skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The UK Office for National Statistics has some useful data to help you understand stories like this.

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/subnational-health4/suicides-i...

They define what they mean by suicide, and why there are problems with that definition; they define what they mean by the date; etc.

This article gently mangles some of the numbers. It's probably best to use the language the statisticians use. So, rather than "suicide is the leading cause of death for the under 50" I'd say "suicide is the leading cause of death for men age 20 to 34; and aged 34 to 49". We have to be extra careful with people aged under 15 because of the way the stats work and because of low numbers.

The national charity "Time to Change" does good work about reducing the stigma associated with mental health problems. http://www.time-to-change.org.uk/

I particularly like their "discussion tips" - small business card sized cards that you can use to start a conversation. http://www.time-to-change.org.uk/resources/materials-downloa...

I also really like the video conversations they have. Matt and Tim is powerful. http://www.time-to-change.org.uk/talking-about-mental-health

Sources of stigma are sometimes surprising. When you hear about a child carer it's easy to imagine other children being mean. It's bizarre to hear that teachers are sometimes the main problem for a child carer. My local charity that helps child carers has some great information. There are probably local versions if you're in England. I have no idea what other countries do. Gloucestershire Young Carers: http://www.glosyoungcarers.org.uk/
Not the OP but lots of people who use acrobat reader plugins to fill in / sign forms. Chrome's built in PDF reader got better, but it still can't A. post a filled form back to the browser/server or B. sign a document.
I think there are relatively few sites using SNI. Every provider that supports SNI has a big warning attached that it may not work under a variety of circumstances. The only real reason for doing SNI is cost.
A fantastic idea with a great launch story.
You are being disingenuous.

The original protest to my comment about Einstein's arithmetic, made the claim that I was in agreement with the eccentrics who claim Einstein's theories are incorrect.

To the extent that they have been verified by experiment, I know that the theories are correct. We haven't found gravitational waves yet, which is a concern but all other experiments have worked out.

Not my emphasis on experiment: even when theoretical derivations, proofs and the like are flawlessly carried out, that doesn't mean that they correspond with physical reality.

That's the whole point of being a physics researcher. That's not well understood by most members of the public; the exciting thing about physics is to prove a theorist wrong through experiment. It's helpful to prove a theorist right, but uninteresting to do so.
Thanks, tel. It was your reply to my comment on the Tensor discussion the other day that sent me searching for a general reference, and I found this link this morning. Cheers!
This seems more like a list of edge cases for things that normally work pretty well. Why not change the things that contribute to war, overpopulation, disease, etc?
You ever use Firebug on Firefox? So awesome.
I suspect disabling Flash, etc. plugins and removing extensions will make battery life closer to Safari.

And Google Trends shows increasing amount of 'Chrome slow' searches because it mostly depends on browser market share, which is still rising for Chrome.
Interesting read.

> they're at the bar because everybody else makes it worth them being there, not the other way around.

doesn't just apply to celebrities.
Just tried Vivaldi on Mac and it shows roughly about the same process and thread usage for tabs as Chrome so probably not the answer to battery life. It does feel quite snappy so I'll continue using it instead of Chrome for other reasons.

Generally I use Safari because it renders text better than Chrome (Yosemite) on external displays, but for developer tools still use Chrome.
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"The Guix System Distribution
* Liberating. GuixSD is an advanced distribution of the GNU Operating System developed by the GNU Project —which respects the freedom of computer users."

GNU Operating System? Has the FSF moved past calling it GNU/Linux to just calling it GNU? Have they switched back to the Hurd? What's going on here?
This kind of reminds me of the idea of "junk DNA". 20 years ago, 90% of our DNA didn't code for specific proteins, so it was labelled "junk".

Fast forward 20 years and folks suddenly realize it does play a role in DNA expression.
Yeah, about developing tools, I still have a faint hope that Opera's Dragonfly (which is open-source, I hear) will someday be implemented to either Vivaldi or Chropera.
Here's discussion from back when the research was published. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8160571 It's amazing that the performance problems were addressed to make this look good on a phone!
At the end competition worked for browsers. That is the main benefit of having Chrome.

I remember when they launched with V8 and that pressed other actors to improve their own browsers. now this is also happening with new render engines such as Servo.

Regarding NPAPI, I think it never atracted a bigger audience because the building tools (circa 2011) were difficult to use.
Maybe, but either vertebrates or cephalopods have to have sub optimal design. My money is on the backwards retina being the kludge.
What would you pay to be happy?
I think the teeth/jaw issues are a matter of misuse not flawed design. The switch from hunter-gatherer diet to modern diet was too fast to blame hill-climbing evolution errors.
Just to play devil's advocate...

It almost certainly is intelligent design, because it's intelligent given certain constraints (the existing gene pool in a given generation, and the fact that something working is better than something theoretically better but doesn't actually exist). God iterates using an Agile process.
What CMS do you develop? This sounds like something I would use.

I always browse with cookies and Javascript disabled. There are very few sites I'll enable one or both to use. Most of the time, the first time I browse a site that requires Javascript to show anything useful I just leave. If you can't make your pitch with text, I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be interested.

I know, I know...I'm not the typical market for those kinds of sites.
I start from Principal Component Analysis. PCA is finding the axes of maximal eccentricity within a multidimensional space -- where the space is the variables describing some data set.

This is taking that _sort_ of approach and running it thoroughly out. What are topological and differential properties of a sample space, what can we do with the geometrical forms within that space, given what we know about (diffeomorphic) mappings, etc.
I didn't downvote you. I also don't see how that citation does anything but reinforce the original point -- Dell is buying Windows from Microsoft and reselling it. It's not even a retail product situation, like Best Buy -- Dell isn't selling Windows, it's selling computers that come with Windows. You can't buy the computer at your link without Windows, and you can't buy Windows without the computer through Dell.
If a public company loses half of its value, investors lose half of the money they put in, he explains. But should this happen to a unicorn, investors may not lose anything—as long as the total value of the firm does not fall below the amount protected by the liquidation preference.
BYOD for mobile isn't entirely new, but most people doing that have MDM software that MITM's secure connections (potentially) and keeps all office-related software in a sandbox.

Attaching a desktop to an office network rarely has those same mechanisms.
oh man just tried Vivaldi I think I'm switching just for tab stacks alone.
According to NetMarketShare (which has much better stats than statcounter which excludes most corporate users, hardly any of which use Chrome), IE8 was down to around 15% share of desktop users back in November but spiked up to 19% December through Feb. It's now trending downward again at 17% in March and 16% in April.
I might integrate this into the web based platform we use to teach kids. Very cool.
Would you want to ride in a car with failing brakes?
That was the most appalling ad I have seen in months, they have a whole page justifying them here http://thenextweb.com/voice/2015/05/07/whats-the-deal-with-t...

Q: Isn’t this just an interstitital?

A: No. We don’t like interstitials either. They sit between you and the content and require another click and new pageload before you can proceed to the article. The Canvas ad surrounds the article and the article loads at the same time. All it takes to move the article back in view is to hover over the article. It’s a much more intuitive and smooth process.

I pity their developers for putting up with that sort of delusional rhetoric.
tax preparers often just use the web based systems now and I could easily see them running outdated IE dependent browser add-ons for the work too. Given the way a lot of the tax software walk-thru wizards have progressed, a web interface is likely.
Could you give some examples of the bugs you found? I would like to contribute to elm and this looks like a good place to do it.
what a refreshing read and what style.

I had to check out for the writer : Harrison Scott Key
http://www.amazon.com/Harrison-Scott-Key/e/B00NKZI2QG

Surely on my reading list.
Guix should hypothetically support Linux, HURD, *BSD, etc. since it's based on Nix.

Linux has been the de facto kernel for GNU ever since Linus switch from a non-commercial license to the GPL; at which point HURD became a research project.
Heads up: build failing + dependencies out of date.
CloudFlare uses SNI for their lower cost plans.
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There is also "define( 'WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE', 'minor' );" which should break a lot less.
I'm actually older than 30, but we didn't have a TV in the house when MacGyver aired, I've never seen an actual episode of the show

MacGyver is referenced all the time, to the point where I imagine most people pick it up from context clues, even if they've never seen the original show
What a witty, well-written story in the spirit of 50 Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do), albeit with a father-push rather than a child-pull twist.

His description of how he'd be safe from the alligator following his father's command to enter the water was hilarious:

Immediately, I formulated a plan, which involved surrounding myself with a
protective cloud of urine.

And then later, with his own daughters:

"If one of you gets eaten, we will name the boat after you," I said.

Good read. Recommended.
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Is it related to Microsoft's Photosynth v3? https://photosynth.net/preview
I guess it depends on the person. For example, I release all my photography as CC-BY-SA. So I'm okay with anyone either
(a) using my watermarked images as-is, without needing to write a credit separately, since the watermark is effectively an attribution
OR
(b) using my unwatermarked images for whatever CC-BY-SA compliant derivative works, and display attribution in some other appropriate fashion.

So I display watermarked images in the browser by default, primarily for convenient sharing without worrying about attribution, but make the unwatermarked images available for download if someone needs it for (b).

So this might actually be useful for my use case.
NPAPI is insecure and dates back to Netscape 2.0.

Abandoning a 20 year old technology is really the final nail in the coffin for you?
It would seem we are missing each other's. "Club's impose structure, safety rules etc" given this and other automated drones the imposition of structure and safety rules is/can be written into the software. There has been mention of providing no-fly zones that people could register and given a companies interest in brand preservation the drones would respect the no-fly zones as long as untampered with. However, I do understand the risk to life issues that need to be confronted. I just wouldn't leap to the conclusion that there is a mass of people buying drones, acting irresponsibly, and inciting a heavy regulation of all hobby level flying.
>This is almost... dare I say, embryonic of an earnest attempt at something new?

While TouchDevelop is really cool, it's been a few years since it came out :)
Backlog:

Epic - Improve test coverage
There is a memory team formed for Blink[1]. Also, soon they will start rolling out a garbage collector mechanism (code name Oilpan) which would make Blink more stable, safer and faster. But I am not sure about the overall effect of these on Chrome. Presentations in the link has more details.

[1] https://www.chromium.org/blink/memory-team
and loads of technical debt, apparently!
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That's what led me to this issue. I have a number of sites on the cloudflare free plan using their free SSL and all of them stopped being indexed by bing over the last few weeks.
Further source.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/nick-woodman-gopro-ceo-repay...
Yes, but it can go a bit further.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ClosuresAndObjectsAreEquivalent

A singular closure is 1+ data bound to an entity (function). A singular object is multiple data/functions bound to one entity (object).

In the link above there are examples of either generating multiple closures tied to the same set of data (like tel's example), and also examples of having a singular closure that takes as a first parameter a "method" name and branching based on that. Using either solution you have an OO system using closures as your basis.
Meandering arteries seems rather questionable. I suspect the existing approach is safer as the shoulder and elbows can take quite a bit of abuse and internal bleeding is a very serious issue.

I would suggest the digestive system is much more of a hack. But, losing the ability to manufacture vitamin C is both unusual (Just some primates and guinea pigs?) and problematic.
A website being able to run on a nearly abandoned network protocol (I know, most of sdpy is in http/2) hardly results in a horrible experience for everyone else. It's the perfect kind of optimization - nobody without chrome would ever know it exists.
Job related for my users. Newegg order management needs silverlight
If you are in Europe, take a look at the FON service. [1]

[1] http://maps.fon.com/en
I been a Firefox user since 2004 I think, and used Firebug till something like 2012 .. when the dev console was launched --I haven't touched firebug since then.

nowadays the native console works great! you should give it a try
I was a developer of http://ocportal.com a few years ago. I can't take much credit for it though, since my contribution was a drop in the ocean compared to that of Chris Graham.
I am struck by the irony of juxtaposing this with the fact that Azure Websites still charges the (in my opinion outrageously steep) price of $39 per month per certificate for non-SNI cert support. Maybe it's not that ironic, but it is still striking.
I have to disagree--even though it can be inconvenient, it is rather handy to do a kanban-ish approach to product development.

With preorders in hand, they can more accurately judge their rate of adoption, and even get the operating capital to actually get the things built. The alternative model, where you have to go and pull in a whooole bunch of investing and loans, and then build a product, whole hog, and then figure out if anyone will actually buy is just tremendously inefficient.

Sure, sometimes this means late products, and sometimes this means wasted money, but overall I think it's a marked improvement in the market. It's one of the only ways to get hardware startups to be as quick in development as their software counterparts.
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/fucking-magnets-how-do-they-wo...

This is just my own biased opinion, but if you're reading HN, shouldn't this one have been just about as obvious as it gets?!?!
When we refer to the GNU Operating System, we're referring to the entire collection of GNU software. One of GuixSD's goals as an official GNU project is to integrate all GNU software nicely. The distro is GNU/Linux only right now, but Hurd support is being worked on, too.

See our "about" page for more info: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/about/
Did you let us (CloudFlare) know? We'll follow up with Bing and see what's going on.
It's 7.5° high and 5.5° wide. If you don't consider that huge, then that's up to you. But for me, that counts as huge, especially since it's fairly near the middle of vision. That's over half the width of my hand at arms length.
Wasn't this link about the backwards retina on the front page recently?

http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/look-your-eyes...
I'm thinking at least now I know the name of something else I don't know.
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When I see tools like this, that allow children and adults to make things, using the same platform, I can only think Microsoft is it literally investing in the future. It's so easy to get wrapped up in what a tech company can produce now, or in a year that often times people forget about creating awesome tools. Tools last a lot longer than platforms or devices. While Minecraft is a slightly different example, its core success is simply that it is a creativity tool for all ages and skill levels. When I look at something like TouchDevelop, I see similarities. It's a tool that can let people create awesome things, easily. Something that oversimplifies things at first, but encourages and gives you the ability to push it farther if you desire.

Tech politics aside, kudos to you Microsoft.
Firefox has supported SPDY for quite a few years. Did any of Google's sites perform badly on Firefox?

I use a few of Google's services; for browsers I mainly use Firefox and sometimes Chrome. I've never noticed a big difference between the two browsers when it came to performance, on Google's properties or otherwise.
is geographic != true north?
I think you missed out magnetic north, unless I have my definitions mixed up =]
I agree completely. We have different zoning laws, so why is San Francisco applying a single short term rental law across the entire city?

As I said in an earlier post, I would like to trade my right to run a hotel out of my house in exchange for a legally enforced expectation that my neighbors won't do this either.

However, I certainly don't see why the preferences of people who live in largely SFH zones in the outer mission or outer sunset should govern north beach or the inner mission. That's up to them.
I was having the same issue, until I enabled "click to play" for flash etc. Currently with 8-10 tabs open 1.4 GB of memory. YMMV.
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Russian's a fun one, that's for sure. Stupid noun declension.

Immersion's still your best bet. If you've got the time and the money to put towards this, I'd recommend a intensive summer program like Middlebury College's Language School - if you're in Silicon Valley, they've also got a similar one in Monterey. For two months they put you in a group of about a dozen with the same level of Russian you've got, make you vow to use Russian and only Russian with each other 24/7, and then put you through an intensive program of classes and cultural activities. It makes your head throb, but it works.
How do we learn to talk when we are toddlers? You point at something and ask what is it, you learn its name, you repeat it out loud (use it in a few phrases, with more or less success). You generally ask something about it, too (what does it do, why is it so big, etc...). So when you are done, you know the name, the use, how does it looks like, what does it do, etc.

You have to understand that just memorising words or phrases won't get you very far. You need to associate these words with something that makes sense to you, to fully understand and integrate them into your brain.

I teach myself languages as a hobby, now and then. I've learnt some Japanese and Chinese, for example (using iKnow [1], great website and apps). I wanted to learn the Russian alphabet but was having a hard time reading the characters until I came across an article [2] which provides cheeky associative method. It's brilliant, I can read any text in Russian now (I can't understand it yet, but hey, it's a first step!).

[1] http://iknow.jp/
[2] http://gadling.com/2009/03/30/gadling-teaches-you-to-read-th...
Ah but those badge scans are now "important leads" that the sales team can brag about after the event is over.

You might get a follow-up phone call, but in my experience a lot of those leads are dumped out of the recording device at the end and promptly forgotten. These badge devices are usually pushed on the attending companies by the company running the exhibit hall.
The space here is the space of probability distributions (each point is a distribution), not the sample space. So, no real connection with PCA.
lol, when you said "infinite canvas," I had a brain fart, and I almost asked what the file format was and if I can get my data out. I'll show myself out.

EDIT: Wait! Having actually opened the program. There's layers. It's not a raw ascii save file. Interesting.

EDIT EDIT: Would suggest XML save file so that all data is always in plain text. See, e.g. Eastgate Tinderbox's save file.
I've watched every single episode of the Simpsons. I thought the newer episodes were decent. However, the current season is a complete disaster story-wise. I don't know if they changed the lead writers, but there's a discernible quality gap.

"Let's Go Fly a Coot" is the worst episode ever. I'm shocked they thought it was ok to air such mess.
No, neither is required to have a suboptimal design. Why do you think that? Mammals are quite successful.
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At risk of being quoted ... that description already matches my internal experience of the psychology of bodily waste elimination.

I certainly wouldn't characterize urination as fun in the sense of "hm, how can I make this happen more often?"
Some describe it as having been “Designed by Committee”:

http://threepanelsoul.com/2010/07/05/on-design-by-committee/
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So... this makes a difference in your daily life as a nomad hunter or software engineer how? None at all. You just don't perceive it unless you go out of your way to.
SSLLabs capping server scores for just supporting RC4 is kind of silly. The server gets to pick the cipher and the Finished message authenticates the rest of the handshake. So long as the key exchange portion is strong enough (and that's orthogonal to the bulk cipher, although if you're supporting XP, that's probably plain RSA and not ECDHE_RSA), the handshake has downgrade protection. You can securely[1] negotiate GCM with modern browsers while still accepting legacy things for older ones. Just order your ciphers right.

[1] I'm handwaving the version fallback. You'll want to also support FALLBACK_SCSV, which SSLLabs also checks for, until that thing is gone for good.
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How would you build any electronics on a desert island? Seems odd to me. It's like bringing TAOCP without a computer.

I'd give up any luxury (probably a guitar) just for a big stack of 8.5x11" and some pens. The Count of Monte Cristo would be good, but I'd rather take Infinite Jest. Electric Ladyland, In the Aeroplane, Beethoven's Piano Concerto #5 (I can't believe anyone would want Ode to Joy), and all the Gorillaz records.
For folks who haven't watch The Simpsons in a while, the recent episode about piracy is worth watching [1]--I found it to be quite funny and clever.

[1] But how? :-)