skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note: This is a specific term with a very specific meaning, if you don't understand what it implies, SemiAccurate does do technical consulting

Seriously? "We're going to use this acronym and not define it, but if you want the words actually spelled out you can pay us for that." I would guess that PoR means Process of Record, but I'm not willing to pay to confirm that.
Word. Given Cython, Jython, etc.... this list keeps going (I use Weka in Python).
If the previous one had no light and this one has, "brighter" is a strange way to describe it, isn't it?
From a customer's, it means you have precisely zero assurance once you've paid that the other guy will follow through. It's just like sending cash through the mail, except with no chance it won't get there.
This seems like poor timing to announce just prior to the iPhone 5 and later the iPad Mini.

An early launch could have given them a bit of traction going into the holiday season. ("My friend just got one and now I want one.") Announcing after the new Apple products could have made them top-of-mind around the holidays. But this timing puts them uncomfortably close to what will surely be a much larger Apple news event.
"...it has 25 percent more contrast than the Pearl screens in the current Kindles and, with 212ppi, it has a 62 percent higher resolution. It relies on a fiber optic like system to direct light down onto the display, not unlike the Nook but, from what we can see, the color is much whiter." [1]

[1] -http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/06/kindle-paperwhite/
For anyone who's interested, coursera is offering a Scala course taught by Odersky this fall. It starts the 18th of September.

https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun
"but they'll willfully call out other companies without solid evidence"

Citation required of both wilful intent and of calling out without solid evidence, from both Arment and Gruber.
Wachowski's/Tykwer Independently Funded Movie: Cloud Atlas
My first thought was that they're planning to release a black one just so they can call it the Paperblack.
Peter Thiel said we become with time just like our biggest competitors. I guess we become the average of the 5 closest businesses we try to compete with indeed
Transparency as Camoflauge
@BoppreH what word would you use instead?
It can still have a higher contrast ratio. Flat black vs flat white, whereas previous versions were not quite flat black and not quite flat white.

If you look at this page: https://sites.google.com/a/etccreations.com/kdesignworks/

It's clear that the existing Kindle is grey-to-grey with a moderate contrast ratio.
http://live.theverge.com/amazon-kindle-fire-paperwhite-reade...

Apple has some serious competition.

That's for an 8.9" 1920x1200 tablet, 32GB storage, stereo audio, 4G LTE, mimo dual-antenna wireless, bunch of other features.
Google for 4, drawn on 1. I like that the blurb at the end was all "whatever, we're still better says a survey". Marketing failure ahoy!
You instantly get their products top of mind if you ever use Amazon.com - I think most people who are both Apple and Amazon customers go to Amazon.com more than Apple.com.
Now ∞% brighter!
Here’s how he deflects blame from redditors onto the victims of their creepy Facebook stalking, Photobucket fuskering, and real-life harassment: “Your kids need to know that any time they take an image and put it in a digital format… they should assume that it is now public content… That’s the useful thing I think CNN could have reported on, instead of making up a bunch of jibber-jabber about reddit.” —Alexis Ohanian

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXZYvrue1BE&feature=youtu...
No, I just think its an odd contradiction to respect that guy, and simultaneously make a video publicizing the dude.

He disappeared himself, and I thought that particular community was good with leaving well enough alone. Especially in light of the reaction I've seen them take when other people have dragged _why back into the limelight after he left.

Seems strange. Just a thought.
Agreed, the thing i like the most is that it transparently forwards the traffic configuring iptables, no more SOCKS proxy configuration to update every time and no dns issues.

It also has a -x option that let you exclude local subnets from the forwarding, e.g. -x 192.168.0.0/24,
It was last week; I had to go 20 minutes through Bristol to go from the M5 to the M4 as they had closed the entire junction :(
Welcome to our world!

I spend almost 30% of the project time helping people setup their environments or tracking a problems that are not directly related to the task they are assigned to do... that's unfortunately part of the game.

But the bright side is that it will take less and less and less time to solve this kind of problem after a while.
I was of course only talking about developed countries ;)

Really, afaik in europe and for sure in germany this is totally easy. It is not equally easy to reverse a transaction you started yourself. But when another person has you account-number and the public data belonging to this, all he can do is a "lastschrift" (direct debit), which is easily reverseable.

No need to downvote me. The USA is different than europe, and in this regards way behind.
Although each status update is a discrete element, so it's not as if the dual column layout really matters.

I mean, you're not reading a book-- it's more likely you'll read a status update and then expand and read the comments directly below it rather than reading a large number of statuses in a row.

The news feed is still in a single-column format because you might actually read quite a few in a row of those.

At any rate these extensions seem like an exercise in futility as Facebook will surely completely remove the non-timeline functionality sooner or later.
It can be brighter in the same way that real dead-tree paper can be brighter. If you go into an office supply store, look at the paper selection, you'll notice that some shades of "white" are much, much brighter white than others.
Just as support, I'm an Apple customer (typing this on a MBP) and I go to amazon.com at least twenty times as often as I go to apple.com.

Edited add: I just went to amazon.com, and ironically enough, they don't seem to have updated to reflect the new Kindles.
Amazon shows off new 7-inch and 8.9 inch Kindle Fires
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Don't mention it? Citing better contrast makes the point clear enough.
MongoDB Index Shootout: Covered Indexes vs. Clustered Fractal Tree Indexes
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Haha, I do share the same surname & hair style so you're not too far off!
Not at all. It's very common to refer to papers as brighter and darker. This analogous use for an electronic reading surface seems very natural to me.
> Brighter? As far as I know it doesn't have any backlight, so how can it be brighter?

It does have a backlight, but it can be brighter because the pages are more white.
A more informative title for the article could be:

New open-source app WHEN EXECUTED WITH ROOT PRIVILEGES
extracts passwords stored in Mac OS X keychain
Kindle Fire HD: Better, Faster, Cheaper—Bigger
I had no idea about that - looks great. Thanks so much for the heads up, seems like a much faster way to implement Zenbox-for-Outlook.
When someone ships drugs via UPS, do you blame the drug dealer or UPS?

How could reddit possibly have monitored all that content?

Parents need to take more responsibility for the actions of their kids.
> There's also a good chance that by the time a race can travel between interstellar space, they'll be mature enough not to kill everything they see.

What makes you think that? Humans just put 1 ton hover over another planet yet we still kill each other over which parts of which iron age books we think are more than just stories.

What we do know is that within a populous of a given scientific advancement its possible for there to be a massive variation of individual and group morality as well as individual education level (particularly in regards to science). We know this because it's our current world.

Based on the reality we know about it isn't terribly apparent to me that just because some population has achieved a given level of scientific advancement that some of them won't gleefully steal my lunch.
HootSuite aren't in the dreaded upper-right quadrant, though.
If your hosting company hasn't saved your access logs for the purchase. Otherwise you just added one step to the process.
I would have thought the main point was the email not the documentary which is why I gave it a title referring to the email, not the documentary... C'est la vie.
It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when. When developers make Xbox games(Xbox uses Direct X), and Windows games(again Direct X), it will be trivial for them to also target WP8/WinRT.
The core operating system swap. Taking a desktop operating system and shrinking it down to run on a phone is no easy task. In fact, it's a gargantuan undertaking. Add a bunch of new end user features and you get that the amount of technical work that is going into WP8 is phenomenal. However, the windows phone engineering team is superb. I have no doubt's that both consumers and developers will be thoroughly impressed come holiday season.
A lot of people have a problem with timeline selecting stuff from years past and making it more easily discoverable, or more "in your face".

Those who've recently divorced don't really want to look at their own timeline and see a bunch of stuff with their spouse 2 years ago. Those who have grown in maturity or changed religious/political views don't really want some stupid thing they said 5 years ago to be a mere one screen-length from the top of the page.

I personally am irritated with the "curated" experience. It ties in with sorting wall posts to "top stories" instead of by date. I know there was a discussion last month I want to get back to, but FB has decided it doesn't show up on my timeline or my friend's timeline, because it only gives a selection of posts from that month.
Not quite. Wayland itself doesn't require any graphics-driver-specific code; it uses the standard kernel interfaces and graphics stack (Mesa, DRI, libdrm, KMS, etc). That also works fine with radeon and nouveau, and it would work fine with the proprietary drivers as long as they support the standard graphics stack. It just won't work with proprietary drivers that implement their own entirely un-integrated graphics stack, which seems unsurprising to me.

Your window manager of choice can just link into Wayland/Weston and ignore all the underlying graphics driver bits; they'll Just Work.
Alexis was the less technical one, but make no mistake: he's no slouch when it comes to technology.
The law as I understand it is, the 4th Amendment doesn't apply at and beyond the security checkpoint. You could be arrested (by police) for saying no. And of course you'll end up on the no-fly list and have to move to another country if you want to fly again. Not that I'm supporting any of this.
Well, yeah, I go to amazon.com to buy everything except an iphone, ipad, or macbook. Not a good comparison.
Any time someone is paid based on the number of units sold (e.g. royalties), sure it is. If I sell one more ebook, I need to pay out more royalties, and therefore my total cost has gone up.

I realize I'm handwaving a bit, but my basic point is that selling more ebooks is not free for the publisher. There's definitely a cost here. And it's somewhat tangential anyway, because the marginal cost that's important here is Amazon's. In the traditional model they buy ebooks from the publisher at a fixed price, just like with physical books, and then mark them up and resell them. So the marginal cost here is the amount they pay the publisher per copy.
It would still seem that the OSX/iOS keychain access is miles ahead of other platforms. (I was very impressed to learn that on iOS, you can mark a file with various data protection flags, which encrypts the file on flash, and only allows open when the screen is unlocked (because the encryption key is derived from the screen-lock unlock code, and purged from memory immediately at screen lock time)). See for example http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#DOCUMENTATION/Cocoa/...

Does desktop linux, android or windows provide similar facilities where the keys are actually not available for reading by processes running under the user's UID? I found http://stackoverflow.com/questions/442923/windows-equivalent... which sort of hints on some win32 APIs providing something like this, but with very high overhead (and also links to scary blogposts about weakened crypto in i18n'ed windows releases!)
I think if anyone really doubts this they should spend some time programming something directly on top of Xorg to convince themselves that when the ball of mud is gone there will be at least a bit more sanity.
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While its true that a new "WM" in wayland would be a diffent binary its not really the same as a different X server. All the stuff that X does wrt hardware and stuff is not really in the wayland compositor, but in the drivers, and they are the same with both WMs.

And the WMs would link to the wayland server library, so a lot of code would be shared between them.

I don't think properietary drivers need to have their own wayland server. However, they do need to add EGL support, so that wayland can use the driver outside of X, and a few specific GL extensions that wayland needs. See e.g:
http://ppaalanen.blogspot.fr/2012/03/what-does-egl-do-in-way...
Maybe "lightness" or "whiteness" would be more accurate because it's a matter of reflectance and not luminance, but brightness is already commonly misused in that context, so I don't think this is particularly egregious. Paper has a brightness rating, afterall.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleaching_of_wood_pulp#Paper_br...
Whacko-nutjob theory alert:

Could Twitter have possibly financed this operation, using HootSuite as a surrogate for shutting down Seesmic? Could this be the beginning of a series of "accuclosures" in the Twitter client world?
Umm, "broken" isn't what the title says.

Nor is it what the content of the article implies.
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I think what makes a difference is how you react when something goes wrong. Do you flip out and pull your hair out and complain? Or do you calmly try to understand what the problem is, spend some time figuring out what YOU did to create the problem and then fix it. I work with people who look in all the wrong places to fix a problem thinking some hidden magical set of code breaks things at random.
> its against the TOS of Visa/MC/AMEX/etc to charge the buyer before shipment

There are some FTC rules about this too, IIRC, that a product must ship within a certain period following payment. I once worked with a company where this was an issue: they had to provide a great deal of data to the FTC to plead their case.
Kindle 4 was 600x800, Kindle Paperwhite is 768x1024.
I think you are wrong about the timing strategy. The Apple events are going to get a ton more press and readers, and Amazon want's to be mentioned in those articles and compared to whatever Apple launches. That isn't possible if they announce after Apple.
Nice cryptography knowledge, but where is anything resembling this thread's title ("Even when converting matter to energy, you still can't crack AES-256") in the linked page?
Getting efficient (not proficient, just efficient) at programming has a lot to do with experience and smoothing out all those errors from past scars.

If it makes you feel any better, that slow grindy Google-heavy progress is normal for any programmer working in an environment they aren't experienced in. Toss a senior backend guy into frontend JS and CSS. Watch him rend his clothes to shreds. (CSS is fucking evil btw.)

You slowly get better/quicker at learning new things, but nobody really walks into something different and just instantly knows how to do everything.

The most important skills you can develop for ameliorating this is getting ace at debugging and static analysis. Both are close to my primary knack, above and beyond anything else I do as a programmer. I'm the go-to guy for my team whenever an intractable error/issue comes up.

It is with great pleasure that I've been told this is Rich Hickey's knack as well, although I sincerely doubt I'll be anywhere near that good in the next 20 years.
Yes, they're much larger, bot not much older. Microsoft was in search business years before Bing, and I also think they now have Yahoo!'s dataset too.

They're just better in search. I generally dislike Google (because I don't like their business model, which is advertising [I don't care for privacy much, just hate ads]), but nothing is as good as them in search, nor could be (for the foreseeable future).
Stormpath Launches PHP Support for User Management
Once you realize that the clues are all in the errors and they're not just random bits of text, that's what sets you free and gives you the power to fix.
What the bloody hell is Google doing with the $5 we're supposed to pay them for review and submission to the Chrome store if they're not catching this stuff? I'm a vociferous Chrome user, but one thing I have to give Mozilla credit for above Google is that their add-on review process is free and quick.

The unnecessary cost and additional process (e.g. requiring screenshots) are all reasons LikeBuster (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/likebuster-fo...) is available on Mozilla's Firefox add-on site but needs to be manually installed (http://github.com/relwell/LikeBuster) for Chrome. Knowing that the extra b.s. doesn't actually accomplish anything for user security really grinds my gears as someone who would like to make it as easy as possible for people to download my extension.
And yet when I go to amazon.co.uk or amazon.com they aren't advertising the new version as available for purchase.

One thing Apple gets right is that you can buy a new product as soon as it's announced.
My first impressions:

Provide people a way of creating the flash cards online. Let them use a simple editor or type html directly. Make sure they can do it quickly.

Have the app connect to your web service and pull down the card groups and cards. Of course, they should be able to edit the cards on the device as well.

Swipe left/right to cycle through full screen cards, tap to flip them over.
LocalTunnel with static URL
LinkedIn profile instead of brain
How is that worse? That is only 2 context switches whereas the facebook one requires 4
I'll probably get one, I just got the most recent kindle touch after selling the 2nd generation kindle for it. Looks like I'll be moving on to my 3rd kindle.

There's something about the price point that really sells me on these...$120 doesn't seem like a big deal, specially if I sell my current generation, it only ends up costing maybe ~$50 to upgrade and reading on an ultra light kindle is a lot more comfortable to me than an iPad or physical book.

It sounds like they wont have a non-touch model this time though. I like all the new features but I would probably go back to a non-touch screen if they offered it. I tend to hit the screen too often by mistake and end up losing my place.
No. I think Scala is a fine language, with lots of neat features. But it does not give the developer enough of a leap - someone has already mentioned a parallel between C -> C++ and Java -> Scala. I think this is a reasonable comparison.

This is why I tell folks to avoid Scala and pick one of two other great options which offer a fundamental change from Java:

* Groovy (dynamic lang, easy to pick up _and_ master)
* Clojure (the power of LISP, steeper learning curve)

There's a bunch of stuff out there which explain why NOT Scala, so I won't regurgitate it here.
NSA is by public law limited to foreign communications. Secret law is a different matter.
New keyboards have to be manually activated in Android, via the same mechanism that you'd use to switch to the default keyboard, so that honestly sounds like a pretty straightforward PEBKAC (heh) problem.

Turning on Swype implicitly trains you in how to turn it off.
Pixel ruler overlay now in Canary dev tools
Make sure you are using the latest version of the book (if you are running Rails 3.2). I have the book, and I experienced the same problems!

http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book
Boid's still very much in beta, but it's the only one I find useable these days.

Tweetdeck used to be great, but they went steadily downhill after the Twitter acquisition (removing features, etc.)
There are two regularly scheduled flights between Latin America and Asia. Yes, only two, unless you count a connection between Sao Paulo and Qatar.

They run between Mexico City and Toyko and between Mexico city and Shanghai, with a fueling stop one way in Tijuana. The flights are operated by Aeromexico.

There are many, many airlines that want to sell you a connecting flight between Asia and Latin America through LAX or SFO. The two flights that don't pass through the USA charge a $5-600 average premium over the flights that connect in the USA for the cheapest tickets.

So that's what avoiding the USA customs and TSA procedures is worth in the market: $5-600, round trip.
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