skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To test this hypothesis, we presented 118 participants with
> 48 Swahili-English translation pairs for an initial study trial
> and then three blocks of practice trials.

I didn't get to study before my test, but the participants in the paper got to study before their first test.

To attempt to use the language of that study, when I take a test with no prior study, I suspect that I'm creating mediators based on my arbitrary guesses. I'm wiring up false assertions in my brain because I'm forced to rationalize and make a "best guess".

Once I get to study for the first time though, I trample over all those forced assertions.

Retrieving the correct information now becomes an exercise in being able to disentangle or even distinguish truth from my own rationalizations. To make matters worse, all of my initial rationalizations sound reasonable to me where the truth may be less reasonable (especially regarding browser quirks and other arbitrary bits of data).

That's a whole class of extraneous junk data that I suspect you can minimize by getting to study before your first test.
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commercial real estate also does pretty well, but you need a fair bit of capital to start.
> The typical example is: would you want a boot to appear on your wheel, in your driveway, the minute your license plate expires?

As long as they simultaneously provide the renewal for the license, why not? It would even be a service, since I would have less of hassle dealing with it and remembering to go to their office.

A government that is so efficient that it is basically impossible to even get into trouble with these kinds of administrative things can be a very good thing, as long as it is sufficiently good-natured.

The trouble comes in areas where there is more uncertainty, with laws that are so flexible that it's hard to tell whether you're guilty or not even when you know all the facts. If any prosecutor with an ax to grind can charge anybody with a crime, you have a problem. If, in addition, there are efficient databases that allow the prosecutor to find evidence against anybody even long after the fact, you have a recipe for totalitarianism.
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Change the white background to gray and you have the design of Nokia's N9 user interface (which isn't a bad thing).

Ps. Actually I must check how to change the background on my N9 to give it a fresh look. ;-)
The funny thing is I agree, but I don't think I'll do it. The old version is just so bad I feel like I'd be throwing away money. I'm not internet famous so traffic is hard for me to come by. Can I justify a split test?

So the question becomes do I trust the experts? I do. Therefore this landing page is my new baseline -- I'll split test from here.
Not liking the design. The flat design mocks that were made by random people on Dribbble are better. The gradient in the mail icon is too much. It's like someone's first design in Photoshop back in 2000.
A global ban on US based technology companies, bank on it, it's coming. Remember the US ban on Huawei? Payback is going to be a b*tch
I don't think Persona is pitched for the tech-savvy. On the contrary, I think Persona offers a huge advantage for normal users: You can do one-click sign-ups and log-ins for new websites (provided that you've already signed up for Persona and that you've checked the "save my session" button or whatever it's called).

Another advantage is that you don't have to waste time validating your email address when you sign up for a new website. Persona has already validated your email.
I'm excited to see this; as a decided non-fan of web applications, I've often thought that a first-class desktop maps application would be something really great.
I actually like the new look, a few of the icons seem off, but I bet they grow on me. The transparency and layers makes a ton of sense to me. Really love control center, I can't wait to have easy access to my brightness. New Photos app looks amazing. Airdrop will be fantastic. New background / multitasking is a huge win.

Biggest let down, no inter-app communication improvements. I think that's a huge problem on iOS now, one I was hoping would be addressed.
That actually is pretty weird from a trademark point of view.

(Things called maverick which are not operating systems are irrelevant for that!)
> Yes, the keychain is encrypted with your OS X user login password and only unlocked on login

The "login" keychain is encry..... (the rest of your sentence).

You can have many more keychains, and they can have far more sophisticated passphrases. I have an "Internet Identities" keychain (for iCloud, Gmail, Dropbox, VPSs, Github, ...) that has a very long passphrase and is not unlocked at the login, nor it stays open after you enter the password (so, if Safari asks for the password and I enter it, the keychain doesn't just stay "open" for all apps to feast upon).
Parallax is a nice touch.

At first glance, iOS 7 looks like a hybrid of Android and WebOS. Especially the card multi-tasking approach.

Notification center is cleaner but the colors are all over the place.

Lock screen is pure Android (animated wallpapers, etc.)

They might have made it too flat actually. A lot of text everywhere (the user will definitely get confused on what to tap and what not to tap) Cupertino might be used to UI but a lot of "ordinary" people are still pretty clueless when it comes to interacting with devices whether physical or virtual.

The Safari icon is simply atrocious, although the new Mac Pro looks like a really expensive trash can - I CANNOT believe Ive designed that product. It is just godawful.

Flashlight app? OK cool (RIP Flashlight app people)

Activation lock is a neat feature, probably a top-5.

Oh yeah, and photo filters - PHOTO FILTERS!!! They even included a square Instagram-like camera UI. Are you kidding me?

Apple did a great job of selling a BRAND much less so than selling great new products and features.
Apple is continuously playing catch up with iOS rather than innovating like they were known for in the Jobs era.

Most of these features are just copies of other popular apps/operating systems that came out over a year ago.
Chrome has a some nice developer tools. OP probably right-clicked the popup and got the element name, and from there knew exactly what to target.
"something you don't morally support"

Just to pick up on that bit...

Im not sure its about morality. As I understand it, its about the law. Or should be. I think employees have a duty to expose big organisations when they break the laws which are set down to govern them. Especially when its an organisation that works in secrecy.

The problem with the likes of the NSA is that "we" trust them with to operate secretly on the fundamental understand that the follow the rules our political democratically elected set down for them. The masses cant possibly know if these laws are being followed, so we need insiders to be willing to point it out if they break the law. Its the only chance we have to ever know of our deal is being broken.

Personally, I think that if you join a clandestine organisation, by its very nature, you are leaving morality out side the door. Spying is immoral, end of. But, very necessary. Which is why we allow it, but must have laws that they must be trusted to follow.

I honestly believe it is a treason like crime for such an organisation to break it's deal with the public who allow them to operate in these ways.
Google Talk is being replaced by Hangouts, it might not be practical to keep your existing Google Talk client long-tem.
I'm kind of surprised and amused that a Roast Beef Sandwich restaurant in Minnesota chose a name that refers to a cow that has escaped from a ranch and lived out its days stringy and free from the slaughterhouse.
While42 - French Engineers Alumni Network http://www.while42.org/
At long last Apple announces new Mac Pro with cylindrical design
https://www.dropbox.com/help/247/en

On the first I was like "ops, said bullshit"... but actually it seems like it's GPL.
Couldn't agree more with this statement.

WebOS + Android into one and the fanboys clapping
That type of spying capability is implemented in the telephony baseband. It is commanded using the signalling channel of telephony protocols. Whether or not it is in a particular device depends on the chips that connect to the telephone network.
How about we hold off on leaping to conclusions before we see how it works?
Totally agree, when you see the screenshots all you see is white. I understand moving away from skeuomorphism but it doesn't feel distinctive anymore.
For Android, see the Guardian Project's work, especially Gibberbot: https://guardianproject.info/apps/gibber/

For iOS, you could try ChatSecure: http://chrisballinger.info/apps/chatsecure/

If you want to use the same key on both clients (which carries some additional risks if, say, your phone gets stolen, given that key is stored in plaintext) you may find the Guardian Project's documentation of different OTR key file formats useful: https://github.com/guardianproject/otrfileconverter
It's been done [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Macintosh_G3_(Blue_%26_W...
Whatever you wanted it was not what iOS needed.
Are you kidding? X is an letter that, even after many decades of over-use, denotes mystery and excitement. It is surprisingly powerful for something so simple and widespread.

My baseless speculation is that they will dial iOS up to version ten and merge the OSes at iOS X.
No doubt they will still be promoted as revolutionary features that will take the market by storm.
A person can build something cheaper and more quiet. That is not necessarily the person you are talking to though. Many people don't have that skill set, but say, work in music.

They're premium computers that aren't the highest end specs, but have a pretty good set of specs for the size and noise especially and can be serviced quickly at apple stores across the country pretty easily.
Just wish I could use it more easily on ios. The lastpass app is OK, and the bookmarklet is meh.
This SDK icon is only to be used for the presentation.

They certainly have gone for a very bright look.
1.000... - 0.999... = 0.000...

That last value is, in fact, just zero, only written in a less-condensed form than usual. It is always the case in the real numbers that the only time a - b = 0 is when a = b, so that must mean 1.000... = 0.999... in the real numbers.

More verbosely: At every point in the decimal expansion of the result of the subtraction, the result must be 0 because both 1.000... and 0.999... go on forever. This means that the result must be smaller than any positive real number, which means, because the real numbers contain no non-zero infinitesimal values, it must be zero, which means 1.000... must equal 0.999... because a - b = 0 if and only if a = b.

There are other sets of numbers where this is not the case, such as the p-adic numbers for some p.

Wikipedia has a whole article devoted to this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0.999....
I watched the key note with my girl friend - she is technical but still very much has a girls perspective and can be taken as a good representation of her friends.

She flipping loves this redesign and I'm pretty certain my not techie iPhone/iPad using parents will too - and that, is was really matters to Apple, that 98% of their market will love it and not just the 2% of us who build for their platform.

I like most of it, the colours are a bit much for me but in the main it will be refreshing to move on to something new. I have been toying with moving to Android but this redesign is enough to keep me on board - if I'm going to have to learn a new OS I may as well plump for the one most similar to what I already know
AnandTech - Up Close with the New Mac Pro
I agree with everything you've said, but just wanted to mention "Entry Guards" as the "solution" that the Tor Project came up with for, "the adversary only has to get lucky once". The idea being that the Tor client picks only a few nodes for network entry and re-uses them. Otherwise, eventually you'd connect to all entry nodes.
The Mail and Newsstand are my least favorite
Although clearly not completely resolved, there are a number of really interesting ideas at play. The programmatic and reactive color schemes that we first saw in iTunes for album art, for example is really nice.

The parallax effect looks fun but it will have to be subtle enough to not be gimmicky after a week or two.
I agree with some of the other sentiment. I'm really uncomfortable with the attitude that the poster seems to have that he needs to FORCE his sister into being interested in math.

I was the exact same way with History. But, despite being surrounded by junky grade school textbooks, I was still able to do extra research and get involved in math, because I was interested in it. Is she like this in all her subjects? She's not just some blank slate that you can mold into what you'd like - she's a person with her own interests and passions. These may be something that you might scoff at, I don't know, like posting makeup tips on youtube, but that's what she's interested in. You shouldn't try to change it, and doing so will end badly.
The UI I could take or leave. Apps finally being able to process in the background- that's something else. But by and large, it feels like they're catching up to Android, but not surpassing them.
The Settings icon is terrible as well, compared to the current one. http://cl.ly/PYkr
You can just see would-be entrepreneurs designing their trash can attachments right now.
Still not moving back from Android (love my Nexus 4, 7, and 10) but this will be nice to play with on the iPad Mini I picked up a couple of weeks ago so I can stay current on iOS and help Mom with stuff remotely.

It's interesting to see how iOS and Android each go back-and-forth swiping features from each other (or from popular accessory apps; Apple's the worst at doing that).
Activation lock is definitely the coolest bit in there, but from a technical perspective, what does that mean? You're still talking about client-enforced security; will jailbreaks (/similar classes of exploits) be able work around it?

This one is a big question mark, since it means that the device is either really locked down, or activation lock is just a marketing bullet point that won't mean much in reality. I'm not sure which of those choices I prefer.
I hope it's quite or fanless. Looks like it's a giant heatsink design.
Agree 100% with you on the Mac Pro. It's a novel design, but I have no idea why they went with AMD processors instead of the upcoming Ivy Bridge E Xeon E5s, which will run circles around the best AMD has to offer...
Not really, I promised myself I won't go back to using iOS as a phone OS. For the next iPad Mini it'll be great but I'll just wait for Paranoid Android to innovate and get the HTC One Mini's successor. I admit though, that Android is going to be behind doing a full revamp like this.
Who says it is a choice between two people? You may not have noticed, but there are more than two parties in this country.

How about all the Democrat and Republican voters who talk about choosing the lesser of two evils get over it and vote for third parties whose views they agree with? Stop being cowards and worrying about the "other side."

If anything, we will at least force the major parties to work harder to keep their power.
AnandTech - AMD's Richland vs. Intel's Haswell GPU on the Desktop
Was that supposed to make us feel better somehow? The "oh-you-think-you-got-it-bad" mentality disinclines me to any level of empathy or sympathy and more toward apathy.
I thought the same thing. WebOS or maybe an Asha phone from Nokia.
Administrative arrest in Israel isn't indefinite, there's a similar process where they ask a judge to prolong it and as a citizen I believe that they do. However from what we understand from the media, they might be asking the judges without explaining the details to them because of confidentiality.
Oh God why. I've got nothing against flat design done well, but this just makes everything so much harder to SEE.

Look at the example screen for "Control Center" -- it looks like a geometric indistinguishable mess. The line around buttons is the same as the line dividing sections is almost the same as the line in sliders.

The example screen for weather shows thin white text against a light blue background, which I can barely make out on my monitor, let alone on a phone.

If anything, phones need extra affordance as what is a label and what is tappable, since we have fat fingers, hold phones faraway where things are small, and often in bright sunlight where there's little contrast we can make out. Phones need extra contrast, not less.

I'm really not one for hyperbole, but Steve Jobs must be rolling in his grave. This isn't about an aesthetic choice, it's just about common-sense usability and quality control. That weather app looks completely useless in the real world, and the fact that Apple's internal processes have allowed this to be launched does not bode well.
That's what I was thinking. I've had WinMo8 for about 6 months and a lot of the interface reminded me of applications on my device. It was WinMo8 with a splash of Android.

edit: And Apple made Bing the default search engine! http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/10/apple-slips-default-bing-in...
When I clicked on that page and saw "The future of desktop computing.." and that trash can slide into view I actually thought it was supposed to be a metaphor.
Awesome!

Thanks for the reply!
You're gonna switch just because they changed the UI? Aren't all of those new features available on Android? Plus, Google must be cooking some good stuff for next Android, so you should hold your horses :)
This page is a fantastic example of great development skills used in a way that is utterly infuriating to use. I don't want it to animate when I use my scroll wheel. I want the page to scroll.

Off topic, but were this and the Air the only product announced? If so, I'm disappointed- I was hoping to pick up an updated Macbook Retina 13". Oh well.
First feeling when i saw the icons: Shock! I still can't believe they came up with this mix of ios+windows+android UI.
The whole thing looks like the phone of a 16y old girl. with candy on top. and syrup.
As for the OS part, i think i no longer understand versioning.
The design seems pretty ugly to me, but it is functional. It's essentially a wind tunnel with all the circuit boards placed against it.
This looks like it's going to make a lot of nerds angry.
Also, people like myself who would use this for work, and could build one, but just don't want to.
Also, it seems borderline crazy to think you can judge how well the colors will work from a screenshot.

I've never thought a screenshot of a mobile device's screen felt even remotely like holding the thing in my hand.
it seems they would have to specially target you though, basic encryption can evade the passive dragnets. Which is most of the problem - we don't want our free speech of 2013 coming back to haunt us in 2023.
What? They did use Xeons, they said so right in the keynote.
More like catchup to the jailbreak tweaks that came out 3 years ago.
On the other hand, external hd business is now booming.
If you can't upgrade anything easily, it's bascially just a very fast Mac Mini.
Yeah, internal interchangeability without a soldering iron is coming at a real cost these days.

External buses are faster than ever though, so many things go quite quickly through those for expansion capability.
Mac Pro: The world's fastest trash can.
Same story here. I was actually a math major and took the general GRE (which I believe is what we are discussing) in my senior year. I only studied the night before, just to see if their prep guide included any funky vocab or other memorization questions. I looked at some vocab, spent 10 minutes reviewing geometry and trig identities, and called it a night. Turns out I didn't even need any of it.

(I did get one question wrong, though, and looking back I definitely know which one. It was an easy one in the middle of the exam questions and I think I just messed up a concept like "less than" instead of "less than or equal to".)

All my math/C.S. friends thought it was really easy and I think the worst score I heard from them was 720 / 800.

Interestingly, though, back when I took it the average score for the math section was notably higher than for the other sections. Just by missing 1 question I think I was bumped down to about the ~90% percentile.
Wow. Apple basically took all the shitty parts of Google's design philosophy and scaled it to epic proportions of fail.

Take a look at the text screenshot. It is hard to tell where I should touch to start typing. It is hard to tell where the buttons are. Overall, this is incredibly shitty UI.
Well you can never tell this, until you see it on your phone. Most of the icons may look like a basic photoshop tutorial, but still that's the minimalistic approach of flat design.

You've got a really different view of something ( a gradient ) outside of it context ( the whole UI ) and the same element as part of a whole design. That wasn't pretty obvious to the great super-pixel-detailed skeuromorphic design, where each icon was a whole design, but I'm pretty sure we'll speak differently by the end of the year when we get that iOS and evaluate the change for real.

Take a look at their new demo paga [1] it looks pretty nice and flattened. I'm afraid of what will happen to the 3rd party apps, that will not get a flat-design update.

[1] : http://www.apple.com/ios/ios7/
Reminds me of the Cube. But Thunderbolt and USB3 make this much, much more versatile...
> Instead of white bars on a black background, Apple will now tell you what kind of service coverage you have with five little dots, which are white and grey depending on how strong the signal is across a translucent background.

I don't understand why Apple dropped signal bars for "dots". The term "bars" for cell signal is common, mainstream terminology. The dots take up more status bar space than the bars (unless Apple really plans to remove the carrier name from the status bar).

Perhaps Apple is trying to marginalize the carrier's branding and distance themselves from "signal-gate" by not using the common "bar" terminology? In the future, there will be no cell networks, only FaceTime. And bars will be obsolete.
All around the globe french engineers are recognized for their skills, but they suffer from a lack of real alumni associations. So we're building one.
Apple developers don't use Pivot? Text is cut off left and right on a 1200x1920 screen.
Here is what the human role will be as computers take over the world
The black iPhone is dead.
It's novel, absolutely. But man is that thing ugly!

-- Comes with an Intel XEON E5
Next up, the iSphere.
The last upgradable mac is now dead. I thought the whole idea of the pro was the ability to put in graphic and other specialty cards as needed for "Pro" use. This looks like another cute consumer PC. Maybe they'll sell it along side the HP's at Sam's Club.
Agreed, my "the colours are a bit much for me" is an initial reaction. I'm sure my opinion will change once I get it in my hand as will many others I'm sure
1.0Gbps writes for the internal SSD sounds pretty good. Wonder what component provider they're using?
So they sold the 4th generation iPod Touch up until twelve days ago, but they won't support iOS 7 on it?

http://www.apple.com/ios/ios7/features/
The Soviet Union was advertised as democratic.
Nazi Germany was advertised as democratic.
Communist China was/is advertised as democratic.
I actually downgraded back to v5 because of the terrible changes they made to Web Inspector in v6, so I'm pretty annoyed that they didn't even mention it when introducing the new version -- at a developers' conference, no less!
My theory is that people who say that do have something to hide. For example: the NSA. It's a perfectly reasonable statement from their perspective.
The new Mac Pro is Xeon E5. The GPU is AMD, not the CPU.
Not sure. They might have (assuming) built it into the firmware... But there are always ways to get around things.