skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Article mentions that the aircraft also provides GPS-based speed, so maybe that's how? That's just an educated guess, I have no real idea.

Edit: Reading through the official investigation document:

"The angle of attack is the parameter that allows the stall warning to be triggered;
if the angle of attack values become invalid, the warning stops. "

So like said in another comment - even with no valid speed values, the angle of attack can trigger a stall warning.
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> Maybe the root cause (of interest in HIIT) is the standard American hurry.

I agree, I think that's the root cause. There are more things we'd like to do than time available, so people optimize.

> If we all slowed down we'd probably be more healthy as a people.

Probably true, but unfortunately we don't have much choice. We slave away most of our lives to keep the economy going, so it's hard to slow down. The problem isn't people having too much time for their hobbies.
This one is really mind blowing. Also I don't get why they switched to joysticks instead of the traditional yoke. With mechanical feedback, yokes should be much more intuitive. I'd love to hear a pilot's opinion who has used both.
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2.0 should maybe work, 3 probably never :(

http://displaylink.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1748
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Also pain and pleasure have been human experiences correlated since forever[1]. Just because the author has had a certain upbringing doesn't mean that she is the voice of the reason.

Even leaving neurochemical pathways aside, our culture is like that in many aspects. I mean even selflessness is the way many people understand being a good person, doing something good that feels bad is supposed to be better than doing something good that also feels good. I don't agree with that view, but it's pretty much ingrained with out western culture.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_and_pleasure
I guess it's another way of saying "I agree." I haven't even thought about its connotations, but I do notice that a lot of people say it on /r/fitness. Maybe it is a meathead thing.
Comment on the lengthening "time to PhD" and "time in postdoc" measures:

Those don't indicate a declining marginal productivity of scientific labor, but a declining marginal demand for it. PhDs and post-docs take longer nowadays because it takes more publications and more experience to get a "real job" (defined as some combination of a permanent paid research position and the ability to win grants for oneself) (due to the exponential growth of university-going student populations leveling off starting in the late '70s). Most of the claims and measures about academic science actually show much less trend towards stagnation when this trend in scientific employment is considered as an independent explanation.
In EU if you passed your test in a vehicle with an automatic transmission you can't drive a manual, unless you re-take the test in one. So that kind of already happened.

My point is that if we let teenagers drive fully automated cars,they might find themselves in a truly critical situation they will not be able to get out of, due to their lack of experience and training. People will then say - if they were experienced drivers, and if not for all this automation, they would be able to get out of this situation. Because that's exactly what this article is saying - if the aircraft wasn't as automated, and the pilots had a lot more experience actually flying, they would have realised that the plane was, in fact, stalling, and maybe would have saved it. That does not change the fact that automation, overall, saves more lives than it takes.
How comprehensive are CRDTs?
Yeah, it seems this is nothing more than yet another Microsoft Office bug (PowerPoint this time) which can be used for an email worm.

I think they're trying to get on the Heartbleed and Shellshock bandwagon by trying to get a name all over the media for a fairly minor exploit.
I feel what is really wrong with the article is why do people feel the need to get an explanation for the things others do. Do people really stop to ask themselves why they like the things they themselves like. Every time you like something, do you stop to wonder about the evolutionary or genetic reasons behind your feeling good.
My hypothesis is that high end math talent from which scientists are historically recruited simply has other avenues of making money.Wall street and Silicon valley basically milks them away.
You are right and given that its a tech preview, this is Microsoft catching up.

Their real problem of course is IIS. We'll probably have to wait for IIS9 which I cannot see happening for another two years. IIS8.5 appeared 12 months ago in Windows Server 2012 R2.
Wait, where did I praise Reddit for their journalism?

The entire slam against Newsweek was to liken it to Reddit, so you're just affirming my point.
It seems more like the inflection which indicates a question is universal, not any specific word.
This has been going on to some extent for decades. Now that John Oliver (a satirist) does a story it's all of a sudden front page news?!
Because Uber could eventually become a cheaper, easier, crowd-sourced version of "the last mile"[1]. This is a huge threat to the thousands of DHL and UPS delivery folk who make a living shipping parcels in the Last Mile, and to the businesses they belong, which make most of their delivery fees via the Last Mile. Unless Uber (or companies like Shyp) partner with them, it could bring these old business models down.

[1] = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_mile_(transport)
You wont get far spamming random people with PowerPoint vulnerability. It is entirely possible they simply targeted most likely PP users first.
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Yup, I remember that clearly since I got my first job right after that dot com bust. It led to a mass exodus of the people who were in it for the money.
I've done a full-time 5 day course at Steer on iOS and a 10-week evening course at General Assembly on Ruby. Both were useful, but IMO not worth the cost. I have friends who have completed the GA full-time bootcamp, and some who have done the Makers Academy one. MA seems to be better for helping you become a real software developer, rather than someone who knows a bit about apps.
Many movie & TV composers already use virtual instruments for years - it's cost efficient and flexible.
What is strength useful for, what is strength useful for!?

Every man (and woman) should be able to save their own life and possibly the lives of their loved ones -> http://www.artofmanliness.com/2009/09/15/every-man-should-be...

Strength also correlates with muscle mass (you need them to be strong) and muscle burns a lot of energy, which means you will both be less cold in winter AND be able to eat more food healthily. Food is tasty.

Bottom line, strength is good for you.
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That was what I was expecting to hear.

We really don't need Flux (the listen-for-and-query-the-stores part of it) if we manage to wrap every data into a context with cursors, right?
It always annoys me when SPAs don't allow me to do basic things when I lose my connection.

Webstorage has excellent browser support but isn't utilised enough (http://caniuse.com/#search=webstorage)
The article is filled with fluff about iSIGHT and they buried the lead. Here are the high level details they posted:

* An exposed dangerous method vulnerability exists in the OLE package manager in Microsoft Windows and Server (Vista SP2 to Windows 8.1, Windows Server versions 2008 and 2012)

* When exploited, the vulnerability allows an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code

* The vulnerability exists because Windows allows the OLE packager (packager .dll) to download and execute INF files. In the case of the observed exploit, specifically when handling Microsoft PowerPoint files, the packagers allows a Package OLE object to reference arbitrary external files, such as INF files, from untrusted sources.

* This will cause the referenced files to be downloaded in the case of INF files, to be executed with specific commands
* An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code but will need a specifically crafted file and use social engineering methods (observed in this campaign) to convince a user to open it

TL;DR - A vulnerability exists in INF processing and untrusted, 3rd party INF files can be included by PowerPoint files. This is not a worm.

Also these little gems:

> Further information will be provided in a live briefing to any interested parties on Thursday, October 16th at 2:00...

> iSIGHT is making available a broader technical report – inclusive of indicators – through a formal vetting process.

Fuck you iSIGHT. This is being used in the wild and a patch has been released. Post the details publicly. This isn't responsible disclosure, this is PR and lead gen.
right? killjoy city
Everyone knows it’s broken
> All requests go to a REST API which only returns head responses, and shoves the actual data response onto a queue. The websocket server reads off the queue and publishes the response to connected clients.

This reads very similar to how IMAP is defined (it's not a request/response protocol).

And Websocket seems like an overcomplication of the system as you need a WS-compatible server and broker, it would probably be simpler to use SSE[0][1]. See http://matthiasnehlsen.com/blog/2013/06/23/angularjs-and-pla... for an example of SSE+occasional HTTP calls.

The big difference, of course, is that such a system is not really offlinable, the application is basically frozen as soon as the connection is lost.

[0] even if MSIE doesn't support them, they can be polyfilled even in IE7 and old android browsers

[1] plus SSE has native support for server-configured reconnection timeout, event-ids and custom event types, all that in an ASCII-based format
Short version is the market is not smooth and has very asymmetric knowledge and gaining the knowledge the hard way with measurement instruments is a time consuming specialized skill.

I know all about the condition of the bearings in the headstock of my lathe... you most certainly don't and if you're wise you'll hedge your bets.

Also the market is fragmented. I like screwing around in my shop and do not care about revenue per hour generated. A job shop only cares about revenue per hour generated. I don't think the markets are going to make sense to each other, but people insist that selling machine tools is selling machine tools and it doesn't matter if the buyer is a for profit shop or an amateur steam engine tinkerer, unfortunately it does matter, a lot.

And edited to add, skilled people can see hidden value. Sure the ways are worn out on that worthless lathe and that worthless lathe had a trashed QC gearbox but hoarder dude knows how to combine the parts from both and sell the one good one for $2000. True, individually each is worth $0, but combined, with a skilled repair man willing to put in maybe 100 hours of hard labor... And tragically I've seen some semi-hoarding situations where the guy just gets too old... he could make that $2K which would be really helpful for a retired guy's budget, but doc just said no lifting anything and no standing for long periods, so other than praying for an apprentice, it'll sit there till the estate sale.
The thing about programmers though, is bad coders are actually job creators. Bad code bases require more and more resources to maintain (as entropy increases), until ultimately they hit that breaking point where you need to hire a bunch of contractors to rebuild it.

Good code bases are built in a way that you can pay down technical debt while enhancing the product.

I view programming as more of an art then a science, people can learn knowledge quickly, the internet is great at that... but talent/skill requires years of experience. Art requires practice.

The more schools like this are successful, the more job opportunities i'll have :D

(EDIT: I should clarify, I'm not implying that these places will churn out bad coders, just inexperienced ones)
I posted this as an answer to a comment, but I think it merits existing as an answer to the OP question.

Why do americans push for extreme fitness? I don't know, I don't even know that they push for extreme fitness, most of them look very fat to me (a lot of us Europeans are following suit extremely quickly) so it's hard to say that a significant amount of the population is pushing towards anything in particular in regards to fitness.

BUT I think fitness is important. I work out multiple times a day and generally spend terrible amounts of time and mental energy towards fitness.

The best explanation, other than "it feels good", I've found about this is an old post by The Art of Manliness - every man (and woman) should be able to save their own life, possibly the lives of their loved ones: http://www.artofmanliness.com/2009/09/15/every-man-should-be...

Why? Because one day you might have to and how are you going to feel if you aren't able to?
Duh, I haven't noticed http://sha1affected.com/ is HTTP-only.
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Haha that link is hilarious.

You can do 15 pull-ups? Well, then you don't have to worry about any emergencies. It'll save you if you get into a car accident, surely.

And yeah, sorry, but 'get more strength so you can eat more' isn't really very convincing.
Previous discussion of the email thread that prompted this article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8328206
Good luck with it. You are on the path of having Smalltalk. :)
> As a collector of quotes, this annoys me to no end, because
> I can't copy/paste the quotes into my personal quotes collection.

I haven't used it myself, but you might find http://projectnaptha.com/ interesting — it's in-browser OCR of text in images.
Work until you drop
"they" had no problem, they contracted manufacturing and shipping to Sparkfun. It was sparkfun that had a huge problem and paid for it (shipping replacements for free).
I am unfamiliar with Manjaro and Chakra. My experience with Arch is limited to my Cubox-i. It's a nice distro, with an excellent community. I liken it to Gentoo in its glory days.

Having defined my limitation in the observation, I'd just like to point out that, when it comes to distribution stability, for large server deployments, there is safety in numbers. Should a problem occur in a "stable" package, the odds that you are the first one to find the error are smaller with popular server distros (RHEL, Centos, Debian) than with less popular distributions. It's not a statement regarding the intrinsic quality of the distribution. It is a statement regarding the overall quality of the distribution + installed base.

All in all, for a distribution to dislodge entrenched players, for this use case, it will have to be an order of magnitude more stable.
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Counter-counterpoint: all of your counterpoints exist or have equivalents in every other form of communication. You swap unicode (which is nearly universally agreed on) for H.264/Theora/VP8 and AAC/Vorbis/Opus, and you still have to deal with collation and translation/language (which, without transcription to text first, is pretty hard).
I think the more general rule is that you write slower than you speak.
Speaking is a great form of communication when you are live with someone, but it is a frustrating way to get a one way conversation because as all the other posts say, it is not index-able and I definitely don't want to listen to someone drone on at me about stuff I don't consider important.
"On Tuesday, October 14, 2014, iSIGHT Partners – in close collaboration with Microsoft – announced the discovery of a zero-day vulnerability..."

"Over the past 5 weeks, iSIGHT Partners worked closely with Microsoft to track and monitor the exploitation of this vulnerability..."

I'm sorry, I feel you should lose the right to call this a zero day when both you and Microsoft have known not only its existence, but the fact that it's being actively exploited for five freaking weeks. Also, am I the only one that feels this reads as a sensationalist article? I think the phrase "weaponized PowerPoint file" was what ended up pegging my meter, but the fact it's not a worm and barely fits the category of remote code execution helps.
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I'm sure FIFA is a massive example of this. Pretty much anything by, EA, come to that.
Very easy to take SSLv3 out of the allowed protocols on nginx

All modern browsers support pure TLS, even IE8 on XP
How many people could fully experience Beethoven's 5th by reading the sheet music, assuming they've never heard it before?
I built a websocket server in Go that pulls messages from Redis and shoots them off to subscribed clients, similar to what you're mentioning. https://github.com/johnernaut/goatee
Under Weapons -> Marriage Counselling.

Could be a mistake methinks.
So basically the bad ones pay for the good ones? Codeception!
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The state of the economy would cause deflation, were it not for rigidity in nominal prices, wages, and interest rates. The expansion of the money supply is mostly just backfilling against deflation, while causing asset prices to inflate in some areas.
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>It's not illegal to teach people how to break the law

I'm sorry, do not pass go, do not collect $200, go straight to jail.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130908/00044524444/eight...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/09/polygraph_countermea...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6308878
Whenever I read about coding bootcamps I feel a tinge of worry that they might mean the end of the "good old days" for software developers. Do we expect that they'll have any tangible impact on the labor market by pumping out so many graduates with basic coding skills?
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1 in 12 households are unbanked - https://www.fdic.gov/householdsurvey/

I'd bet far more of these people are getting being hurt by this than the "bad guys"
>> Who the heck can say sth about the imput (that it may be like "pre-sorted" ?!)

Lots of real world (as opposed to synthetic random test data) may be already ordered or contain ordered subsequences. One wants to run a sorting algorithm to guarantee the data is sorted, and thus performance on pre-sorted data is important.

This is why Timsort is the default sort in Python and Java. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timsort

It is the worst case performance for quick sort.
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I would think this is a bit different as these students come out creating things and in the process (hopefully) creating value for their company. They're becoming the people who enabled those certificates, and companies, to exist in the first place.

Whereas the certifications you described enabled a person to write reports, recommend products of a particular vendor, and maintain software/hardware configurations -- a job which is still being automated and taken over by developers without certification, particularly in smaller companies (devops).

Only time will tell though.
This might just be anti-microsoft bias but I think the thing here is that with a Windows vuln you can't see the source code so you really have no idea how severe the vuln is, the people who find it can simply make shit up with no one able to call them out other than Microsoft. Also maybe the average windows user will be less tech savy than a linux user and fall prey to scare tactics like these.
This is nice. I'm going to try this out over the weekend. Thanks!
Well, I'm not so much talking about an aggregator of news, only. I'm very interested to learn how you use Google News to learn more than the facts, without doing additional work?

I'd rather consider Google News the anti-solution to "slow news", since it's main feature is to be extremely up-to-date on the global news feed.

If I compare a visit to news.google.com at this second, typically "slow news" wouldn't be concerned with "Megabus bound for Chicago crashes in Indiana" or "UK inflation falls to 5-year low". Rather, Megabus would never be mentioned, and the UK's inflation situation would be part of a larger story, should such a story exist.

Create "themes", and substantiate these themes over time.
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> I have no trouble parsing it

I must be slow. I had quite a bit of trouble reading it. I counted 8 disparate ideas in that one sentence. I had to read it 4 times to actually understand everything.
Is this really a thing? I've never heard of or seen Facebook stickers before.
Our ‘plain text’ is unfortunately not up to the task of representing all human written text; I'm thinking specifically of traditional mathematical notation, which is also a tree structure represented in two dimensions, and ancestral to programming notation, in that we first squeezed mathematical notation down to one dimension¹ and then augmented it with notations for control flow.

¹with a few forgotten exceptions like the Klerer-May system.
> Cardio is boring. 60 minutes on a treadmill, 5 times a week is really boring after a while.

This is why I don't run or cycle inside. The only reason I took to indoor cycling was because of a back injury that made riding a bike difficult/painful, it's healed up now. For running, the last few months have been fantastic on my usual trail. I've gotten to see flowers bloom and fade, grass go from brown (hot summer) to green again as the temperatures dropped and soon I'll get to see the leaves turn and fall.
After user testing, I made the warp button beg for attention and added three minimal levels. I can go pretty deep on level generation, also just relying on the vast amount of available material, but I have another concept that is a little stronger and uses about 95% of the code, so I need to cut chase ASAP to get them both to market. I'm happy to support both apps, but I believe in the end they will be concept apps, getting me the feedback I need to develop a full product.
Sorry for not clarifying. What I find awkward about it is the Angular-specific baggage and the syntax, which just got more complex.

Stuff like ng-model-options="{ updateOn: 'blur' }" is far from straightforward. I guess you could do ng-model-options="model.modelOptions" and define the behavior in the controller, but then your controller would be handling far more than it should. By the way, wouldn't a separate directive be more appropriate for this? ng-update-on="blur" is more palatable.

And in my experience with Angular, it's never just "assign a value to a scope and done", except for the most trivial situations. When you leave these behind, you have to think about scope hierarchies. You have to watch your watchers. When you use something like angular-translate, you have to carefully consider synchronicity issues and the performance drawbacks of each way to bind your models. And so on. I love the power and flexibility that Angular gives you, but I wish there was a simpler way for it to do its magic.
text alone is not nice either. Good luck describing a complex design, I much prefer a diagram.

Text can also be ambiguous and it requires more attention than a video
I like his well known Pruit Igoe/Koyaanisqatsi music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq_SpRBXRmE). But his recent work for a local small opera house named "Kepler" is off-putting (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_Fh2TmHZyk).
I noticed it on reddit in general, not specific to /r/fitness. I don't know if it started there, but it's become pretty widespread as a form of agreement in other forums I frequent and in real life with friends and coworkers using it in their speech.
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