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They're not making it easy for those who are willing to pay for journalism. I used to be a subscriber to The Economist. They kept showing me unstoppable video adverts right in the middle an article.

I told them if they didn't stop doing that I would cancel my subscription. There was no response to my complaint. I cancelled. They didn't even ask why (and that's in the age of incessant customer satisfaction surveys).

The Wall St. Journal, another paper that I might be willing to pay for, makes it so difficult to unsubscribe that I hesitate to even get the promotional short term subscription. Also, they have a reputation for overcharging in the most egregious ways.

The Financial Times is extremely expensive especially if you need offline (ePaper) access.

So here you have someone who is willing to spend hundereds of pounds per year for news and isn't spending a single penny right now (other than for the mandatory BBC license fee)
I can also say that, when I was starting stats, the term p-value seemed to hint tantalizingly at "probability." I cannot be the only person seduced into erroneously thinking that a p-value had something to do with the probability that something could be untrue.
Spotify won't let you mute during adverts and will pause if it detects the system volume drop quickly.

They can't detect the volume on external speakers. But there's no reason why they couldn't with a microphone.
I have a feeling that if you believed that for rational reasons, you would have listed them. If you don't believe it for rational reasons, why do you believe it?
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But it relies on Pocket successfully extracting the content. Plenty of sites yielded a broken ereader version on my Kobo (mainly missing or unreadable figures).
EDIT: As noted by Paul below, the site is back up.

It is a shame that the main elm-lang.org page is currently down. There are presumably a number of people like me that saw this submission and wanted to see what the language is like...

Anyway, for those those people, the Google Cached version:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:nUPR9wR...
That it's called a "p-value" is rather indicative of it's nebulous nature. For something that is used in a rather applied context, giving it a one-letter name that has zero context is a bit of a cop-out.
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Well a p-value is a probability, so I don't think that's exactly misleading.
Ask HN: Why are there so few features on Instagram's website?
I've posed this question to many people over the last couple years and I could sum up all the responses in a single sentence "They want you to use their app."

That much seems clear but the question still stands as I don't understand what benefit it is to Instagram to have users discouraged from using the browser interface. And why would they build a site at all if they didn't want people to use it? It does not seem that they lack any front-end web engineering talent as the current site has been executed well. The site just lacks a lot of the functionality of the mobile app.
Being on the wrong side of a movement just means the losing side, nothing objective.
Console Wars is a very polarizing book. I basically despise it, it was profoundly disappointing especially since a pre-release excerpt I read was pretty good but totally non-representative.

The book has several problems that made it fail for me. First, it's mostly written as a series of dramatized scenes with dialogue that's both phony and cheesy. Second, it's mainly a book about marketing rather than any of the many things of that period that I'd find interesting. That's just glossed over. Sure, there's a few great stories you can tell about that. (The stunt they pulled to get Sega into Walmart was hilarious). But then it's padded with chapter upon chapter of marketing campaigns or sales junkets that were not interesting or important in any way. Or human interest stories of people who aren't all that relevant to the story.

That leads us to the third problem; the book is just way too long for what it is, due to the writing style and the bad choice of material. Finally, it's a a completely one sided story. The heroes are the dashing and brilliant Sega America marketing people and salesmen, who are undermined by the Japanese bureaucrats and engineers and by the unfair competition from Nintendo. It's as if the only sources for the book were from Sega America.

So buyer beware.
I can't find a quick reference now, but is long known that when we read - at least the educated and well-read adults -, we don't actually go for each individual letter, but we read word shapes and recognize them faster. Fast readers can even compress this recognition for two, three or more words at a time, reading in like flashes.

It takes some training and there are somebooks that exploit this to make you a fast reader.
Very cool - I see many possible uses. Would be cool to hear from current users how they are using it and how the product helped them.
There's some aggressive downvoting going on here.
Love the distinction he makes between technical debt (the codified difference of past and present understanding of the way the system should work) and just sloppy code.

In the regard, you can almost say that technical debt is inevitable since understanding of the problem and solution will likely evolve over time with more experience and user feedback.
Is USAA considered a bank or credit union? Either way, they're easily the best financial institution in the US. They are amongst the most tech savvy because they only have a branch in San Antonio, yet their customers are deployed around the world. For those that don't know, USAA was originally setup only for military personnel and their families. Military families get screwed on credit and insurance because they are frequently moving. Their insurance rates were sky high, despite military bases being relatively low crime. So USAA stated offering insurance as a response. It's also non profit as they send you a rebate check every year for premiums minus losses.

It's a fantastic company that does great things because they want to help people, not grow huge profits. They were among the first to do ATM fee refunds (use any ATM), they never charged fees for using another ATM, were among the first with scanned check deposits, then smartphone camera deposits.

If you're eligible, you really should be using USAA. I prefer them even to the local SF credit unions.

Edit: I guess they are both a bank and insurance company.
> 1. p-values are intrinsically none-too-intuitive

P-values are quite intuitive. They are the ratio of observations made which agree with the null hypothesis to the total number of observations made.

Edit: If you are going to downmod, at least point out the error you perceive.
> The difference between “access without authorization” and “exceed[ing] authorized access.”

I never really understood why this distinction is considered so contentious. The law itself defines "exceeds authorized access" as "to access a computer with authorization and to use such access to obtain or alter information in the computer that the accesser is not entitled so to obtain or alter."

Which isn't that helpful because it's approximately what you would expect it to mean if it wasn't defined. But I'm not sure where the ambiguity between "access without authorization" and "exceeds authorized access" is supposed to come in. The plain meaning is clearly that in one case you have no legitimate access (i.e. the system doesn't allow anonymous access and you have no account) and in the other case you have some legitimate access but not to do what you did. Kerr makes the argument that it is possible for "access without authorization" to imply "exceeds authorized access", but that is one place where the statutory definition is useful: The definition of "exceeds authorized access" first requires you "to access a computer with authorization..."

The real trouble with the CFAA is that it doesn't make the scope of authorization clear in either event. The canonical way people know whether they're authorized to do something to a computer system is that it allows them to do it. If you aren't authorized then it comes back with "access is denied" and you can't do it.

So the only way to break the law is to get the computer to do something it isn't supposed to let you. But where is the definition of that? How are you supposed to know what the computer is supposed to do, if the normal way of knowing that is to look at what it actually does, and the only cases that matter are the ones where that doesn't apply? There may be some obvious cases (e.g. logging in with someone else's account), but by what rule or principle are these cases supposed to be distinguished from others?
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I find it interesting that the network seems to have trouble getting the global structure right. This is particularly clear when the source features a regular pattern that carries through the whole image. If you zoom in on a small enough region of one of the synthesized brick textures, it looks fine, but looking at the whole thing, it's clear that the network doesn't get that it needs to produce identical looking bricks and that the lines need to match up and run parallel to each other, etc.

I wonder if this global structure gets lost in the pooling layers? I'm not sure how global constraints could be enforced across pooling. Part of the pooling layers' job is to provide translation invariance, after all.
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This isn't really correct on either point. A p-value is how a frequentist establishes "statistical significance," which is itself convoluted. It has really nothing to do with validation.

On the second point, frequentists very commonly split training and testing datasets, and so this practice is pretty much orthogonal to whether you're using Bayesian or frequentist methods.
Or we have already discovered some of the impossible to understand laws and we are desperately throwing any theory at these inconsistencies in our understanding to no avail.
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P-Values can be pretty unintuitive to people unfamiliar, but can readily be explained I think.

I do think that this book did an excellent job of explaining it:

What Is a P-Value Anyway?
http://www.pearsonhighered.com/vickers/

Excerpt (starts at p.57 in the link above):

[I]f you do nothing else, please try to remember the following sentence: “the p-value is the probability that the data would be at least as extreme as those observed, if the null hypothesis were true.” Though I’d prefer that you also understood it—about which, teeth brushing.

I have three young children. In the evening, before we get to bedtime stories (bedtime stories being a nice way to end the day), we have to persuade them all to bathe, use the toilet, clean their teeth, change into pajamas, get their clothes ready for the next day and then actually get into bed (the persuading part being a nice way to go crazy). My five-year-old can often be found sitting on his bed, fully dressed, claiming to have clean teeth. The give-away is the bone dry toothbrush: he says that he has brushed his teeth, I tell him that he couldn’t have.

My reasoning here goes like this: the toothbrush is dry; it is unlikely that the toothbrush would be dry if my son had cleaned his teeth; therefore he hasn’t cleaned his teeth. Or using statistician-speak: here are the data (a dry toothbrush); here is a hypothesis (my son has cleaned his teeth); the data would be unusual if the hypothesis were true, therefore we should reject the hypothesis.

[...]

So here is what to parrot when we run into each other at a bar and I still haven’t managed to work out any new party tricks: “The p-value is the probability that the data would be at least as extreme as those observed, if the null hypothesis were true.” When I recover from shock, you can explain it to me in terms of a toothbrush (“The probability of the toothbrush being dry if you’ve just cleaned your teeth”).
I don't know why people are downvoting you. I guess people can't handle opinions that differ from their own opinions.

I have some relatives with an obscene amount of money (collected via govt. corruption in India). This one person has a collection of Hermes bags. I can confirm that they offer her no extra functionality, and only grief. All she seems to worry about all the time is whether people noticed her designer bag or not.
The USA is not a democracy, it's a representative republic.

That's the fundamental difference which means that you can't simply go to the ballot box to fix something. You can go to the ballot box to support people who you believe share your values. Sometimes it works, oftentimes it doesn't.

Unfortunately, it's unlikely that the USA will ever become a real democracy, so we have to make the best of the system we currently have.
It's okay. He got back into their network and is still being paid. Got a raise last month, even.
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Comparing the richness of the user experience for a wide variety of applications of now versus a decade or two ago, I think we are doing plenty of useful things with modern systems that is not actually "bloat".
It's worse than just vagueness. There is a culture of pseudoscientific arrogance and condescension. Foucault's account of the history of psychiatry is a key text. Also, check out Richard Bentall's books.
I knew HP would kill it after acquisition due to rule of no competing product lines (i.e. VMS vs NonStop). I was relieved that they spun it off to another company that began a Xeon port. Two quick questions that you might know already if you've contacted them:

1. Has the company been more clear privately than the website on how long it will be before a Xeon port materializes?

2. Have they significantly reduced the OpenVMS licensing costs that kept many off it?
As a first step, I would try to understand the customers and how they book their flights. Do they use apps, websites or even any technology at all?

Sometimes your target market may not be all that tech-savvy to begin with and would prefer booking over the phone. It is something you'll have to validate with your customers. Once you know them, then you will know what to build. And once you know what to build, you will know if what's out on the market can support their needs.
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In all fairness, Ahmed doesn't probably want the $15M. This number is made up by the parents and lawyers.
I'm not saying it has to be an exclusive development. You can improve the other stuff too, but once relative location becomes a solved problem, it presents bevy of particularly low hanging fruit.

It's also very hard to engineer a boot time down. TFA is a great example of that. Hard means expertise and time and (often) more expensive hardware. So to boil it right down with my car computer example, it's far easier and cheaper to detect the key externally and boot earlier than it is to strip a 10 second boot time down to 0.1 second.

If you can also use that getting-in-the-car time to do other stuff (lookup up recent searches or upcoming appointments and suggesting navigation, setting fuel waypoints if low, getting traffic advice, etc), that's all the better.
Thanks for mentioning Mondragon, more people need to know about the world's largest federation of co-ops:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation
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Dr. Christina Hoff Sommers has done some interesting research, and given many eye opening talks regarding this matter. Reading this article made my morning. It's time we step back and reevaluate the way we are raising the youth. This war on boys is wrong, and could have disastrous effects on our society in the future.
At elementary OS we have "elementary Drive By Contributors" :) https://launchpad.net/~elementary-driveby
Still exist universities that there are even machine coding lessons?
[quote=http://archive-org.com/page/3491382/2014-01-08/http://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=42856]

"In my university there are still assembly lessons. I love assembly. In some other universities there are even binary coding lessons."[/quote]

Still exist universities that there are even machine coding lessons?
"Fast Texture Synthesis using Tree-structured Vector Quantization" by Wei and Levoy is a great.
https://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/texture-synthesis-sig00...

Markov generated infinite multi-resolution textures with a 'Neighborhood Causality' feature that looks like it removes some of the uncanny valley in the article link suffers from.
Not sure about earlier, but this 1986 work is one of the definitive popular books on such issues:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Mistook_His_Wife_f...
What field is "Linux or Windows"?!
I think they meant that maybe we can't discover the final entirely correct ones.
You say doomers took the flag to claim everything is going to crash, but then say we should be in a crash course to change off of oil. Yet we have several decades of known oil reserves, maybe dozens, with room to grow usage.

And given the rapid pace of EV cars, the market is going to solve the oil problem far faster than any mandated crash problem, well within the dozens of years of oil reserves we have left are exhausted.
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Sure - they could certainly make their website more feature-packed, but I think they're wisely focused where their audience is going.

http://cdn1.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2014/05/...

The vast majority of people's photos originate on mobile devices, and consumption of those photos is also trending dramatically upward while desktop consumption is trending down. I believe Facebook sees a future where all interaction is mobile, be that phones or tablets, and they don't want to waste resources building out something they know is destined to continue its decline in relevance.
Why put those arguments aside when it seems like that is the primary reason why non-profit banks can not exist?
I am sure it comes from probability theory, where it is common to use the notation P(x) to mean, "the probability of observing `x`".
The unmentioned perk of 'Read it Later' apps that I haven't seen mentioned: downloading the articles ahead of time while you're on home wifi.

On my phone it's really not a big deal, since the data consumption is minimal. But I like to do longform reading on my Nexus 7, which is a wi-fi only model, and the places where I'm liable to sit around for an hour (i.e. the doctor's office, the gym, a lo-fi coffee shop, etc.) usually don't have accessible wi-fi. The ability for the tablet to sync with Pocket while it's on wifi and have everything cached when I'm off is extremely useful.
With one being on same PDP-11 as UNIX and more portable. The more I learn, the more I want to give modern computing stacks the Double Middle Finger. :)
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Good stuff. A bit more accessible than this free online textbook:

http://www.dspguide.com/
> Even if you are looking for a senior dev, maybe start them out as intermediate for 3-6 months, and then re-evaluate them to see if they've caught up and deserve to be made senior at your shop?

That's hard to do in practice. Do you pay them as if they're an intermediate or a senior dev? If they're really a senior dev who just doesn't know your stack, then you're going to have to pay them senior money. What happens if they don't pick it up as quickly as you hoped, and you have an intermediate dev pulling down a senior dev salary leaving no budget to hire a real senior? That's an awful position to be in - development groups without strong technical leadership have high turnover and low velocity. It's almost always better to hire the right person up front.

Ideally you can promote from within for those types of positions, but not every company has a deep bench of talented people.
> And my mother was a damn magician at making impossible ends meet without belaboring her tricks (like biking an extra 15 minutes to find the lowest price on milk).

This line really hits home for anyone growing up lower-middle class.
The coin example makes perfect sense to me and I had no idea what a p-value was before I read this article.

Here's an intuitive explanation: a p-value is the probability of getting your experimental results given that your hypothesis is wrong.
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> no matter how hard you try you can never teach a mouse to understand French.

Maybe because a mouse is not even aware of "French". At least, humans are aware of the universe, they may not understand it completely but they are aware of it.
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I'm not aware of any law precluding not-for-profit banks. E.g. USAA's banking arm is a quasi not-for-profit bank: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/01/in-the-e....
I'll add that if you're in the US and filing a schedule C (sole proprietorship), standard tax software like TurboTax covers pretty much everything a one person consultancy is likely to encounter.
Yahoo Japan is strong though not majority owned by Yahoo itself. I think if you look at markets outside of just the US you'll find that the landscape is sometimes more diverse. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/04/24/reference/yahoo-...
My university included it (3 years ago), but only a little. It is part of understanding how a computer works, so it should be included, but the skill is not in demand enough to spend a lot of time on it.
It starts before the ballot box, winning over voters. And that takes money.
I disagree. It totally depends on what your expected end-user experience for each of those might be.
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> "We can't tell you what it is but sign up!"

This approach rarely works on HN. Much better to launch your project then come back to show the community.
I like that you are saying people in their 20s making 6 figures are wage slaves. That is a worldview I never really even considered, so you have opened my mind to new possibilities.
Especially when publication bias comes into play: https://xkcd.com/882/
The point of p-values is to limit false positive rates.

If you only accept results with p-value <= 0.05, your false positive rate is at most 5%. Of course, if you had apriori knowledge that everything was a "null result" , then 100% of the results you accept would be false positives.

By Bayes' theorem, P(H|D) = P(D|H) * P(H) / P(D) . Therefore, given a fixed "prior probability" of a hypothesis P(H), a lower p-value (P(D|H)) implies a lower probability of the null being true. I think this relationship leads to a lot of confusion when thinking of p-values.
If I am understanding you correctly, you are saying it's not that they want you to users to use their mobile app but the trend is towards mobile consumption so they don't want to spend as much of their resources on the web?
> the Bayesian approach is to split the data into training and test sets, and verify how much of it holds.

The Bayesian approach would be to say that the thing you generally want to know isn't {the probability of getting this result by chance if the hypothesis is false}, it's the probability the hypothesis is true, given everything you know up to and including the new data.

So they would calculate p(hypothesis is true given the new data) using Bayes theorem -- which requires inputting what they thought p(hypothesis is true) was at the start of the experiment, before the new data came in.

http://www.yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes is a decent explanation.
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