skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of this will end up working out fine so long as money doesn't change hands in the process. It seems reasonable that someone will have to make a judgement call about whether a certain type of traffic deserves to preempt others or not. The really awful world will be if people can pay ISPs to influence that judgement call in their favor.
>> It did absolutely need to be said.

You are free to express your view, but unless you have a star worth it's value on your collar, I don't think you should be making such bold claims. Leaks like this are a destraction that commanders, and the troops, don't need -- it only takes 'one' leak to turn this coin inside-out.

Ok, Look at it from the U.S./Ally angle. Do you think we just randomly come across top-ranking officials within the insurgency ranks? No. Information is leaked via the populus that gives us leads to where they are/where they're going to be.
I was in a similar situation I worked at a startup (which also went under) writing algos to predict protein structures given a minimal set of information (a very hard problem to solve and computationally expensive). Rosetta first showed up on the scene at that time and was a real shot in the arm for the field. One could argue that the game mechanics of Foldit are the most interesting thing we've seen in the structure prediction field in a long time.
The bystander effect doesn't have much to do with this because you asked first. The simple act of asking changes peoples perceived personal responsibility.
This is depressing, but I'll hope it's just a knee-jerk reaction, and that people will reconsider after they have a chance to think about it. Presumably the audience does not support informing because it believes that cracking and leaking are not a crime on the same level as , for example, child abuse or murder. Of course, people who participate in illegal activities often have no trouble rationalizing or excusing their actions. And for those who will wave the flag for "civil disobedience", I'll say right now that I have no problem supporting the idea of civil disobedience, as long as you realize the consequences of civil disobedience have typically been conviction and punishment. It's the conviction and punishment that drives public opinion to change the law, not whining.
How about a corollary: why should your neighbor's torrents slow down just because you are making a bunch of phone calls? (And remember, people are using torrents for legitimate purposes, like how Blizzard uses it to distribute purchased copies of Starcraft II.)

The solution is to fix overall network capacity.
I think the goal of design is to make the aesthetics match the functionality. In software, the greatest challenge is making something that at it's core is very complex, with all of the code that it takes to make it happen, and make it simple for the user. The minimalist design represents this goal visually in the product.

But there are many other things where the experience or an emotional reaction is the goal, not usability. For example, in music, if the focus of a song is a really great melody, then you want to simplify the surrounding parts so the listener isn't distracted from the melody. This is similar to the modern design we are discussing. In metal music, the goal is energy, so each part is very rapid and complex to give more energy to the song. The drums keep driving, the guitar keeps moving, etc. This is not minimalist because the goal is different. Imagine a theme park. The goal is fun and immersion. So, the pathways in a theme park are not minimalist, they are winding and meandering and take you through the park where the journey is the goal. All of these things exist to match the goal of the product.
It seems to me that you're hitting on a likely issue that could let there be general agreement between Google and Verizon with great room left for negotiation.

In any case I hope they come to some sort of agreement, as imperfect as it may be. And shortly thereafter I'd like to see agreement that certain kinds of traffic, such as port scanning, should be filtered very aggressively. (Yeah, I can dream, can't I?)
I need a stackoverflow digest weekly blog
It shows the quality of the product when you can be back up and running in about 4 hours.

Completely back to where you were at last backup while you go get a coffee. That is a huge win for anyone who lives with their laptop as their primary tool.
It's probably easier to travel to and from Cambridge and North London than it is to cross the city for work though.
Founding a startup with no revenue is better than working for Goldman Sachs
Again: that sounds good, until you think it through.

What happens when an upstart wants to compete with Verizon on VoIP? Say they roll out an innovative new protocol that offers far better quality in a still-reasonable footprint. Or offers some sideband feature that existing VoIP doesn't. (say, streaming file transfer, letting you send data bits during a call while on the call directly to the person you're talking to. no need to open a mail client or sftp and negotiate a second connection)

Why wouldn't Verizon decide that this new competitor is a new flavor of VoIP that needs to be in its own QoS tier?
It will have a different traffic profile, so you can't very well argue that they shouldn't be able to "optimize" it separately on technical grounds.

But now it's a new "type" and Verizon is free to kick it into the QoS round-file tier to either blackmail payment or simply hamstring adoption.

Maybe they only do that until they catch up and offer similar features. Or maybe they launch their own next-gen VoIP protocol in yet-another QoS tier, where the upstart is still not allowed.

Once you open the door to QoS by type --and leave type classification in the hands of the ISPs who directly profit from how these largely arbitrary lines are drawn-- there's a vanishingly small difference between QoS by type and by source.
What? My commute is approximately 18 miles each way, almost all of which is highway with a 65mph speed limit. Is the Leaf not going to be able to get me to work and back on a single charge? If not, the 100 mile range they're claiming is pretty disingenuous.
Regarding their reputations:

Paypal is probably what people associate with online payments. However, there are a LOT of people who have been ripped off or treated poorly by paypal or scammers. So while it has a broader reach (WRT users making payments), it also doesn't have as good of a rep as amazon.

Amazon is consistently at the top of customer satisfaction surveys. People don't generally think of them as a payment source, but this is just the current state of affairs. With their "passphrase" option, and other saas / iaas / services, I think the shift is swinging so that people realize amazon is everywhere.

I'd go with amazon. Paypal customer service SUCKS. Paypal support (even dev support, IME) SUCKS.

I've never had anything but happy thoughts about amazon.
Show us the magic!
Before logging in, I'd like to see this work on a live twitter stream.

I suggest taking somebody with a huge number of followers and running your algorithm on their stream and then showing how your tech works.
Using the word "snitch" makes you sound like a 12 year-old.
>But it’s OK to discriminate across different types, so you could prioritize voice over video

Sounds like selling Internet priority to me. In fact, if you can prioritize voice over video you can likewise prioritize http over bittorrent, smtp, or xmpp. And if a competitor's video is going over xmpp while yours is going over FaceTime, that sounds like it's legit depending on how you define 'data type.'
> Whether you trust your father's advice or a stranger's
> advice, should depend on the advice not where its coming
> from. IMO.

I can't agree with this. To not assign each source a prior based on how reliable they have been in the past is suboptimal.
I think the point was that there's a large gap between the threshold of "I need my force myself just to focus for another half hour" and "I've completely overdone it."
I'll be more specific. In microeconomics (aka price theory), a monopolist is the sole supplier of a good or service at a time/place/condition. The monopolist faces a downward sloping supply curve. In a competitive equilibrium the supply/demand picture we all know is meant to cover an entire industry, while each seller acts as a price taker (same as a horizontal demand curve).

In reality, as you point out, each firm has at least some pricing power, for various reasons, and so from a theoretical perspective they are a monopolist in some good or service defined in the right way. However, In common and legal usage they are not a monopolist.
Whistleblower? Which US law is the "whistleblower" accusing the government of breaking?
Stickers are good. The lifetime NRA member sticker generally does a good job. :)
I disagree with the statement that minimalism is just one style. There's something more fundamental to it than what can be encompassed by sweeping it under the carpet of "style".

Minimalism along with its cousins of Utilitarianism and Tufte-like information design all seek an elegance through elimination of components that are not vital to some singular goal of the philosophy.

Utilitarianism: capacity generation/utility
Tufte: information and interpretation
Minimalism: content and structure

The importance here is that given that our brains have limited capacity for attention, these philosophies help us the most so long as our goals reside near the goal of the designer. With a lot of other "styles" displayed in the article the goals were less practical and further from the end user with intent to express the glory of god or the power of a monarch. They are fantastically beautiful, but in those cases beauty is orthogonal to their function (meeting places and homes).

So that's the twist. You can make ornate, anti-minimal designs so long as their beauty lies at least somewhat alongside the purpose of the website. It's long been the maxim of web design that Users Spend Epsilon Seconds at Your Site and unless the purpose and content is clear like gunfire you're out of luck. But then you've got "functional beauty" such as that contained within detailed arts like typography. Each has a distinct utilitarian flair, but espouses a lot of craft via excessive care for detail.

So, some examples:

http://wufoo.com/
http://jasonsantamaria.com/articles/royal/
http://blog.iso50.com/
http://joshuaink2006.johnoxton.co.uk/
(mbateman already mentioned Joshua Ink, but it's just a really good example)

And really, though it's not the same medium, the maximalist style of David Foster Wallace is from the exact same creche.

Of course, the catch is that with every added element, you take the risk of having your design run away from you. It's a viciously hard thing to do, I think, keeping beauty and purpose aligned.
"...if you want financing."

Not really. Patent litigation tends to come out of nowhere. Investors don't know about applicable patents unless the patents are particularly high-profile (like certain video compression patents) -- in which case, they're probably known to everyone in advance, and part of the business plan.

I'd wager that most internet startups are violating at least one software patent, but that doesn't stop investment in the slightest. And while you could argue that these patents by Apple poison the well for future iPhone app developers, these particular patents are all extremely similar to popular iPhone apps. If you tried to pitch these ideas to an investor, you'd get laughed out of the room for other reasons.
Hard work which apparently leaves times for reading posts linked on HN.
Are you talking to the person who submitted this, or to the NYT?
All you idiots on this site who believed it should do similarly.
If you think Chicago has "great food" then you need to try some real restaurant towns (i.e. SF and NYC). Chicago's idea of great food is thick-crust pizza. The parks don't compare to most other cities', and if you want genuine blues music, you need to head south. The blues wasn't born up north.

37 Signals: well, a couple of people live there, yeah. The founder, who was born there and apparently doesn't know that you don't have to live in a crappy town, and DHH, who is from Denmark -- same exact climate, so I'm sure he feels right at home.

Chicago has no soul. It's a bunch of buildings. Visit a town with personality and you'll see what I mean.
Actual experiment carried out in the 90s. Researchers left wallets on the street in various cities, with $100 each, and with sufficient ID to let someone mail it back. They got almost all of the wallets back, and the vast majority still had the $100. Many had notes along the lines of, "You're lucky I was the one who found this. Most people around here would have just taken the money."

The lesson that I took from this is that most people can be assumed to be honest most of the time. The dishonest minority stands out. But yes, in the situation you describe I'd be willing to bet that the $500 would still be there when I came back.
While the Times may in fact be wrong about this, I think it ought to take more of a statement than a single tweet to make a news organization issue an apology.
Perhaps in the same method we investigate any and all other situations where we are not at war. As I stated, the efficacy of investigative anti-terror tactics is well established (these are what you call the "naive and fantasy filled ruminations). The efficacy of invasion and occupation via military force is not only not well established but is also turning into the cause of increased resistance and terror tactics (these you would apparently call "reality-based methods"). You failed to address these critical distinctions and your misplaced insistence on focusing on a Caliphate that now has little if anything to do with the bulk of terrorist activity is likely the cause of your failure to recognize the futility of waging war against a concept.

It doesn't take plundering a nation by the military in order for a war to have massive wealth producing opportunities for those involved in promoting it and deciding to under take it. As I said, you may receive no chests full of loot - but hundreds of corporations are, to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars. There is unquestionably a massive financial incentive for everlasting war. Meanwhile, the war you gain nothing from produces the opposite of what you seek (less terrorists).
Does anyone else hit a SQL error when trying to order from Canada?
Pen and paper should be used as a tool to help in the thinking process, but it is not a replacement for real computer mockups.

Sketching doesn't give you a realistic sense of space and feel for web design. Very often you can sketch something that looks good on paper, but once you put it on the screen it just doesn't translate well to a pixel medium.

Sketching is great if you are working with a physical medium like brochures or posters though. Then it doesn't suffer from the same translation cost.
Moved to DC a month ago! will definitely be there.
How many 'Ask HN' submissions were there by day? It only saw percentage by day.

The comments submissions are displayed by 'average' while the 'Ask HN' submissions are by 'percentage'.
US law may permit killing non-American civilians (as shown in the "Collateral Murder" video), but international law frowns upon it.
Well, the NYT doesn't exactly have a reputation for publishing false information.
It depends a lot on where you're iterating. If you're iterating concepts and structure, sketches work perfectly. If you're iterating the size of a shadow, the exact color pallet, the exact shape of a logo then you'd better be in Photoshop.

For all 37s likes to talk about not using Photoshop they don't have pixel-perfect design at all and yet still had somebody slaving over Adobe products while putting those logos together.
Replica sets look awesome. Can't wait to get them set up in production. Replacing a master/slave setup with this means automatic failover.

Looking forward to single server durability in the next one (1.8). Should enable me to convince more clients to add mongo as part of the deployment stack.
Leadership is an Art and The Abilene Paradox are great business books - if you've ever made mistakes managing people like I have both of these books are very instructive on the people aspect of running a startup.
Ice cream is the gateway theft.
The Manga Guides might fit the bill -- Calculus, Stats, Databases, etc: http://nostarch.com/manga
Maybe the goal of working in Photoshop isn't to mimic the design pixel-by-pixel, but instead to "sketch."

Mocking things up in Photoshop can be really productive because everything you sketch (all of your background images, buttons, and art) can be used as an asset on your site with minimal effort.
Getting Past The Hurdles Of Micropayments
What type of work/salary are you looking for hunterjrj? I know several companies in the Toronto area looking for devs.
Agribusiness and Infobusiness
Bush had 9/11.

Bush also did a prescription drug plan that was a financial disaster. However, the Dems wanted something even more expensive so ....

In fact, that's generally true; Repubs overspent, but Dems wanted more. The Repubs weren't fiscally conservative in absolute terms, but they were significantly more so than Dems. Since the alternative to Repubs isn't perfection, but Dems, that's relevant.

As to the financial disaster, it's due to Dems pushing "affordable" housing. The Repub's contribution is that they didn't try very hard to oppose it. (When McCain suggested looking at Fannie and Freddie in 2005/6, he got his teeth kicked in.)

Tax revenues increased under Bush. And fewer paid income taxes. (The poor get a decent return on SS while the rest of us are hosed. The rich don't care because both "contributions" and payouts are capped.)
You're absolutely right in what you say, but I think we're talking past each other. Whether a blog exists or not is meaningless. It's what's in the blog that matters. And really, in this conversation, to me, blog is synonymous with self promotion.

It's a topic I've been on the fence about for a while: how necessary, if at all, is self promotion? I think blogging and using github are just modern ways of networking and interacting with more people through technology. Writing a book is great, and so is being good at your work.

Furthermore, I think the project nature of software development, lends itself more to developers being free-agents rather than employees, which was my original motivation for commenting here. I just hear so many recruiters and hiring managers pat themselves on the back for "finding a great developer", that I wish more developers would promote themselves in order to make it less of a talent search, and so that they could showcase their knowledge, talent, and capabilities to the widest audience.
If you have made the same app/game on Android and iPhone, which made more money?
I think kickbacks is a more likely motivation here.
Silicon Valley & The Scent of Money
You're arguing that they consider video types different when you have no idea what their talks entail - it may be so general as video, voice, web, mail, and other. Schmidt's comments were ambiguous to protocol and yet you're adding xmpp, smtp, FaceTime, and bittorrent. What NYT was suggesting was that Google be given priority over Bing, for example - grossly different from this situation. QoS is already in place for most major large corporations (and small!), but most ISPs have not gone down the avenue of implementing quality of service for their networks.

Here's the headline on NYT's site: Google and Verizon Near Deal on Web Pay Tiers

And a quote from the article: "...allow Verizon to speed some online content to Internet users more quickly if the content’s creators are willing to pay for the privilege."

Does that sound like what Schmidt said at all?
> But now it's a new "type" and Verizon is free to kick it into the QoS round-file tier to either blackmail payment or simply hamstring adoption.

This is what Google's looking to make sure doesn't happen. No one should be able to pay for a QoS tier or kick a competitor into a lower tier.

It's not perfect, but as an end user I'd rather have SIP traffic prioritized and take a chance that a non-prioritized upstart standard will take longer to catch on than my calls to drop.

Obviously the best scenario is a dramatic increase in network capacity so QoS is a non-issue, but that's not realistic in the short term.
"They're being installed because regulators sincerely believe that they represent a reasonable compromise between privacy (which is actually not one of your ironclad civil liberties) and safety."

No, they're being installed for profit. They have nothing to do with civil rights and even less to do with security -- I highly doubt that anyone involved actually cares about either.

What they do care about is milking money from the government by taking advantage of the asinine government contracting and acquisitions processes -- and most likely also the fact that fattening the right wallets greases the right wheels to make things very profitable for them.
Ask HN: Analyze my business model
I have a startup that is subscription based dating site. However, instead of charging users initially for the service, I charge them if the stick around too long. So, that if you are successful in finding a SO, it costs you nothing, but if you have a hard time finding that someone it'll cost you.

My business model incentivizes users to get on with it and not dawdle around. Therefore, if users believe they are above average daters and are successful at it it won't cost them a thing.
Here's the deal: uncorroborated reports from unnamed persons do not magically become more reliable merely because they passed through the bowels of a semi-reliable media organization.
>Most consumer-grade networking problems can be solved with "QoS via excessive bandwidth". But, what the carriers want to do is oversell their backbones by 10,000%, and then charge extra to deliver the kind of service you would have expected to receive in the first place.

While this argument sells to the crowd, it's facile and doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
CoffeeScript 0.9 released
How about the much more accurate reports on his very issue by other outlets such as the Washington post and even cnet:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/08/google_and...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-04/google-verizon-are-...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-20012703-260.html

And since the rest of the internet seems to hang on their every word and echoing it all over the place they should carry some of responsibility to correct things.
Beautiful Data (book review)
Should we wait for IE or move on? #CSS3 
check out this post first. http://www.artrycom.fr/wp/?p=259
This guy still stuck with IE ..
so just want to ask you guys ... Should we wait till IE or other browsers support all possible properties of CSS3 or Should we move on with our experiments..??
I hope they fix the problem with RecordMyDesktop (or its codecs) in this release. That bug has been quite irritating for people producing YouTube videos.
Going Slow
Chrome Frame is only activated on pages that specifically request it with a meta tag or HTTP header. If they deploy Chrome Frame government-wide, they could start developing modern web apps without losing compatibility with their legacy IE apps, allowing a gradual transition.
The Innovator's Solution: http://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Solution-Creating-Sustainin...
There's something to be said about the irony of posting an article on the issues around the over-abundance of information to HN. Although, HN definitely improves the quality of the information.
In case anyone else wants to disable that awful wibiya toolbar, point cdn.wibiya.com at 127.0.0.1.
By challenging (finding another solution to) one parameter everybody takes for granted. I think of Skype challenging the phone paradigm (ie we have to pay for it, per minute, the further on Earth the more expensive). If you come accross a pain that people "accept" as part of life, there is room for power disruption (imo).