skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you don't say anything about all the other medical advice here? This advice, with links to the CDC advice, is what gets your hackles up?

In the UK positive pressure machines are only recommended after lifestyle interventions have been tried.

http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ta139/chapter/1-guidance

> 1.1 Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is recommended as a treatment option for adults with moderate or severe symptomatic obstructive sleep apnoea/hypopnoea syndrome (OSAHS).

> 1.2 CPAP is only recommended as a treatment option for adults with mild OSAHS if:

> they have symptoms that affect their quality of life and ability to go about their daily activities, and

> lifestyle advice and any other relevant treatment options have been unsuccessful or are considered inappropriate.

http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ta139/chapter/2-Clinical-nee...

> 2.4 Major risk factors for developing OSAHS are increasing age, obesity and being male. OSAHS is also associated with certain specific craniofacial characteristics (such as retrognathia), enlarged tonsils and enlarged tongue. Use of alcohol or sedatives can also increase the risk or severity of the condition. OSAHS has been reported to affect up to 4% of middle-aged men and 2% of middle-aged women in the UK. It is estimated that 1% of men in the UK may have severe OSAHS.

> 2.5 Treatments aim to reduce daytime sleepiness by reducing the number of episodes of apnoea/hypopnoea experienced during sleep. The alternatives to CPAP are lifestyle management, dental devices and surgery. Lifestyle management involves helping people to lose weight, stop smoking and/or decrease alcohol consumption. Dental devices are designed to keep the upper airway open during sleep. The efficacy of dental devices has been established in clinical trials, but these devices are traditionally viewed as a treatment option only for mild and moderate OSAHS. Surgery involves resection of the uvula and redundant retrolingual soft tissue. However, there is a lack of evidence of clinical effectiveness, and surgery is not routinely used in clinical practice.

Talking about weight loss in a thread about lack of sleep is not a derailment; it is not condescending. Lack of sleep is one cause of obesity. Obesity plays a major role in lack of sleep.
> 64GB! Sixty-four! For a desktop/laptop architecture!

and still no ECC support, sigh
Possibly not within the topic of your question but why would you want to do permament job if you sound quite successful with your own business? All successful people I know got so high because they were owning businesses rather than working for somebody else...
Just tried it from a work PC that hasn't been before (so fresh cache), got domain sales
You can't use your domain in grace period until you pay. It gets redirected.
ARM, Java, and BigData pt1
I enjoyed your article, and I think the notion about running close to the "human metal" is an important selling point for Clojure. The thing is, it is very hard for outsiders to see how this works, as you have to have some grasp not only about the (to most people) relatively foreign syntax, but also about how evaluation works, in order to begin to grasp how powerful macros are. And then, there's still some convincing left to do, because isolated examples A and B of macro usage can reflect stuff that you can do as easily in other language Y and X respectively. It took me a long time to get to my current understanding, and, being a Clojure/ClojureScript beginner, I still don't fully fathom what can and cannot be done with macros. Articles like this one continues to inspire me in my quest for understanding :) And they strengthen my belief that there is something to be won by adopting Clojure. Good job!
EPC: An Embedded Packet Capture
Exactly this. We slave away most of our lives in day jobs (and yes, I know we work less than 100 years ago), and try to cram actual living into whatever is left. No surprise sleep often gets sacrificed first. I'm constantly guilty of this myself - if I were to sleep the ideal 8hrs a day, that with a day job and commute and eating will leave me something of 4-5 hours of (low-quality) time for doing other things, which is unbearable when you have any kind of passion or self-driven projects going on, and I don't even have kids yet. I know that sleeping more would let me use those 4-5 hours more efficiently, but it's a hard habit to have - sometimes you really need more time, not better time.

And that's a comfortably-living first worlder's perspective. I'm not trying to compare myself to people who do need to work 2 jobs just to get by.
> It is important to realize how slow actual weight loss is

That's a good point.

> I am not claiming any of the original commenters suggest this, but still: "I'll just suffer until I lose enough weight" is a terrible decision.

Well, yes, but treatment will change as weight changes. Why go through risky surgery if weight loss might help? Why go through the hassle of sleep studies and waiting for machine fitting if weightloss will help? The alternative to weightloss is not "instant cure", there's still time delays built in.
Shouldn't the registrar do that? Namecheap sends me multiple emails when any of my domains is about to expire, it's just common business sense.
Indian girl raps about sex and desire
by Street Level I hoped they meant "tails", direct (camera, video, shotgun mike), that kind of thing.
I know that I snore and that I need to do this but this doesn't seem encouraging. Plus I don't want to sleep with a machine the rest of my life. Isn't there surgery that can be done? I'd be happy to do that (even though I've heard it's not foolproof). I wake up every day feeling tired no matter what time I try and go to sleep. On weekends I can sleep in until 1pm if I let myself and I still have a hard time waking up.

I should add, I'm a slim/skinny guy, been so all my life, so it's not about weight.
It's definitely anecdata, but I only drink coffee black, and if I have any past about 2pm I won't get to sleep until two or three AM.
Here are my problems with retention being the star metric:

What if you have a customer lifetime value far higher than your acquisition costs per customer, and a very wide addressable market, but low retention rates? E.g. I acquire users for $5 each and same-day convert them to $15 profit each, and they rarely come back unless I return some of the profits back into the funnel to acquire them again.

You may ask - Shouldn't we assume that that growth channel will quickly collapse? -- Well, what if it doesn't? Something is very wrong with the trend of assuming that retention is everything, particularly in the case where there's a high immediate return on investment for each acquired user.

My second problem with retention is the time-span. Consider an ecommerce site for basic household necessities that may be accessed 20 times per year by a 100% retention user that always uses your service to his problem that your service solves. That return frequency is so low though, that if you're growing at 40%+ month over month, your retention may appear to be near zero, even though your retention is near 100%! Most of your users are new users and only a tiny percent returning, all due to your high growth rate. The compounding growth combined with the long expected time between visits just makes 100% retention look like 0%.
Right, that was oversimplification from my side, and cost me 4 precious carma points so far. Sure. But I live in city with loads of tourists, and most so called "homeless" people here are not people struggling to live trough another day, but rather making good living out of scared tourists.
I don't know anything about her, and didn't really care enough to research her personally, and still don't really. Why did you? What is it that bugs you? Cause I still say there is no "shame and fear" involved in this 'campaign'.

I think anyone who has a job writing code can legitimately call themselves a software engineer, it's just a synonym for programmer these days, and if you program, you're a programmer.

(I play accordion, not all that well. Once a teacher of mine, who is an incredible musician, overheard me answering the question "Do you play accordion?" with "Well, I'm learning," and he said to me something like "Don't say you don't play the accordion, of course you play the accordion, I've seen you playing it, you play the accordion, you're a musician. If you pick up the accordion and play something on it, you are an accordionist, which is something to be proud of. Never deny it." This coming from a guy who is probably one of the top accordionists on the planet, better then I'll ever be (because he's been dedicating himself to it for decades since he was a child) -- was a lesson for me in confidence and generosity to oneself and others vs being excessively self-critical).

There are enough software engineers that I think it's clear that the answer to "what does a software engineer actually look like" is: Just like everyone else, they look like everyone.
Proposal: the following observations: humans chunk color even as infants, language controls the experience of color, make sense together if you stop treating language as a confounding factor and treat it as the goal.

Humans evolved color chunking to be able to talk about it.
British Library has put 1M license free illustrations on Flickr
+1 for encouraging the use of logs as a debugging tool - they're often better than a debugger in my opinion [1].

Also, bugs aren't only bad - you learn a lot from them too [2].

[1] http://henrikwarne.com/2014/01/01/finding-bugs-debugger-vers...

[2] http://henrikwarne.com/2012/10/21/4-reasons-why-bugs-are-goo...
Tangential to the topic: The git bisect image has "good" and "bad" backwards, showing the solving of a bug instead of the production of one. I would hope a commit in between would clearly state it contains the bugfix.
Breaking the habits: introducing automated test written by a QA
Sony calls the Xperia Z3 an ‘incremental step-up’
Show HN: Okk – Create instant activity groups with people nearby
Though I can't back it up with data, I'm sure you're correct! Plus I suspect most of our small user base is early adopters who of course tend to be younger, affluent, etc.
Once you've got medical stuff ruled out you can try exercises. This involves singing something like "UNGGG - GGAAAHHH" for twenty minutes per day. There's a little bit of research suggesting this.

There is surgery to treat snoring. It's not great.

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ipg240

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ipg476
I discovered it when visiting an old project after a whole OS wipe-and-restore from TM. A week later I found that 'git' wouldn't recognize a project dir due to some missing pieces. I had a 2nd TM drive, and was able to manually restore files.

For my other machine, no such luck. I had a 2nd backup offsite (Backblaze) but it was months before I noticed the damage, and so the old files were no longer available via the offsite. I think the worst part is not knowing what you've lost. I have thousands of music and photos on that machine, and every once in a while I come across something that's gone.
Writing code is about understanding, also.

I've seen developers bang away at a problem for days and not be able to describe how it "works" in a code review. They just tried every crazy thing they could think of until it eventually returned results that looked correct.

Don't be that kind of developer. For one, all the other developers are going to make you maintain that code for the rest of your life. Two, never be too proud to ask for help. We can't know how to solve every problem on our own. It's not possible.
Understanding is the key to everything in software development. In particular, understanding both what you are trying to do and the tools (including language) you are using is necessary for writing code that works.

The former is true even if you are doing exploratory development: in that case, you need to understand what has been found so far and what the next iteration is intended to investigate.
All these are nice, but are not must-haves as they can be built outside of GitHub. The show-stopper for me is granular permissions - coming from the Gitolite [0] world, where I can permission even branches and do all kinds of checks and balances on the server, GitHub is a joke for a not-so-large enterprise! Another thing is the Wiki - why pages are based on Git and the Wiki is not?!

[0] http://gitolite.com/
Thanks for sharing. I think I will spend next several hours digging through.
> Artificially shortening the lifespan of a product isn't profitable because of the hit the manufacturer takes to its reputation.

Works well for nVidia. Speculations that it's newer drivers destroying older cards' performance seemingly cannot be quelled.

You can get away with that if you can still create a superior product than your sole competitor and can even get away with deliberately lying to customers (See 3.5 GB of good memory instead of 4 GB on GTX970)
I think there will be no such thing as no owner. In worst cases, it will be the state that compensates for damages. Kind of like if you drive into a hole in a road you can seek damage compensation from municipality. There will be some kind of laws that would instantiate agency of some sort to regulate and make sure there are no wondering "entities" without owners and they would be responsible.
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Android fragmentation report
HFT Shield Software review binary need to know *THE TRUTH*
Applause.com does this kind of "in the wild testing" with testers of all levels of expertise. Definitely worth checking out.
Well, they're described as being "enthusiast" chips but the core i7 line does have 6 and 8 core versions: the 5820/5930 and the 5960 respectively.
Yes, peoples can have different sensitivity to caffein:
http://www.caffeineinformer.com/caffeine-sensitivity
You don't need to replicate human brain to achieve human brain-like behavior.
Is It Finally Time to Ditch Corporate Voicemail?
I believe he was thinking of runway economic effects -- e.g. tax revenue is down so 'Let's increase taxes!', while doing so could lead to further economic slowdown and less taxes; this effect is less obvious and doesn't necessarily happen imo.
Airbnb, Uber, Stripe are the prime US examples. Flipkart/Ola in India.
Nobody was being condescending.
Nothing is new under the sun.

Most of this is widely known as "Dark Patterns".
Leave your technology at home and actually meet people. That's the biggest benefit of not having your laptop and primary phone with you.

Granted, the crowds and general culture of the conference doesn't always support this, but to me it's the best part.
It's more complicated than that, though. Content quality/cost is also a factor. This problem is multidimensional.
Menus and Widgets in Qt
‘Stay Far, Far Away’ and Other Things Gleaned from Yelp Health Reviews
I have absolutely no interest in the product. I really just saw it as a opportunity to make money. The business is pretty automated at this point and I'm happy with where it's at. I think I've hit a point where I can't grow this any further without my life revolving around it, which I do not want to do at all.

I really enjoy development and want to experience being in a very development focused environment. Sometimes I'm working on the business and all I'm thinking about is how much I want to just code lol.
Hi
Great project. Do you have any idea of how much a construction company is going to save thanks to your software?
Do you think construction companies are going to accept to share data with others? Let's say company A has faced a very complex measuring issue and has found an innovative and economic solution. Will it agree to share it on your platformbecause to me it sounds like helping competitors...
UK High Court Ruling Outlaws Ripping CDs into iTunes, Time Machine and Apple Music
1&1 and gandi both offer automatic renewal. In fact I don't think I would use a registrar that didn't offer that.

More likely what happened was that the guy who was incharge disappeared and/or his credit card number changed. And when the registrar tried to renew - it couldn't and I'm sure sent tons of emails of "HEY YOU NEED TO FIX THIS". Something similar almost happened to CentOS.
Nice idea. Did you consider developing it as a plugin for hubot[0], or since you're working with ruby, then maybe lita[1], or ruboty[2] ?

I think it will take some of the heavy-lifting away, and easier to add for people who already use one of those robot frameworks (instead of running a whole instance just for one feature).

[0] https://hubot.github.com/
[1] https://www.lita.io/
[2] https://github.com/r7kamura/ruboty
If they were trying to intimidate they'd have taken his shoe. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/11673700/Muslim-campaigner-Z...
Right, I'm going to give my somewhat brutal answer then show my journey.

> Why are conversions low?

Because the site is utterly broken for finding products, almost every page has some error on, and the products themselves appear to be extremely expensive while not presenting me with enough information to see why I should buy them.

Have you actually used your site? Honestly, are you loading your own site and trying to find things?

The more I look around, the more problems I find. Your site is broken on a technical level but even if it wasn't there's nowhere near enough information for me to make a decision to buy. Loads of things don't even say how big they are!

---

Here's me using the site, this is exactly what I find, not leaving out any working pages:

---

I opened the page, and there's a huge clickable image in the middle ("live your dreams at an affordable cost").

I clicked it.

> PRODUCTS
>
> SORRY, WE COULD NOT FIND ANY RESULTS. TRY ANOTHER SEARCH.

You have no products?

---

Kitchen and bath (should be bathroom) has these options:

> POT RACKS BAKERS RACKS KITCHEN ISLANDS

None are for the bathroom. All take me to a "coming soon"

---

The next five things I choose also have no products.

I have been on 10 pages on your site and have seen no products actually for sale.

---

http://www.nomiddleman.co/products/ameyali-makeup-table

Looks like a computer render, and is a nearly $600 piece of MDF.

---

Searches full of "COMING SOON!" I do not care about products I can't buy.

---

http://www.nomiddleman.co/products/fabric-ottoman-10025-xh-1...

> Dimensions W X D X H:

> 31.5in x 15.6in

Encoding errors too

> ContemporaryåÊottoman

---

http://www.nomiddleman.co/collections/office-officedesks-exe...

No desks under executive desks, yet there's one in the trending?

---

http://www.nomiddleman.co/products/executive-desk-sz1509

You want to take over a thousand dollars from me but can't be bothered to write more than

> Executive Desk Aluminum Alloy Replicated Wood Brown
I'd say they are wrong, the US is full of these regulations, particularly around farming - cheese reserves, almond sale limits, assured prices (if the market price is below X, the State makes up the difference), etc. The claims about how free market oriented the US is are mostly propaganda.
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Not everyone who has sleep apnea has weight issues. It's common, but not universal.
DSCOVR is orbiting the sun and the earth at the same rate. In one year it will go once around the sun and once around the earth.
In the context of the article, all things aren't equal because:

new business != startup

Startups in the sense the author describes do not include ordinary plumbing and mechanical companies because such companies lack a capital structure that could allow growth to a publicly traded entity. The second example company is in a good business and it's owner can buy a boat. It could never IPO.
There are an emerging set of strategies at the local level for mitigating street level surveillance.

It consists of watching your city council agenda for consent to purchase new surveillance technology via Department of Homeland Security grant.

Use this occasion to push for a privacy policy that governs the new equipment as a condition of purchase.

Restore the Fourth SF Bay Area, Oakland Privacy et al are seeing a pattern emerge where the purchase is either delayed or the privacy policy is adopted.

It's often possible to sign up for email alerts of the agenda for city council meetings.
I have to admit, at the moment, the one thing that fills my laptop memory the most frequently are browser tabs. There has got to be a better way -- and I know there are solutions, but their UX have failed me so far. Hardware advances are nice, but software/UX still has a long way to go.
Show HN: Raise money for charity without lifting a finger
Hey guys, creator here. Happy to answer any questions anyone has, and I'm curious to hear what you all think!
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Interesting idea.

If there were any bot reading comments, it already know your idea ;)
22 Years Ago Today, Nolan Ryan Beat the S(*& Out of Robin Ventura
I want the box part, but the $24-36k per year bit I don't.
Overview of invoicing systems for freelancers
... I can only churn out so much linkbait, even for the sake of science.

As a consolation, I offer the idea that the sum of linkbait in the universe is constant. And since the days of Max Planck & Erwin Schrödinger, no-one can know the contents of a link until you klick it.

If we produce enough quantum haze, the NSA might just get confused.
How to Find Out Why Clients Buy Using Toyota's Five Whys
People go to hospitals for non-emergencies as well: like for instance breaking your collarbone or getting bit an animal.
For Small business, growth even could kill their business. that's where wisdom comes in, sometime you have to slow the pedal of sales, to focus on customer retention. my current strategy has been to pile enough funds before the next stage growth., and dividing growth into stages, we deliberately don't sale, just to manage current customers. It's slow but for sure.
Seems to be Slashdot effect, it worked minutes ago.
Poaching is registering a recently expired domain, usually so that you can (effectively) extort the original owner to buy it back from you.
Someone correct me if I am wrong here, but these char-rnn based outputs are great to look at and experiment with - but they dont seem to be of any practical use. All that they are capable of showing is that an RNN can "remember" things. The biggest question is how do you make any use of these things ?

Is it possible to nudge the RNN in a particular direction - so that it produces something that we want ? Perhaps there is an answer to this in Alex Graves et al. Paper on Handwriting generation. A more thorough explanation or exploration in this direction would perhaps help ?.

Anyone really working on generating CSS ( conditioned! ) ?
Iran still hasn't agreed to halt its nuclear program.
Very interesting article. There was a data viz (gender vs visits) that was needlessly flashy, when a simple x-y scatter would have been more clear.

One part struck me though:

Erwin sees evidence of it already, pointing to the recent debut of Upvoted, a Reddit podcast delving into the site’s most compelling stories. “Reddit is very much trying to establish itself as a curator of its own content and take back some of that space from BuzzFeed,” Erwin says.

The 'content' on Reddit is made by its users. Sure, it's annoying when Buzzfeed packages it up into an article and sells it for clicks (though if you visit Buzzfeed it's your own fault) but it does not belong to anyone.

Reddit, by itself, is an empty vessel - its only value is in retaining its creative users and staying user friendly enough that those users keep drawing more and more people in. The vessel itself is completely worthless. As much as it sucks to have to cater to the whims of the users, they represent the only real value Reddit has.

I will be watching very closely to see how the new admins get rid of the truly toxic subreddits, while still retaining the culture of openness and anonymity. It is a very difficult tightrope walk.
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