skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To add to this, there's a great book on the topic regarding the daily rituals of artists: http://www.amazon.ca/Daily-Rituals-How-Artists-Work/dp/03072...

It leads to the same conclusion -- 4 hours of work is about the maximum for any creative or intellectually rigorous field of work.
BAE Systems Unveils Concepts of On-Board Aircraft 3D Printers
As it turns out, Swarm's first legal entity is in the UK.
For a lot of cities, that website is actually quite broken: you can't submit new addresses or reports.

In Vancouver, BC (where I'm from) you haven't been able to submit new reports for 2+ years unless you're using their iOS app. A majority of the website is outdated and I wanted to make a resource to fix that problem.
I like "don't make it pink" as a slogan to combat tech gender backlash nonsense. Love of math, beauty, and raw power are all universal, let's work on that angle. But at the same time, let's make sure we allow gender-specific themes from both sides to be involved, so we don't quash freedom of expression while at the same time not excluding...

Never mind, it's probably going to take two generations to fix, regardless of what anyone says today. Society will figure all this out when a generation grows up in a time where this is all painfully obvious and not before.
Shhh. The only reason I'm reading the comments on this is for the drama.
Reading that page there was a brief glimmer. If people can get a date on death row I think the UUIDs will do okay.
>It seems more natural and intuitive to inherit than compose

Especially when you finally figure out inheritance and OO you fall in to that "when all you have is a hammer".

Composition is not an obvious way to approach this problem when you've been taught to solve problems with inheritance - and it fits "so nicely".
I too am looking to work less than the standard 40 hours a week for similar reasons. Only committing to 4-6 hours in a given day also gives me more freedom to take a large break in the middle of the day to go for a walk or a run, which can be useful in the Scandinavian winter when the sun is only up for a relatively limited time each day.

There are some political parties in Norway and Sweden who want to make a six hour work day the norm.

There are many good arguments for significantly reducing the amount of time the average person works, both for the benefit of individuals and community: http://www.neweconomics.org/publications/entry/21-hours
> no one is able to work productively for 8 hours, that's a fact.

I disagree with your fact. I know many, many people who can do it. The simple fact that you talk about working on "side-projects" makes me think you have productive, creative hours outside the time you spend on work items.

I do agree that in the current market for software developers, you'd be crazy to not try to get some of your creative time to work on what you want to instead of your employer, but I just don't comprehend all the people acting as if 8 hours a day, 5 days a week of productivity is unattainable.
No, I didn't. I didn't say you can't run a healthy business that way, I said 'I'm not sure it's an explosive growth model' ie the sort of runaway success the tech press likes to celebrate, not least because of industry incumbents of the sort you mention who are already embracing technology. You appear to have misunderstood my earlier comment.

Also, while I do live in the Bay Area I'm not American so your condescension is misplaced.
Cool, I actually thought about doing the same thing after I saw how out of date bedbugregistry.com was.

Hope you have some good SEO implementation as I believe people typing in prospective apartment addresses is probably the biggest lead for traffic.
It looks like you scraped a bunch of data from my website (bedbugregistry.com) and put a different UI on it. That's pretty lame.

There are lots of worthy projects around bedbug tracking that you could do, particularly if you want to focus on specific cities. But please do the work yourself, and use your own data.
Ketamine is indeed safer than many other anesthetics in terms of the risk of respiratory depression, which is why it is a common choice for veterinary anesthesia. However, it's not uniformly better than more conventional anesthetics. Its half-life is substantially longer than that of propofol, so it actually takes longer to recover from. There is also some evidence that repeated administration of ketamine can produce brain damage, although it's unclear whether this is clinically relevant.

As long as we're on the topic of targeting the claustrum specifically with pharmaceutical agents, I'll point out that the claustrum has a particularly high density of kappa opioid receptors, which are the target of salvinorin A, the active constituent of the psychotropic plant Salvia divinorum [1]. Of course we have no evidence the plant's effects are specifically related to its action in the claustrum.

[1] Smythies, J., Edelstein, L., & Ramachandran, V. (2012). Hypotheses relating to the function of the claustrum. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 6. doi:10.3389/fnint.2012.00053
When I look at a field like sports, I assume the genetic advantages are not so direct to the routine tasks.

For example, significant genetic factors may be: healing or failing to heal without permanent damage or being flexible in a way that causes or prevents a frequent injury.

For many star players the fact that they can keep playing at all may be the freak of genetics or initial behavior that allowed them to get to their level.

For example, football helmet impact data seems to support the direction that many should be dropping out due to traumatic brain injury. Yet some players deteriorate remarkably slower than medical science previously predicted.
Yeah, I need to find the time to just roll with it.
Both your comments are heavyweight so I'm not trying to pick sides. (Sum your two perspectives and I think you're close to Ultimate Expert Comment.) I just want to mention that beat is talking about phase alignment between identical signals, which our perceptual network is incredibly sensitive to. Anyone who has ever done multi-mic recording can attest to the very real effect you can hear from lack of phase alignment, even if they have bronze ears. Even worse is if you duplicate two musical recordings and offset one, even by a tiny amount.

This is a critical aspect of crossovers- since they contain the same signal, any phase differences between the intersecting components are easy to pick up by the ear and very difficult to measure since it won't show up as a significant frequency or amplitude differential. In the highly acoustically sensitive area where the crossover occurs, the phase distortion between the two signals is hard to pin down but it's definitely there, it's easy to hear by A/Bing.

I mix on a multiple-monitor setup and the one that is most critical to me sounds like absolute garbage. However, it has a wonderfully "flat" response and allows you to get an idea of what proven aesthetically-unpleasing issues are present. It has no crossover. The goal is not to have perceived rumble, tinniness, or mud on any of the incredibly wide range of listening systems out there. I think this is what beat means by "musical"- flat speakers are actually not pleasant to the ears, but the most empirically useful.

The most famous secret of many respected mix engineers is the Auratone. Michael Jackson's "Bad" was mostly mixed on this little thing. It sounds like absolute garbage aesthetically but reveals more issues in a mix than anything else. It's like when you first saw things under a "blacklight" as a kid and got to see all the particulate matter covering everything, that you can't see with the naked eye.

Here's more about the Auratone. I hope my comment has helped to bridge this critical area of "musicality" vs. empiricism.
http://www.trustmeimascientist.com/2012/02/06/auratone-avant...

Postscript- the listening environment is the most important aspect! Always! You can have the best mastering grade monitors on earth in an improperly treated room, and it's all for naught!
One of the things that are unrealistic about "bullet time" as portrayed in games and movies, is that the world doesn't dim as time slows down. Slow the rest of the universe down, and the amount of light energy entering your pupil per unit time slows down as well.

One of the things that came up in the criticisms of Khan Academy's teaching of slope/rate is that lots of people don't internalize a conception of sensory intensities as rates. To some people out there, things like speed are feelings of intensity divorced from the notion of X things happening in a second.

This is probably especially true for things like brightness.
Any office job ever. As much as 50% of the time in an 8 hour day can be spent chatting with coworkers or inadvertently zoning out.
Yeah, see...no one questions that it purports to be about mathematics. The problem that some seem to have is, what does math have to do with lingerie models? I can't speak for the other machine-learning amateurs, but I found your "real world" example to be unhelpful in explaining the math...maybe because I couldn't get past my preconception that choosing between just two prospective dating partners is in many ways, not a problem that calls for machine learning. And maybe your retort would be, "Well duh, the checklist theory outlined here could be applied to a large group of prospective suitors to efficiently filter them"...well, then why was that not the example to begin with? Because even a sample of, say 10, would seemingly render the example checklist to be non-decisive...which then leads to the question of how to efficiently pick binary features that are relevant to the decision-making process...because it seems kind of a no-brainer to argue that you shouldn't apply a ML-algorithm to a sample size of 2.

Now, if you had consistently referred to the setup of dating lingerie models as you explained the math, then maybe you could more believably argue that, "Hey, lingerie models make this math easier to understand"...but you didn't. You discard the scenario quite early on, which makes some people think that the scenario was a bit gratuitous, as if the author's intent is to subtly say, "Hey, I'm not only a math genius, but I can appreciate a hot woman!"

Which, sure, isn't the kind of sexism that 19th-century-era women faced, but it also doesn't seem to add to any kind of mathematical understanding.
Why is nature a somehow extraordinary claim and nurture is not? That was my question.

"a tendency to adorn" is not the same as "a tendency to adorn oneself with jewelry"

The latter is a subset of the former, OK. But I completely don't see the relevance.
One of the many things I love about Dark Souls - enemies drop the arms/armor that they're wearing. It is a low to very low chance per drop, sometimes requiring farming if something you want isn't carried by a merchant, but the variance is good for normal gameplay.
You just made my counter argument for me. Ninjas are definitely gendered.

Yes, the argument is about formality. The claim is that "diva" is degrading because it is unprofessional and narcissistic, where "web developer" is gender neutral and professional. My point is, there are many many examples of non-gender neutral and unprofessional references in our industry. Diva is not degrading, it is targeting a specific audience, as is Ninja.

We definitely have a gender imbalance in the industry. Should we be attacking those trying to rectifying the situation because they do not match your opinion on the extent that society should remain gender neutral?
I'm not sure that makes it OK to scrape and re-host their data.
Show HN: Check the smoothness of webpages using rendering perf metrics
Easy: it's Javascript and canvas 2D packaged with https://crosswalk-project.org/ ; and 4.0 is a requirement.

I was willing to use a WebView with Cordova, but Kit Kat introduced a bug (not hw acceleration in canvas 2D!) and I was getting 2 FPS instead of the expected 30.

Crosswalk works pretty well, although has the inconvenient of being a native component.
This article is total bullshit.

"practice accounted for just a 12% difference in performance in various domains" is not contrary to "10,000 hours of deliberate practice are needed to become world-class in any field".

For example, A) 10,000 hours of deliberate practice are needed to become a professional chess player, B) practice accounted for just a 12% difference in performance in professional chess. A and B can both be true at the same time.
There are people in Germany who are more comfortable with English, you know ;) Maybe you could detect the user's system language and switch to English for any other system language than German?
This is needed, because the bedbugregistry seems abandoned and has submission errors where you can't add new entries to some addresses.

One problem is legal backlash, I would have hosted this overseas like the bedbugregistry did to prevent takedown notices and lawsuits.

This is helpful when dealing with lying landlords who claim there was never a problem until you moved in, so it must be something you did and refuse to pay for treatment, refund damage deposits and generally screw you over. Then you go on one of these bug registry sites and discover they've had bedbug infestations for years.
a lot of recruiters have rocks for brains it's true .. but this maintainability isn't everywhere
Because he uses his posh accent and long words to talk utter nonsense, and gets upset when he gets called on it.

One of many: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/25/stephen_fry_not_upse...
I want to work less hours for an employer / a client also because I want to invest productive hours in my own self improvement and personal projects. There should be a lot more flexibility from the employer side in how many hours an employee commits to working. It should probably be negotiable and explicitly stated in the employment contract.
I believe euthanasing UUIDs is really immoral. You go on talking about how all UUIDs have a right to live, then mention how all identifiers which are "unnecessary" should be killed as soon as they are born.

Gee, what a bunch of hypocrites.
There is evidence that Homo Sapiens settlements are accompanied with jewelry findings. As far as I know this is one of defining differences with other Homo species, even Neanderthals.
It doesn't really matter why women like jewelry. It seems to me (as a man (with a sister)) that if it's not biological, it's sufficiently deeply ingrained as to make little difference in the short term. That's where they are today, so it at least makes sense to try to talk to them there. But I think you and I agree it should not be the central point. We've got to figure out how to teach math properly.
Yeah not happening:

> This application will be able to read and write all public repo data. This includes the following:
It may also be hidden at the other side of the rainbow... Astrophysics is losing a lot of time trying to come up with ideas to make something like dark energy and dark matter possible. Maybe it's time to look at some other theories that don't involve the dark whatever.
Perhaps a more accurate statement is that no-one is able to work productively for 8 hours straight, which is what the 9-5 job tries to make you do.
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Or meetings. Poorly run meetings. Probably because people are tired.
Okay, as someone who doesn't know anything about both sites, a casual test (surveying results for Toronto, ON) does not suggest any data was lifted off your site. In fact, there is just one entry for all of Toronto on Bedbug Registry, whereas Bedbug Lookup seems to have dozens.

Of course it's possible that your search simply doesn't work, there are copious error messages on Bedbug Registry... Can you give more details about what you think was scraped from you?

At most BedbugLookup seems to be a superset of your site data.

Edit: seems the search on BBR is not working for me (and apparently for me only). Thanks for providing the links, I see that the data was indeed scraped. Not cool.
Near-miss incident at Barcelona Airport caught on video
i've worked with a lot of people in a lot of places, and I think you are kidding yourself if you think most people get 8 hours of work done every day. I'm not saying nobody can do it, but most can't and don't. And that's not a problem. Most people are going to need breaks throughout the day. I suspect many of us here check out hacker news at some point during the day. In moderation that is fine as well (IMO).

For me personally, sometimes I put in 10-12 hours a day for a month or two and then I back off to 4-5 hours for awhile. I can do it in spurts, but 8 hours everyday for years at a time sucks. more than 8 is just unreasonable. If we're being honest I suspect most people do between 4-6 hours of work a day. Perhaps if they weren't forced to be in the office for 8 hours, they could fit that 4-6 hours of work in 4-6 hours instead of 8.
That's strange considered he published a semi-famous essay taking grammar and language pedants to task.

http://www.stephenfry.com/2008/11/04/dont-mind-your-language...

How does your link make Fry out to be as dumb as a bag of hammers? You may dislike him personally (shrug) but that does not make the man stupid.

I would also agree that the Register are being needlessly cruel by inviting readers to comb though his statements and then popularise his mistakes. I very much doubt any person on earth could withstand that kind of scrutiny, not even politicians who have armies of people to protect them from making quantative and qualitative mistakes.

Fry speaks as eccentric British comedians from the upper middle class speak. I guess non-natives just don't get it.
Hey Andor, great points, thanks for the feedback!

1. Yeah, we should make that clearer. We ship every Thursday, I think that's only mentioned in the FAQ currently.

2. You can actually pause your account on your profile page. We're still adding features there, but will add a section explaining the possibilities on the home page soon. We're also not primarily targeting offices, but optimize for ordering coffee to your home.

3. Good catch about the specialty coffee. I'm not sure "Spezialitätenkaffee" is a thing in German though. We tried to use it in a blog post, but people didn't really seem to understand what it's about when asked. Will try to sprinkle it in anyway, I wasn't aware that it's not mentioned on the homepage.

The branding is tricky, indeed. It's probably easier to catch the attention of enthusiasts with the original bags – I do think though that the amount of people that know the specific roasteries is not super big, especially outside of Berlin. On the other side, we really believe that consistency and ubiquity of our brand is important. We might explore that a bit more when adding more roasters.

4. It's a cup of filter coffee :) Maybe it would help to have a Chemex standing next to it to make it clearer. Or instead, a nice flat white with latte art.

5. Yeah, that was a common feedback. We'll experiment with that.

6. They are! And they're great people.

Thanks again! We got some really good feedback on HN today, much appreciated.
I agree with point 1 - sad but true. Not only in America as well.

I like that you say "perceived loss of 20%". I wonder how substantial the actual difference in productivity is. I wouldn't want to compare at this day to 16 hours, but rather something like 30 hours.
It's worth pointing out that not doing so probably won't expose you to world-changing opportunities either.
Mine is simple maintenance. I can run a half marathon at a reasonable pace right now, and I don't want to lose that conditioning as life gets busier with the end of summer. My goals is to do at least two short-moderate runs during the week, and a long run each weekend.

I also need to strengthen my midsection. I've neglected strength conditioning for a while now, and I just feel weak and loose outside of running. I think I'm going to do a month-long core strengthening routine with my wife, and see how much that helps.
The Bedbug Registry is hosted here in sunny California. I don't hide from lawsuits.
I have this exact same problem.

I see merchandise and slogans and whatnot targeting the "geek culture". I hate that stuff, the "witty" and "nerdy" T-shirts with stupid inner jokes about programming, I hate the "developer-targeted" ads with stereotypical geek talk I'm bombarded with, I hate all that, and would never want to be a part of it. I feel it's the same that these women get because tech is getting pink.

But I respond to this by ignoring what annoys me. I don't feel offended when I, as someone who likes to program, is looked at through the eyes of these "geek" stereotypes. Why are these women so offended because someone is catering to some stereotypes that apply to women? I don't feel degraded when companies try to get me to purchase their VPS hosting by targeting me with ads that cater to stereotypes that apply to developers.

This kind of stuff will always happen to almost all demographics. Quite honestly, from my position, I think this is overreacting.

Of course I would love to see more women in tech, and I would do all I can to help that happen. But I think this is fighting a wrong fight. There ought to be some work on helping teenage girls overcome the stereotypes about tech they acquire in high school. But this just seems getting offended because of something that happens to everyone who is part of a certain demographic.

I see that this kind of comment is strongly frowned upon, so if you downvote, please be so kind as to also reply to me and explain your viewpoint on this.
The most complex kinds of objects that chimpanzees craft are tools. To posit that a psychological propensity for pieces of jewelry (a human invention) is inborn in only women is extraordinary and reeks of post-hoc logic. To posit that it is cultural meme is obviously not. Do you not understand this intuitively? Are you being 100% honest with me?
I don't know how it works in other industries, but I would bet for software you're right. Sometimes you need to step away from a problem and it let it process in the background.

I've had moments where I'll work on something for hours late into the night only to realize the next morning that I didn't need to or that I can do it using some other method in only a couple of minutes. If I had stopped and went to bed earlier I would've saved a lot more time.
actually, the email address I found doesn't seem to work anymore – would you mind writing me at hannes@kaffeebitte.com? Thanks!
There is an excellent post below by user gaius addressing this issue.

You seem to believe that search engines are not force multipliers for for-profit gossip mongering; this is demonstrably false.
XKCD: Research Ethics
If you only started this in 2014 then how do you have reports dating from 2012 and 2013 (and earlier too?)?
I’m doing a 4/5 schedule now for client projects. It was a lot easier to do this since going freelance and charging based on the value I generate, instead of an hourly rate.

While more “free time” has been a bonus (realistically I just work and study things that improve my business or my clients indirectly). The best benefit I’ve found from this work schedule is the push to get the day’s work done within those few hours. This doesn’t mean cutting corners or half-assing the work done, but rather figuring out solutions that get the most bang for the buck and being ruthless as to what details to sweat afterwards.
Military turns to Hollywood to outfit soldier of the future
Any Googlers out there? A popular channel was suspended due to false reports.
Web Exploits from Microsoft
> Say you find a dev who [...] is passionate about the kind of work your team does

What does this mean to you? To me, being passionate about doing something means I want to do more of it, quite literally. Leaving other motivations aside, someone who is trying to negotiate less time is less passionate, right?
Passing out mirrors and nail files at a social event for women interested in programming is like passing out hammers and dimensional lumber at a social event for men interested in fashion design.