skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've "outsourced" most laundry since I was in college.

The problem these guys are going to have is that the quality of third party wholesale laundry is poor, always. Generally, what I see happening is that you have a mom & pop cleaner business who operates for years doing their own stuff. Then they grow / have equipment troubles / retire and bring their kids into the business / etc and move to either a centralized laundry plant model or outsource some or all of the cleaning.

Once that happens, your shirts get lost, buttons get crushed, etc.

So you have a premium service dependent on third parties for service delivery -- who usually suck. Hopefully they'll find a solution to those issues.
You mean it's been 8 hours and this hasn't been posted yet?

http://www.deadtroll.com/sysadmin/
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While I've frequently used this to kill connections, my favorite thing I've done with it is to list existing and dynamically add new forwarding ports through SSH.
At least to me, the big problem with porn is that it can rise your thresholds of excitement, make you insensitive, and you can even become an addict. But our kids will (hopefully) live in a world where porn is prevalent. We should teach them (at the appropriate age) that it is something that they can enjoy but should be careful not to abuse it.

Anyway, the idea of getting the government involved on blocking porn (or anything) is really bad. I rather live in a world where we have to teach our children to be responsable than in a world where the government decides what they can and what they cannot see.
I'm pretty sure it was sarcasm.
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This was great. Neat tool.
Made a little video preview for those who are interested : http://youtu.be/hkGkAGojfRQ
As mentioned by one of the other replies, it comes from "to prick" in Old French, so the usage you're seeing—Profoundly moving; touching—seems to align with that fairly well, at a glance.
Request HN: An open source list of disallowed usernames
Hey HN, I would like to compile a list of disallowed usernames that will be open-source. I'm sure most of you use a pre-compiled list of usernames that you don't want people to signup with for your startup. I'm trying to build a bigger, useful and open source version of the same list.

For example, you wouldn't want someone signing up with 'support' or 'admin' as username, right?
That would mean they would be able to generate a URL like http://example.com/support or http://support.example.com.

I'm planning on consolidating this list into one single huge database that all startups can benefit from. Hence, as a humble request, I kindly ask you to donate me your list so we can put everything in one place, together!

You can contribute via Github:
https://github.com/dsignr/Disallowed-usernames

Let's get this list up so everyone of us can benefit from it. Thanks!

Neya
Have the qualifications for "conspiracy" been gradually ratcheted down until it's just synonymous with "implying that someone in government did something without the public's best interests at heart"?

I'm not sure how taking down your own website because some of its positions don't accord with your current actions counts as either far-fetched or a conspiracy.
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Yup its the randomness that is the issue.

Health education type material for teenagers springs to mind. I have seen issues in the past with 'walled garden' type software in schools/colleges blocking content of that nature unless specifically unblocked.

Suspect there will be backlash, then weakening of system to the point of uselessness once it gets going. Usual expensive UK government IT mess.
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In the very early days of lolcats, I nearly got fired because an image macro I referenced in an email got replaced, several months later, with.... let's just say it was the sort of image that rivals goatse for disgusting.

Fortunately, my company's IT department had enough of a clue that when I explained what had happened, they agreed it was possible; it was a tense week, though, while they investigated.

I'm not saying the sort of reaction in parent isn't always appropriate, but just be aware that people's lives can be ruined to save a few dollars. I think the OP's solution is ideal: it alerts people to the problem in a very professional way, and provides solutions for the most common cases.
I sometimes do this mainly due to abysmal responsiveness of some website (not sure if the first click registered).
The press could mention it, that would be a start. BBC news for instance barely mentioned the proposed blocking. The only stories to hit the front page (and then, right at the bottom in the Tech section) were the links to Huawei and the spat between the minister and the reporter. The actual proposed block has barely been mentioned. Apparently a baby being born warrants continuous headline coverage; loss of civil liberties gets a footnote.
Please explain how "intent" and "evolved system" have anything to do with one another. There is no "intent" in an evolved system.
Are keyword based firewalls really all that effective?

What if someone's researching classical art and searched for "nude"? Surely, that will cause a fair amount of hair-pulling to deactivate the filter in public access locations like libraries and such.
Yes, defectors and enemy spies are usually the same thing. It's much more rare that they are 'inserted'.
I haven't tried the app yet but from the landing page I can see it being nice to use, although possibly not the best use of time!

I think part of the reason sites like 9gag have taken some share is their great mobile experience making it easy lazily browsing—however, I'm sure hardcore reddit users will hate it!
I'd like to see some direct information on what was actually said by the ISPs and where it's come from. This article is a lot of speculation based on a statement that they've said something and then an existing service offered by one ISP. Clearly they're not going to block games and dating sites which this service does so it's not clear why we should assume that it's any sort of useful template for what's proposed.

ISPs have a stated objection to these proposals (if only because they understand what's really involved) and it feels to me a little like this could just be spin from their camp. Suggesting that this is the start of wider censorship would certainly be a way of pushing the public against it which would suit the ISPs cause.

None of which is to say that what they're saying is wrong or that it's good bad or indifferent, just that my reading of the article is that it doesn't really have much to support it's claims.

All that said we know for sure that the proposals will block things other than porn if only because it's almost impossible to accurately define porn or build a perfect filter for it based on whatever definition you have. There will be false positives and negatives both in terms of definition and implementation, meaning that stuff will absolutely be restricted which shouldn't be (and let through when it should). Good luck running an on-line site such as Ann Summers or Agent Provocateur, even when you're allowed shops in the high street.
Does Passive Income Hacker actually exist, or is this conversation a fantasy?

How many people are there making five figures ($10,000+) in profit a month with their SaaS product? Working by themselves, for only "20 minutes a day", with a full day of product development "every few weeks"?
This has been my experience as well. The people that actually care about building and designing things tend to be the builders and designers. Maybe thats why most non-technical / non-design founders I have known seem to really just be about the money.
My wife can jump to conclusions without any details. She does it all the time :)
If you restrict unfiltered access to the web to only those who know how to ssh, your hopes for a free society are doomed.
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It seems like transfer would be an 'easy' upgrade in that it doesn't require a lot of per-server manual effort, just a change to the billing system (threshold at which accounts are billed for overages).

But I dunno if that makes sense, given purchasing decisions and your cost structure. Are people's purchase decisions keying off transfer quota at all, or are RAM/HDD are the real price-point issues? And if they are, would doubling transfer, say, make a difference, or would you have to match Linode (currently offering 10x the transfer at equivalent price points)? So maybe this is a dumb idea.
So, just how often do high-profile people die in close proximity to their expected presentations of controversial information?
I guess leveraging economy of scale would be what they're seeking for, but that's just a typical business. Why don't they promote it as such?

Current online laundry services are physical laundry spaces, that are leveraging the internet for the area around them. I guess no one has done it at a larger scale yet.
Can anyone identify a few example passive income apps that a single developer has managed to support? I know of bingo card creator, but what are some others?
They have asked it. the politicians said that people are stupid and don't want to learn how to use complicated software, they just wanted to be protected.

ISPs said they offer opt-in filters (and opt-out on mobile products) that people could use.

politicians now say those filters must all be opt-out.
Wait, is my wife your wife?
Being a windows developer who dabbles in linux I accidentally smack ctrl+s a dozen times a day when vimming. I've only just recently got used to to recovery mechanism:
Ctrl+q to recover the terminal, a stiff drink to recover my nerves.
I wouldn't worry about. Personally, I drink Diet Coke (nectar of the gods). I don't think there has ever been a study on humans with a link to any cancer or specific issues. They have shown in rodents a link to cancer. However, the amount relative to body weight that the rodents were given was extreme. Anything in the extreme amounts in the studies is bound to cause problems. As they say, too much of anything is a bad thing. I bet they could link cancer to any chemical, mineral, supplement, etc in such quantities.

Here are 2 studies:

http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/content/15/9/1654.full?ijkey=ac...

http://annonc.oxfordjournals.org/content/18/1/40.full

My honest humble opinion is don't worry about. Drink your sweetened coffee and Diet Coke if you enjoy it. I believe I read some where that sweeteners are the most studied elements in the world and if there was a problem, a serious problem, I think it would have been known by now.
I hope someone familiar with his work will step up and give the demonstration. RIP
Definitely sarcasm :)
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Agreed MS 97-2003 .doc is NOT a moving target. Back in 2008 when we were considering moving from MSO 2003 to OO or SoftMaker Office, SoftMaker had near perfect MSO import filters. 5 years later, and only 3 of the 14 .doc import bugs that I filed with OO (now on AOO tracker) have been fixed.

It's too bad the Oracle didn't take OO under their wings. With their resources they could have turned it into a true competitor to MSO. As it stands now, volunteers enjoy adding new features not bug fixing or scouring the 200 page OpenXML spec. sheet.
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This is interesting. Machine learning requires data. Will the app be sending back up anonymized data that then gets used to help the app make better decisions? Or how else will you make your app smart like Mint? Can't wait to see what you're doing.
It looks and feels great apart from a crash I get everytime I try to refresh the "Hot" section.

Also, I tried to remove all the default subreddits and add NSFW ones and found out that:

- It doesn't work, if you want to add a custom subreddit you have to browse them one by one, this would have been a great use of the new "multi" reddit feature, no?

- NSFW images don't actually show by default, I found no way to change this, why?
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1) Open web control panel

2) Click checkbox by "Filters on [ ]" so that the box is unchecked.
When I was maybe 5 years old I asked my parents why they couldn't just cut cancer out? Everybody is a newbie at one point.
Opera 15 is a step back if you where use to doing web development with the old versions. DragonFly is missing in action, as you point out, but Opera was also the last browser with good cookie management.

Simple things like being able to do a "manual" request isn't even there.

One of the things that really strikes me though is that NO ONE complains that you can't add new search engines.

I've switch to Firefox, but it's not really what I want.
Would love to see this.
It might have faulty implementation for how it glues security features together, or encrypts the traffic data. I think the parent comment is talking about this kind of "audit" (i.e., not theoretically, but in action and by perusing the source code).
Can't say for myself, but I would bet such a person exists. I know a few that could be candidates, but I don't know how much they're making monthly. Add on that he's probably exaggerating about the limited time required. If you really do target a niche, you can make money, and it's easier than targeting everyone.
Your story reminds me of this story.
An American businessman was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellowfin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them. The Mexican replied only a little while. The American then asked why didn't he stay out longer and catch more fish? The Mexican said he had enough to support his family's immediate needs.
The American then asked, but what do you do with the rest of your time?
The Mexican fisherman said, "I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take siesta with my wife Maria, stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine and play guitar with my amigos. I have a full and busy life, señor."
The American scoffed, "I am a Wharton MBA and could help you. You should spend more time fishing and with the proceeds, buy a bigger boat. With the proceeds from the bigger boat you could buy several boats. Eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middleman you would sell directly to the processor, eventually opening your own cannery. You would control the product, processing and distribution. You would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico City, then LA and eventually NYC where you will run your expanding enterprise."
The Mexican fisherman asked, "But señor, how long will this all take?"
To which the American replied, "15-20 years."
"But what then, señor?"
The American laughed and said, That's the best part. When the time is right you would announce an IPO and sell your company stock to the public and become very rich, you would make millions."
"Millions, señor? Then what?"
The American said, "Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take siesta with your wife, stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play your guitar with your amigos."
Yes. There are currently 13 virtual nodes that handle .com and, just like for the root servers, each one of those virtual nodes is actually a group of machines all bound to the same IP address via Anycast. There are hundreds of physical machines spread around the world handling the TLDs. The NS records that these servers return are readily cached with long lifetimes, though, so if you use any relatively popular DNS server, either your ISPs or Google's public server, the resolution process will be really short even for uncommon names.
It's possible that they are working for only "20 minutes a day" in the same way that the Startup Guy is working "100+ hours a week."

That is to say, the quoted number happens occasionally, but it feels like all the time.
Retarded is really the best word you could come up with?

Most mentally retarded people I've met are quite aware that they're significantly less smart than the average person, and have internalized it quite well. Have you ever seen an 8-year-old burst into tears because the rest of his class can read, but he can't, no matter how hard he tries?

Unfortunately, self-delusion generally isn't one of the ways mental retardation presents.
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Simon was interviewed recently on Marc Maron's WTF podcast. Worth a listen.
http://wtfpod.libsyn.com/episode-389-sam-simon
You can change what the default escape character is in the ssh config file.
An important point about bitcoin for this discussion. It in no way authenticates who anyone is beyond there public key, it just keeps track of what someone does with those keys. Aka I did this work which I signed, i want to move a bitcoin to this act which I signed.
I don't think they care about it enough to want to go even that far, unless VPNs become totally mainstream.

But you can tunnel encrypted data over anything that can carry a signal, and stuff IP datagrams inside it. This will only stop people that are "casually" looking for stuff and don't really care.

Latency might suck. But if the filters become a problem, you'll start seeing VPN applications with "UK filter modes" that use whatever the current simplest circumvention method is. Heck, I'm in the UK and I'd go into business selling VPN solutions like that myself if the filters get obnoxious enough for that (through suitable shell companies somewhere more favourable). The trouble with a business like that, of course, is that the market will be limited as long as the filters are not mandatory.

But just as an illustration of how ludicrously infeasible turning this into full censorship is: If they allow HTTP through at all, you could easily create a VPN were the packets are exchanged by ensuring every Xth character is lowercase for 0 and uppercase for 1, and serialise your packets by downloading / uploading hacker news comments to the VPN server, with the case changed. Or you could use a thesaurus on both ends, with an algorithm for assigning 0/1 to words, and rewrite the text by looking up the next word and deciding whether (and if so what) to rewrite it to.

Of course that'd also be ludicrously slow and waste tremendous amounts of bandwidth, but it's an example on the far extreme end. More likely if they ever try to make this mandatory and actively filter, it'd likely start out with just be a matter of changing port numbers. The next step up in escalation would likely be wrapping the data in something that looks like you're talking to a DNS or mail server or similarly slightly massaging the data.

It'd only be somewhat tricky if they get to the point of trying deep packet inspection and validating that the contents matches expectations from the protocol and doesn't look "too random" for every protocol people might use.

(As a last resort we'll just have to implement IP over Avian carriers: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149 )
So what if startup guy disagrees with the choices of PIH? This is another example of conflicting ideologies, and luckily, no one can do something about it. Imagine if there was a politician who didn't like the approach PIH was taking and worked to ban it because he didn't like it. This seems very farfetched, but there are examples of this happening. The ones that come to mind are the banning of sharing recourses, like AirBnB or any ride share program.
I run the following, not to 5 figures but income is relatively passive.

https://www.strongcoin.com/

https://www.bitcoinary.com/

http://status2k.com/

http://servermonitoringhq.com/

For example status2K is in the low 100's per month, but I haven't spent anytime on it for about a year.
What do we win by promoting these caricatures?
This article is really making a big deal out of nothing. All the "major issues" brought up here only create problems in edge cases. When you're trying to drive growth or understand your users (the purpose of metrics at the end of the day) you should not be focused on edge cases.

In most cases the reason you care about tracking logged-out -> logged-in behavior is to measure onboarding behavior, understanding what the user does pre-signup so you can do a better job of driving signups. Signup is not a multi-client process in the common case so being able to track multi-client behavior pre-signup doesn't really matter at all.
Because it's not as clearcut positive for him as feeding milk to a siberian tiger cub.
Selling courses about how to make passive income apps?

Selling SEO Guidebooks to make a passive income website?
Yea and you can only select an adjacent spot so that also limits combinations.
I think it's just such a truism these days that every company has to (often recklessly) aim for massive growth and fund that by selling off the company, that there's just a lot of cognitive dissonance when you present that that's not the only way companies can work.

It's not necessarily all derision, it's just the mind trying to reconcile new information with old.
This isn't a finished blog post yet, so bare with me.

In http://jimkeener.com/posts/http I have two things which I think would be great additions to both HTTP and HTML.

The first are Content-Signature (signed with the TLS key perhaps)and Content-Hash (format: "hash-algo base64-hash-value") headers.

The second is allowing a hash and/or signature attributes on elements that have a src attribute. This would allow the UA to check if the file is already cached (across domains perhaps too, though I'm not sure how serious collision attacks would be) without having to check the server.

EDIT: I feel that these two features, in combo, would allow for a more secure method of using CDNs for things such as javascript libraries. They would also allow a better fallback method for loading local resources than what is used now.

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.6/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
if (!window.jQuery) {
document.write('<script src="/path/to/your/jquery"> <\/script>');
}
</script>
Huawei is sort of "Chinese Cisco", ie. while they probably have some custom silicon in their products they don't market silicon directly instead focusing on complete devices. So, you are probably thinking of another company.
Ehh, I wouldn't give the builders and designers a free pass either. I've met just as many engineers and designers who are in it for the money.

All in all the people who genuinely want to change the world and are willing to put their money where their mouth is, are very few and far between. Regardless of their profession or background.

The dissonance is that startups, particularly VC-funded high-growth startups make a lot of noise about disruption, changing the world, and the such. But somehow, with few exceptions, when push comes to shove they will take the exit over their vision.