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Seconded.

I'm a relatively experienced lifter - heavy squats 3x per week is brutal for the first week or so and then your body adapts to it.

I've found that I'll actually stick with a ~hourlong workout, 3-5x a week that I believe in and have goals for over anything quick with no discernible aim. And it's amazing how time magically appears to actually show up at the gym when you prioritize it.

A "scientific" 7 minute workout with no discernible goals is an admirable thing but honestly it's a cheap novelty at best - I've never heard of anybody actually sticking to one, "doing the bare minimum" is just not motivating at all. Scientific according to whom? To what end? Why am I doing this?

Exercise science is inherently a little bit voodoo. Motivation and consistency are much more important than the time requirement.

If somebody's had any success with vague goalless 7-minute workouts, or has even stuck with them consistently, I'd love to hear differing opinions.
How is it atrocious?
It's your personal impression. The Second Congo War was the deadliest war since WWII, and it started in the late 90s. The 90s had a ton of small wars, there was just little in the way of big ticket 'hollywood' wars like the US in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Have a poke around these pages and see the ones you don't recall: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists_of_wars_by_date
It's alarming how consistent HN comments are regarding working at Amazon: management is dysfunctional.

Might Amazon secretly be one of the worst famous large tech companies to work for?
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This is just the page for the exercise, the article (with link to the science) is here: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/
Fitting all that into 7 minutes will likely lead to injury for someone who is in the audience for any kind of short N minute workout, IMO. I concur with your general sentiment and good intentions though. :)

Disclosure: at my peak I back squatted 350 and deadlifted 400.
This is a good start! When you say olympic press, you are referring to the clean and press, right? I'd try to fit bench press in there and maybe some hyperextensions in also.

I think there is one key that needs to be stressed to people starting to work out: anything* is better than nothing. You may not see great gains by doing only 5x5 dumbbell curls every day, but you will start to generally feel better.

* With good form. Bad form will do more harm than good (I know from experience, having pulled a back muscle trying to speed through a warm-up set of squats). Having someone to give you form advice is another important aspect.
> Being against internet "slow lanes" is like being against poverty.

I'm not sure that's true. While I favor net neutrality I also recognize that there are good arguments for allocating Internet resources to the highest bidder, at least to a significant degree.
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They offer Prime every time you buy something at Amazon. It is annoying if you really don't want to sign for it.
If you have a compulsive reading disorder[1] and need to shed books, consider http://www.books4cause.com/ -- they will pick up your books and provide a tax deduction receipt. The last time I dealt with them was 176 books, no problem. My local (Queens, NY) libraries weren't so friendly.

[1] http://bit.ly/1w1NT64
Knowing that Google A/B tests everything I'd have to guess 'going to work on robots' soundly outperforms 'public cuckolding by Sergei' as a way to force out execs.
I do the reverse of the thing that brick and mortars were so afraid of: I browse at Amazon, look at prices, alternatives and reviews, and then go buy it locally. I bought a $450 watch exactly that way a month ago.
That was not what happened. Andy Rubin worked on Android since 2003. It's not that unusual to want to work on something else after a decade.
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There are a lot of tried-and-true programs that include multiple squats a week.

Stronglifts is one, but there are programs from Glenn Pendlay, Bill Starr, Mark Rippetoe, etc. and they're all good for beginner to intermediate lifters - and they all feature two or three days a week of the same-old squats.

A beginning lifter should make gains in the squat even while doing it three times a week, sometimes for many months. After you hit the wall, programs will drop the number of squat days, replace a day of back squats with the front squat, or replace all-heavy days with a light-heavy-medium rotation.

It's true - you'll eventually plateau. But a 3x week squat program works for a lot of people, especially when starting out.
I happen to be in the process of patenting an opt-in system for authenticating and recording requests from users. One of my design goals was to prevent anyone from piggybacking on the scheme to track the users across multiple requests.

It occurs to me that if I'd been suffering from a less overdeveloped sense of decency, I could've filed sooner with something like this and hit Verizon with a lawsuit.
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Right, except most consumers would write it off as shitty drivers. Not "this must not be working because it's a really good knockoff".
I (and many investors) just think that Amazon is badly managed from the financial standpoint. I don't see any problem in reinvesting your profits, but you also don't need to incur a loss every quarter for this purpose. Just adjust your metrics so that you spend a bit less than you make. The fact that they cannot manage to do this tells the world that: (1) they don't care about investors money (2) they don't have the ability to control costs even though they're making billions of dollars in revenue. These things together can be a recipe for disaster if there is any problem in the economy (think of 2001 or 2008).
As someone who has looked carefully at T-Mobile some things I have picked up:

- Their stores suck, they will lie (per Reddit's T-Mobile sub, there are numerous threads about it, they flat out lie).

- "Jump!" is a poorly conceived upgrade program that doesn't make financial sense.

- Their selection of financed phones is limited compared to the big two (unlocked is $300+, some people want to pay $20-30/month, T-Mobile has a moderate selection).

- Coverage varies. Coverage while out-of-town sucks.

- I did the 7 day test drive, zero hassle. They shipped it, I used it, then I returned it to the store. Took 5 minutes to return, they didn't even TRY to sell me there and then.

- The Test Drive order confirmation sends an invalid tracking link (http://http// at the start). When I contacted T-Mobile via Twitter they didn't understand the issue with that.

- In order to do the termination fee thing you have to trade in (for some reason).

- You'll have to endure people saying "un-carrier" unironically.

- You'll have to endure their "I'm a hip 20 something" nonsense advert/staff/feel.

- They don't offer employer discounts (unless military/government) anymore, so if you get one NOW you might lose money on the switchover (we break even).

- Their international roaming is pretty incredible. Free "slow" data, inexpensive calls, and free texts(!). Even their "fast" pay for data is cheaper than AT&T's offering (all on the Simple Choice).

- Their music streaming thing is cool, but no Google Music.

My biggest problem with T-Mobile is I want to switch but their selection of phones blows right now. Fortunately the Sony Z3 just appeared to save the day(?), but would still like to see the Z3C.
I agree, you are more correct than I was in my post.
Just one of those books that's good to have around in case the power goes out.
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Using the SOPA visibility strategy could be effective. If enough popular sites redirected requests that had a X-UIDH to a Informational page about the privacy intrusion, people might care (if only for the extra click its causing them).
y=1 isn't just a special case, it is an absolutely trivial case that is easily shown to have only a degenerate solution.
> These things together can be a recipe for disaster if there is any problem in the economy (think of 2001 or 2008).

Amazon was founded in 94 and lived through both bubbles.
You think that's annoying? Trying signing up for Prime and still being bombarded by ads/links to signup. Seems to have been alleviated in the recent redesign, but I was frequently bemused at how Amazon's shopping-history-feature could know so much about me...and apparently, wasn't tied to the system that spit out Join-amazon-prime links on a given page.
I think Orlando International Airport, FL is probably one the worst places in the world to rent a car. What they do in that airport is immoral and also illegal in pretty much everywhere I've been. This is what usually happens:

- You rent a car online, the website gives you a price and reservation You are not charged, when you get there, you are charged at least two times the original amount you saw on the website even when the reservation clearly states the amount will not change. (That happens in all reservation websites)

- They know you are probably coming from a long flight and use that as a tool to make you pay and go away; That said, I saw them purposely making lines longer at every rental booth, at the same time. When I asked why they were doing that they said '... we are closing some unneeded booths at this time'. They want you to be tired. They even had one employee, not using an uniform, which clearly worked for all companies, he was the one coordinating the lines.

- All car rentals practice the EXACT same price. They created some gimmicks (GPS/insurance/amenities) to change the bottom line a little bit, but the price is exactly the same, they even share the parking space and employees, it's all a big lie.

- Somehow there is not a single car rental near those airports every time, I think that's intentional;

- I've been to some of the worst airports in Africa and was better treated in those countries than in that airport while renting a car;

- They will try to push you into the crappiest car they have, they will give you a better car if you complain. They somehow thought I would put my family to travel around florida in a 10y/o crown victoria.

I don't have a doubt the Orlando Airport car rental is some kind of cartel.
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Funnily enough, I'm developing the technology for exactly this.
Magma gets massive funding from Simons Foundation. It is a shame to have all that money donated to nonfree software program, really.
I'm not speaking specifically about the risk to my life, but in the effect that potential outcomes have on evaluating risk. The flu argument you make is a common example thrown around in this conversation, but it's not an accurate comparison. What is the mortality rate of the flu versus ebola? When I assess risks related to ebola, I tend to favor a more cautious approach, because the mortality rate is so high.

This is part of a popular meme that is showing up on the news. They ask questions like, "True or false, you are more likely to die from ebola than the flu." The mark replies "true", and a doctor (medical doctor, not a statistician) is quoted explaining that "You're actually more likely to die from the flu." This could not be more incorrect.

Mortality rates for diseases like the flu (or any disease) are not homogenous for all members of the population. It's not like a roll of the dice. You simply cannot extrapolate an individual's odds from the broad population mortality rate for the flu (or any disease). It is extremely unlikely that I will die from the flu. I am a middle-aged male in good health and fitness. My chances of dying from the flu are extremely low. The reason the flu kills so many americans is because it is so prevalent. It could be said that flu kills so many precisely because it is so non-lethal. This allows it to fly under our radar and infect people who are at risk. I'm not arguing that we shouldn't take action to prevent the spread of influenza, I'm arguing that the flu presents a different set of problems.

My chances of contracting ebola are also extremely low, but if I do, my chances of dying from it are very high. Across the board (all ages and classes), the mortality rate for ebola are much higher than the flu. Unfortunately, we don't have a strong grasp on ebola mortality rates in the west, because we haven't (thankfully) experienced an outbreak. Even in develping countries, the mortality rate varies widely [1].

I agree that we shouldn't let fear run away with our sensibility, but when dealing with a highly infectious disease [2] with a remarkably high mortality rate, we should be cautious. If not fully quarantined, a period of sensible precaution is a reasonable expectation. When the sun is at its strongest we're advised to wear sunscreen and limit our exposure. When an individual spends time with ebola patients, they should be advised to avoid situations where they would expose a large number of people to the pathogen. Flying, taking public transit, and participating in sports are all activities that put you in direct or indirect contact with large numbers of people. This seems like an unreasonble amount of risk to me.

1: http://www.npr.org/2014/10/23/358363535/why-do-ebola-mortali...

2: Even though ebola must spread through bodily fluids, it is extremely infectious. A small amount of the virus can infect you.
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This sounds very similar to Alicorn's How to Have Things Correctly http://lesswrong.com/lw/eyt/how_to_have_things_correctly/
I think I just found my favorite beta tester. Can you add me on Skype? Avizolty
(Or avi@beatdeck.com)
22, and remember being a kid and finding sentimental value in many, many more things than I do now. Part of it might be that the novelty of having things at all wears off over time.
Apparently it's going to start production in 2018 and be ready in 2022. They sure are taking their time.

A lot can change in that much time. For instance, Russian foreign policy.
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Chitika has worked well for friends of mine.
Does anyone know how to get Uber to stop spamming my cell number?
Expressed interest in a driver's position and now it seems like that was the wrong thing to do. They have been spamming my phone number pretty heavily with text messages about their service and specials every single day, multiple times a day. I've tried calling them, texting them back, emailing them, and even using their online forms to ask them to stop spamming my number, but have heard nothing back from them.

In some way I think my rights are being violated. They are always texting me from some random number so I can't even block that. There's seemingly no kind of opt-out list I'm aware of. Is there anything else anyone can tell me to let them know I'm not interested in their service? Would it be worth my time to take them to small claims court here in California? Thanks.
I couldn't agree more. A terribly wasted opportunity.
As North America increasingly moves toward a more urban, condo lifestyle, I think this sort of attitude will become the norm. The alternative is simply impossible. There's not enough space.
Because I spend so much time on Wifi/iMessage, I migrated my old $80/mo AT&T 450 voice/200 texts/unlimited data to TMobile's $3/mo 10c per minute/text (the fee includes 30 minutes/texts.) I average about $5 per month for about the same effective benefits I had at $80 per month, and plan to use my 4S on it as long as possible since I like the form factor.

They may lie in their stores, but I haven't had any trouble doing all my business online except for when I bought the TMobile SIM.
A tool I like in this space is Stephen Chang's Parsack, "a basic Parsec-like monadic parser combinator library implementation in Racket."

http://stchang.github.io/parsack/parsack.html
Small nit: That is the price per thousand cubic feet, not million. I'm not sure how much helium they used, but I'd estimate somewhere between 10 and 100 thousand cubic feet. Still a minor cost, of course.
The cleverly named "Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 edition"

of course results are different than last night when I was searching.
I would argue that every time a case in the US turns up, my personal risk does change. Think of it in terms of a social graph, or the 6 degrees of separation. Each jump that is made, the potential to eventually link to me increases. I'm not worried about getting Ebola tomorrow. I'm worried about getting Ebola next year.
I think 2 posts above is referring to this: http://money.cnn.com/2014/10/02/technology/security/google-a...

20 seconds in he says approximately: "Besides the fact that we show ads in gmail which we've done for over a decade and used the information for nothing". Now that I listen again it seems like an interesting play on words that makes it very unclear what he means.
I don't have a Facebook account anymore. When I did, I blocked all ads. I don't block Google ads because they can be genuinely useful.
If Marie Kondo can show me how to fold a king-size fitted sheet properly, I'll suggest that's a feat worthy of nomination for the Nobel Prize in Physics...
Alan has been with Google for a long time, he doesn't need money. Having interacted with him on a number of occasions, this whole think shocks me. He doesn't come off as the extreme type. Always seemed more Mr Rogersish. Awesome huy to work with and for. Very impressed.
At the risk of stating the obvious, good form implies you do not try to lift more than you can lift with good form.

Fitness programs founder on three points

1. Ceasing to do the workouts.

2. Overdoing it and injuring yourself. This includes: not having rest days, too heavy weights,excessively exhausting workouts.

3. Lack of nutritional support.
I imagine that how organized the unused stuff is would be a factor in how high the tax is. If you can't remember that you own it and where it is when you need it, there's no usefulness to having it. If it's getting in the way of finding other stuff, the value becomes negative.

In large quantities, stuff taxes also include how large a dwelling you need and how difficult it is to move.

Studying abroad made me more aware that there are penalties for not having stuff, too. It was mostly basic cooking implements that I missed, and also things that are just useful to have around, like tape and plastic wrap.
I paid with a credit card and had the Kindle subscription. I also bought Catcher in the Rye with a credit card. Hack the planet.
And mathematicians are wankers (according to Feynman).
I find it ironic that he rails on barriers to content, but you can't view a demo of his app without the barrier of giving him your email address.
He had a team of engineers work on this for three years. Something tells me it cost more than 1% of the Red Bull event.
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Honestly, I'm doing this, and I'm a Gen-Xer.

Have been moving that way for a while, with the notification that voice mails do not get priority response.

It's only a tiny step from that to, "just don't do it."

People can call in, hear the greeting, which tells them how to send a text via e-mail, which I will see and respond quickly to, send ordinary e-mail, or contact me via various message systems.

All of these work better than voice mail does for nearly everything.

I've already abandoned having a desk phone. Technically, one is there, but I make sure the number isn't known. I don't even know it.

My own move away from VM happened in the late 00's As cell phones were becoming solidified as the norm and I noticed younger people basically avoiding that kind of interaction, I shifted to where the action was, and that's text, Internet Messages, e-mail.

All of those can result in a voice call, and that's fine. Once it's needed, no worries. Same goes for web screen sharing and teleconferences of various kinds. A ton of stuff can get done quick with those.

Exchanging voice mails is probably the worst, save for ordinary mail.
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Yeah, I'm also glad they fired Vic. And yes, @selmnoo of course Vic is going to say positive things. One, he has no reasons to say anything negative, google gave him such an amazing opportunity; and two, he is a professional executive and corporate savvy. He will never say anything negative publicly, it'll be a career suicide.

Google has one huge problem in general when it comes to hiring. I call them the China of tech companies. They have a lot of engineers and a large infrastructure so they can copy anything that works and use their scale to get market share.

Hearing from friends who have interviewed with Google, it seems to me they are good at hiring great engineers, they've hired bunch of MBAs but they're not able to hire product-driven entrepreneurs or give them space to shine.
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Some people are more interested in building new things than running a huge division. Everything indicated Rubin is brilliant and building new things - maybe he prefers it, too?
Would the UNIX utility `cat` fall into that category?
He explained it himself, and is quoted in that article - he said he sent emails like that every day, and considered it his job.

I guess he presumably felt like it had some kind of effect...
I'd rather you leave a message, but that's because I can access my business voicemail from a computer (and read an approximate summary). My other voicemail inbox, the personal one that I have to call and listen to? I haven't checked it in years.
I think it will go the reverse way. Did for me. Any of us, who see the trends and can understand the overall efficiency and effectiveness in modes of communication won't take long to center on what works well.
It was really fun at the time. Computer chess enthusiasts were discussing the match on rec.games.chess and analyzing real-time on ICC. PC chess programs could not check as deep as Deep Blue so there was lots of speculation on how good the AI actually was. CrazyBird's (Feng-hsiung Hsu) book is a recommended read.
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I thought it was a terribly editorialised interview. Jordon was very measured in his statements, and clearly impressed with the progress made in the "AI" field in general.

The interviewer on the other hand seemed to have very strong and cynical opinions about the field. The headline itself was a great example of this.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8499848
This is a really interesting post. The same author recently posted another article that discusses some of the ideas from the conclusion of this post. You can find that article here: http://tratt.net/laurie/blog/entries/an_editor_for_composed_...
Maybe @Levels.io?

https://levels.io/the-100-thing-challenge/
Thank you for the comment. I agree that having sound data is essential to building any trading algorithm. Probably that's why they are so expensive. I won't complain about HistData.com, it's a free service, they only charge a small fee for a convenient ftp access to their site. At the moment, that's the most you can get for free with a millisecond resolution. Despite it's drawbacks, works well for backtesting, IMHO.

A great alternative is finance.yahoo.com. It is reasonably rate limited, see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9346582/what-is-the-query.... You won't be able to do any high-frequency trading anyway without dedicated hardware in a dedicated data center.
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Thanks for validating my attempted trajectory. It's really encouraging to hear stuff like this. Kudos to you for making life just as you want it.
Want something? Bookmark it in a folder in your browser. Forget about it. Come back a couple weeks later. Still want it? Get it.
or: don't open proprietary formats from strangers in proprietary operating systems, especially outside of virtual machines/containers
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