skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People who depend on their smartphones for mobile internet access might have guessed Verizon was upgrading its network in large cities like New York, San Francisco and Chicago before the announcement of XLTE this week. Verizon didn’t just turn on XLTE today; it’s been testing for months and you might have noticed.

At the Moscone Center for the RSA Conference, Verizon customers with an AWS-compatible smartphone saw LTE speeds at 53 Mbps downstream and 24 Mbps upstream and faster. This is counterintuitive because data-hungry attendees at tech venues like the Moscone Center use up the Wi-Fi capacity first, and then flood the 3G and 4G capacity. Experiencing these speeds during the RSA conference tipped Verizon's hand.
Utah already has something like this called UTOPIA (http://www.utopianet.org/about-utopia/). The participating cities run fiber optic lines. The city pays for the fiber optic lines (lots and lots and lots of political controversy about this!) then subscribers can pick and choose what services and from which providers they want. I'm in a participating city and love it! Unfortunately politics, both the governmental and the organizational types, are constantly threatening the viability of UTOPIA (http://www.utopianet.org/press/).

>UTOPIA (Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency) is not an Internet service provider. UTOPIA operates on an open access model, which means we own and manage the infrastructure, but lease the lines to private Internet Service Providers, who then deliver services to subscribers. This allows you to choose the provider that best meets your needs.

edit: added press link
With this reasoning we can also blame Cisco for not delivering routers inside safes...
#StressFreeSummer Scholarhip
A PR puff piece posted by a stock booster claims new invention is the greatest thing ever with no drawbacks? I'm so surprised.

Every year when winter comes, there's a huge spike in starter battery sales. I'm not sure what you mean by "dis-proven".

Start here: http://www.evdl.org/
This reminds me of the old dialectizer that would rewrite web pages in specific dialects.
Conversely, why keep minimum wages at ~$20 why not make it ~$2000 ? Lets make everyone rich.
EPCOT was originally going to be a place to live - a model for future urban living ideas. and going to be all of what is now disney world.[1]

I don't think walt was going to live there though :-)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_Prototype_Communit...
Stonewalling the DoJ when they're serving you a legal request is pretty much the opposite of handling things well, and as noted it ensured things went poorly for pretty much every party except Levison, who has been enjoying a media field day ever since as a Defender Of Freedom And Goodness.

Providing the key in 4 point font was yet another childish response that predictably did not help with resolving the situation.

If he disagreed with the nature of the government's request, there are a variety of ways to voice and display that disagreement: locking your doors and closing the curtains in the hope the DoJ stops knocking is not one of them. But given he had a history of complying with this nature of request, I'm curious why he suddenly changed his mind.
Interesting suggestion.

I've often thought about this. What I hear (I'm not very knowledgeable in this field) is that somewhere up the chain, someone has to pay for bandwidth (per GB) (can anyone confirm this?). But consumers prefer to know how much they will pay each month, and so they get that -- a flat rate service.

So now we have a situation where a company's expenses are measured in GB of data transferred, and their customers pay proportional to their maximum transfer rate. This means the incentives of this company and its customers are not aligned.

It's a bit like if you rent a car and the price you pay is proportional to the top speed of the car, but the expenses of the car hire company is proportional to how many miles you drive.

Where I live, we're currently in the process of wiring up the apartment complex to FTTP (fiber to the buildings and copper from the basement up to the apartments). I'm in charge of the process, and I've thought about asking whether I can get an unlimited connection speed, but pay per GB. I haven't asked yet, but I think I might prefer this over a flat rate price per month. When I use the connection I pay, and it's blazingly fast, and when I don't use it it's free. Contrasted with being slow when I use it, and also paying when I don't use it.
Heartbleed? You mean, the bug that was discovered because the source was available to unaffiliated third-parties?
Worth noting: he did not say no. He stopped talking, then tried to throw down some ridiculous rules regarding payment and delivery of the information, then he complied.
He made a classic mistake that I think all of us make once: overperformance without proper (managerial or executive) support.

Overperformance fucks up more careers than underperformance, because it makes enemies. (No one actually gives a shit about the pittance drawn away by an underperformer on salary, but overperformance puts peoples' reputations on the line and is generally volatile.) You don't want to fall into that trap. I'm not saying that people should do shoddy work, but if you're going to do more than that you're asked to do, make sure it's behalf on someone powerful enough to clear obstacles and get your back, and who will.

He improved the product and, through no intention of his own, ended up ears deep in office politics. It's a perennial risk. It takes at least one of those, for most of us, before people realize that if you're going to overperform, it should be for something you own. That way, you avoid the risks (you can't get fired from your own side project) and keep the rewards, instead of the reverse.
Let's save the word rape for literal rape.
wait, PayPal doesn't sell downloads? I'm sure they do. I don't know why people use a 2nd service, that charge 1-2% on TOP of Paypal's 2.99%. why? you're still using paypal...
My secret weapon for writing English prose is the "Kenkyusha Dictionary of English Collocations".

A collocation dictionary gives you words that commonly go together with another word. In particular, you find the right verb to go with a given noun, or descriptive adjectives to further chacterize that noun. It's helpful for brainstorming. It also helps a lot (but not only!) if English is not your first language. In my view, a collocations dictionary is more useful than a thesaurus.

The Kenkyusha dictionary includes Japanese translations (unreadable to me), but the collocations are given in English. It's very comprehensive, more so than any other list of collocations I've seen.

It's hard to find as a book, but a digital edition can be found on a well-known Swedish sharing platform.
Like Bitmessage? https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Main_Page
Georgia teen punished for hidden message in yearbook quote
Hacking AngelList syndicates with cofounder Naval Ravikant
What's the purpose?

We're getting to the root cause of the problem here: lack of competition.

These ISPs already have the lowest customer ratings. If the customers could switch to another ISP they would.

This stunt would amount to kicking a man that's lying down. He's already used to the shitty quality of his Comcast connection, but now he's being punished by CDN providers without being able to do anything about it.
> dis-proven by millions of cars starting in freezing weather

Car batteries are lead acid, not lead carbon. I'm not familiar with the technology, but I wouldn't assume the same performance for different chemistry.
Cool! Now it looks like the object case is slightly slower, which is exactly what I'd expect.
You can kind of do that-- the defer attribute of the script tag behaves similarly to async in that the scripts can be downloaded without blocking, but they are supposed execute in the order that they are included in the page (unlike async).

http://stackoverflow.com/a/10731231/480033

However, browser implementation isn't consistent so there's no guarantees really.
Whatever the case may be, you lost me at Timothy McVeigh Weev.

Reminds me of a certain Beatles song everyone knows.
It could hardly avoid doing that, per at least a couple of Vanity Fair articles, the first one of which I know is very good:

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2012/07/microsoft-dow...

"“Every current and former Microsoft employee I interviewed—every one—cited stack ranking as the most destructive process inside of Microsoft, something that drove out untold numbers of employees,” [Kurt] Eichenwald writes."

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2012/08/microsoft-lost-mo...

I don't believe I've read the second one, but it expands on the corporate culture that required someone's official failure for you to survive:

"In those years [when it failed] Microsoft had stepped up its efforts to cripple competitors, but—because of a series of astonishingly foolish management decisions—the competitors being crippled were often co-workers at Microsoft, instead of other companies. Staffers were rewarded not just for doing well but for making sure that their colleagues failed. As a result, the company was consumed by an endless series of internal knife fights. Potential market-busting businesses—such as e-book and smartphone technology—were killed, derailed, or delayed amid bickering and power plays.
A couple of points, first I talked with a lawyer who works with/for the FCC and established that if the city isn't involved in lighting up the pipes they don't care what they do. The regulations would apply to ISPs using those pipes but it would not apply to the folks maintaining them. He used the example that companies like the old AboveNet which ran dark fiber from place to place and kept it maintained were not liable to FCC regulation.

The second thing that is interesting is that having a city maintained connectivity infrastructure actually has some positive social justice aspects as it starts to chip away at the digital divide. Once existing contracts have expired and the city is in a position to change things (current single provider contracts don't allow for this) a charitable organization could be an "ISP" without the cost of maintaining the physical plant to/from the subscribers. This greatly expands the available market and gives at risk populations more accessibility. Currently kids study at the city library (which has publicly accessible Internet) rather than at home.

Keep them coming folks, these are exactly the sorts of things we're trying to surface and look at.
Perhaps it's because I wasn't even alive, let alone programming, in 1968, but I'd be very interested to hear how losing millions of dollars is incomparably better than inconveniencing programmers.
I'm setting this as my desktop background. Thanks!
It's there

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=apache+nginx
Business stock footage – power of the Dollar on Behance
You have to supply that, see the python script, at the end it prints what to run to decrypt, the determined IV is passed as a param:

http://corkami.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/angecryption/ang...
Storing the private keys that decrypt the emails you're telling your users cannot be decrypted doesn't seem very secure. The whole sales pitch Lavabit used was provably false, and for him to not foresee private key compromise on his servers would be remarkably shortsighted.
I was on a team that built a lead acid hybrid race car in college. I seem to recall the batteries were by far the heaviest component of the car; at ~40lb a piece, they were more than half the gross vehicle weight (pilot and ethanol included).

Assuming Pb-C is roughly comparable to Pb-Acid in mass density (since most of the weight is presumably in the Pb), then you'd need ~twice as much to match it in energy density.

I'm wondering how massive the battery packs will end up being on such a vehicle.

>The reason lithium is used for electric cars is energy density. This is not a problem for hybrids.

I don't understand what leads you to conclude this.
> Does there exist user space applications (desktop/web/mobile ...) that do similar things ? (ie: don't send us the logs, just click a pic and attach it to your support ticket ...)

If you're going to go to the trouble of adding extra code to handle that behaviour, why not just add functionality to the app to report its own crashes, error log excerpts, etc.? This is likely the reason you haven't come across it: it makes less sense than just providing the option to submit the crash reports directly. Less work for the user, less support overhead for the developer, etc.

> Something like this could have never come out of proprietary software, simply because this is someone developer's specific itch that needed to be scratched

I'll point out that most other OSes have a way of capturing crash reports, stack traces, memory dumps, etc. and sending them or storing them for debugging. Linux is the only modern OS I've used that doesn't have the capability to send crash reports back to the developers, which is why the QR code trick is necessary in the first place, and the QR code functionality is worse in all cases except where your storage system is completely inaccessible/irreparably damaged.
Tell us more about what you have in mind.
My Pro2 is ok on the lap, but not brilliant. It's the fact that the keyboard isn't rigidly attached to the screen which makes it feel unstable. Although it's perfectly satisfactory to type, the experience isn't as good as with a netbook or MBP11.
this comes nowhere-the-fuck near cursing as dynamically as i can. ;)
Perhaps a reference to articles with certain keywords being apparently penalized in the HN rankings: http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...
Really enjoyed the read, but I don't understand the line about going from 500km/h - 1000km/h in 5 seconds... treetop level or otherwise.
Is that really possible? I think my math is off if so.

Mass with a 900kg fuel load looks to be around 12,000kg
Max thrust is 162kN for both with afterburner.

500km/h = 139m/s
1000km/h = 278m/s
Going from one to the other in 5s means an average acceleration of 27.8m/s^2... or almost 3 g, which is monstrous!

But how does this work?
Solving F=ma for a gives a=F/m = 162000/12000 = 13.5m/s^2

And that's before accounting for the not insignificant thrust required just to overcome the aerodynamic drag.

Is it just an understandable overestimation of the acceleration due to the direct experience of it? Or am I missing something?

Either way, awesome.
He seems to be as intimately involved as Howard Hughes was in his various aviation efforts. I think credit is deserved even if, obviously, there is a much larger engineering team at work here.
I thought this had already been solved somewhat.

There are many events in the UK that use tickets with your photo on them. One example is Glastonbury where you have to pre-register your photo before the tickets go on sale and you get a registration number.

Then the person buying the tickets on the day enters the registration numbers of the people they are purchasing for, similar to passport number when buying plane tickets.

No page refreshes required on ticket day because tickets are only sold through the 1 vendor site so they have the full pool of tickets. Scalpers don't bother to get in the online queue because they are non-transferrable.

If you decide not to go to to the event you can return your ticket for a refund, those returned tickets then get offered up at a later date for anyone that previously registered but missed out. There are no person to person trades. All tickets sales are vendor to person.
I don't know about "largely", but it certainly is also highly dependent on the management in place. One place I worked one of the managers basically implemented an unofficial "stack ranking" within his group of 4-6 employees so that he could always have a scapegoat.
My valuing documentation grew from being the user at various jobs, something like this:

"So, here we use Unique Software X."

"Great! Is there anything to help me learn how to use it?"

"... No. It was just developed over the years."

"I'll even take a powerpoint presentation, even if its outdated."

"Yea, no. You're just going to have to play with it and hope that that's enough to do your job."

"I was going to play with it anyways, but I'm guessing no one has the time to answer questions either?"
They should at least be delivering routers inside tamper-evident packaging. It would cost a few cents in special tape for each box.
Any email provider (even yourself !) can be used with GPG to encrypt the content of your emails and have good privacy. Try Thunderbird with Enigmail.

This is notoriously known for not encrypting metadata, though, which is impossible because this very metadata is used to make email actually work.
Just out of interest, are you developing on Windows? Do you have any experience running Linux on them or know if that's pretty much a no go?
What would I be calling to tell them? That the government shouldn't be able to, through proper channels, obtain a warrant requesting specific named information regarding an investigation of a specific individual for things that violate US law?

If we disagree with the laws, ok: protest for legal reform.
If we disagree with the things revealed by Snowden, ok: protest that.
But what happened to Lavabit was the government behaving properly: they obtained a narrow warrant for specifically the data they needed as part of their investigation, they tried to work with Levison to fulfill the warrant, and only after days of being stonewalled did they escalate to ensure compliance.
Come to Australia and revel in the NBN. Oh wait...
I take issue with your referencing the DOJ's emotional state. Assuming you can even determine how "they" were feeling, I don't believe it matters at all to the case. Why not note Levison's emotional state upon receiving the initial court orders?
An article that makes a potentially credible claim---testimony under oath, I presume, that a judge found credible---that Google's acknowledged stack ranking system is now being used to fire people is a very big thing.
So by Netflix making a deal with Comcast, did L3 effectively get cut out of the picture?

Also, isn't increasing equipment/bandwidth part of the business? It seems so ridiculously absurd that Comcast is balking to increasing its bandwidth...
Browser Mantra For Security Testing
Yeah, putting IBM/Lenovo aside, even the average Compaq or Dell laptop from back in the day had a significantly superior nub compared to my X210. I was really disappointed when I got it, because I remembered nubs being lot more comfortable to use than this thing that "sticks" frequently and has almost painful resistance.

The other benefit of nubs was that not having a huge touch pad at the bottom of the laptop let them bring the keyboard much closer to the edge, where (like a regular keyboard) it is much more comfortable to type on. Since modern Thinkpads include the touchpad anyway, you have no choice but to hurt your wrists constantly for the sake of a device that (if you're like me) you completely disabled in the BIOS because it just got in the way.
Twitter's plans to purchase SoundCloud have evaporated
I was about to post the same thing. Calling a guy who killed 168 people (including many children) a "great patriot" is disgusting beyond belief. Yes Weev, you were subject to many injustices and indignities and we're all pretty pissed at how broken the system is, but this is not how you solve these problems.
They never really gave up on that:

http://www.disneygoldenoak.com/

Unfortunately, instead of a futuristic urban dream, it became a "mousified" 'burb for the 1%.
I'm loving the new version. I tried switching some time ago, but found the results lacking and the experience just annoying enough to not help me get to where I wanted. Now with this new version it's a whole different ball game. I've been using the beta for a while, and it's just so good .

I'm loving it – excellent work!
cygwin has a license problem b/c it's GPL. So it's a no-go. You can't bundle your proprietary software with it easily.
There is an add-on for Firebug too (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/css-usage/) -- I use it a big corp. Basically if there is some wild huge monolithic css file I'll cut a new one for a site & use this to pick a decent-looking base subset from the existing dung heap. Then I'll use it again later to analyze widgets etc. if someone complains "how come ______ doesn't look like it does on the old site?".

I'd love for this all to be automated but it seems there are some fundamental flaws in that. Sometimes unused css still fits into a logical unit and should be included. Sometimes in-use css is just a piece of garbage innocuously clinging to some jagged edge of the DOM.

I try to comment blocks of CSS with both starting and ending comments, "______ START" to "_______ END" to avoid this. That way I can extract those pieces later without really worrying that I'm mangling a code module, manually, without much fear.
M$ is juvenile. Big companies will tend to spend up on building and then promoting their products. What's the shame in that?
This is a notebook killer literally. It is for taking notes as a notebook should do. Maybe it is a laptop killer for some too.

Comparisons with Ipad and ohter tablets are ridiculous. This is a working machine.

I think this will be my next machine.

Nobody in the press has mentioned the new power connector by the way. If you look at the docking station all connections are done by this connector. I hope there will be a cable based adapter for usb+dp+power too.
"Stonewalling the DOJ"

Do you mean preparing your defense?

Sure is easy for the DOJ to prepare their case ahead of time with seemingly unlimited assets and then demand a response to an unknowing and single party.
An exploration of Tor pluggable transports – how they look on the wire
Your analogy fails too. I use a manual javascript blocking add-on (noscript) instead of an automatic blacklisting one and its not a deal-breaker. Minor effort required.
It is not clear how the bug was discovered. If it was because someone was reading the source code, it still took a long time for someone to read that part of the source code, so I don't think someone was backlogged with code reviews by two years.

I think it is far more likely that someone first realised they were getting extra data and then went to read the source code to see why this was happening. I think it's safe to speculate that most bugs are discovered by inspecting the behaviour of the software, not by reading the source code.

Of course, once the bug is found, having the source code makes it much easier to patch it, but it's amazing what people can do to patch bugs even without source code.
Then I apologise for misreading your comment as a judgement on the valid uses of a Mac rather than it being your personal opinion.
"This firmware and driver package contains drivers for all of the components in the Surface Pro device, as well as updates to the system firmware that have been released via Windows Update."
I don't like the low contrast and drab grey of the result page. It makes it much harder to jump between results with the eyes.

Luckily, there is a "classic" mode. Please Gabriel, make classic mode the default mode again.
What is NoSQL? Four Things, Actually
I'm a fan of having unit tests with apps (maybe not full-on TDD but still). How would you create a unit test for something like this? Got any examples?
What defense? They didn't charge him with anything until after the stonewalling. They sent him a warrant and requested that he comply, just as he'd done with all the previous warrants.