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As others have said, the best thing CrossFit has done is introduce people to the barbell, and more importantly, Mark Rippetoe. Rip was the barbell SME for CrossFit in the early years and while they parted ways, a lot of CrossFitters still find Rip when they want to get more serious about training strength.

He has literally written the textbook [1] on the 5 basic lifts giving a complete anotomical and mechanical breakdown of each that I think the HN crowd would appreciate, which at $10 for the kindle version is worth it at 10x the price. His website [2] and YouTube channel also provide a large amount of free resources for anyone interested in learning about barbell lifting.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006XJR5ZA

[2] http://startingstrength.com/
I think it will be easier to convince 10,000 people to live on the moon/mars then to convince 10,000 people to live their lives surrounding pure darkness on the ocean floor.
I do. :(

I'm really not a fan of this "flat" trend. Do I think Windows Vista's Aero was overboard? Yeah. It was really too much. An OS shouldn't get in your way.

However, I'm also of the opinion that Mac OS X Yosemite looks like an unfinished mockup. I miss my glass dock too.
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What gives you so much confidence in the Chinese economy? what's the reason for such a strong conviction?
Oh, a sharp move can happen, exactly as it just did with Switzerland (41% [2] although stabilized at a bit under 20%): via an exit from a peg. The monetary union is such a peg, an exit or any form of breakdown would cause a sharp revaluation. Without warning, for obvious reasons.

You could argue that an economy which is entirely in a naturally monopolistic, price-insensitive position might be able to weather some pretty severe currency moves, but I don't think Germany can be described thus. 70% of the German economy is services, and 69% [1] of German exports are to EU countries (which would be particularly hit by a EUR breakup as they'd move the same amount the other way). Cars are the largest export by dollar value [2]. I don't know how I'd get stats to show price sensitivity of exports, that being said I know of no car company which is not price sensitive, other than niche manufacturers (e.g. Morgan in the UK). Medical supplies might be another story, especially as it's capex intensive and low headcount. Imports might be part of the picture, but VW's 45% of global staff that is employed in Germany will still draw German Euro paychecks.

As per 5. you appear to agree with me: macro effects are global and "nowhere/no time is different". Although it is not Eastern Euros but Southern Euros which would devalue. Poland isn't Greece by any stretch.

Now I will admit that I agree with you a little bit: I think the fears of currency appreciations are somewhat overstated, particularly in a sophisticated economy producing high value added goods (mine is similar to the reasoning you put forward). Maybe Swiss readers can confirm, but the CHF appreciation seems to have gone alright [4]. But, I had to make the case, and it was popular amongst traders when I was still in the business.

[1] http://www.economywatch.com/world_economy/germany/export-imp...

[2] http://www.worldstopexports.com/highest-value-german-export-...

[3] https://www.thetrumpet.com/article/12397.2.0.0/economy/swiss...

[4] http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/personnel-requirements_banks-nee...
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Um, I wasn't saying the comic was text-book logic of reductio ad absurdem. It requires a little bit of thinking to understand the context.

So, let's get to the bottom of this: GPL vs permissive isn't itself a moral issue, but making proprietary software is a moral issue.

So, arguing against GPL in favor of permissive specifically because permissive software can help make proprietary software… that becomes a moral issue because you are advocating not just for permissive licenses but for the proprietary software they enable.

For the record, I think in practice, the economic justification for proprietary software is acceptable if the proprietary publisher works especially hard to be honorable and not malicious in how they wield their proprietary power and it can be really shown that they couldn't get by without being proprietary. But just making money isn't an adequate excuse without those other qualifications.
I haven't used OS X Yosemite, but I had the same complaint about the insider preview of Windows 10. Not a fan of the "flat" trend either.
The parts of car UIs we're talking about are mostly awful anyway, and on several different levels. They have basic design flaws like using naff graphics, which neither look good nor supply information more effectively than simpler alternatives, and using non-tactile controls like touchscreens or fully circular rotating dials. Hopefully by now everyone knows the dangers introduced by most of the mobile communications systems in modern cars.

The direct control interfaces in a car that tend to be very well designed and implemented are the basic movement controls like the steering wheel and pedals. These are distinctive and immediately recognisable. They work predictably and after proper driver training they become very intuitive. Drivers in an emergency can often still manage to swerve or brake to avoid a collision, and that is the level of user friendliness you want when you're in control of multiple tonnes of fast-moving death machine.

Other parts of the interface that modern cars tend to do very well are all the subtle behaviours behind those controls: the power steering that adjusts so it "feels right" at any speed, the independent driving and braking of different wheels so the simple pedal controls don't unnecessarily spin the wheels if you try to move off with too much gas but do retain control without skidding unnecessarily if you brake and steer at the same time in an emergency.

And of course there are a raft of safety systems in modern cars, some fully automatic, but some giving subtle cues to the driver to help them predict and hopefully avoid dangerous situations earlier.

But these so-called infotainment systems, and radios, and communications systems, and satnavs, and fancy environmental controls... Most of these are just awful, and sneering at them is entirely fair and justified right now, so separating them from the essential controls that keep the vehicle operating properly and safely should really be no problem at all.
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True. I just think there's more we can do here on Earth for this purpose. Yes, some problems are inevitable, but as a whole species we haven't yet done anything to destroy all life.
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The three founders of JetBrains started a plugin named Renamer out of need, while working with Java code at TogetherSoft. That was over 15 years ago.
That's a very well-written and clearly argued piece, but you could apply the same logic to argue that it's a business should not raise capital on the stock market because it amounts to "selling the farm to feed your family". But most businesspeople would say that it's quite OK if the money is invested productively. As the owner of the business, you probably shouldn't care if your equity shrinks to 10% of the company, as long as the outside financing helps you grow it to more than 10 x the original size.
Similarly, it might not matter to Americans if eventually 90% of US-based assets are owned by foreigners, as long as the 10% that's owned by Americans is huge.
So this whole "Our national wealth will soon be owned by foreigners" scenario is probably not as bad as it sounds.

The way Buffett phrases it also seems misleading on a language level. He talks about "foreign ownership of OUR assets". But how can you say they are YOUR assets if they were paid for by foreign investors? If a US company sells 50% of its shares to a German bank, and uses the money to build a plant, can you say "OMG, Germans own 50% of OUR plant"?
Why does this even exist?

This must be some of the worst UI/UX I've seen in a while.
You are right. Sorry for that. I will add the link.
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I've always found the White House photographer to be such an interesting job to exist. Imagine if we had pictures to accompany every single decision made at Apple over the past 20 years for example.

It probably wouldn't bring any new revelations, but it would definitely give some nice picture content to accompany articles at the very least.
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I think they are smarter than what you think , They know this is not for everybody , and this is not going to replace android/iOS ever. They targeting people like me who are sick of android/iOS because of closeness of platform.Even canonical with its huge budget admits they don't have plan to replace iOS/android (which as you told is too late for such product , even for Microsoft which have shitload of money ) but they targeting specific user's.

p.s. This is my understanding as simple end-user.I might be wrong.
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You fly some nukes into it.

Usually, at this point someone links to some NDT interview with Jon Stewart or something where he says "but if you blow up an asteroid, the chunks will still hit you".

Yes, well, if you blow up an asteroid the ratio of surface area to volume will change, and a greater percentage of the asteroid's mass will be
I've sat in meetings where decision to dismiss an entire floor of programmers in one of the nyc building of one bank included open and frank assessment of outsourced work ("4th iteration" "crap" ...) by one of the executives.

("Mr. MBA" is just another worker, like you and me.)
For the record, I looked at the Wesnoth codebase in college, so my opinions are outdated (by 5+ years) but not unfounded.

Rather, I'm merely repeating why I didn't help then, instead of particularly why now, which is a much more boring "I'm just busy".

I suppose it's possible the codebase has changed so much in those years that the answers are no longer relevant, but they would be the only open source project (not sponsored by a corporation) I'm aware of that happening in.
Fuck what nature intended.

Nature intended for me to die of starvation within weeks of being born due to a congenital disorder preventing me from digesting anything. I'd wager that nature probably didn't intend for you to have 20/20 eyesight, or to have all of your teeth, or for you to type on a magic glowing box that allows you to communicate with people halfway around the planet.
There is no money in targeting the couple %. Hell, there's almost no money in Android either unless you're Samsung.
Are you playing wesnoth 1.12 because they have significantly improved the rendering performance in the latest version. I know 1.10 could lag my computer but 1.12 is very fast and snappy. Also in my experience, playing 1.12, the game state almost never gets out of sync. If it happens it is because one or more players have different version of some add-ons. So yeah, you really should try 1.12 or even checkout and play the version from their repo because it has even more improvements to it.
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Anybody from Tachyus here? I've always been intrigued by the company but never really understood what form of analytics they are doing, and the descriptions are always really vague. Is it OR modeling? Data mining? Do you have any use case examples?
Devon is in your back yard. They are significantly invested in technology. Living in Oklahoma all the oil & gas companies here are in my experience.

Perhaps you're just ignorant to what it is they actually do in their IT departments or are only considering small companies. A field worker or landman might not know what goes on either.
> we can see that social behavior and cooperation is one of the driving forces of intelligence.

Most octopuses are solitary animals, yet probably qualify as semi-intelligent.
I think you are grossly under estimating the challenge of living under the ocean. There have been a number of underwater habitats built (both for science and nominally living quarters) so there are reports you can read on the experience.

In particular a 'huge asteroid' could not be mitigated by "diving into a trench", water is incompressible by nature and the impact of an asteroid in the ocean would cause a huge over-pressure event in your habitats, where ever they are, resulting in their destruction. Today, such an impact would destroy every submarine in the same ocean where it hit.

Gamma rays would be fine, water does make an excellent radiation blocker. That could be achieved on land by building a structure that was inside the middle of a water reservoir. (imagine a large water storage tank with underwater living space in the middle of it.)
Currently it sucks to write tests with JUnit while using Kotlin, there is Spek (Jetbrains made it(, but it's early (too early).

XML based Build Tool, I mean seriously? It should at least be somehow human readable.

A language should need a sane integration of it, not the library itself. Okai DI is definitly somewhat that isn't needed, but a good integration is still suitable.

I mean good Multithreading lives in RxKotlin which is based on RxJava, however I still think that Threading or some kind of Library which should handle mutli prozessors / async capabilities should live INSIDE the language (like go, erlang or lots of others).

I mean currently Java9 will get a lot of new things which will definitely help out Scala to compile faster and Java10 will bring these closer. So there is no real reason for a language that still lacks a lot of stuff.
As already said, Kotlin is small, on some edges thats good, on some it's just too small and I don't get it why they built while, break and continue into a somewhat functional language. Especially when while, break and continue is really hard to handle / read.
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Cool, I'm going to look into doing the port in the near future then ..
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/as...

http://www.cnet.com/news/nasa-wants-to-build-a-floating-city...
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I wonder how hard it would be to use this to auto-generate, say, contra dance music.
First, a lot of countries have protectionist trade policies but few can make cars like Japan. They have an excellent engineering culture.

Second, who cares if they had favorable policies during the mid 1900's - they were also rebuilding after a nuclear war. We had a massive head-start in auto engineering back in the 1960's and then we stopped trying. They're the tortoise and we're the hare.

Look at our race series, what NASCAR tech is trickling down to modern cars? F1's out there with hybrid systems and energy recovery devices on the absolute bleeding edge of technology and NASCAR has only recently lifted their 55 year ban on fuel injection. It's laughable. Technology shouldn't go from foreign racing circuits, to Japanese and German family sedans, to American family sedans, and then finally to our race cars.

The notion that a auto-racing is used to fund R&D is apparently lost on us.

To put it bluntly we have nobody to blame but ourselves and we're lucky to have somebody like Elon Musk come along.
As a technology preview, it sucks. Not many technical details at all.

So it's a full stack, and you can run apps from a variety of (Qt-based) sources on it. It also has a few phrases like

ENJOY NEW USER EXPERIENCE

ADAPTABLE USER INTERFACE

Focus on mobile devices.

FREE OS FOR YOUR PHONE

Uhh, okay? Oh, and the video shows that the phone is basically an Android clone. Great.

I can't talk about the other person, but if I'm being negative it's because this has a really hype-ey 6-minute trailer advertising nothing of interest. Rule of thumb: Your trailer should never be more than two minutes, because otherwise it's probably really damn slow, and frankly a minute is pushing it.
I'm aware of Devon but isn't that a recent thing? And I'm guessing you're referring to their use of OpenStack and buying RHEL licenses/support? What's interesting is that several people up here have used Devon as the poster child for reserved technology practices. Encana/Cenovus tend to have the recognition of being technology forward. Maybe Devon has changed since they sold off half of their Canadian assets.

I agree my ignorance/attitude towards the industry isn't the best. I've always felt as a software startup the service companies would be your best bet.
Rude like asking someone who has disposable income why they aren't donating to a specific cause? Hmm.
> As the two of us consider starting a family, we worry about how our culinary ineptitude will impact our future children. We are beginning to wonder whether we even have what it takes to put a proper, nutritious dinner on the table for our little ones.

This is marketing bullshit at its finest. Not only is our product convenient, no, it's essential to the health and well-being of your children!

It's easy to eat healthy if you have $140 per week for four dinners (Blue Apron) prices. We order fresh fish delivered to our house once or twice a week, along with seasonal vegetables. Oily fish like salmon or steelhead trout can be cooked easily with just a few minutes under the broiler, and while the oven is hot you can bake some root veggies or green beans. If you're smart and use foil to protect the baking sheets, it's a 5-minute prep/cleanup operation. If you've got 10-15 minutes, marinating some chicken thighs overnight then grilling is tasty and healthy.

I'll plug the vendor since I think it's a much better deal than meal services: https://www.relayfoods.com.
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I'm confused: is the executive dismissing outsourced work as crap, or is he advocating outsourcing because the entire floor of NYC programmers' work is crap? Did they make the decision to outsource the work?
Everything from HOPL II is great. I don't know whether all of it ever got published online, but the book version is totally worth it.
In this photo Jobs demands the removal of all put one button on the iPhone.
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3/4 of all stocks had to be frozen to stop them from falling drastically. China has had to shoot the equivalent of 9% of its GDP into the stock market, manipulate the price of every megacap stock directly, and threaten to arrest people for negative sentiment. The billions they're throwing at propping the market up had to be utilized at a time when their economy is in deep trouble, they're drowning in debt, GDP growth is far less than claimed (1% electricity use expansion, weak exports, weak PMI, weak imports, weak commodity market, falling real estate market), and the central bank consumed $300 billion of its reserves in the first half of the year.

Meanwhile Shanghai is up nearly 100% in a year for absolutely no reason, with the original lift-off being caused solely by margin and mania.

The average PE for Shenzhen is nearly 50. ChiNext has been around 100. SME is around 60.

I disagree that it's just a correction. Their market has nowhere to go but down. Their economic growth isn't going to accelerate dramatically, such that it justifies a continued market run like they've had. China's central government is trying to prop up their stock market bubble to save face. In my opinion, the only possible outcome is that the market must fall. They can try to semi-nationalize the market, waste trillions of dollars, tightly control all trading and capital - and the market will have to fall anyway.
For anyone wanting a quick intro to fp in Python I stumbled into this awesome presentation (50 slides) about Functional Programming in Python. I especially like his short but clear examples: http://kachayev.github.io/talks/uapycon2012/#/ . Good intro before getting deeper into the linked book.
In Buffet's example foreign investment is caused by the trade deficit, not the other way around. The investments are made to protect the transfer of wealth that already took place. In other words, people in other countries are buying US assets with the money that we gave them. This isn't really comparable to selling equity in exchange for money that will be used to invest in future growth.
The development team has always been very friendly and welcoming. I suspect that they didn't have time for someone who was interested in "arguing" with them.

Since Kotlin can leverage JVM libraries, why not use Google Gauva? https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/wiki/UsingAndAvoid...
Well, perhaps after he realizes how other jobs are even more boring and tiring, he would suddenly find software engineering enjoyable again?
Let's assume the Great Filter is in front of us. Perhaps biological life eventually creates machine life and then either withers away while machines take over, or fizzles out along the machines it made. Let's also assume that all these other lifeforms, like us, realize that the galaxy is full of livable worlds. There's no FTL, and nobody wants to take over a planet where life has a chance of making it past the filter.

This would mean that the only contact would be machine probes who left their civilizations tens of thousands of years into the past. Such probes would be programmed not to initiate contact with worlds with life on them. Instead, collect some data and leave, moving on to other planets and systems.

If this is the case, heck, we might have been visited by millions of other intelligent civilizations. The only thing we'd have to show for it would be perhaps the appearance of truly mysterious lights in the sky every decade or so. If you want to stretch your imagination a bit, perhaps a Rendlesham Forest-type incident.

I seriously doubt biological life is very interesting to any other civilizations. I doubt they communicate in any way similar to the ways we communicate, and I feel that any direct contact would be so removed and non-reproducible to be useless.

There are a lot of hidden assumptions you have to make for Fermi's Paradox to truly be a paradox. (Same goes for my argument, of course.)
Is self-preservation egotistic? Probably. An asteroid similar to the dinosaur extinction event could hit us at anytime, with a few hours notice. You'd think the human race would learn from the dinosaurs?

Imagine another asteroid hits Earth, humanity becomes extinct, and a new sentient species evolves after 200 million years. This species will dig up human and dinosaur bones. Reminds me of: "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me."
Many times, when a bay area company IPOs, a number of people suddenly have a lot of now liquid wealth. (well depending on lock outs in 90 - 180 days) It is not uncommon for those people to want to get off the rent/mortgage treadmill and they will convert their stock into a house because stocks go up and down, but buying a house for cash means you always have a nice place to come home to. And that drives up prices as houses are already scarce.
Life is probably pretty common, Intelligence... well we may just be alone in our neck of the woods until we create more.