skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been standing at my desk for about 2 months now and I can say that it's made a huge difference. I just use a pile of books. It's "adjustable" in that if I want to sit, I just move a few books.

The physical benefits are that my ass doesn't hurt nearly as much and my back feels better (if I am careful not to slouch) [1].

I also feel there is a benefit in terms of the "take-a-walk-and-get-a-good-idea-effect". I'm not sure if there is any science behind this, but I feel that I can think more clearly when I am walking around away from my computer. I've found part of this benefit is acquired by just standing all the time. When I'm in the zone, I don't have to take a break to get up and walk around.

If you're considering trying standing at your desk, try it out for a week by piling up the books by your desk.

Be warned though, one negative is that people definitely come over and interrupt more often. I think the fact that they can see me standing (and no one else) from across the office gives people the impression I'm only casually involved in my work at the moment.

[1] At first my feet really started hurting in the afternoons. I bought a fairly expensive floor mat (e.g. gelpro) and this has really helped.
If I remember correctly, I believe IBM used to apply this reasoning back in the 1980s.

Having done humanities subjects as well as CS, I would say that the workload was quite potentially similar in difficulty and sophistication and would likely stand people in good stead, as the article says... IF you did the readings for the humanities courses, which quite a number of people doing a Bachelor of Arts really obviously didn't. It was obvious you could skate by with the equivalent of a B- or C+ while doing 15 hours a week total work, which usually inspired great quantities of rage and disdain from the engineering/science students.
The best way to handle keepalives is to proxy everything through nginx, which can handle a huge number of connections with very little memory. Turn keepalives on in nginx, turn them off on your app server.
This was terrible. Their past AFD jokes (Gmail paper, Gmail custom time) were so much funnier, or at least more convincing.
Most of the federal government has been schedule to shut down "two weeks from now" for a while.
There's also a semantic dupe checker called RiderOfGiraffes. (Seriously, and with all due gratitude.)
Here's something I learnt from the humanities: distinguishing between necessary and sufficient causes of events.

Steve Jobs taking a calligraphy class was necessary, but not sufficient, to create the Macintosh. He still needed a team of those tedious non-humanities folks -- not least of whom was Woz -- for Apple to succeed.

Bill Gates and Zuckerberg had educations rich in the humanities. But that was not enough: they also had a deep background in actual programming.

The humanities by themselves are not enough. You need the rubber as well as the road.
This is a really poor translation, not a joke
@TPB wins auction for site eBay.com, merge is planned:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2395035
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I don't think communities should directly rate the content. With more people the general consensus on what is good and what is bad becomes so subjective, to the point where it's what the user's that just happen to see it end up defining it as either "good" or "bad". Instead, the webserver should simply watch the activity levels of all content, including things like whenever a user hovers over a link and for how long to things like replies. And based on all of the available information it should give it a numerical value defining it's influence on the community. It probably can't be 100% accurate, but it can be pretty close and most likely better than what is in place in most communities.
I just don't understand how there could have only been a single copy of those videos.
I wish they still made the jerker desks.
Or maybe not, since the sources conflict.

This is not something you write without being 100% sure.
Finishing up http://ReadyTakeoff.com in the next few days :)
Google hiring everybody! http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/uslocations/mountain-view...
Why was this downvoted? I'm not a developer, is there some kind of humour I've missed here?
New RFC. Regional Broadcast Using an Atmospheric Link Layer
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6217
Take everything posted by TechCrunch (and all news websites) with a big grain of salt for the next 24 hours.
the bold colors are bad, this makes most of my terminal apps annoying as hell (ncmpcpp, byobu, aptitude, htop)

for one thing, at least one of the bold text colors is the same as the background, this makes this text not even show up when it's present

it would be nice if not for this
In the case of all those mentioned it seems like what you want to do is drop out of college entirely.

Related, apple was staffed by total weirdos for its first 8-10 years, people who neither fit the stereotype of engineer or humanities major. See any article at folklore.org
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I really don't get this philosophy. I've seen this a lot recently in various discussions on HN, and I'm honestly dumbfounded. How do you justify this line of thought, that negative action against someone, done deliberately, is not the perpetrator's fault?

I mean this completely academically, so please don't take it as an insult (I'm genuinely curious) - but was this perspective something you were raised with or did this develop out of experience / general personal exploration of the world?
Gmail Motion - Google's April Fool Gig
Don't watch the show then. Or do you object to other people watching content you don't personally approve of?

Because there are many terms for that particular personality type, none of them flattering.
I prefer that mindset to one that assumes a link between privilege with ability.

I am not assuming it. I was merely pointing out that it could be the case, which I feel is relevant- especially because the author assumed there was no connection out of hand.

In my opinion, before trying to fix a system, you need to confirm it is actually broken. And by 'broken' I don't mean, 'not fair'- I mean, 'not doing what it's supposed to do'.
I highly recommend the simulator Orbiter. Getting the space shuttle to LEO with this level of realism is hard
True, but: http://twitter.com/arrington/status/53674557814472704
The solution isn't to get involved in politics, it's to put an end to this "if you haven't died by the age of 18, you get to cast a vote". At least a four year requirement of a four year STEM degree at an accredited university should prevent people who aren't used to dealing with facts from getting us all killed.

Democracy is a great idea so long as you limit whom you consider "the people".
Thanks to hashbangs (or really just the prevalence of Ajax-only sites), it's now a lot harder to tell whether two pages with #something in the URL are effectively the same.
Gmail Motion BETA
How is that superior to having a nice desktop that you can shell/nx into?
Are soekris' still the way to go to build an embedded router?
Arrington wants to keep the joke going. He goes to unusual lengths with his April Fools jokes. Again, take everything he says with a grain of salt for the next 24 hours.
This is along the lines of what we're trying to do. Interesting ideas!
I was just thinking the same thing.. 300gb, mostly of presumably high-res art and video.. and that's 2 years work? Sounds really small.
> In the case of all those mentioned it seems like what you want to do is drop out of college entirely.

I picked examples that I'm familiar with. In another field I'm confident that the pattern repeats -- that humanities is an edge but not a base.

Slightly OT -- one of my dreams upon makin' bacon is to go here for a few years: http://stjohnscollege.edu/
Again? I recall that was the issue some time ago.
He also bought one, then was never able to drive it due to constant breakdowns. In that case, however, the breakdowns were legit, and he never caught any flak from Ford.
I specially upvoted for (Supports the DNF protocol, btw.)
Relevant:

Comparing capabilities of PVS-Studio and Visual Studio 2010 in detecting defects in 64-bit programs - http://www.viva64.com/en/a/0066/

64 bits, Wp64, Visual Studio 2008, Viva64 and all the rest - http://www.viva64.com/en/a/0021/
The Shallot - April Fool's Tech News
One of my favorite web comics got seized by the FBI: http://www.gpf-comics.com/

(I hope this one is a joke.)
Their contention, echoed in Clarkson's original statements, were that the Roadster was the first electric car you might actually want to buy. Their goal in having it reviewed on TG was likely to show that it was a driver's car first and foremost, and that it being electric was an added bonus.
Sincere question: has anybody ever punked a journalist as an April Fools prank?
Thinkgeek:

- Arsenic-based sea monkeys http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/looflirpa/e8b9/

- Edible gummy iPhone cases http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/looflirpa/e8ba/

- Playmobil Apple Store Playset http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/looflirpa/e8bb/

- Angry Birds Pork Rinds http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/looflirpa/e8bd/

Minecraft Store: http://www.minecraft.net/store/loot.jsp
Android Market needs a filter for x-large screen size. That's how I am detecting a tablet form and displaying a different layout.

Unfortunately even for apps that have done this, they are not placed in the featured tablet app list and thus people do not know.

Most apps do work completely fine and scale fine on Honeycomb.
Good open source projects to contribute to?
I am an intermediate level developer with background in PHP, but I am moving towards RoR development now. I would love the opportunity to work on some open source projects, but I don't have a good grasp of where to start in the Ruby community. I'm by no means an expert Rubyist either, so I am looking for something I can handle on my own level, while still contributing something useful. I'd appreciate any suggestions or advice!
I personally hate vimeo because of their horrible fallback & lack of some forms of IE support.

If you're using IE without flash installed (in my experience), it defaults to a black background with black text on top. great user experience.
Reddit Mold! http://blog.reddit.com/2011/03/reddit-mold-is-now-live.html
Where libel law is concerned, repetition of the supposed libel is a big deal, as it cements in the viewers' minds the supposed drawbacks of the product. One-time damage from a flippant statement is one thing, but repeating that statement ad nauseum around the world is another.
Well, if the article is not an April fools joke then its a leap to claim that this is "Insider Trading". The term specifically applies to public companies and not to companies in general. This distinction is not a "footnote" in the article, it is the fact that negates the entire article.
Motion: A new way to communicate with GMail ;-)
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شركة رؤى العرب شركة تقدم اقوي وافضل عروض الاستضافة التصميم الارشفة الاشهار الدعم الفني
What I'm saying is that relying on crazy people to not go crazy is not a good data loss prevention strategy.

(In the end, putting someone in a situation where they'll do something bad is worse than being the person that does something bad. A good example is the Colgan Air crash from a few years ago. Anybody knows that when your plane is stalling you're supposed to push the control column forward and apply full engine power. The plane does the pushing the control column forward part automatically! But for some reason, the trained airline captain did the exact opposite, stalling the plane and killing everyone on board. Why? Because he got paid so little that he couldn't afford a hotel room to sleep in before his work that day, and had to commute across the country and then work a full shift. This is the airline's fault for impairing someone to the extent that he killed 50+ people by doing the exact opposite of what any trained pilot would do. $300 for a hotel room and everyone on that flight would still be alive today.

Similarly, when you fire someone that works with critical data, you need to make sure the guy's access is revoked. It's a precaution that needs to be taken, as this case shows. When necessary precautions are omitted, bad things happen. Planes crash, and important data goes away forever.)
Sure, but he said where they want their money spent. That would kill plenty of lobbying, hopefully all of it.
The Irony of Cutting Budget for Data.gov
I've watched probably 80% of the episodes, for what it's worth. I haven't seen series 1-4, but I'm working my way down to them.
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Yeah, the DNF one is pretty amusing. But only because it reacts to the lameness.
You know... the guys who you're supposed to outsource to to make sure that this stuff doesn't happen.

Actually, outsourcing is designed to be cheap, not to lower risk. Trusting the lowest bidder to an important task usually results in disappointment.
(Warning anecdotal evidence)
Having worked in China on a number of startups and worked alongside people who have had to fire employees, it's often common practice to just lock fired employees out of their systems. I've had this happen to people I know and had to do it once when letting a programmer go (which is nearly impossible to do after a probationary period due to the labor laws in the country, it's very very difficult to fire somebody, the company has to provide reason, pay social benefits, or face the employee in a court--forget it if you're a foreign company).

I have heard stories of letting people go to find out that all of the work that employee did for the last month or two deleted, source missing, machines just wiped clean.

I read that title and kind of laughed because, well, it is a seemingly commonplace response in some parts of the world.
You could use WePay.

The API is solid, has good documentation, and supports multiple types of recurring payments. People can pay you with a credit card or bank account.

https://www.wepay.com/developer/reference
http://FeeFighters.com raised $41 million, bought the rock band FooFighters, rebranded as http://FoeFighters.com, and is having a contest to see which Foe they should fight.

Please vote! it's good for humanity!
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With any luck, this post can act as flypaper to attract all related discussion etc., thereby preventing pollution spreading.
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Gmail Motion Beta
Mozilla Rhino overview
how/where are you watching it?
I wouldn't say that it's not the employee's fault, but if you are suggesting that it's other peoples' fault as well, I'd definitely agree. In an incident like this a lot of people have to have been very negligent.
Ah, but it's easy to get a publicly-routed IPv6 tunnel.
Do they use prepared statements? If not, they are almost certainly vulnerable.
Access, Aggregation, and Other Big Data Challenges for Startups
Thanks

Another big problem with both publishers and general discussion forums is that the type of content changes at certain times of the day, and more specifically, it changes whenever anything new is published. Why that's a problem is because it means that the community is different at different times of the day. In order to fix that the simple solution is to only enable publishing in intervals. The problem with that though is that people like new and interesting stuff. By giving a lag to new content it will increase the chances of the user's being bored. So, the next step would be only showing content that interests the user based on what's interested them before, and having that content be constantly updated. That just went from a reputation system to an individualized search engine. It's just a thought though.
Good ganesh wallpaper
Love that photo - who needs a plush office when you can plant your MBP on a couple of milk crates!
Im not that good at just reading about a language or going through tutorials. I typically have to have a target project to keep me focused and use that to learn new languages. Decide what you want to build and start building it.
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Because when the company has to man up, and tell the reason of the Fuck up to the stakeholders, the should not be pointing fingers to a person who was not even on their payroll.

It was someone's job to avoid this from happening, or they do not have people covering such cases... either way, someone other (person or the company as a whole) than the fired employee messed up for the business/customers and they are liable/answerable.

Because people fail... all the time. Good, Smart, Sincere people fail. (not in this particular case, though)

This is just how things are. We all have heard numerous stories of rm -r / or drop database or something similar. Hell, the whole widely accept idea of "bugs" in software industry is based on the fact that people WILL do something wrong. Not because they are bad people, want to do bad things, but to err is human.

So your process should not be designed around the idea of people doing the right things always.

This is what I think he means (and I concur)
A co-worker of mine once wiped out the entire CVS repository at the company we worked for because a symbolic link was placed in his home directory and he thought it was ok to 'rm -Rf' its contents. We were able to build a new repo based off of production and everyone who had changes not in production had to re-introduce those changes, but it was not the developer's fault for wiping out CVS. It was because the sysadmin had set the symbolic links for the primary repository. If you enable developers to do something bad, it isn't always their fault when they do it.

Having intent to destroy something on purpose is a different matter though, and I'm not sure that there is a good argument for it.
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Re: the last paragraph in the article

Considering this can potentially ruin Brown's reputation, shouldn't they wait to get solid confirmation before slapping him with the 'insider trading' label?
Yeah, that's more of an internal community thing. What we're trying to do is create an abstraction layer above all taht, that will either be agnostic to or be able to understand these kind of trends. Semantic analysis of content, for example, is one rabbit hole we're not planning to venture into.
Haha yeah that's pretty "aussie style" software development there :)
Facebook released "Fax this photo" feature to a specific subset of user IDs.
http://techcrunch.com/2009/09/10/yeah-ok-so-facebook-punkd-u...
These attacks are against MS SQL servers, more specifically XD Link Manager, and seems to be coming from Russian IPs: http://forums.asp.net/p/1667041/4360932.aspx/1?Re+LizaMoon+a...
I'm gonna stick taking everything on the internet with a grain of salt today. We really do need a safe word for "real news" for the day.
Oohh, I like this.

I use rd.io and would love the songs I txt in to be added to a playlist there. Or really a playlist anywhere - grooveshark, pandora, rdio, amazon, last.fm, etc. That'd be cool.
Just an update for anyone still reading this. Apple just rang me today to refund my money, they received the order after all tickets had already been allocated :-(.
Outsource PHP Development India 
Now-a-day, Users around the world chooses India as a focal point in terms of PHP developers, as they are sufficiently effective to provide growing platforms to the owners.
This pill used to cost me 10c/pill, now it's $5/pill. I take it 3x day.
GNOME 3.0 Rescheduled for September 2011 Release (April Fool's?)
haha nice catch! I didn't notice it the first time around.
Personal experience, 100%

As a producer, I can safely say that your entire job is based around one rule: the show must go on. That means you have backups. And your backups have backups. And your backup's backup's have backups.

Is it your fault when bad things happen? If you're good at what you do, probably not - especially when you consider the AMAZING number of things that can go wrong on any given day. However, it IS your fault if the bad things that inevitably happen cause the show to fail because you had no plan B.

Maybe it's a disgruntled employee with a set of passwords he really shouldn't have. Or maybe it's an outbreak of anthrax (yeah, I was on a job where that was suddenly an issue). Perhaps you're shooting on a beach and a dead body randomly washes up, suddenly turning your carefully chosen location into a crime scene crawling with cops and coroners (another true story / very rough day.) God forbid it's something really awful, like a bike messenger carrying an important batch of media getting hit by some asshole who was answering his phone instead of paying attention to the road, landing the kid in hospital, and turning your package into collateral damage (horrific moments like this, by the way, make the job seem suddenly unimportant).

Regardless, the show must go on. And if you have a good producer, it will. But losing TWO YEARS worth of work because one data center (effectively) went offline? That's seriously embarrassing. Also, very bad for credibility. And yes, reason enough to loose your stripes.
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The case where code is used would make it clear cut that you need to GPL it. You can relicense BSD (without advertisement clause) to GPL but not the other way around.

My doubt is at what point would you need to GPL it even though you haven't actually reused any code, just described the GPL code to someone who then reimplemented it into the BSD grep. This case still seems pretty benign as only general algorithms and approaches are shared but it made me consider where the line might be.
You judge without knowing enough details to do so. For all we know, the contract with the data center may have included regular backups, including off-site backups. In such a case, as a company, you've done everything you could and should have and the data center is entirely to blame, if the employee managed to destroy the backups as well.
Lessons from MySpace Incident: Balance, Vision, Fearlessness
Hulu 1995 throwback complete with <table> based layout.

http://www.hulu.com/index.htm
Working okay on OS X 10.6.7 in Preview (standalone) here.
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It's onswipe, and they've just done a deal with wordpress.

I find it really jagged on scrolling and generally annoying enough to be distracted from the articles. Also, what looks like a link to turn it off and go to the old site doesn't work.
I once spoke to an industry veteran when I was still in college and his advice rings to me real well. He said that it's very easy to just work for the man coming out of college. In our particular market, it's easy to follow recruiting strategies and land a job working for the man and getting comfortable.

While you're young, you can afford to take the risk of joining a startup or one on your own. Furthermore, by joining a startup, in a way, your presence at the startup reduces their risk of failure.

That was just advice and I currently work for the man. Fortunately I'm really happy where I am and I do work on things on the side.
The only issue I see arising is that of internet radio laws. I believe (and I am no expert so please correct me if I am wrong) there is no way to 'freely' search for a song and have it be heard. Last.fm only allows previews (or radio stations that play similar songs) and rd.io is a paid app. I would love some way to do this for free. Yes Grooveshark does offer it for free, and I am not sure how legal their practices are.
I believe "insider trading" can also refer to a contractual violation, if Facebook had a specific policy.
Where I work, we have to ssh tunnel. Our cvs, bug tracker, internal websites and other servers are all located on the other side of the world, and only accessible through a tunnel.
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