skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SIP is a particularly terrible protocol using UDP. A single SIP packet can generate significant processing, generally with IP address as the only sort of authentication. Most VoIP providers will fall over pretty quickly. The "best" implementation I've heard of is a simple L3 whitelist of known-OK IPs, but that still has the effect of killing your network to many customers. On top of that, RTP comes in dynamically on different IPs, so you need to propagate L7 info in real-time to your L3 filters. And of course, if an attacker knows who your customer is, they can just spoof their IPs.
What are the Martian ip addresses?
This exchange of opinions is not constructive. Helping people is never wrong. The only objectionable part about this is that it isn't helping everyone, but only a select group.

Helping a select group could build a sense of community, or it could potentially segregate groups of individuals. But it is undeniably beneficial for the individuals that the service is targeting.

If anyone wants to take the initiative to help disadvantaged youth in general I'm sure no one would object.
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This seems to be referring to torts related to breach of duty; when a company becomes insolvent, the fiduciary duties its directors owe to shareholders may transfer to creditors. In any case, these are suits in which a creditor alleges bad faith actions; a simple rule of thumb might be, if you go into business, nothing but insurance is likely to protect you from bogus tort claims.

It's something to be aware of, but not something that changes the fundamental nature of convertible note financing. Don't sign personal guarantees.

My question was more along the lines of, does anyone in the "real world" of startup financing ask for personal guarantees? Where is this actually happening?
Somewhat off-topic, but I'm curious about this:

> Jobs followed this very advice himself back in 1998 when he shrunk Apple's product line from 350 to 10. So instead of creating 350 crappy products, or 200 mediocre products, or 100 good products Apple focused on creating 10 incredibly designed products.

I'm having trouble imagining how Apple managed to have 350 active products at any one time, ever. Did this include a bunch of software, printers, weird accessories? Are we counting Apple-branded keyrings and beer coozies, or what? Honestly curious.
"Don't make me figure out how many database access approaches there are in stock .NET. :-)" - one high-level using Entity Framework, one low-level using ADO.NET. Non-stock options are plenty.
There are actually 4 "vessels". Look at the names -- using binary :)

BAL0001	BY AND LARGE LLC	*	*	C & C MARINE & REPAIR LLC	2010	Freight Barge	2164.0	249.6
BAL0010	BY AND LARGE LLC	*	*	C & C MARINE	2011	Passenger Barge (Inspected)	2520.0	260.1
BAL0011	BY AND LARGE LLC	*	*	C & C MARINE	2011	Passenger Barge (Inspected)	2520.0	260.1
BAL0100	BY AND LARGE LLC	*	*	C & C MARINE	2012	Freight Barge	2164.0	249.6
Terrence Tao is a far stronger "get" than the average Harvard professor.

He is brilliant mathematician, eloquent educator (from introductory to proffesional topics), and a thought leader (with Gowers) in the mathematical research community on meta topics like research style.
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Founder/CEO here. This data is from hundreds of thousands of offers made by dealers on CarWoo! This is likely one of the purest sources of new car pricing anywhere. Would love to answer any questions.
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I don't think we should necessarily expect children to be able to cope with the range of social situations that we expect adults to handle.
Why is SSL the only thing protecting these customers? It's a really simple question and I think you are intentionally avoiding it and attacking a straw man.
Saying:

"Hey, wait a minute, wouldn't this time and energy be better spent helping all disadvantaged people instead of one small group to the exclusion of others?"

..is a criticism, not a "shooting down". Being altruistic does not grant you a blanket exception from criticism.
But middle-class white men are disproportionately encouraged to be programmers. As the article points out: "There were very few women and nobody of color. I found that puzzling since the startup industry was obviously booming." So to be fair, we should either stop encouraging them, or start encouraging people who are outside that group.
It's not clear to me whether companies that clear the path for "overperformers" like that are going to outperform companies that do their best to shield their team from this stag hunt problem.
Sure we can...however, as a former (post-race discussion) black man learning to program on my own, I can say that the problems of "urban black youth" (as I was once called as an undergrad by a professor) are unique and not going away with wish-think -- or -- technology. Therefore, targeted programs at the underrepresented are required in the same vein that laser surgery is targeted at the cancer cells and not the whole body (i.e., your "one big group of humans"). Long live humans... cheers
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God did not say "Lavabit must only use SSL and cannot use any other measures to fulfill its understood and contractual obligations with customers". That is ridiculous.
What's the difference between "Actionable Ways" and plain "Ways"?
So, most likely Liberian or Panamanian law...
and the problem with this is that the groups have a conflict of interest, if they do solve the problem that they are addressing then no one will continue to fund them. So the only way that they can stay in business is to make sure that the problem isn't solved, gets worse or is seen to get worse. Erin Pizzey discusses how this has happened to feminist organisations in this video[1].

[1] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5AOj6EhRuY
another cool thing about floating data centers in california is they're pretty much earthquake proof... built in shock absorbers (aka water).

You can probably charge a premium for easily accessible highly secure data I would imagine.

... assuming megalodon isn't still around
How did those "developers" choose that change if a lot of them disagreed and left later on? There had to be 1-2 leaders who happened to be Scala-fans.
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This is the problem exactly. As a woman, I never felt that I was welcomed and struggled to "belong" among the typical coders/programmers. There are too many contributing factors to even begin to list here, but I've spoken to enough other women about their feelings regarding tech and the tech space to know they were never individual to me.

But then I never felt quite right about chick groups either, if only because it isn't the REAL tech scene. It's just another subculture with its own idiosyncrasies. You can stay there as long as you want, and still be intimidated by the larger tech space where all the big stuff is happening, thus making no substantial dent in anything.

So I do believe the problem they're trying to address is a real and important one; this way of dealing with it just doesn't seem ideal to me.
Ask HN: Why did MS never add 2 mouse and pointer support in old days?
If most pointer is like pointing with your hand, 2 pointers could have been like using your both hands. We all see advantage of multi touch now a days.
Helping one person is not doing a wrong thing. If you want someone else helped, you help them.
There will always be career men/women who have seen a lot of laundry, who might be bitter when passed up for promotion in favor of a political crony, and find that helping along justice makes for sweet revenge.

That is why extremely malicious conspiracies involving more than a dozen or so people are not believable. As the circle of those in the know increases, the likelihood that someone will think they did not get dealt fairly goes up rapidly, and those with gripes will find they are holding the moral equivalent of nuclear weapons against those who wronged them.
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That seems... very inefficient. But I don't know enough to argue it.
As a bodybuilder/powerlifter, I would kill to have packages geared towards my sport with the proper macronutriets. Would be cool if you could customize as well based on meal frequency and macro-nutrient requirements.

For example, I need to eat 6 meals a day @ 40g protein / 40g carbs / 20g fat in each meal.
15 years ago, Congress kept Mickey Mouse copyrighted. Will they do it again?
Or that academia is less mysgonistic and more compatible with a woman's life trajectory than industry.

No need to project your insecurities onto others.
FYI, "Buy N Large" was the fictional Costco-like store from Pixar's WALL-E.
But remember, that doesn't matter because "that's just how SSL works".
Great article. It's nice to see journalists do actual investigative work, even if it is for something like this. Today's "journalism" seems to be all link-bait opinion pieces mixed in with copy-pastes from twitter.
My favorite continues to be http://hackerwebapp.com/ but this has some nice features as well.
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I use StyleBot to customize HN's stylesheet:

http://stylebot.me/search?q=news.ycombinator.com
Of course 'not everyone has this problem' - the article itself states that it is about ~30% of women in a certain age group, so a majority of women don't have this problem, but it's still large enough to have a noticeable impact on society.

And if you're looking at general statistical trends (i.e., any statments in form 'what women want'), then you're talking about approximations/averages up to the first significant digit, and you can easily be accurate to that degree with simplifying by clearly false assumptions as two clear genders and everyone being heterosexual. And it still is worthwhile to make such analysis, since it can provide insight about why/how large trends occur.
In that case, would it not make sense to have metadata associated with a particular section, detailing the final consensus and how it was reached? Kind of like a comment describing a non-obvious section of code. Otherwise you have the equivalent of telling someone "Before you modify this code, look through the entire git history to see why it's the way it is today".
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Seems to be it would be more productive to try to encourage more than a minority of a minority, as it were. Female programmers are already rare, blacks more so just by statistics. What about other races? Hispanic women are out of luck? Asian? Native?
Who said it was a wrong thing? It's fundamentally good, but i'd argue wrongheaded.
I agree. Take your shot at this. When you look back in a few years you will be glad you took the chance on your start up. Plus it will be a really good learning experience no matter how things pan out. Plus you said it's what you want to do.
Maaaaybe. But this line of thinking sometimes strikes me as have your cake and eat it too thinking. It would be really nice if the world worked that way for sure, but the idea that harder work leads to greater returns seems pretty robust to me.
This is somewhat of a tangent, but how is the tech scene in Portland, ME? It's my hometown and I've had thoughts at various times about returning and setting up shop.
How do you get a patent for a "floating data center"..
Patent troll trying to cash in on Redskins name change?
> Back in 2010 this could have been handled by hard-forking and requiring everyone to upgrade.

...and it still can, since if QC breaking your bitcoins isn't enough motivation to upgrade, nothing is.

> This is all definitely new work.

Yes, if you insist any solution has to be soft-forking, then I suppose that's valuable new work which Satoshi did not expect...
You're right. Actually it is sinful to help any finite number of people, if you are not helping all of humanity. The best thing to do is to never try to do anything helpful, because then you might be construed as discriminatory by people with a political agenda.
> But this indeed asks the question, which as far as I can tell is completely unaddressed on their website: why create a group that excludes others by sex and race? How do they explain to a black 14-year-old that their group isn't going to help him? Or a Hispanic 14-year-old girl? Or any 14-year-old whose parents are below the poverty line, who also wants to learn to code?

You read Hacker News. Surely you understand the importance of focus to any endeavor. The same principle applies here as to a startup — it's easier to sell "Twitter for internal business teams" than "this is an app that, like, helps people communicate and stuff in various ways."
So grab some ingredients and make your own.
If you are doing business in the US you will play their rules.
Just another buzzword spin on the "Internet of Things" BS or the privatization of public resources, including ideas, communication, etc., because economists say we'll all die and society will collapse unless control is maintained by the elite.

>Two key benefits are increased user engagement and reduced server load.

The two key benefits are pushing complexity/responsiblity/risk out to the edge and away from core financials and increased control of customers. Also, being able to retroactively change digital records then claim that they are immutable and that there's "nothing we can do" saves a lot of support costs and generally stops financial fraud investigation in its tracks.

Of course existing technology can appear "real time" just as well as any security-inauditable JavaScript library and proprietary API locked up in some random virtualized black-box, but only that kind of technology allows "remote administration" of live 3rd party software.

You know what would really convince me that building on top of proprietary hardware/software with land-baron type rights and EULA isn't just farming a dustbowl for whatever residual value was left after big data got through with it, is another "open source" javascript library that makes integrating with the cloud easier.
Wiretapping an entire Cisco VOIP environment
> "b-but you should use my favourite license" instead of "that's a cool thing you've built there".

First of all, "that's cool" and "license issues" aren't mutually exclusive.

Second of all, it's a case of picking an applicable license for the place the software fits into a project. This is a low-level library (cool or not); if an author wishes to "protect" their code, LGPL was built explicitly for this purpose.

To confuse matters, in the projects own page[1] they effectively waive all the rights of the GPL3 except for a very specific corner case.

People asking for license clarification or change are looking to simplify even _beginning_ to use the library.

[1] http://whitedb.org/licence.html
I don't think wave power is deployed successfully yet[1]. The cooling would not be a leap of technology though.

[1] Its under development http://www.pelamiswave.com/ but I don't think its finished yet.
Not how averages work :) (Maybe everyone only used their bike for a yearly 188 km ride. Or one woman rode 10,000 km and the rest 10 km. Etc.).

But then I do often use my bike to go 50 m, since it's faster and I can carry stuff on it.
> Let me guess: you still think that we all are going to die of skin cancer because of the whole in the ozone layer? What happened to that thing? Got old? I'll tell you what. New taxes were imposed world-wide and the problem disappeared over night.

"One time my toaster caught fire, and I poured a bucket of water over it and put it out. Therefore I conclude that putting out fires is easy, and I don't see why people keep moaning about forest fires."

> Coldest winters in living memory

Where? It's been balmy as hell here in Kentucky these past two or three winters. Fleas and ticks are getting really bad without a long, hard freeze to kill them all off.

The world's pretty big, you know. Just 'cause it was cold in your neck of the woods doesn't mean the planet's not getting hotter. You can find the global average numbers as well as I can; they speak for themselves.
I'm glad I stuck with Asana.
I kind of doubt that these two names are related except that they both derive from the same common idiom.
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You just did it, too.

You have a very, very low bar for 'rabidly attack'.

Actually, taking you on face value, it's curious that you didn't make the same criticism to the parent comment, who is 'rabidly attacking' the group in the article who are 'challenging the status quo when it comes to sociological issues'.

Why on earth do you play off "think before you down vote" as a negative?!

Oh, please. It was 'playing the innocent'. Pandering to such trolls keeps the debate at a very low level. The troll worked, too - look at all the responses.
How does data get from the EU to the US? Or APAC to the US?
Agreed I'm just as much impressed with the level of investigative work done here as with the actual data center. Well done CNET.
The premise of your comment is that the productivity-maximizing strategy for managing a company is to allow everyone to work at their maximum personal tolerance.

But that's not necessarily true; it's possible to imagine a scenario where you net out ahead by buying improved median productivity at the expense of reduced maximum individual productivity.

Think of it game-theoretically, assume a coordination problem that penalizes defectors (here, people who don't sacrifice their personal lives for improved productivity), and then bear in mind that some workers might be required to defect no matter what the rules of the game are.

The strategy you want obviously depends on your mix of natural cooperators vs. natural defectors.
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Reason #7 sounds a bit hokey to me. Why? Well, for one, it seems to be invoking the whole "vitamin versus pain-killer" analogy, which I've come to realize is badly flawed. How so? Well, I was going to write up a full blog post about this and just haven't had time yet, but let's just say this: Look up the numbers on revenue from "vitamins" and "painkillers" sometime. I did it (only OTC painkillers though) and the results were a bit surprising. Bottom line: You can make a LOT of money selling vitamins!

OK, it's just an analogy, and not meant to be taken literally anyway. Fair enough. But the point is, people (and companies) do buy things that don't necessarily correspond to "fixing pain" (assuming you don't invoke some tortured, bizarre, byzantine definition of "fixing pain").

Also, regarding segmentation: Do you really think your startup has enough resources to pursue selling your thing to everybody in the world, especially before validating product/market fit?? Seriously? If you can pull that off, more power to you, but I'll take the segmentation strategy any day.
I find it odd that they would announce a shutdown today, yet they do not have a tool to migrate data for another 2 weeks.
> I (like I assume many others) cannot use a GPL3 library (and I'm in academia).

Is it copyleft in general, or the patent grant that hinders your work in in Academia? I not sure why you should be using other peoples work for free, but then go around and sue anyone who copies or improves on your work.

The project wrote down exactly what they wanted to do with their work on their license page. I say good for them. More people should do so and think what they themselves want.
It has to connect to the U.S. somehow. So they can still subpeona data moving through the switch.

There's going to be a cable connecting this to the mainland, which one could argue means the ship is moored to the U.S. coastline?

Might be a fun legal battle.
I'd guess fiber-optic cable.
How can data used to watch for when a person is at home and work be considered anonymous? How many people do you live with and also work with and also carpool with?
I was actually okay with the plugs for his own typefaces. Since the book was free, I thought it was fair that he suggest people buy his typefaces to pay for the free product especially since many will be taking his advice to create products that are intended to make money.

But yes, an absolutely accessible and excellent resource. I've been sending to links to various pages and chapters to my friends in the hopes that they'll choose better typefaces after reading.
I don't think expressions of awe and reverence for one's good fortune or the system that created that good fortune is productive at all. And, I think it becomes counter productive when that awe goes so far as to suppress one's discontent.

In wealthy countries like the US, the quality of life improves every decade, and it only improves when people seek to change the system where faults remain. Professors are supposed to be thought leaders, not automatically and uncritically deferential to established thought or power structures. Perhaps his specialty is mathematics rather than the structure of academia, yet even still nothing is gained by subservience.

Furthermore, how does it matter when a professor is a loathsome misanthrope or not? Most important is the quality of their original research, and second to that, the quality of instruction they provide, and both of those in relation to their cost. If their misanthropy affects their job choose people who are less misanthropic. If the institutions aren't getting enough A-level talent for research and instruction to choose from, then they should look at how they are attracting talent. Surely, the compensation is an entire basket comprised not only of money and tangible benefits, but such forms of autonomy as the ability to move without giving up progress in your career, the freedom to pursue research regardless of unpopular outcomes, and the ability to speak freely.*

How best would you characterize "the problem with academia"? You seem to be saying (1)that there is too little talent in academia—an a outcome signify the combination of working conditions or salaries discourage talent from trying to enter academia. But then seem to say that (2)they are over compensated with days off and benefits. The only way to get such a juxtaposition of overcompensated and under-talented, though is if the positions are filled through some political manner such as personal PR, nepotism, graft etc, and yet that runs counter to your third complaint, that (3)academics aren't political enough to bow and scrape and show deference to everyone else.

At least one of these complaints must have a flaw.

Finally, how do you know you can't get a job in Hawaii? These days it takes remarkably little effort to browse job offerings and send out a few resumes. Maybe you'd end up with a lot of the same concerns anywhere you live, but maybe you'd also end up liking the climate a lot more.

* Though tenure can make moving difficult, it does help enable intellectual and academic freedom, since it effectively limits the equivalent of having a boss who tells you to suppress an unpopular conclusion.
this is actually nice in how it gives a picture of what the ops/regulatory side of this sort of business is like...totally alien from my nerd side of the world...
Yeah, that's why I was trying to figure out how they would power it.

Diesel generators seem... unGoogley.