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Reportedly costs $150k/yr, flat. http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/google-breaks-paid-ana...
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WOW! Now THAT's scalability !!
I've watched his 27c3 talk a bunch of times over the past few months, and have convinced myself about 80% of the way to start messing around with CurveCP.
I don't force the font colour in my browser, but I do force the font face, as I have trouble reading sans serif type. (Although I could see why someone might want to force the colours in their global stylesheet for accessibility reasons.)

Personally, I'm not particularly fond of the use of :before, etc. either (they should be used for purely decorative purposes - the examples in the article seem to be using them to convey meaning), so what I'm suggesting doesn't really make much sense. :P
Yet another internet product not available globally. They don't need to license anything from the music or movie industry, so it the rest of the world does expect some sort of reasonable explanation of this limitation, especially when they write "we’re now ready to make it available to all interested clients".
If only they could scale their sales department. We've received no response for 2 weeks using 3 different methods of contacting them.
I confess this is an Ad Hominem Circumstantial, but what would you say if you and your channel partners were sitting on a mound of unsold inventory? You’d talk up the future of the device while discounting the price in the hopes of quickly clearing the channel without alienating the people you need to sell your phones. Meanwhile you’d cut production off and when just about everything is sold, then you officially exit the market.

This doesn’t mean that they are existing the market, just that denying the rumour doesn’t really prove they’re still 100% behind it.
"pinning its hopes on being able to tack from services to products"
Have you looked into zombie.js (http://zombie.labnotes.org/)? It allows for selectors as well, and is a very straight forward headless browser.
Very cool. I'm glad that guy's rant inspired at least one person to start taking an interest in their outer self!
changes are one thing. arbitrarily changing the tag separator from spaces to commas is entirely another.
Yet, if it was coin-flipping, shouln'td we get wildly different results for each of the 7 days, since they were assumingly analyzed separately?
Samsung isn't the only company doing that though (at least packaging ...)

I bought a brand new HP TouchPad in the fire sale and the unboxing process was remarkably similar to unboxing my iPad 2. Not only that, but have you look at the iPad and HP TouchPad side by side? Home button in the same location, power button in the same location, camera in the front in the same location, volume up/down button in the same location, charging port in the same location, similar shape and size. It felt weird to me how closely HP had followed the locations of the iPad buttons.

I also recently purchased a Samsung Galaxy S Wifi 5.0" [1] Android device, unboxing that brought me back to when I first unboxed my iPhone 3G when I purchased it. They use the same sort of cardboard, they use the same sort of hidden compartment with the device lying on top as the first thing you pull out of the box.

It just makes sense to package products a certain way. One it uses much less space, and less materials, and thus making it better for the environment and the bottom line since less money is spent on packaging. But you can't just ignore the fact that the two are so similar.

[1]: whoever is naming this stuff needs to be fired, searching for information on it is almost impossible since it shares a name with a cell phone...
See this comment from MostAwesomeDude in a different thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3051142

Perhaps it would be interesting to see how it was done in Twisted: http://http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/api/twiste...

We'd like to think that the C# guys were looking our way when they came up with async/await, but there's no proof. :3
pienso que se pudiera usar mejor el espacio del landing page... tal vez mostrando las categorias en vez de comenzand el listado
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I knew it had to be good to be given a guest post slot, but I just couldn't understand the purpose of the format. Now that I know what a grimlock is, the writing style makes perfect sense.
> If calling your hypothetical children crotch fruit is rude you've got another lesson coming to you in the outside world, Susan.

Sure, and we could be talking about this on 4chan. But we're not, are we?
Use VirtualBox + your preferred Linux distro (I use Linux Mint).Once you have Linux installed on VB just switch to Seamless mode, this will somehow integrate the 2 operating systems. Google for VirtualBox seamless mode and you will find more details.

For e.g. you will be able to see on top of your Windows 7 desktop a Linux Terminal.
I've had over the air updates on my Sony-Erricson phones as well as my Nokia phones. That is not something new that was introduced when BB or Android came out.
He means that message of equal size authenticate in constant time, regardless of which bits are set; that is not true of all authentication constructions.
Stripe: instant payment processing for developers
Thanks. I never knew what to tell people when they asked me my title. Now I can just say early employee.
I can offer a data point: I was able to export my data from the new delicious on tuesday (after noticing the changes) and then import it into a new pinboard account with no issues or anything missing (998 bookmarks and 2748 tags). maybe I was lucky!
Has it fallen down already? The rest of codeschool.com works but I get an "Application Error" when I go to Try Ruby.
Deliciously spammy. Even if you can't link to the study, you could have just linked straight to the article rather than your blog which only links to the article.
I live in NYC where I'm pretty sure I'm about as average looking as they get :) I usually just write a quick 2-3 liner about some shared interest or something I found interesting about her profile. Reply rate is about 33% (OKCupid has a ton of stats, is there a way to find out the actual rate?). Maybe that's game? I just see it as natural conversation.
I'd like to be able to mute Jonah Peretti.
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Small point: I believe Google Webmaster Tools has a tool for when you change your sites' names, which might have come in handy to transfer your PR5 to the new domain. Did you try this feature?
Doesn't look like anything's two weeks behind on our end; might've gotten lost in the mix. I assume you already did this, but can you shoot us an email at support@github.com (or sales@github.com for FI sales) and we'll make sure to get on it. You can cc zach@github.com too, just in case, and I'll keep tabs on it personally.
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I'm guessing you'll get a response now since more of their 40 employees probably check HN than they do the sales email :)
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The key question, I think, is will you stop double posting to Facebook even if the growth of G+ stays the same? What if, in three months, you notice that no one is talking about G+ anymore and there is hardly any activity compared to what it was in September - will you still move forward with the "Shut out FB" idea?

I'm not trying to be rude so I hope my post doesn't come off that way. You seem to be very sure about your move away from FB and that makes me genuinely curious as to that mindset.
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From what I've heard, you can't use Task<T> for WinRT components that expose async methods. Instead you have to use IAsyncOperation as the return type. This limitation seems kind of annoying IMHO.

Reference: Miguel de Icaza's blog post http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Sep-15.html
Regardless of where you are, as long as you have wi-fi on and there's a wi-fi router nearby, even in the absence of street view cars or anything like that, all it takes is one person using a GPS-enabled device near you to geo-compromise your router (and in some cases, your wi-fi client devices). Apple, Google, and others use different databases, but if you are on a Mac, then any one person using GPS on iOS near your wi-fi access point has forever pinpointed it in Apple's databases, and when you use Mac OS X Location Services, it draws on Apple's MAC address-to-geolocation database. Similar for Android devices and Google. Or Microsoft devices and Windows.
Try now! We were probably doing a deploy, and we've scaled up for the Hacker news crowd.
What's wrong with honestly saying, "I worked for a small start up and we didn't have titles". Why do you have to pretend it was something it wasn't?
There's nothing wrong with keeping up both. If I think something is good enough to share on facebook then I will post it on G+ and post a link to it on Fbook.

I think there is a line we have to draw though in terms of where we spend our time - that's what's "wrong" with keeping up both. I read a quote once from Sonny Rollins, a famous sax player, who said something to the effect that his influences made him what he was just as much as who/what he didn't listen to. In other words, what you ignore defines you to an extent just like what you avidly pursue defines you. We can't expect everyone to keep up both, I think. I doubt most people care that much.
I don't think more than 10% of all sites have analytics installed.

But if you include other services and products like toolbar and adsense, Google can surely see a great deal of what's happening on the Internet.
There's also a fantastic tool for running those tests headlessly with jasmine-headless-webkit[0]. The benefit is that you can, if you so desire, test against the DOM as there is a complete browser in the background.

[0] http://johnbintz.github.com/jasmine-headless-webkit/
OTA delta updates. Delta being the keyword. Esp. for people with poor internet connectivity.
Which raises the question - what's the optimal strategy in the double-sided version of the secretary problem? (I'm guessing that it probably involves stopping the 'search' even earlier.)
$150,000 a year[1][2]

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3053861
[2] http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/google-breaks-paid-ana...
No, I hadn't. It looks great, I'll certainly check it out properly soon!
Google is undercutting Microsoft, Apple, and RIM because they are releasing for free what everyone else HAS to charge for because they don't have income from advertisements to support the R&D required.
Try this: turn off wi-fi on your computer and try again.

This is why I only use wi-fi when necessary, and also generally keep Location Services turned off on every device I own, unless I specifically need location.
It seems to be a lot more than that http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/google-is-top-track...
And like his contract, oversight and accountability is the responsibility of the board/shareholders/owners. Not any of us. He didnt "get away with it". It is nothing like rogue trading whatsoever, let alone "far worse". One is ill-advised but sanctioned, one is unsanctioned (well, that's another argument) and illegal.
"You don't need a merchant account or gateway."

That's a killer feature right there. I've been considering using Braintree for a project, but seeing this is really making me reconsider.
Someone may have said that and then was likely shouted down by others thinking that they could use the Playbook to drive sales of their phone division. Still a laughable decision though.
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Oh good, it's back! Thanks.
at first, i also thought it was stupid that they required you to tether it to a blackberry. then i realized that i kind of like that fact that you don't need to buy two $80 / month data plans (though tethering a blackberry by bluetooth kills the battery) for each.

too bad the playbook was too little, too late, and too expensive. hope they take a cue from HP and drop the price massively to clear their inventory
What's the purpose of complex testing frameworks like this? What's wrong with using a simple framework whose tests must simply return a bool?

For example:

var myObject = new Something("foo", "bar");

assert("simple operations", function() {
return myObject.doSomething() == "baz";
});;

assert("post-operational state", function() {
return myObject.state() == 123;
});;

assertAync("async polling", function() {
return myObject.poll().length > 0;
});;

Note that those tests would be much prettier in CoffeeScript.

Is the purpose of heavy testing frameworks purely for the useful functions like "deepEquals"? If so, why not make a library with functions like "deepEquals" and use that library with a simple testing framework? Surely, there must be something I'm missing.

Edit: I should note that the beautifully written CoffeeScript compiler/translator doesn't use a testing framework (favoring a few simple hand-rolled functions), and it has a massive suite of tests.
This is quite a good idea, and the site itself is very nice and easy to navigate. Congratulations.

Seeing a domain name with an MVL (Minimum Viable Logo, haha) is really much better for imagining how strong it could be than just seeing it listed in text.

However, I found the selection too limited. So I think an interesting model for you would become a marketplace:
1- invite squatters with domains to sell to post their names on your site
2- invite designers to freely create logos to un-logoed domains
3- sell this wider selection to your audience, sharing the revenue with both squatters and designers.

Good luck - with more selection, I would easily find the service worthwhile at that price point.
As much as I like Google and their products, but "Dedicated Customer Service" seems really unbelievable to me considering their past of absolutely horrible stories of (paying) users trying to contact them. That said, I'm interested to see if this might change now that they explicitly advertise with it.
Too bad it's already off the front page...

Some degree of caution is probably warranted. djb is awesome, but most of the algorithms in NaCL are his own, rather new, ideas. You trade in fixes for known problems in AES/RSA (implementations) for possible unknown errors. (That said, djb is pretty good.)
Why in the world would someone include the words Visual Basic in the title of a submission to Hacker News? And how in the world does that article get to the front page?
Blekko's new Grep tool shows that 1.3 Billion URLs on 12.4 million domains are using Google Analytics. http://blekko.com/webgrep?page=view&id=f6c212b83629fe094...

Not sure how big their index is right now, or how that compares to the entire web, but it is a big number regardless.

Edit: On their announcement of the Grep functionality, Blekko says they are running it against 4 billion pages. This is still only a portion of the web, but that puts it around 1 in 4 pages having Google Analytics installed.
Don't want to go all tin hat here, but its worth remembering that big fences, lots of cameras and a bunch of seismic sensors in the ground are just as useful for keeping people in as for keeping people out.

Edit: I'm not implying an impending "soviet socialist state of america" or anything quite so slashdot, just remembering that there is precedent for Americans seeking asylum in Canada against what they felt were unjust laws at home.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_and_the_Vietnam_War
I haven't had to contact sales, but I can vouch for your responsiveness at support@github.com

I've emailed you guys a few times and received 1 hour turnaround with complete resolution, day or night.

Thanks!
I know you were trying to be sarcastic but I'm sorry if you cannot think of other ways to pack a cell phone. Maybe Samsung is run by people just like these.

A quick Google Images search displays quite a few ways it is actually being done.

http://www.google.com/search?q=phone+packaging&hl=en&...
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I had look up El Naschie: http://elnaschiewatch.blogspot.com/2010/05/concise-introduct...

A while back Elsevier was caught publishing fake journals for pharmaceutical companies. Classy bunch.
I like this idea, for simple icons. Standard Unicode code points for symbols could be used to even allow screen readers to read them!

Another alternative for pages with simple icons is to use the Data URI scheme:

<img src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgANSUhE..."/>

This compresses very well with HTTP content encoding when the same icon is repeated in multiple places in the page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme
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I disagree - android apps are more difficult to polish then iPhone apps, for a variety of reasons.

* Bad defaults. (For example, on Android your app will look like crap if you have any gradients, unless you make sure to change the window format to PixelFormat.RGBA_8888 at startup).
* Core UI components are ugly and behave poorly
* Sluggish performance due to lack of hardware accelerated GUI (especially visible during animations, scrolling, etc)
* Extra work to support a variety of screen sizes and input methods (trackball, etc)
* Using custom-drawn components on Android that need animation (e.g. SurfaceView) results in inescapable flickering and compositing glitches - and you certainly can't use them properly with transitions. Popular iPhone apps tend to have a lot of UI candy, so this makes it harder to compete.
Dressing up is overcompensating? Wow.

I don't consider it superficial. Someone who takes the effort to spend a few extra minutes iron an outfit and make himself (or herself) look a little more professional might actually be the type to do the same with his/her work output too.
I find it extremely unlikely that Samsung is interested in being a mere manufacturer. In fact, the entire economic development of East Asia has been a decades long story about starting as small, cheap manufacturers and moving up the value chain into global brands.

Samsung is not quite-there yet, but I find it silly to suggest they'll suddenly stop and start regressing.
Excellent API and fast support. These guys are gonna go far.
As a beta customer, not having to deal with 95% of PCI and merchant accounts etc. really made a huge difference to how fast we got going.
7 minutes is the perfect length. Even though I have no idea what the fuck these nerds are talking about.
Stripe pretty much takes payment processing kicking and screaming into 2011. Merchant accounts are a serious drag. I've opened a few and they've been nothing but headaches (especially if you're young—nobody trusts you.) Couple that with getting a gateway account, dealing with credit checks, monthly fees, monthly minimums, slow people in the payments industry, PCI compliance...

Stripe takes payments and put them behind a simple API. No crappiness and 1099 rules of PayPal. No more reconsidering the meaning of life like back when I had a merchant account. The only downside I see is the 7-day rolling batch (deposit to bank), versus the nightly batch from the merchant account, though I assume that is for fraud protection.

Maybe if you're charging millions of dollars, you should use a regular merchant account. If you aren't, I'm telling you now: don't even bother with a merchant account. Just use Stripe.
I'm not sure how important the hardware is. It has to meet a minimum level of functionality/quality, but that's it. The software is what's going to sell the tablet. The Playbook's and Fire's software is vastly different.
It's not harmless and there is a varicella vaccine now. (There wasn't when I was a kid.)
Stripe is a game changer. I've been using it for a few months and honestly its the best API I've ever used. The documentation is clear and concise. Its customized to your account so you can literally copy and paste and see the result. Just like it says, it gets out of your way. I was up and running and accepting recurring payments in less than an hour or so. I actually began to think of larger "swing for the fence" type of ideas that I would have never considered if I were stuck to using Paypal because it was so painless. Looking forward to them eating every other payment processor's lunch.
Yes, that is how you make fast libraries in Python. But, nltk isn't written using C extension modules. All of this NLP is done in pure python. You could rewrite what needs to be fast with C extensions, but then what's the point of using nltk in the first place?

Nltk was never intended to be a way to do production-grade natural language processing. It's primary objective has been to teach users natural language processing with clear, well-commented code and documentation. If this isn't your situation, please use something else.
VB.net isn't terrible. It enabled me to transfer all of my programming knowledge from VB6 into the .NET world, then move on to C# and ultimately other languages. Thank god for VB.net as far as I'm concerned.
It is not a question of economic system. I don't even know what that means. His employer signed a contract saying if he messed up he still gets paid, AND failed to be sufficiently critical of his risk taking. As a result, they suffered. The only thing it has to do with the economic system is the existence of private contracts. I may disagree with their hiring policy, but it's none of my business. Would you feel any better if the golden parachute was simply paid on top of his salary?

Are we playing downvote-disagree?
Send this to anyone who thinks the planes overhead are spraying chemtrails.
That's a pretty cool video and a great concept. I'm wondering how the small crew capsule carries enough fuel to brake its fall after entering the atmosphere but I'm sure they've got that figured out.

One item missing from the video is how the service module from the capsule is recovered. When the capsule leaves the ISS, there's another component with it that isn't included when it reenters the atmosphere. Is this piece also "landed" or is it lost?
There are several alternatives, with Pinboard being the front-runner (and my personal favorite). However, none of them had an established brand, and Delicious users didn't have a compelling reason to move. Looks like this has just changed.
Thanks for the feedback! We've tried calling the sales phone number, filling out the web form and emailing sales@github.com, all with no response, so we were starting to give up hope ;)
All valid parts of the general problem, but I think most multimedia networking courses talk compression, QoS, jitter, adaptive protocols, etc . . .

While in no way attempting to say that these issues don't exist or are trivial, what I'm driving at here is that bi-directional video didn't spring fully formed out of the ether yesterday. I saw these issues as part of a multimedia networking course 10+ years ago.

Of course, there is also a ton of research still going on in this area, so it's not like the canonical answer has been found at this point either . . .
Everytime I see someone post a "happy" update in Facebook, I get the suspicion he/she is really masking some discontent instead, or just wants everyone to feel jealous. Noone is really truly happy, right?
Been a beta user for a while, and I love their Ruby API. I used to use Braintree...while they were a good merchant account provider - it was overkill for what I needed.

I much prefer only paying when I make money. I don't NEED a merchant account. I just need to be able to collect money from my customers in an automated way. Stripe makes that relatively easy.

Their API has a quick feedback loop, where you can execute a transaction from the command-line very quickly (for Ruby anyway...I imagine it would be the same for other languages).

Their support is also awesome - could be because they only had beta users. But either way, awesome service so far and much better to deal with than a 'traditional' payment solution for those webappers out there (in my experience).

Not affiliated with the company in anyway, other than a customer.
US only at the moment. Anyone know if they have plans for the UK? I would dearly love to say goodbye to PayPal forever.