skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been "standing" for about 1.5 yrs now.

I started out with a Geekdesk at home and then also got an ergodepot desk for work - they're about $900 and $600 respectively (incl shipping) and worth every penny. THese desks are more expensive options because they are height adjustable. Height adjustable is the key bc it allows you to sit (not at a bar stool, but a real office chair).

- My "default" position is standing (with an amusingly named "anti-fatigue mat" which my dog tends to get fatigued and sleep on regularly). When my legs are tired, I sit. I can do this quickly and without any strain in my neck, back or arms because the desks are motorized. I might switch positions a few times a day.

- Phone calls are always taken standing. Certain tasks that require a lot of intense focus I might sit for. At home I'll watch a TV show standing, for example. Even after a run, I'll stand.

- I'm a runner and hate sitting for long periods. I also have bad posture and have had some minor back pain from sitting. That all went away with the desk.

- POSTURE! It's so easy to sit and slouch or crane your neck or whatever. Standing doesn't fix that but it certainly makes it easier to have better posture without thinking about it.

- A standing desk makes it incredibly easy to "get situated". Just walk up to it, do something, and walk away. Much less latency than sitting at a big chair, shuffling up to the desk, doing something, and then getting up from the chair.

- I love answering questions about my standing desk (yes, I can be an amazing sales person!) because I think everyone should have one. Remember, I'm talking about a height adjustable desk, not these $30 ikea deals on bricks. The point is, you can always go back to sitting normally so it's not a major commitment and people need time to adjust. To me, every office should outfit H.A. desks so employees can make their own decision.

- The health benefits are pretty well established. Read the NYT article http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/sunday-review/stand-up-for... And look up the studies that discuss how enzymes for breaking down fat shut down when you sit.

- Definitely do NOT get a standing desk "to lose weight". That just seems silly to me. So maybe you'll burn ~100 calories more per day but most likely won't see anything noticable. This is a long term solution. The noticeable thing is that your leg muscles are actively engaged through the day, it's easier to activate various muscle groups bc you'll switch legs, stretch, etc. The major benefits apparently are with your heart but that ain't something you'll notice in the near term.

- I Love having "meetings" around my desk. Everyone stands, we look at the screen easily (no crowding of big chairs with arm rests) and things just stay more focused.

> Short video (of me) about Geekdesk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWVaKP7obbk&feature=g-upl

> Longer video (of me) describing 5 tips for posture incl standing desk but also adjusting a keyboard and monitor correctly, and even changing your keyboard layout: http://t.co/fi3DJbI3

> And of course, I am the ever-judgemental Dwight in my office :) http://t.co/pHDSWHyf
Because I am a hacker with a per hour cost.

I love messing around with BSD, and then blogging about it (itmanagerscookbook.com / ciocookbook.com) but, I simply cannot afford downtime like this for things that are totally avoidable, by leveraging the intelligence of others.

Apple collates that intelligence and "curates" it for me.

But they are not "open" - and if there was someone even similarly testing hardware and polishing drivers then for me it is worth paying a premium, following their hardware instructions, and having a BSD machine that does what I want without the fear of sitting in front of the blank screen and spending a long time getting everything back to where I want it.

:-(
This really isn't very similar to CoffeeScript. It's a bit more like Objective-C, in that TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript. From what I can tell, there are really only two additions:

1) Type Annotations. These are just simple extensions to function definition syntax. So you can make a function like `function helloWorld(msg: string) {}`, and get static type-checking.

2) Classes. They add a simple ES6-compatible `class` definition syntax. (along with `interface`).

Since it's a superset of JavaScript, rather than a whole redesign of the language, any valid JavaScript file is valid TypeScript. But, similarly to CoffeeScript, TypeScript is compiled to JavaScript before execution (rather than being an IE-only runtime or something).

This is a pretty earnest, carefully restrained effort to patch two of the most significant pain-points in JavaScript. Personally, I find this more appealing in theory than CoffeeScript, although in practice it'll have to catch on first. Props to Microsoft for trying something good :)
Do you have a preference for either Yesod or Snap?
Lung capacity is average 18% higher at 5pm than midday :: optimal time to smoke
I think the very idea of pitching mutt to Sparrow target audience is brilliant. Getting out of your comfort zone may be gainful :)
Other than that it's compiled to JS, I see absolutely no relation to CoffeeScript here. It's just an ugly and statically typed version of Javascript for all those C# folks who want to hop on the fancy Node.JS bandwagon but can't sleep at night without their type safety...
Yes and no. I agree that pages like this don't really need much prettifying, but center aligning text and expanding it to page width really does make it unreadable in this instance.
I started using inoremap jk <Esc>

I'm not sure why, but I found it to be more fluid for me?
I have this strange sort of sinking feeling that HTML5 is going to hit the open Internet in much the same way IE6 did. Every player in the game seems to be working in a different direction and the browser is turning into something much more than a vehicle for content.

I know I'm not the only one who believes this is a bad thing.
Not the GP, but I was thrilled with how easy it is to integrate. I have a little site that I'm putting together as a hobby, and it took me about an afternoon. Web development isn't my specialty, so if you know what you're doing you could probably do it in less than an hour.
Why should the Board give them rates lower
than what they can get by freely negotiating
with the copyright holders?

The answer is in your own post:

The purpose of the compulsory licensing scheme
is the public good, to keep copyright holders
from preventing certain socially-beneficial uses.

If traditional radio compensates rights-holders as a form of advertising, why doesn't internet radio (which has restrictions on how often and how predictably it can play music)?
John Gruber calls this "Grading on a curve." For example, if we make a big fuss over her throwing a water bottle in private but celebrate Steve Jobs for throwing temper tantrums over software quality, we're grading on a curve.

(Not that anybody is doing that, it's just an example).
Apparently, that's not true. Atom Clover Trail devices will not support anything but Windows 8, and I don't think it's just a driver issue. It's a bootloader issue, too:

http://semiaccurate.com/2012/09/27/intels-clover-trail-is-a-...
Chrome, IE, and Opera need to natively incorporate browserid ASAP.

Please, put your egos away and get this done for the sake of everyone who uses the web.
> Now that Sparrow is effectively dead

Sparrow 1.6.4 was released on September 11, 2012.
Mutt 1.5.21 was released on September 15, 2010.

You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
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I sleep next to my iPad almost every night. By reading articles right before sleep, I often wonder if it's affecting the quality of my sleep.
Not very bad. The missiles are in a military base and require trained personnel to launch. PAL is just a bonus effort.
There's a better explanation of this, in French, here: http://www.tomsguide.fr/actualite/piratage-banque-france,184...

Google Translate version: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js...
> ..they allow you to install any 'app' of the internet. It is available on the little icon next to the browser bar

Apple's already dragging its feet on things like HTML5. Jobs' memo about deprecating Flash for HTML5 was 2.5 years ago, and we still see major issues with HTML5 that are easy in Flash.

Not to mention using patents to put the kibosh on very important things like touch events.

http://www.webmonkey.com/2011/12/is-apple-using-patents-to-h...

http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/2011/12/09/apple-w3c
Lots of goodies!
and they're providing sample syntax files for Sublime Text, Vi and Emacs - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/interoperability/archive/2012/10/01/...
Tried mutt, but I never really liked.

Nowadays I use 'Sup, but I might go (back) to Alpine, because its best feature - the indexer - is also its major drawback, since it hits the disk pretty heavily, which my VPS providers don't care for.
It's probably a combination of credit cards being far less popular in Europe (there are numerous local alternatives for online payment), and many of these services not being available to European companies at all.
Hacker News is not your personal tech support forum, nor is it your personal place to vent about your technical frustrations.

It is a community expectation that all submissions should respect their original titles (whether that is a blog post, an article, or something else). This keeps the front page useful instead of just a listing of opinions. You are more than welcome to editorialize and add your own take on things in the comments.

Worse yet, yours isn't just some editorialization or sarcastic comment, you're concocting a whole conspiracy theory without any basis whatsoever.
Heh, a product of a side thought. I doubt HN regulars are within my target clientele, but it can't hurt.

Typical I'd end up with a typo rolls eyes.
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Scary. I like it.
No doubt you are right, probably about all of this. But at first look, to me, it looked like CoffeeScript. More importantly my HN title is amusing, and we can always use a little more fun.
I would say “self-congratulatory” rather than “hipstery” — I’m reading this right now too, and although I find it fascinating (like I find reading about any cryptography fascinating), it often feels impenetrable without a cause to be, other than “aren’t these characters all such geniuses, I bet you can barely keep up.”
Also, I get http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Shaftos_Gone_to_Sea stuck in my head for hours afterwords each time.
Uhhh.. I hope Microsoft understands that JavaScript isn't popular because of language features or syntax, it's popular because of widespread browser support.
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That makes it "thought provoking" doesn't it? ;-)
Can I write my TypeScript in coffeescript?
I'd really like to see btrfs start to stabilize and become more mainstream, but everything still seems to say that it's experimental.

The main reasons that I want it on my desktop are:

* easy backups
* checksums
* maybe it will become integrated with package manager (I'm on ubuntu) so that I can roll back package updates if they don't work properly
No, not every company uses it, nor is it good for every company or circumstance. It is just a smell that the developers do not believe that working with someone else will help them increase their quality or speed. Some developers really are fast enough that it would slow them down to pair, but then generally, their slower team members might be hugely benefited by just a few hours a week of pairing. So it is a trade-off, do they go fast alone, or go pretty fast with a partner, and increase the _total_ productivity over time?
Gmail has largely solved the spam problem. Configuring spam filters and the like is still a PITA with your own server.
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Beautiful idea that is presented compellingly. Wonderful!
Note that I'm pretty sure that control of the UK Trident fleet depends purely on trusting the senior officers on the boats to behave themselves - again, for what seemed like good reasons.

NB In the most extreme of events, actions would be based on the (rather pleasingly British) notion of hand written letters from the PM:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_of_last_resort
The password for the "particular computer system which handles the consumer indebtedness files (basically people who are flagged as having a very bad credit history)" was 123456. Nobody could have made an ACH transfer from the french government's account.

As a community can we please refrain for linking to Hyperbolic Link Bait? This is the second time in 24 hours I have seen such a hyperbolic and misleading title.[1] If it is a great article a little hyperbole is acceptable, but both articles have been lousy. There is no reason to encourage websites to keep this behavior up.

[1] The other article was originally titled something along the lines of "Chinese hackers break in to White House military office network in charge of the president’s nuclear football" Fortunately the HN moderators stepped in and edited the title here at HN. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4595042
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OK, so here's a question. I've always wanted to spend some time reading through the Linux kernel - I really enjoyed operating systems when I studied it (and reading through MINIX src) but I don't really know where/how to start with Linux.

I mean, I guess I can just dive in, and maybe that's the best approach, but is there a strategy anyone would recommend for reading the Linux source in terms of it making sense as a combined unit of code (as opposed to a collection of algorithms, if that makes sense)?
This compiles to javascript ... whats the problem?
> Flash is only available in Chrome and not Chromium

Flash is available in Chromium. It plugs right in.
That's a decision between Intel and Microsoft on how to make an x86 computer that is optimized for Windows 8. It has nothing to do with a Microsoft policy. You can install Windows 8 on any x86 hardware you want alongside any other x86 compatible OS of your choice.

Let's be clear: the rules for Windows 8 certification is that manufacturers must allow the user to disable secure boot and allow them to install another OS. This is the exact opposite of what people here are arguing. There is a lot of FUD being spread, and it's just not true.
I did OpenID early on in the site (nobody understood it), RPXNow/JanRain (more than we could afford for fewer features than we needed), and finally our own solution that does OAuth* for the various providers and Persona.

I love Persona. I want a Persona shirt and tattoo. OpenID was just a bit harder, but had nowhere near the payout that using Persona offers. The only burden of Persona is the auto-login/logout handling, which is a good thing in the long-run but in the short-run involves tracking down all your login/logout methods and making sure they all react properly.

*OAuth integration is a nasty mess of nastiness that I can't bring up w/o derailing this entire conversation. If you want to chat about that train-wreck, email me.
Pair programming is a great way to get new developers up to speed with the code-base, but the team that is going to be using it long-term needs to apply it with discipline.
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Sparrow is still getting small updates on both iOS and OS X. Mutt hasn't been updated in a few years. I'm not sure one is more dead than the other.

Also, one app became loved because it has a really innovative UI and the other is an app that eschews a modern UI. I'm not sure many people will logically make the leap from Sparrow to Mutt. More likely, people will gravitate back to to gmail.com, which should be getting a lot of improvements from the Sparrow team in the future.
Can we please stop posting these pop science fluff articles that read like Men's Health ads and have little to no information on real science.
This seems similar to the type checking and optimization done by Google Closure Compiler?
Why it shall be otherwise, especially with 4 different Cyrillic encodings and size of .ru segment these days?
http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_incidents - evidence of misogynistic culture.
> what causes first, the asocial stigma? And what causes our society to keep girls from asocial activities?

In most western societies there is very little that keeps girls from these activities. But then there is the boob tube, watch some disney channel and study the stereotypes present in the shows. It kind of answers both questions. But it is not only Disney Channel I would consider it pervasive in western culture as a whole. e.g. Like TV shows like The Big Bang Theory.
"Notmuch is not much of an email program. It doesn't receive messages (no POP or IMAP support). It doesn't send messages (no mail composer, no network code at all)."

notmuch doesn't replace mutt, you use it with mutt/offlineimap etc as your mail indexer, which makes massive mail archives instantly searchable.. (and does this extremely well)

I suspect this what the grandparent was referring to, it's not intended as a mutt replacement, so to complain that it doesn't replace it well is a bit unfair
Microsoft takes the wraps off TypeScript, a superset of JavaScript
"Mutt certainly isn’t the prettiest email client around, and its setup/configuration process is one of the ugliest out there. But once you get it set up it’s got a lot of advantages over many other email clients."

Stopped reading, right there. Why are we still fighting with things that are difficult/ugly to setup/configure? Could have been the best tool ever written, but if I have to spend a half a day figuring it out, and there are other tools that do it better, I'm out.
From the desktop perspective, I really like the "Suspend to disk and memory at the same time" part. It's great that you don't have to think anymore if you're going to use your laptop in the next 2 days or not. If it runs out of power, it does - nothing gets lost!

Adding bufferbloat pieces into the main release is also good news (although that probably won't hit the servers that really need it for many more months...)
I remember MCI letting you use something like 00000000000000 as your calling card, way back in 1994 I think.
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Say what you want about whether this is a good idea or not, it is clear at least part of MS is really serious about open source.

* TypeScript is under the Apache 2.0 license [1]

* Source is available via git on Codeplex [2]

* Installation is as easy as npm install -g typescript [3]

Extra bonus coolness: They've provided an online playground like jsfiddle! [4].

[1]http://typescript.codeplex.com/license

[2]http://typescript.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/...

[3]http://www.typescriptlang.org/#Download

[4]http://www.typescriptlang.org/Playground/
TCP Fast Open (client side) is quite interesting. Is anyone aware of testable server examples/implementations yet?
Those expanding buttons on hover are terrible. a) hover is useless on a touch screen device. b) it feels like a moving target.

I'm curious how you deal with someone logging in with one system and then coming back and logging in with another. Do you have a way to merge accounts somehow?

Also, I clicked on yahoo and got this: http://www.evernote.com/shard/s178/sh/faba70e1-03e6-4448-81f...