skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure how it is in USA/Europe - but in Australia, some of the biggest banks/telcos still ring up customers (from private numbers) and ask for all your personal details to confirm your identity before proceeding with the call. Some even ask for plaintext passwords over the phone. At the same time they have big warnings on their webpages about phishing and how they'll never ask for personal details over email.

More than once I've explained that providing all my details in this fashion directly contradicts the security policy of the banks, but it takes some convincing to get the phone operators to give you a number you can confirm is legitimate and call them back. Its clearly not on the call center script and they dont understand why I am being so pedantic.
That actually does sound like fun, for the right kind of person.
Evolution of the web: push in Chrome
You think Colorado is bad? Check out what Obama has been up to today
A Four-Step Plan to Figuring Out What to Do with Your Life
The problem with supporting a "mixture of incomes" is that some people end up paying a small fraction of the price for equivalent real estate.

That doesn't square well with some people's values.
This is great. Perfect for when one doesn't want to deal with running a poorly supported 3rd party module in nginx. Prior to this the only other easy option was Haproxy. I'm happy.
I'm pretty sure it has been seen before that Google or another big tech company buys a smaller up-and-comming company/great idea, and it is never heard from again.
I live in a lower income neighbourhood in the east bay, because prices have risen so fast, and I'm so new, that that's all I can afford.

I've on several occasions been accused of gentrification, sometimes even by close friends or coworkers. But all I can think of is the fact that most of these coworkers are either under rent control, paying less than half I do for a comparable place (and come the fuck on, you work in tech, you don't need rent control), and the other half live in luxury high rises.

I'm a foreigner, I don't always understand race relations. I thought segregation was bad. But apparently my friends self-segregate, and when I dare to live in 'their' neighbourhood, I'm the bad guy.

Life's a lot better when you think of other people as human beings, instead of a weird separate group to be left alone, don't you think?
I'd take that over what we have now in a heartbeat.

My time isn't worthless, but for a personal web-site I am already "wasting" tons of time on it, and what is 5 minutes more? Better than a $60/year certificate.

StartSSL is too terrible. Let's Encrypt doesn't exist. And CloudFlare requires you to use their entire service for the free certificates.
Twitter is a private service. You have no right to compel a private company to let you do anything with that service.

And more than that, Twitter itself isn't maintaining the blocklists. The people who want to use blocklists are. Freedom of assocation has never meant, "I get to walk into -your- meeting and do whatever I want." It means you can set up your own meeting.

You can't force your way into the blocklist users' field of view, and while that may be personally frustrating for you, it is entirely within the entire world's right to ignore you if the entire world chooses.
They fulfill different goals. I've reached the stage where I don't always need the latest software—I'm more concerned with something stable that receives prompt security patches. For this reason, I've been sticking with the LTS Ubuntu releases rather than upgrading twice a year (though Kubuntu 15.04 has been awfully tempting for me). I guess I'm getting boring with "old" age—I built my systems following Linux From Scratch back in the day; now, I just want a system that works.

A transactional packaging system would definitely ease the pain of running newer software, but I don't want to take the time to try it—I'd rather stick with the release cycles provided by the distro as a whole. In this situation, PPAs are great for when I want to install software that isn't in the official repos (or is at an older version).
Anyone aware of what benefits this would give someone on a pure-EC2/AWS platform over just using CloudMetrics?
Here we have a "curator" saying these photos are from "Source: NASA", but with no additional details provided. No original source or URL, no captions, no detail on cropping or manipulation, just a collection of "the best ones" he's found somewhere on the Internet. Nice to look at but lacking all context.
I think Marx's criticism of capitalism is valid in many ways; but more importantly, I don't think you can blame Stalin on Marx.

Many people think of communism when they hear the word "Marx". Few have read his arguments.

Of course, someone who quotes Objectivism in their profile is not in a strong position to talk about philosophy ;)
Tor Exit Node Operator Issued Subpoena
You can just run apt-add-repository <reponame>, and it will add the correct files to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ and install the signing keys.
Yes ! The Culture would make a totally awesome serie. I really liked "The Players of Games". I had more difficulties with others books (couldn't finish one ), but the universe with it's overpowered AI living among humans would make a wonderful serie. There are a lot of good questions and some humors. I would really like to watch this.
Solving the Stable Marriage Problem in Erlang
Well they don't need to store your whole message, once they have processed it and updated their profile database with whatever is of value to them they will most likely delete it. They should all happen within minutes if not seconds of you sending the message.
I got a 502 when visiting this url, I think it's just irony bmiling at me: http://i.imgur.com/q3n8PpZ.png
Well, historically its all that's mattered. And if we're going to change the definitions of well-understood things, then lets just get rid of nations altogether. Make them all states of a world union or something. Because as long as they're independent and self-managing, then some of them will prey on others of them, and military will continue to be the final arbiter.
This. The more desirable suburbs of SF (Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Atherton) have housing stock that sells for 10-20% more per square foot than housing in prime San Francisco itself. Is there any other major city where this is true?
Perfect timing, at least for my company.
It's not USA, it is Miami, which was majorly settled by Cuban refugees.

They aren't speaking Spanish to be nice, they are speaking Spanish be a use they are Hispanic.

It is like French speakers in Quebec who avoid speaking English. ( but most Quebecois do speak fluent English. Many Miamians didn't)
Gentrification is a Mytyh - http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/201...

My city Allentown, PA has a very late white flight that occurred in the 80s and 90s. We had a donut economy where the suburbs had all the money and shopping and downtown was a rust belt city that had mostly mutli-family converted homes with low-income.

We now have over $1,000,000,000 invested into Downtown Allentown. http://www.marketplace.org/topics/economy/american-futures/a...

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/09/breathin...

Protesters claim of gentrification is happening. My stance is center city Allentown is not where we dump low income people and for people to have a "better life" they must move to the suburbs. You can have a "better life" and live in our cities. Our schools have an almost 50% transfer rate for children. This means that 50% of the children that started in September will finish their school year at a different school.

I will take diversity over homogeneous non-gentrification. This word is to ambiguous and and not clear in telling anything.
For type-safety, you can (optionally) add what are called type specs to your code with are processed with an analyzer tool called dialyzer [1]. This will identify errors related to types, as well as a few other kinds of errors.

This doesn't work with Elixir directly, but rather BEAM byte code (Erlang VM) which Elixir compiles down to.

[1]: http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/dialyzer.html
Last Week to Night with John Oliver: On Patents
What stops the browser from automatically trusting a forged certificate signed by a bundled CA? That's not a hypothetical question. It's happened before - either through incompetent CAs, or malignant ones (see: Google/Mozilla vs China).

The problem with the current trust model, is that it's unclear who we trust -- or put in another way, who we empower to betray us. No trust without the possibility of betrayal - no betrayal without trust.

With the current model, the path from who the user trusts (eg: Mozilla, Google and the OS vendor) is abused to extend to way too many CAs. So many, that the user can give up (ie: I use the browser and trust the green bar) -- or get a crippled experience, because the model assumes that you trust all bundled CAs. Sure, power users can in theory remove CAs from the store (and add ones, like I do for cacert.org, as I use them for my domains).

The fact that I add cacert.org reminds me of another thing: There should probably not be any CAs that can sign arbitrary subdomain.TLD. Since I add cacert.org, they can empower someone to mitm all my tls connections. But that is a separate issue - this issue already exist.

Trust decisions is all about meaningful choice -- and choosing between not using the web, and trusting Chinese (and every other) intelligence, along with various foreign corporations (they're all foreign to someone) to not enable/be tricked into mitm my email, my web browsing etc.
502, how ironic.
Does that mean that I can now put NGINX in front of a cluster of TCP (non HTTP) servers and get NGINX to cleverly load balance the incoming requests to the individual nodes ?
Not really less violent: http://thepublicintellectual.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/....
Same here... heh heh heh
> Beat me to death, but I can't understand how it works. But it works.

I'm pretty certain you could figure it out by substituting the mathematical symbols for their circuit counterparts (remember that all binary mathematical ops are merely a sequence of ANDs, ORs, XORs, etc.) and using boolean algebra to simplify - you would probably end up with X XOR Y after the simplification.

E.g. A way to square without a square or multiplication op is to: CUBE(X) / X, which is really X * X * X / X just like the mathematical functions have some underlying binary operations that do involve the XOR that you are not allowed to use.
Well, Google has fairly much experience in the automobile sector with their self-driving cars.

Shit, a self-driving Tesla, now that is a car worth saving every penny for...
Looks like Prometheus support is in the works too: https://github.com/grafana/grafana-plugins/pull/13

That repo also has Atlas, Zabbix and KairosDB plugins.
Indosat partners with Facebook to deliver free Internet in Indonesia
Blame Stalin on the myth of 'centralized planning' or whatever Marx dreamed up about more advanced forms of government. It was a pipe dream, because government is made up of people. And selfish, brutal sociopaths keep bubbling up into government. So the more control govt has, the more Stalin's we'll see.
That left me wondering if the author, Scott Beyer, works for some developer PR firm. All leading up to this call to action:

All this, of course, suggests an ironic aspect of urban housing markets that is misunderstood by most government officials and NIMBYs: “if a city wants to preserve, it must build.”

Which I heard as "Hey San Francisco, let Simon Property Group develop this area into a techie zone, we'll make money and it will take pressure off the other neighborhoods because we'll be the cool place to be!"
Rogue wounds: can a fake sickness become a real sickness?
When given the "Pepsi Challenge," most college students prefered the sound of 128 MP3 to Lossless. It's all about what you cut your teeth on. [0]

[0] Jonathan Sterne, "MP3: The Meaning of a Format", pg 166
I'm not sure what your health care system is set up like, but if you can go to a different doctor, or a specialist, it would be worth doing. Even here in the US, some doctors are much more receptive than others.
Ask HN: On getting a technical co-founder
Hey guys, I have no idea if this post is going to help me, but I might as well give it a shot. I'm a single technical co-founder. I have a "startup" in the sense that I've spent ~5 months putting full time work into a product ("hassle-free project management", you could say it's somewhere in the middle between JIRA and Trello), but I'm doing freelancing as well for food.

I don't want to take up a friend as a co-founder. None of them have the skills that I'm looking for (the ones who do aren't quite able to leave their jobs for a payless startup). I want to move forward and I truly believe this product will succeed, but I don't think going forward on my own is the right call. I don't have any businessy experience, which is a problem given that I want to be bootstrapped and avoid taking any funding for as long as I possibly can.

I have a solid idea of what the product should look like and how to shape it going forward, but it always helps having more sets of eyes looking at the code and working on it. I can always show it to friends and ask them for their opinion, but they're not as heavily invested (they can't be) because they aren't putting the time into the project like I am. So I would need someone technical to pair with me in these issues and the businessy stuff.

How do I go about finding someone like this[1]? Do you guys and gals have any tangible pieces of advice I can act on? Would you suggest that I go back into my freelancing cave? I feel rather strongly about this product, but I don't think it's wise to continue doing it alone. I won't be able to scale out all of the stuff that I want to do if I'm on my own.

I live in Buenos Aires with no intention of moving, but I'm perfectly open to a remote environment, which is how I've been working for the past 3 years.

Ideas? Thoughts? Constructive criticism? nicolasbevacqua@gmail.com

[1]: https://www.cofounderslab.com/nicolas-bevacqua-63236
> The big problem with gentrification is that we lack viable social supports to help people in transition during periods of gentrification.

Gentrification largely occurs because we don't have viable social supports to help people in economic transition in general.
Can someone explain how this is superior to HAproxy?
Yep.

Just off the top of my head, I can think of: DVDs don't need to be rewound, discs take up less space than tapes, DVDs don't degrade with repeated viewings, you don't have to futz with tracking when watching a DVD (I totally forgot about tracking until now! Good riddance!), DVDs come with multiple audio and subtitle tracks (anime fans especially love these), DVDs can be watched on a computer without specialized equipment (seriously, this was the main reason I switched to DVD as a teenager: I could watch one on the same screen I did everything else on!), DVDs can have all kinds of special features...

If it was a simple matter of a quality difference that was barely perceptible to the human ear, especially on consumer-grade equipment, DVDs would have never replaced VHS.

Oh, and audiophile equipment still hasn't trickled down to the consumer level yet. Every other technology that starts as a high-end professional thing trickles down to the consumer, but audiophile equipment stays right in the ultra-high-end so-expensive-your-wallet-cries sector forever and ever and ever.
https://imgur.com/psXLq6Y.png
The Ultimate Guide to E-Commerce Mobile App Development
Sorry, I should have been more clear. Until their search business fails.

The strategy you outline, and that Google is taking, smacks of desperation, and sends two signals to investors 1) the ad business is declining and 2) the company is desperately trying to find something else that works. However this is based on a false premise. Advertising is not going away. I don't see other media companies making cars -- instead I see them trying to work out new business models in their core area of competence.

I suspect that much of this is founder driven. It's often the case that founders don't really like what their business has become. In Googles's case they want their legacy to be more than ads, so they are throwing money at vanity projects. These projects generate good press, and satisfy their ego, but in the real world they have little chance of success, and little hope of returning much to the company. For example, Google Glass.
Apple – Environmental Responsibility
Amazon isn't stupid. Yes, obviously they're in the game to sell their content, but they are well aware they need to offer general-purpose devices to compete, and they are absolutely on that correct path.

Their execution hasn't been great, but they know what they ned to do and they're trying to do it.
Author here. I wrote some reasons to why I think it is likely that it will be. It is not a sure thing of course.
> Do I need to go further?

Yes, I think you do. AstroDust's reply is worth bearing in mind too [1].

If you're going to store confidential information (which is hard to avoid being a school) then you should be responsible for securing it adequately. This seems more than possible using current technology and only a small amount of education for staff.

When your security has been shown _repeatedly_ to be inadequate to protect against _children_ then I really don't think the school is taking their responsibilities seriously.

Edit: Lets spin this another way. I keep all the cleaning and other dangerous chemicals in a cupboard. If the lock is broken and a child manages to hurt themselves, then it doesn't really matter if the cupboard is out-of-bounds; I've still neglected my duty of care and I'm going to get into trouble. If months later I've still not bothered fixing the lock and another child gets hurt, then the only person responsible should be me.

Children are expected to break the rules and do silly things, whether they expect it to end badly or not; this is why we classify them as children and usually expect them to need supervision.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9408704
Yeah, can a mod please fix the cheesy editorialization of the title?
I remember wanting to use graphite for a pet project and stumbled across early release Grafana. I'm amazed at all the nagging items I had (even though I still used it) have been resolved.
The CORS, shipping with its own backend, not needing elastic search (such a pain!) and sharing graphs are stellar.
Truly amazing.
Hmm, not much, really. Mostly just knowledge and connections. Some would move back home to friends/family, which not all have the opportunity to do. That's a big deal mentally. Credit is a big one; they can grab a credit card and float, some homeless people can't.
This is worthwhile read for anyone wanting to increase social traffic, especially if you're trying to convert that traffic.
They are already mostly done with the estate/SUV Model X. Then, they are going to introduce the Model 3, which will be more like an ordinary family car. That will be three models.
Not sure what's so ironic about this. That's the Mercurial server that's not responding.
Icelandic Startup Founders making an impact on the local ecosystem
> not even lmao4pl8

> advanced powerlifter
If the publisher offered the movie up on a Web site for free download, it would absolutely be ethical to download it without paying for it.
I think the next big thing is Meteor. Here's why:

1. Real-time baked in.

2. Uses Javascript (tons and tons of developers know at least enough to use Meteor)

3. Sane templating engine.

4. Same wow effect I had when I first started Rails.

5. Fantastic build system.

Pheonix and Elixir may be the bees knees, but unfortunately because it uses a functional language, it drastically cuts down the mindshare of developers. I don't even know any developers in real life that use functional languages. Looks interesting but that's the reality.
> The reason I'm asking is that, to the best of my knowledge, there was a period of "white flight", when urban core was basically left to poor people (or at least that's how I interpret this). My understanding is that at the time that was bad. Now rich people "move back in" and I get a vibe from similar articles that this is also bad. So, which is it?

"White flight" is bad for the poor that are left behind in a community with less resources.

"Gentrification" is bad for the poor that are displaced.
PyDev of the Week: Noah Gift
from what i understand, this could be used for anything tcp related (here[0] they said it could be used to proxy mysql, ldap, rtmp and they use pop3 as an example).

i thought haproxy was used basically to proxy http stuff, not general tcp.

[0] http://nginx.com/resources/admin-guide/tcp-load-balancing/
The NGINX Plus docs on TCP Load Balancing: http://nginx.com/resources/admin-guide/tcp-load-balancing/

Something to read while we wait for the announcement page to come back up :-)
Its a dashboard and graph composer for realtime and and historical metric analytic (mostly via rich graphs). Usually used for monitoring or application metrics analytic but can be used in many other scenarios as well.
http://elixir-web.github.io/weber/
What kind of software do you envision being created with App Factory? If you can create a system that is both easy for non-technical users and yet powerful enough to make something genuinely useful, I'm all for that. I would love a non-suck variation of the Wordpress/Drupal plugin ecosystem, which is what this most sounds like. What I would be afraid of is the compounded complexity inherent to writing real software systems. That is a really hard problem to solve. One I don't personally think can be solved until AI has reached a certain level.
This is a personal profile without much scientific content, in a publication with annoying popups.

Here is the scientist's work: http://www.englandlab.com/
CTR Surge for Some Google Adsense Publishers
Many installations would go from haproxy->nginx to nginx->nginx. Having to support a single product will make many devops happy.

In the same tense, haproxy is adding Lua support[1], which has been available in nginx - using openresty[2] - since 2011, and nginx core is doing the same with Javascript[2].

Interesting times aroung haproxy and nginx.

[1] http://blog.haproxy.com/2015/03/12/haproxy-1-6-dev1-and-lua/

[2] http://www.openresty.org

[3] http://www.infoworld.com/article/2838008/javascript/nginx-ha...
I'm fairly certain capitalism in its current form isn't sustainable (cf Piketty), and I don't think government is intrinsically sociopathic.

The open question is if government with checks and balances is stable in the long term, or if it will fall apart and have one branch take over. Time will tell.
New Starter Homes Hit a Dead Stop
One thing I've realized is that there are multiple things that can help concentration for me: When the project is new and shiny, when the deadline is close at hand, caffein.

If you can recognize similar patterns, then there's a number of days each month when you can predict ahead of time that you won't need medication.
An example from today. A 13 year old boy kills one person and injures some others with a crossbow. He's unlikely to face criminal charges because 14 is the age of criminal responsibility in spain.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32380705
The BUGS section is not the intro section.
WLPPR -- Beautiful mobile wallpapers made from satellite imagery.
That artwork up top is by James Jean (http://www.jamesjean.com/) if anyone is wondering.
My favorite movie pirate story was the LAPD captain (Hollywood division, no less) who was arrested for supplying stores with pirated DVDs.

http://articles.latimes.com/2003/dec/10/local/me-dvd10