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stil··on Ask HN: How do I switch from being a passive consumer to an active producer?
++, I'm in the middle of a project that was supposed to be a quick 2-3 weekend deal. It's now taken much longer than I originally hoped, and I'm constantly tempted to give up/set it down for another few months but I know I just need to reformulate a plan and finish it instead of starting other things and having 2-3 half assed projects.
stil··on Q – Initiative to build commercially available universal quantum computers
Don't forget cryptography.
stil··on One Step Closer to a Closed Internet
I almost started planning a move based on internet service availability. I was considering only cities with Google fiber
stil··on Hacking the Hivemind: Predicting Comment Karma on Internet Forums (2014) [pdf]
bcherny is saying that karma's primary function is content curation. sure, you might like a few downvoted submissions from time to time, but for most content karma scores will be saving you time sifting through a sea of content. removing content by hand requires an active and vigilant moderation team, user votes help mitigate that burden. Also, the power to 'delete' is most likely a slippery slope...
stil··on A college student’s individual analysis of productivity of four years (2016)
I think this record of academic performance speaks more about the individual rather than the "usual suspect" correlations. For instance, she clearly is the type of student that meets a challenge head on (by coming back from a poor midterm) - which would negate the correlation between time spent studying and GPA (more time spent to just recover a grade). She also did not say whether worst test scores are dropped and how that was treated. She has good habits and sleeps as much as she should, but what about exercise? There's a lot of research that supports the claim that cardio activity improves brain function. It's too bad she didn't pay more attention to this. Still, a very determined 4 year analysis.
stil··on Show HN: Pydb – a lightweight database with Python syntax queries, using ZeroMQ
Reminds me of the time I lost a solid hour because the pip repository name was different than the module name.
stil··on Firefox 51.0
Does that address the instances where you can click login and save password, but the next time you go to log in, it won't remember your username and password?
stil··on How insects like bumblebees do so much with tiny brains
That's so different from our concept of vision. It would be like watching a web cam that surveils a park, but only refreshes small bits of the screen at a time. You might see a headless woman strolling along, etc