skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying that suicide isn't associated with mental health, but when I read this I got a vague feeling of a tautology.

If we define the components of mental illness as being suicidal, obviously that would lead you to classify all suicidals as mentally ill.

For a long time being homosexual was seen as a mental illness and those (probably most) administering treatments saw themselves as helping them and the patient would have a higher quality of life after they were cured. The doctors thought the patient was harming themselves and their family by participating in lewd activities.

Not trying to say one thing or the other about suicide. I just think it is interesting what we consider a mental illness and why and why its dangerous to go to the "mental illness" (I hate this phrasing) reasoning right away.
T-Mobile is giving customers stock in the company
Rhapsody is becoming Napster
I do not believe that, nor do i want that. I can read way faster than I can watch.
That seems strange to me. Were I hiring someone, I'd expect to negotiate salary, and provide 1-3 months severance. Heavy negotiating about how much I'll pay them if they're NOT working for me would set off alarm bells.
I'm in the camp that suicide is a human right, and I get plenty of heat for having that opinion. People seem to feel entitled to the existence of other people, which I can't seem to understand.
That's a really good comic. I grew up very privileged and it's easy to give in to some of the thoughts that are displayed. I know far too many of my peers who probably wouldn't see the irony in it if you chopped off the right half.
I mean, that's fair for you to make that business decision, but if I'm a customer of yours and having issues, and I find out you're not supporting me, I'm just going to do business with someone else. And if that's fine with you, it's fine with me too.

Where I work, we need to use IE for many things, and we have exactly one piece of software that requires a different browser. If in the future, I have the opportunity to replace that product with something that also works in IE, I will, without hesitation. Because the frustration caused by the one IE-incompatible software outweighs the benefit it could possibly provide over a competitor.
There isn't actually many results at all for that exact phrase, as far as I can see. It looks likely that it's a modification of "he stared through the window at the stars", which doesn't occur much more often, but did appear in A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay.
Oh, I see, thanks. Yes, also still use OS X, although I hit bugs from time to time.
I have mixed feelings about this, but I think it could be positive depending on how data related to a user's suicidal state is protected.

I recently started conducting studies dealing with technology and psychological interventions and had to find ethical (privacy protecting) mechanisms for responding to participants who express suicidal intentions or show several indicators suggesting depression. We ultimately settled on an automated mechanism that suggests resources to the participant directly in cases indicating depression and human intervention on cases expressing suicidal intentions. It isn't perfect but seemed to be the best balance between privacy and helpfulness.
Suicide is often not a very rational or well considered option, except in regards to medical assisted suicide. Suicide is, as they say, a permanent solution to a temporary problem. But it's a lot more complicated than that. I think the best argument for suicide intervention are the many stories from folks who came the closest to succeeding in their suicide attempts, failed, and then changed their minds and decided against suicide. That speaks to the fact that the reasoning going into a suicide attempt is often not on solid ground, and that there are often a lot of ways to remediate "future decades of misery" that are not ending a life.

Speaking personally, I know a lot of people who have had thoughts of committing suicide or have made an unsuccessful attempt at doing so and in every case it was an erroneous decision, in every case their future was full of a lot more than years of misery.
Albert Camus added you as a friend.
Talks at past LLVM dev meetings
> Believe it or not, not everybody is in a position to up and retrain on a whim.

Not everyone has to, some people diversify.

I'll ask it again - why are steel workers more deserving of more than the average job centre?

I'm not falling for your "deadbeat" strawman. If the IT bubble burst, and I was out of a job with no backup plan, who'd be rushing to put me ahead of any other dole recipient?

> Because apparently it's more reasonable to outright give money to businesses than to people, and people defend the Government on this.

You're fond of hyperbole, and now this. Yes, it is more reasonable to give it to businesses. Yes.
In fact your suggestion was that the steelworkers would start businesses themselves with the money, was it not? You didn't respond to that me questioning what stops steel workers walking out the door.

> How is subsidizing an industry that can't exist on its own not "wasting money" by your measure?

Maybe it is, who knows; what's your the point? That if this investment is a waste, we might as well waste it some other way?

I don't know how wasteful the government plan is, but it's certainly less so than you cash-in-hand scheme.
Great question. Top three reasons: 1) There are many benefits from delivering newborns in health clinics outside of Nevirapine. 2) It would be much more challenging to reach all of the traditional birth attendants, maintain constant supply of Nevirapine, and monitor proper administration. Moreover, in our case, the cost of the program is the cash transfers and this is a large benefit for program participants. 3) Traditional birth attendants do not consistently test women for HIV when they deliver, because of various reasons (one being it is bad for business to share negative news).
Machines do not. However, humans would find it difficult to memorize the GPS coordinates for their front porch - which is why trying an approach like this with pure GPS might not work.
The Easiest Ways to Get from $1M ARR to $10M ARR
You can still do experiments with some adjustment to your work habits: create the new data structure with a different name, try it it out in some places via renames, and if necessary comment things out. Delete the old one and rename back again when you're done.

The one that still annoys me, though, is having to comment out unused imports in Go. I agree they should always be removed before submit, but in the meantime it's annoying. (Tools that automatic remove unused imports are also annoying in their own way.)
No, because putting someone on a 100mbps pipe is not throttling them. Limiting that pipe to 50mbps is, however, throttling, according to the definition given by Wikipedia, and the definitions given by the FCC and upheld in court today.
<poor people who are probably the ones most in need of a healthier and better lifestyle.>

Have you never observed in a grocery store what people buy with public aid redemptions ("food stamps", WIC, CalFresh, etc.)

The Burger King closest to me actually has a huge rooftop banner advertising that they accept/redeem CalFresh/WIC.
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And that your engine is an outstanding piece of work!

Maybe you've gotten used to it from having worked on this so much, but it's a breath of fresh air to see unusual approaches being pursued in a game engine. So much of the industry is dominated by either 3D triangle meshes or retro pixel art, and VQ has shown that these aren't the only ways forward.
They may have liquidity events even if they aren't going public.
The lesser safety gives you better performance.

No. That excuse has been bandied about for years, but it's wrong, as we're now seeing as Rust gets better. C's problems with arrays come from lack of expressive power in the language. C doesn't even let you talk about array size in parameters.

Many of C's painful design decisions come from trying to cram a compiler into a PDP-11 with 128KB (not MB) of memory for a process. Global analysis on a machine that small while retaining reasonable compile times was hopeless. This is no longer a limitation.
I wonder if there's an international problem with this story.

McDonalds in the UK isn't particularly cheap, you can feed a family on the price of a BigMac meal (burger, fries, drink). BigMacs here are quite a sweet food, sugary bun with sweetened relish; and certainly fatty though the patties tend to be pretty dry. The fries at McDo are saltier tasting than any other food I eat except "salt chicken" [at the chinese buffet] - pretty sure they put more salt on than the nutritional info suggests. You can get a [sweet, concentrated] OJ instead of carbonated "fountain" drinks though.

It's not cheap [to me] and I've never seen anyone except teenagers hanging out in any in the UK. The seating is firmly padded benches with upright backs or uncushioned chairs. Tables are usually fixed to the floor.

Additionally McDo here tend to be in town centres or adjacent to supermarkets, not really in areas where poor people - other than youths - are hanging around.
Someone suggested I try it, but in the end I had so little time the only safe thing was to begin searching for jobs. I have had countless offers fall through so I am aware of the dangers of trying to work out a deal with another party.
The Algorithmic Foundations of Differential Privacy [pdf]
Holy crap they're scared though, and with the amount of money they have, it can get ugly. :-/
They coexist already. IPFS just gives you a standardized way to store files in a global p2p content-addressable filesystem (or private content-addressable filesystems, if you don't connect your IPFS server to the global network). Imagine if you tried to visit news.ycombinator.com via HTTPS while visiting Mars; the timeouts would have to be quite large.

If instead the static assets, like html, javascript, comments, and stories are stored in IPFS, then you can load them from your local IPFS server node instead. You would probably even access that node via HTTP(S), and in principle the URL in your urlbar would be exactly the same as it is now. The rendering would all have to be done in JS though, which is a bit of a change. You would configure your local IPFS node to periodically update it's local cache so that the site is as up to date as you desire. (There's some handwaving there, but I guess you could just use a cronjob to request the content, forcing it to be cached.)

In practice, posting a story or a comment might have to look a rather different in that implementation. It would probably look like a throwback to UUCP or FidoNet, where distant nodes would contact each other regularly to upload messages. You would use PKI to discard messages from non-users, and linking the good ones into your branch of the filesystem so that viewers could see them.

Things like this that require logins are where most of the handwaving is with IPFS; the actual filesystem parts seem to work pretty well.
This is exactly what happened because of the FCC in 1968.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carterfone
Scam Alert – CEO email spoofing scam
I've never actually used iTunes — been Linux-only for almost twenty years now, and when I last used Macs regularly there was no iTunes (nor iPod, nor OS X!).
C Packet Sniffer Code with libpcap and linux sockets
The NSA likely won't turn an of its copies over to the Air Force.
Lets go with your 3500 number. In 2006, 976 blacks scored above 700 in SAT math, and 1117 scored above 700 in SAT verbal.

1117 is a lot smaller than 3500. (Or the 3000 number the study uses.)

(Note: 1400 SAT, or whatever that translates to on the current 2400 pt test, is table stakes for getting into a top 25 school.)

I don't know why you put "study" in quotes - do you consider the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education to somehow be an "illegitimate" source?

To imply the admissions officers are giving minorities a whopping 80% preference to minorities, based of the data, shows that admissions officers are either incredibly incompetent at giving preferential treatment to minorities, or you are just talking out of your ass.

I don't understand. If you take 1200 qualified black students and turn them into 3000 enrollees, how is that not a highly successful preferential treatment program?

Similarly, the relevant comparison when looking at Asians is not what percentage of the American population they make up. A more relevant comparison would be what percentage of the top students are Asian. I can't find top scores, but a quick google search suggests Asians do in fact outperform everyone else on average.

https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=171
Not advocating for suicide but playing devils advocate...

I would imagine that bank robbers the moment they get caught instantly regret it. But that doesn't prevent the ones that got away from completing their goal and not regretting it.

People who fail suicide often have HUGE amounts of personal anguish because of the police, hospital, family, etc. all judging them from the suicide attempt.

I think its easy to confuse regret of the action over all and regret that you tried the action and failed. But I imagine there are some who genuinely regret their attempts.
To me taichi is more than micro moves. It's about holistic perception of your body mechanics. You shift your center of gravity and accelerate boundaries trying not to cancel the internal momentum. The blend of high acceleration on limbs with reduced energy consumption is very soothing.
Their paper says

> In our scheme there is a public algorithm that given two ciphertexts as input, reveals the order of the corresponding plaintexts and nothing else.

It's not clear that this is "efficient"; it might be somewhat computationally intensive. But you can do it using only public information and without being able to decrypt the data.
Meanwhile, public utility water outclasses bottled, power infrastructures remain world class, and are fixed during weather catastrophes quickly, roads remain plowed, and kids receive public educations that are competitive with private schools at costs below 15k / year.

Americans have been working together to foster functioning and great societies through government for ages now. It's you that wants to test this brave new world.
This is a bot! Flagged! OTOH Have you tried Google Drive?
Dropbox is too busy acquihiring and fucking up other startups to do it themselves ;)
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Zenefits lays off 106 employees
The university course is also a joke, except for the project, which is "what you make of it".
I've noticed some bugs with case-sensitivity recently in Ruby, of all things.
Very cool. I imagine when bittorrent first starting how cool this would be to do if we had something like webtorrent

Two problems:

1) WebTorrent isn't very persistent. It requires people keep the tab open and I don't think the current WebTorrent to existing torrent clients federation really solves anything interesting. Unless you've got high volumes of traffic it doesn't help much.

2) Bandwidth and storage got so cheap. S3 et al is really pricey but you can get insane deals on colo and bare mental boxes these days. Ok, you're not going to get s3 ease of use and reliability, but webtorrent is going to be way worse on both those points.
`goimports` both adds and removes imports. It has been excellent to run on save in emacs for me.
Do you have an actual rebuttal to the patent, or is this a "pop" fallacy as well?
Firefox on Ubuntu:

http://imgur.com/IpauSTs
But some toys will never be more than just that, toys. Even though I love making video games, It's highly unlikely I'm going to make a 'world changing' video game.

At best (and with great luck or marketing power) they usually get to be super-popular for around six months and then discarded for the next hip thing. Minecraft is one of the few exceptions.

Sure, you made crazy cash during that time, possibly, but if you hadn't made a game at all, it'd be someone else's game instead that would take its place.

I still think it's good advice overall, though.
What would the world be like if these ancient scientists and engineers persisted and their science and craft carried on and developed further? Instead, the period that followed gave rise to belief systems that still give us problems today. How very sad.
Just give it a little time... you forget the pain, and just remember the good times. Otherwise no one would have a second child! Much less a third.
I took a quick look at github, didn't see an option to compile to iptables. That would be an interesting use case for me.
Typed holes are quite a different thing than deferred type errors. Does Agda actually have something like the latter? (Results seem negative from the tiny bit of searching I've just done, but that's awfully low confidence...)
If they didn't take VC Money it would be great. For a VC, a startup refusing to go IPO is like a bank that takes your money offering you a high interest on your checking account, but when you go to get it out, says oops sorry, it went into a fixed deposit.
Who does the U.N. Peacekeeping and who pays for it
So I only kind of understand magnet links. But it seems like I could create a Chrome plugin that took every page I visited and turned the assets into magnet links and started request/seeding them on pageload. Is that analogous to what they're doing?
Being unemployed myself, I don't really care. Perhaps I should tell them to change careers.
To reply to your middle paragraph, you'd probably want a longitudinal cohort study rather than an A/B test. A well-designed one can provide pretty conclusive indications in situations where A/B testing (or, testing with a double blind control as the epi community might call it) isn't possible.
And have more horrible software that breaks once you look at it , causes billions in damages, wastes millions of live hours, and endangers lives (shitty medical software cough)?
I had an OPO on t-mobile - the reason the coverage was bad was because of the bands it supported. When I switched to a phone that supported all of their bands, the coverage difference was night and day.
Well, from what I recall from biomedical ethics, the majority of people who attempt suicide and fail do not attempt suicide again. This would suggest that for most people suicide is merely a phase they can pass through.

Regardless, these questions are asked all of the time. A news article about a new feature on a social media site isn't an appropriate forum for discussing such a ridiculously complex topic as the ethics of suicide. The only way your comment could be less appropriate is if you were advocating for a discussion on the ethics of murder on an article about a murder suicide.

Edit: I suggest checking out the article on suicide on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. The Encyclopedia as a whole is a great resource, and this article is no different:

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/suicide/
Just watched a documentary about Foxconn which tries to filter out suicidal employees. Sure Facebook's profiling would be useful for many companies who put a high pressure, and their HR depts. Not sure humanity is progressing, though.
...Which is not the case at Dropbox or any startup really.
Aw. I thought this was going to be more about using Unix as a natural language to write poetry, the way poetry competitions are held for programming languages.

I think it would be interesting if more programs were written with an aesthetic or artistic goal in mind, rather than functional. Like network code that has feelings, or fonts that get blurry the longer you look at them, or programs that, instead of crashing, simply find something else to do. Maybe a program written so the source is a poem about lost love, and results in bugs that randomly corrupts your memory on your lover's birthday.

I'm weird.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11903188
Google doesn't want you to use Chromium. Use Chrome instead, it's exactly like Chromium but with all the Google bloatware installed!
With linear shrinking factors, and keeping the current exponentially growing costs, I'd expect fabs to specialize, a few going in the route of smallest possible features at a huge price, and most going in the route of commodity, low price chips.

In fact, that seems to be already happening.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11898861
Like Xing. Ok, Xing copied a lot from LinkedIn (including some dark patterns) but overall it's a much cleaner experience.

One thing that Xing does differently is that you cannot prevent other people to see when you visit their profile, not even as a paying customer. On the other hand you can only partially see who visits you if use the free plan. This gives the whole thing a different dynamic. People often sign up for a payed plan because they are curious to know who visited them.
The reason why there is so little space is because there are supposed to be baggers. I guess they finally got rid of them to save money.
Odd as it may sound, I don't believe more realism would be a good thing in crowdfunding. We need more projects like Gavan's game - things that are ludicrously ambitious that still produce a fantastic outcome even if they fall before the originator of the project is satisfied.

Crowdfunding as a mechanism to pre-order something you know for certain is achievable is good, and very useful, but crowdfunding moonshot projects has it's place too. We should help people do crazy hard things because, occasionally, the outcome is awesome.

Voxel Quest is one of those times.
If only those were monopolies.
Knowing in my head and having it tab out are two different things.

Interfaces will without a doubt tell you what you can do with a given object. With polymorphism you most assuredly know what types the arguments are inside each signature you write.

Function annotations look like shit[0] and are not guaranteed to mean the same thing across projects.

Don't get me wrong, I love Python and its idioms and have been using it for a rather long time. It pays the bills and I am productive in it. I just think that I've outgrown its implicit typing when I step into an explicitly typed language using modern tools and enjoy myself.

[0]: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3107/#syntax