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sgibat··on Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels
It would be nice if you showed which finger to use for each character for proper home-row-typing.
sgibat··on OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin
What's that process like? How do you use it when writing drafts?
sgibat··on Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?
Moving to a role with more impact might be motivating and fulfilling. Check out 80,000 hours [https://80000hours.org/] - they're a non-profit that researches how to best use your career to help others.
sgibat··on StateOfTheArt.ai
Really awesome, definitely bookmarking. Couple points:

- Shouldn't you link to the arxiv page instead of the PDFs in case there's a revision?

- What about a column for "area" as well? Would be nice to scroll through and see what areas have made progress relative to others lately.

- Some sort of very brief mini-about/summary at the top of the main page wouldn't hurt. A tagline of some sort.

- Now I notice there's an About under the hamburger menu -- why not just display HOME and ABOUT instead of hiding them in a menu? You don't have enough menu options to need to hide them in a hamburger menu.

sgibat··on OxyContin billionaire has patented a drug to wean addicts from opioids
If you read the patent, this is simply a faster dissolving suboxone, which is already an extremely common form of substitution therapy. This isn't anything radically new. I would say it doesn't deem itself worthy of patent, but I know nothing of patent laws.
sgibat··on Adversarial Reprogramming of Neural Networks
It could be the beachhead of a larger attack. You could use the model's authority to steal its data or gain access to other resources.
sgibat··on Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?
people would buy this.
sgibat··on Show HN: Use Slack for Everything
why limit this to slack? make it a general purpose text command workflow. terminals, email, anything.
sgibat··on Should cars be fully driverless? No, says an MIT engineer and historian
this is why many people prefer driving a manual.
sgibat··on A game whose source code fits in one tweet
Better yet, set a variable to Date.now since it's called twice.
sgibat··on Show HN: MapChat – A simple location based chat in 300 lines of code
The most recent chats should have a higher z-index.
sgibat··on PyPy.js: A fast, compliant Python implementation for the web
have you looked into CoffeeScript? it's slightly more pythonic than JavaScript.
sgibat··on Show HN: My Personal Hacker News Reader
this is good. I like the UX. one suggestion is to make the logo much smaller on article pages. it is nice, but unnecessarily large (as is the top margin on article pages).
sgibat··on Notes on the Celebrity Data Theft
A good password doesn't need all that stuff. Just use something of sufficient length. A sentence, for example.
sgibat··on My year with a distraction-free iPhone
Is it really that much of a pain? It only takes a few minutes.
sgibat··on Codefund – Crowdfunding for Aspiring Coders
True, it's a debt-based solution, but the most innocuous of debt-based solutions. But, I like your sentiment/mission statement.
sgibat··on Codefund – Crowdfunding for Aspiring Coders
Funny, I had this idea as well. What about abstracting the app academy model and vying for investors instead of donators? That is, people could donate money in exchange for x% of the applicant's first year of income after coding school.
sgibat··on Microsoft Looks to Cut Up to 18,000 Jobs
Is this going to bloat the Software Engineer market? Do we know what percentage are developers?
sgibat··on Please.js – Random Pleasing Colors
Very similar to randomColor.js: http://llllll.li/randomColor/

Definitely need a contrast mode. I've been thinking about forking randomColor.js for the last week to implement that feature actually..

sgibat··on Show HN: Never lose a website again
I love this idea. Chrome's history is insufficient; I swear, it often doesn't record sites I've visited. But.. I'm not ready to trust an unknown process sending my entire browsing history to unknown servers. Excited for a potential local version.
sgibat··on Papers, Please: The 'boring' game that became a smash hit
I didn't find the actual comparison work difficult at all. I always had plenty of money and explored the endings freely. Then again, I used to work in the Census Bureau and spent a lot of time increasing my efficiency at very similar tasks.
sgibat··on Flappy Space Program
Try the up arrow.
sgibat··on 50 days of "The Scientific 7-Minute Workout"
No offense, but I question whether you were working out properly previously.
sgibat··on Facebook machine learning technology improves; Redditors alaramed.
It didn't work like that. It was a plain blank text field among a couple other blank text fields. No search was brought up upon data entry. Very innocuous; Perhaps that why you don't remember it.
sgibat··on How I Became a Programmer in ~12 Weeks
What did you actually program though? That's all I want to know. What did you build and how did you decide what to build? How small did you start? What was the biggest project you undertook before you got hired?
sgibat··on Microsoft, Apple and 27 other tech companies backing SOPA indirectly
That is the point.
sgibat··on Once again, praise kids for effort, not for 'smarts'
I was praised for being smart, and my experience, at least, is more similar to the article's.
sgibat··on The Age of Music Piracy Is Officially Over
hm, in my extensive experience, v0 is the most popular bit-rate by a large margin. usually releases are offered in a number of bit-rates.
sgibat··on NASA to Hold News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery
Maybe no one has contacted us because we haven't been broadcasting our existence for long enough.
sgibat··on Invisible Bike Helmet Inflates Before Impact
But more people would wear something that is fashionable so it's worth creating.
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