skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually learned about confd via your post. Thanks for that.

In our case, HTTPS isn't an issue but there are good arguments for using a tried-and-true proxy. I see Vulcan as a quick way to test out docker containers for our architecture.

In the end I'll probably use confd to rewrite a VCL file for Varnish. It's just a matter of deciding how many containers and what level of sidekicking/ambassadoring I'm willing to put up with to "properly" organize things...
The Reluctant Entrepreneur
To be clear, not HN itself, but the community in general is very much about monetizing their work, getting venture capital, making a quick buck, yadda yadda.
Neat, works great to unblock Youtube videos if you are living in a country where 90% of the music videos are blocked (Germany) and it's rather fast too. Thanks for sharing.
That's depressing, that is. I was in the Forces when the 18s came online; Voodoos, 104s and 5s were current when I joined, and there were still a few Clunks in special trim doing real work. I suddenly feel old. And the Sea Kings I worked on are still in service. We got them when I was 3.
I'm a bit bothered by how Linus is deified as the sole creator of Linux. This phenomenon of course is not unique to Linux and Linus, of course. We routinely look for heroes and lone wolves whom we want to believe did all of the work by themselves, but the reason I single out Linux is because it was "just" the missing component of the GNU operating system.

Whatever the relationship between GNU and Linux nowadays and despite the examples of GNU without Linux and Linux without GNU, for many years in the beginning they were inextricably tied together and would have never succeeded without the other. To say that Linux is by Linus and nobody but Linus is not fair to all the work that Linus based Linux on top of.
I'm not sure whether some drugs have the effect of turning users into skilled liars or not, but that does sound like it would be yet another harmful (though logical) side-effect of prohibition.
Same reason USA want Huawei out.
Might be a bug on my end, but Hulu is generally very good at detecting proxies and VPNs. Will look into it though.
Seconded. They've added a lot of nice (and unobtrusive) features over the last year, too.
Bonus if the service is flat monthly fee.
I wonder, isn't there some kind of way to measure "effective citations"? In biology, if you look at population size, there's the population measured in absolute number of organisms, and the population measured in genetic diversity[0][1]. For citations I can imagine measuring the number of citations from primary sources, and everything else just being citations to citations to... etc, including circular citations.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_size

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_population_size
Still not totally in love with it, but it's still my primary search engine. While looking for ways to alter the UI, found the Dark theme -- so that was a plus.
Isn't that just social constructionism?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_constructionism
It is indeed a web proxy service with country selection - something that is not addressed by other web proxies AFAIK.

Also, web proxies aren't as trivial as you are implying.
Smartisan T1 designed by Robert Brunner
Interesting. Chrome 34 here as well, and the scores from the jsperf link are 1.6M, 1.6M, 6.3M, 960M.
Just be careful with people abusing it.

For example at my work we technically have only one project, but our project root folder is over 4Gb.
I really think that this is the answer. There is no other way to create iOS apps today. You must own an Apple branded computer to do so and for that reason there are always going to be a high percentage of people with a MacBook of some sort just to do the compile.

I can spin up a VM of Linux on anything, but I can't legally do the same with OS X without having the hardware.
This Attachment Uses Zigbee and iBeacon to Make Air Conditioners Smart
I see a lot of syntax errors and "XMLHttpRequest No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://www.hulu.com.prx.us.teleport.to' is therefore not allowed access." in the JavaScript console.

I guess the latter error is to be expected in this case.
I don't think they're billing it as a 'super-ultra secret encrypted messaging app', nor do they need to. "It's not Facebook" is enough to interest me.
Marc Andreessen: Tech companies are still fuming over the NSA
You can also get * on traceroutes (step 3-8) because the devices don't respond to ICMP. Network admins like to disable ICMP on their switches and routers so you can't trace the network topology. Your only definite packet loss is on 9 and 11 because you only got 1 of the 3 packets returned.
What about the countless sites that have infinite scrolling (Facebook for example)? It's not as bad as Famous but still breaks it in my opinion.
Another small error. If you type in an incorrect url all the page does is says "Error".

Example: http://new.google.com.prx.us.teleport.to/

Otherwise it worked great for me. Awesome job
* Is it OK to use this for moderate/high volume stuff?

* Does it use any kind caching?

* Any plans on adding a way to use HTTPS?
FTPloy – automatically deploy when changes are pushed to GitHub or Bitbucket
HelpStack: Open source iOS customer support
Maybe I missed the info, but does it work for a whole website or only 1 subsite?
It's in LEO so you'll need something like this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Parabolic...

And a suitable radio set for 'stage 1' (find the thing), and then a suitable transmitter and some modem (probably doable using a SDR or even an audio card connected to the transceiver) to actually talk to it.
You also wouldn't have the hardest time finding where a 400W+ signal is coming from.
How did the guy think they were aardvarkish anyways? I've been to Iguazu. They behave just like raccoons only even more fearless. From the moment I got there we thought of them as "daylight raccoons".
Puzzle Bobble does have symbols for different colours, just like Peggle. I guess they're too difficult to see?
Really like the new update, but I still don't like how there is a dead click space between the results, and I find the background hover to be unnecessary.
Yeah, buy two of them, one for parts, one to drive around town.
I use this quite often, for example for client sites who are on a cheap shared hosting where you don't have terminal access. And their pricing is great, too.

Also some great features are on the roadmap (http://ftploy.com/roadmap).
I may well be e-junkie's oldest surviving customer, although I eventually transitioned everything off their app into my app with the exception of Paypal IPN processing. They've got almost $500 of LTV from me, $5 a month at a time.

If I were making the choice again today, it would be Gumroad by a country mile. Regardless of whether you end up using them, look up Ryan Delk's presentations regarding the habits of successful sellers (multi-tier products; X 2.2X 5X pricing; email marketing). They'll make you much more successful than the typical person who just throws a $FOO onto the Internet.
Germany did similar 9 months ago; except they specifically state the TPM is _not_ to be trusted [1]

[1] http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-08-26/german-gover...
Nope, Ubuntu Kylin is a more likely alternative. see more http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/ubuntu-kylin
I'm not familiar with the Wikipedia cite policy, but wouldn't this problem be relatively easy to solve by requiring citations from before the fact was added?

Granted, there might be some edge cases (like when a Wikipedian was very fast in adding the fact after it became known) but that would seem to stop the feedback loop dead in its tracks.
So I've been following the development of Cogmind, a Roguelike in which you play a robot. It seems like it will do an amazing job of pushing ASCII graphics to its limits and combining a traditional Roguelike with more modern user interface idioms.

Anyway, being a robot, and old-school ASCII, retro-green colours are to be expected. So I remarked on his TIGsource devlog that I was colourblind. Then the Kyzrati, the sole developer, does this:

http://www.gridsagegames.com/blog/2014/04/accommodating-colo...

And that is why indy-developers are awesome.
Not really. According to Wikipedia you are not an authoritative source on yourself, e.g. Philip Roth <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/07/philip-roth-wikiped... and <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BLPSPS>
I never downvoted you. I just gave an educated guess at why it was occurring. Trial by Google search results is never helpful because you only cherry pick the data that supports your hypothesis. For instance I searched for throttling ISP UK and found a comparative study by ISP Traffic Management that stated thus -

>>BT Broadband Services

P2P traffic on BT broadband connections are slowed between 4pm and 12pm on weekdays and 9am and 12pm on weekends.

While P2P traffic is slowed, no other services - like gaming, newsgroups or VoIP - are subject to any throttling or traffic management and nor are they prioritised.

Apart from P2P throttling on its entry-level packages, BT does not shape or alter traffic in any way.

-------------

>>Sky Broadband Services

Sky Broadband was for some time unique among the UK’s major ISPs in that it doesn’t apply any kind of traffic management at all, now others are following suit.

Nothing is prioritised or de-prioritised at any time of the day or any day of the week, including P2P services like BitTorrent.

So when we said at the start of this piece that every ISP has a traffic management policy we weren’t wrong. Sky does have a policy, one which basically says ‘do what thou will’.

That still hasn’t stopped it complying with the UK Court Order and blocking The Pirate Bay.

-------------

>>TalkTalk Broadband Services

TalkTalk has removed all traffic management from its Essentials and Plus broadband products at all times, including P2P services (although like all the large ISPs some P2P sites are blocked).

No type of traffic receives priority over any other, although TalkTalk Plus TV susbcribers will find around 4Mbps of their connection is set reserved for TV when their YouView box is streaming TV, in order to ensure a smooth, high quality picture

-------------

REF [http://recombu.com/digital/news/isp-traffic-management-bt-sk...]

Helpful enough? :-)
What a thrilling read! Thanks to OP and Ken.
Should Programmers Also Provide Customer Support? Eight Tips We Learned.
If you're going to call something half-assed because it's not HAProxy then I for one would consider it more productive if this was framed in terms of metrics instead of something like "half-assed." Does HAProxy have a suite of metrics that can serve as benchmarks for all the projects out there that would dare to be less half-assed?
What changed since the preview was announced? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7700192
The contrast on the main page is still too low.
I'd go even farther and say that the main useful feature of docker is the image layering. Even the resource isolation has been available with LXC and cgroups for a while now.

But docker certainly has a nice way of letting you use all these features in a friendly package. It's often not the most original things that are the most groundbreaking, sometimes it's when something comes along and takes all the parts you already have and puts them all together in a useful way.
Oh I agree but the GP seemed to indicate that trusting client side logic is a solved problem for web apps. I was curious if he had any sort of examples since it doesn't seem to be something related to the issues he listed.
It's part of their "360 Safe Guard"[1] software. But I think it's only available in Chinese. They also have an "enterprise" edition.

[1] http://www.360.cn/weishi/index.html
iTunes update opens /Users to the world
Bitcoin to be accepted at San Jose Earthquakes stadium
You were in a losing situation from the start. You were selected to be the heavy, the patsy and the scapegoat all in one.

It is clear from what you have said that your people were overworked, deadlines were not reasonable and there were not enough proper employees. Yet management persisted with their existing paradigm and you got to be the one that bore the bad news to everyone so they all resented you.

The best you can do in that situation is exit. Which it sounds like you and others figured out.

Sleep well knowing you cared about the people and the results, it was upper managment that did not. They cared only about the money.

As a side note, I hear this excuse a lot, about how money will be lost if we don't do this bad thing or that. Money is brief, setting up the proper business practices is long term. Sure, there are temporary situations that require extra effort... but they are obvious and temporary.
My need for !g has certainly decreased, but I also find that when I do use it I often feel that the DuckDuckGo result was actually closer to what I wanted.

DuckDuckGo seems to be getting better, while Google is getting worse in some areas. The results that I get from Google is still impressive, but more and more it seems that they are making wrong assumptions about my wishes.
Having just reverse engineered some 16-bit DOS code, I agree with your last statement wholeheartedly. That was scary.
This link won't open up in Safari 7.0.3. Every time I try, CPU shoots up to 100% and nothing happens. Works fine in FF though.
How did he go from seattle to working with Bill Gross at Idealab?
I wish my CV had an entry titled "Space Hacker"
The devil's bargain of online learning that technology can't change
The intention is noble.

However, chances are that the son looks up to his father, thinks his father's life is normal and how it should be, and will (unconsciously) copy it.

If that happens, will he really have the better life that his father worked for and wanted him to have?
The Simple Scalability Equation
Please do not power off or unplug your machine.

Installing update 1 of 14560 ..
I hope a setting gets added to make the images and videos tab always display fullscreen results. The default display of only 4 images at a time is pointless to me. Good work otherwise.
I specifically like to use crappy computers at home. I don't like thinking about computers, and that way, if something goes wrong (which admittedly isn't often) I can go to the computer store and solve all my problems for minimal concern and cost.
You're going 'up' with a highly directional antenna, and you're going to be transmitting very short bursts. The biggest risk will be the lobes projecting from the antenna some of those will be pointing back at the planet instead of into space. Airtraffic will have the biggest risk of interference (also because the frequency band is close).

So kidding aside you will need to make very certain that (1) you have the right permits and (2) that your gear is not inadvertently sending out a dirty signal. The narrower the better. Better start shopping for a second hand spectrum analyzer ;)
I've never really bought into DDG, especially for its lack of features. It still can't match Google, but this is certainly a step in the right direction and gives me pause to think about using it at least once in a while now. Glad to see progress in search outside of Google for a change.
Caveat - It has been more than decade since I worked in an optics lab, and I haven't looked behind the pay wall at the paper.

---

-I'm pretty sure this works in a way analogous to "frustrated total internal reflection," which powers many fingerprint readers. (look up total internal reflection on Wikipedia)

-By placing three mediums with different impedances in sequence, you can promote an "evanescent" (non-propagating) nearfield wave to partially couple into the the third medium.

-The wave will propagate in the third medium if it has the correct impedance relationship to the other two, and if it supports a propagation mode of the incident wave. In this case it appears that the skin is being used as the third medium, based on the wording in the promo blurb from Stanford.
As a big fan of using IB for layouts, the integrated designer and Reveal integration looks promising. I had bought AppCode 2x, but I ended up just sticking with Xcode instead of flipping back and forth between apps. Now that it's all in one place, I'm definitely more likely to give it a shot and stick with it.

In terms of Reveal integration, I see it says, "The integration is provided via a plugin and is open source under Apache 2.0 license." One thing I'm not clear on: do you still need to purchase Reveal? It does say you need to install Reveal 1.0.4+ to try it, so I'd assume so.
Is it just a coincidence that Windows 8 gets banned just one day this story was published?

The Justice Department has indicted five members of the Chinese
military on charges of hacking into computers and stealing valuable
trade secrets from leading steel, nuclear plant and solar power
firms, marking the first time that the United States has leveled
such criminal charges against a foreign country.

Seems that the most likely explanation is retaliation.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-to-...
More of a bonus if they let you choose. When you're first starting out a monthly fee could likely cost you more.
> Is it OK to use this for moderate/high volume stuff?

At the moment I am not incredibly confident about the countries where it relies on third-party proxies. Although as the database of proxy IPs grows I'll implement load balancing of sorts to address this. For US, NL, SG and UK it shares the infrastructure with another proxy that used to serve 200K visitors/day without a hitch.

> Does it use any kind caching?

Nope, not yet.

> Any plans on adding a way to use HTTPS?

Absolutely. It's not done yet because it'll make proxy implementation notably more complex and fragile (you can't use proxy domains like youtube.com.prx.us.teleport.to with SSL because you can't buy a cert for ..X domains, only for *.X)
Unblocking YouTube videos is the first thing I tried. It works but it is very slow, so I still prefer to use Tor for that (I can usually download between 500 and 700 kbps using torsock + youtube-dl).
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Instead of putting a large box at the top of some search results with what you think I want, why not put it to the side (the way Google does) and make use of the large amount of waster whitespace. I have tonnes of horizontal space available, not much vertical.
> but I'm pretty sure a large part of it is protectionism.

Windows has a lot of prestige in China. It's imported from America. It's expensive. Working for Microsoft in China is insanely high-prestige. When non-engineers in China see I'm running Ubuntu they wonder why. Engineers who use Linux at work almost all have Windows machines at home, always a pirated copy.

I'm pretty sure a lot of Chinese bureaucrats are grumbling about this. "Oh now we have to use a crappy Chinese OS. Free is for losers!"

But I'm only surprised that it took this long. China is going to be the biggest economy on the planet. So far China has maintained a degree of autonomy and sovereignty unlike any US ally in the three inner rings of the NSA surveillance hierarchy has.

I expect other governments to follow. Most governments are in a position where they cannot compete with the NSA, domestically or internationally. Most don't have 1% of the NSA's budget for surveillance. They may all wish they could spy on their people like the NSA does, but wishes, horses, etc.

Some will realize that the only way to win is not to play the surveillance game. Instead they will put their resources toward securing their government and enterprise computing, and maybe even securing their populations, by banning US products and services associated with NSA surveillance programs.
NSA data-gathering may run into California roadblock
I applied myself to the perusal of our writers; and
noting whatever might be of use to ascertain or
illustrate any word or phrase, accumulated in time
the materials of a dictionary. --Johnson. [0]

To use the dictionary files he has hosted on S3 [1] on Linux, GoldenDict [2] works well.

[0] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

[1] https://s3.amazonaws.com/jsomers/dictionary.zip

[2] http://goldendict.org/
Ubuntu?
That approach would be very well adapted to a low-level language such as C with the risk of overflow.

Python handles long integers transparently, and the overhead of managing the lambda function and additional variables in Python is probably much more time consuming than handling a long integer.
The amateur and academic radio astronomy community may have suitable antennas. Do HAM radio operators use dishes? I thought they use mainly vertical/dipole setups?
Cheers! Was wondering why it was all black!
Is Windows 7 banned too? Otherwise this doesn't make much sense regarding the so called security reason.

EOL for Windows 7 is 2020, EOL for Windows 8 is 2023. If security is the real issue, they should be banning Windows 7 in favor of Windows 8 (or perhaps Windows altogether in favor of some OS that is a lesser target for malware etc., but I don't see any hint of this).
Show HN: Tool to generate worksheets for students
Small side project that I used personally until somebody suggested that others could also benefit from it. Polished it up a bit over the last week or so and thought I'd see what you guys thought. Would really appreciate any constructive feedback. There's probably still a few bugs - consider it a beta :)
Haven't used it, but I think this deserves a mention as it accepts bitcoin: http://coinlock.com/
Is there anyway you know of to use DDG in the omnibar with some kind of autocomplete? That's the dealbreaker for me right now...I tried installing the chrome extension but it only lets you search in the omnibar by typing 'd'+space first, and still uses google's autocomplete (for "d [your search term], no less")
I used Avocado heavily with my ex for about a year. Just by comparing my experience of Avocado with the video of Couple [1] I would say that Couple has impressed me more.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkveWyiU4Go
Journalists have been, and continue to be the gatekeepers. In the days before Wikipedia it is easy to imagine a journalist visiting Brazil and talking with a friend in the local coffee shop about the raccoon-like creatures he just saw when the local crank slaps him on the back and tells him, "round here we call 'em Brazilian aardvarks." If the journalist believes him, you would see it in print.

Now, with Wikipedia it is easier for the crank to get to the journalist. If the journalists had fact checked and never reprinted the "fact", it would have eventually been removed from the Wikipedia entry.
It appears there are not very many objects currently at L1 [0]. L1 is an unstable Lagrange point, so satellites located "at" L1 generally orbit around the L1 point in a Lissajous Orbit [1]. Given that, I suspect more satellites can be put in these types of orbits around L1 than would "fit" at L1 in a more stationary configuration.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_objects_at_Lagrangian_...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lissajous_orbit
Not sure if anyone at DDG would ever read this, but my comments on the preview are still valid.

The contrast is way too low, it prefers vertical over horizontal (I, like any people, have a widescreen monitor. Displaying 3 search results by default is a little absurd), a couple other issues.

It feels like a mobile interface.

Oh, and there's no way to revert to the old version. The options merely change the color scheme, as far as I can tell.