skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've really enjoyed Mark Rippetoe's writing about the difference between Exercise and Training.

From the gloss for Practical Programming for Strength Training [1]: "Exercise is physical activity for its own sake, a workout done for the effect it produces today, during the workout or right after you're through. Training is physical activity done with a longer-term goal in mind, the constituent workouts of which are specifically designed to produce that goal."

He emphasizes that a realistic means of progression is one of the most important aspects of any training program.

Practical Programming and Starting Strength [2] (which is a better introduction to these ideas for novices) are together the best analytical discussion of physical training that I've seen.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Programming-Strength-Trainin...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Starting-Strength-3rd-Mark-Rippetoe/dp...
People keep mentioning that the study says that the workout should be repeated 2-3 times but what it actually says is that the "Participants can repeat the 7-minute bout 2 to 3 times, depending on the amount of time they have." To me that implies that repeating 2-3 times is optional, and that once is enough to see results.

Also, as an aside, if you are repeating something 2-3 times, doesn't that mean you're doing it a total of 3-4 times?
12 exercises in 7 minutes seems a little rapid. I usually manage 4-5 in 30-45 minutes...

I guess if you're beginning from a very sedentary level, this is probably a great starting point. It exercises most major muscle groups and will at least activate them far more than just sitting in an office chair.
"Elite" status is a slap in the face to all customers. If the rental company is capable of offering that level of service, then that level of service should be the norm, at the non-elite price, and available to all customers. Elite members shouldn't have to pay extra for it. And non-elite customers shouldn't be subjected to inferior service just because they don't have elite status.
@Ryan - I flew into LAX last week and went to try out Silver Car for the first time. I just needed a car for the day. Pickup was around 7 AM and I was going to be returning it the following day at 1 PM. The app quoted me $200 since it considered that a full two day rental ($89/day + fees). In my case, I wouldn't have opted in for the $28/day insurance either.
What I've always found so interesting about this story is how singular a moment this was, where humans and machines could play a meaningful game of chess. For millennia before, a chess-playing machine was nonsense. Today, chess computers so completely outclass human players that mobile phones can win high-level tournaments. There was a period of no more than five or ten years where the best computer could play the best human, and have the result be in doubt, and it happened right around the turn of the millennium.
I don't know if James Altucher is the originator of that thought line, but he mentions it in his book Choose Yourself. It's been such a long time since I read it. I actually did try the flossing one tooth- it worked for about 10 days before I fell back into my bad habit of a few times per month. (http://www.amazon.com/Choose-Yourself-James-Altucher/dp/1490...)

The 7 min workout definitely will not make you look like a cross-fit junkie, but who really needs to be that fit? For someone who doesn't work out at all, and sits in front of a screen for 8 hrs a day, 7 min a day is likely to add a few years to your life.
apparently suckers believe that lg, the company that makes tvs that upload shows watched or files on your network, or samsung, the company that needs your phone number, address book, gps location, and accounts in order to download jayz mp3s, wouldn't install a cert for verizon
One small note is that independent vectors are ALWAYS orthogonal in their space. That's by definition of linear independence. If they were not mutually orthogonal, then at minimum you could remove 1 vector from the set and still have the same space representation.
Fighter pilots don't hear the boom when they go supersonic. That is why there have been a few cases of pilots accidentally exceeding M1.0 and doing damage on the ground.

At the altitude Mr Eustace jumped he probably didn't feel any buffeting either.
that mill is a excellent candidate for a cnc conversion, list it on CNCZone, or in a local hackerspace/maker group.
I have yet another perspective. When I try something that sounds too good to be true, and that's how it turns out, I usually drop it rather than investing more in it.
The wiki states that random reads are not needed for a time series database[0]. I think they are, at least for the use case I'm interested in.

Let's say I have 1000 different metrics at 1-second resolution for a day. That's 1000 * 86400 values. Now suppose I want to get the points for a single metric for the entire day. Won't that require a scan of the entire data set (in other words, will this read 999 * 86400 values I'm not interested in)? How is this different from a table in an RDBMS that's only indexed by a timestamp?

[0] https://github.com/akumuli/Akumuli/wiki/How-it-works
"I'm sure it's just an oversight, but that's actually 6622 underpaid hours, not 662. "

Yes it was, it shreds my entire point, and add my pitchfork to the crowd. Whoops. Thanks for catching that. Can't delete or edit the message now, or I would.
Nginx has big plans for JavaScript
To be fair... I would imagine you could catch more than a few humans with the same trick. Specifically folk that might recognize the textbook Fermat's theorem, and miss the special case.

(Sadly, I can offer no data point, as I probably wouldn't have recognized either case...)
Pack of 4 Honey Bunches of Oats, $22.20 and free shipping on orders of $35. The price is higher per unit, but nowhere near the doubling you're referring to - that's a supplier price squeeze most likely (either the product is being phased out, there are only a few left, or not very many suppliers).

http://www.amazon.com/Honey-Bunches-Oats-Roasted-14-5-Ounce/...

Alternatively you can use Prime Pantry perhaps:

You could buy 8 boxes for about $32 with the delivery fee included ($4 per box); and this is the 18oz size, larger than the 14.5oz size in the previous link.

http://www.amazon.com/Honey-Bunches-Oats-Crunchy-Roasted/dp/...
It's Not New
I also searched and found this report [1] showing an increase since 2010. So it is probably more nuanced and depends on you definition of conflict.

[1] http://ploughshares.ca/programs/armed-conflict/armed-conflic...
haha, assuage
Yea, I am glad Vic Gundotra was fired. I wonder why wasn't he fired earlier.
They failed to give a example of how this harmed children, or is unique to the internet. The biggest harm they mention is getting an unsolicited email for a private high school. I remember in high school getting unsolicited postal mail from collages. The other harm was a neighbor made a youtube account and posted videos with her parents knowing. It sounds more like the parent's were harmed instead of the child, presumably she wanted to make a YouTube account and post videos otherwise she would not have done it.

I just don't really understand what we are trying to protect and what the big deal is. (Seriously if someone does understand I would really like to know.)
He leaves a vague foreshadowing of an existentialist threat. So we design these super intelligent machines, and avoid the Hollywood mistake so they don't (bizarrely) want to destroy us. Instead they solve our problems. We're left with an existentialist problem, all right, but one that social scientists/philosophers/etc are better equipped to handle; we have to learn to get along, or else destroy that which we don't agree with, which isn't actually harmful, just different, and avoid reducing our diversity and capability as humans.

Your link is barely worth reading since it suggests AI could provide world peace. This is something we have to work out ourselves, it cannot be handed to us by an algorithm. We can already feed everyone and there's more than enough engagement involved in serving each other. The AI it describes is not logical, there is no logical reason for AI to want to compete with other forms of life, unless it is programmed to do so. That is a life form issue, and AI can only be imbued with it at the direction of an issue emanating from the first paragraph.
Well, in this particular case with adults you can make the (in my opinion very flimsy) argument that they're at least in principle capable of understanding the ramifications of who they give their data to and the websites they visit etc.

A child on the other hand can't be expected to exercise good judgment and discretion about who they should and shouldn't give their data to. The landscape is just too complicated.

(Of course, the aspects that are complicated are ones that adults don't understand anyway.)
Empirically, the rooms that offer last minute instant booking tend to cost about the same as a hotel.

Although I didn't realize you could use "has instant booking" as a search parameter - thanks! Now if only I could get hipmunk to honor that restriction too...
There is money to be made in premium concierge services that actually get the job done. Such services have so far relied (and will continue to rely) on humans, but smart technology may be able to automate the service seamlessly 80% of the time and thereby lower costs.
The Polish have a history of quite innovative military equipment. Here's a very ambitious fighter from the late 80s that was very much ahead of it's time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PZL-230_Skorpion
Yes, well, we are stuck with capitalism.
why wrong?
1.)correlation does NOT imply causation
2.)psychology of FEAR mode can strike ANY chess player
3.)the computer at that time will lose because it does NOT
understand the art of deception and 'feints.'
4.)IBM Deep Blue is moving to poker, which is a MUCH better test.

5.)observations are NOT double blind.

6.)highly useful IMHO (at least for me as a child) is to IMAGINE
the opponent is 'genius' and then 'stupid.' Simple thought experiment.
Even the dog with low IQ is able to predict the owner's moves.

7.)It's obvious that even basic 'stupidity' is mentioned on HN, the
verge and even the Nate Silver book. Why?

8.)time or tempo is important and more so with high level champions.
So, 'losing tempo' by 'computer error' or 'harmless rook move' is
BAD.

9.)Obviously, it is far worse for a HUMAN PLAYER, since it means
that the opponent has lost its train of thought. For Deep Blue it
means BAD CODING.

note: based on similarities to my experience as child chess champion.

PS. the definitie book still NEEDS TO BE WRITTEN, including
some open sourcing of code.

PPS. generally the only suggestion I can make to improving chess
ability is YOGA or relaxation techniques. Why?

the key problem IMHO is stress cause by 'context switching'
between frames depending upon 'models.' i.e. model of attack
or 'strategic attack' or 'feint attack', etc.

the key question is: the computer does NOT switch between modes
but has one global mode, IMHO. as a comparison to human player.
They don't even have to inject anything, it's surprising they're doing this at all. They could just use the TCP/IP source and destination addresses and ports to identify the connection. TLS wouldn't help that. VPN would though.
I'm not suggesting Android has dropped in quality or momentum at all under Pichai. I'm just noting the lack of the opposite. As an outsider how can we judge Andy Rubin a failure and Pichai a brilliant success when the former exceeded all of Gooogles goals with Android and the latter by all appearances is just staying the course?
> Sundar Pichai is now The Man at Google .

Should not use the term "The Man" like this.
Like any other software Tor has problems. Just look through their changelog. Tor has had plenty of issues. But on the whole it's very good.

Remember the "Tor Stinks" slide from the Snowden leaks? The NSA, with direct taps on the internet backbone, has had lots of trouble deanonymizing Tor users.
It's discounted 15% with FoundersCard and includes free tank of gas ($60 or so?). The "two days for 30h" thing is annoying with most car rentals. With Hertz elite you can get 4h grace period sometimes, and with a lot of them there's an hourly rate which is ~1/4 to 1/8 of the daily rate, but you're still possibly in for two days otherwise.

LAX and LAS are pretty cheap places to rent cars usually (from Avis/Hertz/etc.).
The Wikipedia article, which is very interesting in a number of different ways, even has a section on "Nuclear Summer": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter

'A "nuclear summer" is a hypothesized scenario in which, after a nuclear winter has abated, a greenhouse effect then occurs due to CO2 released by combustion and methane released from decay of dead organic matter.'

That's all it says about that particular thing, but it's worth a read for everything else.
Hertz Gold is pretty easy to get for free through various sources, or it's $50/yr or a minimum number of rentals. All it really means is you've substantially pre-registed so they can totally automate the pickup process, as they have your identity/license/etc. info on file.
[1, 0] and [1, 1] are linearly independent but not mutually orthogonal. Unless I am understanding what you mean by "in their space".
They should have never diluted the "Kindle" brand by mixing e-ink products and iPad-knockoff products.

I still think e-ink is the best way to read long texts, and it's a shame that you can no longer colloquially refer to a 'Kindle' and have people know what you're talking about.
You have no idea about the technical challenges that come with a jump like this. Stop reducing it to "the parachute", "the team", "the suit". These are all important parts of the jump but you can't just do this stuff without the experience to control yourself.

The way you are talking, you probably think it's trivial to jump out of an airplane with a parachute. There is a lot more to skydiving than just jumping and deploying a parachute. There is a reason you need to do a lot of jumps before you can jump at high altitude, and this record-breaking jump is even harder than that.

There is a reason people who are knowledgable about skydiving are impressed by this jump (see the comments higher up on the page), and that's because they appreciate the challenges. You are unimpressed because you know very little about these challenges. This is okay if you keep your ignorance to yourself, but embarrassing otherwise.
This is definitely something I plan on doing as well. Do you really feel it's appropriate to counter-offer after a break in negotiations like this? Additionally, is there a certain amount of time you would suggest asking for or would you say that's more on a company-to-company basis?
Nobody wants to defend against their ISP but it's clear at this point that you must. Comcast injects ads when you're using one of their wifi hotspots, Verizon has silently recompressed images and now adds these headers, AT&T uses DPI to detect tethering apps and add additional charges to your bill. The internet is a hostile environment.
addendum
martial arts >> kung fu >> styles >> drunken style or erratic movements.
information theory >> low Signal to Noise >> SNR or
lesson learn - don't make your goal and intention too obvious to the
enemy.
philosophy >> Art of War Strategy by Sun-Tze >> insert quote here
math >> sequential game >> algorithms >> meta and hyper heuristics
I hate the surprises. I just wish sites would give greater transparency to all the various nickel-and-dime charges that will inevitably make the rate I'm paying at the counter higher than what I thought I signed up for.

I usually book on priceline and have just come to expect that I'll end up swiping my card for upwards of 100% more money than the prices I was quoted. (Airport fees, taxes of all kinds, insurance, other fees I've never heard of, etc...)
"I wouldn't be surprised if those numbers are internally divided by 10^n and stored in doubles anyway"

I would certainly not expect this at all. These are not int64s here, but are instead "big integers" as bunches of languages have, see also GMP.
The modern equivalent of the passenger pigeon is the the red billed quelea which can form flocks that take 5 hours to fly past: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-billed_quelea
Where are you that taxing pets is happening? Don't mess with my furballs.
Wouldn't it be incredible if this was the attitude of your average American?
There's nothing better than leafing through a random 2600 from the 90s.
In Musk's interview with Vanity Fair it's honestly hard to take him seriously when he starts speaking about AI:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPsHN1KyRQ8#t=1879

I am impressed and many times inspired with the progression we are seeing in AI, but I don't think that there is much to worry about in the form of a "Hollywood" robot take over... I do think that the potential danger is increasing equally with the growth and development of the IOT, and the ability to manufacture home-made drones.
honestly, people are buying Honey Bunches of Oats on Amazon? My mind reels.
There are 2 different issues here, whether or not an action constitutes a crime and burden of proof.

We might agree on the first issue.

>However, if it's deemed that a cop is not meeting some other performance criteria of their job, then that's a different matter altogether.

Would you consider a police officer unnecessarily killing a violent drunk to be "not meeting some other performance criteria"?

On the issue of burned of proof we disagree. Employment is a voluntary agreement. If I am your employer and I no longer want to employ you because I am convinced you are a criminal, then that is my call. If I want to lock you in a cage because I am convinced you are a criminal, that is not my call.
My thoughts exactly. There is zero science here.
Check out Apigee SmartDocs: https://blog.apigee.com/detail/apigee_smartdocs_introducing_...
Check out Apigee SmartDocs: https://blog.apigee.com/detail/apigee_smartdocs_introducing_...

(top level readers: sorry about the double-post)
Stacks of cash a problem for legal marijuana
The data would allow a person who is not capable of giving informed consent, to give consent. Its the same reason a kid can't be interviewed by a cop without informing an adult (for example).

More than this, it means you can track a person for their entire life. Regardless of where one stands on the negative impact of tracking, a person should be able to decide, and a kid simply cant.

Kids arent allowed to win contests either (some contests) or the lottery.
Where was Andy Rubin judged a failure?
Why?

If you don't want to drive or worse, don't own a car, or you're a shut-in, or elderly, or just simply don't have the time - purchasing some or all of your groceries online is a life saver.
Synthetic biology on ordinary paper: a new operating system
Nice article! If you're nostalgic for the magazine, definitely check out the Best of 2600 anthology that came out a few years ago: http://www.amazon.com/The-Best-2600-Hacker-Odyssey/dp/047029... It's huge and loaded with tons of classic articles from the magazine.

I can also heartily recommend Off The Hook--I've been listening for about 15 years now and it's been really cool to get different perspectives on technology news filtered through the 2600 lens.
Not every tablet is an iPad-knockoff.

The original Kindle Fire blew the market for Android tablets wide open.
The net neutrality debate has been oversimplified to the point of being nearly meaningless. Being against internet "slow lanes" is like being against poverty. Everyone agrees with the goal, but the devil is in the details. It's completely possible to be for a universally faster internet for all traffic and be against many net neutrality laws just like it is possible to be for getting people out of poverty and being against many welfare policies.
>I think this is also a very unrealistic expectation of users, however skilled they may be as mathematicians.

It's an unrealistic expectation to expect it from every single user, but not for many of them.
I find it hard to believe that you can do squats more than one day a week. It takes a while for large muscles to recover, especially when you're doing heavy weight.
This is actually really good, because if advertisers have an Verizon API to query the cookies for demographic information, in theory intelligence agencies could have an API to query a cookie to see if the device belongs to a U.S. person and stop incidental collection of that stream. Which is what they would do, right?

Oh wait, a bad guy could steal your phone. Guess we'd better collect it all. Hey, I guess we could use that cookie for something...
I've started to hate shopping on Amazon. The other day I was looking for a tablet, typed in the search, gota huge list of results (mostly not relevant).

Prices are $xxx used and new. Okay, so is it $xxx used or new? Inquiring minds want to know!

Clicked through to the listing.

No price. There's a bunch of other gibberish, it's not being sold by Amazon, and no price. Have to add it to my cart to see the price.

Really? All I want is to see

a) do you have the tablet I want?

b) what does it cost?

c) when can it be delivered?

I don't care about the 173 other vendors that sell it, the used or new price (no category for refurbished btw), or any of that. I don't want to have to add a dozen copies of the same item to my cart just to see what it'll cost, or if I have to pay shipping, or what the shipping will cost.

It's becoming absurd.

I think sometime in the last year, Amazon jumped the shark and has moved to a model of actively hiding things from the users...this is usually the beginning of a death spiral for many companies and it explains reduced business volume. It's something pathological that companies seem to want to do, make it hard to buy their stuff, that always seems to indicate the beginning of the end.

edit dammit now Newegg is pulling the same "see price in cart" shenanigans....I'm about done with on-line shopping...time to just go to Best Buy or Costco
In case you didn't read, yes I said they were GPG signed. But they don't make that info available (or linked) on the main download page, you have to google to find it.

SSL 3 is still fine for protecting integrity, just not confidentiality, so it is okay for downloads.
Why would Russian economy be slowing down exactly again, seems to be doing quite the opposite last I checked.
I think that generally the greater issue is response times. I live in a small city in northern California, and due to budget costs our police force has not been able to scale with our city's growth, leading to 45-90 min response times.

Also, I don't understand what the holdup is on 911 transitioning to both calls and texts. I could simply text my location, and the situation type I am in...
This is the first I've heard of a limit on refunds. Can you point me to more information?
Why? What are the "incredible" benefits that you imagine? This is about taking things that once brought you enough "joy" that you bought them and moving them from closets to landfills, probably making room to buy some more joy.

I'm not saying that tidying up is a bad idea--I think it's a good idea--but I'm not sure what imagined consequences have filled you with such rapture.
1. To what degree is responsiveness/latency affected?

2. Are we expected to use this in production apps or only private betas? If the former, it may violate app store terms.

3. Looks pretty nice, surprised this is the first time I'm seeing something like this.
Up next.. Power assisted Launch from the moon with reentry landing on MGM Las Vegas. For tha win.