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I agree that artificially imposing a "fair and balanced" framework onto news/discourse is a bogus concept as, like you say, the centre of gravity can be shifted in favour of nonsense ideas just by posing the question.

But in your second paragraph, you seem to imply (maybe I'm wrong here) that there is a sense of objectivity inherent in news reporting, because the reporting leads logically from the facts. However, the facts are hand-picked, meaning bias is unavoidably baked into the premise. In which case we are no closer to avoiding "focussing on opinion diversity", as the same opinion diversity arguments apply to choosing the facts on which to report.

edit: RTFA
It depends on your luck... and I am unlucky. My knock-off charger completely destroyed the power supply in my MacBook Pro after a few months of using it.
I have extremely mixed feelings about all of this.

On the one hand, I think the whole point of university is debate, discourse, critical thought. The apparent trend away from liberalism is very distressing.

On the other, I sympathize with the notion that liberalism can often be a way for the privileged to entrench their privilege, and that unprivileged voices don't benefit from it equally. If you're black and you believe that black americans are owed reparations, you probably can't say that freely without expecting some negative repercussions in your future life: you'll be judged and categorized, marked as "uppity". Liberalism doesn't exist in a vacuum: we have to take into account other societal truths when we're evaluating its effects.

I don't have a great handle on how to reconcile all of this.
Don't forget the possibility that the reporting might be inaccurate.

Did he shoot harmlessly in the air during a robbery, and then get 44 years for "attempted murder" because he's black? Or did he leave a police officer in a coma for life after torturing him for days? Or did he get 8 years for attempted murder and then commit additional crimes while in prison?

We don't have enough information to know.
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And go where? Is there any real alternative? Why does the victim have to be the one to leave?
I'm not completely firm on this (and appreciate corrections) but it appears that you could get these benefits without a client-side router? I. e. it's perfectly feasibly to render a different page/view when a link is clicked without a router by just changing the state and swapping out components.

As I understand it, client-side routers manage the relationship between URLs and state. The parts of state that are relevant when a page/view might be bookmarked/shared etc. are encoded in the URL, and a given URL can be decoded into an initial state.

I'm now wondering if the first direction (state->url) couldn't just be thought of as a component. It just extracts parts of state and renders it into a string. The other direction would then be an action.
I do the same. But I did have one fray at the end that plugs into the Mac once, so failures do happen.
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> [forgive me if I misunderstood the topic]

You didn't misunderstand at all!
When I stated that, I mean two different things:

- Kernel hardening

Kernel hardening is when you take the kernel and add patches/configure it to be more secure, like grsecurity.

- Userland hardening
This is when you do exactly what you're talking about: you restrict what the userland can do and configure userland programs to be more secure (ie turning off insecure Apache options). This could also mean jailing or containerizing them.
It is fairly rigid, but there's some flex. It just seems to make it so there's not such a sharp "curve", if you will, if you wrap the cable, at the end, where it seems to fray the most, and where I noticed the most wear.
> Expressing opinion about merits of Angular.js is probably safe.

As long as you don't say that Angular is better or anything else that might be construed as you supporting meritocracy...
The acceptable rate is that at which the accounting and legal cost of shuffling the company around for a tax break doesn't make sense.

That may be closer to zero than you'd like, but it's certainly more than zero.
Its indeed unclear how they will make money. For now they are financed. Last I heard there is big money to be made from data as well ;-)

The plans are big so we have to see.
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It also frails at the MagSafe end, where gravity naturally twists it. I had this happen to mine (after 5 years).
Once you'd committed one crime, that would remove the primary deterrent against committing more (as long as they were no more serious than the first).
You think it's OK for a majority to say that racial Jews should not have property rights and then make it so? Eich achieved hos goal of writing oppression into the state constitution. Ignoring or tolerating promotion of oppression doesn't make it go away. (That's exactly the fair and balanced horseshit I was talking about.) Tolerating morally neutral actions is entirely different from tolerating morally bad actions.

Pretending that Eich's treatment for promoting oppression (or even the downvotes I've received for stating my views or you may have received for stating yours -- I've seen a lot of handwringing in this thread about maintaining multiple HN accounts and self-censoring themselves on HN as if that was some great horror) are in any way equivalent to actually taking away rights is another form of fair and balanced horseshit.
This might just be personal preference, but it seems that "current thread" is the more pure representation of (that part) of the current state, and the URL/route should be the derived attribute.
never heard of natalism before, good formalism there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalism
In order to use p-values properly, that is to make decision, you should explain what are you going to do with the information that the p-value provides. Rejecting the null hypothesis when the p-value < 0.05 is a sensible thing, but making a strong decision when the p-value is < 0.0001 doesn't make sense in many circumstances. You should have a scheme for the decision before having the p-value.
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Happily, this also doesn't happen in the US. Simply failing to pay your taxes will result in your wages being garnished.

Jail is not involved for failing to pay your taxes--you have to do a lot more than that to actually invoke criminal penalties for tax-related stuff.
Supposedly there is a Hong Kong billionaire who has regular blood infusions from a stable of healthy young people he keeps around.
A few comments on social media do not in any way allow one to draw conclusions about the alleged bigotry (or not) of any particular community.

The author would have gotten the same sort of responses had he used Bloomington (his imagined enlightened town to the east) or any other town in the state or country.

There are ideologues everywhere, they tend to dwell on social media, and like to troll. I include the author among them.
I would assume it is counterfeit.
I'm not referencing Say's law. I'm referring to the very real phenomenon that I experienced as a freelancer, in which nobody cared to know anything about me other than whether or not I could get the job done. It was about skill. And, since many of my jobs were entirely remote, I assume that they never knew my gender (or whether or not I was wearing pants on Friday, but that is another discussion).

In the Open Source community, most interactions are online through forums, issue queues, etc. Gender is rarely implied. In this situation, all that matters is what you produce.

In academia, publishing does not rely on gender. Many times, the reviews of your work are double-blind, so that there is no identifying information at all.

Therefore, I stand behind my statement, that CS is the great equalizer, and the only thing that matters is what you produce.
Very good point. I thought of this by applying it to myself – if someone attempted to murder me, but did not succeed, would I want them to be put away for a very long time? You bet.
For a while now I've thought that 4-year residential college is a dying model. Here's how I view the value proposition of college and how it is being replaced by tech:

* Validation of raw talent by a third party (admissions office) --> can be done by technology today in ways impossible 10 years ago and hard to imagine 30 years ago

* Socialization around other people in the top decile (or higher) of book-smarts --> can largely be done by online communities (not a full replacement for interpersonal interaction but better than what was available before)

* Access to top-tier employers who didn't have time to look through every candidate out there, so economized their recruiting efforts at places where smart young people are concentrated --> this model made largely obsolete by internet

* Access to lots of obscure books at college library --> made completely obsolete by internet

* Access to great lectures --> made obsolete by internet / MOOCs

* Access to a diversity of opinions, the exposure to which will make you a better and more informed person --> these days only applicable if you come from a very sheltered conservative background....otherwise college just reinforces existing biases

If I had to choose between two candidates with the same proficiency in a testable skill set (JavaScript, GAAP accounting, laying brick, whatever else), at this point I'd probably prefer someone who spent four years working on a fishing boat, or trying to make it as a musician, or on a church mission, or hiking the PCT / CDT / AT, or in the Marines, or something else challenging, over someone who went to an elite undergrad institution. They just seem more and more like indoctrination mills that crank out entitled little whiners.

//grumpy old man rant over
>"I never saw a clean definition of p-value or alpha -- probability of Type I error."

On re-reading this I agree. They do not make a clean comparison. They do define them though:

p-value: "the probability of the observed and more extreme
data given the null"

alpha: "α is the long-run frequency of Type I errors"

To begin with, you appear to have these reversed. Second, the p-value is dependent on the data, it will be different from experiment to experiment. The exact same experiment can give you p=0.001 one time and p=0.32 the next time. Which is the probability of type I error?
Policing perpetuates poverty and thus crime by forcing poor, black men to deal with the criminal justice system from an early age. Court fees, court appearances, civil asset forfeiture, jail time, and property damage from police searches are all burdens that poor, black, law-abiding people bear, not to mention wrongful conviction.

Edit: missed this line in your comment before:

> Why this is the case is an interesting problem that I hope we can tackle, better understand, and attempt to solve as a society

This is what Black Lives Matter is about. They understand the problem (often by living through it) and are focused on tackling it. Because they don't focus too much on helping other people to understand the problem, this might not be clear to you.

Edit: I was about to respond to your reply, but it looks like you deleted it.

> too many topics seem taboo to reason about objectively

I think the disagreement is about where this reasoning can/should happen. From the perspective of the BLM movement, it is not their job to educate people about race. I think this reasoning has already happened at an academic level and has concluded that (to summarize very broadly) white people have a whole lot of privilege.

> Do we have that evidence?

Yes, I believe so.

[1] http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/bobo/files/2010_racialized_...

[2] Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

[3] Alice Goffman, On the Run (this is an ethnography, so you may need to have an understanding of ethnographic methods to accept the evidence here as "data")
What about the social components? It seems too obvious a stereotype not to at least investigate whether or not the "lonely nerds" are seeking social identity and belonging in groups like these.
I read a post on reddit the other day that left vs right is really a horse shoe. That the far left and far right are very close to each other. I thought it was fairly intuitive.
I've had two chargers fail, now I treat them very gently and wind them like you suggest. I wish the charger design was more robust. Most chargers for other laptops are uglier but much more robust.
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> financial

Isn't finance the place where being clean shaven is almost necessary if you want to succeed?
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In general I agree with you, but having dealt with (less severe) examples of this with some coworkers, it's really, really annoying. When someone simply states their (contrary or contrarian) viewpoint and refuses to admit any evidence presented is valid, you can't win. It's an exercise in futility.

I had a guy simply insisting that evolution wasn't real. "Ok", I say, "what about (found some reports demonstrating observable changes in a species over time)?". "Oh, well sure, microevolution is real, but big things can't change, like humans." And around we go again and again. (Same guy believes that we can't actually analyze someone's genome and that people become resistant to antibiotics, not diseases, and 9/11 was an inside job.)

Show them video, show them photographs, bring in first-person witnesses, and they'll find a way to dismiss all of it. Either because they truly believe what they're saying, or, like a current coworker, they're just a contrarian asshole. That doesn't mean we shield people from these views, but we have to, at some point, accept that not all viewpoints are equal, some simply have no merit and aren't worth discussing beyond acknowledging that some people believe them (would you really want to engage with a flat-earth believer? I mean, it was fun once, but that was enough for me).
I have a charger I only use at home and it's hopelessly frayed. The users are not the problem here.
"32 downstream developers look at the demand for 20,000 units and investigate building 2000 units each. . . ."

I don't think it works like this. Surely their investigation would turn up the existence of the 16 early mover developers along with already-existing plans for 16k units?
So why so we want the URL in the state? What's the use case?
I'm happy with my zenbook hardware wise, but it still came with a bunch of crap installed. I only use my arch partition, but I think I'll wipe the windows partition it came with and do a fresh install if I get tempted to use windows for something.
Microsoft is the one to blame for this situation really, they need to take responsibility for checking the security of all OEM installs prior to shipping.
"I have been wanting to propose that HN or some site like it offer a feature where you can switch your post to "Anonymous Coward" later, if it proves to be too controversial. Or post as "Anonymous Coward", and later assign the post to your name if you feel OK about how the discussion turned out."

1. I've thought about this too.

2. I don't think it's possible because Google indexes these comments at lightning speed.

3. I used to wonder why HN only allows a user to delete for a specified period of time(a few minutes?). I think it's because of Google?

4. I have never used my real name on the Internet. Wait, I did have a Facebook account, but changed my real name years ago. I would like to use my real name, but just don't want to be taken out of context. Or, never forgiven fir having a bad day.

5. I would like to see the day where the IP owner can delete anything indexed by Google, or any database, but that will probably never happen.

6. People on here know the risks of posting under your real name, but the average person doesn't have a clue. They post away with a false sense of impunity.

7. What scares me most about the Internet never forgetting is what if a website decided to post your IP to your house number?

8. Then again 99.99 percent of the stuff I say, I believe strongly. It's just we need to play the phoney game in real life.
HN suffers from this problem, and I have found it increasing over time. Sometimes I am afraid to upvote certain stories or comments as I fear the hidden moderators can see what people are voting on and punish them accordingly. I know that this is irrational but still those feelings creep in. Every time the hate mob takes someone down professionally and the more ridiculous the circumstances the more people self censor. The silent majority is the biggest political and social problem of our time. People forget that far left political movements have been just as bloody and hateful as far right. This stuff is dangerous.
Pocket has anything but a glowing record when it comes to security:

https://www.gnu.gl/blog/Posts/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-po...
Wow thank you for this link.

Its interesting to see where these horrible tactics come from.

It certainly frightening to see things like rule 13
“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.

This is horrifying to see codified, and what I assume being practiced on purpose, like what those yale students did to their professor, or at least tried too.
Agreed. It is the Cocoa Frameworks that are actually the closed source components in all of Apple powered OS'es. Despite the articles' inaccuracies, it would still be very interesting to see Swift being used in other platforms for both server-side activities and in mobile apps.
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> Also, almost all of the censorship calls and nasty behavior /
> comments came from students on the left.

Almost all nasty behavior / comments come from the dominant subgroup, which in this context is the left.
They include a 1 year warranty from Apple though which makes me think that they are genuine.
Number one, even though we're talking Hacker News, it's still the Internet. Is this your first day?

Number two, there is nothing sexist about what I've said.
This is a very interesting find, though there are alternative explanations. People "losing" their sight due to a psychological condition has been documented for a very long time. In fact, I believe Freud treated a women with so-called hysterical blindness. Hysteria (now called conversion disorder) has been documented to cause these kinds of symptoms, and often the symptoms are intermittent and are brought on by emotional stress. It's possible that this person has borderline personality disorder and conversion disorder. Though I don't know if there are any cases of someone having both, it makes some sense that they would be co-occurring.

All that said, is there really that much difference between a person who genuinely believes and acts like they have DID and someone who "really" has DID? If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, etc... I suppose the evidence that would really win me over would be someone designing a novel therapy or medication which helps people with DID, but is not effective on people with borderline personality disorder or similar conditions. Because at that point the label actually becomes useful.
Interesting idea but really, you can do this without buying anything extra. Just make sure the cord is perpendicular to the charger and then loop it down after about an inch or two before wrapping it. I've been doing this for awhile without fail.
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What it sounds like you're saying is "I believe I know how a bridge is built, but I have no idea what a cloning factory entails, so the latter is more impressive."
If I had to choose between two candidates with the same proficiency in a testable skill set (JavaScript, GAAP accounting, laying brick, whatever else), at this point I'd probably prefer someone who spent four years working on a fishing boat, or trying to make it as a musician, or on a church mission, or hiking the PCT / CDT / AT, or in the Marines, or something else challenging, over someone who went to an elite undergrad institution.

I reach the exact opposite conclusion. Give me a student who has spent four years learning how to learn. Someone who has had forced exposure to a whole lot of different disciplines. Who was forced to study things they don't much care about, because the value in doing so is so high.

Spending four years pursuing a passion, or working on a boat.. is.. great I suppose. But a well-rounded college graduate is something the tech crowd really doesn't value enough these days.
this is so depressing. I hope Janeil brings a suit to the state for their blatant disregard and misconduct
I think it's the opinion of most React developers that state specifically pertaining to the presentation of UI controls (and not the general UI, which of course depends on Flux state) can be left in the React component. They do, after all, support having their own state - so that functionality should be utilized. Also declutters your app state.
> That's the problem though. Sometimes you need to give special attention to a group to ensure that their abilities and accomplishments are seen

But this would imply that they actually possess these abilities and are accomplishing things with them. The problem isn't that we have droves of women programmers who are being systematically overlooked by potential employers - it's that there simply aren't very many women even interested in becoming programmers in the first place.

In my 10 years of software development I've never been in an environment where anybody cared about someone beyond how their code was written and how well they communicated with others. Women, at every place I've worked, have always been treated as equals. I personally wish there was more women in Tech but for completely selfish reasons - I like interacting with women. But as I mentioned down below, I just wish we had more people in tech in general, regardless of who they are.

For whatever reason, though, women 10-20 years ago weren't very interested in tech. The medical field and the hard sciences, sure, where they are actually very well represented. But not tech. But I'm guessing that's going to change on its own because of the one great equalizer - money.
The problem with starting these hypothetical-filled discussions is that they're not helpful. People can and have been positing many hypotheses about the pipeline issue in tech (and of course many other issues) and the discussions have been mostly heat and very little light.

What would be helpful, is if you would post actual objective findings--studies, analyses, etc. Cold hard facts. Otherwise you're just adding to the heat. Even my reply is not adding much right now, being primarily opinion.
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So the Opera Mini argument doesn't ring particularly true and looking deeper it appears that while it DOES rival iOS Safari worldwide it it used almost only in Africa. As far as screen readers go honestly trying to fully support these is nearly impossible IMHO.

I'm not trying to say that Africa/Screen readers/etc don't matter but unless you are a massive international company I can't see supporting this being a good use of time. Most startups are barely making it by as is and it's a much better idea to support the majority of users.

I'm really sorry if I'm coming across as harsh but trying to support screen readers feels like a never ending battle and unless you are doing business in Africa, Opera Mini doesn't matter. SVG might be better or just as good as icon fonts but icon fonts are BY FAR easier to use at this point. If you want to make a difference then produce a better/easier way to handle it instead of acting like icon fonts are pure evil.