skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is just flawed. It will put your provider that tends to sell 3mbps DSL lines that are rock-solid 24/7 with great peering below that of providers that sell 50Mbps lines that have fairly crappy peering and you only get 4Mbps and 5% packet loss during peak.

Or at least it will look that way on these graphs, since very few HD streams will be performed by the first provider's customers.

I'd be a heck of a lot more interested in looking at data that shows buffer underruns based on time of day. That will show congested providers vs. providers that simply offer less bandwidth. AKA it will separate the providers that lie, and those that are honest.

I don't know much about youtube's architecture, but in general these stats are pretty simple to do via basic math and access logging. You look at the total request time, how many bytes were sent, video bitrate, and then calculate how many seconds of video were actually downloaded vs. how long the request took. If the request took longer than the total seconds of video downloaded, then the user probably experienced buffering. It's a bit rough, but the numbers are incredibly useful in aggregate. I've used this method to identify peering issues (looking at you FT) when more advanced methods are not available.
http://www.google.com/get/videoqualityreport/ worked for me, thank you.
FWIW, CloudFlare uses Cap'n Proto for logging.
"to keep their sources from sounding like total morons"

That's, like, the point.
Seems overly complicated... couldn't you just meet with the lawyer, each sit at one end of the table then write your price down and hand it to the lawyer all in person?
ntp has an open-source reference implementation that many Linux distros use. See http://www.ntp.org/
One of my favorite platform removals was support for the Cray T3E, as in the debuted in 1995, Cray Research T3E.[1,2]

-/* Added for T3E, address-of fails on bit field (beckman@acl.lanl.gov) */
-#ifndef BIT_FIELD_LIMITS
memcpy(&server.sin_addr.s_addr, ip, 4);
-#else
- memcpy(&server.sin_addr, ip, 4);
-#endif

[^1]: http://freshbsd.org/commit/openbsd/01f41ed5b37037b963c0de2c2...

[^2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray_T3E
I would assume that other async libraries would give similar results, but only Comsat/Quasar let you keep writing simple, blocking code, using the same, standard APIs.

As to scaling, in the case of a simple web service like this, Comsat would increase your capacity by a lot, in a manner similar to buying more hardware (though I would rater use a free library than buy a lot more servers). But once things get more complex, and your system more distributed, utilizing your machine's resources better gives you a much bigger boost than additional hardware. Just a simple example: if you're using a distributed write-through cache, packing more work into fewer machines will have a very big impact on your latencies.
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Perhaps you would care to point to the part of the PDF that indicates the data are unreliable, and to comment on the plausibility argument, i.e. that the FT's analysis indicates that "Britain is currently one the most egalitarian countries in history in terms of wealth distribution" and in particular that it is far more equal than Sweden is or has ever been?
There isn't really a counter to your argument. I wonder if some of the downvotes are from people who might feel a tad guilty about having conducted what is effectively tax evasion.
Rommyronance sounds like a character out of Archie ;)
Mainly because I'd have to create a Dropbox account just for notes and also because I'm a heavy notes user and don't want to depend upon a proprietary vendor for syncing (SyncStorage is better in that regard).
I'll admit, I wasn't initially sure this was relevant to HN, but this is a participant (customer?) perspective of a YCombinator startup.
Don't know how you'd quantify this, but I imagine people have a subliminal response to the smile whether they know they see it or not. Like pleasant chord construction in music. I've also heard it's the reason watches in magazines are always set to a time around 10:10 or 2:50 to make it seem like a smiling face.
Given the amount we spend on government, the inefficient way it's run, and the value the taxpayer gets for the dollar (compared to e.g. Sweden), it's a huge, brightly painted target. It is not all of the problem, but it is a problem.
My app, DrillbitApp.com, uses the same data to run on marketing lists. Also does race and gender.
It's not PHP's fault, I just like arbitrarily hating on technologies that are out of vogue.

I'm reusing PHP code from 5+ years ago. So, yep.
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Unless I'm misunderstanding something, if someone has access to my email they can just login right?

That doesn't sound very safe. Does this use some form of OTP that's passed via a special URL that only works with the mobile app? If so that sounds better than what I'm thinking.
Oddly my wife used to see this on her laptop in our apartment in Los Angeles. I would play a video, and it would be fine at HD. I'd ping her the link, and she would attempt to play it and it would be stuttery and crappy. I'm not sure what changed, but eventually it just cleared up. We were on the same connection. Very odd.
I used Prim a few times, then they called it quits. At some point during the article I figured I'd see what they'd done with the Prim domain and found...a fully functional Prim.

At first I thought I had just imagined it had gone under, but apparently not: http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/06/prim-laundry-shuts-down/. Seems strange to not, you know, email your customers again if you decide to resurrect a product.
I'm glad you have the disposable income to spend on something without even knowing in advance if it's something you'll use or even like.

I do not. But apparently personal principles are unwelcome here.
Well, that's true of most services, right? If they have access to your email, they can just click the 'reset password' link on a site and use the resulting email link to log in.
I think my favorite example of things going the other way was when we more or less won the battle on export control laws which restricted the distribution of cryptography.
Only if you think a guilty plea (in a court of law) doesn't result in a summary judgement because the offender agreed to it.
They were probably both inspired by Social Security Administration's release of name data for 2013 a couple of weeks ago:

http://www.socialsecurity.gov/pressoffice/pr/2014/babynames2...
This feature is a side-effect of something else I use more regularly, and I don't have time to develop my idea. It's unlikely I would use yours because I have my own, but I can't be the only one who would use such a facility if it were available, nicely packaged, easy to use, uncluttered, and known.

You might also look at allowing people to share their ideal trips, so their friends can say "Yes, let's do it."

Personally, I would guard against over-featuring it and have something simple, clean, elegant, and immediately useful for a single purpose. Note - I have no experience of this, and what I say could be complete rubbish.
How businesses can increase Social Media engagement on Weekends?
Don't forget OpenCVS
So, it's a web framework that receives route requests and sends responses over a WebSocket / Comet connection?

I've had a similar idea for something in Haskell and it's cool to see someone doing this.
Obviously, I could not. truecrypt.org had a donate button which redirected to a paypal page, and I donated. I'm assuming they wouldn't set up a donation method that merely gave the funds to paypal.
I did carefully address your statement. Follow up by email if you have any real questions.
I think they were more referring to the snarky "no great loss" comment..
For what it's worth: I can't think of anyone who has done "15 years" for CFAA violations. Is there someone who fits that description?

(Don't get me wrong; any prison time for good-faith vulnerability research, no matter how negligent or ill-advised the research is, seems like a travesty).
I was going to post this comment on their page:

"Why do you need people's name and email? The above screenshot looks like an APP. You already have a way to reach them: in-app notifications. And why do you need their name until they purchase something?"

But ironically, the resulting page said "Please enter correct password. Spam free wordpress." LOL
> At the Bountiful home, Alia Platt worked to design the arm that would throw the Frisbees.

I'll second njharman's comment. Your niece is cool! :)
The list is the 25 most popular names since 1900.
thanks for the explaination
This is interesting and somewhat confronting to me. Can we just get rid of passwords that simple?

Do we end up with a system that's of equal or higher safety?

Agreed that convenience is definitely up, since we have email clients built into everything.
"The barriers for any person wanting to publish their own book have pretty much all gone away. Sure, that implies mountains of dreck will be published, just like there are millions of crappy web sites. But the good ones still float to the top."

This implies that all books require the same amount of capital to produce. This is clearly not true. Post apocalyptic, vampires from space novelette written in spare time is now easier to publish, but long-research, expensive production value works need to be funded some how. If they aren't subsidized by the publishers, who will they be subsidized by?
The right e-commerce tools for the job
And that's not the case with Theo?
Oooo, definitely some goodies in there that are new to me. Animate.css is one I know I'll come back to.
Were you using the same dns servers?
What can I learn in 10 minutes that could be useful for the rest of my life?
My friend Felwooke Madfrego will be in touch with your niece regarding this apparent libel that his name is fake.
$50k of development work.
That's fine. What that means to me is that YC requires a potential alum to be incorporated in at least two states--Delaware plus California. Incorporating in Delaware, but not California, and then going through the YC process of living, working, and employing people for the purpose of conducting business for 3-6 months in California almost certainly (but not necessarily) is tantamount to operating the business illegally in California.
> Before Amazon, I was stuck with pretty much whatever the local bookstore happened to stock, or whatever randomly appeared in a used bookstore. There were no rankings, no reviews to read.

There were, in fact, rankings and reviews of books before Amazon. It was also quite possible to discover books -- and order them -- when your local bookstore didn't stock them.
Depends on if you're trying to write native apps, web apps or use something like phonegap.

If you're looking to write native apps, Android is open-source, and iOS closed source, but they've got a lot of documentation available, albeit verbose at times.
The Pyed Piper (pyp) Tutorial
On its own it tastes like grass clippings. Not quite as user friendly or accessible as Soylent which differentiates the two.

Arguably, Soylent sounds like it doesn't taste much better than grass clippings, so I don't think they're that different.
I think Pinterest can be used initially for inspiration.

But a service dedicated to travel might provide more value. In my case, I signed up with Kayak. It sends me any special offers when they get available. But I cannot really customize those offer much.

A service that would show a world map, various offers based on planned vacation time, social features (plan with friends), etc would be very useful, I think. I would def. sign up.
But that to me seems like a distinction without a difference.
I've noticed my name, Bret, spiked in popularity in 1959 and 1982, corresponding nicely with the TV shows 'Maverick' and 'Bret Maverick'.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=bret
+1 for Clerky; faster and more concise replies than my "startup specialized" lawyers.
Well, I hope that isn't the reason. I'd like to think people don't intentionally engage in tax evasion.
I like it. Still a bit unpolished but I'm already since longtime looking for a FOSS Evernote alternative. This one has potential.
I don't know how it works, but I hope it generates a private key/public key pair, and uploads the public key. Kind of like SSH authentication.
LOL on Wordpress.

As for name and email -- Shop It To Me is not just an app but also a website and email service and so we need a way to link them all together. If we did not have an email and the member lost their phone, they'd lose their account forever.
> You already have a way to reach them: in-app notifications.

People have to opt-in to in-app notifications. If they press no intentionally or accidentally, recovery is far, far more difficult. Email is much easier and more controllable than notifications.
It doesn't seem like they really did resurrect it. Typing in any zip code results in "Sorry - Prim is not accepting any new customers. Thanks for visiting"
The most obvious difference is that the TrueCrypt code has had at least the first stage of a formal security audit done, which uncovered no evidence of backdoors. With BitLocker being closed source and no public audits being done, you don't have the same guarantees. BitLocker may be perfectly secure, but I feel I'm justified in saying that its status is much more uncertain.
Isn't there two sets of money going towards OpenSSL? One set is for hiring 2 full time developers (which seems like the money that should go towards OpenBSD) and then the other set is going to OCAP for a security audit.
Yes, if you want money from people who require you incorporate in Delaware to get it, its the right choice. Just like if you want money from people who require you to do the chicken dance while dressed up like Santa Clause.
Hm, the markdown support & the self-hosted option convinced me :-)

great job guys!
Step 1: Hire Saul Bass

http://annyas.com/saul-bass-logo-design-then-now/
Researchers Build Fast Running Robot Inspired by Velociraptor
I found the age range on "Jennifer" to be particularly interesting.

My sister Jennifer (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Tilly for details) is in her mid-50s. She was in college before she met another Jennifer her own age. People still are mislead by her name and believe that she has to be a lot younger than she really is.

The moral is that if you have the great fortune to pick a girl's name that will be popular some day but is not now, that girl will probably be happy about it. :-)
Not Another Piketty Symposium
OH LOOK. Another day, another person thinking they did something neat, when all they're doing is half-assedly implementing Mozilla Persona.

Jesus. Seriously, there's one of these every two weeks. Guess what, secure login links via email have been used for.... a decade? Longer?
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So this is essentially delegating authentication to the user's Email service. Delegating authentication seems like a good idea: fewer passwords to forget and more conveniene. So why not delegate to a proper authentication service like OpenID?

(Seriously, that's a question: Why don't more people use OpenID? Is there something wrong with it?)

http://openid.net/get-an-openid/what-is-openid/
Unfortunately it doesn't support Windows 8 because of the UEFI problem.
I'm slightly concerned you are promoting this without mentioning the fact that any 'tech' company is going to need to register as a foreign entity in their home state as the salary for a single engineer is going to qualify you as 'doing business' in that state, especially if you also have any sales in that state.
How Not to Sort
I was in this lecture on Tuesday!

I did not take notes, but another student takes very extensive notes for the class and posts them online. All his notes for the class can be viewed here (scroll all the way to the bottom):

http://stanford.edu/~adebray/240h_notes.pdf
I would trust Theo's team over the OpenSSL team any day of the week.
Thanks, just updated the title
I don't know who started this, but I've noticed recently after installing Slack app on Android that they went the same way. I found it very convenient. After all anyone can reset my password using email so why bother creating it all? Just send me the auth token as link in email. The app registers itself to open on such link and it works nicely.
The TrueCrypt Hunt (2007)
This analysis has been done countless times by countless different people, so it seems a little presumptive to attribute it to one organization or author. Name data is available and is something that we all can relate to, so it gets an easy readership.
Whoa, that is so well done that it is almost subliminal.
If you try to sign up it says they aren't accepting new customers.
Because you didn't notice it, it must not have any effect? Isn't that like saying because you don't notice a site or city's layout, it has no effect? Or that because you didn't notice the addition of cumin to a dish, it had no effect?
I also never noticed the arrow in the Amazon logo went from A to Z, bu I wonder if it had a subconscious effect... (Same with the FedEx arrow before I noticed it)
I have the same requirement for my notes. Looks like Laverna stores notes on Dropbox in JSON, which is fantastic.
Will music be the focus for Apple in WWDC?
Huge shoutout for Streamus which seems to be the top idea right now. It's a chrome extension that plays YouTube audio. It's so slick and is amazing for all those live/obscure tracks you can't get elsewhere. $50k would go a long way for the developer so he can work full time on smoothing out bugs and adding features.
Your second sentence makes the first meaningless.
> So this is essentially delegating authentication to the user's Email service. Delegating authentication seems like a good idea: fewer passwords to forget and more conveniene. So why not delegate to a proper authentication service like OpenID?

Because the user is more likely to have email than OpenID, so delegating to an option of one or the other is more complex, and delegating to only the latter is limiting your market.
Mozilla Persona [0] is a similar system that IMO would work quite well, but unfortunately there is very little adoption. It's kind of weird and sad to think about quality/usability of software versus the adoption of said software.

[0] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/
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Wow. This is an amazing achievement!
In case of a Russian invasion, Estonia is uploading its government to the cloud
http://names.yafla.com/#n=Jayden&s=mt

Coincidence. The name started its ascent in the mid 90s.
Can we talk about the line height and weight on the font of their blog? Hate to be a classic HN commenter, but it makes it almost impossible to read on mobile. Very little of my screen is actual black pixels, mostly just white space between lines and characters...

</rant>
NO, the recourse is to choose independent ISP's.

They generally offer better pricing for faster speeds with less BS, ie no monitoring, ad injections, throttling, etc.

You will have to look for ones in your area, but they are there. Usually each major city will have a few. Rural areas will tend to have more WISP's (wireless isp's) that are also small and all about their customers.

The recourse is to call your Senator and Congressman and demand they force big ISP's to lease fiber/copper to smaller companies, much like phone-line providers are required to lease their copper to other companies. This will help spur competition, which means everyone wins.
I'm glad you put the link there for context.

make sure that all of your indexed pages are of the highest quality possible and that they are fantastic representatives of your website

JohnMu then gave some examples of very thin pages. It is about a site with 99% of such pages and problems with spammy UGC. Not about maximizing search advertising revenue. It is about quality like described in: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/05/more-guid...

I'd like if there was a traffic graph (is an algorithmic penalty visible, trends, or are they just down to 10% of 1.5 years ago?). We have to go by word and own research now. Googling "Google Maps Mania" shows a botched domain transfer as a likely culprit for the low rankings/visitors. The redirect is not 301. Old pages do not redirect to content on the new domain ( http://www.mapsmaniac.com/2013/02/beneath-thunderdome.html ). So any links to mapsmaniac before the domain transfer do not contribute to the new blog at googlemapsmania.blogspot.com . Domain authority is zero'd out. Many well-ranking pages now show a "Page not Found" to Google. Then another site pops up on another domain with the same name. How can Google know for sure the two are from the same owner if the redirects are not set up right?

Fix the redirect. Restore the old links and redirect them to the new site. But maybe much of that is already too late for them. For anyone else in the process of moving a site, see: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/moving-to-a-new-web-host/
> if someone has access to my email they can just login right?

The article says that it's a one-time link, so I assume that means that the same link can't be used twice. If someone had access to my email, they'd have to use that link before me, which is a very small window of time (submitting the form in the app and then opening an email, ~15 seconds tops).
I would be very surprised if this is how it works
Your ignoring a hugely important detail here...

YC is giving 6 figures worth of investment and as an investor wants a Delaware corporation. So they are paying you to play by their rules, which is very reasonable since they are covering the associated costs.
I guess we have different definitions of "entangled".
Are we talking about OpenSSL that had bugs languishing for years? Yeah, good luck with that one. LibreSSL was the way to go and the OpenBSD folks are the ones I trust to do it.
Oh wah, live your life. You wouldn't fill your life up with stuff if you didn't want/need or think you need it.

I live in a 1BR apartment with less stuff than it would take to fill the apartment. WOE IS ME.
If someone has access to your email, most all of your internet accounts are going to be in grave danger.