespan.
I have been diagnosed with a genetic incurable disease 8-10 years ago. Plenty of time to think about these issues. I am ready to die.

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life
The setting isn't broken. It's not an add-on. It's BMFW's fault, and it's fair to blame it for this. BMFW sets a foreground color, and does not set a background color.

Here are the settings in stock Firefox. http://imgur.com/h4SmKYs
You're still not describing a "market failure".
Even if a developer did need to implement a binary tree, she wouldn't be doing it in a high-pressure, interview setting, nor would she be doing it using a marker on a white board.

Furthermore, the business value of a programmer is rarely how she writes code in isolation. It's how she writes code on a team. I'd take a B-level programmer who is excellent at writing clean, readable, simple code over someone who is a savant at white-board problems.
Bad article IMO and no idea how it's front page. Yes a database may rely on b trees under the hood, but thankfully someone else has implemented that complexity so my web developer can concentrate on higher level interactions with it.

His herpes analogy is ridiculous. And I've used brew since getting a Mac and no I'm not suffering now.
> I will say that if you take a broader perspective of the self, then death is not quite as sharp and painful as it first appears.

A statement that I agree with, but which is of course meaningless to those who are filled with a total dread of death... Unfortunately this is one of those things that can't really be communicated. "You have to figure it out for yourself", etc...
You could always easily disable online searches in Ubuntu's Unity environment. And in 16.04 it's now off by default.
I'm primarily a Java dev. It's very frustrating that Java doesn't support PCRE syntax, as a first-class language thing. I hate escaping quotes within strings and so forth.
What about pro-Hillary comments coming from unofficial social media accounts? The article didn't say exactly where these comments would be coming from. I assumed they would be "astro-turf" type users that purport to be everyday reddit users but are actually affiliated with this Hillary PAC.
That's missing the point of the article.

The author says that the candidate's thought process behind arriving at the solution provides insight into the candidate's skill.

There's no reason to implement your own binary tree, but knowing how to devise algorithms to accomplish a given task is a necessary competency.
Also some cool demos on his website: http://madebyevan.com/
Penalize any historically slow loading (for some arbitrary cut-off value, say 600 ms) site client side with an additional 10 seconds of waiting before any request is sent. This way users will hit the back button well before any data is sent to the server and the site operators will see traffic plummet.

If any browser vendor implemented my proposal, their users would switch to another browser. If it was an addon, only a handful of people would use it so there would be no impact. If it was done on the network level of a corporate business, users would complain. Still, one can dream :)
Why in the world does an experiment to try to culture mouth bacteria from a toothbrush require extensive paperwork and professional oversight?
You'd think that the fact it sometimes crashes when trying to save a file being downloaded is also a bit of an issue. But here we are, two years in with this problem, every crash diligently reported to Mozilla, but all we get back is Hello, Pocket, Sync, Promoted Tiles and what have you. Priorities are certainly ain't set right somewhere in the development pipeline.
I think the case of WWW and Internet is one of the biggest collective misunderstandings and tragic fails in the history of technology (and maybe humanity). If there would be a study of average ratio of information in kilobytes to page size in kilobytes, the result would make us cry. I have a Notes.org file that holds most of my notes, a list of most movies I watched and I'll watch, most books I read and I'll read, most places I saw and I'll see... basically my life and its about 200kb, where most probably more nearly 100% of it is information, whereas most multi-meg webpages have two paragraphs worth of information on them.
Thanks for testing e10s! There's a simpler a better way to test it though, which is just setting
`browser.tabs.remote.autostart` to true.

These prefs that you mentioned won't stick (they will be reset after startup) and are just used for some internal state.

I'll make sure the info on that wiki page is up to date for people who want to test it.

Note: Multiprocess is not available in the Release channel yet. Please use our Developer/Test channels if you want to use it.

Also, if you have add-ons, multiprocess is by default blocked from running on Beta (but allowed on Nightly/Aurora). If you're on Beta and want to use it together with add-ons, look at that wiki page to see how to work around that. Or just use Aurora :)
So you're essentially hoping that these people, who did not give explicit consent, actually (and perhaps secretly) did want to be killed?

My hope is that where paperwork did go through, no person was uncertain or regretted their life-altering decision (which, for example, increases suicide risk in one's family twofold). But I doubt that either of our hopes lives up to reality.
I don't want to work at a place where reversing binary trees is so important to your everyday work that it deserves a place in the interview process.
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No, the grievances against Agile are just too voluminous and wide-spread, consider even Dave Thomas's presentation about how Agile is dead due to the ease with which it is subverted for political manipulation [0].

If someone as key to software productivity as Dave Thomas is saying this, it's clearly not just because of a vocal minority.

Your suggestion that we should check whether it's just a vocal minority is a good one. We should check that.

Unfortunately, it's extremely obvious that it's not the case, and the dysfunction / failure mode of Agile is extremely common, by far the majority of Agile implementations.

[0] < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-BOSpxYJ9M >
This misses the point. You showed how easy it is to do this stuff in a real text editor without a time constraint with the luxury of testing and research before you published the post about how easy it is. That's not at all the same as solving an artificial problem on a whiteboard while nervous and in a rush and no ability to test or research
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It's not 100% false that to use a library effectively you have to be able to write it.
Google Sunroof proves this theory to be mostly false. Check out 2nd street roofs for example: https://www.google.com/get/sunroof#a=2nd%20Street%2C%20San%2...
I think it's very simplistic to say income is the driving force in these numbers. And I would be careful about explaining phenomena like this with your own personal beliefs about society.

Heres the very first study I found when googling income inequality and suicide [0]:

> Our results indicate that there is a statistically insignificant positive effect of inequality on the incidence of suicide.

0: https://ideas.repec.org/p/adv/wpaper/200613.html