skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm..I'm also using 10.11 with the dark theme. Does the app on your machine look very different from what I show in the second screenshot at http://www.marathono.com/? If it does, please consider reporting a bug thru the Help menu of the app.
Those tendencies are still linked to a birthdate which makes them prescriptive, you cannot ignore the prescriptive element of astrology without ignoring astrology entirely.
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I've been quite happy with my 7" Huawei Mediapad X1

http://consumer.huawei.com/en/tablets/MediaPadX1/index.htm

the only downside being the batter life is reduced if you let it drop to 2%.
I am very upset that Ubuntu is supposed vanguard of Linux. My experience with Ubuntu has largely been negative. You have random crashes of daemons and apps that I do not see on my gentoo system...the same exact processes!

I don't recommend gentoo for everyone although it really isn't that bad--if you can develop a web app, I'm sure you're definitely capable enough to use a supposedly "advanced" distro like arch or gentoo, but Ubuntu isn't that sterling of a system in my experience especially when you need something beyond the defaults.
For a hidden camera prank I want to go into the Pentagon's reception area, find a couch, and then struggle to pull out one of those enormous cheques with a lubricious number of zeros on it. Maybe I could even get some people in uniforms to help me yank it out.

I would then finish by galloping (bearing the cheque) into the sunset on an empty road, and at the top of a mighty hill I would yank the reins and the horse would paw the air with its front hooves as I wave the cheque in triumph.
What you say rings true.

However, the only thing we really know for sure, and for which there is a mountain of evidence, is that women as a group face significantly greater challenges in this industry than men do. That may filter for various traits in women such as greater levels of grit, but I'm going to wait until this particular survey is corroborated by further study before I buy into the idea that women and men in our industry are significantly differentiated by something like personal drive. I can believe it, but I wouldn't jump to that conclusion based on this evidence alone.

Great Medium article by the way.
His point is that reading is about the journey not the destination. Better to read less books but savour and enjoy them (or if non-fiction is your thing take the time to learn the materials properly) then finish them to say you finished them.
Okay 4.5 years :) I really was wowed by the promise of Julia and the road map you presented for it, great job by the way. I just am surprised I haven't picked it up yet personally. I have a feeling that my R ecosystem wouldn't be as strong as it is right now if it wasn't for the friendly Julia competition you have provided.

I guess I am seeking the one "pet project" that would get me to jump in and give Julia a test drive.

Thanks for all your work even though I don't directly benefit from your work.
I got downvoted for this comment multiple times. Could somebody explain why? Just curious.
>Selection- because so much of IT is hostile to women

that's an unproven premise
There is no such thing as posix memory allocation.
yarn global add typescript
yarn link typescript
error No registered module found called "typescript".
info Visit http://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/link for documentation about this command.

what?

edit: also,

$ yarn add typescript
yarn add v0.15.1
[1/4] Resolving packages...
[2/4] Fetching packages...
[3/4] Linking dependencies...
error ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\Users\******REDACTED******\@types\react\index.d.ts' at Error (native)
info Visit http://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/add for documentation about this command.
Believe it or not, it was a whole bunch of little things that added up to this state.

When I started with the cameras I was just using the motion detection and email features that were built into the firmware. I never bothered setting up the cloud stuff because I didn't need it. Slowly I transitioned to having the cameras dump images onto a local NAS via FTP. Eventually I started using the cameras for more than watching the cats, so I needed something with better motion detection and recording capabilities. I started with 'motion', then used a fork of 'motion' that seemed to work better, then finally ended up with ZoneMinder.

On the VPN side, I decided many years ago that I wanted remote access to my "stuff" - file shares, etc. This started out with the PPTP VPN built into my router, which is terrible but sort of worked. The next step was writing a script that would run SSH and set up a couple dozen tunnels, which is differently terrible but sort of worked. Eventually I got tired of maintaining that and ended up with an IPSec VPN using racoon -- split DNS and split tunneling are truly amazing.

The extra Wifi network actually started as a misguided attempt to prevent other stuff (Netflix, mainly) from interfering with the cameras. I figured that putting them on a separate Wifi network would isolate them and give them dedicated bandwidth. My first attempt involved using a Raspberry Pi as an AP. It worked, but not very well at all. The second attempt used the Virtual AP functionality on my router -- it wasn't until I set this up that I understood that Virtual APs don't quite work this way. Around this time I started to see articles about cloud-enabled cameras doing bad things and decided that this setup was worth keeping.

The camera and VPN stuff both went on over the last 5-10 years or so, with the Wifi changes being something I did within the last year.

You're right that there was a lot of effort, but as you can see it wasn't really driven by privacy/security until the end. Most of these things were driven by trying to find better ways to scratch various itches.

The next planned change is to re-address my network so that it doesn't use the 192.168.1.0/24 range that every consumer router seems to use by default. This way I will be able to use VPN when I'm visiting friends without having to tether to my cell phone. Like everything else, it's just scratching an itch.
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> Several instances I've seen of MBTI didn't offer X, but that's definitely an improvement. The one I got for high school career services actually crashed if you 'tied', because that hadn't been accounted for at all.

While I get the criticism of those tests as poorly implemented pop-psych, it only seems fair to attack the MBTI itself as a concept if you criticize the actual written, send-in-and-evaluate official version. The version I took of that (which came with a ton of propaganda from the testing company) featured both an X band and numeric strength scores for each category. It also featured a lot more questions than the typical online free ones, and had redundant questions the way that standard psych evals do. So at least some of the "professional" MBTI people are providing that kind of test, even if their analysis is all about bimodals and nonsense.

> With the X band, SD becomes important and a wide distribution might provide good results. Anecdotally, this could match the high attention given to E/I versus F/T - high SD axes would be relevant to more people.

My main point was that the joint distribution increases the spread away from XXXX to things like XXFX or XNXX, where even if you're still near the exact middle, there's less people exactly at average, and so the test is more likely to relay at least one fact in one category about the test taker than any particular category is to say something useful.

So even though the test can't say anything about the hyperbox in the middle of the range, it is relatively small because getting a little way away from the exact center likely says something about at least one category, even if the majority still can't have anything useful said about them.

Think of it this way: assume that the test can't say anything about the middle 20% of people for a given trait, and that the traits are independent (ie, how you score on one has nothing to do with the others). The odds that you're XXXX is (0.2)^4 = 0.0016. So only ~1 in 500 people would get nothing out the MBTI, even though ~1 in 5 has at least one category with an X.

And that's assuming a relatively large X band. Drop the X band to 5%, and it's only ~1 in 200,000 that would get XXXX.

> Having said that, I'm still skeptical of much of the MBTI literature.

I threw out the marketing booklet mostly unread after the statistical nonsense of the first few pages was too much when I paid to take the professional version of the test in school.

The test is alright, but not great and modern data analysis can probably do a much better PCA than the MBTI is, but the company is outright moronic in what they say. And others can be much worse.
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As a Jew, I am deeply offended when MRAs appropriate my people's experiences. Please don't do that.
70 years after the Holocaust, 40 years after Cambodia and Viet Nam, 20 years after Rwanda, as Syria is partly occupied by ISIS, what I truly can't fathom is how anyone would single out senseless bloodlust as "that alien thing from a distant dead civilisation we will never understand".
WSJ's reporters and servers are funded by money, not nice words on HN. I don't understand everyone's obsession with bypassing paywalls on news links. I occasionally buy paper copies of newspapers.
So allow the device vendor a way to push a configuration change?
I wasn't entirely sure. But, hey, this version got to the front page while at least two others didn't -- so I guess it worked.
If you closely enough at the spec, it is unclear if this actually a violation.

Also, according to the developer, this same behavior was present from 10.3 to 10.9 ( Apple was certified to be compliant from 10.5 onwards which tells you that this isn't non conformant) and OS X did not even ship with a poll(2) implementation before 10.3 .
To be fair, none of my machines has an nVidia card, but with Intel GPUs, I have had not any trouble whatsoever in ~7 years.

(Performance is another matter, of course, but for regular desktop use, it does not matter that much.)
I am really hoping that we reach peak touchscreen soon, and companies can start exploring other form factors again. I want a fast CPU and wifi in something that isn't just a giant flat slab of glass.
From another article: http://www.space.com/32254-exomars-mars-mission-launches-orb...

> But these instruments will likely operate for just a few days, until Schiaparelli's batteries run out. The probe's primary purpose is to prove out the entry, descent and landing technology needed to get the life-hunting ExoMars rover on the ground several years from now.

It seems crazy that they're shipping this thing all the way to Mars to get just a few days of data, and then to let it rust forever on the surface.
> It unconditionally resolves an ambiguity into the direction that makes their other work easier, regardless of if the data is less correct.

What the hell are you talking about?

Apple spent at least two years investigating this issue, and was in repeated contact with the developer committing fraud. It's clear that this process is designed to be as conservative as possible, because if it wasn't, it wouldn't take two years to finally hit the point of closing the account.
It also have comments pane which takes half of the screen (with non working X button) and hijacks back button (firefox on android).

It is really that hard to just serve PDF instead of stupid javascript filled browsers.
Specifically, we're better than allowing anecdotes to masquerade as data, even when we feel vague discomfort coming from the general direction of the issue being discussed.
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As far as I know, no such system exists. Strict static typing and numerical computing are, I suspect, more at odds with each other than they casually appear to be. The seemingly simple `+` operator is the most polymorphic and overloaded function-like entity in many static languages (and often can't be defined as a normal function for that very reason). And `+` doesn't hold a candle to the polymorphism of array indexing and slicing, which is pretty crucial for productive numerical work.
Actually 1984 was inspired by a book written (and banned) in Soviet Russia, We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin.
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Fuck reading a book a week. No one can read that fast. Let me repeat that -NO ONE CAN FUCKING READ THAT FAST.

Finally someone has the courage to tell the truth. I mean, I get the part about the necessary skimming one has to to do not just get through school, but be a practical, working academic (as described in the HBR article). Or the way that techies need to skim lots of tech books to stay ahead in one's career.

But that's not reading (in the sense of works meant to be read and not just "understood" -- that is, fiction, or high-quality non-fiction). Which means getting in the author's head; making their language your own (to the point of it sometimes actually does become the language you use, in ordinary speech and writing); getting to know their characters to the point where they have at least a partial feeling of tangible reality to them (like people you actually do know from the physical word); and their stomping grounds, to a point where they feel like places you've actually live in.

That's why it often takes me weeks, sometimes months (and multiple readings) to "read" a book. Very part-time, mind you -- I suppose I could make it go faster, if I made a "system" about it. Yeah, I suppose if I put my mind to it, I could get through a good-sized book in a week or so.

But then I would probably just end up "understanding" the book. Not reading it.
>I know it's hard to believe, but women don't usually get sent to coding summer camp as teenagers. Our parents don't usually encourage us to take AP computer science,

Males aren't either. The difference in participation is caused by men engaging in nerdy hobbies more than women (trawling BB boards, playing online video games, etc.). Why this happens, no one really knows.
The top-voted comment is almost literally "I agree with this because I saw many women get promoted."
which industry may I ask?
I haven't really used Atom much, but from the sound of it, Visual Studio Code should be a drop in replacement which has all your needs covered.

Python in VS Code is great. Best debugging experience I've had with python.

Disclaimer: Emacs user.
Is that still the denial or already the anger?
Looks like Yarn does something similar: https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/add#toc-yarn-add-exact

Personally I'm not really sure I like it. If I specify an exact revision of something, chances are I really do mean to install that exact revision. I don't see why I need an extra flag for that.
This feels like a caricature of Mac users. I mean, I like solid GUIs for graphical-friendly tasks. But launchd already exists and this doesn't even use that.
The implementation is plain broken. I can't scroll at all with my trackpad. Every time I click anywhere, a "Comments" window stutters out from the left side, and takes a few seconds to retreat next time I click.
nesting can't be prevented in that case (at least with the current node require() design). It gets really bad if you have 10 packages that depend on c@1.0.0 and 10 packages that depend on c@2.0.0 -- one of them will install in the root directory and the other 10 will be duplicated. ied stores a single copy of each package@version and uses symlinks which is an improvement. Apparently yarn tried something similar but it breaks some packages (that check where they're located for example).

https://github.com/alexanderGugel/ied
Because he wrote the blog post that started this whole thing and accused Apple of doing the wrong thing. Apple just wanted him to essentially post a correction.
Very interesting! How does the lockfile work with optional dependencies? We've run into this issue[0] on npm with a bad interaction between optional dependencies and the shrinkwrap. We develop on OS X and our CI server is linux, and fsevents works on one but not the other.

[0] https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/2679
I taught myself Racket and that was the single biggest changer in terms of my programming in R and enjoyment of the language. After digging around I learned that scheme was a major influence in R's creation. Your comment now makes me excited to give Julia a spin.
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> It has little to do with security

It does when you start to talk about unsupported versions.
It printed mostly fine for me (mac, chrome). It did not print the comments, which to be honest I'm not even sure about how you would go about showing the comments (which are often very large) in a printed page.

"Thanks, for me this was mostly another illustration how to make a website that doesn't." - sounds pretty harsh to me.
You probably aren't making 10x what a miner makes. Mine foremen make around 95K[1]. A regular miner makes somewhere in the range of 40k-55k. Do you make 400k as a software developer? I'm making a broader point here, in that you aren't as seperated from blue collar workers in terms of your economic interests as you may think.

[1]https://www.google.com/search?q=mine+sallaries&oq=mine+salla...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action

But I think you make a good point.
Well, sure. But it's also exactly the contention of its proponents: that the categories represent orthogonal concerns about how we process information, but that our variation across those categories explains the larger trait distribution we experience.

My point wasn't to argue about how well they did that (not particularly), but rather that it's useful to approach issues of understanding personality in those terms at all. That's the real innovation of things like the MBTI: that we should analyze the distribution of personalities in terms of PCA, and that we should probably use a few components, rather than like 1 or 2.

Of course, we could do the actual analysis much better than the MBTI did.
I mean, that is a great point. Bug fixing in general is not a sexy part of hackerdom. No one remarks about how great project X is with replying and fixing their bugs. It's like a working toilet, people only care once it no longer works.
In practice it seems bring them snacks and put them in cute sweaters.
Ask HN: Method to slowly improve decision making skills?
Success or lack thereof boils down to one's ability to make good and decisive decisions. Example: Even being consistent at something (learning, planning, thinking before you speak) requires making good decisions consistently. I realize this is my main battle, above and beyond everything else. I just hope I can retrain my decision making skills. Curious to hear from others about experiences, thoughts, and recommendations.
> And it still doesn't support non-US keyboards on Windows? :(

A text editor which doesn't support keyboards after having been out for years?

Just ditch that thing for something this side of the millennium marker eh?

Emacs, Vim, VS Code or whatever. They all support keyboards and they're all open source too.
Your explanation requires significant mental gymnastics to make your claim fit the data. If anything the data implies the opposite conclusion. If women were discriminated against in tech they would not be promoted at twice the rate.

Wouldn't you also blame discrimination had this study revealed women were promoted at half the rate of men?
MiniMap - https://atom.io/packages/minimap

Project Manager - https://atom.io/packages/project-manager (this one is a must, IMHO)

Sublime Style Column Selection - https://atom.io/packages/Sublime-Style-Column-Selection

File Icons - https://atom.io/packages/file-icons

Sort Lines - https://atom.io/packages/sort-lines

...and a pile of linters is most of my setup.
I mean, sure, and of course that's right -- but you can do that and still easily read a book a week at the same time.
If anybody likes transparent backgrounds, I wrote up a quick guide on how to enable it for Atom: https://github.com/transcranial/atom-transparency
Sure there is, I found thousands of papers on it with one simple search: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=season+of+birth

EG:
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27310922
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25132151

I don't know much about astrology, but your "sign" is determined by the birthday right? From my understanding, it is basically a way of binning together sets of birthdays. There will probably be various artifacts and noise introduced by the binning process, but I am sure with large enough sample size you will see the correlation.
The Labour leader was recently fired off her office and quite literally ostracyzed for a glimpse of thought expressed orthogonally to mainstream Holocaust propaganda in the UK.
So I guess there are many systems of self-censorships, political taboos and all this is for public good. It does not matter what people believe in, if you are maintaining system of these beliefs.
In Russia it is WW2, in the US it is "everyone can become a millionaire", and so on. It is rather pointless to play anything on the field of managed public opinion, where the BBC is one of the major players
Violence in response to violence. As explicitly stated in the article:

One example of this was journalist Glenn Reynolds getting his account suspended for tweeting "run them down" in reference to drivers being in a situation where protesters were blocking the streets and attacking cars which stopped.

Unless you're a pacifist, or otherwise opposed to self-defense, it's not objectionable, certainly not to the level of suspending someone's account, and only letting them return after deleting their own comment in Communist self-criticism style.

And censoring the relatively moderate but incredibly high profile Instapundit was an unbelievably stupid move, it might very well mark the tipping point after which saving Twitter became impossible.

Along with the continuing purges of "conservatives" (Glenn's a libertarian, actually), as the article says, Twitter has become an explicitly political platform, and in a US presidential election season (note also the shadow bans and one deletion of Trump's ~34 tweets on simple voter registration), and that's pure poison for the types of bidders it was soliciting.
Oh great, more anecdotes in this thread. There are the cold hard facts, you know:

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/01/techs-g...

>"It's already too late," Paul Graham, founder of the tech entrepreneur boot camp Y Combinator, said last month in a controversial interview. "What we should be doing is somehow changing the middle school computer science curriculum or something like that."

>Ericson's analysis of the data shows that in 2013, 18 percent of the students who took the [AP computer science] exam were women.

Who makes high school students' schedules? Parents and teachers, at least in the US.

So let's put aside anecdotes and reactionary attitudes and just look at the facts.
Yes. Censoring a vulgar word makes it seem more naughty than if you spell it out.
Absolutely.

It's not a hard argument to make that women (and many other underrepresented people) are subjected to a stricter filter in the tech world, playing with a deck socially and structurally stacked against them. It's no surprise at all that people who can find success despite playing on a harder difficulty level will be among the most capable. An article like this is actually heartening, as it indicates that achievement and ability are internally recognized.

And now I've broken one of my cardinal rules (don't engage with social flamewar threads on HN), but you're exactly right - many of these comments are too embarrasing to let pass.

edit: calex just made this point far better than I in another comment in this thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12687015