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A Couple of things....

1) The Daily Caller isn't exactly a noted truth teller itself
2) The author of that particular piece, Charles Johnson, is well known for being utterly without scruples whatsoever. He's also one of the purveyors of the extremely offensive "cuckservative" meme that popped up recently (hint: its white supremacist)
which leads to #3...
3) Gavin Mcinnes, one of the founders, left Vice under not particularly friendly circumstances and has since come out as a white nationalist and he and Chuck Johnson are pretty tight online. Just some food for thought here.

Also, to back up the parent, yes, Vice does run a great deal of clickbait, but they also run things noone else will. I've read younger authors who I discovered on more mainstream sites that have had pieces published at Vice.
I have the motorized version of this desk and agree that it's not built for tall people. I'm about 5'11" and have to use it at its maximum height to be comfortable.

Otherwise love it.
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You ever pace around the room while thinking about a problem? That's not the same as just standing in place, but put a treadmill under one of these and you've got a great way to get your mind working. There's something about moving your body that unblocks the brain.
Well, let's put it this way, we don't need to record what they say inside their police car while waiting the day to pass by.

But any chasing on the street, interaction with a suspect, raid, etc, should be recorded.
"bullies, criminals and injustice" are the police. this whole rather depressing discussion is dedicated to the consequences of standing up to police. again, your choice is simple - bend or be shot.
Patrick Winston (MIT) on Marvin Minsky
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Why the downvotes?! Okay, I use some strong language, because while Bitbucket is introducing Projects [0], GitHub is working on bells and whistles! In the time of Medium.com, we know there are better ways to allow formatting controls!

I understand GitHub is in desperation to go beyond programmers, but this is a ridiculous expansion goal!

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10950730
Nobody ever got fired hiring a college graduate.
Up for Debate: Should We Eradicate All Mosquitoes from the World?
Thank you! I was wondering whether this was eligible for "Show HN".
I once flew from Boston to Shannon in 5 hours, with a strong tailwind. I didn't even have time to get any shuteye on the redeye.
Swift or Objective-C from project standpoint?
On re-reading, I see your point. My apologies.
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How low can the desk go?
That's been really big for Oculus games from what I can tell. It has the added benefit of being faster to render, allowing for a GTX970 (the minimum spec card for oculus) to be able to drive games at the required speed. Lucky's Tale[1] is a good example of this.

[1] http://playfulcorp.com/
the point is the money is available and will follow the political will driveable by voting
The semantics of JS classes are still different in enough subtle ways: constructors and constructor subclassing, (lack of) object properties, hoisting, etc. That is on top of the new keywords, new function syntax, etc. All that needs to be mapped onto the model of "classical" Javascript in order to completely understand the language. There are enough gotchas there to disqualify JS classes from being simply sugar.
Which means you didn't really read the source code, this is not a collection of other available libraries. Boost ASIO is C++, this is a C library, they only share the name as they're both implementing async IO. Code in the libc/libm folder isn't a rip of from somewhere else.
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I bought one of these desks as well. I also use it at just about 41 inches when standing.

I think the desk sways a bit more than the article says. That said, I would imagine using a sturdier monitor stand (or an arm clamped to the desk) would counteract that enough to make it more comfortable.

For less than ~$250, I couldn't find a comparable sit/stand desk.
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With isn't about setting up an event or planning something in the future, it's about creating a live group of your event while it's happening. Anyone there can tap in, post photos, invite their friends, or just put their phones back in their pockets and be social. If the group gets enough 'hype' it will be right at the top of the 'explore page,' essentially making it world famous. After a certain amount of time, the group will disappear. After the event, you can go back to your profile and see that group, who was there, and what went on. Thanks for the question!
(SPOILERS, obviously. Mostly surface-level.)

I absolutely love the game, but for the sake of discussion, I have to admit that I'm slightly disappointed by the puzzle-paneliness of it all. I didn't read many spoilers over the 8 years of its development, but Jonathan Blow always made a point to emphasize the epiphany-based nature of the game. I took this to mean that as you gain knowledge from the panels, you slowly begin to understand how to use them to engage in more interesting ways with the world. Instead, the opposite is true: the world simply provides different kinds of masks to solve the puzzles with. In other words, the panels are still the beating heart of the game, while the world is mostly static.

To me, this goes against what I like most in games. I find that one of the primary advantages of this interactive medium is the ability to solve puzzles by intuition. Braid was particularly good at this: instead of having to stand in front of a challenge and reason it out in your mind, you could dive right in and play around with the mechanics until your mind took on the solution all on its own. Over time, you acquired a feeling of natural mastery over these new elements. The Witness does not feel like this; more often than not, you have to logic out the puzzles in your head or on paper, and it never feels as good as using the game world to interactively solve a problem.

(Yes, I'm aware of the obelisk puzzles, but it seems they still follow more or less the same formula. But I haven't gotten very far in that direction, so we'll see.)

The game also makes me think about the problem of hidden knowledge in open-world games. Most metroidvania-style games gate the player with keys or abilities, but a few are starting to add paths that are closed solely based on the player's knowledge. One of the first games I remember doing this is Super Metroid: the wall jump and high jump allowed you to get to a lot more places, but they were nearly impossible to discover without the bird helpers. Fez did this with its Tetris language. La-Mulana did it with its obscure inscriptions. And The Witness does it with the ruleset of its various puzzles -- more completely than any other game before it. Still, I wonder if there's a better way to stash away that kind of knowledge. The puzzle panels are a bit too abstract for my tastes. I'd love to see a game where the hidden knowledge you find is entirely ability-based, but not obscure like in Super Metroid.

Again, The Witness is a masterpiece and one of the few games I'd gladly call art. It would be worth $40 just for the opportunity walk around the incredibly beautiful world. Just some food for game design thought! :)
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If I may offer the downside... :)

There exists a type of programmer who will write essentially the same lines of code over and over and over again. If you're this type of programmer, having to type long function names is extremely painful.

There exists another type of programmer who refuses to retype the same thing over and over, so instead uses some technique for reusing that code. If you're this type of programmer then long, descriptive names are preferable.
Unfortunately we might have hugged the site to death. Am now seeing:

> Uncaught Exception: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2003] Can't connect to MySQL server on '127.0.0.1' (111)
If you get a drafting stool you can sit at your standing height desk for whatever you need to do while sitting but it's still much more natural to transition between sitting and standing/pacing which can encourage not sitting all day/hashing things out on a white board/grabbing a book off the shelf (plus you can remain seated and still be mostly eye level with people that drop by for a chat).
Uncaught Exception for me. Here's a mirror: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:w-GWDIB...
So you're saying now that they've banded together as a union, they have bargaining power collectively whereas without it they would have none?
I didn't think a review for a piece of IKEA furniture would ever make it to the top of HN :)
I don't think CountSessine was asking for parenting advice.
Light physical activity does facilitate good thinking for some reason.
It's been up 13 minutes and the DB is already toasted
How is Rust crippled by affine types? From my perspective it simultaneously eliminates bugs and enables new techniques.
Love the music. Can't wait for the soundtrack to be released.
Yes, I agree. I also buy the memory, SSD, and other stuff myself. They try to make money off the people that don't want to bother with it.
Did STMicro got an advance notice of this proposal?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-27/stmicro-to...
- If you believe that is not some kind of technical report, then the jargon doesn't belong there.

- But how would you call it? Memo? If yes, isn't it a memo about an technical problem? Or an another way to ask: How to describe a technical problem without using tech jargon?
Been trying this out the last few days and love it. No ads too! Good work guys, and congrats on your PH launch.
I find it hard to really concentrate on a problem when just sitting in a chair. I'll often get up and walk around the room or pace up and down the corridor. Standing at my desk alleviates some of that need for me, while still letting me be in front of a computer. That being said I rarely stand for a full day, preferring to alternate between standing and sitting during the day.
Before you can script it (and test that script), you have to know what instructions to use in the first place.
That is why adjustable is key. Reading some emails or in a meeting? Good time to stand. Need to deep dive in some crazy code - sit.
I find it a lot easier, these days, than sitting. I can move around, I can pace a little. One of my clients only has sit-down desks and, in addition to being really stiff in the knees afterwards, I always feel cramped and a little restricted. I notice it, and it distracts me from what I'm working on.

My standing desk is also just high enough to fit my exercise bike under it (if I take off the handlebars), and that is really nice.
> Everyone loves to cite the study that "above $75,000/year money doesn't make you happier" - without realizing that it's simply saying that there are diminishing returns above that point (standard economic marginal utility concept), not that overall happiness goes down.

No, the studies I've seen (though it was at around $200K, not $75K, in, IIRC, early-2000s) that there was no marginal utility above the stated point. That declining marginal utility means only that each additional unit of income brings less additional satisfaction than the last, but there was a point in the study at which there was no additional satisfaction from additional income.
I posted this because this particular source has factors that mark it as unusually high risk.
26 inches (+1 inch for the thickness of the desk surface).
I did quite a bit of Common Lisp coding back in the day and I never grew to like the syntax. I felt it was the price I had to pay for macros, but otherwise found it awkward.
They also sell gasoline.
In case anyone's in the market: While $100-200 more (depending on retailer), I've been using the Victor High Rise Collection Dual Monitor Sit-Stand Desk Converter for the past 8 months and am very pleased.
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Ehh, give it some more time. I don't think it's perfect by any means, but it does some clever environmental things.

The game's idea of iterative puzzle design would have been close ti impossible to build without the grid-line conceit.
Yes. First time I flew from London to New York -- when planes still had propellers -- we stopped twice, in Shannon and then Gander.
I prefer opinionated, integrated frameworks. I can count on the whole stack being well tested and don't have to worry about subtle bugs and versioning issues between components.

The JS community has gone way overboard on factoring everything into a dozen little submodules, IMO.
Some of it might have to do with familiarity. Working in * nix, you tend to combine tools to do stuff, whereas with Windows or OSX everything is normally only a few clicks away. I think it's probably a bit of a barrier for using * nix coming from something else. I'm personally used to it though, and it's a lot more productive for me than Windows. That's not to say there are a lot of tools that unfortunately just don't exist yet.
Agreed - I've found myself standing more and more over the last couple years, though. I think I'm up to six hours or so out of an eight-hour day, either in socks on an anti-fatigue mat or wearing my basketball shoes. I feel so much better, and I find I can "lock in" on a problem more effectively.
I'm also too tall for it. It also seemed to be more wobbly at the fully extended height.

OTOH it might work for you if you use it with a high stool (like a drafting stool). I had a co-worker that would go back and forth from a regular chair to the high stool and they said it helped their back. YMMV.
Yeah, excellent.

You may want to read some code before making derogatory comments based on basic name collisions. asio doesn't imply boost, nor is there a single libm out there.
Yeah, but investors don't often read papers...let alone have the expertise to know if they're any good. It's pretty common for investors to commit money based on good spin and social proof. Theranos has excelled at both.
Those are agency fees, not union dues. Quoting from the link you gave, "This fee costs the same as union dues, minus the cost of the union’s direct political giving".

Edit: Downvotes for making a minor vocabulary correction? Imagine what would happen if I had pointed out that tomato is botanically a fruit, even if it is the state vegetable of New Jersey. (And yes, this topic made it to the Supreme Court in Nix v. Hedden.)
Maybe a footnote or inline citations would be a good compromise?
I think there is a case to be made for the negotiations to be kept private, but the final agreement to always be public.
Voodoo, sorcery, just a selection of words that come to mind.
> (with some minor reservations)

That is why you were downvoted. Blow's fans are children.
Heck, I think the title of this one speaks for itself:

http://www.vox.com/2014/6/29/5850100/chicago-brought-its-mur...

But why stop at the title?

> they find evidence that while Chicago reported 414 murders in 2013 they really had at least 432 through what, if you read the article (and you should) looks like pretty deliberate malfeasance.

> For example, Patrick Walker was found injured and unresponsive in a crashed automobile, taken to a hospital where he died, then during an autopsy they found a gunshot wound in his head and a bullet casing in the back seat of the car. Owing to the fact that he was clearly shot and killed, this was filed on his death certificate as a murder. But the Chicago Police Department has classified the case as a death investigation, making it disappear from their stats.
Sorry about that - brand new DigitalOcean instance and Anchor CMS installation. I guess I have some optimizing to do. Won't even accept new SSH connections.
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"HotDrink"? Why not call it ristretto?
You can add object properties to a ES6 class's prototype, no?

EDIT: Just tested in Firefox and indeed you can.
"I agree. Collective bargaining for public workers is overall absurd, IMHO."

What's absurd is that there is some special category of speech called "collective bargaining" and that we treat labor/union/striking speech as somehow different than other speech.

I have no idea what collective bargaining is - it just looks like speech to me. I have no idea what a strike is - it just looks like free assembly to me.

Why should these be protected or restricted ?
I had not realized that Clojure is well regarded in data science. Could you point to some libraries you find especially strong?
> ├── GrandLodge_DB_backup.tar

Don't the Freemasons call their clubhouse a Grand Lodge?
I guess I don't see the connection between standing, sitting, and concentration?

I definitely think typing and using a mouse while standing takes some getting used to (in particular if you rest your arm on an armrest while seated); but concentration itself, to me at least, is not correlated.

I will say I think simply standing as a health benefit exists but is overblown. If you really want health benefits you have to move, so now we're talking about: treadmill desks or exercises.
Working standing up has similar effects as 'pacing around', when needing to think about something intently, gripped by thought enough that you're compelled to move around a little... I can't imagine being deep in thought and just sitting still.

That said, I don't use a standing desk, I just occasionally stand up and work from a counter when I feel compelled.
I haven't taken much time to read the source, but it might be a good idea to break some pieces off into their own repos, perhaps with a required 'tbox_core' type lib.

Otherwise it's...eminently useful, and boring in a good way.
Conclusion:

"Overall, the SKARSTA meets expectations. I would recommend it if you want an adjustable-height desk and only want to spend $230. I would not recommend it if you're very tall and want to use this desk near its maximum 47-inch height, or if you need an absolutely rock-solid desk that doesn't sway at all. If your desired surface height is around 41 inches (or lower), you'll probably be happy.
Eventually I'll post a long-term review, but if you are reading this, I've had no issues using this desk daily since January 2016."
Thought so too, but then I took a look at the code.
Daley in particular was quite a piece of work - particularly in closing out his time in office with the parking meter giveaway. I can't help but wonder what kind of kickback evidence to he and his family we'd find if anyone were actually to do a real investigation of it.

The real kicker is that if the city removes parking spaces temporarily or permanently, it must compensate the private vendor for the lost revenue. That makes sense, but when you throw in that it's a 75-year deal it starts to get a little murkier - want a bike lane? Better budget for the next 70 years of paying the vendor for the parking revenue for any removed spaces (and how is that calculated? Does it get recalculated every year? Is it based on nearby comparable areas or on fixed utilization percentages that don't account for changes in driving patterns and neighborhoods over time?)

I strongly suspect that given changes in how people drive, etc. that by the end of the 75-year agreement Chicago will have ended up paying more in penalties to the vendor than they got in the first place, even indexed for inflation.
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Not every person with schizophrenia has used drugs.
I enjoyed the read, entertaining and to the point, thanks.

Personally I'm in favour of long and descriptive names. I'm not afraid of typing. But since I'm writing in C (mostly embedded stuff), I'm not in the mainstream of the C community with my preferences. Sigh.
Have the table, now for 4 months and for me it was a piece of cake to assemble it - also compared to other IKEA furniture.

I like this table. Use it 95 % in standing mode, one reason is that it is not as easy to put it down as the electric version - so the laziness makes me to use it most of the time in standing mode :-)
I've used an Alvin minimaster drafting table ($129) for the past 4 years: http://www.amazon.com/Alvin-MiniMaster-Adjustable-Drafting-T...
I like it so much that I bought a second one for more desk space.

Along with a drafting chair ($150): http://www.amazon.com/LexMod-Office-Drafting-Chair-Leatheret...
> They won't leave you alone. They'll rob you or break into your car.

No "they" won't. Sorry your friend's car got broken into but that happens everywhere, not just the inner city.

> 85% people have healthcare coverage.

Pretty sure it's not the middle class that's not insured. Also rent prices absolutely are a poor problem. That's what gentrification is all about.
Yes, but PS4 only.
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The key to good education is motivated students, motivated teachers and motivated parents, in pretty much that order.

Of course some teaching methodologies are better than other ones, but all the success stories I read, stripped from the fluff are based on enthusiastic and energetic teaches and supportive parents.

For the students we just need to not kill their natural learning predisposition. The parents, well, it depends on their culture etc, little to do here as well.

So for things we can change were left with the teachers. If they are respected, have a good salary, had a good education, have opportunities for growth, are not strangled by bureaucracy and come from the best of the students, then we'll have good teachers. If they are poorly paid, not recognized, fighting with paperwork and red tape, fighting with entitled parents and coming from the less smart student pool, well, looks a bit like US public system.
Note that "urban area" in the U.S. encompasses not just big cities, but all the surrounding suburbs, unincorporated counties, and small towns. E.g. all but the most rural parts of Virginia are an "urban area": http://www.virginiaplaces.org/regions/graphics/urban2004.png. And even in pretty urban areas, municipal government is pretty thin. E.g. in Baltimore County (suburbs just north of Baltimore), the police chief is nominated by the County Executive (a directly elected position), and approved by the County Council (a directly elected legislative body with seven people).
Yes, being able to upgrade is great. But I do get annoyed at how much they charge. For example getting an additional 16GB of memory for the T450s is $309 at Lenovo (on big sale from the usual $430), while the same from Crucial is $180. A 512GB SATA SSD for that model is $430 (on sale from $580) while a comparable model from Crucial is $180, or a Samsung 850 Pro for $220 on Amazon.

As a consequence I have a collection of unused 500GB laptop hard drives since you have to order with some storage and that is the cheapest Lenovo do. I immediately replace them, but this is wasteful and silly. If their prices were far closer to normal then I'd just get Lenovo to do it, and they'd make more money. Instead they see me getting the lowest specs, instead of what I actually use.
Thanks for this! I hate the FOP with a passion - it's a RICO as far as I'm concerned and I look forward to the day when its leaders are rotting in jail cells.
Nope, that's not what I'm referring to. This is in the public domain:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/10/delta-fo...

I called them "CAG" in 2008. I'm willing to guess they're not even "ACE" anymore.
That is incorrect: off-target activity is virtually non-existent in CRISPR-CAS9 mediated transformation. Targeting oligonucleotides can be deliberately designed to be less specific, thereby targeting a family of sequences, which is very desirable for e.g. knocking down a gene family. However, specificity is trivial to achieve when desired.
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