skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not how it works. EC2 can't log in to your virts. S3 can't (trivially) read your unencrypted bits, and they certainly can't get to your ec2 dom0.
Everything is pretty well firewalled. There's no back door access. If service A uses service B they hit the same public API as every other customer. Beyond that AMZN is really three companies; Amazon.com (retail), AWS, & Amazon Digital (kindle/vod/etc).
That all said, you own your availability (and risk assessment etc).

Edit: " this stuff can't be audited effectively, we can only take amazon's word for it". Or a trusted third party. Go ask your aws sales rep about pci, fisma, etc.
Must be those Chinese hackers!
I wonder what the widest house is like? Perhaps the same house?
Give a shoot to my project then: https://github.com/riccardo-forina/django-admin-bootstrapped

The aim is to refresh the admin frontend without polluting it with extra python code.
IonMonkey, Retina support hit Firefox Beta
That was an awesome story, thanks.
whoops, yes. corrected. tx
in bootui we've tried to make some of the templates look totally non-bootstrapy. Of course custom bootstrap template requests are welcome! Do get in touch if you need something.
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> it's still just a feature that can become just as underused or overused as a star count.

I find star counts really useful. When you've got a huge amount of music it's hard to remember all the songs you like, and ratings (often in conjunction with other properties like genre) are useful way to filter the music.
If your servers were under constant attack, yes checking your servers every morning first thing could well be your routine.

You also assume he immediately recognised them. It could well have been someone one who later told him what he'd found.

Sloppy of the attackers to leave it in plain sight.
With out even the ability of backing up the files on the device how can we really agree with this point of view? If I buy a pulp book and my bookshelf breaks I can still pick up my books off the floor. If my e-reader for what ever reason stops working and I have to replace it then should the manufacturer have to claim responsibility for my losses?
Being pushed to entrepreneurship is very different from making business as a personal choice. If you can do business, start early. When you are old, you have almost no time to learn from mistakes.
The Rise Of Java Vulnerabilities
The Web Worker's Christmas Wishlist
How exactly do you lose an online account?
The problem with ebooks (as with software and other files) is, that they are simpy not physical goods. From the viewpoint of a consumer, a nice advantage of files is the essentially zero costs of replacement, so that I can resonably expect a vendor to replace a copy lost due to an accident. (Unlike with a physical book, where replacement costs actual money.) On the other hand, I have the means of production for an ebook. ( A computer, production of files means copying, just as producing a car means copying a prototype.) This means, I can actually compete with the vendor of an ebook, by pirating it. ( A car does not need DRM, because I would need a factory before I can start to pirate it.)

So I believe, that analogies like "glue the pages of a book shut" and "selling" are misleading. The much more interesting question is, what is a reasonable default licence for digital goods? Or to pose the question slightly differently, what can each side of a default licence agreement reasonable expect of each other?
Odobo Launches HTML5 Games Development Program for Regulated Gambling Industry
And if they vote for it, Democrats can be accused of being hypocritical when it comes to diversity. It's a no-lose situation for the GOP.
I respectfully disagree. I think the reason is pure greed.

Greed is a natural human feeling that usually comes from a basic survival instinct. That's why greed is deeply embedded in our society. Also, that's another reason why Vulcans are superior to humans.
To HTML5 or not to HTML5, that is the mobile question
Digital storage is far more unreliable ... when we'll have content that survived in digital form for thousands of years (or heck, I would be happy with 20 years), then we'll be able to compare apples to apples.

Also, even though I have a child at home, I never had a book that "broke" - as there's nothing that some glue can't fix. The only real danger for the preservation of books in physical form is fire.

> by centralizing many books to one physical object, you risk losing much more content as you lose that physical object

No, you got it wrong. The far bigger danger is that the eBook reader is a device running on integrated circuits and battery, which will break in only a couple of years and those B&N servers will not be online forever (I would be quite surprised if they are still online in 10 years), it's only a question of when that will happen.

And making this whole thing defective by disallowing people to backup their books however they want is the most evil and stupid thing I've ever seen. DRM is defective by design and no matter how much you try painting this crow, it's still a crow.
I disagree.

The thing that "unlimited" plans help you cope with are the sticker shock.

Oversubcribed services, such as data plans, count on someone not using their data that they're paying for. So if you use 200 MB of your 2GB plan, you paid for someone else's data.

If the carriers start charging per MB what they deem profitable, the user who doesn't use as much bandwidth will save money while the one who uses more will have to pay more.

I understand carriers need a certain guarantee on sales figures to continue investing in infrastructure/upgrades etc but there are other services that have worked great without this model.

Then you also have your QoS argument. Why should I pay the same amount for data if I have to put up with slow page loads on my smartphone because ten other people around me are streaming Netflix?

So basically, this is just marketing bullshit. To abstract away the real cost of the service so the sticker shock doesn't put you off.

Also, the pay in advance model urges you to use a service more, where as pay as you use model promotes need based usage. This will perhaps, to some degree, promote less 'wastage' for any service as well. Ever had to 'burn off' your cell phone minutes because, 'I've paid for it anyway.'

I know I would save a ton of money if they just charged me for what I used even if they raised their rates per unit for any given service.
Williams confirms Valtteri Bottas and Pastor Maldonado for 2013
Doing Reverse Image Search
Very nice work, I will look deep into it today :D
Apple wins patent rights to OS X 'widgets' and dashboard
This issue has nothing to do with DRM, and is simply the result of a system that requires an account to be in good standing (i.e. has a valid credit card) before any downloads can be made.

Obviously this is an issue that should be fixed, but there isn't even any evidence that any attempts were made to contact B&N - just someone encountering an error message in B&N's software.

I'm as against DRM as anyone else here but this is a non-story.
Totally agree with the visual indexing thing. I only just started reading a few technical ebooks since I didn't want to be lugging them all over the place– I never would've guessed how annoying the experience would be. For now I've gone entirely to PDFs because I can still index almost just as well, but more importantly I don't have to wear out the day just to print out the chapter and stick it in a binder.
They attackers didn't just cause downtime for his website. They stole his entire livelyhood and software creation.
Cool library, i'll deep into it today :)
I don't see how even deep and reasonable lack of sympathy for Twitter, and equally deep sympathy for PeopleBrowsr, has any bearing on Twitter's right to terminate a contract it has a clear right to terminate.

Unless Twitter is grossly misrepresenting the facts, PeopleBrowsr knew perfectly well what terms they were getting their access on. The contract expired 16 months ago and has been automatically renewed on a month-by-month basis, with a 30 days notice period. Twitter then gave notice.
Unless I am mistaken, that would/could be legally considered circumventing DRM, and would therefore be technically illegal despite fair use (which would permit you to photocopy the print book legally).
You forgot jet fuel. It's skyrocketing these days.
Switching to Linux Saves Munich Over â‚¬11 Million
The article gives a one-sided.

For example, while enumerating the similarities between the Scandinavian languages and English, it fails to enumerate differences (e.g. Scandinavian languages have suffixed articles while English, Old English and German have articles before words).

It gives us some examples, but fails to give a large picture (e.g. what is the share of Norse words in the N most frequent words).
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No reports of shootings, stabbings or violent crime for 24 hours in New York
Google Returning Month Of December To Nexus Devices With Android
Ask HN: What's the Catch - CheapSSLs looks like the real deal.  Really?
Every time you need to roll out a new SSL secured web server, it's always a game of "Search for the right combination of Brand Trust and Price and Compatibility and Speed" - http://www.cheapssls.com/index.php?dispatch=compare.all looks like they resell pretty much everything we want, at a price that you get to chose. But, my Radar goes up when something looks too good to be true - so, does anybody know what the catch is? The abundancy of cheap stock photography instantly makes me think "Scam!" - and the site itself feels slightly "off" - anybody use them?
They compare all of their certs here: http://www.cheapssls.com/index.php?dispatch=compare.type

Comodo, Geotrust, and Verisign. I'm still curious as to what the catch is.

[Edit: Okay - interesting. They provide "Low Assurance" Certs for cheap, and only Verify that you have control over the Domain. This is the first time I've ever been aware that Certs do anything BUT verify you own the domain. I"m guessing less than 0.1% of people verify more than that using their browser, so, in effect, it's the only purpose of a Cert]
So far their publication on the contested point in discussion here is the press release submitted here. The field of linguistics has peer-reviewed journals like any other science ... has authoritative secondary sources ... tertiary sources ... large scholarly community of people who have more specialized knowledge

This certainly gives a lot of fuel and authority to back people up to think they know what they're talking about. The truth is, nobody has a damn clue of how everything really went and trying to impress otherwise all degenerates to mere academic speculation.

The only thing of value such a field of study can produce is to connect a single observation or sets of observations that can be refined to something that's pragmatic and useful in actual world where life happens. If the researcher in the article were to be wrong by all academic angles but if what he thinks he has found turns out to have significance in how the English could learn Norwegian more easily or vice versa or how some similarities between English and some other language could be explained with that, then that's something constitutes undisputed value no matter what. If not, it simply doesn't, and any number of generations of academic prestige still doesn't make any difference.

People in science are often so confused about the importance of what's right and wrong, true and false while all they have is theories, and whereas they seem to be far better off whenever they simply follow the if-it-works-then-it-is principle.
>We look forward to seeing what you create, and we’re happy to answer your questions on Stack Overflow.

A little bit OT, but using Stack Overflow rather than their Google Group is kind of odd?
I didn't claim that they prevent discussion of it. They do not provide you with the full data they have stored on you if you ask. By redacting the data in such a way, they make a call on what they think people are allowed to retrieve from them and what not. This seems to be incompatible with EU privacy law.
What a beautiful thing to report. A significant reduction from 1990's six murders per day (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_New_York_City).
PayPal backs out of a transaction and locks your account after you try and pay steam with it. Steam say, hey, you didn't pay us, we're locking your account and you lose all your games that you've bought so far.
True story, happened to my brother. Took hours on the phone to sort out. Still never using paypal for anything like that again.
The most expensive resource for a cellular provider is RF spectrum. You use that up when you receive a call or text too, so it might actually make more sense to charge for both, but consumers are so used to only paying for outgoing calls that they don't care.
Yup this is just what I've been looking for. Since Google regularly gets one-minute bans, I'm constantly having to give up on a search and switch to another search engine.
The article is quite superficial, so not much unless you were clueless to the beginnings of reddit. That said, a lot of things are actually out of your control. You can't make everyone like the thing you want to work on and people often don't even know what they want to see next. Its not about doing projects just because they are fun and lucking out. These guys were actively trying to make a successful product and had to pivot from their original direction.
Comparing a VPS to S3 is apples/oranges. The redundancy/backups/scale S3 provides over a single VPS is very valuable to people. This argument is silly on a post about S3. Yes if you want a cheap webserver to dump things you can get that. You can also get an EC2 instance with plenty of space pretty cheap to just dump things as well.
That's sad. In Hong Kong, this house would sell for a lot and would most likely be legal.
I used to read Sciencedaily everyday but it's mostly unverified bullcrap reporting press release type of claims without criticism. They always report sensational discoveries but actually nothing every comes past the headlines in the actual world.
And this is how you miss out on the amazing things that can happen when one part of your organisation starts talking in an unscripted way to another part that it doesn't normally talk to.
Thank you! I had seen this here a couple weeks back but couldn't find it again!
It's good to be a mouse nowadays!
JavaScript Function Contexts and the Meaning of This
'Wreck-It Ralph' director shares behind the scene tidbits on Quora
You don't have any real control over that account. I can think of ways to lose an account and while not all of them are very likely, I wouldn't be surprised to see all of them happen in, say, the next five years or so if they haven't already happened:

The database could get corrupt or the data center burnt down and if the service provider hasn't a good backup strategy your account could be gone. The same goes for unauthorized access to the database or your account, it can be removed without your say so. Or the service provider is shut down by the government for whatever reason. Or worse, your country decides that the service provider may not operate in your country and that all accounts of people from your country should be removed and they comply. Or some governmental agency takes all the servers of your service provider and won't give them back (in one piece).
Does Drive still lack Delta Sync, where only deltas hit the wire? For me that is the biggest advantage of Dropbox.
Android Chrome Update Brings Stability and Performance Improvements
Disclaimer: I work for Uber.

Thought it might be worth mentioning that you can actually use Uber to hail a regular taxi in a bunch of cities, including SF, Boston, Chicago, and Toronto. You do have to pay a guaranteed tip (which incentivizes the taxi drivers to take Uber dispatches), but in return you get the same race-blind properties of Uber at regular cab rates. Plus no dealing with "broken" credit card terminals...

And yes, obviously there is still inherent socioeconomic filtering that happens when you ask someone to use an expensive smartphone to hail a cab, but the phones will get cheaper, the apps will get better, and hopefully the level of accountability in the transportation ecosystem will continue to increase over time.
The immigrants-voting-schtick ain't no conspiracy theory. It's simple demographics (~10million x ~70% ~= net +4 million votes for the Democrats). I'm pro-amnesty, but ignoring the obvious electoral effect and the partisan interests around it is just not thinking clearly.
You could say the same about IE6 users.
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This isn't the first Google technology they've done this for - they also do this for App Engine IIRC
They're too small to fulfil that role.
Chrome (and I believe Firefox too) has a TCP socket API, but it's only exposed to Chrome apps and extensions.
They're too small and there's not enough of them to fulfil that role. Additionally there aren't very many non-tech areas with yc-type programs for them.
3D printer on moon or Mars could make tools from local rocks
Reminded me of http://www.theonion.com/articles/nation-celebrates-full-week...
The Bookstore Strikes Back
The non-upgrade price is lower too unless I badly misremember how much Windows 7 went for.
A question from someone who has only done a timy bit of linguistics:

> 3) Some Scandinavian languages have V-to-T movement (where temporal adverbs occur before verbs); English lost that a long time ago.

Is this like "Nu ska jag gå" (in Swedish)? If so, I don't understand that English lost it because "Now I will walk" is a fine translation.
Google Maps autocomplete (as their other services) is context sensitive. This trumps anything else. Typos check is hard to do, since it must take in account aforementioned context, search history and huge diversity in geographic naming. For example, are you searching for Riga (capital of Latvia) or RGIA (Hyderabad Rajiv Gandhi International Airport)?
Is there a shower?
I would rather pay 1/5th the price of Amazon for all the other days when I am not on Oprah though.

Our current CDN provides for 4k per month what amazon would charge 18k for.

Yes, that 4k is on a 12 month contract that we had to negotiate. We are paying for about 4 times the bandwidth per month that we are actually consuming at the moment, but it's just so much cheaper overall and the bandwidth we don't consume each month rolls over to the next. (We plan to consume it all one day!)

I firmly believe that the vast majority of AWS customers are paying for flexibility that they are not actually using 99% of the time.
A new model for the musician-to-listener relationship
Congrats on launching your new company! Best of luck!
(Minor nit: the yield-based functions are generator functions, not iterators.)

This approach was also described by David Beazley at PyCon, the slides are available at http://www.dabeaz.com/generators/Generators.pdf. He extends this approach to generator
multiplexing, coroutines etc., along with useful examples. An excellent read.
I think that Louis CK really nailed down the way to distribute digital content. Few streams per key + a drm free download, that is up to you how to back up with no obligations after that for him.
Palestine's Bid to Statehood
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OP built an e-commerce platform that raised $1B in a matter of months. Top comment sells bingo card software to school teachers. Who is the authority again?
Using Trello as a Scrum sprint board
I'm not sure there's a difference in photocopying an entire book and doing the same to a DRM book. Do you know specifically that there is a difference?
Watsi wins Millenial Impact Challenge: Health & Wellness prize
While not the narrowest, this one in Hong Kong [0] makes really good use of space by being able to move everything around.

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg9qnWg9kak&t=1m39s
Text messages are piggy-backed onto status/control messages that would be sent regardless, and the slot length is fixed so a shorter / longer message does not change the bandwidth requirement at all.

This is the origin of the limited length of these messages.
> Despite a July spike in homicides, the city's murder rate is on target to hit its lowest point since 1960.

> Just a few months ago, residents were living through what one tabloid newspaper called the "summer of blood".

And so we see a major problem with news sources.
I mostly use a trackpad. I interact with what I'm reading by two finger scrolling and tap-tap-drag highlighting.
You can always write this in IE.

filter: Blur(pixelradius=2);
Finding influential users of an online health community
> the problem with this argument is that there is not an unlimited capacity for telcos to transmit these messages.

No, the problem is that there is a fixed amount of bandwidth to each phone used for status messages anyway so even if you wanted to get unlimited capacity to a device you could not. It's not as if these text messages are sent in a stream of their own, they simply ride along on slots already allocated to your device.

From a telco perspective they're 100% free.
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Object Graveyards
Couple months old but a great article I didn't see here. The highlight for me:

"What the smartest innovators and smartest marketers I know have in common is not asking a lot of questions but making sure the most important questions get asked and answered."
Markup, style, and code in one language.
What do you mean by "won't be directly"? It seems like you're implying they're not making money today, which they most certainly are. They do have a revenue stream. Several, really, between promoted tweets, promoted accounts, and the firehose.
Good luck talking a military customer into hosting their data in some "cloud" somewhere. Pretty sure banks and other industries will also feel that way. The market there is to deliver and support a small cloud infrastructure they can host and use themselves on their closed network.

So instead of building 1 cloud storage service, you need to effectively build a cloud storage factory, so you can deploy N cloud storage services on demand.

At that point you also potentially deliver a product (a rack of hardware) not just a pure service.
A looming price increase should help convert reservations into sales, swiftly, while simultaneous rewarding early adopters. I wonder how much of an increase it is, and how long before it drops back?
IE7 got rid of DirectAnimation, which is basically DirectX in IE, since IE4.

And now there's WebGL.

And other features like

- DirectMusic (MIDI support)

- VRML (which is basically SVG)

- dHTML+TIME (animiation support)

- page transition effects

- render doc/ppt/xls in html

- .htc as web components
Are you aware that your argument also supports eugenics, sterlization of geneticaly sick people, etc?

I'd say that burden isn't as much for the whole society, as for the family of each person and for that person. And it should be the decision of person (and maybe its family, but there's controversy there) if that person wants to live longer causing this burden.

I don't think state or science should decide on such things. And it's better to at least have a choice.
I've been doing this for about a year and a half now. I noticed my reading speed increased drastically along with this habit. I haven't done any actual measurements, but the speed difference is especially noticeable when I read from paper, or images of text.
Did you really have any illusions on this?
It's because IE combined versions has around 50% market share.