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My fitness regime: Dance class a couple times a week. Yoga a couple times a week as well. Live in a city I can walk around, don't have a car. Right now the dance is pole dance. Which you will probably laugh at - but think how much strength and flexibility you need to climb up a pole, invert yourself, and do splits while slowly twirling back down to the ground.

And yeah, just keep doing the same thing on a regular basis. I have a chin-up bar in my bathroom door. Almost every time I pass that way, I try a few times. I've gone from "can't get off to the ground" to "can easily lift and lower myself". Now I'm trying to work on more reps.
The competent bureaucracy part is really the lynchpin. Because bureaucracies are so incompetent, criminal syndicates just run circles around them. This is why the mafia state looks like the logical endpoint-- basically anarcho-syndicalism, and it's not a utopia. I think this is also why the most bureaucratic states -- the USSR and Communist China -- have been the first into this brave new future. The criminal mammals triumphed easily over those byzantine dinosaurs.

The bottom line is that we have the scientific method and we have the discipline of engineering, and those together can reliably produce progress in the technical realm. We have no set of tools or techniques that reliably produces progress in the human realm. There are no institutions charged with understanding and healing us psychologically. The closest we come is to pop pills, and even that is poorly done -- diagnosis is incredibly unscientific and haphazard.

I personally blame -- directly and indirectly -- the war on drugs. I am not one of those people who thinks that dosing everyone with LSD would create some kind of utopia. I've known too many drug users to think that. But beneath the pop culture misuse of those substances, there was some really visionary research into genuinely understanding and even changing deep human psychology at work back in those days. The ridiculous moral panic that followed had the effect of shutting down almost all of that research, even some of the non-psychedlics-related stuff, and leaving us with nothing but talk-talk psychotherapy and the ham fisted pill pushing approach. To this day attempting to delve deeply into human psychology in an active way immediately leads into realms since declared utterly taboo.
Unless you're an insanely large company, in the long-run, you can probably save on OPEX by switching to cloud infrastructure. You get away from purchasing hardware for yourself, which inherently reduces OPEX.
Stealing five minutes of the lives of each of thousands or millions of people is why spammers are scum.
Why does it have to be one or the other? Your main point is that one requires instruction to attain the correct form. That can be achieved by reading the book and properly following it, or seeing a competent trainer, or both.

There are some good trainers who can help, and there are certainly many who are worse than useless.

As for the book, it has hundreds of pages explaining in great technical detail exactly how each exercise is to be performed and some useful photos are also included. There's no reason why you can't get the form down properly using the instructions in the book, and maybe even have a friend record your form so you can check it against the photos.
This is why I hate overly touchy-feelies. They use their emotional sensitivity to throw analytic thinking out of the window and then persecute people who are not like them.

Where do morals and common sense come from, eh? Culture. Common sense is literally a sense that is common to a certain group of people. Morals are also mutually accepted limitations to each other behavior.

So yes, morals and common sense of your culture are out of the window when dealing with another culture. Just because you have a strong opinion doesn't mean you're right.
FTLA:

"Alice Dreger, an historian of medicine and science, and an outsider to the debate, concluded in a peer-reviewed publication that most of Tierney's claims (the movie is based on claims originally made by Tierney) were "baseless and sensationalistic charges".
When it comes to storytelling, conflict is inherently more interesting than the alternatives. I can't help but feel that this explains most of what's going on here.
I have trouble understanding the basis for articles like these. As far as it goes, asking which exercises might provide the best real-world gains is a sensible question, but the question of why a 40 yr old man wants to be able to push 235 lbs away from his chest when lying reclined is never even asked.

Does he know why he wants this?

From a biological perspective, a specimen might want to be able to do this to signal to potential mates that he is worthy of reproduction (the reason why we do alot of the things we do that no one ever quite explains). But at age 40, this is a suspect answer... without knowing any details of his personal life it seems unlikely that he's finally looking to settle down and start a family. Besides, if he is a late bloomer, the success of his career and his paycheck matter much more than body fat percentage. A male's ability to provide benefit to a female just doesn't lean much towards the "fighting off sabertooth tigers" anymore, nor even in the western world towards "fighting off other males".

I'm continually surprised how much time, effort, and money people will waste on these activities that seem devised to attract mates when they want few or no children, when they already have mates, and at times even when they have mates superior to any they're likely to acquire in the future. It's almost as if even as the desire to reproduce erodes, their desire to attract reproductive mates increases.
Quora is casual fun. Like Reddit with text. Ephemeral.

(I am told by Quora investors that they really didn't try for the inane comparisons to Wikipedia, but that this was made up by the press; much as the comparisons between Wikipedia and Knol were. [I am a long-time Wikipedia press volunteer and watched that last one being made up out of nothing.])
I've done Strong Lifts before in the past before and had good results (mainly with legs, squats went from just the bar to 225 lbs in 3 months), and I've tracked it all in a spreadsheet. I've always thought it would be a good idea if we can all publicly aggregate our tracked progress (for just squats, benchpress, deadlift, etc.) and see a collective chart of it so we can visualize how we compare to the average (and if we're doing something wrong). Of course, different body types and diets are factors, so filters may be applied (i.e. mesomorph body type, >3000 calories, etc.). Would anybody be interested in using something like that, in mobile/browser form?
Hmm....

Especially exposing some of the things like intervals, the geographic features, and a lot of their other cool things.

Yeah, I could live with that.
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I'm not an expert, but I suspect the clearing mechanism is what would prevent these sorts of manipulations outlined in the post. I'd start your search there.
Star Trek: Enterprise was incredibly optimistic.
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I've been considering using Sails to redo a simple RoR project--mostly to help decrease the number of languages floating around in the project.

Any thoughts/gotchas from your experience with it?
Except for one little detail, it's not the subject of the article that shows up but a close friend.

If one of my close friends would show up in a thread about me and would start to distribute present-day details about my private life and about my family members that are not currently public I would be less than happy. Maybe jameswburke has full support of the subject(s) about these disclosures but for all we can see here he does not.

The whole affair looks like a tragedy for all involved to me and I think it would be much better to just stick to the information already in the public eye (assuming we have to discuss this sort of thing at all) until all subjects involved (such as David's sister) indicate that they are on board with having this stuff divulged.
The things that medical providers block are often things that would reduce costs, for example enabling mid-level workers supported by tech do some of the doctor's jobs at lower costs, and low cost eye exam kiosks.

And sure, there's a problem with medical tech increasing expenses. That's another problem that needs solution.
I liked mostly all the Star Treks, but it bugged me that the later ones became so militarized. Zeitgeist of a post 9/11 world I supposed. I loved the optimistic future painted in TNG.
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>They also have no word for “love.”

This is the kind of thing that makes the article unambiguously Western-ethnocentric. They obviously know the concept of love. His mother wept tears of joy at the arrival of her son.
It's almost as bad as LinkedIn. After I turned off all newsletters from LinkedIn, I still got 2 a week that I had to filter in Gmail.
>>student loan debt, which cannot be discharged via bankruptcy
>Apparently this isn't true anymore:

That's not a fair summary of the linked article. Student loan debt still cannot be discharged using the ordinary rules of bankruptcy. You still need to prove undue hardship, and that still involves a tough, three part test. What happened was that one court allowed a single mother on food stamps to discharge some student loan debt -- a fact pattern that struck observers as unusual because those circumstances are relatively mild as compared to most successful cases.
It's so common, large companies have entire teams dedicated to running Black Duck scans of their software to hunt down the paste-ins lest their software become open source or their patents cross-licensed by accident.

That scenario might not be entirely possible given the terms of GPL and Apache, but that's how they talk about it.
There are many forms of conflict. Optimistic visions of the future often portray a healthy, competent humanity vs. some unknown danger, mystery, or challenge.
So what? You have met a single guy with an eccentric minority view about the military. For every ex-military person with similar views, there are dozens, if not hundreds, of people who have been in the exact same military, and who have reached completely opposite conclusions.

Telling a story about a single persons's opinions is not a convincing argument about "what's wrong with the military", and his conclusions certainly don't make him braver or smarter than any other member or ex-member of the U.S. armed forces who thinks differently.

The impression I get from this is that you were anti-military long before you have met this "friend", and that his is the only opinion you consider "brave" because it's the only one that conforms to, and reinforces, your already pre-existing world view.
In case you are wondering most of them (probably >90%) dont know how those gadgets work either. They are taught procedures (there are whole repair technicians schools in China), not operation theory.

For example they can diagnose which part on a laptop motherboard is broken by observing current draw/time when booting and looking up answer in the notes (notes made by real engineer or guessed/bruteforced by another tinkerer). This way unqualified worker can tell you in under 30 second what needs to be replaced on a phone/tablet/laptop PCB. Its like a human powered repair database lookup machine, they are all working from the script. You could say they are all Indian DELL phone support line :)

Im not saying its bad, its just how it works.
Globally-unique does not imply globally-reachable. Any security feature you dream up for IPv4 can be applied to IPv6 as well. The fundamental issue is not public vs. private, it's whether you want to design new technology around an address space that's far too small.

Here's the spec for IPv6 over BLE:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-6lo-btle-01
In the one episode where they actually did show Earth's future, it was a Brave-New-World-esque dystopia fueled by an alien incursion. (Really good episode in one of my absolute favorite franchises) I agree that it's generally optimistic but it's hard to say that the characters had any faith in humanity in general, since they keep the whole program a Military secret.

http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/2010_(episode)
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Good God. Whenever I read these, I always get chills down my spine. Part of me wants to do the same, get better at it (I know tiny parts of many things including what is discussed here but not even remotely close to the author), the other one just wonders how does one get so good as to perform all this by themselves. Reverse engineering is beautiful :)
The article addresses you concern about the affordability of health care:

"Cutting costs is now seen as the prime directive in health care. Unwilling to reduce their profits or limit excessive pricing practices, the means to limiting expenses in the healthcare industry is by restricting or rationing care."
It surprised me to only see Gene Roddenberry mentioned in an aside....
Yes. But I could not get one very easily (because generally I only buy second hand kit). I have an improvised docking station made of 2nd hand usb components that is also very small so I can take it to client sites with me and dock my surface into the keyboards, mice, monitors and ethernet that they have on site. The point of my post above was to remind people that they dont need a docking station to 'dock' a surface.
Neal Stephenson makes a similar point in this interview:

http://damiengwalter.com/2014/05/07/nealstephenson/
Ah yes, the credit score. I remember a friend explaining that to me when I visited her in the US. It shocked me!

This does not really exist here, and I'm pretty sure that's the case for most of Europe. I'd say at the very least most middle-class-and-above children are strongly imprinted with the concept that debt is bad.

Furthermore, I suspect that at least here in The Netherlands there are pretty strong regulations on credit-style business ventures and advertising (or buying with monthly payments).

Basically, our approach is that if you can't pay for something, you shouldn't buy it. Among my friends, whatever their personal situation, most don't even have a credit card (and I'm almost thirty!). And when they do, it's usually specifically for buying stuff that you can't pay for with a debit card.

In my case, for example, I was pretty quick with a credit card because I was 'internet-savvy', but I specifically got a student version that has a -1000 euro limit and that automatically resets to 0 every month.
Spent a minute in confusion of the name: LoopBack. Before I have seen another dev tool/service with exact same domain but it was about recording the interactions history for your iOS app.

Then it occurred to me the iOS rewind service is looKback.io, so close :)
Recently moved to USA and had to go through building credit history.

You can build it without taking any debt by applying to secured credit cards first and then eventually get unsecured ones. Never carry balance and you have no debt but have great credit history.
Not really. Rovio did in fact try to extend the brand and get new brands going. But nobody was interested in anything except Angry Birds, so now they're just pushing that brand - rather than come up with a new brand for a new game, they just shove the Angry Birds into it (e.g., Angry Birds Go!).
Futurama could be considered at least partly hopeful, but I suppose that doesn't really count?
I started Starting Strength because I didn't want to be sedentary anymore. I thought I would maintain my weights after a few months, but I soon realized that it feels good to move weight and then more weight. The satisfying part is the challenge.

You should try and get a 150lb bench press and then see if you would want a 200lb bench press and then a 235lb bench press. You might be a "male specimen" that sees no logic to strength, but neither should you be dismissive of people that like to be strong. (Some are women, by the way.)
Seconded. I genuinely don't understand the (seemingly recent) obsession with "getting big."

There are very strong reasons for wanting to lose weight and get fit, based on health reasons. I see absolutely no reason for a person working at a desk job to develop massive muscles which are literally only used in the gym.
I've got your back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7777831

Our money was lost the moment we decided to transfer it to a third party. That 1/5 probably won't recover very much of it, if any of it, for reasons explored in that thread.

Whether it's Mt. Gox or Coinbase, money we put into a webwallet is no longer ours. It's the legal entity's. If they go bankrupt, which can happen for a variety of reasons, sometimes unfair ones, then that money is gone. Best magic trick ever.

Try to be at peace with the loss. Easier said than done; it was difficult for me. If you need someone to talk to, please feel free to shoot me an email.
These days I subscribe to training functional strength as described in this article (Rippitoe and stronglifts 5x5 inspired)- mainly for day-to-day injury prevention in normal motions like reaching for high and low cabinets, helping friends move furniture into a house, and general injury prevention for participating in sports like mountain biking - I'm a 35 year old male.

Also I develop software so getting any kind of exercise and workout is important with all the desk-job health problems, so even without a "why bench 235?" I think this kind of strength is still a great value for general quality of life. You don't need a specific reason or goal for this to be good for you.

Looking good/feeling good are nice side-effects as well, and there's no better medicine than diet and exercise (for most people) for long-term better health over a sedentary life style.

That being said this article has been written before:
http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/everything-you-know-abou...

Edit - I should also add I am not trying to get huge, just maintain general strength and flexibility - currently squat 220, bench 175, press 105, row 170, deadlift 265. Body weight 180.
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The thing I've never been able to get past with Winer's tech is that he is so married to hierarchical representation. I've always felt like my own thoughts are best expressed as graphs.

edit: I mean CS graphs; many-to-many; a child having multiple parents. I don't mean your basic mind-mapping graphical software, which very often also don't support representing graph data structures.
The graph said "weighted". Weighted by what? I'm saying the DoJ produced a graph that would back up their narrative, but didn't provide the actual raw data, or an explanation of how the graph was produced. That makes it useless.

> It is clear that you won't believe any source

I won't believe obviously-biased "sources" that have no real data.

In any case, I think focusing on the current prices of eBooks is not actually very helpful. Amazon has the power to set prices at whatever the heck they want. And the publishers had no recourse, because not selling on Amazon meant not selling, period. But the artificially-low prices Amazon was using for e.g. bestsellers was not sustainable for the publishers. It was not a healthy market, and there was zero reason to believe, had Apple not entered the market, that Amazon would continue selling at those prices indefinitely.

Artificially low prices are usually assumed to be good for consumers, and the DOJ certainly made that claim, but that's not true. Consumers do not benefit in the long-term from an unsustainable market. They also don't benefit from a market with no competition. The latter is what Amazon was trying to create, by keeping prices artificially low on bestsellers. This is predatory pricing, and their goal was to control the entire eBook market. Once they had complete dominance, it's reasonable to expect that they would have raised prices so they would stop taking a loss on all these $9.99 books (in case you aren't aware, Amazon was actually paying the publishers more than $9.99 for the bestsellers they were selling at that price). And in a market without competition it's very likely that Amazon would be selling books at prices higher than a healthy competitive market (like the one Apple was creating with their entry). Here's an article from a year ago with evidence that Amazon was already starting to raise prices: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/05/business/as-competition-wa...
>Someone please explain to me again how this arrangement is evil?

Well, if they let you know ahead of time that you needed to sign up to access the content, that'd be no big deal. And, of course, I wouldn't bother to ever visit the site.

Instead, through Google, they make it appear like the information is accessible, then nag you to sign up to see it.

From the article and the look of this thread, it appears quite a few people think that it's a crappy way to do business; so who is "biased"?
git reset --hard

These days there's little reason to do reset --hard. `git reset --merge` is much safer and can be used almost anytime you would have otherwise done `--hard`.

e.g. if you want to force your branch to point at "foo", you can `git reset --merge foo` and it'll bail out if it detects that you have uncommitted edits that would have been lost by moving to "foo". If it can safely move the uncommitted edits there, it'll do it.
Here are some papers (stuck behind a paywall, but conclusions are there), which show a correlation between mortality and strength. So regardless of the author's intentions, increasing your strength might actually increase your life expectancy.

http://www.bmj.com/content/337/bmj.a439

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17398228

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10795731

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16456196

PS: Obviously the question of causality remains contested. Are healthier people just stronger or do strong people get healthier?
> "the later ones became so militarized. Zeitgeist of a post 9/11 world"

Both DS9 and Voyager were completely wrapped up prior to 9/11. Enterprise struck me as far less militarized -- though far more competently written (it gets off to a slowish start, but the later seasons are great). And the original was probably written in part by people with naval backgrounds (note how people are constantly handing Kirk clipboards to sign off on, there's a fire control room that weapons fire is sometimes directed through, etc.)

I think the only thing that fits your pattern is Star Trek: Into Darkness.
If I understand your comment right, are you looking for something like this:

http://bookshelfjs.org/

I haven't done much work with a relational DB from nodejs (I've just used nosql databases that offered relational functionality -- i.e. rethinkdb), but this seems like as good a thing as any for ORM-y stuff with Postgres
I am pretty sure they are well aware of that. It is just boilerplate response for reps to respond to IPv6 inquiries.
This is Eric S. Raymond at his absolute best. Pretty much everyone who reads HN needs to read and familiarise themselves with this book.
>From a biological perspective, a specimen might want to be able to do this to signal to potential mates that he is worthy of reproduction

You've made a lot of assumptions about his motivations. In Starting Strength, Rippetoe basically makes the claim that these exercises are the most effective way to improve someone's overall health and fitness. His attitude is probably best summarized by the following quote:

>Humans are not physically normal in the absence of hard physical effort.

Now, I'm not going to argue with you about whether humans need exercise to be healthy or if so, which kinds. But for the people who do come to that conclusion (that apparently includes the author), there's plenty of motivation beyond attracting mates.