skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is actually in line with the Myers-Briggs philosophy though. The idea is that people are their "own best judge" of their personality.
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Yup, I've found that as well. For example, here's a poll of 4chan's /jp/:

http://i36.tinypic.com/3011z11.png

It matches up surprisingly well with HN, except that (perhaps as expected) the results are 97% I.
The article also states that these companies intentionally held oil back. Storing millions off-shore in tankers or in storage to simulate demand.

It was a good read.

My Dad (an accountant who used to work in the city and used to be head treasurer of a FTSE 100 company) was of the opinion that the rush into trading futures was a bad idea.
Maybe NT types are 7 times more likely to take M-B personality tests when offered them. I didn't take the test either.
So this is why my "free electron" post was so popular here but nowhere else: http://jasonmbaker.com/the-free-electron-programmer
Brown's text was longer, but he credits it as Forer's idea originally (in his book 'Tricks of the Mind' p322)
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It's online food delivery site. It gets orders from customers, routes back to the restaurant and gets a cut from the process. Basically it's a middleman.
Ask HN: Guido van Rossum's comment about go and scratch
I just read this cryptic comment by Guido van Rossum on Twitter: http://twitter.com/gvanrossum

"For all its flaws, I find Scratch (http://scratch.mit.edu/) a more interesting new language than Go (http://golang.org/)"

Go is presented as a systems language for experts; scratch looks like it was designed for kids to learn programming. Can they be compared?
"they had the audacity to lobby for a bail out,"

It is their job to try to make as much money as possible. I find it more troublesome that they actually got the money - but I blame the people who gave the money, not the ones who asked for it.

As for the technical investors: there is no rule that says "technical investing" has to be a suitable way to trade. Fools will always lose on the markets.

If round trading is illegal, those companies should be punished. If it isn't, traders simply have to take it into account.

I am sure it is not only happening in the oil industry.
Even marketing - vapid crapola though it often may be - has to try a little bit and maintain at least a superficial veneer of sincerity and substance in order to work.
http://scratch.mit.edu/

http://golang.org/

http://twitter.com/gvanrossum
I have to question some of the questions, like this one:
"37. Often you prefer to read a book than go to a party"

So, the question seems to be finding out if you like to do stuff on your own, rather then going to a party, but it mentions something specific: a book

My answer: Well, no. I don't like reading books that much. However, I prefer reading hacker news, rock climbing, programming, designing, working on some music, etc.... But I wouldn't read a book over going to a party.
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Another point is they think that if one company has a low price on some thing it can go even lower. Furthermore, they think they should get lower prices for all other products, too.
It is fascinating that you say you don't understand how something could be possible and that you are weary of articles that blame X for everything and yet you can't be bothered to spend 10 minutes to read an entire article.

It shouldn't be so hard to see that a round trip trade where one firm sells a commodity to another and then buys it right back at the exact same price would have some sort of influence on the market. If it did not, what would be the point of such a trade? A large enough group of firms could effectively support whatever price they wanted assuming the market was reasonably rational.

Because the underlying asset never changes hands, the pricing is naturally suspect. Futures trading in an non-manipulated market is far from riskless but if you can manipulate the market over the short term of the contract (say 6-18 months), it certainly can be effectively riskless.

There are many more points of interest in the article that you were unwilling to read but very willing to comment on.
I'm not sure how adding volume to a dark pool will muddy the water - no one will see it. That's the point of a dark pool.

I suspect the article is simply mischaracterizing a repo agreement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repurchase_agreement
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"The article also states that these companies intentionally held oil back. Storing millions off-shore in tankers or in storage to simulate demand."

That is not illegal afaik. It is just economics textbook 101, and last I heard the general consensus among economists is that trying to create artificial shortages does not work in the long run. Also the oil producers have tried to artificially shorten supply for decades, with little success (that is why OPEC was formed).

Storing oil away also carries risk: if oil is short, people look for alternatives (saving energy, alternative energy sources, and so on). So the oil you stowed away loses it's value, the longer you store it. I remember reading recently about some oil producing nations to deliberately sell MORE oil to avoid their clients looking for alternatives.

It also is not a scam: you can not simply store oil somewhere, first you have to buy it. Why wouldn't you be allowed to do what you want with the oil you bought?
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I don't read anything from Guido, so I don't know how he thinks, but I would interpret this as meaning that he doesn't see anything new and exciting in Go, but that he does in Scratch. That alone forms a comparison. A programming language that kids could actaully learn that would let them make web games that they could share with their friends definitely seems like it would be cool. What does Go offer that we can't already do?
I imagine he thinks that Scratch has more interesting and compelling features as a language that tried to do new things than Go does. I personally found Go to be very underwhelming and think that if it wasn't riding the Google wave (pun kinda intended), nobody would give it a second look. Theres simply more interesting languages out there (and, in its own way, Scratch is more interesting to me and seemingly to Guido. Hell, you can even do concurrent programming in Scratch :-P)
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It's limited to sixteen personality types and most have trouble picking just one so I think it's fairly useless.

I can be extremely charming, I like being outgoing in large groups, and a friend of mine said I was probably the most popular person in high school. I also dislike most people so I spend a lot of time online. I can be extremely rational and I have little problems programming computers, but I often make irrational decisions on a whim because I trust my subconscious way to much.

So, I don't know am I an introvert or an extrovert, rational or irrational? I honestly don't know and I don't think picking one is important because they don't tell me something I don't already know.
"It shouldn't be so hard to see that a round trip trade where one firm sells a commodity to another and then buys it right back at the exact same price would have some sort of influence on the market. If it did not, what would be the point of such a trade? "

Please explain then, how could it influence the price? Maybe it can fool some "technical traders", but that would hardly be a sustainable trillion dollar market? By shifting the stuff around, they don't change the supply or the demand, so what use is it?

I can see how it is useful for their accounting tricks, but that is a very old trick. I would have expected traders to adapt to that scheme by now.
I don't see it as cryptic. He just said "it's a toy".
Also: oranges are way better than apples
You can chart the damage done by Goldman Sachs and
their gang of thieves by looking at commodity pricing
pre- and post-ICE. Before ICE, commodities followed a more
or less normal growth path that matched global GDP...

Funny that, many investors think that global commodities boom since 2000 has been triggered by the Fed dropping interest rates close to zero about that time to avoid post-internet-bubble recession.

Combine that with some famous central bank character wanting to drop money from helicopters to avoid the US sliding into Japan-like deflation...

Combine that with China and the Pacific region starting to emerge as economic powerhouse about that time...

And you can send any European pension fund shivering from anticipation of collapsing dollar (and value of their treasury holdings) and scrambling to protect themselves by buying commodity index swaps. The demand was there and Goldman Sachs (and other smart/hard working banks) obliged and engineered as many commodity-linked instruments as possible, supported by as much liquidity as they can create.

Commodities boom of past several years is simply an implicit devaluation of the dollar. Commodities supply is more or less fixed. Chinese industrial growth has been between 10 and 25% since 2000 (affecting world demand for commodities/energy). US dollar interest rates have been somewere around 2% on average since then, and credit growth was massive (dollars are still plentiful in these times of 'stimulus').

How would the author explain gold breaking $1100 this week (up from under $300 in 2000)?

You can blame this currency collapse on the 'gang of thieves' or on the US monetary authorities, or simply on the historical trends. I won't care that much, but the article author is obviously an ignorant populist.
Perhaps it has something to do with the kind of person who enjoys interacting via little snippets of plain text on a screen.

Merely reading and writing are "odd" activities. Humans aren't born knowing how to do them (unlike, say, walking or talking) and not all humans enjoy them in the same way.
You probably aren't reading this thread anymore but in case you do:

You can buy mugs that have a french press built in - see http://www.amazon.com/Planetary-Design-Commuter-Double-Shot-...

I have a similar though cheaper version of one of these and it's pretty good.
Repo agreements (the sell and then buy later at the same price contract) allow market makers to add liquidity to the market without facing a price risk. They also allow commodity holders to obtain short term financing for other investments.

If you have oil you are holding for the long haul, but want to engage in a short term investment requiring cash, you do a repo. You enter into a repo agreement, sell the oil, invest the cash you get, cash out and rebuy the oil at a fixed price.

Incidentally, if you want to criticize repos, your first target should be the Fed, who issues more repos/reverse repos than Goldman Sachs.
Will check those games. Of course if the trading part is your favorite aspect of Catan, the card game is not for you.

I think before Catan I already new that trading element from the Civilization board game (which is great, too - but rather geeky).
Would anybody be interested in sharing the results of the Gallup's "Now Discover Your Strengths" results? Maybe a few of us also have results on that.
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The work you've done is interesting and I appreciate it, but it's really nothing more than a "precise estimate of a wild ass guess".

I have tested as INTJ many times before, but yesterday my result was ESFJ. Go figure. I've been a programmer all my life and I have the classic personality. All I did was answer their questions. I remember thinking that many of my answers could have easily gone either way. Maybe if I took it today (which isn't a Monday), some answers would be different. I have no idea why the result would vary so much.

You are doing analysis to 4 significant digits of work based upon the appropriateness of questions with no significant digits. You've built a concrete structure on top of quicksand. Nice job, but I really don't think it means much.
Cool. I wish the trackpoint was available on any of the split keyboards...
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while I agree and I really don't see that there's any chance of any disruptive change happening to the web, it's also saying a lot that this article is posted on the website of a company that sells HTTP load balancers.

You see? Either SPDY is quick enough to not require them any more (unlikely) or (more likely) they are not interested in the huge development ahead of them should SPDY pick up (which it won't).
From what I remember about the MBTI test is that an introvert will prefer activities that do not involve other people. So even if you don't particularly enjoy reading books the general discomfort of being in a party will outweight your lack of enthusiasm for reading.

In a well administered test though, one of these questions shouldn't significantly impact the final outcome as other questions with different wording will also be used to help gauge your disposition.
"What does Go offer that we can't already do?"

Careful saying this around computer scientists, or you might get an earful about Turing machines, etc.

But in any case, isn't Go meant to be a replacement for C and C++? At first glance, Scratch does not seem to fill that niche, so Guido's comment seems a non-sequitur to me.
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This, plus the fact that some places in Europe already have a fledgling electric car infrastructure makes me think that US has been left almost a decade behind as far as green-energy technology goes. Granted we do have solar panel companies and US auto makers do have plans for electric cars, but it doesn't seem to be anywhere on the same scale as other developed countries.
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Also Google docs is years away from catching up with Office, particularly excel.
A good friend teased her husband for spending only $7 for a bottle of wine in a facebook status post. So I bet her I would eat a cork if she could consistenly tell the difference. I won.

We held a blind taste test for 12 people with 14 wines ranging from 3.99 to $50. For each variety, there was one wine that was under $7 and one that was $11-50. We bought most, but not all, of the wine at Trader Joes. Participants had to guess if each wine was 'cheap' or 'expensive.' No one got more than 8 right. Aside from guessing the price category, people rated how much they liked the wine from 1-5 so they could see what they liked after the reveal. A 50 dollar Cabernet was one of the lowest rated.

This 3.99 bottle had the 2nd highest rating:

http://cheapwineratings.com/2008/04/10/villa-cerrina-montepu...

Highest rated was a 6.99 Pinot Noir whose name escapes me at the moment. I don't claim the results necessarily prove anything about the wider world, except that my friends have been overspending on wine.
Man, this is a killer! I wish I had known that. Wish, wish, wish. Over the years I've poured hundreds of thousands of dollars down the toilet only to find that the customer had other objections (price/our size/whatever) rather than just pure feature objections.
Well, if you're in the wine trade and have to sell a wine from the Foo winery it would be 100 times easier if you said it's a 90pt Robert Parker. The customer would know that regardless of the winery it would be an exceptional wine.
Record labels aren't any more or less evil than VC firms.

This may or may not be true, but at this point I'd say that record labels are less necessary than VC firms.
Maybe the results aren't significant to full 4-digit precision and maybe individuals participating didn't test to their full true "type" ... but when large numbers participate we start to uncover some truth. It's nice to see the analysis.
I'm trying to use the feedback to improve my work. Before reading HN feedback, I didn't realize how important transcripts are to people. Now I try to add them to every interview.

Thanks to a few private message that I got from HN'ers, I even figured out how to use Mechanical Turk to get transcripts that are faster and cheaper than I can get anywhere else (though, admittedly it's not a perfect system).
What are "sprints"?
This indeed is a fine critique here. Thanks for your points. Actually this story was written some time back and I pulled it out of my backups just in the hope of getting something out of it. To tell the truth I could have done better if I would have written it now. But I would have indeed retained some of those mistakes you pointed out. I would make it a point not to repeat it the next time.
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Very valid point, but returning the name calling isn't the answer.
I've had very good results simulating an in-memory database with conventional RDBMS's by simply running the databases with a high ratio of physical memory to data - on the order of 128GB of memory for a 500GB database.

The advantage is that COTS applications work as is, you don't need to wait for researchers to dream up something new, you don't need to re-write an application to use the latest fashion in database technology, and most importantly, poor design & poor coding can be papered over with fast logical I/Os (in memory).

In conventional databases configured with high memory->data ratios, we don't have traditional I/O bottlenecks on database reads. Hence I've made a simple decision - that it is cheaper to add memory (even expensive memory) than it is to build a disk I/O subsystem that can handle equivalent I/O.

Transaction writes are still a potential I/O issue though.
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And not just a "toy", but an "inferior toy". Also: no way! Bananas are better.
There is not much industry organizations in IT. Small shops should found stuff.
Perhaps what he's trying to say is that he's more interested in making programming more interesting and accessible for 1000 more children than he is in making an application able to scale up to 100,000 more users.
Via Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_%28software_development%...

But in this context he means after the conference working with other attendees in sprints on things probably mentioned during the conference. Advantages being that generally many of the devs you will work with at these conferences are "experts" in their fields.

( Edit: That wikipedia article actually references these type of sprints as well. )
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Smalltalk was designed for kids. Kids actually program in it.

http://www.squeakland.org/

But we (Smalltalkers) didn't get around to building and promoting a web sharing infrastructure for them, so good on the Scratch people. (Oh, and people have actually done systems programming in Smalltalk!)
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But first, we should get rid of the "A" in ADSL. Asymmetric bandwidth is a major contributor of centralization: It makes rapidShare faster than bittorent, and Blogger more convenient than self-hosting, among other things.
the idea of wine ratings seems weird to me.

Everyone has different tastes, different taste buds, how come we don't have any rating systems for candy? or steak? or eggs? or icecream?

This Snickers bar, really brings out the taste of Artificial Red #503
OK, I may have overstated my opinion on this. You can probably say something about people using Myers-Briggs. However I feel weird beeing categorized like that. I am beeing typed as an introvert but I don't see myself as beeing introverted at all. This stuff is too vague and subjective for me to have any meaning (I guess you are gonna type me based on this??).
Wolfram Alpha can plot where it will be at a certain date and time.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=iss+on+november+17th%2C...
Also down for this - I'm handy with Java and Python (have Django experience too), so might be able to chip in with help or advice. Am going to be teaching myself Clojure pretty soon too so if anyone wants to dabble with it let me know! Email in profile
When I lived in Cincinnati, the "Everybody's Cooking" radio talk show was like my "Car Talk" for foodies. One of their soapbox things was wine ratings. They thought it was way too complicated. "C'mon, are you really going to taste the difference between an 88 and an 89!?"

Those two chefs proposed the "Siskel and Ebert" system. Thumbs up/thumbs down. "Do you like it? Do you not like it? It's only fermented grape juice!" They advocated ditching the mysticism and just enjoying it with dinner.
I'd like to think so. But honestly I think it could go either way. Not because of technology but because of society's seeming apathy about the value of liberty.
Ok I read what you have rewritten but found it oddly very very fast paced. May be its just me, I wanted this story to be subtle and a bit slow. That may become clearer why in the second half which has some good pace but I want the effect of the second half to be as subtle. May be the experiment went wrong with the style.
The results vary so much because a fundamental tenet of Myers-Briggs is that Intro/Extroversion and all the other things they claim to measure aren't normally distributed.

It's as if you measured height and had to classify everyone into tall or short because your theory suggests that no-one is average height. Obviously most people are going to be actually hovering around the average but the minor variations in height and measurement combined with an abitrary cutoff mean that one day large chunks of people will be "tall" and the next they'll be "short" and vice versa.

And yet, based on your testing, one day you'll be telling these people they'd be ideally suited to basketball, then next suggesting they become jockeys.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator#Sta...
I'd like to see a non biased comparison between the different VC and angel groups. There seems to be many groups out there making it difficult for a newbie to pick one that suits their needs.
I don't think they can be compared, he appears to be stating a preference (not dismissing go).
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Good Idea.

But what if the user just visit only one page of the website and leaves the page immediately (such as traffic generated from search engines) ? In this scenario, the resource package required for the entire site will be downloaded just for showing one page!
You know, I thought that they were doing somewhat acceptably in my limited experience with 3G... until I spent the weekend in Chicago with '3G' and 'Full' reception. I couldn't make or keep any calls, and the '3G' worked about 1/3 of the time.

Embarrassing to say the least. They work ok where I live now, but I'm likely going to switch away as soon as possible. Damn iPhone...