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Ah, I should've said "entire recording". What's posted on the blog is all I've heard.

Apple is under no obligation to do anything, they can do as they please. But just because an entity is “under no obligation” to do something, or something is “completely legal”, doesn't make it right.

In this case, I'm siding with the developer for a few reasons.

First of all, his app is good, the reviews are genuine, and even Apple thinks so.

Second, I can relate to him, as I've given away test hardware to others, and I was not aware that I should vouch for whatever they do with the hardware.

Finally, Apple is the big player here with all the muscle. When in doubt, I try to side with the party that didn't come up with the rules.
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I can see AI parent being a new career.
Yeah, but Bloomberg publishes a lot of rubbish. Rumours and lots of secondary news, so you never know if it is true.
Its disappointing that you are trying to counter my question and keep suggesting this happens in the real world all the time with no citation to support it.

Lots of illicit things happen should we just shut down the world entirely? Cars kill people so we shouldn't approach the streets. Food can make you ill if supply chains don't handle it properly so we should stop eating.

You are suggesting that because people break laws we should not do things. That's not how it works.
macOS still does pass conformance tests, apparently. Or at least has a license to the UNIX trademark. http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/apple.htm

I wonder if the Open Group will accept a bug report? From http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/ : "Anyone buying a Registered Product is guaranteed that: The product conforms to the identified Product Standard. ... The product will continue to conform. ... Any conformance problem will be fixed within the prescribed timescale."

The poll issue is a clear violation of the UNIX spec. http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xsh/poll.html
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> the most obvious flaw is that the MBTI seems to rely exclusively on binary choices….For example, in the category of extrovert v introvert, you’re either one or the other; there is no middle ground

This is categorically false. Myers Briggs results are quite literally reported on a spectrum of 100 I - 0 - E 100, with your position on the spectrum shown. The 4 letter rollup is exactly that: a summary rollup of your test results.
This is why cash prizes for advances that decrease the cost of space travel is the only thing a politician can do that has any chance of gaining my respect. It's action, not speech, and within a fixed time frame either tangible progress will be made or not.

Twenty billion dollars to develop and demonstrate a reusable mass-driver system for deployment unmanned cargo to orbit? In the big scheme of things it's a drop in the bucket. But it would make a ton of other things much, much cheaper.

The only problem is that it doesn't sound as sexy as a "vision" of space exploration decades from now.
I doubt any "additional" money spent on macOS/OS X would make a huge difference to Apple's bottom line. But it would show that Apple is serious about the platform. Money itself is not the issue, but a serious lack of management attention right from the top. Craig Federighi is a nice and funny communicator who knows software (at a deep enough level usually not expected in large corporations for someone in his position), but something is clearly missing in the entire pipeline.
The Reddit data set on BigQuery is excellent. My side project is tangentially related to the fact that the Reddit data set has normal folk commenting. I have been using Reddit comments to help writers research and find what normal people say about any topic [1]. So far, I have had little luck in incorporating the comment scores and coming up with something more useful than the standard bag of words search techniques[2]. I am currently working on making a more interesting/creative writing prompts ... again based on the Reddit data set.

One problem for data geeks to solve: Reddit data fits nicely into a graph structure and not so nicely in table form. It would be fantastic if someone put the Reddit data set into a graphdb and made it open.

[1]https://wisdomofreddit.com and https://github.com/qxf2/wisdomofreddit

[2]For now, my search engine currently just uses Whoosh's (out of the box) BM25F.
I get highly skeptical whenever I encounter things like this.

I've been subjected to "DiSC" profiling at a previous employer. After taking the test we were subjected to a 3 hour session where we slowly discovered and learned about our unique profile. The best part was I compared my strengths and weaknesses with someone who had an "opposite" personality and they were pretty close to identical.

Granted there is a lot to be gained by getting a group of people in a room to talk about the different ways they interact with the world and how they go about solving problems. However, as soon as you start providing formulas for how to interact with people my bull shit detector goes off.
I wonder how MBTI would be perceived if instead of simply a binary EI/NS/FT/PJ, anyone within a standard deviation of the mean got an X, so you could be INXX if you were solidly introverted and intuitive, but not particularly strongly aligned on the later two axes.

Naturally most people would have at least an X or two, but it would be much more useful if people didn't have to advertise an F or T if it didn't really matter for describing them.

Though it probably wouldn't have caught on. Who wants to be the XXXX in a situation.
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This was the first thing I thought of. We have two fat, lazy house cats, and we will never ever have mice. I grew up on a horse farm. We had Four cats that lived in the barn (12 horse barn) for the exact same reason. They were legitimate badasses, too. We fed them once a day in the winter. Otherwise, they fended for themselves. One of them came in the house one cold winter night when she was about 16 years old. She never went back out and lived to be 22 as a lap cat.
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You could get a completely misleading idea of the US in WWII from countless movies, even one as recent as Pearl Harbor, when people ought to have enough perspective to know better.

The idea is people who point out a movie like Pearl Harbor is inaccurate aren't attacked in the US.
it'd be really useful for support (customer support).
That and if I could, I'd open source most of it - because, AI by the looks of it, is / going to be the next big thing. Tools like this, are powered by data - data that very few companies have access to (Google, Facebook etc.). This puts every other startup / hacker etc at a disadvantage. So anything that can give a little leg up for open source would be wonderful.
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Not just geeks. Anyone who is looking for easy to digest oversimplification of who they are.
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It might be perceived differently, but the underlying system would still not be a solid one.
That's a problem that will only get worse. To give an example, last year, Incapsula recorded ~9,000 IoT cameras attacking them. A few months ago, Sucuri recorded ~25,000.

CloudFlare is seeing close to 50k. And that's the attackers just using a small portion of their real power for http floods.

Our report from a few months ago breaking down the types of cameras and networking doing the attack - very similar to what CloudFlare saw:

https://blog.sucuri.net/2016/06/large-cctv-botnet-leveraged-...

*I work at Sucuri.
isn't illegal immigration the lowest it's been since like the 80's? Why is it such a big deal now?
Samsung hovers around what 20% of South Korean GDP?

Nokia was around 4-5% of Finland and some say its loss was the best thing to happen of the country's tech sector. I haven't seen any real analysis however.
As an individual (INFJ) thoroughly interested in Myers-Briggs, I often see this discussion brought up. As a short rebuttal, I feel as though many of those who tout Myers-Briggs as a comprehensive personality test fail to understand what the Myers-Briggs attempts to identify. While the "value-add" is more subjective, I'm going to go ahead and say it's not as useless as this article claims. While I don't think anyone (especially employers) should rely heavily on Myers-Briggs, I think it can provide a decent framework (or starting point) outlining basic facets of an individual's personality based on their own perspective. Though I often distrust individual claims about belonging a certain type, given my interest in understanding myself and facets of my own personality, I enjoy discussing why a person may claim to be a part of a certain type.

For me, Myers-Briggs tends to be little more than a starting point for discussing the finer parts of my own personality, values, and perspectives. I find that those who are equally interested in Myers-Briggs share similar values in self-understanding, thus a starting point for some interesting discussion.
No, I don't think that's a good characterization.

Sure, there's been improvements to the computational performance.

But the big deal (to me at least) is the unified memory model between the GPUs and the Xeon host processors. This makes a lot of things easier to code for on a single system, and it makes multi-system applications easier to scale. This is because you're streaming data in over the network (10G Ethernet) and then the GPUs can operate on it without an extra copy step. The copy step also implies more management and shuffling around of the data you're operating on.
I hope they choose the subreddits wisely. The difference between an altruistic AI and a cynical smartass AI trained on Reddit data seems mighty razor thin.
If only we would feed the space industrial complex as we do the military one. sigh
Yes, it seems BM is measure people in 4 axis and assign a name for each of the 16 types. That's it

By forcing people to think in these characteristics to evaluate someone it makes it easier to have a common vocabulary and to predict stuff along those lines
All very well in theory, but I'm sure it will suffer the same fate as ordinary nutrition labels - the general populace just doesn't care/isn't motivated enough to care
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That is valuable and true. The problem is that people take them to mean "this is what I'm like" when it really means "this is how I responded to this test."
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Then why do we use the summary rollup when it completely loses any of the granular insights? It makes no sense for me to say I'm an E when it was 51E, 49I. For me personally, shouldn't I instead say something like 51E64N60F65J? Likewise, the "insights" you get into your 4 letters is based on whatever the majority letter was, even when your percentages are nowhere near 100% for each.
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I'm going to make a prediction: Soon after the first chatbot passes a Turing Test, there will be many more to follow, they will get better and better, and the methods will be so interlinked that there will be no way to defend it as proprietary software. The data too will be open source--the public reddit dataset already has tons of value in it.

The question then is, "When everyone has access to free chatbots that can pass the turing test, what will they be used for?" The answer is "tons of stuff", and lots of people will try it at once. I think many applications will be niche.

Also, people will argue about what constitutes a Turing Test. For instance: https://twitter.com/mattdpearce/status/784162089397092352
I think it has taken Twitter management a very long time to publicly identify what it is. There have been many attempts under different CEOs though. "The people's news network" in real-time seems to ring the truest for me.
Trying to go to Mars is equivalent to the explorers in the 1500-1700s discovering other continents. History has shown it was a good idea.

We won't know the benefit of going to Mars until 100s of years after we do it.
This guy has shown quite a talent for self-sabotage. Apple was willing to reinstate him if he'd undo some of the PR damage he'd created by spelling out that he shared the credit card with someone, and that maybe that's not the best idea.

Instead, he was enjoying the spotlight so much, he used the opportunity to escalate further, even publishing his phone call with Apple (illegal on one side of that conversation at least).

And that narrative includes a healthy dose of goodwill, considering how close to "the dog ate it" that story about the family friend is. A friend who apparently also didn't own any Apple hardware, so they shared that as well.

But open sourcing the useless iOS app is apparently a bad idea because his customers don't know how to work XCode, which strikes me as counterintuitive, considering every single one of his customers bought programmer-centric software for Mac.
"That beloved pets should not be given the opportunity to kill wildlife for sport is the easy part of this debate."

Why not start by extending that to humans as well?
Thank you, I do recall now the relatively recent "vouch" unflag feature launch.
Let me first couch this by saying I agree it is dangerous and counter-productive to mythologize history beyond the bounds of credibility, and that it certainly does happen in this context.

But what was accomplished by the American 'Founding Fathers' was extraordinary and some of them were truly exceptional people.

Not in a Ra-Ra Blind Patriotism way. Just look at the choices they made and the scope and magnitude of the results of their actions.
This is so poorly thought out. I really don't get why some people can't seem to tell the difference between things like MBTIs and astrological signs/zodiacs/horoscopes in terms of their potential to classify people in a meaningful way...

One is an arbitrary mapping of a person's date of birth to an set of traits and prophesies.

The other is a brief summary of a person's personality/behavioral inclinations based on a survey of that person's stated behavior and inclinations. When you say MBTI can be "just as arbitrary," what you're claiming is that it might be true that there is zero correlation between how any individual person of a given personality type answers any of the 93 MBTI questions. Sure, there is variation in people's self-assessments (and personalities for that matter, but let's ignore that for the moment) over time, but it wouldn't be "just as arbitrary" unless it had no correlation at all with basically anything about the person. I find that claim to be completely implausible.

The only way it could be true that it is meaningless is if upon repeated testings, knowing a person's formerly reported MBTI provided no insight at all into what MBTIs are more likely than for the average person in subsequent testings. That's certainly not the case that's been found in the research, so at the very least, it provides insight into what a person thinks that they are like.

Even if it were the case that all the MBTIs are only related to positive traits (which isn't true), the idea that it is meaningless is just nonsense.
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Aww, I love my maine coon, isn't he just adorable trying to kill me?
"I remember discovering that unnamed semaphores don't work on OS X"

Yeah, Posix semaphores don't work on macOS.
Confusingly, support for unnamed semaphores exists however in Apple's libdispatch, using dispatch_semaphore_t. Don't ask me why.
Yeah, the hard part is just that cats have different motivations than dogs. Dogs will do something just because they know you want them to do it and you are above them in the pack. They are also more likely to be food motivated.

One of my cats is very food motivated. She will always come running for the word "treat".

One of them is extremely not food motivated. He gets excited when I say treat because the other cats get excited and he loves excitement. But when the treats are dispensed, he might eat one, maybe. The first cat will usually finish his. He's motivated by attention. He will come when called by his name, just because he knows you will pick him up and snuggle him. Of course, this also means that if he's bored, he quite quickly learns what you don't want him to touch or jump on, and will do it just so you go after him for it.
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I hear this and I'm a huge man of Science, but I can't ignore the similarities I have with my designated type ISTP and the lack of with the other types. Very interesting either way.
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The analogy is horribly flawed, especially the bio compiler metaphor. In silico automatons are primitive in complexity when compared to processes in simple organisms.

Disclaimer: Have seen both the IT/CS and biotech side of things.
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Article doesn't mention any numbers. OVH VPS is $3.50 for a 2GB RAM and 100mbs (about 14TB a month assuming 50% utilization). That is about 14mln pages with 1MB size vs 1mln requests for API Gateway at $3.50, not including Lambda costs or bandwidth costs.
Grew up with cats that would kill mice, but weren't very good at it. Got a miniature pinscher, which were also bred to kill rodents, and it was amazing how lethal they were around mice. Grab, bite, dead.
The point of these IMO, isn't to pigeonhole people, it's for many practical reasons:

- Engender some self awareness. It's astonishing how many people lack critical self-awareness about how they approach problems , handle change, communicate with others, or deal with their emotions. MBTI might be nonsense or unverifiable but for many people it's their first exposure to any written form of objective introspection. The belief that these are immutable traits somehow isn't usually dwelled on.

- Help team members recognize that there are different styles/preferences of thinking and reasoning. You'd be amazed how many inter-office conflicts get resolved just through spending time getting to know one another. MBTI or HBDI workshops (not just the test) are helpful for this

On a final note, there is a fairly popular executive MBA program where I took a one week survey course on leadership about a decade ago. In both this course and the program, they were pretty stoked about the Hermann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herrmann_Brain_Dominance_Ins...

With the hope it was a bit more rooted in science than MBTI. It focuses more on cognitive preferences than on personality.
I first read about the Myers-Briggs controversy via Malcolm Gladwell in the New Yorker over a decade ago: http://gladwell.com/personality-plus/
The point was that if there isn't any yellow transgender Martian wanting to work in Microsoft then ratio of them working in Microsoft is nonsensible.

But if they exists and are not working in Microsoft then they must exists somewhere else in large numbers. This also does not appear to be the case.

So perhaps it would be then smarter to move closer to the source and hope that this would help somehow.

I know that Musk is working hard on this, so perhaps the others could meantime figure out how to make more children passionate about CS and tech sector in general (that is regardless of their gender)?
It would be in even worse shape if that were the case. Obama and liberals in general assume unicorns will come protect them and that the military is bad. Meanwhile, the ISS is falling apart, we have no shuttle anymore (had to kill off any vestige of actual Republican leadership) and our fly boys have to hitch a ride to space in hollowed out Soviet cement mixers attached to the top of chemical rockets.
Can't the company just provide a quiet working environment where headphones aren't required for concentration?
That's definitely a problem. Civilians should not be in the business of meting out retribution, however just they may think it is.

That said, I think if the US had a strict policy like any number of countries where you can presume 90%+ of immigrants are legal, people would treat immigrants much better knowing they didn't shortcut the system, they have government imprimatur and that they contribute to the economy and to other Americans' wellbeing.
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It doesn't strike me as charitable to take your strong stance that the investors were incompetent based on speculation with the benefit of hindsight.

I agree that they would be negligent if they did not run DD with a scope that included a review of the Theranos platform technology and implemented devices, but it is entirely possible to do proper DD and be fooled by a skilled charlatan.
My first thought was it'll major on smart-arse, with a good line in sarcasm and insult.

If they're taking the whole of reddit it could start to identify enough context to know when to be smart, sarcastic or simply helpful.

With some of the subs there are long discussions that stay mainly civilised. Same for the support subs it could learn the context and how of sympathy and empathy. Things that end up on front page, filled with snap sarcasm, will be a tiny fraction.

I think it's going to be very interesting see what comes out.
This is such blatant disgusting propaganda.

Russia has myths, Soviet mythology etc, which accidently happened yesterday in historical terms.

Real western democratic freedom loving surveilling states have history and fact checking.
Don't forget:

7. Apple offers to reinstate the developer account, iff the user makes a post pointing out how this wasn't Apple's fault.
I'd characterize it as a pseudo-scientific horoscope.

It's marginally analogous to the Big Five personality traits (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits - this is the personality paradigm recognized by academia), it just leaves out the tendency to experience negative emotions (probably because neuroticism is a negative thing, and businesses like their HR experiences and training to be as positive and feel-good as the bottom line allows.)

It is unfortunate that people like the false dichotomies and the Forer effect (the generic but positive descriptions that apply to just about everybody.)

I'm sure the Myers Briggs people would be selling the Big Five if they thought they could copyright it.
Which notably do correlate closely with Myers-Briggs traits, so if you believe the one is meaningful then so is the other.
That's why I hate the current idiocracy: overconsumption, cigarettes, that, and many other things.. that denaturate the world more than it should
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