skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to this NYT article[1] the Saildrone is self-righting. There may also be some hollow space in the upper portion of the mast to prevent it from turtling, like how a Hobie Cat has the mast-blimp.

>Underneath the boat are both a rudder to aid in steering and a keel, which will right the boat if it is knocked over.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/05/technology/no-sailors-nee...
Thanks, I have been waiting for something like this for quite some time, I didn't want to learn c++ "yet"
Title issues can be... interesting. I've had major headaches trying to title a boat purchased in a state that doesn't have boat titles in a state that requires them for registration. Eventually, you can lay everything out before a judge/magistrate, and they can rule that your vehicle indeed exists and belongs to you.
> If I were job hunting, I'd only look at reviews written in the past 18 months because things can and do improve quickly.

I can offer one counterexample. I worked at a fairly awful place two and a half years ago and the Glassdoor reviews reflected that awfulness. At some point in the last year, management got wise and started planting hilariously, obviously fake positive reviews to go alongside the negative reviews. HR also started leaving comments on every single review, which had a chilling effect.

The average rating would certainly be higher over the past 18 months, but it's not because anything has improved at the company. They're just better at exploiting Glassdoor.
For completeness: The number of possible sets that include 4 numbers from the range [0..15] is (16+4-1) choose 4, or 3876.

Let's assume that our set is (a, b, c, d). It is ordered, therefore a <= b <= c <= d. For example, a valid set is (2, 4, 4, 10).

Consider all possible numbers that may be in our set, laid out in order.

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

For each element in the set, we mark its position in this order by placing a marker to the left of the corresponding number.

For our example, we first mark element 2:

0 1 m 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Then 4:

0 1 m 2 3 m 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Then, 4 again:

0 1 m 2 3 m m 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

And finally, 10:

0 1 m 2 3 m m 4 5 6 7 8 9 m 10 11 12 13 14 15

Now, out of these 16+4 places, only 19 of them could be a valid placement for a marker, as a marker should always be placed to the left of a number (or said differently, "15" will always be in the end.)

Therefore, there are 19 choose 4 ways to pick the locations of the markers.
I built a simple product catalog management tool for a friend
Owing to my inexperience with the topic, I am not sure if the term 'differential programming' belongs here. However, this book looks promising. Thanks.
Certainly not trying to harass you but you’ve posted this on a public message board, so I think it fair that others respond? You’re welcome to ignore it, of course.

You bring up a fair point that I’m assuming you’re laying some amount of blame or culpability for the situation at your landlord’s feet, and that isn’t exactly what you said. I may have read that unfairly, and you only meant that this was a situation you found yourself in, with no criticism aimed at the property management. I apologize for assuming otherwise.
Exactly. In a capitalist country like the US supply and demand is king.

Ignoring this and slowly trying to turn the US into a socialist democracy (against the will of a large fraction of our citizens) has caused immense suffering and hardship for the poor already.
If you don’t want people to comment on your story, don’t share it.
Yeah, it's a tricky set of distinctions to master. When I stated doing meditation, I started to "get it", that is I became more aware of the way my mind manufactures reality on a continuous basis, and all we ever really do is interact with this internal simulacrum. But that doesn't mean the same thing as what solipsism means. It means you train and expand your awareness by understanding the limitations of that awareness, just like you exercise a muscle.

You can take this idea and use it as an excuse to retreat into passivity, or you can see it's power and use that to go out and make a difference in the world. It's your choice, your Karma, as they say. :)
You are righr, but when tether fails, my assumption is whole crypto will be down big time.
Strava heatmap can be used to locate military bases
I guess my work experience over the last 30 years has been different. None of the companies had this extravagant facilities but those that had substantial operations or manufacturing capabilities were fairly uniform in the offering of facilities among the white collar and blue collar employees. Both had the same snack rooms with free food and far as I could tell nearly all had their own cubicles.
Ahh, I had forgotten about that, that was so unexpected to be almost surreal.

Also the statement by Ines Uusmann (swedish minister of communications at the time) that 'internet is just a fad' is another 'classic' in swedish politics.
This is what it looks like to drink the whole jug of koolaid.
Managing your manager is a stop-gap measure until you can find another job with a better manager.

One should not have to reframe why age discrimination is illegal/immoral to one’s manager.
Every year devs debate over how to optimize the "X hour work week" function.

I personally don't care what X is, I care about variation. I chafe under a steady X hours a week schedule. I'd rather go hard for a season, take a huge break, then go back to working 50-80 hours a week. Is anyone else like this?
I wrote a blog post several years ago that's basically about this same effect, although from a different angle: https://hips.seas.harvard.edu/blog/2013/06/05/compressing-ge...
>It is arrogant to believe that one can predict what will exactly happen because of just one piece of technology.

I agree which is why I wouldn't count on immortality being shared with the unwashed masses just because a ride sharing app was.

I don't see how questioning the benefit of having enormously powerful people of dubious morals become immortal makes one a pseudo-intellectual or smug. I suppose I forgot to adhere to the Valley orthodoxy that technological advancement will always improve the lives of all.
I've messed around with Bitcoin and I can't get past the fact that the top 2 most recommended wallets for macOS aren't signed by Apple and you have to verify a PGP signature manually (and the author's key is signed by a bunch of people I've never heard of so even that is a leap of faith). So I refuse to deal with amounts bigger than I assume will definitely get stolen.
> and benefits vary from region to region.

Like rich techies in SV get to enjoy cheap house cleaning and exotic food while poor people in other parts of the country drug out on opioids because the future is so bleak.
Having used a JMAP-style API for years, it works really nicely with batching in a way that other APIs I've worked with don't. Of course, as one of the original designers of JMAP, I'm bound to like it.

It would be quite easy to write a REST mapping for people who like more chatty protocols of course.

I'm not a giant fan of Foo/get either - it's a very recent change from the previous getFoos|setFoos|getFooUpdates naming, and there are pros and cons of the change. I try not to interfere too much with stylistic details like that though.
Further, polar night in Tromsø ends around 21st of January, while the midnight sun starts around 21st of May - that's roughly 17 weeks going from the sun not rising, to the sun not setting - more than an hour of difference, week to week on average (0-24 hours, in 17 weeks).

[ed: of course, the change isn't linear:
https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/norway/tromso
]
(n + k - 1) choose k

n = number of unique 4-bit values

k = size of multiset

(2^4 + 4 - 1) choose 4 = 3876
Yes, I've witnessed that myself. On the flip side, those fake reviews:

1. Are usually hilariously easy to spot.
2. Beget more angry reviews with 1 star rating in attempt to neutralize their effect.

Hence, I'd read them pretty carefully to look for patterns.
> Or the builder. And if it's the actual builder-owner, who else is there to specify to them, how long their building & craftsmanship should take? I say: nobody; period.

Exactly. The builder will know when they’re being effective and when they’re just fucking around.

Deep down we all know even if we sometimes don’t want to admit it.

And a great game never finished because it ran out of budget or time or the builder got distracted by a shiny new project is just that, a game never finished.
> Banks absolutely hate to lend to businesses with few or no assets

Pretty much! My tech startup couldn't raise funding, morphed into a consulting business, and couldn't borrow money. We had to grow entirely out of cash flow, which was both liberating and terrifying. The only credit available to us was personal credit cards. We might have been able to get approved for a small line of credit, but it wouldn't have been large enough to make a difference, depending on it would have been risky.

A few thoughts on trying to cash when you're bootstrapping:

- if you've got personal assets & a willingness to put them up as collateral, you can do that

- you can borrow against accounts receivable, so if you're always sitting on $100,000 worth of A/R, a bank might lend you some percentage of that amount

- having someone on your team develop a relationship with a regional bank can help, because although they can't offer you any sort on liberal financing, they can tell you what you need to do to get it eventually (unlike a mega-bank, which usually doesn't have much of an imagination when it comes to offering you financial products to choose from
I really like the idea of adding math support to Unicode via combining characters. It's more complicated than anything Unicode currently deals with, but not that much more complicated, and the idea of being able to put math into anything that currently accepts strings is just so enticing. We should treat math as it's own language, and rendering it as we would any other human language with an unusual way of laying out characters.
That sounds like a harrowing experience.

Leaving aside the particulars of your own situation, I do want to comment on your assertion about the price of rent. $1,200 is maybe higher than we'd like, but it's still pretty low. It's manageable as long as you're making $30k per year or more. It doesn't seem crazy to me.

There's also the more option of getting roommates. In all of NYC there are just three units on Streeteasy going for less than $1,250. However, there are more than seven hundred two-bedroom units going for less than $2,500.
Embedded software is easy to hack. Spend quite a bit of money getting access to the binary running a common ATM platform. Reverse engineer it. Find a vulnerability. Trigger it. Done!

The age of (common) embedded system exploitation is finally upon us.
How Schopenhauer’s thought can illuminate a midlife crisis
> Not sure what the downvote is for....

I'm not sure either. Your comment seems perfectly legitemate to me...
The real solution is building lots and lots of buildings. To make that happen we need to massively relax regulations. It's not practical to build affordable housing right now because the fixed legal and planning costs are too high, so only higher end housing really makes sense to build.
Sure, my understanding is that's how Oxford works.
No, because even 40 is nearing too much for me. I'm happy and productive with my 4 to 6 hour days of development.
Dumb question I've been wondering for a while: why not standardize the batteries themselves, make them easy to swap, robotically from underneath maybe? Then have stations that switch out your battery like a propane tank rather than having to wait and recharge?
The design is lovely. Simple and elegant at the same time.
On the contrary, I'm not a landlord precisely because I understand that game, and I prefer a nice game of chess.

People who don't empathize with you aren't always misinformed. Sometimes there are fundamental moral incongruities.

There are apt analogies of "the system is fucked and I'm just working in it" throughout US history.
Can you name any consumer technology in history that wasn't ultimately available to the masses?
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The problem is when you and countless academics for the last 200 years, all the way up to modern day economists, can see the faults in capitalism (And mostly our government's policies of Austerity Beyond All Reason). But society is too entrenched in it to see any other possible system.

It's like being in a metro system where the roof is falling in and the rails are rusting into nothing, but nobody has figured out how to, or is not willing to, stop things, let everyone out and spend a few days overhauling the cave system so that it works better and isn't killing people. Instead people are utterly content spend the majority of the time painting over the cracks and hoping it won't happen and... oops, yet another recession.

"Housing market crash this time? Ah well. A lot of people in a first world country just died from lack of heating, preventable illness and homelessness... but I've got mine!" seems to be the dominant attitude because "what else can you do?".

The sociopolitical writings of academics have enlightened me beyond use. For what use is enlightenment if one cannot use it, yet I do not seek to lose it, as that is unquestionably bad now.
Not sure if anyone will see this but I created a simple and fast product catalog management tool for a friend who had the need to create a web page for each of her 200 products in her 2018 product catalog in a way that would allow her to do it in less than a minute by uploading a CSV with the product data and her product images in bulk. She also wanted her customers (retailers) to be able to browse her 200 products by brand or category. I deployed it to AWS using EC2, S3, and RDS. Monthly AWS fees seem to be projected at $50/month as of now so I'm looking to find one or two other people out there with a similar need that might find this tool useful. I'd love to help her minimize the amount of money she has to pay for her product catalog and associated admin tool to stay up and running. $50 split five ways would mean $10 a month. If you know anybody that might find this useful please let me know. Thanks for taking the time to read this!

This is an example of the brands page she put together:
http://ox.merchantbot.co/catalog/brands

Example of a page that shows all the products for a given brand:
http://ox.merchantbot.co/catalog/brands/9

Example of a page the shows the details for a given product:
http://ox.merchantbot.co/catalog/products/71

Other info about the tool can be found here:
http://merchantbot.co/
LTC, Bitcoin cash: similar reasons to doge.

Monero: anonymity.
Ah, but I’d argue that you are playing that game, because it’s just incredibly basic supply and demand. So whether you have a job or provide jobs or own or rent or buy things at the store or sell things online, you’re playing this game too. And you only get to play your side because someone else plays the other side. Seems pretty morally incongruent to call them irredeemable for voluntarily selling or buying from you, doesn’t it?

Edit: for example, if you’ve rented or bought, you’ve contributed to the demand that makes the market price go up. If you were a landlord, at least you’d be helping provide supply that keeps the price in check :)
Where is it defined that a flamethrower needs to use a liquid or gel?

Wikipedia says:

A flamethrower is a mechanical incendiary device designed to project a long, controllable stream of fire. They were first used by the Greeks in the 1st century AD...Some flamethrowers project a stream of ignited flammable liquid while some project a long gas flame.
This article is full of gem quotes and therefore worth reading even if you don't care about the subject.

> “I jumped back because I am shit-scared of spiders; I thought it was a bloody spider.”
We just store the AMI in a terraform file itself, and update it as needed. I mean, if you are already updating a text file, might as well update a a text file called ami.tf with the new AMI ID and store that in source control as part of the build process. This ensures that the terraform plan is an easy to read source of truth for what is supposed to be up in production.
Yes, I have the latest version.
FWIW, if you or someone else found yourself in that situation again (just short of being able to pay rent but with solid expectations of having the cash soon) then in most cities there would be one or more organizations you could get a loan or small grant from to avoid triggering an eviction - for instance in Seattle here's a list http://www.needhelppayingbills.com/html/seattle_rental_assis...

(This kind of assistance is one of the most efficient ways they can intervene, because the costs of accessing stable housing for someone increase massively at each step).
Ask HN: Any Feedback about Mac OS High Sierra?
For typical tasks like programming... Don't use my Mac for image/movie editing, etc.
Thanks.
While I can make a choice between Chrome and Firefox, I'm not really going to stop browsing some websites just because I switched browsers.
> One is that without immigration, the population of the US would decrease based on birth / death rates. If the population of the US decreases, social security and other social programs become insolvent. In other words, our social programs are based off the current working generation paying for the current retired generation, and has since their inception.

Which is a fine argument for granting citizenship to skilled workers in industries with low unemployment, but a counterargument to taking large numbers of unskilled workers during a glut of unskilled workers.

To make the system solvent, you need to increase the number of gainfully employed middle class people, not increase the number of unemployed and underpaid people who need net social assistance because there are more unskilled workers but only the same number of unskilled jobs.
The Tesla Roadster was just an off-the-shelf AC drivetrain system for lithium-ion cars coupled with the body of a commercial sportscar. Total cost of these two items: $267,690.*

AC drivetrain by AC Propulsion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_Propulsion_tzero

Sportscar body by Lotus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Elise

Via http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/19/travel/driving-lots-of-zoo... *Lotus Elise: $47,690; AC Propulsion AC-150: $25,000; AC Propulsion tzero: $220,000

Flamethrower, hat, roadster –– all share the same pattern… Maybe this is Elon's modus operandi for creating consumer products.
No, because the value of controlling a fiat currency is that you can issue more. It is not any one crypto currency that is a threat, but the idea. To kill the idea you can't just ban something, you have to burn everyone so they hate it.

Since when has something being outside of US regulators sphere of authority stopped the US government from acting?
> one in five renters facing eviction

I'm very skeptical of this number, especially since it actually said this was within the last three months. My guess is that the survey respondents were not a representative sample of renters.