skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Android voice recognition can now be used offline[1]. You download the trained recognition model (which took much, much more than 10,000 times more processing power to train), and then it works without a network connection.

[1] http://androidwidgetcenter.com/android-tips/how-to-use-offli...
Show HN: Materialistic – Hacker News Android client with material design
"Get right" probably isn't the right term. Mostly I'm just annoyed that I can't choose an open source DB that has upsert (or merge if you want to do the standards version) and CTEs. I generally have uses for both of these in every project I work on.
I remember the early 1980's UK Sunday shopping experience too. We had one convenience store that probably flouted laws and paid fines. To get there from our village involved getting to town and then another two miles the other side of town, opposite a garage, was the place where you could buy a pint of milk and some other items at a premium price.

The UK retail landscape has changed dramatically since then and in unanticipated ways. Newsagents ceased to be the cornerstone of community that they once were, nowadays we have convenience stores where most people don't walk out with a newspaper under their arm.

Maggie Thatcher was the one that pushed for the Sunday trading laws to be changed, thereafter we became a nation of shoppers (rather than shopkeepers, which was how we described Britain before then). I did not shop on Sunday for many years after that as I did not see the point of having sales spread out over 7 days. Also remember that we also had half day trading on Wednesdays (or another mid-week day) in most towns. So this was a big change.

I think that we would do well to re-visit Sunday trading with more 'Bank Holidays' on Sundays. The weekend after pay day might be good for Sunday trading with the rest of the Sundays being retail free days. We could also do with a few 'car free' Sundays combined with wither no retail or lots of retail more of the 'street festival' flavour.

In the days when the shops were closed on Sundays nobody starved.
My apnea was classified as "severe" so I couldn't use those :/
Check out resources online like this and WarriorForum (warriorforum.com) - you can teach yourself online marketing (and sales) in your own time.
Startups, a Rich Man’s Game
oh, dude. Swift FX all the way. I have a friend whose doctor didn't recommend it (probably recommended one like yours) and I practically forced him to push back on his doc and prescribe this one. It's quite a bit of comfort difference.

I'm actually trying to lose a bunch of weight so that I (hopefully) don't have to use a machine at all (although I have a very strong suspicion that I still had this issue back when I was very skinny, I was always a snorer and always had to take mid-afternoon naps) but mostly because I might want to get one of the operations, but they won't do one until I'm back at a "fit" weight.
Sure, it's outdated now, but habits of accounting tend to die hard.

In Chinese, some characters representing numbers are so trivially forgible by adding a stroke or two (1 = 一, 2 = 二, 3 = 三, 10 = 十, 1000 = 千) that accountants came up with complicated substitutes that cannot be altered to mean any other number (1 = 壹, 2 = 贰, 3 = 叁, 10 = 拾, 1000 = 仟). The substitutes are still widely used in legal and financial documents.
and even then, I think their implementation of complex.h is screwball.
I don't dislike the unfinished pebbling look on a knife like the Ferraby nearly as much as I dislike the tacky faux Damascus texturing on others, but it sure distracts from my enjoyment of it. It's a conceit...it's saying "look at the very expensive art object I have", not "look at the first-class tool that I have".
+1 to this. You can modify fortune's output as you see fit, and also do fun things like fortune | cowthink -s
I work 80 hours a week, and I'm happy with my social life and fitness level. To be and to stay fit you need to eat right, exercise and... have good genes. Nothing you can do about your genes, but here're little hacks that helped me to not only stay in shape, but also lose 20 lb in 6 months and maintain it. There's nothing new, it's very easy, but you need to be disciplined about this.

1) Eat 4-5 small meals a day with plenty of veggies and protein. Exclude any processed food and ANYTHING with corn syrup. Read the ingredients. If there are words that you don't know - don't eat it. I never starve, never diet. But I also don't eat more than I need. If you drink alcohol, try to stay away from beer and cocktails. When I drink socially, I usually either have a glass of wine, or go straight to hard liquor (cognac, tequila, vodka).

2) Work-out 3-4 times a week (every other day) for only 20-30 minutes. To be effective you can work out with you weight: push-ups, pull-ups, sit-ups crunches, etc. The key is to go with no breaks, and do 3 sets to maximum repetitions, while alternating different exercises. When I'm short on time, I do 10 pull-ups, 20 jumping push-ups, 30 jumping lunges, 40 sit-ups. And I repeat the cycle 3 times without breaks. It takes me 15-20 minutes. Then I shadow box, or, stretch, or lift weights, depending on my time and mood.

So, this routine works well and doesn't require much time.

P.S. And have lots of sex! It's kind of "refills" your social and exercise points all at once. :))))
I really think we have to pitch it along the lines of the Alaska permanent fund (which is in fact a guaranteed minimum income, just smaller in magnitude than what most people think of) and is never opposed by anyone ever.

For example, it might be more politically palatable to say,

"Dear John Doe, here is your check for the oil and coal revenues that were collected in your name from beneath your homeland. Also there is some money from the toll bridges that we operate for you and the sales taxes we collected in your name from merchants operating in your area. Btw's we also gave the same check to all your neighbors because they live here too."
I think "easier replication" and "unsafe defaults" kind of go hand in hand...
If it's a simple stack overflow or buffer overrun, then given that they're plain binary data packets, it should be pretty easy to exploit.
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Does anyone know who makes the "Gordon Ramsay by Royal Dolton" knives?
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>> "...innate desire to feel important by living in a fancy place."

But that desire for importance is a thing, too. How else do we explain all the transplants moving to drastically-overpriced Williamsburg/Bushwick without knowing a soul?
Good question.

I have spent the last week trying to work through this issue.

What I came up with was gold copy on an external drive that I manipulate with the Windows version of Picasa. I use it to add tags, geo info and clean up pics. I enable the Sync to Web feature, which keeps Google+/Picasa Web up to date.

To ensure the copy on Flickr is up to date I registered a program called PhotoSync for Flickr that watches folders for changes and uploads pics. This is still a manual process to set up for the most part since it requires a clean sync; I have to delete all Flickr albums and reupload.

I thought I had the solution with PICBACKMAN, which costs $49 a year. It didn't handle the meta data for the photos when syncing with Google+/Picasa Web nor did it dedupe when uploading an album. For instance, I add a new pic to a folder it would upload all the other pics again.

So, to answer your question. My photos are very important to me and I have spent a great deal of time scanning pre-digital ones into the archive. I'd pay $100 a year to ensure my gold copy was synced among services with all meta data included.
Ow man that is bad!

Thanks for sharing.
Lessons shared from this post:

1- Lock down ALL ports you are not using with either iptables or ufw.

2- Be sure to always run system updates,

even with doing this the exploit still made it in, but the updates can help.

3- Use tools available to you such as iptraf, nethogs, and iftop.

4- Watch your cronjobs and strange startup files

I think locking down the ports that are not required is a very important thing to do.

I have faced such stuff, but with lower traffic luckily ended up creating a whole instance and server and ripping a part old configs and setup.
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What is backing USD or any currency other than the interest of the public? It's not like any country gets to dictate to other countries how much their money is worth.
Fun trivia: When Americans went to East Asia with their funny money, the Asians quickly replaced the $ sign with a similar-looking local character: 弗.

Nowadays in Japan and Korea, you often see headlines like "1兆弗" (1 trillion U.S. dollars).

But 弗 originally means "not". So American money is not real money ;)
Half of a typical programmer's salary is still more than most people make on average, at least in the USA.
Could you provide a reference for that so we can learn more? That sounds contrary to what I've read previously.
You are right. My bad. I've only briefly looked to confirm that the study was not specifically targeting juvenile monkeys. But in fact 52% (8+10)/(11+23) of monkeys were juvenile. Still, half are post puberty and taking into account "females reach puberty around age three while males are sexually mature by age four" (Rawlins & Kessler 1986, that probably diminishes this 52%. And as per the study itself "Overall sample size precluded analysis of individual age groups." So, I still wouldn't be too happy to transfer that results into human children domain.
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Constexpr is C++11, I think?
This ridiculously large aircraft landed at RDU a number of years ago. Unfortunately I wasn't able to make it out that day to see it. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJxSN9x5oZU
Sure, but to know the algorithms is not enough. I remember I was asked to implement a certain prime numbers search algorithm in C, and I spent many hours trying to wrap my head around how to do it, even though the algorithm itself was perfectly clear to me.
Not only that, I then spent several more hours trying to make it faster, which is also language specific. So the language does matter in my opinion.
CAPTCHA?
I made a (free) site pretty similar to what you describe:

https://www.takeitapart.com

TakeItApart lets anyone can see or share annotated photo-based disassembly guides, to find part numbers, names, and required tools. We're tying to make the website the community-contributed disassembly encyclopedia of the web--so anyone can take things apart, virtually, without picking up a screwdriver. It's also super easy to add a new guide--just bulk upload a set of photos and click "next" a few times.

It's a way to share engineering and industrial design know-how. For example, I've learned to consider in-board strain relief[1] for cables and spray-on ground shielding[2] from taking things apart.

1. https://www.takeitapart.com/guide/51#step-4

2. https://www.takeitapart.com/guide/25#step-11
true. but either way this is an interesting correlation. No one said it implied causation.
I hate this left/right code documentation fad with passion.

Making my eyes jump horizontally across the page every few lines is about the worst you can possibly do for readability.

Just keep the damn comments inline and use colors/font-faces/fold markers to make it readable.
This looks nice! Nice job.

I am using my iOS device so maybe I missed it - but is there a way to search for a particular language?
Wow, absolutely beautiful photos and a stunning piece of engineering! That one statistic that a 737 fuselage can fit inside of this thing is wild to me, especially since the only other planes[1][2] I know of that can do that look much more.... bulgy.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Dreamlifter
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_Beluga
Nicely done, OP! Have you considered making an app so it is simple to create new tests?

The interactive nature of this is great, and it's widely applicable. Beyond being wonderful for students, adaptations of this would be great for employee training on the factory floor. Every hackerspace would benefit from a system like this to qualify members for access to capital equipment.
There are publications (2002, 2003) publications that reported similar results:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11912125

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14597870

I wonder why there were few follow-up studies? or what happened to these lines of research?
Apparently it's possible to embed a HTML5 Twitch player instead of Flash. Would it be possible to use this?

http://discuss.dev.twitch.tv/t/html5-embedded-player/150/3
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If you don't stream video, you can use something designed for audio streaming like Icecast[0]. Then your bandwidth per month is approximately users×bitrate×60×60×24×30/8/1000000000. For 1000 people at 128kbit/s, that would be 41.472GB/mo, which you could pay for with $5.

[0] http://www.icecast.org/
Do you also prefer footnotes and sidebars inline when reading articles?

These are standard typographical practices. I do set my comment color to super light so comments don't distract me too much when reading code, but I wish there was a better way.
I've got a number of KAI, Shun and MAC knives, which seem to be universally superior quality. I'm particularly fond of a KAI "Wasabi" brand vanadium steel santoku knife that is terribly easy to maintain and cuts like magic, and has for years. I've also got a number of better grade Wusthof knives (wedding gifts mostly) that are fine knives, but do require a lot more maintenance.

I wish I didn't dislike the feel of the Global knives, because they're clearly exceptional in many ways. Apparently I need to check out the Victoronix.
Tail Calls, Default Arguments, and Excessive Recycling in ES-6
Thanks! This is interesting, although it looks like there is/was an issue with autoplay attribute. I'm going to test this tomorrow.
‘Crowd’ Sites Let Startups Tap Small Investors’ Cash
Obviously basic sharing of non-commercial recordings cannot require a license.

I seem to recall reading that the German audio royalties law forced streams to pay royalties to the industry association (RIAA equivalent) even for creative commons music. I could be misremembering or misinterpreting, so if someone could provide an up-to-date reference it would be appreciated.
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> When fully loaded, the aircraft can keep on flying without refueling for about 2 hours.

I assume that is a typo.
The past was the past. Huge crackdown on corruption and graft is making it much harder to offshore. Even if they can get it out, people are watching their spending habits outside of China.
Children aren’t worth very much–that’s why we no longer make many
Fuel burn at MTOW is quite a bit different. I think that's correct.
Air Pair (https://www.airpair.com/) is one example of such a service that was mentioned at last year's Railsconf.
yeah, he describes in the video how Dalian is a nicer location than the other buildings they operate. I imagine given the lower profits they could no longer afford the luxury.
> “All modern websites, even server-rendered ones, need JavaScript” — No. they do not. They all can become better when enhanced with JS.

This. Surfing with uBlock with strict javascript settings leads to a surprising amount of broken pages that do nothing with javascript that is mandatory. From graphical gimmicks that get stuck covering the page to breaking buttons on search forms, there is a lot of stuff that could work just fine, without the scripts adding any real benefit.

I get that for more complex use cases there are tradeoffs to be made (e.g. implementing a server-side AND a java-script version of functions, adding dynamic content to staticly hosted pages, ...), but there also are a lot of low-hanging fruit.
How about toggle-able comments?
I've never seen 弗 in use in Chinese newspapers to refer to dollars. Any sources on this? Baidu-ing "兆弗" is only turning up results for a Shanghai company called "兆弗"
The strange and complicated history of patenting the e-cigarette
I use pedestrian domestic whetstones and oil stones (from Arkansas, I believe), but agree you can tell so much about the knife by how it feels and the residue it leaves. My Grandfather taught me how to do it, and it makes me a bit wistful when I take my pocket knife to the stone.
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The Vislon is a plastic zipper (i.e the zipper teeth, not the pull), so I'd guess cheaper than the other, which is for a metal zipper. Maybe that explains it?
This paper uses the Gough Creativity Scale to measure creativity in participants.

The Gough Creativity Scale asks people to check the adjectives that apply to them.

If you check "Honest" that is -1 for your creativity rating.

These results are built into the pre-assumptions of the self-assessment metric the study used for a creative rating.

Therefore the study uses circular reasoning and is invalid.
Cute.

For the 19th century version, see "Catechism of the Locomotive", from 1877.

https://archive.org/details/cu31924031173549
Hey, I'm like millions of those lay users who do not have rooted mobile devices.

WRT Firefox, it does not play nicely with Google services, like Gmail. WRT, browsers...I have tried many of them under the sun and all of them have a consistent disadvantage over Google, that is, speed.

I've got many lay users friends who still look for an Ad blocker out of the box, for their mobile devices. I have hope from Ghostery and uBlock makers, fingers crossed.
It is. The original article is already using several other C++11 features, such as variadic templates and alias templates.
I liked the explanation of the physics of why there should be a spike. But I don't see the relationship to the original equation. It seems to me that it's just a coincidence that the original equation had a spike.
When Children with Autism Grow Up
Web application development in fsharp using ASP.NET MVC
You can use a Meta.managed=False model and a Postgresql view and map your model to that view for custom SQL.

And just query from that model as normal.
I think this is awesome but I think it's a little too spaced out. I like the side-by-side display (gives the code an approachable narrative) but I wish I had to scroll up and down (to remind myself of what's going on) less.
That was a sobering look at parenthood.
Reminds me of a simple physics system I wrote a couple of years ago [0]. After writing a cloth simulation [1] I figured that all I needed to make them into collidable boxes was to have each dot collide with each line. I went in very very small steps, iterating each thing to ensure I understood it. The code was super verbose and I learned a lot from this about linear algebra, cross products, vector projection etc. I always planned to straighten the code out and do a proper writeup.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud8NirjyLAA

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G05M_Y6NQVM
On mobile it combines the sides together in a way that I find an appealing option. Screenshot: http://imgur.com/xRvDubc

Anybody know if there's an easy way to get something like the mobile view on desktop (without spoofing user agents, etc)?
#1. "Evil Genius? How Dishonesty Can Lead to Greater Creativity"

Psychological Science published online 18 February 2014

"Abstract:
We propose that dishonest and creative behavior have something in common: They both involve breaking rules.
Because of this shared feature, creativity may lead to dishonesty (as shown in prior work), and dishonesty may lead to creativity (the hypothesis we tested in this research). In five experiments, participants had the opportunity to behave dishonestly by overreporting their performance on various tasks. They then completed one or more tasks designed to measure creativity. Those who cheated were subsequently more creative than noncheaters, even when we accounted for individual differences in their creative ability (Experiment 1). Using random assignment, we confirmed that acting dishonestly leads to greater creativity in subsequent tasks (Experiments 2 and 3). The link between dishonesty and creativity is explained by a heightened feeling of being unconstrained by rules, as indicated by both mediation
(Experiment 4) and moderation (Experiment 5)"

https://msbfile03.usc.edu/digitalmeasures/wiltermu/intellcon... ( pdf )

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#2. "Computational Evidence that Self-regulation of Creativity is Good for Society" 11 Aug 2014

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1408.2512.pdf ( pdf )
I've been in contact with BitPay directly. They would be in my view certainly suitable for this kind of thing.

And yes instantly means instantly.

Eric Schleien
Prime Sponsor
Established by studio executives by putting only those those cited with contempt of congress for refusing to testify at the Un-American Activities commitee. The separation between studio executives and government in that case was pretty damn fuzzy if it existed at all. I'm not an expert but isn't the current view that those executives were basically government proxies?

But still, you are right and my phrasing was in bad faith.

I do think there is a substantive difference between what we'd call boycotts and the kind of government influenced blacklists we're talking about.

To make a side point: Revolutionary leftism is fashionable these days, but any and all kinds of authoritarianism - based on any politics - is viewed as something people have a duty to oppose. It doesn't feel to me like the left/right dichotomy is the main factor here.
Http-server – simple, zero-configuration http server
Inline comments are a part of the code's core layout, so you get into trouble when you make them disappear (as is the trouble with most folding systems).

It is like parenthetical statements in prose: you can't really make them disappear, they are right their in your face. It is considered bad style if they aren't extremely brief, otherwise you should use a foot or side note.
One of my customers in Iraq chartered this; sadly I missed riding on that trip, but I got hundreds of hours on An-12, Il-76, and a couple legs of An-124. Given the maintenance the aircraft got (especially the An-12s), was pretty terrifying. I should dig up the photos and video I took and post it somewhere. https://www.flickr.com/photos/octal/sets/72157594167351328 was some, but I didn't feel like going through the clearance procedures for most of my good photos back when the US bases were active.
For another example of a currency where the symbol does go on the right end, there is the Polish currency (złoty). For example, "5,99 zł" (although often the zł will be skipped)
They did release an iOS version -- it's called Signal [1]. Unfortunately, it's not gaining that much attention in the mainstream.

PS: Currently, it's only cross-compatible with Android's Red Phone but TextSecure is probably on the roadmap.

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/signal-private-messenger/id8...
Benefit:

Less Costs to the State (lower transaction fees) + $0 set up fee. More secure than credit card transactions.

Safer/More Secure + Cheaper = Benefit

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And yes completely constitutional. Nobody is issuing currency. It's simply providing a means of payment that is getting converted into US Dollars through a third party payment processor. BitPay was mentioned as a company that provides those services above.

Hope this clarifies.

Eric Schleien
Prime Sponsor
> It would be cute if there was some way of us hinting to the plugin which domains were needed to not break the site

No advertiser or site looking to cash in on ads would abuse that.
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