skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A large problem I've been having with the general online discussion surrounding introversion/extroversion is how definitions and perceptions of those words vary. When I think introversion or extroversion, it's already broken down into the narrowest scope possible - internal validation vs external validation.

Everything else that most people associate with introversion (shyness, social awkwardness, quiet/loud) really has nothing to do with the introvert/extrovert discussion other than they tend to afflict one type more than the other. Correlation, not causation.

Shy, socially awkward, quiet extroverts do exist and they have an even harder time in today's society than shy, socially awkward, quiet introverts. The latter can at least have a rich inner life while the former needs something that's being denied to him - external social acceptance.
OP here. That's really valid feedback and I'll keep it in mind in the future.
> democrats who approve must be viewing this whole kerfuffle through the partisan lens that it's an attack on the administration

Maybe. Maybe the poll sucks, maybe asking the questions differently would've made a difference, maybe taking the poll later would've changed the results. Maybe there's a characteristic difference in thought between people who tend to vote democratic and the other groups. Maybe democrats tend to trust that the Obama administration isn't making use of this program in a way that directly or deliberately targets American citizens. Maybe republicans view the program through a partisan lens, viewing it as yet another totalitarian act on the part of Obama, rather than a continuation of post-9/11 national security policy from the Bush years.

There's plenty of possible explanations, and very limited data.
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How to Write and Document Code So That Other Developers Can Understand It
Somewhat relevant: My brother attended a conference where a speaker said that gait of human beings are so unique that an individual can be identified with 100% certainty using the accelerometer of the phone in their pocket.

EDIT: Found a paper on the subject from 2009: http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/mfn3/pub/mfn_gait_id.pdf

EDIT 2: Found another paper from 2012 claiming 99.4% accuracy: http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~juefeix/btas_2012_felix.pdf
>Are we creating a world of perpetual intermediate users?

No, we're including users that were previously alienated from computing. The desktop metaphor has been with us for 20 years and there's a segment of the population that just doesn't get it, doesn't understand it, and just can't get used to it. It causes a whole slew of issues (e.g. the virus-pocalypse of the early 2000s).
And if the government (right at the top) decides they want to start accessing it regularly without the public knowing (like the current situation), they control those separate testing teams, and can authorize secret access at any time?
It took 2 minutes to load this website, good luck with that.
I agree that is possible but my point is I don't want to worry about that.

I worry about what I can do to control the things that I can control (or evaluate the risks).

(Today I met with a contractor to get a price on a backup generator for the house. More for the anxiety every time there is a storm and "potential" loss of power rather than the actual loss of power during the storm which has been nominal.)

FYI my attorney is handling part of the investigation for MIT for the Schwartz case and says a report is being released in July. He's a former federal prosecutor who handled a famous computer crime case in the 90's and worked with Ortiz. (He's actually turned into somewhat of a friend who I can talk with and ask questions w/o being billed.)
I guess what I find somewhat disappointing is that "most Americans" in this context means 53%.
How is he advertising such a thing? He specifically said he carefully chose documents that would be in the public interest and not documents that would be a threat to national security.
And yet, this Pew Research poll from two days ago:

> "Overall, 56 percent of Americans consider the NSA’s accessing of telephone call records of millions of Americans through secret court orders “acceptable,” while 41 percent call the practice “unacceptable.”" [1]

The Pew question only specifies phone data monitoring, while the Gallup question mentions both phone and internet data. I'm sure the poll-question-phrasing-savvy can provide some more insight on the differences.

How much of the difference can be attributed to people's minds changing in response to further revelations, the quality of the government's response, the opinions of their peers, etc?

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/most-americans-suppor...
>So, without a file system, how do you organize the Linux kernel code? Or the WebKit code?

He means the File System metaphor. There most certainly is a File System underpinning iPads and iPhones but the end-user need not know it even exists.
Apple to create virtual currency "iMoney"
Agreed and Disagree.

I agree, that Of course, Apple doesn't have a "Relentless pursuit of quality" before introducing something to the public. They ship Operating Systems fast, and fix problems as they discover them.

I'm still stuck on OS X 10.7.5 because of how screwed up my Operating Environment became when I (idiotically) upgraded from a wonderfully stable 10.6.8 to 10.7.0. So traumatized was I by the six months of kernel panics, hard freezes, and application problems (Mail, Finder, Spotlight - you name it) that were only mostly resolved by 10.7.4, and now, with only about 3 exceptions, 10.7.5, that I won't even consider upgrading to a new OS X until it's been out for at least 6-9 months AND has had a 90 day window with no major reports of problems. The 90 day clock just started for 10.8.4 on June 3rd - I'll consider upgrading in September.

I disagree, because clearly the versions "10.6.8", "10.7.0" and "10.7.5" are burned into my poor traumatized brain, and I continue to be nervous about 10.8.x - though there are a number of features I'm looking forward to (Better Exchange Support, iCloud support, messages, syncing with reminders (which I use quite a bit on my iPhone), Safari Syncing with my iPhone, etc...)
> Your rights come from God, not government.

No, my rights come what the people are willing to fight for and establish with government. Absent government, there are no rights, there is only what I'm willing to claim my rights are and what I can defend. There is no God and nature doesn't create rights.
Their share of the tech industry (which they used to utterly dominate at a scale we hadn't seen since the days of Standard Oil) has been on an inexorable downward path for almost three decades now.

Yes, they're still large and influential, and even "successful" in a limited sense. But in context I don't think you can look at their recent history as one of ascendance.
For software development tools it's the ecosystem that matters most
According to Gallup, Mitt Romney is also the current president.
Reading it that way doesn't make it make any more sense.
I can see how you would have come away with that impression.

We produce a lot of code, so much in fact that it didn't even occur to me to state the value in doing so. We definitely do and will continue to keep a talented team busy.
MLK did have "minor personal failings", IIRC.
He certainly excelled in many scientific subjects but the rest didn't interest him.

I don't have anything to cite this with(apart from knowing that there's talk about this in Wikipedia) due to time constraints right now, but many very well developed individuals get bored at school because the education is outright boring for them, the rest are so far behind to them that they are forced to deal with stuff which they already excell at very well and thus they get bored. I think this is how people like Einstein must have felt, and there are many cases of this happening all the time.

People simply are different, others learn faster and are more developed than others, and for many of those the slower pace of education feels outright boring and demotivational -- it's not the lack of intelligence, willingness or ability to learn but rather the school system itself.

Such people are among school dropouts for sure. I too dropped vocational school because of the mere reason that I'd rather study math and compsci on my own than about metal surfaces and lubricants with a bunch of retards. Yet, I have "failed" the most basic secondary education in this country. Yay, what a failure with tons of willingness to learn and understand. This is partly the reason why I hate it when people judice others based on their education, there are cases where it tells absolutely nothing about the person's ability and motivation to learn when the subjects match it.
ok - i don't have any specific source in mind; it could be that i am just making assumptions there. i will pay more attention and see if i notice anything.

[oh, this was in response to a reply, now deleted, saying that they had only seen "telephony metadata" mentioned - if you're the original author and you realised that telecomms metadata has been mentioned, email me at andrew@acooke.org and i'll delete this, but otherwise i'll leave it as it seems like a reasonable point.]

[related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5871665]
I've been waiting since my Athlon64 died for AMD to make a chip worth getting. Them taking the brute force (P4) approach is not all that encouraging.
I'd absolutely agree. I'm sure I'm an outlier, but I'm definitely recognizable - my calls:

* my girlfriend, in my town (Olympia, WA)
* the ambulance company I work for (also in Olympia)
* my "daytime" employer, a software company in Scottsdale AZ

Even the convergence of 2 or 3 of these calls would likely identify most.
NFC: nobody is told to care. There is all sorts of useful applications and apps have been built to support those use-cases. Do you know of any? No, not with a press like this.
> but then US has never been a real democracy, but a representative one.

A representative democracy is a real democracy; it's just not a direct democracy. Please stop this nonsense of thinking that only direct democracies count as democracies.
One could build a development environment that was not dependent on a filesystem for code organization. Actually, its been done at least once with Smalltalk's class browser and persistent images. Also, music and video editors really only care about their content, not fancy directory structures.

I've never wanted a filesystem for my ipad. What use would it be?
If people honestly cared about the overall risk to them every nation would be powered by nuclear with perhaps a smattering of renewable generation in areas where it clearly made sense.
I think if it involved Presidential and Congressional approval and had things like exact query logging and required declassification prior to prosecution than that would be reasonable.
I've worked as a graphic designer in a rather large company (500+) who handled several shopping websites. There was no design team, just a marketing team of which I was a part. It seemed logical considering my work was meant to sell things, not to just make the website look good. But I was frustrated because most design decisions require some indepedence and instinct, and it's difficult to argue with marketing-focused people who solely rely on figures, charts and basic strategies. The real problem was that graphic designers were only subordinates, meant to execute the design decisions the marketing team made.

Each team in a large company has a different goal. Marketing needs to sell, developers need to make it work, designers to make it beautiful and usable. When 2 of these goals are assigned to the same team, there is a purpose conflict. You can not refine one aspect of your work without the fear of damaging the other. So you end up in a gray area where none of your 2 goals is completely fulfilled.

The Apple design team probably worked on the new iOS 7 interactions which turned out to be great. But seeing how the icons turned out, you understand how frustrated designers across the web have become because they know designers wouldn't have let that happen.
Not that he's a corporate leader, but FWIW President Obama is also an introvert [1][2].

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/presi...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/opinion/sunday/introverts-...

Edit: clarity
In other news, trolling will soon be obsolete due to bloggers like this one.
Go ask the villagers in the unadministered lands of Afghanistan and Pakistan how their freedom from government is working out for them.

It's easy to say that security is completely unimportant when it's not your daughter being beaten and raped for being seen outside without a veil.
This is the sort of black art debugging that makes electronics both frustrating and fun :-)
Ask HN: Frontend eye for the backend guy?
From a backend developer's perspective with minimal client-side experience, the modern Web frontend stack looks initimidating: HTML5, CSS, Javascript, Sass, Bootstrap, JQuery, Backbone, Angular, RequireJS and a whole bunch of more tools and buzzwords I've probably never heard of, let alone the never ending fight with browser bugs, quirks and incompatibilities. Is there any decent crash course for experienced backend (or non Web) devs on getting up to speed with all this stuff?
That's a tough question to answer right now since we don't know how much help we're going to get. I'm expecting Luke and I write at least half of the book–I'd be ecstatic if we got that much help.

On the other hand, should contributions be extremely low, we are still on the hook with O'Reilly to deliver all of the book.
Uh...you have to clone a whole project to make a simple little edit?
He has not at all signaled, so far, that he would like any special consideration from China. He has not claimed to have "a lot of info" on US cyber attacks on China. He has said he would let Hong Kong decide whether he deserves protection from extradition.

He has said the U.S. is cyber-attacking China. This is important information for the U.S. public to know when the U.S. government is criticizing China for cyber attacks. How can people hold the executive branch accountable when they're basically being lied to? ("The Chinese are cyber-attacking us, and we only defend...") Is there a primary aggressor in the cyber war? It's an important question.

Suggesting he is a spy for revealing very non-specific information that the Chinese government already knows but the American people do not is ridiculous.
For those of us who don't know, what's the difference between an 8 and a 4 (besides the obvious)?
>A surface on which multiple overlapping windows are arranged? I don't think overlapping windows is anything other than a Xeroc PARC-induced collective mistake. I'd much rather have a tiling window interface of some kind.

25x80, EGA don't ring a bell i guess. It is nice to tile on a couple of 1920x1200 or 2560x1440 though.
Both this and the link to James Altucher's article in the sibling comment should prove to be very useful for my upcoming self-published book[1], especially the link to the image generator. Thanks for sharing!

[1]: http://www.petekeen.com/mastering-modern-payments
I guess I intellectually knew, but didn't fully appreciate, just how old all of those people are. Working in Silicon Valley, I'm used to seeing 20-45 year olds in lots of useful roles. Everyone in that room seemed to be late-40s or older (the military people were the youngest).
> Can you just learn from his experience that he describes, and get over an inconsequential phrase at a tiny part of the post?

Actually, no. The post wasn't phrased as "here was my experience", and rightly so: there are lots of terrible engineering organizations, and many readers wouldn't hugely care about yet another such horror story. Rather, the post reads as advice that new grads learn early to be resigned to what they might otherwise perceive to be dysfunctional engineering. I think there's too much of that already, and it's frustrating to see a post advocating that.
Well we've always known that both the wording and sequence of questions can affect poll results. I don't know by how much exactly but the effect has been seen to be significant enough to mislead pundits on seemingly every side of a given issue until right before an election.
I worked in a lab at Univserity that had several projects using gait analysis. It is very identifying, but much harder to collect than this kind of data -- you need a physical device on the target.
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Companies can thread this needle just fine.

Go to a Mercedes dealership. You can buy a $32k C-Class or a $132k CL.

For that matter, go to an Apple Store. You can get a $400 iPod or a $90 Shuffle.

Or a $3000 Mac Pro or a $600 Mac Mini.
Yes. Remember how that was portrayed in the move Seven far before Prism was a gleam in any NSA manager's eye? Cops have been able to do that since we've had cops. That makes transparency, rules of evidence, honest judges, and good defense attorneys important but we've already had this problem forever now.
No he's not, you are just twisting the argument so it is easier to knock down, which is a completely normal relevance fallacy even if you didn't intend it as such.

File systems, physical memory addresses, and processing units exist in iOS, the user just isn't exposed to it. What many of us our proposing is that filing cabinets as user-facing abstractions in particular are not very useful. How many users save their files to more than a couple of locations (Documents and Desktop) these days? Rather, they just throw them all in one place and rely on search or LRU caches to find things.
Pressure? What makes you think the pressure is against it?

Evolution operates on genes, not groups; not even individuals, really. Genes that somehow code for rape[1][2] will spread if and only if its carriers reproduce. The "use" of rape, then, should be fairly obvious: If successful, it lets its carrier reproduce.

Any such adaption is bound to be situational, as a healthy relationship is far more likely to produce surviving offspring, then and now. It'll be an "If you cannot get a girlfriend, then get urges towards rape" kind of thing, though typically enough there'll be a lot of variation in that.

There will not, however, be even the slightest degree of adaption in terms of what is best for the group. Group selection doesn't exist, outside of extreme laboratory conditions.

1: Or anything else.

2: Please don't read that as suggesting there might be a single "rape gene". Anything to do with the brain is really, really complex.
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Cross-connection: Some of the early arcade video titles from Bally/Midway that were designed by Nutting Associates (including Robby Roto and Gorf) were written in Forth. There you go.
I don't think he has given any information from one country to another.

He has revealed to the American people that they are taking an offensive rather than merely defensive role in a hacking war with China. This is important for the American people to know--how can anyone come to a reasonable conclusion about the issue if they only hear the government line that China is hacking and the U.S. is just defending?

China has also received this information, but it's ridiculous to believe they didn't already know there were hacking attempts.
Still, it could be very useful for intelligence agencies. If they have identified that a phone is being used by a terrorist they can identify which terrorist is carrying it if they're able to get access to its accelerometer. Or they could gain access to millions of phones' accelerometers and identify which ones are being used by known terrorists. At the very least I expect to see it in some spy movies in the next few years.
Yes, if users can't obtain and open external, untrusted documents then they can't get viruses.

So what? Whether or not it's abstracted in a file system, people will be sharing documents.
A strong Windows phone is great for mobile computing in general. However, I find it doubtful that "design convergence" as you call it will help Windows phone. I think Windows phone is a great product, but it will take Microsoft re-connecting with consumers to drive sales. Their most recent advertising has just been confusing... not inspiring desire, IMO.
But it's not just the file manager, it's the file themselves as user interface semantics. Right now, the file system is more than just a data storage layer, it's also a set of concepts (files, directories, etc) with which the user interacts through almost all applications.

For example, when I click on a link to a paper, I'm not just viewing an abstract document, I'm downloading and opening a PDF file, and this is exposed to the user as the UI to manage the content.

OP is talking about the file system as that set of concepts, and claims they'll be obsolete and mostly replaced by more abstract views of the content we use.
Uh, I'm sorry...but I can't imagine it being fun to look at old code that you've been able to ignore for six months straight, no matter how well it's documented.

Ad I think the jury's out about writing tons of comments in the code. A full test suite is much more useful and asker to maintain
> I have friends in almost all big companies and I discuss them about these issues a lot. Almost all of them agree that they are in a similar situation.

Really? You have friends in almost all big companies?

There's a lot of truth in the points you mention, but even in my limited experience (six years at two companies, one very large and one pretty small), it's much more complex than you suggest. Many of these things were flat out not the case at both companies (e.g., the points about "the world outside"), some of them were absolutely true of both (2-3 hours of coding per day is common), and some were worse at the small company (e.g., documentation).

I'm with the parent: these issues have little to do with company size, but they do reflect the quality of an organization. In both environments I've worked in, to the extent that these issues were present, they were considered problems to be fixed, not something to be resigned about.
Keywords is an option, but then again if I send someone else my files what happens if there is a keyword conflict on their system? So we need namespaces or a way to track file origin/ownership across the entire planet? urgh.

Of course filesystem aren't the only way to organise data and there are applications that already do this. An example that springs to mind are playlists and media libraries.

The file/folder hierarchy is also pretty well ingrained in the web.
I see. I understand that a little more. I still disagree, however. There's a huge incentive for the government to keep those mechanisms working, and we'd all know it if they didn't. That's definitely not the case with the NSA. How will we know there isn't some secret backdoor?
This does read like someone just out of college, working on their first job.

> Every company has its own problems.

Over time you'll find most companies/organisations operate in very similar ways.

I'd say it's not even specific to the I.T. industry, but rather, just the way people tend to operate.

It’s the politics of human interaction and the bigger the organisation the more politics you will find.
Release Open Source HTML5 Games on the Windows Store
Don't most people carry a mobile with them?
The problem with these polls is the phrasing. For example:

Are you comfortable with the NSA listening in on private phone calls and reading private emails in order to prevent terrorism?

vs

Are you comfortable with the NSA listening in on your private phone calls and reading your private emails in order to prevent terrorism?

People have a strong bias towards thinking that it wouldn't happen to them, but, as we all know, it has to happen to someone.
Reddit co-founder on NSA snooping
Recreating the Peg Game at Cracker Barrel in HTML5