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I've lived in Boulder for about 6 years now and stay for the environment. It's about a 40 minute drive from Denver on a good day and has a very different feel from the city. There's definitely a lot of opportunity in technology work-wise, endless opportunities in the outdoors, but some left to be desired culturally.

As a sibling mentioned, the city and the county together own a "green belt" around the city proper that is meant to be permanent. It was actually started in the 50s and has been a great legacy for us nowadays.

Great place just to visit for a few days too!
Taking 93 or 36 it might as well be 100 miles away :) The commute between Denver and Boulder (which I did for 3 years) is brutal no matter how you slice it.
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Everything green is open space.
Unless I'm missing something, it appears to be mono so, no, not suitable for music in any sized room.
Hi Nir,

I'm midway through the audiobook now and must say, its really fantastic. So many concepts packed into a relatively short listen. This will probably be something I have to play through a couple of times to even catch a first pass at everything.

My first question is a more technical one, though. The book makes mention to a couple figures. They are described by the narrator, but I was wondering if these were available to audiobook listeners online somewhere. I purchased the book through Audible and got access to your great pack of Extras, too.

More on-topic with the content of the book... Do you think that when forming habits (new service or new users) the synthesized triggers should be purely transactional, or are "digest" newsletters effective as well? By transactional, I mean push notifications, comment reply notifications, and other things that are generated by a user's preferences, connections, etc.

Thanks again for the great resource. Looking forward to continuing the audio book and leveraging the techniques you mention for years to come.
I was studying abroad in Australia and didn't bring any flash drives with me. One of the labs (or tutorials, as they call them) had us working on files on the. School computers. I needed to send them to myself somehow, but didn't want to log in to my email or Dropbox to upload them because I didn't feel like the computers were very secure.

I hacked up the first version in a few days and used it for the rest of the semester, then promptly forgot about it until it started getting blogged about :p
Nice.
Someone out there will soon know my family better than me.

At the end of the day I'll ask "Alexa" what has happened while I was at work. ;-)
Douglas Crockford's been making this argument this year at conferences: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo36MrBfTk4&t=19m (linked to the `new` bit, but the whole thing's worth watching).

> These stories get used an awful lot to justify dogma on everything from strict typing to Promises to whatever. I feel that's misguided - there will always be enough rope to hang oneself with in any language, and those errors should have been mitigated by diligent use of static code analysis (linting) and unit testing.

Paraphrasing the talk I just linked to, it's always better to have a language which will guide you away from writing the bug in the first place than to have to come back with a linter and fix it up.
and the nearby city of longmont did the same thing, and it hasn't gotten the people anything, last i checked. (not that voting for it was a bad idea; i'm largely ambivalent.)

digging under ground and laying cable is significantly more expensive than most people realize, and when they get the quote, they're suddenly a lot happier with 100Mbps.

comcast probably didn't fight it because it doesn't matter. or they figure they can lease some, and it'll be that much less they've got to bury for their business customers.
The implied stereotyped story is that all black men are angry and beat their wives/girlfriends. If the two parties knew each other and were good friends, then this could have fit into the, "so horrible, it can't be true so it's funny," style of humor. However, attempting that is taking a big risk and having it fail can be downright offensive.
Very true. 36 is 101 levels of bad at times. Thankfully for me I walk to work right now.
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The FBI exists to justify itself. An up-front, moralizing tone is reassuring to non-technically literate people who don't realize this is equivalent to tracing all of our most intimate conversations.
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The context of the entire paragraph from which that statement is drawn refers pretty clearly to "hiding behind a keyboard" to commit crimes such as running an online drug bazaar.. of course the government disagrees with and wants to suppress that. I don't believe it's nearly as nonspecific and ominous as you seem to.

The premise of sites like Silk Road is that they exist entirely beyond the reach of the law - and the government is, understandably, refuting this premise.
Fair point! My understanding is that, when Xfinity/CenturyLink have laid fiber in Boulder in the past, they were required to lay city-owned fiber along with it. So, hopefully the build out is much more feasible. (I may be entirely _underestimating_ the "last mile" costs relative to larger infrastructure though...)
Can I, as a consumer that hypothetically owns one of these, control the software that is running on it?
You nailed it, Sir. This "zopeness" is exactly what kept me from adopting AngularJs.
Thanks for the feedback. Thinking about it, what I wrote is probably quite obvious to the usual crowd of Hacker News.
In all seriousness, is there any legal precedent for seizing/shooting down satellites?
Disagree with what?

The government disagreed with black markets, and they will enforce their will by shutting it down.

If not the DEA or the FBI, then the IRS will.
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They changed it with the release of Yosemite. It's now free for anyone with iOS8 or OSX 10.10
There are equally valid technical reasons for using `new`, so it's dogma
My favorite example of ggplots ease and customizability comes from xkcd style graphs:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12675147/how-can-we-make-...
How do you really know? How do you know that it won't be processing sound without the trigger when they get served with some government request? Is this in the terms and conditions? Is this in the privacy policy?

Yes the original post is making an assumption, but you are as well.
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No, this doesn't fit either case. If you are going to return the error details in a way the human user can read, then you really ought to just return them symbolically, because a programmer will start running regexes over your error codes to figure out what happened. If you're going to not show the underlying error, then either be willing to entirely hide it (sometimes appropriate, probably not for the usual IO case but there are internal errors for which a translation is appropriate) or wrap and pass up, but don't wrap and pass up as a string. That's the worst of all worlds.
It is certainly possible to wireshark it and know whether it is transmitting anything. You don't need anything to be open sourced.
Wow, scrolling through that article was really disturbing. I guess I need to get used to this kind of presentation.
Well, they've certainly shamed the public enough for trying to get the government to comply with its own goddamn laws.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AECMAScript, search for "make it look like Java" and see who wrote the comment.
Right. Cellphone's baseband also. Hope you don't have any in the room with you otherwise that would be hypocritical. Most have a speakerphone which will pick up the whole room's audio.
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Here's an "interesting" counter-point from an academic who has strong ties to the cable industry.

http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_26474974/no-municipal-b...

http://daniels.du.edu/faculty-staff/ronald-rizzuto/#sthash.X...

This is discouraging to me because, in my idealistic mind, academia should transcend "lobbying" and produce information for the public to consume. I don't have a problem with academics earning a livable wage from their research efforts, but I have an increasing sense of corporate "plants" in the academic realm that generate the results from research that benefits the corporation. It seems like things have gotten backwards - research used to be used to make a better product/service/commodity for which a company can charge a premium. Now it seems like research is used to justify stagnation tactics.

Anyway, germane to the actual content of the article, this is encouraging, but as has been noted, many of these are very small communities anyway. There's not as much of a loss if they are not part of the larger loss of a metro area. The notable exceptions are Boulder (which is, honestly, considered to do its own thing) and Cherry Hills Village. CHV is a curiosity for me because that's where the extravagantly wealthy of the Denver metro area live and is a fairly "red" area so I wonder if this is becoming enough of an issue that it's transcending party lines and affiliations. Poor service knows no political alignment, I guess. Enough rambling.
With the ability to add a remote mic and speaker setup so I can hide the unit, along with a trigger word of "Computer" this could be awesome.
Buy multiple units. Sonos does this pretty well.
This is not true. Longmont has proceeded with building out a fiber utility for its citizens [0] called NextLight. As I mentioned in another comment [1], my understanding is that Boulder city has required private telecom operators to lay city-owned fiber alongside its own.

[0] http://longmontcolorado.gov/departments/departments-e-m/long...
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8568436
As someone who loves in-person whiteboard interviews, I absolutely agree. It seems to me like they mostly just test your ability to remain composed under pressure, think fast, and talk smoothly. They don't necessarily test coding ability.

Now, I don't know if that's a bad thing. Those are all valuable skills that I would probably want in a coworker.
With TOR, though, it's very easy to move servers quickly. Who wants to play a foreign game of 'whack a mole'? Authorities will tire quickly of complying with an endless game.,
If you have a smartphone with Siri or the equiv app on it (Android, Windows) your device is already 'always listening.' I fail to see the difference.

People carry around a GPS tracking device with a mic and camera built-in. They use it to post their entire lives on social networks. And they're worried about privacy.

Hilarious.
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It would just be nice if they operated under the same judicial rules that they are enforcing. It seems like a large portion of US agencies (who enforce 'justice' in one way or another) these days feel like the same laws they are enforcing don't necessarily apply to them, especially when said law(s) limit their ability to do their job.

Or more simply put, exceptional circumstances have now become a rule rather than an exception.
If they put motorized wheels and a cute LED face on the device, I bet it would sell a bit more. Although there's the whole problem of stairs...
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the most successful case studies have a history of forethought such that the infrastructure is largely in place before the decision is made.
Ok, since everyone here is making baseless claims about privacy, why don't we just buy one for science and monitor the network traffic on it? Problem solved.

Getting really tired of HN stating obvious paranoia instead of talking about innovation these days. Yes, I get that privacy concerns exist, and this should always be kept in mind. But when more than 90% of the comments are about that, and circulating on completely theoretical claims, we've lost all value in the conversation.
> people will just stop caring until they can quantize a real world impact

By which time it'll be way too late.

When all of your data is in all databases (rather than most of your data in some, as is now) and a Google search could result in some marketer cold-calling your landline about what you just searched, well... that'll be when people realize the outcome of the game they lost years ago.
Its not really a black box, you still conceivably own the network it is running on. Last I checked Wireshark was pretty good at capturing network traffic. Even if the connection is encrypted, if the device isn't sending oodles of data to Amazon when you are chatting chances are good it isn't send "every word" to them.

Granted, being able to audit this directly ourselves instead of observing it in other ways would be nice.
Yes, stabilization systems are increasingly common among the so called "ultra micro" models.

I just bought a E-Flite Radian UMX, which is a stabilized and miniaturized (29" wingspan) version of a larger model (the 2M wingspan Parkzone Radian). The stabilization makes it much easier for inexperienced users to fly in gusty conditions. Like the OP's home-built system, it has a rate-sensing gyro system that compensates for any uncommanded movement. The plane flies perfectly straight regardless of wind and updrafts unless you give rudder or elevator inputs.

I am still amazed it was only $80.
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I am not sure you want to stare down the Iranian justice system.
the question is still valid in both cases. i have a nexus 7 (1st gen) and it's mostly collecting dust.
I would love to run a *BSD as my daily driver on my X220, but battery life is important to me and everything I've read suggests that most BSDs don't perform as well as Linux + TLP,
I understand this, and I don't happen to agree with the people who feel this type of technology should not be embraced, but, to be fair, the chip is controlled by software that is constantly connected to the cloud and updating over the air. It would take very little to update the software to disable the on-chip keyword detection and just record everything. That update could easily be done without your knowledge and in a way that would be almost undetectable since the software stack doesn't appear to be open and the server-stack is in the cloud and out of your control.
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That's pretty cool. Is there anywhere you can have a small house with a couple acres or more for cheap and still be within 30 minutes of Boulder?
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It doesn't appear to be the real program, but rather a (functional!) mockup of the UI in HMTL5.
iWork only runs on Apple's hw, but I didn't think you needed to buy _new_ hw. I believe you only need to update to Mavericks (or Yosemite).
Yeah I get that. It's worth pointing out that I'm talking largely from an academic stance and what I'm saying doesn't really apply to shitty implementations. The theory is compelling and the reality is always different, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be tried.
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It is not "pathetic baseless fear mongering" when we already have evidence that governments around the world are willing to overstep their bounds in terms of monitoring their own people.

> In this case, as the website makes clear, you have to say the word "Alexa" for it to start listening.

In order for it to hear the key word 'Alexa', it has to be always listening. They're just saying that they promise not to process the audio any further until they hear Alexa. Of course the obvious question is 'Does this promise apply for every situation?' What happens when Amazon gets served with a request to procure data from a user? Do they state this in the terms and conditions or in their privacy policy?
I started out looking for what made technology habit-forming but then the more I dove into the research and the model I started seeing it in all sort of products and experiences.
Also, there is a ready-made autopilot for new fliers called the uThere Ruby. They have some neat videos of fully autonomous landings in crosswinds on their site.

The OP's DIY approach looks much more fun though!
yeah. the route to south denver gives you the added bonus of enduring denver traffic and scattershot construction projects.
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This. Right now, I stick to buying laptops with Intel graphics chipsets to incur the least pain.
> I'm reminded that Apple started its move into mobile devices with the iPod (established against a popular yet muddled market of MP3 players) with the brilliant low-friction addition of the iPod Touch (for a tiny bit more get the browser, email, etc), which then led to merely slapping a cell phone module on & creating a plus-sized version.

Huh? The iPod had been popular for years before the introduction of the iPod Touch. The touch also came out after the iPhone. One of the reasons for the success of the iPhone was that the iPod had proved to consumers that apple could make good consumer devices, and that many had music and movie collections locked into the apple ecosystem.
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The state of Colorado passed bill in 2005 [0] disallowing municipalities to offer their own advanced communications (read: broadband/fiber/wireless) services without a local vote. These local votes are what the OP was referring to.

[0] http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2005a/csl.nsf/billcontainers...
I believe that was the cheesiest video I've seen in years.
ok, so starting 3 days ago, some people are maybe getting something. that's a lot better than i expected, but let's be clear to folks not clicking the link, the whole city isn't magically rolling in gigabit, and won't be for some time yet.
what happens if someone in family is named 'Alexa'?
If some gross code gets into the tree, nominate it for a code reading with a team of three or four people. This helps a lot because the code gets improved and the reviewers' styles also improve.
> running these things out of the US

If you mean the operators' physical locations, sure, that could help.

If you mean servers, the FBI complaint claims that SR 2.0 server was hosted in a foreign country.

> "In or about May 2014, the FBI identified a server located in a foreign country that was believed to be hosting the Silk Road 2.0 website at the time. [1][2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8568219
[2] https://pdf.yt/d/RpyX9_xmapTkhmkb
That doesn't have to be their personal home address - the intent of the law is to provide claimants with a method of establishing contact that will allow them to serve notice of legal action directly if the matter is not resolved negotiations break down. A PO box would be sufficient.

Suppose you think I infringed your copyright with something I uploaded to YouTube, so you file a takedown notice. I think I'm well within the fair use exemption so I file a counter-notice. You don't agree with my reasoning so you decide to sue me. If you don't have any way to contact me, how would you go about it? You can't get a lawsuit going without proof of having given notice to the other party.
Can be, usually is, and should be. As engineers, we should always consider the potential ramifications of technology that we create.

Now, we should not necessarily refuse to develop an idea because it could be abused, but we should always keep abuse in mind. Nearly everything can be abused, if only as a bludgeon, so obviously we need to have a certain level of tolerance for potential abuse. However it would be negligent to not consider the full range of ways something could be abused.

I strongly believe that engineers have an obligation to always consider and discuss the ethics of what they are building.

Even if you don't give a shit about ethics (I know many engineers don't), you must realize that many potential consumers will be concerned. Considering these possibilities is therefore just good business sense.
Nominate crufty code for code readings. They are great to improve the quality of the code and that of the reviewers.
> No, I'm not. For one thing, I picked £7 out of thin air. Change it to £6 and this (erroneous anyhow) statement falls apart.

So to make your point you have to make the distribution of customers even more unrealistically clustered, when in reality it will almost always be a smooth curve. And the need for this restriction also proves that price discrimination is not always good for "everyone," since in the original case it clearly isn't good for consumers.

But you're also ignoring the point about competition. If the goal is to maximize overall (combined consumer and producer) surplus then price discrimination at best works only as well as competition would if it existed. In a competitive environment a theater can't charge $6 to people who would pay $6 and $10 to people who would pay $10 because the theater across the street is charging $5 to everyone. And that creates more overall surplus because there will still be some students who would pay $5 but not $6 and some adults who would pay at least $5 but not $10.

If you're still not getting it we can go for the reducto ad absurdum. Suppose that food sellers collectively come up with a way to engage in perfect price discrimination and all begin charging that amount. Since without food people die, that amount will always be every last dime the buyer has. I can go into how and why that would be bad if you really want me to but I think it should be pretty obvious.

> Moreover your analysis is wrong - not everyone is as happy as they could be, you're only thinking from the consumer's perspective.

My entire point is that it isn't possible for everyone to be as happy as they could be in a purely distributive scenario. If there is $3 of surplus on the table then whoever doesn't get all of it is going to be less happy than if they did. And all price discrimination does is make sellers happier at the expense of consumers. It has no effect or, if done less than 100% perfectly accurately, a negative effect on overall happiness.

> It is not discrimination in the political sense, but the dictionary sense: to differentiate.

I don't think anybody is confusing it with e.g. racial discrimination. Although I suppose it could create a statistically significant difference in the prices charged to different races, which doesn't exactly help your cause.

> Price discrimination in theory should not drive customers anywhere but rather make them indifferent to their choice of supplier.

If one supplier is engaged in price discrimination then any other will have the opportunity to take their business by charging a lower but still profitable price to the customers being charged the higher price.
To avoid some confusion, this was actually called leanstack.io, and it was launched back in 2013.
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It did miss a couple cycling sessions but it is mostly accurate. Does it combine the data from GPS and the accelerometer? Are these always on?