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Google Fi's international data service used to be great. Now it's completely dysfunctional in countries such as Croatia, China, etc, and very spotty in Austria, Iceland, Philippines, Ecuador, northern Japan etc. I can no longer rely on Fi when I travel abroad.

According to the author's definition, both Bitcoin and Ethereum have a Nakamoto coefficient of 1 and a Geni value of ~0.92, meaning that they are equally centralized and brittle.

How is the proposed metric any useful in measuring and comparing decentralization of blockchains?

Yes, you should withdraw your BTC from Coinbase ASAP. Otherwise, you won't get any BCC in case a blockchain split happens on August 1st.

Feature request: generate city-construction videos to visualize the evolution of source code.

According to the spec, AMP developers are prohibited from adding their own JS, yet they are mandated to include a <script src="https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0.js" async></script> tag as the last element in the <head>. I find it amusing that the JavaScript library itself is 137KB big (38KB gzipped).

Nice job! Where do you get the posters printed?

20 fun facts about hex grids: http://gamasutra.com/blogs/HermanTulleken/20140912/225495/20...

Why did you ditch libgdx?

(2005)

Why not AngularJS?

The author, danah boyd, is female.

Doesn't Google Maps already have this feature?

Have you considered AdSense?

To control more pixels on user's home screen.

How much time did you invest in this?

PoC exploit: https://github.com/tube42/permtester

Clickable link: http://www.dnufg.com/ (domain names up for grabs)

Stop writing URLs as strings. Express them with VerbalResourceLocator:

  var vrl = VRL().
    schema("https").
    tld("com").
    sld("ycombinator").
    subdomain("news").
    path("/item").
    query({"id": "6164276"});

Seriously though, Verbal Expression is a great way to turn terse regexps into un-reusable verbiage that barely improves readability.

Awesome work! How did you use Bloom filters to achieve low latency lookup?

If you had a good reason, why do you feel ashamed?

Original announcement: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2012/12/changes-to-goog... HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4884665

previous discussions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4147486

Once you complete the six puzzles, click the bunny button to get some more challenges.

tl;dr: Follow your instinct rather than the herd. Don't do something just because it's trendy. Do it because you believe it's important and will have a long-term impact to the world.

Shameless plug: http://www.neatgrid.com for creating pixel-perfect grid layouts.

US Patent 8,078,349

Transitioning a mixed-mode vehicle to autonomous mode

Abstract

Disclosed are methods and devices for transitioning a mixed-mode autonomous vehicle from a human driven mode to an autonomously driven mode. Transitioning may include stopping a vehicle on a predefined landing strip and detecting a reference indicator. Based on the reference indicator, the vehicle may be able to know its exact position. Additionally, the vehicle may use the reference indictor to obtain an autonomous vehicle instruction via a URL. After the vehicle knows its precise location and has an autonomous vehicle instruction, it can operate in autonomous mode.

Inventors: Prada Gomez; Luis Ricardo (Hayward, CA), Fairfield; Nathaniel (Mountain View, CA), Szybalski; Andy (San Francisco, CA), Nemec; Philip (San Jose, CA), Urmson; Christopher (Mountain View, CA) Assignee: Google Inc. (Mountain View, CA) Appl. No.: 13/105,101 Filed: May 11, 2011

Also try "stationary" on Google. That easter egg works on all browsers.

The mobile version (http://www.google.com/reader/i/) is not vandalized (yet). It is now my preferred way to access Google Reader.

Part 1: http://blog.douweosinga.com/2011/05/leaving-google.html

Part 2: http://blog.douweosinga.com/2011/05/leaving-google-part-2.ht...

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