skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After my doctor prescribed a sit/stand desk, my work provided me a Varidesk accessory. I sit for one hour and stand for one hour according, following doctor's orders.

My focus is about the same from what I can tell, and I actually prefer to stand.

While standing I shift my weight and move my legs which, according to my doctor, is the point of sit/stand desks. They promote/accommodate physical activivty while working at a desk.

That said, my focus while in the office is very low overall because I work in an open office. So, whether sitting or standing, I have to deal with visual distractions and filter conversations with headphones and generated noise.

So like the OP, my body and health benefit enormously from sit/stand and if my concentration suffers, it is not to such a degree that it is noticeable due to other environmental factors.
I've personally become concerned recently with the abundance of BPA and it's effect on the endocrine system of men. Between disposable water bottles, aluminum can liners, and food stored in plastic containers, there's a huge amount of exposure to this endocrine disruptor. The article doesn't mention it in particular, but I think it's worth being cautious over.
Well said. Also think that the cost of replacement is usually not included in decision calculations at almost any point in time. Perhaps paying N above market may actually be the cheaper thing to do.
That's not how entropy works. Yes they've expanded the search space, but not how large the typical set is. The latter is still determined by the user's memory habits.
JVM is now becoming what Parrot was intended to be with Graal/Truffle.
You might also try trigger point therapy in the low back & hip area. For what it's worth, I had a painful lower back for ~1 year, and one day I massaged the psoas muscle trigger points, and my back pain _disappeared_. I've been an evangelist for trigger point therapy since.
Isn't the "uncomfortable" thing something he and others can learn to use to their benefit?

That's my takeaway. Can't wait to flex this new privilege, tell my manager meeting with users/stakeholders makes me uncomfortable.

Like, instead of being negative about it, he could have said "Hey everybody, check it out, all you have to do is say something's making you uncomfortable and everyone caters to you".
Very true, though there are some better Arduino variants. The Pro mini is the canonical "low power" Arduino as it uses a very efficient LDO regulator. I also use bare ATTiny's for a lot of uses, they don't require any passives and can run directly from a LiPo as long as you use a protected cell or connect a feedback line to the ADC.
My NetworkManager still takes multiple seconds to connect to wifi, and that's definitely the same pathetic DHCP behavior. wpa_supplicant is super fast. Modern Ubuntu (17.04) is still stuck in this ancient, lethargic world.
When I worked in an office that had them, I preferred to sit most of the time, standing to break the monotony. I don't think I noticed a difference in coding productivity between standing and sitting, though.
I used a Rapsberry Pi (and a lot of Dynamixel servos, LiPo, gyro, etc) to build a small hexapod robot. I was mostly interested in learning about legged locomotion, and got a bit carried away. Using a normal-ish Linux platform with GPIO and USB devices made it really easy (and fun) to hack everything together.

https://github.com/adammck/hexapod
It's just very limited in what you can do, I think specifically to increase safety for the drivers
I fail to see how that's a bad thing.

Quitting itself isn't bad, but shorter job tenures and reduced job security may have second-order effects.

For example, economic downturns will cause faster rises in unemployment, leading to faster drops in consumer spending.

And employers are going to see lower returns from investing in training - meaning colleges might need even more focus on applied skills.

Hell, it might even limit the complexity of projects our society is capable of delivering - we might be less able to successfully deliver projects that take longer than a year or two.
Old is relative. There is a good core dev community and recent development is promising. It's interesting you mention Lua because that is a language I picked up when looking to move from Tcl at some point in the last 8 years. I decided rather quickly against that.

The reason is the swig bindings for Tcl are sufficient to generate decent package cores for just about anything I care to extend and I can optimize later.
> Has anyone else here found freelancer a bad site for workers?

Yes, lots, of not all advise is to avoid that and similar platforms. Use the search at the bottom of the HN page and search for "freelancer.com"

- Freelancer.com is destroying my life

- Why you should think twice about Freelancer.com

- Freelancer.com: Crazy or Evil?

- Warn HN: Don't use www.freelancer.com platform

- Freelancer.com scammed me What should I do?
> Curious about other opinions?

I don't think sit-stand desk is such a good idea. Sitting and standing for long periods of time is not good for your health.

Here is the way I work, it's like a game...

+ Work in 30 minutes intervals where you only sit.

+ Have a timer (e.g. Google Calendar) that let's you know your time is up.

+ To get another 30 minutes of work, you have to workout for 2-3 minutes.

+ Have a set of 10-15 pounds dumbbells next to your desk and just workout for 3 minutes. My favorite workout is "goblet squat". You can learn the proper forms from YouTube.

Benefits:

+ You have more focus!

+ You won't waste time solving problems that does not matter because you have worked hard for that 30 minutes ;)

+ You'll become stronger! Your body starts to make muscles.

+ You will never get tired from sitting!

+ You'll be ... OPS... my time is up I have to workout...
Unless your organization, after wasting a year and tens of thousands of dollars on 5.0, has implemented a SOP to never use the x.0 of FreeBSD.

If FreeBSD were to accommodate this kind of SOP given their current resources, what could they do other than just call the first release x.1 instead of x.0?
Environmental pollutants? Endocrine disruptors? Internet porn?!

Most of us are probably eating healthier than 40 years ago (Heart disease is way down), so not sure it's diet. Unless of course its all the chemicals and contaminants that we're getting with our food...
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6211453#search_...

"July 14 - onward
An incremental improvement in Google's logging system now provides better accounting for results in lower positions. This change might cause increase in impressions, but also a decrease in average positions. This change only affects Search Console reporting, not your actual performance on Google Search. "
Guessing, a combination of many factors. Wearing clothes and underwear that restrict movement and overheat the testies, modern fitness levels, porn addictions (/ masturbation addiction), the factors you alluded to especially. When you combine all of these factors it's a wonder any of them have managed to survive at all.
Another use case for this is finding conferences to speak at. Nicely done!
Adding a standing desk helped me getting things done right after lunch. I'd usually turn into a vegetable sitting at my desk from 1 to 2pm. That's where I see the benefits of having a standing desk. It helps digesting food... I also use my chair to sit on my knee while my desk is still in standing position. This happens to be the most relaxing position for me after standing for a while. It's a good stretch. Then, back to sitting position.
I dislike the idea that a payment system might not include a "something you know" or a "something you are" in its verification.

And also that I'd probably get fired for cloning my boss's RFID.
It'd be interesting to take those with the highest levels today and look for any lifestyle differences.
C occupies a niche, and has the advantage of inertia, lots of people working to improve compilers, and more programmers familiar with it.
I also noticed they have some janky Javascript playing with the scrolling on the page, which also prevents me from using swipes to go back in my browser. Very annoying when sites mess with that. Give me my usual scrolling inertia!
>I want to be able to trust the government that I democratically elect and I want this government to be able to gather taxes and even control the currency to some extent.

Well here is your mistake. Why would you ever trust a government, or anyone for that matter? Sure, we hope that people are good, but 99% of people operate based on an incentive structure. The incentives in bitcoin for the miners and the participants are well defined.
Me too. I'm on 4.26.0.3 and no update showing in play store. I'm in the UK and hoping I will see it there in the next few hours as I love Waze.
Thanks, abecedarius and mikekchar, for the replies.
Got any links to research?
You talk like the project is over, there is still a lot to learn and we aren't going to figure out everything immediately. A simulation provides an amazing test bed for ideas though; now you can see it working, you can pause it, change things, do experiments, and so on.
Is HARC the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston_Advanced_Research_Cent... ?
London seems like a place that could easily attract amazing developers simply by raising salaries. The money is there...it is the fucking financial capital of the world (well maybe 2nd after NYC). If the executives at UK financial companies wouldn't artificially hold down salaries, there could probably be a lot more innovation and a much better marketplace for tech workers.
>You can advocate for it all you want but the idea that FreeBSD is going to ever become as relevant as something like Linux is extremely unrealistic.

Do you have any idea what you're talking about?

BSD literally invented the networking stack that was copied (poorly) by Linux, and most other Unix variants including Darwin (macOS). It is strictly superior for networked applications. Read here for more info (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8167126)
This was my first electronics project as well and I chose the Honeywell sensor because it has decent humidity accuracy (which is what I was mostly interested in) and a bonus temperature sensor built in. It uses the I2C protocol for communication which I found pleasant to work with although it would probably be simpler to just use am analog voltage sensor.

Here's the program I wrote to read the sensor over I2C: https://gist.github.com/tsyd/f48e933a21fb40b9f9eea28118f54e0...
One on ones are important to me, and have been among the most enjoyable interactions in my professional life. My favorite point on this was by Andy Grove, who suggested that there's a limit to the number of your direct reports because you owe each of them about half a day per week to properly manage and support them.
The parrot threads didn't communicate with each other and you could wait until all of them finished. They provided a tiny subset of the functionality real threads offer but in a more efficient way.
Perjury would apply to testimony given under oath, which happens at a trial. But most cases don't go to trial, of course. You could also get nailed on "filing a false police report", which is earlier in the process.

But for matters adjudicated by universities, it's possible that neither of these apply, since official police reports are not necessarily filed, and testimony is not given in a courtroom, under oath.

More generally, you could claim defamation. This is not a crime though — it is a civil matter. If the defamer has no assets, it would be an expensive way to make a point ("I didn't do it!") and could lead to the Streisand Effect.
Interestingly, we use Cisco's Meraki APs at work. The WiFi is pretty solid most of the time, but macs are the only machines that suffer occasional dropouts and then DHCP stops working till you cycle the n/w adapter. (though iphones never seem to have this issue).
I think any enterprise that fails in this way has way bigger issues, and I would expect to have already been compromised. Every single enterprise should already have the firewall rules on their edge routers that would prevent that set up even with IPv4 (remember, NAT is not intended as a security feature and only kind-of works like one. Any competent network engineer should not be relying on NAT to add any security).
Blessed be the fruit.
I can buy that argument, but I cannot buy IPv6. I mean that literally, my ISP doesn't offer it. Instead I am given two ipv4 addresses, but because of NAT I only need one - which is of course a total joke.

I would love a network where there are no bridges and every mote of dust (or VM) has an ip, but if I cannot buy the addresses, what good does it do me?
It can be hard to understand one's own culture because it may be all you have ever known. So in this case a black man is writing about his experience working in an company where he is the minority. His piece highlights some negative patterns he has seen in his white coworkers that may be common patterns in society. I think that his perspective is helpful.

The reason it may feel racist is when you imagine the opposite situation: a white man working at a majority black company and publicly deriding his coworkers' behavior. What is different between these two situations?

I think the biggest difference is that if the white business culture is going to change to address the issues he brings up he needs the help of white people to make that change. White people don't need the help of black people because they are a small minority in this industry and a minority overall in the US.
Every decent password manager and 2FA solution is available on mobile.
The sad thing is, even after a well-defended trial with a clear, almost "proven innocent" outcome, where the witnesses were shown to have deliberately distorted or outright fabricated the facts, and the prosecutor has a personal connection and interest to the charge; people still remember the accusers as victims and the accused as a perpetrator. There are still people who believe the Rolling Stone rape hoax, there are still people who believe beyond doubt that Jian Ghomeshi is a rapist. The people whose names were tarnished by these accusations may never escape the consequences of being accused. The accusers will surely never face any consequences, even when shown nigh on conclusively to have lied on the stand.

All the while, the public grows more jaded to all trials of these heinous crimes, which casts more public doubt on the allegations of genuine victims.
Worked at one in my previous job for the majority of the day, found it much more comfortable. Found it a bit harder to concentrate on process tasks, but found it better for creative ones where I bounced from foot to foot and spun on the spot. Much easier to not stare at the screen when stood up.
You say eating healthier, but obesity and diabetes are at all time highs in most of the western world, I don't think it's that cut and dry.
Cooking is a required merit badge for Eagle Scout, as is Family Life. (One of the requirements for Family Life is doing chores around the house, which is usually going to include laundry--arguably a more useful skill for teenagers going off to college soon than sewing is).
You need the entire Flash Player APIs implemented, graphics, audio, video , just translating the bytecode from the swf won't be enough, I think is similar to Java , it is useless if you can compile or run Java code if you do not have the entire base/core libraries converted and the ability to load any third party libraries.
There's another unofficial GitHub bug tracker here:

https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues
Thanks for this info, I've asked the guys to try and fix this! Apologies in advance!
Good advice. I think it's a great idea for sites to encourage adoption of password managers.
Waze uses a completely different pathing algorithm, and it's straight-up worse than Google.

The way Waze works is that it will do everything and anything it can to avoid a busy intersection or a congested street, without regard to whether or not going out of your way will take more time than just slogging through the intersection or the street. Waze will prefer a route that takes an hour but only takes streets that are empty over a route that takes half an hour but involves multiple busy intersections. Google optimizes its routes purely by time: whatever route will get you there the fastest is what it'll go with.

Waze also has a notorious tendency to encourage people to make left turns from the right lane and vice versa. It's illegal and dangerous. These instructions often take the format of "turn right on [six-lane arterial] and then immediately take the next left", even though it's physically impossible to get across the street in time.

Waze also cannot recognize the entrance to my townhouse complex as an entrance. It will always suggest cutting through a neighboring gated community to get to where I live. As a frequent Lyft rider, this means that I cannot ride with any driver who uses Waze if I'm going to or from my home.

I often have to call drivers who pick me up from my house and say "please confirm that you are not using Waze", and if they say they're using Waze, I will immediately cancel. If they're close enough though, I'll just monitor their route, and I'll immediately cancel if they take a route that only Waze will suggest (for example: the entrance to my complex and the neighboring gated community are on separate but perpendicular arterials; if they're driving on the arterial my entrance is on, but they drive past my entrance and then make a left turn on the other arterial, I'll know they're a Waze user, and I will cancel).

Sometimes, when I'm being picked up from work, I'll see a driver starting up Waze, and I'll say "please don't use Waze; it can't get to where I'm going". Sometimes, the driver will let me manually navigate them or on rare occasion even start up Google Maps, but I've also experienced a bunch of drivers who will throw angry temper tantrums because I asked them politely to not use Waze. One driver started screaming her head off at me while punching the steering wheel. I've had to get out of the car and call their trust & safety hotline a couple of times. I'm convinced that these drivers know that Waze will suggest routes that take more time than Google does, and that they are deliberately using Waze to run up the meter and make more money; as such, they get pissed off when a rider won't play along.
"Conventional financial institutions comply with anti-money laundering regulations that make it difficult for criminal organizations to use their payment infrastructure."

Yes, yes of course. Just like how HSBC physically expanded their teller windows to make it easy for Mexican drug cartels to make cash deposits.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/jul/17/hsbc-execut...
upvar and uplevel are also the only parts of the language that I do not use in production scripting. They have their place. It is not in end user space.
like i said, basic biology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z760XNy4VM

http://io9.gizmodo.com/how-rats-turned-their-private-paradis...
I actually don't doubt that people at Google had and continue to have good intentions.

I still find the concept of AMP cache very troublesome, even if it was built with good intentions.
Me and my partner run a small but globally oriented design consultancy.

One of the things we always try to do is to only work 3 days a week four clients. This we believe is a better use of time and money because we and our clients often need "time to think".

So far this has landed us some pretty interesting and large clients in some very interesting areas like robotics, AI, Shipping and for the VC industry and it has allowed us to focus more end developing the actual products and services rather than just producing.
I just purchased the new book by Ashok myself that covers Tcl (not Tk) 8.6. I have always thought Tcl a fun language and have decided to more of my daily stuff with it. I hang out on the developers list just to watch what is going on.
Why so late? Because changes of this scale need phasing in over a long period. You can't replace the billions of capital investment in vehicles, petrol stations, fuel storage facilities and distribution networks overnight. Our economy and basic life necessities like food distribution are critically dependent upon it. A replacement network needs creating, from charging stations to national grid upgrades and new power stations to power everything. The power stations alone will be a decade+ away.

Setting this big milestone will cause effects in vehicle ownership well in advance. Will your next car be all electric, or a hybrid? What about the one after that? Most people will go through at least two or three from now to 2040, and with vehicle manufacturers already committing to electric, the migration is already underway; just give it time.

That said, there's nothing preventing increasing the scope and value of pollution charges independently.
Back when I smoked cigarettes, it seemed like nicotine was the solution to any problem. Almost every puzzle was solved on a cig break.
Or is it, not wanting to start any kind of flame-war, just the fact that the BSD licenses used here means these commercial products are not obliged to give back making non-BSD licensed software (e.g. GPLv*) less likely to be used for these companies?

Or looking at it cynically, I am paying for Netflix development who then also charge me for the privilege.
Could you share more about your experience with elastic actuators? What did your hardware look like? I'm working on something similar, and would love your input.
No, it's this: http://harc.ycr.org
Very few folks complain when we see other submissions about impostor syndrome. Why complain when it happens to be a women who's highlighted? Why add "Teehee?"

The story is not unrelatable to anyone in the industry. Is the idea that a woman might also suffer from impostor syndrome in this climate so offensive?
That's what I do with vmware, the most recent vsphere 6.5 can only be controlled via a flash interface (the html5 ui is missing far, far too many features to be used...) so you can make a windows image that's very strongly firewalled (like, say, the only ipv4 dest address for tcp syn packets allowed is the vcenter server...) and that works well.

Because it would be hilarious to need to access the system to bring up the system but the image can't run because the system's not up, keep a copy of the image laying around ready for any desktop running vmware workstation. I also keep a vcenter laying around for desktop use which has occasionally come in handy.

In the free software world someone would provide a virtualization appliance ready to run, but there are too many copyrights and lawyers involved. There's probably an illegal torrent out there somewhere, I suppose if you really trust your firewall it couldn't be that bad.

vmware is the last "serious" "general purpose" thing I'm aware of that requires flash.
And the guy jumping the stage is Lennart Poettering, of Pulseaudio and Systemd "fame"...
Some do.

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/python/
Racism is more than just calling out race in a specific dynamic:

..."racism" is defined not only in terms of individual prejudice, but also in terms of a power structure which protects the interests of the dominant culture and actively discriminates against ethnic minorities.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism#Popular_usage
>unaccredited investors

unaccredited investors, oh my! When you brush your teeth do you make sure you have government authorization to do so? Also, I hope the toothbrush and the toothpaste were OKed by a government bureaucrat, because thinking for yourself is hard!
How to be evil (but please don't) – the modals and overlays edition
Azure Container Instances (Public Preview)
TIL about BPA.
http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-he...