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I think the real story here is that he chose the 35% royalty rate over the 70% rate “because you can opt out of Kindle Lending.” I understand that some people view disabling that f…

More likely it was in the midst of the mass-deletion later referred to - deleting 6 years' worth of email could certainly make gmail sluggish.

Stating that this "seems like something Apple would consider" is a far cry from what this blog post does: take one data point's worth of design value from an existing design for on…

This seems useful, yet awfully much like another step on the slow path to legitimizing 'poor taste'. That's a bit harsh, so let me qualify it. I actually rather agree with the divi…

This is an 'enterprise-friendly' feature - the appearance of thorough security ("all our data is stored with AES-256 encryption") with only a nominal increase in actual security. J…

The story kind of smells. He harps on pitching it as an alternative to their flash-based player, but what was stopping him from using the same streams he's repackaged in iTunes (or…

1080p video with sound only recently improved from "FM radio" quality - what a strange combination.

I was surprised he didn't mention two-way contacts integration. I met a new person yesterday on G+ first, then in person; later that day he emailed me a doc and I was surprised to …

This might be very related, actually - Dropbox just sent out an email announcing downtime for a move to a different data center.

Wow. I was prepared to denounce this as a fake, mouthpiece for LulzSec made to look like a hacking challenge (for the lulz), etc. A facebook page like this[1] is so laughably over …

As usual, allow the smallest subset of functionality which still permits legitimate uses. In these cases they're relying on .htaccess files being allowed specific overrides - FileI…

Twitter's API does not only service native (smartphone) apps. xAuth is always abysmal security; OAuth provides in some cases some increased security.

Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2542370

Surprisingly good link. While we're discussing Heroku, does anyone have any deep[er] insights into the differences between Zookeeper and Doozer?

I was not at all suggesting the story was false; rather that Poulsen was further "interpreting" the story based on a prior "interpretation" by the New Statesman. [honest edit: I su…

Well, yes, that makes sense for a membership association like the Screen Actors Guild. Unfortunately, if Facebook wants to retain its real-name-only cachet, it simply can't afford …

Several people have already pointed out the tenuous situation between Kevin Poulsen and Wikileaks, so I won't retread old ground; that said, Poulsen is really just summarizing a pi…

But you can control the risk of exposure to keyloggers. You have zero control over risks to LastPass's infrastructure - which, as this blog post mentions, is a much juicier target …

All shortcomings of AV aside, as a Canadian who just watched a majority get in thanks to a combined 6,021 votes in some dozen marginal ridings, let me just say that I'm jealous of …

Interesting that this is essentially all stemming from yet again a communication failure from AWS. Once they have a post-mortem and can explain the multi-AZ issue, we may have a be…

You know, I really don't understand the rage around this case, or more specifically that it's supposedly all coming from people who otherwise love Dropbox. So let's examine what yo…

Dropbox has bandwidth limits on /Public URLs, particularly low for free accounts. This wholly circumvents that, and I suspect that's the real reason Arash asked for a takedown, not…

The piece is specifically positioned as a retort to a somewhat sensationalist O'Reilly piece, and in that context it's perhaps decent. But this headline alone on HN is at least as …

$6.50, not 30-40: http://us.blizzard.com/store/search.xml?q=authenticator - this omits the free apps for most smartphones. As far as peer support, honestly, there's almost no peer …

It's only retreading old ground if the resolution is public knowledge. As mentioned elsewhere in this topic, RIM has never given any info as to what the final result of all that pr…