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On the first paragraph I generally agree with you, but I'd like to point out that in some cases, also in small teams, being a designer unencumbered by the limitations of the technology can be important. As part of the team, it can cause some healthy conflict in trying to make things work despite initial technological barriers. Many great things came out of a disregard of 'what seems possible at first sight', and in some cases this is a good thing. You're not saying the opposite of what i just said, but I just wanted to point this out.

As for the second paragraph: in my experience the type/manner of work involved with HTML and CSS might be closer to programming than to design. I cannot back this up with research, but it's what I've noticed working with designers. I suspect it has something to do with the level of abstraction involved.

For example, I dislike the front-end CSS and HTML part of my work, because so much seems to be based on memorization of CSS tricks and writing dirty HTML that confuses semantic structure from layout. But I can wrap my head around it anyways, and it's more annoying than difficult. But I've worked with many designers who equally dislike CSS and HTML, but lack the fundamental ability/experience to figure it out properly, much as they tried.
Just getting it to turn is easy. Getting it right is hard for a few reasons:

First, instead of the first derivation of direction like a steering wheel in a car the stick/yoke of a plane actually controls the second derivation of the heading, meaning that pushing it a bit to the right not only causes a turn to the right but it will turn right faster and faster. So you steer by pushing/turn the yoke a bit to the right/left and wait until you reached your desired turning rate. Then you move it back into neutral position and wait until you (almost) completed the curve. Then you do push it to the opposite side until your plane is level again.

Second, there's not only the rotation along the vertical axis (Yaw) to consider: You also have Pitch (nose up/down) and Roll (rotation along longitudinal axis). What you actually did by pushing the stick to side was rolling the plane which in turn causes it to make a turn because the lifting force of the wings doesn't point straight up anymore but a bit to the inner side of the rotation. So you loose a bit of vertical lift which you have to compensate for because gravity is still the same. To generate more lift you either have to change your angle of attack or your speed. The second can be done by giving a bit more throttle but chanigng the angle of attack is trickier: Your plane hangs 'sideways' in the air so you need both the yoke and the pedals to get it right.

Third, because the plane makes a turn the outer wing is a bit faster because it has the longer path (sadly, there aren't any differentials for wings) and because it is faster it generates more lift. Yet another force to account for.

And the forth thing that comes to my mind (which applies more for gliders than for motor planes): To fly efficiently (and for other obvious reasons) you don't want to fly in another direction that your noise points at. Eg. you want the plane's longitudinal-axis be tangential to the turning curve. In a car this would be equivalent to skidding and is rather easy to avoid but air offers a lot less friction. Think of driving around in a hoovercraft...

Now a landing is trivial: as long as the debris is scattered in the direction of the runway it's considered ok.
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What about hypervisor as microkernel and VM as app? Is this a viable new model for system security?
There have been multiple vulnerabilities discovered with semi-related causes. These all have (several) exploits which are widely available. The upshot is that they permit remote code execution (i.e. "root the server") on virtually all Rails applications accessible on the public Internet and, perhaps, some which are not.

Rails has been updated to close these particular vulnerabilities. The proper versions are listed in these two advisories. There are also work-arounds if your app is not in a state to just upgrade Rails. If your app is in that state, I strongly advise you that your only priority for the next several days is fixing that, because one should have high confidence that there will be more vulnerabilities announced soonish.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/rubyonra...

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/rubyonra...
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I tend to upvote articles that I read and find interesting. It's very easy to do, so perhaps they didn't find it interesting and as insightful as you did?
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Correct on the first two points, but larger hobby UAVs can be flown FPV at a range of several kilometers. Not legally in many western countries countries, but then norm is harming people.

Edit: Line of site restrictions, maximum heights, and the maximum power of radio communications permitted without additional licensing are typical limiting factors.
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> I would argue that it's impossible to do in the USA because the US is a very heterogenous culture whereas countries like Sweden are a very homogenous culture. Solidarity among people is much easier to achieve with individuals that have existing and reasonable bonds with each other.

This is a really important point. Solidarity and diversity are on a spectrum in some fashion. If you are too other from the other, then both of you have a hard time relating and caring about the same things. I see this again and again in political threads: "others" arguing their POV, but the reality is that both of them simply have a terrifically minimal common ground.
I always end-up pointing at Craigslist. Yes, I agree, really nice design is a pleasure to use. No argument there whatsoever. But, there's a limit.

People don't visit websites to be in awe of the design. They visit to get something out of them. Craigslist has more than proven that what most of us would consider absolute-shit design works just fine if what you are selling is what visitors want. You won't find me dead doing a CL-type site, but it does have the power to ground you when thinking of grandiose animations and all manner of neat-but-pointless design flights-of-fancy.

We can agree to disagree. For me, first is content or product, second is usable fixed design that converts well (through A/B testing) and a distant last is investing time, money and efforts into responsive design. I just don't see how it can possibly improve profitability.
You are providing a valuable service, but is Metasploit really necessary for this? I think this is a simpler command:

'grep rails Gemfile.lock'

If you don't see a rails version of 3.2.1, 3.1.10, 3.0.19, or 2.3.15 then you are vulnerable. Yes?

I guess in theory an attacker could have compromised your server and changed the rails version number...
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No need to email me if you have links in your HN profile that give a good look of your previous work.
Nice project. Can you elaborate more on your plans how to achieve the necessary scale? How do you drive traffic and installs to the app?
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It'll be a while before most designers can comfortably use Chrome though...
Your scanner says 3 issues on my domain, but rails_xml_yaml_scanner instantly says none. Is your scanner scanning for more than the yaml thing? I don't really have access to just modify a production system on the fly to go through your verification process, and I don't want to go through all the trouble if it's just some nessus nag. It's confusing because it says three issues, but low impact. I thought I was only scanning for a yaml flaw, and yaml flaws typically lead to remote code exec.

edit : I somehow stumbled into the full scanner on the main site rather than using the yaml scanner, my bad.
The US is geographically HUGE with millions of square
miles.
Nordic countries less so.

I think this is wrong. If a Nordic country annexed Antarctica tomorrow, it would become geographically huge but it would have no effect on any real differences between that country and the US (not any more so that claiming part of the moon). Geographic area isn't a useful metric on its own.
You seriously misunderstand COPPA; it is not designed to protect children. It's designed to protect children's privacy.
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In a regular single piston engine aircraft it's nose down, then add power. You always fix angle of attack first. Same applies to a power-on (eg takeoff) stall: nose down.
Not really, what could happen is a wing stall on single engines, but chances are that wont happen. :D That's a procedural recovery that fits most airplanes, put the nose down on a king air and depending on your altitude, you are doomed.
I won't get into how inaccurate a compass can be in a plane because I understand your meaning - we can turn a plane accurately using instruments. But keep in mind that the first step is to learn how to fly visually using ground references.
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I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one doing this. A colleague and I run a hangout most of every day, and it really makes it feel a lot like being in the same room. (I had to ask the other day -- "Is that your doorbell or my doorbell?) We can quickly ask one-off questions, have impromptu show-and-tell sessions, and of course engage in random brainstorming and "water cooler" talk. It's also easy to tell if the other person is deep in the zone before interrupting.

I blogged about it a couple of months ago:
http://cafbit.com/entry/hanging_out_on_the_job
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Not having any pilot training whatsoever, I gotta ask:

"attitude" or "altitude"?

I could believe the former, but I want to check.
Check out the Chrome extension we've been working on. You can swap in the Textbox.io editor in Gmail / Yahoo Mail / Tumblr. This gives you: text expansion (with login), autocorrect, and instantaneous markdown support.

Just thought I'd throw this out there to see what people think!

FWIW: This is our proof of concept ahead of releasing a developer API.
I'm not the one making outrageous claims about there being bigger cultural differences between US states than between countries. It's just not true and it's laughable. I can't provide data on it because there is no way to measure such a thing. You can believe whatever you want, but I'm giving a counter-example and my experience from actually living in the two different continents. If you think that's derisive or not useful that's your problem.
Fantastic! And, if you're in the mood, you can invite the pizza man to join in too, as is usually the case in the movies.
There are other workarounds, too. You could disable XML parameter parsing, for example (as seen here: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/rubyonra...).

Thus, you might be running an old version, but still actually be safe by disabling the vulnerable bits.
I mostly agree with the article, but disagree with the idea that unusual visualizations are harder to understand. Tuning your chart to your data often makes it easier for your audience to understand. For example, if you want to communicate the detailed difference between how well two models predict the performance of teams in the NFL, an ROC chart showing both models is usually the clearest way to present[0]. If you want to model different scenarios, a segmentation chart may be better. If you just want average conversion rates, bar charts may be more helpful.

That said, I certainly agree with using the same chart for things like weekly updates, etc. Creativity for creativity's sake is pointless-the point of using different types of charts is to communicate a complex message as simply as possible.

[0]: http://blog.optimalbi.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/ROC-cha...
It can even do the opposite and precede your actual orientiation.
...and if the nose is up? You're not going to power your way out of the stall, even in a King Air - you still need to pitch down first. This is one of the factors that put Air France 447 into a deep stall prior to their unfortunate end.
Potentially political point: will the service deliver to people under 18? Arguably those are the folks most likely to benefit from this service.

I'm aware that what I'm saying isn't universally accepted, so disclaimer: yes, it is my personal opinion that it's fine for underage kids to have sex as long as they use protection.
More like Cory Doctorow grinds his axe. Most people don't want to know how it works or hack on it, they just want it to operate reliably for the purposes they purchased it. It's not a war on general-purpose computation, it's an unprecedented variety of embedded computers.
You're thinking too literally. There's no reason for the video to be digitally encoded or transmitted. This is a microcopter, but larger ones can carry full size cameras: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsqAoELpmFQ
>You're conflating use of hardware with a restriction on software.

No, you are assuming the only case of software restriction is limiting my OS choice. Apple works very hard to try to stop people from helping others to fix their crippled phones, so that they can install sofware on them that apple has not approved.

>I'm not sure what to make of "I do not require a license to use software"

Software is protected by copyright. Just like other creative works, like a book for example. Copyright gives the author exclusive rights to certain things, like distribution, copying, and creating derivative works. It does not give them exclusive rights to use the work. Copyright law prevents you from selling a book written by someone else (without their permission). It does not prevent you from reading it. The same is true of software. You can't sell itunes, but you are entirely within your rights to use it.

>You may have a different expectation, but I don't think you have majority support on that.

The law supports me on that.
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One more data point: I was luck enough to go up with an RAF pilot having never flown before (nor in simulators). He allowed me to attempt to land, with instruction. I got close, but he used his controls at the end. I was having trouble correcting for a slight cross wind. By contrast, I did unassisted loop-the-loops (2g, then 4g), and a barrel role. So my $0.02 - landing not so easy..
So at first I thought this was a joke, a social commentary on the insane sex laws in Dubai (out of marriage sex = prison and deportation) but then the order process seems to work, it let me as far as the "confirm order" button (didn't click because of fake address) and there seems to be no hint of a joke anywhere unless you're already aware of the sex laws in dubai, which most people aren't?

Put me out of my misery, is this a joke? If it's just marketing ("lol a condom delivery app!") why is the article here reporting it as fact, or are they in on the joke to. I'm so confused.
While it won't cover all situations, Brakeman has been updated to warn about arbitrary YAML loads:

http://brakemanscanner.org/

[edit] This is a code analyzer.
We use old rails, but not the affected activerecord components. Also, there are more yaml bugs in existence than the ones publicly talked about, and this would detect those issues as well.
And there's a fifth thing - you are turning the craft in a fluid medium that itself is moving. In order to get a perfect circle you have to account for wind movement throughout the turn.
You should mention that this will give false negatives for people who actually are vulnerable but happen to be running Ruby 1.8.7, by the way. (I'm distilling that from this part of the announcement blog post, plus the knowledge that Syck is the default 1.8.X parser. It is indeed difficult to exploit -- I banged my head into a wall for 12 hours attempting to do so -- but people who are highly credible to me on this issue report having successful exploits for it.)

Also, this check is for websites using the Psych YAML Engine and not the older Syck. All of the proof of concepts we've seen so far are for Psych. That doesn't mean Syck isn't vulnerable, but that our checker will only work for Psych. In all likelihood, Syck is vulnerable too and you should upgrade your Rails all the same.
Sorry about the confusion.

If you run a scan from our homepage, you're actually looking for a lot more than just the YAML vulnerability (XSS, Mixed Resource, etc.) as our product isn't limited to just the YAML vulnerability.

If you run the scan from https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com/railscheck, then you'll get a quick check for just the YAML vulnerability.

Does that clarify it a bit?
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Attitude -- that would be, the alignment of the plane to the ground.
And here is the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJT_CACIZqs

The trip report will spoil the outcome, so the video is somewhat more nerve-wrecking.
I just tried this on one of my side project sites and it's reporting it as being vulnerable. However I upgraded the site to Rails 3.2.1 last week (and just confirmed that's the version in the bundle). Is there something that would cause a false positive or is my app really still vulnerable?
I think it is too unclear what exactly this is. I thought it was actually a joke at first, as if it were facetiously claiming that many of Google's projects are following in the footsteps of others.

Once I realized it's essentially a different theme for Bootstrap, I decided it's actually pretty cool, though.
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Is protecting children's privacy orthogonal or even conflicting with protecting children?

Because you make it sound like that.

UPD: Let me show you an example: Pretend we're talking about some law and you're arguing it's not designed to protect me, but to protect my body.
My first thought: the hell are you going to do with my body?
Because, my body is what makes me me. If you protect it but not me perhaps you're going to sell my organs away.
I think this article would have been a lot better if the full word count had been devoted to operating the radio. I don't think the author even mentioned 121.5 (let alone the transponder.) A few pictures of the control yoke PTT button and some common radio panels would help.
I have heard that long copy is great for getting the sale, while short copy can be great for getting an email signup.

I do think the copy here is good - the idea of long copy is that someone with the pain point you are pursuing gets interested and just keeps reading and reading... by the time they get to the call-to-action, they're more likely to be convinced of your offering.

Perhaps in this case the higher price, lack of images, and relative ease of assembling such a pipeline for HN regular is turning some people off, but I think it has potential.
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I assume you mean: in a simulator, in a light aircraft (e.g. a small Cessna or Piper or something similar).

In a heavy aircarft, e.g. passenger airliner? Has this even happened?
Assuming an involved parent (with the accumulated educational knowledge/value associated with a proper education of their own) rather than purely an "unschooling" approach (which is increasingly more popular, if risky) - this is likely true.

You are effectively providing the student (your child) with a full time, one-on-one tutor (you) which is significantly more effective (even with a less experienced teacher) than an instructor being asked to teach 20/30/40 children at one time.

A teacher in a full classroom of 30 students simply cannot pay attention to a child's advancement as precisely as a teacher working one-on-one.
This is about the equivalent of putting a single quote in a GET variable to detect sql injection. It tries to detect any bugs in the bug class, rather than a specific bug. The solution is different depending on what component is broken.
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And here's a video -- not sure if its the same person.

http://youtu.be/jJT_CACIZqs
> So would you say the root problem is our puritan shame of sex, as I suggested earlier? If a sexual person was held in the same regard as a business person, wouldn't that be something to strive towards, not shy away from?

Well, it already is... for men. A man with many sexual partners is looked favourably upon. A woman doing the same is called a slut. There is a gender imbalance built into our society, and until such time as a majority of men recognize it, it will keep being there. But it is a question of equality and power more than sexuality. Just as if you systematically represented male CEOs and female secretaries in the media. This wouldn't be about sex, but would be equally problematic.

> See, I wish people would value me for my body in that way. It is the constant having to prove myself with my mind that made me think of the original comparison. Without being able to fully understand what you are feeling, it seems like it could be the same thing in many ways – ultimately rejecting what you have and seeking what you don't have.

You have a point here. I'd say the problem is treating people as the means to an end - whether as sex toys, problem-solving machines or plain old cannon fodder.
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Here's the relevant clause in the linked page. This seems shady to me. Is it?

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I'd be more interested in government spending (not including transfer payments) then number of employees. There has been a dramatic shift in the number of things which are out-sourced to private companies. (Additionally, many of companies providing these services have the government as their main or sole buyer.)

In other words, the real question is: what fraction of societal expenditures are being directed by the political process?
Worked with John briefly when he was with analytics. Great energy and I wish him the best (bummed he is leaving, though)! He's dead on about how much Google invests in their employees. The value of the things I have learned and am still continuing to learn here have been nearly unmatched. The best reason to join Google is that there's always something to learn, and some of the best mentors in the world to help you learn those things.
Concur, nose down first. It's not that no one mentions adding power (which is what OP implied). Recovery was always pitch down to regain airspeed while reaching with the other hand to begin adding throttle, but power is still "one of the first things."
You can do that without being an ass about it.
^ And point proven.
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