skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taking a day of leave doesn't cause any lost-work expenses, under the standard system of "you get this much leave, and it doesn't roll over". If I take 15 days off in a year, the number of days I work is totally unaffected by whether one of the days off was spent at a funeral, or in some other way.

Say an unemployed 17-year-old kills himself and his funeral is held on a Sunday. I don't think that's a huge stretch, but it results in no days of leave, no work days lost to a funeral, and no sudden job opening needing to be filled.

And clean-up, like Cthulhu_ mentions, isn't a lost-work expense, it's an additional-work expense.
My point is that site policing rarely stops at trolls: it usually creeps out to extend first to people who criticize the policing of trolls, because who thinks trolls deserve defending? and then it creeps out a little more to silence fringe views, because what are they really adding to the conversation? and then it creeps out a little more to silence people who don't share the majority view, because who wants to be in a community where we constantly have to deal with people who don't agree with the obvious rightness of our opinions?

It's not like it hasn't been tried before, it's just that policing ideas so rarely stops with just the trolls I'm skeptical of the whole premise.
Country's economy plays role in Internet file-sharing patterns
The US spends a considerable number of lives on "anti-terrorism" combat, as well.
I don't want to repeat what other already have said, so here's another point: this 'opportunity' is about 40% sponsored by corporate government aid. I know first hand from a person who is going to Quebec next month as a 'digital artist' to work on a great project and he is fully aware that the company will receive about 40% of his salary back from citizens of Quebec and Canada.

That 'career vector limbo' is more of an anomaly corporate credit conditions that are very favorable in that region. It distorts market salary conditions so much so that they are willing to poach other bodies to ship them to Quebec.

I am not surprised at all to see this story posted.
If by namespace you mean user namespaces, no.
Unfortunately golang has made this difficult... fortunately the fantastic folks on the Golang team have graciously added in the support we needed for Go 1.4 even though it's in feature freeze.
So Golang 1.4 should be out in Decemberish timeframe, then we can update Docker to use Golang 1.4 and then wrap up work on user namespaces support within libcontainer/docker.

Totally just guessing here, but I'd say Jan/Feb timeframe for user namespaces.
He didn't say that he sunk Symbolics himself.
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Need technical expertise in developing a new form of mobile social network. iOS (possible Android later on) front end, backend data processing, interface, etc.

If you can reproduce twitter, Reddit mobile platform, you are the type I am searching.

It's a unique opportunity to build something from bottom up. Lots of challenge, lots of uncertainty (have not seen this form on the market yet), but also lots of potentials.

If interested, let's talk.
I'm not mixing up three different points/views, I was trying to give a faithful description of my own depression?!

My point was that I find the standard approach towards depression alienating because it completely discounts my own experiences. And as you neatly clarified, I disqualified myself from serious discussion of my own depression.

I don't think I have a better solution than what already exists, but I'm trying to get people to understand that human experience can't be completely generalised. When your framework disparages the remarks of people that have been depressed and have left depression surely there might be a problem there?

I will reiterate:

1. I had depression caused by long-term external factors.
It's popular to think this doesn't happen but it can happen.
2. When I went to see a therapist I received platitudes and
coping strategies however as I had an external factor this
felt like treating the effect and not the cause.
3. It was really bad. I feel like I'm arguing with a bunch of
people that have no way of empathising.

It's not that I don't believe people can be cured but a combination of internal and external factors can make this difficult, and in the few case I know of people that have been depressed they have been "cared for" but not "cured" by the system.
I agree with your assessment but the comment you're replying to is making an untrue assumption, he didn't say that he sunk Symbolics himself or anything close to that. He said that he hindered their plan to drive LMI out of business for some time.
Inline style would definitely be a bandwidth hog, that's for sure. As to how much extra bandwidth it would take up and would that make a noticeable difference given that most bandwidth is used for images and video is up for debate.
Making a CTF task in Haskell
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It's been there for a while. I've been typing "timer 15 min" in my Chrome quicksearch for well over a year, according to my browsing history. They just never really did much fanfare about it - this came around the time where Wolfram|alpha was an online sensation because of its smart parsing, IIRC.
I don't think rigid pixel-size-everything was a "mentality", so much as a way around the lack of min and max-width we didn't have until CSS2. 100% width websites looked bad.

Rigid made sense. Economical to make and most of your visitors were 800 x 600 and above for many years. Fixed width sites still look and function well on tablets in many cases.

Absolute positioning rocks! I like it's predictability.

Funny that he said he doesn't like conditional comments! "Bad for web standards". Agreed.
> My girlfriend couldn't understand why I was reading a kids book as it had an elephant on the front

Thought you were going to say it was Learn You a Haskell For Great Good.
C++ devs wanted in Amsterdam
I work for a marketing software company in Amsterdam, and they are constantly looking for c++ and PHP developers. We have a nice view, a team of 25 developers, and we earn good money! Wanna join?
1. Improve internal tools / processes / documentation / furniture

2. Improve external tools / projects / documents via Open Source contributions

3. Try short crazy projects, e.g viral marketing campaign, official ludum dare participation

4. Teach each other cross-role skills so the programmer understand better what the texture designer does and vice versa

5. Put one or two permanent management people there for continuity

6. Do the usual team building exercises or soft skill training or plain fun stuff
Indian Govt.'s Biometric Attendance System
Also, the old standard reference for this was "Computer Approximations" by Hart and Cheney
I think we'd regain any bandwidth cost through compression. Compare the rise of VNC (and VNC-like protocols) compared to X - it turns out there's no advantage to sending drawing commands rather than sending bitmaps, because they both compress to the same thing.
Inspection (lint and Intellij rules)
For me, because I can't compose strings of gui clicks into an ad hoc list of transformations on text. And I do that a lot in the shell.

There is also no command history for my gui clicks; once you've clicked on something, there's no way to reuse that click in some slightly different way.
I think he is referring to the Austrian school/economic theories not the economics from Austria.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_School
An excellent adjunct-point.
I wouldn't mind it.
Is amazon really buying jabong
yeah, that comment made me roll my eyes, too.
For the similar reasons to what Kurzweil puts forth here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near

Here it is in seven quick minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uIzS1uCOcE
(Note: I think he's wrong in how he thinks it will unfold, but right in thinking the doubling every year of technology, in general, will contribute to bringing it about.)
In some corner cases (i.e. terminal illness, serious disability etc.) I would agree with you. But mostly suicidal behaviour and attempts are caused by temporary difficulties (mostly failed relationships, financial difficulties, loneliness) or mental conditions that can be treated - depression, addiction. I personally know quite a few people that would be gone by now if had been surrounded by people with your attitude and that lead normal life today.
I loathe your condescension. If someone wants to die and they still want to die a month later, let them. By what right do we force those who want to die to suffer a little longer? If it's their life why can't they end it if they will?

You know what's not a terminal illness that is bad enough that many with it would welcome death? Schizophrenia. For some the medicine works, the side effects are acceptable, they can lead a normal life. But there are plenty who can't. You know what else isn't a terminal illness that would make you long for oblivion? Surviving when the rest of your family didn't, surviving when the accident was your fault.

And you know what, if you think your life isn't worth living and you want out, you are suffering.

I've been depressed, I've been very depressed indeed and I'm glad to have seen the back of it but there are plenty who spend years and decades there and if they want out they should be let go, not locked up "for their own safety"
Zero to Om: Learn Om without any knowledge about ClojureScript
How many releases before JSON/JSONB support becomes stable? Looks like a lot of changes in this area.

It also looks like a lot of performance improvements have arrived. With the article the other day about how an intern found a 4x speed improvements for SELECT queries, it gives me hope that amazingly postgresql still has plenty of room to be sped up.

Just the SSL ECDH key exchange alone should dramatically improve the speed to fetch data. Also, pg_prewarm should reduce the time of the first queries to hit the database once a DB is restarted.

Looks like some NOSQL/Document databases can be replaced with postgresql quite nicely.

Whilst there are some improvements in the full text search, it seems things like SOLR are safe... for now.

It's nice to see more steps towards multi-master too.
Is ZFS a suitable replacement for other Linux filesystems?
Expandrive also works ok and its easy to setup, but IIRC what worked better for me in the same setup (Windows host + Ubuntu VM) was the old solution that I was avoiding all the time: Samba.
We built in-browser Ad-hoc Data Visualization client – It took us over 12 months
12 months ago we were just a dashboard application with variety of data connections. We badly needed a tool to do ad-hoc drag and drop visualizations and able to finally publish it to finished analysis or dashboard.

The traditional thought was to go with a separate desktop based separate product that we could integrate with our dashboard but that idea did not go further. So then we started working on a browsers based ad-hoc Data visualizer and it turned out very good but still the user experience between two separate products was horrible.

Finally we put this new product right into our dashboard application and it is now nicely integrated. You can check out the new Visualizer in the video of this page [bottom]

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Please do checkout and looking forward for your feedback.
40,000 is an awfully large number but it is less than the number of gun deaths in the US (put at around 50-60,000 depending on the sources), which would be much easier to prevent
Similar story. In college I knew someone suffering from bipolar disorder. There's a lyric from Andrea Gibson's "Nutritionist"—"Some people will never understand the kind of superpower it takes for some people to just walk outside." Every day for her for months at a time was just agonizingly painful for her to get through, beyond my abilities to accurately describe in a quick comment on the internet.

The vast majority of the anti-suicide efforts were just—insulting in her case, in a lot of ways. There were a lot of people and organizations telling her very loudly not to kill herself, and that it would get better if she just stuck it out a little more and saw a therapist. There was a legal and medical system willing to lock her up, for a fee, and keep her from actually physically harming herself. (This terrified her. She said her stay in a mental institution had been horrific and entirely unhelpful—they basically put her in solitary and kept her from doing anything at all, for hours. They wouldn't even let her have a pen and paper to write with because they were concerned that she would use it for self-harm.)

But there was nobody actually providing a way to make her life less painful. She came from a wealthy background and had good health insurance, so could afford weekly therapy sessions and psych meds. Some of the pills would work, for a few months or weeks at a time, but none of them were permanently helpful—and most of them took weeks to titrate up to an effective dose, so with each switch there would be a huge gap of time where she was as bad off as ever and nobody knew if the next pill would even work.

The anti-suicide efforts were like—it was like she was burning alive, and there were all these organizations and people in place determined to keep her from shooting herself to end the pain. But there was nobody who could actually stop her from burning.

I don't know. It's an awful situation all around. There are definitely a lot of people who are just temporarily upset or suffering from mild and easily treatable depression who do benefit from things like fences on bridges and national help hotlines. But more research is definitely needed. Someone else said in this thread that what we should really be doing is trying to keep people off the ledge entirely, not just trying to keep them from jumping, and I definitely agree there. What we really need is ways to keep people from wanting to die, not just ways to keep them from committing the act.
Death threats for sceptic who leafleted at Sally Morgan “psychic” show
You could use Git right now, but not to transfer code to the VM and compile. Its a system to version [1] your code.

(Although I mostly skip using Git in toy projects, and just backup to Dropbox).

[1] If you push your changes to some offsite remote like Github, you are also backing up your code.
And I am too. I am not anti abortion I am pro voluntary suicide.

"Just go to therapy it will be better" vs "Give the baby a chance you might grow to love it". How is it any different?
The 1. & 2. seem for me to still strongly clash with the problem of extremely unpredictable/volatile schedule. 3. also, although I agree somewhat less as to ludum dare, so maybe kinda compromise (I believe a viral campaign can be quite a huge industrial project underneath, counterintuitively).

The 4. and 6. sound interesting. Thanks! Although, not sure how long those could be sustained? Also, now I think this limbo should maybe not be made too fun, or people wouldn't want to come back to "real work".... heh, catch-22, good one :)

As to 5., I don't understand - continuity of what? what and how this is meant to improve?
I read a book about Ebola in West Africa 20 years ago or more ago so "entrenched" is very old news and "accelerating" is last month's news.
Thinking a little more about it, I'm not at all convinced it's a problem for suicide to be a leading cause of death in any demographic. Ordinal numbers are pretty useless for many purposes. I'd be pretty pleased to know that the only way for someone in my demographic (however defined) to die was by suicide.
Dependency Injection Is Evil (2011)
Microsoft CEO does about-face on women and raises
Am I missing something here or did the guy just used "~" to make it look like he was singing?

I feel like the guy that didn't get the joke.
think about everything YC/PG has said about 'toys' and the Altair BASIC/Microsoft comments
>We're approaching the "deadly valley" - automatic driving that's almost good enough that the driver can stop paying attention.

Infiniti has a commercial out now that I see frequently while streaming TV that shows someone who should not be on the road but is enabled by the driver assist features.

Maybe one mandatory feature of driver assist should be that if the car intervenes more than 2 times in 10 minutes its next step should be to find a safe place to pull over and stop.
I can't wait for the post about Beta 4!
Most gun deaths in the US are suicides. [1]

[1]: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/05/24/suicides-acc...
Reasons why CSS sucks
Lower stakes, perhaps? I suspect that far fewer people are paying attention to what business people (even Steve Jobs) say than what Tom Cruise or Lebron James says. If James, for example, says anything interesting you can be guaranteed hundreds of columns and on-air rants from national and local media praising and criticizing him. It probably makes him wary of actually saying anything beyond PR-approved soundbites.
USAID Announces Grand Challenge to Fight Ebola
A lot of people seem to be viewing this from a developer's perspective, when those are the people spending the least amount of time interproject.

You mostly have the non-programmers. You can't build an indie; you can't even really come up with a real project with any hope of coming to fruition, to make use of the talent, because any member of it could be pulled away at any time.

And it's hard to motivate yourself when you know anything you -do- do belongs to Ubisoft, and there's no expectations set on you. It's easy on the sidelines to say "Well, -I- would...", except no, you probably wouldn't. Your employer benched you, you have no tasks, and anything you produce on your own is theirs, and you're free to go home. Any reasonable person would go home; even if you want to spend the time working on something better to do it where you can claim it wasn't at work, using work resources, and take credit for it.

That said, Ubisoft should probably be finding things to task these people with. You've got artists and designers and such? Concept art and design of new ideas. Treat this as the equivalent of an R&D department for the company rather than a place to cool your heels. If need be, task a few people with coming up with pitches to provide structure, etc. Basically, try and change it so people feel that even while benched, they are being valued, and their work, though not able to be a project due to lack of consistent resources, is still worthwhile and can still effect the direction of the company.
my local webserver is internet accessible (like many)
How is that? Is it interesting work? Is it in demand?
> A large proportion of suicide attempts are people who go on to regret it and successfully seek treatment.

A different conclusion you could draw from this are that the failed attempts failed because they weren't really trying to kill themselves, a sort of regretting-in-advance, if you will. I feel pretty safe in saying that successful suicide attempts don't go on to regret it, and it's not at all obvious that the failures and the successes are examples of the same phenomenon.
I bought a 91-year-old GPS unit
IQ Tests are not fair
Then you probably haven't been writing CSS for very long. Its support is quite recent. border-box is a much smarter default, but they'd break a lot of old sites by changing the default behavior.
Like extending email, there's a a chicken-and-egg problem. What terminal emulator is going to add a command that no program uses? What program is going to use a command that no terminal implements?

By all means implement this thing - I wouldn't be surprised if there were already terminals that did that. But personally I'd be surprised if it caught on. Compatibility matters.
Man Raped at Snake Point After Being Offered a Lift by a Woman
Readable, maybe. Interpretable to produce correct results? We can't even manage that in the present.
> You seem to be forgetting that for a lot of these people it wasn't really a choice. Their mind was malfunctioning and led them to do something they probably wouldn't have a few months later

This argument proves a little too much.
Man oh man I hate that commercial. Every time I see it my blood boils.
It's zoonotic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoonosis), and in fact rather poorly adapted to humans (kills us way too often and quickly, one big danger from this outbreak is that less lethal strains will develop).

So it was "entrenched", or, rather, endemic in we guess fruit bats, the index case was a child in a household where some "bushmeat" was butchered, but not, until now, in human populations.

Note this is believed to have started with one child who died on December 6th, 2013. Exponential growth since then, and nothing specifically foreseeable is going to change that any time soon.

ADDED: if you assume, as many do, there are about 20,000 cumulative infections as of now, that equals a doubling rate of 3 per week (http://www.doubling-time.com/compute.php?lang=en), which also matches some other estimates I've seen.
»Works best on excel files that contain English characters only.«

That's a quite sad statement to make nowadays. I guess the old binary format might be worse regarding character sets, but at least the newer ones should use Unicode exclusively which makes this a very odd restriction.
Could it be possible to see real code examples, etc without signing up?
A stunt that is designed to kill the app Snapsave.
Why make a Vim plugin instead of a standalone program since it’s read-only?
My understanding is that ebola is not contagious until you show symptoms, but then it becomes very contagious. In this case bodily fluids even includes sweat which makes infection from casual contact much more likely than most other diseases.
Had to write image server myself and it wasn't really hard.

Nginx to handle existing files.
Python + Pillow + cherrypy (or could be any other microframework) to handle image processing on the fly and then caching processed image to the disk.

All in all around 350 lines of code in python.
And something like 100 lines in nginx (because of a heavy filename processing and inner url rewriting).

Result - facebook-like image processing:

Simple resize: http://media.example.com/w400x200/id_token_string.jpg
Crop (based on coords): http://media.example.com/20.20.380.300/id_token_string.jpg
Or crop resize from center: http://media.example.com/c200x200/id_token_string.jpg

and so on...

Fun project.
Should they go kill themselves? Funny that the mental failings of the jumper evoke such sympathy and the mental failings of the "asshole" evoke such hatred.