skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What’s a known source of malware doing in an iOS app? Ars investigates
"I'd be interested to see if there's any research on this."

Not on that specifically but the concept in general is "reciprocity"

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

In any case offering someone something in advance will make them feel obligated in some way and for that matter even put them in a better frame of mind in general.

My feeling is that if you want honest feedback what I've always done is say "tell me what you don't like about this" rather than "what do you think". That way the person is freed to be critical.
Some of them feel natural (upload, download, and piggy bank), but most of them just detract from it.

That said, I don't think the ones that look good add enough to justify their usage.
It has nothing to do with earthquakes and everything to do with zoning laws, HOAs and general NIMBYism.

Here's a fun example: http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_13512735. Palo Alto city council members falling all over themselves to stop LA to SF high-speed rail. They argued that the train should terminate in San Jose, no joke.
So what happened? Citation? I'd like to read the study too.
Uber’s Coming to Oakland
Also from Business Insider, an article headlined, "I've Changed My Mind: After Using Google Glass A Second Time, I'm Blown Away"

http://www.businessinsider.com/google-glass-experience-2013-...

Seems to me that they're just writing anything and everything about Glass because it makes for outstanding linkbait.
> All the NeXT components are displayed here, showing a clean and well engineered assembly, demonstrating a design asthetic that extended to the inside of the NeXT cube computer.

Some machines are really nice inside. IBM (and some Lenovo); some HPUX machines; etc; have really nice well laid out insides.

It's a shame that this approach is dying, even though most people don't need it and benefit more from semi-disposable hardware.
Thanks for the kind words.

Posterous went down and now I just have to transition to Octopress successfully!
MTrip introduces white label applications for tourism boards
Ah ok, I thought the $16k was the entire amount, but I see you said 'left over' :)

Still, for every engineer who lucks out when their startup turns into the next Apple, Sun, Facebook or Google, there are a lot more whose stock options end up either worthless or close to it. Looking at upvotes on the parent article, it seems like $0 outnumbers any other option by almost a factor of 4.
"How could Google avoid taking a stance? Either they call it one thing or the other."

Perhaps avoiding taking a stance could take the form of following the current practice of major players (UN and others)...?
The network graphics are pretty sharp, anybody familiar with where they came from? Or, are they custom?
San Francisco actually has the same problem as the valley. Housing prices are going through the roof because the city REFUSES to re-zone for higher density. The last time there was significant re-zoning, there was a great deal of whining about "Manhattanization."

Manhattan has incredible population density, and residents have some of the lowest environmental impacts in america. What's bad about that?

The same slate columnist wrote about SFO real estate earlier:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/04/11/san_francisco...
The FastMail UI is the best webmail interface I have used. It has keybindings for just about everything, and the UI is snappy and intuitive. Did I mention it doesn't hit me up to join Google+ or give it my mobile?

Moving to FastMail from GMail for personal emails, and self-hosted (via Thunderbird) for business emails, has been nothing but a pleasure.
It's not that hills don't shake, it's just that your house has a better chance of staying up if the foundations are laid in bedrock, and most hills in SF are close to the bedrock.
FTA: "Those who buy the Model S electric car for personal use will now pay a monthly rate of $580 taking only gasoline savings into account."

What does "taking only gasoline savings into account" mean? Does that mean its not $580, its some other price but if you had a normal car you'd be spending X on gas and so our monthly payment is Y - X = $580?

Just tell me what the hell the monthly price is!!
At least they added Alt+Enter to send the email now. That's been the Outlook default since the start of time.

Now I can use the same commands at work and at home. Perfect.
That's a shame -- you usually post interesting links.
I think psychologically the voucher is worth more because it's something they were already going to spend, it's a tangible saving. I'm not a social scientist or whatever, but logically I think that's how people may look at this offer.

I definitely agree that if you're not producing the consumable that's a benefit too (although of course they'd probably use $5 cash to buy a coffee).
Liquefaction:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_liquefaction
Your points are all good tips on how to run a 'proper' dev shop.

I was more cynically referring to big consultancies that intentionally complicate/delay a mission critical project in such a way that every time the new budget runs out just enough progress has been made to make the business decide to throw another couple million at it hoping to finally get a product delivered.
Yes that is true. But what is the standard way to insert a tab?
Not exactly. 10 years ago, there was no competitor to the smartphone which allowed you to use the internet on the go.
Well, Library Genesis doesn't interest me. A complete history of scientific papers would though.
But what is San Francisco jammed with? 2 and 3 story buildings. The land may be maxed out in coverage, but it's still totally underutilized. SF has 17k/sq mi as opposed to Manhattan's almost 70k/sq mi. It's a town that has decided it won't be any bigger (ymmv).
Virginia lawmakers have tried to change the felony threshold to $500, but the law-and-order crowd in the state prefers the older $200 limit which has been there for decades and was more reasonable when originally set up.

Even with a $500 limit though, most likely the cost to NASA of replacing a laptop meets that limit.
Project Glass is scary enough to deserve some respect
$19 and some change. That's it. It's also why stock percentage is pretty meaningless to me anymore. Give me cash, or give me bitcoin.
You can use the ORM infrastructure that enables CRUD to also produce dynamic reporting.

> The only issue with the universal CRUD tool is I have no idea how to market it?

The dynamic reporting thing can be sexy. It would be a great way to sell such a tool. It's like pivot tables, but entirely graphical. It was based on a Smalltalk web plugin when I wrote it. I was going revive this project and make it an iPad app.
>>>> founders now have potentially 500 possible investors

>>This speaks directly to the OP's central point of "legibility". The process is open, anybody can participate. You don't need secret knowledge or connections to do these deals; all you need is a worthy pitch or money to come to the table.

500 investors, means that the Investors become interchangeable. The investors become legible.
The default behavior for Tab in rich text editors has been to insert a tabstop for quite some time. I think this is just a casualty of goog.editor.Editor's unconventional default behavior, which is to tab out of the field. If that is truly an oversight (not overriding this behavior), it says a lot about how the Gmail project is being run these days, because previously they did override this.
3D Printed Sculpture Artwork
meh, me being a hockey fan found this pretty awesome: http://gizmodo.com/pov-hockey-with-google-glass-is-better-th...
Yep, you're right. We could definitely do a better job of detection. But at the moment we're looking for the 'feature' rather than the browser.
Wow, I'm really surprised at the comments so far.

For the Geocities comparison commenters... My takeaway was not "Here are animated icons, you should litter all your pages with them" but rather "Here are animated icons, if you have a use case for them, then these are a very good option".

For the too-much-animation commenters... Are you actually surprised that the demo page stuffs a lot of icons into a page in order to demonstrate the range of capabilities? See above -- the intent is that designers should use them sparingly and appropriately. Is animation necessary? Probably not. Can it be engaging if the execution is good? Without a doubt.

These are very nice-looking icons that appear to offer quite a bit of flexibility. I think that they will seem more natural in contexts where lightweight animations (drop shadows, spinners, etc.) are already used: alerting a user to an available interactive element, on hover as a user prepares to perform an action, during a wait period while processing occurs, or drawing attention to a completed action.

Many of these are pretty subtle or clever animations. If you can get past the notion that "no one in the world can use animated icons well", you might realize that these could be used in moderation to add a hint of whimsy to a site.
I live right next to Bartow, and I have family who does live in Bartow. There is a very good chance that this is race-related.
Don't forget they're going after the Outlook crowd here. Did anyone else notice the new use of Outlook send key bindings?

In the past you had to open lots of pop outs to write multiple mails. Now I can be composing 3 messages and reading another in the background. That's the point. Do more with your screen real estate.
If possible, say that you're doing it as research for an agency.

People are nice and don't want to hurt your feelings. ("Yeah, I'd totally buy that! Oh, I didn't bring my credit card, sorry...")

Also, if you have competitors, try getting feedback on their apps as well. It can give you hints about what they are doing right and wrong, and how you can differentiate.
I hope more startups move to Texas...
Has anyone found a decent Varnish plugin for Sublime Text/Textmate? There's this -- https://github.com/zephirworks/Varnish.tmbundle -- but it hasn't been updated in a couple years and it fails for moderately complex configs.

The Python plugin works reasonably well for plain VCL syntax highlighting.
My ideal twitter account would be closer to this list of major world events for 2013 on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013#Events (found that trying to look up what I would consider the main stories of this year ;)
Ask HN: How do you manage your "TO READ" list?
I have a long list of books and articles to read on different topics, some are recent, some are old classics and topics vary from latest technology to philosophy and finance, science, fiction & non-fiction, politics, the list goes on and on.

How do you manage this not to read only about one thing or not to get caught reading only the recent stuff (which could be junk).

How many books do you read at the same time?

How do you guys juggle with this problem?

Cheers,
E.endpoint.com

A very similar offering released a week ago on github.
Bang On. I encountered this a week before too. I had to pick the pictures, drag and drop just in-lined them. On attaching the pictures, there was hardly any space in the window left to write any words. I am in transition to another email provider, but I am being forced to do so, and at a critical juncture for me personally.
> Some people might get dispaced out of the individual house they live in, [...]

Exactly. Who is going to have a voice in community matters, particularly when it comes to eminent domain: local homeowners, or hordes of hypothetical people that don't live there yet?
I grew up in and around Bartow. I think there is very good reason to suspect that this may be race related.
As a commercial real estate appraiser with a pretty good understanding of land economics, I completely agree. When land is pricy, there is no other logical option than to go up. The only thing zoning serves is the uberwealthy and those with political influence.

There should be no zoning at all. None. Just look at the best cities in the world including pre-zoning America - their growth was dictated by pure economic need, not by nimyism. To use startup jargon, zoning makes it difficult and costly to iterate real estate to the 'highest and best use'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43Egm0j_p1A
Have you put kids in the back much? Based on their comfort and the space they take up, do you feel that the S is enough for a family car, or will the X better fill that niche?
Since your comment at the top of this thread is the top-voted, I suggest you please edit it lest the false information land a non-careful reader in jail.
SF's population density isn't Manhattan's, but it's quite high overall, one of the highest in the US. The city in total has a bit over 17,000 people per square mile; that's 3x the density of Seattle and 6x that of Austin, for example. The parts where demand is highest (the eastern half) are even higher, e.g. about 25,000/sq. mi in the Mission.

Compare that to, say, Palo Alto, where housing is in strong demand (due to Stanford and startups) and yet they've only allowed density to reach a paltry 2,500/sq.mi. If they allowed high-density housing near downtown Palo Alto and Stanford, it'd not only improve things on the peninsula, but also reduce some of the pressure on SF housing from people who currently reverse-commute.
Does this remind anyone else of the South Park episode "Free Hat", where Cartman writes "Free Hat" on the advertising poster in the belief that freebies are necessary to attract people?
> At worst she should get a "hey, be a bit more careful" talk.

https://www.google.com/search?q=reprimand
Ask HN: untapped SaaS niches
I love reading about patio's success with AR and BBC but I mourn for my own lack of such ideas.

How can I go about finding untapped needs in the market?
I was really wondering how this was going to play out, seeing as my staring at a computer screen for hours on end already gives me killer headaches.
Feeding bees corn syrup may leave them vulnerable to colony collapse
Four words chosen from 2048 possibilities gives you 44 bits of entropy (this is what passphra.se does). If you're being specifically targeted in an offline attack, that won't hold up. But in that very rare scenario, you are already in trouble. A 44-bit password will protect you from attackers trying to harvest from a big pool of stolen hashes, or from attackers bruteforcing the login form on a website. That is not the same thing as "fake security through obscurity".

As for the problem of strong, memorable passwords that can stand up to offline attacks, there is still a gap (a 253 bit password made of 11 bit words would be 23 words long), but I don't think the problem is unsolvable. A project I am interested in working on when I have time is one that produces very long, but memorable high-entropy passwords with rigorously quantified entropy by generating evocative, grammatically structured sentences, using a carefully selected word list and a set of mad-libs style templates.

So to get a ~256 bit pass phrase, you might be left to type out a 50 word poem. It would take effort to memorize, but it would be reasonably doable, whereas memorizing a random 39 character password is extremely difficult for most people.

Moreover, since you'd be working with a limited set of words and grammatical constructs, the password entry form could have robust auto-correction so that typos and spelling errors wouldn't be a significant problem.
> the city REFUSES to re-zone for higher density

Call me crazy, but that's what I love about SF. It feels so much more (friendly? approachable?) than other cities because of the architecture and height of buildings. It's quite unique and I'd hate to see it go.
Yep, you're also right. We should improve the case you describe. Thanks for the feedback.
San Francisco is actually still extremely conservative in terms of doing new building - not at all like Manhattan.
FWIW, MSO has had something like 16 generations to refine that.
I love the bacon necklaces: http://www.hotpopfactory.com/product_boreal-necklace.html

;)
Three Reasons Venture Capital May Be Roasting Coffee Beans
I too have not been able to use my original id, I made this one and I can logout / login with it but not my original, shivetya

firefox / safari in mountain lion, windows 7 at work was firefox
He wrote an entire book on this subject:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0078XGJXO/?tag=dedasys-20

Which wasn't bad. Pay the ratings no mind - when it came out, he'd just written something that pissed off a lot of folks for some reason and so they got it into their heads to try and trash his book.
Those questions made me worry for a moment whether this was some social engineering thing.

I don't think they would collect some dangerous info on those who do the survey, but, for instance, it could be an effort to provide targeted ads to my IP address.
The link explains that we hold only half of our debt. So while you were correct to point out that technically the US public owns most of it, still 47% held by foreigner is so high that everything what I said in my post is still valid. We can't raise interest rates because this will result in funds going from the US to foreigners. Economic suicide. And we won't be able to keep them at zero too. I specifically used word foreigners and not China too.

Now, eight percent my seem not too much, but it is 16% of the foreign held debt. Let's say that China for purily political reasons decides to sell all the US debt they hold on a single day. When - as I said - the US Treasuries are valued at their 300 years high, so looks like a bubble, so temptation may be there anyway. I think all these central banks arounf the world sitting on the piles of the US Treasuries are just really, really worried at that point. It's like owning mortgages on plenty of houses back in 2007. If one of them can't take the pressure anymore and sells, everyone will, the bubble bursts. Plus China may have additional political agenda to do it (i.e. too may US bases around their country). This will crush prices, force rest of the foreigners to sell, making US Treasuries effectively worthless. Bam, the bubble bursted. Welcome to the world where the US dollar isn't the world reserve currency anymore.

Now, nothing to worry about. The US will be just fine after the default. As many other countries were fine after defaulting.

Look at the UK and why they quit Sues Canal in early 1950s. Because the US threatened them with open sale of all the UK bonds (guilds) we had. From this point on the UK empire is officially just en "empire". Because we got them by the balls. As China has us now.
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San Jose has been attracting all sorts of developers to build residential high-rises around downtown only to have them empty, with large banners "Selling Now! Prices Slashed!" hanging for years.
Am I the only one that didn't know commercial bee keepers feed bees high fructose corn syrup? That's outrageous to me.
I had a Microway that I ran NeXTSTEP / OPENSTEP on that was an amazing machine at the time.

I loved the left scroll bars and still feel the menu on NeXTSTEP is better than the Apple menu (UI laws be damned) because I didn't have to constantly scroll to the top of the screen for menu options. The ability to tear off parts of the menu was amazing.

The Library app was something they should have kept. The NeXTSTEP file view / shelf still is better than Finder.
A billion compute cores, how to save the results.
Full Paper: Distributed Data Mining on Agent Grid
Staples-is-now-selling-3d-printers
"There should be no zoning at all. None."

Yea, that worked out great in West, Texas:

http://news.yahoo.com/why-did-west-texas-build-homes-school-...
Hardware cost has nothing to do with the price at this point. It's expensive because it's simply NOT mass produced for a massive audience. This is a prototype and they don't want anyone's grandma to get their hands on it just yet.
ECJ 21 and Mason 17 released
Around freshman year of college -- yes, college -- my roomate got an order of Omaha steaks. They were packed in dry ice. I took the dry ice; packed it in a two liter bottle; put in hot water; and, put the cap on. I stood there for about 10 seconds before I realized that a) there was no reason to think the force would be directed out the top like my weird cartoon original conception implied and b) it would take a lot of force to rip apart the two liter bottle.

Immediately, I threw the bottle into our bathroom tub and me and the friend that was there with me stood about 10 feet outside the door. After two or three minutes, I started feeling silly. Nothing was going to happen. About 10 seconds later, it blew up. The metal part faucet in the bathtub was bent, and the shockwave had enough force to knock me and my friend down (although, it could have just been fear) and I couldn't hear for about two hours.

This was around 2003. Not one person came by my dorm to investigate. I think if it was now, I would have been arrested. Admittedly, I was stupid, but not maliciously so.
For short-term yes. For long-term, how do you deal with overbuilding and/or large groups of people moving away to the next up-and-coming city, leaving behind a ghost town of empty high rises?

Some overbuilt cities in China or Eastern Europe have that issue.
Except that not all those datapoints were from suburbs, let alone suburban Florida, and there were still only a handful of them. The sample is also biased, as it excludes white people receiving harsh treatment (it happens).

I do not personally doubt that black Americans are mistreated; I watched black friends of mine being mistreated when I was a teenager. However, I have yet to see any evidence of racism in this case.
I don't manage it, I barely cope.

I would probably look into transcranial stimulation and smart drugs if I had more gumption :)
The Fuzzy Now
All the questions that aren't part of that first big bunch are just fun things we can cut the data on later. In retrospect we weren't terribly clear on that.
I think it probably costs Google a little bit to queue up your email for a send action 30 seconds from now instead of sending it off immediately. I bet it would actually cost them money to just enable it for everyone - I'm sure the percentage of users who even explore Labs is very small.
The problem with completely dropping zoning is you end up with situations like the West fertilizer plant, where a building stuffed with explosives was placed next to a two schools and a retirement home.
Which has always been an interesting dichotomy. Peninsula cities that could benefit from more housing don't.

Sunnyvale has a bunch of apartments near the CalTrain station that will come online this year so that will be interesting.
that is why you never should trust the average anything
Also, I would give a lot for effective software that actually helps with info overload.

tldr.io seems nice, anyone tried it?
PhpMyAdmin 4.0.0 is released
There has been some progress here. Steam has been repackaged for several other distributions.

http://packages.debian.org/experimental/steam

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/multilib/x86_64/steam/
I very recently started playing Eve, and the marketplace is a fascinating piece of the game. Without it I feel like it would be a ho-hum space MMO. (FWIW, I haven't played any other MMO before).
Yeah, yeah.

Edited: Turkey -> Lebanon
“Oh, absolutely,” Lander said, laughing. “Good for them! Clever guys.”

This alone is reason enough to respect these guys. Blizzard would have confiscated anything you won by being clever, which is a much more asstarded strategy in my opinion.

I recall a certain mage who realized he could spellsteal a certain boss buff after a certain patch and who ended up soloing the instance for a while and winning a lot of loot. Blizzard closed the hole and confiscated everything and may have even banned the player. Dumb.

Cleverness should remain rewarded even if you must close the hole to preserve the good of the game.