skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've owned every model of the Kindle (minus the comically large DX) - it's been fun to watch them iterate and refine this device. It really is a great product and the price point is always within my "insta-splurge" budget. I read roughly 10-20 books a year on the Kindle.

The Kindle Voyager fixes the biggest complaint I have with the Paperwhite: page turning via touching the screen is worse than the physical buttons on older-gen Kindles. And the auto-brightness sensor means there is one less thing for me to fiddle with. Higher DPI and thinner (flush bezel looks sexy!) are just icing on the cake.

It's kind of hard to explain why I love the Kindle so much - and why I've owned every model - but something just feels right to me about reading with it. It's modern but familiar and so much more convenient for me (click Buy Now on amazon.com and the book is loaded by the time I walk over to pick it up from the shelf).

FYI: I always buy the models "With special offers" (ads shown on the lock screen - but usually Amazon does a free giftcard offer during the first few weeks so free $$) and "WiFi" (I've rarely used the 3G - and you can always just tether to most phones nowadays anyway).
I find it amusing that this is being served on an unencrypted unauthenticated page. There is no HTTPS redirect or HSTS header.
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Further clarification on the meaning of "public" in this context:

Stuyvesant accepts less than 3% of applicants, making it about three times more exclusive than any Ivy, Stanford or MIT. The average SAT score is roughly in line with that of the accepted student bodies of top-ten schools — in effect, Harvard could close its eyes and accept 100% of Stuy applicants and do as well or better than with its normal applicant pool, at least with respect to standardized tests.

Stuy is not typically what you think of when you think of a "public" school.
interesting idea but what others dont seem to talk about is the ui, small changes could give you big improvements i think.
like the if you hoover outside of the original grid then it changes to the poster under it and not only if you leave the closeup box which has a lot of empty space.
No, users have no idea how many or what kind of ads are going to be on a website before they get there, and some content has ads, others don't. Just a few examples are pre-roll ads on YouTube videos (some have them, some don't, it's not a choice), news articles with ads mid-paragraph, or sliced up into slideshows with ads to continue consuming or receive any content.
You may not personally understand how insidious ads can be, but 450 Hacker News readers do. I didn't even cover the issues with tracking, privacy and potential malware.
What's the tradeoff you make when using UDT over TCP?
Tim Cook has been uncharacteristically (well, for Apple, not for himself) direct in stating that Google is their top competitor and making implicit jabs at their business model.

On the other hand, what this also says (to people who like awesome cloud services) is :: "Unfortunately this also means that our predictive keyboard, Siri, and other predictive services will never be that good."
I think what strikes me the most about the new privacy policy* (and the associated mini-site) is just how /readable/ it is. No legalese. No 50 pages of undecipherable jargon. It's plain text an Apple clearly /wants/ you to read it and understand what their privacy policy is and privacy practices are. Yes, there's still the questions about PRISM etc and the NSA, but in terms of everyday use of their products, what they share with 3rd parties, and their law enforcement policies - I find the language very refreshing.

*https://www.apple.com/privacy/privacy-policy/
PBS aired a fascinating documentary earlier this year about an orangutan that was taught sign language in the 70s by being raised on a college campus as a "human child", explores both the personal side and ethical issues. I was surprised I had never heard of him, and even more surprised to find that he now lives at the zoo a few miles from my house. I had no idea.

Video here, I'm not sure if this plays outside the US:
http://video.pbs.org/video/2365286726/
I think a lot of it was social engineering and bad passwords. If you are using multiple services and one is compromised you can pretty much give up access to everything if you use the same password all around.
I couldn't find anything that describes whether Apple can access your iCloud data in response to a law enforcement request. (I.e., whether it's encrypted in situ.) Does anyone know?
Making symbols is not that time consuming, and footprints are easy with IPC wizard in Altium. The footprints are sometimes tuned for your assembly flow anyway, so one size may not fit all.
Homomorphic encapsulates some of this, no?
Certainly functional crypto, c.f. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-45239-0...

And there will certainly be many more advances, but if/when functional crypto gets totally sorted out it will change everything.
> technically, it's not their choice, correct?

Technically, it very much is their choice to comply or not, if they are ever put in a position to do so.

The consequences of not complying are not up to them, but they can still not comply if they choose. (The consequences might be massive fines and/or jail time for execs, but it's still a choice)
The 2-year replacement guarantee on the kids edition is pretty amazing, and is going to sell a ton of tablets.
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Hadn't heard of them being turned down, but they were accepted for their new project, CodeCombat. (http://codecombat.com/)
* celebrity leak
* health integrations
* google has the opposite strategy
iPhone's full-disk hardware encryption is not active after the device has booted and has been unlocked for the first time. There's second layer of software encryption for important data, which includes now much more (but not everything) in iOS8.
Context is The Fappening incident.
Guesses based on known properties of the (well-known, high-exposure) targets.
Twenty years, only a few tears (2009)
The Octopress source was last updated a few days ago ...

https://github.com/imathis/octopress

Personally, I use Jekyll.
3D is not a gimmick, it's critical for me as I can pass a STEP file to the mechanical guy.
>It's kind of hard to explain why I love the Kindle so much

i feel the same way. I've never really loved any piece of tech the way i love my kindle(s). An iPad or a Phone is just a tool, but i've got a totally irrational emotional attachment to my kindle. It's kind of like the irrational emotional attachment proponents of paper books talk about when explaining why they could never buy an e-reader.
I think the more than competitive offer of amazon is not really surprising, thinking that they always reduce their own margin significantly to offer such awesome products. Well done, well done!

What I am wondering though is, why they post a picture instead of text on the website - not only for SEO. It results in everyday problems: eg I can't copy and paste the text and post it into skype to inform my dad about that. Yeah, sure, I could post the link, but this is what I consider as a really bad practice. Compare the beautifully crafted privacy statement of apple, even the text in the charts is "text". Just my 2 cents...
I bought a year's worth of fastmail I haven't set up yet. I should probably get going with that.
Homicide is a very small percentage of all crimes. I think it's obvious that our justice and penal systems have evolved to incarcerate the "unwanted," mainly people of color. They are both racist institutions that, especially in the last 60-70 years have been trying to "make up" for the advancements in the civil rights of minorities.

As far as what reforms are possible, how about releasing everyone who has committed victimless crimes (drugs, prostitution, etc.)? The "justice" system in this country has lost all credibility because such crimes are mainly used to target minorities and the poor. Treating inmates humanely would also help. Removing the profit incentives of prisons would go a long way towards this as well. Not sending people to jail because they can't pay $100 fine would also be a huge step. There are many things society can do to keep a lot of the "low-level" offenders from ever getting into prison and becoming hardened criminals. For most people, once they're in prison, it's too late.
eBooks all the way
fair point, when I say "really gets it" I mean this is a huge step forward in comparison to the vast majority of enterprise clients that mandate IE. He knows IE is broken and the extra money spent on supporting old versions of IE is better spent somewhere else.

In enterprise environments where most users don't even have admin rights on their machines you need to pick at least one browser that you know will be deployed across all machines in the entire organisation. They chose Chrome(the right choice IMHO). Especially given that people are moving away from using windows choosing something cross platform is a must.
My sense is that alot of companies are trying to get ahead of the curve on 3d printers. The major advance that will make 3d printers mass market items is probably going to be in the moddeling software, and the "model store" ecosystem. This makes the printers themselves largely commodities from the start, so if a company already has a couple of prototypes done to the point where they have a solid printer, they are ready to ride the wave of mass 3d printing.

Of course, this is assuming that someone solves the hardware problem, otherwise it is likely just a failed investment; but that just makes it a risky investment.
A Day in the Life of a Social Media Manager
Kvass does contain alcohol, just a lower amount.
Not necessarily. You could smoke one cigarette now, and you would be less healthy. But if you never smoked again, you would not have transitioned to unhealthy

The first term is relative, the second absolute. If the diet is overall healthy, it's possible it has some bad food. It's less healthy than if it didn't, but not unhealthy.
Interesting stuff. Who are the people you think might deserve it more?
Thanks for checking this out!

For those interested this app responds to phrases like,

"Chances, flip a coin" or

"Chances, roll a die."

I'm just starting with developing Windows Phone Apps and I would like your most honest feedback.
"Finally, I want to be absolutely clear that we have never worked with any government agency from any country to create a backdoor in any of our products or services. We have also never allowed access to our servers. And we never will."

The way this was worded is so plain and to the point, it's refreshing. I sincerely hope it's true! Great job on Apple and Tim Cook for laying it all out there.
I had the original Kindle Fire which worked nicely, but had a pretty poor screen. Now I have the 7" Kindle Fire HDX which has been fantastic with a beautiful screen, except a few days ago I noticed a yellow blur irregularity in the top right corner, like a little streak stain that turns things a little bit yellow. I don't know, if Amazon Video were available on a real Android tablet I'd get that, but until then I'm using these Fire tablets.

Also, my opinion on the kids version of the Kindle Fire is don't get it. Get an iPad. The iPad ecosystem is so much better for kids. There are so many great learning apps, there is no question unless the price is really a deal killer that you should get an iPad for a child. Very few of these children apps are available on Android tablets, much less the Amazon app store. I say this as someone who owns a Galaxy S5 and loves Android. These products are great, but sometimes even frustrating for adults so for kids they are not so usable and have a poor choice of apps.
Fortunately, it's not a secret message.
He talked to Charlie Rose about this 2 days ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmm5faI_mLo
I've done some of this book. It's good, but you're better off knowing the basics before trying to really learn from it I think. I only knew a little C when I started, so I only got about 4 or 5 chapters after much googling before I drowned.

Learn some ASM and get familiar with gdb before attempting
Apple will provide iCloud data in response to search warrants. Horse's mouth: https://www.apple.com/legal/more-resources/law-enforcement/
well, seeing that every time i enter my own address into google maps, i am first given a result in another state and have to manually type the zip code (and i do have cookies enabled) i don't think they have much to worry about yet....
Second this.

Also: HN link bait rate is increasing exponentially.
That's assuming you can't clone it, and try on 1000 devices at the same time, correct?
Oddly, from my end the kids version is ridiculously compelling. Especially if it really has a "no questions asked" replacement policy.

Of course, our non eink kindles spend the majority of their time in freetime for the kids. With "unlimited," I have a hard time warming up to any other offering.
> In the first six months of 2014, we received 250 or fewer [national security requests from the US government]. Though we would like to be more specific, by law this is the most precise information we are currently allowed to disclose.

http://www.apple.com/privacy/government-information-requests...
This is getting weird. (Background interview with Charlie Rose http://youtu.be/Bmm5faI_mLo?t=35s)

I dont understand:

> Finally, I want to be absolutely clear that we have never worked with any government agency from any country to create a backdoor in any of our products or services. We have also never allowed access to our servers. And we never will

Either he's hiding the fact that they'll provide what data they have (timings, ip addresses, contact metadata) when the warrant comes, he doesn't think it's valuable to publicize the ways they cooperate with the government legally, or he is actually thinks Apple will break the law when the lawful requests come in.

Second, he doesn't address exactly how everyone lost their data in the nude celebrity thing. A straigtforward answer would address the elephant in the room, and give us facts to think about, what we need to look out for, and how their recent moves address the vulnerabilities. Right now all we have is informed guess work and inferences from (admittedly great) detectives like https://twitter.com/nikcub Still different than hearing it from people with the facts.
Aspartame is essentially just a collection of amino acids, so it's even more feasible (in a total guessing hand-wavey way) that gut bacteria would be affected.
That program was not nearly as devious as the one discussed in the blog post. It made no efforts to stop us from using gdb, and the password encoding was never as reflective as xor-ing with the program bytecode.
But how do I know a MITM is not modifying this message to claim things Apple hadn't intended to say? :)
Project Nim was very similar except Nim was a chimpanzee.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1814836

Unfortunately, it doesn't really have a happy ending and brings up a lot of ethical issues.
My daughter has had an iPad available to her for 3 years now and she's never managed to break it, although we are careful with it. It's all about the apps. You can take a look in iTunes to see the many wonderful children apps, compare that with the Amazon App store before you decide. There's just no comparison in my opinion.
During the Charlie Rose interview, Tim Cook says that Google is a direct competitor. And that: "I think everyone has to ask: how do companies make their money. Follow the money."[1]

[1] http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/apple-ceo-tim-cook-on...
Honestly I have never really found a situation where I wanted to exactly (or even slightly) mean reduce by 10%. It is too specific of a definition to be truly useful.

I find it much more convenient, and useful, to have a word that means the current modern definition of decimate. Perhaps decimate is a poor choice to represent that, but honestly not every word has to sound or have roots that directly relate to the definition of the word. It is more important words are used, rather than languish or die in history books.
Yes I do. My user name is stkupprnc.
My main beef with Anki is the developer's unwillingness to open up the API. Card creation is currently a pretty unpleasant experience, but I can't currently build a browser extension without doing a lot of hacky bullshit because the the developer won't expose any public endpoints.
Ask HN: Why readability is ignored?
There are lots of researches on what is the ideal line length is but sites like wikipedia or HN still let the lines be too long.
I think of how qa will once again find some pedantic reason to delay a patch from going to production.
Is English your first language? I'm not asking out of disrespect. I'm genuinely curious. The grammar of headlines and titling is often confusing to several non-native speakers. Incomplete sentences and 'news speak' play a vital role in language. For starters, it isn't a mouthful.

http://esl.about.com/od/intermediatereading/a/newsheadlines....

If you want a complete sentence that's more aligned with the meaning and intent of the original headline, try the following. "[A|This] Middle-School Dropout [Codes|Coded|Is Coding] [A] Chat Program That Foils NSA Spying." The one you wrote has some subtle, imperative differences in meaning. Adding "[the ability of the]" is hypercorrective. And it's verbose. "NSA Spying" is appositive speech; it's perfectly normal and understood.
"We don’t build a profile based on your email content or web browsing habits to sell to advertisers. We don’t “monetize” the information you store on your iPhone or in iCloud. And we don’t read your email or your messages to get information to market to you."

I don't think this precludes Apple from ever building better predictive services. Tim Cook is specifically saying that Apple does not sell or give away your data to third-parties for advertising purposes. He is NOT saying that Apple would never ask permission to read your e-mail if it meant that they could offer a compelling Apple-created product and user experience as a result.

For example, with Apple Pay, Apple is technically using and storing my private information (my credit card data) to offer me a compelling service. They are not going to then figure out which credit card I own and/or how much I spend, and sell that info to banks so that they can target me with specific credit offers.
I'm impressed that they aren't hyping up the profiles stuff more. Especially the feature where you can link multiple accounts to it. Not that it is that big of a deal, but it is rather comical on what they think I want to read/watch nowdays.
You raise a good point: the post is just one anecdote. Yet, if you read the post, you have to admit it was thought-provoking. How to explain this contradiction?

The reason, I suspect, is that a survey may average out all the trends and observations about specific use cases for services. You start with colors, you end up with gray-brown.

Of course, billions of dollars in valuation are at stake. Facebook and Twitter among others were built very fast and are probably still open to disruption if they are not watching these trends. People are jumpy.
Apple was very clear in the 80s that IBM was their main competitor, and was very clear in the 90s that Microsoft was their main competitor: in both cases the competition was not just argued against, but ridiculed with unflattering characterizations (IBM as Big Brother and their users as peons, Microsoft's users as not just awkward but physically unattractive businessmen). Steve Jobs himself took shots at Android, including my "favorite": """You know, there’s a porn store for Android. You can download nothing but porn. You can download porn, your kids can download porn. That’s a place we don’t want to go – so we’re not going to go there."""... can you say more about how this is "uncharacteristic for Apple"? Is it just that the jabs are specifically at business models? If so I bet I can dig up some examples of that from the Mac vs. PC as series, if not from an earlier Steve Jobs iPhone keynote ;P.
This is awesome. Reading about his work and the subsequent work on FHE in general was one of my favorite "holy shit this is the future" moments. (And I don't have those moments hardly at all ... kind of silly. But I was giddy, and it was amazing, and so I was silly.)

It was also one of my foremost "I will never ever in my life be as smart as these guys" moments. Alas.
Really great to see a company acknowledging that privacy is a major concern.

It's also a great business decision, because privacy is one thing that Google will never be able to beat Apple on. They pretty much have no way to for them to respond if Apple starts running ads about privacy.
All your iCloud content is encrypted in transit and, in most cases, when stored (see below). If we use third-party vendors to store your data, we encrypt it and never give them the keys. Apple retains the encryption keys in our own data centers, so you can back up, sync, and share your iCloud data.

If I'm reading this correctly, it looks like most things are encrypted while on iCloud. Namely:

- Photost
- Documents
- Calendars
- Contacts
- iCloud Keychain
- Backup
- Bookmarks
- Reminders
- Find My iPhone
- Find My Friends

But these aren't encrypted on iCloud:

- Mail and Notes (Though they are encrypted in transit)

I would think this means that Apple is able to hand over Mail and Notes data sans encryption?

On another page it reads:
On devices running iOS 8, your personal data such as photos, messages (including attachments), email, contacts, call history, iTunes content, notes, and reminders is placed under the protection of your passcode. Unlike our competitors, Apple cannot bypass your passcode and therefore cannot access this data.

I read this to apply only to items stored on the device itself. Not on iCloud.

But I hope I'm reading this wrong, and Mail storage is indeed encrypted on iCloud.
I doubt he's hiding it; there is a whole page about their responses to government requests:

http://www.apple.com/privacy/government-information-requests...

He seems to be drawing a distinction between providing some information to the government in response to a request, vs. providing "access to our servers."
The broadcast isn't secret.

Maybe the fact that you received the broadcast should be.

Slowing down anyone who wants to build a massive database about you to identify your weaknesses, this is a good thing to do.

Edit:
I love being modded down by people who don't reply with evidence based argument, it's better than fake internet points to let you know you're onto something. /me waves to our visitors from the NSA.
So when the NSA's internal Top Secret slides say that Apple was added to the PRISM program as a "provider" in October 2012, that provides "Email, chat, videos, photos, stored data, VOIP, file transfers, video conferencing, logins, online social networking details" to the NSA, how then should we reconcile these statements?

Is the NSA lying in its internal slides to itself?

Is Tim Cook lying in his statement to the external world?

Is Tim Cook splitting hairs in some fashion? For instance, is he defining "backdoor" to mean "illegal backdoor", which therefore excludes everything done with the FBI/NSA under a veneer of legality?
We've only broken one. And, at the cost it wasn't a huge deal to replace it. Still, is a nice lure.

And I've never actually browsed the Amazon App store. I have flipped through all of the apps available in Freetime Unlimited. To say there are a lot of apps there would be understating it. Sure, many are probably not that good. On the flip side, none of them have in app purchases.

I am curious if there are any that truly aren't in both ecosystems.
Looks like it's open source [0]. If they have a clean API it might be doable without scraping.

[0] https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms
So does the last statement about never sharing data with a government agency serve as a sort of warrant canary? If they were served with a national security letter to hand over encryption keys for an entire service, wouldn't they have to remove that line?