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> This has nothing at all to do with strength training.

Their first criteria for exercise selection was to "promote strength development for all major muscle groups of the body".

As for developing short term fatigue resistance (as opposed to straight up endurance), kettlebells are excellent. My favourite tool for such a job: compact, widely available, and evil.

> And I don't see why you would argue against increasing strength at the joint angle. It's very important for people with the potential for joint pain or injury to strengthen supporting muscles around the joint.

Because joints move through, and must support load, at a variety of angles. Being really really good at a particular 10 degree band is not very useful for most folk.

> It seems like everything i've seen concerning athletic performance is based on cherry-picked ideas distributed by non-scientists.

Well in their defence, sports science sucks. Like software engineering research and for the same reasons: small and biased samples, poor experiment design and not much funding to fix either.
No kidding. Without details, it really sounds like the author is a bit clueless.

He mentions the lack of joins, but doesn't say a word about Mapreduce.

"MongoDB needs to walk the index from the beginning to the offset..." You don't "walk an index". It's an index.

"Too many databases" sounds a little suspicious. Why not add an indexed field to partition records?

Complaining about a lack of schema, transactions and triggers? Really? Did you read the docs at all before starting?

MongoDB is not without its problems, but friend, I think you wanted either Postgres or Hadoop.
tried it for my blog. Looked good.
This is like warning bells that someone is about to buy new boots and then go on their first hike.

Three simple hiking rules:

1) Never wear new boots on a trail. Sittin in the office, sure. Walking around the grocery store, sure. Walk around the block at home, sure. A day of yard work, sure. But never wear new boots on a trail. Many groups will kick you out and send you home if your boots aren't looking old and scruffy enough, nothing personal they just don't want to have to do wilderness rescue on you.

2) Bring more water than you think you'll need. Newbies always guess low. If you're feeling thirsty you've already failed. If you don't end the hike with water leftover you've failed.

3) It's considered very poor form to have to ask someone else for first aid stuff, although its considered even worse form not to help someone who needs it, and the cheapest lightest smallest kit is probably about right. Doesn't have to be some giant backpack a little pocket sized thing is fine.

Everything else you can learn from the group. Leave No Trace philosophy and orienteering and all that stuff. Which is an excellent conversation starter, where did you learn to read topo maps, what kind of plant is that, etc.
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I was adding a comment but then I got "Sorry, but our system has recognised you as a spammer. If you believe this to be an error, please contact us so that we can rectify the situation." Don't know what plugins you're using there, but they're acting way wrong...
The idea is definitely to be more of a "game" than your go-to poetry text editor. I spent some time focusing on the design to make it seem more light. I agree, its not for writing.

And as far as trying goes, its free. I've done some Android dev before at my day job, and its just not my thing. I'm a big fan of writing iOS apps so that's what I went with.
When you imply that a hacker should read and understand the source, are you referring to the posted code or Linux itself (or both)?
This. There is a remarkable amount of bandwagoning in this thread to bash anything vaguely pro-American followed by some self-congratulatory posts about people today "not knowing history". That goes both ways, people.

The US has done an immeasurable amount of good in the world over the years, for example the US is by far and away the largest donor of foreign aid in the world and has been for a long time. I think most people are angry that what the country represents at face value is not always reflected in policy or actions. That's fine. Get involved and do something about it.
Show HN: API platform for signing documents
Go is completely open source. The primary devs just happen to work at Google. That is all.

If anything, the Google name attachment may only serve to help convince management that Go is a safe, long-term bet. If you don't like the Google attachment, you are entirely free to fork the language and make it your own.
Myriad, the company that owns the BRCA patents, has been the only player in town for almost 20 years.

There is currently a case before the Supreme Court trying to invalidate Myriad's patents, as well as all patents on human DNA.

The issue, however, is that Myriad's value is no longer in their patents, but in the data they collected over the past 20 years.

Myriad charges ~$3k for their tests, while a full sequence of your entire genome is only ~$5k, and will tell you the same genetic data. But Myriad has been able to correlate much more of your DNA and the BRCA regions with cancer risk, and that data is not public.

23andMe is definitely not a substitute.

For anyone interested in the patents and the current Supreme Court case, check out: http://www.genomicslawreport.com/index.php/2013/05/01/some-t...

That's a great blog on genomics and the law, and there are other interesting blog posts on Myriad if you look through their archive.
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There's no guarantee that good performance in exams means good performance in actual work.

But there is a correlation, as in "numerous studies have found modest to sizeable
correlations between school achievement and work performance, even after controlling for the effects of general ability measures."
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Looks awesome, it's well explained on the site, the icon is gorgeous (though it instantly reminded me of Procreate --- might want to check that), the UI is sufficiently "next-generation" (part flat + part iOS 6 = iOS 7?).

However I don't understand the rhyme drag&drop interface. Is it a mere reminder of how poetry & rhymes work? Or is it supposed to reorganize my verses at the same time (cause it doesn't)?
Phoronix gives false conclusions for GCC vs. LLVM and other tests
Big braza iz watching you. Continuing my previous comment… They also have to watch every one who buys toilet cleaning stuff, everyone who buys pipes, wood, everything, monitor everything, every step, every sneeze, every fart. Dump idiots. They are healing breathing disease through the asshole using knife in condom, yeah baby. USA!
I wonder why they would only do it for HTTPS URLs if spam detection/prevention is the reason.
I really don't understand why people use MongoDB.

It seems like it's a elegant technological metaphor (lets use mmap, the OS is our cache and we can overwrite in place in RAM) that in practise turns out to be a terrible idea. Overwrite/mmap cannot be made reliable, requires blocking write-locks, wastes disk, and causes problems shuffling data around as it grows. Add other bad decisions (keys aren't interned, seriously?)and it's just a terrible limping monster.

Abandon it, walk away.
Fitness is environmentally specific. For example, a predisposition to fat storage, in most of human history, was a powerful survival trait. Your body doesn't know that you want to look good on the beach, only that winter is coming.

Speaking from experience, don't overkill. You won't be able to sustain it over the long term.
I know I'm not the only one who turns off gif animation in browser options. Lots of people can't read text if something is moving on the page. It's going to be a big hassle to turn it on for certain sites, then off again after the CAPTCHA, if this catches on.
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Go is open source: http://golang.org/LICENSE
Judge: MIT Can Redact Info in Swartz Documents
The best way to read git logs (starwars style)
It's true, a perfect training and exercise regimen will include increasing loads. But given the general sorry state of fitness and health I see daily on the streets, getting people to understand that ANY exercise, even as little as 7 minutes a day, is beneficial will go along ways towards making people healthier and stronger.

"Then progressive resistance is required. Simply adding reps does not increase strength past initial accommodation."

But initial accommodation for many people might be 6 months. I have trainees who struggle to squat past parallel for weeks or months, who can't do a Tabata cycle of more than 8 squats and who struggle to do real pushups after weeks of training. The base level of fitness for most people is so abysmal that getting them to understand the benefits of 7 minutes of high intensity exercise can be life changing. Sure, to be truly strong, you're going to have to eventually lift heavy weights but for majority of the people out there, a simple body weight routine will give them an amazing fitness boost.

Any exercise is better than no exercise. For years, people have thought they needed to spend hours at the gym to lose weight when in fact, solid nutrition combined with short intense workouts can in fact lead to enhanced strength and fitness. When the baseline is so low, anything is helpful.
Hahaha.
Love that you signed your message with your 'jewgold' address.
Nice 0day.
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I think the problem is that the comment appears to use a "no true Scotsman" fallacy.
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I'm in the UK too, tested it with a CC and it worked fine, recurring payment actually came out of the account last week. Worked a treat!
Congrats! It's a huge sense of accomplishment, no? I did a similar thing around the same time ago -- started eating better (out with the Frosted Mini Wheats for breakfast, in with the Greek Yogurt), started running, and lost 30 lbs in about 6 months. No supplements either. Best life improvement I've ever made.
hey is that 5million lost hours an actual amount? or did you just make it up lol just curious.
Ask HN: How do I "prove" my app doesn't infringe on existing IP?
I'm working on getting my app (mobile and web components) into a pilot program with a local government agency. It's taken >3 months for them to review my proposal and draft their own agreement and terms for the pilot. One of the questions their legal counsel asked was for "proof" that this app doesn't infringe on any existing intellectual property. Any thoughts on how to go about providing such proof or mitigating the need for it? I assume obligatory IANAL on all comments... unless you say IAAL!

To explain the app a touch further... All it really does is provides an interface (web) for the government agency to setup appointment reminders for people who have installed the mobile app. Push notifications and more details will then be sent to the mobile app user. That's only slightly more generic than the actual functionality. Not trying to hide details because of stealth mode, but for anonymity.

My initial response was this is not even remotely groundbreaking technology at this point, and it's only doing things that a great deal of apps already do. Obviously, that doesn't quite hold water as a legal defense, but am I seriously supposed to comb through all potentially related patents preemptively, and refute each one?
I don't see the big deal. What the heck are you afraid of? Is Google going to put user tracking into the Go spec? Go has two compilers, both of which are open source and open to external contributions.
> This person does NOT change their diet. They exercise instead. Since exercise means weight loss, and diet is unimportant... Or so you claim.

Where did he claim that? He does not mention diet.

I took his claim to be: For the purpose of burning calories, a 45 minute workout will be more efficient than a 7 minute workout, regardless of workout content.
There's not an easy way to add document signing to your own applications yet. I'm trying to solve that with Signature.io. It's sort of a Stripe for e-signatures. Let me know your thoughts.
This will definitely a relief for a product like ours - one of the modules of our product works inside Gmail...
Same here:

Linux (redacted) 3.2.0-41-virtual #66-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 25 03:47:17 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[ 413.309308] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000001781eef4e8
[ 413.310359] IP: [<ffffffff8108d605>] atomic_dec_and_mutex_lock+0x15/0xa0
[ 413.311025] PGD 1c4ec067 PUD 0
[ 413.311680] Oops: 0000 [#6] SMP
[ 413.312007] CPU 0

Edit: disregard the timestamp above, VM has not synced with NTP for some time.
Exactly so. For the record, Imre is one of my PhD siblings, and it's perfectly reasonable that we came to this point of view as a by-product of working with our supervisor (and "grandparents", Erdős and Adams)
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No. The scenario you posit would be true if JavaScript were call-by-reference.

JavaScript, however, is call-by-value.
Primitive types (string, number, boolean) are passed to functions by copying their value, and reference types (such as any object you create) are passed by copying the value of their reference.

The reference semantics can be observed in JavaScript in some cases, such as:

var i = 0;
for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
setTimeout(function() {
document.write("i is now " + i);
}, 10);
}

Here the inner function gets reference of the variable i instead of its value.
The irony of your statement is that Go is open source, and C# is an ISO standard. Those were proactive choices by the companies, and they should really be considered the leading stewards of the language- but not the owners.
heh.. classic response
Can't say I agree. You tend to find crashes pretty quickly. Security vulnerabilities tend to be found later in much more embarrassing ways.
Can't wait to use this to prove that are infinite primes. :P
Why do the French count so strangely?
yeah, true
Keep working on this. It's a little irritating to look at, but I bet with some more effort, you can make it pretty nice.
Decent RDBMS servers will parallelise where possible, and use the servers 8 cores (or whatever) to optimise such a problem.
I am a little bit perplexed by the recent pushback against the DMCA as embodied by this article and http://fixthedmca.org/. Don't get me wrong, I think software patents need to be abolished. But on the copyright side, explain to me why game console jailbreaking tools should be readily available?
Square blocks gun sales
You're punning on the word "monopoly." The monopoly on a specific manifestation on an idea (e.g. a book) is used in the same sense as a property right being a "monopoly" on a specific piece of land, not in the sense of say the AT&T monopoly. It's exclusive control over a specific thing versus exclusive control over a market. The latter is bad for economies. The former is necessary for them to exist.

In a way, a copyright monopoly is far more morally justifiable than monopoly over land. Land in the US is stuff we stole from the American Indians. It was here before you were born and it will be here after you die. Why should you get a monopoly over a piece of the earth? With regards to a book or a song, you created that work. It did not exist before you. Your moral right to control it is much stronger.
My guess is that you're in your low to mid 20's, a time when most have achieved some modicum of independence, feel they have the world at their fingertips, and usually, that they deserve said world.

I remember it well, not with fondness, but regret, because decisions like these cost me the better part of 7-10 years of my life.

Perhaps this is a great decision, only time will tell, but there's something to be said for patience and persistance that leads me to believe this could be a dangerous decision. Here's why...

Your chances of a 200m exit are the same as most, and I don't think it's something you could or should have banked on. On the surface, this looks like a lateral move, and my guess is that the occupational differences won't matter in the long run.

What will matter is the behavior you have exhibited in making this choice.

We gain what we grant ourselves, and in this case, you've granted yourself a rush of impulse, which can lead to addiction and a selfish nature that can become toxic. I don't know you and I can't judge you for it, but from the outside, it seems to me like you are used to always getting what you want, and haven't had to struggle for much.

It's OK to want more, and to believe that you should have it. What isn't OK, is being selfish in your path to get there.

It's strange because we live in this society that celebrates impulse and selfishness as if it were our birthright. I'm talking to you, lifestyle gurus. On the other hand, we also celebrate steadfast determination and 'grinding it out.' In my experience, success comes as a result both in concert together, but because 'grinding it out' takes long-term effort, most throw it out the window.

What I'm getting at is that regardless of what you want, and how quickly you believe you should have it, each and every one of your decisions affects other people. In this case, your decision affects friends, family, founders, investors, and customers. Perhaps there was minimal collateral damage, and it sounds like you were mature in the way you handled this decision, but do remember that it's not just 'your life' at stake. It's everyone's.

I'm sure this was a difficult decision, and I applaud you for having the guts to make it and follow through. Just make sure you don't spend the next portion of your life repeating the same behavior because it suits the selfish gene. Now that you've acted on impulse, it's time to stick to it and make that decision count. It's time to do the work.
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A key advantage of barbell and dumbbell exercises is that they can be progresively loaded in small increments. Bodyweight exercises tend to have larger jumps in difficulty.

Most of the most popular weights programs for beginners are linear progressions. You literally add a fixed amount to each exercise, each session, until you can't. Folk are amazed at how quickly they can progress from struggling with a bar to squatting their own bodyweight.
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While I don't think this workout is actually a great one, I have found that you definitely can do a killer workout in a short period of time, depending on your fitness.

I started Crossfit a few months back, and its entirely possible to do 2-3 simple movements (thrusters + pullups for example) in a short time period (2-10 minutes) and really push yourself to complete exhaustion.
Cloud Interoperability and The Battle For The Open Cloud
Well what sort of story are you expecting to hear? Without going into detail it's not really that exciting.

There was a requirement for high volume/through put messaging component in our infrastructure.

That technological requirement (along with non functional requirements e.g. development time/costs) was more than adequately met by a program(s) written by a team member written in Go. Was it an opportunity to further explore the "new hotness" that is/was Go…absolutely but the solution could have been implemented in one of the other supported technologies C/C++/Java with appropriate advantages/disadvantages associated with each. It will stay in use for as long as it provides the best solution, if that changes a more appropriate solution will be investigated.

> 'This guy re-wrote all our stuff in the new hotness then left the company'

The Go dataStore is "a" component within a large infrastructure, it is supportable by more than one member of the development team (a core requirement when deploying any new technology to production).

I'll also note that before Andy left, being a professional and thoughtful colleague, he put a lot of effort into ensuring appropriate training and knowledge was given to team members that had not been part of the deployment.

As Andy is a very well regarded former colleague, it helps that we could easily get in touch for a query, even when we're out for a beer or five* :)

(*five might not be a maximum in that scenario)
The entire US music and movie industry is smaller than Apple. Money is not the issue here, except to the extent that the tech industry wants to make money off the content created by the media industry.
$270,000 Fine + jail for using skype in UAE
It's a bit strange to complain about lack of use for "lambda functions" in a language where there's a keyword that generally accepts a function reference, most often a function literal? (This keyword coincidentally is the language name lower-cased.)

WRT generators: have you tried using channels? "The tour of Go" seems to instill you with the idea that you should not iterate over lists and use channels instead.

I also miss list comprehensions and, for that matter, type-parametrized functions.

OTOH, static duck typing is brilliant: best of both worlds.
without quotes
>>That is until recently since a new trend of running very long distances at a low intensity for training became popular, just as runners from Kenya and Ethiopia do. Now Americans who employ the latter tactic are starting to fair better on the international scene, even reaching the podium for some long distance events. More American collegiate athletes who are employing the low-intensity, long distance training strategy are clocking sub-4 minute miles as well which is a hallmark of elite running status.

This conclusion is premature. We have no way of knowing whether the increase in performance in American athletes comes from them changing their training methods, as opposed to countless other factors. As far as I know, no random controlled trials have been conducted in this area (and those are the only truly reliable scientific method for answering questions like this).

edit: only someone who doesn't understand science would downvote this comment. :)
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With a database like HBase, it's already ordered lexicographically which makes it easy to grab a range of data in the order it was written in. You could have a key design like <reverse_domain>-<epoch> which would allow quick scans over large amounts of data. ie..Scan from <object_id>-1368536860 to <object_id>-1368540450

HBase is multidimensional though, which allows you to keep N numbers of versions of a cell. By default you will get the latest version of the cell back, but you could also opt to receive N versions back, which is useful for time series use cases.
The goto and labels stick out like coal in a pile of gold.
I'm not speaking (only) of non-constructive proofs, I'm just saying that sometimes a proof will leave you with no real sense of why a result is true (or "inevitable"). That sense sometimes comes much later, after further results are known.
Yes, or a larger collection of programs/scripts/resources.
List of organizations that use Go: https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/GoUsers
Go has first-class functions, so if you want map/reduce/filter there's nothing stopping you.