skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen 15-25% off for being a member of a variety of institutions, like credit unions, AAA, costco, universities, etc., many of which hacker news members are a part of. And you can save a lot with a family plan by adding $5 additional lines. Walmart has a $30/month plan, and T-mobile has $35/month plans.

Like I said, it depends how you shop around and your usage habits.

ps: I don't think "disingenuous" is the word you're looking for here
I have found myself arguing with people who took the view that the conservation of energy and matter does not apply to sufficiently complex biological systems.

I am quite serious.
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Bluehost requires ID on file before granting SSH access. Seems to me having that link to a meat-space audit trail should be required. In that sense, it would seem to me Google and Facebook should not only offer but demand two-factor authentication to a node in their social graph.
Just keep in mind that the ACTUAL answer to the security questions doesnt matter, just whatever you type into the box the first time.

What was your first car? "spaceship" is perfectly acceptable response, and its not discoverable by public means.

it does however mean you need to know what you would have typed in for each of the questions.
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The term "line-of-sight" typically refers to the obstacle presented by the curvature of the Earth or large metallic objects[1]. An insect would not block a THz EM wave, just as the walls of your home (probably) don't block your cell phone's radio.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line-of-sight_propagation
What a crazy chance encounter. Thanks for sharing this story.
http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-four-critical-security-flaws-...
25% is for extreme outliers.

http://examine.com/faq/does-metabolism-vary-between-two-peop...

BMR varies mostly on body size. Taller, heavier people have a higher BMR because there's more of them to keep alive.
"We often see rudiments of various parts in monsters."

I must ask: What animal was it that, in those days, was referred to by eminent scientists as "monsters"?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_dialogue
A better (and practical) example is scraping an internet forum (I've done it, partially)
Overturned conventional thinking? Friedman?

Maybe his conclusions seem unconventional (or at least, mildly inhuman) because Friedman always oversimplifies with the view from the boardroom. Never the street. Otherwise your formula could well apply to Chomsky or Taibbi, on their worst days.
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Seems like the "not care" tactic risks missing legit messages from someone in between the flood of alerts.
I don't think one party recording a conversation they're in with another party should be considered wiretapping in general, and especially not if one party is a public official. Public officials' actions affect people's lives and shielding their communication and actions from scrutiny reduces their accountability.
I believe that is referring to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_authentication_code
The difference is that you don't have to install or maintain it. Standard SaaS.
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The iPad is succeeding because of a 10 hour battery life with wireless and a capacitance screen with an easy to use on screen keyboard. It was like Microsoft's Oragami project but worked for under $500. Android tablets can't beat it because now that platform has to duplicate the ease of use at the same price point, something which it has been unable to do.
They forget to explain what problem they are trying to solve. SPDY will benefit google in the race for 100ms response time. For the rest of us, HTTP does the job. But without the hype effect, I suppose...
Those reasons were the exact things I thought I would use. But it never turned out that way.

I feel like so many of these use cases are romanticized.

Mapping on the phone is painful, especially if you have no signal. I tried it in LA and found myself waiting on tiles to load. I just decided to buy a small map and use my boyscout map skills -- which was better.

Amazon is great, but by the time I find myself in Best Buy, the decision to purchase has been made. Brick and mortar has the benefit of immediacy.

Same goes with tethering and immediate access to information. Coffee shops, office lobbies, and client offices offer all the connectivity my laptop could want. Secondly, I am not the kind of person to settle a dispute by whipping out wikipedia entry at dinner.

In terms of utility, I say it is definitely marginal. The times when it was convenient did not outweigh the expense.
I hate it when simple declarative statements are dissected by "lawyer-think." You entirely miss his point doing that. Did he stop and qualify anything? Stop and think. He's in his eighties, FFS. Do you think he's spouting gibberish or something he deeply thought about and saw actually happen? "But this..." and "But that..." -- you're creating your own damn roadblocks. And then wonder why you can't move forward.

Edit to add: Yeah, I'm cranky. But this is something I've seen here over and over. Now for the downvotes to DEAD status.

Edited further to add: He said nothing is withheld, not that you could either do anything or automagically succeed. You can have a revelation -- but still eff it all up, because it's still ultimately up to you. Trust me, I've experienced that myself! Especially the effing it all up part. So don't do that.
It's refreshing to see this at the top of HN. Rarely do I see such precise and apt criticism of the status quo making the rounds here.

Thanks for writing this up.
I'm in the US and just did the same. Got an unlocked Galaxy Nexus and a pre-paid SIM from StraightTalk. $45 per month for all you can eat everything on ATT's network... I'm really sorry that I didn't know about this before since I've spent ~$100/month for the past 7 years with Verizon or ATT. I haven't found any issues with the coverage either. Mobile phone consumers in the US (at least, those I know) are really locked into the mentality of signing up for contracts. I'm glad to have broken free of that mindset.

Also, I do tether it for my daily train commute, but please don't tell them that.
Did 'nemesis' really call the person who was sponsoring his education "old-timer?" That's almost impossibly rude.
This is huge. I've got the Sprint iPhone in NYC and I'm on "Extended" quite often even in the city, if the Virgin phone was just going to go dark and not roam, that would make for pretty crappy coverage...
Works fine on Mountain Lion for me :)
This little article failed to say the really surprising thing about channel coding, which is that good channel codes exist at all. There's a simple argument that seems to indicate that they should not exist. If I remember correctly, this argument was commonly accepted by engineers at the time Shannon's paper came out.

The argument is: you have a communications channel that flips bits with some probability, say 1/4. Suppose you want to transmit one bit. The first bit might have an error, so you add a parity bit -- now P(error) is 1/16. But that parity bit might have an error, so you add a second parity bit, and you're down to P(error) of 1/64. So you are driving P(error) to zero, but at the expense of ever-increasing overhead.

If you keep on adding parity bits, it's not clear that you can ever make the error probability arbitrarily small, while still transmitting some information.

That is, in the simple approach above, P(error) -> 0, but Overhead -> Infinity.

It is "intuitively obvious" that's a fundamental problem, or at least it was, until Shannon's results showed that intuition was wrong, or at least needed correction. In fact, the amount of overhead-per-bit is not infinite, but is a finite number related to channel capacity.
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I am aware of the socratic method that's why I wrote "an attempt at a cutesy nod". The article does not read like any of Plato's dialogues that I have read, especially the last paragraph.
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This. There's two basic types of commercial software (yes over-simplification) turn-key or custom. I work for a shop that does the latter. If I brought software to our clients with the explanation: "toughen up, read the manuals, we adhered to your spec!" then we simply wouldn't get paid. Git or DVCS in general isn't this nature though and is turn-key like MS Office for example. If some part of Office was a usability nightmare most people would simply avoid it. Some may not purchase the software altogether if they were to say take a trial of 30 days and couldn't get passed File->Save As or some rote "simple" command. That is a trite example but the analogy isn't that far off base.

I will caveat everything by saying I have drank the Hg kool-aid and will be drunk for some considerable time. It wasn't that it was SVN-like, but as I explore more complex features on my own, my hand isn't slapped in the process. I've hosed repositories in Hg and SVN. I've fixed Hg repositories from codeplex that seem eternally broken given that is the "authoritative master". It didn't take any research at the time but I couldn't recall if the knowledge was entirely latent (i.e. discovered previously) or I had researched it at some point in the past to bring it up in the future.

I'm of the notion that if you can jump to any DVCS for the most part you're doing an excellent job. It doesn't hurt that there's hgsubversion or hg-git to make transitions easy but even the more obscure DVCS' are a leg up. I don't bash Git on some crusade, as I look at OSS projects and realize if they use it I probably should too at some point but the barrier to entry is inherently steep. I look to articles like this posted to hopefully stir interest in fixing the usability problem and it's extremely comforting to know that so many people share that it most definitely has a usability problem. I'm not the only derpy one here apparently :>. I really want to learn Git but I definitely do not want to be tasked as the Git-guru of my small developer team. We use a paid hosting firm that only has svn or git to choose from and I can get away with pushing people towards Hg with hgsubversion much easier than playing tech support.
I really appreciate this comment.

Many times I have felt the need to write something snarky in response to an article on HN, but what it really comes back to is my own pride or sense of inadequacy.

I need to learn to be positive and less dismissive.
Agreed with many of the comments below - my point wasn't that specialization in and of itself is bad. It is very economically efficient, certainly. But not specializing, occasionally, lets us achieve a lot of other worthwhile goals, and can be extremely satisfying to boot.
In Classical Arabic, the word that today means "monster" was used to refer to animals, or perhaps more specifically, wild (undomesticated) animals.
A "Facebook account" is just a password attached to a verified email address. Of course you can't attach your identity to a group or an event if you refuse to let Facebook identify you.

If you have a Facebook group where personally identifying participants isn't desirable (i.e. you would want non-FB users participating) than you're probably looking for a wiki or Google Sites instead. Facebook has every right not to be a web publishing tool.
My father-in-law told me yesterday about a novel he's reading. The thief wanted to test the target's security system, so he threw clods of dirt over the fence until security came out and investigated. For a week. Then he threw cats over (good luck finding a pissed off cat in the middle of the night). Then they declared the alarm dysfunctional and posted a sign in the security shack: until further notice, disregard alarms between 0300 and 0500.

Makes you wonder if offering accessible customer service, at scale, eventually it's not even the guy on the phone that's the problem. The policy person cries uncle.
This is a strange comment. SPDY benefits everyone who uses it, not just Google. And actually, for any site with authentication plain HTTP does not do the job, since all requests that pass authentication information should be encrypted. So HTTPS is a requirement and if SPDY can help make HTTPS faster then everyone wins.
So does this it seems:
Be mindful when running it, as Twitter limits the number of requests that a single client can make per hour.
That isn't quite right. The 21 year sentence can be extended to keep him in prison for life [0].

He is not going to be walking out of jail free 21 years from now.

[0] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17724535
By what mechanism is it guaranteed not to hyper inflate?
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> % find ~/.local | wc -l

Missing something?
What? I'm not downvoting you, I just have no idea what this is about.
its not the fill rate/memory bandwidth but the incredibly low latency of the entire GS pipeline (which you cant get without edram) that makes it difficult to emulate.
So the government is wasting our tax dollars on cold fusion scams? Oh, wait, "e-Cat" is going to save us all, hallelujah.
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No discussion about this?

when people use iPads they end up just using technology to consume things instead of making things. With a computer you can make things. You can code, you can make things and create things that have never before existed and do things that have never been done before.

I think closed devices are really a step backwards. I learnt programming (and a whole lot more, like mathematics and logic), when I picked up a computer as a kid and discovered Python and started hacking around. I could look around for tutorials, download code or try out code from books and nobody stopped me.

On a somewhat similar vein, I am also sad that desktops are slowly going away. I learnt so much more about computers (and how it is not magic) by building my own.

I think something needs to be said about systems that allow you to explore and hack around for the fun of it.
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For those that have never experienced it, you should try Lenovo Thinkpads some day. On the underside every screw has a little pictogram so you can easily tell which ones are needed to remove the keyboard versus the hard drive for example.

You can enter a system's serial number at http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/product-and-parts/partsLooku... and it will tell you exactly which parts went into it. For example some systems may have exactly the same model number, but some are made with LG panels and some with Samsung. This will tell you exactly.

Then they have hardware maintenance manuals at http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/guides-and-manuals/detail.pa... which show you exactly how to take the laptop apart and change/repair parts.

IMHO they have done an excellent job. They even design the keyboard and system so that fluid on the keyboard drains out the bottom. (Note it isn't waterproof, just a good effort to ensure a minor spill doesn't destroy the machine.) One example video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7cvi00OZDM

And the proof is in the pudding - a friend who managed to break one of her hinges was able to lookup the exact part, order it, take the machine apart and replace the hinge and put it all back together without any difficulties or guesswork.
Pfft. What if I conceive to build a perpetual motion machine, or conceive to disprove Special Relativity?

First one, liquids with zero viscosity, such as helium superfluids. - http://www.sciencemag.org/content/286/5438/213.summary

Or even 4 dimensional quantum time crystals (which surprisingly, doesn't appear to be completely mental) - http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.2539

Course, you can't take any power off them and you have to put them somewhere very very cold, but they will keep going, apparently.

As for the second, we know there are issues with the current physics and I think that might just be what stuff like CERN is for. Or to prove it really really well.
Do not get me started or I will start madly screaming "Where is HyperCard?" futile sigh
I'm having a bit of trouble following design advice from a site with such a mishmash of fonts.
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I love this. "Do things that have never been done before." Brilliant. Now, if only I could figure out a way that this advice could help me eat.
Hmm, I guess I can't dissuade the appearance of being a troll.

You are saying Groklaw is not influential politically or in matters of law. I agree. However, I think you are severly downplaying the influence Groklaw has on the people who read it.

My main fear is that Groklaw becomes the site that programmers go to not to find out the state of a case but to find out what opinion they should have about it.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm afraid that people will say "I like company A's usage of patents/I dislike company B's usage of patents."

I'm a big proponent of patent nullification, especially in the area of algorithmic/cosmetic areas. Of course that's a vague definition, but I think most people will know what I mean. However, at this point, that is a very scary opinion to certain influential people.

Page rank is a patented aglorithmm.
Intellectual Ventures is a huge known patent troll.
I think bgC3, the new company of Bill Gates, is going to spearhead some very advanced patent trolling tactics (I have no evidence for this).

But right now the blogosphere is more or less just passively angry. People read what's going on in the news, argue for a bit and go have dinner. Almost no one is protesting because of patents.

It's a big deal. Over 50% of our Medicare obligated spending for the future (I think 38.6 trillion by the last count) is due to patents.

I guess I can't help being a troll when it comes to this subject, and I fucking despise the idea that Groklaw has the ear of so many programmers when they argue only in the short-term and in a reactive manner. I support what they do, but the factual tone limits them to being short-term and prevents them from making the vaguer strong claims that they should be making.

Groklaw is in the position to influence people on the most important subject of the 21st century, and I think they are doing a poor job of it as well as making whatever motives/resources might exist transparent.
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Read down further for the dead comment and its replies and also complaints about the headline(!).
It's probably not word-for-word literally accurate, given that it is my ~10 year old recollection of a conversation and as an Irish storyteller I generally don't let facts get in the way of a Narrative. That said, this guy was routinely obnoxious enough to drive me to hatred just with classroom comments.

Edit: Seems I've told the story before on HN. My last recounting, two years ago, has the wording very slightly different. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=829901
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FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE - No ~/.local, ~/.config

Linux 3.2.0-23 - No ~/.local, ~/.config

Linux 3.0.0-16 - No ~/.local, ~/.config

Linux 3.0.0-12 - No ~/.local, ~/.config

Honestly, I'd never even heard of this scheme before today.
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Not any specific animal, but any animal (or person) that had gross deformities or severe birth defects might have been called a "monster" before about the middle of the twentieth century.
This isn't really about Rails at all. But it's still useful as another anecdote about how SPDY is used in production.

Basically if you are set up with the now-fashionable architecture of a caching reverse proxy serving static content (nginx or Apache) sitting in front of a set of application servers then this applies to you too.

Just compile nginx with the SPDY patch or use mod_spdy with Apache and your back-end application servers won't even need to know what the transport protocol between client and reverse proxy is. It will be handled transparently.
I do that too. As for the OP, I think when he says "unproductive" that he is talking about tasks which appear to be important work tasks, but which actually aren't.

Some examples (mine, not his): spending a few hours watching Google IO videos on scaling to a billion users, or a few hours tracking down reporters trying to pitch them your pre-alpha demo.

This link has been passed around here heaps, but it's Rich Hickey talking about how that "downtime" like you spoke of is not only part of the problem solving process, but it some cases that it's the most important part! http://blip.tv/clojure/hammock-driven-development-4475586
If you really want to scrape pages, you should use something like https://github.com/chriso/node.io/ which batches things in jobs, helps with error handling, io, etc...
I don't doubt that you're right about that, but if 50 additional dollars in upfront costs is the deciding factor for someone then getting a high-end smartphone with a ~$80+ per month plan is probably a bad financial move for them in the first place.
There is soft realtime. You don't have to have hard and fast time requirements, or nothing, you can have more relaxed statistically defined requirements. That is soft realtime.

Systems are not divided into cruise missile control systems and everything else. There is a continuum in between. A phone system where the calls need to routed in the 100 milliseconds or less 99.999% of the time is acceptable for example, while one where no such guarantees can be provided at all is not acceptable. It is not a realtime systems but it is pretty close, so it would be called soft realtime.
Isn't the root issue the fact that Apple's lax security allowed the hacker to do the remote wipe?
This is a decent list, but visual examples would help.

If anyone's interested, many of these ideas are derived from Nielsen's heuristics [1] as well as Tognazzini's [2].

[1] http://www.useit.com/papers/heuristic/heuristic_list.html

[2] http://www.asktog.com/basics/firstPrinciples.html
As a user, I mostly like SPDY because it makes HTTPS better (not perfect, but better than what was there before), and I wish more sites used an encrypted connection by default. Anything that brings us closer to that is desirable, IMO.

That's mostly out of principle -- I just wish there was less plaintext info swirling around the net. For some people it could be a life or death benefit (ie. civil right activists in repressive countries), but for me personally, it's mostly an aesthetic pleasure (I enjoy the idea of more secure communications).
Now take Google's vision for Project Glass and get everyone in the world recording...

(don't care if it's Google, GoPro, or other... theoretical result is still amazing)
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I think that if the app were doing something extraordinary, wheels would mention it. The ones i built Jmeter testing do straightforward database queries, HTML (sometimes image) rendering and queuing stuff for future processing.

In any case, I haven't tried to optimize them (memcache and front-end caching were kept minimal and implementation as simple as possible) before going live (after, of course, making sure they were load-tested and would survive a reasonable load) so we could watch what breaks under load, compensate with extra iron, and correct it later. All those machines were heavily monitored.