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My experience with yoga is that it is not enough for serious structural issues. For a strength-building workout, it is not systematic enough at most schools. It also usually fails to correct the day to day movement problems at the root of many problems.

I've done a lot of research into correcting my issues and it seems like this is what is happening with me. After reading Mary Bond's New Rules of Posture and Esther Gokhale's book, I realized that the way I do everything is pretty much wrong. I walk wrong, sit wrong, lie down wrong, and stand wrong (which is why a standing desk also didn't help). A great example is after implementing what I thought were really healthy changes to my lifestyle- the standing desk and walking to work, I developed an unpleasant heel pain and a rather ugly callus on my right side. After reading the Bond book I figured out that it was because that side is my dominant foot, but I was getting all my energy from walking from the heel strike there, rather than pushing off from the non-dominant foot through the hamstring/toes. Correcting that got rid of the pain and also had the side effect that my rear is more toned. That's just one example, and I'm not done with improving my posture, but it has made a great difference in my life. I also have implemented more systematic weight training (making sure I get ALL areas worked out) and core training (pilates). I still do yoga for the mobility benefits. I also have seen a Rolfing and Feldenkrais coach, but I think those services are generally over-rated and overpriced and you can get similar benefits from taking an adult dance class. I would like to try Alexander too.
Thanks, that's a good tip, I'll work on that today.

I had considered Route53 but it's actually in the same ballpark as this setup, money wise, and it's less flexible for what I want it to do. I haven't evaluated Cloudflare at all yet.
Simple context would suggest that he was offering any details he remembered of the startup in the hope that someone would recognize it. Let's not overreact.
Yeah. http://io9.com/5971328/the-most-futuristic-predictions-that-...
So? That's like saying they can't enforce how many people read a book once they sell it to someone.

Of course they can enforce this with digital books, but they shouldn't be able to, and people should protest against it.
Top UK startups that smashed it in 2012
Same reason fast food commercials always show skinny people.
Am I the only one who is gaining more value from Facebook than ever before? Yeah in college it was fun to look at profiles from people you met in class or at parties, and if you weren't part of Facebook you didn't know of the big events or parties unless someone told you.. but that is nothing compared to now. Now I can easily follow updates from my favorite artists, friends who are visiting NYC and want to meet up, and see branded/tech-related stuff I subscribe to all in a compact and useful News Feed algorithm.

Putting privacy concerns aside, which don't affect me personally, Facebook is a utility that is providing more value to me now than it did in college.
when singularity suddenly comes, all articles will be obsolete before being written; as soon as arrington starts to type their first letter. so there won't be any time to be bored.

so enjoy getting bored, because after singularity you will only be perplexed and petrified. (unless you are upgraded or modified)
Have you considered testing these abilities in a controlled environment?
Fair point. I've got email and DNS distributed onto both machines so I don't lose anything, and prgmr was pretty clear that I couldn't have a second IP just to fake out DNS so I went with a whole second server.
Regulation can be a form of oppression. Press freedom index.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_Freedom_Index
Diamonds burn just as well as any other carbon does, once you get them hot enough.
I'm a Libertarian. Even if I were a Republican, you can't argue the facts that spending is totally out of control. Can you name one country that spent itself into prosperity?
I don't expect it to work; the only thing I've ever gotten from my representatives in DC are saccharine form letters thanking me for contacting them and extolling the virtues of participatory democracy. I doubt my letters were read by anyone more senior than a second-year intern.

Nevertheless, count me in.
The four books are:

The Macintosh Way (1989)

Database 101 (1991) -- pdf does not include free disk inside, wow I'm old

Computer Curmudgeon (1992)

What the Plus! Google+ for the Rest of Us (2012)

http://www.yousendit.com/download/WUJZZUNndWNlaFRMYnRVag

edit: added link to the download page, for the G+ averse
This same pattern plays out in so many different places.

1. Massive concentration of power (in this case, the entertainment industry. I think 5 corporations control 96% of commercial media [2] - TV/Movie/etc.)

2. Artificially powerful threat (in this case "pirates") always JUST about to destroy/harm/impact/irreparably damage #1.

3. #1 is justified in fighting a war on #2 -- physically, legally, financially, whatever.

4. For all intents and purposes, the stronger #2 (the "threat") seems, the easier job #1 has justifying ANY recourse. If #2 (the threat) isn't that strong on its own, I would imagine it be in the best interest of #1 to make it appear so and even help bolster it if necessary.

5. There is so much rhetoric, confusion, mix-facts, misreporting and fuzzy data being seeded and organically produced on the topic of "#1 vs #2" that it is impossible to cleanly and clearly make heads or tales of any of it -- well #1 has a point, but so does #2, but #2 is doing something illegal, but #1 is also doing illegal things... ad infinitum.

6. #1 continues to pump energy and complexity into #5 which engages, exhausts and overwhelms us until it becomes noise and we learn to tune it out. Think of a person standing in the middle of New York as opposed to the middle of a corn field -- our brains are wired to tune out repetitive audio and visual queues -- we are tuned to spot differentiation. #1 doesn't have to _hide_ anything per se, it just needs to amplify it and muddy the noise enough that it becomes repetitive.

There are examples of this same strategy played out over and over and over again all over the world in all nooks and crannies of our lives - oil, pharmaceuticals, electronics, governments, publishers, music, farming/food, etc.

I would expect this strategy is as old as mud, probably starting with its roots in false-flag[1] campaigns in the annals of history, but it works and it has been refined and continues to work -- just like the format for romantic comedy movies continues to work even though we've seen it 100,000 times and the format for super-hero movies works.

We are incredibly manipulatable. Our convictions are disturbingly fragile and the worst part of it is that most of us are lead to believe exactly the opposite and completely reject the possibility that they are.

I think _that_ is what makes us so susceptible to this type engineering and why it is so successful.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag

[2] http://www.fastcodesign.com/multisite_files/codesign//post-i...
I know you're trolling, but for the benefit of everyone else, anarchism actually existed in real-world Catalonia, the Ukraine, and arguably in Paris, in the real world, for multiple years. You are factually incorrect.
How can you build what is essentially a subset of tumblr and then say you have little experience with tumblr? This would strike me as not being very serious about your show hn. At least look at the competition thoroughly so you can find an angle that you can differentiate your product by. The lack of mobile support is insane, and the lack of customization would to me make this an under thoughtout idea.
Apple applies for patent on 'active stylus' technology
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What was your most painful realisation of 2012?
To be fair, you did run half the planet not too long ago...
It sounds like you are wanting to start a mastermind group

https://www.google.com/search?q=mastermind+group&aq=f...

I think it's closed to new members now, but when it re-opens I recommend the Dynamite Circle. It's a great community of entrepreneurs and there's several masterminds inside there.

http://www.tropicalmba.com/innercircle/
the whole thing reeks of being extremely poorly thought out.
It wasn't clear in my post--we bought the diamond on the secondary market. Diamonds are like cars in that way--they depreciate tremendously the minute you drive them off the lot.

On the other hand, the stuff about the DeBeers monopoly is quite inaccurate today. DeBeers has gotten in anti trust troubles, but hasn't been an actual monopoly for a long time.
How would that work?

I'm actually reasonably happy with where I am, because I have a career strategy that I think will work. Startups aren't the only path and, if you have no connections and are going to be "just a programmer", they're not always even a good path.

Most successful entrepreneurs started in finance because, for better or worse, that's a way to build credibility. Remember that VCs are also financiers and will be biased in favor of that experience, even if it's not relevant to what most startups need.
Oh, well, if you have direct knowledge of employers actually disbursing private-stock options this way, then never mind what I wrote.
Description: I want to found a small UK political mission group that lobbies for technology start-up entrepreneurs. Priorities incl.:

* Tax cuts for early stage technology investors;

* State-led investment into digital infrastructure, including high-speed fibre broadband in the North of England and Scotland;

* Government support for alternative funding methods, incl. peer-to-peer lending;

* Improving the provision of computer science education at primary and high school. Any syllabus redesigns should include success tech. entrepreneurs and representatives from the developer community.

* International promotion of UK as a start-up hub.

I'm currently in the process of writing an open letter to the tech. community and the relevant government departments.

At writing I work in higher education policy.

Skill set: writing, tax, design and typography, front-end programming, print media exposure, networking.

-----

email: ekpyrotic [AT] gmail [DOT] com

location: London, UK
The Macintosh way is interesting for technology history, insider stories and technology marketing.
Database 101 is dated but probably still relevant to learn database basics.
WTP is mainly interesting if you want to make the best of Google+. I'd bet it will mostly interest community managers.
Computer Curmudgeon is apparently a bunch of amusing stories, nothing more.

Unfortunately the 3 old books are quite badly jpeg-compressed pdfs instead of proper text.
Actually they do warn you after the fact -- you should get a "welcome back" email:

Hey k3n,

The Facebook account associated with facebook@example.org was recently reactivated.

If you were not the one who reactivated this account, please visit our Help Center (http://www.facebook.com/help/?topic=security).

Thanks,
The Facebook Team
Consumer flash cards are an example of a market where the purchaser has very little information to go on. The raw user available storage number is pretty misleading as the block remapping system (or absence of one) is a key determinant of reliability.

The fact that SanDisk and other name-brand manufacturers make a practice of switching out the underlying parts without changing the part numbers make reviews pretty much useless.
Put up a landing page now so you can collect emails from interested folks.
> the Linux port isn't as stable or mature as it is elsewhere.

Which one: the FUSE one, or the native ZFS on Linux under CDDL?
> I have a hard time believing you've read any Marx. You're not doing his work very much justice.

First of all, socialism is bigger than Marx. You are absolutely correct in that Marx/Lennin would not think that business operating as socialist within a capitalist context would lead to revolution or communism. Luckily, I wasn't talking about that.

Secondarily, Marx never actually used the world 'socialism,' he did make a few passing references to 'lower communism' and 'lesser communism.' He _did_ critique the utopian socialists of his day for not being realistic enough.
I agree. You can't learn to use death clips without a little pain. I'm all for them on road riding or mellow XC rides, but some of my buddies started using them on full down hill tracks like in whistler BC. They swear by them and yes a lot of world cup racers now use them, but I think it's few and far between because of the learning curve. I don't think I could ever do it, I'm not fully comfortable on a full suspension bike unless I can eject quickly. It's bad enough getting tied up in your handlebars, let alone not getting your feet out as you endo a cliff drop.
The Top 5 Website UX Trends of 2012 | UX Magazine
> I don’t know anyone who consistently wakes up before 6am and isn’t doing something interesting with their life

May be waking early is not the cause but the effect of having important goals in life.
I wonder if this will spur the creation of something distributed and more resilient, like what Android has in Aptoide [1].

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bazaar.ins...
You aren't bored, you're boring.
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How does one cope with something like this when they're living and sharing a bed with someone? I've personally always been fascinated by rigid self-maintained schedules and routines. However, especially for me it's near impossible to maintain anything but loose schedule because my girlfriend does most of her studying at home and usually goes to sleep only a few hours before I'd prefer to get up, and of course watches the TV right when I'd prefer to go to bed. Due to the current situation, there's no distinction between living room and bedroom in our flat, so in essence we hang out in the same room 90 % of the time anyway, so it's impossible to isolate from each other for sleeping or even studying really.

It really feels a shame for me.
And there are some registrars that offer a secondary DNS free of additional charge just for this case.
One thing I've learned about contributing to open source is that it's primarily a social achievement.

If I see a developer who has contributed to many oss projects, I don't think "wow this guy must be a great programmer", I think "this guy must have great communication/people skills".

Often (especially with popular oss projects such as apache, python, firefox), you can fix a bug, add it to the ticket tracker, and it'll just sit there and rot. Every day people fix bugs and upload patches. You have to contact someone and sweet talk them into merging your fix.
If you want to see some crazy road biking check out Martyn Ashton: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZmJtYaUTa0
Ask HN: What set your hair on fire in 2012?
I'm curious to know what serious technological / IT problems you encountered in 2012. What things made you work late at night, scrambling for a solution? EC2 outages did it for some people. What else? What failed unexpectedly? For what problems do you still not have a solution, and just hope for the best?
25 Surprising Social Media Marketing Facts for 2012
The article's main point (emphasis mine):

> “With military enhancements and other technologies, the
> genie’s already out of the bottle: the benefits are too
> irresistible, and the military-industrial complex still
> has too much momentum,” Lin says in an e-mail. *“The best
> we can do now is to help develop policies in advance to
> prepare for these new technologies*, not post hoc or after
> the fact (as we’re seeing with drones and cyberweapons).”

To get a sense of the kind of moral and ethical issues raised by new combat technologies and techniques, I recommend watching the documentary "The Fog of War"[1].

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgA98V1Ubk8
Interesting. In the local hackerspace, for several years, I watched many students struggle with a (very fine) graphical drag-n-drop programming tool known as StarLogo TNG[0] (and Logo variants).

In the end, it seemed the brighter students destined for real programming were relieved to get into a text editor. The "success stories" focused on people who could not otherwise program, but the cost was imposing too much abstraction on the brighter users.

So I think it's a hard problem, and thus a very worthy one to pursue.

[0] http://education.mit.edu/projects/starlogo-tng
Will you succeed as an entrepreneur in 2013? infographic
Sure, we only got self-driving cars, almost flawless speech recognition, concordant natural language queries, "Minority Report"-like UIs, Google Glass, space flight at 1/10th of the previous cost, 1GB fiber to the home, dramatically cheaper solar power, garage gen tech, 22nm chips, we did a spectacular landing on Mars, working Exoskeletons, the technology to find planets that are only slightly bigger than earth,...

And Mr. Arrington is bored? Maybe he's just not paying attention.
Just to end this silliness using your numbers in the budget.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/factsheet_department_defense

$553 billion was the amount Obama requested. Only half of the deficit.
While I think it's a neat idea - I think in the end it's gunna be a case of in-one-ear out-the-other.

For instance I read all of "The Unix Programming Environment" by Kernighan and Pike. It's FULL of useful information (in fact I'd argue it's way better than reading man pages) and after I was done I felt like I was 10 times the Linux man I was. However unless you're fighting with Linux a lot on a daily basis you quickly forget 80-90% of what you read. For instance, I found it near impossible to remember what '@' does in bash scripts.

It's quite demoralizing - and I've had the same experience many many times with technical books. You not only have to read, but you also have to DO the things you read (strangely this isn't the case for history books, or books on the soft-sciences). This can be almost impossible for the more obscure (though still very useful) features like the zillions of cool-but-not-so-often-used flags you will come across in your man page reading.
I'm imagining this whole scenario in his voice. Golden.
Thank you.

As for Marx and democracy, while trolling, your parent does make a point: What I'm talking about in this thread is not very Marxist/Leninist. What they misunderstood is that I was not trying to be Marxist/Leninist. ;)

In Marxism/Leninism, the current situation is referred to as "the dictatorship of the bourgeoise." Revolution would lead to the institution of "the dictatorship of the proletariat." Contrary to its name, the DotP would be a democratically run organization: however, since 'all history is the history of class struggle,' it _would_ have a dictatorship role in the sense of the two classes: whereas today, the bourgeoise call all the shots, in the DotP, the proletariat would.

This is what my sibling comment refers to. However, they misunderstand about half the things that are said in both of those quotes by Engels.
I used this process to buy my last car. The difference between the lowest two bids was several thousand dollars, and both were far less than I got from casual browsing in dealerships. I had a drive 30 miles to get the car I wanted, and the experience was the best I've ever had, though it will likely be my last. I don't think I'll ever buy a new car again. There are too many deals to be had for slightly used cars.
This cool. But are these audio files transcribed, or just provided?

I downloaded a couple here:

http://www.repository.voxforge1.org/downloads/SpeechCorpus/T...

and it didn't seem to have a log of words labeled each by timestamp offset into the audio recording - which is the vital part for training a recognizer. Am I missing something?
Ask HN: Would you be interested in the following SSD Shared Server offering?
100 GB SSD Raid Storage,10 TB Traffic inclusive (additional TB/ 10 € at around 100 € per month ? The server will be used by max of 10 accounts at 64 GB Ram and the top of the line i7 processor. Many thanks for your feedback.
I would approach some hotels and restaurants now since you indicated it's almost completed and see what their feedback is, what features they like and would like added, how much value does this bring their hotel/restaurant.

If you have a friend in the restaurant business or become friends with one during your initial demos get some feedback on pricing as well.

Consider a setup fee and a monthly maintenance fee that includes improvements to the product and making up to once monthly updates to the menu on an ongoing basis.

Good luck in 2013.
Yes.

At the same time, I'm only recently discovered some of them. For instance, the speech imitation ability can be spontaneously triggered. Sometimes I find myself running from a social situation because once I think about the ability, I become hyperaware of my opportunity to do it.

Bear in mind that I am not loony. I realize I am saying "WAT"-able stuff here. Some of the things I am currently able to do, I simply do not want others to know. It's frightening, and I'm not quite sure what the proper channels are for some of these things. It's almost comic book-esque; and it's wacky, even when I reflect in my own mind, that I am able to do some of these things. Developing the words to express it to others is challenging. What's more, for some of these things, I'm not even sure what to call it, so that I might do my own research.

Considering the threat level of all of this as well (see OP), I obviously don't want to run off tattling to my local state representative. (I was living in Texas, so that probably would've been Rick Perry or something. Most of the people of the South U.S. would probably pull a gun on me if I showed them some of these abilities, talents, whatever you want to call them.)

All of that aside: Imagine trying to live a normal life with this kind of thing going on. I'm nearly at wits end just trying to fit in on a daily basis. It's not all "cool! get prize money!" These are difficult emotional problems as well that I have lived with since childhood.

Might I ask you, if you were in such a position, how would you prioritize your life? (Kids who grow up upper class and probably with parents who taught them lots of science likely will shout "Cool! let's test!" But low income kids who have been beaten and ridiculed on account of such varied dispositions likely would want to conceal themselves. Is this not obvious? And is this not a trope of comic books and TV drama? Oh how quickly we forget the X-men.)
You didn't switch to an ergonomic keyboard. I do love good keyboard and your Goldtouch is a very good split keyboard. But it is not ergonomic.

You simply cannot have a (non-symmetric) staggered layout that is "ergonomic".

Real ergonomic keyboards are mostly symmetric: a Maltron or a Kinesys for example. Or a good split + matrix (symmetric) layout.

But a regular keyboard, no matter how good the keyswitch, like your keyboard or a Cherry MX-5000 or a IBM Model M15 (split) aren't ergonomic.

They're "less worse" than the typical keyboard in that they're split and they're easier to adapt to.

But you have to realize that your brain (just as mine) has been destroyed by years and years spent on typing on non-symmetric keyboard.

This makes zero sense from an ergonomist' point of view. Basically one half of your keyboard's rows are shifted "the wrong way". There's no logic to that and it's really bad.

For what it's worth: I'm on a HHKB Pro 2 + Aeron chair.

It's not perfect and it's not the most ergonomic, but it's not too bad either.
>Putting privacy concerns aside, which don't affect me personally

I beg to differ.
That sounds weird (what prgmr said). I've had dedicated servers running dns at several providers for ten years, and all I've ever done is get a second ip for the same machine and bind it to a different hostname.
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