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This jumped out at me and I want to make a correction.

The actors in that film trained at a gym called Gym Jones, run by Mark Twight, one of the strongest American alpine climbers of his day. The directors wanted them to look sinewy and jacked, not big, so they put them on a caloric restriction diet (they had to do reps to earn food, on a schedule designed for weight loss). The actual exercises they had to do were changed constantly to prevent their bodies from becoming accustomed to any one thing, so there really is no "300 workout" at all.

He's got a good informational post about it here: http://gymjones.com/knowledge/article/3/.
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That assumes that people smart enough to meet their standards aren't smart enough to look up salary surveys that show whether the company pays market rate before bothering to apply.
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The Controlled Substances Act would still punish marijuana possession since it is specifically named there, not just in reference to schedule I.

Opium poppies are also listed by name, but while you can grow them in your flower garden (but putting one in a vase on your dining table is a crime!), you can't even grow cannabis.
Thought that this was great - how about a next/previous track gesture, and being able to change the frequency that it checks for the hand? (it looks like it's time based)
On my second day of practice, I felt the urge to find a better Haskell syntax highlighting extension for Vim. I managed to find one that was distributed in a package called a "Vimball". I spent 10 minutes trying to figure out how to install a Vimball and then another 10 customizing the plugin's settings.

This is also referred to as Yak Shaving.

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Thanks—will take a look.
The actual real 300 workout
Someone posted a workout that purported (incorrectly) to be the one used by the actors in 300. The post was deleted before I could offer a correction, so here's a description of the actual program those guys were on.

http://gymjones.com/knowledge/article/3/

The actors in that film trained at a gym called Gym Jones, run by Mark Twight, one of the strongest American alpine climbers of his day. The directors wanted them to look sinewy and jacked, not big, so they put them on a caloric restriction diet (they had to do reps to earn food, on a schedule designed for weight loss). The actual exercises they had to do were changed constantly to prevent their bodies from becoming accustomed to any one thing, so there really is no "300 workout" at all.
Well, my testicles hurt last time I used my laptop's wifi device close up rather than using an external one on a usb extension cable (and on multiple occasions.) I consider emf-sensitivity to be a side-effect of being healthy.
> Japan has extremely low crime as well, and is probably the least Americanized of all First World nations today. Clearly, it is physically possible for the State to eradicate crime.

It is possible that the fact that Japan is the least Americanized of First World countries is the reason behind it's low crime rates. I wonder if it is their culture, not their government, which keeps the crime low.
From Fosdick's book (p. 14):

"The chief constable for Edinburgh in his annual report for 1915 wrote as follows: 'I regret to state that while crimes against the person have considerably decreased, a number of serious crimes under the heading of homicide were reported during the year, namely one murder, one attempted murder, and five cases of culpable homicide. The one murder was an abortion case; two of the culpable homicides were cases in which infants had died from neglect; a third was a vehicular accident case; and two others, after full investigation by the Crown Authorities, were not proceeded with.' Edinburgh is a city in excess of 300,000 population. Surely a chief of police in an American city of equal size would have reasons for pride rather than regret if he could point to such a record."

In 2012, said American chief of police wouldn't have reasons for pride - he'd probably be committed to an insane asylum. But even a century ago, American crime is an order of magnitude above British crime.

Yes. New York 30 years ago was insane. Giuliani cleaned it up. This is a case of mistaking the exception for the trend. Moreover, all chic New Yorker-reading New Yorkers are now free to think like Gopnik, as they stroll around Central Park at midnight or whatever - a blatant invitation for the trend to resume.

Remember, it took the Dinkins era to get these people to elect a Republican in the first place. But if you asked their great-grandfathers of Fosdick's era, they'd have been quite astonished to learn that Central Park could ever become a predator's den, day or night - and would associate such an outcome with the complete collapse of American civilization. Which obviously hasn't happened, so nobody's perfect.
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Blogspot has had a huge spam problems, so it could have accurately triggered the anti-spam systems at Facebook. I'd believe that more than some business decision to punish Google.
Huh, I didn't know that. I was working from memory and didn't read the article. I wonder if they still sell the shirts?
This is why you are being downvoted:

You ask two unrelated question to which you provide no proof.

>But what if our system is actually erring in the other direction?

Okay. How? Every other nation on earth has lower incarceration rates, and a fair number of them are safer than the US.

So given that that are still criminals on the outside, the answer is that you need to become more efficient at apprehending the right people - not increase incarceration rates.

>I think the most basic question is: why are there so many criminals? What about the present-day American system of government is so amazingly criminogenic?

Criminals break laws; laws are often injust. The War on Drugs, and mandatory sentencing.

>If what we need isn't more social justice, what is it?

This is entirely unsubstantiated by anything you wrote preceding this sentence. Frankly, it's kind of confused.
While I can totally see where you are coming from, I think it is not fair to say that sony does not deserve any respect whatsoever anymore. They were innovators at first, too and have come a long way since.

I do not agree with sony's content creation affairs, however they continue to innovate with good products (e.g. look at the digital cameras, camera sensors etc.)

More often than not, there is no clear distinction between good and bad, certainly less so with amazingly huge companies such as sony, apple, exxon etc.
This makes me want to cry. I see myself going down the rabbit holes recently. I had this great idea that I was investigating. Then I saw one of the functionality can become a product by itself. Hey, let me do that quickly. While doing it, I needed to build a library. Hey, let me generalized it quickly and released it as open source.

And that's how JSODA came into existence, https://github.com/williamw520/jsoda

But I'm still longing at popping the stack two levels up back to the original idea.
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I see nothing's changed in the nine years since I graduated from the U of M..
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That would certainly seem the null hypothesis. But how do you separate culture and government? Our culture would never tolerate the Japanese criminal justice system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Japan) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_justice_system_of_Japa...).

From the first page: "In 1989 Japan experienced 1.3 robberies per 100,000 population, compared with 48.6 for West Germany, 65.8 for Great Britain, and 233.0 for the United States." There's that two orders of magnitude again.

Suppose crime in America has halved since 1989. (It hasn't.) From the Japanese perspective, wouldn't a writer still seem a little odd in exulting over the conquest of crime? When there are still two orders of magnitude more robberies?
How will his wage doubtlessly encourage him to engage in illegal behavior? I've worked plenty of overtime and minimum wage jobs and at no point did that ever cause me to consider committing a felony or engaging in illegal behavior. Your friend sounds like he's in the situation he's in because of choices he made, not because society did something wrong.
It's unclear whether the OP is asking "Can I found a US company and then move to the US to work on that company via the company applying for an H1B visa for me?", or "Can I, currently in the US on an H1B visa, start a new company and work for it?". I suspect the answer to the latter question is "no". The rest of this comment assumes the former question.

As others here have said, an H1B visa requires demonstrating that the company could fire you, which isn't usually true if you own it. In the case of Rapportive, we had 3 cofounders, all needing visas; 3 turns out to be the perfect number for H1B purposes, because any two of you own enough of the company to fire the third. That sounds a bit circular, but made enough sense to USCIS that we got our visas, even though none of us was a US citizen. (Not that it was easy, but our difficulties were more about convincing them we were a real company.)

Of course, this isn't legal advice, and you'll want a good immigration lawyer who can prepare the petition appropriately for this arrangement.
If you have good sources then show them.

The wikipedia page sites sources. The Daily Mail article I described as a "sensationalist article". The first Telegraph article cites its source of data. The second Telegraph is a commentary piece with 106 comments from people giving a sampling of opinion with "comment" in the URL. And the final report is from the California State Library and shows its working.

Better more rigourous sources would be nicer but we at least already have some that aren't particularly promising which seems counter intuitive. CCTV also comes at a huge cost, paid for by tax payers and hence determined by voters.
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I recommend you add a percentile score of exactness, along with breakdowns based on platform, and suggestions about what to do if the percentile is disappointing.
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Discuss HN: Do headlines such as these undermine technology and human endeavors
BBC has an article which credits a 'desolate tweet' with saving Alan Turning's papers from being 'lost' to a private collector.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-17256951.
I have a serious problem when the immense and detailed efforts which would have gone into keeping Turnings computing papers with Bletchley Park are completely undermined by giving overarching credit to a 'tweet'.<p>I feel the author of this article has undermined wide ranging technologies as well as the human efforts which go into making such a thing a reality.
<p>People all over the world now have started feeling that all it takes to set things right is to just 'tweet' about it and sit back and the world will become a better place.<p>I feel such headlines do more harm than good.<p>What do you feel about it?
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I never even wonder what size that bolt is on my Ford pickup because someone on a forum already has detailed, annotated pictures of the whole procedure. Its been years since I've even cracked a Chilton's.
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This is a very common in iOS. You can preload the array. inside cellForRowAtIndexPath return the array instead of the cell. works perfectly.
There are more ways to get paid by a company than by being a salaried employee. And some of them are even legal.
Perhaps someone else can parse this better than me.

I can make sense of one of these lines: "Criminals break laws; laws are often injust. The War on Drugs, and mandatory sentencing." I think behind this line is lurking the belief that America's prisons are full of Humboldt County potheads, or something like that.

The typical American in jail for drug offenses isn't a system administrator who made the mistake of toking up one night. It's a gang member whose real offense is being a worthless thug. The prosecutors and LEOs who busted him are experts in the technical details of putting worthless thugs in jail, to the extent that this remains possible.

Nonetheless, all major American cities retain a very substantial population of worthless thugs. If you're unaware of this reality, I strongly recommend this Chicago cop blog: http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/. Or you could watch "The Wire" - I hear it's available on DVD.

Last month, my wife and daughter were leaving a child's birthday party in the outer Mission, SF, when bullets flew down the street past them, followed by a worthless thug who ran past them gun in hand. You can argue that Bayshore Blvd. is a lousy place to put a space that hosts children's birthday parties, and I'd agree. Still, it's my country - why shouldn't I feel safe in it, anywhere, day or night?
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Private prison companies such as Wackenhut stand to profit in the billions from increased rates of incarceration. There is absolutely no question about who benefits the most. Please take your blatant anti-worker agenda and shove it.
I don't think this is necessarily limited just to smart people but it's just more a trait of curious people (perhaps there is a correlation there?) or just the intellectually insecure.

For example I don't consider myself an especially intelligent person (on the right side of average I hope), however I know people who are very intelligent and can talk at length with authority on a vast number of topics and are seemingly able to absorb and retain information instantly. Also I am exposed to forums like HN which are full of smart people.

So naturally whenever a conversation or thread comes up where I feel that I don't have anything to contribute but I know it sounds fascinating I can't help but to try and learn everything I can about it so I can weigh in next time, which in turn leads to finding gaps in my prerequisite knowledge of the subject (and interesting offshoot subjects). Which of course leads to having 12 tabs open.

This is why I think it is better to pick a few subjects that you decide you will learn in some detail and buy books on the subject.

The great thing about books is that they follow a linear progression and most importantly they end.

The problem with HN is that you can read every article on the front page along with a bunch of wikipedia, but the next day there will just be more.
A few things:

- Thiel really hates that college puts undergraduates in serious debt. Stanford doesn't -- take a look at its financial aid.

- When someone decides to drop out to pursue a startup or stay in school, it's often not just about the "value" they think education has. Travis Kiefer is the entrepreneur's entrepreneur: he can survive on the adrenaline of his company until it succeeds. He lives for this. I considered senior year with my best friends a once in a lifetime opportunity and didn't drop out. I live for this.

- This startup class shouldn't surprise anyone from Stanford's perspective. It has encouraged entrepreneurship forever -- there will even be an entrepreneurship themed dorm next year -- and Thiel is as good as any to teach it.

- Zuckerberg routinely appears as a guest lecturer in CS106A, the introductory CS class.

- As an aside, Stanford can sell out a football game, and the stuff about Khosla's daughters is way exaggerated (I was quoted).
> From what I've read and heard, one of the biggest contributions to prison population growth has been the advent of the predicate felony ("three-strikes") laws in recent decades.

Actually, three-strikes laws and the like aren't new, they're returning. They were abolished in the 60s.
Just finished reading Csikzentmihaly's 'Creativity', which follows in the same vein.

Did my best to pull out the good parts on github if anyone's interested...

https://github.com/jacquestardie/text-notes/blob/master/Crea...
Show HN: SETT (blogging platform focused on creating communities)
Tynan, (creator of tasksmash.com) just launched his new platform called SETT on his blog. I gotta say, I've been excited to see what this could do since I first read about it, and I've been with happy with my Wordpress/bbPress installation, but after clicking around on the new site using SETT, I'm really in love with it.

I haven't tested the admin back-end, and I don't know when it will be ready publicly, but I can't wait. I like how the user/commenter back-end works though.

I love the comment system. I love how simple it is. I love that there's no sidebars. I love that it's focused on the content.

It's still a little raw, and it still needs a lot of work. Right now, it signed me out as a guest and didn't post my comment.

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I hate that the navigation (both on top and bottom of the page) disappears when you click on a particular post.

There's a like system that doesn't seem to work yet? You can upvote/downvote posts and comments. The "Read this Next" popover in the bottom right corner is annoying.

I gotta say though, I can't wait to see what the Community (forum replacement) can do. I'm hoping (and it seems like this will be a yes because his old blog was on WP) there will be an XML importer.

Can't wait to switch over.
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This article should be accompanied by another New Yorker piece from a couple of years ago:

Hellhole: Is long-term solitary confinement torture?

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/30/090330fa_fact_...
There certainly is a better way!

http://mapbox.com/
http://leaflet.cloudmade.com/

Both have been gaining quite a bit of traction lately. Certainly worth checking out I think.

Regarding comprehension, maps seem to be efficient. Not sure of any ways that intuitively make as much sense as a well made map.
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http://vimbits.com/

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Vim_Tips_Wiki

Your .vimrc is essentially just going to be a collection of snippets that you've found that seem to do some good. Many of mine have been taken from other people's dotfiles, from dotfile projects such as

http://skwp.github.com/dotfiles/#section-13-1

and from the sites above. Take a look at the .vimrc of people you might know on github, for example. Here's mine, it's fairly well commented:

https://github.com/russfrank/dotfiles/blob/master/.vimrc
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What do you mean exactly by "allow outside contributions"?

Do you have stats on the number of projects with at least one commiter that doesn't work for google? The number of projects with non-trival LoC written by non-employees? The number of projects with an external mailing list as the place where project decisions are hashed out?
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I think there are a much larger number of seemingly-trivial companies than in the past, but a somewhat larger number of awesome, world-changing startups, too. I'm fine with this. One Tesla, SpaceX, Halcyon Molecular, etc. makes up for a lot of social Q&A sites or petfood portals.

There are also companies which start out as a photo book for a college and turn into a developer platform, plus build lots of cool tech along the way.

I've noticed more amazing 1-20 person startups in the past year than in 2008-2010 for sure, but this might be personal availability bias.