skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meh, really depends.

One characteristic of aerobic athletics is that most individuals peak in their mid 20s to late 30s, after which raw capabilities typically decline (albeit gradually, less than 1% per year). There's some exception for endurance activities, in which maturity, pacing, training, and nutrition can provide gains until later years (highly competitive 40, 50, and 60-something ultramarathoners aren't uncommon). And for activities involving fine motor control or finesse, skills may be developed over a lifetime, though injuries can also accumulate: gymnasts, dancers, and football players often peak out young.

For strength sports, progress is cumulative over years, meaning peak strength may not occur until the mid 30s or early 40s.

In competitive sports, you're looking at a mix of skills and abilities. Individual progress is harder to measure as it's team results that are most evident, not that stats aren't available (how meaningful they are is another matter). High-contact sports tend to be games of youth, but this isn't always the case.

And for anyone, coming to an activity fresh means a lot of latent potential to unleash: you'll likely improve dramatically over the first few years of participation.
Not OP, but you could probably run the debian version created for the Pi, and then just install whatever packages (samba, webmin, etc) you needed on top of that.

We have 1 Pi at home running RaspBMC and it's great. The thing I like most about the Raspberry Pi is that you can swap out SD cards and reboot, and suddenly have a totally different machine, doing something totally different.
Wasn't it Hitler who called Brits 'a nation of shop-keepers' ?

What a trading nation would do is make a living of - for example - buying tea from India to sell across Europe. Not some low-level, small scale enterprise. That has never been the engine of the German economy. German trade has always been a by-product of craftsmanship and not its replacement.
Sounds like you were targeting the wrong market. Pick the skills you want to sell and only sell them. If making cheap WP sites isn't what you want to do then don't do that.

I've been freelancing full time for 2 years. When I started I knew I had no interest in doing brochure type sites. I only market myself as a web app developer, and more recently only as a front end / JS dev. When people come to me with "my dad needs a website for his restaurant" I tell them that's not what I do and refer them to people who do that.
They almost always mean USA citizens. Although Canadians may be included too.
Glad to see you haven't bought into the hype and bullshit from the media over young whiz kids eating sleeping and breathing code around the clock in order to become successful. Kudos.
I'm currently working my way through a book called Emotional Intelligence 2.0.

http://www.amazon.com/Emotional-Intelligence-2-0-Travis-Brad...

It breaks down emotional skills into personal competence skills -- self-awareness and self-management -- and social competence skills -- social awareness and relationship management. It's accompanied by an online assessment that gives you a score in each of the four areas, and helps you devise a plan to improve in the areas you need. It also discusses over a dozen strategies in each area that you can practice to improve.

So far, I really like it, it's very straightforward and the strategies it offers are really concrete and not terribly difficult to practice. My partner is also reading it, to support my own efforts (I need it more than he does), he is further along into it than I am and he's also been really impressed with it so far.
The other reason: if you are using a Turing-complete language to eval your nominally context free grammar as if it were code, you are an idiot who is asking to be hacked, whether through quirks like this or otherwise. (This also goes for PHP and ERB.) http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sergey/langsec/occupy/
Paperman and the Future of 2D Animation
Overly confident, generalizing headlines are pretty good for capturing attention. But it does poorly at making your point.

Your reader's mindset is contentious from the get-go, and they're going to want to prove you wrong if statement is controversial. It doesn't bode well for your point if you can't convincingly back it up.

The true point in this article is that visual cues within UIs are great and nice. It's a huge victory when you can educate your user naturally (see: the popular Super Mario Bros example), but it just doesn't apply to everything. Not everything is innate; some new things need to be taught. How do we learn most things? We observe someone doing the same thing.
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2550145
Agreed. It's a fast-track to understanding. Not all behaviours that are beneficial are or can be immediately learned, nor would you expect or want them too - that would very likely be overwhelming.
more exactly, it's an option you can disable.
They are more effective at subverting a discussion, they don't come off as obvious trolls like they do on English boards.
I can see lots of other people disagree with the OP, I thought I'd chime in too:

Self-evident interfaces (i.e. lots of affordances, very little tutorial needed to get started) can be good for people who just want to pick up an app and understand it.

BUT, there are also people who want to interact with something in the fastest, most efficient way possible. If a novel new UI can shave even milliseconds off of common repeated tasks, a 60 second tutorial is definitely worth it.
No idea. I didn't care, but it's probably at least 10 years.
Part of their money from PPA's comes from selling renewable energy credits/etc, i'm sure the lease period length accounts for this.
Tried it on a Mac mini of age but still a Core 2 Duo. It was very slow in Google Chrome. If it's moving smoothly on more modern computer I guess It's time to upgrade.

On another note, I believe that this is why native still is around.
Ask HN: Was 2012 harder for startups than 2011?
I think it was definetaly harder!
You're right, I misspoke when I said PageRank. The gist was the some though: higher quality content -> better search rankings (either through links due to higher quality content or google's non-PageRank algorithms).
Now I have something to be paranoid about and will be going the bathroom as much as possible.
You mean, for American money, work in cents.
Probably the right thing to do is something like the IRA/Sinn Fein, where you've got a bunch of black ops somewhat connect to a somewhat accountable white operation.
US to probe Autonomy sale to Hewlett-Packard
> 'Use Xinerama' box

Xinerama is old, buggy and more or less deprecated at this point. Also compositing doesn't work with it enabled which causes other issues.
When Tech Companies Get Too Big
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4962912
Great Apps for Mac 2012 (Part I)
completely agree!

If you need to teach people how to use your product you failed at UX. And the time spend on walkthroughs and quick tips would have been better spend on rethinking the whole interaction model.

That being said, it doesn't mean your product is going to fail just because your UI sucks! Sometimes the problem a product is solving is so big that users don't care how clunky it is to use...great examples: Banking, Cars and most Email clients for example.
The libertarian in me feels that gun ownership or the lack thereof shouldn't be any business of my employer. I am however more offended that what a person does in their bedroom is not protected by Federal Law.
I use Fever. Quite excellent, and very relevant in the context of what Instagram have been doing.
For whatever reason, swimming picked up a pattern of really long-distance training routines, peaking in the 1970s and early 1980s with 10-12,000 yard/meter days (two workouts). Cycling had similar trends for a while as well. Both are activities in which the athlete is supported (swimmers by water, cyclists by the bike) and friction is minimal (rowing tends to get painful after an hour or two), allowing hours-long training sessions well past what would be the point of exhaustion in other activities.

While this can help with skills development (though my thinking is that training in an exhausted state reinforces poor form), and may be a good way to keep kids off the streets, it's largely useless for developing maximum capability in the shorter-duration events typical of pool meets (50-500 yards / 50-400 meters), taking anywhere from 15 seconds to 5-6 minutes or so. The primary exceptions would be 1000m or 1650y events (10-15 minutes or so). Triathalon / open-water swimming is almost a wholly different sport.

You'd benefit in swimming from a regime that's similar to other HIIT training: 15-60 second maximum-effort pieces followed by brief rest (5-15 seconds) and a repeat, in sets of 8-10 or so. Incorporate warmup, skills drills, and strength training, and workout time drops markedly.

I still enjoy doing longer pieces and the whole-body flush accompanying them, but they're not something I undertake daily or even weekly.
It's actually trivial to make evaluation safe for JSON input as seen in the very short `parseJSON` implementation in jQuery:

https://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/master/src/core.js#L52...

Also, for the JSONP technique to work, it _has_ to be valid JavaScript so the escaping is necessary.
The solid science has been pretty consistent for about 20 years: dynamic stretching can be helpful, static stretching much less so, and the best warm-up for an activity is doing the activity at a lower rate for a few minutes.
We're literally betting our business on Max being wrong here (www.kera.io). We believe the opposite, that the best way to learn something is to sit down and have someone show you. Perhaps in the narrowly defined 'mobile app' space where your app does 1 single thing (ie: take pictures) you can have obvious design but check out something like Siebel (http://www.selectorweb.com/images/siebel1.gif) or any sufficiently complex software and you realize there are huge opportunities for UI walkthroughs.
How is that at odds with what I said? While you provided more details than I did, it doesn't disagree that the US military has hired people to post comments on sites to further its PR goals.

However, the project is probably didn't end in 2011 as you have implied, but is still ongoing since there has been no news that it has been shut down.

Also, this is only what the US government has admitted, and only as a response to the information that was leaked as part of the HB Gary hacking. These types of programs are usually not publicized. It is entirely possible that the program is larger than reported or has grown since 2011, especially in light of the NSA whistle-blower's report about data collection of US citizens.
Your opinion surprises me. Everyone else in the EU is pretty much convinced that the UK is just trying to eat the cake and have it.

IIRC, the UK has opted out of Schengen and the Euro. That would look OK to me were we not talking of two core EU projects that were supposed to be game changers.

Coming from a country that is currently under an European assistance program, I am not myself very fond of the "Chancellor", but your opinion seems to be purely based on the hatred for a particular country and simple anglophilia.
It's clear that the EU must have common laws. And it's clear that if the EU is supposed to ever become a superpower in the economic and geopolitical sense, a free trade zone will not suffice.

Believe me, European laws don't please everyone. e.g. production quotas have seriously harmed economies that were highly reliant on agricultural production.

And regarding Greece... well, Greece has played foul from the beginning. Greek authorities have purposefully reported lower than reality deficit figure as early as 1999. Of course the EU failed there too, and I'm convinced that austerity measures are not the best solution for this mess. But saying that Greece is being "punished" because it has refused to follow a particular model is a clear exaggeration.
FYI. There's a 24-hour pharmacy in Earl's Court in London (called Zaffash I think)
Oly bar, plates, rack stand or power cage, adjustable dumbbells, chinning bar, dips bar / captain's chair, C2 indoor rower, pulley system, bumper plates & platform, ropes, kettlebells, would make up my essential gym. It's a lot cheaper (and more convenient) to pay someone else a monthly fee to manage and store all that than keep it on premises than accumulate and store it myself. Hence: a good gym is a solid investment.
You can press off the floor. It's much better for your shoulders, and far safer if you're training alone.
Ask HN: what side projects will you start in the new year?
My family is not satisfied with any one recipe site out there. We have a number of sites we go to when we want a new recipe, but we have never found a site we like for organizing our family recipes. So this year I want to build a recipe site just for my family.

What will you build in your spare time this year?
A talk with Statnut designer Fabio Basile
I miss Bloglines, honestly. I switched to greader after bloglines started having DB problems several years ago, but never really liked the UI - seemed too bloated and slow. I switched to using Reeder as a frontend, but in an effort to switch to local services I started using Fever + Sunstroke (iOS app). My main beef with Fever is that if you're reading an article and it does a feed refresh it will refresh the view and take away the article you were reading (since it was marked as read).
If I was the patient I would love to hear that my oxygen levels were normal and that I am not at any risk of dying any time soon. I would say treating the patient should include first measuring how urgent it is.

Additionally if you panic you can easily imagine having trouble breathing, or that your trouble breathing is worse than it actually is. I have experienced this first hand when just relaxing removed most of my problems.
The main advantage of Reader is that third party clients sync with it.
Ask HN: What tools / apps do you use for working online?
Want to see / discover some of the best tools users are using right now.

Right now I am using:
dropbox.com
basecamp.com
roninapp.com
stripe.com
I often pass inline data from server -> client JS using a meta tag. In rails3 it would look like:

<meta name='blah' content="<%= @data.to_json %>" />

However this has always seemed unclean to me. Does anyone else have a better, alternative method of inlining data? I'd rather not use inline scripts for the exact reason they mention.
Square is one example of a company which famously develops in MRI but deploys JRuby to production.
I still use Google Reader, but only vicariously through the apps that utilize it as a backend, after having switched away from using GR directly quite a while ago. In all honestly, if both apps[1] I use swapped backends to something else, I likely wouldn't notice.

[1]: apps: Reeder (mac, iphone); Mr. Reader (ipad)
Harsh, so god damn harsh!

Then again, I can't fathom how Linus must feel getting hundreds of pull requests that are plain wrong and/or stupid.
We use this technique https://www.quora.com/JavaScript/What-is-the-best-way-to-pas...
That’s not a tax break specific to solar installations. In fact, it’s not a tax break at all. It is just a consequence of how German tax law is constructed. It has nothing to do with subsidizing solar installations.

If you register your private solar installation as a business, you are exempt from paying sales tax if you also pay revenue tax (= sales tax) for the energy you are selling. Just like the baker buying her oven, if a business buys something for the business, it is (usually) exempt from paying sales tax for it – since sales tax is supposed to be only paid once, not several times.

You know, what annoys me is ignorance about the actual policies and then pontificating as if you have it all figured out.
Posterior chain exercise. Between general posture, sitting, slouching, and the tendency for many people to emphasize "mirror / beach muscles" -- chest and biceps, as well as age-related sarcopenia (muscle loss at the rate of about 0.5 lb/year past your mid/late 20s), most people are losing muscle, including the "posterior chain" (calves, hamstrings, glutes, spinal erectors, traps, lats, rhomboids) which support the body and spine.

You strengthen the posterior chain by training it: squats, deadlifts, rows, chins, power cleans.

The best way to get the gains you're looking for with the least possible investment is to do the program. Get the book. Do the program. Three workouts per week. Squats, deads, bench, press, power cleans, chins. Six to nine months will change your life.

http://startingstrength.com/

As for your questions, I'd strongly recommend looking over the Wit and Wisdom of Mark Rippetoe page as well, I believe you'd benefit from it, particularly the entry beginning "Responding to someone who wanted the book".

http://startingstrength.wikia.com/wiki/Wit_and_Wisdom_of_Mar...
That's faster, but I think can be a poor trade-off because:

1. The speed gain is negligible for most programs

2. The addition of any pricing that requires fractional cents will require careful work to handle unit conversion to maintain integral representation.

#2 becomes ugly when one has an API many people use, and one must bother them to update their code paths to use the new, higher precision that can handle all money as integers. This is not even counting the case where one tries to cut a corner and someone ends up not doing the conversion they ought to.

Also, programs often are more lucid when operating in terms of the frequent units of choice, such as dollars or fractional dollars. Few domains price everything in cents by preference, because in aggregation often dollars -- sometimes many -- are exchanged. The problem gets worse if one needs weird units like 0.1c to regain integral numbers.

There are ways around these, but falling back on strings seems to me the lowest-maintenance option.

On the other hand, integral representations have few dependencies (a compliant javascript interpreter), which is also a pretty big plus for that.
I wrote an article showing Google Reader historical cabilities http://blog.databigbang.com/extraction-of-main-text-content/
JavaScript allows all the same numeric literals in its syntax, it just imposes additional semantics on them.
Java and C# and scripting languages, just like the last 10 years.
RSS + IM/IRC were a lot better than Twitter today, even for how most current Twitter users use the service.
Can someone with a better understanding of this project Summarize it's goals? For example, would I be able to run Xcode on a Linux machine using this project when it is mature?
I used to own a boutique, 5,000 square foot personal training facility a few years back. Sadly, this article is on the money. We hired strength coaches with degrees in exercise physiology or athletic training and were fanatical about form and outcomes. We wanted clients to re-up not because they'd become best friends with a trainer or been entertained, but because they were experiencing measurable changes in whatever metrics were relevant to them (which we tested on a regular basis). We were very much the exception to the rule in a world where places like Crossfit didn't even exist yet.

The commentary on big-box fitness clubs is also dead on. It's all about maximizing revenue / sq ft, not changing lives. That leads to a 40% industry attrition-rate, because the offerings and environment are so broken, off-putting and ineffective. What other industry survives when you need to regenerate 40% of your client base every year just to stay at zero-growth? Insanity.

Last stat, for more than 30 years, the fitness industry has been trying to attract what's perceived as the holy grail, sedentary adults. But, no matter how much marketing they throw at the market, 85% of US adults refuse to join or stay members of clubs, even though more than 90% say exercise is mission-critical to their ability to live the lives they want to live.

I sold my last facility 4 years ago, but just writing this is reminding me how ripe this space still is for mass-disruption. Crossfit is doing a great job, but there's still so more that can and should be done.
I wonder how much you could overclock the Pi if you had some proper air cooling in it. Probably a fair amount, considering it works totally off passive cooling by default.
The name cent shouldn't throw you off here as applying only to US currency. Many other currencies have a notional 1/100th unit of the basic one, that usually also exists as a cash value.
I think it's the same idea that Wine has for win32 applications, but for OS X applications instead: Provide a binary executable loader and an implementation of all the standard frameworks and libraries, so you can run unmodified mac apps on x86/x64-based Linux.

Edit:

For your Xcode example, in short, yes. (Although - that's probably one of the most difficult apps of them all to bring up, since it integrates and depends on iTunes, mobiledevice/mobilesupport libraries, debugger tools etc.)
pivotaltracker.com
google apps
dropbox.com
Exactly.

The 'obvious' lock screen camera thing on the iPhone is a perfect example of something that I haven't seen anyone figure out on their own. It doesn't look or behave like anything else on the iPhone, including the only other interactive element in that same lock screen. Once you DO know, the cues are nice reminders.

The Pudding Monsters example is terrible too, as it precisely a UI walkthrough. Minimal, because well, the UI in that game is minimal, but it is explicitly telling you what to do and how to do it. (BTW the game is wonderful)
So it's not just about sexting, but communicating by sending pictures to another smartphone? What's next, short messages and duplex voice chat?

</sarcasm>
"Stand-ups" included in T-Nation's "Seven Cardio Drills that Don't Suck": http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_article/sports_body_trai...
Well, it's not uncommon to hear the expression "Sub-saharan Africa". That's better than nothing.

At least in Europe, we usually differentiate between Mediterranean/Maghreb/Islamic Africa and "everything below".

Actually, I believe most southern Europeans refer to "Africa" in the loosest sense of the word as being the sub-Saharan part, since the northern countries are seen as Mediterranean and are just too close to home to be thought of as in another continent. Likewise, no-one will refer to the Near East as being "Asia".
Stripe's Collison Has Mastered Being "CEO"
Of course they don't; but that's good enough for giving an intro to a "traditional" developer.