skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great work! One of the advantages this program has to me is also psychological. I don't get to choose how much weight to lift or how many reps to do; it's all determined by my progression in the program (which is figured out at the beginning of my 9-week cycle).

For anyone with ADD, executive dysfunction, or just general procrastination, this is a great way to reduce the number of "decision points" that give you an opportunity to break your new habit.

Also: I recommend following through with the final 2 weeks. They can be really hard, but when you then take 14 days off and see yourself get in noticeably better shape during a period of sitting on the couch, you buy into the program big time.
Google sure is getting a lot of blowback recently.
One of the indirect benefits of feminism is that more men are more involved with their families, and more men are choosing to be primary caregivers. There are many, many fewer men who go this route than women, but it's slowly becoming more acceptable.
No, because Java isn't GPLed. OpenJDK is GPLed, but this suit has nothing to do with OpenJDK.
"is that what freedom means? it sounds like you're condition of freedom is to have money, and its only freedom as long as you can pay for it. not really that free."

I suppose I could live in a cardboard box on the side of the road and quit my job, but I don't think it would be a very nice existence.

Having enough money to quit your job, buy a nice house, support a family, and travel is the ultimate freedom. You don't have to answer to anyone.

You may be happy with much less, and that's your choice. This is my definition of freedom. It's also why I am working on my own company.

The money isn't even the point. If I could get all of the above for free, I would do it (who wouldn't?). It's what the money provides.
I'm not saying not to get a degree and I do sometimes wish that I had gone for a CS degree. But that being said I have learned all I needed to know in order to grow a 100 people strong cutting edge company and all I have is my GED.

And even though I only have my GED I am still very familiar with how computers work, memory management, building virtual machines, etc. I have a small scheme here that compiles to rubinius bytecode and then gets JIT'd by LLVM into machine code that I will release one of these days and I have read tons of papers and feel like I know as much or more then your average CS degree grad.

Everything you need to know is on the internet nowadays. All you have to do is spend the time to reach out and grab it and you can learn anything you want to learn and eventually get any job you want to get if you only apply yourself hard enough.

I did not mean to disparage college degrees, merely to make a comment that you can learn as much or more then you would learn at your average CS degree school by just applying yourself and reading online, then practice, practice, practice.
This could be an issue of pedaling too hard. I started cycling, and when I first started, I was pedaling at a low cadence (pedal rotations/minute, I was probably at < 60, I didnt have a bike computer then) and would get knee pain on shorter rides (~5 miles). Now I ride between 80-115 cadence on rides over 20 miles and experience no pain. The other problem is that the bike wasn't properly fitted for you.
I don't think it is. From my own recollection the usual notation would be more like:

4+3+2 = ? + 2 or 4+3+2 = _ + 2

Along with instructions asking something like "What number would make this true?" And usually it wouldn't be so trivial (though still not difficult, except perhaps at the time):

4+3+2 = _ - 8

Maybe it's just Texas?
I believe that (Doggcrapp) was at least originally a steroids-required training regime.
I never said anything about style.

If you live in the western world with a modest living, you can afford to take a few vacations here and there to neat places. But I would have to be rich to telecommute during the week from Venice, Peru, Japan, New Zealand, Lebanon, France, and and on alternating weekends see my little brother's Piano recitals in Boston, and visit my girlfriend in India.

Maybe I would discover that that life isn't so great, but I would like to see first hand. And I think you made some unfair assumptions about my point.
Ask HN: Review my startup - Archfinch
I've finally joined the ranks of single founders. It has been a very fun ride so far.

Archfinch lets you rate the things you like (books, films, tv shows, etc.) and then get recommendations based on your ratings. The URL is http://archfinch.com/

I know there are some film and book buffs on HN -- if you are one, check it out. I'm sure many of you have thought 'I don't even remember if I watched this movie or not'. One of the reasons I made the site is so I could catalogue what I watched.

I launched a private beta a few weeks ago and there are already some users on the site, so the recommendations already work quite nicely (they should only improve with time). I've had some really great reviews so far, but we'll see what the public has to say.

There are more features coming, but I didn't want to be in feature creep limbo forever.

Feedback is very welcome, either here or at luke@archfinch.com. It doesn't matter if it's positive or negative, don't worry, I can take it.
Hmm... so you could use patents as a club to enforce dual licensing with GPLv3 then. Violate the GPL and you lose your patent license, so now you're a patent infringer too. At the same time, you're FOSS-friendly since your patents are meaningless to FOSS projects.
the 1200 kCal diet for the study is very alarming in my opinion. That's quite a lot of deficit compared to one's BMR and coupled with exercise, the study was bound to be a success. this following post pretty much dismisses the validity of the experiment you just linked:

http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2008/02/miracle-thigh-cr...
It is a bit hard for me to reconcile Oracle's contributions to Linux with their seemingly mercenary attitudes towards Solaris and Java.
Count me in, if you are interested in the MVP I propose above (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1601840).

I can contribute leet NLP + ML skillz.
Are you looking for people for this robot spider startup? Il join
Clickables:

http://archfinch.com/

http://archfinch.com/user/drx - my profile
I don't think this works any better than the reverse (starting lighter, ending with more weight/fewer reps), or a few sets of constant weight (after warmup). It's a well known variation.
And I use my iPad to read novels....I enjoy the backlight actually.
Google Calls Oracle Patent Suit Baseless And An Attack On The Java Community
You're still going to be hired for tech jobs at 50? Not from what I hear.
Seems very similar to GetGlue. What is differentiator ?
Never underestimate the power of lulz when trying to understand a DDoS.
Why do I get 20 odd javascript dialog popups from that page?
I'm not fully convinced that the bodybuilder style workouts themselves decrease speed, power and endurance. It could also be that, in order to see significant muscular hypertrophy, you have to de-emphasize conditioning.

I say this because Crossfit-style workouts incorporate high volume, weighted movements, and they are amazing at increasing power and endurance.
It's interesting that they're basically saying Rackspace's network couldn't hold up and doesn't have an effective solution for DDOS victims on their network.

Gige's DDOS protection is basically a hosted redirect and filtering system that "leverage[s] the cost of DDoS mitigation amongst a large group of businesses, giving you access to the infrastructure that would normally be out of reach financially." http://www.gigenet.com/ddos-protection.html

But if Posterous is hosted on the Rackspace cloud, why isn't there a mechanism to do this through their existing host? After all, Rackspace has an equivalent service (maybe rebranded?) that would seem to offer protection without needing to go to a 3rd party vendor. http://www.rackspace.com/managed_hosting/services/security/d...

So it's interesting that Posterous needed to go around Rackspace to get a solution.
I read that to say 'Solaris is the #1 (SysV-based) Enterprise Operating System'
What to ask as exhibitor on a trade show in order to start a conversation
Come on, give him a break.
>>> x=5
>>> 1<x<10
True
>>> 1<x<3
False

(Indent 4 spaces to show code)
> Freedom of speech is the right to say anything you want without government interference.

Indeed. Still, the respect Google gives to people who say things they disagree with reflects what they think of your right to say things they disagree with.

I am bothered with people that really believe nazi crap. I don't agree and I don't like it, but I believe ideas should be exposed in the open and be examined under the light of reason.
Google, Just Cut The BS And Give The Gordon Gekko Speech Already
Imagine you're in a big slot machine tournament with 150 competitors. Each player gets to pull one of two machines. One machine pays $1 every time. The other machine pays an average of $0 but has a variance of $50. Everyone gets 1 pull, the scores are tallied, and the bottom half of the players are out, and a new group is brought in to replace them.

Which machine would you pull? The evidence[1] is pretty clear that if the variance is high, the population will converge to people who go for the second one.

Not to sound sexist here, but women are not faced with having to pull the slot machine. From an evolutionary standpoint, they don't have (get?) to play in the tournament. Their goal is to minimize their own losses, since they only have a very small number of offspring they can create.

Men are forced into the arena, which creates the mentality that has the author baffled. We have to keep trying to hit it big, otherwise our lineage dies off as some other lucky guy comes along and forces us out.

That's what being an entrepreneur is all about. It's the diligent pulling of the slot machine with the lower mean.[2]

[1] Fogel, et. al., "Do Evolutionary Processes Minimize Expected Losses?" http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.8.8... [PDF]

[2] Everything after footnote 1 is pure opinion and based on only my own intuition. :)
somebody needs to draw "LISTEN TO RUSH" in Canada
For example, Google is well known for integrating many of its researchers into product groups and shifting them among product groups, working side-by-side with different development teams. While on a particular project, a researcher might focus on the part of the problem that requires esoteric knowledge of particular algorithms, but they are exposed to and work on many problems in the product. When this group comes together, everyone shares knowledge, and then people move to another group, sharing again. Moreover, these ephemeral teams get people to know people, yielding valuable peer networks. When a tough researchy problem later comes up and no one nearby knows how to solve it, finding the person in the company who can solve it becomes much easier.

I wonder if FB is different?
20 is too many[1] reps, except possibly when beginning (or for certain exercises where you can't safely do more weight[2], e.g. for legs if you're afraid/unable to bear more load through the spine/knees). Try 12-15 at most. The point is to keep the number of reps nearly constant while significantly increasing the load over time, while getting enough sleep/protein/etc. (of course you'll plateau without steroids).

[1] unless you don't want larger, stronger muscles, but rather more endurance

[2] you should first look for alternative exercises or improved technique, rather than decreasing weight and increasing reps
In many cases, an MVP shouldn't take a whole lot of time to build. If this is the case, you're better off getting the MVP out there, and getting feedback from that rather than the demo.

If, on the other hand, the demo is getting consistently negative (or "meh") feedback from prospective users, you may want to re-examine your value proposition.

Obviously, thinking about your customer acquisition and sales strategy is always a good thing, and if there are changes you can make to your product development to make those things easier, do it. Just remember what people say that they want isn't always what they really want-- which is why it's good to get the MVP out there.
Excuse me if I'm being dense; obviously it is unnecessary, but what's the drawback of banning a Tor exit node that disallows access to your IP? It just seems far easier to ban them all.
Guess what. People who work out regularly aren't about to lift a light weight 100 times when they can still keep it at 10 repetitions by increasing the weight. There are studies that say working out for longer than an hour or so decreases gains. So really, don't make your workout any longer just because you don't want to lift heavier weights.
The New Marketing Trifecta
Studies prove the value of design
We're getting about 500k packets per second, 500mbps to 1.5gbps peak, it's a synflood from a botnet. Typically we can IP hop and null-route the old IP's. That usually buys us about a day until the botnet phones home to get the new IP's, at which point we just hop again. Since our DNS TTL is only 5 minutes at most we are down 5 minutes.

TODAY, the attackers hopped IP's to our new IP immediately. So they appear to be learning. But then again, so are we.

Gigenet's anti-DDoS service has helped us a ton here and is now serving as our front door IP to block the synflood. They've been really responsive.
Answer: Twitter is broken.
I generally agree with that statement but I wasn't making any presumptions only stating my observations. College is not critical to developing higher critical thinking but it certainly doesn't hurt.
Don't think that's the intended audience, buddy. It was started as a ruse to recruit companies for a venture capital firm to invest in.
Usually this can be gotten around if you index the text, but don't display the text. This way you can still offer a search engine but not "publish" the text.
I’ve watched him lose his health, sanity, credit and girlfriends again and again for this obsession. “This is literally killing you,” I tell him. “It has to stop.”

If she can see he's doing something wrong, she should help him get on track, not discourage him.
I would avoid this lady like plague.
I like Starting Strength, but this study seems to contradict Rippetoe and Kilgore. They recommend 3 sets of 5 reps, whereas this study seems to indicate a higher number of reps with lower weight is just as good.
I'm not familiar with the Mexican fisherman story (search didn't return anything).

Was the Mexican fisherman toiling away on a fishing boat so he could become rich so he could have the freedom to spend his days fishing?
You're pretty much taking the evolution of email spam and going backwards, unless you can point to a specific reason twitter is different from the general evolution of spam on every network up till now I cant see how thats right.

Given a million people sending out 10 spams each theres bound to be a very similar way they carry it out. However 10 spammers dedicated churning out the maximum capacity they can achieve will put up a fight no matter how you try to stop them.

Email spam originated with people like hood, generally not doing much damage and very easy to block and shut down. It eventually led to the current situation where vast majority of spam originates from a handful of spammers. So did comment spamming, and early social network spamming, they all pretty much followed this pattern.

In my view you're letting yourself get wrapped up in the minutiae of the argument. What hood did was wrong and no amount of justification will change the fact that he externalized the cost of commercial advertising. However none of us can look back at our lives and say we didn't have such morally questionable moments. We generally react like hopefully hood has done and don't make it a career; assholes keep going even when they only make $1 for every $100 they externalize.
Bullshit. Welfare and social security are A) a form of insurance against misfortune (which anyone can suffer) and B) the result of a consensus that a humane, civilized society should not let anyone starve, freeze or die of easily curable diseases no matter who they are.
Call me cynical, but I don't think 18-year-old Bill Gates had the Gates Foundation in mind when he started trampling over the competition in his rise to the top. He wanted to be rich and powerful (because frankly, with the looks and alleged personality of Bill Gates, how else was he going to get a date?).

The Gates Foundation, worthy as it is, was something he only realized he wanted after he had achieved everything he'd thought he wanted, matured, and realized it wasn't really important.
I like the deletion. More people should delete their comments (if they turn out to be inapplicable or unfair).
I can't speak for sex ratios, but generally the reason some places have a lower cost of living is generally because either no one wants to live there (often for good reason) or it's more difficult to earn money there.
IBM buys Unica for $480 million
By being a skilled developer yourself.
25 Best Hangman Words
From the True Value of an Internet to a Fluther of Q&A
Indeed, balance: "don't let nannies have all the fun" emphasis added.

I let a 7yo I'd never met take my 16mo old off to the playpark today .. I did watch from less than 50m away though, perhaps I'm holding the reins too tight?
I'm always wanting really open data, but it seems that the people that have this a) aren't really as data-savvy as the rest of us with regards to actually supporting what openness would mean b) kinda want to know how it is being used in case you come up with something interesting or c) they do such domain-specific stuff that'd you'd almost have to be in the field full time to really get a hang for what it all means and what the common tools are.
Not to turn HN into a gossip site, but here's some dots to connect:

Alex Payne quits Twitter, moves to Portland, cofounds BankSimple, an attempted game-changer if there ever was one. - http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/17/alex-payne-twitter/?utm_sou...

"Wow. @banksimple just leveled up. In the last 24 hours we signed on four of the best engineers I know. Can't wait to announce the team."
Alex Payne - 8/11 - https://twitter.com/al3x/status/20905067927

"What comes next for me? Something truly awesome and even more challenging then Engine Yard, but that will allow me to work from home in Portland. I cannot yet reveal where I am going to work next but I can promise it will be another game changing project and I am chomping at the bit to get started."
Ezra, 8/13
This is the first I've heard of GetGlue. Wow, talk about a sinking feeling. I've had Archfinch in my mind for about two years now, wish I launched earlier.

Well, my site is much simpler to use, as far as I can tell.

I plan to launch features which will differentiate Archfinch from GetGlue, I would have done them earlier if I knew about it.

Oh well, competing can be fun too. At least I'll have someone to kick my butt to deliver awesome features and service. GetGlue seems to have been around for about 1.5 months now, we'll see yet.

Edit: on a second look, it seems they only allow you to 'like' something. On Archfinch you can rate things from 1 to 5. The recommendation algorithm is much more accurate this way.
The specific career is not relevant. Any person who has retired after making 3x the median US salary is evidence in this scenario.
Footer links are pretty much discounted, at least by Google, if the SE can sniff the context, FWIW.
This is a misunderstanding of where the motivation comes from. It's not societal pressure that causes either men to want to be rich or women to look good. It's an evolutionary artifact.
Ask HN:  Why does NetFlix have pop-up ability when I am running Adblock?
These pop-ups are annoying, and I dont's know how to stop them. My only theory is that some links I click are asking for it somehow. Yet I never knowingly click on a NetFlix link. I am puzzled, and would like it to stop.

Comments on how to do so, please?
What's wrong with earning a few dollars providing a useful service?
Newly launched SEO scorecard tool {Free}
PayPal Talking With Google About Handling Android Payments
I totally agree with everything here. We are in the processing of getting our MVP out by the end of the month. This also might help clarify some things--the feedback was from a group of investors that were run through an investor pitch and product demo.

That said, they might not be able to totally define how the product will be received in the market, but they might be right on the money about customer acquisition and sales strategy. The main feedback was to have a lower cost and more scalable sales and acquisition model. This is why a product pivot may be a good start, because the product in development now might not be able to successfully find a good fit with customer and sales strategies.

However, not having the MVP out there to understand how users interact makes a product pivot question harder to address.
Interview w/ Neil Patel (KISSMetrics) on metrics, angel investing, SEO, and more
And FOR A GOOD LAUGH in Mexico.
My cofounder was telling me a story about his friend's brother--where he doesn't really work much, but travels a lot.

Apparently, when asked how he does it, the brother quipped, "Most people are too stupid to be poor."
I put 20euro into my Flattr Account, and choose to spend 2uero a month. As I browse the web, when I see content I like, and click the 'Flattr' button, which is like the Facebook like button. At the end of the month, everyone who's button I clicked gets an equal share of 2euro.

I can spend whatever I want monthly, this is just what I actually do.
That's my guess as well.

Weebly said (I think in their YC Founders at Work interview) that they get multiple DDoSes a day, aimed not at them but at sites they host. Now they have good enough systems in place to deal with it that they said they often just don't notice.

I guess when you host enough people's content, it's only a matter of time before someone wants to DoS something you're hosting.
Care to offer a better definition?
Any suggestions for customers with DNS names pointing to posterous blogs? Are we going to need to follow you on each hop?
It really isn't. They liked Linux because they could sell their database on white box hardware and not pay Microsoft (more money for Oracle less for a competitor). This move is designed to bring Solaris in line with their other enterprise software products. They have an OS and Server combination that can help them make more money.

Their Java move with Google is simple. IBM paid for Java, Google didn't. Oracle wants the cash.
The Secret of Creating Web Pages with Book-Quality Layouts
It depends on what you're looking for but if you want Filipino VAs rather than Indian or elsewhere then onlinjobs.ph or bestjobs.ph are the places to look.
If anyone is interested, here's how you could implement it in Ruby: http://judofyr.net/posts/chained-comparisons.html
Google, et al., may look like a clan of prescient mystics, but they're not. If you don't change the whois info they don't know the domain changed hands - indeed paid for links are really hard to spot algorithmically if done right. The regularity of updates will affect rank (increasingly it seems) but this can be maintained and content can be purchased at very low rates. Unless your site gets flagged for review by a human I think you're unlikely to be caught.

>I would never keep visiting an authored website if something like this happened to it

My blog, for example, gets most hits for a couple of posts on the Safari browser. Despite being entirely unrelated I can drive traffic to other sites from this blog, not high value traffic for sure, but if I were looking to bolster my pageviews for some reason (1st round?) or give another site an injection of PageRank short term then it works well enough.