skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I started my current work (Swedish software company) a few years ago, all new employees performed the “DISC” analysis (bought from a consultant firm). It was a fairly long questionnaire with situational questions and it was advised not to think too much about each question before answering. Stupid as it sounds.

Anyway, we got our profiles and at the follow up session we went through the colors and everything else about the model. Some of my colleagues were skeptical, some more enthusiastic (“this explains so much”). I was somewhere in the middle. For sure I recognize some of the behaviors with my profile, on the other side I questioned the validity mainly due to the way the foundation to the profile what conducted (the questionnaire). I also read the book but got the feeling that it was more of entertainment than the session and profiling we did (in the book it’s a lot of “real life” examples etc).

In work life we mostly used the “tool” to describe persons outside our organization. “The customers’ project manager in this project is very red”, would be something a sales rep could say at a hand of. They probably mean “He’s kind of a jerk but they pay so deal with it”. Although it was a pretty long time since I heard anyone use it. I also think that the article describes why the model is not sufficient even for describing people loosely.

Lastly I think that the article headline is kind of over exaggerating. I mean, yes many read the book and might have use it to talk about themselves and/or other people. Some organizations went to far and tax money was wasted. But mostly it was consumed as most other books and people got entertained. I haven’t encountered anyone who preached the message and method, more like a conversation starter. The people who swallow the message fully is probably already converted to the next personality model fraud. Or too busy reading other truths on Facebook.
Once the class action is in motion, what's to stop many more PS3 owners to claim that they were interested in running Linux just to get the free ten bucks?
IDK i don't see this stuff as all that different from doing like a k-means clustering or factor analysis on a data set, it's just an attempt to do it on human personality, which we know has variance and correlations. We don't freak out at market segmentation analysis that involves labels like "early adopters" and "laggards" which are imperfect but informative.

I think people just find the entire idea of labeling humans in this way offensive, and latch onto some of the claims that it's "science" as an avenue of attack.

Edit: And I think it's slightly better than just categorizing people based on their birthday like you do in Astrology, as you are using at least responses to a personality test in most instances.
> every time a developer told me "this is a false positive" they were wrong

This sounds like a good UB learning experience. The parent comments sounds like the author is running into UB more than they really want to.
It’s in the open access article. They calculated the “net” donation after costs.
11% injury rate with 60% of those admitted to the hospital! Cost is not the main issue with this!
Germany is relatively clean, and Switzerland and Japan. That's generally due to a lower overall prevalence of littering and actually having effective government-run pickups. But stray from places that aren't picked up regularly and you'll see it. I've seen it everywhere I have been, including all over southern Germany. It's like a rule of the universe. Anywhere people go, they bring food with them, and the wrappers and bottles end up on the ground, in the bushes, in the streams. Single-use plastic for goodies--food, drink, cigarettes, etc--is the #1 kind of litter. Germany is no better than anywhere for cigarette butts, by the way. And cigarette butts are actually made out of plastic, for the most part.

Source: been picking up garbage all over the world for years.
Why do they live in London or SV and not some village 100 km from it?
Looks interesting, but how could I ever afford to buy ~12 designer drugs which I figure likely cost at least $1-2/day if they are effective? Cost per year is $4K- $8K?

I'm guessing I'll wait 20 years until they are off patent?
I don't always know it, unfortunately.
Let's think about this rationally...is there a cost-benefit analysis for global internet access vs higher fidelity astronomy? Can astronomers use software and API's to minimize the downsides? Are the upsides for human inter-connectivity as great as claimed?
The Alarmed Are Now the Largest of Global Warming’s Six Americas
It isn't just newbies, i write OpenGL code for almost 2 decades, i see no reason to do use the harder parts of the API when i can simply use the easy parts :-P.

Though i disagree with OpenInventor, it is too complex and takes too much upon itself, which few wanted - see Direct3D Retained Mode which despite being a much simpler API (both compared to D3DIM and OpenInventor) didn't see much use and in an uncharacteristic move by Microsoft (especially at the time) it was removed from Direct3D.

A better solution would have been something like GLUT, but with a few more utilities thrown in (like vector math stuff - OpenGL implementations already have the code anyway, why not expose it?). And GLUT was more popular than OpenInventor ever hoped to be despite not offering more than a few basic things.
Not sure about zeros and ones, but there were some interesting copyright violation cases with long primes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_prime
Good catch! Thank you for posting this. It's really crazy to be playing games I played when I was a kid (Not this game but other MS-DOS or Arcade games) in the freaking browser...
Intel’s port 7 AGU blunder
Postman has become so bloated in the past two years to a degree where I don’t enjoy using it anymore. Anyone know of an alternative that keeps it simple?
Not very drunk at all :)

The instructor's name was Andrew Kelly, and the time was May 1998 [1] - quite a long time ago, so forgive my foggy memory. I wasn't on that particular load; I had already done my first jump a few days before...and my second jump 3 days after he passed.

[1] - http://www.skydivingfatalities.info/search.asp?MinDate=5%2F8...
It actually is not the same image that was used in the April Fools prank. I believe this is either a legitimate seizure, or someone hacked the site. It is far more likely that this is an actual seizure, as their means of contact are all down and their Twitter account is silent.
Who said anything about intelligence? Spelling is a critical component of effective written communication.
It's much easier to be a critic than to actually 'do'.

Film critics are usually on the mark and have nowhere near the skill to make films.

If someone 'doesn't know design' in any way whatsoever, and for some reason they want to be responsible for it ... they are in trouble.

I would suggest learning a little bit about at least what's important to the organisation, and finding reference sites as comparatives.
for the curious: caesar (a -> n)
Blink is a fork of WebCore (a component of WebKit), and not of WebKit itself.
Clickable link: https://helpdesk.treble.ai
Because it's deceptive to call it "Bitcoin" Cash, because it's not Bitcoin. It's confusing to people who want to buy real bitcoins.
Other people have shared improvements to Bash's default autocomplete behaviour; here's mine, specifically addressing the criticisms that you have to hit tab twice and the pollution of terminal history:

# Complete unambiguously on first tab, then show completions
set show-all-if-unmodified on

(These settings go into your ~/.inputrc file.)

This means that if I hit tab for the first time, Bash will autocomplete as far as the completion isn't ambiguous; single keypress, no history pollution.

If I then hit tab again, I get a list of the possible completions.

The other single biggest improvement over default behaviour for me is this:

# Replace common prefix with ellipsis for completion
set completion-prefix-display-length 2

This will make the list of completions omit the part they all have in common.

The combined behaviour is then like this: for a directory with a few files,

$ ls
file1 file2 file3

I can start typing:

$ cat f

Now, hitting tab (just once) gets me the unambiguous part:

$ cat file

Hitting it again shows me the possible completions with the common part replaced by an ellipsis:

$ cat file
...1 ...2 ...3
$ cat file
Ask HN: Where to Put Money?
if you have a small amount of money (around 20k), where you would invest? What would you buy in order to earn another money e.g. 200€/month or so.
New Platform for Those with Entrepreneur Spirit
Here is a platform I would like to share with the YC Community.

This is the way I see the future will be. People with the skills to promote themselves and showing their ability to make the companies a better place will take advantage of the Hiring Process.

LinkedIn you are able to upload your "resume" and look for Jobs.
But what if you could target that company you always desired working at?!

Many people here would be able to get some experience before starting their own business and make the network grow exponentially.

I already shared a couple ideas I had about large companies' business operations, and if you don't want to be hired maybe you can make some extra money!

Good luck everyone!

sellys.co or SellYourSelf
"everyone would think I was a nice person doing nice things for people in need"

Notwithstanding effective altruists.

That aside, when I spent more time doing running & triathlon there was an unspoken rule that people don't ask the group for charitable funding for these things.

A large number of charity marathon runners will be effectively buying a place in a race they did not good-for-age qualify for. There's nothing wrong with that and cool that a proportion of the ticket price goes to charity, but it would be great if more people could just own it.

The general rule is don't ask other people to pay for your fun adventure activities.
>It’s misleading at best.

Is it though? Not everyone who participates does it to support a charity. Some people just want to do the event.

Obviously it's more efficient to simply not hold the event and have all the resources that would be spend on running an event simply go to the charity ... but that's not the point. You're doing the event, because you want the event.
Escape from Immoral Mazes
Exactly, eventually you should be able to build much bigger telescopes than what can be reasonably built on Earth thanks to the lack of gravity, no horizon and no atmosphere to trash your giant scope with a storm.

Many kilometers in diameter in circumference should be possible and likely much more. The whole thing would at the same time be likely really really light, just thin stabilized foil, as it does not need to fight gravity or survive launch loads. Could be quite a sight. :)
Job 1 (6 months): Bored at a big company and wanted a startup.

Job 2 (4 years): Burned out and was interested in a career change.

Job 3 (6 months): Not into career change, starting a family instead. Back to startup.

Job 4 (7 years): Startup was coasting and I'd done everything I wanted.

Job 5 (6 years): New startup that got acquired but didn't love role in new company so found a new, interesting role.

Job 6 (1.5 years): Didn't like the new role or company

Job 7 (still here):
A simplified model of ants are Turing complete (the colony, not the ants)
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-59496-5_343
LinkedIn End? Job Recruitment Industry Disruption on the Way?
Ukraine asks FBI to help probe suspected Russian hack of Burisma
Ah fair play, makes sense.
If they attend a church, they are really odd for Japanese, since almost no Japanese are Christian (at least in Japan).
Thank you for saying this and explaining it. I've noticed that a lot with Forbes and a couple other sites.

So basically bad actors are hijacking the ad network that Forbes is using because it's a poorly secured ad network.

I didn't realize that was what was going on but that explains a great deal.
Bring up the bodies: the retired couple who find drowning victims
It would probably work with careful choice of learning rate, initialization, and weight decay to keep signals small. Batch norm would play a larger role (probably want to use it after the activation fn). I don't see why it would get stuck on either side, but it could obviously get stuck if enough signals grow too large on both sides.
The overlay on a nearby Streetview showing where the satellite will likely appear, with a timeline-based trajectory, is especially impressive.
The sacrifice fallacy: You don’t need to suffer to build a successful business
Ask HN: How do you ensure a client's timely asset delivery?
I work for a company that adheres to the waterfall project management model. A huge issue for us is late asset delivery from clients. We put filler content in our software but once we get the final content from the client there are always inevitable changes (font sizes, image sizes, etc...). The final content always comes in the last second causing us to have a labor runch on integrating it which in turn puts us behind on other projects. The root of the issue is that we rely on our clients to provide the final content on set deadlines but when the client fails to meet the deadline there are no real repercussions.

In your experience of waterfall development, how have you ensured you have assets for software early on in the development process to ensure you are doing rework?
I disagree, there is nothing particularly different about "enterprise software" that requires a different naming scheme than other software. This is simply a cultural habit, and this cultural habit is supported by the fact that this same community uses IDEs that have good autocomplete feature. You can write enterprise software without naming your classes that long and be absolutely fine, and I argue this is not a trade-off it's merely a convention.
Typologies of New York City: A Crowdsourced Hyperlapse
I have no problem with the idea that Thomas Erikson is not himself a scientist, I stated that fairly clearly in my original comment ("Thomas Erikson does not seem to qualify"). I have no problem with the author thinking Thomas Erikson should not be calling himself a behavioral scientist. It is also clear to me as it is to you that the scientific method was not employed in the writing of this book. My issue is with statements like:

> Despite a lack of any qualification, Erikson describes himself as a behavioural scientist.

and

> despite the fact that from a legal point of view in Sweden, it is possible to call yourself a ‘behavioural scientist’ without any formal qualifications

Again, it seems clear to me that the author believes that formal qualifications make you more of a scientist. This is simply untrue. Doing good science requires no qualifications, only good method. In fact, there are so many conflicts of interest in modern academia with regards to performing honest science (and resulting scandals) that something coming out of a university should probably be looked at with a more skeptical eye than science which does not.

I realize now that my last sentence in my original comment may have been confusing, but I was not trying to assert that this book in particular is scientific - merely that it is possible to write a scientific book without a formal higher education background.
Unless I’m missing something, the last 20 years seems to have more snow than the 20 years proceeding it with the exception of heavy snow in the mid-80s.
Yes. You still have to fit it in.
I think 'education' is largely just not aware how best to USE tech.

Teacher's struggle with whatever applications were selected for them.

Schools struggle to pick good systems / programs to use.

It's early stages.
Often times it's a matter of just listening to customers. Even if you don't have a knack for the domain, if you get enough feedback and react to it, you can "organically" fit it well. It's sort of comparable to a genetic algorithm. Of course, having a knack for a domain could mean fewer iterations of rework.

Lisp is ideal for changing on a dime, at least for a small team.
My initial reaction was NO, but then saner minds prevailed and you might have a point - to be able to get unrestricted internet in China or Iran or India (didn't realize how bad censorship was even here. And satellite internet is a criminal offense) would be amazing. We might still not get it though, since it's not just receiving but also transmitting, so surreptitiously using SpaceX internet might not be possible in those places.

If you can't solve that problem, then I don't think it's worth it just so some first world folks can YouTube when camping.
> All should stay away from the leaked data

Why?
New DRAM might pave the way to instant-on PCS
You can take a look at https://www.puttygen.com/windows-terminal-emulators, which is a good assessment on most popular terminal emulators for Windows.

Personally I am using console2, which is quite good and fits my needs (support multiple tabbed consoles, named title etc). You also can try Cygwin's terminal, and run it inside console2.
Psyched for the First Bill Kennedy Go Training of 2020
Optimizing First-Frame Bitrate for HLS with Edge Compute
It's fascinating to me that the telescope costs so much more than the launch.

A high-quality 24" or 1-meter university-grade observatory telescope can be had for well under $1 million. If you multiply that by a factor of 100 to mount it on a satellite, you're still at 'just' $0.1 billion and can buy a whole Ariane-5 launch just like the JWST to put it at your desired orbit for $0.15B, for a total of $0.25B (a Falcon Heavy runs about half the cost for a launch). You could launch 30 of those (hopefully improving your factor-of-100 cost increase to something more manageable) for less than what the JWST will cost.

I get that JWST is a 6.5 meter telescope, not a piddly backyard 24" device, but why do we have to launch the best single scope possible?

There are only 7 visible-light space telescopes listed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_telescopes#Visib.... I wish there were 70 or 700, with live Internet feeds.
Mock an API and generate fake JSON test data, right from the terminal
GitHub is hiring, we have quite a few roles posted, and many more opening... https://github.com/about/careers
Intrinsic Ball Retrieving in Wolf Puppies
Volument – Analytics and A/B testing For the 21st century
Your experience seems like it would be great for embedded flight software development. Please email tyler.butler at lmco.com if you or others in your situation would be interested in working on NASA's Orion program.
A lot of enterprise / financial compliance processes require adhering to an ISO or NIST framework.

Has anyone created a tl:dr checklist of these, like Sqreen has done with their "Startup CTO Checklist?" https://www.sqreen.com/checklists/saas-cto-security-checklis...
Perhaps it’s time to upgrade the expression to “boil the human.”
Is this just spam that got voted up to the first page?

And oh man that shadow on those fonts, please don't do that. It makes it hard to read.
GDPR has a few useful clauses for this case, such as making it mandatory to inform the people whose data was leaked of the leak.
see also this 2014 article on consciousness in 'rather dumb group entities' including 'antheads'

https://faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/USAconscious...
I think Chromebooks are awesome, but not at grade 1.

Kids are too developmentally different at that age. They range from the kids whose parents delay kindergarten a year to make them better at sports to the kids put into school early to save money on daycare. Using a trackpad and keyboard is too abstract.

My kids' school uses iPads as limited enrichment devices until grade 3. As a reward, they get to independently use an iPad to do some things. Grade 3 and up Chrome is there in a similar way, and they start requiring them at grade 5. They are a little conservative, but I think they are getting better outcomes, especially with younger kids.
The year of seeing clearly on AI and machine learning
Aren't the terrestrial mirrors so thick due to the need to survive all the tilting under the strong terrestrial gravity ?

I would assume a micro gravity only mirror could be much thinner & thus easier to cool down. Or possible alternative techniques could be used to get the needed reflective surface geometry if it does not need to take gravity and atmosphere into account.
> I see big problems with this type of arrangement - you raise ten dollars while spending five thousand on the event itself. Yet you will call this a charity event?

This reminds me of when people complain about charities paying their CEO well.

Would you rather pay a CEO $100k to bring in $1million in charity funds, or pay a CEO $1million to bring in $5million in charity funds?

Same here. Would you rather run a successful event that brings in $5k in charity funds, or an event run by amateurs who end up bringing in $1k in charity funds?

There's an argument to be made about transparency, and organizations that take all this too far (90+% is clearly too much), but end results matter.
I can't believe they added AMD support
I agree that it's a filter for someone that has put in the work to learn the research, which is very helpful.

But my take is if a guy can go and sell 2 million books and the PhDs get in a tizzy because he doesn't have a PhD, and the lay person can't tell the difference, then the problem is these whining "PhD experts" and their pseudoscience, and not the non-PhD who wrote the book.

The layperson can immediately tell whether a phone was made by electrical engineering experts or some crank amateur. If someone is buying some "fraudsters" theory over some PhD's, perhaps it's because neither of them work so it doesn't really matter.

My take on the field of psychology (and many human bio fields) is we just don't have the scientific tools yet to make it a true science. But technology is finally making in roads (ie, wearables), so perhaps there's hope yet.
>The sciences and mathematics have a historic place in the cur­riculum, and technology does not, for the simple reason that the latter is not inherently “about” anything. Absent human contributions on specific topics, cut off from the subject matter of academic work, technology is nothing—an electron microscope without any samples, darkened VR goggles, an empty spreadsheet. Specializing in techne as such means trying to teach people to be good at “making” without having any idea of what to make, or why to make it.

I wonder what STEM education would have been centuries ago -- a 60-minute class period learning about the inner workings of a steam engine? or how to operate a spinning jenny? It would certainly look out of place in a school curriculum, and better learned on the job or in an apprenticeship.

As a counterpoint to the author, I would point out that universal public education is a recent thing. Sure, maybe classroom education should focus on "the good, the true, and the beautiful" but then why should we expect everyone to do it?
Well, check out the annual reports from your favourite charitable organizations; the most successful ones have a high correlation with those where fund raising costs is the biggest line-item expense. It seems to be this "grow or die" mentality spilling over from the corporate world. United Way is one of the biggest offenders.

I wish more charities would constrain themselves to their original narrow mandate without success inevitably growing their "addressable market"...