skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not often near volcanoes nor enough of a hiker to seek them out but while in Bali for a few weeks, I did a sunrise hike of Mt. Batur. That's less than half the height of the one in the linked essay but it was still somewhat challenging for my somewhat out-of-shape body (not something I couldn't handle by any means but definitely wore me out). Getting to the top by sunrise was really impressive and I'm really glad I had the chance to hike it.
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http://www.atomicfloyd.com/us/superdarts

But be warned, their customer support is terrible if you don't live in Europe.
I feel this is a problem of studies that are interdisciplinary, especially when it's within "hard science" and "soft science".

I am currently doing a double degree in communication studies and information science. They are both interdisciplinary. Communication sciences integrates aspects of both social sciences and the humanities (both "soft"), and so far when doing research both of these fields were taken into account and no students have problems with combining these fields.

Information sciences integrates aspects of formal sciences ("hard") and social sciences ("soft"). When the course is about analysing communication data, the methodology of social sciences is also important - for instance questioning the validity of your data. That's the thing what you're mentioning: the majority of reddit speaks like and holds the views of college-aged white males, so the data does not represent everyone, and is not valid if you truly want to develop an AI for everyone.

Whenever the "soft" science comes around, like writing an assignment analysing the validity of data, many of my fellow students struggle with the concept of data not being neutral. This is where the two fields collide, and usually it just ends up with students scoffing at that "illegitimate" scientific field. Many teachers also don't spend much time discussing that field during the lectures. I admit, I have written some lazy essays which probably had been given a negative grade if they were written for communication studies, but easily passed in information science.

Of course information science is not AI, but they're both sciences that have parts of formal sciences and social sciences (I know AI has many more fields). I am afraid many talents within AI research miss essential knowledge about social sciences or deliberately ignore it, because it's not "hard" science. Case in point: your comment is now at the bottom of this thread. And then you get nasty surprises, like Google Photos categorising pictures of black people as monkeys.
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If you're curious what the rotation curve for a pure exponential disk actually looks like, it was calculated by Ken Freeman back in 1970 (scanned paper available at the link):
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1970ApJ...160..811F

The fourth page of the article has plot of the curve out to about six scale lengths in radius, along with the equivalent Keplerian curve (assuming the entire mass of the galaxy were a point source) for comparison. You can see that the curve initially increases, then peaks at around 2.2 scale lengths and declines to larger radii; beyond about 4 scale lengths it has approximately the same curvature as the Keplerian curve:
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/gif/1970ApJ...160..8...
Here's a short story on that topic:

http://karpathy.github.io/2015/11/14/ai/
Actually I wouldn't be so sure as to who burnt the bridge first. He posted the recording after Apple went public with their side of the story.

What happened to the supposed blog post? Why did Apple go to the press without getting back to him on the draft?
The fact that (some) companies may use it to test if a person is fit for certain tasks doesn't mean that it really indicates whether a person is fit for certain tasks.
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They are too big to fail. Worst case the government would step in and bail them out. If they failed the all their suppliers would be hurt it would be shockwave through the Korean economy. Same reason why US bailed out AIG, GM, etc.
There's a lesson for us here somewhere. Twitter undeniably provides value that is impossibly difficult to quantify by any widely-used economic metric (e.g. share price). It remains a platform where millions of users can interact directly with influencers (or, at least, their social media teams) on a platform that is comparatively less colored by political bias than others.

This doesn't just extend to celebrities and politicians. Twitter can do a good job of holding public entities accountable. One example -- companies often react more quickly to customer service complaints submitted via Twitter than those that are submitted directly to the company, since those complaints are now part of the public domain. A failure to respond properly could mean a company gets bad word of mouth at an unprecedented rate.

I rarely find myself actually using Twitter. But despite the financial shortcomings of the company, I agree with Jack Dorsey. Twitter has inherent societal value -- but it lacks real shareholder value.

This strikes me as serious cognitive dissonance. We know what kinds of public goods our society should promote, but our society isn't really structured to facilitate their promotion. Maybe that's why everyone is so angry about politics these days.
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Agreed. Based on billions of years of living in a multi-species planet, observation and intelligence-gathering is both prudent and non-violent. Running with our arms waving, yelling "Hey guys! We're here!" without further information about who we are talking to is an extremely, extremely bad idea.

We've got millions of years to figure out what to do. There's no rush. It would be amazing to finally know we're not alone. That's a great first step.
Would have been nice to hear this earlier than the final minutes of his presidency. I have no faith that either of his possible successors give a damn about Mars.
I wonder if the Galaxy Note 7 will in the future be a rare, valuable collectable item.
http://www.spacex.com/mars
There are no data to support the magical thinking of astrology. You are unlikely to find supporters here for your assertions of pre-enlightenment pseudo science
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See also the excellent summary by The Morning Paper: https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/10/11/progressive-neural-netwo...
I've been using a HiDPI ThinkPad T550 for almost one and a half year with Linux. One of the greatest annoyances is having displays with varying DPI (internal HiDPI+External StdDPI), I have simply settled on dedicating the internal monitor for the browser where I have zoom set and using other monitors for everything else. Whereas this just work on macOS, resolution independence with various DPI monitors is a great experience with no headaches.

Another thing is if you lug your computer around a lot, I often go from one 3-monitor setup at work to another at home however this always messes up my window placement and I haven't seem to found any DE/WM which handles this cleanly in a convenient way even near the experience on macOS.

This experience have made me realise that even though Linux is workable as a developer OS today it is nowhere near as convenient and seamless as macOS.
I've been trying too. On Reddit I just get downvoted - which I actually don't understand.

I've also been warning governments about how bad things are and how bad things are going to be. I can see some movement, but it is too slow. We need more mandatory, automated penetration testing of all corporations by regulation. We also need cyber army reserves to help bring some of the knowledge that we have in the private sector to our governments without having to work in a shitty beige office downtown Ottawa.

A bunch of Teslas hacked at the same time is a weapon of mass destruction. We need to recognize that we have weapons of mass destruction online and take countermeasures now so we don't wake up one day to the news that 20 million cars accelerated to 200km/h and crashed into gas plants and government buildings all around the country. We need to regulate industry so the "move fast and break things" doesn't actually move fast and break things.
> HiDPI is just a waste of processing power and money anyway.

You're right, we should all go back to 640x480 CRT screens.

After being on HiDPI displays for years, old LCDs are practically unusable. More eye strain, lower max information density, less visually appealing.
> When I read articles criticizing Meyers Briggs, I always assume it was written by one of these people

how dismissive of you. do you dismiss the science in those articles as well?
The problem is going to solve itself, just like it solves itself already. Before volumetric DDOS became widespread, no ISPs cared enough to do anything about it, the risk simply didn't worth anything to put resources into dealing with it. Today it does and many deploy some measures to quickly react and at least null route targeting IPs to minimize impact on the rest of their customer. Some IXs and large networks even provide filtering capabilities for free to filter those attacks closer to the sources and avoid sending large volumes of traffic through their networks.

So, don't worry about it.
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John
Heh. Reddit, huh?

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"Siri, get me dinner date reservations."

. . . DID YOU MEAN 'false rape accusations' ?
Oh god, you'll have an AI that disagrees just for the pure joy of disagreeing.
Assassin's Creed scares the crap out of me as I find myself enjoying, on occasion, just murdering a passerby who I happened to find annoying.
> Oh, and battery life on Skylake is about half of what a Macbook gets.

Try updating your firmware. My Skylake laptop gets 10 hours or so. If a Macbook got 20, I'd be quite impressed. :)
Well, I know for sure that a person with an INTJ personality type is not suited for marketing and sales (statistically speaking of course). Would you claim otherwise?
I don't believe it's a fair comparison... modern CPUs can run, by definition, a pretty basic range of operations, and every intent has to be encoded in a extremely complex sequence of commands. Given a certain CPU architecture and a certain algorithm to implement, someone might be able to properly infer the expected size of a compiled binary. But, by pushing the concept to the absurd, one day we might build a super-sophisticated CPU that runs code at such an high level of abstraction that the Dawrf Fortress game is encoded in a single binary digit, whose sole meaning is "Play Dwarf Fortress". Between the 10MB binary running in modern CPUs and the single 1-bit binary running in our hypotetical "super-CPU" stand all the possible devices that have been existed and that will be ever invented... How can you place a living cell in this scale? Unless you can do it, any discussion about binary size is simply pointless...
Kudos to the Yarn contributors for launching with a public RFC governance model right from the start: https://github.com/yarnpkg/rfcs

Practical, usable, deterministic lockfiles are wonderful and the lack of them has been the single biggest pain point in the npm ecosystem.
There's violence and there is violence. While I can enjoy an action movie or an UFC match, watching images from the Holocaust still makes me sick.
It'd be really interesting to see the economic comparisons of both against each other.

I.e the cost per kg of payload shipping from America to Europe in 17th Century vs the cost per kg of payload shipping from Mars to the Earth in 21st Century.

I suspect the Mars in current day is much greater, but ships and crew back then were not cheap.
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Cost. We could have implemented comment search 8 years ago. Actually, we did implement it. But it just cost way too much to maintain the index.
It looks like this addresses the biggest issues people have with npm's CLI, and it's coming from such huge names: Facebook, Google, and Tilde. Reproducible builds are a _huge_ issue, and this gives you that. Looks great!

One interesting little tidbit I found from diving into the source:

https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/blob/master/src/constants.js#L15

https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/blob/master/src/registries/yarn-registry.js

It's not mentioned in the post, but looks like they're running their own registry as well...

Oh! And open governance: https://github.com/yarnpkg/rfcs !
It's not one of the reasons you'll read about in the news, no.
Well, Kapeli recorded and uploaded the phone call, shooting himself in the foot.
It is generally a good idea not to pass unitialized struct members. Since the BSD socket API is meant to be extensible, new struct members could be added at any time. Enforcing this rule leads to more robust and portable code.
There is not blackmailing from Apple. They are offering him a chance to wipe his slate clean if he publicly (since he was the one to go public) acknowledges that what Apple did was justified (and it was).

He has to now decide what's more important: his pride or his revenue (https://web.archive.org/web/20150103225308/http://blog.kapel...), it's that simple.
You probably want to start using the -w option with iptables
User choice has gone out of fashion
Thanks a lot for pointing to this. I had searched their knowledge base for "import", didn't find anything, and assumed this wasn't there. Both the paid option and the (free) manual option are straightforward.
Huh, interesting! I thought this was going to just be a client. I wonder if it resolved to npm's servers or something.
For these points, I think it's crucial to distinguish "Myers-Briggs style tests" from The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.

The first thing, MB-style tests, are amorphous and have been improved in various ways since the invention of the test.

That second thing is a formalized test with licensed practitioners. It's been used to disqualify people from jobs, and has produced a huge amount of secondary literature/analysis which requires the binary distribution to be meaningful. This formalized test has been worth a small fortune for the people who own it, and their training seminars and public literature aggressively go against both points 1 and 2.

It's fair to criticize MBTI as, say, needing to be binary. 16personalities is a secondary group which is doing a different thing than the still-popular, rigorously-bounded original.
CPUs.

We already go to great extents to get vibration free silicon fabs. These buildings cost billions of dollars, and need amongst other things a very very good acoustic environment (which you get almost free on mars), and good environmental controls (which you need anyways on mars). You aren't going to find a better place than mars. Further, on mars, you don't have to worry about natural disasters destroying your billions of dollars building.
See also:

· http://yehudakatz.com/2016/10/11/im-excited-to-work-on-yarn-...

· https://yarnpkg.com/
t9 was AMAZING and i miss it every day. faster and more accurate than swype for sure, especially since inputs for t9 are deterministic.

very easy to text even from your pocket etc - something you cant do on a smartphone - notice texting accidents became more common with the widespread adaptation of smartphones ;)
I think the write-up should specify `npm install -g yarnpkg` not `npm install -g yarn`.
Let me devise a test. The test is just "are you a man or a woman?".

Does this have predictive power? Yes. If I needed somebody to take care of small children, would this test be useful? Yes of course. If I had to pick people blindly for this task, except for the results of this test, then this test would be very useful. Now, MBTI is more sophisticated than this simple test. So to say that it has no predictive power is just silly.
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If you want a deep (and I mean deeeeeeep) dive into where some of this comes from - "Eurasianism":

Black Wind, White Snow: The Rise of Russia's New Nationalism

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Wind-White-Snow-Nationalism/dp/...

> "According to the Soviet mythology, 28 soldiers from the Red Army's 316th Rifle Division, mainly recruits from the Kazakh and Kyrgyz Soviet republics"

Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan are both part of the Eurasian Steppe which play a big role in this invented history of Eurasianism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_Steppe
He did comply, he just did it in a very odd manner.
I assume that they at least test, and may even test before integrating, but when things are merged into HEAD, changes in various subsystems might affect one another, or some such.
HFS+ in general makes my butt pucker. It's the only one that occasionally eats itself under regular use. Usually so badly that a restore from backup is the only solution.

It's not like Apple doesn't have the cash either. They could take some of the money that is trapped overseas for tax reasons and open up a field office somewhere (Ireland? China?) who's only job is to run through Radar from top to bottom and close out/fix every issue.
That comment was intended as a joke. No, I do not. Although I think I'd view MBTI less favorably if it said I had the same personality type as a variety of dictators, etc.
My wife is two inches taller than me barefoot and wears heels. You should see the looks we get.

What does it matter if you get looks from people who have no value to you? You would get even more stares in parts of China.
The main value of any "personality type" inventory is to help people with different personalities interact in mutually agreeable and beneficial ways. The very fact that people cling to their MBTI type designators indicates that the see some value in that, even if the value they see is not there. With that in mind, I have a simple question:

** If not MBTI, then what else instead? **

Rose Eveleth doesn't seem to have an answer. What she has is just sneering condescension for the only such inventory that has gained any popular traction (which is necessary for it to be effective). The comparison to astrology is particularly unhelpful. Does anyone else know of something that could succeed where MBTI has supposedly failed?
I talked to an acquaintance at Apple about the new iPhone recently, and the Galaxy Note 7 topic came up. I wasn't aware that the problem hasn't been publicly revealed. So, here's what I remember of that conversation; though maybe it is just speculation and hearsay.

According to said acquaintance, the Note 7 was designed with profile requirements that limited the thickness of the battery. The battery designers had to make the battery thinner than what was previously considered safe. Lithium batteries (technical portion that I likely didn't understand correctly) are built in layers and each layer has to be separated from each other. To thin the battery profile, they minimized these inert layers between the lithium layers. However, they didn't make the battery thin enough. So, when it is installed, the rest of the phone compresses the battery and compromises those thin layers around its edges. (I am guessing here.) When the layers touch that is completing a circuit (or some chemical reaction) which is the reason the phone is producing so much heat.

I'd be interested to hear from someone that could verify these speculative details.

The conversation I had was a couple weeks ago, but I did my best to explain the details to the best of my ability (from memory and on a topic that I have a minimal education).
Uh, security?
Also true.

In this case the road I am thinking of is almost a highway (4 lanes, wide median, fast speed limit).. and the short dead end roads were built to connect to another busy road - but never finished. Sort of ended up as 20 feet of highway and then a grass field. So in this case, the assumption is that the road was built to the same spec (and on the surface it appears identical).
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I think the M-B is useful, but I only apply it in the area of communication styles. As an INTP engineer, I run into a lot of ISTJ engineers. ISTJ and INTP viewpoints are markedly different in what information is considered critical, how and when to make decisions, and how they like information summarized. So I use M-B to help understand the audience I am writing for or presenting to.

When I first encountered M-B it rescued a sour relationship with an ISTJ boss who thought I wrote content-free status reports, where I thought I wrote well-summarized round-ups that avoided meaningless minutia. Later, the table was reversed when I had an ISTJ report who drowned me in more details than I could (or needed to) process. I used M-B to help us workout guidelines for talking with each other so that we were productive instead of both frustrated.

So M-B has been useful to me. But it should not be used for making hiring/placement decisions. I really see it as an information processing styles inventory and little more.
> I've found that Meyers Briggs feels accurate to people whose classifications don't fall right on the margin. If two of the letters fall close to the margin, parts of the description will feel a bit inaccurate.

Unfortunately, the traits investigated by the MBTI seem to be normally distributed. So as true as this is, it still means that people who are decisively placed on all four axes are the exception rather than the rule.
I think it's because of the flaws in the Electoral College (search about it).

Also, only few voters vote in the party primaries.
You bring up an interesting case I think even you failed to consider:

Since mbti essentially neuters it's own usefulness in the "round those percentages down to binary" stage, you could end up with a situation where an INTP and an ESFJ have only an 8% total difference in mbti-measured personality between them.
Any process can connect to a running Jupyter kernel, just like IPython's IDE support. Emacs uses this to inspect variables and provide autocomplete suggestions for variables inside a running Jupyter notebook, for example.