skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Users would still be able to block Google and Facebook ads easily but would help some users in the meantime. Though as you noted they could simply allow content blockers to be able to block ips in an update. No need to wait to iOS 10 since it wouldn't be a new touted featured but rather a bug fix like they do all the time when people circumvent jailbreaking. So Apple could easily add that fix in version 9.1, 9.2 or anytime they like. Most likely they will wait to it becomes more widespread since dns changes aren't something the average person who manages their own site can update easily.
How many people do you employ and/or pay livable wages to produce content?
I agree with what you said -- although the node/npm ecosystem is much bigger. I'm not sure how it works with the nginScript subset.

But network-related libraries shouldn't be pulled from luarocks (unless maybe they have resty in the name). One would want to use lua-resty-redis and not hiredis within OpenResty. The 'resty' libs use the nginx cosocket library so work asyncronously with nginx core. hiredis would block the worker threads.
Will these still support Smart Straps?
> load balancing

You'd rather use a dedicated load balancer like Route53 or haproxy. Don't think choosing Apache or Nginx is the right option for those really. Plus something like vert.x is very usable as a load balancer already.

>SSL Termination

Just about everything handles this already. Current best practice is to use SSL for all communication between your own servers anyway, so there's no gain. If you SSL terminate on your load balancer, these days you want to use a new SSL connection between your load balancer and application server anyway if possible.

> serving static content, caching, compression

New app servers like vert.x support Linux sendfile and handle very well for serving static content etc. Currently, nearly everyone uses Cloudflare to handle all of this anyway. No real reason to duplicate it if Cloudflare is set to handle it.

> centralized logging

Centralized logging is usually done by sending all of your logs off from each service/server to be aggregated on a dedicated box running Logstash or whatever. You don't use your reverse proxy for this?

>using different applications on the same ur space

From using the web, I don't think this is done anymore. In fact it seems to be the opposite - foo1.app.com, foo2.app.com seems to be the trend. Basically the opposite of multiple apps on 1 domain because of the big move towards microservices. Extra domains are the cheapest thing there is.

> added benefit of another layer of security

Security doesn't work that way in my experience. It's more about minimizing attack surface. If you use node and nginx and apache then any exploit that hits any of those 3 will hit you. If you only use node, then you can only get hit by exploits on node. So I'd argue it's the opposite. The more layers, the less secure.

> nginx/apache are really good at what they do

Sure, but you need to find the most efficient tool to handle your needs with the least amount of complexity. Only add something if it solves an issue that you can't solve in a simpler way just as well.
it looks really cool, however with cables wouldn't this limit the amount of "instant Gs" you can generate? it seems motion simulators based on pistons would be able to simulate better things like driving on a bumpy road and sudden changes of direction as there isn't the slack of the cable to take into account or the inertia of a large suspended mass (cables are heavy too)

Still given enough space and light enough cables that support enough tension (to minimize slack) it seems this could be scaled up very cost effectively compared to other technologies to enable longer sustained accelerations
We run a separate virtual machine for each request, so there’s no need for garbage collection

I'm curious to see the impact of this strategy on performance.
So when are you going to release "node-ginx"? :)
Yeah I've been skeptical of nginx's Lua support in the past. I guess I discounted it because it was a relatively unknown feature and Lua is obviously not nearly as popular as JavaScript. I don't know of any production service written exclusively in Lua, though I'm sure there are some.

So yes while this is just a continuation of a bad idea, it's a rather substantial continuation. I fear that a lot more people will make use of this than make use of nginx's Lua support.
It is possible that CEO was unaware. The line was that VW engineers had solved it for small engines with better CDI and engine/transmission management. Theoretically it could be enough and they did patent that stuff.
The spam button in gmail was the auto-unsubscribe button too.
as long as I can compile --without-nginscript, go nuts
Yes that is true. You're exposing an assumption of mine which is that many of these companies will not necessarily IPO.

However even when they do, they will be a lot more operating history and financial information than what companies typically had in 2000. This is why you're seeing some recent tech IPOs that went public at a valuation lower than their last private round. An example of this is Hortonworks.
I like and use both. I think Lua is a better language and I have a hard time seeing otherwise. Lua has some warts too, it's not about warts, but Lua got enough right from the beginning, is small enough to be crazy fast, and is not continually adding new large features. This is the key thing to me. JavaScript is designed by committee and has too many features in ES6.
> I talk to a lot of people about Go every single day.

Perhaps that is why Go seems to be dominating. In your little bubble.
3-D Scans Reveal Caterpillars Turning into Butterflies
I'm not really surprised. I used to know someone who ran a small Printed Circuit Board manufacturing shop. His waste water had to meet certain conditions for environmental pollution before he could send it down the sewer. Because the incoming water was so dirty and had to be filtered so well before use, the water going out the sewer connection was actually cleaner than the city water coming in!
No subtleties; "more" doesn't equal "better". It can, in some ways, but there's no generalized way to make them mean the same thing--it depends entirely on judging criteria for both.

E.g., "good" in what way? That there's less manual labor now? (Not a function of having more land.) "Good" in the sense that ag companies tend to make more money on larger farms? "Good" in the sense that yields are (generally) consistently up? (Also not related to having more land.)

To make "good" meaningful you must strictly define what's "good", realizing that there are almost always other (possibly contradictory) criteria, and that what might be "good" in one sense may be "bad" in another.

In any case, my point was that "improvement" has a solely positive connotation. You could have said "8x improvement in farmed acreage", which sort-of implies an increase in acreage is "good", but why not just be accurate in the first place, and call it precisely what it is, which is an increase in average acreage?
Well, I guess we will have anonymous payment systems for that. Bitcoin (although very trackable) is already a start in the right direction.
Apparently go excels with programmers who like to "get shit done". If you program in some other language, you believe in "total bullshit" or the "hot new framework".

I'm a fan of go, but this post was way over the top. It reads like something a fan-boy would write about the latest Star Wars movie.
Is this surprising when you are charged similarly for print and digital copies despite the production costs being nowhere near the same? Ebooks were supposed to be the cost effective, cut out the middlemen, pay the author directly format.

What wasn't accounted for was that the book indexers have no incentive to pass on their savings to the consumer.

edit: Let's not forget the artificial restrictions imposed by DRM, either. How difficult is it to share a digital book vs physical?
A good first approximation is to regard your after-tax equity upside == 0 in all ventures that you didn't found.
A Glass Box of a House in Germany That ‘Thinks’ for Itself
Are you parsing xlsx and converting it to your format and data model? Or are you running excel instances under the hood? What will happen if there's an odbc connection inside xlsx? Will it be properly executed?
What makes a pebble watch any different from an apple watch?
Average American spends 80% of their app time in top three apps
OpenResty is built on Nginx's Lua support and is fairly popular. You're probably using websites that use it without knowing it.
Money quote = "unicorpses"
The Sharing Economy Takes Another Hit
One word: price. E-book prices have soared! Almost everything on Amazon is over $10 these days.

They're often going for more than the paperback price, and certainly more than the prices you'd find at a discount bookseller.
European emission standards are lax, and I would imagine the rest of the world even laxer.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-23/no-cheatin...
I would love to see this updated using C++14.
I've been really disappointed with the pricing of eBooks.

A new book is available for pre-order, and here is the Amazon pricing:

Kindle – $26.35
Hardcover – $19.23
Audible – $27.61
Audio CD – $30.00

All logic suggests the electronic version should be cheaper. Prices like this will likely drive me, and others, to piracy.

Yes, the value of the book is what I am willing to pay for it, but I feel insulted by the pricing structure offered time and again.
> By 2:37am PDT, the error rate in customer requests to DynamoDB had risen far beyond any level experienced in the last 3 years, finally stabilizing at approximately 55%.

Yeah, a small green-i should cover it.
Most likely, since the connector on the back is the same (same USB charging cable as the Time). However, the band sizes are different (14mm/20mm vs 22mm), so you would have to make a band specifically sized for the Round vs. the Time/Time Steel.

Edit: Here's some confirmation on the smart strap support: http://developer.getpebble.com/guides/#hardware-comparison
They use an e-ink display for one which means a week of battery life(or 2 days in the case of the round).
The sharecropper economy takes a huge hit.
You said you wanted a phone with a big screen: it doesn't matter if they're "in" or "out" because you wanted one.

If your question was "should I bother developing for large-screen devices" (which IMO is less important than "developing for high-DPI devices", but that's a different issue) then just ask.

IIRC metrics on screen size (and more importantly, DPI) are available, but I have no idea where.
My point wasn't that fundamentalist Christians as anti-left-handed because of their Christianity; it's that they hold on to ancient beliefs.

* The Earth is 6,000 years old
* Man walked with Dinosaurs
* Being Gay is a choice
* Yoga Leads to Satanic Possession
* Being Left Handed is Bad

I could go on...
US Air Force EC-130H Aircraft with Hacking Kit Can Hack Enemy Networks
Sorry, I was not commenting on your wife's age (egads!)! I was surprised that such a practice continued as recently as the 1990s.

Wow; text can be a dangerous form of communication.
I see what you're saying but they are hiring full time devs to work on these apps so it's not like a side/night project that's tough to get time for.

I believe it's really a lost opportunity and I've asked them about it but received no response.
> but I make a point of putting things in his left hand.

Don't even do that. It can make he use his left hand because you're someway influencing he and if he start writing with non-dominant hand because this he may develop a lot of problems on brain.

> it's a lifestyle choice.

What?! You first said there is certainly a genetic component then it's a lifestyle choice? it isn't.
it also means the screen never has to turn off, so you can always check the time with no movement.
Unless you're one of the <1% of customers.

The whole point of status page is to to help determine if the issue you're experiencing is on your side or the SaaS, and not to show as much green as possible.

The way currently AWS status page works it simply fails to provide any functionality and might as well be shut down.

The colors on it start to change when you already see tons of articles about AWS being down.
> No. They cheated to pass the exam on the cheap, instead of investing in the required R&D to create a motor that gives out the same amount of power while reducing emissions.

I'm not going to apologize for them but I can concoct how it happened... I think it all stems from the termination of the licensing deal on Daimler's BlueTec system/standard. Until 2007 VW used the BlueTec system but probably didn't want to continue paying license fees, track a moving target under a competitor's control, and support a competitor's branding alongside their own TDI branding. Continuing my guesswork, they expected their engineers could work out a replacement system but it proved harder than thought when tested in actual driving conditions. Speculating even more, someone noticed that under certain conditions the TDI engines performed up to the standard so they programmed the ECU to do that. But other performance metrics and reliability sucked. It was going to take time to work it out but the model year doesn't wait. Wild-assed guessing and getting into intent, someone down low in the hierarchy realized you could detect an emissions test (OBD2 port in use, wheel sensors differ, speed and rpm and timing, etc.) and trigger the clean mode. Unless someone stuck a sensor up the tailpipe while the vehicle was actually moving, no one would know and there would be enough time to work out the actual emissions problems. Except the vehicles were selling and maybe someone a little higher up decided not to fix it at all.
I miss the old days:

GM/Chevrolet/Buick/GMC/Opel/Vauxhall/Holden/Cadillac/Oldsmobile/Pontiac/Hummer/Saturn/Saab
Yea, c/++ tends to have a memory oriented way of defining data structures. Sometimes this is great, but most of the time there is a lot of mental translation and work.
The article's analysis may have been superficial, but I don't understand why you dispute that liquidation-preference increases valuations.

As you note, it offers investors protection against downside risk. That protection allows them to safely invest at higher valuations than they otherwise would, precisely because they will be protected if those valuations come plummeting down to earth. Without that guaranteed protection, they would need to demand lower valuations.

The historical examples you offered are consistent with this theory. In the early 2000s, valuations would have been even lower without liquidation preference. And it's true that the huge upside of modern startups may account for their astronomical valuations, but investors are only willing to entertain such wild risks because of the protections they enjoy from downside risk.

So, liquidation preference may not be a new phenomenon, but that doesn't mean it's not important.
The main difference is that Europe has separate regulations for Diesel and Gasoline cars, while the US has regulations independent of engine type. You are right that this leads to lax regulations on NOx. That said, the new Euro 6 regulations for Diesel cars should bring Europe closer to US levels.

This is actually an area where TTIP might improve things a lot by aligning different emission standards.
Low hundreds? Not even in the middle of no where in the midwest will the low hundreds get you a half-decent place.
Take a look at the million dollar water Toys at Monaco' s Yacht Show 2015
I've only downvoted someone once, and that was for a snarky, 5-word top-level comment that did nothing to expand the conversation - the kind of downvote that is exempt from explanation.

But then there are people who silently disagree via downvote. To that I ask what the purpose must be. "I think you're wrong" - How? Why? Is it my tone? Lack of evidence? To me, downvoting without explaining is just a smug way to feel less insecure about one's own opinions without having to stand up for anything.
When was the last time you actually reverse-engineered something, that you'd think to ask this question.
In related news, the FBI has just merged the civil and criminal fingerprint databases, just so they can have a "one-stop shop" to search for everyone's fingerprints - just like the hackers will when they will inevitably steal this one as well. Aren't fingerprint databases great?!

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/09/little-fanfare-fbi-ram...
> The fact that they didn't rat VW out suggests to me that they were either doing the same thing (maybe not as aggressively as VW) or they hoped to get away with the same thing.

Or (only hypothesizing) they realized they're all in the same industry and are necessarily treading softly wondering what the best course to accuse an 800lb gorilla of cheating.

It will be interesting to see if there are other cheaters, and to what degree, and also if this was an open secret in the industry. Nothing would surprise me.

I'm now searching for a story I'm sure happened, which was Mitsubishi faking crash test data... but damned if I can find it. Best I see is this[0]. Am I imagining a scandal w/ Mitsubishi where they were rigging crash test data ?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_Motors#Vehicle_defe...
You know, it doesn't really matter. ;)

Never tried the paredit vim extension, but I've heard a few people happy editing clojure/lisp under vim so I'm sure it's more than OK.
Research shows that active managers rarely beat the market:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/your-money/how-many-mutual...

http://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/mutual-funds/...

http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/12/investing/investing-active-v...

EDIT: Disclaimer: I have the majority of my retirement assets in a roboadvisor (Betterment).
Yeah, this is huge for me. It also charges super fast, so when it runs out, I can slap it on its magnetic charger, and pull it off 5-10 minutes later if I need to run, and it'll have enough charge to get it through to a time when I have 30 minutes to charge it.
Turns out Amazon knew what they were doing when they were selling ebooks for cheaper. The publishers come in with agency pricing and boom, sales plummet.
But... let's say you have three accounts with three storage companies. Now let's say you outsource the management of those accounts through one company... or even, equivalently, delegate it to a subsidiary or partner of your company. And then you accidentally stop paying them, or they can't requisition the budget necessary to pay the providers, or whatever. Now you're still stuck, even though you're nominally doing things "in-house."

What you actually need is a provider that will guarantee the durability of your data even if they (temporarily) cut off your access to it for lack of payment[1]. Anything else is just a level of indirection that suffers the same problems.

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[1] I don't actually know if anyone does this, let alone AWS. Here's a quote from Tarsnap's FAQ—where you'd think cperciva is someone who would have considered the "I had no idea my infrastructure was relying on this service until it shut off" use-case:

> You will be sent an email when your account balance falls below 7 days worth of storage costs warning you that you should probably add more money to your account soon. If your account balance falls below zero, you will lose access to Tarsnap, an email will be sent to inform you of this, and a 7 day countdown will start; if your account balance is still below zero after 7 days, it may be deleted (along with any data you have stored) at our discretion. (If you can't add money yet but will be able to later, contact us and explain the situation. We're reasonable people and simply knowing that you're alive and haven't forgotten that you were using Tarsnap is very helpful.)

7 days is probably reasonable in the case where there's an active IT staff who will notice when, say, servers stop backing up. But if nobody's watching for that...
It seems obvious that a roboadvisor is easier to scale while maintaining its level of performance than a human advisor. So I guess the question is, at what level do the best roboadvisors compare to the human advisors? Also almost certainly whatever that level is currently it's almost surely going to rise.
looks like we are getting close to VR with some (unreal) experience
A few years ago I got a clevo barebone rebrand... it had everything I wanted hardware-wise but the keyboard was terrible.. (this was an i7-720 era machine - I guess that's the gen 1 of the current cpu rounds)
Instagram hits 400M users
Got a brand new T450s this year, and it was chock-full of crap to the point of being nearly unusable.
When I was new to HN I thought downvoting just didn't exist here, and I actually preferred that. Arguments that are liked get bubbled up, while inflammatory comments get ignored or slapped down by reasonable people.
Obviously this is just a personal preference, but the Apple watch is ugly. The Moto 360 was the only other watch that I think that comes close to not looking like a smart watch.

Also the e-ink display is a different strategy. I hate the the watch display isn't on all the time so you can't just glance at it without moving your arm.
I thought the aura is the light captured around the human body with kirlian photography
You're on to me. ;)

There is node-http-proxy available (https://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy), which also has some plugins available to do some of the advanced features nginx supports.

I'll likely be writing a custom proxy server tailored to our needs such that it probably won't be useful as a general purpose proxy server, but if you're looking for something, that's a start. Making it more general purpose unfortunately would require more work, and I'm pretty time stretched right now.

I'm not saying it's better than nginx, of course. I'm just saying that if you need to do some crazy programming that can't be done with nginx, you're free to use something else. Don't be fearful of treading your own path, just make sure you know well how HTTP works before doing it.

Here's a stupid example I whipped up quickly for a reverse proxy for our IPFS nodes that demonstrates how quickly you can put together a custom reverse proxy to do something weird: https://github.com/neocities/hshca-proxy/blob/master/app.js. That flaming piece of junk hasn't crashed once since I deployed it.
Yeap. DRM is the reason I don't buy e-books. When I am done with a book I want to be able to give it away or loan it out.

I have also discovered that the ebook is not fully stored on my tablet, so I can't read it offline. (Google books)

So forget e-books. If I buy a real book, I know I have the entire book!
So, does FIPS-201 now need to ban fingerprints for government facilities?

http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/FIPS/NIST.FIPS.201-2.pdf
Jeb Bush says he'd repeal net neutrality
I had a Pebble Time and put a number of months into using it full time. The screen is a color e-ink display that is always on, which is really nice. When I chat with my Apple watch friends, the biggest gripe is the battery life. With my Pebble Time, using notifications and using it to respond to text messages, while wearing it all night to monitor sleep, I charge it about every 5 days for a couple hours.

Everyone I know personally with an Apple Watch complains that the battery hardly lasts a day and they're forced to basically charge every night, which I guess gets annoying.

Right now, I think the battery life thing is a major issue with smartwatches like the Moto 360 and the Apple Watch. The Pebble models, the Basis models, and the Garmin models all seem to have this ironed out.
I've always been a huge fan of "the underdog" Sure this isn't an Apple Watch or a Moto 360, but Pebble has truly created a beautiful product and I respect that. Great work to the guys at Pebble.
It looks like half the area of the watch is bezel.
BCI and EEG Use Cases for Video Games [pdf]
AFIAK, CloudFlare is entirely just Nginx+Lua scripts.
That's like comparing a Fiat to a Porsche.