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The default Adobe DRM implementation requires that you need an Adobe ID (i.e. an account with Adobe) to access the book. (DRM licences are against Adobe accounts)

The bigger players who use Adobe DRM (Like B&N) of course don't want this, so there are alternative schemes where you can use a token to represent the user that is not the Adobe ID.

In the B&N case, I believe that token is based on the credit card details.

You also only download the actual encrypted epub after the DRM licence has been applied. (The initial download is a small XML file which your Adobe RMSDK app uses to decide if you have access to the ebook)

ergo, no valid credit card, no valid account to unlock DRM, and get access to the actual content file.
I hate split keyboards so much! My left index must type Y and my right index must type B and they're always on the wrong side of the keyboard!!
So, I'm a bit confused. How is Reddit considered a success story by it's founders? Wasn't it sold off really early to Conde Nast? Didn't it only start to blast off into success-o-sphere like right after Digg started dying? Wasn't Conde Nast not providing resources to the team which, forced them to ask for donations (reddit gold) from the community to build more servers/hire? I mean, it all sounds like a big barrel of luck that it even survived.
My feelings towards Twitter have absolutely no bearing on their contract with PeopleBrowsr. Of this I'm aware.

They might want to consider PR though. But, to be honest, I think they have considered it, and their position is "we don't care what the neck-beards think about us anymore, @katyperry is trending!"

So I'm a neck-beard and I take offense to this. It's practically what they want.
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They spent their time populating the site by hand because ultimately they knew that's how their users would do it.

The accounts they used weren't fake, they were just the two guys building a site with a lot of test accounts.
From the second paragraph of my own blog post I linked above:

> I use a Typematrix EZR2030 for over a year

So I did kinda checked it out. :-) It's Much better than your average keyboard, though I agree with hailang about not needing it to enjoy a sane layout. In my experience, a sane layout is the second best thing you can do to improve comfort. The first best thing was touch typing itself (most importantly being able to not look at the keyboard at all), and the third was the actual keyboard. I didn't try advanced keyboards such as the Kinesis Contoured though, so they may be more important than I feel.
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Regarding the phonology, I'm not so sure they're that dissimilar.

As I understand it, English trickled down from the north of the British Isles. The further north you go in Britain, the more likely you are to hear some of the phonemes you would normally hear on the continent.

From my perspective, being a Yorkshireman, I find it easy to parse and understand the accents (and dialects, even though people say english doesn't have any dialects, which it clearly does) from all over the north of Britain that people below the danish line struggle with, such as thick Yorkshire accents, Geordie and Scottish. For me, that's English. All that stuff below the Danish line is wishy washy french.
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Disclaimer: I am not a security expert.

2fa is a great tool to have, but it is what it says it is - just a second factor. And if your password is weak, your GMail account is just as secure as your second factor is. What if your phone is stolen, and the adversary manages to get hold of your Google password? Having a second factor should not encourage you to use easy/weak passwords.

Also, regarding your quest for a more memorable password, there has been a huge debate about this, but your password can be strong and memorable at the same time. As this xkcd comic[1] explains, and further discussions on Security.Stackexchange[2] and MetaFilter[3], such long passwords such as "correct battery horse staples" are good (although a smaller key space - but you could increase that by substituting e with 3, 1 with ! etc, although this technique is common enough to be known by adversaries), and are about as strong as something like h@CK3RZ@(!@WP*

Personally, my passwords use the above technique, with a combination of pop-culture references and something about the account to which the password belongs, with a few special characters here and there. And since you say you only need to remember only the password to your Google account, it should be relatively easy to remember just one very complex password.

[1]: http://xkcd.com/936/

[2]: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/6095/xkcd-936-sh...

[3]: http://ask.metafilter.com/193052/Oh-Randall-you-do-confound-...
There are no immigrants on work visas. Illegal immigrants, by definition, don't have any visas and legal immigrants, the topic of the discussion, have an immigration visa which grants a lawful permanent resident status upon entering the country.

Diversity visa immigrants are definitely entitled to all the support and benefits. They are also not required to work to keep their status. I have not seen the DV statistics so I would be very happy if somebody corrected me here, but I imagine the unemployment among a bunch of random people who moved to a different country should be pretty high: it should be pretty hard to find a job in a different country without special skills. Often without even basic language skills.
I'm not claustrophobic, and I don't need much storage, but I sure as hell need my own private space to move in all four directions. Don't underestimate the psychological aspect. People don't like to live in "prisons."
Xbox Music is nice if you like the built in music+videos interface for browsing music, playlists, etc. Good selection, fairly easy to search for and download music. The only issue is that since I'm on a Mac, I have no way to listen to that music when I'm on my laptop.
The argument for unlimited is to remove marginal tension which is a barrier to increased usage. If everybody thinks "but won't that be expensive!?" before installing an app or watching a video or clicking a link, adoption growth slows down.

This is obviously directly in the interest of telcos - the more people signing up to "unlimited" dataplans, the better for them. Especially if they're light users. But it's also good for the rest of us, as it creates pressure to build out capacity.

Incidentally, I'm on a metered plan. My provider analyses my usage each month and advises me on the best "bundle" to get. One month, the recommendation was "none at all" - paying for my data metered would be cheaper than the cheapest bundle (I spend most of my time and data at home or in offices with wifi). This is GiffGaff (UK), highly recommended.
Surely Twitter is a content company enabled by tech? Their technology is easily replicated, the thing they have of value is the content.

Increasingly I think they're no more a tech company than say, Warner Brothers. Warners rely completely on tech for creating and distributing content but it's not ultimately what they produce which is of interest and / or value. Ditto Twitter.
I'd like to see these diagrams extended to coding languages. My touch typing is okay when writing, but I have to glance down to find any symbols and quickly lose my flow.

That's probably a big reason I like Python.
It's "Price per TB per Year" not GB.
As a Norwegian having lived in English-speaking countries for many years, I find the conclusion plausible, but the evidence lacking.

We do share a lot of the same rules for word order as English. There are, however, notable exceptions.

For instance, if the sentence starts with another word than the subject, then we swap subject and verb.

If we ask a question, then we start with the verb. Of course, this is done with 'to do' in English, and there's a nice, archaic sound to it if one simply place the verb first ("Went you to the store?").

In the sagas it is written that at some point earlier in history, the vikings and the inhabitants of Great Britain (the island) understood each other.

With all the wars, conquests and migrations done by people of a similar language, it is hardly strange that one cannot pinpoint exactly what English is. At the time, one may summarize the situation that the Norwegians and Danes were organized(1), as well as the Normans, whereas the inhabitants of Great Britain were less so. The language of power, the courts and records will disproportionately influence the common language.

1) Organized in the sense that they had picked up how to maintain power from the remnants of the Roman empire. Vikings used, among other things, to serve as the imperial guard of Constantinople.

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That's why I qualified it with "inane". :)

The usual frontpage hits are often so formulaic that the parodies write themselves.
You need to get an active channel with the network, which means to tell a cell that you want to talk to it, have it allocate resources for you, get the SMS and send an ACK.

It's true that if you already have a data channel active (e.g. you're talking to someone) then you piggy-back the SMS and ACK on it (with audible degradation in audio quality in 2g connections), but that isn't the case most of the time.
I'm not sure it's ever been tested (and potentially never will be as it's unlikely anyone would be taken to court over genuine backups I suspect).

Isn't this one of those areas which even if it is potentially technically illegal is likely to practically never be an issue?
Even when typography isn't bad I've always had a hard time tracking back to the next line both with text on paper and on screens. My most common use is to highlight one line at a time, although I sometimes highlight to save my place (arbitrary length selection) and sometimes to emphasize a concept out of a larger mess of text (context based selection length).

Usually I highlight from near the middle of one line to near the middle of the next line. If near the end of reading line N I highlight from the middle of line N+1 to the middle of line N+2, I can use the one highlight three times to help me track back: first I track back to the first line above the highlight (N+1), second I track back to the highlighted line (N+2), third I track back to the first line under the highlight (N+3).

Similarly highlighting multiple lines at a time it's easy to subconsciously remember which line of the selection to read next (first, second, third, ...) without having to visually track back, as long as the selection isn't very long (much like how it's harder to keep track of where you are in a longer paragraph).
I have used MongoDB as the main database for many small/mid-size web projects and found it to be very flexible compared to MySQL/Postgres:

- No manual database/user creation needed

- No manual table creation needed

- No schema migrations needed

- No nested relations needed, because typical web app data structures fit well as dictionaries/lists

- No extra caching layer needed because of previous point

So basically, your app is simpler, and when you give it to a co-developer who has MongoDB installed, he can just start using it. And when you develop further, you don't have to mess with the schema migrations either with co-workers or when deploying to the server.
How about if you held shares in a company that existed only to own Bitcoins?
Subscribed a long time ago. :)

But yeah, it's probably one of the best subreddits I subscribe to.
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THIS. I got a Das Keyboard with no markings just to finish learning touch-typing (I had done half a course at one point, so I sort of knew what to do..)

Speed is secondary to not breaking your focus/train of thought mid-sentence.
Do I miss the explanation how they created the diagrams? Would be cool do it for one self.
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If you can afford one, a Das Keyboard is the way to go. Alternatively, melt the lettering off your existing one. Once you start forcing yourself to recall the key locations, your brain will realise it already knows them.

From then on it's just a case of keeping your fingers on the home row :)
We're now up to ITunes 11 - is there a big difference between say ITunes 11 and ITunes 7 or 8. It always bugs me that I have to download the latest ITunes despite not really seeing a whole load of change. Maybe that's just me..
And here I am, still desperately waiting for the perfect speech to text converter that just removes need of having to type text entirely. I can see a future where programs are narrated.
Don't forget that most people want to raise children some day. Sure maybe some solution could be made to work for single people, but for anyone in a family, you need space.
The psychological aspect goes beyond simple claustrophobia. Having a space that is My Space with a door that I can close and be undisturbed is something a lot of people value (and the number one reason I'm considering leaving my nice apartment in the middle of town). An extension of that is that most people would prefer if their children slept in a different room from them after a certain age (tied for first place as to why I'm considering leaving my apartment).

Another aspect is being able to dedicate and optimize a space to some function. I have to completely clean up and put away any electronics project I'm working on each evening, since we have to eat breakfast on that table the next morning. The result is I do a lot less electronics since it's a hassle to take everything out and put it back each time.

Finally there is just simply something appealing about open space. I can't really put my finger on it, but there is something very attractive about a large empty room with just two comfortable chair, maybe a small table, and a large window with a view.
The difference is, my bookshelf space at home is something I can choose - the internal space on my locked down device is not - so to carry on buying new books, I have to remove old content. This is saying I cannot get my content back (content I PAID for) without a CC on file.

The real world analogy does not work here - as I can carry on storing the books I want, and am fully aware that when I choose to remove a book, then I no longer have it - the expectation with a digital purchase, is that they hold my virtual bookself. If they don't then they need to make that clear, and provide ways for me to take on that responsibility.
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Keep in mind that in Ruby, classes and modules are just ordinary objects that happens to be instances of the classes Class and Modules respectively.

So for all practical purposes, if you define a module it is not much different than if you define a class, and then instantiate a single object (it is slightly different in that your object will be an instance of your class rather than of the class Class).

Modules are namespaces for Ruby (and pretty much only differs from classes in that you can't create instances of modules)

What you describe above is done with modules:

module UserContentSpamChecker
def is_spam?(content)
...
end
end

class MyOther Class
include UserContentSpamChecker

def foo
is_spam?(content)
end
end

If you want to be able to alias it, you'd do it with a method:

module UserContentSpamChecker
def self.is_spam?(content) # note the "self." to define a method callable on the UserContentSpamChecker object itself (of class Module)
...
end
end

class MyOther Class
def spam_checker; UserContentSpamChecker; end

def foo
spam_checker.is_spam?(content)
end
end

(or you could do it with a class variable or class instance variable - example class variable:)

class MyOtherClass
@@spam_checker = UserContentSpamChecker

def foo
@@spam_checker.is_spam?(content)
end
end
I've been using them for the last 2/3 months and their platform is actually better than Sendgrid:
Good deliverability in Europe, and most importantly the Web interface doesn't suck.

Great service!
You can call it what you want but one thing is for sure. These prices demonstrate that the competition on the US telecom market is limited. In Denmark you only pay for out going sms (typically around 5 cent) and you can get a plan with unlimited sms, 7 hours of calls and 2 GB of data for 20 $ a month. This is because we have fierce competition on our telecom market as a result of the old monopoly company being forced by government to lease their network to upstarts at fair rates.
A tank's weight is proportional to volume, not surface area, assuming equal pressure and material strength.

Also, you often can't just simply stretch tanks - you need to increase thrust. Otherwise your payload drops because of lower T/W and more gravity losses in early flight.
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A better way to put it is that the syntax is neither. There was that whole Danelaw episode to mess up the grammar. Along with word borrowings (which are pretty much inevitable when an adult population--the Viking settlers--is forced into something of a pidgin situation with a related language), there is going to be some damage done to word order and endings/affixes. And since both Old English (or, rather, the Old Englishes--there were regional differences among the Angle-, Saxon- and Jute-dominated areas), a set of languages very much like Old Frisian, and Old Norse were card-carrying Germanic languages with grammatical gender, which is largely arbitrary and the gender assignments didn't align well with each other, grammar simplified. The characteristic German habit of postponing verbs under various circumstances (which also differed between languages) gave way to a more streamlined and generally more consistent SVO. Gender was pretty much abandoned for words that didn't denote things having an actual sex. (Afrikaans underwent a very similar simplification under very different circumstances.) Rather than speaking English words in a Norse grammatical framework, people were speaking a mixture of English and Norse words in a common framework, avoiding the difficult subtleties of either language. But I'd imagine that the children of those Norse settlers (who probably had native British mothers) thought in the hybrid and spoke neither parent's language perfectly.

Mainland Scandinavian languages have also simplified somewhat, but in the time since native Norse speakers had a direct influence on English. The Danes that occupied northern Great Britain spoke something that looks and sounds a lot more like Icelandic or Faroese than modern Danish, Swedish or Norwegian. To suggest that the simplification of grammar in mainland Scandinavia after the Norman invasion of Britain is the reason for English's current structure is to posit a sort of quantum entanglement between languages.

Correlation is not causation. I still hear mostly English (highly dialectical English, but English of England nonetheless) when I listen to recordings of modern Frisian. I hear something merely related to English when I listen to Scandinavian languages.
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> The only real danger for thhe preservation of books in physical form is fire.

Also water.
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Ask HN: Looking for Project for Quick Freelance Job
Long story short, I need to make a few thousand dollars ($3,500) in a week. I'd like to build anyone's project (or add on pieces to an existing project) over the next few days/week at the most. Upon emailing me I will send you my LinkedIn, FB, and resume. Pay when you see 50% of the project is done, and the final 50% on completion. Not looking to go through a recruiter and that process, too much time.

Skills: Web application development, mobile application development, and any kind of marketing online you can think of.

Specialities: PHP (CakePHP), MySQL, HTML/CSS, Javascript (jQuery), Python (Django), graphic design, UI/UX, titanium mobile sdk.

Email: invinceable667@gmail.com please I will keep an eye on it as soon as this is posted. I can build anything.
There isn't a ''real world'' analogy. This is a sale of goods and as such is governed (in the USA) by Article 3 of the Uniform Commercial Code. All sales, whether the goods are digital or not, carry an implied warranty of merchantability. This means that the product sold can be used under normal circumstances. Here, the buyer received nothing for his money. Do not be distracted by the digital world of downloads, DRM and software licenses, the UCC nevertheless applies. B&N has stores all over the country and is subject to small claims courts and perhaps even class actions. After a few lawsuits they will wake up and stop this practice.
> I believe this behavior has a lot to do with the mechanical act of clicking, the sound and feedback that for some reason feels good and ends up becoming a compulsion.

I'm a compulsive highlighter for most of the reasons people have described. I don't hear any sound when I click though, because I use a touchpad with no mouse buttons or clicking (tap to click, tap-tap-drag to highlight, two finger tap to right click, two finger scrolling).

Since I started reading a lot on a touch screen phone I've been frustrated by the lack of easy highlighting, and I compulsively scroll to track my place instead.
Good insights sir, thank you. :)
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If it is a 1 day project for $500-$800 that is fine too. Thanks.

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"Everybody was kung-fu typing |
Those cats were fast as lightning |
In fact it was a little bit frightning |
But they did it with expert timing..."
where did the -6 come from?
The bill presented is crap. That is a fact.
First suicide: 1gb of space on the Nook Tablet for user data.
Second suicide: This

B&N, RIP
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> As for Yours Truly, teenage peer pressure kept me from riding the touch typing train. Per the sexist suppositions of way-back-when, before computers went mainstream, keyboards were for secretaries, and secretaries were female. Dudes just didn’t do that kind of thing.

I took the hard way out. I took "Secretarial Office Procedures" in high school just to learn typing.
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That, and the fonts.
Does anyone else think it's odd that that link only records 600 murders in NYC in 2001? I would expect the number to be closer to 3,000.
Immigration is the single biggest way to increase human welfare. Almost every immigrant into the US experiences a massive increase in quality of life, earnings, and other metrics of success. It's far more effective than charity or foreign aid, and far cheaper.
Very good points d4nt,
1. The unmentionable (elephant in the room) to investment is that typical Investors tend to look for 10x payback, that orients all future business decisions. Getting outside capital has one value in my mind, enables capturing a market quickly that has the potential to scale up fast and has a high ceiling. I too am working on bootstrapping while in another job (In an Enterprise B2B play), I'm 55yrs, my first customer is in negotiation with me, a Fortune 50 company) and this is pre-product. My plan is to fund via Customer investment...
2. My network has also been great. Need to talk with 4-5 Fortune 50 companies? Found them in my LinkedIn network.
3. Totally agree here, life is more than work, as much as you may love it. Ryan Carsons Blogs is excellent, and he's a very balanced person and build a great company (http://ryancarson.com/about). Some great tips about work life balance and focus.
3. Energy is about passion, not physical endurance!!
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