skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to back up this point by saying that Apple stopped developing Apple Shake years ago promising a new replacement for it, one that has never been released. No, Motion is not it.

Why would they buy out Nothing Real, sell the product pretty much unchanged for a few years, and then drop it altogether, when it was, at the time, a leading product in its niche?
If you use their Apple-branded case, the little rubber band that goes around the outside edge, does that fix the problem?
Not quite. IE8 is making huge gains in market share, but almost entirely at the expense of IE6 and IE7. The overall IE marketshare is holding somewhat steady at 60%. I think what you're seeing is Windows users are perfectly happy to take an upgrade that Microsoft offers, but either afraid to branch out to a non-MS browser or else just don't know how to do so. Windows 7 shipping with IE8 has a lot to do with it, too, as people buy new laptops, etc, and never touch the browser it comes with.

Reference: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Windows/Microsoft-IE-6-Share-Falls-...

I wish Chrome would take more from IE than it is from FF, but it is good to see IE6 drop so much. It's under 5% now.

Note: these are US numbers. If I recall correctly, the global numbers are shaded a little more non-IE.
Ism Schism
I write reviews under a pseudonym because I either really like the product I purchased (rare) or someone really pissed me off (common, half my textbooks) and I want the entire world to know about it but I don't want it coming back to haunt me. :)
Maybe the mail was in one of those HN excel sheets?
The Boss Is Right
I think Jon Stewart nailed this one (as usual): "You know, I may be a four-star general and you may be a reporter for some hippie magazine, but I feel like I can trust you."
Great post paras!
Is it me, or is actually targetting hackers with a 419 a bit like a buffalo trying to hunt lion?
Reddit open-sources their iPhone app
I don't know because it doesn't seem to be in stock anywhere yet. (An odd mistake on Apple's part, as you certainly want all the accessories to arrive on the day that people buy their phone, otherwise they're much less likely to buy them).
I plan to be there too...
The fact that it has generated debate suggests that any attempt at Internet access control will be micro-examined end to end. Even if rationality and human decency fail to prevail, I trust that bureaucracy will slow things down well enough.
Twitter sure does have issues with stuff like this. I noticed a while back that they were double encoding some strings on output, too - I had an ampersand in my location and it was showing as &amp; on the page.
I have never seen 1/3 of those reasons and I'd wager there is more to the story than is let on. The problem is you see a developer crying foul when we have no idea - and the app may go on to be "fixed" and then approved. Just because someone writes a blog post as soon as they freak out about being rejected doesn't mean they're correct.
You could wrap it in PhoneGap or Titanium if you want to get it in the App Store/Marketplace.

Otherwise, just deploy it to your web server. It would be good to get a nice mobile version of your website.
I was motivated by just how god-awful the ending to the Battlestar Galactica TV series was.
Yeah. It's all fun and games until someone shares an image and it goes to the front page of Reddit.
Hey Dan, here are my thoughts on monetizing Etude better: first is a bookstore model for music publishers; allow them to sell through Etude. Right now, I think you only allow free downloads, right? You've got a walled garden setup thanks to Steve, so there should be very little concern about copying and piracy from the publishers.

Second is opening up the market for piano teachers. One thought - it would be super super cool to have the app recognize what notes you're playing on the piano and mark them. There's an interesting discussion over at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1457228/pitch-recognition... on this.
Either you're not just talking about how we build them or I misunderstand you, because the first thing you said was, "Mathematics is a product of the mind."
wow, just wow. Is it the OS integration that makes people feel like they cant update their browser? Standards change and evolve- sure MS wasnt exactly on the forefront of web standards support but it looks like with IE9 they are actually making an attempt to stay relevant.
I oddly enjoy this.

Anywhere to get longer versions of the Sun's "sound" that are also free of any copy protection? (Sounds odd, I know the sun doesn't copyright it's own sound, but not sure if somehow those going through the trouble to "record" it can?)
Like any hackers don't know that Nigeria itself is a dead giveaway :)
I've written reviews on Amazon; not lots, maybe in the dozens, but far more than I do for other shopping sites.

I think most fundamentally, I find a lot of value in reading Amazon reviews written by others, and I feel like it would be useful for me to write my own reviews. I don't tend to review every product I possibly can, but rather, I usually just write a review if I have something interesting to say, or if I feel very strongly about an item, good or bad.

I like to think by doing this I can help other people make more informed decisions about what to buy.
I'm not advocating piracy, and neither is anyone else here. However, I think you should be more realistic towards it and realize that it's not such a big deal. Casual non-commercial private copying of stuff probably doesn't hurt anyone. You shouldn't do it, but if someone does, it doesn't equal a lost sale for the creator.

And, to return to the original article, I'm convinced that dealing with it in this heavy-handed way, by adding more legislation, more law enforcement, isn't the right way. And I don't think it helps you or me as creators.

(I also wish people would stop downvoting you just because they disagree, that's really not the HN way. :-/ )
I've never donated any money to them, but I guess I accidentally donated some mindshare when I wasn't looking.
Attack of the cosmic rays: Undetected memory errors can happen to you
No, FRF83 has been published only as an update from FRF50 (using the link above) or from FRF72 using http://android.clients.google.com/packages/passion/signed-pa....

If you are running the stock Android 2.1 image, you'll receive an over-the-air update whenever Google deems it ready for general release. Or you can update your phone now to FRF50 or 72 and then to 83.
Setting up your RealIdentity is easy, as your computer (MacOS 15 or ChromeOS7 and higher) will automatically connect...

Hmmm...no mention of Microsoft. Does this mean I'll have to upgrade from ie6/xp before 2025?
That Piracy thing again  (debunking the arguments)
Just because Palin would be worse doesn't mean that we can't acknowledge the fact that Biden could be much better than he is now.
I suspect that most reviews are pissed off customers that are simply looking for an emotional outlet. I am actually amazed that so many products on Amazon have a high rating.

Amazon could probably increase reviews 10 fold by creating an incentive program (e.g., coupon codes for reviewing products).

Or, though it's a little spammy, I wouldn't be opposed to receiving a Netflix/Ebay style email a few weeks after I order a product asking for me to give a star rating on it.
Apple has a history of skating to where they think the puck will be.

And a history of being right -- exactly what the shareholders would want.
The fact that we have to rely on the nature of bureaucracy scares me. It shows that rationality and human decency are failing.

I do not believe that current attempts to control internet access and content are being micro-examined end to end.
Hypothetically...

The memo would certainly kill morale at most places I've been. The corrective actions being asked for are completely wrong.. but this is aimed at middle management.

Read the beginning of the memo - not the end. If the parking lot is largely empty at 8am and at 5pm..... and workers are expected to work a standard 40 hour week, that's an indication that something might be wrong.

One can also assume that if the organization was functioning correctly and middle management was doing it's job - the CEO wouldn't give a rat's a about the parking lot - because he'd have the metrics in front of him to say "Damn, that KC facility is doing awesome! Every other facility should be learning from these guys.". Instead, something prompted him to feel that the place was slacking, and seeing an empty parking lot at 8am AND 5pm is a pretty good indication that people aren't even putting in minimal working hours. Fair enough. (And if he's completely wrong - middle management should be able to manage upwards correctly and explain to him why he's wrong, why everyone is car-pooling and why the metrics and results are best-of-class, so he should just back off)
We don't like to talk about the great MicroPocalypse of 2015... dark days... Let's think happy thoughts instead! ;)
Adult language acquisition is a really weird problem.

tl;dr: Plenty of adults actually _can_ learn foreign languages if they put in the hours, though few have sufficient dedication. But maybe not everyone.

First, some background on my own experience: I started learning French a little about 2.5 years ago, past the age of 30. I can read non-fiction books in French, and about half the articles in Le Monde. Right now, I'm only studying French a few minutes a day, to maintain my knowledge while working on my startup. Later on, I'll go back to several hours of study a day. (I'm currently at ~350 hours of cumulative study.)

Here are some of things I've noticed about adult language learning:

1) You can be an enormously gifted language learner with no skill for accents. Alexander Arguelles, for example, has a extremely high degree of fluency in at least 6 languages, a solid command of another 12, and conversational abilities in many more. But his accents are generally terrible. In contrast, I have a decent ear for accents, and some people are amazingly gifted.

2) Learning a foreign language is a beastly amount of work: 250 hours for conversational ability (if you're gifted), 1000 or 2000 for moderate fluency, and several thousand more to get really good. Basically, if you're an adult and you're not fully immersed in the foreign language, it requires the kind of dedication you'd need to run a startup. Most people don't seem to have that kind of dedication.

3) It's possible to gain fluency in a foreign language past the age of 65. Google "Steve﻿ Kaufmann, polyglot", for example, who's still going strong. And there's a Japanese guy who picked up Chinese and Korean after 65, and who has started on French around the age of 100.

4) There is _some_ kind of declining neural plasticity, at least for some people. It's a truism that virtually every single 5-year-old gains fluency in the language spoken by their peers. But as people get older, a smaller portion of the population succeeds in learning a foreign language. And past 20, there will almost always be small defects that mark you as a (highly fluent) foreigner and not a native.

So if you're interested, and willing to pay a steep price in time and effort, you might as well go for it. I'd be happy to write up a post explaining how to make best use of your first 250 hours of study, if people are interested.
Is Apple focused on servers anymore? Is Xserve relegated to a back burner but still profitable? That may be your bellwether.
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This isn't really a 419. It sounds to me like the guy honestly wants Gabriel's help -- not as a sucker, but genuinely as a partner. He believes that Gabriel has skills that the bad guy can use to steal other people's money.

Of course, he might very well turn around and cut Gabriel out of his cut of the loot, but it looks at this stage like he wants a partner in crime.
>NOT "I don't like serif fonts".

The person who criticized the article for that isn't going to see this comment. Don't write manifestos defending yourself to the general public, reply to specific comments on specific points.

Anything else is a waste of time.
None of the code looks malicious, but I would suggest that if you have a Twitter account and/or are logged into it, don't visit the page because he might be stealing cookies.
I've looked at his profile before, and I kind of remember his email being there. He may have removed it due to the spam.
I find myself motivated by the extremes. Either a product was so fantastic that I felt the need to reward the manufacturer with something more than my money or it was so terrible that I felt the need to get back at the manufacturer for taking my money.
I've written a single Amazon review. I spent hours finding an external USB disk enclosure that would support S.M.A.R.T. and I wanted google to shorten other people's search process.
I find Amazon reviews fascinating for precisely the reason you indicate: they're incredibly widely used, despite not appearing to use many of the psychological tricks you see elsewhere.

I think there are a bunch of reasons Amazon reviews work so well:

1. The audience. If you want your opinion to be heard, posting your review on Amazon is the best way to go - just like selling your stuff on eBay makes sense because that's where the buyers are.

2. The high quality of the existing reviews. They set a standard which new reviews then attempt to match. That's the result of years of careful management of community expectations.

3. The "Top 1000 reviewer" badges. They're relatively subtle as badges go, but offer a powerful incentive for the best Amazon reviewers to keep on reviewing.
My experience with rd.io:

1. A friend offered an invite. I checked out the home page and saw a screenshot on a nexus one and was thankful there was an android client.

2. Registered and found out there was no android client ('coming soon')

3. Realized that my invite was for a 3 day trial and that the monthly cost would be $10.

4. Said 'screw it' and went to play a few songs. more than half of the songs I went to play would just be skipped on my playlist with no explanation.

All in all, a terrible first impression.
And they should have the choice to go with cheaper electrical wire too? Get to choose what kind of materials to use for load bearing beams? No, building codes are not just for the owner/builder's benefit. There are community interests at play when someone is putting in a structure. Usually there are also lender interests at play; i.e. if the owner/builder defaults on the loan used to build, the bank wants to have something that is dependably going to sell.

Sure it can slow down innovation some, but this kind of oversight is definitely needed. Once that is admitted, it is just a discussion of where exactly to draw the line. There was a disagreement in those discussions, so a compromise was used. It gets reviewed regularly and the line can shift as needed when more information is available or the opinions in the disagreement change.
I was under the impression that there was debate because people in general don't trust either big business or the government to police things properly.
EBay Acquires RedLaser To Integrate Barcode-Scanning Into iPhone Apps
2012 (Or The Year We Finally Took Music Back).
> I'm wondering how so many reviews get written on a site like Amazon

I'm sorry to burst your bubble. The well-respected consultancy User Interface Engineering has come up with the magic number of 1 review for every 1,300 purchases.

"While only one in 1,300 purchasers of the product writes a review, the number who indicate a review was helpful is even fewer. For the Harry Potter volume, which is Amazon's best selling product ever, it was about 0.0014% or about one in 7,300 purchasers of the product. The most helpful review garnered only 566 votes, even though it was written on the first day the book was released and Amazon has sold more than 2,000,000 copies since."

http://www.uie.com/articles/magicbehindamazon/
"Nearly"? Off the top of my head, I don't remember anything about Macs at all in the keynote.
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Yep, that definitely seems more likely than him being stupid or ignorant.
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Yes, and I note that many people who are mystified by computers like to talk to them as if they were people.
Apple released iOS 4
How many people have actually received this?
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I don't know why, but I all of a sudden feel like all my private dropbox data is now vulnerable to some form of hack, bug, exploit, malicious script, etc, that turns it all into a public web page.

Sharing with just people I know is one thing, but creating a web page of some of my data is another.

I don't know, it just doesn't feel right.

Dropbox, remember, you're dealing with private files on our personal computers, and one step too far and you're looking at mass exodus. Learn from Facebook. Use caution with new features.
Neuroscientists predict students' behavior better than their self
Search for my down voted response on this page. It refers to another HN post where Steve says Apple will continue to make the best computers in the world, meaning he hasn't lost focus on that market.
For those who want to know more about cosmic rays, Wikipedia is filled with goodness on the subject. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_ray) I was looking for stats on average density per m2 to determine just how prevalent this effect might be in ground-based electronics. It's been a major problem with high-altitude and satellite equipment for a long, long time.
What happens if you just insulate the phone from your hand with any other non-conductive material?
"Why exactly is it bad for people to badmouth their governments or big companies online?"

Funny enough, there's a discussion in our local press these days about the "Press" considered to be a vector of insecurity to government/local agencies (e.g. they badmouth justice for being a mock-up).
Twitter Settles With FTC
Really? The debate is a valid one.

Net Neutrality (forcing telecom companies to relinquish control over their property), is only potentially a valid idea because they hold a government-assisted monopoly. They receive government subsidies and have specific permission to lay down fiber-optic cable.

If these were totally independent companies that existed and thrived without the aid of government, appropriating their property for the public would be illegal and immoral.
He has two accounts, one English, one Russian. The tweets are the same.

http://twitter.com/KremlinRussia
http://twitter.com/KremlinRussia_E
I got my Sony PRS-300 (no WiFi or 3G) for $115 from Woot, and I love it (never thought I'd buy, or like, an e-reader). So, why pay for a Nook or Kindle? When I'm out-and-about with my reader I'm, shock of all shocks, reading with it (not buying more books).

Thoughts?
By inferential statistics, are you referring to confidence intervals and tests for significance, or is there more to it than that?
I can personally attest to the fact Celery is pretty awesome, and a nice compliment to your Django app. The author - Ask is also doing some awesome things with multiprocessing in general - check out http://pypi.python.org/pypi/billiard/
Not everyone who buys a copy even bothers to read the review. If it's a book that the customer already knows they want (which is probably often the case with the Harry Potter books), why read the review? Just buy the book.

And I know that I for one usually don't upvote a review, even if I did find it helpful. I don't mean to be intentionally rude, I just somehow haven't gotten in the habit of doing that. So the number of votes on a review isn't an indication of the number of people who found the review helpful, but rather, the number of people who both found the review helpful and took the time to vote it up.

That said, yes, Amazon's immense customer base makes even tiny percentages of users contributing out to be useful. But they weren't always so large. I've heard that the main way they became the prominant online bookseller was precisely because they offered a review mechanism, at a time when other online bookstores did not, or offered a more feeble review system. Since it's so easy to add a nice review system to an online store today, that feature alone won't be enough anymore.
Are you a lawyer that's familiar with DMCA issues?
A better method is to add the Webmin repo to your repository list. This allows you to update using apt along with your other software. Webmin has it's own built-in update mechanism, but I find it easier to automate when everything works with your package manager.

Very simple instructions are included on the Webmin website:

http://www.webmin.com/deb.html
Scientists are supposed to know better than this.

Maybe we shouldn't suppose so much.
A large number of reviewers on Amazon are rewarded for good reviews by publishers sending them free stuff.

That's what an Amazon engineer told me: the real name program and the top 1000 badges were designed to encourage this, even though it creates a reward for very shallow, positive reviews.
It's completely possible that:

- it only affects some units

- some people are exhibiting superstitious behavior (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._F._Skinner#Superstition_in_t...)

- some combination of the two
OK, it sounds as if we're both agreed about piracy being bad.

Re: control of distribution, for large budget films, unfortunately, the people who fund them want to limit the 0-day release to cinemas - as they find it's more profitable, which probably helps pay for all those special effects. Personally I don't mind - it's their movie.
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Security shouldn't be a matter of the framework, especially if it belongs to well known problems like XSS.
Anecdotes are hardly evidence, but here are some articles that I've found agree with my experiences and the experiences of others I know.

http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science

http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2008/06/18/seven-reasons-why-g...
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You know that people will read your reviews on Amazon. If I write a well-reasoned bad review, it might actually have an effect on sales.
If Apple doesn't come out with something arguably innovative around 2014-2015, then it's time to sell, then?
I've heard it's also been tested to work inside the shell of an iPhone 3GS.
My first thought is how to unshare a folder and thank God, it's already been there: https://www.dropbox.com/share#tab:linked-items

So, if you feel like "I wanna share this folder to the wild world, now!", just do it! You can change your mind at anytime later and the folder will be no longer accessible. Very intensive, careful design & implementation!
This is a large part of what has sucked about APIs. Before Google Maps, I had to wait days to get a quote on Google and Mapquest services. And with Google Maps, you still had an insane TOS with bizarre caps and no way to pay for it. There was a way to be technically loosely joined, but not legally / business-wise.
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> I think you should be more realistic towards it and realize that it's not such a big deal.

It really is if you've had your work stolen. There are 3 people, last time I checked, in this thread who have. They're all pretty strongly against piracy.

> (I also wish people would stop downvoting you just because they disagree, that's really not the HN way. :-/ )

Hehe, thanks. It's been quite odd to watch - +2, -1, +1 etc as different groups for and against moderate reddit style.
The trust has been lost with a lot of developers. I guess they are going to have to earn it again.