skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What? Introversion/Extroversion certainly has evidence, and it's not just some quackery only Jung had things to say about.

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

I believe the strong+absolute dichotomy people try and present on the trait is false, but that's a misunderstanding of how personality traits interact in complex ways to produce behaviors. Some of my acquaintances might think I'm an extrovert, but that's because they've only seen me in particular environments and I'm mildly to strongly introverted but not absolutely.

I know I personally found it relieving to learn some of the facets of introversion and know that I wasn't weird or broken and many people felt the same things that I did although I didn't realize it.
Not to get all philosophical or anything, but I'm pretty sure that's what "real things" are -- clusters of traits that are empirically-useful to have an umbrella term for them.
Not defending the host's actions or AirBnB in any way here, but if you're not capable of getting a hotel on your own, then you probably shouldn't be traveling to foreign countries alone.

Edit: well, that was unpopular. Am I wrong, or just saying it inartfully?
On the Usefulness (Or Lack Thereof) of Foreign Keys
What's stopping me from setting up 500 recognized emails?
This is the epiphenomenal position, that consciousness is just along for the ride.

However, it strongly requires that consciousness be not detrimental (at least not overall), because otherwise, evolution probably would have weeded it out.

The novel Blindsight kind of suggests that humans are a local evolutionary maxima, that we achieved mastery of our planet due to our other talents, despite being burdened with consciousness. But again, this runs afoul of evolutionary fitness. Even if animals lacking consciousness couldn't surmount our other abilities, if a mutant human arose without consciousness, presumably it would have an advantage over other humans, and its genes would spread throughout the populace.

The book is really interesting, but having studied this for 7 years of my life, there's no way the author is correct. It's much more likely that other animals experience conscious awareness too. We don't know for sure, and we don't know where to draw the line (fish, insects, aplysia, bacteria?), but it seems reasonable to believe higher mammals have awareness (which is distinct from language, tool use, self-reflection, Theory of Mind, etc).
"It's funny you should bring up PE here, because the same mechanism is usually at play there. PE classes don't focus on the kids who are bad at sports. They focus on those who are already good at it, for whatever reason."

It's been a frustration of mine for a while that P.E. stands for Physical Education, but rarely are kids educated about exercise and nutrition. Kids don't learn about exercise increasing endorphins that, in turn, elevate mood. They don't learn about cardiovascular conditioning and how it helps with some asthmatic conditions. Forget about anyone mentioning the role of stretching in our health as we age. Nutrition is neglected entirely, but learning about "carb bombing" and its effect on mood would do a lot of good. Instead they throw a ball around and get out aggression (or try to hide from the kids who are getting out aggression).

I read an interview with Anne Hathaway which discussed her training for the Catwoman role. Prior to that role, she hated exercise and thought that just because she was skinny, she was therefore healthy. (Let's ignore that she admitted in another interview to being a heavy smoker for a good portion of her life.) Once her trainer got her past the initial strain of conditioning muscles, she found she liked how she felt when she exercised. I think a lot of people developed a dislike of exercise early in their lives due to an association of exercise with team sports, which developed in PE classes. I think it needs to change.
Group work can work, but it needs a different setting. I studied at an university where half of the time was group work and it worked because:

The students had 100% authority over how groups are formed, i.e. number of groups and who are in which group. The teachers had nothing to say in this.

The result is that:

1) it quickly became common knowledge who the slackers were (and who were the opposite).

2) nobody wanted to have the slackers in their group, so they were kind of ostracized and had to make their own group. They often ended up with the bad marks they deserve.

3) everybody learned that you had to do your homework/groupwork if you wanted to be part of a good group. It became a lot more difficult to get away with lame excuses for not having done what you promised. People really worked hard.

3b) If a group member didn't do their work, the other members could exclude the person from the group, and that person then had to make a project on their own, which is really really difficult. Again, the teachers had nothing to say in this, they could not veto an exclusion.

4) you ended up with a notion that your reputation had important consequences, just like in real life. Introverted people who did great work were popular group members.

5) Bonus: you learned to value different skills in people. Instead of wanting to be around people exactly like yourself, you learned that people who are (and think) different are very valuable for good projects.
Java functions are still not first class. The headline feature of Java 8 was lambda function, which arguably isn't first class either (they are implemented as instances of object subtype, so essentially still is object nonetheless)
What matters is that your vehicle is x% more charged at the end of the segment, or at least that you used no battery power over the segment. It really doesn't matter if your car isn't charging while you're stuck in gridlock.
A list of email addresses "which can be matched to signed-in users" - it is not clear if the list will have to be gmail addresses matching the logged in users? I'd assume so, unless Google is maintaining links between people's google email addresses and other addresses they might use (eg. multiple email boxes being used on the same phone)to make a match, which is also plausible.
I am literally reading this in the waiting room right now haha how ironic!! Great article!
I fully expect the folks who make Facebook like and YouTube video view farms to start farming email addresses you can use for this.
Exactly. Perceptual awareness does not require self-consciousness.
This isn't always the case. I was heading to Milwaukee for a wedding a few months back and booked an AirBnB a while in advance. My host bailed three days before we arrived and the PGA Championships were in town. There wasn't a single vacancy and AirBnB customer services was completely unresponsive. I had to send multiple emails before they bothered to respond and then they offered a $40 credit toward another booking. That policy is probably fine in NY or another city with adequate inventory but Milwaukee had no downtown options left at any price. I can understand that AirBnB has no control of a host but their complete lack of customer service response was pathetic. I have no plans to ever use them again.
An Emotional Elon Musk Says “I Sure Hope It Was Worth It”
Correct.

But there are Mars rocks that have been busted loose from Mars, and orbited down to Earth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_meteorite
That magic will surely prove to be problematic. I see lots of potential issues. It automatically installs other Hashicorp tools, presumably outside of your system's package manager, which means that it is a package manager in addition to whatever else it does. Where does it install software? How does it verify integrity? Does it build from source or use pre-built binaries? If they are pre-built binaries, how do I get the corresponding source code and build scripts? Does it bundle all other dependencies? How do I make sure I get security patches for the whole dependency tree? I don't expect that Hashicorp would have satisfactory answers to all these questions.

Furthermore, automatic dependency installation sounds like it will make reproducibility difficult, and I imagine automatic application type detection will fail in spectacular ways. What happens when the magic doesn't work? The Appfile looks like yet another ad-hoc domain specific language that you need to learn that has the usual major deficiencies compared with using an existing general purpose programming language.
I'm not placing any faith in AirBnB. I laid out a chain of actions, one of which is contacting AirBnB, and the next link in the chain is what to do if that doesn't work.

No doubt you can get stuck in a crappy situation here. But you certainly have choices that don't involve doing nothing while your host carts you off to some undisclosed location.
I don't either, but I enjoy cutting and pasting back and forth, or keeping diagrams in separate formats, or trying to write SVG manually even less.
Julian Jaynes is interesting, but wildly outside the mainstream. He offers little evidence, and nobody in my lab took him seriously.
I think this is more the eBay/PayPal problem: if you are soliciting both sellers and buyers on your service, you are going to have various moments of ethical crisis when it makes absolute business sense to screw over one or the other (the two not always being in balance or not providing you the same amount of revenue).

So what do you do?

AirBnB without listings is like eBay without listings. (Though I've generally heard that eBay tends to come down on the pro-buyer side)
Yep, and I would go further and say that interviewing is something which has NOT been (and may never be) objectively "figured out" even though industrial psychologists have floundered for decades on how to best evaluate candidates.

Interviewing is very much a people-skill.
How to Make Working from Home with a Newborn Manageable (almost)
dons tinfoil
There's strong speculation that there was an ocean on Mars, many years ago. Possibly mild enough to get started.
Top Developer Skills for Healthcare IT
Does this use Heroku buildpacks or do they reinvent the wheel?

Edit: Otto appears to do a lot of things. But the part that everybody's complaining about is the "magic" part, the part that sets up a system automatically based on the language of the app. Heroku buildpacks also perform this magic, and have been open sourced and have a large community that helps maintain them. They're useful outside of Heroku -- for instance you can use them with docker via https://github.com/progrium/buildstep

It seems crazy to me that Hashicorp would try and reinvent this wheel. It's a problem that's fairly easy to do as a proof of concept, but it's the niggling details and number of combinations that can really explode.
> A dirty little secret within the world of clandestine operations is that the majority of official-status officers (diplomatic or military cover) are known by the host country intelligence services.

Do you have a citation that would support this?
All Ruby development environments look alike, all PHP development environments look alike, etc.

Did they do any user research? Doesn't feel like it based on the above statement.
Getting Started with Apple's 3D Touch
My old labmate works with them as a post-doc now.

I would argue that most of what we do is automatic, and we are quite good at post-facto rationalizing our decisions.

BUT, I would also argue that consciousness allows us to make fully-conscious decisions, so we are not 100% automatic.
Of course, another way to look at this is that the assignment is not really about the work product but about developing co-working skills, as well as giving weaker students an opportunity to learn from their peers rather than an adult, which is often more effective. At least, it could be....but in the hands of a less-thoughtful teacher, it could easily turn into trickle-down education as you describe.
/second. And also custom-assembled at places like http://xoticpc.com/
(Disclaimer: I'm in no way affiliated with Uber or Lyft)

It's nice to say that for me and my family, Uber and Lyft has been so professional. We moved from Latin America to Miami a year and 2 months ago and the whole time we've been using Uber / Lyft for our needs. We faced about 4 or 5 crazy moment where Uber / Lyft has solve our problems putting themselves in our side rather than in the driver's side. One instance a driver accepted our ride, reached our apartment and then start driving away. We did not understood at first until he called us and say "I'm going to be delayed to get you guys, so please hang tight". I told him it could be fine if he didn't started the ride already like we were already with him on his car. He said "it is the standard procedure". Bullshit. We cancelled the ride and contacted Uber support. They removed the driver from the service (allegedly, it has happened before) and they refunded us close to 12 USD. Similar situation happened with Lyft.
This would be very politically incorrect, but I'd wager the best way to find top performers is to ask "What do your parents do for work, and how much money do they make?" There is a very high correlation between the success of parents and their children.
Nope, that's why it's a "dirty little secret."
GCHQ's Karma Police: Tracking and Profiling Every Web User, Every Website
This, my friends, is why regulation does make sense. Unregulated markets end up fucking people over.
That's... no small release. If it indeed has everything they claim that's extraordinary. What's the catch? Why haven't they made more noise about this?
Announcing: The Go Forum
What do you mean? How is the statement false?
> "I've traveled quite a bit, including to Barcelona. If you speak English (and this person clearly does) then "don't speak the language" is not an issue there."

I don't know which part of Barcelona have you been but that's just limited (just to do not say untrue). My brother-in-law lives there, and even he (who is native spanish speaker and also speaks English and Catalan) recognize that most locals don't speak English.

> "or indeed almost anywhere"

I know so many places where that is untrue, I would be more cautious if I were you.

> "Open up a maps app and find out where you are. Can't talk to people? Google Translate to the rescue."

You are assuming too many things. Like you have a roaming data plan or even that your carrier have a way to provide you roaming in the place.

> Can't talk to people? Google Translate to the rescue.

Then you are trusting in the interlocutor. You won't be able to tell if they are lying or not.
Revisiting Apple IPC: (1) Distributed Objects
Into the Night with Garry Kasparov and Peter Thiel
Google/NASA back quantum computing in hardware deal with D-Wave
Are you kidding me? Have you ever read any comments or half the submissions on the site? Or seen tons of popular subs like Mens Rights and shit?
Yeah, I actually meant edge plus (which has much faster UFS 2.0 vs prior filesystem performance). Not that it matter. The HN hivemind has decided to love Apple at all costs and just downvoted me anyway.
Every time I've been in a public school's PE room in the last few years (since I've had my own child) there's been a board on the wall describing what's currently being done at each grade level, and at least some of the time there was information about nutrition. Whenever the kids at my neighboring school are out on the field for PE, they start out by stretching, and the teacher seems to be talking to them about preventing injury and such.

It's not perfect by any means, but it seems reasonably age-appropriate.
The article, quoting Google's PR: "Google is in a unique position to connect consumers with your business in the most relevant ways. Whether they’re searching on Google, checking promotions on Gmail, or watching videos on YouTube, we can deliver the most relevant information based on what they’re doing, wherever they are, when they’re looking, and on any device they’re using. Today, we’re building on these capabilities with new ads innovations to deliver even more relevance."

"Checking promotions on Gmail"?

Eric Schmidt once wrote:

“Google policy is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it… We don’t need you to type at all. We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about.”

That was in 2010. They're now well over the "creepy line", and probably well past the European Privacy Directive.

Log out of Google, now. Delete all their cookies. And get off Gmail. There's a site on how to do this.[1] You don't need Google's "services".

[1] http://www.leavegooglebehind.com/
"But making people feel like they like you is pretty easy."

For an extrovert, yes. :) Or for the introvert who knows these things and knows how to do them credibly. For some of us, it's neither easy nor obvious.

I have, of course, noticed these things too, in school- and work situations... If you are talkative, it's OK, but if you're not, you are "weird", "aloof", "arrogant", or people simply think you dislike them. Yes, you can learn to make superficial conversation, but personally it all feels really fake to me.
The Surface is using Haswell chips (wikipedia tells me that three are available), not an Atom.

And FWIW: the "11.5W" number is a TDP, not an expected power under load. Likewise that "1-2W" number above is likely to be a expected average power. I'd be shocked beyond belief if the A9 was drawing that little under instantaneous load.
That really sucks...
a) 3D touch would work fine with gloves if that's what you're implying just like it works fine with screen protectors (Apple has stated this already).

b) Battery life is 1.5 days. A watch either needs to have 1 day or 7 days battery life. Anything in between is pointless since you will still charge it every night. And the non round design is a conscious feature which I appreciate every time I have to scroll through my calendar. And software/expensive has what do with hardware ?
Thanks! Any info on the next wave of country releases?
Perceived surface area is relatively insignificant - Minecraft is already at least several times the surface area of the planet (details vary by version) even if it's much simpler and vertically constrained.
By definition the people who don't comment don't contribute to the opinions on the site, so your argument that they are nice people really doesn't matter, even if it were true.
> turning on logging post-facto won't go back in time to catch a rare bug

I guess my point is that if a rare bug is rare enough, then it doesn't really matter, especially if the effect isn't catastrophic.

> And since you need the added resources that logging requires to be available at all times anyway, you might as well just leave logging on. What's your objection to having recent logs?

There are a lot more resources required to log everything all the time then to log a subset of things some of the time. Even having recent logs of everything is a huge overhead compared to more detailed logs of just some things.
I understood the narrow viewpoint leonatan was coming from but I don't think it's helpful to promulgate personal political viewpoints as universal truth. If you say “HEVC isn't an open standard”, a sizable number of people are going to say “This person has no idea what they're talking about”. If instead you say “HEVC is patent encumbered” you avoid all of that and focus on the core problem.
Spice works pretty well: http://www.spice-space.org/
> Mandating lower prices for drugs is unlikely to work

Not sure if you are saying this generally, or you mean it as a response. I did not mean to indicate this, I believe lowering regulations and dev. costs would be beneficial but not mandating lower prices.

As an aside, I agree with you but would be interested to see if America can continue to compete in the drug market long term. Obviously, it is a big market, but with countries like China and India and their growing middle classes, if they have a more attractive development cycle with less regulation and tighter feedback I wonder if biotech would move overseas. America has really great biotech and science sectors because engineers move out of those countries here. If this stops, other markets become more attractive, and/or the patent system remains broken I would be pretty concerned.
In terms of of non-water based life being "unlikely", I think it's a bit of a fallacy to make inferences on the likelihood of a possibility that we have so little understanding of.

True, we've only seen water-based life firsthand, but our "sample" of reality is so infinitesimally minute relative to the whole that we cannot properly use that as a basis to make assertions about what the overall proportional makeup of types of life might be. Doing so is pure speculation.

It would be sort of like randomly picking up one tiny pebble at random from anywhere on the earth, identifying its elements, and then concluding that it's "unlikely" any other non-identified elements exist on the entire planet because they aren't in that particular pebble.
Zuck, wash your hands
A clear reason why hospitals need to hire more data scientists--when will they realize their old school methods just aren't sustainable anymore?
If you find out how to very successfully navigate and game the type of bureaucracy in the soviet system, it's probably not in your best interest to either shout the fact from the rooftops, or to share your secrets with too many people.
I think this is their noise. :)

Their big conference is today, so I expect a few more announcements.
In that analogy Heroku buildpacks are more like the boot the police put on your car.
Thanks for the link - there are some really interesting comments!
> In 1960, there were approximately 500 professional tattoo artists operating in the United States. By 1995, that number had risen to over 10,000.

Note that when adjusted for population growth, that's only a ~12.7x increase rather than a 20x one.

> What’s more, 40 percent of the people in that group are Millennials, which some academics argue isn’t a coincidence.

Compared to the people who get tattoos today, the people who got tattoos 40 years ago are more likely to either have (A) had it removed or (B) died.

In other shocking news, 100% of the people who are 25 years old today were born in in the range 1989-1990... which some academics argue isn't a coincidence :P
Not sure a bad Yelp review is really HN worthy...
Can't use favorites on Youtube without being logged in... Anyone with a sane workaround for that ?
The Soviets weren't unique in terms of sprawling bureaucracy. Anyone attending a large public university is getting a similar experience, albeit with better food.
If you remember the reference, I would love to read it!!
Citations?
Found a [1] pastebin of the code the author made in July when I believe it was updated due to interest from another HN discussion [2].

[1] http://pastebin.com/CM9u17jq

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9871603
But what should Airbnb (or any company managing rentals) do under that circumstance? The renter is doing the equivalent of a return for "item not as described." I'm perfectly willing to believe that this renter had some expectation or requirement that to your mind or mine was totally unreasonable. Or maybe they found a better deal nearby at the last moment. But there's no real way an Airbnb can start investigating the firmness of beds or other property details. The only alternative is to tilt the other way and basically make it impossible for renters to get a refund barring all but the most obviously mis-advertised rentals.
Kotlin is my favorite JVM language by far, it's like Scala-lite. It has great tools thanks to IntelliJ. It's great how easily you can substitute Kotlin for Java in most projects, doing so with Dropwizard was quite easy: https://github.com/doomspork/kotlin-dropwizard
The Great Filter