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> but a series of questions leads to women

You could run through the same questions for cardio and land at the same result. Of all types of exercise, why running? -> So why do you need to be thin? -> Ok, then why do you need to look good? -> Because women like it.

Getting fit is, for most people, an issue of both health and attractiveness. People who chose weights might be leaning more toward the attractiveness issue, or they might believe it's the healthier option, or they might simply enjoy it more.

For me personally, I lift weights (though I've really slacked off again lately) because it makes me feel better in ways that cardio does not. My back feels much better. My posture improves. I'm stronger. These are the main reasons I prefer weights to running now.
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Recent use for me:

Semi-technical boss comes to me and says "Hey look! I wrote this cool SQL query to figure out what time of day our service is being used most. Can you turn it into a heatmap?"

And of course you know if you do something like this once, you will be asked to do it again, until pretty soon you will be expected to do it automatically every week or something.

So: Jupyter notebook to the rescue. Query the DB, wave hands a few times, produce a heatmap (total lines of python: about 10). Then give boss the notebook and tell him if he wants to update or modify, have at it, here's where your query is.

I never have to deal with it again, it's self-documenting and transparently future-friendly (anybody with an ounce of sense can edit it) and it looks all mathematica and stuff. Case closed.
Because the metric it optimizes for is "successfully hit target", and ignores whether or not the target needed to be hit. NYPD's problem is not heavy trigger pulls. It's trigger happiness to begin with. Police duty is not like TV, it's not battles with drug cartels, even in LA. Police should not in any way resemble soldiers. We should go back to the time when recent military duty was considered a negative when applying for police duty.
Well, you begin by following some basic training course. I suppose a school building is just as accessible as a gym building.
When I worked in a telecom company, there were a lot of servers where a GUI was exposed which mimicked a Gnome 2 environment (through Citrix if I remember correctly). It was painfully slow and really a time waster. I wonder if this is faster than that. If it is, so many companies can use it.
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The specific instance here was drivers, who in this hypothetical, will be outcompeted by self driving cars, and and naturally find themselves with more time on their hands whether they want it or not.

As to money, there are a number of trades you can learn without spending money. And there are also jobs where you get on-the-job training.

I'm not saying it won't be a problem for these people, but eventually, most if not all will adjust to the new situation and find themselves in a new job.
Not really

Because those exercises are "not made" for hypertrophy. Of course they will cause some hypertrophy due to the natural process of overcompensation

But a lifting regime like that is a bit apart from a hypertrophy program which usually involves more isolated exercises

(btw 5x5 means 5 sets of 5 reps each, so if you try to replace that with 12 reps you're taking the program in another direction)

It depends on what you find more adaptable, really.
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True. But usually people end up watching most seeded rip/release, which will have a subtitle created for it.

I do the same and that's the reason I end up finding the perfect subtitle, 80-90% of times, through the above method.
The hard parts of doing this for mobile is implementing things like touch and scrolling. You get these with a webview, but they don't feel like their native equivalents.
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The hex bar also pretty much turns a deadlift into a squat and eliminates a lot of the benefit. My back feels a lot better when I deadlift regularly, specifically because it's doing a lot of the work.
Exploratory data analysis. I may need to play around with loading data from a format I'm unfamiliar with, then do some basic summaries or information gathering about the data. This makes it straightforward to iterate on this type of stuff (instead of having to use command line REPL and press up arrows alot to re-run code sections without re-typing or pasting code). It's straightforward to share with someone familiar with Jupyter, and to a lesser extent with others who just need to look through the analysis results or code shown by the notebook. Though to be honest, when there isn't something about the analysis Python makes simpler, I find R with RStudio to have more flexibility for this kind of stuff, personally.
So I guess this medium post will eventually be part of his own list.
I never understood why Twitter is preferred over RSS syndication. When you don't own your medium, you don't control your messages.
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Yeah I mean I for one am over ten years old so I remember when 'functional' pretty much just meant functions-as-first-class-values and every-thing-returns-a-value.

Then because those are pretty reasonable language features all the languages that had been written in the late 80s-mid 90s and became popular around 2000 had those features.

So then for a while 'functional' was just sort of way of saying 'not java'.

Now 'functional' seems to mean strong algebraic typing for some reason.
"Many features which are just now being introduced in Swift have existed for over a decade in .NET languages."

And nobody but insecure people give a crap. The rest of us just want to use good tools to get our jobs done.
"the gym is incredibly intimidating to the uninitiated"

Many people say that and I am always puzzled why.
Over the past 10 years, no one has ever looked at me funny or laughed at me - and I was in my early 40s when I started. Supportive crowd, eager to help if asked (spotting, etc).
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Twitter deletes tweets for almost any complaint, doesn't have to be copyright or state any cognizable theory. They don't notify the original tweeter either.

If someone tweets something you don't like, just complain to Twitter and they'll delete it. I mean, it went out, so in some sense censorship can't happen, and yes I'm aware that people other than Twitter archive tweets. But you can get rid of the tweet for posterity from Twitter's archive with any sort of nonsense complaint, and the tweeter won't even know that it happened, much less that you did it.
It's not content producers that prefer Twitter, it's all the users that could never be bothered to setup an RSS reader (or Bloglines or whatever).
Proposal: Mirror your tweets on a blog. Put your blog behind 2 or 3 different CDN's and configure them to "operate offline using cache". Have multiple people tweet your blog.

Apologies if folks already thought of this.
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SLA that defines unplanned maintenance very, very conservatively. For example, a place I was at did maintenance for about 8 hours weekly where users wouldn't be able to manage any of their stuff, but there was network access outbound possible from their resources, so it was considered "available." Somehow with hardly anyone actually doing anything with the service, it was a major part of an $800M+ acquisition and mostly for being "enterprise" ready. I will not understand how you can get away with things that demonstrably fail to work beyond the most trivial of canned demo cases and be sold like it's completely done to even more gullible companies with zero technical vetting.

There's a lot of completely inconcistent definitions about what a service is sold as and what is actually delivered, and lawyers half the time only care about regulatory requirements rather than functional ones. Someone will use the ITIL definitions of service and say "it's available!" meaning that it exists in a CMDB or something and another person defines availability as "I can ping it" and doesn't care if there's an HTTP 500 error being thrown repeatedly. But gosh, if something used an insecure MongoDB server that is the reason they immediately cancel a contract (not hyperbole, saw something very similar happen).
This is absolutely retarded.. If I were apple, google, and facebook, and twitter - companies that ARE nations unto themselves in terms of user reach, I would start some sort of embargo, countries that enforce these kind of rules, simply ban all traffic from the country. Imagine the social upheaval and political capital the UK would lose if facebook, google, twitter, apple, bing, etc...all were no longer accessible. No more funny cat videos on youtube or facebook? Brits would go crazy, and get angry, and the politicians who made the rules, would get outted pretty darn fast and never be elected again.
great article! looking forward to the 2016 post already :)
I add multiple data points in the form of an X32, a X61, an R61i, an X200 and a X220 all running Ubuntu perfectly. The only real problem is running Windows or Mac software which is always doable but somewhat clunky under Wine or in VMs. If Adobe and a couple others made linux versions of their software and Lenovo stopped messing around with their Thinkpads, the laptop issue would be solved forever.
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I'm always delighted to see how open and touching blog posts by the Keen.io team can be.

I wish more companies took to making their blogs more open to content such as this.

Are there other good examples of companies that take on this ethos?

Are there particular activities or strategies that make this kind of open writing more comfortable amongst a company?
And always use archive.org, archive.is, etc.
That simply isn't true.

The Kernel is just one aspect of a Linux distribution. The part that is most responsible for supporting H/W. It has evolved a lot since 1996. Whenever I try I find the range of supported H/W is larger than Windows and (obviously) Apple.

On other fronts things have changes radically: Video, Sound, 3D/GL, GUI (KDE, Gnome), printing, etc, etc.
When you say 99% is bad, are you making a normative or positive statement?
Well, I like to think I have lots of million dollar ideas ;)

However, in this case, a retrospective algorithm doesn't have to compete in the same category as the one that ranks and applies gravity to the submissions. Ignoring the effect of flags and manual moderation, the ranking algorithm has to work in near real time -- and it seems to, as occasionally a single upvote will send a submission straight up the front page depending on its current gravity -- while not causing the server to shit the bed.

A retrospective algorithm doesn't have to be that efficient, and can drastically reduce computation by filtering for past submissions that have received a cutoff of top votes. Running various aggregations/analysis on discussion can likewise be done in relative peace. Furthermore, you have the ability to provide external heuristics...for example, filtering for submissions that were first submitted to HN before getting strong notice on Twitter or Reddit (which can be done by comparing URL submissions and timestamps).

This is not to say that coming up with the "best" or even "better" is trivial. It's just that the computational factors are significantly different between the algorithm that has to do real-time ranking and one that performs a historical analysis.

That said, it'd be an interesting challenge to create a relatively simple bot that auto-submitted popular links in the same way that the popular Facebook "On this day" plugin works...the heuristic could be very simple: submit only URLs that haven't made the front page within the last 1.5 years and garnered 200+ upvotes...and then some filtering to avoid submitting obituaries or other current-event type posts. If the HN mods give approval to run a spam bot, I'll give it a try :)
no please - I'm not talking about ctrl-C. I'm talking about CUA - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access

Even on OSX, the bindings that are used are cmd-c and cmd-v. It is universal - if you have never used the terminal, vim and firefox on a mac... I really urge you to do that.

you'll see what i mean.
And as a corollary the moment someone breaks an "unbreakable" record in many sports that record can sometimes be frequently broken right after.
ahh.. I see.

s/vim/gvim/g
"The monolithic Linux kernel is just too big. What is it now, 20,000,000 lines? There's no hope of debugging that. It shows."

I don't think you know what you're talking about. It shows.

Name me one non-"monolithic" OS kernel in mainstream use that manages high throughput. And macos doesn't count as a microkernel.
Am I wrong, or was the deleted 'tweet' actually the media component that contained a copyrighted Bank of America report?
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I access Hacker News via Tor Browser, and while I understand the need to protect against spam, I wish I didn't have to allow Google javascript. What are your thoughts on this? Is there any way to avoid using Google for this? Also, just throwing my experience out there, but in order to access this submission form, even after enabling Google scripts, I had to complete 6 correctly filled captcha codes. I know they were correct because all of them were clear address numbers of lengths 3 or 4.
How I Explained REST to My Wife's original post taken down by the author:

"After receiving a number of reasonable complaints about the gender-oriented nature of this article from people I respect very much, I’ve decided to take it down for good. While the dialog was never intended as commentary on the role of gender in technology, I’m convinced that it could too easily be taken that way and am not at all comfortable with that possibility.

My deepest apologies to anyone that was offended by my work. There is nothing more terrifying to me than the thought of something I created acting as a deterrent to anyone following their ambitions, or from forming them in the first place."
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What a shame- such an illuminating post had to be taken down by the author. I remember being asked in some interviews questions like how would you explain a hashmap to a 5 year old or your grandmother. I will be afraid to ask such questions, who knows how people see things these days.
One Erlang project that is rather friendly up-front is the Zotonic[1] web framework. As someone new to Erlang, it's great to be able to get off the ground running with such useful resources.

1. https://zotonic.com
my laptop does not have middle button. so I have to do a weird left-right button click. Very inconvenient for me.

I truly envy the OSX people just on this one aspect.
Technically vim exposes the x11 clipboards (plural) as registers - I never use registers, but I think

"+p

[Ed: for those not familiar with vim: " can be thought of as 'with/from/into register named:', + is the register and p is paste. Similarily "+yw is 'yank/copy current word into register named +'
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should be paste x11 selection. I don't normally use gvim/vim as an x11 application, but looks like * (star) is typically system clipboard:

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Accessing_the_system_clipboard
I would discuss the points you're making but your tone has me assuming that any attempt to do so would devolve into a fruitless argument. I'll just say that there's more than one way to look at the differences between programming paradigms.
I like this quote from the article, "If science, for Darwin, was a method of inquiry that enabled him to edge tentatively and humbly toward the truth, for Dawkins, science is an unquestioned view of the world," because it hints at what I see as the biggest flaw in Dawkins' science vs. religion debate. Science is fallible.

Don't get me wrong, I love science and the many wonderful things it has brought into my life, but I view it as a tool to further our understanding, rather than an absolute truth. I don't see a difference between Dawkins' faith in science (his apparent belief that science is infallible and absolute) and the religious beliefs he likes to argue against. Both require a leap of faith, don't they?
Linux biggest problem is perpetual rewrites. X11 is pretty much the only subsystem that hasn't suffered a backwards-incompatible rewrite in the past 10 years.

X11 could use some improvement, but I doubt a new system will address the core problems, which are basically the result of hardware drivers being written for Windows with Linux as an afterthought.
- You can make the Library of Babel better by removing books.[1]

- You can make limbs more useful by removing degrees of freedom, simplifying the control task.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16631583
An interesting (to me) recent piece of writing from the aviation world also points a finger at the "normalization of deviance." Written by Ron Rapp, a charter pilot:

http://www.rapp.org/archives/2015/12/normalization-of-devian...
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yeah there are a gazillion companies that claim to be Lean, Kaizen or what else but guess what, in practice only a small fraction actually are :)
Which is of course what the credit card company tells the SOL merchant while yanking back the damages from their own willful negligence.

Consumer facing though, they'd like to define it as "identity theft" because "identity" is a bedrock abstraction their system is built on. They would like an "identity" to be something prescriptive and airtight (rather than imperfectly descriptive) because it would make their job/business that much easier.
In my opinion, the author doesn't try very hard to be constructively critical of all the systems.

Example: Caffe is given 3/5 in the "Architecture" section because its layerwise design means you have to implement the forward/backward passes yourself for both CPU and GPU. Torch uses exactly the same design and inherits all of its downsides, but is given 5/5 for no reason.

I would also strongly mark Torch down because Lua is difficult for users who are familiar with Python/C/C++. At least, it's difficult for me. I'm still routinely bit by off-by-one bugs due to Lua's lack of 0-indexed arrays. Hardly the kind of thing you should be worried about in a scientific computing framework.

This article is a good start, but you should familiarize yourself with each framework and ignore the author's subjective ratings.
"The net" is a very varied place these days. It would be helpful to mention how many tabs you're using, the sites you're visiting, etc.

My work computer is a 3GHz i7 Mac Mini bought in early 2015, with 16GB ram, and I still have times when news sites freeze and won't scroll because someone has done something stupid when coding the site.

But my system uptime is 89 days and I get to the point where chrome shows a red bar because it hasn't been updated recently. There are a lot of irritating little bugs, but the only things that seem unstable are individual tabs and MyEclipse.
Okay - just stay out of it. Let the NSA develop defenses against snooping that should be free for the world and earmark couple of billion for zero days development/purchase and other TARGETED offensive capabilities.

You don't need to be able to listen to everything as long as you have the capability to enter into anything with zero days
I wonder why they didn't simply nuke the reference and get move semantics? Or better yet, use expression templates.
I've gone climbing a few times, and it was fun! But I run into the convenience problem - there's no nearby places to climb. (Plus, given that I have a moderate fear of heights, I prefer bouldering :P)
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Nice work. The triangulation is a nice structure to get to know. You might be interested in something called data-dependent triangulation. The idea is that non-conventional triangulations (i.e., not Delaunay) make for good interpolating schemas, based on assumptions such as smoothness in the color intensity profile and so on. I wrote a Master's thesis [1] about this among other things such as decimating a dense triangulation mesh in strategic ways (using edge detection).

[1] http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A85902...

[Edit: My old blog with plenty of pictures: https://femtondev.wordpress.com/ ]
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The argument may be valid, but only as far as it argues an irrelevant case: Hardly any religious person would suggest that God came into existence sometime after the creation of the Universe. Am I missing something?

You're suggesting half of the Bayesian argument: Given a universe without God, it is quite probable that religions exist. But what I would like to see is the other half: Given a universe in which (some) God exists, the current universe is nearly impossible.
why does it work on osx then ?
is there something special happening at the OS level there ?
No, no thoughts to sell it. I'd open-source it before I'd do that. It's not complicated when you break it up into two steps.

Step 1: An if/else-heavy script that will take in a few parameters (for us it's city, a server type, and a numeral for naming) and build a clean server with all of the needed keys populated.

Step 2: A "yum install"-heavy script passed into the clean server, that builds everything needed from scratch, sending status emails throughout the build process.
There are youtube videos, but it's difficult to check whether your form is right - even if there are mirrors.

And you might find it fun, but I don't. Every time I jog, I do so on a treadmill so I can zone out and not focus too much on what I'm doing (other than making sure that nothing obviously hurts) - jogging outside means I have to be present for it :P
Listening is a valuable life skill - any tips explaining how to do this most effectively would be appreciated!

One thing I have found helpful is to repeat what was said to verify correct understanding, but this can easily be misinterpreted as insincere if done too often.
I completely agree with this sentiment. Unfortunately there's no motivating factor for the companies that produce these things to continually update products that are "in the wild".

I recently bought a Volkswagen 2013 model and have been playing around with its bluetooth. Unfortunately the good stuff is only available in this years models - which is a hardware upgrade as well as a software upgrade. (Think Android Auto, automatic mirroring of the smartphone onto the car console, etc)

The only situations in which the Internet of Things will work is where it is acceptable to replace the Things on the same cycle as we replace phones - every year or every other year. For the vast majority of appliances, this is not the case.
Thanks for your reply.

Is there much publicly available information about their software/control design innovations?

Hmm, maybe one might expect they would be hiring more mechatronics engineers to do just that? Or maybe there's still not much point for them because as you mentioned their focus is slightly different currently.
Whatever YCombinator is using to blacklist TOR users, it doesn't seem to include all exit nodes, all the time. I generally have decent success with `sudo service tor restart` to get a new exit node.