skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bank account number is different than a debit card number

About the direct debt, sure, I can undo this, via internet banking.

But a fraudulent debt card purchase takes time to process and you don't have you money in the account anymore.

With a credit card I can check for fraud and my money is not gone if this happens (and yes, it has happened to me)
SQLskills is joining Pluralsight - clear nod for Technical Online Training
I am excited whenever I hear of better eink displays. I am waiting for the day I can get an eink laptop so I can work outside.
It's happening: http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/31/lcd-and-e-ink-dual-screen...

Also I was thinking about buying something like this for my netbook: http://pixelqi.com/products
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DARPA’s Cheetah robot can now run faster than Usain Bolt
Grappling with customer data across multiple SaaS applications is a real pain point. I've tried quite a few Google Chrome extensions that work with GMail to help with this problem. None of them survived much more than a few days.

Zenbox by contrast has been useful every day since installing a few weeks ago. Gmail is an essential tool for me in dealing with customers, so I'm there every day, often multiple times. So being able to see relevant data in Mailchimp for example, without leaving Gmail is a good time saver.

Now if could push data to MailChimp directly from Zenbox in Gmail, it would then go from being a good-to-have to must-have app.
Path Cofounder: Why are we doing this?
Dials & Knobs found in User Interfaces
OP seems to have linked to the wrong page. This is one you're looking for: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/6141/amount-of-s...
Somewhat better, but still awful. They don't replace libX11, but they do replace libGL, and they bypass the entire kernel graphics stack in favor of their own.
For people looking to greatly customize the Facebook UI using a non-malicious extension, check out Social Fixer (http://socialfixer.com/), previously known as Better Facebook.

Among (many) other things, it allows you to switch your timeline to show items in a single column. (Unfortunately, it will not disable timeline completely since the author feels the technique for doing that (pretending to be IE7 since timeline doesn't support it) is fragile.)
While I'm fully aware it goes against why Amazon is selling them, the 8.9" one is only interesting to me if I can blow away the Amazon OS and install stock Android 4.1 on it. The Amazon software is a big value-subtraction to me.

(I'm not expecting it to be possible--though eventually XDA will probably get it. Just that that's what I want out of my tablet and phone; it's why I use Nexus devices for my Android stuff.)
Are FinTech Entrepreneurs the Oldest Founders?
looking at non-marketing pictures of the new kindle [1], it looks like the screen is about the same colour as a paperback page. The real advantage of the white seems to be that the front-lighting is a warm white light, not the bluish light that the nook uses.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/6/3295939/amazon-kindle-paper...
“I just go Google Chromosome” – Startup asks people to explain Wi-Fi and 3G
Any communication tool on the internet is guilty of this, you can't seriously blame the medium for the antics of its users. Cyber bullying has always been an issue and the only way to keep yourself entirely safe from it is to not post content you don't want the rest of the world to see.
I'm not really directing this critique to WhatsApp users, rather to WhatsApp authors, who exploit users' comfort of no configuration vs one time configuration / registration, while causing with that a proliferation of walled networks. They are not doing a good service to users at large.

One time configuration / registration is not really a burden. All users are familial with that process. And they don't do it each time they read their e-mail for example. As I said, the negative impact of non interoperability proliferation is way more significant.
It's very low usage:

For 150MB of data access a month from AT&T, and 20 GB of cloud storage from Amazon, it costs $50 a year.
Hahaha: quote from http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19509626 under the image (the caption):

"Amazon said the Kindle Paperweight's battery could last for up to eight weeks"

(emphasis added)

(screenshot: http://cl.ly/image/3n0f0p3X173q)
Ebay Acquires Svpply
Sh*t Apple Fanatics Say
Interesting that Android isn't mentioned at all. Is this tablet still based on Gingerbread or has it added some Honeycomb or Jelly Bean APIs? The biggest concern for app developers should be if Amazon is in the process of forking Android.
The higher resolution was pioneered by iRiver one year ago, the frontlit screen by Barnes and Noble 4 months ago. And the combination of both by Kobo yesterday.

So not a breakthrough by amazon ;-)
Back in 1990 I saw a prototype IBM display that was 230PPI which really impressed me. The person doing the demo said that eyestrain drops dramatically once you're eye can more easily infer the lines rather than connecting the dots on 'large' pixels. Their claim was that 200 PPI was the reading threshold where eyestrain due to pixelation became 'negligible'.

At one time I had a link to some studies but now I only find later papers, sigh. Searching for 'eye fatigue ppi' gets you some decent hits.
Can it read epubs yet?

I was thinking of buying a Nook Glowlight because I often read in bed while my partner sleeps. But when I went to check it out in the store, the contrast is noticeably worse on the Glowlight, to the point where I decided not to get one. If this new Kindle can read epubs, has a light, and has contrast that's at least as good as a regular Kindle, I'm sold.

Edit: I know I can convert files, but it's a big pain to be constantly converting a big library, especially since I very often correct ebooks in Sigil.
They send cash like my grandma does.
One could argue that Apple is rather fashion than product company.
I use JOE, a WordStar/Borland-esque editor that is heavy on the Ctrl key, purely out of familiarity with the interface. However I also grew up typing on an Apple //e, on which Ctrl is where Caps Lock is these days, and I have reconfigured all my keyboards since to have Ctrl where Caps Lock is. This has the nice side effect of alleviating the thumb-under-palm problem that the modern Ctrl position creates.
No you can't. There's often delays in highly desired products, not to mention they stop their entire storefront when doing product launches ("We'll be right back!", but I won't since I can't order it right now). At least I can still use Amazon.com to order things.
But what does bad redditors have to do with Ohanian? Are you saying that no one should create something like Reddit because some people who use it will be morally deficient?

Without even looking at the video, as far as that quote goes, taken out of context, he's right. Don't digitise and load stuff onto internet-connected devices without recognising the potential risks. No one is forcing anyone to put things on the web. It's not a regulated or controlled environment by any means. This advice does not only apply to kids. If more businesses and other copyright holders took this counsel more seriously there might be a lot less friction with respect to copyrights and the internet.
This was exactly my point - the fact you can't prove that the app isn't doing something suspicious is true of every app. Yes, there are a lot of personal details on Facebook. There are on your phone, too. These are not Timeline-removal app-specific.

Yesterday, there was a post on Hacker News about the Wolfram Alpha Facebook Analytics [1] with very little concern about privacy (3 comments out of 104 mention privacy). My issue with this post is that it needlessly targets Timeline removal apps when it just seems to be making a general statement about being careful when installing any app.

[1]http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/08/wolframalpha-personal...
It's 250MB[0], and that same allotment on the iPad through AT&T is $15/mo[1], or $180/yr. Someone's making up the difference, or someone at AT&T is getting a rather concerned phone call from Tim Cook about now.

EDIT: For what it's worth, VZ's lowest iPad package is $20/mo for 1GB. If their costs were totally linear re: traffic (doubt it), the same package as above could be $5/mo ($60/yr) before any subsidy, and $10 is much easier for Amazon to make up than $130. It's entirely possible Amazon could have twisted AT&T down to this level, but not without AT&T getting heat from Apple in the process.

EDIT2: ...or the non-optional lockscreen ads may be helping Amazon's costs a bit.

[0] http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/09/kindle-fires-4g-packa...

[1] http://store.apple.com/us/buy/home/shop_ipad/family/ipad/new...
It should be up to the musician to reject the culture of monetization and distribute their music for free, not you. Musicians shouldn't have to work another job so they can have the privilege of supplying you with music. If you value their music, you should demonstrate it to them, so they make more for you.
Ask HN: Finding a tiny Linux server
Lately there are many projects, like the RaspberryPI, that enable people to deploy tiny servers.
My question is, where can I find a tiny server that is able to run real Linux (not Android et al), a SSH server and eventually a webserver, things like ethernet and USB (for HDD) are essential.
I do not need it to have all this superduper video output, so most of the projects don't suit me because of overkill, all I need is an ethernet/SSH console output for handling the device from my desktop computer.

Can anybody point me into the right direction?
Neil Armstrong responds to NPR blogger with moon walk details (2010)
I agree, within the human race, enormous variations in intelligence, opinion, morality, development et al exist. But there is a good chance that aliens, if they exist, don't think or behave like humans. Maybe they are some Borg-like people with a collective mind. Anyway, I'm pretty sure that IF they exist, they leave humanity alone. With the mess we're making, they'd steer clear from the depraved, self-destructing human race. Can't blame them...
The outcome was predictable when it started. Apple's "full fledged keynote" was a maneuver to deflect PR damage.

And obviously they succeeded; Many people know about the keynote but don't know that it was an attempt to pre-empt a lawsuit.
Yeah I agree with this. In fact a lot of managers get in trouble if they don't use all of their training budget (or they lose it for the next year).
You're obviously right (by approximately a factor of 50) but let me add:

There is a way to make app review "for safety" scale at this price point: be ultra restrictive about what apps are allowed to do, and review them not as much for security as for compliance to API guidelines.

•Cough•.
Please give me some links.

Here is a nice debate with Bruce Schneier.

"In the entire decade or so of airport security since the attacks on September 11th 2001, the TSA has not foiled a single terrorist plot or caught a single terrorist. Its own “Top 10 Good Catches of 2011″ does not have a single terrorist on the list."

https://www.economist.com/debate/days/view/820
I'm not sure how the last handful of years of copyright law changes have done anything so dramatic to cause this. Copyright was extended an extra 20 years, that doesn't change the fact that the most popular content, ie the new stuff out right now, should still be paid for at the artists asking price.
Well there are the gumstix line. http://www.gumstix.com/
Why would you make the bezel case black? That creates an eye-straining contrast between the bezel and the white screen.
It is trivial to convert epub to mobi. Amazon has released a free tool for all platforms.
Amazon launched a new ereader Thursday, the Kindle Paperweight.

http://www.techradar.com/news/mobile-computing/tablets/amazo...
IBM Jargon and General Computing Dictionary Tenth Edition (1990)
I know where you are coming from with compiled languages. A big reason for creating this flow was for working with repositories that are not our primary code repository. We have several internal tools and forks that don't have a complex deployment process. We wanted the simplicity of being able to push to master and knowing that it will be out in ~30 minutes. Our primary code base is rolled out with Fabric instead of Chef (for now) but Fabric will still need to execute a pull from Github at some point during the rollout.
what about a wifi router running tomatousb ? http://tomatousb.org/
Show HN: My Four Hour Fun/Evil Project
But you will still see a Kindle ad when you are there.
You can convert epubs easily with Calibre. I think it might even do it automatically when you tell it to put an epub on your Kindle.

However, the formatting doesn't always get converted properly.
Hm, that sounds very interesting. I imagine it might work and I will try it next time I have a second keyboard handy. It may even make backspacing faster for me (currently I backspace using two fingers rapidly alternating – I find this faster and more accurate than relying on autorepeats – being able to use four fingers should be an improvement).
Sure, those are different things. Maybe I misunderstood what the first comment was talking about, as I know of no system where you enter your debit card number to do anything.

This just highlights the fact that our global banking system works very differently in different parts of the world. And maybe, to close the cicle, as the article claims paypal really shouldn't forget this, as it has to behave differently outside of the US if it wants to stay successful. A different environment probably always needs a different strategy.
I thought they already did fork it with the first Fire.
That's a developer discussion. Mentioning Android in a customer-facing presentation turns Kindle Fire into an "Android tablet" which telegraphs the message that it is techie crap they won't enjoy.
How I built my Social Media Network with 1M/1M
I'm all in favor of nuclear power than eliminates or manages the maximal risk (some of the ideas floating around for household thorium reactors qualify) but we simply can't assess the maximum risk for nuclear power plants so we're comparing a known value to an unknown value, and the known value isn't so bad (ignoring greenhouse).

I'm not disagreeing with you about the lala land coal plant btw, just comparing apples to apples. I assume the well run perfectly engineered nuclear reactor might not be as cheap or efficient as the badly run stupidly engineered reactor.
I may be a little bit cynical about the first 4 reasons, but the last one is very real. SR&ED tax credits mean that the Canadian government will fund 20-35% of your R&D as long as you do the paperwork (aka logbooks) and can stick it out long enough to have profits to apply the expenses against. These benefits are lucrative enough that failed R&D firms are sometimes purchased almost solely for their outstanding R&D tax credits.

And the Qualified Small Business capital gains exemption means that your first $750,000 in capital gains is not taxed at all.
Sigh. They even had a business model, too. Disappointed.

Looking forward to Svpply either (a) being slowly destroyed, or (b) shut down all together so the team can work exclusively on eBay's awful site. Congrats in advance to the team on cashing out 12/24/48 months from now.
I love this idea - All in due time, heh.
Penguin Update: September 06, 2012. Hail Old Links
best way: don't deploy from github. you should have an internal github server (github enterprise). don't rely on the site to secure your production code. they have had security problems in the past.
Don't bother trying replacements if you expect them to be around for long. With the new api rules 3rd party clients are essentially dead. They'll limp on for a while, but no one is going to be pushing development resources into a more restricted system for long.
The kippt integration is great news!
Yes. And since I am in charge of office supplies in my group, all the printer paper is recycled, too.
A Startup Customer Worksheet
Look at Suereth's "In Depth" (also Horstmann's book is an excellent intro

http://www.amazon.com/Scala-Depth-Joshua-Suereth-D/dp/193518...

http://www.manning.com/suereth/
Anybody know how much? Congrats!
Squeeze Your Sales Funnel
Fortune 500 in the year 2030.
Well, to be clear - you end up having to pay the tax yourself, instead of having amazon collect and pay it for you.
I don't think any reasonable person has a problem with PayPal deciding to freeze funds in order to ensure that they make a profit. The problem is that, once they have done so, it requires Moses and ten Biblical plagues in order for them to let your money go.
Hey, It's now got a nice Homebrew OSX port.
It's not accepted yet, so you'll need to go

brew install https://raw.github.com/zx2c4/homebrew/master/Library/Formula/pass.rb
Why is it $32? I have about $1k left in the bank. I'm deeply fascinated by quantum mechanics (I spend most days researching optical quantum mechanical phenomena), but I can't afford this.
New Open Source radio software - served from a Raspberry Pi
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Speeding up your hacking: putting Esc and Tab keys back where they belong
BrowserHoldem - Full poker game using Javascript and Node.js
Exactly. It makes the contrast, one of the selling points, more noticeable than if everything around it was white. The black case of the previous kindle was in my opinion a very good design choice.
Automatic 'ls' after 'cd' in the Terminal
I replied to you in email and linked to some apps I've made:
http://archive.org/details/ApplPi
http://sourceforge.net/projects/originalsynth/

Also, here's another great place to get in touch with like minds:
http://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/
So basically you're saying that they didn't want to do the hard work and used the JVM as a shortcut. Sounds like good engineering practice to me. When things get hard, just find a lazy shortcut.

Marination is generally a good thing. Things come out tastier. Same for new languages. The robust Python / Ruby / PHP ecosystems seem to be working just fine without the JVM.
Every time I've called PayPal I get connected to a real person. Once they even proactively called me to warn me of suspicious behaviour on my account. My account (which I've used to make thousands of dollars in payments for years now) has been blocked by them several times and every time a quick call sorts things out. I wonder if I am the norm and OP is the exception or vice versa?
I would guess that SemiAccurate's audience for this article is the developers who are awaiting an SDK / test hardware. I would imagine that software development has been ongoing for some time if the article is true in saying the release date is Sept 2013, but they need actual hardware to test the games on. Insiders might be more in tune with this news than you or I.
They seem to be rushing with the Canadian start-up visa thing. It's only in a consultation phase and no new category has been created as far as I can tell.
You don't think they would have thought that through, do you?
>be ultra restrictive about what apps are allowed to do

Chrome does this on some level via host permissions (http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/manifest.html#permiss...) and a content security policy (http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/contentSecurityPolicy...) and is setting a more strict default security as manifest v2 gets phased in.
Unless what you're trying to learn is Clojure. ;-)
Future of eBook: Amazon Doubles Down on Content, Looks to the Really Long Term
We've never had our account blocked, but we've had a call every now and then to confirm transactions we carry out which is appreciated.

I think if you process enough transactions you get good phone support. They've been great every time.

All the other problems though cancel this benefit out and more in my opinion.
If Scala can't survive without the JVM perhaps it's just not a good idea.

If enough people care about Scala they'll make it work independently of the JVM. JVM-based Scala is perhaps a good way to bootstrap the language, but I don't see how it's a great long-term strategy.
I interned at Skillshare up until late July, and we shared an office space with Svpply. They are a cool bunch of guys and they seemed to be working pretty hard this summer. I wish them the best at Ebay.

Is this the second NYC acquisition by ebay (the other I know of is Hunch)?
This tablet can run Android apps already, as far as I know. The OS is based on ICS.
I'm curious how quickly someone will post a parser to run this interpreter, perhaps using javaparser (LGPL on the web http://code.google.com/p/javaparser/ and in Maven: com.google.code.javaparser:javaparser:1.0.8).
Computer Science major, or self-taught?
The thing that gets me is, what's behind that? FB has many many well-paid designers and interface people...how did that flip model come to be? Is that really the best they can do with the resources of Facebook? I'm reminded of Microsoft (yet again)...
I like the article but I'm always a little shocked when someone has put this much thought into a subject and either hasn't even looked at, or at least doesn't mention, all the recent research that has been done around goal setting and motivation.

There was a really interesting study recently that compared two methods of motivation for a habit/activity. The methods were goal setting and cultivating an appreciation for the activity itself.

The goal setters improved faster and more of them had stuck with it after a short period of time. After a longer period of time the appreciators were just as proficient as the goal setters and more of them had stuck with it. A lot of goal setters quit in the medium term.

I remember the explanation being that goal setting drove better performance faster but the habit was more fragile and missing goals or reaching a plateau resulted in more quitting, while the appreciators just kept plodding along because they enjoyed it and were more successful long term.

I had no google luck finding that study again, and I have to get back to doing some real work but if anyone recognizes it please post the link.

I can't be only HN user who appreciates these types of articles when they tie in interesting facts a lot more than those that just have a well written argument based on personal experience and anecdote. Maybe that's just my bias towards science over self help?
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I don't know. A lot of people have asked that question about scientific publishing.

In any case, just read the preprint instead. It's basically the same.
Andrew Ng, in his machine learning class [1] urges people do use Matlab instead of Python, because in his experience people develop faster with Matlab than wit any other tool/language.

Personally, I am experienced with Matlab but not so much with Python, so I am not able to judge. I definitely hate the fact that Matlab is proprietary and partly closed source. Also, I think Python syntax is much more pretty while Matlab is not even designed to be a real language. But alas, it comes with very powerful functionality out of the box.

Note, that the OP mentioned in the introduction that he had no access to Matlab over his employer or university and hence dismissed it.

[1] https://www.coursera.org/ml (one of the first videos)
scala offers a syntax of programming similar to ruby especially in terms of collection operations. i found this to be a big win over java.

scala: List(54,2,46).filter(x => x == 2)
ruby: [54,2,46].select{|x| x == 2}
I have the same unexplainable perspective on long-form fiction on LCDs, but I think I've actually isolated the hangup: It's the backlight timeout. I don't care whether the light is coming through or bouncing off the screen (your eyes can't actually tell the difference!), but it's the psychological effect of having a clock constantly counting down to when the screen will shut off, requiring that I spend no more than a certain amount of time reading each page.