skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are several sources for comparable US data. Examining page 6 of the PDF below demonstrates that the suicide rates for middle aged to elderly Caucasian males in the US is higher in 2014 by a factor of ~3 or in cases more compared to women and other ethnicities. Despite the prevalence of suicide in this group the issue is seldom covered by the media or addressed in public policy debates.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/suicide/rates_1999_2014....
Your right, I'd probably dock points for readability though because that's not immediately clear.
What difference would that make? Getting into journals like Nature is about getting research shared amongst fellow researchers. The value that journals add is in curating interesting research so a busy scientist can still keep up to date with the key developments in the field. With open access it'll be easier than ever for new curators to emerge.
No one is, just like we never do. What have all the people who have been losing their factory jobs for the past 2 decades done?

> that might hitherto have happened over the course of 1-2 generations may soon be happening in the space of 5-10 years

It's been happening in that shorter timespan for a while now, so really, what have those people who have already lost their jobs done?
It might also be because people are wary of talking about suicide because there is some evidence that making people think about it more may make it occur more.

Also, it might be because society sort of accepts that old men are allowed to kill themselves. The highest suicide rate is for 75+ year old men.

http://www.mindframe-media.info/for-media/reporting-suicide/...

I don't agree with either of these things, I'm just putting them forward as to why people suicide is less prominent in public health discussions.
To survive an attempted gun suicide is such an unspeakably, crippling and horrendous thing, it's almost unbearable to contemplate. It is certainly not something that could easily be hidden.
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I've heard from several VC's that they wouldn't touch a company that raised a previous round via Title III. It makes sense on one hand (cloudy legal ramifications, which I'm sure will be no fun for the first big exits that go this route...); and on the other hand, it's stupid and competitive to explicitly choke a system that could increase opportunities/deal flow for everyone.

Regardless, something to be aware of as a founder considering options.
Where's the downvote button when you need it?
'delete' is in the process of being deprecated: https://dlang.org/deprecate.html#delete
From my past life in DC, we always just called it "Up North."
This appears to be "We will interface the real world to the blockchain by using a Magical Flying Pony(tm)" and then going on to specify the wing feathers in precise detail.
"Maybe the future will be perpetually irrational about asset prices" is not really a compelling economic story. There is indeed a mathematical relation between long run asset prices and the income generated by those assets. In the short run you can do whatever you want, but the long run constraint is predictably enforced by arbitrage.

(it is left as an exercise to construct the most entertaining arbitrage play in a world where stock prices diverge indefinitely from the value produced by the underlying assets via some magic.)
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No I am not.
There you go, oldmanjay, very good.

When you encounter an opinion you don't agree with, the first thing you try to do is discredit the person speaking that opinion. That is EXACTLY the correct, adult way to handle things.

The best part about your method is that it's impossible for you to be wrong! If someone ever says something you don't agree with, all you need to do is find out how you are smarter than that person, and then use that as evidence for why their opinion can't possibly be true.

You, good sir, are a role model.
Thanks! To clarify, we didn't rename the language, just the GitHub organization. However, dlang.org is what we've been using as the canonical address for the website, and "dlang" is a much more searchable term than just "D". (Now, if only Google would stop auto-correcting "dlang" to "golang"...)
DBvisualizer ... A Java app but it does that job pretty okay.
I'll agree, cache crap was and still is a pain in the ass to deal with.

On the dev cost and maintenance bit -- again, we're talking static sites. If it needs a database it's not static. If cache invalidation is such a big deal, presumably because you need it a ton for something, then I would ask if whatever you are working on is really static? Or is someone just shoehorning dynamic behavior into prerendered HTML? Is the site just incredibly high-traffic?

My bigger beef is with this proliferation of unnecessary tooling, how little it actually does, and the amount of learning and knowledge required not just for the process the tool manages, but also for the tool itself and well as its problems. You have to practically be a neckbeard with a BS in big-company bullshit software engineering tools to make the right tooling choices -- not so different from the programming neckbeard (except she's closer to the metal--and the process).

As an example, code that I inherited was configured to deploy with Capistrano... which was great, when it worked, but it would fail and all it was really doing was copying files to a new folder, symlinking the "current" folder to this new one, and restarting Apache (by the way-- here's a solution for your atomic copies). Sure, Capistrano abstracted deployment details away, but really, how many were there to begin with? Changing a couple development techniques and reducing deployment to a carefully-written 8-line shell script has eliminated nearly every problem we had related to deployment, reduced the architectural complexity of a part of our operations that we really do not want to care about, and given us something that can be taught to (and reasoned about by) new users in a matter of minutes -- all because we teach and stick close to the actual process of what we're doing. (It is WAAAAY easier to open up the script and say, "so this is where we copy the files over, this is where it decides which files are in the CDN, here's where it looks up that criteria..." than it is to try and guide new technical users through the thicket that is CI documentation)
While not priced per GB used, hubic.com is the cheapest storage I know at 50€ per year for 10TB in the biggest package. Uses the Openstack Swift API.

Edit: "unlimited" Services are even cheaper on paper of course, but i don't really trust those.
This looks really cool. How does the integration with external JavaScript libraries work? Could I use this with something like Three.js?
Haha, looking through your comment history, you have absolutely no right to be using such a concescending tone.

Does your resume include any position besides "old, disgruntled, unhappy, friendless programmer"?
> While it's a cool concept and agriculture is ripe for technology disruption

Is it? From what I've heard farming is pretty high tech already.
What's the biggest limitation he's facing right now with Tesla / SpaceX?
It would have to be Core_kernel, the subset of Core that doesn't interact with the runtime or OS. I'm very curious about this and would like to know, too.
It's also a terrible comparison of hash functions for the purpose of hashmaps, because it tries to reduce the performance characteristics to a single number. The performance characteristics of a hash function varies over the size of the input. FarmHash is super complicated because it's basically a huge stable of hash functions that are selected based on input size.

For instance, looking at these numbers you might conclude XXHash is strictly faster than FNV, but in reality FNV performs much better for the more common case of small inputs (breaking even around 16-32 bytes).
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My interests rarely align well with other people. If they do, then there are usually one or two interests. However, many of the activities that have stuck with me are a willingness to try another's interest for some time. They would not have incubated without the initial effort.

You are completely justified in your solitude. As you said, it works for you. Yet I still believe meaningful connections (and personal growth) are abound without superficiality if you are willing to give it time and effort.

...Sometimes I believe it is the disparity between myself and another that leads to a lasting, meaningful connection more so than the similarity.
> Meanwhile, homicide is almost non-exisitant (3)

Homicide accounting for a third of gun-related deaths in the US, and a homicide rate four times higher than other western democracies... is "almost non-existent"!?
Perhaps you might care to revisit your comments above then and clarify what it is you're arguing for, rather than simply against others' statements or views. Because I'm not getting that, and I'm apparently not the only one.
Forgive me, but I think you've misunderstood something here. The most important thing about the cuckoo is that your bucket choice functions (i.e. hashing function) are independent. If two keys hash to the same first choice bucket, their alternate hashes will (almost certainly) hash to DIFFERENT buckets. For instance, take the SHA-1 of the key. Your first bucket choice is defined by the first x bits, your second bucket choice is defined by the next x bits. But inside a bucket, you can have a bunch of slots.

It works like this. A typical sizing is 4 slots in a bucket, with 2 bucket choices. So your first choice, you arrive at a bucket, and it is just a linear array of length 4. You can put your element anywhere! After a while, when you go to insert into your first choice and you find all 4 slots taken, then you can take ANY of those and try to put it in its alternate bucket. If that alternate bucket is full, you evict from that bucket, too! Thanks to the random nature of your hash functions, it works out very well. 2 bucket 4 slot gets you near 95% occupancy without many evictions on insert.

When you go to lookup, you check your first bucket, and you check all 4 elements until you find it. If you don't find it, you go to your alternate bucket and check all 4 elements. But that's it - only two random accesses (the 4 slots will easily fit in a cache line). It's not so bad to check all 4 elements because the cost is really dominated by loading the line to begin with.

I really recommend a read of some of the cuckoo papers, it's cool stuff.
11K deaths from homicide isn't "almost non existent". Now it is true the burden is concentrated in young males, especially black males. This is not to say a death from homicide is intrinsically more important than from suicide, that firearms aren't linked to higher suicide rates, or that gun suicide isn't worth preventing - clearly it is.

As for why the news focuses on homicide, especially spectacular mass murders, "if it bleeds it leads".
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Well perhaps not right away. But as his competitors adopt similar practices, they will drive down the price.
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Actually that's part of what I do manually. However, in Berlin (my favorite city so far) meetup seems to go down. Fewer events in general, fewer interesting ones, and more events where nobody shows up. 2012 it was awesome, but in 2016 fun is hard to come by. I don't know, maybe they increased the payment in the meantime or something or maybe I'm just getting too old.
Men are far more likely to die from all sorts of things, esp. occupational hazards. Nobody cares.
I am a woman. I attempted suicide at age 17.

I went though my desk drawers, etc. I found some pills, maybe decongestants, and decided that would probably not kill me. I found an exacto knife in my art supplies and decided to cut my wrist with it. I failed to hit a major artery. There was very little blood.

In contrast, I believe my brother's room had a gun, a bow and an encyclopedia of true crime. Had he attempted suicide while locked in his room, there would have been dramatically greater access to effective means and useful information for actually ending up dead.

I will suggest that women generally have less access to effective means, generally have less exposure to subjects relevant to figuring out how to end a life, and that women are typically subjected to a greater amount of social control that limits their ability to act.

Men are more likely to be infantrymen, police officers, hunt as a hobby, etc. Thus, they are just more likely to know how to kill something.

Additionally, successful suicides occur when you are alone. Men seem to have more opportunities to actually be alone, an observation I made years ago on a different forum about a different subject.

Women typically make less money than men, so they are less likely to be able to afford a place of their own. They tend to have roommates. Following a divorce, women are more likely to get custody of the children. So, post divorce, men are more likely to be living alone, women are more likely to be living with kids.

Etc.

If you attempt suicide with other people at home, you need to keep it a secret. If they find out, they will stop you. Simply having other people around is a deterrent to succeeding. It is hard to very quietly, secretly off yourself.

So, I think one factor is that women are less likely to have sufficient privacy, for lack of a better word, to succeed.
BTW, congratulations on the 1.0 milestone!

How did you become so proficient with the OCaml compiler internals? When you started the project did you already know that you can compile to idiomatic js or was that discovered through experimentation?
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mega.nz has end-to-end encryption and iOS client.
Kansas City is not actually in Kansas. Kansas is the state named after its neighbor's second-best city.
Well, there's http://www.nhs.uk/News/Pages/NewsIndex.aspx for the latest health papers spinned by the media...
Most countries apart from the US? Really? Most of them?

A. It's not most. Not even close.

B. If you take the countries that do have socialized medicine, and add the criterion that the funding is not in constant jeopardy, there are very, very few countries that "manage it".
Whether or not you can map everything in the higher order language to the nat -> nat one is what's at issue, not the reverse.

For an analogy, you can map all the natural numbers to real numbers. This proves just about nothing. That you cannot map all the reals to the naturals proves something very important.

It would be truly bizarre if a useful programming language could express something that computation on bits could not.
Perhaps we should require the less common algorithms to have a longer prefix.
> "Maybe the future will be perpetually irrational about asset prices" is not really a compelling economic story.

Perhaps, but then we are getting into rational expectations and not mathematical constraints. (Though, really, given that rationality requires perfect knowledge of future utilities, "the future will be perpetually irrational about asset prices" is pretty much guaranteed to be true except for intermittent times when it isn't momentarily largely by chance; even a consistent divergence in a particular direction from rationality isn't surprising, given what we the particular ways in which people tend to be deviate from economic rationality in practice.)

> There is indeed a mathematical relation between long run asset prices and the income generated by those assets.

No, there is a mathematical relation between reasonable asset prices and expected income streams that the assets will generate.

> In the short run you can do whatever you want, but the long run constraint is predictably enforced by arbitrage.

"In the long run, we're all dead" -- Keynes

Even granting your point for the sake of argument, what must ultimately be true in the long run assuming an infinite time horizon need never actually be true in the physical universe we inhabit. Irrationality in prices can be maintained indefinitely, even though not infinitely -- but then, the market can't actually exist infinitely, anyway.
Machinekit, originally derived from Linux CNC, uses the BeagleBone's PRU's to handle the real time I/O.

Code: https://github.com/machinekit/
PRU links: http://blog.machinekit.io/2013/06/beagle-bone-pru-links.html
"What would stop journals from blacklisting scientists who publish their articles under open access laws?"

I think there would just be far too many of them.

Moreover, the Scientists could feign that they were not possibly involved in the alternative distribution of it.

I think 'blacklisting' would be an aggressive posture, and likely viewed as unethical, it's not something they could likely get away with.

I think the 'prestige' of being published in Nature etc. will outweigh most concerns.
It is true that most Americans are very unlikely to be murdered. This homicide rate varies widely over age, sex and race, and (as per CDC) homicide is not a leading cause of death for most demographics. Young black males are, unfortunately, the exception.
In case anyone is interested in the author's bio: http://howardbloom.net/howard-bloom/about-howard-bloom/

Howard is a piece of work, he used to always sit in the exact same chair in a Brooklyn cafe every night for years. It is now closed and I wonder where he ended up. I haven't given his work a chance, I'll admit, mainly because of that outrageous bio and the content of some of his work. I'd prefer to remember him as that eccentric guy in the coffee shop.
having worked doing produce sorting ( http://www.compacsort.com/ ) A lot of the cost is the mechanical system. for the very simplest / slow kind of sorting they are doing, computer/vision wise you don't really need too much.
Not hyperbolic at all. If you read through this thread, the "salary" they are paid assumes that they are making money through tips. It doesn't get adjusted if they are tipped less.
The overhead of storing hashed values inside the hashtable is not to be neglected.

If my key type has a fast hash function, maybe I don't need to store the hashed value. But if e.g. I have a hashset of char*s, I definitely don't want to rehash. Storing those hashes alongside the pointers effectively halves my load factor, from a cache-friendliness point of view. There goes the whole load-factor advantage.

Maybe Robin Hood hashing still wins by letting me use linear probing, which is more cache-friendly than (say) the quadratic probing you'd normally have to do. But this is getting sketchier...

In addition, it's not clear to me that the cost of the swaps is entirely negligible in the common case when the elements of the hashtable are more than one or two words wide. Certainly not if you have to run a constructor to do the move instead of just memcpy'ing the elements.

I like the idea, but it is not (to me) obviously a knockout win.
> Most countries apart from the US? Really? Most of them?

Most developed countries. In fact, I'd go as far as to call it a qualifier to be a developed country.
I'm not disagreeing. Not sure why the down vote.

I'm just saying that there is significant ego on the developer's side of things.
Yes I'll definitely expand my cloudfront + s3 for my next projects - to see how that could help. The only + for shared hosting is that I offer free shared hosting email with any hosting for my clients. Email are getting to be an expensive commodities.
How do you keep yourself motivated, obviously you have been very successful, and have built great companies. Is it the mission behind the companies that keeps you motivated? Or is there someone or something? I am sure the daily drills of running billion dollar companies can be tiresome but what is your secret for being so motivated and what drives you now to keep pushing the limits.
Funnily enough, Berlin is at the top of my list. (And it's also my favorite city so far.)
The problem with this feature seems to be that it thinks if the site reissues its certificate it means all passwords there were compromised. Which leads it to mark all old passwords as vulnerable, even if no breaches were actually reported for the site.

The certificate/password link is a guess since on their website they say to change the password starting with date that matches the date of certificate reissuance.

This seems to be related to Hearbleed, also it lists a site that didn't reissue certificate after Heartbleed as vulnerable too, and so for passwords there, seems to be regardless of age.

I am a long-time 1password user and have a lot of old passwords, so for me like 90% of passwords are listed as compromised, which I'm pretty sure is not the case.
Male suicides are up in the US, too. The US has about 40,000 suicides a year. "Suicide is concentrated among those whom our society values least."[1]. The big jump is among white, middle-aged men and women.

"The states with the highest suicide rates tend to be clustered in the South and the Mountain West... This suicide belt is also defined by what psychologists have dubbed a “culture of honor.” ... That means higher murder rates but even more-exaggerated suicide rates, a fact he attributes to millennia of old masculine codes meeting a disappearance of blue-collar jobs unlikely to reverse itself. Give me honor, or give me death was a safer personal motto when honor could still be readily found." - Newsweek

Will this be the fate of today's "brogrammers" in their 40s?

[1] http://www.newsweek.com/2013/05/22/why-suicide-has-become-ep...
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Watch Elon musk's interview on khanacademy.org under entrepreneurship. He answers these questions there.
It's true - I was originally referring to Alcohol versus LSD (as that was what the parent was trying to compare, and couldn't believe that LSD wasn't terribly dangerous). But, I was prepared to also discuss the relevant merits of Alcoholic abusers and Heroin Abusers (and users) as well.

I think, much like people get used to the death rate from Car Accidents, and don't think of Cars as dangerous, people have gotten used to Alcohol issues in society, and don't think of it as dangerous, when it very much is. (Front page of New York Times is discussing an Alcohol related sexual also case in Palo Alto that almost certainly wouldn't have happened if the two parties had been sober).
Sure, you're right about that. In fact, we may be in an era where that might be possible at the moment (probably in the next election though). However, when a third party is actually viable, you'll know it well before election day.
They each have associates/partners who look for startups in the usual places and share deal flow with other investors.
I second Metabase recommendation. Like the fact that it's OSS.
I love David Foster Wallace's perspective. And yet he is a victim of his own marked perceptiveness. Simply by believing solitude is pathology indicates the troubling demons he grappled with, which ultimately consumed him.

I think the truth is much more simple. Most people are not highly critical of introverts that prefer quiet and solitude. They may not understand it, but they are mostly indifferent. However, the harsh struggle for the introvert to connect with others on a deeper level leads him/her to that conclusion.
So you're saying you feel bad for the person who chose to lie in exchange for millions and millions of dollars?

By any chance, are you yourself rich? I can see how that would make it easier to sympathize with someone like Sean Murray. If not, then why would you feel bad for someone who got paid millions and millions of dollars for lying for years? Isn't having a lot of money a good thing?
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