skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Possessions Exercise (According to Geoffrey Miller)
>> took my free lesson and found out my trainer sucked.

Unfortunately this is pretty much the rule as far as trainers go. But to be fair to them they're in a situation where they're generally rewarded for making the customer like them (which means relatively little hard work) rather than making the customer look like someone who actually works out.
Regardless of what you've personally experienced, I would imagine that everyone has a limit, beyond which they lose control of their emotions. It happens.

The question of whether this is called "mental illness" is open for debate. As far as I'm concerned, it's an academic question, unless the distinction can somehow lead to prevention of the act.
They are drastic changes from what most users are accustomed to, which is Windows, and I'm sure there will be some changes for the platform in the case of at least Ubuntu.

iPad is not shaping up to be a "drastic change from ... how a computer is currently used". It's shaping up to be a computer you use on your couch that's controlled via touch screen instead of keyboard and mouse. Otherwise, it's basically the same concept ... you click on the program that does what you want and use it. The web browser is basically the same, too; you click on it, type in the URL of the place you want to go, and then it's basically identical. iPad is not some revolution in computer interfaces, it's just a computer designed for couch usage instead of mobile or desktop usage.

I'm really kind of sick of this Apple worship, and these ideas that if something isn't using Apple's OS it's hopeless against Apple. I don't believe that, and I think the majority of it is senseless fanboyism and hype.
If by laptop you mean "non-netbook", then...not that I'm aware of. If you allow tablet/netbook sorts of things, there's the Touch Book, from the (in my opinion) goofily-named Always Innovating, which looks pretty neat to me: http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/touchbook/

A quick google suggests there are others as well:
http://www.slashgear.com/wistron-n900z-smartbook-sub-200-arm...
You're right, trying to get discounts from gyms in January is less likely to succeed.

You can also generally get better deals by trying to join just before the salespeople have to make their quota each month.

That said, all he's really asking is whether he can get exactly the same deal his friend has. Obviously they're making money off his friend so it's not like he's marched in and demanded that they lose money on the deal or something.
It's not a simple objection at all. Of course there are scholars who do so, but in practice, the costs are largely ignored, just like any externality tends to get ignored by individual agents in an economic system. That leads to an argument that environmental effects must fall under the umbrella of governmental responsibility, since those calculating cost/benefit ratios are rarely those who will pay the brunt of the costs of climate change and other such effects. This is especially evident if one considers the quality-of-life concerns, which are by their very nature cross-cutting, and thus hard to account for at the level of an individual or single corporation.
Most poor people are not underemployed. In 2007, out of 37 million poor people, there were only 2.5 million people who were underemployed (see Table 8 of my source below).

Additionally, out of 37.3 million poor people, only 7.5 million were either employed or seeking work for more than 27 weeks/year.

http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswp2007.pdf

I'm also curious why you are bringing this up again: I already pointed out your mistaken beliefs about the working habits of the poor 9 days ago.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1102216

As for the statistics given in my previous source, they are indicators of the fact that the modern poor are richer than the middle class of recent history. All of which proves my original point: "You can take the modern era's productivity dividend in leisure time."
The problem with Wave is ... how many of you are still actively using it? How about Gmail?
My first encounter with a CS "forefather" was my CS101 professor. He had a long gray beard , glasses, a pocket protector and could do mental arithmetic in octal. When he started in CS there was no CS, so he was a logician, and then switched to CS. The oldest professor from the philosophy department still refers to him as a "traitor"
"In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning." - George Orwell (http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm) :)
In what way is the iPad OS so different from a traditional desktop OS that Android or Chrome are not?
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Judging by their news, and the dates of their download files, this stuff is over 5 years stale. It would appear that their movement fizzled.
FYI,

Some guy registered WTFPHP.com on 2010/02/12
Most of the damage has already been done. They've lost on the initial buzz that Buzz would have otherwise created. While I appreciate Google's swift response, they made a fatal error during the rollout which will cost them heavily in the long run.
Quick summary: Wordpress core developer says 'don't be an asshole when you make plugins.'

Why is this news?
>Wow, I strongly disagree. Our approaches diverge on virtually every case, as far as I can tell.

That was a poor wording on my part. Make that where they diverge most strongly.

>My approach would be to apply the exact damage to the aggressor that they applied to the victim, except where the victim forgives all or part (for monetary "damages" or some other consideration or reason).

I'm going to assume your talking about assault. If I'm wrong, sorry. In any case, we can't just let them settle it with a fee to cover damages. The aggressor demonstrated themselves a threat to the Public. Depending on the circumstances, the aggressor will need to spend some time in jail, with a psychologist, doing community service, reporting to a probation officer, et cetra, or most likely a combination of the above, for the protection of society.

If there was material damage in addition to that, it is not a criminal matter and can be settled in the way you described.

>As far as I can tell, your approach (along with the vast majority of existing legal systems today) requires sentencing or damages to be decided individually by a third party, rather than by the parties already involved, which seems inelegant.

As the previous example illustrates, this is only true for criminal matters.
I just use the tongue out smiley to show I'm not being serious online. For example:

Yeah, right, a sarcastic font is just a great idea. :P
My gym (in Ohio, USA) has an advertised monthly fee with a month-by-month contract. So they do exist. Vote with your wallet.
She won't make a full recovery, but we can still help her. And I think we have a moral obligation to try.

It wouldn't surprise me if she _is_ suicidal right now.
the massive fragmentation problem that I currently have with social networks.

I've always thought that the tendency to view social network fragmentation as some sort of problem, rather than as a rather useful feature, is a major blind spot for programmers. This Buzz debacle does nothing to discourage that hypothesis.

I blame the database training. After you've spent enough time wrestling databases you begin to dream of putting the universe into normal form. You envision a world where every piece of data might be seamlessly linked to any other with some sort of super-powered JOIN command. This is the dream that leads people to think that single-sign-on across the entire web would be a great thing. Unfortunately, this dream is also Orwell's nightmare.

I have a lot of friends. Some of them are elderly former carpenters who have never used computers. Some of them are college-aged aspiring hackers. Some know me personally. Some know me mainly as a pseudonym on HN. Some of them are middle-aged hippie folk musicians. Some of them work for major military contractors. Some of them are professors on the tenure track. Some of them barely have a high school education. Some of them are millionaires. Some of them are unemployed. Some of them are theoretical physicists, but many more of them loathed high school physics.

I have no particular desire to put all of these people in the same room at the same time. The one occasion where I was compelled to approximate that even slightly -- my wedding -- was the occasion of more than a little stress, despite every single guest's friendliness and good cheer. Because it's really very difficult to throw a party where everyone you know feels equally welcome.

I would not be surprised to discover that social networks are going to remain fragmented because most people like them that way.
Regardless of your opinion on climate change, The Times is not a reliable source for such matters: http://liberalconspiracy.org/2009/12/14/how-the-times-distor...

The Times, by the way, is owned by News Corp (Rupert Murdoch). Depending on your political affiliation, that might either be a very relevant or a completely irrelevant point :)
Textfiles in a dropbox folder so they are available on other machines and the iphone if needed.
This is exactly what I was hoping for from the Apple Tablet.
Buzz has already wormed it's way into my life. Sure, it's mainly done that by telling me it's there every time I check gmail - which is too much. But the way I like it is that it tells me the interesting things my friends are doing elsewhere, and lets me talk about them. Very few people actually Buzz deliberately, but then many conversation get started by a tumblr post, or a twitter post. Sure, those obviously have their own mechanisms for interaction, but those mechanisms aren't cleanly integrated into something I have open all the time, and telling me about them. Um, except twitter, because I have that as a widget in the side of the page.

Oh, and the (pretty much separate) geolocating public Buzz layer on Maps for mobiles is very nice. I discovered a tea place I want to check out just round the corner from my house, if nothing else.
From someone knee-deep in the iPhone world but with zero experience in the Android world, could you perhaps let me/us know how many downloads and/or unique users a "#1 note app on Android" equates to? I'm genuinely quite curious if it is worth my time to get into Android and well, the more data points on usage numbers the better! Thanks.
A first-year CS undergrad student can write an editor with better formatting than Evernote on OS X. I don't mean to be snarky but it's terrible to see EN have so much potential only to be excruciating to use.
I use Notational Velocity and store the notes as markdown-formatted text files in a Dropbox folder. I can render them to HTML as needed for "pretty" viewing.
Because he succinctly and clearly captured the dangers of the modern age in a voice the modern ear can recognize and understand.
You mean in the short run.
People will kind of forget this after the techblogs and news sites see a more interesting story.
Like now, I'm sure people are still suffering very hard in Haiti but media coverage dropped a lot and i don't see many people talking about it.
I just bought Galcon Fusion (http://www.galcon.com/fusion/) today. I wouldn't have had it not run on Linux.
When there is a device like this that I can walk into a store and play with before buying as well as have access to thousands of quality applications that make my life easier or more fun then I'll consider it a competitor to the iPad. Until then this is nothing more then a cool gadget that likely won't see the light of day inside any major retailer.

The iPad is currently the only "tablet" that will ever see mass consumer adoption for a few reasons: 1. Apple is releasing it (meaning it's hyped up, has that cool factor, and you can go play with one in any Apple store first), 2. The app store is unlike anything else out there, and 3. The user experience on the iPad/iPhone is superior to anything else out there right now.

This doesn't mean the Adam won't be cool, but why would any "regular" consumer (meaning not Hacker News readers or anyone like us) consider buying one, or hell, how would they even know it exists?
It's possible to break Android from just within the OS itself. This also applies to Ubuntu and almost every other OS I can think of. I don't know if this will be the case with Chrome.
Unmarked sarcasm is a higher form of wit.
The worst part about is that it was a problem of judgement, not some technical oversight. Recently there was another article about retrieving a gmail address from a Google profile URI, now that's a technical mistake. But with Buzz you had to have whole teams of engineers thinking this was a good way to roll it out. Unbelievable.
This ia a great idea...
This comment is posted every time someone does this, but nothing ever happens about it. :-/
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Well this is going to make for some really lousy PR.
No, but fragmentation with respect to single individuals is devestating. Do I send someone an IM, an e-mail, a Twitter DM, a phone call, a voicemail, an InMail, a FB message or poke, a letter, a buzz or what? If I have confidence that the target of my communications will notice my message regardless, then that is a feature to me. Moreover, if I want to follow a friend of mine, then I rarely want to setup and maintain another account, as is often required these days. Within a given social network, there's lots of room for clique-forming. There's even room for fragmentation between networks, so long as communication between networks can happen in a relatively transparent fashion.
and an even lousier HN submission. What is going on? Has there been some take over of HN by Kevin Rose?
Perhaps, but I think that even in the long run, people will have lost confidence in Google as a brand, even if they don't remember the particular reason why. Ironically, this damage can propagate along the same social graphs that Google tried to exploit. Users who have lost confidence will be less likely to recommend Google in the future, meaning less people at the second order recommend Google, etc. Even after the story has forgotten, one can well imagine the social graph itself remembering.
Do you honestly believe that this whole group of people is out there, kicking back, and content/happy about not having productive employment?

I mean, I'm sure there are some, but you really think that, let's say, a majority of the people you're painting with this brush are saying to themselves "yeah man, why get a job, it's not like I'm gonna starve to death"? What % of the poor would you say they are, ballpark? Honest question, or if you'd prefer, how else am I missing your point?
why? Shared hosting, /in theory/ could provide better service levels than dedicated servers, simply because it is a whole lot easier to make a standard shared hosting setup redundant than it is to make a dedicated server redundant.
The swivel camera is a good idea.

It's tough to really love the thing without more information.

Oh, I love the comparison in sunlight to a macbook ... whose brightness was clearly turned down quite a bit.
Possibly, but from the guidelines:

Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.

(Personally I found it interesting because it's the first time I've heard of this happening to someone I actually knew of).
When you start writing your own novel, this is exactly what happens. You start to read other novels with a new awareness of what the author is doing in terms of word choice, pacing, and explication. You read with an eye to how you would have done it--and are often shocked when you realize how much of the craft of writing you were previously just skimming through.
Climate scientists admit fresh error over data on rising sea levels
I've sat next to fatter people than Kevin Smith on SouthWest. I guess they don't have a consistent policy.
A Hunger Artist, by Franz Kafka (brought to mind by "How to be a loser")
I didn't read it just because he says that Kurzweil is critical to his thesis.
That is crazy, one of the most popular gym chains (they are local to the state though) here has a 50 dollar initial fee and like 50 dollars a month for access with no contracts and decent benefits. [1]

The whole thing seems awful and is probably the result of massive franchising of a particular gym chain (I don't know if Gold's has this issue or not).

[1]: http://www.defined.com/trainerfinder/websites/60178/membersh...
Buying x month long memberships is how contracts work. After the contract is over you're usually switched over to a month by month.
Well...it is the least they could do after their blatant disregard for the privacy of its users!
In this story Kafka presents a character whose profession is to go hungry.

I was reminded of it by the last bit of "How to be a loser":

Thoreau said that most men lead lives of quiet desperation. It seems that that’s true, but with the following proviso: some men do eke out contentment, and they get there by gradually ratcheting down their expectations. Their appetites fade. They compromise, and rationalize, and eventually settle.

I think Steve Jobs said something similar: "Always stay hungry."
Silly of the author not to let God finish about the "thinking machine". Looks like God wanted to explain, but time ran out.

Anyone have any thoughts on it.
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I had the same experience with a big chain open 24 hours a day. Now I pay $15/month (no upfront fee) for a great gym, and there are other around my place for the same price. I don't know how this other chain can still be in business.
It's totally doable, but I wonder how difficult it might be to get going? LPG motor vehicles are common here in Australia. The main issue is infrastructure, but even then vehicles can be dual-fuel. That minimises the risk of vehicles being stranded without fuel, even if LPG availability is limited.

For fleet vehicles, a company could maintain it's own LPG supply. I wonder how cost-effective it would be in that case? Maintaining your own chunk of fueling infrastructure doesn't sound cheap to me.
Well, it's an easy argument to use against people you don't like. The article's point is true though. As a novelist he really wasn't that outstanding, his prose is repetitive---it's not as if 1984 wouldn't have benefited from another editing round.
It's a business with huge fixed costs so they are forced to use dynamic pricing to cover those costs and maximize revenue. That includes "tricks" to get you to sign long term contracts and giving some people some deals versus others. His friend got the great price with the purpose of getting his friends to join the gym too.
As for price discrimination being some evil thing--look at airlines when they sell their last seat for more versus an 30% filled plane. Or hotels auctioning last minute deals.

Relatively normal industrial behavior. The only thing that is shocking is that he's shocked.
I just signed up for a Gold's Gym membership in Sacramento and encountered a similar situation. They give you three different 'options' of membership: 150 init + 12/month, 115 init + 15/mo, or 65 init + 19/mo. Once you choose, they then tell you that you have to sign up for a 1 year contract (meaning, for 1 year's time, they all cost the same). If you don't submit a written letter after a year saying you wish to cancel membership, your contract is automatically renewed for a year. I thought it was funny how both sales reps I talked to described the $65 + 19 plan as the cheap plan and "probably the way to go" when in essence, you pay the same for all in the span of the first year and after that, the $150 + 12 plan ends up being the cheapest option.
Tragedies usually have so many causes that it's impossible to point out a single cause in a 3-paragraph comment and have it mean anything.

Usually, if you do a root cause analysis of anything, you come up with so many contributing factors that the resulting document is hundreds of pages long. Think of industrial postmortems or court proceedings. Everything is more complicated than it seems at first.

Saying "This was because she was denied tenure" does a disservice to everyone involved. It was probably partly because she was denied tenure. It was probably partly also because she had easy access to guns, and she was super focused on her research, and she didn't get along with the school administration, and she had once accidentally killed her brother, and plenty of other factors that we could never know about.
The strange thing is, my typical evernote usage rarely involves me actually writing notes myself. I always find myself spinning up a dropbox'ed tiddlywiki for fleshing out ideas and in general using a pen and scrap paper for temporary notes.

Instead I use it as a place to clip anything I read online and find useful/interesting. It is like using a bookmarking site that keeps a copy of the article in case the original vanishes and is searchable beyond the titles. For being sort of a permanent searchable extension of my brain's memory it works really well.

I also use it to clip pages I want to read in the future into a 'ReadItLater' notebook; a replacement for readitlaterlist that won't lose my articles if the source vanishes and allows me to search things easily. Due to my hn/reddit/rss addiction the 'ReadItLater' notebook is tremendously valuable for me. I tend to encounter far more things I want to read then I have time to so my backlog is perpetually increasing. However if I am searching I still will get results from this list.. Honestly, sometimes it feels like I am sending myself messages from the future saying "Hey this article is relevant to something your doing. Now is the time to finally get around to reading it".

I don't have a premium account yet, but with GDC looming ahead I think I might spring for it so that I can take advantage of the searchable PDF feature. I would love to just dump all the pdf whitepapers I run across directly in rather than my current practice of extracting the contents.

As others have pointed out though, Evernote does have some major concerns that need addressed. The native clients are poor (luckily the web client is pretty good), they feel very 'walled garden' (open up, open up, an app ecosystem awaits you!), no linux client, and clipping web pages means settling for an uglified unformatted version.
I posted an article based on a Asus prototype here:
http://www.thechromesource.com/chrome-os-support-from-qualco...

And that was friggin 2009!
This number is bogus. Why?

He uses consumer servers. Each server has a maximum of one gigabit ethernet connect. Like providers counting all their network interfaces together to have a high marketing number like "12321 Gbit/s backbone" that's just a number.

See my upcoming comment in the NYT blog about that.
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I think this has a bit more content and conceptual ideas that I found interesting.