skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hire a payroll service. Find one that guarantees they will do all the filings, on time. You write one check and don't have to do the paperwork.
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I think you got something wrong there. The source code for chain (accessible by pressing the "source" button on the top right corner of the page) is just 35 lines long and only does the chain/snake effect.
What did they used for the docs? it's pretty neat too

http://rpgjs.com/doc/

There's no pointers in the source or footer.. other than a link to the sencha/extjs lib
1) bar stool for when you just gotta

2) a brick. A brick sculptor friend of mine was advised by a worker at the brick plant to keep one foot on a brick to rest it, alternating as needed. Says she's never had another day of back or foot pain.
Following your logic, books should be burnt as some of them are shitty moral compass and some certainly incite violence. Actually book burning had happened numerous times throughout history, indicating that this kind of thinking was prevailing.
Your experience is not inconsistent with my hypothesis: your overal activity level increased. A counter-example would be someone who is active on a regular basis, sits for many hours in the other parts of the day, and still suffers from the same health problems as someone who is inactive.
"I would really like to activate two-factor auth for my GMail account, but I just don't trust my phone that much."

I also don't trust my phone enough. But the bigger reason I don't do this is that I don't trust Google enough.

My phone number is private and none of their business. I don't want to give them yet another way to track me.
Does anyone know if this would work on top of excanvas (http://excanvas.sourceforge.net/)?
From my brief experience, it's quite difficult to stand motionless for 6 hours - that alone might be an advantage as you keep on shifting.
Congrats to Onswipe, I always delight when I come across one of their customer blogs, such a great interface for my iPad browsing experience.

Also I think Jason has done some pretty decent blog posts in the last year
(disclosure - I am the author of this article)

"At the end of the day hire good ppl. They'll do the right thing most of the time." - absolutely agree.

No system is perfect, ours is not. You need to decide what is important to your organization and emphasize it - they way we do things here at TA has its downsides, but overall, it works very well for us and what we want to do. The benefits for us significantly outweigh the drawbacks.

It is critical to have a boss who understands how software development works, and that mistakes get made. If anything, my boss wants my team to make more mistakes than we do :-)
How many generations have you seen?
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Why is your quote from the article meaningful while mine is not? It's right there!

"What's particularly interesting about recent research is the revelation that sitting for extended periods of time does significant damage to human health that cannot be undone by exercising."

Crappy reporting on science as usual, but it says it right there "recent research" + "revelation" + "sitting for extended periods" + "damage" + "cannot be undone by exercising."
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What should I build with six ultracapacitors?
Why OpenStreetMap Dropped the Creative Commons License
Arithmetic growth refers to the situation where a value increases by a constant number per period. Benford's Law applies in this case?
They didn't say "The King Henry VIII is dead. Long live the King Edward VI". In the JavaScript article, The "OLD king" is "JavaScript the source language". The "NEW king" is "JavaScript the compilation target". So the idea of old and new is in there. Sort of. :-)
In another thread here, a few other members suggested the only thing that puts an end to this pain is compression socks.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dap...
The list of providers on the website is not comprehensive yet. I have a big list of providers offline that I plan to add. I wanted to get the website functional and get some feedback before I go too far. I will make sure that these two are in my list.
Correct. Nothing in the last 60 years has undermined the basic conclusion:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Morris
I actually have heard studies claiming the opposite, violent video games decrease violent behavior in real life. There're studies on the sharp drop of youth violence from late 80's to now, correlating to the surging popularity of video games (including violent games) during that period.
Well, after 10 years, isn't it clear that Google users will not and cannot have any effect in it? Why is it always best left to those who can't or wont do anything about it?
It seems to me there's a lot of interesting psychology elements to this, but it's also a simple reflection of relatively constant growth rates. If population of cities grow 3% every year, they will spend a lot more years in the 1 millions than the 9 millions, etc

Chart looks like this. https://url.odesk.com/a7och
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Since yesterday i started seeing google new UI. Here is the pic: http://www.pictourl.com/viewer/1e17ba51
And looks like they have enabled it on experimental basis only. I tried searching for the cookie for it and found they used NID cookie to enable it for couple of users only. If you want to try it set following cookie value in your browser with expiration date as: Dec 27, 2011.
Cookie Name: NID
Cookid Value: 48=f5xFZOA4wC1uIueHTav1RXFM2V8nwPNzpZ-7NcOi8tV51YjHbLMB8p7pdjdhmOxT9UBQE_lkbvAMYHCCt756oyFZld-VT4-B5DQNz2ysrai0aQeIHxLIpOQyTRiEeq8a
Expiration Date: Dec 27, 2011 (Time doesn't matter)
Thank you, very interesting contributions to the conversation.

It looks to me though, that my line of reasoning(note I said more precisely 2.6x, I used 3x initially to simplify it) more closely matches the data than the numbers you provided.
The world of 100 people
It may surprise people, but the calories in most sugary cereals aimed at children are almost identical to most adult-oriented cereals.

For example, "Captain Crunch's Peanut Butter Crunch" has 112 kcal for a 27g serving, [1] while Corn Flakes have 101 kcal for a 28g serving. [2]

What differentiates them is the source of those calories: sugary cereals get far more of their calories from simple sugars and fat, while adult cereals are almost all starch.

[1] http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/breakfast-cereals/1521/2

[2] http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/breakfast-cereals/1527/2
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Wait, so the current challenge is to mosaic a 225px-wide image into 10px chunks, without changing the overall size?

Not even the power of Ruby can make 225 % 10 == 0
Because I find it less likely for the reporter to get basic facts wrong. Conclusions are more subtle, and I don't know if it's the reporter's own conclusions, the reporter's interpretation of the conclusions from the original study, or an almost direct lift from the conclusions from the original study. Since the data the reporter does present does not support the conclusions he presents, I remain skeptical of them.
If they are joining across partitions, then perhaps. If they are forced to localize data to make it joinable, whereas doing the "join" at the app level makes it more horizontally scalable, then that might be an impact.

However against a single instance if you can join in your app faster than on the database for a trivial join, something is seriously wrong with your implementation. I have never, ever seen such a case where it wasn't a scenario where they should have analyzed their plan, to discover a monstrous issue they need to resolve.

In many high performance database systems the IPC to the database level is actually the most expensive operation. Doing two calls instead of one is always a net negative unless you're doing something wrong or fit isolated horizonal scaling scenarios.
37Signals?
The UK is even worse.
Is that a UI design pattern to decrease server load?

There's nothing intrinsically wrong with search in the footer, but it defies 15 years of convention and thus takes a big hit to discoverability.
Against The Grain
The hardest thing to do is to be original.
Why?
Because originality, we’re taught, leads to failure.
probably not before a few mutual funds invest a few hundred million of their investor money
Interesting way to annoy every gamer in the world, don't allow them to trade games!

This is going way over the line I think. What if you genuinely wanted to reset the game yourself and play it again? I hope other software companies don't plan on following.
Since I made no mention of product, nor never specifically said only a single weekend, I would find it hard to believe that you could know what was doubtful to create or not, but I digress.

I think for everyone, there is a level at which they will not pay for something relative to what it actually does and how much they need it. For my example, it was something fairly trivial but still useful, probably the lowest MVP I've seen in quite some time. Even if I couldn't immediately make useable money with it, I feel that a low price point would be a great way to take a piece of the market that it was in, although I will fully admit marketing would have it's place as well.

I guess the better worded question would have been "Given all factors equal, what percent of the market would be swayed by a lower cost point?"

And the second question I would ask would have been "Even though you will not make money at $1/month, are there not services that are not worth $5-$7 dollars a month, but are worth more than free?" or even "Couldn't there be money in making cheap apps that together don't make much money, but combined add up to good income?"
Really, why don't we have a transcendental numbering system? Also, I can't imagine it could make our financial markets any more irrational.
How about hostpikr.com. It's available. (Hostpicker is parked, so you're not competing against anyone real.) You're helping people choose a hosting service, so having "host" as the base makes more sense than "web", which is kind of generic.
>And finally, it's the US people who are at blame

So you've just come full circle. The government will continue to do what they're doing and the people will continue to not care. What good does it do us to put responsibility on those who have proven they will do nothing?
This is what amuses me about software. SVG which is specifically designed for vector graphics is slower than "not native" solution.
You should check out his latest 'All watched over by machines of loving grace' -- probably his best yet.
I was thinking the same. Even with all the bad press, Groupon will still do their IPO, the underwriters and VC's will still unload their shares at a hefty profit. The implosion won't happen until after the smart money is out.
Benford's Law has always been kind of fascinating to me.
But 2 hours at the gym is a lot less than 8-10 hours. I remain curious whether 8 hours of sitting combined with 8 hours of activity balances out.
Hi,

Are you in the SF Bay area? If so, get in touch with me and I'll pass along an opportunity.
What is going on with Mixergy? Their site requiring registration to visit
SearchYC has actually been tremendously valuable to me and my startups in the past. Hacker News is such a treasure trove of information, anecdotes and friends and your service was the gateway to that.

I used SearchYC as my "google for startups" I honestly cannot reiterate how useful your service was. I wish you'd keep it going as I still use it over the Hacker News Search (habit, more features, search within search results, being able to search for specific comments from users, etc etc.)

A friend was having relationship problems in part due to his startup, and I explicitly remember him saying "I looked on SearchYC and found tons of other posts from founders in the same boat" (this was when you had the curated post categories)

Seriously, thanks. (my startup is kind of in crunch at the moment but I had been meaning to reach out to you guys when I saw your service went offline a few weeks ago, i couldn't let you guys go without me - and probably the majority of the community - giving you guys some thanks and credit)
>>does not use GNU libc nor any other parts of GNU project<<

On the contrary:

- The program is compiled with GCC

- "GCC development is a part of the GNU Project..."
Going there and being redirected to mixergy.com/hi/ which asks for my email address... Anyone else getting that?

*edit: It only happens on a browser that haven't visited the site before.
Before ever hearing of Benford's law I've noticed that many books are more worn at the beginning than further on.

I simply chalked it up to most people not being very serious about reading books in general and any given book in particular. It's a rare person who makes it all the way through.

I don't think my own observation was a particularly interesting or original one.

What made Newcomb's observation interesting was that it was about books of logarithm tables in particular, where (unlike a typical book) you'd think the lookups would be uniformly distributed.

The other interesting thing that did require an unusual amount of curiosity and dedication is the systematic testing of such a casual observation to try to figure out what the underlying reasons for it were and how they might apply to things other than books of logarithms. This desire and dedication to observe, test, and figure out the underlying workings of things is the hallmark of many a great scientist.
Have you considered that your login UI (including the "forgot password" feature) isn't intuitive enough for your audience? We take a lot of things for granted as programmers/techies.

Beyond that, I think I'd start "firing" customers who are a huge support drain like that, especially those who are non-paying customers. Unless your site depends heavily on network effects, and a large percentage of visitors have password issues, it sounds like your time could be much better spent elsewhere.
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I wasn't doubting your numbers, I haven't confirmed but you seem to know what you're talking about.

I just had an intuitive problem with the original post's assertion that office-space cooling in permanent structures could be anywhere near as expensive to run as cooling non-permanent structures in a 120 degree desert warzone, serviced by Halliburton contractors.
Wrong on both counts. First of all, KPN is the largest but by no means the only telco. The only special position they have left is that because they used to be the state telephone monopoly they still own most of the last-mile copper. But they are forced to lease those at cost to the competition.

Second, their deep packet inspection strategy applied to mobile only. This isn't about the cost of the infrastructure, this is about the enormous loss they suffer from people switching from traditional, highly profitable telco services like voice and texting to internet-services like VOIP, Whatsapp etc.

They cannot compensate those losses by increasing the cost of bare internet without increasing what they charge so far above the actual cost that it would spark an instant consumer revolt. If all telcos would do the same, it would also set off anti-trust actions. If they wouldn't, well then everybody would simply move to the telco that charged considerably less (and open the door for new players). Mobile in Europe is a very competitive market

Bottom line: they've dug a very deep hole for themselves by relying on an unsustainable high profit margins on services people don't need anymore. And they've just dug it deeper by doing something silly that triggered net neutrality laws that otherwise wouldn't have happened.
Is this not ironic http://d.pr/x9Ri :)

Seriously though, all the best, and thanks for all the years of good service!
Not going to say nothing new, but it's been really useful for me. Thanks.
This case brings up the issue of attaching a GPS to a car surreptitiously without a warrent and using it for continuous tracking. Near the end it brings up the theory of "practical obscurity", which distinguishes between public records where one might have to dig into court records all over the place vs. getting the same data from a central clearing house. Apparently the FBI has refused to release aggregated public records on this doctrine in the interest of privacy.

Practical Obscurity is an interesting theory. My non-lawyerly guess is that if it is upheld by the Supremes, it would be used in all kinds of attacks against search engines.
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Sitting kills you, saturated fats kill you, disposable chopsticks kills you, sugar kills you... We're so concerned about how to extend the time we have, that we're neglecting the time we actually do have.

Here's me: I haven't eaten vegetables since I was 8 years old. I sit down in front of a computer screen for multiple hours a day. I eat any junk food I want, as long as it tastes good. I drop a ton of water weight before a fight for weighing purposes. I've learned the physically straining technique, Needle through Glass (throwing a sewing needle through a pane of glass), and I do a lot of binge training.

Although I'm perfectly healthy right now, is it possible that I'll die when I'm 60? Yeah. But at least I'll have fully enjoyed my life. It beats the hell out of half living for 90 years. Not to mention, it's also possible your life will be cut short by a rampaging bus... and that has nothing to do with preventable measures.

My two cents.
I'd be down for a perl regex fight. The great part about that is the participants would look like they were typing obscenities at each other.
I recently got a combination sit/stand desk and I feel that when I stand I tend to move more overall, however, so "motionless" might be less of a factor. I sway back and forth a lot, or rock on my heels slightly, etc...

I've found that breaking my day into about half sitting / half standing has been roughly optimal. I've been unable to stand for the entire day without a fair amount of ankle/foot pain.
Bufferbloat means when you refuse to drop packets, you get longer latencies: http://www.bufferbloat.net/

Why you'd have big buffers sometimes and not others, I have no idea.
Regarding your indexing issue, have you tried SOLR (Lucene powered)? I ran the Blaze VMWare appliance [1], and it worked great for small collection of text-based pdfs.

[1] http://susegallery.com/a/Kr7Ayv/blaze-appliance-for-solr
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> Sitting for several hours each day is bad for you, like smoking is bad for you, regardless of whether you do healthful activities, too.

I'm looking forward to the EU-directive that will ban chairs in bars and restaurants, the same as they did with smoking.
Because DOM elements are much heavier than Javascript objects in size, query/update performance, and update requirements.
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Except that there are tons of projects that haven't been designed by a committee or that have a reasonable hierarchy based on meritocracy.

Firefox, the Linux kernel, Wordpress, Rails (and here I'm specifically mentioning infrastructure, as APIs need good design too).

The Linux desktop sucks for sure, but that's only because everybody, including designers, are only interested in the first 80% of the implementation which is the interesting stuff. The other 80% of the work is boring and people have to get paid to work on it - that's why projects with commercial interests do get polished (there are exceptions like Eclipse of course, which is over-engineered).

Someone who'll probably decide to cut 90% of the
features

Personally I hate the Gnome desktop because it doesn't have the features I want. The OS X desktop has tons more features and attracts many more users.

It's also not the job of the designer to cut features. His job is to create an interface to make those features easy to use.

Also the article mentions Eclipse versus Coda. Personally I hate Eclipse, but that's what you end up with when creating an IDE for a language with APIs designed for IDEs in the first place.

Of course, it could have a better design, as IntelliJ IDEA can show, but even IDEA is overkill for projects created in dynamic languages designed for simple text editors. See what I did there?
Here's a real screencap: http://imgur.com/kLjoF

doesn't look that different. The top is gray and a few headlines are orange.
Thanks for the link. The conclusion actually indicates standing is not sufficient, exercise is necessary.

From Wikipedia, "[...] sedentary drivers of London's double-decker buses had higher rates of cardiovascular disease than the conductors who climbed the stairs" and "[Jerry Morris] performed further studies that showed slow movements such as gardening helped very little and exercise had to be more vigorous to help."
no time adding new feature is OK. but if it is hosting costs, HN users can donate or get a sponsor.

if you want a maintainer, I am willing to takeover from where you are leaving
This is a bit of an aside, but thank you for doing this. I've been enamored with the 30-under-30 list for many years, and it's become a goal of mine to get on it at some point. Don't have many years left to hit it, but I'm certainly going to try!
Yeah, just encountered the same problem.
Can't recommend Kashi GoLean highly enough. Pair that with Greek yogurt and you're eating 35g+ of protein for breakfast alone, all with comparably little sugar.

As for the comment about Kashi being too costly, I have a bi-monthly recurring shipment set up on Amazon. With the 15% subscribe and save discount, I pay $2.90 per box and it's shipped right to my door. Not too shabby.
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I am fortunate to have a desk that has adjustable legs, so I was able to try out with a standing desk. I have been doing this for about two weeks now and my verdict thus far is the same as yours.

The first week was a bit brutal and my heels were really sore at the end of the day, but luckily my dad does ergonomic consulting and had an anti-fatigue mat lying around, now I can stand 8+ hours a day and not feel any pain or soreness. I get to walk around more and I feel a lot more productive than when I was sitting. Oh, also I am burning about 1300+ calories for standing each work day, which is about an hour of intense cardio.

If you have been on the fringe about working standing up, I say do it. Just make sure you get an anti-fatigue mat because that will take a lot of pressure off your feet.
I would also require you to create a redirect in some DB every page that a QR code had shown up on. Alternately you could just change the URL to be http://mydomain.com/subdirectory/page.html?QRCode
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This is what a .org is supposed to be, but it is not, and I suspect you are being ironic?

It needs either cash or regulation, imho.
It's mentioned through that part: "Airbnb contracted outside sales people to generate leads". This was pretty much the response from the company to the craigslist spamming story.

To be honest, while reading that line, I thought it was slightly odd because it was pretty specific (e.g. "outside" could be removed, but it clearly distances Airbnb from said sales people) and didn't necessarily bring anything to the story, especially since Airbnb has said the efforts were "largely ineffective".

The cynic in me feels that it was included specifically to add weight to the company's response about that craigslist story.
So thanks to black hat SEO spammers and related ne'er-do-wells, we are back to AltaVista times.