goodside

47 ms·

421.
by goodside 15y ago
Reminder: If a link you want to submit has an uninformative, sensationalist, or otherwise shitty title, you should fix it. This is precedented, popularly encouraged, and in some cases required.
422.
by goodside 16y ago
Because overriding the default behavior is trivial (middle-click in most browsers), but restoring it when it's been overridden by JS is not. If you think that external links should, in general, be opened in new tabs, I'd say that's what ext
423.
Regardless of exercise level, sitting is linked to an increased risk of death(aje.oxfordjournals.org)
2 points by goodside 16y ago|0 comments
424.
by goodside 16y ago
Would it be possible to make public a data set of heavily up-voted comments that suck and challenge the community to come up with algorithms that can predict whether a given popular comment sucks or not? I'd think you could get a fair amoun
425.
by goodside 16y ago
"The problem has several components: comments that are (a) mean and/or (b) dumb that (c) get massively upvoted." Find a few examples of comments that are unambiguously (a), (b), and (c) and have either you personally or someone you trust fl
426.
Ask HN: Open-source projects with good codebases for beginners?
9 points by goodside 16y ago|3 comments
427.
Ask HN: What's your litmus test for detecting a tech bubble?
2 points by goodside 16y ago|0 comments
428.
by goodside 16y ago
Circumsolution.
429.
by goodside 16y ago
The remark wasn't an important enough part of what he was saying to put it within the first ten paragraphs, and they knew it. Hence, they didn't put it anywhere in the first ten paragraphs. But they made it the headline, because it was the
430.
by goodside 16y ago
The quote in question is weaker than the headline might suggest: "We are still a democracy, but we have moved in my lifetime towards a plutocracy. We do not have a plutocracy, I want to emphasize that, but the distribution of wealth and the
431.
by goodside 16y ago
Meanwhile, in reality, where evidence extends further than whatever I happen to mention, it does deplete glucose.
432.
by goodside 16y ago
The brain consumes more sugar when it's thinking harder. Before functional MRIs were invented, brain imaging required injecting irradiated glucose and scanning for radioactivity in the brain. Tasks requiring attention and self-discipline de
433.
by goodside 16y ago
"Be verbose. As verbose you can be. If you can say something in one sentence or three paragraphs (with three overlapping or identical examples), choose the latter. Searching for signal in lots of noise is a favourite pasttime of many develo
434.
YouTube lectures on Category Theory(youtube.com)
3 points by goodside 16y ago|0 comments
435.
by goodside 16y ago
"Users have, it claims, also complained of missing functionality, a lack of usability and poor interoperability." Not mentioned by name, but it's hard to imagine anything else being the number one complaint.
436.
Biocep-R: A platform for scientific/statistical computing in the cloud(biocep-distrib.r-forge.r-project.org)
2 points by goodside 16y ago|0 comments
437.
by goodside 16y ago
This is common practice. It's called an attention placebo. In this study, they used a waiting list control group instead.
438.
by goodside 16y ago
Judea Pearl disagrees.
439.
by goodside 16y ago
"Actually, I’ve found that the more successful and accomplished people are, typically, it seems like the more humble and friendly they are. Additionally, they tend to appreciate the value of networking and make an effort to meet new people
440.
by goodside 16y ago
When I was in high school, I could recite nearly 1,500 digits of pi from memory. This wasn't because I had number-memorizing superpowers, it was because I was a geek and I spent time memorizing numbers. If you look at interviews with top co
441.
by goodside 16y ago
These people's "perfect" memories are purely autobiographical. They cannot memorize large lists of numbers quickly, or recite the entirety of The Bible from memory, or excel at any other task that requires rapid, verifiable memorization. No
442.
by goodside 16y ago
The information content of elementary school math problems is quite high. They contain lots of names of hypothetical multi-ethnic children, statements about adding and taking away apples, amounts of money needed to purchase carpeting for ro
443.
by goodside 16y ago
Before you try to encapsulate common sense in a collection of obvious facts, you might want to start with a simpler task: Collect a database of elementary-school math problems and their associated answers until the database is so large that
444.
by goodside 16y ago
My netbook almost never runs X, but it still has a trackpad.
445.
by goodside 16y ago
Even better, keep them in a GitHub repository and include an installation script. All the comforts of home in a carpet bag.
446.
by goodside 16y ago
The point is that you would never tpye "./ls" when you meant to type "ls". Or at least I wouldn't. I just grepped through (several years of) my bash logs and I have never once in my life typed "./ls", accidentally or otherwise. I consider t
447.
by goodside 16y ago
I'm a non-IT employee (but with a comp-sci background) working in the insurance sector, and I'm currently managing R adoption for a group of about 30 business analysts with minimal programming background. Programming in the business world i
448.
by goodside 16y ago
The blind are blind, not retarded. Sighted people infer the meaning of breadcrumbs from context and blind people can do the same. The ">" symbol didn't start out as being an international breadcrumb sign--it had a different meaning and
449.
by goodside 16y ago
The trick to being nice is that you have to do it even when it seems like a bad idea. This isn't because suffering losses is virtuous, it's because you lack the ability to tell when it's safe to be mean. If you have an extraordinary ability
450.
by goodside 16y ago
Somehow I doubt he's looking to invest in people who would starve to death if their company failed. He asks rhetorically in his response whether college is worth going "a quarter of a million in debt" for, which gives you an idea of who he'

More ›