skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sleep deprivation can cause weight gain. If you already have obstructive sleep apnea, it may be impossible for you to non-surgically achieve sufficient weight loss to improve your sleep.

Basically, in order to (possibly) cure your apnea via weight loss, you have to treat it first, so you can get some uninterrupted sleep. And then, you still might have a constricted or obstructed airway, even with 5% body fat. An ENT specialist might be able to drill it out or laser it off, but that's still technically a surgery, with all the attendant risks, and obesity and apnea are both added risk factors for surgery and general anaesthesia. Better to have just one than both.

So you will still have to go through the rigmarole which seems designed to maximize the number of insurance co-pays the patient has to make. It is possible to send the patients home with a black box, have them attach the two sensors themselves before sleeping as is usual for them, in their own beds. Then you can diagnose apnea from the black box data, and send a tech out to their home to adjust the fit of a new CPAP or BiPAP, to be titrated by an automated black box program. Afterward, the black box can be returned in person or mailed back.

But there's the critical problem with US health care. There are strong anti-incentives to reducing costs in that manner. Reducing the costs causes the providers to lose money. Failing to do all the expensive CYA tests exposes the provider to malpractice complaints.

The standard operating procedure is not structured around what is best for the patients. There is definitely an element of racket in it, especially if you are forced by your insurer to rent the CPAP machine.
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You are basically unprotected 100% of the time anyways... as long as you are not a target, you should be ok.

Also, I think that Microsoft have been doing monthly security updates for many years... and once in a while, they push an update early for very severe bugs.
> People are complaining about the length of time it takes to get treatment, and the cost of treatment, and that treatment is a racket.

> All that stuff is true. All that stuff is avoided by losing weight.

As that is not true in 100% of cases of sleep apnea as you implied, you are being an asshole and misleading, fyi.

http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/sleep-apnea/ba...

> Excess weight. Fat deposits around your upper airway may obstruct your breathing. However, not everyone who has sleep apnea is overweight. Thin people develop this disorder, too.
Ask HN: Suggestions for SaaS notification platform for use with Cordova
I've got an app built in Cordova and am looking into different providers for push notifications. I've tried using Parse but all the Cordova plugins I tried we're awful and I couldn't get it up and running properly.

I'd like something that would manage the UDID's itself so we don't need to. Urban Airship isn't bad, but it's very expensive ($250 a month for the entry plan). I've also looked at Pushwoosh, but it requires us to manage the UDID's ourselves.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.
(The difference being that if you accept that there are deep cultural problems in STEM environments wrt diversity, anyone who isn't a white male starts further behind)
The whole idea of having patients rate ERs is, to put it nicely, laughable. And, to put it bluntly, it is a slap in the face of healthcare professionals who work in one of the most stressful hospital environments.

* How friendly the staff is is absolutely irrelevant when you have a medical emergency. In normal hospital settings, in most countries, what buys you "friendly staff" is paying a premium that allows the staff to actually have enough time to pity you. A nurse who only tends 3 patients can do that, a nurse who has to tend 30 cannot.

* Wait times in ERs depend on the severity of your condition in relation to what other patients have to deal with. Most urgent comes first. A broken leg hurts but it won't kill you no matter how much you moan. The unconscious guy with rapid blood loss would be dead if they prioritized patients according to some fifo or loudest moaner first scheme.

* I'd always chose the bigger ER over a smaller one: The more people they treat, the more experienced they are. Same is true for non-emergency hospitalizations.

The Spudd recently had a great comment on "educated" patients: http://thespudd.com/hospital-to-replace-doctors-with-parents...
My friend recommended this long path for me. I laughed and asked what the end solution was: CPAP.

I ventured to craigslist and bought a used one for $100. I bought new gear off amazon. Google search led to the keystrokes to change the pressure myself. Few tweaks and I wake well rested rather than sleepy. Previously, I could sleep for 12 hours and still feel tired.

Friend is still waiting for their appointment to receive their machine two months later.
AMZN's the posterchild for why comparing companies by net income alone is flawed.[1]

[1]http://a16z.com/2014/09/05/why-amazon-has-no-profits-and-why...
Ask HN: Do you work in a company that will fire you for average performance?
I heard in NPR today that Netflix fires people that are average and only keeps those that are exceptional. Does any one have any experience working in such a company? When I heard about netflix, it seemed like life would be very stressful if you always have to worry about getting fired. But on the plus side, you get to learn a lot and work with exceptional people, which is a great way to learn. ANy experiences or opinions?
I like Mithril which is similar to React/Ractive.

https://lhorie.github.io/mithril/

It doesn't abstract away too much from JavaScript and provides good methodologies as outlined in the Learn/Guide section of the site.

As per your points:

1. A good couple of hours to about 6 depending on expertise just to test the workflow, get comfortable with MSX and to read the docs.

2. I've not used it in production as for current as I am still in an experimentation speed, but the whole premise is that it acts as a UI layer amongst the business logic that you may already have. It is fairly transportable.

3. This would be on a medium scale level depending how you couple your code and how modular you keep it.

4. Because it is fairly straight forward to get up and running. The blog posts alone provide great insight into application structure. Also the benchmark claims are quite appealing.
I converted my '80s Fisher-Price tape recorder into a Bluetooth speaker
My preference is Backbone + Marionette, with Bootstrap for layout. I've tried Angular and Ember and I have to say I'm not a fan.

Take my opinion with a (large) grain of salt. I'm not a "professional" JS/front-end developer. I'm a back-end dev (Java/Scala/Python) by day and really only touch frontend stuff when working on my own projects. My "me" time is precious and I don't want to spend it wrestling with some uber-framework :)
I usually give all my little coins (< 1€).

Sometimes it's a lot, sometimes not. It's a lot to them but to me the coins are annoying, I have to waste time sorting them and carrying them around. They are difficult to spend for me.
Infographic: Tesla’s Delay Game
Funding free shelters with free food and computers would be ideal for me. So I would redirect the homeless to these places.
I always assumed that google took my past searches and history into account, that a normal person would get a python.
The registrar part of Gandi (their historical business) is very, very good. The hosting part (more recent business) slightly less so.
“It is pitting people against each other,” said Charmaine Givens-Thomas, a 10-year veteran who makes $12 an hour at a store near Chicago and belongs to OUR Walmart, a union-backed group that has lobbied for better working conditions. “It hurts morale when people feel like they aren’t being appreciated. I hear people every day talking about looking for other jobs and wanting to remove themselves from Wal-Mart and a job that will make them feel like that.”
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The "R" programming language might actually be worse. You might be tempted to stick "lang" on the end of it for clarification, but "rlang" is one letter off from "Erlang".
If you have a race condition in a multi threaded program, a simple printf is enough to screw the timings and make the bug disappear, it's not at all better than breakpoints and stepping in a debugger.

In my experience, the only way to produce safe multi threaded code is to isolate the threading parts and synchronization and stress test them early on. At this point I use a combination of prints, random delays and simple asserts on invariants that the code should hold. Most issues are reproduced within about 10 seconds of 100% CPU core utilization. Some nasty corner cases may require minutes of grinding away.

Multi threaded debugging is an unsolved problem. There are no universal solutions to this problem. Conventional tools often fail so badly that it is best to write and test your multi threading / synchronization code in isolation, and then applying it to the actual workload which is tested in a single thread.

Another option is trying to build a formally verified model ahead of time (e.g. using Spin - www.spinroot.com) and then write the actual program after the model has been verified.
Change it to golang. They're already using that commonly.
Yes, exactly true. Some libraries (like innodb) actually checksum all contents in memory to self-detect when corruption is happening. Most applications and libraries trust system memory too much and can read corrupted data at any given time.

Another fun way to get corrupted memory is to have some data swapped to disk, but have disk corruption, then have the corrupt disk data restored to memory. Bam. Instant invalid data in memory, but not caused by memory.

Many hashes are fast these days and should be used as checksums in more places since ECC isn't as common as it should be (and ECC doesn't detect all errors anyway).
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Looks great! I wonder if you can turn it into a Google plugin for new tabs, like the Google art chrome plugin
Only problem with this is that when you give to one, the others around are gonna ask you too and I don't like feeling forced to do things.
There are three distinct groups who all have power: owners, moderators, users. (We saw the power of moderators when the blacked out the site in protest.) Any of the three, if they unite, can end the site.

I've seen all sorts of communities go through the death spams where the owners get annoyed at all the users and wish they would disappear because it would make their job easier. I saw 'pg going in that direction here at HN, complaining what a bother the users were, but he sensibly saw HN as a loss-leader for YC and hired 'dang to be a professional moderator. So the owners and moderators are on the same page.

But most places can't afford professional moderation, and so the moderators have power, and that dynamic can lead to the users feeling (rightly or wrongly) as if they are being abused.
Apple Swift - June 2, 2014

Taylor Swift about Apple Music - June 21, 2015.

Where are these people getting their time machines?
Backbone models/collections/events bound with React components. The beauty of a data API with the expressive components is something I have really liked so far.

I'm actually pretty excited the see React/Meteor happening since it provides a similar paradigm.
More College Students Selling Stock–in Themselves
Actually it did not break. It is still in mint condition. I have maybe used it a dozen times.
Except that the junior engineer's old company won't sue because he is just a junior engineer...

True in practice, but there is risk.

Plus, it's just a shitty conversation to be compelled to have when you're trying to convince someone to hire you. ("One last thing, I'm under this non-compete, so can I get a written agreement to cover legal costs?") An executive can probably get that protection. For a junior, that's a deal breaker. And typically, the vindictive or paranoid firm won't actually sue your next company, they'll just ask your new firm to fire you... and often (for low-level people like software engineers) they will.

Tech is diverse enough and "competition" generally amorphously-defined enough that junior engineers rarely get strung up on non-competes. It's more of an issue in finance.

The only time it happens in tech is when there's a deliberate attempt to destroy someone's reputation, like what a few people (none especially important) from Google tried to do after I left that place.
Got it. Thanks for following up.
Beware that Google is tailoring the results to what it knows about you. If I Google "swift" from a normal window, Apple's main Swift page is the first hit. If I do it from an incognito window, the first hit is the bank transfer provider.

Of course, most people who are looking for the programming language will probably be known to Google to be interested in that, so the result isn't necessarily invalid, but neither is it universal.
Somewhat of a tangent but its very annoying to me the word "sharing" has been misappropriated by companies like AirBnB and Uber. Nobody is sharing anything, they're renting out their homes or giving people rides for money. Stop misusing the word.
Here's what one million miles looks like side on...(whipped up in Photoshop)

Best viewed at 100%. The image is more or less to scale. Scroll a million miles to the right to find moon and camera.

(don't worry it's only a 300K jpeg)

http://ozimg.s3.amazonaws.com/earth-moon-from-million-miles....
no hacking flick is complete without shots of nmap!

https://nmap.org/movies/
QA Testing for What Your Users Really Want
It's weird how outright hostile doctor reviews are on Yelp. Every practice of more than 10 people in my area has reviews saying it's horrible. I can only imagine that there are doctors out there making sure every other practice has negative reviews.
If you log into your netflix account and then go here: https://www.netflix.com/TastePreferences you can boost the algo accuracy.

I see the lack of titles complaint all the time but personally I just don't find this to be true. There are tons of titles of all quality levels and genres coming and going all the time on netflix. I've made great discoveries there for new content, foreign films and tv shows, independent titles, etc. It just takes a little digging. And there are a great many sites on the internet that will tell you what is coming and leaving netflix in any given month along with making recommendations.

The main thing that affects the titles you are shown by default are your ratings. You don't even have to watch a movie to rate it. But the rating will still be used to determine what they list by default. If you watch and never rate, the algo will make worse choices. I pretty quickly eliminated straight to tv shlock by giving 1 star ratings to that type of content.
Iran screams about starting a new Jewish Genocide daily.

the Obama administration has throw [sic] it under the bus

Probably these two statements that would elicit allegedly anti-Israeli downvotes. Mostly I do not understand how a preliminary measure is throwing Israel's "moral right to defend itself" under the bus.
I’m not saying the government is immune from corruption, and while I do not think protectionism is bad, the government here does not intervene with this at all.

Uber is not even treated legally as taxi service, but as chauffeur-for-hire service, meaning they only need to do 2 things: Their drivers have a drivers license, their cars are insured.

The drivers license for taxi drivers, chauffeurs and bus drivers costs 55€. fifty-five Euro. That’s nothing.

And one can reasonably demand that cars on the street are insured, as especially in car crashes it is helpful.
It also says "A thin sliver of shadowed area of moon is visible on its right side." which is a better explanation. It's not a shadow on the Earth, it's the dark part of the moon.
I'm a NASA engineer, and I think one of the problems that we recognize is just how much fragmentation there is between org units, projects, programs, and centers (each of which can be surprisingly autonomous). A single mission may have several "official" websites, depending on how the work is distributed across the agency.

Your wish for a single-accessible source for images would be great. For that to happen, we would need to have someone dedicated to curating it from so many possible sources, under mandate from HQ.

For general raw data (not necessarily images), an effort like that does exist, though it isn't yet supported by every program:
https://data.nasa.gov/
Weight loss is slow, but there are other benefits that might make it more palatable. I'm 5'9, currently 230, was 240+ (weighed myself after I started losing, so maybe 245), just those 10-15lbs have helped my sleep enormously. I have about 60lbs more to go until I'm at a comfortable weight, and this will take a long time (Should reach my goal by Feb '16). At my weight though, 3lbs of loss a week isn't that uncomfortable. I still eat 1500-1800kcal a day which, depending on what I eat that day, fills me up quite nicely.

I agree with your other points, but I'd say that getting a CPAP is probably a good idea, but that losing weight could make that unnecessary down the road and there are a myriad of other benefits.
Postcards from the Edge of Consciousness
>well, once the artificial meat comes into our life, only psychopaths would be consuming meat.

As a species, we have a well documented history of not going with scientific advancement and sticking to the old way. Also, why aren't they already psychopaths for eating pork (a very intelligent animal) when fowl and beans will provide them the needed nutrients?
Regarding "learn go," the top hit is indeed for the language, but at least for me almost all the other hits are for the board game. If one is dissatisfied with the official tutorial and looking for a different one, this could be troublesome.
Lets face it, golang has a lot of problems with generics..
I agree with you, but actually, 57C1566F-1DA9-4AAB-9F88-E31C4B950DD6 is my UUID.
I guess that is one way to do it. I don't know if I would do that myself. I went through the normal channels and here in SLC it went very smoothly. The thing with the "do it yourself" approach is, without the sleep study, you don't know what pressure to use. They use the analysis from the sleep study to determine what pressure to use. Also, you will consistently need to purchase new supplies on a regular basis. You'll be paying full price for those forever, whereas mine are covered by my insurance (since I went through the proper channels), so over time you will spend more money than I will.
did you google those keyword "anonymously"? because it's pretty well known that the same google search does not give the same result regardlessly from the user that is searching it.

cfr. http://dontbubble.us/ as a note, I don't agree with "don't bubble us". Or better I agree but I find the bubble extremely convenient most of the times; when not I do use duckduckgo :)
I assume it would tremendously help Google PageRank results though, right?
we're getting to the point where you could copy the entire working set of the OS to memory

I've run diskless, boot-from-network systems with 2 to 4 GB RAM with the entire OS+data+servers in memory. If you know your exact sizes, you don't need giant RAM.

As far as desktop or interactive systems go, in 2009 I made a desktop with 24 GB RAM which essentially never read from the disk after everything got cached appropriately.

save to disk periodically.

That's what your kernel does. There's a long history of flushing dirty pages back to disk.

My dream machine would be

It looks like you want a MacBook Pro from 3 years ago?
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Precisely.

The effects can also be different from what's expected. I've tried to stay awake one night, as I had a deadline, by drinking to cans of redbull in quick succession. Didn't seem to work, I fell asleep half an hour later.

Thing is, a fly landing on the other side of the room would startle and wake me up. I couldn't sleep indeed, not by not falling asleep, but by waking up all the time from random city noises.
Martha Stewarts cooking (show on ad free PBS) has a tacked on "Bonus Feature" at the end that seems to be just the right amount of time that it wouldn't be needed if they were showing ads.
I'm about to build a new rig as well and was waiting on Skylake to see if I wanted to jump in. After seeing the reviews and price points, I'm going to pass and go with Haswell. The pros do not justify the price premium to me. Right now the difference for me is around $150, which I'd rather sink into the video card.

Also, I've read that the Skylake CPUs don't come with a cooling solution, you have to buy your own third-party cooling solution which adds to the cost. I know many people think the stock cooling sucks, which it does for overclocking. But if you don't overclock, the best reason for a third-party cooling solution is to reduce noise.

Currently I'm planning on an i5 as I've never seen an advantage to having an i7 for gaming. An i5 and a good video card is all you need.
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We spend most of our Blackhat budget sending sales guys. I imagine other companies do the same.
I use Marionette: http://marionettejs.com/

1. You can grasp the basics in just a few hours, but obviously this is entirely subjective. A week-long training course will really get you going, though. The nice thing in terms of learning it is that the maintainers consider Marionette the "non-framework framework," in that it's just JavaScript, with no new paradigms to learn.

2. Hmmm, 3 for me, but that's also subjective. The more work you put into developing a sane architecture, the higher this number will be, but Marionette doesn't really impose an architecture on you, so YMMV.

3. 3, but see caveat from #2. Depends on how you write your code, really.

4. I chose it because, as stated above, "it's just JavaScript." I don't have to get my team up to speed on an entirely new development paradigm in order to use it. It's not really a "framework," per se, since you aren't given as much functionality out of the box as you would be when writing an Ember app. This means there's less chance of being hemmed in by the limits of the framework. This is a familiar tradeoff - a larger framework that gets you up and running faster, but with more chance of encountering an edge case that it doesn't fully support, vs. a smaller library that requires more up-front work, but is easier to mold to fit your own ends when necessary. In a few years, as the larger frameworks grow more mature, I'll be more likely to use them in my projects.
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