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| 91. | p-Hacking and False Discovery in A/B Testing (papers.ssrn.com) | |
| 299 points | 2018 | author aisscott showed up | their comment | thread
“We found that people p-hack with traditional t-tests. Most A/B tests were run this way in the past and some still are. The paper is using Optimizely data (from 2014)…” | ||
| 92. | Migrating away from Google Maps and cutting costs (eventsofa.de) | |
| 299 points | 2018 | author _Codemonkeyism showed up | their comment | thread
“, ready to answer questions. Blog seems down, we're haven't been slashdotted for a long time, sorry! [Added some more caching, site works again slowly]” | ||
| 93. | Idle Until Urgent (philipwalton.com) | |
| 295 points | 2018 | author philipwalton showed up | their comment | thread
“Yep, not hiding that fact (I could have easily used a trace with minified code, but I didn't to point this out). Two things though: 1. I used to work on Google…” | ||
| 94. | The Uncharity of College: The Big Business Nobody Understands (conradbastable.com) | |
| 292 points | 2018 | author cjmb showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Another long read -- apologies! The TL;DR of this essay might perhaps be: - College degrees are more valuable than ever in post-industrial economies, so applicants to…” | ||
| 95. | Why Are Enterprises So Slow? (zwischenzugs.com) | |
| 290 points | 2018 | author zwischenzug showed up | their comment | thread
“that's funny, I also wrote about that book here:” | ||
| 96. | 100 days with Rust: a series of brick walls (brandur.org) | |
| 282 points | 2018 | author brandur showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I want to apologize a bit for the tone of this article — it was written from a place of frustration, and this part of the site is very much akin to a development journal…” | ||
| 97. | Why Discord Is Sticking with React Native (blog.discordapp.com) | |
| 278 points | 2018 | author emagicc showed up | their comment | thread
“The startup delay is the extra initialization time that React Native needs. Translating into our discord iOS app, it is the duration of the screen with spinning mascot…” | ||
| 98. | Building Your Own CDN for Fun and Profit (pasztor.at) | |
| 276 points | 2018 | author janoszen showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“This whole setup is built for a comparatively low traffic blog, so DNS caching won't help much. (On normal days I get ~100 visitors.) This is compounded by the TTL which…” | ||
| 99. | Mara: A lightweight ETL framework, halfway between plain scripts and Airflow (github.com) | |
| 276 points | 2018 | author martin_loetzsch showed up | their comment (+5 more) | thread
“Connection information is configured in code through [1], see [2] for an example. It's very easy to run other workloads. Either by directly invoking Python functions…” | ||
| 100. | Dogecoin's inventor looks to the past for insight into the future (motherboard.vice.com) | |
| 269 points | 2018 | author ummjackson showed up | their comment | thread
“I agree! I was calling out Bitcoin's initial goals in the article but don't 100% align with them myself. Financial institutions came to exist for a reason and I'm really…” | ||
| 101. | Fathom – Simple, trustworthy website analytics (usefathom.com) | |
| 269 points | 2018 | author dvko showed up | their comment | thread
“Whoa, I did not expect to see Fathom show up on Hacker News. It's very early but our plan is indeed to go down a similar road as Matomo, albeit more opinionated.…” | ||
| 102. | What the f*** is the edge? (arcentry.com) | |
| 269 points | 2018 | author wolframhempel showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“sorry about the confusion, I can see where you are coming from. But yes, the investor was very much enquiring about whether it is on "the edge" in a cloud computing…” | ||
| 103. | Reach for Markdown, not LaTeX (blog.jez.io) | |
| 267 points | 2018 | author jez showed up | their comment | thread
“I'd like to take a second to point out that the audience I had in mind when writing this article was mostly my fellow classmates in college. In school we were hastily…” | ||
| 104. | Introduction to Calculus with Derivatives (adit.io) | |
| 266 points | 2018 | author egonschiele showed up | their comment | thread
“This is what made derivatives finally click for me (as opposed to the tangent line) so that’s how I wanted to explain it...maybe the same thing would click for others!” | ||
| 105. | Blocked by JSConf.eu Twitter account (medium.com) | |
| 264 points | 2018 | author ondras showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“To clarify: as far as the organizational aspect is considered, those people are competent and top-notch. All the confs were highly professional, their experience with…” | ||
| 106. | Going Global with Your Startup (blog.ycombinator.com) | |
| 261 points | 2018 | author kwindla showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions or talk about other things related to working across national borders.” | ||
| 107. | A step-by-step guide to the “World Models” AI paper (applied-data.science) | |
| 261 points | 2018 | author hardmaru showed up | their comment | thread
“). Happy to answer any questions you may have.” | ||
| 108. | Hidden work when launching a SaaS (workshop.kwoosh.com) | |
| 260 points | 2018 | author jamesvandyne showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“You’ve hit the nail on the head. We actually have soft delete in Kwoosh. We’re using Django on the backend. The way we went about implementing it was with a flag on our…” | ||
| 109. | Timsort is a sorting algorithm that is efficient for real-world data (hackernoon.com) | |
| 260 points | 2018 | author bbno4 showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey! Author here! Thank you so much for posting this here! If you have any questions feel free to ask me” | ||
| 110. | Show HN: Zero – Local file system transparently swapping to the cloud (github.com) | |
| 252 points | 2018 | author konschubert showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Very glad to see that nobody has noticed how slow it is and nobody has made a comment about how messy code is in some places :D Working on both issues. But first I will…” | ||
| 111. | Bitcoin.org removes “fast” and “low fees” from Bitcoin description page (github.com) | |
| 249 points | 2018 | author statoshi showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm the author of the pull request that made this change; feel free to AMA related to it.” | ||
| 112. | Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor? (2017) (journals.plos.org) | |
| 249 points | 2018 | author stochastician showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions! Always a pleasant surprise to find stuff you do making it to HN.” | ||
| 113. | Autopsy of a deep learning paper (blog.piekniewski.info) | |
| 249 points | 2018 | author felippee showed up | their comment | thread
“not the paper). I think you don't understand how science works. The whole point of the exercise (which indeed may have been forgotten these days) is to attack…” | ||
| 114. | WideNES – Peeking Past the Edge of NES Games (prilik.com) | |
| 249 points | 2018 | author daniel5151 showed up | their comment | thread
“If you've got any questions, fire away!” | ||
| 115. | Self-Crashing Cars (zachaysan.com) | |
| 248 points | 2018 | author 3pt14159 showed up | their comment | thread
“I was nodding in agreement with you for your first two points. I don’t think I’ve come to a perfect solution, but I want you to know that I actually have many of the…” | ||
| 116. | Building a fast Electron app with Rust (keminglabs.com) | |
| 248 points | 2018 | author lynaghk showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“For more background on product development about Finda, there are notes on my personal website here: I started this as a UI research project to try and replace OS X…” | ||
| 117. | AMP: the missing controversy (ferdychristant.com) | |
| 247 points | 2018 | author fchristant showed up | their comment | thread
“I have no idea how to stop it. Bad press doesn't seem to matter, as this has been around for years. One longshot I could think of is reporting it to the EU as…” | ||
| 118. | Deep reinforcement learning doesn't work yet (alexirpan.com) | |
| 246 points | 2018 | author alexirpan showed up | their comment | thread
“My intent was to say, "When someone I know asks me if RL is a good idea, the answer is no >= 70% of the time." The important missing piece is that it's conditioned on…” | ||
| 119. | Show HN: Curl for GraphQL with autocomplete, subscriptions and GraphiQL (github.com) | |
| 246 points | 2018 | author alberteinstein showed up | their comment | thread
“You can open GraphiQL on any GraphQL endpoint using graphqurl: gq https://api.yelp.com/v3/graphql -H "Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type:…” | ||
| 120. | A Virtual Machine (craftinginterpreters.com) | |
| 245 points | 2018 | author munificent showed up | their comment | thread
“and uncomfortably excited to discuss this with any and all who are interested.” | ||
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