skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, I appreciate your feedback. Yes, I definitely should not have given anything to four significant figures. I did that without thinking; none of the calculations are precise enough to warrant more than three at most.

I've kept my opinions out of this discussion so far, but I definitely agree with what you say about the test. While the MBTI undoubtedly indicates something, its utility and validity are questionable. It's interesting for novelty value, but that's about it.

I'm definitely in the same boat as you: at various times over the past 5 years or so I have scored as INTP, ENTP and ISTP, so in both our cases, test-retest reliability is an issue. (I didn't take the test yesterday, because at this point I feel I'm too familiar with it to answer without bias.)

I make no claims about how valid this analysis is; it's certainly not going to appear in a statistics journal any time soon. I just decided to do it for fun and was surprised by just how drastically different the results are from the general population.
I looked into Go more because of its authors than because of the "Google wave".
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The style / grape type is probably more important than some number. "I like really crisp whites", "I like really thick, fruity (but not too tart) reds", etc. will narrow down a search better than just looking for high ratings.

If you really like steak, you're probably better off with a cabernet sauvignon than a riesling, rating nonwithstanding.
Is it really any weirder than a rating on films or books or music? That is also largely about taste. And there are plenty of competitions and ratings on most kinds of foodstuff (including candy and ice cream), so wine is in no way unique in that respect.
If you apply clockwise force of magnitude N to green gear, you would be applying +N. Which would apply -N to yellow (not +N as you stated), +N to blue, -N to red, and +N to green again, thus rotating the gears. You obviously have a better understanding of this than I do, but you must be explaining some part of this equation incorrectly.
That might be good fun at Thanksgiving or a holiday party. I think it would be important to restrict by type, though (at least for the whites, not so knowledgeable about the reds).

Also, a comment for the OP: If you get the print version of the WSJ, this article appeared just two pages before the regular wine column by the husband/wife team. Sure enough, lots of references to "taste of cranberries", "fruity" etc.
Doesn't mean much unless these people were some kind of wine experts
Damn it, it's all cloudy here, in Eastern Europe.
If people are self-selecting into groups then those groups must have meaning to the people that select into them, mustn't they?
It may be so if they realize that the locking, this time, is not in their favour. Then, the only way to avoid death may be advocating an open internet, where lock-in is less likely.
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>there is no rule that says "technical investing" has to be a suitable way to trade. Fools will always lose on the markets.

Trading on information not available to the whole is generally frowned upon and universally looked upon as unethical.

>It is their job to try to make as much money as possible.

It may be their job but to expect ethics from a company is not out of the norm. It is that attitude that has allowed corporations to become the unethical entities that they have become given they they are not a human entity allowing yourself to be the sacrificial sheep to them only allows them to victimize you more.

If we go back to the founding fathers constructs of a corporation these are items that stick out as distinctly different that what we pimp as the norm for companies today:

--Corporate charters could be promptly revoked for violations of law or for causing public harm.

--The personal assets of corporate shareholders were not protected from the consequences of corporate behavior.

Through the years and lobbying, corporations have eroded these laws as well as others to amass the power to operate above impunity. To state "It is their job to try to make as much money as possible" is to only further victimize yourself. They are directly responsible for payoffs and lobbying that allow them to violate your rights as well as victimize you.

> but I blame the people who gave the money, not the ones who asked for it.

They are the same people, have you seen who is running the fed and being placed as the CEO's of these bailed out entities. It reads like a whos who ove Goldman Sachs alumni.

> I am sure it is not only happening in the oil industry.

It is happening in gold right now.
Probably the biggest problem is the packaging. With produce, you can go to the store, and feel and sniff the wares. If you don't like it, you go to a different store. With wine, you have to wait until you get home with the bottle. And even if you find a good wine, you have no idea if it will be the same year to year, or even a few months later. You have no idea when marketdroids are going to convince the executives to cash in on the name. (Same happens to beer.)

Whole Foods does right by its customers by handing out samples of chosen wines. I like being able to taste before I buy!
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Too bad this didn't get a lot of attention, I think there are some great sales tips on this article and the people starting companies here could benefit a lot from those.
The thing is he's strictly a popularizer of flattering stuff. It's all designed to make his bourgeois readership feel like they have special insights, or feel good about themselves. One would think a lot of uncomfortable truths or null results (common sense or the experts are actually right) would come up, but they never do.
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To paraphrase and invert Tolstoy: Rotgut wines are all alike; Every really good wine is good in its own unique way.
Spaceweather.com can tell you when the ISS and other bright satellites are going to be passing overhead.

http://spaceweather.com/flybys/
The strategy I've always employed is to pay no more than $6-9 unless it's a special varietal. Some of the best wines I've ever had were South American bought as one-offs for $10-15 though much of the enjoyment came from the novelty. Much better than honing your pallet to the taste of expensive wine is to learn to pair wines with food. Learn what varietals you like and then play with foods spicy, sweet, and sour. The most enjoyment from wine comes from learning how the tastes combine and change wildly.

Pairing wine is a game of combinatorics. The tricks tend to be to maximize the number of other flavors you can try with your wine. In this way, you can transform a single bottle into 3 or more different flavors. Some tricks:

Bread, cheese, and wine is a common thing but don't go overboard on the bread. Much of the time the heavy starch is going to wipe out the flavors. Invest in more variety in the wines and cheeses.

Spice comes in many, many varieties (from peppercorn to bright red ground cayenne, to Chinese sichuan pepper) and each one often has a different reaction with wines.

Steak and wine is a great combination because well-prepared meats have tons of interesting flavors thanks to the "maillard reaction". Sausages are a particularly good choice.
They're decidedly NOT objective questions. M-B is deliberately built to be non-judgemental. All answers to a good test will be equally "right".
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Your comment is making me think that maybe I should find a way to get more community input before doing my interviews so I can improve my research.

Having said that, on the day I did my interview, I don't think the ads that Gambit/Zynga/others ran were considered scams. Facebook itself didn't have a problem with them and respected investors like Fred Wilson didn't object either.

Even the HN community (which is quick to point out what I miss) didn't call the business a scam when I ran my interview. Perception in this industry changed after the TC article. Industry standards changed after that.

What's considered right in an industry often changes. If you listen to my interview with Matt Mullenweg, you'll hear him say that the way he promoted Wordpress in the early days might be considered spam today.

Industry standards change.

Give my work another try akamaka. I keep improving it based on feedback like yours.

And give Chipotle another try. It's really good.
I have one of each. There is no comparision--verizon wins hands down in chicago.
http://scienceblogs.com/pontiff/2009/11/igon_value_problems....
Well, with beer, it's much cheaper to get a variety of singles. After my wife and I did that a couple times, we had a very clear idea what styles we like. (And that we prefer beer to wine.)

Incidentally, West Michigan is one of the best places in the US for craft ales. There's Founders (http://www.foundersbrewing.com/founders/), Bell's (http://www.bellsbeer.com/), and the Hopcat (http://hopcatgr.com/main/About.aspx), for starters. :)
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I think Myers and Briggs would argue that the test is a reflection of how you see yourself. If you get different results, it's because how you see your personality has changed. I've tested differently in the past, but as I've gotten older, I pretty consistently come up with INTP. I think that's because I know my personality better by now.

At the end of the day, all that matters is how you view your own personality. The test is just a way to try to pry that data out of your brain.
Different kinds of wines pair well with different kinds of food. Thus the intricate details of notes, nose, et cetera. It's usually only something the sommelier of a nice restaurant need worry about - pairing with the entrees well. Most of us just should just wonder if it tastes good or not :)
Bear in mind that this is psychology we're talking about here. There are always going to be complications and areas that are fuzzy and undeterminable. That's just the nature of the beast.
For Roma, there's an interesting session report (http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/443836). (Though rather geeky.)
A similar contest for 5 brands of Tequila (plus a shot of vodka, for the distracted) was done at the Telluride Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop. The outcome was also surprising: second-cheapest Tequila was rated highest by the audience.
Take a look at: http://www.thefunded.com/
Six broad principles that unpack the meaning of "don't be evil"
"Trading on information not available to the whole is generally frowned upon and universally looked upon as unethical."

Well did they? Also I don't see how a company could do otherwise - the public can never know as much about a company as the company itself.

"Corporate charters could be promptly revoked for violations of law or for causing public harm."

You sound as if corporations stand outside of the law. I don't think that is true today.

"To state "It is their job to try to make as much money as possible" is to only further victimize yourself."

I happen to believe that to strive for "winnings" is actually what stabilizes a complex system like the economy.

How did they violate my rights - if they do so, naturally they should be punished. But it is the democratically elected government that creates the laws, not the corporations.

If the laws are wrong, blame the government. But first also prove the companies are breaking the law before you universally accuse them of being the root of all evil.
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In my case, I run Google searches on people's names, and there is a link shown to a [person's name] review of [book] on Goodreads, only the person in question has never posted a review of that book! There is no such content by that person on Goodreads. I definitely know that in the case of my own name, which I check by ego-surfing once in a while to see what people are putting up on the Internet about me. I've seen some other spammers over the years that have been removed from the Google directory, and it looks like Goodreads will have to be the next site to get that treatment.
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Am I to take the downvotes to mean we like to undermine the credibility of people by saying things like "...who is best known for his belief that black people are intellectually inferior to white people" before we address the actual data?

It's cute, yeah, but it's also fallacious argumentation. Even if the smear is true, which Galdwell doesn't substantiate, it's not relevant to the data. He points out why the data is weak--and that part is fine--my issue was with his extraneous ad hominem.

But apparently here on HN, ad hominems are a-ok, as long as they are clever and make for a good read, right?
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IBM does Venture capital without the capital
I guess that the RIAAs of the world will be suing bittorrent users now that there isn't anyone else to sue.
The related news link

http://www.usnews.com/articles/health/living-well-usn/2009/1...

from the magazine editors answers many of those questions, and provides information about a source that will answer all of them.
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The Pacific Northwest was marvelous for great, innovative microbrew when I lived there in the early 90's.

Cool, those guys are still around!
http://maritimebrewery.ypguides.net/
Theres that too. To be honest, I'm a little disappointed. I expected them to come up with something amazingly awesome... Ah, we'll see how things pan out. But if it gains any traction, I still think its because of Google hype.
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This is one of my pet peeves. I can't figure out any way to find good wine outside of personally sampling it. Ratings don't work, and price only has a rough correlation to quality. My current system is to buy a random sampling of low-mid priced wines and when I find a good one, buy a case.
> Then you can set the catch all address, and for every website you need an email address for, you use <website>@<yourdomain>.com (eg amazon@example.com and msdn@example.com.

I do exactly that, BUT with one critical difference:

I once had a catch-all address set up for everything@example.com, but I got lots of spam to random made-up addresses. I now use everything@sub.example.com, and I don't see any spammers making up addresses within my subdomain.

Where this unfortunately breaks down seriously is those sites that require you to log in with an email address, and require you to share that login with other people. Especially paypal -- I get spam to my paypal address, because anyone I've ever bought anything from on ebay knows that address. And there is no way to both use that service and keep my email private. There's a variety of similar sites out there.
Or, in Haskell rather than Erlang, something like Happstack: http://happstack.com/
Misleading title. TPB is not dead; it just isn't a tracker anymore.
when large numbers participate we start to uncover some truth.

Only true when the large numbers are representative of the whole population because the sample is random, as any elementary statistics textbook will point out, and as I pointed out in the previous thread: This kind of voluntary response poll would have exactly NIL value in answering the question that appears to be asked here, which is, what Myers-Briggs types are there on HN? The people who come forward to answer the poll are not a random sample of the tens of thousands of people who read HN.

http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=194473&tsta...

http://aurora.wells.edu/~srs/Math151-Fall02/Litdigest.htm

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5168/

A response group can be ever so large, but if that group was not randomly selected, there is no particular reason to suppose that it accurately represents the population of interest.
In the last 1100 years, only 18 have erupted. And the terrain of Iceland means the direct threat is minimal: keep your datacenter away from the plate boundary parts of Iceland, and then you only have to worry about toxic clouds every few hundred years. If a company is really saving hundreds of millions over a few years or decades, they can afford to have the datacenter run remotely or sealed off from the outside atmosphere.
This looks like a very convenient, cheap way of accelerating page loads in Rails. Now if I can hack this to work with nanoc or webgen, it would make my day.
There are also a number of Twitter bots that can alert you to ISS passes: http://twitter.com/abovelondon (disclaimer: I wrote that one: only for London, but is weather-aware), http://orbitingfrog.com/blog/over-twitter/ (more cities), http://twitter.com/twisst (works anywhere).
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Maybe the underlying figures that are claimed for the general population are just wild-ass guesses, and there is no "overrepresentation" at all on the Internet. The other replies already posted to your post suggest other possibilities too.
There's little risk of volcanic catastrophes in Reykjavík according to geologists.
Forgive me, I read the article I just know little about BitTorrent. So people can still add torrents and they will work for others, it just uses a decentralized solution to find peers rather than asking TPB's tracker? So, nothing is really changing except the way your client is working?
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The idea is to allow people to upload their video, which is then displayed on 3 huge screens in Dublin city centre (Ireland, each one is the size of most shopfronts). Any feedback, comments, suggestions? Its been running for 3 days now, and content submissions are just beginning to pick up.
Theres a version 2 of the website going to go live in the next few days, so I would love some feedback so I can work in anything badly needed before then.
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copyright infringement is awesome!
If that's the case, then it defeats the entire purpose of the test. It's not a personality test anymore, it's a self-image test. The idea of a personality test is to dig below your self-image to get a picture of what your 'innate personality' is. Whether they're successful at doing this is another story, but that's the idea.
It's "release early, release often" but I guess it doesn't matter much.

Speaking as a former founder of a video games company, I think that this kind of thinking is inherent to the entire industry and it is killing it. The inspiration clearly comes from the movie industry where admittedly, you don't make a movie in small iterations. As it stands now, triple-A titles have to make it to the top ten to be profitable due to extreme development costs which drives up marketing prices which in turn drives up the price of the games to the consumer. This spiral is really bad for the industry. I think that indie and small developers will take over most of the market because they do much smaller and more frequent releases.
but the end result (INTJ) seems to fit well to me when reading the description. This could just be that I haven't read the other descriptions and am bending it to fit to myself subconsciously though.

Yes. It is very likely that once you have gone through what appears to be a laborious procedure to generate a description, you will accept whatever description comes out of that procedure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forer_effect

http://www.skepdic.com/forer.html
Meh, who cares. I'm surprised it (the tracker) lasted as long as it did really. Anyway, the majority of pirates I know appear to have moved or be moving on to the likes of megaupload and rapidshare and such anyway, it seems.

I don't really care for TPB, I don't think it provided anything useful for me. Bittorrent is a useful tool for sharing things like isos, but I don't need TPB for that.
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This is what the screens look like

http://www.flickr.com/photos/seanodonnell/4106843248/

What also might be of interest is they are actually displaying a webpage that uses html5 ogg video.
I wonder if they check for anything else if it counts as a violation of ones privacy.
Did our official HN Idea website go down?
For an extra treat, look just before or after the shuttle visits. You can watch them both moving in unison. STS-129 is up now, but I haven't found the time when they will be docking and undocking.

As long as you are looking at http://www.heavens-above.com/, try to find yourself a -5 to -8 Iridium flare.
This is far beyond any self selection bias.

That remains to be demonstrated with respect to "HN readers," because the group of people who responded to the online poll are very likely not a representative subset of HN readers in general.

Response groups can number in the millions and still be biased by self-selection. There are well known historical examples taught in any good elementary statistics class.

http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=194473&tsta...

http://aurora.wells.edu/~srs/Math151-Fall02/Litdigest.htm

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5168/
Scratch, Squeak and other similar environments follow the leading of Seymour Papert and his Logo language:

low threshold and no ceiling

For that they are different, and for that they are interesting.
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I guess it depends on location. I'm lucky: In Philadelphia AT&T gets reception in places Verizon doesn't, so I can place calls on the subway. But the Northeast is an AT&T hotspot; I've never had the opportunity to take this phone any place tricky.
If people are self-selecting into groups then those groups must have meaning to the people that select into them, mustn't they?

People are responding to individual items, one item at a time, in an unvalidated test. Then they see a group characteristic description and the Forer effect (the fallacy of personal validation) leaves them convinced their answers to the unvalidated questions led to new information, which is the issue that still needs to be demonstrated by a validation study.
Which might not be too bad. Even it Go lags behind the cutting edge, it may still be an improvement on industry standards. Java was also heavily pushed by Sun --- and while I don't like it, I guess it's memory management is still an improvement over C++.
You might be interested in a similar poll done a couple years back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=204240
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Often, the majority of the resources (css, background images…) is required for rendering any page. So I don't think it will be a problem most of the time, and fits their 80-20 goal.
Pirates aren't going anywhere. One site shuts down, 5 more pop up. It's an impossible game of whack-a-mole. This isn't a statement in favor of or against copyright infringement, it's a simple fact.
Learning how to program is a lifetime journey, it is not something that you do in a couple of weeks or months, but it is possible to learn enough of a particular environment that you can use to get to a level of being able to do something moderately useful.

There isn't a book so 'dumbed down' that you don't learn anything from the only thing that you will see then is that it will be something that you can go through relatively fast. At worst it will give you the confirmation that you already knew it all :)

I'm not into ruby so I can't tell you what books to look at, but elsewhere in this thread there are some good suggestions and some people that are willing to hook up with you, so I think you'll be alright.