skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly, this has long been one of the main Marxist criticisms of the policy of centrally driven industrialization (which Marx didn't believe in, but Lenin did). The traditional Marxist view is that socialism can only be instituted after capitalist industrialization, because it's a revolution driven by the urban proletariat that capitalist industrialization creates, not something that can be artificially created absent those material conditions. Hence the view of orthodox Marxists that "socialist" industrialization driven by a vanguard party would be internally incoherent, or at least non-Marxist.

(One hears less about this today, because the German revolution failed while the Russian one succeeded, so Lenin won out over Kautsky in dominating 20th-century leftist discourse.)
Are you arguing for completely avoiding communication??
Yeah, I think the short lesson here is that you really have to build something to learn to code, otherwise it's just not engaging. Not until you've built that first thing. Then it's like crack.
> Like other types of training, Crossfit has its share of smart and critical people as well, and they do their best to improve the practice of Crossfit and identify and fix problems.

The problem is that none of these people work at Crossfit HQ and CFHQ goes out its way to excommunicate them.
I was having a converstion with some friends about this the other day - people still miss their Atari STs and decades-dead products like Opcode's StudioVision. Microsoft just does not seem to get MIDI, which is one reason (among several other non-MS related ones) that I do almost all my sequencing in hardware.
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Reading about CrossFit makes me a little queasy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrossFit#Body_weight_exercises. A lot of these things don't seem very good for you. I feel like this stuff is going to come back to bite you in the ass in 20-30 years...

I personally would stick to basic weightlifting. You can get an intense 30-45 minute workout, don't put tons of pressure on your knees, and most importantly the long-term effects are very well-studied.
My personal exhaustive statistics of nearly every kid with a phone I've seen.

Where excessive = anything beyond taking the ocassional call, sending a few text messages and playing a game for half an hour.

Some people think excessive has to mean "needs to be sedated before someone can take the phone off his hands".
A minor correction; the phrase is usually "pot committed".

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pot%20committ...
Statistically may not be the right word when we don't have numbers here, but anecdotally it seems so correct to me that I'd settle for the word "empirically" here.
Yes! Absolutely!
Does anyone know if the Elixir team took these comments into account? (The post if from May 2013)
Ask HN: Any complains reg: your cloud storage vendor?
hey guys - quick question: the current cloud storage vendor that you're using - do you have any complains about them - something you wish they did, but they don't at the moment?
Ehhhh, lets not get crazy. I'm a US citizen and have lived in the US all my life, and I could name a handful of countries much better, based on GDP, happiness, or the accessibility of affordable housing and healthcare.

The US is nice, but perfect it ain't.
"The ability to maintain effective and skillful communication in a world of constant distraction will be essential in the coming decades."

No.

The ability to avoid constant distraction will be one of the most critical skills. The ability to focus, to think through a problem, to write a substantial essay, to plan, to evaluate your goals, values and priorities in life. These skills will be critical to flourishing in the coming decades (as they have always been).
Crossfit excels at providing an inviting on-ramp for people who were never into sports. Crossfit gyms tend to have a supportive social environment. There is, or was, a sense of being in on a Big Secret -- secrets are like catnip to brains.

It has also, and this deserves credit, been much better at achieving a healthy gender ratio than most other sports.
I've been training at Crossfit Virtuousity for 5 months, 4 days a week. I think that they have an amazing program that reduces risk of injury as compared to many other non crossfit workouts I have done in the past.

First off they stress mobility, which many workout regimens don't do. I never really realized how important this was until I started crossfit. Most workouts consist of 15-20 minutes solely concentrating on mobility.

Second, no one has mentioned the concept of scaling, which is core to crossfit. Every workout has a scaling option so that you don't push yourself too hard. If you can't do a pullup you do it with a band, can't do that, do a box jump pullup, etc. Yet another way crossfit keeps one from getting injured.
Intel QuickSync video, iirc.
Not saying this is typical, but here is my experience of Blackberry.

I was in IT support at the time they came out. One of the things I hated about IT support, and I found it common with most colleagues, was the idea that if you are in IT, every thing with a plug or batteries is some how part of an IT person's skill set. Because we are the clever mysterious people who can fix the server, we must also be able to explain the MD's new HiFi to him, fix the microwave or mobile phone, or some such.

So, out comes Blackberry and it suddenly becomes the executive's toy of choice, and we were expected to support them. No one asked, there was no meeting or consideration, they just bought Blackberrys themselves, bought them in and expected us to be configuring and supporting them. Its was like a suddenly change in infrastructure that just arrived because individuals insisted on it. And because usually these were senior people, management expected us to play ball. It was kinda like the whole system being windows and one day some one installs Linux and expects it to be instantly supported and integrated, regardless of whether or not the company software actually ran on it. And early on, that wasn't trivial.

So, what happened in my IT circles was that Blackberry got a bad name because its was a toy executives lumped on us with out any consideration, let alone some sort of discussion, and heaven forbid, planning. So, the sort of back ground vibe was negative, and for many I know, remains so.

So, even though all these years on it is likely to be very unfair, I still see Blackberry as representing arrogant unthinking executives and the resulting headaches, and there for negative.

Edit:
And I missed the obvious. Im so brain dead at times....

It is suggested that employees buying their own phones killed the Blackberry. Yet, ironically, in my experience at least, it was employees buying Blackberrys that got them their traction in the first place.
I'm a bit older than you (6 years) and had a cell phone since I was in (I think) middle school. My phone was primarily for staying in contact with my mother because I was out of the house a large amount of the time, you don't need a smartphone for this.

At this time I think it probably would suck to be older than 13 and not have a phone, everyone you know is going to have one and that is going to be how they communicate with their friends if you don't have one you will get left out of the loop.

It is a parents choice but it might hurt children socially, on the other hand there were a few outliers in my high school who spent every minute of class on their phone (before smartphones were big) but this could be solved with prepaid phones.
What I see is iPhone (red) had no effect on RIM's share. But once Android appeared, RIM's share melted to nothing.
>I agree as far as the ritual of making it in homes goes, but in a restaurant using a machine doesn't bug me much.

For a larger store sure, it doesn't make much difference.

But the traditional way was at small coffee shops (kafenes) where people would see for hours, smoke shisha etc. Usually with a sand based stove (hovoli) etc.
Reading this it sounds like there is a non zero minimum amount you're allowed to have in your bank accout. Is this true? I've never heard of such a thing in my country.
I don't have time to read all this but I wish. Please anyone: I need names of organizations and those on the top involved, so I can create my own "no-use list" and avoid those at any cost.

Thank you.
The ones making real money are the ones selling the shovels.
> Second, no one has mentioned the concept of scaling, which is core to crossfit.

Good point. I too remember the shock and amazement that washed over the entire training universe when Crossfit invented progressive resistance and skill progressions.

The only thing I can remember that was more impressive was that time Greg Glassman invented gravity. That was incredible.
Okay, here's the link: http://www.westside-barbell.com/index.php/the-westside-barbe...

The relevant part:

In the squat, what is too heavy to train with and too light to train with? In Russia , much research revealed that 65-82.5% of a 1 rep max is best to build strength in the squat. They suggest 2-6 reps per set.

At Westside Barbell we do sets of 2 for 2 important reasons. One, more than 2 reps tends Cause bicipital tendonitis and shoulder discomfort. This pain is commonly felt while benching but, in fact, comes from squatting. The bar shifts to some degree, causing damage. Having your hands spaced too close on the bar may also be the culprit. Two, in a power meet, we don't do reps so if we do 12 sets of 2 reps we are getting 12 first reps per workout. If you do 4 sets of six reps, then you get only 4 first reps.

This is closest thing I was able to find. The site was reorganized after I visited it last time and many PDF articles are in HTML format.

I highly recommend Westside Barbell, because it operates using principles, not the hardwired percentages and prescribed exercises. You can build your own conjugate system, for your goals or abilities. I did.

I also recommend another system, also seen here in HN, Hypertrophy-Specific Training: http://www.hypertrophy-specific.com/hst_index.html

HST also incorporates strategic deconditioning and high-rep phase to lower trauma rate.
Please give some examples of the "awful" or "wrong" parts.
"But is it wise to cloister our children away from these developments? Or is it better that they learn to adapt, especially in a world where the speed of technological advancement, and the addictive potential inherent therein, is accelerating at a rapid pace?"

No, but I think the timing is critical. I do think a lot about the right time to grant access to specific pieces of technology. I think my wife and I are more conservative in this regard than many of the people around us.

With the kind of people my sons are turning into, we're pretty happy with the results so far. Which is obviously a totally unscientific opinion, as we are not going to start running controlled studies on our kids. It's one of the difficult things about being a parent, you never know for sure what the results would be if you had made different decisions.
When I was a kid, I always brought a book with me when I went places. Portable entertainment is not new. Occasionally I'd bring a deck of cards and play solitaire if I anticipated being somewhere conducive to that.

Our tendency to blame age-old problems on modern scapegoats usually reaffirms our biases, but less often is upheld by the data.
I'll take this opportunity to re-remind HN of Wadler's Law:

In any language design, the total time spent discussing
a feature in this list is proportional to two raised to
the power of its position.
0. Semantics
1. Syntax
2. Lexical syntax
3. Lexical syntax of comments

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Wadler's_Law
When did we jump from encouraging someone to improve themselves to hazing? This had got to be one of the biggest straw men I've ever seen.
To be honest, nearly every developer will change it from the default as soon as they run a stress or performance test using a library that has dual ec as its default (e.g. BSAFE Crypto-J).

Dual EC is order of magnitudes slower than HMAC. It's impossible to not notice a default EC library if you run any kind of throughput test. Then, unless you a specific requirement to use it, you change the default.
Psychology of Intelligence Analysis
>No other platform/ecosystem is as straight-forward however

I laughed my ass off when two off my colleagues lost all of their music while trying to format their computer or phone.

That's what goes for straight forward nowadays I guess.
I'm very dissapointed in Go philosophy... Edpecially about RAII...
That's like teaching your children how to adapt to a damaged environment instead of teaching them how to protect the environment.
I run into the issue of only being able to read from the device (so I can copy music with obfuscated filenames). But with writing to the device I've run into an issue. If I had the time (dissertating now) I'd figure it out, but until then a pre-packaged solution would be fantastic!
So why does it have to use audio? And why can't it use servos to move the lasers?
One of the most craziest things from the talk is how researchers were able to take millions of random images put them into a perception algorithm that would try to find a pattern in all the images and it created a very ironic and interesting image, inferring that the collective Internet has some intelligence.

http://youtu.be/j0fkrJgmQxs?t=27m2s
I want to learn Vim, but I cannot even dream to remember even the most primitive commands.
That is only four months ago. Elixir is a programming language, not a wrapper to the Twitter API. I imagine Jose Valim is taking this into account. Joe Armstrong is someone you listen to when he speaks.
Why don't we just teach children how to practice moderation?

Unless as a punishment, I think it makes more sense to simply guide them as to when phone use is appropriate or excessive and make sure to be stern with those standards. This is not a new problem, it's pretty similar to the generation before us dealing with kids who stayed in all day playing video games. Sure, the kid will do whatever they want once they're out of your sight, but at the end of the day they'll insert your lessons into the category of "behaviors that adults expect me to embrace" and the individual child will react accordingly.
> Siri: Eyes Free mode – for eyes-free and hands-free operation.

HFP already works with iOS

> Satellite navigation (Satnav).

this is interesting, but is more likely built on top of an existing GATT profile, such as L&N

https://developer.bluetooth.org/gatt/profiles/Pages/ProfileV...

> Telephony instruction and control.

HFP works to some extent. PBAP is part of this.

> Music control.

AVRCP 1.4 already works (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3647)

> iMessage control and response.

MAP already works for this
When did Louis C.K. become the guru of the internet, and when did parents decide they should accept parenting advice from a comic who's act is extremely child unfriendly?

Not only do I think a child not having a cellphone(even just a basic one) is a security risk, but I'd also think it could lead to less of a social life, not more of one. Kids not fitting into their peer group and being ostracized or picked on due to a lack of a phone/smartphone probably doesn't seem like a big deal to the 20, 30, or 40-something parent. Probably because that 20,30, or 40-something parent has forgotten what it was like to be a 7th grader. It also breeds feelings of resentment, and it portrays to the child a beautiful example of hypocrisy, as the parental unit continues to use the so-called "socially destructive" devices.

If you are not planning on giving your child a cellphone because you're afraid of it's destructive effect on their ability to communicate with other human beings, then what more are you doing to encourage social growth in your child? Not giving your kid a cellphone is a passive action, not a proactive action.
You're probably right. I thew Cuban's name out there as a random example, and I probably shouldn't have.

That said, I've seen most of the show (perhaps not much of the first season, but most of the series since then), and I would guess buyout -- or at least buy-to-flip -- deals are the majority and not the exceptions.
Anon Communications farewell...
In 1998-2002, Blackberries really were the peak of ease of use and efficient communication/calendar management. Every executive/financial trader/beltway insider had one. The early 800/900 series Blackberry were like the iPhone of 2007.

In 2007 the iPhone was seen as an oddity by those who used their blackberries for business - without a keyboard, and really rudimentary communication tools, it wasn't ready for real-time business communication. But wow - that browser, and maps app was something else; and then Apple let third parties develop applications for the iPhone...

By 2009, after a couple iterations of the iPhone, I was running a network engineering team, and provided everyone on the team a blackberry so they could communicate real time with each other (We had a corporate BES server). Every single one of them was left in a desk drawer, as people ignored them and just connected their iPhone to their iMap account and used SMS for the real time stuff.

I just got back from a 4 week engagement in Singapore, and I was working daily with fifteen people in five organizations across four companies, distributed across three sites and field visits. We had to perform real-time communication during some particularly tricky diagnostic event on hardware, at the same time we were tracking some configuration remediation in a meter-lab. Every single person present (except for one poor Field Engineering manager from California who showed up with a non-GSM android) kept in touch with WhatsApp. We didn't even have to supply the four college students we hired to do some field-evaluations with phones - they showed up with their own devices (all Androids), and we simply added their accounts to our group chat system. Latency was on the order of a second even with Singapore's surprisingly iffy data environment (at least from the perspective of my California AT&T iPhone)

I think a major contributor to the death of blackberry was a combination of iMap ports open to the internet + Exchange Support in iPhone + awesome replacements for BBMS (inexpensive SMS, Viber, Whatsapp, etc...) - every key advantage of the Black Berry, with the exception of that keyboard, has an equivalent or better replacement today on the Android/IOS platform, with the addition of a world class app suite that's available on the Android/iPhone, but will never, ever, come to the Blackberry (except in the form of Android sideloading - but that further kills the need to develop blackberry specific apps)

That's what killed the Blackberry.
Same thing goes here in hardware industry. Having Ph.D. does not indicate how good they are. It really depends on individuals and their mindsets. Ph.D. with specialized major anyway have learn things over at new workplace. So whoever catch up fast and do hard with 'i will contribute this' attitude makes better results.

Someone may argue about this but people with less advanced degree tend to obey more to management.
I'm still kind of boggled that they were unable to get Weev on criminal harassment. Or anything else, for that matter, given that IIRC he had no employment of record but was independently wealthy and bragged about doing computer crime for cash. He absolutely belongs in prison; just not, perhaps, for this specific charge.
It is no more unsafe than any other strenuous exercise program or any other activity that involves exerting oneself seriously. As for quality, of course quality varies - no HQ can ever ensure every coach is good and of course following one specific methodology by itself does not make the coach good. In fact, I was always told (not in CF but in other training context) many times that choosing good teacher is more important than choosing style/methodology - styles have their merits and demerits, but you can only appreciate them if your teacher is good.

So if the point is that you need to approach CF carefully with an eye for a good teacher - this is absolutely true.

>>> Personally, I think if you're lifting some multiple of your BW in any capacity

Hopefully, one day :) So far I don't think I have reached 2x of my BW in any exercise. But I'm working on it, let's see what comes of it in a couple of years :)
I actually own that book and have read the whole thing...most of it more than once. I'm not saying that motor control doesn't go down. I'm saying that it doesn't go down enough to make it dangerous at the lighter weights. I have been doing high and low rep Olympic lifts since 2007. The only injury I ever got was on a 1RM clean and jerk. That might have been technique related, but it's probably more related to me having a history of previous injury which happened before I ever heard about CrossFit.
> They never recovered from the iPod disrupting their CD business.

What? Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't Amazon sell few more things than just audio CDs? Also, isn't it 2013, or is it just me?
You seriously need to explain how, because as far as I can tell your claim here is nothing but brain-damage. As we've agreed, "promoting the progress of science and useful arts" is the purpose of patents. PROMOTING DISCLOSURE IS A MECHANISM, and PROMOTING INVENTION IS A MECHANISM and YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT BOTH, dismissing the former as ancillary and pushing the latter as central. A claim that you weren't talking about mechanisms... baffles me. Without some clarification, I'm calling it quits on this thread.
The experience factor is huge here, and should be pinpointed. Being able to work in a non-academic environment is incredibly important, because honestly the pace and quality of technical work done in academic settings just isn't comparable.

> "Companies hesitated to hire a Ph.D. with no industry experience"

That, for me, would be the #1 red flag. How does one even go through getting a PhD without getting any industrial experience? Not a single internship, even as an undergraduate?

This tells me that either the PhD literally can't code (and hence nobody even wanted them as an intern) or despises industry so much that they never wanted an internship (and hence I'd be pretty worried about how much they'd be committed to the new job).
It's a pro-consumer strategy for a specific set of consumers. if you're the sort of person who wants to choose a music player, buy your music elsewhere.

there's a very large market for whom "what music player should i use" is not a question they ever want to have to ask themselves. Apple does an excellent job of making sure they never have to.
The biggest problem with Crossfit is that it promotes excessive amount of exercises under time pressure, which really is a dangerous combination. People die in competetive sports all the time. Its very rare but still, there are people dieing doing marathons, thriathlons, crossfit, biking and even less taxing endurance sports like football(soccer). Its rarer than rhabdo but excessive stress on your cardiovascular system can kill you (cardiac arrest, heart attack etc) especially if your heart isnt 100% healthy (and most young people have never made a check on their heart).

No reason to panic though, its very very rare, but it happens and thus it should be noted that excessive excersise (in whatever shape or form) just isnt risk free.
Actually, foreign Central Banks don't even need to dump treasuries to require QE Infinity - they can just reduce or stop absorbing the continual outflow of debt emitted by the USG.
The USG has a trillion dollar+ yearly budget deficit. If central banks don't absorb that outflow of debt then either the USG reduces its spend (as if, those NSA datacentres aren't cheap), interest rates go up (USG will need will need even more debt to pay its debt) or the fed continues to buy it all up.