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Too much reddit perhaps. I use the delete switch myself regularly.
Loving this. I just signed up and can see our Stripe data about customers when they contact us. We're going to add custom data soon.

Feature request: Support for intercom.io.
It will probably still not have any kind of bluetooth connectivity ... or am I mistaken?

No way to wirelessly get audio from this thing to a headset or connect it to sport accessories / pebble watches / arduinos ... :/
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Amazon launches Kindle Paperwhite, updates Fire, and debuts Kindle Fire HD
That is true, but the analogy stops as we are very familiar with ants. On the other hand, a totally new specy of insect would be worth being studied, and thus preserved - at least partially.
Agreed. You can choose from several different color schemes (foreground/background) for text on the Nook Color. I'm most comfortable with the cream colored scheme which is closest to actual print.
So these don't have side-mounted page turn buttons? Only touchscreen to turn pages? Can anyone comment on how that compares (usability wise) to the old buttons?
It can only install apps from the Amazon marketplace which is significantly smaller than the play marketplace.
this post is legit (see my last tweet to confirm it to citricsquid). Trust me, I know about this. And this will change. What we have in store is really good, and I know it will take time to rebuild our credo with the dev community, but we're committed, and again... you will like what you will soon see.
It is a very difficult task, but made easier by the fact that mobile CPUs/GPUs have improved greatly in the past few years.
I have great sympathy for the position proposed in the article, with one major fear: those trained in science typically traffic in ideas that are either right (true) or wrong (false). I fear that this would dispose them toward authoritarianism, which is in fact the first word that comes to mind when I hear about Singapore. How does this compare to your personal experience?
HDMI out is the most overlooked feature. It will be awesome to hit play, walk to the kitchen, watch while cooking, then plug in to HD TV, sit down and continue watching uniterrupted.

Not to mention for presentations, showing photos or video at a party etc.
Watching this dog and pony show today, I think it's the first time Amazon has been able to speak to gearheads and grannies in the same breath.

They threw out any number of cool-sounding acronyms, made a point of filling in some gaping holes in their software strategy, neutralized Apple's "premium" message by declaring themselves aligned with customers instead of Big Aluminum, gave more than lip service to the book industry, offered legitimately desirable exclusive titles, showed exactly what you do with their products, pointed out key technological advantages where appropriate, and priced them to move. It was a good show, and I want one of these things now.
Interesting that it shows up in the BBC's most read and most shared lists.
1. Any numbers? Toronto you can get some pretty decent money. Also living in downtown with no car as opposed to driving everywhere in Bay area and paying crazy rent. It is not that clear cut imo. NYC is a better comparison probably

2. Not sure on this not enough experience

3. It is trivial to get a visa for Canada to work, compared to US there is no comparison. Note that for Canadian citizens it is different in US (much easier)

4. Yeah thats true, Toronto probably has the biggest community and it is small in comparison

5. So true, the whole thing is a scam. I actually worked on couple projects where these consultants were used. It is embarrassing.
Check out the Kobo Glo. Seems to be what you're looking for.
By the way, I agree with all you said, I hope it's evident I'm a big static typing fan.
For what it's worth, Facebook "dropped PHP" in the same way that Twitter "dropped Ruby" in that both dramatically exceeded the scale that these languages and frameworks support out of the box and had to custom develop certain components to keep costs down.
How's not being based on quad-core tegra3 is a plus? As for battery life, the new Fire obviously doesn't have any hands-on reviews yet but nexus 7 battery life has been very solid according to all reviews.
It's too bad the OP didn't find Octave, which is an opensource Matlab clone that was also used in Andrew Ng's ML course.
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Zenbox just sits on top of all of your existing tools. You never give anything up or change your behaviors in order to use it; we just make your existing behavior must more efficient.

We actually work alongside Desk.com and Zendesk (and have integrations with both!).

We tie together everything together and bring it with you wherever you are - your blog, internal dashboard, email, etc. WHMCS is likely something we would end up integrating with - you still use it for what it's best at, and Zenbox shows all the info to you alongside all your other tools.
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You're onto something with the last part. I saw this and figured it would be perfect for a security system that would call someone when it was breached.
Record and send videos
I like Groovy, but I think even the author said once that if he knew about scala, he might have not invented Groovy (if anyone knows the link to the quote, and if it's indeed true, please comment)
Half the people pushing Scala tout Scala's tooling ecosystem.

I use IntelliJ IDEA with the Scala plugin and you get code-complete and type aware tooling.

In fact every developer I know that writes production Scala code uses an IDE.

I have fuckall of a clue what an IDE has to do with Scala except for some sort of lifestyle statement.
Because publishers want your money. This is actually a HUGE problem in academia that has yet to be disrupted.

"we believe the publisher adds relatively little value to the publishing process... We are simply observing that if the process really were as complex, costly and value-added as the publishers protest that it is, 40% margins wouldn't be available."[0]

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_publishing
And often times the Canadian startup is best off incorporating in DE. There's a little bit about it at http://blog.carlmercier.com/2011/08/29/us-incorporation-for-...
It's now on the front page, product at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007OZNZG0/

The previous model is now cheaper too (USD 69/89 with/without ads).

PS. Good summary appreciation at http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/06/amazon-kindle-paperwhite-...
No side mount buttons, just touchscreen. Tap or swipe.
I haven't read this book, but Pierce's "Types and Programming Languages" is an absolutely fantastic introduction to type theory and programming language semantics.

The presentation of the book is also very innovative. The chapters are fairly short and to the point. There are chapters which discuss theory, then chapters which implement that theory in code.
Amazon Kindle and Fire details are now live on Amazon.
> I get a kick out of the fact that pundits like Arment and Gruber will flip their lids any time Apple is faulted but they'll willfully call out other companies without solid evidence.

I haven't witnessed the behavior you described. Examples?
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Paypal's goal is to protect the person giving the money, not the person receiving it.

Yes, that's not ideal for you as the merchant. Welcome to being a merchant. Shrinkage exists.
He's an amazing advocate for the open Internet but I think this statement sounded naive:

> If the Web is left alone, it will solve the problem of piracy on its own, he says.

Competitive market systems solve the problems that they have incentive to solve. I question what incentive web companies have to solve piracy, if not regulations. Seems to me that any business model that depends on licensed content would work even better with pirated content.

I even wonder how much of the web sees piracy as a problem at all. It seems to me that quite a lot of text online (at Techdirt for instance) is dedicated to the argument that piracy is a good thing to be embraced, not "solved."
True, though I think most people attribute his disappearance to the outing of his real identity [1]. As to why he was so insistent on remaining anonymous, well we could only speculate, but perhaps he just felt a powerful desire to 'control his fate/life', and the forced outing of his true identity, against his wishes, simply showed he was no longer able to do that. Perhaps he felt the community was moving away from what he wanted to see and he no longer wanted to be involved. Speculation abounds :)

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3707960
Thanks for the kind words!

We're big fans of Intercom and the team. I'll look into adding them as an integration.
Sounds like good engineering practice to me.

Me too. After all, Scala's engineers weren't looking to create a whole new platform; they were just looking to create a new language. And a good engineer won't waste enormous amounts of time working on out-of-scope tangents unless there's a good reason to do so.

NIH doesn't count as a good reason.
Use Kindlegen (http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000...)

Seriously. Calibre produces a very poor conversion. Kindlegen will retain much of the ePub fidelity.
The sure-fire one-liner Bash way to iterate over files with arbitrary filenames, with any number of files (0 to millions) is this:

$ find $CRITERIA -print0 | xargs -0 -r -n $BATCH_SIZE $COMMAND

What this does is use 'find' to find the file and directory names (with your supplied CRITERIA), send them over to xargs with no funny filename parsing, run those filenames as arguments to COMMAND, batched up to BATCH_SIZE at a time (I usually use 100-500), and ignoring empty batches.

Usually COMMAND would have '--' at the end to prevent filenames from being parsed as arguments, but not all commands need that treatment. If COMMAND doesn't take the filename list as the last argument(s), it can be fixed with the '-i' option to xargs.

The BATCH_SIZE part here is important in many cases. Since large numbers of filenames will break the command line arguments size limit to COMMAND, a reasonable BATCH_SIZE will prevent thousands or millions of filenames from breaking your script. Also, sometimes you may want to run the files through COMMAND one at a time (BATCH_SIZE of 1).

Finally, the '-r' option, which I don't see mentioned often enough, tells xargs not to be derpy and run COMMAND with an empty argument list. Seriously, '-r' is short for '--no-run-if-empty'.

For anything else, a nice scripting language is the only way to fly.
re. 1: Your parent looks like a legit "throw away", but he's actually not! :)
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I won't buy such a thing, no matter how good a device it might be otherwise. Putting ads front and center means whoever's writing the checks for the ads has the first say on the device, not the person holding it.
I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around this. You'd prefer to read 1.5 paragraphs at a time on your smartphone to reading something that approximates the size of a book?
Please, lock-in? I have seen very little to indicate they are trying to create lock-in. They do have the DRM on e-books, but if they are to be believed, it's demanded by the publishers.
Zach Klein is a co-founder of Svpply with Ben Pieratt and Eric Jacobsen.
I am not sure if Kindle can be considered a "tablet". There is no media consumption possible on it except for text.
Do scientists want to be elected ?
Somehow I seriously doubt he will sell SpaceX especially if it's just to turn a profit. Sure in case something happens and all of sudden SpaceX as a business starts flopping, he might end up selling it to other defense and aerospace manufacturers, to at least recoup some costs for whatever shareholders.

Overall I think SpaceX is his baby. Based on interviews and what i've generally read about the man, I think he's gonna stick with it for the long run. I mean hell, he wants to go to Mars as soon as possible in one of his own rockets. That's a dedicated man.
You can install regular ol' .apk files, so it's Google Play's issue and not the Kindle Fire's.

http://www.ubergizmo.com/2011/11/kindle-fire-sideload/
It's a nice feature, but in the long term, I expect AirPlay or a similar open standard (?) is going to be more important. Why plug your tablet into a cable if you don't have to?
I feel a bit sorry for Kobo, who have announced essentially the same thing but with less fanfare: http://www.kobo.com/koboglo/
Agreed. There's basically only a couple of reasons to start your startup in Canada.

* Portable, cheap healthcare. A lot of people in the US don't join a startup due to the health insurance issue. The healthcare you get from a startup is not even close to what a big company can offer you.

* You're like me (no CS degree) and the US government doesn't think you look like an engineer. This can be worked around, but for me, the issue dogged me at almost every turn.
Yes. Scala is C++ of the JVM.
Thank you! I've been using Calibre to convert everything. Is there a way to add WhisperSync too?
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I agree w/r/t hardware buttons. My wife has a Kindle Touch, and I find it nigh unusable from a UI standpoint, since there is so little feedback after touching the screen to turn the page, especially with PDFs. (Did I accidentally flip backward? Did the software crash again?)
I highly doubt you'll see the Kobo bookstore on the Amazon marketplace; that's lock-in
"For complex historical reasons, Americans have long privately dismissed scientists and mathematicians as impractical and elitist, even while publicly paying lip service to them."

It's not so much that they dismiss scientists and mathematicians as much as those people don't connect and talk a good game like people from other backgrounds can. Laywers in particular who can be great orators. That "game" is the thing that gets you elected. A great example of the "it" factor that get's you elected is what Obama has, what Clinton displayed last night in his speech at the DNC, and obviously what Kennedy had that allowed him to win the televised debate but lose the radio debate to Nixon in the 60's. (I shouldn't say "win" "lose" what I really mean is the perception of people at the time apparently). Oh and Reagan obviously. Carter had headed a nuclear sub but had a folksy manner which seemed to work for him.

That connection and charisma is really the important thing that gets you elected in this country.
drone, does 30 workers needed for 30,000 units a month for this makes sense ? it seems pretty high for an automated process.
To be honest I started using this just because it looked simple and it was open source.
I will keep using it.Great work and thank you for this service.
Also kudos on the name.
Awesome news, but I kind of felt Svpply had a very broad focus. I'm interested in seeing what some of the newer startups in this segment, with a more specific focus, will fair out (eg. http://lover.ly for weddings, http://www.threadmatcher.com for clothes and footwear, http://www.grandst.com for gadgets).
Because evolution. (Seriously.)
Scala compiler and library implementation ships as a se of jar files, so it can be used in any env that provides the Java API.
Luckily, Paypal is an anti-fraud AI company which also happens to run credit cards sometimes

The thing is, it shouldn't take much in the way of "AI" to recognize that a company that has already been doing business for several months or even years is probably not going to wake up one morning and start defrauding people. Criminals are lazy, and running a business is a lot of work. It would take about 30 seconds' worth of review time on the part of a moderately low-paid staffer at PayPal to avoid most of these PayPal Media Debacle of the Week stories.

I simply cannot believe that it's that hard to distinguish between a fraudulent user and a real one, given the presence of a significant transaction history. New accounts opened by people with no discernible history? Yes, they should freeze/ban/lock first and ask questions later. Accounts that are clearly used as part of a business? Give the customer the benefit of the doubt, or at least a 5-minute phone call.
Scientists are driven by truth - politicians are not.
Doesn't the Fire (and supposedly the new Fires as well), only have the Amazon App Store and don't officially work with Play? And from what I've used on the phone version of the Amazon App Store, your app is tied to that app. If you uninstall the App Store, your app will break. So yes, I believe that is a case for lock-in.
I guess Tampon in French also means "look we're gonna make an offensive joke for the English world and then point to the French language when criticized for it". Either that or the French engineers live in an alternate Francophone universe.
folks will also want to check out Harper's (CMU) Practical Foundations for PL

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/plbook/book.pdf
But 10M line of Java gets a lot less work done than 1M line of Ruby.
Scala runs on CLR too.
Somewhat, but most gingerbread apps have worked fine without modification.
The 3rd from last picture compares the old & new Kindles with the backlight off. You can see the new one's color is closer to white, but it's not really that different. They're both still pretty close to a standard paperback.

However, in that picture you can see how much sharper the text on the new Kindle is. That really appeals to me.

I like my 3G, but I think I'd really like the increased resolution. The thing I worry about is turning pages. I like using the buttons on the sides of my Kindle to change pages (even if I think they should be reversed vertically). I'm not sure I like the idea of having to poke the screen all the time and get finger prints on it.

I'll have to see one in person either way. But they've got me interested.
On the contrary, I find reading PDFs with reasonable margins (e.g. the kind you find in computer science papers) on my 3rd gen Kindle very easy, so long as I flip the Kindle into landscape mode (for one-column documents) or zoom in a little bit (for two-column documents).
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I was also surprised that the basic model was not upgraded to the new screen. I think the cheapest kindle is actually the best one to get, because of hardware buttons. I won't be upgrading it anytime soon, it seems.
Weird. So they can send an FTL signal with quantum coupling/entanglement (or whatever). I wonder how "simultaneity" is set by the universe: average light speed between 2 points to determine average time frame???

If they can make it scale, it would be interesting to see how this affects space exploration vehicles: "get me a subspace channel to starfleet!", er, "open a quantum channel to deep space network!". This should make it possible to have almost realtime monitoring and control of a remote probe with a quantum relay link covering most of the interplanetary distance.
Kindle Paperwhite - Touch Screen Ereader with Built-In Light
This is what I've struggled with recently.

To force yourself to reach out, to me, implies that there's something wrong with being an introvert (or wallflower).

I don't like the idea of admitting that such a natural state of being is in any way abnormal or wrong.

It always seems like introverts don't mind being in a world of extroverts, they just find methods to cope. Extroverts, though, seem to view introverts as "weird" or "shy", somehow incomplete shells of a person. At least, that's my experience.

I never see someone trying to make an extrovert more introverted; but I consistently see the opposite.

To answer your question: I do like to reach out, but for different reasons. It seems extroverts want to reach out for the sake of making contact. -- They're OK with just having drinks, games, making small talk, etc.

As an introvert, I'd rather go to get some mental engagement. I'd go because there's something I can learn from the meetup or it's a meetup surrounding an interesting activity.

It's not about being with people. -- It's about what those people represent [cultures, ideas, insight, knowledge].
The recent updates to Plume have made it pretty great on my Nexus 7
Not if you structure your repo correctly.

> not clear what code has and has not been deployed

You can have your production machines deploy from specific branches. In other words, master is the development branch, some-version-branch is the production branch. You can also do it vice versa. You can use tags. Lots of solutions.

> code is not explicitly validated (automatically, manually, on a build/test lab)

If you use the structure above, you wouldn't commit to a production branch unless you did that. Another solution is to force validation/testing using hooks before allowing a commit to a production branch on your development machine.

> and it isn't clear who triggered the release.

Not sure what you mean here ... every commit is recorded, so you always know who did what.
> "Any numbers? Toronto you can get some pretty decent money."

Just from my own circles - $125-150K base, with additional equity/bonuses on top, in NYC, for a bunch of nerds only 1-3 years out of undergrad. The range is similar in SF/SV. This is astronomical by "pretty decent" Toronto standards.

IMO the notion that NYC/SF/SV compensation eats Canadian salaries for lunch is not really that controversial nor ambiguous. I am easily earning over 2x what I would pull off in Toronto, or Montreal, or Vancouver.

[edit] There's an additional point of on top of this: Canada has essentially no major innovative software institutions. Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, et al act as anchors in their respective communities and their influence can't be discounted.

They attract talented people who actually give a hoot about the impact of the things they work on, and provide a talent pool for startups to draw from. They also act as a cushion against the risks of startup-dom, as most capable engineers have a (very decent) plan B.

The equation in the US often works out like "I can go work on a nimble team doing really cool stuff that impacts real people and possibly get rich. Even if we fail, I walk back into a 6-figure job working on really cool stuff still." - this has a tremendous impact on the startup scene, and simply does not exist at all in Canada.
The One Hundred Dollar Question
It's up to Google to allow Play. It's part of the non-open portion of Android along with stuff like Google Maps.
As said elsewhere on this thread, scientists usually make terrible politicians which is an essential skill in a thriving democracy (and Singapore ain't one).
Jakob Nielsen mentioned the impact of PPI on reading speed in an old article but unfortunately he didn't cite the original source.

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9511.html
That's more likely because Google won't let them add it, not because Amazon wants to block it. Google Play is a proprietary service and they like to use it a a threat to force OEMs to cooperate. I don't see Google allowing it on a heavily customized OS that's barely "Android" at all.
It's Android so of course you can side load apps. However it's a fork of Android and so it's not eligible to get access to Google's app ecosystem. This is a decision that Amazon made intentionally and knowing full well it would limit their customers access to android offerings via Google. They don't want their customers using third party marketplaces or video services as then Amazon is cut out of the payments.
No, not a good design choice. A good sales choice.
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They never forked Android. The software on the original kindle fire is a fully compatible Android 2.3 based operating system.
What's your background? (i.e. what do you already know?)
And if people cared enough about Rails they would make it work independently of Ruby, except that makes no sense.
Depending on your stack and your needs this might be true, but my experience is that if you're not segfaulting it's not much of a problem. Also systems can be tuned so that flush happens when process dies.