skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That bug is intractable with the current NPAPI and plugin vendor landscape. Slowly plugins are being replaced by web accessible technology. That is the way forward.

There are some things a user can do to avoid the issue as much as possible. Setting all plugins to ask to activate in about:addons resolves a number of common occurrences where plugins take focus on load. Set YouTube to use the 'HTML5' player [0]. Use pdf.js. If you are on OS X 10.7+ use Mozilla's Aurora branch to get h264 playback [1]. If you develop sites check for support of h264 playback instead of assuming Firefox does not have it.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/html5
[1] https://aurora.mozilla.org
A similar thing actually happened to me - I wound up triggering a hemiplegic migraine, something I'd never experienced before. Unable to talk, focus my left eye, or feel anything on the left side of my body. Probably days of marathon coding along with dozens and dozens of Red Bulls.

To this day, I still get pretty nervous anytime I lean on an arm and it falls asleep or I get any tingling.

Glad you're okay, friend.
I am not a lawyer, but from reading the link, it sounds like the problem isn't that they throttled the data, but that they hid/lied about it.

Neither T-Mobile or Sprint hide the fact that they throttle / rate limit their subscribers for various reasons. So presumably, they are less at risk here.
Congrats Meteor team!
if someone is calling you a homophobic slur you shouldn't absolutely report them to hr - no matter what gender they are.
Congrats Meteor, great times!
A friend of mine was staying with AT&T because they had the grandfathered in 'unlimited' plan but when they figured out it really was a 2GB plan and a throttle that let them change carriers without feeling like they were "losing" something.
Wow, there are possibly both HIPAA and FERPA violations there...
Smuggling Snowden Secrets
Do you really think Michael Jordan needs to ask anyone in order to test his basketball skills? I'm fairly sure he doesn't do that and no matter people (some people) will tell him about this or that players being better, he firmly believe that he could win them in court, in his prime. IMHO Dunning-Kruger effect doesn't work if you reverse the claim.
Feds accuse AT&T of throttling millions of 'unlimited' data plans
by using your email address, they have entered you into this trust with them. As such, you have a claim to ownership of the account. The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act only covers accounts that do not belong to you, and being this one partially does, you are within your rights to use the account to contact the other owners.
Obviously we don't agree about this, but I'd point out again that I stated what it was that I was disagreeing with very explicitly in the first paragraph of my original reply. If you look at the last paragraph of the Atlantic article (on page 2), it comments on the very low number of verified incidents (resulting in a conviction).

I do think it's disingenuous and self-defeating to cite a story like that without addressing the new information, even though he cited it for a different purpose (pointing to the much higher # of people without an ID). The whole premise of the story is that the possibility for disenfranchisement is massively worse than the possibility of fraud, since the ratio of people without suitable ID to fraudulent voters is ~10,000:1. ISTM to that when one has new information which appears to significantly undermine that premise, it's very important to qualify the citation.

It's true my tone was a bit hostile, but as someone inclined to support Democratic policies I'm extremely frustrated by democrats' seeming inability to hold a rational discussion of the topic, in the same way that moderate Republicans must often feel frustrated with some of the tropes that prevail on the right wing of their party and which cost votes at election time.
Yeah, you're right that the grandfathered consumers are a special case. It would be like having truly unlimited coffee refills then all of a sudden being told you're getting half-cup intervals.
The roaming includes international roaming in most countries.
agreed - but a small point - the banks printing money are really basically government entities (the federal reserve, ECB, etc). the banks the article + book are talking about are private entities committing serious fraud and not getting being prosecuted for it.
not so fast[1].

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8522250
But having 2-way pegs to a sidechain would mean that you would never need to trade Sidecoins for Bitcoins on a 3rd party exchange... the system itself does that for you, right?

Isn't that the whole point?
The issue I have with this type of service is that although we understand the need to remove network congestion caused by a very minute group of heavy users, it doesn't really solve the problem...

(1) They're still heavy users for that portion of the month when they have 2GB or 10GB or whatever of full access data
(2) When they're using non-peak hours or less populated towers they're still throttled even though there is no service impact

A better service would be an aggressive QoS that prioritizes users who haven't used their fair share of the network and allows those heavy hitters to wreck havok when they're up streaming 1080p videos at 4AM.
No, they also eat leaves that are further up the tree due to their long necks.
Yes, the real issue in the complaint is likely the grandfathered consumers who signed up to AT&T understanding one definition of unlimited just to be forced into another. I don't think it's an FTC attack on "unlimited but throttled" data plans.
That was incredibly underconfident of Socrates.
You always have the option of exempting yourself from the claim, citing this case as precedent and suing them yourself.
PhpBB 3.1 Ascraeus released
it's a two layer board - no buried wires or vias - by design there are very few wires on the bottom layer, none under the noise source (we want to contain the noise) - you can see all the wires without removing the solder mask just by holding it in the right light

we'll be publishing the layout files of course
This is exactly where I'm at now. Been evaluating leaving our unlimited data plan because it seems it's effectively a 3gig plan that doesn't allow tethering. For the same cost I think I can get 6G shared with my wife and tether if I need to.
Tribler is free and will prioritize piece-picking to allow immediate playback while the download is in progress. This has long been frowned upon in the BitTorrent community and usually leads to client bans from the more pickiest of the private sharing sites.

http://www.tribler.org/
Engineering Culture Series: Code Ownership
> 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.

T-Mobile does this? I use my phone a LOT with them and haven't noticed any throttling.
Should Voters Have to Pass a Test Before Pulling the Lever?
>It can’t be cheap to serve fonts on this kind of scale. To date there have been over 2.6 trillion pageviews using Google Fonts. Sure, the fonts are oftentimes cached in the user’s browser but that is still a lot of requests and a lot of data being transferred. A trillion is a big number, even for a company like Google.

I randomly picked 10 font families and downloaded them, and the files were 11.8MB in total after unzipping. At approximately 1.2MB per pageview, 2.6 trillion pageviews is only around 3 exabytes. That's only $100k in bandwidth costs at your average CDN. I'm sure Google's infrastructure costs are even lower than that.
Going to be lonely over there, all the rich Chinese are buying property in the US.
Building a Process for Growth Experiments
Neither has been charged (much less convicted by evidence showing guilt beyond a reasonable doubt) with any crime, and most crimes don't require incarceration on conviction (and even when they do, there are pardon/clemency provisions in the law specifically because of a societal decision that even guilt of a crime that, on the books, requires a certain punishment does not always meet the needs of society), though most crimes include incarceration as a potential punishment. So, it is neither is it well established that either committed any crime, nor is it the case that "X committed a crime" (without additional information about the particular crime and circumstances) is sufficient to establish "X should be in jail".
As growth continues to evolve from its hacker-roots into a full-blown profession, there is one thing that will always stay constant.

Growth is experiment-driven marketing.

I got a great look into how big companies are building growth teams in one of my episodes of SaaSquatch Radio when I was talking with Brian Balfour, VP of Growth at HubSpot.

We went over the importance of building a growth team and how to create a place for structured and process-driven growth. He’s had previous talks and articles that go in-depth on how he applies the scientific method to their growth initiatives.
I Work for the Internet shirts
T-Mobile advertises "xGB of high speed data", and the unlimited is actually unlimited without throttling as far as I can tell.
This is interesting, but not nearly as bad as it sounds:

No, the problems start when you disable the kernel's OOM killer and try to act on your own.

Surprise, surprise: when you disable the time-tested built-in mechanisms that have been put to use in a multitude of cases that boggles the mind and try to implement your own, you're gonna have a bad time.
I await with bated breath the story of the bar bet lost that generated that title. (Never mind that it actually seems like an interesting read!)
Clear is especially egregious, as their advertising is (or at least was, when I had it) explicitly geared towards using it as a replacement for a wired home broadband connection, and touting how it could be used for streaming video and all sorts of other bandwidth-intensive uses. But they throttled me into oblivion after a couple of weeks of using it like a home connection, then gave me the runaround for weeks because none of their techs had been informed of their throttling policies.

We just need truth in advertising. Do what you will, just tell me what it is, and I can figure out the rest. I personally like metered wireless plans because I know that my incentives align with those of the provider, and I'm comfortable with the overage charges. If unlimited-with-throttling is better for others, great! But don't try to sell me "unlimited, period" and then not deliver.
I'm one of the guys behind this. Happy to answer any questions/get feedback! We've basically allocated about 30% of our startup to this project for the next while, so it's important to us that we really help people with this.
In terms of documenting api's, Swagger is your friend : https://helloreverb.com/developers/swagger
How can you say it's not getting anywhere? Last time I checked, Feross is pushing an incredible amount of modular, high quality code. His #webtorrent IRC room is highly active and has even become a meeting place of sorts for people working on other decentralization projects. The idea that client integration is the most important part is entirely your opinion, and it's an opinion that not many agree with. In a completely browser-based form webtorrent could still have the potential to cut media hosting costs by a factor of 100.
For those of us who are Americans, isn't it amazing how the companies that provide us with access to the internet are pretty much among the most hated companies in our country? I feel like I'd rank them almost up there with Halliburton, Sodexo and Blackwater.

First of all they are incredibly expensive. They try to actively create worse experiences for their customers. Forced inclusions of apps on android phones on mobile carriers. A comcast rep wanted to install a browser toolbar on my computer. Vague billing that leads to sticker shock. $0.25 per tiny little text message, really? I paid next to nothing to post this comment on HN, but had I posted such large amounts of text via a text message, it would have cost a lot of money.

Talk to them on the phone and they try to sell you things you don't need. Like one time I wanted to get HBO, HBO costs $15 a month, period, but when you talk to them on the phone they wont tell you that unless you ask a specific question, they'll tell you about their bundles which will cost you hundreds of dollars extra. This is a really scummy thing to do. They know the person who contacted them only wants HBO, but then they sell them something way worse they didn't want.

Collusion with illegal federal programs that involved lying to congress, lying to our public representatives. These companies are filled with scum from top to bottom. The people that you deal with in the stores, the people that decide which phones you can buy at their store and what they have on them, the people you talk to on the phone, the executives. It must be like working for a tobacco company, once you're willing to work at such a place the culture just destroys your integrity or something. I have no idea. I even still considerably distrust tmobile, even though they seem to be trying to change things.
given the degree of throttling, it would be more accurate to analogize that after two cups, they got refills by the teaspoon
Why not just create a filter to send those emails to the trash? I certainly wouldn't log into the account, that's likely illegal.
Have people started receiving their YC invitations?
Also, if you're not accepted for interview, do you get a rejection email or is it just radio silence = rejection?

Edit: Feel free to share results, thoughts, and your startups.
They can't if there's competition. We used to have caps on our cable connections here in Portugal; that works fine for the ISP until its competitor raises the cap, which they did, until we got unlimited connections.

What bothers me is that half of our regulatory system is basically a jumble of patches designed to fix the problems caused by lack of competition, which is often artificially introduced by the other half of the regulatory system.

Not to say this is the case, though. I think the FTC is completely right here - unlimited should mean nothing is curtailed based on your usage. Anything else is misleading, bordering on fraud.
Wow, the idea that he really doesn't have the tools to help out didn't even enter my mind. I was just assuming ignorance/incompetence ?

Still .. Hanlon's razor is in my head :-)

Edit: if the customer-support-tools really are locked down, shouldn't they have a procedure to escalate ? Telling a user to break the law to help himself out should not be standard practice after all.
Amazon buys comedy service Rooftop Media to expand digital content
Yes. It is on every page about Simple Choice e.g.:

> Up to 3 GB of 4G LTE data. Speeds reduced after 3 GB. No overage fees.
The oom-killer is the kernel devs solution; if you're disabling it, you should know better, and more importantly, you're on your own. Also, the kind of people who would disable the oom-killer are probably the same kind who wouldn't want the kernel messing around with their cgroup; in many senses, that just looks like another oom-killer, only tuned to wait a bit longer.
So I guess she is talking about this case:

1) something like systemd starts a process in a cgroup, to limit memory usage
2) it disables the kernel OOM killer, and expects to
receive notification itself and kills the offending process
3) systemd crashes? This it can no longer process the
notifications, so you have a child process which is at
the memory limit but not killed.

This is a great example of why an init system should be as simple as possible and not die under any circumstance :) Why would your init system die? If you something like daemontools, they are designed to not even allocate memory after startup, because that could fail.

Was she talking about systemd? Which process in systemd does the killing? Is it systemd-nspawn or something? (I'm not using systemd now.)
having the email address my last name @ gmail.com I have gotten a lot of this sort of thing. The best one was 3 years worth of income tax returns from some accountant in New Zealand.
You should get an email either way. They may not show up until late this evening PDT.
I wonder what percentage of pages, and of page views, ping Google? Does anyone have data?
There is a 2.5GB cap on hotspots.
That's not what I've found. Even just renting dedicated physical machines has been significantly cheaper overall.
I'm a perfect example. My wife was telling me that her sister's workplace required women to wear skirts. I told her that was absurd and could not possibly be legal. I was wrong. I believe in nutshell that all that is required is a consistently applied dress code (pun intended I guess) and not violating religious beliefs.

I was stunned.
That is a beautiful theme, thanks
> At some point, Paypal has started doing background checks to come up with security questions after the fact

wtf? paypal keeps pestering me to link it to my bank account, with the incentive that i won't have to pay fees to transfer money to friends. i've held off out of a vague feeling that they'll find some way or the other to screw me over once i do; stories like this make me happier that i've listened to that instinct.
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Nationalization is the extreme example. It happened a couple of times [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalization
Indeed. I should have clarified that Tweetbot 3 does not have an iPad version, although I believe they have indicated that they are working on it.
It seems that http://uidh.crud.net/ is not working right now (gives a 502). However the UIDH header can be seen here:

http://lessonslearned.org/sniff

Also http://verizon-uidh.tk/ gives a yes/no if you have the UIDH header (and shows you the header if you do)
So this is why I said it depends upon your use case. We are an enterprise software company and there are probably less than 50 potential customers in our target market that could ever use the API.

We are one of the only companies that actually has an API. If a customer has a use for our API they'll get personalized support.
> One of the primary explanations is that banks have become "too big to fail", and if you criminally charge a bank, you effectively make it fail. Basically, banks are powerful enough to get away with murder.

So give the FDIC more power and a larger fund to draw on for bank failures. They already handle bank failures very very well, they'd be fantastic at spinning down banks accused and convicted of criminal activities.

We dismantled Arthur Anderson for their complacency in the Enron criminial enterprise. Why not banks?
Just wanted to throw my experience into this thread.

Every time I've booked a flight in the past couple years, I've gone to Hipmunk to check schedules. Out of the 10 or so flights I've taken, Hipmunk always provided the same prices flights that were important (cheapest/most convenient for me), but I can't say I bothered to look for things that weren't convenient. These were always major airport to major airport things in the US, however.
Right here, still coding.
>> A study has shown that caffeine may lead to higher bad cholesterol.

I don't believe that is true. The study in question shows that unfiltered coffee may lead to higher bad cholesterol. It has nothing to do with caffeine. Decaffeinated coffee has the same issue.
I imagine they were quite happy when you cancelled your plan. I don't think they want to provide it, but either are somehow obligated to continue providing it for those who have it already due to something in the contract, or think it would be bad PR to just outright cancel it. I'd wager that the throttling is less about network health and more about convincing people to switch away from a plan AT&T doesn't want to have anymore.
Thank you Meteor team - you have done fantastic work, what an achievement. I've had a blast building my meteor hobby site [1]

[1] http://quantpapers.com
From your own document.

"For all devices running iOS 8.0 and later versions, Apple will no longer be performing iOS data extractions as the data sought will be encrypted and Apple will not possess the encryption key.

For iOS devices running iOS versions earlier than iOS 8.0, upon receipt of a valid search warrant issued upon a showing of probable cause, Apple can extract certain categories of active data from passcode locked iOS devices. Specifically, the user generated active files on an iOS device that are contained in Apple’s native apps and for which the data is not encrypted using the passcode (“user generated active files”), can be extracted and provided to law enforcement on external media.

Apple can perform this data extraction process on iOS devices running iOS 4 through iOS 7. Please note the only categories of user generated active files that can be provided to law enforcement, pursuant to a valid search warrant, are: SMS, iMessage, MMS, photos, videos, contacts, audio recording, and call history. Apple cannot provide: email, calendar entries, or any third-party app data."

I can see how you read this. I read it another way. There was encryption on the device, but it was circumvented in iOS4 through iOS7 (so called "active data") so that law enforcement could access it (over snailmail). The implication is that 'active data' persists longer than the alivetime of the device.

"It is further ordered that, to the extent that data on the Device is encrypted, Apple may provide a copy of the encrypted data to law enforcement but Apple is not required to attempt to decrypt, or otherwise enable law enforcement's attempts to access any encrypted data."

I can see how you read this. I read it another way. Many of the CALEA programs allow businesses to 'volunteer' data or to volunteer to decrypt information. They've been bullied into doing this. Apple says that it will take a stand, but I don't have very much trust in them because them ultimately is a board of directors chasing profits.

"iCloud only stores content for the services that the subscriber has elected to maintain in the account while the subscriber’s account remains active. Apple does not retain deleted content once it is cleared from Apple’s servers. iCloud content may include stored photos, documents, contacts, calendars, bookmarks and iOS device backups. iOS device backups may include photos and videos in the users’ camera roll, device settings, app data, iMessage, SMS, and MMS messages and voicemail. iCloud content may be provided in response to a search warrant issued upon a showing of probable cause."

iCloud data syncs by default. That is, they've added data encryption to singular devices but placed the data by default into their cloud, where they offer decryption for law enforcement.
I think minimal infrastructure should be free. We already have this with open source programs, public education, etc. but I think it should extend to the internet and other things.

What is "minimal" should be determined by some kind of system, and above that, there should be a free market. I believe the role of government is to ensure people's "minimal expectations" are met, and beyond that people can do whatever they want.

And hopefully I will be living by my own principles ... the platform that we've spent years building has been open sourced and put on Github. I think small businesses / apps can be built on top of it, but minimal infrastructure eventually becomes free.
Is this your own translation?
Great!! The docs are very well written. Lots of time and care spent on presenting the information effectively to benefit the users.

Python EDA Documentation
Release:	0.25.0
Date:	October 21, 2014

http://pyeda.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

I know it's hard to focus on anything right now on what seems like the judgement day... Maybe reading PyEDA will help make time fly faster? Anything feedback is greatly appreciated.

This round is not over. We can help each other!!