skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's simple, generally it's more common in men that they don't ask for help, don't reconcile with their own true feelings, don't allow for their own full self expression, don't hug, don't cry, don't share emotions with naked confidentiality, and macho culture preys on any signs of weakness, to their own detriment. This carries on to the kinds of hobbies, interests and all that puts men further away from a simple emotional comfort than women. It took me two decades before it didn't feel awkward hugging my brother in earnest, and I consider myself a very sensitive person, so take that for what you will. Maybe it just takes longer for boys to become emotionally mature men. It varies culturally a lot for men and women by city and country, of course.
Engineering Startup => Karlsruhe
>>Precopia's accuser told police that the two had a troubled relationship when they dated in high school several years ago, and she cited that as a reason she reported that he assaulted her.

I don't understand, did she make the whole thing up?
Women attempt more, men complete more. It's partially because men tend to choose more lethal methods such as firearms while women choose less lethal methods like pills.

There's also probably non-statistical reasons. As in it is so much harder to seek out help as a male. Speaking from experience here.

edit: more info at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_differences_in_suicide, seems well sourced.
Similar edge case in cricket is Bradman. Most great cricket batsmen Test batting average is around 50-60 and Bradman's average is 99.94

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/wi/content/records/282910.html
From your profile:

> I trade private equity stakes in technology companies. Former aerospace investment banker and before that, algorithmic equity derivatives trader.

You're also the one who submitted this article. Somehow I doubt you are actually helping friends at FB find new jobs.
I think it's much more likely that you are short FB. There's a lot of your type out there spreading articles like this as much as possible.

Maybe you should spend some time thinking about what contributions you investment banker types are making to society, if there is any. Good riddance...
Or you just use a regular <img> tag for server-rendered content? Am I missing something?
The article hypothesizes suicide increases because of reduction in social welfare spending as well as social support. And notes some correlations, and calls for deeper study.

Suicide by guns don't count because?
I'd wager most Americans hate their cable company.

Pro tip (no pun intended): never use residential cable service. Always sign up for business-class service. You will get more-or-less infinitely better support, less telephone tag when things go wrong, faster maintenance attention, and fewer hassles in general, all without paying much more. Anecdotally, this also keeps you off the radar of anti-piracy crusaders, since users in business-grade IP blocks are more likely to have the resources to fight back.
Re the hash value. Are you aware of fuzzy commitment[1]? It is a crypto scheme for protecting and/or deriving encryption keys from data that is subject to noise (such as in biometrics). If you can derive encryption keys, you can also derive hashes.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=319714
Yea, I know what you mean. It's unfortunate too since FB does hav some pretty cool things that are worth talking about!
Phase Cancellation [1]

[1] https://www.sageaudio.com/blog/pre-mastering-tips/phase-canc...
I think the more amazing part of Iridium’s story is that they got the money to launch their constellation in the first place. It’s crushing debt and inevitable bankruptcy with the assets being acquired for something like 1/20th of a cent on the dollar was to be expected really.
That's the default behaviour when appending a DocumentFragment or a Node, and has been since 1997.

The template is just a container for the DocumentFragment, the template content still behaves like any other DocumentFragment always would have, so changing behaviour would be pretty crazy.
Our sun is currently engulfed by a hurricane of dark matter
Why You Should Start Doing CTF's
Worked at 3 startups and 2 mega-corps and had the absolute opposite experience.

The only time a manager at a startup was trying to stringently manage me was when he was hired from a mega-corp. Lot of startups make that mistake.

For me, startups still remain the best place to explore new technologies and capabilities (incl. personal upskilling) under a deadline (as opposed to personal projects).
Right, Trac has an extreme head start; it was, before Github, practically the de facto standard answer to this "software forge" problem. But it also continues to work just great, and has a pretty decent ecosystem.
Danish CS degrees are in high regard, and we’re all fairly good at English.

There are a lot of Danes in Silicon Valley, I mean, C++, C# and Ruby were made by Danes, so it’s not like Murica isn’t open for us.

You can make a lot of money in IT anywhere though. I manage 70 people, in a muniplacity that is well paid. I’ve been headhunted for much higher salaries throughout my career though, but I’ve always preferred public service.

The fact that I could be home at 15:00 on a Friday, with my kids picked up and the groceries done helped a lot in my younger years as well of course.
Nice answer.

But since I studied a lot of optimization, I saw my linear programming answer first. On an interview, typically want to give the first correct answer do find.

My answer is more general, and that is goodness. Indeed, you mentioned that your answer solves a more general question than intended in the OP. So, you seem to like the generality of your answer but not the generality of mine.

The generality of my answer applies to convex polytopes, convex hulls, in any finite dimension, and dimension 3 should be of interest in some cases, e.g., see if two objects intersect. That might be of interest in some of robotics.

If the polytopes are determined by points, then my answer solves the problem and we are looking for a separating hyper plane. If each polytope is determined by the intersection of half spaces determined by hyperplanes, then we are looking for a point in common, and again we can use linear programming. So, given points we are looking for a separating hyper plane, and given hyper planes we are looking for a point. Smells like a nice case of duality.

Farkas lemma, a special case of my solution, is central to the Kuhn-Tucker conditions in nonlinear optimization. Since the ML people are interested in optimization, they might welcome Farkas lemma and my more general solution.

And, again, my answer really is part of "algorithms and data structures" which was the focus of the questions.

So, now we are into what is commonly called computational geometry, commonly regarded as part of computer science, and heavily about algorithms. E.g., doing nearest neighbor searches via k-D trees (in Sedgwick) and cutting planes is part of computer science, computational geometry, trees, data structures, and algorithms.

For the linear programming, just call a subroutine, e.g., IBM's old OSL (optimization subroutine library).

My more general answer indicates that I would be a good person to work with.

The question is a separation problem. Well, so as to have readers be more comfortable, I did omit mention of the Hahn-Banach theorem. For curious readers, there are lots of applications of that classic result in D. Luenberger, Optimization by Vector Space Methods.

"Hard to work with ...". How 'bout hard to please?
>But more importantly I realized I hadn't used the product in like 3 years.

How does this matter? Most people don't personally use the products they work on.

If someone works on software in flight computers (I don't know the proper term), in most cases I doubt they're pilots actively using said software.

I certainly don't personally use the products I work on for my job.

A job is a job. Sure some people find work "doing what they love" or doing things they enjoy/can benefit from personally, but not everybody, and that's certainly not a standard.
I have worked in places that refuse to fire anyone and it's not fun. The cruft just builds up.

But, plenty of places are willing to fire people who have given up or completely check out and nobody is really has that aspect of their company culture talked about as much as Netflix's.

I'm not really trying to imply what Netflix does is wrong if it works for them, but it could definitely be interpreted as unethical and sounds like it could be toxic. I'm just trying to play devil's advocate and saying that every company has their skeletons, even respectable companies like Netflix.
The Future of “Going to Work”
The head of YC will always give advice that helps their cause. They will not say "go get a job elsewhere and don't work for the companies we invest in". Setting aside if that is good advice or not you should always consider the motive behind it. In this case, they are too biased to be trustworthy so don't try to analyze something possibly thrown in bad faith. Plus, I know for a fact that they have invested on companies started by recent grads that started their careers at big corps and then jumped ship. You gotta find a problem to fix somewhere, right?
dispatch is the newest sr.ht service and docs are scant. They'll come eventually... but it's pretty similar to the rest of sr.ht, you could probably figure it out if you gave it a shot.
> average page weighing less than 10 KiB, with no tracking and no JavaScript.

Good Lord, I had a visceral reaction to that. (It was like the opposite of the urge to throw up.)
People keep calling out how this isn't a new solution/idea (i.e. MS Access, FileMaker, SmartSheet, Google Sheets + Scripts, Knack) and those people I hope understand that Airtable's success has everything to do with their execution of this idea not that the idea is somehow groundbreaking.

I've used many of those ^ products and I can tell you they are no where near Airtable's level of UX. The Airtable team has obviously taken a lot of time and energy to really nail the design and user experience instead of making another "just good enough".

I think this is also a good example of how desperate users will resort to using subpar products or cobbling-together numerous subpar solutions if the problem is painful enough. Having used MS Access a decade ago I can tell you it was out of desperation and it never really solved the problem- it sort of got you ~75% there.

One last thing I'll mention is that when you take on something as flexible as Airtable you end up dealing with an much larger dimension of possible edge-cases and more importantly you end up challenging designers to craft constraints on the users very thoughtfully so that you're not limiting them but also you're not overwhelming them with too much complexity. In other words- solutions in this space succeed precisely because they figure out how to walk that fine line not because the idea itself is earth-shattering.
What kind of question is that? It doesn't even make sense and I don't know what kind of answer you expect. Why do you continue to derail this conversation so hard?
When discussing deals, jobs etc, an old boss of mine used to ask "is the juice worth the squeeze?". A job that you are morally against requires more squeeze, so you expect more juice.
The ability to have the browser request markup for inclusion via URL in the same way it does images is a longtime wish of mine. There are some potential security issues... most of which we have anyway with the approach that requires JS in order to import content from another URL, and having a simple way to pull in document fragments would do away with a good chunk of the things we've had to have a CMS or site generator to do.
Once you start eating Einkorn loafs, you won't want to eat any other kind of bread. I lightly toast my slices and add just a little butter, and it really is like nothing else you've ever had.
It's an interesting dynamic. BigCo doesn't live or die by a single employee or customer, so they can afford for devs to explore tech/ideas/etc.

But in terms of actually commercializing/releasing something, there's so many hoops to jump through that good ideas simply get stifled.

Startups are the opposite - they can ill afford a developer spending a week learning NewStack, but if someone floats an idea that fits (or improves) their business model, they can execute in the blink of an eye.

As with most things in life, there's pros and cons to both.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecunia_non_olet
> Not saying free market and medical are a good mix (who knows?), but what there is in America not is not even a market at all.

The free market is simply incompatible with health care. Imagine a world where, any time you have a life-threatening health problem, you can expect to transfer everything you own to the hospital, since they have perfect leverage over you.
I encountered same thing, malicious spam, & logged it at https://gitlab.com/davchana/gmail-indian-spam-domains/blob/m...
> This kind of post-facto justification for poor working conditions or wages needs a name, so it can be dismissed out of hand.

This seems to capture the current intellectual zeitgeist very well. Once we name something, we can dismiss it without engaging it.

I was going to read the rest of your comment, but I decided it was "Jacobin whinging" so I realized I didn't have to.
For everyone. Efficient markets raise per capita productivity, which raises quality of life for the vast majority of the population.

The most problematic parts of the economy, like housing, are that way due to govermment intervention. In the case of housing, zoning restrictions create artificial scarcity in the most productive economic regions, leading to rising rent, which limits economic opportunity and contributes to greater income inequality.
> you don't get billions of users by being evil.

Tobacco companies would disagree, no, actually, they would agree, full-heartedly, and pay well for your study that backs that up.

> Their engineering team, quality of life, and compensation is extremely hard to beat.

Working for Facebook in any meaningful technical capacity makes one a Machiavellian opportunist. For some, that's never worth it.

> As a recent college graduate

Yes, money is great and alluring. You can buy stuff with it, except for stuff you can't buy.

> there really isn't a better way to keep up with friends, family

Facebook puts a tax on being human, on trying to exist outside of a social vacuum. Doesn't that bother you?
Ever since Trump was elected, yes. It's been climbing up from about $10 in November 2016 to the high $20s.

Before that it was fairly flat, after being in free fall from the mid-$40s range in 2004, to like 5 bucks in 2009 (which is coincidentally the rise of social media: Facebook 2004, Youtube 2005, Twitter 2006, etc).
Europa experiences tides from Jupiter

This planet may or may not have a companion to keep it pliable below its crust other than a few volcanic vents
That makes sense. I see how Airtable's user permissions (Owner, Creator, Editor, Commenter, Read-only) allow someone to quickly create a useful CRUD app that is safer than letting people randomly edit a Google Spreadsheet. :)
It appears my usage is a little different than wikipedia. Apparently "Comet" can mean multiple things. I meant "streaming Comet", which is in my experience what most people mean.

Long polling: (1) Request (2) Wait (3) Receive an event. (4) Go back to #1.

Streaming Comet: (1) Request (2) Wait (3) Receive an event (4) Go back to #2.

Rather than getting a raw response from the server in a request, streaming Comet loads the response in a iframe. The response is streaming HTML and has a series of <script> tags that post events to the parent window.

It's arguably easier to manage and scale (no missed events, no need to find the same server again), though it certainly looks a little odd.
Show HN: An “automatic” way to learn Chinese
Here is a way to see the fallacy of the OMG, its 10^300 variables, thats crazy style of “argument”.

Consider a probabilistic classical algorithm on 500 bits. Perhaps a Monte Carlo simulation of an Ising model for example.

Note first that the most general probability distribution over the 500 classical bits takes 2^500 real numbers to specify. (You have to specify P(000…0) and P(000…1) and… P(111…1)). [You should compare this to the 2^501 real parameters it takes to specify the quantum state of 500 qubits.]

To generate the most general such distribution perhaps you are restricted to using circuits where the gates act on at most n-bits at a time. Each gate can be described by a 2^n x 2^n bistochastic matrix comprised of (n-1)^2 real parameters. [You should compare this to the n^2 real parameters it takes to specify a 2^n x 2^n unitary matrix for a quantum gate acting on n qubits.]

Obviously its nuts to imagine you can generate all classical probability distributions over the 2^500 real parameters, particularly if you’re so mad as to think you are going to do it using a circuit comprised only of these n-bit gates!

Therefore useful classical monte carlo computing is obviously decades away.

(Oh and please trust me, I'm well know in stuff that isn't quantum computing.)
"First off, we're huge fans of both Meteor and Asana. I spoke with Geoff @ Meteor a couple years ago when we were first starting to build out the Airtable product and was very impressed by their approach and vision.
We've closely followed the developer blogs of both those projects (and in Meteor's case, their source code). With those learnings, we built our own realtime database engine that supports relational data (which Meteor doesn't yet support) and also some other major features like the ability to undo any user action out of order (like git revert), which is necessary to support undo in a multi-user context (because the last thing that you did may not be the last change globally if other people are concurrently making changes). Undo is a particularly challenging feature to implement in a structured relational database context, because it can't be reduced to a set of simplistic character insertion operations as is the case for a google word doc, or a spreadsheet (which is a simple 2d array of values without type constraints, foreign key relations, etc)."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8374468
They are classical computers in the sense they are are no stronger than classical computers - they provide a different physical implementation, but computationally can't achieve anything that a classical computer can't. Everything those "quantum computers" do can be simulated with a classical computer. The entire motivation behind the development of QC is supremacy, and the existence of those "quantum computers" alone doesn't provide any proof that supremacy is possible - so it is definitely not just a question of scale.

Google already has a 72 qubit processor (Bristlecone), but whether they or anybody will be able to demonstrate supremacy in the current, next, or some future generation is entirely conjectural. The main limit is error correction, and there are theoretical arguments (Gil Kalai) for why achieving supremacy might be impossible.
The difference is the nuclear arms race was inevitable. The soviets would have made it eventually anyway, and then what would we (the US) have done?

Facebook on the other hand is not inevitable.
Javascript hardly needs help from Spectre/Meltdown to be a security threat. It has never been safe to allow Javascript. A reasonable compromise is to use a Javascript blocker that lets you white-list domains.
You misunderstand just slightly, and through no fault of your own I might add since SpaceX’s messaging is deliberately murky here.

SpaceX has no plans right now to colonize Mars. In fact, they keep saying, “Look! We want other companies or nations to step up and plan for how to establish a colony. We’re only going to do it if we absolutely have no other choice.”

SpaceX is truly establishing a financially viable solar transport system that may eventually extend beyond our solar system. This is analogous to the birth of the U.S. railroad system. We don’t know yet what what don’t know is possible.

SpaceX is poised to own space transport outright. That’s major!

Now what does Mars have to do with this? It’s just a helpful organizing goal. People love a good milestone. Something to reach for with meaning. I mean if you’ve been following SpaceX’s 15-year history you’d see that they’re nothing if not methodical in their planning and attainment of milestones.

SpaceX is one of the most well-run companies in the world. And right now they have the best prices, the best technology, the best pace, the best outlook, the best...

They have no competition. Literally. I’d invest the entirety of my lifetime earnings in SpaceX if I could. We’re witnessing historic achievements in the making.
You're getting downvoted but it's a legit concern. Not all depressed people are suicidal. And some people live in rough areas that need a gun because the police are not with them 24x7.
i wonder whether external fire sprinklers - turn them on whenever there is a fire say in a mile or 2 radius - would decrease the chances of the house being fired up by the wind brought embers.
I'm using an alternate OTP app called andOTP that lets you make AES encrypted backups. I save the backup file inside my password manager.
Same here, best of all if we start getting Web IDEs built on top of Web Components provinding a Delphi/VB like RAD experience.

Yeah, I know there are a comple of startups attempting to get a foothold on this, but it is still very hard to gain momentum, it seems.
Using Motion History Images show the Info Wars video was more than sped up
Which "eastern" country are you talking about? Things vary a lot from country to country.
This feels related, and is interesting:

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

(estimating the probability that the sun will rise tomorrow)
This is called a "compensating differential" (see, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compensating_differential).

There's a decent body of literature in economics on this. This falls under labor economics.
That fact is very likely to be part of the reasons they attempt it in the first place.
Why can't suicide be noble? Why can't we respect a decision to not participate in this experience that none of us asked for in the first place? Why is the answer more pills or shrink sessions just to keep on to the next day? Please tell me one actual down side of suicide for suffering person. It's selfishness ultimately; we want them to stick around for us, not for them.
Yes. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201
140k including equity is not unheard of. 90k-120k base salary plus a few tens of thousands in equity is a typical range for a new grad in SV. Chances are they'll still live with room mates, though because housing costs are high. Not to mention the 10-20k that is paid in California income taxes. So it probably balances out.
Have you ever tried working for someone who didn’t have relevant experience

Many times.

You get people deciding that...

Literally never happened. I've had a few bosses/managers who'd be the first to admit they knew nothing about programming. And in every case they defer to team experts when it comes to specific technical questions.

On the flip side I've had managers who where deeply technical and spent all their time getting involved with every little technical detail and completely neglecting their job as manager.
> we’re looking into our support for Unicode strings

What does that mean exactly?
Satellites don't just cross their paths by magic. If their orbits don't intersect, they can't collide. Satellites don't collide with each other, it has never happened.

Satellites do collide with debris, but that's a different issue. Furthermore, they don't need a guarantee that they can be put into a graveyard orbit - the proposed satellites (and even any debris, if they'd explode for whatever reason) will be in a graveyard orbit from day one until they stop being pushed up and deorbit.