skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're sitting at someone's computer you can do all sorts of stuff. Their calendar and email are probably already open. You can look at their photos. You can even listen to their music.

Update: I should add that this probably should be optional since it goes against a reasonable expectation. But considering it requires an "attacker" to have physical control of the computer, I don't find it super serious. Dropbox behaves the same way (though I guess you usually don't see anything else on the web that you can't on the desktop).
I own a Kindle Fire (not hd) and I downloaded a shit-ton of .mobi ebooks from ThePirateBay, I can read them just fine on the device.

Still, after this story broke I regret buying one. I hate companies that think they can remote control a device I purchased from them.
I think that you should. But I'm sure there are cases where this assumption would be wrong: )
Yes, of course. Thank you, fixed.
Alternatively, instead of an oversimplified bet, how about they draw up an SLA like normal companies would?

Congrats on the 100%, but how long have you been running? And have you been serving any heavyweight clients or fended off persistent attacks?
The OED confirms naivety is also an English word that's been around since at least the 1700s. I am not implying naïveté is wrong in English, just that there is a simpler option should you so choose.
Hi all,

I was writing this post yesterday before the AWS outage it seemed fitting to post this today.

This has taken quite a long time to put together, and is only the first part in a series. Eventually I hope to have a fully functioning base platform which others and myself can learn from.

I'd really welcome any feedback from those who do this professionally!
Not honoring all the lifetime plans at all. Those with lifetime accelerator plans were told they would get a refund, are not being picked up by Textdrive, and have since been denied the refund they were promised.
Thank you, that is very kind of you!
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Specifically, Computer World UK and Jeff Jarvis (currently of Buzz Machine but formerly of People, Entertainment Weekly, and the SF Examiner) got in touch with Amazon PR directly for a statement. There were likely more big publications contacting them for a statement that I didn't see. You can't write it off as "just some blogger" at that point. Someone needed to rectify it ASAP.
Previous discussion on HN: http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4629969
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> "Someone who can tolerate social gaming companies like Zynga..."

Welp, most of us on HN are out of the running! ;)

But in all seriousness, am I the only one that thinks this is just ridiculous? It would have been funny and one thing had it been a joke, but this just seems crazy to me. Maybe it's because I'm only 23 and I'm not that "desperate". Or maybe it's cause I'm very social and rarely have troubles finding dates or new people to meet, but I just can't imagine ever trying to get an actual date or make a real connection with someone from an absurd list of demands/requirements like this.

Plus, using github in this way just annoys me a bit. There are plenty of free dating sites out there (Okcupid, for example) where you could find mates that meet your "needs" or are compatible with you. Using github like this (again, if it was a joke, that would be one thing) just screams "I'm desperate" or "I want attention for using github to find a date." Github has drink-ups and meet-ups if you want to meet other people on there or similar to you, as well!
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Yes. It sucks to worry about your chargers when you're not going home for the night (trips or something more spontaneous).

Even for a 9-5 family lifestyle, charging every night is a
habit you have to learn and you need to keep chargers around
your night table.

Phones used to work like this (run for a week) before the
current smartphone craze. For other stuff you could have
a PDA that wouldn't leave you incommunicado if it ran out
of juice.
You came into a conversation where somebody had clearly just misread the page and didn't notice where it supported more hardware, and injected this bizarre guessing game of how hypothetical "regular" people could potentially use the phrase "Apple TV" to refer to any Apple hardware with a screen, and you're wondering why you're getting downvoted?
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Yes, while it's low-valued it's not much of a deterrent to big players which is a disadvantage (depending on how often small players realistically can afford to challenge the big players legally under current system).

But by defensive usage I mean then at least you know someone else isn't going to patent your key stuff.
And once you've got funding/get acquired, the patent could be declared as higher value (and additional fees paid/validation done), and then future litigation to anyone who infringed after that date could be for higher amount.
I actually did build an FB scraper about 2 years ago. If I'm remembering correctly, something like 1/2000 people have their e-mail address public. Name + URL is always available, but the e-mail is a bit more valuable.
One case could be that an ad agency allows customers to direct a subdomain to their servers (eg. ads.domain.com). A visitor doesn't know if the request is 'close' by or to some shady ad agency...
You really don't think the article getting published has anything to do with Amazon's about-face? I'm surprised. I usually assume that these kinds of stories do cause companies to change their behaviour in specific cases.

Why do you think otherwise?

Note: I love Amazon and agreed with your defending of them in the original post. I'm honestly surprised that it isn't obvious that the article influenced Amazon here.
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I know this is a subjective question but interested in HN view. I m more of a back end hacker. I do have a lot of interest in front end design including UI/UX but wanted to get your opinions on some of the good ones to look at. For example, I personally use freshbooks.com for my consulting and love their design/UI/UX.

Also, my second criteria is that these sites work ok with older browsers upto IE7. Freshbooks again does this well.
Hard drives use more power because they are usually turned on for use, while tape drives use less because they are usually turned off and not used?

Thanks for the insight, New Scientist.

The most interesting item in that story was the claim (probably incorrect, based on the article's overall sloppiness) that LTFS will be "comparable" in speed to hard drive access.
The story was also big on Reddit which has a large audience, and a few wrote a letter to Jeff Bezos. It is a speculation of course that Amazon had reversed their decision in response to negative PR, but I wouldn't yet call that speculation a conspiracy theory.
if it's helping notch make money, and its not degrading user experience, why exactly is it mad...?

if lots of cookies is a viable technique, the browser vendors will increase the cookie limit.

Then again, 640k of ram is enough for anyone.
This is perfect timing on their part, how many people are having their post-mortem meeting today and going back to their desk to look for options.
Usually you use a general computer to strip the DRM. On a Mac or PC you have a program masquerade as a client (like Kindle for PC) and then remove the DRM from the contents it get. MyTunes was for Itunes was like that in the past.
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As has been mentioned, you see this a lot in projects that are started by a small core group of programmers that have english as a second (or additional) language but are attemtping to develop to an international audience. It's open source though, so us native speakers are more than capable of helping them out.
Pretentious. Controlling. Possibly obsessive compulsive.
> and you're wondering why you're getting downvoted?

No, I'm not wondering that at all (where'd you get that idea?). I said very clearly that I understood, and was willing to stop the discussion as it's obviously unwelcome. Why keep hammering me on this?

Bizarre guessing game? I was making a single observation about terminology. Nevermind.
ty for this.
That TV show demand doesn't make sense (what if you want to watch a game?)

Also, would it have made to betabeat if it was posted by a guy, instead of a girl?
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Allow me to counter your anecdote. My 18-month-old Kindle Keyboard screen broke last month, while I was travelling in Russia. It hadn't been impacted or scratched, it just started to become unresponsive on about 40% of the surface and failed. I got offered 10% off a new kindle basic or kindle touch once I got home, despite the customer service rep admitting that a kindle should last longer than only 18 months.

I'm so annoyed about this that I am seriously considering buying a competitor's replacement instead.
GitHub should GPL their UI and compete on server execution.
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When's the last time a submission to HN got more than 1000 upvotes? When Steve Jobs died? I think the article's popularity (not just on HN, but HN's upvotes are a decent measure of how much an article will be re-shared) is most definitely a reason for this one person's problem being fixed.
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About a week or two weeks ago, in comments to an article I can't recall now, I saw a link to an amusing JS obfuscation sample that replaced JS variable names and methods with food names (fruit, banana, coffee, etc).

I can't find it now. Does anyone have a link?
We all have a list of demands/requirements (eg: non-smoker, likes dogs, will put up with my !@#$).

Not all people are as blunt about it as this women.

What's always funny about these lists is that they are only based on your previous experience and are not necessarily real predictors of future success.

If anything a good catch is someone who you want to be with despite the fact they don't score well on your list of requirements.

I've always thought OK Cupid had one of the more interesting matching algorithms because they ask the users questions to get an idea of them, and let people rank how important a match on specific questions are to them. eg: religion (or lack of) are very important to some people, and not as much to others.
Super cool to see the industry picking it up.
Curious: Did you find a boyfriend in the meantime?
It's worth noting that the user ID sync only needs to happen once per bidder in the real-time auction that determines which ads get served - once the bidder's user ID is linked to the auction provider's user ID, no more cookies need to get set.

A typical user who landed on this page as part of their normal everyday browsing wouldn't have nearly so many cookies written - because this site is being tested in isolation, it's a bit misleading.

This is probably why the parent here only saw 37 cookies, vs. the tester's 139.
Code: http://www.etsy.com/nyc-data-week/javascripts/viz.js
I assume you mean an empty repo (without any files) and not a bare repo? A bare repo has no working copy and is pushable, see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2199897/how-to-convert-a-...

I don't think the editor allows you to create new files.
Arithmetic is important, especially in applications. But I wouldn't say it forms the backbone of all mathematics. You can do symbolic calculations just fine without any actual numbers. And a number of fields don't even involve any numbers at all, not even in applications.
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I cant explain why, but this strikes me as quite sad. Not her, really. But the guys that go after her. From the list and her demands I cant imagine a relationship with her would be a happy one. But that is just my opinion tho. (Out of curiosity I counted quickly the requirements I would fulfill : 25, and all her bonus requirements except the access to the server bit. That just screams "paranoid" to me. Why would that be a requirement for a relationship?
The term was coined by former danish prime minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen. Hardly a libertarian.
Yes, they are related.

Math is also interactive, if you do it with a friend.
No, it wasn't.

I named my company in the same way Mr. Munroe named his webcomic: a four-letter domain available in .com, .net, and .org.
The patent is still being "prosecuted" by the USPTO. The actions aren't final on this patent yet.
The software acts like a first-time visitor with no set cookies and empty cache. I agree on the fact that once you're logged in, made a bid or whatever, the number of cookies written on each page load is substantially lower... :)
> No it doesn't. You reload DRM-stripped books on the device, as if it had never been bought from Amazon.

Yeah that's the issue...From what I can tell, Amazon differentiates between both and I imagine that would affect how its central database of highlights/bookmarkings keeps track of each individual book. I suppose this would affect you only if you were highlighting a DRM book and then stripped the DRM...which I guess is mostly an edge case.
When she says 1 hour of video games or at most only 30 minutes of TV, I'm sure she means on average. So 7 hr video games a week or 3.5 hr of TV a week.

I interpreted it as "someone who doesn't ignore me".

Rather ironic point given that she works at a game company.
Patents were supposed to protect the little guy from losing his large up-front research and development costs to the big established guys.

I always understood the purpose of patents was to provide incentive to bring trade secrets out into the documented open for the long-term benefit of society by having a great body of knowledge that anyone can use. So understanding of great inventions didn't disappear with the inventor. A short-term exclusivity on using the technology was the way to provide renumeration for being willing to share your discoveries with the public.

Rubber band scrolling is a cute, even useful, discovery, but it seems like it could be duplicated by just about anyone without any knowledge of what would otherwise be trade secrets. Is that worth documenting for future generations in this way given the high social costs of taking such documentation?
I'd watched some of that and was impressed they'd finally started trying to exploit the Apple TV for something. Maybe Apple will be moving towards additional streaming content, which is a good thing.
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I don't think it's a global problem; it's just asocial people who have little to none social/romantic experience, so they imagine their romantic life rather than living it.
Kids, vegetables, no tv and 'social gaming' ? Yeesh.

No sudo for you on Ammonite I'm afraid...
You could start Groupon clone right away (presuming you have the deals).
A lot of photos will be the same or very similar.
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For the record, she never mentions Zynga, only Gree and Mobage. The translator must have inserted Zynga since Gree and Mobage aren't very well known outside Japan. Also, later she mentions she works for one such company.
So basically, apple falls in latter. Right?
> "If anything a good catch is someone who you want to be with despite the fact they don't score well on your list of requirements."

I couldn't agree more. In any form, finding someone via a list of demands/requirements is such a close minded approach to finding someone to be happy with.
> Maybe it's because I'm only 23 and I'm not that "desperate".

It's because you're not a single Japanese woman living in Japan who's in her 30s. She's likely facing enormous pressure from her family and friends to get married.

In Japan, women's marriageability is often compared to Christmas cake - expired after 25.
The actual article has a table with more than the title submitted would suggest, it also includes playing music, lightweight content creation (probably micro blogging would be my guess), managing finances and all the other things that people routinely use a computer (or any format) for. The missing category was programming but since the "study" had 33 participants it's utterly useless anyway.

Their conclusion validates what is common knowledge, that tablets can pretty much do anytimg any other computer can and people use them for everything. I was a little surprised to see managing finances because my experience is that I have seen people do this with their phone and laptops but not tablets. The main reason I think is that the tablet goes places laptops wouldn't do as conveniently and (my friends at least) trust the cellula data privacy more than coffee shop wifi privacy.
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Have you ever tried scraping Facebook?
If tape is cheap enough, multiple tapes could store the same data in a different sequences, e.g. beginning at 0%, 25%, 50%, and 75% of the run length. Initial access could then be quicker, and predictive caching used for the remaining data on the tape.
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It's not a website owned or operated by notch, it's completely independent (or at least, it was when it was created). I think it's mad because it probably is degrading user experience, just not in exceedingly noticeable ways (i.e. sending 139 cookies for every request takes time, so each page load will take more time).
Ahh, okay. I was just going off the article information, I didn't realize that was just an "off base" translation.
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Why should they do that? For their sake or for yours?
At 23 you meet new people all the time. A decade later you barely ever do (in my experience), so you have to make an actual effort to meet people, especially to date them.

I don't know a lot about Japanese culture but here in the UK the 'jumping into bed with everyone just to see what works' phase seems to be over by her age (30). Or maybe it's just me...
> Maybe it's because I'm only 23 and I'm not that "desperate".

I'm 25 and I find this cute. That's assuming, of course, that the funny list of 'requirements' is mostly to spark discussion rather than actually weeding out people by following them to the letter.

"Sorry, you only meet 26 of the points, and that's counting your dubious credentials for the Peter Drucket one." -- Hopefully not.
"Hey, that project X from your Github is pretty neat. Did you consider using technology Y for Z in it?" -- Maybe.
I'm generally all for anything that involves government paying for college, but I don't think you're solving the problem in this case. The problem is that good engineers are expensive. Median base pay is what, about $90-100K? Which the patent office isn't willing to pay.

What you're saying is, de facto, that they should pay examiners more -- enough to be competitive with that -- in the form of student loan repayment. But then where does the money come from, and if it's available then why not reduce turnover by just paying examiners that much whether they have student loans or not?
If you look at the original post on GitHub, it's not a VPS, it's a home server. And of course she'll want to meet in person.
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That is true, perhaps it is more an issue of how it is articulated.

When I look at female profiles on dating websites, I see western women say vague things like "I want a caring guy with a good sense of humour who knows how to treat a lady".

Whereas from asian women I see things more like "Between ages X and Y , minimum salary Z , must enjoy A, B and C".

I'm sure some western women have similar requirements but perhaps it is just more taboo to articulate them.

Some of the stuff on here seems very specific though, but I guess some of it must be somewhat tongue in cheek.
Another positive for open source I'd say!
Well the counter example of that is the Raspberry Pi, it runs X11 poorly while having more capacity and much more performance than the 486 and original Pentium (which are '90's machines). I've been working with a 'Pandaboard' which is an OMAP 4460 system, and its challenged too.

So perhaps we have a different definition of 'is fine.' :-) Have you run X11 on an RpI ? did you think that was fine?
Yes that is correct, thanks!
I recently worked on some client code that interacts with the ReviewBoard API:

http://www.reviewboard.org/docs/manual/1.6/webapi/

I won't claim to be a REST expert by any means, but this API is one of the best examples of "Real REST" that I have worked with. Something that I found quite nice about it is that my client code didn't really have to know about URLs for the most part. If I remember right, it only had to know the URL for the root resource, after which all URLs were obtained from the previous response from the web service.
I've set up Gitlab at Northeastern University to explore it as an option for replacing our cgit install(s). I like the UI, but my only problem with it is that it doesn't support putting repos under a user namespace like Github does (with Gitlab, rails/rails and ali/rails can't exist on the same system). AFAIK there's no plan for Gitlab to support this, but it looks like Gitorious already does.
I will admit that I'm not super familiar with the Japanese culture. If that was the case, that would make sense. However, if that was also the case, don't you think she would be less strict on the requirements of finding a mate?
> Someone who will let me help them maintain their own server (Required)

Twitch.
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Google Drive saves your login credentials, or at least some sort of authentication token, otherwise you'd have to enter them every time at launch.

Naturally, anyone with access to your computer could use those to access your Google Account. Google just made it more convenient for you, the authorized user, to do so, by adding this feature. It does not reduce security in any way, as even without the option to log in to your account on the web, the authentication information for Google Drive will still be on your machine unless you want to log in every time.

Of course, they could use a special authorization token _just_ for Google Drive, but that's not how Google's services have ever worked.
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If the writer wanted to make Amazon pay for the wipe she has certainly achieved that with her post.

My Kindles hit Ebay a few hours ago. I'm out of the Amazon digital ecosystem.
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