skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are making a lot of assumptions about working set sizes, etc.
In any case, even if only once, it is still a cost you are paying, and a cost hadoop is paying, and it is completely wrong to simply subtract it out when comparing performance.
(On mobile so I can't really load up much for articles, so the rest is based on an assumption about what you linked regarding segmented sleep in the past.)

My old business partner used to pull it off quite effectively. His girlfriend was an early to bed, early to rise type and seemed to require more sleep than him. They'd go to bed around 9 or 10.

She'd sleep through to 6. He'd sleep through to about 4, get up and screw around on the computer for a couple of hours, go back to bed, and then get up again at 8.

Got to go to bed at the same time as his girlfriend, got an extra couple hours of productive time in the night, got up at his regular time. It was, to me, a pretty ingenious solution within his constraints.

Unfortunately I'm the "if I'm up, I'm up" type. Takes me a bit of work to get conscious but once I do I won't sleep again until my bed time.
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That's more than 140 characters.
Yes, it seems to close to want I want to do. I'll have a deeper look at goatfish.
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I emailed out the last time this was posted, and haven't heard anything back other than "we'll reach out to you soon".
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Disagree. While I was processing the pain of the sudden death of a family friend, someone who acted like a father to me my entire life someone else said something that she thought was being nice. In that moment it upset me so much I probably could have stabbed her. I still can't forgive her for it. She did hurt someone by doing it.

Keep it to yourself.

By the way, her words were something along to lines of "He's with God now, and that's the best thing in the world."
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If this leads to them losing track of the Voyagers, I'm gonna be pissed!

Seriously though, I know a lot of colleagues that are already stuggling with the 20% planetary sciences budget cut, so this can't be good news ...
Delta equips 11,000 pilots with Microsoft Surface 2 tablets
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Excellent tutorial. It really reminds me of when d3.js clicked for me and I had the very same mental process you're describing in this post.
A-hem. "NSA is not borderline-rogue" ?

They are in flagrant, publicized violation of the Fourth Amendment (rogue) with only a subtle, borderling rationalization keeping them from being wiped out by congress "we won't used the mined data/results-of-unreasonable-search until we need it". The amendments being, as you may recall, agreements leveraged by the states to prevent an out-of-control federal government.

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Symantec disables 500,000 botnet-infected computers
If people buy on easily gameable microbenchmarks, we should expect companies to game said microbenchmarks.
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I'll bite.

The presentation for the Bookmark was at best horrible. Just by forcing the reader to repeatedly click on a specific point of the screen just to get a progressive sentence or two, just isn't a way to do it, especially if you don't even give an indicative of where you are at. I gave up at 20th click or so.

Second, let's examine how the link was titled:

Show HN: Escape from Bookmark Hell

Escape from Hell already gives a connotation that the author believes that the pre-existing system(the bookmarks), which people have been using for a long time, is somehow Hellish and that it is so bad that it needs escaping from.

Of course, perhaps the author has found and solved a problem which none of us knew we had, but if it were a constructive progress, I'm fine with it. But when you have to click seven to eight times, past the buzzwords, just to see exactly what the author is claiming to be such inefficient system, and ten or so clicks furthermore for the proposed solution, it just reeks of arrogance.

At this point I simply pressed a 'back' button, got annoyed, and simply closed the tab, not averting my attention to it ever again.

Apart from a personal experience from the example, here are the takeaways:

I didn't like what I saw. I didn't like the presentation. Which is fine, you can't please everyone. But I did not leave a feedback. To the author of the Bookmark, I didn't exist, or in a way more relevant to a developer, the disgruntled user whose opinion is valuable in improving the product never reached the developer.

That's how unconcerned people usually react.

Instead, you have a group of passionate people who took their time to criticize and comment on the product and the presentation. You should really take it with a grain of salt.

Of course, there should be some assholes, but it's the internet, or even, a group of people. If you had thought somehow that academic developers were all nice and respectful, you would be very sorrily disappointed.

I have no idea if the OP is the author of the Bookmark thing, but normally, when people don't like what they see, they leave, lest leave a comment. Some of the examples the OP listed are actually pretty helpful comments, of this point has already been discussed.

A criticism is better than negligence. Almost always.
Good call
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Brilliant book - and was a bargain at its launch price (I know I enjoyed it) - now fantastic value and everyone with any interest in JavaScript should read it.
Intel CIO on her First 100 Days
If that's the case, Samsung is doing direct manipulation on benchmarks and this is fraud.
We don't start being philosophers, we don't start with music theory to learn music.

We start as infants and learn to crawl, gobble, walk, talk, read, write, calculate through our interaction with the world, it informs us.

The danger of starting with the abstract is that you make everyone generic and thus give them the same same frame of reference to think within.
Both are VERY debatable points. capital outlay in $56 million per launch for Falcon 9. Is that more or less than buying up hundreds of square miles of urban land? Deployment/construction is also different, and perhaps very much cheaper, under zero-gravity.

As for efficiency losses, I don't know what figures you used but its essentially the same problem to receive photons on the ground from a maser in space as the original task of converting sunlight in the first place. Efficiencies there are in fact very high (re: OP).
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Amazing how building a diagnostic protein, the biological equivalent of a `printf` statement, is being used here.

It's also exciting that this is no big deal for the researchers.
Oh the irony of Google's doodle today
Celebrating the 123rd Anniversary of Yosemite National Park on the day it is shut down.
Custom View Controller Transitions with Orientation
The law makes as little or much sense in the Internet age as in any other age. Pre-internet, you'd be just as barred from working on files or reports or whatever you might have in your home as you are from checking your work email. Casually breaking the law just leaves more of a trail in the Internet age and is thus a larger risk-surface vs. "No, really, I didn't make notes on the Foo-report during the shutdown".
I agree with some of your points and would like to defend myself in regards to a few others, if you don;t mind.

The ageism bit wasn't a non-sequitur in any way but it was definitely under-explained and I am at fault on that one. I have been at the receiving end a few times ("Why do you want to know that? That's how it has always been done!" and "What would you know? You have barely written your first fizzbuzz!" are just a few examples) and the anguish just happened to pour out. Apologies for not explaining that better in the post but it does not invalidate the existence of the point in any way.

Ply my own bigotry? I am sorry if my post seemed to raise those questions/sentiments but I'd genuinely believe that I was trying to point out something that has troubled me. You, OTOH, without any knowledge of me or my intentions accused me of bigotry. Should I take that as an example of an ad hominem?

As for alan_cx's comment, yes, I am guilty of cherry-picking a part of it. I believe I made that clear in the lead-up but that's no excuse. I'll make amends and edit in the rest of the comment right away. It doesn't make the original comment any better in terms of its jeering nature, IMHO.

Personal attacks? Misrepresentations? Strawmen? I sincerely and unreservedly apologise for for any personal attacks or misrepresentations. I think I just chose to put in some (rather badly) cherry-picked but nonetheless valid examples. However, I know I am not perfect and am definitely prone to mistakes and the occasional exaggeration. If you could please point them out, I will make the necessary corrections immediately.

I repeat, I am not attacking the people of HN at any point in the post. I am ranting against the jeering disguised as criticism. Since all dark clouds have a silver lining, all jeering must have an inherent critical point, too. Should I take it to mean that jeering is now acceptable since it is criticism?

In that case, may I request you to please consider my jeering of HN's snobbish behavior as honest criticism?
Ask HN: What should I build? Down time at work.
So here's the gist. The big company that recently went private is where I work as a front-end engineer using technologies like Mongo, Node, Angular, HTML, JS. Top level management just axed the project our team was working on for over a year in favour of merging and integrating with an already established team that was acquired months ago. In this transition phase everything is disorganized and the transition is still being worked through.

During this time our team lead has given us the opportunity to learn new skills or build something on the side to gain experience in new technologies.

The new team is using backbone as their front-end MV* framework so I'd like to build something which I can utilize backbone.js easily as the front-end MV* framework. I'm looking to build something that could be useful for development teams or something our team could use in our everyday work possibly but I'm open to ideas.

I thought I'd reach out to HN and see if anybody has ideas of maybe what they'd like to see built.
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Samsung’s Galaxy Gear smartwatch: Relentlessly inessential
I believe the talks will be posted online. You can also find previous year's talks online on youtube.

I don't know about Startup School by itself... but in general, I think it's worth it to visit the bay area (perhaps for several weeks) to network and understand the place.
For people who don't know what Fennec is, it's Firefox for Android. :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1833242

> It's what the frontpage would look like if only the votes of users who joined in the first year counted. I made it to check if the site is declining. In practice it's usually just a slower-changing version of the frontpage.
> ...because she led

For the record, Ilija Trojanov is a "he"
Kill the Photo Album
These allocators are based on mmap to build the arenas.
When is it okay to start burning bridges?
Contra "exDM69", there's nothing unreasonable or "unrealistic" about allocating 8 bytes at a time; it's in fact extremely convenient to be able to do that. I think it's telling that someone would call that workload unrealistic; it indicates to me that they've never even really considered alternatives to malloc.

It's a little like those C programmers who try to use 256 byte static arrays for all their strings because they don't quite grok malloc/realloc.
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This is pathetic. And not even necessary:

> The ironic thing is, even with the benchmark booster disabled, the Note 3 still comes out faster than the G2 in this test. If the intent behind the boosting was simply to ensure that the Note 3 came out ahead in the benchmark race, it doesn't appear to have been necessary in the first place.

The Samsung phone division upper management and marketing team don't seem burdened by an overabundance of neither ethics nor common sense. Or maybe I'm just being naive.
WhatsApp Suddenly Looks Like A Huge Threat To Facebook
Screen scraping: How to profit from your rival's data
Chrome became very resource hungry and poor at memory management recently. Sometimes I see half blank pages when scrolling which I've never seen before on the desktop.
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Why you should vote for the Call Centre at the NTA awards
Nev, Hayley, Twe and co asks you to vote for The Call Centre to win the National TV Awards 2014 in the Best Documentary category
Or end of life it. One of the two. Good luck!
Gendarmerie is the police for rural areas.
At first glance I thought it was a passive aggressive comment on the shutdown.
Is there a countdown clock yet for when this will be end of lifed?
Reminds me of how some old ATI graphics drivers detect whether you were running Quake 3, and turn down the graphics quality for the sake of better benchmarks.

Renaming quake3.exe to quack3.exe would fool the detectors and skip these "optimizations".[1]

[1] http://www.hardocp.com/article/2001/10/23/optimizing_or_chea...
Do you accept/consider part-time applications?