skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
News for me too. I had read that quote in a different context and had assumed it to be true. Good little gem to learn.
> The advantage a website gives them is more users using their product more often which means more money from their advertisements.

Not really. For example, Facebook has proven that more people are drawn to mobile. While they may gain some new users, it is going to be negligible to their current base. In addition, I would bet that those users find them and signup via the web will be users who do not use the app.

> My personal experience is that I am discouraged from using their site. When I want to tag a user in a comment, or see who has liked a photo or look through my list of followers I feel discouraged and I close the browser tab.

This may be your experience, but I would bet that you are a minority in the larger scheme of things.

> This is easily avoidable by just using their current UX of uploading pictures in their mobile app. Namely, one at a time. Putting this into their website wouldn't allow users an easy way of uploading 100's of images at once.

True. But the desktop is not their focus.

> My interpretation of this is that your opinion is the perfect web product for Instagram is one that people don't use. Which I guess brings us back to the beginning question. :)

No, my interpretation is that Instagram was not built as a web product. It was built as a mobile product and the web is secondary to that. They are focused on building the best product to meet their demand, and unfortunately for you their demand is not on a browser-based solution.

Not to be rude but I think you are looking for a deeper reason why they don't have a web app, when in reality the reason is simple. Again, the purpose of Instagram was to capture photographic moments in time via your mobile device and share those moments with others. They built a successful product around that and to meet that need.
No, the referred article doesn't claim that. In fact it draws a distinction between people having ADD and people with ADT.

Have a look: https://hbr.org/2005/01/overloaded-circuits-why-smart-people...

Unlike ADD, a neurological disorder that has a genetic component and can be aggravated by environmental and physical factors, ADT springs entirely from the environment. Like the traffic jam, ADT is an artifact of modern life. It is brought on by the demands on our time and attention that have exploded over the past two decades. As our minds fill with noise—feckless synaptic events signifying nothing—the brain gradually loses its capacity to attend fully and thoroughly to anything.
This is the reason I keep two HN accounts - I fear that any political comments I make here could jeopardize my professional life (about which I contribute fairly often).

Online, that's a fairly easy thing to manage. In real life, it means I really have to walk on eggshells a lot, and I seldom participate in voicing my opinions (or supporting certain causes) in which I'd otherwise participate, solely out of fear. In many cases, you can keep your personal views and professional life isolated, but not always. Maybe it's an irrational fear, but then again, in today's political climate it seems foolish not to worry about that.

And if that need to self-censor isn't cause for concern, I don't know what is.
Yes it would be. Imagine the outcry if a school hung up a sign going "No blacks allowed".
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I don't doubt at all Haidt is qualified.

My complaint was more to your second point, that "If the complaint is that his work is spreading to, or being adopted by the anti-SJW crowd, that's hardly his fault." I do see a problem with how one-sided the comments on the page (Heterodox Academy) are, and I do think that he should have stepped in. Then, when I came to Hacker News, I saw similar comments, and that was disheartening.

My distaste really came from comments like these, on the main page: "My white male sons are now 30 and 28. I’m so happy they escaped public high school relatively unscathed, but I could see the beginnings of the nonsense, led by a faculty of activist females and male eunuchs. Public schooling in this country may have begun with noble intent; kids are now truly being inculcated rather than educated." and "You state this like it is an article of faith that women would be totally rad in STEM if only men would stop holding them back. What makes this “sketchy”? There is an abundance of evidence that men and women are different and think differently. There is almost no evidence that women will change that position based on upbringing." and then on hnews itself: "#KillAll(White)Men is literally calling for ethnic / gender purging." (though it was downvoted).

It would be great to have a conversation with Dr. Haidt, but I was turned off by how both Heterodox and Hacker News turned into "amen" forums. There were two students who posted on Heterodox, and they had some interesting points, some of which disagreed with Dr. Haidt.
I wish there was some way that Twitter et al could automatically filter hate messages. Some sort of clever language processing system that can detect tone?
"One of the year's biggest albums, Adele's 25, was released on November 20, but not made available on Apple Music, Spotify, or any other streaming app by the artist's own decision."

Compare this to Chris Dixon's:

"The internet renders business models focused on scarcity and litigation obsolete."

https://medium.com/@cdixon/lessons-from-the-pc-video-game-in...
I mean, yes, you're right, but surely, if voicing a dissenting opinion will damage or outright destroy your career, then unless you're extremely privileged and can afford to take the hit, you can't really do it, even if technically you have the right, can you?

Technological advances such as social media make vilifying dissenting views (and the people who express them) cheaper and more effective than ever before. There must be some kind of a balance between the right to dissent and the right to "have a displeasure with an opinion" as you said, and I feel like the way things are going now, it doesn't look like we have found that balance. Ultimately a healthy society will need both.
Well, to be fair they do parse it, extract the hostname, then do the ridiculous "if hostname.endswith('dell.com')". The simple fix is to replace it with '.dell.com', but they didn't do that. No, they 'upgraded' their 'authentication' mechanism (just a sha256 hash of a hard-coded GUID + the current time) and called it a day.

Oh, and they obfuscated the binary for iron-clad maximum security.
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I love that this side never gets flagged off the front page.

I also love that there is absolutely no mention of the content that led to a student asking if the content was meant to excuse rape.

Boy gee, I sure wonder why that was left out.

And holy shit do I love that every single last person I've seen whining about safe spaces have been straight white men that have never had to seek out such a space in the entire god damn lives.
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Thanks for the context. I hope the new laws can be immunized against ACTA redux, i.e. TTIP. Every victory counts, as an opportunity to collect real-world data on the benefits of good legislation.
The article headline is incorrect. Theoretical Computer Scientists are mathematicians as well...
The conversations about Brandon Eich and his views regrettably died down before the Donald Sterling incident. I am still curious today where defenders of Eich fall in the controversy over Sterling.

Will anyone who defends Eich or is critical of his detractors come out and say that Sterling should not have received the wrath of the media and public and should not have been punished for expressing his views?

Or does your position shift based on the opinion being expressed by either man? Are there materialistic differences between these men and their beliefs?
My wife went to one of the 7 sisters. She said 'This happens every 3-5 years with regularity. Just wait for the cocaine to run out. Things will quiet down after that'
This inspired a project I worked on with some collaborators a while back. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10773 and code: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/thingking

We used it to enable analyzing trillion particle dark matter simulations a halo at a time, as though they were local. It was fun. We made it part of the way into implementing an fopencookie version, but ended up moving on to other projects.
My belief is that p-values are popular exactly BECAUSE they can be misunderstood so easily as the answer to the question people really want answered. Namely, "What are the odds that this is the right answer?"

I many years of experience in helping people understand A/B testing. And I have found that no matter how many times you give a correct explanation, people will have this exact misunderstanding. Repeatedly.

So if you're A/B testing, here is something to consider. If you successfully set up a testing culture where you decide at a 95% confidence level, and are running one A/B test per week, you will make an average of 2-3 mistakes per year. In the long run, mistakes are unavoidable. You will make mistakes. The only question is how often you make mistakes, and how bad those mistakes are.

P-values manage to bound how often you make mistakes with the trick of most of the time saying you couldn't figure out an answer. THIS IS USELESS FOR A BUSINESS. A business needs to decide what text to use, even if they're not confident.

Your A/B tests should always produce a usable business answer. The question of interest is how often you make bad mistakes and how bad they are. And p-values are useless for that.
That's why there's always a seperate reboot option which tells the fairy to do her job.
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HOW DOES NO ONE UNDERSTAND WHAT FREE SPEECH ACTUALLY MEANS?!

Free speech, to anyone who leans conservative, means their right to say offensive bullshit free of any consequences. Someone else uses their agency or free speech to exclude your disgusting speech? WELL GUESS WHAT? That's free speech too.
Theoretical computer science is mathematics
> 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.

Yes, there is, and what Eich experienced was not only not a lynching [0], it was quite far from the line that separates criticism from lynching.

[0] in case there is a lack of clarity, this is a lynching: http://abhmuseum.org/2012/01/an-iconic-lynching-in-the-north...
It's more likely a bold overstatement made by a superficial onlooker. Wozniak describes the same power supply here: http://archive.woz.org/letters/general/35.html , in these terms:

Other hobby computers of the day used inefficient power supplies. The Apple ][ was the first computer ever to use a plastic case. The heat buildup using even my own power supply design (inefficient type) would have been too great. Steve tapped an Atari engineer, Rod Holt, to design a switching power supply that was much more efficient and generated less heat. Rod also keyed us into the fact that the plastic case wouldn't conduct heat well. At this point in time we took pride in being the first computer to use a switching power supply. Steve was proud of the fact that we didn't need a fan and seems to hold to that ideal to this day.

So:

* Holt designed a switching power supply which employed a patented addition to an otherwise well-known topology (it's a flyback power supply).

* Computers nowadays "rip off" the same design that Holt ripped off, they all use flyback PSUs.

* I doubt that the Apple II was really the first computer to use a switching-mode power supply, but linear supplies were pretty common among hobby computers back then. The Commodore 64 had one, for instance.

The downvoted comment about Jobs being an ignorant liar is probably spot-on.
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If i flipped a regular coin 1000 times, and happened to get 900 heads in a row, you may think 'hey, something is wrong with this coin' - however, could you be sure something is up? How would you go about telling whether something is really up, or if this is just a fluke chance this one time?

The motivation for the p-value is to tell you what the probability of a fluke chance this would be.

The way to do better is to run the experiment over and over, flipping this coin 1000 times again, and again. However, since science experiments are extremely expensive, instead we only run them one time, and try to 'make sure this wasnt some fluke chance'.
Revenue > Form > Function
An actual Thing King: https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xnyn9l0hxSs
Also from the fact that he doesn't know what he's talking about.
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Being part of nature comes with no moral qualifications. The fact that can't "live outside nature" implies that everything you do is living inside nature, whether you find it morally repugnant or not. We have (social) responsibilities to each other and to ourselves, and that includes taking care of our environment, but we do not have any metaphysical responsibility to nature itself, including such things as "not ruling over it."
I know that Go is looking to add support for loading code at runtime, so a plugin system doesn't seem out of the question once it's landed.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nr-TQHw_er6GOQRsF6T43GGh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit

It might not be a lie, but it is bullshit.

> On Bullshit (2005), by Harry G. Frankfurt, is a philosophical essay that presents a theory of bullshit that defines the concept and analyzes the applications of bullshit in the contexts of communication. As such, bullshit can be neither true nor false; hence, the bullshitter is someone whose principal aim — when uttering or publishing bullshit — is to impress the listener and the reader with words that communicate an impression that something is being or has been done, words that are neither true nor false, and so obscure the facts of the matter being discussed.[1] In contrast, the liar must know the truth of the matter under discussion, in order to better conceal it from the listener or the reader being deceived with a lie; while the bullshitter’s sole concern is personal advancement and advantage to their own agenda.
The US only recently started targeting Oil trucks and rigs. For over a year, ISIS was making millions of dollars of oil money every month money via Turkey. The US was never serious about degrading ISIS. To me personally, it appeared to be just a time-holding tactic to get rid of old munitions and have a war on the cheap until Obama passed from office and could give the entire mess to his successor.

It was only after the Russians started making the US look incompetent by flying more sorties in a couple of days then the US did in a month, did the US begin to start bombing in earnest.

Even laughable is PBS showing footage of Russian bombing and claiming it to be American.
http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/blogs/ombudsman/2015/11/23/bomb...
Lots of pivots. Lots of places where they could have given up.
Is the video broken for anyone else?
The friendly default is to allow a backup checking or savings account to handle the overdraft.

However, upon creation of new accounts in the past 2-3 years, they offer the predatory BoA-style overdraft protection. It's opt-in, so I imagine very few customers choose it. Still, I was dismayed to see it even being offered. It is completely out of place with the rest of the USAA offerings.
I know I am missing the point here, but Pocket's stats seem a little off to me.

It claims at 1M words is about 22 books. Googling around it seems like ~90k words is a normal adult book. So 1M words is more like reading 11 books, not 22. Pocket is assuming people read very short books (which may be the case).
I don't know why this is down voted. This has happened to me many times.
How about: The p-value is, in a statistical hypothesis test, the probability of Type I error, that is the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is true.

Or, suppose we have some data and want to use it to estimate the value of some number b. It can be that if we can assume something about b, e.g., that b = 0, then we can calculate the probability distribution of our estimate of b. This assumption about b is the null hypothesis.
Intuitively it is a hypothesis that there is no effect, that what we thought might have happened didn't, was a null effect.

We can make two mistakes. We can reject the null hypothesis when it is true -- this is called Type I error. Or we can accept the null hypothesis when it is false -- this is called Type II error.

With our null hypothesis, we get and look at the distribution of our estimate of b and see where our actual estimate is in that distribution. The p-value is the probability, from the distribution of our estimate, of getting an estimate as far or farther from our null hypothesis value for b as we did. So, if the p-value is really small, say, 1%, then we can reject the null hypothesis, that is, say that it is false, and be wrong only 1% of the time.

E.g., if our null hypothesis is that b = 0 and our estimate of b is 10 and from the distribution of our estimate a value of our estimate being as far as 10 from b = 0 is 1%, then we reject that
b = 0 and conclude that it b is not zero and are wrong only 1% of the time. If the probability of our estimate being greater than or equal to 10 is 1% and we reject the null hypothesis, then we conclude that b > 0.

This is all just hypothesis testing in statistics 101. Will also want to know about the power of a test, the t-test, the F ratio, the chi-squared test, and resampling and distribution-free tests.

There is more detail in

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_I_and_type_II_errors
Now do the cord, and find out why they always turn to shit.
I think the idea of a retrospective is the most potent and valuable item coming from scrum these days (we'll certainly from "we do a modified form of scrum here")
> Why does Apple continue to ignore strain relief on their cabling?

The 43% profit margin mentioned in the article definitely won't incentivize them to improve.
> However, an argument could be made that in a free society there's a fundamental right to have a dissenting opinion or voice

Since we're not talking about the constitution, which strictly relates to government and public property, then we're talking about private entities and private property.

You do not have the right to speak on my property. Forcing that is in direct contradiction to a free society that has a concept of private property.

I am all for fostering tolerance to offensive speech, but not at the expensive of destroying the concept of private ownership. It is absolutely not a fundamental right. It should be a social norm, but that's all it should be.

> It seems to me that it's up to all of us to tolerate non-extreme dissenting voices

Who gets to define what is and is not extreme?

Freedom of expression means tolerating something offensive by definition. If it's not offensive, it doesn't need to be tolerated.
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So far I've used about 7 cheapo MacBook chargers off eBay - I have two right now, and have, over the years, given the other 5 away.

While a couple of them have died, so have my original three MacBook chargers. None of them has killed or damaged mine, or anyone else's MacBooks.
I'm so sad to see MagSafe was replaced with USB-C in the new MacBook. Hopefully they don't deprecate MagSafe for larger laptops. I won't mind USB-C + MagSafe charging capability though! ;)
It's not programmable, there are two LEDs (well, 4 total) in the magsafe connector: one orange, one green.

The same guy did a write up on the protocol used to communicate with the magsafe tips. It can also be used to trigger the above LEDs:
http://www.righto.com/2013/06/teardown-and-exploration-of-ma...
I have been doing my bookmarking with Pinboard.in which also happens to have a "Read It Later" feature that I've been using now after I stopped using Pocket and Firefox few months ago (stopped using them together). It works really great. On OSX I use Shiori app (for both bookmarking and RIL) and on Android I use Pindroid (a 3rd party app) that adds two options "bookmark" and "read it later" options in Android's "share" pick menu.

However I must say their official browser extensions leave a lot to be desired and that honestly is sad.
Work from home is remote work.

Unless you're talking about "get rich working at home, you made $3500 this week in 2 hours" type of working at home.
The concept presented here of "seeking justice by appeal to the majority" reminds me of the Twitter phenomenon in which people learned that the only way to get customer service from Google/Ubisoft/Bank of America/(insert giant faceless company) was to tweet a grievance publicly. It seems to work well, at least in a few high-profile cases. At least, it worked a few times when private requests failed. Perhaps people are learning by example?

The old-fashioned ("culture of honor/dignity"?) style of one-on-one negotiation is often futile when you are dealing with a company.
Archive.org keeps at least two copies, Jason Scott probably kept one somewhere, but nothing official. You should grab it too - and join #internetarchive.bak on efnet if you want to help backup more collections :)

Also https://archive.org/donate/
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How does Hugo compare to Harp? http://harpjs.com/

I've been enjoying Harp's ability to easily launch a web server for local development using jade + scss and compile everything to html and css before pushing to GH pages.

Any benefit of switching to Hugo?
What's the point if Ceylon already compiles to Javascript?
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Or more likely that's how most people are and ADHD is just an excuse to sell more drugs (at least for the most moderate cases)
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To be fair, this isn't "my" example. I selected it from the book above as a pretty good example from the book targeting p-value, the subject of this thread. It is part of a larger scheme of examples and explanations in the book. The book itself goes through and clears up things like "null hypothesis" and "at least as extreme as" using other examples.

That one quote wasn't really meant to take the layman from zero to "p-value master" in a handful of sentences.
The commentators are self selecting - if they strongly agree, they comment, which they have. You're still trying to dismiss the article based on people having opinions different than yours, rather than critiquing the article itself.
Of course intent doesn't change the harm done to victim, but I believe it definitely changes the way we should look at the perpetrator.

In a perfect world, the only thing that would matter in a justice system would be intent - it would determine whether one's to be punished or left alone. The issue of harm to the victim could be covered by insurance. But such a system would require something that could determine intent and rely it truthfully. We don't have such an instrument, so we're stuck with a system that considers everything but intent in order not to get gamed too easily.

Again, what I think we need to figure out is not how to just limit harm done to the victim (which, of course, is not dependent on intent), but how to push back against the perpetrators who are clearly acting in bad faith but stay on the legal side. Just like we don't only instruct people to keep their valuables safe - we also go and catch thieves.