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This article appears in my HN feed with an article about throwing away React. The React article explains that having code that prevents engineers from doing whatever they want to i…

The life concept here is so different from the recent post about the MIT media lab. "I watched two brilliant students organize two massive hackathons to improve the breast pump, ch…

One example: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/jan/19/undercover-police...

Yes. The attack in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7vlKbR3Gcs

Cool. HN timestamps show that took you no more than 5 minutes, maximum!

I think maybe the issue here is that the press did not cover the unidentified federal agents arresting the BLM protesters. The result is that it looks like the treatment of the Por…

It implies that your friend lives in Hong Kong or Taiwan, and that China employs people to read Facebook posts from those places. Unless you mean that she sent you a messenger chat…

Is that a typo? It makes more sense as "good results can be wrong, and being right for bad reasons isn't acceptable"

And incredibly boring. The usual estimate is that data science is 80% data wrangling: finding, collecting, and cleaning up data. The term "data scientist" replaced "data miner", be…

At one point, the word "scientist" in "data scientist" was used to distinguish between people who took the time to develop domain expertise from statistical consultants who applied…

I'm sorry we have switched on resumes from reporting years to reporting years and months. It used to be that even 20 months off could just disappear. When you're ready, drop this H…

A triumph of well-administered A/B testing combined with creative innovation in seeking out procedures to test

This reads as if "blog" is a metaphor for "product". I'm guessing that blog process is a pretty good indicator of development strategy. Stale bland blogs predict stale bland engine…

Nice demonstration that the entire point and argument can be presented in one (animated) graphic -- like code that needs no comments.

Music, like weaving, is a predecessor in using algorithms to do work. For hundreds of years, music theorists have been codifying the algorithms, or creating new algorithms, that cr…

So naive then. That's reassuring. I guess

What makes the increasing-Gini result confusing is ignoring variation. This is done by thinking of the full distribution as if it were its average. In this case, the pot is distrib…

Part of what is astonishing here is the existence of a system that drives such gaming. It makes me wonder what the people who required a science publication were thinking. Were the…

OP is about a hotel that has planters on its walls so that exterior walls are covered in plants. People approve of this hotel. It is not that ratings on a website are overwhelmed b…

Alternative summary About 150,000 Americans are homeless in the way you worry about homelessness: Suffering from addictions and other mental illnesses, they sleep on the street, an…

Summary of details 66% of unhoused sleep in shelters, cars, or other protected sleeping sites. 33% sleep on the street. 84% are housed within a few weeks. 33% have a serious mental…

The fact that many theories are disproven is not evidence of pseudoscience. Popper suggested exactly the opposite: pseudoscience is when you cannot disprove theories.

As part of reproduction, honey bees leave the hive and form honeybee-units-combined structures. In < 7 minutes: a presentation that, in such a structure, honeybees in low mechanica…