akavlie

It helps that they don't have carrier or manufacturer branding plastered on the front.

Thanks for letting us know! They're going for $164+ on Amazon.com (my selling venue of choice -- eBay is too much trouble).

Looks like I'll get an upgrade and extra cash for my v2, as I'm not interested in hacking.

Did you look at Blogofile? If so, how did it compare to Pelican?

Caching plugins are a prerequisite for Wordpress to survive heavy traffic though, even on much more powerful servers. Anyone who knows what they're doing is using one.

Is this running from home?

If so, do you have a static IP? Does your ISP allow home servers?

It would be great if someone (esp. the generator's authors or users) could comment on how this is different than the other Pythyon static site generators, such as Pelican. Based on the docs, it appears that it's built with easy deployment to S3 in mind.

Something very similar happened to my seller account late last year. The emails were very similar -- including the cause for the closure (alleged linkage to a previously closed account). Story here:

http://aaron.kavlie.net/2011/12/web/amazon-com-just-closed-m...

My story got to the top spot on Hacker News and, thanks to the exposure there, Amazon reversed its decision. At no point did I get anything that looked like a personalized response -- just terse form emails that didn't divulge any details.

What surprises me the most about this story is that they use the same approach with the consumer end of the business. I figured that the ham-handed treatment I got was due to Amazon's lack of care for that particular piece of their business, and that any issue with buyers would be taken up with more personal attention, and provide ample opportunity for appeal. Guess I was wrong.

Sorry, misread the review for the Lumia 800. I'd always been under the impression that the Lumia phones were anodized aluminum; turns out they're polycarbonate.

Still, there's the One S, for... one. And that was just a quick find among the current crop of recommended phones; I wouldn't be surprised if there are others.

Gruber says that "none of the competing phones on the market are made of metal".

So what about the Lumia 800 (1)? Or the One S (2)?

1) http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/3/2534861/nokia-lumia-800-re...

2) http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/2/2916098/htc-one-s-review

What, is it possessive?

Thanks for the feedback. The problem you note with spin showing above the top bar will be fixed in a few minutes.

I think people may be interested in Volume (a measure of how big the story is), but it's not showing enough differentiation by our current methods. I'll make note of that.

This is the first product released by Stremor, the startup I'm working at. Aside from being an interesting and useful news reader/aggregator in its own right, it's meant to show off our language heuristics tech to automaticaly rate news articles on bias, reading level, detect rants, etc.

PadMapper currently uses 3Taps to access Craigslist data, which piggybacks on search engine results. Craigslist can't prevent this but by a) setting the whole site to Disallow in robots.txt, removing the whole site from search results on Google & other search engines, or b) legal force.

"terse" is about the last word that I would use to describe Java.

Compared to almost every other language I've had exposure to, it's more verbose.

Awesome, very happy to see the Todoist founder here :-)

I compared several todo web apps several years ago, and found Todoist to have the best UI -- never understood why people liked "Remember the Milk" so much.

I haven't used it (or any other todo list) much lately. I decided I need to start maintaining one again, and considered Todoist... but decided on TaskPaper (native Mac app) as it can live separately from my browser tab farm, and input/viewing is about as quick & simple as it gets.

Does anyone else find this style of headline odd?

I've noticed it a lot lately; mostly in the NY Times.

I'm curious: how long have you been running Ubuntu on your X220? And how stable has it been?

I was using Ubuntu on an X220 as my development machine for a while, with Ubuntu 11.04. It was extremely unstable -- the machine would freeze frequently when unplugging the DisplayPort cable, or even right in the middle of working. That along with a host of small bugs and annoyances (invisible desktop space on the smaller display in dual-display mode -- a longstanding issue in X apparently) eventually drove me back to using a Mac.

I ran into this when Unity first debuted. That's when I knew it wasn't ready for prime time.

It's sad that this is still a limitation, but not entirely surprising. Canonical seemed to be intent on pushing this to everyone regardless. And now they don't even seem to be supporting the traditional Gnome desktop (whether 2.X or 3.X).

Anyone else have thoughts on the various Python blogging options? I've been shopping for one lately myself. Leaning toward Pelican (Pydanny's choice, and Kenneth Reitz's as well), but willing to entertain other options.

For those who didn't see the recent kerfuffle: This guy recently found and demonstrated a major Rails exploit on github. He seems to know a thing or two about security exploits.

What sorts of compromises does Go make (that Rust does not)?

Rust seems very similar to Go. Anyone looked at/played with both enough to offer some wisdom on the pros/cons of each language?

I tried to switch to DDG recently; after a couple of weeks using it as my default search engine in Chrome, I had to switch back to Google.

Speed was a pretty big factor, but more than that, the search results just didn't compare. Still, I'm rooting for them, and hope that they're able to close the gap, both in speed and results. I love their style, and all of the site-specific search shortcuts.

I understand the frustration with the crippled lambda. But with regard to len() and other global functions that seemingly belong as methods on string/array/etc. -- it's worth reading Armin Ronacher's post on the rationale behind that:

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2011/7/9/python-and-pola/

While more human friendly, that would inhibit serialization.

If you have any questions about the installation, email me -- akavlie at gmail.

Yeah, we realize that a lot of functionality and IRC commands are still missing, beyond the basics. It's still under active development, we just decided that it's in good enough shape now to post on HN.

It would help a lot if you could post issues on github for missing features.

The majority of the code is in the front end... so even if you go with a different backend, you have to learn to love JavaScript when doing a project like this ;-)

JS used to really irritate me, but I've grown to appreciate it quite a bit after learning its idioms and getting more practice.

Actually, my work on web-irc started originally as an attempt to improve qwebirc. I found the code difficult to reason about, and thought we could do better with a clean start and socket.io-based messaging. So I started my own thing.

See the discussion that spawned the whole thing here: https://github.com/paulirish/lazyweb-requests/issues/31

I've tried deployment on Nodester, which is running node 0.4.9. It had issues, though not caused by node-irc, as far as I could tell. Best to run it on 0.6 in any event; that's what we're using in development.