skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the articles, I'll read them when I get a chance.

I wasn't aware of those figures; rolling in my mind was that I'd read somewhere that immigrants took substantially more social benefits than natives (like 50% more, perhaps attributable to the culture). But I'm not sure if that was documented or undocumented or what, just a vague memory.

First reaction would be that anarcho-capitalism is a thing, albeit not a philosophy I think would possibly work (See Stefan Molyneux rambling on youtube).

I agree with your second point completely, the question is about the little guy. Neither of their policies would affect me much at all, so I feel it's my responsibility to vote for who I think would help the poor most.

Is the third one true? For example where I live in China there is a huge Apple advertising presence even with the 10-20% price increase versus USA prices. And with free trade, couldn't it be cheaper to be a "foreign" company without losing much presence / market share? I feel like tariffs are essential for forcing companies to stay to maintain market presence, instead of free trade deals.
If someone tries to explain stuff based on the "human psyche", it's important to understand that people aren't the same. If someone talks about "we" or "humanity" as a whole, he/she doesn't takes this into consideration - which makes the whole argument questionable.

An estimated 2-5% of all humans are so called "psychopaths", people without the ability to feel empathy for other peoples pain. Those people are at the same time overrepresented as inmates in jails as well as in holders of executive positions. It's totally possible that most violence in human history is a result of those kind of people while the remaining 95-98% are simply victims of those people.
Of course it does. You just have to block the cookie too.
Hurry up,fix the CVE-2016-5425 privilege escalation flaw in Apache Tomcat
My experience has been that a monthly all-hands for 200 people is pretty good. More frequent meetings than that should be smaller, because the alternative is talking about group-specific stuff that's irrelevant to most people.

Your company should subdivide as it grows, and the meeting/governance structure should acknowledge that fact. Weekly for 500 people sounds insane.
Similar comments have been raised about the MMPI. On a quick look again, I found:

https://www.minnpost.com/second-opinion/2009/08/fascinating-...

he original developers of the MMPI questionnaire went about choosing their "normal" control group. They compared test answers from patients in hospitals for the mentally ill with answers from people working in and visiting those hospitals.

Who’s to say those workers and visitors were mentally healthy?

It's well known that certain kinds of mentally ill people are drawn to working in the mental health industry. I know a psychiatrist who's a narcissist, and a psychiatric nurse who's probably BPD or NPD.

Bootstrapping a test from a hand-picked set of people is just bad methodology.
Buhari Seeks Senates Confirmation of Two Supreme Court Justices
Surely, by breaking the law and ripping one of these notes on live tv, Piers Morgan can be arrested and charged. TV evidence... why has he not been?
Several collections have been formed. Perhaps most pertinent to your inquiry is the Vulgate, a translation commissioned in the 4th century by the 37th Pope.
I love VS Code (we're pretty invested in TypeScript, so it was a natural fit), but the one thing I really miss from Sublime is that code preview thing that shows a bird's-eye view of the current file and lets you click around to any part of it. Any idea if there is or will be a way to enable the same functionality in VS Code?

Edit: Apparently this is called the "minimap" and is a popular feature request, so guess that answers that.
Pretty impressive and entertaining as well. I did once catch a Captured by Robots! show and very much enjoyed the performance. Having a human involved to banter and do vocals was a big part of that show, so it did have a different vibe.
Why do you say it's less accessible to foreigners?
If you want a scientific measure of personality you can use the Big Five.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits
Yes, Magento tends to trigger some strong feelings :-D

We're still making some tests and prototypes, but Kitura is a very strong candidate to be a basic building block of our system.

We've received a lot of feedback about the name, we'll give it a thought.
The covariance of the Big 5 and MBTI is high. This means that if you give both inventories to the same population you can do a factor rotation of one onto the other with much of the variance being preserved. This has been demonstrated multiple times in the academic literature. I have never read an article against the MBTI that mentioned this, and that's because the people who write these articles do not understand statistics. The MBTI is approximately as valid as the Big 5.
Chaining HTTP Requests in Elm
"adding a Z80 backend to LLVM" just came up on the mailing list and someone responded with a link to LLVM+SDCC and someone else chimed in on the list with this page about using the LLVM C backend.
Nothing's wrong with the idea, but the MBTI does it in a way which does not have external validity.
Ah Plano, I spent a large chunk of 2005 there, working for a now-defunct credit-card systems software house...
Good Hedge Funds and Naughty Banks
> God knows the way Americans mythologize their founding fathers to so far beyond the bounds of credibility doesn't bother them.

It does bother some of us. In fact, it's one of the things that annoys me most in political discourse with some individuals, especially religious ones. While not religious myself, I at least respect a few key portions of the Christian Bible, namely the portions of the Gospels demonstrating and advocating for true compassion and mercy for others, and the detachment of self from worldly possessions. Which is almost exactly counter the Religious Right's views in the US. Those who have nearly deified, certainly sanctified or beatified, the Founding Fathers and authors of the Constitution, along with their apparent view of the Constitution as a sacred text, despite its obvious flaws and amendments over the centuries. And who view wealth as the measure of a man, while simultaneously claiming to be devout Christians.

"Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's" and "No Man can serve two masters" are passages which, I'm very nearly convinced, few US Christians have read or consider important.
Hi Marius,

In regards to the pricing, I feel that something like this is quite highly marked up. Your pricing strategy puts me off a lot considering that what you're offering is essentially an SQL dashboard.

Can you shed some light on how you've came to this price? I know enterprise users are going to be like "300 a month is nothing" but enterprise users are more than likely going to be using proprietary software rather than looking for a software like this.

You're also limiting yourself to SQL here, so that already diminishes your target market and continues to ask questions about your pricing.

Not so much an argument starter or me trying to be an idiot, but just questions/advice.
That is so punk rock.
I agree and believe that your skepticism is definitely warranted. IMO, that's exactly why we need to encourage more social enterprise and an environment wherein having a mission is a good thing. We just need to do a better job of holding companies to account.

So, it's the blanket condemnation that's the problem. If every CEO who claims to have a vision for something "good" is immediately met with skepticism, allegations, and outright anger, I don't think it takes us to a good place.

I confess to taking this a little personally. My business is concerned with social good and we get a good bit of this. Meanwhile, businesses that run rampantly over their customers and everyone else in pursuit of profit get less scrutiny, as it's expected behavior.

It's a perversion of incentives and a self-fulfilling prophecy. In my view, skepticism is healthy, but irredeemable cynicism is hopeless.
They are still selling S7/Edge by the truckloads - not to mention old versions of the S phones and Notes. And some consumers are even buying their incomprehensible A/C/J/E phones. And they are introducing S8 in March, and given lack of viable competition on high-end Android it will sell like hotcakes.

The damage will be to their stock and missed profits from Note 7 sales, as well as some loss to lawsuits. Maybe it will teach them to not rush phones or listen to engineering. Who knows, maybe they'll even add removable batteries or fix the AMOLED flicker.
Check out our example on github https://github.com/awslabs/aws-serverless-express/tree/maste.... The lambda wrapper is very thin (4 LOC). So you have two options: run/test your express app locally as you always would, or use the provided `npm run local` command which simulates the API Gateway+Lambda part (you can modify the `api-gateway-event.json` to change the "request" from API Gateway). This is primarily an example and starting point, and there is much more you could do to improve this process.
The whole point of the article is that the test does not accurately record personality traits of people or the correlations between them.

I've never bought into the test. IMO, it's much too simplistic to describe human behavior. People don't fit cleanly into one of just a few categories.
I'm pretty sure these have been used widely in other countries across the world... Australia, Canada etc. Says a lot about the UK that it's taken them this long to clock on.
Ask for a place farther from her, perhaps switching with some other talkative colleague in a better spot. If manager rises eyebrows, argue that she is too loud and inconsiderate(unscrupulous) to other people. Even better if more colleagues share this view, make a move together.
And their actions to be repealed or cut by the next politician in line.
From https://matrix.org/docs/guides/faq.html/

"IRCv3 exists and is addressing some of these issues; this is great news and we wish them well. It’s almost a contradiction in terms to get competitive between openly interoperable communication projects - we look forward to increasing the richness of Matrix<->IRC bridges as the project progresses."

Why not merge the two projects or just focus on one? WebRTC seems to be a better protocol right now.
> (and what ends up making the front page hours after being submitted for no reason).

Some post are "resubmitted" by the mods using some kind of manual curation. They appear a few hours later. I sometimes notice this with a comment in an obscure submission with 2 or 3 points that falls from the newest page, but a few hours later the submission gets to the front page and then the comment can get a few upvotes.

I think the most clear description of this by dang is in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10705926
> For example, in the category of extrovert vs introvert, you’re either one or the other; there is no middle ground.

That's not entirely true. The final answer that people wear as a badge is binary, but the result is calculated as a percentage, and usually presented to the test-taker as a percentage.
The more I learn, then more all of the social sciences appear to be less solid regarding the demarcation problem.
What actually happened:

1. Guy publishes good paid app and gets a tonne of good reviews

2. He helps out a relative by buying an apple developer account for them, giving them a machine to test with

3. Relative also uses same "com.kapeli.*" bundle ID

4. Relative decides to buy 1000 fraudulent reviews

5. Apple tells the relative to stop posting fraud reviews, who refuses

6. Apple terminates both developers accounts since they are all the same information (they look like the same person, same credit card, bank account, test machine, and bundle ID)

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/56uque/apple_dash_de...
This is making light of a difficult problem. Personality is an interesting and relevant aspect of individual behavior and socialization that remains incompletely characterized by science. One of the most popular modern alternatives to Meyers-Briggs is the Five Factors model which also has limitations. Utility for corporate applications may not be the best metric for these early attempts to characterize personality.
This is not a new finding. MBTI has never really been a serious psychological tool. In fact, a lot of the personality assessments used in business are really just woo - MBTI isn't even the worst. It at least is internally consistent.

For a real personality exam with actual use in psych research, check out the Five Factor metric.
So this actually is counter productive. It leads to a loss of feeling that there is a shared space for everyone. It was in fact the original idea behind Reddit but they pivoted away from it. Also, I think Digg did something similar that tanked the company.
Mostly, this reminded me of one of my favorite short stories - "Von Neumann's Second Catastrophe", by Robert Anton Wilson. This story changed my view of why we have wars.

The story is told from the point of view of a general in an insane asylum. He argues that war has been ruined by golems, creatures without souls. By golems, he means computers. The computers run scenarios for nuclear war, and always say don't do it because it can't be won - mutual assured destruction. But to him, the point of war is not about winning. That's a lie we tell. The point of war is the killing. We don't fight in order to kill enemy soldiers. We fight to kill innocent civilians. Because when you can deliberately kill a child, you become a superman, beyond morality. Nuclear weapons should be used just because we can, because it's amoral.
It's basically horoscope for geeks

More articles

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/give-and-take/201309/go...

Edit: http://www.forbes.com/sites/toddessig/2014/09/29/the-mysteri...

And the Guardian article
https://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2013/mar/...
2010?
Whilst the Allies were very active participants, WW2 was in the end won by overwhelming Russian force.

The Allies like to fancy themselves as the saviors, but without Russia fighting back the war would have gone the other way.
That's true, and an awesome way to turn my snarky comment on its head. Kudos, have an upvote! :)
Oh no! Now where will I get my smug sense of satisfaction from?
If it boots them out of the prestige-pricing range into the "it's got every feature of the rest for a hundred bucks less, you'd be crazy not to" range that Google used to inhabit with Nexus, that could be a good thing...
There are models for sentiment analysis (mostly using Twitter data, just enter sentiment analysis in Google Scholar) and you can use things like sentimentAPI: https://github.com/mikelynn2/sentimentAPI

I have at least one paper about sarcasm in my Zotero (link to PDF): http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P/P11/P11-2.pdf#page=621

If you don't want to click on that nondiscript looking link, the title is: "Identifying Sarcasm in Twitter: A Closer Look"
That doesn't make any sense. Just because a bot can pass for a human doesn't make it capable of improving itself into a superintelligence. Evidence: 6+ billion humans who are capable of improving themselves but are not a superintelligence yet.
My opinion is that the real value of tools like this is to give people a common vocabulary to talk about themselves and understand others. I think StrengthsFinder[0] does a particularly good job at this. The danger is when people assume they understand somone (or themselves) based on the letters/scores/etc. sans dialogue/reflection.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now%2C_Discover_Your_Strengths
That is not true, not for the first 100+ years at least. Until 1882, if you could afford the ticket to the US, you could come. So, at the time relatively expensive travel costs were the barrier of immigration, but not laws.

"The Page Act becomes law. It's the country's first exclusionary act, banning criminals, prostitutes, and Chinese contract laborers from entering the country. 1882. Congress passes the Immigration Act."
That's a fascinating article.

The first section uses wage differences between natives and foreign born workers as a proxy for assimilation:

"For example, the 1965–69 arrivals had a 23.5 percent wage disadvantage at the time of arrival, and this narrowed to a 12.0 percent disadvantage after ten years. But the 1995–99 arrivals had a 27.3 percent wage disadvantage at the time of arrival, and it was still 26.9 percent after ten years. As the report modestly puts it, “the process of economic integration appears to have slowed somewhat in recent decades."

Wages have been doing some odd things in recent decades[1], so it may be a bit off to assign the difference to immigrants' failure to assimilate.

[1] http://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/

Then there's:

"[The increase in wealth accruing to the native population as a result of immigration] ignores all the externalities that immigrants create along the way. The externalities are both good and bad. The good: The entry of extremely high-skill immigrants surely accelerates innovation, makes us more productive, and has a beneficial impact on economic growth. The bad: The entry of some high-skill immigrants, such as those who enrolled in flight schools and learned to fly planes and then flew them on September 11, 2001, can make us all much worse off."
Great, just what I need.

A virtual assistant that has the personality of a smug know-it-all, know-nothing 20 year-old with little motivation to do anything but regurgitate surface knowledge and sarcasm in an attempt to look intelligent without expressing genuine interest in helping anyone.
> If there are musically inclined folks in the company, it definitely helps to lift the spirit of the team singing along with songs they are playing at the end of it.

There are musically inclined folks everywhere.

I'm pretty musically inclined but dear lord I would never do this, nor would I work anywhere that did.
I was writing about this for some friends recently. A lot of people don't "get" twitter because it's a very multi-purpose tool; it's not built around a central use case.

I find there are 5 useful ways to think about twitter:

1. It’s a way to follow people you’re most interested in. (Friends, authors, celebrities, professional mentors, restaurants you like.)

2. It’s a way to follow publishers of content you like. (Comedians, news, industry pubs, local events aggregators, food bloggers, magazines.)

3. It’s a tool for actively finding content you like or things you want. (Discussion about a show you like, jobs, deals, feedback.)

4. It’s a platform to get people interested in what you have to say, and be followed by those that already are.

5. It’s a quick, accessible opportunity to communicate with a peer, influencer, business, or supporters.

If you're interested in the rest of what I shared with friends (more actionable stuff on how to find what you want, how to handle noise, skimming other basics), you can find that here - https://medium.com/@jayneely/how-you-can-use-twitter-a-guide... - but the above is probably what's most interesting to the HN crowd.
It's so common, it's ridiculous. The NYT has the same policy, and you have to call in on certain days of the week at certain times. They even published an opinion piece decrying the practice while participating in it.

The call centre employees will even discount your subscription to try to keep you. Not at all cool.
sleep blocks the calling thread: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/sle...
see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venlafaxine
I can recommend going to Bürgeramt in Pankow.

My first registration was in Bürgeramt Wedding - appointment was scheduled one month before via Internet. There were lots of people waiting. Later on when I moved and had to register again, I tried to make an appointment, but it was impossible. My co-worker went to the Bürgeramt without appointment one hour before opening. Then he had to wait 3-4 hours. I went to Bürgeramt Pankow on Friday around 10:00 and there in 30 minutes it was done. It was not crowded. Later on when I asked around at work how is that, they told me that people seem to prefer to go to the nearest office (with hope that it will be quick enough) and wait several hours, than take 20-40 minutes of journey more and wait 0.5 an hour.
That would be a supremely bad idea if possible, but parent specified that this bot would not actually be intelligent ;)
*nix. The 'API' is very stable...one might say the last major 'disruption' was namespaces which spawned the world of containers. Closer to home, plain old JavaScript which has become a better candidate for many uses as browsers have converged toward standards and Node has made it available for more general purpose tasks.

That's what comes to my mind.
His point was that you find something gratifying in the fantasy of murder and violence. If you don't find GTA to be abhorrent, then that means deep down some aspect of the anarchy and violence is appealing to you.
The Birkman Method is a far better tool that doesn't 'put you in a box' so to speak. We use it exclusively at Elaura and with our hoozyu and expresso apps.

https://hoozyu.com
https://expresso.elaura.com
It is well worth watching Derren Brown's demonstration of the Barnum / Forer effect [0].

If you've never heard of it, I recommend watching the video before you Google anything. It's only a short video (less than 4 minutes) and is a brilliant demonstration.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bCjzLij54k
I think there's something else going on here, other than the humility of researchers who claim to be unable to understand Mexica culture.

Failure to imagine what it's like to be someone else, from a different place, a different time, with different ways of thinking -- is perhaps the biggest reason why we have so much violence and hatred in this world, and modern scholars are just as guilty of it as warmongers and propagandists of the past have been.

It is a failure of imagination, a failure of empathy, that every culture encourages -- sometimes subtly, but often not so subtly -- in order to keep its members loyal. One of the defining characteristics of human cultures is that each wants to have a monopoly on a person's mind.

Most of us grow up believing that their way of thinking and living is the only natural way, and parents and teachers rarely try to give us a world view that goes beyond what's considered mainstream in our own cultures. Having lived in a cultural greenhouse all of our lives, the first thing we do when faced with a radically different way of life is how different this other person is. The differences so overwhelm us that we forget to appreciate our common humanity, with all its greatness and weaknesses, that should be the first step towards truly putting ourselves in the other person's shoes.

It would seem that anthropologists and archeologists are no exception.

Is it repugnant to kill innocent children at the altar of some imaginary being? Of course it is. Is it a necessary trait of civilized people that they cannot bear to imagine themselves growing up in a culture that practices human sacrifice as a matter of course and learning to participate in the bloody rituals? No, it isn't. It's just a failure of imagination that our own culture encourages. We have learned to be unable to imagine ourselves performing such terrible things, just like Victorian culture made it look normal for young women to faint at the slightest sight of anything disturbing. The inability to "fathom" another culture, no matter how seemingly barbaric, is not so much evidence of the moral depravity of the other culture as it is a testimony to our own narrow-mindedness.