skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Due to the large number of relays, the original source of the traffic (you) is virtually invisible."

You gotta love the word 'virtually.' It almost always means "take out the word virtually and this sentence is false."

I'm not knocking Tor or the article. I'm impressed by both, but I think virtually everyone skips over the word 'virtually' as if it were virtually invisible.
I was sort of holding out hope they would buy out Remember the Milk[1]. They already have Blackberry and iPhone sync in their pro version and a gadgets that plug into Gmail and Google Calendar (and iGoogle and Google Desktop etc.). Their model for tasks is much more advanced than the Gmail one- with due dates, alerts, sharing, multiple lists, nice print outs to carry with you etc.

[1] http://www.rememberthemilk.com
Sneaky thing with the "earn us affiliate money to pay for your premium account" scheme, though! And I mean that in a positive way :)
In 1849, a future president patented an ingenious addition to transportation technology.
Instead of joking about it, you might find it interesting to actually go browse the available methods, as well as some of the examples. (Link to the examples page: http://www.gop.gov/aboutapi/documentation) Take an honest look at, say, the Perl example. Then browse a few of the methods (on the right hand side) to see what they return.

Although I don't find myself agreeing with the GOP on many issues, I am able to see that this offers real value beyond fodder for programmers who wish to be comedians. If nothing else, I hope to see it driving the momentum to 'open' government.
Why would they credit them other than in the source code where credit remains? There are no thanks for other components of their website, it's not like they simply decided to shaft these guys.

I bet the plug-in authors are really proud that their code is on whitehouse.gov.

Update: Ah, saw the part you were talking about. I thought you meant the plug-ins in general. Nevermind :).
> because the ordering of the divs in the html affects the layout

I don't understand why people keep trumpeting this like it's a big revelation. The layout of everything depends on the order whether you use CSS or not. Floats were not intended to change this, and complaining that they don't just because tables do is apples to oranges.

If you look at the specs, the example use case for floats is floating an image element inside a paragraph. For that and many other cases, floats work exactly as intended and expected. It's only when you use floats to emulate a table-based layout without using display:table that a problem like this comes up.
I wonder if the FT will sue me because I gave their paper to a friend...

Scarcity of information is not a good business model in a time when transporting and copying information has a cost approaching 0.
I just spent 10 minutes trying to think up a joke that combined research in geology, a rock and a hard place. I couldn't think of any, geology is such a dry subject.
This is an interesting article and I think a good overall point to make, however the generalizations don't all hold up.

Based on personal observation as a long-time CS grad student, I take issue with #1 and #2.

Grad school only delays adulthood if you let it, and I know plenty of people who matured well during grad school as well as plenty who did not while working "real" jobs. You can also argue about whether delaying adulthood is actually "pointless" :)

There are many reasons to get a PhD in CS if you are not going to teach - industry research is active in many sub-fields, and those jobs often require a PhD - and if not, it certainly helps.

Finally, in my admittedly small sample, of people I know who graduated with a CS PhD, at least three received six-figure job offers from industry. I'm not sure what adjusting for IQ, education, and working hours looks like, but people don't make decisions adjusted for IQ - they are looking for absolute dollars, and a PhD can deliver.

Again, this is based on CS experience - I have heard less encouraging things for (e.g.) biology.
that's my point - there is no credit for their code in the source code. It's written as if it's their own.
Does the author realize that the actiontec router can be disabled and used just like a cable modem? That's what I do at home and use a WRT54G instead. I also use opendns instead of Verizon's DNS servers. Latency is pretty low for me.
that is great, I was sad when they shut off iphone iGoolge just cause that is how i kept my task synced... now a truly supported version with a better interface should make keeping my todo list up to date much easier.
If there is a path to making money that does not involve gaining a huge number of users, the continue pushing it. If your only path involves becoming very popular, then it may be the right time to give up.
Kiva introduces developer API
Thanks for posting this. For a long time, I've had the opposite issue: detecting and disabling single users running multiple accounts. This is a much more comprehensive way I could narrow down where requests originate and then map that to clusters of user accounts.
yeah I have as well, since the default iGoogle tasks don't sync / work well on the iphone
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Well, then it in "not news", no? Regardless of whether it shows up on Fox or in the NYT.
Correction: it seems the fault of the Fios ActionTec router's DNS resolution, not necessarily the Fios service itself. I would be rather interested to see latency statistics gathered, comparing the use of the default router's DNS with direct OpenDNS usage.
Why CSS Should Be Used for Layout
i too have suffered the pain of the actiontec router from verizon fios. i placed it behind another router as people advise. since the internet speed is much slower than ethernet, I figured the extra hop isn't going to kill me, but it does add some tiny amount of latency i suppose.
OK, working from home, it makes sense now.
Wow. I have to report status 3 times a day! I want to quit as soon as I can, but I always thought this frquency was the norm not the exception.Are you saying majority of the big co bosses ask you for status less than 3 times a week?
What an awesome way to depict the game. I looked through it a few times, some of the highlights I noticed:

1. You could tell exactly when the commercials were playing and sometimes, which commercial (Hulu) for instance.

2. After the Cardinals 2nd touchdown, people were more interested in the commercials than the game.

3. You can definitely tell when half-time was, the whole country surges with "Springsteen"

4. The nation seemed much more "excited" when the Cardinals scored - virtually the entire country goes red. When Steelers score, those areas that were red from the start, stayed red.

5. You can almost sense the excitement at the end of the game, as Cardinals appears all of a sudden everywhere and then BAM! Steelers.
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...especially since most of them don't have English as a primary language.
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What was much more shocking than the main point of the article was the statement "Comcast promised 768 kbps up and 8 Mbits down. That's what they delivered, more or less reliably for several years. It seemed quite fast except when I was uploading 12 MB camera RAW files to a server. "

I have had Comcast for about 6 years off and on (I keep moving, and they keep devouring local service providers) and have had problems with pretty much every tier of our interaction. We're supposed to have 10 Mbps and get maybe half that on a good day. When I call to ask them about it, they claim that their equipment just can't handle the loads of the area. They also have difficulty accepting that that is not my fault.

On simple matters of installing a new router - customer service is a crapshoot at best. Anything beyond that, be prepared to be "transferred to a technical service representative"... often times more than once.

It's not all bad though, we did get showtime for free about nine months longer than we were supposed to, karma, I guess.
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What if Incompetent + Nice never becomes Competent + Nice and they hold the same position that you do?
Thanks for that; I'm going to delete this one.
Not to mention, if you just keep all your to do lists on note cards in your wallet with something like this [1] or this [2], you're in good shape, unless you leave your wallet in another pair of jeans. They even sell a little set of bleachers [3] to keep the cards organized on your desk.

I find having a task or a project on a card is nice. You can set it up over your screen like a short order cook's ticket to remind you what you are working on [4].

[1] http://www.davidco.com/store/catalog/GTD-NoteTaker-Wallet-Ou...
[2] http://www.levenger.com/PAGETEMPLATES/PRODUCT/Product.asp?Pa...
[3] http://www.levenger.com/PAGETEMPLATES/PRODUCT/Product.asp?Pa...
[4] http://davidseah.com/blog/the-printable-ceo-iv-task-order-up...
Well for one thing they're apparently claiming that it's going to cost $10-20 again. Also, I think it's worthwhile keeping an eye on it. I'm very skeptical myself, but if they did pull it off it would be such a coup.
I have a feeling that the Field's Medal requirements help drive down the age for Mathematicians a lot more than the article gives it credit.
Anyone find any pics of the laptop online?
what really kills the speed is packet drop

a 1 gbps wireless will be slower than old pots service on heavy rainy day
I've seen much less deserving people get much more money from prestigious and successful VC companies. Don't underestimate a great sales pitch.
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The beginnings of a homebrew hardware interface for Giles Bowkett's AI DJ software.
How To Write A Misleading Headline
You can see example final projects for this course here...
http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs229/projects2007.html

The midterm for CS 229 was probably the hardest exam I took in college.
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It's 8Mbps from Comcast, not Verizon.
This essay by Henry Rollins sums up a number of the 'extra' benefits of strength training/weight lifting nicely. http://www.gittlen.com/rollins.htm
You may find this road not taken interesting: http://www.w3.org/Submission/1996/1/WD-jsss-960822

It's worth noting that floats would have been implemented the same way, with the same uses in mind, and would have exhibited the same kind of problem. The solution in that case would have been to use JavaScript and resize things on the fly. Not really so different, then.
It's election time in India. These kinda stunts are very common before an election in India. I believe this what the government will subsidize the laptop which then will turn out to be 10$ for public schools but it won't be commercially available for that price.
Why does the legend persist in mathematics more than other fields?
What is a business model? It's how you make money. You can make money from advertising, thus it is a valid business model. See radio, TV, and PlentyOfFish for examples.
Many of my friends in their 20s and 30s have dropped their cable TV subscriptions

Never had one, never wanted one. Watching shows in just one room, wired to a wall, switching between groups called "channels", interrupted by commercials... isn't that all legacy from the time these things were grouped by-frequency, channeled straight onto your screen?

How do people put up with such crap when it's all TCP/IP now?
If you go this way you challenge people to beat it. Keep It Simple is the best.

This being said, the "unique post" robot proved to be a success in several implementations.
in Western languages, yes, yes

I always hated that in RTL pages all the tables get reversed, but the floats don't. It's a bad design decision IMO. I ended up creating two sets of CSS for my pages, where I reversed right/left each time I used it (float, border, margin, etc.)

I want to propose start and end (or something else? suggestions?) as RTL aware version of left/right, so margin-start: 10px; for example.
Absolutely.

I think it's for the best, because it has only reinforced our scrappy cockroach nature, but our 'looking for angel funding' was pretty much simultaneous with the meltdown, and things are definitely slower than they would have been had there not been said meltdown.

That said, we have been able to keep conversations going, and I believe it's because we have a number of viable business models in the works.
Very cool - thanks for making it easy for the rest of us to try :)

I've used Google docs to do collaborative work with people and it's served me pretty well, but Etherpad seems like a solid option.
Although this model can apply to anyone, I was originally referring to clients.

If you have a client who is Incompetent + Nice and never becomes Competent + Nice, then either you need to do a better job of hand holding, or you may just have to settle for steady revenue that you have to work for. Either way, you both win.
committee.members

This method provides all Republican members of standing or subcommittees.

I recognize that this is a party site, but I wonder how much additional work it would have been to capture the non-GOP members and votes. I can't think of a situation where I'd want to know just a fraction of the members of a subcommittee; I'd think if you care you'd care about everyone in it.
Quite different: Wufoo makes html forms, Doculicious makes PDFs.

A lot of applications (government-type orgs, class-action lawsuits, etc) require PDFs and signed paper forms.
Uncle Sam buys 20 teraflop BlueGene supercomputer
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An old parkour friend of mine started doing 10 pushups on the hour every hour he was awake. Then after a week, he would move up to 11, 12, etc. When he got to 25, he started over with inclined pushups. If you're into rock climbing, you could instead switch to tri-pushups or fingertips. It makes for a really good break from whatever you're working on during the day.

I could never quite get on it due to my classload, but he does probably 100 handstand pushups a day.
VMware Announces Open Source Virtual Desktop Client
Conceptually, styles and positioning are two different animals. We need a tripartite model of 1) content, 2) styles, and 3) layout/positioning. Unfortunately neither tables nor CSS handle positioning well in all cases, hence the perpetual argument.

Maybe I'm just ignorant, but I've found it necessary to use CSS, tables, & JavaScript (yes, all three) to produce acceptable dynamic layouts for web-based apps. This is unfortunate.
Can we please stop submitting rumors?

This article has no information. We can speculate endlessly about what Apple is going to release, but it's not very useful. Let's wait and see.
If this article is true, it really represents a mis-step or lack of focus for Apple. It's strange to see that in the wild like this.

On the other hand, getting the notification service right on the back end would likely have required a lot of effort and cost. It's not surprising so much that the service was never delivered, moreso that it was announced at all.

If background tasks are allowed to run in the future, I'd anticipate Bad Things for battery life, one of the strategic weak spots for the iPhone.
This is worrying because if you can launch to orbit you have the range to hit anyplace on earth i.e. like an ICBM. Add in the nuclear bomb they are working on, and we're in for an interesting summer.
Doritos and CareerBuilder definitely won for best ads IMHO. The Budweiser ads were lackluster at best.

I also approved of Hulu's open plans to turn our brains to mush. Oddly appropriate considering they are backed by Fox and NBC. I still love them though.

I must say, NYT has had some awesome visualizations lately.
This whole argument seems to be spiraling out of control, and I doubt a single person will change their mind either way.

Things not to bother arguing about in public (since no one will change their mind):

Religion

Politics

CSS vs Tables for layout...?
Context-sensitive Presentation, Better Accessibility,
and the most complex designs are easier with CSS. These seem to fall under the YAGNI rule. In particular, if it took me a couple of hours to build using tables versus a couple of weeks using CSS (see the Ron Garret post), the above listed benefits would be cold comfort for the wasted time.

The first rule should be to get something working quickly, even if it's suboptimal. And the jury seems to still be out on the suboptimal part.
Google's new Ajax-powered search results breaks search keyword tracking for everyone
For those of you interested there is a great interview with Etherpad by Phill Windly at IT-Conversations http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3985.html
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Man, I had no idea. Where'd you hear/read about this?
I am not really looking forward to the day when neural marketing is perfected.

If remote brain-scanning ever becomes possible, then we are doomed. (Said only a little tongue-in-cheek.)

It means the tinfoil hats truly will be needed.
Interesting to see them using ASP.NET MVC.
I at least try to follow the rule that you should never criticise people in front of others. I've met people who seem to be able to criticise others without humiliating them and there seem to be at least two principles

(1) do it in private

(2) convince people that they thought of whatever you were criticising them about
CSS does not demand that the markup be ordered that way. That is entirely a product of the author's choice of layout and his chosen method of generating it, which happens to bring his expectation (that floats work like tables) into conflict with the way that floats are specified to work (that floats work like floats).
Mathematicians want to live fast and die young? There is another legend that there is no nobel prize in mathematics because Gosta Mittag-Leffler cheated on nobel's wife even though its probably not true. See http://almaz.com/nobel/why_no_math.html
"TCP/IP" can't actually deliver TV to everyone in the US, it only works because a minority of people are using it. We'd need a lot more capacity if everyone was going to watch that way.

Maybe multicast plus local caching could handle it.
I don't see how this is useful as long as it's politicized to GOP-members only...
Achieving a failure
Let's disregard TV and radio, since we're talking about web startups.

Of course it's possible to hit a homerun with a site like PlentyOfFish, but what are the chances YOU will be the guy to do it? There are always outliers in every set of statistics.
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I tried to make something out of Toe, but the acronym I was trying to remember (THAI) doesn't really work. Nonetheless, an interesting, newer process for extracting bitumen from tar sands.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_sands#Toe_to_Heel_Air_Injec...
When you want to test out Etherpad and don't already have text you want to edit, you tend to use it like chat. But even then you can do things you can't do with chat, because you can see what the other person is typing and start responding before they finish (like in a real conversation). I've suggested to the Appjets that they might want to make a variant of Etherpad aimed at chat.
Linux overtaken by Hackintosh
You can keep tabs on what half the government is doing.

And there are honest-to-god Republican activists out there (check the comments with negative ratings on the bottom of social news sites) who want to know what their party is up to and keep it on task. Much like how others might want to know what the Obama administration or the Democratic caucus is up to.

All in all, I think it's pretty awesome. I hope the Democrats will follow suit, or that Congress will put up a general API. That would be even better.
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I tried using Gmail Tasks for about two or three weeks. I transferred all my tasks into it.

Ye Olde List o' Annoyances:

#1: I could only view one list at a time. I like having a 'big picture' view. Plus, the default-in-Gmail view was tiny. I could pop it out, but then it was in an orphan browser window -- which would sometimes disappear because it still technically tied into Gmail (e.g. adding a Labs extension to Gmail made Tasks go poof).

#2: They positioned the delete button between the "Add Task" and "Switch List" buttons. I nuked a few tasks accidentally, without evening know what I deleted.

#3: There's no undo and no history. If I wanted to hide completed tasks, I had to delete them, which meant losing them forever. If I accidentally deleted a task thanks to the positioning of the delete button, well, too bad.

#4: I couldn't select multiple tasks and move them around.

I couldn't take the annoyances.

I've since switched to a homebrew todolist solution that lets me see everything at once, switch between contexts, edit multiple items at once, and keep a full history. I complement this with a Moleskine notebook as a collection input. For stuff that has a hard due date, I use Google Calendar.

As for paper vs. iPhone -- I don't have an iPhone so I'm quite happy with paper. My notebook fits comfortably in my pocket and goes with me everywhere, and Moleskine thought through the design so its pages don't wrinkle and it stays nice and neat while remaining easy to write in. I've only used it for two weeks, but I've found it well worth its price compared to el cheapo pocket notebooks (which I used for several months, until I gave up in frustrating at having them wrinkle after living in my pocket).
MORE LIKE THESE.

I don't care about Whitehouse.gov, other than that I know someone with some webdev chops took serious pains to get it right.

Case studies like this are just enormously valuable.
I've seen several articles on HN give advice on grad school. My advice is a reply to all of them: don't take advice on grad school from people in a different field from yours.
No matter what type of broadband line they're connected to, Actiontec modems have always sucked; what's more important is that FIOS is finally rolling out to a decent portion of the population. A firmware upgrade (or new brand of modem) will hopefully follow soon.

Now it just has to drop to a reasonable price. $160 (or even Comcast's $99 triple play) is a testament to how badly the telecom industry is broken in the US.

In France, DSL(22mbps up/1.5 down) + HD Cable TV + a landline with unlimited calls to 70 countries is $27/month including all taxes and fees.