skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are no upper boundaries when it comes to latency, but at some point your browser/whatever will start to resend the information, thinking it's lost. Typically you should have around 20-30ms within the same country, depending on peering and such.
Smartphone patent wars infographics
Sure, why should a hacked wordpress blog be treated any differently from any other site distributing malware?
I didn't mean to suggest that Linux kernel gotos were just arbitrary forward jumps. I know that they are used for error handling. That's the legitimate usage I was alluding to, I just wasn't specific about it.
Speaking as someone who graduated in May, I'm not sure you will find anyone at that price.
With their "cheap printers + expensive ink" model, one would assume they have enough experience to monetize WebOS.
Obama is my kind of war president
What subjects do the teachers you know teach, and where are they teaching?

After edit: The Americorps website is a mess, so I'm still looking around for information about where Americorps members might work as teachers.
"Worse" translates to "urban" or "rural" schools.

Think about what that means. (Hint: It's not a money issue)
Googles owns all your surfing.
You beat me! But this bit is fun: "Floyd sometimes wonder if the Newspad, and the fantastic technology behind it, was the last word in man's quest for perfect communications.... It was hard to imagine how the system could be improved or made more convenient. But sooner or later, Floyd guessed, it would pass away, to be replaced by something as unimaginable as the Newspad itself would have been to Caxton or Gutenberg."
** New Yamaha Bass Guitar site
See, I thought companies reduced (you can't stop) piracy of games by making their content so awesome that people wanted to pay for the game. Examples include Valve and Blizzard's lineaup.
I can't tell from that chart.. is that Megabits per second or Megabytes?
I remember more than a few comments here claiming FB wouldn't be able to add Google+ circle like functionality quickly.

I'm pretty impressed actually
can anybody explain how is Google able to do this or point to an explanation of it?
Facebook knew what they were doing. By letting anyone tag you it makes their ecosystem richer at the expense of the individual user.

FB routinely screws the user for the greater good of the ecosystem.
According to the very page you linked its maximum routing throughput is 631 Mbps which is respectable but hardly wire-speed.
A bit, not that much according to these numbers:
Finland:

Mid-2000s 2000 Mid-1990s 1990 Mid-1980s Mid-1970s
0.269 0.261 0.228 n/a 0.207 0.235

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a...

For a more comprehensive data set see:
http://www.lisdatacenter.org/data-access/key-figures/inequal...

If you happen to have access to an even more comprehensive data set, please share. I'm mainly interest on the Gini coefficient overtime and its relation with GDP or GDP per capita to answer questions like:
Did Sweden, Belgium, Austria, Norway, etc developed maintaining a low income equality?, Which country has significantly lowered its income equality over the last 50 or so years? Are they highly developed now?, Has there been highly unequal countries that were able to successfully reduce and become developed?
For this strategy to work, it has to fit into why the users love the brand. For instance, for Sneak King (the Burger King XBox game), the game fit in with what the brand's audience found cool and funny, and that was key to its success.
Facebook Just Killed Places
I think that the timing of this move makes a lot of sense. Redditgifts has always been awesome, but as more and more people started using it, the penchant for abuse grew higher.

By reddit taking over, and dedicating full-time attention to it, they can take steps to combat a lot of the fraud and general lameness and keep the experience awesome for everyone.

I know a few great redditors who were drawn in through the gift exchange. I've done it now twice, and will do it again, although I got shafted my 2nd time.
Well if all you have is 170 people then you're not sampling but testing the population.

I'd go with the A/B testing option just to get more experience with it. Having data at a low confidence interval is better than having no data at all. Maybe it's a wash maybe it's actually very important. Worst case is there is no overwhelming winner and you're back where you started.

Use the following link to determine the sample size you need.
http://www.surveysystem.com/sscalc.htm
It has been disappointing. I spent more time than I probably should have trying (and failing) to snag one. All of the scalpers will probably saturate the market though and when people realize that it is now a dead ecosystem, the aftermarket price might be acceptable to you.
I didn't notice that until just now! That is a naming blunder, but I reckon they were busy making an awesome product in a really short time.

It might be best to think of a completely new name. There are still good domain names available. It just takes some patience and creative thinking.
I think the point to take away from this is that the similarities in design between the iPhone/iPad and their competitors has a lot to do with the fact that really all they are is 1 big screen, and their current designs are the logical design for them. There's really not too much you can do to differentiate other than put your logo on it, change the buttons, change the back, make it bigger, make it square, and Samsung did all except the last one.

I won't doubt that their design job was made easier by the iPhones existence, but I don't think they set out to intentionally trick users into thinking it was an iPhone/iPad.
Megabits
"Small"-country standpoint. In the States, ping could be upwards of, or over 100. I imagine China has a similar issue.
Google Tests a "Double Scroll" Interface
I would honestly appreciate any sort of explanation as to the just massive amount of downvotes I received for this post. Obviously, pointing out the silence wasn't received well earlier and I fear it won't be better now.

My reply was relevant and accurate in the context of the article. Further, it's in the exact same vein as the highly popular now-top comment which didn't exist when I wrote this post. The only reply only points out that his email experience was poor in the past. It's obvious that Google wants to shift to one-on-one email support both in the article and the forum post.

So why did I get crapped on so badly?
Frankly I don't really see why the article focused on mobile games. The argument against in-game ads being distractions can be applied to advertising in general: billboards on the highway, commercials during tv shows, newspapers filled with page long ads, etc.

however kipp does sound like a good idea - but it might require heavy changes from developers to their game mechanics.
Construct 2 Lets You Build HTML5 Games Without Having to Code — SiliconFilter
Not quite sure Foursquare is in a better position now that Facebook is bowing out. Is it possible this means there's no market to be had?
10M in funding for an open hardware company - this is big news! Remember when people laughed at RedHat?
How would you store oil if you wanted to actually have possession of the asset? Barrels of oil in the basement seems pretty unreasonable.
The server is probably not a bottleneck; this test is actually quite slow compared to the Internet at the 'plex: http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2011/03/29/how-fast-is-the-...
Ah, I see. I don't think it's quite the same thing, though, because their previous opt-out problems have been when they actually create a new feature, make it public, and make you opt out to make it less public. This situation is, while not ideal, maintaining the status quo (relative to auto-tagging) but giving you extra controls to make some things less public.

Actually, I had thought you could opt out of auto-tagging (but you had to opt out of it), because I remember doing so. Can't find the control right now, though.
I guess I am late to the party, but I feel I must voice this opinion since Quartzy is listed. Also, comments on the original Quartzy submission are closed (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2744408).

Must've escaped my notice, being busy defending my doctoral thesis and all.

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Working in an exceptionally well-organized lab (in terms of ordering etc.) and still having iLab shoved down our collective throats (http://www.ilabsolutions.com/) here's what in my experience is the biggest barrier to adoption amongst all fancy-shmancy lab organizing/ordering e-solutions:

NONE of the systems allow for direct ordering from the vendor.

What I mean by that is the lab manager (or the person with appropriate authority) cannot just click "Place order" and have the item automatically ordered from the vendor's website. This makes all such solutions the most brain-dead, needlessly repetitive method of ordering lab goods. This completely defeats the very purpose of having such a system in place. How is this really any better than an excel spreadsheet? In my experience, this is the single biggest hurdle to adoption of such systems by many (better-organized) academic labs.

I will be way more than happy to talk with anyone from Quartzy to explain the above in more detail (I am ranting and may not be clear in articulating these things here). Therefore, please do feel free to contact me, a real-world user.

So what is needed?

Anyone who comes up with a method/system to connect direct ordering from within your e-solution software/portal to the outside vendor will win this competition. Now this may well be the proverbial can of worms. Each vendor website will have their own idiosyncrasies and will require serious effort to make things work, but if you can make it work, I guarantee you will be the chosen solution amongst the many out there.

Of course, having all vendors agree to a unified ordering API would be the ideal solution. You could come up with such a solution that may be licensed to multiple vendors (and supported by you), hopefully the vendors will also see value in using/supporting such an API (orders placed via your portal) and the entire system will be of mutual benefit to you, the vendor and most importantly, end users like me.

Fin.
Yup. Just to give the uninitiated some examples of things you have to watch out for:

1) don't do the modern day equivalent of an Enigma-style 'cillies', ie doing something that reduces the entropy of your key generator (not using the full range of possible values, not having a random distribution of values, etc)

2) Make sure that the decryption time does not vary with the number of correctly guessed bits of the key, ie don't stop a decryption attempt in the real system if you discover that the decryption must be wrong part way through.

3) Make sure that your randomly generated keys don't ever generate keys that create a degenerate crypto text

4) Make sure that you don't use a key for longer than it's cryptoperiod

that's just a small sample of the gotchas that can ping you. And in that list, I'm only worrying about plain decryption of the message, without worrying about 'minor' details such as identifying that a party is who they say they are, man-in-the-middle attacks, replay attacks (resending a recorded encrypted message later on, to open access to something), injecting messages into the communication and so on.
The 151mbs down might be a limitation of speedtest.net and not google's fiber.

Speedtest's minimum requirement for a test server is 100mbs.
As described in https://www.facebook.com/about/location, you will soon be able to "check-in" by attaching a location/venue and tagging the people you are with to any status update, whether it is text or a photo or a video - and you can now do it from your computer, rather than just from your smart phone.
How do you manage your private keys not getting into Javascript land & being POSTed out to an arbitrary site?
Ask HN: Should I join a company that raised Series C funding? 
The company raised about $30M total (15 million in Series C), but still haven't made it big yet. They been in business since 2008 but they are less know.

What is the chance of survival for a company that has already raised Series C funding but still hasn't made big yet?
The 20k figure is an approximate circumference of the Earth.
Slovenia gets transparent by revealing all government spending via Supervizor
Right... especially on the WAN port. Most cheap routers aren't expecting to have to route gigabit traffic, hence the initial question.
Gigabit FTTH is not technically difficult; it's just expensive to install. Google is supposed to be working on some secret sauce to make it cheaper, but they haven't revealed anything yet.
"Does God Play Dice?" — Thoughts on Determinism and Quantum Mechanics
I think they need to change names completely, not only do they not own codeacademy.com, but the name "Code Academy" appears to be trademark of codeacademy.org (which appears to be run by HN user "nealsales")
A week with a 30-Year-Old IBM 5150: browse the Web, edit photos, and tweet
I really like that idea, I am sure I am missing some important part that makes it not so easy to do. When you file a patent for invention like (dishwasher) you have to supply all the design drawings for the project. I do not see why they could not do that with software patents.
It's a chicken-and-egg problem, as if you spend some time on an undergraduate campus in the US, you'll notice that majority of those majoring in Education have deemed other, more profitable, majors as too hard.
Yeah, that was an early morning typo.
With the new location changes described at https://www.facebook.com/about/location (which will start rolling out soon), you can attach a location to any status update, and this means you can use the status update privacy controls to control who see where you are - for example, using a friend list to only share with a subset of your friends.
It's very possible to be able to see some representation of an API. They'd be virtually useless if you couldn't.
The reason APIs aren't copyrightable is that such a copyright would defeat the entire purpose of an API: interoperability between bits of software.
Sprint to sell iPhone 5 in October
its 40k, not 20k.
What Jim Carrey put on the Batman mask, he becomes... Spiderman! Scourge of criminal activates and criminals everywhere!
Hmm, I'm not sure. Maybe it's an issue with the tool you used to transform the code.

If you want to see the source, just check out the GitHub repository. It has the source code for the bookmarklet in CoffeeScript.
> 4. Stypi might be better as Google+ done right!

Maybe I'm confused, but how is an etherpad clone "Google+ done right"?
A key difference is scale. Finland's population is 5 million people -- right between the cities of New York and Los Angeles.

So you're looking at 200-300 school districts in Finland and 12,000-15,000 in the US. Standards for everything from bussing to curriculum vary dramatically by state or even by district.

I'd attribute the variation in quality to scale, too much money and poor governance in the US.
Some routers' CPUs simply aren't fast enough to forward traffic from the WAN to the LAN. Before I replaced my router with a higher-end model, my 50mbit/s cable connection ran at 30. Now it peaks at 60.
Show HN: Chorus - It tells you what your customers think and feel
Ascii dick.
24,000 miles, not km.
I agree that the fundamental concern was how to show something conceptual in a visual context where books and printed papers would be considered ancient artifacts.

After watching a couple of scenes with Picard having several PADDs on his desk it occurred to me that I was presupposing that those devices were personal property. But in that future personal property is largely for sentimental items, not utilitarian ones. Also, the PADDs are primarily computer iterfaces.

If you posit that PADDs are as ubiquitous and disposable in the future as Post-It notes and thumb drives are today, the metaphor makes sense. (Indeed, considering the inevitable price drop of consumer electronics, we aren't that far away from iPadish tablet computers reaching that point.)

So Riker picks up a "blank" PADD, his DNA and thumbprint or whatever identifies the device to the network as a Riker interface for the time being. After he's composed his mix tape or status report on the device, it's also resident on the network. And when he hands that PADD to Picard, the recognition of the transfer to Picard serves to automatically track the work flow and acknowledge Picard's acceptance of the report.
It's been a month and a half! You could have raised $1000 by flipping burgers. You could also have spent time learning to program yourself. I applaud you for taking the inititative to put up landing pages at http://www.selfey.com/ and http://www.selfey.net/, but I think you're a little too inflexible on your plan to spend $500 to get your idea implemented.

On that note, I also recommend reading the following:

Value of Ideas, Scott Adams: http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/the_value_of_ideas/ - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1404298

Unfinanced Entrepreneurs, Mark Evanier: http://www.povonline.com/cols/COL209.htm
The same way you store gold: You pay someone to store it for you. It's bigger so it's harder to store, but it's also harder to steal, so it needs less guarding.

I'm not suggesting it as currency, just if you need something to back your currency oil works a lot better than gold.
Their publication of BIOS source allowed for successful "clean room" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Technologies#History

Interesting history to compare with discussed in another thread Google's Java API "infringement".
Josh from Tap.Me here. We are taking a game design approach to solve this problem in a no-popup or banner ad way. More Google AdSense. Here is why we are doing it right: http://tap.me/wp/2011/05/game-flow-and-in-game-advertising/

We think the players should have the fun they are there to have and will appreciate it when brands add value to that experience vs. get in their way.
Thanks for your advice and compliments :)

I was debating between calling them "lists" or "articles", and decided on "articles" because my hope is that over time they will become full-fledged articles (true that my domain name makes that a bit confusing). Paul Graham's article on "the 18 mistakes that kill startups" (http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html) is the type of article I am shooting for with Listry. Where each item of the article has 1 or more in-depth paragraphs of explanation or details.
Http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2011/august/child_080511/child_080511
I completely agree.

I've been told many times, even in university by seemingly educated professors, that disk space is not a major factor while programming. But that doesn't mean it can be dismissed either.

I have seen some terrible waste of space by programmers that don't know or care about the cost of enterprise disk space (let alone performance of system/app).
Cross site poll: What would you pay to get something like Google Fiber?

http://www.wepolls.com/p/2028308/How-much-would-you-pay-for-...
Ah, you mean Oracle shill Florian Mueller?

Our "professional corporate communicator" certainly spends a lot of effort looking at these cases but his role in publicizing a a variety of bogus claims such as the various "Android violates the GPL" efforts inclines me to count my fingers and neurons after I read his blog.
He may have meant Google Wave.
When they launched places, the explicitly copied Foursquare and the check-in model. Zuckerberg named dropped Foursquare at the unveiling of Places.

They are now getting rid of Places. From the Foursquare blog post:

"As a part of this, we are phasing out the mobile-only Places feature. Settings associated with it are also being phased out or removed. (You can read more about how location works and settings affected here: http://www.facebook.com/about/location)

Yes, location will still be part of Facebook, as noted by Betabeat. But it will not be executed with the "check-in" model foursquare pioneered. The new way will be closer to tagging a user in a Google+ conversation.
Cologne, one of the bigger/biggest German cities, has a provider that tries to give fiber to every household. You can get a 100 MBit plan from them (not sure about the upstream right now. Probably much less, maybe 10?).

The call it the most modern network in Europe (are they? No clue), market it as CitynetCologne. It's affordable and available for a good part of 1.000.000 people.

Is Google Fiber really big news? And - tin foil hat on - would you want Google to be your ISP..?
Also, hiring in third-world countries might be a problem. I'm brazillian, and unless you're in São Paulo you're likely to find that locals have a different sense of time, hurry, priorities, and civility. In certain parts of the country (Salvador, or Rio, for example), you should be ready for everything to happen at least an hour late, except when it doesn't. People will expect to be able to be late to meetings and appointments, and will miss deadlines for no reason.

Another limiting factor is traffic. As an american, you probably love driving, but here in Brazil (again excepting São Paulo and maybe parts of the south) long drives should be avoided if at all possible, as highways are full of potholes or randomly dangerous. Also, most of the economy (and hence good employees) will be in the big cities, and these have horrible traffic in the level of London or Manhattan for nothing close to the economic output.
It seems like giving all of the people in the test area Chromebooks would be a really great move by Google, because people would associate Chromebooks with "lightning-fast" once they advertised the two products together.

Thoughts?
The high latency with dsl usually comes hand in hand with interleaving enabled.
24/43 were on the record for YCW11, and 22/36 for YCS10.

So it goes 66% -> 55% -> 51% this batch. Not sure the reason for the trend, but it is getting harder to sift through this mass of startups.

http://allthingsd.com/20110322/meet-y-combinators-latest-cla...
http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2010/08/25/the-definiti...
It explicitly says " we feel that one-on-one support is best for the types of threads that have historically been posted to this forum by app developers." So yes it does imply they are going to do more to improve support but yes its more of an announcement to their intentions and not an actual plan yet.
What about writing a library that wraps OpenSSL and only implements a couple, strong ciphers/modes? Specifically, AES-256-CBC and RSA 4096?

I mean, I've done my homework: I know enough to not call myself an expert, yet also know enough to avoid every crypto-algorithm like the plague until I've thoroughly investigated it and its "competitors."
Thanks for the link and the correct terminology (I updated my post).
I'm in the same boat just recently, only I knew about regular expressions but was intimidated by them.
My first attempt used regular expressions, but got to a point where I made faster progress rolling my own lexer.
I was surprised at how much fast simple looping over characters were. It was about twice as fast as my regular expression implementation.
If I had a choice between Google and Comcast?

Yeah I'd take Google.
Your username is particularly appropriate. Of course there is crime everywhere. There's probably even crime in Antarctica. But it's totally nonsensical to claim that a place like, say, Johannesburg, is no more dangerous than Texas.
IPhone 5 Coming to Sprint in October
http://hardwick.fi/blog/?p=2097