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exercise: it's good for you

but seriously, my original comment contained my point, and was in English. I'm now done with this thread. :)
In my strictly personal experience, exercise for long-time goal is rather hard to do. Some more immediate benefit would certainly advantageous. The menial-task endorphin rush runners get, seeing your weight (or measurements) going down/up or the competition in team sports, martial arts, tennis etc.

Just a row of exercises definitely requires more willpower for me. Of course, YMMV.
Doesn't Tufte in fact use Byrne's graphic proof of the Pythagorean Theorem in one his books? If I were at home I could check, but I think it's in Visual Explanations.
New website of MessagePack Project introduces next-generation RPC.
This seems like a fairly small problem; while we're boiling the ocean we might as well make Chrome-style auto-updating the default.
The excellent minimalistic motion graphics on this video are almost as much fun as the pics.
Riding between lanes is legal in California
Not very safe though!
I just log in and scan the posts when I take a coffee break. Quick and easy for me.
Or it could be that those are examples from his own code and he simply copied and pasted them without thinking that they might not be as useful as contriving more simple examples.

Do you have some examples you can suggest?
We don't even need to cite "science."

Just having been a child at one time, and now an adult, and seen and interacted with children, should give plenty of experiential evidence consistent with my original comment's claim. This is really not rocket science or esoteric: it's actually pretty much part of everyday common sense for a lot of adults, especially for anybody that is a parent or who has taken care of children professionally. No academic paper citing is needed.
BackType is a YC (08?) company. They manage Terabytes of real time data using Clojure + Hadoop/Pig:

http://www.backtype.com/opensource
What exactly is the danger, though - that the 4 year old will try to steal a police car the next day?

I think there are lots of different studies. One I heard about years ago was that kids tend to have an individual level of violence in stories/movies that they want to tolerate. So it is questionable if the kid would seek out the violent situations.

After all, he was not playing alone. Sure, in GTA you could probably walk into a brothel and meet prostitutes. But so you could in the Real World TM. Perhaps like in the real world, not much bad stuff would happen in GTA if parents are watching.
This was exactly my issue as well (not having results re: motivation). Lifting weights for gains instead of tone (see my post above) gives me two things that keeps me going: 1) the easy and obvious accomplishment of simply being able to lift heavier weights (same as leveling up in a video game :P), and 2) you will see results.
"Crabgrass currently consists of a solid suite of group collaboration tools, such as private wikis, task lists, file repository, and decision making tools."

I see the point of Crabgrass, but it's hardly an alternative to Facebook/Twitter/Flickr/Foursquare.
I think Apple's ultimate goal is to dump an outside CPU altogether and create its own.
I can't understand why somebody wouldn't use a VPS ;-)
You are on very shaky ground with this line of argument, which attempts to cast aspersions at basically all of psychology because of controversies unrelated to the the issue we're actually talking about.

Yes, there are questions about whether playing "Mature"-themed games actually causes problems for teenagers.

Yes, there is an effort, probably ill-conceived, to restrict access to "Mature"-themed games for teenagers.

We are not talking about teenagers; we're talking about a 4 year old.

One simple axis of argument to observe here is the Harvard (Kutner & Olson) vs. Iowa (Anderson) debate; Kutner's book points out that much of the psych research is methodologically flawed. But both Kutner and Anderson agree that exposure to very violent games is associated with increased aggression. Kutner just doesn't want to see all games demonized for all pre-adult age groups.
That's too complicated for me. My exercise program is:

Get completely winded at least once a day.

It won't make you Lance Armstrong, and it isn't a weight loss program. However, it'll do subtle things like encourage you to take the stairs- and RUN up them. This kind of attitude gently pushes you towards a healthier overall lifestyle, while keeping your lungs and heart at a basic level of functionality. That's all I'm really looking for.
Agreed that this is all cool stuff. But as developer of a webapp that heavily leverages webcam / mic access (blatant plug: http://activeinterview.com), I'm waiting anxiously for this to get fleshed out:

http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-device/

Device access! Then we can really drop kick Flash when needing to talk to devices like webcam/microphone.

But alas, it could be a while?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3012002/what-web-browser-...

As someone far removed from the standards bodies, how can we support this effort and push things along?
Start here, with a semi-skeptical take, and follow the names to the researchers websites and to SCHOLAR.GOOGLE.COM. There's controversy, but this isn't fringe science.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Childhood
All of these distributed model guys keep disregarding and not addressing the fact that people simply don't want to deal with hosting their own web server, no matter how simplified it is.

It should be noted that most people simply don't want to deal with hosting their own mail server, either. Not that I disagree with most of the rest of your post.
* Equating copyright reform with supporting piracy will harm any attempt at copyright reform.

* I didn't give you permission to steal my work to advance any objective.

I think you've created a manifesto to justify stealing things, because you like stealing things.
Ask HN: What is your favorite brand of coffee?
I know a lot of you guys like coffee, I like Dunkin Doughnuts brand, and Starbucks Breakfast Blend.

If your work would stock any coffee you wanted, what would it be?
Couldn't agree more with this. I have been having tremendous results from doing the Bill Star 5x5 program (bench, squat, dead lift, incline, barbell rows) in a shot amount of time.

I would like to incorporate some cardio into to this for heart health though. I was thinking of running on Tuesdays and Thursdays in between my lifting days. Do you think this is a good idea?
the "100 pushup" style of training is laughable

Why do you say that? Do you find one hundred push-ups easy?

Edit: Or are you specifically referring to their usefulness for losing weight?
You're right, but calisthenics are great for their simplicity. You don't need any equipment, and you can do them anywhere.

People lifting five pound weights piss me off, though. You've already gone through the trouble of getting equipment- why not use some equipment that will actually help you?
Thanks for the link. Note that it says Inconsolata is only at the top over Consolas because Consolas isn't free.
It's Your Data, It's Your Bot: It's Not A Crime
I'm really not impressed with this implementation, at least. Cleaner syntax, maybe, but at the cost of five more JavaScript files for one of the examples. And it looks different in the latest non-beta versions of Chrome, Firefox, and IE, so it's not any better there either.

If you really dislike having to use multiple properties that much, you can deal with the syntax problem on the development side by using something like Sass. I much prefer that to adding five more unnecessary HTTP requests.

The -vendor prefixes are a pain, but they do exist for a reason. Firefox, at least, uses them when the implementations of the properties aren't yet bug-free/don't completely match the spec. -moz-border-radius, for example, has some issues with very large borders that are different colors: http://basicio.com/snippets/moz_border_radius/.
Excellent suggestion. The book is a visual wonder, well-written, and fun.
I've been wanting something like this for a long time. One less thing I have to build. :) It's like an inverse Tumblr.

I'd love to try a demo where you just put in a feed URL (without requiring email / password) and it shows you to display it. Or let me create a password if I want one.
> Are you saying babies should not be controlled?

Most of the time a parent and his child agree about who should control something. The parent pays for the baby's food and the baby doesn't object. This is not "control" in the relevant sense because the baby prefers it be this way. And other times the baby decides on the location of his rattle. He exercises some control over his life and his parent is fine with that.

The interesting case -- and the one where the notion of an adult controlling a child is most relevant and meaningful -- is when there is a disagreement. Then if the adult, say, unplugs the TV to prevent the child playing GTA, against the child's will, he is taking control of the situation and exercising control over the child's life.

A wide variety of excuses are given for adults controlling children as a react to disagreements. One particularly generic and offensive one is "kids don't think so good". This sometimes takes more specific forms, e.g. "kids don't think so good on the specific issue of differentiating between virtual reality and reality" (btw, ironically, most adults are extremely bad at that same issue in some different forms, e.g. they don't really understand that when they "see" a chair the visual image is a VR rendering inside their head).

Anyway, here is a fact that, ahem, adults often mess up and which many young children intuitively seem to grasp: if we accept that the ratio of stuff adults are right about to stuff children are right about is 1000:1, it does not follow that in a disagreement the adult is right (or probably right). This is because disagreements do not happen in a random sample of cases. Disagreements only happen when both parties judge that they have relevant information that the other hasn't properly taken into account.

In disagreements, it's nothing but sheer unadulterated arrogance (and irrationality) to assume one is right. And to attribute this assumption to demographic characteristics of the other person is dehumanizing.
(scratches head)
Android isn't the only other other option for controlling a tablet. I know desktop Windows and Linux are unsuitable from a UI point of view, but there's plenty of middleware around to bridge touchscreens to software, and there are plenty of self-contained UI paradigms: game consoles rarely use the desktop metaphor.

Not the exact same thing, I know, but waving the Nintendo Wii controller around feels a lot closer to interacting with a touchscreen than it does my desktop, and there's a vast pool of UI design knowledge in the gaming market. Not instantly accessible to likes of us, but companies like Asus and their technology partners have the resources, developer infrastructure and motivation to open up alternative platforms.
I have not researched this but I am under the impression that the registrars could not legaly do so, if you only use them as registrars and not as DNS service providers.

I think they could refuse to provide DNS service, if you hosted your domain on their own DNS servers, but I don't think they could legaly on their own i.e. change the name servers that you have defined as authorative for your domain on the registry.
"In fact in many cases it actually is very difficult to burn fat while doing lots of cardio because it trains your body to burn the fact more efficiently."

If you are working out at a fixed percentage of AT, then why would the total amount of fat burned decrease as your AT increases?
I'm feeling this a bit, so I'm keeping an extra eye on things to try and ensure I don't become complacent.
You're absolutely right. But where's the fun in a headline like that.

More to the point, I think if you read the rest of his blog, and take the perspective of some of the larger international companies, going for gold with the iPhone won't be the best business strategy.

Tomi has given some case studies of how MMS has worked for car dealers in Germany, and even campaign promoters in Australia. There is this under-exploited niche called mobile marketing, which relies on WAP, SMS, MMS, etc which could give pretty high ROI for large companies (eg: BMW)

Especially if you take a B2B perspective, what he says makes huge sense.
No. The danger is that the child is going to:

* Be harmed emotionally by the events, possibly in subtle ways; for instance, the child will have nightmares. Will nightmares permanently damage the kid? No. But neither does stubbing your toe. You don't wish that on a kid either.

* As a result of that, or because of learning the wrong message from the experience, the child will act out in ways that will (a) harm other kids and (b) (more importantly) get the kid into needless trouble.

No, he's not going to go steal a car or run over an old lady. Nobody is saying that. But I'm going to stick up for the original poster who, like me, was apparently made queasy by the idea of exposing a FOUR YEAR OLD to GRAND THEFT AUTO.

Freely admitted: my first reaction to this story was, "aw, that's so cute." The negative stuff crept up on me.
My 3G (w/ the 4 GM) routinely freezes to the point where it just stops responding to input. I'll probably attempt to downgrade it to 3 soon. Which, I honestly don't mind. I mean, I would rather Apple not even support the 3G with iOS 4 rather than have to deal with this user experience. It's not like it can even deal with background tasks anyway...
How many times do you have to be told that copyright infringement is not theft, for it to sink in?
I found that neither cardio or weightlifting made any difference in my pattern of weight gain over the last few years.

I switched to a standing desk and lost about six pounds in the first three weeks: just bopping around to rave music while I code. No starving myself, and no hours in the gym that take away from work and family.
I thought the point of the article was that the kid didn't waste innocent bystanders. In fact, he apologized for it when he accidentally did it. I'm sure if he keeps playing it one day he'll do the missions and be exposed to the bad stuff, but by then I'm sure he'd be able to distinguish between game and real life.
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Recessions are Filters
My perception is also that replication was lately the only advantage Mysql had over Postgres in general.

My main problem with mysql is that I have seen too many data corruptions and I can't find anyone who has worked with both systems and doesn't recommend in general pg over mysql.
You've used the weasel words "associated with" which are common in psych studies.

One thing "associated with" does NOT mean is "caused by". It's consistent with, say, people first becoming aggressive and then taking up violent games afterwards. And it's consistent with taking their violent games away from them making them more, not less, aggressive.

Anyway, just because two people from a debate agree doesn't make something true. And just because psychological studies are flawed for irrelevant reasons doesn't mean they aren't also flawed for relevant reasons. Feel free to cite a study you'd like to stand behind...
> An open and distributed model gives users and organizations a chance to choose their social networking platform

First fail is easily seen in the leading sentence. Most people don't really want to choose what social networking platform they use. They just want to be on the best social network and have it work for them.
When you sit behind your kid and take care of him [...] then almost any game would be ok

I agree about your larger point (there is a huge difference between supervised and unsupervised play), but no, almost any game would not be okay for a four year old. Four is a pretty critical age - kids start grasping the concept of death for example - and really, there are a lot of games that are developmentally completely inappropriate for this age.

The sad thing is that it came down to "my kid liked driving the car". If there is one thing the gaming world isn't short of, it's kid-appropriate driving games.

Kids grow up so fast - why rush it? Let them play the kiddie games now, there will be lots of time for GTA later.
Exactly - I was just envisioning something big enough to fit in 2 kids at the side too.I think once you hit ~8.5 x 11" screen area it become practical to play monopoly or scrabble, but not so big as to be unwieldy.
Is the lack of entropy really a bottleneck in a server?
I can't believe there hasn't been more buzz about this. I own an iPad already, but I still find myself wanting one of these. Toshiba needs to do something to get some Apple-style publicity behind this so people can see what's coming.

More info on specs from here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100621/tc_pcworld/toshibal...
I just addressed an aspect of this issue today:
http://ipadtest.wordpress.com/2010/06/22/its-not-the-device-...

And it's worth reading the App Store post on the front page of HN (which is also linked to in my post).

I think apps are crutches and I think even Apple understands that. I wouldn't bet against the Internet at all. How much traction do you think any device would get if it could access only a portion of the Net? (DoCoMo in Japan has been an exception, but Japan does things differently anyway. And there's the fall of Minitel in France as one example.)
a) Have you proven stealing my work isn't theft yet?

b) Regardless whether you personally define stealing my work as being theft or not, does that make it less wrong? Because I strongly suspect that's what you're implying.

You still haven't responded to how equating copyright reform with piracy helps copyright reform in any way.
Sold.

I hope my kit helps a bit with your rent.
"works the same way any call would" is the problem. The Google Voice app could easily work better. Why doesn't it?

You do realize that it's possible to initiate a call through the Google Voice website, which then rings a soft-client (Gizmo or Sipdroid)? This scenario obviates the need for a phone line or a wireless voice plan. Google and the carriers are not morons. The decision to limit the Google Voice Android app was intentional.

A computer does not need to have a voice plan to browse the Google Voice website and initiate a Google Voice call. The official Google Voice Andorid app, however, does require a voice plan to initiate the call. It's an artificial restriction. 3rd party Google Voice dialers on the Android Market, including Evan Charlton's unofficial "GV" app, are able to place GV calls from an Android device without voice service, presumably by interacting with an undocumented API or via http requests to the Google Voice web site.

Blocking this feature is an example of how Google bent over for the wireless carriers at the expense of their users and contradicts Google's position on good/evil. Curious how it can be spun in any other way..
Well, I wouldn't say it's funny. (disclosure: I work for Mozilla)

I don't like these sites because they mislead developers about which technologies are standards and which are not.

But don't strawman me here: I actually have no problem with browser vendors unilaterally extending HTML. I like that Opera, Google, Apple, Microsoft and various plugin vendors all try it. Sometimes great ideas show up that way (you can thank the IE team of old for the great majority of them).

It's also disturbing because it takes the name of something we all work on together and applies it to technologies where there is no agreement. And some of them really do suck! Apple and Google clearly don't care about this problem, and are happy to label whatever they work on as HTML5 (my favorite was the Unity demo during Google I/O... it was all plugins). At this point, it's safe to assume you've encountered meaningless bullshit when some VP gets up on stage and says "HTML5".
Can anyone elaborate on how this protects against tampering? It sounds like you can't actually look at the LOCKSS copies unless the "live" source is down. So long as the single "live" tampered copy doesn't go down it doesn't sound like it offers any protection.
I personally think it would interfere with your recovery and make you prone to injuries . Just follow the program, Dont overdo it .
Schwern's perl5i makes Perl 5 awesomer until Perl 6 comes along. (via Perlbuzz)
I feel you on the windows dev environment rejection. Ive completely written off PIC on that basis. One of the shittiest single os development environments ever.
When I worked in the TI DSP group (many years ago) we called it "Code Composter". $4.30 is cheap... but what about the time cost of using "Code Composter"?

This was about 6 years ago, so I hope for all the hacker that CC is better now.
Let's do a thought experiment: assume all copyright laws were abandoned tomorrow.

In this instance, nothing TPB did would be copyright infringement or indudcement thereof. Now ask yourself the question: would the owners of TPB shut the site down, or keep it running.

If they would shut it down, then TPB exists for the purpose of copyright infringement.

If they would keep it up, then TPB exists for the purpose of facilitating transfer of content, and any copyuright infringement involved is a side-issue as far as the owners of TPB are concerned.

I think they would keep it up.
Well, there's not a whole lot of quicktime or silverlight out there on the 'net. So I'm pretty sure most, if not all, crashes are directly related to Flash.
I think a lot of what your saying is thoughtful and worth considering, but relevant mostly to kids at around age 10. Prior to 7, FMRI suggests that kids don't even have a real concept of empathy yet (which btw has profound impact on how you handle discipline, in directions I think you might find congenial).

But again we're talking about a 4 year old. It just shouldn't be controversial (or, worse, acrimonious) to suggest that the rules are different for preschoolers.
No. There's no reason to introduce long slow distance running (granted, you didn't specify the type of running, but this is usually what people mean) into your training. It will interfere with your recovery from lifting, and really won't do a lot for your overall health.

Don't you feel your heart pounding after a heavy set of five squats? I'd say that's adequate for "heart health."

If you're worried about staying "fit," you might consider adding in one conditioning day of pushing a sled or running sprints. 5x5 is a lot of volume, though, so I'd be careful with adding in anything extra.
Even if I accept that it's correlated, that doesn't mean the exposure is bad in any way. Games can be correlated to aggressiveness but also reduce aggressiveness. Correlation isn't causation.
I don't disagree with your overall point, but I think you picked a bad example.

While I wouldn't wish for my kid to stub a toe at any given moment, I also wouldn't want her to grow up without the experience of toe-stubbing - it teaches a valuable lesson (be careful of where you put your feet!).
I thought it was an interesting insight into a real child's mind, as opposed to the usual fearmongering that goes with such games usually.

I thought it was cool that the child used his will against the overwhelming thrust of the game in an unconscious manner and won. If it is possible for the negative images and activity have a negative impact on his future life, then I'd argue that his actual heroic actions inside the game portend well for his future.
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