skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clear in Atlanta is okay.

If you live in a hilly area, a house at the top of a hill can have great service, and the one at the bottom of the hill can have crappy service.

There is a lot of jitter on clear, so while streaming video works well (after it get's going), you'll ocassioncally get a blip during high traffic times.

VOIP, Video Games (Such as SC2), Skype, and video conferencing is noticeably worse than cable or dsl, even though offering higher bit-rates than dsl. High latency (80 MS from the modem to google is the best I've seen. It varies between 80 and 325 all the time in short bursts*. Don't even try to play many types of game on this or talk over online gaming services.

I use it as the back up internet (I have comcast's 24Mbps service as the primary) and it works for that, but I wouldn't use it as a primary internet for a home or business.

I use something the size of a wifi router (that actually IS a wifi router) that I lease from them. I hook this into a dual wan cisco router to do failover.
BTW, hackers, if you did not see it yet, check out what EncFs offer you. Essentially, it allows you to have multiple passwords on the same repository, and only files decryptable with currently used password are shown (require special option during mounting to ignore incorrect password warning).

Using that you can have any number of passwords and any number of "partitions" inside your folder. This is not like hidden partition in TrueCrypt, where you can not prove it exists at all.
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The technology for this does exist, but it's pretty annoying to use in practice. You need to use the "decoy" OS regularly -- preferably most of the time. After all, it's implausible that you haven't used your web browser in six months, etc, and your adversary would notice this.

The problem there is that the "hidden" OS is (by definition) undetectable from within the "decoy" OS. Therefore, you risk accidentally overwriting it. Some encryption software has workarounds for this, but that typically leaves you exposed while it's in use.

Whole-disk encryption is great for protecting credit card numbers, embarrassing information, and trade secrets from someone who should happen to steal your laptop. If you actually have anything so secret that you're worried about being coerced into decrypting it, I don't know how to help you.
An important clarification since some people seem to be confusing the issue: the police seized her computer already, presumably legally and with a warrant.

So while this does present an interesting edge case in the fifth amendment (does evidence count as evidence if it's encrypted?), it shouldn't set off civil liberty alarm bells in your head nearly as badly as several other things currently going on in this country.
I can't seem to get this to work. I type "Vancouver" in the "near" box and I just get a message that says "Please match the requested format.". What's the requested format? What did I do wrong?
Oh good idea. That looks useful. Thanks.
Sounds like he is trying to build Silicon Valley in Vegas.

Reminds me of this PG essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/maybe.html

Or this one:
http://www.paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html
[edit: added mention of Padmapper]

I have heard -- anecdotally, at least -- that while that TOS exists, CL practically enforces this if you're (a) straining the site and/or (b) using it for commercial purposes that seem to go against the spirit of CL. [Hence, neat things like Padmapper, the author of which is really like the nicest guy based on limited interactions.]

(Disclosures: I read this a few years ago for another project, and I also happen to know one of the developers of this site.)
Sheryl Sandberg - 'grownup in the room'
Ubuntu integrated Launch/Alfred into it's apps...
I believe the LED that tells you your MacBook's camera is on is hard-wired into the motherboard, for the very purpose of making it impossible to covertly enable the camera via software. A similar approach could be used for a mic.
They find it faster, however it usually is slower. However people don't notice type time, but they notice mouse time.

Ideally, you would offer both interfaces, and let the person use what they use.
I wonder if this puts it 'ahead' of Zurb Foundation?

I have this sneaking suspicion that even if Zurb does a 'good' job, unless it's way better, they're never going to get the publicity these guys do, and thus won't have quite the same feedback loop.
I went back and used the assist, and this time ended up with a 7.8. It was a much better experience!
You have to enter a zipcode, sorry that's not clear.
The solution is of-course a honey-pot OS to boot.
Selling Your Soul to Work at Apple
This sounds like an interesting topic, but the article itself was more confusing than enlightening to me.

It seems that the actual explanation (using Hamming distances) could be used instead of the bubble-wrap analogy (in the same amount of space, without making more assumptions about the reader). I felt it didn't represent the trade-off (or rather the strict improvement in this case) very well. In fact, it seems to suggest something that is false (that the two methods are fundamentally different).

They also start using graphs without an (informal) definition.

I didn't know about tree codes before so this could have been interesting but I still don't know much about them. The article alludes to some kind of uniqueness theorem

but remarkably Leonard showed there is actually one out there that’s useful

but the end suggests that we do not actually know the optimal strategy (so I guess its just an existence proof?).

a set of structured binary strings, in which the metric space looks like a tree,

doesn't tell me much either. How should I interpret "look like"? Do I approximately embed the space in R^n? Do they mean that its close to a tree metric?

Finally, the article also didn't mention how little we actually know about, say, the Shannon capacity of many (small) fixed graphs. The impression I got is that we already know all there is to know about "classical" Shannon capacity (which I believe is false).
And here's why I think Tony Hsieh is the next, better Steve Jobs that understands business, people and community like no other leader today. Why better? Because the man radiates a genuine compassion towards others that Jobs never had. If any other business leader had announced such a visionary idea I would have been incredibly skeptical, but I have total confidence in Hsieh and find his vision inspiring and quite convincing.
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Disagree, I think most people know about bookmarks/ favorites, at least on a pc. They are pretty much as old as the Internet. Mobile I would agree.
We're already on it, however there's a "Report Abuse" link here:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/screenshot-pi...
So, what are people using as alternatives these days? I use gmail, google talk and google.com exclusively for email, chat and search. If (for arguments sake) I wanted to switch what is there of similar quality that still be around and relevant in 3 or 4 years?
OpenGL wikibook tutorials on Android (new Glut wrapper)
Apple makes good products but flawed arguments
Also analogous would be whether defendants can be required to provide they key to a safe, correct?

According to the article, Judge Blackburn's reasoning was that if defendants can be required to produce other documents, the existence of which is known, they can be required to "produce" encrypted documents via decrypting.
I forget my password for things all of the time...This situation would be no different.
Thanks! I think we'll try to link directly to google geocoding later, but for now I'll definitely add zipcode placeholder text.

As to Craigslist - we'll see? We actually built a pretty robust classification engine that you can run on any html, so we've added about 600 dealerships in California and are planning on running the crawler on dealerships nationally soon if we can get more server money. I think we're hoping that if we provide a free service where you can see what better deals Craigslist has compared to Autotrader etc people will generally think its cool instead of lame. Thanks for checking us out!
I have question to those who know more about these things: Instead of hidden volumes, wouldn't it be better to have an "under duress" password?

The hard drive is encrypted and sensitive folders are identified by the user. When a password is given all contents are decrypted.

When a "under duress" password is given the sensitive folders are permanently wiped and all the (remaining, innoculous) contents are decrypted.

This stops them from finding hidden volumes or operating systems because there are none. Wouldn't that be a better model, and much harder to figure out?
Good question, I don't know the answer. Honestly, I've looked at Zurb Foundation a couple times, didn't see anything that looked like an order of magnitude of 'betterness' over Bootstrap, and decided to keep using Bootstrap because of that feedback loop.
My impression from working on Chrome (but not near the network bits) is that while SDCH does have the potential for compression you mention, doing so requires tuning beyond what most organizations can do. And more importantly, total download size isn't as much in the critical path for performance as the latency and pipelining tricks SDPY does.

You can see a recent mail from the SDCH master on this subject here:

https://groups.google.com/group/SDCH/browse_thread/thread/7d...
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Specifically, a Prolog-like syntax is also hugely popular in this fascinating Constraint Programming niche: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answer_set_programming
The zipcode doesn't deal with leading zeros on autodetection properly. Mine said "2138" where it should have said "02138", so it took me a minute to realize it was a zip code.
Definitely a full/real browser tab. That's what middle-clicking does, it opens a new browser tab. Unless the site does something nonstandard. [Sidenote: Chrome extension to always enforce standard middle-clicking?]

P.S. I updated my original post with a few more suggestions.
Not universally.

In some places --the ones that had the foresight to not grant a cable monopoly and thus the ones where Comcast has to compete straight-up with other cable vendors-- Comcast is apparently alright.

They still have the top-level corporate nonsense going on: the dns hijacking, the traffic shaping, the usage meters, etc. But most people don't notice that stuff and they tell me they're reasonably happy with the service. They're certainly paying less than I've ever been quoted in Comcast-monopoly-towns.
It's coming up, it's just that it was really had to get out of the door so I left it for later.

Our other games are touch enabled:
http://type.method.ac
http://shape.method.ac
Or maybe a page with different ranking parameters. If it pays less attention to time the all time greats stick around longer.
As the article says, Hsieh is after the synergistic effects that you get with melting pots; things that manifest themselves in a chaotic, cross breeding, art meets science meets business meets community world that you rarely find on a corporate campus.
Obviously the republic era, before Caesar.

The civic virtue within the republic of Rome was so great that to this day our institutions mirror those of their age. They were extremely democratic. But not in a modern sense.

Do note that all systems are bound to get corrupt, whither and die. But the best are extremely resistant to corruption. And strong anti populist safeguards are a property of all of them.
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The problem is I think that it puts some people at a much bigger advantage over others.

A 20something who works at a funky startup and writes for their corporate blog and gets paid to spend 20% of his time contributing to the rails codebase or something.

vs somebody older (or maybe not) who works 60+ hours a week in a corporate (possibly non IT) organization which has strict corporate blogging policies (i.e don't blog about work) and has a family to look after.

I can see a lot of crap getting thrown up and github and mediocre blog entries written prior to interviews.

I think this article sums it up fairly well:
http://teddziuba.com/2009/10/i-dont-code-in-my-free-time.htm...
For things like stripe/ path I think the investment in a memorable domain might pay off. I'm sure it helped Dropbox after they got their one, although not sure of the price paid. I would agree on generic ones like business.com
Not touched on in the article, but the probability of leaking and corrosion when run down and left in a device seems anecdotally higher for generic batteries.
BRILLIANT IDEA!!
I had written off Unity partly because of the top-bar menu decision. This post shows me that they do have a grand vision to justify that change.

> power users say things like “every GUI app now feels as powerful as VIM”

A UI designed for keyboard power-users? I suddenly care about Unity again!
Terry who?
Then they restore the hard drive from the cloned image they made before entering the password and ask you once more for the password. This time, with feeling.
> If … this many systems have been online without the knowledge of the people in charge…

...then they aren't in charge. I'm being flip, but do we really need a Fukushima size hacker-induced failure to wake people up.
Love it! Searching on value feels like it'd be useful for a trader, but not necessarily an individual with a strict price limit. How about adding a value measure to the boxes? Then users could sort by price but still pick out the real bargains.

Also would be nice to search for several models together and/or criteria rather than models (e.g. "manual hatchback between $7 and $10k").

Good luck!
This is a common mistake in security -- assuming that the hacker plays by your rules.

The police would just use a copy of the program which forgets to delete when the "on duress" password is provided. I imagine it'd require commenting out all of, say, five lines and burning the modified version of YourCryptoNameHere onto a live CD.
For those who haven't read it yet, this paper has a lot to say about the cause of programming complexity, Out of The Tarpit:

http://web.mac.com/ben_moseley/frp/paper-v1_01.pdf

They say that the only essential complexity is the one inherent to the problem the program is trying to solve. Everything else is just here because we haven't yet found the methodology or invented the tools to battle it.

They also describe an ideal world, where all the programming is done in way of declarative programming - what you want the code to do, and not how to do it.
And, what if I do this?

head -c 1048576 /dev/random >not_encrypted_I_promise

I can't prove that file isn't actually encrypted data. Are we going to throw people in jail for possessing random data without a justification?
Some feedback:

1. didn't work for me until I realized I have to enable cookies?

2. how do I search for any kind of hatchback?

3. did my scrollbar just turn pink in chrome? really? Are we back in the 1990s with IE ?

4. be sure to get permission BEFORE you start crawling them:

http://www.google.com/search?q=craigslist+sues
Also the de facto 2 party system. It is really silly to expect all datapoints spread all over the axes of a multidimensional system to be quantized down to only 2 alternatives. This is a travesty of democracy.
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For starters:

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gsm#GSM_service_security

GSM uses several cryptographic algorithms for security.
The A5/1 and A5/2 stream ciphers are used for ensuring
over-the-air voice privacy. A5/1 was developed first
and is a stronger algorithm used within Europe and the
United States; A5/2 is weaker and used in other
countries. Serious weaknesses have been found in both
algorithms: it is possible to break A5/2 in real-time
with a ciphertext-only attack, and in January 2007, The
Hacker's Choice started the A5/1 cracking project with
plans to use FPGAs that allow A5/1 to be broken with a
rainbow table attack.
To some extent this is already done in a process called "Superoptimization"[1]. In that case, though, correct code is used as a rigorous functional specification, and the Superoptimization process will replace segments with shorter or faster opcode sequences with identical side effects.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superoptimization
Interesting argument. Or what about different languages: if I write it in German, they can just get a translator. If I write it in a language of my own creation (hat tip to Tolkien here), then can they force me to translate?
Silicon Alley vs. Silicon Valley
It depends on the purpose/goal.

The HUD proposal of Shuttleworth, on reading, is actually somewhat similar to how vimperator presently works. I can activate the statusbar with a ':' (same as in vi), and either hit tab or start typing. Though I don't get teh shinay overlay transparent displays, I'll get a list of completions for commands, URLs, bookmarks, etc.

Which is great when you're in front of a keyboard. When I'm using my phone (Android), I'm often annoyed at how niggly the interface is, and how much typing I have to do, in an environment which really does NOT support it well.

There are also users who simply learn things by rote. They don't know the commands, they don't understand the process, they simply click on a known element or (rarely) type something -- rarely more than their username or password. "My mom" or "Aunt Tilly" are the classic (if sexist) examples, but the former is certainly accurate in my case. She actively fears computers and loses about 50% of her confidence the second you park her in front of one.

As much as I think I'd like the HUD, I really do NOT think it would work for her.

Which is where Ubuntu is getting schizoid. For the past five years, it's seemed that the distro has been aiming for wider and broader appeal, with ease-of-use functions that appeal to the 99% (or more accurately, the 99.99%) -- the technologically naive (or illiterate, if you prefer). Which really pisses off this particular element of the 0.01% when I'm stuck on that interface.

It appears that the distro's taking a hard tack in the opposite direction now.

My own suggestion: do NOT aim for a one-size-fits-all interface. Simply ain't gonna work. Sure, all you Mac users will try to convince me otherwise, but aqua's an interface I find myself grossly stymied in.
This doesn't look much simpler to me, and I suspect the problem with this approach will wind up being incomplete or overconstrained specifications, rather than incorrect programs.

To use the language of the op, it will be composed of many discrete simple assertions that excruciatingly specify the output.
Good points on iPhone. I've used PhoneGap and it's great, but that's not exactly what I'm getting at. I'm thinking of a mobile web app that doesn't have to live inside a webview wrapper. This could happen someday when the OS provides a JavaScript API for accessing camera, gps, etc --- and could use the html manifest as a means for "downloading" the app. This would, in my ideal dream world, also allow the app publisher to make app changes at will without waiting for an appstore review.
Web dev here, concur 100% with the gp. Everytime I read something like this, I'm reminded to ignore the grunts of emacs neckbeards and not to touch the keyboards they're still wanking over.
You don't have to get a job at another company. You could also start your own.
I recently used Bootstrap to skin the initial version of my paste bin project, and it produced a very nice result with no effort, especially for someone who is not a front-end guy.

http://paste.ly/

Looking forward to digging into Bootstrap 2.
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They're mirroring the drive. Why wouldn't they mirror the TPM too? Or are you contending they're tamperproof?
SPYW: "Search Plus Your World"
"We chose to look at this figure instead of the compounded return because individual investors often move from one fund to another."

Comparing returns over 10 years without re-investing dividends is just not right.
Should our client (a startup) buy SoftwareEngineeringAcademy.com for $350?
This all makes no never-mind to me, as I'm going to turn that right off (you can do that, right?). I prefer to evaluate on my own what information is relevant and what isn't. Happy accidents, you know.

Did Google ever announce what the rationale for this is, from a revenue perspective? Is a link with content that a person is likely to recognize also likely to generate extra revenue?
Agreed, I usually have a text file open with Need to get done & Would like to get done's for the day. The list is filled with very everyday tasks that need to get done.
Why we need yet another programming language
> there are probably ways to provide the discoverability of current menus, e.g., just list all the main menu items under each other, then typing a main menu item will show its items...

Tabbing to autocomplete anD double-tabbing to list all alternatives, just like a terminal?
Too much user-friendly cruft in Ubuntu now. Debian keeps the good parts and doesn't make me do extra work disabling the WM and friends. XMonad >>= that was easy.
Let's hope that this leads to an exodus of Googler's who leave to create their own startups.
You mean a witness testifies they saw you unlock a system that looks a bit like the one they are seeing in front of them at trial?

Witness testimony is incredibly unreliable in practice, but courts LOVE that crap. So someone basically could get locked away in contempt forever because someone thinks they saw you unlock a system you can't actually unlock...
If you enjoyed this, I also posted about designing CodeYear.com a couple weeks ago: http://sachagreif.com/how-i-designed-codeyear-com-in-1-hour/
+1 to #2:

It'd be super neat to associate that may not be explicit in your fields or the source CL data with certain make/models.
I'm not being facetious when I say try Microsoft - Hotmail, Office365, Live Messenger, Bing
I think Apple could have reached the pinnacle of its life. Maybe it is not such a great idea to start there now. It certainly has a few more productive years to go, but it feels like the decline might be in sight.
You get better divider flexibility with the columns.

You basically can divide it in half (6 columns each), in thirds (four columns each) in fourth (three columns each), in 6th (two columns each and in all 12 plus of course spanning the entirety.

16 gives you only 1, half,
"Programming is broken. Completely broken."

What something starts like this it usually translates to: "I don't understand pragmatic hardware/complexity/market etc constaints and engineering compromises".
Never thought I'd see "dating startup" and "lonesome" in the same headline. On second thought, it makes total sense.
http://duckduckgo.com is an excellent search engine that takes user privacy seriously.

For me it tends to fail on very specific queries and then I use it's Google Bang to just have it redirect me to Google. But it's as good as Google for my typical queries.
That's exactly where I am right now. Like I said, I get enough satisfaction on an intellectual and professional level from my job that I don't feel the need to find side projects. I'll do what it takes to get done with my job, working as many hours as I need to. But I simply don't feel the need to code outside of working hours.

On weekends, I'd rather be out fly fishing or playing video games.
Not sure why everybody is so ecstatic about Spdy... it has a bunch of warts, like for instance the shared dictionary for HTTP headers that saves a couple hundred bytes over connections that may send several MiB (pointless compression, complexity). Also the whole concept of priorities, cancelled requests still filling up network buffers, etc.

A committee of experts is how a new protocol like this should be developed, and I fully expect whatever they come up with to be better designed and considered than Spdy.