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galenkoon Varnish 4.0 Released

Can anyone who actually understands what the upgrade document states do a how to or a straight modification of a popular vcl, so people who don't have as much experience and pretty much just use these default vcl files?

Here's one that I and a few of my friends use routinely:

https://github.com/ewanleith/Wordpress-Server-Configuration-...

Like where do I start if I want to use this thing with 4.0?

vcl_fetch needs to be renamed, will this work if I just rename it and add vcl version to the top?

galenkoon Carousel – Gallery from Dropbox for photos and videos

Is there a service that does this, but lets you store the photos in the cloud?

1. Take a pic

2. Pic gets uploaded to the service, after x gets deleted from local device, only a small thumbnail remains.

3. Open this history view, you can see thumbnails, pic gets downloaded when you click on it, large pic gets deleted again after x.

If I had something that worked like this, I would be so happy.

galenkoon What is really happening in Ukraine

I'm sorry to say, no one on the ground is worried about a demeaning post made on HN, I happen to know a little about what it's like, as a lot of my family lives in and around Kyiv and several of them have been lucky to get out of the protests with non life-threatening injuries only. Others we can't get hold of. Feelings are a little irrelevant right now.

galenkoon What is really happening in Ukraine

You stood up for your country, then the government hurt you so bad, that you were taken to the hospital, the government then came to the hospital, took you from there, proceeded to undress and torture you. They then threw you out on a cold field to die (it's -14C there).

That vs.

Walking down the road, boom, a lot of me is missing, shock, I'm gonna die, ouch, ouch, dead.

I know which way I'd prefer to go if it was down to these two choices.

galenkoon Docker Raises $15M

Shykes, I understand how I sounded, but I meant absolutely no offence to your achievement as a team. You absolutely deserve the money and even in my little world you're not "just another startup" as I'm a huge fan of docker and believe it's the future.

"Casually" is more of an observation of HN, as not a day goes by without someone getting millions in funding, but I'm aware of how not casual the whole approach to getting that much bank is and how much work is actually involved.

docker does in fact live in the real world and play by its rules, it's not a bad thing, objectively, only an idiot wouldn't. If you play your cards right, you'll make money, won't ever need to beg for donations and will do just fine becoming the new standard.

OpenBSD tries to live in an idea, which is close to my heart and I imagine close to anyone, who grew up toying with kernels and working on distros. The recent donation thing was like a reminder that Santa's not real and there is no magical fairy land, where just putting your head down and doing what you believe is the right thing for the benefit of everyone, without thinking about money, will be rewarded.

galenkoon Docker Raises $15M

Not to take away from Docker's achievements (seriously, well done), but it's a funny world we live in, Docker gets 15M (or "another startup casually gets $XXM), while OpenBSD foundation (which pays for stuff all of us rely on every day) have to beg for donations and 100k is a huge achievement.

galenkoon Show HN: We built Triage, an iOS app that unites all your dev tools

Started the signup, then stopped, why do you need write access to my github, why is read only on everything not enough for you?

galenkoon Show HN: I mapped US medical prices. Save thousands by driving a few miles

Come to the UK, it's free.

galenkoon A web-based IDE for Javascript, HTML, and CSS

Awesome stuff Joel, thank you for that, I will definitely be spending more time with Codio.

galenkoon A web-based IDE for Javascript, HTML, and CSS

Very quick, nicely built, but honestly, after trying several web based IDE's the only thing that keeps me from sticking with them are the keyboard shortcuts. I love cmd-1,2,3, cmd-t and other shortcuts in sublime (and textmate and e-texteditor before that).

I don't think I can switch to web based editors, until these things will work seamlessly and smoothly out of the box.

galenkoon Goodbye Sticky. Hello Ara

I saw that, but it doesn't really mean he's getting anything from it besides "Motorolla's staff are gonna be active on his forums".

I just hope Dave at least gets a job out of this.

galenkoon Goodbye Sticky. Hello Ara

I remember the thread about phoneblocks and how it was never going to happen, who would have known that Motorolla was working on something similar for almost a year at the time.

Hope Dave gets something out of it, besides the warm and fuzzy feeling that Motorolla makes a product that is similar to his idea.

galenkoon Filesharing site revealed to be anti-piracy ‘honeypot’

Why else would they listen in to the majority of the Internet traffic? That's like the whole point.

iPhone phones home with its location? NSA's most likely listening.

Googled for something naughty? NSA's most likely listening.

Chatting on an open Internet Relay Chat server? Yup.

galenkoon Fructose: The Poison Index

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

It's a longer video (1h 30m), but it explains the problem with fructose in exactly as much detail as it needs and is very "average" people friendly.

galenkoon The NSA slide you haven’t seen

Here it is on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdPpdu8OGDQ

galenkoon Ask HN: is MEGA safe to use? Any reasons to stay away?

That was brought up a few days after launch and patched next day after this post.

galenkoon A Python 3 implementation for client-side web programming

JavaScript is like the electricity of the web. If you disable it, it's like walking around the real world with an "emp field", sure some things will still work, but it's kind of dumb to expect the modern technologies to work without their main food source.

The technologies have evolved... Why are you trying to keep us in the stone age? Or why do you expect backwards compatibility?

galenkoon Simple Fields – a Custom Fields Plugin for WordPress

We've been using Advanced Custom Fields ( http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/ ) for 2+ years now, has anyone used both and can comment on how they compare?

galenkoon Firebase bindings for AngularJS

I posted this on StackOverflow, as advised, maybe they'll answer us there: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15728319/implementing-rem...

galenkoon Firebase bindings for AngularJS

Thanks for that, I've read and re-read the security and the rules pages of your docs several times, but still have questions.

Reading through the firefeed rules file answered a lot of questions for me, except for these two:

1. Editing an existing tweet isn't allowed (".write": "!data.exists()"). How can you make it not editable, but deletable by the author?

2. How would you securely handle liking/unliking or upvoting/downvoting? write if authenticated, validate for the increase/decrease by one, if the user hasn't modified this before? How would that work? Would there have to be a child list of people who edited this? I'm just really curious about this specific use case as it seems pretty common in many apps, yet seems to me, would be really complicated to implement in firebase?

galenkoon Firebase bindings for AngularJS

This looks pretty awesome!

I'm falling for the idea of building my next project as a html/javascript app using FireBase (with zero server-side code), but security keeps me wondering, because even after reading everything that the firebase website has to offer about it, I'm still not convinced that it's secure enough.

Am I understanding this right, without explicit rules, anyone can edit all the data in the database? Like anyone can just trash your entire database or fill it with silly amounts of data, using the console, after reading your database credentials in the html file, if you're trying to build an html-only, no-backend app?

I'm curious, how would one build a voting system (a-la hacker news or reddit), what would the permission mask be? Only registered users can vote, but can only increment or decrement the value by x. I'm also confused about how the restriction works, when creating a non-editable title: a registered user is allowed to create a thread and name the title, but is not allowed(not the author or anyone) to edit it after.

If someone could give me a pointer in these use cases, I'd be very grateful.