skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I couldn't let this pass without bringing up the Forer Effect [1]: basically, that people will believe just about any vague generalization as long as they think it's been tailored to them.

For all of the "science" that goes into building the models for these tests (not just MBTI), any that rely completely on self-evaluation (especially multiple choice questions), should be taken with a huge grain of salt. They're fine for entertainment, but for anything practical they should be regarded as one step above astrology or haruspicy.

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.

I don't want to be seen as overreacting to a simple harmless poll, but I do want to make sure people aren't giving too much credence to their (or others') results.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forer_effect
This can change quickly. American cars in the 60'ies were not commodities, design was much more important back then.

There is nothing intrinsic in education which makes the university's prestige the most important. Look outside USA, e.g. at northern Europe where the prestige of the university is not important, but the grades and (esp.) the person are.

For some professions the university and grades is all that's considered when employing someone. But for others (e.g. programming) you need to test the person yourself because the university and grades doesn't tell you (reliably) how good the candidate is.
In the UK, the prestige of the car one drives is at least as relevant as the degree one has. Really, and I don't see how the US is any different. A few years back (when I lived at home) my Dad's company prevented him getting a Renault Espace as a company car. He wanted it for reliable transportation and to get children and stuff around. But he wasn't allowed one, because it wasn't professional enough. So we got an enormously long Volvo instead, which was great because the rearmost seats faced backwards -- anyway, I digress.

The point is, social signalling is very important in both cars and degrees, and if I had to rank them, I'd say car prestige could even matter more than car quality, whereas education is the other way around.
This is a reasonable method, but I think it's worth remembering that you have not actually "quantified the bounds on the uncertainty." What you have done is quantified what you think are the bounds on the uncertainty.
The idea is that the experts pass on their knowledge, gained from research, to the students. Sure there are a large number of people who can teach, say, Calculus 1, but there are dramatically fewer who can teach the higher level courses. This is one of the attractions of top universities -- you have the leading experts in the fields teaching their specialities. Thus it isn't clear to me that teaching and research should be separated at the highest level. At the University of Phoenix level, yes, it makes sense.
It's hard to say which I loathe more. Perhaps what I loathe the most is that the startup atmosphere and the skills that one acquires in tech allow you to do incredible things and make the world better (or at least cooler), but here's something that adds friction to the world economy.
Well, the workers are being paid less than $10 million. But if they receive any sort of benefits then their cost to the employer goes up quite a bit. And you also have to factor in payroll taxes. The cost of a worker is not just his/her salary.
You can pickup fully unlocked dev phones here: http://android.brightstarcorp.com/index.htm

This has been the case since october of 2008. There has always been an unlocked option for developers/users. Consumers can buy those too, but they'd obviously rather purchase carrier related phones to save money on the phone purchase.
I'm confused - I thought the idea was to use "light pressure" to propel rockets from the ground - not gas expansion. Light pressure would work all the way to space - in fact could propel a Mars mission from a stationary/orbital laser.
The merger of research and teaching is a public good, for multiple reasons. One, it makes it easier for teachers to spend some time doing. (naturally apprenticeship programs could serve the same goal) Two, it makes the public bankroll research they might not otherwise see the importance of (having very poor understanding of how progress works.)
It's a virtual certainty that upstarts wont have the same prestige.

The situation is even worse if Upstart Tech is non-accredited. Unfortunately, it will be very difficult for Upstart Tech to become accredited if it doesn't behave exactly like Dinosaur Tech - most of the requirements consist of measuring inputs (e.g., contact hours, student services), not outputs (student knowledge).
3rd Party AppStore developer here.

There isn't a ban on "media playing".

However, there is a ban on GPL licensed apps, as they GPL is incompatible with the app store terms of use.
This product does exist. See: myshape.com

If anyone wants to discuss this product in depth, drop me a line. This is a product space I have been eying for some time and have done considerable research and experimentation on the topic.
Perhaps you can craft a UA string that will match the regex for both cases, maybe try concatenating the iPhone and your proper UA string?
The real story is in how they push untested code into production just to see what happens. ;)
MG Siegler is a troll of the worst kind.

I have to particularly laugh at the Skype comment he added (a drum that Gruber has banged on in his dismissively sarcastic manner): That has NOTHING to do with Android. Skype, the company, decided to get in bed with Verizon and limit their app to certain handsets under certain conditions. What does that have to do with anything beyond perhaps "Skype and Verizon have a business relationship"?

Android, the platform, is open, although that of course doesn't mean that every piece of hardware, software, or carrier will be open. Nonetheless, it's open enough that if you don't want Verizon crapware you can get a phone elsewhere. The advantage of Android being everywhere, unlike say the iPhone in the US, is that you can get a phone from another vendor or another handset maker if someone gets abusive, as Verizon is becoming.
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The British Tabloid Phone-Hacking Scandal
Every time I tried the test, I got ENTP.
I couldn't agree more. I attended a small liberal arts college and feel that I learned a lot from dedicated professors who did little, if any, research. And then I was a graduate student at a university where teaching was considered a chore by professors who wanted to spend their time in the laboratory. At the very least, there should be a greater demarcation between undergraduate professors (who should be teachers) and graduate professors (who should be researchers). As to your business model question, one start would be to make research more grant-contingent. This already happens in hard sciences, but could be applied more to humanities as well.
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Yes. University level teaching needs to be done by academics, otherwise it wouldn't be university level, but it doesn't have to be done in universities.

Or, to put it another way, the problem is not that academics do research, it's that no-one else has read and understands the relevant literature to be able to teach up-to-date at that level.

Why not create a university that gets good academics who can also teach (train them if necessary) and pays them good money to do the teaching well. They would continue to do research somewhere else. That somewhere else would be a university with grad students, but no under-grads, and it would pay on the basis of research alone, with no internal teaching.
Large brands like Levi's generally use several contractors, and the quality (and therefore fit tolerance) inevitably varies from contractor to contractor. Chances are that was a bad batch and/or you were shopping in an outlet mall (where they send a lot of the odds and sods).
Reading.

Programming is 10% writing code, and 90% reading code. Reading your own code (debugging, refactoring, coming back to something you wrote on Friday on Monday), and reading other code ("why doesn't this library work?").

Once you learn to read, a number of things happen. You are no longer a slave to your libraries; you can open them up, see exactly what they're doing, and either change your mental model or change the code. You don't have to get stressed out about "coding guidelines" anymore, because you actually understand what the code means. Inane details like tabs versus spaces and cuddled elses or whatever don't matter anymore, because you have seen all the possible combinations. And, you pick up the style of your peers, because you aren't coding in a vacuum anymore.

I could go on and on, but if I boil it down to one action item, it's "when you have a problem with a library, read it". Everything else comes from there. (And before you know it, you'll be mentioned in the Changelog of everything you use! Good for getting your next job.)
>I can't imagine that Apple would let anything through that weakens the iTunes/iOS death grip on media playing.

The iPad does video so well because it uses hardware support. From the "hardware limitation" comment, I suspect VLC isn't able to take advantage of this. Given that, I don't think it could weaken the iTunes/iOS "death grip" even if it were accepted.

But if they aren't using hardware acceleration then I suspect it wont get approved. Would you want a player that everyone is going to be downloading (so they can watch any video) out there making people think your device is slow and underpowered? I wouldn't.

EDIT: Nevermind my last paragraph. There is apparently already players in the store that don't use acceleration.
Ask HN: A service to monitor SSL expiration?
I'm hoping that someone here might know of a service that monitors for SSL certificate expirations and provides notifications, much like Pingdom does for downtime.

I've seen some nice scripts that do just this, but my company would prefer a service with a front end that business users can administer.
Apple's App Store Review Guidelines: 'We don't need anymore Fart apps'
He didn't. It's right there. ENFP.
Enough people with some degree of need are passing the "extracurricular hurdles" that 55% of Yalies receive financial aid.

The vast, vast, vast majority of people in that 55% are not even remotely poor. Most are of upper-middle income and of even higher socioeconomic status (e.g. progeny of diplomats, famous art gallery owners, and esteemed professors who make a merely upper-middle income but are higher in social status).

Yale spends nearly $100 million annually on financial aid. And this is up from roughly $32 million in 2001. This is not just a "token" expenditure, nor is it a token growth in spending.

It "spends" that money by giving aid packages that can only be redeemed by purchasing their extremely expensive product. Don't get me wrong; I think it's better for universities to price discriminate in this case than for them not to do so. However, it's not accurate to claim that they're bending over backward to provide equal access to the poor, as they're demonstrably not doing this.
> But for others (e.g. programming) you need to test the person yourself because the university and grades doesn't tell you (reliably) how good the candidate is.

In many small programming shops I know of, whether or not you even have a degree is irrelevant for pretty much this exact reason. A healthy GitHub portfolio & a blog with some reasonably insightful articles > any CS degree you can name (including MIT).

If a 16-year-old asked you, sincerely, what the best past forward for a programmer was for them, would you unhesitatingly recommend uni? I have my doubts.

I have felt for some time that the best education in CS is a macbook pro and a 2 year backpacking holiday and this conviction is only growing over time.
It's difficult and usually becomes more about managing business finance than the products in my opinion. It seems like this type of business is mostly covered in Entrepreneur magazine, or Inc, but they're always feel good success stories.

I helped build a fairly successful online business that sold a single laptop accessory which we had produced, packaged by hand, and sold directly to consumers. The site generated 60k in yearly revenue on somewhere between 5-10k (Christmas peaked at 20k+) unique visitors per month. The margins were really good since we had it produced ourselves and priced high. It was great business while it lasted but I ended up walking away from it because of partner issues.

My old partner still operates it today and it's nearly 4 years later! She tells me that it still generates about half of what it did at peak, but it's slowly fading away because of bigger companies that deliver a better, and cheaper product.

It's great experience and takes time but isn't hard to do.
There is no fixed sum.

But if you are a skilled professional you should calculate "opportunity costs":

If you could get a job with 250k payment and you pay yourself only 50k - you are theoretically loosing 200k a year.

If the same startup generates 200k of profit for the first year and you own 50% if it you are still loosing 100k.

Then again if this startup could be sold right now for 500k - your up 150k.

Next step would be probabilities:

If you have no offer on the table but there is a 80% chance your startup could be sold for 1m, calculate with 800k. And stop adding this extra value if your exit probability is low.
Keep markup, style, script and data separated.

Microformats and microdata don't obey the first law.
Yes, it will be interesting to see if they restrict themselves to these guidelines. In theory, rejections now can just say: You violated 2.1 and 2.3.
I know someone who tested OPlayer HD[1] and he said that the player does not use the H.264 acceleration, some videos were absurdly slow, yet the player is in the App Store.

[1]: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/oplayer-hd/id373236724?mt=8
Periodically Apple sends a survey out to iPhone developers asking for feedback on various aspects of the developer program and App Store. This latest move by Apple gives me some hope that they aren't just round-filing the feedback.
This is great news! I just bought an iPad yesterday, and I would like to do some development for it. Since I stopped paying attention to them when Apple added the restrictions, what are all of the tools which are now usable that were in a grey zone before? The Adobe one is the only one I remember.
I was ISTP, but in previous tests I've been INTP and INTJ. Does that mean I'm less judgmental and more sensitive? Oh that can't be right.
Having programmed in C, C++, C#, Java and JS (if scripting counts) I applaud this. I have tried to get used to Objective-C but after using C# for the past 4 years or so, it just seems uncomfortable with me (probably a personal bias that cannot be generalized). I was considering developing my startup's first mobile app in Android since I did not want to touch Objective-C and go with an iPhone Web Page.

Considering the number of developers on the .NET/C# bandwagon I think we will be seeing another Gold Rush to the app-store. I really hope the app-review board can filter out the ugly, form and buttons type of applications that will come as part of this rush. Otherwise, AppStore will be the next Tucows.
Seriously, why does everyone always ignore that Opera has a faster JS engine than Chrome? Google aren't the ones to beat!
Creepy Biometric IDs to Be Forced Onto India's 1.2 Billion Inhabitants
Can't say the world is much better off with a bunch of farming simulating games.

I like to think that it's either preparing people for a coming apocalypse where we'll all have to do our own agriculture or someone is searching for the ultimate farmer that will save humanity (a la The Last Starfighter), so maybe we're getting some use out of it.
Scaling it back after September is over. Consulting pays a lot up front, which I can use to buy my way around my graphical inadequacies for AR. It will probably also underwrite employee #1 eventually, in much the same fashion that it paid my salary in the dry summer months.

BCC I am keeping up with decently. Did my work on it in summer, now I just reap what I sowed pretty much. Cross your fingers for me in October - the upside is, ahem, very up.

My main issue at present is that juggling all these things makes heavy greenfield dev for AR harder than it would be if it were my only project.
How is it hard to believe? They are essentially doing what Akamai did and locating server farms very "close" to end users on the network. I have a 20ms ping from the closest Akamai CDN server.
I don't think you understand what a public good is. A public good is a good which is non-rivalrous and non-excludible. Published research fits this criteria. Teaching does not.

Further, research subsidizes teaching at most research universities, not the other way around. Universities take almost half of the NSF's budget in the form of "overhead", most of which is subsidizing teaching and general university waste.

There is also a major harm - most people are not good at both research and teaching. By merging teaching with research, you force people to perform two tasks, only one of which they are well suited for. The job "professor" is about as nonsensical as "ninja developer"; if we merged assassination and development, the result would be pasty white nerds getting shot by bodyguards and sneaky Japanese guys providing endless material for DailyWTF.
Yes, but this will be regulated by the market. If the experience sucks, people won't buy the phones anymore or switch the carrier.

What the US seems to be missing is some sort of protection from the government (regulation).

All in all: open is much better then closed, especially when branding of mobile operating systems is so common. It's not only Android, but also pretty much every other mobile phone that contains such apps.

As others have mentioned, this has nothing to do with the openness of Android but only with the carriers intentions, which have been doing this years before android on closed systems.
Apple uses basically the same stock hardware as everyone else, and when they don't they mostly contract them out to the same companies to build them.

People don't like to believe this (see the fairytales people made up about the magical A4 chip before it was revealed to be Samsung's Hummingbird paired with a slightly less powerful GPU compared with Samsung's own version, which in itself is fairly equal to its Qualcomm and TI rivals) but it's just the way the world works.

You might have a stronger case on the software side, but even there Apple recognizes the strength of building on standards and open source which allows them more time to focus on differentiation rather than reinventing wheels (though they still do on occasion if it suits them).

Apple package these things together well, and I believe that's an important skill and adds value, but for whatever reason people don't value that so they need to invent secret sauces for Apple.
From the second paragraph: "We view Apps different than books or songs, which we do not curate."

I wish Apple would learn how to use the word "different".
MySQL does (did, at least; Postgres has been improving) replication better. Replication is really important for high availability, which almost everyone needs.

The irony, of course, is that a single Postgres server is frequently (IME) more reliable than multiple MySQL servers even when the latter is setup for HA.
This is a big deal for us mongodb fans, who were bitten badly by the small instance's 32 bit limitation. Sign me up.
What's New in the Updated App Store License Agreement and New Review Guidelines
If you're able to, pair programming with someone better than you (be it in the particular domain, paradigm, language, tooling, etc), is a /huge/ boon to learning.
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I've been keeping an eye on the various processes that enable rapid prototyping and micro-scale manufacturing for the last few years.

This is the first time I've seen an off-the-shelf 3D printing solution that works well and is affordable.

This is now on my shopping list.

If you're interested in DIY'ing something like this check-out the RepRap project:

http://reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page

Or for low-cost kits check-out MakerBot:

http://makerbot.com/
The model already exist: school vs. universities.

It is just---and this is just my opinion---that as human knowledge became bigger and bigger, what the people at the edge, pushing the envelope do, is further and further from what a 1st year undergraduate does.

Basically we would need another school in the middle for what is a BA/BSci for example, and use univeristy (and university professors) for masters and phds.

As for your example of hard core research professor, the problem is that at one point the number of professors who know a subject become very very small, and hence it's important to put the student directly in contact with those who are expert in the field. Alas it doesn't always work. But for very high levels (masters and phds) that's the only way it can be.
Perhaps you don't understand. This is EC2 we're talking about, not prgmr. People run massive production websites on EC2 because it is reliable, predictable, and secure. It provides features that allow you to recover from outages and failures. For instance, being able to periodically snapshot your EBS volume to S3 and recover from a total datacenter failure within a few minutes by reconstituting the volume in a separate datacenter. However, this just scratches the surface on what AWS offers over a traditional VPS provider.
Apple removes Flash CS5 export restrictions, should I stop learning Objective-C?
If there isn't one, it would be a good web app idea.
Pat Tillman gave up his NFL career to become an Army Ranger. He was KIA in 2004.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Tillman
Interesting development. The fees look to be identical to PayPal and Checkout, but calculated on a three month average. There seems to still be room for another competitor here, given the problems with both PayPal and Checkout.
True, but still - we know that the Romans and Greeks had a great influence on our culture.

It is very unlikely that the Mayans had, simply because they are so far away, geographically.
One resource that I've gotten some good mileage out of recently is "The Procrastinator's Digest". It's a comprehensive but concise look at what the current research says and how you can apply it. I re-read it when I find myself slipping into my procrastination habit, especially the "I'll feel more like doing this later, tomorrow, after a nap, etc." rut I tend to get most stuck in.

http://www.procrastinatorsdigest.com/
Wait a second...he's saying that PCs evolved naturally and implying that Apple's products did not. Yet Apple's products are a mutant virus, which is a metaphor from natural selection. Sounds like he can't make up his mind.