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by jlev 9y ago
Hey Graham, I'm in Oakland in a six story building downtown. Currently have DSL with Sonic, but am getting impatient with their fiber rollout in the East Bay. Any chance of getting service from Common outside of Alameda?
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by jlev 9y ago
If anything, $60/month seems too cheap.
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by jlev 9y ago
really good visualization of this from the forest service airfire tool https://tools.airfire.org/websky/v1/run/standard/CANSAC-2km/... via stamen design https://twitter.com/stamen&#x
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by jlev 9y ago
Even better, they ask for your last name and the last six digits of your SSN to even check your potential impact. The problem is that the first three digits of your SSN are derived from your state of birth, so the last six give up basically
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by jlev 9y ago
In both cases the California standard was higher, improving the environment and saving lives. What happened to the states being policy laboratories? I thought Republicans were for local control? Or is that only for school textbooks and baki
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by jlev 9y ago
There's a need in the non-profit space for something that does this well and is relatively cheap per-message. Big players like MobileCommons and RevolutionMessaging charge 1k+ per month for SMS blast capabilities based on list size. If
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by jlev 9y ago
Is this a joke? They are pouring money into building a monopoly, so they can raise prices when they eventually control urban and suburban transportation.
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Republican data firm leaks 200m+ voter records(gizmo.do)
1 points by jlev 9y ago|0 comments
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by jlev 10y ago
Great to see more chatbots that encourage real world civic action, not just make it easier to order pizza. I did similar work with Hello.Vote for voter registration, and there are so many offline forms that could be improved with a bit of w
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by jlev 10y ago
Have you thought about doing more targeted swing state matches? I did a vote swap in 2004 using a similar system. I voted for the Badnarik (L) in MA, and someone in MO voted for Kerry (D). We did talk on the phone beforehand, to get a sense
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by jlev 10y ago
Hey Joe, the registration process is actually totally distinct from voting, which is all done in-person. Poll watchers are still very necessary to ensure the integrity of everyone's ballot. I've worked on voter registration tech f
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by jlev 10y ago
A chatbot I built with FightfortheFuture.org that makes it really easy to register to vote. Takes only 10 text messages to gather information, and then we submit to the state or send you a PDF. Directly submits to states in CA, MA, VA, IL,
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Show HN: Register to vote via SMS chatbot hello.vote(hello.vote)
8 points by jlev 10y ago|4 comments
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by jlev 10y ago
I bought an mBot kit to make with my 6 year old cousin recently. It was fun, but the default software was pretty limited, and the scratch programming environment was not actually that easy to use for a beginner. Had to drop into C for any s
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by jlev 10y ago
Read the Nine Billion Names of God, by Arthur C Clarke, for a reason why they might have been counting. http://www.sffaudio.com/podcasts/TheNineBillionNamesOfGodByA...
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by jlev 11y ago
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/our-malibu-beaches/id5656361...
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by jlev 11y ago
Cosmo Wenman also does this for museums, with their permission, and releases the data under open licenses https://cosmowenman.wordpress.com/category/3d-scanning/ http://www.thingiverse.com/CosmoWen
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by jlev 11y ago
The Public Laboratory has been doing this kind of work with low-cost DIY and open source tools for several years. Kite mapping, aerial photography, laser spectrometry, and open data collaboration. Check it out at https://publicla
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by jlev 11y ago
But both were late compared to the first newspaper on the net. The MIT Tech first published on the web in 1993, and on telnet before that. And they have digital archives going back to 1882. http://tech.mit.edu/browse.html
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by jlev 11y ago
$42 million and they couldn't design a quieter engine?
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by jlev 11y ago
It's almost as if we need a "Congressional Versioning System" rimshot. At least we're finally getting open bill status data as XML, without having to rely on GovTrack scraping the Federal Register.
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by jlev 11y ago
Beautiful font! I can't read the language, but have done some software work in the middle east, and Harir looks much cleaner to my eye than the helvetica knock-offs in arabic. If you want a real challenge in il8n, try ensuring that all
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by jlev 11y ago
Why is 1Password over Dropbox the "worst of both worlds"? Seems like it's potentially safer, because it's encrypted with your passphrase and also your dropbox credentials. Sure, the NSA can probably get it, but J Random
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by jlev 12y ago
This essay by Langdon Winner is pretty much required reading for technologists who are interested in real-world uses of our tools and their impact in society. The idea that technology is apolitical is a common misconception, or self-delusio
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by jlev 12y ago
These guys should start their own credit card transaction aggregator (ala Mint), and gather user data that is expressly made available for market research. Make the analysis for privacy tradeoff more explicit and distribute profits.
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by jlev 12y ago
Pretty slick interface; hope it catches on.
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by jlev 12y ago
Dissent, paid for by DARPA.
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by jlev 12y ago
Excellent reporting by @headhntr and @coracurrier. The Hacking Team malware can be installed in every major OS, via numerous entry points (wifi, flash injection, physical installation), and can be signed with trusted root certificates. What
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by jlev 12y ago
Love the PublicLab's enthusiastic embrace of open source hardware and software licenses. If you don't want to 3d-print your own, you can get an awesome bluray laser spectrometer + webcam at their Kickstarter. https://ww
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by jlev 12y ago
Damn, dumplin.gs got snatched...

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