skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the link.

I especially liked these two sections:

"One of the most interesting things we've discovered from working on Y Combinator is that founders are more motivated by the fear of looking bad than by the hope of getting millions of dollars. So if you want to get millions of dollars, put yourself in a position where failure will be public and humiliating."

"I like Paul Buchheit's suggestion of trying to make something that at least someone really loves. As long as you've made something that a few users are ecstatic about, you're on the right track. It will be good for your morale to have even a handful of users who really love you, and startups run on morale. But also it will tell you what to focus on. What is it about you that they love? Can you do more of that? Where can you find more people who love that sort of thing? As long as you have some core of users who love you, all you have to do is expand it. It may take a while, but as long as you keep plugging away, you'll win in the end. Both Blogger and Delicious did that. Both took years to succeed. But both began with a core of fanatically devoted users, and all Evan and Joshua had to do was grow that core incrementally. Wufoo is on the same trajectory now."

=]
> This guy was actually using his residential account for business purposes.

1. so what? Should every telecommuter get a business SDSL?

2. his consulting business is not the reason why he went overcap, hobbies and personal matter are
I'm wondering what the legal ramifications would be to have a a Kickstarter project that explicitly calls for funds to bribe politicians in order to counter other bribes to politicians.

Kickstarter itself may not even allow (I bet their TOS forbids illegal activity) but the PR might be good to call attention to the problem of lobbyist influence.
Congrats. Go Localmind!
Yup. Just add it to the end of your private key/certificate file (NB: only applies to stunnel when configured for DH or other programs reading DHparams from a key/cert file).

If you try to use only DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA without DH being setup, nothing will connect. If you have DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA as an option with others, it will negotiate a non-DH cipher. (e.g. "DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:!ADH:SHA" -- you can verify the ordering with `openssl ciphers -v DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:!ADH:SHA`)
Nothing you say here seems to contradict the author's position that the patent situation is making things worse for indie devs.
But at it's root most serious games today are designed to exploit the mechanisms of addiction. I don't think this is entirely a bad thing, it may even be beneficial to a limited extent. But if you eventually want to make your own art and contribute to the world in a meaningful way then this requires becoming fully self-actualized. And this is very difficult when you start spending several hours per day deriving pleasure from the baser parts of the brain.

Do I need to be thinking "How am I going to change the world" every moment of every day? Sometimes I want to go have fun and laugh at something. I might watch a movie, read a book, browse the internet, or play a game. Is that so bad?
When I've needed to do this, I've used a spreadsheet (with some sophisticated conditionals to get a net "you owe" matrix for each person in the group based on a list of shared expenses paid for by different people.

In other words, it isn't a startup IMHO - certainly not something I would pay money for.

I should put the spreadsheet on Google Docs Templates I guess.
Why worry about a specific language? Just learn both.
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Actually, the real win for whoever actually got such a patent would be the "no tagbacks" effect.

Imagine for a moment that you were sued over a product or service another party claims infringes a patent of theirs. Then, you found out that some product they offer actually infringes one of your patents. Now, you're thinking you've got leverage to negotiate a settlement, but the other party refuses all your offers, until you're finally left with no choice to countersue. That's when you find out they actually have the patent on patent trolling! Not only can they sue anyone they like for the slightest whiff of possible infringement, but the defendant can't fight back without actually violating another patent!

Quite the trump card, if you can get it.
You're right; He broke their policy.

However, to be fair, Comcast isn't very "open" with regard to the policy. You log in, see a graph, click "details" and get some mumbo jumbo about only 99% of users exceeding the cap. Clicking "Learn more" takes you to a page that is filled with questions that will deter many users (similar to a EULA - who "really" reads those?!) Up until this blog post, I had absolutely no idea they counted upstream against the cap (I thought it was just downstream)!

Sure, it's my fault -- I didn't dig deep enough to find this line in the FAQ:

"Data usage, also known as bandwidth usage, is the amount of data, such as images, movies, photos, videos, and other files that customers send, receive, download or upload over a specific period of time."

Then again, maybe they should just plainly state that on their site somewhere that both uploads and downloads count against my cap?

As a Comcast subscriber, in a similar situation where I am uploading a LOT of data (for work, and cloud based services), this was a rude awakening. Fortunately for me, I'm not using nearly as much bandwidth as he is (last month, I hit 100GB) - but I still wish Comcast was more open. Especially with the world moving towards a more "cloud" based computing (with on demand video!) I mean, their "typical/median use" is laughable in this day and age:

Data usage changes over time as our customers use the Internet and the services and applications available for it. Currently, the median data usage by XFINITY Internet customers is approximately 4 - 6 GB each month (these numbers may vary on a monthly basis). This reflects typical residential use of the service for purposes such as sending and receiving email, surfing the Internet, and watching streaming video.
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I think there is good reason to be skeptical of hardcore sports fans who are above a certain age. Sports all use the same basic tricks to trigger to pleasure mechanisms of the brain. As such, anyone who is sufficiently intelligent should be able to figure out that they're all basically the same, and thus to be avoided after a certain point if one wants to keep growing as a person.

Don't get me wrong, I still enjoy watching genuinely novel sports when they come out like Foosball or Ultimate Frisbee, but that's still not more than a few hours a year. And I appreciate that sports can have other ancillary social or parenting benefits.

But at it's root most serious sports today are designed to exploit the mechanisms of addiction. I don't think this is entirely a bad thing, it may even be beneficial to a limited extent. But if you eventually want to make your own art and contribute to the world in a meaningful way then this requires becoming fully self-actualized. And this is very difficult when you start spending several hours per day deriving pleasure from the baser parts of the brain.

That being said I'm not a neuroscientist, but this is sort of the vague feeling I get after reading some of the basic literature on both addiction and extrinsic motivation.
FTA: "Exercises will be coming in the next release."

Looks like this first release is a viewer+, but impressive iterations will not be far behind.

The breadth of Khan Academy's granularity for interpreting a student's understanding is staggering. The second half of Salman's Ted Talk shows how granular it gets: http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_rein...

In my opinion, the most impressive part of the Khan Academy approach is the emphasis they have put on demonstrating a student's understanding of the concepts - as demonstrated in that Ted Talk. The fact that the entry-point is "videos on the web" is a simplification of their overall mission.
Not the other poster, but I wouldn't be. In my semi-baseless opinion, chess playing pleasure is more like the pleasure you get from reading or doing math. Video game pleasure is more like television or cocaine.
The implication is that products for which there is a demand won't come to market.

It might not be easy, but society is harmed if we make it artificially harder to respond to market demand.
A friend of mine was involved with the dev process. Apparently, bump is a major PITA on Android, as in, works terribly.
Watching the xfinity tv/news service definitely counts towards the cap, but xfinity voice is a completely separate service - and doesn't count.
How did you check, I couldn't see anywhere on Comcast's site that gave this info.

I used to have a DD-WRT router with bandwidth monitoring but we're now using an Apple Airport Extreme, and I don't think it has such capability :/
Have you ever tried using evernote? It is much more than text files and some of it is quite sophisticated, such as automatic approximate OCR of images.

The UI/UX/API/mobile and desktop apps/backends, all of which you dispatch off without thinking, are all non-trivial to get right. The fact that evernote doesn't have too much competition right now should tell you something.
Is that what you'd advise people to say to the judge?
Not to take anything away from O'Reilly but if you're on a budget and want an equally awesome book try: Learn Python the Hard Way, 2nd Ed

$2.99 - PDF - https://getdpd.com/cart/buy/8273/19969/19293?gateway=paypal

$15.99 - Paperback - http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/learn-python-the-hard-...

$0.00 - HTML - http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/
The things what Lodsys is doing right now is actually very good. There are more copy-cat trolls coming to the market based on the same idea "buy some patents and let sue many private proprietors and ask them $1000 to drop suite".

Eventually, it will be obvious even to our representatives in Washington that something is broken and they will be forced to fix it.

As they say, our representatives will try doing the right thing but only after they try all the wrong things first.
I think your comment is actually a convincing argument that we should be skeptical of hardcore sports fans rather than a convincing argument that we shouldn't be skeptical of hardcore gamers.
See, the worst part is that, in some places, there is no choice at all. A 1.5Mb connection is enough for email and basic internet usage - in some places, you have Comcast, or you hook up a modem and use dial-up.
How Much of the Web Is Archived? [pdf]
oh. my. god.
I'm not going to downvote you, but that's an incredibly stupid reason to downvote someone.

"Oh, I don't like your word choice, so I'm going to downvote you regardless of the content."
While we wait for this, are there any open source examples of well designed HTML5/jquery ipad web apps?
Adam's post is rather more thorough and nuanced, which makes sense since he actually understands SSL and benchmarking. While you might summarize them both as "DHE is expensive", I don't know why you would. Here is each post on DHE:

Adam - "However, with a pure RSA ciphersuite, an attacker can record traffic, crack (or steal) your private key at will and decrypt the traffic retrospectively, so consider your needs."

Matt - "Unfortunately, it also includes a very computationally intensive cipher using an ephemeral Diffie-Hellman exchange for PFS. Sounds scary already, doesn't it?
...
The problem cipher is DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA [b]."

The first is factual and straightforward. The second is muddled and clearly skewed towards blindly disabling DHE. I believe we are in agreement that it is irrelevant to almost everyone building on nginx: their connection rates are so low they will not notice the overhead introduced by DHE.

I am sniping at enthusiastic ignorance and encouraging others to behave similarly. I hope that is all quite clear now.

Hugs and kisses,
Lil' B
Indian ISPs found a curious way of tackling these situations. Since they sell their plans as unlimited, they can't fully cut off the internet access. So as soon as the fair use limit is crossed, the speed drops to punishing 256kbps till the month gets over :|.
You're painting with awfully broad strokes. Hardcore games are actually extremely varied, much more so than casual games. The variance has decreased among the AAA titles in recent years, but even there it's a good bit more than you imply. Perhaps you're thinking of the twitch genres like FPS's and platformers and generalizing from there? Have you taken a look at the Total War series? X-Com? Monkey Island?

It's sort of like saying that all movies and TV use the same tricks to trigger the pleasure mechanisms of the brain.
Khan Academy has had exercises for a while now. It's probably one of the best open source projects to work on, in terms of impact and how easy it is to contribute. You only need to know HTML and a little JavaScript. The exercises are modular, so you don't need to understand the whole codebase in order to work on it. Plus, saying "I've contributed to Khan Academy" is a pretty cool thing to put on a resume.

For all the upvotes Khan Academy gets, though, there really aren't that many contributors. I'd encourage everyone reading this with an afternoon to spare to try writing an exercise for KA.

https://github.com/Khan/khan-exercises
thanks for this. but why not make the c++ examples c? then both c and c++ users can use them (and other languages wrap them more easily). looking at a few examples, it shouldn't be too much work.
Scalang allows Scala and Erlang applications to easily communicate.
they might get a new influx of corporate code contributors thanks to this
A fair criticism, and no, that comment definitely does not help matters.
"An attacker can listen to _any_ UK Vodafone customer's phone call."
And what about people who watch low-brow movies and/or television?
Interesting point - maybe they're just saying that early adopters are weird.
Some shameless self promotion: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tabs/id383784290?mt=8 Not quite the same, but close enough :)
On a related topic, these are both your comments on this post:

"The win here is that losing the RSA key now only allows you to MITM future SSL/TLS connections. This is still a disaster, but it does not allow you to retroactively unwind previous DH exchanges and decrypt earlier captured sessions."

"If you've lost your RSA key, you are well and truly fucked."

Thanks for clearing that up!

Make love not war,

Lil' B
I understand, but unfortunately short term (like next year) is hard to change that (or maybe we can we just haven't figured it out). It is still better to continue moving forward, we'll figure something out along the way.
I am going to have to stop replying to these comments soon because they're not well thought out. But here's another response.

More than text files? Yes, there's some binary file support too. "Ooh"

OCR is not hard. They probably just use http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/

The fact that they don't have 'competition' proves nothing. Maybe nobody wants their 'product' because it's not useful. As others have commented even here, who've actually tried to "get it" multiple times, it's really not useful for a lot of people - they just don't see the point.

Maybe the lack of people copying their "product" is because it's just marketing fluff around a solution to a problem that doesn't exist (really, very much, for most people, apparently).
In Montreal caps are around 20gb up+down per month.

While 250 gb seems "unlimited" for most of you, 20 gb is not. I suggest you start fighting now.
I've used 40GB so far this month. Last month, my usage was 117GB. This is all pretty easy to view on comcast.com.
A modern-day Howard Roarke.
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The things we do that are considered weird by other have a way of forming part of our identity, whether they otherwise would have or not. Nobody thinks its weird to watch a lot of TV, so even those people who spend way too much time watching TV consider themselves "TV-watchers".
I believe it's called lobbying, but nobody has tried it via crowd-sourcing yet. I should get a patent ;)

Talk to Lodsys.
Are you a little worried that you come off sounding like "Adam is one of the cool kids and Matt isn't"? Matt's conclusion is ultimately correct.

And we apparently disagree completely about DHE, because you appear to be saying you'd recommend it to web startups, despite the fact that the bank that clears those startups transactions isn't even using it.

Especially weird given that Boundary, your startup, doesn't do DHE.
Sorry for the late reply. Yes, that is the plan I'm talking about, but the article is incorrect. They never closed the loophole; they completely opened it.

Anyone with the $5 plan actually has free access to any data connection; T-Mobile doesn't even try to separate it from the other data plans. The only problem is they don't officially offer it anymore.

I've heard some people have managed to convince customer service reps to turn it on from scratch by calling with their SIM in a feature phone and saying they want an old cheap data plan that would support their old cheap phone for doing simple online tasks.
So then, there is an important free market niche for "douchebags who are smart enough to exploit X, but too stupid and greedy to avoid outraging the wrong people."
Where have all the Quad-A's gone post IPv6 Day?
Oh. You're forum trolling. You know what though, it's always great to see you Ben. Thanks for taking the time.
Is it just me or does that number seem good when you think about the fact that those investments are high risk?
Why am I thinking that calloc and thirdstation are 33+ years old?
I thought that Apple had requirements that any applications be written in native code, doesn't this break that if it's written in html5? Looking at the github, the entire source is html/js...
I've been noticing it more frequently as well. It has changed the way I use HN. Now, I quickly scan the first page and open interesting stories in tabs. Then I quickly click More and do the same. Wash, rinse, repeat two or three times depending on how busy I am.

Another related issue: the expired page is remarkably stark and unfinished in comparison with the rest of the site. A minor nit, but since it shows up so often, it doesn't look great to the uninitiated.
Is google killing GWT?
There's no such requirement. At one point, they required everything to be in native Objective-C code or HTML/JS (both were allowed) but they have lifted even that restriction.
You realize that even tiny netbook computers have a gig of ram in them, right? I mean, I don't want to keep this argument going forever, I just think you are woefully overestimating the slice of power that could be spared from a console without making the whole venture kind of pointless.
I'm skeptical of chess players of all ages.

I feel roughly the same about chess players as I feel about drunk drivers. That is, humanity clearly benefits from people willing to go out and drive while completely shitfaced, at least in the sense that when people are altruistic enough to kill themselves while driving drunk, the rest of us benefit by being able to look at their deaths statistically to create best-practices for the rest of us.[1]

In all seriousness though, if chess is your art then so be it, I certainly won't be the one to judge. On a personal level I think there are better mediums for self-expression. But clearly humanity as a whole gets stronger from diversity and randomness, and who knows what benefits us in the long run. And I agree with pessimizer that chess is ultimately more like math or music than cocaine or whatever.

[1] Pretty curve! http://www.nhtsa.gov/people/injury/research/alcoholhighway/2...
Ask HN: I want to follow your G+ Account (If you post)
Yes I know there was a 'Ask HN' about HN user's Google+ accounts, it was super professional - It had a document and everything. Unfortunately a lot of the names in there ended up never posting and in general not really being too interesting to follow or circle or whatever verb it is (No offense!).

So now, unfortunately, my feed is filled with David Morin's wedding plans and Ana Ulin's "OH MY GOD, WE CAN NOW HIDE OUR GENDER, G+++++", So if you're still posting to G+, and you think to yourself "Someone else might like to read this", give us your account name. I'll take a look

Hell, give us OTHER people who we SHOULD follow's account name. I'll follow them too.

But don't forget to hustle yourself. [ https://plus.google.com/105503159085383028265/posts ]
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Your comment's existence after millions of years of history seems to refute its claim.
There is a meter, but it takes some poking around to find it. Go to your account page and click on "Users and Settings".
Lodsys might actually be an easier target than a large company.
Off hand, browsing the source, it looks like a web app (index.html, CSS, JS). "With offline support" makes more sense in that context too, as you would expect a native iOS app to be mostly 'offline' anyway (sans perhaps streaming video).

I think this means it's a website designed for iOS and using the new HTML5 offline storage stuff for local operation.

That would be more up John Resig's alley as well.

That's pretty cool!
What do you mean by 'moving forward', and what do you expect to happen that's going to change things in the longer term?
Depends on how large that organization is, and how much IT junk, like mail, etc.. is outsourced.

(I'm sole sysadmin for a search engine, and I handle 200 servers.)
Using exmap to analyze memory
> This would not have gone down any different in the EU.

I dare to bet no EU country would have sentenced someone to 18 years for what he did.
I've done that too, but the average person would struggle to do it. That is (was?) the market.
I can't show it to you because the agreement itself is covered by the NDA, but I can assure you that you are under estimating its reach :-)
No kidding - that's great to hear.
It's an open question whether Microsoft would have grown PopCap from $35,000 to $1.3 billion, had they acquired it.
It's obviously not an ideal situation, but I'm just pointing out (like the person I originally replied to who suggested a business connection [which is more expensive and slower]) that there are ways to work around these restrictions.
Couldn't anyone use this exact same logic against anything they don't believe contributes to the world in a meaningful way?

Reading, outdoor activities, sports, television, movies, even religion I would argue could be described using the same logic.
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Exactly. You shouldn't trust a particular technique just because a financial institution uses it. They have very little institutional culture around security, as you yourself point out. So I'm not sure why you brought up the fact that financial institutions use a particular SSL technique - that tells us nothing.
we heard about windows 8 already.
just kidding guyss dont hate :D
Returning to a pay for usage model is a fine suggestion, and would make internet service much more like electric service.

It is amusing to remember how people disparaged pay for usage models just over a decade ago, though. :-)
“Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.”
-John Lennon
I love porn = i love kittens. Well played Google.
(not relevant to the article, but...) when you fill a pool, generally you call the water company and they'll hook a meter to a fire hydrant. This will fill a lot faster then a 1" home service, and you also won't be charged for sewer as well as the water. This can save significant money, since, at least where I live, sewer fees are about 8x the actual water cost.
Yep - we recently built a mobile app that utilizes local storage for offline support, with sync functionality for when users are connected again. HTML5 really opens the door for some awesome stuff.