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Ask HN: What kind of desk chair do you use?
After a few months with my $35 office chair from Staples, I'm starting to feel the ache in my back. I needed a chair quickly but I looked over long-standing comfort as I can't adjust any conditions on it - the chair moves up and down, only. I'm now on the market for a much needed alternate.

So HN, what kind of desk chair do you use for work and where did you find it?
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All I'm saying is that the world is not coming to an end. Yeah, people can send spam or something. So keep it turned off. But the sky is not falling.
Actually, I read the full article and not "one throwaway line." The one line that I quoted is the crux of your argument against the implementor's decision to allow forwarding by default. Don't know what you mean by the "actual meat."
What's the domain ? ;-)
This article is silly. You can't grab low ports without root. This setting does nothing because users have privileges to grab high ports anyway. For example, they can write simple scripts to listen instead of using SSH for it.

On the other hand, SSH forwarding is extremely useful and serves as a nice alternative to VPN when you need it.
There are probably U.S. Federal Prisons with more balanced ratios than HN or your average engineering program.
Definitely interesting :)
What is the going rate for this work?

You probably are paying for the document itself. Suing a lawyer for malpractice is difficult (high standard to prove and with the American legal system, you pay your own lawyer fees to bring/defend a case).
well, that's a bit hard to answer without knowing the name of the domain.

I take it that it is not 'carlmercier.com' or 'ajaxwhois.com' because they are is still in use.

Anyway, if you have had a domain for a long time and you are sure that you are never going to use it you could try to park it and get at least your renewal fees out of it. That way if it doesn't bring you large amounts of money it also doesn't cost you. That way you can postpone the decision to let it go.

If it is a really good name and you think it is worth something you could lease it out to a party that can go and do something useful with it.
Command-restricted users are NOT the SSH default. If the sysadmin is taking the trouble to restrict the user's privileges, they need to restrict forwarding as well. By the argument that you and others make, the SSH server should not allow ANY access at all by default -- the sysadmin should apparently have to enable everything explicitly.
bug tracker is indeed probably a solution for this kind of problem :)
It's that bad ? Wow. Colour me naive, but that's really sad.
How long is your project going to take?
I can't name a scenario in which decreased tax revenue for the government is a bad thing. the claim that government spending is better than private rests on the idea that the money in aggregate can be directed more efficiently. the support for this is...nothing. I tend to think extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. so if you make an extraordinary claim: I need to take your money for your own good, you need extraordinary proof.

the burden of proof does not rest with me, my position is that in the absence of strong evidence you should leave people alone.
Interesting post on this topic: http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/01/27/office-chair...

I also use a terrible chair and am looking at investing in a more ergonomic one.
Don't forget that the tool we're using now is actually a lot like bug tracker. I am absolutely sure we don't need another one.
"might as well rent an office for that price". Exactly. The coffee shop owners are not there to provide a free(or cheap) office space to you. They are there to run a business and people like you will drive a coffee shop out of business.

I can see a "sense of entitlement" in you comment. Why do you disagree that if you are sitting in a coffee shop and occupying one of their seats and using up electricity for your laptop, you should buy something regularly
I wonder if you could adjust the coffee shop model a bit to work better for these kinds of people. Here's a wacky idea about how it could work.

A few assumptions:

- People who walk in, pay $n for a cup of coffee, sit at a table and stay for an hour aren't abusing the system at all. Even if it's just one person at a table reading, we'll say that $n pays for an hour of table time, in addition to the coffee, expenses, profit, etc. In that case, two friends walking in and sharing a table is just a bonus for the shop owner.

- If people want to stay for longer than their purchase justifies, they're willing to pay $x for the table, power, wifi, etc.

- Nobody wants to pay for both their table space and their coffee.

- This coffee shop is _good_ to work in. It's encouraged by the staff, the seating is comfortable, outlets are within reach, the music isn't obnoxious, the food and coffee are good, private rooms might be available for a higher table fee, etc.

Given all that, here's how I think it could work:

In this coffee shop, a typical customer walks in and orders a cup of coffee from the barista. She makes it, takes his money, and hands him the coffee. The trick is that the cup he's received has a little RFID chip, basically rigged to say 'I am a cup of something'.

The customer chooses a table and sits down. On the table is a little device with a coin slot and a display on it. It might be reminiscent of those old jukebox selectors that make you think of '50's diners. The device has a little clock on it, and also a little secondary display.

When he sits down, the RFID chip registers with the table and the device on the table registers 1 hour on it's clock. The device also registers the RFIDs unique ID with a server somewhere in the shop, making sure it only works once.

After an hour, the clock has run down and the customer is still happily working away. He doesn't really want another coffee yet.

The wait staff receives an alert on their handheld (Think an iPod touch or some similar device) that the table has 'expired'. They walk over and ask the customer if they can get them anything else. When he declines, they politely remind him that he'll have to pay for any additional table time, and he can do so with the device on the table.

He throws $x into the device, it adds time to the clock and the dollar amount to it's secondary display. Half an hour later, he decides it's time for more coffee. He calls over the wait staff (maybe there's even a little button on the device to call them over), and asks for another coffee. The wait staff looks at their handheld, sees that the table has paid for time, and goes to get the coffee. They gives it to the customer, and charge it against the table on their handheld. The dollar amount on the secondary display decrements to pay for the coffee, but the clock stays the same. Now the purchase of that coffee paid for some of his table time. In this way, he isn't effectively double billed.

Opinions?
Is there any way to get a feed of just the magazines? I don't really have any use or interest in a feed of their books, but I'd love having the new magazine just show up in my RSS reader.
Given the fact that the organization responsible for creating OpenSSH has -- on more than one occasion-- left their own servers susceptible to abuse due to SSH forwarding issues, it seems reasonable to assume that the default setting most likely to prevent abuse is "off".
1. Candide

2. The last few chapters of GEB

3. Regardless of whether you're a programmer, anything by Carl Sagan. The Demon-Haunted World and Dragons of Eden are my favorites.
Disclaimer: This is a downmod posting. Please obey current Political Correctness Dictatorship, and down-vote, thanks!

Simply a side note:

We all have written our gender not only in our body, but even in our (invisible) souls.

Now, to all of you thinking that one is able to actually change ones gender: no, sorry, that's not possible.

Your soul will remain the same, and anybody really knowing you, will not note any difference...
All I'm saying is that the world is not coming to an end.

I never realized the issue existed when I've used command-limited SSH, and I should know better. The OpenBSD developers and administrators should really know better.

I'm actually embarrassed that I didn't recognize the issue, and I'm glad someone noted it publicly so I won't repeat the mistake.

Yeah, people can send spam or something.

http://openbsd.org:8080/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/openssh-5.2.tar....

Are the contents of that URL trustable?

What about bypassing firewall restrictions?

So keep it turned off. But the sky is not falling.

Who said it was?
In my dealing with China's economists, I have found them to be very well educated and conservative. Just what you'd want/expect from an economist. I also found the government leaders listen to them. Possibly more so than we have done in the U.S.

I doubt they have any choice at this point but to leverage debt to keep the economy fueled. Lets hope they find a better balance and know when to reign it it than the U.S. did. All said, its probably a good thing they are in the debt game as it keeps the playing field leveled.

They have reigned in the housing market a bit. For example, they keep adjusting the amount you have to put down on a home. What used to be 15% to 30% in some areas has gone to 30 or 50%. Yep, you could never buy a home in China for 5% down!
Interesting. Do Germans use their laptops to find partners?
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Motorola VU20 is actually a UMTS / HSDPA 2100 phone with tri-band GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900. It has 2 megapixel camera and Micro SD upto 4GB expandable. Some credible features includes MP3/AAC/AAC+/WMA/OGG/AMR player, WMV/MP4 player, iTap.
We already had several ways to broadcast from Windows and OS X, but no way to broadcast from Linux. Given that, it made sense to make this available as soon as the Linux version was ready, without waiting to work all of the bugs out of the Mac version.
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Automattic has released their TOS and privacy policy under CC-SA.

http://en.wordpress.com/tos/
http://automattic.com/privacy/
NSFW: Don’t bullshit a reformed bullshitter
The first link there goes to http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/07/tracemonkey-overview/ which is a very nice high-level description of TraceMonkey.
Keep it. It's cheap and if you feel at all emotionally attached then it means you may have some value for it eventually. If you're asking for outside advice then that's too much thought that you've already put into this. I've let several domains expire, and it was always an easy decision ("what was I thinking when I got that one?"). Just renew it.
1. GEB
2. GEB
3. GEB
What is the "Other" gender?
Email has been around since 1965. It may be augmented, but it is never going to be replaced.
You're right. The article is good, and reminds me of some very good tips given by the creator of VIM (Bram Moolenaar) in a Google Tech Talk:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2538831956647446078
I've personally had the googlebot visit an under-construction site that happened to have a few juicy keywords on it.

This led to a lot of trouble...

Since then no more google toolbar for me. Google denied involvement, we later figured that it might have been an adsense or analytics tag as well, but there are supposedly no flows of data between those projects.

The damage was done, the page should have been password protected, we learned our lesson and moved on without spending a whole lot of time on finding out if there may have been another cause, we couldn't see another one that was likely.

There are plenty of other cases like this on the web, Google has always denied any kind of flow from the toolbar or adsense/analytics to their search crawler.

One thing I do know: if you are building a website and you have adsense tags on the page you can not password protect it and expect to receive relevant ads because the adsense crawler can not reach your content.

AFAIK the best workaround for this problem is detecting the bot and presenting a different page (or at least one without a log in).

The google toolbar license ( http://tools.google.com/tools/firefox/toolbar/FT3/intl/en/in... )

contains this little tidbit:

"Google's Search Service
Google Toolbar is designed to be used in conjunction with Google's search services. Accordingly, your use of Google Toolbar is also defined by Google's Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. "

And nowhere does it explicitly state that the toolbar data is not used to enhance the search engine results, personally if they had no other use for it as a discovery tool then I would wonder why it was made in the first place.

If google does not use the toolbar data in any way then it would be a small matter for them to say so loud and clear in the toolbar license or their privacy policy.
You instantiate an object and then poke methods into it? Ever heard of umm, classes?
The hardware for that authentication setup is (or was) expensive.

I just block a few ports and a few of the download intensive domains.
Things are getting tight for people. I imagine some people have gotten rid of their internet at home or used to get it at work. Then the only way to have connectivity is at a hot spot, what else are you going to do?
I was thinking that it wasn't so much that "people get happier as they age", as much as "old people can't be arsed to write down in a journal every pissy thought that occurs to them".
You good customer sir, I salute you!
From the article: "What’s odd is this also contradicts the developers’ own claims that the rejection letter they received cited only examples of conventional swear words as objectionable."

Either the developers lied, or their App Store reviewer misled them, or Schiller was not telling the truth when he said that the problem was something other than "conventional swear words".

Anyway. Whatever "unconventional" obscenities it may contain: it's a dictionary. Dictionaries (apart from weirdly bowdlerized ones) contain naughty words, and words that describe Very Nasty Things. A user is only likely to see those if they deliberately go looking for them. It doesn't seem difficult to me to understand why some people might find it odd for those words to require the thing to be given a 17+ rating; real dictionaries (which probably offer more opportunities for people to find "cocksucker" or "genocide" -- and, incidentally, isn't it bizarre to worry more about children finding the former than the latter? -- by accident than electronic ones like Ninjawords) don't generally carry age warnings or restrictions.
If you go to the building43.com page the video is on the top and it allows you to fast forward.

http://www.building43.com/
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there's a pretty huge spectrum out there

What? You covered every case. I guess 'other' refers to eunuchs and bigender, but why does there need to be a transgender entry? Don't they identify with the sex they switched to?
For some definition of "insecure", when you happen to use OpenSSH for a relatively uncommon use-case, with the end result of disabling functionality which is useful for many legitimate users in the common use-case.
It's a pretty good question. Assuming he meant "sex" (based on the original question form). There's XX, XY and some chromosomal abnormalities that are usually called "intersex" AFAIR.

Perhaps the question should have been do you have an SRY gene on a Y chromosome - or (nearly equivalent) "did you have at least one testis at birth". Which would probably be closest to the questioners intent.
For complicated stuff I use a regular outline editor and assign scores to the 'trees' and their leaves and then sort leaves and substrees by score.

I never got around to writing software to do it for me but the application is pretty narrow, and the question sets change with every job.

I know it sounds like overkill but it helps me to just shut out the view of the rest of the factors while weighing a smaller section. I've used this method with some success during complicated technical due dilligences. There are usually up to a few hundred questions from several categories that all come together in a single executive summary that should not run beyond a single page.

The 'recommendations and conclusions' section is the most important of this and lots of stuff doesn't make the cut in an explicit way but has to be represented somehow. Especially if the advise is not clear cut (this fortunately does not happen often but it has occurred).

Others than make the decision to go ahead or not in part on the information in this document, so it had better be weighted correctly.

I'm not sure if that is the kind of input you are looking for, but if it doesn't help I hope it doesn't hurt either :)

Best of luck with your search, if you find something outstanding please be sure to post it here.
One day is not enough. Two weeks is more than enough.
Next up, do you like "crunchy" or "smooth" (soon after to be altered to include the options "neither", "both" and "wtf"?).
I agree that the so-called "third places" don't really exist anymore (in the US, anyway), but the article's comparison to modern US coffeehouses was clunky. These days, laptop zombies tend to convert third spaces into glorified cubicles. Wi-fi has taken formerly social environments, and made them creepy and dull.

I remember the first time I visited a coffee shop, long Before wi-fi was invented: it was a social place that had big couches, plants, books and games. People gathered there, played chess and cards over coffee, and there were even live performances of various sorts at night and on weekends. Contrast to your typical coffee shop scene today: rows of tables and uncomfortable chairs, doubled-up with dudes at laptops who have been camped out for hours, nursing a small cup of coffee.

Once upon a time, coffee houses were about relaxation and social life; today, they're basically about work. So personally, I'm thrilled that cafes are starting to cover up power outlets, and I hope that they soon follow this trend with paid hourly wi-fi access -- or even eliminating the wireless access entirely.
If Musk can combine Tesla and SpaceX so I can buy a single stage to orbit roadster that gets 300 miles on a charge for 100k I'd be very happy. I'd even sell my Moller stock.
Maybe you didn't read carefully enough. Users who don't have shell access probably should not be able to proxy traffic through the server, but OpenSSH allows it by default.
The rest of my life.
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Wow.

So, you would judge for others how they are allowed to feel and you claim to know them better than they can know themselves and all that without even a look at the individual you are addressing ?

I don't think that has anything to do with being politically correct or not, simply with live and let live.

I'm not very current on 'invisible souls', but even those are private property last I checked and the only person who knows them close enough to make the call happens to be the one to express themselves.

To say that you have knowledge that overrules a persons feelings about themselves is a little far reaching.

If somebody would come along and told you how you can or can not feel about yourself and how someone else would be able to perceive something about you that you yourself would disagree with in such a fundamental way (it is your identity we are talking about here) how would that feel ?
What are you guessing about me, and on what basis?

The claim about voluntary response polls was especially with reference to your idea of comparing the previous poll's results to the results of today's poll. Both polls might be completely unrepresentative of the population of interest. Assuming that people who come forward voluntarily answer questions truthfully does not assure as that the people who come forward to answer are a representative sample of the whole population.

http://aurora.wells.edu/~srs/Math151-Fall02/Litdigest.htm

http://www.edcallahan.com/web110/lectures/litdigest.htm

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5168/
Thank you. Got a few questions though. Do you discuss questions with others? Do you make decisions yourself while others are just consultants?
I wish someone would explain how this is supposed to work. So, speculators bid up the price of oil from the "natural" price of $30 a barrel to, say, $100 a barrel. Some of the oil now goes to the speculators. A few months or a year or two down the line, the speculators have to sell. It costs them money to store it after they take delivery. Shouldn't the price then fall below the natural $30 a barrel?

I mean, I know there are lots of speculators in the oil market, but even if they're all evil geniuses, how will they manage to consistently raise prices for everyone over the long term? Unless they don't mind hiding away the oil they bought and never reselling.
I'm just curious: what's the NSFW label for? I don't see any material that seems to warrant it.
I hear they start to drop more packets.
I would rather trust the journalist (or editor or author) of the piece to come up with his or her own headlines. Even if the headline is "spintastic" -- which I don't see in this case -- presumably it accurately reflects the article. That's kind of the point of headlines.
Don't scare me Mr. Jrockway. If you have read my comment in full, you would have noticed that I don't hate "everything". In fact my 12 year old list is only about 5 positions long. Notice that I only hate Adobe Flash full-time at the moment. It takes a skill, time and dedication to hate a particular technology - just look at my bookshelf.

You, on the other hand, just committed to effortlessly hating a bunch of strangers! May I ask which gym you happen to frequent these days?

:P
Agreed, but I'd still think jailbroken is the way to go for the many that are stuck in contracts and can't really afford the $200 to break early.
Honestly, there are more important things to life than to be posting random diatribes on a somewhat professional blog. I'm not sure why I read that story (or even the background stories he referenced--hey, its saturday), but after getting a gist of the situation, I have to say to everyone involved: "Get over it. Don't let these personal rants further pollute what otherwise could be a great technology blog." Ah, now I understand people's disgust for TC.
Your better employers will thoughtfully talk with you though, and this is a good way for you to pick a good employer. That's an unseasonably optimistic attitude during this recession though.
The list of questions was compiled over the years, every time I do a dd for a company that is not comparable to one that I've done before I discuss what needs to be added with my employers to make sure that we don't miss something crucial. The actual questions are mine though, they guide the direction.

Another reason why the question sets are changed is because of changes in technology (for instance, the appearance of the 'cloud' phenomenon has caused a whole slew of questions to be added).

Most of this centers around the analysis of the risk an investor takes when buying all or part of a company, and how that risk can be mitigated, or at least reduced.

I do make decisions but on a much lower level (<50K) and of a much simpler nature, usually those are made by myself and my partner and we are much more informal, we also don't need to report our decisions to shareholders or such.
"Facebook is all php, while Twitter is built on Ruby on Rails."

Actually, Twitter's backend is Scala now.