skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uh.. In order for them to save your highlights and transfer them between devices, it needs to be put into their servers somewhere.

Maybe it's a little creepy they admit to 'snooping' it, but then again they're being honest and open about it so I don't have any problem with it (I'm a Kindle owner). As long as they keep it anonymous though I have no problem, it's similar to the Netflix anonymous data isn't it?

They also store your notes, and while I'm hoping those aren't snooped we really don't have any guarantee over it just as we don't have any guarantee that someone at Google doesn't read our gmail account, or any number of other sites and scenarios.

The demoralizing part for me is that a lot of the top quoted passages are from The Shack and The Lost Symbol, and the very top one is from a Malcolm Gladwell book. In fact all of the top 12 are from those 3 books, and 9 of the top 25 are from The Shack (which I had never even heard of before, then again I rarely read fiction and certainly not religious-inspired fiction).

I wish we could have a more normalized view of this- instead of just showing us the most highlighted, have an algorithm that somehow takes into account overall downloads as well. This would give us a better idea of the 'important' passages and could really help out in finding new books to read. Especially so if you could filter by genre because frankly I wish we could cut out the fiction part altogether. I don't really see much point in highlighting passages of fiction unless it's some literary classic or you're doing it for school or whatever, but really what's the point in saving some random passages from some Dan Brown book? To each their own, though...
"[...] and more technical end-users."

What Apple products are we talking about here? Are you implying that people who own mass market consumer electronic devices like iPod and iPhone are more technically inclined? I think that is an inaccurate statement: it is nearly impossible to hold the kind of market share in that space and somehow do it with only (or even mostly) "technical" users... there just aren't enough of them. Not to mention that it flies in the face of Apple's "it just works" marketing mantra.

In the world of PCs, you might have an argument. But I would say, once again, that your assumption goes against everything Apple marketing has been saying for 10 years. If the marketing has been working, then they've been attracting non-technical users into their user-base for years.

"[...] as Windows's featureset is much smaller than its competitors' [...]"

In what way?
Could someone explain possible use cases?
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Buy a Kindle and disable 3G. I don't ever use 3G and the battery life is virtually infinite. I'm never buying a paper book again unless I absolutely must. Also, it's much better for reading than the iPad (especially outdoors).
That was my first thought as well - how do they know? But it's logical; I am an user of Kindle for PC software, which I have installed on 3 PCs, and their state is synced (like what book I read, which page etc). So logically the info must go to their servers.
I thought the acquisition may have been almost exactly 5 years ago, but you're right that it wasn't complete till December.

Also I was thinking if the plugin were opensource over this period when there has been increased browser competition how much more innovation we would get natively in the browser.
except for tsmc , intel also works hard on developing it's own SOC:
"LG Unveils GW990 Smartphone with Intel's Moorestown Platform " jan2010.

so intel has one design win for it's platform. Also they have moorsetown-w which supports windows.i wonder what would a windows capable phone would look like.
Well ok then... I wasn't saying that they did it fast or that it's released or anything of the sort. I was simply saying that the argument that a technology was first developed before the current needs of the technology is a completely bullshit argument.
Relevant: The Ugly Face of Crime:
http://www.metafilter.com/49356/The-Ugly-Face-of-Crime
Importance of terminology
I feel the same way. Can't a company just provide a service for me without looking at the data they are servicing? Are they going through my S3 backups, too? (No, because they are encrypted. But what if they weren't?)
They were separate points. Canvas is inherently more computationally expensive than Flash at this stage of the technology. As canvas advances, so does flash -- unless Flash dies off completely, Canvas ads will always suck more CPU cycles than Flash ads.
There should be a way to disable it appearing from their website.
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> Adding flash wouldn't hurt anything

Remember that "software decoding + crash problems" bit? It certainly would cause harm.

And Apple's not concerned about bringing more developers to the iPhone, they're concerned about bringing _great_ developers to the platform. It's never really been about numbers with Apple, anyway.

EDIT: I'm also not saying that Flash developers are bad, and that they shouldn't make things for the iPhone. I'm just saying that Apple's not playing a numbers game, they're playing a quality game. I'm sure Apple would love for all Flash devs to start making apps with Objective C.
When I read the tittle I thought there is going to be a library built on canvas with vector graphics capabilities.

thank you, but no.
It's only negatively impacting the artist if they didn't get a cut of his original purchase.

In this scenario, the only person who has ended up without something they initially had is the consumer. At worst the artist lost a potential future sale, which very likely wouldn't have been made due to the consumer having paid for the content previously. The consumer who paid for the ability to listen to their music, had it taken away, and pirates it as a result, is simply regaining access to content they had been deprived of.

Now, if the artist got an insufficient or unfair cut from the original Lala purchase, that's between the artist and their publisher. Also not something the consumer is responsible for.
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Thanks! For sure, the weather isn't for everyone. We /do/ get great summer weather (it'll be over 20C before the end of May), but it's a short season. Padova sounds gorgeous!

(Just a Manly-Man-o'-the-North note: I'm wearing shorts and a t-shirt today. We bust out the summer clothes at anything above 5C.) :)
Great idea and implementation. This should make it really easy for devs to target the Freebase/Facebook graphs using a single API.
I was considering to buy one, but a big drawback for me is that I can't read on it in the dark, which is almost all my reading time - my wife sleeps next to me and I don't want to switch on the light, so I current use a netbook (where I can also read Amazon or B&N books using their software). But I know there exist a small lamp which can be attached to a Kindle - but, can someone confirm it is convenient way to read that way?
I think you misunderstood me, which is understandable.. I was unclear. The comment question wasn't meant to be combative. I agree and can see the benefit/use.

Thanks for being patient with me while I explore alternative solutions.
Yes, but if they are selling the hardware pretty close to cost they will not make much money.
Yeah that quote is especially hilarious since Flash crashes more frequently on Linux than OS X. Is that the operating system's fault too?
I work on an appliance system that is really a small (<16 node) distributed system. Things like peer discovery, service lookup, leader election, distributed locks, transaction coordinators, pub-sub queues, and a reliable store for small configuration-like data are useful to our system and, I assert, most distributed systems. Zookeeper can provide all of these things.

In my view, Zookeeper's biggest shortcoming is that it doesn't support dynamic membership. That is to say that the Zookeeper nodes themselves are not self-organizing, you have to specify the ip addresses of all Zookeeper cluster members. Issue 107 [1] tracks this deficiency.

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-107
meh... I'd pick quality over quantity any day...
"newer derivatives like C# and Objective-C"

Objective C is almost as old as C++, actually.
I didn't intend this to be rude. I was trying to point out that, for raw numbers, of course unattractive people are going to commit more crimes. There are more of them (by definition).
Aapl didnt bid on the last release of wireless spectrum gov't sales. I doubt they'd be able to do this.
I love articles with such a heavy focus on data visualization. Any chance you can provide a .json file containing all the information as well? Every time I see a post containing great data I always want to play around with the information myself but having to parse html to get at the data (using python and beautifulsoup) is such a time investment.
I took this same path (except for the Photoshop bit; I ended up using OS X because support for the shiny new PB17 I'd just bought was terrible in Gentoo -- or any Linux -- at the time), and after fighting with Ubuntu for a coupla months, installed Arch, and things are better, now.
Sculpting a Nano 'World'
They could have encrypted them on the client side.
We're just talking degrees of (what we perceive as) realism. The fact that the technology hasn't caught up yet is no reason to dismiss the entire idea.

Think about Technicolor, for instance. Unrealistic, and to some, headache-inducing. But it was an early step toward what we have today.

These days, most films are shot in color, and in a fairly naturalistic way that people don't generally notice. But that certainly doesn't mean there's "no point in having it there." It's just a greater level of immersion, which helps draw people even further into what actually matters (for most films): the story, the characters, etc.
Funny, they must have changed the quote in the past hour or so. 3.6 MB is still pretty bad though :)
You've linked to the sourceforge project page, a better link is probably the web page at:

http://sbcl.sourceforge.net/

Or http://sbcl.sourceforge.net/news.html if you were highlighting the latest release.
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http://www.osnews.com/story/23058/Theora_More_of_a_Patent_Th...

For 15 years, Xiph.Org has carefully "played by the
rules," fully within the bounds, intent, and letter of
intellectual property and patent law. For the past ten
years we've informed the entire world, including MPEG LA,
of our specifications and algorithms in detail. We've
requested in open letters that any group believing we
are infringing to inform us so that we make take
immediate corrective action.

I predict that MPEG LA may counter that they know
groups have been pressured into licensing patents in order
to use Theora. This has been a recent back-room assertion.
You might want to ask point blank if MPEG LA itself or any
of its constituent members has engaged in this practice,
thus manufacturing the evidence that "vindicates" their
patent allegations. I beg you - tell me immediately if you
get a straight answer (or good video of any squirming)!

I'm sure you can tell I'm a bit peeved; this has been going
on for over a decade. It's amazing they've never been
called out on it.
Microsoft open sources the NT kernel... Not vs Apple releases the core of their OS as open source (Darwin)

Microsoft open sources Trident... Not vs Apple creates the WebKit project

Microsoft helps to develop a BSD licensed compiler... Not vs Apple helps to develop Clang/LLVM

<sarcasm>

Both companies are like twins.

<sarcasm>
Seems to rely on old data and guesses.
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If this is true about Microsoft, then isn't Apple just Microsoft with worse PR?

Microsoft didn't disallow netscape from running on it's platform. It came out with a competitive product and leveraged (what turned out to be illegally) it's position against it's competitor.

If Apple were behaving the same way, they would allow Flash (or other programs) to be installed on the platform duke it out through business processes to allow the market determine a winner.
You should be able to find a discounted GeoTrust Quick SSL 1-year cert for ~$70. I think that's the best option. GoDaddy isn't recognized by at least some semi-recent browser versions IIRC.
Facebook's Eroding Privacy Policy: A Timeline
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The point is that HTML5 was designed for touch, accelerometers and GPS where as Flash was not.
This seems to be one of those situations where less popular is more interesting. Logging in and browsing the highlights for books I've read brought up a lot of very good passages (that I sadly barely remember).
Appropriately, this page has a Flash ad that times out and causes the page to become unresponsive on my Mac.

http://marcusvorwaller.com/look/flash_fail-20100430-125225.j...
Well, if you tried it would push-notify my iPhone so I guess that's an additional way to get in touch ...
I actually find this data interesting, as long as it's anonymous. It should probably be something you have to opt-in for though.
> I was considering to buy one, but a big drawback for me is that I can't read on it in the dark, which is almost all my reading time - my wife sleeps next to me and I don't want to switch on the light, so I current use a netbook

That makes sense, yeah. You can read on your netbook for long periods of time without your eyes hurting, though? I've never really been able to read things that require a lot of studying to get through on the computer without breaks. Seneca's "On the Shortness of Life" took me like five sessions with short breaks to get through on my laptop, where I could normally read something like that in one sitting on paper or e-ink.

> But I know there exist a small lamp which can be attached to a Kindle - but, can someone confirm it is convenient way to read that way?

I've been looking for something like that myself, could be quite a boon.
I was pretty sure he was referring to VP6-encoded Flash video, not some version of H.264 that is harder to decode. Could you provide more information on non-hardware-decodable versions?
Justin.tv is hiring engineers who want to work on a site that gets used by 30m people a month. We have 250gbps in house capacity. Scary as it is, engineers who graduated undergrad last year run our deployment system, video system, and more. You will get thrown in the deep end on production systems.

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That was my initial thought, but why leave the 1 week gap where people will try to find another solution to replace lala? You'd think shutdown LaLa on June 7th?

Also, do lala users need to know about the change in advance? why not transfer them over to the new service and send a message saying what's changed?

This is kinda looking like myspace/imeem
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I heard a little company called RethinkDB is hiring.

http://rethinkdb.com/jobs/

They just got new offices in Mountain View. Check the jobs page for compensation and such.

You get to write functional data structures with hardcore low-level C/C++ and the linux kernel, and run awesome experiments on really fast hardware. Plus, I can promise you that Mike and Slava are really cool guys and you'll love hanging out with them.
"As it stands, iTunes revenue is a huge part of Apple’s profits" - isn't quite right - check the quarterly results.
The key to Akihabara performance is small number of actual pixels being drawn/computed.

Resolution of game's <canvas> is just 320x240 (check "view image" in Firefox) which is then blown up by browser renderer to 640x480 (in a same way how you can resize image in CSS).

Thus you get 4x as many pixels and cool retro 8-bit look with a lot of work done by browser's C++ code instead of much slower JavaScript.

Till we don't have hardware acceleration for <canvas> tag, unfortunately demos and games are going to be quite limited.
Man Who Found Next-Generation iPhone in Bar 'Regrets His Mistake'

Not as much as he's going to a few months from now, is my guess.
If someone asks if Blacks are more likely to die of heart attack, they don't care that there are more whites in the country and therefore they have more heart attacks.
There's already a law preventing insurance companies and employers from discriminating based on genetics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_Information_Nondiscrimi...
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The argument, boiled down: Twitter is a walled garden. Open sourcing twitter would unwall the garden. Failing to unwall the garden will result in Twitter suffering the fate that every walled garden before it has suffered. Successfully unwalling it at least gives it a chance.

If you are hip to the ebb and flow of these sorts of things, I think you can already feel the Twitter-momentum fading, and the same network effects that make Twitter so potent can turn against it very quickly. Continued success is not inevitable and failure remains very much an options. Walled gardens always look inevitable at their peak, but even mighty AOL fell.

In fact, calling AOL mighty probably sounds weird to you. That's what happens to walled gardens.
and my point was that HTML _5_ is being designed for touch, not any prior version of HTML. Just like Flash Player _10.1_ is being designed for touch, not any prior version of Flash.

Saying Flash wasn't originally designed for touch, etc. is the same as saying HTML wasn't originally designed for touch, etc.
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See also, Ruby and Perl.
I'd ask for Sean Parker's MySpace URL, but it's apparent he's never actually used the site if he thinks that they should have "won" over Facebook.
Apple Kills Lala.com
But it has first-class SQL statements! Rock on!
I wonder if there is any newer videos.
Its a nice idea with the swivel camera
Congrats to the embed.ly team for doing it right and making our job easier.
Scientists look beyond diamond for quantum computing
And to clarify: telecommuting works for us.
This project has nothing to do with PHP, except that the letters P, H, and P are in the name and that it's a bad implementation of a bad idea.
It's certainly a useful bookmarklet, but I worry that reducing the amount of work required to post a link will result in a much larger number of links being posted, further diluting the "new" page.

I kind of like knowing that the person submitting a link had to do more than just click a button on their link bar to get the story posted to HN.
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Hi Guys,

I've got fairly substantial project going live shortly, and it's localized for the european market. I'd like to arrange some hosting for it, and a CDN.

All of my experience is with North American providers, so I'm hoping that someone can suggest a good provider for physical or virtual (cloud) hosting aiming at the big three (UK, France, Germany).

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Can you provide examples? Besides Lisp (which isn't considered "a language" so much as a taxonomical classification to them), what language has 2+ dialects where both are in active development and use? (Not to suggest JPHP is in active use.)

I think the only good example I can come up with is Visual Basic vs. Visual Basic for Applicaions.
You shouln't take the word "open" in your mouth, JObs.
He probably means H.264 profiles.

iPhone (and Android phones) can decode only certain profiles (Baseline), and up to certain levels (depending on resolution). Even hardware assisted decoding with PC graphics cards can accelerate only up to certain level (usually high@4.1, but some nvidias can decode high@5).

The rest is more complex than hardware assisted decoders are able to decode and pure software codec has to be used.
It doesn't make sense to spend a lot on a domain name
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Agreed. I promise to only carry a torch and take notes of anybody I see with a pitchfork. :)

I read an analysis once that said that the problem wasn't that representatives weren't responding to the people's wishes, it was that the mob basically ruled. This is why you have governments making more promises than they can pay for and the continuous search for the current Dr. Frankenstein to go storm his castle.

Not sure of the veracity of that analysis, but I found it both counter-intuitive and interesting.

We're technical guys. We should know complex systems. We should know how people design and interact with complex systems.

I believe our system of government is becoming legacy code. That's not by any means to call for violence. I simply mean that the system has become too complex for most practitioners to understand, too complex to micro-manage, too complex to be able to design results by committee, and too complex to be able to maintain effectively.

Beats me where you go from there, but after seeing a dozen failed complex computer systems, I know a failed system that is spinning off into complexity land when I see one.

I also agree. Vote them all out. Enact term limits now, before we start a new generation of Earls and Dukes -- professional politicians with a lifer mentality.
Irrelevant. The relevant question is, are unattractive people on trial more likely to be guilty?
They've had to put some resources on to IE as they didn't bother for the previous 8 years and the stench of the rotten putrid corpse of IE6 was even starting to get to them.

When a single someone can make a tiny javascript file that fixes nearly all the rendering problems in your browser (Dean Edwards, IE6.js, IIRC) then it starts to look really bad for your abilities as a multinational megacorp that's supposed to employ some of the finest programming minds.

My impression is that it's still a pretty small team, if only they'd done it consistently over the last 10 years.
It reminds me of ColdFusion, e.g., CFQUERY.

That is never a good thing.