skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They just became available recently.
IndexedDB has terrible support. Sadly LocalStorage is the only reliably supported option right now. I really hope in 6 months this comment is wrong.

--EDIT-- sorry @untog, I replied to the wrong comment and deleted before as you replied.
Interestingly, the theorem is false if the number of voters is infinite
http://blog.jyotirmoy.net/2013/10/arrows-impossibility-theor...
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Yet the idolatry has had a stifling effect on subsequent generations of composers, who must compete on a playing field that was designed to prolong Beethoven’s glory.

Odd that the article doesn't leverage much evidence to support this point. However, we do have some excellent examples, notably Brahms, who wrote to a friend:

"I shall never compose a Symphony! You have no conception of how the likes of us feel when we hear the tramp of a giant like him behind us."

("Him" being Beethoven.) And indeed, he didn't complete his first symphony until age 40.
That's Powerpoint "Online" which is just a webapp and doesn't actually use the Windows version of Powerpoint with the vulnerability.
Makes you realize how simple it is to guess a password once you get access to enough secret questions.
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When clicking 'discuss' or 'comments' multiple times I'd expect to see a sign-in or register redirect. Doesn't look like that is happening here.
> don't eat until noon each day

I'm trying to cut back on my late night snacks, but I don't understand the rationale for not eating in the morning.

Great job, BTW. A pound a week sounds great.
I don't know if I've ever experienced personal (home) fire alarms going off for no reason, and I've never had them go off because of an actual fire, but I have had them go off when someone else is cooking (alerting me that someone is cooking, whether or not I knew that), or due to steam from a shower, if they are placed wrong - again, whether or not I knew someone was taking a shower.

In corporate/organizational environments - often in buildings made entirely of concrete - I've had them go off very frequently, but almost never as a result of a dangerous condition - usually either a drill, a small fire that was immediately put out, someone pulling the fire alarm as a prank/protest or something else like someone burning popcorn or something.

I still think the point stands.
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Let me repeat that again. Classical orchestral music is in a death spiral. The audience is getting older and their tastes haven't changed. Yes you can listen to the same 9 Beethoven symphonies on Spotify by the Hungarian symphony orchestra in 1989. No one disputes that

Now, name a modern, orchestra composer who's work you've listened to (excluding motion picture soundtracks)?

Now, imagine if rock music stopped at Pink Floyd's The Wall.

Ticket sales don't lie. Symphonies are shutting down all over the country.
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They do:

http://www.flashrouters.com/routers/vpn-types/privateinterne...

The problem is they are all overpriced 'cause of manuals steps to flash an existing piece of hardware.

Really, what I want to see is more open hardware routers so we can automate the build process to setup a VPN on them.
yeah, I get that it's experimental but I really want to know the motivation for this choice.
More than this what I would really like is a console mode browser that supports javascript
This is really interesting ! I'm currently working in my company heavily with offline html5 features. The assumptions are not really the same as this framework on my case since on my case the app will probably be 95% of the time in an offline mode.

I've created a small library which is making the html5 manifest much easier to work with so I can put http headers like commands inside it. The client is checking with an interval to update the app and there is a built-in loading bar to show the download. This supports also an additional client-side api to make things easier.

Here is a gist of how it looks like currently : https://gist.github.com/alex-min/1bbc304ad9b96bdf5c96
I think I could see if I can open-source it if that's interesting for some people.

But this library seems really nice, I will have a look since the synchronization of objects seems really well done. (from the demo page).
It is the natural language equivalent of using a complex, "clever" expression in code instead of multiple, simple expressions. If the goal is to be as clear as is possible, keep it simple. In works that are intended to be appreciated on an artistic level, I don't mind some meandering and flourish.

There should be an obfuscated writing contest.
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I would rather say that most euro countries are being ripped of by Germany, in multiple ways like the beggar thy neighbor of internal devaluation, rigid finacial policy when it suits them, way too higher trade imbalances with the other euro area countries, etc ... but is way cooler to say that "they are paying", because they are germans, right ...
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As a premium user who has gotten a ton of mileage out of Synergy, I totally support this - keeping this software up to date and easy to use while improving its utility for complex computing setups can't be easy, and I don't know what I'd do without it. Keep up the great work!
They're not writing classical music. But I'm sure they exist. David Bowie was amazingly inventive. Other examples?
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The bugreport was because systemd misused the kernel command line. If your code causes something else to break, it is your code's fault!
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> But the idea that thermodynamics do not govern 85%

It does govern 100%, in a technically useless sense.

If it was just thermodynamics, you'd be able to drink hydrocarbons (e.g. gasoline) for food. In a bomb calorimeter, it's as good as carbs or fat, only denser. Or you'd just eat wood or paper. Cellulose is, after all, a carbohydrate!

But it's not that simple.

- See e.g. this article: http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/91/22K07/inde... - It does not mention control for "calories out", but assuming rats just do what rats do - it indicates that food composition goes much deeper than calorie intake.

- some cells some time use fermentation instead of oxidation, which gets much less energy from food (about 1/6 if I recall correctly). Mostly in tumors, but not only in them.

- Some people can apparently get ~2kcal/gr from fiber carbs, where others cannot. People of Japanese origin, in particular, http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100407/full/news.2010.169.ht... - but this is just the most studied example, not the only one.

- Atwater factors, which everyone uses to estimate intake often based on 100 year old tables, are horribly inaccurate, e.g. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18065582 (4%-11% error) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22760558 (32% error)

- Actual digestion processes depend on enzyme availability, the supply of which lags demand by up to 3 weeks (and tails by up to 6 months), and apparently depends nontrivially on olfactory clues whereas most models assume everything about nutrition and digestion is static. e.g, if you start daily drinking of a gallon of fat you haven't had in the last 6 months, you're going to put most of it out in the bathroom until your body ramps up production of some relevant enzymes, which can take a few days and up to 3 weeks.

- Simple stated, "a calorie is a calorie" violates the second law of thermodynamics. See http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC506782/ ; It's not from Richard P. Feynman - it's from a Richard D Feinman, btw.

So, yes, thermodynamics reigns supreme but your ability to estimate your actual calorie intake is very crude. Similarly for your expenditure. The result being, two people can basically eat the same food and do the same kind of activity, and still have significantly different energy balance.
You are right that the usage of the term is confusing in this context. I think it still communicates two critical aspects: First, this is being exploited right now in the wild (and was when it was discovered it sounds like).
Second, your windows machines are almost certainly vulnerable right this moment, and you should update immediately.

Perhaps they could have phrased it more clearly, but considering that it sounds like a full exploit on opening a powerpoint document, some alarm is appropriate.

I also think it was a little brash to name it "Sandworm" when it is not, as far as we know, a worm. It certainly has the potential to be used as the key exploit in a worm though.
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They vendor everything.
Previous discussions from submission ~month+ ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8280889
SparkFun was born out of a class I took at CU Boulder, and the CEO came and spoke to our class mid-semester about growing SparkFun (at the time close to 100 employees) out of his college apartment & classroom experience.

Good to see they're doing right by their customers, I think they're a real standup company.
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Nobody writes in that style of music anymore. It's "already been done". Even if someone wrote something as good as Beethoven's 5th, nobody would care. The classical music world has been there, done that. Mozart, Beethoven and Mahler aren't remembered just for their music on its own, but the fact that their music pushed the envelope, invented new forms of expression. They didn't just do it, they came up with it.

Classical composition moved in a kind of academic, atonal direction in the 20th century which was completely inaccessible to most of the public, and essentially died, in terms of a popular artistic movement. After Stravinsky, there just wasn't really much left to do. (Composers still write movie scores, but these basically just rehash what was already done in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.)

Instead, the world moved towards rock, pop, hip-hop... and there's a lot of exciting stuff there. Unfortunately, it's mostly based around 5-min songs, which limits its complexity. No matter how genius something like Brian Burton's "The Gray Album" might be, or certain Led Zeppelin songs, the format doesn't allow for even 5% of the kind of complexity that a symphony can embody.

So the Bach's, Mozart's and Beethoven's are surely out there -- but they're not doing the same kind of music, and they're harder to recognize as equivalents because we've abandoned musical structural complexity for sonic complexity instead (it's more about the sound or flavor or texture of a track, its hooks, and so on).
There's something about HN that you also see on reddit with regards to politics and these sort of stories. On reddit, it's always kids. On HN, I can only assume there must be a lot of liberals who, at the first sign of trouble, call 911 with great urgency.

Upvoted you.
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Assuming all that. It is still 100% true that any subject who consumes less food than they did before, will intake fewer calories and lose weight.
A moderate level of strength and endurance is beneficial. Longterm, for your health. As you get older maintaining your physical strength becomes more difficult. Starting off with a decent level of fitness as your body begins to decline will put you in a better spot at 70 than someone who struggled up stairs when they were young.

Here's a practical one, not being winded at the top of the stairs. I work on the 3rd floor of a building. There's one elevator, it's painfully slow. Most people take the stairs. Every day people pass by my cubicle (near the entrance) winded from their walk across the parking lot and up the stairs. That's pathetic (having been there myself a couple years back, it's depressing too).

Have or want children? Wouldn't it be cool to be able to play with them for more than 10 minutes before feeling exhausted? Or to be able to carry them in from the car when they've passed out (or pretended to be asleep), even when they're older than 2 or 3?

Ever find your home office has filled with clutter and wanted to clean it out? Being able to carry out a box of trash or recyclables or giveaway stuffs without needing to stop every 10' or carry one item at a time is nice.

EDIT: I'm not in great shape, that's been my state for 10 years now. I am, however, in better shape now than most of that decade. Beyond the practical uses of this physical condition, it's helped me out in a number of other ways. I'm more alert. I sleep better (those two are, of course, related). I'm more attractive (hey, no more double chin!) which also helps with self-esteem. My mood is generally better (if you read my post history you'll find a history of depression, I won't say fitness has eliminated it, but it certainly is helping for me).

Back to (somewhat) practical uses of better strength. I'm able to help friends with tasks around their homes instead of trying to come up with excuses to avoid it (because I was, for a time, more of a drag in those cases than a help). I can go play laser tag without collapsing at the end (4 years ago, it was embarrassing). Bowling, not the most demanding of games, no longer exhausts my arms (I bowl both left and right handed).
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Remember kids, you only have a finite amount of connective tissue and cartilage and once its gone its gone. Unless you can pay for a 25000$ exotic platelet rich plasma transfusion or have a secret cache of bio-engineered body parts.
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Some publicly available information: http://google-engtools.blogspot.ie/2011/08/build-in-cloud-ho... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2899467)
I used the Chrome extension for a few months and the OCR was never very accurate. Even giant, clear block letters were often not recognized.
My reaction was: "20x20 pixels = 400 pixels so he's taking 10 bits for each pixel; no way should that be happening". So I copied the image into paint.net (I happen to be on a Windows box here) and told it to save it as a PNG. 998 bytes.

(I think it takes up 4k on my HD, but that's because of filesystem inefficiency; it would take up 4k if it were a text file just saying "tweet", too.)

I do agree with the general point, though: for most purposes 998 bytes of text (more if compressed) will tell you more than that little tweeting-bird image.
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In the long run, I'm going to suggest Uber is worth very little at all. We're probably ten years away from the first self-driving cab company. It won't be long before electric drive cabs can self-drive themselves to an induction charger, full service car wash, or maintenance shop where the owner has a contract. If the car gets stuck, it can call roadside assistance. There will be no reason to own an office anymore. One can probably even get by without renting a parking space.

The software features which make Uber and Lyft a unique experience will eventually become commoditized.

What happens to companies like Uber when the barriers to entry are so low that margins are non-existent?
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Ok, this is not the case. How can one estimate the worth of this community? 10$ per user?
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I can't find a source for this right now, but I believe that the pitot tubes were only iced over briefly, and that normal airspeed readings did resume long before the end, but it seems the crew never reached any state of confidence about whether (or which of) their instruments were correct.

It raises an interesting point about instrumentation - it's easy to make a display that looks like a gauge, a needle, or whatever. But if the system behind the display can have some knowledge of whether it's getting good data or not, then really there is (at least) another dimension to the information. How do we represent that so that operators can make sound judgements in unfortunate circumstances?
So about 8%. Bordering on market insignificance. Insignificant in a lot of areas but definitely not the norm.
If you mean "they" as in the group doing the kickstarter, then saying that "they" don't have a problem is missing the point. "They" are having "their" customers receive defective units. The customers don't care who is responsible, but they sure as hell can read the brand on the product and place blame.

If you hire a contract manufacturer, when there's a problem, it's your problem. It doesn't matter who's eating the cost of rework or replacement, your brand is getting the ding from the customer.

If I buy an iPhone and it becomes defective an hour later, I'm not going to blame Foxconn. I'm going to blame Apple or the Apple Store I bought it from.
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Could be dyslexia, or a physical eye problem.
David Bowie is great, but if you were to catalogue his output, abilities, and achievements I think they would pale severely in comparison to Mozart. I can believe that music is overall just as great as ever, with the millions of contributors globally, but where are the towering geniuses?
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Some stuff is good for stuff. Other stuff is good for other stuff. :)
Well,given than there is quite a few influencial people hanging around here,the kind of people you can only meet here frankly,i'd multiply that price tag by at least 10.
No, I don't think it boils down to that. It was just a one of many different design decisions (and philosophies) that has provided a stellar safety record for Airbus planes right up to the point where it contributed to an accident.

Remember that it's easy to criticize such decisions in hindsight, but the decision was taken for a reason, and approved by government agencies at the time.
I'll bite. Thomas Ades is making astounding music today. So is John Luther Adams, and Nico Muhly. I've enjoyed works by Mason Bates, Andrew Leshnoff, Yehudi Wyner, and others. Just because you haven't heard of them doesn't mean that they don't exist.

Some symphonies are shutting down, but the Chicago Symphony just announced increases in ticket sales and attendance. Excitement over my local orchestra, the Seattle Symphony, is increased in recent years since they hired a new music director and commissioned a Pulitzer-prize winning piece by John Luther Adams.
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I'd be more worried about the "down with the state" loonies or one of their followers doing this than the government. With the government, you have a chance to see what's coming. You almost never find out about the whacko who saved up, bought a gun and shot up a school until it's too late.

Is it possible that the government might, in some way, turn on it's citizens? Sure, if it can be justified as "for the children" or "fighting terror" or any number of inane excuses. My guess, though, is that it will be a civilian with a drone and grandiose dreams of "liberating America from it's oppressors" who will make our fears of drones a real thing.
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Here's another video, with a human explaining the advantages:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deI1IzbveEQ
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People who made fun of me in high school for being interested in programming are now trying to get programming jobs. People I know who flunked out of college or were expelled for cheating are now programmers. I'm now the only programmer at my company with a math or CS degree. (The others have degrees, but in biology, history, etc. -- they were all career switchers.)

That's how pervasive it's becoming. If there's any sort of contraction in the industry, the situation will be bad.
I don't know what a use case is, but the purpose of the device is to help people use process modelling in the service of creating a strategy around complicated things, in particular urban energy planning.

You should be able to run it without node, but node is used for wrangling javascript dependencies (building it, effectively).
Depends, We could all be worth from 44 dollars to 217.[1][2]

I mean, at least we are worth a good 40.

[1]http://www.forbes.com/sites/tristanlouis/2013/08/31/how-much...
[2]http://b-i.forbesimg.com/tristanlouis/files/2013/09/2013-08-...
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I find this an interesting new business for Google, given that they have the extra cash to set up the infrastructure for express delivery.

Coincidently, when I was consulting at Google last year, a manager of Google Express worked in my building and we both had the habit of getting in to work around 6am. I enjoyed talking with him in the local mini kitchen. Unfortunately, my wife and I were staying just out of the area where the beta service was provided so I never got to try it.
Can you define what "matters"? What exactly are people finding more meaningful about programming as opposed to English?
Try asking an American what this picture means -

http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/archive/2010/03/1_123...

Most people would know that means "exit" but in true American fashion the United States uses a different sign - http://www.oneskilladay.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Exit-...

I gotta say it took me a long time abroad to figure out what the green running man sign meant.
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> I find it rather obvious you have something against anyone liking systemd.

I find it rather obvious that you either don't know what "proponent" means, or you can't distinguish between one who likes something and one who advocates for something. Either way, you are being extremely offensive. Unlike systemd proponents, I don't care what other people like. I care what they try to force me to use.

> After above quote, you followup with "screw users".

I also find it rather obvious you don't have any concept of context. "screw users" was in response to someone who clearly stated they cared about maintainers, not users.
They are different things. Have you used them?
> there must be a lot of liberals who, at the first sign of trouble, call 911 with great urgency.

How is this not inflammatory? How does this lead to intelligent and insightful discussion rather than just stoking the flames?

All you've really done is group together everyone with a particular view point that you don't like and attempted to trivialize them into a couple of strawmen that you can easily tear down (presumably so that you don't have to deal with people that might have a strong points against your opinion on the matter).

If you really believe what you have said, all you've done is troll the people that you are upset with for posting/commenting on this stuff on Reddit & HN. If your intent was not to troll, then I think that you should rethink your tactics with respect to commenting on these stories.
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Oh, that sounds great! Is it Arduino compatible? How do you use all those libraries? I don't understand how something that runs Linux can be Arduino compatible, since Linux isn't a RTOS.
No. For radix sort this constant factor is quite low, so it outperforms std::sort in most cases.

Try sorting a million integers, my results are:
std::sort: 60 ms;
radix-sort (LSB, hand coded, less than 20 lines): 11 ms.
It gets even better when you mix MSB with LSB for better locality.

No, there are no problems with doubles or negative integers.
For sizeof(key_value)<=16 B (8 for key, 8 for pointer), radix is the best sort on desktop computers.