skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazingly, I've actually seen Chinese medicine work (but of course this is the Internet and my own singular anecdote). Granted, a ton is snake oil but some remedies do work.

Starting wars because of oil is not? Concentration camps?

"Are those issues just cultural differences or seriously unethical?"

Point I'm trying to make is that America is not as lily white as you think it is.
So there are people reading the fine print! :)
One of the emails stated "Unfortunately, we’re not equipped to offer phone support at this time." If they don't even have the resources to have a phone call with the guy, it is highly unlikely they have resources to send a person to his house.
It's not just about whistleblowers or Wikileaks. What about the guy who is critical of US government policies and is gaining a large following? What about the guy who organizes a boycott against a well-connected corporation or industry? What about independent politicians? What about protesters and activists? Almost all adults have some embarrassing secret that might undermine their credibility in the court of public opinion.
So what doesn't work about my phone?
I think it's often harder to acknowledge local problems such as homelessness because they require a sustained commitment. You literally seem them as you walk home or drive to work.

Contrast that with the instant gratification of making a one-time contribution to solve a distant problem, and it's easy to see why many prefer the latter approach.
Squat form video is wrong. Don't do that with weight.

Your toes need to be pointed out 30 degrees and knees spread apart, crotch opened as far as possible.

You'll find a lot of wrong YouTube videos. It's a minefield of fitness non-experts trying to make a profit. Follow Starting Strength form recommendations and make sure the videos you're watching follow them approximately.
What do you use then? Skype fits the bill for a lot of people.
Muscles aren't sentient and to a muscle resistance is resistance. In that respect, bodyweight is fine.

The larger view is problematic, though. Progressions in bodyweight training often require large leaps in resistance and the development of new skills.

For conventional barbell training you can progress in increments of a kilogram.
I think the word "bytecode" brings more confusion than clarity at this point. What we need is not necessarily a super-optimized, human-unreadable binary format for distributing programs. We just need a format that's standard and portable, and with underlying semantics that are amenable to a fast enough implementation. JavaScript is such a format; the fact that it's a programming language with C-ish syntax, rather than a binary bytecode format, is irrelevant at worst.
It actually saddens me that pressing the "Spam" button in Gmail has a material impact on the company that sent me the email. I use that button to mean "Get this out of my hair. Unsubscribe, bin it, set a filter to ignore them - whatever, I just don't want to see it any more!"

That Google then turns around and treats my signal as an indication of the level of trustworthiness of the whole company, and then uses this level for other users is actually irritating to me. I'm just using the user interface in the most convenient manner to me. Yes, I should go and unsubscribe - but that's laborious, and clicking "Spam" isn't.
I really can't understand how many people consistently talk about having hundreds of tabs open. What are you so afraid of closing a website for? If it's that important, you will remember to go back to it later. Usually, it's not.

Once I get to 10 or 15 tabs I usually end up closing all but one or two just to stay focused.
Netscape shipped Javascript. Microsoft shipped JScript in a desperate attempt to peel away their near-monopoly market share, and they (correctly, IMHO) judged that impossible if they were entirely incompatible with Navigator.

Microsoft is no longer in a position to unilaterally destroy the web anymore, and I see no high probability of them regaining that position in the forseeable future. (Too much stuff going mobile, and they're still not strong enough in that space to dictate.... to put it lightly.)
Actually I'm from EU country(-ie, actually), and it works... inconsistently. There's fraud, and there's shifting the blame on drivers while trying pressuring them to take the risks anyway (works especially 'well' in countries where many truck drivers are self-employed, like, say, Poland).

And then you get a Polish bus driver with a bus full of people going for a pilgrimage through Swiss Alps, which then fills the news for a week in two countries.

It's way better than nothing, though, and the deficiencies are something that should be fixed even within existing law (e.g. the "self-employment" could really easily be proved to be actually a normal job, if the prosecution cared enough).
Do you know Subfecta?
Bit like showing the full walkthru of a 3D modeled house all nicely rendered, without having actualy built the house type approach?
Why not? I honestly have no idea what point you're making.
> The work of everybody else is irrelevant. So, two geniuses.

Are you trying to sound like an idiot? Don't be so narrow minded.

> Maybe you should stop using such terrible examples and maybe you should stop being so damn badly informed.

This is a very typical argumentation failure. I make a statement where specifics of the examples are entirely irrelevant to the point, and you cherry pick one of them and throw some info about it that you presume I'm not aware of. You then go whole hog straw-man, trying to tear me down over the apparent ignorance, which you manufactured. Yet, it remains that you missed the entire fucking point. Let me get my crayons out: Academia does research into many, many problems, and some of it is 'pure', meaning there is no accompanying application. Some other research does have immediate applications. Nevertheless, research is a highly complex process, but has tremendous value... beyond it's immediate commercial ramifications. This is why people are complaining about the NRC's recent claims, which are bullshit.

>I'm not, the standard academic propaganda that you stated above is the disinformation. The truth is that academics often don't give a shit about applications. They care about getting publications and about getting tenure.

I'll grant you that some, even many, academics are highly driven by things like publications, fundable research and tenure. However, if you'd had any experience in academia (and kept your eyes open!) you would have seen that this is merely a circumstantial hoop, and often times the top level academics who are doing this are also the ones get the funding to allow all sorts of other research to continue for its own sake. Sometimes applications come early, sometimes not. You're being naive to think that all academics are simply giving us 'the run around'.

> If you instead suggest something which you can actually make, which will be helpful for Aunt Tillie, which she actually might be able to buy in her local shop, he'll say something like "That's not SCIENCE!" and veto you. Go on, try it. I dare you.

And he would be correct to do so. Getting something into the shop for people to buy is not the job of academia. Go buy a year supply of ramen noodles and drop out of that's what you want to do. You may not like it, but science actually, really does have a theoretical component to it, and a lot of your fancy shit (which you bought in stores) is the direct result of people using academic research. If you can't understand that, then you're the one who is badly informed.
Polymer Project - new JS library built on top of Web Components
> I imagine this was useful in early language development, but now that they've hit 1.0 and are promising to be backwards compatible it seems pretty pointless.

I'm not sure why you think that. It's perfectly reasonable to want to use new features in Go 1.1 while maintaining backward compatibility (or an older version) for Go 1.0.
Come now. "Stop and frisk"? I'm not saying that the Chinese don't do bad things, I'm saying that Western nations are culpable too.

Let's face it, the poor everywhere get screwed while the rich get away with it. It's just different shades.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2...

Western example...
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/everything-is-rigg...

dm2 was positing China as this fearsome bogeyman where the only option is China vs. US, winner takes all.
Arrested Development + Data Visualization
I shit you not, I literally start building something like this to learn ruby with. Feature for feature.

Well done.
It doesn't take much endurance to do 7 minutes of training...
If you're not going to expend the hard work then you shouldn't expect to see much improvement.

"Sua Sponte!"
The definition of "masturbation" should be expanded.

And that of "evil". And "profiteering".

This company must be making big bucks.
I miss the pre-iphone era where your devices din't require registration with the manufacture to be used/updated/upgraded. Sad to see even desktops and laptops moving towards that direction.
> To be clear, when we talk about “hand-assembled” on Etsy, we don’t mean simply putting together a kit where all the pieces are already chosen and provided together. For example, if someone bought a flat-packed bookcase from IKEA that came with all the pieces pre-cut and all the necessary hardware included, and then put it together as directed by the enclosed instructions, that assembled bookcase would not qualify to be sold on Etsy as a handmade item. “Hand-assembled” on Etsy also does not include gathering commercially-produced items and repackaging them in a gift basket.

I'm not sure where I fall on this. Isn't the description above exactly what he is doing? He's assembling an object based on someone else's design, from commercially available parts. The cases are made from laser cut parts, so that's not exactly hand made. I gather that he's using the laser cutter to draw all the labels on the case, they're not custom painted designs.

He's put some design into it (and quite a bit of his time), but I'm not sure Etsy is wrong. He's basically made a kit out of someone else's project and is assembling it for the end user. He's nearly into manufacturing.

When I think of Etsy, I think of the crochet patterns or stuffed animals I've seen. If he had designed the device I'd give him more weight, but I'm still not sure he's in Etsy's market.

I also think its fair of Etsy to ask for build photos in case of a question like this. I would say his photos provide the necessary proof (either way). I'm not sure additional photos of him soldering DIPs to the board would actually add anything.
Sharecroppers have no rights. They didn't 200 years ago. They don't today. Doesn't make this suck any less, but it's something that needs to be discussed more.
Thank you.

It makes me weep when I hear gophers telling me to vendor all my dependencies. That is insane. Completely insane.
Given your situation, I'd recommend investing in some kettlebells and elastic bands (get the latter from a powerlifting specialist, they'll be cheaper and better).
This is great, but can't you only show me drawings which halt? I sit there waiting and I don't know if they'll stop...
No... I only said I became an eLearning domain expert... What I said was you need to know more than just programming, and insight into the problem domain is critical to delivering the best product (in terms of time, and budget constraints)... knowing what is really needed is important.

I don't really consider myself as much of an expert on anything... I know I'm better than most at JavaScript, and that I (used to) know a lot of current technology surrounding e-learning specifically (haven't followed the tincan project much, which is replacing SCORM).

I never meant to imply that one had to be an expert in the problem domain, only that you had to learn the domain to deliver an exceptional product.
Almost. `go get` will not resolve your sub-moduled dependencies. It'll work well enough for developing your library, but will break when people try to consume your library (at least, without git cloning it)
The nytimes illustration. The subject keeps straight back in the original article. Doing this exercise wrong can really screw things up.
DC. or If you're asking country wise USA.
Access Dropbox as a network drive on Mac and Windows
Comparing this workout to Starting Strength is analogous to comparing a half-marathon to walking a mile a day. I agree with you that this workout isn't going to make you 'ripped,' but to say that it is a "waste of time" is absolute hyperbole.

Let me explain.

If you take a workout like this--that lasts, say, ten minutes (slightly longer than the one described), you will be getting 70 minutes of somewhat intense exercise per week. It's not as intense as doing deadlifts, but if you follow the routine as prescribed (10-second or so breaks in between exercises on the circuit), you're going to be at least performing somewhat taxing activity.

Compare that to someone who works out 2-3 times per week for 30 minutes at the gym.

First of all, that time in the gym generally contains at least 5-10 minutes of breaks, waiting for machines/weights, etc. Let's just factor that out to make a more fair comparison.

The article, but more importantly the study[1] it references, is stating that you can have much of the effect as a longer workout. It never claims that you can get the full effect of a 30 minute workout in ten minutes, but it does imply that you can more than just the third you'd expect.

Now you have efficiency gains on two fronts: first, you're working out almost as much per week as going to the gym a couple times, but spending smaller chunks of time exercising. For a lot of people, that's attractive. Secondly, if the study is correct, then getting more efficiency per time makes you "break even" in terms of generalized fitness.

In short, I don't think the authors of the NY Times article or the study behind it are saying that you can become a bodybuilder or a competitive-class weightlifter by following their steps. They are saying that working out for, say, 70 minutes per week is a lot easier than committing to going to the gym several times, and that their technique apparently produces efficiency gains as if you were working out for longer periods of time.

I don't know enough about biology and physiology to dispute the claims of the study, and although you mention elsewhere that you're in a biology-related field, I doubt that you have the prowess to dispute their academic claims either. I really think that all of this boils down to the fact that short, intense workouts produces more gains than its percentage of a longer workout.

1: http://journals.lww.com/acsm-healthfitness/Fulltext/2013/050...

Edit: Even though I disagree with you about the potential efficiency of the workout described, I'd also like to second your opinion that for those trying to get stronger, Starting Strength really is the way to go. Don't fool yourself into thinking that this workout is going to do anything other than provide the bare healthy minimum of exercise.
Lunch with Warren Buffet meanwhile costs $2.6MM

http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2011/06/13/warren-buffett-lunch-a...
"and warning you before you follow them"

L.O.L. Warnings are ignored so often they're practically useless.
"if you don’t express your opinion strongly, it may not stick in the listener’s head as well as an overall weaker idea that someone else expresses with more zeal."

OK, sure. Connecting confidence with correctness is one natural human heuristic for assessing an idea or proposal.

But it's also an unreliable one, and encouraging everybody to assume it when delivering ideas seems as likely to magnify the problems as it is to put everybody on an equal playing field.

If you're trying to cultivate a culture where consensus decisions are better decisions, I think what you really want is less opinions that are strong than positions that are clearly reasoned and articulated.

I suppose it's possible that the author of this piece (and those who coined and use the phrase on which it's based) really mean that, but I think the "strong opinions" phrasing is easy to confuse with general brash confidence.
I have a laptop with a touch screen and even while using programs it conceivably makes sense in (read: not a webbrowser, terminal, text editor / word processor, video player....), I still don't use it. My hands are at rest near the clickpad so why would I?

As long as computers ship with good pointer devices, as far as I can tell there can be no problem to solve.
From the Go docs:
"GOMAXPROCS sets the maximum number of CPUs that can be executing simultaneously and returns the previous setting"

You are setting this to 8 on a dual-core system. What happens when you set it to 2?
Carryover from resistance exercises to other resistance exercises is a legitimate phenomenon. Adding 5kg to my overhead press added 15kg to my bench press (I bench press a few times per year).
These are called Turmites: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turmite

Nice implementation of it.
Fascinating. My favorite is "Rapids"

http://www.wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#3,6,2,2,3,2,4,0,0...
I don't think the language on the homepage is necessary either. Trying a bit too hard. Otherwise looks good!
.net, anyone?
Webcam sex
Show HN: Indexing video through content
If all it takes is a little bit of money laundering to get your bank shut down, we're going to run out of banks pretty fast in this country.
In another age, lawyers carried the title "Esquire."

http://www.lawsuitfaq.com/lawyerattorney.html
Maybe that only applies to my specific field, working in tech is a lot more exciting here.
It is absolutely mind-blowing how much time and passion humans have invested in understanding the consequences of nine simple statements...and how hard they resist against unveiling their secrets.

0∈ℕ
∀x∈ℕ:S(x)∈ℕ
∀x∈ℕ:S(x)≠0
∀x,y∈ℕ:S(x)=S(y) ⇒ x=y
0∈X∧∀x∈ℕ:(x∈X ⇒ S(x)∈X) ⇒ ℕ⊆X
x + 0 := x
x + S(y) := S(x + y)
x · 0 := 0
x · S(y) := x · y + x

These are the Peano axioms [1] defining the natural numbers with addition and multiplication. And for at least 3000 years humans are tying to figure out properties of these natural numbers, all consequences of these definition, and the end is not in sight.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peano_axioms
Internet Governance Bill (HR 1580)
Passed in the House onto the Senate.
You should start here first: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN9r1-ImSQc
This is close to the "terrorist argument", the idea that some kind of actions warrant the suspension of due process.
Holding strongly to your values is holding due process in the face of exceptional circumstances. Otherwise you're just getting down to your enemy's level, hence not doing better that spammers.

Spammers clog the pipes, drown relevant information under irrelevant one and hinder the free-flowing business of innocents, so we are creating procedures that clog the pipes, suck people's focus away and hinder the free-flowing business of innocents. And that get people used to arbitrary decisions and based on no due process.
MitmProxy 0.9 is out
You build muscle mass and get bigger. That's the benefit.

If you lift weights, you get the added benefit of being able to start with a lower weight and work your way up. If you are just doing push-up/pull-ups you will likely find you hit a threshold where your body weight is no longer sufficient for strength training.

TBH, most people will never reach that point. You've got to be in damn good shape to be able to do 50 pushups with your feet on a chair.

So yeah, the benefits are the same for most people.
You're mistaking what I mean by subsidy. I'm talking game theory, not short term shuffling of monies.

You are correct in that there are transfers of money and arms, the individual value and long term wisdom of which are always debatable. What I am talking about is a de facto subsidy, based on the fact that many other countries have in effect outsourced much of their security apparatus to the United States because they know that the US would step in for any existential crisis caused by mutual enemies.

Think of it this way. It costs billions to construct a single aircraft carrier. Many seafaring nations currently build smaller navies than they would if the United States were not filling a large portion of this role for them. When buying aircraft, ships, tanks, missiles, etc, an allied country only has to build those assets marginally necessary to create a comfortable excess over and above the security already seen as inevitably provided by the US. That constitutes an indirect subsidy.
The relevant text is: "17. From 2006 to 2009, HSBC Bank USA knowingly set the thresholds in CAMP so that wire transfers by customers located in countries categorized as standard or medium risk, including foreign financial institutions with correspondent accounts, would not be subject to automated monitoring unless the customers were otherwise classified as high risk."

It's very misleading to leave out the "unless the customers were otherwise classified as high risk." That smacks of someone not understanding how to properly implement the compliance function.

The rest of the statement of facts reads like a classic case of a company cheating out on the compliance function (like every company tries to do) and failing to adequately monitor a foreign subsidiary.

I think the fine was too small, but the facts are consistent with negligence warranting a fine, not intentional criminal conduct that might warrant jail time.
Worse? It's one extra step. Besides here in Australia the chip is already old tech. RFID is the new hotness. So much in fact it's killing the association that manages debit cards (EFTPOS)
> You really the NHS costs less per-capita in tax than US healthcare?

I think you left out a "think" between "really" and "the NHS" there. And, yes, the UK's public expenditures per capita on healthcare are less than the US's. In fact, the UKs public and private expenditures on healthcare combined are, per capita, less than the US's public expenditures (which, in turn, are less than the US's private expenditures). The UK's public expenditures on health care are also less than the US's public expenditures on health care as a share of GDP.

http://www.oecd.org/unitedstates/BriefingNoteUSA2012.pdf
And on every single email the person had the following options:
1. Click the unsubscribe link.
2. Mark it as spam in his/her email client.
3. Actively follow-up and publish his/her site.
4. Ignore it and move on with life.
5. Collect it as an example of excessive lifecycle emails, then write a laborious article decrying the company's marketing practices.

The OP is tech-savvy and knows about each of these possible choices. He/She chose #5 each and every time. I argue that the resulting anger is non-constructive.
But in that case, the art was an original design (supposedly). They don't need a sweatshop, it's just a run of prints.

What's happening here is more like he made a stencil from someone else's art and says it should count as hand made because he paints each canvas using the stencil and puts it in a generic frame he made.
Ask HN: Kicking Ass & Bored Senseless
Hey HN,

We've built a pretty kick ass product. People like it. There's demand. We have competitors. We've raised some money. All reasonable signals.

The problem is even as a founder, I'm not excited about it when I wake up in the morning. It makes it difficult to face my team, sound optimistic and upbeat.

Have any of your ran into this before?
What have you done to solve this problem?

Thanks!
I admire and respect the difficulty of gymnastics, but people are good at what they do most of. Give me a gymnast and powerlifter who weigh the same and I expect that the PLer will smoke the gymnast at bench press and the gymnast will smoke the PLer at planche pushups.

> Gymnastics is a dynamic sport, weightlifting is a static exercise.

I dunno, man. The snatch seems to happen fairly quickly.
I fail to see how the chip provides less information for a transaction to appear differently on a statement. Something is afoot.