skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would suspect this depends on the type of work you are doing. Working for a start-up that is trying to innovate and rock the tech world? Deliver and over-deliver, in my humble opinion. Working for an Enterprise company that does SaaS, PaaS, or some type of aaS? Deliver on the dot, no more, no less. It doesn't help you any - you'll be bored sick - but it's reality, and you're best saving your "awesome" for those FOSS projects you hack on the side, until you can nail that primo job where over-achieving is not only expected, not doing it can get you canned! Cheers.
Mining Strava's cycling data
I agree with that in principle. The problem is that you have to do those sports a lot in order to stay fit, and people start companies, write books and do other things that leave them with too little time for it. Climbing over a lifetime beats weightlifting, but weightlifting beats sitting in a chair for two years.

Also, olympic lifting might look like brute force, but it's actually as tricky and interesting as swimming or gymnastics.
Because what they serve to Google is the same, the first answer. The issue is that people want more than the first answer or they don't know how to dismiss the sign up modal.

More than anything, people who have issues with this feel entitled to have unfettered access to content because Wikipedia and other sites have been world changing and useful resources without a barrier to entry for reading content.

There was a time when using an anonymous remailer was considered bad taste, but now an email address isn't sacred, things change a lot on the internet over time and it has more to do with how the general public uses it and perceives it than to do with how highly technical people think it ought to be.
I hate pay-walls and even login-walls, so I genuinely disagree with Scribd's payment model. However, I do think the service provides value in that users are able to upload a PDF and it renders in a pretty widely-compatible viewer format (in HTML5). Embedding PDFs across multiple platforms are still a terrible native experience, and on some systems it launches tons of painful Acrobat toolbars or just doesn't show up at all.

I have yet to find a free or open source solution that's incredibly easy to implement and embed (for bloggers). To get PDF content showing nicely inside of a scrollable iframe, you need to convert the PDF to HTML, and host images somewhere. That's not easy for people who just want to jump right into publishing blog content. DocumentCloud seems totally awesome, but their hosted platform is restricted to journalists; specifically, "newsrooms."

I use Scribd for legal research; there's a lot of attorneys who post PDFs of case pleadings, since (a) PACER is expensive to use, and (b) RECAP has terrible searching. To that end, it really is the YouTube of PDFs, and I love it for that. Of course, YouTube is ad-supported, so perhaps that'd be a better option for Scribd, but that tends to draw ire too.

For what it's worth, you don't need to pay for a Scribd account if you regularly upload content. I haven't uploaded anything in a few months and I was able to download, for free, the Declaration of Independence link that the author highlighted. Of course, you wouldn't know that unless you stared at the little text on the bottom of the page, so that should change.
My day job involves regulatory reporting of OTC and ETD products, although I deal with the technical aspects not the business side so my comments contain some speculation (but the other responses to your question here seem better at that addressing those aspects).

A number of new regulations have come into place in the past few years to help prevent recurrences of recent financial scandals and meltdowns, and to ultimately bring stability to the markets, e.g. the Dodd-Frank Act (DFA) for US parties and MiFID/EMIR (and in the future MiFIR) for EU parties.

These regulations provide for e.g. daily and in some cases semi-realtime (30min) reporting of trading activities. Reports can also go to the counterparties who can dispute or verify trading activities.

Other countries, e.g. Russia, Singapore, Hong Kong, even South Africa are enacting similar pieces of legislation.

In some cases, the trade repositories (companies who accept trade reports) satisfy multiple supervisory bodies e.g. the DTCC will accept reporting under DFA, EMIR, MAS (Singapore), HKMA (Hong Kong) legislation.

Here is the speculative part: You can imagine this gives authorities a pretty good idea of who is trading what, what their exposure is and to who, etc. Because all parties are required to be registered with the appropriate regulatory bodies, I would think the alleged fraud at MtGox would have at least two obvious problems if they were subject to similar regulatory oversight:

(1) MtGox would be registered as brokers and wouldn't be trading parties, so at minimum it'd be very suspicious (and more likely illegal) to see them taking the other side of a trade (they couldn't report using a non-existent party for their side of the trade like they do here as that submission would be rejected since the party would be invalid, and they can't just not report because the counterparty buying the BTC will identify MtGox as the seller in its submissions; they also can't use a random real counterparty because that real party will dispute the trade took place)

(2) even if they legitimately took the other side of the trade (e.g. Mark registers as a trader) while cooking the books, I'd imagine they'd have to reconcile their audited books/bank accounts with their reported trading history, which would reveal fraud (by controlling the trading history they can claim anything; with a regulator, they can't control the trading history).

In effect, regulation of this sort would force all trading claims to balance out across all parties - where they don't, there would be an investigation.
Replace "so was Einstein" with "then Einstein was also being naive when he said this", would that help? My sympathy for Einstein is personal, and I might have brought up, say, Bill Hicks in the same way; not meaning it as "this is correct because X said so, and many other people think he is generally correct", but "if this is wrong, then at least I am in company I like while being wrong about this".
Agree with peter, Vimeo seems to have focused on Business customers who don't really depend on the service to drive visitors. There are no ads if you are a paid customer on Vimeo.

Vimeo is big but nothing compared to the gaint Youtube
Asynchronous I/O that doesn’t get in your way, written in D
Or click the unsubscribe all link at the bottom of every single email they send.
But if you had a post-scarcity society, then a competent bureaucracy is more credible. For one, you just solved the Public Choice problem. If everybody is, by our standards, a billionaire then things will be different. Things other than material success would be the yardstick for status.

Star Trek directly reflected the economic-Utopian side of Gene Roddenberry's hopes and dreams. That was explicit, deliberate and according to various documentaries, sorta drove the writers nuts. It emphasizes the positive aspects of humanity. Gene was an 8 year old in 1929 and 24 at the end of WWII, and was formed right through the teeth of the Depression. He flew 89 missions in WWII...

Cyberpunk? Not my cup 'o tea.
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I also think the focus on squatting and dead lifting does not produce very aesthetic results for a lot of guys. Some people have twiggy legs and benefit from putting on some lower body mass. But a lot more guys who progress to intermediate squat and deadlift numbers wind up with over sized thighs and glutes and frankly it doesn't look good. Nor is it very "functional" outside of the lifts. That kind of bulk definitely slows you down on the court/track/field.

People get caught up in stuff like the deadlift because you build up to what seem like big numbers. But the fact is, it's not very impressive. Most guys can get there. And it's not very useful, athletically speaking.

I think Rippetoe's original schtick was built around bulking kids up for certain positions on high school football teams. Having an extra 20# to throw around at age 17 is going to really help a lineman. I'm a bit skeptical about the wider reverence the Rippetoe approach gets these days.
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And that inherent inefficiency is just one of the reasons Bitcoin is not the future of finance.
Murder pretty much means you don't belong in a polite society, especially in the first degree. Do you even know what 1st degree is? Do you really want that person back out, ever?

There are monsters in this world, they are human. Society is best served with them not being amongst it freely.
Many outliners support graphs... look for the "clone" feature, though it's called various things in various outliners. The problem is that you have the same sort of problem you do with UNIX filesystems, where almost everything expects to work on trees, and then, suddenly, bam it's not a tree anymore and something a little funky or unexpected happens because some code expecting a tree is suddenly being run on a full graph.
To clarify, Norway, for example, does have functional life imprisonment. They just don't have life sentences. People's prison terms can be extended for 5 years at a time (with the option for the prisoner to petition for parole every year) if they're still considered dangerous.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_imprisonment_in_Norway
HIIT is a good form of interval training for people who want to do cardio but are also afraid that cardio will detract from their "look good in a swimsuit"-look.

> , and at the time impressing ladies and intimidating other guys was priority (lets don't lie to ourselves about motive here!).

Let's not project, either.
The following is presented as indisputable facts in the article:

Bitcoin is a scam

Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme

There is zero chance that bitcoin will ever be mainstream

Bitcoin does not have a single advantage over fiat currency

Bitcoin will never be useful for online shopping

None of the problems with bitcoin can be fixed

All bitcoin users and developers are incompetent, does not know anything about economics, does not understand people at all and has no understanding on how to build reliable financial computing infrastructure

Looks pretty one-sided to me.
> The screenshot I linked should be enough to immediately disprove any accusations of "spam".

Really? You have to uncheck something like 20 checkboxes to avoid spam. And they used to have a tendency to re-enable all of them each time they add a new option; so you had to repeat the process on and off. (Hopefully that last bit has tapered down)
Which part of the description do you feel was inaccurate?

What I see is on the show is a glorified militaristic hierarchy and an audience of fans whose greatest wish is to be the guy giving the orders. It's the kind of thing the Star Wars Empire would fund as state propaganda.
> it's pretty widely accepted now that free weights are more effective than machines.

I don't buy that. The people who say that stuff are the same ones who go on about stabilizer muscles, when there's no such thing. Machines are safer than barbells. For overhead and pull-down stuff the good machines minimize dangerous shoulder stress. Barbell squats and deadlifts quite simply are somewhat dangerous and even very experienced people manage to tweak their backs.
This looks fantastic, kudos for open sourcing
So, the world we live in right now then? All trade data, even HFT sourced, is available from exchanges. The only possible exception is dark pools or other crossing networks, but in general it is quite possible to know who bought what from whom, when and for how much.
Diet != losing weight. The GOMAD (gallon of milk a day) diet is not designed for you to lose weight. It's designed to maximize daily caloric intake, which in turn maximizes speed of recovery.

Once you're done with starting strength, you switch to something like IF (intermittent fasting) to cut the excess fat. Then you end up with lots of muscle and no fat.

You can either lose fat or gain muscle. It's incredibly difficult to do both at the same time.
I had an entire semester of instruction on "The Law of Armed Conflict". It's taken VERY seriously by the military.

One example:

In the movie Lone Survivor, the SEAL team of which Marcus Lutrell was a member of is "soft compromised" by a group of goat-herders in the Afghan mountains. They were discovered when the goat herders LITERALLY tripped over them.

Now they were faced with a difficult problem. It was commonly known that the anti-coalition militia used goat-herders as scouts knowing that they would not be molested by coalition forces. Letting them go would almost certainly result in their presence becoming known to the militia. Killing them was against the ROE.

They really didn't have a choice: they let them go. In less than an hour, they were ambushed and three SEALs died. Marcus Lutrell was saved by a local Pashtun. A quick reaction force with two helicopters full of SEALs was repelled by RPGs and another 16 SEALs and other operators were killed.

SO: three goat herders were freed and nineteen men lost their lives because by the ROE, you couldn't kill the goat-herders because they weren't carrying weapons.

Ask yourself if you truly believe you could live with the fact that you freed the people who called the forces that would ambush you and kill your friends.

Our military is willing to follow the rule of law far more often than not. That's a huge difference given the life and death stakes these people are under.

This isn't a movie and there is no do-over. Making a bad decision might get your friend killed or put you in prison. Let's try and adjust our thinking to fit the circumstances these people find themselves in. It's the LEAST we can do as an informed citizenry.

(BTW: I know one of the guys who went in to those mountains to retrieve the bodies of the killed SEALs and find Lutrell. He has no illusions about the enemy he was facing.)
There is a point of view that Stalin and Mao were essentially criminal in a way that national leaders have not been since the 19th Century. So a Putin and whatever they have in China actually represents a modicum of progress. Russia's history at the level of empire is pretty nasty.

We may never be able to get out of our own way. Who knows? Not a big pill fan ( although they've absolutely gotten better for people with real brain-chemistry problems ) but these days, it's easier than ever to identify bad sources of information and understand what's gone wrong. My parents' (Silent) generation had no idea why there was a Depression; mine actually has a few theories.

The emphasis on LSD as "better living through chemistry" was as much about advertising-propaganda as anything else. Regardless of any War on Drugs, that went badly.
Love that we see some tweets from some pretty remote places in Africa - Botwana, Zambia and Malawi. Mobile phones have some pretty big penetration there, but internet connection is still not too strong (texting is far bigger).
Make yourself a work/free-time schedule and stick to it. It's tempting to say "I can work whenever I want", but this also means that work will always be on your mind. Drawing a clear line between work and play helps you to stay sane and allows you to switch off work-mode.
"the deadlift [...] is not very impressive, [...] and it's not very useful, athletically speaking."

That is probably the most false statement I've ever read on the internet. Which is saying something. Athletically speaking, there is no single exercise better than the deadlift. With the squat coming in at #2.
The links from their "Share" feature bypass the login wall (though only for the specific piece of content you link to).
>To suggest this was rape, against her will, is a bit preposterous and an incorrect usage of the word

There are different kinds of rape. It doesn't really matter if a 13 year-old consents. How many 13 year-olds do you know that are mature enough to make such a decision?
This story featured on the Snap Judgement podcast last year.

http://snapjudgment.org/yanomami-mami
> For one, by editing a submission title you are effectively putting words in submitter's mouth.

If that's the case, isn't editorializing the title putting words in the mouth of the article writer?
at the federal level - drug offenses are about half of the population.

of course, it's one thing to talk about legalizing marijuana - but i'm not sure what i'm supposed to think about early release for a guy who was importing heroin into chicago, so that kids who can't afford reformulated oxycontin have a way to get high. it's all part of the same "non-violent drug offense" coin.

this is a pretty reflexive NYT column. once we get away from "non-violent drug offenders" i think the argument loses force. If you spend about 20 minutes reading about the details of the types of gnarly violent crimes the non-drug-related "mass incarcerated" commit, this sort of vague editorializing rings really hollow. people are capable of really heinous stuff.
Yep, but I end up sticking that parameter on to a lot of URLs, so I'd like that to happen for every time I view a diff.
The purpose of prison shouldn't be JUST punishment, but also (and more importantly) rehabilitation. Very few people are actually completely beyond reintegration into society.

We need a prison system that is designed to teach prisoners how to effectively reintegrate with society and provides the mental help that they need instead of one that just perpetuates the cycle.
It is called STARTING strength for a reason. :)

In my experience (which is not universal), the workouts aren't boring though. Running on an eliptical for an hour is boring. Getting into the gym, warming up, doing my workout, cooling down, taking a shower, changing my clothes, and walking out of the gym in 45 minutes isn't boring - it's awesome.
Criticise my first iPhone app, jetwaves
...and my first app for that matter!

Any helpful criticism would be great. Just struggled for 2 weeks with the 'beautiful' objective c!

Alternatively if you do enjoy it, rate and review!
4am!? Are stores in NYC open 24 hours a day?
I don't know about "escaping all consequences,"
unless his idea of "escaping all consequences"
is having to watch his back for the rest of his
life.

If I had stolen a few hundred million dollars from mtgox users and disappeared, my policy would be simple: Anyone who tracks me down and puts a gun in my mouth can have ten times their losses refunded, if they tell me how they found me. Twice their losses up front, eight times after they let me get safely away. The guy with the gun chooses the address to send the refund to.

I doubt more than 5% of mtgox investors have the losses, the stomach and the connections to get me murdered. So I'd still have 50% of the money left over at the end.
I believe it's difficult to get your foot into the door if you are not (at least temporary) staying here. Going to school, coming as tourist, or doing an internship are ways for you to at least temporarily come here and interview with companies.

Do you have a university degree? I may be wrong, but I believe for an H1B-Visa you need a Bachelor's degree or an equivalent amount of work experience. Your 5-year freelancing period may be experience, but it will be difficult to prove the equivalence in case of freelancing.
Society's faulty preconceptions, yes.
Personally, it reminded me of an updated version of Night Driver, except you couldn't crash. I had the Atari 2600 version [1] when I was a kid, but I know there were other versions [2] that were a little closer. I'm curious if these old racing games were an inspiration.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH7iMzEHOxg

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3_01py7Q7I
If you play tennis, box, run 400m, or play basketball, then pursuing a heavy weight deadlift routine is going to compromise your performance. Sometimes it might help build some strength, but beyond a limited amount sinking a lot of training capacity into it is going to slow you down and compromise endurance. This is not remotely controversial.
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like all ponzi schemes, it relied on new users getting sucked in. As other exchanges grew and Mt Gox doubts spread, I imagine their growth rate dropped.
Reminds me of Night Driver [1], and International Grand Prix [2], from my childhood.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0nkMGyfYO8

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07yomzu44kM&t=23
Because they abuse rel=canonical instead of outright showing different content. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6301280.
Since this article didn't elaborate on Rip's suggested diet, and I haven't seen another post here that did... here it is:
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GOMAD, or Gallon Of Milk A Day, is the diet that commonly is combined with Starting Strength (SS). The general idea is that, in addition to eating a lot of food, you drink a gallon of milk a day.

It is not for the protein in the milk. It is not for the added calcium. It is a straight up calorie per dollar play.

A gallon of whole milk is 2400 calories, and costs about $3. It's basically the best dollar to calorie ratio that exists at the grocery store.

Why do you need the extra 2400 calories? For recovery. SS operates on a linear progression. Every other day, you lift a few more pounds than you did the day before. In order to achieve that (safely, and sustainably), you need to be fully recovered by your next workout.

There are many aspects to recovery, but the primary bottleneck is fuel. Which is calories. So the rationale behind GOMAD is to remove the bottleneck. Give the body more fuel than it could possibly use in a day to spend on recovery.

If your typical diet is 3000 calories from food (not unusual when on an aggressive exercise plan), GOMAD will up that to 5400. The exact upper bound on calories your body can actually burn in a day on recovery is variable - depends on the person, the day, the workout, etc etc etc.

But the usage ceiling is definitely lower than 5400 calories. So we give the body more fuel than it could POSSIBLY burn, to give it the ability to recover as much as it is humanly possible between workouts.

You do have to do something with those extra calories. It DOES turn into fat. You do gain a little fat when doing SS+GOMAD. But you have to chose one - lose weight or build muscle. It’s incredibly difficult to do both, while also demanding gains in a reasonable amount of time. So typically once someone finishes a SS cycle, they switch to IF (Intermittent Fasting) or something to cut the extra weight.

Then you end up much stronger, and leaner.

Hope that was helpful in clearing up the GOMAD diet, and the rationale behind it.
I'm very fond of the Internet Archive's book viewer: https://archive.org/details/etsi_ts_100_940_v07.08.00
The reason I asked "Which sentences from the article do you disagree with?" was to have you quote a sentence and then write a rebuttal. We strive to do better on HN than write strawman arguments, and we try to make our critique substantive and thorough. (A handy test: if I can't find a specific sentence to disagree with, I might be arguing a strawman position, so I try doubly hard to be thoughtful in that circumstance.)

Also, on HN, a line in italics usually means "this is a direct quote," so it's generally taboo to put things in italics which you didn't copy-paste from some source. For example, the word "mainstream" never appears in the article, so it shouldn't be in an italicized line.
No, it's just why exchanges don't needlessly segregate wallets.