skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been standing for a year, no negative side effects to report. Initially my concentration did go down, I think it's now probably back to normal levels.

One positive, if you work things other than typing it's much easier now to sketch or assemble hardware. Typing etc is about the same. I do use a foot pad and it provides a noticeable difference.

One thing that was not obvious at first was that the biggest difference to foot fatigue/knots has been the type of shoe. I find that Converse 'Chucks' cause the least fatigue. Funnily enough I have the same shoes from Zara that OP has, and they were brutal on my feet in comparison to others.

Also to note, I thought that standing would reduce my levels of hip, calf, and ankle tightness after workouts... that hasn't been the case.
I bought a Filco Majestouch and couldn't use it a work as it totally hurted my wrists. I really had to adapt to not hit the keys too hard. Also the cherry mx blue caused difficulties for navigating inside code because the course of the key is longer and I often hit the keys repetedly when browsing code.
Let's take a look at some facts about the chemical attack that was supposed to have been the "red-line"

- Assad is in this region winning against the rebels - without the use of chemical weapons (he is aware that using chemical weapons would get US involved)

- Timing: this is happening in sync with UN inspectors arriving to investigate chemical attacks

- Rebels have previously used chemical weapons in this conflict (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/6/syrian-rebels...) and there are videos of them experimenting with using sarin on dogs.

- Obama and the war machine are synchronously beating the war drums and committing to an attack before the UN inspectors have even had a chance to conclude their investigation of the chemical attack site
I think your comment is apt, and I really appreciate the Doisneau quote. What he describes seems to hold true for design always: the "new" is digested in to the collective consciousness and thereby becomes normal, requiring a new "new".

As a brand Yahoo! has always been far from the edge of visual innovation. I once worked on a pitch for Yahoo! long ago, and it seems to me that the angle is still the same: predictable and dated. I'd say there's no reason to ask for more. If anything, they're probably giving their users what they want.
Now the truly paranoid are caught in the paradox of trusting you!
Apologies for the large quote. The whole thing being false flag is indeed probably too strong. But there is quite a bit of messiness surrounding the way that whole affair went down, judge for yourself:

"In October, 2005 the New York Times reported that Robert J. Hanyok, a historian for the U.S. National Security Agency, had concluded that the NSA deliberately distorted the intelligence reports that it had passed on to policy-makers regarding the August 4, 1964 incident. He concluded that the motive was not political but was probably to cover up honest intelligence errors.

Hanyok's conclusions were initially published within the NSA in the Winter 2000/Spring 2001 Edition of Cryptologic Quarterly, about five years before they were revealed in the Times article. According to intelligence officials, the view of government historians that the report should become public was rebuffed by policymakers concerned that comparisons might be made to intelligence used to justify the Iraq War (Operation Iraqi Freedom) that commenced in 2003. Reviewing the NSA's archives, Mr. Hanyok concluded that the NSA had initially misinterpreted North Vietnamese intercepts, believing there was an attack on August 4. Midlevel NSA officials almost immediately discovered the error, he concluded, but covered it up by altering documents, so as to make it appear the second attack had happened.

On November 30, 2005, the NSA released the first installment of previously classified information regarding the Gulf of Tonkin incident, including a moderately sanitized version of Mr. Hanyok's article. The Hanyok article stated that intelligence information was presented to the Johnson administration "in such a manner as to preclude responsible decision makers in the Johnson administration from having the complete and objective narrative of events." Instead, "only information that supported the claim that the communists had attacked the two destroyers was given to Johnson administration officials."

With regard to why this happened, Hanyok wrote:

'As much as anything else, it was an awareness that President Johnson would brook no uncertainty that could undermine his position. Faced with this attitude, Ray Cline was quoted as saying "... we knew it was bum dope that we were getting from Seventh Fleet, but we were told only to give facts with no elaboration on the nature of the evidence. Everyone knew how volatile LBJ was. He did not like to deal with uncertainties."'

Hanyok included his study of Tonkin Gulf as one chapter of an overall history of the involvement of NSA, and American signals intelligence (SIGINT), in the Indochina Wars. A moderately sanitized version of the overall history was released in January 2008 by the National Security Agency and published by the Federation of American Scientists"
Depends on how bad the pain was.
It just means we need our own hackers.
I have this fantasy where my desk is able to attach rack mount chassis (u1/U2 x 2). It seems to me this would need to be a mod... Do you think the motor on these desks would be strong enough for such a feat?
I guess I don't understand what you are doing. Then VPN is to create a secure link either between your computer and a trusted LAN or from your computer to a better, less-likely-to-be-sniffed exit point than open wifi. It's not to hide who you are from the destination server or from anyone observing the overall WAN traffic (as the NSA can do). People with resources can find out who you are with VPN. Saying one should use VPN for anonymity is a bit like saying that its fine to use 1234 as your password because you've never had a problem before and it keeps people out of your account just fine. The reality is that it seems secure right up until the moment that it isn't.

Anonymity is what something like Tor is made for, and depending on your level of paranoia even that may not be enough on its own.
Fractional reserve banking is only one way the fed can create inflation, POMO is another. I'm sure you've heard of quantitative easing. And while excessive money demanding "stuff" is the mechanism by which prices go up, first there has to be a lot of cash, which is the purview of the fed. They can't mandate how banks lend, which is why consumer inflation isn't out of control, but the fed can directly influence asset markets, and the signs of which are everywhere. Fear of the "fed taper" tells us how important this support is to asset prices.
I think if you want to do it cheap, then a handcrank, 4 rubber belt drives, and 4 screw legs would be the way to go. The problem would be making it look acceptable (either hide the mechanism, or display it prominently and make it look nice.
It's weird: if it's such a good thing, why not make it more prominent? It was the last thing I read on the page and it left me confused.
It's highly misleading. It might be more useful to see an analysis of the marginal change in outcomes per spend, where spend is measured in terms of the average wage hour in a particular country.

Wow, it's amazing to me that a sentence with such contorted grammar and logic could be the start of the highest rated comment here.

The US health care "system" has been discussed here a lot. Unless you've been asleep, you should know a variety of corrupt rent seekers suck more wealth here than the average GDP of a medium sized third world country.

Yes, it's inefficient, it's supremely, ungodly inefficient. It might not be the largest "wealth-sink-hole" the world has ever known but it's up there. Yes, there's real health care and even cutting treatments on the edge of this monster. Whatever.

The monster is real.

And other, even marginally first world countries don't do this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_Australia
Printing money by itself does not cause inflation.

You can quibble on what "causing inflation is", but:

- Money is a lien on production of goods and services, e.g., "real wealth" (as opposed to "financial wealth").

- Increasing the amount of money in circulation means that each unit can demand a smaller portion of those goods and services.

- Whether or not inflation is experienced depends on whether or not the money supply, or real wealth, are increasing faster. However we can absolutely say that increasing the money supply will increase inflation over not increasing it.

- Modulo various other factors: is money being destroyed elsewhere in the system (bonfires of Franklins, asset bubble crash, loan defaults, negative real reaturn on business investment)? In that case, net inflation may still be negative, but once again producing more money increases the relative rate of inflation, even if that only means you're deflating more slowly.

- The other principle question is how the new monies are introduced to the economy, which is a matter of some debate, for both economic effectiveness and equity. Many have argued that the TARP bailouts were distortionary in that they provided additional financial wealth to banks and other institutions, many of which were directly implicated in the crisis precipitating the bailouts, creating massive perverse incentives. Alternatives would be allocating the funds evenly throughout the economy -- "throwing money out of helicopters" (where, to avoid the obtuse objection of one thick-headed oaf I was discussing this with recently, we make clear that there are lots of helicopters flying high and the money is distributed evenly through the population), or through a lottery (compulsory, you're entered no matter what) such that the distribution is "clumpy" but random -- present wealth or status plays no role in elevating or decreasing your chance of receipt.

And how the monies are destributed has some role in how pricing signals propogate. But in general: more money == higher inflation. Again, even if that means a lower rate of deflation.
You misunderstand -- the name is an anagram, and refers to their current business practices, not something they might have done half a century or more ago. They are bastards right now.
Google has lowered the price of the Nexus 4 by $100
BTW, for what it's worth, the (very inexpensive) Synology NAS models out there will all act as an openvpn server. It requires a hit of tweaking to get it to work they way you'd expect, but it's nothing beyond what the typical reader here can do.
This sounds like a wired device? I've been looking for a good wireless mech keyboard for a while now...
Not referring to anything in the past. This is what they're like now. Especially if you're trying to get them to pay out.
Report on the Bitcoin Foundation's Trip to Washington D.C.
There are these wonderful inventions called automatic electric kettles, you should look into them. They seem to be commonplace in Europe, not so much in the US. But seriously, all it takes is a bimetallic strip to turn the kettle off when it reaches the desired temperature.

Eliza ran in 16KB of RAM. The logic flow is easy, all you need is a sufficiently large dictionary.
"Why should it be made of wood? Any composite material will do."

To be clear, the IKEA table is probably made of a composite wood, not a proper slab of wood, but I agree with your point. Material cost should not dominate the price of a desk.

To be honest though, I think the value of a motorized desk is being overblown. I have just put my desk up on 4 stacks of office paper in the past; worked great. Everyone needs new expensive toys though...
Right, but that doesn't compare sitting and standing. It compares sitting and moving. Standing is not an aerobic activity, so it's way less likely that that will have cardiac benefits.
So if we pick where to host the containers, where's the markup? How does Ctl-C make money?
> there has been an inordinate amount of Go articles on HN over the last few months
They are being submitted and voted up by people. If you want other content, then create / upvote it, just don't pretend 'inordinate' means anything in this kind of context.
"Ecosystems should just stop making this argument. They’re never going to get top entrepreneurial talent, and will only attract those people not aiming high enough, who are motivated by saving money, not making it, and not building something great — the mercenaries, rather than the missionaries."

That's just a sweeping generalization offered without a shred of evidence. There are some phenomenally successful companies that were founded outside Silicon Valley or NYC. Amazon and Microsoft come to mind. (Microsoft may not be trendy now, but it definitely made its founders and shareholders a whole lot of money over a long period of time.)

Also, ten years ago, before there were a lot of startups in NYC, the author would have probably said that NYC was an entrepreneurial backwater that was "never going to get top entrepreneurial talent". Times change, places change, people move around.
What Yahoo is doing is maintaining and working hard at a consistent design language, while maintaining individuality amongst their sites. It's a smart move, even if it's not pretty enough for designers or developers to praise it heavily.
Just noticed the new logo a few hours ago.

I have hated almost every yahoo redesign.

This one I liked. It's kind of cute.
Go check the account [1] for yourself, if it's fake it's a long-planted fake strung along with other tweets dating back to August 15th and earlier and describing other known SEA hacks.

If it's not legit it would have to be because they let their own Twitter account get hacked at the same time Twitter was being hacked... which seems very noncompliant with Occam.

[1] https://twitter.com/Official_SEA16
I can't share 2 years worth of experience with a standing desk, but at least 3 weeks after I built mine at home. I only use it in the evenings since at work I don't really have a choice in the first place. I was suffering from back pain, and after 3 weeks using my standing desk for a few hours every day at home, most of the back pain is gone. On top of that, I used to fall asleep while sitting in front of my computer if I stayed up too long, but now this never happens - when standing I do feel more motivation and energy to do things, and I can see I have done more things on my TO-DO list in the past 3 weeks than I expected.

The only drawback is that when I feel too tired in the first place, I have no desire and energy to even stand up in the first place. But maybe that's not a bad sign. It shows I should be resting instead of using my computer.
I'm just clicking around on them, and somehow I've got the sports site in a state where the scroll wheel scrolls the background images but not the content. Then, after the page finally loads, the left, middle, and right panels all sort-of scroll together, but stop scrolling at different times. That's really messed up. The alignment between them shouldn't change.
It sounds like a religion to me, then.
Facebook Changes Promotion Guidelines to Benefit Businesses
All dollars are created out of nothing. That's what fiat is. Worthless bits of paper you have to acquire to not go to jail. It's the way societies have organized themselves since the advent of agriculture.
In other news, all documents pertaining to the name change have disappeared after being stored away in a MongoDB cluster.
Questions are like Fish Bait for Opportunities
I've been quite happy with one of these: http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=modtable

Somewhat expensive, but costs less than a geekdesk/etc.
Considering that their current methods of creating custom keycaps consists of either laser engraving or etching, and not actually molding plastic, I would not expect this to happen (ever).

You can get backlight keys in different colors through sellers that offer Ducky Keyboard brand backlight keys. You can find those in all sorts of colors and ISO/US formats, but nothing more than that unless you join some type of group buy through Geekhack.org or Deskthority.net where you can find all sorts of 'one-off' sets custom keycaps.
These are the sort that I see in most barber shops, and are in that price-range: http://www.bestmassagesalon.com/product_p/pro3.htm

They probably wouldn't make a good drop-in replacement for office chairs since they aren't on wheels. On the other hand, footrests are nice...
Agreed that is off-topic, but I wrote this on Google and PRISM: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6078124
> and the type checker can't tell a sine from a logarthim

Oddly enough, in Go it can.

type sine_val float64
type log_val float64

These are now incompatible types, and you couldn't pass a sine_val to a function expecting a log_val, for example.

(Not that I am advocating this sort of approach, but it is possible to let the typechecker work this stuff out if you are dedicated)
Y'know, it's not the site design that turns me off of Yahoo.com.

It's the placement of entertainment and sports as the top items on the page.

I don't particularly care what your site presentation is (OK, I lied, I do: it should be simple, out of my face, and distraction-free), but if you show contempt and insult me with your content, I'm gone and never coming back.
Be careful: many torrent clients (and no doubt that is what ye speak of here) happily report your real IP to every IP you send or request to and from, regardless of VPN use.
Good thing I live in a place where people of different cultures talk to one another, exchange food ideas, and with some hunting you can get the ingredients you need. Specialty ethnic food stores help as well. Maybe it is the willingness to explore and not shop at places like Safeway and the other big chains?

I've purchased a Goya product or two when it was the only variety available. That said, if I need asafetida (a spice) for an Indian dish I'm not going to look to Goya. When I need tortillas for tacos, I'll buy locally made instead of Goya or Mission. (tortillas are a silly example given the diversity in the bay area...but I don't know what the big chains actually carry...)

I'm not afraid to pickup a random cookbook (be it southern cooking to pakistani to peruvian) and attempt to cook something. If ingredients aren't available, be creative and substitute.

This seems like one more "homogenization" of the US.
Debunking the myth about “Singapore is a small market” & What Works here
The theme of this article is to debunk the myth that “Singapore is a small market”. This article originated from the many discussions I have with fellow Singaporeans both here and overseas. Some are entrepreneurs who are currently working and building their companies locally while others are now pursuing their dreams in the US or China. In most of our discussions, one insight that seemed to pop out often is that Singapore is not really a “small market” and you can scale the company up to a certain point where it becomes attractive to go regional and then global. The key message is that if you want to succeed in Singapore, you have to re-imagine and enable a traditional industry with new technology which makes it more efficient, productive & drives revenue.
This is my solution. It's cheaper and no less functional.
Umm... what about non "Transcendental Meditation"? Or are you just finding one perceived misuse and applying it to everything? (Does skepdic.com have an entry on that particular fallacy?)
I also purchased an adjustable desk base from The Human Solution back in March. I paired it with a 73" x 26" kitchen countertop from Ikea.

I also put my monitors on an Ergotron dual monitor arm (http://www.ergotron.com/tabid/65/PRDID/355/default.aspx) so I can adjust the height of the monitors for sitting vs standing.

Overall I'm quite happy with the setup.
Armin Ronacher - Thinking outside of the box
Impressive, as one might expect. Some reactions:

-- Secret sauce

A lot of the magic of F1 comes from Spanner, the distributed storage system. The name "F1" itself is an allusion to "inheriting" some of the properties of Spanner.

-- Hierarchical tables

What they call hierarchical tables, I would think best be viewed as one-to-many relationships. In guess they've privileged this model in their storage because that's what a lot of their AdWords schema looks like.

-- Change History

I like the observation that keeping full histories is relatively straightforward with atomic, granular timestamping and indeed that it should be baked in. Every database schema I've ever worked with always goes through a similar evolutionary cycle:

1. We only need to capture the current state of the model.

2. Wait, we do need to capture historical states of the model.

3. Wait, the model is changed, we need to capture historical states and the models that were current.

(You can think of this as taking progressive differentials of incoming transactions).

The F1 designers have baked that right into the database, where it belongs. Weak temporal support has long been the sore point in SQL.

-- Remote data

I was struck by their observation that most database storage engines are built around the concept of seeks and reads, whereas theirs is necessarily built around batching and pipelining over a network. If I am reading them correctly, their engine takes advantage of having multiple copies of data by sending reads to multiple disk nodes and then working from the first copy that is returned.
Paul Vixie can plug as much as he wants.

He's silently done so much for all of us for free. He'd have to kick a lot of kittens before his karma would descend to demi-god.
+1. Plus some extra keycaps for when you remap them.
It's less insulting than the other pages, but I'm getting massively misalligned elements. Yes, I force font sizes to something legible, so your hipster fucking 22 y.o. pixel-perfect layouts aren't going to work.
As a designer who codes I've never understood this mentality. I sketch out wireframes, take them to PhotoShop, and flush out the HTML, CSS, and JS. Perhaps if the structure of your team isn't suited for this workflow it could end up hindering the design process but I find it to be quite enjoyable.