skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's certainly possible. There is no way to tell other than to give it a shot for yourself.

However, I will mention, I'm not blessed with great genetics by any means. I would say I am an average/below average individual when it comes to "good genetics". My entire family is riddled with health issues. My father died at the early age of 56 due to heart disease, his brother at 60. His father at 52. When I found I had cholesterol issues, this is what made me start my exercise routine, so I didn't end up like them. So far, it has helped me tremendously.
Then: Soccer Player, Genetic Scientist, Lawyer

Now: Merchant Mariner
Great blog and fun idea.

However, as far as I'm concerned the only 'innovative' part of this is the day-of-the-week indicator. Calendars like http://www.amazon.co.uk/2014-slim-month-black-calendar/dp/B0... or http://www.amazon.co.uk/column-large-month-planner-calendar/... are actually better at conveying that information anyway and use less space to do so.

Even if the design itself were completely new (which I don't think it is), I'd be very reluctant to say that a calendar design idea is something that should be given a legal monopoly, so that even if someone else were to come up with the idea independently they should be barred from doing anything with it.

So I wish good luck to the poster, and thanks for clean design, an informative and interesting post, but also this: please compete on execution rather than trying to get the state to grant you a monopoly over an idea that is at best a small incremental change to designs that have been around for ages.
At least it doesn't have a menu key... (looking at you, samsung!)
Clearing your head is important. Unfortunately, many people seem to forget that it is necessary. "The physiological effects of tiredness are well-known. You can turn a smart person into an idiot just by overworking him"[1].

Also: Getting out the door is good: Five minutes of "green exercise" turns out to be good for your mental health[2].

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/16/news/ecanomy/annie/fortune_a...

[2] http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/201...
Are you living for yourself or others?
Here's an idea for a new keyboard. Just a board with studs like in Lego, and a bag of individual keys (switches), that you could arrange on the board in any way you would wish.

So you could build, in a way, any physical layout you would want. You could go fancy and use colored switches. And so on.. endless possibilities.
Use the best tool for the job - it's that simple.

RDBMS is NOT a silver bullet and nor is mongodb
Devilishly clever marketing for Cloudflare, though. Clearly I need to spend my days on more bridge calls for situations affecting other ops teams that have nothing to do with me, so my company can put out a PR piece from a position of authority about how awesome we are. What exactly did a team of people at Cloudflare do today? Consult? Do you bill hourly or is it a friendly NYT discount? What was your plan connecting end users with recursive operators? Want them to manually flush their resolvers out of the normal DNS TTL protocol? Is that a service that comes with my Cloudflare subscription?

Next time a startup goes down, ask yourself: if I were on a bridge call with their ops team, could I use this to sell my company's reliability product? Clearly, the answer is yes.

Classy, too, jumping out in front of MelbourneIT's response then speculating on it. I would be furious about Cloudflare writing a details-thin "postmortem," headlining it as a postmortem, analyzing my initial statement to customers in it, then getting it on HN before DNS caches are even cold from the incident itself. It's not even subtle.

This is the sort of thing I remember in discussions about using Cloudflare. There's lots of choices for CDNs, a market growing surprisingly full of ambulance chasers: one CDN startup had the fucking courage to email me directly after a hellish multi-hour outage and say "want to set up a call to discuss how our product could have prevented this outage?" I was still awake from fixing the problem overnight and no, your CDN is not going to fix my catastrophic DB failure. Get bent.

This is a disgusting move by Cloudflare. The little human network signoff made me gag; don't forget, small ops teams, you will only get things done if you know people. Notice HuffPo wasn't on the call? Exactly.
Which case did she use?
This is pathetic. Not going to happen, never, ever.
+1 - nice retort ;)
I would strongly suggest anyone looking at this and saying they don't have the time to invest in this to also consider the mental benefits that exercise brings.

I don't feel I have time (which I know is wrong) and I particularly do not like gyms, but I cycle to work (2 miles) and on the way home I'll take a detour and add an extra 5-10 miles to my trip home. It clears the cobwebs. Cycling can be very meditative as well.

I am extremely lucky to be living in a place that allows me to do this on car free routes (Bath->Bristol cycle path and the Two Tunnels Circuit).

If you live within 12 miles (and potentially up to 20 miles) of where you work (about an hour of easy riding), you should consider 'building' exercise into your commute. Even if it's twice a week to begin with. Be crazy and park your car 5 miles from work and cycle in from there and build it up.

FYI before starting this I weighed about 310lb and have got myself down to 275lb within a year without focusing too much on what I eat.
Reports claim it's buggy as anything, so I'm sure they'll have an easy time of finding an exploit.
If using a standing desk sounds like a good idea to you and you have the means to afford one or build one, it couldn't hurt to do both. My argument was that I did not feel like it was necessary considering my progress with sitting and doing regular exercise.
My experience is that when a UI feature is present in OS X and Linux, the OS X version will typically (though not always) be less buggy and more polished.

I've got Ubuntu 12 open in VMWare, running Firefox, and so I can compare it to my Mac running Mountain Lion. I'll pick on window resizing. Here are ways that Ubuntu's window resizing is objectively worse than OS X:

1. The resize edges on the right, left, and bottom are exactly one pixel in extent. They're nearly impossible to hit.

2. When resizing the Firefox window larger on the left/top sides, there's ugly flicker and transient drawing artifacts on the right/bottom side.

3. The resize cursors are misleading. For example, if I grab the top and resize the window as tall as it will go, the cursor still implies it can grow taller. On OS X the cursor changes when the window reaches a limit.

4. An Ubuntu Firefox window can be sized down to three pixels wide. It's hard to click on this window to make it bigger again.

5. Ubuntu allows me to position the window under the launcher and then resize it smaller. Such a window then gets "stuck" behind the launcher. I was also able to get an OS X window stuck behind the Dock, but it was harder: I had to make the Dock smaller, reposition the window, then make the Dock larger again.

6. If you position a window partially offscreen and then try to resize it smaller, it does this weird jitter thing.

7. Ubuntu does not appear to support background, fixed aspect ratio, or centered resizing, which are power-user features in OS X that you can access with modifier keys. If I hold down the shift key, then the Ubuntu window does some sort of snapping thing where it alternates between being as wide as it can, and being three pixels wide (??)

That's from a few minutes of poking around with a single UI interaction.

This isn't a fanboi post. While I like OS X, I noticed things that Ubuntu does better. But in turn, an objective Linux user cannot miss the many things that OS X does better.
Exercise is still good, but it doesn't do magic if you live unhealthy the rest of the time.

(That being said, I wonder if the extreme types of workout many people promote is actually good, or if it does more damage than good in the long run. I guess some people believe that one extreme can out-weight another extreme.)
Ask HN: Best ergonomic mouse (for programmers but not limited)?
Which are the best ergonomic mouses you're using? Are you a programmer? Did it help you get rid of wrist pain? I couldn't find anything recent on the topic and would like to switch to something of quality.
I completely agree, and I'd also like to add my frustration at the "space switching" animations in OS X. Spaces seem like a really great idea/productivity-paradigm, and I'd love to take advantage of them, were it not for the irritating ~1/2 second delay in switching. I'm so used to Cmd-Tab being instantaneous that this grates beyond acceptability.

While I'm here, I might as well call out my primary OS X UX bugbear (in the hopes that some wise soul has found a solution for it). If I hold Cmd, press Tab a couple of times, keep Cmd held down, and mouseover the icon box, the active icon "jumps" to the icon under the pointer. This can lead to the counter-intuitive experience of "Hold Cmd, press Tab, realise you want to stay on the same program, press shift-tab, release Cmd" NOT being a no-op. Equally, I'll sometimes start moving the mouse to the right position on the screen before, or while, pressing Cmd-Tab - if the mouse path intersects the icon box, I end up on the wrong program. Anyone know how to disable this?
It's proof that it worked for me. Somebody of average genetics and physique that had a lot of the same problems that others complain about and in turn try standing desks. Sometimes it's best to just give it a shot and see how it works for you instead of trying to find reasons not to try it. :)
> Also a perk of living in a city (such as San Francisco)

How is it related to living in a city? At least in the Bay Area you can walk/cycle pretty much everywhere if your work is close enough to your job. And cycling in suburbs is usually safer/healthier than e.g. in San Francisco.

You're out of luck if your job is far from your home though. But one will have the same problem in city as well in that case.
An unmaintained sandbox is worse than no sandbox at all because it gives a false sense of security.

The few who have to use it can keep using the old version and it being deprecated would put pressure on the websites that still use it to stop doing so.
Here's one answer:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Fixx

Quote: " "Jim" Fixx (April 23, 1932 – July 20, 1984) was the author of the 1977 best-selling book, The Complete Book of Running. He is credited with helping start America's fitness revolution, popularizing the sport of running and demonstrating the health benefits of regular jogging. Fixx died in 1984 at the age of 52."

Heart attack.
The latter- removable SD cards aren't always a great proposition for non-technical users, and google doesn't sell them.
The problem with sitting for long periods of time, or remaining in any static position really, is that as muscles fatigue more stress is put on joints and bones. Having more muscle and strength helps significantly, but not all forms of exercise develops muscle and strength adaptations equally.

It would depend on the exercise. If you by "exercise" mean superflous human movement for the purpose of wasting excess energy, I would agree it doesn't do much to counter sitting the rest of the day, it's basically just a break from sitting.

If you instead mean methodical heavy barbell training for the purpose of invoking physiological adaptations in the form of increased muscle and strength, it would probably do a great deal to offset sitting for the rest of the day, especially coupled with the increased awareness and understanding of spinal positioning that comes with lifting weights.

Most of the time when people talk of "exercise", they mean the kind that don't do much for muscle and strength development (mainly the aerobic kind or light anaerobic work), but a lot of people actually do the kind that does.
I use razer death adder. It fits very well in my hand, and I have mapped the side buttons to PgUp PgDn because the scroll is so slow it is unusable (MX Revolution had the best scroll wheel ever that moved from discrete to freewheeling on the fly, sadly they decided not to implement the technology any longer in any products).

As usual with razer build quality is between mediocre and crappy.
I'm not familiar with the details of the TSA procedure (thankfully, I'm not an US citizen and haven't been there since the whole post-9/11 mess started) -- but I would agree that searching the bag should be done in front of the owner.

That's actually the recommended policy in most cases (not only TSA), for several reasons. One of them is the one you stated; another one is that suspicions related to a particular item can be cleared more quickly by just asking the owner, and if you do it right, you can also get various hints about anything illegal (e.g. the guy is ok until you find the hidden pocket).

There's only one case I know of where searching without the owner's presence would be legitimate -- if the exact testing equipment and procedure must not be divulged, for fear it might reveal vulnerability. This is a form of security by obscurity though, and a sane system shouldn't need that. I'm sure this isn't the TSA's case, but there are cases where it can be an option -- for instance, in an underfunded law-enforcement system that can't afford sufficiently broad testing equipment. In their case, introducing further delay in the obsolescence of their equipment probably ought to be understood. This comes in various other incarnations -- e.g. if you suspect the bag may contain dangerous substances, you typically want to search it in a special, sealed room.

Nonetheless, if searching is done in another room, that's always done according to a procedure that ensures accountability: you ask the owner to tell you what's inside, make a list of everything there, and ask him about the working condition of every gizmo inside. The proper way to do it is with a constructive attitude -- if the bag is stuffed with various items, you assist the owner by taking the items one by one. You don't let him touch them, in case he might sneak up that bag of TNT when you aren't looking, but you help the guy -- if he's got thirty gizmos inside, it's only natural he won't remember them all. But in this case, the search is then conducted by someone else (in order to avoid subjectivity issues -- e.g. the dude has a vintage handheld radio from his grandfather, it's filled with explosive but when you do the search, you test it superficially because it's a vintage radio, what the hell...)
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Indeed. I completely understand feeling like there isn't enough time to do it.

Other than my 8-10 hour days at work, I have a teenage daughter, a wife and two dogs I have to attend to. I practice guitar daily, practice martial arts weekly, kayak regularly, read/study daily for my job, started learning more about F.A.C.S and Body Language and like to get in some gaming every now and then with the daughter.

I've found that I have at least 30 minutes I can spare even with that load. It's not much, but it's better than nothing sometimes. It's awesome you can find the time with your cycling! Keep it up!
Thanks! Yep we're looking at how to blend the two together in a nicer way. Thanks for the feedback..
Not difficult at all - for example, Omharmonics is a set of mp3s based on brainwave entrainment that aid meditation. About $100 for five songs, which sounds expensive, but if they do what they claim to do then it's a downright bargain.
A nephew of mine set a similar goal when he was young. He eventually got to realize his dream. After a couple of cruises, he returned home with a haunted look on his face, saying, "Those people have to be out there."
It's a caled "othering" or "exoticification". Yes there is English, German, etc. cuisine, and all of these are 'ethnicities'. But sometimes people treat ethnicities of 'The Other'[1] as 'ethnic' or 'exotic'.

[1] Us vs. Them stuff here. Who is 'Us', and who is 'Them'/'The Other' depends on where you are.
I'm still on my Nexus One, running Jelly Bean now... But this is very tempting...
Nice site. Well done!
Ubuntu Edge: how many phones were really ordered - and the mistakes
The guy who downvoted me, care to explain why? Apple has much better brand recognition, loyalty and advertising than Google currently has for their phones department. It is only logical the iPhone will perform better in sales. This doesn't say anything about the actual products.
Can I recommend you also fix some gymnastic rings to your garage ceiling (or a branch of a tree outdoors, if the ceiling is too low)? They are cheap, and provide incredible challenging (and fun!) workouts.

Even basic things like push ups become challenging again on the rings. And you'll be so proud when you work up to your first muscle up.
Also, Datomic is not open source :(
I imagine most big name guitarists don't have much expertise in building guitars, but that doesn't stop manufacturers making custom signature models. The end result is usually a pretty impressive piece of hardware that's tailored to the way the artist plays. The manufacturers gets the PR of having the guitarists attached to their brand, and the guitarist gets their dream guitar. I'm pretty sure the same thing is going on here.
I love my barbell, but I'd still like to get my standing desk back.

Use both, if you can.
> "Those people have to be out there."

Indeed, they do...
drivebyacct2, it looks like you've been hellbanned for ~56 days.
It does raise the bar slightly though, so is still worth doing. Instead of simply running the pyc files through a decompiler as would be the case without obfuscation, one has to reverse engineer their modified Python binary to figure out the altered format of the code blocks. This is not a very common set of skills.
In most of Europe, buying a phone off contract is perfectly normal, so Google is losing out on a ton of sales.

I do not see how carriers in Europe could block sales of Nexus 4. In fact, I think there is even some EU law against this(limiting phones).

I think the real reason has to do with Google not willing to jump through some regulatory hurdles for each EU country.

It would be interesting to see what exactly is preventing them from selling.
Not exactly power plants if they only exist to test certain approaches instead of actually generating power.
Most developers are clueless as well. I can imagine a junior designer getting into a lot of trouble in a small dev shop given all the misunderstandings.
This is awesome news. I really enjoyed the Functional Programming with Scala course and can't hide my excitement for this one.

This is also interesting to me because it shows that teaching and learning does not have to be at some big name University.
What is Echolalia, Echopraxia?
Indian rupee hurtles lower as foreign investors flee
Quote: "If secondary cases occur, medical staff are aware and better able to treat patients with antibiotics."

I hope no one takes this story lightly. Efforts to eradicate historically important bacterial diseases with antibiotics sometimes only succeed in creating untreatable strains, as is now true for tuberculosis. There are now tuberculosis strains that cannot be treated with any available antibiotic, and the only remedy is to quarantine the victims.

"Health experts warn untreatable tuberculosis threatens world":

http://www.naturalnews.com/039649_drug-resistant_tuberculosi...

For religious fundamentalists and science doubters, I should add that the reason untreatable bacterial strains come into existence is because of evolution by natural selection. Antibiotics wipe out almost all the bacteria, except those that by chance have a genetic resistance to the antibiotic. Over time that vanishingly small number of resistant cells becomes the entire population.
I see that Cloak uses racoon under the hood for iOS in what I assume to be a roadwarrior config.

Do you mind sharing an appropriately scrubbed config so that I can compare to see what I'm doing wrong in my setup? There seems to be a dearth of viable configs out there and this would be immensely helpful. Thanks in advance.

FWIW, this is what I have so far. http://superuser.com/questions/553193/how-do-i-configure-dd-...
That sounds like a risky procedure in public places (but, as I mentioned elsewhere, I'm not too familiar with the details of the TSA procedures).

When I took the course I mentioned in my post above, the explanation was along these lines: when you want to check someone who carries a bag, you need to remember that he has certain expectations about the safety of his belongings. If you're in a public place, it's reasonable that you never remove the belongings without assuring the owner that they are safe and well-guarded. So when you stop a gang of half-drunk teenagers on the street, you don't ask them to drop their backpacks on the sidewalk and then go ten yards further to search them. You ask them to leave the backpacks in a single place, right near them, and while your colleague searches the backpacks, you keep an eye on the dudes.

That's the common-sense thing to do: no one would let their bags two meters away from them in an airport, even if they kept a constant eye on them. You can't just expect someone to be okay with leaving them god knows where.

If you ask people to put their belongings away in a designated area, the correct thing to do is to have that area placed well away from any passers by and a guard near it. That way, you can tell the owner something along the lines of "Please put your bag in that bin over there; don't worry about it, it won't be stolen -- that man staying guard there isn't leaving, he's there to make sure you get it back just as you left it. We need to ask you a few questions, and then we may have to search your bag. we'll search it in front of you to make sure no one steals or breaks anything, and if all checks out okay, you're free to go. Any questions before we start?"

As our instructor mentioned it, it's really important -- especially in places like airports, concert arenas and whatever -- where you might expect one terrorist every two years and ten thousand disoriented folks with a scare of flight who triggered the bomb detector with their cheap after-shave every day -- to treat people without hostility, with an attitude of collaboration, not suspicion. Very few travelers are at fault for the US' foreign policy (and those that are probably don't go through the whole TSA hell), so it's not their fault that some guys from the Middle East want to blow up their planes. In places like these, you want to treat people so that they can say "yeah, I know this is inconvenient, but the guy is only doing his job", and because they are already under a lot of stress, you want to make sure you don't heighten their fear.
If the colleague next to me starts using a thread mill with his standing desk, I'll shoot him in the face. With a nerf gun. Like the violent man I am.

Don't need more distractions at the office, damn'it!
Read the paper. They haven't actually found a way to really bypass two-factor authentication and all other security measures. With their findings, you can hijack an account if:

- you feel like cracking a 256-bit random value remotely (can't locally bruteforce it), or

- you have filesystem access.

I'd say both are irrelevant. You can't crack 256-bit values locally, let alone if you have to check the value remotely, and with filesystem access I imagine you can do a whole lot more than just uploading files to someone's Dropbox.

Bypassing two-factor authentication with either of the options is possible though, and I can see the issue, but this is by design. I don't think you want to have to enter your credentials (username, password, second factor) every single time you store a file or check for updates.
Can they even do this?