skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a Chromebook (whose security is limited to HTTPs Everywhere, which doesn't lock much at all). How do I set up a VPN for it?
I've been standing since 2007 and I love it. An external monitor and keyboard setup is important for me, since the laptop keyboard and monitor are too close together to be able to both type comfortably and see the screen with my neck in a good position, but that might just be because I am very tall and have a long torso.

I have arrived at a very interesting angle for my keyboard which I haven't seen elsewhere. I use the Kinesis Advantage and built a little wedge out of wood to stand it on so that the keyboard is pitched in the opposite direction than most. It is arranged to be much higher at the front than the back, almost vertical, so I can type without bending my wrists or elbows at all. Can't see the key caps in this arrangement but I can touch type with my eyes closed.

I also have a huge external touchscreen monitor designed for windows 8 that I managed to get working on the mac. It's much nicer to use than a mouse or a trackpad although making extremely precise mouse movements is hard and I keep a regular mouse around to use when needed.
in the scientific community results are top secret until published. Scientists are smart people working for the greater good, but they are fiercely competitive and don't risk giving their immediate peers any advantage.
Padded shoes may actually be counterproductive.

The problem with padding is that humans actually already have an extremely sophisticated active shock and balance system in our ankles and knees, and when you add a passive system like padding on the feet, you force that system to work harder and adjust in unnatural ways. Essentially, you're setting yourself up to always be walking on unsteady ground.

So you might want to first try going barefoot for a while, and see if that helps. If you aren't accustomed to standing barefoot for long periods, it will take some time for your body to adjust, but I suspect that you will adjust faster to that than to padding.
Be careful with an abrupt switch to a standing desk. Essentially, you need to build up core and leg strength over time to prevent strain.

I've been using a standing desk for a little over a year now and have many of the same observations as the OP. I also like to alternate between sitting and standing throughout the day to mix it up. I'm never going back. But, when you first switch, you are probably putting a lot of stress on muscles that have atrophied from sitting so much. If you switch patterns too abruptly, you're likely to end up with a muscle strain or back problems, or will start leaning on your desk, which can cause problems with wrist injuries/carpel tunnel.

http://healthland.time.com/2011/04/13/the-dangers-of-sitting...
I'm considering it for my university-it doesn't have a mesh net yet. Like someone said in here, autonomous, self sufficient quadrocopters that power mesh servers is also my dream. What stack and chips / devices are you going to use?
Even if standing all day and sitting all day come out to be equivalent, standing encourages you to move more. From pacing during a bout of thinking to taking a step back while you're idly reading some content to incorporating some spontaneous pushups into your day.

For me, that's actually the critical difference.
If the KS is successful they will sell boards starting at $20.
Parse.com is down
The web site was acting strange, and is now down completely. API calls are returning 503.
It probably doesn't have good enough range, especially through obstacles. Most of the nodes in our mesh use 15dbi antennas for that reason.
it your taking feature requests, a plugin to archive to s3 would be really nice, for long term data retention. and more props to lumberjack-go port.
A pneumatic drafting stool will go up to standing height. Draftsmen have been using standing-height desks and stools for ages. This is my personal approach - I can switch back and forth between standing and sitting as needed.
Well, one can say that a bank giving a loan in a fractional reserve banking system is printing money.
So then why not use OpenVPN?
Types, especially with some good inference, don't necessarily get in the way of exploration, but purity most certainly does. Not being able to take shortcuts and being expected to have a pre-well elegant understanding of your problem can be a big blocker.

But types are fairly conservative, dynamic languages still provide quicker turn around times even if semantic feedback can't be provided. One of my research projects is focusing on getting the benefits of both.
I think it was Bill Walsh (yes, the 49ers football coach) who wrote about one of his keys to managing the players. He found that some people are negatively motivated and needed to be pressured to improve, some people were positively motivated and needed praise and some people could be left alone. The trick was figuring out which class each player fell into.
Anatomy of Application Deployment: Datacenter, Virtualized Datacenter and IaaS
... or it just means that changes from the latest publicly available release preview are so small that there is no need for an updated preview...
Parse.com down?
That's pretty awesome. I've been trying to keep up with ES6 stuff, but hadn't seen `await` yet.

I think that'll be especially handy in Node, where (in my experience) you're a lot more likely to deal with nested async operations.
As a Microsoft developer with access to Windows 8.1 Preview, I remain unaffected by any alleged bus collision.

Beyond that, Windows 8.1 was RTM'd on August 23rd. The typical timeframe would be a few weeks later it would be released to MSDN and TechNet subscribers which would place us around September 15th.

Now, there have been rumors galore around whether MSDN/TechNet subscribers would get access to Windows 8.1 on the typical timeframe and conflicting messages from Microsoft spokespeople. I was curious so I just spent 10 minutes reading everything I could find on this topic on a "within past 24 hours" Google search. I can't find a source. The only source anyone I could find mentions (if they mention a source at all) is The Verge:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/27/4663074/microsoft-announce...

The Verge gives its source as "Microsoft":

Many had hoped MSDN or TechNet customers would get access to Windows 8.1 shortly after RTM, but Microsoft says this is not the case.

Is there a link to a site where they got this information? If it was a phone conversation, who did they speak to? Many of the rumors that were formerly going around were sourced from a small Microsoft office in Europe from an employee speaking off the cuff. Are they using that same source or do they have a new source?

It could be very true that Microsoft is not releasing early to MSDN/Technet but I haven't seen a reliable source cited yet. I'm curious if anyone else knows precisely where this information is coming from.
Is PIA completely offshore?
It should be even better as the monitor can be at eye level and the keyboard and mouse can be at a comfortable height.
Very interesting. The main issue I see is it assume all desktops to be equal. Responsive design is about supporting a range of viewport dimensions and not about about a range of devices.

If I'm on a desktop browser and my window size is the same width as a tablet, then rearrange things to fit in tablet size rather than keeping at the desktop size and forcing me to scroll left/right. The demos work nice when you change devices but when you adjust your desktop window you get the same site whether you're 800px wide or 1920px wide.
A thought-provoking comment from the article:

"""In time, you will suffer from various types of pain and injuries at blood vessels.
Speak with a middle-aged barber with 30 years of "standing" experience, and ask him about his legs."""

I'm actually going to ask a few barbers. I'll tell you how it went once this kind of article pops up again (and it will).
"Preview" is not the same thing as the finished version.
If you have a decent internet connection at home with reliable uptime, you can also just set up a VPN at home and connect that way. My router comes with OpenVPN on it, so I don't even need to have extra hardware running.
A relevant point I think is that the bases survived the Iraq fiasco which Europe was broadly against. If the bases survived that, they will be there for a while yet.
From the KS page:
"Flutter Basic ($20)

Still under development, the Flutter basic is tiny and simple. You get all the features of Flutter in a circuit board with an low-profile integrated antenna, rather than the large antenna shown in the video. Featuring micro USB for power and programming, components on both sides to reduce size, an LED, and a button, as well as plenty of digital and analog I/O."
A colleague who is flat footed uses standing desks with us. She decided recently to get surgery done to fix that flat footed issue and so far so good.
"Drive" by Dan Pink is a book I found to be a good read on motivation in general. I suggest anyone with some time to check it out. Book trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

The way I see it none of those two items are what makes employee's work harder.
Reflections on teaching algorithms in spreadsheets
I would be very careful with that keyboard set up. It sounds very likely to cause RSI problems.
Nope http://www.downfor.me/parse.com
Go doesn't lend itself to functional programming, in part because of its lack of type parametrization. In a language like Scala or Haskell, using functions like map, fold, and filter is clean an idiomatic. In Go, it is so ugly and convoluted that you immediately reject this approach and use for loops instead.
Why would Microsoft announce that the product is finished if they aren't willing to let people use it? That seems incredibly stupid in a world of digital distribution.
Quantum inverted pendulum maintains unstable quantum system
I'm running my VPN (Strongswan) on a home/soho router (Netgear WNDR3700 with Openwrt).

So using Raspberry Pi is definitely an option.
I am flat footed. I bought a standing mat (one that is made for a kitchen/workshop) and then got some great shoes (ones intended for nurses and doctors). I did this about 1 week into switching to a standing desk cold turkey. I switched almost 2 years ago now (22 months ago), and sometimes I may go a day sitting at home with my laptop... and I really am happy when I get back to my standing desk at my office the next day.
The people at hand are ridiculous for sure, but the OP seems similar to the guy who suggests rewriting the company's code base in a new language/framework after the first week.

We don't write any kind of tests at work...but I don't really take a condescending attitude towards it.
the Number Of People supporting Snowden On This Site Just Makes Me Sick. He Is A Traitor To His Country and Should Be Treated As Such.
To Those Of You Reading This That Are American: Do You Honestly Feel Our Country Is Better Off Now Than Before Our State Secrets Were laid Out For Our enemies To See? That Seems Like An Indefensible Position.
To Those Of You That Aren't Americans: Your Country Has Its Secrets Also. what If This Happened To You?
This Is Reason.Pure And Simple.
You could try strengthening your arches by doing appropriate exercise. Running barefoot does this (I run barefoot because it feels nice, but I noticed an increase in foot strength too). Start very slowly if you go that route; no more than a few minutes of running per day at first.

I'm sure the internet has more ideas in case you're not into running.

As with any of these types of issues it'll take dedication to fix, but if you truly can't stand for more than a few minutes the benefits should more than make up for that.
Have you considered getting a orthopedic insert? I'm also flat footed and had enormous problems with both my legs / knees and my back before getting them.
Yup, same here. Website and api.parse.com as well.

Great timing! I just got a request from Apple for promotion in the App Store. :-) Hopefully they'll have things back up soon...
Drivetrain Design for Boosted's Electric Skateboard
hah, I thought I was the only one that did this! Though my usual go to dream-starter is either flight, or snowboarding.

With flight, I just imagine that I'm flying relatively low above the tree line (Iron Man style with my hands at my side, rather than Superman style with arms outstretched ... not sure why, but this matters to my brain :P ). Also, I start somewhere that I'm really familiar with such as my house or office and then I make sure to not follow the roads ... the thought of flying across blocks and lakes really makes me happy.

With snowboarding, I just imagine myself at the peak of a gigantic mountain. The terrain oscillates somewhere between greens and blues and is a chill winding experience.
I see encryption everywhere in the pitch, but nothing about authentication. Doing a little research, the datasheet indicates their crypto module [1] does support HMACs. That said, I'm a little leery of a pitch that (a) doesn't appear to understand the distinction between encryption and authentication and (b) doesn't state they plan on providing both.

Just my 2c.

[1] http://www.atmel.com/Images/Atmel-8740-CryptoAuth-ATSHA204-D...
Great point. Here in New Zealand we are moving towards private water/sewer and healthcare. But there is a long way to go before police and fire departments are privatized. Has anywhere privatized fire departments and police?
Quick back of the envelope calculation shows about two days (~50 hours) on 2xAA alkaline batteries when running the micro-controller on full power (~50mA current consumption according to the datasheet).

Of course aggressive power management (ie putting the mcu to sleep) could significantly extend the battery life. According to the datasheet the current consumption at sleep can be as low as 0.5mA, full two orders of magnitude difference. The standby current is in microampere range.

In comparison BBB consumes "210-460mA @5V", which would correspond to 1-3 hours on 2xAA alkalines (assuming ideal voltage converter).
Accelerated Hybrid Mobile Apps: The Sweet Spot
Nytimes.com hacked by Syrian Electronic Army
I spent many years as a Windows developer and your story resonates with me too.

Now I work in Azure. Basically "in the elevator" I bumped into this high-level developer evangelist. I gave him an earful of my own and and made him promise to have lunch with me.

If there was one or two succinct points that I could convey to him, what should it be?
since all inflation is created by the US government as an unofficial policy [...] to fund an ongoing operating deficit

This is crackpot conspiracy theory stated as fact. There is a very obvious reasons why this theory doesn't make any sense: People know about inflation, and are free to adjust their behavior accordingly. The simple fact is that if inflation were lower, nominal interest rates would be lower to match as well, and vice versa. In the end, the real interest rate will end up in the same place.

So the real story is much more nuanced. One important aspect is that monetary policy works better with higher inflation, because it takes longer to hit the Zero Lower Bound. This is why many economists have recently advocated raising the inflation target, with the hindsight experience of the ongoing aftermath of the Great Recession.

Another important aspect is essentially the Red Queen Hypothesis of economics. Due to the way pricing works in the real world outside of financial markets and auctions, prices move up more easily than they move down. For markets to work well, relative prices must adjust quickly to reflect changing underlying conditions. This relative adjustment is easier to get when the overall price level tends to move upwards.
I want a UK one! Damn those poorly distributed airwaves.

The EU allows the 136Khz band for amateurs I believe. It would be like communicating via semaphore in the fog and would probably need pretty large antenna, but we could be talking some serious arduino <--> arduino range... 50km+ I'd expect.
I had no idea what I wanted to be growing up. My dad worked construction and after working with him one summer when I was 15 I knew I absolutely didn't want to do that.

When applying to college I kind of randomly chose computer engineering since I liked video games and built up a computer once. At the time I had no idea what a computer engineer actually did (I'm honestly still not really sure), but hey, it had computer in the title. I was lucky enough to get an internship as a software dev at a startup and that's what I do now.
Log file analysis is a big deal. This one company (Splunk) alone is worth 5 billion dollars:

http://www.google.com/finance?q=splunk&ei=VwsdUqi2L5qglwON4g...
Fractional reserve banking has a limit, because the bank always need to keep said fraction. So that creates inflation up to a point - then it stops. The government can print infinite money without end, creating consistent, never-ending debasement. That's the difference.

The banking system on its own could not account for consistently rising prices for the past hundred (or however many) years.
As someone who started using Java during college for a side job and after getting a job at the company afterwards switching to C# mostly: IntelliJ vs VS? IntelliJ wins (though VS got way closer). But with plugins? Or mainly one plugin: ReSharper (for those who don't know it's a plugin for VS made by the guys who make IntelliJ). VS with ReSharper has become my favorite IDE.
See my other response above (wrote that before I read this, though well after you'd made the comment): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6286046

I wonder how many people use flight for this kind of thing.
We've got standing desks at work and the advice we got from the ergonomist was that the advantage came from varying your position and to use then in the standing position for about an hour in the middle of the day.
I have flat feet and love my drafting desk/stool I use for my desktop setup. I can sit and stand as I need, the only trick is that a high draftsman's stool is a little trickier to scoot into than a chair. That said, this is my home geekery setup and not my work setup so I don't do it 8 hours straight everyday.
http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Erik-Meijer-is-l...
Really? It's 2013 and the login experience in Linux is that of windows 98? Login, but don't do anything until the disk led stops blinking like mad. Depressing...

Me, I've gone i3wm, but it's not for the faint of heart; And it still depends on lots of gnome utilities, like the network manager or the settings daemon.
The lunacy of trying to avoid NSA spying by moving tech out of the US
thank you

some glitch http://status.parse.com/incidents/49361mvl9p78
Looks like Chromebooks may support it right out of the box: https://support.google.com/chromeos/answer/1282338
They were trying to catch him for anything they could imagine. Maybe he was the next marathon bomber, coming from a laboratory session. They'd be national heroes, or at the very least they'd make damn damn sure that nobody's ass could be on the line for letting the next marathon bomber slip through TSA.

(What? TSA's job isn't to protect marathons? Silly patriot, do you want to let the terrorists win?)
Very interesting, I didn't notice the word 'Work' until I read the comments about it. I wonder what's going on here, perceptually... Maybe the similarity of the two words "Worst" and "Work" causes our brain to merge them... Or maybe because it's getting late...
How do the rest of you feel about Quora.com?
If you understood how to write Go, you would write an imperative ad-hoc loop instead of composing generic functional combinators. But you have to be mature enough to jump over the shadow of your functional pride and write clean imperative code.
Ultimate Cheat Sheet By James Altucher Is Bad Advice
and comes with an excellent set of libraries.
Startups Racing to Offer Markets Speed, Security
FTA

"2. Our company currently operates out of the United States with gigabit gateways in the US, Canada, Germany, France, UK, Switzerland, Sweden, the Netherlands and Romania. We chose the US, since it is one of the few countries without a mandatory data retention law. We will not share any information with third parties without a valid court order. With that said, it is impossible to match a user to any activity on our system since we utilize shared IPs and maintain absolutely no logs."
All calls aren't async though. You have to tell the compiler/interpreter that the thing you're calling is async by using the await keyword. That's the thing that I don't love about the C# await, JavaScript yield, etc. If I have to tell the compiler to yield then I still have to think about my program as asynchronous. And if I change a function to do an sync call, I still have to change it's own signature to be async, and anything that calls it, all the way up. So all you're really saving through these keywords is a bit of indentation. I don't really care about the indentation though; I use 2 spaces and just refactor when things get too far to the right.
HOW THE "ME ME ME GENERATION" PLANS TO SAVE YOU YOU YOU
Awesome project. Reminds of SparkCore which was on KickStarter earlier this year:

https://www.sparkdevices.com/

I wonder if it would be possible to wire an antenna to the Spark and match the 1km range of the Flutter....
Gnome terminal accepts Shift-Control-C and Shift-Control-V for copy/paste.
In their defense UI tests are usually the most brittle and provide the least value. I don't think I've ever seen UI testing done right. I usually avoid it.
Ask HN: any foreign entrepreneurs in south germany?
hi, I'm an Argentinian founder living in Stuttgart, I would like to know if there are other international founders living near Stuttgart so we can meet and talk.

German entrepreneurs welcome too :)
I'd give $100 to the kickstarter that has a meshnet node in a box that's basically plug and play.
Proper shoes. Yes! I used to wear lead gowns in operating theaters, adding 20kgs to my existing 100kgs (I'm a smidge and 2m). My feet were absolute agony after each shift. Changing to good shoes and a theatre upgrade that made installed squishy Lino helped a lot (with a big downside - pushing 500kg x-ray gear was not that much easier than pushing it through sand would have been. I effectively plowed the floor every time I more it). Get good shoes!
Yes, though ajross's point was about the causality of things. Printing money by itself does not cause inflation, no matter who does the printing.

Inflation is a matter of supply and demand. As long as there is excess supply, one can buy the supply with newly created money without raising prices. That's supply and demand 101.

The only tricky part is figuring out how much money can be safely printed. Central planning tends to be bad at this (which is why so-called military Keynesianism is a bad idea from an economics point of view, even if you don't care about pacifism).

The trick is to figure out a decentralized and automatic approach. That is, an approach that automatically increases the amount of money creation when there's slack in the economy, and automatically scales back when the economy is operating at full capacity.
Only if you want.

On my servers I use the open source version of nxlog to collect various logs and forward them to a central nxlog server, which in turn feeds logstash. Behind logstash I have configured elasticsearch as storage and I use kibana as a GUI to search and browse.
Don’t Just Talk About It; Live The Word
US ranked 46th in world Health Care efficiency
If you try this, be sure you don't half-ass it. I tried a standing desk, but couldn't raise the desk I had high enough. I tried putting my mouse and keyboard on top of other objects to give extra height, but eventually gave up because it was too difficult. I stayed standing, though, and the angle I bent my wrist at for so long has seriously messed up my right wrist. Even after returning to my usual sitting desk for months, the pain hasn't gone away (it's actually gotten worse) and I'm looking for a good rheumatologist.

Do not half-ass a standing desk.