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Ask HN: How do you test applications against one another?
1 points by allcentury 7y ago|0 comments
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by allcentury 7y ago
In my neighborhood, on a dead end street we would make cars wait while a hockey play was in flight. One more second please Mrs. Stevenson! That same street is a ghost town not really because of cars but two things. 1. Empty nesters didn&
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by allcentury 7y ago
I've used Bayes for classification before, is it still the go to for that?
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by allcentury 7y ago
I think that aligns with their third point on motivation.
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by allcentury 7y ago
I just started doing this last week, it has saved us from so many breakdowns.
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by allcentury 8y ago
Not in this case, if they're at the supreme court, everyone has exhausted all appeals.
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by allcentury 8y ago
In Germany, being a teacher is the best job you can have.
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by allcentury 8y ago
I just commented the same thing - parents are a major problem right now.
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by allcentury 8y ago
There's much more to this story. My mother, a high school calculus teacher for the last 22 years is so ready to retire. I didn't think my mom would ever retire, she spends countless hours coming up with unique lesson plans for th
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by allcentury 8y ago
In the wiki article and in the tribute article linked ( https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1996-11-15-961115... ), it doesn't really give any insight on why it was a 'disaster'. Have anymore to sh
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by allcentury 8y ago
It's this - the margins are so slim on commercial farming that they are in the grocer range (1-7%) and the only way grocers make money is on volume. The one-off farms are great for those that can spend extra but they are not the ones f
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by allcentury 8y ago
Real life Will Hunting...?
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by allcentury 8y ago
There's a lot of room for error in this study - I wouldn't draw any conclusions based on this.
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by allcentury 8y ago
It's new, passive screen time and active screen time are getting a lot of attention in the pediatrics community.
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by allcentury 8y ago
Really well written article, especially as someone who is interested in the topic but not an expert.
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by allcentury 8y ago
This is a slippery slope, most parents already do heavy comparisons with their child to others. When there are differences and the parent isn't educated on norms you introduce a lot of self doubt and anxiety.
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by allcentury 8y ago
Somewhat - parents want to act and help but it's hard when the technology geared towards kids is creating problems parents don't yet know how to face. This is new grounds so I wouldn't dismiss the problem as simple scapegoati
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by allcentury 8y ago
You're missing the point - it's not the physical device that the parents are fighting, it's what the device is doing to the child. They took it away and she threatened to kill herself. This story, for you (as a soon to be pa
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by allcentury 8y ago
> I also see far too many boys whose gaming obsessions lead them to forgo interest in school, extracurricular activities, and anything else productive. Some of these boys, as they reach their later teens, use their large bodies to terror
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by allcentury 8y ago
Wonderful read, there was a lot of history there I didn't know
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by allcentury 8y ago
Pill pack just sold for 1b
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by allcentury 8y ago
I always assumed the word gap was because of conversation, not that high income earners were reading a dictionary aloud. That said, are high income earners more available for conversation? Seems like a good question for economic researcher
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by allcentury 8y ago
What's the SF -> Newark connection I'm missing?
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by allcentury 8y ago
I think that's mysnomer https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2013/11/30/the-gre...
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by allcentury 9y ago
Why does it need to be competitive? Do you need 1000 students to pay $100,000 or 100,000 students to pay $1,000? Education can scale at the college level
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by allcentury 9y ago
If I can summarize, "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - Wayne Gretzky - Michael Scott
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by allcentury 9y ago
Those towns exist all over, but I agree suburbia for our generation is not as attractive for other reasons. Personally, I want to raise our son in a suburb and my wife doesn't. I do because my childhood was great in suburbia but there
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by allcentury 9y ago
Here's a leading early childhood development pediatrician commenting on this exact point https://youtu.be/BoT7qH_uVNo
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by allcentury 9y ago
Research is still really early but signs are showing an impact. Here's a leading early childhood development pediatrician https://youtu.be/BoT7qH_uVNo
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by allcentury 9y ago
Great points. We live 1000 miles from family and it has made it much more difficult on us

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