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Of course they can. The way DOCSIS is designed, your cable company has full access to your modem; your modem receives configuration data via TFTP from them and in most cases the firmware can only be updated over the coax interface. In fact, it's very rare that there's any configuration you can change on the DOCSIS modem side of things at all, even on the most expensive modems.

Lately cable companies have been pushing these hybrid modem/router combinations with things like wifi support built in. From a consumer standpoint, this seems very convenient, but the cable companies do this because it makes it easier for then. If you call up with an issue with "your Internet," they can remotely diagnose it and reset your modem/router. Make no mistake; they have more control over these than you do.

If you want to stop your ISP from having administrative access to your "private connection" (I assume you mean your wifi), then don't put the modem and the router in the same box. There's no other way around this.
And it is only 3 months away from out of support.
Would rather see a rss feed that could be used in an app, with details of the shark locations. But I guess you would have the problem of some yahoo tracking down the shark and killing it, although it is a protected species.
Do anyone know the percentages of the split between XP/Vista/7 in the IE8 population?
I find myself using the delete button less as I use Ctrl+H (when caps is remapped to control) using Keyremap4macbook, and even when I do use the delete button I rarely mistakenly press the power button
On my 2012 rMBP on Mavericks, even a fast light tap on the power button sends it into sleep. You're right that it wakes up again very quickly, but it very annoyingly terminates some online connections (e.g. IRC)
Flash won't let you open connections to other hosts (unless there's a crossdomain.xml file that allows it).

With html/javascript you can send http requests to other hosts, but you can't read the response. It seems like the backdoor isn't accessed over http, so that wouldn't help you either.
It still disconnects me from IRC though :(
There is no purely technological solution for the masses. Actually solving the problem requires either a political revolution to make shipping backdoors like this criminal rather than a favor to the government, or educating users enough that they can protect themselves with the existing technological methods that are easy to deploy given basic computer literacy. It's not really clear which one is less impossible.
I don't know if this necessarily matters to the HN crowd, but in case it does, this[1] is why him coming out publicly with an apology for his behavior overall is a thing.

Personally, I'd say it's a good first step provided he can actually follow through with it, but I'm not holding my breath.

[1]http://debacle.tumblr.com/post/3041940865/the-pratfall-of-pe...
I agree and came here to share a similar thought. I know a bit about journalism and how the sausage is made, and it's a tough market for tech journalism. Lately, that segment of the industry has been in a race to the bottom in terms of viable financial models for success.

I would simply say to the people trying to make a go out of serious tech journalism: I'm a nerd. Let me geek out with high quality coverage of technical issues and tech politics. Please, no more billionaire gossip. That's not what I want to read. If I did, I would be reading TechCrunch or Valleywag. And if your new news site is going to be called "Re/code", then it had better have news related to actual code and computer programming, instead of just re-warmed Apple intrigue (that John Gruber does better anyway) and rich-guy gossip.
Did that have the "new" style power button, replacing the eject button immediately above the delete key?
Produce the number 2014 without any numbers in your source code
Tape wouldn't work, you'd need a bottle cap or something spaced away from the keyboard.
Damien George is one of the best hackers I know[0] - very excited to see the awesome work he's doing with Micro Python.

[0] - In 1999, from a visual inspection of my busted BP6 motherboard, he resoldered a few components - good as new.
I prefer using the spaces but sometimes tabs comes habitually while coding so i an used to configure my editors to treat the tab as 3-4 spaces based on programming languages.
The only downside is when you try to use backspace you have to use it 3-4 times rather than 1 in case of tabs.
Its a pity you are only looking for US based devs. Will that change anytime?
I find the focus on the word "code" (Re/code, The Code Conference) weird considering the fairly distinct meaning of the word "code" in the software industry. Their blog and conference is not about code or coding, but about tech in general. It would have been just as valid to use the word "robots" and then also blog about software, genetics and so forth. Weird.
The Network Applications page from which TFA claims to have gotten its numbers is titled "desktop operating system market share", so I'm guessing Android is not covered (though Chromebooks might be).
Doh... reading comprehension fail... did not notice the important "US citizen" bit (yeah... the key operative bit).
I'm amazed at how good Modern IE is. Probably the best mobile browser experience I've ever had.
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I plan on building a brand / culture that appeals to my user base allowing them to "connect" with the website. I believe that I understand how the user base thinks, their likes and wants. Also, there are basically five large "pay for listings" type websites on the market now. They will switch to my site because all listings will be free and focused wholly on their market.
That was one of my biggest complaints about iOS coming from Android. Reading Hacker News comments on iOS is a horrible experience of swiping back and forth, back and forth.
Point #4 is basic journalism. Headline, nut graf + inverted pyramid.
Apparently Foxes are also sensitive to the magnetic field: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2SoGHFM18I
> 3. Don’t Be Afraid to Break Things

The last time I broke things, I got fired. Not gonna happen again.
Hopper Disassembler is my go-to alternative until my income lets me justify IDA Pro (or Hopper catches up)
It seems to me less like a mid-life crisis, and more his realization that if he keeps holding on to his 30-year-old anger and inferiority issues, they're going to cause issues for his kids, both directly and indirectly. I'm sure that Khoo and Holkins may have nudged him in this direction as well for the PA-related reasons he mentions in the article.
Friends, countrymen, fellow young republicans, let's hear it for the 400-year old radicals.
Quite the opposite actually. Just being honest about what I've been pondering lately.
The whole debacle is stupid. Someone online said something wrong. Move on. Seriously.
I remember seeing a show remarking on similar sensitivity being observed in foxes when hunting mice in the snow. Apparently, the fox is much more accurate when diving when facing north.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2SoGHFM18I&feature=youtu.be&...
That entire article is a prime example of idiots blowing things out of proportion to generate internet drama.
Does it? I've always thought of a mid-life crisis as an attempt to recapture the thrills of youth, whether through a fast new car or a hot young fling or whatever. If you take him at his word, he's trying to do the opposite and move beyond the problems of his youth.
I wonder what percent of Steam games run on GNU/Linux. From my experience this is currently a very small value, as most of the games I want/wanted to play are/were not available.

Let's check my library... 82 titles total (not counting the junk/demo/beta entries), 18 of them have declared GNU/Linux support, that's 21%. Way more than I expected (before I started counting I thought it would be somewhere between 5 and 10%), but still almost none of the games I'd play (new ones I haven't played yet or old ones with personally high replay value).

So, it's still WINE and/or dual-boot for gaming. No changes here.
Do you find that it's the mind-hand connection (going analog, writing it out) that makes the difference, or simply the act of self-examination? Or is the pen and paper necessary to get away from the distractions the laptop offers?
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Um, yeah - gatekeepers are WAY more present in TV, radio, and blogs than even at YC. At least at YC there are lots of partners, in those examples it's usually one person who decides to have you on. Patriarchy is a way bigger problem in those places.

It's not about an attitude about life - I don't worry about gatekeepers at because practically you can't. You've got to give gatekeepers no choice - give YC no choice but to accept you, Techcrunch no choice but to write about you, etc. etc. But as a matter or discussing how our SOCIETY should work, gatekeepers need to examine their biases, strongly and often.
I've gotten my eyes checked regularly for 20 years. Nothing medically troubling to report. I'm slightly color blind and wear glasses.

I really want to read the content and the substance - but the modern low contrast design has made it difficult for me.

Some particularly aggressive sites I print out to read on physical paper.

I was able to easily read content for my first 18 or so years on the web until the trend started.
What a good news!
I would put a Lagavulin as smokier than a Laphroig, but they are both fantastic whiskeys, and I need to do a lot more testing.
I have to agree on the nod to Talisker. My favorite drink at the moment is Talisker Storm. Not a fan of the packaging, but who cares? It's delicious.
You're right, and sometimes (when a kernel update is released for example), the Year of Linux desktop retoactively gets changed.
actually, you're wrong. the guy above you has a much better grasp on it.

nice try, though.
One can always change street addresses. But it's a royal pain to create new usernames.
It still does what most people need.
I believe I have the funds to produce a quality product in V1.
I would like to work with someone fairly local for some hand holding.
Thanks!
Sitting around thinking about kicking the bucket is just setting expectations. Live in the moment - it's what we all have right this second. This night may be your last. Make the most of it.
I was under the impression that sacrificial anodes, turning the ship's hull itself into a cathode, were standard equipment installed in all oceangoing ships (Navy or otherwise).

I'm surprised it's not the case.
One could also error out in this case; which is better than assuming!
But why not let the programmer opt in to manually ordering the field, and let the compiler do it the rest of the time? Similar to how the inline specifier works for functions, the compiler can inline things that it thinks will be faster if inlined, but if the programmer knows that can't be done, or must be done, they can say so.
IE8 is hanging around because MS didn't make anything newer for XP. Which is still hanging around.
The link you posted is clearly showing how the internet is centered around the extremely negative. So much coverage over a couple of comments and a misinterpreted comic, while ignoring the explanations and apologies of the afflicted side.

Of course nobody mentioned the very positive things they are doing.
I have the same gripe. Think about giving Switch (https://github.com/numist/Switch) a try. Cmd+Tab still functions as normal, but Opt+Tab (you can change the default keybinding) will allow you to cycle through all available windows on a single desktop.

Not a perfect solution, but it's a big improvement imo over Cmd+`.
I'm being over-dramatic certainly, and there are incredible things going on at the same time. Lots of numbers going in the right direction. But I've been thinking both about the world my children will inherit and the continuation of the species in general. I would not say that the good things are outweighing the bad at the moment for perpetuation of the species or our way of life in general. I do hope I'm wrong and we wind up with a more Star Trek kind of world than Deus Ex.
Every picture in the article is just awesome. It's a dream lab: giant industrial machines mixed with lab tech and whatever-it-takes-to-work.

Every bit looks to have a story. On the image of the sensor there's a sharpie note "<-- STUD" pointing to where a stud was taken off (I assume). Or the aluminum foil wrapped around a pipe in the last image. This is what GTD engineering looks like; it can be polished later.

The entire setup just looks fun, like how I always imagined early rocket labs must have looked like. Serious, but utterly interesting and ever changing, tweaking, and upgrading.

Also the article is good. (But the eye candy made my day.)
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Seems so awesome! Here's an article describing the research and proposed mechanism: http://phys.org/news/2011-01-predation-foxes-aided-earth-mag...
Actually, the better the book is, the faster I read it.
Bruichladdich(sp) Octomore is the smokiest in MHO. Ardbeg makes some fine smoky spirits too. Laphroig is close, but no cigar.
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Over the next 3 months I want to create a portal for
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The research seems credible, and they've convincingly excluded obvious things like that they're actually aligning with the sun.

The striking thing is that they only align N-S when the declination of the magnetic field is stable, but when the declination is changing they don't align. The differences in magnetic field direction is only a few degrees, so it's amazing that a dog whose head is flopping around can detect such small changes.
I can't recommend enough Udacity's courses (or that it's good enough that I don't feel the need to check for substitutes).

I'm planning on taking:
Design of Everyday Objects
Mobile Web Development
Design of Computer Programs

And maybe one big data topic.
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On the surface, I welcome this editorial. About time.

But the NYT has deep connections to the USG, so I'm wondering where this editorial is coming from. It could be a trial balloon on the part of the administration to test the public's appetite for a reduced sentence for Snowden.
Thanks! I've found a book by Guy Kawasaki called APE that discusses self publishing. http://www.amazon.com/APE-Author-Publisher-Entrepreneur-How-... He references OP's book as an example. I love when things cycle back on themselves like that.
I find Ardbeg (at least the Uigeadail) to be far smokier than Laphroig. The Lagavulin as well. To me the Talisker is quite bland, the sherry flavor really drowned out any peatiness.
You can't use the entire spectrum without addressing the sunk costs problem. All the existing users of the spectrum would have to throw out their equipment and replace it with spread spectrum equipment. Nobody wants to do that, especially when the benefit of them doing it goes primarily to third parties. You want to talk about phasing it out in favor of spread spectrum, fine, but that's going to take years or decades. What do we do in the meantime?

The next piece of trouble is, if you really want high power unlicensed spectrum, what do you do about contention? What happens when scientists start setting up transmitters to continuously send 50Tbps of scientific data from remote monitoring stations to the regional university's data center? Or people set up a distributed mesh network of Tor nodes? Or someone decides to operate a wireless "cable TV" franchise and starts transmitting 50,000 streams of 4K HD?

Don't get me wrong, I think you have the right idea -- spread spectrum is the way to go for wireless and there is room for a lot of innovation there if the FCC would get out of the way. Especially in the way of short and medium range mesh networks. It just isn't a replacement for fiber to the premises.
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I do happen to have such serious reading and I don't find the whole article just silly. I may agree with some parts more than others but it isn't idiotic. He's exploring an important issue, wealth distribution and economic growth and outlining some of his ideas on the topic.

btw WTF is a 'vehicle of positive freedom?' This is not a term of art in any serious social science or philosophy that I'm aware of but apparently it is important to your theory of money and power in a capitalist society. A theory, incidentally, which you don't take the trouble to outline. You simply state that 'under capitalism there is...' It is indeed a small off-hand (and unclear) point.

And why the heck shouldn't he be able to give a talk like this at a tech conference? Defcon isn't an academic conference. Unlace your girdle and give yourself a break from your half digested pomposity. :)
>the loss of a majority of all species by the end of the 21st century.

And yet, humans are going to be fine. If worst comes to worst, we can whip up some sweet GM algae that will take care of pretty much every conceivable need we have for other macroorganisms.
What a cool and Amazing stuff.
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Why India's manual workers live like slaves
Has there been a technical write-up on this yet? I honestly tried to read the presentation and had to quit after the third superfluous meme slide.
Imagine a future where college acceptance is decided by the internets... and how happy all of the cats will be in that future.
I kind of wish the startup community looked like the picture painted in this post. :)

More audacity and innovation, less audacity-lacking "innovation" of the form, how to get users to click ads more often and exit this company for a multiple ASAP.
I love how this carefully designed site is sensible with its readibility and then you get the Facebook-powered comments with letters smaller than ants.

Not OP's fault, but just a heads up.
I see this all the time in the consumer 3D printing space. Sometimes high tech people act like laggards. "I can't make a metal part on my desk, so it's useless!" "okay, we're almost there, but how about you look at the progress in this industry and all the other applications that we CAN do right now!"
"Having to decide" assumes we'll be given a choice in the first place. Technological advances have a mind of their own, as it were, and simply deciding not to be affected by them is not a strategy.

Over a century ago, stop signs and traffic lights were optional for some locations / situations / vehicles, and traveling long distance without using roads was permissible. Now, whether you choose to use a car or not, you must obey traffic laws or else. You don't get a choice in the matter.

Kevin Kelly wrote pretty well about this, a few years back:

http://kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2009/02/the_unabomber_w.p...
thanks, I assumed they would be interactive (grab the edge and move it) but they're not
I'd love to work for Flipboard, been using your Android app ever since you released it. Not interested in relocating though, so how can I change the 'probably not' into a 'hell yeah' for working remotely as an Operations Engineer? =)
Is there something that I could read about how The Verge launched and why it was so successful?
The footer on the bottom of the article:

"Send comments to mccarthy@stanford.edu. I sometimes make changes suggested in them. - John McCarthy".

"The number of hits on this page since 2004 Dec 18."

From the date listed on the top-level page "WHAT FUTURES SHALL WE MAKE?" it appears that this was written after 1998. [1] Or perhaps digitized after that date, but the footer on the article does list 2004 on the hit counter.

I agree with your observations, though. Both the arguments presented and supporting data seem to be quite dated.

[1] http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/future/index.html
Do you have one of the ones with a separate power button?
I love the comment from Robert Scoble:

"My friend Andy Grignon worked for Steve Jobs and was on a very small team building the original iPhone. Steve told him "sorry, you can not hire anyone who has worked on a phone before."

Why not? For exactly the reasons laid out here. He didn't want his team to find out what they were attempting to do was "impossible." Andy learned that when he went to AT&T to pitch them on what became visual voice mail. Andy and his team thought it was possible. The AT&T folks thought they were nuts. It took lots of work by Steve Jobs to convince AT&T to try."
The state of metal printing is much better than many people suspect, though of course the state of the art in metal printers are not exactly Rep-Raps: http://blog.solidconcepts.com/industry-highlights/worlds-fir...
Odd, on my Mid 2012 rMBP a quick press does nothing. Doesn't bother me though, I've never accidentally hit the power button, but my normal typing position keeps that whole row of keys outside my finger range.
Who thought it was going to be about screen resolutions before clicking?
Happened to me twice today as I was working. Fixed with the binary. How would I roll back the change? Thanks.
I apologize if this is harsh, but here's what I see.

Start by moving the first section's text up higher, so it doesn't start obscured by the background.

Then, remove the annoying JavaScript from the downvote button that prevents you from clicking it. (You might also consider not using Facebook's thumb icon for this.)

Finally, reconsider why you want to attend CMU. "Code" is what 1st year students learn. Computer Science is what 2nd, 3rd, and 4th year students study. You've not told us how you will benefit CMU, or how attending CMU will improve you, but that you can write code. Good for you (sincerely) - but that's not what a Computer Science education is all about. You want to learn CS, but why? What are your goals?
Regarding the date, the HTML appears to be hand-edited. There is a comment at the top of the file saying:

<!-- Changed by: John McCarthy, 9-Dec-2006 -->

and the same date appears in the title page.

I think the author would be well-served to delete the whole piece. It's like pub chit-chat from a doddering parent or grandparent -- just a bunch of preconceived notions and outmoded viewpoints.

It does serve the unwitting purpose of illustrating how deep are the origins of tech's problem with inclusion of women.
He is dead so I doubt he will take my suggestions now.

His comments about middle class families having trouble finding servants sounds like it was written during the 1960s. Certainly, it was a common complaint among upper middle class families of the time. The comment would make less sense now, when domestic help has again become abundant.