skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exercise for officer workers is definitely needed, however there are serious side effects to over-exercise. Not only can it be counter-productive (increasing the time to actually get physically fit) but opens you up to prolonged infections.

The big problem is that lack of rest between exercise can increase the risk of strokes and other circulatory problems, which is extremely counter productive. Damage to connective tissue and the consumption of muscle tissue during exercise can have life long effects (for anyone who doesn't know, your heart is a contractile protein, which is the type of protein consumed during excessive exercise periods).

Regular and regulated exercise are the key to health, and it has to be a regimen built for you. For some people over-exercise can be beyond a 20-minute light jog, for others it's a marathon. Not everyone is a marathon runner or body builder and believing differently is dangerous to your health.
Qualcomm seems to have some nice 3G products that are supposedly compatible with Android. Some drivers are included with Android, but you may need to write some of your own.

But seriously, you don't just walk into Mordor, nor do you just build a phone. Building a basic 2G phone that does only voice and nothing else probably would be doable by a hobbyist, but building modern 3G phone capable of running Android is waaay harder. And a lot more expensive too. I'd be surprised if you can actually get your hands on 3G chips without buying thousands of them.
Ask HN: How to get data from the App Store?
Is there some sort of API I can you to get descriptions, icons, screenshots, pricing and url?
The only effective alternative to a boycott is mass civil disobedience, which is likely to be even more uncomfortable than a boycott for the average person.

The copyright lobby has long since surrendered the moral high ground to the "pirates". Personally I've taken the "boycott" route, but to my mind someone pirating copyrighted content is more ethical than someone paying the copyright cartels for it.
I can run a set # of jobs at a time, working through the list until the set is exhausted - a simple pool of 'workers'.

It buffers child process output and emits it when the child completes - this keeps concurrent process output from being as confusing.

Those were features I wanted at the time and '&' with wait didn't provide them.
There are some review articles that are very readable for non-scientists written by an old boss of mine (Dr. Mark Mattson at the National Institute on Aging) on dietary intake.

Here are some:

Dietary factors, hormesis and health
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2253665?tool=pub...

Impact of energy intake and expenditure on neuronal plasticity.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2635925/?tool=pu...

Mattson is an interesting (albeit, a bit harebrained) dude. He completely believes in this caloric restriction stuff so much that he lives the lifestyle and follows a really strict diet.
How about putting the commands into a Makefile and running it with make -j 4? Easy!

For a more heavyweight alternative, there are lots of solutions around for running batches of commands across multiple machines. For most/all of these, multiple commands on a single machine are just one of the simpler cases they can handle. Systems that spring to mind are GridEngine (http://gridengine.sunsource.net), Qube (http://www.pipelinefx.com) and Condor (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor). There are plenty of others too (including a lot of home-brewed brewed systems knocking around inside VFX houses).
& either runs the job in the background once (and relies on your to manually schedule), or runs every job simultaneously and kills the box. What you need is a queue. Hence, the tool.
Spotting the perspective is not that easy, at least in art, and it's first in 1400's that we understood it properly. Before Filippo Brunelleschi* most things were painted with invalid perspectives.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filippo_Brunelleschi#Invention_...
I was curious whether 1 cent would work.

It did.
Opening black boxes: Joe Armstrong
2.59, woo
How is this irresponsible? It's an open source project. Sure Google removed those items in a recent revision, but those items are /still/ in the source repository.
See also the Related Work for shmux: http://web.taranis.org/shmux/
Dealing with squatters is the price we as web developers/entrepreneurs must pay? If domain names actually required a registered business to purchase a domain name that'd make perfect sense. Unfortunately I could go buy sligenterprises.com and you'd be out of luck if that's what your product was best represented as (except for suing me). I'd amount it to putting up a big ass sign, waiting for someone to also use a similar name, then you change the sign to have a competitor's phone number beneath the name. How is the legalese in that "you are screwed?"
I love Wave's instant typing. Chat happens so much faster, and both parties stay engaged instead of drifting away while they wait. It raises the bandwidth.

This kind of editing isn't something you could have turned off by default in Wave, because otherwise you can't have multiple people editing the same thing at a time. For blips authored by one person, you could--and that'll be an option. I hope people don't use it, though.
Hmm. 4. Guess I'm no one special.
R internals - http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-lang.html
"So how does the average person find out about wave"

Google replaces GMail's plumbing with Wave and the inherent abilities of Wave are introduced as GMail features.
Robots, conversation splitting, collaboration, etc.

It's the only sane way to approach it, really.

And I have no idea why people keep harping on live typing. Google announced that there was going to be a way to turn it off about 5 minutes after they pulled the drape off Wave itself.

It's almost certainly a feature destined for the dustbin. As such, it's an utter red herring. Complaining about it is perhaps more pointless than the "it's too complicated" meme.
Another one to consider is TechPickles 'Jeweler' which helps making gems for Github.

http://github.com/technicalpickles/jeweler
It's rather logical in fact. When you exercise you damage your body, keeping your repair mechanisms active.

However overexercise typically does more damage in a session than your body can heal before your next session. It's rather safe to assume that when you contract a virus that when the immunological warfare is going on (our bodies first response is rather brutal and untargeted, the sore throat from a flu isn't from the flu, it's from your own immune cells killing - IIRC - roughly 20 healthy throat cells for 1 infected cell) and damaging our body that the repair mechanisms are coping with all too much.

Not exercising doesn't put stress on our healing mechanisms, however it doesn't keep them active and trained (so to speak). Put it this way, the Police would take considerably longer to get to your house from the station than from one of their patrol routes; essentially the same is for our healing mechanism.

Even if exercise doesn't have an effect on our immune system, I'm sure it will certainly increase recovery time (assuming you're not on the treadmill when sick) by decreasing healing time, which is ostensibly the factor that kills you and not the virus itself (assuming you haven't contracted the 1918 Spanish flu).

I've only ever had one noticeable case of the flu (which happened when I moved country, so I'm unsure if it was a strain I'd never experience, similar to the current H1N1 'pandemic'), which I believe is due to frequent exercise (a job involving heavy lifting ~90lbs and constant weight carrying ~10 lb tool pouch and ~10lb hammer drill).
From what I understand, Vdash does not execute code (actually run it on a backend process, and return the result) written in a standard programming language, where as codenode and sagenb do.
Indeed. We're probably only a standard or two away from Bluetooth officially becoming the 'low power' wifi standard and a spec that allows devices to initiate connections with lower overhead and scale up to higher bandwidths if and when necessary.
They're mostly gimmicky because they were all made for a middleware contest. Even their gimmickiness doesn't really go against the goals of the contest, the primary one being "to encourage Ruby developers to explore the possibilities".

In the end, even if very few end up being actually useful, there will be plenty of good short examples using a variety of different Rack tricks.

That said. Rack::Cache. And I wrote myself for one site that displays some extra info if a request comes from certain IPs (i.e. mine).
Ask HN: Marketing to non-techie professionals
Does anyone have advice for marketing web applications targeted to non-techie professionals? For example, suppose my brother-in-law is an insurance agent, and after talking to him I realize there are no nice insurance-specific CRMs and decide to build one, with his input. Where should I focus my marketing efforts? Obviously most insurance agents aren't reading TechCrunch, and AdWords seem pretty useless these days. Has anyone dealt with this type of marketing problem?
The reason that losers are losers is that they don't have the balls to start their own company or seize power within an organization. They are free to attempt those things, but they don't, either because they fear risk, don't understand the nature of business, or are too nice to make the sociopathic choices necessary to survive. Sociopaths might not lay the bricks themselves, so to speak, but they take the risks and make the leaps that result in true productivity gains.
It's an old name, see: http://www.allaboutcults.org/christian-science-monitor-faq.h...
It used to be good, but has been going slowly downhill since Rupert took over. The number of increased sensationalism of the headlines for various articles is particularly annoying.

Opinion page? Is that what they call the delusional/surreal comedic essays at the back of the first section of the WSJ? It was always good for a laugh...
There is some research to show that a "real world feel" is a critical component of a website (from the "What makes a website credible" study from a few years back. Having a picture of you will go some ways towards doing that. I put my pic on my website.

If you do this, please make sure to put a good pic up -- no self-taken camera phone bluriness, please. Remember, you want to personalize the experience but still seem professional.
I think he has a certain admiration for the sociopath.
Another thread that was useful - color scheme tools:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=859010
The Retrocomputing Museum
I think he's saying it's irresponsible to claim you have a first look at the Chrome OS and then only show the Chrome Browser working in Ubuntu.

I don't really agree since sensationalist headlines are par for the course for any media outlet but that's what I think he meant.
Replacing the HDD in a pre-unibody MBP isn't exactly easy, either. You have to take off the whole top case just to get at the drive. That one action voids the warranty, and if you don't do it properly, you can bend the case or damage components or connections.
It seems you're focusing on tactics to reach these prospective customers. I suggest you focus on your product's positioning and your current marketing strategy. You'll have to shape these first before you can begin using the correct tactic.
Are these the equivalent tests (he links to this review)?
http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=1651&pageID=7404

If so, the Crucial 128GB SSD doesn't look half bad versus the Intel SSD. If this isn't the tests, the rest of the tests in that particular review have the Crucial doing really good.
This is the way our governments are going. The business of government is so sensitive and delicate that it must be done quietly, by experts who understand all the issues, and can be trusted to do the job right. We must give them the privacy they need to do that job. Scrutiny from the public, ignorant and clamouring, can only be detrimental to that lofty goal. We know what is best for you. Don't worry, we'll take care of it for you. Just turn the TV on and soothe yourself with the latest episode of X Idol. Everything will be fine.

If this doesn't worry you, you should read this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Voltaires-Bastards-Dictatorship-Reason...

And if it does worry you, you'll also find it interesting.
I don't know very much about traditional vector processors, but I could see how it could be said that CUDA uses GPU's as vector processors. Whenever you create a CUDA kernel, you need to create a one, two, or three dimensional thread block of some specified size to operate on your data. Each core then isn't a vector processor, but I guess you could say that you're treating each block as one.
Everybody's jumping in with suggestions for a better command line. What about ways to know what you need to know when you need to know it?

Maybe we could figure out a thingy that watches what you're doing and finds ways to do it better.
It doesn't look like much of a build at this point. TechCrunch should have waited three of four more months before exposing the "secret" chromeOS folder. Now they have gone and broken the news so that Google has moved it to a new, doubtlessly much more secure location.

So all we can look at now is a very scant version with frequent crashes. I guess it is still worth it.
Use flag –xml when you run mysqldump
Ask HN: What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do?
It's Microsoft's fastest growing product and tons of people use it, but it seems to be pretty crappy and hard to explain. What exactly would you say it does?
Yeah, that seems about right to me. Still, I wish the guy would have just sold the domain if he wasn't going to do anything useful with it.
Scientists Make Desktop Black Hole
it makes you feel entreprisey!
Let's say, for example, we have "brokers with 2-4 person offices doing less than $500k a year in sales, who would be willing to pay up to $150/mo for a good web-based CRM"

How do you go about reaching these peeps, in this case? :) The insurance broker thing is just an example, but I'm curious what strategies people have more generically employed for similar types of situations.
How to Find MLM Leads Using the Yahoo Answers Community
Part of the challenge of working in an MLM or multi-level marketing company, is finding new leads to purchase the products and to sign up as distributors
pg wrote an essay about it.

http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html

Subheading "What a Job Is", 5th paragraph down or so:

In a company, the work you do is averaged together with a lot of
other people's. You may not even be aware you're doing something
people want. Your contribution may be indirect. But the company
as a whole must be giving people something they want, or
they won't make any money. And if they are paying you x dollars
a year, then on average you must be contributing at least
x dollars a year worth of work, or the company will be spending
more than it makes, and will go out of business.

And in the next subheading:

I think the single biggest problem afflicting large
companies is the difficulty of assigning a value to
each person's work. For the most part they punt. In a
big company you get paid a fairly predictable salary
for working fairly hard.

....

the company has no way of measuring the value of your
work.

Salesmen are an exception. It's easy to measure how
much revenue they generate, and they're usually paid a
percentage of it. If a salesman wants to work harder,
he can just start doing it, and he will automatically
get paid proportionally more.

Gosh, that's a good essay.
I learned probably around 80% of the shell commands I use through apropos.

For example, if I'd been searching for the "pipe thingy" lbrandy's blog entry starts out searching for, I might have typed "apropos pipe", and lo and behold, there it is at the bottom of the list:

...
pipe(2) - create descriptor pair for interprocess communication
pipe(8) - Postfix delivery to external command
rotatelogs(8) - Piped logging program to rotate Apache logs
tee(1) - pipe fitting

"pipe fitting" isn't the most useful description, but given how few other things there are, it's not too many man pages to read, especially after culling out the things I already knew about back when I didn't yet know about tee(1).
How to Make Money on eBay Without Using a Wholesaler
A common misconception among new eBay sellers, or those who have never sold on eBay, is that the merchandise must be bought from a wholesaler.
Bundler is meant for gem dependency management. Jeweler is meant for another problem entirely, creating gems from scratch and packaging/releasing them (hopefully to http://gemcutter.org).
Paper: http://arxiv1.library.cornell.edu/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0910/09...
It would be helpful in the future if you explained links that you were posting.

For those interested, this is another article about the Kruskal count magic trick mentioned in the story.
Making things fun causes people to do things they normally wouldn't.
Reading comments on Hacker News isn't "reading carefully". We're operating on a pretty shallow level of conversation right now.

What I find funny is that you chide me for assigning things an intrinsic value, and then go right ahead and try to assign a formula for value based on time played/money. You're doing exactly what you accused me of. And you're being far snottier about it than I am, which is also kind of funny, because I'm the one being the snob here.

See, unlike you, I don't assign any monetary value to time. I don't divide twenty by six or a thousand by ninety to decide if something's been worth it. That's stupid, all due respect. I don't divide the hours I wear a shirt by the money I paid for it either. Instead, I value the experience of that time spent. I'll take six hours of unique, novel gameplay with gorgeous graphics and good music to a thousand hours looking at generic FPS, listening to generic FPS sound, playing what amounts to fairly generic gameplay. What I liked about Half-Life 2, actually, that made it worth my time, was that it had so many elements of gameplay merge into a fairly simple control set. Valve's flawed in a lot of ways, but when I spend time on their stuff they give me an experience.

I mentioned the time and money those developers spent not because I think it makes their game more valuable, but because I empathize with them and with what they made. If we want to use another bullshit metric, 6hrs/2ppl = 3, whereas 1000hrs/550ppl = less than two, not to mention we're talking two games that cost obscene amounts of time/money to provide. So those two people are producing more than those 550, with less money spent.

"Less money spent", that's another issue. See, I can't sympathize with your twenty dollars. It's twenty dollars. If you're cheap enough to regret a twenty dollar purchase, I think you're being kind of whiny. But what I can't stand are those games that take millions of dollars to make, but don't have any sort of ingenuity behind them. I think that's a horrible, horrible waste. Can't stand games that lack ingenuity. So for me, Far Cry is yet another disaster of a game, and World of Goo, while imperfect, is a small little gem. And that's why it offends me that the sort of person who would spend a thousand hours shooting pixels would hate on a title with an inventive physics system, especially when it was made both with money that wasn't that much on a huge scale but was a lot to the two people that had to spend it. In the case of Ubisoft, you have the opposite case: A hell of a lot of money burnt up because it really didn't matter much to the people who had to spend it.
> you would never (def x 1) and then (def x 5) in a running program

Right, I understand. It was the way the author stated 'x never changes' that made me believe he doesn't understand the difference between binding a name and changing a value.
Unfortunately it sounds jus like a lawyer wrote it. He is obviously ( as he mentions in his preamble ) aware that this is going to be broadcast outside the walls of BYU.

But he is incredibly circutous in his argument. He waxes philosphical on his belief that his god created the Constitution (in case my choice of caps is missed, I'll leave it as m only clear statement of what I put my faith in) as a vessel of Mormonism. "Restoring the Gospel" as be put it. But wait! It's for the protection of all flesh.

Which of course one can interpret many ways, and I don't get the impression he's willing to state the position the LDS church has made clear over the years: your flesh is safe as long as you do things our way. But we won't hesitate to point out to you that your soul is damned.

The crucial question of course is, as is mentioned, when deciding an issue do the rights and beliefs of the religious take more, less or the same weight than those of the non-relIgious. Or, to be fair, the not-Mormon.

For a relgiouus group with a long history of conspiracy to build voting blocs ( I believe they were thrown out of a least one state for it), I find it hard to be willling to listen to enlightened pontiification on the issue from them. And the LDS' questionable involvement in influencing, especially from out of state with people, propaganda and money, last years Prop 8 debacle in CA shows that they are still not above such anti-democratic shenanigans. It also shows that for the LDS the answer is: the Constitution prevents the government from proscribing us and from letting us make everyone join our church. So well simply throw money at thugs until the law reflects our belief system as closely as possible.
Risk is Critical
Does everybody here use laptops? Is a SSD still useful if you use a desktop?
I cannot seem to find any 3.5' SSD's, can you connect the 2.5 to an desktop? Is there any performance penalty?
Hasn't the point always been for 'wave' to become a transparent technology? Google has their interface, but anyone can create one or just put up a different Wave server.
SharePoint is essentially an HTML + JScript + MSIE-DOM interface to a network file share full of MSOffice documents. It's a modular ASP.NET application with some modules that help you use the Web to emulate the shared folder setup your IT middle-managers know and love. There are some minor modules, such as a lame survey system. There are hooks for integrating with InfoPath for simple form <-> database apps, and WWF for "workflow" (state machine), and SAP for ... ERP goodness I guess.