skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, every time one of those hit the 'sail' the direction and magnitude of the force it imparts on the sail is calculated. It is not really needed, as one could just calculate it from the strength and direction of wind in relation to the sail, and setting that they hit the sail at some constant rate. I decided to render it so that it gives some intuition regarding the forces that are acting on the sail.
Thanks! I'm a fan of BuiltWith as well, but I have a different objective. I made this when I was learning Angular and wanted to easily find what companies in my area where using it. I hope this tool helps developers quickly find the companies they might want to work for.
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Link is wrong I think (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/09/us/ebola-us-thomas-eric-du...)
Very nice!

A feature idea: would be cool to have a level with "increased difficulty/realism" with just one degree of freedom - the sail. In real world you can not turn the vessel on a whim. And the next level, make the wind gusty, and make it a requirement to keep a certain speed to avoid "drowning", and you have a rather fun windsurfing-simulator game :)
We do a lot to filter those kind of votes. We are just not so open about it and it's not so much common knowledge.

Bit longer comment from above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8427499
Sure, of course the harassers can't attack people directly on Twitter if they're banned from Twitter.

But what the article is talking about is also doxxing, sending things to physical addresses, etc, which are by far the more distressing elements of harassing.

Kicking people off Twitter does nothing to stop or even slow those things down.

It's not "binary thinking", so please don't try to dismiss it as such. It's acknowledging that the simple answers don't solve the worst aspects of the problem.
The doctrine of proportional harm would basically eliminate enforcement of traffic laws for cyclists because they cause very, very little harm compared to motor vehicles.
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> I'd tell you to speak your mind about this issue during an all hands meeting, and conclude your tirade by "I quit this company", but not everyone can afford to pull off a stunt like this.

Another guy who spoke up and went as far as to create a 1984 + our company name mashup poster got a talking to from the president. I have spoken up and will continue to, however, as much as I hate to admit it I need this job. I am passively looking elsewhere but part of me wants to stay and try to change it for the better. I joined in the first place because I believed in their mission to help re-integrate people into society, I thought I was joining the "good guys". I don't want to be responsible for writing code that prys into these people's lives and I really don't want to be a part of a company that does it at all. I understand we need to track these participants but location tracking is about as far as I feel comfortable with, anything more just feels wrong.
The convention of getWeight() is bad because it assumes an existence of setWeight(). And get/set methods turn an object into a holder of data.
I enjoyed this a lot. I do think the author is tending to make his assertions too strongly e.g. saying things like "this data shows that..." instead of "this data suggests that..." It's still a fun read and thought-provoking.
I just replaced a SQL view that was performing 24,000 reads with a procedure that performs 45 reads. Yes, it's a little different to use, but overall don't listen to the premature optimization people.

I could wait until the data in those tables grows to a crazy size and the reads are out of control (and spilling to disk) or I could just fix it now. Hmmm...
Hmm I could live a year off my savings, but shouldn't you be insured? If I lose my job tomorrow I get 3500 USD/month for a year. I pay 10 USD/month for this insurance. (Backed by the government). Don't you normally do it like this in the US? Where I live all people get an insurance like this. Or is this pretty much the same as social security?
Sail: 200

Boat: 130

beating to windward while close hauled

wish I could see the keel forces

pretty cool!
I have zero savings. I live on a tight budget. I have just reached the position of being able to save a small amount of money and I'm working on better frugality.

But if my income stopped tomorrow I'd be homeless and hungry real quick.

I used to see recommendations of one fifth of your income for safety and one third of your income for comfort. That was a long time ago so things might be different now.
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Is there a good reason to use pastebin for these type of posts instead of just putting all of the info in the HN post? The only thing I can think of is that it avoids being grouped into the ask section which I think has some disadvantages.
Commit hooks (no daemon necessary) might work for unpushed commits?

inotify/fsevents watching of folders (for in-progress code) is pretty common nowadays for various things, is it not? I guess some devs might not like having their unfinished code made visible to others?
If you write into support at New Relic (or email/call a sales rep that you have already worked with), we can get an account exec to chat with you about pricing more appropriate to your situation. We are aware that in a world of autoscaling and micropriced micronodes, a different pricing model is likely to be more appropriate.

You can see the first shot at a revision like this with the pricing restructure on heroku that we announced last december:

http://blog.newrelic.com/2013/12/04/new-relic-announces-new-...

Your complaint is totally reasonable and NR is hoping to address it soon!
I believe it isn't insurmountable but any possible solution would be unreasonable. You're asking for a system to be put in place but you have no ideas regarding implementation. If you think about the problem you'll realize how ridiculous any solutions would be. The biggest problem is verification of complaints, how do you do that?
Our VP of Risk, John Canfield, was a senior leader on eBay's Trust & Safety team for almost a decade. He did a great talk on Veda, our risk engine, at QCon - check it out here: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/big-data-payment-risk-man...

Re: Stripe Marketplaces, yes - that's my understanding based on my conversations with our customers.
When was it implemented?

Maybe it was recent enough none of us noticed the impact...
Tapping the left arrow key while on the original link shows the correct article. NYTimes has that aggressively annoying behaviour that takes over your keyboard, changes web paradigms and makes using their site confusing. I rarely get through an reading article without the site whisking me away to some other place at least 2-3 times.
I was stupid enough not to check if the colors were actual colors before generating the image. Fixed now :)
Pretty cool demonstration of Weave[1]. Is it correct to summarize Weave as "Hamachi for Docker containers"? For those that don't remember Hamachi, perhaps "VPN for Docker containers" is a more contemporary technical description.

[1] https://github.com/zettio/weave

EDIT: I know this was just a proof-of-concept, but I believe if one were to bring up a multi-datacenter Cassandra ring, you'll want to ensure your replication configuration is "NetworkTopologyStrategy" and not the default "SimpleStrategy" setting[2].

[2] http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cassandra/2.0/cassandr...
How come the application needs write permissions to repos (private and public)?
Yeah, I was surprised to see Something Awful listed as an example of a place that does well. Back in the day (early 2000s) it was, like you said, really really terrible. When I think of "for the lulz" I think of SA. Reddit seems to be at the same stage now that SA was back then. There's a lot of good, but there's also a lot of bad and the admins don't seem to care to get rid of the bad.

Of course, that was a decade ago. Maybe I should revisit it and see if my account's still there...
My brain is signalling that you may be missing the point.
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The big problem with debit cards is if you get it stolen then your money is taken. Sure you'd get it back eventually, but until them you don't have access to your own money and can't spend it.
Back when I was in 8th grade, there was a guy who claimed he had a girlfriend. She lived in [two towns over]. But no one believed him because they never saw her. Never got her last name. There were just claims that "she's from [town], and she's awesome".

I have the same reaction to the national security theatre that we're always presented with from classified space. "Trust us there's a real threat, but you don't know about it because it's classified". They can't tell us anything about their 'constant' and 'heroic' efforts to save us from the evil monster redacted. There's no evidence presented to me.

On the other hand, the real bad guys are constantly doing stuff to get in the news. So the only conclusion I have is 'national security' is the bureaucratic way of saying "my girlfriend lives two towns over".
Have Airbnb guests been an actual problem, or is this a pure Not In My Building reaction?
Steve Jobs was an interesting bonus, but Amelio didn't plan to step down and let him take over. Jobs kind of forced his way in.

The immediate reason Apple bought Next was for Nextstep. Apple had no next-generation OS and desperately needed one. The two viable options were Be and Next, and Next was considerably more mature.
Yeah, I was super excited until I saw this - write perms to repos and personal info. Especially since I use github for work and admin a bunch of repos, I can't take the risk of allowing write access.
This is interesting!

I copied their own text from the top of the page at http://watson-mr-demo.mybluemix.net/ and selected "Cloud Computing." Then I changed all the words that were grey until they were green.

Original:

The Watson Message Resonance service analyzes the popularity of a given word within a specific community. By using this ranking system it is possible to recommend more resonant words to use when crafting messages targeted at specific audiences.

Changed:

The Watson Message Acceptance service analyzes the popularity of a given word within a specific community. By using this ranking system it is possible to recommend more effective words to use when A/B testing messages written for specific audiences.

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Which one resonates more with you? :)
It was whinged about incessantly in the popular press though (even on HN) as being anti-entrepreneurial, anti-business and something that would lead to an exodus of rich people from Paris (as if lower property prices were a bad thing).

I think the thought mattered more than the actual tax. You could sense that the ultra-wealthy all around the world hated it. Made them feel persecuted, perhaps, despite it being ultimately pretty toothless.
So this places batch in the same situation as bash, but for some reason the internet is not losing its mind and claiming that the world will end.
PlentyofFish was at one stage a very profitable one man startup I believe.
Discover will give you a new CC every time you want to change the design on it, which you can choose from several. :)
How much time before?
The important thing is that this says nothing (good or bad) about our ability to control the spread of Ebola.
I agree that the link below by crazypro is more relevant to the title.

The interesting thing to me, is that medical folks want to know more about the proper procedures for handling Ebola cases, and the CDC considers two conference calls as the appropriate way to inform them.

Even in our highly technical world, sometimes a low bandwidth method (telephone) is more effective than creating an interactive web page with slow motion video or animations.
@opendais might be.

Sorry i answer so loose/un-specific.

One of the advices of HN/reddit was to not communicate those things too openly in public. It's a bit against my nature but it makes sense from what i can tell so far.
Is there any other (realistic) way of doing it though?

Yes: go slowly but stay within your means.

Whether this is a good strategy depends on the nature of the business and the people involved with running it.
cool, reminds me of the http://teachrose.com Sand box...wish people would make lots of stuff like this
That's not true. Hardware where VMs are hosted requires repairs from time to time, so VMs do require migration.
Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, there isn't any way to specifically ask for only read permissions for private repos. The commit statuses permission doesn't allow for listing of private repos either.

If I'm completely missing something than I'd be more than happy to get a change deployed.
Webapp verification emails are becoming snail emails
i'm having this issue with 2 businesses i'm working on. we are sending out automated verification emails to users signing up for our saas. these emails can take up to 15 minutes to arrive in the Inbox - there appears to be no pattern.

we use Mandrill as one transaction provider and sendgrid as another. the emails are shown as sent/delivered but the emails are taking far longer to show in the Inbox.

Anyone having the same issue? Any ideas on fixes?
The way I can see this supporting Chip and PIN is if they find a way to act as an intermediate processor -

The chip contains an application for Plastc, this is (like Amex) always acquired by Plastc (and will probably then only be allowed at participating retailers). Part of the Issuer Private Data sent in the transaction is which one of your pre-registered accounts you wish to use. That account is then charged in the background. It would work a bit like a physical Paypal.

Because unless something major has changed, I can't see banks being keen to hand over private keys to third parties.
r/personalfinance is useful but maybe a little too starter and repetitive for op's stage. r/financialindependence is better but not that active. I'd recommend bogleheads.org where a large portion of the community is approaching or in retirement and also the mrmoneymustache forums for frugality/advice on making the money last.
There were probably a lot more articles in the popular press that tried to give this impression than there were actual fleeing hordes.
Not to mention that quite a few small companies don't have the ability to hire a dedicated sysadmin, IT staff, and/or customer support rep. These tasks falls to the engineers.

Doing these tasks is almost certainly a suboptimal use of any single product engineer's job, but if they don't get done by someone the business won't be a business for long.
I agree with a part of this. I live for today. Although I would have issues if I lost insurance coverage and something happened. Otherwise I figure I'll start saving and planning after I get my pilot's license.
Have you considered the possibility that "don't feed the trolls" may not be an effective modus operandi?
1.0/1.1 is so drastically different from 2
The poll talks about investments as valid sources of income (unrelated to "work"). If this is your case, then you can choose the "forever" answer.
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It doesn't get that far. I type in my email, press the button and "Please enter a valid email address." appears. Not sure why I've been downvoted for the previous comment, your validator really is broken.

6 alpha chars @ gmail.com, on Firefox and Chrome on OS X 10.9.5. Really should work; doesn't. Console shows that you're passing an empty string to getElementById at some point.
8 months off of my bank accounts, then another 4 years 3 months from less liquid non-retirement savings. That's assuming current lifestyle with no vacations or capital purchases like a new computer. Realistically I'd probably move to a cheaper apartment at the end of my lease if I were still unemployed then.
My personal savings pillow is rather large compared to my expenses (20+ years on a good standard), but I would not want to count on it to spend my golden years. Money (even large sums) can be gone really really quick. Every self sustaining elderly person I admire is doing it on renting out paid off property. If you can aquire a couple of houses/flats in your lifetime before you stop working taking care of those alone will let you live really well and also provide for the next generation.
Mr Money Mustache has a great take on this:

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-sim...

Simple rule of thumb: 25x your yearly expenses is enough to live off your savings.
This is oddly relevant to me right now.

I'm a freelancer, and a scare came up yesterday where one of my main income streams was about to dry out... just after going through a summery dry spell and just before the obligatory Christmas dry spell.

So, currently? A month, but considerably less once UK tax time comes in January.

(In case you're wondering, I've got a couple of more smaller income streams sorted, and as of an hour ago it turned out the main one might not be that dry after all.)
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It's very easy to cause a ton of problems with commodity routers. The University of Wisconsin - Madison CS department got DOSed back in 2003 by Netgear routers using the CS NTP server because it was hard-coded into the router firmware. Full story is linked below:

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/
A couple of days ago I met a 60-ish year old man who did just that. Sold his house, bought a 30 footer, found a nice place to anchor it along a small (pop. 700) fishing community in the state of Rio (not the big city, somewhere around 100 miles south of it). He used to sail 30 years ago, so he can go out a bit, but uses the boat mainly to live a nice, simple and cheap retirement.
And what about Gists?
> The main disincentive to invest in the grid is the fact that it is a monopoly and like all monopolies the owner's incentives are to slash investment and milk the monopoly under ALL circumstances.

Quite the opposite, in fact.

In most of the PJM states, power generation is deregulated and market-driven, while the grid itself remains a regulated monopoly.

Regulated monopolies operate under a fixed rate-of-return. They would much rather spend $6 billion and earn 10%, instead of spending $5 billion and earning 10%.

That's what happens when the rate of return is fixed. The more they spend, the more they earn. Consumer groups routinely show up at regulatory commissions and complain that the electric utility is spending too much on upgrading the grid.

> Comcast behaves in a similar manner.

Comcast is a minimally-regulated monopoly that is not earning a fixed rate of return. The less they spend, the more they earn.
When a merchant signs up with WePay Clear, do they actually have full WePay accounts they can log into (which would have a WePay-branded experience)?
In my experience, coffee shops and the like are too loud, and if they aren't you won't feel comfortable speaking in your "interview voice". If you have a coffee shop with outdoor seating, that can work.

I have done phone interviews literally walking about the neighborhood near my office. This has the added benefit that you supposedly speak with more confidence and authority when standing up and walking.
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Novel way to approach this problem. On projects in the past I just kept a table of optimal angles (given the boat's performance characteristics) and when there is significant overlap I adjusted the velocity. This approach does a better job approximating wind though.
Who knows how much these really help, but every little bit counts.
IDA was not the first one. There have been a few others since the 80's.
Hey everyone! I made this because I wanted a simple way to plan-out this idea I had for Google Glass, but no knowledge of how Glass actually worked (best practices, display resolution, etc.)

Thinking others had the same problem I designed GlassWireframe much like any other mockup tool out there, yet specificly for modeling the look, feel, and interactive properties based on the official GDK.

I was very happy to see the hundreds who signed up to test the private beta; and I'm happy to announce it's now open for public use.

GlassWireframe is still young and has much room for improvement. Here are a few things we're working on to make it better based on user feedback:

- Collaboration: multiple accounts working on the same project

- Preview Mode: Viewing your Glass App creation set against uploaded scenic images, from the POV of a Glass User (much like starting a PowerPoint presentation)

Hope this helps! I believe the future is in wearable technology, and creating tools like this to aid startups and entrepreneurs towards this new frontier is a smart thing to do.
That's an article from 2011. This evasion does not work today.
Big congrats to Peter, Raphel and the whole team! A solid service and solves a real problem that developers go through every time they start a new project & update their existing ones. Excited to see what you come up with next.
I have a friend who is living on a house boat in DC. The marina is on the Potomac downtown. It's at least as cheap as a studio apartment if not cheaper.
This is pretty much it.

I boarded a commuter plane (prop plane, less than 50 seats) last month at a small town airport. It had pre-9/11 security in place and a broken metal detector. I got a quick pat down that didn't even cover all my pockets. From there, I got on a cross country jet identical to the ones that hit NYC or the Pentagon on 9/11.

It is pretty clear either:

A) The government is so incompetent they can't be trusted with providing anything resembling security.

B) They don't take their security theater seriously.
I'm one of the people saying it is just the team names. I'm not doing that to defend Slack - I've always been unhappy with their sign-in process and this is one of the reasons. However, a lot of people are saying that you can list channels, and that's not correct and would be far more concerning.
Docker is based on Linux namespaces.
The first thing which comes to mind is that Docker does not use user namespaces. Hence, the root within Docker is the same root as on the host side. Of course Docker papers over the issue by using apparmor and other tricks but this does not cure the issue itself.

Linux containers (LXC, libvirt-lxc, Docker) are shared kernel visualization. Every single kernel vulnerability will hit you hard.

In contrast to LXC and libvirt-lxc Docker lets you configure a lot of insane setups which are not secure. (But easy to setup)
Also keep in mind resource issues. If you setup your container in a wrong way
it my eat all your available file descriptors, all memory, etc...
(Because it is shared kernel)

Let's face it, the whole technology was not designed for sandboxing, more for
easy deployment of applications.

That said, I really love container and use them a lot in production with libvirt-lxc.
But I don't use them for sandboxing.
>But Xenophobia is the biggest theme, see for yourself:

It resonates with the working classes who have had their wages held stagnant by competition from immigrants from low-income countries.

Unfortunately, no other party has even begun to address that issue so they get to collect a lot of votes.

Furthermore, the way that all of the other parties dismiss any complaints regarding immigration as "pure xenophobia" only hands them even more votes.

Which is unfortunate because they're total assholes.
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