skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks Harper. As you can tell, your ideas about 2-factor are high on our list already :)
Game devs are used to writing for Windows. I think it's a safe guess that there are some things that you need to know to port a Windows-specific game to Linux without losing any performance at all. They might not have that knowledge.
No slight to Alexis; my point was more that the GP should begin 'Growth hackers/biz-dev/CEO's, take note.'
Introducing Quora for Android
Distinct accounts, parental controls and child-friendly features seem like an excellent (overdue) addition to tablet computing. I can limit how much time they play games and give them unlimited time to read books? I can watch degenerate garbage at night and not have that show up in their "continue watching" the next morning. That's pretty damn cool.

I hope that this pressures other providers (hello Netflix!) to start offering services like this.
sad, that they don't dare to shoot for the galaxies. and uusb would be standard anyway.
I honestly fail to understand why you feel it's an "offensive" name - distasteful perhaps, but offensive? To whom?
I think there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for all of this.

What I suspect is going on is that if Americans elected scientists, then hurricanes and earthquakes would increase dramatically, partly because the scientists would use the military to cause them on purpose to justify their budgets, and also because it would make god mad as many scientists are godless communists, and everybody knows that god hates communism.

So it is a completely sane and rational form of self-preservation against activist geologists and a possibly capricious deity, and as such I would ask what the New York Times thinks it is doing by publishing an article that could possibly immanentise the eschaton before we have even had a chance to straighten out the economy.

[edit] To retain the utmost standards of fairness and academic rigour, the research for this post was comprised exclusively of the stated opinions of elected officials, and a selection of comments posted to youtube videos about penguins.
Knowing whether the email was sent is not always something you can do synchronously.

A simple check for an "@" sign would go a long way to avoiding bounced mail notifications from usernames being entered in email address fields.
You are right, but it is not the 200 dollars in itself that is expensive, I just do not need that much functionality, so the ratio is a bit off.
The issue is the tragic farce that is Amazon's UI, not sideloading (though I recall, perhaps incorrectly, some nonsense about Google Play being uninstalled if you tried to sideload it onto the device). The Kindle Fire's UI was terrifyingly bad. I expect nothing less from Amazon this time around.

I buy Android devices for stock Android, not for a manufacturer skin.
I convert to mobi using Calibre and mail to the amazon personal documents account (name@kindle.com). It adds WhisperSync.
"Nothing I'd buy a new one for." Exactly my thought. I'll continue to use (and love) my Kindle Keyboard everyday.

This makes me worry about Amazon's future in the ereader space. The Touch is gone, replaced with this for $139 sans offers. The capable Kobo Touch and Nook Touch are $99.

$40 for a light and whiter background? I'll continue to use my $4.50 clip-on light, thanks.

Kindles aren't at the head of the price versus performance curve anymore.
ARM Platform Offers Solid Specs with Android and Ubuntu Support for Under $50
Agreed, once you use Airplay you wonder why you would ever plug a device into a TV, seems archaic
Much more helpful:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/201323/using-a-regular-ex...

and that demo email address may not be as valid as you think

http://isemail.info/%22Look%20at%20all%20these%20spaces%20%E...
This is old news, it was posted on HN when it was actually released and IIRC at least one comment compared it to Guava, pretty unfavorably from what I recall (too lazy to search for the link atm).
Agreed. Even if you did find a usb port somewhere, this 'cord' isn't long enough to let you use the iPhone while it's charging, anyway. I also don't like the idea of my iPhone hanging from a usb wall adapter.
Founder Collective is killing it. Second startup to get acquired by eBay (first was Hunch).
I am not sure that Octave preforms as fast as MatLab; for example, I think MatLab does a better job in parallelizing non-vectorized code.
It's not FTL. Quantum teleportation is like this:

Alice shows Carol and Bob a red ball and a blue ball, and two empty boxes. Without showing Carol and Bob which ball goes in which box, Alice puts a ball in each box and gives one box to Bob and the other to Carol. Carol is an astronaut going to Mars, and they've agreed to open their boxes when she gets there.

Fast forward 6 months later, Carol is on Mars, and she opens her box and sees a red ball. Immediately, without any speed-of-light delay from Earth, Carol knows what Bob will see in his box when he opens it. Note how there's no "useful" information transferred faster than the speed of light - Carol and Bob can't use this to make any useful decisions.

The quantum version is weirder because the balls are in a superposition of red and blue until one of the two opens the box - but there's still no useful information transferred faster than light.
Thanks for notifying me of this, and in itself the idea of making room in a router to make some serving tech available is not such a bad idea.
Science can only describe the physical world, it can't tell you what to do about it. The Nazis had plenty of highly placed scientists. Woodrow Wilson did too and they were in favor of eugenics.

The deification of science is a life raft post adolescents cling to as they try to swim away from the inherent corruption of mankind. Scientists are no less afflicted with selfishness, vanity or pettiness than people in any other industry. Striving toward scientific objectivity is a wonderful pursuit. So is striving toward the ideal of many religions. But practicing a religion does not make you god and practicing science does not make you science.
In my experience it has been a constant that manufacturer-customized Android is consistently trash. If you read my post, you'll note that I said stock Android 4.1. Not Ice Cream Sandwich and not "it needs to run Android apps".
"Special Offers" confirmed, on all Kindles it seems. I won't be buying such a thing

I'm with you there. I would gladly pay the small premium for an ad-free experience. I understand why they would want to simplify their product lineup, but this is very annoying
Just for fun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bang_path#UUCP_for_mail_routin...

But yeah, that's effectively dead and you probably don't want to try sending mail that way.
Definitely true to a point. I think it's fair to give them some credit though. Despite their obvious motive of reducing their own costs, they've really established an amazing infrastructure, not to mention a rich API.
Any opinions on the "Special Offers" version?

Has anyone tried one of these? Just wondering if it's worth saving $20 to have yet another source of ads (very clever getting ads close to...if not yet _in_ a book).
I was half-expecting the classic "zalgo" html regex parsing rant here ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-... ) - but your link actually contained a lot of helpful responses :)
I share this fear as well. I love the raw honesty most technical people have, but this characteristic seems to be correlated with narrowmindedness, stubbornness, and extremism. Think about how many tech folk you know with nuanced political views. Almost every one I know is either a far left socialist or far right libertarian. Given the array of fuzzy issues civilization faces, it would seem that extreme mindsets are not suited to the political arena.
Often, your web server application won't know that the activation email can't be sent. It's common practice to throw outgoing emails into a job queue, so a very basic check isn't superfluous at all.
This guy doesnt "get" UI. You are supposed to protect the user from additional steps/mistakes,and not protect your service from the user when you use regex to validate the email. Otherwise users could perfectly fool your best system using billgates@microsoft.com
I would argue that Pinterest was what crushed them
XDA developers. Honestly I'd be disappointed with my kindle fire if I hadn't installed the awesome roms that are available on that page. Now I have a cheap as dirt device, capable of playing new gen Android games (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.madfingerg...) with stunning graphics at 60+ fps. Don't even doubt they will be releasing a JB rom for it.
My Kindle is the best piece of electronics I have ever bought. Just ordered this new version.
It's a great feeling though
This looks quite good, but I could not see if I am able to replace all software on that device, it speaks of several proprietary software items, so I am afraid I have to rely on them for my software.

I am too much software developer and too much GPL to accept not being able to replace all.

Thanks for the tip anyhow.
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Many scientists are atheists or at the very least not strictly religious. It seems that you currently have to believe in God to be elected. Is this keeping many of them from even running?
I've used those for two versions now. The ads don't come in the way at all.
Taking a page out of PaaS pricing for our industry.
We posted last week on HN and got a good amont of feedback and it was inline with what we were getting from clients.

We used a slider just like in PHP fog to let venues choose how many tables they would like to administrate in Nightpro.co?

What do you think? http://nightpro.co/pricing/
Google Expands into Latin America With New Data Center in Chile
A better way is to check that the email the user entered matches a typical email format, and if the email doesn't match, then warn the user that he/she might've entered the wrong email address (for example writing foobar@gmail, or foobar@gmail.com.).
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A few years ago I would have agreed, and I still do in general. But now I'm not sure that Perl grammars aren't up to the task and still as 'regular' as PCRE.

However you still shouldn't be writing your own unless you're writing an email validation module of some kind. Laziness is a virtue after all.
i bet there will be an adapter for 10 bucks.
They say the same about woman.
I agree. But as Scala gets more and more popular, they're going to become a whole ecosystem and platform unto themselves. But because they're on the JVM, all the new tools etc are going to be customized to handle unique JVM-only issues. It's a classic platform lock-in situation. And Oracle is driving the wheel here.

Not sure how that's going to work out much better than all the great tools that were built on top of Microsoft's MFC framework. People didn't realize that it was a bad idea until it was too late to change.

Sometimes in CS it really makes sense to build things slower and more carefully to avoid issues that may only come up years down the road.
One very practical application of this would be for communications to Mars. You could be constantly transmitting a "deferred" signal, only to alter the quantum states when you are ready. We still have a long way to go for ~20 minute quantum state storage times though.
iOS is much more of a walled garden, yet you have Kobo, Amazon & others living alongside iTunes/iBooks.
How fast is the response time on the display? Something with "paper" whiteness, a reflective screen, and an option to backlight is the perfect basis for an e-ink "digital moleskine." However, it would need to add instant response time and a good stylus. A "paper-like" feel of the stylus on the surface and attention to other details would be needed as well.
I doubt ants realize when they are in a farm. Maybe some alien already placed us in an empty galaxy to be able to observe us, I wouldn't care.
> 3) This is no longer true. The recent govt is increasingly unfriendly to immigrants.

Can someone please elaborate on this one ?
Americans don't elect scientists, because scientists don't run for office. Scientists don't run for office because they want to be scientists rather than politicians. Maybe the problem is that American politics requires elected officials to spend 100% of their time being politicians?
Because elections are a poor way to elect competent people, overall?

The best democratic system in the world won't help anything if the population is not educated or interested enough to make an informed decision. Democracy itself is distorted because it doesn't thrive for optimal solutions, instead, it thrives to please the people.

The people who get elected are detached from the population to begin with. Being a "politician" is a full-time job. That's absurd. Policies are responsibility of each individual citizen.
Journalists missed the big Amazon story today: ebook discounting is back
While I appreciate the elegance of your solution from an engineering perspective the user who accidentally enters an invalid address is definitely getting a worse user experience here. If you're using javascript to validate the email a user will know they've made a mistake immediately. In your scenario they'll see a page telling them that they should receive an email, and then what? They have to start again? If they're lucky they'll think of hitting the back button and full it in correctly. More likely, they'll just think; hmm this email's taking a while to come through, I'll check Facebook... With a bit of luck they'll remember they were trying to sign up for your service, otherwise, you just lost a signup.
I think one of the Pogo plug series will likely be your best bet. The pro is lacking in ram (256?) but has onboard SATA, Wifi and a shed load of USBs and can be bought for $20-30 iirc.

Failing that one, why not get one of those chinese tablets. The Ainol Elf (classic) runs Ubuntu and has 1gig ram. Thre's even a desktop varient which has SATA (but only 512mg)
Love the slider. Here is a clickable link to their pricing page
http://nightpro.co/pricing/
I think the iPad Mini is an absolute certainty at this point.
Twitter Makes More Mobile Ad Revenue Than Apple, Facebook
That's my must-have.

Along with a growing aversion to vendor- (and increasingly: online-marketplace-) devices.

No, conversion isn't a substitute.
hey that's a good idea. the ferret industry clearly is ripe for market disruption.
I think Sheevaplug is the closest thing that nears my wanted specs.

There are a few shortcomings like memory.

Thanks for the tip.
THE COMPILER IS WRONG!!!
Yes, agreed (and I mention this at the end of the article as well) and I still use the /@/ regex often. But a good UI on the registration form can go a long way in alleviating the "switching the email address and username fields" problem.
In Ruby:

# Ethiopian Multiplication
# usage: ruby em.rb 673 7
m, n = ARGV.map(&:to_i)
product = 0
while m >= 1
puts "%4d : %4d %s" % [m, n, m.even? ? "Ignore" : ""]
product += n unless m.even?
m = m / 2
n = n * 2
end
puts "Product: #{product}"

https://gist.github.com/3660240
Amazon: 'We are pretty much done' with the Kindle DX
Considering everybody is going to buy one, I'd put it at a higher cost than that.
Not natively; that's why this framework provides a way of simulating them. Java 8 is supposed to have native lambdas, though.
110k 3 years out of college is very rare in NYC as well.

EDIT: It is certainly not unheard of, but only for top graduates. Also, I see you were talking about equivalent 110k salary in Toronto which would be 130-140k in New York. This is a high base salary by any standard.
12345 could be a valid postcode in Germany or Spain, but in the UK it would have to look like AB1 2CD, except when it doesn't (e.g. AB12 3CD). Arg!

I wish web forms had a "Tell us we are wrong" button next to validated boxes.
There are several variants available based on the same platform, so you might even be able to find something a bit more beefier out there :)

Edit: I've been running a sheevaplug (512mb ram) with ssh, lighttpd, postfix, dovecot, bind and rsync without much trouble for a few users for a long time. RAM usage hasn't been a problem.
By that token I would think that it's more like "a disjointed reading experience will allow for more cognitive 'slots' in which to place advertising."
Thanks.

Looks like you can turn if off, and they'll simply charge you the price difference.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_s...
Game Developer Employee Complaints Paint Picture of Broken Industry.
And scientists aren't very good liars. If you could science your way through a campaign then there would be more scientists going for it, but unfortunately that doesn't work.
No idea what this refers to; I've never had a problem screen-capping video on Mac OS, even from DVDs or sites like Hulu.

I can't screen cap on Windows XP but I think that is because of how Windows XP composites Flash video.
Yep, this is definitely most often the case. Perhaps I should have reworded that to reflect that I believe anything more than a simple /@/ check to be largely superfluous. I still use the /@/ regex often, which I mention at the end of the article.
http://www.braintreepayments.com/ just expanded into the EU and Canada! (Disclosure, I work for Braintree.)
Are they going to issue company scrip too?
Although I agree with the meta-point, there's still value in doing some basic validation. If there's no @ sign, or the domain name looks like it was mistyped (gmali, yahhoo), then a better user experience for your user is to present them with a warning and ask them to retype their email. You may not want it to be a blocking warning (that is you can still submit the form), but some validation can be a huge value add to users.

Still, sending an email beats regex validation any day for determining it's a real, working address.
Whoops, you're right. That was an article left over that I meant to just replace with a bang. I've fixed that. Thank you!
You're describing how it should work, but AFAIK the proprietary drivers don't support KMS and have even talked about never supporting it.

But rather than hacking Weston to support proprietary drivers, I would advocate using it as a carrot to beat AMD/Nvidia into submission.
I think a more interesting question is: why do Americans elect Lawyers? It's the most common profession in Congress (not including the self-referential "politics" answer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Members_of_the_111th_United_Sta...). Both presidential candidates are Harvard Law students as well.

I understand why Lawyers would want to become Lawmakers. I don't understand however such an unpopular field manages to get elected so often.

My new theory is that the House Representatives (not the Senate or Executive Branch) should be selected not by election but by random lottery, similar to jury duty. It would be much more representative of the populous than what we have today.
Thank you for answering my question, the pogo plug is similar to the sheeva plug, see down.

A tablet wont do, too large, I want to plug it in, configure the stuff and rather forget about it physically, it should gather a lot of dust on the outside.
Actually, you don't even need profits to apply the credits against. They are refundable, which means that if you didn't owe taxes to offset against, the government actually writes you a check in the amount of the credit.
1) Money is everything? Toronto no, but I would like to live in BC and I wouldn't care about the pay as long as I could live. We hire a lot of people who just want to be happy in a nice town and have a family. This 'all for money' thing is just shortsighted and naive. You will live to 95 and be sane for most(all) of it. That's not long and don't waste it.

2) Yeah that's actually normal here (EU) too, not sure if the VCs in Silicon Valley are generally(!) different though? (question here :)

3) Was that different? I once applied via a someone who knew what he was talking about and he said if you are under 40 and have plenty of money it's a shoe-in, otherwise it sucks. This is 8 years ago.

4) I can see that, but so what? You want to meet great people or you want to meet great people at startups? Anecdote; I was standing in the supermarket in this 40 people (!) town in Spain and behind me was this old scruffy guy. I was playing with my s2 and he said something like amazing tech. He is a founder of a quantum computing texan company who goes here on vacation. I met more interesting ACTUAL good people here than in Berlin. I don't know about SV but I don't really care about wannabe's, I want to meet people I can learn from and/or start something with; in startup-mekka people have little experience and are engaged to be married to some crap anyway all the time. And cocky. Work for life, not money! It's all too short. I digress.

5) This is also a thing they have in most EU countries; big companies find it great as they do that paperwork anyway, small companies drown in the paperwork. I did a 6 year project like that and the paperwork took around 25% of the time. That doesn't sound like a lot but it REALLY doesn't benefit the research. Agreeing with the parent here; big companies use & abuse, small companies don't.
Hyde, an object to entity mapper for Windows Azure
Zend Framework 2 Released Modular, Modern, Stellar
I think saying that I don't "get" UI is being somewhat presumptuous. Good UI on the registration form can go a long way in alleviating the "switching the email address and username fields" problem, but anything more than a check for /@/ (or, if you're feeling ambitious, /.+@.+\..+/) is just overkill. If I enter a valid email address that's just typo'd, the result is the same: the activation email bounces.
> I buy Android devices for stock Android, not for a manufacturer skin.

You're very much in the minority. People like iOS because it's integrated and easy, that's the same thing Amazon and Google are going for as well.
Getting Started - Microsoft Silverlight 5 - Lesson 01
then its up to the wayland server to decide what to draw on each monitor

This is the kind of "mechanism without any policy" thinking that I was hoping to escape from. What does Weston actually do in the presence of multiple monitors?
When did "business" become "startup"?
Every time I read something like "start a startup", "bootstrap a startup", "launch a startup" or the like I have a negative reaction. OK, I'm not 22. Maybe that's todays speak if you cool. But to me it sounds like really bad English that, for some reason, has become accepted speak in some circles.

What you are starting is a Business. You launch, fund or bootstrap a business.

Is a "startup" a business without a business? Then it is a hobby.

No business model, no idea of where revenue will come from? Then it is an experiment.

If the intent is to make money it is still a business.

If it was legally formed as a business, well, it is a business.

If it raised capital, it better be a business.

Either it's a hobby and experiment or a business. I'm not sure why and where the whole "I'm doing a startup" thing came from. I've launched several tech businesses and that's exactly what they were from the start.

Do you get to violate the laws of physics if you call it a "startup"?
There's a word for this: "technocracy".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy

I believe it comes down to whether or not scientists/engineers/etc would actually like to hold office. Truly passionate people want and need to be on the ground. Becoming a leader removes one from the processes that have a direct impact.
Yeah, skip all that too. Who says yahhoo.com isn't a valid domain?

For example, I regularly receive email for an individual who has a nearly identical email address to my own, but at ymail.com instead of gmail.com. Any system that tries to guess at domain misspellings is going to catch ymail.com and think "Ah ha, they meant to type gmail.com, I'll correct that for them!" Viola, their email is sent to me. Again, this is not a theory, it happens to this poor guy all the time.