skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think he is sarcastically summarizing the article.
My daughters make me very happy, and I'm a better person because I'm trying to make sure they're smart, well adjusted and have good lives.

The point of the article is the U.S. has a weak social net to help parents compared to Europe. I feel that. In the short term I'm broke and worried all the time (because day care and housing in Silicon Valley will kill you). In the long term it'll all be fine, and maybe I'm mostly chafing against having to budget (both money and time) for the first time in my life.
Does anyone know if there is a relationship between Aspergers/Autism spectrum and suicide? I know one person who I think is on the spectrum, doesn't know it, and suffers serious depression at least in part due to her lack of social success.
I actually think lawns are valuable, we just need to realize that they aren't "free", especially in places where water is increasingly scarce (like most of the heavily populated parts of California).

Lawns are pretty great places to put a blanket down and have a picnic, run around and play frisbee, badminton, or soccer, and so forth. They're just thirsty, expensive, and have other environmental issues.

I remember reading an interview with a water-friendly landscape architect (sorry no cite) who was asked a question about lawns, and the question was kind of phrased in a "of course you must hate lawns" kind of way. His response was, no not really, lawns have a place, we just have to realize they're costly and shouldn't be used casually. For instance, lining a long driveway or a freeway median with a lawn that has to be constantly watered but is never walked on is probably a bad use of water and the other externalities that lawns produce (pesticides and so forth). Many of the current uses of lawns aren't a good use - but even the water-friendly landscape architect feel that there are some situations where a lawn is a justifiable use of water. We just have to stop pretending that water is "free".
Well, for good reason.

Every time someone started tracking people and do bulk data collection in the past century, it ended up with people being gassed, put into siberian camps, etc.

Thanks, but no thanks.
GP said "starts acting in 10 minutes" Immunotherapy doesn't work that way.
I think they added it, actually.

The chaperone doesn't help if you're a noob--you drive your controller through the wall regardless of the chaperone. You get used to your room after a while and it stops happening.
Have you seen their SF office? That's probably a cool million/year alone if not more.
Canada and China are roughly the same size.
Thanks for pointing this out. It's a very interesting-sounding article, will have to read, but I don't know if my stats are strong enough to judge the article. Is SSRN a high-impact journal?
I am afraid this picture is far from accurate.
Power plants on the whole are running at a very low PLF for some time. Very cheap power is available in the short term markets[1].
The transmission system has also improved in the last two years and now prices are more or less uniform across the country[1].

Last mile distribution infrastructure is still a WIP in many places but the real problem is financial. Many distribution companies are owned by state govts. and unable to charge/recover for the electricity they distribute. This incentivizes them to procure/supply as little power as possible.
Many states have now opted for a financial restructuring [2] and I expect demand will pick up sharply.

[1] http://www.vidyutpravah.in/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ujwal_DISCOM_Assurance_Yojana
Who isn't betting their future on AI?
I actually just meant to point out some things launch splashy V1s and can still end up as commercial successes without transforming the world. I know it's sacrilege around here, but VR ending up like the current era of segways (hoverboards, which sold something like 3 million units at $300 last year) seems like a reasonable place that VR will end up after it matures (so just a novelty that tons of suburban teenagers get for Christmas, not world changing technology for adults like smartphones were)
I hope Yahoo won't abandon search. We need more competition.
Tri-Solaris!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem
Really cool idea ... Recommending now to all my blogger friends..
Yes, there's a correlation between ASD and both attempted suicide and completed suicide. That might be because of the increased risk of depression in ASD, or the increased risk of physical health problems, or it might be something about the ASD itself that makes it harder for people to get help. The numbers are surprisingly hard to find, and other diagnoses are probably higher in the list.

Here's good quality information with a focus on those people who were "known to services": http://www.bbmh.manchester.ac.uk/cmhs/research/centreforsuic...

Here's recent data for young people. http://www.bbmh.manchester.ac.uk/cmhs/research/centreforsuic...

Here's some great information about different areas of the UK (this one is for suicide, but there's a bunch of other stuff there) http://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile-group/mental-health/pro...

Here's the Office for National Statistics data sets:

http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdea...

(Be careful with these. Sometimes people counting "death by suicide" use a different definition for suicide.)
No, he wasn't. He was banging on their front door, admittedly hard, but that doesn't constitute breaking and entering anywhere, as he neither broke nor entered, nor was attempting to do so. If you want to break and enter, you use a window, not the frigging front door.

Also, if it were breaking and entering, they would have charged him with that. Instead, it's "Suspicion of intoxication", "Resisting Arrest" and "Assaulting a police officer", the latter two being the default charges for when you don't actually have anything worthwhile to charge someone with. 10 cops for Suspicion of Intoxication? Shit, we'll get it in the neck from the super for this one - better make it look good.

Please do show me where he was charged with breaking and entering, if I, and the coroner, have missed something.

From the neighbour's account in the autopsy report, it sounds more like they were concerned for him than scared. Hell, I've had drunken idiots pounding on my front door before, and I wouldn't consider beating them to a pulp for it, nor would I approve of, if I had called the police, them beating the poor sod to a pulp.

Also, if beating a door is considered a violent crime that warrants beating a human being in retaliation and placing a $25k price on their head, then that's a pretty damn sad place we've ended up.
This article reads like a not-so-cleverly masked advert.
> The science is pretty clear that GMOs are not toxic

Perhaps more precisely, the science is pretty clear that GMO as a method of introducing traits is completely orthogonal to toxicity, environmental harm, and everything else that "GMOs" are blamed for.

Particular GMOs may have some of those harms, either inherently or in the agricultural methods and business practices they support (because of the actual regulatory environment, toxicity of the GMO itself is pretty low probability, though), but that's no more true than it is of any other technique of developing new crop traits.
Because Google started before?
Maybe? At least anecdotely I almost always see spending cuts over and over until the workforce is dwindling with no promises of job security. This seems bizarre to me but I don't have data to say how common it is. Maybe it's different with a more media focused company?
I tend to agree with you that lawns aren't necessarily a bad thing. There are also more eco-friendly varieties of grass (though in my experience, they don't tend to be the nice soft grass). If all you're looking for is ground cover to provide soil filter and avoid erosion, there may be better choices than lawn.

I thought this was a good summary:

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-hodel-pittenger-w...
> you'll have to take their word for it.

I'm pretty sure if you care to check, you can get the police report for the second incident and go ask the relevant neighbors.

The likelihood that the police were waiting for Murdock to show up at his home so they could randomly attack him seems vanishingly low. Excessive force I could believe. Police with nothing better to do than randomly assault an upper-class white man repeatedly? Not as much.
Show HN: Came up with a way to solve Rubik's Cube with 10 numbers
Oh that's a lot of money! New Delhi should explore this idea then!
Perhaps some company introspection would make more sense than investing in an unproven, (currently) hard to monetize CS problem.
"Buildbot: $15,000. Buildbot is a continuous build and integration system which has been immensely valuable to Mozilla over the past few years. Their award will be used to remove the term “slave” from all documentation, APIs and tests, and also to make improvements so Buildbot works better in the Amazon EC2 cloud."

I don't think the documentation part of that is gonna take 15k USD.
>If you eat mostly plants, two of these systems will provide 90%+ of your food

What numbers are you basing this on? That is, do you have an estimated yield in lbs. for what one system can produce?
Almost definitely. Stable matching is a very well understood problem, and as far as I can tell investor day is a textbook example of it.
Yup... I think she was out of her league in terms of negotiation. She's a talented and user-focused product person, but not a leader/negotiator/employer.

As I noted before, she was never at the senior VP level at Google (i.e. reporting to the CEO). So she just didn't have enough experience at that level.

It seems like she got the CEO job based on name recognition, and not a track record of leadership and business acumen.

It's interesting to consider the outrage about CEO pay in light of this. Sure, there are plenty of shitty CEOs who don't deserve their compensation. But you have to respect the fact that, at this level, if you aren't sharp, you'll be fleeced by your peers (i.e. De Castro, and whoever negotiated the Mozilla deal). You don't want to work for a CEO who is getting the short end of the stick all the time.

In addition to Steve Jobs' talents as a product person, he also never got the short end of any deal. (I'm saying that as a person who has never really used Apple products.) I was astounded that he basically did a reverse takeover of TWO COMPANIES -- Apple when he returned, and Disney via Pixar. He negotiated with all the thugs in the movie and music businesses. There aren't many tech CEOs who can do that.

I forget where, but I recall some anecdotes about being on the other side of the table with Bob Iger... saying that those guys basically threatened to physically harm you, and that their threats were actually credible!!! Like you should be scared for your life when messing with those guys :)
After leaving Google though, what else is there for Mozilla (after Yahoo)? I seems apparent that these search deals are no longer a viable source of income for the company, future funding might become problematic. I love Mozilla, they have smart folks there so I'm sure they will work it out.
I think this might be hinting towards the truth. An additional observation might be the pursuit of authenticity- so many cities and tourist destinations across the world seem to have become hyperreal versions of themselves- in my own home city of Seattle, the Seattle Center park seems to be a good example of this. Walking around near the Space Needle feels like going to Disney World- monorail and all.

I mean, if I visited the U.K., and spent an entire week in London seeing all the tourist attractions (I suppose for me that'd be Big Ben, Trafalgar Square, London Tower Bridge, the Houses of Parliament, Abbey Road), what would I really get out of that? I can see pictures of those things on the Internet any time I want (and in Abbey Road's case, I can see live streaming video!)
ScyllaDB – A journey into the unknown
Will CAAP be the next best thing? Who knows?
But one thing that has surprised me about MS and this whole bot-frenzy is how much they are opening up to other platforms.

MS offers tools to build a bot within their framework using Node.js with first party library support[0], and for deploying your bot to third-party chat apps (e.g. Telegram, Slack and FB messenger[1]). The idea is to build a bot once, and their service routes the bot's API between different endpoints. All of this with no obligation of ever touching VisualStudio, Azure or dotnet.

This type of attitude would be unthinkable three years ago.

[0] http://docs.botframework.com/builder/node/overview/#navtitle
[1] http://docs.botframework.com/connector/getstarted/#navtitle
For a project I have in mind I'm looking for a way to reflect on the code and generate both serialization and RPC API from code based on conventions/traits/annotations - I guess I could do it with syntex but that looks hacky and slow (two passes). In general I'm not in a rush to start that project and these two things seem like the last big missing peaces of the compiler/language - I'm waiting on those before I start pitching rust to my coworkers.
Yes, if it seems to require a lot of prose, I think you're doing it wrong. See my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12051069 for how it can be far more powerful than a notebook.
Spend $1bn
Pays (at least one person) over a million dollars a year?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Baker#Mozilla_Foundat...
Going 'tit for tat' on people that carry weapons and are totally within their rights of using them on you when you go 'tit for tat' seems like a career limiting move to me.
Cool, thanks. We have some ideas for a solution to these kinds of cases that might come a lot sooner than general syntax extensions, but it's still shaking out.
Open source; but is it patent-free?
Yeah, the Stable Marriage problem provides a solution for matching these ordered preferences between two sets of people/elements: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_marriage_problem
New Growth Plan for Online Lenders: Layoffs
Bing?

But yeah lack of competition in that space is an issue. Search is still hugely important.
This is the century of biology. Hackers everywhere, its time to start hacking our own source code.
I assume so as well.

This algorithm is outlined by the stable marriage problem for those that are interested.
REP MOVS is the fastest for large moves, but it seems to have a higher fixed overhead. Intel's optimization manual goes into depth with comparisons between the various methods of blitting.
Now Swipe Down to Take a Quick Note – Minimal, Clean and Easy Note-Taking
A bit more background here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Resident_Matching_Pro...
Is it the year of mobile or immersive? Always forget
H3VR seems so mundane if you hear someone describe it:

"Yeah, it's a game where you get to shoot a variety of guns, all of which are very nicely modeled and have accurate mechanics like bolt handles that work etc in a variety of shooting ranges"

I mean, who would want to play that... but when you do, oh my goodness is it satisfying. The fact that it's VR makes rather mundane sounding experiences incredibly immersive and great. I've pretty much stopped playing all the great "normal" non-VR games that I bought in the steam sale because of VR.

Now imagine if you could create a triple A game on this platform. Holy fucking shit, it's going to be the end of the world.
I think you're probably correct. Both Goog and Mozilla are large companies with many teams, and I may be putting undue emphasis on the specific interactions I've seen between their browser teams. Thanks for your input.
It most certainly is not. You don't respond immediately to immunotherapy and certainly not in 10 minutes.
It's probably up there with the Korean DMZ, Chernobyl, and Bikini Atoll as unintentional nature preserves.
> Sure, there are plenty of shitty CEOs who don't deserve their compensation. But you have to respect the fact that, at this level, if you aren't sharp, you'll be fleeced by your peers (i.e. De Castro, and whoever negotiated the Mozilla deal). You don't want to work for a CEO who is getting the short end of the stick all the time.

I always assumed there were some shark lawyers behind these deals, does the CEO really ignore advice and go it alone? In Mayer's case it really does seem so, but a non-sharp CEO should still be able to not be eaten alive if they bring good counsel to the table (though I guess that itself is the sign of being sharp!).
Scaling Your API Design Workflow
Show HN: Blake2b with SIMD instructions in Go
What do you expect from Taleb?
The point of a deal like that is to reassure Mozilla that Yahoo is not going to sell, at least not during the term of the agreement. It provides the party on the other end with a sort of insurance policy -- "we can show you how serious we are about not doing this thing you're afraid of by requiring ourselves to feel some serious pain if we ever actually do it."

This insurance policy is both literal -- if Yahoo does sell, whatever hardship that causes Mozilla will be eased considerably by all that cash -- and figurative -- Yahoo's willingness to offer such a payout should a sale happen signals to Mozilla that Yahoo's leadership is probably not actively pursuing a sale. (Or at least wasn't, at the time the deal was made.) The theory on the latter part being that no rational person would make that offer if they thought a sale was in any way likely.
It's not a reference to that theorem; it refers to "hairy," used to describe something complicated or ugly.
How the US Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars for Haiti and Built Six Homes
There's definitely something a bit shady about this, given that existing accounts have been silently opted in and as a long-time Redditor and someone who does actually scan privacy policies before signing up for things I still had no idea about it until seeing this story on HN.

It's not as if Reddit is the only major site doing this kind of thing (hello, search engines) but that doesn't make it any less creepy, IMHO.
You might try: https://abookapart.com/

I read their _Responsive Web Design_ title a while back and found it helpful and concise.

I see there's a CSS3 title written by the founder of Dribbble, for example, and updated in 2015.

This stuff changes so quickly, it may also be better to follow online, as others have suggested.
Wow ! Just saw the whole landing again. I have seen the video before , but I never understood who was saying what . This is the best way all those conversations could have been visualized !
Benzos are nothing but bad news. I had a very similar experience in my teens. Woke up 24 hours later in the emergency room with a wrecked car and no memory of anything.
> That said, we also need to get over the GMO thing.

That, of course, is incontrovertible in that anything that's been domesticated has been genetically manipulated, often to the extent that it can't survive in the wild. It's just a matter of how fast and how precise the manipulation gets with induced mutations, recombinant methods, and CRISPR Cas-9.

But to be fair to the anti-GMO people, what they're really complaining about is bad outcomes that are not proximate to GM technology, but are enabled by it, like having herbicide residue on their herbicide-resistant crops, or that are part of commercializing GM technology, like overreaching IP laws.
If this technology is rolled out, won't that just encourage people to buy Android devices instead?
US safety agency: Over 500,000 hoverboards to be recalled
Stanford Research: Testing for Racial Discrimination in Police Searches [pdf]
Thanks!

While I agree on the point of vehicles made pre norms, but vehicle manufactured after their adoption are all mostly going to be compliant (although with the VW scam, I'm sure there are going to be significant doubts about whether the vehicles stay that way).

Can't argue on the emission check though, that I definitely believe. One can only hope newer vehicles don't have significant degradation in emissions over time.

I guess the main takeaway is that the Indian government has to enforce the rules more than anything.
Yes.

There's still people playing every evening.
> Using both these ranked inputs, our software will create “Investor Day” schedules for each investor and each startup, which will take place at the Computer History Museum on Wednesday 8/24.

Sounds like the backend of a dating site for startups and investors.
I don't follow. The banner is based on if the JavaScript on the page can communicate with the Reddit server so things like upvote/downvote/save/hide will be correctly stored.
work at AmpMe and we’ll send you on vacation; before you even start
Any discuss threads or RFCs I could look at? I'm also interested in those use cases.
In the US, shorebirds declined tremendously not because of habitat loss, but because of market hunting. [1] For example, in the South San Francisco Bay, market hunters killed everything in sight and shipped the birds to San Francisco for food. Around 1900, SF consumed around 250,000 ducks annually.

Considering the food situation in North Korea, I'm really surprised those flocks exist. Perhaps it is due to a lack of shotguns outside of the military?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_hunters

[2] PDF http://downloads.ice.ucdavis.edu/sfestuary/skinner/archive10...
Meet the Sultan of Squeezeboxes, Manhattan's Last Accordion Repairman
My initial proof-of-concept produced 10 lbs/square foot annually, not counting the fish. This system should be more productive, but only time will tell.

If this system has similar levels of productivity, it would produce 360 lbs annually, so two systems get you 2 lbs of food daily.
Kubernetes 1.3.0 is out
It's not quite the stable marriage problem, because in the stable marriage problem you're trying to find an optimal 1:1 pairing. It's also not the NRMP problem because in that case, residents are only matched with one hospital in a year. Here companies are matched with multiple investors, and investors are matched with multiple companies.

But regardless, I believe the algorithm is roughly the same as the NRMP algorithm: you run through multiple rounds where you look at each combination of company and investor. If both sides would prefer that they meet with each other, rather than the people they're already paired with, then you reassign them. Once you've done that several times you arrive at a stable state.
It does decline, but I think the 27 years is meant to include College, finding a job, a mate, a home - i.e. "launched" and independent. 27 seems to be a somewhat arbitrary number as is my list of "launched" criteria, but in the US kids can no longer be on their parents health-care plans after age 26. That's a significant milestone for many.
tldr: It's a 2,500 $CAD hiring bonus.
Flonanse is a gift from the gods for me and is now over the counter. Try it! It works immediately for me and better than anything else. Your mileage may vary.

You can also see an allergist for actual immunotherapy but you have to commit to getting regular shots (decreasing in frequency) for a few years which can be pretty inconvenient especially because you must stay at the office for a half hour afterwards to make sure there was no life threatening reaction... but it is the only thing that could actually cure you of allergies after the immunotherapy is stopped.