skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
of course not, their entire existence revolves around not getting caught.

Edit: I looked up some of the claims about strength gains of Sommer's athletes. He's bragging about 400lb deadlifts, 75lb pullups after years and years of training. For reference I hit those numbers for reps in less than 18 months at a bodyweight of 145 with an actual lifting routine, and I consider my progress to be slightly slow compared to a lot of other lifting logs on fitness sites. I expect any other numbers I find to be similarly unimpressive. In general I find that the claims about bodyweight exercise follow this pattern, proponents simply do not understand what constitutes genuine impressive numbers once you are talking about a legitimate strength training program (one used by professional athletes across many sports).

Edit2 found some more claims:
Double bodyweight dead lift

Military press with 110% bodyweight

Chins with 50% of his bodyweight for reps

Dips + 60% of his bodyweight for reps

There's nothing here not reachable within 2 years by a young male following a decent program (and that's assuming a start from sedentary).
WhatsApp requires a phone number and will not work on iPod touch or iPad.
Why would HN need it? Look at what assets the HN pages include and where they are sourced. There's no real benefit to be gained for the user. It would be faster and more efficient for the user if he could pipeline multiple HN pages (1,2,3,...) but that's exactly what pg stops you from doing with his fnid scheme.

HTTP pipelining a la the HTTP/1.1 spec works fine. No additional software from Google is needed. You don't need SPDY to get speed gains. What you need to get the benefits of pipelining are sites that have decent Max-Results settings (100 is quite common) and that have many assets you want all served from the same IP. There are lots of those sites, but HN is not one of them.
I've been lifting weights for 20 years and was always fairly strong but I felt I never got results that justified the amount of work I put in. I decided to try starting stength after hearing so many great things about it. In 3 months all of my lifts have nearly doubled. Sometimes you really are just doing it wrong ...
> Does the NSA store all text messages? Yes, more than likely.

If the NSA is already storing all of the things, why do we keep having scandals about government breaking rules to get records of things? Google publishes specific numbers of requests for records... There was a story a month or so ago about feds reprogramming a guy's smart card specifically to track him... AP just broke the story about the subpoena for two months of phone records... if the NSA already has all this stuff, why doesn't everyone in the government just secretly get it from them instead of going to all this extra trouble to get records from companies all the time? I'm concerned about all the above abusive surveillance stories, but doesn't the fact that we're having all these stories prove that they don't have total surveillance yet?
Sigh.

In an HN thread commenting on a scientific study, our top comment is an N=1 report, followed immediately by the commenter peddling the book of a self-described fitness expert who praises "ultra-high calorie diets", followed downthread by the same commenter peddling some "supplement" called "Pre-Exercise CNS-Carnosine-ATP Augmentor".

Really, HN?
I suppose that's one option. :)
Aye, meant collectivism, not sure how I managed that, sorry!

Agree that the tyranny of the majority still applies in the case of democracy - see the UK EU in-out referendum impending mess.
This has got to be flame bait. No one is this stupid.
This seems like a pretty absurd response to me. First, as OP noted, they could have just unsubscribed. Annoyance gone.

Second, they wrote, "if startups keep sending forward e-mails, everyone loses." This is false. Anyone who learned about new features, or was motivated/encouraged/pushed into publishing their website, won. Many small businesses need the coaching and help to publish their site.

These messages obviously weren't targeted to you. It would be nice if you just realized this and removed yourself, rather than assuming everyone is like you and is annoyed by these emails.

I look at it this way: either I pay the website directly, or they sell my attention/info, or they get a shot at marketing directly to me. #2 is the worst option; for free services, then, directly marketing their upsell to me is the only viable option.

Businesses have to make money. When you use a free service, there is a cost to pay. I think advertising and upselling their services is a very fair option, compared to some of the other models available.
Too busy making "beautiful" interfaces, "disrupting" business, "changing the world" etc etc ad infinitum.
Plasma Pong was actually what I was thinking of when I wrote my comment. :-) The author of Plasma Pong (Steve Taylor) was my roommate when Atari shut down his game.

As far as litigation is concerned, I would expect that bigger companies would tend to get sued over trademark issues. After all, isn't that where the money is at?
Back in the day, President Reagan insisted that all decisions he needed to make be given to him in the form of a one page memo with a yes/no checkbox. We made fun of him for being stupid back then, but now I appreciate the wisdom of it. If he needed to know more, he could always ask, but a one-page yes/no decision forced some efficiency.

Of course, the effectiveness of this approach depends a great deal on the quality of your staff.
Here is a challenge for you.

It is easy to prove that the 2-player version of the game of hex on an nxn board is a win for the first player. The proof involves a finite game, so no axiom of choice involved.

I invite you to find and master the proof, then when you think you understand it demonstrate your knowledge by playing me a game of hex. We can play on wargear, my user account there is http://www.wargear.net/players/info/btilly and you can challenge me to a 19x19 pure or 2nd player choose on the board http://www.wargear.net/boards/view/Hex.

If I win, then I submit to you that your comprehension of the proof did not truly extend to understanding why it was true.
The Birds & the Bees of Hex Editing
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Without Go, you'd only ogle Google.
Talk to me
Generally, I appreciate it when people with a condition or a risk factor speak out. I look forward to a day when diseases of all kinds are de-stigmatized, and each voice helps.

Curiously, I went to fill out the survey linked from Larry's post, and after I indicated that I don't have vocal cord paralysis, the survey was over for me. Somehow, I'm surprised they weren't interested in collecting denominator / negative information from those without the condition.
It's a good point. I've had it as a worry in the back of my mind for a while now, the 'best' solution for now seems to be linking to your own personal forks of projects you depend on.
I totally agree that packaging and dependency management is Go's weak spot, and I've experienced similar issues. That said, I wouldn't blame this on golang per-se. I have run in to the same issues in Ruby, although versioning is a bit better.

Whenever I see a fast-moving dependency I fork it and use my fork, then integrate upstream changes when appropriate. If you have to do that for every damn dependency I can see that being horrible, though...
That's a pretty heavy solution.
Electronic warfare is not on the same level as real warfare. Nobody will die if the internet is down for a few weeks.

Watching funny cats on YouTube isn't so important that I should give up my privacy. Some mega-corp's website going down for a day or two is less worrisome to me than knowing the government is watching me.
"What makes people your age think you'll be able to keep your jobs?"

Blind optimism? I don't really have alternatives. I do think there will be a potential for self-employment as a consultant, using my years of experience (constantly kept up to date) to keep me more productive than a team a younger programmers. I'm also hoping that the biases against older programmers will fade away as I, and the overall population of software developers, gets older.

There are always alternate career paths too. My skills and experience cover the entire breadth and depth of developing software products, so I have a pretty wide range of jobs I can handle. That should help me stay employable too.
San Francisco homelessness is not a question about rich vs. poor. It's a question about what to do with people who are mentally handicapped and/or drug abusers. This is partially a money problem, but it's largely a social problem. A lot of other countries deal with this better because they have stronger family support structures. Programming can help, but this isn't a programming problem. And there's no money in it, so anybody who's trying to solve this problem can't afford to live in San Francisco.

Stepping over homeless people on my way to a cushy tech job has given me loads of cognitive dissonance. I have a really hard time with this, and I think about it every single day on my way to work. Frankly, I'm not sure what to do about it, and I'd love to have an open discussion instead of an anti-american one. Everyone here who's arguing about their superior European social programs are really preaching to the quire, because most Americans on Hacker News would kill to have these social programs.
From the horse's mouth: http://developer.netflix.com/blog/read/Changes_to_the_Public...
I should because one single physically strong person told me I should?

Before being a programmer, I was a soldier, and before that, a rugby player. I've had my share of extreme fitness levels, and I've known and am friends with a lot of strong people. Trust me, strenght is fun, but to make it the most important thing is plain wrong. Life is not uni-dimensional. Obviously, it's unclear what Rippetoe means by important. Does he mean it'll make you happy, live longer, healthier, good looking, etc.? Until he specifies that, he is saying absolutely nothing of value.

By the way, Physical existence, is, in no way, related to strength.

If you want my 2 cents, the only thing that works to get fit is: "Shut the fuck up and exercise!". All the time spent to talk about it, find a good workout, supplements, etc. Is worthless in the beginning if you can't shut it and do some physical activity.

The high intensity circuit training have been demonstrated to be more efficient at certain objectives, everyone that calls bullshit, probably never did high intensity circuit training properly, and for a reasonably long enough period of time, or has objectives to which it has not been proven to be good at. Other type of workouts can be just as good, or better, depending on the objective, and your context. If you only have 10 minutes a day, you don't really have a choice now do you.

Obviously, nothing will ever compare to having an active lifestyle. The reason we even need workouts are because our modern lives are so inactive.

Also, don't think because it's so short, it is easy. Sometimes, more motivation might be needed to perform high intensity circuit training properly. Higher injury rates can occur if done poorly. Depending on individuals, it is easier to perform at lesser intensity for longer times.
for rvm users, upgrade is pretty simple:

$ rvm get stable
$ rvm install ruby

done!
Partially because that kind of information can't be used in court.

The fact is that text messages are extremely insecure. If the US govt is willing to spend hundreds of billions on spy satellites and submarines, isn't it reasonable to assume that they would spend a couple million to gather all text messages? They're not supposed to spy on US citizens, but there are enough loopholes to allow it.

Just because the NSA has huge amounts of data doesn't mean that the FBI has unlimited access to that data.

The NSA historically doesn't share information with other agencies. Many claim that the NSA knew the details of 9/11 but were not allowed to share this information. Then the Patriot act and "secret patriot act" came along and more information is allowed to be shared between agencies, but not unlimited information, as far as the public knows.
99% of people are finding the emails useful.

How did you reach that conclusion?
I should hope so! The government is rather more regular than a particularly noisy lab experiment.

Now, as to what it meets the hurdle for statistical significance for . . . well, I personally prefer to avoid conspiracy theories when possible. So I'll just be keeping an eye open for more information.
>Physical strength is the most important thing in life.

BS in its purest form. Makes this guy untrustworthy. Actually, I find all of the fitness popularizing guys somewhat untrustworthy. I'm not sure why, my subconscious tells me that there's something fishy about them.
Please don't make a claim like that unless you can back it up. See my previous comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5707361
Go didn't screw anything over. It sounds like poor version control practices. Although the Go team eschews versioning of dependencies, they do so mainly because they are in control of said dependencies. If you're building software that relies on untrusted source code, do yourself a favor and make a copy of it that is known to work well and use that copy in your build environment.
I see a lot of negatives here over this.. but here is how I see this workout. You are a person who does work out on a fairly regular basis, but, are thrown 'off course' by a two week business trip, or stuck at a desk coding for hours on end to meet a deadline. This is perfect for that reason.. get in a few good minutes of strenuous activity, recover quickly with a water or shake, and go on with your busy schedule. If you can do this 2 or 3 times a day during that period... the better off you are, nothing scientific about that.
There was no induction; the proof was essentially: a) all planar graphs can be reduced to these several hundred cases (this part is ordinary mathematics) b) observe that it's possible to four-colour each of these several hundred cases (and a computer program was used to verify it). To my mind the proof is as complex as that set of cases; the fact that we can write a relatively simple program to check them all doesn't really reduce the complexity or tell us anything about why they're all 4-colourable, in the same way that using a computer to check the riemann hypothesis up to some limit tells us nothing about why it holds.
Or you could fork.

Or you could create a version of your src folder as a github checkout with submodules for each of the things you want to import.

I struggle to see what the issue is. I knew the first time I wrote an import in Go that this was possible, and that as the libraries for Go are relatively young that it is also likely.

My personal preference is just to keep track of changes fairly regularly and not allow much drift. But that's because up until Go1.1 I was following tip, which meant I was already in that habit.

Though it would be nice if ``go get`` could take a revision or branch/tag name.
One of my friend contracted two different rare disease, and one of his doctor made a similar remark. Sometimes you're really lucky, and sometimes you are really, really unlucky ...

It really sucks that so much of those things will probably never be treated properly because there is no incentive to do so. That's why initiatives like this are so great.
Homeland Security attempting to seize Mt. Gox's accounts?
I've used Dwolla successfully a couple times in the last month to transfer funds to Mt. Gox. Abruptly, I just got this email 5 minutes ago from Dwolla:

http://malgorithms.com/dropbox/mtgox-dwolla-homeland-security.png
I disagree wholeheartedly. Money, a reputation and a tract record are equally important to enthusiasm. Look at what Elon Musk has accomplished with his reputation and money multiplying his enthusiasm. Look at what Bill Gates has done with his money. Who has that kind of impact with conviction alone?
Deferred plans can still be plans.
Quantopian debuts live data trading for consumer quants
Perhaps a bit, but these comments are also based on real conversations with homeless people in SF.
It's a hypothetical argument involving a fictional corporation. The numbers are made up.

I think Patrick is saying that, assuming most people are satisfied, it's acceptable and not at all evil if a small minority who signed up for the emails in the first place turn out to be annoyed.
"Mostly truck drivers that are dead tired."

This. People don't even realize how important it is that people operating heavy machinery are well rested, and sometimes even put down appropriate regulations as just "worker's issues". Then you get a sleepy, bored guy on a highway, with neither awareness to spot dangerous situations, or willpower left to restrain from doing stupid things. It's a testament to how good they are at their jobs that they get to their destinations at all.
So that still doesn't tell us any more. From this, it reads like a scheme to sell some social app to stupid industry behemoths like WalMart.
Isn't that usually what people do in developments? They obtain a copy or fork of a library, and only update it at their discretion? This seems like an oversight by the developers rather than Go.

I realise that since Go supports this, it is encouraging to simply do that, but it isn't wise in the long term.

For instance, I've had some issues with Go-SDL, because one of the forks became unreliable. I decided eventually to simply fork another of the forks myself to overcome all these issues, and simply update my fork with commits to the main project whenever they came around.
Can you build an audience while maintaining intimacy?
Here's one example, from the city where I live: http://www.hw-hannover.de/

This is a state-sponsored program that provides housing and work for people with disabilities (I believe this includes or perhaps even mostly refers to mild mental disabilities, but I'm not sure). They operate a restaurant, a hotel, a bicycle workshop, landscaping service, mail delivery, and a bunch of other things.

Mission statement (translated): "Our central task is to create opportunities so that people with disabilities can develop personally and professionally. We ensure this through individually tailored offers in the areas of employment, housing and food. For people - by people!"
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I've saw the post in the context of homelessness that is discussed in the article. I also don't share his woldview maybe I understood it in a wrong way but "The world simply doesn't need many of the people born into it." came across as justification for letting these people living miserable lives and deny them basic rights, like shelter and health care.

The problem with such thinking is that it's often not up to us to decide if we are needed in this world or not. And it is also more often than not up to us if we have the energy and power to earn a wage that allows us sustaining our existence.

My impression is that there is a general consensus that every human beeing has some basic rights (U.N. Declaration of Human Rights) and that we as a society should work to provide these rights for everyone even if we have to sacrify some personal profit for it. Because it can also happen to us.

Op's post came across as If he does not share this views. I'd say if you deny basic human rights I can call you barbaric.

There is a difference between saying it's not a good idea to get children if you are in a bad economic situation or saying that it's correct that these children suffer homelessness because their parents made a bad decision or are somehow not fit enough to procreate. If you start to talk about fitness (here indirectly measured as ability to earn money) as an indication who should procreate you have a form of social darwinism. And there are a lot of problems with such a thinking.
An interesting point was brought from a WSJ article [1] about Paige's situation: "Page’s condition has worried the collective tech world and Google investors". Unfortunately, the article doesn't elaborate on this claim so it is tough to determine how true this is but like I said, it is an interesting point and thought-provoking.

[1] http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/05/14/google-ceo-larry-page...
Not for a video game.
congrats joshu!
I see a lot of reviews lambasting the software on these phones for being incredibly finicky. Are there models with stock android that just work? If so, why isn't some enterprising company importing them, providing QA and customer support and making a killing?
You know what? Thanks for writing that. The States needs to hear it.
I don't know and cannot find anything like an "about" page. It could be humor. It could be venting. It could be some guy managing a McDonald's trying to tell relatives to get off his back about the career they thought he should pursue. Unless someone here is the creator, knows the creator, or can provide a link to an interview, I don't think we can answer that.
Go pulls down remote repos/libraries locally. If the original developer has any sort of backup of his system from the time the game was working, he will have all of the working code.

If the original developer does not have that but at least hasn't nuked his src directory, he will have all of the working code (but may need to, e.g., git bisect).
On Bloomberg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe4fpGUL_q4
Yes it can, the proof is the security software that is written to do that in C/C++. Nobody is saying that the protection will protect you over all possible buffer exploits.
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Florida shortened yellow lights to increase red light camera revenue [video]
All of these compilers or JIT interpreters are implemented in C or C++ (which are open languages with ISO standards).

Technically, if I'm not mistaken, Go is (currently!) implemented in Plan 9 C, which is not the same thing as ISO C.

Also, Go is very different from .NET and Java. For starters, it was published in source pretty soon after it had been announced. You have your freedom right there.
Bloom Energy raises another $130M
Sure, but it's also a common solution outside of Go. I write iPhone apps and we have all of our major dependencies forked, because at some point you're going to butt up against the limits of what your lib does. Even just redirecting a git submodule at a later point is a minor brainfuck - so nowadays we just instinctively fork as soon as we decide to pull it in as a dependency.

What I really want to know is why they chose Go in the first place. Go isn't a game development language and it has little to no support, documentation, or just plain old previous community experience in the gaming context. This feels like the classic software development of putting the technology ahead of the product - using a tool because it's cool, rather than using it because it's the best thing for the job.

It's all about shipping, people. Use whatever you need to you can ship what you want, when you want to, at the quality and reliability you desire.
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Except that Twitter is a completely different use-case. I tweet when I want the world to hear something. I send a BBM message when I want one or two of my friends to hear something.
Orthogonality generally implies mutual exclusiveness (which I don't think is what you're trying to say).
Cant see any cord or plug on the video. The Square Stand is just placed on the table with a cash drawer under it. The iPad runs on its battery, but it's not evident if the battery recharge is possible while using the Stand.
Justice Department's pursuit of AP's phone records is both extreme and dangerous