skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're concerned about credit card portability (as this blog author is), your only real options are Braintree's vault or Recurly. Chargify still stores the CC at the gateway level, so you have gateway lockin, which is no different than the PayPal/Amazon case the author bemoans.
Depending on my mood; if i`m looking for no distractions I will work in AwesomeWM. Otherwise, I just default to Gnome.
So I did the same test - Quality of 0 in PS got me down only to 59,475 Bytes.
http://public.adifferentengine.com/files/lossy.ps.jpg

Convert with image magick got me only down to 72,634 bytes
http://public.adifferentengine.com/files/lossy.magick.jpg

So yeah the encoder does matter and Photoshop's is that much better than GIMPs.
Academic Study on Groupon Promotion Effectiveness
EditRing is a VC-backed collaboration startup in San Francisco hiring COM/Windows engineers. We are looking for people who can easily switch between working on UIs inside Microsoft Office, COM interoperability layers, and Windows installers. If you have no experience with this kind of thing but are hardcore and can learn quickly, you should also get in touch with us.

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We're not hiring full-time people remotely right now, but we would be open to remote contracting as a way of leading into full-time position in San Francisco.
Well, non-split mechanical keyboards are more than that. I paid $240 for my HHKB and $250 for my Realforce 87U. Both phenomenal keyboards, though.

The uTRON is what I consider the ideal keyboard, and it does exist: http://www.plundertech.com/utron-keyboard/

Topre switches are my favorite, and I love how it puts more load on your pointer fingers instead of on your pinkies. I'm definitely going to pick one up soon, but it will require a trip to Japan.
I've tried a dozen window managers for weeks at a time. For over a decade I always returned to my old reliable WindowMaker. In the past couple years I started using Metacity (default in Gnome now).

All I care about is having separate workspaces and a few keyboard shortcuts. I have 7 work spaces: Main (local terminal), Browsing (Chrome/Firefox), Communications (Pidgin/XChat/Skype), Development (GVim/terminal), Email (Thunderbird/GMail), Shells (tabbed remote terminals), Misc (usually shells/music player).

Each workspace is dedicate to a single task. Everything is fully maximized in each workspace (for the most part). I switch between them with Alt+{1,7}. Ctrl+M Maximizes a window. I have a few monitoring applets (CPU/network) in the taskbar thingie. Over time I've found that is all I need to be happy and productive.
I use wmii with some minor customizations. I have one 30" full of 256-color rxvt-unicode windows and a smaller monitor running chromium. Generally communications (mutt, irssi) runs down the right edge of the 30" and then there are 2-3 columns of terminals running vim or zsh.

One killer feature of wmii is its use of 'tags' instead of virtual desktops. Windows can be assigned to multiple tags. I tend to have tags per task, so task switching is as simple as switching desktop tags.
If this is a phenomenon present on x % of youtube videos, it is news worthy.

Why otherwise?
While on the topic,can anyone shed light on how the counters on youtube work- number ranges? Are the counter increments non-probabilistic?
There are plenty of split mechanical keyboards similarly adjustable as the M15 for a couple hundred dollars. Mechanical switches aren't the same as IBM's buckling spring.

Maybe Unicomp will one day be able to afford new tooling.
I was also able to reproduce the original post's JPG distortion result using Pixlr (not just GIMP). Here's the 1920x1200 JPG compressed at 0% quality (resulting file is ~60KB) and subsequently uploaded to Imgur.

http://imgur.com/dZN2B

At such a high degree of compression, Jpeg wouldn't be able to get to any level of quality because it boils down to a pixelation in the size of 8x8 (or 16x16). You'd definitely needs a different kind of compression to preserve quality at such high level of compression. Realistically, many image editors offer default compression at 80% so the artefacts are less visible. I don't know how WebP cocmpare to Jpeg at the 80% setting.
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Pair Programming, Awesome Office, TDD, Rails.
I've used Fluxbox and Blackbox basically since I was in diapers, but I recently decided that it's really way past time to try a tiling WM, and settled on xmonad after initially trying awesome. I like it a lot so far; it's lightweight, flexible, and very easy to configure, and I'm surprised how little I miss dragging windows around (although I still float some frequently used applications, Chrome and Audacious primary among them.)

I usually have a workspace for shell & filesystem stuff, one for emacs, one for documentation, one for running servers and monitors and other misc. utils for whatever I'm doing, and one floating one for web browser and music.
Thanks for sharing. I really enjoyed your article and learned from it, esp the part where you guys did not use Yodlee and Mint did.

Your article has made me rethink a part of a product I am developing with regards to useability.
You might benefit from rereading this article.

http://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2010/09/how-to-read-a-patent-...
What does "surpassing a tangible value" mean?
You’re Stealing it Wrong: 30 Years of Inter-Pirate Battles (56m video)
After further testing, it appears that the "Save EXIF data" and "Save XMP data" options are very expensive at these resolutions/file sizes. Disabling them nets a few dozen KiB. Additionally, setting "Smoothing" to full makes the image smaller at the expense of blurriness.

Updated version: < http://imgur.com/8aEPJ.jpg >

"Save for web" is probably a shortcut to remove those extra data. I wonder if Photoshop is also adding additional smoothing, beyond GIMP's maximum? That would explain why the PS image's background is smoother, but the inner details (like specular highlights) are not as distinct.
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Thanks!
There are some timeless classics such as http://openlibrary.org/works/OL5267912W/Vitruvius_on_Archite... and http://openlibrary.org/works/OL1417305W/On_painting_and_On_s... but some really good contemporary advice about data displays can be found in http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/ and for an introduction to typography you could do worse than the LaTeX Memoir Class manual http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/.
my rage is not abated
Why do you float Chrome windows? Web browsers and terminals are the easiest applications to tile.
Put armor where there aren't bullet holes
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Openbox for me - extremely customizable, standards compliant, and very keyboard friendly. Good theming, well written code.
Microsoft open sourcing Windows?
Does look to be a shady site, but that's what adblock is for. It's the only place I could find high-res pictures of the keyboard.
510 Systems. Berkeley CA. <50 People, all profit, no VC. We make car-top mapping systems (similar to those used in google street view,) and visualization / extraction software for the data.

If you like any of the following:

-3d graphics

-HUGE HUGE HUGE data storage, access and manipulation problems

-Embedded systems

-Realtime systems

-Finite state markov chains

-Computer vision

-Probabilistic robotics

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Then please email me.

Our website is essentially non-existent b/c we have only been serving a few REALLY big customers and they are the only ones who have needed to find us - for now. The vision is huge and it has a real chance of becoming a public company one day. Good pay, equity, heavy engineering culture, mac, linux or windows agnostic. If any of this appeals to you, fire me a resume. We'll act fast if we think there is a fit.
Honestly, there's no good reason at all. I'm just so used to resizing my web browser with the mouse all the time to read things better. I should probably break that habit.
Toronto, Ontario. Poolhouse Enterprises, the makers of the Dogbook and Catbook Facebook applications, is hiring. We're looking for a talented back end developer (SQL, EC2, PHP frameworks) who is passionate about social and mobile apps. If interested send us an e-mail.
Reminds me of my local pizza shop:
"If you are extra hungry we will gladly slice your pizza into 16 pieces instead of 8"
The problem there is that most people don't know exactly how much they spent on taxes each year. The posted site here is nice because you can just put a salary.
The biggest problem with finding a co-founder is that there is often some sort of reputation or comradere already existing between the individuals and often never begins on the premise of building a business together.

A common interest like programming, design, technology, some specific market will bring the two together, find a common problem and resolve to work toward solving that problem knowing _already_ what sort of working relationship there will be beforehand.

Co-founders will need a fantastic amount of trust and loyalty to work well together in the long term. This formula is difficult to satisfy with this method. Not trying to crap, but I'm currently fighting down this road myself and have resolved to let the process work organically rather than trying to find serendipitous luck (semi) anonymously on HN.
Google Street View captures dead bodies--real ones
Testing with crazy figures and data makes sense because it can magnify a bug you wouldn't have noticed with normal use. For example you may catch a math error that's only obvious with big numbers.
I'm working on a utility that will convert legacy business systems to SaaS apps. Big + for Pittsburgh. See my profile for contact info.
Social Network Movie Advertising on Facebook and MySpace?
US Treasury securities back lots of things, like the majority of the securities market and China. I think they're a pretty safe investment if you're running a surplus and want to stash the money for later payouts.

The "social security money is being taken by the gov't" meme is just so silly - what should they do, put the money in cash in a big vault somewhere?
Thanks. Money well spent it seems :)
The word paradox is commonly used for things that are surprising or counter-intuitive (e.g. the birthday paradox and simpson's paradox). If you consider this meaning, it makes senses to call it a paradox.
"Fill this form OUT? You don't fill a form OUT, you fill it IN! Have we all suddenly turned American?!?"

If only Hugh Laurie had any idea then about his role as Greg House.
twm ;)
By definition, people who immigrate are: --smarter --wealthier --better educated --more ambitious. take-charge people

Immigrant here, and I don't agree at all. there are such people, and every host country hopes to attract more of them for the potential economic boost, but it's hardly a foregone conclusion. Some immigrants just went on a date with another person and romance blossomed. Some countries have a far simpler immigration process than the US...probably most of them, in fact, nor does they necessarily exclude ditch diggers, even if they don't encourage them. Some people are refugees and immigrate elsewhere through no desire of their own.

I would say about the only common traits that all immigrants have in common are slightly greater risk tolerance and adaptivity, the requirements for trying out a completely different environment, or even considering it as a possible alternative in the first place. Other things you mention might give them strong views on education, but that might just as easily be a reflection of educational norms where they grew up.
It seems he chose the simulation parameters without any regard to what the real life numbers are. Anyone who has studied complex systems will tell you this is a big deal. In things like weather simulations, a small change in initial conditions makes for huge differences later on. In something relatively simple like this, it could mean that you are falling on one side of a differential equation or the other.

I mean seriously. Half the folks who often have sex will have AIDS?
I like fvwm - http://fvwm.org/ - I can change the size of windows on all sides, and the width of the borders is easily configurable.

(Everything else is as well, but those are the things I particularly like over other window managers I have seen.)

I would like to try running Xmonad on a second monitor, and use that monitor for xterms primarily - I don't want my browser window-size to change with how many windows I have open - but I haven't had time/monitors to experiment.
And I should say, prices don't really go down. This is what happens when the suppliers get to dictate the consumption.
The internet is pretty awesome, and has a lot of resources too. :P

Some of my favorites: http://www.viget.com/inspire/, http://veerle.duoh.com/, http://www.webdesignerwall.com/, and http://jontangerine.com/. Even if these resources don't have tutorials, surround yourself with design and you'll start picking it up.
An actual BankSimple employee might be able to explain it better, so I welcome any corrections, and I might be very wrong since I believe that only during the last two weeks or so is that the whole team has been built and started wholly working on the product, but this is what I knew about BankSimple from a few months back.

They are working on a great online front end, focusing on awesome user experience, while partnering with another financial institution (just one, or more, I'm not really sure) to handle the back end: all of the transfers, payments, ACH handling, and so on.

So basically you have this awesome online "bank" with a great web PFM but the business processes are actually being handled by an established brick and mortar bank.

There are many banks and they do one thing great - handle money - but many of them have awful web/internet teams. So in comes BankSimple, they solve the web part of the equation and partner up with one or more banks.

If you think about it, it kinda sounds like what Mint could be if they were more than an aggregator and closer to an online bank.
It sounds like she needs to just drain the brain fluid somehow - letting it overflow into her stomach was just the most convenient way to do so. Not quite as bizarre as the headline makes it sound.

Here's hoping there's an especially reliable one-way valve on that. If I had a tube running between my brain and a vat of hydrochloric acid, I'd be rather paranoid about backflow eating away my soft squishy gray stuff.

edit: re-reading that, it's between her brain and her peritoneal cavity, which sounds much less scary.
Six weeks... quite long compared to Finland. Here the employer has to pay full wages for 10 first days of sickness, after that the state (Social Insurance Institution) covers about 70%.

Ongoing sickness is an acceptable reason to fire an employee (with similar "very strict requirements") also here.
From what I can tell, you've melded a backend and frontend dev for the server engineer role. Thanks for your time, but you require a degree, so I'm out.
I agree with both the excellent points made by motothemax:

Don't back off from bidding higher than the disered "quotes" mentioned by customers. Once I went for a designer who was quoting more than twice my initial upper limit for that job. when I looked at his profile, he had a very, very long portfolio of his freelanching designs as well as designs he worked on for customers. He had a lot of very high ratings from his past customers and he justified/explained in a similar way that motothemax mentioned about why his rates were higher. Another thing was, he was very professional and upbeat throughout his communications.

So if you did be interested in some feedback on deciding priorites of a customer:

1) Portfolio
2) ratings from past customers (here the readiness to work initially for lower rates, may be usable sometimes)
3) scores on Odesk tests and the distribution of those scores across different tests - its not perfect system, but its better than no scores
YouTube doesn't show view count in realtime but in bulk.
It reminds me of the community configs in EC2.

Are there any measures in place to deal with people who upload malicious stacks? Would they just receive negative reviews? Do you think you need to warn users to not blindly trust a stack?
Xmonad, one of the best tiling window managers out there. It is very easy to grasp for beginners[1], has a comprehensive documentation and is extremely powerful under the hood. The configuration is in Haskell, which makes it Turing-complete, but you can customize Xmonad even if you are not familiar with the language.

[1] http://xmonad.org/tour.html
BlindType Acquired By Google
So those devices just keep on using JPEG and thus bear no additional cost. Even if WebP is only used between Google and Chrome, it will be worth it for Google.
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I just finished building part of our billing system that signs up users for subscriptions. We're using metered billing and that part of our service doesn't report anything yet, but so far using chargify has been a great experience.

We don't need to hold CC stuff. We don't deal with dunning. We don't do anything except tell chargify how much our user has used and give them users credentials.

It seems to work very well.
I'm a bit confused. "The movie portrays technology, hacking (particularly late-night), and startups as a really cool thing. Tech nerds (like Zuckerburg or Sean Parker) are seen having wild sex, awesome fun, and making a ton of money in a seemingly nontrivial way."

Sean Parker, yes. Zuck (at least to me) was portrayed as typically avoiding the party scene and focusing completely on building the product.

Also, late-night hacking IS cool. I can't think of a programmer who doesn't enjoy it. If you're passionate about building a product, a lot of really awesome breakthroughs come after the traditional 9-5.
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Cover letter and resume to:

ruby -r base64 -e 'puts Base64.decode64("d29ya0BzdHJlZXRlYXN5LmNvbQ==")'

Seeking experienced ruby/rails developers! Curiosity about the New York City real estate market a a plus :)
Google Checkout allows you to charge less than original subscription.
There's something in all this that I suspect demonstrates a possible flaw in Google's traditional data-orientation, as opposed to human judgement.

What the colour gradients (1Mcolors) example in the referred to article (http://englishhard.com/2010/10/01/real-world-analysis-of-goo...) shows is that WebP, at the limits of quality, prefers to blur. The problem is that most real-world scenes are of objects that have texture, and an artificial texture is psychologically more pleasing than blurring away all these high-frequency small detail patterns. Dark Shikari’s article (http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=541) shows this really clearly: in a real-world landscape, WebP loses badly to both jpg and x264 with too much blurring.

Thing is, if you just do the "obvious" quality metric and do a subtraction of the encoded picture from the original, and sum up all the differences, that doesn't encode the psychological aspect.

A blurred image might indeed do well here, because the blur colour will be somewhere in the middle between the highs and lows of the high-frequency pattern, so the error won't be too large.

But a psychologically-oriented encoding may have encoded a pattern that resembles the original frequencies, but not precisely aligned, so the highs and lows may not coincide exactly between encoded image and original. It may thus simultaneously give a worse difference on a subtraction, but please the eye more.
Compressed raw images would be nice; raw files are huge.
With Amazon's SimplePay subscriptions, you can offer a free trial or a promotional period at the start of the subscription contrary to the what the author of the post says.

https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/business/asp/subscript...
Just sent my portfolio off. Best wishes to your great company!
How does Chargify deal with fraudulent orders?
It seems a lot closer to a ponzi scheme than a pyramid scheme.

I do believe if I was funding an IRA/ROTH-IRA with that money I would be much better off. However, we are not funding OURSELVES, we are funding those who came before us. And while we may not get our payout (may not be funded my those who come after us) the fact is that those being funded right now deserve what they are getting. It's pretty selfish to just say 'if it isn't helping me, why should I care?'
I'd love to see one where you choose a country of origin, currency, then see what the taxes are. I'm really curious to see if the myth that taxes outside the US are as nightmarish as Americans think.

It's a little off but that page estimates i'm taxed at about 42%.
Isn't it part of management's job to not make decisions based on emotion? Can't the shareholders hold them (or their boss) accountable for making a decision that reduced company value?
A while ago I noticed that I was suddenly doing more coding in SBCL than PLT Scheme. When I thought about it, I realized that Steve Yegge said the same thing a long time ago and I remember reacting with dismissal. The post wasn't about Yegge, it was about the idea (which I've heard elsewhere too, he just happened to be the one I remembered at the time) that Scheme is the "better language" while being paradoxically less "useful" than Common Lisp.

In defense of the lame title, I tend to write in order to get things out of my head. Had I known that someone would post that article on Reddit and Hacker News, leading to Jay McCarthy dropping by and asking what, specifically, was wrong with his server, I might have proofread it more than 0 times before posting it anywhere.
Not in all cases, only in this particular case. The reason is that consumers have basically zero price elasticity of demand - they don't care since the insurance company is paying.

If everyone switched to very high deductible insurance, that situation would change very fast.
You're both correct, but his interpretation is a bit more common.

By definition: children of the first generation = second generation and children of the second generation= 3rd generation

But that's not the definition that many people use; when people say first generation, they mean the first generation that was 'generated' (ie born) in America. Immigrants aren't part of an American generation, they're part of some other country's generational history that arrived in America.

Usually when someone I meet says 'I'm second-generation (somewhere)-American' they turn out to mean their grandparents came from that place to the US and their parents were born here. I tend to meet more Asian- and Irish-Americans. Perhaps customs vary between different groups due to different traditions of counting? For example, a newborn baby is traditionally considered to be age 1, although most western countries would consider the baby's age to be zero (but some positive # of months).
I sent an e-mail to a couple of the people at Unicomp (http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/), who make the Customizer and Space Saver mechanical keyboards (they're modern IBM Model Ms; see here for more: http://jseliger.com/2008/05/07/product-review-unicomp-custom...)