jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I built Nightly from source for the very first time just a few days ago. I'm using it now, to read HN.

In my experience, many things are broken. As far as I can tell, the broken stuff all has to do with Javascript.

If I find that a website won't work with Nightly, it generally will with an official release build of Firefox.
Whoops, you're right. I should have said 'Based on my experience of working in NYC, America has the most restrictive regs...' US States have about the same power over regulations as individual European countries have in the EU.
If I was going to guess: They didn't want you in the office with 2.5x the vacation of the rest of their workers. By stashing you in London, if anyone took issue, they just point out that it's customary.
My guess is it was a figure in this article: https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/1988/04/man1988040...

Edit: Confirmed, kind of. A similar but different picture is figure 9: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/A-Historical-Overview-...

It looks like the picture slated for figure 11, that made it to the CHM archives, didn't actually end up in the article.
The extant Quranic manuscripts are so consistent because early on, Caliph Uthman had an official version of the Quran created and made a concerted effort to destroy the manuscripts that disagreed with it. And in practice, the number of textual variants that actually mean something to Christians in NT texts can be counted on one hand (Comma Johanneum, the ending of Mark, the Pericope Adulterae).
I have no issue with making Facebook ask for for permission for users, that is ok. But my bigger problem is the hidden intentions behind Apple.

Why aren't Apple's apps themselves also having to ask for permission? I personally do not trust Apple one bit, just as I do not trust Facebook. So why is it so much harder to disable Apple's tracking, compared to Facebook's?

Something like this could have grounds for anti-competitive behaviour.
> Sure. Now can we do the same with the other fourteen types, or is the primary value here that there are two kinds of people: INTx and non-INTx?

I started with INTx to have at least one detailed, specific argument that there is correlation and MBTI is at least not completely meaningless. There's also a correlation between INTx and IQ, to go as scientific as we can here. Just search for IQ by personality type. Now you could say we are putting two completely meaningless metrics together. If they truly were, how could they have correlation?

Big Five is not the topic here. The argument is whether MBTI can have meaning and whether it can be useful. Let's say Big Five was better, it doesn't mean that MBTI is completely useless. And I'm not going to argue about Big Five vs MBTI.

> there cannot be 16 broad (even with overlap) classes of obstacles and growth opportunities in life that are specific to each personality type.

No one has made this claim. There are various obstacles and challenges in life, and the only claim is that some personality types are more LIKELY to face some obstacles and challenges than other personality types. E.g. INTX will LIKELY have to put in more conscious effort to improve social skills in order to better communicate with people. This already is useful information. It also gives insights into how a person thinks and perceives the world, if you go into how functions work and which personality types are more likely to use which functions to understand what is going on. If there are 16 categories you can get a quick understanding of what a person might be like if you know the MBTI type, which otherwise you would have to read tons of paper on that person to understand what he/she LIKELY is.

It's all a game of probabilities and spectrum. You could do statements like, this person is 65% I, 70% N, 75% T, 66% P, therefore there's likelihood of this person facing challenges with social situations being 80-90%. The way this person is likely to make decisions is to use internal thinking to make conclusions based on logical analysis. All of this can say a lot about the person just with 4 letters.
What's the utility of Myers-Briggs, Big Five, astrology, etc?
What's the actionable advice?

Do they help me make better predictions?

--

After my occult phase (middle school), I had a longer skeptic phase. What kids today call "rationalist".

Then someone at a party told me "Astrology isn't about truth. It's just a way for people to talk about the human condition."

Huh. That kinda makes sense. So I stopped LARPing as Michael Shermer.

(More recently I tried the "belief as attire" stuff for a while. Now I think people are all about identity and wanting to belong to a group.)

Anyway. I'm fine with Myers-Briggs. It's no less true than any of the other stupid stuff we tell ourselves about our selves.
Because as OP says it is not totally complete and lacks some parts.
Jordan Peterson is a great example of the failing of Psychology in the academic world. I'll list some quotes by him below and you can decided weather or not he should be listened to, or if he is simply selling right wing propaganda on Youtube.

"If men are pushed too hard to feminize they will become more and more interested in harsh, fascist political ideology."

"the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence." [referring to men being placed higher than women in society]

""Peterson says that "disciplines like women's studies should be defunded", advising freshman students to avoid subjects like sociology, anthropology, English literature, ethnic studies, and racial studies, as well as other fields of study that he believes are corrupted by "post-modern neo-Marxists".""

He also has a bible series on YouTube that asserts that god created the appropriate hierarchy of man, and that it should not be tampered with. We should mold society on the archetype of the book of Genesis. Which in my humble opinion is simply Calvinism in the extreme.

Most of this can be found on YouTube or his Wikipedia page.

This is not to say everything he says is wrong, that would be silly. But I believe it should be approached with a heavy dose of skepticism.
If Signal want maximum security / privacy, why not just make all messages auto-delete after a week (rather than their current stance that you lose them when you decide to use Android when you're currently using iPhone or if you lose your phone)?

4/5 of their last few tweets all seem to be pitching themselves as an alternative to WhatsApp / Facebook / targeted advertising? Realistically though their current position is you have to choose privacy or backups.

"We believe in targeted admirizing, not targeted advertising. Happy Valentine's Day from all of us at Signal."

"We've discovered that @tecnomobile devices (some of the most popular phones in Africa) enable notifications for @Facebook apps like @WhatsApp, but block Signal notifications by default. Privacy should be the default."

"Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp trying to collect your data when you're on Signal" (confused guy gif)

"If you see the shadow of looming advertisements in your current messaging app, make an early Spring to something better."

"January just ended, but if one of your New Year's Resolutions was to break up with Facebook there is still plenty of time."
Yeah we absolutely have a lot of work ahead of us (as mentioned in the post). And the issues you mention are tracked in https://github.com/realm/realm-java/issues. There you can also see that we got a lot more features we want to add than the few you mention :-) We strive to be very transparent about our limitations (http://realm.io/docs/java/0.80.0/#current-limitations) so that they at least don't surprise anyone.

We seriously love to get the feedback so we can prioritize the additional features our users desire the most.

That said, we are very encouraged to see that the current features satisfy a lot of "non-toy" apps as well and that many thousands developers are building new apps every week.

You can see some of them mentioned here: http://realm.io/users/, and at the end of that page is also some unedited interviews with developers.

/Brian from Realm
It sounded like they were using their own system.

If a new site opened up that offered exactly what Reddit does, but wrote their own code from scratch, (and charged), I would also ask what they're bringing to the table over Reddit, what features they have that reddit doesn't, and would criticise them for not reusing old code that did what they wanted if they couldn't show me any better features.
The expected value of slot machines is negative, but there is that slight chance of making a significant amount of money. That sort of "lottery odds" behavior doesn't really work here, imo.
In React, you would do <a onClick={this.props.foo('value')}> (for example) - JSX would interpolate that and set up the appropriate click binding, and the function is local to the component.
There's a pretty big difference between asking co-workers and asking on a public mailing list or chat room.

It's completely reasonable, even expected, to ask your co-workers dumb questions when you get stuck. If they can tell you in ten seconds and it would take you five minutes (and you're not interrupting them in the middle of something) then why not ask? It's a more efficient use of your team's time.

But on a public forum, where you're talking to people who are volunteering your time, and you get a wider audience, it's a different story. Asking before you've done all your homework is abusing the time of the other people, both because they give that time freely, and because using 10 seconds each from 50 different people is more than using 5 minutes of your own time. Here, if you don't have the time or motivation to sit down and work through the question properly, wait to ask it until you do.
What if, that social network was built by 5 people, college aged, and they decided to use FB login to save some time developing because they are trying to see if this thing is worth building. A very real probability.

FB won't be the powerhouse that it is today, but it's deeply entrenched in our internet that there is value in the social data, not the "blue room" product they offer for free now. (I hate FB, but I get it.)
I found it interesting how extraversion and openness to experience were separate here. I've always parceled those two together, and anecdotally there seems to be some correlation there.
Where do you work? I encourage you to put your money where your mouth is and take half or a quarter of your salary at a nonprofit. There are a lot of charities who would benefit from a mobile app or some server side logic and might be able to pay you 30k. I'm sure this is what you are doing right now, since you are so full of moral outrage?
Agreed. The application is what matters... in the end most people don't care about what Operating System their apps run on.

I've felt for a long time that with the right tooling, smartOS/Illumos would make an ideal Container OS. Glad to see that they're moving hard in this direction.
There is no issue of Payment Card Industry compliance when you're not accepting payment cards. That site provides an interface for ACH/bank-to-bank transfers.
Github repo (mirror): https://github.com/deuxfleurs-org/garage
The proportion is lower, but is the absolute amount lower?
Wanted to see where your brilliant phrase "Riscy Silver Bullet" was from so had a google, I think you are trying to start a trend ;-)

> ksec 67 days ago

> The unwritten rule of HN:

> You do not criticise The Rusted Holy Grail and the Riscy Silver Bullet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29422032
That is what school choice is,

Every parent has a voucher, that voucher can be redeemed at a school of their choice, could be the public school, could be a private school, etc.
Life is a platform that requires active work to avoid toxic content.
In college, when you write only "2" for an answer, the teacher doesn't say "hmmmm, he might be right", instead you get an F for not showing your work.
How do you rate the X1?
Twitter is the best place to reach some of the top people in tech (in the big data niche at least). It's a great place to market projects, get a following, and find open source collaborators.

It can also be a toxic place that puts you in a bad head space and wastes time. A ticking time bomb that can blow up your productivity at any moment.

I recommend aggressively muting / unfollowing to keep your feed clean. Anything offensive / negative deserves an unfollow. Irrelevant stuff deserves a mute.

For me, ratio of programming posts / other posts should be 10:1. Also mute people that retweet too much.

Having a follower strategy is also important. For me, Twitter is a part time job, similar to open source work. It's not "fun".
The weird thing about this anti-union stuff is that there is fair argument to be made that Amazon would do just as well if they let them unionise and get what they wanted. Australia has a long history of strong unions and the result has been a strong economy and effectively run state. Same kind of thing in many other countries. Those of us outside of the US are often surprised by how little rights are given to workers there.
Out-of-the-box, no. With custom work, yes. The amount of effort is not large, and there are off-the-shelf solutions available. The name commonly used is "engagement timer."

By default, GA only sends one hit on page load. If there's no second hit, there's no way to tell if someone was looking at the page for a second or a minute or an hour.
The down side is politicians can point to whatever pittance the workers win in their negotiations and say market forces are working.
Thanks of the tips!

the random() seems easily addressable with pgcrypto, but do you have any information or practical examples of how a timing attack would be mitigated here? It seems that speakeasy (a JS lib) or any TOTP that uses '=' to compare would have this issue... what else are you supposed to do?
I much rather prefer discussion on HN for the simple fact that it's anonymized. That makes it much easier for users to up/down vote comments and it just works better. It shows you what people really think. It also makes everything more equal because it doesn't matter who you are or how many followers you have.
Sorry, meta point: what is up with all of the spam on this thread? Has this been happening a lot lately and I haven't noticed because people are just really diligent with flagging, or are spammers just now finding HN?

(Since the spam will hopefully soon disappear, there are three separate comments in here from one "dsgherhrt", advising us: "Priority my friend! Christmas is coming, quick to our website shopping ::snipped:: Nike, Jordan, prada ::snipped:: ::link spam::"; "sdgerhrtj"; and, "dfgerher".)
Seattle isn't that bad! :)

The wages are pretty good. Our locally produced Voyager gin is making me feel pretty toasty right now. iPhone+Rails contracting work around here is prevalent enough that it just paid for my Xmas trip to Maui... And, most importantly, we're past the Winter Solstice. Next stop: 17 hours of sunlight in late June!
Wow, a patent? I wonder if theoretically “infinite scroll” web pages could be considered prior art?

This also might explain why Apple isn’t busy updating Mail on iPhone to also use pull-to-refresh…
Be warned !! :)
Lets not forget Chrome.
Amazing what happens when you ignore sensationalism and do a little math. Most 'chickens', technically roosters, don't live long, only about 1 day.

http://scienceray.com/biology/the-lifespan-of-farm-animals/
Improve human lives? How come? I think Word Lens is a better "technology" than twitter
Setting aside the wider context of healthcare, that’s a lot of debt for a business to cancel.

What do the final books look like for this particular cancer treatment centre in Arkansas? Is $650k the entire profit they made over 30 years, or what they’d make in three months’?
They're more likely to work, because they go in the places (your nose) that need to be sterilized. But it's only theoretical.
> Private healthcare should be abolished entirely.

Wouldn't this mean using the police to arrest people if, e.g. a person got a doctor to look at them or suggest a treatment for a condition and it wasn't something that had gone through government channels?
Just getting a 404 here.
You know you've made it as an engineer when you switching jobs gets an article in reuters.
What defines this supposed "maximum scale"?

No manufactured product has ever been found to have a maximum scale. Many complex products are produced in the billions per month.

The only limit is willingness to invest money to hire more people to build and run more factories in parallel. Those budgets were ultimately set by governments, unwilling to spend a few billion to save millions of lives and avoid trillions in economic damage.
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> Star Citizen's kickstarter originally promised to release in 2014/15

It's playable right now, has been for a long time. The fact that it's not been deemed "finished" is rather irrelevant. You can compare it to a similarly-themed game such as Elite: Dangerous, which has been released and updated through paid extensions. There doesn't seem to be that much more to do in that game, from what I can gather. (I bought it, but haven't gotten around to playing it much yet.)

Or put another way, with a typical funding method SC could have released their game a few years back as it was as "gold", and it would have been a decent game -- certainly no worse than No Man's Sky at launch.

Comparing SC to the average scam Kickstarter that doesn't deliver anything and lies to the backers is simply wrong. It's an ambitious project and their release date goals were way too optimistic -- but it's hard to get mad at them for that when you have any experience with software development.
I heard "common colds" are more widespread in winter because:

- viruses involved tend to remain active longer in colder air

- interior air is renewed less frequently in winter, increasing the likelihood to encounter the virus

But there is still this very common belief that we get ill by getting cold in a physical sense, while e.g. being outside with not warm enough clothes. Is it that being exposed to cold air makes out defenses in the lungs or nose less efficient? Is it that we are cold because we actually start developing the illness for which we were infected a few days ago? Or is it just a cognitive bias and only the two factors cited above play a role?
Ansiminic (1969) is really interesting.

Section 4(4) of the Foreign Compensation Act 1950 stated: “The determination by the commission of any application made to them under this Act shall not be called into question in any court of law”

However the House of Lords determined that the ouster clause exempting the determination from legal review did not apply, as there was no valid determination in the first place.

So essentially if the tribunal were to make a determination consistent with the law then yes that wouldn't be subject to judicial review, but if they make an error of law then their determination is not valid and therefore is subject to review. Take that, parliamentary overreach!
Where by “content” they meant “pre-rendered cutscene videos and wholly-PCM music tracks.”

The idiomatic N64 approach to the same thing would have been to make the cutscenes with machinima; and to continue using short PCM audio samples for SFX and some instrument tracks in mostly-sequenced music, as was done in the latter half of the SNES's lifetime.

(What about images, e.g. textures? Even if you had created a huge world with a lot of different “stuff” in it, the textures wouldn’t have been a capacity problem either... because the N64 just didn’t have the memory to hold or render very large/detailed textures. In its architecture, it was detailed [for the time] meshes that were cheap to load/render, not detailed textures. That, combined with hardware support for Gouraud shading and a few other algorithmic effects, made “basic blocks of color with a few flourishes, over a well-made mesh” the only practical approach to 3D modelling for the N64. Which meant that a world with many unique 3D models could actually be quite cheap to store in ROM, as "basic block of color" textures were inherently reusable, and meshes themselves compress very well.)

Of course, this would never have worked for e.g. FF7, with its huge pre-rendered flat background scene textures; but imagine the FF7 we could have had on the N64. (The one that would look like the FF6 N64 demo, crossed with... Perfect Dark, maybe?)
They're an American company (Premier) spun out of an American company (Diebold) that was bought by an American competitor (ES&S) that was then spun out of ES&S due to anti-trust concerns and bought by a Canadian company (Dominion).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_Election_Solutions
To add to this, you don't need any raspi's. Most spam today comes from malware running on PC's not owned by the spammer. All they need is a software library that does this math and 100% of the CPU cost is on the malware victim. The software library would have to already exist and be available to everyone or this concept would never be adopted, which means that the spammer gets this for free. They just have to plug the library into their malware. The only cost that would be forced onto spammers would be if the PoW used signed individual keys that could be revoked if abused.
Unity is built using Compiz and requires 3D acceleration; a lot of people have issues running it in a VM. There's a Unity2D project built using Qt, but I don't know if it was mature enough at the time of release to make it in as a fallback.
The lack of padding on the text of the article view stands out. http://fireballed.org/linked/2010/12/22/reeder-rip/
Aha! Yep, that was the problem. Thanks!

(I was reading the requirement as "If at a particular point no sequence of words from the dictionary can be inserted to complete the number, a single digit can be inserted" -- which still makes a lot more sense to me than the actual requirement!)

Sadly, no programming language could have helped me with this bug. :)

https://gist.github.com/752506
Looks like a 'typical' Chinese operation. And look: they're hiring a GUI designer [高级美术设计师(GUI设计师)]! http://www.nibirutech.com/careers.html Why bother?

Living here in China, one of the things that strikes me is that there is a complete disregard for the value of creative work. This is, of course a generalization, but for the most part, the education system here emphasizes rote learning. I've got a ton of thoughts/observations related to this (I attend a lower tier university here) but looking at the MobileRSS site, I'm reminded that great design demands taking risks and demands careful thought, neither of which is emphasized, culturally, here.
If you read the comments on the post and search for GoDaddy on twitter, lots of sites have been hacked.

And as always, GoDaddy is denying, saying none of this is happening.
It's factually incorrect and demonstrates a lack of basic understanding of the subject. It seems that HN frowns upon that.

On the other hand, I doubt that the downvotes represent the opinions of a huge number of users (as it doesn't show lower than -4). If enough people agree with you, then they'll upvote it to +1 (I would say that it belongs at 0, but that's just me).
FYI, the paper was written in 2004.
No. We dont have a regular 1:1 scheduled
You are right. That's a good practice. I think each manager has his/her own style.
Just got it today. There are good improvements to the camera and wifi signal. And it didn't hurt my wallet, so I am satisfied.