skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seesmic's always struggled. From the founders blog in July

I have been struggling with Seesmic for 5 years, pivoting 4 times and not reaching success yet, still trying hard (we just killed a bunch of products to focus on one, Seesmic Ping and monetized it with hundreds of happy paid customers already and a nice growth). A big change.

http://loiclemeur.com/english/2012/07/40-and-5.html
I have to say I do like the new business phone number which every time seems to connect me to a friendly and helpful person each time.

That's where the positives end for me however. For Paypal, I fear it's too little too late. You've done too much damage to yourselves. I get the reasons why you do things, but the communication over the last years has been atrocious.

We're in the UK and are just waiting for Stripe to come over. I think a lot of other businesses are thinking along the same lines as well.

Your fee structure is pretty expensive as well. There's also a lot of hidden costs:

- We're on an upper tier so should have a reduced commission rate. However, after scratching my head for ages as to why a majority of our sales are not at the lowered rate I finally find the link about cross border fees or whatever reason you use to charge us more. As an example, some of our $119 USD sales have $4.35 fees which is ~3.7%. Our current rate it says on our account should be 1.9%. Your fees structure is not as clear as it should be.

- Have you tried issuing a refund in a different currency? You have to draw money from your bank (even if there are available funds), which is converted to the correct currency which because your spreads as so expensive means sometimes refunds cost us money. I phoned up about this and they told me to open different currency balances which I did and which fixed the issue, but again, bad communication and a broken process

- Related to the previous point, your spreads on foreign conversions are high. I think they've improved a bit over the last couple of years but I still consider them an expensive hidden cost. I contacted Stripe asking what spreads they offer, and they told me they would consider it a hidden cost and they offer customers the same spreads the banks give them.

Also, your website is mind bogglingly slow. See this support ticket I opened:
https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/Access-and-security/Why-...

The support person didn't do anything about it. I didn't expect them to though, as Paypal is an impenetrable behemoth that doesn't seem to care about these sorts of things.

Your website being as slow as it is, mind numbingly slow, is honestly enough reason alone for me to move service. Trying to find transactions just is a huge waste of my time waiting for each page to load. Try using your sandbox with pages that load that slow.

> there's a massive culture change happening at PayPal right now. If we suck at something, we now face it, and we do something about it.

So can you make your website faster for a start?
Great work! Looks like Github has a big area for improvement, though.
october to june, rails tutorial, and get a job. Well done sir.
Another 'less' abuse: using it as an interactive grep via '&' line filtering.

It's a newish feature of less (those of you with stale RHEL installs won't find it). Type '&<pattern><return>' and you'll filter down a listing to match pattern. Regexes supported. Prefixed '!' negates filter.

Wishlist: interactive filter editing (similar to mutt's mail index view filters), so you don't have to re-type full expressions.
David Hume On Political Attacks (from 1741)
Please excuse my ignorance on the subject, but why does OS X need to encrypt and store my actual password? The prevailing best practice seems to be that app owners should only have enough information to determine whether a password is correct (e.g. hashing, bcrypt, etc), but not enough information to get the a user's actual password (without impractical heavy computation). Is there a good reason why this is any different for OS X?
I ♥ Py, but I ♥ my privacy more ...

Why on earth do you need my Google acoount permissions? And what does this offer me that any other online compiler walkthrough doesn't? You need to concentrate on that rather than swankyness (which clearly, this site gets right!)
> Scala is another kind of tool, it also does type inference and add functional goodies and support DSL BUT it have a deep love to parallelism (actors and non mutable objects as an example)

I believe Groovy also supports actor concurrency via gPars. That said, I still haven't seen anything like Akka on any other language, specifically its distributed processing p2p feature. To me Akka is Scala's 'killer app'. I agree I don't like the new Play framework. I didn't mind the magic being taken away but with taking the magic out, they also killed any form of convenience without providing a replacement.
GHC 7.6.1 officially released
There were both touch and non-touch Kindle e-ink readers announced. The non-touch Kindle does not have the "Paperwhite" screen but it is super fast and light weight, and it's now $69...

I've been waiting to take my Kindle Paperwhite home for some time now; I love the front-lit screen.
Kindle Fire HD best features
Steadily? More like falling off a cliff! The old Tweetdeck can still be downloaded with minimal searching, and even with some brokenness with regards to Facebook and supporting a defunct network (Google Buzz), it's still leaps and bounds better than the Twitter-owned abortion.
Emily Short has appeared at a number of interactive fiction panels and the like. She's definitely a real, and very talented, person, and in a Male-centric field, it's somewhat insulting to see people assuming that she must just be a man's pseudonym.
212 PPI could be revolutionary in viewing non-text documents on an e-ink screen. The current Kindle is basically unusable for PDFs unless you have a DX. It might still be too low of a DPI, but it has to be a major improvement and right now most PDFs are just BARELY unreadable.
"The first rule of..."

Sigh.
That email is golden. I wish I could write like that. Reminds me of Pulp Fiction where the characters say all of these interesting things which have almost no relevance to the plot... "and scalp rashes are very, very bad" lol
Isn't synchronicity in inventions amazing? I'm actually working on something similar at https://unifyo.com, so it's exciting to see someone else's take on the problem.

We're focusing more on the team side of things, to help people to discover knowledge within organisations - so with Unifyo you can see what messages anyone in your team have exchanged with a contact. We're also working on closer integration with CRMs as that's where companies have this data already.

Anyway, may the best team win! Good luck to Bushido and congratulations on the launch guys.
Exactly. I don't even care if they're not selling it yet, at least have an informational screen up. I just went there to look up the specs on the new Kindle Paperwhite (weight, mostly) and the product isn't even mentioned anywhere on their site.
I had an older Nokia phone that had the antenna near the bottom of the device (to keep it away from your head), and when you had your hand on the device like you would hold an iPhone (fingers on one side, thumb on the other side) you would lose signal strength rapidly.

The same issue was evident in various blackberry devices.

Unfortunately the human body simply is a fantastic sink for RF frequency do the fact that we are mostly made out of water and salt. Yes, the iPhone is simpler in that it allows you to close the loop, but the issue can be found in multiple phones.

Sheathing or no sheathing, humans are hard to transmit through.
Just to be clear, that wasn't a Mozilla employee commenting, so they won't necessarily even have a good view of Mozilla's priorities.
um... make a 4chan app that lets users up/downvote threads, then builds a naive bayesian model of what keywords (eg. "toasting epic bread") are correllated with the kind of threads you like. Netflix-like. A sort of automatic cream-extractor.

de-anonymizer based on posting times, writing style, what baits them to respond, etc. The Thread-Local unique ID's would help, giving you more stuff that you knew came from same user. Don't know if this one is practical. Kindof scraping the bottom here...

That's it for now.
>Why take issue with an unsuspicious app that works as advertised?

#include <closed_sw_boilerplate_warning.h>

Because you can't prove that the app isn't doing something suspicious. You know what it purports and appears to do, and you know that it needs access to your activity on facebook.com. Even then, it has an auto update mechanism, so even if it isn't doing something untoward now, it easily could in the future without you being the wiser.

Knowing how much of the average user's life is detailed on Facebook, it's one thing that deserves extra scrutiny when it comes to allowing randoms to have access to it.
Yes. I was complaining more about the attitude than about the actual situation.
The keychain is the part of OS X that stores your passwords for websites (and other things), so you don't have to remember and type them in every time. Safari uses it to auto-fill login forms, for example.
I found that I was not able to take the test fairly, because it was blatantly obvious from the style of the search results which one was Bing and which one was Google. The Bing results use a slightly duller green for the URL displayed underneath each result's title, among other stylistic differences.

So, the comparison is completely useless, as they did not anonymize the style of the results, and thus either conscious or unconscious bias can creep in. I expect that for users that are not aware that the results look different, there will be a significant preference for the results that they see every day (e.g. the engine they normally use).
Glad to see they are finally increasing the resolution, although I think I would prefer a 7"-8" version with higher resolution. 6" is kind of small for reading books, isn't it?
Please link to the specific post instead of the whole blog: http://swaaanson.tumblr.com/post/31005807489/sound-familiar
Interesting article, but the title should probably be "How stock market decimalization killed IPOs and saved our economy."

That is, whatever the cause-and-effect relationship between decimalization and IPOs, it's a bit fatuous to maintain that outsize IPOs are, by themselves, "good" for the economy.
I think the 9" one is the most interesting tablet out of the bunch, because it's in the range of 9"-10", it has a "retina display" (just 9 PPI lower than the iPad 3) - and it costs just $300! That's crazy, and although I'm not interested in this specific tablet, because I'd rather have a full Android one, it's awesome that they are going to push others to match their pricing very soon for that size, too.
Just keep in mind that most real books you read are printed on recycled paper that's beige, creme, off-white, somewhat yellow, grey, or a little brown anyway. The only "white paper" you actually read would be computer printouts.

I've never had a problem with "real books" and wished they were printed on "white paper" instead, nor have I ever complained about the Kindle display - it was always more than adequate in terms of contrast and colors. It's just the goddamn lag (esp. in the touch screen edition, which makes it so infuriating because of the lack of both tactile and visual feedback). So I'm inclined to just call this a marketing ploy.
Confirming what we all knew: Certifications are worthless
instead of going over the network, they’ll go over a UNIX socket, and the kernel doesn’t have to copy data around.

This isn't really true. Even if the kernel does cow pipes (on both ends), the writer is almost certainly going to trash the page and cause a fault. The data is just copied around without being bundled into TCP packets.

There is also a SHM extension which does use shared memory, but that's separate and mostly only used for pixmaps and the like.
Are Accelerators Misunderstood?
The Stream Handbook
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Everything that reflects light has brightness. Something doesn't need to emit its own light to have brightness. However, if it emits light of its own, it will usually appear brighter.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brightness
There's a Chrome extension to change the FB color with 600k users. There're things that normal people care that we, on our bubble, will have a hard time gasping.
IIRC I looked that up, and Google's revenue is about half of MS's for 1/3 the employees, making it about 3/2 the revenue per employee. Not sure about Apple/Samsung.
New Movie/TV review website started by 2 college students: Prerecorded Live
Discover who draft who on Dribbble
Or always available as a user script:

https://arantius.com/misc/greasemonkey/hacker-news-comment-c...

Also collapses by default threads below depth two.
It's been years and years since I knew the details, but at one point the nvidia drivers replaced pretty everything from libX11 down, and I don't think you could hook in at a middle point. (ie, they don't support the "standard" graphics stack.) Would appreciate if anyone could comment on how things stand today.
libwayland being a reference implementation does not mean its not implemented. It just means that the specified thing is the protocol, not the library API. This is similar to libX11, its just a reference implementation, and other implementations like escher (a pure java X11 protocol implementation) exists. Most wayland servers will still use libwayland.

There is nothing special about multiple monitors in wayland. The KMS/Mesa drivers allows setup and rendering to multiple monitors fine, then its up to the wayland server to decide what to draw on each monitor.
....and that's where I stopped reading.
link doesn't work. You should also make the headline the link, otherwise you're gonna get no upvotes.
How far off is the technology to combine this type of screen with your typical LCD tablet screen?
I would love to read on a "paperwhite" screen, and watch movies/surf on a standard tablet screen, all on one device.
The financial industry is a different beast. If one customer can wipe out the profit of 100, you need to be much more careful about how you do business and who you do business with.
I'm cautious on their $50/yr LTE. It's definitely being subsidized somehow (as I seriously doubt AT&T is passing up $130/yr profit per customer, and not much room for profit margins for Amazon in that $500), the question is how? Using Silk to proxy all data? "Special Offers"?

EDIT: "Special Offers" confirmed, on all Kindles it seems. I won't be buying such a thing. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008GFRDL0/
That is just going from 800x600 to 1024x768. It does make a difference reading wise, but is long overdue for Amazon.

Funny, spec wise this is identical to my cheapo $49 iRiver HD which I've had for a year. Some other readers have it too.
Here is a link to the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47LtM830ocE
Nokia probeert het met Lumia 920 tegen Apple, Google en Samsung
Except it doesn't look good, and copy/paste is even shittier.
Do Startup Benchmarks Really Make A Difference?
I'm not sure that name is a good idea. The problem with made-up words that are close to real words is that it is very easy to read them as a nearby real word. I keep reading it as "paperweight".
I wouldn't call it a ploy. They are trying to improve the readability of the characters on-screen. Books have very dark lettering, so the beige paper doesn't matter. E-ink, on the other hand, is still working on darkness, and so increased whiteness of the background can be used to bolster contrast.
Hashing is only used to test if an entered password matches a stored one (without actually storing the password). It's no good if you need to retrieve the password to use later (which Keychain does).

This isn't a hole, and if anything, speaks to the quality of work that Apple's engineers did on Keychain.
It looks like if you preorder by September 14 you can avoid sales tax in CA! I checked on some other preorder items that will not ship before Amazon starts charging CA tax.
Amazon has unveiled three new Kindle Fire tablets
While I think Python is great, I think the author discounts R too casually. I share his frustrations about R, but what's nice is R (well, S) was designed to be a statistical computing tool, and it does anything related to that quite well. Especially for data analysis, which is where I spend a lot of my time (perhaps most) in the whole model building process, R is amazing. Also, R is very usable out of the box for math and data visualization, whereas Python requires many libraries. It's good to know R.

I think R and Python can be used in conjunction very effectively. Analyze your data in R, prototype your algorithms in either, build products in Python.
Yeah. Whenever I hear anyone who isn't talking specifically about math or engineering say "X is a solved problem," it tends to seem more like they actually mean "X is an understood problem," which has quite the opposite meaning. If you say "The solution to the problem of profitability is for the company in question to sell goods/services for more than the cost of obtaining them," you're begging the question. All you've done is stated the problem again in different terms and called it the solution.

True solutions let us cause the rectification of the problem. If I could literally guarantee that I'd be able to turn a profit before I even knew the nature of the company I was going to start, then I could claim the problem was solved.
Not quite.

"When you apply parentheses surrounding one or more values to a variable, Scala will transform the code into an invocation of a method named apply on that variable."

So it's much closer to:

class F(object):
# you can't actually do this in Python, because F() isn't bound at this
# point, but that's close to what Scala does.
__name__.f = F()
def __call__(cls, s):
return s + "bar"

f("foo")

I'm not quibbling that f() isn't a "real" top-level function, but I would like to know what the essential differences are such that you feel that Scala's solution is inferior. It seems like an unbelievably fine hair to split to me.
It may not be his primary source, but it's quite significant. He gets $1,500 a week just from his weekly sponsored links alone [1]. It doesn't look like he's hurting for business. That's roughly what? $78,000 a year?

This doesn't factor in his income from The Deck, the Build & Analyze podcast, or Instapaper, of course.

He clearly has a vested interest in the Apple eco-system and by proxy, the success of Apple and making them look good.

1. http://www.marco.org/sponsorship
Looks great! looks like capistrano
This is more or less my story as well.

I graduated from college with a philosophy degree and took a job in marketing. That job wasn't really marketing, despite the title, and I ended up spearheading a digital marketing effort that was 95% technical project management. That was the point when I realized I wanted to be the person making the products, not managing the people making them.

So I did everything I could to get closer to the technology. I quit my job in the non-profit sector and moved to Chicago, took a job as a project manager at a technology/marketing company, learned QA processes, taught myself python over 12 months, built some scripts to automate tedious parts of my job, and eventually got a job in Automated QA.

Now I'm an engineer in SF Bay Area at a startup. And yes, every day I go home and realize that my brain is wrung out, my mind is exhausted, and I am totally happy with it.
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I read the article, it starts with a questions and ends with no answer. The only thing interesting was the info-graphic.
I wonder if the yung'uns of today will look back on their Xbox live or MMOG multiplayer sessions with as much nostalgia.

They will, just as our parents look back at the games of their youth with similar nostalgia.
Thanks, excellent writing. I think I'll buy it after all :)
Unless you upload copyrighted music you don't have the rights to, you shouldn't be liable for anything even if the FBI or ICE does seize their servers.
I have a ereader from Asus that has a slightly yellow, slightly grey screen. I don't know exactly how to describe the color, but it looks like a piece of paper.

I completely agree. I only accept reading technical whitepapers because I have to. When I'm reading for comfort, I don't want my eyes subjected to a harsh white (which is what I feel is implied by them focusing on how white it is). I'd have to see it in front of me to be comfortable saying I could replace my non-lit, non-white screen ereader. If it's pure white, it's a no-go for bedtime reading with sleepy eyes.
This is still important information to have. Most power users have sudo privileges. Now it is really obvious that when you get rooted while using sudo, all of the unlocked keychain items can be read from memory (before you are alerted that you are rooted).

Keychain still mitigates this attac, though, because until you unlock your items they are secure. If you use the same password for all of your keychains, the malware might have already captured the password, but if you different passwords for different keychains you still have a chance at being secure.
Doesn't bug me. I like the DPI increase. Might be truly to retina levels, but the difference should be noticeable.
I seriously doubt most vendors care to compete with Amazon on price. Amazon makes all of their money from locking you into their services and platforms. That's not something other tablet vendors can do. Apple doesn't need to compete on price due to the size of their ecosystem and the quality of their products. That leaves Google which did something similar to Amazon with the Nexus 7 but can't necessarily continue that trend without damaging relationships with their hardware partners (All the OEMs currently making tablets).
I was looking at this sideways until I read the last statement about the future. There is something bothersome to me about deploying code directly from a code repository. Things I can think of that bother me about it, not clear what code has and has not been deployed, code is not explicitly validated (automatically, manually, on a build/test lab), and it isn't clear who triggered the release.

I think it also bothers the side of me coming from compiled languages where there is more to a code release then copy files from a to b.
I'd suggest you consider:
1. Labor costs. Ruby developers may be twice as expensive as PHP ones given the same level of tasks to be solved.
2. Labor availability. Whether it is easier for you to find PHP programmer or Ruby programmer when you need one?

For me in Russia answer is definitely PHP, Ruby guys are rare and expensive here :)
It's obvious what it's for. $5 keeps people from quickly and easily just spamming the store with thousands of extensions, while still keeping it cheap enough that anyone can afford.

It isn't for doing security screening, there's no way $5 would be worth the time of someone professional enough to look at your code for 20 or 30 minutes, God forbid if it's longer than that.
"Paperweight"? Brain glitch, auto-correct, or opinion?
Anonymous claimed that the file was named in connection with a government program - so I believe it was either a completely falsified story, or it was intentionally obtained by the FBI for government business.
I would guess that Amazon profit shares with AT&T for sales done/delivered over LTE.
IU mathematician offers unified theory of dark matter, dark energy
Why Don’t Americans Elect Scientists?
Researchers identify biochemical functions for most of the human genome
Kindle Fire’s 4G package offers 250MB of data a month for $50 a year
To each their own, but I think 6" is too big. Both my wife and I prefer reading on our smartphones than on our 6" eReaders and 7" and 10" tablets.
ArXiv paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1206.5078v2.pdf
Oh, I see, thank you! For some reason, I had assumed that it was used for storing local user accounts.