skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that the point with Varnish and VCL is that you can adapt it, tailor it and even extend it (the language with additional functionality from external libraries i.e. cURL or memcached) to the point that it fits your system just the way you need it.

Obviously, depending on what you were trying to do and to which extend Varnish was extendable then (VMODs were added in 3.0) it might not have been the best option there is.

Anyway, thank you for your reply. It was a very interesting insight you came with there.
Fantastic article, but the imperial measures are a PITA. Kills the flow of reading to stop at each paragraph to translate the Fahrenheit degrees, the inches, the feet and the miles to reasonable measures.
Thanks so much for the feedback. What market(s)/use cases did you consider when you designed your forms platform (eg medical forms for private practice, tax-related forms for government, HR forms for enterprise)? We are finding that our general model works ~80% well in a lot of these cases, but we're working to identify the market segment to really focus on drilling down into.

I think you said it well when you said you're entering the rabbit hole :). Building these types of applications is HARD, and there's a high barrier to MVP. We're currently working to get as much feedback as we can to scope our problem more narrowly. We've found interest from people in developing applications in government and K-12 especially - have you had similar experiences?

While its a tough nut to crack, we think if we can grab a toehold and iterate, this type of solution could save vast amounts of developer time.
Presto is an amazing open source MPP engine. It has excellent architecture and an active community. We ( http://www.treasuredata.com) use it extensively as one of of our big data SaaS query engines (also we contribute back a lot to Presto).
While the copyright attributes to "brutalhonesty.io" [1], the privacy policy [2] more accurately identifies this as a venture of "Warrior One".

The only "Warrior One" I can locate is a coaching firm for lawyers, with no one named Jordan listed on their about page [3] as a member of staff.

I've asked this Warrior One on Twitter [4] if they are the actual owner of the site, and will reply here if they respond.

[1] which implies that either a DBA filing exists for that name, or no such name exists

[2] "I reserve the right to transfer your personally identifiable information, as well as any other information, in connection with the sale or other disposition of all or part of Warrior One’s business, assets, or both."

[3] http://www.warriorone.com/our-story/

[4] https://twitter.com/floatingatoll/status/520745627278270465
The judge in the case, Katherine Forrest, issued a courageous ruling last year in the case of Hedges vs. Obama, where she ruled that the indefinite detention powers of the NDAA were unconstitutional. Unfortunately, the Obama administration appealed the ruling and won.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedges_v._Obama
Links to Photos Said to Be Stolen from Snapchat Flood Message Boards
Congrats on taking the leap! I would love to see what you're working on.
Actually this happens in lots of scientific fields - microbiologist and virologists work with dangerous pathogens, physicists with radiation, etc. I think people underestimate how much danger there can be in the lab if you want to do research.
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I have web experience in many areas dating back to 1996. I also maintain some web applications: Gignal (http://www.gignal.com) with Parse as backend; Konfect (http://www.konfect.com) with Neo4j as database; I have used MySQL since 1998, but primarily uses MongoDB and Redis now.
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Just no. He mixes this,

"nerds now have money, power, and status", and "mainstream culture has shifted from mocking us to respecting us" with, "GamerGate made me ashamed to be a gamer"

Nerds are still the butt of the joke, and still get the negative media attention. Gamergate is the perfect example of this. The media spin has been enormous, and not in "nerd" favor. I don't know how many times I've seen "fat sweaty basement dwelling nerd" thrown around during the ordeal. If the nerds had really won, certainly the nerds would get the spin, or at least a proper voice. No, This guy has obviously just been reading the mainstream, otherwise he'd know that the death threats, harassment, and other terrible elements of internet culture have been thrown equally at pro-gamergate supporters.

The nerds haven't won yet, not even close. Some nerds and elements of culture have merely gone mainstream, but nerds themselves are still pariah at large. In TV they're still black-faced by shows like The Big Bang Theory and Scorpion. Negative stereotypes still rule public perception. I would equate what's happening now to the rise of Jazz and The Blues in early America. Many whites during this time were accepting of some black musicians (enough to listen to them), but blacks themselves at large didn't benefit from the popularity of the media they'd largely created.

Are there issues in the community? Yes. There is in any, and they should be addressed reasonably. But only because that's the right thing to do, not because nerds have "the power" now and have a responsibility to do right by it as such. Most of the money and power they have is locked up by non-nerd businessmen, investors, and a select few nerds who have taken nerd labors and interests and made them profitable and mainstream.

So for the time being, while the mainstream is so bent on portraying nerds so insultingly and wrong, they should keep not listening. Nerds should solve these problems from their own ranks, and not from impartial bystanders. Nerds have gotten better over the years, and almost none of it because the detractors.
> Anyone here a security expert with experience with TOR? The FBI's claim that they just typed random values into a login to accidentally reveal the server's IP address seems far fetched.

That's hardly related to TOR, but most probably a misconfiguration of the web-server or application which leaked the IP.
> The government can't have it both ways. Either the server is owned by Ulbrecht and they violated his rights, or the server is now owned by Ulbrecht, and thus they can't prove he is the DPR.

It's not that simple. The courts follow procedures for these things: the courts respond to claims made by various parties, and if there is no claim that the evidence is dirty, or if the claim that the evidence is dirty is not proved for whatever reason (even silly technical reasons), then the evidence is admitted.

Don't forget that this is only one court. Higher courts could find the judge's ruling incorrect.
I really want to agree with you - its easy to look at the command line and point out how it's suboptimal.

Unfortunately, there's a dearth of real, better alternatives. There's a lot of ideas, and a lot of toy projects, but there's nothing that's actually viable to which we can migrate.

Except, maybe the Microsoft dev stack. But I still prefer the *nix suite.
I feel smarter already!
This is certainly elegant but I'm not sure I'd want to work in a large codebase full of this kind of code. Sometimes it's easier to just see a loop spelled out in front of you. I'm a critic of Go in many ways but I do think there is something to their principle of keeping code very simple and readable and localized.
> If you say "No bro, I am not looking to score" he will ask "OK, well what are your intentions? What is your actual concern with your outfit?"

RainSunshine, you registered at HN today and have posted only on this post and nowhere else, speaking with high confidence about how a random person on the Internet will respond to specific example questions.

What is your relation to Jordan and/or this site?
A python of the reptile variety might do a better job on the squirrels.
This is exactly why chemistry is so interesting and the ways in which things can combine is also why it is so difficult.

Fundamentally, it's mostly about the electron charges on an atom which are balanced out by the number of protons in the nucleus. The proton however is a tightly packed point charge but the electrons can only exist in various energy levels (think of different shapes) around it.

You could think of it as trying to pack a bunch of magnets that have very elaborate electromagnetic field shapes into a box in a specific configuration. You might find one configuration that happens to be 'stable' until a big piece of iron is nearby and then suddenly it all snaps into a new configuration.
The hacking is what let them know which server to have the Icelandic authorities seize.
Dual Motor Model S and Autopilot
The best thing about free speech is that it lets us identify assholes easily.
Free Geofencing / iBeacon Homeautomation and MQTT Broker
Brutal honesty. Dot io.
Why actors?
The science background expected is pretty high. Some things are hard to understand without the background, but in this case it is pretty easy. Explosive chemicals have bonds between the atoms that are under a lot of stress (think of it like a wound up elastic band). An explosion occurs when the stressed bond breaks (the elastic band is let go). A chemical like the one discussed has several bonds that are under massive stress (i.e the elastic band is huge and wound very tight). All it takes is the slightest bump or even a dirty look and the whole thing goes boom!
I'd talk to these people. They say they do consultancy

http://caffe.berkeleyvision.org/#contacting-us
If you want a pretty good layman understanding of chemistry I recommend this video series. It is high paced and a little silly at times but it keeps your attention and you can rewind anything you do not understand or miss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSyAehMdpyI&list=PL8dPuuaLjX...
Second Graders Treated to a Seven-Course $220 Tasting Meal [video]
> Where `escape()` is written by "smarter people"

can we stop with this please? I'm sure it's not your intention and it's the way it's always phrased but it's casual contempt and we deserve to treat each other and be treated better.

"escape() is written by someone who spent the large amount of time analysing all the issues, testing, taking and incorporating feedback so the rest of us, who are both smart and competent, don't have to duplicate the work.
How does it work for people with reduced mobility, wheelchairs, etc?
Me, too. I'm checking every few minutes to see if Homebrew has the update. :D
GT to cut jobs, wind down sapphire plant; takes aim at Apple
The FDCPA is so out of date and open to interpretation that even if you do everything right, you still get sued. It is very similar to patent trolling in the software industry. The cost of litigation is so much more than the cost of a settlement that pretty much every agency is just going to settle.

Nah, it's the exact opposite. The FDCPA is clear and violations are obvious. That is why the collection agencies settle. Litigation would not only be costly, it would be costly and futile when the collector inevitably loses.

The FDCPA, formally, 15 U.S.C s. 1692 et seq., is abundantly clear about what activities are forbidden. There is some legal jargon in it, but it is clearly written. If anyone cares to read it, it is less than 20 pages long.

The FDCPA does not leave violations open to interpretation. It explicitly lists false representations and unfair practices that are unlawful, including such unambiguous things as 1) Claiming the debt collector is affiliated with the government, 2) Claiming the debtor has committed a crime, 3) Claiming that a debt that the statute of limitation ran out on can still be sued on, 4) Not putting certain notices in collections letters; said notices are provided using the exact words that are compliant (enabling cut-and-paste compliance), 5) Threatening to sue when you do not intend to sue, etc.

Mostly, obvious things like this are the kind of violations that debt collectors actually commit. Note that they are often the most efficient collection methods, because they terrify people or leave them ignorant of their rights. Without the law, every collection agency / law firm would be forced to use these techniques in order to compete. That would mean many consumers would be terrified out of their wits, instead of having the mildly unpleasant experience of interacting over the phone with used-car-salesman types.

I think most collection agencies and collection firms are aware of the law and actively avoid doing this stuff. The ones that violate the FDCPA are not doing so because the law is outdated and hard to understand. Their behavior is an intentional choice or willful ignorance.

You want outdated and hard to understand? That would be the various patchwork of laws regulating telephone calls.
This basic idea was my first startup back in 2007 before the Startup boom. Obviously didn't really go anywhere but if someone wanted to do it, it would be much easier now with smartphones and a consumer group that is more receptive to this kind of thing.

We were even written up in the Houston press:
http://www.houstonpress.com/2007-10-11/news/night-of-terror/...
The judge states in the ruling that she relied in part on this Supreme Court decision:

"A person who has been aggrieved by an illegal search and seizure only through the introduction of damaging evidence secured by a search of a third person's premises or property has not had any of his Fourth Amendment rights infringed."

Prosecutors have long found our constitutional protections to be inconvenient in their pursuit of "justice". Over the years, however, they have managed to obtain Supreme Court decisions, like this one, that pierce through these protections in every meaningful way. This particular ruling opened up the floodgates, and it seems that the FBI is actively utilizing it.
Sorry this is kind of off-topic, but what's the deal with the picture of the Davis Square (Somerville, MA, USA) Red Line MBTA stop at the start of chapter 3? Anyone know if it's a photo or painting, and who's the artist/photographer?
What spec are you looking at? http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt specifically says in section 2.5 that all unicode characters are meant to be supported.

So now you're wrong twice.
> the absolute numbers for traffic related mortality tells us that the problem is very freaking huge

Certainly not. We keep track of statistics by vehicle-mile for a reason.
I typed in `oink` but the command was not found...
Check this out:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.4920
Actors routinely sport lean muscle mass that is unrealistic without 'roids.

Presumably millions of people think Christian Bale, Daniel Craig, and Chris Pratt, and many, many others have been natty in recent roles. Laughably false. Look at models and actors from the 50s and 60s and note their ages to have an idea what is realistic.
To my mind the issue isn't whether the game cheating business was good, but whether its badness deserves to overwhelm everything else about the story.
> The theory is that people will drive more carefully if they perceive the roadway to be more dangerous. That is not the same as it actually being more dangerous.

Without the expectation that people will compensate for it, making the lanes narrower does make it actually more dangerous. There will be less space between each vehicle and less space between the vehicle and pedestrians on the side of the road, which reduces the amount of space available to avoid an obstruction, the amount of reaction time available to avoid a collision, etc.

> Also perceived danger to oneself doesn't take into account the risk one poses to others.

That is a counterargument to your position. If drivers aren't bearing the full risk then an increase in risk should cause them to undercompensate, not overcompensate.

> And driver-less cars will have to be able to navigate the existing 10-foot lane roads anyways to be commercially viable, so I don't see how that is an issue.

It is possible to be less safe without being negligent and that difference is still measured in human lives.
Sure you can!
I agree that Riot could do more with the spectator experience, but you should be careful comparing Valve's International profits with Riot's Championship Series. For one, the cost of Riot's esports push encompasses the entire scene, around the world. Riot pays player salaries for the players on every professional team in their sponsored series, which have tournaments and matches pretty much every week throughout the year. They have these series in North America, Europe, South America, SE Asia, Korea, China, and Australia, each with many teams of five players each. So, with an armchair estimation, it's easy to see how just the cost of those salaries without any benefits could be in the tens of millions. Then you have to factor in the support staff, facilities, equipment, travel, and much more. Valve sponsors one single tournament a year, and offsets the cost by selling interactive features. Ultimately, they are just different models and I think both could learn from each other.
If your servers didn't make money, getting more would probably not hell you, no.
It is a spiral with an acceptable grading with rails.
> “He has failed to take the one step he needed to take to allow the Court to consider his substantive claims regarding the investigation: he has failed to submit anything establishing that he has a personal privacy interest in the Icelandic server or any of the other items imaged and/or searched and/or seized.”

This is the critical point as the judge notes. The FBI isn't proving that he owns it yet, just submitting it as evidence. The judge can't rule based on the fact that the FBI will eventually prove that Ulbrircht. At this point it's just a server that the FBI found something on they're planning on using in the trial. Combine that with the fact that the fourth only protects your own property from search and there's nothing the judge could really do.

There's some additional oddness around if the sworn affidavit would could be used to prove he owned the server later in the trial. It sounds like he could plead the 5th and the affidavit wouldn't hurt him but I'm not sure.

> “Defendant could have established such a personal privacy interest by submitting a sworn statement that could not be offered against him at trial as evidence of his guilt (though it could be used to impeach him should he take the witness stand),”

It's very similar to the reason judges have had to reject legal challenges to the NSA spying apparatus, the defendants couldn't show that they had standing, i.e. they were affected by the law.

In short his lawyers screwed up by failing to prove he had any standing to challenge the server as evidence in the first place. Providing this proof would give an unknown amount of damage to the prosecution but the contents of the server would not have been admissible at least.

So in short his lawyers fucked up
What you bring up may be an issue for a post-conviction appeal, as a guilty verdict would be a finding that the servers were controlled by him, which dictates that he had a privacy interest in them. But that would be after he's convicted and buried under the jail.
> I just wished there were some way (beyond a traditional resume) that I could express how I truly would've been a great employee at Google[x].

Well, actually, there is -- the only thing that can express that would be making progress on the problem...

If you're ready for a big dose of realism (and at the risk of fueling some dangerous fires), one can dig deeper into the trust disconnect that fuels acqui-hires here:

https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/12/23/vc-istan-7-s...
Hey, with the way you have built this engine and/or with potential mods, is it possible to change the camera angle to view the map out of isometric mode, for instance in first person?
This one is good too:

"Quantum algorithms for topological and geometric analysis of big data"
http://arxiv.org/abs/1408.3106

It uses some of this "applied topology", which I only recently found out about.
http://www.math.upenn.edu/~ghrist/notes.html
Yeah, we specifically designed this setup with your situation in mind. As the author of a library, you can specify the version you want to use. So your code will work on any account, regardless of what that account's version is set to.
Jetsetting Terrorist: The TSA won't leave me alone
There's one bit that I'm not sure how to read because I'm not a lawyer:

> “Defendant could have established such a personal privacy interest by submitting a sworn statement that could not be offered against him at trial as evidence of his guilt (though it could be used to impeach him should he take the witness stand),”

It sounds like he could provide proof that he owned the server having the contents of the server thrown out. Then provided he didn't take the stand in his own defense the affidavit couldn't be used. Not entirely certain though.
Thanks for the link. I checked the front page of their website, their blog and the Vimeo channel their new car walkthroughs and the model X announcement were on, I thought I checked the youtube page.

My point is more general, they are missing an opportunity to turn these product announcements into as much of a event as they possibly can and vastly increase their visibility.

Update: I show the video having been posted on October 10th. The event and my comment were on October 9th. Their blog post is also on the 10th and starts with "Yesterday we...".

They are missing an opportunity making the resources available the following day, a Friday (take out the trash day) when news viewership numbers are way down.
I'm sure something said that about for loops vs goto some time ago :) Personally (which is important, readability is relative) I find for loops less readable than traditional FP functions like filter, any?, map, etc - I don't have to carefully read the entire for loop to know what's going on. I prefer composability of known pieces, over constructs that can do anything.
About the game geometry dash
Several months ago I discover this game, I was very intrigued about its color and design, I google about it, and I find out the developer took 4 months to develop the first version of the game (and I was thinking about at least 10 months of developing)

Suddenly, the game is in the top paid apps, and according to the web "thinkgaming" it's earning around 10k per day...

this game is a real gold mine, and it doesn't look super complex with high graphics (although it does have cool colors and movements)... So my question is: developing a game like this is something only an advanced developer could do? Because it's physics are quite simple in my opinion, the cool thing is the difficult of the different levels and of course, it's colors. So, coding a game like this, do you think it's hard work? Obviously this game is not as simple as flappy bird for example, but still it looks simple, what do you think?

Thanks
I think this is ok if you only use once, but as soon as you begin to use the same alorithm in multible places and contects you be happy with having it stored in one place.

In go you will have to replicate to logic every single time. I have not used much, but the fact that I cant even use generic map/filter things make me not want to try it. Even when I first learned programming (in C) I was trying to figure out how not to write for (int x=0;x==5;x++) again and again. I dont really want to go back to that.
I realize you're being cynical but I disagree anyway given "pervasive surveillance" doesn't have a singular goal or accomplishment criteria.
I wouldn't worry. There's more to CS that any one person can know :) I can't play the violin, even though I have a degree in playing the piano.