skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another good question, do you wake up to urinate in the night? That was one of my indicators of my sleep disorder, as I sleep through the night now.

I was diagnosed with sleep hypopnea, which is not as severe as sleep apnea. The difference between the two is how low your pulse ox falls while you have stopped breathing. I think my diagnosis was an artifact of the sleep study however because they didn't really let me sleep very much during the study.

I am using a CPAP and my health has greatly improved. Lower blood pressure, feeling like I got real rest during the night, improved cognitive function. Still dealing with some metabolic issues, which I am trying to resolve with diet, eating habits and exercise.

PS I knew I snored. I never imagined I had sleep apnea until I got married and my wife observed that I would stop breathing in the middle of the night.
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Thanks! Were there any features you've found missing in this one?
it increases quadratically not exponentially
You did not reply to @jacquesm 's post. If you want to make sure the salary expectations from the applicant and the employer, you only have to

1. tell the employee what salary range the employer is willing offer, or
2. ask the applicant for their desired salary level.

The current salary is NOT your business. If the applicant earns 1x salary now and wants 2x salary and decide to look for a new job that offers that, how does it help the applicant to tell the recruiter that he earns 1x in his current job? You basically ask the employee to play a cards game but have them all in the open for you.

"This is called sales".
Yeah, involving an engineer lacking any business skills and two weasels.
In German it means human being, in Yiddish it's taken to be "a person of integrity and honor" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensch
I think the GPL only applies to executable binaries.

This leads me to be uncertain as to whether it's even meaningful to GPL a shell script.
What about the accusation that you stop the negotiation when a candidate refuses to disclose their previous salary?
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Yeah, obviously. Thanks.
Feels comparable to SlickGrid's 500k rows example http://mleibman.github.io/SlickGrid/examples/example-optimiz...
I still prefer approval voting over it:

http://www.electology.org/#!approval-voting/cc04

1) elimintes the spoiler effect problem

2) most "approved"/liked candidate can win, not necessarily the most "popular" within a certain group

3) gives lesser known candidates/parties a much better chance to compete and rise up against the incumbents

4) statistically proven to be one of the voting systems with the least remorse

5) very simple (essentially HN style voting)

Range voting could also work, but it's debatable whether the extra "scores" are worth the loss of simplicity. Range voting also seems to have a bigger degree of regret, although it does seem to do slightly better with electing the "ideal" candidate.
Interesting that this doesn't apply to engineers, only product, sales, and g&a. Why is that? I have heard arguments that engineering salaries are likewise kept low through collusion but this wouldn't provide any evidence for that unless there's another such agreement for engineers.

Do product and sales typically make more money than devs? Or are they in shorter supply than engineers hence the desire to keep churn low for those positions?
Really? I'd argue 1% of my income making minimum wage is far less disposable and than a 1% of the one percents salary. And so I would be far less inclined to buy more votes.
Then taking your Euro analog, is it right/fair to make someone pay more (even say in proportion to their salary) than any other person for a vote?
Who decides how much I should pay for my vote? Is it based on current salary? Because if it is there are a whole load of very rich people who technically have a very small salary. Is it based on net worth?
Sounds like a nightmare to me.
We setup public subsidies and forced providers to serve unprofitable rural areas so they could serve more profitable urban ones. This is as it should be: it doesn't make sense for private industry to serve these people directly. So the government steps in for the public good, the rural areas do provide food after all.

Wireless should actually be the future for less dense rural areas, something like Google balooon anyways. How else can we even think of serving the Alaskan outback? Heck, I have family who just live an hour north of Spokane WA, and there best option up until a few years ago was satellite.
A less cheery spin on the news:

S. Africa’s Power Crisis Sparks Interest in Solar Power
http://www.voanews.com/content/s-africas-power-crisis-sparks...
Morse Code is part of what got me into digital electronics design and then programming.

It was in the mid-'60s in Tempe, Arizona. I was into ham radio (was WA7DUB, now WJ6V) and started out - like everyone in those days - with CW (Continuous Wave, i.e. Morse code). I could send OK with a straight key - the kind when you push it down for the right amount of time to make each "dit" or "dah" (aka dot or dash).

That of course got a little tedious, so I bought a "bug" - a semi-automatic keyer where you push a paddle from side to side. One side has a spring mechanism that makes dots in a row until you let go, and the other side simply completes the circuit as long as you hold it that way. So the dots are automatic and you make the dashes manually.

Then I heard about "iambic" keyers, where the paddle has two independent levers so can push either lever alone or squeeze them together, and it's hooked up to a circuit that makes dots for one lever, dashes for the other, and alternates dots and dashes when you squeeze them both. I bought one of those paddle mechanisms and decided to design my own circuit for it.

My neighbor across the street worked at Motorola's semiconductor division and was able to get me free samples of their RTL (resistor-transistor logic) ICs. These were pretty primitive - each gate or flip-flop was in its own TO-5 "tin can" package. But they were enough to get me started and I got the whole thing working. It was a lot of fun to design that circuit!

Unfortunately, RTL was pretty susceptible to RF interference, and I never shielded the box well enough. This led to some embarrassment when the keyer circuit would start running away with continuous streams of dots or dashes or both, even after I let go of the paddles - and the speed would change on its own too.

I remember being on one traffic net where this happened, and the other operators called me a lid and started laughing at my lousy fist. A "lid" is a bad radio operator, and your "fist" is the quality of your Morse code - how precisely (or poorly) you time the dots and dashes. Little did they know I was just a bad circuit designer.

You know they are laughing hard when you can tell they are laughing at you in Morse code!

Some photos...

Straight keys: https://www.google.com/search?q=straight+key&tbm=isch

Semiautomatic keyers: https://www.google.com/search?q=semiautomatic+keyer&tbm=isch (the paddle mechanism is what I was talking about, not the schematic diagrams)

Iambic keyers: https://www.google.com/search?q=iambic+keyer&tbm=isch (the silver Bencher paddle is the one I have now - haven't used it in years, but it's too pretty to get rid of)

Tin cans: https://www.google.com/search?q=to5+integrated+circuit&tbm=i... (the round metal ones)
Top 3 or 4 for Computing back in the 70's when my cousin went well supposedly back then there where only 5 or so Computing Degrees that where considered any good.

Its also based in Manchester and was where Baby was built you know one of the first computers :-)
I'm not sure I understand your point - are you arguing that finding cancer earlier does not increases chances of treatment and survival? Do you have any reliable data on that?
> Majority rule based on one-person-one-vote notoriously results in tyranny of the majority–a large number of people who care only a little about an outcome prevail over a minority that cares passionately, resulting in a reduction of aggregate welfare.

Except in voluntary voting systems, where highly motivated voters dominate the apathetic majority.
Ironically, rural voters tend to be more conservative and increasingly libertarian, so they will never ask for this.
I wonder how having a nonstop high demand, high stress job for 25+ years factored into all of this.
What do you do when you suck at everything?
B787 is a mostly electric airliner. There are far fewer hydrolic/cable operated systems than in previous planes. This is much safer since a explosion/leak/breach/clog in a hydrolic line won't take out an entire hydrolic system (most planes have 3 systems and fuse valves to mitigate this).

However, since there are so many electricly operated systems, you really need power. The B787 as is No Bleed [1], so electrical power is also used to pressurize it [2]. Need Electric Power.

[1] http://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/articles/qtr_4...
[2] http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/tech_ops/read.main/...
How would that..work? Pretty much the entirety of Android apps function based on subclassing Activities, Fragments, etc - how would this work in a language without java-like inheritance?
Interesting... That is what i like of Y.
Soldiers are directed by politicians at all stages. The decisions on what to do after surrender is entirely made by politicians. Basically an army's job is to break things and kill people. The politicians' job is to know what to do with such a powerful tool as an army. In my experience, precious few of them do.
Safe programming is bogus programming.
No problem, I hope found something.

There are plenty of others, but these are the ones that have survived the hard competition to reserve the precious "ear-time".
yeah. when i hire sales guys, or product guys, they just tell me how much money they generated (or their products or teams generated) at previous companies. it doesn't always have to be a $ figure. sometimes it's, "my work at previous company X was used by Huge Company A, Huge Company B, Internal Division C, etc. here are my references."

these are just nuts-and-bolts dollars-and-cents conversations people have when hiring non-engineering professionals or executives.

you can talk about all of the above without actually stating how much money you made. it's moot. it's irrelevant. what matters is what they accomplished, if they are enthusiastic about doing the same for our startup, and how much money/compensation they need to feel good about it. i am trying to make people feel good about working for me! the first step is to have an honest conversation about everyone's needs (maybe requirements is a better word).
Seaborn: a high-level Python interface for drawing statistical graphics
Nice to see Conemu with GNU Readline. Search history and auto completion are the features I always missed in Conemu. Thumbs up to the developers (of Clink as well).
I feel compelled to post how this was the defining game of my youth. It was the ultimate video game experience in my child brain. I was enamored for years. I wanted to be Ness. My very first website was a GeoCities page, an ode to this game titled "Earthbound: The Best Game Ever." I have scoured GeoCities archives for a copy of it but unsuccessful each time. There was a neat attempt at an Earthbound MMO http://www.skyon.be/node but it appears to be discontinued. I love you Earthbound.
Thanks! I think this shameless plug might interest people reading the blog post. :)

The placeholder texts didn't give good impression, but the web-site overall looks interesting.
Ah, the old corporate myth of meritocracy.
> (what an ominous term)

Self-referential humour about cabals dates to 1983, thanks to the Backbone Cabal (cf. "There Is No Cabal").
I know very little about systemd, but it sounds like it solves some issues. The only concrete thing I've seen is starting up services, which has traditionally been idiotic on Linux distros, needing silly boilerplate scripts copied all over. Even Windows does this better in a way.

Independently though, if it's so bad and do obvious that it's bad, why is every major distro picking it up? Is RedHat leaning on Arch behind the scenes?
Malaysian Airlines M17: Canon Bullet Discovered in MH17 Wreckage
Starting the plane's flight computer takes a long time, as in hours [1] because there are tons of automatic checks to be done. We're not talking restarting the DVD player. Also, when planes like these are at the gate, they run off the Ground Power Unit (GPU), basically a wall power cord. Because of this, the engines and other systems can be off, but the core flight computer is still on. If they could, airlines would never restart these. Remember, it needs to do things like reset all the laser ring gyro's, inertial reference units, etc because these are voting systems, so they need to figure out what truth is. As such, the boot process is understandably complex.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/04/us-poland-dreamlin...
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Shabda,

Thanks for sharing! Having known and worked with you for years I could not agree more. I ran the startup life for 6 years and it'll eat you alive if you let it.

Regards,
Lane
Trying to open [1] in Firefox froze the browser for several seconds. Wow, Google.
This would only require read-only support from Btrfs. Which is stable.
I'm seriously considering to move to Guix, which is essentially the Linux distro Nix reimplemented in Scheme, minus systemd.
Either you believe programmers have unique skill, or you believe programmers are equally good replaceable parts.

If you believe the latter, you should probably join the union.
> you don't read about the "silent majority" on Hacker News

If the stories are out there, this should be easy to fix. Consider this an open invitation to post everything substantive about such things that you can find. I can't tell you how happy we'd be to see them.
Isn't that a bit like saying "if you want to change politics, go for it, it is your political parties". There is so much entrenched interests in most of these structures that it is really hard changing them. You could start a new one, but it is quite a lot of work.
Can you provide a list of successful or long-term viable startups that you feel were the products of parental wealth transfer?

Can you provide a single example of an acqui-hire that you believe --- with any evidence at all --- to have been the result of a favor to the parents of the founders of that company?

I feel like I talk to a lot of people at VC-backed startups managing boards --- in addition to having founded such a company many moons ago --- and while I've heard a lot of horror stories, one story I've never heard is the one where a board seat was given away as quid-pro-quo. Can you help me understand your claim more clearly, for instance with an example?
How do you measure your metabolism?
How does this system deal with the logarithmic value of dollars, and the asymmetry in who has them?

When you get ln(X) happiness from X dollars, you are sacrificing 1/X happiness per dollar spent. A billionaire buying a thousand votes is paying ln(10^9 - (10^3)^2) - ln(10^9) ~= 1 milli-utilon, but a thousandaire buying ten votes is paying ln(10^3 - 10^2) - ln(10^3) ~= 100 milli-utilons.

It seems like billionaires, who easily get a factor of a thousand advantage in marginal votes-per-happiness cost over 99% of the population, will massively distort a quadratic voting market.

Uniformly redistributing the voting cost makes that effect smaller, but I don't think it overcomes the logarithmic effect.
You can disable the display of the tab bar in ConEmu.

Main -> Tabs -> "Don't Show".

There is another setting to always start a new instance of ConEmu, which together seem like it might give you what you want.
> Because that's how far behind avionics is. We were using Visual Studio 6 in 2011!

Wait, what about autoPilot.js ?
www.invisu.me/HN gives you a free trial!
The paper has examples with dollar amounts starting around page 30.

If ten thousand poor people buy one vote each for $1, the wealthy would-be tyrant needs to buy 10,001 votes to win, at a cost of $100,020,001. If the tyrant goes ahead and does this, after the election all the poor people will receive $10,001 each.
If you're not interested in being friends with a person of a certain gender/race/whatever then you probably wouldn't want to work for them either.
This does not contradict what Lewis writes or what I mentioned on my first post. The "proprietary, custom-built trading system." has a lot of infrastructure code to handle the incoming volume, ensure nothing gets dropped, and trades get evaluated. He doesn't seem to have taken the "decision making" part which would have been their secret sauce.

Sure, the modified open-source code might have been protected by GS employment agreement but that doesn't mean that it was their secret sauce. It was infrastructure/boiler plate code.

Additionally the fact that a code has a GS copyright banner doesn't mean that it was all brand-spanking-new GS-unique code. Even Lewis's article talks about the fact that a single file had open-source code and modified open-source code, aka proprietary code. This subtle language difference is exactly how a lawyer confuses the jury and it is difficult to counteract. Remember the SCO Unix v Novell fiasco!?

Lewis brought together experts who reviewed the evidence on record, i.e. the actual source codes submitted at evidence at his first trial and they reviewed it and found it to be derivative open-source code to run queues, and run infrastructure.
A stunning visualization of our divided Congress
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Without going into the article to give a page view to a sensationalist article, I assume in very special cases and gives nowhere near that performance "on average".
Seems to rebrand these two existing concepts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductionism and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_positivism (philosophers generally reject the latter, not sure about scientists regarding the former, but these are old ideas that are probably out-of-vogue)
Sure, I'd compare the taste to a blueberry muffin but, you know, in liquid form.

1L freshly steeped green tea (2 min, less if you dislike the flavour)

1/2 cup quick oats

1/2 tsp. nutritional yeast

1/2 tsp. flax seed meal, finely ground (use a coffee grinder if too coarse)

pinch of salt

cinnamon to taste

1 to 2 Tbsp. nut butter (I use soy and I've also tried cashew and almond but I find them too oily, coconut oil is an option too, use whatever you prefer)

1 to 2 Tbsp. of creamed honey, using regular honey will make it much sweeter

1/2 or 1 cup of frozen or fresh blueberries or other fruit

2 or 3 Tbsp. of milk, powdered or fresh

I also add a multivitamin and other supplements but they aren't necessary.

Combine ingredients in a blender and blend for a minute or so until the oatmeal is reduced to the consistency of a shake. Serve hot or cold.

I usually drink half the mixture immediately and then either save the rest for a mid-morning snack or continue drinking it while I'm starting my day. I've experimented with adding other seeds and grains but I find this mixture to be the most to my liking but it is an adaptable recipe so you can add whatever you prefer.
A question for the author.

In my personal experience, a significant proportion of the people applying for programming positions have been unable to write programs. And as the original articles about FizzBuzz say, not just unable to write big programs, but unable to write even small programs.

I want to make sure I don't waste my time or theirs, so I need a quick, effective filter to allow me to terminate an interview early, assuming they've got that far.

Currently I sit them at a laptop, or allow them to bring their own, and ask them to write a program in the language of their choice to perform a simple task, similar to FizzBuzz. Depending on the position they're applying for I will sometimes be a little more specific about the language, but usually I'm pretty relaxed. If someone can program in any language then they've passed this filter and we can get down to bigger issues such as system design, decoupling, testing, logging, debugging, inter-process communications, security, and more.

I need something that is so simple that it won't faze a nervous, inexperienced applicant.

For information, we've asked some applicants to submit as part of their application a program in Python that will, given a parameter of length n, print all the strings obtained by deleting a single character. Thus their program should print n strings, each of length n-1. One applicant did so, and then when asked in interview about his program he couldn't identify the place the argument was first used. It turned out he'd had someone else write the code for him.

I've also had an applicant refuse to do it, claiming to be too senior to be bothered with such trivialities. He said he was an analyst and system architect/designer, since that's what we were asking for. So I invited him to perform a cost/benefit analysis of a trivial test to decide whether a reported bug actually existed, and he ended up arguing that a test such as FizzBuzz is the right thing to be doing. He then did it. And we hired him.

The FizzBuzz test is not intended to discover if the applicant can program. It's intended purely to identify those who genuinely cannot program. At all. And it's amazingly effective.

What would you suggest?
The article seems to be confusing "pirates" with "people who download/buy pirated games". I identify at least two groups of people -- "users" and "crackers" -- with different goals and interests. By their own admission, the "crackers" (i.e. "people who remove the copy protection") actually get a kick out of these protections schemes; the harder they are to crack, the more enjoyment they get out of it. They even state crackers seldom play the games they crack, and that most of their enjoyment comes from the actual process of finding and bypassing the DRM. You could say that for them, the "game" is actually the cracking.

In the end they state the effort was worthwhile, but I'm not so convinced. True, they claim the majority of a game's earnings happen in the first few weeks of a game's release, and if they can stop the crackers for that long, it's a win. But it also took them almost a month of programmer's time to stop a crack that appeared a few months after release. Also, the DRM itself made debugging and testing the game very hard, particularly because the effects of the DRM were designed to look like bugs! So at least for the players and legit users of the game, the DRM is a clear lose: a convoluted protection scheme that made the game harder to test and therefore made bugs/design errors more likely.
The paper mentions that efficiency of quadratic voting only kicks in with larger numbers of participants (> 50).
The order from the politicans for the soldiers for e.g. Abu Ghraib was to behave like some drunken animals?
Could you go into more depth on how to do this? How would one force redirect m.agar.io to the server of your choice? Also, what is "Access-Control-Allow-Origin header"?
Actually he was from the well off side of the family - he was talking about wealth beyond upper middle class.