skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Light therapy is the main thing (seems daylight simulation and negative ions may also work, but this is less researched). The melatonin option is indicated at the level of micrograms, and as far as I know is quite safe. I'm mostly drawing from gwern's analysis and the opinions of several doctors, though, for the safety profile: http://www.gwern.net/Melatonin

Care to share some references? It would be useful to add to the page above.
It's a longstanding convention on HN that we sometimes add a question mark when the title is overstated, but the article is still interesting.
Because you mentioned Dinosaur Comics, I suppose someone needs to find a relevant one and link to it. Like relevant xkcd linking, except less mainstream.

http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=166
This is true, but as a former professor if I got an email from a possible candidate requesting to meet with me that did not show that they had at least bother to investigate my research area I would tend to ignore them. If you don't personalise your email mails then they really do look like spam.

The way to solve this study would be to do a delayed crossover. I would send the same personalised email (just changing the name), but send them 3 months apart. No professor is going to notice the two emails were identical after this length of time.
It set off the voting ring detector. Probably a false positive. We'll reset it.
He's confusing his correlation, tantamount to saying being a White Protestant are traits that makes one a good President of the United States. That the historical traditions of programming may have selected for those traits does not mean that the traits make one better at programming than others. It may just be that hiring managers came up through that history and select for culture fit based upon their identity.
I disagree. You could write personalized letters to each of thousands of professors, as long as each contained a slot for the student's name. If you then randomly assign the different student names to the letters, you still have a perfectly valid controlled experiment. No need to compare two outreaches to each other.

Being said that, the study as it is is already very solid proof of discrimination. So what that the email looks spammy? If it looks just as spammy from each and every group, and not every group is equally rejected, that's textbook discrimination.
I sent the following email to HipChat:

As an employer, and account holder, I am not a fan of this feature.

My team must feel free to use our internal communication tools to have private, perhaps critical, conversations between each other without worrying about me, or other members of management, from reviewing them.

If the tools cannot be trusted, employee will not use them. If they don’t use, they’ll revert to other methods of communication, which will consume their attention.

This should be an option, and one whose affect is in plain view of users.

Lacking such an option, or clear disclosure, I will be canceling our account, as well as reviewing my companies use of other Atlasssian tools.

Please reconsider this feature, or at least, reconsider its implementation.

Thank you.
He might have been rich by Chinese standards but he was still poor by Western ones. He seemed to be vastly more interested in finding a job outside the university so he could stay in the country than actually trying to study for the classes he was taking.

And again note, I didn't say he was lazy, as far as we could tell he was taking a dozen interviews a week for work. He was however a complete academic deadbeat and terrible investment for the university.

In short, we got scammed, someone came over on a student visa, only to try their hardest to migrate permanently without adding anything of value to the university and group he was meant to be working in.
Creating a better NSLog
Well if enough people point the images to a tarpit it might...
I love the part where they teach about how ints and floats are primitives in JS. And that the answer to "In programming lingo what word means to put two things together?" is "Love" (after the first video).
Why does it matter if one result is more or less statistically significant than another, assuming that they are both sufficiently significant?!

(Note: I don't think that 5% or 1% chance of error is sufficiently statistically significant, but I'm a mathematician/programmer, and I know that most social studies researchers disagree.)
I worked at a dept with ~2.5% acceptance rate.

There were two, subtle factors in play: soft ageism and PI's hiring their clones (in thought, gender and race).

So the dept gravitated to predominantly two minorities, at least in terms of staff, faculty, visiting researchers and grad students.
IBM creates world's smallest magazine cover
I find attitudes like this bewildering. I can't imagine being so uncreative as to assert that the only authentic non-religious attitude is a nihlistic one. How hard is it to take the human condition and it's joys and sorrows seriously and at face-value, exalting what we are and might become without resorting to silly supernatural fairy tales. We don't need religion for great art, we need to cultivate our expressions of humanism.
Assuming this wasn't posted anywhere other than Facebook, yours was its first submission to HN.

If HN detects a duplicate, it sends you to the previous submission. However, HN's duplicate detector is porous by design. We deliberately leave the door open for reposts, if a story hasn't had significant attention yet, and ask people not to exploit the loophole. This is so genuinely interesting articles can have multiple cracks at the bat.
I don't understand why even most of the open-source projects aren't using a modern standard like XMPP, and simply focusing on the UX.

Is there a technical reason for it? Is XMPP broken in some way? Or is the chat space simply full of pathological cases of Not-Built-Here Syndrome?
Dat – A git-like tool for large datasets
Right, but part of the reason we launch hugely expensive satellites is because launching a rocket is hugely expensive.

That calculus changes if your rocket launches start to get cheaper. It changes by a lot if your rocket launches have reasonable but predictable failure modes - which is something you get from volume.

As it is, rocket launches are relatively infrequent and expensive - which means its impossible to figure out the amortization of costs, and its not worth building a 10m satellite if your launch costs 100m (since if you can raise the latter, you can almost certainly get more for a better satellite too).
I know, it was two separate comments. A: It's "just" IO, performing probably the most heavily optimized IO pattern in the world (serving static files) and B: buying a 1Gbps uplink is trivial.
In the main plot in the paper they plot the absolute differences in response rates as opposed to plotting relative differences. 90% vs 80% for a given department seems drastically different from 5% vs 15%, but those would get equal value bars. I also tend to have a knee-jerk negative reaction to the phrase "reverse-discrimination" as it evokes the "you can't be sexist against men!" etc. type of ideas. This sort of feeling is enhanced by the splitting of the data set into white males and non-white/non-males for significant parts of the analysis.

It's interesting that they didn't find that percentage minorities or women on faculty had significant impact on response rates (with the exception of small results for asian-asian support). That seems to suggest that any discriminatory tendency is fairly uniform across individuals, reinforcing that policy changes to reduced discrimination must be collective effort.

Otherwise this seems like a good experiment and a good paper. The email thing just seems really clean and a realistic depicter of reality. Let's see if there are any significant changes after peer review, I suppose.
I'm a definite fan of getting mid-day sun, but my understanding is while it'll help maintain sleep rhythm, it won't correct it if it's already out of whack.

For that, I'd suggest getting some sun (or failing that, some light therapy lamp exposure—a special-purpose lamp that puts out a blinding amount of light) first thing when you wake up. Of course, you could optimize further too, like this paper suggests.

Source is admittedly Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_disorder#Ma..., and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PRC-Light%2BMel.png in particular.
We've been in a post-pomo world since 9/11: see http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/89-CRITICAL-I... if you doubt this. What's odd is someone dusting off the irony-is-killing-us essay template again after a decade of stridency and self-assurance.
>Cogent and Comcast will have a mutual peering agreement

Yeah that's what all these disputes are coming down to. I can brand myself an ISP and sell someone a 10G uplink. That doesn't magically make anyone have to peer with me. Yes it's complicated and yes it comes down to who can throw weight around.
How I design software
Most passengers choose by price only and the rest have frequent flyer status and board first anyways.
Very interesting hypothesis. If it's true, I'm not sure if it makes it better or worse. Are we unintentionally programming our computers to automatically filter out messages from minorities? Talk about dystopia...
DNS amplification works on precisely the same principle.
This just a numerical simulation on two (simple) models of the human sleep cycle system that tries to find a more efficient way of shifting the cycle of those methods.

I've only spend 40 minutes reading the paper so far and only have a superficial understanding of it, but to me it looks like they are using a somewhat oscillator like model and looking to introduce a phase shift in the response by driving it with different input functions.

There is no experimental verification whatsoever. This is why this was in the computational biology section of plosone.
The Dutch name "eenmaal" means "once" but can also be
read as "een maal" meaning "a meal" or in this case,
as "één maal" meaning "one meal". Cute worldplay...
LaTeX is ASCII, so no need to enter unusual characters. But LaTeX notation seems like a convenient way to enter mathematical characters even when not creating a LaTeX document. There are LaTeX input methods for Mac OS X, Emacs, and X Windows here:

https://github.com/clarkgrubb/latex-input
Do they do that on larger jets? I thought valet check was only for smaller regional planes (2-2 and 1-2 configurations) where overhead bins don't even fit rollaboards.
So... almost every quiz is bugged and says correct answers are wrong.

And then there's

> Which of the following will increment a the variable 'x' by one?
* x++
* x+1
* x+=1
* All of the above
> Most would acknowledge that women and minorities already face more hurdles in academia than their white, male peers. A lack of mentors, occasionally overt discrimination and the academy’s poor work-life balance, are well-documented issues.

OK, I'm stumped. I can't figure out how poor work-life balance is more of a hurdle for women and minorities than for white males. Anyone know?
Seems like a bump in the road, but it's something Bezos has to stay on top of to not be too long term to lose investor interest.

FedEx/UPS + Amazon merger would still be a good move and lock up last-mile distribution that only WalMart would be able to touch, but then WM would have to pay a premium for whichever chair would be left.
If you are forced to check your bag on the skybridge, you won't be charged for it.
I completely agree with you on this. I can't imagine continuing to use hipchat with this change in place.

This was pretty stunning at first, but after thinking about it my guess is simply organizations that use Jira are the kind of organizations that want/need to keep tabs on all employee communications.

Which hey, I get that for some companies they need that for one reason or another.

What it says to me more clearly than anything though, is that Hipchat's core customer isn't small teams any longer.

It's large enterprises with lots of seats.
-R discs store data via a dye layer that changes color when hit by the laser. The dyes are not known to hold color durably. I don't have the links now but I've read studies that estimated CD-Rs could fail within 7-10 years.

-RW discs supposedly last a lot longer because the RW tech uses a phase change metal instead of dye, and the phase changes are more durable.
I can't find any information on the tools capabilities or implementation on that website. The README on github isn't helpful either.
We know who Linus Torvalds is in spite of his demeanor, not because of it. That's not true for Shanley.
My point was... if in the info-graph they featured Call of Duty, it would be awesome if they also included a good game.
You just described the librarian from the movie Timeline. I think the issue is that we still don't really have a technology or medium that doesn't degrade when unplugged or plugged. Chemical mediums such as most optical media fail, etching is searchable scratchable, etc. Records seem to be the most reliable but are of limited storage ability and require careful storage and switching.
When I was a physics undergrad all 12 physics majors in my graduating class were given a "talk" by a senior white faculty member about the "realities" of the physics pyramid. Basically we were told that our Chinese competitors made much better grad students and we should basically not bother applying to grad school because we couldn't compete against the "better" Chinese.
I've been meaning to ask if you've read up on chronotherapeutics; when I read the book (that I cited above, in top-level) a few months ago it seemed to explain why the melatonin procedure that MetaMed gave you worked - a full biological basis. I didn't follow that up, though, since I was trying to fix my own DSPS.
Nah. They're building their own distribution network. FedEx is great at being FedEx, but Amazon wants to be able to do same-day delivery with multiple time-slots per day. They also want local warehouses, which minimizes wasteful shipping.
Irony is an exercise in cleverness.

I can speak only about US pop culture, but to consider Stewart and Colbert, clever and amusing as they are, in the avant garde of political thought is scary.

Facile isn't wise, and for some reason wisdom is now (maybe always?) deemed boring.

Too much television, too much Web distraction. Turn it all off. Twitter, Facebook, football, futbol, campaign ads, dot dot dot.

Give me something useful: The Weather Channel and porn, in moderation.

It's difficult to think deeply about complex issues. And arguably meaningless. Still...

Jeez, I'm a codger. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Irony is a sedative. Absurdity requires revolt. Pass the bong. One more hit before I study for finals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Sisyphus

EDIT: Not unusually, I popped off before reading the post. I'm not a DFW fanboy, but I've found everything of his I've ever read to be substantial. Very substantial. He dared.
Possibly the most ignored fact in finance and management.
There is another readme that is more informative:

https://github.com/maxogden/dat/blob/master/what-is-dat.md
Retail is and always will be a low margin business.

what would you rather invest in (assume there are no costs other than inventory to keep it simple).

A store that has $100K of inventory that turns inventory once a year with a 20% profit margin

or

A store that has $100K of inventory that it turns 10 times a year with a 5% profit margin
i was plugging in a usb into the back of my computer and i saw a firewire port. wow i forgot those existed, i remember they were all the rage and going to replace usb
Sadly, all I can find in reference to his purported mathematical genius is a crackpot post by him on physorg: http://lofi.forum.physorg.com/End-Of-Pi-Found_20813.html. I highly doubt that there have been, or ever will be, any 'mathematical savants'. Being good at arithmetic or drawing fractals does not a mathematical genius make.
> I think I just realized it was wrong, and was wondering what was wrong with me and I didn't want to be that person.

I feel this way about things in my past too.
How to Outguess Passwords
Hello potential jailbreak methods.
Are GPUs the bottleneck? I thought the modern approach (for anything above an ~SNES) was to simply rewrite graphics calls to run on the native hardware. It's not like Dolphin can emulate 1080p by fully "correctly" emulating a GPU.
What about having a small device, say based on a BeagleBone board (or similar low power) hooked up to a USB drive and wifi. Then set it up in your car to power up for a while when the car is turned off. When it power up, it looks at the network that it can connect to -- if it is your home network, then rsyncs from your home backup server. If it is an alternate (say, office network, or another place you visit frequently), it can rsync to that server.

If someone marketed a turn-key solution like this (home backup appliance, plus vehicle-based transfer appliance), would this be a good alternative to online based services?
Amazon has done well because they work from different premises than most businesses. In particular, they're in the middle of a multi-decade effort to squeeze waste of various sorts out of the process of buying things.

They're now the best mail-order retailer, and they've beaten out local merchants for some classes of goods. But there's a long way they can go in terms of beating local merchants for most of the rest of what people buy. My guess is that Bezos isn't slowing down until Walmart is hurting.
Some cultures have retained traditional diets, some cultures have not retained traditional diets.d
Even Mr. God Is Dead himself was not a nihilist. He talked about it a lot, but because it was something he saw in the world, not because he thought it was a good thing.

Art certainly can be about overcoming nihilism, but it certainly does not require religion to do it.
When you upload, submit, store, send or receive content to or through our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content.

That's from Google's TOS [1], which applies to GMail. So Google can, in theory, publicly display your email.

I guess that's my way of saying that I'm much more interested in the fact this API is available for exploration and experimentation and much less interested that it doesn't meet an impossible standard that no one here can actually articulate or provide an example of.

[1]: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/
so, RIP touch device users?
That part wasn't intended for minorities. As for women, they need a lot of time off for pregnancies and typically want/need to spend more time with kids. Also, they have a biological clock for fertility unlike men, so it's more important for them to have time to socialize to find a partner unlike men who can procreate well into their nineties.
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Sorry to ask a like a noob, but what is a "super-lightweight primitive"? a INT, for example?
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Of course they won't say "well, you have the technical chops, but I'm not going to hire you bc you're a woman." What they might say is "she isn't technically qualified" when an identical technical demonstration by a man would have been perceived as proficient. Unless your technical assessments are purely-objective exercises graded by a machine, you or your coworkers are probably subject to these biases without realizing it.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/unofficial-prognosis/201...
(there a other similar studies; that's just one example)

edit: "Bad culture fit" can also be a reason for not hiring whose underlying cause has to do with gender or other diversity.
Well most of the team is remote and we use Google Apps which doesn't allow email access (as far as I can tell, at least not without changing passwords and a few other tricks).

There is a difference between having a feature which allows someone to view your private chat logs (something Google Apps doesn't have) and what it sounds like HipChat are implementing - though maybe they're going to make it just as difficult?
The Pendulum Swings Back
I like it. Useful for more appy websites I would think. Reminds me of the FB app nav menu.
For those downvoting, Nokia did start as a wood pulp mill in 1871.
"poor work-life balance" is a greater issue for women than men due to childbirth and general fact that childcare and elder care burdens generally fall primarily on the woman in a couple.

"lack of mentors" and "occasionally over discrimination" affect both women and minorities more than white males.
I'd wager they are more likely to get leaked to the black market for money where someone will keep it a secret in the hopes of finding some 0 days.
Why is it relevant exactly? Amazon's hosting services are in no way dependent on Amazon's exact stock price.
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This is really cool, however I found one major flaw that will prevent me from using this: I have a marvel.com account and forgot my password, so I went to "Forgot my Password" to get a new one.

I was emailed with my email and password in plain text, meaning that Marvel stores the passwords in plain text. Knowing that, I'm not sure how comfortable I would be building something on top of this API.
> He might have been rich by Chinese standards but he was still poor by Western ones.

Ugh. It is possible that his parents were richer than yours; they could be driving black Audi's, have multiple Ayi's (house keepers), and multiple apartments; you really can't tell! It is true that having their kids get a job in a western country is important even to middle class/rich Chinese; even they realize how unbalanced the employment situation is even if it often works in their favor.

> And again note, I didn't say he was lazy, as far as we could tell he was taking a dozen interviews a week for work.

This makes sense. They can lazy academically but, instilled by the habits of their parents, realize that the key to success is networking and career climbing rather than studying.
I hate to be that person but I'm somewhat skeptical.

Would it be possible for you to arrange a Reddit AmA or similar event with these two people ?

Also, have either of these people you know been examined by scientists/doctors ?
Can depend on the aircraft. For smaller planes, they have weight & balance restrictions, so they'll have people board front-to-back, so the plane doesn't flip backwards.
Thanks. The feedback has been amazing and valuable for me. Hopefully others as well.
Discoverability decreases as LOC increase, so that's not true.
^^^ Yes, this is exactly the 'white space' for Space-X.
What kind of spam says 'I want to meet you in real life today/Monday' ? I would guess dating sites, but there's no URL whatsoever in the email and those professors have a lot of experience with a lot of real emails that follow the format.
HERE Maps is still part of Nokia. It's not part of the new Microsoft Mobile.