skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This kind of test annoys me to no end, when they rephrase the same questions over and over and over again. I am sure there is some point to it, and the profile I hit very close to home.

I don't really care for it though, especially since the site is obviously just trying to make people buy the full-depth profile.

Fun, I guess.
What does believing and not believing in pesonality types mean exactly?

I mean, as a generalization, as a very introverted person I sure as hell won't get along too well with a very extroverted person unless I really have to. Of course exceptions exist.
No Orrick?
As others have noted, macros in theory could really help with that. But with macros in practice, I wouldn't be so sure. Macros essentially add syntax to languages.

Syntax to help with common tasks is nice, but if you end up with lots of ad hoc syntax for lots of very divergent, and maybe not so common tasks, you're in trouble. The problem is just the multitude of syntax constructs that typically end up way underspecified, as opposed to the much more formal and strict models of a language that went through a specification process. Imagine learning not three kinds of loops (for, while, do), but 300 subtly different ones in one code base. Ugh.

On the other hand, lots of boilerplate make code unreadable just by the sheer amount of it. This is a very hard balance to strike, I'd rather err on not giving every developer on a code base the power to add new syntactical abstractions.
Eh, just learn the test well enough that you can figure out what they want, and then give them the result which gets you hired.
I wrote PHP code for 10 years. You could say my relationship with the language is pretty subjective.
I posted question on Quora --> http://www.quora.com/A-B-Testing/What-is-the-architecture-be...
Of course. Not using any framework (external or built in-house) would mean that the team didn't find any useful abstractions that could be layered on the raw JavaScript. Very unlikely.
There's nothing wrong with using HTTP if it's done in a sensible way.

In the early days of the realtime web, long-polling was used mostly as an underlying hack in the emulation of streams. However, RealCrowd's API isn't a hack. When clients make requests to the server, they are attempting to synchronize a resource. One could argue that this kind of interface is semantically closer to what the client is trying to accomplish than one based around pure message passing.
Canada is the same (from the same link above):

"Past this amount, tariffs are exceptionally high, in the neighbourhood of 246% for cheese and over 300% for butter. "
(I'm a Balanced employee)

We calculate these fees per marketplace. Usually a single marketplace has many merchants associated with it.
Which one is "caustic bastard?"
Not necessarily. You can chose to receive Bitcoin directly although most companies opt to convert to USD instantly given Bitcoin's high volatility. If the volatility goes down, more companies will decide to keep their balance in Bitcoin.
Same. I think this poll and Myers-Briggs are only interesting insofar as they are a reflection of how we want to see ourselves.

I've variously gotten ENTJ or INTJ over the years.
I know x264 (and upcoming x265) uses this method to make money off their open source software, they release it for anyone to use under GPL but also offer licences for those who wants to use it in proprietary projects.

AFAIK the money made is shared amongst x264 key contributors, but I have no idea if any money trickles down to less prolific contributors.

> if some third-party releases some really good plugin as GPL, without doing copyright assignment, then it means the plugin in question will never be a part of the official distribution,

Why not? I don't see why a third-party plugin should be excluded from the official open source distribution? Obviously they can't offer a proprietary licence for it alongside their own code, but it could still be part of the official release.

>This is why I prefer the open core model, in which anybody can build proprietary things on top.

Hmm... actually I prefer that if someone should make money off proprietary use of open source code, then it should be the authors of that open source code, so personally I prefer the dual-licence mechanism that the x264 devs use.

Anyone can use x264 in full open source fashion under GPL, if someone wants to use their work for proprietary means, the x264 developers are compensated for allowing this.
So you're an asshole? Clearly I'm joking, but people have tendencies and knowing the general buckets of tendency-groups makes it easier to interact with a wider variety of people (and not just introverted engineers).
The Finkbeiner Test
They probably de-crypted the original password and rehashed the actual first 16 characters updaing the HASHed version of the password compare. It's not uncommon to have the HASH and an encrypted version of the password.
This. People keep thinking that bitcoin is a currency. It's not. It's best thought of as a commodity, in the same way that all foreign currencies are essentially commodities, and using them to pay for things is bartering and capital gains laws apply.
> A restraining order is against any form of contact.

A restraining order has specific terms that address exactly what conduct it restrains. It may or may not be against any form of contact [1]. So the question is really, is the specific kind of conduct here within what was actually prohibited in the order (a secondary consideration, if it was, might be whether or not it should have been included in the order, but the remedy for that is to appeal the order, not to defy it and expect not to face consequences.)

[1] See, for instance, the the California template domestic violence restraining order, with check-off boxes for standard terms (including #21 -- which is completely free text) that may or may not be imposed in any particular order: http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/dv110.pdf
Only the Randite faction.
It's at least consistent pseudo-science. I opened this page, saw it was Meyers-Briggs, and immediately thought "Welp, I bet there are a lot of ENTJ and INTJ". Lo and behold.
Some. INTP is also highly represented, what with the "MUST UNDERSTAND SYSTEM" drive. I think I heard somewhere that pg's an INTP, but that could be wrong.
Video interview with Oliver Samwer - Building Global Companies - NOAH13
As a programmer / startup founder, I feel like I oscillate between INTJ and ENTJ.
And taking such risks impulsively yields big rewards, from time to time.
Valve Employee Handbook: A fearless adventure...
Is there even a product to sell to medical? I thought Watson was just a proof-of-concept system. An actual product based on Watson would need to have some defined scope (i.e. only used for cancer treatments), would need some sort of FDA clearance which would probably require clinical trials. Is it there yet? Does IBM even want to take on the liability and expense of bringing it to medical? And is the market even big enough to interest IBM? Today, the "decision-support system" market is tiny.
Terrorists Changing Their Methods Because of Snowden Leaks: Officials
A selection of some of my favorite aspects of this release:

1. The (yet-ongoing) removal of managed pointers, leaving us with one fewer pointer type. Final tally of built-in pointer types: unique pointers, mutable references, and immutable references.

2. The dead code detection pass (https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10477), contributed by a student of the University of Virginia's Rust-based systems programming class (http://rust-class.org/pages/using-rust-for-an-undergraduate-...).

3. The `Any` trait, giving us on-demand dynamic typing (https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/9967).

4. The clean abstraction of green threads and native threads out into their own libraries (https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-December/00...) such that any library that makes use of the stdlib will work regardless of which strategy the user selects.

We're not quite in the home stretch yet, but there are very few hard blockers left on 1.0. Here's the list that I can think of:

1. Dynamically-sized types (http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2014/01/05/dst-...)

2. The extension of rvalue lifetimes (http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2014/01/09/rval...)

3. Struct single (note that's single) inheritance (http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2013/10/24/sing...)

4. Niceties and sugar to support custom smart pointer types to complete the excision of managed pointers

As far as I know, the devs are still aiming for a 1.0 release in 2014. The 1.0 release will not necessarily mean that the language is done evolving or ready for production use, but it will mean that the developers will begin honoring language-level and library-level backwards compatibility. I would expect at least two more unstable point releases (i.e. 0.10 and 0.11) before a 1.0 release occurs.
>but it still does a much better job than current search engines

Does it?
For people on Coinbase, would this approach work?

- withdraw btc to coinbase

- convert to usd through coinbase

Is MtGox just slow for withdrawing USD, or are they slow for every kind of withdrawal?
Hint: who is considered a citizen?
I think this gets into the non-standard definitions of money vs currency. I think that the headline refers to money, not currency.
Here's imgur's creator's post from 4 years ago introducing the site to redditors:

My Gift to Reddit: I created an image hosting service that doesn't suck. What do you think?
http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7zlyd/my_gift_to...

Here's an AMA (ask me anything, reddit interview post) he did:
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/y81ju/i_created_imgur_...

Interesting quote from the AMA: "Imageshack tried to buy it 6 months after I made it". I'm sure everyone is glad he didn't sell. IIRC half of imageshack links were "bandwidth exceeded" messages
I would say there are two primary ways DDT helps you spot database performance problems.

The first is that "oh my god" moment when you see via DDT that your view is doing 100+ queries to the database. This leads to research into Django ORM features like "select_related" and other ways to cut down the number of queries.

The second is clicking DDT's handy EXPLAIN button on a single query that is taking a long time. Sometimes this can help improve performance by adding an index to a field.
This is exactly why Snowden should be prosecuted.
Ugh, I really hate stacked area graphs. Usually you can display the same information in a much more readable format by using a multi-colored or dotted line graph with a legend, and use logarithmic scaling to space out all the crap on the bottom.

The main problem with these stacked graphs is spikes/dips on the bottom cause everything stacked on top of it to distort in weird ways, making things very difficult to see.

Also, the ones in this article are square shaped, so you can't even see total site growth over time, which would be interesting and relevant.
If they have the decryption keys, that's the same as storing the password in plaintext. I don't know how common it is, but I know it's insecure.
I think that's because South has been rolled into Django now. Is that correct?
...unwanted, unsolicited contact is the same whether it's via...

You say that as if unsolicited communication is some kind of basic, elemental thing, like murder or robbery. In fact it is a deliberate exception to speech rights, which exception itself has plenty of exceptions. For instance, there doesn't seem to be much caselaw preventing junk mail, perhaps because that's the only thing keeping the USPS in operation. Keep in mind, too, that what courts may include in orders varies among jurisdictions.

One could certainly imagine a new law intended to encourage services that send automatic communications to be more careful about violating restraining orders. One could not imagine such a law actually succeeding in its stated purpose, nor could the imagination encompass such a law not having horrible follow-on effects. It's much more plausible to recall that courts may only use their injunction power to achieve equitable remedies, and that in a context of involuntary electronic messages there is nothing equitable about holding someone responsible for communications she did not create.
I've been away from the Django ecosystem for the last few years.. how is Pinax doing these days?
Minefield, HTML5 Massively Multiplayer Online Minesweeper
Julia is designed to be a good general purpose language. There are already a bunch of database drivers; a simple web framework, etc., etc. http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.2/packages/packagelis...
I was wondering something similar, but for 'asshole.'
Thanks. I prefer the first one. The second one I did manage to google, along with some others, but they are too verbose.
Thank you! This is pretty nice then, I think when I first stumbled upon the pricing page a while ago, these reduced rates were already public.
At the time I just assumed it was counted by store and got back to work. I still chose Balanced for the native marketplace support and general "openness" feel I get from the company.
Automate the setup of your development environment
> Perhaps the reason why women seek TROs and ROs is because they are much more likely then men to be the victim of physical assault, stalking, harassment, or murder from their partners or former partners.

Whether or not that is the case, it is also possible that it is more that when they are (or, in the case of murder, expect to be) the victims of such things, they feel they don't have other effective remedies outside the legal system, whereas men feel more able to respond effectively (whether or not legally) with physical violence.
The thing is, the Catalan community has a very strong presence on the Internet.

As an example, the Catalan version of Wikipedia currently has +400.000 articles, being the 17th biggest.

To make clear what this means, you have to know that Catalan isn't even under the 100 most spoken languages worldwide (it has about 7 million speakers). So there is 1 article for every 17.5 people. Compared to the English version (4.4 million articles, 700 million speakers = 1 article every 159 people), or the Spanish one (1 million articles, 460 million speakers = 1 article every 460 people!), it is quite impressive.

So why would they want an own .cat domain? Because as a non-independent country / nationality, they are not allowed to have a two letter domain. Still, they wanted to be represented on the net so there was the PuntCAT foundation which did a huge effort in order to obtain the three letter .cat domain, but as it was sponsored, I imagine that they decided to restrict the usage of it to websites that have something to do with Catalan culture, or at least are written in Catalan.

I must say the Catalan culture and political movement is a pretty interesting topic itself, but I didn't want to make this post political, but rather interesting for "teh techies".
I thought the same thing when I saw this.

It's rather interesting though if I might add, to see how those insensitivities carry over to a logical environment like a weighted survey. The test is really simple, it's four weighted boolean elements, and a result.

That seems to engage people.
Witches were burned at the stake, basic human reactions have not evolved since dark ages. So basic premise of somewhat trivialistic movie "Hackers" the one with Jonny Lee Miller holds right - rest of the world is sheep(and it will get worse as we migrate from general purpose computing to specialized devices). Most of the world is made up of unwashed masses that consider computing something that resembles magic - you only scare and confuse them talking all the smart things that they do not really understand or grasp.

I'll conjure up respected Arthur C. Clarke - Third law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Put scared people and magic together and you got bonfires going. This why hackers rot in jail for longer than murderous psychopaths.

But then again I was more of a black hat for most of my life than white.

my 2c
how about pricing for debit cards?
What a joke! He complains about frameworks being too bulky but unquestionably uses jQuery without questioning it the same way.
Why I dropped eBooks
Overstock.com uses Coinbase and Coinbase handles the entire checkout process. It's really no different than checkout with PayPal. Except that it's never in bitcoin at all. Overstock never shows a bitcoin amount due, it's handled entirely at Coinbase's end. And no bitcoins are ever given to Overstock.com, they just get USD from Coinbase directly and the customer is charged the amount in bitcoins that convert to the amount of USD that their order is.

It's a win win for Overstock.com, really, since they don't need to worry about the volatility and instability of bitcoin and only deal in USD but get to look forward-thinking by accepting bitcoin. Yes, they are accepting more risk because Coinbase.com could disappear overnight (FAR more likely than PayPal or Visa disappearing overnight), but they get some advantage for their risk.
There's a lot of libertarian rhetoric, but are actual libertarians really widespread in the Valley? To me it comes across as a loud but very small minority— albeit perhaps also one that's disproportionately represented among those at the very top (perhaps part of why it's so loud). Someone like Peter Thiel might be a libertarian-conservative politically, but the average middle-class techie seems more like a middle-of-the-road to center-left liberal. Silicon Valley politically votes almost exclusively for center-left Democrats, and if it were only up to the region's votes, more funding for the UC system and science/technology research in general (NSF, NASA, etc.) would be easy to pass. Even ideas like a basic income are considerably more popular in the Valley than among the general American public (though a basic income does admittedly fit pretty well into an individual-empowerment worldview).
No worries, we're all mistaken about something on the internet at some point in our lives. Have a great day!
Wow, cool. Thanks for sharing the link! (the code is in English, only the comments are in French)

One rather minor question: Is writing comments or even code in the local language still common in France? Afaik, in most European countries the CS courses are taught in English.
EDIT: Apologies, however I misunderstood at-fates-hands's point of contention, however leave this post just for the neat archive.org links.

What is the "furthest thing from the truth"?

While you selectively chose a generalist front page, how about-

https://web.archive.org/web/20051204033222/http://reddit.com...?

A Ruby post up at number 1. Heck, almost all of the front page is exactly the sort of material you would find on HN.

Another 2005 day -

https://web.archive.org/web/20051230160447/http://reddit.com...?

Another day with four LISP front-pagers - https://web.archive.org/web/20051210015338/http://reddit.com...?

Every post wasn't always about programming specifically, but it was a site primarily populated by programmers and other IT professionals, which is how what would be fringe material topped the front page. But there was the other stuff, just as there is on HN.

Just to make an aside about something I found interesting on the archived reddit page - the header "reddit learns what you like as you vote on existing links or submit your own!". The premise was that Reddit would use clustering and other intelligent logic to individualize itself to the viewer. They abandoned that and went the "subscribe to subs you like" notion.
Sell everything with a tweet (Coming Soon)
I get the same on all test I have done over the years
If someone like Coinbase takes away 95% of the risk, then who cares? They just branded themselves as "forward thinking" and now have a potentially larger customer base (although they don't accept bitcoins if you're shipping internationally).

Also, where is the technology going? Seems to me it's already there. If there are any fatal flaws that pop up, it's a matter of flipping the "accept bitcoin" switch to "off" and calling it a day. I don't see the issue here.
Yes, but then again so do the underlying mysql connections.

It does use native python sockets, so gevent.monkeypatch would probably work.

Blocking is one of the reasons I use flup and fastcgi - it doesn't matter if one thread of execution blocks; it won't affect any other requests. I've tested this under load with some really gnarly queries, and it works fantastically.
I'm guessing that Coinbase monitors the Bitcoin network to detect double spends. A malicious double spender has to broadcast the second transaction very soon after the first. If you're processing Bitcoin transactions, you can just look for a second one. I think the chances of a second transaction succeeding if it's issued 30 seconds or more after the first are pretty low.

You can't spend Bitcoin without the public knowing, and that goes for double spending as well.
4k Ultra Short Throw Projector [Sony]
Aren't unique pointer also scheduled for decommission?
(I'm a Balanced employee)

Sorry if this isn't clear. We don't have separate pricing for credit vs. debit cards. These rates are blended for all card types.
Use high oil prices to invest in renewables and electric vehicle companies with your sovereign oil fund.

High oil prices definitely cause people to adjust their behavior (consider EVs, use public transit,etc [demand destruction]).
+1

We ensure that React is advanced mode compatible and people routinely get pissed at me because I'm a stickler for bytes. But that's because React is a shared core library where it's our job to be small and fast.

When you're building an app, the trade-offs and priorities are different.
Having to work to each day for food and lodging is like slavery in practice? That a preposterous notion.

Whether you live in a desert island, a small village with no water or electricty, or New York, you will still have to face the practical demands of your survival, of which food and lodging are the primary - in the sense that they are the most immediate,- but not your only, concerns. Whether by hunting and killing your own food, or buy buying it from the supermarket, the facts are the same: you have to work for your survival, it is not guaranteed by nature. And for myself,if I may, I take having to work so I can buy my favorite food and drink at the supermarket every day over having to savagely hunt and kill the food I eat.
Processing the poll request certainly has a bit of a CPU/memory/network overhead. Though any sort of keep-alive would require something similar. I'm sure we'll get fancier with WebSockets when we have to rent too many new servers because of this stuff. The simplicity and elegance of overloading the RESTful HTTP system was the most appealing bit for me with this architectural experiment.
I don't put too much belief in the tests, but when all your close friends are INTJ and you're the only ENFP.. the test helps you recognize why you're a little different from the rest of them.
Wow, disappointing. I'd love to hear how this helps searchers.
Why most recruiters suck and what you can do about it
I think some fans of gold don't see the benefits of the network (and network effect) of bitcoin.

That said, if it becomes too much of a liability to store (hackers, taxes, transmission) in the future without the growth, then it'll lose confidence. I feel like any problems with security though would only become a reality when it would hit mass appeal.
Would you consider running a self-starter (as well) to open source it? I could see contributing $100 if it meant the world got a new, quality solution. Maybe there are lots of people like me?
The US has currently about 16% of the workforce unemployed or not looking for a job, 20% is not a lot over that and probably in line with other european countries.

(Here at Brazil that number is smaller, but not a lot either, it's usualy over 10%.)
here is from Russian reddit like community too http://leprocoin.org

2014 will be a year of coins I guess