skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does a human have the capacity to understand the complete workings of an Intel CPU? I doubt it.

But we augment our capacities with tools, something mice don't do.
The author perhaps has neglected the most common compelling use-case for large tv sets in living rooms: live sporting events.
Edit: also, it peeves me when a page intended to convey simple text continually attempts to load something in the background.
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> His book A Jane Austen Education is also very good, even for someone like me who does not love Jane Austen.

Off topic, but you might try Persuasion if you haven't. I've attempted the others but been unable to get past the all-caps-bold-with-flashing-lights SMUG plastered over every page, save for in Emma, which was an excellent first 2/3 of a tragedy ruined by the last 1/3 in which it... isn't a tragedy. Persuasion, though, is snappy and enjoyable, IMO.
While their behavior was entirely legal and protected by the First Amendment, the problem lies elsewhere. It's in the utter lack of tolerance to the views not conforming to the group's, not unlike the reaction religious extremists would display.

Can't help but quote:

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The Emperor summons before him Bodhidharma and asks: “Master, I have been tolerant of innumerable gays, lesbians, bisexuals, asexuals, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, transgender people, and Jews. How many Tolerance Points have I earned for my meritorious deeds?”

Bodhidharma answers: “None at all”.

The Emperor, somewhat put out, demands to know why not.

Bodhidharma asks: “Well, what do you think of gay people?”

The Emperor answers: “What do you think I am, some kind of homophobic bigot? Of course I have nothing against gay people!”

And Bodhidharma answers: “Thus do you gain no merit by tolerating them!”

-- (http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything...)
First, it's from Quicken Loans who is huge. Second, it's just a-ight at this point (I tried it). Third, "could be".
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I think suggestibility wasn't exactly the right word for it. One of the primary characteristics of BPD is a poor sense of self. That is, they are often unsure of what their long term goals are and what their values and opinions are. I think the DSM refers to it as a "pattern of instability of self-image." The thing you linked to phrases it as "A difficult relationship to ‘self’ such as difficulties with identity, self-esteem, feeling ‘different’ to others, or a sense that they are failing in the world."

In the mild or moderate cases a person with unstable sense of self presents as someone who doesn't know what they want in life. In extreme cases, where the patient's view of themselves frequently changes, it would look a lot like DID.

I agree it's not the typical presentation of BPD.
It is dishonest but it's how political conversation has worked for a while now.

1. Create a label.
2. Demonize that label.
3. Associate people with that label.

That is the extent of political conversation. You see it pop up whenever you try to have a discussion on a topic and people start lashing out at things you haven't even thought about much less discussed. They're not having a conversation with you, they've having a conversation with a caricature.
Take a look on study below, with simulations of various types of boarding. Surprisingly random boarding is faster than back-to-front. Faster is outside seats first then middle. And the fastest in fact is outside first and back-to-front, but that would be difficult to force people.

http://menkes76.com/projects/boarding/boarding.htm
https://reason.com/blog/2014/04/06/does-mozilla-dumping-its-...

I'd be a little concerned of the culture at Mozilla though.

Mozilla's current board considers pandering to external forces more important than the old ways - merit, the hacker ethic, professionalism.

I can confirm they have vacant positions, I talked to a few who found work elsewhere after coup removed Eich.

It's sad when a company loses its way, but thankfully chromium is much faster.
ill-defined cohort

The group I mentioned is precisely defined, and 100% opt-in—it's the set of all people who say "I'm only intolerant of intolerance."

all members of the group are irrational and should be ignored

Are you accusing me of thinking that? Because I didn't say that, and I don't think that. Reread my comment: saying "you'll likely be met with vitriol" implies that the converse—that you won't be met with vitriol—is also possible.
Which ideas do they want to censor?

Edit: I'm looking for specific examples. Otherwise we are just feigning outrage.

I had an ex co-worker who confided in me that he doesn't like gay people. I was very happy that he couldn't say that in public.
I was of the opinion that people should have at least given him a chance, he stated that he would respect the Mozilla policies of openness and put his personal beliefs aside and I would have liked to at least see him try.
Would you then also argue that the Hollywood blacklist was morally unassailable?[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist
This was totally my idea :-) Actually mine was a bit different, in mine you loaded into a "cabin pod" with seats and LCD screens for "windows" and then the whole pod gets loaded into the back of a C-130 transport to fly you to your next destination. For safety the pods could have integrated parachutes so in the event of a flight issue they could be ejected and recovered with the people on board safe. Ah well.
You might to find out who you're contemptuously dismissing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Haidt , in particular the first few paragraphs.

If you've progressed to the point where you can dismiss that guy without a thought, given his credentials and accomplishments, I submit to you that alarm bells ought to be going off in your head that you might have epistemologically closed yourself too far.

I'm not saying you're obligated to agree with him. I'm saying if you can't even engage with his arguments, it may be you that has the problem.

I can also recommend:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONUM4akzLGE "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion"
I actually have one of those (or something very much like it from Lenovo). It is probably the least bad keyboard/mouse solution I've run across for a living room PC attached to a TV. But the whole experience still wasn't great.

For now, using either a tablet or a laptop with a Chromecast is the best thing I've run across.
I was originally going to lump this article in with other "men's rights movement" stuff until I saw the author was Jonathan Haidt. I had the honor to take Psyc 101 with Prof. Haidt years ago at the University of Virginia. He was a wonderful teacher who expected the best out of his students. He struck me as a very intelligent man who had put a lot of thought into both what he taught as well as his opinions. When he bring up his own beliefs in class he was very open to letting others voice dissenting opinions. More importantly, he always seemed willing to consider alternative views.

I know this is all anecdotal, but I put a lot of trust in his opinions and pay attention when he says something.

Unrelated, but he gave a great Ted talk in 2008 about the difference between liberals and conservatives: https://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind
Yahoo had one viable product: Yahoo mail. Instead of botching it, in 2010 they had a chance to make the best Android/iOS email/IM client by throwing a lot of weight behind it. The founders of WhatsApp were from Yahoo after all.
What in this article is "disappointing"? I'm curious.
Not affiliated (except that I follow him on Twitter), but the author, Jonathan Haidt, is one of America's pre-eminent social psychologists. He is (or at least was) a liberal who has engaged in some very serious social psychology that gives massive insight into how people tick, especially where those ticks are related to or concerning political party affiliations.

If the idea is to dismiss him as an anti-SJW, or anti-free speech, then I would posit that you're simply inclined to dismiss no matter what. If the complaint is that his work is spreading to, or being adopted by the anti-SJW crowd, that's hardly his fault.

He may not be right, or he may not have done appropriate research, or he may be based (his own studies would suggest that it's inevitable that he is), but any dismissal predicated in part on that he's trolling is almost certainly knee-jerk.
A way to address this might be to add "political opinions" to the list of protected classes. It is undeniably bad for a democracy (I know I know, we aren't technically a democracy) where people aren't free in practice to discuss contentious issues.

As currently stands, you can stand in the town square and promote affirmative action it would be very risky legally to fire you. But if you get up and argue for the repeal of some affirmative action legislation you can be safely fired with no objection from legal.
Another long essay on the english language: Tense Present by David Foster Wallace. It touches rhetoric, conservatism vs liberalism, and offers advice w/r/t how to communicate. And it's laugh-out-loud funny.

This is the PDF version. Because this is a magazine article, the PDF captures formatting detail that an epub version lacks:

http://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/HarpersMagazine-2001-0...
As a tall, large framed man, I often get very strong negative reactions when I am physically fit. And I mean fit not weightlifting bulk. Keeping short hair and a clean shave while swimming regularly is a very utilitarian choice, but you get even stronger negative reactions. The way out? Growing long hair transformed rather negative skin head connotations with a far more teasing Fabio.

Our culture really looks down on the strong male archetype.

PS: Don't believe me? Try growing a natural aka full beard.
It could be both; that when young men have "traditional masculinity" exposed as bullshit (which I agree with) and pulled out from under them, they have difficulty understanding themselves in a world without such a framing device.
JetBlue is the only airline I've been on that loads from back to front or (on one occasion I have experienced) from both the front AND the rear (it was at a tiny airport where we actually walked on the apron to a manual staircase at the rear door).
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Like, if he had donated to Save Kittens & Dogs foundation no one would have cared.

So yeah, it's obviously relevant and I doubt they were making any specific point.
You're oversimplifying "social norms" to the point where you completely neglect the emotional outlets that males DO use.

Outlets (like male-only spaces for one, or sports, for another) that have been demonized by those same people who create this generalized talking point. Many of our boys have lost that outlet. Or don't even know it exists anymore.
Regarding the suspend/resume stuff, which version of Ubuntu are you running? I don't have a problem, but I had to do a couple of things to get it working more like a Macbook: http://karlgrz.com/dell-xps-15-ubuntu-tweaks/
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While simultaneously appealing to a majority.
It turns out that the back-to-front is what they actually do now. I believe the most efficient method, as determined by the Mythbusters, is the WILMA (Window-Middle-Aisle) technique. Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss1S3-Kv6R8
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Set-top box is predominantly MIPS with very few percentage of ARM.
The "PC vocal minority" were Mozilla's own employees and contributors. You can say what you like about the California electorate as a whole but to be against gay marriage in San Francisco is to be an asshole. Eich should have known he was endangering Mozilla's ability to attract and retain talent and outside contributions.
Well damn, I guess it's back to horse shit streets then. On the other hand maybe we should stop making the perfect the enemy of the good.
"I was originally going to lump this article in with other "men's rights movement" stuff"

What?
I'm not a master enough of this subject to form a detailed argument, but I hope we can agree there is a line somewhere between civil criticism and a lynching.

Especially, IMO, in the case of a ballot issue. Are we trying to coerce people to vote the way we want them to? That's unconscionable to me.
At the risk of sounding like a total nutjob, every time I trip, feeling sensations of hair is one thing I always get reminded of.
Well, I could have sworn I remember seeing a benchmark comparing stock vs basically tuned (config files) nginx, hiawatha, and a few others, where stock hiawatha won but tuned nginx beat it out, but I just spent ten minutes or so looking for it and couldn't find it, so I'm going to have to retract my earlier statement I suppose.

Either way, I think Hiawatha is a great webserver that should get more attention. Especially since I am GPL proponent and Hiawatha is one of the only currently maintained GPL webservers.

As a bonus here is a benchmark of nginx and hiawatha under attack. (notice the service drop on nginx)

https://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/weblog/64
Can you not turn off the smart functionality and updates to use it as a monitor/traditional TV?
> As currently stands, you can stand in the town square and promote affirmative action it would be very risky legally to fire you. But if you get up and argue for the repeal of some affirmative action legislation you can be safely fired with no objection from legal.

Legally, promoting either of those opinions is subject to exactly the same degree of protection. The willingness of a particular employer to accept the legal risk maybe different between them, but that's a different issue than the law itself.
The problem is that the current system in practice legally protects certain opinions. E.g. If Eich was pro gay marriage and vocally so, firing him on that basis would have been very risky legally. Especially if he was gay, it would probably be impossible to fire him without losing an expensive lawsuit afterwards.
The no-good verybad wrongthink ideas, of course. What are you, some kind of dissident?
Interesting point. Also, if you look at the time scales, QM wasn't really discovered until we could get tech to go that fast. We had to 'see' it at the 'speed' it was going, otherwise it just blurred out (not just speed but distance and many other units had to be very very finely tuned).

Perhaps with the super large, everything seems to be more static than we'd like it to be. To get a good sense of the systems, we need to let it happen for longer than we have thus far. Dark Matter is an example. We had to watch the stars to figure out they were not spinning at the right rates, and that took a long time to be certain of.

There is a balance here though. With QM it was just a few things, with astro, it is a universe of things and that takes a lot more 'eyes' to be certain of stuff.

I leave out black holes and the interface of QM and GR, because that is a hell of a lot of stuff happening really fast at really small sizes. Granted, it's the interesting stuff, but I feel we have to get real experiments going first before it is prudent to look at. That means some really big telescopes looking for really tiny variations for a really long time. Something funding bodies are not able to justify as of yet.
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When Kevin and Mike started Instagram, they were trying to solve 3 problems [1]:

1. Mobile photos don't look great
2. Uploads on mobile are slow
3. Sharing to multiple services without having to think about which app in advance

Using their app was the way to solve these problems.

So now those problems are solved, and they’ve moved into related spaces. Layout, for example, came about because every other photo collage app either: (1) had a terrible user experience or (2) was plastered with ads (or both).

And remember that before Instagram, they built Burbn, where they learned how confusing feature overload was to consumers.

> While in San Francisco, Systrom and Mike Krieger built Burbn, a HTML 5 check-in service, into a product that allowed users to do many things: check in to locations, make plans (future check-ins), earn points for hanging out with friends, post pictures, and much more. However, recalling their studies in Mayfield Fellows Program, Krieger and Systrom identified that Burbn contained too many features and the users did not want a complicated product. [2]

More than anything else, I think this drove them to focus on simple but great UX and the app; and that's why they don't ship new experimental features as much as, say Snapchat.

The Instagram web app is decent today, but this has changed radically in the past year.

> “While Instagram.com is designed to be complementary to the mobile apps, it’s important to the global conversations that happen on Instagram,” an Instagram spokesperson said. [3]

In the time they idled on the desktop side, some good third party Instagram web viewers were created: Iconosquare, Websta (Webstagram), and INK361 to name a few. Their API access to Instagram was ad free.

But this all changed last week when Instagram announced killing off third party viewers, by stealthily burying the lede in the context of one app that was scraping passwords. [4][5] (They already have OAuth after all.)

So why all this backstory?

Because now they have 300M users they need to monetize.

They’re not killing off “malicious apps”; they’re reducing their competition to have more control over the user experience so they can recapture advertising money. Now the problems they’re solving are for businesses to deliver relevant advertising to their user base [6]. When you’re in the app, they control this whole experience (and the analytics around it). Less so on the wild wild web in the land of ad and tracking blockers. That said, with third-party web apps dying off, I think we’ll see the desktop web app continue to grow and be invested in, though with ads.

P.S. I am a heavy Instagram user (https://www.instagram.com/kicksopenminds/).

1: http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2735

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Systrom#Burbn

3: http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/20/instagram-brings-search-to-...

4: http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/17/9751574/instagram-app-dev...

5: http://www.macrumors.com/2015/11/17/instagram-new-api-change...

6: http://www.forbes.com/sites/thesba/2015/06/19/the-monetizati...
This might be the first time I have seen someone from an Ivy league college not mention the name (intentionally). Why not just say X/Y/Z?
The more the political arena is dominated by money and marketing, the more people will use that language to make their voices heard.
My takeaway from this is that the $80 Apple charger is definitely safer and has higher-quality components than the $12 cheapo Chinese charger, but not nearly so much better that it solely explains the price difference, and that Apple is making a healthy margin on these things. So my question is, is anyone selling a quality charger without the Apple tax? Is there anyone making, say, $40 chargers that have the components of the real thing?
That was pretty hand wavy, particularly compared to this counterpoint:

http://blog.samaltman.com/the-tech-bust-of-2015
No, if the null hypothesis is right that implies that the hypothesis is wrong, but the implication relationship does not go the other direction.

Consider an experiment where your hypothesis is that cold temperatures cause the common cold. This is a good example for a thought experiment because we "know the answer" in a way (there have been a lot of experiments on this). The null hypothesis in this case is that cold temperatures are uncorrelated with incidence of the common cold.

You place people in isolation in cold areas and a control group in warm areas, and study how many get the common cold. None of the people who didn't already have colds get the common cold: because they are in isolation and the common cold is caused by rhinoviruses (which they can't get because they are in isolation), you get exactly the same results.

This disproves the hypothesis, but it does not prove the null hypothesis, that cold temperatures and the common cold are unrelated. Cold temperatures are, in fact, related to the common cold.

Try a second experiment: you place people in groups of five in cold areas and in warm areas, and discover a moderately high correlation between cold temperature and incidence of the common cold. This disproves the null hypothesis. But the simple hypothesis that cold temperature causes the common cold has also been disproven by your first experiment.

The reason for this is that the correlation between cold temperature and the common cold is a dependent correlation: given that rhinovirus is present in the system cold temperature is correlated with incidence of common cold (rhinoviruses reproduce ideally at temperatures significantly lower than human homeostatic temperature).

The null hypothesis is not just a statement that there is no independent correlation, it's a statement that there is no independent or dependent correlation. As such, the null hypothesis is an extremely broad hypothesis which is impossible to practically prove. This is why there's such a focus on finding correlations rather than finding non-correlations: you aren't going to prove the null hypothesis.
Light field cameras are obviously the right way to capture VR video, but Lytro's refusal to disclose any technical details at all in their product announcements has always been annoying. How many image sensors does the Immerge have? What's the final resolution of the composite video? How much does the damn thing weigh?
I am from Brazil, an animal rights group here invaded a laboratory that did experiments with animals, and stole all the dogs.

Later they got backlash for stealing dogs, and not the rats and other un-cute animals, so they invaded again, and released all the other animals.

Then people started to notice that the stolen dogs were being released on the streets too, with the activists realizing they could not care for the dogs.

The laboratory if I remember correctly was working with antibiotics and some other medicine, meaning that people spread in nature diseased animals, or animals that needed medicine to survive anyway.
Having done LSD multiple times earlier in life, I would agree with your assessment.
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> To relate to the topic under discussion, the distribution of possible comments produced by people who have carefully read the article is extremely unlikely to result in a post as extremely misinformed as the one above.

I disagree. There's an alternative hypothesis that could explain a comment like that - the author harbors some confused views about frequentist and Bayesian approaches to statistics. I'm inclined to believe that this hypothesis is right, because I recognize that comment as something I'd write myself back when I was more confused about this topic. Reading the article is unlikely to affect this particular issue.

> Perhaps I shouldn't have said anything if I wasn't willing to write a protracted essay about the differences between frequentist and Bayesian inference.

I think even one sentence explaining the gist of the author's confusion would be enough. Plenty of essays have been written on the topic, but one needs to be pointed in their general direction in order to benefit.
That's an interesting and much more palatable reading! I don't think it's the one the author intended though :-) If the actual thesis is that just marketing is insufficient, the imbalance in what the book covers (90% marketing, 10% product) is even harder to swallow. If these marketing stunts don't matter, why are they being covered almost exclusively in favor of the stuff that does matter?