skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dynamic Soaring is quite impressive. At the world-record speeds they were having problems because the radar guns they were using (the type police use) were not picking up the speeds anymore. I think there were only a couple of particularly good ones (particular specimens not particular models) that were still able to register something and not easily.

Initially they had issues with planes blowing up mid-air because they were using hollow-molded planes and as soon as a bit of air got into the seam at the wing leading-edge it would open the wing in half quite spectacularly. People tend to stand next to a large rock on the mountain in case they need some good cover. The DS world-records were done with some custom built, very large very heavy gliders. There's quite a bit of great engineering in the R/C hobby.
The problem with such tools is often their lack of ubiquity. I don't want to start using ack, forget a lot of my grep knowledge, only to ssh into a server and need grep.

The benefit of grep's ubiquity outweighs any small advantage ack has in usability.
This was my reason for running NoScript. Then I found Ghostery.
Hmmm. So sometimes these smaller regional flights are subcontracted out to small carriers who don't have $20m of revenue. In that case, I don't have the data since it costs $$$.

I will look into it to figure out the reason. And those beers are still yours.
Russia Constricts Internet Freedom With New 'Bloggers Law'
I was fresh out of college. I had just landed my dream job. I was living at home making really good money so I could get myself on my feet and pay down college debt. My dad was a runner and healthy as can be. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in late winter and was dead before Christmas after chemo and surgery ultimately failed. He was 46 and I was 23.

At the time I was almost numb. I was sad, but not as sad as you think ahead of time you would be in a situation like that. It was only with the distance of time that I realized how depressed I must have truly been.

I don't know how old you are, or what else you have going on in your life, but even if you think people can't help you, surrounding yourself with people that care about you is vitally important. I don't have any great insights other than to invest time and effort into the relationships with people who care about you and whom you care about.

In time, the loss of my dad has become a part of who I am. If there is one positive outcome it is that it has certainly helped me set priorities in life. I realized through that experience that possessions, money, promotions, career, etc... all the things that we think are important are so meaningless in the grand scheme of things (though it's shockingly easy for me to get complacent and forget this lesson). People are what is important. Love and caring for our families and friends is one of the only things we have that transcends time and space to make a difference in another human being.
And Mythbusters Boarding segment here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERt7EhX-gtE
Right, I had a negative connection with that term since, basically, Google sees original content or nothing.

Thanks for the tip!
You can do everything you mentioned with Deis 0.8.0.

- Process management is handled the same way it is on Heroku, with a `deis scale` command. The fleet scheduler ensures processes are automatically restarted on host failure.

- How you secure network traffic is done differently depending on your environment (EC2, metal, etc). It's just a matter of configuration.

- Environment variables are managed using the `deis config` command, which creates new Docker images under the hood. We also support rollbacks of new builds and configuration changes using `deis rollback`.

- Log management is handled automatically for deployed applications. Developers can see their app's aggregated logs with `deis logs`. For platform/host logs, you can configure `journalctl` on CoreOS to drain whereever you like (Logstash, Splunk, etc)

- Server monitoring is often done at the hosting provider level (EC2 CloudWatch, etc). You can also configure agent-style host monitoring at the CoreOS level. We're currently working on some packaged solutions in this area.

There are some gaps in our documentation re: things like firewalling/SSL, monitoring, and draining platform logs. We are working to fill those documentation holes. But like I said, everything you mentioned is possible with Deis today. If you have further questions, hit me up at gabriel _at_ opdemand.com.
How does this compare to cscope[0] ?

edit:
or ctags[1] ?

---

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cscope

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ctags
ack is a tiny perl script that you can simply wget and add to your path. I hear what you are saying, and I think that it applies to a lot of utilities, but not ack. Imho ack is so much better than grep that it is worth the hassle of having to install it every now and then.
In the current H1B system, it doesn't matter if the applicant is from an elite US university. If you have to work in the US, and if you are not a permanent resident or US citizen, you go through, for the most part, the exact same H1B system as everyone else.

The only difference is, if you have a masters or higher degree, your H1B visa processing is done through a separate quota.

In today's system, unless you are a PhD with many publications in prestigious conferences/journals, etc., straight out of college (i.e., BS or MS), permanent residency is a long and highly bureaucratic process for most applicants. So essentially, your spouse cannot work till you get a green card. Here is an interesting story about an early Google employee highlighting this problem: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/business/12immig.html?page...

Also, in 2014, people are not as desperate to live and work in the US as you think, to arrange marriages for this sole purpose. Further, this rule-change applies to that subset of H1B workers who are on track to get green cards.

Employment-based green cards could take even 10 years to be processed because of purely administrative and bureaucratic delays.

Besides, the H1B workers affected by this rule are usually highly skilled and are likely to have similar quality of life if they lived and worked in their home country. When you take this into account, the loophole-theory that you talk about jumps into the realm of paranoid conspiracy theory.

(IANAL)
If anyone is interested, I was able to build a copy of Atom for Windows:

http://work.strieber.org/Atom-0.95.0-61fff23be.zip
Indeed - I wish I had know about dc (or dc had existed) when I was working in hedge fund land. Would have made my life a lot easier :-)
As it is Netflix pays for bandwidth and the end user pays for bandwidth.

Why should Netflix pay disproportionately more for its bandwidth than a non-video streaming service?
> I've never needed to use the rackup "rack" command directly, fortunately, if you do you ought to use a different alias

Or escape alias \rack
One of the Tent architects here.

We're actively working on 0.4. The big challenge right now is that a number of organizations are considering using Tent is very large scale deployments for sensitive data, so we're making the transition from move fast and break things to enterprise grade reliability.

This includes everything from a solid protocol validator (future versions of the protocol will have complete validation coverage before we release a reference implementation) and a highly scalable multi-tenant server that large service providers can easily deploy. We're refactoring the server we use for hosting Cupcake users and releasing it under a permissive license in the next few months to make that transition easier.

So it's an exciting time for the core team but there isn't a ton happening on the surface just yet.

Our goal has always been to get Tent to a solid 1.0 after which the APIs could remain unmodified for several years at least (similar to HTTP and SMTP). The tradeoff is that we then need the freedom to break things between versions of the pre-1.0 versions. It's frustrating for early app developers (one of the reasons we don't encourage adoption) but will pay off once we hit 1.0
How Anybody Can Measure Your Computer's Wi-Fi Fingerprint
Nice visualization, but it's missing one of the newest locations (understandably, as it just opened on April 22nd): Bodrum, Turkey!

What's interesting about this location is that it is, essentially, show room only. There's a smaller warehouse, but they don't stock the full line of items. For most items you will have to place a delivery order. I don't know if this is the first of it's kind, but it is a really interesting adaptation that Ikea has made to the market.

Even though Bodrum has experienced significant growth as of late, it is still primarily a seasonal resort town with the population tripling or even quadrupling during the summer months. It definitely wouldn't make sense to spend the money on a full-size warehouse that would only be used at full capacity 4 months of the year, but at the same time this is a market that seems very ripe for Ikea (many people furnishing summer homes probably aren't interested in premium furnishings). So kudos to Ikea for continuing to adapt to the market.
Zach Sims: Education Needs to Change as Fast as Technology
If you want to get philosophical, the world is actually changing every second, with every interaction that happens.

Besides, this game might just be a stepping stone for something bigger.
Sure, there's no reason, but it still sucks to have 3 tools for essentially the same task due to defects in each.
I like the idea about real world problems. Can you think of any examples?
Not only those [1]:

"Eligible individuals would include H-4 dependent spouses of principal H-1B workers who:

Are the beneficiaries of an approved Form I-140, Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker; or
Have been granted an extension of their authorized period of stay in the United States under the American Competitiveness in the Twenty-first Century Act of 2000 (AC21) as amended by the 21st Century Department of Justice Appropriations Authorization Act. AC21 permits H-1B workers seeking lawful permanent residence to work and remain in the United States beyond the six-year limit."

[1] http://www.dhs.gov/news/2014/05/06/dhs-announces-proposals-a...
Heh, Wordpress. That's what I meant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7701035
Poll: What stock photos you need the most?
You forget that the customer would be forced to choose what sites they could access as pay per site. The ISPs (generally a future Comcast monopoly) want to charge both ends to connect. You want Facebook at all - pay $5 per month. Facebook, pay us $1 per customer. You want some random blog, sorry they didn't pay us. Or maybe they will connect you at such a low rate as the site is unusable. The end result is that only huge wealthy companies can be accessed. Everyone else will be so backwater they may as well use smoke signals. The effect of monopoly (at least in the US) will make it impossible for their to be an alternative. I have two choices, AT&T and TWC. Both will do this sort of thing if they can. Then what do I do?
Awesome! I played while it was very popular on AOL and for a few years after they started charging for it.
> I wonder if the whole "new vigor for life" thing isn't actually just a personality trait coming out.

That would be a pretty sufficient explanation for me.

> There might just be some of us who respond to death with an impulse to, well, fight it.

There are a good number of such people, yeah.
Don't those contracts usually come with certain service and uptime guarantees?
Exactly... The main stores, (yellow and blue buildings) are the normal ones which are owned and operated by IKEA Corp.
Golib: goroutines and channels for Dart
But grandma pays to use her phone. My phone company shouldn't pay for her phone, but that's why she pays her own company.
Working GitHub Atom Windows Build
The OpenSSL license is a little strange, which may have pushed away potential contributors.
I like having a multipartitioned USB 3.0 device even when going back & forth between Windows & various Linuxes.

It's been live USB for me for over a decade now, and the hardware for fast boot times has finally arrived with
USB 3.0.

It only takes less than a minute to reboot to a different OS using a Bootux Multibootable USB stick.

PC does not even have to contain a HDD.

I've used VM's but there ain't nothing like the real thing baby ;-)

Native BIOS booting to active partitions is so fundamental, and now so potentially disruptive that it had to be replaced by UEFI if nothing else just to put some hurdles in the way.
Ask teachers. Moodle is dreadful. It's just waiting for a decent competitor to come and disrupt it.
But that's what makes Threes superior, for me - the needing to add 1 and 2, and the fact that they don't match each other makes for a more difficult game that requires much more thought. The fact that you can make matches with the basic tile that has the highest percentage of popping on the board every moves means that there are less consequences to not making the optimal move each turn.

That's just my opinion of course, but 2048 seems annoyingly easy - so much so that the up right down left repeat strategy is very valid to score a somewhat decent score when compared to some players.
Android Market alternatives
War on drugs a failure, influential report concludes
And to extend that analogy, Klaus Teuber, Reiner Knizia, and Wolfgang Kramer are like the Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak of board games.
Cool idea (great demo of the Roslyn tech) but you need to be able to write "Space Invaders" for that true taste of nostalgia.

I wonder now if I should have a go at re-creating VB3 - now that was a brilliant introductory programming language/version - particularly as it could get real things done.
It's not that it has little value, just that it is extremely easy for someone with an engineering mindset.

I took a single class at the USC Law School on Constitutional Law. It was considered a brutal general education class, but myself and some fellow engineers in the class found it absolutely trivial. Turns out case law has many similarities to formal logic.

An engineering education gives you a huge toolset with which to model and solve different kinds of problems, a toolset that non-engineers simply do not possess.
QoS mostly decides which packets get dropped, but ISPs shouldn't be dropping any significant fraction of packets.

(I was tempted to downvote you for your persecution complex, but that would only validate it so I'm torn.)
All of that has already happened. They banned BitTorrent where and when they can get away with it and they block Skype on particular mobile data contracts.

Note a very foreshadowing EFF press release:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/08/fcc-rules-against-comc...
Tools for Real-Time Big Data Analytics
Amazing :) I did not know that you could access lambda capture expressions. This can indeed reproduce parts of iod's features. However, this syntax does not provides static introspection, and does not support nesting properly :

auto obj = [ name = 1, a = [name = 1]{} ]{};
obj.a.name;

test.cc: In function ‘int main()’:
test.cc:5:38: warning: already captured ‘name’ in lambda expression
auto obj = [ name = 1, a = [name = 1]{} ]{};
^
test.cc:7:9: error: ‘struct main()::<lambda()>’ has no member named ‘name’
obj.a.name;
IKEA got burnt pretty badly in Russia by (alleged) corruption [0]. I think they'll play it safe for a while.

[0] http://www.theage.com.au/world/corruption-halts-ikea-in-russ...
Birdsong, so that when I'm stuck in a corporate griefhole I can imagine I am in a garden somewhere.

Also: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22298779
(Dropbox) Web vulnerability affecting shared links
So if there were FCC rules that came out saying the ISPs couldn't have slower access than they currently do and they can't completely block access to any legal server, would you be ok with that?
Looking at OpenSSL source code and fixing a bug are pretty much the exact opposite of "rolling your own crypto."
I noticed at least one error -- The "Washington (Woodbridge)" location drops a pin in Michigan not Virginia.
And not just sports. In the mid-90s I lived in south Georgia and was a Star Trek fan, at the time that meant watching UPN. The local UPN station was blocked during prime time for our area (literally local, it was broadcast from that town) in order for the FL (Talahassee?) station to retain its viewership. Only one problem, our cable offered only the local UPN station, not the FL one, so the blackout meant a 100% blackout of UPN during primetime for our town (short of rabbit ears, I wasn't that big a fan). Later, the two ABC affiliates ended up at odds with each other when the closer one ended up blocked by the one out of Atlanta, again during prime time.
I am interested to sell http://rallycause.com/ or to recruit new management team. Hyperlocal deal that uses cause donations as a motivators and causes as a channel to users. Validated biz model with pilot. Good metrics
Running a business is not easy, open source or otherwise. Neither is building a community. Has the author considered that maybe the OpenSSL people are just bad at business and community-building?
7 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do with CSS
Very easy to replicate:

With id="submit", throws a "object is not a function" error. http://jsfiddle.net/nbkHs/

Without, submits just fine: http://jsfiddle.net/B8CV2/1/
> I have used it.

How was it? I've heard a lot of really impressive claims; I'd be interested to know whether the hardware lives up to the hype.
If you think thats possible, you should be altruistic and apply for a job at your local school district to work at below market rates for people who don't understand your job and will always see you as a cost center and/or tech support.

Everything dropbox does can be done by a local server, and is already easy (ownCloud, BitTorrent Sync), but there is a reason why Dropbox is still doing so well. It would be thoughtful to figure out why consumer facing companies who manage everything are doing so well, before assuming overloading an already underpaid, understaffed, and sometimes underqualified IT staff with more software, hardware and ops is "altruistic"
You Don't Need 8 Hours Of Sleep, Only 7: Study
As a rails dev i can confirm this.

Jekyll always felt a little bit cumbersome when you are used to all the Rails goodies like sprockets.

Since I discovered the middleman-deploy[1] gem, I also use it for my Github Pages, without any additional effort.

1) https://github.com/tvaughan/middleman-deploy (or have a look at https://github.com/neo/middleman-gh-pages as an alternative)
how is this different from the 200 other online education platforms?
I tried watching Episode 1 last weekend, I really did. I lasted about 2 minutes into Jar Jar before turning it off.
I have no idea if it is in the standard, but this actually compile with gcc 4.9 -std=c++1y

auto obj = [ x=1, y="foo" ]{};
obj.x;
obj.y;
> What you may want is a personalized rating based on people with the same tastes as you.

I haven't used it in a while, but I used to find MovieLens, from the University of Minnesota, useful for that: http://movielens.umn.edu

It even has a feature where you can get joint personalized recommendations for you and a friend (assuming the friend also has a MovieLens account, of course), which is useful for brainstorming movies to rent with someone that might be mutually enjoyed.
I can't find any details about prices? All I could find was that it is freemium.
In my case, my IDE is the command line. ack is one of its plugins. The builtin plugins are also ok (find, ls, mv, etc.). I can create my own plugins for my IDE, and there are even package managers to install new plugins (yum, apt-get).
US seems to draw heavily from the "Law" function, with equal parts MBA.
> returning more than 1 object from a function without return pointers in the args

Actually that’s solved by returning `std::tuple` and `std::tie` – or using custom classes.
"hanged to death"? "to apply any new learnings"?
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Alibaba does a lot more than B2B. They do regular ecommerce sales like Amazon, run a financial service (you deposit money and earn interest, quite respectable interest too) and a lot more.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alibaba_Group#Companies_and_aff...
Comments: CARSON: Rethinking America's decline
There is a big difference between bandwidth and water. After being built (which I grant can be substantial), the bulk of the costs to the water provider is the volume of water provided. If my neighbor uses twice the water I am, he's costing twice the same and should be charged the same.

But not all bytes are equal. If I am pulling 1 Linux DVD at 3am and my neighbor is pulling down 2 per night at 3am, the costs he is placing on the system are not twice mine. The actual electricity costs between moving his bits and my bits are negligible.

Instead, the cost is in building out the pipe to handle the maximum load each evening when everyone is pulling videos down and/or Skyping to Grandma. And even then not all bytes are equal. I might really want the voice packets of my Skype session to go through right now, but be able to tolerate several second of lag on the video I'm watching from Netflix, while letting the video of my Skype call degrade as needed.

I don't think you can put ISP regulations into one simple sentence. They need a more complicated and thus expensive regulatory regime. And, yes, the more complicated, the more subject it will be to lobbying pressure from people with different views from you. It still strikes me as the least-bad solution.

EDIT: Water and electricity providers do care about peak usage somewhat. Water companies need to keep up pressure, and electric companies need to keep the electrons flowing no matter what. But the water company can tolerate a 5% dip in water pressure, and electric companies have ways of, say, disabling AC units to juggle demand during especially high periods of usage.

I think we need some way of discouraging the single biggest consumers of the shared resource (such as charging them more) during peak usage while still providing incentive for the ISP to increase capacity. Lots of people fear that the ISPs would just use this to increase revenue instead of to properly ration a shared resource. I totally understand that fear because I trust my ISPs about as far I can throw their headquarters. But other providers of shared resources with much more predictable demand patterns still have ways of dealing with demand surges, so I don't see how ISPs could hope to function in the long-term without some kind of peak-demand management.
"Sure, but that doesn't mean it works all the time, everywhere."

...which is a rather unsettling property in the foundation of your pyramid.

I agree with your theory--I'm just sad to see that there isn't always a lot of that in practice.

Hell, they almost killed off SPARC support on Debian a month ago because of developer ADD.
Actually they do. The last paragraph says that they are making EB1 visas (which is the green card version of the O1) easier to get:
Another revision announced Tuesday will ease requirements for applicants of an EB-1 work visa, which is issued to researchers and professors with extraordinary ability. To qualify, applicants for the visas currently must submit awards, scholarly articles and a host of evidence to prove their outstanding recognition in and contribution to a particular field. The new rule will allow applicants to present comparable evidence that is acceptable, the official said.

For entrepreneurs this is the most exciting development in these proposals as it should make the path to getting a green card easier.
Then Comcast will simply charge out the nose for the ability to send more than a trivial amount of data.
What about Google Course builder. Is this a replacement of that with new features?