skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're manipulating words to make the mouse operation sound more arduous than it is. Similarly, I could say "when using the keyboard, you have to recognize that you wish to move the cursor backwards by what vi arbitrarily calls a sentence, then remember what the command you want is, then hold down the shift key, then hit the '9' key, then locate where the cursor has jumped to".

The user knows where the mouse is, and as soon has he grabs the mouse and starts to move it, the location of the cursor becomes evident. Moving to the spot and clicking is then an exercise in the kind of hand-eye coordination most people master by the age of 3.
Why the hell do organizations keep putting this kind of sensitive data on a laptop?

Even if your process requires someone remote from the office to work with the data in desktop tools like Excel, etc., it seems like it'd be good sense to require them to do it over a Terminal Services or Citrix connection to a secured server.
Patent troll? Everything in the article indicated they were suing over copyright, not patents.
Pretty much describe me, and I consider myself an introvert.
I'm not an OpenBSD fan, Marsh. I'm close to the opposite. And I'm calling BS on this. I'm sure the OpenBSD people aren't nice to you, but it's probably not because you found flaws in OpenBSD code. I wasn't being flippant; the only thing Theo ever fucked with me over was not finding enough bugs.

As for the last part of your comment, we appear to be searching for reasons to disagree with each other, when in fact we agree that this finding has no impact on the security of bcrypt. Let's not find artificial reasons to disagree.
Myth #3 – Introverts are rude.
Introverts often don’t see a reason for beating around the bush with social pleasantries. They want everyone to just be real and honest.

Yes, this is often called being rude. It may be true that by this guys definition introverts don't mean to be rude, but if a person (introvert or otherwise) acts as described above, that is rude.
soul-destroyer

That's a very good term. I've often seen it applied to commuting, for largely the same reasons.
Higher-res screen than a net book, comprable CPU, always-on high speed internet and it fits in your pocket... The future is impressive.
I think the idea is that the OS will always have software equivalents of those 4 buttons on the bottom of the screen, so you'll always be able to do the things you mentioned. You won't get nice tactile cues, though, which makes me like the hardware buttons.
How bizarre - I copy/pasted it from the URL bar of my browser.

Thanks for the corrected link.
Beautiful if impractical. It could easily move as fluidly as a Segway with a bit of computer control and a few sensors.
This is mentioned only tangentially, but how essential are exchanges to the liquidity of Bitcoin today? If most trading is done through exchanges, as opposed to P2P, then couldn't the market be seriously disrupted by DDoSing the primary exchanges (Mt.Gox and the like) for a few days, thus freezing out most casual users and causing a panic?

edit: I'm only a casual user myself, so there may be reasons why this isn't a practical concern, but I am curious.
> So, with Desktop Linux, we see a basically flat growth

> curve hovering around 1%. And since the release of AIR,

> we’ve seen only a 0.5% download share for desktop Linux.

AIR is horrible under Linux. The last time I checked it, hardly any application was working, functionality like sound and transparency did not work (even though a compositing manager was active) and it required your root password if you wanted to install an app.
Cant find a link to working demo, I'm just too lazy to git clone.
Customers pick banks based on how many ATMs they have, not the quality of the bank's web apps.

Though there clearly are people who care deeply about bank UX, those people are not normal.
By the way, if you want to see my predictions in numbers for the next 5 years, here they are:

1. The Euro will appreciate against the dollar, because the US will have to issue a lot of currency to bail out local and state governments in the next 5 years. I am guessing a Euro will buy about 2 dollars then (edit: come to think of it, probably more. The US will print a lot of money).

2. The stock markets will not be boarded up, and will be trading at roughly at the levels of today (+ inflation). I don't see tons of profit there, given panicky investors, but the fundamentals are more than sound enough to prevent a total collapse. It's not like the market is trading at insane P/E ratio.

3. Almost all private and public debts will be paid. There are funds to do this, and the political pressure to make good on debt will be overwhelming. There may be a Greek default, and the Spanish real estate debts will have to be restructured too, but not at a crippling loss to the whole Eurozone - there is not enough money invested to "taco the Euro".

Yes, my money and my mouth are in the same exact place.
Judge tosses suit over faulty Google directions
Just had a quick look and it seems that to use HPCC you will have to learn some new syntax (not sure though). Hadoop is based on java and most developers know it well. This could be a problem with widespread adoption of HPCC.

Would like to know your view :)
Myth #6 describes me. I prefer authentic one on one connections rather than spreading myself "too thin". I think that's a problem w/ people with too many friends. Having too many friends is good but it also means you can't be great friends to all of them.
This doesn't make any sense. Android IS linux, but only at the lowest level. Given their logic, I'm surprised they're not launching FreeBSD support, cause, you know, iOS runs darwin, which has a bsd subsystem.

That being said, re-focusing on js & css output seems like a winning combo.
Then you just get stuck holding down shift and the arrow key while auto-repeat ticks out the desired region... when you could have clicked at the start, held the button down, and immediately moved the mouse cursor to the end of the block you want to select.
I'd like to see more, too. From the readme, that seems very experimental and not likely to render much of anything yet.
Just launched our web-based spear phishing attack simulator app
The Economist published an interesting article about the device (LVADs) a week or so ago: http://www.economist.com/node/18750728?story_id=18750728

Turns out they've been around since 1994. And yes, Dick Cheney is without a heartbeat.
No, they have Security Council veto votes. This has nothing to do with the UNSC.

However, it would only be useful if nations like the US and China could be made to participate, so negotiating this would not be easy. At the end however, it would be beneficial for all participants.

Now, why would it be a bad idea? Any argument, or "just because"?
Device, not advice.
Hopefully this will address some of the issues with the Nexus S, particularly:

-No dual ATT/Tmobile HSPA support

-Lack of MicroSIM
A Live SPDY server running on node.js server
Whoops, the deleted GP was mine. (I sometimes delete things when on second thought they seem pointless. But not if there are replies.) What I said was that if you need a library to tell you which functions have too many arguments, which classes have too many methods, etc., then you've already lost the battle against complexity. These things should be taken care of while they're still obvious by inspection. Which incidentally reveals a certain irony in the library's name (it means "briefly" in Russian).
It is currently SFW (it seems to have images disabled).

/prog/ is a text-only board.
Funny I did the same comparison last night, but concluded the Air was superior. 1440x900 screen is the big differentiator. Samsung also makes an 11" model, but it's a first gen i3, which doesn't have the graphics oomph to compete with a NV 320M. (Samsung claims Sandy Bridge and HD3000, but the part number listed is wrong.)
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This is only true for mouse based interfaces that require hand-eye coordination (click this, drag it there) -- gesture based interfaces (click and drag left/up/etc) don't suffer from this problem at all.
Huh... interesting. Looking forward to more details. Here's some more info:

http://hpccsystems.com/

http://gigaom.com/cloud/lexisnexis-open-sources-its-hadoop-k...

http://hpccsystems.com/about-us/press_center/lexisnexis-anno...

Edit: Was curious about the license this would be released under... did some poking around, and found that it'll be the AGPL.

http://hpccsystems.com/products-and-services/Licensing/ce-li...

I have to admit, I'm not a fan of the AGPL, so I consider this a little disappointing. Kinda wish they had gone with the GPLv3 or ALv2, but still... any addition to the F/OSS world is nominally a Good Thing.
Google Fortifies Chrome
Reading comprehension, folks, seriously -_-' All your arguments is either `but keyboard feels faster', or `there are some actions slow to do with mouse'. The former is addressed in the article:

> While the keyboard users in this case feels as though they have gained two seconds over the mouse users, the opposite is really the case. Because while the keyboard users have been engaged in a process so fascinating that they have experienced amnesia, the mouse users have been so disengaged that they have been able to continue thinking about the task they are trying to accomplish.

It's there, plain and simple: keyboarding around switches off (or busy-waits) a part of our brain, while providing nice tactile and quantized visual (every character stop) stimuli in regular interval. It feels faster, because that's how our brain is wired to measure time.

On the other hand, mousing around doesn't provide any cool stimuli until you actually activate the target widget. It feels long-ish, because the brain has to constantly work on adjusting cursor trajectory and nothing serious happens till you actually activate the widget.

The later argument is the case of rarely used commands. Of course ^S or ^P is faster than hunting the `Save...' or `Print...' through modern long menus, but that's an exception; an action to be taken once every few minutes. Manipulating text tokens and blocks (that's what we do most often, right?) is inherently faster with mouse than with Vim-ish or EMACS-ish regexps. Same for browsing hyper-text documentation or 'net forums.

Tell me you can select and move around a word, line or block of code faster with regexps than with mouse, and I'll gladly do it faster with mouse. On the average, anyway, which is what matters in the longer run.
The keyboard interface must not dictate the design of the visual interface.

I'm writing this on a borrowed Mac and hating the damn thing (damn mouse-base dreck seriously slows me down).

I would say that because of its keyboard use, the Windows interface is far more effective than the Macintosh interface but that the Mac interface is designed to seem usable. I would suppose something that seems great is exactly what companies should sell for their own benefit. I'm happy that Mac is not yet universal...
What an unfortunate name for a product.
My understanding, just to clarify: Citi has a web app pentesting operation, which engages and is among the largest customers for several well-known pentesting firms. Just in case the impression was that Citi has a couple guys in a room doing this stuff.

As for constantly-changing apps, let me speak against my own direct financial interests here (we have a product coming out that addresses that problem, so I'd like it to be a big one). Many, if not most, of the large financials we work with or have talked to have a fairly strict process for deploying new code, and the process gates on security review. Not deploying unreviewed code comes pretty close to being part of the due care standard at large modern banks. If I had to gamble on this, I'd bet that this specific code did get reviewed.
That's actually a very clever hack. I'm not sure how I'll put it to use, but I'll definitely keep it in my mental store.
The thing is, dysfunctional doesn't mean 'non-functional'.

A company I used to work for had a really great owner/etc, but their HR practices were the pits. Any attempt to tell them so was met with 'That's how everyone does it', even if it obviously wasn't.

The one time I brought something to their attention about someone above my head, I was told I should have taken it to HR instead of the owners. The person in question told me, "That's a serious charge. I could have lost my job." ... Yeah, it was. And I was serious. I still think it was illegal to this day, but I also don't think he's stupid enough to try it again, either, now. Upper management waffled a bit, but in the end, they seemed to settle on wishing I had not told them because they didn't want to do anything about it.

Despite all that, they are wildly successful.
Thief steals $500K worth of Bitcoin
A guy who works for Facebook is tagged in the center photo.
http://www.facebook.com/beau
"...and will instinctively avoid the areas that have caused me professional pain."

This is not good. You learned that your chosen solution did not work back then. This time, you know you have to try from the other side. This is learning too.

I appreciate a lot if there is a chance to try again what did not work a while ago. As long as you don't run out of new ideas. So far I don't (46).
Hypertable, Inc. is hiring Core Hypertable Engineers
The secrets of Apple's retail success
And as a bit of a smaller complaint, no notification LED. I still don't quite know what they were thinking when they decided to leave that off.
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Yup, with "slosh control" that they built into it.
The world would be a better place if we all had these.
(Economic) Data shows troubling mix of weakness, inflation
I am not saying that the title given here is true (certainly not in general, with arbitrary small targets at arbitrary large distances. There also is quite a bit of follow-up research on this), but I do find it sort-of funny/interesting/sad (frankly, I do not know what to call this) to see many reactions "I do not believe it" without evidence, while one of the claims of this paper is that users do not believe the first result.

Oh, and IIRC, the original research was on a dual-monitor setup, moving the pointer over two screens. And yet, Tog measured that the mouse was faster. I do assume he had a Macintosh mouse on a Mac, though. Compared to PC mice of the era, those were good (especially software-wise. There were PC mice were it was (as good as?) impossible to move the mouse by a single pixel.)
I couldn't find a demo online and was too lazy to deal with Chrome Local Policy madness, so I temporarily put one up here:
http://pumpkin.micheljansen.org/~dawuss/pdf.js/test.html

It has some obvious flaws, but it already works surprisingly well!
That's hair-raising. I have only a small amount of financial firm experience. I'm just used to ordinary software development being white-boarded first.
ESPN makes more the $4 billion from those fees. And then they get to show advertisments as well.
They're among the most successful retail operations in the world, and are a desirable employer for people working retail. Is there a specific reason you think they should "pour more time into making employees happy", or are you just inclined to say this about any company?
I think that there are definitely some valid points about efficiency while using ORMS when the queries get more complicated. However on a simpler scale, like a blog, ActiveRecord or other ORMS aren't horribly inefficient and are faster and easier for the programmer which is why people ultimately use them.
If we're going to keep to narrow introvert/extrovert definitions here, then to an extrovert only is that rude. Personally I find small talk and social pleasantries little more than a way to waste time and pretend you care more than you really do. I rely on the pretty sensible concept that if someone has anything important to tell me, they'll come out with it.

Besides, the internet is wonderful for me because social niceties have faded. You don't get forum posts with 5 lines of social waffle, you get people just cutting to the chase. Think just-go-ahead-and-say-it IRC.
I like the idea of no buttons and I've been waiting for it for a year now. It means no wasted physical space, and depending on how they implement the virtual ones, they might not even occupy screen space all the time, but just activate on demand.
Which is somewhat mitigated by an AMOLED panel (if you can get it) and use of the NoLED app.
Why???? D:
As usual, you can read the whole thing by searching for the headline ("Secrets From Apple's Genius Bar: Full Loyalty, No Negativity") on Google News. This AdWeek summary add no value and inserts a weirdly sensationalized headline.
Daily Deal Providers May Be Violating Consumer Protection Laws
The Group Buying Industry: Brilliant or Bubble?
They are both unicycles and red. How different could they be?
Interesting idea I hadn't seen before. It's basically bucket sort, but using the scheduler to hold the bins.
C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism
Some of them are there because of fundamental decisions that the go team has made; I don't see those being reconciled. Others may be fixed.

The use of the word hate was mostly an exaggeration to attract readers, partially momentary frustration and partially substantive.
I'm actually starting a new startup centered around patients sharing their experience with various treatments.

That's a great idea! After helping my friend research I think the most challenging part of what you're doing is getting people who are cured to talk about their experiences. It's the old problem that those that are happy without any problems are not the ones who post all day long :)
Cheney has the Heartmate II (the same device the researchers used two of in this project). It is an axial flow as opposed to centrifugal pump. The first back non-pulsating heart assist device I could find is the hemopump: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemopump
Only excitable rubes buy Internet IPO shares on Day 1
The NYTimes story is the 2nd crime, because they're white washing Citicorp's responsibility. With all the hacking that's been going on recently, the NYT needs a full time cyber security reporter.
In my opinion, Macs in general have far superior hardware and the price reflects this also. For example, Macbooks have an enormous battery life compared to other laptops with similiar specs. As for the OS, it's really just a matter of personnal preference. I don't mind OSX but I prefer Windows, and since you're on Ubuntu right now I believe it might be even easier for you to switch to OSX.

I work on a mac but own an asus laptop running Windows 7 at home.
The way you move the mouse has less to do with how you interact with the interface - yes, you may be able to optimize mouse moves, but that's not enough.

What happens is that a mouse-friendly interface is organized in such a way that finding the right action to click on involves traversing a tree of choices. Even if you memorize the exact location of the action you want in that tree, for many actions you still need several clicks to perform something instead of just one.

And that's not the end of it - you clearly need keyboard input too, in many cases. For example in WYSIWYG editors, you type-type-type, then you need a new header, move your hand on the mouse, select the right header in the select-box (during which your eyes also move from the current line), then get back your hand in typing position and start typing again, until you need another mouse action.

This is the reason I wrote my last resume in HTML and didn't even bother opening office, even though HTML sucks for typography (I'll probably switch to Latex next time).

That said, the mouse is better for browsing around, exploring stuff or for interfaces such as Photoshop. I also don't mind the mouse for interfaces where I don't need to be productive. Someone mentioned CAD in this thread - I disagree as AutoCAD is more productive with keyboard input.
Kind of disappointing it's not Tegra 3, but at least I hope it's the dual core Qualcomm Krait at 1.5 Ghz built on 28nm process and Adreno 300, rather than OMAP 4.

Everything else about it is exactly what I've been hoping for: HD resolution, 4.5" screen, no buttons, 4G.
You know something is wrong when you comment on an article without reading it.
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Actually, you'll find that in some places, it isn't rude to be straightforward and honest. And even blunt. You have to actually start insulting people to be considered 'rude' in those places.

Introverts like those places.
Real unicycle: http://www.bikester.co.uk/bicycles/unicycles/unicycles-20-in...
Subl.ee/runker: SUBERUNKER-like HTML5 Game
We Are Our Own Worst Enemy When It Comes To Going Paperless
Congrats and good luck. Feel free to contact coderholic or myself for any advice. We set up exactly a year ago in London and now have close to 1000 members. Also, you may want to let Jonathan Nelson know about your meetup. He is in contact with most HN meetups around the world and is a top bloke.
FB is important in letting me keep a full but just-in-time social calendar. I don't want to plan going out a weeknight far in advance, or even necessarily a big night on a weekend. But often I do want to go out. Facebook makes it easier to organise these things at a moment's notice. This is much better than planning ahead, because if you plan ahead you have to keep appointments even if you don't feel like it on the day. So socialising a lot that way gets to be a bit tiring. Doing things on the spur of the moment is better.

For example, the other night a friend hosted a vegan potluck for about 10 people with about four hours notice. That would've been hard to do without Facebook.
That's one of the reasons I used to like Opera. Now I like it because shift+arrowkeys basically mean that I never have to even touch a mouse to browse the internet. It's completely keyboard-accessible.
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This a re-print of a PhysOrg.com article. I tried to find a non-PhysOrg.com site, but PhysOrg.com links to medicalxpress.com

I'm guessing PhysOrg.com is picking up on the fact that people are starting to see their writing as over-hyped and unreliable. Thus a new .com address. Shame, all they have to do is just write well and we'll like them. Talk about going the wrong way.
Well, "a lot of people" don't like courts, either. But we still have them, because its the best system we have come up with, so far, to make the world a better and more livable/secure place for everybody. Maybe there is a better way, but humanity hasn't discovered it yet.

Violence and threats have, in the past, shown that they are always the worse option in the long term. Unilatral violence just looks appealing to the simple minded, because its easy to understand. I still hope that politics is not entirely many by the simple minded, though.

If you want to learn about the UN or ICJ, there is a lot of academic material out there on the tubes. It is a much to complex issue to be "quickly" discussed on a hacker board. You probably would not discuss Erlang in a political science forum either ;)
I also hoped this submission could trigger a discussion about the code style.

This guy is a Mozilla contributor, probably what other posts mean when they talk about "great programmers", right?
Yet, for now, his implementation is a single 3000 line file.

[edited for alternate ending]

So there is this guy who writes a PDF viewer in a 3000 line file, and the guy who writes another simple web app neatly organized in 42 files... Which one would you want on your team?

I wonder how jslinux source code is organized.
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