The most polite spin I can put on the cheering of these sorts of techniques, is that too many Hacker News members lack sufficient historical awareness to realize that these tactics are reminiscent of the public humiliation and crowd intimidation techniques employed by Italy's blackshirts in the 30s.
There are reasons why we have rule of law and courts. There are reasons why it is not acceptable for one group to retaliate against another group, no matter how strongly they may feel they are in the right.
Deadlifts are great. However, they are not nearly as effective as squats for leg work due to the lack hip depth used in the starting position of the deadlift.
Weight lifters who don't squat (and there are many of them) end up looking like ridiculous middle aged men who have massive torsos and spindly legs. Beyond appearance, one will also have very poor power generation.
On the off chance some people might takes billswift seriously and injure themselves, let me state that 'gradually increasing the weight' does not induce good form. Moreover, much of the benefits of deadlifts and squats will not be had either unless performed correctly.
Get 'Starting Strength' by Rippetoe and buy a few sessions with a (good) personal trainer who knows power lifting. Best money you'll ever spend.
As you and others have mentioned, deadlifts, squats, presses, and bench press are the most effective and time efficient. Don't waste time on bicep curls and other isolation exercises.
Good form is vital though, so get 'Starting Strength' by Mark Rippetoe. There are plenty of exercise books available, but this is the only one I know of which will spend 50 pages explaining the proper form for the squat. There's even a companion video for the book.
If you're targeting professional engineers, I'd worry that A. They could figure out the answer to these questions on their own, or if not, B. one of the large distribution companies would only be too happy to send out a sales engineer to assist with the decision making process.
Are you targeting the hobbyist market? I'm not sure how much money they might have.
I don't see a good reason why you'd want to make this into a web based application. I think you are making the right choice. I'd never upload my medical records to a third party website. Don't pull a Zuckerberg.
When I clicked on the "Go' button to compare to the Human Reference Genome, nothing happened.
I think the software might be more valuable if the user could get a quick overview of their personal risk factors for diseases. I didn't see a quick way to get that.
I'd make the software fun too - genes for eye color and so forth would be fun to compare with family members.
The ancestry report with the map overlay would be great if you could get it to work.
The analysis is silly. By either by car or public transport, it can easily take 45 minutes to travel from Cambridge, MA to Jamaica Plain, MA, even though they are only one mile apart. This is even more pronounced in NYC. In the urban sprawl that is the Midwest, 15 miles can easily be traversed in 45 minutes.
The analysis would have more bite if it were redone with an eye towards mapping 'temporal' density, rather than spatial density. This would better reflect the ease of meeting in person.
The author should look into Microsoft OneNote. It's a great tool for laying out and reorganizing documents. Tags, pictures, screen captures, internal and external hyperlinks can easily be incorporated as well. Once the basic structure of the document is finished, it can easily be copied and pasted into Word. If you have a tablet PC, you can even scribble on the document using pen input.
There are reasons why we have rule of law and courts. There are reasons why it is not acceptable for one group to retaliate against another group, no matter how strongly they may feel they are in the right.