skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry to hear that you're feeling self-conscious about going to the gym! Side-note: if big buff fitness gurus see a beginner doing squats with good technique they're going to have a TON of respect for you regardless of the weight you're lifting or what kind of shape you're in. The machine you linked to isn't going to help you with SS - you'd want to eliminate machines and cables from your fitness vocabulary alltogether - but it's still better than not exercising. SS would call for a setup like this: http://www.littleblokefitness.com.au/wp-content/uploads/wpsc... assuming of course that you can move that bench out of the way.

Looks a lot less expensive!
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I make a point of maintaining a clean separation between my work and my social life for exactly the reasons this author describes. The biggest problem San Francisco has right now is a bunch of people who came here for money, with no interest in being part of its social fabric. Many of whom loudly complain about how much San Francisco sucks, and how it should change to meet their needs.

You either need to start actually being a part of this city, or move your ass down the peninsula. Or better yet, move your company somewhere else. I hear they've got lower taxes and cheaper engineers pretty much everywhere else.
And I think some people will STILL crash on the tunnel anyway.

I made a arcade game once: www.abril.com.br/blog/campus-party/2011/01/19/fanatico-por-jogos-leva-seu-proprio-fliperama-para-a-arena/

It has instructions printed on the sides of the screen... It was VERY, VERY, VERY common to someone ask people around them what a button do (sometimes to even random passerby people, or for example a couple arrived at the machine, and the guy would start to play and ask stuff to his girlfriend), and then the asked either looked confused, or pointed to the instructions, and the people asking would behave surprised, confused and shamed.

Why people ignored the instructions and asked for example their girlfriends, random people and so on instead?

Why people see a huge sign blocking the way to a ATM saying it is out of order, they remove the sign from the way and attempt to use it anyway?
This was my immediate reaction.

The minute you have kids your discretionary free time drops massively (in many cases to zero for a while, especially if both parents work). Plus your view of your finances change - you have other little people depending on you so that steady income from that steady job looks really appealing.

If you're not someone who wants to set up on their own, that's great. Personally I have other priorities too (damn pesty kids...), but I'd say if you don't think you want to do it in your early / mid 20s when you have energy and time, you probably need to accept you actually don't want to do it at all.
I logged in today just to upvote this comment. I have long wondered about people who dismiss concerns over semantics. How can we communicate clearly and honestly with each other if we can't agree on what words mean?

Here is an anecdote about just how much language can affect perception:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Korzybski#Anecdotes

One day, Korzybski was giving a lecture to a group of students, and he interrupted the lesson suddenly in order to retrieve a packet of biscuits, wrapped in white paper, from his briefcase. He muttered that he just had to eat something, and he asked the students on the seats in the front row if they would also like a biscuit. A few students took a biscuit. "Nice biscuit, don't you think," said Korzybski, while he took a second one. The students were chewing vigorously. Then he tore the white paper from the biscuits, in order to reveal the original packaging. On it was a big picture of a dog's head and the words "Dog Cookies." The students looked at the package, and were shocked. Two of them wanted to vomit, put their hands in front of their mouths, and ran out of the lecture hall to the toilet. "You see," Korzybski remarked, "I have just demonstrated that people don't just eat food, but also words, and that the taste of the former is often outdone by the taste of the latter."
I think it's not a fight. RDBMS has been there for many years and they have proved to work in many areas. NoSQL databases born for new needs people was asking to have in their new projects.
Both would probably works perfect for many cases, but nosql databases are very suitable for scenarios when you do not require an strict schema, and also they are simple to setup.

I still think MongoDB is great for many applications as many companies are using it for their data needs (like Foresquare), and the same with RDBMS like MySQL, that lot of big fishes use them for different parts of their architecture (facebook, twitter, etc).
In the end, each option has pros/cons, but one will be better for your use case.
Could you actually go into some detail about these mythical problems with actual databases? Faux database apologists seem to really love claiming databases are so unusable, but I've never gotten an actual explanation as to what problems they are having. As both a developer and a sysadmin, postgresql is much less of a pain in the ass than mongodb. And I have no idea what "don't mix well with the kinds of programs.." is supposed to mean.

The idea that "it must be good for something or people wouldn't use it" is absurd. People do the wrong thing all the time. People make technical decisions based on fads constantly. Mongodb is one of the prime examples of fad driven development choices, where people choose it because "it is web scale" while having no idea what they are even supposed to be comparing it to.
The difference is that i don't know if this is worthy to invest time and effort or not. Does this have an impact on a wide install base of servers? Apparently some HNers can't reproduce this. So it's not worth my time?
I would assume it's just common sense (or courtesy) to put a little bit of text around it. How often do you read a news article about quantum mechanics that is just some lines of advanced math without any explanation at all?
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I wonder if there is an IRC client for Glass. In that case you could use Team Relay Chat on it already :)
>>They sign up for your free virtual ant-farming business, then they don't use it. Why? Beats me. Beats everybody. You can either just ignore them or assume they need help.

I have done this before - not with ant-farming, but with many other products. The reason is mostly what I would describe as "temporary mindshare." One evening I might get motivated to learn shaving with a safety razor and sign up for some newsletters, only to then have other stuff come up. I suppose this might qualify as some sort of "Internet A.D.D." where we have so many things competing for our time and attention that, even if we get hooked by something, it is only temporary.
Are there any wires needed to hook into receipt printers, cash boxes, etc?
Ubuntu's bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1179943
Nice idea! Liked the design until the green & yellow background colours... They're much too bright and contrast with the text makes it very hard to read. Otherwise, good luck!
Temporal tables conforming closely to SQL:2011.
The ability to use temporary tables created with ON COMMIT DROP in non-serializable prepared transactions (so probably only READ-COMMITTED transactions).

* we currently use postgresql, oracle, mysql, teradata, mssql
Concurrency with messaging is rather trivial, because it does away with the vast majority of the hard parts (but not all of them). Go is easy in that regard for the same reasons Erlang is easy .
If motivation is youre problem try some of this stuff: http://www.gnc.com/product/index.jsp?productId=12553280

I could be completely depressed and sleep deprived, drink a scoop of that, and the ONLY thing I'll want to do is get in a squat rack and put some heavy shit in the air.
There is a similar problem with SmartScreen, also courtesy by Microsoft.

You, basically, send an email with a link to someone in Europe only to see it being accessed from some random US IP that doesn't even have a PTR record. With some effort this IP can be traced back to SmartScreen, but what's strange is that it sometimes takes hours for the URL to get hit from such IP. This doesn't make any sense whatsoever, because SmartScreen is supposed to be a pro-active defense against phishing and malware, so it should really be scanning new links in real-time, upon reception. This scenario is arguably even more troublesome than Skype's snooping, because it's not possible to predict beforehand if the mail will end up getting SmartScreen'd.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_SmartScreen
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If you're interested in cooperative housing and income sharing, you might be interested in this idea - raising money from well-paid engineers for the San Francisco Public Land Trust, in order to create permanent affordable housing (with the added bonus of not depending on the government to manage it) and home-ownership options for low-income families.

Email is in my profile if you want to chat.
I would have loved to have THIS as the link target, the three short sentences make a big difference, imo.
About the damn time... Having to do SWF fallbacks was annoying at best for HTML5 video. This will effectively kill the need to host double encodes of audio and video
5-3-1 Boring But Big/NOV is a pretty good workout in a similar vein. You get stronger month on month, and the workout can be completed in under an hour.

Instead of prowler pushing, I substitute in running on a switched off treadmill. You have to generate resistance to move the belt.
Interesting idea. Though, if you were going to market to owners of bitcoins, it might be worth testing how homogenous the market is, you might do better in the short term selling books on investing or bitcoin specific tools.
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Is it possible that you meant to say not as in "a site should not be excluded just because it has SSL"?
I think that when people say "hard problems" they mean "problems that almost certainly have solutions if you are willing to put in the effort". Poverty on the other hand is a much, much harder problem than that. In fact, no one quite knows how to solve it in a general way (there are things that seem to work in certain contexts but not in others, many special case half-solutions). And on top of that, there probably isn't a clear path between solving the poverty problem and wealth the way there is between solving the {photo sharing, social media, web search, ...} problem and wealth.
This speaks to a larger problem: The world simply doesn't need many of the people born into it. Parents in the US have children for recreational purposes - child birth rates do not fluctuate with the demand for labor. These kids grow up, and many of them wind up sleeping on the streets of their chosen city or more commonly just barely living paycheck-to-paycheck, because there is no societal need for them. This bears itself out in statistics: 25% of households have a net worth of zero or less (negative net worth). 22% of children in the US live in homes below the poverty line.

In our world, the needs of many can be met by the work of a few. Only those few will prosper, while the rest languish. The harsh reality is that prospective parents that don't have anything to pass onto their children need to take a hard look at whether they should be having children, given that going forward there may very well be no way for those children to earn a living.
I haven't done an ecommerce project in quite a while, what would you suggest instead of Magento?

I had the dubious honor of setting up a heavily customized Magento site barely after they released 1.0 - it was a nightmare. No docs, barely any participation in the forums, blog posts with outdated (already) information... I didn't have a say in picking Magento and eventually the client moved to something else as updates and expansion became too much of a hassle.
Do you really need API Versioning?
This stuff is both great and depressing. The problem is that some companies, like Google, 37signals, etc. let their workers do these kinds of projects. Yes, some of them will bring those companies more customers, but the reality is that it's not clear if the hours put into this type of thing will ever pay off. Despite that, these companies can afford to have 20% time, or whatever it is, and let their employees mess around.

What makes me sad about this is how this kind of stuff is perceived by the rest of the community. People seem to follow the cargo cult of "Google has 20% time, so should we", thinking that it's the 20% time that makes Google special. I think copying this behavior until you are flush with cash is dangerous. I tried to implement it with the previous team I ran and it was more or less a disaster. It became an entitlement which you couldn't take away, but did not produce any direct or even indirect positive results no matter how we spun it. Productivity actually suffered as a result, while the 20% projects were completely unusable.

Has any startup been able to get away with this kind of thing, and if so how did you do it?

Edit: I should add that my previous team was a mess on many levels. While we had brilliant individuals, getting the company to move in lockstep in one direction was close to impossible, so there are many confounding factors to my experience. Perhaps a happy team that hadn't been terrorized by the upper management for a year and a half would have done better.
Okay, so let's get down to specifics. Two questions:

1. How did you measure your lean muscle mass?
2. How did you conclude that it increased due to yoga and not something else?
Do you have a link to your site?
This is a great looking product. You might want to have a native English speaker proofread the homepage, there are some sentences that either contain typos or feel unnatural.

"Advance Error Tracking"
"through setTimeout and setInternval"
"The errors tracking"
"This come in handy"
This is definitely not a waste of time. I do routines similar to this and I've definitely gotten stronger doing them. I also do many pull-ups as well which aren't on this chart, but all of these exercises are great exercises. You are NOT going to lose a lot of weight with this alone. However, if you are already a healthy active person then adding a routing like this only helps.

My brother spends at least 5 days a week at a gym lifting weights and eats a very strict diet. I'm more of the runner type, doing Taekwondo 2 days a week and more body weight workouts like this (and I eat fairly well for the most part). He's definitely stronger than me, but I have no doubt that I'm in just as good of shape if not better than him.
I can recommend the Kinesis Advantage keyboard for RSI: http://www.amazon.com/Kinesis-KB500USB-BLK-Advantage-Contour...

Be sure to get the Mac one if you're on osx.
Thank you for sharing your story. As someone who will start a family in the next year or so, reading that somebody has accomplished something that I aspire to (more independence and family time) is very inspiring.
What kind of exercises were you doing?

After I started barbells, I noticed I got MUCH better at yoga and any activity that requires balance. You cannot lift 250 pounds safely without some measure of balance and grace.

When I look around the gym, I see a lot of people bouncing around when lifting lighter dumbbell weights or using weight machines. It's very possible to lift weights unbalanced, to a point.

However, the most efficient weight training will also train balance.

I'm guessing two things happened in your case:

1. Your form was off, and you unbalanced yourself
2. Your elegance stopped because you had stopped training elegance. It was lack of dance, rather than weight lifting.

Proper weight training does not destroy grace, it augments it.
That's why tanks are painted camo. It works.
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It's an interesting interpretation of the fields of marketing and customer service to lead one to believe it would be desirable to do more work in those roles and less work in software engineering. To each, their own.
Because the koolaid is so sweet.

MongoDB is every developer's wet dream. With it's expressive query syntax and extreme ease of use, everyone wants to drink the koolaid. This is a huge problem, because mongodb as a database is dangerous

[..]

I have developers begging me to let them use it. This time to collect logs from our servers for analysis later. I cave in, and give my go ahead, with a warning saying that no critical data can enter that section. Mongo processes were crashing. Several times per day. About 20% of the crashes yielded a completely corrupted database. This programmers wet dream quickly shows itself to be a serious operations nightmare.

http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/02/07/10gen-response/#com...
I've never signed up for a gym, and don't know the first thing about the customs that rule the place. So, I guess here's a question to start with: do normal gyms have workout trainers I could pay to get guidance from? Or do I just ignore everyone and try to follow the SS book to the best of my abilities.

Question #2: are all gyms created equal, should I 'shop' around for a decent one with decent equipment or whatever, or just join the 'snap fitness' gym that is literally 2 minute walk away from my place of residence?
Yes, it's obviously a parody comment, but here you are perpetrating the meme for real. Don't you see the irony?

Like I said, Go isn't designed to impress superficially. It's a pragmatic language for getting work done.
Its truly awkward and surprising that google continues to have time for easter eggs like this one, but yet continue to sunset/kill valuable projects like Reader and others because there is noone at their organisation to maintain the codebase.
or you start company in your late 40s ,early 50s when freedom kicks again :-)
If this were Wikipedia there would be a [citation needed] at the end of this claim. Care to offer evidence?
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It's both interesting and awesome that the dominant community wasn't the first to reach community status. Then again, the python community could have become lazy and just assumed they'd be the first. Congratulations to Hong Minhee on making Korea the first community on Gittip.
If for some reason that is even too much take a look at the top providers on the Low End Talk Wiki here: http://www.lowendtalk.com/wiki/top-providers

Then keep an eye on Low End Box here:
http://www.lowendbox.com

When one of those providers runs a deal then get it. If you don't want to have to shop deals then DigitalOcean is a good idea. I have trust issues with Linode so I can't recommend them anymore, and frankly, some of their guides are terrible.

You should be reading the documentation of the software as provided by the vendor of the software along with the docs of your distribution before you attempt any guide because quite often the guides will have you do something that won't work, is suboptimal, or just plain wrong. nginx has an entire section of their wiki dedicated to bad configurations from guides on the Internet and what you should be doing instead: http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls

Understanding the full stack and being able to build it from scratch and tweak it gives you a competitive advantage over people who cannot, and that makes you look better to employers.
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Honestly I'm a little surprised it took this long. Seems like a no-brainer for the company.
That's quite a leap you're making, from Allende to Gulags and famine.

You should stick to subjects you actually know something about.
I hear good things about Woocommerce [1] these days if you're using Wordpress for your main site. It's no where near in the realm of Magento, but fine if you're looking for something simpler but less powerful.

[1] http://www.woothemes.com/woocommerce/
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I doubt the unique capture implementation was done for a one off limited time form, I would have thought that this is something Apple has cooked up for re-use across multiple projects and this just so happens to be one of the first.

The comment wasn't snarky, it was accurate.
After years of spinning wheels, like many others, I've found that gimmicky crap like this is just that - gimmicky crap. This may be more efficient than a 30 minute run and burn the same net amount of calories, but you'll offset the entire effect of this workout by eating a cookie. For overall health and lasting benefits you're going to need to get into a gym and pick something heavy off the ground.

Can I disprove one anecdote, with another? Sure, why not?

I used to go to the gym 6x a week for about 60-90/session and lifted heavy things from every possible position imaginable. I even won a fitness contest at my university (a weird combination of weight to bench press, squat, deadlift, and pull ups). I was certainly in great shape and very strong.

But life intruded. For a while I did nothing and got in much worse shape. I needed to get back in shape, but I didn't have time for the gym (at least that was my opinion). So I started just doing stuff at home. Probably 10 minutes per day. Push ups, pull ups, crunches, and biking a short distance to the bus for work.

While I'm probably not quite as strong as I was in college, I'm pretty close. I've probably gotten something like 90% of the gains with 15% of the effort.

To be a competitive athlete or bodybuilder that 10% makes a huge difference. But for most people, I think this seems like the right tradeoff.
I actually think we created a mortgage system that will keep most people working (income earning) for the majority of their lives (30yrs). Now that our life span is increasing, will the norm be 40yrs?
"Am I reading this correctly? It seems to imply that the ability to build something is somehow orthogonal to knowledge of value."

Not only are you reading it correctly, that is in fact (part of) what I'm saying. Building something doesn't automatically create value. We've confused the two.
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I think everyone here understands the economic argument for why this happens; it's the same reason spam still exists. That's not the question; the question is, is it right?

While the rightfulness question is interesting, I'll leave that to others to discuss and go right on to the pragmatic consequences: I am very, very, very unlikely to sign up for a service "just to check it out", precisely because of tactics like this. Even if I do, I will give them a unique email alias that I can disable at will (reject at SMTP envelope stage), and that I keep records of, so that if I get annoyed enough (typically, if their unsubscribe doesn't work or doesn't exist), I will keep a record of them as company, never, ever to do business with.

I don't believe it should be marked as spam (I opted in), but it's also not something I feel should be encouraged.
How is this different than: http://www.errorify.com/ ?