skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[1] is a better source (taken from eurostat report [2], which defines intentional self-hard as "purposely self-inflicted poisoning or injury and (attempted) suicide."). Despite a brief increase in 2008, overall the teen suicide rate has declined. The suicide rate for people aged 20-24 has slighlty increased since 2007, following a steep decline.

I can't find any data post 2011 for the EU as a whole (eurostat wants to update that statistic next year), but at least in the UK (office for national statistics [3], figure 6) the suicide rate among people aged 10-29 has odd fluctuations, but overall doesn't change much between 2007 and 2015 (algough it has ended the steep decline that was present 1997-2007).

If smartphones are really responsible for increased suicide rates, we would expect to see similar effects all over the developed world. Maybe an effect on EU teenage suicide rates is hidden by an overall decrease in teenage suicides, but that's not apparent from the data at all (the decease until 2007 might just be a return to the "normal" levels of the early 1980s, for all I know).

1: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/...

2: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/...

3: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...
Here's the link. It was a playground competition (i.e., no rewards) - "This competition challenges you create a machine learning algorithm capable of guessing the next number in an integer sequence. While this sounds like pattern recognition in its most basic form, a quick look at the data will convince you this is anything but basic!"

https://www.kaggle.com/c/integer-sequence-learning
Best i can tell, this happened because shiny buzzwords and "ux" before feature retention.
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Good point! Nice to see someone thinking this through instead of just clutching pearls.
The tried and true way to do this is to either edit one of the best existing answers to include different solutions for different versions or to create a new answer with that same info. And you can liberally take from or excerpt the best existing answers too.

It, of course, may take a long while for a new answer to get upvoted towards the top.
You know, those graphs are really not that compelling. If you look closely, the overall trends started either before, or after, 2007. None of them appears to demonstrate a strong correlation with the launch of the iPhone itself.

That's not to say the article, itself, doesn't have merit, but man, if you're gonna try and put together impactful visuals, that's not the way to go about it.
i feel old (in 30s) when i have problem to distinguish these two services, do I remember correctly that Instagram is just some photo albums for food (not sure what's difference from Google photos) and Snapchat is some chat with stickers for teenagers?

I don't use Twitter, Facebook or pretty much any social media (besides Reddit and HN) and I don't feel like i am missing on something.
This was the best feature I like about the google talk desktop client. And was sorry to see it leave.
> Major hit to your quality of life? I'm sorry, you may potentially have a little less money in your pocket, but you're trading direct cash for better social services (read healthcare and education).

What if "little less money in your pocket" means 50% (or more) pay cut? For software engineers you are easily looking at a substantial reduction in salary.

I think most people are willing to take a pay cut in exchange for better social services and free healthcare & education. But there is a breaking point where the comp. is too low for the extra services to make up the difference.
It is a real problem, as any parent of teenagers can attest. What I find interesting, though, is that a lot of the data on happiness is collected via Smartphone, the very technology under scrutiny. Maybe we didn't know as much about teen depression because we didn't have the technology to collect the data while our kids were drinking at the roller rink.

At any rate, it's up to the parents. I'm not afraid to take the phone away but I also put my own phone down at the same time.
The problem with that is Windows' lack of apps. The UX is better and will be consistent regardless of if you're sharing from an app, File Explorer, or file picker.

Mozilla's service could just plug into it.
"Average" would have been more realistic, and as I say there is value in the role. If DS keeps promising and failing to deliver miracles, it will never be more than a fad. Someone with a job title of "applied mathematician" already does was DS claims to do... the title of "statistical programmer" or "statistical engineer" is a better one, than "data scientist".
> My own answer is mostly HN

But why should valuable content always be centered around "Hackers"?

What news sources would we be reading if we were physicists, or medical doctors, and wouldn't those be interesting even if we don't have these professions?
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Too alarmist, and in wrong tense: people would start freaking out "by typing my password into this box, my password has been hacked". Resonance is not always a good thing, see Tacoma Narrows bridge ;)
> Just because someone is Muslim doesn't mean they (a) necessarily want to find a muslim partner

I thought the religion required it? What is a "muslim" in this case?
Next time I'll zip it :)
> I like how you portray the US to have a higher moral standard for this subject matter. I wonder if there's a Chinese guy who read the article and said:

It's just the nature of where we live and our propaganda.

We have been told over and over that we are the light of the world and we represent good. China/Russia/Muslims/others represent bad.

> If China doesn't do it, USA will, and in a generation will be swollen with a population so much more fit as to make the question of the Chinese standing toe-to-toe laughable. If USA doesn't, Russia will.

I'm sure there is. Human beings are human beings.

In the future, maybe instead of national/racial demarcations, we'll have "valid" and "invalid" demarcations a la "Gattaca".
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5266220 (1 comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6112467 (59 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11932241 (44 comments)
> Plenty of disappeared people, to add to all that.

"Plenty" ... compared to Pinochet? Jorge Videla? etc. etc., all massive beneficiaries of US aid and support.
Anecdotally speaking, lots of applications intentionally slow down the user interactions as part of their UI.

Page / tab transitions and unnecessary animations are very in vogue.

Also consider the "pagination" model, Amazon and Google still use pages for their search results when they could do infinite scrolling a bit faster.
Americans don't travel much, so many don't realize how screwed up our country is. America is inferior in so many ways to other develop countries. Trump is only making this worse by appointing crooks to the FCC.
> What happens, for example, if we recreate the structure of the brain on a computer by interacting silicon chips where you had interacting neurons? Would it be missing anything that’s missing in the mind? I’d like to think that a computer could be conscious. I don't think consciousness is reducible to a pattern of interactions in the brain, but I do think that if one reproduces that pattern of interactions in fine enough detail, one will reproduce consciousness.

Perfectly said. Consciousness is not reducible to a pattern of interaction in the brain because it's a system of brain+world that creates consciousness. The brain learns from the world first, only later it is capable of independent imagination and thinking. A brain never connected to the world would not be conscious. An AI connected to the world (or a simulation) could be conscious of the world it exists in, and of its own existence there.
It's worth remembering that the picture looks very different for an actor that's known to access 'virgin' devices before they arrive at buyers. If you can get unlimited physical access once, suddenly your primary goal switches from remote access to creating tools that can go undetected for as long as possible.
Quartz watches tend to have better longevity than mechanical watches, owing to having fewer moving parts (zero in the case of a digital watch).

I don't know how much servicing that watch has had over the past 70 years, but it's probably significant.
You should just do it - if it's a mistake, it will be really easy to fix.

Can't speak for Sweden, but in London I'm not aware of any stigma around living on boats. A friend of mine at McKinsey, a big management consultancy firm that's as corporate as they come, lived on one and regularly invited colleagues over.
You can eat and commute both ways for under 700 yen?
Nobody has figured out how to make any money off of it.
To be honest, I'll be surprised if Tesla is producing EVs at that rate too... They have 3 models of cars. I'm not even sure there is a market for 500k/year of those three models. Even expanding that to 4 models (Y) would still leave those numbers hard to hit.
Maybe, I couldn't really say. I'm not religious and I do find that view closed-minded myself.
It's a shame that when I see "Wikileaks reveals CIA" I'm thinking "Hmm, I wonder what's happening today RE Russia" instead of being concerned with the actual release.
It does not mean they store the password in clear text, but the implication is surely there. (It does not mean what you think it means.)
Maybe you need to do some soul-searching and ask yourself why do you care what everyone else thinks? Do you want to live life your way and for yourself or do you want to live it their way and for them? It's all in what you want and how you set your priorities.
Quite long ago, I read a fairly similar article (without this ridiculous commentary, of course). It went something like this:

- a friend asks author to try and hack him

- author tries a bunch of things in vain, finally decides to use a rogue wireless AP and does a MITM

- identifies that notepad++ has automatic updates turned on and that it's over HTTP

- creates a custom executable and writes a script (or something) to serve this payload when notepad++ tries to download a EXE

- fakes an update (by returning true when notepad++ queries an HTTP endpoint for the latest version on startup)

I'd be really thankful if someone could link me to this post. My usually powerful google-fu has let me down this time (I tried all _sorts_ of things). Notepad++ and MITM are the only things I strongly remember.
The code's on github, so you could definitely just stand up your own copy: https://github.com/mozilla/send
With the various NSA leaks, we've seen that this is exactly the process. One suite of tools to compromise different types of hardware, and another suite of tools to be loaded depending on what outcomes are desired.
>"Many people find anything offensive, but I don't see any particularly good reason to think there is anything particularly deserving of it in this concept."

Except that arranged marriage is still common in Muslim society. See the section: "Islamic dating practices and community programs":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_marital_practices

and see:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9568360...
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This makes no sense to me. Why wouldn't the companies expand their output if they have idle workers? I feel like you described 1/10th of the issue and it's up to the reader to fill in the rest?
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Here's an example of why it's useful for me to see articles like this on HN. I'm an engineering manager, and someone on my team recently joined who wasn't very familiar with these more functional styles. I offered to explain to him benefits of declarative styles like this vs imperative, but he said he learned better by reading. He asked if I had any articles that I'd recommend about the topic, and since I've seen this, I'll send it his way.
Sorry, I thought you meant grid storage. Tesla has a link on their site about their closed loop recycling program.
KeePass uses an auto-type feature; wouldn't that simulate individual key presses, and defeat anti-paste mechanisms?
I agree that it's a sort of UI problem. I could be sharing a desktop with a customer with Teamviewer (which maybe has file sharing, and it's telling I'm unsure about it) and at the same time talking with him on Skype, which for voice is still good (it's bad for everything else - text, files, screen sharing - video calls are of very limited use.) But I can't easily send a file to the other guy.

Unfortunately AFAIK there has been no successful open point to point file transfer protocol that different OSes could implement and be interoperable over the Internet. Going to https://send.firefox.com/ and drop a file there is not an improvement. It's still centralized. Is there any solution to the problem of discovering the address of the sender and the recipient without a central server? I would think it's an impossible problem but there are clever people out there. Maybe mesh networks?
They have these Test Pilot things specifically to gather feedback, so the best place to have this heard, is by putting it into the feedback-form.
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Yes but given this discussion is on HN, there's a lot more software engineers than mechanical engineers. So you will hear this opinion a lot here and it makes sense from point of view of software engineers.
I would think that for that use case, using thermal storage should be more efficient? Don't store electricity to run AC later, but run AC to cool down water or the ground beneath your house or something, and then cool your house with that later.
In my experience, there're (at least) two ways of using data in an organization:

1. Top down. Where you start with a problem/decision, and use data to inform it. "What phone plan should we offer our customers?" per the article is topdown, and data science can help inform the answer.

2. Bottom up. Where you start with a bunch of data, and try to brainstorm, "OK what cool things can we do with this?". I worked for an IOT company that collected a bunch of sensor data and we'd run into this all the time. We'd take our best shot and report back to clients, who'd say, "Cool, but what do I do with this?". Not saying you can NEVER come up with something useful, but it's a lot harder.
Most of it is automated - I just do a final quality check. Takes about half an hour a day. Ideal case is to automate it completely via ML. It's just that it's hard to create a model that can tell a good blogpost from a spammy one. So as of now little bit of manual intervention is required.
>The urge to believe in the moral decay of the young is extremely powerful.

It's probably actually right. It takes a long time to figure life out. The problem is that the older people of today are comparing themselves who have lots of life experience with youngsters who have a lot to figure out. People forget that they were just as rambunctious when they were young.
> The key... caring about the person you're having sex with

Biologically and historically this is far from being so. Among animals, sex is often aggressive rather than "caring"; the history of humans, too, shows that opportunities of this nature arise from a fierce competition and also from what effectively amounts to slavery.
Lack of prejudice is the norm in the vast majority of places in the western world, despite what the world-is-burning media says.

Residential segregation rates might not have changed much since the 1960s in the US (when there was a political push to reduce it) but I'm not convinced that's purely the result of prejudice rather than a natural human instinct to congregate in culturally homogenous groups. That doesn't mean various groups can't peacefully coexist and thrive together. Culture can still transfer across neighbourhoods and there will always be public/private places where each group mixes.

Canada is known for our multi-culturalism but cities such as Toronto are highly segregated into various ethnic enclaves. And it's a great feature of the city that I've never heard people complain about. I've only heard people say how much it contributes to a great and varied restaurant scene and plenty of unique festivals (for ex: Taste of Little Italy street fair, Chinese new year parade, etc).
Why? Isn't religion/faith "The belief is something unsubstantial and/or unproven"?

edit: countdown until Dang detaches this tangent thread in 3, 2, ...
17 million new cars are sold each year in the US alone. The market is there and proven.
The drop to 2g may be preferred by people that don't want unpredictable overage charges, and like that they can at least use email and light web browsing if they go over.
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I'm sure there are lots. The one that comes to mind now is Dropbox.

It solved this problem: https://xkcd.com/949/

The interesting thing about it is that it's one of those problems that people wouldn't really recognise as a problem until a new solution was presented.

Before Dropbox if you came to HN and complained about file transfer, or suggested that you wanted to make something like Dropbox the average response would be "we have FTP and there's nothing wrong with it duh ..".
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Can Troy or someone contact Google (bq-public-data@google.com) and push this to the GCP's BigQuery public dataset[1] for hosting and easier look up your password via SQL in BigQuery rather than some 3rd party site?

[1] https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data/
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Very cool! Is wisp yours? I learned of SRFI 49 just over a month ago. I reached out to Egil and hope will be able to chat with him this summer.

As 110 and 119 also note, Egil was on to something. Although I came to it from a different angle, I think he had it about 90% correct.

My contribution is identifying the split between TN and ETNs, and then getting the details perfect with TN. Getting the details perfect meant showing how to craft it so that every single input was a valid TN program. My motivation was, if you can write it/build it in real physical life (3D world), or in other words, if nature allows it, then why shouldn't your compiler? I think 49 missed a few tiny details (like " It is an error if neither one of the leading space/tab seqquences are a prefix of the other, nor are they "...in my TN, there are no errors, and extra spaces are translated into separators for empty words).
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> In my generation, parents said the same thing about TV.

And they weren't wrong. One of the best things I've ever done is gotten rid of my TV.
" That amount of money is now big enough to count as a constant threat to market stability, currency stability, etc."

I'm not sure what do you mean by market stability but I doubt very much about the currency stability thing.

The USA government (Fed included there) can issue or tax money whenever they want and have total control over the monetary economy.

For comparison's sake, the FED quantitative easing program was about $4.5 trillion
If you're using the outlined method, you're very, very far from storing it in plain-text; much further than the woefully common `sha1(passwordtext) // voila, secure!`.
Cross-posting here from the feature today on Product Hunt https://www.producthunt.com/posts/dejavu-2-0

Who is this for?

If you are working with NoSQL databases or Elasticsearch in particular, Dejavu can help you with importing data, map it to data types, create and share filtered data views, and export this data out.

It is all Javascript, and is available as a hosted app, chrome extension and as a docker image.

Launch post explains the use-cases in more depth - https://medium.appbase.io/dejavu-data-browser-1-0-0-release-....

What has changed?

* The biggest change today is the ability to import data into Elasticsearch directly via JSON and CSV files. Their is a guided process for setting the mappings correctly.
* Filtered views and query views.
* Ability to export filtered data as JSON and CSV, apparently other web UIs don't support this.
* There is also a docker image option to run it as Elasticsearch removed website plugins starting v5.0.

We originally wrote it in React v0.14.0 and have made it compatible with the React v15.6. There is an ongoing refactoring effort to translate all the code to use ES6 idioms.

Direct link to the website - https://opensource.appbase.io/dejavu
Sam Harris has made a fairly strong argument that ethics are determinable by science

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moral_Landscape
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If you think the above code has bad performance because "event bindings are slow" then your preferred form using `bind` is going to have all of that and more; it sidesteps nothing (except extremely fast switch case matching) and only adds overhead, both in runtime and memory costs.

> Where's the benefit other than making things more verbose?

To be clear what you're asking, are you saying that:

elm.addEventListener('mousedown', this);

... is more verbose than:

elm.addEventListener('mousedown', this.handleMouseDown.bind(this))
Sometimes this style is called "origami programming".
> If there was no salt in the database, it looks Tumblr used a secret "pepper"

It's absolutely clear that Tumblr did not use a pepper to create the dumped hash values in the article. Multiple users had the same hash, and most of those users had the same password as each other on another site.
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I really gotta wonder what sort of protection this actually provides.

A tumbler only helps if a lot of people with legitimate BitCoins frequently mix them in, so that people with coins from a mixer have a plausible claim of innocence. If mixers are primarily used by criminals, you've only anonymized which crime you've committed, you haven't really laundered the money. If those coins touch your real-world identity, you may not be incriminated in a particular crime, but you've made yourself into a suspect in a relatively small pool of crimes.
And then the rest of the login stops working (and the character limit might be enforced again serverside, or worse, silently truncated). Plus, go try that on a smartphone.
Not only motivate but provide more motivated/mature peers. Most of my friends in school were immigrants for this reason.

Mind you, I also know high school graduates who never bothered to learn English. They find a way to make their living in Chinatown (which is slowly expanding across the city).
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No, they didn't.

This article could be written about children in 90s hanging in malls staring at TV and computers, they would talk to each other on the phone or in person.

So what's different? TVs and computers were replaced by smartphones, voice calls and talking in person was replaced mostly by always accessible instant messaging. Is it really worse to be able to chat with your friend anytime and not just when you see each other in person or when your parents allow you to block phone line?
When I discovered Array.map, I already knew about map/filter/reduce. The reason it was a discovery is that the bulk of Javascript resources used for(){} loops and in those few places where map/filter/reduce were used, many implemented map/filter/reduce as library functions because Array.map etc were not always part of Javascript...I think Mozilla added them at some point based on how I found out about them.
They use a perl script for naming. In WWII some nazi radar systems had badly picked codenames.