skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All true, but consider that parenthood is not the only path to deeply emotional experiences. You might not have experience with other ways, like extended fasting, extreme adventure, religious revelation, etc.

Calling it "cognitive dissonance" may be condescending, but consider that telling people without kids, "you simply don't get to pass judgement on this" can also come across as condescending. It also doesn't help to start the comment with "balls to this."

I don't think the issue here is rationality vs. non-rationality, but rather allowing a diversity of opinion. If your perspective is not more or less correct than anyone else's, then what was the problem with altrego99's comment? Who are you to tell him what he can and cannot think?
Don't worry, it happens all the time [1].

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3238544
It won't be a compile-time constant unless your hash table is incapable of resizing. And modulo arithmetic on arbitrary values is slow (20-94 cycles of latency on Sandy Bridge).
The 'ghoti can be pronounced as fish' thing is a bit unfair to English orthography, where you must take the surroundings of the letter cluster into account.
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What's more readable?

Example 1 (my work's internal source filter format):

sub function1( CODE $code, ARRAY $arr )
{
# body
}

Example 2 (standard Perl):

sub function1 {
my ($code, $arr) = @_;
die "Bad params." unless ref($code) eq "CODE"
and ref($arr) eq "ARRAY";
# body
}

Example 3 (Method::Signature):

func function1 (Code $code, Array $arr)
{
# body
}
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well... "no reason not to" is not quite the same as "perfectly justified" but I kind of see your point. By that same logic though, there really isn't any reason not to let other vehicles lane split if it can be done safely.
>Number of years of experience is easy to determine

Only if defined in a naive way (i.e. ignore personal projects, work experience during middle school/high school/college, have some arbitrary way of interpreting what it means to have experience in a particular language.)
Next step: close the loop.

Option 1: Let the next set of values (colors of the button in the example) themselves be generated after n runs.

Option 2: let users modify the css as part of a "customization " feature. I remember they did this before the new BBC site was officially launched a few years ago.
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I think the invitation into the home analogy Warren Ellis uses works pretty well here so I'll extend it slightly and stay away from the piss aspects. What you do with a comment system is try to host a salon on a topic, which may or may not go well. But then you leave, maybe for a few hours, maybe for a few days. When you return you are surprised to still find a whole bunch of people milling about your foyer having completely insane conversations. All the reasonable folks have left a while ago, but these folks are making themselves at home.

Perhaps when the participant selection process is, well, non-existant (e.g. on twitter you select with whom to engage on a case-by-case basis, you can safely ignore the rest) such a comfortable environment is not optimal.
I originally thought that chrome OS was a ridiculous idea , but the more I think about the more I see this as being what more traditional desktop/laptop systems will look like in a few years time.

The key here I think is an operating system UI built on the understanding that modern applications have both client and server components that are equally important and need to blend together seamlessly.

For example , about 50% of the applications I use are on the web/internet yet my browser is just an application like any other on my launch bar.
Actually, the idea of having a vehicle with a windscreen/windshield in a damp climate without some means of keeping it free of condensation is pretty scary - so that legislation kind of make sense (at least for Northern Europe).
One difference is that macros (whether run-time or compile-time) use a call-by-name evaluation strategy. Hence they are a form of lazy evaluation. Functions (in scheme and lisp) are call-by-value IIRC.
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Get.com’s redesign helps you find the best products
You should really check out modern diesels. A VW TDI engine has cleaner exhaust than a typical modern gasser. You could hold up a white handkerchief to the tailpipe and it'd stay clean.
Well, for one, I'm a Pentadactyl user just like slowpoke, but also of DownThemAll!, NoScript (from everything I've read, NotScripts is a poor clone - no offense to the developer, as I said, they're limitations of the browser API) and some others.

In the past, I've also used my own extension, that allowed me (and the few hundred other users) to select a piece of text and launch a terminal using it as a command. Absolutely impossible to do in Chrome.

Finally, Tiddlywiki - only usable in Chrome if you install and run a Java program (applet?). Since I don't have Java in my work laptop, no dice.

As for the iPhone, simply installing non-approved apps; old console emulators, for example.
It depends on your infrastructure. Some setups just don't have an infrastructure setup to make the transition easy.
Links in the left menu of this site aren't working. I had a quick squiz at the source and see that there aren't any anchors.
Einhorn is a man!
Oh cool, didn't realize the bold, italic, underline, undo and redo buttons work in the header. Well done! ;)
Am I wrong or is that just a pivotaltracker.com ?
So should I buy Facebook stock while it's low? Confused.
The 9 circles of hell... made in Lego.
Maybe i'm missing it (it's late), but nowhere in the article does it explain why 10% of the time it picks a choice at random ("explores"). In fact, the article basically argues why it's not needed (it self-rights if the wrong choice becomes temporarily dominant). It also doesn't explain why specifically it should be a 10% randomization.
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These very much remind of a two-wheeled Can-Am[1], which are "trikes" in the vein of a motorcycle. They're also much larger and would never be able to lane-split (legal or not).

[1] http://www.can-am.brp.com/
You can certainly make the number more or less meaningful by including a comparison against what the individual accomplished over that period. Regardless, the question was an individual's number wasn't high enough.
There is supposed to be a difference between libertarians and conservatives.
The Design of LLVM
I am interested in anything that solves a problem. I am mostly into consumer facing products in web and mobile. I honestly havent figured out what exact areas I like so am open to everything. I do spend a substantial amount of time on social media. Hope this answers your question? If not lets chat over email :)
While my parents would probably not agree, I could make a pretty good case they would have been personally better off without me. The stress of parenting was a major factor in their divorce, with the result that they each experienced years of deep pain, unhappiness, and loneliness. And they are each much less financially secure as they approach retirement than they would have been otherwise. In addition there is a huge range of experiences that they have missed because they needed to be my parent.

Opportunity cost cuts both ways. Parents would say that nonparents don't know what they are missing, but the opposite is true as well. I know couples who decided against kids, who have had amazing experiences together that they could not have otherwise managed or afforded. You might believe that those experiences can't compare to being a parent, but without experiencing them yourself, how can you really know?
Sturgeons law: 90% of everything is crud.

At Internet scale, 99.9999% of everthing is crud. Hey! We're six-sigma compliant!

What's necessary is a comment moderation/surfacing system which can cope and scale. And yes, occasional gems do surface.
This is actually pretty straightforward to overcome (and one of the real strengths of the bayesian approach). Rather than using the direct counts of success for each group, add a prior belief that americans will favor baseball and non-americans will favor soccer (you can experiment to determine this number).

You can now evaluate the results conditioned on each group (american / non-american).
Why Do We Limit API Access for Developers?
What follows is a pretty standard lament about online communities

In my personal experience, the comment sections I've found on any web site eventually fall into three painful and unsatisfying categories:

- Ghost towns: the blog or forum has so little audience, nothing gets said.

- Worthless hole: enough people have become involved that there is no way to have a discussion without trolls trying to derail the conversation.

- Benevolent (or not) dictatorship: moderation is strictly enforced to keep things civil.

There's often a period shortly after the Ghost Town attracts an audience, where an open forum may seem to be doing ok. But once it gets popular everything falls apart and moves into the Worthless Hole. I'm waiting nervously for this to finally happen to HN, as the community moderation doesn't seem strong enough to prevent it.

The strict moderation model seems to work in a lot of places (I particularly enjoy Scalzi's blog, and the Loving Mallet of Correction), but I'm not sure it accomplishes a real discussion of opposing views... It works better in settings where all conversations are one-sided or at least light-hearted.

I do occasionally find a mathematics blog or something which has a good stable of commenters and fun discussions, and persists for years. Maybe the secret is to confine your community to a small enough niche that the trolls are never attracted?
To be fair, the previous version included the JSON data for the page alongside the JavaScript in the initial payload, so it wasn't waiting for a second (redundant) data fetch (for the main home timeline page that's cited in the article as seeing gains).
Indeed, it's an edge case... but it's a painful one if people do run into it.
A larger sample size than A/B? Why?
... "pronatalist"? Really? Sheesh.
oh... don't get me wrong. I understand the usefulness of having a good heater when it is raining. Likewise I understand the horror of having an inefficient heater when it is raining. It was just interesting that there is legislation mandating it. I'll assume that the US has this as well then.
there are certain things that ought to be user rights, but which there is no financial incentive for any manufacturer to provide (in large part due to the apathy of insufficiently-informed users). for a good parallel, think about things like wheelchair accessibility - it would be very easy for a business to simply write off that minute percentage of its users who are wheelchair bound, but the law has decreed that being accessible to disabled people is a right they want to enforce as a basic cost of doing business.
One technique to get into lucid dreaming is to try to look at the palms of your hands or to try to look into a mirror while you are dreaming. This will bring you to semi-consciousness or lucid state and will put you in control of your dream.
While some people look at this as "so what?" I did find the post valuable. I've never used memcache before, and this was a good illustration of its use.
When you return you are surprised to still find a whole bunch of people milling about your foyer having completely insane conversations. All the reasonable folks have left a while ago, but these folks are making themselves at home.

Interesting. I wonder if a comments section could be more resistant to going to hell, if the author always closed comments as soon as they were done with it?
New open source app that enables citizens to report local problems
This is also why we should keep all drugs illegal. If you are behind the wheel of a car, you could kill someone!
This theoretical-dichotomy-interrupted-by-empirical-reality is the hilariously false core of socialism. They're a class of abstract thinkers stuck in an imperfect world where their theories will always be unapologetically shattered by complex and unpredictable realities.

FTFY.
Also real-time.
> And quite a few of us hold to libertarian positions because we've seen the damage caused by government.

But you don't see the good things done by government? And you don't see the damage caused by businesses and private individuals independently from and/or in the absence of government? See, this is the flaw I think a lot of mono-ideological folks have: the cherry picking of which good things to weigh most and/or which bad things to ignore. I personally resonate with a lot of libertarian positions. But I also resonate with a lot of socialist positions, and government-is-good positions. (I think) I'm pragmatic. I'd almost not trust someone who isn't pragmatic.
Ask HN: Should I buy Facebook stock while the price is low?
I always hear anecdotal stories of people whose uncles bought them a chunk of Apple stock when it was in the double-figure value (and are now loaded, or at least fully-funded through college or starting a business, etc.)

With this in mind - should I buy a small-ish amount of FB stock, as a long-term investment, given how low the price is falling?
You had a good idea, and someone took the opportunity to build it.

You'll have plenty of more ideas! Work on your programming skills and you'll be able to cash in one day. Good luck
I haven't had a good computer in about 10 years until recently (used a netbook in between), and I've tried many new games recently, and I'm disappointed to notice that the movements of the characters have barely changed over the past decade.

The graphics have gotten quite good, although I would've expected to see much better by now, and I think they started stagnating on visuals in the past 5 years (after Crysis) because of the rise of laptops, which are replacing PC's for most people.

But still my main disappointment was with how unrealistic the movements of the characters are. The characters "look" pretty real, but then that idea gets completely ruined by the way they move. It kind of ruins the experience.

Take Skyrim for example, great visuals overall, especially for the environment, but I hate the way the character moves and how it fights. While the visuals make you think you are in 2012, the movements make you think it's still 2003, the year of Morrowind.
The problem is that, depending on your initial settings and early results, certain settings could get such low payoff estimates that they're never tried at all (let's say one gets to 50% after one trial, and the rest all stay above 75%). You want to make sure that your solver adequately explores all choices.
Could you expound on this a bit? What attributes would you have to add? How would you calculate scores?
carefully thought through decision

Varnish is a carefully tuned piece of machinery that consciously leverages the page cache because that happens to be a great fit for the access pattern that you'd expect in a cache.

Mongo is not a cache. It generates quite a different access pattern and it's widely documented what happens when your working-set exceeds RAM or when you put it under anything but the lightest write-load. A single bulk update literally halts the world.

Comparing Varnish to MongoDB is quite an insult, akin to comparing a Swiss precision Rolex to a plastic Mickey Mouse watch "with many advanced secret-agent features" from a gumball machine.
Community Wiki is immortality.
Call the setting: Mythbusters, replicate results.
I prefer my flute to be accessible to players of all levels. (/innuendo)
A random choice is needed to allow people to give rewards to options other than the dominant. I'm sure this doesn't have to be random -- and I'd be curious to see the logic behind the 10% choice -- but you have to have something that gives the other options a chance.

Makes me wonder if the 10% number couldn't be changed to something that's a function of the number of rewards total; the longer it runs, the less variation there is and the more confident you are in the choice made.
I've experienced it first hand at my previous company.

It's not unmanageable, but it's certainly a lot harder than supporting iOS.
If only "Will it scale?" was as entertaining as "Will it blend?"
Facebook already have Facebook credits for games and other stuff. I would be very surprised if we don't see "Pay with Facebook" just as we now see "Login with Facebook" everywhere now.

I think it would be a great move for businesses and for Facebook. If Facebook could offer some insurance on transactions I think people would flock to it.
You can partially unpack in Python too:

def method(self, *args):
a, b = args[:2]
super(self).method(*args[:2])

Perl's lack of using the definition for the variables doesn't necessarily make it 'more powerful.'
I think whats unsaid here, and particularly telling about the Chromebox, is that Google is gunning to be a replacement for Windows in the workplace.

The ISO certification of google apps, a cheap desktop replacement directly integrated into google products, a laptop that keeps in sync with its desktop counterpart, these are all significant steps into creating a fully cloud-based workplace.

A chromebook may not become your home computer but it may soon be the cheap laptop the IT guys at your work start issuing to employees who don't need the heavy lifting power of a mac or windows machine...
Not only with doctors, but every professional have problems when there are more than one cause, they try to find one cause to the current effect. This is something where developers and it administrators used to solve better because they "breath" problems with multiple causes.
Ethical objections aside, clearly he doesn't want to do that.
I think the pie charts aren't just broken for document based technologies, they are wrong for anything where a user can have more than one of the tools. For example on our site we are using multiple types of advertising (including our own), multiple types of widgets, etc.

That being said, very cool that you were able to pull this together - the raw data here is very neat and it would be cool if we could even dive in more and end users could play with it in different charts, etc.
I don't know for sure, but it (intuitively) seems to me that you'd require a larger sample size because only 10% of the time will it explore other options. With A/B testing, you've got equal odds to hit either option, so each step is independent of the last; with this, each step depends on the previous results and thus if you have one option jump out into the lead (for whatever reason) it'd make it less likely that the other gets a good sample.
Presumably you would want the randomness to give choices that got to 0% another chance. It seems like a better way could be to use the previous success ratios as a probability density function.
I also +1 a comment where I learn something.

As in meat-space voting, you should always reward good behavior.. be part of the fitness function.
Sadly upvote on stories really means "more of that".
When was the last time you saw a "power user" configuring a hammer?

Never, because they're not configurable. My housemate does have five different hammers used for different things though - should we design software around that instead?
Indeed. I'd even argue that France doesn't actually exist. People exist. The Earth exists. Objects exist. But "France" is just a concept and a set of traditions that a (rather large) number of people choose to talk about and believe in. But it has no independent existance. You cannot see France from space. If everyone's minds were wiped tonight and then we woke up tomorrow and got out of bed it would be as if France didn't exist. Beds would still exist. Food would still exist, our bodies, buildings, vehicles, etc.

Also the idea that only nation states are sovereign could be argued to be a combination of a benign constructive social conceit AND also a cognitive tool designed by elites to control the masses. Both of these things can be true at the same time. I'm not arguing that anarchy is a good thing. But something like it IS the natural state of affairs, physically speaking. And the only reason people tend to prefer something other than anarchy is when they see the relative benefits. But the alternatives to anarchy (families, tribes, cities, nations) are things we choose to do, we choose to engage in, and choose to go along with. Just as millions and perhaps billions of people choose to go along with the idea that France exists and is a sovereign entity. But let's never forget this is only true to the extent that enough (of the right) people want it to be true. And that can change.
How you make money is irrelevant for this.

Original intent doesn't really matter if you intend to serve your users. What you want to do matters, and what they want to do matters. Startups are a learning process where you explore the intersection.

If you hold on too tightly to original intent, exploration is impossible. You either end up frustrated that the people won't do what you want, or you end up trying to force them to do what you want. Both suck.
There is no evidence in this article that

1) this approach is better than A/B testing.
2) it doesn't suffer from the the Heisenberg principle

Also, the call out box at the top is obviously an ad but it's not marked "Sponsored link", which is really scammy.
I don't think that everyone can claim to have companies beating down their door.
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Hedging Zynga options should work almost as well.
Your argument is unconvincing.

It takes certain skills to be an effective "intermediate software developer." (Here I use the word skills very generically, so in particular it includes the things that you call experience.) If a hiring manager has found that many people have those skills after 3 years of work, it is probably true that some people have those skills after 2 years of work.

Therefore: the OP might have the skills to be effective at the job he wants. So for God's sake can somebody just give a good-faith answer to his question? The amount of condescension he's getting is ridiculous.
well, yeah; I'm going for people that know how to use the product I'm selling, and that understand the line I'm drawing between what I handle and what they handle.

Without that strong line between my responsibility and yours, every support question becomes a negotiation; finding people that are both good at negotiation and good technically is extremely difficult, at least without spending just gobs of money.

But the important bit, I think, is that I'm concisely explaining "my product does X" to a certain group, then I'm attempting to exclusively market to that group. I don't know how you would do that with a email card sending service, but I bet that if you figured out how to do that, the "concisely explain to a certain group what exactly your product does and does not do, then market exclusively to that group" process would lower support costs, by reducing the number of people expecting non-standard services.
Hmm, going to have to look into this later.
I'm so fortunate that I don't know anyone who needs a wheelchair. There's no market for that kind of useless thing really. Aren't crutches enough?