jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is really not the best way to think about this problem. The issue is not that it's necessarily bad to test many hypotheses, it's that testing more hypotheses requires more data. For instance OP says

>Instead of using a thesaurus to generate 10 ad variants, decide what pain-points or language you think will grab potential customers and test that theory specifically.

In other words, he says test one hypothesis rather than ten. But there's nothing wrong with testing ten variants so long as you have enough data to ensure that the chance that any of the variants produce a false positive because of statistical fluctuation is small.

Given a fixed, finite amount of data, you can do some pretty simple statistics to find out exactly how many hypothesis you can test at a given confidence level.
I'm not sure about that; as long as Apple's policies are so capricious, few who aren't big enough to cut a private deal are going to invest immense resources in an iOS only project. Therefore there are going to be huge classes of applications that will have few if any first class, iOS only implementations.

Heck, you can't even do iPad development for your own business unless you've got over 500 employees and something I've not heard in detail WRT D&B.
Well, you can't effectively run Mac OS X or W7 on 512 to start, the most used operating systems in the world. Even Ubuntu needs an upgraded graphics card and RAM to utilize all of the bells and whistles.

As I said before, I was referring to the general public. There will always be hackers or high-end users that can make miracles.
This seems like a useful way to decrease concern about radiation exposure, but I think it causes the reverse problem. There is no size of banana-pile that I would consider dangerous. I would never think, "Well, that's as dangerous as a pile of 5 million bananas! Holy shit! Break out the lead suits and the iodine pills!"

Edit: if you believe the Wikipedia page on röntgen equivalents in man, it would seem that 100 rems "will cause illness," which, if I did my math ("maths" in the UK) correctly, is equivalent to eating around 10,000 bananas. It's not clear how much safer it is if you're not eating the bananas, but merely sitting near them, juggling them, or bathing in their puree.
One of my favorite little tweaks using opera is making Wikipedia the speed dial search engine. I've already got google up top, so having a wikipedia box every time I open a new tab pretty much accounts for 100% of my search needs.

As for bing, I don't plan on using it so... who cares?
Regardless of whether or not it was smoked, industrial hemp is still considered a drug today. IIRC you're actually eligible for the death penalty if you grow enough of it.
> California ranks 35th in terms of poverty rate. [1]

I'm not sure how carefully you read the page you cite.

Firstly, that 35th is 35th from the bottom - which means that California has the 17th highest poverty rate amongst the 51 states and federal district of the USA.

Secondly, that rank is based on a definition of poverty based on income thresholds that do not vary across the country:

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/about/overview/measur...

It therefore does not take into account geographical variations in the cost of living, such as housing. Since the whole point of the article is that California has a higher cost of housing, it is therefore not a useful measure in this context, or indeed at all. That's probably why, in 2010, the census bureau adopted a better metric, the Supplemental Poverty Measure:

http://www.census.gov/hhes/povmeas/methodology/supplemental/...

Helpfully, the 2012-2014 average of this measure is also tabulated on the page you cite, and if you sort the states and the district by that, you can see that California does indeed have the highest poverty rate in the country - 23.8%, just pipping Washington DC's 22.7%
> Your experience is the price of admission to gain access to a global audience.

Nothing they said was inherent to the process of getting a global audience. Apple has created all of their problems they mentioned; we know this because Apple could make them all go away.
Perfect use case for Go.
Questions about this paper aside, I'd love to see a return of cold weather in the UK.

We're made for it, with cosy stone cottages, fireplaces and pubs, all built in colder times. Hot summers just feel wrong to me here.

Apparantly, during the Maunder minimum mentioned in this paper, they used to have winter markets on the Thames in London - frozen solid.
The link lists the author as Valentina Zharkova of Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
Maybe open an issue on GitHub? https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/issues/
I think the OP could be better expressed as "coding is not the only kind of Work".
Don’t know why this is downvoted.

AFAIK most core developers spend, at most, 20% of their paid time on the language / 80% on other things, not (as you might think) 80% / 20%.
I don't know if it is good or bad, but, think about the following metric: the number of lines written but eventually deleted divided by the number of lines of code retained.[1] [2]

[1]: http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/09/08/the-hardest-pro...

[2]: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Li...
For context, I found a news article about this author's prior scientific work. It is not kind.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/paper-that-claimed-t...

Choice excerpt:

"When contacted by Retraction Watch for their post on this, Zharkova told them, “We consider this retraction by the Editor of Scientific Reports as a shameful step to cover up the truthful facts about the solar and Earth orbital motion reported by the retracted paper, in our replies to the reviewer comments, and in the further papers.”"
> Okay, sure, but I might be running a simulation or something, why should I be punished because some idiot decided to srand(time(0))?

It's about cost/benefit. As far as the compiler/framework knows, there's a 20% (say) chance that you've just introduced a major security bug into your program. Doesn't the benefit of requiring some explicit acknowledgement of that case outweigh the cost? You contrast "I" with "some idiot", but the evidence of the last 20+ years is that most programmers who think they can write secure code can't; if you make those kind of warnings only to people who opt-in to them, the very people who most need them will not get them.
Everytime I see someone claim they know what effect something will have on human caused climate change I think of this quote.

"This does not mean that I advocate inaction. For example, in the absence of understanding, it would be irresponsible to continue injecting large and rising amounts of greenhouse gases such as CO2 into the atmosphere. They should be reduced, of course, or at least not increased until we are reasonably sure that we know what we are doing." (Donald W. Braben, Scientific Freedom)

I wish everyone would consider that changing the fundamental makeup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere without any idea how we might reverse it is a pretty rash thing to do.
For anyone reading this at some point in the future: this stuff is complete garbage and has been repudiated not only by the medical establishment broadly, but also specifically by the doctor who discovered Lyme disease's causative agent.
Ok, well what if you picked up VBasic and Pascal instead of python and go? I would say your choices are particularly convenient.
> In other words, he wants the (extremely large) benefits of an open source project but doesn't want to waste his time on those that don't have value to him.

No, he benefits millions of users and is intentionally not taking "the (extremely large) benefits of an open source project" by stating he hasn't the time to deal with outside input.

If the source was closed and people could just use the (free) website nobody would care but since its open source he suddenly owes the world something?
I thought koalas were a borderline nuisance species...far more than 1000 koalas in Australia. Maybe less than 1000 outside Australia. Not sure how accurate this headline/story is.
When this happens, it’s usually meant as a RPC endpoint, yes. However, it can be an abstraction, especially if you call it “POST /my-account/charges”, in plural form: you’re sending a new object to the “charges” resource (this architectural technique is usually called reification)
Serious about what? That the auto correct happened? I have no idea why my hands always end up typing such troll shit. At the least it’s incompetence by Apple.

Don’t talk to me about active theories based on an unreliable internet post.

Don’t talk to me about your theories on what constitutes “serious suicide planning” in the context of obviously absurd theories about apples garbage auto correct mechanism.
I also tried a similar active method of looking for a new job but I also never had much success. I have better luck with applying "passively" instead. I would suggest for you to:

1. Set up online profiles in as many "resume" websites as you can find and let it work for you, i.e. let recruiters find you and contact you.

2. Get out there and meet other people, and not just online but also through in-person activities that you enjoy. I was referred to and subsequently got hired in one company because the drummer of a band I joined is friends with the CEO.
It's about as good a filter as asking a candidate what a "gyascutus" is.
Yeah, that's called culture.
Fascinating statement which I feel is probably agreed upon by many. I can see how that can be true; but once again,I feel, demonstrates that HN has a specific subset of "developers"/"techies"/"enthusiasts".

In any "Enterprise" environment I've ever been in - core back-office enterprise resource planning apps or similar - SQL is right there front and center. "Should" it be? I don't know, I'm not a theoretician; but all developers around me for 20 years have had near-DBA level of SQL skills. Their core skills really are a) Understanding business requirements and b) Understanding SQL. For any complex business requirement, by time, we find in transactions code takes 1-10% and database activity takes 90%. So skillset in optimizing database performance of your code vastly outbenefits the skillset of optimizing your code.
As much as possible, we push everything to database - queries, looping, even business logic if we can - because it's a robust, mature, optimized product and we don't have to invent optimizations from scratch...

Edit: If it may prove illuminating, even team leads & management on any of the 30+ projects I've been on, understands runstats, index reorg, transaction isolation, database maintenance basics, and a few basic optimizer dos and don'ts. They just wouldn't be able to survive without that knowledge - it's 90%+ of both good stuff we develop, and bad stuff that goes Bang in the night (e.g. a process which worked for 10 minutes for 2 years but suddenly decided to asymptotically explode and not finish before heat-death of the universe :P)
This fits fairly closely to the 1-9-90 rule of social networks [0]. If Twitter wasn't close to that rule, I'd be more surprised, if anything.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)
.. no one possesses the less because everyone possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me receives [it] without lessening [me], as he who lights his [candle] at mine receives light without darkening me. --Thomas Jefferson

And so the progress of virtual goods has turned their producers into teachers. The consequences are still unknown.
The sad fact is that piracy is only getting worse. Even when you can get a song for 99 cents with no DRM or restrictions, music piracy is still rampant. I'm waiting for the next set of excuses.

I rarely pirate music but, if I bought all my music on Amazon or iTunes I'd be paying thousands of dollars a year. For a large subset of the population, this is simply an unacceptable expense. Hence: piracy.
I work a 40 hour week, but still don't find much time for side projects, just because of other things going on in my life, and I don't have kids.
What's the point of having money and (mini) fame if you can't toss it around and have some innocent fun with it every now and then? Only one life on this planet...
Sorry folks, I was mistaken. It wasn't Candy Crush, it was a different game. King deliberately copied "Scamperghost" with their "Pac-Avoid" game.
I measure mine, and if I don't leave my windows cracked, it can easily get up to 2,000 in my house. Keeping them cracked usually keeps CO2 between 500-900.
It's not as opinioned as you think. All of the reasons you listed for disliking are just one way of writing it in vue. If you love jsx and pure javascript you can use them as well.

I learned react before vue and found it gre at compared to angular but lately I've been using vue. It is quickier and neater with the bizzare syntax and lighter overall.

With the latest release I have the urge to go back.
If you're talking about smartphones, no smartphone is really that cheap. They get you later.
> What are you talking about? Spray works hand-in-glove with the Scala type system; would, in fact, be impossible in a language without it.

In the example you linked to:
https://github.com/spray/spray/blob/release/1.1/examples/spr...

The "main" function dispatch is not type safe (nor can it be given Spray's reliance on the current akka type model).

My experience is that anything that relies on akka ends up throwing out a huge majority of useful type safety because it is hard to minimize it. A bunch of the advantages you mention around AOP and not monkey patching are due to this.
Forgive me if I'm missing something obvious - do you have a way of remembering them? Otherwise they're all just single digits regardless of language.
You mean as childish as the ordinary YC investors? You are right about that then
Wow! We're Silicon Valley-based startup and have been working on this idea for several months already! Feel free to join our closed testing that we've recently started: http://yoneibs.com/ or just shoot an email at yo@yoneibs.com (yoneibs@gmail.com)
This is exacerbated by the fact that if the AI told the doctor that there is a doubt, no doctor will take the risk of not doing a biopsy / scanner / MRI / surgery (depending on the case). Because, how would you defend yourself in front of the judge ? This is something we always have in mind.

This is how you end with false positives and over-diagnosis.
I was referring to other studies that cherry picked for your position you posted "in this thread," not that study that supposedly cherry picked for the pro-mask position.

The study you just linked to is an excellent example of using poor methodology to support your position. If a study is not powered to detect the expected change (for the mask wearer, which is expected to be very small) with full compliance, I would certainly not expect to get a statistically significant result with partial compliance. It did not attempt to measure the effect on transmission from the mask wearer to others at all.
The "reliability" levels reveal more about the inherently biased beliefs of the most active users (i.e., editors) than about the sources themselves. It turns out that "facts" are surprisingly slippery.
I'd like to thank you for helping me understand what non-techies must feel listening to me talk sometimes, with that penultimate sentence.

I understood none of it, but I know it has deep meaning and I respect it.
Western countries transferred manufacturing to Asia.
So let me summarize:

Cases go down after mask mandate: proof that masks work!

Cases go up after mask mandate: masks still work!

This isn’t science.
This is only scratching the surface of the question.

For interest, there's a very common negative expected value bet that almost everyone is required to make: insurance.

We don't consider that gambling, in fact we often tell our parents to buy some when they fly on holiday.

Why? The answer touches on the lottery.

We care about not just the average case, we care about what might happen.

Regarding Kelly criterion, there's a good reason why people don't used exactly the amount it says. If you look at the risk, ie the chance your probability is wrong, there's a chance you are overbetting.
The problem with stock market trading is that the need for liquidity grows with the size of the market, not with the number of traders. So if traders keep joining the market over and over again at some point there will be an excess of liquidity and there will be no positive sum money left to earn. It's like a real business. Once everyone has a car the only way to grow market share is by displacing other manufacturers.

If you want to make a living as a trader you are supposed to look for very volatile and iliquid stocks. Traders make money off the difference of the current price and the actual value of the underlying company and in volatile markets that difference is very high.
Looks really nice but it kind of lacks tackling the difficult issues - like guidelines what to put into classes and how to name them to avoid css class soup. By the way the "7-1" foleer organization is not something you would do in a big programming project (organize things by their type but of use instead). There was a nice blog on it that used analogy of "Socks Drawer".
Generally use a private network for having your servers communicate with eachother. It also makes setting up IP Tables to lockdown access to your DB server much easier/intuitive.
Most people don't need to invent new structures. They do need to know how to think about computers and what the typical data structures are.

Just that is not a small thing.
I really like how you straight-up stole the Creeper face for this project. Not sure if it's a trademark, or if you're legally liable... But it's extremely poor taste.
What you get when the villain of the Harry Potter books makes one million horcruxes? (Or is it 20?)

EDIT: I wonder how much the micromort exchange rate is with "The Death of Rats?"
The replica in Nashville, TN has concrete in its construction. The original, I believe, is made of marble. (but I'm less certain. I've never seen the real one, sadly.)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenon_%28Nashville%29

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenon#Present_building

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Pentelicus
if you name the bash script "git-eject" it would still work the git command and your should get autocompletion for your command, too.
I used to run a SSH server on port 443. Why? Most firewalls in stupid places like schools are configured to permit traffic on 443, and not to inspect it. SSH is your gateway to everything else; Most SSH clients implement a SOCKS server to allow tunneling by your web browser.
> The EU in particular have been working on collective defence agreements independent of NATO for quite some time.

"Working on" is a far cry from "tested and in force for decades", though. When push comes to shove, it's not clear that the EU member states would unanimously act in collective defense. Ultimately, while Europe may be able to collectively defend itself, it is certainly less capable of doing so without the aid of the United States.

Even setting Europe aside, what would you suggest for East Asia? Should Japan be allowed to rearm, potentially disrupting half a century of cordial relations and trade in the region? Should South Korea be left on their own to defend themselves from a North Korean army that outnumbers them two to one?
You may think you're doing the opposite of what they're doing, but actually you're doing the same thing.

Conspicuous nonconsumption [0], as I call it, is all the rage in SF and among engineers. That's why everyone wears hoodies and tshirts: to show that they're different from MBAs and the suits and the bankers. But that's just another way to show your status: you are the member of an exclusive club that doesn't need suits to have high status.

And so with your blog. You're identifying as part of a group that's too good for status symbols. You're explicitly saying "I'm not like you" and implicitly saying "I'm better than you because I don't need whatever things you find valuable".

You're showing off your non-consumption for high status, in exactly the same way that they're showing off their consumption for high status. At the end of the day, you're both just showing off for high status! [1]

[0] See also "stealth wealth"

[1] No judgement here, btw: in tech, I think we all do this, me included.
First glance: the ratio of features to products to businesses is astounding.
I got tired of using CSS frameworks where classes are used to define widths. Now, I much prefer frameworks that support semantic style like Susy.

http://susy.oddbird.net/
Absolutely, I meant to add above that the 23andme dataset has huge value due to its size. Also you bring up a good point about potential easy access to participants. If 23andme allows researchers to contact people who were of interest to their particular study and ask for more information, which could be as easy a questionnaire, that could be incredibly valuable. I don't agree with the above commenter that 23andme was a failure. Genomics is still incredibly young and we are just getting to the point where we can have an impact on the average persons life.

As for the 1000 genomes project, it was funded with government money (I think mostly the NIH, although the UK may have been involved too) therefore the data is free and open. The data was generated using illumina sequencers.
Cool! How does this compare to the github[0] library?

0: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/github
>99.9%+ of all papers published by Math professors are incomprehensible to all but a few experts.

That's just flat out not true. In fact I would hazard a guess that the reverse is true (0.1% of math papers are incomprehensible to most). Not to say that math is simple but that just because something is highly specialized does not mean it is incomprehensible. Of course my only evidence is that the vast majority of specialized physics papers that I read only require some background in quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics and some of the problem domain. I read some papers in math journals too and feel like they're about on par in general.

There are certainly some mathematicians that publish in super highly specialized fields that are remarkably difficult to understand but these are a teensy tiny minority.
Yeah this was one of the main points of the book IIRC. If you have a sovereign currency the idea of balancing your budget like a household isn't an apt analogy. If you belong to the EU, then you need to think like that. Makes the UK seem smart for insisting on maintaining the GBP, though personally I think Brexit wasn't a good move.
This site: http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2010/11/18/wednesday-final-... shows 9.2MM viewers for that night's episode.
If I were the CEO of such a dishonest company I wouldn't even bother bidding $1M. I'd try to get the source code for a far lower price.
That would mean the servers don't give you more than 100, but your provider does honestly provide you a 400 Mbps channel.
I think he was a bully. An intelligent bully, but still a bully. For example: He told me I should get a late abortion (as in suicide) when I as a 14 year old disagreed with him about guaranteed tail recursion. Now, it sounded a bit better in norwegian, but still a pretty horrible thing to say.

His spirit lived (lives?) on for a long time, and it made staring common lisp a much shittier experience.
Lightweight threads in Erlang/Elixir were created as a unit of fault tolerance. A lightweight thread can suddenly exit when it hits an error, and the VM mechanisms give you guarantees that any resource it owned will be freed (memory, sockets, registered name, ETS tables, etc.) Using signals and monitors you can extend this to any other type of resources, for instance DB connections in an SQL adapter library.

That's the original advantage over OS threads.