skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Campaign Against Living Miserably is a Liverpool charity doing some interesting work in this area. They use language differently in an attempt to get a message to men. "I am a man. I refuse to be a man down." is a campaign about the 12 men who die to suicide each day in England.

There are some things that correlate with deaths by suicide. When the number of people without work rises the number of deaths by suicide increases.

I've been doing some voluntary work around suicide reduction. Some of this is cheap but effective. We get multistorey buildings that have public access (eg car parks) to install signs with phone numbers of suicide prevention charities.

Funding of mental health treatment in England has always been low. "Parity of esteem" is aiming to change that. Eventually the wait times for non urgent MH treatment should be similar to non urgent physical health. (So, a maximum 18 week wait between first appointment and start of treatment). A recent change in law (dec 2014) means that people with non-urgent[1] needs get some choice in where they're treated.

Every local authority in England is supposed to have a suicide prevention strategy, and that's supposed to be informed by the national suicide prevention strategy. So, hosted by Public Health (who are in tirn hosted by county councils) and working with clinical commissioning groups, criminal justice (a shocking number of prisoners die by suicide), the police, drug and alcohol services, mental health services, etc.

Some regions are takig ideas from the learnig disability community. For example: many regions have a "learning disability health and well being partnership"; a few regions have started a "mental health and well being partnership".

I do a bit of work around suicide prevention and I am keen to hear people's ideas around suicide prevention. Please do feel free to email me.

[1] there are a few criteria around who can chose and when they can chose but it's a lot better now. http://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/qual-clin-lead/pe/bp/guida...

Campaign against living miserably https://www.thecalmzone.net/

The old strategy for my region (I had no involvement with this. I'm working on the replacement). http://www.gscb.org.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=62552&p=0

The national strategy: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/suicide-preventio...
There was a blue box on the right side saying "Have you clicked the button?" on most subreddits I read on April 1st.
A valuable lesson to those buying OSS companies.
‘Hipster paradox’ explained using mathematical formula
I read it differently; they thought they could negotiate a renewal free of charge or at a discount and didn't have a plan B.
The obvious answer would be that you are not trying to raise money, but you are building a one-off "work of art" that will sell for million dollars.

That gives an idea of why such a a zero-revenue business model makes some sense, but also gives an idea of why it's incredibly hard to make it work.
The average age at which a man goes through his first divorce is about 36. [1]

Here's the cocktail:

1) By 40 you've gotten divorced, and probably have a split family. Those post divorce years can be incredibly difficult for everyone.

2) Life hasn't worked out as you hoped, and your youth is mostly behind you. If you happen to lose a career at this juncture, it can be difficult to regain your footing due to routine age bias.

3) You're unwilling to reach out for help, seek therapy or take drugs to deal with depression. By about 40 your body is also changing, this can compound all the other effects.

4) You kill yourself out of desperation, fear, loneliness, etc.

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2013/article/marriage-and-divorc...
So the reason is not one of "intent", but of "effectiveness".
Someone said there's less suicides during times of economic depression, because then there's a generally accepted reason for failure. In times of success, there isn't and so it must be our fault.

The more we believe that success of life is based on merit, the more disappointment will occur.
If the evidence from football is anything to go by, billionaires adopting startups to run as their personal fiefdom would have even the most activist and unethical VCs seem like a founder's dream by comparison.

The emergence of liquid secondary markets for companies not big enough to IPO would be the founders' dream; suddenly the long term sustainability of the business would matter as much as numbers of potential acquirers and potential for aggressive growth.
LinkedIn announces Elevate app to help employees share company content
Whois data is more used by spammers than anyone else. It's not like the other sites are purposefully trying to hide their contact information—if they want donations, they'll make sure to prominently display a mailing address.
Crashes Putty over here.
And also Michael Tiemann (now at RedHat), and David Henkel-Wallace (now at Technical Illusions, making CastAR).

Their slogan was "We make free software affordable". (In answer to the anti-slogans: "Free software: more expensive than money" and "Linux is only free if your time is worthless".)

I asked David if they named the company "Cygnus" after grepping /usr/dict/words for "gnu". He answered no, because if they'd thought of doing that, they would have named it "Wingnut".
There are a variety of attempts to explain the difference.

I'm not sure how true any of these are but:

1) women self harm more frequenty than men, which means it's more likely that they get early intervention and help.

2) women communicate better than men meaning they get constant low level support and easier path into treatment

3) men use methods that are more lethal and less survivable.

4) stigma, discrimination, lack of understanding, etc. many people have no idea what mental health treatment involves.
I think that may be more or less inevitable. We don't even have a good physiological understanding of obesity. We know some things. Weight gain is determined by caloric intake. Maybe the right way to think of it is caloric intake is necessary for weigh gain. Bringing in psychology, neurology/neurochemistry… puff. There is fascinating science going on, but we're currently far from a working understanding.

But, we have other tools. Many of them are unscientific. We call them pseudo science or whatnot. That may not be incorrect, but it is probably missing something. Is AA pseudoscience? It's a social structure and method for alcohol addiction. We have all sorts of scientific knowledge, but not a science based improvement on AA.

It's increasingly seems like there are similarities between substance addiction, activity (video games, adrenaline sports, sex, procrastination, social media..) addiction and other "pathologies." The science does not contradict this. In fact, the contrary is very likely to be true. I've heard various interesting sounding theories that might be rendered as

"Addiction is something that has hijacked the learning process in your brain." IE, your brain responds and adapts to small doses of frustration or satisfaction when you learn to walk, solve math or ride a Harley Davidson. That adaption is learning. Addiction is that kind of learned behavior.

Yet, taking that theoretical level understanding of super-complicated processes in a super-complicated environment and using it in a non-pseudoscientific way is… we're not there yet. When we get there, we can throw out old wives tales. Until then, lets just agree that not everything is science. Some things are a working theory that approximates reality or utilizes some of our other human faculties to create a working solution to current projects.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=addiction+learning+dopa...
But those guys were all trying to solve a problem in the here and now, not 20 years later. Those companies are still with us today, and successful, because they persevered for 20 years. (Well, that and patent royalties, I suppose.)
I think we can safely assume that the grass is green.
Right now it works on top of Whatsapp, but we are adding other messengers shortly. Capabilities right now are translating, checking wikipedia, latest cricket scores, check indian railways pnr status and some fun stuff like jokes. We are essentially working towards the conversation + answering grey area questions category.
Well if I intend to do something then I do. I guess you could say I have learned to be effective with age.
Women tend to choose less effective methods, like wrist-cutting or sleeping pills, while men are more likely to choose hanging or shoot themselves.
An algorithm that can auto-ban Internet trolls
No, they are not.

The browser should treat any HTTP connection as a MITM attack at all times, too. Actually, it should also treat it as multiple MITM because everyone in your network or in the path can see your traffic.

We could argue if it even makes sense to differentiate between SSL with self-signed certs and plain HTTP connections when warning users, I'll give you that. But in no way SSL with self-signed are worse than HTTP.

> Try to think through how else it could possibly work, and you'll see why the browsers do this.

Funny :)
Moderately related (in an "it amused me" way): The back of the building Hillary Clinton's campaign headquarters is in faces a Clinton St.: https://twitter.com/aseitzwald/status/584004566041112576
Button-related posts keep making it to /r/all, though (my main Reddit window).
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He specified "bay area" tbh, which apparently is a very expensive place to live in.

I wouldn't know being french, but even here the same salary in Paris or anywhere else is the country is not even close to be the same thing.
> Someone said there's less suicides during times of economic depression,

They were wrong. There are more suicides (at least, in England) during recession.
I'm finding vast disagreement over whether testosterone peaks at 20 or closer to 40. Can you provide some good sources?

Some sources show it declining drastically from 20 to 40 (by as much as 90%), others claim it peaks between 35-40 and gradually declines. It seems to be all over the map.

For example:

"Studies show that most men experience a 2% drop-off in testosterone production each year after they turn 30."

http://www.askmen.com/daily/austin_150/155_fashion_style.htm...

"Testosterone Does Not Necessarily Wane With Age"

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/247013.php

"Testosterone levels peak in the mid-20s for both men and women. For women, who have about 1/10 to 1/20 the amount of testosterone that men have, testosterone levels taper off slowly until they plateau around the age of 45. For men, testosterone levels continue to wane into their 70s. By the time women reach menopause, their testosterone levels are about half of what they were in their 20s. Men's testosterone levels decrease by about 1% per year and then drop faster as they approach older age."

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/may/02/health/la-he-midlife...
What happened to this douche sounds completely right to me.
That depends entirely on what we're using the stats for, for pension valuation I'll stick to mortality!

Glib/nitpicky I know, but all stats are useless in some context - the trick is to get the right tool for the job. Dismissing an entire dataset as useless is just missing the point.
While I believe you, I continue to insist that this is a problem with shitty solid-state boards, not with solid-state electronics in general.
@Kidlogic: No offense taken. I agree it does look a bit random, but we are working on the hypothesis that we will never need a website for this. A detailed explanation is something I missed, apologies for that.

Well broadly the purpose of Aaahit is to be your smartest phonebook contact who you can ask anything. This includes eventually having a discussion on grey area topics to finding information quickly. Right now it helps in translations, wiki'ing stuff, getting the latest cricket scores or checking your train reservation status ( for India only ).
A valuable lesson to those buying OSS companies with the intention of destroying the competition to their core product.
That sounds like exactly the opposite of the reddit button.
Perhaps if the less wealthy were able to wrest power from the very wealthy whom have clearly gamed the US tax code with Enron-like complexity, personal taxes could be fairer and similar to Norway's dual model, where the govt computes taxes for persons in the majority of cases based on standard deductions and can be easily approved by the taxpayer by SMS if it is correct. This would end most of the unnecessary labor and drudgery that also happens to be extremely unfair.

The first point is the troubling one, because politicians in the US are drunk with money of the very same people whom pay the least taxes and amass large piles of cash to buy their interests, a behavior few people can do individually (but could collectively, if they were sufficiently organized and singularly aggressive on such an issue (crowdfunding-like model)).
I've never heard about anyone tipping taxi drivers before, seems like a weird thing to do. Is that actually common in the US?
Nbench2 results (AMD K6/233 baseline)
I would love to just have one package manager for all these systems. If the adoption of pkgsrc takes off, I'll be very happy to delete my brew install. Every time it updates, I wonder if its such a great idea ..
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I really liked! I think it needs more designs, and can evolve to let the user create posters.
It's already sold as a commercial solution. As to whether this hotel will use it, I have no idea, for all I know the whole thing is just a PR piece.
I really thought this was going to be about the demoscene.
The sexy OSX-running hardware can also be set up just fine, and quite comfortably, as a Windows device. The folks I see toting OSX machines are mostly using it as a shell for their Windows VM's.

Myself, I've got a 50/50 split between OSX and Linux. It works okay to switch between the systems, of course KISS principle applies ..
"This webpage has a redirect loop"
Wait...your posit something as fact because it's "been circled around", but his pointing to an actual link doesn't rise to your level of "evidence"?

Cute.
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I know from personal experience that testosterone peaks much closer to 20 than 40.
Price of the higher education – is it worth it?
> I'm glad I didn't have to struggle with the 1,200 page physical edition.

Yes. I read a lot in bed before sleeping, and i found it extremely uncomfortable nowadays to have to turn pages in a paper book - having the possibility to just be on the same "surface" when reading text is just great. And the paperwhite is just light enough that it does not get too painful on your wrists, compared to a large book that just makes you tired holding it.
Article posted on my 40th birthday :O
Well, mangos take so little to prepare.

Meat, beer, cheese, wine, etc, all have an unreasonably high number of snobs, who, by default, assume people do things wrong or buy the wrong things.

Its a social campaign unintentionally powered by fans and the such, not some overall evil scheme powered by PR firms
The interesting question here is why the difference in method choice.
Always blame somebody, or something else, golden rule.
How Chamath Palihapitiya put Facebook on the path to 1B users
I always thought that having a self cleaning bathroom would be better. Think something like a car-wash. Combine key activation with motion sensors, and I'd think it would be a great idea.
You have very, very clearly never tried to support a fleet of macbooks in a corporate IT environment.
Video shows Tulsa police killing man as officer uses gun not Taser 'by mistake'
In the UK it's not even just 'Ivy or bust' in my view. The amount of career paths that seem to viably lead to anything other than "rent forever" seems tiny to me.

We have silly conflicting goals; the Government wants to encourage pension saving, so private pensions are now opt out. But for most, homeownership is a higher priority (because renting would eat away at that pension anyway). Yet we seem to be still pumping the housing bubble by focusing on nonsense like 'access to mortgages' rather than decreasing/stabilising the cost of housing.

An interesting statistic I like to use is the proportion of properties that are owned and owned outright. Very roughly, ~30% are owned outright, another 30% owner occupied, and the rest are rental properties.

You could then say that going forward it would be reasonable to expect that 60% or more of young people will eventually be homeowners. But that does not match up at all with the income scales myself and most of my friends seem to be facing (and we are in the higher tiers comparatively).
Most likely, he is blocking ads
I don't understand your point: the orientation of the lighting is irrelevant with respect to suppressing melanin production. The cold temperature of the Kindle LEDs, ostensibly selected to make the screen appear white in the presence of warmer ambient lighting, is likely to have enough of a blue component to disrupt sleep. Total luminescence isn't a factor in suppressing melanin production either, as someone else has posted in this thread, so automatic dimming doesn't help either. The automatic dimming, if it worked well (it didn't in my case) would help reduce eye strain by matching the Kindle screen brightness with the ambient light level.
I am 40 this year, and while I don't want to kill myself, I understand the feeling of having failed. It is even stronger (IMHO) if you work in start-up/tech because you're either millionaire or... obsolete.

Finding inner peace is important for anybody, but even more critical at 40.
I wasn't denying people's preferences. I was pointing out that it has an impact even if people don't notice the justification.
how it's similar to racing sailboats

That does seem to be Oracles' go-to sales metaphor.
Very common. In NYC for example there is a social institution that taxi drivers are tipped.
You do raise a good point which is how much credit we can take for our successes and failures. I am by most definitions a "success", but I have doubts about how much of this success was due to me and how much was due to randomness. I guess the positive of this is I can distance myself from my failures too.
Some open source startups fail because they are non-scalable service companies deluding themselves that they are product companies. Furthermore, they do not own enough of any durable advantage (IP, talent, mindshare), and so multiple "product" companies pretend to not compete while offering similar services in a niche that does not have that much demand. Furthermore with FOSS, most potential customers are often politically incentivized to poach upstream code and talent, give nothing back and eschew overpriced "consulting" services entirely. So it's almost always the wrong business model, unless you dominate it.

(I've plenty of enterprise FOSS consulting to realize there are easier ways to make much more $/time, like enterprise startups that are product companies. Also, PGs essays about "consultingish.")
Indeed, I've found a way to come to terms with it, but what does bug me is any sort of political discourse that seemingly ignores it entirely.

The idea seems to be that poor kids go off to University, get well paid jobs, and that's the end of the story.

Except it's not, because my 'well paid' is far higher that of someone who isn't paying rent.

Income inequality is a non issue to me. Wealth inequality is the problem.
> "First of all, tipping someone implicitly puts them in a servile position and says you're off better than them. Secondly, and this is probably the killer, it says that you don't think they would manage without your help."

How do you come to this conclusion? When I tip someone I express my gratitude for the good service to the specific employee of some company that did a great job.

I never thought of it as the person receiving a tip is below me or anything like that and I doubt that this is how most people think about it.

It might be true that people in Japan feel this way about tipping, but your statement was very general as if it is an observation about the very nature of tipping itself.
Test our encryption
Fundamentally open source companies and no-revenue model companies are very different, I think it's a mistake to lump them together. The defining trait of a no-revenue company is the investors' confidence that massive revenues or at least a bombastic acquisition will come further down the line.

This model does not work for open source companies, because the "figuring out how to make money later" step typically can't happen without a massive pivot (whether it's all that likely to happen with your typical no-revenue company either is open to debate).

Maybe the break-even point in open source companies tends to come at a later point, but the path to revenue needs to be baked in from the start. Typically, switching on a revenue generator later will require more than just putting some ads up on the company site, so if massive changes are required to make that happen you must include those plans in your DNA from the start.

Open source and zero-revenue companies share the assumption that reach and influence can be translated into money, but when running an open source company the nature of that reach has to be designed more carefully.
The Code Is Just the Symptom
You asked for it, you got it:

https://blockly-demo.appspot.com/static/demos/code/index.htm...
Show HN: Miniwriter - Discreetly write one word at a time, with no take-backs
I quote:

> But there is a very real North/South divide in the way the economies are structured and in societal norms (trust in others, corruption, tax evasion, clientelism)

This is very poor simplifcation, and pretty offensive too.
In Austria (Europe) this is common too.
FAQ for those who can read Japanese:

http://www.h-n-h.jp/faq.pdf

It says if you stay between 2 and 5 nights there is a fee to have your bed made (#43). I wonder if this implies a human will be doing it.

I don't see anything on there that mentions robots making the beds. Could just be that the robots do most of the cleaning and humans change the sheets or something.
Cookie Clicker really shows how game mechanics by themselves (and boredom or need to take your mind off something) can motivate people to play.

But also, it can be even more addictive if the game would go back to zero after a period of inactivity (like a tamagachi pet "dying" without attention, or a Flappy Bird). Maybe not going back to zero but to some lower "saved" level like Mario.

This is the kind of stuff that makes people see how high a score they can get, for no reason other than the score!
Apple invents the mechanism that defy the laws of Murphy
+1. Oracle bought Sun and we (a bunch of experienced Solaris admins running in-house stuff in Java) ran screaming to Linux.

Our remaining Solaris is two Niagara boxes running Oracle dev and live, and those will be moving to Red Hat assuming our project to replace Oracle with Postgres doesn't finish first.

It's a pity, Solaris 10 was really pretty nice for a Solaris.
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There isn't much you can do if the "cheating" happens client side, because the cheater has complete control there. At most you can obfuscate it by e.g. rendering the button in a canvas element and/or including a checksum and change the js files frequently like people here mention, but again, that will be just obfuscation, not real security.
I know, one just needs to attend a Games Developer Conference to see Windows being used instead of Mac OS X.

Still, I am yet to work on a company that allows buying Apple hardware instead of Thinkpads to end up installing Windows on it.