skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a solid article, but the title is just wrong. "Free weights are better than machines" is not a "little known" fact, it's a well known fact by anyone who has cared to read the internet re:fitness since 2009. So is "lifting weights is much more efficient than cardio".

I say this only so that you don't read this and think these are some kind of fringe theories. They're widely, WIDELY known and 100% true.
I use name.com, and will never register another domain with them, nor recommend them to anyone. It's barely acceptable for a mostly unused vanity domain, but if I were using the domain in any serious way I'd transfer it away in a heartbeat.

The problem: If you use their name servers, they install a wildcard record for the domain pointing at a crummy adspam page. You can override the wildcard record with your own, but not disable it completely, which is completely unacceptable.

Their explicitly stated reason for fucking over their customers is "we make more money this way". Which would be fine, but there's actually no way they'd be making even pennies on my domain, and they are actively reducing its utility by a much larger amount.
I'm not sure that a fair characterization of her motive, not at least as she tweeted her apology:

"@randizuckerberg I'm just your subscriber and this was top of my newsfeed. Genuinely sorry but it came up in my feed and seemed public."

Screenshot source: http://www.buzzfeed.com/jpmoore/mark-zuckerbergs-sister-comp...
If there is any truth to the idea of the technological singularity, then I imagine we'll all become luddites to some degree eventually. I can't imagine keeping up with frequent disruptive technological change indefinitely.
What it means if Apple plays ball with the cable companies on Apple TV
Great visual.

It would be really nice to see John Simm portray The Master again.
How does it store mail locally? standard Unix mboxes or some proprietary format?
I also wondered this. In this particular case, the story came out a good 10 months after the initial incident, so they clearly put some thought and time into it!

I have seen a lot of links/comments on that story in a wide variety of different communities, including those that are less traditionally interested in internet/multimedia design than HN, so it certainly did generate some good publicity for them.
My two cents? I think this takes the "flat" aesthetic too far.
Came here wondering the same thing.
I think I will pass on this one.

Found this: http://us.linkedin.com/company/arcode

Looks like they are going to make their money by improving the email user experience.
I was going to try it out but they have no Linux version... sad
I work at Firespring (http://www.firespring.com) in Lincoln, NE. It's an awesome place to work. The project I work on is LAMP for the site with some ruby api backend mixed in.

My side projects are where I have the most freedom and I just recently built and open sourced Obvious - http://obvious.retromocha.com. It makes it easy to build apps with good structure, good testing, and with pluggable front and back ends. So, if I want to switch out Mongo for MySQL or Postgres, it's basically painless.
>Given that Chrome has moved to dropping the `http://` from its address bar

Uh, if you try to copy it, Chrome prepends the http://. It's only a visual effect, it still pastes full links.
The problem here is the picture was originally shared with someone who had permission to see it. That person then saved the file to their machine, and re-posted it to twitter.

That is not a technological problem.
Glad to see a DC-area startup get a mention here on HN! I had the pleasure of meeting Dave (Inky's CEO) at a Microsoft meeting not too long ago. He's a real smart and friendly guy. I wish him and Inky great success.
My favorite: One Fish, Two Fish. At one time I could recite most of it and irritated friends and family by doing so from time to time.

My son's favorite was "The wolf book" aka, The Three Little Pigs. That I could recite...with the voices. I remember doing so as last ditch entertainment as we neared home after a ten hour drive. He was sick, hungry and tired.

They are only so little for a brief time.
For a brief period of time, http://to./ was the world's shortest URL shortener.
I wonder if they ban 'haxx0r' substrings too.
Seeing as how the former option is the current precedent in software, they are probably going to sell your data.

In my opinion, this is totally "acceptable," and even preferable: my personal information is abundant, and is infinitely and trivially "replicable." My money is incredibly scarce and finite. (And being righteously indignant is too expensive.)

Edit: Also, I agree with the general sentiment that this should be a native app, not this wrappered pseudo-web app thing.
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What's remarkable is the solution to the paywall is "cmd-L, cmd-C, cmd-shift-N, cmd-V, enter". This will get you through the paywall 100% of the time. Replace cmd with ctrl on a PC. I want a T-shirt that says this. I've tried to teach some less-tech-literate friends but they just can't remember the commands. They don't understand that just pasting the link into incognito mode in chrome or firefox will give them the content, so they pay.
Just about the worst customer support I have ever had (Mint.com)
The importance of building great teams
1. gTLDs disappear and we simply register at the top-level

2. See 1

3. See 2
I would like to see the source code for this.

It looks like JavaScript files are archived (maybe encrypted?) in binary files, resources.dat, f_0000a-f_00009, and maybe in data_0-data_3.

Anybody wants to take a look?
I do set everything on Facebook to be public. That way I don't need to worry about the inevitable bugs and misfeatures that make things public when you think they aren't.
Presumably the maps were made from confidential info with the help of Germans in their .mil and .gov... and if like clockwork we had to fight WWIII in the 1970s it would have helped to not blow the cover of those agents. Even more excitingly, in the short term, about 1/4 of those agents probably were allied with the USSR .mil and .gov by 1950, quite handy human intelligence.

Also having been in .mil, troops always have crazy stories that are blown off, but a large cache of rigged board games means POWs would probably never be able to play a board game again, which is a shame, so its vaguely humanitarian, although they must have realized the truth would eventually come out (like now). Its too bad, board games are nice for POWs, and now they can't have them...
The few I've seen have been people with only one sink (so, a single large depression), which makes it easier to wash and rinse. But if it's not large enough, none of them fit, so it's mostly an exercise in futility.

And yes, dishwashers are absolutely everywhere. Some don't have them of course, but they're standard fare in a huge number of places, even relatively cheap apartments.
Seems like there's something broken on that site. There is a mac download link at the top and a windows download link way at the bottom.
http://virus.exe/
Didn't work for me. Added account, and sent a welcome email, but I wasn't able to actually look at my inbox in the app.
Loaded folder structure correctly, but no actual emails.

Looking for where I can delete my account.
Feds Requiring 'Black Boxes' in All Motor Vehicles
When I enter a cafe with -every- -single- -patron- heads-down in their laptop screen, I think: -this- is the opium den of the 21st century.
I was thinking if it could be made into a wiki... but guest posts would be great for now. I just really like the site as it is the format that learn in, so I shared it here... I have requested the site owner to join this discussion... hopefully they'll like some suggestions here.
What's wrong with paying for a service you like using? It sounds like you're upset that they aren't trying hard enough to steal content.
FreshDirect neglects to renew its domain
How does it work for information about me that other people gather? Like medical records? Is that my responsibility as well?

Or camera phone video of you doing something totally legal, like badmouthing 47% of the country to your friends at a dinner.
and why wouldn't they just publish the IP address, so I can order food?
"Citation needed" is intellectually lazy. It is middlebrow dismissal's slightly more popular cousin.

"Citation needed" is never a counter-argument, but often stands in place of one. It is the rhetorical equivalent of burying your opponent in discovery: it is a challenge that consists solely of expecting someone else to do more work than they would like to.

If you have a question about something, ask. If you disagree with something, then make your argument. Never simply post "citation needed" and think that you have contributed anything to a discussion.

(Just FYI, it's also a "tell" -- some people will avoid engaging you if you post nothing more than "citation needed", just as some people avoid engaging others that end every sentence with "lol".)
Ember Data Adapter for Parse
Thanks for the answers!

I saw the pricing. So, for a hypothetical 500 minute plan we are talking about $4.95 for these minutes + 235 MBs of data, plus $5-10 for a DID + $30 for the AT&T 3 GB plan + $0.40-1 for SMS. So, $45/month I can have complete control over my phone? That's not bad at all.

Two more questions: First, does any of this support E911 or whatever is used for cell phones? I know Google Voice doesn't do 911, but if this is going to be my only phone with only a data plan, that becomes more important.

Also how is the reliability of this setup compared to conventional networks? What are the chances that I'll be stuck somewhere and need to call 911 without the ability to do so?
>Easy Sorting and Filtering

Inky's sorting and filtering is easy, requiring only two controls in comparison to the complex table layouts seen in other email clients.

And yet, the complex table layouts are nowhere near sufficient for me, and I still get a couple hundred poorly-filtered emails daily. How does your two-control one handle a few thousand emails per day?
If you are vulnerable to sql injection, you are completely screwed anyways.
I'm excited about the "reshoring" (or whatever you want to call it) trend. There may not be a lot of money in it yet, and it's still small in absolute numbers, but what I like is the opportunity for people with a background in software to work on physical products. It's a lot of fun to build something you can pick up, turn around, throw, turn on, or wear.

These opportunities seem to be increasing, at least in the U.S. James Fallows of The Atlantic has been following this trend for a while: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/12/mr-china...
How to deal with privacy: pretend it doesn't exist.
Just read this in a christmas cracker. Did you steal this fact from said cracker? (ps. merry christmas and a happy new year!)
Thanks! The only question I'm still wondering about is whether I can get AT&T to sell my just a data plan and then use the SIM card in an iPhone (or similar) without them forcing me to get a voice plan as well.
Thanks! That's affordable enough to buy and find out.
From the movie "The Great Escape": "Ex-POWs asked filmmakers to exclude details about the help they received from their home countries, such as maps, papers, and tools hidden in gift packages, lest it jeopardize future POW escapes. The filmmakers complied."
src: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Escape_%28film%29#Ada...
This comment reads especially funny when you realise that most of the new language features in last Java are somewhat reminiscent of the C# features that were around for, well, quite some time.
If you don't feel like clicking through 6 paginated pages, the single-page link works well: http://archive.mensjournal.com/everything-you-know-about-fit...
True, reminiscent of the CIA's trick of co-opting a vaccination program in Pakistan to gather DNA in the search for OBL: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/10/health/cia-vaccine-ruse-in...

It's amazing what we can do when we don't have to consider the consequences.
I don't see how your perspective is relevant when you aren't even making a substantial contribution.
> In general, know more things so the world makes more sense, and so you make more sense interacting with the world.

No disagreement there. It's good to know things. But it's petty to label people as stupid because they don't know <random fact, skill or theory that you happen to know about> and that's what I was railing against.
When seen in that light, lots of nonessential services seem equally unimportant.

What's really the impact of Facebook downtime? You have to wait a little longer to "poke" your crush's profile/look at their picture/etc? Give them a break.
200MB? that's a lot! there was a QNX demo that entered in a 1.44 MB floppy disk. I also built a proof of concept running Squeak over Linux within the same size: http://swain.webframe.org/squeak/floppy/
Which sorta implies that ICANN is basically just conducting a trademark extortion racket.
The Software that Customers Don't See
Yes

The fitness "industry" like several industries out there is 80% "Fitness 101 that doesn't solve a thing"

Physicians, trainers, the 'food pyramid', Fitness magazines, etc, they're all in on this crap.

Not to mention most sports are more damaging (or just plain stressful) to the body than lifting weights.

Tour de France is only humanly possible because of the large amount of doping used.
It's cool... that wasn't condescending. I actually never thought of my linkedin connections/groups as potential co-workers...
Feel free to share.

All of the major vendors MLAG implementations are limited to two agg switches, assuming you have a pair of 24 ports and a 48 port rack level switch hanging off each, that still puts total servers at less than 1000.
Wow, that's definitely not making it easy for a startup.
Or simply by disabling cookies for the nytimes.com domain. And the fact that the paywall can be circumvented so easily is most definitely a feature -- it's brilliant customer segmentation

(edit: Because it allows students and tech-literate people to get to the content for free. So NYTimes content will do very well on social media sites, which in turn keeps the NYTimes relevant for younger people. Who will get a subscription when they graduate and become professionals.)
Nice simple site, Luke. Why aren't you using HTML5?
This would indicate that starting a company in Spain is not quite as easy as you say:

http://www.doingbusiness.org/data/exploreeconomies/spain/#st...

You are talking about a "real" (Limited Liability) company, right?
This is (or was) the MSN way. No releases over winter holidays.
Witch apps do you have on your homescreen? 
Witch apps do you use?
To this day I am still surprised at how easy it is to circumvent the paywall. I find it a bit insulting to my intelligence, to be honest.
That seems pretty paranoid when you could just file an objection instead.
> The maximum disparity between top and bottom was not in the 1920, it is now

That is not correct. At the peak, in 2008 right before the depression, it was slightly below the peak in 1928/9 [0].

0. http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3629
It seems narcissistic for you to think the rest of us are concerned in your social network membership statuses, solely because you posted a couple of sentences vaguely related to an article about Facebook.
Ask HN: Coder version of 1000 words a day
Hi all,

I am trying to revive my coding skills after a hiatus of almost 20 years. A good piece of advice for writers is that they should write a 1000 words a day. How could I translate this into something for coding? I know the best way to get my skills back is to write code, but what kind of goal should I set myself for this? The reason the 1000 words per day worms for writers is that it gets them writing, doesn't matter what, or what quality, or how they feel, but they must just to put pen to paper. I am trying to figure out how I can make this work for coding.
Lines of code per day? Characters per day? Something else? Any ideas would be very appreciated.
In Chrome it uses Mouse-locking to disable the cursor on-screen. It then plays as you would expect.
I'm not a designer (or a good one, anyway), so I welcome corrections from good designers, but I'd assume that whether or not flatness in this sense is a good idea would totally depend on context: how much site navigation is there, how many other presentational elements, ads, links to other things, etc.

Svtble works because it takes a minimalist's approach to all of that, throwing it all away into the bin. The content is readable because it's almost the only thing on the page. The font is large and the content is centered.

But would that work in the general case, as an approach for user interfaces and search engines and the modern day portal page and so on? I can't think of any examples there that would be considered "good design".
We're way beyond that point; countries that want to block stuff are already blocking stuff. But yes, the porn industry did complain that they didn't want to be herded into the .xxx ghetto.
Exactly, and tee blurring or lines is easier to spot when you leave te US and UK out of it (despite their frequent abuses of human rights). What about French Vichy actions? Russian? And countless other more minor countries. Don't get me wrong, the worst side lost, but that didn't come without controversial and wrong behavior. Thhe non political NGO aid organizations chose to be independent, and involving them causes the potential for far reaching harm, without their consent.
>Is Python lately becoming mainstream in everyday development in startups vs. say ruby and RoR?

http://jakevdp.github.com/blog/2012/09/20/why-python-is-the-...

> What are the FOSS libraries & recent developments saying so?

Python has universe of libraries. Just google "What's new in python"
Ads. It's pretty clear if you read their TOS[1] or Privacy Policy[2]. In particular from the privacy policy:

>Arcode displays targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click targeted ads meet the targeting criteria, such as a particular gender, age group and geographic area.

[1] http://inky.com/termsofuse.html
[2] http://inky.com/privacypolicy.html
Thanks for sharing. It's actually similar to what I've been doing the last couple of years. Replacing internal desktop software with websites in industries where you sell hardware, data access or separate services.
This is a great article especially because it:

1. explains the supercompensation period and how to time your workouts.

2. champions free weights and resistance exercise.

3. explains injuries and gives some practical exercises to strengthen the rotator cuff (frequent injury among bodybuilders)

However, I'm not sure if I agree with the "Fundamental Four" and him saying muscular endurance (low weights, high reps) "is great for endurance sports but tends to undermine the first three, shrinking your strength, power, and muscle size."

There's a recent paper refuting this theory, http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/h2012-022 . It basically says that low weights, high rep actually builds as much muscle mass as high weights, low reps... but both need to be done to the points of exhaustion, and that's they key.

Edit: Just wanted to give some more background on my thoughts on low weight, high rep. I became interested in this after I visited a trainer who suggested high reps (ie., 50+) with low weights. He demonstrated on me and made me do 25 reps of low weight bench press. At around 20 reps I couldn't do any more but helped me barely finish the remaining 5. His point was that you can do low weights, high reps but you need to work past what your mind is capable (and thus he suggests a personal trainer to push those limits). He also said with lower weights, high reps I could gain muscle mass and it's healthier (ie., less injuries) but if I wanted to be huge like a bodybuilder that lower reps, higher weights is better.

So, I've been trying this out on myself recently - doing low weights (30-40% of usual) and high reps (25-50), and doing each rep until the point of exhaustion (not able to lift any more). And then I take a short break (15-30 seconds) and do it again. Break, repeat, etc... until I do about 10 sets. Each set is to the point of exhaustion and I can't lift any more. The results is I'm super sore and it feels great. Prior I tried the StrongLifts 5x5 program (5 reps, 5 set) and also the typical 6-12 reps per set. But with heavier weights, I'm more scared of injury and it's harder to go to the point of exhaustion by myself. With lower weights, I don't fear injury as much.

I'm not trying to become a bodybuilder- rather just trying to bulk up a bit, lose fat and get fit.
I agree, Michael. The best way to solve the privacy issues we face is to show businesses we'll pay for services or content we like. We may be picky, but we'll pay.

Disclaimer, but hopefully not a disqualifying one: I'll be launching a paid subscription service next fall.
that's probably true.
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Is it really down to you remembering correctly if you have a blog post to link to? :P
Thanks for the crux of it. The first page was so much intro filler that I gave up.

Free weights as better than machines was fairly well known at least as far back as the early 90s. "Machines don't work your stabiliser muscles" was the phrase I generally heard.
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Fair enough, but what about other people's actiona regarding you? I might not say a thing about that sweet party I was at the other night, but what if my friend snaps a photo and tags me, like in the story here? I haven't delved into the settings in a while, but I think there should be an option to manually approve any tags made of you. That way there's some degree of control over friends who excessively document everything.
Considering that Argo effectively did the same thing (set up a fake production company to make press and answer a phone line), I see a pattern in setting up fronts that seems entirely plausible.
Even universities can get on board now!
Sorry, but no. Child labor was ended in the aftermath of the great depression. The efforts in the decade prior to that failed, including one case where the supreme court said child labor laws are an infringement on the rights of children. The 1938 fair labor standards act was the first at the federal level.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/08/16/158925367/child-la...
I'd say you should go based on hours or TODO entries per day.
The paywall is extremely simple to bypass using Google as the referrer (just Google site:article URL and click over from it). They do the Google thing to avoid a potential cloaking penalty which would get them de-indexed altogether.

So the interesting part of all of this is that people choose not to bypass it and pay. The reminder that they need to pay alone seems to be working.
> But it simply makes you "richer" and in a weird way, happier, and not by inflated self-esteem that you know more than others.

That's how I believe you should frame it. "Explore a little bit more of our world, it's awesome" and not "you're an idiot".

And think about the fact that people that don't know something you do, might also know all sorts of things that you don't.
It doesn't have the "batteries included" philosophy of languages like Python, where there's already a ready-to-use library for everything. If you want to do anything non-trivial with Lua, you'll probably have to touch some C code.
devs?
Or if you're in chrome, just use "Edit this Cookie" and blacklist NYTimes from saving cookies.
The specific answer regarding conversions is zero purchases, but over 200 accounts created, and hundreds of email addresses. This suggests that perhaps a 'soft offer' such as free server setup guide emailed to the user might perform better. We'll conduct experiment and collect empirical data, and let users vote with clicks, email addresses and credit cards.

Have you faced similar challenges?