skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I've built myself two mattresses using just a 12cm thick slab of foam. My girlfriend and I both consider my "mattress" to be the most comfortable we've ever slept on, and guests that have tried it found it very comfortable. Initially I planned to add other layers to it, like latex, gel, springs or whatnot, but I really can't find any reason to.

It's a fine temperature in the summer and nicely insulating in the winter, and it was fairly inexpensive too ($140 for two 100x200x12cm slabs of high quality foam.)

Has anyone else tried this simple approach to DIY mattress building? Any thoughts on why (or why not) to just use plain foam?

[edit] The reason why I ask is because maybe there are hidden factors I haven't considered. Maybe there's a risk of back pain, or less deep sleep, or something I haven't considered. Perhaps the most comfortable mattress isn't always the best for you. I figured if there's anywhere I'd find a subject matter expert, it'd be here :)
Bonus points for landing government contracts if you can fit into one of the underrepresented/minority/disadvantaged group or small business categories.

There's basically a quota that some percentage of contracts must be awarded to those groups.
This whole idea of "dissolving" the Fermi paradox seems to be missing the point. Everyone knows that we have, in fact, not observed an alien civilization, so one of the factors in the Drake equation (or one we should have put in) is responsible. But, is it that there is very little chance of life evolving, or intelligence? Or is it that intelligence tends to be short lived? Or is it because long-lived intelligence uses methods of communication we cannot observe, and is responsible enough not to colonize all the good planets? The consequences for us are large, depending on which one of those it is. Merely saying "well it's not that surprising that one of those factors is tiny" is not really relevant to the question of, which factor is it that is tiny?
I have a friend who had a cylindrical bed in college (and maybe still now). It's fun but takes up more functional space in the room for less usable space on the bed. Also much harder to build and get sheets for.
Can you provide some examples of what you consider to be Cowen pushing the ideas of the Koch brothers?
domestic energy production is a matter of national security

The #1 factor in cutting US coal consumption/production over the past decade has been cheaper natural gas from domestic fracking. The #2 factor has been the rise of US wind power, which is also domestic.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=25392
I received this a few months ago on a demo account I was setting up. Here's the mail. (It was my personal account and cc not my corporate one) - I don't even have a fax machine.

---------

Greetings from Amazon Web Services,

We were unable to validate important details about your Amazon Web Services (AWS) Account. Your AWS account has been suspended. While your account is suspended, you will not be able to log in to the AWS portal or access AWS resources.

If you do not respond to us within 3 days of this email (by Saturday, April 28, 2018), your AWS Account, and any data will be terminated.

At your earliest convenience, please send us a copy of a current bill (utility bill, phone bill or similar), showing your name and address. Please provide for both the credit card holder and account holder if different.

IMPORTANT: When you send us your information, please include your email address, so we are able to process your fax as soon as possible. We can be reached via secure fax line at +1-206-922-5831 and 866-437-9072.

Once you have sent the requested documents via fax, please contact us at aws-verification@amazon.com and include the following details:

- The billing address and phone number of the credit card on the AWS account
- The billing phone number of the credit card on the AWS account
- Business name and phone number (if applicable)
- The URL for your website (if applicable)
- A contact phone number where you can be reached should we need additional information
- Potential business/personal expectations for using Amazon Web Services

If you have any additional information you feel will expedite this process, please feel free to include that as well.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you and appreciate your patience with our security measures.

Thank you for your immediate attention to this matter.

Sincerely,

Amazon Web Services Team
This very much reminds me of the CCP banning words online and then people coming up with new “synonyms” to bypass the ban, then that gets banned and new phrases words take its place and it goes on...
And yet there was competition.

It is similar to today, respectively we have even less choice, we have two platforms, out of which one is mostly a lifestyle company and has a minor market share of ~20%, whereas the second is dominating the market at ~80%
DevOps Explained Using ToC Logical Thinking Processes
The happy ending is that megacorps stop screwing around and start obeying the laws, like everyone else.

In your fantasy scenario you didn't consider that the current version(s) of Android running on billions of devices are mostly open source, and there's nothing preventing Samsung, or Samsung + Sony + whoever to take that, combine it with one of the other existing app store and GApps replacement apps (Firefox, some maps e.g. Nokia, etc) and continuing like nothing happened.
What are the Android app developers going to do, say "oh well" and settle for their market share shrinking to almost nothing which is what the Pixel amounts to? No, they will publish on the new Samsung app store.

And life moves on. Perhaps Jolla gets a boost, or we see a new or old player try something new.
Kind of a lot of words for using Async, Defer, or IntersectionObserver. But this is a weird case of using IntersectionObserver. I'd rather use it for something like lazy-loading images[1]. They have a much higher download cost and will provide a much greater boost in performance than optimizing your JavaScript. Also, by placing all of your scripts at the bottom (save for a few at the top like Modernizr), you really don't need to worry too much about async vs defer.

[1] https://www.machmetrics.com/speed-blog/how-to-lazy-loading-i...
Pink/hardcore has an appeal to a certain type of person. I went to my first hardcore show when I was 15. I still go to shows once in a while (I’m 47 now). Kinda funny, when I was in a band, we played shows in Boyle heights, at a House called the dust bowl, where dust got kicked up when people were slam dancing.
Its not a "habit", its hard-coded and there is strong evidence that forcing your sleep schedule to change has negative health consequences. Underlying all this is an insinuation that if you just eat better and exercised you'd wake up at a normal time. Night owls do get exercise and eat healthily. This advice never seems to be applied to early risers, it comes from a cultural perception of night owls as defective.
This works till you want at least minimal UTF-8 support, such as when you're working with actual English text as opposed to human-readable computerese.
DevOps Healing
Regardless, just as he said above: a correlation doesn't necessarily indicate a causation.
Ask HN: Why keyboard never evolve?
The keyboard barely changed since the very beginning. Why people don't design new keyboard? Current keyboard has too much limitation.
DDoS Attacked by Chinese Torrents
> native emoji speakers

Anyone born in the last dozen or so years.
InfiniTest: The Continuous Test Runner for the JVM
Zoox Investors to Receive Special Protections (full ratchet?)
Absolutely not true today and I am in that business. The number of companies which are iOS-only or even iOS-first is negligible these days. In most cases both platforms are supported, often with Android having a head start.
Hell yes, QE2 was a hole, but legendary in that area. SO many weekends spent there in my teenage years.
I've used the "Sleep as Android" app mentioned in the link which I had started using sometime last year. This app monitors your sleep and tries to ring the alarm between the actual alarm time and half an hour before it based on when you will feel most rested.

This changed me from a 5-6 alarm with multiple snooze person to a single alarm no snooze person, regardless of how much or little I've slept the previous day. There are days when I wake up before the alarm as well.

Do take a look and see if this helps!

Edit: Read the article after commenting. The same app has been suggested and explained in the article.
In Japanese, ideographs (Kanji) are paired with syllabic characters (Hiragana) to express things which Kanji alone cannot. Foreign words are spelled in Katakana (another syllabic script). There's also romaji -- a way of writing Japanese in the familiar Latin alphabet.

Incompleteness is manifestly NOT a problem for an ideographic script.
Wazuh? DevSecOps in your Kibana dashboards
"I did not say you are an asshole. I said you're acting like one right now."
As a buyer, where else can I find the insanely wide selection of goods on a listing-type site?

Consistently siding with the buyer is the reason I use Ebay (and Amazon with A-Z) with confidence. You sell me what you listed, we're good. You don't? I'm probably going to be made whole by Ebay. That does open the door for scammer buyers. I hope, for sellers' sake, that Ebay has some kind of attention that they pay to patterns of bad behavior.
Can you send us an email at software@yconbinator.com with the details? I can look up your old account.
The difference is that Chinese characters are not ideographs. Which is a pretty big difference.
do you have pictures or material lists, I want to make this bed.
Having one hand I felt this way, I spent a lot of money on a Maltron one handed keyboard, but I could never get it integrated into my work flow. And then laptops became popular, and I just can't be bothered to carry a laptop and a keyboard around with me. So unless I use one computer all the time, I can't get away from qwerty, so I've just stuck with it.
I wake up at 5AM every weekday, but weekends are wide open. Seems to work OK.
I have the same issue: Linux Desktop + Firefox 60

Chromium seems to display all charts without any problems (same computer).

Btw. it looks like once a chart has been loaded successfully, it is cached so that you have to clear/disable the browser cache in order to see the issue again.
Honestly I don't remember why I decided against sewing but the zip ties are wider and would presumably therefore involve less pressure on the materials.

My knowledge of thermoregulation is very minimal so I have no insight there beyond these materials feeling cool to me.
This is bad news IMO. I get a lot of great deals on things on Ebay that I wouldn't find on Amazon, or that would require me to be a Prime member to not get socked with a high shipping charge without buying a bunch of other stuff, or would require me to wait a long time to get it because I'm not a Prime member.

I get all my cellphones on Ebay, for instance: I get high-end models when they're about 2 years old, from high-volume sellers who specialize in refurbished/used cellphones. People are always jealous of my nice phones, thinking I spent $800+ when I usually only spend $100-150.

Many times, if I want something that's only $10 or $20, Ebay is the way to go because I don't have to wait long to get it, and don't have to get $50 worth of stuff to get the "free" shipping, so Ebay ends up being a better deal.

Also, avoiding Chinese sellers is easy on Ebay: just click the box that says "North American sellers only" (or "US sellers only") and you don't have to worry about stuff being shipped from far away and taking a month. Amazon doesn't make it quite so obvious, nor do they allow you to actually exclude such sellers with a search.

Of course, Ebay lets you buy stuff (usually used, or perhaps secondhand but never-used) from non-commercial/individual sellers. Amazon has removed the ability for individuals to resell their stuff unless you sign up for a special seller's account for $35/year.
As a non-American, I find it somewhat ironic that nowhere in this discussion of the gun emoji change - “The Absolute Denial of Shit” - is there any discussion of the correlation of gun violence and gun laws.

http://fortune.com/2018/03/20/gun-laws-gun-crimes-state-gun-...
Leap Second Support Coming to Windows 10
JavaScript is the first language we have stable support for. I should have made that more clear up front.

Do you see any other areas this kind of tool would be useful? Happy to chat about our roadmap for supporting other languages.

Thanks!
High fees? Yeah, they kinda suck at 10% of the gross (plus whatever Paypal charges, usually 2.9%), but this isn't high compared to Amazon's fees.
Directly selling to anyone independently is almost impossible if you haven't networked appropriately or have substantially impressive qualifications. Lots of the bigger corporations (in America at least) have a select list of approved consulting groups that they're willing to sign an SOW with. You're not gonna even get in the door if you don't work with one of them. Not as familiar with selling to the government but I'm sure it's similar and probably more hoops to jump(probably get paid a lot less too).

I'd work on formulating your idea more. Early warning systems for a diseases with ML seems like it could mean almost anything. Narrow it down to a specific use cause and a specific methodology. Why is it better than existing methods? What's the value it's going to bring to the government or corporation you sell to? Why should they believe you? How long will it take for you to have a viable product? What are the risks of using your product? (lots of false positives could make your idea more harmful then helpful) What's the performance monitoring plan?

I'd try networking with people that do consulting data integration/analytics in health care industry/medical device industry. Pitch your idea to them, see how they react (people might already be doing what you're thinking). Got to learn the industry, if you're going to be able to sell to them. Good luck!
I always find it strange that going to a therapist is something relatively normal in the US. I don't think I have known anyone who has openly talked about going to a therapist in this part of the world (UK / Spain).

Does the US culture there produce more stress and broken people, or us Europeans just more ashamed of admitting to this sort of thing or is it something else?
The author's clear lack of having been in the USA for 9 years. He's getting all his USA info from the media and at best people who already agree with him.

Whole thing really fell apart when he talked about USA politics imo.
Indeed, imagine a system where some providers are cash-only. They wouldn't even care about that ICD-10 stuff, let alone pay even the cost of entry for the proprietary coding system.

Of course, I realize, that were an insured patient to use such a provider, that would shift the insurance claims burden onto the patient (much as is often the case PPO out-of-network claims today), but this could be a point of competition for would-be insurers under your proposed system.
The first part is basically saying "Google chose a thing, so chose to market that as a good thing".
Isn't that what everyone does?

As for whether it mattered, honestly, no, i would say didn't. The developers cared whether they could make money, not whether it was open.
I would like to do the same! Could you please provide more detail on sourcing materials and the construction?
Users of scripts not currently fully-covered by Unicode would NOT be happy with this proposal.
But that's nothing to do with the NSFW warning. I purposely included the comment about browsing Facebook to make this more clear.
You must be new to reddit
> s/Doctors/Health Care Providers then. The more you insist on precision, the less accessible this debate becomes. I hope you have a good reason.

Yes, because there's a big difference between doctors and provider networks, and as I've already explained above, neither has the level of power that people generally believe they do.

> The salaries say that doctors are more powerful than patients

I have no idea what this is even supposed to mean. You're not comparing like quantities.

> we both agree that they are powerless compared to the organizations that employ them.

No, we don't, because I've already said that the hospital networks (which employ the majority of doctors these days) don't really have much power either.
It's convincing in that it seems physically possible. Even better, it's falsifiable: look for infrared point sources.

Also, what options do you have if you're out of real estate? There is no faster than light travel. Slower than light interstellar travel is certainly not going to be cheap or easy. Of course the other option is for your civilization to stop growing, but who knows if all aliens would go for that.
Ninth Circuit Upholds Preliminary Injunction Against Magazine Confiscation in CA
From the press release:

the fine has been calculated on the basis of the value of Google's revenue from search advertising services on Android devices in the EEA.

In other words, Google had an unfair advantage for search on android devices and leveraged that into revenue. The fine is a percentage of that ill-gotten revenue.

There’s an official guideline for calculating damages when anticompetitive behavior is found: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:52...
Agree with both of those. The gender thing in particular I went back and forth with a few times until I settled on what made the most sense for me. I think it's something most people will want to think about.

The other thing I'd include is that it's helpful to realize you're not trying to find a best friend. You're looking for a therapist, and how they can help you is a lot different from other relationships you might have had with people in the past. Once I realized that, it made it easier for me to adjust and find someone that fit me best, rather than someone I had to like, or enjoy my time with, or other "normal" benchmarks you tend to look for otherwise.
Individual cryptocurrencies are inflationary or deflationary depending on their algorithm. Monero, for example, has a 2% tail inflation built in to account for lost money and an expanding economy. Inflation can also be tweaked or changed based on an agreement of the miners, or whatever else is built into the protocol - it could be a consensus mechanism beyond mining, or a central administration (which wouldn't be different than fiat really). My main gripe is that the popular logarithmic inflation curves are WAY out of whack and reward the early adopters way too much, making it more of a ponzi scheme than something useful, and ultimately making themselves poorer because if someone feels ripped off, they can invest in a new coin where they are the early adopter, essentially inflating the total money supply.

That said, inflation isn't always a good thing for some people. Neither is a centrally controlled money supply which also has its own winners and losers
You are no doubt ahead of me on this.

With a little review (the Internet, Google, and Wikipedia are a new world), I recall that I was thinking of

Macsyma

with apparently a nice description at

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

Apparently the software is still available, likely better than the original which apparently goes back to the MIT project MAC.

The Wikipedia description early on mentions indefinite integration.

IIRC the software implements algorithms that "solve" the problem of indefinite integration, calculus course "anti-differentiation".

I'm plainly passing out what I remember, some of it confirmed by the Wikipedia page, and memory of hearsay.

But likely now could download a copy of the software with whatever documentation they have and see how good it is, how much it claims, and that's a lot more than I could do the last time I heard anything about Macsyma.

I'm not going to set my startup aside and rush to have fun with Macsyma, as much fun as I have had with calculus, but I will make a note in my little system for such chunks of information!
I support those things too, but clearly it would only thwart progress to try to lump everything together. Some topics require specialized focus, and because open-plan offices negatively affect me, that drives my interest in them.

Additionally, many blue collar jobs already have formalized protections and workplace health standards through OSHA. Similar enforced standards for the wholly distinct set of workplace health issues faced by office workers don’t exist yet in terms of health factors related to things we are only just discovering, like the dangers of prolonged sitting or being embedded in open plan spaces.

I reject your premise that progress for better working conditions can only proceed in ways that apply to all workers at once.

I simultaneously have great solidarity and support for improving the working conditions of blue collar workers while also focusing my own efforts on the specialized topic of open-plan offices because that topic is underserved.

“Stand together” does not imply we must make senseless and unpragmatic choices, like never advocating for a specialized type of workplace improvement and foolishly requiring all efforts on this topic to always be scoped to apply to all possible workers. That would only hurt all workers by making progress impossible and ignoring obvious benefits of specialized efforts for different worker subgroups.
more creative but also more outgoing i've found
Because it’s the default place to go in everyone’s mind when you need some random one off item like an ALF alarm clock.
Looks very powerful especially if you can popularize it. Maybe mention the plugins and other platforms besides MacOS on the website. Also the chat thing wouldn't allow me to click a reply on my Nexus Android phone.

I wonder if the parsing, schemas and the transformations etc. could be a starting point for an advanced neural network AI programmer. Perhaps if you could combine it with an interactive system that converts text to schemas.

For example, say you had a way (a skill?) to convert a schema to a web form. Then the AI would need to handle speech-to-schema-change such as "add a field for Middle Name". Then perhaps there is a skill to go from the web form to a save data request and another to accept the request and another to update the database schema etc.

But the AI might come more in handy for interpreting more complex schemas such as nesting, grouping or workflow etc.

But besides an advanced domain specific AI it seems like this foundation of parsing, schemas and transformations would be a good start for speech-based or other higher level program generation tools. I can envision a web page that generates a CRUD application from mobile front end to Firebase back end and then spits out the code that you can then add more advanced features to.

So it seems a smart strategy to embrace open source because that can allow other developers to add mappings that you can leverage for your own app or program generation tools which you can sell.

To me the interactive web-based CRUD application generator is low hanging fruit but more interesting would be to combine your tech with a Google Duplex style interactive speech based AI programmer front end. Probably only Google and a relatively small number of companies could pull something like that off though.
David Kopel's analysis of the injunction:

https://reason.com/volokh/2017/06/30/federal-court-enjoins-c...
I think there is some moral notion ingrained in me that staying up late is just a bad thing, and being up early is a good thing. It feels so satisfying waking up really early and having a peaceful morning alone, before the hustle and bustle of the day begins. I see the parallel you draw to late night, but it just seems less wholesome to me for some reason.