skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see how Greenspan's experience would not exactly be easy to move on from. At stake is not his own personal success, but his belief about how the world should work. Greenspan sounds like a pretty moral guy, the kind of guy who gets upset when things happen that he thinks are wrong. Basically, you're asking him to shrug and move on but for him, an antisocial bastard is in the spotlight smiling and waving and being showered with praise by the press. It sounds like, for someone like him, fixing this mistake is more important than any other typical SV-type venture he could throw himself into.

Or he could just be incompetent and bitter. Who knows.
I don't know where you got this from. There is a "I don't have a california ID" box you can check, input your social security number and you're done.
It's not just the political system in the US - this has been going on since the patricians and the plebs, and is unlikely to change. I'm not sure that it is some form of elitist conspiracy though - people form tribal associations all the time even without the encouragement of leaders online or offline.
> "This notion that we should get down on our knees and pray (or otherwise please) the overlords is just wrong"

Yep. Totally wrong - just don't buy Apple. Kind of simple. It's not like there's no alternatives...
Really well designed and nicely done :D. My only comment about it is that every time I reload the site, it shows me the same images in the same order. Need to randomize it up a little bit.
Missing from the list: they quit and go elsewhere.
I'm not familiar, is Google specifically blocking Apple from using that data or have they simply not published an API for turn-by-turn yet?
Also interesting that the state where it is easiest for people to vote is probably the least important in this election as I imagine you couldn't bet someone 500 dollars to win a dollar that Romney would win California.

If it was a swing state the battle to allow people to vote or not would be headed right to the courts.
Thanks rm999 :)
What are some decent Skitch alternatives, something that lets you easily write and draw on the screen shots? Preferably I'd like to share via Dropbox. I already pay them so I don't see why I want to pay for Evernote too.
Terminal.app often feels sort of clunky to me. I use iTerm2 instead--being able to split panes is really nice (no, I don't want to use tmux).

The default userland is kind of annoying, in that a lot of utilities are BSD ones and aren't compatible with my imported-from-Linux scripts, aliases, etc., but that's just an install of coreutils away.
DataGotham 2012 videos
> I couldn't even talk to a human

Really? That doesn't sound right. Please send me a mail and I will follow up. My initials at google dot com.
http://libesyr.so/dump/montage.png
http://libesyr.so/dump/montage_small.png
You're right. I just read that first Matroshka sentence ("There needs to be a label placed on the idea of feeling the need to bow to the wishes of critics who try to limit the idea of valid entrepreneurship to activities deemed "beneficial to society."") and I couldn't help myself. I did "grok" his argument but I rushed and left some of my assumptions implicit. So yes, I could have set out my rebuttal more cogently.
I'm getting an error when I'm on http://www.flipmeme.com/image/XWkG2 and clicking next:
"Error loading page"
Thanks for the feedback! Need to turn off Django debug mode and fix that pesky right arrow key. It doesn't seem to work if the browser or window loses focus.
Respect. Realizing that your submission was submitted already, and linking it to the former one.
A couple that I know of which are based on the security side of things are Brakeman (https://github.com/presidentbeef/brakeman) and Scanny (https://github.com/openSUSE/scanny) on the open source side. On the commercial side I know Checkmarx covers rails (http://www.checkmarx.com/), amongst other languages
Agree. There is a channels button to the top right, you can select which subreddits you want images from and also how to order the images. But good idea, I need to add a show random images option.
Making Progress on Star Trek Physics
http://libesyr.so/dump/montage.png
I'm not sure there is a way for an end-user to revert to a previous version once a firmware update has been successfully applied.

If it wasn't successful, you could use the firmware restore CD that came with the box, or create the CD to do that, but again, that only works for failed upgrade attempts.

I've had to do this once in the past, and the easiest way I could find was to just take it to the local Apple Support shop and get them to do it. They did it for me while I waited, and it didn't cost me anything but time. YMMV.

But good point... I'm not in the habit of backing up firmware.
Since the App Store search algorithm update in June, my apps have seen a 60% drop in sales. Before the search changes, two of my apps steadily made me around $40k a year for three years.

The drop in sales concerned me so I paid for external advertising and marketing. It did not help.

One of my apps was featured by Apple twice. Now when you search for it by its exact name, some free spam app shows up above my app.

I am expecting another huge sale decline starting this month thanks to the new iOS6 App Store.

I'm not sure how anyone can see this change as being rational. This change is as bad for customers as it is for developers.

As for me, I had a good run on the App Store. But the world is not ending. It's just time to look into other income streams.
This reads like satire - it's a list of instructions for incompetent managers to preserve power.

Did hn just get trolled?
You are awesome. Know this.
I really like the design. It looks great.
Just one issue. The "Next" and "Previous" buttons are inconveniently placed. They should be placed near the picture. I recommend putting them on the sides of the picture, in the center, similar to how facebook does it.
why is that?

Is it because the courses don't offer credit, so people who don't care about credit are the ones who take them?

If they offered credit, would that statistic change?
Just to be clear, I do not share this opinion of Facebook.
By the way, if you want to get the benefits of tmux with respect to attach, detach, but want to manage splits and tabs using the Terminal, iTerm2 has you covered:

http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/wiki/TmuxIntegration
tl;dr: I've been using Mac for ten years. "Two days ago I got my Dell XPS 13 as part of a Dell beta progam called project Sputnik." After two days of use, I haven't run into any serious roadblocks, so I'm not using Mac anymore.

a) Is writing this blog post a requirement of the Sputnik program?

b) Regardless of the answer to a), how do I get into the Sputnik program?
Thanks, let me look into this...
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Moving from VMWare Server to VirtualBox on Windows I found VirtualBox to be significantly faster.
If that's so please ignore what I said. Good job.
It's in focus and sometimes still doesn't work.

Uncheck everything and check only gonewild in channels, then save the settings and you get redirected to http://www.flipmeme.com/image/None

Other than that, very cool site.
It's been a while since I used it, but off the top of my head:

- colors never worked right, you can certainly enable them but themes like solarized are impossible to get working.

- it took forever to open. as in, a terminal on my machine is just a keypress away and it took the terminal on my osx machine a couple seconds to open a window, and even longer to show me a prompt

- somehow they borked mouse input, so clicking the line you want to edit from within a vim session, for example, is a no-go.

- this is a lion problem but terminal interacts with it especially badly, there's no easy way to open a second terminal window. I usually have tons of the things open and it's impossible to manage them properly.
Vintage.JS
Took me less than five minutes. I knew all of my information except for my Driver ID #. I'm guessing he had to search for his information.
This posted by Dell or something?! What's with the over-excitement?
The only thing I can think of is medical imaging and they use windows.
So what's wrong with it is that it feels clunky to you...
To be fair, they look about the same, they're just not marked and the transit system isn't drawn in. It's just blank. If the transit system still exists and is accessible in the back end, then it's not so bad and is actually about the same --- just doesn't look as pretty.

Oh, and I'm not an Apple fanboy. The most recent piece of Apple hardware I have is a iPhone 3G. My upgrade from that was a Motorola Droid and then a Droid Bionic.
Why are people voting up this article? There is nothing interesting in it. I'm genuinely curious about what people are finding interesting here.
I have a Lenovo x220 running Ubuntu 12.04. Aesthetics of the machine aside, it is the best setup I've ever used for a development machine. Ubuntu is by far (we're talking leaps and bounds) better than OSX for dev work and I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the keyboard on the x220.

I don't have a XPS 13, but I can see any reasonable machine loaded with Ubuntu being a developers dream. Honestly, any machine loaded with Ubuntu these days would be more than reasonable for a most anyone.

PS. Did I say I love the keyboard on the x220? Because I do.
Dude, you are cracking me up. And I know you're not joking either. Thanks for bringing some life to an emotionally bereft forum.

You are familiar with this term they have for the big spenders on Zynga? "Whales". What kind of person calls someone with an addiction a "whale"? Maybe some people are just too immature to be taking payments from users.

Oh, it's all good. We're making people happy.

No one is arguing for a "goody two shoes, save the world" standard that all web startups must meet. We're simply observing that certain "founders" obviously have no soul. And worshipping a sociopath like Zuckerberg is not a pleasant signal. We can do better.
... for a moment I thought that was iPhone UI put up next to Android UI ... I thought this was funny.
« Bien-Être et Sérénité »
I've complained a few times on twitter to @github about removing the traffic graph. I used it as a motivator myself, and a way of trying to prioritise what project to work on.

A spike in traffic could mean I invested that extra time to land something new in a project, that was a great way for github to ensure commitment in projects.

Apart from that I think every change in the last six months have been good.
While I disagree with the linkbait hyperbole of the article title, Apple have taken a misstep here. What they should have done is allowed the user to flip between a list view of results or a card view when introducing this new view type, rather than just replacing the list.

Re searches I'd expect a simple search for picasa to return apps with picasa in the name before other apps, no matter how popular they are.

The frustration I have with the App Store is that it doesn't
have enough control over subcategories and filtering so it's hard to filter results or browse effectively as the categories offered are so broad.
a. They would like us to be vocal, but there is no strict requirement.

b. Its as simple as installing this image you can find here on an XPS 13 : http://hwe.ubuntu.com/uds-q/dellxps/
Managing Multiple MySQL Servers From One phpMyAdmin Installation (Using SSL)
Hasselblad defends Lunar's concept and pricing
I asked Zach Holman: It wasn't an accident, and a blog post will be up later.

https://twitter.com/holman/status/248675337536413696
Thanks man, glad you like! I have a background process running that should fill out all of the categories within a couple of hours. It's on cron so it will update the site with new stuff every hour or so. Please come back tomorrow or the day after and let me know what your think. Thanks!!!! :)
One thing I don't like is you can't completely clear the scrollback, only the visible portion. I often use 'tput reset' when doing new build/test runs and it is nice when the scrollback only contains this time's output.
For what it's worth, I just updated to 4.1.22 on such a machine and a snapshotted VM resumed without any trouble.

Edit: And then also to 4.2.0 without trouble.
Shouldn't you be petitioning Apple instead? They're the ones who took it away.
Hmm I faced some of the same problems:

- Colors work perfect with the tomorrow theme, kinda similar to solarized (https://github.com/chriskempson/tomorrow-theme/tree/master/O...)

- I think I changed my shell to /bin/bash in the preferences, which fixed it

- Haven't encountered this

- Haven't encountered this
I'm glad you note Evernote as an exception. That's a great example of an app that's:

1) Ridiculously Useful

2) No Comparable Competition

3) Has A Tie-In Factor That Makes Any Power User EVENTUALLY Pay (and be more than happy to).
I'm glad to hear sleep and hibernate are improving on Linux laptops and I really hope more manufacturers will follow suit with their own initiatives like this.

However, will any portable laptop get 7 hours of battery life on Linux with wifi on like the 13" Macbook Airs do?
Agree, I'll think about moving them in version 1.0.1 :).
Announcing Barman 1.0, Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL
The big reason why many school boards in the USA and across the world have not adopted e-readers in the classroom is because whenever they try, advocacy groups representing disabled people shut them down.

--Key point. Why don't thet go with books on tape versions for ADA?
yes. "Implied LWS" rule says it can be included between any tokens, but tokens MUST be separated by a delimiter therefore if 0.000 is allowed (no delimiters) then it means it is a single token and "implied LWS" rule is not applicable for the 0.000 part in the quality values:

* implied LWS
The grammar described by this specification is word-based. Except
where noted otherwise, linear white space (LWS) can be included
between any two adjacent words (token or quoted-string), and
between adjacent words and separators, without changing the
interpretation of a field. At least one delimiter (LWS and/or

separators) MUST exist between any two tokens (for the definition
of "token" below), since they would otherwise be interpreted as a
single token.*

</quote> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt

Quality values:

qvalue = ( "0" [ "." 0*3DIGIT ] )
| ( "1" [ "." 0*3("0") ] )

It seems the author is mistaken in allowing:

0 . 0 0 0
Simple consumer bank concept copied in the Netherlands (Dutch)
1. What's the battery life like?

2. Are all devices supported with drivers - Bluetooth, 3D, graphics, sleep/wake, 802.11n, webcam, internal mike, ...

3. Does it do instant sleep/wake like a Mac - 100s of times without crashing/rebooting?

4. How does it handle external displays? Plug and play like a Mac? Does it handle display rotate? The internal display is only 1366x768 ?

5. Does it detect a headphone and switch from speaker to headphone automatically (speaker driver?)

6. How's the trackpad compare to a Macbook Pro?

7. How's the keyboard compare to a Macbook Pro?

Asking because I moved from Linux->OSX a long time ago, and I wouldn't mind switching back if the hardware is right and more importantly the Linux drivers work well.
Referrals to Facebook Spike 1000% After Twitter Cuts Off LinkedIn
> For those paranoid about "online voting"

It wasn't your point, but why would a hypothetical online voting system be a problem? If, as another poster mentioned, this online registration system is good enough to prevent erroneous registrations, why couldn't the creation of an online voting account be included as part of the of the process? Being able to register and vote without leaving your desk (or on your phone, at home, etc) would help to enfranchise the aforementioned nonvoters even more than just making registration more convenient would.

If it's at all in doubt, I'm not trolling here, but genuinely curious as to what the fault(s) in online voting would be. The main problems that come to mind are (theoretically) preventing the privacy of anonymous voting and the possibility of cracking accounts (given a user base close to the entire population of a state and an (imagined) incentive for doing so, brute-force guessing of stupid passwords would likely be very effective if proper password complexity checks were not put in place), but what with the scandals that voting machines have caused in the past, I'm not so sure that offline voting systems are more secure in practice.
The comic claims an entropy of 44 bits for a 4-word phrase. That means 11 bits per word, so a dictionary of 2048 words, which sounds reasonable for "common English words".

A single ATI 5970 can compute 2300M SHA-1 hashes per second. So you're looking at about two and a half hours to run through the entire keyspace. Fewer on a farm (which Amazon will rent to you for a few bucks). That's assuming you know the dictionary, of course.

Of course, if the password is hashed with bcrypt or scrypt it will take much longer, although I'm not sure how to do that calculation.
Pretty sure Google have already announced they'll release an iOS version of maps. That said it can't come soon enough. I've no idea how they've defined POIs on Apple's maps but they need to go back to the drawing board. Where I live there's a pedestrian zone which Apple say has a gas station in it. Worse is the gas station they say is in the middle of a heavily wooded park (neither of these are there obviously). Whilst I appreciate things can't be perfect, this is so far from perfect and has been since beta phases that I just think Apple is continuing their beta testing using all of us as testers.

The Google Maps app can't come soon enough; I'm only glad that I have TomTom and my car's built-in navigation to fall back on because I have no faith in the software Apple built.
It's not mentioned here yet. In safari or chrome on iOS going to maps.google.com works pretty darn well. Except for showing me what direction I'm currently facing it is pretty darn close.

So if the new app is giving you that much trouble or you need that little bit more of information that google provided you. Just open it up.
It doesn't look too cheap to me. Plus he or she made an easier to use watchlist RSS feature than movies. That's just my 2¢.
I'm sorry Bill but I am going to have to respectfully disagree. The App Store is broken and Apple is doing it wrong. The point of search is to find new interesting apps. With over 700,000 apps on the App Store, search is the only way most indie devs get sales. And with the new changes, even the best devs cannot rank high on search.

We do not think we are the center of the universe. However, we are an important park of Apple's ecosystem. We helped build the App Store to where it is today.

As of right now, it feels like Apple is kicking us to the curb, Just read some of the app dev forums around the web. A lot of us lost money over Apple's decisions last summer. And we will continue to lose money.

Please come back and comment when you have released you first app. If spending thousands of marketing dollars on my already popular apps did not decelerate my sales freefall, then most new apps on the App Store have very little chance at succeeding.

A new paid app will never rank high on search. That's the state of things right now. For some reason, Apple's new search algorithm prefers free apps over paid apps and older apps over newer apps.
Fingerprinter - same questions for you on the Lenovo x220 you use

1. What's the battery life like?

2. Are all devices supported with drivers - Bluetooth, 3D, graphics, sleep/wake, 802.11n, webcam, internal mike, ...

3. Does it do instant sleep/wake like a Mac - 100s of times without crashing/rebooting?

4. How does it handle external displays? Plug and play like a Mac? Does it handle display rotate? The internal display is only 1366x768 ?

5. Does it detect a headphone and switch from speaker to headphone automatically (speaker driver?)

6. How's the trackpad compare to a Macbook Pro?

7. How's the keyboard compare to a Macbook Pro?

Asking because I moved from Linux->OSX a long time ago, and I wouldn't mind switching back if the hardware is right and more importantly the Linux drivers work well.
I have seen on the Solidoodle forums that the Solidoodle has a .1 "mode" but I don't have the specifics. The Solidoodle website says, "It's possible to print hi-resolution parts at a layer height of .1mm, which gives top-notch looking prints".
While looking beyond a pg_dump-style approach to backup/recovery, I was considering https://github.com/heroku/WAL-E and discovered Barman. It's also open source, and looks like a strong contender.
Getting Stopped Before You Get Started
For the non-Dutch speaking, the feature highlights just below the fold are:

- A complete financial dashboard
- A financial planner
- Access to financial advisors without a sales motive for Knab
- "Alerts" to be notified of fiscally attractive options for your current situation

- All this for 15 euros a month, no hidden charges

Clearly they're not a 100% Simple ripoff, but it seems to boil down to pretty much the same "revolt" against current consumer-banks-that-hate-consumers. All-online, no hidden charges, online tools that help you deal with your money better and faster: the core ideals are the same.
“I don't feel we have exposed people or fooled them,” says Hall. “Rather this shows something otherwise very difficult to show, [which is] how open and flexible people can actually be.”

--There is a "social" reversal stigma, likely at play here.[1] In isolation witout time constraint, check to confirm result.

_______________________

[1] "Participants were then asked to [read aloud] three of the statements, including the two that had been altered, and discuss their responses."
Christ guys, I count 5 misspellings of 'loose' and 'lose' in this thread. It's NOT that hard.
Portable, yes, I do, although it's now almost two years old and the age shows when compiling. But on the other hand, I whip out my core i7, compile something and the battery is drained after an hour and a half.

Disclaimer: the two year old machine is one our company used to make, and my version of development is on the Linux kernel or various packages like the MATE desktop.
This is so much better than the suburban office park crap that plagues the tech industry. Beautiful.
70% terminal, 30% browser. Sounds like he needs a Chromebook.
I was about to come on here and call those colors absolutely awful, especially since the monitor I was looking at them on was the most color-accurate monitor I have; but ... then I remembered I have Flux turned on on my screens. I turned it off; and ...

... it's not so bad, I'll admit.
Cmd + k clears scrollback how you want. If you want to script it, you can use osascript: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/31872/how-do-i-rese... Yeah, it's hacky.

It's a usability trade-off. Defaulting to allow scripts to erase all your scrollback would be pretty annoying in a lot of cases. Ideally there would be a checkbox for this behavior, but Apple doesn't like config options.

One thing I wish terminals had was a "scroll up to the last place I typed something." I think that would solve your problem as well.
Intel planning Clover Trail variant for Linux only
It isn't your home, it's a hotel.
Might i suggest trying iterm 2

http://www.iterm2.com/#/section/home