skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, assuming a profit of $500 does make the maths make sense.

But $500 profit a year from a single customer is way above the average for the majority of businesses.
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Ask HN: When do you exercise?
(Inspired by the "Fitness for Geeks" thread.)

Hi HN!

I am out of shape.

I am less out of shape than I was 3 years ago, because I have dabbled in everything from fencing to P90x. Consistency is my most formidable bugbear, and I am trying to figure out what is stopping me from achieving it.

When I plan my days or weeks, scheduling has been very difficult, and I'm interested to see how the fit hackers out there have handled it, particularly those of you who have 9-to-5's (or similar) like me.

I have tried exercising before work, immediately after work, and in the evenings. Each has had its own roadblocks:

Getting up early worked well, but I am a night person. Trust me, I have tried it all: consistent wake-up times, quitting caffeine, UV light bulbs, redundant alarm systems. If you can suggest a way to make it stick, please do.

Exercising immediately after my day job is tough. I get home anywhere between 5:30 and 7:30PM; when I get home, I often feel like drawing/painting or coding, and it feels counterproductive to sacrifice creative productivity (a goal that is just as important to me), even in the name of fitness. Also, if I want to do anything social and still get to bed at a reasonable time, then exercising for a significant duration is tough to sneak in before I go, and impossible if I get home from work too late.

Finally, nights are a problem because I sometimes have trouble sleeping too soon after I exercise, and it's much more difficult to muster the energy when winding down after a long day.

When do you work out? How is your free time structured, and how much of it do you have? Is there anything you did, or read, or saw, that worked extremely well or very poorly for you?

P.S. - I am aware that the best solution is to "just do it". However, I have been attempting to "just do it" for the last 3 years. I am also aware that there is no try, only do. However, I currently appear to be unable to "just do it", and my intention in posting this question is to see how other people curated their environments and daily routines in such a way that they were more likely to be consistent. Balancing a day job, ambitious personal projects, personal fitness and a social life is very difficult; we need all the information we can get.
Are there similar productions of this, for other languages? It'd make a great point of reference./
They filed: http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/27/linkedin-files-for-ipo/
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The clean GMail may be getting cluttered soon...
How to not suck in VC pitches
How big a portion of the total number of books sold world wide goes through Amazon?

That's an important number in this debate, you could easily interpret this as 'ebooks are now sold more frequently than paperbacks' but I'm not seeing bookstores going out of business in the towns that I visit so there must be more to it.

Another question that needs answering is how many of these ebooks would have been sold as paperbacks, and how many of them are really sold just on the merit of being available as an ebook.

Typically I'll read anything technical on a screen and 'books' in dead tree format, and I pass my copy on to someone else after I'm done with it. As long as ebooks do not allow me to do that given the price I'd much rather have a 'real' book than a stream of bits, it seems more value for money.
Somehow I find it difficult to believe that would be included on any carrier-approved Android build, let alone enabled by default. OSS & client-side (i.e., no backdoors) encryption is the government's worst nightmare.
Urgh. I had exactly this experience trying to get the Exchange Web Services API to work. That's worse, because the author's solution, dropping any pretense at using a notionally "pluggable" API and just debugging with Wireshark, won't fly over HTTPS.
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I signed up for LinkedIn probably 4 years ago or so, and all it's really done for me since is notify me by email when all the business school grads I've ever met discover LinkedIn.
> Everything bar a bed, clothes, writing material and some basic kitchenware.

And since you're posting here it seems at least one computer, unless you're writing this in an internet cafe of course.
While this problem was for sure exacerbated by a bad API design (and I've seen pretty horrific REST ones as well) the fact that all of the underpinnings are abstracted away makes it very difficult to debug in any sort of depth when things go wrong. That's the ultimate point I was getting at - I'm fairly new to blogging so it is very possible I'm not conveying my point as effectively as I'd like.
It's all about getting the right people on the bus: http://www.jimcollins.com/article_topics/articles/good-to-gr....
I never tried to make it work, but the vim distribution for Windows used to include a COM object which could be used as your Visual Studio editor.
Look at what kind of headway corporations like google have made in the mind of consumers when they go above and beyond the shareholder mantra. Oracle might make short term gains on their terms but they have started to poison a whole new generation of developers.
It wasn't a nonce as such - it was a key exchange, slightly more like a salt in modern terms.

One of the main failings of the Germans was their love of formal introductions and sign offs in official messages, especially by the navy which otherwise had rather better crypto than the other branches. However if you are already stuck with a language that has a very fixed word and sentence structure you don't help by signing all your messages with the same 40 character long formal greeting.
There is a tactic that Amazon has been doing that frustrates me and might contribute to why kindle books are selling so well.

Search for a book, if there is a kindle edition, it will be the one that shows up on the search NOT the paperback. You have to navigate around just to get to the paperback.
Wow, interesting, but a textbook example of how not to make a chart. I had to break out the DigitalColor Meter utility in OS X to tell which was which. Here's the list, fastest to slowest based on the leftmost point of each line:
1)Charter 2)Comcast 3)Cox 4)Time Warner 5)Suddenlink 6)Cablevision 7)Cable One 8)Verizon 9)ATT 10)Bellsouth 11)Windstream 12)Embarq 13)CenturyTel 14)Frontier 15)Clearwire

edit: Ah well, I guess that will do, can't make them stand up in a column.
SOAP is the problem here. Specifically, it's the architectural decision to hide the protocol details which inevitably ends up biting everyone who uses it, because it's a textbook leaky abstraction.
The clean GMail experience may be getting a little cluttered soon :(
No, I feel the same way. I read at a large font size (weak eyes), so a lot of the gunk was shoved off the screen; but I finally had to pull up adblock.
Haha, yeah it's not a surprise.. I didn't know they were creating their own site - I thought they wanted to just keep it as Facebook group. But by the time they launched, I was well into it, so I decided that I may as well finish what I started.
It's an interesting bit of military psychology that while every side in WWII broke their enemy's codes - all of them believed all their own codes to be unbreakable!
Would relativity then be a necessary component in a simulation, with an effort put into implementing the correct mechanics? Or could relativity be a side effect of an underlying representation you chose in order to achieve something else, like the massive parallellism needed to compute the next discreet step in the simulation?
Office PC. Realistically, job and career wise, I'll uptake a home computer again at some point, but only when the habits associated with the old ones die off.
Visual Studio? Sure, as long as you're only going to be coding on Windows.

I'm curious, does anyone use Visual Studio for non-code editing? For example, I'm typing this in Vim right now. I use Vim for lots of meant-for-human-readers text.
The problem now is that the rest of Microsoft needs to pry the Kinect from the Entertainment division. The device has incredible potential, but the Entertainment division won't care about anything that doesn't sell Xboxes.
your point is?
Turning MMO love into a Job
Yeah, smart move writing this up...
> so I decided that I may as well finish what I started.

I like the spirit. I'll keep an eye on booklends. Hopefully it will be fewer romance novels and more good books.
The idea is that people are using the results of a field to justify its axioms.

Interesting observation. You can see why it comes about though. It's not like people are going out of there way to be dumb :) They are fed a bunch of triumphalism too. And people are easily misled. Once science starts providing a lot of answers about the universe and also once it starts giving us comforts and toys it's hard not to extrapolate.

Modern atheism is not just a fad for dumb people. That's unfair. Don't forget how hostile religion was to individual atheists. We are living in a comparatively secular time and atheism is in the air. To be fair, when kids are told about Santa Claus they believe that too. I tell my kid that I believe there is no God and that organized religion is not the best way to spiritually develop yourself. You get dumb people everywhere. Socially it's a _great_ thing in my opinion. One less excuse to blow each other up. Now all we have to do is to dislodge the nation-state concept, that's going to be tricky.

I'm curious. Are you a postmodernist? :) How do you think the modernist project crashed and burned? I think modernism as a coherent ideology was never all that pervasive and also was very lumpy (not evely distributed).
If 1 million people take a large risk, which has a 5% chance of making them a millionaire, then we'll end up with 50,000 millionaires.

What is really interesting is what they did differently, if anything.
Oracle is a private company and as such has only obligations to its shareholders.

This is not a fact, it's merely an article of faith of the religion known as Capitalism.
If you have broken the enemies crypto AND he doesn't know you have - then you can also send fake messages which they are going to believe.

So the Brits could have sent a message ordering a few panzer armies from Normandy to the Pas de Calais. It doesn't seem that this was ever done - presumably because it gave the game away.

Even more interestingly - the Brits kept secret that they had cracked enigma into the 1980s because after the war they distributed the 'uncrackable' German code machine to lots of rather gullible allies
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That's pretty brave and inspiring. I am not sure I could do that again, I've 'rebooted' a couple of times and it takes a long time to find a new path. And inevitably you always end up with lots of stuff again, it has a way of creeping up on you.

Emigrations are a good way to realize what you can do without.

And then a few years later you look around and wonder how it happened again.
That's actually a much more interesting question.
> Avoiding a reflective screen should go without saying, but it's surprising how many people don't understand this.

Yes, it surprised me the first time I brought my shiny new Compaq outdoors. :)
Whichever it is, it sure doesn't belong here.
Can I get some spam with my spam please?

Ah, Thanks!
People still use SOAP? Yikes, sorry.
Hey guys, it has been too long since our last self-righteous anti-consumerist circle-jerk. This one is good! You can smell the smarminess right through the screen.

We live in a time where the individual has more freedom to do what he wants with his life than ever before. When people live longer, survive perviously unsurvivable diseases, and can get by with the least work. When the glorious knowledge produced by human advancement is the most open and attainable it has ever been. When world illiteracy, infant mortality, and malnutrition are at their lowest point. When the most people ever get a college degree and work in fields that challenge their minds.

This really depresses some people for some reason. Can't figure out why. Mostly they just seem to get a kick out of criticizing how other people have chosen to live their lives. I guess it makes them feel better about themselves to imagine the great majority of the population are rubes and they are some wise sage.
Instead you learn the latest 'correct' answers, which you can then write on a test and receive a grade for.

I'm not disputing that modern physics is our best understanding of how the physical world works, but you do lose an important aspect of education by this style of pedagogy. When do you learn what made the best scientific minds what they were? Why should you have to reinvent their learning yourself if you want to be as great as them?

The way 'they' teach physics is just one way to learn it, not necessarily the best. Especially if your goals are not simply to get a degree.
Love pianobar! Use it daily.
Sad part is its not just "People" Google's AdWords and Microsoft's AdCenter are both SOAP. Par for the course from Microsoft, but I'd expect better from Google.
In the study I heard about from a family member it correlates strongly up to a threshold, say $90,000 for a family of 3-4 living in the midwest (ex-Chicago, etc.), but thereafter increasing income doesn't increase happiness (and possibly erodes it).
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?
Accept or lean toward: physicalism 526 / 931 (56.4%)
Accept or lean toward: non-physicalism 252 / 931 (27%)
Other 153 / 931 (16.4%)

Not sure how you can pick "other" from those options, but there you have it. (Physicalism implies non-dualism. Non-physicalism does not imply dualism.)
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There are also courses designed to support switching, e.g. I read maths with computer science IA which usually goes on to 100% maths IB, but switched to computer science without a single headache.

A friend switched from computer science to linguistics, it can be done.
Visual Studio is a great IDE for writing .NET code and is very good at C and C++ on Windows. When I started with PHP on Linux after 7 years of C++ and C# in VS, I quickly realized there was nothing comparable to VS and decided to scale the Vim learning cliff.

I've found Vim's text editing to be better than VS. For example, it's extremely to change a string - ci" - where in VS it's ctrl-leftarrow a few times then ctrl-shift-rightarrow a few times. In Vim it's much harder to compile things, no Intellisense, no refactoring, no decent equivalent to the Solution Explorer, and tons of other missing things. There's no doubt about it. A lot of these things are less useful when working in PHP, so Vim makes sense there.

Not believing the Vim hype is like wondering how anybody could be a Dallas Cowboys fan, which makes a lot of sense to people who grew up or live in Dallas. To people writing code where VS isn't available, there's more focus on editing letters which Vim lets you do more efficiently.
Ask HN: Enterprise Software: How do you use git at work?
Specifically, I'm interested in how many commits you have per day, how many people are committing, and how you handle hot fixes to multiple releases?

Before you pull up http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/, realize that I'm interested in supporting multiple production branches.

Thanks!
Yeah, the maintenance part is possibly the hardest aspect. It's also killed typical socialization in my own home, except for people that genuinely enjoy just sitting, sipping tea and talking.

I was pretty stuck anyhow (progress wise), so if it takes a couple of years to gain new momentum, I feel it's time well spent.

A few people asked if I was heading overseas, the more people that do, the better an idea it sounds like.
It doesn't do that for me, but it's not that far off since the kindle version is the best selling version. They may also boost Kindle results if you have purchased a Kindle before (that would actually be pretty clever).
You need to learn about registers. You can copy between windows and even use your OS's clipboard via Vim.

Normally y is used to yank. However, you can prefix it with "x to yank in to register x. Then you can "xp to paste from register x. You have registers 0-9 and a-z for regular use. They work within a single window.

If you use register *, the register corresponds to your OS clipboard.

Read :help registers to learn more.
The problem with these predictions is that they presume that Nokia is in some sense rational. If they'd said "5: Current R&D employees to be replaced by a single shaved moose with a caffeine addiction," then that might come close to approximating Nokia's historical behaviour.

That being said, this is Elop's first real chance to show what direction he's pushing in, and how much influence he's actually able to wield.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2142587
>"Now, it has long been understood, very well, that a society that is based on this principle will destroy itself in time.

Bullshit. A society based on the principles of the free market will create unprecedented human health and prosperity[1].

Anti-capitalists are anti-human. I wonder if the billion or so people that climbed out of poverty over the last decade thanks to global capitalism would change Chomsky's mind at all. But I doubt it, considering how invested the man is in being a spokesman for a flawed worldview. It seems to me that anti-capitalism is a symptom of simple ignorance of basic facts about world economic development.

[1]http://www.overcomingbias.com/2011/01/best-decade-ever.html
The above is a very concise version of my thoughts, thank you. There are a lot of problems with democracy, stemming from the dangers of mob rule. For instance, there are some strong arguments that a senate operating behind closed doors would be more effective at ignoring special interests and working together than otherwise. The writers of the constitution did just this (they swore secrecy of anything they talked about in the convention to avoid voter backlash) [1]

This is why they initially wanted health care debates behind closed doors - the lobbyists can make much more use of transparency than the uninterested voter can. Fareed Zakaria wrote a lot about this in The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad.

[A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution by Carol Berkin]
The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits by M. Friedman
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>the insured have a vested interest in not being blown up

When you put it that way, I feel stupid. :-)
Not only that, the pie chart (http://www.softwareadvice.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/20...) is such a disgrace to design in general I have to question if these people actually have eyes or not.
I've posted this in part to reply to this discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2149610
"The things you own end up owning you" - Fight Club

The book/movie takes anti-consumerism to a grand finish, but I think there is a definitely a continuum and that most people are too far towards the consumerism side. The real problem is that people equate having stuff with happiness. My issue is I look at people who have a lot of stuff and they seem to spend all their time and money on maintaining said stuff. Owning a boat is probably the prototypical example.

Years ago I owned nearly nothing. My apartment living room consisted of a couple of deck chairs and a small TV. My bedroom had a bed and the office had a small desk with my computer on it. There is great freedom in knowing that I could leave and the only thing I would need to grab would have been my computer. My life hasn't changed very much today, except I would add my camera to the list of things I would also grab.

Another thing to note is that it's not just owning things, but also the attitude you take towards what you own. Owning some nice things is fine, but you can't let them control your life. You have to remember that they are just things.
Yup, GroupOn out executed everyone and is winning. But their getting a high profile has also hurt them by creating 1001 competitors.
SOAP is a nightmare.

soapUI is an application that will let you fiddle around until you get the calls right.

I recently did exactly this. I wound up not only generating the SOAP envelope by hand but also the HTTP headers:

SOAPAction: "http://...//SubmitDataform

What is the action I am trying to do doing in the HTTP headers?
I'm learning Vim because of my three years using Eclipse. Built in refactoring is pretty awesome and the Eclipse debugger is the best debugger there is.

However, over and over, on each of my projects that used Eclipse, inevitably multiple team members would have Eclipse crash and throw their entire workspace into disarray. Sure Eclipse might give you a 20% boost of productivity day to day, but that once every six months catastrophic disaster it would cause negated a lot of it.

Sometimes Eclipse would have trouble talking to the database, sometimes it would screw up its project file, other times it would outright corrupt files, cache things wrong, etc. This wasn't just for me, it was the experience many of our programmers had at various companies.

Now I'm working on my own project, and it's not near as large so I haven't felt the pain of not having magic-refactor. I've been forced to hack on a script to provide step-through debugging capability, and probably once a day I'll google to find the right keystrokes to do something, but I feel in the end, the effort is more than worth it.
Why, in New York, of course ;)
Definition of moral hazard from Wikipedia:

"Moral hazard occurs when a party insulated from risk behaves differently than it would behave if it were fully exposed to the risk."

What is the behavior change of people if government provides money to the unemployed, and why is it bad?
I sympathise with your position that philosophy is a kind of meta-science, with the caveat that that is only one kind of philosophy. But Karl Popper did not define what science is. That's an ongoing question (and one to which I think there is no single answer.)
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http://www.jabberwocky.com/carroll/jabber/jabberwocky.html

Fun poem to memorize
Oracle is not a person to make such a decision; it is its shareholders who should decide how they want to spend their money. I wouldn't want to have a tax (as an Oracle investor or a private citizen) to support OSS. I may want to contribute my money and/or code as a donation, but that will be my own choice.
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Ok, my mistake. Skip the part about Avatar. My reasoning does not rely upon it.