skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This chair discussion and zed shaw's recent RSI discussion led me to looking at buying a new chair since my current one is giving me problems. I've settled on the Mirra, since I prefer it to an Aeron and I've found some reasonable deals for various colors of lightly used Mirra chairs on sites like ebay, craigslist, etc.

I'm sure a lot of others here looking to buy a chair are thinking of going the same route I am. Be aware that there is one major caveat emptor to buying a secondhand chair: Herman Miller's 12 year warranty only applies to the original purchaser that obtained the product from HM or an authorized reseller. Humanscale, Steelcase, Knoll, HON, and pretty much every other major task chair manufacturer has a similar warranty, and none of them will let you transfer the warranty AFAIK. Experiences with obtaining warranty service for secondhand Aerons and other chairs seems to vary, but please factor in the possibility that you may not be able to obtain service into the long-term cost of buying a used chair. If a trivial-over-12-years cost difference will give you peace of mind, go for it. Research a reseller before you buy anything from them. And so on.

If you weren't aware of this already, well, you can use it now to negotiate a lower price ;)

(Speaking of warranties, Costco sells some Herman Miller chairs as a legitimate authorized reseller. You can get the HM warranty and Costco's legendary return policy together that way, should anything with your chair go horribly wrong.)
If you are developing with RoR, http://github.com/astrails/dotvim#readme is a good resource to start your quest for knowledge.
>>Does Germany have cheaper power than I have?

i highly doubt that. they proud themselves that they only use power from hydro [1] .. so lets see. if i were to buy this kind of electricity for my home i would pay 0,2049 €/kwh without taxes. thats the ceiling for what they possibly pay.

[1] http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/unternehmen/umweltschutz/
Nflapparel
2010 MLB All-Star All-Star FanFest gives fans a chance to take part in interactive exhibits, attractions and clinics, get autographs, buy memorabilia and more.
After reading quite a lot of your homepage, I think I've figured out that Photoshop layer styles are textures you apply to vector shapes. Is this right? If so, I'd suggest a sentence that states this near the top of the page.
So Alan - you don't mind if I call you Alan do you?

No? Good. I just thought I'd stop by and share my reactions with you.

It seems pretty clear that you've recently stumbled across hacker news and decided it's full of people who are in desperate need of marketing advice. Equally clearly it seems you've decided that you're the one to provide it.

However, one of the first principles in marketing is to do your homework and understand your market. One of the principles that's right up close to that is to listen to your customers.

So have a look at the items you've submitted so far. None have received upvotes, and exactly one of them has got any comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1587368

I'm not qualified to tell you your business, nor to provide an in-depth analysis of what you're getting wrong. But clearly you're getting something wrong. If you're honest and genuine, perhaps others might tell you.

But what seems pretty clear is that your current offerings aren't getting anywhere with the hackers on this site. Perhaps you'd do better if you spoke to them more clearly in terms they understood, and dealt clearly with issues they have.

Currently, your posts are really high on the "Ginger Factor" and they're not going down well.
I did the opposite. Moved from Spain to California few years ago. I was so shocked for the complete lack of sidewalks on San Francisco's South Bay that I ended up taking a complete collection of pictures about it.

It's somewhat common in some areas in the US, and literally unthinkable in Europe. I am lucky that I live in San Francisco now, where most of the city (besides some areas I found between the Sunset and Glen Park) has sidewalks. In fact, the first think I heard about SF before moving here was that it is 'very walkable'

My impression is that the tendency is somewhat reversing. I am an spoiled Franciscan now, so I don't know how is it on other parts of the country, but I have been hearing more and more people talking about moving closer to their offices (when they can) and walking or biking to work. Again, this is from a pure SF perspective, not sure how is it on other places in the US.

P.S. Gosh, I love Pamplona, you are lucky. The txistorras are one the best unknown meals in the world.
I agree. It's inspiring to believe and act like anyone can do anything. But this boils down to the nature-nurture debate - how much of what you do is "built in"? Experimentally this always seems to come out in the 30-70% range. Given evolution, it's pretty much axiomatic that some people are better than others at certain things. It's hard to believe that hard work alone can defeat every sub-optimal genetic combination out there.

(I've met some of the people you describe also.)
I have found SCIgen[1] to be much more convincing.

[1] http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/
well articulated article on what the "joint policy" proposal is all about. I am not sure I like the "Wireless Broadband shouldn't follow the net neutrality" clause.
Otherwise, he got a little bit of Zed's attitude that changed his mental state.
Session cookies which are deleted when the browser closes should be opt out. Long live cookies which survive browser restarts should be opt in. Personally, I just set my browser to delete all cookies on exit.
or headphones.

That was the entire point of my comment. No matter how loud you crank music on headphones, nothing will fall off the shelves, and you won't feel any bowel-loosening vibration coursing through your body.

That's an essential part of the experience. And if it's happening because of cheezy butt rock from the 80's, you'd best have thick stone walls or live well out in the country.
Handmake chanel handbag
So You Want To Be A Ruby Dev
Shame it's more plastic to end up in an dead albatross' stomach in the Pacific Gyre.
Ask HN: Has anybody here ever used a completely split keyboard?
Here is a sample of what I mean:

http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/freestyle.htm

So a keyboard that is completely split in to two portions, one for the left hand and one for the right hand.

If you did, what was your experience like? Is it worth it?
I hate coins. Does't matter the currency. I don't have a change purse, no coin slot in my wallet. They rattle around in my pocket and are unnecessarily heavy.
It reminds me of how water is wet and how fire is hot.

I think you'd be better off introducing some supporting evidence if you wish to discuss your hypothesis that everyone has the same potential for intellectual greatness.
My favorite would be LustyExplorer: http://github.com/sjbach/lusty .
Why?
Among all the different file browser plugins, I found Lusty to be the most easiest to use while being intuitive.
Amen to that.

I also get terribly infuriated by this. It reminds me of being in high school when any display of creativity or intelligence was frowned upon.
Air Jordan 4 Black Cement Grey
Ask HN: Learning "good" HTML/CSS (or at least a discussion on the subjective)
I'm a fairly competent programmer who's looking to learn more about the web front-end.<p>While learning HTML/CSS/Javascript I've come across a lot of conflicting advice, for example every book I've looked at has implied that using tables in html is fine, which in another area I get told is a cardinal sin (though HN does this).<p>I'm sure a good deal is subjective but I'd like to read resources like this http://css-discuss.incutio.com/wiki/Why_I_think_divs_are_better_than_tables to get to grips with it.
Needs better filtering options.
The way the UK switched from pound notes to pound coins was simply to withdraw the notes from circulation.

In Egypt you can get 25 Piastre notes, they are worth about 4p in Sterling. Local cab drivers sometimes refuse to accept them.
Perhaps the connection to P vs NP isn't obvious. Let me explain my thinking.

Suppose you have a problem not known to be in P, but know to be in NP. Let's use integer factoring as an example.

Since it's in NP we have an efficient process for checking an alleged solution. So now here's a strategy for solving the problem.

Guess a solution, then check it. If it's right, you're done. Otherwise Lather, Rinse, Repeat.

This "Thesis Generator" is doing the same thing. Generate a "thesis" and check if it's good. if so, you're done. If not, Lather, Rinse, Repeat.
I don't think you really believe that god can do anything. Wouldn't a god that can do anything truly be able to do anything, even logically inconsistent things?

You to me seem to believe that god can do a great many things but not anything. Your answer to 5 doesn't seem to be your actual belief.
"Google Cred" sounds a lot like what Recorded Future is up to (a company which, it turns out, Google has invested in).

https://www.recordedfuture.com/
Pound notes are still printed in Scotland and are legal tender for the entire UK. It always makes me feel quite nostalgic when I get one.
No one ever looks up. No really. No one ever looks up.

I used to have a balcony over a very crowded alley with constant foot traffic. I would stand there quietly and watch people think they were alone in this alley all the time.

Drunk people were the best. One corner of the alley was constantly getting pee'd in so they installed a metal skirt that bounced the pee back on the pee'r. You could watch drunk people pee in that corner then walk away with a wet pant leg without ever noticing. Hilarious. And not once in the 3 years I lived there did someone look up.
They should have ported the standard shell, /bin/sh, which is still used for executing most scripts (via the #!/bin/sh shebang at the top of the script), independent of what shell the user uses interactively.
how are you not abusing the site owner's trust by basically spamming/trolling their site?
Because it's actually a gopher server that understands HTTP. You can also get to the page at gopher://gopher.quux.org/0/Humor%20and%20Fun/Microsoft_KSH.txt|/MBOX-MESSAGE/1
> How is that leaving us worse of?

It doesn't. I just haven't thought of this "third alternative".
Great. Now all we need is warp drive and we can call it a day.
Can't read the dark grey on black.
Debian developers by country.
Earn Money Online Doing Free Online Jobs Like Data Entry
Earn Money Online Doing Free Online Jobs Like Data Entry
Would such a situation be possible or would the attractiveness of any such opportunity always drive supply up and prices down such that $1/min is not possible as an equilibrium in reality?

That depends upon the barriers to entry. In order to keep the wages high, you need to keep the number of people capable of doing the work small somehow.
This is far more than just a reset: it's a starting template.
The line of questioning struck me as odd, roughly paraphrased as:

"Does god exist?"

"No"

"Erm, well, _if_ god existed, what would the nature of god be?"

Isn't that following an irrelevant line of enquiry?
This is the American suburbia I know best. Falls Church VA.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...

Portland is not a good example of American urban planning gone awry. As it's probably one of the most sensible cities in the US.

And yes, unfortunately neighborhoods without sidewalks are all too common in American suburbs.
around here, the more power you use, the more you pay per kwh, if you are a residential customer, while businesses have different rules. As far as I can tell, it's all largely disconnected from the cost of creating the power, and if you are on the lowest residential tier, it's /very/ cheap.

Anyhow, if we roughly estimate the server to use the CPU TDP of power (now, CPUs don't normally use the full TDP... that's the design maximum. Like sears horsepower, if the cpu itself hits that number, smoke is coming out of the thing. but the rest of the server uses power, too- the chipset, the ram, the network, the disk, etc... so the TDP often is fairly close to what the whole server draws.)

that puts us at 94KwH for the server. Multiply that by three to account for cooling, (in most data centers, you are looking at two watts plus in cooling for every one watt used by the servers. This depends on how efficient the data center cooling system is.) and multiply that by your power number and that'd be around 58 euros a month. 19 euros if the place used zero power for cooling (but that's just unrealistic for something you can't turn off on hot days)

I would say there is something fishy here, but I've seen hetzner talked about here for a while, and people seem satisfied... so maybe I'm just missing something?
Power Tool Batteries
We offers cheap Makita power tool batteries, Dewalt cordless drill batteries, Hitachi cordless drill batteries, Bosch cordless drill batteries, Craftsman cordless drill batteries, Milwaukee drill batteries Black & Decker power tool batteries, Ryobi power tool batteries and so on.
All items are brand new, 1-year warranty and 30 day moneyback! Buy cordless drill batteries from us, save up to 30%!
DEWALT Power Tool Battery
DEWALT Power Tool Battery Store- We supply high quality DEWALT Power Tool Battery are designed to be manufacturer compatible with your DEWALT . All DEWALT Power Tool Battery are brand new with 1 year warranty!
there really are easier ways to get a subscription, you know.
I couldn't follow the logic of that question at all. If person X believes thing Y, person X believes thing Y. No logic enters into that. So if Sutcliffe thought he was doing the will of god, of course he felt justified. Obviously Sutcliffe follows a different logic to mine, so I can not argue with that.

The question "do I think it is justified that he thought like that" has no semantic meaning to me. What is it supposed to mean?
I'm not sure if 1 eur notes would be really any better than the coins we have now. I personally find small currencies difficult anyways, as I have grown up using plastic as payment.
Pound notes are also still printed and in use in the channel islands, although they aren't legal tender for the UK from there, but then the coins aren't either (despite being virtually identical).
So what units are these components measured in? How do we know this is dimensionally consistent?
What happens if you want to move to another phone provider which operates through the Internet? As people have said, nowadays most phone connections do anyway. So why should the ISP phone connection be any faster than another one?

And while today this may sound weird (we are used to have phone connections via our ISP) what happens if tomorrow's technology (say an interactive film) ends up in the same situation? A startup creates a field, just to get squashed by the ISP who picks up the idea (that clearly works) but gets extra priority because it is their own service.
> If it paid the bills I'd become a Computer historian

If you ever find a way to pay the bills this way, let me know. There's a lot of history in there.
No, sorry. The point made was that a lot of communication is being moved using TCP/IP. So they use the same infrastructure.
I knew that scottish pounds aren't legal tender: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknotes_of_the_pound_sterling...

Bus driver in England did not accept my £5 scottish note.
I have used vim some time now do not use any scripts. Only 3rd party thing I have is zenburn colorscheme. I would recommend learning vanilla vim properly first, then let it grow based on your needs with scripts.
If you are looking for a physical location for starting q startup that also happens to be a tax haven, I would suggest being willing to pay a bit in tax in order to get the infrastructure you need. If I were in this position I might think of Singapore for instance.

If you are purely asking for a cheap jurisdiction to form a business entity, there is an endless supply of vendors on the Internet. I use BVI and Bahamas companies like cookies for my clients.

Buying a company is the trivial issue. The more important question is what you're going to do with it and what type of assets it will own. Look to home country regulation and taxation of your shiny Bahamas company in other words.

War story: I worked on an Internet gambling migration a few years ago (moving the business out of the US). There is a US tax rule that says transferring ownership of intangible property to a foreign owner (eg from your own US corporation to yor own Bahamas corporation) is treated like a sale. Imagine the capital gain on the domain name: bought for $7 per year and now the brand of a profitable business. Giant tax cost. Moral of the story: start with IP owned offshore while it is being developed.

The person asking the question shows a profile of living in Norway, so to you I would suggest looking at localtax rules and business regulation in Norway. Choosing the right starting point may save you orders of magnitude more money than the trivial expense of setting up a company.

Also the brain damage must be considered. I have lots of nonresident clients who buy US real estate. In almost every transaction the party onthe other side spazzes put when confronted with other than a domestic entity. I spend the front end of my time educating them. You will add to your transaction costs in time and money by using a nonlocal company. Unlike another commented in this thread I ahem have not had ease of use experiences with my bank (which happens to be Wells Fargo) and non-US corporations. Other banks too. The federally-mandates compliance costs for non-US transactions are too high. This may be true in Norway too. (I have a client who is the president of a business-only bank and even with that connection the bank won't take on my clients).
I agree - but - devils advocate - possibly a bit of a grey area. I agree its probably the best way to build software people need.

If they'd contacted you, paperwork was involved blahdey blah, they might feel it was their IP.
The article lists countries by total tax revenue as a percentage of gross domestic product. If it was just federal taxes it would be worthless. They actually specify "all levels" for the US on the list so it should not be possible to believe otherwise.
>>Hey, why give up? Doesn't Hard Work Conquer All?

very funny
How neutrality locks in the web's 'Hyper Giants'
I love fountain pens. I have bunch of Parker 'Vectors' in a diversity of line widths and ink colors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Vector

The only disadvantage is that the ink stays water-soluble after it dries.
Have you ever seen a study that links cholesterol intake to blood levels? I was looking for one long ago, and the only research I could find said that over 90% of cholesterol is produced by the body.
Mens Puma Drift Cat, puma drift cat shoes
These days there isn't really need to keep using traditional currency anymore. Since I don't get charged for using them, I use cards even for <5€ payments now and I hardly carry real money with me anymore. It's also much easier to monitor your expenses this way. There are still an enormous amount of shops/businesses that only accept physical money, but I think the world will be ready for electronic-only currency in 10-30 years time.
Mono's C# Compiler as a Service on Windows. (C# 5.0 preview)
It's not a new idea; this has been happening for far longer than either one of us has been alive.

Yes, I'm thinking of a bigger magnitude, though.

As naive as that may sound, I do believe in the "service bot" vision where households and workplaces are increasingly stuffed with robots. There's of course still a long way to go. But when I look at the individual pieces that are available today (see videos below) then I tend to, perhaps naively, expect the first robots capable of taking over simplistic jobs (outside of industrial environments) within a 15-20 year timeframe. And not long thereafter before it becomes cost effective to actually deploy them on a large scale.

When that happens then it will likely be a different quality from what we've seen in industrialism before. It's not about machines reducing the workforce in certain industries. It's about machines replacing human labor as a whole in entire segments - not least in the service-sector.

I'm deriving my guesstimate from the fact that what we see today is the result of the past circa 20 years of research. Add another 20yrs to that and the mind is blown, at least mine is.

With regard to "not a new idea" you have a point in theory. Yet in practice, when I listen to political discussions then I don't hear anyone having it on the radar, even when they talk about the so-called "longterm".

Perhaps I'm expecting too much, politicians rarely look further ahead than 10yrs anyways. I just wonder when we'll begin to seriously question the paradigm of "everyone has a job" which dominates everything today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9ByGQGiVMg#t=3m32s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wiw-jbjnyzc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyPAIpXm-nU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrmrU7P-ysA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwhPLeIq4uY
Some TV shows might be more worthwhile than building an Eiffel tower out of match sticks.
I hate having a huge stack of $1 bills even more, especially given the state of US paper bills now (hello wear and tear) and that they are identical in size and feel to all the other bills. When I was vacationing in Europe, I absolutely loved the euro and pound coins for their convenience of not having to dig through bills in my wallet (and the 1/2 euro coins especially, for the way they were executed). Nevermind that the bills too are a lot nicer than what the US has today, and we're barely catching up with this whole color thing.

I love the idea of $1 coins too, but I think they were badly executed in the US for a long time where the $1 coin was not much different in look and feel from a quarter. Nowadays it's really only that whole thing about retailers not wanting to accept it/customers not wanting to use it.

I think the US should make a huge push towards getting rid of the $1 and $2 bills in favor of coins. There's so many positives to this I can't even begin to imagine (for one, not having to carry around $10 worth of quarters to feed parking meters for a single hour where I don't necessarily feel like swiping my credit card...).
Sure, there are only liklihoods, I can never be absolutly sure of, well, anything, really. Defining 'truth' as something I am absolutly certain of wouldn't make much sense.

But why should I define 'truth' that way? I have no problem calling something 'true' which merely has a high enough liklihood. It's a useful approximation, it basically dichotomizes a scale which is quite often pretty useful.

I also don't have many semantic worries. We seem to be well aware of the double character of 'truth' and usually say something like 'absolute truth' when we refer to statements of which someone is absolutly certain.
works w/o registration

http://muro.deviantart.com/
So you can fly the Enterprise from a PADD, and you can change the interface, or what it's connected to, and interface with the rest of the ship, and yet ...

... when handing over several reports, they handed over several PADDs
Chemistry Laborotary Equipment
What does "justifies a belief" mean? Serious question, I really don't understand this.
I'm between nice design and spam, which is it?
I think the important word here is "irrevocable". Saying you don't need irrevocable evidence doesn't mean you don't need any evidence. Irrevocable seems to me to be pretty much the same as unfalsifiable which doesn't make much sense and would not be good evidence for the existence of god.
Sorry about that. It should show up in 'germany' and some others now, like 'rails' in the first search field and 'europe' in the second (location).