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> Why are extraverts so threatened by anyone who won't interact with them on their terms?

I act as an extravert in certain situations and as an introvert in others, so I feel qualified to answer your question. Extraverts don't always interact with everyone -- for example, in circles where social cliques are established, extraverts will interact with people outside of their clique less often. I call this "exclusionary" behavior -- one that serves to maintain the exclusiveness of the clique. Given that cases of extreme introversion are rare, an extravert A is more likely to interpret another individual B (who could well be an extreme introvert) as another extravert who simply shuns individual A so as to exclude A from his or her clique.

The reason this "misinterpretation" occurs is because extreme introversion is rare (1% of the population?) while exclusionary behavior (shunning others to maintain exclusive cliques) is relatively highly prevalent (20% of the population?). So the conditional probability that individual B is not an introvert but an extravert exhibiting exclusionary behavior is high. Basically, the extravert A makes a correct conclusion given the limited information he/she possesses. Because the introvert B is unlikely to engage into conversation with A, the individual A will never gain more information about B and will therefore maintain the conclusion that B is an asshole.
I would go less than a day with a virgin Nexus S, just by playing an hour or three of music.

Some phones handle much better in the face of low signal, some are worse. T-Mobile's coverage was pretty mediocre around my home, and that also had a huge impact on battery life.
Because they know you suck at maths.
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I switch to macs 5 years ago for the combination of a nice GUI on top of a UNIX OS.

I've never regretting that decision. The UI kicks ass. I never felt that Linux desktops could compare back then. I still don't believe their up to snuff yet. Correct me if I'm wrong.

The unix part is awesome, its been easy to get things up and running. I can get a full LAMP stack going with ease thanks to macports. Installing Python (multiple versions side by side) and Java is trivial. C is available by default. I won't deny there are some occasional problems but those have been few and far between.
This article is nothing more than a chain-mail style bullshit list and it's sad to see it voted up so highly. I suppose it's a nice ego-stroke for all the self described introverts, but most of the "myths" are actually supported by their counter-descriptions.

The Original Source appears to be: http://www.carlkingcreative.com/10-myths-about-introverts

They hate small talk.

Small talk is a social skill. and when meeting a new person small talk is generally all you have. This basically affirms the "myth".

They want everyone to just be real and honest. Unfortunately, this is not acceptable in most settings

Talk about a value judgment on non-introverts. Being polite is more important than being pointlessly honest.

If you are lucky enough for an introvert to consider you a friend, you probably have a loyal ally for life.

If only I could find myself a loyal friend who can't make idle talk, will talk for days about things that only interest him and won't want to do much out in public.

They take in data and experiences very quickly, and as a result, don’t need to be there for long to “get it.”

Ah yes, pity those non-introverts that take weeks to figure "it" out.

Introverts are perfectly comfortable with their own thoughts. They think a lot. They daydream. They like to have problems to work on, puzzles to solve.

Introverts are often individualists. They don’t follow the crowd. They’d prefer to be valued for their novel ways of living. They think for themselves and because of that, they often challenge the norm. They don’t make most decisions based on what is popular or trendy.

Non-introverts are mindless slaves to culture and advertising!

it’s just that their inner world is much more stimulating and rewarding to them.

Or said in a way to not flex the ego "Their inner world is comforting and welcoming without challenge from outside stimulus."
Abacron takes your mail via an MX mail server that you can put in the DNS for one of your domains (or subdomains), and then posts the content of those mails to an URL of your choice using the POST method. As the project would become more advanced, other features could be added (spam protection, processing rules, etc).

HN: do you think you would need such a project and how many things would you prefer to see in it? (comments about the viability of project or other entrepreneurial comments are welcomed as well)
There was a thing a while back about Apple's retail employees complaining about low wages and few benefits, but I don't think that the allegations were ever confirmed, or that anything came out of it. The GP may have been referencing that.

Actually, a bit of Googling shows that this is still going on, with employees trying to unionize. According to [1], one person wants "to form a union to fight for better wages and benefits and to address what he says are unfair practices".

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/12/us-apple-idUSTRE75...
I have worked with ORMs and with raw SQL. In my personal experience, using raw SQL exclusively becomes time consuming when you need to make the jump between the raw sql results and objects.

With a well designed ORM, it should be possible to have the best of both worlds. One of the features that I value in Django's builtin ORM is the ability to almost seamlessly drop down to raw SQL when needed:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/sql/
What's the lower bound for a phantasmagorically awesome comp package? I am not good at evaluating the fairness of my current salary.
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I don't really understand how not going directly to the point can be better, for any mechanism.
The major place I miss a hardware button is to end calls. If the software is just slow (not frozen), it can lead to awkward trying to hang-up sounds for the other party.
Let's distinguish between introvert vs extrovert and thinking like a cat vs thinking like a dog.

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/08/06/on-seeing-like-a-cat/

In principle, it seems possible to have more interest in things than people ("think like a cat") but still get energized by people when you're with them (or, continue thinking like a cat when you're around them and explore how you can subtly direct social interactions or explain the behavior of others using simple theories like status preservation).
In majority of corporations responsibility and accountability ends somewhere between VP and CEO.
There are libraries out there that already reinvent the large chunks of functionality ORMs provide without requiring you to use an actual ORM. I think the middle ground is the best way to go here. Avoid ORMs, avoid native SQL, meet somewhere in the middle.
A) it's exceptionally boring

Perhaps as a result of it being so exceptionally boring that it's so error-prone. If you forget to wire something up by hand (especially if its nullable) and don't notice while you're coding, it can be one of those subtle little bugs that lingers in the background until it really bites you.

Also, you forgot:

D) Difficult and time-consuming to create test automation for.
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Both, but since you wanted an example:

http://www.expatharem.com/2011/03/09/rude-honesty/
Well, I would hope you wouldn't use it to actually sort integers...but, yes, bash is surprisingly good at parallel jobs (or, at least, it is surprisingly easy to create parallel jobs in bash), and that's one way to go about it. One could bash together a cheap and cheerful queueing system with something like this...but only if order isn't all that important (race conditions are almost guaranteed), timing isn't all that important (Linux has high precision timers but bash/sleep don't use them, as far as I know; and you'd need RT patches to get near realtime performance from the kernel, anyway), and only if you know with reasonable certainty the bounds on how many things will be queued before-hand.

So...probably not very useful, after all. But, a fun thought experiment, regardless. I feel awake after reading the whole thread. Honestly, I wish there were more posts like this on HN.
OSX is not keyboard accessible by default, its is not however "not keyboard-accessible". Go into system preferences and turn on keyboard navigation and adjust the keymaps to your hearts content. Heck add scripts to execute on certain key combinations if you want. And if you like you can remap what its defaults are to whatever you like.

OSX is setup to be transparent to novice users. That doesn't mean it cannot be setup to be used with a keyboard. Just that the default, which for 99% of users doesn't allow they keyboard to interfere with a novice user.

I can get OSX to do quite literally everything from the keyboard, I'm not sure how one can argue it isn't keyboard accessible when it is trivial to turn on. And being the 1% of the population that cares about it, power users shouldn't be afraid of learning how to turn it on.

Hopefully this didn't come across as harsh, but I just get annoyed at people that equate OSX = mouse only interface. When you can tell the whole idea behind the interface is to make default things simple to use with a single mouse button and make the rest possible. Despite what we think the actual idea of more than one mouse button is about as foreign as trying to understand Russian to an Englishman. Its more cognitive load than most care about.
No problem. Do you have any info about your startup? I have been working on a similar idea as a back-burner thing for years but I'm in the process of doing a different startup, so I think it'll stay there.
Easy to solve, just start them in order.
Yesterday morning I would've called this guy a cranky old man... but doing some coding last night made me want to kill something. Coming from an Active Record background I tried using Linq to SQL. My application has a WPF front end and a Windows service on the backend. Passing the same object between the 2 is driving me insane. The problems are so much more cryptic, and the code I had to write to go around it completely negates any reason for using it in the first place. I'll be ripping it out tonight.
Yes, I've grown to enjoy it. It's hard to fake enthusiasm when you're not genuinely having fun. No, I don't get bored when I'm alone, and I don't get bored when I'm with people either. It depends on the situation, and I really do think being able to switch is important.
I'm often surprised at how many performers are introverts. I have known people who while barely saying a word and make eye contact in close social contact are able to get up on stage and sing, perform and show-off in front of hundreds.

A few famous examples: Michael Stipe of R.E.M., George Harrison of The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix.
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Social niceties serve as a grease that makes the social interaction go smoothly.

Again, for extroverts. For (many) introverts forced small talk is unnatural and often makes interactions more awkward.
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Yes! At least LINQ-to-SQL gives compile time type checking.
And "injury" probably runs the gamut from sprained ankle to "oh look, my femur is poking through my pants"
> An ORM is an insanely convenient way for newbies to use various data stores while avoid learning umpteen different query languages

Let's count these umpteen different query languages: (1) SQL,
(2) ... ?

> If you seek efficiency and performance, don't use an ORM.

If you don't need efficiency and performance, why use a DBMS at all? Isn't the whole point of a DBMS to make data access not only secure but also efficient (B-tree indexes, etc.)?
Indeed! Thanks.
The Dutch are known for this.
Well, I can't speak for others, but in my small-scale use of databases, hand-coded SQL has never been an issue.
I wasn't trying to slag Jobs. I was responding to someone saying that this specific instance was an example of "true leadership". I disagreed. The hundreds of other instances where Jobs did indeed make the right decision are irrelevant as to whether this particular incident was one.
Little background here: We're a security consulting company. We do a ton of web app security assessments, network vuln/pen testing, etc. A while back one of our clients (large financial) hired us to do a spear phishing simulation. "Show us how people are still able to get in and show us how they are able to get out". So we did it all manually both the phishing as well as going on site to to data exfiltration to see how we could get around their outbound firewall rules, IDS/IPS, DLP, proxies, sniffers, etc. We figured out how to do all of these successfully and were able to "steal" some fake credit card numbers.

We lost a lot of money on that engagement. :) We went waaay over margin. So we started thinking how can we automate this and make it a repeatable process that customers can run on an on-demand and on-going basis. Security is who we are and in our blood. We we started coding...

And here we are.

So there are two sides:

1. Web based spear phishing engine that sends out "malicious" emails with all kinds of different options (e.g. malicious attachments, links to malicious web sites, 'your pass expired, enter it here!' sites, etc.) We track who clicked on what, who has out of date Acrobat, Flash, Java, etc.

2. Bottom line is that phishers will ALWAYS get people to click on something. No matter what. And the attacker only needs 1 person to do it. Just 1. So let's assume that we're going to eventually get in. We have an on-demand executable that mimics attacker malware complete with ninja-sneaky network tricks that phones home fake credit card numbers, .rar files, all kinds of cool network trickery.

All of the above is run by the end user and presented in a nice web UI so a security guy/gal can make intelligent decisions on where their security is good and where it sucks.

We're super excited about our new service and we hope everyone else is too. Would love to hear more feedback.
I turned it on the moment I ran OS X for the first time. There were still many instances where I actually couldn't tab-navigate to some controls. Not to mention that there are no keyboard accelerators for anything in sight. That aspect alone makes it many times less accessible than Windows/Gnome/KDE.

I haven't used OS X in a few years, so I don't know if things have changed now, but I don't think they have keyboard accelerators nowadays either.
HBO Go is godsend. I can watch the entire series of any HBO show from the pilot to the series finale and watch new episodes of awesome shows like Game of Thrones on a computer or on my iPad. The second Showtime copies them and offers this direct, subscription based, with clients on the Roku and the like, it'll be over for cable.
I'd love to learn more about this malicious facebook script blocking thing. Surely that'll have adverse effects on bookmarklets?
As an example, I read over his points and find myself agreeing with about 60% of them, while the other 40% don't describe me at all.

Labels like Introvert are nice and neat, but unfortunately not very realistic.
Exactly. Spinning around a bit sounds a hell of a lot more safe than a face full of asphalt.
Create a small web search engine. Crawl stuff with 80 legs, index it with IndexTank. Example:

- Crawl everything you can find about bitcoin and do a bitcoin search engine (just popped up in my mind, may not be the most interesting idea).
Dropping Linux support does seem like a good business decision.

All that extra work to support an additional 0.5% to 1% of the market does not seem worth it.
Your discussion goes into the completely wrong direction. And you are discussion something that happened 60 years ago. Not only the microchip, the international system too, has evolved a lot since then. A lot.

>> that's not justice.

Nobody ever said it was justice. The UN and the ICJ are only just a first step to finally free the international system from anarchy. Think of it as programming by punching holes in cards. There is still a long way ahead, but it is a good beginning.
Sorry, can't open the link here (blocked). May anyone please give a cached version? (or even a link to a full page screenshot, a la 4chan).
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Yup. :)
I read "slosh control" as avoidance of oscillations from the initial impetus of acceleration (i.e. jerk, the first derivative of acceleration and second derivative of velocity). Acceleration will effectively need to be limited to such a rate where the off-centre weight of the passenger + seat acts as counter-torque. Applying any more torque would cause gerbilling.
Based on the article, Apple seems pretty effective with this--I'm curious if non-Apple salespeople would be more effective if they followed these principles, or if it only works for Apple.
from the article:

EverTrue – $750k already committed.
Ginger.io – Investment committed but no mention of $$.
GrabCAD – $1.1M already committed.
Help Scout – $140k already committed.
Kinvey – $1M already committed.
Memrise – Investment committed but no mention of $$.
Placester – $350k already committed.
Promoboxx – $250k already committed.
Senexx – $100k already committed.
Spill – $120k already committed.
Strohl Medical – Investment committed but no mention of $$.
The Tap Lab – $150k already committed.
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Germany and the German-speaking world (Deutschosphere?) in general. In fact, the BBC had something on this recently

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13545386
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In that case, I think it would depend on the task at hand. For refactoring code and moving massive swaths of text around, stock Eclipse would win. For making small patches and writing new code from scratch, VIM would probably win.
The main problems with ORMs is that they're trying to work around non-object-oriented data stores. Layers of abstractions and ORMs in particular are generally good things—but they can't do magic when it comes to dealing with SQL.

If you're going to be using an ORM, I'd strongly recommend rethinking your data store. Object databases such as MongoDB is a perfect fit, but even a key-value store like Cassandra would be a much better option than SQL. I think it's interesting to note that Core Data, Cocoa's ORM, is one of the fastest data store out there. It uses SQLite, but defines its own schemas. I believe it'll also let you store pure binary data.
Ironically, I get the feeling 2k won't be sending any more games to this PR agency.

edit: "2K Games does not endorse or condone the comments made by @TheRednerGroup and confirm they no longer represent our products."
A risky currency? Alleged $500,000 Bitcoin heist raises questions
Start by encoding each item to sort into an expression consisting of factors of prime numbers so that it's reversible. Conway chain notation of the factors would make a nice pessimistic next step, though that might violate your termination requirement as there won't be enough Planck volumes in the known universe to represent anything beyond the first few terms. :)
Of course cost/benefit ratios should be considered. Not much point to debating that when it's obvious they weren't.

The lock on the front door was good, but the only thing that protected the bank until now was that nobody tried the windows & safes on the assumption that they would, in fact, be locked.

That's not weighing costs, that's being criminally negligent.
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Bittorrent has them. There's archives of old next software out there as well.
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"Advisors and staff hand-picked from friends and connections." Wait, so where are advisors supposed to come from if not from friends/connections? Investors?
Why has the number of pubs gone down so much? Have pubs consolidated into fewer larger pubs or is the time spent in pubs down drastically because of other entertainment? I guess I still have a romanticized view of Ireland with uilleann pipers in every pub...
The title claims that it is a year of the moon, but the description says that the images are from 2011 - which isn't over yet. So is this a year of the moon, or six months?
It's one guy, who says he's gotten little public support. But even if he had a deep wellspring of support: this is supply and demand. Apple is a highly specialized retailer that nonetheless can draw on hundreds of thousands of potentially qualified candidates. How could a union change that dynamic?
I was confused too and still am. But the core ML course in my CS department gave a list of other "related courses" at the end of the course. Despite the fact that our Stats department has umpteen learning-related courses, not one of the courses on that list was in Stats.

In my experience the "not talking" definitely originates from the ML side, although there's probably some of it in both directions.

The first course in the Stats learning sequence had a tongue-in-cheek listing of differences between it and the CS learning course:

http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/stat315a/glossary.pdf
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This thing cannot brake effectively in an emergency, which severely limits its real-world usefulness - it will just roll. The only route out of that, that I can see, is counter-rotating something with a large moment of inertia. If that something is the passenger, it will be extremely uncomfortable; if the mass is e.g. a flywheel, it'll add significantly to overall mass, reduce efficiencies, and add to overall forward momentum.

A long downhill stretch will also completely beat it (if it wants to maintain a constant speed downhill). Any flywheel or other counter-rotation system will have to keep accelerating for as long as the hill continues, or else it will tumble.
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> The banks don't seem all that secure lately, either.

Are you referring to the attacks that leaked user information? That is a little different than someone stealing 500k from your account right? Furthermore, most major banks will cover fraud charges and by design there are no such protection with Bitcoin.
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The problem with linking to 4chan is that the threads expire so quickly that the links usually die within an hour. At Least with /b/. /prog/ is probably different.
Wow, 4chan on HN frontpage is a milestone. I recall reading somewhere 4chan (among few other sites) articles are auto-flagged when submitted.
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