skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Felt it in south jersey. Shook my house quite a bit, even knocked some things off the kitchen counter. Lasted quite a while (felt like close to a minute).
Anyone in NYC area having trouble with ATT (moreso than normal)?
Do these countries recognize and count their lesbians? Is it socially acceptable for lesbians to live together? If not, that would go a long way to account for this growth in single women.

20 seconds of Googling convinced me there's no consensus on how many women are lesbians, nor did the article say how many women are single. So it's hard to know whether that could explain the whole bulge.
OpenSSH uses OpenSSL for crypto
I think you can get rid of the password confirm on the popup (you have their email after all for resets). Could make voting a bit more fluid.
Did not feel it at all in Blacksburg, VA though a lot of other students did. Weird.
Even using those, people will mess up key management and other security critical aspects.
Facebook just improved their privacy settings
Felt it in Rochester, NY.
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Having quite a bit of trouble down here in south jersey.
yes cannot make an outgoing call in north nj
I felt it up here in Toronto too. I'm on the 6th floor of a building.
This seems legit.

O wai... hacked
On the 10th floor in longwood area. Felt quite a bit of movement. No damage from what I can see.
It’s almost unheard of for a child to show up hungry or homeless.

I don't see how this author can fail to make any mention of the vastly different demographics in Finland as compared to the US. Certainly the US system has problems, but acting like the solutions are so easy doesn't help anyone.

Finland has one of the most even wealth distributions in the world. The education problem in the US, as far as I can tell, is mostly in the lower class. So the larger the middle class, the smaller the problem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_distributi...

Am I missing something?
Felt it in Raleigh, North Carolina. Quite strong, and made the whole house shake for quite a while. Figured it was some workers digging outside the apartment. Apparently not.
Wolfram Alpha: Earthquakes in US
Supposedly the biggest on record. 1897 was the last this big. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/events/1897_05...
I'm a little allergic to allusions to the risk of "key management", because Applied Cryptography (not a good book) calls that out specifically as the riskiest thing about implementing crypto, and it is most definitely not the riskiest thing about implementing crypto.

So let me just say that while key management is hard, even if you stipulate that your key management is perfect, you are probably still boned. The simple task of exchanging real time messages between two parties with secure keys is treacherously hard to implement.
Felt it in Foggy Bottom. At first I thought it was the AC or jackhammering. I'm happy I don't have to experience this often, like in California.
My office reception is typically horrible, but I had just enough time to make an earthquake joke on FB(priorities, I know) before my data and phone reception crapped out. I blame network saturation.
Queens, NY and I'm looking at a hell of a crack along one wall here. Wow.
I was wondering what it was in Manassas. We don't get earthquakes often around here. They evacuated the building in which I work.
It is highly likely that people know they are looking at a new design. People don't just adopt a CRM on a whim. For my site, (foreign language learning), the customer visits an average of 6 times before buying. New designs drop the visit count temporarily, a clear sign the novelty effect is strong.
Felt in NJ as well.
Maybe you can clarify what point you're trying to make. A Kindle's main function is to read books, not sell them. Likewise, a tablet's main function is to run software/apps.

edit: The argument that apps are more durable (in the economic sense) is questionable in and of itself; but even accepting the premise, that doesn't necessarily affect customer LTV, since durability is built into the price- the way a refrigerator costs more than a cooler and bag of ice.

We are on the same page- it does ultimately come down to LTV, and my intention was to show examples where it could work (other obvious ones are mobile phones and gaming consoles). I don't honestly have a figure on LTV of app buyers and if there was one I'd love to see it.
That is first of all not true, and second of all not relevant. In both cases the cryptosystem itself had a design flaw. And in both cases the implementations of that cryptosystem, aside from the design flaws, had implementation flaws that made the design a moot point.
Our (Visual Website Optimizer) customers also arrived at a similar conclusion: human faces indeed increase conversion rate. We compiled two A/B tests on human faces v/s images into one case study. Here it is: http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/human-l...

This corroborates the result found out by 37Signals. (Although the caveat that it is not always true still applies. So, you should A/B test it before implementing on your website) Looks like there is indeed something special (on sub-conscious level) about human faces.
Felt it in Durham, NC.

I'm on the 4th (top) floor of a building and it shook noticeably but gently for about 10 seconds, with maybe a minute total of less-pronounced sharking.
Felt it in Pittsburgh, PA
None of the people in my ground-floor office in Allston (a neighborhood in Boston) felt any tremors. However, my girlfriend's office in the Cambridgeport neighborhood of Cambridge shook, and was evacuated for about 20-30 minutes.
Felt in Carrboro, NC, too.
After reading this, I thought a bit about other possible solutions. Esp. more like Jython is doing it but in an automatic way. I came up with this: https://github.com/albertz/automatic_object_locking
The background colors were very different in the big photos.
Nothing in Toronto.
+1 in Raleigh
It was very light, but I did feel it here in Portland, Maine (fourth floor)
The same type of mind is likely to be good at both, yes. [I would expect]
Did not feel it in Michigan.

But seriously, all these reports should be going to this site:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/events/us/c0005i...
Nitro is enabled in iOS for web apps added to the home screen, but not UIWebViews (aka, PhoneGap). While I don't think it's actively sinister, it doesn't seem like they're going out of their way to correct it, either.
Can you give some more detail about what your process was for determining code quality? Just getting people to get a checkout and read through it? Running static analysis tools? Examining commit histories?
Nvm, there was something in Toronto.
I'm not a geology expert by any means, but I've lived in SF my whole life.

Generally any quake comes with a corresponding set of tremors based on the initial quake. These tend to be along the same or related fault lines. The Colorado quake could be related. Indonesia probably not as much.
I just happen to have watched the documentary mentioned in the article (Waiting For Superman) a couple of nights ago. It found that children from the middle class are just as effected. The issue boils down to the pervasiveness of bad teachers in the system, and an inability to get rid of those teachers and reward/promote good teachers.
This article was written in 1997.

Today, your reasonable choices for block cipher modes are CTR and CBC.

And: (If you have a library that does any of the "authenticated modes" like CCM, OCB, GCM, or EAX, your reasonable choices are those 4 constructions, all of which are based on CTR mode.)

But your comment gave me hives, because CTR mode is in its most simple application (no parallel, no precomputation, no seeking, no lossiness) already easy to spectacularly fuck up, and some of the things you pointed out as benefits of CTR come with additional pitfalls.

Finally, what is a "default" in a standard is different from a "default" as provided by a library. ECB is the "default" because (a) it usually is the default, and (b) it requires the least amount of configuration. In 2011, it is still sadly common to see trivially breakable ECB in new apps, and that's because crypto libraries are structured in ways that make ECB the de facto default.
I see Amazon and B&N taking a big chunk out of the low-cost tablet market, and it will be hard for anyone else to compete.

They can sell direct to consumers and capture more revenue. They have a vested interest in locking customers into their ecosystem, so they can sell at cost. Finally, they are trusted brands and can use their online stores to promote product.

A company like HP and Samsung would make most of their profits on the sale of the device. $200 tablets will never be profitable on their own, so unless you have another revenue stream, it's not worth doing.

That leaves cheap clone systems probably running Android with crappy build quality and nonexistent engineering.

You can be sure that Amazon noticed the frenzy over $99 Touchpads and the strong sales of the Nook color.
I thought I was sick until all my coworkers started complaining.
Cary, NC. Projector shook during a demo.
I'm about 30 minutes north of Baltimore, MD, and it was strong enough the rattle my entire building. (The building was literally moving beneath our feet.) Many people quickly moved outside.
One guy ran out of our office after we yelled "earthquake!" and the rest of us proceeded to retweet it.

Reminds me of... http://xkcd.com/723/
Felt it good and strong in Maryland (4th floor). Physicists, apparently, are just like Californians - very laid back, and pretend not to notice any earthquake <8.0.

(Yes, I reported to USGS.)
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The correct magnitude is 5.9.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/us...
Weebly founder is doing an AMA.
A Kindle's main function is to read books, not sell them.

Not as far as Amazon is concerned.
Google TV already runs the Chrome browser on Android.
Felt it nice in NYC, panicked, walked down 25 floors, had a smoke, took the elevator back 5 minutes later.
Indonesia has significant earthquakes multiple times most days, thanks to it's being Indonesia. Probably not connected.
Felt it in Indiana only because those in the Ohio office felt it as it happened. Too a few seconds to get a really minor horizontal movement.
Does anyone know where you can see other user's org configurations? Or a canonical configuration? It'd be interesting to see how users use org-modes capabilities in different ways. (I don't mean blog posts, just raw configs)
And? Windows Phone is not Windows Mobile. Much like webOS is not Palm OS.
It is still a good point though. Even using proven protocols, you can still make mistakes in the implementation. Using proven implementations is best.
Magnitude 5.8 - VIRGINIA
Felt in Cary too. Cool...but hope everyone is ok.
Same experience in PGH. I was vaguely relieved that it wasn't my house falling apart.
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Finland's schools were terrible forty years ago.
Out of curiosity, how many of you use Greplin on a regular basis (> 1x/week)? A great concept and possibly great technology but not something I've gone back to.
Nice app and congrats for the launch! I'm into list based services but there aren't too many around. One really similar that I came across about an year ago was http://listiki.com/ I really like their wiki/fork-style approach.
Samsung can be creative; too late though
Be sure to watch the video for a wealth of interesting engineering detail.

More details at http://hdtrobotics.com
Noticeable shaking on the 3rd floor of a concrete building in Cambridge, MA. Some people evacuated. Being a former LA resident, I deemed it minor and didn't bother.
The initial report (from that link) was 5.8, they since updated it to 5.9.
Felt it in Brooklyn, thought I was having a warm up to an epileptic seizure. Did not like that feeling, not one bit.
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(financial district) the guys in my office are just fine, but i can't really put out a call on verizon.. :/
W4S has a pretty big agenda, though, and it's main point comes off as "it's the unions' fault!"

They fail to mention unionization rates in Finnish schools, though.
I'm down on the Fort Point Channel (landfill) and we were shaking pretty good up on the ninth floor.
I don't disagree with the case you described, but as a counter-argument in favour of sending customised resources by default, modern sites frequently use things like image carousels or video. In such cases, you are unlikely to benefit from downloading the full-size resource every time, and the difference in file sizes for reduced-resolution resources can make a big difference to costs and caps for both host and visitor (since mobile plans typically have much lower data transfer caps and/or bandwidth compared to fixed line broadband).

Also, if whoever is rendering the original material can send you an intelligently customised low-res version, you can still have well-chosen, pixel-perfect presentation instead of relying on your phone to get the aliasing right when it scales an image down without context and showing the whole image at reduced resolution rather than perhaps clipping it more tightly but preseving some important detail.
I got a connection timeout error when that happened.
OpenSSL is the worst kind of crypto library: the kind that gives you a menu of ciphers and a menu of cipher modes and says "go to town". There is virtually no chance that a generalist developer will ever build sound crypto with a library like that.

The good kind of crypto library is Keyczar. Keyczar removes degrees of freedom; it says, "you don't tell me what block cipher to use, and you don't remember that your messages need a MAC, and you don't choose the order operations happen in, and your keys are all going to be from a CSPRNG, and you'll use this keystore, and that will be that". There are a very few other libraries like that (Guttman's cryptlib is another).

Unfortunately, nobody uses libraries like that. They use OpenSSL (via their language's bindings to it) which seems to work until it blows up in their face during a pentest.

My best advice is to use Bouncycastle's PGP implementation, which again removes all the degrees of freedom and has the benefit of building on very well studied constructions (poorly regarded constructions, but survivors nonetheless).
And you will soon have a bunch of west-coasters screaming at you to stay the fuck inside.
Tablet apps are generally not consumable, books are. I use maybe 5 apps on my iPad that weren't free and I keep using them. If I only purchased 5 books on my Kindle it would have become worthless to me after about 2 months.
I'm at the beach in Seaside Park and AT&T and Verizon networks are both overloaded. No one can make calls, send texts, or get a data connection.
A corroborating argument for dropping the stars: A lot of people who've tried multi-value rating systems have found that they get a heavily bimodal distribution anyways: people vote when they think something is awesome, or when it sucks, but rarely when they think it's just meh.

So you really won't be losing much information with a two value (eg, upvote/downvote) system.
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Given their recent trend, I'm kind of surprised us-east-1 didn't fall over again since they're right in the middle of it.

(Yes, I'm worrying about our servers during an earthquake)
Felt in Montgomery County, MD. (just north of DC) House started shaking, I thought it was a train passing at first, until it didn't stop... and got stronger. I was on the phone with my wife, an hour away in MD driving this way, and she felt it at the same time. We knew it was pretty big at that point (she's a geologist so she would know anyway)
If you constitue a significant amount of the electric guy's revenue, and he already has a massive amount invested in you, then actually yes, you might very well be able to tell him to temporarily F off and still get heat in the winter so long as he thinks you'll become profitable again one day.

That being said, I do agree it's a good idea to get your finances under control.
Since everyone is telling HN about whether they felt the earthquake or not, I thought I might point out the feeling the earthquake is dependent on not just whether the ground shook in your area, but other factors as well. In particular, the building you were in (if any), and the furniture/objects around you.

I mention this as someone who felt the earthquake in the 3rd floor of our house, while my aunt on the 2nd floor didn't even realize.
Android already supports SVG as of Honeycomb.
Correction to the title: this earthquake was a 5.9.
Lost reception for a few minutes it's back up now. Downtown Manhattan.
Please post photo. http://imgur.com
Felt all the way at West Point
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I took his point to be the opposite: that the worst that seems to happen with cryptosystems is that implementations are broken.

That bugged me on two levels: first, the idea that there haven't been terrible bugs in e.g. SSL3, and second that an implementation bug means "just upgrade OpenSSL", when it's more like "the discovery of buffer overflows and attendant years of chaos".

I am jumpy about this topic, though.
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A colleague (we're in NJ) was on the phone with Toronto, and the Canadians felt it a short time (10 seconds?) after we did. How fast do these things travel?
Interesting... we're only a few miles away, in Morrisville, and nobody here felt anything. I only found out about it because of this HN post.
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What mobile device generates higher ad traffic?
In the global handset market, the iPhone and iPod touch now represent 18.3% of worldwide ad traffic -- second only to Nokia (NOK) with 30.1%
The profitability of iAds should not be construed as a measure for the profitability of advertising in general.
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That's true but it's not the only problem. Teaching in America is not a high-status profession the way it is in other countries, so people who are capable tend to choose other professions. We need a new cultural value on teaching.
Waiting For Superman is right-wing propaganda. Here's a really good NYRB article that explains exactly how distorted that movie is. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/nov/11/myth-ch...

Also, Finnish schools are entirely unionized. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_finland Ctrl-F "union"
Given angle(PQR) begin as you would when bisecting the angle: http://www.mathopenref.com/constbisectangle.html.

Your arc intersections with |PQ| and |RQ| (call them p & q) give you an isosceles triangle pQr.

Construct an equilateral triangle on |pr| similar to: http://www.mathopenref.com/constequilateral.html
the numbers have been revised a few times
Oil would work. It has a large and liquid market. And they have plenty of it.
Seems like the reason he was selected is because he was the kind of guy that kept working that day instead of freaking out.
There really is something to be said for the way the Finnish system has made teaching an attractive and respected profession.

In the US, the decades of weak pay, support and heavy criticism almost seem like a high point compared to the demonization of more recent years.
Since setting up a portfolio of my work (http://mattmccormick.ca/portfolio), I have found it much, much easier to get work.

If I can offer some unsolicited advice, I would recommend organizing things better. Have one page that you can refer people to that highlight your accomplishments and links to your github or Youtube videos that you want to highlight. Your blog or website doesn't offer this capability at first glance. Make it easy for someone to see what you've done. Remember that a potential employer may only have 30-60 seconds to take a look so make it count.
Felt it in Raleigh. Didn't know what it was until I went back to the office (in Cary) and my startup partners asked me about the earthquake.
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Felt it from my 5th floor apartment in Cleveland. My coworkers in Akron also felt it from our 6th and 7th floor offices there.

Not particularly strong here, just had me wondering "why is my desk wobbling?"
Felt in NYC (Union Square). Chair wobbled a bit.
I think it's caused by too many people running around looking for an HP TouchPad
Linus about the use of goto's (and Pascal):

I think goto's are fine, and they are often more readable than large amounts of indentation. That's _especially_ true if the code flow isn't actually naturally indented (in this case it is, so I don't think using goto is in any way _clearer_ than not, but in general goto's can be quite good for readability).

Of course, in stupid languages like Pascal, where labels cannot be descriptive, goto's can be bad. But that's not the fault of the goto, that's the braindamage of the language designer.

http://kerneltrap.org/node/553/2131
Some of our people felt it here in Warren, MI (just outside of Detroit). They were in an 8-story tower. Didn't feel anything on the first floor of my 3-story building next door.
I think just the tiniest bit of experience with assembly would chase away a lot of unwarranted fears about goto.

At that level it's all goto so you have to use them. And if you don't want your program to become a spaghetti nightmare you have to use them wisely.

When using anything higher level you can & should use 'if', 'for', 'while', etc. but it's not like the world implodes if you use a goto in your code.
Not necessarily.

But think about it logically. Earthquake is a quick release of kinetic energy of a tectonic plate in one relatively small location. But the whole plate moves! So yes, earthquakes happening on the same plate's boundary can very well be correlated, IMHO (not pretending to be a geology expert or anything, but the topic is fascinating).

Virginia is not in any way connected to Pacific Ring of Fire though.
(Yes, I reported to USGS)

In the 3rd floor of a ~20 floor Boston office building I felt two mild tremors around 1:55pm, maybe 10 seconds each with a 10-second pause in between.
Felt it in Norfolk, VA. Entire building shook.
Texts are fine. Haven't tried to call.
Yeah, everyone in my office felt the earthquake very clearly, but my coworker who was walking back from lunch barely noticed anything.
congrats on launching! why not eat your own dog food and start a [sticky] list for feature requests? i think it'd be a nice way to get early adopters get hooked up.
How much did Apple make from your iPhone(s)? Let's say $300 every 2 years. How many apps have you purchased in that time? It's going to be less than $300 for most people, and Apple only gets 30% of that total, and has their own costs on top of it.
I have published apps, and I would gladly pay an annual fee for increased publisher support.

The developer documents and engineering engagement is already pretty good from an actual app development perspective... but when things with the android market goes sideways, the support and communication is really pretty bad. To make matters worse, it is usually completely out of the app developers control to fix it.

When it was an issue that I knew others were facing, I felt pretty confident that it would eventually be fixed, because enough noise would be made.

I know several Android developers, and they all feel frustrated and befuddled by the lack of developer support - and we are all willing to pay extra for it. This is, with at least what we know now, another step backwards.
Thanks :)

I've seen that site before. Mine's more about creating comprehensive articles rather than just a list. Something where each item of the article has paragraph(s) of detail.

Something like Paul Graham's article, "18 Mistakes that Kill Startups" (http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html) would be an ideal Listry article.
iPads don't costs ~$1000.
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