skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Credit card readers may use PS/2 connectors[1]. There are POS keyboards with integrated card readers that use PS/2 connectors, as well [2].

[1] http://support.quickbooks.intuit.com/opencms/sites/default/I...

[2] http://www.ebay.com/itm/CHERRY-MY8000-BEIGE-PS-2-KEYBOARD-CR...
Except that MBTI is only a superficial shorthand for the more complex Jungian cognitive function theory[1], which is more nuanced and has functions interacting in more complex ways than just the 4 dimensions represented by the MBTI system. More interestingly, is that these cognitive functions are actually starting to have some connections to neurological phenomena[2]. So while on the superficial level MBTI is kind of just a bunch of sugar coating, it actually is founded in more well-reasoned psychology. It could still be highly inaccurate, but it is unusually consistent (once you accept that the tests for it are generally terrible).

[1] Here are some good resources on their basic definitions:

http://www.the16types.info/vbulletin/content.php/213-MBTI-De...

http://personalityjunkie.com/functions-ni-ti-fi-si-ne-te-fe-...

[2] This talk goes into some detail about how specific brain patterns seem to correlate with the Jungian cognitive functions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGfhQTbcqmA
No one suggests losing the program in its entirety, responses of like yours are straight up hyperbole. It is not a valid rebuttal to those looking to make corrective changes.

Far too many abuses are allowed to go on simply because of such arguments thereby reducing the aid we could give to truly needed people.

I am all for helping those in need, nearly 2% of my gross salary goes to CHOA each year, but damn if I am going to believe that there are people on one if not more of the hundred of government programs who don't deserve to be there. The best way to help people is to get more diligent about policing those we do help. Are they getting the right help is the question that we must answer.
So you want someone else to provide they money and someone else to do the work?

Have you considered a career in politics?
"We need to accept our genetic limits and act accordingly."

Perhaps you can explain what you mean by "act accordingly"? People who favour genetics as a means of shaping educational provision should be honest enough to actually spell out the consequences of pre-judging a person's intelligence on genetic grounds. It's pretty obvious to me what the (horrendous and appalling) consequences would be of categorising whole classes of people into superior or inferior intellect.
It seems to me that there's a continuum between introvert and extrovert ... people can be one or the other at some times

That is, indeed, what most psychologists believe. The Myers-Brigg inventory is bogus, by the way.
Whoah I never even thought of doing that. It seems like it would work, I mean I really don't type numbers all that often these days... hmmm. I might chuck it on my laptop and see how I dig it for dev. Tempted to swap [] and {} as well. It's a similar concept to swapping F-keys for media keys, which I have and much prefer.
Can you give some context as to why you have submitted this today?
Why I moved from Linux to Mac OS X
I'm tempted to try out minimak. My only concern is that... do the numbers that get thrown around about percentage improvement only apply to touch typists?

I've never been strict enough with myself to learn touch typing (I still hit 120WPM so speed isn't an issue) and worry that the benefit won't be as obvious.
First of all thank you for bringing up the movie, I've seen it as a kid and I've been wondering ever since what was the title, since I only remembered bits. This movie has literally been bugging me for years, now I can finally see it again.

That said, ambition, work ethic and passion are also important, but they're a product of genetics too.

Take two guys, one is smart and spends his days trying to solve complex problems, while the second one is just as smart but spends his days on Netflix. What's the difference between the two? Mostly dedication, but what provides the former with it? Yep, genetics.
Imagine one day with self-driving cars, your rental will pick you up at the airport, no more off-airport stuff.
Thanks for the pointer for ergodox.

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All of the evidence out there, however limited, is in favor of Dvorak (that 1996 Reason article you linked not withstanding). Lower finger travel = less strain = less RSI.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard#Comp...

The advantage of Dvorak is no more "theoretical" than the theory of evolution. Whether it's "worth it" for you to switch is aside from the inherent performance of either layout. I can say that Dvorak is better, while not being worthwhile for you to learn, though it was worthwhile for me.
Funnily enough, last week a comparative test of educational outcomes was discussed in the press showing that today there still exists a clear difference between outcomes in (former) East Germany and (former) West Germany. East German Children were better at mathematics and natural sciences.

So with identical genetics there is still an effect on the scale of typical European inter-country differences.
There are only 20 there.
There are better tests out there. The one I did had 200 questions. I can't speak for their usefulness though.
This is basically the old nature vs. nurture thing. So the answer is similar - twin studies etc. Based on what I know (which is not much - I do not claim to be an expert) I would say that there is undeniable evidence that IQ is in fact strongly affected by genetics.
Exactly. I'd pay 20 baht (USD 0.60 or EUR 0.40) for 4 bananas from a street vendor or market. I'd pay 10x that in the super market. Super markets here are for the high society, tourists and expats. It's not going to be cheap if you don't assimilate and start living like a local.
I actually support things like cash payouts and negative income tax.

I wanted to trigger the discussion of paternalism using a stereotype to see what kinds of arguments for paternalism emerged.
Ambition, work ethic and passion for me has nothing to do with genetics. And everything to do with upbringing.

If you are angry with the world there is a good chance you will work hard to change it.
It's not the concept of a diff that baffles ordinary people. It's (a) the lack of an intuitive interface, and (b) poor integration with natural languages, that make most VCS's difficult to use in the context of a word processor.

Word shows pretty bubbles next to sections that have been edited. The bubbles are color-coded so it's easy to tell who did what. The edits can be accepted, rejected, or further modified with a couple of clicks. There is no list of commands or keyboard shortcuts to memorize. Just a bunch of icons, menus, and clicking around.

Word doesn't require your content to be made up of neat lines of verse, either. Natural languages don't organize themselves into 78-char lines. It should be OK to edit a few words in a long paragraph of prose. Even Wikipedia's messy "Revision History" is probably better than git in this regard.
What I mean, is that every person should be trained to reach their particular potential, and the key word here is particular, because we're not an homogeneous mass of being that can be trained in the same way and accomplish the same goals. If you see that kid kid isn't a math whiz you don't put him in an advanced calculus class, that would just waste their time, just as the math whiz wouldn't benefit from biology class. This kind of attitude actually serves another, more important, purpose: kids aren't drove on the brink of depression from pushy parents/teachers when they keep failing at something. If everyone is aware of the kids limits the kids won't have to live up to impossibly to be met expectations.
The UK system is unique for selecting kids at a very early age. At 11, kids take a test to enter super selective public schools: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar_school. In some parts of UK only 2% of the 11 year old make it in. For those who don't make it, their only chance to go to top universities is to pay for expensive private school.
I was talking about the test, not Jungian psychology. Regardless of how accurate Jung's musings turned out to be, any test that insists on classifying people as either an introvert or an extrovert flies in the face of the best empirical evidence.

What really bugs me is that there are recruiters who use this test as part of their hiring process. (Not in the US.) What a waste.
But how do you decide which students are gifted without some way to measure general intellectual aptitude which is the purpose of an IQ test.
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I think I've gone full circle on hostnames. Cute -> functional -> boring semi serially assigned.

It doesn't matter is my conclusion. where I work we have the remnants of about 5 different naming schemes living side by side (very big environment) and we're not missing out our gaining a thing.

We always resort to some external db (Sometimes just a spreadsheet) to lookup particular hosts based on whatever today's criteria is.

TL;DR it's a distraction. Don't waste time on it.
Just curious, how old were you when you made the big switch?

I wonder if it's one of those things that's harder to learn the further along in life you are, like learning a foreign language, learning to code, playing an instrument, etc.?
The db was most likely never listening for connections from the world at large anyway.
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I've only read the article and not the underlying paper, but it seems to be saying a $400 grant yields an average annual return of 40% - it would seem that would make it viable as a loan scheme rather than a grant scheme (maybe in terms of a loan that automatically gets written off after X years so it's a pseudo-grant).

It's important to note also that they're using the group effect that are also popular among microlenders, in that the grants are made to groups of individuals so you'll have some degrees of the individuals checking up on each other.
Great list. Thanks a lot!

I couldn't find this url in this post and it made me pretty happy when I found it. A website full of IT book which can be downloaded for free.

http://www.it-ebooks.info/
The website is not responding.
Capitalism! Hooray!
Nice, thnk!
Ideally you don't decide anything. You just give them the tools, and see what they do with it.
INTP is actually the most common type on HN (or at least it used to be):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=204240

I'm also an INTP, but apparently more evil: ICIE on Lipson-Shiu.
Not quite. Comprehensive (non-selective) schools are the norm and have been for many years. Grammar schools only remain in very few areas, where the local authority has chosen to keep them. For the majority of the country, there isn't a local grammar school.
I don't know, if you're opposed to the ideas presented here, play dwarf fortress.
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Fiscal Cliffdiving…for kids
Saturday night in the US, which brings up the question - does anyone know the visitor stats of HN by country?
I think we could come up with infinite factors that determine a given definition of success, that apparently aren't linked to genetics, but I also think for every such argument there's another one that bring genetics into question.

For example you mentioned upbringing. So now image the two kids above are raised by the same family, with the same values; they're equally smart, maybe they're even equally dedicated but one of the two lacks ambition/passion and doesn't live up to his brother's success. Why's that? Again, maybe the brother has his brain wired to be ambitious and has a knack (read passion) for whatever he does that lets him be successful.
Problem: queues are boring. Consequently, people in queues talk to one another and make jokes about the queues. If it's a security queue, some bored people joke about security.

Unfortunately, TSA checkers have no discretion: they're supposed to behave like robots[1]. They're not allowed to write off a wisecrack as a joke, but are required to take it at face value. (Even though no sane terrorist would joke about smuggling a bomb through a TSA checkpoint while in the queue at said checkpoint.)

TSA response: warn people that they can be arrested for joking.

Possible solution #1: figure out why people are making jokes (boredom, long queues) and do something to fix it, reducing the incidence of false positives. (Hire more bodies, shorten the queues.)

Possible solution #2: recruit higher quality security guards and train them to use their initiative, then give them some discretion. (The El Al/Israeli response.)

Possible solution #3: reform US foreign policy to reduce the inflammation that causes terrorist activity against US targets; focus on intelligence-driven police tactics to prevent terrorist attacks before they get anywhere near an airport or other target: abolish the TSA. (The utopian solution. This won't happen because, politics.)

[1] A large subset of the American population believe that government can do no good. Therefore government agencies are not allowed to operate as if they're staffed by competent, intelligent human beings with discretion. This is why we can't have nice things.
Sorry, the heavy load seems to be too much for my server. Cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:x5ppI0T...
You can't blame people for trying to harness the power of that psychology in a practical manner though. A simple 4-letter code is much more practical than asking a person for their ranked cognitive function preferences.

Dismissing the entire MBTI system just because it's current testing implementations aren't perfect seems a bit shortsighted when the psychology behind it is actually pretty useful for predicting team dynamics to a certain degree. If you want to be annoyed with people that have no idea how to interpret MBTI results, then that's a different story, but there's no need to throw out a perfectly good baby with the bathwater...
If you're geeky enough about your theme, you could use theme-based names that are also functional. For example, all the wines are application servers, all the beers are DB servers, etc.
But how do you know what to teach and grade students on?
I think both extremes are bad. Ignoring genetics would be wishful thinking but ascribing things like dedication to genetics? We already know how strongly nurture affects motivation, work habits, self-control etc. Even genetic potential for intelligence can be fostered or inhabited by (lack of) nurture.
As with the answers above I see that the divergence in opinions is actually due to a different understanding of the word genetics. To me genetics refers to whichever properties or features a given person has that make him of her different from anyone else.

"these "gifted" people I mostly recognized that they had an inherent interest in the problem area and had done a substantial amount of self-study."

What decides what a given person is interested in? Genetics. What grants a person the kind of introspection needed to perform "a substantial amount of self-study"? also genetics.

Genetics decides your height, weight, the fact that you believe in God or not, your interests, amount dedication, attention span and every other aspect that makes up whatever form of success you have in mind.
I wonder if this could be applied to rich countries: give $500/month to each adult citizen. No questions asked. Unlike many existing programs for the very poor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenu_minimum_d'insertion) it would not dissuade them from working (if you work you just earn more) and would be really easy to administrate (there are no criteria).
Makes sense to me. People who think it is funny to waste people's time, cause needless panic and generally be disruptive are nothing but selfish assholes. And worst of all it induces a boomerang effect where people rally against you and dismiss the legitimate privacy concerns.

If you actually cared about what the TSA was doing you would be an adult and lobby your local representative.
Read my other answer to threeseed, who brought up a similar point.
If anyone wants access to some of the content, I've found quite a large collection of notes for the course, here:
http://karmanotes.org/harvard/ethical-reasoning-18-classical...
This is a movie about freedom of speech, self-censorship in media, and which people are really put at risk by publishing cables (hint: corruption and organized crime).

Short summary, including spoilers:

A group of Wikileaks-affiliated journalists tries to find media partners in the -stan countries that would publish Wikileaks cables locally. The meetings with those organizations are set up as interviews about free speech in their respective countries. As a surprise in those meetings, they are offered the cables about their own country. They film the initial reactions, try to sign a gentlemen's agreement about how the cables should be handled, and follow up if any stories were published. It's really interesting to see what happens. Some sign the agreement, but don't publish anything. One guy in Kazakhstan actually says that he doesn't want democracy. The editor of a newspaper in Turkmenistan that they speak to turns out to be a member of parliament. That newspaper has a picture of Turkmenistan's president on it's front page every day.

Then, Alan Rusbridger from The Guardian and Bill Keller from the NYT are interviewed. It's astonishing to see that media in the US and UK have similar fears than those in the -stan countries. For example, Assange criticized that The Guardian redacted the names of a mafia boss, who according to cables had close ties with Uzbekistan's president. They apparently did this because they fear libel lawsuits, in which the burden of proof would lie on the libeler.
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Interesting. Unfortunately that poll was taken well before I even joined up, cause it definitely feels like it has a strong ISTJ/INTJ slant now somehow (ignoring possible mistyping and all that)...
Harvard's Classical Chinese Ethical and Political Theory notes
There's a chapter in the book "Automate This"[1] (Chapter 7) that deals with research that will make you highly effective in communicating with other people. It focuses on the research of a man called Dr. Taibi Kahler[2], who broadly breaks people down into 6 categories:

1. Emotions driven people

2. Thoughts based people

3. Actions driven people

4. Reflections driven people

5. Opinions driven people

6. Reactions based people

Everybody has a mix of some/all of the above, but one personality type dominates.

Before you scream "bullshit!", bear in mind that this research has been used by NASA to ensure that personality types that don't mix well don't end up as astronauts together in extremely dangerous space missions, and it also helped Bill Clinton to unseat an incumbent president in the 1992 US Presidential race.

Here's a simple article about it: http://www.bottomlinepublications.com/content/article/busine...

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Automate-This-Algorithms-Markets-World...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taibi_Kahler
If you really want to learn something, learn Ancient Indian culture (not the one distorted by stupid American professors).
But itn’t the web interface usually not accessible from WAN?
The clearest I've seen it posed is this: Do you draw energy from or expend energy on highly social situations?

I'm quite an outgoing introvert, but after enough time I become mentally worn out by socialising and need a break to gather myself. Truly extroverted people I know feed off social situations and would lose enthusiasm from taking a break where I would come back re-enthused. When they eventually retreat for some "me time" it's physical rather than mental energy which they've exhausted.
Things like "ambition" and "drive" are often a product of intelligence.

It is the ability to project your mind into the future and see how the picture is affected by actions you take in the present.
TSA is rapidly approaching the level of creepiness of Half Life's Overwatch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=y_3...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZX6oLEK5KQ
Nagios is a mature solution. It is well known, reliable and has a large community with many contributed plug-ins.
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Solution #4: Shut down the entire DHS and fire all the TSA dirtbags.
You are right. I should have written "Part of the UK system". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_grammar_schools_in_Engl.... But the point remains.
The main thing I can suggest to anybody wanting to do the same is to buy an SSD, no matter what other choices you make with your Mac. The speed difference is just unbelieveable; you'll never want to go back to anything with a spinning disk.

Installing Homebrew [0] wouldn't go astray either, it's a package manager for OSX that's similar to aptitude on Linux.

[0]: http://brew.sh/
There are plenty of problems with the TSA but this is not one of them. I don't think it's too much to ask people not to make jokes about blowing up a plane.
I don't get the point why someone would learn to ride a motorcycle.

- It is very hard to learn since your muscles are trained for driving a car

- I think it would take me a while to be as confident as in my current Monte Carlo LS

- I see no real advantage for learning a new automobile. None of my friends and coworkers ever complained about driving a car and the urge to change it.

- When you want to get from point A to point B, learning a new vehicle would be the last thing you want.

- You may not have a motorcycle available at different car rental places when you travel

Didn't really prove you wrong, and maybe I am a hipster :-)

I found it enjoyable learning a new layout. Maybe it was just for the sake of trying something new. My productivity didn't suffer since I never really abandoned QWERTY. I didn't utilize colemak in my work until I was relatively fluent. Learning workman might be an interesting weekend excursion, but I have no plans to use it for work until I'm fluent, if it is as fun to type on as colemak.
Exactly. Notice how his proposed solution makes the kind of education children can get dependent not on their genetics, but on whether their parents have enough money to send them to private schools.
I could imagine that something not unsimilar to how optimization algorithms work. You start with all student doing the same material, and then you supply the students with the amount and kind of material that suits them. Ideally, you don't grade at all.
We're not stereotypes. We're people.
Too generic and "blah..." reason about why he move (He want to play more games, and he worshipe Apple hardware), i undestand but i tought that it was because something more interesting, instead somthing so common.
The worrying thing about this is the shift in perception.

Most people are going to put Todd at "a bit over weight", but not "near obese". Add a few kilos to Todd to tip him into obesity, and most people are not going to see much difference.

Give people a Todd image of BMI > 35, with no physical activity, and still most people aren't going to call that Todd obese. And if it's a woman the discussion suddenly becomes polarised with accusations of "fat shaming" and "healthism" and "nanny state" and "causing eating disorders". Very obese women are called "curvy" or "voluptuous". Any attempt to discuss the health effects of over weight are dismissed as a fascistic attempt to control other people.

There are so many weird ideas around obesity - "it's not sugar, it's high fructose corn syrup! We weren't overweight until HFCS!". Maybe HFCS is worse than regular sugar, but we also didn't use to drink 64 fluid ounces of 10% sugar syrup. (http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/01/the-7-11-dou...)