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brokentone, what is quality in your opinion? Is it connection speed? If it is more complex than that, what would be the best way to quantify it?
Most hotels offer free WiFi, so it is easy to skip hotels with paid WiFi. We will add more filters (including this one) soon.
People have no idea; once they see the "Harvard", they can hardly see anything else.

The confusion extends even to Harvard grads. Because of the mix at alumni events of Harvard College graduates, MBAs, JDs, MDs, Extension School grads, etc., sometimes the organizers print up name tags with the degree abbreviations on them. It does little good, though: I've had Harvard MBAs ask me what my "A.B." means. (It's an abbreviation for the Latin artium baccalaureus, pretentious Harvard-speak for "bachelor's degree". I.e., it means I "went to Harvard" in the colloquial sense of the phrase.) As far as most of them know, A.B. and A.L.B./A.A. (the Extension School degrees) might as well be the same thing.
Even including it in driver's education isn't likely to help. Driver's education teaches people to use blinkers, but from informal observation I'd estimate 1/3 of drivers in my area don't use their blinkers at all.
Traffic management is a fascinating intersection of sociology, fluid dynamics, behavior change, and urban planning.

If you're interested in this field, I can't recommend the work of Tom Vanderbilt enough. His book "Traffic" brought urban planning to the masses in the same manner "Freakonomics" made social and public policy accessible.

http://tomvanderbilt.com/traffic/
Staplerfahrer Klaus will never got old for me.
There is no evidence that nature can globally solve NP-hard problems. At best, nature finds locally optimum solutions to these problems.
In Minnesota there are posted signs such as "Stay in your lane until the merge point" which seem to work pretty well.
Hmm, probably fair.
As a driver in the Twin Cities area, I can back the stereotype that Minnesotans don't know how to zipper. It speaks so truly of the Minnesota condition.

People begin often merge far too early, and get offended when folks like myself "budge" at the front of the line.

Learn to zipper, darn it!

Edit: This TPT parody, How to Talk Minnesotan, shows how to drive in Minnesota (scrub to 11:58):

http://video.tpt.org/video/2365042610/

If you ever lived in rural Minnesota, you know this is completely dead on.
I'm surprised this is written like zipper merging is some kind of recently discovered secret. Zipper merging (or weaving) has been standard practice in parts of Europe for 20 years (maybe longer – I can't really remember anything else). Since March 2014 it is even mandatory in Belgium, and anyone merging early may risk a €55 fine [1].

It has been repeatedly advocated and promoted by various governments in Europe [2] and I doubt anyone questions its effectivity. Some experiments have been done in the past with alternative methods like zipper merging with groups of cars, but this is only applied when traffic can be regulated (with lights or traffic controllers). The nice thing about zipper merging is that with enough public knowledge, drivers can regulate merging themselves.

[1]:http://www.vandaag.be/binnenland/145761_ritsen-verplicht-van...

[2]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNhnLYI2Efw – Dutch government TV ad from 1989 which explains and promotes zipper merging (albeit very poorly, I must admit).
Fog Creek employees keep on making Fog Creek awesome, and yes, they have a stake in Trello Inc. (Some of the longstanding employees now even have a stake in both Stack Exchange AND Trello).
Funny thing that both Zef and Tim are former Cloud9 employees. They largely build upon the same stack with VFS[0] and Ace.

[0] https://github.com/c9/vfs
Dwellaware[1] is worth a mention - we're not in bed with any real estate agents and not afraid to tell the truth

[1] https://www.dwellaware.com/
How ironic, when California has the most pro-entrepreneur labor laws. Non-competes aren't enforceable and California 2870 has the entrepreneur's back.

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=lab&gr...

Every company has to give you a piece of paper that says, "If you develop something unrelated without using company resources, you own it."

California is an entrepreneur's wet dream. The tax liability is cheap for what you get.
I used to do consulting and traveled 100%. The term "High Speed Internet" is a common misnomer with Hotels, and was a bane of my existence, because it typically meant > 56k but < 1 Mbps speeds.

These were with Hyatt, Marriott and Hilton hotels, mind you. If aggregaters like Hipmunk could incorporate this speed data, the way that they have with in-flight wifi, then hopefully there will be a push to improve this standard.
I hope Scott Aaronson blogs about this article, because it espouses several of the wrong-facts he complains about and then cites him.

- Limitations on computers within physics are not limitations on physics itself. Analogously, you can simulate system so simple that a computer can't be made in them without your computer unmaking itself. Relevant: xkcd.com/505

- We do understand why we don't observe superpositions. It all comes down to this thing we call "quantum mechanics", which precisely describes those sorts of situations.

- The article consistently mixes up NP-Hard and NP-Complete.

> "And how does the universe decide whether a system is going to be quantum or not?"

Seriously, is this article a satire?
It's not the concept that is newsworthy, it's the decision to actively promote it that is.
Sure: http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3645854520

Edit: Ran another test on your site and got 61.4 Mbps. It might have been an issue on my end, not too sure. Great work!

Edit 2: Ran yours once again and got 31 Mbps. There seems to be an issue with consistency, although this could be my ISP.
I live in the Twin Cities and "Minnesota nice" means merging incredibly early when a lane is posted as closed. As a transplant I can always count on getting and extra 1/2 - 1 mile ahead by staying in the closed lane.

It is getting better, but still 40% of the time the car at the end of the zipper merge is NOT happy to see you, and thinks they are letting you in.

Signage is helping at the big construction areas.
I tend to lean on the control key with the corner of my palm rather than pressing it with a finger tip. (Though I don't use a normal home-row style of touch typing, either, so YMMV.)
We observe n-body systems continuously. We are all participants in n-body systems continuously.
I am sure a regular dedicated server provider would take a long time to get you the server. Maybe days? Not sure.

I think their point is they provision a "dedicated" server in "minutes."
Since the big obstacle to zippering is people's perception that it's rude (since you appear to be "pushing to the front of the line," as it were), one could argue that this is a case of Minnesota Nice hurting more than it helps :-D
Gosu is more than 10 years old.
For some historical background/design decisions please have a look at this article: http://www.drdobbs.com/open-source/language-of-the-month-gos...
Because it is good for workers, and therefore workers who value themselves (or more specifically, understand their value to businesses) will want to live someplace where their rights are more important than their companies.

For example: non-compete clauses are unenforceable in California. This makes it "unfriendly" to businesses, but much more appealing to highly skilled workers who don't want to be boxed out of their industry for two years just because they dislike their job and want to quit.
I think traffic shaping would be really nice to detect and report. Something that we will explore once we move beyond HTML5 client.
"To me (and with all due respect to the parent commenters grandfather) when I hear things like this I think something is trying to prove honesty a bit to much and (once again not to imply the parent commenters grandfather is such a person) that is the type of person I actually watch out for sometimes."

99.9% of the time, that type of statement is more of a sign of your personality and less a sign of others'.

In reality, though, the main point that you missed is that in a world made of shades of gray, the only person you can ever truly rely on is yourself. If you don't have scruples and you don't have honor, you don't have anything.

That's the basic message. Trying to water it down with nuance and personal opinion about honesty in today's world is simply grasping for straws to justify choices made in your own life.

That's a lot more confrontational than I intended. Those are not meant to be the personal attacks they come across as.

Some people have honor in everything they do, they're good people. Some people have honor in only the major things they do, they're good people as well, but there may be some questionable choices when it comes to minor things like finding cash on the ground or speeding. Some people have no honor; avoid these people.

That allows for your nuance, but still allows for a code of honor. Kids need to be taught that. Act honorably, understand that not everyone adheres to your codes, and understand that even if they don't, they're not automatically bad people.
Well up until just a few years ago BK was in near constant fights with its franchise owners. That and changing ownership a few times isn't going to give you a good base to operate from.

That and McDonald's just owns kids.
In northern California there are a few BK's that deliver. Pretty awesome.

I'm waiting on Subway and Togo's to get drive-thru windows. Finally, a more-healthyish drive-through choice.
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This is interesting (never had an annoying alarm)! Seems sound waves create more disturbance for the sensor than an actual blunt impact which is localized to a point on the body and possibly not transferred through the chassis to the sensor.
Generally I've found that most drivers in the Twin Cities have not acclimated to "city driving" the way many of us from other areas learned. People here drive as if they are exempt from the responsibility of piloting a 2 ton death roller skate and what it could possibly do to others while they text their friends.
I thought the zipper merge was the standard way to merge? You stay in your lane till the merge section(end of your lane) and its every other car. Maybe its a California thing.
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Your comments are non-constructive. This second point was almost religious.

To say that a mathematical problem has nothing to do with physics would not be right, since physics' major theories of today are essentially maths.
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I just spent a few hours trawling through these and recommend http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/07/30/swingers-2?curr... (bonobo research), http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/09/05/how-to-be-good (a philosopher's defense of moralism) and http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/12/20/master-of-play?... (interview with miyamoto of nintendo).
"Merge rudely."

It's only rude if no-one else is doing it (i.e. you're speeding ahead of everyone merging early). If everyone stays in their lane until the merge point, no-one's zooming ahead, so it stays fair.
Tried typing "Boston" and nothing in the UI changed. Looks like it's 500-ing.
Typo: http://www.speedof.me/
I'm assuming you're not from the United States?
They are not going away. I hope they do but they are entrenched.

Realtor.com, zillow, trulia, those are jokes.
Baby steps. We'll get there eventually.
I don't see how it would be an issue. A parking garage is out of the way anyway so wouldn't annoy anybody nearby. Nobody should be in a giant automated garage so nobody to annoy, and any security threat would be monitored for visually not auditorially.
"Minnesota Nice" tends to be an in-joke according to many of the people I've asked about it here. :)
I've chosen to never speed because it reduces my cognitive load.

Nobody speeds all the time. Even people who speed a lot will try to slow down for speed traps.

So everyone who speeds even those who speed only every now and then have to be constantly making a choice for when to speed.

They must constantly assess whether the benefits of speeding in this specific moment outweigh the disadvantages. There are dozens of variables: how much quicker will speeding be? will I be caught? is it safe to speed on this road at this time?

Much easier to ignore all that and just to drive below the speed limit.
I'm a simulationist. I believe that the universe we're experiencing is a simulation made by a far-advanced civilization. So in my reality, if something can't be modeled, it can't exist.

Not saying that this is the truth, just the way I choose to understand things.
More importantly, the decision by American transportation authorities to promote it is newsworthy. It seems like Northern Europe takes a more systematic and serious attitude towards driving, while the American attitude is more "eat my breakfast while driving 50mph in the left lane, and give the finger to everyone who passes me on the right"
Same in PA. I've always remembered merging like this.
That quote is taken out of context and was written by someone who's first language is obviously not English. I took the paragraph to mean that Emacs users are possibly more technical because it attracts those who are curious enough to research less mainstream programming languages.
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That's not the question. Macroscopic behavior as described by Schrodinger's equation has never been observed. Because of having no observations, we assume it does not exist.

The linked paper is arguing, "Because solving Schrodinger's equation is non-polynomial, and such solutions are infeasible when N is large, then they can't exist." The linked paper is stating that the phenomenon has not been observed, assuming it does not exist, and then trying to explain why.

tomp's point is that we observe systems in our Universe that we can't model efficiently all the time. Hence, the line of argument in the paper doesn't hold up.
The question as asked is too much like, "When did you stop beating your wife?"

It presupposes something that isn't necessarily true. More concretely, it doesn't establish how it came to the conclusion that "Americans stink at math." Which Americans? What math? Where is the evidence?

Cannot recommend. But then again, the Times isn't really a very good newspaper.
While the WiFi in most hotels is horrendous, wired internet is pretty awesome most of the time. A network cable is always in my suitcase and my laptop can run as an access point for my other devices. A separate access point could also come in handy (you have very small ones nowadays).

During JSDay.it people had a lot of time even connecting to the WiFi while I was running at 80 mbps.
"...I don't think it is necessarily unethical if you know that you can do it (so long as you can deliver before they start paying)"

So the salesperson/founder needs to have a good enough model of how the software works so that they know if a feature is relatively easy to provide, or if as another poster commented, it would require say a major change in a database design.
I don't think it is necessarily unethical if you know that you can do it (so long as you can deliver before they start paying)

When I was being sold to, I developed a good ear for phrases like 'in development' or 'that is just a custom report'. We used put it all in writing &c.
"To say that a mathematical problem has nothing to do with physics would not be right, since physics' major theories of today are essentially maths."

No

Physics depends on mathematics, not the opposite.

Math exists regardless of physics.
We can't directly observe superpositions (macroscopic or otherwise) because when doing so, we become entangled with the state of the observed object. The only thing special about macroscopic objects is that it is difficult to prevent or postpone their entanglement with the environment.

Think about Schrödingers' gedankenexperiment from the cat's point of view. It finds itself to be either comfortable or dying by toxic fumes; it can't see the superposition because it is inside of that superposition. The same thing happens to any observer trying to look at a quantum superposition.
Ah, I see, you mean the 97.35% is a "pure" algorithmic result. That's pretty impressive.
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Found it about 10 secs ahead of your post - was coming back to edit it into my comment:) Thanks.

>So if, e.g., you had 100,000 people to recognize from and your verification accuracy was 97.53%, you'd have a recognition accuracy of ~66%, which is not great.

Out of 100,000 people, I'd assume that there'd be many pairs that wouldn't be distinguishable by their parents, or even by each other. Wouldn't you eventually run into a quantum effect where the differences between people's faces from image-to-image would be larger than the difference between someone's face and everyone in a corpus of X million people? I'd think that a 66% would crush if you had 5 (for example) images of each person you were trying to identify, especially if they were intentionally taken from very different angles or in very different lighting, and you were trying to identify a person that you had 3 images of.

>Finally, there are already lots of applications to face recognition other than surveillance

I'm curious about those.
That was the original idea of Hotel WiFi Test: use social media pressure to call out hotels with slow WiFi. That's still an important use case. Then, to our surprise, we found that some hotels provide very good WiFi (and in most cases it is free). Showcasing such hotels is win-win: travellers get fast WiFi, hotels get more business for their effort.
There is a bit of a fallacy going on here. If your housing costs 2x of another place it does not follow that the total COL is 2x. For instance, most cost of living calculations predict that even though housing is 85% higher in Chicago, the total cost of living is more like 28%.

A 28% salary differential is just about right for the last couple of jobs I looked at and maybe a bit lower. This also doesn't count for the choice differential between Chicago and Milwaukee which is extreme.
> Except bitcoin hasn't solved the problems with international transfers. Bitcoin's just ignored them.

Very odd statement. Bitcoin (and related cryptocurrencies) is the only way any two peers on the planet can transfer funds electronically without a trusted third party. That's a fundamental shift from what was possible before. It solves the biggest part of the problem; what's left is reputation systems to facilitate transactions between people who don't know each other personally and enabling technologies that make the whole thing more accessible to "normal" people. (Nobody is ignoring those problems, either, FWIW, but they aren't Bitcoin's to solve.)

> I'm not really sure I understand why banks would do that vs. just using social processes, since those processes still need to exist

Maybe that's where we're talking past each other. Those processes don't need to exist with Bitcoin anymore. With Bitcoin, Bob's tiny credit union in Albuquerque can transfer $100 to Alice's credit union in Thailand for free. The credit unions don't need to negotiate with anyone or depend on anyone except for each other. In fact, the credit unions don't even need to factor into the equation at all; they just provide a convenient interface for consumers to access the system (and potentially a hedge for fraud, etc). It is enormously more economically efficient than the current model. It's the difference between express post and email. (Right, leaky analogy, I get it. It's a paradigm shift, is what I'm trying to say.)
Probably even faster using LC_ALL=C and parallel grep [0]

[0] http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/man.html#example__paral...
People think they are being nice. Education can work very quickly and efficiently on such people by showing them they aren't being nice after all.

I live in the US in a "nice driver" area with a number of traffic circles. On a fairly routine basis I come up to a traffic circle and stop because there is someone in it coming towards me, but then they try to "helpfully" stop and wave me in, slowing down themselves, everyone behind them, and even slowing me down as now I'm confused and less likely to move. Or I get stuck behind such a person in the circle and have to stop gracelessly as they unexpectedly stop in the middle. (This being a traffic circle it's not that dangerous due to lack of speed, plus over time I've learned to predict who is going to do this based on the car body language...) I haven't yet witnessed this causing an accident but it's just a matter of time, it snarls things up that badly. They think they're being friendly. If someone would explain that "friendly" is using the traffic circles as designed, they'd probably do the right thing in the future, but so far I haven't discovered the hand gestures that properly express that.
Odersky has since changed his mind, he now calls it a modular language: http://parleys.com/play/53a7d2c3e4b0543940d9e536
If cost were similar I would use Ray. Don't like idea of having another person drive my car around...
I did an analysis on the accurate of Zestimates a few years ago. I took sales data for my county from the previous month (that Zillow had not imported yet) and compared it to the Zestimates Zillow computed. The mean error was almost 0, but the standard deviation was about 20%. An engineer from Zillow wrote to me and said my analysis was close to their own internal measurements. Their algorithms might have improved since then since it sounded like it was something they were continuously trying to improve.
How do you solve the safety for children/ young people problem? That is what has lead to many similar applications shutting down.
The defining moment for me was one time when I was riding with my stepfather when I was 12 or so. We pulled up behind a truck that had a "Call us if this vehicle is driving badly" or the equivalent sticker and I blurted out how fun it would be to call and say the driver was terrible.

He immediately said something along the lines of "So you think it would be fun to get that guy fired?" and the impact was basically immediate. It was a lesson that actions have consequences, something that it seems like so few people seem to actually appreciate.
They all get their info from the same source so it doesnt really matter.
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I've actually been working on a website based around a reddit style of interaction between users and locations. I've focused on the web portion as I'm a web developer. I've only toyed around with the mobile portion so far. I wonder if a collaboration would be possible? I only want to broadcast the landing page on hackernews http://www.nualt.com/ But I have a fully functional site with maps, user accounts, posts, pictures, places, etc. Feel free to reach out if you are interested in talking more. patrick.justin.bradley@gmail.com

Great work. :)
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No, he made his actual suggestion quite explicit.
This guy is totally irresponsible. The thought that he had the financial well being of other people in his hands makes me sick. There should be a law that prevents people like this from starting another company.
This is the first time I have heard someone suggest that DF has UI design of comparable quality to Starcraft or Warcraft (or any other major game for that matter).
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Parking yourself isn't that much cheaper. Actually can be even more expensive than $40 a day and right now this robot is only cheaper because you get a special deal.

http://www.dus-parken.co.uk/parking-prices.html
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As a fellow traveling worker, I find the same problem.

For this subset of society, wifi speed is a crucial deciding factor. Top 3, for me, at least.