skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a self-righteous douchebag. I'm a fully "respectable" 10-to-5:30 sleeper and it doesn't make me morally superior to anyone else. It's a combination of biology, age, and lifestyle circumstances, two of which I have no control over and one which I have little control over.

No one likes waking up in the morning.

That's not even true. That's a false-misery play: make people feel bad by presenting the view that everyone else is suffering, when it isn't true. Most people have no problem getting up at a traditionally socially acceptable time. A few people do, and a lot of it's biological.

Just because someone has conjured up a “label” for the way your brain works doesn’t give you a free pass to break your word.

I guess this guy hasn't worked a real job yet and learned that normal people don't get to choose what their meeting schedules are. I agree. If you fully voluntarily (being told you must by a boss doesn't count) agree to do something at 6:00 am, then you get the fuck up and do it no matter how tired you are. However, I don't think he understands that most people end up in meetings they didn't voluntarily agree to attend.

The problem with the typical workplace is that it's built on promises that weren't made voluntarily, and many of which don't actually exist, but that's another rant.

Boo-hoo, get off Reddit and go to bed earlier.

Actually, there is an insight here. Morning or night person, most of us lose our good judgment at a certain level of tiredness and start staying up when there isn't a good reason to do so. This is a tough call, because sometimes it's useful to stay up until 3:00am but usually it's not. The problem with sleep deprivation is that you often don't know how tired/impaired you are. You might even feel the opposite, though your objective performance is terrible.

Earning your life is supposed to be difficult.

Posturing. Bullshit. We get it, you have a big dick. Congratulations.
I read the original article, I didn't see the part where it said it was OK to be late for meetings. If you say you will be somewhere at a certain time, you better be there.
Seeing how these articles are read by thousands of people, it's not unlikely some of them have DSPD, and will be prompted to post comments saying so.
>The photos I get from it are far far better than every point and shoot or smartphone camera I've ever owned

Without knowing what are those cameras is difficult to know the reason. But a good high end compact camera, these days, tend to produce better images than kit lenses. Now, there's nothing wrong about kit lenses. I used one for a year until I was comfortable enough to jump to a better option. But these days I'm giving the same advice Marco does. Unless you have a very specific reason to shoot with an SLR or are willing to buy body and less separately, go for a compact with a good sensor size, manual controls and a good lens.

But it's just an advice, not a law written on stone.
Startups, can you tell us how you've 'tested' software?
We'd like to gather stories of startups and how they test software. The results will be shared freely. Can you help?
This is from 2009, and the camera mentioned isn't sold anymore. Very nice design and photographs, though.
There is a subtler point to be made that is (perhaps unintentionally) hinted at by the author of this article and sp332. At what point does a disruptive, repetitive, and persistent behavior go from being simple laziness or irresponsibility to a "disease"? If you believe that the mind is a purely physical thing and therefore that all behavior is the result of the body's composition and environment, then the only thing you can do is draw a line somewhere and call one group of behaviors "disease" and the other group "irresponsibility."
Yes, you'll be able to upgrade. So the rational decision would be buying the cheapest plan and upgrading later. I just hope you're not rational… :)
Does flying to a different timezone incapacitate you or do you adjust in a few days? Does daylight savings time cause you problems or do you adjust like everyone else?

If you can adjust to those things, you can adjust your "normal" sleep cycle and you don't have this rare condition.

The reason you have a hard time getting up "early" is that you go to sleep too late. Just go to sleep an hour earlier than "normal". Too hard? Impossible? If that's so, how do you do it every year when we go off DST?
Adults lie and manipulate. Often out of ignorance; sometimes out of malice.

To the extent you can, don't waste your time on this.

P.S. (Or, especially) This includes many figures of authority we are taught to trust. Blanket distrust as a compensation mechanism is not very useful, but remember that trust is earned is.
Public data set on startups
is there a good public data set on startups, founders and exits? I do some angel investing and also know a good deal of data science. Would like to do some analysis but not sure where to get the data
I speak as someone who shaved almost two hours off of his regular rise-time in the last few months. Wherever the blame lies, at least look for some of these "big wins":

* Do you actually get enough sleep? Can you show when you actually went to bed and when you got back out?

* Do you avoid bright, blue lights (e.g. florescent bulbs or monitors without Flux) close to bed time?

* Do you have a ritual of some kind that gets your mind and body ready for bed?

* Have you had an actual sleep study checking for sleep apnea?

* Does your diet or other factors give you heartburn or other physiological sleep interrupts?

If you can devote 1-3 weeks to checking one of these at a time, that can address a lot of sleep issues.
Try all this with fast moving subjects - ie, kids.

They don't stay still and talk so you need something that does high ISO or good lighting.
As a programmer who was once an engineer by trade, I would say the difference is that engineering implies manipulation of the pysical sciences, where programming is just logic.
And since it's easy for you to overcome that problem, it must mean everyone else who struggles with it must not be trying. It can't possibly be harder for them than for you, after all!
On the contrary. If I had argued that consumers should like Windows 8, then your critique would be valid. However I never once claimed that consumers should like it. In fact, in multiple posts I've happily agreed that consumers mostly shouldn't, as it simply does not offer compelling benefits over 7 or other competing OSes.

What I am arguing instead (which you seem to have missed) is that consumer distaste for Windows 8 is an incredibly poor measure for the long-term rationality of Microsoft's business and product strategy. Because consumers are short-sighted and only care about whether a product is good today, not whether it is a transitional release laying the foundation to a competitive 201X ecosystem blah blah blah.
What if I am good at everything and can't get hired?
GP suggested they were highly correlated, I disagreed. You are stating that they are correlated but not highly so.

So you agree with me then?
I doubt he'd have a problem with you. His issue seems pretty clearly to be with people who do not keep their commitments. If you don't start your day before 11 then obviously don't accept meeting invites before that time and you are golden. Oh wait, you work at a company where 9:00 meetings are normative? I guess that job is a commitment too, isn't it?
The world is a big place and everyone has their own circumstance. But I think the point of the Great Big Get-Off-My-Lawn Rant (which I loved) was more that for the vast majority of people in the vast majority of circumstances getting up in the morning doesn't rise to the level of a severe personal handicap.

I mean, I hate mornings as much as the next person, and have slept through a decent number of events. Yet still, when I had kids and had to get up for a crying baby or to change a diaper, I Just Did It, and didn't feel the need to blog about whether I should feel "guilty" about it.

I mean, really: don't we have more important things to argue about? Isn't there a new Javascript rendering abstraction layer or something?
all it does is give people excuses for not dealing with their problems.

Even the original article didn't do that. The author lists several steps he took to improve his condition. He just wanted people to avoid useless guilt, he didn't give them a free pass.
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I frequently change fonts, adjust margins, borders, colors, positions of elements on my sites all the time. I might not be doing anything radical but I am redesigning the site in it's entirety every time I change the CSS.

Imagine how difficult it was to just changing the font size on a website before CSS.
Yep. I used to call it "waking insomnia" before I learned about segmented sleep. It's likely a remnant of our ancestor's approach to sleep, which was in two parts--first and second sleep.

I'll wake 4-5 hours after first falling asleep with a period of 2-3 hours of wakefulness before I feel sleepy again. Unfortunately I'll begin to feel sleepy again within an hour or about the time I need to wake up for work. Sometimes I can catch an hour or two of sleep, but it's the hardest sleep to wake from and I feel like I'm dragging the rest of the day.

I personally just tough the day out, though sometimes I take a sleep aid (usually one 25mg dose of Benadryl) before going to bed as a preventative.

New York Times about First and Second Sleep: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/opinion/sunday/rethinking-...

Wikpedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmented_sleep
You are an extreme outlier and nobody looking to drive user engagement would ever write that email. But, then, nobody would use "old friend" in a welcome email and nobody reputable considers them "marks" so I am curious where to procure one of these windmills at which you are tilting.

These emails are targeted toward normal people, not social-discomfort-masquerading-as-efficiency people (because there are still a lot more of the former among developers than the latter) and normal people respond favorably to the appearance (which becomes the reality) of being valued and appreciated by people who they are looking to do business with.

That's why they work: because they connect at a real level. And it's not "manipulation" or any other carefully chosen fear-word any more than any other communication method is; it's simply--literally simply--how people are.
The correlation exists, but is not extremely strong, as the GP stated, which is what my point was. I never said there was no correlation.
My biggest fear is that this is turned into a young adult version of independence day or a poor rip-off of Starship Troopers for kids. I would've hoped for more Locke and Demosthenes, but I guess for a trailer they're looking to go for the big bonanza than actual fans of the story.
I'm not sure you got the point of the article. You seem to be a "blind rage" mood today so I'll try to make it a little clearer.

He's not saying "it's not your fault." He's saying you have a real medical condition that needs to be treated. He also points out how to treat it and manage the condition, so that people will not continue to have their oversleeping issues.

What you're saying in response amounts to telling a person with depression that they're a buzz kill and should just cheer up.

People need to understand that chemicals play a huge part of how our body functions, and that not everyone has the same chemistry going on in their bodies. These chemical abnormalities can have a huge impact on your life and show up under a wide range of different conditions - depression, anxiety, bi-polar, ADHD, etc. These are real conditions caused by real physical things and, just because you can't see them as obviously as a broken arm, doesn't mean they're not real.

Your ignorance and lack of understanding isn't a virtue. It's not something to be proud of. Educate yourself.
This post and the original post set up a massive false dichotomy. Yes, keep your commitments. Yes, pull your weight at work. For many people, that means getting your ass into the office at a normal time.

But in order to get there, you should understand yourself and work with who you are. If a label like "delayed sleep phase syndrome" helps you manage your life, use it. Either set good expectations with your team, or set up systems to help you out.

The ass-kicking rhetoric of this post is true, as far as it goes. For some people, this sort of wake-up call is exactly what they need. But for many people, "just do it" is not a useful message. Feeling guilty is useful if it kicks you into action - but too much and it just holds you down, preventing you from making progress.
Well, you might be right about the prisoner to compromises thing. I'd like to know what a bolder Microsoft would do in your opinion.

Anyway, the key point is, as you say, they are (or seem to be) getting better. That is why I am optimistic.
Actually it is the right word. The ring is a registered symbol of the Corporation of the Seven Wardens, and wearing or displaying one without their permission (via having been obligated) or attempting to sell one is illegal in exactly the same way that using any other entity's trademark without their permission is illegal.

That said, if you've been obligated and are working in a technical field, but don't really consider yourself an 'engineer' you can still wear it, so long as you hold yourself to the values it represents.
It's also an age thing. As you get older, your sleep moves in the early direction and you also need less of it (if you're in good health). My dad's 61 and sleeps 9-to-3:30. I seem to be headed in that direction. I'm usually up by 6-7 even if I go to bed at 2:30, so the smart thing for me to do is sleep earlier.

It's biology. Giving it a moral weight is nonsense.
As someone who has used it for this exact purpose, it's enough to use it occasionally to enable you to keep your sleep schedule in check. If I don't manage my sleep schedule well, I end up waking up later and later, and having to loop over. Modafinil perhaps once a month allowed me to reset without having to burn a couple days being useless.
The ring is a registered symbol of the Corporation of the Seven Wardens, and wearing or displaying one without their permission (via having been obligated) or attempting to sell one is illegal in exactly the same way that using any other entity's trademark without their permission is illegal.
The influence of agriculture is still strong, understandably.
Grow up on a farm. Do a stint in the military. Go to college while working two part time jobs. Experience crazy shifts in semiconductor fab. Work for startups. Get lots of responsibility. Now wonder why kids can't show up on time. Get off my lawn!

:)
I love you to death but please watch your double quote-nesting when using marketing buzzwords if you don't want me and mbellotti to deliver 40 lashings in a public square <3
"If you're in a coma, is that your fault?"

Possibly.. why are you in a coma?
This is the stupidest fucking thing I've ever seen at the top of Hacker News. It's true, some people are just lazy, but the "author" you refer to is Jason Freedman. He's a successful YC founder who probably busts his ass harder than 99% of the people on this site. He isn't making an excuse, he's trying the fucking HELP. He still gets results, he sold a company already and 42Floors seems to be doing just fine. Everything I've ever heard about him has been positive.

People like the OP are the reason we can't have nice things.
> Just today, it was reported that three kidnapped girls fought for 10 years to finally escape – and you can’t wake up 10 minutes earlier? What would they give for just 10 of your wasted minutes?

Oh, this is the worst argument. Someone did _INCREDIBLY_HARD_THING_X, so why can't you do _THING_Y_, which almost certainly is going to be easier than X?
You can feel guilty about oversleeping if you want to.
<i>"But nobody is forcing you to make that commitment in the first place."</i>

The author's point is that many people with this "disorder" continue to make commitments they cannot keep. It is Jason Freedman who says "The one who can’t seem to consistently set the alarm clock for A.M. and not P.M. I know how it feels to be the undependable one."

If you are consciously aware of this, yet continue to make these commitments - then the author I believe argues you are a "lazy", "sissy."
Perhaps my wording was unclear - I'm not talking about postgres' efficiency, but efficiency of processing the data that postgres produces.

Consider the example of an ORM that's storing an object with three multi-valued properties on the object it's encoding, each with 100 values. Encoding one has a row with three arrays in it, encoding two is the result set from joining to separate tables. In the end, it's quite plainly obvious that it's going to be cheaper (and, frankly, easier) to construct the object from a row with three arrays of size 100 in it than it is from a million row result set. Yes, this is absolutely a corner case (particularly with many multi-valued props of such a cardinality), but I'm not really sure why it requires numbers to prove - unless there's some kind of JDBC/ODBC technique for dealing with this situation that I'm simply unaware of?
As someone who has delayed onset sleep disorder this person has no idea what he is talking about. Sure, maybe he knows since people who just have crappy sleep habits. To generalize in a rant is a little ridiculous.
You should feel guilty for responding to an earlier blog post with another blog post just so you can sneak in that Google Adsense ad at the very bottom; or, my generation is full of opportunists.
Maybe I read it differently than you, but I read the article as spurred by someone that was habitually late for meetings. More generally, excuse making. Not any particular sleep cycle.

When saying "If you make a commitment to another person, you should keep it." I see you as being in agreement with the post I just read.
That does not seem at all clear to me. To me, the clear meaning is that he is addressing everyone who isn't a morning person, and merely using the case of bad-faith promises as an example of their evils. Based on the article, it's hard to imagine he'd feel differently even if the person did not promise to be there at 9 a.m., because — in his words — "earning your life is supposed to be difficult" and anyone who doesn't "put in the work" is "lazy."
And stop drinking coffee after 12 noon. 2pm max.
Well in my case, both of those things do really screw me over pretty hard. I have to allocate a couple days to reset my schedule on any timezone change or the 'spring forward'.

That said, it's not about going to bed earlier, at least for me. You can't solve it that way. What you have to do is stay up later and later, and eventually loop over to a 'normal' time. This involves several days of non-traditional sleeping hours or extreme exhaustion.
Yes, because it is a huge pain to go through for no reason.
As someone who has struggled with the effects of sleep apnea since I was a child, I humbly advise you to "Be kind; everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle"
Conway asserts that the referenced post says "you are the victim here". But I think he (Jason Freedman) says that a subset of people who have extreme difficulty ("...it’s more than just the normal struggle to wake up in the morning") getting up may have Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome and not know it. As someone with an autoimmune disease that affects my sleep, I don't think physiology can be glossed over.

As well, I don't think he (Jason) was trying to create victims; he links to his advice and ends by saying "it is on you to decide to do something about it".

But having trouble getting up in the morning is not being a sissy, not for everyone.
You can also get amazing images with a point-and-shoot too (search on FLickr for images with an RX100, for example).

Again, he is not recommending you to buy an expensive lens. He's just saying you can find great point-and-shoot cameras or mirrorless with good optics for far less money or get better lenses if you jump to a body+custom lens scenario.

He's just advising not to end up in the middle, which I don't think it's a terrible advice. After using kit lenses for a while I'm giving the same advice now most of the time.
I moved away to me. I enjoyed having my test server in a data center so I could work on it from anywhere, but it wasn't worth risking a security breech where no one would tell me I had been compromised. Instead, now I somewhat inconveniently host it on a machine sitting in my basement.

I'm merely a hobbyist/researcher, so I don't have a production environment to worry about.
Melatonin is fine if it works for you, and you find the right schedule to take it on, and you don't get terrible nightmares from it. Somehow I usually meet 2 of those criteria at a time.
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here's some specific quotes I'm taking aim at here:

She was so relieved simply to know that she didn’t have a problem; or more specifically, she was relieved to know that her problem was real. For she had gone all these years thinking that she was just lazy.

For all of those of you out there suffering under the weight of your inability to wake up early each morning, consider this one giant pardon.

the post comes off as one giant "it's ok to put your hand up and say 'I have a named medical condition so can I be excused from class'". That could just be my biased interpretation though as I've come across such a mindset before and tend to react very angrily to it. If that's not the message at all then consider my rant misplaced.
Article says more about author's worldview than anything else. Motivation by guilt works really well, until it stops working, and then you're in trouble. What do you do when you simply don't feel guilty about doing something like sleeping in?

Cognitive distortion #8: should statements

Cognitive distortion #10: labeling (sissies)

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

http://daphne.palomar.edu/jtagg/should.htm
sissies plural of sis·sy (Noun)
Noun
derogatory. A person regarded as effeminate or cowardly.
derogatory. An effeminate homosexual.

Stay classy!

> We used to value hard work. It was the cornerstone of our society. We invented computing, the telephone, the automobile and modern medicine. We invaded Normandy. We traveled to the moon.

Sounds like history was invented in the US too, by Joe Conway. Computing was invented by Alan Turing (incidentally a gay man) or Chales Babbage, both of which are from Britain. The telephone was incrementally invented by many people, some of them from the US but most not [1]. In particular, Graham Bell was born in Britain, lived in Canada, then in the US, and then again in Canada. The automobile was invented by Ferdinand Verbiest from Belgium. Modern medicine was invented by (among many others) Louis Pasteur, a Frenchman. Most of the troops in the invasion of Normandy were not from the US. The first spacecraft to the moon was from the Soviet Union.

The rest of the post isn't any better.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_of_the_telephone
Thanks for pointing this out. I spent a little while trying to figure out why my configuration wasn't being recognized.
Tell that to the ice cream truck that idles with the song playing half a block away for twelve hours every saturday...
heh, you should try L.A.

the buses that go to the poor neighborhoods doesn't even ride on the main streets when in the good parts of the city. Also, the poor people buses have tinted windows!

if you can find maps, compare Metro ($1.25, short routes) routes with Dart ($0.75?, long routes) ones.