skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I took the MBTI as part of a college psych course, our test results came back with magnitude scores: moderately I, very N, barely T (ie, almost X), and very P. (The actual scores were numeric, but I only remember the relative strength years later.)

When discussing the results as a class, the strength of a type seemed to correlate reasonably with behavior, and explain more than the clusters on their own, eg, all the strong NPs had similar epistemological views and styles, fading towards an SJ style as the scores people had changed.

What a lot of people seem to forget, though, is the MBTI doesn't account for effects from disorders only healthy variation and it's about who you are right now, not who you are permanently. People vary over time.
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I think your missing the point. Do you know what flavor of ice cream you like? I think you do -- and why not know that about yourself?

Everyone is some range of introverted to extroverted, for example. It's their preference, such as the flavor of ice cream they like. It can change often, under circumstances, or even not be present, of course. It's not set in stone; it's just a preference. It doesn't define you; you define it.

Myers-Briggs is unfortunate in that it assigns that preference as letter. You like Chocolate. You're a C. There are some who have no problem with this sort of designation. They love chocolate always and in every circumstance. Many, however, are not one letter, and so it's a poor test.

The point is not the letter. The point is asking yourself the question: do you feel more energized after a dinner party or after a quiet day alone? The point is to know, not just what flavors your prefer usually, but what situations (in this case) you prefer. And why not know that about yourself?
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Apple has complete control over their OS. They can keep their kernel interfaces stable if they want.

Google can't do this with their current development model. They are not in charge of the Linux kernel interfaces. Let's say it's 2019, Android Quaker Oats is here and Google would like to bring it to the Pixel. Quaker Oats is based on Linux 5.0. Qualcomm develops their drivers out of tree and the latest kernel that gets support for the Snapdragon 821 is Linux 4.69. Well, tough luck, Google and Pixel owners, Peanut Butter Jelly Sandwich is all you get.
>Multi-monitor support got pretty effed up around 10.7 or 10.8. It had something to do with the new full screen app mode.

Might be -- I'm using just one external monitor, so don't know.

That said "multi-monitor support suffered badly for a version or so" is rather anti-climatic after "butchered".
No, not really. A helicopter would probably be faster and cheaper in that case. There's no huge push to pave wide roads up the sides of mountains just to rescue the dozen or so climbers that need it every year.
Unless it is demonstrated to have some predictive power, it isn't certain at all.

Additionally, the added (relative) complexity doesn't imply anything about its qualities.
Microsoft did and does today. Personally, I've submitted 6-7 bugs to them over the years, for Windows and other products, have gotten patches delivered in weeks, and rolled into a normal update roll up on 3 occasions. With a security issue, the program manager for the product called me back personally and arranged to have engineers onsite work with our folks in mitigation.

Having a support contract helps a lot. Apple doesn't really even offer that.

With one fairly epic failure from them, my employer was big enough to get a sad Apple guy to fly up and express his heartfelt sorrow. Very touching. His SE helpfully suggested that we restore our phones (15,000 of them). That was about the extent of it.

It's just their way, each vendor is uniquely obnoxious. But the unpredictability limits what you can do with their products.
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I used MBTI in a similar way when I was younger. I identified strongly with the INTP type and wanted to become more outgoing and confident so I studied the descriptions of the ENTP type and deliberately cultivated some of those behaviours. It actually worked fairly well (though admittedly this was also around my 18th birthday so maybe it was just alcohol), nowadays I don't find it particularly useful nor the descriptions at all accurate but as a starting base for self analysis and improvement it's great.
I'm pretty sure you have coconuts backwards, as they're native throughout the Pacific and Indian Oceans and had been known by the West since before the time of Romans.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110624142037.h...

Of course there are active theories that coconuts may have migrated or been transported by swallows to Western Europe.

Also gold was known to be in the New World according to Columbus on his initial voyage.

>The convenience of the harbors in this island, and the excellence of the rivers, in volume and salubrity, surpass human belief, unless on should see them. In it the trees, pasture-lands and fruits different much from those of Juana. Besides, this Hispana abounds in various kinds of species, gold and metals.
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/exploration/res...
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> Where in nature do humans or animals eat aspartame?

Are you suggesting aspartame is supernatural? :)

I'm not arguing against any of what you said. I'm just suggesting the way you use the word "chemical" makes it sound like you think some things we consume are not chemicals.
>I appreciate <person> for <work skill>, <work skill>, <personal quirk>

Felt so robotic it was almost a mail merge
Interesting observation, thank you. Very much changes the tone of the statement.
hmm, i use a surface book combined w/ a 4k monitor. Previously was using a 2015mbp on the same setup. I personally find the windows fonts way better
Wifi was definitely better under 10. The random keyboard disconnections on the other hand... those never got fixed. Maybe it was a hardware problem with the magnetic connector and pogo pins.

The last piece of productivity software I wanted on Linux was just released recently (Substance Designer), so I'm seriously considering a dual boot. Have to keep Windows around because it's my gaming machine, but I'm a bit sick of having software updates shoved down my throat at inopportune times.

What pisses me off the most about W10 is that it makes you pick "active hours" when it won't install updates, but it's a 12 hour maximum and it's the same every day. As if my home computer's usage pattern on Monday-Friday is going to be the same as the weekend.
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I hope by "it changed your view", you don't mean that that is your current view. Look out into the world. It is not a model that makes any sense for why humans have wars. That model predicts not what we see, but an all-out bloodbath until civilization is dead. That model and civilization can not coexist in any form, and no, cynically trying to strike a pose that we aren't really "civilized" is not an out; even what we have, imperfect as it may be, would not be possible. It is not even clear that such a model would permit humans to exist as individual nomads, let alone stone age tribes. Such an attitude would be rapidly bred out of any species that somehow got into a state where that was its attitude, or the species would go extinct.

Models of the world must not just explain why it is all messed up; they must also explain why there is sometimes beauty, peace, art, science, civilization, love. It is not enough to only explain one side.
I think they are being sarcastic - or at least that's the way that I read it.
Agreed. The Native American Indians knew how great America was.
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The problem is NASA has stated they do not want private sector going to deep space. They think only the government should be doing deep space exploration and colonization. This is also why Elon specifically mentioned building parts of the ship for going to Mars in the Gulf states where there are already manufacturing plants for building components for NASA. Elon hopes to influence the public/politicians to help fund SpaceX instead of focusing on NASA doing it all.
Agree.

From the article:

> That means asking and answering initially awkward questions, like, would we be best off if our first Martian colonists were religious observers?

I propose to send to Mars only people that has a different religion than the author. Is that still a good idea for him?
Myers-Briggs is incredibly useful for people who fall into INFJ because the categorization is relatively rare and can help them place a few of their more socially maladaptive tendencies in context.

Admittedly, the test is arbitrary in many ways, but you can't deny the questions -- about introversion, how logical, emotive, and judgmental you are, etc -- represent the subjective experience we have of others' personalities, even if the categories are incomplete, nonlinear, redundant, or transient.
> This behavior is explicitly described in posix

Where? Here's the [POSIX specification of poll][1], for reference. Nowhere in there can I find that it explicitly specifies the behavior of an empty-set poll. The only really relevant paragraph, with relation to the timeout arg is this one:

> If none of the defined events have occurred on any selected file descriptor, poll() shall wait at least timeout milliseconds for an event to occur on any of the selected file descriptors. If the value of timeout is 0, poll() shall return immediately. If the value of timeout is -1, poll() shall block until a requested event occurs or until the call is interrupted.

But "if none of the defined events have occurred" isn't really evaluable when there aren't any defined events in the first place; the answer is undefined because the question is wrong. Thus, it seems to me that this behavior is undefined, as far as POSIX is concerned.

(I wonder if this could be rephrased as, if ∃ fd∈∅ where none of the defined events have occurred on fd, then poll shall wait timeout…; this if is false (not undefined), so is should not wait the timeout. But then, the standard leaves us wondering what it should do, if not that. I think this reinterpretation depends on equating "any" with "at least one", though.)

(Having poll wait the timeout when passed the empty set certainly seems useful, but whether or not that's standard is a different question.)

[1]: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/po...
I'm sorry, but I'm wondering if you have ever seen a HiDPI screen. No way I'm going back, after getting used to the clarity and less eye strain.

I don't really care whose issue LR is. It's a tool really without equal, and it's required for my use case.

Keepass is what I would move to, but 1Password is so much nicer. Hopefully they support Linux fully at some point.

Why would I move away from iOS? The hardware and software as a package work better than anything on Android I have used, again for my use case. Part of my job is building apps for both platforms. There is no way we would stop doing the iOS version.
Have you done any controlled experiment to test this hypothesis?
Clearly he was ahead of his time with countervalue targeting.
The private cloud is for suckers
It's not as easy as you might think to determine what benefits everyone, though. Even if you live in the city near your employer and avoid using the roads, it's still to your benefit to build roads to the suburbs where the local shops and restaurants you patronize can hire cheaper labor.
> NASA moves very slowly these days

This is a narrative I've heard, but is there anything to back it up? NASA has operations on multiple planets and now outside the Solar System. They seem to develop multiple major, pioneering projects, from space telescopes to probes of other planets to earth observatories to Martian rovers, all at the same time. I'm impressed.

Sure, they don't move with the agility of a startup, but any SV company would be ecstatic to have that portfolio of operations and development. These aren't self-driving cars.

> President Obama cancelled it, because he had little incentive to keep spending money on his predecessor's legacy

Any evidence of that? Due to the Great Recession, the GOP's refusal to increase revenue (and their work to shrink government), and the current radical budget caps, many programs in many departments - even essential military programs - have had to be cut.
Of course roads are paid for. And of course the money comes from other taxes. The whole point of the article is the distortion in use brought on by very low user fees.
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He said "birds" not "bats". If you're going to be snarky, at least get the classification right.
The gravity and atmosphere of Mars make it a more ideal candidate.
The inherent difficulty of the Martian environment is far more restrictive and expensive than even the most draconian regulations.

The only way this would make sense is if one's objection to regulations was purely ideological and not grounded in any sort of reality-based cost-benefit analyses. Setting up shop in a failed state is far easier than setting up shop on Mars, and that will remain true for the foreseeable future (and probably forever, or until no failed states exist).
FYI, inconsistency in Logistic Regression example:
"...while (norm < epsilon) {..." Vs. "...as long as the norm is more than a given epsilon..."
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Generally, I don't get this:

* Kapeli shared financial information and test devices with this other account, whether it was a relative or not.

The assumption here is that for some reason a credit card number and device identifiers (unclear where they come from...but maybe mac address?) are enough for Apple to "link" accounts. I contest this for the same reason I think someone knowing my birthday and social security number is _not_ enough for them to be confirmed as "me".

While I don't think Apple is wrong to use this as a psuedo-identifier, I do think it is wrong for them to insist that, "we did nothing wrong" and fail to reinstate the pseudo-linked account immediately after being contacted.

I don't know if Kapeli is telling the truth about the situation...and his reputation is tarnished my eyes, but I definitely don't think Apple should insist that the accounts _must_ (with 100% certainty) be linked based off of the circumstantial credit card and test devices registered to them.

At this point Apple should either reinstate the account or come out with all the information they have to justify their actions. But having "closed door" conversations and throwing allegations at one another without proof and documentation is ridiculous.
How they're spending 30% of revenue on R&D and have little to show for it is beyond me. They can probably cut staff by a huge percentage and there would be little impact on day-to-day operations.
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Bruce Willis is the one who has bitten Germany in World War 2, America believes in that.
Well, it seems like it could be according to the article. What would you still need to use NPM (the cli) for, other than package hosting?

According to http://blog.npmjs.org/post/151660845210/hello-yarn, it seems it doesn't work with private packages yet, which may or may not be an issue for your project. But it seems this is a complete CLI replacement for NPM.
> I loved Bundler's deterministic builds but chafed against the Ruby limitation of only having a single version of a dependency at once

This is due to the way that Ruby includes code, where it's available globally, vs Node where code is scoped to the including module. I'm not sure how Ruby could support multiple versions with changes to the language and/or RubyGems
"invocing"
Don't invert the burden of proof.
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A disruptive meeting wherein all employees of the company are expected to drop everything to hear about what the company had been up to since the last all-hands.
Sorry, I meant to respond to the other comment saying it was a dupe.
Throwing more money at it doesn't fix everything.
> Sadly the pathogen make up of the Americas made safe exploration an impossibility

Indians had no trouble crisscrossing America.
> since it didn't capture the value of the specific users they were attracting

Can't take feedback like this seriously coming from someone like Gruber with a disproportionately high follower count from being an early adopter.

Only people Twitter as a company and Twitter the service/apps/concept seems to actually benefit are these early adopters and journalists.

Average person has a completely different experience with the service than these people.
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Can anybody explain the remark about LLVM towards the end of the post? What were the difficulties of updating it, especially with respect the intermediate versions?
I have always wondered if one could make a better Subreddit Simulator with Deep Learning.
Not always true: see "Kearney v. Salomon Smith Barney"
As nice as this is, it really is little more than an empty recap statement, and leaves so many questions. When, exactly? There are seven or so decent launch windows between now and "the 2030s," so what are we targeting? With what money? It's nice that nextSTEP selected six firms, but aside from Space-X (who is not on the list, mind you) I can't see others willingly donating hardware and personnel without compensation. What steps are being taken to insure this project won't be hacked to death by political whims?

More importantly: How can I (or any other individual) help? There's precious little actionable data in this release.
Because it is very hard for a test not to have predictive power.

For example, companies fruitfully extract predictive power from whether a user clicked a link or not. Facebook extracts predictive power from whether users like videos, et cetera. So why shouldn't an elaborate test that was developed to have meaning, not have any predictive power?
If apps and content are developed on OSX then they will be first-class citizens on iOS devices for end users. If Apple gives up on OSX to milk revenue from iOS, what happens when the hottest new apps and content are second-class citizens on iOS devices because everyone is developing/authoring on something else?

Apple's long term strategy absolutely relies on OSX, if current management are taking a short term view, well it wouldn't be the first time. Only there is now now Jobs to come riding to the rescue.
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You're no statistician or psychologist. Those loadings are huge.
They have that now.

Go to your local urgent care or CVS doc in a box and you'll get a nurse practitioner who can help you out with routine stuff for low cost.
They are different problem domains, I think confusing them is unlikely
This is a completely bogus argument. Phrenology[1] on its face sounds pretty sophisticated, but it still has zero predictive power.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology
But it does, it works fine.
Doesn't directly corroborate the story, but does back up that they worked together.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/09/us/09manning.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/who-is-wik...
> I hate this analogy. Not only does it enforce the bullshit teleology of the White European as "discoverer" (you know people inhabited these continents, right?)

Thanks, agreed. On the last part though, it doesn't hurt to explore, a lot can be learned in the process alone, outside of actually finding anything.
Take the proposition that the Earth goes round the Sun. It either does or it doesn’t, so it’s hard to see how we could pick a probability for this statement.

Sometimes I fail to follow the distinctions made in certain strains of classical statistics. How is his "conundrum" different than this one? "Roll a 6 sided die whose result we cannot see. Take the proposition that the top shows a 6. It either does or it doesn’t, so it’s hard to see how we could pick a probability for this statement."

What matters to a scientific observer is how often you’ll be wrong if you claim that an effect is real, rather than being merely random.

I think "scientific observer" may mean statistician here.

For the scientist, what should matter is the probability that the claimed effect is real -- period. That is, unlike the statistician, the scientist isn't (shouldn't be) allowed to blame "modeling error" when it turns out that the measurements are biased, the samples are correlated, or the effects are nonlinear. False assumptions that "randomness" is the only (or main) danger can lead to unrealistic error bars and unwarranted confidence in the effectiveness of flawed models.
yes, I always score very very strongly in INTJ. It may not be as useful as a full psychological evaluation for describing my personality, but unlike Tarot/astrology, if you know what INTJ means, you can understand how I function and how I see myself. (not very social/emotional, very logical, stubborn, aptitude for systems-building)
Without the clusters, the tests would generate no interest. Imagine if most of us got the same results: "You are within a standard deviation of average. Go ahead and keep doing what you're doing." It would be like the typical middle-of-the-road performance review. We'd file it in the drawer and forget about it. The binary extremes provide the entertainment value needed to perpetuate the product, and also to justify the traits attached to the symbols.
FP16 performance is only relevant until people figure out how to train NNs using INT8. See, for example, [1] for recent advances in that direction.

After that, it's going to be mostly about memory size and bandwidth.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.01025
I think the article proposition is exactly what you're saying. Raise the gas taxes to cover the real cost of the infrastructure.
This is amazing. Does anybody know if Compressorhead does actual public gigs? I would love to see a full show.

I wasn't able to view their FB account as I am non-FB user.
Hey! I'm Sebastian McKenzie (@kittens on GitHub) and I'm the lead develop on Yarn at Facebook. We initially used a method similar to ied when we first started experimenting with internal usage at Facebook.

We ran into a lot of issues with OS compatibility around symlinks and existing tools not supporting it. Windows lacks support for symlinks on non-Admin accounts, NTFS junctions work but they're slightly quirky in their behaviour and don't behave exactly the same way.

A lot of tooling relies on the existing node_modules structure. ESLint for example will load tools relative to itself which means that they need to be reachable in the tree, you can solve this with hardlinks but there's caveats with that too. Existing tools aren't very well suited for handling cycles either which in a system like npm are extremely common as a transitive module could depend on one that's higher in the graph.

We care a lot about existing ecosystem compatibility and because of these limitations we went with the current status quo. We'll continue to explore others options though and if there's a chance we can do it without any of these caveats then we're more than happy to explore it.

Let me know if you have any further questions!
The landing sequence appears less complex and risky than the skycrane solution for Curiosity. Does anyone know what the tradeoffs between the two options are?