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A really nice article. I always wonder about the psychology of dishonest people and I really like the explanation about the brain filling the gap for the cheating person.

In a related question I always though that there was a complex relation between the feeling of honesty and a dishonest behavior.

Example 1:
Crook says: "Well of course buy my product." ("I know that it is a lie but you will buy it because you are a sucker")

Example 2:
Crook says: "Well of course buy my product." ("Ok. It might not be the best product on the market but I am an honest man doing a hard job and I have kids to feed")

I am sure that you see a lot more of the 2nd type of crook in our world.

EDIT: The idea is of course that very few people lie deliberately and most of us do it with some kind of justification. Honest people might lie because they may think that they deserve more.
It's like cheating at cards or battleship and getting the right answer. Then later making up a plausible reason how you knew where their battleship would be.
If my experience is any guide, I bet Yahoo is seeing users get to 'new' Flickr, pull their hair out for a minute trying to do whatever they came to do, and then leave.

Management is saying 'let's at least offer them a place to go when they leave'.
> pre-screened travellers

The problem is that you can't reliably pre-screen for terrorists, the signal is plainly undetectable in the noise - there are 95 million passengers a year at Atlanta alone and 19 hijackers on 9/11.

You're bound to get a lot of false positives, and then what do you do with them? In the meantime, the actual terrorists just wait until they successfully get a guy pre-screened, and he then just walks on board with a bomb.
sorry, didn't realize this was the main point

I've never read the Olympics code, list of principles etc, but I can imagine there's something about human dignity and freedom and liberty? Well, liberty should be a lowest common denominator. I.e. -- your culture allows some people to enslave and oppress other people, and deny them life, property and dignity? Well your culture is a piece of shit and you don't host Olympics. Easy! Cultural bias? Sure - cultural bias of human against blood-sucking goblins doesn't sound too bad.
As far as I've seen, nobody in those countries has publicly threatened Olympic athletes with torture or the death penalty, simply for the crime of existing.

I'm open to counterexamples, if I'm wrong.
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Any idea how this works with managing multiple Twitter accounts?
I'd argue that entertainment, no matter how small, is value to someone.
>GMail, etc, is just as important from a security perspective as your banking site since it could be used to perform a password reset. It could conceivably be iframe'd and have its contents sucked out.

Now that is a good point. In general, I don't know what to do about the weak link of email, which goes far beyond sniffing. I think it's hard for people to properly respect the gravity of their email's security when the vast majority of what comes through it is basically frivolous, or at least security-noncritical.
The author is focusing on >$10000 and < $500 (posters and crap) It's the mid-range that is interesting here.
> I trust the city government to keep the neighboring landlord from turning his apartment buiding into a ghetto hotel without the proper noise-mitigation measures, more than I trust AirBnB to do it.

You do? Section 8 ring a bell? Many more landlords and governments agencies have turned apartments into ghetto hotels than individual Airbnb hosts. And the result has been a spike in the murder rate:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/american...

So USG is using tax dollars to move in murderers next door, and landlords are taking those dollars. Yet one trusts USG to "protect" you from a ghetto hotel?
It isn't FUD. You're basically saying it is ok, as long as gays keep their mouths shut, and don't utter "propaganda".
I know I'm arriving very late to this thread, but F500 companies overwhelmingly turn to outside counsel for their legal needs. There is inhouse legal staff that review the work done by outside counsel, approve bills, and negotiate retainer agreements, but by far the majority work is done by outside counsel.

At the enterprise level, legal spend analysis is a huge deal, and yes the existing tools for electronic billing are really clunky (I work in this space).

%-saved is really hard to accurately calculate on a legal bill. Often inhouse counsel will negotiate a "discount" with an outside firm (yay savings!), but then that firm will overbill to make up the difference, and may do so in ways that aren't really detectable even by "machine learning". For example, they can pad their hours or add extra staff to the matter, or add some mysterious disbursements, or hell just raise their base rates next year to make up the difference. Who is to say that "REVIEW AND DISCUSS LEASE CONDITIONS AND DISCUSS SAME WITH CLIENT" should have taken 2 hours instead of 4? (A real example I just pulled from a real LEDES file).

I did a report for a F500 company a few years ago that showed that after the switch from paper to electronic billing, savings increased (in the form of discounts and auto-adjustments made by our rules engine), but overall spend increased anyway (in the form of increased fees and hours billed). So I'm not really sure that this is a problem that can be fixed by technology. People are gaming the system on both sides of the transaction.
Thank you, thank you!

While I wouldn't consider myself one of the people to be doing something as despicably useless as writing farmville or designing PPC ads (I guess others might beg to differ), your observation is very good.

Here is a real problem, and if you don't think it's affecting you personally, you're deceiving yourself.
> Why is it such a problem to ask the user to enter their account password before viewing this prefpane?

You're trying to prevent my friends from fetching my email password to look secretly at my self-nude pictures.

Justin is trying to prevent my enemies from fetching my email password to gain access to my bank account and rob me of all my money.

His point is Chrome preventing the former threat, while useful by itself, can lead me to believe that I'm also protected against enemies with physical access. This belief, as we know, makes preventing the latter threat impossible. As he cares way more about the latter threat, he thinks it's counterproductive to defend against the former.

> All of your marketing screams about how secure chrome is

To be fair, that refers to being secure against remote attackers, which is the primary concern of a browser since there's not much the user can do about it by himself.
I'm acutally playing with Clojure and Julia right now and I'm running into the same problem. Never used Java and a lot of the Clojure material assumes you're coming with at least a little bit of Java background. That said Clojure is a much more mature language, Julia is still very new, its APIs are changing rapidly, etc.

Agreed about too many interesting languages though :)
I echo this statement. Don't forget to specifically identify experiences from your start-up that are applicable to the job you're applying for (sales, project management, coding, etc).
I have some security concerns.

Consider the HN mod. You can try to log in there... http://hnews.tomodo.me/newslogin?whence=news

That form does post but not to HN.
Are you referring to Erlang or Elixir? Erlang has QLC (Query List Comprehensions) which work like that for Mnesia, for instance. I couldn't find information on this in the Elixir docs but I probably didn't know where to look.
I don't think it is. From what I understand, John Carmack has decided to put all developments with Armadillo Aerospace on hold, until he can get more investors (besides himself) to support this company.
Coupled with solar panels for charging, this has some potential for saving the environment. Though trolley buses have been running on electric power drawn from overhead cables, this is superior in that it can be used outside of predetermined routes and thus can be applied for use with all sorts of EVs. High upfront cost to lay out such infrastructure on large scale notwithstanding, this kind of technology in some distant future is the only way I can think of widespread use of EVs can become practical short of a miracle hyper capacity light battery. Just wish there was some article somewhere with more details.
I agree that there are many questions that any given human will be very likely to ask itself at some point in its life, and perhaps to dwell upon at some length. The example you gave of "Where do we come from?" is one, along with "Why am I here?", "What am I meant to do?", and many others.

Where I disagree is your leap from those questions to some notion of a "higher being". First, as mentioned previously, this term is undefined and you cannot have a meaningful conversation without defining the terms. Second, we have already answered some of the "big questions". We know where we come from: billions of years of evolution through natural selection. No "higher beings" necessary. And third, for the questions that still lack satisfactory answers, in most cases that is because they are wrong questions (http://lesswrong.com/lw/og/wrong_questions/).

There may very well be "big questions" that actually merit being asked and that may rightly be considered foundational human issues, but that does not by any means lead to the conclusion that the question of the existence of some undefined "higher being" is a foundational human issue.
OMD - The Open Monitoring Distribution
Note that this poll is 4 years old. You should add the year when you link to such content.
use a gopro. this is exactly the sort of silliness they're made for.
It just amazes me how anxiety inducing this is even when I have nothing to hide. Realistically everyone commits many crimes without even realizing it. My fear is this will allow essentially arbitrary arrests.
Jeff Bezos, No Fan of Unions, Gets 1,200 Union Workers at Wash Post
How is currying better than partial function application (particularly with keyword arguments)? If your function isn't commutative, then it seems to give greater importance/flexibility to the first arguments.
Sigh.

As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of an invocation of Godwin's Law approaches 1.
Messy desk, creative mind.
You can't run an airline that is free to exclude any passenger at will. TSA pre-check is based on the fallacious inference that rich frequent flyers and terrorists are a distinct set. Saudi royal-funded operatives may well be more likely to be frequent flyers than the general population.
If you are repeating that false 'rounded corners' meme then you are either paid by Samsung (who started that), or beyond reason.
I know a lot of consultants who fly every weekend. If this had better city coverage it would actually be cost effective.
Julia is aiming at Matlab while Clojure is aiming at JVM/Lisp. If you're used to using Matlab for scientific computation then at some point Julia will become a much better option. Much of their work is around lifting heavy numerical components up into the runtime which are wasted on a lot of the programming one would do in something like Clojure.

I'd say they're pretty different niches.
Focus Fusion at Google Solve For X
You can't verify everything and everyone you're dealing with on a daily basis. You need to trust someone. If you're not trusting your government you need to trust the people watching the government. Or the people watching the people watching the government. Or... It's turtles all the way down from there. The government acts as a large trust provider in a lot of daily interactions. Police authority derives from the government. Passports and ID-cards derive their validity from trust in the government...

So it would be nice if in general we could trust the government and to be able to trust the government we need them to be open and transparent about what they do in our name - and held accountable if they fuck up in our name.
I'm sorry, but I feel like I've had this pointless, silly debate my whole career, starting with comp.security.unix, continuing through my brief time working with OpenBSD and 90's Bugtraq, and through about a decade of helping startups with software security, and I've lost a lot of my patience for it.

Security is measured in dollars; it is about the cost you confront your adversary with. Chrome has sunk many millions of dollars into blunting attacks that cost 6, 7, sometimes 8 figures. You're up in arms about a security measure that would add pennies (if that) of attacker cost. Justin and his team (rightly) observe that in return for the pennies of extra effort the feature you're demanding would add, they also incur a real risk that users will feel safer leaving their accounts unlocked. As you've already acknowledged repeatedly, if they do that, it costs pennies to get all their passwords.

There are all sorts of stupid extra steps you can add to make things harder for computer-illiterate attackers to compromise your accounts. Like I said, you could also Base64-encrypt the passwords. Or ROT14 them. Or Base64 and ROT14 them. How about you turn that into a round function and write the Base64+ROT14 Feistel network? That'll surely dissuade someone, somewhere from capturing passwords.

You will no doubt be able to come up with a 4 paragraph response to this comment. In ~20 years, I've never been able to deliver a killing blow in this stupid debate.
Building an API with Golang, RethinkDB and wercker
Nikon SB-300 speedlight (new)
Google "Users want and demand a rich computing experience." Back in the 90's a Microsoft person made that claim on comp.risks. It kind of became a joke to call every new attack a "rich computing experience."
Here's LPP's announcement: http://focusfusion.org/index.php/site/article/fusion_takes_f...

The presentation was at the Solve For X Brainstorming Fusion Conference, which also had General Fusion, Tri-Alpha, Lockheed Martin, and various people from academia and national labs.
Your logic doesn't follow. According to your rules we shouldn't have doors on houses as all they do is provide a false sense of security.

Don't forget, all security, regardless of how good it is, is just a delay mechanism. It's perfectly valid to delay the easy attacks as well as the hard ones.
The question is then; in a two party system where both offer the blue pill, who the hell do you vote for? Neither Democrats nor Republicans will change this. Due to the way that the political system works, a third party isn't possible. In the UK we have a Conservative/Liberal coalition, where traditionally Liberals were strong privacy advocates, but now turn a blind eye to the massive Orwellian/Huxley-esque society growing like hydra's heads in front of their very eyes. The complaints are muted. The mass media looks the other way. Why?

To me this means:

- the system is broken

- the current political framework (especially in the US) is a fabrication, designed to make you believe that you have a choice, but in reality your vote is meaningless and your choice an empty vassal. The red pill is just a blue pill painted red.

The problem is that the intrusions so far, do not impact the majority in such a way as to hinder their daily quality of life. The change from a private world to a 'all-seeing government' is slow, but it is sustained. At some point we will reach a tipping-point, and then the only option is revolution, because by that point, the system will have enveloped the public fabric of life so tightly, that there will be no way to gently extricate ourselves.

It is your (US) own great thinker and do-er that said:

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a
little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor
safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings
of Benjamin Franklin

The irony is that the 'little temporary safety' may well have been a ruse. Even if Al-Qaeda is a real and present danger to the US at home, I doubt that the scale of that threat is worth the loss of liberty and the billions of dollars spent on funding the 'fight against terror'.
I was actually pretty impressed by CastAR. It's certainly the most compelling AR-esque experience I've tried.

It opens up a different set of game possibilities than a VR headset like the Rift. Think augmented multiplayer tabletop games rather than immersive worlds.
No, this is not true. It is probably a bad law, but "anything that publicly references gays" is not a crime. The law only establishes a fine (not prison term) for promoting homosexuality as a norm for children under 16. Personally, I do not see how you could do it without being prosecuted for violating "Obscene publications act" in UK or similar laws in US.

There was fairly similar law in Britain until 2003: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_28

Also, I should note there is no protests supporting gay rights in Saudi Arabia were homosexuality is punished by death.

Also see: https://marknesop.wordpress.com/2013/08/02/somewhere-over-th... ,
https://marknesop.wordpress.com/2013/02/27/warning-explicit-...

Biased, but biased in a different way then usual articles on this subject and therefore useful.
The proximity sensor is not enough to trigger "raise to talk", you also have to have a little jerk of acceleration. If you have the feature enabled, try slowly raising the phone... it won't trigger.
This is blatantly political content. There is not even a tangential connection to the Internet, technology, startups...

What's next? A "what you're listening to right now" thread? "Post your pic"?
CBS Blackout Triggers Surge in TV-Show Piracy
Surprisingly. Where a construct really has no JS analogue, the structure is still mostly maintained and the extra bits are packed into a function that appears right below the code block.
...aaaand to Guantanamo you go.
It's worth remembering that John also did Armadillo Aerospace on the side too.
Stealth Startups Are Stupid
I know people who try to do interesting things for the users with iframes and are completely frustrated by things like that. File under "why we can't have nice things."
Rubbish, there are plenty of gays in Russia. Have you even looked at Soviet Realism? You do realise most of those artists were gay and their pictures had a secondary meaning?
No, I'm saying you should't expect to get prosecuted for something that isn't crime. I'm saying you should have your facts straight.
They clarified: the law does not prohibit being gay, the law just introduces fines for promoting homosexuality as a norm for children under 16. It is probably a bad law, but it is not saying what everyone protesting it thinks it is saying.
People mostly care about accessibility. Part of accessibility is cost, though many people can afford to make payment - assuming costs aren't higher than what the hours they work allot them in disposable income.
Apple rejected the app. Did you read the article?
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We've had one at our house for a few days now--even the relatively rough devkit delivers on the promise, in spades. The only thing it needs to is to be completely USB powered (probably not possible given the power envelope, or at least have a way of powering it from a battery pack for portability reasons).

People using it (we had a party recently, showed it off) do feel disorientation, mostly due to a lack of seeing where there real body is. Our hope is to integrate the point cloud from a kinect to help with that.

Oh, also, after a few drinks the impedance mismatch between what you're seeing and what you're doing is imperceptible. :)
Evolutionary history probably plays a role here. Science has given evidence that our faculties of reason are probably meant to persuade and not to reason about the world in an abstract manner.
We probably evolved in hunter-gatherer tribes of 150-200 people where voice counted for a lot. You can influence by arguing within a group that small. And losing an argument could mean expulsion from the group leading to a low-chance of survival.

The problem is that this simply doesn't scale. Arguing political questions feels as real to us as it did to our hunter-gatherer ancestors whose lives literally depended on it. But this is just not the case in polities of a few hundred million. Hence it's likely beneficial to reduce political bickering for those not involved with politics.
Actually you are right but for the wrong reasons. The general counsel at a F500 company is not the one carefully reviewing the invoices, although his approval authority may be required for only the most significant bills.

But general counsel do want to keep overall legal spend under control, and are decision makers when it comes to purchasing several million dollars worth of legal software. For the purposes of closing enterprise sales, these are the guys you want to be taking out to fancy dinners.
That's a rather offensive false dichotomy. Please don't accuse me of being paid off or mentally incapable.
Omg omg omg, lovin' it.
Pretty amazing that a company like DigitalOcean can shake-up the market for VP servers prior to even taking funding. Their $5 servers have changed the game for nearly every hosting company that offers virtual servers. And to think they've managed to offer this while bootstrapped, is incredible.
"If the Olympics were being held in Dubai, then the only reason we wouldn't be hearing about how they treat gays would be all of the screaming the plethora of other social issues plaguing the UAE."

I agree that we would _hear_ from it, and that we should do more than talk of it, but will we? We'll know that ten years from now (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_FIFA_World_Cup). Yes, that's not the Olympics and not the UAE, but I think the case is similar enough for this discussion.

I am a pessimistic about that; we had a World Cup under Videla in Argentinia, too (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_FIFA_World_Cup#Controversy...)
In 1993, 10 years before US.
A few modern form features like placeholder text, required, and input type-casting for email, tel, number, and date reduce the need for JavaScript if you're willing to let the experience degrade pretty drastically on legacy browsers.

On a side note, I found the clip art at the top of the white papers distracting. Formatting, spacing, class names such as "nav", value="passwo".
The question is then; in a two party system where both offer the blue pill, who the hell do you vote for?

Greens or libertarians, which I have been doing for a long time. Real change starts at the ballot box.
Not so much genius as just an absurdly hardcore work-ethic, and a refusal to ship code that is sloppy where it would matter.
Gore Associates (creators of Gore-Tex) have been operating as a no-manager company for over 50 years. They do over $2B in revenue per year and have 8,500+ employees.
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/nov/02/gore-tex-tex...
This ridiculous and this is not something it should be on hacker news.

Stephen Fry is completely wrong, but again, not a thing we should discuss here.

@pgraham can you focus us back to our lovely, go against ruby against php and clisp rules them all.
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You are right, it posts to the proxy, not to news.ycombinator.com but this is how it works, it's a proxy.

This reply was posted using the HN mod, so you can see the proxy then posts to HN server.