skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The fact that suicide rates have not changed in response to changes in medical technology and other ways of life is astounding.

Because depression is a disease, its not just feeling blue because something happened to you and as such it probably has has the same distribution since the early days of humanity. Its a disease with no good treatments so we can expect the same mortality rate.

I think handwringing over people having easier lives but still killing themselves is fairly meaningless, and frankly, more than a little shaming. Depression affects people almost randomly. Wealthy people with easy lives kill themselves just as readily as poor people with harder lives. You can't will yourself out of depression because things are easy for you. The disease, unfortunately, doesn't work that way.

I have major depression. Its not caused by some negative life events or my parents not loving me or anything like that. Its clearly something I was born with or rapidly developed when I was just a child. I think its dangerous to talk about depression as not being a disease of the brain and as something that emerges from negative life events. Those things can certainly make it worse, but depression is a disease like any other, not a mood.
What women settle for may not be what they prefer.

Hence perhaps you should limit your study to really attractive women.
This article to the Washington Post has a pay wall. Given the number of comments in this thread I wonder if the HN community has a large proportion of subscribers to WP or do folks simply circumvent it?
Do other people?
How Does This Hedge-Fund Manager Make So Much Money?
> I'd have thought that what the article refers to as "coding architect" would be a dev lead in many organisations

I've seen it called "senior developer", although nowadays this is used a bit inflationary.
Well that is the worst place ever to work.
Sorry for being lazy and not doing proper research, but maybe someone knows this right away. Is Sobol sequence hyperuniform? If not, is there an algorithm you can use to generate hyperuniform random variables? (Basically I am thinking that it could make Monte Carlo simulation in some circumstances a bit more effective)
It sounds like an Air would be fine, but she might want to also consider a Chromebook.
So where is the best place to submit if not on the story submissions?

Simply just a misunderstanding because I did read that before posting this. I just didn't think a cofounder search was the same as a job ad, as its not a paid position.
From a usability perspective I totally agree with this article. From a design standpoint though, people generally prefer minimalism over realism in UI design. I also much prefer the design of macs today over PCs, even though I prefer Windows for usability. Apple these days is more looks over function, while Steve Jobs thought the other way around was the way to go in my opinion. So there is a decline over what Apple stood for after Jobs.
> The buyer dropped a hint about using it for illegal purposes, but I don't see how that's any concern of the seller

The case turned on a Florida law which defines includes in the definition of money laundering "money services businesses" that knowingly facilitate illegal activity [1].

[1] https://www.scribd.com/mobile/document/319270874/Order-Grant...
Pedagogy /can/ go off the rails if it places other goals above the elimination of human killing. I know this is self-evident, however there are many hidden killers out there so consider this a billboard.
I agree with that, but you haven't given any information or insight to substantiate your claim that the Apple car will be the next iPhone. Merely saying "it will be awesome!" doesn't convince anyone :)
Depends on how much your children need you actually. I've read somewhere that part of the reason women lose ability to bear children past around 40 is so they can take care of their grand children because that is usually more important at that point from an evolutionary point of view.

It might have been a mere speculation but it kind of makes sense.

Rather than take the time to bare and raise one child, that time is better spent taking care of your 6 grand children.
While interesting, this article seems to ignore the possibility that most people simply have a very strong desire to live. It assumes that if someone is suffering, and death would end that suffering, then suicide makes sense, and something weird must be going on to make people keep going.

But this really doesn't make sense. The entire concept of suffering exists merely to keep us alive. We experience pain and despair and sadness not because it's some inherent part of being conscious, but because those sensations help us to avoid things which are detrimental to survival. When push comes to shove, the drive to survive is what's fundamental, and that will (usually) override the desire to avoid suffering.

As intelligent, conscious beings, we have the capability to understand when survival is no longer possible, making suffering a waste. Thus we can, sometimes, override our desire to live in the face of terminal illness. But what's weird is not the fact that we don't constantly kill ourselves at the first sign of trouble, what's weird is the fact that we do sometimes kill ourselves when things look completely hopeless. You might as well try to stay alive, after all.
Easy answer: because we want to believe life is precious and that you only live once.

Mental health is taboo.

I'm not trying to say that we should let people die, but the living standard has really skyrocketed, meanwhile we still have behaviors and systems that do damage to mental health, and we still disregard those problems.
This seems great! How do you sign up as a beta tester?
Can someone correlate this with economic growth?
In Unix one could always write a function (not alias because it requires a parameter) that does this - http://askubuntu.com/questions/16106/how-can-i-create-an-ali.... I'm sure there's equivalents in Command Prompt/PowerShell as well.

Better for the shells' builtins to be simple and extendable - rather than be optionated.
Bitcoin Privacy Howto
=====================

How to take control over your digital financial freedom.

`$sudo apt-get install tor` or `$brew install tor`
Set it to launch on login.

macOS:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>org.torproject.tor</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/usr/local/bin/tor</string>
</array>
<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<true/>
</dict>
</plist>

Save that script in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/org.torproject.tor.plist

Debian or other Linuxes (or systems) I don't know - would love to read in child comments.

Set your bitcoin client (I know Electrum and Bitcoin-QT at least can, probably others as well) to connect via a Socks-5 proxy to localhost:9050.

In Electrum I set it to connect to a .onion server as well.

Keep the wallets that you spend on things that can be tied to you (like whatever business replaces amazon shopping) separate from the wallets you spend from in privacy.
> There is an old macintosh print ad in the article stating something like: "A computer that everyone can use will get used by everyone".

The one that says "A funny thing happens when you design a computer that everyone can use. Everyone uses it"? That's in the article.
Hook Stock and Bank Breakups
Well in society artificial selection seems to have much more influence on us.
Economy and dynamic modelling: Haavelmo's approach
As people start getting used to computers and digital, virtual concepts (such as scrolling, windowing, buttons), the need for them to reflect tangible, real-world objects diminishes - I think abolishing skeuomorphism is the right way to go.
I didn't say 20 hours a week. I said a quarter or two off between full-time projects.
Maybe we should just add lithium to the water supply, although that would drive conspiracy theorists crazy!

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1699579

"Using data for 27 Texas counties from 1978-1987, it is shown that the incidence rates of suicide, homicide, and rape are significantly higher in counties whose drinking water supplies contain little or no lithium than in counties with water lithium levels ranging from 70-170 micrograms/L; the differences remain statistically significant (p less than 0.01) after corrections for population density."

Edit: on a second thought, it wouldn't drive them crazy, it would literally calm them!

Edit 2: I'm not proposing adding therapy-level doses of lithium to the water, just equalizing it to the water in other regions.
Rent furniture for short period permanence in new city
http://www.furni2rent.com/ what do you think about a solution like this one to solve the problems of renting an empty apartment for a short period permanence?
I think you're vastly overestimating how much people care.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm

Check out, Chronic lower respiratory diseases at nearly 4x suicide. Can't remember hearing a thing about that in the news.
the highest suicide rate is among people 85 years or older. With the advancement of healthcare people are living longer. So the rate of suicide amongst younger demographics most likely has declined slightly
I got scam phone calls very often in the UK here, mostly about car accidents. I don't even drive, let alone own a car!
Click "web" right under HN's link to the article and then access it via Google. No more pay wall.
That's a valid evolutionary strategy assuming your kids will be fine once you off yourself. If that plan lessens the chances of your children's survival to child-bearing age themselves, it would be selected against.
For a second there, I thought I read, "David Wolfe takes on linguistics", and figured I was in for a laugh
React in patterns
That's not going to happen, internationally.

Secure to-device messaging over IP would work. Perhaps if you narrowed it to authentication the telco providers wouldn't see it as a threat to the very, very profitable SMS feature.
I think actually it's because we fear death. Even if you're an atheist and know that when you die nothing will happen besides you disappearing, you still don't want to do it. Even people who commit suicide often would rather if they didn't have to use that option.

The worst thing about war in my opinion is not just that people die, but that people live in constant fear of death.
Most of the stuff Valve is selling nowadays are addons to already existing games.

Interesting thought experiment: Break the sales for DOTA and TF2 into ~$50 increments and compare that number against total sales for the last two GTA's put together. I suspect Valve will beat them at least twice over.
How LINE saved its IPO by simplifying its user onboarding experience
For the record, legal tender doesn't mean what you seem to think it means: legal tender is that which must be acceptable for payment of a debt. In Scotland, for example, only coins are legal tender. For a regular sale, the merchant is free to accept or reject whatever they choose. But the law on legal tender is designed to prevent bad lenders from keeping debtors on their books by not letting them discharge their debt.

Take a tenant in a secured tenancy, for example. They try to pay their rent, but the landlord won't accept payment, because they want an excuse to evict them (non-payment of rent being one of the few acceptable reasons for evicting a secured tenant). But if (being in Scotland) the tenant dumps a bag of coins on the counter, they are obliged to accept that to settle the debt.
About 15 years for me. I don't often have dreams (or at very least don't remember them often), but I still get this probably a couple of times a year. Also agree that they're probably not quite to nightmare level---just stress.
Google Lat Long: Discover the Action Around You with the Updated Google Maps
Keep in mind that this is "increase in height over the past 100 years" which does not translate to "current standard of living." If a country already had a fairly high standard of living, one would expect that simply throwing more calories/protein into the mix wouldn't do much -- the population could be nearing its "peak height" already. If you're a poor country whose standard of living hasn't improved much over the last 100 years, your "average height increase" may look identical to those countries in the first category, but for very different reasons.

In addition, like one of the commenters mentioned, the US has seen tremendous immigration from countries (Top countries that people immigrate to the US from: Mexico, India, China, The Philippines, Cuba) that, on average, have been shorter than European and West African populations, also contributing to the change in average height.

If you look at some of the other "rich countries" in the list, they're smack dab in the middle of some other surprising countries. Sweden is between Vanuatu and Botswana, and Germany's increase in height is identical to North Korea's, for instance.
Thank you!

Macrofab does this for their web tool, from their Github I guess they merge gerber-to-svg with this SVG Stacker:

https://github.com/MacroFab/SVG-Stacker
cd_(){

cd $*

ls

}

alias cd=cd_

hope that helps, have a nice day
'Le Brexit': An Opportunity for Paris to Attract Fintech Firms
The graph conflates Edge and Internet Explorer which are significantly different browsers from the same company. Everything I've seen indicates that currently Microsoft does not develop on a waterfall model. My suspicion about the less frequent releases of Edge versus Chromium/Chrome is driven by business requirements around stability and backward compatibility. Google and Mozilla and Opera don't have such obligation to a similar degree.
I mentioned in another comment that linguistics is a multi-paradigmatic field, with different paradigms having different conferences and professional networks. this is the consequence: generative linguists are increasingly out of step with the field as a whole, and yet satisfied with the level of research, publications, &c.
Interesting. I've often contemplated about it. I don't think I want to live past 80. I mean unless there would be a medical revolution where you can retain youth or slow down aging significantly.
Huh? None of that will be in 2.12 except unification, and that's already planned for backporting to 2.11 (and you can just use the compiler plugin until then).

> I don't want to be stuck on an old version as the language moves forward.

How are you going to be stuck? You might need to stay on 2.11 a bit longer until Google gets their shit together. Most likely this will be during 2.12. Sure, you might miss the first few minor releases of 2.12 ... but stuck?
Reactive Database? Yes Please
I think the post is very interesting, and not completely obvious.

It's not as much about people deciding whether or not to commit suicide; it is, that all of the benefits of intelligence also come with one potentially huge evolutionary problem, suicide.
Given that any natural variance in likelihood to commit suicide should be very heavily selected for or against, what adaptations might we have that were picked up to decrease it's likelihood?

The idea in the post is that some mental illnesses may be connected to these adaptations.
No, but at least it would make it an honest proposal instead of a scam.

There is a difference between something like chemotherapy, which has drastic negative side effects but can save the body, and fake cancer drugs, which might have little to no side effects(or massive ones!) but you die either way, enriching the scam artist on your way out.
A combination of "this too shall pass," careful consideration of just how shitty the less-privileged really have it, and the realization that the only thing wallowing in misery was really getting me was more misery.
I use a mix of

- Google two-factor

- Service-specific two-factor (e.g., Steam authenticator, which provides other features beyond TOTP)

- Non time-based authenticators; Yubikeys are great, and appear to be made of some indestructible material that survives multiple trips through the wash.
> It stands to reason that rolling boxes in bulk around on wheels should be a lot more energy efficient and reliable than flying individual boxes around in the air.

Not necessarily. It would stand to reason if you were comparing identical routes, but we're not. Rolling around the boxes in bulk requires travelling in quite restricted ways, through often congested areas, and because it's in bulk needs to travel to every location on the route. So the final box has been carried far further than the distance it needed to.

How much more efficient could you make your route in a normal truck if you were able to remove, say, 5 boxes from your load. That's 5 locations you can take away from your overall plan. How many truck miles can you remove from your journey? How many drone miles must you add?
Legible Cities: Fitting Outstanding Architecture into Everyday Contexts
Looks like their post got published to the RSS feed as well. Can't undo that.
Storytelling with Dynamic Data
ha ha! I never expected that!
Nintendo NX is a portable console with detachable controllers
Exactly. Treating the symptoms does not mean treating the cause and might even enhance it.
In economics, currency is money in common use, i.e. circulation. Bitcoin may qualify, economically, as money, but it isn't commonly seen, outside limited economic areas, as a bona fide currency. Moreover, anti-money laundering regulations define "money" and "current" equivalently; the distinction is irrelevant in this context.

Salespeople in the precious-metals industry try to pitch "currency" as paper money and "money" as a store of value, e.g. the commodity they're hocking. This isn't an accepted financial or economic construct as much as a marketing one.
can you explain bit more ? how ?
This is not what clickbait is. For those unfamiliar with 99PI, this is a thing they do with all of their episode titles. They're often a pun of some sort, and make the subject of the episode a fun surprise which is made apparent at the start.

One of my favorite titles is "Reefer Madness", which is about refrigerated shipping containers – a.k.a. reefers.
I dislike these kinds of explanations because they seem like ex post facto rationalizations. An explanation that could have gone both ways explains nothing:

* Women stop having children after 40 because it's more important to raise the children you already have.
* Women don't stop having children after 40 because bearing more offspring increases your chances of survival.

Your explanation barely makes sense even on its own merits. Surely, if nature wanted us to have N children and then take care of them, it would have set a cutoff on N, rather than on the time. What if someone has no children before 40? Is it to their evolutionary advantage to care for the children they didn't have?

Or, if your explanation were true, why would women not spend ten years gestating and given birth to a healthy 10-year old? It's illogical to design a system that can pop out one baby every nine months and then say "okay now that you've had anywhere from zero to thirty children, it would be best if you stopped and took care of them.
Are remote workers more productive?
It's not, but then neither is the Scottish £10 note in my pocket -- see my other comment in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12165554
> virtually all adults have the intellectual wherewithal to take their own lives

Do they? It's one thing to say 'i dont want to live' or "i wish i was dead", and another to actually go through the processes to do that. Suicide killers for example, need a strong metaphysical motive and promise of reward to do that.

I often wonder if a man stranded alone in an island , without any societal pressures would ever consider suicide.
> One of the most amazing things about suicide is that over the past 80 years or so in the United States, suicide rates have been extremely flat. The fact that suicide rates have not changed in response to changes in medical technology and other ways of life is astounding.

This may be true in the US, but in Greenland it seems like suicide rates have changed in response to changing ways of life:

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/04/21/47484792...
Lessons Learned the Hard Way: Postgres in Production at GoCardless
But if you have never seen a camera then you would not know what the old icon means either. Yes there is a picture of a palm tree there but that could be anything (given that all icons are basically pictures of something).

Looking at my desk and my habits there are actually very few objects that I use for work most of it happens on screen. All in all, I think good icon design will become harder.
Transdimensional Justice Monster (a page from Wikipedia in 2108)
For last chance backup it's a great way to handle it.

I have a waterproof, fire resistant chest that important papers live in. In the event of a disaster like a house fire, where my phone and tokens would likely be destroyed, it's a "Plan B" option. In the event of an accident or other event that results in my untimely demise, my wife or other loved ones can also access that chest and get backup credentials to access accounts with critical information.

The other nice thing about the analog world is that the legal path is well worn and understood. An online, service-based resource could be shutdown at any time and custodial disputes are either impossible or driven by some arbitration process on the West coast (I live on the east coast). Accesses to physical goods is clearer, and disputes get resolved by a local judge.
This and it's subsequent comments are the weirdest, most unexpected thing in here to me.

I'm an American who's worked in offices the last 10+ years and I have stacks and stacks of yellow legal pads from years of note taking in my closet.

I think it is probably to do with it being cheap recycled discolored paper that was cheaper to dye than bleach. Might be better for the environment than bleach as well.

I switched to dot paper about 4 years ago, though, and I'm relatively happy with the decision.
You were thinking about our Live Free or Die neighbors in New Hampshire.
A cofounder is still a job.

The intended vector is the whoishiring posts at the beginning of each month. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring
oh wow... this is what I exactly look for...
Very cool. In this case, however, is the deep learning approach gaining much over a traditional custom coded technique? There seem to be a few such papers in the past few years.
tl;dr, the article mostly discusses Soper’s hypothesis that "mental illnesses" such as depression evolved as defences against suicide rather than being the cause.

So I guess rather than thinking the job's crap, I'll just have a jolly skydiving trip with no chute you get depressed instead. There might be something there - I've always been a bit puzzled by the evolutionary function of depression.
How to not let failure hurt morale and diminish ambitions like at Yahoo
Yes. As I wrote.
Or if you prefer slides: https://speakerdeck.com/sinjo/lessons-learned-the-hard-way-p...
> But what's weird is not the fact that we don't constantly kill ourselves at the first sign of trouble, what's weird is the fact that we do sometimes kill ourselves when things look completely hopeless.

I think hope plays a big part. We don't kill ourselves because we have hope. If we are suffering and have no hope, that's a recipe for suicide.
I made that argument in a prior thread and people were really, really against it. Despite the abundance of evidence, from that study and the Japanese one [1]. I think Zinc would make a good addition too re: suicide [2]. There are two other large scale studies like this for lithium, both confirming the findings. One from Greece [3] and one from Argentina (can't find it...)
[1]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19407280
[2]: http://www.jad-journal.com/article/S0165-0327(13)00626-5/abs...
[3]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24072668
Why we’re going back to a tech world run by hackers