jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's not that they don't put in 'language like Bayesian', it's a different method. Yes, it is an improvement on the t-test straw-man they mention, but it's less flexible and powerful than Bayesian methods. Once you have a posterior, you can ask different questions that their p-values/confidence intervals don't address. For example, probability of an x% increase in conversion rate, or the risk associated with choosing an alternative. Not too mention multi-armed bandits, which not only are expected to arrive at an answer faster, but also maximize conversions along the way.
I would say this is more dead-end than native iOS.
Of course you're going to get fatigued if you're not used to standing for long periods of time. You're constantly engaging muscles that you let lie comfortably for most of the day when you get into the office and sit or slouch into your chair.

Of course it's going to take training, as building up any muscles does, and it's going to be tough while you're doing it.

I'm glad to see others here saying they're happy with their standing desks. It's something I've been really eager to try but haven't been able to for a number of reasons yet.

Whatever the future is, I don't think it's sitting at 90 degrees at a small desk for long periods of every day.

Personally I find it very hard to recline and get work done. I find it harder to engage with what I'm doing, get drowsy more quickly, etc.
It's ALL about the comments, unreal that some publishers don't understand this..
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I am very doubtful about the privacy thing. The core problem I see is economical. People will use free messaging (E-Mail, WhatsApp, etc), but the usual business model "Ads" does not work well with end-to-end encryption.
2014 was my year of Python, I learned how to make actual tools rather than scripts for myself.

2015 will be at the very least JavaScript. One of my Master's units is in C++ which I have never done more than hello world in before. I am very interested in Scala.

Best of luck to everyone learning something new this year!
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PCI is not a law, it's an industry standard. Only a couple of states legally mandate compliance to PCI DSS.

I agree OP should report them, though.
My prediction for 2015. Something related to machine learning / AI will hit the consumer market that will truly amaze, and feel like it's ahead of its time. I don't know what this "something" will be, but it will be obvious when it happens.
I don't know what comms has said publicly and where, but this is a description: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8823792
No, certainly not cheaper (for any value of cheap). I haven't measured but I can't see how it would be possible, as in the first case the network stack takes care of it (in kernel land) and in the other case you have to go all the way back to userland.

The reason I tried the transparent GIF trick is because some sites have frames with ads and whatnot and having the firewall refuse the connection will result in having an error message displayed in the browser. Not really aesthetically pleasing. While I don't care, because I know the reason it is displayed; some less technical people might start thinking their Internet is broken.

In addition to that, the GIF results in a cheap form of "element hiding" since you end up replacing a 5050 banner with a 11 transparent square. Now that you mention it though, I wonder what would happen if I set the server to serve a null byte for instance.
I had completely missed the fact that you can get a free 200MB/mo, all you have to do is pay $10 for the SIM. Thanks for the heads up!
Plyometrics are an excellent substitute if you can't get to weights. These are basically calisthenics with explosive movements. For instance, squats where you explode upward into a jump and try to bring your knees to your chest, or push-ups where you explode upward and clap before catching yourself build strength (and stress the bone, which seems to be beneficial in preventing osteoporosis). Also, adding sprints to the end of your run is beneficial (I really like interval training in general, actually).
peepcode and railscasts are both great!
A great intro into the history and current status of psychedelics is How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan [0].

> It chronicles the long and storied history of psychedelic drugs, from their turbulent 1960s heyday to the resulting countermovement and backlash. Through his coverage of the recent resurgence in this field of research, as well as his own personal use of psychedelics via a "mental travelogue", Pollan seeks to illuminate not only the mechanics of the drugs themselves, but also the inner workings of the human mind and consciousness.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Change_Your_Mind
Its funny how Google liked so much to virtue signal its own pseudo-progressive agenda and hired to suit and now has it biting in the ass. One day companies, large and small will learn to stop being political as a PR move since its never worth it in the long run.
We would be consumers of such products.

The problem is there are so many similar products out there, and its hard to even sift through the products.

This is such an issue that there are entire companies dedicating to reporting the quality of other data products.

Eagle Alpha is one of them, for instance. They have something like 10,000 different data products in their index. Can you imagine what it would be like to even browse the websites of 10k providers? Let alone talk to them about their offerings?

I know, your service is news/sentiment related, and some of these look at credit cards, and satellite photos, and foot traffic and so on. But the consumer just wants to find a signal that will make money, so in essence, you're competing with these other techniques as well.
I wonder if this would be useful for folks dealing with cancer and other illnesses that leave your future uncertain.
> Why do so many new languages launch without what I'd consider to be essential functionality for any language; autocomplete, good IDE integration, intellisense, auto refactoring and navigation support?

Probably because developing all of that stuff takes a lot of time still, even though it is probably easier now than it was before.

Everything gets done eventually if it’s important, but it may take a while until something gets done even though it is important because there is so much else to do as well.
When you have teenagers, your cultural consciousness will be reset to the much, much faster flow of that age. And you will return to the era of non-stop slang and hipness.

Stan-ing is very much a common term for Gen-z. And they have stan accounts. And I sort of get it. :)

This happens gradually, but started in full force at my house around age 15.

I have 3 boys, 13-18. It's an incredible amount of fun.
Outside of the deep-pocket money-doesn't-matter sized enterprises, 4 years can be less than half the expected lifetime for IT kit.
wonder if IEEE will also move someday. the US tried to stop Huawei employees from peer reviewing papers

https://pandaily.com/ieee-forced-to-ban-huawei-employees-fro...
There's a thread on reddit a while ago that explains this quite well. http://np.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2j3xar/til_tha...
I am glad to know the 4 million requests per second I am processing isn't big data...
I'll put in a plug for ditching your alarm clock.

I was a terrible snoozer for years. At my worst, I went through a bad progression: I moved my alarm clock across the room, so I'd have to get out of bed to hit snooze. I got so I could walk across the room, stand on a chair, reset the snooze, and go back to sleep without ever knowing it. I removed the snooze button from my alarm clock, and covered the hole with tape. I would wake up, walk across the room, stand on a chair, manually set the alarm 9 minutes later, and go back to sleep without ever waking up. I did that for hours each morning.

The thing that finally worked for fixing my sleep habits: never using an alarm. I committed fully to a no-alarm mindset. It had a number of results:

- I got up out of bed the first time I woke up each day. It was easy because it was at a natural waking point. I got up easily an hour and a half earlier than I would with an alarm.

- I went to bed earlier, because I knew I had to get enough sleep. I couldn't just trust the alarm to wake me, so I paid more attention to how my body felt.

- I got sick much less. When I was getting run down, my body would sleep longer.

I've been living without an alarm for over twenty years now. I've never missed a test, a flight, anything, except I was late for work once. (It helps that I usually get up hours before I have to be at work, so if I need extra sleep I can get it without being late.)
I like these types of projects. Easy to use and easy to get kids into basic coding. Would be a great piece to use in schools for an upcoming "Day of Code".
"Affects." Score one for the "sleep deprived." :)

First, literally none of the sources in that link works. Every single one is a 404.

Second, less sleep != "sleep deprivation." This assumes that people never get used to sleeping more than is physiologically necessary. I sleep 5.5 -> 6.5 hours a night. Plenty of people do. But I used to sleep 8+ hours a night in my mid-20s and anything less would leave me feeling worthless.

Most topics on this talk about 6-8 hours of sleep being the "sweet spot," so it's not like I'm talking 3 hours of sleep here. I'm saying that you can move around a little bit and your body will adjust, much like it adjusts to thousands of other changes in environment. You can't go without eating, but you can eat less and your body will respond, for example.

Humans are more pliable than we give ourselves credit.
World wars are uncommon whether we have nuclear deterrents or not, after all we had none before 1914. However we have had major near decade long regional conflicts and many wars by proxy between nuclear powers. While it's persuasive to think that nuclear weapons have prevented world wars, there isn't much evidence to support that idea.
Huxley nailed it. I have to read that book again.
C, JavaScript, PHP, lisp...

There are many popular and weakly typed languages in use today.
Another kind of efficiency is the pure real-estate economics angle. Open office plans typically allocate fewer sq ft per employee, are cheaper to maintain, and are more easily reconfigurable as divisions/headcount changes.

This is probably less of a factor for Facebook, who built a bespoke office building and have a ton of cash, but it's definitely driving things elsewhere in the real-estate market. If you read what's being written in the architecture / office-consulting business, there is much touting of the cost/flexibility advantages of open-plan offices compared to "legacy" floorplans. Even boring old companies like ExxonMobil are moving towards open-plan offices in new construction mostly for this reason. And office buildings built speculatively by investors in the past 20 years almost never have actual structural offices like older buildings do, because that's seen as producing a rental inventory that's less flexible. Companies leasing space just get a big open floor space, and then have a choice between setting it up in open-plan or cube-farm style.
Oddly, the Guardian is in fact not owned by a trust any more. It's owned by a private corporation that calls itself The Scott Trust, but it stopped being an actual trust in 2008.
If you have a text version, at least preprocessing and proposing changes could be doable (especially that as far as I know, formal French is quite uniform - but then, it's what I heard from others, all French I actually know comes from a Dexter's Laboratory episode). In Poland, though, the original acts are published as PDFs, and the text extraction itself needs assistance, if it's even possible without OCR: the international agreements that are side-by-side in multiple languages (Polish, other party, sometimes also English) are usually image scans saved as PDFs.
>>I wasn't beaten up or followed or spyed upon after that

How can you know?
There is a move in the Netherlands to get old city centers free of cars. What you see in the first picture with cars everywhere is usually only for people living there and licensed goods trucks. Delft already has such a policy and some shopping areas can only be crossed by foot or by bike.

Just as not all roads have cycling lanes, not all roads are accessible to cyclists. It's usually only smaller streets with low speeds that encourage cyclists.

To be honest, Amsterdam is really cramped when it comes to traffic. It is an old city amended with all the new stuff like cycling lanes, bus stops and no space to unload cargo.

One point they are missing: The safest bike is the one that looks most worn down and has a lock more expensive than the bike. It should also be attached to a fixed object.
Seems interesting but I don't understand how feasible this is, our heartbeat is not exactly the same all the time, sometimes beats faster, sometimes slower, what a I missing?
> Consider: how much mathematics from the 1950s is still in use and relevant, versus how much written code is still in use and relevant?

This is the wrong question. CS isn't hardly about code. Most of our CS today is from before the 1950s.
> 2. You can actually already plan any day of the calendar. Just click on the date of the agenda to edit it.

Put little < and > arrows around the date to indicate that it's not static.
Not sure what you're getting at. Just pointing out that most art isn't for monetary profit, it's just people enjoying the process at home and with friends.
> This is a regular user with some coding skills

I love that there are communities where "regular user" and "coding skills" overlap.
Can't the remaining shareholders vote to suspend dividend payments indefinitely?
Agreed, but we are talking about the shortest theoretically possible game anyway, so might as well put all options on the table.

One could argue that rolling doubles 5 times in the first 7 roles is just as unlikely. :)
I understand if you didn't feel like reading the article, but I don't understand why you commented anyway.

I wasn't concluding that Lisp was inappropriate for embedded work. I was pointing out that cons structures are inefficient not only in runtime but also in space, so that's a bad way to store code on machines where the limiting factor is space, not speed. It's well-established that that's a bad way to store code on machines where the limiting factor is speed.

Conclusion of the article: it turns out that, although a bytecode like Smalltalk's is a lot slower than machine code, it's also a lot more compact. This conclusion is equally applicable to implementing embedded Lisps as embedded Smalltalks.
I don't think the AppleTV replaces any top-box right now, nor is it meant to do so. As long as you can't watch live tv with it, almost no-one will use it instead of their cable subscription.

That said, I don't really see problems with giving away the AppleTV for free with a one or two-year subscription; the iPhone is already available for free on contract in a lot of countries, and the AppleTV is a lot cheaper to produce.
This is great news - because, hopefully, it means that more publishers will realize that there is a lot of money to be made releasing their books in EBook format. I find it strange that so many of the books that I want to purchase haven't been released in Kindle format. Even books that are obvious candidates, such as "The Yiddish Policemen's Union." It's an award winning Novel (2007 Nebula, 2008 Hugo), Science Fiction, and has been out for more than four years. And yet, still not available in electronic format.

As more and more people pick up e-readers, I'm hoping that publishing electronically will cease to be an option.
I think there becomes a point at which self-promotion becomes ok, providing that the magnitude of the self-promotion is commensurate with the contribution. I feel that the author met that in this case, and I did not feel spammed.

Edit: Judging by the other comments, it appears that the author may have edited the post already to be less spammy. In any case, the current version has a good balance.
When you download your information with the FB feature you only get your wall posts and other basic info.

I guess that with this app you can download your group's wall, something I have always desired since the creation of the new groups.

EDIT: I tried to download my group's wall with this app and it's not working.
No, you don't understand... a look at the article will show that publicness is inherent in the protocol...

Without a public "audit trail", the problem of re-using bitcoins (which are just numbers) you hypothetically "spent" would clearly unsolvable (though I'm doubtful if you could truly free of this problem even with the public audit trail).
So, it cost him 3500.

And you could have argued it yourself for free (plus 6 figures in law school tuition, plus foregone salary for those 3 years).

I think the point stands that court is very expensive. Is that controversial to anybody?
Computing power costs money. The more power thrown at mining, the more power required, and the less money is made per BTC generated. Throw enough at it and everyone else will stop even trying to generate coins, but for good reason: they wont be worth as much as you are paying for them.
http://www.quora.com/How-do-you-go-about-acquiring-a-potenti...

http://www.quora.com/Domain-Names/How-can-I-buy-a-parked-dom...
How many Walkman's or Discman's did you buy before the iPod came out? The market for portable music devices went up exponentially from the 90's to the mid-2000's when the iPod achieved mainstream status. I bought two iPods in three years before the iPhone made 'em useless.

Consumer behavior isn't set in stone.

Source: http://www.in-stat.com/press.asp?ID=1366&sku=IN0502148ID
So you guys are basically defining a new inheritance model in your app, right?
I logged in for the first time in 4 years and it told me Christmas music was trending. In April. I lold, wondered if some Christmas music artist died or something, then closed it down.
I'd say your second bullet point encompasses a number of sub-skills, such as:

* Understanding common coding patterns, and inferring design intent from them

* Quickly prioritizing "critical" vs. "nice-to-have" components of a desired feature (and reprioritizing as you learn more about the implementation constraints)

* Being able to take a partially-complete or slightly buggy implementation, and quickly identify what's wrong with it (e.g. by interpreting compiler errors or using a debugger)

* Gaining confidence in the correctness of code by spending a reasonable amount of time on testing, without going overboard
And the Lego analogy works in particularly nicely considering just how much effort, precision and design work needs to go in to making the blocks simple [0]. This is a nice analogy for how keeping software components simple and making them interface cleanly is a difficult task.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego#Design
Exactly. If they were opaque, uncomfortable, and free, they would still "win" (by losing.)
Great presentation! Another short read that covers similar ground is "The Day You Became a Better Writer" by Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert):

https://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/06/the...
A programmer in a management or CEO role could make the lives of every programmer underneath him better. After all, he actually knows how to make software. By extension, he knows what's possible and what's not, what's reasonable schedule-wise and what's not. Most managers/CEOs don't.
Good luck

https://www.zdnet.com/article/academics-turn-ram-into-wifi-c...
I understand what you mean about ridiculous SV interview practices. And your point that all we should really be measuring is on the job performance is an important one.

All I'm really going for is to ask someone to write some code live, on their laptop with their tools, so I can watch how they debug, how they think through things, etc. I want the problem to be hard enough that the person has to model execution in their head and that it's challenging to do so.

I have found that there are people who can code decently well but get badly stuck when the complexity hits a certain level. I'm trying to not hire them in senior positions.

For example, I had a recent project where we were analyzing user data and producing a bunch of edges representing potential connections detected between users, as a way of sniffing out fraud rings.

One feature associated with this was a banning UI, allowing loss prevention types to navigate through the graph, select groups of users according to certain criteria, and generally look for patterns that are evidence of fraud rings manually, to supplement the automatically generated analysis.

There are a lot of front end people who will go into brainlock on this kind of thing. I need to make sure I have some people around who don't.

When making senior hires, I want people who can write code for this sort of thing without making a huge mess or just getting stuck for weeks.

Presenting a real sample from a problem like this needs way too much context though.

I'm going to keep thinking about how to precisely define the type of task that i'm really talking about here. My fuzzy definition about ability to model execution of X complexity in one's head is obviously weak and probably flat out wrong.
It reminds me of clippy...