skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Utah has a pretty solid economy, and lots of outdoors enthuiasts love it.

I don't know much about Provo, but the drawback to me about Utah is that you have to live in a state that is strongly controlled by the LDS, which is great if you are a mainstream Mormon. Not so much if you aren't. My good friend recently left the Salt Lake City area after several years. When his neighbors found out he wasn't Mormon (LDS to be exact), they pretty much ceased all meaningful social interaction with his family.

Oh yeah, the beer is watered down too unless you buy it at the right place.
Wait, aren't Utahns the most voracious consumers of non-pirated, purchased, internet porn?

"You fear to go into those IXes. The Google Fiber dwarves delved too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Provo, Utah."
We've now all married and spread out; but we keep in touch via an always-open skype groupchat. Otherwise - weekend meetups/parties/whatever at someone's home.
You are again pushing the "beheading" and "murder" argument, which is not what people disagree on. People agree already that these things are wrong (wow!). But you just hinted at what the problem actually is when you said "That may not be murder, but it is certainly something akin". So, again, the question is: what is it? When is it murder? Can I kill sperm? Can I let a woman have her period? Can I kill an egg that has just come into contact with a sperm? What about 1 second later? 1 minute after?

Keep in mind, I'm not even taking a position here. I'm just letting you know what the fuss is about.
Adobe's new facility for Omniture is north of Provo.
Okay, so you're suggesting this seems to set a dangerous legal precedent with slippery slope potential? I still say it's just a loan. To your argument here, can her parents legally take out loans in her name? I don't actually know the law there, but I don't think a lawyer would have a hard time answering that.

To your earlier question about 51% or 100% of her salary, if an investor loans me $500,000 at 0% interest to pay back in 10 years, and I only make $50,000/yr, that would suck, but I'm not becoming a slave to that investor. I can't afford to pay that back, so I'm going to default on my loan. There's a huge difference between that and literally being owned by someone.
I would say that it was a key concept in BeOS and still is in Haiku. Haiku development actually started by replacing one module at a time in BeOS so several userland modules were actually working before there even was a bootable kernel.
My guess - this experiment has nothing to do with the clicks, but rather is trying to measure something else. Something like the amount of time people take on breaks, plotted against the amount of time people spent reading the instructions. Or something like that.
I would do vi `!!` instead since the backticks are right next to the !'s already.
Got it right on the money. Spooky.
It thinks I'm 42.

I'm 21. Something must be wrong with me.
Here is quora topic that is along the similar lines and one of the solutions mentioned could work for you.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-virtual-hosted-PBX-pl...
Yeah, I got there, just was confused about the digest thing.
From SOPA to CISPA
Can someone explain the impact of widely-distributed fiber on DDOS attacks? As I understand it, if 1-2 of these nodes get compromised, then add in the 10-100x magnification via DNS, you're looking at 10-100gigabits of bandwidth off only two nodes? Compared to the recently published high of 300, this seems disproportionally high.
Is that why TI laid off the OMAP6 engineers?

http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/14/3646450/texas-instruments...
If they expand further into facility management the potential is even bigger.

There is a reason why ISS (not the space station) is a multi-billion dollar company.
I'm 30, it guessed 10.
> "I'd be real hesitant to call their wrongful convictions a "drop in a bucket"."

That's not what I said. What I said is that miscarriages of justice in a vigilante environment would make the current US situation look like a drop in the bucket. The level of injustice that would exist in society would make people yearn for the days when we were imprisoning >1% of the country's population.
I love this story. This is also why I bristle when many in the Valley - PG included - keep disparaging non-technical people when they want to start a tech company.

I never understood this.

For a group of people (programmers) that presumably have been ostracized, shunned, and picked on in their formative years, why do so many in the valley do this to 'MBAs'.

It's ignorant at best.

The fact is, as has been shown time and time again, the #1 factor for success in a startup is not technical knowledge (or even business knowledge). It's just an unshakeable will to figure it out and get it done.

If you are a technical startup with non-technical founders, that's just 1 set of challenges you have to deal with. However, if you are a technical founder and are bad with finance and other business stuff (and are trying to raise money or do a partnership deal with another company) you will have a commensurate amount of problems.

I wish we all, on HN (at the very least), would stop painting with a broad brush and bashing large swathes of people.

Everybody here wants the same thing. To build a lasting business. Who cares what background they have.

Congrats to you guys for doing this - despite, what I am sure, were incessant snarky comments you got from geeks.

P.S. I apologize for the rant, but I am both a geek & an MBA - both of which I would never apologize for, and both of which have completely changed my life.
I used a MS trackball (thumb operated) and it read me as 9 years younger than my actual age. I expected the trackball to be a significant handicap, but maybe it's not? It certainly felt like I was struggling to hit the targets, with plenty of overshoot.
It's probably a privacy test to see if they can get personal information out of test takers online simply by making you feel it's relevant to the test.
"Holy Cow" - confirmed, we have a Utahn here.
you mean $30 fee

_for a $30 activation fee (plus applicable taxes) and no monthly charge for at least 7 years_
Interesting to note Daniel Bernstein's take on least-privilege design, which Capsicum is an example of.

Bernstein wrote qmail, which can safely claim to be the first modern least-privilege mail server design, and one of the first modern least-privilege designs of any sort. qmail tries to derive some additional security from splitting up its activities into multiple components running with different credentials. Despite qmail's extremely impressive security record (it is one of the most impressive bits of secure code ever written), Bernstein considers his privilege-separation experiment a failure.

http://cr.yp.to/qmail/qmailsec-20071101.pdf

The problem is that minimizing the capabilities of a computer program often just moves the goalposts for an attacker. Too many times, unexpectedly conceding to an attacker some privileges on a target results in a compromise of all meaningful privileges, because attackers can use those new privileges to launch further attacks.

The problem is even harder in modern web applications, because breaking the operating system almost doesn't matter; all the attacker really needs is a working handle on the database.
31 ... I'm over 50. And I don't feel particularly dextrous.
I'm 33, also got 10.
This is a trade-off that manifests downstream. Highly opinionated there-is-one-right-way frameworks make it easy to get started because you don't have choice, but also get in your way in the long run because you don't have choice, and that also tends to limit what you can do.
Heroku's page is also great: https://status.heroku.com/
If anyone is interested the site was built using GitHub pages and Jekyll, and the rough drafts for the upcoming posts can be found in this file: https://github.com/Mashape/Growth-Hacking/blob/master/growth...
How many cities are they going to go to?
Sure, the outcome is more likely to be rational for each single person, but when it's published on the internet, there are suddenly potentially millions of people involved, some of which are certain to be not rational and wise at all...
Tis only fair.
return 30 if referer == 'https://news.ycombinator.com/

Is it close?
There are some well known tech companies around here :)

http://www.siliconslopes.com/company/search-companies
I meant fake looking. Not some realistic image. Still, I'd like to test a real alien, too. (:
I sold mine recently on ebay. 30 year old original battery still worked! I think it found a nice home with a collector.
HMAC authentication requires both the client and the server to have a shared secret (or more
likely a derived key based on a shared secret). The secret cannot be saved as a one-way hash
(as might be common for a password). So you couldn't use BCrypt or SCrypt to hash the shared
(or derived) secret since the server would never be able to acquire the value to calculate the
same digest.

You can still encrypt the secret, e.g. using AES 256 bit encryption with secure random Initialization
Vectors and rolling keys. This too is not easily 'brute forceable', but is very fast to decrypt compared to a BCrypt comparison (key storage should also be in a separate location than the main data store).
What's up with that sharp dividing line between Colorado and Utah? Everyone else has at least some bleed over with their neighbors. Are CO and UT economically feuding?
I'm not LDS, and generally dislike religion, but I wonder how bad an LDS-controlled area really would be.

I assume it means good disaster/etc. preparation, a relatively strong social safety net for participants (and thus less abject poverty, random crazy people, etc.)

The non-LDS or ex-LDS people I know who live in Utah (from Defcon or whatever) seem pretty cohesive as well. Maybe because it's a smaller tech scene than other cities, or because of LDS mainstream culture, or whatever.

I guess my question is how hard is it to be involved in business or other parts of civic life if not LDS but also not openly hostile (I mean, as religions go, I don't personally find it any worse than the others, and I'm fine with respecting participants, if not the religion itself, by not attacking it, and accommodating their beliefs). Could you be a non-LDS company in Provo and still reasonably hire a mix of LDS and non-LDS employees?
You/are are almost directly inverted in terms of age/score.
Right. That's the kind of nonsense that managers are OK with because they think that it's more important to monitor performance on an hour-by-hour basis than let you get into flow and actually perform.
Google to acquire Provo, Utah’s fiber, transform it into Google Fiber
Pricing and Profit Consistency and the Halo Effect
iProvo was 15Mb symmetric when it launched. I had it as soon as it was available on my street.

Sadly, Utopia is a financial mess (even more than iProvo became).
Ha ha... I'm not your typical "Oh my heck" Utahn though—I do drop the hard swears when appropriate, just not online.
It said 31. I'm 27. Who knows.
Problem is, most people who want to "start a startup" start from a baseline scenario that is already very risky. Especially the standard "let's start a B2C company in a field I know nothing about, because I can write code".

You're completely right that most first-time entrepreneurs should be mitigating risk [1], but the easiest ways are usually not part of their thought process. Things like "let's start a consultancy", or "let's build a B2B company in a business that I validate in advance by getting people to actually pay for my product's development", or even "let's take a working business model and import it to a new geographic location".

[1]: I assume here that most first-time entrepreneurs care more about the expected value of their business, rather than other things like "changing the world" or "running a 100-person business". This isn't entirely accurate, but is very close for most non-rich people, and actually a lot of the ways to mitigate risk can also increase the chance of these things as well.
Were you expecting me to defend the religious zealots? I never said I agreed with them. All I'm saying is that they're normal humans who have jobs and lives. They don't get up in the morning and say, "geez, how can we make life hard for pilgrim689 today?" A lot of them honestly believe that they're acting in your interest by saving you from eternal damnation.

>Then, when all arguments are done, it is up to the judge to say who is right and who is wrong.

The judge is just a lawyer in a robe. The judge can be just as wrong as anyone else. (See e.g. Dred Scott.) And the judge doesn't get the final say anyway, we do. We The People get to appoint different judges or pass new laws or amend the constitution. So we have to decide somehow which of you is right or wrong. Isn't it better to treat one another as people acting in good faith and have a debate and try to convince each other than to wage a holy war where each side dismisses the other as a immoral and proceeds to partisan political maneuvering rather than mutual understanding?
Could somebody give an argument (or link to an argument) for why CISPA shouldn't be passed?
>> Our best guess is that you are 10. Is it close?

Nope, I'm 28.
30/30 here
Good video on NASA TV: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-media-channel
I'm not convinced the web site drives the revenue. Alexa rank of 1 million. That means there's probably less than 30,000 visitors per month.

I bet the company does most of their marketing offline, and the site is more of a brochure. So it's a bit misleading to say that a $20k bootstrapped web site led to all the growth in this business.
NASA Livestream: Commercial Space Rocket Launches for First Time (Aborted)
Kinda shocked that at the end it didn't give a debriefing like most study tests do.
Problems sharing information due to existing federal laws and the liability shield, to me, are unrelated. And what is the point of existing laws if they're just going to create another layer of laws to bypass them? Who's going to oversee this network of cyber security entities? The State? I just don't see much accountability in that. Maybe if there were independent, non-state third parties reporting to consumers and providing transparency.
Because it hides a problem of repeating work. Even re-re-rescanning it with fast C is slower than scanning it once.
Ahem... http://www.federalreserve.gov/otherfrb.htm

Cash is managed through the regional branches of the Federal Reserve, and while there are some boundaries on that map that don't line up, it mostly seems to be governed by these particular administrative regions.

As a New Yorker from Connecticut, the gigantic barrier between New York and New England would have to be nearly completely explained by the Fed.
This would be awesome to pair this up with Twilio SMS so you know when your bus is just a few blocks aways from your location.
I wonder if this is biased by the way banks redistribute dollars. You have to think that many dollars end up at a bank, which then shifts them around to their branches and ATMs. Is it possible that this is just measuring that with some small leakage of money carried?
I am not sure what you mean by boilerplate... if you are referring to the router. It is definitely one of the most useful feature in ember
Not sure. I seemed to still be around in 2003 and then nothing. I'm tempted to see if I can get in contact with him now this has been mentioned.
Alternatively, you can add ':p' to the third line. This will print out the command rather than executing it. Additionally, it's also added to your bash history, so you can add it by pressing the up arrow.

$ chmod 755 foo
$ cd !$:p
cd foo
$ cd foo

There are some similar "tricks" here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5337558
Yep. I pay 60 bucks a month for 40 Mbps, and Google offers 1 Gbps for 70 bucks a month. I pay almost the same price for 4% the speed (not to mention horrible customer service).
Show me a list of every purchase you've made in the past year and I'll bet you $50 I can find more than one company with employees on staff who contribute to causes you find despicable, using the salary that's being paid indirectly using the profits you sent to that company.

Get a clue. Politics in the US are absolutely not black and white. Sometimes you ally with groups you disagree with to advance a cause you agree with; sometimes you support an organization because the good it does outweighs the bad it does. The EFF isn't perfect, the ACLU isn't perfect, Planned Parenthood isn't perfect, etc etc etc.

P.S. It's Brendan's money to do with as he pleases, not yours. Mozilla is a non-profit - his salary doesn't contain a cent of your money.
Does it work with Canadian area codes?
Sure. I was more referring to the cool graphics work being done at the University of Utah (Adobe, Evans & Sutherland, &c.)
I had waited forever for them to open up my 'region' and I was pretty annoyed when I found out they couldn't install it in the building.

Given the pricing and speed, I'm actually surprised that more people didn't sign up for it. Was it just a marketing problem? (I left Provo in 2005)
The whole marketing of the cellular company is based on puppy: http://www.fido.ca/
Is this at the seed stage or later? Wouldn't VCs prefer to put their money in one who has tried a startup before and failed than a first-timer for whom there are a lot more unknowns?
End-to-end encryption, folks. Fuck the NSA.
Open multiple compose/edit windows simultaneously visible without switching tabs; see new email while composing.

Whether those are good goals or not is a question, but those are among the goals.
> So getting an internet connection from a company that has opted in means I have no protection against searches and seizures (almost arbitrarily based on an individual's web habbits)

no, that's not anywhere in the bill. did you read the bill?
They let everyone play with the stepping control :) (myself included)

It's a great museum because of how massively hands on it is. I can't think of many other places that have that high percentage of exhibits which are there for kids (and adults) to play on.
Decoding the marketing speak, I'd say Google makes more money off its other programs, so Google is axing Affiliate Network in favor of those. Publishers are expected to move to AdSense CPC/CPI, and given how little competition there is, few customers will leave.

“we’ve made the difficult decision to retire Google Affiliate Network and focus on other products that are driving great results for clients.”
EBay’s Q1 2013 Revenue Up 14 Percent To $3.7B
if you enjoy(ed) RSC you might also like this game: http://mo.ee/
Provo Utah becomes 3rd Google Fiber city
I don't believe it's the MBA but rather the experience people have that make them able to do run a successful company.

MBAs aren't making you a good businessman anymore than studying philosophy is making you a good philosopher.

You still need the experience and the insights in order to create something like this.

But I wholeheartedly agree that you don't need to be a technical co-founder to do a company like this. However you do need someone to do it for you.
The one true solution is client authenticated TLS. For the life of me I can't understand why 25 years later certificate management is still such a mess.

We don't need some perfect universally recognized root trust system to get started. Why doesn't the sign up process for authenticated API access routinely include the issuance of a certificate signed by the API owner?

Unlike for interactive users there's no expectation that a customer will be accessing an API from some random computer where he might not have access to his certificate store.
"Reverse Hackathon" for healthcare
You are correct. MUNI schedules are defined by bus frequency, not a timetable. Trains/Buses come every 10 min from 7-9am (for example), every 15 min. from 9-11am, etc.
I like the concept of not requiring a site-specific login and password for every site. But I don't feel that OpenID succeeds at this. As a user, I find few sites that support OpenID and most of those don't work with my OpenID. Login with twitter or login with Google seem popular but tie one in too tightly to a single provider. Mozilla persona (https://login.persona.org/) seems really promising to me but it is too new to have any good data.
I should have qualified it with "of the actions taken, and the targets background", but yeah I guess I could have said "both". I didn't like how cliche "both scary and empowering at the same time" sounded.

Additionally, it seems some people have a hard time realizing they have polarized views of the same thing in their head. So while it may be both scary and empowering, people can have strong polarized views of the same topic without realizing it, it just depends on their point of view at the time. Maybe I was trying to get people to think and realize that such things exist in their mind, or maybe I am giving myself too much credit for an omission of words.
M-x shell is one of the first things I just show people when I introduce them to Emacs. I had a databases class a few years ago where the CLI program we used to interact with the database was a basically an input loop where you entered commands. It had absolutely no concept of history though so if you messed up a query you had to retype it or use the clunky copy and paste feature of whatever terminal emulator you were using. Emacs changed everything though be cause I could just kill my last command and paste it into the new prompt. I have since done this with many other commands and I love it.
Bill for it
Here's the EFF's FAQ on it: https://www.eff.org/cybersecurity-bill-faq
Really interesting read, thanks. djb is entertaining as always.
He's not writing off an entire company because of a $1,000 donation. He's writing off a company because one of its leaders chooses to publicly do shitty things.

Relative power is important to understand and take into account in a situation like this. Within the Mozilla community, Eich has power. Eich also not only holds repellent viewpoints, but acts on them (and while I respect the hell out of ChuckMcM I think he's several miles off-base with his what-if). I can understand not wanting to work for an organization where the powerful has no problem with a public declaration of hatred for me (if I were gay) or for dear friends of mine (in my own case).

As an aside, this is also why the arguments for at-will employment often fall very short; they equate "you can be fired for any reason" with "you can quit for any reason" without acknowledging the vast gulf in power between employer and employee in most situations and industries. Power dynamics matter. Context matters.
Let's get providers to stop packets from leaving their network when the IP source doesn't match any on their network.

Bye bye DNS amplification.
This is in my opinion a totally reasonable criticism of CISPA.

Taking the opposing position, I might argue:

(a) Our total ineffectiveness at responding to current network security attacks is such a pressing issue that a legislative "patch" makes sense, rather than spending time litigating fiddly changes to tens of existing statutes.

(b) It might not be to our benefit to relitigate the protections of those existing privacy bills; the result might be a weakening of existing privacy protections. Creating a common-sense exception that says "you can share malware or DDOS netflow traces no matter what kind of company you are" might leave our civil liberties safer in the long run.
NextBus was an east bay startup in the first dot com boom, actually, and my second job out of college. Muni was one of the launch installations. We were watching stuff like this (albeit with a decidedly clunkier hand-cooked map instead of Google integration) way back in 2000. I left in 2003, and they were acquired (without profit -- only investor shares were converted) a few years later.

Still, we didn't fail spectacularly, which says something. And going on 15 years later it's fun to see a bunch of my old code still running and doing useful things for society.