skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if there's a similar way to show how you would encrypt and then decrypt a message using ElGamal, which is the natural evolution of Diffie-Hellman.
...except it's not "investment," and projects do have a legal responsibility to deliver.

From their FAQ:

Is a creator legally obligated to fulfill the promises of their project?

Yes. Kickstarter's Terms of Use require creators to fulfill all rewards of their project or refund any backer whose reward they do not or cannot fulfill. (This is what creators see before they launch.) This information can serve as a basis for legal recourse if a creator doesn't fulfill their promises. We hope that backers will consider using this provision only in cases where they feel that a creator has not made a good faith effort to complete the project and fulfill.
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But it's also not right to say it's reaching Verizon. It's not. It's just hitting the edge of their network.

Now you can say that Verizon is responsible for making sure the edge connection works properly.

But you could also say that Netflix shouldn't just dump it's entire load onto shitty congested peer points.

Think of Verizon as an island city with 10 bridges. Netflix is trying to send 1/3 of all the traffic through one bridge. This causes congestion on that bridge when the other 10 bridges are moving fine.

Verizon is saying, use a different bridge they are all open.

Netflix is saying, add more lanes to the one I use because I'm delivering loads to people who ordered it.

Both are valid arguments. However, one thing to consider is that Netflix could switch ISPS tomorrow and start dumping their load on a different bridge.

Realistically it's absurd that Netflix isn't use a whole variety of ISPs to manage the load themselves. Other big data providers do it. Why can't they?

But also, Verizon is probably playing hardball because they are a competitor.
The article states that some startups succeed because "they’ve found some viral loop, the crack cocaine of startup-land". My question is whether these things actually exist? The only kind of business I can think of where something like this really applies is media-styled companies aimed at young people. But this type of company doesn't really seem to be the kind of company the article is talking about. I can't think of any business-to-business companies (as 'upselling' implies) that have any kind of viral loop, so it seems to me that the article conflates high-growth media-companies with high-revenue business-companies, and then argues against a hypothetical business company working on user acquisition as if it were a media company.

Am I wrong here? Is there some sort of viral concept for business-to-business companies?

EDIT: Just to clarify what I mean by the fuzzily defined term 'media companies', I mean companies whose product is in one of the low/no fee media spaces, like social media or digital media.
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I ran across this $25,000 "challenge" from Surescripts, whose "goal is to provide a platform for encouraging women to lead in the areas of technology, health, and science."

You do a bunch of work to come up with ideas for how to solve the problem (SureScripts owns these ideas) then you do a bunch of work on spec to build technology to solve the problem.

Then if you "win" SureScripts takes your idea (for the hefty sum of $25,000) AND MAKES YOU INDEMNIFY THEM.
That's a really good point. It wouldn't take much more miniaturization than what we already have to put that in an earring or something else people wouldn't mind having all the time.
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You're paying Verizon for a connection to their network, but that doesn't make it Verizon's responsibility to pay to upgrade every intermediate network on the way to every destination a Verizon customer might request data from. That is not how peering on the internet has ever worked.

See this circa 1999 article about peering and settlement on the internet: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac123/ac147/archived_issues/i... (Part I); http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac123/ac147/ac174/ac200/about... (Part 2). Note that this was published by Cisco 15 years ago, long before any of these disputes arose. We're talking about a very settled understanding of how the internet works that Netflix is trying to overturn to help its own bottom line.
Yeah this guy is a really engaging writer. Just because this is HN, I have to call out his post on Paul Graham:

http://www.idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm

It's from 2005 so a lot of the links are dead now, but I was able to dredge up the link to PG's painting:

https://web.archive.org/web/20050409001349/http://store1.yim...
Zocalo is a stupid name.

It really is. No matter how much you thought about it, how many nights of brainstorming with your pillow smelling like señoritas, or perhaps drinking margaritas at a pub in the zocalo. It is stupid.

Please say this is a 'beta' and it will be renamed to Amazon cloud, drive, square, plaza, or whatever but drop it, just drop it.
If some noticable percentage of the time, you walked into Costco, and paid for something, but then they didn't give it to you, that would be news, too.

It's valid to question the Kickstarter model, because sometimes, projects don't deliver.

I still think it's a great model, but I understand the risk. It is valid to inform people of the risk, though. That's news.
>'I wish Kickstarter would put big lettering near the 'support' button that says in big red letters, "Kickstarter is not a store"'

I can't see that happening. Though, I'm not sure what if anything has changed since I was discussing this [1] on HN over a year ago.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5708427
> So this Uranium is safe somehow?

In as much that it's impossible to achieve supercriticality with a pile of yellowcake? Yeah. At worst, they risk heavy metal poisoning (as Uranium has effects similar to lead on the human body.)

It takes a lot to make an effective weapon out of Uranium. Building a working device requires separating the incredibly rare heavier isotope U-238 from all of the mostly inert U-235. That's what all the controversy about centrifuges in Iran was about: That's the kind of equipment you need to extract fissionable 238 to make a weapon.

Uranium isn't even radioactive enough to cause the kind of threat you assume. Materials like Cobalt-60 are far more dangerous, and are the real concern about "dirty bombs," (explosive devices that spread radioactive material, as opposed to a nuclear bomb) but it's far harder to work with, and it's more carefully regulated. The effect of Cobalt-60 without adequate shielding is cancer and eventually radiation sickness.

By contrast, the effect of raw Uranium is... to release small amounts of ionized helium gas over billions of years.
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Plans are to pair students up with mentors/teachers for one 30mins slots per week for free. We're hoping to extend it to 1 x 60mins or 2 x 30mins slots. We like to make enough to pay the bills and help students learn to write quality code.
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In that case you may maybe add the modular adjective to better convey the fact that it can be used to build new UI easily:

Breach - A new modular Browser UI written in JS ?
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What is SDN and Should You Buy Into the Hype?
Rolling time window counters with Redis and mitigating botnet login attacks
good job ;)
Same as Chrome. At least the developer tools are written in JavaScript. Perhaps other bits are as well.
The US will implement the very excellent system in which you detailed right after we get single payer health insurance. Never. =/
> What exactly did I say to warrant that?

Ironically, you have missed the point of the blog post. It wasn't written to market the service, nor to engage those who aren't engaged right now. Your comment sounds like it was written by a marketoid or a growth hacker.
Can you list the things that Mathematica does that you think LightTable "should" do?
My point is that Netflix controls the requests, the whole time. So to say that "customers" are making these requests isn't actually true. Netflix is asking its own servers for the streaming video, which means they can control the volumes at which the data gets sent.

Netflix could ask for less data, in the form of lower quality streams, but have intentionally decided to ask for, at all times, the highest possible video quality possible. In fact, they're so intent on sending as much data as possible, that they've begun rolling out 4k quality videos of more and more of their content.

It's just important to recognize that it's not like Netflix has no control over these request volumes, because it's their software that's making the requests. They're in charge of the entire end-to-end.
We won't be selling leads. We'd like to feature mentors on the site as a way to thank them for offering their time for free - it's optional upon sign up.
Sounds very similar to the "Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat"[1] film shown at the dawn of cinema. Some of the audience supposedly jumped from their seats in terror as the life-size train seemingly came straight at them from the movie screen.

I wonder if this kind of thing happens for any mediums you aren't familiar with from childhood.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'Arriv%C3%A9e_d'un_train_en_ga...
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It's easy enough to make the coupons exchangeable for more promo items (such as stickers, tshirts, hoodies, etc), so they're never worthless, exactly. You just might not be able to buy the project item, and only get really overpriced shirts instead.

(You could even make mod versions with "failed" on them after the fact, and use the coupons to buy those.)

Naturally, you should have giant, red, all caps letters explaining you're funding development, and might never accomplish the project successfully. Coupons only cover items posted for sale in the store, etc etc.

I'm mostly just curious about it as a legal method to give the reward at a tier without promising the exact reward.

(Side note: is this also an end-run around the multipack rule?)
I would also add that this means that Opera is a Browser UI :)
Sounds great, but too bad their site is broken. I tried to sign up and got the following error message, which is inaccurate:

"Oops, sorry an error occurred! Either you left the languages field empty or <email address> might be already registered. Please contact us if you require further assistance."
Are there any stats on where each supercharging station receives its power? Things like the percentage of power supplied to the supercharging station by fossil fuels.
Serious question: how hard is it to sign an OS X application?
You could say same thing about Samsung.
It is a Samsung WiFi enabled smart fridge. I don't know the model off hand.
Wrong -- I'm paying Verizon for access to the internet -- more specifically, for access to Netflix. If I can't get Netflix, I don't pay Verizon. I either get a new ISP, or don't have internet at all.

It's rather simple. Verizon's customers are consuming traffic, and it's Verizon's job, as a consumer network, to facilitate consumption of said traffic.
I have already paid Verizon to deliver the content. That Netflix doesn't request huge amounts of data from me is beside the point.
Yeah, but we're talking about a 1-5MBps stream here. Even though the headline 75Mbps number is, as you say, a "we promise never to exceed", I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that the ISP provide 7% of the listed capacity.
Real World OCaml is indeed awesome -- while it is free, if you do find yourself making good use of it, please also at least buy an ebook version. Totally worth its bytes in gold. (No affiliation, just an OCaml dilettante who's benefitted a lot from RWO).

For good code to learn from, I'd also recommend Batteries, another stdlib replacement [1]. It's not as expansive as JSC Core, which arguably makes the code easier to browse, IMO. Ditto for lwt in place of Async. Really, a lot of the FOSS tools and libraries in the OCaml ecosystem are extremely high-quality -- and still improving at a rapid pace, thanks to OPAM.

If any of the RWO authors are reading this, I'd love an expanded version (or another book) with more advanced features of the language -- GADTs, a deeper treatment of the functor/module system, covariant/contravariant types, Camlp4 and/or the extension points mechanism, etc.

[1] I recall reading somewhere the extlib/batteries author said he would have written the library in a more functorial style if starting over today, but I still find it an excellent example of clean, idiomatic OCaml.
If its not I would be seriously ridiculously surprised. But I am 99% sure it is.

The videos from youtube are over a year old. The channel has no staff.com logos or anything at all. all videos are under 500 views. The exact hourly rates for each different person is an exact number.

http://www.freelancer.com/ is not a scam if you are looking for that type of thing
Also, don't they tend to sell service with much higher download capacity than upload? If so it's arguably their fault that traffic is unbalanced.
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I imagine the theory here is that a fund with founders helping each other out will actually provide MORE value than just having 1 VC partner who thinks about your business for a few hours a month.
> It creates supply! (It doesn't. It stratifies the haves from the have-nots efficiently.)

Are you disputing that surge pricing increases supply? It should be trivially obvious that it does.

Your "moral" arguments only apply if you treat Uber as the sole provider of transportation. If Uber ever starts actually supplanting cabs, your argument will have some merit, but cab companies have not died off. They have a real competitor now, which I think is a good thing, and in markets like SF where the cab companies woefully underserved the population it's now actually possible to reasonably get a ride. But the cabs still exist, with the same regulations as before.

If Uber disappeared overnight, the supply of cabs would not increase. The supply of overall transportation during a storm certainly would not increase. Given that Uber is an addition to the existing transportation infrastructure, and not a replacement, what exactly is the justification for claiming that Uber needs to abide by the same pricing regulation that regular cab companies obey? There's a good argument for why safety regulations should apply to Uber, but that doesn't apply to things like pricing. Regulation of pricing for cab companies is not a natural consequence of the fact that the cab companies are in the business of transportation; it's a consequence of the fact that cab companies are seen as providing basic public infrastructure. Do you view Uber as basic public infrastructure? I don't, and I don't see how you can make a compelling argument for that position.
So do you install a router on the sidewalk?
Nearly half of black males and almost 40 percent of white males in the U.S. are arrested by age 23, which can hurt their ability to find work, go to school and participate fully in their communities.

An arrest by itself, without an accompanying conviction, cannot be used to deny employment.

1. http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/arrest_conviction.cfm#I
Coldcode notes elsewhere in the thread that to the consumer, the Internet is a requests based system.

Your comment, while well written, sounds suspiciously like the Current Push theory of modeling electrical flow: put a huge motor on a small drive, and you'll blow the drive from all the current the motor forces through it. In reality, that's backwards, and the motor simply stalls. (Full disclosure: I'm not an EE, but man a master electrician I knew thought it was funny.)

Back to the point. Consumers request data, and then expect it to arrive. Netflix offers a service that replies with enormous amounts of data for very little request data. Now, most sites are like this, but video is a caricature of the imbalance typically seen. And Netflix serves a _lot_ of video. So a quick Pareto diagram points right to Netflix for congestion. But none of that is preemptive - all of that data was requested from the Verizon side, and so the word pushing gets you downvoted.

It's just that Netflix's service is less like Newton's equal and opposite force and more like Flubber.

But like all things, there's more to it than just Netflix replying to requests with an asymptotic amount of data. Check out the Level3 blog posts linked elsewhere in this thread, as I think they're a reasonable counterpoint. At least, I thought it was neat.
Anybody reminded of Sencha? I don't think any UI should be coded in JS, especially one that's built for the browser. At least Sencha/Ionic et al is targeted for phonegap apps...
Well, to each their own. I just finished the third chapter last night, and I'm enjoying it so far.
Fair enough. Given the unpopulatiry of legal realism these days (especially among nonlawyers!) I think it's probably safe to assume that you just disagree about the clarity of the case. But maybe not -- I suppose jwise can speak for him/herself.

I take slight issue with your characterization of Aereo's legal position, though (mostly having to do with your #2). The issue (as I understand it) was whether Aereo was infringing on the copyrights of the owners of broadcast TV content. Aereo was arguing neither that they were or were not like a cable company, because it could not possibly have helped them. If they were a cable company, they were SOL because they hadn't been paying the compulsory licensing fee by which cable companies get the license to broadcast content. If they weren't, this still would leave them in search of an explanation of why they weren't infringing on broadcasters' copyright. Their strategy, therefore, was to argue that they were simply, in essence, renting a broadcast antenna to allow home viewers to time/place shift broadcast TV. The analogy to cable operators came into it because the Supreme Court concluded, on the basis of the treatment of cable companies under the Telecommunications Act, that congress intended for any such service -- regardless of what technological contrivance they might use -- to require a license.

Under this approach to the case, I think the outcome is a bit clearer against Aereo. This is not to say that I think the issue is at all an easy one.
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Thanks for reading.

It's a form of cohort analysis, and I've heard the graphs called "Cohort Revenue".

It's pretty simple to construct - you can download the Excel file I used at http://www.filedropper.com/churn
There is no such thing as the "internet." What appears to be the "internet" is just a mesh of interconnected but private networks all running the same protocol. The Cisco article I linked to above shows you what you're actually buying. What you're talking about is an illusion that only exists in software.
It's worth noting that at most colleges, the pay is quite low and most of the tutors are older students.

Also, it's less "I'm motivated to learn something on my own and quite intelligent, but don't know how to code" and a lot more "tell me how to do this project so I can drink this weekend."
Its totally experimental and they call it a substrate vm. You can see references to them on some graal truffle slides. These have startup performance in the same ball park as mri ruby.
project jigsaw is a project to make the java vm start faster by splitting the big rt.jar in many. The rt.jar is where all the standard java claasses are stored. Benefits better security and control
Could not agree more! Even if this is not easy to achieve you always need to repeat that KISS motto in your head while looking through the viewfinder. I believe so much in this principle that this great quote from Charles Mingus is the first sentence of my artist statement [1]: "Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity".
And the photographer author of that article nailed it when she wrote: "Minimalist photography attempts to explore how much information can be taken away from a composition, before it loses its impact".

[1] http://www.jeffmerlet.com/resume
Straight out of Dealing With Darwin, by Geoffrey Moore, too.
"When you pay Verizon you pay for access to their network. Not access to Netflix's network."

I don't see it that way, not do I think, the vast majority of US consumers see it that way either.

If you go to the landing page for verizon's high speed internet service, you'll see nothing that says "You are paying for verizon network service, not internet access. The do not call the server "high speed verizon network service", they call it internet service because they know customers do not want access to verizon's network, but the internet.

Also, verizon knows many of their customers want to watch netflix, and they certainly would rather watch a netflix video with 15 seconds of buffering for every minute of actual video (which, funny enough, is probably still less wasted time than in ad supported channels as such is supplied by verizon's tv service). Thus, but fulfilling their promise to connect their customers to the internet via peering relationships to the parts of the internet that their customers demand, they are creating happy customers, how is that not mutually beneficial?

Lastly, you would have to be devoid of all pessimism to not believe this isn't about money, but control. If you look at the money verizon is charging for these peering arrangements, is quite trivial to both netflix and verizon. But it just so happens that netflix is competing with a core product of verizon. Once the peering arrangements go in, verizon has a platform to begin to influence netflix and their ilk.
Make anything that's viewed in a web browser? You have exactly 1 language choice - Javascript. That means that everyone who makes websites needs to use it.

We aren't obsessed with it any more than iOS developers are obsessed with Obj-C.
I like this idea a lot. I really like it. But not for free.

Charge $5 for 20 mins and give $4 to the dev, take $1 for the biz.

I guarantee you there are plenty, millions of people in this world interested in a solution like that.
The post you're quoting was in response to FireBeyond, not you. My post was reduced to one snarky line of disagreement. If FireBeyond had a more nuanced point than outright disagreeing with everything I wrote, the onus was on him or her to clarify that.

> if you reduce your outgoing costs significantly enough (two cars, two insurances) you may be able to find employment that at a lower wage that will allow you to feed your kids comfortably.

Now they have one car (which broke down) and an income which is just enough to feed their kids comfortably. While the threat of starvation has been eliminated, the difficulty of regaining their original income has been increased, as they're now time-poor as well and even potentially lack personal transportation.

MMM is not about how to deal with a financial emergency that you weren't prepared for. It's about how to prepare for emergencies in the first place.
I lived in Mexico for 2 years. Zocalo was used to refer to "downtown" or to the public square.

It's where everything is, and where you go when you need to get something.

I think it's a great name.
Very useful feedback, thanks! Indeed context is important, and I did not realise this.
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Without more details, particularly, which country you're in no one can answer this question. Are you giving it to a person or a non-profit? How much? Why are you doing it? Are you trying to make a company have more shareholders? Are you trying to 'share your winnings' ?