skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an anecdote, I was able to predict my wife's results on the test, down to how strong her leanings were in each category.

I think its a mildly useful categorization which allows a simpler and more coarse view of personality than the full spectrum of data would normally allow.
Thanks for pointing that out. The term "DOM renderer" does seem much clearer than "virtual DOM".
What I am missing from the discussion and have not seen addressed on their website is whether this project actually makes sense. I thought that simulations have shown that there are no stable orbits around AlphaCentauri (A&B) [at least in the habitable zone] so what do they think they will find? I mean if we are pretty much sure that it does not exist what they want to find, why do they keep claiming that that is what they will find? There is a reason NASA stopped projects in this direction.
My parents have a story when they had some rats that got into the hay in a dog house their scottie had the best day of its life. 13 dead rats later she was bummed she didn't get to play any more.
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But you won't see the biggest issues anyway - atmosphere, crazy temperature gradients, potential poisons in the soil, psychology of no chance of survival if something goes wrong. Trying to simulate Mars is indeed useful, I agree, but it won't give us the problems of the actual colony.
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JavaScript is the new BASIC and every millennial wants to populate his/her Github portfolio for Silicon Valley interviews.
And sometimes you'd want to watch the output.
I like it.. Less clutter.
I found that was the case pre-NetworkManager/PulseAudio/SystemD, but these days Linux won't stay working any better than Windows does. (My FreeBSD system is still rock solid though)
> deep down some aspect of the anarchy and violence is appealing to you.

Or you like doing all the silly things a game lets you do. Because, you know, it's not real and you've probably realized that.

I guess if you play Monopoly against Grandma and ream her a new one when she lands on your Boardwalk with a hotel on it deep down you want to be a slum lord. It couldn't possibly be as simple as you like winning games.

Sometimes a cigar really is just a cigar.
Exactly. And other convenient features like termination notification and file system monitoring.
Another problem with $50-200 phones is horrible cameras.
I think it's quite possible the level of violence seemed excessive even to the society itself.

A common problem that's cropped up in a number of modern countries is weddings getting more and more expensive. If weddings are an important means of displaying status, and it might shame the family to seem poor, then there is clearly going to be a drive that direction. Pretty soon, people are bankrupting themselves on weddings that seem excessive to everyone involved.

Cultures that engage in religious sacrifice seem to have the same sort of problem. Sacrifice shows off both status and religious zeal, so there's incentive to try to sacrifice more than others. If sacrificing slaves is allowed, ending up in an extreme state isn't all that surprising.
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...but it's a Soviet myth, not a Russian one. Unfortunately there's not too much people who feel the difference.
Fully agree, and I think this makes results ambiguous. Testers might take any of the two perspectives: "what I usually do in this situation", vs. "what I would instinctively do". For example, a religious person would respect her religious moral principles even against her instinct - what should she answer - isn't her will also a part of her personality? Should she ignore her will and answer with her instinctive impulse instead?
There is a difference between news reporting and manipulating public perception. Let the public make up their mind, just give them the dry facts.
I love Camlistore but have been hesitant to use it. They're just doesn't seem to be enough tracking behind it.. if more people were into it, i would be really happy.
see
https://www.amazon.com/DAEMON-Daniel-Suarez/dp/0451228731

&

https://www.amazon.com/Freedom-TM-Daniel-Suarez/dp/045123189...

fun reads.
Weren't GitHub profiles the new technical resume? How well did that work in practice, and how would this Stack Overflow approach be different?

I was under the impression (from reading HN/Reddit) that while engineers do read GitHub profiles if explicitly linked in a resume, nontechnical recruiters do not. And they are the gatekeeper to said engineers.
In one of my courses we took Myers-Briggs, which the professor scored and then handed us a summary of our results and asked people how they felt the results actually matched up with them. Virtually everyone agreed that the results were fairly accurate, at which point our professor provided us with our real results and we went through the various possible results to understand how they're designed in such a way that you can generally find ways to agree with the results no matter what you got.

Needless to say I've ignored any MBTI results since.
I was skeptical of this when they first launched the earlier versions, but I actually quite like the way they've done it in the final version.

My favorite resume of all time is Matt Hall's stratigraphic column resume: https://static.squarespace.com/static/549dcda5e4b0a47d0ae1db... (His blog post about it is here: http://www.agilegeoscience.com/blog/2010/12/17/resume-20.htm...)

I'm a geologist, so I'm rather fond of the puns, etc that he's made here, but the point is that a straigraphic column is a great way to lay out a resume. It gives a vertical visual depiction of what the person has been doing from most recent to longest ago.

That's exactly what the developer story is. I really like that they've used that visual layout. It's a very effective way to convey activities and employment history.
I don't think we disagree here, unless you are proposing to build a separate road system for use by military/police/fire.
No programming language ecosystem is safe from Yehuda's grasp. I'm looking forward to using one more well-executed tool with better repeatability, security, and performance.
> That said, I'd be willing to pay a more direct tax for the convenience of owning a car if it made people feel better.

I appreciate that— based on the letters section of my local paper, many people completely take for granted the cost of their car ownership, and feel extremely bitter about being asked to take on some of the costs of public transportation upkeep.
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I could see myself getting use out of this. Thanks!
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Yes, that's why I said it was a Ruby limitation, not a Bundler limitation.
Just installed it and ran it on a largish project ( https://www.bugreplay.com ), the parallel downloads really sped things up and outputted some great diagnostic info about problematic dependencies. BugReplay is a webapp for recording webapp bugs, so having some confidence that our dependency chain isn't introducing our own bugs would be awesome :)
Is it really now? That sucks as I don't really engage with SO that often; Hardly ever really. Sure, if I Google for something SO results come up, but normally I search YouTube for a talk/tutorial or search Github for snippets of code.

I guess I'm screwed...
Both ECDSA and the P- curves are terrifying. Not because NIST backdoored either of them, but because they're both comically easy to fuck up.

They are last-generation legacy elliptic curve operations. Cryptographers have moved on to significantly better, safer designs.

It's 2016 and the vanguard of cryptographic modernity in DNSSEC is P-curve ECDSA --- if you use it, you're taking a risk that some deployed resolvers won't understand your zones. The breaking-change new crypto in DNSSEC is already obsolete.
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(Not sure if you'll see this reply this late, but...)

The situation regarding ID's is a mess, but I believe I'll be able to fly, to the US or wherever, without issues (though I haven't done so yet).

The reason is that, India being a multicultural country, our central government that issues passports assumes a firstname-lastname pattern as well. And back when I got the passport, I didn't yet understand the firstname-lastname concept, and just followed the passport office employee's instruction: "don't leave that 'surname' field empty, that's for your father's name". I was curious why the heck someone would label that field as surname, but just took it as part of bureaucracy. And so, I have a passport to the name "myname fathersname".

The "mess" I referred to in the first line is about how different ID's have my name in different forms: let's say my name was David and my dad's is Michael. I have government issued id's that say my name is:

* David

* David M.

* M David Michael (yes, really)

* M David

(and possibly others that I'm forgetting)
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There are some similarities conceptually (SQL-based analytics, use of R or Python to give additional capabilities).

There are more differences in the visualisation capabilities, user experience and pricing (esp. with larger number of business users that should make use of the analytics results, which are free in our case).
My point was that it is not unreasonable to assume same credit card + same hardware = same developer, not that it is an infallible method.

Apple offered some flexibility, to account for the remote possibility of an unfortunate misunderstanding, and offered a way forward that, in my view, was pretty reasonable, and that allowed both sides to safe face, and continue to do business together.
If you're going to put your credit card in, then you are responsible for the account. If fraud happens on one account you are responsible for, it's not a stretch to believe that fraud could happen on other accounts you are responsible for.
But it's not Russian nationalism, it's pan-sovietism.
It's so easy to make mistakes when talking about this, with double and triple negatives that don't necessarily cancel out. I made one myself in the above comment before editing it.
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Interesting that you look down on the "idiocracy" yet "denaturate" is not a word.
Hey, I'm also a developer on ViewedIt.

As the viewer, you can't opt-out of analytics. The analytics are only identifiable as you (the viewer) if the recorder sends you the video through gmail as ViewedIt will append your email as a query string param to the ViewedIt link. If shared through social media, you'll still send analytics back so that the recorder knows how many views their video got, but you as the viewer won't be identified in those views.
FreeBSD also has the same .sin_len member that macOS uses. If you still do not believe me that this is allowed, here is the relevant section in POSIX.1-2008:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/net...

> The <netinet/in.h> header shall define the sockaddr_in structure that includes at least the following members: [...]

The "at least" is the keyword. Additional members in the struct are allowed by POSIX. You have to expect and handle them according to the standard.
Yes, it was a really significant thing, tightroping between how much Sweden can support Finland without becoming an outright adversary of USSR and its allies (first Nazi Germany, then Britain and USA).
No. If anything you have to radically desensitize the average person to be even able to commit violence, and in general when they can, people flee it. The whole point of boot camp and military training is to make sure the individual recruit is dehumanized enough and identified with the unit enough to be able to commit violence as needed.

Even then, desertion usually is epidemic in non-volunteer armies, and even in volunteer ones. And if violence is so good, we wouldn't see so many soldiers or police officers suffering from severe psychological trauma over committing it.

The issue with the kinds of pagan societies described in the article is that the society has successful and mass dehumanization programs in place for their elite. They select for people to commit violence and encourage people to dehumanize the act through their religious grounding. It doesn't have to be religious...gangs can create dehumanization, or secular ideology. But in general people really are peaceable, and societies like the Mexica tend to be aberrations over the long term.
A very limited standard library with no native (well, just approved but not ratified) support for importing/libraries. Coupled with inconsistent implementations and you end up need more layers of abstraction.
npm = node package manager = CLI tool which Yarn replaces.

npmjs.com = package repo which Yarn can use.

at least as far as I can tell
Nice! Weird scare pieces in the format $new_thing + TERROR is a strong sign that new thing is catching on.
As someone who just started with Spark lately, that was my first thought after being confused for a minute. It's not like people at facebook and google don't know about Apache projects. I wonder what is their motive to not avoid such name collision? I see these clashes a lot with small projects on github -ironically most of the are javascript- but rarely on a big scale like this.
Will you stop it. Bayes factors are computed as a ratio of posterior model likelihoods, a likelihood ratio, which is not so different from a t-test (which as you'll recall from stats 101 is the likelihood ratio test for two Gaussians with finite samples). The difference, then, is in using the raw ratio rather than calculating its probability, and (crucially) whether you use a uniform or something more informative to generate the prior distribution that is updated with the data to yield the posterior.

Frequentist == flat, weak prior (usually a dumb idea). There is no reason you couldn't use a Beta for a prior for a p-value distribution (flat would then be Beta(1,1) aka uniform) and generate a posterior p-value probability distribution based on that (take the integral of the PDF from the posterior mode on up to 1 => p-value). Not unlike a t-test!

Pierre-Simone Laplace himself (who Bayes' theorem should rightly have been named after) used the "sun rising tomorrow" example to contrast naive with subjective treatments of probability as belief. (If you're a strict frequentist, a uniform prior is called for; but everyone will laugh at you because obviously the prior is a lot more pointy than that.)

http://lesswrong.com/lw/774/a_history_of_bayes_theorem/ is a nice treatment. All this NHST bullshit came later. The important point here is how you derive the posterior likelihood, and the "sun rising tomorrow" example (whence Colquhoun derived his) neatly makes that point.

So while you could generate a "Bayesian p-value" with exactly the same tools, everyone would laugh at you for throwing away all that valuable information in the posterior (how pointy is it? how much more conclusive than the prior?) and THAT (I claim) is the real difference here.
Yeah, for OD? thats 468/month...

I'd use a spot instance and stop it whenever possible.
> "if none of the defined events have occurred" isn't really evaluable when there aren't any defined events in the first place

It absolutely is evaluable. If there are no defined events then none of them has occurred. There's nothing weird or undefined about that; the empty set is empty.
I wouldn't even aim at Mars first, but whatever.

The proposal of a self sufficient makerspace here, were we can even place at the neighborhood (just make it a hassle enter the building) is something that is:

# Cheap;
# Possible to start now;
# Open to research by several people all over the world;
# Required if we want to go anywhere.

Whatever people decide to do on the space front, there are other fronts to act on.
Of course everyone benefits from the road network as everyone benefits from buses and commercial vehicle access, but this statement is disingenuous in not recognizing the obvious that the dominant factor by far in driving the expansion of the road network is passenger vehicles, usually driven by single drivers.

If we had high quality public transit we simply wouldn't need the wide multi lane highways that we have.
can you give me an example? I did all sorts of numerical indexing programming, from fortran, matlab, python/numpy and R, and I am definitely more comfortable with 0 based indexing.
> we abort children legally

No we do not, that is illegal because murder is illegal. It is not a child until it is born.
I wonder why there aren't any realistic plans for using nuclear propulsion. Chemical rockets simply produce too low thrust. Using nuclear pulse/fission fragment rockets the solar system can be explored in a matter of months, rather than the years/decades that we're currently forced to endure. Project Orion was supposed to be feasible with 60s technology. Why aren't we trying to make similar technologies work?
You might be surprised to find that many Russian emperors who are viewed in a positive light in the West are viewed negatively in Russia and vice versa to this day.

It is actually quite logical since Russia and the West often have had conflicting interests for centuries. What was good for Russia was often bad for the West and what's good for the West was often bad for Russia.

Current example: Putin. (not an exactly an emperor but certainly in power for decades) Insane support in Russia from the common people and viciously vilified by Western elites and media. (for common people though it is mixed here, they are not in a conflict with Putin)
Well, it's less of a conundrum in the case of the die because it's easier to estimate the priors. That's the power and difficulty of using Bayesian reasoning; you need some estimate of how likely something is to be true before you perform the statistical test.

In case of the six-sided die, we have a good physical model and years of memory to know that there should be a 1/6 chance of any number coming up, so it's easy to estimate that prior. Similarly, when doing a disease screening test, we have data on how common diseases are in the general population that can be easily used.

The problem comes when using Bayesian methods on unsolved scientific problems. Suppose you don't know if the Earth goes around the Sun or the other way around, it's the early Renaissance and you've gathered some data that could indicate a probability of one or the other. What's the prior odds that one theory is correct? You have no idea, that's why you're investigating! The worry when using Bayes's theorem to replace deductive p-value methods is that the prior probabilities may just be made up out of baseless intuition, and skew the final calculation. (It can still be used effectively, you just have to get a little fancy.)
npm on it's own is that bad - this is nothing less than water in the desert.
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Im pretty sure that this is a public version of the platform that has been running at KTH (royal institute of technology) for years. It was used as a test suite as well as performance test for assignments there for the CS school.
> If an internet service refuses to take down content that really violates some person's rights, a lawsuit against the internet service which generates an order directed against that service to remove the material is always an available means for a mandatory take down, that isn't in dispute.

Thanks to Section 230 of the CDA, it actually isn't an available means for a take down in cases where the content was posted by someone else. The reason this kind of third-party injunction is so important is because it's currently the only way to force uncooperative internet providers to take down defamatory content originally written and posted by someone else, some of which don't let the original author remove it. From what I can tell Eugene Volokh wants these websites to have their cake and eat it: he thinks they should have immunity from being sued to remove user-submitted content on the basis that they may not be treated as authors of it, and also immunity from being forced to take down the content in lawsuits against the original author because they must be treated as authors too.
A lot of people here are switching over to Apple's side, but I wouldn't be so quick to throw Kapeli under the bus.

Imagine this scenario:

You buy your cousin a fancy sword for his birthday one year, which he later uses as a murder weapon against his girlfriend. The police look up the serial number and see that although it's registered under your cousin's name, your credit card was used to purchase it.

They arrest your cousin, give him a fair trial, convict him of murder, and place him on death row. You're not in touch with your cousin, so you are completely oblivious to everything which has happened. At this point, SWAT officers storm your home and arrest you, refusing to tell you why. You're thrown in a cell and told you have been placed you on death row, and that their decision is final and can’t be appealed.

Your only saving grace is the fact that you happen to be mildly influential in a small community with ties to the government, and you're able to get your side of the story out.

Articles are written about you. People are outraged at the government. Others come forward to tell of their dead relatives who had been wrongly executed as well.

The Attorney General reads one of these articles and scrambles to do PR damage control.

Se has her aid call you and demand that you make a public statement saying that The Government did nothing wrong, that you were the one who purchased the weapon so they were justified in their actions, and that they are so graciously working with you to clear your name. Of course, they completely ignore the part about their negligence and what would have happened if you were just some no-name.

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I believe Apple desperately needs to change their policies. These statements like "We can't provide you with any more information.", "This decision is final.", and lack of communication are wrong. Sure, they are a private company and have the legal right to remove anything from their platform at any time for any reason without any notice or explanation, but that doesn't mean that their actions should be supported and endorsed by the communities of users and developers.

Their actions should have consequences in the form of diminished trust, which may be the straw the breaks the camel's back in many developer's and user's choices to continue developing for and using their platform.

I will say that it was not smart of Kapeli to publish the phone call; at least not yet. He should have waited a bit longer, and only published it if Apple didn't follow through on their word. However, I still believe Apple is in the wrong here, and Kapeli's only real crime is that of naivety.
Come on brah, you can 'lose' a couple of trillion down the backseat of the sofa at the Pentagon but you lose your shit when NASA asks for a mere 1 trillion dollars spread over a number of years?

I feel pretty tall from this horse. Even the horse is feeling pretty aristocratic about the whole affair.
I need to remind myself to not read these for a while. I find myself disappointed when the post ends in a cliffhanger. I want to just binge read these after its all said and done. Really great reads!
There's still the 25519 curve, whose constants are highly constrained around reasonable criteria. DJB most probably haven't put any backdoor in those.

Plus, as far as big number arithmetic goes, it's relatively easy to implement.
Imagine how it must feel to wake up every day missing your spouse because he killed himself.
It is planned, yes.
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