skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh..we've had full root access since the beginning. (Github FI) Even across all of their releases. There's a place to drop your public key in.

Github support has been variable, but generally good for us. The switch to a VM was touchy at first, but once we gave it enough horsepower, things were fine.
Public means that anyone can access it without any verification/authentication info. Private in this context would mean that it's limited to people who received the link.
Do you mind sharing some details? This happens to a lot of sites so it would be interesting to know what your initial configuration was and what you scaled up to.
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actually since then, nvidia tried to add optimus support to their drivers. they asked for dma-buf access, but got adam coxblocked by the free software fanatics
NCrunch [1] is a great help in that regard – auto-build and auto-test in the background while you work. I just wish I had codebases that were well-tested so that I could actually use it.

[1] http://www.ncrunch.net/
Site looks like it will be very helpful for students/people learning anatomy.

After completing your demo, I joked with a colleague of mine that "I'm already closer to being a doctor".

Would be a great tool for universities, as well as primary and secondary schools. Remembering the names of bones in the body when I was 14 wasn't very enjoyable; this would have made it much more interesting for me. Not to mention that it harps on multiple senses which would have helped me get a better score when I was 14 ;-)
My sense is that any time a company issues a statement or response about a customer service issue, someone will dislike the tone and comment about it. This gives an inflated appearance of dissatisfaction with statements by large companies and over-perpetuates the corporate PR-speak meme. That's not to say that companies never dodge key issues, refuse to own up, or spin things in their favor.

But in this case, it sounds like someone at Amazon simply fixed the mistake, admitted the mistake, and clarified their position. Just because they didn't use profanity and an informal tone doesn't change the content.
If you had to pay up front on the "value" of the idea, a little guy (be it a solo person or small company) could never file a truly novel patent. That would be even worse than the system now where you could patent it but not afford to litigate (but you would be able to sell it or if it's a great case find someone to take it on contingency).
Cycling is an interesting one as most avid cyclists want to live somewhere around a 30 to 45 minute cycle ride away from wherever they work. They appreciate that it's easiest to get fit and stay fit when a commute is built-in to the daily cycle of things.

So they are enthusiastic about that not being a convenient place by public transport or car. Basically they can get really good value accommodation as not being near a train station has no impact on their ability to access an area.

Most cyclists I know (a lot of them) have congregated in the South East of London purely because of these factors.
"Thank you for your interest in Kindle."

This line is not from the legal department.

You see it everywhere:

* "Thank you for not smoking."

* "Thank you for your understanding."

The unintended effect (for me at least) is that sentence stands out and I pay less attention to the poor excuse written directly before it. A bit like the way a politician does not answer a question.
A while back I broke the screen of my kindle while traveling. Not only was I surprised that Amazon covered this under the warranty, but the service I received was really fantastic. The Kindle had originally been shipped to Ireland (where I live), but I was in India when it was broken. I phoned Amazon and they had a replacement shipped to Kathmandu (the next stop on my itinerary with dates certain enough that I was happy to have something shipped there). It was shipped fine and they reimbursed the cost of shipping back the broken unit (I sent a scan of the distinctly dodgy receipt issued by a Kathmandu shipping agent) and they also paid me back the import charge that Nepalese customs levied on the "new" Kindle. All told I was blown away by the quality of the service given the funniness of what I was asking them to do (shipping to random locations etc).
I wonder what other data the seller has. It seems likely that you could get more valuable data from the users of these facebook apps since people tend to says yes when apps ask for permission to access data.
"Thank you for your interest in Kindle" at the end is absolutely not necessary and comes across as patronizing, clueless, and robotic.
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I would also love to have 1 sq mile of land in downtown Manhattan on which to develop a high-rise.

But I'm just a little guy. The darn property tax system is set out to screw me.

This is really the whole reason that corporations were invented: so that people could pool their resources together to achieve things that a single person could not achieve. In fact, they used to just be temporary and when the original stated project on the charter was complete then the corporation disbanded.

If a little guy company wants to own a patent under this scheme either a) they have to file the patent with a lower value so they can make the annual "property tax" but that may cap their wins in the future if it's infringed on. or b) get funding from investors to make the property tax payments. Or c) sell or license the patent to a larger entity that could benefit from it. In the case of (c) if it's truly as valuable as they say it is to the patent office then they should be able to find a suitable buyer.

Flat capped taxes on things produce market inefficiencies such as you see in the domain name arena: It costs very little to hold onto things that might be valuable one day. If instead there was a sliding scale to renew a domain based on it's value then you wouldn't really see domain squatters. They'd be forced to sell their domains to someone that could make more productive use out of the resource. Same with land and property taxes. And maybe the same for patents? I kind of like this idea.
While I understand Apple TV is a product, and you're explaining that the service is available outside that particular product...

"anything that runs iOS >=4.2 and OS X >= 10.6" that is going to display a live video feed from another city is acting as a TV by Apple. Or, an Apple TV. In a colloquial sense, yes, this is indeed restricted to Apple TVs.
I have suggested this before and will do so again:

Just like ROTC, Department of Education can create an Engineering Corps that allows tech students that receive government loans to pay back their debt in form of service.
I much prefer the English explanation than a "sorry dude". First I am not a "dude".... and don't even get me started with the f* word, please.
I think "monoculture" or just centralization in general would be a better name than "monopoly" for what the OP is getting at. Hacking is all about decentralization to ensure free access. If github implements a policy (surely there's some action permitted by TOS, perhaps which most people would like, that you wouldn't), UI change, etc., you have no real recourse outside of convincing them it's in their best interest to change it to how you like it. With a decentralized system where you run your own node you can modify the code and behavior at your discretion.

On top of the possibility for customization and extension, having more independent nodes means less chance of catastrophic failure. The cloud is remarkably unstable; look at heroku's uptime and at cascading failures even in redundant cloud systems for an example. It'd take the whole internet falling apart for thousands of individual hackers' repositories to all break down.
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So basically the "People are not buying PCs, they are buying iPads"-meme should stop here then?

Good good.
What's wrong with using the arrow keys?
I've seen that with a couple books from Smashwords, but I'd expect better from Baen. I think I've only bought books by their regular authors (Weber, Flint, Drake) and I've not had that problem.
Charlie Stross (cstross) (an author I admire and respect) is sometimes asked why he doesn't have a tip jar on his website.

(http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/03/reminder...)

> Folks still ask me how they can send me money. Usually it's because they've downloaded a warez copy of one or more of my books and enjoyed it and want to pay. Well, I'm happy they enjoyed the books, and pleased that they want to pay me — but still: no tipjar.

> If I put a Paypal tipjar on this blog, to take conscience money from folks who've downloaded a (cough) unauthorized ebook or two, the money would come to me, not to the publisher. And without the publisher those books wouldn't exist: wouldn't have been commissioned, wouldn't have been edited, wouldn't have been corrected and marketed and sold in whatever form filtered onto the unauthorized ebook market. (Yes, they commission books, and pay authors for them up-front — a vital part of the process, because most of us can't afford to take a year to write a book on spec and then hope somebody liked it enough to buy it. And if you think my bank manager would front me the kind of advance money that Ace, Orbit, or Tor have no difficulty offering for a novel that isn't even written yet, let alone doing so without charging interest or asking for their money back when the product's late, well ... you might want to think again.)

> Your typical book publisher is not like the music or movie industry; they run on thin margins, and they're staffed by underpaid, overworked folk who do it because they love books, not because they're trying to make themselves rich on the back of a thousand ruthlessly exploited artists. I think their effort deserves to be rewarded appropriately.

This is, I think, an excellent response.
I'm sure much of this information is public on their profiles to begin with; with a simple web scraper, you can acquire information about millions of fb accounts and their respective email addresses.

OFC there's an oversupply since they can give out an unlimited amount of copies of this same million FB entries.

Big Data is great because it's super re-usable and can be purposed for anyone's specific need.
Thanks for posting Eric! Fuel UX has five additional controls out of the gate:

Combobox - combines input and dropdown for easy and flexible data selection

Datagrid - renders data in a table with paging, sorting, and searching

Pillbox - manages selected items with color-coded text labels

Search - combines input and button for integrated search interaction

Spinner - provides convenient numeric input with increment and decrement buttons

All with docs, good unit test coverage, AMD compatibility and Volo-installability. Really proud to be a part of this!

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BTW, where can I find this deal? Would love to see this list in it's legitimate form if nothing else.
Like I was saying, it depends on how much backward-compatible your vendor wants to be. I just don't see how a hosted app is going to protect you from this kind of thing. The only difference is that the hosted app is presented with a "native" API as opposed to an RPC API, but it's just as vulnerable to deprecation, and will remain so as long as you are a third-party.

Except that the cost in term of infrastructure and ongoing maintenance (code review, etc) is higher, which IMHO makes it likely to be phased out sooner than a web API.
Even if you stand against the current patent system, it's how it works right now, so that suggestion is a little bit of blaming the victim. Apple were told that they have a valid patent by the office which makes those determinations. How are they to blame for accepting grant of the patent?
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You make a good point - the similarities will make the transition much smoother. On the other hand, the paradigms don't have to change with the user interface. You could maintain the similarities without cloning UI elements which they seem to be doing.
Pretending that someone might refer to my iPhone or my Mac Pro as an "Apple TV" is twisting things rather fiercely.
I think you meant to put an "or" instead of "and"

it's restricted to anything that runs iOS >=4.2 OR OSX >= 10.6
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Try Sony Xperia U. I have the previous model Xperia ray and have been very happy with it. Great display (3.3 inch widescreen high-DPI), great camera, okay processor, would prefer more memory. It's so small that just about everyone mistakes it for a feature phone.
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possibly, doesn't seem to be exactly like I remember but is quite possibly my memory fail. Although it's not clear in your comment where the market value comes from (e.g. is it essentially the government is the market maker? that seems like a bad idea as central authority is unlikely to understand and price everything correctly). What stops people from understating the patent value?

EDIT - I guess main point is - is the patent value declared by owner and does the value affect ability to litigate?
Exactly what I'm saying....most of these people probably could care less whether their info is public or not.

Many people talk about caring about their security in an almost idealistic view; few actually care in application.
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Does anyone have any data about how often [Amazon] ignores or fixes customer service issues despite a lack of high-visibility blogging?

My 10th grade world history teacher had a small segment on the rainmaking rituals of some group of people. When rain was needed, they would continue the rituals until it rained. From their view, the rituals worked. I don't think clouds drift around waiting for the rituals to build up, and I don't think customer service departments sit around waiting for blog entries about their company.

I'm not suggesting that large companies are blind to signal from the public, or that they ignore it. But why do we think that without such signal from the public these fixes wouldn't have happened, other than a cultural aversion to large companies and their PR departments?
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"The problem has been resolved. There was never any problem. Oceana has always been at war with Eastasia."
VLC can play the stream too. You just need the URL ending in m3u8 which can be found here:
http://a1.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/000/Features/oct_2012_event/...
E-Ink Kindles can technically display PDFs, but in practical terms, you wouldn't want to read a PDF book on one. Unless the PDF dimensions are just perfect (and it rarely ever happens, maybe the DX is better?) or you generated the PDF yourself, a PDF's typical page margin gets rendered, generally cropping off the text on the bottom and/or right hand side of the page. This means that you have to pan the PDF page back to a near-center position every page turn. It's disruptive to your reading flow.
Indeed. And until it gets overturned completely, you'll still need a team of lawyers ten times the size of your engineering department before you are allowed to innovate.

At least if you operate within US borders. Guess how sexy that is looking these days?

(1 billion dollar sexy, if anyone was wondering)
No. But the design of their products. If you followed the trial, they told the entire process on how they reached the final design of iPhone. It took them years to make it perfect. Taking inspiration is different, and we all know what samsung did for staying in market. LEGALLY, apple had no choice but to take these silly looking patent to the courtroom. Now is the time when we will see real innovation.

I don't know why people build so much of hate for big corporates. Samsung is no different. If you see number of patents Samsung holds, you will be stunned. And most of them are something they never even implemented in their software remotely.
That said, the interface seems a bit too "inspired" by Github. I hope they rethink how an application like this should work for themselves rather than allowing Github to influence their designs.

I don't understand your critique.

My impression of Gitlab is that they've done it exactly right. They copied the good parts from github but not the clutter, and it's looking pretty damn good so far.

Most notably they did not copy the non-hierarchical triple-menubar trainwreck of an UI-disaster (whoever came up with that at github should be fired three times in a row).

Instead Gitlab has a boring, utterly intuitive two-level hierarchical menu, consistently on every page. I love this boring menubar.
There's no way to have full control. You might get to have full control over photos your Memoto snapped, but I sure as hell can think of no way to get full control over photos of you snapped by someone else's Memoto.
'I often have tender, concerned feelings for people less fortunate than me.'

There are many persons who concern themselves with the less fortunate but would tend to answer this question with "What?" Samuel Johnson was a very generous man, but said one should beware of these feeling people who will pay you with feelings.
This would make complete sense based on the majority of popular apps on the various app stores. The next big thing I would imagine we will see is using tablets for books/reading, notes/note-taking, and educational usage. Also, I would imagine this will change drastically when the demographics of users start to get more wide. For example, when price points get lower and lower (but the advancements increase) and you start seeing tablets being a much more plausible computer replacement.
I'm aware of that, but the parent was referring to clients.
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It amounts to significantly less hand and finger movement.
Moreover, "three body problem" is generally meant to mean the three bodies with comparable mass, so they influence each others trajectory. But in this case, Mass_sun >> Mass_planet >> Mass_probe, which greatly simplifies the problem.

Nonetheless, kudos to the guy to understand that a gravitational slingshot is possible, and proving it.
I don't think everyone hates it. On a site like this obviously the cool thing is to claim to prefer startup-style error messages like "oops, everything's fucked, sorry dude". But fashions change fast; a big company writing in that style would (by the time they'd approved the procedures) likely come off like your parents trying to sound cool by using the hip phrases they've read about.

And that's without even getting into how older people (the HN readership is overwhelmingly, unrepresentatively young) tend to care a lot more about politeness.
This has been happening from Boston for a little while. Check out startupworkaway.com.
The url is in a comment above. -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4687676
The release of this version has been delayed, but is out finally. Thanks to the devs for finalizing this version.

Major changes are PSR-0 support (conventions for naming files and directories for autoloading purposes), and better Request / Response isolation.
> I don't think customer service departments sit around browsing the internet for blog entries about their company

This story bubbled up through HN, BoingBoing, and many other tech news outlets. Someone at Amazon inevitably saw it. Nobody's claiming they randomly stumbled across the original blog entry.
Interesting idea. Except for this part: "the photos are automatically uploaded to Memoto’s server."

Are you kidding me? No option for just uploading to my own computer? This makes the whole thing a non-starter.
Did you not keep reading?

> A number of states have also enacted minimum wage and overtime pay laws, some of which provide greater worker protections than those provided by FLSA. In those situations where an employee is covered by both Federal and state wage laws, the employee is entitled to the greater benefit or more generous rights provided under the different parts of each law.
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That's what I'm saying...
Maybe it is a PR strategy to boost Persona, hence Mozilla was put on the title.
I would be surprised if amazon didn't have at least one person full time looking at blogs/forums etc trying to gauge public reaction and put out fires.

It's a shame that things like this aren't used as an opportunity to clarify things or affect changes in policy for everyone. It seems more common that a company will just come out and basically say (not in so many words) "oh , we made an exception for this person because we got bad PR".
This is the real outcome:

"Account status should not affect any customer's ability to access their library."

Amazon has realized that they can quarantine suspect accounts, but not cut off the customer's right to their purchased books.

Every other manufacturer is now going to follow suit. The end result is a win for the consumer.
Or switch to us-west-2 to immediately solve more than half their problems?
"Current projections by the trade body Information Storage Industry Consortium show that although hard drives will be able to store 3 terabytes a piece in a decade's time, that still amounts to at least 120,000 drives a year."

huh?
sure! let me first fix the scaling ;-)
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FuelUX has already received coverage at http://dailyjs.com/ :-D
Interesting that Apple has finally decided to put live streams back up, I wonder whats brought it on internally. I'm not complaining, whilst Cook isn't quite the magician that Jobs was he still gives an excellent presentation.
a little guy can't buy a plot of land in manhattan, so you're not comparing like with like: it's not the taxes that stop you from buying land in manhattan, it's the original cost of entry.

there isn't the same cost of entry for having a good idea.
mails, games, social networking, search

In the consumer market - the market for consumers - that is, those who consume (content) - what other content categories can be named?

What about the "creator" market? From apps to videos to photochops to blog posts to video gaming blog posts?
Slashdot down
Seems like slashdot is down?
You mean PR people?
Amazon can handle the possible legal issues of human like messages
On the contrary. Mail, games, social networking and search are 90+% of what most normal people do with a computer. So people are buying iPads instead of computers because they work better for the most common use cases.
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Nope. While "content-free" statements may well be encouraged by lawyers attempting to be risk-averse, there's no basis in fact or law for that. Indeed, studies in medical malpractice have shown that doctors and hospitals that promptly admit fault and apologize are less, not more, likely to be sued for malpractice.

The content-free statements are not only infuriating to your customers, they are actually counter-productive in a purely fiscal sense.
Bash is out of place here actually, they are just general readline's and work in many places

http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/readline.html
How is that news? Many of these names can be probed for using the public FB API, without being logged on and without access_token:

e.g. try https://graph.facebook.com/1112112584 with curl or so ...
(sorry random member from the published list)

Some spammers have probably been harvesting that API for a long time ...
The cloud: economically attractive, but what the about ecological impact?
They can't take them away from you if you backup your DRM-free books on a different media.
When reading PDFs on my Kindle, I change the orientation to landscape. It's not a perfect solution, as diagrams are sometimes broken in half, but it works well enough for me.