skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For overall health and lasting benefits you're going to need to get into a gym and pick something heavy off the ground.

Not necessarily true. There are also body weight exercises/calisthenics you can do at home. Hell, even regular walking and some yard work do wonders for your health.

You do not need to go to a gym and lift weights.

This exercise regime (or "gimmick", as you refer to it) is completely valid, and it's better than doing nothing. The average person probably can't even complete the 7 minute exercises with proper form.
C and C++ are corporate languages as well, ask AT&T.
Blackberry Messenger Announced for Android
What you are describing is not what this person experienced. Weebly sent an email a day, for a week. I understand one email, maybe even two after a few days. But every day for a week is too much.
Wow, a lot of people here are lauding Weebly for their great customer engagement whatever strategy. I don't know how effective these messages are, but working in e-commerce, I can say that customers don't want to be spammed.

The one thing they have correct is that aggressive subject lines are generally better at getting click-throughs than milder ones. "You'd be crazy to miss out on this" works better than "Check out our new product."

I used to work for a flash sales website, and whenever I told people about it, they'd uniformly say "Oh yeah, I've signed up for them! Way too many emails, can you make it stop?"

I'm sure the folks at Weebly have tested this (or maybe this poor unfortunate soul is part of some silly week-long A/B test to try and improve engagement.) But my personal experience says that Weebly needs to get smarter about how to engage.

More effective: Send someone a couple of welcome emails. Wait 4 weeks. Then send them a message. BAM, lots of engagement, because when you receive the email you say "Huh, this must be pretty exciting, I haven't heard from them in a while!"

Have you ever signed up for Everlane? Go do it and pay attention to the way they do onboarding and email marketing. They don't spam me, but when they do, I'm like "NEATO LET ME SEE YOUR NEW CASHMERE T-SHIRTS" because it seems like a rare opportunity to see a budding startup release a new product. It's all marketing but done in a way that doesn't suck horribly.
> flair

Thank you for finally providing me a concise word for so much of what goes on with typical Powerpoint use.

--

P.S. For those unfamiliar with the term (in this context).

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=flair

I was thinking particularly of its use in the movie "Office Space".
Ignoring your users is one thing; sending a new user an email virtually every day for 8 days in a row (with a creepy, "we know exactly how long since you've logged in, down to the second" finisher) reeks of the stereotypical greasy salesman hard sell, something "normal" users are well aware of (and hate) from non-web based businesses. Weebly is a case study in what not to imitate.
I wonder if a clearly labeled "all trucks go into this lane" well before the tunnel would work. You could have your barrier there, and not impede the rest of the traffic. You could even divert trucks into the car lanes while you clean up.

One one hand, they're already ignoring signs. On the other hand, a sign that says "ALL TRUCKS go this way" might get a better, or at least different, response from "YOU are too tall".
She makes one point in her piece that struck me as novel:

"Nine weeks later, the final surgery is completed with the reconstruction of the breasts with an implant. There have been many advances in this procedure in the last few years, and the results can be beautiful."

Can proactive mastectomies double as cosmetic surgery? That would be an interesting wrinkle in the cost/benefit analysis.

I wonder if that also wasn't one of the reasons proactive teeth removal (replaced with dentures) was once so popular.
Voice command recognition using Levenshtein distance and Web Speech API
A fairly low bridge (high enough for a standard trailer, but any oversized loads on a flatbed could easily hit it) in my area had what were essentially large metal cans hanging by wires along a sign warning about the height. Anything tall enough to hit the bridge would hit the bits hanging from the sign and clang them around/together/against the vehicle which makes a pretty audible noise for the driver.
I was required to use MongoDB in a recent large-scale analytics project. It is a disaster. I am in the process of replacing the most important metrics with Redis; I can't ditch Mongo fast enough.
So it does, I wasn't aware. Though, is the version submitted still supported by any modern interpreter?
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5607618 (discussion of "Our Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer"). That article does not address women with a BRCA mutation however.
If they sign up and don't use the service, the best way to user engagement is not by spamming them into submission.

Bad move Weebly.
I disagree with seeing this as a good example of lifecycle emails for precisely the reason the OP mentioned - it's not an expected part of his relationship with Weebly.

If he had opted-in to Weebly's "30 day email course on publishing great websites delivered over 8 emails" then you're right, it's OK, but he never opted-in.

Plus his point about not having a one-click unsubscribe is valid, primarily because it's illegal to not include that.
I'd love to hear your definition of it, drharris?
Treating intangible and tangible entities both as "property" does not mean treating them "equally." "Property" is the legal system's equivalent of Java's "Object" class. All "Objects" share certain common characteristics, but beyond that they are all different. Calling something "property" just applies a certain set of default rules to the thing.

As for "tangible" versus "intangible"--the set of things we call "intellectual property" are not coextensive with the set of intangible things which are called "property." Consider something like a "light and air" right, which is a property right but does not involve ownership of a physical thing. Or consider intangible rights like a vested legal claim, or assignable rights under a contract. We treat all these things under a common framework for the same reason UNIX treats everything as a "file"--it makes everything easier to deal with.
India unveils first indigenous rotavirus vaccine
They're still subsidised, so it's not the same thing.

The networks speculate in a certain amount of the sims getting into active use and more than covering the few users that buy them to swap sims.
But I don't see a keyboard; I doubt its a touch-screen. So no way to enter texts?
There's next to no cloud in the Adobe Creative Cloud
Google gets a lot of leeway from people. If you have done SEO, you will learn that the Googlebot doesn't always respect the robots.txt. Requesting to de-index a page may take weeks or even months. The quickest way is file a DMCA complaint for the link to your own site.

Recently, they started tracking all downloads made on Chrome (for malwares), it includes the filename, the URL, IP and the timestamp. Sucks hard since I love Chrome and the only way to disable it is to disable the website malware checker (which only uses part of the hashes anyway).
I would say it is.

Sure you will need to use Assembly for a few runtime parts, but C is no different, if you look at ISO/ANSI C without language extensions.
As beachstartup says, huge and strong don't always go together.

Before I started barbells, I had a fair amount of muscle mass. My muscles got a bit bigger, but I got a lot stronger.

I'd also like to clarify that I didn't really increase my gym time to do barbells. It takes about 3 hours per week. 1 hour, 3 days per week.

The main difference is the type of exercise done, and making sure that I sleep and eat in such a way to promote muscle repair.
The whole point of the water sign is not to cause damage/kill regular cars that might be next to or in front of the truck.
Shout-Out for Astrid Users
Alternate headline: Microsoft protects hundreds of millions of Skype users by going to the effort of checking even https URLs in chat for malware and spam.
In many ways the Shanzai / Gongkai way has is a pre-cursor to the world we'll get as more patent intensive countries get past their expiration dates of those patents. And while I'm not convinced there will be a singularity, I am certain that we'll reach a point where enough stuff will be 'free to use' that the number of choices will grow large and the prices will be as commoditized as possible. An important thing to plan for is a recyclable version of the phone such that you can dispose of it safely and the materials can be recovered. Without that we'll just burn through a variety of rare earth elements by mining them, buying/using them, and then returning them to the earth somewhere else :-).
Go doesn't have parametric polymorphism. So yeah, there is something stopping you.
I love looking at cats!
Not quite yet, it still builds a small bootstrapping tool with C
Oberon, Oberon-2, Component Pascal, Active Oberon, Modula-3, ...
signs and "plackards" go ignored all the time. i worked in a computer lab and had to put up signs when things were broken ( internet, printer, etc.. ) and we always got people ignoring them...
Soon to be three, llgo is getting closer!
Ask to meet Adria Richards.
Gifs as Language
Adobe announced no further development of Fireworks
Last week, Adobe announced that there will be no further development of their Fireworks application. Security updates will be provided and bug fixes may arrive, but for all intents and purposes Fireworks CS6 is a dead man walking. The petitions for clemency have already begun, but it seems likely that at some point Adobe’s CEO will give the order to flick the switch and like a paper rocket on a rainy fourth of July, Fireworks will be no more.
Why version 1.0 of our app failed
The war for mobile messaging is on
Recruiter here, and I wouldn't paint recruiters with that broad a brush. Sure the resume is thin, but candidates that have certain indicators (such as Andrew here demonstrates) generally come with substantial upside for clients. I'd absolutely talk to him if he were looking for work in areas where my clients hire.
*"Toy programs" as-in -- http://books.google.com/books?id=gQ-fSqbLfFoC&lpg=PP1...
Usually because of the runtime - locks, garbage collection strike when you can't afford it (realtime buffering).

So my approach is a heap-cache usually. Calculate the log2 size, choose a heap bucket, if its empty THEN go to the heap. Never frees so never garbage collects (neither does single-large-allocation so no loss), just relinks freed blocks on the cache bucket by size for simple reuse. It soon comes to a working-set and never takes longer than a critical-section and link/unlink, at least once it settles down.
Discussion: How to start developing my own video game
Hi All,

I am a trained mathematics / computer science working professional interested in starting a side project. Ever since I was a kid I was interested in video games and would like to try my hand at game development. I work with code professionally, but I have no experience with graphics or physics engines beyond what I have read on HackerNews, Twitter, research papers / conferences, etc. Beyond a gaming project in undergrad, I have never created a game before (we coded this project in C++ using SDL, following the tutorials on LazyFoo).

I am a cerebral person and sometimes need to push myself to 'jump in' to the creative process; I have an art and music background and want to create my own sprites and music, and imagine the android platform is a great place to start developing.

Can anyone on Hackernews help me get started? Would anyone be willing to walk me through the basics or direct me to good blogs / resources for getting started? Anyone in my position and want to collaborate?

I have some specific questions too. Take your favorite Android game. Anyone know the high-level overview for how it was coded? What packages the development used, developed themselves, etc.

Thanks for reading, I look forward to this discussion!

Myles
More severe low-tech solution: https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=blackwall+tunnel&hl=en&...

(Blackwall Tunnel, northbound, London)

And again, just in case you missed the scraping sounds the first time: https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=blackwall+tunnel&hl=en&...

(For some reason they don't appear to have anything similar going south...)
Duly noted. Will attempt to obfuscate using longjmp next time.
The last time I looked there weren't many resources explaining how to design NoSQL databases (how to compose your keys, when to avoid normalization, etc). Has this improved?
"multiple, obvious flashing warning signs wouldn't be that common."

Unfortunately they are way too common. Did you know there's wild animals living outdoors and they cross roads? 75 miles away a divorced family is having a custody dispute so here's abduction alert #243 for the year as a punishment from one parent to the other? There's a terrorist hiding behind every tree stump? Next month some roadwork is planned although nothing so far has been done other than put up the warning sign and barrels and collect higher traffic ticket fees? Six months ago a long term road work lane closure happened so everyday commuters now completely ignore a giant bright flashing warning that lanes have changed? The bright flashing overhead sign reports that 30 miles away where you aren't even going, there is a traffic jam? This is before I even get started on the billboard advertisements designed to distract you from driving.

If everything's an emergency, then nothing is an emergency. Including, unfortunately, bridge height.
Feedly Gets Unity Web App Integration
There's a return to image search button in the middle of the page.
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But if one is going to use a key-value store anyway, where is the "mangling"? Building a key-value store in an SQL database is trivial (this below is for PostgreSQL):

create table keyvalue (key text, value text);
create index keyvalue_idx on keyvalue(key);

And use is trivial as well:

insert into keyvalue (key, value) values ('key', 'value');

select value from keyvalue where key = 'key';

[edit] formatting fix.
Reminds me of this HN post.

"New Skype malware spreading at 2,000 clicks per hour to mine Bitcoins"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5502028

One of the choice top HN comments:

"Why does Skype even have any clickable links in it at all if Microsoft can't be bothered to keep the obvious malware out?"

Another comment:

"Re the conclusion: to protect yourself, don't run an OS that will silently install software just because you clicked on a blue link in a program published by the OS vendor.
Steve Ballmer should be jailed as an accessory for allowing this."

Damned if they do, damned if they don't.
>It takes the exact opposite approach to functional languages, preferring boring simplicity to powerful but cryptic abstraction.

Yes, functional programming is based on the idea that abstractions should be cryptic. That's a very reasonable observation, and not at all ignorant.
Uh do you not see the letters on the number keys there. Did you ever own a phone before smart phones?
there's a numeric keypad to enter texts with (press 7 three times to type r, etc)
why is Jay Kay from Jamiroquai teaching memory management?
Scientists find extensive glacial retreat in Mount Everest region
The depressing part is reading the comments here on HN and realizing that some people just don't see what the problem is. Ok, fine, forget about the ethical aspects here and understand that when you spam your customers like this you tarnish your image because you're effectively putting yourself in the same category as the people who try to sell fake rolex watches and viagra pills.

I suggest that the next time a business, startup or not, tries to "lifecycle email" (yuck) you, don't unsubscribe - spam flag them. If some business people have such warped understanding of reality that they can't see spam when they send it, at least they can get penalized for it.
And to confuse things further, we'll provide examples in Coffeescript?

To be fair, they do link to some JS conversion thing, but I'd prefer to read the examples right in the article - "don't make me think" and all that.
I was too busy playing the game to notice.
Or, you know...as proof, I can use the gains I've measured in my own body.

No, that can't be it...
You should definitely do this. Do it now. Post video. Use the video as part of your pitch deck.
If your copy comes across to your prospective users as aggressive and annoying, I'm not sure I'd call that effective copywriting.
I was one of the early users and can definitely attest the analytics + error traces work really well.

I think the major differentiator here is that many products just focus on analytics and some on errors but bringing both on a single screen gives a developer much better insights.
Or when their parents become ill. Or for purposes of society.
The Landau chapter (2nd on the "Mechanics book) demonstrating how conservation laws derive from symmetries (eg Energy conservation due to homogeneity of time) was really mind-blowing for me when I was starting out in college. I don't understand why I haven't seen this idea presented in other textbooks and I can't recommend it enough for anyone with an interest in physics or science.

Online: http://archive.org/stream/Mechanics_541/LandauLifshitz-Mecha...
'Virtual hardware' is an old idea, nobody has mentioned it here. The idea is, the hardware interface can be exposed in a page in user space. The driver is a library that can run in the application process. The hardware has to reconcile several user-mode apps but that's usually just queueuing.

Gain: no user-kernel process switches; no kernel call to poll completion; no data copying between processes; no interrupt transition. This was the idea behind InfiniBand but virtual hardware is older than that.
This is way milder than Quora's (content-held-hostage, data-collecting) practices. Weebly is trying to help you complete a task you started -- the core task why anyone signs up with them -- and they make it easy to stop at any time.

And both Weebly and Quora are milder than FounderDating's 'dark pattern' of making it hard to realize a smarmy message will be sent out in your name, spending your credibility to harvest more prospects.

Weebly's messages just nudge you along a path you'd already chosen, trying to prove their worth and convert you into an appreciative customer. (They're not trying to extract extra value from your personal info or network as a non-paying customer.) We should expect every business to do the same sort of sales, in a forthright non-deceptive manner, until you give them a gentle signal of disinterest.
We have a variant of this installed on a tunnel (which is probably safer, but not as cool :) ): Directly after the last highway exit before reaching the tunnel is a light barrier installed. If something breaks the barrier the tunnel entrance will be closed by boom barriers (and warning lights, so nobody drives into the boom barriers). Then the police drives out to the tunnel, finds the culprit, pulls him out and unlocks the tunnel again.

Obviously, this only works because there is enough time after the last exit to block the tunnel before the truck reaches it.
I would have thought so (but I'm far from an expert on such matters). However you'd still have the issue of users wanting to download Go's build tools from source (as not everyone likes to install pre-compiled binaries on their systems) and not being able to compile the compiler.

Granted gcc could now be used. But then you're back to using a compiler built in C++ to build Go code.
Fabric: deploy only changed files from last deployed commit.
>Exceedingly simple semantics combining to form a difficult-to-use language

Who was suggesting that we should form difficult to use languages on those simple semantics?
A 7-minute workout isn't really going to accomplish much, but the original paper suggests repeating the 7 minute program multiple times per session.

This article is attempting to repackage old knowledge, but that doesn't really mean that it's a waste of time. There are world class athletes that use only bodyweight exercises to stay in shape. Going to the gym and picking heavy things off of the ground isn't a strict requirement of lasting fitness. Weightlifting is a perfectly viable method, but it isn't the only way to get in shape.
Alternative headline: If microsoft can read your skype chats so can any government that has a serious relationship with microsoft (read all NATO nations + other).
Ruby 2.0.0-p195 released
I disagree with seeing this as a good example of lifecycle emails for precisely the reason the OP mentioned - it's not an expected part of his relationship with Weebly.

I think that relevant emails about how to improve your usage of a service - from the service provider themselves, no less - are a valid part of your business relationship with them.

If he had opted-in to Weebly's "30 day email course on publishing great websites delivered over 8 emails" then you're right, it's OK, but he never opted-in.

It's not difficult to label emails negatively if you yourself are not a fan.

Personally I'd have called them Weebly's "Here's how to get the most out of our service" emails.

Plus his point about not having a one-click unsubscribe is valid, primarily because it's illegal to not include that.

To me, the post said that Weebly do have that unsubscribe link, can you point out where I've gone wrong?
Like the rest of the commenters I feel horrified about this.

But why do I feel this way? The vast majority of buildings are demolished and recycled. What is about this one--the age, I assume? Maybe it's a symbol of humanity's time on the earth--but why is that personally important to me?

Maybe I'm nuts but I think it's fascinating to really dig into the "why" behind such a common emotional reaction.
Square Debuts its Latest Hardware, a $299 Card Swiper for iPad Registers
>It might just be really bad practice and an under-/non-optimized crawler. //

I know they've got lots of money but really, are they wasting bandwidth and memory so badly as to download terrabytes of video they don't need?
"would cause some drivers to panic and endanger motorists around them."

About to smash out the top of a tunnel and crush the neighboring cars under your rubble? If you're not already in a panic, its certainly time to start...
Yeah, the limitation isn't hardware, but utilisation thereof. Maybe Go will change that; but I don't see it touting concurrent code as becoming trivial - just easier. (maybe I'm wrong?)

Server loads are typically embarrassingly parallelizable, e.g. serving concurrent web requests. I mean, consider, are you maxing out all 8 cores? Multicore utilisation is hard, in general. So desktop cpus pretty much stalled at quad-core (I expect ARM chips are doing likewise as we speak).
To each his own. I don't work for the world's largest anything, and while programming is only one thing I do, it's the only one I'm interested in doing professionally. How quaint, I guess.

Do you want to run a business, or do you aspire to be the kind of person who runs a business, because magazines told you that means something? One is sexy and the other isn't.
Inside the world of vapers, the subculture that might save smokers' lives
Google Glass Engineer Wanted
Unfortunately, as a marketer it's really easy to see how this cycle happens. You send out an email and you see "Oh wow, 75% of the people we sent this email to came back to the site." That's your purpose - to drive engagement. So you set up an email drip that perhaps gets annoying, but in the end you see your numbers higher than they would be without those emails. You forget it's about users because now they're just numbers.

This definitely isn't a problem unique to small or early startups. (Looking at you, LinkedIn).
dont forget llgo!