layman

"This is not correct, or if correct, is so in a manner meaningless for any layman.

This is the sort of thing I read and think to myself "go check HN comments where someone smart will explain this in layman's terms"

Objective-C and Java are easy languages for CS people but for the layman they are pretty hard.

Trust me, your description is orders of magnitude more confusing to the layman.

In layman's terms involving cars, this generally means careless conduct.

Instead, what we got is "this must be what happened because it's the best thing a completely uninformed layman like myself can come up with.

A 30% improvement in latency doesn't matter much for the layman, but in finance, it can mean significant amounts of money.

It's an interesting result for solid-state physicists, but the title is very confusing to the layman.

Putting aside the layman for the moment, has anyone else found Chrome particularly annoying to use as a power user?

If it's true that many of the high-level, crypto-layman-friendly libraries do bad things like using all-zero IVs, then we have a real problem.

I am a layman, so I cant actually answer your question properly, and others have given very excellent answers already.

The writer has obviously spent a lot of time speaking to Mochizukis colleagues, and has explained the whole strange situation in a way that is layman-friendly without being wrong.

There are sufficiently similar requirements on their performance and safety that any layman can conclude there is something wrong with Boeings design.