skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can probably trust Uber just about as much as you can trust the TLC. The only real difference is that Uber has a bit more real--time data they can mine. Even if you only pay for your cabs in cash, your privacy can be compromised by pick up/drop off point meta data (http://research.neustar.biz/2014/09/15/riding-with-the-stars...).

Then what about all the other plethora of apps and OS features that do background location tracking. Can we trust them?

I think this problem really goes beyond Uber and touches on something fundamental about how we can maintain privacy when everyday technology asks for so much more personal information to operate.....

Maybe we need more robust data privacy laws. Maybe we need better technology that allows for identity obfuscation or anonymity. Maybe we need to mature as a society so transparency is less likely to lead to harassment, violence or discrimination. Maybe it is a combination of all of the above.

I just don't think you should leave it up to Uber.
The larger problem I had was with non-interactive browsers. E.g., GitHub changed their downloads server to use SNI and overnight a bunch of scripts I had using wget on Ubuntu 12.04 (a distribution supported until 2017) stopped working. Java 6 doesn't support SNI, so you need to watch your API stats. And I seem to recall using versions of Python and Ruby that also didn't support it.
Is it a crime of loneliness, or is it a crime of being made to feel miserable for being alone? In mass culture people are made to feel a failure if they are alone. I guess it also differs by culture, besides, suicide statistics show great variation by country.
Contact CloudFlare support?
> So what if life is meaningless, why does that actually matter?

Well this is not very far from what Camus effectively landed on, the acceptance of the absurd. There's a lot that's simplified and removed from your statement, but I think you would find a lot more to agree with in Camus than you might expect. He was certainly not a nihilist or solipsist.

EDIT: To clarify, Camus thought the opposite of the grandparent comment, and was not on team suicide.
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Terry was probably like 17 years old when he took his qualifying exam? Interesting quote considering his later work:

"After this, they decided to pass me, though they said that my harmonic analysis was far from satisfactory."
However, for the vast majority of users, who cares? The service is useful at a usually-fair price. If it works, use it.
The centralization argument still has merit. If this catches on big time, there's only one company to coerce/compromise, to backdoor a bunch of services at once.

Arguably the CA/ISP structure is like this already, but this may be worse.
Well having a website hosted on Cloudflare implies that you had more interaction than most CAs will ever ask you to get a certificate, that is beside giving them the money.
Becoming a single point of massive exploit, they need a warrant canary asap.

Not only for US Government but other governments that heavily monitor their citizens on the internet and want to see what is going on so they can imprison or execute their people for what they say.
I'd say that's always the case. Performance for the vast majority of code is good enough with idiomatic or even horrible code. Places where you need to work against the language for perf reasons should be rare (and if it concerns most of the code in a project, then I'd question the choice of language for that project). Also that holds true for most languages. Even in C you'll avoid allocations in tight loops that need to be fast because it comes with an unpredictable performance cost. That's not much different than pre-allocating a buffer to work on prior to an algorithm in C#.
The majority of CloudFlare's IP addresses are blocked by China's great firewall, which means CloudFlare is out of the question if you expect that your website will be visited by Chinese users.
Already done that, not heard back yet. Mildly panicking and thought the Hive Mind might be able to help.
This is story of my friend, he calls himself "Dood" as he doodles
"My Mid life crises hit me hard. I was always loner by nature. Never had many friends, few family members, mediocre career. Not much money in the bank. In a year, I lost few of my elderly family members. It came as a shock.
I realized, after 20 years of career, I haven't achieved much. There are not many people in the world, who know about me, about my existence. Whatever I was doing at my job, was not going to make any difference to the world or to anybody. If I die nothing matters. I lost interest in doing things. It was dead end for me. Nothing made sense. I started getting suicidal thoughts

Whatever I did, my brain told me, " why bother?" Many people tried to advise me. But this is the first time, it didn't matter. In my life, first time I didn't care about others opinions.

One day I doodled something on paper. I realized. I like to doodle. So I doodled more. I felt happy. I did my 9 to 5 job, but whenever I got time, I doodled. After few days, I put them for sell on different platforms. I wasn't expecting anybody to buy it. In fact, it was like I was craving for rejection, just so that I can feel that “I don't care" feeling.
I started wearing whatever I like. I started doing things which I liked. I realized I am the most important person in my life. It lifted lot of weight from my mind. I felt free

Almost after one year, somebody bought one of my doodles as a company logo. Not much money, but I felt good. I gave it to charity.
So, mostly things aren’t changed much in my life. But my attitude is changed. My biggest achievement in my life is, change of outlook from negative to positive. I started meeting many unfortunate people through my charity work. People, who don't have roof on their head, people with terminal illness. I realized how blessed I am, to have this kind of life. Now I stopped taking things for granted. There is lot of life out there, more than promotion, bad boss, and dirty office politics.
Thank you good Sir for sparing the time to give feedback!
It frightens me to see the amount of uninformed idiots present on a tech forum like HN.
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> Yes. It is astonishing how institutes with huge budgets put videos like these (it is quite common with such big names as MIT).

Yes if only MIT spent some money and made high quality videos available for free to millions of people...

https://www.edx.org/course-list/mitx/allsubjects/allcourses
There are ways to remove the DRM. In case you don't want to rely on Apple keeping their activation servers online forever.
Are you using the HTTPS Everywhere extension, by any chance?
Just think what we can do with all those imaginary points.

I'd like see some kind of solution where submissions don't disappear so quicky.

Maybe using tags that become sub-forums of sorts and the front page is just an aggregate.

Like tags for SSL, ddos, security, centos, payment-solutions etc.

Tags are not hard to implement, there could even be a limited set to choose from, that only certain users can add to, if there is any concern about new tag creation abuse.

And then a submission can span multiple tags, it may get buried under one tag but rank better under other tags.
An interesting bit of trivia about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space: The film's title was the inspiration for the name of Bell Labs' successor to the Unix operating system.
EDIT: Won't work: You need to verify that you own the domain by pointing your NS records to cloudflares nameservers.

What prevents me from doing this MITM attack in (for example) a public wifi: I add a domain I don't own (example.com) to my cloudflare account. Then I point a hostname (www.example.com) to an IP address I own (1.2.3.4).

From what I understand, cloudflare now serves HTTPS for this domain through their proxies. I can easily find out the IP of one of those by querying the nameserver they assiged me by doing "dig www.example.com @gene.ns.cloudflare.com".

Now when I spoof DNS responses, I can return one of those IPs. The traffic will go to cloudflare. They have a signed certificate for that domain and the traffic gets forwarded to my IP (1.2.3.4).

Maybe I'm missing something, but I tried the http part of this and proxying seems to work before cloudflare comfirmed that the (in the example) example.com domains nameserver actually points to cloudflares nameservers.
It's amusing and amazing that anyone with so many very wrong notions could have been taken seriously in 1967. I'm not saying he was wrong about everything, just almost everything.

Here are a couple of gems:

Twenty years hence, an institution that’s the equivalent of a steel mill in terms of mental work—MIT, for example—might well have its own computer.

Technically there is no reason why Sears, Roebuck could not offer tomorrow, for the price of a television set, a plug-in appliance that would put us in direct contact with all the information needed for schoolwork from kindergarten through college.

So there were no computers at MIT in 1967 (So what was that Whirlwind thing back in 1948) but Sears and Roebuck could have invented the Internet that year.

I think by far the most twisted notion in the article is the idea that little changed between 1913 and 1967. I'm pretty sure technological change during that period had more impact on the average Westerner's life than any other 54 year time span in history. It takes a very peculiar world view to completely ignore the invention of television or to consider a biplane as being basically equivalent to a jumbo jet.
I guess you're right about that, but it still feels a bit weird that a third party can just allocate a private key and a valid certificate without the actual owner of the domain requesting it.
This seems perfect for all my non-technical friends who want to blog. Maybe a local WYSIWYG text editor that converted to markdown would be the perfect complement for anyone who doesn't know it already. That, or maybe they should just learn markdown haha.
I never tried MixPanel due to the pricing issues due to our high traffic destination.

My startup builds products for news publications and we are quite happy with GA and using GA APIs to show the same on our dashboards. There are a couple of Bootstrap themes that do a really good job of displaying the same GA data in a dumbed-down, visually appealing layout. There are also some pretty good charting libraries which makes it easy to talk plot GA data on dashboards.

I may be wrong but it seems MixPanel is targeted toward startups who value conversions very strongly and are already spending boatloads on advertising, affiliates, etc.
Relevant Calvin & Hobbes: http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/01/25
Thank you guys for free TLS/SSL, but if I have a website/blog hosted on free services offered by PaaS providers, like Heroku or RedHat's OpenShift, to which I've CNAME'd a custom .com domain which is the only domain I want public access on, and I don't want "Full SSL" (Non-strict) which makes MITM attacks between CF and the PaaS provider viable (although very unlikely).

Can I pin the certificate from PaaS providers for .herokuapp.com or .rhcloud.com to enable "Full SSL" (Strict) on CF?

Although the SSL support for custom domains is a paid feature for most PaaS providers, this won't be true now if this is possible.
In areas like medicine and law I can believe that's true. However I don't think it's that common in CS or engineering. I know quite a few people who've moved from academia to industry and vice versa, and the pay difference is definitely not 10x multiples. When a professor making low six figures jumps to Google, he or she gets a pay raise, but more like 20-50%, not 10x: Google isn't making $1m+ salary offers. For engineers afaict it varies by line of work. I don't know a lot about areas where being a principal is a thing (civil engineering?), but I can imagine those are lucrative. In areas like aerospace, if you compare full-professor salaries at research institutions, to senior engineering staff salaries at places like Lockheed, they're pretty comparable. If anything it's easier to make more in academia, because you can consult on the side, whereas big engineering companies typically disallow that in their employment contracts.
I'm a math professor. I like to point students to this when they have a rough time with their quals :)
For those that really want to build everything from scratch, including hardware, Niklaus Wirth has revised his Project Oberon book, including the Verilog files

http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ProjectOberon/index.ht...

So you could have your own graphical workstation. :)
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It may be a "dumb experiment" if you already understand how the underlying systems (both the file system, and video encoding) work - but the author did not, and now having done the experiment, they understand more about them.
I am. After seeing your comment, I tried loading the site with and without the extension enabled but still the error persists.

Edit: formatting
Thanks for catching, I've fixed.
That wouldn't work. CloudFlare isn't acting as the RA (the person verifying you own example.com). They serve a verification file at example.com, but the bot cannot see this file as example.com isn't pointing to CloudFlare.
Performant?
Strange, I read it and had the opposite reaction. With the exception of the 'steel mill' quote you mentioned, I think he got it mostly right. Even that can be argued to be right to a degree, for a time the mainframe model was in vogue and now we're moving towards the 'cloud'. The little change mentioned between 1913 and 1967 was with reference to the overall trajectory of industrial economies, not technological innovation.

The main thrust was about the increasing importance of knowledge and information, where he was spot on.
Well not Linux, but all the BSDs are self hosting. Recommend NetBSD as you can cross build it from Linux it doesn't take too long.
Your criteria make it impossible to use a language that came 'out of academia'. The problem is of course that there is no serious jvm language that can really fill the niche that scala has created. If you look at the top libraries/frameworks that are build on top of Scala: akka, play, lift, slick, spark they are radical improvements if you compare them with their java counterparts (if they exist), they deal with very hard problems and manage to make the problem significantly easier to handle.

btw, these libraries are developed by industry veterans & all of them have commercial support. For success stories go here: https://typesafe.com/company/casestudies
For humans to have a chance, the rate at which blocks are added to the chain will need to fall from once every 10 minutes to once every 36 hours (or longer). That will make bitcoin useless for most transactions.
https://lobste.rs/ does that, but the idea has failed to find any support on HN over the years.

In terms of "doing" something with the points, I quite like Stack Overflow's approach of letting users with higher reputations do more things. There is a little of this on HN (e.g. flagging), but on SO it includes things like editing posts, deleting comments, review flags, etc. But that would lead to a broader, less centralized system than YC is likely to prefer, and it's their site and decision ultimately.
A survey is one way. Not very accurate , but it's a start.
CloudFlare just simplifies this process. You can do the same thing if you can upload a file to a site.
The people in Hong Kong demanded the democratic reforms, however they never got universal suffrage while an outpost of the UK, which is something the UK should quite frankly be utterly ashamed of.
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For example, the algorithm independently discovered that some things you often find near McDonald's franchises include taxis, police vans, and prisons. (Things you don’t find: cliffs, suspension bridges, and sandbars.)

MD, stay the hell out of my neighbourhood!
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No, I don't think that exists at least in the CA/B Baseline. You have to have consent, obviously, but that's obtained when you sign up for CloudFlare.
So I tried this and it works great - would like to know how the tool will remain compatible with all websites though - seems like a big claim and not really sure how it achieves this
Pro accounts don't use SNI.
It's a fun thing to point out to those people how many of the words they're using to lambast you have actually changed meaning or are new words. They get -very- flustered and sulky.
A codec that could search for reference frames from large collections of media might be pretty interesting for some applications, especially ones with large storage demands and repetitive material. The indexing system would be an interesting problem since it would have to be very low overhead. Wonder if any systems like this exist?
1) That's not actually accurate; and
2) Just wait for the next trick we have up our sleeve (https://blog.cloudflare.com/one-more-thing-keyless-ssl-and-c...)
While that is true, why would you assume that the poster bought the phone for that reason? He might have bought the phone for any number of reasons such as the low price, decent specs etc.
Why do we have to read about testing from an ex-Microsoft employee (even manger, if I am correctly informed)? A company that ships bs since its beginnings.

Just see, what they do to skype, if you don't know what I am talking about.
A few bits of change in uncompressed video can change the following stream in the compressed video completely. Deduplication isn't intelligent enough to understand "video" and compress for that -- that's what video codecs are for. So it's not surprising that deduplication would not prove useful for compressed video. You could see the advantage in uncompressed streams.
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This is a great place, I was lucky enough to go back in 2005 and even caught a shot of a chunk breaking off https://www.flickr.com/photos/robmcm/63683064/in/set-1381532
I believe I would reactivate my account just to partake in this. Turning the tables sounds fun. Mine the data of the data miners.

I am almost certain that FB would put a stop to it though, as hypocritical as it may be.
I am curious and did not read the docs: Does ZFS deduplication work on parts of files? I would have expected that filesystem deduplication just deduplicate complete files (for conveniance). Deduplication of file parts could of course be good for some types of files, with a fixed structure and with no "noise" -- but with videos, there is no chance I guess without manually linking parts.
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> These challenges required that, for free customers, we limit Universal SSL support to modern browsers. Modern browsers include support for ECDSA, where many legacy browsers do not.

I hope in the (near) future, they'll enforce not using unsafe NIST curves for that, too. I don't think Internet Explorer supports Curve25519 or other safer curves right now, but it might in the future, and I hope they will make their move then.

Also, I hope Cloudflare has tripled its security team along with this, because they're going to be #1 on NSA's "to-break" list now.
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Because they can take integral types, they can take function addresses. This is a really interesting article:

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/11015/The-Impossibly-Fas...

By passing the address of the function to the template, the compiler knows which function is going to be called - the idea being that a smart compiler can now inline your delegates for you.
I did this too. Run a campaign about a short time offer just to test the waters, spend about 12€ in 48 hours, almost 2.5k saw the add, 17 clicked on the add, 2 of them"liked" the add.

The thing is that I dont know how to increase the page fans and run successful add campaigns wothout literally spamming everyone, which is something id rather avoid. Also i would to have 500 fans which arw i terested in the products then 1000 friends who liked the page because of me, but are not interested. Anyway, i will write a blog post in future woth specific numbers:budget etc.
Not sure I'm following you. Probably because I didn't use SSL on cloudflare before, so I don't know about any verification file. How does that work? I guess before serving SSL traffic for a domain they verify both that the nameserver for a domain is actually one of cloudflares nameservers AND they test for the presence of some kind of signed file that has to be reachable on the domain you added?
Not really -- the IQ tests used by MENSA for example are quite reliable/stable. You can improve your result by 6-10 points with a lot of training, but that's usually the most that people can achieve.
I found GA is very good at the beginning also. Latter, I found that I need ip addresses info and GA is not giving that to me. I end up adding api to my backend app to log interesting backend events into the my backend json db.

I found that Per IP address analystic give me much deeper understanding of events flow. Geoip lookup also allows for me to gain inside to correlate engaged user level to the type of contents to organization name/type.
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Yes, Camus does not defend suicide, and advocates instead living life to the fullest, whether or not there is any "meaning" to it.

But the question remains, and if it's not to be only rhetorical, it's certainly possible to answer it differently than he did.
Other than satisfying some curiosity, what would be the value of such a leader board for HN readers?
Yes, ZFS deduplication is not very useful when trying to deduplicate encrypted and compressed video files. Encryption is supposed to make the contents of the file look random. Compression is itself a form of in-file deduplication. Where ZFS deduplication will be extremely useful: on a SAN in a video editing studio where originals are kept in raw format. Even then, file-level and block-level dedups will probably be the least effective means of deduplication. What we need is byte-level deduplication which computes anchor points from which data ought to be deduplicated. Even then, it sounds like the dedup feature would be scripted so that it be a part of the tooling, and would be updated with the team's projects. I would go as far as to say the author chose a deliberately eye-catching headline and coupled up a few Linux commands with some "hilarious" GIFs to address the wannabe geeks out there while displaying a staggering pile of shamelessness to even the remotely competent of his blog's visitors.
Honestly, I'm not sure if I should be impressed with the demo they showed. I haven't given the code a read, so take this with a grain of salt, but I feel like the exact demo they showed off was mostly a graphics card demo. You can get most, if not all, of that scene rendered purely on the graphics card itself using fancy shaders without needing to hit the CPU very much. I feel like I would have been much more impressed if they had created something such as a level from Megaman (since they showed a sprite of Megaman near the start) that the presenter was able to play. I would consider it more impressive since it would have to spend more time in Racket dealing with physics, collision, AI, etc. instead of spending the majority of the time on the graphics card. Hopefully they'll be able to show off a demo like that soon (if one doesn't exist already) to really show off the capabilities of the engine inside Racket. Honestly though, the whole project is exciting for me since they're really just trying to explore new ways of writing games. I'm looking forward to what they do in the future.
Is there a decay function on these points?