jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Here's a crazy idea: Don't use analytics at all but focus on your product. If your success relies solely on "improving conversions" by tracking your users and then changing the position and color of your "Checkout" button then maybe try setting yourself apart such that customers want to buy your product even despite an obnoxious purchasing flow. Only then start optimizing it.

Here’s crazy idea for early humans - don’t use fire to cook your food. If your health depends on cooking meat, instead of hunting only for the healthy, bacteria and parasite free ones, then you should first focus on getting only highest quality meat, and only then figure out what to do with it.
This begs the question, if you can magnetically polarize light, can you bend a beam of light with a strong enough magnetic field? and if so, there is tremendous potential beyond just energy storage.
Can’t imagine the pressure he must have been facing
Trying to eat right after very strenuous exercise can leave many people with a queasy feeling. If those same people wait 15-30 minutes prior to eating they can avoid the sick feeling.
But that doesn't burn as many calories does it?
Yes. Also I find short and intensive freeweight exercise to be much more bearable than endless cardio.
Glad the UK finally figured it out - but they are proposing a ridiculous solution. It would be much more efficient to do away with software patents altogether, instead of using tax money to fund corporate court battles.
Yes, I got it mixed up.

In internet marketing, multivariate testing is a process by which more than one component of a website may be tested in a live environment. It can be thought of in simple terms as numerous A/B tests performed on one page at the same time. A/B tests are usually performed to determine the better of two content variations, multivariate testing can theoretically test the effectiveness of limitless combinations.
If you forced those people to do exercise say 10 times, many of them would start to like it.
I dunno. School isn’t primarily about academics. It’s mostly about moulding pupils, their minds to their current society. It’s mostly political in that sense. Whether it’s patriotism, community building, stressing this over that, etc.

The three Rs are kind of incidental.

Now to be clear, we do need to grow up to be functional adults, but public schooling is not the only one option to achieve that.
New York is brutal. My wife went to college there and they continued to try and claim tax from her for six years after she moved to Maryland. Each year she needed to send in her lease and utility bills to prove she didn't live in New York. That wasn't even telework. She moved to Maryland to work in Maryland and maintained no presence at all in New York.

This is stupid anyway. I live in Texas and work from home for a military program based out of Colorado, for a business in Virginia (fully remote with no home office at all), subsidiary of a company in California, recently acquired by a company in Germany, creating and deploying software that runs in data centers in arbitrary locations throughout North America. Who should get to tax me?
Are the expansion cards large enough to accommodate a full-size SD card slot? My current laptop has a PCIe-attached SD card reader and it serves dual-use as storage for my windows VM and getting files off of my camera. The micro-SD cards I've tried are just too slow to run as the system disk for a windows VM.
To be clear I think the F35 is a very solid aircraft, but don’t gloss over the details.

The F35 is aiming to be both an air superiority and strike aircraft, and do electronic warfare and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, while being stealthy and cheaper than the F22.

Now add F18 missions like fighter escort and fleet air defense which add yet more demands.

You get less stealth, less speed, less range, less payload, and or fewer sensors etc than an aircraft dedicated to a smaller range of roles. Meanwhile you need to pay for all the capacity that aren’t particularly relevant when doing any specific mission.

Sure, generally being capable of Mach 2.2+ for example isn’t such a big deal. However, if you’re deep in enemy territory and low on munitions it’s quite valuable to quickly escape any reinforcements that show up. On the other hand when escorting a fleet all that extra engine is mostly wasted and costing you fuel.
When you break a law, you don't immediately go to jail. Its not a video game. There are about a million dollars and hurdles in the way of suing amazon for breaking labour laws. They are engaging in far more than just informing their employees of a no-vote. These are facts too.

Things an employer can't do:
- Engage in surveillance of employees to determine their views on the union.

Christ dude, read the article and your own source.
It does. I have a hard time believing Wi-Fi itself could cause such a large swing in latency, but perhaps all those back and forth round trips do add up? Is WiFi 6 known for major latency improvements? Or is this just related to less congestion?

It would be interesting to compare it to Ethernet usage of these devices.
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Gruber's whole premise is flawed. Android doesn't need killer apps.

iOS has to have "killer apps" because that's how Apple locks folks into their system. If you can get the iOS experience somewhere else, there's no reason to pay the Apple premium. Thankfully for Apple their UX is amazingly polished, and attracts a lot of third-party developers who also care highly about polish.

Android, on the other hand, is a portal to Google's cloud offerings. First thing you do is create or utilize your Google account. Then you check your Gmail and your Google Voice. Maybe get some navigations from Google Maps, or a recommendation from Google Places.

And of course, since you have a smartphone, you might as well buy some apps. A lot of common apps that exist for iOS also exist for Android (Kindle Reader and Angry Birds come to mind), and Google gets their cut of the sale.
Perhaps, but pageviews (or 'hits' before marketers had to find a new name for it) have long been known as "How Idiots Track Stats." Especially these days where dynamic content is king over individual page loads and selling ads on a CPM basis are only done by the shadiest of firms.

Things that matter a little more these days, which I'm sure Facebook is also doing well in: engagement*, time spent per visit, average visitor return rate per (intra-)day-week-month, and adoption rate of new initiatives (Places, Groups, etc.)

All the in-Facebook statistics I'm sure they're tracking such as number of profiles visited, messages sent per user per day, and all the other goodies.

Forget "25% of all US Pageviews," I'm curious what percentage of US internet users' free time and attention they receive. That's a seriously good number for the site.
Trying to select the code includes the line numbers.
Agreed. The prime-number-division thing is a great answer... FOR SPOCK. Who wants to read code that does that kind of stuff... converting strings in to prime numbers? How about: code it in a reasonable, readable way, and come back and optimize it if and when it needs optimizations. People that code things in the cleverest way, even when it's not needed, drive me batty.

I'd far rather see a developer cross 10 items off the to-do list instead of cross 1/2 of an item off a to-do list, and get lots of style points.

It's good to see that a candidate has creativity to come up with solutions like this. But I'd want to temper that by also seeing if they have the good judgement to know when to use such things (almost never).
Scribophile is my full-time job. Members sign up for a limited free account. They can upgrade to a monthly paid premium subscription that includes many features that the free plan doesn't.

It's not making me a millionare, but I've spent the past few years traveling the world off of what Scribophile has made. Right now if I live frugally, which I generally do, it can support me indefinitely.
Just an example, some of the latest sentiment on Google, that would suggest why it hasn't got a great ranking (though also, it's not a terrible ranking):

Ok, my phone or Google Voice is unable to pick up calls when I press '1' to accept, and I can't connect via Gizmo5. WTF?

Google gps sucks all of a sudden

WTF? I open up Google and the first thing i see is "Will Justin Bieber get naked for Love Magazine?" and im like WHAT???
Hi, I helped to make this. It actually uses a smattering of different technologies. Namely:

Perl, Ruby, C, Javascript, Apache, SSL tunnels, an electric wheelchair, and hobby servos from phidgets.

We didn't mean to be misleading to the perl lovers, it was just too long to post all of that in the title.

Not more than a few lines of each, and it truly is more of a hack than anything else.

BTW, we just changed the 1 line of system("echo...") to have perl print the file to avoid any potential security vulnerability.
What do you mean? And what browser are you using? :)
I highly recommend the book "Your Money or Your Life".

It gives you a step by step process to take control on your expenses, and then to move towards financial independence.

I read this book 6 years ago and it is still the most influential financial book I have read since.
iPad, not iPod.

It's the bathroom problem. Want to go to the bathroom, but I'm in a shared office space -- do I put it in a bag and bring the bag? Carry it with and place it on top of the urinal (ick...)? Leave it in a drawer in an unlocking desk? Or just hope it doesn't walk off? This is a real issue in our office space (frequent theft issues, as it's a college campus so the building doors are open access).

I just need a couple minutes of relative security at a time, honestly.
...women don't give a crap what kind of car you have...

How strange.

OP advises being able to afford anything by being "frugal" and then claims to know what women care about. He must not be married.

I agree with much of OP's advice. Just be aware that the quickest way to stop following it isn't loss of discipline but falling in love with someone who doesn't want to live that way.
too bad it'll suck no matter what 'cause it's DELL
Late reply: yes, it's annoying, but thankfully not many folks seem to have rolled this out. You receive a single popup for a given domain, confirming that you want to block tynt for that site; the page is then reloaded, sans tynt.

There's another extension based on Tynt Blocker (named, creatively, Tynt Blocker 2) that doesn't ask for confirmation first:

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ajefkgbbbikgjalb...
"I'll write off your comments as the typical German nay-saying."

Weels I can live with that. I usually keep my mouth shut about such things - it was just a little bit too funny to see it and as 'davidw' already said "...the more the merrier, and things will sort themselves out." :)
the fact that most of the time there is about a 0% chance the hiring manager has read the code to mongrel

Just wait a minute here! Isn't this weird? It's like hiring designers and refusing to look at their portfolios.

The interview process puts people through all these weird contortions so we can (among other things) get some indirect indications of how they code. Why not just read their code? We want to know if they can collaborate on a project, why not look at the result of projects they collaborated on?

I think in the corporate world at least, programming has become a commodity.
>Text from the lawsuit, obtained by Mashable, says a largely male upper management is responsible for all the hiring decisions, and that creates an environment that favors men, intentional or not...

That's beyond weak.
> but changing the entire subscriber QoS because traffic to one particular destination is detected seems like too much work and doesn't really achieve anything useful.

About seven years ago, when unencrypted HTTP was still commonplace, I observed exactly this behavior (subscriber-wide QoS based on speedtest sensing) with my residential cable internet. My connection was nominally 100 Mib/s, but I would often observe downloads e.g. in Steam running at only 10-20 Mib/s. In those cases, I would open up a terminal and run

while sleep 1; do curl http://<one-of-my-domains>/speedtest; done

Didn't matter that this URL would give 404. Just because the URL contained "speedtest", the ISP machinery would adjust the QoS and the Steam download would immediately shoot up from 10 Mib/s to nearly the full 100 Mib/s.

By now, this has not worked in a long time. I'm guessing they tore down the respective machinery once the important speedtest websites moved to HTTPS.
Backup key storage at a central facility that can be ubered to you on demand. Solves the scale problem by centralizing it, and the cost + wait is limited to uber fare. In the end, it wouldn't work though because you'd need to charge a monthly fee and people wouldn't go for it.

I lived in a low rise apartment before and just hid a key on the premises in a spot where it couldn't be associated with my apartment and that I thought wouldn't be likely to be disturbed.
Full text of the proposed bill: https://legiscan.com/PA/text/HB2511/id/2569740/Pennsylvania-...
It is story from asian friend. Every morning her family would collect batch of clothes for sewing and return it finished at evening. Also Japan industry during WW2 worked this way, lot of work was done in family homes, central factories were only used for steel.
Non-savvy users really get lost at how screenshots work.

I have a buddy who's a programmer at publishing house, specializing in niche magazines, and they deal regularly with non-savvy older users. He's got this story about one such customer who was complaining that something wasn't working on the website and when asked to send a screenshot he proceeded to:

1) Press PrintScreen
2) Paste it into Word
3) Print it out,
and finally,
4) Fax it to the company.

I thought that was kind of related, and rather humorous.
My wife has a blue sapphire and she absolutely loves it. As you mentioned, it's very unique and we both like that a lot.
I just opened an account with you guys – super interested to give it a test drive.
> Trump is not running out of channels to speak, just who supports him will believe he is censored and will develop a deeper attachment to him. Democracy works when you are able to understand somebody is fool even if you can read what they write.

Yeah, but what we have seen in social media is that the discourse gets polarized. Everyone hangs around in groups/channels/subreddits/blogs that are of the side they identify with. They are echo chambers which shape their own reality in many ways. So people often tend to believe one version of the events. Over the years we have seen fractures between ideologies grow deeper. So, I am not sure if this strategy works.

> This time we believe it was acceptable because our political views here in HN, mostly are aligned with the ones of folks running social platforms. Next time it may be different.

Completely agree on this. It is definitely dangerous.
security by obscurity bro
They’re already bigger than the entire stock market of several countries.
I leave it solid. 160 or so because my wife won't eat meat if it's still pink and a roast is hard to cook two of (versus steaks). We still find it plenty tender, they maybe not fork tender tender. But I'll do a long slow cook to help it become tender versus heating it up more.
Most Americans have no idea, even after Queens Gambit.
I don't quite remember from the original white paper if it was pushed as a feature or just a property of the system. But later proponents certainty try to say it is some revolutionary feature.

Now don't get me wrong. Transparency in the financial system is good. But a public blockchain as is, does not provide any transparency at all.

Now that I am thinking about it, they probably mean something else entirely by transparency. They probably mean, they know the total amount of BTC out there.
Higher fees means fewer transactions. Nobody's going to buy a $3 coffee with $300 fees just because it's bitcoin.
> dominance-driven approach to discussion

Damn... guess that Socrates was a dominance driven asshole then huh?

It’s only “dominance driven” if you take it personally. If instead you realize that strong conversations are a way to elucidate clear logical thought and arguments on both sides, then you see it as a tool for understanding.

> condescension, and a refusal to even look at what you're saying and how you're saying it

That’s not me. I’ve been adding to the discussion with fact, and discourse. You’re the one who has quickly taken to dismissive ad hominem attacks.

> Maybe you don't have any better ways to spend your time, but I sure do

Says the man who’s cultivated a karma of 38876. You clearly spend wayyyyyyy more time on here than I do. Again, you turned this personal quickly... why?

Look if your so badly triggered by a discussion on HN about bitcoins, to the point where your thinking this is condescending and dominance driven on my half then do yourself a favor and read this book or at least the article.

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intention... https://www.amazon.com/dp/0735224897/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_awdb_im...

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-cod...

And maybe that’s condescending? Or maybe I’m trying to actually help (which I am).

You don’t know me... I don’t know you. But I recognize areas when I know less than someone else and I open myself up to it. Did your teachers in school “condescend to you”?

Reread all the discussions and you’ll simply see that I attempted to shine information and fact where there was ignorance.

Not every human being has equal knowledge and understanding of all fact. I know for a fact I have a greater understanding of this than you do.

And when you post ignorant things, or post conspiracy theories then I respond in kind. And yes, I do have better things to do. But honestly it pains me there is so much ignorance, and conspiracy stuff online rather, retweeted and reposted without thought, than actual facts.

If enough people sat down with those Trump supporters who marched on the capital and actually condescended to them for a bit to get them to face reality and fact, you could get through to some of them. Not all. But some. And that’s the start of change.

So which kind of person are you. Do you take criticism and seek more knowledge, or will you come away from this never questioning yourself and only seeing condescension in differing opinions?

Good luck, and if you believe it or not, I do wish you the best.
That's not entirely true though - the penalties for attempted murder are not the same as murder, for example.
> I bought N95 NIOSH masks. Like most US consumers I searched Amazon occasionally to see if the market was again offering them to consumers but it took a post here on HN, for me to Google and find a US-based supplier. I'm happy to have them, and have given some to my elderly parents.

I did the same, but I managed to get them before the supply closed off (I have a box of US-made 3M 8210s that has literally been to China and back). I got some KN95s, but only use them when I'd have used an N95 previously (e.g. sanding).

I had no idea about these new US manufacturers, but if their product is NIOSH approved then I think I'd be happy with them.
This is not an uncommon feature. The word I have used for this is 'facets' (unsure if its correct or not). Look at Gap.com for an example. For example click on "Men > Shop All Styles" then click whatever 'facet' you want on the left.

Of note I was part of the team that helped build this feature over 10 years ago.
Crypto would get a large boost if a mandatory customer with a multi-hundred billion dollar "market" decided to require it.
I agree that the NYT article presents a false dichotomy, and offers a rosy picture of the doctor's actions. That said, I genuinely wonder what's the alternative action available to him? I agree that the article creates a false ticking time bomb narrative and he's Jack Bauer. Still, he made good faith (presumably) attempts to eligible people at the vaccination site, who refused. Would the Texas Medical Center have accepted an opened half used vial from some guy who drove up? If the only people who might accept it were people he personally knew and his patients, I'm not sure what he could do besides try Sugar Land. I agree he could have tried harder, but honestly - when his supervisors didn't care when he called them, why should he?
My current workstation is a dual-Xeon Gold 6252 with 1 TiB of ram. The next one will be either Threadripper Pro or Epyc. AMD have just knocked it out of the park; I want to reward them.
Scala's Futures constantly dip back into their ExecutionContext even when unnecessary; basically every single method on a Future causes it to go back to the ExecutionContext. This means they can incur bookkeeping or at worst thread switching overhead for no good reason.

For example, `map`ping over a completed Future has absolutely no need to go back to the ExecutionContext. Even `flatMap`ping multiple Futures together doesn't necessarily need an ExecutionContext if you offer a separate API to allow `Future`s to switch between threads (this also means that Futures must be delayed and can't run immediately).

These are the big things that make things like ZIO and cats-effect IO faster (there are then other smaller things that differentiate those two from each other).
I wonder how many Capitol police officers it takes to clear the chamber and get all the lawmakers to safety, and how far they accompany them. They certainly do seem to be scarce.
> I mean you listed several database libraries, static analyzers, and a code optimizer.

Correct.

> Is it your suggestion that those kinds of applications do not require solid knowledge of a variety of different data structures and algorithms?

No -- precisely opposite.

Your response confused me quite a lot, but after some thought, I think I've realized how things have become mixed up. I took this for sarcasm:

> Which innovation of Facebook are you describing? Instagram, WhatsApp, or the stories?

Why did I take that for sarcasm? Because it is apparent to me that Instagram, WhatsApp and stories are not innovative. So I thought the main point of the poster I was replying to was to take a dig at Facebook. I didn't realize that we were in agreement about the importance of data structures and algorithms, but then I also didn't realize that we were still on that topic: my intention was purely to refute the [what I believed to be the implied] notion that nothing innovative was happening at Facebook.
So happy to see so much more active development in windows stuff these days, for a while it looked like all the cool stuff was happening in the apple ecosystem, I’m happy to see developers starting to trust windows again.

One of the things that I’d love to see in this that fancy zones is missing is the ability of windows to remember where they should be after I reconnect to my dock. Like maybe I run some shortcut right before I disconnect the dock that stores window locations and then when I reconnect I click the shortcut again to restore them to those monitors.
It isn’t immediately clear to me from the article why these updates can’t just be patches; it sounded like a large part of the problem here is that what’s ostensibly a couple kilobyte delta to fix ends up bloated to multiple gigabytes because of things like each update requiring firmware for every single Intel mac, and a copy of the entire dyld cache for System libraries. What is it about the update process that makes it so you can’t just skip out on extra fluff if it doesn’t need changing?