skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The internet is like the last place we have left where the powers that be are afraid of the people.
...and the case-sensitive nature of this confusion is exactly the point I'm trying to get across - people just don't know the difference. A Calorie is a calorie! Just read the nutritional declaration on a few American food products and you'll find an equal amount of both. MB, Mb or mb, anyone?
That sort of reasoning works fine right up until there are only ebooks. Then there's no alternative, and the terms of service are effectively no longer voluntary.
I'd like to see some proof as well. While there is some tracking involved in Chrome, I doubt they track browser history as well.
You should talk to a good attorney and file a Lawsuit against Mozilla and Ant.com, this could be big!
You could check out http://www.mobilefoo.com/ They have a few things up but I think they're planning to add more.
Are people actually more accepting of not being able to share, or is it simply the case that they can't or don't know how?

It's a pretty easy and painless gesture to lend someone a physical book for the weekend. It's a much harder gesture to lend someone your entire Kindle or iPad in order for them to access the book. Until/unless sharing features become more available, better known, and more widely used, I think we're really just seeing the effects of "I don't know how" rather than "I wouldn't."
love it - great job!
I'll take more time than I should to respond to your comment. It doesn't deserve to be in this discussion, as it's just a knee-jerk reaction with little substance.

In short, I'll just say this:

* "media companies" is an unnecessarily broad category. But saying "books' rights owners" would invalidate your entire point. Now, you could have pointed out that the MPAA and RIAA felt they had no choice but to lock things down and "attack". Then you could have pointed out the similarity in contexts between their situation and the books' rights groups. Then it would have been reasonable (although a huge stretch, IMO) to suggest that the books' rights groups may make similar decisions. But you chose not to, which leads me to my next two points:

* you cannot prove a negative (this is a big one, so you might want to re-read it)

* your tone is overly emotional and inflammatory, something that at once weakens your points and makes me not like you very much
Ask HN: Where do I go to buy a CREDIBLE web business worth $100k? 
With some savings that I've done in last several years - I'm looking for a web business with six figure profit and which doesn't require lot of time to run it ...

People mostly suggest Flippa and similar but I dont find anything worth it after doing thorough due-diligence ... does anyone have any experience? any suggestions?
Infosys, TCS, or Wipro?
You can set margarine out in hot sun all day and it'll will not melt. Once I saw that, I knew I'd never eat it. I'll take butter any day.
It could be redone. The first solution is Case walking by a line or some other linear crowd and, as he walks, the closest cellphone rings, then the next and so on. I wouldn't do cell phones, but Fringe Redverse-like earpieces. Rings, in that scenario, would also feel weird as some other form of warning would be employed. A series of hello's and reactions to dropped lines, as Case turns back and realizes someone really wants to talk to him. Then he would walk up to a kiosk, and buy a discardable phone that would, immediately, ring.

I would try to avoid the phone-in-an-envelope scene in Matrix, but someone perplexed could hand him a phone and say "it's for you".
What exactly is an iPad game for cats?

Edit: Is this something for the untapped Crazy Cat Lady market?
I'd be curious to hear more about how this works. Do you just contract out the work/money stuff to a bank?
Copying an ebook is conceptually the same as photocopying a physical book, or duplicating a physical music album. It's just easier and faster to copy a computer file, or cut-and-paste a portion of it.
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`ncdu` is a godsend. It's like `du` but usable for troubleshooting.

None of the following from this list are obscure: screen, vim, rsync, xargs, curl

I'm tempted to put ack in that list.
>3. I can't copy/paste from my paper books either, at least not in any way that's not also available to kindle owners.

You mean I can chop the spine off of my kindle and run it through that massive scanning/OCRing beast like I did with textbooks? Awesome!
What if we increased carb consumption far above the levels of today (from 43% of our diet to, I dunno, 54%)? Would we be even fatter than we are now?

https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnpp.usd...

History tells us the answer. In the early part of the 20'th century, we ate nothing but carbs. We weren't fat.
> > How many people are boycotting the Kindle because the lending feature is broken?

> Yesterday Amazon announced they're selling more titles on Kindle than hardback and paperback put together.

That's his point. Not many people are boycotting the Kindle, despite its titles being less lendable than their physical counterparts. This seems like evidence to me; it's not likely that you'll find a longitudinal study of people's attitudes towards book lending over the past 50 years, but anecdotally I think it's reasonable to posit that people would have scoffed at Kindle-like lending restrictions on physical books 50 years ago (and probably still would). What sort of evidence would you require?
> People resist the idea because the answer is too simple. "Fats" are better than "Carbs". So lard is better than a banana? Ugh.
> It's not the broad category of "Fats" vs "Carbs". It's the TYPE of food. Eat good food. Period. Not something made in a factory. Twinkies: out. Soda: out. Standard pizza with refined grains and loads of cheese: out

People resist this idea because it is too simple. The reason behind the whole article is trying redefine what "good food" is. The last twenty years we've been told that fatty foods were bad for us, and high-carbonhydrate foods were good for us. That we should have 60%+ of our diets as carbs.

There is now mounting evidence that this is all bad advice.

I know many people now who trim the fat off the meat whilst eating unchecked quantities of pasta because they believe this is what good food is and what 'eating well' means. This is wrong and people need to be re-educated.
DRM has passed the music scene for individual purchases. I didn't accept either of those propositions you mentioned, so I purchased CDs until DRM went away.

Now, I get the bonus of being able to buy just one track.

I would say the people's will is doing nicely in the music industry, even given how hard the RIAA has fought it. I suspect books will follow as people determine what the new norms are and companies find a way to flourish or die therein.
As an old married dude, my advice would be to be a supportive and encouraging partner, and not to try to solve this problem for her. When she asks for help, ask her what interests her. If she doesn't know the answer to that question, suggest that she take some time to think about it. It's not your problem to solve. Just be supportive.
If anyone is using Vim, appreciate quality screencasts and seek self-improvement, this is what you want to watch. The Fugitive series is mostly for Git users, but the rest of vimcasts is for everybody. And the casts are great: short and packed with usefulness, embodied with the lovely voice of Drew Neil (@nelstrom).

Empower yourself, embrace your tools. Don't let your tools be another bottleneck limiting your expression.
I don't think he's targeting OS X. He just has an OS X skin on his UI. Some of these tools absolutely will not run on OS X.
I assume it's because he's running his rental business right.

You've got to consider the following things, which greatly reduce the actual "income" you're getting out of them. The obvious ones are mortgage payments, insurance payments, and tax payments. Then you've also got a vacancy allowance, because you assume that units will be vacant at least some of the time between leases. This can vary between 5-20% depending on where you are.

And lastly you need to set aside money for repairs and maintenance. Most people forget to factor this into their calculations when thinking about rental cost. It's common for people to say "Well I'll just pay for it when it happens, and take it out of that month's rent". But that doesn't really apply when you're talking about things like putting on a new roof, installing a new furnace system, or any large "maintenance" project that's going to likely need to be done over the ownership life of the property. My Dad just put replaced the roof on one of his rental properties for the 3rd time since he's owned it. (He bought it when he was 21, is now 67, and the roof needed to be replaced shortly after he bought it.)

So yeah, for a single unit (depending on the area, again), you're doing well if you're getting even $100/month out of it. And as mentioned above, you're constantly building equity.
Enjoyed the episode. Look forward to more... thanks for sharing.
http://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Human-Computer-Interaction-...
German Pirate Party == leftist pot heads (mostly coming from the green and socialist parties) with some affinity to computers. Most of them are obese. And usually don't shower. And don't know how to dress. It's pathetic. :)

Now they try to extend their political agenda with typical leftist stuff: basic income for all, anti-business, open borders for all a.s.o. and the few women try to push some vegan ideology.
The funny thing is that their agenda was 100% predictable from their physical appearance.

The good thing is that they're almost history. They had their time of hype and media attention and now they cripple around and nobody cares.
So what are us developers doing differently?
To be fair, alcohol (ab)use is highly correlated with depression symptoms. The nervous system depression, however, is not necessarily the same mechanism that causes psychological depression. (lots of available articles on alcohol and depression, e.g., http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=alcohol%20depression)
>"Why did the idiot have access to them"? He's not presumed to be an idiot or bozo. He's trusted as an employee. Corps generally don't have the time or manpower or profitability incentive to spy on every action of their own personnel. You only know if somebody is a clown after the fact.

He's implied to be a non-technical business employee. Again, why does he have access to production servers? I would understand access for developers, but business guys? They shouldn't have access beyond a web portal or something like that. So again, why did they have access to production servers?

EDIT: Realistically, for a large organization like Bank of Not Canada, pushing out a new site should have several steps:

1. Management comes up with new idea, assigns peon to come up with design.

2. Peon makes content in FrontPage.

3. Peon passes content to marketing and legal(especially important, considering it's a bank). They approve it, pass it to development and IT to get it up.

4. Development and IT get it working, and put it up on production servers.

None of the people in step 1, 2 or 3 should have direct access to the production servers. That means that neither the Peoon or legal or marketing department should have direct access to the production servers. If this was pushed out by a developer, I would agree that IT isn't at fault. They need that level of access to do their jobs if something goes wrong. However, this access isn't required by the peon or anyone earlier in the chain, so they should not have it.

>"IT's job to make sure that the production environment is secure and functioning" -- IT isn't some mythical infallible entity. IT comprises human beings too, who can make mistakes or look the other way for expediency or even themselves don a black hat.

So? That's still their job. Mistakes happen, but that isn't an excuse for making them.
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While I usually follow "do not ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity", I don't think this case is adequately explained by stupidity.
How did you get into this buisiness? Sounds really worthwhile for a few places I vacation to often.
Ask HN: How do you track hours for a project? 
I've recently started doing some freelance work that is billed by the hour and I feel like I spend too much time on figuring out how many hours I've worked.

I have searched for a solution and have found a few that might fit the bill, but wanted to ask the HN community what solutions work best for you. My short wishlist is:

Easy to start/stop timers
Easy to edit times (I occasionally forget to stop a timer and need to subtract some time)
Print out a report of hours for a given period of time
Mobile device support
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On the other hand, if a site provides more value to a visitor, they are more likely to keep spending more time on the site.
For fear of competition, I'd rather not say. They live in the education, lifestyle and graphics category. Two of them are ranked within the top 10 of most paid in many countries.
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Twitter sued for ‘breaking’ UK super injunction. Oh yes.
Ask HN: Why is GMail the best email client?
It has its flaws, but I find myself again and again returning to GMail's web client after trying out desktop clients.

I have tried:
* Thunderbird
* Claws
* Mutt
* Pine
* Others that I can't remember.

The question I have is: why, given the limitations of the browser, is GMail still better?
You could try SitePoint as well, they have a marketplace for selling sites.

http://sitepoint.com/
> 2. The notion of "lending" doesn't really apply to electronic books. Absent copy protection, you can just give someone else a copy. With copy protection, to mimic "lending" some infrastructure needs to be in place to give someone else access rights to a copy of a book while simultaneously depriving you of your copy. And of course this is controlled by the seller, since they're the one putting the copy protection in place.

Sometimes comments like this makes me wonder whether or not it is not in our best interests not to let technology get hijacked by corporate interests. I understand Amazon has to make a profit somehow to continue providing the infrastructure, but if computers and technology have gotten us, humanity, to a point where one can "lend" books while simultaneously keeping our copy ourselves, why do we encumber ourselves? I can't imagine what people even 100 yrs ago would have wondered at such technology.

I am quite uneducated about history, but I can imagine a similar revolution with the printing press. How much of the clergy / priests opposed printing presses because they allowed the common masses to access information on a scale unprecedented at that time?

Edit: I realize upon a second reading the phrase "... technology get hijacked ..." might be hyperbole, but the point stands.
Could Twitter use the First Amendment?

This has to be very weirdest case. In effect Twitter is been sued by unknown person as their is an injunction in the UK against naming the Footballer.
To say that there are “still avenues” for buying music without DRM is a grotesque distortion of history.

For the longest time it was impossible to buy any (mainstream) music without DRM from anywhere online. This is no longer true. New services (like Amazon MP3) now sell music without DRM and old services (like iTunes) also switched over to selling music without DRM.

Music is the clearest example that this issue is quite a bit more complicated and that working towards more freedom is possible, has already worked and might work again in the future.
You want a really secure system? Turn it off and unplug it, then lock it in a cave underground. With a really big lock. That's REALLY inconvenient, but REALLY secure. In real life you can't just choose security over convenience... it needs to be convenient enough for people to do their work, even if that means being potentially not as secure as possible.

And really, this document doesn't go nearly far enough to really harden your average Linux machine... jesus christ they don't even mention what services will run under what roles, reduced capabilities, device ownership... it's a really bare minimum document. But that's not why I critiqued some sections. I critiqued them because some parts are, to me, just stupid.

Like I mentioned twice, there is no potential for a security compromise from simply having excess "files" on a system. You have to actually have a security hole which can be taken advantage of by those files.

What are the files in question? Well, all sorts... icons, manuals, libraries, executables, .... ah, there's where we might see some potential for a security hole (heh, realistically even the icon files could be, but that's out of scope). And how could an executable by itself be a security hole? Usually it's got some modified permissions which allow it to run as another user (commonly root). They should be designed to be secure against an attack but nothing is bug-free. So you know what you do? You remove those permissions. Suddenly it's just a normal executable with the same capabilities as any other executable on the system (of which there are many even on a minimal system).

To accomplish this monstrously difficult task you can simply follow the rest of the NSA guide and it will secure these files for you. Hence, it was (imho) stupid for them to tell you to only install what you need, as their own guide removes any possibility that these excess files could do any damage to the system. On top of that, it's really annoying from the perspective of people who just want to get shit done.
Diet is has far more weight in weight (pun intended) than exercise. Just by exercising it is almost impossible to loose weight.
Governments moved their currencies off the gold standard. Mostly for the self-interest reason of establishing greater control over their currency, often to inflate their way out of debt.

Whether a gold (or Bitcoin) standard is good for the world economy as a whole is irrelevant, since the governments hold the power to implement it (or ban Bitcoin) and will act in their self-interest.
"Fat is worse than carbs" is a very successful meme because it passes a superficial "evidence-checking": it's fat, so it's gotta make me more fat, right? A mechanistic, false-newtonian, 17th century understanding of biology. A fallacy of common sense.

Plus, it's been touted all over the place for decades. Of course it catches on.

Keep calories in general low, paying special attention to carbs. Don't forget to lift some weights. Feel free to do other types of exercise if you wish. Voila, instant fat management.
I was there about a month ago and I had never been to SF. So I was a tourist (which I usually hate) and took to double decker bus tour around the city. It took all morning to make the loop but it was a great way to see the city. There are several different companies that run and we got on at Union Square. Have Fun!
This is the absolute core of the problem.

I'm a Canadian currently living in the US; our two countries are culturally very similar, and diet-wise practically identical (save poutine, sweet sweet poutine). But the obesity epidemic hasn't swept Canada nearly the same way it is commonly seen in the US.

I just got back from a trip to Canada, and I can say with absolute confidence that the typical restaurant dish in the US is more than twice the size it is up north.

It's this way in Asia too, and probably Europe (though I haven't been, shame).

It doesn't matter how much you exercise (or don't), nor does it matter if you're eating steaks vs. granola bars. If you're eating twice as much as the rest of the world, you've got big problems.

The US needs to halve their serving sizes in restaurants, and reduce the appetite of the general population. You can improve what you're eating, and you can exercise more, but none of that will do diddly squat until you cut down on intake.
I LOVE jack daniels. Your site was incredibly helpful, I think I have 100 copies of various cheat sheets across all the computers I've used over the years.
You'd buy as many BTC as you can (probably slowly over time), then sell them all at once for a very low price. Momentum traders would help you by also selling their BTC when the price starts dropping.
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Well, it was thought-provoking. And I also had never heard of the Breguet Number & Carson's speed. So thanks for posting.

EDIT: Carson's speed is clearly a real concept. However, a web search turns up nothing about the Breguet Number. Are we sure Cringely isn't just making this up?

Also, FWIW, my original point (see GP by me) is also made in the comment by NoTalentHack on Cringely's site.
Perhaps the OP was referring the URL bar sending auto complete requests to google, which some consider tracking...

I don't really know of anything else Chrome does by default that "tracks your history" like this addon does.
About $2K-$6K a month from my blogs. (Plug: I'm writing a book that will help people do the same: http://technicalblogging.com)
At it's peak, I made thousands (not sure what the exact number was now) from domain parking/monetization.
>> If I really did the SEO

I'm in a very close situation. What would you do, exactly? Pay for an Adwords campaign? Canonical URLs? Improve the load times of the web?
The Kindle doesn't have a spine, and it turns pages by the press of a paddle rather than flip of a paper, so it is even easier to scan by machine than a hard book is.
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Spoiler: Submission title is bait. He calls out "ant video downloader".
Could you elaborate on the "hosting websites" bit? What scale and size of sites are you talking about and what sorts of clients are you hosting? Are they all just your consulting clients?

I work with another developer to do web development projects, and I always felt like hosting would be an easy way to get some additional income from our clients. He maintains that it's just too much of a systems administration headache to be worth it.
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I imagine it's also tricky to verify by counting when they sell daily, weekly, and monthly passes.
These anecdotal arguments back and forth are interesting, but they're not science. I mean, where's the details on the methodology? Where are the data? Why do we listen to/argue about the various experts, instead of digging into the actual research that's been done?

If you're looking for studies on the topic, check out these two videos:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-847196066367535747

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1719204869171202407

It's basically a survey paper in video form, presented by one of the researchers. It has actual graphs! With error bars!

The corresponding book is pretty good too, it's called the China study.

Personally, I trust statisticians on health much more than biologists. It's nice that there's a biological basis for the conclusion, but trying to argue diet based on the metabolic process seems like a stretch, especially when it conflicts with what's observed.
I've tried a lot. My top three favorites are:

* freshbooks
* letsfreckle.com
* emacs org-mode or planner-mode
Here in the UK you break the law when you lend a book without the author's permission.

http://www.copyrightservice.co.uk/copyright/p01_uk_copyright...

Restricted acts
It is an offence to perform any of the following acts
without the consent of the owner:
Copy the work.
Rent, lend or issue copies of the work to the public.
Perform, broadcast or show the work in public.
Adapt the work.

The UK govenment have to pay for the right to lend books in public libraries:

http://www.la-sofia.org/sofia/droit-de-pret-anglais.jsp

The payment per loan is 5.98 p
http://thathigh.com pays my rent. I haven't touched in quite some time, either.
Doesn't seem broken here.
Which ones, if you don't mind me asking?