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The original title was sufficient but not click-baity enough, so Quartz seems to have changed it. The URL reveals: uber-drivers-are-comparing-fares-with-riders-to-check-their-pay-f…

I'm not seeing the part explaining how guests are locked in their rooms. Is it that they don't feel they can leave or their belongings will be locked in a room they can no longer a…

one quick way that comes to mind would be to check a web archive for past versions of the page in question

That does trouble me a bit, but if they stick to the spec (and I assume the retina Macbook hasn't deviated in any way to suggest they will for future models), then I see no reason …

I'm about as heavily invested in MagSafe as a single person can semi-reasonably be, but I have pretty strongly mixed feelings about dropping MagSafe, so when I hear that people are…

five times: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12726970 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12728009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12728227 https://news.ycombinator.com/i…

While the author of the post makes it clear that this is for developers, I think this kind of cheat sheet has some value for non-developers. Stuff like recognizing how to run a pyt…

It's always interesting to see qualitative stuff associated with quantified self; it seems like ultimately the goal is to lead a (happier|better) life, which is a very qualitative …

I was similarly confused. While the HN title accurately reflects the Reuters title, I think it'd be reasonable to retitle the submission to something along the lines of "Apple: bre…

I had some trouble with the arrow keys - it seemed like I would hit it 3 or 4 times and only move once. Dragging with the mouse worked pretty well though. Also, holding down the sp…

Yep I did, my bad. Sorry about that.

For anyone that's curious, the article is here: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu... I'd complain about the WSJ's practice of not properly referencing th…

This conversation has been had ad nauseam and these comments are no longer wanted on HN (according to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 )

I went more or less with option 2 (a pair of 4K monitors) and "drive" them with a hackintosh I bought/built for that purpose. At the time I had a 2012 rMBP, which didn't offer Mini…

It seemed more noteworthy to me that 8chan got sold to the same person. 8chan is infamous as a community too objectionable even for 4chan, with ongoing controversies involving chil…

Kentaro Toyama talks about education and the failed promise of the OLPC program and other technological endeavors in education in Geek Heresy . His thesis is that technology "ampli…

The title with quotation marks is a tiny bit misleading; I was expecting this to be a blog post or something where Paypal advised developers to handle user-generated urls with care…

If you Google(/Bing) the title and click on the wsj link from the search results, you can circumvent the paywall. I'd give a link, but I'm not sure that's okay (also, the procedure…

It's cool to hack around with APIs for general benefit (and Twitter's is as good as any, and provides access to lots of neat data), but fair warning: Twitter doesn't approve of usi…

If you read this and want more like it, the author of the article (Gabriella Coleman) wrote an excellent ethnography on the culture around hackers and free software, which is also …

>Wait, retard is a pejorative now? It's fairly well-documented[0], and the GitHub incident in particular has been discussed on HN at length[1]. I think I gave the exclusion that if…

Your thesis is that you have control and ownership of your content; misspellings tend to make it look like you don't take your own advice to heart. I'll grant that it would be unfa…

I was going to post something to this effect, but I'm glad you also brought up the bragging point. I think it's safer to argue that everyone could benefit from a personal site, and…

I think since the premise of the author's article is that everyone should have a place where they can take more deliberate care of their online presence, it's pretty reasonable to …