skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
recently i hired a barbell / weight coach to train me (he really pushes me hard, harder than i ever thought i was capable of going), i find that i usually start wanting to mentally 'give up' at around the halfway mark during a training session. 40-60%.

but since i'm generally healthy, the trick is to decide to go until i absolutely can not move anymore, whether it's 2 minutes or another hour. once you've made that decision in your head (your mental "escape route" having been established), the rest is easy. when you have a professional watching your form and supervising you, this is perfectly safe. if i can still move the weight, i keep going. if i can't move the weight, then it's a good time to stop.

for me personally, it's much harder to wake up 3x a week at 0530 and go to the gym than to finish a physical task when you feel like giving up. that's where the 40% rule doesn't really help me much. once i'm there it's not that hard to finish.

btw, for those of you thinking of hiring a trainer, don't just walk into a gym and ask for one on staff, find a reputable barbell coach in your area and work with them on a long term training plan that suits your budget and goals, then pay it all up front because otherwise you're not going to get your ass out of bed at 6am.
Try asking the moderators using the |contact| link at the bottom of the page.
Kidney damage will absolutely kill you if left untreated.
a) I had not heard of gogs, interesting. I do love the sheer number of options we currently have for developer oriented services.

b) I don't understand why this particular link has been submitted. Is there anything remarkable here, or some context I'm missing?
OK, I'll restrain my tone in the future. But more polite ways to respond to someone telling you to shut up would be welcome.

Well, I suppose a simple "No." suffices.
I want 0.5% equity :-)
Facebook service aimed at professionals to launch in coming months
coldfusion!?
Kind of misleading: this works with a few lines of code _if_ you use/include their libary. Nice nonetheless.
At least in the case of mobile ordering at Starbucks, that app sounds like it's adding real, additional value: It allows you to do something you otherwise can't do without the app.

Aside from the digital receipt thing (which, in my opinion, is really only useful if you are planning on returning an item or collecting receipts for tax deduction) where is the additional value with the mobile Walmart app?
Oh, I see what you mean. Something doesn't do a lot in one app unless it runs all software on Earth in one app (or some subset thereof). I think you meant operating system or runtime platform instead of app. I recommend Android or iOS for your needs.

Back to apps and my claim, Facebook directly provides email, messaging, phone calls, group activities, meetup, games, and so on. Hence, the claim their model is to do much of what people need in one app good enough for convenience to ensure a win. No single app is going to do all on your list because users would reject it outside maybe South Korea where such a mixed bag is common. People always look for a better app with better interface, integration, price, whatever. No incentive whatsoever to build an app with your exact combination of features if 99+% of people prefer to have a set of apps best for that and aren't vendor loyal at all.

Not to mention, what startup is going to build that app for $1 or so in an app store? The functionality you describe could cost hundreds of thousands to millions to develop. With no expectation of a return. Not happening any time soon.
Cor 0.1.4 is out, now with playground to toy with
> people died while searching for Bergdahl while off-duty... so how that gets attributed to his search I have no idea

There's not really any such thing as 'off-duty' in the military (which is why servicemen have to take leave for weekend days): one's either at work, or on liberty. But liberty in a combat zone just means, 'eating, showering, reading or sleeping.'
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> When Slack self-hosted is a possibility, Hipchat is dead in the water.

I think Slack put some pressure on the Hipchat team but there is plenty of stuff that is highly problematic for how Slack is set up at the moment. In particular even for small teams it can become incredibly hard to see what's happening and the integrations either spam too much or are too useless once it becomes a bit more crowded in a room.
What I don't get is why they didn't make them match the Windows hotkeys. It was ALT+START+LEFT to stick something left, for example. Why add the ALT?
Yes - natural language is dependent on facial expressions, tone of voice, shared mutual history, shared culture, and so many other things that you don't have, or even want, when interacting with a computer. People can learn a set of imperative commands for interfacing with an AI. People aren't dumb. But the execution has to be good enough to make it worthwhile.
Due to proximity and similarity of lifestyle, and how crazy things are in the bay, I keep assuming that any minute now companies and engineers will start moving up to Portland in droves. (Well, I wouldn't expect companies to move here, but certainly open offices.)

But looking at available jobs and so forth, that doesn't seem to be panning out. Does anyone have any thoughts about this? Is Portland too small of a city for that, still? It just seems like a no-brainer to me.
IMHO, Unity is by far the best DE in Linux. It has come a long way since the horrors of the first few iterations of the product.

It has some critical flaws, but it's manageable. (The worst being poor workspaces support)
What the fuck did I just read? This is (scientifically) proven because of a non sequitur about placebo effect?

I'd kind of like to have 2 minutes of my life refunded to me. And the pint of blood I just lost from stabbing myself in the eyeballs when I realized that some people actually take this spam-subscription bait seriously.
From my own patterns, I sort of agree with the conclusion but there's one app that I keep even though I only use it a few times a year and it's a PDF "scanner" app. The difference is it replaces an expensive piece of hardware and it does it better than the hardware. I'm not sure Birdly really solved any problems that couldn't be solved just as easily with built-in apps or even pencil and paper.
With the NASDAQ: prefix it's good now, but yesterday morning at IPO the data was missing. It seems like they get it within 4-8 hours of an IPO, at least that's been my experiencing following MTCH and FIT.
I might sound like I'm joking, but as soon as I get an AR headset I'm building a computer vision system to detect billboards and overlaying a black rectangle over top. It's already possible to fill in items of a given class in images with deep learning, and it'll only get better.
GCM is extremely tricky to implement safely.

ECDH itself is very easy to implement; it's just DH (which is probably the simplest algorithm in cryptography), but in a different group.

ECC (the group) is hard to implement safely. The NIST P-curves are tricky to implement relative to Curve25519.

But there's also a lot more study of how to safely implement the NIST P- curves than there is for how to make a constant-time GCM.

I don't know. They seem like comparably difficult tasks.
> Classical computers can factor large integers.

I mean, since the best-known quantum algorithm for factoring integers is asymptotically faster than the best-known classical algorithm for factoring integers, isn't there some definition of "large" for which this is no longer true?

(I'm assuming you mean "classical computers can factor large integers effectively", since the class of all problems solvable by a classical computer is exactly the same as the class of all problems solvable by a quantum computer)
Site was down for me so, mirror:

Fullpage screenshot:

http://i.imgur.com/QIj2NWk.jpg

Google Cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5oATeaa...
I'm by no means a savvy investor, nor an expert in this, and am probably stating the obvious but the rationale is Active Users have a value, even if they're not actively providing revenue. Previously, it was simply monetizing that audience via Ads.

More recently it's monetizing the data that those users generate.

There is also value gaining a particular segment, such as Activison-Blizzard purchasing King gaining access to all the casual mobile gamers.

Essentially, its that those users could be used to generate money, and thus are valuable.
I was under the impression that N64 had fantastic emulators. I remember playing several games in High School on an N64 emulator and they ran perfectly.
Akinator UX is like a marketing survey, a bit tiresome after the first dozen questions with no end in sight.
Those grains aren't good for paleo though since we didn't really eat them while evolving. Our bodies haven't been primarily digesting them for very long.
> Spending 2 hours in the gym instead of 30 minutes for me is actually counter-productive.

2 hours doing what in the gym? The balance of activities is the critical part, IME.
How about Surinam? The only thing they currently don't have is a lot of Caucasians.
I personally don't like it... but their IDEs are great, so, I don't care much.
You may enjoy this article from venture capitalist Fred Wilson.

http://avc.com/2015/10/negative-gross-margins/
Source Control for Art Assets Must Exist
I’m not sure why, but the page is completely unreadable: http://i.imgur.com/YgP34SE.png

And this is with Firefox, which usually renders fonts a bit fatter than competing browsers.
Chip & Pin and Contactless are commonplace in Canada as well at stores. Not all have it, but most get it as they upgrade their systems.
I would simply say this, and if you have CS you should agree, CS is unmistakable. That said there are 2 types I am aware of, CS as a result of accidents/trauma and athletically induced, mine being the later.

(b) Within 30 seconds to 2 minutes of running the pressure/pain begins. Personally I get swelling/bulging in 2 of the compartments to the extent it is clearly visible to the naked eye (this never happened before the CS or when using my topical treatment). In the few instances I "power through" the pain, which I have found mostly impossible, it will lead first to numbness in my feet (though the pain never subsides in the compartments and only increases) and then I develop drop foot during the run. Within ~1 minute of ceasing the run the pain subsides.

(a): I have experimented to the point that I have isolated the CS in 2 out of 4 compartments in each leg. If I don't use the treatment I always have the pain/swelling/pressure. Additionally, through experiments I know I can target one of the compartments in each leg and still have the pain/pressure/swelling in the untreated compartments. Another note, if I apply to topical treatment and don't run within ~1 hour I will develop the pain/swelling/pressure to a lesser degree, but when I go running immediately I have had runs as long as 3 hours and do not experience any symptoms.

My discovery was not random luck, as I experimented with rollers, icing, heating, stretching, shoes, running surface, other topicals, etc... Having found the treatment I don't employ any other variables such as stretching, icing, or heating. It really isn't so crazy to conclude there are topical treatments the body will absorb that could change the fascia viscosity to accommodate muscle expansion.

As I said, I would love the opportunity to go through clinical testing to confirm my treatment works. I am not sure how big the CS market is, but I know that after only 18 months of running I was unwilling to give it up, and surgery is not practical.
Visual Studio Team Services is just as good at this.
That we already have, although you really need to look at the surveys as well as the FBI's Uniform Crime report, since there's a lot of falsification in various localities to lower the severity of reported crimes to make it look like the police are being effective.

I'm just wondering about putting together statistics on the number of uninterrupted burglaries and what burglars say about how often they're armed. I know an number avoid it to avoid the sentencing enhancements if they're caught in the act, and that from all the ones that go really bad, plenty carry weapons with them.
The mobile ordering is a recent addition to the Starbucks app. I've been using it for payment for years -- mostly due to their rewards program, though that is available with a card too.
Their country? who is They?

Who is western?
It's Assad, Iran and Turkey.

We used to tell people to stop reading Fox news, now I feel like Vox and The Guardian is at play here.

Maybe you should talk to "they" who still are in those countries.
How to Educate Students as Technology Advances
I'm curious why they chose that ticker instead of ATLA or something.
Schneier's comment is misinformed, and Schneier has had a bias against ECC going back over a decade, which has, I think, kept him from learning as much about it as he's picked up about RSA. Schneier has published no research about ECC, and details of curve crypto are absent from his books.

It's worth keeping in mind that Schneier is also not an academic cryptographer, or really a serious practicing cryptography researcher of any sort. He's a great popularizer and he works with some very credible other researchers, but "Schneier said so" is never going to win a debate among cryptographers.

Bernstein makes the same kinds of comments about the Brainpool curves (the whole point of BADA55 was that the Brainpool curves aren't that much more trustworthy than the Solinas curves), and nobody, including Bernstein, will with a straight face say that the Brainpool curves are backdoored.

It's a valid process critique that has been interpreted by laypeople as an accusation, which is something Bernstein has taken flak for.
I hunt bitcoins with SFOX for few months now I made a lot of money, I am thinking to work full time hunting on SFOX
I think you've changed definitions on the fly. Both the higher pressure on the bottom and the lower pressure on the top contribute to the lift.

If you use a suction cup to lift a piece of horizontal glass, well, I think most reasonable people would say it contributes a force. Maybe you'd say no it doesn't, you don't actually lift it, you just provide a lower pressure at the top allowing the bottom air pressure to push it up... Well duh, of course.
NSA: the signal from an UFO has been received
> they would have already built workflows to do it without apps

I'd argue that the effort and workflow used without apps is larger then with them. So if someone can't be bothered to even use the apps, it most certainly isn't doing it "oldschool".

> My grandfather uses ledger books, pen and paper.

Well he had to do it manually before the age of the smartphone (and when people had more patience).Your grandfather would also probably find carrying a point and shoot camera and a map around to make sense.
> I got way downvoted for my previous comment. Interesting!

You were downvoted because it added nothing to the discussion.
On Human Rights Day, how an app can help activists stay safe
I believe that you're both right.

When I was actively weightlifting, I learned to keep pushing myself. I'd keep a journal and force myself to work harder every time. It's all too easy to just say "I'm tired, I did a lot last week, my goals are being met." It's harder to say all these things but still add even just 2 lbs to the bar or squeeze out one more rep than last time.

Over time, you get used to constantly trying harder and the mental effort decreases while the physical effort increases.

On the other hand, you need to know when to quit. You need to understand when your body is saying "if you do this, I won't just be sore; I'll be seriously hurt." Learning to differentiate being exhausted, having sore muscles and breathing so hard your lungs are on fire from that stab of pain from a nerve that says "STOP NOW" is crucial.

I was lucky: the few times I ignored that voice telling me to stop I was able to walk away with no more than a few bruises or a pulled muscle.
SHA1 sunset will block millions from encrypted net, Facebook warns
That's what happened with me on Mint. I appreciate how quickly I can re-install Linux and get everything back to how I want it, but I want that to be by choice not by design.
I hear you and you might have so it's at least semi-true. My own loss was a triple HD failure that cost almost a TB of software, research papers, photos, everything. I have none of my prior work as an INFOSEC pro. Three in a month when I was too broke from recession to replace them. So I feel the pain. ;)

One time I told that story to a Marine who instantly went PTSD. First time I met someone with similarly messed up HD loss. He had his slim, external laying on a table in maybe Iraq. Another Marine, round in the chamber, casually dropped his M16 on the table as he came in. It fired a burst right into the HD, leaving it unrecoverable. I said, "Damn. I'm at a loss for words." So, you ain't the only one haha.
It's a mistake on your part to speak to what I do or don't enjoy about Hacker News or to even assume I take any kind of pleasure in the community here. That said, the comments in question, while clearly dismissive of another poster's assertions, is hardly a profanity-laden screed. It's substantially better constructed and contains more relevant information than all of the posts in response to it put together. Are you saying the odd fuck here and there in some way invalidates the content of the post, and if so through what mechanism?

Edit: typo.
Genius? So your new business model is to exclude a huge number of people (despite what you may see here on HN, most people writing expense reports don't use slack), and tie your business to a third party closed platform.

Ok...
Surprise Content can destroy your brand
In the 5 years I've had a C&P card I've had it fail approximately once.
Have you any idea how it feels to be a Fembot living in a Manbot's Manputer's world?
Interesting that it seems they IPO'd in US though they are mostly located in Australia? Can employees in other countries cash out on their stock options or are they compensated in different ways than in the US?
For ISOs, you're only subject to AMT on the spread between fmv and strike price at exercise. However, since there is (I think by law?) a 90-day exercise window after leaving employment, there's only 2 circumstances: (1) exercise while employed, and (2) exercise w/in 90 days after leaving employment. In both cases you're almost certain to be a resident of the state in which you were employed. Nothing I know of would require you to pay AMT to the state in which you were granted the options you exercised, but because it's unlikely for you to be a resident of a different state, it's a less interesting question.

Also, if your company takes off like a rocket, it's very much in your interest to not procrastinate on exercising vested options, because you want to minimize the AMT-taxed spread between FMV and strike. That increases the likelihood you're a resident of the state in which you were employed when you exercise.
The MongoDB Statbox – Graphs of stats in 5cm by 6cm
Moving the Washington Post to HTTPS
Me too!

One interesting thing I've noticed is that my comments like this often get downvoted to -1 or -2, then go back up. It happened for this one. I wonder why that is. Are grumpy people more likely to get in early?
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Ask HN: Cornell CS grad looking for contract work
Hi HN,
My name is Feifan Zhou, I graduated from Cornell University in August with a CS degree and a bunch of experience in Rails, Node, AWS, and a variety of databases. I'm planning to be in SF from late December to mid February, and would like to take on some contract work doing full-stack or frontend dev or devops.

I ramp up really quickly, and willing to build on any stack you're using. My resume and links are available at feifanzhou.com, and my email is my HN username @me.com

Thanks!
The grandparent is slightly wrong. You are allowed to work 10 hours if your average over the next 6 months or 24 weeks does not exceed 8 hours a day. (Where "day" includes Saturdays but excludes Sundays and holidays)

There are a number of exceptions for extraordinary situations, that could not have been anticipated by the employer, to allow exceeding the 10 hours. However the rule about the average in the next 6 months or 24 weeks still applies.
Happy Trees
If Wright wanted to make it look like he was Satoshi, it would seem a bit absurd for him to try to claim that he would no longer be able to provide financial accommodation to Hotwire due to losing a substantial sum of money because of the Mt. Gox collapse (given that Satoshi is assumed to hold a lot more, and also because Satoshi wouldn't have been so stupid as to store such a large sum there, not being in control of the private keys):

"Hotwire hit problems in April of last year when it failed to receive another expected tax rebate worth millions of dollars, killing its cash flow. McGrath Nicol wrote to creditors in May 2014:

"The Directors have attributed the failure of the Company to:

– delays in receiving the $3.1 million GST refund for the September 2013 quarter; and

– Dr Wright, as the major shareholder no longer being able to provide financial accommodation to the Company due to the collapse of the Mount Gox Bitcoin registry where we understand Dr Wright had a significant exposure.""

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/revealed-the-ato-hit-suspe...
This really cannot be repeated enough times.
VW says rulebreaking culture at root of emissions scandal
Your incorrect assumption is that you're supporting the same hardware with different software.

Drastic changes occur with aerobic training and hypoxic stress in the red blood cell count & blood volume, blood pressure, heart stroke volume & lower resting heartrate. He has more muscles, more energy stored in glycogen in those muscles, and swims faster. The person you learned from was likely not physiologically capable of long dives when he first started, no matter his mentality. And nobody is capable of using a "meditative breathing pattern" while they're exerting themselves at the limit of their aerobic capabilities; He was farther from them than you were. There are likely other long-term adaptations we don't know about, specific to diving.
Yes, I think that recommendation was pretty irresponsible, and not just because of Logjam. You are probably safer using NIST P-curve crypto than you are with RSA, and not just because virtually all RSA applications use insecure RSA constructions, but also because RSA includes the huge footgun of having a direct and easy to (unsafely) use Encrypt/Decrypt primitive.
I really like what you've been advocating in this discussion.

We've evolved the same process in my own startup - in the last 2 months we've hired 5 remote programmers in Vietnam and India by giving them 2 rounds of remote work-sample tasks (a simple web app), then ending off with a text or voice interview. We ended up retaining 2 out of 5 of them (both Vietnamese, incidentally) who demonstrated a higher level of ability after they started.

The retention rate is low, so we've been tightening up the process. What we've found is that we probably needed to raise the bar a little by asking candidates to design and architect a feature (DB-backend-frontend) during the chat interview. That would have given us a better insight into their code structuring and teamwork/communication skills.

We've just brought on a 3rd hire (Vietnamese again) who passed our improved interview, and I have a good feeling that the process works very well to weed out candidates who don't have the needed level of ability and scrupulousness.

The best of our hires didn't attend college or have much relevant experience, but was clearly very capable and possessed great initiative. We're really glad to have managed to hire him. Another guy is finishing his 3rd year of college.

In summary, I think remote work-sample tests are fantastic, and I hope you're right that they're the key to winning :)