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would really appreciate some feedback / suggestions / ideas. I know probably most people on HN are not really into anatomy. Nevertheless, it's nice to hear different perspectives. We're not going to be the next facebook, but we really hope to improve how students learn anatomy.
This is FB we're talking about. They're not interested in any privacy awareness, that would only decrease the "engagement" and thus makes no sense to them.
Cool concept, but even using Zapier, I can't find any of the things I'd actually like to be notified about.

To provide a couple easy examples, I want notifications for time-wasting sites like reddit and facebook so that I spend less time visiting those sites to check for notifications. In the case of facebook, I want to know about anything that triggers a notification, or about incoming messages. On reddit, I want to be notified about a comment reply, PM, mod mail or new modqueue item.
We've been hearing this a lot from speaking to people. Right now, it's a bit difficult as we're just using Zoopla's API (http://developer.zoopla.com/) for the listings. To try and minimise the problem, by default we're showing property listings by Most Recently Published.
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Hah, I used to use that trick, until TV's started prefetching colour-key pages. Pah.
The prior art is also an Apple patent. The judge found that there was no "inventive step" between the prior patent and the new one. That doesn't mean Apple didn't "do its own thing", just that its incremental improvement was not worthy of a new patent.
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I suppose you'd get rate limited.
The email I used for facebook is facebook@mydomain.com. I have gotten several credit score emails sent to it... This started happening after I had deactivated my account. I never used apps that much, though I did sign up for them occasionally.

I have never noticed this with any of my other unique emails, just the facebook one.
Timely for me.
At my workplace, we are migrating to git and the devs would like to use github, but management is expressing reluctance to either rely on an external host or fork out for github enterprise, despite our arguments.

I was already planning on installing gitlab this week to try it out.
Anyone here got any advice or suggestions on using it as a Github replacement for a small team?
It's astonishing that they persist with the robotic language in their clarification. Something tantamount to "We fucked up, sorry, dude" would help them so much more.

I guess it just reflects their attitude towards customers.
What is so wrong with X? I understand that it is a mess and the developers have to work hard to add new features to it. But as a user of X I virtually have no problems.

For the future Wayland might be the correct way forward but I do not see any short term gain for the users.
Sorry that's what I meant. It should be "crowd source tax evasion detection" :-)
Yes it does but it's not great at displaying them. They don't scale brilliantly on the eInk screen so you tend to want to zoom and pan which is clunky to say the least.

From my perspective I'd look at an iPad or Android tablet for PDFs for this sort of thing - it's really not the Kindle's strong suit.

In terms of moving stuff over - yep, you can just mount it as a drive and copy stuff across, or use one of several readily available tools for managing content (I use Caliber on the Mac, not sure if it's available for Linux).
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It does. PDF is not the best format though, as it has rigid formatting which makes it unpractical on a small screen. You can convert it to mobi with a program like Calibre though, which is much better (for text at least).

And I don't know if you can use your kindle at all without an Amazon account.
This would dramatically lower the conversion for developers, and unhappy developers make facebook unhappy. Facebook could make it way more obvious if they wanted to, but they just try to balance how much they screw users vs how much they screw developers.
It's a standard "big-corp" thing. I can understand why they'd avoid saying why a credit card transaction was rejected, but they're missing an opportunity to remind the world that their corporation is actually made up of humans.
Ask HN: Dropbox security bug?
I had always thought that my Dropbox shared folders required an invitation, to see the files, or at least I could copy the invitation link and send it directly to someone, who would then have to register to see the folder and files.

But no, apparently if I send a link to a folder ("Copy link to this folder"), they can go straight in and download anything they like without having to register at all. I'm not talking about the files in the Public folder which I never use. It's a private folder.

This couldn't be more clear from the Web site dox:

"Other Dropbox users can't see your private files in Dropbox unless you deliberately invite them or put them in your Public folder. Everything in your Public folder is, by definition, accessible to anyone."

If they get hold of the link they don't have to be deliberately invited. Try it and let me know.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hp1cxs474rm5fpn/PadV8OneIS

I tried this link from another user on a clean browser on my Mac, and it allowed me straight in. Now, I know I have DropBox running on my user, but surely it should still prevent me from seeing these files if I hadn't registered. I haven't had the opportunity to try it on someone else's machine yet - hence this post...

If this is the case then my folder is not secure, and worse I don't have any idea who has access to it.

Maybe I'm missing something, maybe it performs "as designed", but I don't like this - and I don't think its clear for the user either.
Monopoly. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hp1cxs474rm5fpn/PadV8OneIS
Type "buy email lists" into Google and pick any ad. Even Salesforce appears to be selling 30 million e-mails.
not a blogspam... this has the main factual information

and... link hosted is the hub of different topic blogs... that's also my blog specific on tech-issues-faced-resolved
I don't see 139 when I navigate the mincraftforum.net directly, but when you have 8 ad units on a page, plus site analytics and a sharing toolbar or two the 37 that I see is about what i'd expect.

One thing that could be happening to drive the number up in some cases is identity synchronization between advertising providers. Vendors like BlueKai share profile data about you (sites visited etc) by calling out to the domains of other partners, who redirect back with an ID appended (or vice versa). This ID match then enables out-of-band profile sync.

Best spot to do this is these sites who go for ad overkill.
never fix a working system right?
So moral of the story? Make sure you have a blog with significant readership if you want good customer service?
The odd thing is that with it's physical world stuff, Amazon has, at least in my experience, always been great when it comes to customer service.

I'm sure with any business that size there will be people who say otherwise but I can't say that I've heard anyone bad mouthing their customer service which given how many people use them and how much is pretty remarkable.

Long way of saying - I don't think Amazon have a culture which discourages good customer service, I think that they have a problem in this specific area.
Having read the article, I'm still not really sure what a 'Hosted App Platforms' actually is, or how it solves the problems listed.

I wonder if a better solution is something like Yahoo Pipes [1].

[1] http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/
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Joke for the British readers: this brings a whole new meaning to "pull request".
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If you're self-employed and even if you are able to make the same wage for 10 years, and pay taxes, you get zilch. Makes no sense to me.

By the way, the max is 73 and 63 weeks (was 99)

http://jobsearch.about.com/od/unemployment/a/unempextension....
Because contacting customer service worked so great the first three times...
I haven't used Gitlab, but Gitorious has their source code completely open as well, and it is fairly simple to get set up and running!
Corruption in Italy? I can't imagine.
I agree that some more references are in order. As it is now, all this post does is spread rumors. At least the lawsuit happened but it's hard to tell about the rest from the information we're given.
If your books have no DRM, how will DRM screw you over? Isn't that the point of this posting?
This is not a Windows blog, it's a Skype one. I find it entirely plausible that someone on their web team has been sold on resizing to 50% in the browser, which is one suggested way to engage Apple's spare pixels.

edit: Also, even if it were a Microsoft blog, I still wouldn't consider it an impossibility. There are devices running Windows Phone with Retina-comparable pixel densities, so Microsoft must have considered taking advantage of the super-resolution capabilities in a compatible manner. I don't know if they have done so, but it would be silly if they didn't use any of that spare hardware capability.
Yep, I can see two folders in there and your 26.76MB PDF file. Also lets me delve into the subfolders.

I always wondered about this as well. Surely if you share the URL with someone, they could reshare it and as you say you then don't know who has access.
I bought a second hand Kindle DX to read PDF's. I installed Duokan on it, which a 3rd party OS that has much better PDF handling and allows dual booting with Kindle OS. It also supports epub format.

It is very easy to use Kindle without an Amazon account as there are all sorts of tools to allow you to do pretty much anything you want on your Kindle.

AFAIK you can install Duokan on every Kindle version.
You are definitely not the only one one ... I too am using Gitorious, but I would definitely agree with messy and having looked at alternatives.
I am able to view your files. Did you contact Dropbox and check with them?
It's not that scary.

The thing is a lot of people exaggerate the effects of marijuana to being this wholly disorienting experience. In truth, it just makes everything seem hilarious and almost every food combination a scientific discovery. Moreover, unlike alcohol where you feel empowered (i.e. go out and drive), it more or less gives you a "not right now" feeling and you stay put.

That being said, there will always be unintelligent misinformed people who take it too far. Don't let it frighten you.
One issue is that many services deprecate API endpoints over time. For example - https://github.com/blog/1160-github-api-v2-end-of-life
According to the link the data was collected through an app. This is not Facebook's fault, this is the developer being an idiot, because Facebook TOS are very clear when it comes to data; the developer is in big trouble if found.
Let's add that to the list: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3658860
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I wonder how they could have won the lawsuit...
http://www.dol.gov/elaws/esa/flsa/overtime/info.htm

"The FLSA requires that covered employees in the United States be paid at least the federal minimum wage for each hour they work and overtime pay at one and one-half the employee's regular rate of pay for all hours worked over 40 in a workweek."

For the FLSA section 13(a)(1) exemptions to apply, an employee generally must be paid on a salary basis of no less than $455 per week and perform certain types of work that:
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They mean Windows servers, not clients.
Here is one such Gem - https://github.com/c42/secure
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I was very sceptic then I saw the trailer.
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Big companies persist in corporate-speak even though everyone hates it. I never have understood why. They must think that it's the best way to go, somehow.
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Yes that's my point.

It seems to undermine the idea of security. I'd rather have that functionality limited in someway that makes it clear that you are making the folder "public" and no longer private.
Exactly; selling, say, 2000x$500 lifetime accounts with exponentially decreasing hardware costs is a significantly better deal than the equity you'd give up if you took $1m in VC as an early stage hosting startup.

The early adopters didn't just buy a product, they were essentially angel investors.

It's every bit as ridiculous as sending Ron Conway an email thanking him for his help but informing him that his equity has been "discontinued", since the investment was a long time ago and no longer convenient, but warmly offering him a refund for his portion of the round.
Github like any monopoly will come back to bite us. That is why I think we need an open source Github.

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 see this quite frequently among opensource projects, they try to make clones rather than making a better product.

TLDR: Think about how the UI should work in your application. Its different for everyone so don't blindly clone others.
This is the real cause of most cookie deletion. (EDIT: Many) browsers are configured by default for ~1000 cookies, and all these ad networks and data providers setting their own cookies quickly overrun that. It doesn't help that google Analytics sets separate (first party) cookies for each website you visit.

That 1000 cookie limit becomes a sort of FIFO, and that's why we always seem to get logged out at weird times for no reason.
Yea I've had the same problem looking in North London. Just ended going to every estate agent we could find. Some of the are pretty terrible though
I love the style and artwork, and if this was an iOS game I would definitely buy it.

But for me the problem of browser-based games is just that: they're browser-based, and the browser is just not the environment I like to play in.

I'm not familiar with what's involved in porting this to iOS but if you can, you should definitely consider it.
Oh yes, i read that now. I (kinda) apologize to the parent post.
The big deal, I think, is that it's scary for people who buy all their books on Amazon to realize that all those books can be taken away for no obvious reason, and with no recourse other than to make a public stink.
All O'Reilly ebooks are DRM-free.

http://shop.oreilly.com/category/ebooks.do
Are you referring to this comment of mine?

"So I had an idea the other day for a patent reform: property tax on patents.

As long as a company wants to keep the monopoly rights over a patented invention, they are taxed a percentage of the patent's market value each year. They can choose either to pay that tax or sell the patent to someone else.

The government would offer to buy any patent for its market value, using tax revenue gathered from other patents, in doing so putting the invention into the public domain.

This would discourage companies from building large 'defensive' patent portfolios, since they'd be expensive to maintain. It works for the 'lone inventor' scenario too, since the market value of a new, untried invention would be low.

Once a patent's value is proven by developing the patent, its value will rise. At some point, the benefit derived from the patent's monopoly rights will no longer be worth the cost, and the rational thing to do is sell the invention."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4558402
We're on an old install of gitosis at my shop, and also keeping an eye out for something to switch to. Gitlab certainly looks appealing, especially given its similarities with github. Having used Gitorious, are there any strengths or weaknesses you see in GitLab that would have either prevented you from using it or made you choose it over Gitorious were you to make the decision over again?
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Excuse my naïveté, but what could one use this list for? Aside from spam email blast?
Really? Amazon takes back paid for content, doesn't refund it, customer service is no help and stonewalls, and Amazon only fixes it after it gets a lot of press, and that's no big deal? What if it happened to you?
> I don't understand the problem. It's a customer service issue, not a front page news story. Amazon did the right thing here in the end and that's that. What's the big deal?

Don't act naive, [username removed, you deleted your comment].

Amazon did something bad which will affect lots of people.

What did they do wrong? Lack of clear intent; communication: they didn't explain why they did something wrong, they didn't express why that wrong thing happened, they didn't explain how they will prevent this happening again.
It's not a load issue. Disable HTTPS Everywhere.
This is what any company with global brand recognition would say. Anything more would open them up to horrendous lawsuits, and anything less might cause more criticism. It's a well-crafted statement of fact with an invitation to solve issues through their customer service department—basically admitting they were in the wrong (but not too much), and that their policy has been clarified.

The robotic language is a legal necessity for corporations and it does not reflect on their attitude towards customers in the least.
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Quite so. Or that you have a friend who can do that for you.
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"Further, one of those studies showed a 3.3x increase in crashes for high levels of THC-COOH in urine."

That is the equivalent of something like half a beer, maybe one full beer at the most. And even the authors say that this is probably an overestimate, and most likely a substantial one.

If you look at the actual double blind studies, many of them can't even tell the placebo arm from the trial arm in terms of total accident risk.
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I switched to Windows 8 because I wanted to familiarise myself with it for its eventual launch. It is my opinion that you cannot have a valid opinion on something (good or bad) unless you've given it a fair shot. I am running the RTM (retail) version released on MSDN/Technet+/Volume Licences/et al.

I've ran it for about a month and while Windows Explorer is a big step forwards, everything related to the "Modern" UI (Metro) is a big step backwards. The apps are poor, the finish is poor, and the intuition is non-existent.

The whole thing feels like an unfinished product. It is like they released it mid-production and thus ideas are only half baked. For just one example, the old-fashioned Control Panel is still used to configure 75%+ of the system but yet getting to it is now buried.

Originally I was going to recommend you get W8 if you had a touch device, but given how badly Modern UI is currently performing I am instead recommending getting either an iPad or an Android Tablet. Both of which will give a better user experience.

The biggest issue I would say is not the design/concepts but instead just how poorly they have been carried out, how rushed, and how messy.

Imagine for a second that Apple's development philosophy was 70% features and then 30% polish. Now imagine that Microsoft's previous development philosophy was 85% features and then 15% polish. Well on this same scale Windows 8 would be 99% features 1% polish (with a rounding error of 1%).
Bingo. Apple is essentially the world's most successful design company.

Because they've done it electronically, they've unfortunately been granted patents to design principles that are quite ancient. If this is allowed it sets a bad precedent.
I'd imagine you could scrape a million people's publicly available info, too.
You don§t have to show the URL. Those guys have to be banished, not advertised.
Not many have fortitude or resources to make it to the front page of HN, Wired etc. I can somehow relate (http://gnufied.org/2011/08/30/the-applecare-story/) how powerless an individual feels when faced with a large corporation offering no explanation or help at all. In the end Amazon corrected the mistake without offering any explanation makes it worse.
Seriously good article.I loved the lines: because it’s better to be an adaptive company than a well-recognized fossil.
Stakes are raised?

> If the scientific community is to be penalised for making predictions that turn out to be incorrect, or for not accurately predicting an event that subsequently occurs, then scientific endeavour will be restricted to certainties only and the benefits that are associated with findings from medicine to physics will be stalled."

May work as a fraud deterrent too. May.
It's the legal department. Each public statement has to be carefully evaluated for its potential to open up lawsuits or bad press. The neutral, robotic tone with ambiguous statements is absolutely required to protect them from the masses.
> By the way authors at best get ~10% commission for each book sale, rest goes to a publisher.

Not if they're self-sold, which on Amazon means they take 60-70%... and I'd imagine most authors feel 10% is better than your 0%.
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That's not exactly the idea. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect

Maybe a full society is getting used to the tests, or maybe the tests are biased.

Even with you example (considering repetitive test at the same time on 2 person from the same society), it could show many things: a) that the measurement is flawed b) that you should retest A to see if he also get better scores c) failing that, A has a fixed IQ score while B can improve d) if A improves too what's the limit?

Finally, "it's clear that subject A is superior intellectually " - even if B would get say 120 on its final test while A ends with 118??
Yeah, but even if they're DRM-free Amazon can still take them away - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4682392

Until they offer a cast-iron, legally-binding guarantee that any ebook I buy from them cannot be taken away from me, they don't get my money.

If I buy a book, it's my book: If the bookshop I bought it from takes it back, then that's theft.

As far as I'm concerned, the same holds true for ebooks. I buy it, it's mine. Period. Until Amazon agrees with me, I don't buy their ebooks. It's that simple.
How is Github a monopoly? Bitbucket, Google Code, and even junky old SourceForge are far from unpopular.
Unfortunately, Fossil's web-facing part is somewhat neglected. Up to the point, that the issue tracker for Fossil itself has been practically closed and the docs moved out of the wiki...

I still use it as a nice dvcs though, mainly for the single binary file installation.
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And the example : IBM, Amazon.
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> http://isitup.org/joyant.com

joyant.com is up. [...] ip of 208.91.197.128

Although the spelling was wrong, it clearly was having a few issues.
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