skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Just to provide an example of the worst case, I've seen companies hold personality test workshops, only to have that bind their thinking and give them reason to quash dissent ("Of course... that's what a XXXX would say" or "I really need a YYYY on this project"). Too many times these things turn into a substitute for actually getting to know your employees' strengths and weaknesses."

They shouldn't be. Quite the opposite in fact. If you have an appropriate understanding of what personality type means then it becomes a lot more useful. If a person's skills, abilities, and personality are nature plus nurture, then MBTI shows the "nature" part. They don't cover the "nurture" part. Of course the other thing is that the MBTI is only applicable if you're sure the person that's taking it is telling the truth. Employees are always going to lie (or at least embellish) on these tests. But tests are only one way to get at this information. If you know what to look for, you can usually glean most peoples' personality types without subjecting them to tests they aren't going to tell the truth on anyway.

The way I think about it is almost like design patterns for people. Sure, everyone is unique. But we're not all that unique. There are almost always underlying themes and principles that make totally different people think similarly but not the same. If you think about it that way, personality type becomes a lot more useful.
I believe it is a sign of change as this community grows and becomes more popular.
I feel like there has got to be a gotcha or two in there, but if not, this is great news. I wonder how much the proliferating netbook market is to blame for it?
Hacker news has been running a series of these "geeks discover fitness" articles over the past few weeks. Personally, I do Crossfit, and for people actually interested in getting fit and fitness in general, I would urge them to check it out.

My local crossfit gym, the Brooklyn Barbell Club, has programs tailored to all abilities. A surprising number of people there are involved in software; I regularly weight lift with a guy who works on Chrome.

I'm a fan of crossfit in general because it keeps fitness fun by rarely repeating a workout (running 30 minutes everyday is awesome, until you realize how dull it is), gives me hard data to work with by doing workouts for time or reps (there's even a startup, http://beyondthewhiteboard.com/, dedicated to tracking crossfit workouts), and provides a huge, supportive community.
I really do believe the next big disruptor (on the scale of something like space travel or the internet) is going to be in our ability to harness brain power to directly manipulate our world.

There is so much research going on and a lot of it is quite advanced. Some day we'll put it all together and the results are going to be amazing. Not only in curing disease, but in fundamentally changing how we interact with our machines.

I can't wait.
I think the point is that we have to trust you, that the passwords are stored encrypted.
Right? Or there is a way to see that you are passing the encrypted password and the bookmarklet "decrypts" it locally without passing through your site?
INFJ: Introverted 27, Intuitive 88, Feeling 25, Judging 11 -- Counselor

FYI:

Favorite world:
Everyone spends some time extraverting and some time introverting. Don’t confuse Introversion with shyness or reclusiveness. They are not related.

Extraversion (E)

I like getting my energy from active involvement in events and having a lot of different activities.

Introversion (I)

I like getting my energy from dealing with the ideas, pictures, memories, and reactions that are inside my head, in my inner world.

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Information:
Everyone spends some time Sensing and some time using Intuition. Don’t confuse Sensing with sensual. They aren’t related.

Sensing (S)

Paying attention to physical reality, what I see, hear, touch, taste, and smell.

Intuition (N)

Paying the most attention to impressions or the meaning and patterns of the information I get.

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Decisions:
Everyone uses Thinking for some decisions and Feeling for others. Don’t confuse Feeling with emotion. Everyone has emotions about the decisions they make. Also do not confuse Thinking with intelligence.

Thinking (T)

When I make a decision, I like to find the basic truth or principle to be applied, regardless of the specific situation involved.

Feeling (F)

I believe I can make the best decisions by weighing what people care about and the points-of-view of persons involved in a situation.

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Structure:
Everyone takes in information some of the time. Everyone makes decisions some of the time. Don’t confuse Judging and Perceiving with a person’s level of organization. Either preference can be organized. o you prefer a more structured and decided lifestyle (Judging) or a more flexible and adaptable lifestyle (Perceiving)?

Judging (J)

I use my decision-making (Judging) preference (whether it is Thinking or Feeling) in my outer life. Do not confuse Judging with judgmental, in its negative sense about people and events. They are not related.

Perceiving (P)

I use my perceiving function (whether it is Sensing or Intuition) in my outer life. Remember, in type language perceiving means “preferring to take in information.” It does not mean being “perceptive” in the sense of having quick and accurate perceptions about people and events.
So what? The best competitor is winning and that's a problem because....?
I attended a startup seminar where speakers were founders from highly successful startups. Their advice was: "First imitate and then innovate". It is a usual business practice to first copy what's working for others, then innovate to make it better and leave the competition behind. It makes sense specially in a web industry where it takes very little time to catchup with competition. Companies have to keep innovating to keep an edge over imitators. Web industry doesn't have number 2 concept. It is either number 1 or out of business. I think not having room for number 2 is what is forcing companies to copy others work and kill the competition.
Betamax tapes work on other Betamax players. I hope.
Google demonstrated superior search in 1996, but only became the largest search engine after 4 years, $25MM funding, and a partnership with Yahoo: http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html

Good ideas are different, so people need social proof. That's not how geeks are accustomed to proving things, so we're slow.
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Learning SEO:
-Whitehat- Create a website, focus in on a few keywords, create original content, create a community (shift from website), advertise moderately, find users who love what you have done for them and will share the love with their 90,000 friends on Twitter for a tshirt.
-Grayhat- Hire someone on fiverr to do all of the dirty work for you. You're ethical, your employees -- not so much.
-Blackhat- dump in a lot of money, barely any ROI, would have been better off buying 50 domains + a year on a linode 512, everything that's new is old, all that is old will be seen again, you're probably the innocent bugger who will get removed from the index on his first try.

I know this is SEO, because I read it on the internets. Right?

Forgot to mention, I opt'd into the 50 domains and a Linode option. Somedays, I just sit at the computer writing articles for hours. Its always fun to watch articles getting linked only hours later by some random Googler and wondering what that Google machine's next move is.
By creating web sites. Is there any other way? You won't know what you've learned by reading unless you try and apply it in any case. Your professors are possibly more CS guys in any case.
YC is approaching the acceptance rate of Berkeley PHD - due to the ever increasing supply of applicants, mostly. The classes have actually gotten larger. So any feelings that "I probably won't get in" are probably true for any gendered applicant.

By all means apply! But have a backup plan. I have known people that have looked for funding only from YC. That's just as silly as only applying to Berkeley and then giving up on your PHD if you don't get in. As they say in football, that's not a high percentage play.

There were plenty of women PHDs at my graduate school, and men too! So I know people of many genders can navigate processes with lots of rejection.
Old-style search engine
Hi,

I am still interested in the link to any tools that overlay wiki history.. can u point me to any of them? thanks.
Because Iowa's Senator took them to task, threatening to revoke their Non-Profit status if they kept overcharging our kids.
Yes Asus, with the eee PC, invented the netbook segment, but is Acer that has the leads:

- Acer leads netbook market while Apple loses market share http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2008/dec/10/acer-a...

- Netbook Will Reach 26.32 Million Units and Take 17.2% of the Total Notebook PC Market in 2009 http://www.displaybank.com/eng/info/sread.php?id=4412&pg...

2009 Top5 Netbook Shipment Result/Forecast
| Rank | Maker | Shipment(K units) | Share |
|-------+---------+-------------------+-------|
| 1 | Acer | 11,300 | 42.9% |
| 2 | ASUSTek | 6,450 | 24.5% |
| 3 | HP | 1,810 | 6.9% |
| 4 | MSI | 1,110 | 4.2% |
| 5 | Dell | 940 | 3.6% |

But things are now changing:

- Apple's iPad nabs Netbook market share: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-20007756-64.html

And forecast are gunning the netbooks segment:

- Forrester: Tablets To Outsell Netbooks By 2012 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Forrester-Tablets-To-Outsell-b...

Are really netbooks on the extintion list? I think so.
What is Google Instant all about?
Whatever your skill level, there's no more effective way to learn SEO than doing SEO.

Best way to start: your personal brand. Launch a website with the intention to win the #1 rank for your full name. It will teach you most of what you need to know.
B2B Lead Generation with Google Analytics
Because it's not a competitor. They win with your data. When you're gone, everyone loses.
Are the extroverts just not speaking up (ironic)?

Otherwise it's really interesting how there's not a single extroverted type higher than the introverts? But it just goes to show being introverted doesn't mean you're socially incompetent and can't talk to others.

I want to see a poll like this for CEOs or other executives. Most leaders I know (at least the good ones) are introverts, but they still go a great job leading. Wonder if it's the same for bigger companies.
Took me a minute to figure out what was going on - the ability to go back in time of a live video feed is pretty neat, though it doesn't always seem jump to a keyframe, resulting in video artifacts.

Seems like a neat idea - instead of buying one of those expensive video multiplexer with bunch of cameras, just subscribe to a service that does all of the video storage and processing for you. How much BW does each camera consume? If I was using this for something important, I'd be afraid of losing footage due to internet connection issues.
Thanks!

I hadn't looked at password managers before I built PassKey. I tend to use at least 3 computers on a daily basis and with PassKey (unlike browser built-in password managers) I can sign in to web apps from any machine (just need to get the bookmark).

I don't think it's possible to remotely steal the encryption key as JavaScript doesn't have access to browser's bookmarks.

Don't have a business model at the moment. It was a hobby project.
Since you mentioned SQLAlchemy. Not that it's not understandable, but it's a shame how much attention the Django ORM has sucked away from the solid and powerful SQLAlchemy project. It's easy to get hooked on the Django ORM because of the admin contrib component which is tightly coupled with it.
I'm still concerned about the "look & feel" problem of shoddy ports using Flash or whatever but rejecting apps with bad UIs on a case-by-case basis should protect users equally as well.
And how is that Google's fault? Are you going to blame the locked NAND and signed bootloader on Google too? Carriers locking down Android is just as bad a reason to blame Google as faulting iOS for not having tethering is (considering that the OS has been capable for a long time but ATT drug their feet).
This is anecdotal, but I know of many people who got jobs from big firms during University's career fair. They were doing things like History, or English language.

The reason why the employers were so keen on them was not that they were going to use the subject itself (e.g. History) but the techniques. A history graduate can read _a_lot_ quickly, summarise it, and hand you a report. Those are great skills that are often required in a job (in some jobs more than others).

So impractical degrees may still be... practical. :)
(that said I personally don't think a degree should be judge on how practical it is. But I agree with the poster above that if you do want to focus on things that give you better job prospects in the short run, then there are colleges (in the Canadian/UK sense of shorter, more focused higher eduction courses).
I set my standards early, quit looking up my test scores, got out of college what I wanted and skipped the rest. I figured I knew better than my Professors how well prepared I was, the test score was not adding information, so I refused to look at it. I was honestly wondering if I would graduate, but I did.

MSEE Stanford
oh cool! excited to read it when it's ready.

yeah agree re: lack of female-specific advice. seems to me you either do it or you don't.
4) For web apps at least, it's nice to get data back in json format that you can give to the browser immediately without having to build your own json object each time. MongoDB saves you development time at every level. Add to the fact that it is easy to horizontally scale.

I'm using mongodb right now and the synergy between jquery - node.js - mongodb is simply amazing.
1K Platform Game With Explained Code: Bouncing Beholder
This has really changed my view point on Castro. I'm not sure if he's been looking at lives of Cubans and realizing that maybe the revolution wasn't worth it, or if he's just getting older and his youthful " altruistic idealism" is fading.

Nice to see people can change their mind, and recollect... even after decades.
Encryption and decryption happen on the server. You need to trust me on that.

I may implement client-side encryption/decryption. I need to look into it.
The third paragraph (which is referenced in the title) makes an excellent point. I wish he had expanded on this more.

The fact is that modern western culture strongly values timeliness over quality. Thus, we are often penalized for "taking the time to do it right". (For all you Myers-Briggs fans: Our culture strongly favors the J preference, which can be rough on those who are more inclined toward the P side.)

That does not mean that we all need to start valuing timeliness more. But it does mean that it is a good idea to remember that we will usually be evaluated, rewarded, etc., based on a value system that attaches great importance to timeliness.
>> Just remember... it's not about tricking search engines... it's about helping users find the best of whatever they're looking for and search engines identify and categorize your content properly.

I really like that line, thanks. I normally dislike the term SEO because it can be associated with so many unethical or spammy tactics, but that's a really good way of putting legitimate SEO practices.

I see Rand Fishkin from SEOMoz commented on here which is neat. I've thought about becoming a member of his site, question is, is it worth it? I'd love some feedback from people that use SEOMoz's tools.
Actually College is different from Trade School. Its not clear salary is the goal. Becoming a person better able to function and contribute is the goal. Sometimes that means, yes, gender study papers.
The large biting flies are a crazy phenomenon. They'll actually chase you, persistently. And they're HUGE. I was attacked by one a couple of years ago on Lake Michigan, and it just wouldn't leave me alone! I was diving, splashing it with water, running on the beach (it could fly about as fast as I could run) and no luck. I finally had to swat the vile beast.
I would argue that people need to stop making generic social networks. But take a look at sites like StackExchange: It is definitely a "social network", even though it doesn't have friend requests, only recently added photo uploads (and only kinda), and doesn't even have a Farmville-killer. But it's incredibly useful, highly successful, and might one day even be very profitable.

Facebook started by billing itself as a "social utility." Focus on the latter part while admitting the former, and you, too, can build a successful business.
"Sucky" isn't very descriptive, but I wouldn't blame somebody used to a more advanced or coherent language for feeling frustrated with Objective-C. It is a backwards language in many ways, and I say that as somebody who's been writing it for the better part of a decade.

It doesn't even have namespaces — something that has been standard in every language since the '90s. Instead, you must stick a two- or three-character prefix on all your class and function names (some people even recommend prefixing method names) and hope that nobody else happened to pick the same two or three characters for theirs.

For another example, it has a strongly dynamic OO model, but a singularly unhelpful static type system that is shackled with C compatibility, leaving the language in this awkward limbo between static and dynamic, where you're offered all these tantalizing paths that turn out to be blocked by walls.

Yet another: It has monkey-patching like Ruby, but it lacks the language or library support to do it anywhere near as cleanly (which is saying something if you know how messy Ruby monkey patches can be), to the point where some parts are almost necessary and others are almost unusable and it's not obvious at first where the pitfalls lie.

(On the other hand, a lot of people hate Objective-C for pretty bad reasons too. There seems to be a legion of PHP converts who really want to write PHP in Objective-C.)
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To me. And to those who wants to make sure that they don't get burned by Apple some day.
Highly recommend this - one of the more compelling presentations on how gaming is changing marketing in general.
There's an easy test for that - read the other profiles and see if you feel the same way.
I live in California and had the same fraying cable problem with three pairs of Shures, so it's not the cold winters that cause it. As amazing as their sound quality and replacement policy are, I gave up and switched to a Chinese knockoff that had good reviews.

I'm considering a pair of Woodees next though:

http://www.woodees.net/
You're going to a depth that is testing the limits of my example :) You wouldn't have to do that. You can have deep indexes, and query on those attributes. So if events had invites embedded, and invites all had email addresses for their recipients:

db.users.find({'events.invites.email': 'sv123@gmail.com'})

and that would return all the users that had invited you to an event.

Now, like I said you're testing my example. When these kinds of requirements are taken into account, you'd probably want to have a separate collection for events. Then you could do:

db.events.find({'invites.email': 'sv123@gmail.com'})
oh are i-OS API and code cross platform compatible?
Do any other companies except Apple create iOS devices?

in fact Apple used 3.3.1 to make sure that code was not cross platform compatible.
Eagles are just the most visible symbol of this degradation of the entire food chain/ecosystem. You start doing something that kills the top or bottom of the food chain, and sure enough, the rest WILL follow, including us.
Just FYI I signed up for your book list, what to read next is an issue I have a lot, and with a life like mine getting time to hit a bookstore is a luxury I rarely have.

Also, Go Canada, nice to see another startup joining the ranks from my country. Good luck to you!
There are many rankings, including acceptance rates, graduation rates. This causes its own problems, with the admissions process now skewed so heavily toward propping up these pointless figures (acceptance rate anyway) that High School Juniors are being asked to commit in writing.
I am not advocating tax evasion. I think, US for example, is a great place to do business, as opposed to Greece, because the letter of the law is followed and the rules are clear to everyone. I am just saying that the Greek government was so inefficient and the public sector so bloated, that in some sense tax evasion was helping put people's money at more efficient uses.
A lot sites these days don't do joins with relational databases anyways. They just use mysql or postgresql as a key value store.
Particularly disturbing are the sites with comment sections where it's taken a step farther than this, resulting in one of the brain-diseased diatribes against 'liberals' and 'government'. Ignorance combined with absolute confidence is the dangerous hallmark of our political times.
> "How do we persuade people not to go to college?"

I think that's the wrong way to look at it. The argument is always practical vs. impractical degrees - but that's not all of it.

The problem is twofold, IMHO:

- Impractical degrees are disproportionately expensive compared to their earning power. You learn a lot of stuff, go deeply into debt, and wind up not being able to pay it off. In short: impractical degrees are overpriced.

- Practical degrees are (in most places) worth the money, but unbelievably loaded in terms of curriculum. Students come up as one-dimensional idiots, who have been impeccably trained in one subject area and nothing else. This creates effective workforces, but creates ineffective citizens, contrary to the humanities (read: most of the impractical degrees).

The two problems are IMHO rather separate, but the second doesn't get nearly enough attention. I cannot begin to count the number of engineers I graduated with who had not even the faintest idea of how politics in our country works - or some of the most basic philosophies the nation is based on, or even the most basic of 20th century history. Few of them appreciate art to any degree, and even fewer practice some form of it themselves.

Our engineering programs are creating idiots - people who can design bridges and write code like no other, but are worthless as people otherwise.
I would like to point out that the reason for the cell phone oligopoly is that spectrum access is regulated - by the government. Poorly.

(Forgive me for the quick soundbite. I'm googling for the articles I remember about how horrendously difficult it is to buy spectrum use rights in the US. It's not like buying lemonade. Like many regulations, wireless regulation was designed to protect the established players.)
My point is that it's not nearly so simple as just enabling it. They're trying to reach a compromise between security/control and giving freedom to the developer. Not fast enough is sour grapes. I'm not saying it could have happened faster, but it's sort of pointless to count the days.
Not the ones that are on their way out soon...
How curious! I wonder what it is that caused this decision - after all, in my experience, Google has always produced more accurate results.

And removing the search bar altogether is surely some sort of anti-trust violation is it not? Especially if users cannot add it back in, which seems to be stated in this article:
"[The testers] tried several APK’s of the Google Seach bar and have not been able to get those to work either."

I do wonder what the motivations behind this move are? It has certainly dissuaded me from purchasing an Android from them (which I had otherwise planned to), and will be looking elsewhere instead - I cannot be productive without my Google Search!
Microsoft wrestles with HTML5 vs Silverlight futures