skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't discuss sit-stand either, beyond saying that people only stand for 15 minutes a day, and they can't find benefits, which suggests to me that in the sit-stand group they effectively ended up studying people who sat all day.

So, are they saying sit-stand is ineffective, or are they saying that in practice people just sit?
HN Freelancer Rates Survey Results
FXCC Blog Updated - Disambiguation – Aka Forex Scalping
I dislike it when articles make bizarre statements and take it for granted that the audience should accept it. Like:

But, standing to work has long known to be problematic, it is more tiring, it dramatically increases the risks of carotid atherosclerosis (ninefold) because of the additional load on the circulatory system, and it also increases the risks of varicose veins, so standing all day is unhealthy.

Where do they get that?? Citations, please! It took me a bit to find all the background research and read up on it. Interesting stuff.

That being said, still prefer the standing desk. My standing desk at home is right by my bed, so it's really easy to fall back and change my position when needed, and I'm worried about carotid atherosclerosis or varicose veins. :)

See also what the book 59 has to say about lying down and creativity. :)

Some background info I found for anyone more interested in this.

http://www.slideshare.net/inspiringlife/are-you-an-accidenta...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10901115
Tired of this kind of speculation. Let the doers do.

Microsoft seems to be, for once, trying to make something nice and different from the rest of me-too pads out there. Even if it were to launch two years from now, what if they have something so differentiated from the iPad at that point that it might attract its own following? Is iPad the end of all computing innovation?

I'd say Go Microsoft! Give Apple a run for its money if you can!
A frowny is a defacto (Western) Internet standard indicating sadness or disappointment. In Japan you could possibly write ;_;

You could also look upon it as a relation to Apple's "Sad Mac" that's been around for probably more than 20 years.

Personally I think having a bit of personality takes the edge away from the harshness of a BSOD.
There is even a nice OS X app for that.

Moving around is really, really the best thing to do in a Pomodoro break. Every time I check Facebook or mail instead I regret it.

The downside is, I never figured out how to apply Pomodoro to research work or other stuff that has no discernible tasks - just feels weird then :(
Film Production Jobs
Searching for 3d animation, creative, film production, VFX jobs? Find jobs in animation, production, creative, VFX, film production for Free at Productionjobshop. Search & apply for the jobs in UK’s largest job site today!
Advertise a Job
Advertise a Job - PJS provides advertising a job and posting ads online. Register your company, product or service then select one of our banner advertising packages. Post a job advertises with Productionjobshop, UK.
According to the blog[1], it's Rackspace.

[1]: http://journal.sifterapp.com/blog/2011/08/sifters-new-hostin...
Going for Basecamp's jugular :)
nubz
Online Banner Design Software Custom Banner Design Application Tool
Online product designer provide solution for online banner design tool, online custom design software, online design software application tool, banner designer tool made in flex / flash can be integrated with new and already exist website.
HACKER FOR THE HELL OF IT: THE ADVENTURES OF KEVIN MITNICK
Forcing a reload is never relevant. If it's a very long operation, use a modal popup, or hide the refreshing part of the page, but you should never force a reload.
LTG  Distrupt: Arrington puts VCs on the hot seat (video)
Same for me. My google account also has problems. I've already fixed my email for the account with the special characters... am I done for then?
In short it's an IDE to create new languages, and those languages will have IDEs, cool stuff I would say.

I remember in 2006-2007 I've tried MPS, back then it looked too complicated, I hope that now guys from JetBrains have improved the documentation.
Oh, the win8 app store looks really great. 0% cut, transparent review process and support for trials.

I guess I will be writing some windows app in the future. (I'm a Mac developer.) And I hope this will force Apple to improve their app store developer experience a little bit.
Student Subsidized Loan
البث المباشر لماتش مانشستر يونايتد و بنفيكا 14/9/2011
البث المباشر لماتش مانشستر يونايتد و بنفيكا 14/9/2011
http://webs.maktoobblog.com/531/watch-manchester-united-vs-benfica/
Who Took the Cookie From the Cookie Jar ... and Did They Have Proper Consent?
I only saw a lot of facebook-like streams, avatar pictures and a lot of other bling making it hard to see what's actually going on.
Paid Surveys Australia | Paid For Surveys
Paid Surveys Australia will give you free online access to the best paid online surveys in Australia, get paid to take surveys from home and make money!
Previous instalments: http://willgrant.org/category/ideas/
Adaptation: Why responsive design actually begins on the server [mobile]
How to Lose Arm Flab for Girls
Maltol
Elementary OS Luna To Be Based On Ubuntu 12.04
Google Flights only supports the US at the moment. I see this as a good thing for Skyscanner which covers Europe well, they can adopt and implement new ideas from Google Flight search before Google gets around to other countries.
UTorrent.com Web Server Was Compromised, Website Infected With Scareware
Canadian Coin Values | Gold and Silver Investor
Maybe linear would be more appropriate than incremental as in: not all improvements in our lifestyle will have the same impact on our health. If you stand up and move every 20-30 minutes but you eat sugary and fatty food all the time, the improvement of your small breaks will be marginal in the long run compared to all the other problems you'll get. On the other hand, if you sit down all day but eat healthier food (good fat, more proteins, less calories, fibers), the benefits of this lifestyle will be greater.

Stress management and reduction also comes to mind (of course taking a small break and moving around can help that).
Get Money for Hacking
Yeah, I probably won't be "staying tuned". If that's what you want, you may want to rethink the tone of the page at the end of the link - it comes across as "ha ha weren't you stupid for clicking the link, I totally could have pwned your system".

1) I doubt that's actually true for many of us here on HN - we use systems that are relatively hardened against intrusion, and even when there are security holes, we generally have secondary mechanisms for protecting our important data

2) You don't offer suggestions for how those that aren't already protected could do so, which would actually be helpful.

At any rate, you successfully rubbed me up the wrong way. I won't be coming back to see what you're up to on Friday.
Do you work on this?

It looks intriguing to me, and the page does give the impression that it's nicely designed, but I have no idea what it does. Something to do with tasks, and project management, and it "works on mobile too". Maybe I'm expected to know already kanban, what it brings to project management, and how it works?

Watching the Trello video, and browsing around the http://trello.com/ landing page, I immediately have ideas about how I could be using Trello - that's not the case on http://www.kanbanpad.com/.
UGG 5125 Coquette Slipper
If this article is too long to read then you have bigger problems than your posture.
Find something else to base your sense of identity/self-esteem on besides your income.
It's on iPad like Donkey Kong - in HTML5
The Lost Decade: Average Household Income (Chart)
Nice to see a wee bit of Scotland on Hacker News.
The new era of function follows form.
Yeah, I'm sure that if they suddenly stop filing patents, they'll have absolutely no trouble continuing to build microprocessors. It's not like their competitors will patent things (taking advantage of our brilliant new First To File system) and then take Intel to court for every penny they have...
Nearly all nominally sans-serif mono-spaced fonts do this.
The Trello site is written in plain English - it's easy for anyone to think of ways they could use Trello. The Walboardr site is full of 'buzzwords' that make it attractive to a segment of the market ('swimlanes', 'burn-up charts', 'points per status', 'backlog', 'iteration' etc.). Trello looks like it's trying to be a general purpose tool, Wallboardr does not.

Note that this isn't a value judgement - if it's _intended_ to be a niche product that's really appealing to one market segment (so they'd always choose it over e.g. Trello because of its specialization), that could be a good thing.
A new kids of domain hack?
I found a crazy web site.
http://shortenuf.com
They buy many domains, everyone use them. for 3 min!
They say it is "mobile shortcut platform".
Ask HN: My side project. Is it useful?
About 3 years ago, I started work on FlightM8. For reasons that I'll simply refer to as "life falling apart" I stopped working on it. However, seeing Google Flights launch yesterday re-piqued my interest in it and I'm wondering wether I should pick it up again. So what is FlightM8?

Firstly, it's an Alpha. The data is out of date, and it's buggy. It's also on shared hosting so it may well buckle under pressure at the moment.

Here's the URL for the impatient: http://flightm8.tomelders.com/

Secondly: Here's what it does...

In a nutshell, FlightM8 tells you "who flies where". Let's say you're in London. Your boss calls and says you have to meet with Diesel Jeans on Monday. They're a big new client and they're in Bassano Del Grappa, Italy. The rest is up to you to figure out. So... How do you get from London to Bassano Del Grappa?

Well, London is pretty easy for anyone who knows it. You have Heathrow, Gatwick, Luton, Stanstead, London City airports to choose from.

Bassano del Grappa?, not so easy. First of all, where the hell is it? When you eventually find it, you realise it doesn't have an airport. Here's where FlightM8 starts being useful. Search for Bassano del Grappa and you'll see that it's served by 3 airports, all within a reasonable distance. Venice Marco Polo, Venice Treviso, Verona Villa Franca.

There's not a flight search engine that I know of that would group those airports together.

Ok, so who flies to those places? This is what flightm8 was built to do. For a combination of routes you have a choice of... Ryanair, Easyjet, Air Berlin, Germanwings, British Airways, Monarch Airlines and BMI.

I'm willing to gamble you've never heard of at least two of those airlines. And two of those airlines (Easyjet, Ryanair) do not show up on flight search websites. (A quick aside, there used to be a bunch of other budget airlines in Europe that you've probably never heard of, but a lot of them went bust in the recession)

The aim is to help you 'start' your search for flights. I started work on it out of necessity because I was flying all over europe and wasting a lot of money on flights, only to be told by a local that I could have flown to an airport I've never heard of, with an airline I've never heard of for half the money.

When I heard Google had bought IATA, I secretly hoped they'd release some sort of API. I doubt that's going to happen, which makes listing prices and times of flight near impossible in terms of cost.

But here's the question: Is FlightM8 useful? Should I resume working on it?
Steve Jobs about his Successful Business Model. yup...60 min
Hardware security modules, dedicated airgapped boxes, smart cards, etc - there are lots of solutions (and you now have something to Google). You'll get better answers if you ask more specific questions, and Google is probably a better tool than HN.
The Kitchen Scale - A Tool Whose Time Has Come
> After BOIS has been configured, you need to do a reboot, shut down, wait about 10 seconds and then start up again.

Ignoring the BIOS spelling thing: What is this 10 second wait here? Magic? What do I have to say and which type of animal should I offer to the machine?

More serious: Why?
Open Graph inspector - a handy Chrome plugin
The original worked for me, albeit slowly. If it's still slow for people, you can try the Coral CDN mirror http://design.canonical.com.nyud.net/2011/09/ubuntu-monospac...

I really like monospace (mostly) sans-serif fonts, as opposed to the Courier family, for development and terminal work. Another free addition is always welcome, although I'm not sure I like this better than my current font (DejaVu Sans Mono, I think). The raised middle stem in the 'm' looks decidedly weird to me, for example.
Sean Duffy case highlights murky world of trolling
Would your complaint sound strange if it was worded, "Are you aware that several Googlers resigned after a petition ignored by 90% of the workforce was ignored by management?"

Ultimately, some policy on some random social networking site nobody uses is not much of a big deal. If you don't like the policy, don't use Google+. Easy.
60 East Cleveland homes to be demolished
Fun1club: Politics of Love (2011)
Python sucks at unicode, maybe they used python, not sure though.
There aren't the jobs in R&D, it's as simple as that. Not even 1 in 10 physics PhD's goes on to be a professor. It might not even be 1 in 100.
I find that if I restate someone's argument absurdly and preface my statement with "I agree", people are less likely to see me as an antagonist and more likely laugh at themselves. (This is actually one of my favorite tactics for productive disagreement.)
GE Appliances Helps Unveil Fridge-Recycling Behemoth in Philly
maybe insane.. but makes the plugins faster...
Argghh. Please correct it again, to

Modules are where it's at

(it's = it is, and you're saying "Modules are where it is at")
HP Laptop Battery
Hp Laptop Battery - Laptop Originals Battery, Buy original hp laptop battery, Laptops Battery, Dell Battery, IBM Battery, Lenovo Battery, Sony Battery at wholesale rate at your door step with free shipping charges.
Comparing CoffeeScript and Kaffeine
I dunno, slacking off for (at least) 16.67% of time sounds a bit too much to me.
It's completely wrong, because it ignores both time and risk. It's worth real value to me to have money now rather than later. It's worth real value to me to give you some money, and you take some risk off my hands. And on the other hand, if you think my risk is lower than I think it is, and if you have money to spare, let's make a deal.

Remember, if both parties aren't better off, why would the trade even happen?
Of course in the days of the Sad Mac, that was only upon a failed boot. When it crashed it showed a cartoony round bomb with a lit fuse on the end. Made people mad!
I have the impression that this is mainly a point-and-click GUI for an implementation of a quarter of Common Lisp.

To translate their calculator tutorial (http://www.jetbrains.com/mps/docs/tutorial.html), in Common Lisp you would write a little macro "define-calculator" that then lets you write something like this:

(define-calculator java-and-php-hours
(input java-hours :label "Java hours")
(input php-hours :label "PHP hours")
(output (+ (* java-hours 10)
(* php-hours 5))
:label "Total"))

It would be based on some library (e.g. common-qt) that provides GUI primitives.
JS 2 CoffeeScript Compiler
I think what you've got is pretty cool, but you've got some extremely stiff competition from the likes of Hipmunk, and (as of yesterday) Google: google.com/flights.

I also worry that your unique selling point (the fact that it helps to display hard-to-find airports) is difficult to word in an appealing way - who wants to go to hard-to-find airports? I'm not saying it's impossible though, but I think you'd benefit from finding a good way to word that. Good luck!
Thurott has been called a Microsoft fanboy, and Gruber has been called an Apple fanboy. If it matters, read and agree with whichever one reinforces your own personal prejudices.

For me the Thurott comments are just Microsoft vapourware being cheered on by an MS groupie. I'll believe in the Windows 8 tablet when I see it, and if I ever see it I'll compare it to whatever is available from other suppliers at the time.

For now the iPad has no credible competitor. When, if, a Windows 8 tablet comes along I will be astonished if that claim can be made about that product.
Perth Business Coach
Perth Business coaching for small to medium sized businesses.
Ok, no source (jet).

Please vote:
http://vote.aerofs.com/forums/67721-feature-requests/suggest...
As far as I remember, uTorrent has an internal auto-update functionality that interrogates the server for a new version. I wonder how well that is secured and if owning utorrent.com is enough to distribute a malicious update to all users unfortunate enough to start the application while owned.

I'm very wary about auto-updates that pull executables (as opposed to merely data) in this way. It's one thing for Chrome to do it, I assume Google does it in a way that's safe. But freeware/shareware projects? Not so much. Hell, who's to say the authors don't lose interest in two years and let the domain expire. I had one freeware or open-source app that didn't even have the courtesy of asking, it just pulled fresh binaries and restarted -- ouch. (At least you could disable this feature in the preference.)
Perhaps a better question is why Tobin himself now opposes the Tobin tax?
Macroglossa visual search API on-line. Free subscription.
Because they wanted to get the money, I presume.
Blackberry Dakota | Price
Blackberry Dakota | Price. After yesterday I posted the Blackberry Dakota specs, it turns out these products can already be purchased. A counter at the Mall of Kartini was selling this with 8.8 million rupiah. Expensive? Yes, because the inventory is still scarce.
Natural Health Remedies
Unusual Christening Gifts Resemblense
Without meaning to sound big-headed; we think our gift recommendation engine at 15gifts.com is the best place online to find unique christening gifts that match the personality of the person you're looking to buy
I've only watched the first hour and 3/4 so far as I've work to do, but here are my notes, they are rough but you asked:

Architecture

- ARM and X86

- Uses less resources than windows 7 according to screen shots (280Mb RAM footprint)

- Startup time is incredible, as well as shutdown

- Rootkit protection

- Mentioned encrypted drive while it's running? Not sure if this is default

UI

- Touch centric interface

- Heavily influenced by the phone UI, the 'start' screen is a panel of apps and things.

- Heavily built around windows live and sharing

- If you're in support you'll be saying 'swipe to the right' a lot. Opens context start menu

- Seems to switch to a normal desktop view with a bar down the bottom when you open something like visual studio

- Actually seem to be able to switch between panel and desktop view. The panel looks like the app launcher, you'll probably be able to disable it

Development

- You can use HTML5/Javascript OR .Net/C++/C + XAML to write apps.

- App store (see below)

- CSS is extended for windows using browser specific extensions

- They also seem to have written some default APIs for things like facebook

- Pushing Blend again, still poo, but now supports windows html

- little apps are called 'metro style' apps

- Seem to be making a deal about how rich the APIs are

- Put a lot of effort into the APIs for hardware addons such as accelerometers

- Don't have to do anything to support ARM

- Everything you write will have baked in hardware accelerated graphics

- Making a big deal of 'charms', makes apps content aware and kinda embeddable in the interface elsewhere in the system. You kinda have to see this to understand them

-- They're context aware so if you're copying text ad your app is marked as accepting text then they'll appear as a charm for that.

-- They also appear in the search system if you've flagged them

App store

- Unsurprisingly closed

- Trying to make the process more transparent, shows waiting times for each review step

- Will test security, technical and content (for copyright?)

- You will be able to run the auto testing tools yourself (e.g. technical compliance make sure not abusing API)

- App store baked into the OS

- Old apps are going to be listable too (Win32)

- Sounds like it's going to be available on windows 7 too

- Will this get immediately overwhelmed with old programs?

First thoughts

- It's really bloody good. I started a skeptic on it being overly touch centric, ended impressed.

- They've made some very bold choices and it seems to have paid off

- This might be a bad thing for html5, it's possibly going to fragment standards as MS are having to push ahead some features to handle the UI without acceptance. I guess we'll see.

p.s. Looks like the other PC manufacturers are finally copying the Macbook air form factor, they look really good

p.p.s. Crowd shots are weird as everyone is a bloke! (see 2:33ish)

p.p.p.s. Windows developers are still clueless about javascript. Using null in one of the examples.
It's pretty incredible in hindsight what a poor steward Ballmer has been for MS. I can't complain because MS seems to have finally loosened its death grip on the industry but if I were a shareholder I'd be pretty upset.

That said, I think a resurgent, non-monopolistic MS would be good for the industry as a whole.
Pot, meet Kettle. You're judging me on the first word of my response, when the rest of it responds to his argument in detail.

Here's another response. This time I've quoted what I'm replying to, to save you any more confusion:

> Really, having or not having pet projects ... shouldn't matter [at] hiring time. You judge people on their ability as good as you can and what they do in their free time is simply none of your business.

So, my choice is between a) someone who likes programming enough to have a personal project - code that you can see and ask questions about - and b) someone who claims to have been too busy raising a family or having a life to have done anything else but work, can't show you any code because it's either "none of your business", or so much of a drag that they can't bring themselves to do it outside of work hours.

It's a no-brainer who I'm going to pick, and it's nothing to do with exploiting him.
How do you overcome making sure mobile devices don't download lots of images/interactive components they won't/don't/can't display?
That's nice - but when will they add WebGL? I know about Microsoft's security concerns, but I can't wait to see how 3D rendering could innovate the web. I even have a couple of ideas myself...
The HDCP magic inside Bunnie's NeTV
I signed up for the email, but I hope most people will just code and give a few comments, rather than trying to explain every single thing they are doing. It just makes it boring. Code as fast as you can, and keep the comments to a minimum.

Watching Notch was amazing. He did it perfectly. There were times during the first few hours that I fast forwarded, but only when he was experimenting. And it was never for long.
being an asana user for few months, I just registered and used it for a small project.

Quite confusing, not sure which one is better!
Foundry Group rocking it - I'm A VC
My first impression is that Trello isn't a (good) product (yet) but it will certainly leverage on Joel's marketing machine.

Observations:
The organization information should not be public by default. I haven't found a way to delete an organization (is it there?).

The interface is unusable on iPad/mobile.

The card pop-up window is hard to use when there's some actual information attached to it. The bird's eye view is confusing and offers little information.

Activity log grows fast with information I would not need: voting events, add/remove members, etc. Make two activity logs, one with useful information and one with tracking (investigation) information.

In Opera and Chrome the red connection establishing notice appears all the time.

The in/out/public permissions are easy to use, but users may actually need more granularity.
What is this? A blog with a terrible UI? A presentation? I have no idea what is going on.