skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can tell you the main reason I bought the 3G version of my Kindle (since re-named the Kindle Keyboard 3G) was to get the white case instead of black.
Motivation Trumps IQ. What now?
I am interested what their plan for the DX form factor is. I really don't like the small form factor of regular kindles.
As much as X may suck, it's actually faster for me to start LibreOffice through ssh -X over Wifi on my Linux PC than running it on my MacBook. That's quite good for an obsolete technology.
Your expenses are probably much higher though. Generally people adjust by downgrading their standard of living. It's not unusual to be making $100K+ in SF and have a roommate. I can't imagine what it's like in NYC.
Why doesn't it have the battery life listed at the bottom of Amazon.com's description of the fire HD?

Every other tablet they have has it listed.
If they based it on tegra 3 it would be very hard to understand, as a "techie", the differences between this and the collection of other tegra 3 products on the market. I think this helps set it apart from Google, rather than the instant retort of "its just a rebranded nexus 7"
re 5: SR&ED (the program I assume you're referencing) is 'free' money. If my company can make back 3/4 of a developers salary by doing "proposal writing" why wouldn't they do that?
Request-log-analyzer? https://github.com/wvanbergen/request-log-analyzer
David, no dev out there is waiting at home thinking "oh my gosh paypal says something good is going to happen i can't wait". This only happens only to credible service from companies that are trusted by the community. No one cares about what is going to happen in the FUTURE, we care about NOW (i have ~35k dollars a month paid by pp and i can't change paypal's generic call to action template that i know from past a/b testing will make me and you more money). paypal's gate-keeping state of mind is going to back fire hard, better believe it because it's coming.
Am I missing something or was this not posted a long long time ago?
Customers would want to know what apps the thing can run. Will it be stuck running android's gingerbread apps forever while the rest of the android ecosystem moves on?
Better than Google Guava or Apache Commons in any way?
Simon & Schuster, Hachette E-Book Accord Wins Approval
Android creating a Photo Gallery that displays photos in Grids
Stop validating email addresses with your complex regex
The Kindle Fire and its descendants are tablets with web browsing, app stores, games, etc based off of Android.
Agency ebook pricing is not long for this world and $9.99 best sellers will be back soon.
Holy cow, those things are ginormous!
Looks like they've corrected it, but the URL still shows the original title
Looks like it appeared in Jan and was updated in August.
Salesforce has mostly bought things and kept it going
How is that more secure? They're both running the same code base. That means they have the same vulnerabilities. Both also need to be public facing to deploy code.
Mobile Touch Template for testing UI sizes
Any level-headed scientist knows the awful stigma American politics has and the seedy underbelly one must traverse to come even close to getting anywhere...and as such, they avoid it.
Mine is strange. I left the house yesterday and it was at 14% (got an alert), came home after work and it was dead. I didn't use it all evening, but plugged it up overnight and looked at it this morning and the meter was at about 50%. I hope the battery isn't defective because there isn't an Asus/Google store to take this thing to.
I'm not sure this is FTL communication. I guess this method still requires a conventional communication link.

EDIT: If Wikipedia is reliable on this topic, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light#Quantum_mecha...
Germany did: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Merkel
It turns out the CEO of svpply had some ideas what to do with the company. I am surprised no one has mentioned this post http://pieratt.tumblr.com/post/5450242474/my-job-pt-1-i-have...
Probably not much. I started working with bigger data some months ago and now I notice that I need some real techniques and not just my "ok try this and this". I'm coding in C (where I "create" the data (numerical integration of stochastic differential equations)) and Python (plotting). I need methods/algorithms/techniques to analyse the data "on the fly" because I can't save it all (it's too much data).
This code badly needs a piece of documentation outlining:

* how it differs from Google Guava Collections,

* what are the tradeoffs and performance/memory characteristics of the collection types.

I couldn't find an answer to the question "why would I use this?" — and I am actually looking for collections with certain properties (for Clojure, but it doesn't matter much in my case).
Favor Composition Over Inheritance
those trained in science typically traffic in ideas that are either right (true) or wrong (false).

Just make sure you have plenty of string theorists and perhaps some archeological geneticists and exoplanet meteorologists as well. That should even things out.
Man, I completely agree. Both Google and Bing are completely and utterly broken. Both return about.com and ask.yahoo.com and a number of other sites that have been specifically built to game the system. Does anyone else remember when you could search Google and it would return academic institutions and actual interesting blog posts from individuals? It has been a long time.

When your system can be gamed, it is broken. Period.
> They don't want their customers using third party marketplaces or video services as then Amazon is cut out of the payments

The integration into Amazon's ecosystem is a major selling feature, trying to fully tie it into two ecosystems would be a mess.

You can use other video services though, Netflix works great. For music there is Pandora and Spotify.
You are right. I should have said public radio shows This American Life and Radio Labs (where Lehrer was a frequent contributor). I originally thought he was on This American Life too, but can't verify that.
EBay Inc. Acquires Svpply (via Svpply Blog)
This whole thing smells from the top down. You have a hacker group whose primary modus operandi is all about "DOXING" people for the lulz.

So they hack into an FBI laptop and all the do is release 1 million apple UDID's?? Hmmmmmmmm, makes you wonder.

Out of all the theories out there, this seems to be the most plausible once you think the FBI has nothing to do with it.
Love the idea...now if I only had an iPhone...
Does anyone have any experience with Octave and how it compares to the Python setup that OP suggests?

What are the benefits/pitfalls?
Lush is an excellent platform for machine learning. There are bindings to gnuplot ,opencv, lapack, gsl, an optimization library for gradient descent, a machine learning framework, a nerual network simulator.

It also has very nice matrix and vector manipulations features built in to the language and is very easy to bind to C code.
I work in science, and the answer is basically no. In order to be a successful scientist, you have to be fascinated, even obsessed with your topic of study, sometimes to the point of not really caring about the wider world. This means that, in general, those who have the most success in science are also those who have the least desire to run for public office.
Why nobody is excited about size of new Fire? To me 7" is cute and all pockety, but it is still too small to feel confortable doing stuff on it. 8.9", on the other hand, is good compromise between small 7" and large 10".
via Svpply blog:

>We created Svpply three years ago with the goal of creating a unified online retail shopping experience by bringing shoppers, tastemakers and merchants onto a single site. Today, we couldn’t be happier to announce that we’ve been acquired by eBay Inc.

>One thing we do want to make clear: Svpply is not going away. We’ll continue to bring our users new products each day — allowing our loyal fans to explore beautiful products and stores, all of them hand selected by the community.

>Our talented team will help eBay expand its focus on merchandising, discovery and browsing. Together, we’ll work to create improved and personalized experiences and merchandising options for eBay.com.

>We’re excited to join the eBay and Hunch teams in the new state-of-the-art technology development center in New York City!
Judge Approves E-Book Pricing Settlement Between Government and Publishers
I can't help but wonder if this is one of those "bail out" style acquisitions we hear about. Although it's mostly conjecture, I had definitely heard rumblings of them not doing well as of late. I hope the team and founders did well with this.
No, no, no, no. Normal people don’t always use the email field properly. The might put the username in the email field and the email in the username. Just check for an @. There is no email in the world outside your server that you can sent to without an @.
Week 1 of Coding: Ouch, right in the feels.
I always end up extending the backlight timeout setting until it doesn't bug me anymore. For me, if I haven't read a page in 5 minutes, it's because I'm not reading anymore.
I'll have to look into it, because with my habits (97% of the time in a wifi zone except for the car), this would be perfect for google maps and google voice when I am in a car or out of a wifi zone.

I've actually been very happy with various Android VOIP solutions. This could let me cut out having a cell much of the time (and have to carry around a larger tablet)
Amazon Publishing Introduces Kindle Serials—Great Stories, One Episode at a Time
I agree. Want to fix your issue now. Shoot me an email david(at)paypal(dot)com, and let's figure it out.
Yeah Ben!! Congrats!
He's doing great things with DIY, too: https://diy.org
i was having similar trouble with the hartl book and got discouraged.

I recommend doing these ruby tutorials and then the rails tutorials on this website: http://tutorials.jumpstartlab.com/

The projects are much shorter, and you very quickly realize the power of programming with ruby and rails.

Now i'm jumping back into the hartl book and everything has been making sense.

the jumpstart tutorials are very small, and once you create a rails app enough times you realize how much work its actually doing for you.
A "first-class function" is a function that can be passed to a function, returned from a function, assigned to a variable, or stored in a data structure or basically used in any way that you would use any value. In Scala:

object Foo {
def f1(x : Int) : (Int => Int) = {
return { y : Int => x + y }
}
def f2(f : Int => Int) : Int = { return f(5) }
val f3 = f1(1)
val f4 = List(f1(2), f1(3), f1(4))
}

Yes, functions cannot be defined at the toplevel (unless you're in the REPL), but values also cannot be defined at the toplevel; they too must exist within an object or class. In that sense, functions are on equal footing with values.
That's a good question but a non-question, since it 'officially' only runs apps from the Amazon App Store.
I don't think its going anywhere -- at least that isn't the plan: http://blog.svpply.com/post/31008753911/ebay-inc-acquires-sv...

On another note, if you truly find the site useful, you should be interested in its longevity. For all you know, a team of 7+ with an affiliate sales model and only 60,000 monthly uniques may not have been able to sustain this product without interest from a larger corporate entity.

In essence, a sale is not synonymous with disappearance, and sometimes it can even _ensure_ the opposite.
Same as Guava, except 7% of items added to collections are deducted for management fees
How is that not a fork? They took it, made changes, and shipped it without those changes being reintegrated with the upstream project. "Fork" isn't a moral condemnation, it's a description of a development model.
A lot of people under estimate the investment Google has made in their maps product. That we've got two companies doing that (Apple and Google) is a bit mind boggling.
3 techniques that make Bill Clinton an effective speaker
Ha! Switzerland came up last time I made that point.

I actually don't know what you missed, if anything. I came to your article having never heard of any of the players in the BaaS scene (besides Azure). I left with the impression that everyone besides Azure is basically exactly the same thing, running the same technology, and offering the same features. My brain dismissed that as unlikely, or at the least, some wallpapering. In fact, it might not be that unlikely after all.

Of course, I'm not in the market for a BaaS anyway, that's just the impression I was left in as a purely curious reader.
yeah. Like an ant farm...
This isn't what I was hoping it to be. I would love to have a browser extension that would iterate through every item, delete it and confirm the delete action. (In preparation for divorcing from Facebook entirely).
I've uploaded a fix, so it's working now. Thanks for the feedback.
I was thinking the same thing. They're rarely elected because they're rarely on the ballot.
Good story. I did my undergrad in history and came out wanting to do something else.

I spent a year on help desk, two years as a system and network administrator (skills I acquired by studying while I was on help desk) then I transitioned to development (which I studied for while doing admin) and now I lead my own projects. Like other have mentioned, it's all about dedication, tenacity, and passion.

However, I don't want to overlook the importance of the people along the way who took a chance on me. Those people were just as important to me being able to continue down this career path as the my own efforts.
Laptop fingerprint reader destroys 'entire security model of Windows accounts'
Are you sure that they aren't rejecting? I've read a fair few stories like this - http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/03/29/confirmed-apple-now-r... - that seem to suggest that they are.
At least part of the problem is structural. One contributing factor could be that the US uses direct regional elections, instead of a parliamentary system.

In a parliamentary system, the people vote on a party, rather than a person, and the party decides the individuals who get elected. There's less of an emphasis on individual charisma, and charismatic leaders only need appear at the top of the ticket. A party with sufficient representation is free to fill out the bottom of its ticket with "specialists" whose expertise is valuable, but who wouldn't win a general election on their own.

Meanwhile in the states, every ticket is one member deep so there are no specialists, only generalists. While they can be advisors, the only official positions they can take are cabinet members (where we do see lots of scientific degrees). Further, the lack of scientists in low-ranking elected positions (like House of Representatives) means that there's less of a science+politics talent pool to draw from for the high-ranked positions (Executive branch).
"Provides replacements for ArrayList, HashSet, and HashMap optimized for performance and memory usage."

Sounds interesting, would like to know a bit more. Looks like I have to find out for myself if I want answers
I did that for a time (which I mention in the article), but it's still a superfluous check on top of an activation email. If your users are typing the wrong values into your registration form, perhaps you need better labeling or placeholder text? Display an error that the activation email couldn't be sent. But why add superfluous checks?
If you have taken Andrew Ng's Machine class the handwriting recognition system that is mentioned in the course was implemented in Lush. I think the original code is is even included in the demos distributed with Lush.
Some people really do seem to get a lot done in Lush, so I'm not discounting its utility, but the language is sort of a mess. I took Yann's class and gave up in frustration after a few homeworks. I was very happy working in Matlab and relieved to to never see a 'bloop', 'eloop', or whatever-loop again.
I was going to mention this post. I still think it was genuine and that he has "no idea of what he is doing" as he is saying. Otherwise if he had a true vision of his own business he wouldn't have sold, wouldn't he ?
An interesting post; I'm assuming your later references to Taiwan are actually to Singapore?
Java has lambdas now?
Conceptually true, in reality not so much. The additional expense of living in SF/NYC does not at all cancel out the additional pay. I've done this calculation many times - no matter which way you slice it, you earn substantially more in real terms in the US.

Just doing some quick napkin math now - to maintain my existing NYC lifestyle in Toronto (and my current savings rate) I'd need to be in the $100-110K range. Who's heard of a guy 3 years out of undergrad making $110K in Toronto?!
Good catch. It's probably less than the 11h they announce for the 7" Fire HD. Unless nearly all of the 6oz weight difference is in the battery.

Speaking of which, "Weight 20 ounces (575 grams)" is rightly not touted in an otherwise very convincing siren call to those ready to enjoy the Amazon garden.

(Product page at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008GFRDL0/ )
There's nothing wrong with being introverted. That doesn't mean that it doesn't have costs.
I felt the same way when they picked up Desk (formerly Assistly). I have been pleased that they continue to push the product forward since the acquisition.
I don't see how this integration is a selling point, the price and the kindle branding seem to be it's biggest selling points. Everyone knows that kindle is synonymous with books at this point.

You can certainly use other services like Netflix, Hulu, Spotify or Pandora. Amazon probably loves that those apps are available for their device. The basic reason is that once you go looking for something not available on those other services (which happens frequently) your only other real choice is buying it from Amazon.

I have a fire, and it was immediately obvious within a few minutes it's designed around consuming content from Amazon and spending more money with them. While it would be absolutely a mess to fully support two app ecosystems I think it's naive to think that Amazon would have supported any system that didn't primarily direct funds back to them. They can sell these devices so cheaply as it doesn't matter if they profit from hardware. They've designed everything in such a way as to derive their revenue from sales of media.
Is the iPhone 5 really going to have a different dock connector? That makes me and the stockpile of iPhone cables I have amassed over the years very sad panda.
>Also, I think Python syntax is much more pretty while Matlab is not even designed to be a real language.

If you're only coding the core of an algorithm (rather than a full-featured library with lots of plumbing), and your logic fits naturally into Matlab's native array operators, then using Matlab is a joy.
Shopify Taking Aim at Etsy?
Of all Google's products, Maps is the one I appreciate the most. It got lots of smart features, it's fast, it's got great coverage, and it's easy to use. Truly great work.
WordPress 3.4.2 security release for privilege escalation
This might be of interest: http://noelwelsh.com/streaming-algorithms/2012/08/29/lean-da...

Don't have a great deal of time right now so drop me an email if you'd like more info (see profile) and I'll get on it tomorrow.
Quantum teleportation is pretty cool. But it's one of those things that a lot of people get confused about.

First, what is a quantum state? A "quantum state" is all of the information you need to completely determine a system. If you know a quantum state, then you know everything that there is to know about what it describes. And if we take all of the particles that constitute your body to be "the system", then we can teleport it to a new location. Of course, something as large as a person will probably never happen -- right now we're just doing one particle systems (although a wavefunction can describe as many particles as you want).

The news article says that "matter isn't transported, just the state". This is kind of misleading. There's a property in physics called indistinguishability. Electrons are an example of something that has this property. What this means is that you cannot tell two electrons apart. They are identical in every way (coarsely put, electrons are just an excitation of the same "electron field"). This indistinguishablity leads to some awesome physics (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose%E2%80%93Einstein_statistic...).

So it's meaningless to say that the original matter has or hasn't transported because there's no such thing as the "original matter". If the state of the "new matter" is the same as the old once was, then for all intents and purposes you have actually teleported that object.

But if you have teleported the state, haven't you just cloned the object? Aha! Nature's too tricky to let you pull that off. There's something called the no-cloning theorem which proves that it is impossible to duplicate a quantum state -- you can only move it around.

And to clarify one other misconception, quantum teleportation does NOT allow faster than light information transfer. You still require a classical information channel to complete the teleportation (so it's not instantaneous teleportation in the sci-fi sense).
The biggest barrier to mounting a credible election campaign is getting funding. Scientists are good at getting funding when it comes to writing grant applications, but raising real money in most elections means spending a couple hours every night of the campaign calling people and begging for money.

They don't talk about this and you don't see it on TV, but that's actually the biggest challenge most new candidates face. Policy statements, talking to voters, and giving speeches is a pretty minor part of it.

Most scientists just aren't going to be successful in that environment.
Presumably that is based on his assumption that once the web app receives an email via https and it is to a gmail user, they don't send the message via email (i.e. it never travels over an insecure channel). It may be a reasonable assumption, but seems a little strange to boast about exactly how secure it is.
I wonder how Apple's new policy regarding 3rd party iPhone chargers will affect these guys moving forward.

And I'm not sure I share the same frustration they do. Typically, when my phone is almost out of juice, I'm about as likely to find a charger as I am a usb port. If this somehow plugged into a standard outlet, it might be worth something, but as it stands I wouldn't buy one.
NAVTEQ has been doing this for 15 years. Google learned it from being their customer for much of that time. But of course they get the credit.
The future of telecommunications, brought to you by Bell's lab instead of Bell Labs.
The slug doesn't matter:

http://www.techradar.com/news/mobile-computing/tablets/amazo...
Turn on showdead in your profile and you can see what is being killed.

But even that isn't the whole picture - for example this thread has over 100 points and has magically disappeared from the front page in only a few hours while topics with far fewer points stick around. So there must be an invisible gravity switch.
The distinguishing factor in this era of the Web is that now acquisitions are treated with dismay rather than celebration. Web 3.0 is much more cynical toward the big corporations (and in my opinion, rightly so).
Increase the timeout then. You're probably already in the habit of manually turning off the screen when you're done with the device, so why do you need it to turn off automatically after a minute or two of inactivity? Especially when modern tablets have battery life measured in many hours of time with the screen turned on, does it really matter if you do happen to forget and it takes five or ten minutes for it to correct your mistake? And if it really takes you more than 10 minutes to read a page on a tablet screen before you touch it again to flip the page, just turn off the timeout altogether.
"We'll be right back!", but I won't since I can't order it right now

Yeah, you will.