skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Known mental health condition" is the key sticking point. The CDC's data relies on reports from coroners, medical examiners and law enforcement agencies. The study I cited was based on psychological autopsies, which includes interviews with family members and health care personnel. 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. Much of the growth in the suicide rate has come from older working-class men, who are far less likely to seek treatment for mental health problems or to talk to their families about mental health.
I agree, but calling it "illegal to not make a profit" is patently false.
> increase property utilization

This implies that rent should rise to meet nightly AirBnb rates, which has all sorts of implications ..
Bernanke Says U.S. Economy Faces a ‘Wile E. Coyote’ Moment in 2020
My guess its driven by what .com domain name they can afford to buy off someone.

I'd happily sell jaruzel.com to any company who wants to name their app after me. I'm worth about $1m I think.
Sounds like I should move there :) The Northeast's justification is that they don't want human feces in the water table.

But their policies don't reflect this noble goal.
Have you ever watched someone try to persuade others to their opinion? Are people perfect evaluators of facts and reason completely impervious to the negative affect of the persuader?

Or is it more common people go along with a emotionally-resonant personality and dismiss their reliance on facts and figures based on intuition?

You can be sure when I buy computer parts, numbers are the bottom line, but what if an ad for, say, an SSD offered a great price and excellent performance. Would you still buy it if next to the price tag, it said that if you did so, you're pathetic?
Writing would be scary but reading should be fine. That’d allow importing an entire database worth of data into an app packaged in a single executable. Rather nifty!
“The government knows how to segregate us properly”
And
“Everything will be cheaper by limiting people the ability to trade”
I’m selective about what I learn by only one measure... is it fun for me? Usually it turns out to be not only fun, but also intellectually stimulating and brings new ideas in front of me. However over time I’d say nothing I learned on the side was of no value to my day job and to my overall development as a programmer.
My guess is that most people call for stuff that's easily doable in the website, but they can't or won't use it
It's going to be the other way around. You will log in to Azure etc with a GitHub account.
The authorities would know if a flood of license approvals about to happen before the 15th. But surely there’s not, and on the 15th these units become illegal. Two weeks notice seems much more fair to travelers than waiting till the 15th and cancelling.

Rules are followed in Japan. Allowing a grace period for unlicensed rentals was really fair of them.
I'm really curious, how do you define "good"? See my post above.

It's really easy to be a waiter- it's very difficult to herd cats into your funnel.
Yahoo Auction is also still very popular in Japan.
Spare a thought for those of us who distrusted GitHub before Microsoft bought it, precisely because they're closed-source attempted-monopolists whose interests don't necessarily align with their users'.
From the OP: "Whether it’s an established company or startup that’s gained mass appeal like GitHub, GitLab or Stack Overflow"

Thanks for the recognition for GitLab! We hope that for many people that switched https://twitter.com/develosysadmine/status/10050613234058731... was the case: "For me, I already knew GitLab was better than GitHub in a variety of ways. Microsoft just gave me the slightest nudge to actually make the switch."
in general commodity traders (power, gas, oil...)
Most chat bots respond to ‘help’ with a list of commands.
Well, I can just suggest everybody to hang up or even ignore calls if they don't know the numbers. I personally always look up the number on Google or check them on sites like http://whycall.me just to see if people have reported them as scam. I will block the numbers without even talking to them, then.
This reminds me of a principle I heard reading some stoic literature (unfortunately I forget which) which stated: "The purpose of thought is to inform action."

Thoughts, analysyes and ruminations can be fun, but ultimately if they don't suggest an action: either initiating a new action, or modifying an action that is unfolding, then they are without purpose.[1]

[1] The Buddha even suggested that they are stressful.
Unlikely. Companies want more profit
> Companies that are "alive" don't pivot.

They can pivot into being a company that is alive, though. Remember that Slack was a pivot from an online game.
agreed!
Is mental illness a cause or a result of treatment for "depression?"
Being sad and unhappy is natural... does medication create the illness?
He is not representative of most developers, first (wealthy and corporate-politics resistant), and tries to present himself as one, second (how he introduced himself).

This means Github will be handled by non-developer who tries to pretend to be a developer. This means he lies, conspicuously or not. In both cases I cannot see him as smart enough and self-aware enough.

Given that, I think github will be mishandled and I also think I would be better off somewhere else.
Speak for yourself please, I am not part of we.
It does not. And controlling guns tightly doesn’t mean you magically save 20,000 people from suicide. Give it a rest before we’re dancing with downvotes.
Sure, but those are usually not chatbots per se, but rather simple commands. The Wikipedia bot, for example, only performs a search on the website (and is less useful than the actual search when it does not directly find a page).
> With CLI, you usually can type help or add a -h to the command or something like that and you'll be presented with options and examples

And you get to enjoy fumbling around trying to guess whether this particular program's magic incantation to summon help is "help", "-h", "--help", "?", "/?"...
>putting pressure on the already cripplingly bad housing situation.

No amount of demand suppression will ever fix a supply issue.
“We’re better off not building up housing infrastructure subsidized by short term leases and just trying to suppress any demand that changes the market clearing price”
I'm also a CFA and a closed-end fund investor and agree with this advice. People interested in CEFs should check out the Morningstar CEF forum https://socialize.morningstar.com/NewSocialize/forums/100000... .
I find it sad how prevalent this mentality is. the cost to technology and progress is immeasurably vast.
If they did this they should make a viewing area with a big window where people could take turns visiting.
This is playing out with someone I know, so it's validating to see it as a good path or outcome. How do you get access to MDMA treatments?
What's wrong with being average?
The article was very interesting, but as a nit the best fit curves in the graphs were questionable.

"everything is linear if plotted log-log with a fat magic marker"
How's Nim?

I'm not sure what to think of the way it compiles to C and has its own garbage-collector.
One thing that stuck out to me was flexible heredoc changes: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/flexible_heredoc_nowdoc_syntaxes
“Majority” is not all. Even with a few windows still open you can still get the sense of the outside, and light shifts as the plane moves, etc. There’s a big difference between “majority” and “all”.
I find voice interfaces absolutely infuriating to use! I invariably have to put on an American or English accent in order to get them to understand anything I say, and even then it takes several attempts.
Web 3.0 was supposed to be the Semantic Web.

I don't think there are version numbers anymore. The web's now evergreen.
I get this feeling that the displayed images just won't be the same, not the least because they'd just be flat images instead of what you see when you normally look out. As someone who regularly requests window seats this doesn't appeal to me in the least, but I don't fly Emirates so I guess it doesn't really matter. I suppose I might be in the minority, though, of people who love just staring out the window, especially on takeoff and descent.
I should definitely try and get fit. Music and languages are beyond me unfortunately!
Why we need Callbags (pattern for observables/streams)
And I think most of us are in the same camp there. Usually, when I am calling a business, it's because of some kind of unusual or complicated inquiry or special situation because I generally don't want to call if I can do or get what I need by logging in online to the company's site to manage my account or do whatever I need there as that's often the fastest. But the online account management only does so much so when a weird edge case regarding doing business with the company arises, I will call, and in those situations the AI/voice prompts never handle the situation I am calling about such that I need a human agent/rep every single time. I wouldn't be calling for something simple!
Agreed. Randomly and anecdotally, I am reminded of Iris Chang, who was a famous author responsible for our knowledge of the Rape of Nanking.

Her cause of death was brutal, and she was going through immense pressure during her last research project. A self-influcted gunshot to the mouth sounds like a horrible way to go.
Hey, I don't know you and you don't know me, but I'm here if you'd like to chat. Hit me up.
People like to include suicides in the gun violence numbers to make guns seem more violent
Google public shareholders do not have control of the company. Larry, Sergey, and Eric are the only shareholders who matter. So executives are responsible to them first and foremost.
Actually education does have a significant effect on IQ. http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/109/2/425.full.pdf
What would be really awesome would be to find a transparent material to build the fuelsolage out of and then windows are just the unpainted areas.
From what we've seen so far, I'm guessing "marketing", "passing the buck" and "whataboutism".
build:
Modelio.org and IntelliJ Ultimate linked to bitbucket's git repository, with BDD on Cucumber and Selenide.
Springboot ( java8, groovy or kotlin ) + queryDSL + Postgresql + angular.

host:
private server4you centOS vps, keep running with monit and nginx as load-balancer.
Yes, the most obvious of which is "build more [high-density] housing."
Why you probably live in a multiverse
Arguably a tech worker should be underinvested in tech stocks, because if there is a tech bust, as in the early 2000s, both his income and his portfolio could plummet.

Economists would say that you should try to diversify your labor income with investments.
This seems tolerable as long ad they don't start playing the obligatory safety video on the windows or messing with the feed at all
Of course they do - they manage a place that visitors can stay in. Which is why people pay them. And you're clearly not a landlord if you think it involves no effort.

Sure, if a society thinks they cause more harm than good, by all means, ban them, but that's a different argument.
No reason to believe that they would, I've been on multiple planes where it was possible to bring up different camera feeds of the plane on the screen in front of me. The coolest of these was filming the plane from the top of the tail wing so it almost looked like a video game feed.
I would really love it if a single person who derides the US for their drone strike casualties would actually back their position up with some data.

At a minimum, I would like to know the civilian and non-civilian casualty rates of drone strikes, the definition of civilian being used, a good idea of what alternative military action the US would have taken if they didn't have drone capabilities, and the civilian and non-civilian casualty rates of those military strike options.

Without that, bringing up the drone strike casualties is nothing more than moral grandstanding based on how certain types of military action make you feel. Bonus points if you use the words "murdering children" in an attempt to bypass any logic and go straight for emotions.
Facebook alerts 14M to privacy bug that changed status composer to public
Am I the only one whose first reaction to this is "Oh, great, yet another manner in which my next application won't be cross-platform?"

My second reaction being: "Oh, well, I'll just make it a web app instead of a native app."

edit Rephrased the last sentence.
How does your chatbot startup address the issues with chatbots that have been raised in the article and in these comments? And how is it better than other GUIs?
They'll probably be back after registering. The new law is pretty reasonable and AirBnB is actually following it. This is how this is supposed to work.
This article goes through discussing using tjs commander library for building node cli’s. I’m not a big fan of the library.

A recent approach I’ve been taking is just parsing args with something like minimist or zeit/arg and then handling the commands passed in.

It leads to a lot simpler code especially for small tasks like what is described in the parent article.

Another tip, you could also use pkg to create binaries for your new cli application so people don’t need node installed on their machine to run them.
OK if that's your definition of embracing.

Btw, you can make your point without bringing in Red Hat. It sounds absolutely silly to me :)
Oh, I guess since I was interacting with a bot in a chat I got confused. So in this case I guess it's just kids continuing their time honored tradition of mirc style bots...
Out of genuine curiosity, what real business problems do chatbots solve? The only ones I encounter are "customer support" bots, but I'm wondering if there are other uses that businesses and customers find value in.
Maybe. But then again, technology is disrupting pretty much every industry. Do you want to be underinvested in that?

I always want to be overinvested in what the future brings. Unless valuations have gotten way out of hand.
I had a similar experience when I rediscovered my Livejournal from back in the day.

If I didn't know I was the one that wrote it, I would've considered the author either an angsty ragemonster or just a plain old sociopath.

My, how the years change us. I'm really happy, compared to where I was 20ish years ago.
It looks really nice and simple, I created a HN league (https://cupkit.app/hacker-news) for people who want to test out all the features.
Say the Hard Thing
"CONNECT ME WITH A HUMAN, YOU INFERNAL MACHINE."

"Okay, let me get you to a representative."
> Swift 5 (Early 2019):
> binary compatibility with future Swift releases

I bet this doesn't really happen, though it probably makes the day when it really happens closer.

(I don't just mean they might miss the date, but that
(1) they miss the date by a lot; and/or
(2) they drop binary compatibility from Swift 5; and/or
(3) they claim they've achieved binary compatibility but it doesn't out to be true for long, less than 5 years
)
Any guesses where is the next Shenzhen going to be? Or is there now a dispersion/diaspora wave occurring that makes it difficult to determine a new center of gravity?
Perhaps you could describe an example / use case of a chat bot that works well?
I think there a difference between saying what you have said, which admits the possibility of real chemical imbalance based on surrounding contexts, even if more research and evidence is necessary to fully understand or prove it, vs, outright saying that it is a "myth," as the OP did, which is both dismissive and inaccurate.
As a browser author, are there any alternate implementations of WebRTC besides the one all of the browsers use?

From my research I was kind of shocked that the answer might be no.
I think that's actually a really good method to apply in these cases, and I agree.

However I also think that the roads are currently occupied by many people who fall below that standard.

Should a car with assistive technologies only be a success if it is as good as a reasonable person, or if it is better than a typical person?

Obviously the former is prefereable to the latter, but people seem much more content with the idea of driving themselves into walls (or another typical person on the road might crash into them and cause that outcome) than with the idea that a computer might do that same.

See also fear of flying vs driving even though flying is demonstrably safer, but feels much more out of the hands of the flyer.
Anything SQLite I upvote. ^_^
It's the prisoner's dilemma. If they were all not participating it would be fine. But because some are, and Google is ranking them higher-up, all of them now have to participate.
Fuzzy Logic in Agent-Based Game Design [pdf]
Another 50+ guy here.

I've been thinking about getting back into coding after a multi-decade hiatus. I taught myself to code in my early 20's. Coded through my early 30's and have been in management roles (involving software development or for technology companies) ever since.

I went from Perl to Java (hated Java) to PHP and have played around with tons of languages (just enough to complete the project) in between. Right now, PHP is my go-to language for my own projects simply because I'm used to it.

I still hack stuff. I run a few websites. I write plugins for WordPress. I write little PHP or Bash scripts to automate some stuff on my server.

Recently, I've been diving into Swift. I hope to get good enough at that, that I can get a remote job and semi-retire. For me, working from home would be almost like working part-time. I don't mean that it's that easy, just that a lot of management and office politics is so soul sucking that it feels like you're working 24 hours a day.

It's tough coming back. But, I've never strayed too far from coding to begin with.

It seems the advantage I have is experience. I've been there and done that before, even if I wasn't the one writing the code. Even being in management, I still enjoy sitting in a room with engineers and white boarding solutions.

And having worked in management, I have a better understanding of the "why" behind features and can suggest different paths to get to the same outcome.

I guess I'll find out if you're too old to code when I start looking for jobs :-)
And I'm now wondering how long it'll be until Apple deprecates Sockets.
>Chrome isn't the only browser doing things to extend the web. Firefox and Mozilla work on new features too.

I don't disagree at all. It's actually extremely respectable how much collaboration is involved in the process.

>Even though some people have changed their Firefox user agent and found that the web page still works under Firefox.

I'd blame site owners for that one.

>Edge isn't as behind as it once was either

Mixed thoughts. Edge is 100% better than IE used to be, but it still largely lags behind the other vendors.
I'm sure the monitors won't help people with air sickness at all.
Off-topic but I can’t help but think “pow” would have been a cool name. Probably already a python project with that name though.
what does it break from 7.2?

I love how every php upgrades requires me to find mysqli-type crap that breaks all my customers' code.
Ok, so...

Linux Newbie:

"I need to find out how much space I have left on this machine."

> freespace
bash: freespace: command not found
> diskspace
bash: diskspace: command not found
> disk info
bash: disk: command not found
> diskinfo
bash: diskinfo: command not found
> man disk space
No manual entry for disk
No manual entry for space
> help disk space
bash: help: no help topics match `space'. Try `help help' or `man -k space' or `info space'.

(looks it up on the internet)

> df /dev/sda1
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 19478160 1370768 17094912 8% /

... AND that's why GUIs are preferred by most non-technical computer users.

EDIT: Maybe I should have said 'CLI Newbie' - I am in no-way singling out Linux here.
I wonder what impact, if any, the Kate Spade suicide had on his decision. Sometimes I wonder if people suffering from depression observe the attention people who have committed suicide recently receive and if it's influences their decision in any way. I imagine someone feeling really down right now see's all the love and empathy Bourdain is receiving post posthumously, and it could perhaps incentivize them to make the same decision. Am I reaching here?
how do you figure?
And yet, millions of people are able to handle tunnels everyday without incident.

Metro lines don't tend to have much visible outside them (if anything at all save for some flashing lights), and there are extended scenarios like the Channel Tunnel where passengers basically don't see anything for over 30 minutes.
But the parallax is pretty huge from me to the window to the ground. If I lean forward, I can suddenly see a lot of ground I couldn't see before; if I lean back, I can see all the ground in front of the plane.
That's a bug not a feature in my book (I'm german, we did that order following thing very very well...)
The executable file have defined areas, as long as you append/write to that executable, you're working on an area of the executable file that doesn't interfere with anything else
Reminds me of a tech talk I went to last year, where the speaker/developer was trying to get on the Alexa hype train by building a "virtual doctor" application of some sort. He was very excited about the possibility of reducing physicians' administrative overhead, but my thought the whole time was, "seems like one of those terrible phone navigation systems..."
Speculating that he might have lost less than $125 million by publishing the story. How much of the investment was recovered or it's that still TBD?

Once the fraud was exposed and the company began winding down, spending would quickly slow down and that might have put investors in a better position to recover something, versus loosing everything.
>We cannot prevent suicides if we look only to people with some sort of observable mental illness. Normal everyday people, some in the prime of life, can and do occasionally decide to kill themselves.

A great many of those normal everyday people are suffering from mental health problems. The data suggests that as many as 60% of people with a serious mental health condition are not receiving treatment. A multitude of barriers prevent people from seeking appropriate diagnosis and treatment, from stigma to insurance coverage to the shortage of psychiatrists.

I have no problem with voluntary euthanasia. I have a big problem with the fact that thousands of people are needlessly dying due to treatable mental health conditions.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15939840
> The worry is that the discussion will create a false sense of future security,

A false sense of future security already exists, but on the opposite side! I'm sick of hearing people complaining about pollution and how we should switch to greener energy, without ever specifying which such magic green source of energy we may use!

I hear a lot about electric cars, but it's not clear to me what is an acceptable way to refill those batteries: burning oil in big thermal stations instead of private engines? Nuclear? New dams for hydroelectric?

When will people swallow the fact that our current lifestyle depends on the availability of cheap energy and that such energy has to be taken somewhere? Please, let's stop saying stupidly just "no". Let's rather look for alternatives and we'll all be happier!
It's really sad that AirBnB is used by most people as a cheap resort, and expect to have a resort-like experience at the expense of the local neighborhood who has no desire to live next to one.

Can we just have home-share for people that understand how to be good neighbors, pretty please?