skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just want to mention that HAProxy isn't a web server like nginx, but a proxy. So while it competes at some things nginx is commonly used for, its not a full competitor (you wouldn't replace nginx+php-fpm w/ HAProxy+php-fpm).

That said, if you're looking for a proxy/load balancer, HAProxy is most likely the absolute best you're going to find anywhere, ever...and the price is right ;)
Tesla's Vampire thirst for electricity at night
It would be a more beautiful metaphor only of it had been called "Gt Mox" exchange instead.

I'll go and sit in the corner for my bad Magic puns then...
Yeah, I do agree with that.

I'm slightly less happy about the HTTP live streaming being in the Plus package, though. I've been playing around a lot with a media app using HLS and I can't even trial using nginx for it - not that I'd be too happy paying $1300 a year since I don't have a single user yet. I can see how they are trying to get money out of the big streaming companies, but it's not too friendly to the little guy.
I've never had the pleasure of serving in a jury. How does it work? I have been under the impression that all jury members must agree on a single verdict? I know for a fact that I would not agree with this verdict. And I can't rationalize finding against Newegg here. Can someone who can see the other side (whether or not you agree) explain it here?
Given that this is the only known planet on which life is sustainable, I think your view is kind of shortsighted. Humanity happened because of our planet, not in spite of it. Good luck moving to Mars.
Giving selected startups money confounds two factors: the selection criteria and the extra funding. This means that any differences in the success rate can't simply be assigned to the selectors choosing wisely.
Ironically, where I live in Canada, I've been noticing more and more monarchs (and their close cousin the viceroy) each year in my gardens and the milkweed fields. Perhaps some change in environment/temperature is causing this. Or maybe they just like free healthcare.
Here's coverage from the local paper.

http://www.marshallnewsmessenger.com/news/online-retailer-ne...

Seems to be more of a TQP slant to it.
For better or worse, we are currently in the midst of another mass extinction. It's something that will play out for generations as humans continue to modify the planet for our needs. We don't really know yet what the end result will look like. Our grand kids probably won't know either.

Just one example: somewhere around 1995 a nursery in California, most likely in Marin or the North Bay, imported some plants from Asia. What they didn't know at the time was the leaves of those plants were infected with the fungus-like organism Phytophthora ramorum. That organism would eventually escape and infect tanoak and coast live oak throughout central California. A few years later it was found in Oregon. That organism causes the disease called sudden oak death. While it is difficult to make predictions, the impact on oaks in California will likely be profound. One study predicted that 90% of the coast live oak and black oak in California will be dead within the next 50 years. Animals that use acorns from these species for food will probably experience a decline, and one could imagine further ripple effects throughout the ecosystem.

If you live or work in Silicon Valley, and you look to the west at the coast range, most of that green stuff that you are seeing on the mountains is coast live oak woodland. Now imagine 30%, 60%, 90% of those trees dead.

(The above information is based on a talk by Matteo Garbelotto, a plant pathologist at UC Berkeley.)

By the way, you may of heard of California's "golden hills"? Non-native annual grasses. Brought to California by the Spanish when they first explored the state. Over time, the non-native grasses crowded out most of California's native perennial grasses. If you had lived in California 700 years ago, many of the hills wouldn't be golden, they would have been tinged green.
Unlike a patent, you actually have to be active in the category to maintain your trademark.
Doesn't this just motivate startups to incorporate somewhere where software patents aren't enforced, like New Zealand?

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/01/business/10-best-places-to-sta...

I mean at the end of the day this lack of timely reform is fundamentally making people look for asymmetric ways to entirely avoid problems. Is that the way society should be driven? I think that is an unstable driver of future events --- a society that cannot reform itself in a timely manner, that cannot properly forecast events and repercussions, is a society that is forgetting it's responsibility for balancing itself.

I really do not like this behavior; it is abhorrent of a society that can be a seer. I mean there is the usual belief that we are all equal and deserve equality --- but that cannot happen as long as we inherit citizenship, wealth and networks. It is a nice belief but simply cannot be rendered in any sort of predictable manner.

This creates a situation. Their are private discussions on the ongoing nature of patents --- but I feel that more than anything people are forgetting that as the point of a corporation is it's superhuman predictable nature, that the further antagonization of new corporations will balance itself not with a mutated form of socialism but with an asymmetric alliance of corporations - one which favors unpredictability and an increased rate of change.

Wealth and the rate of innovation are separate --- and that fiction will reveal itself at a much faster rate if proper steps are not taken in a timely manner.
Wait until we start becoming a Type II civilization on the Kardashev scale and start exploiting the resources of the entire solar system. What sort of epoch will that be?
Kudos to NewEgg for the immense risk in fighting these.
Even if they win, they've lost; the legal costs alone are silly and aren't paid for by the loser.

You could have said the exact same thing when they first went to court and it would have been just as true. But that's why they are doing it. They already lost simply by operating in a country with such broken patents.
It says this patent covers using SSL with RC4. SSL dates back to Netscape, was released in 1995, and has no one involved in it has anything to do with the patent holder here. RC4 was designed in 1987 by Ron Rivest who also has nothing to do with this case.

Someone named Michael Jones patented using SSL with RC4. Which in seems was a known and used combination at the time he did so, as was testified by the expert witness? But the jury thought that not relevant.

The patent would seem to avoidable if say using AES instead.

Caution: I don't know what I am talking about and just looked the above up on wikipedia, which I probably misunderstood. Hopefully someone who understands this in more depth will post.
Why is this getting upvoted? We should ditch Nginx because they are trying to build a sustainable business on top of their amazing OSS contribution?

When quality OSS projects like Nginx turn into profitable businesses, that's very good for OSS as a whole. We should be cheering them and gasp paying them if we need their high end features, not abandoning them.
What I love the most about the author's post is the "fork it" part.

The author goes out of his/her way to pick out what's wrong with NGINX due to the inadequate SAN infrastructure and at the end suggests someone else fork the project so his/her company can continue to milk the free software of the backs of others.

It's somewhat disgusting.
> In fact, I had no idea Esc stopped page loads. Has that been a standard thing too?

Has been as long as I can remember. Not that I use it much anymore with fat pipes (in comparison to a 9600 baud modem) being commonplace.
So do you expect everyone to understand how the ssl handshake occurs?
I think betraying someone who trusted you with nudes is totally despicable.
A couple of years ago, I was doing the nostalgia thing with a friend. I used to have an Amiga 500, and I recounted about another friend who had the Acorn Archimedes, and who was constantly espousing how awesome the machine was (and it had a great 3D tank game I can't recall...). Amiga died an unhappy death, but "Whatever happened to Acorn?" I mused, wondering if they'd gone the same way.

"What do you know about ARM... ?"
Hurray for kitchen cockroaches :-)

You're betting on deadly wars and induced famine to kill humans and I agree, however most wars are over land or natural resources. So if WW III happens at some point and we exterminate each other, you can bet that the continued destruction of our ecosystem will have something to do with it.
Does the jury for a highly specialized patent case exist and function in largely the same way as a jury for other trials? Namely, "peers" instead of educated individuals on the particular topic at hand?

If that's the case, the United States needs some serious judicial reform.
Perhaps someone who knows more about the legal system can help me understand something: at this point, it's well-known that these areas of Texas are good for patent disputes: they receive national attention, and a massive influx of spending as companies travel there to fight court battles.

Given that, surely any jury made up of locals has a huge incentive not to kill the golden goose and deter patent trolling by letting defendants win. Is there not a conflict of interest here?
Ok. I can respect that.
I really wish they showed stats. I'd like to see which is the most recognized blue (I immediately recognized Facebook).
Why is the IPython and scientific package installation always such a nightmare?
What's a customer? A new account? If you have an MSDN subscription you get Azure credits and you'd most likely sign up to take advantage of The Cloud. Are these excluded?

Not that I think that Azure bad or doing badly, it's just not clear that this is 1,000 businesses signing up each day because:

* they've done vendor selection

* Azure came out on top

* and they're willing to spend money on it.
Innocent home videos becoming Pakistani 'porn' on YouTube and destroying lives
A little bit information here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_fo...

While it would be interesting to know why it happens in Texas.
Some people wonder what this is good for. For me, it would have been great, when I worked on a training ship as the IT support. Students were not allowed access to the internet (nor could our meager satellite uplink have supported it), but for my second stint on the ship, I wanted to see if I could provide them with Wikipedia. So, I grabbed the dump, set up MediaWiki, and imported it...and waited...for days and days and eventually the thing loaded, and it was great. But, it would have been super nice to have an easy installer to handle all that. So, yes there are use cases out there.
Those snacks look delicious -- "A handpicked gift box of top Goldbely desserts from around the country" -- does it include the exact snacks pictured, or are they just examples?
Ok, fight fire with fire (inflammatory post with inflammatory response) here it goes:

Scumbag Hipster Young Startup -- with a 3 floor building (mentioned CEO coming down all the way from the 3rd floor), aggregating 50M events related to sales every day, taking advantage of hundreds of thousands of volunteered man hours put into the FOSS stack they are using, are throwing a hissy fit about having to pay the creators of the software they are using for an enterprise feature.
Check out these threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=450702, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4060887

Also my personal list of favorites that entrepreneurs should watch (although not necessarily about technology):

Glengarry Glen Ross - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104348/

Moneyball - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1210166/

The Pursuit of Happyness - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454921/

Jerry Maguire - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116695/

Catch Me If You Can - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264464/
I'm sorry, but this just isn't true. Everybody has cognitive social biases at play when hiring. Even those who are aware of it and who go through great pains to isolate their feelings from the interview process will fall into the same trap. The smarter the interviewer, the more they can find justifications for their subconscious desire to hire or not hire.
It's how I get around the "you exceeded your article reads for the day/week/month, subscribe to read the article" of the Seattle Times. The content's hiding right behind that popup. Feedly's "remove clutter" button in their iOS app works equally well.
> "I feel fortunate to live in a country with a judicial system like this where a jury can decide these things," [Jones] said.

Of course he does. It's the very judicial system that presented him with an easy $45m. He is a parasite (quite literally) and he knows it.
And just to add to the list of c-store databases, there's also Sybase IQ. (I believe Sybase is now owned by SAP so it may have been rebranded)
Sounds like Southern California.
No, and that's one of the problems with our patent system.

But, in this case, all they had to do was judge the difference between the inventor of public key encryption and a paid shill for patent trolls. The expert witness on the side of the troll is a guy who does this for a living; the expert witness on NewEgg's side was Whit Fucking Diffie. The "Diffie" in "Diffie-Hellman".

There's a reason patent trolls have all set up shop in this backward little Texas town. It's biggest industry is stifling innovation for the rest of the country.
Agree. There's so much generalization that I can't even identify with any of the two groups. I like side projects a lot but I also care about documentation. I like being alone but I'm not an introvert and I don't hate or disrespect people for what they do or can't do or what they are (that's not being a hacker, that's being a dick). And I don't like junk food and staying up long hours because it's bad for my health (which the article obviously has complete disregard for) and it makes working out difficult.
Although I share your sentiment, noc and devops people are legitimately paranoid about stability, so no, he's neither lazy nor unskilled - this part I can easily believe. What I can't understand is, if they have tons of traffic and he admittedly uses a product he likes, why doesn't he just pay for it. FOSS does not enslave its authors to perpetually provide free infinite scalability for every use case.
Bring a California company in front of a Texas jury, and call wild-haired Stanford visiting professor Diffie as a witness? I'm afraid this says more about the bigotry of the jury members toward Californians than it does about the case. My hunch is they (wrongly in so many ways) thought they would teach the hippie a lesson.
Brave was an exception, or a turning point depending on how you see their later releases.

A large number of Disney works have been "inspired by" other works. I'd estimate just under half, but this changes with every release. They do seem to be getting more original, but that seems to be mainly due to the Pixar team.

The quote below was from 2002 when there were a total of ~45 Disney animated feature films.

"a total of 28 films that have acknowledged sources outside of The Walt Disney Company itself, more than half of all the movies they've made to date."[1]

There are now around 79 released feature films (Based on http://everything2.com/title/Disney+Animated+Features), of which 34 (to my count) are not original so it looks like they are slowly improving.

Now they just need to stop making multiple sequels for everything...

[1]: http://everything2.com/title/How+many+Disney+movies+are+actu...
That would require quite the famine, to kill every human. We are omnivore foragers: we eat whatever we can find. To kill us all would require something that got rid of damn near every edible food we know. Including things like dandelions and mongongo nuts. I doubt that's likely.

What seems far more likely to me is that humanity will survive, but for a few generations it will be a survival in a food desert, until our population rebalances to the resources available, and, much like what happened in the aftermath of the wars of the Khans, our environment starts healing. I don't think this will happen within my lifetime (and I'm in my early 20s), but I'd be surprised if, in my lifetime, humanity's quality of life, purely in terms of our ability to feed, clothe, and treat ourselves, didn't noticeably drop.

Growth must not be humanity's end goal. If that's all we work towards, then we literally are cancer of the environment: abnormal creatures with uncontrolled growth.
If you don't want it to hit disk, why don't you just not log to disk? Are you running a unix variant? There are several ways to do this. Why not log to /dev/shm or a pipe, instead of changing nginx?

Rsyslog is also probably not the best choice for high volume log aggregation. It performs an rpc per message. That sucks. Use something that batches, like scribe.
There are actually other districts that have higher win rates for patent trolls. One attorney told me that people use EDT simply because that district has built up a fair amount of knowledge and experience in this area of law, and thus the cases are cheaper to fight there. I don't know this to be true, this is just what I've heard.
Thank you for the links, they were very informative. I also found the article a bit cursory. I was particularly surprised that they didn't mention Japan's construction industry. It makes up a much larger part of the economy than in countries like the United States or the United Kingdom, and it exerts a lot of political power. A large number of the laws promoting new construction over renovation or purchase of existing buildings benefit the construction industry more than property owners.

I recommend Alex Kerr's Dogs and Demons for a more detailed discussion of real estate and zoning laws in Japan.
I, for one, expect juries to listen to Whitfield Diffie even if a lawyer keeps saying "but you don't have a master piece of paper".
hehe nice troll! At least I hope you are trolling...
No, but I would expect jurors in a patent validity case to understand the concept of "prior art", which was demonstrated quite conclusively for this "invention".
You're thinking of criminal cases. Many civil trials only require a certain majority (say, nine of twelve) to find a verdict.
Even in 2013 this is happening on Earth, what a shame to humanity.
I read the next comment after this and it started with '> Space required during initial..'

And I thought ah yes 'Outer Space' that could be another location an offline version could help.
Ask HN: starter books for learning about grammars, parsers and compilers?
I'd like to get a solid footing in the concepts and formalisms that underlie libraries such as instaparse[1], PEG.js[2] and the SSA approach taken in Clojure's core.async library[3].

Working with those libraries, reading source code, and referencing Wikipedia is a great way to learn, but I'd like to take in some worthwhile books, lecture series, etc. as well. While I'm not opposed to "pure theory" treatments, my preference would be for resources that provide a good mix of theory and concrete examples.

What recommendations do other HN readers have in this regard?

[1] https://github.com/Engelberg/instaparse

[2] https://github.com/dmajda/pegjs

[3] https://github.com/clojure/core.async/blob/master/src/main/clojure/clojure/core/async/impl/ioc_macros.clj
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokonoma
If you have trouble with it, you might prefer to try Enthought Canopy. I've used it a bit, and install is a breeze. I've not figured out how to install outside packages yet, but the actual base install is very simple and includes most of the scipy packages.

Just to note also: I'm completely unaffiliated with Enthought except that I have a registered account with them for occasional feedback.
gb is GByte or GBit?
Yes, juries are selected just like any other trial. They are educated on the relevant law and case law by the presiding judge and expected to serve simply as "finders of fact".

I'm not sure I agree that this is the actual problem with the patent system.
StrangeLoop, hands down:

https://thestrangeloop.com/

The website hasn't been updated for 2014 yet, but should be relatively soon.
I think Newegg was complacent, perhaps a bit cocky, bringing in the expert on encryption, pandering to the jury and going through a humorous exchange on his knowledge of it, thinking they had it in the bag after the shopping cart win.

And then the defense surprisingly declined at the end to rebut the damages claim of $5.1 million:

"Then came another stunner: Newegg rested its case. It did so without putting on its expert witness to rebut TQP's $5.1 million damage claim—even though documents in the court docket clearly indicate the company had such a witness."

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/11/newegg-trial-cryp...
Tech Camps like railscamps.org which often don't have internet access.
A few comments ...

First, our pricing almost exactly matching S3 is not a secret - it's well understood, and by design.

Second, you'll note that the following features of a 10TB account with us are not included with S3:

- Free integration engineering (as in, a unix engineer on the phone with you)

- 24/7 hotline support - as in, xmas morning phonecalls

- two physical media shipments of any size per year

- We will sign a BAA with you

Ask your contact at Amazon what those would cost next time you talk to them. Oh wait, you've never ever talked to anyone at Amazon and you never will[1]

So you're right - it's not apples to apples.

[1] Except, of course, at AWS summit and so on, where they are very available and helpful.
8 hours a day (Desktop)
Same for South East Asia.
> CloudFlare generates 50gb/s of logs globally

Wow, mind blowing. That's 4pb/day, 1+eb/year.
You're better off reading a book to your kid, for free from the public domain, a public domain on which most of Disney's work is based. And you can thank Disney, amongst others, for the perpetually increasing copyright extensions which does mean that copyright works that happened after 1923 may never enter the public domain. So yeah, your few bucks spent on a bunch of shitty cartoons is used for lobbying.

And yes, my kid also likes Disney cartoons. It's innocent fun. But let's not fall over yourself with praises on the virtues of copyright. All moral justification for it fails in light of the ever expanding copyright terms. End of story.
People living in very remote areas, with no phone/net access like some outback parts of Australia.
Segmentation is a lossy function, unfortunately. If you try too hard to fit the price/feature curve by creating too many segments, you wind up with nonsense like Windows Home Professional Premium Plus Ultimate Edition.
Actually, it was just Balboa.
The chief legal officer of Newegg _wants_ these cases and to take them to completion in attempts to correct the problems with software patents. One should be optimistic because Newegg is putting up the good fight and winning rather often. If it were almost any other company, you'd be hearing about a settlement if you heard anything at all. As a Newegg customer, I am glad that some of my dollars are going towards these kinds of legal costs and that's the type of thing that comes to mind when making decisions about where to buy.

Some more information about previous cases:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/newegg-nukes-corp...
Previous discussions :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1130463

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=621557
Several of the recorded presentations from 2013's conference are up on InfoQ, and more will be available in coming months:

http://www.infoq.com/strange-loop-2013/

Previous years' videos are available as well:

http://www.infoq.com/strange_loop_2012/

http://www.infoq.com/strange_loop_2011/

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