skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a interesting idea but damned if I'm going to stick a random USB device into my computer.
I'm not seeing that on the text/enriched spec? You might be thinking of HTML email.
If you really wanted to test the five second rule, you'd have to be broader. Who is overall better off?

1. The person who NEVER eats food off the floor
2. The person will ALWAYS eats food off the floor
3. The person who follows the 5-second rule

I wouldn't be surprised if the 5 second rule gives its followers a net benefit. You're slightly more likely to get sick, but you waste less food and live a less paranoid life.

I'm sticking with it, but not for watermelon.
Do yourself a favour and use RethinkDB, its so much better then MongoDB, just try it
Riot wants to be like Slack, with flexibility of underlying open source platform
> its job is to protect American citizens and their interests

Are you implying that you can dispense with human rights when it comes to foreign civilians? I am also very frightened by the fact that you are, apparently, condoning it to "protect [American citizens] interests". I hope that interests means safety here.
I gotta wonder how much this would cost
There's really very little standing in the way of network transparency: https://blogs.s-osg.org/wow-wayland-over-wire/
> This superstition is called "free will". Some people are born with problematic brains, others are raised in environments where they never have the chance to develop a healthy mind.

How can you know that what you're saying is not a superstition itself?
Given that RAW can have 32 bits per channel and PNG only 16 bits per channel, it must be possible* to construct two different RAW files which render to the same PNG.

*Possible in the mathematical sense, it may not be practical.
So what. Everybody does this from time to time.
"I see people put their forks, etc, on tables"

What? If you can't put your forks on the table where can you put them?

I always put my fork on the table, that's what the tables for.

How do you lay your table?!
Right, because those cities have genocides and civil wars going on from time to time.
While socialists do tend to be violent psychopaths - particularly in that era [1] - it's far from clear that such behavior is necessary.

You can witness the same transition happening in India completely peacefully. Many middle class jobs are transitioning to 5 day weeks as part of capitalist competition to gain/retain workers. Nerdy software engineers - more or less the opposite of violent socialist revolutionaries - are some of the first to gain these benefits.

I remember hearing recently the philosophy of an older (read: 70+) black civil rights activist criticizing Black Lives Matter. He said that back in the day, they had a 4 step process. 1) Have an ideology, i.e. figure out exactly what you want. 2) Ask for it nicely, and reduce levels of niceness in the requests gradually. 3) Peacefully protest. 4) Revolution.

It seems like the socialist revolutions might have jumped to step (4) unnecessarily.

[1] Just read some of Jack London's socialist fiction. One of his short stories is about socialist revolutionaries murdering innocent people and dropping their bodies on the doorsteps of peaceful capitalists.
I see tearing often and it bothers me a lot. Also, if you run a program with gui in X you will need to trust that program to act in your best interest since X doesn't protect against malicious clients. When I start a game on my computer, I do not want to have to trust it to behave nicely.
> My girlfriend wants to go back but that's just because "London is the best place in the world"

Exactly. My flatmate says this shit as well. He's someone who commutes 1.5hrs times two each day, and "London is the best place in the world". He doesn't do anything else with his life, because between a 9-5 and 3 hours of tube, the only thing you have energy for is watching tv.

I have come to the conclusion that people who say "London is the best place in the world" are small minded people disguising as worldly. My flatmate for example never lived anywhere else, but he knows London is "the best".
>For the vast majority of people the third-party cartridge issue is a footnote, not something meriting a one-star review.

Then those people can always NOT write an one-star review. As for the others, there's nothing wrong with pushing an agenda, if you think it's an important fault of the product.
Typical setting would be on top of a plate, on top of a napkin, wrapped in a napkin, etc., never directly onto a table surface.
The US has 1.7 representatives in parliament per citizen. Compared to countries in Europe, that's very low [1], but even in Europe there's a clear trend for larger countries to have proportionally less seats, e.g. compare Estonia (1.3 million people, 76 seats per million citizens) to Germany (80 million people, 8 seats per million).

Looking at larger democratic bodies, the US doesn't seem that underrepresented compared to the European Union (1.4 per million) and India (0.6 per million!)

Having nearly ten thousand MPs seems very complicated, although I think it could be a good application of modern technology. However, how could this every be implemented? Even the most ardent supporters wouldn't be able to deny that it would be quite an experiment, and can you really do experiments on a nation state with hundreds of millions of people? We could try in a smaller country first, but using actual countries as "guinea pigs" sounds totally ludicrous.

1: https://jakubmarian.com/number-of-seats-in-the-national-parl...
Interesting. I've only ever seen studies suggesting that the death penalty has no deterrent effect whatsoever (when compared to penal systems without death penalty).
It's fine, I don't care about any of "fantastic arts, music, literary, theatre scenes, both contemporary and classical". I'm quite good at entertaining myself, I guess.
Ask HN: How do you read?
Sometimes when I'm reading a book, I get into this mad rush to note down any and every new idea I come across. At the end of it I'll have a pile of notes but I don't seem to have connected the ideas to anything I already know. They just hang around as statements. At other times, I read slowly and at the end of a 300 page book I might have only three key ideas that I remember, but I'm able to explain and illustrate them well. However, that leaves me feeling like I should've worked harder on the book. I can't seem to find a balance.

Also, if you revise your notes after a considerable time do you ever feel like updating them with any new insights or examples? How do you do that? Is there an app that you use?

Last point, sometimes my head explodes with questions when I read something. It's not possible to pursue all of them right then and not all of them are relevant to understanding the topic at hand, but I've also not been able to come up with a system to organize them and follow up later.

I love to read but I get frustrated because I feel I could be more efficient.

So HN, any ideas, suggestions, your methods and experiences, please share.

(I'm reading The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman right now)
This is (sometimes) a legitimate gripe about the standard notation system, which is that it's optimized for music in a key.

Sometimes there is a difference between E-F and C-C#. In the key of F major, E-F is the leading tone moving to tonic, which is a diatonic interval (a diatonic half-step). C-C#, on the other hand, is a chromatic half-step: in F major, it represents an alteration of scale degree 5 (sol). If you see C# in F major, there's a good chance it's going towards D, as a temporary leading tone. This is a useful distinction! The E-F half-step in F major (or C major, or A or D minor) is completely typical and not at all remarkable, while the C-C# half-step is much rarer.

In musics where there isn't a key, you're right that it doesn't make any sense to draw a distinction between the two. This is one reason that the music of the 2nd Viennese School (Schoenberg, Webern, Berg) is so impossible to look at: the structure of the music is obfuscated by the structure of the notation. Schoenberg was trying to come up with a 12-tone notation system for a while, but ultimately abandoned it.
> An old truck is a vastly more practical vehicle in Africa than a landrover - LRs need a lot of maintenance, whereas trucks generally just keep going.

This sounds like received wisdom. Is there any evidence to support it? Why would one believe that a land rover's engine requires more maintenance than the average engine found in all the aggregate "old trucks"?
Would you please describe this further? Is this triggered whenever Outlook receives a file attachment, or when Exchange receives it? And how?
This is reminds of a story of friends of mine from South Africa. They took the kids out of school to travel all the way up Africa and into Europ and back down for a year. They got robbed three times. Two times in France and once in Spain...
This is in the "adventure" category not in tourism.
As I read this article I thought "wait, didn't Android manufacturers beat Apple to the dual camera schtick?", and found this article to explain the differences http://www.androidcentral.com/how-iphone-7-plus-dual-camera-...
Not on HN - I was referring to the top comment on the article itself, which abandoned the topic in favor of yelling at people with student loans.
It's not :(. Although the average person could probably get a lot of good high-level info by browsing it.

I haven't yet come across anything that is a good gentle intro. Most resources that approach music and math make the mistake of treating music theory like the law, without any rationale for it provided. Music history textbooks typically give a lot more context of how our music theories emerged, but they don't talk about why that might be, based on acoustics, psychoacoustic, and math.

Maybe one day, I'll write the comprehensive intro I wish I'd had.
Like Civil Defense?
Nice question, I think I can answer (although you'll soon notice that my understanding of this subject is limited as well)

First of all, this is a mathematically undecidable problem, as in that there exist tunes that could be in multiple scales. The extreme example is a melody that consists of only a single note. Ridiculous, but as a fellow nerd I'm sure you can see how I could call a single note a melody. So we have to lose the phase metaphor here a little bit.

Most songs "anchor" with the last note. If you really can't tell whether a song is in major or minor (songs in major are a bit happier, jollier; songs in minor a bit sadder and more melancholic), going for the very last note (or the last note of the chorus, if the song a chorus) is a very good bet. Find the core melody of the song, the thing everything is hung up on, the last note of that core melody is the ground note of the scale. This is a really safe bet.

There are, of course, exceptions, and then I think you'll need to do some mathematical analysis to find out which key the notes in the melody match the best to. I'm not 100% sure how this is defined but I'm sure people have researched it.

All that said, musicians don't really have this problem. After all, hardly any of this stuff was designed. The only genius piece of engineering in all this was the discovery that if you choose to 12 notes in an octave (and not 8 or 15 or whatever), you have a very versatile instrument that can play almost any melody at any pitch in a way that sounds pretty good to human ears (pretty good, not perfect, because of the all the ≈'s in the "Intervals" section of Eevee's article).

But the rest was discovered, not designed, just by fooling around. The analysis came after the music.

Musicians just start with a scale and then make the music they compose fit. This comes pretty natural to you with a bit of practice; most people have a pretty decent innate ability to hear which melodies "match" with a chord and which chords "match" with a previous chord. In all honesty, once you've understood things this far, I'd recommend fooling around with the easiest instrument or tool you know, rather than diving even deeper in to the mathematics of things :-)
Have you ever been in Vienna? I'm asking because I absolutely love Vienna, and I was recently in Budapest, and it looks like Vienna but poor and decaying. It was a bit sad actually. I was wondering if anyone else has the same impression.
I don't understand this insistence on inflicting the death penalty on murderers. Given that a prison sentence is somewhat similar to being kidnapped, should it be reserved to kidnappers only?

If we admit that the death penalty is a penalty like any other, then why should it be applied to murderers, who by the way are often poor, deranged or sick people, with troubled or violent upbringing, low IQs and levels of instruction? Why don't apply it to affluent and powerful people who screwed whole nations from the comfort of their offices' chairs, like for example George W. Bush and Colin Powell?
I agree with you on Microsofts/Googles/Amazon's cloud business strategy. In spite of the apparent good profits Amazon is making, I question how profitable this business will be long term. I expect large gross sales and small profits because of intense competition.
The problem isn't duplicate files, it's that iTunes has an internal list of songs, and it allows the same file to appear in the list twice. I can manage a directory of files, I just can't manage iTunes' indexing of them.

I understand why you would have assumed this was a file issue, though, because the real problem is the most idiotically stupid thing ever.
So this is what Ethereum would look like without blockchain tech.
No more analog-only headphones on the new iPhone. DRM capable digital to analog adapters coming in 3...2...1...
>Their major issues were simply down to the weight of the vehicle and poor route selection.

Which could have been solved by using a landrover instead.
There never was and never will be a better music player than Winamp! #WinampSkins
Further reading:

Propaganda by Jacques Ellul
> "We sent them a prepared PDF document pretending to be transaction confirmation and they opened it which led to Twitter handles, usernames, and identity information."

Wait a second? If you are doing a Wire Transfer, it means you have the Scammer bank account name, routing number and IBAN.

How, in hell, this is not enough to identify the fraudsters?
https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/1600/1*8Hmq2oVwZAm...

Why does it say digital cameras were introduced in 1999? I remember seeing the first consumer cameras at least a couple of years earlier.
The Apple A10 is trouncing lower-end Intel kit already.

The version of this story I saw was based on Geekbench scores. Browsing Geekbench results, I noticed that identical CPUs had scores that varied by huge amounts, as much as 2x. That may be a reflection of a real phenomenon, but it's not what I expect from a "CPU benchmark."

Geekbench also claims to model real-world applications, and I wonder what that means for comparing a phone and a laptop. Obviously there aren't so many apps that run the same way on both platforms. I wouldn't have any trouble believing, for example, that the CPU and video display system on a phone were superbly and efficiently integrated, far more so than in a desktop or laptop, and that would show up in an application benchmark. But I'd be surprised if a phone CPU can really get through many threads of branchy code faster than a big high-consumption part with giant caches can.

Anyway, I'm dubious about the Geekbench thing and I wonder if there are other measurements you have in mind.
Yeah, I'm gonna have to disagree with you, and side with the guy calling him a nutter, on this one.

He sounds like a left-wing Donald Trump in that Striker Mag article. He's frighteningly quick to make sweeping generalizations based on anecdotes - e.g. all corporate lawyers think corporate law is pointless, let's get rid of them.

He seems to have a very limited, simplistic understanding of the world - capital owners have brainwashed an army of paper-pushing white collar drones (the ones who work in "bullshit jobs") in order to systematically devalue the noble people who do "real" work, like teachers and car mechanics.

There is no consideration of the interpersonal and organizational dynamics at a small scale that actually drive the creation of low-value-add jobs and worker discontent. There is no consideration of the fact that corporate law firms are actually successful worker-owned collectives. There is no understanding of the labor market dynamics behind how teaching, nursing and administrative labor is bought and sold.

To be fair, that article is the only thing of his that I've read. Maybe his other stuff is better - more insightful, more action-oriented?

In that Striker piece though he seems more interested in ranting against the demon of capitalism than doing anything to improve people's lives. Ironically, he seems more like a hustler pumping out marketing copy to convince people to buy his books (isn't writing ad copy one of those "bullshit jobs"?) than he does a thoughtful academic.

It's too bad, because there are probably a lot of social and political changes that he and I would both like to see happen - for one, I'm a huge fan of a reduced work week.
The real inner game of js is elm. ;-)
This was in response to the specific argument that life sentences can be reversed, which I don't think constitutes a strong argument.
Do Stanford students really work part time jobs? I'd always imagined even the poorest of them to be scholarship and student loaned up enough to be able to not too.
I suspect all three star reviews.

Either the product is totally mediocre (and people hold no strong opinions about it), or the reviewer is a crazy, raving lunatic attempting to hide that fact behind a moderate score.
Exposure to bugs also builds up resistance. I wonder if eating food off the ground leaves you with a stronger immune system?
The opposite of a muse
Forks are often wrapped or placed on a napkin you can then lean them against the plate whilst you're eating.

A posh restaurant would have a table cloth that would be cleaned daily with less harmful chemicals.
Right, it doesn't involve playing notes together the same way it's done in Western music.

I guess I misinterpreted what you were saying -- the Indian notes are still derived by looking at notes which sound harmonious when played together, roughly the same way Western notes are derived. They are not usually played together on the same instrument like you would with a piano or a guitar. Harmony between vocal parts is not uncommon as is harmony with background instruments like the tanpura. But yes, Indian music doesn't have harmony in the same sense as Western music. But the origins of the notes are very similar.

(I'm talking about classical Indian music, btw)
My ISP limits my internet usage to 5 GB a month unless I pay a lot more money (Verizon Wireless)
Another solution (I'm using it with Apple devices but it might work with other type of hw) could be to use Image Capture app included in macOS/OS X which lets you access the photos directly and exporta them to a folder of your choice.

Edit: it also allows to delete them directly after import
This all good and nice for Google saving a few bytes, but how on earth are you supposed to specify page language with this scheme for instance.
These days, it's challenging to minimize the amount of information given to commercial communication vendors. At present, https://Wire.com (from Skype's founder) is the only cross-platform and easily usable messaging service that:

- has E2E encryption [0] of text, image, audio, video
- does not require phone # [1]
- does not require address book upload
- is not ad-supported
- has open-sourced code for their desktop and mobile clients
- has single msg editing & deletion

[0] derived from the Signal protocol, implemented in Rust, needs more external review/audit, https://wire.com/privacy/

[1] using a desktop browser, register at http://app.wire.com with email, then login to mobile app
Man, Hillary clearly needs better IT people.
I highlight a lot. If there is a key concept or something that I want to learn more about, I highlight it and let it go. Then, I come back through the book and review the highlights when I'm not reading to read.
> Yeah, many of the comments talk about bacteria, evolution, our immune systems being able to deal with bacteria, and that is all fine and good.

It also ignores parasitic worms. People go blind from eg toxocara, which is spread by dog faeces. Only about 700 people per year in the US, but it's avoidable and preventable blindness.

> . I see people put their forks, etc, on tables that were previously wiped with a cleaning cloth and I think that's careless.

The amount of cleaning chemical you're going to eat by putting a fork on a table is tiny, and if that causes harm putting bare forearms on the table is going to be risky too.
Sometimes it's the bank account of an innocent third party they have hijacked. Or it's opened with false credentials.
I wonder what the frequency of operation is -- 315, 433 or 869 MHz?
But a pirate wouldn't need the original raw, just one that happens to produce the same jpeg.
So all of those national geographic shows I see, where they are tearing through the jungle in land rover type vehicles, they should trade it in for a giant military diesel?
Aren't there numerous services that make this scenario just as seamlessly? What would Apple add to it, other than their name? What advantages will Mac OS X server (presumably on ARM) offer over what can be done today?
> Why does notation allow for seven pitches, not 12? Because music is at most built out of 7-note scales, not 12.

This answer is good, but I wanted to pick one tiny nit, which is that not all music is built out of 7-note scales. A lot of music is, but music that isn't doesn't often lie well on the staff. That's true, incidentally, whether there are more than 7 notes in the scale (12-tone music, lots of octatonic music from people like Stravinsky, Scriabin, etc.) or fewer (whole-tone music comes to mind, as does the slightly more esoteric hexatonic scale). Pentatonic music fits well on the staff because the pentatonic scale is a subset of the ordinary diatonic.
I don't think I have the expertise to make the comparison to the historical events you cited, but I believe that, regardless of whether we consider those justified or not (I admit that I tend to say no, but would gladly listen to arguments made by expert supporting the opposite view, and in fact I am eager to). Another case we can talk about was the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Here the number of civilians killed is so outrageous that I don't know if there is any sensible way of condoning it.

An attempt to give an analysis would be asking: what was the good reason to do it? I think that the answer to that question in the case of the drone strikes is not satisfactory.
Thank you! I just checked it out, and as a long-time Winamp user (I mean... since there was first a Winamp) I see exactly what you mean and I love it.
Tuna.js v1.0.0 released (Web Audio)
Hard to believe that the weakest link* in a presidential campaign may understand my Goldeneye and Banjo-Kazooie references.

*weakest link not guaranteed
First implant of endovascular treatment device for aortic arch lesions
To quote Jules from Pulp Fiction.

"ain't the same fuckin' ballpark, it ain't the same league, it ain't even the same fuckin' sport."
KLR 650, it is pretty heavy in the mud but easy to work on.
Many adventure bikers start taking light, modern, powerful fuel injected bikes for long range trips now, like the WR250 and the KTM 690 Enduro.
I saw some guys struggling hard with GS1200s in sand and mud. If you know you're going to drop the bike a lot, it's probably worth going for a lighter option.
Static site generators are easy to learn and host for free on Github pages but setting up TLS with a custom domain name is a pain. I currently have Cloudflare in front handling that for me.
The Trick for Writing Better Software Lies on the Technique
Well... I mean...