skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tests are wildly inaccurate, and MBTI itself is not the full story of cognition and personality, but I think there is enough evidence suggesting that the cognitive functions as described by Jung[0] are very real.

The article you linked to uses lack of MBTI in psychology journals as an argument against its validity, but its applications in the field are very limited. You're more likely to find MBTI references in neuroscience journals as there are appears to be clear correlations between type preferences and brain activity patterns[1].

Even so, knowledge of a persons cognitive preferences just isn't very useful. So the main application of MBTI is indeed "just for fun".

0: http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Jung/types.htm

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGfhQTbcqmA
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Along with the daily fish, does it makes sense to provide some sort of vocational training that an otherwise healthy person can take advantage of?

If a person was not able to take advantage of early education for whatever reason, but is currently physically healthy, there is still opportunity to provide for himself and his family by learning some vocational skills.

Choosing Oakland in particular has interesting connotations, considering that it is a major industrial center where there may be lots of opportunity for skilled workers.

Maybe even a reversal of the automation movement in favor of using basic labor for many repetitive tasks in order to achieve this altruistic goal.

Of course, there are still a great many people who truly could take advantage of the basic income experiment because their other options are severely limited for whatever reason.
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I hope with a little thought, you can come to see the difference between formally investing in a startup which is trying to get off the ground, and handing someone an income no questions asked...

To put it in simple terms, you get what you pay for. If you invest in someone's startups, they'll deliver a startup (or fail); if you invest in someone's lifestyle, they'll deliver a lifestyle (or fail).

It's what makes a broke college student asking their parents for some money different from a homeless person who has just spent the money he had left on alcohol, asking for some money.

I am probably running a high risk of being misinterpreted. When a programmer becomes homeless and needs money, then that money is different from when someone who got out of prison for beating someone up has no money.

basic income makes it sound like the latter; whereas building a business is a lot more like the former.

you can disagree, but please do so eloquently.
Companies using it: https://dlang.org/orgs-using-d.html

Weka explicitly says "over 200K LoC"
My impression is that the UK will have to face some border problems before negotiating anything with the EU. Scotland may want to secede, Northern Ireland may want to join R. o. Ireland, Gibraltar may want to move into Spain. And then the situation for many overseas territories of the UK will change, as they did gode some privileges from the EU.
Global stocks will bounce back, as happens with any event like this. The traders make their money and the markets correct.

Sterling, UK/EU banks and other sectors hit more directly could be in a more difficult situation though.
When did "curl | sh" become an acceptable install process, again? Let's Encrypt uses it, too, but it makes my elderly sysadmin heart spasm with terror.
Oh my yes. If you are a geek with zero proprietary software dependencies (as I am), then the Free *nixen offer the qualitatively best experience these days. I was a very early adopter of OS X when it was released (starting with the betas), and happily spent nearly a decade there. At some point the friction of Linux & BSDs decreased relative to the friction of OS X.

I remember editing XF86Config, .fvwmrc, and PPP init scripts back in the long ago, but I'm damned if I could do so from memory today.
Norway still allows free movement of EU citizens to their country, which was one of the primary reasons for the Leave vote.

There are a few details which differ slightly (you have to leave Norway after several months without finding a job, whereas the UK will merely pull your benefits), but I don't think that's nearly enough to satisfy the demands of those who wish to drastically cut immigration.
Ya, he's one of the co-founders of Hack Reactor [1] and is a pretty brilliant lecturer.

[1] http://www.hackreactor.com/
Not specifying the group/generator is a weak link, which is what David is taking advantage of. Curve25519 is a good counterexample of a DH function that leaves nothing to the imagination.
> You can’t use any special functions, including things like sign and step functions, which are by definition discontinuous.

So, let's go the other way around. Is it possible to define a step-function in terms of this result? Can we define functions such as sign(x) and abs(x) in terms of it?
f has to be monotonic and increasing, and such as f(x) < 0 if x < 0 , and f(x) > 0 if x > 0 (note the strict inequalities, that makes it a condition slightly stronger than monotonic).
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I can understand why service prices are tied to locale. If a person in the Bay Area chooses to be a plumber or a chef instead of a software engineer, they need to be paid much more than plumber or a chef in Slovakia. But the cost of providing cell service is largely infrastructure and hardware which is the same everywhere. It seems the reason why prices in the US are so high is government failure to foster competition.
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I'm sure they're well aware that a one year test won't answer a lot of questions. But it will answer some, and it will probably help them set up a better experiment for the future.

And the same criticism could be levelled at a 5 year experiment. I think that eventually they're going to have to do a lifelong experiment, buying annuities from a reputable insurance company for the recipients. That's going to be expensive, so make sure you have the experiment set up right before you do it.
No! It's like saying a vendor who loses money on an item (because the sale price is less than the manufacturing cost) might remedy the problem by reducing both the price and the cost by 10% each. It won't help.

If the pound loses 10% of its value, the UK would be able to export 10% more (so 47.2 billion USD more) to its trading partners (at the same real cost to them.) However it would cause its imports to cost an extra 66.3 billion USD. And 47.2 - 66.3 = -19.1 meaning the UK would lose (increase its trade deficit by) 19.1 billion USD per year.
Northern Ireland wont vote to reunify in my lifetime. First, they received about 11 billions pounds a year in transfers from the UK budget, which the Republic could never afford. Second, the Unionist population would never vote for it. Third, and this is the bit most people don't realise - polls in the Republic nearly always are a No to reunification - we esp when the financial and security costs are considered.
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See http://blog.ycombinator.com/moving-forward-on-basic-income: this one-year study is just a pilot, it works as a preparation for a longer-term one.
> Gibraltar may want to move into Spain

I can't see that happening. Gibraltar has had that option for years and they strongly reject it. It causes some international tension - Spain think they should have it.

For one tiny example there are Wikipedia ArbCom sanctions around Gibraltar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests... And there are many archives on the talk page. (For a thing with a population of 30,000 people and an area of about 6.7 km^2 that's a lot of discussion and sanction)
No, it's really not.
At least GCHQ will be outside the EU. Not that it matters and NATO collabortion won't continue.
If most are unaware of it, is it then good practice (aka insurance) for you to cite the relevant codes in your plans, in order to avoid trouble by inspectors due to the differences, or is it safe to expect an inspector to know the codes A-Z?
Turn this into a small appliance I don't have to manage and take my money. Send me alerts via Slack and ask me to confirm suggested corrective actions.
This is quite an elegant solution, and I like it.

I also think if we just held the same EU referendum again -- a sort of "are you sure?" -- the response would be a decisive remain vote.
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Yes and no. There are now ID controls when you travel from Denmark to Norway and Sweden, and from Sweden to Norway. The currently applied laws are temporary in both Norway and Sweden as far as I understand, and also only requires a national ID card or drivers license from one of the Scandinavian countries.

There is obviously always a risk that temporary measures become permanent, at least between Sweden and Denmark it is not very likely as the mumber of people crossing the strait each day for work is quite high, and the ID checks increase the travel time significantly.
> Maybe even a reversal of the automation movement in favor of using basic labor for many repetitive tasks in order to achieve this altruistic goal.

Because that's really what we want in the 21st century: human machine cogs like we had in the 19th. No, let's let robots do robot things and we don't need humans to "compete" with them. Let's let humans do more human (and humane) oriented tasks.
Eh not really skimmers are always going to be cheap to produce compared to what you can get in return.

You can't just change the tech of the cards because it needs to allow people from all over the world to use an ATM and most importantly you can't switch over ATM's and credit cards every few years that alone would cost more than what is lost to skimmers.

ATM's need to be reliable and consistent that actually makes it easier for both end users to detect skimmers and for ATM manufacturers to make them more resistant to skimmers.

Just to drive the point home ATM skimmers with the ability to read or probe the chip & pin were implemented before any chip & pin ATM's were out there it was simple enough to do in real time by just inserting an additional shim that would touch the smart card interface on your bank card.

The skimmer shown in this video is a fairly basic one there are already skimmers with NFC and Chip & Pin capabilities that read out the pin pad in real time to process a direct charge transaction while you use the ATM (they don't care about stealing your Track 1 and Track 2 data).

The ways of reading the pads vary from using cameras that are not that different from the kinect one to laying a thin touch sensor over the keypad to actually running a differential capacitive touch analysis on the metal keys as they are grounded.

A single skimmer in a tourist spot can be used to access 10,000's of accounts over a single weekend with that financial incentive the cost of the skimmer can almost be ignored.
There are already lots of great free (or very cheap) ways to educate yourself but all of them require time and energy. If you spend most of your time and energy working an awful job just to survive you can't take advantage of these opportunities.

Take away the need to invest time and energy into basic survival and you can suddenly take advantage of a lot of cool things that were previously not accessible to you.
Difference between document (message-passing) and RPC styles:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9062475/what-is-the-diffe...

Replace SOAP with HTTP, since SOAP is just an ill-advised, unnecessary, redundant obfuscation layer on top of HTTP, and so contrast still applies.
I've once implemented it for M2 to give you full nice errors while you mess around with the XML ... but that PR was never accepted and it took to long for them to post any response ... so I abandoned it, that feature and M2.
Ok, not to start a OS war, but I run pfsense, which has snort (and IPS), and pretty much any other security tool you can imagine, and it's based on BSD rather than Linux, which has a history of being more secure.
Ask HN: How do you cope with routine in your daily programming job?
I am currently studying Computer Science and am wondering about how to deal with the daily routine of a programming job in the future. Though I really enjoy programming and contribute regularly to open source projects, the perspective of programming 8 hours a day, 5 days a week seems exhausting.

While learning new stuff is very interesting, I usually experience that the work becomes boring once you grasp the core concepts. For instance, consider building a web application: getting to know a new web framework and coming up with a sensible architecture is very fulfilling; however, after you figure it out, the rest of the work becomes pretty mechanical and repetitive.

This is the reason I am very curious to know:
How do you cope with routine in your daily programming job?
How do you approach your work in order to find gratification in what you do?
Norwegians pay for access to the common market (I think even more per capita than other EU countries), still participate in Schengen, and have no say in the EU.

Hardly seems like what the Brexiters wanted. But an arrangement like that might allow UK to be more free to negotiate trade deals with Asia and other parts of the world and have a bit more flexibility in their immigration policy than they had under the EU.
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What if they don't tell the people when the income is going to stop coming in?
> Not my experience at all.

Totally agree. We had developers recently join our team, which primarily uses OS X and Linux. They were excited about using Windows since they had previously been developing in .Net. They now appreciate that development in Windows is not as easy as Microsoft wants you to believe.

The problem that won't go away anytime soon is that Microsoft spent years not making it easy on developers to develop in anything that isn't typical to develop in Visual Studio. They will not overcome that overnight. When a development team has focused on Windows, all is fine, but don't expect things to work without problems otherwise.
Before you start trying to draw conclusions about the general state of development, consider that Mr. Jeffries...

"Some further very simple tweak, which I no longer remember, and the test ran … and did nothing. That’s not too surprising, I guess, because there’s no

if __name__ == '__main__':

"which, I believe, means that no one calls the testrunner.

"You’re supposed to know that!"

...is also the fellow who had some trouble with Sudoku[1].

I say this not as an attack on Mr. Jeffries, but as a way of pointing out that shaving yaks is easier if you know to start with shears and not a hatchet.

[1] http://ronjeffries.com/xprog/articles/oksudoku/
This experimenting may give them insight into what life and how behaviours present themselves when people are being supported, and then give them a heads-up knowing where people are then willing to spend their cash - on necessities as well as extra spending money (if they are given it).

That's invaluable data and if they can use profits from their ecosystem to support a growing community/ecosystem that supports this, and then discover or create increasing productivity within that community then the model could replicate and be adopted by wider regions.

In reality it does mean giving away a % of earnings to the masses - like a tax, however if that % is less than what people pay on average currently in taxes to government, and the productivity level is higher - then it should naturally compete and takeover (save status quo systems trying to block and cause friction).
There was no race stated anywhere in the comment, so I believe you meant to use a word something like "stereotypical".
We've seen string free money transfer already work in some places. There's been a few trials an follow up on that, although not in Western countries.

What I'm really curious to personally answer is: what would happen if everybody would be guaranteed a basic income? What kind of problems would it introduce? Would the new minimum income become a poor tool because of corresponding price increases (to capture that income)? Or would it work well long term?

That's why I'd love to see a small country. Preferably not Switzerland or Nordic. Because they've been able to create programs that others have a hard time replicating. A country with a more mixed population (religions, races, education levels).
> Thanks for the link. I didn't know Cantrill basically imploded.

That wasn't written by bcantrill. He hasn't imploded yet, as far as we all know. Unless that was when Oracle bought Sun and he's been operating in the imploded state since.
What current Intel CPUs contain this secure enclave?
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Very inspiring account of your own transformation!

I think the concept of the fixed personality has done a lot of damage to people for the sake of predictability. That we're moving closer to embracing freedom of self on such a fundamental level is one of the truly encouraging things about this time.
On the other hand it allows YC to experiment and do stuff the politicians couldn't get away with. I quite like that they can say what they think rather than editing it to be politically appealing.
There might not be an EU by the time Scotland gets a vote to secede and begins an application to join the EU.

Fascinating time to be alive.
Yes, for the UK case it would be an exit in name only.

But some in the leave side are for this (e.g. Hannan), with free movement and fees. They are openly conceding that having a tight control over EU migration is not feasible, and that it was an empty campaign promise (and keep in mind that UK does not have all that many migrants, Switzerland, Ireland, Austria, and others have more).

Anyway, maybe we will get deadlock.
Britain will refuse to invoke article 50 without a deal. And the EU will refuse to negotiate before Britain invokes article 50.
http://www.askamathematician.com/2010/12/q-what-does-00-zero...

It might be a mistake to try to argue that defining 0^0=1 is the best answer or the most consistent answer. The problem is that there are conflicts. There is no such thing as more consistent, if any rule breaks, they all break. Some math rules lead you to 0^0=0, some to 0^0=1, and some to 0^0=undefined. So math doesn't have an answer for this, and what really happens is we decide that 0^0=1 by convention. There are other examples of this happening in math, and it works reasonably well. But let's not pretend it's "right", let's accept that it's a choice.

We're choosing to say that the rule x^0=1 takes precedence over the rule 0 * x = 0.

Just to play devil's advocate, I like the choice of 0 for intuition consistency, not math consistency. The positive side limit is 0, so if 0^x is defined at x=0, how about we try to make the function more continuous, instead of trying to make it discontinuous?

0^0 is also saying 'start with zero, then multiply it by itself ... Wait, on second thought, don't start'

There's nothing, because you don't multiply zero by anything. The best number we have to represent nothing is zero. Saying that not raising zero to a power is one feels like a random number.

But, I'm wrong. ;)
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That's a month before
Thanks for the writeup! I had a hard time figuring out how to compile C++ to WebAssembly a couple of weeks ago and finally gave up given the lack of maturity of the implementation. I am sure this will help more people get interested in WebAssembly!
Apparently, black women having hair problems is a common and well known thing among black women, and not well known to others. Butt problems, too. I found this out when my local public radio station ran a piece around the time the movie "Straight Outta Compton" came out looking at how Compton has changed since the time in which the movie was set [1].

They were talking about how it is now largely an Hispanic area. They talked to a young black girl, around age 9:

--- begin quote ---

When JaTiara Fuller, walked into the classroom on her first day of fourth grade, she was surprised. She was the only black person in her class. “There was no diversity,” she remembers. “There were no Indians, no Asians, no Filipinos, just Latinas and me. That’s it.”

Fuller's mom, who grew up in Compton, was sure the school had made a mistake. She thought her daughter had been put in a class for students who needed to learn English, so she went to the administrator’s office to sort things out. “And they were like, no she’s in the gifted class, that’s where she is supposed to be,” JaTiara says.

She made friends easily with other kids, though there were a few things that made her stand out. "They couldn't relate to my hair problems or my butt problems”, Fuller says. “It was a foreign world to them.”

--- end quote ---

So, if black women having hair problems is indeed a big thing among black women, then it would not be surprising that Google knows it.

[1] http://www.marketplace.org/topics/wealth-poverty/straight-ou...
You might ask some people in the American South about their views on States' Rights.
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Page 36. After building the enclave you can have the CPU sign the state with an intel key. You can then check the signed state against a known-good state and only submit your secret data to the enclave if signature can be verified against intel's pubkey.

Additional overview: https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/3e/b9...
Control group or not. If YC wanted a scientific experiment, then they should have conducted it in silence.
This is why I wish the sample size was bigger, closer to that magic 2000 person populace that gives a relatively random cross section. I just don't think they're going to get the value they need out of this limited experiment. 2000*24000 = 48million... I'm sure they have that kind of scratch laying around.
It's also right in the contract that member states who leave have two years to come to a deal that the rest of the EU will agree to before they're forcibly given the boot and all existing trade agreements torn up. The EU plans to hold the UK to that.
Maybe we should not lend a lot of weight to the opinions of adults who have not figured out how voting works
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Clippy has a lint, but it's not turned on by default, even in Clippy.
This exit was fueled by misinformation and misplaced excitement, I have no idea how Britain's allowed themselves in this hole.
Intel clearly wants complete control over what gets to run on the PC platform --- which is rather disturbing, but seems to be the way a lot of other companies are moving these days. Introducing SGX and "verified" software and promoting it as the best thing for everyone is only the first step. It's only a matter of time before they convince everyone to eventually deprecate "insecure" (i.e. free) software that doesn't use it, completely killing the "P" in "PC".

I'd consider SGX a small step forward for security and a big step backward for personal freedom... it makes me sad just how accurate Stallman was nearly 20 years ago:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html

As such, I don't consider this announcement great news at all --- it's downright scary, an indicator of where things are going.
I believe the truth lies somewhere in between. You will have a really rough time programming JS with the good parts only, but you will also have a rough time annoying your colleagues when you are the only one using "this" in a place where it's considered a bug by most people.