skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure why you were downvoted. I suppose the counterargument would be that you can't lend just one book at a time, or something similar. However, that is as much a consequence of packing all your books into one device as it is amazon's fault.

I don't see why people would expect a business to be run in a method that yields no tangible benefits (why does amazon or penguin want you to share books?), but could have consequences (reduced sales).

Sometimes it seems like people are shocked when companies act in their best interests. It's very strange.
The lesson here: don't install shady addons, just as you aren't installing every damn toolbar out there.

Also, this is enough to sue, isn't it?
1) except that lending someone your kindle isn't like lending them a book -- it's lending them your entire library at once

2) you are comparing "copying" text from a sheet of paper to an electronic device. that doesn't make any sense at all. people who view text on an electronic screen are used to being able to select and copy it. that was never possible, nor will it ever be with a physical paper book.
The OP never mentions removing the node from the DOM.
And on that note, the Patriot Act is in the process of being extended
Thanks I will check that out.
There are a few fundamental differences the author doesn't take into account:

1. There is nothing stopping you from lending out your kindle.

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.

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.

4. Every choice involves trade-offs. There is no morality involved here, much less the sound of jackboots. There is only what people value. Many seem to value the convenience of having their whole library in a small device over the ability to "lend" individual electronic copies. Those who feel differently can stick to paper books, or electronic books unencumbered by copy protection.
Yes, I was looking forward to an interesting article on the PowerPC. I am disappointed that it's some marketing thungummy. :)
There's a weirdo thing with array allocation in C++ at least which makes it valid to use arrays with all of the std:: algorithms that take a start and end parameter.

The actual rule is pretty subtle, and I don't have a copy of the C++ standard in front of me. But let's see if I can remember the precise rule.

Given an array arr with length len, you're allowed to create the pointer arr+len. This is the end pointer you see everywhere in modern C++ APIs. However, if you try to deference arr+len, or try to create the pointer arr+len+1, the result is undefined. Typically, the former might point to a locked page, and the latter might overflow the pointer size. But if your compiler applies very aggressive optimizations, even stranger stuff can happen when you rely on undefined behavior:

http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-...

In the memchr example, the code potentially writes to arr+len, which has a decent chance of temporarily corrupting the implementation-dependent internal headers of the next heap block. In the presence of threads, this would very occasionally corrupt the internal state of new and delete, and debugging it would be a stupendously painful experience.
Have you actually read that this plan is in the works, or that someone at amazon intends to do it? Otherwise, it sounds an awful lot like a slippery slope fallacy.
This article complains specifically about not being able to copy from a book in public domain to somewhere else. If you are seriously having this problem, I recommend checking out

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

They have a lot of good materials there if you are interested in older books.
Given Apple's App Store restrictions, the choice is often between cloned UI in web apps or no iOS support at all.
It totally depends on the investor. Some investors might see your passion and have tons of money and throw you a bone. Others want the facts and proof. My advice is to cover yourself so you don't seem naive or incompetent.
> many people would now accept that it seems reasonable that you can't lend your books to someone else.

Really? Some evidence for this claim would be very useful.

My (personal and anecdotal) experience is just the opposite - people seem more willing to lend out physical possessions - where they still have them. So, books, XBox games, clothes, etc - I see these things being shared all the time.
> As for the kindle, I don't understand which of its function couldn't be performed just as well by a small laptop

The principle selling point of the Kindle is that you can read for days on end without hurting your eyes. Laptop screens tend to hurt people's eyes a lot when used for reading many hours at a time. It's also smaller, lighter, more convenient and far cheaper than any laptop.

> but I barely know what it looks like, so I may be wrong.

You're being downvoted because you're talking about things you know nothing about - things that take < 5 seconds to find out. Please do some research before taking time to bash products or complain on HN.
Indeed- think of it as scaling out the co-founder concept.
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Would like to eventually, just need to have an idea pop that I really believe in and that I see a future in.
The point of the article is in fact that because the companies have acted in their (perceived) best interests, we have lost freedom.

And that maybe we should care.
Officially bought Nine Inch Nails albums in lossless (FLAC and ALAC) and "pro audio" (24bit 96kHz multitrack WAV IIRC). You can legally get The Slip [1] and Ghosts I for free [2], and Ghosts I-IV [2] for a few bucks. Oh, and DRM free.

[1] http://theslip.nin.com/ (completely free)

[2] http://ghosts.nin.com/ (order includes a "free" option, but only paid one offers lossless and pro through BitTorrent)

The NIN BitTorrent system includes a token that will allow you to start the download "once" (in fact it seems you can start the download many times during a limited time span, then any started download will be allowed to complete even past that cut-off, but the tracker will refuse new fresh downloads).

The system is strict enough to prevent blatant copy-pasting and email the download link, yet resilient enough to not get in your way.

BT is a data transport medium with perfectly valid use cases. It can very helpfully reduce swarm costs on various intense digital products releases. It's basically bandwidth parallelization and DHT helps to palliate possible tracker downtimes/overloading. It's a shame official release channels don't use it more.
on a page with a broken overlay so yhat you cant even read the text....
As I've understood the term (and how I use it), a scripting language is one that doesn't require explicit compilation (as opposed to JIT compilation, for example) to be run, allowing for fast(er) code-test cycles.

You hear of shell and Python scripts, but (at least myself) never of C and Java scripts.
Or a referral

Hey Patrick, any chance for an affiliate account with your service (as opposed to your white label)? I'd gladly refer my barber, dentist, plumber, etc. As a stats junkie, Id like to see how many of my referrals actually sign up. Getting a reward for it would also be pretty sweet.
Show HN: My little one-page site
Since moving to only /expressly/ eating carbs once a week (as in the 4 hour body book) I've lost a stone and gone from 24% body fat to 17% - all in about 8 weeks.

Plus my /gut/ feels a hell of a lot better now I'm not eating bread, and when/if I do I get a pretty rough stomach.

People don't realise just how bad processed carbs are. We didn't them for centuries and only do now as they are sold to us cheaply.
Here are two that I use frequently:

http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/iphone-gui-psd-v4/

http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/ipad-gui-psd-version-2/
Screencasts vs. ScreenSteps vs. Single Image Capture
One of the major parts of the Paleolithic diet is consuming at least 65% meat. With this in mind, you can see how your diet is very much not like theirs.
Rather depressingly, this wasn't so much a shady add-on, as one that was meant to have been vetted by Mozilla.

From the Mozilla Add-Ons FAQ @ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/faq

Are add-ons safe to install?
Unless clearly marked otherwise, add-ons available from this gallery have been checked and approved by Mozilla's team of editors and are safe to install. We recommend that you only install approved add-ons. If you wish to install unapproved add-ons or add-ons from third-party websites, use caution as these add-ons may harm your computer or violate your privacy. Learn more about our approval process
JSON in the shell
I've seen this before in an other smaller extension (I can't remember which) while I was studying how it worked, but fortunatly the code was commented.

Firefox extensions are just plain zip files, I wonder why he hasn't checked the code.
On short URLs
Like Apple products, Firefox branded itself as malware proof.

---

http://web.archive.org/web/20041127034451/http://www.mozilla...

"“Beware of spyware. If you can, use the Firefox browser.” - USA Today"

"Privacy and Security

Built with your security in mind, Firefox keeps your computer safe from malicious spyware by not loading harmful ActiveX controls. A comprehensive set of privacy tools keep your online activity your business."

---

While that's technically correct - Firefox couldn't (can't?) load ActiveX controls, therefore it could't load harmful ActiveX controls - the Firefox extensions system has permitted installation of executable code for a long time, if not since its inception. Since that's what ActiveX is, more or less, Firefox has never been any more secure in that respect than e.g. Internet Explorer.

Like Apple products, as Firefox becomes more popular (and therefore a jucier attack target) there will be more malware that targets it.
The combination of e-book adoption and an efficient market for used books (eg, abebooks.com) mean that finding and purchasing real books is easier and lower-cost than ever. While some may consider real books inconvenient, I find the fact that no batteries are required rather refreshing. So I keep buying them and don't worry about DRM restrictions.
Agreed - though in Europe (though maybe not the UK these day) food isn't marketed as agressively, people eat main when they are hungry not for something to do, and home cooking is a way of life and is held in high esteem.
I think btaccel became Torrific (http://www.torrific.com).
Cheez, don't hate. Rental property is great. You just have to follow a few common sense principles. It's not magic. The people that get fked are the ones that speculate and flip houses, that's not real estate investing, that's gambling.
Gibson's Neuromancer in pre-production
Don Rawitsch, one of the Oregon Trail creators, doing an AMA on reddit
Climate models go cold
Pirate Party Servers Raided by German Police, 2 days before state elections
Free XBox 360s for students buying new laptops
News:

Websites of the German Police (http://polizei.de) and Federal Criminal Police Office (http://bka.de) are currently unreachable. rumors: Anonymous disabled the sites
The closest I've found so far is here:

http://www.tapptics.com/

It mostly has resources similar to the Teehan+Lax template (http://www.teehanlax.com/downloads/) - useful to build your own themes, but not usable as out-of-the-box themes. There's only one pre-made iPhone theme on the site right now.
The problem is making the distinction between "mobile site" and "mobile app". A back button for a "mobile site" should (arguably) act like the back button of the browser - especially for devices that actually HAVE a physical back button. But "mobile apps" should act like native apps (arguably) providing breadcrumbing (is that a verb?).

It's a tough choice and a touch coding experience too (have you tried using the history api to cover the case where the user presses the FORWARD button?! ergh!).
$1,000 per month from two ATM's I own. The money is easy, but finding good locations that don't already have one is a complete bitch.
PluraProcessing.com pays site owners to farm out computations to their clients. According to PP, site owners can make about $2.60/month/user. The major catch is that the system only works well when visitors have long visit durations (e.g. web-based video games). I presume PP necessitates long visit-durations because short visits won't yield enough computational resources to make computations economical.
Really? Some evidence for this claim would be very useful.

How many people are boycotting the Kindle because the lending feature is broken?

How fast would I get sued if I made a magical piece of software that allowed people to lend digital music purchases to their friends in some hypothetical way exactly analogous to lending them a physical CD (i.e., only one copy ever exists)?

How fast is the RIAA lawyering up over Amazon et al offering services where I can store my music in their cloud and stream it to myself?

Really, I don't think I'm making a hugely strong claim here.
Ironically, if they actually did believe that to be the case, the MacDefender trojan would have never been an issue.
Any place in the country that's less than 100 miles from the border (which constitutes 2/3rds of the population) is a Constitution-free zone: http://www.aclu.org/national-security_technology-and-liberty...
It's kind of implied, isn't it? I mean, it wouldn't make sense to expect something that's still part of the DOM tree to get garbage collected, would it? Unless I'm missing something?
Have we really lost any freedoms? You can still get any book on paper, and will for the near future. You can still swap books all you like.

If people are willing to give up their right to loan books in exchange for the convenience of eBooks, it sounds more like an exchange of freedom for convenience. But that's a choice people make, which is something I can't get too worked up over.

I also don't buy an argument that paper books are going away any time soon. There are huge swaths of people 40-and-up who will never read ebooks (and I suspect that is the demographic that reads more "books" than the younger set)
Are you blaming Mozilla/Firefox for every possible 3rd party misuse of their software?
But in fact, there are C interpreters, such as:

http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/cint

and

http://code.google.com/p/picoc/

There are also Python compilers, such as:

http://cython.org/
A real seed investment presentation
The difference being that you have to decide to install this harmful extension. ActiveX just gets loaded during regular browsing.
"This add-on has been preliminarily reviewed by Mozilla."

What that entails:

"When performing a preliminary review, editors will review the source code for security issues and major policy violations, but will not install the add-on to test functionality in most cases. Preliminary review will be granted unless a security vulnerability or major policy violation is discovered."

From: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/docs/policies/re...

Extensions marked 'experimental' are not fully reviewed. Which is why they probably left this plugin marked as 'experimental'.

You can't blame the users since they are installing from a Mozilla page and trusting the brand. I hope this triggers a review of those procedures at Mozilla, since I would consider sending back every site you visit a 'major policy violation'. Very scary.

Edit: they may also want to change the 'experimental' policy and set a time limit to how long an extension can remain experimental, and not list them in the default directory unless users (more advanced users) specifically seek out experimental extensions
Farm out computations to your clients for $
is this really common on ios apps? the back button actually just goes "left"

there are problems with the back button, and there are some things you dont want to have a literal stack of pages (modal dialogs commonly), but the fact that it doesnt by default do a completely different thing from why anyone who has used a web browser expects isnt exactly a bad thing.
~$2500-$3000/mo from boutique dedicated server hosting.
This is a well-known issue that we shouldn't still be discussing in 2011. Any sane JavaScript implementation already addresses this issue, and any responsible JavaScript framework will address this issue for you for the sake of older browsers (e.g. see the jQuery source at https://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/master/src/event.js#L1...).

To say that we all do this is more than a bit of an exaggeration.
This is cool. It is always nice to see command line tools for stuff. It may not make sense in the context of "big app" but whenever one has the option of just one-off scripting from the command line, there is suddenly a new level of usability.

In fact, I am usually not comfortable with stuff that doesn't have some sort of easy scripting option, so this really makes a lot of json-based tools suddenly much more attractive to me for production use!
The Tempest in the Machine
Thank you! Easily the only sane comment about aliasing.

I am willing to believe that aliases like 'ga' and 'gp' would actually increase productivity if all you did all day long was manipulate a git repository or you had some physical disability in which it was actually difficult to type on a keyboard, but I mean, using my source control tool is such a small piece of the larger initiative I take on day in and day out, that in the end, the extra keystrokes aren't going to have any meaningful impact on the amount of value I add to the projects I work on.

There's also the issue with portability. You have to be able to bring those aliases with you anywhere you go. A great example I heard about was at a meetup once where a guy tried to give a talk on git and because he wasn't using his machine, that talk was almost worthless because he kept typing his precious little aliases and, arguably, didn't really know how to use the tool he was trying to demonstrate.
I was making around $1,800 a month in AdSense revenue from The Online Slang Dictionary (and thesaurus) - http://onlineslangdictionary.com/

The site was collateral damage in Google's Panda update (which was hoped to reduce the prominence of content mills, etc. in search results) so that number has been greatly reduced the past 2 months.
Yes, you do have to take the KVM over IP device's security into account, like any other remote service you expose. It's the same set of problems you face with securing your other encrypted remote login (SSH) with similar solutions.
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How so? As far as I can tell, the only benefit it has over screen is faster vertically split windows.
CMS explains how to get paid EHR incentives
CMS launched meaningful use ehr attestation on April 18. Once met, a qualifying physician will receive $18,000 in incentives for fulfilling the first stage of meaningful use.
We have lost no freedoms. Using a Kindle and subsequently agreeing to the terms of service are voluntary. If you feel strongly about sharing books, don't use ebooks.
A more subtle reason for the pro-carb bias is it provides justification for vegetarianism since most vegetarian diets are much higher in carbs than fat. Vegetarians, animal rights advocates, and people who may eat meat but nevertheless are against promoting it because of their concern for the environment want to believe that their more moral diet is also healthier. The easy way to do that is by lending their confirmation bias to any scientific study that maligns high fat diets and thus meat eating and to ignore contrary research findings that does not confirm their bias.
Chrome tracks your browsing history... why do people suddenly care when there's an addon for Firefox that does that?
Just done a bit of research (google), it seems to be more complicated then an easy yes/no (in Germany). Something to do with if the source is obviously illegal, then the download is also illegal, otherwise it seems OK. But the copyright laws are getting more and more complicated....
ActiveX hasn't worked that way for a long time. At least since XP SP2, released 2004. Possibly even before then - I'm not sure exactly what XP SP2 changed.

Edit: Fix typo.
Not really. The breakup of the Bell monopoly helped, but Hush-a-Phone vs. US helped set the stage for competing long distance carriers like MCI. It set the stage for devices like the Carterfone ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carterfone ). Things really didn't take off much until the breakup, because of the monopolistic practices of Ma Bell; even though interconnect was legal, they brought insane market pressure to bear.
I wonder what could have been on it that would be so interesting to the heat?
A quick fgrep found the code making the requests to their servers: http://pastie.org/1932287

Edit: Further code browsing points to the "rank" feature. They rank all URLs that are http/https and the host isn't "localhost". I'm guessing, but if you turn of ranking in the preferences, it will stop logging your page views.
I use the g=git alias :) Are there any negative consequences I should be aware of?
That works well with browsers because virtually all browsers are free. With antivirus McAfree and Norton will almost certainly complain if they're not included. And I suspect they'd propose they can host their 3-month trial versions. Yada yada yada... it's a lot messier.
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Beautiful timeline software is right. Great stuff.
It was an assumption I made in my reply (now corrected) but it doesn't matter; even without removing the node from the DOM there's a memory leak in IE4-6, one that persists until the browser is terminated.

In the other cases, there's no memory leak while the DOM node still exists, because the DOM still has a reference to it so it shouldn't be garbage collected.
No. And rereading my post, I'm just not seeing any blame.

I'm presenting some pertinent history and tying it to the recent Apple malware news, which has been heavily discussed here.
Those who purchased a kindle have gained based on the only meaningful metric: they valued the benefits of an exchange over its costs. Freedom was not "lost".
The Ant Video Downloader has been reported as spyware.
How do you market it? Adsense?
I'm afraid this might be true, and I say this as someone who was a vegetarian for almost 3 years partly for environmental and moral reasons. I started eating meat again after reading Gary Taubes' "Good Calories, Bad Calories".

I still agree that it's better for the environment and for the animals to have a vegetarian diet, but I couldn't find a way to stick to it without eating way more carbs than I felt was good for me.

I'll be the first in line when 'grown' meat that doesn't come from an animal with a central nervous system that can feel pain/stress/anguish/etc comes on the market, though...
Your portions are bigger. (Seriously.)
Ad networks. Or just a reputable site screwing up. People often mention porn sites or incorrect urls, but it's worth repeating that the user doesn't necessarily have to do anything wrong.
I make a couple thousand a month selling affiliate iPod transfer software on a popular post on my blog.

An online dating tips blog that I started over 3 years ago under a pseudonym very recently started bringing in a few thousand a month from affiliates as well. SEOFTW.

There's lots of potential to bump up the revenue on the online dating blog, but I'm finishing up my book on design, so that's more important.
"But as soon as I start to eat bread and potatoes, I can easily gain 10 pounds."

Same here, and I looooove bread, but it makes my midsection fluffy.