skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> See athletes for common ailments.

This is a good point, and it's a good idea to pick a form of exercise that has less impact, (at an extreme end, I'm sure that the skiiers who do mogul racing are in great shape, but their knees probably don't work so well after a few years) but keep in mind that the body repairs itself. As long as you aren't repeatedly destroying your joints, you're going to get a lot of benefits from exercise.

In many cases, athletes are less likely to get injured than the sedentary population because of increased strength and flexibility.
That's unfortunately the case. I've got pages that resolve as blank from archive.org and properly from Alexandria. I suspect there might be some data problems on the main archive.org server.

They aren't deleted -- they show up in the timeline correctly -- but they come back as entirely blank when I load them (no toolbar, no nothing).
It's a <300 line Perl script that anyone could have thrown together in less than an hour. If that's all it takes to be a coder worthy of anything other than code monkey work then I've been looking for jobs in the wrong places. And if you really think that someone following someone you disagree with on Twitter is grounds for never interacting with them at all, then I'm sorry to say but you exist in a nice little hugbox.
A lot of the programmers at my company have never even heard of R.
I think about old Apple and Amiga games like SimLife... the Sims wasn't really in character for Maxis, it was a perfect EA game
TWC cheapeast plan has 1 Mbps upload, the next tier is 5 Mbps upload, https://www.timewarnercable.com/en/plans-packages/internet/i...
The only challenge will be timing when the Etsy fad bubble bursts.
I look at the AP article, and although the writing is somewhat unclear and fuzzy, all they do is mention that the domain was registered to her home address. They don't directly say the server was in her house (although it seems heavily inferred that that's what they were thinking).

Just bad writing from AP, even worse from Wired since Greenberg should know better.
Hm... you're right about needing to use ssh+git -- at least with github[1] (I don't have anything on github yet, I just host my own mercurial repos across a couple of machines for whatever I'm working on).

However, after forking a repo on github, everything seems to work fine for me:

hg clone git+ssh://git@github.com:e12e/QuickTun.git qt.hg
cd qt.hg
echo "Mercurial hg-git test." > test
hg add test
hg ci -m "Just a test of hg-git push/pull to github."
hg push
# outputs:
pushing to git+ssh://git@github.com:e12e/QuickTun.git
Warning: Permanently added the RSA host key for IP
address '192.30.252.131' to the list of known hosts.
searching for changes
adding objects
added 1 commits with 1 trees and 1 blobs
updating reference refs/heads/master

I can see how the need for using ssh could be a problem on windows, where you need to (AFAIK) get plink/putty working. A quick search seems to indicate that there's no support for using paramiko (python native ssh client/server) for the mercurial client.

> it doesn't seem to help you with some of the more horrible git interactions, such as doing a pull from upstream to your forked github repository.

Continuing from above, nothing stops you from:

hg pull git+ssh://git@github.com:UCIS/QuickTun.git

Although working with multiple remotes in mercurial is generally done by adding them to .hg/hgrc.

Eg adding:

upstream = git+ssh://git@github.com:UCIS/QuickTun.git

Allows you to do:

hg pull upstream

and

hg push upstream

And you can get a sense of what's going on:

hg tags
tip 59:b6067e2362b5
default/master 59:b6067e2362b5
upstream/master 58:e5d10c76fcad

Not sure if that helps vis-a-vis using git, but as I said, I find the mercurial commands more intuitive, consistent and friendly -- to the point that I find it makes quite a difference for me, personally.

That said, if you want to/have to work with github-based repositories, you might be better off just sticking with git.

[1] https://github.com/schacon/hg-git/issues/152
Like I said in a previous post, it's not a bug, it's a feature. Think of it like a kernel driver that monitors the currently running application. If it detects that the application would overheat the CPU it swaps it out to disk and runs another one that could handle the situation better. Now, this is a very bad analogy, but at least it should give you the sense that it is a coping mechanism, not a flaw. I'd suggest to avoid comparing the brain to a computer. That analogy would hold you back more than help you.
IA hard drives fail, and as far as I know, they don't use anything fancy like FEC or distributed filesystems to heal from hard drives dying.
One of the more interesting design requirements here is that the system should work even when the distributed content is _not_ encrypted. If I join this backup effort, and a meteor takes out all of SF (and thus the Internet Archive), and their off-site backups fail, and the aftermath is preventing me from accessing the internet, then that 1TB of data that I had downloaded is all still usable to me. It's not some giant encrypted blob, it's a bunch of zip files (or similar) containing images, sound, video, web pages, and other types of files that I can, in principle, already use. (Maybe I can't do anything much with that Apple II disk image, but I can at least identify it.)

Git annex and BitTorrent would both work with that requirement, and most of the commercial, proprietary solutions cannot; their clients wouldn't use them if that data wasn't private.
I'm not really familiar with compostable plates, but unless they eat from large plant leaves, the plates are probably made somehow. And to make them, someone probably uses resources, like energy and raw material. And they have to be shipped to Etsy.

Compare this with porcelain plates which can be re-used and last a long time, but have to be washed, which uses water and some energy.

Taking all of this into account, I cannot say which is more environment friendly.
Publishing Software as a Speech Act [pdf]
Maybe I'm missing the point here, but I'm not entirely sure I see the point here.

What can Templar do for me that, say, nginx can't? All else equal, if nginx is already in my stack and Templar is not, why do I want to adopt Templar, or indeed even look twice at it?
And despite all of their shiny improvements, Madden 2005 and 2008 are considered the best from a gameplay and mechanics standpoint.
I agree. Let's close this issue: https://github.com/ABISprotocol/ABIS/issues/1
Responding to sibling comment:

> The Trigger Warning crowd clearly rules the site these days, has for some time, and act as though it has always been thus.

What's the "Trigger Warning crowd"?
So you're saying GamerGate proceeded to dox someone it didn't like and gave that person's info to Anita? Yeah, good job differentiating "criticism" and "abuse" in that example.

Who cares about the 99% that is good when GamerGate is continually defined, in every Google search, every Twitter search, every news article in well-known international journalist papers does nothing except point out the continual stream of violent, sexist, and disgusting rhetoric and vitriol come from the hashtag?

Let me give you a piece of advice: if you don't want to be affiliated with the harassment aspect of GamerGate, stop affiliating yourself with GamerGate. Because there is literally no one else outside of GamerGate itself who thinks it's about anything other than harassment.
> it's just common sense that the body is a machine and the more you stress a machine, the likelier it is to break.

The body is a biological organism, not a machine. Biological organisms that suffer disuse experience atrophy, wasting, and decay. Chronic controlled dosages of physical stress produce salutary effects in the human organism. Muscles grow and strengthen, bones increase in density, range of motion is preserved and increased, cardiovascular capacity increases, and even cognitive function is enhanced by exercise. You could not have summoned a worse analogy for the human body if it had been your intent.
Internet Memes and 'The Right to Be Forgotten'
My Interior remark stems from their multiple in contempt of court problems with keeping records. If Mrs. Clinton conducted official business on that server, she committed an illegal act. There is no "I knew better" defense. She failed to account for the correspondence as official.
So you figure the best explanation is it's Congress's fault that Clinton chose to use a private secret email for her entire tenure at the State department that would just happen to be immune to FOIA if nobody already knew of its existence?
Does the data eventually get restored from backup, when a hard drive fails?
I haven't played with the cloud version yet, but internally it's rock solid in terms of its quality. It's very highly available and reliable, extremely and effortlessly scalable, and has dependably low latency.
So much truth to this. Hang out with enough Mexican immigrants in the US and you realize the danger there is real for civilians in MX and not much of an exaggeration. Members of my wife's family have been drugged and robbed. Last month a friend told me her nephew was kidnapped and they were gathering ransom money for his release stateside (he is safe now). Not that these were cartel related, but the situation in Mexico is much worse and real than say, the scare stories about "bad" neighborhoods in NYC.
I agree, async responses are a great tool. It's a question of figuring out a good way of delivering them back to the client. Another option is a long poll endpoint within Templar that it can deliver a stream of responses on. AMQP is an easy option because it keeps Templar simple.
Freudian slip, I meant "C version". It was only meant to illustrate.
Ask HN: How would you solve mortality?
Which current and future technologies would benefit fixing the human 'robot', and why is it currently not feasible?

E.g. would you approach it from the 'immortal jellyfish' perspective, from cell regeneration, 'transporting' into an earlier version, transfer of the mind, etc.?
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Torrents would work perfectly well, and are in fact one of the proposed solutions. The problems you mention are real though.

One idea is to use a custom BitTorrent client which the user can install (a bit like the ArchiveTeam Warrior VM). The user would tell it how much disk space they want to donate, and the client would join swarms over time to fill up that donated space. The user could even join specific swarms representing content that they enjoy and particularly want to save, but wouldn't have to go to the hassle of picking every torrent manually. Also, IA already provides a torrent for every single item in the archive with IA as a web seed, so this could be pretty simple to do from their perspective.
Wasn't it a black on dark maroon list of city populations? It's been a while, but that's what I remember.
I'm sorry if I'm a bit dense, but I'm not sure what you mean by "it" above. Do you mean resource forks?

And how does that work if the email/filesync stops by a Linux/Windows machine or two on the way? Is there a "bundled" file-format that would allow something like a PSD to survive an email round-trip between eg. a designer running OS X, and a developer running Linux (err... in the case of a PSD, maybe windows -- even if Gimp's handling of PSDs are much better than it used to be :-)?

Thankfully it's been a while since I had to deal with "mac"[1] files so I'm not updated on the current state of affairs.

[1] Actually problems I've had had little to do with Apple per-se, more Adobe's lol-lets-throw-this-undocmented-binary-serialized-stuff-in-a-box-and-call-it-a-day hobby fileformat PSD -- that they apparently don't even understand how works themselves -- leading to some hair-pulling when going mac-windows-linux-mac etc.
Yeah, you nailed it.
Surely if the State Dept failed to provide her with an email account, she could have piggy backed on whatever service a different Secretary used? Maybe buddy up with the Secretary of Transportation and direct her email to their server. It didn't have to be her own server.
>As far as I'm concerned, the time to mourn is upon the acquisition by EA.

Warning: Possible Spoilers Ahead

Origin did mourn the EA acquisition; Ultima 7 Black Gate is littered with forebodings over EA. The serial killers Elizabeth and Abraham carry the initials of the company and leave a trail of butchery throughout Britannia. The shapes of the EA logo--a triangle, cube, and sphere--are re-purposed as "generators" which undermine magic everywhere. Even the horror lurking beyond the eponymous black gate--the Guardian--is possessed of a personality based on EA's hostile business practices. The EA buyout loomed over the whole production of Ultima 7, ultimately producing one of the series most conscienceless, unreasonable, single-minded villains. More info can be found here:

https://casualaggro.wordpress.com/2014/03/03/ultima-vii-is-o...

>signed still bitter about Ultima 8 & 9

One can only dream what would have followed Serpent's Isle had Origin retained control of their creative processes. All the magic in Garriott's dreamworld stood for nothing against the dead-hearted accountants of EA.
Or do what I did: download them as audio files onto your phone and listen to them on the go. I never felt I was missing much by not having visuals and it makes for great dog-walking material.
Yellow crazy ant? That's the player ant in game, pretty much!
Ask HN: What Android apps do you use?
People who post "trigger warnings" before endeavoring upon a topic that might cause a special snowflake somewhere to experience a flareup of their fake PTSD. (Because some people are just too sensitive to be exposed to reality.) It's a common trope among those in the throes of "social justice" identity politics and you are doing well to not have caught the allusion.
You might want to look at this:

https://dnshistory.org/dns-records/mail.clintonemail.com

http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-24-187-234-184-1/pft
It's another dismissive slur in the same vein as "Social Justice Warrior". The basic idea behind it is that anyone who has a problem with racist, sexist, homophobic, etc. language or behavior just needs to get over it and STFU. It is mostly said by angry young white dudes on the Internet.
You seem to have moved the goalposts here, from actually being responsible for abuse, as a group, to being perceived as being abusive.
Your primary objection to it seems to be entirely predicated on the fact that it prevents you from annoying people who would rather be left alone. "<300 line Perl script" isn't a substantive or useful criticism.
Interestingly, neither state.gov or clintonemail.com sets SPF records. (Nor does nsa.gov, army.mil, or af.mil, though cia.gov, navy.mil, and whitehouse.gov do.) From personal experience as of a few months ago, state.gov did not use DKIM for outgoing mail.
Liquidity evaporates in China as 'fiscal cliff' nears
Background: I was quoted in the Wired piece. I made sure to emphasize that us outsiders can't say, with any certainty, whether this server was more or less secure than the State Department infrastructure. Matt Blaze, faculty at Penn, made the same point. But, alas, non-expert sensational spin won the day.[1]

With that out of the way, I suspect some HN readers might have an interest in the attribution process.

1) Find the mail servers for clintonemail.com, using DNS MX records. These days, they're run through McAfee. Back in 2010, though, the records pointed to mail.clintonemail.com. (There are a handful of services that keep those historical records, e.g. dnshistory.org.)

2) Find the IP address for mail.clintonemail.com, using DNS A records. Today, it's 64.94.172.146.[2] Back in 2010, it was 24.187.234.187.

3) Run an ARIN WHOIS on the old IP address. It's a static IP range through Optimum Online, allocated to "Eric Hoteham" at the Clinton home in Chappaqua. The surrounding IP ranges map to small businesses in the area.[3]

So, there is some nontrivial technical evidence that the email server was at the Clinton residence. But it's hardly definitive. It's possible, for instance, that the registered address is merely for billing purposes.

[1] There's even a glaring a factual error in the story. It was a web hosting service offered by Network Solutions that was hacked in 2010, not their DNS service. That would've been a much bigger deal.

[2] There's still a live server at mail.clintonemail.com. It's running Windows Server 2008 R2 with a valid SSL certificate. And it appears to be colo'd at Internap. Between that and the MXLogic protection, hardly a slapdash setup.

[3] Quite a few of these records have odd contractions or typos, suggesting the misspelled name wasn't intentional.
Last year, Avago sold the flash drive business (SandForce) it acquired as part of LSI to Seagate. Seagate did not honor existing options. Some employees were offered bonus plans with payments over 2 years and RSUs over 4 years that totalled less than their options were worth. The kicker is that many oldtimers, those options were due to fully vest in about 1 year or less.
Actually the alien one is promoted by a semi-major North American religion also.
is this website vulnerable to any exploits?
I read the blog post and I absolutely agree that there are "subtle dangers a woman faces daily in the pursuit of a serious career -- dangers most people do not speak about and often politely go along with, in a sheep-like fashion." I was in fact just arguing yesterday with someone here on hn who objected to an Outreach Programme for Women as discriminatory and I was arguing that institutional discrimination is pervasive and very damaging to women's careers (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9138481). Ironically, however, what I'm calling out Jessica on is one of the main things which contributes to institutional discrimination, namely not examining one's biases strongly enough. There are many well meaning men out there who think they're not sexist and don't want to be, but because sexism is institutionalized they don't even realize they are. In the same way, Jessica may think she's not discriminating against people from other cultures or people who may be socially awkward and such, but she may well be doing so. If both groups, if they were more aware of their biases, they would likely be less discriminatory.

You may be right, maybe I called Jessica out because she's a woman. I really don't think so, but am open to the suggestion I did. I really don't see anything in my post, however, to indicate gender bias was a factor. In fact, I was calling her out for precisely the type of thinking which leads to gender bias.
Is this website secure?
Fulltext: https://www.dropbox.com/s/gfch760k1ratwo3/2015-rottensteiner... / http://sci-hub.org/downloads/045f/10.0000@pdfs.journals.lww....

Buried some interesting points there:

> The researchers were looking for young adult identical twins in their early- to mid-20s whose exercise habits had substantially diverged after they had left their childhood homes. These twins were not easy to find. Most of the pairs had maintained remarkably similar exercise routines, despite living apart.

Besides the testament to how 'everything is heritable' inherent in that observation, it also raises the question: if they are so unusual, doesn't that make confounding more plausible?

> Interestingly, the twins tended to have very similar diets, whatever their workout routines, so food choices were unlikely to have contributed to health differences.

Also very interesting, and counter to the usual narratives about health. (Everything is heritable...)

> The twins’ brains also were unalike. The active twins had significantly more grey matter than the sedentary twins, especially in areas of the brain involved in motor control and coordination.

Warning sign: 'significantly'. Does this mean, as any ordinary person would take it to mean (in conjunction with that lazy stock photo), 'a lot' or does it mean 'p<0.05'?

Trick question, of course it means the latter, which is useless! Take a look at the fulltext, pg6, table 2, which spits out the actual differences between the twin pairs. I hope you're ready to be wowed by how much difference an exercise regimen makes when you control for genetics (picking out a few I recognize):

1. BMI: -0.8

2. VO2max: 6.3

3. weight: -2kg

4. waist circumference: -3.3cm

5. fat percentage: -3.3 (!)

6. lean mass: 1.4kg

I'm not sure I've seen such a damning indictment of exercise in a long time. (Less than 1 on BMI? 2kg of weight? I fluctuate more than that on a weekly basis...)
How could it be the "most secure"? How do you as a client verify the self signed certificate is the right one? If someone MITM'ed the certificate and you've never used it before how would you know that the certificate was intercepted? Who do you go to verify you've got the right certificate? That doesn't sound secure at all. It's like asking potential a liar to swear to you they aren't lying and not asking someone else if that person is possibly being dishonest. Sure central certificate authorities have their problems as a concept, but at least that someone else verifying the cert is the real one.
I have a related question for folks here.

I joined a startup around 2009 as an early employee, left after a couple years, and bought the vested stock. (The company is based in the US, and I'm not a US citizen, FYI). I've been holding on to these stocks so far. Compoany has rasied a small series A just around the time I joined. The company has raised a few rounds of funding since I left.

It now looks like the company may IPO/ or be privately acquired. I have not been in touch with anyone in the company over the past couple years.

What steps do I take now to ensure I don't get screwed as part of the exit, and/or my stocks diluted to become meaningless? I'm looking for general advice.
A buyback also raises the value of options, while a dividend is not paid to option holders.
Don't try things that "sound fun". Things that sound fun are either things that you've done before, things your friends do, or things you think you'll be good at.

Instead do things that kind of scare you even though they shouldn't. If you're afraid to fly, take a Cessna flying lesson. If you're afraid to speak in public, join toastmasters.

The author mentions football as out of the question. I think football is exactly what the author needs. Start with touch or flag football if you're really terrified of brain damage. In reality, friendly games of tackle football are unlikely to cause a concussion, and even if they did, the real damage from concussions is when you get one and keep playing.

When you think about it, it becomes obvious: you meet people different than yourself by doing things which you wouldn't normally do. Oh, and you get to conquer irrational fear, improve yourself, have awesome adventures, etc, while you're at it.
I have something very important to share with the public, regarding our government and its high ranking officials.