skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, Netflix is pushing traffic to Verizon. Saying they're not is factually incorrect.

They're just doing so in response to requests coming out of Verizon networks.

Still though, Verizon customers are running Netflix apps, which are making the requests, so it's not like customers are doing the requesting "in the raw", or as "informed" consumers. They're just clicking "play" on Netflix video devices.

Also, Verizon customers aren't paying Verizon to deliver content, they're paying Verizon to try to deliver content. This goes all the way back to the "unlimited" deception ISPs pull on consumers, and Verizon is double-guilty of this deception, as they're a cell phone carrier as well.

Edit: I really hate to be that guy (and I know I'm breaking rules by saying this), but have we really devolved to the point where we downvote everything that isn't 100% in agreement with the hive mind? I thought HN was better than this. I'm just getting so sick of being downvoted because I'm offering a different angle - I've been polite, deferent, and explanatory, and my words get sent straight into the "grey" anyway. You're given downvote privileges because it's been determined that you're capable of thought, please don't disprove that.
I think this might be a clear description of what would happen if roads became privatized.

Imagine UPS as Netflix and a turnpike operator as Verizon.
> For our fund to do well, we need every company to do well.

That's an odd statement. Even in the most successful of funds, the vast majority of companies return modest amounts of capital or no capital at all. The general rule is that most of a fund's overall return will come from ~20% of the portfolio companies.
The Oatmeal: So, I had a call with Elon Musk earlier this week
Please read the above comment. Kickstarter is not a store.
So, I had a call with Elon Musk earlier this week
Ask HN: Do you connect with unknown people on LinkedIn?
Recently, I've started receiving many invitations to connect with people on LinkedIn. As a matter of habit, I don't accept those requests.
However, I've seen people in Sales, Recruitment etc. usually connect with such people on LinkedIn.
What are the positives and negatives of such connections?
I think we already know that it won't scale well. This is akin to emailing a problem to one person and them emailing you back a solution. This only helps one person at a time. We can help a lot more people if you post your question on Stack Overflow instead.
You can short pink sheets, but the pricing volatility makes it pretty inadvisable and the illiquidity makes it expensive. Assuming you got your hands on a decent short position, you wouldn't want a margin call when some algorithm drives the price up 5x for a few days.
Google open sources real time bidding tech
>I might get something, but it isn't a promise.

It actually is a promise. The Kickstarter terms of service require successfully funded projects to deliver the rewards that backers have paid for. If a project can't guarantee that they can deliver a finished hardware product, they shouldn't offer it as a reward.
Have they rolled out battery swapping yet?
That was my reaction as well. I was pretty interested to see a browser genuinely written entirely in JavaScript, which would at least be a new thing.

Since it seems like the developers are posting in this thread, could you talk a little about the differences between Breach's approach and Firefox's? I suspect they must exist mostly in the node.js layer - which tasks is that layer responsible for?

(Edit: I see you replied to the parent comment while I was writing this one. =)
This is a really interesting article. The graphs really illustrate the differences.

I always had a problem with Groupon's model, but I couldn't explain it as well as the author did.

I think people often lose sight of the most important part of a business, that your customers really enjoy and like it, this makes sure they stick around.

Groupon's problem is that no one really gets a lot of value out of it. The businesses that use Groupon often don't see the customers returning and they usually lose money from the Groupon promotion.

Even people who use Groupon often complain that the business can't handle the massive rush that Groupon causes, so they usually have a subpar experience when they actually try to use the discount.

Groupon is only really good for one party, Groupon. Everyone else is left with a bad taste in their mouths.
Of course it didn't pan out, you can only do a project like this on a budget of 20-50K.

Beyond that budget everyone will focus on engineering it to work with every authentication system ever, rather than creating a simple USB HID device that types a username, the tab key, a password, and presses enter.

Problem: Users cant remember their passwords.

Actual Solution: Device that stores and recalls their passwords.

Engineering Solution: A bunch of crypto stuff, tempest hardening, pen testing, some more crypto, a provably secure RNG, 3 different interfaces and drivers to integrate the device with Linux, OSX, and Windows crypto systems, a bunch more user installable software for 3 platforms, tamper resistant chips, etc.
Yes. Sorry, John—and to everyone else affected by our bug this morning. If anyone has concerns about a specific post, please email hn@ycombinator.com.

I'll change the url of the current item to the blog post. Two better solutions that we don't support yet would be either to (a) reset the clock on the earlier post, which has the discussion [1], or (b) merge that thread into this one. As it turns out, we are working on both of these (unrelated to the bug).

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8014826
Also, battery swaps, which is faster than filling a tank of gas (though not free), will help. As Musk put it, when you'd come to a supercharger station, it be a decision between faster (battery swap) or free (supercharger).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5V0vL3nnHY
This was a super interesting article, Tom. The two graphs you have really tell a clear story, and I really enjoyed how you laid out different strategies for different market types. This makes it very obvious what customer acquisition levers you're talking about, as well as what happens when you pull on them. I've been very impressed with your writing, between stuff like this and the Grouper Rails Missing Parts series. Please keep it up!
I'm sure there's some small difference between waiting a second for the page to load and receiving a notification a second later. Presumably the notification hadn't existed at page load, or what are you doing delivering it by web socket in the first place?
For those not familiar with OpenRTB, it's a horrible spec for real time bidding on ads. http://openrtb.github.io/OpenRTB/
You seem to be interpreting jwise's comments as somehow premised upon legal realism. (I.e., that the correct legal rules are "out there" and that judges need only to "discover" them.) This is slightly different from the claim I think jwise is making: that it has always been the best interpretation of our existing body of law. The difference between this and classical legal realism is subtle, deep, and interesting (and, I hasten to add, contested!). And it is the subject of a vast and growing literature in the field of jurisprudence -- we call this (or a version of it) the "Hart / Dworkin" debate. As a starting point, have a look at Ronald Dworkin's article "Hard Cases."

The gist of Dworkin's position (with which I mostly agree) is this: in many cases where the existing written body of law does not literally cover the facts of a given case, a judge often (indeed, almost always) is nonetheless not free to simply decide the case however she wants. There is typically a best interpretation of that existing body of law (you might think of it as the law's "spirit," I guess) that, itself, has something like the force of law in that it binds judges. Thus, anyone with sufficient training can look at a case, and look at the laws on the books, and tell what the rule is (even if sometimes the required training considerable -- well beyond the ken of any normal lawyer).

And while you are correct that most lawyers today are not "legal realists" I think it is also clear that most are "Dworkinians" in that, when a hard case like Aereo comes up, they don't think that there simply is no rule yet, and that judges are free to do whatever they want. They see it as their task to educate the court about what the best interpretation of existing written law is and, thus, what the actual law is.
I do. If they write a proper note stating their reason for connecting.
I also had the problem that when I selected an input box, the keyboard would open and the app would think that I had flipped the phone.
It then showed me the black screen prompting me to flip it back which caused the browser to lose focus of the now nonexistant input box causing the keyboard to collapse again.
Check local colleges to see if they offer tutoring to students in CS courses. Many universities offer the service free to students, but they still pay tutors.
This link returns a 404 for me. https://www.lob.com/blog/lob-simple-area-mail vs https://www.lob.com/blog/simple-area-mail
This reminds me of lockitron. It's still not really shipping. Take a look at the lockitron subreddit. http://www.reddit.com/r/lockitron
Is it illegal to give away stock?
Is it illegal to give away stock?
Thank you for distilling it. This makes a lot more sense.
The argument I see most commonly from ISPs (and seemingly re-stated here) is basically, "Why should all of our customers pay for the upgrades we'd have to implement if only the Netflix subscribers would benefit from such upgrades?"

The idea being that, no matter what they do, the cost of it will just be passed along to the consumer. So their solution is to charge Netflix for the upgrades. That way, when Netflix passes those costs on to the consumers, only the ones who actually have Netflix will be paying for the upgrades, as opposed to all Verizon customers.

It makes sense, once you assume Verizon/ISPs and Netflix will just raise their rates to pay off these upgrades/charges.

But again, you have to take the assumption that, regardless, the costs will be passed onto the consumers, for granted. If you think the ISPs will try and eat the costs, then this argument doesn't fly. But they're saying they won't, so... they probably won't.

I'm not trying to pass moral judgement on this (I gave up trying to convince you guys back when every comment I wrote about this was downvoted to hell and back), just saying what the argument the ISPs are giving actually is. It's just not as "left field" as you might think.
Do you know any titles?
While I'm aware of what you're implying by "hackable," that word has horrible connotations when it comes to browsers. I would never want to describe my browser as "hackable." If I were you, I'd consider using a different adjective. Best of luck with the project!
I would love to see an episode about effectively using or not using panic, understanding goroutine stack traces, etc. An episode about Go debugging in general i guess.
All of what you've said is also legal today.
One of their tweets[1] seems to suggest they will be promoting(read: selling?) leads to companies who need freelancers?

[1]:
https://twitter.com/askadev_/status/487288537579266048

Text:
"Developers: Secure more freelance work and standout to the big tech companies by mentoring. We promote you!"
https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

last sentence.
Oh, apologies for misunderstanding! And thanks for the compliment :)
The phrase "Congress shall have power" occurs 3 times in the original constitution and another eight times in the various amendments.

I agree that congress is probably not the best body for setting campaign finance regulations, but I don't think there's anything in this particular amendment that's out of line with the rest of the constitution.
You shouldn't be downvoted for this. It's a reasonable question, it's just not what's happening. The traffic is reaching Verizon (or Comcast etc's) network at reasonable speed, and then congesting.
The article isn't about people not getting a product or expecting a "store". It's about how a more than tripple funding KS which got an additional 3 million in VC backing could not actually accomplish their goal.

I bet they would have been more successful with less money. Money gives you freedom(to start over, to feature creep, to bikeshed, to grow faster than you can manage, etc) and security (which makes you less "hungry" and desperate).
why use critical thinking and actually go to these places, when a little bit of casual racism will do quite nicely instead?
Ask HN: Why there still isnt a decent HN Mobile App?
just keeping the dream alive.
There are hundreds of Product Designers and Devs that would love to take a stab at it.

Any Roadmap for a full *official api?
I got a rails error when trying to to submit for a coach.
The only new fact I see here is that link between L3 and Verizon is not symmetric. That's not surprising really, but it means that there is already traffic asymmetry baked into whatever peering agreement they have today.
Donating money to a KickStarter project is not the same as buying something.

You're not paying for a product, you are helping fund a company or project who has no legal obligation to give you anything.

If you are donating to a KickStarter just because you want the reward they are offering then you should do sufficient research on the company and their founders to ensure that you trust that they will deliver what they promised.
Physicists Rebuilding the Tesla Tower To Prove Planetary Energy Transmission
Testing Web Applications for Single Sign‑On Vulnerabilities
& looks like a G clef, sort of.
It's only a loophole in the sense that the true spirit of the law is "you can't do anything that upsets powerful media creation or distribution companies."
If you're a good engineer you can make it. These days there are so many wannabes trying to get into "startups" as a career move. They are encouraged and preyed upon by the bootcamps and the general anti-credentialist counter-culture that has come from Silicon Valley's roots. They are even founding companies and getting funding because there's so little places for capital to go these days everybody and their mother in the 1% is looking to become an angel investor since it seems perhaps a little less risky than rolling their dice with Goldman Sachs or whatever other shark wants to use them as a pawn at the top of the financial food chain.

But if you come out as a solid programmer with good technical sense and enough seasoning to figure out existing systems and work on them without introducing a maintenance nightmare down the line, that will be recognized and rewarded. If you are good at what you do and professional the only one who will look down their nose at you for working a solid 9-5 are fools and megalomaniacs—most of whom are destined to flame out spectacularly without ever having built anything of value.
It's plainly obvious that Kickstarter is a way of crowdfunding investment in creative projects.

It's in tabloid's interests to stroke controversy by suggesting it's a store whenever projects fail.

Clickbait articles like this will continue to be made as people are gullible and easily manipulated.
I'm enjoying pydio for file sharing outside of our lan. Its a FOSS LAMP app and its pretty slick. I put it on one of our Linodes and off we go. No need to pay for some cumbersome licensing or yet another cloud provider per app/user.

http://pyd.io/
When is the last time you used it? Or, what sites do you visit? The current speed of Firefox is quite good. Maybe Chrome could surprise me and be faster. I don't see how, right off.
So if you have a 1s (or 1min) trade window, it somehow makes stock market non-liquid and would kill a lot of companies? Is that what you are saying?
If they're pushing more than 1mbps to all connections, yes.
Interesting! I'm surprised that browsers wouldn't batch up many outbound messages into single TCP frames. The server behaves more the way I would expect.

That reminds me of a related point: The number of TCP frames can be considered more important than the number of bytes-per-frame when it comes to network performance. Most message exchanges, whether over WebSocket or HTTP, will occupy a comparable number of TCP frames, even if HTTP uses more bytes for the headers.
I am still waiting for a browser written in PHP.
I would also like a beginner's guide to beginner's guides to monads. I've started and given up on a half dozen of those.
Don't believe everything you read. While there is definitely a valley culture, not every company is the same. For instance, we put a huge emphasis on actual work/life balance. We've even posted proof: https://www.runscope.com/jobs
Black Holes and Scientific Computing with Apple's New Mac Pro
Yeah I thought the same thing, it should be fun to hack on. There's not much I need that Chrome and Firefox don't already do for me, but trying to write some of the modules myself as well as try some new stuff sounds like it would be a good learning experience.
Yes. Often recruiters ask me to connect with them and occasionally I found a nice job that way.
NYC may have plenty of taxis, but in the outer boroughs it can be hard to find one when you need one.

I don't know it would be fair to call them a "luxury" black car service -- there are plenty of black car services in NYC already, very few of them could be called "luxury". The black car services are basically just pre-negotiated taxis. Uber lets them pick up bookings when they don't have one scheduled.

They actually just enabled UberX this week in NYC -- it's been a disaster. A lot of the taxi and black car drivers are boycotting Uber because UberX undercuts their prices (which are largely regulated by the city, so they can't cut prices in response), and they can still get plenty of fares without Uber. So it's been quite hard to get a car via Uber in NYC this week.
ITT: People that don't understand that settlement free peering needs to be mutually beneficial.

When you pay Verizon you pay for access to their network. Not access to Netflix's network. Verizon will has transit agreements with some people to use it's network and settlement free peering with other ISPs of similar size.

When I go to by transit from Verizon to host my website do I expect to get settlement free peering? Well, probably not because I am probably serving much more content than I am consuming, as such my link is unbalanced.

If instead I was another ISP and I was sending roughly as much data to Verizon as I am consuming it suddenly becomes mutually beneficial for us to agree to send traffic for free as then we don't each have to pay transit costs for this traffic.

Not understanding this is why HN and other tech news outlets are in outrage. This is just how peering arrangements work. Unless your traffic is balanced you need to pay the cost of transit, simple as that.

Now, the reason Netflix is bitching is they -are- paying for transit.. they just aren't paying enough to the right people. Their problem is that their transit providers don't have sufficiently large links to Verizons network.

Because of the massive asymetical nature of having Netflix on your network Verizon is not agreeing to settlement free peering to Layer 3 et al. Which is completely fair and how things work, unless it's mutually beneficial you have to pay up.

Now, why does a witch hunt against those ISPs make no sense? Well simply put they are not running their network at 1:1 contention and probably charge prices that reflect that. If you went and bought carrier grade transit from more respectable providers chances are you would be getting 1:1 contention and these issues would never occur, but you probably pay more than 10x what Netflix is charging per mbit.

TLDR: Netflix doesn't understand how telecom works and needs to pay for better transit.
You can always remove connections. Having a larger network won't hurt you. If it seems completely random or an accident, don't do it. But consider - "could knowing this person in 4 years be a good thing?" Almost always the answer is yes.
Elon Musk donating $1 million dollars to the Nikola Tesla Museum
I've detailed a how we ended up building Breach as it is in the introduction of that page: http://breach.cc/hack

Basically, the idea is to take the Chromium Content API and expose it to JS (that's similar to Firefox).

Doing it we figured, why not add some APIs to do interesting stuff in JS as well... and that's how we embedded NodeJS and exposed the Content API within a NodeJS tread....

So you have access to all the nodeJS modules while building your own modules for Breach... makes it fairly convenient :)
certainly looks like a classic pump and dump from the outside. Does anybody have any insight on this that the public may be missing?
Sure.

I hadn't come across this kind of explanation and didn't think of checking Wikipedia.

I thought it was an original idea by the author.
Lob Launches Simple Area Mail
Beej's Guide to Network Programming is still the best.

http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/
>Like what? Note that, for example, "They take up space on the road and pollute the air" doesn't count because not-for-hire cars do the exact same thing. It has to be an externality that is caused by the fact that the ride is for-hire. There may be such externalities, but I think they are far from obvious.

More specifically, the externality argument about taxis is that they take up space while hunting for fares, while private cars only drive when actually being used to get somewhere.

I agree though, that the point is irrelevant to Uber, since it's strictly a by-request car service that is not hailed from the street, and so doesn't cause the congestion that typical fare hunters would.
Is it legal for scientists to publish reviews they receive on papers?
haha :) Yes... influenced the conception of Breach for sure!
I love the idea of modules, using web tools to hack our own UX should be the standard in future softwares. Great job !
> Because Netflix is not the only application that requires more bandwidth than Comcast' network can support in high volume.

Netflix and YouTube, but the argument is the same. Why should people who don't use Netflix and YouTube pay for the upgrades that help only users who make use of these things? If I don't use any streaming video services, why should my money go to upgrading the systems those services need?

As for the monopoly discussion, that's different than this one, though ultimately it does effect this (if there were alternatives, we'd just all move over to them and Comcast would rot).

I explained already, multiple times, why this makes sense. Once you assume the costs will all get passed onto users, then why should I, Comcast customer who doesn't have Netflix, have to pay for upgrades that ONLY help out Netflix users? If the costs are shifted to Comcast, then that's what happens - EVERYONE pays for Netflix. If the costs are shifted to Netflix, then only the users who actually HAVE Netflix have to pay.
That's silly word twisting. Following that logic, my bartender is pushing drinks on me, just by my request.
I love the homepage! I like it even if it uses a thin font, which I find less readable. I hope the product to be neat as the website
This Woman's Mirror Art Makes For The Most Creative Selfies We've Ever Seen
Satya Nadella's Microsoft vision isn't Steve Ballmer's Microsoft vision.
I think that was to be expected, based on the fact that they are both professed libertarians. There are other episodes where the guest doesn't share Roberts' ideologies though.
'Customizable' would be a better choice, especially for non-programmers.