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If you really want to get fit, there's one easy thing you can do that actually works:

Take up a sport that gets you fit as a side effect.

I have two obsessions in life: Rock Climbing and Surfing. I'm pretty good at the first, and borderline hopeless at the other, but I'm committed to the point where I've arranged my life so that I can travel for months at a time to pursue one or the other each year.

When I'm working a contract to save up for the next trip, I'll find myself slowly fattening up on fish tacos and 12 hour days coding in a felt cube with only the occasional after work or weekend fix of rock or salt water. After a few months I'm decidedly soft, and quite a bit heavier. But put me on the beach in Thailand for 5 months and holy crap, what a difference.

It's like Fat Camp out there. There's so much fun climbing to be had right on the beach. Overhanging routes that work you into the sort of shape that lets you literally hand-over-hand your way out a horizontal roof by your fingertips as your feet dangle out in space. Without anybody forcing you, you spend your entire day working yourself silly, then you come back and eat rice. You can imagine what that does for your physique. It's like a convention of Men's Health cover models out there.

I come back to the world, and watch people going to the gym and clearly hating every minute of it. I can't understand why they would do that to themselves, when there's a climbing gym just a few miles away.
Oops. They didn't show up on searchyc for some reason.

http://searchyc.com/submissions/who%2527s+hiring?sort=by_dat...
"Fuzed" is fantastic. Also, I can sympathize.
This is what all of the industry do. If you review graphics cards and you put out a negative review, no more pre-release graphics cards for you.

But Gruber's significant articles (like this one) are based on information that is public available. Most people just sees a chair, they don't see the thinking behind the chair.

What Gruber does best is to explain how Apple thinks, I know of no journalists that comes anywhere close to understanding Apple.
Where in Europe? Do you have a link to numbers? Apple don't dominate in Sweden at least. http://feber.se/android/art/199920/android_nu_strre_n_iphone...
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While I won't argue that Apple has the right to change the terms for future buyers of the products, I am upset because it changes the terms for the current owners of the products. I bought my iPhone under a set of assumptions, and they are being changed. Remember, the customer is the one who is handing over money, which for Apple is mostly the people actually buying the iOS devices.

While Apple naturally might like to get money everywhere it can, it should also be obvious that the most important thing is to get people to keep buying their devices. Without services such as Spotify available, I have many friends here in Sweden in all age brackets and from non-technological back-grounds who would not buy an iOS device. In the long term, it might very well be in Apples interest to actually let a good deal of sharecroppers exist.
This is a one sided view of fitness. e.g. there is zero focus on cardio. Would be interesting to see one of these guys do a light 5 mile run. Look into real world training: running, hard hiking with a pack, mountain biking, swimming/surfing. These types of exercise have been the most rewarding for me in terms of skeletal, muscle and cardio fitness.

The only thing I agree with in the article is that cardio machines in the gym are a waste of time.
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A calculator?... "i am doing 64.5 mph i am still at 111.12 miles from destination... hmm let me bring up the built in calculator to see how much time i still need".
I'm quite annoyed that my tax dollars are being used to bring the hammer down on media "pirates" and PS3 hackers while serious crimes like DDoS for money (and the related botnets), phishing, malicious systems intrusion, and all manner of corporate espionage get the cold shoulder.
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No, my point is that disruptive students will drag down all the scores of the entire class. In addition, you have to assume for your corrections that the level of disruption is consistent across subjects and time - ie a disruptive class might collectively be less disruptive when playing PE. Or that the kids change their behaviour over time. Or that there aren't more complex interactions between disruptive behaviour and different teachers (an example might be - kids might be less disruptive just after lunch, because they've just eaten and are sleepy. If you teach "the bad class" in a after-lunch slot, you'll appear better than your colleagues.) And - my (UK) experience, up until the age of 11, is that we had a single "home room" teacher, who taught the majority of our lessons, regardless of subject. We changed home-room (and hence main teacher) once a year.

And we haven't even got into the troublesome part of reducing a student's behaviour to a single number. Or the unfortunate way that useful correlates of underlying behaviour stop being useful correlates once you reward people for meeting them. (I'm sure there's a name for this phenomenon, but I have forgotten it)

I support the idea of collecting data. I obviously want to analyse it as rigorously as possible. But there are just too many complex interactions going on when you have 30 people in a room trying to learn for our statistics to produce reliable numbers. At least, that's my intuition. It occurs to me that if you actually collected the data, you could do an ANOVA, and have a reasonable stab at attributing the variation in outcomes to various factors, such as individual students, teachers, subjects, the class they're in, interactions between any combination of the above, and "other". You'll need a lot of data, mind. My guess is <10% of the variance would come down to the teacher alone. But this is just a guess - no doubt people have done this before. They've probably done it multiple times, with different answers depending on the different measures they used, whether they adjusted for socioeconomic factors etc. There's probably review articles summarizing those.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=losethos

and

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=losethos

you need to switch showdead on.
How come Fortune didn't predict the 2008 bubble? Isn't that a much worse reality distortion field that hurt too many people...
SS+Squatz+Oatz bro

That's what you'd say at least if /r/fitness is anything like /fit/ on 4chan.
And this is exactly what worries me. When Steve Jobs steps down, his replacement is gonna have a hard time assuming he is not Steve Jobs. I just hope he (or she) doesn't try to prove anything by making bold decisions on his own.

On a related note, have you ever found weird that Apple doesn't have any women in a VP position? At least that is the impression it gives me. For such a liberal company, it seems to be mostly run by men (nothing wrong with that btw).
Honestly...I don't think that search evidences talent at all. If I didn't already know who Russ Cox was (and seen his code in projects like Google CodeSearch, re2, and Go), I'd think him just another Internet idiot.

There is a big difference between watching someone code and watching them talk about coding. Ability in the latter is not indicative of ability in the former.
"This is the iPad doing something new, things that couldn’t be done on the Mac"

This is what I want to see, I don't own an iPad but I won't until there is genuine things on it that I cannot achieve on my laptop.

I feel it is easy for a device like this to become widespread as it feels magical to use, but for me as a computer scientist, and someone who uses his keyboard almost exclusively, I need something from the iPad that I can't get from any other device.

Its why I purchased a Kindle!
How is the iPad 2 not just milking the original iPad? It has no revolutionary changes, it's just faster, thinner, and has the cameras the iPad was rumored to have from the beginning. I think most companies have the muscle to put out a slight revision on a first product after a year.
I suspect we commonly underestimate blind people mental capacities.

One can argue that 'seeing' goes beyond the perception of lights and colors. It's also about shape, so I guess a blind person can perfectly 'visualize' a rectangle, a cube, etc. And probably do geometry, or even 3D-object rotations.

Can anyone confirm this?
If my prices aren't too high, then what am I doing wrong?
I should also add that I'm based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Does this warrant a lower price, since I'm unable to meet with clients face-to-face?
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Also, don't eat boxed foods or foods that went through multiple stages of processing. In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan spells it out very well, but I'll just give you my simple definition: Eating healthy is as close to eating dirt without actually eating dirt. Produce, grain, cheese, 1/2 pound to a pound of meat a week[1], and whatever else Marion Nestle recommends[1.5].

Just imagine what primitive man would eat. He would spend most of his days eating what grew from the ground and when they finally hunted down meat, they would eat their catch as a group[2]. That doesn't mean you have to do exactly that, but try to keep your eating habits in sync with what it was originally adapted to consume not what hyper stimulates made you believe it wanted to consume[3].

Now don't go about forcing yourself to eat stuff you don't enjoy. In the same manner jasonkester engages in something he enjoys that have the "side effect" of being healthy (I still think these activities are something we were adapted to engage in the first place), find foods you find delicious but also happen to be something that isn't processed. I can assure you that there is plenty of "healthy" or "natural" foods out there that you would enjoy[4].

[1]http://www.ted.com/talks/mark_bittman_on_what_s_wrong_with_w...

[1.5]http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=eating-made...

[2]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3723678050599653349#

[3]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzN-uIVkfjg

[4]http://smittenkitchen.com/
Yes, I'm not getting enough work, and 9 out of 10 people who contact me go elsewhere after hearing my prices, even though all of them love my designs.

The problem with the whole "packages" is that I don't do that. Most people who come to me just want a new design and aren't concern about whether it takes me 10 hours or a hundred. Like-wise I quote a fixed price and not an hourly rate, most being in the $3000-$3500 range.
How does this LLVM integration work? Is just a Haskell->LLVM compiler?
Wouldn't it also be the case that well funded startups and super angels are much more likely to disclose sources and levels of funding to TechCrunch at an early stage for the PR than they were back when TC was a popular blog rather than a big-name publisher?

Presumably there are also some sort of editorial policies over what sort of startups merit inclusion in CrunchBase?
The 2010 drop in startups covered by could easily be a reflection of reduced interest in covering smaller startups that don't effectively court TC and don't disclose relevant funding data.
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Looking at your comment, I can't understand why it got upvoted since you are just replacing one set of stereotypes with another, which may fit better with what society wants you to but is still a stereotype.

Now if you want that thats perfectly alright, but I at least only want to spend as little time as possible caring about my body and as little time as possible with normal people since both things are utterly boring.
Perhaps the "Joan Baez" should be removed from the title. I clicked thinking it was a folk singer talking about politicized mathematics.
I don't understand reason 5 ??

They have more fragmented and buggy SDK so it will make you more agile?

The whole focus of this article seems to be off, it seems to encourage below par apps just because apparently it is easier to get a sub standard app recognized on android.

Am I missing humor in this article? Maybe its a joke article from a iOS developer in which case you can ignore this comment.
Imagine cars on demand. You don't own a car, you text a car to get you to work at 8:30, the car picks you up at home, drops you off (no parking space required) and goes on to the next ride.

I can't wait to see driverless cars.
Ask HN: How could I improve my auto microbusiness?
Hey there HN, I come to you wise entrepreneurs to ask for criticism, suggestions, and help.

I run a little micro business, it's not really unique like most people's start ups here so be nice.

I sell Auto maintenance supplies like fuel filters, air filters, break and transmission fluids to mechanics. I buy these from a middle man who buys them wholesale from somewhere. Things are going ok, I mean I don't make a lot of money, But I think I'd be able to make more money being a middleman, which I plan to do soon. Is this a terrible microbusiness? What do you think of it?

1. How do I improve my sales when my product and prices are very similar to others? In fact, products are the SAME. Motor oil doesn't change.

I basically sell by driving around and selling to people, this is extremely inefficient and costs a lot of time and gas, how could I improve this inefficient method of sales?

2. How do I branch out to other mediums, to make more sales?

3. Do any of you know any wholesalers I could purchase motor oil, fluids, auto parts from?

What should be my method of getting wholesaler's contacts? Obviously the middleman keeps this stuff secret.

4. How much experience is "enough" to start being a middleman? When do I know I can take the next step? Right now I'm a simple salesmen. It's teaching some good things about sales.

5. What things am I missing here? What should I be doing that I'm not?
How about

1) Don't sell ads against stuff you don't own.

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Or rather, real criminals are hard to catch. Going after them would consume resources with no payoffs. Easier targets present more opportunities for publicity.
Its not necessarily that they have a problem being healthy, all things considered I would prefer that too.

The problem is that it takes time and is boring. I don't care if it means I live a few years longer since I will be too old and infirm to be able to hack.
Ask HN: Am I being too spammy with my HN comments?
I recently scratched my own itch and created a résumé building app called Mighty CV. I'm doing some split testing to ensure that my beta sign up page is converting well before I make the move to advertise it more widely. I'm currently getting about a 33% conversion from visitors to sign-up and feel that this figure could be improved. I suspect my red white and blue color scheme is not helping. So I've been keeping my eye open for posts on HN that relate to job hunting, employment or résumés. I then try and post a relevant and sometimes insightful comment which also mentions that you can sign up for the Mighty CV beta.

Problem is this is beginning to feel a bit too spammy. I've only done it a handful of times but wondered what you guys thought? Am I being too cautious here or should I quit doing it. Remember I usually try to write something insightful as well as link to my site. Your thoughts on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

P.S. You can sign up for the private beta at:

http://www.mightycv.com

P.P.S. Hope that doesn't seem too spammy :)
In my opinion, there cannot be a good reason for pulling books that you bought, ever.

Imagine that happening to dead-tree books, someone shows up on your doorstep to reclaim the book 'because it violates copyright'. You'd tell them to bugger off, and it's no different in this case.

Once you bought a book, digital or analog, it should stay in your possession for as long as you want.
Ehhh, it depends on your expectations (or how you "mentally deliver" it, for a text joke). To me just a prison rape reference is kind of tired, so spelling it out contradicted my expectations and was much funnier.
You know they are cousins right ? That you happened to have an incorrect impression is not a reason enough that a blog post should not be correctly attributed. By the way you share your name with the spokesperson of the Dow chemical company...
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I think a lot of the comments here are missing the point of this article.

Free weights are vital for muscle strength, mass and edurance. That doesn't mean free weights take the place of your other activities such as skiing or mountain climbing. That doesn't mean that you cut out cardio, that's something else entirely, even though some people work on cardio in the gym along with strength training.

Free weights are also great for building the entire structure of your body. There is nothing which can stress the major muscles of the legs, bones and supporting muscle groups like throwing a huge weight on your shoulders and squatting that weight multiple times. Swimming, isometrics and all that other stuff won't do it. Machines also don't do this because you don't have weight to stabilize in both directions. The power move of the squat is to push upwards with your legs but you still have to lower that huge weight in an orderly down movement to start the exercise.
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Agreed. Amazon's done amazing things where their competitors have... well, filed for bankruptcy.
Sony Ericsson featurephones have had video editing built-in since 2005.
> this is the kind of crap that people read and use as yet-another-reason as to why they don't try to get fit.

I wonder if we read the same article?
Nintendo has been doing this kind of individualisation-through-colours for a long while in both their hand-helds[1] and consoles[2].

[1] http://www.dijitalfix.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/ga...

[2] http://www.oldskool.tv/images/OLDSKOOL/november/nintendo_64_...
He's a lot better than I expected jeopardy-win-streak-guy to be. I first saw him play on the Watson special, and was impressed that he chose his charity pretty rationally (VillageReach, top charity at www.givewell.org ).
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I probably stopped trying way to soon, but the tests assume a good (prior) knowledge of London, right?
Not exactly.

In Crossfit times and reps matter more than form. Just take a look at some gyms. The exercises and the philosophy behind is awesome, but the practical appliance is far from great.
Or: just go for the skinny pale look. Really works thanks to those twilight and social network movies.
Wow - 1.7M lines of Erlang, the largest functional program ever written, with 9 nines (99.9999999%) reliability.
"I should also add that I'm based in Dhaka, Bangladesh."

If you mention that upfront, expect a certain set of people to expect you to do the work for 100$ (or less!). Blame outsourcing. ( I live in India fwiw). I make no claim that this is what is happening (I am a developer and know nothing about design and the rates thereof) Just something to be aware of. Good Luck.
Why aren't all objects taking part in the expansion of the universe? Don't our ears move farther apart (ever so little) due to this effect?
Good read here:

Training Behind Bars Pt. 1: http://goo.gl/epno3

Training Behind Bars Pt. 2: http://goo.gl/ppvHU

Easily two of the best articles on T-Nation.
Exactly. And I fear having nothing worthy to say will have a negative impact on everything I do.

I guess I should be around cats more often. Or their litterboxes.
That's an ingenious concept! I will start a company like that right now, I will call them... Taxis!
Rock climbing is dangerous. I don't get why people do life threateningly risky stuff that has no potential reward beyond fun.
People who want a COLOURFUL!!! case don't really care what the material is called. It's colourful! People who want the leather case care very much that it is leather.

Similarly people buying the white Macbook don't care what 'polycarbonate' means, but to the Macbook Pro buyer, 'precision aluminium unibody', 'edge-to-edge glass' and previously 'titanium' are/were selling points.
My father keeps a pocket calculator in the glove compartment to calculate what his mileage was between fillups. Having one built-in would certainly be useful for people like him.
Andy Ihnatko is less of a fanboy, and still quite insightful about Apple. He has a very good natural sense of which rumors are probably true. And he's much funnier.
The observation test is the most interesting one - you don't need any knowledge of London to do it. The map reading etc is a bit more problematic...
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Who'd pay $2 to use a reskinned Craigslist on the web?
Thought I'd provide a link to an example of a comment I made yesterday that mentioned Mighty CV:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2286295

This comment was part of the discussion for the HN submission 'Everyone thinks they're hiring the top 1%', it's an interesting post from way back in 2005.
It's not all prices and design skills. It's also marketing. You need to sell yourself. If you aren't getting the work then you are in the wrong markets or you aren't doing a good enough job at the sales part.

Also, there's no way that you can throw out a "general" price. The requirements of the sites and the clients are all different. Aside from the workload differences, you can double your prices for some clients and get away with it just because you get that gut feeling about it.
I hope that Google is your first target with this idea.
Could not agree more. I never got in shape until I found a workout which I loved and could not wait to get back to (ironically, it was crossfit which the author calls out as "sadistic").

All of a sudden I even enjoyed planning my diet just on the chance that it would make me strong/faster in the next workout.

So, yes, like all in things in life, put the right incentives there (and just getting fit/healthy, obviously doesn't cut it for millions of Americans) and make it fun and it's a piece of cake.

And for those of you who haven't found your muse yet, I urge you to give crossfit a try. It lets your inner 5 year old run wild. You'll get to run/jump/climb/swing/throw heavy things until you crumble in a sweaty heap at the end. It is pure unadulterated fun. Plus, fat will run screaming from your body (but that's just a happy side effect).
As long as you're providing value and/or mature discussions about topics that help not only you but the next entrepreneur to you, I think it's a win-win for everyone.

If there is a numerical limit when people get fed up with your business, you'll find out. In case there is, this submission is a bad shot.
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Right - so what I'm saying is you may need to lower your end-product standards. There are certainly clients that will pay $3000-$3500, but many may only be able to afford $800-$1200 say. If you want their business, you need to be able to deliver a product for that budget. Unfortunately, it won't be as good - that's just the nature of it (that's why you have to be very upfront with clients). It doesn't have to go in your portfolio, just your bank account.
It's not that you're actively doing anything wrong it's merely the market. People want everything for nothing. I've seen people shop at Wal-Mart for $1 items only to return them because they weren't the quality they were expecting. Society, blah.