skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This happens frequently with OS X updates, and it's why I usually wait a month or two before upgrading:

2012 - Mountain Lion: http://www.webpronews.com/mountain-lion-may-be-hurting-your-...

2011 - Lion: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1194978

2010 - Snow Leopard: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10426564-263.html
I doubt anything. It's a mashup of various languages, broken interfaces and hilarious bugs.

Here's some of my favourites that I've encountered in my use of their pathetic products:

http://bad-adobe.tumblr.com/post/35671000643/

http://bad-adobe.tumblr.com/post/57065003458/

http://bad-adobe.tumblr.com/post/54814875332/

http://bad-adobe.tumblr.com/post/53922218860/

I don't think you'll find many people who haven't had the monolithic application completely fail on them at one point or another, inevitably during critical or expensive work.
Well that settles it. I'm sold. Just bought myself a bitcoin. Looking forward to moving into my new house in 2017.
No frill IPS monitor from Monoprice: http://www.monoprice.com/Product?p_id=10509
Getting the Message [2007]
Pah! Let's write all our code in hex. We can't have the government getting involved in anything!

Ron Swanson approves this message.
windows has an app that's surprisingly not publicized a lot called math input panel which allows you to input equations quite easily in other programs like word or onenote.
/shameless plug
Wouldn't leaking the source code for photoshop increase what photo manipulation software will be able to do in the future? I think if the competition had Adobe's photo imaging software, this would force the envelope to be pushed.
The best part is they let me "reset" my password to the old one. Just testing on my part, but great job!
The only problem with using Linux is that there isn't (as far as I can tell) a good Linux UI that's very touch-friendly. The closest one is Unity, and well, that's all I need to say there. (I realize some people like it, but I'm just not one of them, sorry...)

I'm excited to see what comes of the Ubuntu tablet distro, but at the same time, they were the ones who made Unity, which isn't really good at anything. So I'm not super optimistic either.

Windows's "metro" UI is obviously touch friendly, but even the desktop can be made touch friendly-ish via its DPI scaling, which I think works pretty well. I haven't been able to get that same usability out of any Linux desktop environment yet. (If someone has, I'd love to know about it!)
I think you misunderstood that I was implying asking people to wait indefinitely while I just meant for them to wait for a few months.

And, if the software that's making my both ends meet doesn't work on a newer OS version as expected, I think it's fair that I (or anyone else) wait for a few months just to be sure that it works as expected so we don't end up in the streets, you know.

(Please take my comment seriously)
At least 38 Million? I have a hunch that this is the total number of paying users that they have for their suite at all. I'd be surprised if this breach and the stolen materials do not affect their business badly.
Well, I'll be dammed.
Interesting way of looking at it. I hadn't thought of it that way before. I'm curious how sound this analogy is.
Sometimes the web is an eerie place. I just searched for Adobe and Maverick conflicts, and this is near the top on google (having been updated "47 minutes ago"): http://hackers.tgdaily.com/rt_story/hackers_tech/mac-os-x-ma...
If anything else, thanks for that link. I don't know it it will pick up on HN, but that is a very interesting situation to me.

(Boy I will look stupid is this gets to be the next #1 on HN!)
Downloaded and it didn't show up as an launchable app, so I tried adding it as a widget, which gives the "TwLauncher (process com.sec.android.app.twlauncher) has stopped..." error. Tried the obvious fixes for that but none worked. Not sure I'm ready to try a full reset yet. Using a droid charge, if it matters.
The stealth editing of these HN titles is really getting out of hand. What's the deal with removing "Photoshop source leaked" from the headline here? It's in the freaking first paragraph of the report.
I have 5 macs, they're all working great.
Sooooo... Anyone got a link to the code?
Hmm, I hadn't noticed but I do have a "service battery" warning as well. I don't use my personal laptop a lot anymore but it seemed to be drained every other time I would pick it up. So it does seem that something is amiss. I'm not too worried, it'll get fixed.

Though to be honest, there is some risk of damage to the battery if the firmware is not doing its job properly. But Apple has usually done the "right thing" about big problems like this.
Did anyone notice the cat with the sunglasses "module"?
Ask HN: Is gmail down for you? 
Our business's gmail is down? Seems others are having issues also https://twitter.com/search?q=%23gmail

Is gmail down for you?
> it's worth noting that the US dollar is also not backed by anything however.

Not true - the US dollar is backed by US government taxation. The dollar amount you owe in taxes remains unchanged, while the amount of gold or bitcoin you'd need to sell to pay your taxes is determined only by market forces.

If hypothetically everyone in the US were paid in bitcoin, they'd still owe taxes in USD, which would probably lead to a rush on USD around April 14.
I'd say everyone smells subtly different and it has nothing to do with ethnicity; A dog can easily differentiate between people by sheer smell alone.
Ask Founders: What does your work schedule look like?
From my understanding it's due to the anti-intellectual strain of US society, summed up by the pithy saying "87% of statistics is made up".

The fact remains that people are unkind to uncertainty and statistical models (as opposed to "common wisdom" or rote learning) requires the audience to embrace and understand uncertainty.
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted for asking a question.
I'm not even going to apologize for casting a dash of cold water on this scary article. The fact is, if you wanted to find out how much radiation is reaching the West Coast, you could test for it. Easily. Nobody has done that. Why?

I'm going to be taking a nap until I see (on this science and technology site) that some real Scientists have conducted some real scientific tests and have recovered some real scientific data, that leads to some real scientific description of the problem -- in Scientific terms. Really. Wake me when you do the job.
There always will be some lucky from millions of users, whose mac will die after installing new update, but this does not mean the update was the reason.

Where are all the "data scientists"?
Html Css from scratch baby. j/k themes
>They thought they could brute-force the market by sheer will.

Not saying i agree entirely with this comment, but they haven't been proven that they can't "brute-force the market by sheer will" as long as they're still in the game. Some would say that's how they won the first OS wars.
Very true. Except for a few like Robert Scoble, Richard Branson etc.
Recent iOS updates simplify Burst Mode camera feature in iPhone 5s
Chances are it includes a large proportion of 30-day trial users - who have to go through the same painful process of registering for the "creative cloud" and installing all the same "added features" as the paying customers. Adobe is not one of those companies that just lets you drag a binary into the right place and get on with the job, then dump it in the trash when you don't want it any more.
Motorolas Modular Smartphone "Project Ara"
Here is the source: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...
> I remember the thread about phoneblocks and how it was never going to happen

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6373237
I like that idea!

Remembers me of the German magazin 'brand eins' that offered a 'social' subscription where you won't pay for a year if you're struggling with making ends meet. You just had to tell them, no questions asked.
Things to know Before iPhone App Development
What companies or deals could you have been in?
Share your stories about companies you could have been a part of or deals you passed on that turned out to be a mistake.
Nobody Cares About Your Startup
Why you need to start giving office hours to your customers
> In Cantor's version, we prove that numbers (real numbers?) are not enumerable

in the standard diagonalization, you just prove that the reals in the interval (0, 1) are uncountable; that proof is very simple to state and then you can argue that (0, 1) is a subset of the reals so the real line must be uncountable too.
Its a power of technology, and as we have seen education sector using these gadget for educate children. Its obvious thing..
As always with any major OS release, you have people crawling out of the woodwork that are pinning every problem with their systems on the new OS. It couldn't possibly be the hardware that they're using.

I'm not saying Apple is perfect, but when you've got millions of people downloading an OS - many of which are jumping 2-3 entire major OS versions - even 0.01% of people having the same problem is going to result in hundreds of people with that problem. When you combine that with a public discussion forum run by the company (that's regularly indexed by the major search engines) and a small but vocal portion of the customer base that feels entitled to immaculately perfectly functioning devices because "they bought an Apple computer" (read: luxury) and you end up with runaway threads of coincidence-now-fault.

"Wow, Apple is giving away 10.9 for free? Even for old machines running 10.6? Gee, I've got a 5+ year old laptop with the original battery I haven't used in a while - wonder how it'll work with that."

Saw that someone mentioned the MacBook Air Gen 1 (they probably meant Gen 2 since Gen 1 had 32-bit EFI and maxed out at running OS X 10.7) - which originally came out with 10.5 ... but you could still get 10.9 onto it if you did the USB installer trick. In point of fact - Apple actually added the visual indicators for servicing your battery in 10.6. If people are installing 10.9 over the top of 10.5 (it works if your machine can run 10.9), they will likely be seeing a battery warning indicator for their 5-6 year old machine that has been a valid issue for quite some time (especially since the battery isn't considered user serviceable on a Unibody Mac) - it just never popped up in their face. I would be more believing of this thread if every single person posted their battery readings and all turned out to have amazing low cycles combined with amazingly reduced capacity (which is when the Service Battery dialog appears).

If you find yourself to be in the same boat as the people in this thread, you should probably read this KB article from Apple and immediately have your laptop retrain its battery knowledge:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964

"Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)"

After performing normal troubleshooting, these symptoms may indicate that an SMC reset may be necessary:

-Power-:
[...]
The battery does not appear to be charging properly.
[...]"
My father in law called recently to get help on a strange email issue he was having. I suggested a restart. This worked. It turned out the poor thing hadn't been restarted in nearly a year, with heaps of use every day. Another anecdata point.
and don't forget source maps
If writing is only a means to an end and it's wrong to identify as being a writer, why shouldn't the same analogy apply to programming?

I've taken an excerpt from the article and replaced certain words with analogous words related to programming:
"The problem is identifying as a [programmer]. As though assembling [code] together is somehow its own activity. It isn’t. It’s a means to an end. And that end is always to [create] something..."

Advice given to people who want to pursue programming versus pursuing writing seems really different.

1. Why is that the case, and why are the two not quite analogous?

2. Is it just the bias of our perspective, as the "techie" people?
> I wish bundler was more integrated with rubygems, which would for instance make the `bundle exec` dance unneccesary.

https://github.com/mpapis/rubygems-bundler
"how do we bring the benefits of an open hardware ecosystem to 6 billion people?"

What about the remaining billion?
Even large apps like Snapchat or Instagram seem like they started out targeting a specific market first. Usually for tech startups that market is simply early adopters (or HN readers), but it could also be teenagers, photo enthusiasts, etc.

My point is that thinking of your audience as "everybody" isn't very helpful, so it can be a good idea to artificially restrict it to a particular segment even if (like Tumblr, Twitter, etc. did) you intend to eventually conquer the whole planet :)

So if I was building Tumblr today, I would first try building an audience in communities that I'm already familiar with, such as designers or the HN crowd.
Symantec takes on one of largest botnets in history
Symantec has seized part of the 1.9 million-computer strong ZeroAccess, one of the largest botnets in existence.
Snowden is not a journalist.
Thanks for the paper!

So only 4 US ethnicities were tested: African Americans, Caucasians, Chinese and Latinos. That feels extremely broad - especially "Chinese" and "African Americans" combine many, many different genetic groups. Edit: The Chinese government, for example, recognizes 56 ethnic groups, which may or may not genetically be distinct.

>The subgingival microbial community was able to predict an individual’s ethnicity with a 62% accuracy, 58% sensitivity and 86% specificity.

Wait, that doesn't seem very good - I could flip a dented coin and get similar results?
The pedant in me would like to emphasize that clojure-with-a-j predates the google product by over 2 years.
I like your story, and your humility. I think that Aston is right. At the time, it was the best decision for you, based on what you knew, and wanted to do.
Nothing prevents you from inventing something spectacular at Google, now :)
I don't believe this will convert well. Converting to paying customer should include a positive reinforcement.

I would never be a customer of a service where the company tells me that I stole from them in the first place. For the DistroKid case I'd say stealing is a strong word for creating a few dummy user accounts. I'd guess many of us have asked friends to use Dropbox referral codes to sign up even when you know they might not continue to use the service.

If a legitimate person is caught stealing then one is ashamed and prefers other services.
Gamification, VR, ER & Social networks: Where is this leading?
Wow, my thoughts exactly. I thought "huh, kind of neat concept, but seems a bit impractical, don't think anyone will actually be able to manufacture the hardware efficiently."

Now, it's still vaporware, but Motorola's backing is a big step towards something that could actually happen.
This interesting thing about what they have in their example is there not all phones need to be 100% modular. that blue phone looks like a normal phone with only one modular point.

Best of both worlds
From the post, FWIW:

> Recently, we met Dave Hakkens, the creator of Phonebloks. Turns out we share a common vision: to develop a phone platform that is modular, open, customizable, and made for the entire world. We’ve done deep technical work. Dave created a community. The power of open requires both. So we will be working on Project Ara in the open, engaging with the Phonebloks community throughout our development process, as well as asking questions to our Project Ara research scouts (volunteers interested in helping us learn about how people make choices).
Phonebloks concept pursued by Motorola
> a huge file called “users.tar.gz” that appears to include more than 150 million username and hashed password pairs taken from Adobe.

150 MM looks like that number. Yeah Adobe is good at making things difficult the moment one steps outside of Photoshop.
I had the service battery warning show up on Mountain Lion: did the SMC reset, it went away for a little bit, then came back. Installed Mavericks, it went away for a day. :) Got a new battery a month ago, and it's still indicating over 100% of design capacity. (6958/6900 mAh MBP 8,2)
Dell Inspiron 15" UXGA (mid-2000): 151 dpi

15.2" PowerBook G4 1152x768 (2001, updated in late October, same res): 91 dpi
I've actually never seen the idea of a phoneblock but it sounds awesome. I've always wanted a mass spectrometer on my phone (okay maybe that is asking a bit too much).
Thank you for posting this. Having launched my own landing page yesterday (as Drew did in 2007), I thought that I should explain the positive feedback I left for Drew on Hacker News in 2007.

Launch posts were full of naysayers, even back in 2007 when Hacker News was called Startup News. I had done my own startup for 3.5 years at the time, so I wanted to give members of Hacker News useful, insightful, and positive feedback about their project.

The link was a landing page with a video about "throwing away your USB drive."

In my Hacker News comment, I proposed a list of ways to replace "throw away your USB drive" with a non-technical metaphor that people of all ages could understand (a personal secretary who automatically makes duplicates of anything you create for safekeeping, stored the way you want and accessible from anywhere.)

I've observed that newer Dropbox videos started to incorporate my feedback more and more. It's really been awesome to see Drew and the rest of the guys kick butt!
I wish people wouldn't freak out so much about this. RVM is pretty mature at this point, and there are some really great alternatives like rbenv and chruby.
Show HN: My first Angular JS chrome extension
Because I wanted to learn Angular JS, I developed Time Capsule, a chrome extension that replaces your "new tab page" with a newsfeed from yourself from one year ago. It also allows you to set goals for yourself for the next year.

The idea of replacing the "new tab page" is that you can look at your goals everyday.

Overall the experience with Angular JS was very good and I'd love some feedback on the finished extension.
I find this movie to give an excellent discussion on where our culture may be heading. It's also technically well done.

SPOILER:
I find that the end is not in par with the rest of the movie. I would hate this discussion to go down the road of Frankenstein syndrome/technofobia/conspiracy theory.
There are so many more relevant issues with how this affects us without going down that (over-beaten) path...
> Windows 8.

You don't have to. Linux...
Well.....

http://abarristerswife.wordpress.com/2013/05/05/exhibit-a-th...

UK, but I can see this happening elsewhere.
>>> When you have dozens of designers that all want to leave their mark on the product, you end up with...dozens of features, none of which fit together quite right. Google is in that state right now.

I think it is quite the opposite now. Google designers are TOLD to uphold similar design pattern on all Google products, which have the same features across all of them.

Seriously, why does gmail, google+, and google search should have a similar look? It just breaks some functionalities. These products are different and should not look alike. Pushing same patterns into users mouths, when it hinders the experience is an overkill.
The internals are probably pretty interesting but what's missing from other similar programs is the UX, GIMP is a giant papercut, I'm often tempted to edit images with emacs/imagemagick instead. Photoshop isn't perfect but it's really smooth to use.
I wonder what the phoneblock team is thinking right now...
Motorala announces ambitions to build modular smartphones.
Looks like an E-Paper display module perhaps?
One of my favourite speedruns, Portal Done Pro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1U5RUVENNE

Gets interesting at 3 mins. There's also an explanatory series.
Ugh It's making me puke.

The first day my employer starts using something like this I'll quit.
Wells, it seems like drastically lowering costs for tools would if anything, increase demand for pathology expertise. Also, Ozcan's work has mostly been focused on developing countries - opening up new markets if you want to look at it that way.

Medical equipment manufacturers might have more to worry about, but I'd guess the amount of regulation involved will probably buffer them long enough to adapt to any changes.

What's most fascinating to me about Ozcan's work is the amount of computational photography involved for getting usable images. A few years back it was mostly MATLAB but I imagine now you could write shaders that run right in the phone GPUs...
I'm currently working in Hong Kong, and to be honest, tech companies here aren't really that good, the startup scene is close to nothing at the moment and finding a decent company that really cares about what they do is very difficult.
Pozible begins accepting Bitcoin for crowdsourced projects
Sorry to be pedantic, but the US dollar is not backed by US government taxation. A dollar is still quite valuable outside the US because people and institutions attach a value to the US dollar, mostly because the US economy has been the largest and most open economy in the world for several decades. Taxes set by the Treasury, like all other market forces, change and are changed by the rest of the economy.

Your example is a classic example of exchange rate problems surrounding floating currencies. Since both the USD and bitcoins are free-floating (though there are powerful institutions stabilizing the USD such as the Fed and IMF), there would be an onus to convert USD into Bitcoin until the relative value of USD was high enough to offset the conversion deficit. That, or there would need to be equally powerful institutions behind Bitcoin to buy other currencies, but it would be very hard given that there is a practical limit to the total number of Bitcoins in and out of circulation.
Now finally, I can build a coffee brewer attachment. http://pomegranatephone.com/
> it is sad that we don't seem to have authors who write fantastic prose anymore

To spin this around a little: we don't talk about authors in the past whose prose isn't worth going back to. Shakespeare had many contemporaries, but you might be hard pressed to name more than a couple.

Good prose can be challenging, and people don't want to be challenged all the time. I admire Pynchon's writing in Gravity's Rainbow - I don't want every book I read to be like that.

Or to put it another way: there are many novels from the 19th century that were massively popular at the time, but totally forgotten about now. They were novels that were pretty average in terms of prose, but had stories that were relevant to people at the time, and gripped them.

I doubt if in a hundred years people will still be reading the Da Vinci Code - but I can guarantee books like Infinite Jest, The Satanic Verses, Nights at the Circus, and the like will be attracting critical attention.
Depends on what you negotiate, of course
My totally unscientific pet theory is that if you somehow managed to survive long enough, eventually you will succumb to cancer or heart disease. So places with high cancer/heart disease rates might simply be places with the best healthcare system!