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> I'm sure the browser industry could benefit from a open, compiled html format, it would be so fast. I still wonder why there is no such format.

Has anybody even tried making one and it just hasn't been adopted or is this a new idea?
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> That is why I guess their main audience is rails developers who need some content management functionality in their apps. And those do not need hosting.

That's a great point, and another illustration that a business model that works for one product might not work for another, even if they appear similar on the surface.
Sorry, for the delay, here are some papers I read for that:

* http://rtsys.informatik.uni-kiel.de/teaching/ws03-04/s-synth/papers/p33-petre.pdf

* http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~afb21/publications/VL96.html

The research I cited about lack of standard vocabulary of Symbols (like ASCII for text) comes from work that is not in English, and I can't find a version online. It makes intuitive and logical sense. A true visual language would parse images and have a standard sense of what symbols it may encounter.
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> Also pictures commonly have universal meanings

Not really. Here's a common example

http://theblitzbit.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/swastika.j...

This pictures means different things in different cultures.

Something else http://www.ritex.it/images/20111116_A.jpg Try asking a Chinese farmer what this is.
To get the real report you have to give them your work email address and work phone number. The context of why they are asking for that is to make sure you're qualified to receive the information but you can be darned sure that list will make its way to the marketing department.
In defense of "branding" vulnerabilities ... Heartbleed was the first instance where "normal" people were asking me if I had heard about it and if it effected me/my business.

Attribution and PR aside, branding these helps educate the public and give them something tangible to call it/discuss.
As far as I know, Quicksort cannot be implemented to be stable without an auxiliary array. So implementing Quicksort to be stable destroys the in-place feature.

If you want something in-place and stable, you'll have to use something like WikiSort [1] or GrailSort [2].

[1] https://github.com/BonzaiThePenguin/WikiSort

[2] https://github.com/Mrrl/GrailSort
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No, he just used the two recent Norwegian Nobel-winners as an example of scientist publishing in English instead of their native language (or any other).
Maybe the root cause (of interest in HIIT) is the standard American hurry. If we all slowed down we'd probably be more healthy as a people.

Also, there's a difference (and some overlap) between being healthy, and looking ripped. Eg you can be one without the other. One of the reasons I enjoy visiting countries that don't view a rushed and punishing car-commute as normal, is that everyone looks so happy and healthy.
In the Joomla world, at least, there are a lot of companies who seem to be making money off of open source plugins. One common model is to allow downloads only after you've subscribed. (Yes, the plugins are typically GPL.)

These usually come with automatic updates for a year for subscribers.

Sometimes this can be bundled with "priority support" for 3x the price.

And, of course, there's always the classic "upgrade to the pro version" pitch
To answer why people would push to get so fit, you have to explain the emotion and motivation behind it. Simply saying it's healthy or makes you strong only extends the question.

Partly they do it because of the emotional reward from exhaustion, progressing overcoming challenges, feeling stronger or more capable, approaching an ideal appearance, comparing themselves to others, and maybe a couple others. I believe all of those things make people feel good and want to continue.

You also have to explain why now compared to a few decades ago, though, which the above doesn't explain.

I think the main reason is that the American environments surround us with gluttonous and unhealthy food and behaviors that, if we didn't work to make ourselves healthy, we could too easily slide down a slippery slope and become. The more junk food and labor-saving devices around us, the greater the temptation, therefore the greater need to resist, therefore the greater enthusiasm to work.

In principle you could test this hypothesis. It suggests that in communities with healthy food and active lifestyles, you'd find less extreme fitness and more regular fitness. In communities with unhealthy food and sedentary lifestyles, you'd find the people who pursued fitness would pursue it more extremely.
Look at some of the side effects of dopamine agonists used to treat Parkinson's disease. Hyper sexuality and gambling addictions are common. But I'm not going to argue with your life experience. However there is a difference between desire and expression of that desire which many learn to supress.

Dopamine also increases exploratory behaviors; suppresses oxytocin release (cuddle hormone) and reduces social bonding; increases the ability to form memories; reduces the ability to forget. Think the BBS version of Sherlock Holmes.
I think that's the mindset the author has an issue with. You said "you will get some (benefits) initially but will quickly stall" like it's a bad thing. Fitness doesn't improve forever with any program, you're still going to die.

If you view fitness as a means to an end (health/long life) then you've got to realize there are diminishing returns. There have been many studies showing the diminishing returns kick in very quickly (http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/30/running-just-5-minu...).

If you want to be an elite athlete that's fine, but you should at least acknowledge it's its own reward and not claim it's about health.
XP Embedded is still a supported operating system. This CVE applies to all of those. So, yes.
How is this a legal "defense" fund? It makes it seem like someone is suing Nakomoto, or he's facing some criminal charge.

It's just a legal fund. He's got every right to sue Newsweek, but don't make it look like he's being sued himself.
While ppt's are the vector in the wild it seems the core vulnerability is in packager.dll, so possibly other ways of abusing it exist.
Would your app have been feasible then with something like SQLite?
It's already done in most IDEs and you probably use it :)

That's a kludge. "True" form is text and the the IDEs add a layers on top. The right way is making the tree be the canonical form and leave text just as an interchange format.

But these abstractions are inherently leaky...

Inherently. That's bold and you give no justification. Anyway I like how you prove my last paragraph. It's been conventional wisdom for so long that you consider text representation as the fundamental form and using a format closer to the real structure a leaky abstraction.
I think the purpose of crossfit is to get a full body workout that you don't get with running or biking. A lot of the motivation behind exercise is as much about looking good as it is being healthy.
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There's a perceived difference between outside forces raising money for legal battles vs a specific law firm doing its own money-raising. The latter comes across as self-serving for the attorneys.
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> In a distributed solution where each node is a provider themselves, each additional user could potentially increase the performance of the system. The distributed alternative scales much more gracefully without running into the bottleneck of needing more cash to buy more machines/storage/bandwidth.

Wouldn't each additional user have to potentially buy more hardware to increase the performance/capacity? There's still a cost, there's still a need to buy more capacity to increase capacity -- you've just "distributed" the cost to the (organizational) nodes. Which, okay, can be useful sometimes, but clearly there's a huge market of people who would rather pay someone else to take care of it, than spend that same money (or likely more) on being a "provider themslves".
> Where's the author getting at?
> High intensity workouts are actually the golden way toward strength building.

Well, this. Why is strength building considered worthwhile?
Calling it remotely exploitable indeed seems misleading. A lot of the article is just fluf without real content.
Perhaps it correlates with Americans' obsession with youth? Everyone wants to stay young and working out is the most obvious and effective way of doing that.
Having a sister who quite recently became a mother, I fully support this idea. Every day I get at least one cookie-cutter sleeping baby photo showing up in my feed.
One of the website's allegations is "In addition, in an interview after the article was published, the author appears to have wholly invented an additional conversation with Dorian supporting her version of events."

Which -- if true -- goes beyond a mere 'error' into outright, well, lying. (By the author, at least; it's unclear how complicit Newsweek was.)
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The problem with radix sort is the same problem in general with big-O notation:

A factor of log(n) (or less) difference can often be overwhelmed for all practical inputs by a constant factor.
You realize there are no calories in sand, right? You are free to eat as much weight in sand as you like, you'll gain no more weight than what you input.

Ketosis works by encouraging your body to release ketones and burn fat. If it fits the way you want to live your life and the foods you want to eat, by all means go for it. You're not losing weight because you don't eat carbs, though. You're losing weight because you're burning more calories than you input.

Also, not sure why so mad. I was pretty clear: do whatever works for you. The most important thing is consistency.
It was never quite this overt, but giving cute names to viruses goes back a long way.
He does end up punched a lot in the movies too, doesn't he.
I recently had a chat with Eben Moglen and rms that suggested that requiring such modules to state in some code-enforced way "I am GPLed" could legally be enough (unlike Eben, I am not a lawyer, and my understanding of what Eben told me could be incorrect). Linux does something like this, by requiring a LICENSE_MODULE macro to be defined for some interfaces. Linux will refuse to load that module if the license isn't GPL, or declares that this Linux is "tainted", and the devs will refuse to support it. I forget. Anyways, Emacs could do this for all of its interfaces and be even stricter than Linux: look for an explicit declaration of GPLness or refuse to load the module. If a module makes the declaration but is lying, they're in legal hot water.

Eben is just about the only legal advice that rms will really listen to. If something like this could be done and Eben convinces rms about this, this may ease his (in my opinion) well-founded fears against proprietary Emacs extensions.
Didn't mean to come across as upset - I'm not.

I would say that Nakamoto already received nearly 50 BTC (currently around $20k) from the community. https://blockchain.info/address/1Dorian4RoXcnBv9hnQ4Y2C1an6N...

Now his lawyer, who could just as well work for a settlement with Newsweek which would pay for the expenses, seems to me to simply be taking advantage of the (apparently quite generous) BTC crowd...
The site is disingenuous. "Please donate to the defense fund" is a total lie. It's an attack fund. If they're going to solicit money for a cause, at least be honest about that cause.
The thing about cross fit is that it usually pushes for the "if it's hurting, it's good" mentality, which is not true at all. I find conventional weightlifting gets it much better - lift heavy, watch your form, don't break your back.
To anyone else considering this, be careful what you do - there can be long term consequences to rapid weight loss that may not be obvious, and you know that bit where people say "consult your doctor" - they mean it.

I shed about the same amount of weight over the same amount of time in 2010, in the same of way. I'm having my gall bladder removed some time in the next few months, as about eight months after finishing my diet, my life, in a nutshell, turned to shit - literally. Turns out that eating plenty of protein (along with the fat that comes with, if it's animal) and not much in the way of carbs (>20g/d) can be a great way to give yourself gallstones. Which are horrendous, and cause you to lose days at a time of your life to feverish pain-and-vomit-filled null-time.

I've been about 180-190 lbs since then, and I'd rather be 240lbs again than have these to live with.

Graph: the big drop in Aug '11 is the first gallstone attack. http://i.imgur.com/7fHJNqR.png
I was just telling my wife the other day about how much I'd hoped that text went away in favor of better communication mediums.

I feel shy to admit it, especially here, but I dislike text. I dislike it because it's unnatural. I view it as a hack that was adopted to help communicate ideas through time and space. It's a cool hack, but still unnatural. It requires huge amounts of training to participate, and it has other issues.

I dislike it at a more fundamental level because it tends to leave ideas 'set in stone'. Text, like architecture, seems to have an unnatural tendency to remain unmodified through time and space. It creates dogma and worship and takes up the space where new structures could have potentially formed. It creates things like the bible and the constitution - things that morph from their original intent into an unbreakable form of reverence. Since it disconnects the 'bodies' of the reader and the author, the reader has a tendency to mistake the text as something different from the author and his ideas.

Text has a place - to store the facts of the world at a given time and place, certainly. To store ideas that can be accurately represented with discrete symbology. To transmit the ephemeral. But, I truly hope that we abandon text as a 'serious' medium for ideas in favor of video, audio, simulation, and virtual reality.

Many of us have a bias toward text because that has been how we have lived our lives, through its symbols. Text has altered our brains. But, imagine that you could relive your life without it, with other forms of communication, would you still want it?
They key part is this:

> "Dorian's Legal Defense Fund is a separate effort, authorized and endorsed by Dorian, to raise money to hold Newsweek accountable for their article. A lawsuit against Newsweek will be very expensive. Dorian does not have the resources to pay the costs of such a suit, let alone attorneys' fees. Monies raised by the Fund will be used to further Dorian's legal claims against Newsweek; anything remaining will be given directly to Dorian for his expenses."

So this is to pay the lawyers behind a suit against Newsweek, and any remaining funds (if any) will go to Dorian. I'd prefer to just give money to Dorian directly, rather than risk it paying for lawyers to go after Newsweek.

Are the lawyers willing to work at subsidized rates? Or on contingent based upon success? If not that says that the lawyers themselves are not that confident in the potential success of this strategy.
My you are sexist. Ideal is relative. Generalizations are generally not useful.
And could you imagine putting the announcement on hold because the designer isn't 100% happy with his work... ?
Uh well that does mean they have more people they have to ship product to, ie, more expenses. They're not making 550k in profits...
"Energy Sector firms (specifically in Poland)"

This is really worrying. Especially that Poland now tries to break from Russia's energy hegemony.
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I lump usernames in with proper names. I guess if you don't lump them together, it's not precisely the situation. But I still feel like I can use that article as validation for not wanting to use 'they' in certain situations.

e.g. (if I didn't know your gender, like I don't know most genders on HN), I'd much prefer "tptacek said that ve likes bcrypt" over "tptacek said that they like bcrypt".
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I like it oldskool.

- name, email, location, links (twitter, linkedin, github, ...)

- Overview of your achievements & how you position yourself ("I am a ...")

Most of the actual content will likely live on other sites (blog, Behance portfolio, ...)
I thought about it, but there's always going to be someone goofing off. The question would be what constitutes hate? If I censor something today I need to censor something tomorrow. It will be deleted in 7 days anyway. Now if someone sends .001btc to one of them, then obviously I'd have a dilemma, but I don't think anybody would
A crossfit gym also gives people a sense of being, a sense of purpose, and a 'family'. They don't get this at a traditional gym, even an 'accommodating' one like Planet Fitness.
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This. I have no problem with people who do reps to failure, but I do have a problem with reps for time. As you get tired, your form gets worse and worse. This is fine for calisthenics, (hard to tear something while doing push-ups) but it's bad for heavier weight, and it's ridiculously dangerous for technical lifts like clean and snatch.

I do enjoy joking about WODs, though. "Okay - I'm gonna do AMRAP snatch on a bosu ball, and then do box jumps onto another bosu ball!"
What is the name for the rhetorical device where somebody manufactures a fake thing just to attack it? I think it is a special case of straw man.

First to be proved:

1. Americans are fascinated with extreme fitness.

2. That is either internationally or historically unusual and therefore noteworthy.
I think what drives me to drink (and I don't drink nearly as much as I used to) is dreams of a better reality, in my case of a more considerate society, contrasted with my own inabilities to take part in realizing them. Alcohol (and drugs) make it easier to think uncritically, but with potentially terrible drawbacks. I'd speculate a successful pragmatist (or someone with level aspirations) will be much less likely to abuse themselves this way.
I didn't meant as a visual reprentation. Text no matter how well formatted/displayed will only flow in one direction* (be it up-down/down-up and left-to-right/right-to-left). In a picture you have no such constraints. Thus a picture is harder to scan by humans and machines alike. It takes expert knowledge to tune out some of distractions of visual representation.

* Exception being texts that are deformed to instill a sense of confusion and to simply play with how text looks like. Or possibly some really obscure non-European writing system that writes non-linearly.
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And it really makes life easier when you have to explain downtime to your clients, who are often "normal people" and won't understand what SSL is but will have seen Heartbleed on the news and will probably remember it when you say the name. (I'm not sure Shellshock got quite the same coverage, but maybe I'm wrong there.)
Good luck with that. I agree with you, but it's hardly a solution given that you can be arrested on practically any pretense.
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That's why Unix uses text, and not some binary form, for most data exchange.
Horses for courses. I don't enjoy overly complex business-speak but I do sometimes like reading novels where you even have to refer to footnotes to fully understand the word plays and cultural/historical connotations. Certain writers would have spent days and weeks crafting a single sentence to perfection and I appreciate the effort.
This

Most exercise is an exercise (pun intended) in futility. Sure, running/swimming will burn calories and increase muscle mass (in the case of swimming)

Do you know what else burns calories? Muscle mass

But of course they buy the common mindset of this being dangerous, etc. I'd risk to say the risk of injuries in lifting weights is much less than in other sports (maybe except swimming).
No addresses or phone numbers for the fund, no associated lawyers, nothing to indicate that this is legitimate.

Please do some additional checks before sending money to the bitcoin address mentioned.
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But the meta question "is that bad". For example if you want to learn geography, jus. the basic map in your head, you could do worse than "OK the rockies are the high point, and death valley is the low point and everything is in between". In isolation, a very one sided story about DV that doesn't even point out its an extreme rather than a norm would provoke some really weird ideas. So its of value to point out thats an extreme and here's the other extreme and have fun exploring the middle on your own.
Is it responsible to announce this the day before all windows systems are auto-patched?

Why not the 15th?
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Indeed, but unless the economics of their project are weird, it means it's easier for them find the money to rectify the problem. Not every project would be able to do that.
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I think it's a lot simpler than the author is trying to make out:

Traditional gym exercises are boring and hard.

Cardio is boring. 60 minutes on a treadmill, 5 times a week is really boring after a while. All that racking up weights and unracking is tedious. Bicep curls? Tedious. Situps? Tedious.

The reason why people are constantly thinking up new ways to exercise is simply to add a bit of variety and encourage people to keep working out. You can probably get similar results to a sledgehammer drill by doing a combo of situps, pullups and squats, but a lot of people would find that kinda dull and give up after a while.

When you add in the possibility that by doing these "new" exercises they might be getting fitter or stronger in less time than a traditional exercise, it's really quite motivating. It's not necessarily true (I've seen a lot of fads come and go), but if it gets them to keep on exercising, then it's probably worth it.
That depends on your goals.

If the only reason you exercise is to be healthy in a long term, then a short workout a few times a week is enough.

If you want to be stronger/better at sports X/run marathons etc then no, aerobic classes are not enough.

It's not even aiming for 'elite athlete', just aiming to be fit (you won't be fit in my definition if you only do 3x40min of aerobic classes a week).
FWIW When I, as a European, went to a US high school almost 20 years ago one of the big differences that struck me was that people tended to be either overweight at best or morbidly obese at worst or super skinny and super healthy.
> As if the buffet weren’t enough of an indication, the stall warning erupted again, alternating between STALL STALL STALL and a chirping sound.

Off topic but how does the airplane know it's stalling if the airspeed indicators are not working?
> People do high weight, low rep workouts indeed, but that's bodybuilding or olympic weightlifting

That's powerlifting or olympic lifting* Bodybuilding employs higher rep and lower weight hypertrophy workouts.
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At least Heartbleed and Shellshock made sense. Sandworm is just trying to play up fear for a boring not-really-remote vuln. And, the vulnerability is not a worm. It's shitty marketing.