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> The Guardian witnessed this practice on a three-day visit to the company’s Los Angeles headquarters last month, as part of a trip to explore the possibility of an expanded journalistic relationship with Whisper.

So they look to partner, don't like what they see and turn it into a story? Whisper has two problems: violating its users' trust, and letting an external group in without an agreement in place. The Guardian also looks bad flipping this into a lede in my mind.

Here's hoping that the roughly quadrupling of resolution (167dpi to 300dpi) will make reading journal PDFs tolerable over the current generation of Kindles, where it's obnoxiously cumbersome (it requires rotating the screen and viewing 1/4 a page at a time). The DX had a 1200x824 screen, but only at 150 ppi. This is better, and has a less expensive launch price.

Perhaps they can follow up with a "Code for Amtrak" on-train hackathon. Amtrak is part of our civic infrastructure, perhaps Code for America could run it.

That's an interesting idea. Are there past documented instances of the editorial board being used in this capacity?

I disagree, there doesn't seem to be a clear relationship with affluence. Here's the list along with GDP PPP per capita at a country level [1]:

  Helsinki, Finland   11/12   35771
  Mumbai, India        9/12    3843
  Budapest, Hungary    8/12   19497
  New York, US         8/12   51704
  Moscow, Russia       7/12   17518
  Ambsterdam, NL       7/12   41527
  Berlin, DE           6/12   38666
  Ljubljana, Slovenia  6/12   27837
  London, UK           5/12   36569
  Warsaw, PL           5/12   20562
  Bucharest, Romania   4/12   12722
  Rio, Brazil          4/12   11747
  Zurich, Switzerland  4/12   44864
  Prague, CZ           3/12   27000 
  Madrid, Spain        2/12   30058
  Lisbon, Portugal     1/12   23047

n.b. How about 'least honest source of pageviews' for Readers Digest on this article?

1. International Monetary Fund, 2012 data.

Yes, the horse could pass a sword through its neck, and urinate after drinking. Here's a translation of his original design: https://web.archive.org/web/20120211200948/http://www.histor... and a video of its operation, on Martha Stewart of all places: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gmQE2qpYB8

Isn't Monday and Friday 40% of the work week?

A service I'd pay for: Mailing list management that doesn't suck, and isn't Google Groups. Something that can be backed up, and has a web interface. Mailman is still king in this niche, and I'm not entirely sure why.

It makes sense from an historic and signals intelligence perspective: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunia_Regional_SIGINT_Operation...

I'd imagine this would have some bearing on it as well: http://www.submarinecablemap.com/

Packaging is starting to come together, but still has a ways to go. The Setuptools-Distribute merge was just announced a couple months ago, we still have 6 ways of doing things that are mostly incompatible. Packaging is mostly solved if you're on Linux, sort of solved if you're on OS X, and a horrible mess if you're on Windows. Perhaps if you can live in the world of pure Python it's good, but once you have C-based dependencies, it quickly becomes a mess. Compared to something like CRAN and the R community, it's clear Python could be improved in this area.

Why was it deleted? But yes, that does illustrate the issue.

Mr. Trololo himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oavMtUWDBTM

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

I've been using ag for the past year or so, and it's great. One pain point remains the lack of Windows support, so I'm back to double-slow cygwin grep when on Windows.

Some of the code is based on Postgres, based on their own marketing materials: "Paraccel has leveraged Postgres for some of its parsing and planning functions". So the head node continues to have Postgres origins, but not the compute nodes. Also see this write-up on their paper discussing the links to Postgres: http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2009/07/paraccel-and-their-p...

I also had this issue, in my case the culprit was the Kill-Flash extension. Adding nytimes.com and brightcove.com to the whitelist made everything work.

I agree, and its nice to see open source projects which had naming collisions but blossomed with a new name: it's hard to imagine Firefox being 'Phoenix' or 'Firebird', both seem generic now that we know the strong identity of Firefox.

Presumably this is to prevent naming collision with the existing Tesseract, an OCR engine. Its generally worth searching "my new awesome name" "software" prior to picking a name.

I found this Wikipedia article helpful in explaining the roles of the DSPs in the games that used them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Super_NES_enhancement_c...

Ambient has always been great for coding, a few of my favorites:

  múm - Finally We Are No One
  Dirty Three - Whatever you love, you are
  Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians
  Four Tet - Rounds

Back in the days of phreaking, this was called a 'Cheese Box' and was used to great effect by calling two locations of any chain. From what I recall, a report in Phrack called two 711 employees who started yelling at each other 'NO, THIS IS 711, WHO IS THIS‽'

Right, the control group is required to tell you what the YC influence is (which is probably quite significant). Charlie Munger once said you could lock up the smartest students in a closet for four years instead of sending them to college and they'd still be the smartest students, what were the outcomes of the other 'smart students'?

For someone who espouses libertarian ideas it does seem strange to be investing in companies which erode privacy.

This isn't the first instance of Apple as the Thought Police -- what will the yarrow sticks show today in the iChing?

They've put the source code for the project up on bitbucket for anyone interested: https://bitbucket.org/charliehoey/gatsby/src

Jaron Lanier recently gave a talk at UCSB, and he mentioned that Microsoft is be funding a lab he's setting up in SF to explore new avenues of perception opened up by Kinnect. He mentioned using it to see the world as a lobster, or understand say perhaps a mathematical function by translating body movements to avatar changes.

What do you dislike about him?

The library they're using, b3, was developed by some of the same folks as Protovis. Protovis looks interesting, thanks for the link.

Petty perhaps, but it strikes me as a difficult name to pronounce: I kept reading it hɪk-ify not haɪk-ify

On his site he mentions:

Coming soon? This doesn't really need an introduction... but it probably needs permission. I wasn't intending it to go live before I'd heard back from Notch.

http://mindvirusgames.com/products.php

Many US high schools don't rely on hourly scheduling, so classes may end at arbitrary times: I finished at 2:11pm daily.