skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only by throwing the definition of the word out the window to make a point, could that possibly fly.
One does not preclude another. As long as all parties involved share knowledge, they can pursue different paths while at the same time speeding up each others' efforts.
I like that you've not presented it as load testing or such. Just straight up simple method for PPC fraud. Good luck, I guess.
Shouldn't "all-hands" events should be reserved exclusively for dispensing information that cannot or should not be dispensed by any other means? And I'm not so cynical to acknowledge the value of, for example, collective celebrations where C-level execs simply want to demonstrate genuine joy and pride for a company achievement.

However, given enough time, any indefinitely scheduled meeting* too often tends to resort to filler when there is nothing to report, since anyone who's job routinely involves setting up meetings probably has some metric attached to such activities, whether explicitly or implied (this typically being a people-herding/middle management/non-production role.) The result being the value proposition of such a meeting plummets and even when the meetings would be necessary, the attendees have already disengaged due to prior experience.

*exclusions might be short, focused events with a well-defined goal inside a specific context such as Agile-style daily standup which incorporate reporting, course-correction, and ad-hoc resource management in a very brief timeframe (<15 minutes)
Given that the body which holds the root zone keys is the same body which delegated the zones in the first place, seems like it is about the best you can get with DNS itself. If we didn't trust the root, then DNS would be pointless anyway since end users would need to be mailed a public key before they could get any records.

I do agree that DANE is a horrible idea for exactly the reasons he lays out though. I would never trade in private CAs for a PKI owned by either the UN or the U.S. Government (although USG would have some obligation not to suppress my zone without a court order, as I am a citizen). The UN is enough of a joke that they appointed Saudi Arabia to serve on the Human Rights Council (granted that expires next year); This year the Philippines joined.
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"I don't for a moment believe that Dwarf Fortress contains a true 10MB of irreducibly complex behavioural code. Rather this is simply an indication that our computer languages and compression systems are much less efficient than what nature uses for DNA."

You can test an information stream for entropy and you can also determine whether there is any entropy left in a compressed information stream.

So while I think we should certainly respect the accumulated wisdom and refinement that trillions of cell divisions have stored up over the eons, it's not obvious that "nature" has better compression than we do.
The sixties happened.
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> is barely more complicated than open("file.txt")

Well, that depends. First, you have to set up the IAM roles to access the bucket which owns file.txt. Then you have to ensure that "file.txt" is properly shared between accounts if you separate production from staging from development. Then there's three lines of code to set up a client, pull the file, and read the contents. If it's an encrypted file, you also get to do a bit more setup work to ensure that you're using the v4 signature in the library, since it defaults to v3 signatures. There's also the additional error handling and points of failure to account for.

The requests are far from instantaneous as well, so you need to set up an out-of-band cache for the contents of the file if you plan to use it with every call of the lambda function.

Is it obtusely hard? Of course not. Is it as simple as `open("file.txt")` (or more appropriately `os.environ["FOO"]`)? Not by a long shot.

I have a feeling that our differences in opinion have more to do with the environment in which we run our lambda functions than what the lambda functions are doing. Once you move beyond a single region on a single account, things get a lot harder.
Does anybody know how one could get involved in Mars Settlement. I would like to help out and go.
The difference is you can't be jailed in the US (or fined) for pointing out factual errors in the movie.
Its called "common sense" or "being polite"
He's talking about Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP):

http://www.nasa.gov/nextstep

SLS delenda est.
I don't think your first line entirely invalidates the article. Yes, the transportation sector has all sorts of knock-on benefits to productivity, but they aren't free.

In the current system the direct tax revenue from transport doesn't cover its costs, so we're shuffling money around from other sectors. A lot of those other sectors probably benefit from the knock-on effects mentioned, so why not shift all the costs of transport into direct taxation?

Such a change would create a 1-1 mapping between the usage cost an individual/organization pays and the usage cost our entire economic system pays. Lining up selfish and collective interest usually improves efficiency.

Now, the price we pay for that efficiency coming from our current system is that the distribution of those costs changes. However, the cost is the same either way so now we're really just arguing redistributive policy.

I'm wary to advocate this position too strongly because if implemented in a vacuum it would be a very regressive tax (in the hurts poor people sense), but I would be very in favor of it with something counterbalancing that harm.
Given the fact that repeated testing over a period often comes out with entirely different results - yes.
> Editorializing (i.e. opinions) should stay in the opinion pieces, not be mixed in with reporting of facts.

preaching to the choir

> It calls the trustworthiness of the entire rest of the article in question. (Although i guess it's kinda nice if it's done blatantly so you already know in advance the article is particularly untrustworthy.)

In a lot of ways it is subconscious, but not always. If you take a objective view and look at US Presidential 2016 race articles, you get a pretty good feel for the base opinion of the editors from the picture they use of the candidates.

Every news outlet has a prejudice, and I find the choice of images to be one of the easy ways to communicate that to you. If you look for it, you can gear your reaction to the information provided.
It's just mass texting.
So, what's the reddit equivalent of X-No-Archive (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-No-Archive).. or X-No-Teach-AI-That-Will-Kill-My-Children?
Asking for a friend.
for non compiler experts, how does llvm decouple a language from a target machine?
But strictly enforcing the laws of the land, rather than a smile and a nod, will.
Cortana / Siri / Google Assistant?

Seems to be a place all of them are trying to head, with varying degrees of success thus far.
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Essentially: Accuracy is not precision; precision is not accuracy.

(Of course, MTBI is neither accurate nor precise. It is not accurate because it does not provide us any useful information about personality. It is not precise because test results vary wildly.)
This sounds nice:

Is ViewedIt really free?

Yes! We believe in the power of video creation and storytelling and want to give it to everyone.

But how will you support the project as it grows?
If such a test is administered in connection with some external consequences for someone which vary depending on the outcome, the subject can game the test to obtain results which are favorable or desirable to him or her.

The four letters that pop out are purely a function of some responses given, and not of actual personality. Anyone who understands the mapping from answers to outcome can just give the answers to produce a desired outcome.

Any test that a subject can game is inherently unscientific.

The above would be true even if the model of personality were actually valid, and indicated something meaningful in the case of honest, accurately introspective answers. (That it isn't and doesn't is what is called into question by the article.)

This section of the Wikipedia page on it suggests that some other personality tests have some built-in sophistication to detect dishonest answers, which is lacking in Myers-Briggs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indi...
No statistical measurement or actual attempt at a scientific investigation was done.

The classification was purely validated by Isabel Briggs Myers' own free interpretation of what a particular trait should be.

That's self-deception, not science.

There's nothing wrong in trying to build an understanding of personalities but making things up just because you think your intuition is all you need to build theories, well, that doesn't inspire much confidence.

The Myers-Briggs Test smells like science -it has codes and categories!- but like most pseudo-sciences, no-one has really been interested in validating the assumptions with actual data.

Pseudo-Psychology is rife with these wishful-thinking theories that sound kind of right but have no solid data to support them.

Not bashing Psychology, I think it's a hugely interesting field, but the science behind a lot of it still remains fishy.
> A nuanced discussion would probably accept that these are continuous axes, but instead they get treated as clusters, distorting even casual analysis.

As far as I understood the test, it results in your brain's _dominant_ mode on four axes. So you are either predominantly introverted or extraverted. There is nothing in the theory stating that you are introverted 100%, all the time.
Meh.

"what was accomplished by the American 'Founding Fathers' was extraordinary" actually what they achieved was a bit of a cop-out, in fact T. Jefferson helped draft the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen which was a much more progressive document in scope and content. That is, so much more could have been accomplished in social, cultural, and political terms.

I mean having things like "Liberty consists of doing anything which does not harm others" and "The society has the right of requesting account from any public agent of its administration" or "Any society in which the guarantee of rights is not assured, nor the separation of powers determined, has no Constitution" directly in the consituion instead of The Three-Fifth Compromise shows what each society finds important and necessary to be enshrined in the Constitution.
I finally started letting Amex sort this out. I'll attempt to call to cancel a service (during my local business hours), follow up with a short letter if the call is unsuccessful.

After that, any new charges that appear result in a call to the Amex Fraud Dept. Sadly there have been a couple services I had to do this with.
I'm sorry, but I don't believe you. You are lacking a basic understanding of how the research process works in social sciences.

I don't want to be "credentials guy," but I have a degree in cognitive science and I've conducted human subjects research. What you are saying is simply wrong.

That publication cites dozens of studies to back up its claims. Are you suggesting they are all invalid? If so, why?
There's no saying what the AI will grow up to be.
I would never tell anyone that they are a Sith Lord.
You're doing a disservice to astrology.

MBTI is a subjective categorization. Astrology is more like your DNA. You're born with a specific set pattern. Just like we don't understand what most of our genetic patterns mean, we don't understand what most of our astrological patterns mean.
That was before the fracking and tar sands boom. Also, the Iraq war was probably the least well justified war in modern history.
I'm not an expert on Aztec culture, but this has signs of what some call "atrocity literature" in the garb of scientific study of other cultures.
First startup anxiety
Warning: long post.

Hello, I'm a 32 year old (almost) lawyer from Chile. Though to this day I have not been in a formal job, I've participated in different projects, such as managing a couple of e-magazines, practicing martial arts and going in a working holiday scheme that turned out to have more holiday than working.

Among my hobbies I count programming at a very basic level, which gave me an idea for a startup: automated document generator for lawyers (I know those are a thing in the US, but here they're almost non-existent).

Thus, I've been researching the market, finding partners for this venture, talking to friends who've had experiences at business or law, reading books on startups (The hard thing about hard things and others), etc.

I decided the best way for me to proceed would be to wait until January 2017, when applications start for a Chilean startup program. Problem is, I'm getting quite anxious about my own conduct in the meanwhile. A friend of mine is preparing an online poll to get to know the market better, and I'm scheduled to start talks with an engineer in order to find out about costs for putting on a website, building the generator itself, and so on.

Even so, I find myself with too much free time on my hands, which I feel I could fill better than just reading books and playing WoW. I feel I should be doing things that could help me prepare for the startup program, but I'm not sure what. I have asked lawyers if they'd be interested, read books and listened to conferences on startups, leadership and so on, built a small prototype for the program to make sure it works, and so on. There's probably something else I could be doing while waiting -probably something obvious-, but I genuinely can't see what that might be, and I'd greatly appreciate any insights on that regard. The way I'm spending my days make me feel I'm wasting time, and that makes me quite anxious.

Thank you for your time.
> I straight-up don't believe that their relative engaged in fraudulent activity related to Dash (such as leaving negative reviews of competitors) by complete coincidence and at arm's length

You might want to read the rest, the relative was boosting their own apps. Dash was not part of scenario just affected by the end result.
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Be more careful in your reading. There is a certain way that people talk to someone they view as considerably inferior. The fact that people working in a place so quickly shift into that mode, even when it's at odds with the facts of the particular situation, is a very strong indicator that some sort of prejudice is at play. Whether or not it's racism, it's certainly not compatible with good governance.
The governments isn't spending billions widening roads out to the exurbs because that's needed to get food and other goods around. If road construction was limited to what benefited everyone--instead of subsidizing particular lifestyle choices--there would be far less of it.
> it isn't going to tell you anything you don't already think.

Well, if you take a 2000 word write-up about your own type, there may be some thought-provoking generalizations either about your own type or about patterns that are consistent when people of different types interact... things which derive from what you believed about yourself but are consequences of the MBTI's generalizations about human interactions.

But I agree, it would be interesting to incorporate the sort of information in the MBTI along with less subjective metrics and come up with a more rich analysis.
What's the mapping?
Yea, it's very frustrating that this sort of article gets written when the author does not even address the arguments on the wikipedia page!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indi...

That said, I don't think it's quite true that "The MBTI is approximately as valid as the Big 5". It seems to me that the Big 5 is a strict improvement on the MBTI. First, the discrete nature of the MBTI incorrectly suggests that the distributions are bimodal, when I don't think anyone thinks that's true. Second, I'm willing to bet that even if we just concentrate on the 4 factors of the Big 5 that correlate with the (non-discrete version of the) MBTI factors, we'd find significantly higher validity for the former, if only because there have been many more serious scientists studying and refining it over many years.

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Recently a coyote killed an outdoor pet cat in Berkeley and the citizens were outraged. The predator must be hunted down and shot as soon as possible! This amused me of course. Pets can be predators but actual predators are "invasive" and must be shot.
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ThinkPad P50. I wanted the Ethernet port and expandability more than I wanted thin & light.
asked in reddit, but no answer yet.

maybe this is in the longer video - haven't watched yet.

Can I reverse, then change a variable value, then step forward again?

Also, I'm presume this doesn't reverse the effect on streams/files when reversing (or am I wrong there?)
While people are of course more alike to each other than, for example humans and cows, there are still a lot of differences between single persons. People tend to assume that other think as they do, but that's one of the most common sources for misunderstandings.

There are people who can torture a child to death without feeling the smallest amount of guild (maybe they even find it funny or satisfying), others who could do it with the right amount of indoctrination, others who would only do it if their life is in danger (and would feel horrible afterwards) and others who would rather die than doing it.

And it's not possible to shift a person people into all of those categories, it's mostly inborn (like sexual orientation, hair color, etc).

Sure, all those people have lots of other "basic imperatives" in common, but the small difference that some could inflict as much pain as possible to others without feeling even a little bit guilty is a difference with should have quite severe consequences for society as a whole.

So if we try to understand why there is so much violence in the world, it would be quite an oversight to not take those kind of differences into account.
"Losing its hacker soul"

Ugh, FB never had a "hacker soul". It is an abomination built on advertising and privacy invasion. It is the antithesis of the hacker ethos.
If you are serious, the easiest way is to start saving a fairly big chunk of money. The first people to Mars will be astronauts, and competition for those seats is extremely high. You are better off being person 50,000 and the way that looks like it is shaping out is with a fairly large cash outlay, or an extremely valuable profession that has a statistically lower likelihood of being learned within a couple years by a very motivated person.
By "entirely different" you mean not the exact same classification or a classification independent of the previous classification? If the latter, the evidence does not support you.
> * HiDPI does not seem to work as well on other platforms.

HiDPI is just a waste of processing power and money anyway.

> * Lightroom is a pain to run over wine or some other tool (and no, Darktable is not there yet)

Sure, but that's an Adobe issue.

> * 1Password still has no linux client

KeePass?

> * I like the iPhone and do not plan to move away anytime soon
> * iOS app builds - not really a problem to keep my old MBP around just for doing builds

Being that tied to your desktop OS sounds like a huge reason to move away from iOS.
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There is always the risk of too many standards. People doesn't know even now what all the green labels mean on the food they buy.

https://xkcd.com/927/
Ask HN: Business effects of supporting LGBTQ community?
Throwaway account used. I'm part of a small B2B business with clients all over the world, but mostly in the US. Our clients include banks, pharmaceutical companies, the military, schools - you name it. If a business in the US uses Microsoft products on the desktop or server, chances are we've done consulting or training with them. We have just a few competitors in our market.

Today is National Coming Out Day in the US. Our entire staff, with no exception, all personally support the rights of the LGBTQ community. Is there a risk to making that support a public, corporate statement? In this political and cultural climate, is it likely we'd lose business because a potential client doesn't agree with us supporting our LGBTQ friends and family? Is there any good will that results from LGBTQ support that might offset any lost business? What risks don't I see? What benefits don't I see?

TL;DR - I want my company to "come out" as an LGBTQ ally today, and I'm afraid that if I do it, there would be negative effects on the others who work here and they'd lose income.

What do I do?
After what happened to Microsoft's Tay, I'm sure that's one of their top concerns.
Looks really good, I don't know if it's a good idea to add it as a feature but I can add a link to it
To be fair, the comparison to horoscopes was in a very specific context: the results are presented in general terms that people will be more likely to self-identify with. That particular excerpt doesn't really say much about the predictive power of MBTIs, aside from pointing to a study that suggests that the predictive power doesn't really matter when individuals assess their own results.

Of course other parts of the article talk about the predictive power of the personality test. On the other hand, those excerpts don't talk about horoscopes.
Sooo INTJ-ish all this! Disclosure: I am INTJ and see this as a tool among other tools to understand where I do stand socially within a few business-oriented group dynamics.
(I work at CF)

I usually agree that spending 1h on a talk may be much. But I found this one to be really good. Matthew is both entertaining, and revealing some things that weren't public before.

I'd say the 1h is worth it.
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I was always told only the government can go to space and explore for humanity? You mean a private company is doing it?
> Do you have any serious evidence that shows that it doesn't have external validity?

I can't prove a negative, all that a study can do is say "no results observed", but there's plenty of that. From the researcher cited in the article: "Many very specific predictions about the MBTI have not been confirmed or have been proved wrong." "Finally, there is no evidence that the MBTI measures anything of value."

This aligns with all of the other at-all-convincing research I've seen on MBTI: it assigned binary distributions to normally distributed data, and has very low predictive power. The majority of people will be near the middle of those distributions, where MBTI is at its least useful.

Further, I think your example is unfair: MBTI is a one-way function. I can meet people and anticipate their scores to with 1-2 errors (a huge margin, but we talk like it's 'close'!) I can't go from an MBTI score to useful predictions about the person though, because it's so massively information-destroying. Even on the things it purports to measure, the normal-to-binary problem means that it has awful predictive power. MBTI defines a somewhat-consistent function from people to letters, but since it's an arbitrary clustering system it doesn't actually allow new predictions or efficiently compress information about people.

So yes, I could probably tell some people apart by MBTI, but you could also assemble 10 different ESFJ's who are more dissimilar than the ESFJ and the INTP. It's like a compression algorithm that can't be reversed, and about as useful.
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Upset ratio means something? Because you irritated a lot of people here in HN.