skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Easy, so I just finished working on a website for a client of mine. Your main problems are 1)Trust if the they trust you they know you'll deliver. 2) Deadlines, if they don't trust you give them deadlines and go to town. Once you start delivering you'll be square.

I'd also like to say, don't over-complicate the process. Did they ask for deadlines? Do they even want you to explain? Don't try to teach them everything, your job is to get your clients to forget about their problem and solve it, not trammel them with concern.
The actual science for coconut oil: http://examine.com/supplements/Coconut+Oil/
Economy Plus is the cheapest, slowest package. It is only 3 mbps. Comcast describes it as "Ideal for low usage on 1 device" and the list of example uses is "Surf the Web, email, social networking".

I expect that there are plenty of people who actually that that profile and who are using under 5 GB a month, and will find the Flexible-Data Option to be a good deal.
"Regulators and public officlas who spent years earning little pay and doing public service also want to monetize their experience and finally get a good paycheck after leaving office."

Do you really think any company is going to hire an honest, competent ex-regulator who has made a career of fining and frustrating their top executives - and possibly referring them to prosecutors? Or do you think they're more likely to hire that regulator's "friendlier" colleague who spent the same amount of time defusing and deflecting warranted regulatory actions in hopes that he'd be rewarded with a plum gig once he left the government?

Assuming they did hire the softie, can you see how they'd want everyone still working for the government what cushy well-paid gig the guy ended up with? And isn't that exactly what happens?

"Lots of examples of this in the bitcoin space lately.. e.g. Arthur Leavitt.. it's not just happening at goldman sachs)"

Well, yes, my point exactly. "Lots of people doing it means it's okay" is one view. Others would call the same pattern "evidence of entrenched systemic corruption." Indeed, the very fact that this is so widespread that's so problematic as that's what signals to our shadier "regulator" in the previous example that he will, in fact, be suitably rewarded if he plays ball.

"In this article, it sounds like a foolish (and possibly illegal) decision by a 29 year old former Fed guy,"

No, not "possibly illegal". Flagrantly illegal. That's why he's got a criminal defense lawyer.
I call BS. I live in a suburb of San Francisco and have a choice between Comcast and 5Mbps DSL. In other words, I have no choice whatsoever because my telecommuting (and Netflix and Hulu and...) need higher speed bursts than that.

And these are still better options than my family in the Midwest and New York have available to them. You just can't claim with a straight face that there's competition in this market.
> "Single-packet authentication" is, I think, silly, and I've never recommended it to anyone. It's hard to think of a case where hand-rolled authentication in front of SSH has saved anyone with a proper SSH configuration (keys-only-no-passwords). You can skip that step.

I agree. I usually use simple port knocking for that purpose. Surely you can agree that "no ports listening" is a better circumstance than "tcp/22 open to the world, with key-based-auth only"?

A VPN is redundant (and requires special client), whereas port knocking to open a port for ssh (that only supports key-based auth) is a simple matter of a few "nc -w 1" lines in a script before you ssh...

EDIT: Saw your posts below. You presuppose that such OpenSSH-zero-day holding attackers are specifically targeting you, which is not invalid; however a spray-and-pray quickly after public release is much more probable in a lot of cases.
The Plague Pits of London
You can't tell a person older than you that they are wrong about their own life during a period that happened before you were born. Especially not with with pulp sources.

This is not an internet points game and it is not wikipedia. This is a conversation between more or less like-minded people. Personal insight is to be valued.

If you want to actually prove your point, get the 1950/1960 US Census data, average them, analyze the income and employment numbers, and tell me how the center of the bell curve could afford a three course meal on the daily. Don't forget that 36% of the country wasn't employed at all (in 1950, includes children), but still needed to eat (includes children!).

In short, yes, you can trump personal memory with hard numbers (and you should!)--but not with a mere large volume of citations.
Those, yes, and babies, kitties, some art etc. Granted, an app can be a form of art, but slapping some pastel colors and a nice font on your CRUD app is not quite sufficient. If the main purpose of your app is to, by visual experience, itself (not through user content), provoke a feeling in the user, then we can talk.
In addition to the fact that even a single missing packet is actually a "big deal" for compressed video streams, the assumption that the number of missing packets would be "only a few" is erroneous. I've seen situations where packetloss was as high as 60%, and you wouldn't want your video stream to turn to garbage or have your service and app spending all their efforts dealing with that rather than letting equipment just do its job.
Around 33 minutes in, "working for free is against the law". Is this just a case of requiring a peppercorn? If not, how do $1/year salaries work?
The main bug blocking Inbox on firefox has been fixed in nightly.
True, but you're probably safe from hackers XOR cruciverbalists.
I want to show this to my wife, but afraid it will only serve to reinforce her reliance on Coconut Oil on everything we eat :-)
The first slide is ironic. "Keep it simple" by forming a Delaware corporation is advice constantly repeated in some circles and it's simply asinine.

The simplest option for founders is to incorporate in the state in which they reside/plan to conduct business as they are going to have to file as a foreign entity in that state anyway.

The retort is "But investors won't invest in my California LLC!" The first fact this argument overlooks is the that most companies are never able to raise institutional capital. So incorporating in another state for investors you don't have is entity selection's form of premature optimization. Investors look to invest in promising businesses; they aren't seeking out investments in Delaware companies.

The second problem with this argument is that it pretends entity selection can't be easily revisited. It can. As I have pointed out before[1], converting to a Delaware corporation is generally a straightforward process. If you have a California LLC, for instance, and need to convert to a Delaware C corporation, it is unlikely to be anywhere near the most complicated or costly part of a financing.

Telling founders they don't need to understand legal and accounting nitty gritty and that they should just follow boilerplate advice ("form a Delaware C corp") is in my opinion bad advice. Understanding the details and why you're doing something won't guarantee that you build a great business, but it can save a great business from legal, tax and accounting mistakes that can be fatal.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8393109
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I always saw HackerNews as a subset of Reddit, without all the silly puns and jokes for the most part.
You have two wired options, which is exactly what I said. (You can't call 'BS' if your facts are consistent with my claims!)

I have 5Mbps DSL in San Francisco. It's plenty for HD Netflix and Hulu, VOIP, and video-calling.

I suspect you also have 3+ wireless options, some of which likely offer 20Mbps+ in bursts. Yes, it costs more. Yes, you'd like to pay less. Everyone would! But your desire for more modern luxury goods (massive HD bandwidth), cheaper, is not a public policy crisis.

Someone has to invest more to give you more, and market-floating prices for the existing paths are exactly what draws in more investment – or sends you a signal that you should 'self-help' to the nearest source of plentiful bandwidth.
Your using AWS's highest prices. AWS also lists is $0.05 per GB to the internet and it get's cheaper if your a large scale customer. Comcast on on the other hand charges an "additional $1.00 for each gigabyte of data used over the 5 GB included in the Flexible-Data Option."
I work from home now, but in my days in an office I adopted the following system - a small box on my desk with a green tick on one side and a red cross on the other. Green tick = I can be interrupted at any time, red cross = please interrupt me only for critical emergencies.

In both the old office and my home office I made / make a real effort to set the box to an appropriate value, i.e. don't have the red cross showing all the time or it loses it's meaning. These days it's only my wife who is looking to interrupt me, fortunately, but this system works well. And, hell, one of the benefits of working from home is having your wife 'insist' on taking you away from a 'red cross' task once in a while, heh-heh.
Ok. Taking you at your word:

I'm sorry if I misunderstood. You drew an analogy to Arthur Miller and communism. I presume the reference was to Miller's famous troubles with HUAC. Not seeing anybody else nearby, I assumed was the witch-hunter in this analogy. I also assumed that you were equating anti-sexist efforts with anti-Communist hysteria, which I think is a) wrong, and b) insulting to the last 150 years of people doing anti-sexist work. But since you insist it was all in good faith, I'll assume that you meant something else entirely.

If in the future you would like people to gently provide helpful clarifications, you could perhaps start by asking reasonably neutral questions. Instead of, say, leaping into contentious threads with conclusions about what people meant and drawing dramatic analogies to the famously wronged. However good your personal intentions were, there are a host of people, especially here on Hacker News, that are less committed to good-faith discussion and are are reflexively opposed to anything that might suggest that there are gender issues in tech.
I figure if people are going to write things down on sticky notes anyway, it might as well be part of the system.

Hmmm... also, there's a failure-mode with systems that notice the prefix and reject future passwords as "too similar to one you used before". Users would have to deviate from the strategy somehow.
If Microsoft AV looks the other way for one set and Kaspersky looks the other way for another set, is it possible that there is a value of using a union of the two?

I assume Microsoft AV isn't going to look the other way for Russian exploits, unless the US is also using them, and vice versa.
Can anyone explain to me what the marginal costs are for additional traffic, within Comcast's network?

I presume that once you're powering the routers, they consume pretty equivalent power at peak and off-peak times, but maybe that's a faulty assumption?
Just like with web browsers, I use multiple editors all day long on OS X. Currently open, I have: Sublime 3, Textmate 2, BBEdit 11, Xcode 6, Rubymine 6, and (only because I visited this post and just downloaded it) CotEditor 2.

There is certainly a tradeoff in the sense that I don't tend to memorize all the features of every editor, so I may not be as effective in any of them as a power user who sticks to one of them. OTOH, the Mac has excellent basic text conventions for word/line/paragraph selection, indent/dedent, etc.

Also, I tend to use the different editors for different purposes. Batch find/replace? BBEdit. Objective-C? Definitely Xcode, it't the only native editor with even semi-reasonable autocomplete. Scripts and single-file text documents? These days Textmate 2 (used to be Sublime).

So you still end up knowing the shortcuts and advanced features that apply to your editing scenario, even though they may not be in the same editor. But you don't get the raw, low-level text editing power that comes with mastering something like vim (which I do use a lot, too, but with such polygamous editing habits, am unlikely to master).

The upside of using multiple editors is that you can pick the one that suits you best for the job at hand; another fringe benefit is that you also get to enjoy countless hours trying out every single new editor that comes out. ;-)
I'm sure the numbers are good, but in your shoes I'd be looking at the bounce rate rather than total signups to prioritize a demo mode.
A commercial service is paradoxically (or not) exonerated of their own market-limiting decisions. It's when we're talking about a non-profit that moral issues arise for things like discrimination for gender (in this case would be discrimination towards males).

The problems doxxing creates don't distinguish between males and females. Veterans suffer a number of problems that these orgs care about, same for women's shelters (generally speaking) - they provide a service that is functionally different for their target group. Doxxed people are both genders and distinguishing between them is completely artificial and discriminatory in the pejorative sense of the word. The facilities you'd set up against doxxing would work just as well for males but for no reason whatsoever you'd leave them out.
> Recently, [the author] was appointed to the Global Commission for Internet Governance (Bildt Commission).

...

> Sponsors

> The commission gratefully acknowledges the support of:

> * Copyright Collective of Canada [http://www.copyrightcollectivecanada.org/]

> * Government of Canada

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> * Maekyung Media Group [http://pdf.mk.co.kr/jpnpdf/mkintroduction.pdf]

> * McKinsey & Company [http://www.mckinsey.com/about_us]

> * Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development [http://www.oecd.org/about/]

..."Our Internet" indeed!
This doesn't seem like a congress thing.

What could they even do except give comcast bad PR?

Unless you are proposing that we return to the days of telecom regulation.
I believe Cisco now owns clamAV.
I don't see AWS's $0.05/GB. I see $0.12/GB outbound, for the first 10TB. Google has the same per-GB pricing.

But again, that's bulk wholesale which is often 2-10X cheaper in any industry. Compare like to like.
I don't know, is it preferable to have cops who are ex-Mafia on the grounds that they "just know more about crime"?

"Regulation" is a polite word, so it's easy to lose track of what it really means. But what it really means is policing. Contrary to what the Republicans tell you, ours is not a planned economy in which government bureaucrats are making operational decisions. This isn't the Soviet Union, and they don't exist to govern the allocation of the shoe supply. Generally speaking, regulations is capitalist economies are about limiting the otherwise limitless appetite for profit by imposing extraordinarily high costs on harmful, reckless, and otherwise predatory behavior.

If regulators want to retain outside consultants from an industry that's one thing - especially if the people they're hiring are whistleblowers who can be relied on to have no further employment with the people they busted. It's when industry starts hiring ex-regulators that things get really sticky.
> I dread the time when they become cable-ified and start adding different tiers (but it would make good economic sense).

Netflix themselves have said many times that this is antithetical to their business model - they want to have a single price for streaming.

They may end up being forced to do this by the cable companies, but this is certainly not their goal if they have their way.
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Canadian-Iranian ‘blogfather’ released from Evin prison, report says
5GB of traffic takes you all of <4 hours on a 3mbps line. So you clicked on that YouTube video your Facebook friend posted but never closed the tab, and it's still buffering, or Google releases that new Android version and your smartphone preloads 400MiB for the update. Left that Spotify playlist running.. there are plenty of not obvious ways to run through that bandwidth in record time, and often at no fault of your own.

I wouldn't even mind billing by traffic, but then they have to play by the rules that other utilities do. There needs to be a clearly established standard for what is counted, when it is counted, where it is counted, and they better make sure to provide an itemized bill for the usage accrued. Otherwise, it's fraud.
> Is this just a case of requiring a peppercorn?

Yes.

> If not, how do $1/year salaries work?

It depends on each state's regulations.
Uber on Google just gives one search result
An older acquaintance of mine who pays probably $30 - $40/mo to check yahoo email 4 or 5 times a week. She also watches a couple youtube clips a month; I doubt she uses even a gig of data.
According to the FCC about 5% of people use less than 5GB.

Source: http://www.fcc.gov/measuring-broadband-america/2013/February...

I can easily imagine someone using less the 5GB.

For example they use the internet only for email and some government websites.
Let me share a little story that I find analogous.

In New York City, the Mafia runs the illegal gambling. I don't know if it still goes on, but some years ago I know for a fact that the bookies used to stay friendly with the cops by cashing their paychecks for them. (You see, if you bring your paycheck to the bank, your wife will know how much you make.)

One cop I was acquainted with became, when he retired, a small time bookie himself in a suburb of NYC. The small time bookies can't make it on their own, because you need someone to pass the big bets onto, when the action is a little too rich for your blood.

Now, do you think the retired-cop-turned-bookie was a ballbuster to the mobsters in New York, or one of the "friendlier" cops?

(I think I know what you think. My little story is really in support of your answer to the guy you're responding to. The way I see it, bankers and regulators aren't that much different from mobsters and cops.)
Yeah third party repos are pretty unreasonable. The problem is that software development now moves pretty fast and package maintainers can't or don't want to keep up. That, coupled with the fact that building packages is far too difficult for most distros incentivizes people to take risks that they shouldn't be taking.

Systems need to be safe by default and they should largely service the needs of users. Distros are no longer doing that.
BBEdit's multi-file search and replace (and it's compare) alone are worth it. I keep coming back to BBEdit for search and replace, even if I prefer other editors for other things.

I use a lot of different editors too, rotating among favorites. The one thing I do not consistently use are modal keyboard-centric editors like vim and emacs. I get that some people like them, but they've never done much for me. (And yes, I do know how to use them. I'm old enough that I upgraded to vim early on.)
Vancouverite here!

5000 IU of Vitamin D3 every morning works like magic for me.

Good luck getting that in Canaduh in one pill; ordered from the States.
Show HN: A very small curated collection of startup tools
Does anyone have any recommendations for incorporating in Nevada? I plan to do business primarily in Nevada and understand that it is also a very business friendly state for incorporating. Unfortunately, clerky.com only handles Deleware corps. I'm currently considering doing it myself, rocketlawyer and legalzoom.
I remember using GWT as my first venture into dynamic web applications. I didn't really understand what was going on at the time 4 years ago, but I ended up making something kind of cool.

I too have a draw to the single language concept which is why Node was initially appealing to me. Thinking about it, there is a lot of <language> to JavaScript compilers, so I assume one could cobble a single language server / client setup for web development (though it wouldn't be as complete)
Is there any evidence that my call will do anything? I suspect not, but I really don't know. I've called in to my rep probably 5/6 times in my life and never once heard back or talked to anyone other than some intern.
I already use CoreOS/etcd/fleet to manage a cluster of apps and services. What does Deis do that I can't already? Does it have solid automation for service discovery and the like? I want to be able to quickly add and remove nodes depending on demand. Does Deis make this easy?
Keeping Up with the Carnivores
Ctrl+Shift+F12 disables and re-enables VsVim. When disabled it's as if it wasn't installed.
Release early for feedback (both on the code, and the concept). Try to make the (technical, social) culture explicit from the outset. Don't be afraid to pivot. Seek advice on technical issues - if there aren't any early contributors, try resources like http://codereview.stackexchange.com/.

This is Linus' announcement of Linux:

http://twovoyagers.com/blinkynet.net/comp/linux002.html

"I've enjouyed doing it, and somebody might enjoy looking at it and even modifying it for their own needs. It is still small enough to understand, use and modify, and I'm looking forward to any comments you might have."
It is encouraging to see Google working on a new product to help publishers generate revenue, but it looks like it only disables Google advertising. Most publishers use multiple ad platforms. Unless those are disabled too, users may question the value of donating money if it's not creating a true ad-free experience.
What informed consumer would agree to this?!

Informed consumers that know they don't use that much data? Not everyone streams movies or what have you.

If I cancel my Netflix subscription and switch back to physical media, as I have contemplated doing, I will be < 5GB.
That's also not the intent of the sentence, but thanks for putting words in my mouth.
> better options than my family in the Midwest

Minneapolis is a beacon of hope, here. $40 for 100 Mbps / 100 Mbps in much of the city, from a local fiber provider.

That's what kills me. Comcast's audacity is just so much more galling when you've actually experienced what happens with competition. And not that competition is a panacea, necessarily. I don't have a say in my water, gas, or electricity providers, but in exchange for that monopoly, they're subject to pretty serious regulation.
State of SEO Agencies 2014 [Infographic]
If you're in the top 1% of non-stop bandwidth users, shouldn't you pay more?

Why is it OK for AWS & Google Cloud to meter by the GB, but not Comcast?
"Use a password manager" is so much easier to explain and teach.
What's different from Sublimes multi file search and replace?
As I understand it the marginal cost of the first N gigabytes is approximately zilch, but N+1 gigabytes is $$$$- because they now have to upgrade the infrastructure.

The price tags they put on more data are almost certainly an attempt at "market allocation" rather than the actual cost of the data. In other words, the increased price on bandwidth lowers demand, hopefully to the level Comcast is targeting. Think of electricity companies, and off-peak rates. They charge more during peak load to drive the market to shift more load to off-peak times.
Why your Uber driver hates Uber
Seems like the article as actually quite sarcastic about the benefits of coconut oil. From the article:

"So I stopped at a nearby children’s hospital and cured every child with a dropperful of coconut oil."
Nevada is great for LLCs; I run my consulting business as a Nevada LLC and originally set everything up via LegalZoom. That said, I think you're actually better off doing things yourself via their SilverFlume site [1], as you'll save yourself some money and you'll be able to make changes via the same portal down the road.

[1] https://nvsilverflume.gov/home