jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Something I wonder is if people within different occupations tend to interpret the questions differently. That would explain a trend in the results, unrelated to personality.
A good rejoinder to that is from theories of procedural democracy. A press that is neutral as to partisanship is perceived within the overall political framework as being fair, which has the very positive effect of engendering trust in the institution. It’s the same reason why judges and courts strive to avoid the perception of substantive bias.

Politics must be divorced from “its real-world effects” because people of different political persuasions disagree about what real-world effects policies will have (or whether some effects outweigh other effects). A liberal reporting neutral facts about say a proposed immigration policy is still useful to a conservative. A liberal’s take on what they think will be “the real-world effects” of a proposed policy (at least, the ones they care about) will not be useful.
Check the math in the article. (the correlation tables especially, both against the "Big 5" and for repeatability) If Myers-Briggs is not science, then the "Big 5" personality traits are also not science. They are tied together, each strongly predictive of the other. Results are repeatable, especially if not rounded to boolean values.
Less buggy in my experience. My Sony’s software is pretty buggy, and the experience is overall poorer than my previous setup of dumb + chromecast. Plugging a chromecast is doable of course but it feels silly since I can cast directly to the TV. Google now sells a stick with a full blown android tv implementation and I’m sure it’s much better than what manufacturers are putting on their TVs.

Also, software ages much more poorly than screens. TV have a useable life of more than 10 years. So the smart features will be broken long before the TV. On a dumb tv you can upgrade the stick for 50$. Not so long ago I was using an ancient plasma TV just fine with a chromecast.

To me the real deal is still dumb tv + Linux media pc. If freedom and privacy is important to you then you have full control over that.
There was a post that sat on the front page for a very long time that was anti-china pro-us nationalistic political battle. It was some programmer's blog post. This post being allowed on the front page /was/ political battle which i was responding to. This thread less so but someone commented on Uyghurs so i responded. There has been an uptick in demonization of China by the Western press and that has been reflected on HN. Westerners did not show anti-china sentiment until recently. The people here do not seem curious about truly understanding China, i am just trying to spark some curiousity. If i post specific examples of why they are wrong is that a problem? The Uyghurs in Xinjiang do overwhelmingly support peaceful deradicalization so i don't understand how that is a problem, that is just information.

Why is it a problem what i "primarily" do? The only posts that really spur me to comment are these nationalistic one-sided pro-us anti-anyone-other posts and comments. The rest of the (computer) posts on HN I just read and study. There is nothing in the guidelines about what you "primarily" do.

Isn't ideological battle good for the curious? I'm confused. Are we allowed to be curious except when it comes to questioning liberal democracy? This seems like censorship of people who question liberal democracy, and i thought we were supposed to be curious here.
How much did human genetics change in the last 100 years? I'm very much convinced that genetics plays a role, but surely it cannot be the cause of the obesity epidemic?
How is usd tho? Sure its more stable than bitcoin, but in the last months and years it relatively lost value to eur/chf when bitcoin only increased. Both solutions have issues however only one made holding money lucrative
> "dot-com" vibes from the market

Same, but with negative real interests rates all over the world I don't know where else I can park my savings. I've been buying low-volatility stocks in boring sectors (utilities, etc) that pay good dividends.
> And for every hedge fund that was short GME, there were several who were long and cashed in. Not exactly a victory for the 99%.

Mudrick Capital Management shorted GME at the peak and made at least $200 Million from the whole event. Mudrick Capital also benefited from AMC, to the tune of hundreds-of-millions.

They didn't even punish the shorts: a lot of shorts sold at $300 or $400 and made bank.
A: saturated fats

B: LDL cholesterol

C: heart disease

studies show saturated fats increase LDL cholesterol

A => B

People who get heart disease are more likely to have high LDL cholesterol

C => B

> Researchers have thus drawn a logical conclusion: a lot of saturated fat in the diet produces more cholesterol, which in turn increases the risk of heart disease.

A => B /\ B => C

> But this has been surprisingly difficult to prove.

You don't say?
For the unfamiliar, the Heckler & Koch VP70 was the first polymer frame, striker-fired pistol, and predated the Glock by 12 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler_%26_Koch_VP70
Two of the most fundamental products people need are food and shelter, and both of these are low margin businesses (excluding high rent areas, but a UBI allows people to move more easily because you receive it regardless of employment status).
The P-N-P silicon sandwich experiments that led to the transistor. (That's on the influential = beneficial side.)

On the influential-but-has-huge-negatives, the nuclear fission chain reaction experiments.
The looser does not have to concede. There's no requirement to do so, and there's precedent not to as well.
Completely unaware of. Thank you. Once again my ignorance shines.
It's a trope at this point, but when BLM protested in Washington, there were hundreds of National Guardsmen guarding the entrance. When Trump's supporters broke in, the Capitol Police didn't do anything until one of them got close enough to our elected officials and got shot.

There were thousands of arrests because of the BLM protests. If you were truly in favor of 'treating them equally', you'd be rooting for every single person who broke into the Capitol to be arrested. Are you?
Twitter places plenty of restrictions on acceptable speech on their platform, regularly bans accounts for bad behavior, and regularly gives timeouts to accounts. Even mere insults are enough to get a week long timeout on Twitter.

I don't think I've ever seen Verizon suspend an account because of insults by phone call. Doesn't seem the least bit similar.
http://letmegooglethat.com/?q=XX+century

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals#Modern_use_in_c...

It is the standard way of writing the century in many European countries/languages.
It would have helped, IMO, had Twitter banned the account with a statement to the effect of, "With hindsight, we should have done this a couple of days ago when, while ostensibly telling his supporters to go home, Mr Trump actually restated his lies with respect to his 'landslide victory' being stolen, and then flattering the mob he incited by calling them patriots who were loved."

The recent tweets are nothing compared with those before the Capitol invasion, and during it. Twitter should present them all in a timeline, for clarity and for history.
If no tv network will carry his remarks...

Please, God, let it be so. Every time I talk to my parents I have to hear about and respond to the latest outrage as reported by CNN and MSNBC. "Mom, they're just winding you up." "No Dad, that doesn't actually seem so important." Good grief.
Yes. The solution to this is a software fork.
I think the area is a lot more complex than the relative latency and throughput of synchronous vs async. For the observations in the environments of Ruby and Python, I think the observations feel true, but switching out to different sections of processing to different technologies I suspect different generalizations would have to be made.
Turns out that isn't exactly the case. While Nazis were thrown into Soviet concertation camps, it didn't stop there and did not turn out 'kind of fine' for many innocent people who later shared a similar fate.

>A study published by the German government in 1974 estimated the number of German civilian victims of crimes during expulsion of Germans after World War II between 1945 and 1948 to be over 600,000, with about 400,000 deaths in the areas east of Oder and Neisse (ca. 120,000 in acts of direct violence, mostly by Soviet troops but also by Poles, 60,000 in Polish and 40,000 in Soviet concentration camps or prisons mostly from hunger and disease, and 200,000 deaths among civilian deportees to forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union), 130,000 in Czechoslovakia (thereof 100,000 in camps) and 80,000 in Yugoslavia (thereof 15,000 to 20,000 from violence outside of and in camps and 59,000 deaths from hunger and disease in camps).

>Some German prisoners were released soon after the war. Many others, however, remained in the GULAG long after the surrender of Nazi Germany. Among the most famous German POWs to die in Soviet captivity was Captain Wilm Hosenfeld, who died of injuries, sustained possibly under torture, in a concentration camp near Stalingrad in 1952.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_crimes

Edit: Removed some grammar that was too redundant on review.
There is a reason GWB did not want the US to be recognize the International Criminal Court. And why Bill Clinton thought it was important: that was about making sure US remains the good guy despite being (during the 90-2020 period) the only superpower left. Instead, you guys chose the other path.
Depends on the device.
Courts can already require fingerprints, iris scans, genetic material, etc for forensics.

I don't see why a machine organ would be any different.
Want to see the inside of a Copart yard? There's a guy I follow on YouTube who buys and repairs cars purchased at Copart and then sells them. He does three 'walk arounds' each week and comments on the cars he finds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGGsYirSZhw

What's interesting is that he ends up making very little on his repaired cars. But he's so fascinating as he repairs them in his suburban driveway that he's making $250,000 a year off YouTube. Talk about failing upward! The key is that he manages to be very entertaining doing it.
Isn't there a right to not testimony against oneself?
Yea man. I wish I had cooler stuff to do, but its gotta get done.
Is this even technically feasible?
Sergei Rachmaninoff should be added to this list since I've yet to encounter any pianist who didn't have a glowing reaction to any of the Rachmaninoff Piano Concertos. Especially Piano Concerto #2 which ranks up there as being one of my top 10 favorite pieces of music.
How about http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2464063
That's not possible because the base 64 encoding is longer than the plaintext. There are 4 characters of text in the URL for every 3 characters of text entered.
A few things from my own experience:

1. Don't "give a speech". Instead, talk to a bunch of people that are interested in what you have to say. The distinction really matters, at least to me.

2. As others have noted. Don't drag your audience into PowerPoint Hell. At least look through the basics of "Presentation Zen". You need to be the focal point, not the screen.

3. Too late for you, but for anybody else with concerns about public speaking: you're going to need to do it sooner or later. Prepare now by joining your local Toastmaster chapter, and get the training and experience you need ahead of time.
Mainly, because it's a much better interface in every way.

You've got search (that works) for Waves, multiple editing at once is done really well (with colors for different people), seeing who added Waves works great, seeing what people edited works great.

Not to say that there aren't problems. There are tons of usability issues. But it's still the easiest way for a group of 3 people to keep each other informed of project status, etc. At least, easiest that I've tried (and admittedly, I haven't tried too many such tools.)
Practice. Practice. Practice. Make sure you're telling engaging stories. This might sound dorky - but at least one week before the talk, record yourself if you have a camera. You'll notice what you're doing wrong, and be able to practice again to fix it.

Also - try and give the presentation to someone who knows nothing about the topic (maybe even post one of the recordings to HN?) and make sure they completely understand what you're talking about. Sometimes we get so close to the topic, we don't realize we're using terms people don't know.

If you're looking for design inspiration for slides with less text, check out: http://noteandpoint.com/ They have an awesome collection!

Most importantly, remember most people who are amazing at presenting practice the shit out of what they're saying. Even Malcolm Gladwell scripts every word of his presentations [1].

[1] http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2010/02/the-secrets-of-malco...

EDIT: Also, I've bookmarked a bunch of links related to presentations: http://www.delicious.com/sachitgupta/presentation

EDIT2: Another tip - find a presentation you really like. Write down the text and record yourself trying to do that. After this - instead of just saying you want to present like Steve Jobs, you can see exactly what to improve on to present like him.
I don't care one way or the other.

However I do think it's slightly disingenuous to brush off a comment about affiliate payments in such a flippant way, when monetisation seems to provide at least some motivation for writing the blog (http://ryanwaggoner.com/2010/11/october-2010-blog-income-upd...).
I've been pitching quite a bit recently to various sizes of audience (although nothing as big as 2000 people) but meykey take away (perhaps unsurprisingly) has been practice, a lot.

More specifically:

- Practice in front of a mirror, this really helped me focus on my body language (reduce arm waving, and feet shuffling and the like). It also made me realise I don't look like a complete idiot or anything when I speak, and I actually look perfectly normal, which was a big boost of confidence.

- When you get bored of practicing the full talk, do more rapid run-throughs, focussing solely on the key-points. For an ignite talk that might be just one word or phrase per slide. It's quite energising to blast through your talk like that, particularly just beforehand, and it really helped me remember the main points for each slide.

Good luck!
Remind me: why is this on the frontpage of HN, again?
http://rapportive.com/ (YC S10)
note they make a Aeron Stool, so if you don't have an adjustable desk, you can sit on it: http://www.hermanmiller.com/Products/Aeron-Stool
I think you are both talking past each other. If I understand dean correctly, he isn't saying that Apple can't price a device aggressively, but rather that when faced with a choice of cutting corners to make a cheap device, or adding value to the product whilst maintaining price, they opt for the second choice.

To make things more concrete, where Dell might look at a Macbook Pro, and then figure that they can compete by using a plastic casing instead of unibody aluminium, thereby making their product $50 cheaper to make, so they can sell it for $50 less, Apple is more likely to try to compete by adding a thunderbolt interface, or introducing better screens that guarantee colour fidelity, or making a better OS, or whatever. That don't lower the price - have a look at the MacBook line, the prices have barely changed over 5 years, but the value of the models offered has increased massively.
In europe: ovh, gandi, or hetzner (they will also offer VPS soon).
They are cheaper than rackspace, linode, etc... , and it's not a 2 man shop.
The same guy had a startup fail spectacularly afterwards, with investor money ('low six figures') down the drain. It was a cheezeburger-style funny video/picture aggregator called PopJam.
I've actually already read the Stephen Covey book, what others would you recommend which are of a similar nature?
I'm seeing $19.00/month on the site, how'd you manage that?
It's been over a year since Jack posted to the ExtJS forums:
http://www.sencha.com/forum/member.php?2-jack.slocum

Probably safe to say that he's no longer involved.
The end goal would be to find a new job.
Good points, though with FFIs you have the same level of unsafety. A more limited mmap wrapper could provide bounds checking, but it's still your job to interpret the bytes being mapped.
Go outdoors often. An increase in myopia (near-sightedness) correlates with an decrease in outdoor activity by children. Giving your eyes a chance to focus on the near and far distances is probably helpful, too.

http://www.sunilreddy.com/?p=1429
HDMI .. about time! now i can replace my Dell Zino HD with this for my HTPC.
Willow Garage is working on multi-kinects as part of ROS (robot operating system).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYUFu64VXkg
Agree. I'm surprised this article hasn't been more popular or at least prompted more dicussion.

The point about moving away from doing everything from scratch to outsourcing via APIs is interesting from a business perspective as well as programming.

There a number of startups appearing that are nothing more than a mashup of existing technologies that can be harnessed via API.
The only countries who might be willing to do that (tinpot little dictatorships, presumably) are also the ones who are likely to claim it back after a couple of years. ("What? We never sold you this island!")
>average debt of a student now is around £18K. I estimate this to increase to about £24K)

Fees are trebeling to £9000 a year add in maitenance loan costs and you're looking nearer to £50k. How do you calculate that the average debt will only increase to £24k.
It's worth noting that the only tax you're avoiding is tax on income actually earned within Antarctica -- ie. whatever trade you can manage with your fellow Byrdlanders.

You'll still get taxed on your income generated in other countries.
I'm positive: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1853821.
I actually wish Facebook would utterly disappear.

Okay, not really; that would in fact ruin a lot of people's day. But from my selfish perspective, it would fix the only problem with quitting Facebook: All my friends are still using it.
That's a reasonable request. But HN's title policy is designed to emphasize content more and personalities less. We usually edit author names out of titles even when they're in the original. It isn't hard to figure out who wrote most posts and surely few people are in doubt about this one.

We often use the first sentence of a post as a replacement title when the article title itself is misleading or linkbait, so using it here isn't really a stretch.
Nice job. I'm running on Archlinux on a Mac Book Air 2014.

The only thing that doesn't work is my webcam. Does yours work?
"My reservations: it had a weak speaker, it felt a bit bendy, and it didn't seem to rotate the screen too often when I switched from horizontal to vertical orientation."

The speaker is positioned in the rear and it pushes sound away. I'm sure they did that for aesthetic (decluttered front bezel) and functional (no worrying about getting schmutz in the speaker grill) reasons. But, yeah, that causes distant, disembodied sound.

I find my Nook Color solidly built for the price. The nice glass screen (I use an anti-glare screen protector to use it outside) is super-responsive almost to a fault. The plastic bezel is solid and finished well and doesn't seem to flex or pop when I hold it. The back plastic has a really grippy rubber coating that makes it nice to hold in one hand, as well. I think if they were to iterate, they should do away with the front plastic bezel and rock a total glass front, but I give it nice marks. I'd certainly consider paying up to 100 more for it and not be dissatisfied.

About rotation, I think it's Apple's use of transitional animation that makes it feel like it's more responsive and, thus, more "accustomed" to it. The NC has the same accelerometer chip as the Xoom, so I think if you perceive any lag, it could be in the redrawing of the screen.

That said, if you'd ever buy one, forgo all the installed software, root the device, and put a version of Cyanogenmod 7 (2.3 Gingerbread) on it. I use phiredrop 6. Stable as a table, full Android Market (and Amazon, btw), and youtube in fullscreen and flash in the browser.
+1 for reminding me about mumps.
While I didn't remember the name MacCharlie, I found the Wikipedia article and the description kind of rang a bell:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacCharlie

As it turns out, it's a hardware device more like the Sidecar, except from the description much worse. :)
They get pensions too. Those things most people used to get.

The idea is that sets them up because going back to working as a butcher or something would be a bit weird after being a national public figure. The reality is they do speaking engagements and join boards as well, raking it in.

https://www.crikey.com.au/2019/09/02/australian-mps-pay-afte...

Apparently it was changed so it's not quite as generous now, maybe someone can decode and summarise the current rules.
> where those on top of the party list can be assured of a job

So how do normal voters remove these individuals if they don’t like them?
In the US, they do (with generous employer subsidy):

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/members-congress-health-ca...
That analogy infers that everyone ends up at the same place (i.e. seeing the ball game).

In reality, everyone won't get to the same place unless you raise the bottom and lower the top.

What we should be aiming for is removing barriers. Let people reach their own potential - which won't be the same across everyone.
100% and so easy to use as well. I wish there was FZ for MacOS as well. I tried plenty but most of them are very limited or requires reliance on multiple key combos.
While DreamIt's summer NYC program is now closed (we've chosen our 15 companies), we will be opening up applications for our fall Philly program on May 9th and will be accepting applications for companies, hackers and strategists for that session as well. Full schedule for the Philadelphia program is here: http://www.dreamitventures.com/about/Schedules.php
"Would love to hear that story."

I just wrote up the story as a blog post:

http://alexkrupp.typepad.com/sensemaking/2011/04/how-i-got-i...
Distraction to whom?

The developers (everyone) in a two-person startup?

Sure.

In a mature business with 50 employees? In an organization of that size do you really want your development team driving IT decisions (and budget)?
Unlike most other commenters here, I like this article and the general premise. I would be surprised if GDP in China increased so rapidly without also impacting PPP multiples, though. The article was a little light on this angle, but I would mentally adjust their number out to take into account the likely fact that increased GDP in China will continue to drive cost of living up. This pushes out the date a bit.
Even before you make the phone call, knowing a candidate's name very frequently gives you a strong idea of their gender and ethnic background.
The point is that you don't ask a radical to moderate themselves and get a productive result -- it just isn't who they are.

Likewise, if Buckley were alive, you probably would not have been successful at getting him to become a cheerleader for the tea party mob.

The answer to the "out there"-ness of Stallman are the mainstream people and companies that make open source work in the real world. The answer to the maniacs on the opposite side of the argument -- organizations like RIAA and RightHaven, are the content owners who embrace creative commons or make art available at no cost.