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by rajbot 13y ago
Hi, I work at IA. We know the UI has issues, but it probably isn't going to change anytime soon. However, we are building more APIs to let communities who use archive.org build their own front ends, and let IA handle the storage. Using
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by rajbot 13y ago
Here is a userscript that hides medium.com links in FireFox and Chrome: https://github.com/rajbot/remove_medium
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Show HN: hide medium.com links in FF and Chrome(github.com)
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by rajbot 14y ago
> Javascript ploting for the next set of graphs I need to produce for my research though is something I'm actually pondering about. It has the ability to be interactive which can be really helpful. If you haven't already, you should che
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by rajbot 14y ago
That title is a bit misleading.. On some platforms you can already use Firefox to do >2GB uploads, but there is still a 4GB limit.. If anyone wants to help beta-test a HTML5 uploader that calls archive.org's S3-like endpoint under the h
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by rajbot 14y ago
I've been dealing with browser-based large file uploads, which means dealing with lots of browser-specific issues. Fortunately, things are getting better, especially for the webkit-based browsers. Firefox still has some issues, and I check
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by rajbot 14y ago
Because I watched the video in the linked post. What do you think would have happened if she was white?
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by rajbot 14y ago
It would be racial profiling if you treated brown people speaking Farsi and white people speaking Farsi differently, right? So what do you think would happen to a white person who was speaking Farsi while shopping at an Apple store?
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by rajbot 14y ago
Here is a link that doesn't require a login: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Network...
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by rajbot 14y ago
`password` was leaked. See this comment about the format of hashes in the dump: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4073928
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by rajbot 14y ago
IOBridge is a similar product/platform that has been around for a while: http://iobridge.com/
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by rajbot 15y ago
And iChat's use of the speech bubbles for IM dates back to 1997: http://jens.mooseyard.com/2008/03/the-origin-of-the-ichat-ui... A very novel UI at the time.. here is a cached version of the broken pic: http://6.media.tumblr.com/MitMvSO0
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by rajbot 15y ago
There is a full screen button you can click. Here is a direct link to the full screen version, and arrow keys work for turning pages: https://www.eff.org/file/33930#page/1/mode/2up Direct link to pdf: https://www.eff.org/sites/default/fi
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by rajbot 15y ago
> do the creators of PHP really consider it to be "a language for beginners" ? Yes. Andi Gutmans, Zend co-founder and PHP developer says: “the right way to think about PHP is as Visual Basic for the Web.” http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/W
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by rajbot 15y ago
Are you trying to imply that by seeing an indie film, you are somehow not supporting artists and actors?
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by rajbot 15y ago
Additionally, you could also boycott all the products of SOPA backers such as the MPAA or RIAA. Unfortunately, every time I try to explain to my friends that I don't want to see a Pixar movie and would rather see a movie at an indie theater
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by rajbot 15y ago
I think virmundi is referring to the now-famous story of IBM using their huge patent arsenal to attack companies in the 1980s: 'An awkward silence ensued. The blue suits did not even confer among themselves. They just sat there, stonelike.
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by rajbot 15y ago
This is a non-production tablet that was on loan for Pixel Qi. Mary Lou Jepsen (Pixel Qi founder) spoke at our Books in Browsers conference a couple months ago. We borrowed it to test reading using the archive.org bookreader and took this p
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by rajbot 15y ago
Thanks! Our BookReader is open-source, if you would like to use it: https://github.com/openlibrary/bookreader
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by rajbot 15y ago
Rimu VPS back up after 12 hours.
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by rajbot 15y ago
Their Dallas datacenter's page is finally loading as well: http://www.colo4.com/ "Based on current progress the electricians expect to start powering the equipment on between 6:15 – 7:00pm Central" :(
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by rajbot 15y ago
They finally have their own page back up: http://rimuhosting.com/
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by rajbot 15y ago
He isn't hiring 8th graders. What is the Texas equivalent of UC Berkeley, Stanford, CalTech, and UCLA?
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by rajbot 16y ago
David Frost, while not American, has had a show on Al Jazeera English since 2006: http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/frostovertheworld/
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by rajbot 16y ago
There is a similar site for Nook lending: http://bookfriend.me/ Note that Amazon/B&N only let you lend out your books one time, which really limits the lending feature...
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by rajbot 16y ago
Do you remember how Microsoft snuck a Trojan into their IPR statement for the integer transform? Something along the lines of, "We agree to the standard royalty-free terms, as long as everyone else does ".. It didn't take long for everyone
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by rajbot 16y ago
There are two different kinds of royalties associated with H.264. One is the fee on each encoder or decoder, and the other is a per stream royalty. Although most of us are concerned with royalties on the codec, Google is more concerned ab
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by rajbot 16y ago
Dave Winer is the guy that famously ranted he would never support the new JSON Facebook API: "To Facebook the answer must be no"! Then he when everyone laughed at him, he silently edited his rant to appear a bit more sane [1].. It's not tha
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by rajbot 16y ago
From the comments of a MS employee on the Mini Microsoft blog [1]: > A billion dollars wasted on Kin, 500 phones sold and a huge amount of ground lost in the mobile space. Two million dollars per user?? [1]: http://minimsft.blogspot.co
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by rajbot 16y ago
How can a journalist, who writes a piece about the iPhone 4G proto and then spends half his article praising "good hard reporting", get the name of the product wrong? s/G4/4G/

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