skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I honestly don't care how my response gets voted. I responded to him much nicer and with less personal attacks than he did (I accused him of not reading/understanding my comment, and of attacking me, both of which are patently true, he accused me of being a bigot.)

Some people on HN just want you to lay there and take it when someone attacks you, and I won't. So, I get down voted when I respond to people who are nasty. It's worth it.
What did you learn, if you don't mind me asking?
I'm no fan of Jung, and it's wrong to call it a dichotomy, but introversion / extroversion is definitely a real, measurable trait.

If you ask a bunch of people a lot of questions about how they feel or act in certain situations, and perform a factor analysis, then you'll find (or at least several independent researchers have found) that a small number of factors (3 - 5) can explain a large fraction of the variation among personalities.

One of those factors corresponds well to what most people think of as extroversion / introversion. It's also relatively stable through time for the same individual, strongly heritable, present across many cultures, correlated with certain physical brain differences, etc.
Why are they using a photo from a Korean running race/event?
Anyone able to give a compare/contrast here with other cluster management systems... Apache Mesos or Kubernetes, for example?
"signs of life" versus "life", big difference.
Atomic helium is not a molecule. Oxygen is significantly more abundant than either nitrogen or carbon in the universe. In the interstellar clouds that give rise to stars, hydrogen runs into a lot more oxygen than carbon or nitrogen, so you're going to end up with more water than any other molecule but hydrogen gas.

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

Also see this delightful comment by logfromblammo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10292067
Prices for last minute bookings can also be discounted. Check out the mobile app Hotel Tonight.
I'm glad it's changing. We need to establish in kids' minds that exercise doesn't have to be tedious or scary. People need to see exercise and healthy eating as normal part of life.
You don't need most locals to speak English, just a few will do. For tourism-oriented sectors like hotels, English proficiency is not typically hard to find.

I'm not assuming you have a data plan so much as I am saying that you should have one, so that you can handle eventualities such as this. Failing to plan is planning to fail, as they say. Never assume all of your arrangements will work out exactly as they're supposed to. Always have a backup plan, even if it's nothing more specific than "use my smartphone to figure it out."

If you show up in a foreign country with no way to communicate with anybody and no way to make contingency plans then you're making it likely you'll have a bad experience. Don't do that.
The Internet has flattened media and advertising, period. An ad on the Internet is an ad on the Internet -- you can't make more money off of ad-supported music listener than an article viewer because advertisers aren't willing to pay more than a small fraction of a cent for a single impression and they don't often care what medium you are consuming. But ultimately, the way we value culture in today's world boils down to how much we can sell an ad for that is tied to that culture.

Historically, this isn't unique. Art itself was never worth much; most artists had to find a patron to be able to produce art, and in return the patron got some of the art. But art has never really been sold on the open market in the style of the Internet; and when it has been, the value someone is willing to pay for it is never in line with the amount of themselves the artist put into it.

Should art be worth more than it is? Of course it should. But it won't be until we as a culture are willing to pay a lot more for it.
Why I (Still) Don’t Make Investor Intros
I think things are about to get a lot more interesting between these two since Microsoft announced support for VP9.
Start off by populating the universe with loose atoms.

You're going to have quite a lot of H, some He, and ever decreasing quantities of larger atoms. The abundance of atoms in our galaxy by mass is 74% H, 24% He, 1% O, 0.5% C, 0.1% Ne & Fe & N, 0.05% Si & Mg & S. When you break it down by quantity of atoms, the spread only grows wider. 92% H, 7.5% He, 0.1% O, 0.05% C, 0.01% N & Ne, and ~0.003% Mg & Si & Fe & S.

Now, for each atom, you're going to work the room at the universal party. If you're an H, you show up early to the party, and you're very likely to run into another H and really hit it off. So most of the H in the universe is going to pair up as H2 before anyone else even shows up. He and Ne don't really want to be at the party. They hang out in the corners and stare at their own quarks. So let's just pair up all those H atoms into H2 and ignore the He and Ne.

We're now at 99.6% H2, 0.2% O, 0.1% C, 0.02% N, ~0.005% Mg & Si & Fe & S among atoms that actually want to bond.

So C, N, Mg, Si, and Fe are pretty chill. If they happen to meet up with a lone H, they get along together pretty well. Otherwise, they're content to circulate around the party and meet other atoms looking for a good bond.

But O and S are a little crazy. They are not going home alone, ever. And usually, they're going to hook up with the first other atom (or molecule) they meet at the party. Almost every O that joins the party is going to end up as the meat in an H sandwich and leave the party. By coincidence, some will become O2 and be content. A bit less will become CO, or NO, and a very tiny amount will end up in MgO, SiO, FeO, or SO. And those will stay at the party, looking to bond more.

So just by random meetings based on relative abundance, it is clear that H2O is going to be third among discrete chemical units, and second among bonded molecules. If O were less abundant, or less ravenous for electrons, it might be different, but it's pretty safe to say that O will try to react with anything it meets, and it's very likely to meet an H2.
I have no idea what you are ranting on about here. I never said Apple invented the concept of a crown nor haptic feedback. That's just ridiculous. In fact many of their features are not true inventions by any sense of the word. They are merely novel implementations when applied to the context of a smart watch. And they serve to improve the day to day usability which is far superior to the Moto 360 and the other Android Wear devices I've seen. This has been Apple's playbook since the beginning.

My point with the fitness capabilities is that it is the best implementation of it both in terms of accuracy and usability. And I have tried quite a few in my time.
It's a fair point. I've tried them, but the AirBnb product is just so superior. Easier to use with better options. Also I hate that I have to pre-pay on VRBO
That sounds like it definitely works in the university setting you're describing, and sounds like the same type of thing that would have happened in the middle school setting I used to work in. The unfortunate thing in both settings is that the slackers always get bad marks.

This is especially bad for a 7th grader when poor school performance can have little to do with the student's actual skills and a lot to do with their home life and/or parental involvement.
I have trouble feeling sorry for AirBnB with this. It has had numerous opportunities to put forth a reasonable view on how this should all work and AFAICT, has not.

First, most (all?) HOAs and landlords forbid short term rentals, and for good reason (short term renting is generally disliked by neighbors).

Second, city zoning policies are implemented for a reason, again, a good one. Residential neighborhoods generally prefer little or no commercial activity as well as inhabitants who care about the neighborhood.

I have not seen AirBnB weigh in reasonably on these important issues. For that, it's possible it deserves Prop F.
What other features could someone even reasonably use though? I say this because what I listed above isn't some small subset of Scala. It's actually the majority of the language.

Hmm I'll try to think of some features that we don't use at work that would add additional semantic overhead:

- Inheritance? I mean okay but nobody I work with makes heavy use of this anyways and if I were working in a Scala shop where inheritance was used heavily it would be like working in a different language. So I suppose I'll give you that although I don't see how that makes the language hard to learn or work with.

- Mutable collections + references (vars)? Once again nobody I work with uses these outside of local mutability when they fail to be able to leverage immutable abstractions that do the same thing. If I worked in a Scala shop where mutability was used without care, it would be like working in a different language entirely true.

- while loops? I don't know what else I'm grasping for straws here.

If anything, the additional 'complicated' things we use in Scala aren't language features but rather libraries, mostly scalaz/shapeless.
of course. I was implying that regulation without a purpose:

1)That is logical, and makes sane tradeoffs.

2)Is in the publics interest instead of lobbyists.

3)Is divined using evidence.

We need unbiased medical experts to propose a system that works which has the following charachteristics:

1) Promotes the creation and development of drugs and the advancement of medical science.

2) Allows for a tight feedback loop and quick sceintific evaluation of new drugs, possibly allowing less dangerous drugs quicker feedback cycles.

3) Lowers the cost to get to market.

This is a VERY hard problem to solve as an exercise, but particularly difficult within the current political framework.
It blows my mind that all of the following people, per the article, think 50% of Dorsey is better than 100% of someone else: Suhail Rizvi, Keith Rabois, and Chris Sacca.
Unfortunate name, there's a popular Java open source library called Otto.
Browser bookmarks.
Wow! ~2/3 of housing units in SF are rentals...

"In 2014 (the most recent year with available data) there were about 387,000
housing units in SF. About 38% were owner-occupied, and the remaining 62%
or 240,000 were rental units."
There’s no strict need for high rises to satisfy Bay Area housing requirements. A modest proportion of 4–6 story low-rise apartments throughout the region would be entirely adequate. The problem is that the whole region is almost entirely zoned for single-family houses, and designed on the premise that everyone will commute by car.
I think his point was that you should expect less than stellar service from a less than stellar company. AirBnB isn't exactly known for their product. They're just really good at marketing.
Wonder if this attempt will work properly with windows unlike packer and vagrant. Path issues, unreliable builds, ugh. This isn't the portability promise I expected.
As far as looking alike goes I think it could end with uses Ruby or uses PHP. A lot of modules will differ for different use cases. I may not need any of the modules another user needs.
The data cited here makes the bill sound ridiculous, though it also leaves me wondering how many more units are being rented out on AirBnB with less frequency than these 340 units. Still, SF was pricey before AirBnB. It is ridiculous to try to blame local housing prices on this one company.

It looks like AirBnB meeds to do some serious PR work. I think thier rapid rise is helping create the illusion that they impact the local housing market more than they actually do.
Creative abuse of traceroute
Given a person who knows nothing about
medicine, then might sell them on
leech bleeding.

Given a person who knows nothing about
technical work, might sell them on
the OP.

Bet if take five interviewers
and have each of them
read the OP and apply it to interviewing
100 people and compare the results, will
find (1) validity, the interview results
will on average be a poor predictor
of anything important and (2) reliability,
the interview results will scatter
with huge standard deviation. That is,
it's throwing darts where the scatter
is huge and the center of the scatter
is far off the center of the target.

Uh, didn't see where there was some
good double blind tests of the OP
for such reliability and validity.
Uh, the OP was big on analysis -- good,
now have them tell us about their
7 devices and reliability and validity,
that is social science 101.

Let me just guess, from reality
and common sense, what is going
on with the OP:
The whole OP is essentially
just plausibility
psycho-babble that HR interviewers would
like to entertain. It's aimed
at HR.

The OP is yet more evidence that under
no circumstances should anyone in
HR have a substantive interview with
an important candidate for anything
important.

Instead, HR should smile, be nice,
offer water, coffee, tea, soda,
smile, be nice, give directions to
the rest rooms,
help with the interview schedule and
the organization chart, hand over the
benefits packet, smile, be nice,
help with the travel and lodging
arrangements, help with expense
reimbursements, smile, be nice, etc.

E.g., the OP wants to ignore
school work but wants to emphasize
ability with, what was it, analysis?

Okay, I can understand why an HR humanities
major would get confused here, but
a good solution is to look for majors
in math, physics, electronic engineering.

The OP wants to give as a test
of ability with analysis something
with Excel. Upchuck: I avoid
Excel because it is nearly always
way beneath me -- I use much
more powerful tools. Excel will
do Lagrangian relaxation, the fast
Fourier transform, Wiener filtering,
least squares, multi-variate spline
interpolation, L. Breiman's random
forests or even CART, stochastic
optimal control, solve some
differential equations? I don't think
so. I don't waste time with
Excel. That's like testing
a cardiac surgeon on cleaning
bedpans.

"Top Performers"? Right, maybe
for toilet cleaning. Even then
they'd be at risk of mixing the
Muriatic stuff with the
Drano stuff -- don't do that!

HR tries again, fumbles with the ball,
drops the ball, trips over the ball,
falls on the ball,
loses the ball, is face down in the
mud.

HR: Smile and be nice.
If people take residences that would otherwise be available to long-term tenants and make them only available as short-term rentals, how is that not further constraining the supply of housing?

I completely agree that the lack of new housing is a huge component of the high prices, but it is reductive to pretend that a particular pet issue is the only thing causing SF's housing shortage. It's a huge problem with myriad causes.
Except that lack of high density is one of the City's more appealing attributes. I don't like the simple call for more housing without any acknowledgement of the consequences.
Windows users can run "tracert -h 255 bad.horse"
iOS Engineers
So I noticed so many non-engineer types (with 0 experience) are becoming iOS engineers in three months. What are your thoughts on that?
I presume this is a throwaway/anonymous account, for obvious reasons. It's a smart exercise, and I'd be interested to hear more about what they told you - not to know how flawed you are* but to know whether multiple people picked out the same flaws, or how accurate your appraisal of your own flaws was compared to the results you got, or how social distance (family > childhood friends > college friends) correlates with accuracy of insight, if at all. So I nominate your worst quality as a tendency to tease with provocative ideas but not follow through with interesting details :-)

* Unlike me. I'm perfect and I won't listen to anyone who says otherwise.

Seriously, well done and thank you for sharing your insights so far.
In all my years of lurking on HN, telling jedberg that he has no idea about large scale networking and security procedures is probably the funniest thing I've ever read...

Hint: google his username.
I understand and agree with your point, but have always cast it in a slightly different light. I think some languages having longer or steeper learning curves than others, but when used effectively this can allow the language to be more expressive and efficient in developer time for both writing and reading. It's analogous to the communication in a field between an expert and novice, or between two experts. The experts can rely on their shared experience to succinctly explain a concept, which the novice requires detailed explanations for. This makes communication between experts highly efficient, but requires a lot of investment to get to that level of expertise.

I find programming languages follow the same rules, but often you are communicating with yourself (sometimes time shifted by minutes, hours or days). If you are an expert in a language that allows complex concepts to be defined concisely, you can use those idiomatic constructs to express your intent and another expert may easily grasp that intent, but a novice may find that much harder to comprehend. Conversely, a language that does not allow complex concepts to be expressed concisely will be easier for a novice to understand, but there is an inherent loss in efficiency for experts in that language that must resort to continuously defining complex concepts with the simpler concepts the language supports (boilerplate, in this case).

Neither type of language is inherently better than the other (as much as people like to assume so), they are just trade-offs that have different benefits and drawbacks based on the people or teams that use them. A team with low turnover and high experience could benefit greatly from the long-term use of a language that supports higher level concepts succinctly, while a a team with lower expertise or high turnover might find that extends the learning period of new hires. It's fairly easy to point out languages that have chosen one path over the other, such as Java and Haskell. I think an interesting case is Perl, which supports both, and I think that's a large source of the idea that Perl code is unreadable. It's made to be easy enough to understand in many cases at first glance, while also supporting a lot of higher level concepts. This can cause people that use it to experience very different levels of complexity in close proximity, which can be jarring for the novice, and sometimes the competent user as well.
There are a lot of things called otto - https://github.com/search?q=otto&type=Repositories

doesn't mean its a bad name
It does make sense to talk about C and C++ together like this. The fact is that writing high performance systems software means using systems interfaces, and until there is a portable interface that doesn't imply the use of malloc, pointers, etc., you can't escape the C legacy of C++ and the inherently unsafe product of it.

Wherever you look in the C/C++ world you find this legacy (POSIX, OpenGL, OpenMAX, OpenMP, OpenCL, on and on) so no matter how determined you are to try to match Rust with `safe' C++ you get dragged back into C. The term "C/C++" is used and understood because it is 100% appropriate, and it will continue to be appropriate as long as unsafe C/C++ interfaces proliferate.

Obviously Rust can't completely solve this problem either, but Rust at least provides a mechanism to isolate the C legacy parts behind tested and supposedly `safe' API interfaces, leaving the developer exclusively within his type+memory+data race safe environment. That is a superior model.
I've played enough MMORPG's to know that big is not always better. Usually as more expansions are added the player base spreads out and the world ends up feeling empty and boring.

The best games tend to stay fairly medium sized so that they can maintain density and contact between players. The vast wastelands of Second Life are a testament to the failure of rapid expansion.
Also IDE support in Scala is pretty much fine. Have you used it lately? IntelliJ is able to handle my code fine in almost all cases, and I make heavy use of scalaz and occasionally what Scala has for dependent types. The only problems I ever run into are IntelliJ sometimes telling me I don't use an import for a typeclass instance that I am definitely using.
nothing about mentions installing modules for you. This is about the environment, not the actual project
Hashicorp themselves have published comparisons to Kubernetes, Mesos, et al on the Nomad site[1]. They look well written and generally not too biased.

[1]: https://www.nomadproject.io/intro/vs/
"Crossing lines have no special semantics."
I don't think you could possibly design a mixed-skill education model where slackers don't get bad marks. If slackers get good marks, marks are meaningless.
Groovy and Grails Plans Announced at SpringOne2GX
Yeah, right. It's a "continuum". Conveniently meaningless. Nobody, nowhere treats it like that anyway. People are labeled introverts or extroverts.

Apparently kids who want a quiet place to read are now introverts.
The main reason they aren't built to solve it is because they generally just believe that politicians are idiots.
Mitchell Hashimoto has been supporting Vagrant users for several years now. I wouldn't be surprised if that experience has led him to such a conclusion in regards to the use of Vagrant, e.g. all uses have dependency on a version of Ruby/PHP and some versions of some number of libraries and so on. The same abstractions allow control despite differences at a finer grain.
Can Selfies Be the Next Multifactor Authentication Method?
"a kind of challenge they aren't built to solve: the political one."

And yet these are the battles that "technology" companies like Uber and Airbnb had to know were coming. At best, they live in a legal gray area. You can't start a company skirting existing laws and expect politicians to look the other way.

And it's not just politicians that are responsible for this. As a condo owner, I specifically don't want Airbnb to be available in my association. There are reasons that there are laws against leasing and subleasing apartments, and it's not just to screw over startups.

Uber and Airbnb grew to huge valuations on the back of pushing externalities onto others. Airbnb is taking their cut and looking the other way on things like taxes, zoning regulations and such until they are forced to deal with it. Uber pushes similar things off onto their "contractors".

Now the political environment is catching up to them, and it's time to deal with the same legal environment that every other company has to deal with.
$10BN companies have laws passed that go against their interests all the time, car companies, who have a combined value far in excess of $10BN (particularly when you consider up and down the supply chain) face all sorts of regulatory hurdles. The reason they do is not because of lack of influence but because the thing they do has a significant impact on society. Citing the auto bail out as some sort of triumph of lobbying is silly, practical considerations, the sort of considerations that influence politics and political choices all the time, had a lot more to do with the bailouts in the financial crisis than some out-sized political influence by car companies.

I for one do not have a blanket disgust for politics, I am mature and realistic enough to understand that it is a necessary part of having a functioning government.