skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm 32 and I found a free-weight system for upper body I've had success with. It auto-adjusts the weight over time whether you want it to or not so you are forced to continually improve. It also forces you to do repetitions every day whether you want to or not. Sometimes I do extra reps and the system responds with positive reinforcement. It gives extra positive reinforcement if I hold it over my head and fly it around like an airplane.

It's not exclusive to older people (teenagers can do it too but it's not recommended)

It's called "having a baby".

My daughter weights 28 Ibs now and I have to lift her a couple dozen times a day. My upper body has definitely improved.

But seriously, I've found staying fit is MUCH harder than it was 5 years ago but still possible. The hardest part is finding the time. I don't know many 30-somethings (especially in tech) that can work out for a half hour uninterrupted, nevermind an hour.
> Most stores have far fewer controls than they could, because they'd rather be nice to their customers. This changes if the level of fraud/theft increases.

Yep, and people can easily see this for themselves. It is incredibly telling to note the difference between going into the Rite Aid on Rainier Ave S in Seattle and the Rite Aid on 35th Ave NE in the same city. They're almost directly due north/south of each other and separated by less than ten miles.

However, the Rainier one has at least one visible store security guard, tags on the shopping trolleys to prevent leaving the store with them, locked-down shaving razor refills and baby formula and small electronics, and "you are being recorded" security televisions prominently placed.

The one on 35th has none of those. If there is a security guard or loss-prevention specialist, that person is often hidden. Shave refills are easily accessed (though do have removable security tags), there are corrals outside so customers can use the trolleys to load purchases into their vehicles, and the store simply feels more open and accessible.
They didn't say M.D.s, did they? Or, they could have only 10 customers and 1 is an MD (and a shareholder?).
"Type of bug"? Sorry, I don't follow.
Threatening to destroy it so nobody else can hear it is explicitly intended to hurt people who want to hear the album. If you don't mean to hurt anyone, by definition it isn't trolling.

Maybe I'm stretching the meaning of lying, but I think it's dishonest to represent yourself as a patron of the arts, as the album was produced as a piece of art, when you're really bidding on it with the sole purpose of depriving others. If that's not the reason he bought it, then he wasn't trolling.
Only when looked at from the craziness of medical school.
Tuition: $42k/year (similar to most PA schools, though a few have better in-state pricing)
http://publichealth.tufts.edu/Admissions/Financing-Your-Educ...

Also, "All academic coursework AND a bachelor's degree from an accredited university/college must be completed before submitting an application to the PA Program". A bachelor's degree is such a painful gatekeeper: four years of opportunity cost in addition to steep tuition. I'm not going to argue that undergrad is strictly vocational in purpose, but many students view it as such and thus get nothing further from it.
Youtube/facebook won't throw you in jail for creating a competitor. The government will usually take exception to you trying to start your own government on their land.
This would be the best possible outcome. The whole LibreOffice naming thing was very unfortunate.
Probably!
Insights from data mining of Airbnb property data
We've been through most of them. I liked Hello Fresh but that wasn't amazing either. Even though ingredients are mostly prepped the preparation and cooking can be pretty time consuming. Lately we've been working on recipes with small ingredient lists that share ingredients. It's cheaper, easier and bigger portions. I like having leftovers to take to work the next day. We don't like grocery shopping but most of the stores near us are doing either at the door pickup or even delivery.
> The outrageous price increases directly led to people dying because they couldn't afford life-saving medication.

Show a single piece of evidence of that.
Free PCs, but not a free lunch (1999)
I never tried HomeKit (not really in Apple's ecosystem), but I do like SmartThings. I won't say I "love" SmartThings, there are many things I can complain about it, but the bottom line is SmartThings provided a very powerful platform, you can write Groovy code to achieve most of the goals you have, even though the process of writing such code might be painful (for example, their web IDE is, let's just say, not the best). You can even add incompatible devices into SmartThings (for example I added my MyQ garage door control into SmartThings with customized device handler).
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Is that 10 PDT or 10 PST? Trying to convert but confused...
For textual documents like academic work and literature LaTeX and its many packages are great for high quality typography. It has a steep learning curve though, but the results look professional and sharp if you follow the best practices. For things like beautiful tables and well-balanced paragraphs (i.e., the distribution and hyphenation of words) LaTeX is hard to beat. So if you are into typesetting books, that is a great option.

Nowadays there are plenty of good free fonts available too (although you are naturally limited). Free software fonts like Gentium are a pleasure on the eye in print.

I'm not too familiar with the more DTP side of software available as free software though.

Of course web browsers have come a long way too. Decent typography is already possible in the modern web browser, and more goodies become available all the time.
I've never heard of that, but I'm in the US with Verizon and fully trust they'll either want $10/mo (because it's a device) or $20/mo (if it can make phone calls).

Because they're nice like that.
Super duper. I thought that it only worked for two-letter combos. Very cool Mozilla, or should I say Moz://a !
Getting a solid 32 hours (on average) out of my low-end Samsung J3 with 3G and location always on. Had to optimize a few things to get there, though.
>But I wouldn't question the value that highly integrated designs that Apple and others have brought to the table.

And yet nearly every single person I know has had their power cable for their iphone and/or macbook fray after a year or so. Meanwhile the "ugly" Sony one that I have for the past 7 years, continues to work just fine. Apple do make well designed products, but they're not above sacrificing functionality for looks, and when they do, its kinda embarrassing. Especially rookie mistakes like not having proper heat dissipation for their laptop GPUs. Also.. didn't the first unibody macs have several design flaws with the hinges and the battery bulging, etc ?

>Modularity and repairability are a necessary sacrifice to build products that sleek.

Apple can already repair it themselves. They're artificially restricting the supply of parts so others can't repair it. Apple repair costs are substantially higher and its unfortunate that they're against other repair shops competing with them.
I can imagine many an hour lost down that rabbit hole :)
It's not stealing when they give it to you willingly without any fraud.

Are you that fuzzy on the concept of "stealing" that you don't see the difference here?
Hazel: Lighweight update server for Electron apps
> I don't know many 30-somethings (especially in tech) that can work out for a half hour uninterrupted, nevermind an hour.

Sounds like a major lifestyle problem that needs to be solved before considering embarking on a fitness program. If you can't find a half-hour for a leisurely self-improvement activity, consider focusing really hard on making that change first.

If you don't have a kid, finding an hour to yourself every day should be no problem. If it is - consider improving your time management or just working less.
Ain't that the truth. Motivation and time for exercise are my largest daily struggles. I am older but those two are far more important factors than just age.
I disagree. I think it will be a major factor at sentencing. First the fact that he did give them their money (with a significant return on it) back to the people well before the government got involved (meaning it wasn't a PR show) to me means there was never any intent for them to actually lose money. I think the judge will see it the same way. Because if that weren't true, he would never have repatriated the money back to pay them out. He would have just said "oops, I lost it" and continued about his regular business. As much as I dislike the guy, I do believe he didn't want to rip the people off, he wanted to try to salvage what he could to make himself look good get them their money. He just chose a deceptive, illegal manner in which to do it.

Also, harm/damage is a big consideration in sentencing. He broke the law, yes. But usually a violation of the law in this regard results in substantial losses. Because it did not here, the only damage is his violation of his contractual obligation to provide money back to those who said they wanted to cash out. By holding the money, he deprived them of their rightful property as per the contract they signed when they invested with him. And considering they would have a real hard time beating his returns, proving any sort of tort injury is essentially impossible. This leaves only the statutory violation, meaning he amazingly didn't necessarily harm anyone or their property but rather just broke the law. Given the lack of injury to the victims of his crime, I think he's likely to see a very light sentence.
>Is there such thing as a perfectly competitive market irl?

Wikipedia has the requirements for a perfectly competitive market, if you look at them you'll see that there certainly can't be many markets like that. I'd say the closest thing you're liable to run into on a day to day basis is gasoline. There's a lot of stations, you probably drive past a few everyday so you've got good price information, you know what the product will be and it's all the same.

>There's a canonical example used by the Mises Institute -- water after a hurricane. I watch a lecture half a decade ago. I don't have perfect information. Far from it. It was convincing. A stripped down model which made gouging look ridiculous. I think it's debatable.

One thing I find with libertarians (Mises tipped me off) is that they're often not too familiar with good critiques, only the surface level stuff that gets thrown around on twitter or tumblr. So here's my contribution:

http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Matt_Bruenig

Maybe read some critiques, the worst it can do is make you a better libertarian.
It's funny...that order is used in 99% of what I can find online, but the only song listing them that I remember from growing up had lyrics like "Recycle, reduce, reuse, you can close the loop". It's always a little disorienting to me, to hear the more common order.
It's interesting that she decided to leave out the fact that Taleb's comment on citations was him firing back after she called anti-fragile et. all "pop risk books": https://medium.com/incerto/something-is-broken-in-the-uk-int...
It may be classed as theft of services.

If curious, consult a qualified legal representative in the appropriate jurisdiction.
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I take your point – I guess not, no.
only skimmed the article, sorry :)
Only because the BBC has a special place in the law:

> In 1991, the BBC assumed the role of TV Licensing Authority with responsibility for the collection and enforcement of the licence fee.[5] The BBC is authorised by the Communications Act 2003 to collect and enforce the TV licence fee. Section 363 of the Act makes it against the law to install or use a television receiver to watch or record any television programmes as they’re being broadcast without a TV Licence. Section 365 of the same Act requires the payment of the TV Licence fee to the BBC.

That hardly makes the case the BBC is Fully Independent from the British Government, which is what is being discussed here.
Because the internal glue might be forgiven by Apple's design needs, in the kind of statement like the one they made at the top of this thread.

The screws aren't important as a barrier to repairability, but because they have no other purpose. It is not a consequence of product design to select a screw solely on the virtue that it makes user repair more difficult. On principle, the screws are more significant as a reflection of Apple's negative attitude towards its customers.
From a Coinbase email:

"This means if there are two separate digital currencies – bitcoin (BTC) and bitcoin cash (BCC) – customers with Bitcoin stored on Coinbase will only have access to the current version of bitcoin we support (BTC). Customers will not have access to, or be able to withdraw, bitcoin cash (BCC).

Customers who wish to access both bitcoin (BTC) and bitcoin cash (BCC) need to withdraw bitcoin stored on Coinbase before 11.59 pm PT July 31, 2017. If you do not wish to access bitcoin cash (BCC) then no action is required."
Chinese Actress Prepares US Lawsuit Against Exiled Tycoon Guo Wengui
"Hotel breakfast buffets will let anyone in, provided you can say a room number."
You need to start questioning what you see on TV & the Huffington Post.
> We've developed our own deep neural network speech recognition architecture, and aren't using any open source speech frameworks like Kaldi or Sphinx (just Tensorflow). Because of this, we're able to run things more affordably and pass those savings on to developers.

Kaldi and Sphinx are far more efficient than any tensorflow transcription model I've ever seen.

I assume this is an oversight ?
If you're data-inclined, it's a powerful tool to drive health and fitness. Extracting actionable meaning from your data isn't that hard, as long as you understand the basic mechanics of what you're doing and can compute things like percentages and moving averages.

I'm 34, spent the last ~15 years at sedentary desk jobs, and became quite out of shape. I've lost 70lb over the last year doing little more than just logging what I eat in MyFitnessPal, sticking to caloric and macro budgets, and recomputing my TDEE based on moving averages of my caloric inputs and weight readings. I lift for 45-60 minutes 4 times a week, no cardio.

In that same time period, I've started lifting and seen excellent progress (bench 1RM ~260, squat 1RM ~320, deadlift 1RM ~465), again by thoroughly logging my workout data and using that to identify where I'm weak and strong (which lets me select exercises to improve my weaknesses), to help set and adjust training maxes, and to help set achievable goals on a daily basis. Symmetric Strength is a great tool here - it's incredibly gratifying to see my progress presented in several ways, and it helps me understand my strengths and weaknesses, as well as my progression relative to others, which can be very motivating.

I attribute just about all of this to the fact that I adopted eating and lifting plans which were based on data collection and specific goals and targets to reach for and hit on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. I've tried dieting and fitness regimes in the past that were basically coached as "just do this and try really hard", without laying out why, or what I could expect at a granular level, and those become really discouraging once the initial hit of motivation wears off. By contrast, having a year's worth of data to analyze any time I start to feel discouraged provides immediate reinforcement as to what does and doesn't work, and helps keep me on track.
I don't buy into your endocrine/metabolic system theory whatsoever. Do you have any evidence that this is even possible?
The first half of the 19th century was the "iron era" of impregnable safes. With enough iron, you could make something that would effectively resist physical attack. Explosives weren't powerful enough yet - dynamite, nitroglycerine, TNT, and C4, let alone shaped charges, were in the future. Black powder would just leave scorch marks. Acetylene torches and thermic lances hadn't been developed yet. High speed steel drill bits didn't exist yet. Cobalt, carbide, tungsten, and diamond tools were a century away. Power tools required a nearby steam engine. Hammer and chisel was about it, and banging on cold iron with cold iron is a very slow process.

Theft from safes thus focused on lock-picking and getting hold of the keys. The latter was usually more effective.[1]

I can't find a picture on line of the setup used to pick Bramah's lock, but I've seen a drawing. The lock design was much like today's round bike locks - push-down pins. There's an easy way to open those today using a Bic pen cap.[2] Modern ones are just pin tumbler locks in a different form factor. Bramah's lock was a lever lock in round form. Hobbs used a custom-made picking setup with a thumbscrew and calibrated dial for each lever. This allowed setting any combination of depths and reproducing it later. Now exhaustive search was possible. Hobbs took most of a month to do the job. It wasn't really a useful attack, but it shook people up.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Gold_Robbery
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LahDQ2ZQ3e0
If by making use of your "willpower" other things fall out of your control, then is not just a matter of willpower.

By making it modular you are sacrificing size, there are no two ways around it. The discussion gets nowhere if people keep claiming the same exact product can be built if you just try hard enough.
>No disrespect to anyone, but can an average career teacher understand the nuances of securities law?

Yes they can, that's exactly the position I outlined. After a week of doing nothing but learning about securities law every teacher I've met is capable of this no problem. Teachers are perhaps a bad example here though, they are highly educated (many have masters' degrees, most have bachelors) and interested in learning. But to make your argument stronger, take a minimum wage fast food worker with a GED, yes I think they are capable as well.

>Lawyers and prosecutors are great at creating stories, but isn't what matters or not whether the law has been broken?

Kind of. In fact in the US legal system this is not all that matters, because the law is often vague and abstract and sometimes obviously morally wrong. The purpose of the jury is exactly this, it's a check on a cold soulless system destroying lives robotically; not only must a law be broken, but you also have to convince a group of fairly normal human beings that what you've done is horrible enough you deserve to be punished for it before you are punished.

>Amazing charismatic lawyers (or prosecutors) will be able to bend an outcome, and that is just not right.

I agree with you here, and this essentially means the rich get away with things the poor are punished for. This will always happen, will it not? People who are able to present a more convincing argument in their defense are less likely to be convicted in any legal system? I think things can be done to mitigate this, yes, and they start with a simpler criminal code (fewer crimes) and more equal access to legal talent, like better funded public defenders.
Asus ZenFone Argues Why Brands Should Embrace AR
Well I'd sure love to read about it, but some stupid fucking javascript "engineer" decided to write a script that only allows whitelisted browsers to visit.

I put "engineer" in quotes because I browsed there with Firefox and was promptly rejected with a message saying "Please use Chrome, Firefox, or Safari".

This site is full of JavaScript apologists: who wants to try to tell me that this site's JavaScript is enhancing my experience?

The web has become shit, and it's thanks to JavaScript and the people who write it.

Edit: HN guidelines be damned. Down vote away, JavaScript "engineers"! I must have hit close to the mark! Keep ruining the web for the rest of us!
Sure. For a while I worked at a company that made props for aircraft and hovercraft. We had a robot arm that painted them. This was about 20 years ago so it was fairly unusual, at least for me as an engineering student.

The problem was that the software for defining the arcs that the paint gun needed to move through was, well, a bit shit. It always produced inconsistent thicknesses.

Obviously, prior to getting the arm, the props were painted by hand. There was this one chap who was just incredible. He'd move his arm in a motion that followed the contours of the prop perfectly but at such a consistent pace that the paint was laid down beautifully. In the end they gave up with the software and just motion captured his arm movements so they could replicate it. It wasn't as good as he was but was close enough.

BTW my job there was to design jigs for a batch of Spitfire blades that they were building. Someone had commissioned new 'planes to go with some Merlins that had been found at Rolls (if I recall correctly). I worked at Dowty who had made the original blades and landing gear so we were making them from the original blueprints. Was a lot of fun.
At the price which will maximize total profits.
That's the kind of claim for which it's useful to have a citation. Because it's not generally true. This is an old study ('76), but they found that the jury selection processes biases against both high and low educational attainment, for example: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3053202?seq=1#page_scan_tab_con...

One of my friends just served on the jury for a murder trial. He's got a Ph.D.. From my recollection, at least two of the other jurors also had postgraduate degrees.

Remember that the jury selection process is managed jointly -- which somewhat naturally leads to the clipping off of people at either end of the extremes that the defense and prosecution are concerned about.
This case has nothing to do with the pharmaceutical industry. Shkreli is known to be the "bad boy of Pharma" and is being taken down. His reputation is based on hiking the price of his drug. This will make the federal government look like they are doing something without actually doing anything. They aren't prosecuting him for price gouging his drugs and that common practice will not stop.
The author, Mary Beard, is a classicist and the UK's top Roman scholar. She's also the author of the critically acclaimed SPQR: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/18/books/review-in-spqr-a-hi...
Uber for airport lounges! It's like a temporary AirBnB. First we can...

I suddenly feel terrible about myself.
Its attitude is that its customers shouldn't be self-repairing devices. And that attitude is absolutely correct. The average Apple customer has no business whatsoever opening their device. And that's what the screws are, a small barrier that tells the user "you shouldn't open this unless you know what you're doing".
and Legislatures legislate. The strict sentencing guidelines are the result of "Law and Order" laws (both sides of American politics have their favorite targets). I too agree, eliminating jury trials would change none of that.
TOP actually exists in all other RDBMSes that I know of (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite), except it's called LIMIT and goes at the end of the query instead of the beginning. CROSS APPLY is in PostgreSQL as well, except it's CROSS JOIN LATERAL instead. AFAICT MySQL and SQLite don't support this. I don't have much experience with Oracle, so I'm not sure what it supports, but I'd be amazed if it didn't support some variant of LIMIT/TOP.

LIMIT/TOP is a good example actually of the sort of thing that every ORM I've used is great at covering between databases. I haven't seen any ORMs that support queries with sophisticated JOINs, much less CROSS APPLY/CROSS JOIN LATERAL.

But I would agree that, if you're using the more complex stuff like custom functions, stored procs, triggers, etc, you're much more likely to get tripped up by that switching between databases, though ORMs mostly don't touch that kind of stuff.