skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was a wind power problem. They had a really good day for wind on a low load day. With solar, you get peak generation and peak air conditioning load around the same time. With wind, it's totally random. Wind power over the PJM or CAISO regions varies as much as 4:1 over a day, completely unrelated to load.

There are wind enthusiasts who claim that if you average wind over a large enough area, it's more constant. Experience does not bear this out. CAISO covers all of California and part of Nevada. PJM covers Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia. Both see 4:1 wind variation over a day. Maybe over an entire continent, the variance might reduce, but not over any practical grid area.
I have made the boat pointed and an indication for the point around which the sail pivots..)
Apple OCT 16TH event
As mentioned in other comments here, BOA currently supports it. I use it on a regular basis.
+ Statelessness

This is key.
The link has changed so, I posted this again.
>> Final lets you give a unique credit card number to every merchant, or a disposable one-time use number for one-off purchases.

> This is something I have been asking for since forever! People on here claimed it was "impossible" because of how credit cards work, I guess not...

My Bank of America Visa had a "temporary number generator" feature that I used when buying from sites that I thought were sketchy. I haven't used the card in some time so don't know if it still exists.
It depends. For new tech startups it's becoming the standard and until your market expands beyond tech I feel like .io is fine.
From the article:

> This article is for computer engineers who would like to have a high-level understanding of how the dual parity calculation works, without diving into all of the mathematical details.

I believe that is the value proposition for reading: gaining an understanding of RAID-6 parity calculation while glossing over the math-y bits.
He's not "falling for" him, he (probably) is him: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7664621
Weev, is a stain, and this drivel not worthy of comment. I would very much like Weev and all his demented little groupies to simply drift off into obscurity.

The only thing that needs to fuck off Weev, is you.
It's using this Watson API: http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercl...

and using the sample Node project to show the results. I am still exploring it myself :p
Meatball wiki has a lot of great information. The trolling stuff, and makin things unfun and uninteresting are useful. The stuff about vested contributors and concern trolls are pretty good too.

http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/VestedContributor

http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/TrollingTactic
Flush with fresh funding, Product Hunt will soon let you follow other users
> "If you don't want to be harassed, you shouldn't have a public presence."

I did not at all mean that. What I meant was that doxxing is a complex attack surface. If someone is already high-profile and public, they can't really be dox'd. If someone isn't, then staying anonymous is a more harder task than avoiding being dox'd. That's all I was saying.

If anything, I think that people who choose not to be anonymous need more social / political support, not less.
A Microsoft applied economist wants to give Nate Silver a run for his money
Yes but since the products of Coin and Final are so similar, surely the confusion is understandable.

The first time I saw the video, I certainly wondered if Final was either a follow-on product or pivot from the makers of Coin.
You just responded to rabite telling him not to fall for weev's game but by now you probably realise rabite is weev.

Either way, why was there a 150+ comment story accusing weev of something which he didn't do when it could very easily have been fact-checked? It's still circulating.

You might dislike this guy for his belief system, but surely when you are given proof that what he says is correct you should be willing to hear him out?
SoundFocus (YC S13) launches Amp iPhone audio case
ah, so you agree that the content of the article is good -- you just don't like the writer
For those that like this. There is a similar thing I saw awhile on here (I am guessing) that analyzes facebook posts and compares you:

http://labs.five.com/
It would be really cool if this could give some insight into how much weight each commit made carries. For example it could flag a commit that contains significantly more code changes than that team member typically submits. Or if a section of code has been stable and untouched for a while, if a change comes in that may be able to be classified as a bug fix. Similarly if a bunch of new files are added, that could be highlighted as a feature build.
It's clear in hindsight that Facebook was (rightly) focused on the enormous upside optionality of the Instagram acquisition.

It wasn't about paying $1 billion for downside protection.

The same is true for the WhatsApp acquisition.
Thanks for bringing that up, I did not know and it gives me some perspective about the guy.

What about his post now, are his allegations true or not?
3 E.R. Hacks to Remove a Stuck Ring
I'm having a very hard time paying any attention to the "slides" portion because of the time-shifted voice echoes.
Bank of Brazil (BB) released something very similar called Ourocard-e to all 33mi customers in April 2014. It's very cool this idea gaining more acceptance in other markets.
This isn't quite trespassing, though: this is breaking and entering (without malicious intent). This is someone noting that your door lock is easily pickable and then going on a quest to see just how far they can get, maybe finding a key to the car in the garage and then going into their glove compartment. The equivalent situation with physical property is clearly "criminal".
Yup. Kind of hard to tell my customers that their IoT module is secure when I can't control the toolchain.
Show HN: DIY Coin Checkout – Launch Your Product Like Coin or Plastc
Pretty clear that mostly what SF cares about is the tax revenue. That is the only part that is centralized and Airbnb has to provide. Everything else is self reported by the hosts which means that maybe the city will lean on them if the neighbors or landlords complain. Pretty smart of Airbnb to pay off the city and avoid responsibility for anything else. This is definitely a scalable business model if they can get other cities to buy into the same idea.
CHip and PIN will be required in the US as of Oct 2015.
Education-wise I think would this can be quite useful to train for man overboard situations.
This is too funny - my bank in Turkey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garanti_Bank) had this 10 years ago! I wonder why banks in the US are so ingrained in their ways and horribly slow at updating themselves.

edit: They also had an SMS cash thing where you can "send" cash to anyone, which is really a code you can use at any ATM to redeem cash.
The fact that you're a weaker version of a Silktail.
> My Bank of America Visa had a "temporary number generator" feature ... don't know if it still exists.

It exists still, but you have to login to the site to use it, and the card generator is written in Flash.

Aside from that, it's very good. It ties the number to the merchant and you can set a limit and expiration date.

I use it for a lot of recurring subscriptions, and "sketchy sites" purchases.
Qubes – Secure Desktop OS Using Security by Compartmentalization
Yeah, I remember being downvoted without explanation.
Same here. I recall it came with a USB card reader. You had to put the credit card into the reader to get the single use number... or something like that. The user experience was horrible. I don't think I actually ever got it to work. Surely things have improved since then though.
While I think this is cool, could someone explain to me why I'd bother using a docker setup over let's say a... traditional VM? And I don't need justification for using containers on a server, that makes sense... on a desktop though something just seems off.

Seems like there's little to gain and a lot to configure/worry about with the Docker setup. Happy to be learned somethin' ... just would like to know what that somethin' is.
I am a white nationalist, not a nazi. That means I believe whites are being systematically attacked and I work in my free time to defend my race from utter destruction. However, at work I leave my politics at the door, and I have colleagues that are diverse in terms of both gender and ethnic origin.

Now please explain how my politics changes the fact that I did not make the full-disclosure post dropping Kathy Sierra's dox, with the mail headers of the post verifying my claim? How does that change the fact that the media and social justice community has consistently cheered dox dropping, but goes into outrage mode when it happens to one of their own?

It doesn't matter what my politics or identity is. What matters is that there is hypocrisy and fraud being committed, and that people should know that.
In the 30 second attention I was going to give, 20 seconds was spent on registering. And then 10s to figure our if there is any demo or any sort.

I couldn't find anything easy to find. I give up. Website is too slow too. And everything shows classic big corp red tapism.
+1 - I will never use this with these kinds of permissions.
Yeah, I mistook it for the Caixadirecta app, it's a different thing.

MBnet is made by SIBS, the same entity that controls all the ATM.
I predict that you will get a lot of people gawking but not buying. I say that because men like looking at pictures of models in lingerie, but I don't know if women buy lingerie through apps. My wife buys nearly everything online, through Amazon, Ebay, you name it. But she still has a Victoria's Secret card and she goes to the mall to buy lingerie. I know Victoria's Secret used to be famous for its print catalog, but we all know that was because men liked looking at it, not because women ordered from it.
wow, I really like your demos! especially the timeline based. really cool and inspiring.

anyway you are right about giving more control to developers, we are working on that.
No need for pointer manipulation. When I had to implement reversing a linked list (for which already an implementation is there) I'd first ask whether it's single or double linked. In the former case (Pseudocode)

LinkedList toInvert;
LinkedList out;

Either iterate through toInvert and call out.push_front(...) on each element or (if the operation may be destructive) do

while (!toInvert.empty)
out.push_front(toInvert.pop_front())

All this should not take more than 5-6 lines - should be doable in 20 minutes. Also: these two lines surely could also be written under pressure.

If the linked list is double linked, I'd ask whether the reversing has to be called often in the code. If yes, you could add a direction flag to the linked list, which tells in which direction the iterator will iterate. This makes the iterator implementation a little bit more complicated, but makes the reversing O(1).
What features do your users actually use?
So - what happens is I get bounced through a few 302 redirects from github back to the page, but I remain not logged in. Then if I refresh the page it displays me as logged in then. Hope that helps. :)
Build a visual translator using picture messages
At the same time, though there is very little evidence that that sort of security stuff does much to help. Adding the extra security doors to the cockpit helped a lot, but most of the other post 9/11 changes do not have a clear benefit security wise.
I think Radley's piece was a great fit. It was about identity theft, which itself is usually on-topic, and also about government activity rubbing up against the norms and policies of an online social network, which is usually on-topic.

Here's the thesis (and spirit) that makes Radley's piece more HN relevant, to me:

It shouldn’t be all that surprising, then, when drug enforcement officials subsequently treat drug offenders as something less than human. If you aren’t fully human, you have no identity to steal.
Congrats guys! Brings continued and much needed attention to help app developers more easily operationalize their data and connect with partners.

The ecosystem of developer tools is expanding fast and guys like Segment (and us- mParticle) are helping lead the way for app developers to move faster and build better apps.

This is good for everyone!!!
I want to invest. I have a feeling this is going to be acquired for billions for PayPal or a credit card company.
Would love to see something like this for reddit, where I'm a more active poster on a wider variety of issues.
Pocket-sized mobile touchscreen web server runs Tizen
Who is lending money to startups?
Works fine, FF 32 Linux
Looks great! One question: Any plan for additional client libraries / demos beyond java, nodejs, ruby/rails? e.g.
- django (python)
- flask (python)
- obj-c
- scala
- go

* Plug for python - lots of ml / nlp / scientific computing done with using python.
I find it hard to believe that a majority of respondents could survive between 1 and 5 years. CNN has an article about how 76% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Is HN over-repesented in the 24%? (even that remaining 24% might have only two paychecks saved up, so it's still not even close)

http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/24/pf/emergency-savings/
EdX Introduction to Function Programming [in Haskell]
What Bitcoin Slump? Blockchain Raises $30M
Not an appropriate comment for HN.

>> Be civil. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Here's the study that's commonly cited in reference to Houston's diversity: http://kinder.rice.edu/uploadedFiles/Urban_Research_Center/M...

And the relevant paragraph regarding NYC: The standardized Entropy Index measures how close a total population is to sharing balanced percentages across its racial/ethnic groups. If one subgroup is 100 percent of the population, then the standardized index score will be 0. If the four racial/ethnic groups are each 25 percent of the population the score would be one. Houston has the highest entropy score of the 10 largest metropolitan areas, 0.874. New York is a close second with a score of 0.872. All but two of the 10 largest metropolitan areas, Boston and Philadelphia, have a higher entropy score than the national average of 0.709, meaning that in general the large metropolitan areas are more diverse than the nation as a whole.

EDIT: I'm not going to argue the pros or cons of the methodology because I'm not familiar with the field of study.
Used to, not anymore. They only offer a prepaid MC card now.

https://www.paypal-prepaid.com/
It's been around, but the most user friendly way I found was through a Paypal plugin but they indespicably removed that years ago. Been looking for a more convenient method ever since. Signed up for Final, looking forward to it. Finally someone that wants to get this right.
Don't I know it! I'm still paying my $9370 in restitution for discovering a 2+ year old unpatched vulnerability in 2011 and NOT using it to compromise their system further.
Love this idea, however I don't use credit cards (or any other form of unsecured debt). Do you plan to offer a debit card?
Am I not reading often on HN about long-term agreements startups in SFBA are committing themselves to (specifically real estate/office space leases)? That's a debt, and when a startup burns up, any time left on that lease is a debt left unpaid. Debt is not just VC money in hand.
Startups involve having to do everything with a tiny group of people, so the more skills you have personal experience with the better. If you business depends upon your product, sales and marketing skills, and you've only been a developer, it's going to be a very tough time.

Working at a startup is a great way to get some experience in several other domains, especially if you are one of the first employees. Even if you don't do it first hand, you'll get to spend a ton of time with "head of sales", "head of marketing", "head of product", because they'll be the other three dudes in your office.
Announcing Quixote: CSS Unit Testing
You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar. Good reading!
I don't know how good the open list system is working in Denmark. In Italy a experiment showed that only 3% of the electors use their right to change the candidates, making it useless.

A majority system where you can choose directly your MP would be way better to achieve representation. Why voting a list? Why not elect one representative for an area of about 100k citizen?

That way you do know who is your representative, in the list system (even in the open list) who is your representative? All of them?
100% Challenge?

Not sure what that means... but maybe this post is contributing to it?
Works for me.

Maxxed out 9.25 knots at close haul at 33 knots of wind.
First, illegal immigrants (which is who we seem to be talking about here) don't have permission to work, which is why they work under the table. Under the 1994 IIRIRA law, it's virtually impossible to get a work permit if you don't have one when you arrive.

Second, they are not eligible for benefits, of any kind. Children who are born here to immigrants are eligible for benefits, because the children are American citizens, and also children who are brought into the country as children are allowed to attend school etc., because being children they were below the age of legal responsibility at time of entry.

Third, a lot of immigrants do pay taxes. Some use someone else's social security #, in which taxes are withheld but don't benefit them, some people work with an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number, which is like an SSN but not the same and which the IRS gives to people who are liable for US taxes but not eligible for an SSN. The usual way people file with an ITIn is as self-=employed, in which case they pay both the employer and employee portion of payroll taxes (which normally go into social security) but accrue no benefits for doing so.

Some people get tax benefits through the Earned Income Tax Credit which is a payment to people who work but have a low income, I think this amounts to something like $4 billion a year, against about $10bn paid in. It may be they're eligible for the EITC because a tax credit is not considered a benefit for legal purposes but I've never looked into that so I might be wrong.
You nailed it.

alert("1");
alert("2");
alert("we got here");

Ah, I don't have fond memories of those days.
http://d.pr/f/pJqJ
How does multiple-number thing work when using the card physically (mag swipe, chip-pin or tap) on current CC processing terminals?
There's also an issue of anonymity and trust. There are plenty of websites from which I'd like to make purchases (some of an unflattering disposition) that may continue to bill after cancellation requests (because they know nobody would take them to court for fear of having their names associated) or that I just don't want bound to my name.

How many times have you found yourself shying away from a site because you were worried about what they'd do with your credit card number? This isn't a perfect solution (especially with the limited pool of numbers), but it's nice.
Adobe Project LayUp – iPad app
Best (and Worst) Practices for SaaS Pricing
Weev is p cool guy, he hates Jews, Niqqers and doesnt afraid of anything.
Yes, it is. Can started by trying these ideas on Postgres' row store, and he thought that we could get good benefits particularly when columns in the database table had fixed-widths.

Then again, making changes for both fast column projections and aggregations in Postgres didn't look too easy. Since we told him to go crazy in a short amount of time, the best way to do that seemed through the columnar store.
AT&T Forced to Refund $80M for Years of Scammy Billing
Measuring Pi with Lentils and Python
Apple Pay requires the vendor to have an NFC card terminal, which won't be universal for a long time if ever. This looks like it'd be usable with a normal credit card terminal.
Anyone else think ARM missed an opportunity to make this open source? Is the fear that the platform would "fork" in very bad (far out) ways, real?
I want to shake your hand and buy you a drink. Long live FC.
I don't see how you can say that and not feel the same way about payment providers. If AirBnB is not on the hook for activity that happens explicitly and exclusively on their platform I don't see why we should hold banks accountable for illegal activity that happens on their platforms.
When startups launch they aren't trying to go for an everyman angle. That happens while trying to cross the chasm.
Did noone not think this might not be the best idea?

Unnecessary network dependencies are all the rage in software these days.
Interesting. I can see a market for maybe five of these 'Watson' things.
Storms don't wreck boats when you live on them.

Life is more complicated when have contract jobs or live on land, but if you retire on a boat, you simply move out of the way. If you have a couple days warning, hurricanes simply aren't big enough.

Boats are destroyed in hurricanes when the owner is freaking out about his house on land, or frankly, insurance scams. So some hull insurance won't pay out in tropical waters during hurricane season. So don't go there or get a different policy.

You can run into sudden squall issues, that is true.

One thing to think about is it might not be 10% cheaper it might be 75% cheaper. Even if you had to buy a completely new boat every decade because it sank (unlikely), it still might be cheaper than living on some land.
It would be disingenuous to not call it a computer. People should come to understand what computation is, not be relegated to simple lifestyle devices.
I loved the Paypal plugin. Never understood why they discontinued it.
Bitbucket and HipChat have streamlined their integration
There are a couple reasons I can think of:

* You can run different versions of program side-by-side: FF 32 in one window, and FF 31 in another to test compatibility and regression.

* You can install programs without polluting your base system. I don't want to have Java installed, but sometimes I just need to run an applet.

All of that can be achieved with traditional VM, but with the performance penalty. As Docker runs on top of the native kernel, speed should be comparable to the application running directly on host.
Until recently, I couldn't 1) connect my Chromebook via HDMI to a projector, or 2) view spreadsheets from my finance department. Both "bugs" were fixed in the last few months, but I had mostly given up on using it at that point.
http://www.virtualregatta.com/index_vgv2012.php
they did a huge hit with the virtual race during the Vendée Globe 2008
Do you have a problem to solve, an idea of how to solve it, and is now the right time to start a company to build it? Does this problem-solving idea keep you up at night? Then you should just start the startup now to test the waters. If you are just interested in the idea of starting a startup for the sake of starting a starup, then go work for someone else's startup to see how hard it is, and you might just get some sense knocked into you.
Yup. I used to drive for Lyft and didn't go to the airport because... it's illegal to pickup there. If people wouldn't break the law there wouldn't be a sting.

Also please don't do a 'Warn HN'... I don't think people will care enough to need a warning.
Oops; I typed in "patio11" and then after a reasonable delay got "502 Bad Gateway: Registered endpoint failed to handle the request.".

It came up with mine quite quickly, so guess it spends some time ingesting the data? (I haven't posted very much)
Its coming, but theres about 3 decades of PoS systems that need to be phased out, and even then there needs to be a clear winner (or maybe 2/3) in the space before you're going to see adoption at the walmart and mcdonalds of the world.
I tested this with the busybox image, and received a warning that /sys was already mounted, but the attack then proceded to work as expected.