skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is called Fundamental Attribution Error. As the name suggests it is a foundational part of human social psychology and it has been studied for years.

Personally I'm convinced it is one of the cognitive flaws that are needed to stop us from going teeth-gnashingly insane after ten minutes exposure to reality.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Fundamental_a...

See also: "She should have known what would happen to her, going out at night dressed like that."

No.
I'd rather not say here, but it's a bit on the pricy side but totally worth it.
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No, I think what trafficlight meant was: how can there be only a single copy of this material? What about the media they actually shot the episodes on? Surely there must be some kind of copy on the cutting room computers? It looks as if they're mainly out to collect damages from the company.
Mouse tracking only solves 20% of the problem.
Using control theory to describe software development.
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Don't you mean taketake it? \groan\

I'd of had it, even just for the domain name. I can understand giving it away but not giving it away to just anyone with no commitment to continue the project.
Isn't that "no true scotsman"? Everyone works for the man, at some level. Steve Jobs works for the man (his shareholders). Barak Obama works for the Man (his backers).
Cocoa Emacs doesn't seem to handle gamma at all; the color you set isn't the color you get. I just raised an emacs bug here: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8402
This is old stuff, but I love how relevant it is today. Timeless.
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You mean like a pinata?
You need to also learn a way to empty out your mental palace, or learn a way to build new rooms. After learning about this technique over 15 years ago I stored 3 things that I, to this day, know by heart. After learning Derren Brown's technique I still have these items in my mind, probably to the day I die.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhZcHoU-QR8 (6 minutes Derren Brown technique)

I like how this skill is innate. You don't get born with great memory, you can learn it (not photographic memory). When mastering the memory palace technique, one could store and recall the order of 20 shuffled card decks.
This is awesome on so many levels.
Condé Nast acquires Hacker News
Loved the clickable link. I'm such a procrastinator.
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When I go to peoples websites I always ask my self "Would I use this?". At first I was like "nah" but by the end of the video I was "hmm yeah let me sign up!".

It's a shame you're giving this away.
Unless "back up our data" is part of the hosting contract, the host is off the hook.

There's up to two fools here:

- If the hosting company does not have a disclaimer in their contract that the data backup onus is not on them, then they deserve to be sued for all they got.

- The TV producer should keep their own backup. Trusting a third party blindly with your most precious data is simply stupid, and unworthy of anyone involved with IT in this day and age. I would back up data even if the host did have a contractual obligation to back up my data. Shit happens, it's not a matter of "if", but of "when".
This technique works very well with names. Meet a person once, store his/her quirks alongside a name in the mental palace and every time you meet this person you can give a personal greeting.

Now imagine doing that on your first day at work in a big company, or remembering the name of someone you met on a conference two years ago.
What a great concept. For $3, I'm all over it. Great use of the multi touch features
Regarding Those Multitouch Multitasking Gestures on iOS 4.3
I think maybe its about time we set up something life the NSF to conduct these trial for the FDA

This would be a disaster. It really is expensive to test drugs, and so pharma companies must carefully consider which ones are worth pursuing. If they no longer need to bear the cost, then they'll just throw everything at the agency. Then the agency will either fall behind, so that good new drugs never get approved, or it will tremendously balloon the costs of testing (and we're already complaining about those costs).
Again, vetted in person, submitted "by hand."

It will be interesting to see if this has any affect on the content, and the scramble is on to create effective, objective measurements of the content so it can be monitored.

Rumors suggest that there will be some A/B testing instigated.
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Have you dropped them a mail?
It was my understanding from the article that originally there were several versions of the drug, then something changed (the author seemed to blame the FDA) after which there was only 1 left, and then there was a price hike.

Now it's quite possible that I'm wrong - what was the cheap version that the author was taking before then? Wasn't it a product of a competitor? And if so, why isn't it available any more?
Yeah, well you see how well it worked out in this instance. They transferred risk to a party incapable of mitigating that risk.

I think maybe the TV producer's lawyers think that suing the internet host into oblivion will get their TV show back?

If this was indeed a risk transfer outsourcing agreement, everyone who was involved in vetting and approving the hosting contract should be fired and possibly sued for negligence.
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>"According to a lawsuit that was filed last week in Hawaii District Court, a man named Michael Scott Jewson was terminated from CyberLynk. From his parents' residence, he allegedly accessed CyberLynk's data and intentionally wiped it out. Jewson is alleged to have been charged in February with a federal computer crime violation and admitted his guilt in a plea agreement.

The data breach allegedly knocked out 6,480 WER1 electronic files, or 300 gigabytes of data, comprising two years of work from hundreds of contributors globally, including animation artwork and live action video production."

These sort of reports often over do it with the use of "allegedly" as an attempt to mitigate any libel claim.

"Jewson is alleged to have been charged"

Surely it's a matter of record whether he was charged. If the reporter can't even confirm this then they don't have a story.

"The data breach allegedly knocked out 6,480 WER1 electronic files"

Again they don't need that "allegedly", it's presumably a reported fact, the allegation they have to be wary off is the one that says the person responsible.

This really annoys me, allegedly.
It's like Twister but for your fingers and with knives. For $3, I love it.
I agree completely. Startups can feel a lot like "swimming" a marathon instead of running one, but what great rewards when the really hard work is done. I'm sure there are many circumstances that take anyone out of the game, but I agree with you. Maybe they could wait a while longer and see if they get through their down cycle??? I wish them good luck whichever way it goes!
I'd say the opposite: Unless they clearly state they _do_ backups, they are not (legally) responsible for doing so.
Hum, on this date?
Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2011)
Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome.

Feel free to post any job HN readers may be interested in from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.

Take a look at the freelancer matchmaking thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2396088
Right, my.js is no commercial project. I'm pushing it on Github soon. It would be pretty cool if you could help on the design. If you make something that looks nice for my.js, I'll push it online and all design credits goes to you of course! Myjs.fr has been tweeted and visited a lot since yesterday! @jie
I'm pretty sure the date has something to do with this announcement ;)
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From an article this morning:

"Email newsletters aren't a sexy business but they can literally print money for the people who start them," Hilley says. After studying other successful newsletters like Thrillist, he projects The Daily Cramp can generate a whopping $77 million in advertising sales in just three years. "We're banking on a viral effect," he says.

Yet even Hilley has doubts. "Will this turn into something that people want to get every day?" he wonders.

Hilley's response in a comment below the article: "It's just like some jack@ss Goldman guy to make ridiculous projections like that... pretty soon, him and his awful Crazy Bear are going to take the entire newsletter world down with him, just like he did the financials."
A neat way to hide your SSH port, but not very practical (scanners will just wait a little while to see if the SSH banner gets pumped out). You want something that speaks HTTP so it'll get through transparent proxies of corporations and wifi paywalls, which would be proxytunnel combined with a server-side configuration of whatever your favorite http proxy/server is. Even if your corporate environment forces NTLMv2 proxy authentication, you can chain cntlm and proxytunnel to their proxy and still tunnel out, and nobody is the wiser.
(http://dag.wieers.com/howto/ssh-http-tunneling/)
I went to a presentation once by a guy who does pen testing for banks. He showed us how a script can run google searches for potentially vulnerable sites, and attempt sql injection attacks against them. When vulnerable sites are found, the trick is to query system tables to get the names of all tables in the database, and then just suck everything down for analysis later. He claimed the Russian mob is doing it.
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Sorry things haven't worked out...as yet! Don't give up keep pushing.
I see computers as addressing a different part of the problem.

Lets take as a given that people need a way to recall pieces of information for use in the future.

1. Initially people would probably just wander around aimlessly and hope that their natural capabilities would be sufficient. Apparently this was not the case.

2. To reduce these short comings people developed memory techniques to better organise the information to be remembered. By chunking pieces of information in mnemonics and associating facts to these memory journeys they were better able to remember them.

3. Next people developed the technology of writing. This tool had a number of advantages over the previous techniques: less effort was required to store the information, it maintained its accuracy over a longer period of time, and the information didn't need to be recorded (memorised/written) by the person who would need to use it in the future. The method also had disadvantages: this new external form of memory required the person to take something extra along with them, as the number of pieces of information became larger it becomes harder and harder to sort through them to find the correct piece whereas the human brain doesn't seem to become as `distracted', and the individual pieces of information become less connected.

4. I see technology as helping to reduce these disadvantages. The internet means I can check email from any computer in the world and not just at the one computer it was composed at. Search engines assist in finding a particular piece of information within a greater body of information. I am not aware of a great example of information synthesis but I suppose that certain parts of text mining are making steps in this direction: eg, sentiment mining Twitter or trend detection.
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How long has the site been in invite-only mode?
I really like your site. Hope all works out for you! Great intro. :)
I, for one, welcome our new... oh, fuck it.
How Apple plays hardball
https://github.com/tsenart/fool.js

Just paste this before your body closes:
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I'm waiting for whish: a bash-like shell with Whitespace syntax.
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Cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham, in his book _Why Don't Students Like School_, says that memorizing facts is important for developing higher level reasoning. Think of it as building up a large processor cache. If you have the relevant facts in your brain, you can piece them together much more quickly to build up higher knowledge. Always having to look up things on Google is like disk thrashing.
Pinboard, from Yahoo
wow.. just amazing. Cutting-edge, like someone on ars said
Though shalt not advertise
I use a crank-adjustable base (http://www.gibraltarinc.com/item.asp?id=66) and with a birch counter top from Ikea (http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/90014922). It's easy to adjust and cost around $425 total.
Beginning of January.
It's a Google Doc, so I'm guessing they collect the data you entered, but that's it.
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The Internet Newspaper: 100% dedicated to David Hasselhoff.

It's better than his singing. We swear.
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Actually eBay is quite safe to buy if you pay via Paypal. eBay has a policy of 45 day return period during which you can file a case in eBay resolution center under "item significantly not as described" and send the item back to the seller, eBay will then refund the full amount you paid to the seller (price + shipping). However, you have to pay for the return shipping. I believe payments via Paypal on a 3rd party website are also covered by the same policy. This makes it very safe to buy from eBay or through Paypal. I feel more secure buying from eBay then buying from a local retailer.
...Ever made a bad batch of cookies?
I personally prefer the output style from enscript [2 column].
Just paste this before your body closes:
<script>
// Uncomment the next line if you want the prank to happen only when the url hashtag is #april
// if (document.location.hash.indexOf('april') > -1)
document.body.style.webkitTransform = document.body.style.MozTransform =
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Comic Sans Pro now available, demand expected to be high
This is how a friend taught me the meaning of 'Innovation'
Yes, the directions are on GitHub:

https://github.com/altercation/solarized/tree/master/osx-ter...

Once you've activated that theme in Terminal.app's preferences, all your colors in the shell will use the colors defined in the colorscheme. So red will be the red in the colorscheme, blue -> blue, etc.
FYI, this method is actually known as locus memory

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

You can get more advanced than simply using a palace.
It's the slow-loading, grainy pictures that really take me back.
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GNOME 3.0 Rescheduled for September 2011 Release

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Thou shalt not rely on spelling correctors.
As does Chrome.
Thanks for reminding me it's April Fools.
Surprisingly few people grasp this concept, and from my point of view the idea that rote memorisation is a waste of time is remarkably dangerous.
Data.gov and other transparency sites to be shut down due to budget cuts
> How would society, or more specifically government, even go about inspiring a cultural change to value scientists? Any ideas?

"Too many athletes, too few scientists" is a broken premise: Elite athletes are valuable only because they are scarce.

Government is doing plenty to make scientists scarce as well, so perhaps we will get our wish granted, in a perverse way.
At first I thought this was a joke - I mean, it's April fools, right?

And then I thought: those guys are so smart, I bet they really did it.

So I tried it, and it works!
http://rbcranes.heroku.com/

I heart Heroku :-)
"Don't be based out of the U.S." would seem to be a simple solution. The problem being that most other jurisdictions where you can actually make money have similar problems.

There are ways around that, but (I hope) the "cheap drug spammer" market is saturated.
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Yes. The FDA regulates (among other things) "indications" for drugs. For example, you can't represent that a drug is effective at treating something without FDA approval. So, currently, only one company can make this pill, and even then they can only sell it for a specific list of diseases. After some time, other companies will be able to make the pill and sell it for the same list of diseases, except this one. The FDA has the power to regulate the claims made by various companies, so this was probably a compromise that was part of a larger deal.
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Toronto - Senior Java/MySQL Developer.

You'd be working as part of a small team on a very successful, high-traffic API - I suspect the type of position many HNers would enjoy.

http://toronto.en.craigslist.ca/tor/sof/2284072232.html

Edit: also hiring for a more junior Mobile/Web Developer position (aimed mostly at new grads).

http://toronto.en.craigslist.ca/tor/sof/2278675500.html
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancers? (April 2011)
Lets see it is useful to have a freelancer matchmaking thread.

Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.
I read the comment as proposing only that the NSF (or someone) run the trials for old drugs that are already widely used, in lieu of the current odd system of re-monopolizing drugs that had previously been widely available as generics.

For new drugs hoping to win approval, which are inventions and are already granted monopolies via patents, things could still work the current way.
I feel for the hungry guys shown in the video but still looking at the way those guys are cutting the meat and hovering over the dead animal's body just reminds me of a quote from matrix by Mr.Smith:
Humans are parasites.
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ah people google has this api that ahem accessing things like gmail, picasa photo services, etc..all accessible from an android application

is the wisdom of the HN crowd that dense?
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Not a particularly good April Fools.

But it had potential. "...we identified that Windows users have an extremely good experience with their terminal program "command.com"."

Really? Why? Give me steadily less plausible reasons and see how ridiculous a conclusion you can get to while still keeping your face straight.

But instead you skipped straight to "...through our strategic partnership with Microsoft, command.com is now available to all existing Fuduntu users."

The joy of reading a good April Fools is getting sucked in. It's the feeling of peeking through the looking glass and wondering what would life be like if command.com really was the best terminal[1]? How awesome would Windows have to be for that to be true? Or how abysmal the unices? It's spotting the jape safely before the end but still a fair way in from the beginning.

Going straight from "oh, really?" to "no, not really" is just a waste of everyone's time.

[1]: command.com is not a terminal
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I just want to encourage you guys to go on. It's really a cool site and this is coming from someone who doesn't do much social networking.
Given that already quite a number of HN readers are impressed, maybe you can recruit a small bunch of us to help develop, grow the user base, raise money, etc., in return for some upfront equity.
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Good for anti-competitive claims MS makes. Google claims each department tries to independently make the best product available and no favors are given to google products. This is a perfect example that google's content spam does not care if the spam comes from within google.

Also gives me lots of confidence in their webspam team.
Government is doing plenty to make scientists scarce as well...

Like what?
Very beautiful site indeed! Very clean design and i liked the xxx have requested invitation + the send a tip!

Will you guys be still coming to the Echelon? in Singapore right?
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You can read more about it here: http://blog.alikeplaces.com/2011/alike-places-launches-new-p...
You don't need dollars to buy oil. Oil is currently sold in other currencies as well. In fact, it doesn't matter what currency it's sold in, as you can easily exchange currencies in the market.
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Edit: Downvoted, I imagine, because it's an adult company. If you downvoted this, at least you can have the guts to explain why?
Am I the only one bothered by the fact that they refer to the URL anchor section as a 'hashtag'?
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depending on the topic. if it is interesting only
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