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If you haven't already, I would highly advise browsing some of the Stack Exchange sites. http://stackexchange.com/sites

Maybe they don't overlap 100% but, you don't have to pay or login to view questions and answers, and if you post a question in the wrong SE site it can simply be transferred to the correct SE site where the people familiar with that topic can answer appropriately.

Once upon a time I found myself contributing to StackOverflow and Programmers sites just to spite Experts Exchange, which to my dismay kept coming up in my search results instead of questions on a Stack Exchange site. It's consistently been a source of answers to questions that I thought were going to be hard to search for.
I do think it's a scoche different than a gem as it significantly changes the way the service is deployed and managed but I appreciate the feedback, I went ahead and updated the title.

Thanks!
Whoever sold you BTC in Step 2 isn't going to accept USD_FAKE for their coins. Doesn't this scam fall apart right there?

There's something like $600M missing. Were people really leaving that much fiat on account at Gox?
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Here's a link to Starting Strength[1]. I highly recommend it for people looking to bulk, tone, and put on some real muscle. It did wonders for me and I'm sure it will for you too. I also recommend doing these powerlifting exercises (such as squats, bench, and deadlift) with a focus on FORM first instead of weight. It'll prevent you from getting injured and payoff when you start lifting real heavy weight. I highly recommend these videos to teach you powerlifting form[2][3][4]. Also, the nice people on r/fitness over at reddit won't mind giving you a form check if you post a video of you lifting. Seriously, start now. It'll change your life.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0982522738?pc_redir=1400896569...

[2] http://youtube.com/watch?v=2ME8gEN54Ao&feature=kp

[3] http://youtube.com/watch?v=EHx1gYTA-Rw

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS2wLZSdeDg
I'm a fan of RationalWiki's Bitcoin article: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Bitcoin

> This is the sort of thing that gets bitcoins called "Dunning-Krugerrands."
That's it! Not the same wording though so I was wrong about that.
There's also a great Starting Strength Wiki: http://startingstrength.wikia.com/wiki/Starting_Strength_Wik...
More than lying, he has a history of computer fraud: http://newslines.org/mt-gox/convicted-of-computer-fraud/
> "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" actually covers each and every topic in the world.

Certainly not every story gratifies intellectual curiosity. Some (like gossip about celebrities) gratify social curiosity. Others (like many political articles) gratify a desire for agitation, or victory. Others (like promotional pieces) are meant to gratify the author's desire for attention, or business.

It's true that people disagree about what meets the HN standard based on what they themselves find interesting, and it's impossible to give these terms a precise definition. On the other hand, they're not just arbitrary, either, the site has evolved some informal but pretty coherent standards over the years, and there are editors whose job it is to make judgment calls and who try hard to strike the right balance for the community.

What I hope is crystal-clear, though, is that HN is not just for articles about startups and technology. The curiosity we value here is polymathic.
Great read.

If someone is interested in similar text, though fiction, I liked Clive Cussler's "The Chase" (novel): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chase_(novel) (it's about a former bank robber who founded his own bank, in San Francisco at that timeframe til 1906)
> the father seems to be clinically psychotic

i dont think you know what this means
I believe that the Swedish Klarna files uses ; but the Danish ones uses the comma + space. That only adds to the stupidity though, why not have just one format?
Hmm, that's an interesting comment. In the 'grand scheme' of things I suppose Quora is mostly useless, and for the past week's I've been paying more attention to my information consumption. That said, I have found some very valuable stuff on Quora.

One example was the link to the summary of Irvine's book on stoicism:
https://booknotes.quora.com/Notes-on-A-Guide-to-the-Good-Lif...

It prompted me to read the actual book.

I've also found a lot of the 'wisdom to younger self' type Q&A's to be very valuable, to the point where I store offline versions in my information thingamajig (DevonThink).
Oh, yeah, they built some good art structures and buildings for the ones in power.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Motherland,_Kiev

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenin's_Mausoleum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_the_Soviets (not built)

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

Too bad they did not put that much creativity and thought into buildings for ordinary citizens.
All I did was sign up so I could read some answers. Over the next week I was bombarded with emails. I checked the settings and when I registered they had signed me up to be emailed about a dozen different things.
One of my first open source projects was a JDBC driver that read CSV files. It started simply enough but once you started adding in support for all the quirks things became really complicated really quickly. Just check out all the "options" for the driver that have been added by the community over the last 14ish years http://csvjdbc.sourceforge.net/doc.html
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And we in turn updated the title here. Except no way are we putting "multi-symbology" on the front page of HN. :)
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1. We support custom type mappings between JS and DB, see:

http://docs.strongloop.com/display/DOC/Model+definition+refe...

http://docs.strongloop.com/display/DOC/Model+definition+refe...

2. We allow you to execute native query using
dataSource.connector.query(query, params, cb). We're considering to promote it to dataSource level and fully document it.
Yet in the real world you don't often have such luxury. Often times that inconsistent CSV file that you have to parse is not of your own creation. It comes from some other data source, or perhaps you have multiple data sources spitting out their own variants. You just need to get the job done, and splitting on ',' won't work.
Doesn't the article say that the final version is available in Lexis? Is it possible for someone write a crawler in a grad school library that gets all supreme court opinions of the last five years, diffs them, and checks in diffs to a git repo?
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A biz co-founder contributing an idea will get you maybe 1-2 weeks of work from them. I think you need a hustler, someone who can bootstrap you to profitability. That's what I'd look for at least.
> Many modern reliable systems grew out of shaky or illicit foundations.

Arguably, those systems became reliable because of the adoption of standards of practice, insurance and regulation. Even the mafia has rules (and a means of enforcing them.)
If OP is +4 SD ability ("Will Hunting" level), and/or the godson of Timothy Leary, who grew up in an academic family with Stanford Ovshinsky as a close family friend, then YMMV :)

Media Lab Director is not a tenure-track position, but there are indeed a handful of tenured professors in the country who do not hold a PhD. Essentially all of them earned tenure 30+ years ago in a much different environment. I've heard of some who skipped undergrad, got a PhD, and tenure - but it's rare, and even more so in today's academic climate. I don't recall hearing of any tenured person with no degree at all.
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That's fair, thanks for the update :)
I don't follow your argument. The person selling the bit coin in 2 assumes that when the number in their account balance goes up by USD_FAKE that there was really money to back it up. They have no way of knowing that Mt Gox didn't ever have that money.

I think that is the point they are trying to make.
This is a fascinating story, because there's obviously a hidden narrative that the reader is supposed to play along with: rich, sophisticated asshole of a grad student takes advantage of a terribly young girl. Heartache ensues. One child suffers alcoholism. A ton of emoting going on.

As I take this apart, however, I'm at a loss to where the story is. Is it wrong to study other cultures? No. Is it wrong to take a wife of 13? Perhaps in the western world, but not there, so I gotta go with "no" on that one. Should the kids have stayed in the Amazon? Once again, I think both parents made the safest choice for the children in the long term. I also think it's great the writer is getting re-connected with his mom.

If anything, I'm disturbed by the idea that the mother is just another cookie-cutter ignorant primitive. I see no indication that she was forced into a marriage. It appears she wanted things to happen as they did. She decided to move to the states and she decided to move back. In fact, the father's explanation that it was a divorce looks to me like a clearcut explanation of what happened. Older man marries younger woman, kids arrive, much heartache, story ends with grown man finding his mother. It's a great story, no doubt, but not a very unusual one. I'm not sure what the "Isolated Amazon Tribe" brings to the table that isn't already there. Just a gimmick to attract more readers?

I hope this guy continues reconnecting with his mother's side of the family. As he says, his story is just beginning. I bet it's going to be an interesting one. It's the interaction of cultures that's the interesting thing here, not the all-too-common tragedy of marriages gone bad.
Resisting the temptation to ask who is thing being upvoted, I'll ask a sibling question: Why are people upvoting this? Does this help someone in a meaningful fashion and in a way that worthy of bringing to everyone's attention?
My opinion on Quora is totally different (note, I have no interest, nor I think my point of view is right or wrong, simply different).

I don't 100% support the idea of putting a barrier before content, but I understand their need to grow in terms of registered users (i.e. users for whom they have email or social account). It's a mere strategy for fast growing, a sort of compromise that they chose to do. I don't see this particularly different from the initial Reddit's strategy of fake posts to grow the community (from an ethical point of view, is hiding content so different than creating fake one?). My hope is that this will be just the initial strategy for acquiring users.
You're right, more debt is not a good reason for higher salary. Higher salary is a value proposition. If a candidate can prove they can add substanial value to a company they can demand a higher salary.

This value proposition is very hard for new grads though. Most come out of school with little to no work experience, internships included. So it's hard for them to make this case. Not only can they usually not make the case, depending on the role, a new employee is not at optimum productivity until .5-1.5 years on the job. This is one of the main causes of employers always looking for that 1+ years of experience. The first year is most costly to the employer in training and risk the employee just taking a job somewhere else.
Mt. Gox didn't let you withdraw real currencies other than JPY, most interestingly the dollar, from approximately last August. This meant that when you were selling BTC for USD, you were actually accepting a USD liability of Gox -- Bitcoiners sometimes called them GoxBux or GoxUSD. It's a number in a database and now, apparently, something which you'll eventually be allowed to assert as a claim in their liquidation, but it is not actually a dollar.

The failure to allow withdraws in currencies they supported is why many people were speculating that Mt. Gox was insolvent, for much of the year prior to them admitting insolvency. As it turns out, we were probably right.
Quora deleted my account for not providing a real name and asked me to provide a photo of my driving license as proof of who I am.
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toward the end of undergrad i started thinking along the same lines you are now. I wound in a graduate program in neuroscience - a move i generally regret.

First, although modern science requires a lot of software, scientists refuse to recognize that crafting software is its own discipline and insist that they must be good at it because they're good at being scientists. Your skills won't be valued - they won't even be recognized.

Second, the realities of biology are very different from the realities of software. If you're working with living things, be they cell cultures or mice, you'll find your schedule frequently dictated by the cycles of your experimental materials. For example: suppose your experiments work best with mice age 14 days. If a litter is born on a sunday, that means you'll be at work on a sunday two weeks later.

Biological reactions are way worse than slow builds. So many biological protocols involve doing something tedious for twenty minutes, then waiting for a specific amount of time (perhaps 15 minutes , perhaps 45) and being back at precisely the right moment to do a few more minutes of painstakingly careful but tedious work.

In software you would never hire 5 developers but only give them two laptops - each person needs a laptop to do their job, right? In biology the equipment is so expensive that it must be shared. This can be ok, but it also results in loss of control over your schedule. now you're not just working on sunday, but because the other student sharing equipment also needs to experiment on sunday, you're either working sunday early morning to early afternoon, or sunday early afternoon to late evening.

I found science to be crowded with people trying to prove that they're the most brilliant ones in the room, people unwilling to collaborate because if a group effort succeeds you have to share the credit. In software I've found everyone happy in the knowledge that a well-functioning team can produce results at a scale unrealizable by even the most brilliant individual.

In conclusion, i hated being a biologist. I didn't like the culture of science, I didn't like the work itself, and I didn't like the schedule and lifestyle it demanded. I also really didn't like killing mice. Biology is dirty work - not the worst by any means, but software is a more fun job that pays 3-10X more.
For the France export problem, can you just separately provide an install script that will go and download the crypto binaries to dynamically link to?

Also to combat piracy, maybe you can detect pirated copies and then insert a prompt for users to donate, but either way you let them continue using the app. You could add a BTC/Doge donation as I suspect pirates might just not want to use a credit card.
This is probably the easier way of solving the challenge; indeed, this is exactly how my team did it. However, there's a somewhat more interesting solution, exploiting a badly implemented doubly-linked list: https://blog.skullsecurity.org/2014/defcon-quals-writeup-for...
I think this is even more true for Chinese than most other languages.

Commonsense indicates the difficulty of learning a language doesn't depend solely on the language in question, but on how similar it is to languages you already know. An extreme example is that if you already speak Mandarin, learning Mandarin is a no-op. As a less extreme example, I'm sure that learning Mandarin is easier for a Cantonese speaker than for someone who only knows English and French.
Kind of a dumb strategy in my opinion. A lot of times I'll see a post on quora I want to share on facebook or whatever, but I don't because I know I'll just be irritating my friends when they see a "Signup to read this article" page.
This is good example of how to answer 'big data' questions without big expensive distributed systems via the magic of lots of RAM and probabilistic data structures.
I wonder if sama has seen this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4503910
I have many friends that in the past wanted to get more fit and healthy and they've always felt the need to do a lot of research or look for some sort of crazy program that they think is necessary to shed off the weight or gain muscle. I always try to just push them in the direction of starting out with the "big four" that this article mentioned: the bench press, the squat, the dead lift, and the clean and press. All you need to do is look for videos online that demonstrate the motion and proper form and try to mimic this with a light weight [1]. As your form gets better, you can naturally add more weight. From there as you gain more experience, you can start working on exercises that isolate different body parts and of course incorporating cardio.

In my humble opinion, it's best to just jump right in, create a routine, and start learning from experience. Refer back to videos online for proper form in trying new exercises, and from first-hand experience you will see what works and what doesn't.

[1] http://www.bodybuilding.com/exercises/
Love the SOAP connector and storage service. Looking for docs around the offline sync support
Kind of surprising that this article didn't use the word "periodization", because that's really what it's advocating.
While it doesn't invalidate the concerns in this article, I was reminded of an article by the New Yorker I read a while ago on the importance of using checklists (and, by extension, technology) in health care. It's been submitted before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3360098
It's about the freedom to think and communicate. If all your thoughts were tweeted and all your conversations were publicly blogged, wouldn't that degrade your freedom? Or if in every conversation, someone told you they would send a report to the gov't capturing what was discussed, would you end up having the same conversation?
I'm sure this sounds arbitrary, but I'd love it if the sqlite file header allowed for more room to add program specific metadata. The fact that more and more apps are using sqlite files to store user facing files, it would be nice if space in the header was given to identify the expected usage of the sql file.
All: The coincidence of an HN user being personally close to this story is so remarkable that we have put James' comment [1] at the top of the thread, using the same method we occasionally use for moderation announcements. This is very rare—I don't think we've ever done it before.

It does occasionally happen that one commenter is uniquely close to a story, or knowledgeable about it, in an HN thread. I've thought for some time that the HN software should support this somehow, because those moments (e.g. when Peter Norvig shows up to comment on his own work) are among the most valuable here. If we had that feature today, we'd certainly have applied it to James' comment.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7797013
I agree, it seems to conflict with sharing.

However, for 1 person like you that thinks about not sharing, I'm sure there are many that will share without thinking. Moreover -on this point I'm totally sure- if you force users to signup vs you leave the option, no matter how good is your landing page, you will have more signups with the first option.

The point would be to understand how many share they lose vs how many signup they still get, but I guess the math is on their side (note: I'm assuming the most important metric here is number of signups, which is totally an assumption).
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I'm glad you brought this up. CAN-SPAM covers all commercial messages and "any electronic mail message the primary purpose of which is the commercial advertisement or promotion of a commercial product or service"

Footrr Ads are not the primary purpose the email. They are supplemental material inside an email, and are not commercial emails (because it's one person emailing another person).

I'll do another read-over to make sure it's still all gravy. Thanks for the comment, minimaxir!
Some of the experiments historically done (and that continue to be done) on animals are horrific. If animals do indeed suffer as humans do, just think of the massive suffering that must have been caused in the learned helplessness experiments[1], or countless unanesthetized vivisections[2], and the likely millions of animals at this point that have been purposefully infected with terrible diseases to gain insight into treating humans.

Strong evidence does not even matter, when acknowledging the facts and their implications means we have to accept our responsibility and culpability for the terrible crimes we have committed against fellow sentient beings.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivisection
I'm mostly using Python and trying to learn Go, both have great csv parsers and I used the one in PHP. Given the size and features present in .Net I was really suprised to not find a csv parser.
I'll update the post. This worked for me.
Thanks a lot!
Unless your rail thin and a teenager, I'd avoid Rip's diet advice. It will undoubtedly get you fat.

Lyle McDonald's bodyrecomposition.com is, as far as I'm concerned, the best nutrition resource on the internet. Lyle does a great job of taking clinical research and boiling it down to practical applications for people who train.