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by brw12 9y ago
Can you say more about it?
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by brw12 10y ago
I put together Ignition Sequence, a guide for parents who want to inspire curiosity and creative tech exploration in their kids, created by veteran programmers and teachers. I'd love any thoughts from the HN community!
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by brw12 10y ago
Thanks for these ideas, all! I like the approach of using the browser console and source inspector, though that has the problem that everything gets reset if you reload -- there's not really a way to save your work or see the js code y
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Ask HN: What would you teach adults new to programming in a 2 hour class?
14 points by brw12 10y ago|20 comments
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by brw12 10y ago
tuhdo, can you say more about how the process works to convert your book from lyx text source to pdf? Since the current pdf seems to have particular formatting added to the source text (eg, terms not emphasized in remaining.txt are italiciz
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by brw12 10y ago
Basically, there isn't just "news" as in stories -- there's tons of data that's annoying, hard or impossible to find without paying various parties for it and scraping it, which Bloomberg makes available in one plac
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by brw12 10y ago
> If you're home, you have to let them in. If not, they are allowed to break in. Right, but is it really a crime not to unlock the door?
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by brw12 10y ago
No, you're exactly wrong. The demand on Rawls is that he do whatever work is necessary to produce the drives in an unencrypted state. If he hid a printout of the password on Mount Everest, that means he is compelled by the court to cli
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by brw12 10y ago
OH YEAH also Alice in Puzzleland! That might be the very best. Highest possible recommendation.
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by brw12 10y ago
I don't have much to add, except that when I read his books -- for me, the ones I fell in love with were The Lady or the Tiger, What is the Name of this Book? and To Mock a Mockingbird -- I felt I was communing with a spirit for whom w
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by brw12 10y ago
There are many temporally-exclusive agreements on all sorts of data, some government-supplied (!). "Temporally-exclusive" means that anyone can use the data, but one company gets it 5-600 seconds early.
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by brw12 10y ago
I also can't emphasize how ossified and inefficient the Bloomberg corporation itself is. I've spent months BEGGING them to take my company's money (we had 3 terminal subscriptions and wanted to increase to 4) with them stalli
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by brw12 10y ago
I think the title (the English version, at least) is supposed to evoke both meanings.
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by brw12 10y ago
I'm friends with a hugely successful children's books author -- top 50 selling in the English language -- and related to a pretty successful new author. It's hard work, not just the writing, which is way harder than it
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Was 2016 especially dangerous for celebrities? An empirical analysis(medium.com)
61 points by brw12 10y ago|31 comments
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by brw12 10y ago
So many people don't realize that as social creatures, we see the world through the lens of our social brains. Computers don't care about "all powerful" or "savant" or "should". They don't qualit
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by brw12 10y ago
Finance differs fundamentally from most other machine learning domains because new data diverges qualitatively from trained data so much quicker. Roads aren't reconfiguring themselves daily to to avoid being detected by a self-driving
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by brw12 10y ago
What I like: lightning fast interface, deeply satisfying ability to search instantaneously What's confusing: unclear to me what the platform for this is -- is it an IDE? A github-compatible tool? Where does my code have to live?
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Re: Gawker/Thiel: “Check out this newsworthy sextape” [SFW](medium.com)
2 points by brw12 10y ago|0 comments
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Programming is supposed to be messy(blog.startupinstitute.com)
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by brw12 11y ago
I agree.
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by brw12 11y ago
Follow-up: Open letter by the fictional "Liam Cooper", or how @ProductHunt might respond to recent criticism. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10745098
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by brw12 11y ago
Thoughts, HN?
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How Product Hunt might respond to recent criticism(medium.com)
3 points by brw12 11y ago|1 comments
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by brw12 11y ago
the community discussions and support might be a bigger deal than the signups. like HN.
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by brw12 11y ago
PH's algorithm tries to discount upvotes that seem to be stuffed... eg by counting votes that come from front page more highly. community managers sometimes scold people on twitter for begging upvotes.
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by brw12 11y ago
very helpful, thanks.
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by brw12 11y ago
Interested in your thoughts, HN. I tried to write from a place of compassion and not be all haterating.
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How Product Hunt really works(medium.com)
695 points by brw12 11y ago|222 comments
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by brw12 11y ago
I've been using an equivalent method, after reading about imdb's method for comparing the best movies of all time. I extend it, hackily, to allow categories to be declared to apply to objects with arbitrary confidence at any time,

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