skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup. The best thing for running an A/B test you can do, by far, is setting up the rules in advance. Our protocol was something like this:

This test is going to have 2 variations, looking for a 5% increase of the conversion rate that is currently X%, and to do so the test will run for Y iterations (based on the company standards for significance and power).

If the test shows a >= 5% increase, it wins and we use it. Yay! If not, we assume it is no different than the baseline, record the results and discard it. You are welcome to peek at the results all you want, but no tests are stopped early and no decisions are made until it reaches the set amount of iterations. This isn't the only good or valid A/B testing protocol, but it does force people to consider the costs of their tests in advance (in terms of time and iterations required), which I think had a positive effect on the type of tests people ran.

Just having the calculator discourages people from running tests with tons of variations looking for tiny increases (like the famous try different colors of your submit button), because just looking at the iterations required by the calculator it becomes obvious to everybody that those types of tests just cannot show any meaningful results for your average website.
Did you mean intention (french spelling) is a translation for list comprehension ? First time I've seen it used ( https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_en_compr%C3%A9hension ) Sorry if I misunderstood.
How can you say extensions run on Chrome without issue in comparison to mobile Firefox, when mobile chrome has no extensions?

What kind of twisted logic is this? uBlock can't run without issue on mobile Chrome, since there's no uBlock for mobile Chrome. Even super locked-down mobile Safari has ad blockers available.
Scientific findings are that MBTI is flawed, but not completely uncorrelated voodoo.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8458560
I was with you until "your point is intellectually bankrupt" which is unnecessarily insulting and also wrong.

I would welcome a return to deep space, but there has been no progress towards it recently. The dates are correct.

It might be true that this is not strong enough evidence against either, and that it still remains an open question if recent technological advances on Earth will translate into a return to space, but that's as far as it goes. There's nothing inevitable about it, it depends on what people want.
r/wsb is certainly taking this news well....

https://i.redditmedia.com/r8e17LwuYxaAstKQy20-gHQAC717sHZxEA...
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Sure, Samsung was nowhere close to going out of business -- too big too fail? too much cash to fail? In fact Samsung had enough cash stashed away to weather the whole crisis and the company did continue investing through the trough.
Ask HN: What is the best cloud region to serve Japan and Australia?
Currently we have two web servers that serve America and Europe. The servers are at East US and Ireland, they are shown as blue dots in the map:

https://imgur.com/a/IboyDCu

This simple configuration serves us well. However, Japan and Australia turned out to be very lucrative markets for us. If you take a closer look at the provided map, you'll see that those locations have a lot of red dots indicating some uncomfortable latency > 200 ms.

What is the best location for a third web server to serve Japan and Australia well?

The list of available regions to choose from: https://imgur.com/a/YXxRxrY

Southeast Asia region looks like a natural choice, but maybe someone has deeper experience with that area?
Only to someone who can’t imagine cooking three meals a day and skipping their morning latte. I hear students all the time blow their student loans on dining out because they’re tired and deserve it. I worked two jobs in school and cooked most of my meals and graduated without debt. They aren’t some special subspecies of the handicapable. They just make bad decisions.
This is basically how gentrification pushes long time residents out (as I understand it). I experienced the shock of this first hand recently as my taxes increased by $1500+ in a single year after a recent reassessment in my city.

The prop 13 issue seems pretty nuanced but a component of it is certainly helpful to low income long time residents.
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Very impressive. Thank you for the incredible write-up. I got a whole bunch of ideas for my own business's network architecture while going through your post as most of my needs match up with that of yours, as you elaborated in your post. Can't wait to post back the results post-implementation.
A government would be responding to customer demand.

Sure, they could create a centralized digital currency. But the market might not want to use that, so what's even the point of spending all this effort making it in the first place.

Whereas a decentralized currency has features that sounds me customers want.
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>>> So you end up with significantly higher salaries[0], much lower taxes, and comparable health benefits

If you're talking about Silicon Valley or New York, taxes won't be that different. And you'll get decent health insurance, sure. But it's still insurance (co-pays, premiums, only covered at these clinics etc)
How would browser extensions fit into this model?
The recent prices could be lower without prop 13. It depends on how many people are factoring low taxes into their choice not to sell.
I would imagine its based on how reasonable the fear is; I have a (minor) fear of heights that activates regardless of how safe an environment I'm in. If I'm standing precariously on a rooftop, or just standing idly on a well-secured ladder, the fear is the same (given the same height). In my case, I can still operate without much trouble (it remains there, but I can ignore it), but if it were debilitating, I think it certainly makes sense to refer to it as a phobia.

Not just a fear, but an unreasonable fear, that limits your ability to operate.

I think a non-phobia would be acknowledging that the danger exists, but also acknowledging its risk (according to the safety of your environment), and your fear rises accordingly (linearly?).
I'd encourage you to do it anyway. We're on the same journey at my company. Some of our product is based on a fairly large and active open source project. Others are much more limited and simply at the "here's the code, have fun" stage.

There's different levels of "open source" (everything from one-way code dumps to full-on maintained-as-a-whole-distributed-global-team). In my experience, it's easier to start with a simple "here's the code, bug reports welcome". This starting point is generally an easier sell to management who's worried about project management taking too much time away from other work.

Like all things, practice, start small, and grow from there. Get's easier as you go. But yeah--licenses/legal, written policies, governance, marketing, time prioritization, and more all take a lot of time to figure out.

NB: My own background in open source biases me to thinking open source is "easy". It's not; it takes a lot of work. The good news is that there's a lot of tools and help available for anyone wanting to start.
What's wrong with GDPR?
Why does it only benefit rich people?
I vastly prefer the second one, as I would expect to see it written something like this:

tree
.map(node => node.find(SOME_XPATH))
.filter(Boolean)
.map(node => node.get("value"))

I don't use Python on a daily basis, but I find that infinitely more readable than the comprehension version (plus, it's a syntax used in several major languages)
> Facial recognition is only “beaten” when a person’s normal face can go undetected without looking like a fucking juggalo.

I know this is crudely put and thus being downvoted, but there is a kernel of truth to it similar to the XKCD encyption / wrench[0] comic. Sure, you might've beat facial recognition in the lab, but in a real world scenario you're walking around in ridiculous looking clown face paint so you're going to come under immediate scrutiny regardless.

[0] - https://xkcd.com/538/
> Organizations’ pursuit of increased workplace collaboration has led managers to transform traditional office spaces into ‘open’, transparency-enhancing architectures with fewer walls, doors and other spatial boundaries

Yeah, actually it's the pursuit of cheaper rent.
Lest someone think that description is hyperbolic, this is a real, recent event at IBM [1]. The audience was a marketing department, so the "spiff up the cubicles" talk isn't solely aimed at technical staff, it is everyone (except perhaps sales?).

/r/IBM is an IBM-controlled sub, and the original was deleted by the IBM-employed mod, hence the screencap.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/ajC1kNk.jpg
Not sure if it has been mentioned yet, but checkout Tutanota https://tutanota.com/

I love the simple interface. They have apps both Android and iOS and they have a free version and paid version 12 euros per year.
Yup, all major tech companies have data centers in Dublin, mainly because the government has made it very easy and attractive to do so.
I strongly doubt it. It's only mimicking the IEnumerable<T> bits of LINQ; there's nothing like IQueryable<T> in there.

I think that one thing a lot of people are missing when they talk about the Expressions bit of LINQ is that LINQ is really two different things that have two different killer features. There's the set of extensions on top of IEnumerable<T>, which are mostly used for writing declarative replacements for for-loops, and also supporting things like PLINQ. As far as I'm aware, IEnumerable<T>'s MSDN documentation doesn't even mention expression trees. And there's the (much more complicated) IQueryable<T> interface, which is the bit that supports things like the LINQ interface to Entity Framework, and is all about expression trees.

The IEnumerable<T> bits aren't as fancy, but they are still quite useful.
I used to work for a company whose setup was super simple.

ADSL Modem > Firewall > Router > Web/DB servers

It was basic, but it worked. Our web servers were mission critical, but as a B2B business they, and the ADSL connection, didn't sustain a heavy load. The only issues we had over several years were with the ADSL modem. Everything else just worked.

When we moved office we moved our servers to a co-hosting centre with an upgraded network setup with all sorts of backup and redundancy. Every week something went wrong. Sometimes simple is best.
I hate Yoda assignment in C. Does no good when assigning to variables. I think it's better to use the weird (on purpose) ((x=13)) and forbid x=13
When I was first installed in one many years ago, I thought things couldn't be worse. Then came open office and I longed for the days of carpet-walled cages. Then came standing desks (for our health!) and I longed for the days when I was issued a chair. I can't say for sure how things will evolve in the future, but I suspect it involves being chained shoulder to shoulder in 4 man rows with an oar in front me.
To the other extreme: why would you correct for unemployment (which is what happens if you measure worked hours only for those who have a job)? After all an unemployed person is a "part-time" worker where the fraction of time spent working is exactly zero.
From the description:
> The concept used is the total number of hours worked over the year divided by the average number of people in employment. The data are intended for comparisons of trends over time; they are unsuitable for comparisons of the level of average annual hours of work for a given year, because of differences in their sources. Part-time workers are covered as well as full-time workers.

So if say, the average South Korean man works 2500 hours (full time, crazy hours) and the average woman works 1000 hours (pretty crazy part time job) - the average would still be below 2000 hours.

I suppose one of the more interesting numbers would be total hours worked vs total work force (including unemployed) - it might be that eg Greece could maintain current productivity (or more likely increase, due to less strain pr worker) by going to a 6 hour work day and ~full employment.
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Politics is corrupt and favors the few.

Especially local politics.
I'm not saying that's wrong, but why would Cheetos advertise to someone that just bought Cheetos? I don't know much about how advertisers by these types of ads, but why would someone throw ads for something that was just bought? Wouldn't they wait until next month or something?
>Because of this compounding it means that the risks would be much higher than 3-4%, which is what we see in the data.

This is pure speculation on your part, as far as I can see. Do you have any data to back this up? It's also not the case that all Pakistanis routinely marry their cousins generation after generation. (The prevalence of cousin marriage is very variable within different Pakistani communities.)

>It seems as though birth defects aren't the only way that inbreeding negatively affects offspring. It also appears to lower intelligence[0], while also increasing mental health issues

You're cherry picking an old paper with a bad methodology. The result could easily be explained by the IQ of the parents being correlated with their likelihood of entering into a cousin marriage. As IQ is largely inherited, this would then lead to a difference in IQ between the two groups of children, even when controlling for SE status.
Are you really implying that in Europe there are no big tech companies just because in Europe fintech is stronger than search engines?

If you look at fortune 500, 143 companies are north American and 143 are European

But in 2001 215 were north American while only 158 were from Europe

EU market is just more fragmented not less innovative
If my tax goes up whenever people are buying nearby lands, then it is effectively forcing people who own existing houses out. That is the senior scenario, through I am fine with young couple that owns house not being forced away just because others people want in too.

You have zero right to demand that neighborhood dont change - nearby land owners should be free to do as they please.

Rising property prices is what incentivizes current people to sell to new people. Or maybe build higher building so that they sell to more people. That is dealing with it. Not raising taxes for existing people so that we can push them out while keeping total amount of people in area the same.

All you want is to change who lives there - not to add new people or build higher houses.

America has tons of space. Businesses could move had they wanted to, houses could be build had people did not seen urban living as oh-my-god-end-of-world.
Competition lowers the price, but once the price becomes lower than the "profit point," let's say, then people generally don't agree to the deal. I'm not seeing where you show that people are making a deal against their interests.
I can think of the US

EU is imposing rules on its market, not others
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(I can't find the reference right now, but apparently the chocolate bar story is a myth.)
I meant electricity just for the triggering, not for the action. A small electric signal could for example open a valve in the air tube. Thus all cars would break at the same time.
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FWIW I think ol Mr. Cooper landed, but then died from exposure out there. Cash was found on the banks of the Columbia river, but that could've been washed up and buried over time. IIRC that cash was not loose, but in bundles, so its very plausible it just got lost to the elements. The real kicker for me is that money, more precisely, the rest of it. It's never been found in circulation. Success and truly his survival would've been evident by the spending of the cash.
Trump's businesses are private and don't have much to do with the stock market.

Or are you saying that he would be even more likely to default on loans and the banks would feel it hard?
True, but that's kind of comparing apples to oranges.

It's not every day where people do capital intensive investments like those involved in factories, and they usually only do so when they're fairly certain they'll get a return. That contrasts with funding SV startups, which is probably comparable to throwing darts semi-blindfolded and hoping something sticks. Sometimes it does; it usually doesn't.

Also, the factories in the midwest were doing fine until they didn't; but nothing lasts forever. The factories in Shenzhen will similarly go under sooner or later. 3d printing, for instance, might bring some manufacturing jobs back to the US and Europe and put Chinese factories under pressure.
I feel the same way about this "my phone is recording me" thing as I do about Bigfoot. I really want it to be true, but there's so many people walking around with phones all the time everywhere that it seems like it would have been caught by now, so I'm starting to think it's just not true.
Ask HN: Are there examples of companies declining admission into Y Combinator?
If it helps the bottom line, it's guaranteed to happen.
Uber's is getting into the subscription biz with: $12 a week for your own bike
That wouldn't work against the traditional anti-face detection technology: bandanas.
How about if you could be $6 million dollars richer if you could stay for another decade? Why should you be taxed out of potential unrealized gains?
Neither HTB or SFQ includes a CoDel-like AQM component. HTB+SFQ will get you fair sharing of bandwidth shaped at the rate of your choosing, but does nothing to control queue lengths.
I had previously toyed with numerical prototypes in typed Racket but could never get it fast enough. But, a typed dialect which transpiles to an OpenCL kernel might work.
> it usually ends really badly for the locals

At least it's usually subject to a vote. And it's hard to say it usually ends up bad for the locals unless you can quantify leisure. Some do, sure, but I wouldn't say usually and I definitely wouldn't say "really badly" compared to many other financial policies. By the same measures, tax funding of other arts like museums end up bad for the locals too.
Former network engineer here, can confirm. Time and again I've seen redundant systems create their own problems where without all that extra complexity things would have been fine.

Even ISPs and CDNs I worked with sometimes have surprisingly uncomplicated redundancy systems (sometimes just a handful of small routers they are very much ready to power down to cut over to backup paths or bring up new paths) and often they do not use the more complicated methods.

The catch with complicated redundancy is there is always a very close relationship or protocol or something between redundant components, bet it storage systems, network systems, anything. Inevitably a system goes down or loses its mind and takes it's redundant peers with it.... every new system you introduce is one more piece that could reach out and take everyone else with it. I saw it time and again, and again...
Your phrasing makes it seem like you do not believe in altruism. Sure, perhaps ego has something to do with it for most people but so what? Bill Gates has made a lot of progress cutting down the spread of AIDS and Malaria in Africa. Does the fact that he may want to be remembered for it diminish the accomplishment?
Sufficiently advanced malice disguises itself as stupidity.
Turning cash into houses is a big business.
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Indeed that is my goto, but that is not the app.
I liked them much better than the open office zoo the bay area subjects us to.
Chelan county is the one with the cheapest electricity ~0.035/kWh
This seems like a potential sweet spot for the Espressobin [1] with pfsense but the pfsense folks have not released their ARM version, only demonstrated it [2], perhaps they're just too dang busy or perhaps it would cut into the margins of their x86 solutions. Regardless it would make a nice appliance if they ever do release a PFsense ARM image.

[1]http://espressobin.net/

[2]
https://gist.github.com/gonzopancho/760ab9ecee9dfbc1b6033e48...
Mineral oil
This was actually a case study from when Clarke was an MBA intern at Google.
"They’re also more scalable and agile."

Considering everyone is wearing noise cancelling headphones, and everyone is on Slack anyway, I don't believe this claim.
> The first sentence, “I want out of the system and saw a way through good ole Unk,” was decoded to, “I want out of the system and saw a way by skyjacking a jet plane.” And the second sentence, “And please tell the lackey cops D.B. Cooper is not my real name,” was decoded to “I am 1st Lt. Robert Rackstraw, D.B. Cooper is not my real name.”

I wish they explained this in some level of detail that makes it remotely believable.
> More people want the sports stadium than the swimming pool. You might disagree with them, but that doesn't make them wrong.

Is this true? Was there a vote on this?

The politicians make the decisions and if people don't like it they can vote for someone else but I would bet in some deeply partisan districts they'd vote for anyone on their side. There's a lot of things the majority of the public want but the power that be say no.
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