skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The thesis of the 4-hour body is to understand as much of the science as meaningful, and then to do the absolute minimum in terms of diet and exercise in order to improve your body

And my point is that the absolute minimum is all you need to get novice gains, in any system. High reps, low reps. High frequency, low frequency. High intensity, low intensity. High density, low density. High volume, low volume. High tempo, low tempo. They will all work for the novice, just not very long. Nothing I have heard about this book changes this fact.

> Instead of just criticizing, perhaps you can offer a suggestion for a better alternative of a knowledge repository aimed at the goals and the audience Tim Ferriss is trying to impact?

For novices, the go-to golden standard is Starting Strength by Rippetoe. He's a strength coach with decades of both practical and research experience. I'd back him in a controlled twin study against Feriss for AU$1000 right now.
Thanks Yehuda, this is really exciting. My startup (Matygo) launched an SC app a month ago and by far one of our biggest problems has been page load, performance, and size (especially on mobile).

A compile that only included the exact library files needed (and none other) would be the holy grail in this regard (like ProGuard does for java).
Zoupon pays $100K for Deals.com.au domain for SEO benefits
Nope. A lot of traffic actually goes via NZ.
You can’t predict what will work and what won’t
There are several things that seem absolutely insane about this to me.

#1 Groupon is valued at $15 Billion? Have people lost their minds?

#2 They're offering to buy hipster, a company that I've never used, and have only barely heard of. Hipster.com appears to be an ISP in Nevada, and googling hipster turns up things related to hipster culture.

Am I missing something?
Exchange Student Means 
An exchange student is a student that gets to study abroad for a period of time. This is an excellent method for students as they get to meet new people, learn different cultures and become independent. If you wish to become one, go online and check out the websites.
I know this is not the norm for projects here on Hacker News and I realize that it may be seen as rather exploitive, so here's a very very brief background and my thought process:

- Idea was conceived around 2am this morning. Saw a few events on facebook picking up speed (hundreds of thousands of attendees) so decided to leverage that instant-market

- Wasn't sure whether or not it would work, but I didn't have too much to lose ($8 url and a few hours) so I went for it and started hacking away

- Around 10am the project was launched, complete with a website, domain name, and orignal t-shirt design, all done by me

- 4 minutes later the first orders came in, thus paying for the domain name and becoming profitable (minus my time value)

- Since then the site has gone slightly viral, with several thousand hits, hundreds of "likes" and a bunch of tweets (not to mention t-shirt sales)

- Became the "official t-shirt" and event photo for the Snowpocalypse 2011 facebook event with 300,000 attendees. That's a nice little market to advertise to, no?

This is really just a social + eCommerce experiment with a taste of vitality. While I have designed t-shirts and sold them online before, I have never done anything quite like this, ie "hopping on the bandwagon" and riding out a live-fast-die-fast trend. I have also never experimented with any sort of viral platforms. I hope to implement some potentially viral features in my current startup/project, so I figured it would be worth it to test the waters with this mini-project. It was indeed. I learned a lot, and hope to do a case study with detailed steps and statistics in the near future.
The key question seems to be, if n is the information content in the page (ie number of bits needed to distinguish from a random search engine results page), what fraction of n would not be there without Google's ranking algorithm.

In the case of the honeypot pages, clearly the number is 100%.

In the cases of other results pages, we merely have Google's claim that the similarity has been rising over time, and that they attribute it to info extracted from Google.

Using information that people provide about where they click (hopefully with some kind of informed consent), in order to improve your algorithm, seems reasonable enough. If a large part of the info ended up coming from Google's algorithm, it starts to seems sketchy, and it's legitimate for Google to whinge.

Not that whinging ever stopped any other company, particularly Microsoft, from trying to take advantage of other companies' IP.
In 8 hours I earned enough to pay for 3 months rent. How's that?
Interesting and I'd say about 1/2 right in terms of composition. Sorry to be a hater, but the methodology and the other 1/2 of the group are head-scratching to just wrong.

Respect in VC should come from returns unless LPs are now willing to be paid in Twitter followers and blog post retweets.
What maps are you referring to? They've tweaked the map pool a little bit (Shakura's Plateau is not bad) but I still see the same complaints people have been making. The GSL is thinking of adding new custom maps for this reason (http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Maps#Possible_New_Maps).
But that means that you have not created an actual search program. You are just using googles data.

Or to put it another way: If google did not exist do you still have a (good) search program? If the answer is no, then there is no reason for them to exist.
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Maybe I'm just ignorant, or blinded by cognitive biases, but I always imagine the combination of gas/diesel and internal combustion engines as an engineering optimum, reached iteratively after decades of wandering through parameter space. At least wikipedia's version [1] of the history of cars seems consistent with this, showing a history of dozens of engine designs and fuel choices (solids, liquids, gases, and electric batteries) long before the ICE came to dominate. (Maybe I'm unreasonably optimistic, but I'm unsurprised we've succeed in breaking free of our original "path", steam engines). Perhaps it's my lack of imagination, but I'm not aware of any practical fuel (chemical or otherwise) superior, in energy density and convenience, to liquid hydrocarbons. Nor am I aware that there was a historically superior way of obtaining liquid hydrocarbons to letting them gush out of the ground, which I understood was the least expensive source for them throughout modern history.

Am I simply rationalizing the history of modern transportation, and if so can you enlighten me as to the "paths not taken" that I'm blind to?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_automobile
Crohn's Disease?
.. is that why you're still able to comment freely on the internet? ;)
Congrats. I suggest a "Snowmageddon" t-shirt as well.
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How did you get your first order in 4min? I mean, how were you promoting it?

I have decided I would like to leave my current job and town (as in "post haste" instead of "someday") and I need funds to do so. A quick influx of money would do wonders for moving that goal forward. Would love to learn anything you can share.
There's actually been academic research papers written about spectating Starcraft: http://jeffhuang.com/Final_StarcraftSpectator_CHI11.pdf

There's a number of types of people who watch Starcraft, and a number of things Starcraft does really well to get a large audience of viewers (hiding/showing certain game information).
Point is, they have a script thingy that goes "when our user searches Google for some word and then clicks on a result, make that Bing's result for the same word (plus 999 other things)". I would say most of the intelligence there is being extracted from Google doing the search, not from the user choosing the result.

I'm not saying Bing should go to jail or anything. The rules of the search game are still being written. But let's give credit for search engineering where credit is due.
An analysis of post-mortems, which are themselves a kind of analysis? Shall we all give our analysis of this?
I would suggest a shirt that says "SNOW MY GOD!!!"
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http://usehipster.com
Startup Idea: Preserve and Share Old (Printed) Photos, at the home driveway
your assumptions:

- the "intention" of the robots.txt standard is as you state
- the url is included in the information not allowed by that standard
- if the url is not included it should be because of the "intention"
- toolbars are subject to the same standards

I'm not disagreeing with you as much as just pointing out that I don't think EVERYONE agrees on these standards.
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The news gets funnier - Hipster hasn't even launched yet. And they're just another Q&A site.

Tomorrow's news:
Quora rejected $11 trillion offer from Groupon!
Ev Williams no longer works at Twitter (day-to-day, at least)
Startup idea: paid version of the web archive wayback machine
Maybe this exists already? A paid version of the web archive/wayback machine.
The interesting point here is that "Novice" does not mean "Does in spare time", but means "Does for a short, unique time period".

Outside of those 8 weeks, the benefits are going to rapidly decrease, and then you're going to need a bit more science to continue with.
When the cable industry itself says that that's going to happen, I tend to believe that they will make it happen.[1]

"# Forcing cable operators to sell each channel separately (a la carte) would reduce the size of the potential audience for each channel, adversely affecting a network’s ability to attract the same level of advertising dollars. Networks would also incur much higher marketing costs to persuade customers to purchase their programming. As networks lose the advertising revenues that make up the bulk of their programming and operating budgets and face higher marketing costs, they would need to increase the license fees paid by cable operators in order to continue to deliver high quality and diverse programming.

# These higher license fees would be reflected in higher retail cable prices. To the extent that customers were unwilling to pay the higher a la carte prices for certain networks, those networks would have no choice but to reduce the quality and attractiveness of their programming or go out of business."

Also:

"Mandatory a la carte could cause the demise of many existing basic programming services and hinder the creation of new ones, reducing choice and diversity."

[1] http://www.ncta.com/IssueBriefs/ALaCarte.aspx?view=2

I don't usually parrot industry group talking points. However, in this case, we're debating about what the cable industry would do if a la carte were forced on them, and I think they've already answered that question.
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In U.S. courts, Facebook posts become less private
TIL a new Bash trick - up-arrow autocomplete
http://eriwen.com/bash/effective-shorthand/ has a bunch of cool bash tricks, but the one titled "Another neat trick with .inputrc" is way cool, and something I've wanted a long time: start typing a cmd, then up-arrow through your history of matching commands.
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It feels like it would pass a fair use defense test...not taking too more than necessary and shouldn't harm the commercial market for the original.

And any bill with an internet shutdown is something the MPAA could get behind :)
I saw a presentation by the founder of Page Forest at the SeattleJS meetup when I was in Seattle over the Holidays! He has definitely built a very cool platform, but I feel like it needs to be simplified somehow (or at least needs to be marketed in a simpler manner).

Also, it would be really cool if he hooked up something like Bespin (or whatever Mozilla is calling it now) or Code Mirror in to the page.

Anyways, this is a very cool example app.
# of views?
>Hipster hasn't even launched yet.

This is the scariest part to me. I was kindof under the impression that, at least right now, you're not really buying tech, you're buying users.

"Hipster" has none.
Straw man? No. Satire, and freaking hilarious at that. Tim F. doesn't need HNers to help him get across. He knows his game. It's about attention, not reaction or judgement. This is attention at its most attentive.
But a lobbyist working for companies opposed to the bill told CNET that a new version that no one can see yet is really bad! What more do you need?
Did you correct for inflation?

http://www.measuringworth.com/uscompare/
Back when we were still in LA figuring out grubwithus, Andrew used to give us some valuable advice -- he was always so willing and able to help. Get well soon buddy
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April 2010: Groupon valued in the $1.35b range: http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/18/its-official-groupon-announ...

January 2011: Groupon values itself in the $15b range with an IPO: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/01/13/groupon-readies-for-a...

Hmmmmm....
How do you know it does not? I'm assuming robots.txt is about preventing the page contents from being crawled and added to the index. If all they use the click info for is to associate referrers (google URLs in this case) to pages in the index and they don't crawl the google search itself I don't see how that breaks the robots.txt contract.
Yeah, and he's got a stupid face! That's why I don't support his bill!
Playing To Win
This is Yehuda's m.o. -- take a framework and make it less monolithic before he extends functionality. He's done this with Merb and Rails. These have greatly improved those frameworks. I expect good things from Sproutcore.
i wouldn't call it exploitive, rather i would say it's very savvy. even if it's a one-time shot, it's real money and you're not doing anything shady to earn it. that's how people build wealth -- seizing opportunity. congrats on the success.
It would be interesting to see a timeline of events where people started believing we're in a bubble.

You could mark me down today with this news.
OP is not owner of OKCupid, post is satire.
Ah but they paid the original dev, so by law of transference they're the ones who are creating utility for you.
It's not just a Silicon Valley thing. According to a report in TechCrunch "roughly half of Instagram’s users are not just outside of the Silicon Valley bubble, but outside of the entire United States."

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/02/instagram-funding/
this is not my area of expertise but i really don't think that's a proper analogy. a more relevant phrasing would be, "should i be able to create a toolbar that inspects (previously/explicitly) requested documents from hulu for external links". and i would be inclined to say, "yes"...
Isn't that kinda the point? If <foreign government> launched a massive DDOS against US servers, you don't want people dithering over violating SLAs when they could be stopping the attack
Also: The Universe is awash in energy; it is young, and full of hydrogen, much of it pre-packaged into natural fusion reactors for us. Most of it is available only on not-Earth. If it were actually feasible to put things in space we could use more of it without the issues arising when we try to do it in our biosphere.

Space is dead. Anyone who gives a couple moment's serious thought will realize that there is really no such thing as environmentalism in space; at best, there are aesthetic concerns. (Many people are not willing to be even that thoughtful, but one can only try so hard.) Some of the things we do on Earth would be better done in space, where the byproducts hurt nobody.

Earth does not have enough of certain resources for a really green society, based on the fact that many green technologies require various rare earths. Getting more palladium or platinum from space will enable us to build more fuel cells and such things. For bonus points, combine with the above and refine in space.

The problem isn't that space is useless by any means. It's not even useless to "the poor". It's just that there is a bit of a gulf between where we are now (communications satellites) and where it becomes really useful, even putting aside the technological advances that will arise in response that will be useful even on Earth (a lot of environmental systems work and such).

There's also the not having all our eggs in one basket, which is getting increasingly important. I do fear in the race between anybody's brother being able to build a biological uberkiller and having humans in space the former will win by a decade or four.
It's good to know about this things that VC's do. Especially this last thing about they toughness that sometimes is pointless if potential entrepreneur does not have benefit after they say NO.
These fuckers do this to us every year as well. Seasonal business also. They seriously asked us to fax them our URL. Assholes.
I imagine because enacting the law will create avenues that make 'killing the internet' easy. I.e. infrastructure will be put into place to enable it to be exercised at the push of a button.
I wasn't aware that fair use was superseded in any way by the DMCA. Cant you explain how that works?
okay okay okay, I'm leaning towards Techcrunch being trolled here, well I seriously hope that's the case, otherwise does anyone have a good idea that includes social, saving money and local divisions? If so, I've got some mediocre CSS skills and $10 to buy a domain with...

the ONLY way this can be true is if they've built an incredible backend that groupon want to use to expand and aren't interested in doing it themselves.
Mixpanel buys a billboard, declares page views are dead.
Someday humankind will colonize the galaxies, but by the time we get there we won't give a tinker's damn about "habitable planets". Interstellar travel is not for protein minds.
It is a stretch to say that Android is as flexible as a desktop OS.
There is a nugget of value to be taken from TF and every single successfully sold diet.

People love a system. LOVE A SYSTEM.

Anything that promises to take the work of determining what will lead to success out of an equation will be wildly popular.

"Always Eat Before 9pm"
"Don't Sell on a Monday"
"Drink 43.2mL of water per dollar you earn"

will all, ALWAYS, be more popular then "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."

Why do we need to know this? Because your startup will be more likely to succeed if it presents a systematic solution to a problem (OMG OPINION).
"and that's not something they can or should do."

Why not? They provide a lot of other policing work, like use of wrong APIs, style violations, rejecting your app because there are already enough apps of that kind and you added nothing new, and all kinds of things way more fiddly than wholesale copying. They're taking a nice cut, they ought to be bringing the customer and developers some value for it. Isn't that the whole Apple Store value proposition?
Senate votes to repeal 1099 reporting requirement in health care law
If You Want To Write is way underrated, I agree.

If you're a fiction writer, you do NOT want to miss The Art of Fiction, by John Gardner. The last chapter, Exercises, is a seminar all by itself on what to practice writing, and why.

Here are some [writing exercises](http://www.scottwrobel.com/ADD%20Course/trigger_exercises.ht...)
I think that's what most of the discussion is actually centering on, but without really saying it - "losing at social and it really cares about it" is starting to translate into moves that seem quite extreme and seem to have less to do with rationality than M&A fever.
So does "fast forier twansform" -- did Google honeypot that term too? Or the other 20 terms I just tried with arbitrary mispellings?
It's the continuation of a strange cycle. Path is a social network the encourages you to have only a few friends, why not acquire a company that hasn't launched for the users?
If they cut off US access to internet sites outside of the country, the internet could still be used to organize protests, etc.
Didn't they see how it didn't work too well for DDG? It ended with (last I saw) many people criticising their "attack" and even Matt Cutts getting involved, it seems strange they'd do this after that... assuming "the ‘war’ they have declared on Google" is accurate. Also I suspect a billboard advertisement for something with such a small user base (vs. the average person who will see this) won't convert much so they're banking on "social media" coverage?

Mixpanel is neat though.
"what is right"

How are you so confident what is "right" here? I believe I have a right to take my own blog posts down for whatever reason I choose, up to and including raw caprice. This isn't a moral wrong, this is just someone doing something you don't agree with. It's fine that you don't agree with it, but I in fact strongly disagree this is a wrong; that's a claim that nobody has a right to take their own material back off the internet, which I submit is just silly.
Congratulations. The billboard looks great.
... sounds like a good time to be doing a startup.
The Bing toolbar tracked user clicks on google.com search result and added it to Bing. Of course the user had the option to opt out.
they also seized the domain and IP address of firstrow.net which I thought was located in Sweden, apparently not.
anyway.. I wonder why they didn't shutdown other sites like http://www.vipstand.me/
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I think the approach here is perfectly acceptable. The billboard makes a statement and provides a solution. Nothing wrong here.
The logo looks cute even though I'm not sure what it has to do with music.

I agree the user-interface needs a lot of work. Maybe a nice splash page which clearly shows what the site is for could help. Splash pages don't need a lot of design...even a large picture would do. I was just looking at Path's site (https://www.path.com) which did just that.
The carrier has an unlimited license to distort the English language.
Thanks - that means a lot to me!
Where are the shirts being made? Are they made to order and drop-shipped like Cafe Press/Zazzle? Or are you building up inventory?
Where are you getting the shirts printed from? Whats the total cost for printing and shipping?
The billboard's not focusing on Google, just the concept of pageviews.
Whether or not people criticize the attack is any publicity better than nothing? They may take a hit but I think Mixpanel has a bigger problem of being obscure versus the possible backlash. On the other hand this could all blow up in their faces and then they are screwed. Now I either recall what Mixpanel does or I now know what their purpose is.
Would you say that the Internet is "destroyed" whenever there's an earthquake or something that cuts trans-Atlantic cables? Would you say that it's "destroyed" by China's filtering?
That's pretty cool. I assume you have prior experience with the industry? Clothing and prints, I mean.

Definitely a great way to capitalize on the moment. I wonder if anybody have a business that visits with a truck to melt all the snow. So much snow I don't know where to put it anymore.
I thought he mentioned that justin.tv provided him with it
> Also I suspect a billboard advertisement for something with such a small user base (vs. the average person who will see this)...

Probably true for most billboards, but the 101 on the peninsula might be the one place in the world it makes sense (box.net has some great ads; AOL and Zynga have ads looking for job applicants)
I didn't mean the billboard specifically, but the claim that they're waging a "war on google". DDGs thingy was more than just a billboard.
But why is a massive DDOS against US servers an issue though? As long as critical infrastructure doesn't go down (i.e. you get what you deserve if your nuclear reactors are controlled via a publicly accessible telnet session, or if they can be DDOS'd at all) then the damage is minimal. It certainly doesn't warrant a military-level response.