skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Get hobbies that correspond to the lifestyle you want to lead. If you aren't having fun, you won't keep with it.

As a corollary, if you have an active hobby and any sort of drive to be good at it, you will train yourself as such. So if you take up say rock climbing and like it, then you will get lots of exercise as a direct result of climbing, and lots more to train yourself to get better.
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karma = odometer. This graph really proves that.

If you would make the ranking based on quality of postings (which I think is more useful) it would look like this:

+---------+-----------------+
| ratio | username |
+---------+-----------------+
| 15.7917 | sivers |
| 10.5652 | keyist |
| 8.4536 | pg |
| 8.4000 | justinweiss |
| 8.3203 | lbrandy |
| 8.1111 | jl |
| 7.7149 | patio11 |
| 7.7005 | randomwalker |
| 7.6548 | mdasen |
| 7.5489 | old-gregg |
| 7.2623 | mojombo |
| 7.1552 | tjic |
| 7.1143 | ironkeith |
| 7.0633 | ajg1977 |
| 6.9412 | nixy |
| 6.9394 | jcsalterego |
| 6.8571 | pavs |
| 6.5385 | thedob |
| 6.5345 | Eliezer |
| 6.5000 | malte |
| 6.4933 | niyazpk |
| 6.3125 | sama |
| 6.2870 | michael_nielsen |
| 6.2804 | lionhearted |
| 6.2759 | bentoner |
| 6.2020 | evdawg |
| 6.1639 | defunkt |
| 6.0917 | martythemaniak |
| 6.0598 | chaosmachine |
| 6.0310 | zain |
| 5.8735 | JoelSutherland |
| 5.8716 | adamhowell |
| 5.8644 | ryanwaggoner |
| 5.8364 | endtwist |
| 5.8113 | nixme |
| 5.7196 | gabrielroth |
| 5.6400 | cjoh |
| 5.6296 | tc |
| 5.5926 | curtis |
| 5.5401 | anuraggoel |
| 5.5313 | boundlessdreamz |
| 5.4784 | TomOfTTB |
| 5.4626 | cperciva |
| 5.4286 | andres |
| 5.4000 | unfoldedorigami |
| 5.3889 | kn0thing |
| 5.3783 | edw519 |
| 5.3415 | thinkzig |
| 5.2716 | raganwald |
| 5.2364 | paul |
| 5.2208 | smanek |
| 5.2105 | shimon |
| 5.1569 | bokonist |
| 5.1364 | brentb |
| 5.1277 | bouncingsoul |
| 5.0909 | mqt |
| 5.0566 | jim-greer |
| 5.0556 | mjtokelly |
| 5.0424 | pc |
| 5.0417 | crocus |
| 5.0343 | ckinnan |
| 5.0323 | dilanj |
| 5.0000 | jeeringmole |
| 4.9848 | abstractbill |
| 4.9690 | tdavis |
| 4.9569 | jbyers |
| 4.9529 | spencerfry |
| 4.9457 | absconditus |
| 4.9421 | amix |
| 4.9286 | ksvs |
| 4.9254 | luckystrike |
| 4.9245 | fleaflicker |
| 4.9167 | Mystalic |
| 4.9020 | kennyroo |
| 4.8857 | joao |
| 4.8658 | menloparkbum |
| 4.8621 | timr |
| 4.8571 | shalmanese |
| 4.8403 | marcusbooster |
| 4.8333 | jkkramer |
| 4.8188 | daeken |
| 4.8113 | TimothyFitz |
| 4.8040 | plinkplonk |
| 4.8000 | jefffoster |
| 4.7962 | acangiano |
| 4.7716 | sachinag |
| 4.7545 | halo |
| 4.7500 | lackbeard |
| 4.7491 | nir |
| 4.7486 | tsally |
| 4.7434 | shadytrees |
| 4.7429 | imgabe |
| 4.7342 | ionfish |
| 4.7301 | mixmax |
| 4.7265 | swombat |
| 4.7222 | wolfish |
| 4.7209 | kalvin |
| 4.6970 | alecst |
| 4.6875 | forsaken |
+---------+-----------------+
Upvoted for pointless use of data to create a graph that involves me.
Perhaps "dumb" in the sense of "that looks like a dumb way to spend all your free time and money".

I guess that the appeal of Pokemon and similar dumb phenomena (somebody correct me if I'm wrong, I'm too old to have played any of these games myself and too young to have children who have) is twofold -- there's the "game" part and then there's the "collection" part. The "game" part is pretty "smart" as a game, and one could easily imagine a card game with a similar sort of game mechanic that could be bought for a few dollars. But it's the "collection" part of the game that makes it so addictive, expensive, insidious, and the source of much needless (and dumb) social anxiety among children.
I read this paper awhile ago. I'm no agricultural expert (odd for a guy only one generation removed from commercial farming), but it made economic sense.

http://www.agecon.ucdavis.edu/extension/update/articles/v9n3...
Health is much more than "routines to stay in shape". Consider what you eat, your exercise, how you sleep, and how you manage stress. Personally, I go for lots of plants, 30-45 minutes a day, 6-7 hours solid a day, and re: stress, a variety of "getting things done" type techniques to stay on top of my work, which is my main stressor.
So You're Moving to San Francisco
"As I've pointed out elsewhere, the stories of great things being done by workaholics are absolutely overwhelming. Warren Buffett, Edison, Franklin, Jefferson, Einstein, Carmack ad nauseaum."

Anecdotes. I bet there are a lot of workaholics who are total failures and certainly not many workaholics become a Buffett, Edison, etc.

Warren Buffett is certainly not working for an hourly wage. He is fabulously wealthy because he found ways to leverage other people's hard work to make him rich as an investor. Number of hours worked has diminishing returns if not tied to a strategy to make each hour worked increasingly valuable.
I think I'm a big ham -- I love performing. Whether it's teaching, playing music, karaoke, or goofing off, I like attention.

Not sure about open mic night, though. For some reason that sounds scary.
AFAIK they are pretty much useless outside the United States. Check out other readers (from Sony, etc.). They are pretty much the same but not tied up to the Amazon.com.
Interesting. That's three HNers (including me) that I've heard of who do crossfit.
I agree. If only I knew how many submissions people posted.
Ok, I will do that. Thanks for the tip!
Personally, I'm very interested in the combination of games and education - I think the next a "disruption" in the field of education will come from games.
I find it interesting that the majority of the comments on this post seem to focus on "how this article got the rule wrong." Sure, it may be true that the way the author interprets a version of the 80/20 rule may not be the same as as everyone else, but its just an interpretation so relax a bit and see that he does make a interesting point:

Many people go through life putting in "just what it takes" to get the job done and be "good enough" without failing. You can certainly choose to live your life that way, but you will probably end up being stuck with mediocrity. However, if go the extra mile, you may be more likely (but not guaranteed) to achieve greatness in whatever it is that you do.

Maybe I'm also interpreting it differently and over-generalizing, but this seems a lot like what what many startups are doing just by the nature of starting up... many companies are started by founders that weren't happy with competing products currently available in their market, and they feel they can do better. Even though its a lot more effort to do this than just getting by with what is currently available, it can lead to some really exciting new opportunities.
I think those studies also say that spending time doing something without consciously trying to find ways to steadily improve is not of much use.

I think patio11 describes a process of always improving the $ / hour value of his efforts. Someone who puts in a lot of hours but does not consistently look for way to make each hour more valuable or productive is going to lose to someone following patio11's approach, I bet.
Stick to a fairly strict healthy diet and regular sleep schedule.

Only broke this rule when working on a big deadline.
Paleo diet. Cleared up my skin, ended headaches and tiredness, decreased my caloric intake and body fat without any overt discipline, lowered my blood pressure, and increased my strength and stamina.

Downside: No grains, beans, dairy; that means no coffee, no chocolate, no soy, no cheese, no bread or noodles or pastries. (Plus sides: bacon, sausages, eggs, figs, dates, walnuts.)

I gradually fell into this diet by carefully noting which foods made me feel bad ~15-30 mins after. I did this over a process of many months starting sometime in February. Finally, just a few days ago, I concluded that I was basically drifting into Paleo of my own accord, and for me to be at my best I had to go from reduced intake of the banned foods to complete removal. I'm still going to cheat every now and then, but I know I'll feel it every time.
What is the math behind the "ratio" column?
When I can, I train Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu three times a week. I add in a day or two of serious strength training as time and my body permits. If I can't do regular BJJ, then I do four to five days of serious strength training a week.

I train for competitions, and I take it seriously. My strength training tends towards the Crossfit style.
And for long distances, too! On the other hand, cycling builds muscles and works your heart more than walking does, so if your objective is anything other than just burning calories cycling is, I think, usually the better exercise.
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This can't have too much emphasis. Red Bull and its ilk will pretty much destroy your nervous system -- even one a day is probably too much.
Where do you get the number of comments?
I'm a bit new to HN, but I'd be game for a meetup Sunday night or Monday after the event.
Good point.

However, the whole topic of this thread is fantasising about the perfect stack for that massive site. Besides which, 30 seconds now could save one year in the future (just think if Netscape had thought ahead).
I thought this was going to be the submissions of a day, sorted by karma, and the top 100 of those. i.e.	HN top-100 submissions (sorted by karma) per day

I've been hoping for such a list, because it would enable me to catch a day's top stories without having to check in throughout the day. This would help reduce the time I spend on the site...

The "best -	Highest voted recent links" extends over at least 8 days. It's not restricted to the last 24 hours. (It looks like the same ranking algorithm as the frontpage with less gravity (no, I'm not going to download the source just to check that).
Eating while walking is a bad habit of mine, but by this stage I can eat just about anything while balancing a plate on one hand. Steak is probably my limit.
I think that you are taking this as a programmer (i.e. too literally).

If I asked you to recommend a car that is fast and safe you wouldn't reply "all cars are fast" and "no car can be perfectly safe", you would suggest a car that maximises those requirements.

Similarly, the author is looking for what frameworks/stacks maximise (among other things) reliability and security.
Lovely - it'll be nice to see this dick get clobbered.
It's not 100% correct, since I don't have access to the HN data directly, but using some 'google fu' it's quite amazing how far you can go, and I believe that even if the exact ratings may be off a bit that the ranking would not change.

As they say, close enough for government work. If you want more precise numbers you'd have to ask PG, I can't make them any better. Also, they lag by the time it takes for google to index HN.

The recent addition of the cutoff freezing discussions actually makes this a whole lot easier tough.

The key to the whole thing is this google query:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+i...

Where you replace the 55547 with a suitable number, rinse, repeat.
Mastering discipline is as much of a factor in staying healthy as it is in startups. Sticking to a workout schedule, pushing yourself to work harder, and not giving in to excess food uses the same mental fortitude that founders use to keep costs down and output up.

I spend the majority of my waking hours sitting, either in lecture or at a computer. I counterbalance the sedentary nature of studying computer science by exercising at least 3 times per week, cooking simple and nutritious meals, and drinking copious amounts of water and tea.
Definitely true.

But we each still like to think about that perfect Gibson Les Paul Custom we would have if we were a rockstar..
In particular foreign private oil companies have a long history of not paying adequate royalties to the countries they operate in (which is the reason they get nationalized after popular revolts). Even the US govt sued Exxon in Alabama for systematically underpaying royalties (they lost, but whatever).

What do you think is a "fair" amount of royalties to pay?

In my opinion, whoever owns the land should get 100% of whatever income they can derive from it. If Shell wants to buy some land, they should own whatever oil they can suck up from under it.
I saw these the other day and salivated a little. As a commenter over there said, you can get one of these on IBM's merch store, although they're not exactly the same:

http://logogear.americanid.com/ProductDetail.aspx?pid=42148

Having a vintage one, though, would be like ten times better than having a Field Notes pad (or Moleskine, or one of those rare unruled composition books).
This is one of the few times I wish I could upvote someone more than once.

The painful truth about web services is that it doesn't matter what tools you use; at least initially. If it does something useful and you are getting revenue you can and will rearchitect and rework the solution as it grows. And as a system grows it tends to become heterogeneous, an all php shop will suddenly sprout a java based search engine, an ASP.NET shop will throw a linux box in front of it's app servers to act as a reverse-proxy filter/load balancer, and so on. The really good thing about the current state of the art is that you have a multitude of tools available to solve any given problem. The issue is you need to have people who have experience with more than one toolset to make sensible decisions and be able to pick the right solution for the task at hand.
While I agree with your sentiment I'm not sure if that's definitely the case.

First, when you have an average level of programmer (as the sort of corporations that would hire a senior analyst tend to), selecting the right tools is where you can innovate against your competition.

Second, if this wasn't written by a non-programmer, but instead was an Ask-YC "What stack would you use to build the next Google/Facebook/Amazon etc." I don't think this same criticism would be levelled at the author.
People-powered maps
I bike to and from school and work. I was doing yoga for a while, but fell out of it once I moved. I keep telling myself to start going again, but I always put it off.

I try to hike and boulder whenever I can find people to go with me. I really wish we had a rock climbing gym here. If we did, I'd probably be there every other day as my current climbing spot is a 30 minute drive followed by a 30 minute hike in. 2 hours transit isn't really worth it for me unless I have a couple buddies with me.

I'd definitely suggest yoga to anyone that wants to build some core strength and calm their mind. It's a lot more difficult than it looks.

I was a vegetarian for about 5 months, and some of those habits have stuck around (less fast food, more fruits and green stuff). I should probably get back to that, seeing as how I've never felt better than when I wasn't eating meat.
I can use Bing or Yahoo, no problem here.

I tried using Bing for a month. I lasted about 48 hours. One problem was that Google dominates Bing for technical searches and searches in Japanese, both of which are sort of important to me.

A bigger problem was that my fingers will type www.google.com into my URL bar without me even asking them to any time I have a question about something. (In browser search box, what's that? I'm stuck in my ways...) The only way I could have overcome this habit would have been using my hosts file to redirect google.com to a Bing server, and I was worried that would lock me out of the Google services I need to run my business.
>> It seems that Murdoch has, in a fit of pique, made certain pronouncements which may have to be humored by the people who work for him

I think 'humored' above should be 'honored'. What do you guys think?
I try to eat not a lot, and mostly stuff that doesn't come in a wrapper. I climb two to three times a week and some weekends, for 2-3 hrs at a time. I supplement climbing with two to three 30-45 minute lifting gym sessions. I used to run, but not anymore, something I have to start again. I also try to do pull ups every night as I'm competing with my room mate.
some maps in pictures.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/8284655.stm
The biggest part of the problem is that startups aren't ONE company. There's no centralized Startup Hiring authority and there's no centralized Startup Database. Undergrads have to find them to work at them, and that's a pain in the butt.

Second problem is that startups can't waste a lot of time training kids right out of school. They need talented, seasoned, battle hardened developers right out of the gate, because there are going to be a lot of late nights ahead. There's nothing wrong with letting the kids cut their teeth somewhere big and stable right out of school.

...says the undergraduate who works for a startup.
Crossfit-style work outs are great. I used to participate in a class that did very intense work outs three times a week. Also, look up what tabata runs are, they did wonders for my endurance.
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I can't agree with this more, I walked into a rock gym a couple of years ago and picked a wall and said "I want to be able to climb that." I defined a goal and then I set a time frame for it. Admittedly I didn't make that goal but you better believe that I did achieve it a few weeks later and I was even more motivated for the next wall. The neat thing about rock gyms is that there are a lot of people who come in frequently (read: friends with active lifestyles) and they have to change the walls to keep everyone coming back. I'm sure there are many other activities like this but the rock wall was what did it for me.
Every time climbing comes up, I am still surprised how many HNers climb. I've been gym climbing for about two years, climbing outdoors (sport and top rope) for a little over one, and I'm just starting to learn how to trad climb. I have a workable rack at this point.

If anyone is near the MD/DC/VA area and needs a climbing partner, chime in.
Sleep well, eat right and exercise. You'll have your best success if you do all three. Named diets alone, which most of us try over and over, won't get you long term success.

I do CrossFit for exercise, which I first heard about right here on HN, thank you very much. Unless you already know exercise technique really well, I would recommend actually joining a crossfit gym rather than just doing the workouts from the web. They'll teach you how to exercise correctly and safely. Do you know how to squat properly? Probably not. :)

I'm over fifty, out of shape and haven't exercised since I graduated high school. I've been going to CrossFit since this July, and I now jog six flights of stairs up and down at work (at 5,000 feet in Denver), and the workouts that wiped me out in the beginning are now merely really difficult. You don't have to be a jock, they scale everything to your ability. I'm really pleased. Check it out. Probably more than one near you.
Paleo has been great for me as well. I'm active as an athlete (rugby) and a bit of a crossfitter as well (that's how I got into Paleo) and it's been fantastic.
As you mentioned, I think it's important for people to find the balance of food that works for them. I'm very non-strict Paleo (still eat dairy, black coffee, legumes, etc) but the elimination of high-fructose products and grains has skyrocketed my energy level.
While Palm is definitely skating on some thin ice with their approach, I can't blame them for wanting to use iTunes as their synchronization engine... Probably the majority of the market they are going after already uses iTunes. Why force those customers to install yet another application to handle the synchronization of their music and photos to their phone when they already have one that they are familiar with? Unfortunately, their customers are getting stuck in the middle of this cat and mouse game, but it may help them to get a bunch more early adopters on the platform and allow them to eventually build an better and more reliable solution.
This trumps absolutely anything else you can do: avoid starch and sugar. Eat only meat/fish, vegetables, and fruit. Simply don't eat sugary drinks, cereal, oatmeal, rice, potatoes, bread and so forth. This way everything you eat is nutrient packed.

Eggs and dairy are the best foods I know of. I normally eat four eggs a day (scrambled in lots of butter) and have a large glass of half and half, or sometimes I even drink straight up cream. Full fat yogurt is a fantastic food. I try to dominate my calories with saturated fat. The research is now clear that this is perfectly healthy. It's also a very efficient way to eat because I can very comfortably eat only two meals a day about half the time. Fat sticks with you.

Take vitamin d3 every couple of days. The research that has come out in the last few years on vitamin d is fairly shocking. Most people are deficient and it's a huge risk factor for infections and cancer. We are built to spend almost every day outside in the sun, generating vitamin d in the skin, but people don't do that now, so supplement.

As for exercise, sprint work and brief, intense strength training sessions are the best. Two 20 minute lifting sessions a week are sufficient exercise if that's all you can afford, but you must do it intensely. I frequently dry heave a bit in the shower after. Jogging and cycling are much inferior from a health perspective. You do want to build muscle mass and increase growth hormone and testosterone levels. Muscle buffers insulin. Jogging basically just burns calories and temporarily ramps up metabolism. It has minimal benefits compared to other forms of exercise. When I do go out biking and running I'm always amused by how fat the vast majority of runners on the trails are.

Don't take health advice from people who look like shit or work out like it's their job. I'm always shocked by the number of dough boys pontificating who get taken seriously. Demand a full body picture of anybody purporting to give lifestyle health advice, and if they pass that test make sure they aren't some freak wasting five hours a week working out. I'm 5'10 with a 29 inch waist, noticeable muscle mass, a six pack, and a very low body fat percentage. I spend at most two hours a week in physical activity and often nothing at all. I have turned a couple other people on to eating and exercising this way with very good results. Avoid starch/sugar, work out very hard infrequently and on an empty stomach, and you will get cut and healthy. The high saturated fat intake is optional, but I personally recommend it.

http://www.paleonu.com/panu-weblog/2009/6/28/1-eliminate-sug...
http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/latest_articles.html
http://www.arthurdevany.com/2005/03/an_introduction.html
There is also no reason why it wouldn't be conserved... perhaps it's in a highly conversed region? Without looking up exactly where it is in the genome, I wouldn't speculate. I'd be more interested in knowing how the sequences compared to chimp or orangutan.

I'm fully aware that a single mutation can render a protein inert. However, a different mutation might not have any effect. In this case, the mRNA is expressed as a pseudo-gene, so that's a good sign. The mutation is a nonsense truncation. With that problem 'fixed' and with a correctly translated protein, this protein might still work.
Yeah I think of that as a cabbage or pumpkin something (which is kind of weird but meh). Certainly not an apple.
Although his challenge is no software I don't get why he wont ditch his MS keyboard. There are plenty of nice keyboards out there they are not expensive so making the switch seems like a worthwhile thing to do.
Crossfit is great. Our new fitness coach for rugby is a certified CF trainer, and it's been great for our fitness level as a team.