skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
@Horse_ebooks is (was?) an excellent piece of performance art. I think the modern audience still has a sense of wonderment when it comes to the computer-generated (as though it is the computer itself doing the generating and not really the programmer who wrote the algorithm). People were willing to believe that "computers" were at the point where they could create consistently hilarious phrases, and are disappointed (and even outraged) today when they find that we're not there yet. The artists have imparted the audience with a sense of disillusionment. Perhaps we'll see more art in this style in the future, although part of (or all of) the magic seems to be in the audience's belief that there was no human intelligence behind the content, so perhaps this isn't duplicatable. If only I could set this experience to a Kraftwerk soundtrack, and maybe play Bladerunner on a screen in the corner.

I can't wait to see what this group comes up with next!
I couldn't agree more. I think iOS7 is a great upgrade in general, but the reminders app is confusing and visually terrible. Notes is pretty bad too.
> Who still upgrades their own machine?

Hardware enthusiasts? PC gamers? Really, what a silly question on a tech oriented website. That's like asking who works on their car over at Jalopnik.
Because you don't think they are? I do.

And you didn't say why you suppose more developers use Linux than OS X. My experience is the exact opposite.
For me the big annoyance are the "shuffle" and "repeat" buttons in the music app. Identical buttons right next to each other in the interface and they behave differently. I can't even tell if the shuffle is active or not as the labels toggle between "shuffle" and "shuffle all". Which one is "off" ?
By "interesting" I mean a BSD veneer over a Mach core is only marginally better UNIX compatibility than Windows Services for UNIX (also POSIX certified). Did you know you can call Mach directly to override basically all the UNIX emulation, including access permissions?
Horse_ebooks was the inspiration for other novelty Twitter accounts such as horse_js ( https://twitter.com/horse_js ) which is somebody taking quotes related to JS out of context, and horse_esdiscuss.
Me and my business partner make about $500/month from a simple iPhone app.
(http://varkar.knappra.se/index_en.htm)
Uh, I refuse to believe for a single second that any sane engineer would design an airplane that could be brought down by a cell phone in "bad conditions".

It's like building a house that can't stand rain.
Seems like a pretty smart idea. Good work. I'm impressed by the speed. I like the tour too. I think the UI is very text-heavy right now, it might benefit from swapping some text for icons.

I'd like to see more of a pitch by way of how this app can help me and why I should be using it. Other than that, good job. Hope it does well.
Yes, I think the current trend is a continuation of what has been happening since the Enlightenment, and especially since the 60s.

First they rejected religious authority, then they rejected a lot of the "accepted wisdom" about preordained social roles for women and visible minorities, then they began to reject the rest of traditional moral teachings regarding marriage, homosexuality, the value of a tight-knit rural community, etc.

Now I think the authority-rejecting spree has reached the state as well. The state has been secularized, but it continues to reserve for itself many of the powers that medieval monarchs claimed to have been granted by God -- and more. A ripe target indeed.

Unlike racism and sexism, I'm pretty sure the state will survive the scrutiny in some form or another. We can't afford anarchy. The question is, what will it look like when it re-emerges on the other side of the century?
Thank you, this was an interesting read.

These guys are good and definitely know their audience.
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That was one of the first things I noticed. You can disable it in general settings but unfortunately it is all or nothing. Now I can only pull it up from the lock screen.
CONSISTENCY. In my first programming job my mentor said: "the most important thing in coding style is consistency". Charts are no different in that sense. Isn't there any ISO protocol for charting?
Yes, I think it's been known for some time that it "changed" in 2011 (it stopped being posted "from web", IIRC). Still, an interesting story.
It's a shame this article doesn't have anything new to add, although I'm glad someone is reminding the world we still don't know what happened. Before the Snowden revelations this summer I'd assume it was a simple drive-by, incompetence. Now it's hard to see this as anything other than a deliberate attack by an Advanced Persistent Threat.
"back in 2007, we were enabling college students to debate issues on their campus. And in the unfortunate theme of that era, we had lots of people using it but nothing resembling a business model."

Let's all be thankful things have moved on so much since that era!
In the words of Stu from The Hangover movies: "What the fuck is going on!!??"
Not DIY => "Sure, but here's your opportunity for a startup."
Agree, that's actually the opportunity that our friends at infogr.am and visual.ly are digging.
"a statement about what happens when people play their 'proper' roles within a system, following prescribed conduct with respect to that system, while remaining blind to the moral consequences of what the system was doing — or at least compartmentalizing and ignoring those consequences."

Like Todd in Breaking Bad, who is in fact a neo-nazi.
I'm still happy I posted this however, the comments on this subject inside this thread so far are pretty useful.
Ask HN: What don't you like about iOS 7?
I don't like how apple made the native buttons into links... (phone/sms)
> wheat is wheat, but an iPhone and an Android phone aren't totally fungible.

You can also use branding-slash-marketing to make your fungible product seem less fungible. Witness, for instance, how cattle ranchers used marketing campaigns to turn "Angus beef" into a premium, name-brand product (http://bbq.about.com/od/beef/a/Angus-Beef.htm) that customers don't believe is directly substitutable with unbranded beef.
Yeah, as you realised, and as another person mentioned, it has always worked this way on pretty much every OS I've used - Linux, Windows, Mac OS, iOS.
The author is clearly bitter about Nokia's decline and looking for someone to blame. But the conspiratorial tone is a bit much.

He tries to frame the decline of Nokia, its sale, and the market responding positively to that sale, as an "unusual" sequence of events. And therefore explainable only by an internal conspiracy, not the failure of Nokia's business. But when you factor out the ominous tone, there's really nothing unusual about that sequence.

Nokia was already in trouble when they brought on board Elop. He was their hatchet man. It shouldn't be that surprising that they incentivized him to handle the sale of the company well if it came to that.
This has been done already for years. Regions like Andalucia, Galicia or Extremadura have been enforcing the use of free software, even creating their own Ubuntu based distros.
It's not software piracy what is being targeted here, but movies and music. The software industry can't (or doesn't want to) lobby as hard as the entertainment industry.
Norvig and Graham both wrote books full of code, with either the book or the code freely available, and AFAIK their books first made their reputations. I'm sure your point is correct that open-source people are overrepresented, those just aren't optimal counterexamples.
All this free UX QA is going to make for a heck of an UI in about 6-12 months....
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Sure, but even if Nokia was already on the path into irrelevance, Elop greatly accelerated the pace. He did this by announcing that Nokia would abandon the Symbian OS for Windows Phone OS; a distant 3rd in terms of the OS penetration. All this while the company had NO products to introduce with the Windows Phone OS for another 6 months, leaving all Symbian smartphones they did have at the time dead in the water. (Who wants to buy a phone with an obsolete OS?) This ensures a definite and immediate share price slide.
Fake Apple Ad Says iOS 7 Will Make Your iPhone Waterproof And People Fell For It
If knowing that you are doing something immoral makes it a crime why isn't all of Wall Street in prison?
As I posted earlier. Not a solution, but maybe helpful for some: http://notprovidedkit.com
Back in 92/93 I found gopher and playing around on the ITU's gopher server found a link to the www via telnet.
I'm willing to bet that the next major version of OS X will do away with AppKit and bring UIKit to the desktop. UIKit is already API-compatible in many ways and most of the pieces are already in place.
> We have converted our entire staging environment from a handful of AMIs to a single bare metal host running Docker.

I've seen this start happening more and more. Bare metal over-subscription through containers is pretty damn powerful. Along with the convenience of shipping/moving containers around, it's even cooler.

> If tests fail, we leave a Docker image for our engineers to examine.

This cannot be overstated. Having QA (either automated or manual) be able to preserve a system during issue reproduction and communicating using that is game changing. In this type of work flow, packaging and sending state vs. packaging and sending text which a human must do to reproduce said state.. real efficiency gains.

Thanks for the great article.
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It's not just the BA brand though for business flights; it's the "enterprise deals" with the companies that are paying for the seat, the businessperson's preference for earning points they can redeem for a nice holiday, and the onward network for connections.

I'm not sure in the case of LCY<->JFK the connection network is really a factor, but I think the other two things sunk MaxJet, Eos and Silverjet. (It probably didn't help that they all launched around the same time as well!)
Users are not idiots - they are just people with different priorities to you. That's why this is a deeply flawed approach to design.
How way behind? In brics Nokia had like 60% of smartphone market in 2011... They only lost that market because they made no new cheap smartphones, opening the door for Chinese crap
I met Jeremy at HOPE Number Six.

He was absolutely convinced that hacking was going to be the way that we protest in the future. He likened it to doing a sit-in of a restaurant, protesting outside of a business, or chaining yourself to a tree.

Everything he did was focused on this goal. Helping people learn to hack was going to be a required part of a functioning society. He led by example and some people followed.

I can't help but wonder if he is the first of his kind: a political prisoner of the Internet age.
Agreed. Another interesting thing I've seen some creative users do is RT various selected @horse_ebooks tweets in succession to make complete statements or sort-of "@horse_ebooks poems" When you saw one done well, it was pretty clever/funny.

I think a lot of people always suspected it was a person(s), but it was still interesting in the sense of wondering and imagining a person emulating a bot emulating a person.
Well, if you really didn't commit the financial crime for monetary gain then what was it for ? Just trolling the copyright industry ? There needs to be a deeper look at the situation in this case because the law being discussed right now is really about pirates making money off being pirates.

How is losing all your booty not a big enough deterrent ?

Edit: Also, I'd like to make a distinction here between copyright infringement and financial fraud. I don't think it's been proven yet that people are losing jobs and companies are becoming bankrupt because of large scale copyright infringement. That isn't the same as financial fraud. Personally, I'd like my tax dollars to go first to a jail that houses someone that poses immediate physical danger to me or someone else. Then a list of other things. And finally to those 'dangerous' young'uns from the pirate bay. They're pretty far down the list of evil doers.
A ~2.5 hour delay that effected ~1% of messages -- I've never had a mail provider so perfect that a delay of a couple hours didn't very occasionally happen.

As far as their telling us, the failure didn't cascade causing their queues to fill up and other horrible things to happen. As far as we know, no mail got bounced, no mail got dropped on the floor and lost permanently, etc.

A 2.6 second delay isn't even worth mentioning, how could one even tell the difference between a 2.6 second delay due to a problem on google's side, or routine problems in the email network outside of google that could easily lead to a second delay or whatever.

Did people really get upset about this? Was it worse than it seems because of details they are ommitting? Are they preemptively advertising how well they dealt with this barely-a-problem-noticeable-to-users problem, because the message is really "see, look how damn stable gmail is, our worst problem ever is barely noticeable"?

Or, what?

Maybe those 1.5% of messages were all to the same users, so some people had no delay, and some people had ALL their mail delayed a couple hours? That would make it more noticeable.

But in general, occasional (like once a year or less) couple-hour mail queue delays should probably be expected from any mail provider, no?
If there was a case for a thorough investigation of a company affairs then I think it is Nokia. There has to be much more that went behind the scenes that brought Nokia to this state. In many parts of the world Nokia was synonomous with the mobile phone. They could have played a vital part in bringing the emerging economies online. Today that company has been destroyed and MS and its ambassador has played a dubious role in this.
since time immemorial
> It's a far to simplistic suggestion to say that "rank voting" would solve the problem. For that matter, why not any of the other dozen different types of voting systems?

"Rank voting" is dozens of different voting systems; its essentially one of the major kinds of ballots -- FPTP-style vote-for-one ballots are used in two main voting systems (both often referred to as FPTP): plurality and majority-runoff; "rank voting" is used in many voting systems (IRV, Borda, Bucklin, Coombs, and pretty all the Condorcet methods); and there are a few voting systems (e.g., approval) that use different balloting mechanisms -- though most of them (including the FPTP style and the approval style ballots) are special constrained cases of rank voting ballots.

> In short, the voting system is ingrained into the constitution and will not change in the foreseeable future.

Actually, nothing in the Constitution requires either FPTP or single-winner constituencies (except, arguably, indirectly single-winner for Senate seats by way of the 1/3-per-two-years requirement.) Forms of FPTP -- both majority-runoff and plurality -- are adopted as matters of state election law, and single-member, geographically-defined legislative districts have been required since the civil rights era as a matter of federal statute as a response to states that used FPTP in multimember state-wide districts to effectively disenfranchise minorities (the same could be prevented while allowing multimember districts by using a system that produces proportional results -- including candidate-centered systems like STV as well as things like party-list proportional.)

Very little of the US system of elections is set in the federal Constitution -- about the only part that is is the Electoral College for Presidential elections, and even there the matter of how electors are chosen is expressly left to the state legislatures.
Sourcetree by atlassian seems to handle git flow really well. http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/
It's been said that Nokia suffered internal wars by having something like 3 competing teams developing different systems. The all-in on WP seems like a Jobsian 'focus on one product' reaction.
> Then, it seems, a good solution to solve the problem is to have server owner to declare in advance what are intended use and what's not.

You mean like the Terms of Use for the AT&T website?

http://www.att.com/gen/general?pid=11561#14
Why isn't google open with the data it collects? Surely that would be an easy step towards "organizing the worlds information and making it universally accessible".
Of course PPC ad users still get that data - Google transparent when it feels like it.
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When I bought my first company (an existing franchise) we were shocked at the process from the buyers perspective. What people asked for, and what they were willing to take was not even close. We are not talking like houses or cars, that is piddly - more like a 50% swing.

We eventually found a resource that showed us P&L numbers, sales prices and what it eventually sold for, on about a thousand small businesses. It validated what we were seeing.

Which brings me to today, I am starting into the process of raising money for my startup and am wondering if such a resource exists.

How much money was the startup asking for?
How many angels did they talk to?
How many made an offer?
How far from the ask, was the offer?

Does such a knowledge base exist anywhere?
But did you ever play SPISPOPD? :)
US Border Patrol is out of control
That actually has been the law in the US (not sure whether it still is). There was a case where someone lived next door to a dealer, and customers were frequently knocking on this person's door mistakenly. One time it was an undercover cop, and the resident said "wrong door, the dealer is over there", and was arrested and prosecuted.
Will HK or Taiwan for Strikingly soon?
Interesting that this has popped up on here. I have been recommending it to a few friends in Europe, very aesthetically pleasing design.
Gone are the days when Apple used to make "perfect" user experiences. These days Apple seems care more about "modern aestethics" that look "beautiful" than actually good design, as it used to when Steve Jobs was alive.

I expect the Mac OS X interface to become worse with time, too.
Many doctors have given placebos to patients. Actual placebo pills, with no active ingredient.

The problem with prescribing antibiotics for a viral infection is not that it is useless -- it is no less effective than a placebo. The problem is that it contributes to drug resistance, while a placebo doesn't.
While on a personal level I agree with you, having interacted directly with my users for many of them it's not pretending (idiot is the wrong term) I don't think it's a good idea to measure users based on our own yardstick.

Now the article did seem to be coming from a place of "I have never seen a computer, phone or tablet before in my life how does this work?"
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This reminds me of people using tools to generate maps for Dwarf Fortress based on given elevation/biome data. People have made maps of North America and even the whole earth this way.
All voting systems are ripe for tactical voting; approval voting has the additional problem that ballots lack consistent meaning (a ranking, especially if it doesn't use forced preferences because it allows ties, has consistent meaning; "approval" vs. "disapproval" does not.)

The problem with FPTP isn't that its ripe for tactical voting, its that it maximizes the difference in expressed preferences that are completely ignored by the voting system, maximizing the need to vote tactically in order to have a vote that isn't equivalent to abstention.
sneak you're one of the few "true Americans" (as in when people talk about upholding freedom above all else) and unless I remember your posts wrong, you've had to leave the country to feel free. It's truly a sad state of affairs.
the world has moved over to javascript

I'm not so sure about this. Python and Ruby seem to be just as popular as Node (if not more) for new projects, and as far as older projects go, PHP is still king.
I'm relieved. It never occurred to me that horse_ebooks was a spam bot until I started reading other people stating with certainty that it is a spambot. It always struck me as a human posing as a spambot because it was too clever and poetic.

It also surprises me that so many people think we're more likely to encounter a legitimately clever spam bot than a clever human impersonating a spambot.
The question of whether fingerprints obtained this way are good enough to fool TouchId is still unanswered.

If it were this easy, why do the hacks use carefully made fingerprints from clean polished glass?

What matters is not whether one pristine fingerprint can fool TouchID (note that we don't know how many failed attempts were made), but what percentage of fingerprints found in the wild can fool it.
So they are using an open OS foundation to build an OS that will allow them to effectively lock users into their store/environment? And geeks are happy?
I don't encourage hive mind, by other means. The proprietary tools I recently used where automatable with either apple script system or in java for jetbrain product, but generaly we would do a lot of command line automation because we are more proficient in that. And I try to push products designed for their users instead of designed for their licence or their developers to my product team. But also i leave the freedom to my team to change the tools, every wednesday, we can change some tools, for the whole team.
lots people love the air transportation industry. They wouldn't think about working anywherer else... And on the economic sectors that this happen, salaries and ROI tend to be lower than the ones where it does not happen.
Yep. It's already begun. It'll be pretty sweet when you get to see it ;)

Still there is no denying that what has happened with Nokia's phone division was a tragedy, and a completely avoidable one at that.
I don't think the Executive Branch is overly powerful. Hear me out! Anything significant has to be approved by both houses of Congress, and our Judicial system can overrule all three of them (Something that should never go away).

Winston Churchill reputedly said "You can always count on Americans to do the right thing—after they’ve tried everything else." Our system of "checks and balances" makes it extremely slow and difficult to accomplish anything. Consider the current defunding issue. The Republican party has been taking the US to the brink of shutdown every few months—despite the American people voting against them in the last election. I'm not trying to bash the Republican party. My point is, I think the Executive branch actually has fairly limited power. I think it might actually be better for accomplishing things if it had a bit more.

I think the real issue is legitimacy. One way to improve legitimacy is to elect the person Everyone Hates The Least, rather than who Everyone Loves The Most. Hence my ranked voting suggestion.

I definitely agree we should approach it from many angles. But as you say: accountability. I think the real problem is Legitimacy, not Power.
This. Absolutely this. Considering hosting your own service involves paying a competent system administrator at least $75K/year in addition to buying hardware and network and power, $5/user/month is more than reasonable for such an extremely high level of service. If some mission critical email was delayed for a little over an hour, pick up the phone. This is the very definition of a mountain out of a molehill.
Awesome tool and the couple of queries I made has pretty much accurate results
That's not necessarily true. I used the beta for a few weeks (on my iPhone) and couldn't get over the new visual style and UI changes. I've been following its development and know they haven't done much besides fix bugs since the beta (as is usual). So I've reverted to iOS 6 and have no immediate plans to upgrade.
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