skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote the top comment in that thread. I want to take a moment to rescind my hard-line attitude as to what constitutes "proper" fitness. The 7-minute workout may be a bit gimmicky and overly minimalist, but it is certainly better than nothing, especially if you do a "set" of 3 "reps" (ie do the workout 3 times) three times a week. You'll probably get some aerobic and anaerobic benefits.

However, just as important, if not more important, is diet. When counting calories, exercise is no substitute for eating less. Whatever diet you end up using (I have my own strong opinions on that but I'll refrain from sharing those here) it is critical for health and well-being to stay within a healthy bodyfat range.

Also, one more thing about that thread. I mentioned leangains and starting strength. Starting strength is excellent for getting strong. Leangains isn't. Leangains is wonderful for getting thinner while retaining your strength. For building muscle, a modest caloric surplus seems to work just as well as, if not better than, intermittent fasting. I'm developing a website that explains more, which will hopefully be launching in the next month or two.
You don't think the engineers platform specific knowledge will have any impact what so ever?
And where do you draw the line between engineering and designing?

An engineer can design their design as they go along and
iterate on it.

Recently I've been doing my iOS design through SCSS and it helps having sizes, gradients and colors as variables, fonts as mixins and the ability to change them at runtime. Does that count as designing or engineering?

Your truth is not the truth, it's more like bullshit. I don't specifically know what the truth is - but I do know that I'd pick an engineer that can design over a designer 10/10 times. Regardless of your 'truth'.
I started with it using one of the many available apps and did it every day for about 2 months. I stopped when I bought a small set of dumbbells and started moving to ~ 30 minute workout sessions.

It was a good starting point. I've always been fit (soccer player & runner) but never did much weights so I found it a good motivator to do more than just run as my workout.
If you execute this in a transaction (as you should whenever dealing with any two queries that alter state and logically follow each other), then neither case creates a state in which some other transaction sees the first half of this sort of update complete without the second half. And if you don't, then it's not quite the same as DELETE+INSERT, because you haven't destroyed any data.

Also, even if one considered this "no better" than DELETE+INSERT, it has significant other benefits for other purposes. The history of data is worth it alone.

But you've made me consider the issue more, and I think perhaps a better way to run this would be:

INSERT ... -- same as before

DECLARE @ID int;
SELECT @ID = SCOPE_IDENTITY();

UPDATE the_table
SET InvalidatedOn = CASE WHEN the_table.ID = @ID THEN MAX_DATE() ELSE NOW() END
WHERE surrogate_key = @KEY
AND InvalidatedOn > NOW();

then, even if you intentionally created a race condition, you should always end up with one and only one "definitive" record.
The overarching point is that having your watch unlock your phone doesn't include any personal security barrier; I don't need to know some privileged information to unlock your device. All I have to do is shake your wrist and your phone at the same time.
Some psychs will prescribe it for ADD/ADHD (mine did).
Kickstarter requests access to "your public profile, friend list, email address, hometown, current city and likes" from Facebook on logon. With stolen access tokens the attackers could query Facebook for that information with limitations:

1) only available until the tokes were revoked

2) if enabled, attacker must also obtain the 'app secret' and sign requests

3) if enabled, attacker must use the tokens from a white-listed IP address

The post only makes reference to encrypted passwords. Not sure if Facebook access tokens are included in that or not.
How do you even get an account there? Is it really strictly invite-only or is there some sort of a waiting list? The topics on the front page seemed to interest me, I'd give it a try if there was a waiting list.
100% designers only happen at the very bottom or with design teams. A hands-on design dev knows what's simple vs complicated and can design for it. They will easily outmatch a single designer.
... and there are some tangential benefits to using git-annex as well:

http://rsync.net/products/git-annex-pricing.html
I don't really have the time to dig up a link, but I recall that Elon mentioned in an interview that his goals for Tesla were to get it up and running and then hand it off to someone else. He wasn't particularly specific about this, but I think long term, he would rather focus on SpaceX. So while I agree that Tesla doesn't really need anything from Apple at this point in time, it's worth keeping this point in mind.
It was around 140K LoC as of 2011. [1]

[1] http://www.aosabook.org/en/ghc.html

EDIT: I see another poster arrived at a conclusion of 200KLoC from the same source. I'm guessing the discrepancy is about the ~40KLoC which comprise the runtime system.
I can't speak to the parent's tone, but having worked with excellent designers who can and cannot code, I have often found that those who have made the choice to learn to code, even just a little, produce a better outcome.

You see the same thing on the flip side of the coin with frontend engineers who make the effort to learn about typography, color, emotion, etc. Broader skillsets produce better software.

Related - moving a button 3px to the left shouldn't be a problem for any self-respecting designer, either.
Thanks for the feedback, signup for beta if your interested.
I can see that the freedom to copy must be very important to you. ba-dum ching
They'd likely take out loans if they needed the cash, rather than repatriating it as they'd get a better rate.
This is borderline to SPAM, so I think the e-mails should be very personal.

If you have many competitors I am probably getting lot's of these e-mails which means you would have much harder time to get my attention.

Let's say you are a hosting provider, I probably would not like to get an e-mail from you offering me some good price or hard to understand feature of yours, because there are probably lot's of cheap hosting providers out there and every other provider is trying to differentiate themselves somehow. Other than "identifying my problem" you really shouldn't sound like giving me a sales pitch.

But if you noticed that, let's say I have 350ms response time in Asia when it's only 50 in USA and you have some solution for it, I probably will reply you even if I am not going to buy your service right away.
>Again, though, when discussing evolution we're talking about human-design-space, not specifics about individual human cultures.

Yes, in principle, and that is definitely a good point. But with hindsight we can observe that the part of the "design space" that includes 90 year olds was never before explored, and hence evolution tells us nothing about whether or not hunter-gatherer diets are good for longevity.
Yes, that was my point. Comcast's backend infrastructure similarly does not run on magic.
Cable-Company Consolidation Graph
it's decent as an absolute minimum, but what you should really do is buy a barbell, 10-20kg in weights, and do SQUATS.
That sounds undesirable. I go 6 days/wk for 30-45min. I love the benefits of working out, but it's more of a mental break for me. I listen to Mixergy, learn a thing or two, and reset myself. I spend 12+ hours a day at the computer. The least I could do is workout for 30min.

The 7-minute workout is better than nothing, but I wouldn't look at it as a go-to strategy.

I guess it really depends on your perspective. I've always worked out, so I enjoy it. But for some it's an inconvenience. It just like food between my wife and I. She likes food variety and it's an experience for her. I just eat so I don't die and can (and do) eat the same thing every day.
And on the fifth day, God said "Don't commit to master, use thy pull request instead".

And it was good.
Hardware: 2013 Retina MacBook Pro

OS: Mavericks

SVC: Git

Editor: Emacs

Browser: elinks

Package Managers: NPM, Brew

Languages: JavaScript, Clojure, Scheme

Server: Heroku
CTO is a professor at UNH, Chief Scientist is from UNH and used to work at Virtual Iron which was acquired by Oracle, then he worked at Akiban until they were acquired. It appears some of their patents (http://www.google.com/patents/US20130290243, http://www.google.com/patents/US20130254208, http://www.google.com/patents/US20130226931) were assigned to Cloudtree Inc., which appears to have originally been something totally different but with what seems to be the same team: http://www.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco/2011/02/st...

I'm puzzled.
Yes, I do 2 reps, twice daily, six times a week. I also walk 7 miles a day. I've lost 15 pounds in about 3 months.

I also live in Vietnam and my diet, without much work, has improved quite a bit.

I'm not looking for muscle, just to get me back to not feeling like a fat piece of shit and to stop getting winded after sex. Just keeping it real.
Maybe you find caffeine 2/3 as good because it's not as addictive as nicotine.
Some of those suggestions (eg. comments) may represent a risk to search ranking. From what I understand, Google considers comments a negative signal. Perhaps it's only duplicate comments, though. Can someone more experienced than I am please provide their perspective here?
Just a clarification ...

All accounts get 7 days (as the parent shows) and all 1TB+ accounts get 7 days + 4 weeks.

However, if you want a custom schedule (say, 30 days, 8 weeks, and 6 months) it only costs more if the space they use exceeds your existing account.

So, if you have a 100 GB account and you use 60 GB and your fancy snapshot schedule (of which the first 7 days is always free) only uses 35 GB ... then there is no additional cost at all.
You might take a look at HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training). I started doing it two months ago and I think it is well worth the effort. Although it takes half an hour but it has a long lasting metabolic speedup effect and a little euphoric feeling which keeps you doing it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-intensity_interval_trainin...

I usually do 3 workouts a week. It consists of a 5 minute warmup followed by eight 1 minute sprints with 2 minute walk intervals and an 5 minute cooldown at the end: 5+(8*3)+5: 34 minutes total. As others have said there is no point in "hacking" your workouts. You can do away with optimizations like HIIT, but imho you still need around 1 hour of exercise every day to keep yourself healthy.
You should email us and ask about the "new customer HN reader discount".

Also, note that 1TB accounts are 15c per GB, per month, and 10TB accounts are 7c per GB, per month - all with no traffic or usage costs.

This compares very favorably with S3 and blows the mozy pro pricing out of the water[1].

[1] https://mozy.com/product/mozy/business
British Journalist Andrew Marr suffered a stroke following a high intensity training session. He's doing the chat show circuit claiming rowing machines and HIIT are responsible for his stroke. The NHS website have quite a sensible take on it:

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2013/04April/Pages/Is-exercise-to-bla...

Basically if you're going to do high intensity efforts, best get checked out with your doctor first, particularly if you're a bit stressed.
How should I acquire users for classified ads website?
I've done this site recently, it's my first personal project:
http://oglos.info/

I managed got some ads etc. I will appreciate feedback :) and suggestions related with the site (it's not in english but it's extremely easy so it should be understandable).
Showing the same gifs without those white solid lines for comparison would have been better. Anyways cool stuff :).
Do note that the effect is much stronger (at least for me) if the moving object goes outside of the perceived image bounding box - the http://bit.ly/1bUkBJQ example in the original article.
you might try your local chamber of commerce. I believe one the mail apps tried that. probably need a general business app.
First a warning, because I've seen many misconceptions: Modafinil is not a sleep replacement. Especially not long-term. Do not use it that way. Its anti-sleep property is that it suppresses many parts of the urge to sleep. It does not provide any of the effects sleep provides.

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Well, I've always had issues with sleep: I have an 25 hour circadian rythm, so before modafinil I often just let it run and wake up an hour later every day. I thought modafinil might be something useful to help me experiment with my sleep. Note that I did not get a doctor's receipt, so I imported the drug myself. (I'm not in the US; it's not a felony where I am.)

You say "in comparison"-- I must say that I do not have much to compare it to. The only other substance of this kind that I feel an effect of is caffeine, and it's on a completely different level, in all ways.

Side-effects I noticed were mostly dry/chapped lips, reduced appetite and diarrhea-- the last of which seems not to be very common.

In terms of its nootropic effects, I'm normally very bad at focusing on stuff for long periods of time, and for some periods it helped me focus for long times on tedious things. Or it helped me focus on cleaning the house really well, reading the internet thoroughly and avoiding what I had to get done. But if I used it and spent a night studying, I would remember the material studied very well. This concentration effect was also the quickest to fade after longer use.

The main effect is its anti-sleep property is that it suppresses many parts of the urge to sleep. It does not provide any of the effects sleep provides.

Right now I don't use it, because I am not working on anything that would benefit from it, and the side effects are not worth it to me right now. Also, melatonin has helped me with my sleep rythm issues for some time, so I don't need it for that.

I did not notice any addictive effects whatsoever. There's no high you get from it, nor a low after you stop, perhaps besides sleeping a bit longer for a few days.
> Since starting backstitch (http://backstit.ch) with my wife we constantly get this question: "How do you work so well together?" We really don't see it different than if we were just two best friends from college that decided to start a startup.

When my wife and I discuss the possibility of working together on a business, our main concern is about spending almost every waking hour together or in contact with each other. Neither of us can stand being around the same people constantly. Hell, neither of us can stand being around people constantly. I don't think I could do the 12/7 or 14/7 startup thing at all unless I was spending significant portions of that time locked up by myself. If I tried to do that with my wife, or anyone else I was living with for that matter, it would be disastrous. Is that ever an issue for you?
The web was supposed to free us from the over-design of glossy magazines and Madison Avenue bullshit. Content was supposed to be king. So forgive us if we are a little bitter that it turned into just another high gloss magazine.
This is unmanageable for complex, "single page apps composed of many files (eg many tens of files). Often a complex app might deal with role-based features, where only certain sets of controllers are included per role.
That's exactly what Quake3 did natively, and it gave a large performance boost.
Yes, on top of the 40 hours of intensive work including design, coding, learn a new technology with intensive reading, or even tackling business/marketing strategies and tactics, etc., the rest hours are on lighter work related things, such as email, news, phone calls, book-keeping, etc.

Regarding how to dividing the time slots, my usual practice is to concentrate on one major task and get it done completely in the shortest time period. For example, while I'm doing patent application, I have to complete it with all the available resources being collected and everything in the real-time memory for 2-3 weeks until it can pass the criteria. If it's a software development or fundraising, it may take 3-4 weeks to finish one round of intensive development and reach a milestone. After that period, I'm pretty much exhausted, and have to switch to something else to concentrate on, just like what you said. Focus and hammer down the nails with a deadline in mind is so important. Bug-fixing is a side job, light but time-consuming to cover every possible exceptional cases, but it also depends on whether it needs a redesign.
DDoS Attack against StackExchange
FYI: I would strongly suggest getting a RX for Modafinil (Provigil) and not Nuvigil (Amodifinil). Nuvigil is very expensive and my insurance company required a whole battery of additional tests before they paid for it. I believe Modafinil is now generic so I imagine they care much less.
Here's another one. Engineers also can't stand broken flow. If you'd ask me "hey, can you move that button by 3px?", that's pretty much equivalent to asking me - "hey, can I waste some of your time?". But if it actually fixes lag or broken flow, this is significant. And any good engineer will be happy to help that fixed.
Gwern also has a detailed personal examination of Nootropics.[0]

0: http://www.gwern.net/Nootropics
Why specifically GIFs? It's a generic animation technique, works with any video format.

As was pointed out many times, if you have control over your site, don't use GIFs for video and animation. Use proper video formats (WebM and etc.). It will only save space and loading time and improve quality.
You don't appear to have any links to your product on your HN user page!!!
Contact non-profits directly and offer them a free beta account. It worked for us.
Yes, that article felt somewhat arrogant. Designers should shut up about the obsession with details etc. already, it's getting annoying. We get it, ok?

I sometimes design too and must say, programming is harder -- it's more intellectually demanding, less rewarding and on average more frustrating. That's why I value programmers' work more.
Wavier jet stream 'may drive weather shift'
Right. Pulling from JC's August 16, 1999 .plan (http://floodyberry.com/carmack/johnc_plan_1999.html#d1999081...) when he first wrote the x86 compiler:

Q3demo1 dll: 52.9
Compiled: 50.2
Interpreted: 43.9

Q3demo2 dll: 50.1
Compiled: 46.5
Interpreted: 38.7
There's something sad about that division of people in engineers and designers. For any application that pretends to be worth anything, 'engineers' also participate to the design phase from an early stage, and 'designers' have sufficient knowledge of the basic engineering issues to take into account.

IMO the job title 'designer' is really void of meaning and should go away, but I'm not holding my breath.

Perpetuating the "designers are fearies and engineers are robots" stereotype doesn't really help in any way
The interesting effect of bubbling is not so much that people appear naked, but that the original picture, containing clothed people (typically bikinis), appear naked.
My point is that your question about who's a prophet is irrelevant. You claim that stories of Jesus is evidence of Christianity -- or that Christians go to heaven -- but it's really evidence of anti-Christianity if you think God would set up honeypot ideologies. You're not doing anything but looping back around to the original question, that if Christianity is real, is it actually a honeypot? The religion's paraphernalia doesn't matter, and the "evidence" you've suggested doesn't affect the chance of it being a honeypot. That it's a question of picking priors is not news to the anti-Christianity anti-Pascal's wager people, that's what they're saying. For example, your act of saying that Jesus is evidence for Christianity and not anti-Christianity is just a roundabout way of saying your priors are anti-honeypot.
There is always a back-up plan of having kids, focusing on raising them well and hoping that maybe they will come up with something cool.
> Miraculously, they've succeeded in eliminating simulator sickness…

Not true. While Abrash seems to makes this claim several times early in the PDF [1], near the end there's this:

> In addition to the question of how games will interact with input, rules about how players can move around a virtual space without getting motion sick or losing presence have yet to be figured out. We’ve found that traditional FPS movement is far from optimal and tends to cause motion sickness, so VR may be best with slow movement and a lot of up-close interaction, in which case we’ll have to learn how to create fun games around that.

Abrash admits that "traditional FPS movement" still makes people sick despite all the technical improvements touted earlier in the paper. His solution doesn't work for FPSs but instead proposes new types of games instead of the ones that people want to play. Flying fighter jets, the type of simulation that gives simulation sickness its name [2], does not involve the "slow movement and a lot of up-close interaction" that Abrash says is needed to prevent sickness.

Like you I was excited that Valve had solved the simulation sickness problem, but on closer reading found that it's just not true. Many people have the desire to use VR tech in virtual worlds doing things that involve normal-speed head movements without getting sick, but Valve has not solved this problem.

[1] http://media.steampowered.com/apps/abrashblog/Abrash%20Dev%2...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_sickness#Simulation_sick...
Which version of Julia are you using and on what platform? Windows backtraces are pretty bad, but other platforms decent. The situation on Windows is likely to improve soon, fortunately. If you have specific problems that are reproducible, it would be great to have bug reports so we can improve things: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues.
Yeah, bandwidth is the big thing people overlook. The land-based backbones across the country is already made of bundles of 10Gbit strands. Can you imagine going from that, to all of the nation's traffic over a couple 54Mbps streams...
Thousands of People Trying to Play the Same Game of Pokemon
The definition of nootropics used here excludes them (too many adverse health effects), but I wonder how the drugs on this list compare to e.g. amphetamines in terms of pro-productivity effects.
Would be good with some type of voting algorithm and a clock so only one command per few seconds.
You're misreading him. 'hg record' is like 'git add -p', but 'hg crecord' (note the c) is a curses interface: https://bitbucket.org/edgimar/crecord/wiki/Home
> moving a button 3px to the left shouldn't be a problem for any self-respecting developer

That's exactly the kind of thinking that developers abhore. Imagine that the whole interface is built on top of a planned framework that follows strict rules and conventions. This button is following the exact spacing and dimensions implemented in the framework, nevertheless the designer's static mockup is different for some reason (i.e. designed in photoshop).

Now, moving this specific button 3px to the left could be as easy as a `margin-left: -3px` or some other simple line of code, but that is a hack/code smell that will be met with contempt from everyone who looks at it in the future, a maintenance burden, and is deviating from the established standards created in collaboration with the designers themselves...

Other possible scenarios are interpolation mismatches, rendering differences between browsers, padding/borders unaccounted for in the original design, dynamic content that by chance nearly aligns to other element, etc etc. Very rarely is the case that the developer simply wrote 6px instead of 3px by mistake.

This happens way, way too often, and the resistance offered by developers is completely understandable.