jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I believe a better pricing model in many cases is to offer your product as
a monthly subscription with discounts for longer subscriptions, e.g. $5 per
month, $10 per quarter, $30 per year. The drawbacks to this model are
that managing subscriptions may require more effort, and you need to be
sure that your service provides enough value to get people coming back.

I also think your pricing plans are too low. If your service is for businesses
(even small businesses) and it provides an obvious value to them, you
should be able to charge more; like $10 - $20 per month (or more), again with
discounts for longer terms. Even if your service is for individuals, $10 per
month is not excessive. People pay $60 - $100 or more per month for
cell phone service; $10 - $20 per month is not excessive for a valuable
service.
Travel, then startup. I'm kinda doing it backwards at the moment, but I did a fair amount of traveling before going to work at this place and it was some of the most valuable life experience I've ever had.

I think that if I can sum it up in a thought it's this: there is a remarkable difference between reading and thinking and reasoning about a subject, and actually experiencing it. Even if I don't use many of the facts I learned while traveling (i.e. the odds and ends of the Knights of St. John's defense of Rhodes against the Turks and their subsequent move to Malta), I learned that it's one thing to read about the layered defense of Rhodes, and another to actually walk among it.

In other words, I can read and reason all I want about the situation of my customers, and their problems and solutions to those problems, but until I actually get about working with them, in their space, on their problem set, with their data, and within their constraints, I'll never really get their issues and thus never really provide a 1-1 solution for those issues.

It might seem like a simple concept, one I thought I understood before I set about traveling far and wide, but I really grokked it much better after seeing the world and trying to understand.

(oh, and the never ending different national interpretations of historic world events I find endlessly fascinating and very perspective setting -- very helpful when understanding how to think like your customers)
I never really got very far with BASIC anyway, and started reading about OOP when I was maybe 12? Hopefully I was inoculated in time...
I hear literacy is all the rage these days in the elite h4x0r community.
I have a kind of similar "problem"... when I'm going out, I often have some unsolved problem that I can't stop thinking about...
And so it happens that I'm sitting quietly, with a beer in hand, at the bar and think about trees and forests and forests of trees whose leaves are trees, and people start thinking that I'm depressed or bored or weird.

My solution: not caring about what other people think. But I realize that's not really an option at work.

(OT.: Hello everyone, this is my first comment, but I've been reading HN for a while.)
The wo/man prosecuting is a moron for using her normal email address

You would be very surprised. People leave traces everywhere, but I agree the first signs are not digital, they would be behavioral.
I always browse using elinks on an ssh session. Virtually indistinguishable from work.
SF MUNI needs competition. Badly.

There was a time (ironically, I read this in the MUNI museum near the Ferry Building) when SF had multiple, competing services. They would compete with each other on getting people from the Ferry Building to (wherever) the fastest.

MUNI gets a good chunk of its funding from the City government; it averages around $1/ride. Services like Chariot (I have never used it, and don't know anyone who uses it either) should be able to get similar funding from the government, if they are providing local transportation. It's only fair.
I think you have to ask yourself the fundamental question. How does John make a living? Perhaps he could move to a paid subscription model. That seems fraught with risk but it's true it's a possibility. But even then you pander to your paid audience vs the paid advertiser (if all your paid subscribers are Apple fans and you noticed a 10% subscription cancellation when you belittle the Apple Watch what happens to your behavior?)

The next alternative is he relies on advertising. When there is a conflict of interest in advertising it's mostly around transparency (the site does legitimate and paid product and service reviews side by side and so you don't know what is paid content and what isn't) This approach though seems very transparent. The worse case scenario is a product or service he advertises becomes crappy (based on his backlog he wouldn't need to accept an upfront crappy product) and he doesn't allow them to sponsor again. The biggest crime is he holds off calling out said crappy product because at one time he took money from them. I'm not sure he'd do that and that would only be a real issue if JG was the sole or primary source of reviews for the service vs all the other channels that review products and give you a wide range of opinions to draw on if you need them.

TL;DR: All commercial models involving information sharing are flawed so you have to deal in shades of gray and this seems good to me.
You're right that it's not the way to divulge important information, but (barring more reputable reports) I'm inclined to believe him. It's a somewhat regular occurrence for employees to comment on these things on HN, even if slightly misguided.

First, there's a WSJ article out now with some more details that appears to back him up[0]:

> Investigators believe that the SolarWinds hackers gained access to a TeamCity server used by SolarWinds to build its software products, but it is unclear how this system was accessed, according to people familiar with the matter.

Further, some rudimentary OSINT reserach indicates he is, in fact, a JetBrains employee. People can do their own sleuthing if they're inclined to verify this; I have no desire to dox the guy publicly.

[0]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/solarwinds-hack-breached-justic...
In addition, I think the ultimate litmus test is whether or not they create "value" for readers... or is it just marketing fluff? Even with my own blog post I tried to create value for people reading it... and making sure they could not just read my experience but learn something from it for their own usage.
Let us have a thought for the the profession of longshoreman, eliminated by the commercial viability of the shipping container in the 60's and subsequent total automation of port operations.
Do Netflix's interviews have any trick questions (e.g. manhole covers) or coding questions that have nothing to do with the job (e.g. Write a function that can detect a cycle in a linked list)?

I would never interview at major tech' companies because from what I've read of their interview process, it is all about knowing random Computer Science trivia and studying a book of trick questions.

I like more traditional corporations/business who give you questions actually applicable to the job and your experience. Silicon Valley interviews are pretty insufferable, due to their pseudo-intellectual elitism.

Companies should take their interview, and then give it to what they consider their most successful employees. If the employees wouldn't be "hired" then the interview process is completely broken.
hmph, this one caught me by surprise..... more infos: http://www.delicious.com/help/transition
An except from the spiel at a company I am not at liberty to name: There is no machine in this facility which is incapable of killing you. Study your checklists. They will protect you, your colleagues, and the company. Never violate one of the rules, not ever, not even once. See these yellow lines on the floor? To cross them is to die. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but some day when you're tired at the end of a long shift thinking about your girlfriend you won't see $A_PARTICULAR_MACHINE in time, it will hit you in the head, and I will have to explain to her why I did not keep you alive. I will keep you alive. Checklists. Yellow lines. Do not forget.
I don't know, you saw people being successful doing something that your product does. You were validated. Maybe it would have been better to post this on the product blog but I am behind you on this.
While I am over the moon for Square and the investment from such a giant in the market, it is also one of those things which irks me. As if Google were to invest in DuckDuckGo, or something like that. Would this investment (Visa in Square) affect or turn the direction Square is heading?

Obviously Visa is a powerful friend to have in your corner, and financially wonderful as it likely further improves Square's rates for processing Visa cards, etc.

Maybe I'm being overly sensitive since they are not direct competitors, I think perhaps my concern is that it seems that Square could have been and this investment makes that path a bit more politically difficult.
30-50ms isn't nearly enough latency to make ssh suck. Even 225ms is fine for ssh. You almost certainly were suffering from high packet loss, which means you get spikes of super high "latency" in TCP (because after a couple of packet losses, it holds off retransmitting until some time much much longer than your ping time, so you experience multi-second delays when typing).

Ironically, connections that are sending bulk data (eg. downloads) don't run into this, because a lot of packets get sent at once; if one of them in the middle gets dropped, the recipient knows it right away (because the next one has the wrong sequence number) so it can immediately send an ACK that re-requests the missing one. So on a busy connection, packet loss isn't as big a problem. On an interactive connection like ssh, it's completely deadly and makes it almost unusable.

All that to say: your problem with Wimax is fixable. It's not a latency problem, but nobody has fixed it yet.
Yegge left a long time ago.
My goal is to continue the 23% average monthly revenue growth in 2011 that I had in 2010. Then my side project revenue should match what I earn at my day job.
So by visiting his blog we are essentially letting him use rebind on our connections? ;)
Those people aren't using Chrome.
With the effectiveness of online advertising declining, I wonder if we'll start to see more physical promotions. Although, one could easily argue that physical advertisements are no longer used because the internet exists as a viable way to reach users.

On a somewhat unrelated note, the CD promo led to one of my favorite commercials:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OqQYk2TC-8
How are these statistics obtained?
By the media, I don't mean just The New York Times and The Guardian. There are more than 5000 local newspapers in this country (where most people get their information), cable tv, and radio. It's become a widely spread idea that this past round of Wikileaks contained nothing new. The Obama Administration has asserted this as fact and it was widely reported by CBS, BBC, The Huffington Post and more. However, these articles are widely syndicated and a quick search on Google brings this up:

WikiLeaks Classified Diplomatic Cable Release Yields No Surprises ... - Daily Finance

No surprises seen in WikiLeaks Iraq war data: Pentagon - Reuters (which is widely syndicated)

WikiLeaks shocker? In Kabul, Pakistan support for Taliban is no surprise - Christian Science Monitor

WikiLeaks torture cables no surprise - Yahoo News

Heck, even a letter to the editor at the Pantagraph newspaper in Bloomington, IL confirms my suspicion that many/most people don't believe there was anything new in the WikiLeaks dump at all:

http://www.pantagraph.com/news/opinion/mailbag/article_ab85f...

"It wasn’t anything we didn’t know and it will all be forgotten, even by the media, except by the dumb military guy who gave them access to the Internet connections and will probably be tried for treason and left in jail."

The perception has been created. Most people don't read The New York Times or the Guardian and most small town newspapers report what the AP and Reuters deliver on national matters.

You won't find me arguing that Julian Assange isn't some kind of a story. But he's not even close to the whole thing. And he's basically irrelevant when it comes to investigating the leaks themselves. The information contained in the leaks are stories, most of which are glossed over by most of the media. Greenwald does a great job summing up a few of them: http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/24...
I haven't been looking at the numbers recently. What is the overall ROI after ten years of sinking stupendous amounts of money into Xbox/XBL?

Or are we hand waving and saying that Microsoft has technically lost more money than grains of sand on the beach, but has executed a brilliant strategic plan to keep Sony from taking the lead in the market for set top boxes?
Yes, because you're sitting at Starbucks. If you go get tea, you'll be buying Tazo. Mission accomplished!
It's as simple as creating a style sheet, targeting items you don't want to print, or create a class such as .noprint, and hide the items with { display: none; }

You'd want to put that CSS in a separate file and include it like this:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" href="print.css" />

The important bit is the media="print". Look at mine all you like, nice of you to consider asking :)
This feature "filters" comments as they're made, it's most definitely something that was built as a feature he even says as much, it's not "database access", it's a built in feature for filtering (censoring) bad content. It doesn't remove old mentions, it disallows future mentions.
Not among legal scholars, at least not since 1898.

Oops, left out the citation: US v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 US 649.
http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=3381955771263111...
They basically extended the free account from 10 000 to 500 000 points a month.

Enough to handle something like 20 points/events per minute
Slack Chats seems to be just a directory of Slack groups; I doubt they're getting any of the chat data.
Does this really mean anything until applications start supporting these resolutions?

SQL Server Management Studio is basically unusable for me on my retina Macbook Pro.

It will be nice to have proper text scaling however.
I'm turning 32 this year, and I've honestly never used phone calls as a way to talk with my friends (outside the quick calls that texting replaced.) When I changed my phone number a few years back I told like 5 people, all family.

We had AIM and message boards pretty early, but no dedicated phone lines. By the time cell-phones became ubiquitous, we had cars and could just actually hang out. And by the time we all moved apart, voice chat services were good enough to just hop back to the old chat model.
Good, we need more players, not less.
Nice, here is my chance to get in touch with you again. A few weeks ago I tweeted out something along the lines of you hosting a lot of credit card dumps on your service, have you done anything about this?

I don't care to check once again, but your site did have a lot of users offering stolen credit cards for sale. Are you aware of this?
Presumably because tanks are hard to hide, not because they don't want to. Guerrilla warfare warfare is not a middle eastern thing; a strategic manual we were encouraged to read in the Norwegian army told us we should source food and supplies from the local population and fill sugar on the gas tanks of the enemy. Assuming you've lost tanks and airspace first, of course.

From what I've heard IS has all kinds of heavy weaponry and hold territory. Seems like hiding would be hard.
I wonder to what degree technology has played a role. The article references gang taunting etc. via the internet instead of on the street - would be interesting to know to what degree social networks, video games, etc. have had an impact on gang activities, and also the degree to which drug sales have moved off the street - i.e.: you don't need people hanging on the corner to sell drugs anymore.
As the owner of https://cryptbin.com, also on the list, I've never received any such communication either.
The more you let it get you down the more you are doomed to failure in future. Jealous thoughts will zap your motivation which is certainly NOT what you want.

It's the people who are able to nip these jealous thoughts in the bud and plough on with single-handed determination that will have the last laugh.
Transaction costs have nothing to do with the sponsor's fee.

If you want to "invest" in bitcoin and by that I mean buy some bitcoins and hold them for years, sure, you shouldn't buy an ETF. If you want to trade bitcoins, you're better off trading a liquid ETF than transacting on Coinbase or Bitstamp.

You can have a substantial sponsor's fee of 1%. Let's say you're comparing the ETF to Coinbase - they have a transaction fee of 1% - then as long as you're making more than one transaction a year, you'd rather trade the ETF.
It's sadly a dealbreaker for me that you have to download an app to use it on apple devices.
I can't believe how cheap this is. They could charge 10k more for each, at least for 1-2 years. What am I missing?
Those are perfectly fine. Assuming they weren't just temporarily flustered, it's likely they were bullshitting.

If they made it into your office though, you did make it a mistake. You should have a very brief and simple phone interview where you ask basic questions like this.
Are you funded? Are you part of an accelerator that gives you access to extremely large chunks of free cloud credits? How compute heavy is your workload?

At this time, you will always be paying up for cloud services. That being said, you are paying for something, not just fluff, that many people - myself included - find quite valuable.

Dedicated hardware is great, I can get a xeon 12 core E5v2 with 32 gb of ram and a guaranteed 300 mbps bandwidth for ~$100 / month - which the bandwidth alone would cost many multiples of that on AWS. However, what if a hard drive goes bad? Or a PSU blows? Or something else which knocks that server offline? How quickly can you get another one up and running?

With AWS/azure/google infrastructure, you'll have built your application to be fault tolerant of the underlying hardware and a new instance can be automatically spun up. You also can scale instantly - with dedicated hardware it'll be a minimum of hours (if your lucky) to days to get more servers online. If you get an expected wave of traffic - from a favorable blog post for example - on any of the mentioned cloud providers your app can automatically scale and provision servers without you clicking a button.

The other important cost to consider is time - what is your developers time worth? Instead of fiddling with the database server, you can pay amazon a premium and just use RDS. Instead of setting up a distributed queue so different components of your app can communicate, you can just use SQS.

However at the end of the day the answers to all these questions are going to be unique for everyone and different situations call for different solutions. If you needs lots of compute power and need it to be as cheap as possible - using dedicated hardware will be your best bet, unless you can architect a solution with spot instances.

As far as AWS vs. azure vs. google is concerned, I've used all three and AWS provides the best service at the most competitive price. Azure is probably better if you're using windows servers. Google's cloud offering offering is underwhelming - and is quite expensive for what you get.

If you are still very small - digital ocean is a fantastic option and can save you a lot of money until you need the reliability from a higher quality provider.
Yeah, it's not that hard to imagine the next bit where there's a captive warehouse of monkeys solving CAPTCHAS for food or something. It's a depressing video to be sure.
Being constipated for 5 days is not particularly unusual, especially for people who've just undergone a major surgery
>> Outrage sells now.

Seems like Marylin Manson had that covered 20 years ago with albums such as 'Antichrist Superstar', and Alice Cooper before him...

Outrage doesn't just sell now. Outrage pretty much goes platinum, as long as it's the thing that's causing the most outrage at that moment.

Outrage sells partly because it is a statement to support an artist, art or products that 'average' people find outrageous. It's a classic case of kids just needing to rebel.
Your summary is the second application of understanding paint: the clarity coat, the second view into the problem space.
Worth mentioning that one of the authors happens to be on the board of a biotech developing a stroke product.
I would say that you have to define your audience. You have 4 possible level of users. There are people in the middle, of course, but these are your big groups:
1. IT/programmers (like you)
2. Advanced analysts (that are not afraid of Excel formulas, but barely scratch macros)
3. The report clickers (their concept of running a report is clicking on an icon and refreshing; if anything fails they run in panic)
4. The laid back Powerpoint requesters (CEOs that request other people to run the report for them, capture a screenshot and paste it in Powerpoint for the meeting).

Users in group #4 are allergic to anything with appearance of code in the same room that they cohabitate. Users in group #3 will also get panic attacks by getting code mixed with their visualizations. Users in group #2 will tolerate it, but will fear how their reputation would be affected if anybody see them coding.

My message hear here is similar to what you have received so far. You need to pivot how you market this solution.
Where is the Bluetooth pairing? I don’t see it. I’m watching the video at the top of the page... is it one of the other videos?
Totally agree. After 25 years of Fords and Hondas my wife and i got our fist (and last) German cars. Getting ready to sell them now. Both have had numerous issues and are just out of warranty. I drive them on pins and needles waiting for something else to break before they are someone else’s problem.
Nexus One? It's a larger screen than most devices, but still not a "tablet" I guess. Maybe this was their test run.
The Wikileaks Iraq leak (apparently) predominately documented torture by Iraqis. If anything, it enhanced the US narrative, in part by documenting belligerent activity by Iran, and in part by creating a contrast between our professional military and their abusive militias.

Part of the US narrative about Iraq (a part that I completely believe) holds that however bad Iraq is now, it's got to be better than decennial waves of genocide punctuated by monthly feedings of dissidents through industrial paper shredders.

I'm not a supporter of the Iraq war, but I'm not naive enough to think that Iraq was a playground before we got there. I have a hunch I may speak for a fair portion of the "depressing" majority of people who are not outraged by this last disclosure.
This seems easy to defend against for sites that don't accept a lot of POST data. You could set a really low threshold for content-length. You could maybe even get fancy and only allow large POST data on certain URLs (e.g. low POST content-length threshold on www.example.com, but a higher threshold on admin.example.com; assuming that you can reject the connection as unauthenticated before receiving the data).
I'm glad it was helpful.
You're confining gambling only to casino games or games with vigs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigorish). Under your definition, when I play cards with my friends for money, I'm not gambling because my expected return is zero. Actually, judging by my known skills in any particular game vs. my partner's skills, what I'd be doing would be varying nightly.

What you're saying seems to be a useful distinction, though, but I'd say it's the difference between "risk entertainment" or something else and investment, rather than gambling and investment, because it's all gambling.