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Thank you, these sorts of cues are among the most valuable things trainers provide in my experience.
While I share the original comment's enthusiasm, I have to agree with your skepticism regarding the timescale. Not only does it not guarantee that level of strength in a year, but it should not even be the goal. The goal of strength training is to be stronger today than you were the day before, and the key to (eventually) getting this level of strength is slow, sustained progress over a long period of time. It's a marathon, not a race. An injured body will not get you stronger.

Just look at Fabri Janos, 70 year old, less than 83kg (182 lbs), pick up 260kg (573 lbs) with relative ease as a proof of that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFCCawnr01U&t=4h40m3s&ab_cha... (timestamp at 4h 40m 3s in case it doesn't work)
Starting Strength is commonly presented as good beginner programme:

https://blackironbeast.com/starting-strength
> Google Ideas builds products to support free expression and access to information for people who need it most — those facing violence and harassment.

> Google Ideas is a team of engineers, researchers and geopolitical experts who build products to support free expression and access to information, especially in repressive societies. We focus on the problems faced by people who live in unstable, isolated, or oppressive environments, including the billions of people who are coming online for the first time.

> With the right tools, we can make the internet more free and open. Many of us take the internet for granted, but for human rights activists, journalists, and artists living under censorship, a free and open internet can be a matter of life and death.
How is this downvoted?
Zenpayroll and Zenefits are different companies and unrelated except that they both did Y Combinator.
Very unlikely just because Apple said so? I don't trust what they say because in the past they have talked down about certain tech only to turn around and implement it later. The biggest example of this is when they switched to Intel CPUs.
if that's something he wants to distance himself from, he's done himself no favors by overtly nodding to white nationalism in his own writing

This is incredibly misleading. Replace "overtly nodding" with explicitly disavowing: the post in question is literally called "Why I am not a white nationalist" [1]. And that's not "people have accused me of being a white nationalist, here's why I'm not", it's "here's why I don't believe this thing I find wrong." Oh, and here's what he has to say about racist blogs:

(The Internet is also home to many out-and-out racist blogs. Most are simply unreadable. But some are hosted by relatively capable writers, such as "The Uhuru Guru" or "Big Effer." On these racist blogs you'll find racial epithets, anti-Semitism (see why I am not an anti-Semite) and the like. Obviously, I cannot recommend any of these blogs, and nor will I link to them. However, if you are interested in the mind of the modern racist, Google will get you there.)

Does that sound like the writing of a racist to you?

[1]: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/11/why-i-a...
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I can second this and saw the same benefits. However since I am going to the gym anyway, I add bench and overhead press too. That's it and I am out in less than an hour.

I've had back problems since my early 30's (including surgery) and I knew my posture was poor but never was able to improve it until I started lifting. The key is that I don't think you can strengthen your posture muscles by holding the correct posture. You have to strengthen your posture muscles by lifting heavy objects on a weekly if not daily basis then you can easily hold correct posture. As the article mentioned the key is to flex the gluts to hold posture and the deadlift and squats are efficient ways to build glut strength. So in the end the reason why indigenous people don't have back problems is they are not sedentary and have stronger gluts.
In the UK, HR are often less involved in the earlier stages, and actually become a problem at the latter stages of the process.
Tech hiring still sucks hard though. We like to think there are simple clean bias free processes we can follow and repeat for awesome hiring, but somehow still go with the gut at the end of the day.
"Is the only reason our entire zero-reward open source system stays alive is because nerds are economically irrational and just want to have fun while turning a blind eye to being exploited?"

I would say no, because at least to me it seems like those who are just building applications by "gluing libraries and APIs" need to be compensated more because their jobs are much less interesting both in terms of the actual work and also to future potential employers.

I would definitely take a pay cut if I were to be allowed to work on something more interesting provided I still have enough to survive.

For those "nerds", why should it bother them that other people are profiting from their work? If anything I would think it should make them happy to know that what they built is helping others all the while keeping them entertained.
I apologize for ruffling feathers, by the way; I suspect I have a nasty sense of humour.

Don't worry about it. The other definition of Flub I've seen [0], in Doug Hoyte's Let Over Lambda, comes from a similar place.

[0] "A language that can only thread code by subroutines." [In this case, "thread" has an idiosyncratic meaning.] Basically, anything other than Forth. Or those Lisps with the right sort of macros to re-implement Forth.
ADP online access is awful. They make up a username for you, some combination of first initial, last name @ company name. Then the login isn't a modern system, it's the old "authentication required" browser pop up, which disables any user remembering or password managers. Such a pain to deal with!
"some of them are writing code already?"

I read it as, some AI are already writing code. In the present day.
I was reading the other comments and really looking forward to reading the article, but after reading your comment I realise I've actually already read it.

I agree, great book if you're interested in pop music. Highly recommended.
You might not bring the political questions at all. You might just casually mention a small detail, like "when I last visited [certain city] for a Republican convention,..." or something even more innocent and passing.
On first thought, this sounds like Google's version of Hooli XYZ, but on a deeper level I guess this is kind of like Facebook's ThreatExchange?
Lol at the site not working on Chrome but working fine on Safari.
I would add "Simple and Sinister" for Kettlebell geeks (like me). Unbelievable level of conditioning can be achieved with only 2 exercises, The Swing and Get-up.
Stronglifts 5x5 is what I did

http://stronglifts.com/5x5/

I would recommend finding a reputable gym (e.g. be wary of CrossFit - some are great, some are cash grabs by people who have no idea what they're doing), and pay a trainer for a couple sessions to make sure you have your form right. Having improper form won't really matter when you're starting off with low weight, but as you go heavier it becomes very important, and you don't want to have established bad habits.
Neural nets currently still require a program to interpret them, and that program is typically written by a human.
I wouldn't be surprised if most of that flexibility in Asian cultures comes from using a squat toilet (or open defecation) everyday.
And yet, without its ruining, we wouldn't have had house music, the forefather of today's EDM.

http://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/April-2014/RIP-Frankie-K...
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Negative? why?
Well, my company doesn't, nor have other companies I've interviewed with and received offers from. I'd be very hesitant to join such a company. I've interviewed with "top" companies like Google as well and they've never seemed to care about this stuff.

This sounds more like a way to hire a contractor, not an engineer you will invest in who will be a full member of the team for potentially a very long time.
I can testify to this. I'm 6'6, turned 30 recently and developed chronic back pain which made walking/standing for over 15-20 minutes painful. I got frustrated and started going to the gym again and doing very basic deadlifts/leg presses/lunges a few times a week. It's been a couple of months and my back is about 70-80% better.
If you are not the one responsible for deploying your code, please avoid hard-coding everything.

I had developers tell me “I expect mongodb at this (hardcoded) address”. Not funny.

Another funny story with “log level” was when a scala app occasionally went astray and returned more than 100GB of logs (level WARN) in less than an hour, filling my disks.

Most of the time developers can't understand deployment. They think it is the same as testing on their laptops or test VMs; run everything manually on the same machine with root privileges, delete everything once you are done.
You would not get rejected if you applied for a job without a track record, at least, not out of hand. I've been hired to work on .NET having never had worked on it before.

You do not need side projects or to train yourself. Just the ability to project confidence.
"An acupuncturist in Palo Alto, Calif., thinks she has figured out why."

Acupuncture is know to work (even if you put the needles randomly) Please bring me a scientist :)
You must be new to SF like everyone else.
> > It depends on so many factors like body type and genetics.

> It really doesn't. What it depends on is your training protocol, and whether you're able to avoid injury or not.

And "whether you are able to avoid injury or not" while trying to train up to that goal in the time period suggested depends on so many factors, like body type and genetics.

> I'm not any kind of SS zealot, but I have to, like anyone else whose actually gone through it, recognize the simple effectiveness of the plan.

"Anyone who has experienced X must recognize the simple effectiveness of X" pretty much defines being a zealot for X.
This site pops up here about once a year, and if I recall correctly, I often hear the sentiment of frustration with the whole way TOS works on the web. Here are 3 other past discussions HN has had about the site for anyone curious:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5888393

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4373610

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4350907
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I would assume the author is talking about in-house software development. If you are delivering software to a client, you don't want them to have to recompile sources to make changes. If the developers of the software are also responsible for its runtime configuration (which is very common in banking, telecoms, etc.) then changing code can be as easy or easier than changing config.
As an aside, I can't help but be amused at how flash-like the experience is. Impressive what we can achieve natively in the browser these days.
That's it. But it's easier said than done in most cases - especially with actual paying work coming in every day. Blocking off a small amount of time every day takes a real big effort when all of the ground work is done and you're at the polishing stages.
This is part of the problem. Huge enterprise companies in this space primarily grow through acquisitions, leading to a huge patchwork of products in the same company all doing the same thing. ADP are kings at this—so many different versions of so many different products (again, all doing the same thing) that there is no one ADP experience.

I think this is one of many reasons smaller companies are chipping away at these behemoths because the companies themselves (ahem, SAP) can't even keep it all straight.
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Same here. Can't believe this site design is from Google. They must know better.
hm. My experience is that contract work (I mean, real contract work, not working as a temporary employee through an agency, like I'm doing now) has higher standards and pays less per unit work, for the 90% of us who aren't super effective all the time.

Taking a less-senior position for less-senior pay in the new tech stack is probably going to be more money per unit work, and my experience has been that you can get people to work with you on titles and that nobody actually knows what you got paid at your old jobs.

I mean, sure, if you really are that good and actually get things done regardless, your way might be better. My experience has been that good contractors going direct get a little more money than you can get through a body shop or as an employee. But... I'm talking like top 5%. Most of us aren't there. If you are mediocre... if you are merely 'good enough' - being a "real" contractor is difficult and under-remunerated. (to be clear, it's under-remunerated for the top 5%, too... but those people work like crazy all the time, so it's not like the customer is expecting more out of them.)
That one's blank for me too (Chrome 43, OS X 10.10). Any alternates?
> Why then do you think at a certain point they start hurting

Oh, it's just a guess, but partly because of Haskell and its success at being continuously rejected by the industry for two decades now (it was touted as the next big thing when I was at university over 15 years ago). There have been few if any languages of Haskell fame that have clearly tried to break out of academia and have had so little use in the industry.

And the problem is less with types themselves but with the referential-transparency-everywhere and non-strict-evaluation approach. The result is that Haskell allows -- nay, demands -- a lot of reasoning about the program upfront at the expense of reasoning about it as it runs, with a debugger and a profiler (because of the complicated execution model). I also think Haskell places an unreasonable burden of thinking about the types vs. the algorithm an domain.

As to Scala, because it's such a "multi-paradigm" language, it's pretty hard to know exactly how it's used in the industry. There are certainly those that use it anywhere between Haskell-like with scalaz to Java-like only without having to write constructors and getters (in fact, Spark is written, I believe, closer in the latter style). But even if Scala is to be counted as an advocate for rich typing, its success record is pretty spotty (and, again, I wouldn't blame that necessarily on the type system).

I could, of course, be very wrong. One thing is certain: what a type system can do is a comp-sci question; how useful it is is a psychological question, and trying to argue about the usefulness of type systems (or any programming approach) as if it were a mathematical problem is just silly.

> We've certainly never reached that "certain point" where they start hurting.

I think Haskell is beyond that point, although I still believe a language with a type system as sophisticated as Haskell's might not be (because getting more for the same price might be worth it). By that I mean that Haskell types -- just like the article said -- waste a lot of mental power in the wrong places (i.e. on proving trivial stuff). I don't know what that imagined language would look like, but it would probably have some effect types (and like the author of the article has noted, there's a huge difference between being able to simulate effect systems and effect systems controlling actual effects).
TraitsUI was a cool idea, but not implemented that well. Enaml carries it to perfection. I love how enaml provides a ton of functionality, while it doesnt get in the way of experimentation. Just see the matplotlib widget [1] how easy it is to integrate other widgets.

[1] https://github.com/nucleic/enaml/blob/master/enaml/widgets/m...
While I won't like this approach on intellectual grounds ("fruit of the poisoned tree" type of reasoning), I completely agree that it would at least show some integrity.
I highly recommend the youtube videos by Alan Thrall, very good description of the basic lifts and how to have the proper form so you don't get injured.
> Running a desktop operating system on a tablet doesn't make sense.

Of course it does or else people wouldn't be buying them. Microsoft is doing 4 billion dollars a year in Surface sales.

I've been using Windows on tablets for over a year now and nothing beats it. I get way more control over my tablet with Windows than I do with any of the mobile systems.
I agree that it's ridiculous, but would ask why did you do it then?

It's not like they threw a black bag over your head and tossed you in the back of a limo while you walked down the street...

I haven't showed up on-site for an interview without discussing the role and discussing money (in numeric terms, not vague ones) since I was 24. It's more common than not that our ranges don't overlap, and I find that out on the phone with minimal investment and inconvenience, not in-person after expending a lot of time and effort. (It helps both sides to discover that early.)
But you will charged with "treason" when you acquire hard evidence, since now a days, every thing is a "state secret".
I did this in 2013. This advice is spot on. Learn the hell out of the new technology stack, and then build up a portfolio (for example, you can contribute to open source projects, or start your own).

If the antiquated tech you have experience in is more complex than the new stack (antiquated tech usually is), it sometimes works as a positive: you have a perspective 'native' users of the stack don't.
I'm so glad to see this. Especially when the point of a given stack is supposed to be that it makes life easier for developers, I think it's weird that there's so much emphasis on knowledge specific to given stacks, to the point where it may be this is a tacit admission that our stacks are their own problems requiring attention we could be giving to our problem domain.
There are options.

I think it's disingenuous to think every open source software component should be a VC funded company operating off support contracts to get any reward. That's essentiality the only avenue to "greatness" right now.

In a proper world, VCs would recognize all their darling, bespoke, hand-picked companies depend on the public infrastructure of open source (and unaffiliated) developers to super accelerate the growth of their portfolio companies.

In a sane world, VCs would see it's in their best interest to create a "public benefit" pool of cash where they fund open source developers to create, maintain, and grow open source projects/platforms at full time senior-engineer salaries. Such a pool of cash (contributed to by multiple VC firms) would be administered by a neutral third party (to avoid nepotism as VCs are wont to do) and have "board-like" oversight and project prioritization (maybe each portfolio company gets X votes towards ranking which features to create next) so resources (cash/salary/infrastructure) go towards projects companies are using and needing to grow.

A different option is to encourage VC-funded companies to set aside, say, 5% to 15% of each round for hiring full time open source developers. Open source developers working at a company would be loyal to their open source projects first and foremost, but would accept direction and feature prioritization from the sponsoring company.

Just because something isn't a company doesn't mean it's not valuable and doesn't deserve compensation for services rendered, but in the current environment that's the only way forward until more fundamental change appears.
Galeon was my favorite too. The best thing about it was you could bookmark search dialog boxes and it would show a search dialog box right in the bookmark bar From there, you could search for something and it would open up a new tab. It may not seem like a lot, but my coworkers and sped up our workflows by quite a lot once we figured this out back in the day.
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Fair enough - I wouldn't want to discourage anyone who can't reach that for whatever reason. I would also add that diet and sleep are critical - you'll need enough calories and enough sleep to hit that kind of target.
I remember when Twitter launched, thinking how much better a name Pied Piper would've been. "Following" would make more sense, but also I like the concept of piping messages into the pipeworks, instead of tweeting tweets.

On topic, this looks fun though.
I think Hooli XYZ is supposed to be Google X, pretty directly.
One of their products: Investigative Dashboard

https://www.google.com/ideas/products/investigative-dashboar...

Some good ideas there, but mostly it's a collection of high-level tools and visualizations...my main objection is that journalists have a tendency to see data and documents as "magic" and making a slick Investigative Dashboard doesn't really dispel that. The main problem of data and document collection is not much different than in data science, where research and data cleaning/collection is by far the most time consuming part of the process. Improving OCR (and let's give Google credit for its work on tesseract) and creating a more friendly interface for tesseract (such as a training GUI) would be much, much more useful to the average investigative reporter.

And in terms of collection/research: if Google took up the work of reverse-PACER (for court documents), or furthered its work in election data (https://developers.google.com/civic-information/)...those would also be hugely beneficial initiatives.
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I own and enjoy kettlebells but I didn't actually start getting a lot stronger until I started barbell training.

As you mention kettlebells are fantastic for conditioning but are not the best tools for getting stronger because you can't (easily) progressively overload the amount of weight you are lifting like you can with barbell training.
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I don't know. Taken from a sort of "Digital Poverty" point of view, these seem like good sane items to try to reduce that, and they aren't all aimed at one area. They are supporting both human rights (from the internet access as a human right perspective, which may be controversial, but is at least arguable), and fighting corruption. Both noble goals IMHO, and areas where Google's possible contributions line up with their core strengths and values.
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Having a decentralized forum/chat/data system would be really awesome, even if that might be against google's interests. I really want the future to have more p2p systems.

There was edonkey, then bittorent, then the cloud, then git, then bittorrent sync...

I don't understand why systems like freenet and bitmessage have not taken off. The internet was built for p2p, but it's still mostly used as a broadcast system where everything is centralized.

Why isn't google trying to fund those projects ? Because they re so much invested in the web of HTML content they can't look eitherway.
What about the terrain? If it were possible to go from sf to la without the elevation changes, they would have made the road by that route.
I don't think I've ever seen this happen. It's not something end users need to agree to, so why would an application show it to end users?
The book Starting Strength is often touted as the best way to learn the deadlift, front/back squat, overhead press, and bench press. It has a lot of detail about the posture you want during the lifts, as well as how to increase your workloads until you are Huge(tm). In short, you have a program of lifts you do (sets x reps x weight = work), and you increase your work output every time you go to the gym, which means you need to structure your workouts to allow for recovery but not atrophy.