skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Short answer to your question is: it depends.

I did recently change my home office to treadmill desk. I'm from Finland, so I won't give any product recommendations. One thing I noticed it is very hard to find information about treadmills that you don't plan to use just for running, and might need to lose the handrails.

Long answer would depend on questions like how much space you have, how much do you weight, budget, planning to run also, do you have a desk already and how adjustable it is, and so on.

I think I only found one site on the net that talked about making your own treadmill desk. As the luck would have, he used the same cheap model I managed to track down (about $200). If you go cheap, it probably fits better and you can get rid of the handrails if need be. If it's more expensive, it probably is so sturdy that your standing desk needs larger adjustments to fit around and on top of it.

For me the Ergotron setup I have needs heavier setup to wall, but other than that, things work fine. When this cheaply made and assembled treadmill I got breaks I don't know if I give up on the concept, since I'd really like to use bigger and sturdier treadmill, but that takes so much more space.

Or you can get specifically for desk use made treadmill and even a desk to go with it. 2000 € was the web price here.
There should be a modern filesystem that's catered to nerd tastes and simply prohibits whitespace in file names.
I think the Nest smoke detectors are overengineered pieces of shit. The dumb whitebox kind you buy from Walmart are well understood, you know where you are. If any one goes off at random at night you push the silencer button, throw the thing out and replace it for very cheap. But they won't turn the whole house into Pandaemonium and tempt you to fetch the sledgehammer for an exorcism. It's another instance of Chesterton's Fence.
It's pretty straight forward - you most likely won't see them again, so you feel free to burn bridges.

You can burn some bridges where you live too, but then you'd have to deal with the consequences :)

ps. This is why alcohol is so popular - it all of a sudden 'doesn't count' because it wasn't me, I was drunk :) How convenient
Persi Diaconis, 2004: http://statweb.stanford.edu/~susan/papers/headswithJ.pdf and http://news.stanford.edu/pr/2004/diaconis-69.html
Your first link 404s

edit: huh it works now, odd
I'm curious how many owners of these sub-$50 phones actually go on to purchase stuff on the Play Store.
ZeroDB (http://www.zerodb.io/), an end-to-end encrypted database that lets you operate on encrypted data.

Pipe (https://pipe.com/), a secure browser-to-bowser file transfer service without a file size limit.

Excalibur (https://getexcalibur.com/en), seamless authentication to any legacy system such as PC/Mac/webpage to help mankind move away from passwords using a phone as a security token.

Cyber DriveWare (http://www.cyberdriveware.com/), a company that provides enterprises and critical infrastructures the ability to protect themselves against malware related business disruption attacks via patent-pending paradigm consisting of filter drivers and unique meta-data analysis.
I don't think that's the whole story. I read a really eye-opening book a while back that was essentially an insider's guide to surviving in prison, and one of the things that stuck with me was the idea that people behave themselves (for the most part) in that environment because there's always somewhere "further down" in the system they can send you as punishment. It's the same on the outside. In the US, at least, you have to be really, really poor before being in prison for the rest of your life is a better option. Most poor people have lives, friends, family, a daily routine, freedoms, possessions, etc., that they'd be putting at risk if they decided to start murdering random rich people. Especially at scale.
Do you have any evidence to support this or is it just your reckons?
That only helps when there is a cause to the false alarm, steam from a shower or cooking smoke typically.
1. I've used a standing desk for 2+ years and I love it.
2. I stand 100% of the time when I am at the desk. If I want to sit, I just disconnect from the monitor and take my laptop with me.
3. Just treadmill.
4. This is the one I have: http://workriteergo.com/sierra-hxl-crank/
when statistics done using very small fraction of population or even represents some tiny part of the world (say 200 kids from USA or 10000 kids from UK) then it doesn't work in other parts of the world, look at how many poor people live in India, China but their economy is growing, sometimes I offer very abstract or dummy comparison, some of them:

If poverty was the main reason for poor performance then China, India, Brazil should not grow in such pace

Look at this study [1],
This means that employees who are intrinsically motivated are three times more engaged than employees who are extrinsically motivated (such as by money).

You may say this is not related to topic, but I guess they are related, overall what I want to say is high-income doesnt mean better performance, its your mindset and how your parents grow you affects your performance, numbers are wrong when conducted only in very small subset of population, they are just thoughts for other subset of population which are very similar in lifestyle and mindset.

[1] - https://hbr.org/2013/04/does-money-really-affect-motiv
More importantly (in fact, only importantly - reality doesn't matter in this case; perception is everything), the ruling classes manage to continue to perpetuate the idea that if you just work hard you can join them. Over the last few decades (in the US and many other places), the wealth you are born into has become ever more correlated with your own success in life, but as long as the underclass believe they can get there, they'll keep playing inside the system. We don't need to actually provide a route out of poverty to keep them from rising up; just make people believe it's possible.
Did you read these papers? I only skimmed them, but it seems that the first of them basically concludes that there's not enough data, and the second one only contrasts non-identical twins (so their conclusion is that shared environment doesn't influence lifetime income), where a better option would be comparing twins that were separated and grew up in poor/rich families.

As I said, I only skimmed the studies, have I missed anything essential?
A full fat processor instead of a mobile, less ram,a real keyboard and mouse your also not making best use of the company's capital - for the relative performance mac books are over priced
> I wonder if there is a way to hack the cycle and reduce the institutional aspect of poverty.

Countries with lower poverty rates have traditionally done this with welfare, free healthcare and social programs all funded by high tax rates. It works, but it doesn't fit well with the American ethos of every man to himself, where "redistribution of wealth" is seen as an encroachment on liberty rather than its biggest facilitator (as it's seen in other countries).
Do people with existing coins get to spend them on both chains?
I prefer to remember "75% saltpeter, 12.5% charcoal, 12.5% sulfur" for those pesky traveled-back-to-Medieval-Times situations.
Open the Gates to Your Abundance with Gratitude
> This story hasn't been submitted before

Yes it fucking has.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10064782

This version uses a mobile link. The previous version includes a bunch of URLcruft.

In fact:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10064782

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10063756

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10063612

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10063555

It has had repeated submissions, and one previous submission has over 60 comments. It's probably being flagged as a dupe.

EDIT: Also, NYT has a paywall and some people auto-flag any NYT submission.
Bread and circuses. Basic income could work even better, by giving more certainty. There's probably a better version of circuses too - it was TV, now the mainstream internet, but at least there's more opportunity to use the net to move forward.
They might not be innocent from the poor person's point of view.
Even in the Dark: How Packaging Persuades You to Buy
Google Derangement Syndrome guarantees that all such articles reach the top of HN.
The studies cited in this article were observational, not mechanistic. What they found was that there was a correlation between being poor and having less grey matter development, not that being poor caused less grey matter development. They then speculated as to possible causes driving this correlation, but did not prove any of them in a controlled way. It would be incorrect based on the evidence they provided to say that there is definitive proof that environment is the determinant.
Honest question: When was the last time MS actually did something interesting in regards to OS features/architecture? I read genuinely neat little tidbits about new features in OS X, Linux, and the BSDs on a fairly regular basis, but I can't remember the last time I read about something like that in Windows. The impression that it leaves is that releases of Windows newer than, say, Vista or 7 bring little outside of general cleanup and tweaks to the user-facing parts.
Thanks for bringing this up. I want Amazon to take better care of employees precisely because I have money invested in them; because I believe in a knowledge economy, the greatest asset a company has is its people, and in the long-term this will matter. Amazon can be a lot more valuable, if employees can build long-term careers there and are better cared for.

I am rational. I want my money to work hard for my family. If I believe, I can provide a secure future for my family by investing in AMZN then I will do that. Through all the mutual/index funds, I am probably invested in a lot of companies whose practices I disagree with. Examples: Avoiding taxes (double irish with a dutch sandwich), super low minimum wages and expecting public to pay for their care (walmart and food stamps use of their employees), abysmal working conditions (foxconn deaths/suicides), shipping manufacturing jobs to China/Malaysia/Philippines and exploiting low-wage workers there, advertising and selling unhealthy/processed and getting kids hooked to high-{sugar,salt,bad fat} diet. We have practically proved that the best engine to create wealth is capitalism. The dichotomy you have provided is a false one. I love all the good properties of capitalism but I am also aware of its acute shortcomings, if there is no government or regulation. This doesn't mean that I will stop being a rational economic actor.

Things I mentioned are what I heard from current/ex Amazon employees. What I wrote about benefits are facts (else people would have refuted them right away). Only exaggeration was about Execs laughing their asses off; I was just making a point.
Well, if I had to choose between having my child die and letting a rich person keep their $5k bag, I might do the same.
Hey, https://mixmax.com/ has scheduling.

http://www.boomeranggmail.com/ has it as a main feature.

Also http://www.getsidekick.com/ will add it soon.

If in doubt, check: https://zen.market/?q=schedule%20emails
Just to counter his anecdote, I'll give mine. I have two hard wired Protects, since they were launched. They've gone into their low threshold alarm modes twice from cooking, and both times I've had my kids silence them. They know how to "go wave at the alarm" because they're around when I test it (monthly) and I tell them about it. I've never had any unusual behavior, I look out for the green "everything's okay" response every night when I turn off the lights, and I've been very happy with the Nest Protect.
Back when I worked at Best Buy in high school, I heard this basic story -- "A single unit of a particular product went bad, and therefore this product/brand is untrustworthy and bad, and I will never buy it again." -- from probably half the people who walked in.

Sony/Toshiba/Panasonic/Dell/HP/Compaq/Apple/Canon/NEC... seriously, every brand of anything, there was someone who was prepared to swear up and down that it was all junk, because one thing broke on them one time.

There's something interesting about that, to be sure, but I don't think it has much of anything to do with Nest.
I'm more curious why the poor, and the rich aren't calling for more consequences for the politicians. The rich, and the poor alike understand that one of the main reasons for a government is to protect those who can't protect themselves (from circumstance, even).

The money is there. The food is there. The shelter is there. It's all there, yet you see individuals suffering left, right and center and even dying. Meanwhile, we can't even get the politicians to provide basic housing, food, healthcare and jobs for society's bottom rung.

Perhaps, the reason you question the use of violence as a solution to this problem is because you feel that there is no other recourse. We've been doing the "democracy" thing for a while, yet we can't get the basics right. Hell, we can't even up and call for a country-wide referendum on basic hotly-debated topics. It's all a circus, and the poor are barely getting enough bread to get by.
I think this is a pretty basic and important point. Even though money "doesn't by happiness" it can buy escape, even for short periods of time. That escape is as powerful as any drug when your day-to-day life is significantly depressed, with no foreseeable exit.

So for some people, there's not much difference in $100 and $100,000 without education and impulse control.
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Just my reckons.
Thank you for confirming that I'm not alone in my curiosity as to why people feel the need to travel at every opportunity.

As a recent college graduate, I've watched a disproportionate number of my peers (willing to say ~75+%) default to traveling as their #1 form of recreation if given the opportunity. I guess I understand the college years are a time for people to "find themselves" but I also cannot find a good, common "why" for this fetishized trend of excessive travel.
5G hardware is still pretty bulky. It requires a motorised trolley. I'm sure that will be miniaturised though.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30224853
The Burgeoning Invisible App Market
I would be willing to change my mind if you had a good argument.

After checking around a little I'll give you the reference "Genes and behaviour" in "Principles of neural science" by Eric R. Kandel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principles_of_Neural_Science)

edited to be nicer.
Some people remain poor even with very high effective interest rates. Here is quote about poor fruit vendors in Chennai, India, who have an effective interest rate of 4.69% per day (from an excellent book about poverty called 'Poor Economics' [1])

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We have already seen, in the previous chapter, another example of people who had lucrative opportunities to save but did not use them: the fruit vendors from Chennai, who borrowed about 1,000 rupees ($45.75 USD PPP) each morning at the rate of 4.69 percent per day. Suppose that the vendors decided to drink two fewer cups of tea for three days. This would save them 5 rupees a day, which could be used to cut down on the amount they would have to borrow. After the first day with less tea, they would have to borrow 5 rupees less. This means that at the end of the second day, they would have to repay 5.23 rupees less (the 5 rupees they did not borrow, plus 23 paisas in interest), which, when added to the 5 rupees they saved that second day by again drinking less tea, would allow them to borrow 10.23 rupees less. By the same logic, by the fourth day, they would have 15.71 rupees that they could use for buying fruit instead of borrowing. Now, say they go back to drinking their two cups more tea but continue to plough the 15.71 rupees they had saved from three days of not drinking so much tea back into the business (that is, borrowing that much less). That accumulated amount continues to grow (just as the 10 rupees had turned into 10.71 after two days) and after exactly ninety days, they would be completely debt-free. They would save 40 rupees a day, which is the equivalent of about half a day's wages. All just for the price of six cups of tea!

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[1] http://www.amazon.in/Poor-Economics-Radical-Rethinking-Pover...
I see a picture of a cat, a bad drawing of an orange and a not-handsome guy. Only that.
Of course piracy better solves the distribution problem, distribution is easy. Copyright helps solve the problem of artist compensation. That problem's hard but ask any artist* who isn't living off a trust fund and they'll tell you how important it is. If you skip the hard part by definition you've made things easier on yourself.

If the community of music listeners took better care of musicians then they wouldn't run to the arms of the music industry. Unfortunately music listeners want and expect free or near-free.

> It's remarkable that progress can be achieved mostly through breaking regulation theses day

Not to be offensive but I think it's completely uninteresting. Human decency has always slowed progress. Which empire obeyed the laws of the lands it invaded? Think of how our medical knowledge would progress if we abandoned all ethics, or how efficient our criminal justice system could be if we abandoned due process, how much oil we could drill or ore we could mine if we abandoned environmental regulations.

We don't do these things because local actors pursuing locally optimal solutions don't always benefit the group. In fact it's possible for the opposite to happen like in The Tragedy of the Commons.

IOW I dislike regulations too but they solve problems we don't have better solutions for.

*who you know well enough to ask personal questions
My point is no technology is perfect; not even normal "dumb" smoke detectors.

There is far less to go wrong with those, however. Many are based on a single analog IC with no microcontrollers or firmware at all.
>I've also personally set up children and elderly people with Windows and on hardware that Fedora and other Unixes won't even run on like tablets, without a problem.

This isn't typical though. I've seen literally thousands of posts about how "every time I come over I have to fix my parents computer" and 99% of the time it's a windows machine.

>And you'll never see a problem like this on Windows

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/5b...

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/why-is-my-screen...

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en...

Pretty similar.
I built mine quite a few years ago:
https://goo.gl/photos/CrX2pSaAmgnLNM398
(The monitor arrangement is much better now :)

Precor 956i with the entire upper structure removed - control panel is not visible but on the left. I bought it from a gym going out of business.

Lift is a Conset 501-11 1B116. I don't remember who I bought it from. Google Conset 501-11 and you will find many Conset resellers.

I made the table top.

It's been going strong for 6+ years. I no longer work at home so I don't use it but my wife does her writing - about 10-15 hours week - on the treadmill.
Sometimes you need to go further today, due to the complex and capricious compilers.

Not so long ago, I had to write a piece of Java code that sniffed a text file and tried to guess its encoding. The submitted files could be over a gigabyte in size - speed was a concern. We decided to support three main cases: pure ASCII, UTF8, and final fall-back to Windows-1252 in case of invalid UTF8 sequences. The idea being that the most common non-UTF8 file we'd have to support came from Western European Windows machines, and customers could always convert to UTF8 in case of encoding problems.

Writing the Java loop for scanning over the bytes, testing for high bits and UTF8 sequences, was interesting. Manual loop unrolling was a win when the loop body was complex, but an even bigger win was making the loop body extremely simple and making it break out whenever a high bit was seen; in this case, Hotspot did the unrolling itself. The simpler the code, the more reliably the JVM could unroll and hoist array bounds checking out. The final code walked a tightrope between getting more work with fewer branches, and less work so that Hotspot could optimize. Try to do a tiny bit too much, and performance fell off a cliff.

Looking at the generated assembly was still worthwhile to get an estimate of how much performance the JVM was leaving on the table, and whether or not it was worth working harder to extract it.
I am interested in discovering the carrier with the most onerous forms in order to procure service from them.
http://news.gtp.gr/2015/07/28/greek-depositors-allowed-to-wi...

I don't see how a gold standard would change any of this. Should the banks have issues, they will legally prevent bank runs by making it impossible to withdraw money.

Whether or not a bank is tied to the gold standard, this will occur.

> When, not if. I think this may be better than how fiat money "works", but obviously opinions vary.

No sarcastic "quotes" needed. We both know that both Gold Standard and Fiat Money works. The question is if anyone has actually studied the 1800s economy and honestly can tell me that it was better than the 1970s+ economy.

Bank runs a plenty, private persons losing their entire savings as banks folded. Etc. etc...
Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1sJ0j7O...
OK, but then if you have one BTC now, you will have one of each kind of BTC later, so that scenario does not explain why "XT infuriates those who hope to make money based on the appreciation of their pre-fork bitcoins".
Some things are fine just being "dumb" products. Smoke alarms have worked (well, too!) for years long before Nest arrived, adding likely thousands of lines of code to a device that literally only has to beep when it detects smoke or CO.

I have a $20 hunk of plastic on my ceiling. It beeps when it detects smoke, stops when I press the button, and requires battery changes once or twice a year. It doesn't have a smart phone app, wake me up in the middle of the night unnecessarily , cost $100, or add a ridiculous amount of complexity.
This paper assumes that the coin is caught.
Is that bound to their servers or can I use any standard XMPP server?
Mostly by people who receive a benefit of said redistribution.

http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2011/apr/22/rache...
> No need for politics, in this case mathematically dictated incentive structures will decide who wins.

Whenever I see a statement like this I smile because that's what politics is[1]. If many people decide to do something based on their interests (rather than, say, being forced to leave their homes because of an erupting volcano) -- that's politics. Thing is, people who say they hate politics usually don't know what it is, and the result is that they just do politics badly. You can't not have politics in any social structure -- it is an inherent process in any kind of social interaction. Whenever one person tries to convince someone to do something, or to reach any sort of an agreement -- that's politics by definition. Whether the incentive are mathematical (though they never really are when it comes to humans) or not doesn't matter. Politics is the process by which a decision -- any decision -- is eventually taken by a group.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics
I felt like https://www.google.com/search?q=I%27m+sorry+dave all along.
This happened to me a week or so ago. Unlike the OP, I searched for "Nest Protect false alarm" and was sent directly to this helpful page: https://nest.com/support/article/Nest-Protect-sounds-false-s...

After blowing the visibly-accumulated dust out of the interior everything was back to normal.

I wonder if the OP uses similar debugging tactics on servers that send alerts? "Hmm. 'CRITICAL: disk full' alert? Guess I'll hit it with a hammer until I stop getting paged."