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No, the libertarian obsession with the gold standard and other poor economic policies preclude the Economist from being lumped in with them.

Where is this data coming from? I'm assuming you have law school admissions data from somewhere?

For creatine, while it is true that the supplement serves to help you push out an extra rep or two, I've literally never heard of anyone getting "overuse injuries" due to starting creatine. It's just a scare tactic on one of the best-studied supplements out there. Read up on it here: http://examine.com/supplements/Creatine/

For breathing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valsalva_maneuver

[If it matters, I'm a not very competitive powerlifter who has been lifting for nearly two years]

Sure. Here's the classic example: http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/...

Seconding WorkFlowy. I started using it a couple months ago and haven't turned back since. I showed it to my (not very technologically savvy) wife, and she loves it too. It's great for sharing the mobile interface is nice, and I like how simple it is.

(sorry if this sounds like an advertisement but it's great to actually have a to-do list manager that I actually like)

>All you need to do is go to sleep around the time that the sun goes down. It's just that "easy".

What about in December when the sun sets around 16:30? Surely people aren't getting in bed then?

They are displayed in two cases:

1) When you turn your Kindle off, there will be a full-screen ad.

2) When browsing books at the main menu, a small horizontal bar across the bottom of the screen will display an ad. You only come to this screen by choice, though -- if you were in the middle of a book when turning off your Kindle, when you turn it back on it will go straight to where you were in the book without showing this menu.

Since they never interfere with reading, they are extremely non-intrusive. I think they are personalized but not positive.

>I've built an extremely useful service but only 1 in 100 was willing to pay, which is ridiculous to say.

To play devil's advocate, if only 1 in 100 people are willing to pay for your service, how useful can it really be? I'd think those 100 people are more qualified to judge how useful it is for them than the person who built the service.

>One feature I have wanted that would solve a frustration I have with Strava is the ability to quickly "prune" a ride [...] The app could even autodetect part you may want to prune by recognizing when your GPS coordinates remain relatively static for extended periods or time.

Strava does do this. If you look at a ride, note the difference between Elapsed Time and Time. Elapsed Time is the time you spent moving.

>Still, the average restaurant worker, at least around here, is very young, and by definition, unless you're going to an upscale restaurant, likely not getting much money.

Since when is the definition of a restaurant worker someone who does not make much money? Especially those not working fast food?

This happens quite frequently on reddit as well. I'd imagine it's due to the fact that the set of people who vote on a story are different than the set who vote on comments. For example, people could find a title appealing and upvote without actually reading the article or any of the comments. At the same time, the people who take the time to read the article (and corresponding comments) vote up the comments criticising the article. Since it takes relatively more time to read and understand an article, the knee-jerk reaction voters cause the story to be highly rated even though the top comment is critical.

>statistically Uncle Bob is many times more dangerous than a random stranger.

Well, that's because Uncle Bob is around your kids much more often. I'm not sure if that would be true after adjusting for exposure rate.

Wow, I did not expect that. This post led to a massive dose of nostalgia (Stanford alum who's been banished to the east coast).

Minor suggestion -- it would be cool to have an option to overlay building names. This is really neat -- thanks for sharing.

It looks like maybe the submission is just poorly titled? If you click through to the article, it has the following title:

>No More Calls From Strangers: Amicus Uses Facebook To Recruit Political Volunteers

And then, as you note, the article is about political campaigns. I'm not sure why the submitter felt the need to submit an article and then change the headline.

EDIT -- OP/founder clarified below.

Also up for me, also DC area.

Add me to the countless number of people who found their place on padmapper (just moved in last week!) and are thankful for its existence. It's a great service.

>And do you know what happens when you leave such natural milk on the table for a few days? It goes sour and turns to yogurt ... has a great taste and is really healthy

First, your post was very interesting -- thanks for taking the time to respond. However, I make yogurt from nonfat milk every week, so I'm not entirely sure how much to believe.

Boeing moved from Seattle to Chicago in 2001 [0]. A major company moving headquarters is not unheard of.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/22/us/boeing-jolting-seattle-...

>instead of sweetened junk or diet bars or low-fat milk

Likening milk to the other two seems odd. What's wrong with milk?

>And yes, the cardio days should probably be squash, heavy bag or football rather than the treadmill.

I'd rephrase this and say cardio days should be something you enjoy doing. Some people enjoy running on a treadmill. I don't understand how that's possible, but if you like running on the treadmill, more power to you.

On the other hand, if you hate running on the treadmill, don't force yourself to do it! Exercise is a lifelong commitment and doing something you dislike isn't sustainable. Find something fun and do it regularly.

I switched over to NewsBlur from Google Reader in December (after there was a post about it on HN) and haven't looked back. I even emailed the creator once with an issue I was having and received a prompt and helpful response. Try that with Google Reader!

Also in some areas housing is much more expensive in areas with good public school districts.

Seconding Google's Python class. It does an amazing job of covering the most common use cases in a very short class. I'm still relatively new to programming and whenever I'm writing code I invariably find myself referring back to the lessons from the class.

Note that the class is taught in 2.x so if you're running 3.x then the example code won't run. IIRC, updating the print statements for the new version was the only change required to make them work.

Sorry to be a downer, but I'm sure what the point of this post is. The gap between kids from high and low SES families has been exhaustively documented (try going to Google scholar and searching, for example, "income achievement").

The only interesting bit, perhaps, would have been seeing the R code which generated the figures, which the author declined to post.

Are you seriously suggesting that the topic of sexism hasn't been discussed ad nauseum on HN?

Zero.

Phone -- I don't have a smart phone

Desktop -- I prefer to build my own computers since it's far cheaper. The fact that I run linux is even less incentive to buy Apple.

Laptop -- I have a Lenovo Thinkpad that I love and was quite inexpensive.

Tablet -- I have a Kindle Fire that I primarily use when travelling. It's no iPad but cost a fraction of the price.

I just don't see the appeal, but then again, I'm not the target audience (grad student with limited disposable income and no desire to use Apple's OS).

> If pirating music was impossible many people would return to paying for music

I think you've missed the parent's point. We have left the world where pirating is impossible. The question is how to deal with it. Thinking in unrealistic hypotheticals does little to inform the debate.

> Look at the careers of Sarah Palin, Pat Buchanan, Howard Dean, John Stewart, Rush Limbaugh, Rob Reich, et cetera et cetera ad absurdum. Once a politician [...]

Who is John Stewart? If you're referring to the comedian Jon Stewart, when was he ever a politician? I don't think it's fair to lump him in with people like Palin, Dean, etc. Stewart has never held public office and made a career of poking fun at politicians and the media who cover them.

>“It’s completely out of control,” Mr. Robertson said. “Prisons are being overcrowded with juvenile offenders having to do with drugs. And the penalties, the maximums, some of them could get 10 years for possession of a joint of marijuana. It makes no sense at all.”

I never thought I'd agree with anything Pat Robertson said, but this is an extremely sensible position. California's (and the US in general) prison population and associated expenditure has exploded, while we cut spending in places like education.

Look at this picture: [0]. Has this huge runup in the prison population made us any safer?

I realize I'm probably preaching to the choir -- that HN tends to be younger and liberal on social issues -- but the needless imprisonment of thousands has ruined many lives.

>He attributed much of the problem of overpopulated jails to a “liberal mindset to have an all-encompassing government.”

Didn't the War on Drugs start under Reagan? The huge runup in the prison population began in the 1980s. Whatever. As long as more people support changing our current prison system, they can give whatever reasons they want.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_incarceration_timeline-...

Do the new icons seem enormous to anyone else? It feels like a massive amount of space. I got the same feeling with the gmail redesign until discovering "compact" layout.

Can anyone figure out a way to make the list use space better?