skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds a lot like Chinese astroturfing. As you read his comments further down it becomes more apparent.
Best of luck to everyone...
The banks build and maintain the infrastructure to fight fraud and not Visa/MC. Its a massive PITA for the banks and so I get a call from the bank when there is a suspicious transaction not Visa.
You left out "Presentation and Proof", say it right or don't say it at all.
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Do you really think Google is evil?

One of the co-founders is still the CEO. He is one of the world's wealthiest men. He doesn't need the money and I doubt he feels the need to put shareholders first.

Why would he let Google stray from an ideal he ascribed to previously? Has he been corrupted by having more money than he could possibly spend?
If by "control the client in form of Chrome" you mean about a third of marketshare, suure.
Also with a successful Yahoo deal.
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> began throttling data speeds in 2011 for its unlimited data plan customers after they used as little as 2 gigabytes of data in a billing period

This is what really gets me. I expected this sort of situation to come about when some jackass used up 1 petabyte of bandwidth on his unlimited plan, but 2 gigabytes?

To me, that's like offering unlimited coffee refills, but stopping customers after the second cup, with some excuse that there has to be some limits to "unlimited".
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>This was a deliberate design decision in most private tracker software, notably Gazelle, because it was accepted that people would post the .torrent files in other places

Err no. Passkeys were designed so that you could track users without needing IP address -- IP tracking is fragile and doesn't work with multiple peers/ip, which happens very frequency.

> Many trackers also limit the IP addresses that are permitted to join a swarm based upon the same identifier in the torrent file

Once again, not really. Most sites don't really care what IPs you use (so long as they aren't part of blanket banned regions or similar). PTP does not require you disclose your IP, they don't care if you use multiple IPs, and doing so will not flag you for a ban. There are better ways of finding bad users, which includes sharing between trackers.

>(a) that person would likely get banned from ptp, (b) it probably wouldn't work in the first place because joker's servers couldn't join the swarm and (c) the information that the owner of joker can glean from such a torrent file would be almost entirely useless unless the goal is boosting the ratio of the user.

A) No, they wouldn't.

B) Unless joker.com is using a custom bittorrent app (highly unlikely) they can join the swarm just fine
It's gmail, sheesh just create a filter to delete the emails.

If you delete their account you may be committing a crime somehow, just logging in may be committing a crime, not worth it.
Godzilla like dorsal spikes become a characteristic feature of these unfortunate individuals.
Be strict with your output and promiscuous with your input.
Alto was designed in 1973. Your 2005 is already 32 years later. And the quote is explicitly not concerned with the total number of pixels but with the vertical number of pixels.
The FTC is suing AT&T for throttling its unlimited data customers
Here's the thing about these unlimited-throttling programs: They are good for both the consumer AND cellular operator, but you have to be upfront and honest about it.

AT&T's problem is that they just one day up and decided to start throttling unlimited customers (down to 10-20% of their normal speed) without a warning, and without it being made clear in any of their marketing material or contracts.

The reason why I call these programs "good" is that they all but eliminate overage charges from a consumer's bill. With limited data, you often get charged excessive amounts if you go over your cap (disproportionately large amounts at times).

So for example, if a consumer got their teenager 2 GB of data, and that teenager ran up a 5 GB usage bill one month, that could be an additional $60 charge ($20/GB) out of the blue. Unlimited-throttled data averts that possibility (and the teenager in this example is the only one negatively impacted by the excess usage).

This is how T-Mobile currently operates on all of their Simple Choice plans (both unlimited and limited). They have scrapped overage charges (so there is no bill-shock) and instead just throttle you down.

The only major difference between what T-Mobile currently do and what AT&T were doing, is that AT&T lied and hid it, and worse still charged customers ETF if they left as a result. T-mobile is completely upfront about the policy and how it is enforced.

PS - T-Mobile also do the same thing for roaming data, no overage charges.
It's just bad customer service workflow (that you weren't escalated, but locked into the script) and bad interface design (that addresses aren't verified.)

It's some ratio of lack of imagination:care.

I called paypal last week to remove an expired card from my account. At some point, Paypal has started doing background checks to come up with security questions after the fact, all three of which have to be answered correctly in order to have a discussion about your account.

One of the questions was my father's wife's (who he married when I was in my late teens and both lived in a different state) birthday month. Another was a friend's street address that I used to get an Oregon ID, and slept on her floor for about 3 months 20 years ago.

The operator was sympathetic, but what could she do? She had no way to escalate, and there was no contingency for if a question was asked that the customer may never have had the answer to. It's just sloppy.
If you are looking for some practice as you ve mentioned, contribute to any OSS rather working for free. You can very well use those contributions in your portfolio..

Why not start with Mozilla... http://www.whatcanidoformozilla.org/
I've been on a (now grandfathered) 'unlimited' data plan with AT&T since 2008 (iPhone 3G > 4S > 5S). Can confirm the throttling, lately after 3GB of data usage in a billing period
I had this happen to me too, but no security questions. So I just deleted the account.
CoreOS contains a tool called fleet, which abstracts systemd into a cluster init system. fleet has scheduling rules such as "don't schedule more than 1 foobar on this box" or "schedule this app on a box with metadata region=foo" built in to it.

fleet doesn't aspire to do complex resource scheduling or high density bin-packing. The best way to accomplish these tasks is to use fleet to bootstrap more complex and higher-level services like Mesos, Kubernetes or Deis. fleet will make sure the components of those services are running in the cluster, even if machines die or are partitioned.

(CoreOS employee)
So, I wonder if this is the first salvo in a war on all the major carriers who use the same "unlimited but throttled" marketing scheme? If AT&T loses this one, will the FTC go after T-Mobile and Sprint, who also do this? (Verizon doesn't offer unlimited data to new customers, but had kept it going for grandfathered customers, and backed off from plans to throttle them[1]).

[1] http://www.cnet.com/news/verizon-backs-off-on-plans-to-throt...
thanks fixed!
in the reddit nootropics forum the other day there was a post from someone who almost accidently OD'd on caffeine.

Alot of the users there use caffeine powder, and he had his bags of powder mixed up with his vitamin c powder and almost drank a drink with multiple grams of caffeine in it. He realized it at the last second and stopped.

moral of the story: caffeine has a fairly low lethal dose and can be dangerous when using the powdered form
I have a cat and I talk to her and she talks to me.

There's a couch she likes best but I don't want her on it; every time she goes near it I just say "no" and she turns around (she won't get off of it if she's already on it by voice alone, though).

If there's no food left for her she comes to my study and does a very specific meow, and I know I need to replenish the thing.

She sleeps during the day and lives outside during the night, bringing back the occasional dead mouse on the front porch in the morning.

We don't have that many interactions but we understand one another, I think, pretty well.
Guitarists have the same arguments (like audiophiles) about warmness and tone of their work. But the fact of the matter is: if you don't practice enough to reliably produce a chord of your choice, does it really matter if you're plunking on a Squier Strat or one of Hendrix's original guitars? Not really. Equipment bragging rights don't mean anything without a modicum of practice and talent.
Yay! Congrats to the Meteor team!
Christ: my slightly hyperbolic rhetoric aside do you really disagree with anything in the logic chain that a faster web = a more usable web = a more used web = a larger audience = better for google?
With all the streaming sites out there that let you watch ALL your favorite TV shows and the latest movies, I never understood the lure of PopCorn Time and this type of site?

With both Popcorn Time and this tool (site) I could receive a copyright infringement notice. While the streaming sites that stream the latest from the Pirate Bay & more are liable. Further, by the letter of the law, me watching these streams is perfectly legal; no copyright notice will be received.

Maybe the streaming sites I speak of are not well known or not openly spoken about because they'll get shut down?
Uber and Lyft go toe to toe in the PPC arena
I'm getting oauth errors on your site when trying to log in with Facebook. I wanted to say that 30 hours is a decent workweek.
Why not just set up a filter to delete them?
i am super excited to see the launch

quick feedback:
this scares me off a bit:

200 open issues / 150 stale branches / 42 open pull requests

might be normal for open source projects of that size though
I applaud you taking the time to do the right thing. I probably would have just created an email filter, and called it a day.
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Congratulations and thanks, Meteor team!
Banks may have their own infrastructure but they can receive fraud alerts from upstream, and transactions can be blocked before they even hit the bank.
Searching for a destination was the first thing that came to my mind after reading the parent comment.
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If people didn't lie the world would be a much simpler place. Lies for material gain we are mostly prepared for; lies for amusement, much less so. The reaction to this sort of thing is less trust, more verification, less flexibility, and generally more difficulty for everyone, even those with legitimate call for resources (because now everyone must verify that they need a VIP car, and the systems used for verification can fail).

Of course, lamenting the cost of lying is similar to lamenting gravity's affect on the impulse to fly - it doesn't really do any good. FWIW I think a modest fine and a brief (overnight) jail term was in order for the prank. Think of it as a small reminder that a hoax is not complete unless you don't get caught.
If you're reworking your API, you may want to consider functional options:

http://dave.cheney.net/2014/10/17/functional-options-for-fri...

I haven't attempted it myself, but it looks very interesting.
You are right that this is generally true for my cats, unfortunately, one of our cats will periodically go outside the box for other reasons.

For two cats, we have three litter boxes that are cleaned daily, new litter is added every couple of weeks as the level of the litter goes down, and then the boxes are fully emptied and fresh litter added about every three months, and that keeps them mostly happy. Unfortunately, one of the cats will periodically pee outside the box even when the box is perfectly clean, and the reasons are many, and somewhat ambiguous.

Sometimes it's the litter. Either we're trying a new litter, or the manufacturer changes the litter, and the cat doesn't like the new litter for some reason.

Sometimes it's the environment. She's using the litter box and there's a sudden noise for some reason, and then she won't use that box again for a while. Not really a problem when we have three boxes, unless she's been startled while using all of them within a short period of time.

Sometimes she's feeling stressed out. If we rearrange the furniture, the seasons are changing (generally only going into winter does this seem to be a problem,) can't pay as much attention to her for a prolonged period of time, go on vacation, or bring home a new child, she's far more prone to peeing outside the litter box.

She never poops outside the litter box, only ever pees.

We've pretty much just formed a routine to minimize the peeing issues. We keep the litter boxes clean, we make sure we pay enough attention to her, and we try to encourage her to use her litter box at least once a day. If we haven't seen her pee in the litter box for a few days (does not mean she hasn't used it, just hasn't used it in front of us) we start to minimize the available options for her to pee in/on (easier than it sounds, she tries to find substitutes for her litter box, so anything box like, or that she can use to bury, like throw rugs.)
Wouldn't it be more like after 2 cups they only get served in half-cup increments? I agree with the sentiment. Unlimited with throttles isn't truly "unlimited", but "unlimited*". That said, the FTC complaint seems to take issue with that AT&T did not "adequately disclose to its customers" this information. And there, I take some issue with this. AT&T did actually explain that. Maybe some consumers didn't understand that because of the lack of an asterisk. I guess this will be interesting to see just how important an asterisk can be.
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Hey Meteor Folks, https://www.meteor.com/main says Preview 0.9.4. First place I went after I checked the git repo.
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Thanks!!! This theme is incredible
Tell me about it . My gmail account is actually the name of a common job title, and I get tons of stuff. Constant stream of resumes from india. Lots of random account signup confirmations.

Once a guy set up his motion activated webcam to send me snapshots whenever it saw something, that was creepy.

But I do love my vanity address, so I'll live with it! :-)
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Google wants a pixel on as many pages on the internet as possible. Some pages will never try to show ads and don't care about analytics. Google wants to keep those pages from being dark to them so they use other ways to incentivize publishers to pixel their users.
whoa, that explains what's been happening to me. I've been getting some mail from some match.com and I've never signed up.
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I do recognize the technicalities of Ethereum vs. Dogecoin trajectories. It just seems that like Dogecoin, most succesful things get into the wild fast and there is an MVP for people to interact with. The two year wait for Ethereum isn't ideal and with the sure rise of Sidechains (because powerful people are behind it), the deck is increasingly stacking against them.

It just seems like were talking Opera vs. Chrome, which if you remember Opera gave up and implemented webkit.
On the contrary, I think that is a good sign. It means there is an active community that is opening and contributing to issues. If you check out Rails' repo (https://github.com/rails/rails) you'll see the same thing. If you've ever been an open source maintainer, you'll know that you'll inevitably write bugs and so you'll always have open issues. The scary thing would be if no one filed any issues or had any pull requests.
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It's as if that was the plan all along... ;)
Like the anthrax that was sent through the mail starting about a week after 9/11? The attacks killed five people in the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks
The worst part is that AT&T was VERY vague about the threshold. They just called it "in the top tier of users". The policy would push the average down over time, which means that "the top tier" threshold would become lower and lower.
The release 1.0 is pushed to git but there is still work to do: docs, web-site, announcements, etc.

It is not done yet :)
Some actors earn percentages. Even if they don't, if a film does poorly, the investors will be less likely to invest in more films and the workers will have a harder time finding work on a new film.
Until recently I've used a Sony from 2001 with the same resolution as your ThinkPad. Still it's not relevant, the quote you reply was, again: "many "modern" displays can not quite handle that." It's about 808 pixels vertically.

In my country, today searching different available notebooks on only one site, I get more than 300 different models with the vertical resolution of 768 pixels which is less than 808.
Is this a hard problem for kernel devs to solve? Or could it be as simple as using a timeout when the kernel's OOM killer is disabled? That is, when a cgroup is at the limit, the kernel waits for some finite amount of time and then starts killing things itself. Or would this cause other problems?
Sounds good. I'll come back with results later.
Good luck to everyone!
Kudos, Meteor team! Now, SQL, please...
I've been on the AT&T unlimited plan for a long while now, and I've been looking forward to the day when I get a $10 settlement check in the mail whilst some law firm pulls in $200mm in legal fees.
good point

cycle times might be better indications
That is... inspired.

It doesn't matter how little time I have on my hands, I really want to do that now. Or maybe an app that lets them live chat me?
Even if it's "multiple grams of caffeine", it's still very far from the 14 kg mentioned in the article... Actually the only way I imagine someone being able to have such an intake would be to use many, many caffeine pills... Way more that the number of sleep pills suicidal people use...
Ditto (since 2007). I used to be able to stream Spotify at maximum quality. I got a 2g utilization/throttle notice. Now it skips and staggers and I've had to downshift in order to have uninterrupted playback.
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For remembering things I have to do while I'm driving, walking, showering, or otherwise away from my desk.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l91SsGcAprs

Combining the Trello API with Google Now (courtesy of the awesome Tasker, AutoVoice and RESTask apps), you can tell your Android phone, "OK, Google. I need to _______" and whatever is in the blank will automatically be added to your todo list.

Apps used:

- Trello API: https://trello.com/docs/

- Tasker: http://goo.gl/iv0WHl

- AutoVoice: http://goo.gl/pdp3Cm

- RESTask: http://goo.gl/nt2aD1

High-level how-To:

1) AutoVoice to parse the command, if it starts with "I need to" it passes it on to Tasker.

2) In Tasker, choose which list to add the task to based on whether the command has the word "today" in it.

3) After that, using an Auth token from Trello, use RESTask to invoke the Trello API.

If there's enough interest, I'll write-up a complete tutorial.
What makes you think they want to?
I can not see how this is good for consumers, if compared to actual unlimited data.

At least T-Mobile Germany is throttling users to 64kbit/s after the cap is reached, which is so slow that you can't use most online services (logins over https just time out). Of course you can buy more uncapped gigabytes.

This is a perverse incentive scheme for the providers: they have no reason to upgrade the network capacity, because they can use the "network is overloaded" argument to limit the data volume, and to charge more from their users.
I like T-Mobile's no BS approach. I had CLEAR for less than a month because of their throttling. Used it for a week or two and then loaned it to a friend while I was traveling for work. When I got it back, it was throttled so severely I could no longer log into gmail! It was slower than the EVDO modem it had replaced. Throttling is one thing, claiming 5G cap and then they'll throttle you but it'll be useable is another. It was unusable.
Hey so I've had this problem multiple times at work-the answer is to talk to HR about it. Don't talk to him, let HR know it's a problem and then it's up to them to make changes. If this conversation and his demeaning attitude towards women doesn't not continue to change-report again. You can not get in trouble for this at all-that's retaliation and that's illegal
I don't believe they did, especially because for grandfathered users, there is no documentation on unlimited plans and there hasn't been for years.
> My own best guess is that sidechains will be a net positive for ethereum adoption, but a net negative for the ethereum currency market cap.

I don't see how adoption and market cap can go in opposite directions.
I assumed there was a law somewhere I'd be breaking; thanks for letting me know what it is.
Once I found out they were doing this I immediately cancelled my unlimited data plan.

It's basically a scam and NOT what most people want.

The essentially offer 1GB for $10 ... so 5GB is $50, 6GB is $60...

Flat seems fair to me and keeps both parties honest.

I just wish they were honest about 'unlimited'.

The problem is the surprise bill when they charge you exponentially for going over their commited rate.
How much documentation did you get, when you got your Mercedes Car. The stress on Documentation is a little overrated in my humble opinion. If the Tools are made intuitive and the API is made as a natural way of thinking and progression of the state of the Message, The API speaks for itself, and the Developers engagement would be at its peak. If you have to read a Documentation before applying your Brakes on a car, you might as well be too late. Adherence to Standards and not letting unexpected happen and get out of the way of the developers work process is the way to go.

Having said that, If you are on the leading edge of software which no one has attempted before, or trying to create a Market, Thats when your Documentation would explain those edge cases better to gain appreciation of your point of view.
Haha, same thing as last time.

"Give me links as proof"

[Downvote them and not reply]

It's okay. Other HN readers know what's up.
The issue doesn't seem to be the "unlimited by throttled" business model, but the adequate disclosure of that information to the consumer. Other carriers may have worded it differently. More importantly though, AT&T had a grandfathered contract with consumers for unlimited without throttling (or "true unlimited"). Those changes along with their vagueness make AT&T a special case. In any case though, I'm sure the other carriers will watch this case closely.
Cat's definitely do understand punishment for their behavior. My girlfriend's cat will scratch the couch and immediately start running away as he knows we are going to squirt him.
$10 or... $850.

One person sued them in small claims court and won. (http://www.mactech.com/2012/02/27/how-fight-att-data-throttl...)

He outlines the steps on his website.
(http://www.taporc.com/)
>>Understandably, banks aren't the most sympathetic defendants, but extrapolate this reasoning to the tech industry. Should Bill Gates be in jail for his role in the Microsoft antitrust activity? Should Eric Schmidt be in jail for his role in the employee wage suppression collusion?

Yes, and yes. They committed crimes, didn't they?