skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1. How many people might notice, but think that the mistake was theirs, and even argue for the opposite of their position in order to save face?

Probably most of them. This mechanism has been described by Cialdini as "Commitment and Consistency". Marketers abuse this in a clever way by ramping up commitment. If you answer a bunch of seemingly innocent questions to make you look good ("I often go see opera"), you have made a small commitment. Then it can be leveraged to sell you an expensive opera discount card ("For a person who visits opera so often, it would be irrational to turn the offer down".)
(4) Display rotate might be sw thing - change your external display from portrait to landscape by rotating it 90° physically and in software - helps to see a whole page doc for instance.

(6) The 'clit' mouse rocks :)

This is definitely tempting! Only 'downside' would be lack of MS Office, but I can go back to OpenOffice for that.
The West also censors. My understanding is Britain censored Press TV for spurious reasons using front organization Ofcom. French embassy refused visas for Iranian reporters. Germany also blocks Iranian news. Noam Chomsky, an old man who preaches the Golden Rule, was refused entry into Israel. Lily Sussman had Arab characters taped on her laptop keys and the Israeli border security shot holes through it. Fretting about another countries surveillance on its citizens seems a little silly today. Ahmadinejad was also elected, the electorate preferred potatoes over Western appeals to be able to wear bikinis.
Sophos had a false positive bug today: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/09/19/sshupdater-b-fsop...
I think they collect a lot of valuable data with their mobile maps.

They don't care so much about people using Android as they care about people using Google products - because then they can collect more data.

Of course if people are on Android the risk is a bit smaller that Google search and maps will be swapped away under their feet.
Totally missed that.. I need to add links back to Imgur and Reddit. Good call, will add later tonight.
We use the x220 & x230 in our office and while I don't use one as my main machine, I can answer some of them in case that commenter doesn't come back.

2. Graphics, Sleep wake, wireless, all yes. Not sure about the others listed but there is nothing that would cause a problem as a work machine.

3. Yes

4. Yes but not sure about display rotation. Displays attached to the laptop dock work as well (everyone at work uses one) including sleeping the laptop removing the laptop, and all the windows taking care of themselves.

6. Fine but its smaller than I'd like (spoiled by my air).

7. Solid but I'm not much of a keyboard snob. I can type just fine on my Sager's Mac knockoff chiclet keys or a cheap membrane keyboard.

In terms of battery life, we seem to always have our machines plugged in but no one has ever complained about poor battery life.
If Formlabs lives up the to hype and is only $600 I'll be very impressed.

Might as well wait and see though, unless you're in a rush.
A main reason many of us use Virtualbox is because of Vagrant. If the same thing was easily possible (Is it?) with Parallels or VMWare we'd use those exclusively. I have licenses for both and use Parallels for any Windows-required work.
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Agreed, the wording is rather strong. But at least it is shorter than: "According to current understanding of GR and the contents of the universe it should be possible."
put in a new maps app and refine it over time alright, but let us keep the Google maps app alongside. Is that too much to ask?

If Google had a maps app, it wouldn't be too much to ask. Google doesn't have a maps app; iOS has a maps app, which was powered by Google up until iOS 6. If/when Google creates a maps app, I'm willing to bet Apple will approve it for the App Store, just as they've approved Chrome and Gmail.

Apple's contract to use Google as the back-end data source for iOS's Maps app expired and, for all we know, Google refused to renegotiate another contract. I doubt that's the case, but anyone asserting anything either way is simply speculating unless they're sourcing from someone at Apple or Google.
Slightly off topic, but when I scrolled to the bottom of the article, I was really excited to see they had proper citations for the research the article was talking about.

I actually thought this was a BBC article, hadn't been paying much attention to the design and URL. Then I realized that this was on Nature, so I suppose it is to be expected here.

I really wish more science journalism did this, even on mainstream outlets.
Reading HN -> Saw this post -> Clicked -> Saw http://www.flipmeme.com/image/raKHs -> Bought two pieces of this guy's art
He was also a Linux user in 1998.

The main difference seems to be that he now uses Google Docs instead of Microsoft Office, and thus spends more time in the browser.
You guys cry a lot about being forced to read stuff. Harden up, or get back to work. Jesus.
Apple has purchased mapping companies. According to Wikipedia[1], they've purchased Placebase, Poly9, and C3 Technologies – all companies associated with mapping.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisition...
Yes but don't forget the other part of his sentence : That's assuming you know the dictionary, of course.
3D printers are at the "Apple I" stage.

They're getting cheaper and better, and great for hobbyists/tinkerers, but they're not really useful to the average consumer yet.

The biggest cost with the current crop of < $10,000 3D printers is time. Figuring out how to calibrate them and tweak settings to get perfect prints takes a lot of effort.
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I for one, won't be upgrading until there is a standalone Google Maps app. I've just moved to a new city and I use Google Maps a lot to find my way around. I've seen the iOS6 maps in use and it's utter garbage in comparison.
What?

Whales is a term thats been there from the Casino days of Las Vegas. You may know its other variant - High roller.

Its a historic term that has been re-purposed and used correctly for once.

It has nothing to do with maturity/immaturity OR addiction.

That out of the way, lets move on to addiction - Source.

Please show me where zynga gets most of its money from people who are addicted, and please also show me data on statistics on addiction in social games.

Instead try doing a search on "video game player personality types" and go from there. IIRC the magic the gathering guys had a great simple break up.

Heck reams of data have been generated on how the freemium system works from the days when western MMOs started learning from the Asian/Korean systems.

From the top of my head - if you arent a subscriber you are the content. Its the free players who support friend networks who bring in a few players who are able or interested enough to dump in large amounts of cash before moving on.

Thats their largest source of income. The cross section of income sources with addiction is tenuous and tangential.

Some of the stuff you are saying here is incorrect/not borne out by data.
I don't think it's implied anywhere that it's hard or novel. He simply is more connected than you, that's all.
For an article that's just repeating words from the official document[1], very little is said.

tl;dr: Amazon's planning on building a new building and it will be green and orange.

Those that are interested should look at the official document linked below. Note that the PDF is around 28MB. The interesting bits that the article briefly mentions are on page 8 and on.

[1] http://www.seattle.gov/dpd/AppDocs/GroupMeetings/DRProposal3...
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Malware Written Using Google Go Found in the Wild
I agree it sucks to have lost the traffic graph. Would love to have it back
This could be true, I was referring to iCore chips.
Bienvenue à l’application Amazon Cloud Player, qui arrive enfin en France
En France, le marché du stockage musical accueille une nouvelle application, Amazon Cloud Player. Elle permet d’écouter les mélodies et chansons que vous affectionnez où que vous soyez.
They (the DMV) must not have your signature on file. Unfortunately they need this as part of "the rules"...which aim combat voter fraud. It's inconvenient, but at least they fill out the form and do their best.
Uploading a file to the server using AJAX
There was a period there in the early-mid 2000s in which an unfortunate number of websites, and rather more corporate / enterprise web-based tools (intranet or external portal) were very highly MSIE dependent. There were workarounds, and some of us stayed largely independent (absent a few VMs or Windows Terminal Server sessions), but it was fairly ugly.

The embrace of Web standards by major players (thank you Google, and I don't say this often, Facebook) and availability of cross-platform standards-compliant browsers (thank you Mozilla and Google), and even the resurgence of Macs (thank you, Apple) have helped.

That and the fact that proprietary application format usage for standard desktop functions (word processing, spreadsheet, presentation) has dwindled dramatically. I won't say it's gone by any stretch, but even Microsoft touts open standards, and far more often you'll encounter Wikis, Google Docs, or git.
Depends on the laptop :) But it's possible with low powered laptops.
I think the GP was just giving a local example (for them, at least) to support an argument for a universal phenomenon. They probably didn't mean to imply that anyone associated with the study was American or particularly influenced by American thought (or, for that matter, that tribalism itself is a uniquely American quality).
If they have made any such announcement, their search engine sure can't seem to find it for me...
I could imagine some interesting discussion about the relative merits between tcsh and bash given the stated history, but this has little if anything to do with crazy abstractions like graphical interfaces.
More change for the sake of change from Github.

Both the profile and the dashboard now show less information than they used to. The icons are a nice touch but totally irrelevant, and are not effective on a quick glance.

Meanwhile, the streams constantly show redundant information: e.g. 10 successive commits+push or wiki edits on the same project (happens all the time in my feeds) consume 10 distinct rows - why not collapse them together?

The launch bar was actually a cool idea, but it's more of a hack than a useful tool. And pray tell me what good does the /launch page do? Why should I ever use it as a landing page?

And don't get me started on the push performance, which is abysmal and feels like it has constantly been degrading over time.

I'll say it again, I <3 github, and they're a truly awesome team. But for the past several months every single change they've made was a big "wow, new X, let's take a look" followed by a sad, soft "meh".
It's my understanding that bash has been the default shell in OSX for quite some time now, though I can't imagine tcsh started noticeably slower than it back when it was the default. On my incredibly underpowered machine the difference between the two is around 0.05s.
How is Ubuntu by far better than OS X for dev work?
Well more importantly, both sides will have to be "responsible" for a new app to become available. Google has to make it, and then Apple has to allow it into the app store. So that's going to be fun.
This.
To be completely honest, I have to say that outside US (for sure in Rome), the "new" Apple maps are not significantly worse than the previous (Google) ones.
whatever .. I reserve my right as a user (who's paid for the device) to have expectations of functionality - the business side of things be damned.

For now, I've done an "add to home screen" of the google maps mobile device page. Works much better for me than the native maps.
Thanks!!!! :D
My guess would be "In your face, Apple!" being one of the reasons. The need for this attitude is beyond my comprehension.
Passwords not shared across multiple systems, and used rarely, on physically secured and/or proximate systems. The threat exposure is vastly reduced.

The main problems with passwords today are 1) rampant reuse and 2) very effective cracking tools based on known password corpuses. Even a small corpus of a few hundred of the most common passwords will generally access some account on a given system.
Somewhat sadly, it doesn't look like businesses are commissioning such character terminal interfaces any longer. Certainly not in sufficient volumes to support the few boutique shops that published and maintained text window libraries that some developers would use to insulate themselves from the insanity of supporting multiple terminal types on different systems. As far as I can tell from some Google searches, Vermont Creative Software's Vermont Views and Oakland Group, Inc.'s C-Scape are both no longer sold or even have a web presence. If it is true both went out of business, it would be a pity that such codebases are languishing in bit rot hell and could possibly disappear from the historical record. There were and are no comparable open source text window libraries with the polish these products had.
Yeah, those are all a dream and that situation is only going to be improving with all the Valve/Intel stuff going on.
Google have a heck of a lot more data to go on. It's not just the title of Facebook.com, it's the millions of links to it that contain the word 'Facebook'.

The app store doesn't have that data, so has to rely more on titles to try and how you a specific app if you do a specific search. If I search for 'Facebook' there's a high chance I want the official app, so it should come up high no matter if it's not the highest ranked.

Of course, it's plainly open for abuse. I wonder if they do, or could, take usage stats into account as well as ratings. If everyone is using the official Facebook app despite the fact it's crap, the user is probably trying to find it when they search for it, but it no one is using My Crappy Picassa App then it shouldn't be ranked very highly, even on a search for 'Picassa'. But then you have the bootstrapping problem of new apps being hard to find, even with exact searches. Perhaps some sort of inverse relationship between age and active users would work.
Three major grammar mistakes. And nothing interesting.
It plays into the "apple-is-dying" schadenfreude that many people seem to like a lot. Apart from that, there's nothing much there beyond a laundry list of computers he's used.
Researchers poke holes through Fortinet, SonicWall UTMs
Wow!!!! I'm humbled fm could participate in that process. The guy's art is pretty awesome I have to say.
I'm seeing the same error, trying to visit http://www.flipmeme.com/image/VR3oq from http://www.flipmeme.com/image/XWkG2

Great site, I can see myself hitting the right arrow key for hours on end :)
Cool idea and looks great -- one of the more interesting Show HN posts as of late.
Yeah, I get annoyed too when people use Linuxisms in scripts because they don't ever run right on FreeBSD.
I judge them by screenshots and then icons. It's certainly easier than downloading them all. Ratings on the app store don't tend to be very accurate for my tastes.
Key reissue is really just a slightly modified case of password reset.

In my case, for work systems, I'd either fall back on a system password (yes, they exist and can be used, but rarely are, and are secured), or make an out-of-band request to a co-worker.

In a larger context, you'd want some way of demonstrating that you are who you claim to be (not a trivial problem, but essentially the same one that exists in the password scenario). A one-time time-limited token would be distributed, notifications sent to your contact address(es), and once on the system you'd generate/provide a fresh key.

Keys should, of course be protected. With passwords. As I noted elsewhere, you're not going to eliminate the use of passwords, but you can greatly reduce the threat surface and present problem of huge numbers of readily attacked, weakly secured accounts, many with reused passwords which can be found in existing password corpora.
These findings suggest that if I'm fooled into thinking that I endorse a view, I'll do the work myself to come up with my own reasons [for endorsing it].

Isn't this what cable news is all about?
I would not recommend spending a lot of money on cameras, especially for a documentary. I made a feature-length documentary a few years ago (http://graceofgodmovie.com/) on an HDV camera that is primitive by today's standards (1080i) and of all the feedback I've ever gotten not a single person has ever said that the image quality isn't good enough. Even a bottom-of-the-line contemporary HD camera should be plenty good enough to shoot a movie. Heck, you could probably shoot a decent movie on an iPhone 4S.

The one thing that you can't do well on a cheap camera is capture sound. Sound was definitely the bane of my existence for the four years I was working on the film, particularly since I was shooting on the street. In a couple of cases I recorded sound using ipods that I put in my subject's pocket. My camera also had a bluetooth microphone that worked pretty well. If you're going to spend money, spend it on audio, not video.
And http://9gag.com/fast, Facebook modal albums and Google+ albums :)
Action City Bathroom[1] is brilliantly funny (at least IMHO).

[1] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fqC9iKpZns
Hidden features in iOS 6
Or... maybe he just needed some traffic to his website.

It seems everyone who had anything remotely to do with Facebook's origins has tried to cash in.

This bothers wantrapreneurs because it highlights just how much luck plays a role in a story like Facebook's. They want to believe that one founder or a few co-founders succeed based on some factor(s) under their control (hardwork, skill, etc.)

Greenspan is just another one of those people who was involved and is trying to cash in.

If anyone needs to "get over it", it's people who just can't accept that huge fads like Facebook are unpredictable and uncontrollable, and that when faced with the possibility of huge sums of "money for nothing" it brings out the worst in people all seeking a share of the bounty.

The web is a lottery.

Time to re-read the recent speech from Princeton's graduation ceremony by the author of Liar's Poker.
Both at home and at the office I have a pair of Marshall Major headphones. They sell for about 100 euros and the support Marshall offers is great.
They are a little hard to get used to but the sound from these things is amazing. I think they are the best headphones for that sort of money at the moment.
http://www.marshallheadphones.com/product/major
Thanks, truly appreciate the feedback!
http://www.findanyfilm.com, lists movies from TV listings, DVDs, online, all legitimate sources. No torrents and UK focussed
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I am struck by the dissonance of the video. The low-budget feel makes me expect "crackpot" more at every moment, yet at every moment I love and trust the guy more and want to support him more.

I really love the basic concept of wanting to reign in challenging, complex, "fringe" ideas and bind them to the public interest. This is such a simple and fundamental idea that, while manifested to some extent in popular science, is often done inadequately, overly sensationally or both.
I agree. I used it on the way home with the step by step directions and it was pretty nice and right on the spot. The graphics are also very pleasant and the visual cues are easy to grok.

The only thing I miss is street view. But I doubt that's coming back.
Vagrant will work with Parallels and VMWare in the next 12 months.
I like it, will check it more at home with more time.

Though I usually use http://reddpics.com/ to browse, hum, some subreddits I'm not subscibed to because the content doesn't mix with open space.
HN's own marcomassaro (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=marcomassaro) is currently looking for some wordpress work - sounds like you would have no problem doing it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4543562

Any HN's who emailed Marco and get the gig and feel like making christmas in september for someone, pass it on to zettavolt.

Good luck getting back on your feet!
It's only 12 years into the 21st century and you already know what the sexiest job of the whole century is. What's your prediction in 1912? Journalism these days.
First, yes there are some very good managers. However, this is a pointless article as the typical jackass manager would never even wonder if his/her employees thinks he/she sucks. In fact, reading a blog or thinking at this deep of a level would be a huge stretch for them, so they won't even see this article. There are some managers out there that I literally could not comprehend them reading a blog article and thinking about it critically.
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It would be awesome if you could link the title to the Reddit post, or provide any linking function. Maybe it's there but I couldn't find it.

Edit: No sooner did I go back and refresh, there were links on the posts. Awesome work.
I'm developing a strong aversion to polished Kickstarter videos - the dense, direct, and grounded feel of the video helped sell me on the sincerity of the campaigner.
Just pushed out a new version, added link to original post on Reddit below image title. Fixed typo on main index page. Thanks for all your comments and feedback!
The old Maps lacks bicycle directions. I grit my teeth and use it anyway, since bicycle directions are only, say, 20% of what I need maps for, and I can usually kind of guess about bike routes.

But the new Maps lacks both bicycle AND transit directions, which means it only does, maybe 50% of what I need it for. It's basically only good for seeing where things are and where I am. It's basically useless for me for routing. No way I'm "upgrading".

Man, I miss the Maps app on Android. It even told me when I had to leave the house to make a specific bus.
I'm currently on Beanstream with terms that were acceptable at the time (hard to get a Merchant Account) but are now completely unacceptable and am interested in a switch.

- 5% 6 month rolling reserve //

- 2 week + 5 day lag settlements //

- 2.8% blended + monthly fees.

Am I crazy to not switch, or should I present this to Beanstream and get better terms? Other than my terms, I have nothing but ecstatically positive things to say about BS.

Note: my terms are like so because of the nature of my business model. It is high risk, like a TPPA (third party payment aggregator). Think: Eventbrite.
Appreciate the feedback.
Wouldn't good ol' X forewarning through ssh do? Try enabling compression (-C) as well. Use it a lot, but for simpler programs than browsers.
Thanks, just pushed a new version that has a link to the original post below the title. Appreciate your suggestion!
Google requires a contract if you want to use their mapping data in applications or if you go over certain free limits (which Apple's app certainly did).

This contract allegedly contained terms that disallowed Apple from implementing Turn by Turn directions in their application.
Let's assume the term whale is the same one that is used in casinos.

Do you believe that gambling is not an addiction?

I will defer to your knowledge on the history of online gaming. I'm not a gamer.

However I'm not sure you are doing much to advance the idea that Zynga is not making its money from capitalizing on addictive behavior that rises to the level of being unhealthy. Is that what you are saying?

That seems to be what the other commenter is arguing: the business relies on cultivating an (unhealthy) addiction. It seems like a simple notion. Can you prove him wrong?

What I do know is Zynga is not the type of company I would want to work for nor invest in. And their stock price is reflective of my concerns.
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