skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On day 4 or 5 at Namecheap and very unimpressed with just about everything except the pricing is decent. My site has been down for about 12 hours because I had a number of issues trying to get nameservers/DNS configured. Now I've spent a few hours trying to log in to web hosting.

My guess is that all these registrars and discount hosting providers cobble together a variety of third party services, offshore support and end up with a frankenstein customer experience.
This does not pass the smell test. I think this is Facebook for the 0.1% who give a crap. The rest is pretty happy with FB as it is right now.

Normal folk care about social network privacy as much as they care about, say, Walmart's business practices, or Apple's obscure app acceptance decision criteria.
900 upvotes and 92 comments on the reddit thread, yet not one comment that is critical of this action.

To release the emails of private individuals and firms without any a priori evidence that they have committed any sort of crime is distasteful to me. It would be unethical if the tables were turned and ordinary citizens were getting their emails released. And its unethical in this case as well, regardless of whether the victims are powerful or not.

I supported the wikileaks 'collateral damage' video leak, because I think its important that our government be transparent and its citizen understand the ramifications of going to war. But this, I can't support it.
Thanks for this discussion. The more information that is available about programs like these, the better it is for prospective applicants. Best of luck.
From the article you linked, "A best case scenario is Zach’s – he comes in skinny and weak, trains to his full potential, recovers
to his full potential, and therefore expresses his optimum capacity for growth and strength. If Zach’s
is the best-case scenario, the fact that you don’t really believe it happened the way I’ve described (you
really don’t, do you?) means that it happens infrequently enough that less-than-best-case scenarios are
the norm."

I don't doubt Mark. But Mark had to couch Zach's story so many times in, "I know... hard to believe"isms that it's super clear that it's something even rare for him to see. Double that rate of lean musle mass gains? I find that seriously hard to believe. I suspect Mark would too.
How do we split our attention?
A year ago, Lexity cut support for customers who insist on using IE6 and IE7.
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returns "foobar"
The correct interview question is, “Write a filter that blocks executable JavaScript but allows text.

I would hire you on the spot, my post history is littered with how irrelevant these type of questions are to gauging ones ability to develop real world solutions. You pretty much summed up the irony nicely.
Weird, I hadn't really noticed that. How many scoops do you use for a cup of coffee? I usually put one scoop (or two if I'm feeling tired), and I don't find I go through coffee noticeably faster than with a coffee machine.
Which government granted monopolies and handouts, specifically?
If it is decentralized and pseudonymous, who do you subpoena, and how do you find out who they are?
I never made substantial progress with strength training until I switched to isometric training, which has several lifestyle advantages:

-Easy scheduling - only a 5 minute daily routine is necessary, making it more like brushing your teeth than "hard training."

-Low risks, low energy consumption - the worst that can happen is that you spike your blood pressure, which happens with isotonic methods as well. There's little wear and tear in the performance of an isometric hold, hence overtraining is difficult, while motivation is easy.

-No real equipment needed. Doorframes, steel bars, walls, self-resistance, etc., are all acceptable. This also makes it easy to switch up the holds.

Anecdotes, historical records, and modern science all indicate that it's about as good as the isotonic methods in most respects, and it's certainly a lot simpler to keep up with.
Windows Phone passes 50,000 apps
This reminds me of every time someone comes up to me and pitches me idea of making "Facebook, but better." I don't see where's the need of making a social network for specific purposes and reasons.
>the legislators arguing for SOPA and PIPA don't care too >much about our complaints about potential legal abuse and >curtailing of the rights of American citizens and companies.

I can't decide if this is sad, deplorable, or scary.
There's a term for that: trade secret. "Proprietary" has nothing to do with it.
"No pain no gain." If what you're doing doesn't feel at least a little uncomfortable then you aren't pushing your body enough. You don't want literal pain of course; always listen to your body. But it should feel difficult.

Perhaps you should build your fast-twitch muscles in different ways. Lifting heavy shit builds strength/power but does not build lean, functional muscle. There is such a huge variety of movements to work different parts of the body you could fill an hour's worth exercise with just a fraction of them. Body weight exercises can be very challenging and easy to start doing at your home. Personal trainers can show you exercises to do at home or the gym, as well as a multitude of free YouTube videos (but I should recommend you get a trainer to evaluate your form first so you don't hurt yourself). P90x is a very successful program and BeachBody has a couple other series which are also very challenging and provide results (I am not advertising for them; please torrent their videos if you want)

Lately I have gotten lazy so i'm doing Thai Boxing on mondays/wednesdays, kettlebell and other mixed exercise on tuesdays/thursdays and yoga on saturdays/sundays. I can't believe nobody has mentioned how surprisingly difficult yoga can be (especially the "power yoga" varieties) but I would recommend you try it if you want a less stressful beginning to a regular exercise program.

If you want to build more fast-twitch you should look into efficient plyometric exercises. Isometrics for strength (which can still be done with only bodyweight!)
Cyber Security Home Page - Security Levels
While the phrases don’t seem to have strict definitions, by the Wikipedia description of Strong Typing ,there is an overlap with Static Typing:

The mandatory requirement, by a language definition, of compile-time checks for type constraint violations. That is, the compiler ensures that operations only occur on operand types that are valid for the operation. However, that is also the definition of static typing, leading some experts to state: "Static typing is often confused with StrongTyping”...

Fixed and invariable typing of data objects. The type of a given data object does not vary over that object's lifetime. For example, class instances may not have their class altered.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_typing

I guess this is one of those things where the correct response to any claim about “Strong,” “Static,” “Weak,” or “Dynamic” typing is to ask the speaker what, specifically, he is thinking of.

In this case, you and I are exploring the subject in some depth, but the person who originally used the phrase “Strongly Typed” is silent, so neither of us has any idea what he had in mind.
Hopefully we'd be able to claim that they were wrongfully elected, and get them recalled.
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most people's primary storage is the laptop hard drive. doubt it is useful to have raid on 1 drive.
Stupid GoDaddy Deserves Boycott
Can we say that the "99%" term has now officially jumped the shark?
Therapists revolt against psychiatry’s bible
A Rippetoe quote about this: "Only people willing to work to the point of discomfort on a regular basis using effective means to produce that discomfort will actually look like they have been other-than-comfortable most of the time. You can thank the muscle magazines for these persistent misconceptions, along with the natural tendency of all normal humans to seek reasons to avoid hard physical exertion."

Lifting heavy stuff is pain in the ass, it takes up lots of time, requires you to adjust your diet and schedule accordingly, and necessitates the learning of proper technique. It's quite a bit of work, but for many the payoff is worth it.
It lets them feel like freedom fighters.
What's 'your MVP'? It looks and sounds like an app...

How does your RSS reader beat the competition? Anything of note?
Design is great! Who did it and how can average entrepreneur imitate it.

BTW I thought there will be easy way to import Google reader list but there is none. (I first selected interesting then blank.)
1. Formatting is FUBARed when zooming in (Chrome browser).

2. OPML import? Already have a set of RSS subscriptions, need to be able to import existing feed list, don't wish to reenter all these in…

/goodluck on the venture.
RSS is still alive and kicking. Seems like no service has been able to make it gain as much traction as it should.

The recent Google+ integration into Google Reader made the product take a step backwards. Then you have apps like Reeder (which was my favorite at some time), Pulse (became my next favorite), and then Flipboard (which has won me personally).

Except, I feel like something is missing from all of them.

Google Reader has this awesome Sort by Magic feature, but seems to have been broken recently. If applications could use this sorting method and bring in social better (the integration is lacking right now) it would be awesome!
On one hand, I understand your need to sleep better at night. On the other hand, here are facts:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit#Demographics

and

http://www.ignitesocialmedia.com/social-media-stats/2011-soc...

As you can see, Reddit is overwhelmingly 25-44. The most represented group is actually 35-44. The high school demographic is negligible, and equal to the 65+ demographic.

Also, if you were to be completely honest with yourself, I bet you would not have made the comment you've made if the jokes and the upvotes were about race and lynchings instead of underage girls and rape.
His 4 points are MILES closer to common sense than the majority of what was said at that committee hearing. It sounds obvious to us.. and the committee hearing sounded insane to us.
That would be a far more compelling argument if it wasn't for the fact that in large part it's been government regulations and policies which have gotten us into this mess. Not solely, but in part.

Promoting large-scale agricultural activities, especially corn, potatoes, soybeans, and as a result CAFO beef, HFCS, and fa[s]t foods, largely an outgrowth of President Nixon's 1970s agricultural policies, have greatly re-shaped the American food landscape.

Industrialization of other parts of the food industry, particularly as pertains to processed/prepared foods, has done more. Regulations pertaining to such operations (including centralized inspection of meat processing plants, say) squeeze out small operators. Efficient, perhaps, but not healthful.

Liberating food processors from the consequences of their actions (allowing economic externalities in the form of negative health consequences) is a large part of problem.

Likewise institutional food policies at schools, through low-income food support (read up on Roger Lustig and WIC-provided OJ in his anti-fructose rants), universities, chain restaurants (you know, of course, that Michael Dell is a major shareholder of Applebees and IHOP), university, hospital, and military systems.

Toss in some really piss-poor science (Ancel Keys "lipid hypothesis") and, yes, some horribly broken policy. There's a lot government could do to fix things.

Mark Bittman's New York Times food column has highlighted a number of policy fixes which would help.
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b...
The Failure of iMessages
> Or it could be that TM relies on some very rarely used feature in AFP which is not or at least not perfectly implemented in netatalk.

There was a Time Capsule firmware + OS X update duo that fixed reliability issues somewhere in the Snow Leopard timeline. IIRC it added a bunch of "damage control/prevention" methods to AFP and HFS+ (backups being stored in a remotely accessed sparsebundle), aiming to bulletproof against flaky network situations and interruptions like sleep.

Hopefully OS X appears to degrade nicely in absence of those features, although you might not get all the safety net features.

I built an Debian armel netatalk package myself for fun about one year ago. It took "quite a while" to compile on my NSLU2, but AFP shares ended up working like a charm.
I have been looking for something like this in PHP, any ideas?
It does.
http://highscalability.com/stack-overflow-architecture

I can't find the blog post right now but currently there is a little Linux/Redis thrown in as well.
You can import using OPML. I also would like an easier integration method, that and also explaining what OPML is. It took me awhile to figure and I have good knowledge of GR, imagine someone that doesn't.
My first photowalk with Lytro’s lightfield camera
While I agree, it's the combination (plus salt) that's been identified as particularly nefarious. See The End of Overeating by David Kessler, former FDA commissioner.
Ideally you'd generate a new keypair for each employee. Move their private key onto an OpenPGP smart card, and give them that. Then encrypt all of their incoming email with their public key on the server as it comes in.

In case they lose their smartcard or you need to recover their email for any other reason, keep a second copy of their key, password protected, offline, in a safe. Or alternatively encrypt all incoming email with a second master key, whos private key is offline, password protected, in a safe.
I think the comments here illustrate pretty well that this post doesn't really have a clear point. Sure it has a title, but she doesn't really say anything in it. It's just a collection of random thoughts about... stuff. It seems like a sort of justification for why it was okay that her app got ripped off.
RSS is absolutely awesome. What do you think replaces it?
It would be unethical if the tables were turned and ordinary citizens were getting their emails released.

It would be unethical if a company properly secured their servers.

It would be educational if ordinary citizens expected their communications to be completely private without taking reasonable measure to assure same.

This is a great lesson in security.

I supported the wikileaks 'collateral damage' video leak, because I think its important that our government be transparent and its citizen understand the ramifications of going to war. But this, I can't support it.

One of the ramifications of going to war, like it or not, is increased scrutiny. This is a weaker form of the "collateral damage" that our politicians and bureaucrats routinely write off.
Look, of course it would be nice for documentation. I didn't set out to prove anything. This was just my experience. I would like for people to believe, but I'm not selling anything, and I have nothing to lose.

Was it 50-50 lean to fat? Well, I can say that my waist size didn't increase, and no one by visual inspection could point to any subcutaneous fat deposits. A normal person looking at me before and after would say that I had strictly increased in muscularity.
Or Olympic lifts.

I've been doing power cleans for the past 18 months or so, and am thinking of incorporating snatches.

Those puppies will torch you like nothing else. Well, maybe high-rep squats or deads, but with much less spinal load.
It doesn't matter if the site is unattractive, as long as the users are.
The learning environments share a passing resemblance? How? Other than both being a screen with distinct areas for content, I'd say that they look fairly dissimilar.

A Honda shares a passing resemblance to a Toyota, but it's only because they share a common purpose.

Reads like a case of sour-grapes.
I was MS CS at Stanford, and I agree with Ben's sentiment. I took CS221, and checked out ai-class for fun, and knew several people taking the on-campus version of CS221 this quarter. The short of it is that the online version is essentially the same as the on-campus version, and both fail to adequately prepare a student for further study in AI. It's great that Norvig and Thrun are willing to present this survey class to the public, but not at the expense of students who are actually in the classroom at Stanford and also footing the bill for this grand experiment.

Yes, the class was a fun introduction to AI. But no, it did not offer a deep and thorough theoretical foundation that I would expect from a Stanford class.
I setup like 5 triggers for when Harry Potter:MoR updates. So far, none of them have executed. (This isn't an indictment of IFTTT)
I don't think anybody from the SIAI is disagreeing with you here. I don't think the kind of prediction you're talking about is part of the intelligence explosion hypothesis. A superintelligence doesn't need literal omniscience, or even something that close to it, in order to be much, much, more effective than humans at achieving goals.
I politely disagree. Apple may not be the company to dream up the abstract idea of what the market might be, but it has a longstanding history of being the first to capitalize on it, which could be read as "first to market".

Tablets were around before the ipad. But they sucked. Portable mp3 players were around before the ipod, but they sucked. smartphones, laptops (that were hyper portable), and personal computers were around before Apple got into any of these markets. Apple's strength lies in tapping into the abstract idea of what a market could be and fully realizing it's potential. Of ushering these large complex machines and ideas into reality where non-technical people can not just interact with them but see the beauty in them too, just as any engineer would. They serve the ultimate market--the general, non-technical public.

I would say that's first to market, because early adopters aren't the market necessarily--for many things they're an experimental group that you use to figure out what to bring to everyone else.

Apple has its share of faults, but being a "me too" company sure ain't one of em.
I love how they're all just checking their email in the photo
Feminism and the Disposable Male
Why, the DNS of course!

...waiiit a minute...
Ask HN: Raspberry Pi coming soon. What's going to be your first project?
Being an ex PIC programmer, I've been really excited to put my hands on a Raspberry Pi, and now that its so close (on.mash.to/rGil3z), I'm not sure I should even use it for first.

What kind of uses will you have for it?
It's not a reality based generalization though, it's unfounded nonsense - like the thought that black people can jump really high compared to white people, you can die if you leave a fan on while you sleep, or that you can identify criminals by measuring their skulls.

All of these beliefs have been shared by millions of people at some time, but that does not make them true and certainly does not make them suitable for reprinting as implied fact by a state-backed, high quality, supposedly objective news organization.

I suppose I am a rather stereotypical Brit in that in this part of the world we don't really care about harsh realities in other countries but we do care about the quality of journalism coming out of our beloved BBC.
Boston Ruby Group - December 2011 Videos
When I hit 253, I'll be obese, just like pretty much everyone in the NBA.

Sadly, that's literally true in the US. The definition of obesity is dictated, by official US health policy, by BMI. Which means that every heavyweight bodybuilder on stage at the Mr. Olympia contest this past fall, at 4% body fat, is considered "obese" by official definitions.

BMI is an absolutely crap measurement. It's readily and easily replaced by far more accurate and useful measures (circumference measures for starters). While BMI remains vaguely useful in making obesity estimates of populations based on height/weight datapoints readily available in existing databases, it never was, and was never meant by even its first modern revivalists, to be used as an individual measure of fitness.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1062684...

http://www.slate.com/id/2223095/

http://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_05_09.html