jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
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If you are interested in learning more about the problems we solved, we lay them out in much more detail in our blog post. It’s a meaty topic and so the post is not short. http://blog.optimizely.com/2015/01/20/statistics-for-the-int...

In a few sentences: in the past if you didn’t use a sample size calculator properly (set a sample size up front and only evaluate test results at that time) and had tests with a lot of goals and variations, you could increase that chance of making an incorrect declaration. With Stats Engine, we allow you to monitor your results real-time and test as many hypothesis as you would like and give an accurate representation of the likelihood your test is actually a winning or losing test. We’re definitely not trying to claim to have invalidated traditional statistics. If you used the proper testing procedure in the past, then Stats Engine will simply give you an easier workflow than before (no need to pick an appropriate sample size, minimum detectable effect, limit the number of hypotheses being tests). Many companies have data-scientists, statisticians, or are otherwise well-informed on the topic, however many are not. Stats Engine allows you to have an accurate Statistical Significance measure without requiring you to set a sample size because it accounts for the errors that are introduced by looking at your results as experiment data comes in.
This is what I do. I just jump the cursor to the corner when I get up. Super easy.
Right now, there's one reward structure. People who value and respond to that reward structure act rationally within it. This means that regurgitation gets rewarded over good answers to novel questions.
But in London the thieves are using cordless angle grinders.

I'm an avid cyclist, but I wouldn't touch this lock.

Here's what I would use:
http://www.lfgss.com/thread17938.html

And sure, this one is lighter, but stopping my bike being stolen is far more important to me than how much it weighs.
This is disruptive tech. Security looks to be one concern but this is a must buy for Apple!
yes sir! student in the US! and you?
no it's not. the government has many investment programs. it's a mixed economy like any other.

what a weird comment. are you american?
Replace the money with some sort of credit or token that guys get from other sources. Like getting replies from women or having pictures that are liked.
I understand that but they have estimations for known unknowns, this is claiming that the whereabouts of most banknotes are unknown unknowns. That's interesting because it very clearly shows how poorly trackable cash is.
When I was a teenager, my music teacher always had a copy of the Real Book around. I went to a local music store and was looking through their music books when one of the employees asked, 'is there something I can help you find?' When I said the Real Book, he said, 'oh, we don't keep that out here'... he disappeared for a minute and came back with a copy from the back room. At the time, I felt like I had been admitted into a secret club.
I disagree with you on polio eradication. Eradication is a risky bet, but it is also one time investment that yields benefits year after year. It is risky because most of benefits are realized only if you reach zero: below 500 per year is very different from zero. In other words, it is a risky bet in part because people think like you.
Wasn't there a JavaOS as well at some stage? Or at least planned?
What I liked most about Terraform was the explicit separation of planning and execution.
Ok - fair point about the increase in velocity. But the increase in velocity will be distributed across the whole economy, and therefore of minimal impact on the tradespeople, whose value will be diluted in proportion to the supply.
"Where can i learn how to do my job correctly?"

I believe the best place is to work your job, and have the right amount of introspection :)

But what helped me the most with this "how to do software corectly" question, was to realize, that there is many different kinds of software.

If I would attempt an analogy, our industry reminds me of carpentry.

And as a carpenter you might approach differently if working alone, or with coleagues, if renovating or building a house on a green field, if building a garden bike-shed, or working on a river-dam :-)

Meaning there will never be specific 10 commandments applicable for everything.

Sometimes agile will fit your team (heck, my most productive week was spent PAIR PROGRAMMING :P )

Sometimes it won't.
I'll never throw away my hardcopy. Abrash wrote in a wonderfully accessible way.
> This can't change because it's not determined by some governing body.

It actually is. Rents are expensive because zoning laws severely limit density and require lots of car parking.
If the US decides to replace 10 Dollars with 1 NuDollars, then the IMF and everyone else will just search and replace and fix all the paperwork. It's not hard at all.

The problem may be if there is for many years a high unpredictable inflation that is higher than most developed countries. In that case other countries may decide to use Euros, Swiss Franc, Yuanes, Yens or whatever has a more stable value.
Would you care to share some of your other people you invest in? It seems like a good strategy in this day and age.
There was this popular kid in my senior year of high school. Class clown, well dressed, one of the star athletes. We'd been friends in 7th grade but he'd apparently forgotten and didn't talk to me. I was occasionally fodder for his loud jokes in front of the whole class, although the gay kid got it a lot worse than I did.

One day I was fixing one of the computers in the office and he happened by. Nobody was around. He saw what I was doing and apropos of nothing he launched into something like, "You know, this place doesn't matter. Nothing here is real. Out there, a few years from now, you'll be in college, or working for fucking Microsoft or some shit. You know where I'll be? I'll be driving a forklift or changing somebody's oil if I'm lucky." No jokes. No smile.
Interesting perspective. The personification of tech. I went to a Show HN, someone's new website, and a third of the screen was ads. I left.

At the same time I watched imdbtv last night with ads i e. this content is free with ads. I can live with this upfront approach.
Jesus is mentioned by Roman and Jewish historians.

See: https://strangenotions.com/an-atheist-historian-examines-the...

and: https://strangenotions.com/an-atheist-historian-examines-the...

and also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus

which states: "Virtually all biblical scholars and classical historians see the theories of his non-existence as effectively refuted"
Yes, and I would bet that those people you know paying $2500/mo are not earning $15/hr.

And no, it is not simply what it costs to live in NYC, unless you think you absolutely must live in Manhattan below 96th st. This is like saying the cost of a car is $65,000, because the only car I accept is a BMW X5. Ok, if that is your standard, then yes a car will cost you $65k. But there are cars available for much cheaper, that will fulfill all the important roles that one looks for in a car.
Guns, encryption, alternate political parties, at some point you have too many people that would have to be in on your conspiracy.
Here <https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2017/8/219606-the-science-of-...> is an article about a computer-generated proof of a combinatorial problem in number theory. Although you could characterise the proof as "just long", I think that the article may offer a different perspective on why proofs of this nature are interesting and useful.
And one with a long, long history of violent union busting.
I'm pretty certain IMF drawing rights were designed and created intentionally and work.
Well ... in a sense, the UK is worst hit and were slow to act because of their right wing governments. In Australia our right wing federal government mishandled things but the states were the ones who kept it under control. The rest of continental Europe has been nowhere near as bad as the US, you guys are a total shit show right now
Most restaurants would rather not pay rent/lease and property taxes that eat more than 20% of gross, yet those are recognized as 'costs of doing business'. These restaurants are unfortunately locked in to a business model that is incompatible with COVID.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. I stuck with 10.6 until Linux. Took a look at anything past Lion... "nope!". I despised 10.8 enough to actually downgrade my 2012 MBP to 10.6.

But as for "why update" - up until 10.6, there were performance improvements as well as useful features (subjective -I know- fine).

As for "why update nowadays" - well, 10.6 isn't really supported nowadays. (cough Java 7 cough)
There's countless sales "techniques" out there, but in my experience it just boils down to being a congenial person. I've been selling professionally for two years now and the most significant improvements I've made are all based on my attitude. Being relaxed, confident, and friendly makes my potential customers feel the same way. When they're feeling good, they'll reach for their wallet. Make sure everything you do is natural and honest though--selling is not about pulling a bag over some poor saps head.

Aside from that, there are certainly tricks of the trade you might find helpful. What I've described here is widely called "consultative sales". Steve Blank has some excellent writings on this topic at http://steveblank.com/2009/06/25/convergent-technologies-war...
A significant portion of "sales training" involves peddling snake oil and/or dressing very basic concepts up as science.

Essentially the most effective manner of selling something depends on what people buy - are they buying a solution to a specific problem, a commodity, or is it an entirely unnecessary luxury which they might decide is a good idea.

- if it's the first, try a "consultative" approach which consists of asking probing questions about the businesses' problems in a relevant area, listening very carefully, and then matching up the benefits of the solutions you can offer. Bonus points for being able to find an approximate cost of the problem you're solving (or value of the benefit you're offering). Being able to ask clever questions helps, but it's mostly about listening.

- If it's commodities, simply ensure you're speaking to enough people that might be interested in purchasing your offer (and ensure your pricing is competitive). It's mostly a numbers game.

- if it's the third, it's mostly in the charm...

With all three of them, it's practice, particularly within your chosen field that makes perfect. And especially once you've mastered the basic techniques, aiming to always talk to the people most likely to be able to influence a buying decision. That often doesn't mean the most senior person, and often doesn't mean anyone in a purchasing department.
Why did someone pay 6k for this? Or am I reading the page wrong?
You're assuming that I would "send you" massive amounts of code. I wouldn't. I'd have a link to my github on my resume, along with a description of the projects I've worked on.

It's presumptuous that I would be asking you to do a full code review (my Appleseed project is tens of thousands of lines of code, for instance), and that I wouldn't recognize the impracticality of such a request.

I would find it problematic, then, if you responded with tests and puzzles, without any interest or questions about my code. Or if the test and puzzles couldn't be skipped once I mentioned my experience level and accomplishments. This is often what interviewers have done, and I find it to be a good indicator of a workplace I'm not interested in working in.

The best workplaces let their developers take some time to comb through the best parts and the worst parts, and have a conversation about what I've done, my goals, how I did things, etc.
> ...that guy who built the $300 million dollar custom yacht because...

Because it is one of very few ways of moving the money out of the country. Having 300M in Russia does not exactly compare to having 300M in a Swiss bank, and Russia has severe capital export restrictions. They were established by none other than Putin himself, so rest assured they are very well enforced. One can still hoard a huge pile of money, but it will stay in the country unless you manage to find a way to spend it abroad on yourself. Say, by building a yacht.
"ancient history, 4 years ago, what's the point of this now?"

The point is that 4 years after the introduction of the iPhone, RIM still hasn't managed to ship a phone that competes with the iPhone.

And since they have a long way to go with QNX, I don't expect RIM to catch up in the next two years.

Which raises the question: what has RIM been doing the last 4 years?
Actually, what you describe doesn't make the Archos brilliant, rather it seems to me as if it is so simple, that the burden of organization shifts to the user. Which of course worked out great in your case, and would probably for most people here, but, in my mind, a really good device would take care of organization all by itself, in a way that just works.

I too would love to see the iPod improve in areas other than "just" organizing contemporary music. (Besides classical music, audiobook support for example is almost ridiculously bad, and even podcast support is lacking in major ways.)
If the issue is a lack of libraries, Clojure should solve the issue completely.
This does not warrant them giving them a board seat just because they have cash.

Go is moot point because they control that language anyway, people have no say on it except people who work at Google.

No surprise that you cannot donate any money there.
Sure, but that's in a different class of user-abusive behavior than the pettiness of Facebook trying to "inflict pain" on Apple in one of the areas where Apple is less abusive to users.
How about just a web front-end that lets people upload other comics?
Be helpful.

A lot of people talk about playing the game. You don't have to play any game. Besides delivering the best quality work, Be helpful to everyone around you - including your boss, his boss, your peers, etc. Emotional intelligence is a huge component in driving one's career forward. Be sensitive to everyone around you. Know when to say and what to say at which time.

In addition to marypublic mentioned about being organized, I would say being able to communicate/articulate your ideas and turn them from complex details to simple nuggets of information.
I don't think the graph is particularly good either, but I think you're maybe reading it wrong too. The y axis is significance level which makes sense would normally improve as visitors go up. Their line arguably is a moving average regression.
> We could never know if we were safe from such a machine.

But wouldn't it be an awesome thing to experience? Even if it meant the demise of mankind.
Dismissing a mature and widely-used tool by saying "it sucks" doesn't inspire me to read more, but I did. Personally I think it's easier to learn, read and maintain /\$[0-9]+\.[0-9][0-9]/ rather than a bunch of new Dart/Javascript/Python/Java methods. It's certainly more efficient. But I've been using regexes since before any of those languages were invented.

You're going to encounter regexes in other contexts -- text editors, Unix/Linux utilities, databases, code you didn't write -- and if you can only use them with training wheels you're stuck.
I think that anonymity is impossible; you could assign a unique number to each individual in something like 33 or 34 bits, which means you could de-anonymize your pseudonym in as few as 33 or 34 bisecting pieces of PII. (Gender identification provides at least one bit, and possibly more for someone who is homosexual; specifying a geographical region provides a few more.)

It's a nice ideal, but I think being anonymous is going to die in the next five years -- if it hasn't already.
I use composer.js + underscore for templating all the time.
For simple websites i usually end up purchasing a bootstrap based theme from https://wrapbootstrap.com/ and then use HTML5/CSS/Javascript to complete

I used it recently to build the socialability web site for my wife (http://socialability.com.au)
State of the art development workflows fail to utilize possibilities of high-resolution 2d displays (using concepts are rooted in times of plaintext terminals). So I don't see VR coming to programming any time soon.
"!st ever"... cmon
I don't know how widespread this opinion is, but I certainly wouldn't want to be. If some work I'd created became immensely popular then that would be fine, but putting myself out there to relentless, intrusive scrutiny sounds hellish.
> I imagine a million USD goes a lot further in Shanghai than in SF.

And you would be surprised how much it doesn't. Costs in SH are high, and there are a lot of millionaires in the city even if that money is mostly gray.

Keep in mind that prices in China are lower at the low end, and higher at the high end. So ya, you can buy that cheap meal for cheaper, but if you want a BMW, you have to pay 2x/3x more. I do all my high-end shopping in the states when I go back once or twice a year (and I don't own a car).
"And I took LSD and I just realized, 'Wait, the problem is in the hardware. It's not a software issue at all.'"
>My guess is, if there are two humans in the room, a "recognized leader" and a "recognized non-leader", and if the non-leader knows how to solve the riddle, and the leader does not, then the riddle will never be solved because the dog will never seek the help of the non-leader.

Why do you think that? Why not the dog search each available human for cues?
I would argue 事儿, the combination of two characters, are pronounced like "sure", in most Northern dialects. (Speaking strictly, some are dialects and some are accents. Let's skip this difference here since it doesn't matter to the current topic.)

Not all the people in television shows, including talk shows, speak Standard Mandarin. This is especially true in shows produced in the north. They adopt Beijing accent to certain degrees, which, more or less, leads to the erhua pronunciation.

For Standard Mandarin, listen to 新闻联播，the official news program from CCTV .

I notice that for non-native Chinese speakers whose mother tongue is Indo-European language, it sounds erhua pronunciation is easier for them than Standard Mandarin. If erhua pronunciation is pushed to extreme, it is called 大舌头。

Also erhua pronunciation is usually NOT used in very formal conditions, like presentation, etc. Some people regards erhua pronunciation as vulgar, except for very widely adopted cases.
True, since it is handwork, we give priority access to those that are willing to contribute.

We also check every motivation, and sometimes they're just bad or a couple of words and we don't let that person in.

I will take a look at the UX, thanks!
For fun, call reserve() on one of the Boost hash containers when it's empty, and see when the bucket-array allocation really happens. (Don't try this in time-critical code.)

Fortunately the Standard containers do better. But the Standard doesn't say they must.
Largely, I agree with you. Just pointing out the appearance of hypocrisy could lead to tension in this decisive time where we need to act now, as you say. A mixture of tariffs / investment could be used to get the goal most effectively.
Because of a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity.
Only Congress can declare war. Just about anybody with authority in the military can start one. Regardless, Congress has effectively abnegated its authority to the president through the war powers resolution.
Exactly so. And by the same token, every sensory impulse capable of grabbing human attention will eventually be filled to the brim with ads until we can't experience anything without expecting, nay wanting, accompanying banners, jingles, (and no doubt soon; smells) that entice us to buy.

Homo Consumens: https://www.philosophicalsociety.com/Archives/Homo%20Consume...
> For example, electric cars require large amounts of copper, cobalt, and nickel. We don't produce enough to electrify all cars, so that means we need new mines.

Cobalt comes "free" as a waste product from copper/nickel mining. So long as copper/nickel get mined, there will be cobalt. There doesn't currently seem to be any threat right now of a shortage in the cobalt market (even in some hypothetical of "electrify all cars immediately" worst case). On top of that, we already have proven Lithium Ion battery formulations that don't need Cobalt (it's about a quarter of batteries on the market), and the ones in current production that use Cobalt typically list their usage of Cobalt in ppm [parts per million].

> Also, recyclability of these batteries still needs a lot of work.

Current car-sized batteries have been showing real world usage statistics at hundreds of thousands to just shy of tens of millions of cycles in their "first use" in cars, not enough have made it to secondary markets yet to have reliable statistics, but current beliefs are that secondary usages in devices such as "power walls" and grid supplementations should see tens of thousands of cycles at reduced capacities. In the tertiary stages where recycling becomes useful/necessary, we know that Lithium, the vast majority of battery compositions, is entirely recyclable (and a known entity, we've doing that much for a while). We aren't currently good at recycling Cobalt, but we haven't needed to do any such thing in bulk to date because A) again, most car batteries are still in their first lives, which are showing to be 15-20 years in some cases, B) Cobalt is often measured in ppm so a tiny percentage of battery composition, C) Cobalt is a "waste product" from other mining and economically the incentives just do not align to recycle it when it just keeps coming out of mines whether or not we need it.

Not that pessimism isn't useful, but another possibly helpful reminder we may be better off than we think we are.
Is MiraclePlus funded by or supported directly or indirectly by YC? Does YC have a stake?
From the person I responded to:

> But if you're buying only what you need, discarding items that haven't been used in 18 months, and constantly being mindful of purchases/items you own, there is no way it's "only for the rich".

By their logic, I should throw away my plunger since I haven't used it in the last year and a half. But obviously I need to keep my plunger around in case of emergencies.

If you're not wealthy, you need to keep possessions around in case of emergencies. You need a car because you can't afford to Uber around everywhere. Or a thick winter jacket in case it becomes extremely cold out (even if that only happens every few years). Or an air conditioner/header because you can't afford an apartment with central AC. Or an old laptop because you can't afford to go out a buy a new one should your current laptop break.

Another example: I have an office job that lets me use work printers for personal purposes. I could get by with not having a printer at home. If you're less wealthy, you're more likely to not have an office job. Even if you do have an office job, it's possible that they are stricter wrt. printer rules. Another example of the disparity between wealthy people and non-wealthy people wrt. minimalism.