skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook really hasn't been around that long. Thinking about my AOL usage, I was a regular user for nearly a decade and it continued supplementing my messaging needs for some years after that. I've been on Facebook for nearly the same amount of time, I got in when they opened it up to high school email accounts. It has become pretty common for me to talk to more and more people on services like Hangouts, LINE, Snapchat, even occasionally WeChat. Unlike AIM and Yahoo Messenger theres an ever increasing reason to move away from the Messenger/Facebook platform in the eyes of more and more people. The cycle is starting to play out. I think FB as a company will stick around longer since they continue to buy other popular platforms like Instagram and WhatsApp but someone will eventually decide not to sell.
When I was young (< 14yo) I bought a book at Lowe's called "The Complete Guide to Home Wiring". Of course, this was abnormal but I had an extreme curiosity about electricity. (I still do which is why I'm an EE now)
Recently built a chat/comms. system for my last company. I think key to this user experience is automatically routing to a human when AI systems cannot determine intent. Most cloud products in this space now provide some way to determine a confidence measure. IE the default should be human interaction, unless an intent is certain and a simple remedial action can be taken. This kind of workflow does have the ability to increase efficiency, and improve customer experience if done correctly, but it can easily go wrong.

For example, with my bank, automated telephone banking is often much more efficient and quicker, than talking to a human CSR/Banker, for moving money around in my accounts.
My sister killed herself 9 and a half years ago, and I'm pretty convinced that she'd still be alive if she didn't have immediate access to what she used(+).

Due to the method, we know when she obtained it, and the circumstances around that. She got it when there were suicides in her local community, and in retrospect she had probably been thinking about it at the time. She definitely had some mental health issues at the time centered around overwork. She kept it for years, and finally used it when she had a minor setback at work.

(+ not a gun)
The DX Network
> Not everyone cares about cross-platform, some developers rather specialize in a given platform.

True.

> You can keep using sockets if that is your thing.

For the moment, yes. However, as you know, earlier this week, Apple has officially deprecated OpenGL and OpenCL, a few years after introducing a competing (and admittedly suprerior) API. It is my understanding that Apple has not attempted to get this replacement API standardized, nor to offer it on any other platform. While it's hard to deduce from such a small sample, this precedent does suggest that the days of sockets are numbered.

This would make the life of some of my colleagues quite more complicated, and it would, in time, simply get rid of the macOS version of a number of existing cross-platform applications whose authors have neither the time nor the energy to rewrite the network layer.
Which would be hosted at sqrl.io, naturally.
A general purpose, compact representation of semi-structured hierarchical data
Mr Roddenberry was very progressive, though I think he might have been too optimistic with how humanity evolves (as others before and after him).
Somebody I know described Siri as "less of a Chinese room, more of a tourist's Chinese phrasebook", and it seems to sum up the issue pretty well.
The A380 program was almost terminated this year, and only a lifeline order by Emirates (which is incredibly exposed, as they have almost half of the A380s that have been delivered or ordered) kept the line alive. Lessors won't touch the plane due to a lack of a secondary market (as reflected in this order).

The problem with the A380 was that it was a prestige project formed around a core concept that never materialized, and was directly opposite of the trend over the last 30 years. Namely routes were becoming more fragmented, not less. The a380 required huge amounts of centralization for it to be effective. Places where that is true - Dubai primarily - it's worked well. Everyone else it simply is way to big. None of the passenger or cargo carriers in the United States, which has half of world wide lift, have received a A380.

Several studies have concluded that the only reason the A380 was feasible was because of Government launch aide. When you looked at it logically and with non-pollyannaish analysis, you do the same thing that Boeing did with the 747-600/700 and cancel it. (Boeing eventually built a scaled down 747-8i, which was also a failure, but it only cost them a few billion instead of tens of billions).
I don't see much difference in the iOS simulator: deploy and launch take 3-5s. It's about the same for the Android emulator but I have no experience with Java development, so I don't know if it's fast enough.
Pessimistic answer:

Ever seen that joke graphic with the org charts of various tech companies, where Microsoft's is a bunch of nodes with little hands sticking out and pointing guns at each other?

WPF was a product of the .NET team. WinRT was owned by the Windows team. The two have had a rivalry that's famous for producing collateral damage.

Optimistic answer:

WinRT was designed to be consumable from many languages and platforms, not just .NET. They preserved as much as they could (e.g., xaml), but you can't rewrite the core of a thing without a few growing pains.
I still use Yahoo mail. Happy user since 1990something. I use gmail as well, but I consider it inferior. They both have problems, but at least Yahoo mail's problems are consistent.
From a short time perspective you wasted your time. But in the long run you learned valuable skills that later may have enabled you to automate other more important things.
Did you build the animation with the NASA images? Which tool did you use?
Both UPS and FedEX canceled their A380 orders decade ago because A380 was late and used 767's and 747s are cheap.

There will be another opportunity when existing fleets are used up and fuel costs continue to increase. Converting stripped A380s into freight might be a good option.

Couriers use spoke and hub model that A380 is well suited for.
Hmm? They find that one additional year of schooling increases IQ by 3.7 points. I'd say taking that figure with the difference in schools that blacks and whites in the US usually attend and you've got a plausible answer that the IQ gap is created through environmental differences.
Error 451 is the new HTTP code for online censorship (2015)
> Why should deceiving be some kind of desirable conduct ?

I don't find it deceitful. Is it deceitful if a restaurant has several separate rooms instead of one big room? If they have one big room and most of the room is empty it sends a negative message to a diner. If they have several rooms but don't open up additional rooms unless needed then there is no negative in the patron's mind.

In the case of Home Depot they had the merchandise if someone wanted to buy it. Having empty boxes is a marketing ploy. Is it deceitful if a store gets slotting fees from vendors for better shelf placement? Where does this thinking end? Malls cover up empty stores in creative ways. They don't have a window where you can see the store is empty. They create a front or some other creative way to handle the vacancy. (There are many examples of this behavior which is considered acceptable and clever in business.)
SleuthQL – Burp History Parsing Tool to Discover Potential SQL Injection Po
> with the growth in passenger traffic, will there be a return to hub and spoke, or can long and skinny win?

Long-and-skinny scales better than hub-and-spoke. Comparing the systems, you have identical origin and destination airport traffic. With long-and-skinny, however, traffic at congested hubs is avoided and reduced.

Long-and-skinny is purely a reality because of improved jet technology, in reliability and efficiency. What four engines could barely do in 1969 two engines comfortably manage today.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/05/under-o...

Here's your definition of a "combatant".
IMO calling a wide swath of people "ignorant" with zero content is just noise that does nothing to elevate the conversation. Most of us moved past name-calling in grade school.
The exact opposite is happening. They need a certain number of orders to keep the line efficient. Only the recent A380 order by EK keeps them above that line, and just barely at that.
You can say that about violence in general
Hmm, mostly depends on where you put it. Putting it into ocean would probably be add hard as getting it out of there.

Except here we can put it into storage in a more convenient place.

The real problem is that we do not have enough energy to run this yet. A bunch of nuclear plants would solve it but these come with political baggage. Unfortunately CO2 recovery is very local.
Very powerful. Would be useful to see more explanation on some of them though. Exe what the heck does the last one mean?
Nat Friedman is not a developer? Did you do the most basic google research before bashing him?

If Nat is not a developer, then not a lot of people are, this has to be one of the stupidest comments I have read.
The new error's number, 451, is a reference to Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451, which is widely held to be about censorship, despite the Bradbury's statements that the book was about "the moronic influence of popular culture through local TV news".

More apt now than ever - interestingly 451 pages seem to be cropping up more and more.
Not Concorde per se - The Boeing 2707 - which Boeing canceled as it became clear that the numbers just didn't make sense.
From a pure time savings perspective, this makes sense - naturally, links to XKCD are already popping up.

From a maintenance perspective, a well-written script can serve as a reference after the original task was long forgotten. A poor substitute for documentation, but when performing software archaeology on legacy systems you really need everything you can get.
Ah ok. I'm sold, thanks! The U.S. needs to remain the most powerful army in the world because... WW2!
Notable New Stuff in Core

- list() Reference Assignment

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/list_reference_assignment

this allows using list() function for reference assignment instead of just assigning to new variables

- Flexible Heredoc and Nowdoc Syntaxes

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/flexible_heredoc_nowdoc_syntaxes

This makes using HEREDOC blocks much more friendly looking for spaces/tab usages in code

Other stuff

Just a lot of updates and bugfixes to many extensions
I've always heard, you can't choose if you go bald, but you can choose when you go bald. Just shave your head if you don't like going bald. It seems to me like the people going bald are the ones who care about it. I don't think it affects how others think of you much at all.

Propecia is apparently effective but the sexual side effects seem to make it not worth it.
Long form pieces are nice but most of New Yorker's stuff read like student essays padded to meet a quota.
>>> a person would rent out 10 apartments at $2k/mo and rent them on at $300 a night.

> And you're clearly not a landlord if you think it involves no effort.

The person described in the original post isn't a landlord.
It's sad, but such are economic realities. I've seen an A380 flying directly over my head at low altitude at a show a couple years ago. I was super-impressed at how agile, almost sports plane-like it was behaving.
Yeah. I have a lot of disposable income. I've been doing this for years. I started off at like $300/week about 10 years ago, and gradually moved it up over time.
A claim of bias requires more than "there's money involved", though.

You're assuming bias. There may or may not be bias in this statement.
I think the big issue really for me personally has been that I know that these interfaces are clunky/inaccurate and I don't want to be talking out loud and giving out info in public spaces etc.

If there is an option to type, I got for it the first thing. Anything else feels gimmicky.
In addition to Vapor which other commenters have mentioned, Apple itself released Swift-NIO, a port of Netty to Swift that they’re actively developing - https://github.com/apple/swift-nio

It’s somewhat lower-level than web frameworks people may be used to coming from a Ruby/Node background, but it’s pretty powerful.
Skype was a great app before Microsoft got its hooks
into and ruined it. Now MickeySoft will ruin github
with its idea of making it "better".

Good luck with that! Here comes the Blue Screen of Death
again.
Coco Plagiarized “Remember Me” from Krull OST?
It works and can even allow you to regrow hair. However, your sex drive will take a nose dive. When you stop, things go back to normal, including the hair loss.
Should Brazil keep its Amazon tribes from taking the lives of their children?
> They had interviews with people that survived it -- and they basically all said that as soon as they let go, they realized it was a mistake. That all of their problems were solvable, except for the one they just made.

That fails to explain those who attempt suicide more than once.

EDIT: I found an informal estimate from this article (http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/25/in-defense-of-psych-tre...) by psychiatrist Scott Alexander:

"It is somewhat harder to find good studies on what percent attempt suicide again. By eyeballing some other statistics and trying to fit them together, I believe it is greater than 25% but less than 50%. One textbook whose studies I have not been able to verify says that 30% of untreated and 15% of treated suicide attempters try again."
> or would become orders of magnitude less efficient if operated through such GUI.

I don't disagree. The reason for the re-rise of the CLI is that it's just faster to get stuff executed and easier to script and coordinate things. But there's also a great many CLI tools that don't have obvious command-line uses, or the docs are poor and users of those tools just "know" how to use them because of many hours spent learning them. But new and infrequent users spend lots of time reading docs or rereading them, or looking up examples on the internet and in many cases those uses would be immediately obvious with some radio buttons and a couple buttons. There's also the cases of unbreaking things or unexpected results because of typos.

GUIs make the trade-off of learn-ability with operational efficiency and frankly, many of the tools we use don't benefit from being able to type them out quickly and would benefit from just having some buttons to click with all the options specified.

Also don't think I'm talking only about mousable GUIs. There's plenty of very good examples of keyboardable GUIs with very fast and efficient use-cases that also maintain good discover-ability.
Oddly, my problem with Google is that it's too flexible. Most of the time, it understands me, and that's great. But when Alexa doesn't understand, there's usually an error. When Google doesn't, it seems to call people, cancel navigation, and do all sorts of loony things I didn't ask for.

80% success and 20% no action might be usable for an assistant, but adding in 5% random behavior makes it drastically worse than useless.
'Can we just have home-share for people that understand how to be good neighbors...'

Nice idea but, speaking from experience, it can work the other way around. I've stayed in a few AirBnB's where the neighbours have been arseholes.

Hosts also, on at least one occasion.
I've had my Yahoo mail account forever and I still use it. It's my public facing email account, which will receive very few important things, and no one I actually know uses it to contact me.
Much of it is probably due to the exclusivity of not being bald as you get older. If everyone has a full head of hair, then its value is zero.
The problem with the A380 for freight is that it has a lower cargo density. That is, it has a much greater interior volume than other planes, but not as proportionately greater maximum cargo mass. This is great for passengers (more legroom, etc), but not so much for cargo. Unless it's a shipment of guitars.
I'm not quite sure what exactly you're asking here. Are you trying to say "I've seen apps that are slow, and they use React+Redux, therefore using React+Redux makes an app slow" ? Because if so, that doesn't make sense logically.

Writing apps with React+Redux (or any other client-side framework) doesn't automatically make an app slow. They're tools, and it's your job as a developer to use those tools appropriately.
Maps.org has clinical trials one can get into. And depending on the local laws re prohibition some countries have therapists or guides who will help facilitate.

Holotropic Breathwork gets at the same mechanism of action, albeit a more manual process, and is legal everywhere.

Email me if you’d like to talk more.
This is very sad. I wish his friends and family ease and comfort during their grieving process.

This news is not relevant to the content discussed hacker news and doesn't belong here. This is not Reddit.
Thanks =) I had a quick look att plantuml and it seems to support SCXML export, which I will add in a near future which might be useful for you.
> It is highly likely that many of the people that the CDC identify as having no known mental health condition were either undiagnosed or had kept their diagnosis private.

Given that the vast majority of Americans have a diagnosable mental illness at some point during their lives, if anything that is evidence against there being a strong relationship between mental illness and suicide. E.g. supposedly more than 50% of college students have a diagnosable mental illness during those four years alone.
Is there a plan for c++ Interop in swift.
Or have they decided that using the obj-c bridging layer is enough.
This is one area where I think the US system shows the power of separation of concerns.

Trump would love lower interest rates but the Fed, tends to run itself without much political influence. These people are all "adults" and very accomplished and knowledgeable.

They set the FED rate and everyone else falls along. They have been actively raising rates, with more rate hikes expected in this year to cool inflation, and the economy by extension.

At the very least the US will have some wiggle room to lower rates when the economy slows down again.
Overtaxed Working Memory Knocks the Brain Out of Sync: Study
Yes, but what does make it through is actually there, in analogue, not interpreted. This is non-trivial levels of information being conveyed even through distorted glass that is more present than a digital image.
> “The government knows how to segregate us properly”

The government is great place to balance competing interests, especially if it's more democratic.

> And “Everything will be cheaper by limiting people the ability to trade”

That's missing the point. The goal with regulations like these isn't to make things "cheaper," but to control negative externalities. There's more to life than the price of goods.

Unfortunately, prices are easy to quantify and that fact irresistibly draws certain kinds of people blind themselves to all non-quantitative observations and engage in the McNamara fallacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy
To be fair, the A380F was delayed indefinitely before UPS and Fedex canceled their order. It was a bit of a "I broke up with you before you could break up with me" thing.

The current A380s are not a good fit for freight (lack of nose loading and crappy density), and ironically the freight logistics actually make the A380 harder to use. This is because the most efficient way to do overnight and freight traffic between Europe, Asia and America is to centralize traffic in places like anchorage with a fleet of smaller planes that go to smaller cities. (IE, traffic can go directly from Denver to Shenzhen via a 767 to Anchorage, and another 767 from Anchorage to Shenzhen). You can't put a A380 on each leg of that.
"Please enter you account number"

> one two three etc

"Please hold"

"Hello this is agent a, Can I verify your X"

> It's XXXX

"Looks like you have <totally unrelated subject to what you called"

> Yeah but, I called for Y

"Oh ok"

> Y this, Y that, I need Y to do Z

"Let me forward you to an agent that can help you"

"Hello this is Agent Q"

> I need to do Y! damn it I've been on hold and transfering for 20 minutes

"I can help you with Y, but first, I need your account info

> FREAKING A 1234

"Can you verify XYZW?"

> YES GOD DAMN IT YYYY

"Ok sir, I'll need you to FAX it in"

> What, that's technologies from the 1920s

"I'm sorry sir, is there ANYTHING ELSE I can help you out with <condescending voice>"

> PLEASE KILL ME NOW

"Would you like to take a survey?"

a week later, 7pm you get a robo call

"You had a call with Agent X how did that call go"
Maybe the definition of depression is different, society to society.
I'm certain a good amount of earth's human population has at one point in the course of their lives felt hopelessness, for whatever amount of time.

The majority of those with access to TV who've also seen some American media have likely felt they're missing out on the riches and opportunities that can be had that they're not fortunate to.

Is the definition of mental illness and depression and their treatments and factors the same across cultures?

To me it seems (opinion) that the only constant is... if you feel sad: there's a pill for that.

People in bad situations work hard to get themselves out. It's human pride, it's our nature.
People don't just kill themselves.
Are those who do "weaker beings" or have bigger struggles than those who haven't?

There's another factor at play here, in my opinion, and it's the medication.
Modern Parser Generator
I worked at Lowe's one summer 18 years ago when I was on summer break during college. From what I can tell, little has changed, so I have some insight here. The schedule for workers constantly changes; very often, people that worked there would call in sick or just not come in. The managers move you to where they need you. I was hired strictly as a cashier, but I would often be moved from Tool World to the outdoor section to the main cash registers - all during one shift. Each of these areas has a very different customer type. Being a young college kid who never owned my own place, I didn't know much about any particular area. I tried to be as helpful as possible though. Some customers understood this; others were just plain rude.

Funny story: Management often put me on the cash register guarding the entrance/exit to Tool World because I was very thorough in checking customers as they exited; there was a big problem back then with customers stealing small high-value tools by putting them inside other, less-expensive products. So, it was my job to prevent that. Anyways, I didn't know much about tools, but there was a girl about my age who was very knowledgeable in that area. She was the Tool World expert who roamed around the section. One day, a contractor came up to me at the cash register and asked me some very specific tool-related questions. I had no idea; I said, "I'll call the expert in to help." He said okay and waited. When he saw this young girl with glasses walk up, he looked at me and said, "you've got to be kidding me?"...then he walked away and left! Funny thing is that she probably could have helped him!
This is already the case on some flights. I know we had this on a KoreanAir A380 from LAX to Seoul a few years ago. The view was kind of underwhelming, for the most part.
Including circular paths in phone menus ought to be some kind of professional misconduct, at least when they're not invoked by "go back" or "start again". There's nothing quite like getting seven levels in and discovering you swapped trees somewhere and are back where you started.