skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't speak for it as I haven't had a chance to try it. I will say that Thinkpad keyboards are about as good as they get on notebooks.
It's interesting insight into how much sleep people actually get, but the article mixes up actual statistics with some random data pulled from elsewhere. What's missing is, for example, the data on how the amount of deep sleep impacts the individual's short-term memory, activity and "feeling refreshed" (sic).

We don't actually know where those stats come from, so this conclusion is a bit far-fetched: "these findings further support the general recommendation that most adults need to consistently sleep 7 to 9 hours per night".
The order was Tony Blair, Donald Trump, Helmut Kohl, Hillary Clinton. He fits right into that list.
I once read an article headlined something like "It's Clay Shirky's internet and we just live in it". I thought to myself, who the fuck is Clay Shirky and who decided it was his internet? Is he besties with Vint Cerf or something?

I really have nothing against Mr. Shirky or his writing; some of his ideas sound interesting. But this is nothing new. People privilege some people's opinions over others not because they are the most qualified, but because they happened to be around to say something profound sounding while a New York Times (or New Yorker) columnist was listening.
I wasn't around at the height of the outsourcing hysteria, but I probably would have worried about it just like everyone else. I've actually been layed off before while working for a big company that outsourced to China. So, it's hard not to let that reinforce my worries. Granted, it was super easy to find a new job.

Competing with the next generation of students is worrisome because I know some companies are hesitant to outsource due to the overheard of timezones, language, etc. But they'd love to pay their developers less. Nothing drives down salary like an employer's market.
> This will, however, occur often when we buy IKEA furniture (or items of that quality level) that we often have to trash items, or are actually trashed accidentally during a move (think one of their flimsy dressers or wardrobes).

My last move, moving a house almost completely furnished with IKEA furniture, most of which had been around for a decade, only one item (that was inconveniently sized to remove intact, not because of structural failure) didn't make the move.
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The Elixir Fountain
Deep dive into git: Git refs
AWS Summit London 2017: A Recap
neural nets. I wasn't redlining, my neural net said we shouldn't go to that neighborhood.
It's a total nightmare to introduce async into an existing, non-async codebase, so I'm not sure it's a good case for incremental refactoring based on benchmarks.
Even it you just hardcode the tests cases in a giant lookup table?
Tests can prove the presence of bugs, but paying doesn't mean the software is bug free.
Generation [ obviously.
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> I am not an expert

Well me neither, but I certainly doubt all those Shanghainese are dropping millions on apartments that they don't even own!

And yes, real estate is leasehold, although the difference between auto-renewing leasehold and eminent domain-subject freehold seems to be a matter of semantics. The only country I'm aware of where a private citizen seemingly really can resist the ability of the state to seize their land, and thus actually does appear to genuinely "own" it, is Japan.
@ProfJeffJarviss on twitter is a great parody of the thought leaders. Would recommend following (https://twitter.com/ProfJeffJarviss)
How will India charge its 6M electric vehicles in 2020?
JSON-LD has been the suggested standard since 2013 I believe. It's easier to integrate than modifying your dom just to satisfy the hierarchy of data.

I agree that there is no real information about data that is critical to provide. Validators for Google and Pinterest to validate your page but it just reports a yes/no answer afaik.
Sometimes I have a hard time watching IT Crowd because I see too much of myself/my coworkers in the characters.
Nobody can tell you because nobody knows. And nobody can know.

Here is a simple example that my sister (a nurse) gave me yesterday. Suppose that you go in for an operation at the hospital, spend a week recovering, and develop diarrhea on day 2 while you are there. That diarrhea is a "hospital acquired infection" and insurance won't pay a dime for your operation. Therefore until you've been through the hospital, nobody knows whether you'll get paid.

Oh right, and the possibility of this happening is a reason for the hospital to kick you out of the hospital as quickly as possible. Average patient outcomes may be better if you stay a week, but their odds of getting paid are better if you're kicked out within 48 hours.

This is just the tip of the iceberg. She went on about how broken health care is for an hour...
One of the 'legacy' features of the Common Lisp community is that it is socially acceptable to charge $2000 per year per seat for software. Though it is not something that I personally have a problem with, my view that paying for software is ok is not all that mainstream these days (imagine paying for a web browser).

What I like about Common Lisp is that it is not in flux and so when I Google up a question, the information I get may be ten years old but it is highly likely to be correct. The price is that the format of the information may be more like a technical textbook than a blog or a StackOverflow answer.
The random class names lead me to believe that your CSS might break whenever Google News gets a new release, unfortunately.
Generation Cyber, no doubt
"However, we expect that the majority of monthly customers will receive an increase in their bill."

No kidding - their price calculator says ours will go up by 70%.
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What is so exciting about this? There is still possibility of duplicates. You still have to put the engineering effort to deal with duplicates end-to-end. If the code is there to deal with duplicates end-to-end, then does it really matter to have 5 duplicates or 35? Or may be they just did it to add some useful cool-tech in to CV?
This article takes an economic situation and tries to frame it as a political one. Hong Kongers don't care about the ideological differences between mainland China and HK, they care about the staggering inequality and loss of economic mobility in their once vibrant city.

Chinese money is flooding into Hong Kong and it's all being parked into real estate. This has sent real estate prices skyrocketing and far outside the reach of ordinary citizens. As a secondary effect, Hong Kong elites are now parking all their money into real estate with the expectation that the Chinese capital flight continues to drive up real estate prices. Real estate is the best investment available in Hong Kong right now. Bar none.

With all their capital tied up in real estate, the elites don't invest in startups or R&D. No increases in productivity, no new jobs, no gains for the average citizen in a city that grows more expensive by the day. This is why Hong Kong is in decline. This is why Hong Kongers takes to the streets. It's not a backlash towards conflicting political ideology, they just want the Chinese and their damn money out.
> iterations

The property of iterations is that things change, outcomes change, ideas change, requirements change. Iterations are not black boxes that we tuck away as 100% complete; they often require re-examination as the iteration process continues.
> What is the difference between setp, setf, defvar, and defparameter? Why is the documentation so technical and dense? What is a "form"? What are multiple return values and how do I get to them? Should I spend time learning the loop macro DSL?

All of those things are there for a reason, and most of them are very well thought out, documented, and are useful. If someone does not like having a lot of tools, they can use a poorer programming language. What kind of contribution do you think that someone with an attitude of "stuff "just works" without a deep understanding of how it works" can make to a community? Popularity and fads only have value to technical book publishers and conference organizers.
most implementations are not arbitrary length, but instead rely on padding to make it a fix length sequence.
FWIW I have been using a flex 2 for two weeks now and I couldn 't believe how I messed up my sleep. I was a trainwreck and going for no more than 5 hours per night while misevaluating my sleep time to 7-8h. I decided to break the cycle and I have been sleeping much more for one week and already can see the difference. I think I should have bought an alta or a charge to get the benefits of the HR monitor. Still, I am glad I bought one. It was a reality check. And I bought it because I really wanted an vibrating wrist alarm.
Thanks for the assist -- Didn't realize dupes would be deleted if they were in different comment trees.
Shameless plug, but another (simpler, almost trivial) option for the actual image diffing part in python using PIL I made when doing a similar task for a past company: https://github.com/nicolashahn/python-image-diff
Please stop suggesting that people who write comments you don't agree with are shills. Not doing this isn't just a norm here: it's specifically not allowed. If you think you have evidence that I, or anyone else, is a shill, send it to "hn@ycombinator.com". They're very responsive.

What you may not do here is use insinuations about shillage as a rhetorical wedge in public HN threads.
In the case of my own family members, this seems to stem from physical maladies that are correlated with age - back injuries, for example, or weight increases aggravating sleep apnea. I'm not sure how things look for old people who are extremely healthy, though.
This is awesome, it includes IP override and what not. I wonder why more people don't invoke this information server side during their own requests instead of loading the third party JS on the frontend.
Sure. I think the idea was that you'd incorporate that into the next iteration. But what do I know—I'm sure we were all doing it wrong.
Isn't that what a Healthcare Co-op is? Put your money into a pool and either you collectively decide or let the org decide who gets a check written out to help cover someone's costs that month. Your're saying put the money into a block chain though to make it transparent?

I'm a fan of that model coupled with Direct Primary Care which is a monthly subscription to unlimited access to your doctor.

The idea being that you use insurance or a co-op to cover major disasters like a big car accident. But you use Direct Primary Care like covering an oil or brake change.
PCs still running XP
Below the marginal costs of care.

In other words, if a practice can purchase a vaccine or supplies for a lab test at $100/unit wholesale, Medicare pays the doctor (in the aggregate) $93 for it. That doesn't take into account any overhead or costs of running a practice, of course, such as wages for nurses and administrative staff.

Providers typically make a loss on Medicare patients and then make up the difference by charging private insurers (who are, by law, required to pay more than Medicare does).

Medicare's rates are so notoriously low that for doctors who can't do this - doctors who treat a disproportionate number of Medicare patients - they actually have a separate stipend program to pay them enough to stay in business.
> Part of the value-add in this is it comes complete delivered and ready to use, and hauled away at the end.

Aren't delivery and pickup charged services on top of the rental fee? So, it's not a value-add, just an available service (as is the case with incumbent rental providers, and also with most furniture sellers, except haul-away, which is only occasionally offered and even then only in a form useful if you aren't moving, since the haul away and delivery need to be at the same place.)
We don't maintain our own, but there are a number of GitLab API CLI tools and wrappers. Have a look here: https://about.gitlab.com/applications/#cli-clients
Tech giants eating the advertising world
I can believe that 18,293 of the force’s 32,751 desktops are still on XP.
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AA probably. That's the column to the right of Z in Excel.
The sleep tracking from my FitBit is my favorite feature. Even the cheapest FitBit Flex provides good analysis of my sleep (restless, awake, duration, etc). I use it more to make sure I get 7-8 hours to sleep than to count steps.

Disclosure: volunteer beta tester
I think you are overestimating the technical capacities of the average randomware victim.
Based on what I've heard from people at Facebook and Google, they both grant engineers access to most code. I've read Apple doesn't provide full access.

Personally, I'd find it a bit frustrating. It can be really interesting to poke around and learn how some internals or backend stuff works.
Gold+. Thx for posting.
thinkfluencing.
I had to switch it to sensitive mode for the same reason. It's also more useful as a relative metric than specific number.
Actual arguments used by the judge: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3514379-Order-Denyin...

From a brief reading, it seems like the complaint is delays/errors in document entry by clerks (like updates to probation terms or bail postings) and that the search interface isn't connected with other databases.

Just sounds like confusing software, or users that haven't been trained to use it. However, it's not clear if it's causing more or less clerical errors than the last system they had.
One in particular that my team and I have used extensively is Spock, a unit testing Groovy DSL (see http://spockframework.org/spock/docs/1.0/index.html). In particular, we make heavy use of data tables and data pipes to generate sophisticated test data that would be a huge pain otherwise. And the accessible mocking syntax makes mocking so easy that devs end up writing more tests and testing more edge cases. The systems we have that use Spock the most have incredible test coverage and are very robust, because Spock makes it very easy and quick to test all your edge cases.
The reason we pay much more for much less is simple: for-profit health care optimizes for profits, not outcomes.

Over 50% of healthcare in the US is paid for by the gov't and those costs are still higher than other systems that are single payer and non-profit.

Doesn't quite align with your theory though.
And this is the other thing I like about the haskell/ML collection of languages. The description you gave above is extremely concise and direct. If you're familiar with the language being used it's a very efficient form of communication.

I've noticed that working in languages of that family gives you a vocabulary to talk about things that previously would have been very wordy to discuss.

Languages with these types of type features provide easy abstractions to illuminate structure and patterns begin discussing new ideas that previously would've been considered on off code.
I'm an Airbnb Super Host, I own my home and my girlfriend does too. We eventually decided to move in together so my place is fully converted into a rental unit, I've taken everything that I care about out of the unit except for one closet which I added a locking handle to.

I also purchased a two sets of white linens that I bleach between rentals, having twice as many as I need for a stay and having the ability to bleach out stains has made dealing with linens easier. I have a professional cleaning crew that handles everything else.

I have an August lock that integrates with AirBnB that automatically sets up access during the guest's stay. I also have a backup lock box for when guests have trouble with that. In general it's been pretty good.

I have had a few issues where guests are expecting a townhouse to have hotel style amenities, different people have different expectations of what AirBnB is supposed to provide and for what price (I'm significantly cheaper than hotels in the area). For the most part I feel like people read the descriptions and reviews on places to find somewhere that meets their expectations but it would be helpful if there was some kind of "service level" ranking that had a policy associated with it or something.
The first iPhone picture on the internet
3DS doesn't process your card, it simply validates a transaction.
> the deliberate limits on participatory democracy imposed by Beijing are limiting the ability of the non-elite factions to redress these imbalances

I agree all of it until "to redress these imbalances", i.e. letting the local elite rule Hong Kong was a deliberate decision by Beijing. Back then (before/during the hand-over to China), nobody knew how it's gonna work. And as of now, that decision turned out to be a failure. But letting non-elite factions to participate does not guarantee "redress the imbalances". see my comments below

> or do you think, even with universal suffrage, the citizens of Hong Kong are too fractured to come up with solutions? (Similar to the current political climate in the US.)

I do feel there's very fertile soil for political populism (not in a good way) in Hong Kong. What universal suffrage does guarantee is the emergence of a new class of pure/traditional politicians, probably armed with populist rhetorics... Are they gonna "redress the imbalance?", certainly they would say so, but... wait, I'm starting to have a deja-vu...
HN is a place for thoughtful, respectful discussion—not nationalistic rhetoric, which you've been posting plenty of in this thread and unfortunately your comment history has quite a bit of it too. We ban accounts that inflame threads this way, because they destroy the civil discourse this site is supposed to exist for. So please don't post to HN like this again.

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> Well, so what if they aren't around in 6 months? Once the furniture is delivered, there's not much risk to the customer after that.

Since it's rental, not purchase, changing ownership (or change in corporate focus) after the furniture is delivered is a risk to the customer. A VC-funded startup with visions of growth is going to have a different customer service focus than someone trying to milk the last drops out of a dying business, and the former can turn into the latter quickly.
Are you the guys using smart home (is that the right word?) devices to try and mitigate homeowners claims by preventing or catching problems as they occur (presumably to respond quickly and limit the extent of damage)? If so, that's a pretty good idea. Carriers already give discounts for things like alarms, sprinklers, etc, but virtually none partner directly with a company that can better assure the quality of monitoring. I'm sure there's a privacy hurdle to work on, but it has to do something to loss activity, right?

Best of luck!
Thinking about it some more, the scripted interactions didn't work because they seemed too much like begging, especially after the 2nd message, when a normal person would have simply stopped communication with a non-responder.

There was no mystery or enigmatic friction created in his scripted messages. Nothing to raise the "buying temperature" or whatever you want to call it.

Also a head and shoulders shot with no context is as bland as can be. At least 1 shot should have been with an outside interest, like, with your dog (if you have one) or with friends showing you enjoying yourself. By adding such photos, I am willing to guess his responses would have been better.
Microsofts own study of TDD showed that it definitely improved defect rates and they went fully into developing with it for Vista which is part of the reason for the delays. Nowadays large chunks of the API is automatically tested and this has allowed Microsoft to release changes must more often with a lot less manually testing.

So while this individual is finding his local team isn't getting the full benefits, Microsoft appears to be based on its own report on the technique and its outwards software release cycle changing.
how much faster?
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Similar story here. I always thought I slept like the dead and nothing short of a force of nature could wake me.

Fitbit rolled out their new sleep types tracking and I find out I'm actually a super light sleeper. Most nights I don't get anywhere near the low-end benchmark for Deep Sleep and I overshoot the high-end benchmark for Light Sleep by many points.

It's weird because my subjective experience and the data that Fitbit shows are so out of whack. I could swear that I sleep well, but nope.
I know a little about networking to appreciate the simulation table. I can't vouch for the accuracy. The author does invite critique.
I’m a long-time Brian Feldman fan and I can assure you he has a vast knowledge of internet culture. He wrote one of the most comprehensive pieces on Minion memes.
Also, Millennials go up to 40?
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Writing as someone who left HK when he was 14 who still visit every couple years, so take what I write with a load of salt.

I really think HK is over, as in it will never return to its peak glorious days. Much of the prosperity of HK came from being a middleman between China and the rest of the world. That position is eroding because China is slowly opening up. For example, of the top 5 container ports, 3 are in mainland China and HK is #5 [1]. HK was the busiest as recently as 2004. Why ship to/from HK when you can ship directly to/from China?

Much of the ruling elites (many of whom are/were businessmen or have business ties) understand this, and realize China has a lot more soft power over HK than what the Basic Law guarantees. The end game is clear, HK will become just another Chinese city, the Establishment is hoping that by pandering to mainland, they can slow down the process and maintain their self-interest. The more positive way to think about it is, if China allows, HK can become the Shanghai of the south instead of a little brother to Shenzhen.

Meanwhile, the poor. I grew up quite poor in HK and a family of 4 shared one studio. The kitchen and bathroom were shared with another 4-5 families. 4 of us slept in ONE bunkbed. Life got much better after I was 7, because we moved to public housing in the suburb. You see, there's always a big divide between the rich and the poor, but all the public subsidies made life bearable.

A big part of HK's government revenue come from land sale [2]. And land is more valuable when it's not used for public housing. That and immigration means the wait to get public housing is getting longer and longer [3]. Immigration is supposed to increase revenue too, but as mentioned because a big part of revenue come from land sale and immigration doesn't increase the amount of developable land, the overall effect is smaller.

Normally one way to deal with this is impose immigration quota, but I looked into this a few years back and apparently for family reunion, HK government does not control the quota and have to accept however many the mainland sends over. For obvious reasons many in HK have family-ties in China so politically having a smaller quota would not be popular either. I don't have numbers to prove this, but there's a general sentiment that infrastructure is not growing fast enough to accommodate population increase.

I don't know what HK can do honestly. Politically it's in an impossible situation.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_container_port...
[2]: http://www.censtatd.gov.hk/hkstat/sub/sp110.jsp?tableID=193&...
[3]: http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/artic...