skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All this survey reports are the things people consider to be restful. To that end it doesn't seem more valuable for your personal use than just asking yourself what you find most restful and doing that.

It's not actually a study that demonstrates a connection between what things people conventionally think of as restful – such as being in the natural environment, or reading a book – and whether there is any evidence this is more effectively restful than, say, getting coffee with a friend.

Do these people work more effectively? Sleep more soundly? Do their brain exhibit neurological features of restfulness? Do they get fewer illnesses? No data.

If we actually consult the research [1] we can see this was never the aims of the survey:

"The Rest Test sought to explore people’s subjective experiences of rest" (emphasis added)

What they do measure is whether people consider their 'subjective wellbeing' improved with rest. But what other people think makes them feel better may not be what actually makes you feel better.

So: interesting anthropologically, but not at all what the title suggests.

[1]: http://hubbubresearch.org/rest-test-results/
> Google maps' treatment of languages is also atrocious.

Google's handling of the language issue in general is pretty atrocious. On my iPhone which is too old for any plugins and such on Mobile Safari, I can't do an image search quickly without a modal popping up and asking if I want to switch to English or stay in Russian. (US Expat in Russia, phone is all in english) On my laptop, it doesn't even give me the option to change the language if I'm not logged into Google at the time, even though my laptop is in English as well. It's been a major point of annoyance to not have the ability to really control what languages are served to you when it seems to me that it would be a pretty conscious decision to have your computer in X language when your IP is from a country where X isn't the primary language. The reasons I've heard for using IP instead of Accept-Language just seem like exceptions to the rule rather than the more common rule, but of course I'm just an outsider looking in on this one and don't have any data to really back that.

And to have it absolutely every time on my phone (no cache clearing) is also frustrating, regardless of whether I log in or not. It's not even so much about the different expected language; I understand Russian well enough to use the site and different functions. It's getting a nag every single time I want to do a quick search for something that is frustrating and that for everything else that gets stored about my browsing habits that they can't seem to remember that the last 30 times they asked me, I switched to English because I wanted results in English.

Why a simple toggle like DuckDuckGo has isn't used is beyond me as well. The site language is english, if I want russian local results, I just toggle the region switch for Russia at the top. Or I can isolate where I want my targeted results from. It just seems like a huge oversight from Google on this one that should absolutely be something they don't falter on.
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He didn't say that there were no well-informed leave voters.
Time to retire property
> a good start would be to stop calling people who disagree with you stupid.

Or for that matter calling people 'remoaners' who don't think that because at one instant people voted for Brexit by a thin margin this means an irrevocable mandate for politicians to do as they please.

The absolutist, partisan nature of current British politics not only is very unproductive but also divisive.

Then let's not forget, had the result turned out the other way round Brexit supporters would have been moaning, too. Even more so, the most fervent of them wouldn't have stopped clamouring for another referendum (and another ...) until they would have had it their way.
What's even more strange to me is their geographical limitations for existing customers:

"[...] If you leave these countries, you won’t be able to save videos offline, videos won’t play in the background, and you will see ads. " [0]

[0] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6307365?hl=en

That's just BS.
Some have already shipped[0], though the availability is very limited.

[0] https://www.crowdsupply.com/sifive/hifive1
Crowds can be intelligent. Crowds can be stupid. It's interesting how they can really be at either extreme.
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Note this seems to be not about independent recyclers that Apple forced to shred their products. It's rather companies that Apple specifically hired to shred products that were returned to Apple, and Apple didn't want to refurbish.

While it's still a waste, it's not as outrageous as I first thought.
Re the langugage barrier. The difference was much more than 4%. What he wrote:

When asked if the voting age should be lowered 57% said no.

When asked if 16 and 17-year-olds should have the right to vote, 61% said yes.

What he should have wrote:

When asked if the voting age should be lowered 43% said yes.

When asked if 16 and 17-year-olds should have the right to vote, 61% said yes.

I don't know why he wrote it the way he did. Seemed bizarre to me.
sometimes when flustered and tired from writing code and dealing with complex issues I access this, for humor and humility, for me.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/
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Isn't that the problem? If the fishermen only look at Brexit through the lens of the fishing industry they cannot be expected to understand the effects of Brexit on all of society. This can be expanded to any group, even your classy ad hominem "remoaners". Brexit has such wide consequences that it shouldn't have been a decision based on opinions.
I can't really disagree with anything you're saying. Wrt to only males going through NS, I can imagine someone in the Sg govt making the assumption "if all men go through NS and bond, then when they start families, their wives will follow" - considering that they tried to convince the smart to pair off with the smart, I wouldn't put that line of reasoning past them.

As for quotas, I've heard a lot of people complain about them and how much of a pain it is to fill Singaporean headcount. Specifically on the subject of MNCs and reservists, I feel we're in an age where that could be easily seen as discrimination. Given we can't apply that to women who get pregnant, or people of religious origins (who may have additional holidays or fasting periods).
reminds me of the trump election reaction.

Apparently the stupid middle "flyover country" voted him in because they're stupid.
According to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13355531 , JS requirement is not a problem with Blogger per se, but with some of its themes.
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Simple economics when supply is in shortage demand increases. The shortage for 10x devs are so much that the worst a 10x guy from another country can do is reduce the salary of another 10x guy. But with the 1x guy it's a live or die situation, their job is in danger because 1x guys are too much in supply.
The description on MDN does fairly accurately describe the state of the world. It could be read as advocacy but I don't think that was the intention, maybe the word "describe" is better than "justify".

So I changed it to:

"MDN attempts to describe why Accept-Language ought to be ignored. The reasons are fairly weak when the..."

Which reframes MDN as a reporter instead of an advocate.
Thanks for this. It is timely for me as we just bought a another home and I am wrestling daily to sell our current one when new one is ready, or rent it out. We are half way into a 30yr mortgage on it and I have grand visions of renting it to have other people pay off my mortgage for next 14 years and hate to let it go.

From the few in our circle of friends who have been landlords before, none of them have had any stories remotely like yours. They've all seemed to have had model tenants from what I've gathered. Worst cases are just a few have had their leases broken early and they are having to carry double mortgage payments for a month or two scrambling for another tenant. Or some have been late paying rent once in while and you have to chase them down.

They've all just told me it isn't that bad. Just make sure to do a thorough job in screening the applicants. Check credit history, job stabilty/length, etc. Some have even recommended to just pay a property management company to handle renting it out and such as the fee is well worth it.

I thought owning and accumulating real estate was the way to wealth and comfortable retirements so I wresting with letting my 1st house go so deep into a mortgage. I have some friends who own 3-4 homes. But reading this thread and story though, I am just not sure it is worth the trouble and risk of trying to rent it out. Unless of course I knew ahead of time prices would continue to rise unrealistically in my city forever.
In fact most of the damaged western cars go to Romanian chop shops and get sold for spares. It's an okay business in Romania since repairing your BMW at a dealer could cost as much as getting an used one.
I'm curious, in what areas is Java 100x faster than C#?
Per your Question,Yes there is a difference.Ownership and Control of direction are controlled by the startup and not a service providers "client".

Here is a better metric( which you hinted at ) compare number of users per employee and proximity to the employee.

something does have to change, we need to build AOL,PAYPAL and Nokia ( there are analogues with Reliance,eztap,Micromax )

I would say let the top line solve topline problems, we need better bottom line solutions if we are to do any country by country comp
>all of the carbon in fossil fuels used to be in the atmosphere... The earth was just fine.

A problem with that argument is that the sun was about 20% dimmer back then. Hence it may get hotter this time around.
I'd be tempted to use Firebase as a backend instead: simple integration with the browser, built-in auth using facebook, google and others, and no need to create a github issue for each post.
Ask HN: Will all our cloud data eventually be leaked?
I mean it seems inevitable.
Every mail, doc, to do list, and browsing click will be leaked.

And when you apply for a job in 10 years, they wont need to interview you, because they already know more about you that you do yourself...
Exchanging one remote, self-serving political elite for another doesn't automatically make things better though. For what it's worth, Westminster is just as far away from most of the UK as Brussels.
Ask HN: Can I upvote submissions while offline?
Imagine the following scenario:

1. Open Hacker News in a new tab

2. Go offline

3. Read through the submissions and give your votes

4. Go online

5. Automatically submit and sync my given votes
Same. Couldn't close on mobile, showed up even after re-entering the site.

I don't know if there's data showing those popups work, but they really ruin the user experience.
Have things improved with CBs lately? I still have Acer C710 CB collecting dust.

Reflashing the boot firmware was not really an option back when I checked.
The were two posts on Reddit about placing fakes ad for a job to see how the competition was. They were both blown away with the quality of the applications, in particular people working on a lot of important side projects.

I can only assume recruiters very much consider this when they don't know anything else about you.
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> If you want to change people's opinions, a good start would be to stop calling people who disagree with you stupid.

> I have yet to see a single remoaner even acknowledge these people's existence

Then clearly it's just a matter of which particular epithet you choose. Just as people had well-founded reasons for wanting to leave the EU, others (48% of the country in fact), had well founded reasons for wanting to stay in. There are many different kinds of Brexit we can have even once you accept - as almost everyone does - that we are leaving. I don't see how childish name calling like this possibly moves debate or understanding forward.

And as pertains your point on fishermen - there's good evidence that leaving the EU will leave the fishermen no better off than they were before as we will still be bound by commitments we've made to the UN. Perhaps yet another example where a group have been told that leaving the EU would be a land of milk and honey only for the promises to be quietly withdrawn at a later date.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/environme...
Blogspam of

https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2017/04/cals-bp.html

With author credit (Jillian Broadwell) ripped out.
OK, I probably shouldn't have used the word "remoaners", I'll edit my comment to "remainers".
Most of Tucson does not have street lights. On purpose. It's awesome; walking around you get to keep your night vision.

http://darksky.org/
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You're right, the submitted article says they "reiterated it" but with no source.

The rest of the content is from the Wired article quoted, which is a couple of years old but should probably be the link here:

https//www.wired.com/2015/04/dmca-ownership-john-deere/
This is my prime concern when teaching and writing. Other terms for this I've seen is Expert Blindness and Expert Blindspot. A related term I've made up is Cognitive Empathy; ones ability to overcome this curse.

I've struggled a lot myself in school, and I think that had something to do with this.

With my current experience, just about any textbook I pick up and start reading, I can often pinpoint a lot of issues in the text that has this problem.
Toyota strike me as extremely pragmatic. I miss that Corona.
West Virginia might end up flatter than Kansas at the rate we're going.
Insufferable pop-up on mobile to add to email list that wouldn't go away 3/4 through article. Awful!
then shenzen is antipod to apple way? this 11 days ago here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14100989
Apply for software jobs in companies working on that stuff eg. Solar City / Tesla?
This reminds me of some research I read a while ago, I think it was here, that said that what matters most is neither expert nor crowd, but data points. You want to maximize the total data you've got to decide, but you also don't want to bias towards one data point more then another.

Their conclusion was that the benefit of crowds is that it adds a lot of data points, by combining everyone's data, but it skews some way too much, because if 70% of the people are making the same decision from the same data point, it's not weighing in other data points.

It was also arguing that most people would decide the same thing given the same data points.
> We also don't have a good place to store the waste.

Oh, give me a goddamn break. You've got how much desert that's sparsely inhabited?
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The Guardian is trying to get subscribers and donations. I'm not sure how much Apple and Facebook help them facilitate that goal.
I think it's the driving is the bigger problem (Starbucks exists in many walkable countries too).

But yeah, you're right, highlighting the Starbucks is a bad plan here.

Highlighting all the ways in which being good for the environment is good for business is definitely a plus.
People should start to distinguish between "Intellectual Property" and "Intellectual Property Rights". IP is not "owned" in the same way that tangible property or intangible assets like goodwill. What is "owned" is the rights to exploit the intellectual property. These ownership "rights" are granted by the state (US Constitution or in other countries, statute).

What is being debated is whether those IPRs (which can only be licensed or sold outright) can be extended to cover the end user's use of the product that contains the IP.

The DMCA doesn't say you can't do what you like to the product, it says you can't circumvent "locks" on the IP that enforce the licensor's IPR. That's a very contentious position and is inherently anti-competitive and anti-innovation.

IPRs are provided by the State for specific purposes. Extending those rights beyond those purposes should be ruled either unconstitutional or against the best interests of society.
I follow Media Twitter pretty closely. Apple News has become a significant driver of traffic for a lot of publications. This contrasts to when it launched when no one thought it would amount to anything.

Here's a few more stories

http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/11/after-a-slow-start-apple-ne...

http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/03/australias-public-broadcast...

https://digiday.com/media/apple-news-the-telegraph/
> 1) What does it mean for PX8 (or any other program) to be "PICO-8 compatible" in this context?

My understanding is that it PX8 implements the same Lua APIs that PICO-8 has.
Most people I know here, abuse the rule with the 2 sick days ( making extended weekend e.g. ), but there's something more though.

I don't see what's wrong with people skipping work from once in a while, so even abusing the rule is not such a big deal ( IMHO ).

Maybe as a capitalist country, if amazon needs dedicated people they can easily increase the pay-rate, which is low anyway, to the point that people will care more about being at work, than being "sick".
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> Westminster is just as far away from most of the UK as Brussels.

A mathematical impossibility. Wherever you define the centre of the UK to be, it's nearer to Westminster than Brussels:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_points_of_the_United_Ki...

The average distance of any point in the UK from Westminster or Brussels is then just going to be the root of the square of the average distance to that centre point plus the square of the distance to Westminster or Brussels.
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There must be a reason for this though, one of the reasons why Java has a good ecosystem is because it's had a huge head start in terms of time and mindshare.

This doesn't seem to be a complete explanation. I was doing Java heavily in the early 2000s, and open source Java was pretty new still. Apache Struts[1] was possibly the first big OS Java project, and it was only released in 2000. The first version of .NET was released in 2002, and something like Rails was only released in 2004.

"Head start" doesn't seem to explain this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Struts_1
Most folks don't know what a coal plant looks like.

For example, I can put a few wind turbines or the classic towers from a nuclear plant into artwork and folks get the reference. I paint in a coal plant, and folks just think factory.

Nuclear plants, the Simpson-esque version I picture, are beautiful in their own right, btw, as are nearly all factories. It just depends on framing.
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Reminds me of Emacs Lisp's "bindat" library which truly rocks. Scroll down to "The following is an example" on this page for a tangible example:

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Bi...
We are in the same boat. Our team of 6 people (and 7 or so projects) could benefit from the enterprise features and we would like to pay for them.

Unfortunately, because gitlab is so awesome, all the technical users in the company (100+ people) use it as a really basic scm for the tools they write. Some of them use issues, others just use it as a place to keep and share their code that isn't their home drive.

Paying for 100+ user licenses is out of the question, especially if under 10 of them would use the features.
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> If the fishermen only look at Brexit through the lens of the fishing industry they cannot be expected to understand the effects of Brexit on all of society. This can be expanded to any group, even your classy ad hominem "remoaners".

Not to be sarcastic or rude, but the comment you're responding to actually does say exactly what you said there. The remainers did not seem to care very much about the fishing industry, and they've shown no ability to understand the effects of the EU or leaving the EU on other groups of people, such as the fishermen.
Might have wrote it that way to be deliberately confusing.

Where's the source for these numbers? Did the polls have similar number of respondents? If these were online polls, was one poll shared on certain internet groups and not the other?

Also the two statements are not the same thing. 'Right to vote' and 'Allowed to vote' are different. A useful follow up poll would be to gauge the percentage of people who believed that 16 year olds have a right to vote, but should also not be allowed to vote. I believe that number may be significant. You can think of it in terms of death row criminals: there is an argument that they have a right to life, but also that the victims have a right to justice. Which right is more important is not something everyone agrees on. That type of logic applies to the questions of voting too.
Microsoft's settlement was $20M, not $2B[1]. ActiveX was in IE before the settlement, and Microsoft's "Java" was one possible way to write ActiveX controls.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Java_Virtual_Machine...
One single language makes sense. Until we get Teilhard's unity. Or something similar.

Or Julian May's. The Pliocene saga was an interesting read I thought.
Always seemed crazy to me that publishers were willing to give up so much for these integrations. The ability to have final say over how readers experience your information, and opportunities for freely measuring/analyzing that experience, should be key for news organizations that want to evolve.

Integrating with FB IA & Apple News is giving up power for gains that may not be worth it in the long run.
On a related note, part of the reason that I've had my computers configured to use English language is that it's easier to find solutions, both in terms of searching for problems like clicking foo does not produce bar to following guides for how to do something with a document in LibreOffice, a picture in GIMP or Inkscape, a 3D model in Blender etc.

Aside from that, like many others I also find the English interfaces to be far superior in quality to localized interfaces which will often have errors in their translation. Furthermore some choices of words in translations just look plain dumb to me even though they are correct.
To be PICO-8 compatible is to run PICO-8 programs, which are written in a slightly extended version of Lua against the PICO-8 API. There isn't a bytecode that these programs compile to - they're shipped as Lua. The format they're shipped in also embeds sprites, sounds, maps, and music patterns.
Johannes Brahms op.117 nr. 1

Pēteris Vasks fourth string quartet, nr.5 meditation

edit: also, some of the calmer tracks by Lullatone
Oh, I dunno. I thought it was an interesting experiment. I think it still has its uses. Facebook is hardly a monopoly in the sense that google or microsoft was. I know tonnes of people who don't use facebook and the people who do use it, it's usually just to connect with friends.

Facebook / instagram / messenger, from what I can see, are just hard charging innovative platforms trying to create products people like. Their businesses could crater pretty easily and the only reason it doesn't is because they keep trying different things.

It's not like search and microsoft's OS dominance / network effects from their Office products.

You don't need to log onto facebook in order to work, you chose to because it's fun and you can connect with friends. Google / MSFT have far deeper hooks.