skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a bit hard to understand the figures in the real paper.

while the numbers have crossed, what about the absolutes? there are less deaths in combat now due to massive improvements in field treatment and armor. the total number of suicides in the armed forces is now higher than combat deaths and in civilian life, but it still could be lower overall than 20 years ago.

armchair analysis would be still, that if more service members survive injuries that would otherwise killed them before, there are more survivors now that try to live with massive traumas, amputations, mental disorders. if you come back from stan with no legs, massive PTSD and a missing jaw, well, you kill yourself afterwards. young people joining in frontline roles tend to be more athletic, more body conscious. your high school sweetheart will still marry you out of peer pressure, but 2 years in she won't like changing your diapers anymore.
Are you arguing that industries themselves don't exist? Yes, they are an artificial construct with very fuzzy boundaries, but you need to sort companies some way or another.
To be fair, he was accused of being a terrible womanizer by the same FBI who was trying to destroy and discredit him.
Er... not sure that locking people up is cheaper. What it is is more profitable for lobbyists and prison companies, to the tune of $37 billion + per year!

Nice one lobbyists!
Is there a law that authorizes this program? Was the rule making advertised in the Federal Register? Is there judicial oversight?

I think the most dangerous thing in the USA is the bureaucracy making up its own rules.
That's certainly an ethical code, but a severely lacking one in my opinion. I try to give my business to companies who actually make an attempt to act in an ethical manner, rather than ones who base their ethics and practices on the minimum required government regulations.
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If Uber didn't hire this driver, this crime could have been prevented.

Delhi laws require all cabs to have an onboard GPS: "The vehicle must be fitted with GPS/GPRS based tracking devises which must be in constant communication with the Central Control unit while the vehicles is on duty."

Uber didn't even have an on-board always on GPS, their only way to track is through mobile app; which the driver conveniently turned off.
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Well, Israeli actions can breed hatred amongst Jordanians or Egyptians as well, or amongst latte-drinking hipsters in Berkeley for that matter. It's a bit of a stretch to tie this to the people's welfare, that's all I'm saying. The blockade and limitations on peoples' movement actually affects people.

The tirades about Israel on popular television (of any arab-speaking country), or the calls for martyrdom by clerics — it's silly to try and appease those. Israel should hold itself to a higher moral standard, as you've said.

... a-a-nd, I think we've gone wildly offtopic for HN, so let's just call people once again to support the Indiegogo campaign:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/save-gaza-s-only-startup-...
Concrete can be (and has obviously been) used to build infiltration tunnels under the border. If the Gazans were not building tunnels, and in general were not engaged in provocative acts such as firing rockets across the border, there's no limit to the trade and investment that could be happening between the two regions. The sea coast could be a billion dollar resort; the Gazan labor force could be productively employed; and the farms and greenhouses could be growing tons of items for consumption and export.

This woman's enterprise, established under the sparsest of conditions, is an example of what can be done if there were peaceful relations and if the government in Gaza were truly representative and dedicated to peaceful negotiations etc. A warlike government that caters to the militants in Hamas, Al Aqsa Martyrs, etc., is simply uninterested in economic development, nor does it have any native expertise in that area. Its only legitimacy is based on armed conflict with its neighbor and armed suppression of dissidents internally.
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Btw, you can avoid the grep in hg using a simple template:

hg log --user "Shawn Smith" --template "{rev}:{author}\n" | wc -l

Of course, hg output is also meant to be parseable, so there's nothing wrong with grepping. I just wanted to talk about the awesomeness of hg templates. :-)

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/GenericTemplatingPlan

Edit: Oh, oh, and another way to count without even using wc -l, using the churn extension and a revset!

hg --config extensions.churn= churn -r "user('Shawn Smith')" -c

Naturally, if you enable the churn extension in your ~/.hgrc, this is just

hg churn -r "user('Shawn Smith')" -c

Mercurial is a very cool DVCS, and it makes me very happy, and its features need to be more frequently talked about. :-)
Given an equal execution across two different ideas, wouldn't the better idea win?
Key line that sticks out:

> In three years we had made five versions of our two games. For each version, the programming was done from zero.
Following the law is easy when u can read it.
It would be more productive to just have a remote workforce, and let them live where they want. Some people might want small fishing towns, others will make different choices. The key is to let everyone do what works best for themselves.
Web Components do that exact thing!
Fooled by Randomness is excellent also; they all have the same message but it's the most direct
Drugs are part of reality, so I find your statement to be incredibly ironic. You're deliberately avoiding an entire class of experience under the guise of not avoiding reality!

(Disclaimer: I've never taken any drugs besides light alcohol and caffeine use and some medical stuff, but that doesn't mean I can't spot the obvious contradiction here.)
So, that c/go code I see in the repository isn't actual code or...?
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The irrationality was the equity / stock prices, not the idea.
So Good They Can't Ignore You - Cal Newport

He's a CS prof at Georgetown now and wrote this while finishing up his Phd. Gives great and contrarian advice on career strategy snd path - focus on getting good at something (eg protramming. You'll grow to become passionate about it - most likely the things you're passionate about before your career can't be a career (eg sports, gaming). Also talks about deliberate practice and mission oriented careers.
This article discusses a passenger getting raped by a driver working for Uber. It does not discuss a female taxi driver.
I wrote an NFS server in Haskell, using Literal Haskell to implement all related RFC's 'inside' the RFC documents, interleaving code (lots of serdes stuff...) with the specification.
This seems like a really good option if you want to pretend to be building a startup: Come up with disruptive startup ideas while sitting on the beach, throwing house parties like in The Social Network, and drinking a beer with other people pretending to build a startup.

It doesn't sound like a good option though if you want to actually build a startup: writing a lot of code, meeting with clients, hiring great people, etc.
Nice.

It looks like that's effectively using true/false (as defined via lambda) as the two constants and inlining the "if true" and "if false"?
I agree. The fact that you have to write library code defensively to still work depending on how your method's call, or that you have to use an awkward bind to preserve the `this` context of a method is so annoying and error-prone to me.
Can you get a government grant to cover some of the costs if it helps the unemployed?
There really ought be no two minds about this. If he was acquitted and you don't give him a job soley because of that fact it would be unfair discrimination.
Except for, you know, the 50 page document described in the article and retrieved via FOIA.
Well, as it's been pointed out there is a stronger underlying issue as to Uber's ban than simply a rape. But I don't really understand your point anyway.
Consequently, when someone is found to be on (illegal) drugs, locking them up in prison for a few decades is also easier than fixing the problem.

Completely off topic. The post to which you replied was about legal drugs prescribed by a Dr.
EDIT - This was kind of a joke. But after writing it, I actually think it's it's an interesting idea for some sort of kibutz-ish urban village project.
Why do we cling to beliefs when they’re threatened by facts?
I didn't see any reference to storage solution, am I misreading?
Check out Rapido! by Ronnie Mitra. It's a personal project of his and it's not quite ready for production. But he was looking to scratch the same exact itch and developed something himself for "sketching APIs."
you'd be better off reading something like Marcus Aurelius' Meditations instead, or some of the other classics.

Incidentally, I'm trying to read Meditations now, but it's not an easy reading and it goes very slowly. Maybe I'll be able to put in on my 2015 list of influential books?
I would guess, that decoding speed can become an issue for websites, where many images are already in the cache but are re-displayed rather often...

I write this, because I am building such an application and for now it has many PNGs ... and yes, using a format like BPG would be fine, because I use the PNGs only because of transparency ... but when redisplay is done via a Java Script, I doubt that I could have the same speed. Loading is not so much a limiting factor, since after some time, all relevant PNGs are already in the browser cache.

Can anybody say something to this topic?

Of course, it would be great to have this integrated into the mayor browsers soon ...
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I agree. Fat arrow is a massive improvement. Not just for its extremely logical handling of "this", which 95% of the time is the behavior I want, but also because it eliminates a massive amount of syntax noise when programming functionally.
The idea that "90% of everything is crap" is often attributed to science-fiction writer Ted Sturgeon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
I have largely been out of fiction the last few years, but in 2014, I made a point of getting back into fiction. Consequently, my 'most important' list of 2014 will be rather heavily weighted towards fiction.

1) Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden

Not only the best written account of the action in World War I's trenches but also a wonderful account of race in Canada, this book is absolutely beautiful.

2) The Winds of War/War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk

If you want to learn the most minute history of WW2, this series is a great way to boost your knowledge. This not only covers the War, but also gives enough background that the rest of the 20th century's history makes more sense.

3) Deep Currents by Valerie Haig-Brown

I read this book on Vancouver Island just a few km from the Haig-Brown house and it changed my views on conservation, the pacific fisheries, and Campbell River (which is where my Dad spent his teenaged years).

* Edited because of fat fingers.
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The cost of generating the information has also gone down by orders of magnitude. You no longer need a multi-million dollar TV studio to produce content for an audience of millions; all you need is a webcam and a youtube account.
What I dislike about Jobs was his lack of philanthropism. He had all the money in the world and gave away nothing, which means he didn't give a shit about the rest of the world. He was approached by Gates as part of the Giving Pledge and declined.

Then his decision of alternative medicine to treat his curable cancer. He created technology that touched millions if not billions of people, and a lot of those are kids who probably looked up to him, and then he does stupid shit like that which will influence them in a bad way.

Yes, people are free to do what they want, but I'm also free to call out their stupidity and selfishness.
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Will do, it's been a quiet day so far though :)
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> The other side of that an accusation or suspicion isn't a reasonable basis on which to ruin someone's employability.

It should be specific to the job. If it's a sexual offense, maybe they shouldn't hire you as a taxi driver / school counselor / other jobs that give you easy access to victims. Just like they shouldn't hire you as a cashier if you're suspected of check fraud.
This actually happened to my father, who personally filed a patent for a business he and his wife were starting. The patent got flagged and placed into SAWS and it took nearly 10 years (!) to drive it to resolution (it got issued). He is actually a patent attorney (though not in software) and was only able to find out what happened by back-channeling through some contacts at the patent office. He's been a patent attorney for 35 years and expressed complete shock when he learned about the program.
Without projecting too much, I think there's much comfort and benefit in that--having some mileage under one's belt, relaxing and realizing it's a long trip (and behind every peak is another valley, until the next).
I think the particular translation you have makes a big difference, as with a lot of these older texts. I found it very readable because the sections were so short and the language pretty clear, but I was reading the Martin Hammond translation.

e.g. just compare the first few lines from the version on Project Gutenberg:

"Of my grandfather Verus I have learned to be gentle and meek, and to refrain from all anger and passion. From the fame and memory of him that begot me I have learned both shamefastness and manlike behaviour."

and the same lines from the Hammond translation:

"From my grandfather Verus: decency and a mild temper.

From what they say and I remember of my natural father: integrity and manliness."

Obviously a matter of personal preference though, but it's worth shopping around for a translation before you start reading, and the Gutenberg versions tend to be the most archaic (which doesn't necessarily even mean they're more accurate, I think it was just the fashion back then to translate classic texts into a more formal prose).
While I would often usually with you, the nature of sexual assault is that even in "developed" countries, it is very hard to convict people for committing these offenses, and very often the accused walk. I can only imagine how much worse this is in countries that are less than friendly to women (I am not saying that India is better or worse, I don't know).

I don't think it would have hurt them to err on the side of caution on this one. It's certainly possible that their background check simply was unable to see this information, but given the pattern Uber seems to be building for themselves here, it would be really hard for me to believe their explanation of what happened anyways.

Throw the other problems away: this is the actual problem at Uber. The fatal flaw Uber continues to make is that they fail to build trust, which brings their activities into question every time something like this happens. At this rate, it's just going to keep getting worse.

I actually can't believe the board hasn't taken any action here. I've never in my life seen a startup more in need of a board intervention.
Very true. If the Indian government were to shut down modes of transportation because of drivers engaging in rape, then you'd never see a rickshaw on the streets.

http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/kolkata/woman-gangra...

http://www.ndtv.com/article/cities/delhi-13-year-old-girl-al...

I've spoken with one woman since this incident. She stills considers radio cabs (taxi4sure, specifically) safer than rickshaws or flagged cabs (i.e., flagging a taxi rather than using an app).

It's rather unlikely that banning Uber will do much. I suspect that a Beretta in every purse is the only real solution, but it's also a solution that the government will never support. Only rich people and jewelry stores deserve to be protected by guns.
I don't see how it would be a problem to write lots of code. Meet with clients, probably not. But not everyone has them. And investors are definitely an issue. But sitting down and knocking out a lot of code? Why not?
It's a lot about race

You just made it about race, but really it's talent pool and demographics and education/skill levels. If a software group moves to downtown Detroit, it seems destructive to hold that as a negative, as if having some bright spots is somehow a negative because that software group doesn't hire the pipe fitter with the a grade 7 education.
Valgrind's diagnostic here was more or less correct. Using uninitialized memory as an entropy source is pretty useless. Uninitialized memory isn't filled with randomness, it's filled with stuff that's not guaranteed. This makes it harder to predict, but if an attack depended on it, you can bet that a smart attacker will figure out what the uninitialized memory would actually contain in your case. (Edit: I think I should clarify here. Adding uninitialized memory to your entropy pool doesn't hurt, as any good CSPRNG will be robust to adding data to the pool that's known to an attacker. It just doesn't help very much, because it's not very random.)

The Valgrind diagnostic was a good one and it was worth fixing. The problem wasn't Valgrind, but rather the fact that the fix inadvertently broke the code in a way that was difficult to detect.

For a poor analogy, imagine that you ask for an assessment of the structural integrity of a building. The assessment comes back saying that some supports are weak and should be replaced. Based on this report, you replace the supports. However, instead of replacing just the weak supports, you replace all of them, and you replace them with supports that look solid but are completely rotten. Then the building falls down. This is not the fault of the report, but rather the fault of the response to it.
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War by media and the triumph of propaganda
A major problem for the military is the availability of guns (and people who are effective at firing them). In the UK we used to kill ourselves with gas from the stove (it had carbon monoxide in it) - when gas stopped having carbon monoxide people thought - 'well people will find another way of killing themselves' but they didn't - availability of way of killing yourself was a factor in suicide. There's no obvious solution for the military, since they need guns. However, we can say that as a group they are more likely to kill themselves as they have an effective means to commit suicide when they are depressed. In the way an office worker does not.

Wikipedia article on this subject:

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Lethal means reduction [edit]
Means reduction, reducing the odds that a suicide attempter will use highly lethal means, is an important component of suicide prevention.[17]

For years, researchers and health policy planners have theorized and demonstrated that restricting lethal means can help reduce suicide rates, as delaying action until depression passes.[18] There is strong evidence that restricted access at so-called suicide hotspots, such as bridges and cliffs, reduces suicides, whereas other interventions such as placing signs or increasing surveillance at these sites appears less effective.[19] One of the most famous historical examples, of means reduction, is that of coal gas in the United Kingdom. Until the 1950s, the most common means of suicide in the UK was poisoning by gas inhalation. In 1958, natural gas (virtually free of carbon monoxide) was introduced, and over the next decade, comprised over 50% of gas used. As carbon monoxide in gas decreased, suicides also decreased. The decrease was driven entirely by dramatic decreases in the number of suicides by carbon monoxide poisoning.[20][21]

A photo illustration produced by the Defense Media Agency on suicide prevention
In the United States, numerous studies have concluded that firearm access is associated with increased suicide completion.[22] "About 85% of attempts with a firearm are fatal: that’s a much higher case fatality rate than for nearly every other method. Many of the most widely used suicide attempt methods have case fatality rates below 5%.".[23][24]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_prevention
I think your comment is interesting, but breitbart.com? That is the worst of the worst on the net in terms of reliable information. While a broken clock is right twice a day, I would never read or trust anything on that site. The source matters.
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I'm Israeli too - I applaud and support the Gazan startup economy. I know this is the only hope to build a solid bridge between the Israeli and Gazan community.

I wish both sides could be more vocal.
Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy by Bill Janeway blew my mind.

It's a tough read, because it assumes a lot of prior knowledge of academic econ and finance. Also, what I would regard as lackluster editing makes comprehension a challenge beyond that. But the content is one of the best descriptions of our economic system, steeped in historical analysis, and finishing with some strong advice on how to address the public vs private enterprise dilemma to address the challenges of tomorrow.
> The other side of that an accusation or suspicion isn't a reasonable basis on which to ruin someone's employability.

Would you marry or co-found a company with someone who was charged with a crime like murder, rape, robbery or fraud; but was let go after serving 7 months in prison because of insufficient evidence which could not meet the standard of "beyond reasonable doubt".

Unfortunately, rape cases are very hard to convict (even in US) because police & prosecutors does not take rape investigations seriously.
Just wanted to say that I lived in a small ecuadorean fishing village for 7 years, and my experience was the opposite ... but I'm not starting a startup!

My internet was even more limited (EDGE), power went out sometimes (two power bricks were enough for my mac air, though, and the cell towers never went out, so I could make it through even a multi-day outage without losing internet!), and comfy fast wifi in a coffee shop was 40 minutes away (I'd schedule voice or video meetings on days I liked to go into town to buy things or eat at good restaurants).

And surfing fast, big, tropical beach and point breaks ... well.

I bought a house down there; I'm back in the states right now, because I came back and got married to a girl from my hometown. But we're heading to Ecuador again as soon as we can. :)

But a startup? Hmm.

I think I'd have been a good startup employee, but contracting was a better fit anyway since I really appreciated multi-month blocks without work.
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The iPhone wasn't a good idea until Apple figured out the right time and the right pitch. This isn't exactly a new phenomenon -- bad ideas are sometimes only bad because of the environment that is limiting their potential (but sometimes a bad idea is just a bad idea, because some environmental factors are unlikely to change).
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