skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The truth is any west coast city is going to seem mild year round to a northeasterner. I used to live in Seattle and felt that way up there, despite the fact that Californians seem to think it's unbearably rainy and cold.
There are problems with the page you cite.

1. It seems to be referring to a very old version of the Cornell page. For instance, it says the Cornell page only cites one source. The current page cites seven sources in the references section, and one in the body of the article.

2. The one source cited in the old version of the page was concentrating on musculoskeletal disorders. It found benefits to using an electric height-adjustable work surface. The EHAW resulted in a minor increase in musculoskeletal discomfort, and a substantial decrease in the severity of upper body musculoskeletal symptoms. The Cornell article does not contradict this. It says that they have found that standing desks increase the risk of some musculoskeletal problems such as carpal tunnel syndrome. Together, these are just saying that standing can help with some kinds of musculoskeletal problems, and harm with others. The Cornell article is also considering a wider range of potential problems than the EHAW study considered, and has the benefit of being written 8 years after the EHAW study and so can take into account subsequent research.

The bottom line is that sitting too much is bad for you, and standing too much is bad for you. That's the conclusion of the Cornell article, and nothing in the EHAW study (which was done by the same people that did the Cornell article) contradicts that.
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The problem is the gateways between fiat and crypto, where centralisation occurs and due to AML/KYC policies and banking regulations all of the worst aspects of banking can affect users

bitcoin itself as the protocol/platform has proven to be quite solid

the trick is to not keep coins in exchanges unless you are into trading, but then you know that you are taking a risk
Yes, that's what I meant by "good climate", it wouldn't help being in the WC but in Seattle for example

But the way I wrote it kind of hid the point.
You can see the narcissism in almost anyone living a 1st world Americanized lifestyle.

What's really interesting is that you chose to single out the iPhone holdout camp in a discussion about whether or not Jobs was a narcissist. Those two groups are so disparate it's borders on entirely irrelevant to the conversation.

Nevermind, I lied for affect. It's not actually interesting either. You're so invested in your phone as a status symbol that you perceive an unflattering analysis of it's creator as an attack and lash out against people that don't value your status symbol.

As I said, it's easy to find narcissism.
I won't speak to this particular case, but look at the incentives for any service that stores people's coins:

-You can cash out (steal) an arbitrary amount of people's coins, blaming it on a "hack". If technically competent you can make it look as legitimate as you like, even giving a detailed post-mortem.

-This will probably tarnish your operation and possibly your internet rep if the Google juice flows that way.

So how much is your internet reputation worth? Personally, there's probably a number that would sway me.

Until these incentives are changed somehow, with regulation or otherwise, it will happen.
Also many employers will let you buy it pre-tax. http://web.mta.info/mta/farebenefits.htm
Being wasteful, in my mind, is wasting resources, energy, effort etc. for slight conveniences and superficial benefits. Most of the things people do are wasteful, but I think what's important is a matter of degree. And no, not being able to convince people to buy into that is completely irrelevant to the argument.

Where is the computer you were using before now? Chances are that someone else is using it, which more than cancels out any perceived efficiency gain. Chances are that you just threw it away, which is more detrimental to the environment than continued use. Maybe it's just collecting dust in your attic, where it will stay useless until any of the above two scenarios happen.

More importantly, I'd like to propose that what drives innovation in computer hardware is largely our attitude towards wastefulness. You couldn't sell and develop new hardware at such a rapid pace if people weren't readily throwing their old stuff away to have it replaced. I'm arguing that the whole process is wasteful, never mind that your machine performs better per Watt. Your old laptop probably had a greater cost to the environment in its manufacturing process and after you got rid of it than whatever energy you spent using it during its lifetime, and even more definitely the cost of manufacturing your current laptop was more than what you save by using it instead of the old one.

Let's get into farming, food production and food packaging if you still aren't convinced.
How is it terrifying? If they left Google, they could ride another big company's bus, or ride a bike, or take public transit, or purchase a car, or move to a different neighborhood.
We have had our own experience with Docker. It's a great tool for Disaster Recovery, on the go testing and saving time to launch in market.
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Nonsense. Regulatory reform does not prevent bank thefts, in the same way as it will not prevent digital thefts due to security vulnerabilities. Also note that banks are legally allowed to run as fractional reserves. This means your $100 deposit is only backed by a minimum of $10 in the vault at any time.

Companies will be (and already are) getting smarter, by hiring security experts to audit software and detect vulnerabilities, and more transparent, by providing public accounting of funds to prove they are not running Ponzi schemes or fractional reserves.
I'm concerned about the United States first, and the rest of the world later.
FWIW, I enjoyed your game. I especially liked the way the day and night cycle shifted the colour palette. Made a lasting impression.
I don't see any actual evidence cited that entrepreneurs or "creatives" in particular are fleeing France. They might make up a larger percentage of the diaspora, but that's generally true of expatriates from any country.

France has about the same percentage of citizens living abroad as the US, and about a quarter as many as the UK:

France: total population ~63m, living abroad ~2m, about 2.5%
US: total population ~317m, living abroad ~6m, about 1.9%
UK: total population ~63m, living abroad ~6-12m, about 9.5% or more
> But it’s also, unfortunately, a low quality knock off of a mobile game called Threes.

I recall an HN thread where the author of 2048 claimed to have never heard of Threes until 2048 got popular. His was a clone of [1024](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/1024!/id823499224?mt=8).
That really boils down to a critical mass of the relevant ethnicity. If you don't have enough Thai people in a given area than you aren't going to have Thai markets, which is going to make it very difficult to get the proper ingredients to make a great jungle curry. The sheer number of non-trivial ethnic sub-populations in Queens alone, much less all of NYC, makes it an unfair contest.
The point of regulation isn't to prevent bank thefts. It's to effectively protect depositors when bank thefts or other kinds of failures happen.
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Women aren't compelled to register for the selective service, so, perhaps not.
How so? I can't see any less superficial connection than that they are both about giving away money.
Your ridiculous hyperbole undermines your attempt to position yourself as the intelligent side of your false-dichotomy.
But do they have restaurants that serve "comidas Chinas y Latinas"?
A standing desk is great paired with a treadmill designed for walking.
"Distribution logic

50% of the amount will be distributed top down and the other 50% will be distributed bottom up. "

This seems, even by their own example, awful! It penalizes the holders with an average number of coins

What could be better: for example, take 50% and pay at least X BTC to the holders. If the user has less than X BTC they receive their balance.

Then, from the other 50% pay proportional to the value. For example, 1BTC for each BTC in balance (minus what was payed in the first step)
I agree. In fact, I think the opposite is quite interesting: a jobs board where applications are sanitized of race, gender and age information.
Docker is an amazing tool. I was able to quickly set up Sandboxes to test code before pushing into production.
One of the strongest examples of SF's inferiority complex is how some residents insist on capitalizing "The City" mid-sentence when referring to it.
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Yes, it is - an over indulgence of food is killing our planet.
I've read your stories, multi tenancy is a plus.
Instead of changing incentives, we could remove the technical ability for services to do this.

One solution is m-of-n transactions, which Bitcoin already implements. Set things up so that any two of three keys can sign a transaction and spend your coins. The online service gets one key, you keep another on your computer, and a third goes in your safe deposit box.

Normally, you spend by signing a transaction from your computer and asking the service to do the same. The service can't spend coins without hacking your computer. If the service goes away, you pull the third key out of your safe deposit.
Once again, statements from an exchange are vague and inconsistent.

large fund withdrawals in the last weeks which have lead to a
complete depletion of our cold wallet balance

versus

We'll take the current available cold storage balance and distribute
it based on the below described distribution logic

Is the cold wallet completely depleted or isn't it?

And why choose such a cockamaime distribution scheme? 50% to the largest accounts and 50% to the smallest accounts?

Why not pro rata based on each account's balance?

So the largest accounts will enjoy 100% recovery while those in the middle get less, or even zero? This gives preference to certain accounts while providing the illusion of fairness.

Yet again, there's no disclosure of a balance sheet, no visibility to total assets and liabilities.

Why do people continue to trust their funds to incompetents and fraudsters?
They are copying Americans.
jabbathehut, you've just described my situation as well. Worked hard for 8 years at various VC/self-funded startups as founding hire, went solo in between startups, and don't need to work either - although for me, it is more of a combination of passive income and frugal living - I like to work and solve problems. I recently lived in South America for six months and realized after the novelty wore off that I really wanted to make cool things that will change the world in a big way. In fact, I ended up spending most of my time working on this while living there, so I came back to the US to move things faster.

May I ask where you're based out of? The computer animation/games/video revolution is definitely coming and I see very valuable applications of the technology outside of the gaming space. The immediate opportunity/problem I'm working on solving is in a growing global niche market. The idea came from a problem I had in this space. Users (including myself) are paying lots of money but there's nonexistent innovation and almost every user I spoke with is in interested in trying this. I'm fairly location independent, and I'd love to meet up/chat to talk more; if you're interested, please feel free to email me at yuzshan [At] gmail [d0t] com

PS I'm also in my early thirties. Great book by the way.
4 teachers for one year. They're not buying one of these things EVERY year.
A big takeaway is in the second point:

>By publishing yesterday’s Huawei story, the NYT obviously made the editorial judgment that these revelations are both newsworthy and in the public interest, should be disclosed, and will not unduly harm “American national security.” For reasons I explain below, I agree with that choice.

>But if you disagree – if you want to argue that this NSA story is reckless, dangerous, treasonous or whatever – then have the courage to take it up with the people who reached the opposite conclusion: in this case, the editors and reporters of the NYT (indeed, as former DOJ official Jack Goldsmith observed[1], the NYT‘s Huawei story was “based on leaks other than the Snowden documents”).

[1] http://www.lawfareblog.com/2014/03/the-nyt-on-nsas-huawei-pe...
Nah, your solution was not so bad really!

But of course nobody expects an answering service in place of the real thing.
and most of their desire for guns stems from the problems this article highlights, government out of control stomping on people for no other reason than they can.

Oddly enough, those rednecks you mock are more likely one of the most responsible groups who do collect guns. Inner city youths and those backed by the drug trade are the real problem.

Yet people are more than willing to pass laws to make acts that are illegal even more illegal without fixing the underlying problems; namely the drug war.
simply possess on being there first

Being there first is a really strong reason to respect someone's wishes. The ones who have been there have formed the place into much of what it is that makes it so desirable.

If being there first doesn't carry much weight, being a johnny-come-lately carries even less.
Sure, finance is valuable, up to a point. We reached that point about 100 years ago. Since then, the geniuses of Wall Street have been figuring out how to capture more of the value created by other people. That's a zero sum game.
Why the odd distribution? This means some users get everything back now, and some get nothing? Perhaps it's an attempt to keep some customers happy ("well, I got everything back so I guess its alright") so that exchange will keep running?

How can they justify anything but equally sharing the burden of the loss? "We owe X total and have Y available, so all accounts will get Y/X of their owed funds unfrozen, and the rest remain frozen."? I'm really not following the logic.
In my view it's reasonable to interpret "self made" as meaning that a person made money within a society that provides an elaborate economic infrastructure. I don't know what it's like in France, but here in the states, we have things like a stable currency, public support of education and research, and limitation of liability for shareholders of corporations. And of course if inheritance is involved, then the "self" is a family and not an individual.

What it's hard for people to understand is that both "stealing" and "making" are simplistic ideals, and that reality is much more complex for most of us.
History is a narrative.

Teaching is a narrative.

Media is a narrative.

Examining the root causes rather than the narrative fabric is rational. Most governmental actors are either intentionally or ignorantly not rational in this respect.
"should" as in it's your opinion? From the docs it looks like the alpha channel can be encoded lossy as well.

https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/docs/cwebp#options

-alpha_q int
Specify the compression factor for alpha compression
between 0 and 100. Lossless compression of alpha is
achieved using a value of 100, while the lower values
result in a lossy compression. The default is 100.
I have a carrierless SIM I've been playing with with a Pirelli DP-L10 phone and OsmocomBB.
I'm so glad I moved on from them a few months ago. Now, to make sure I only have my minimum funds on the current exchanges I use...

I suppose I should also delete my Vircurex api library while at it.
Random Marvin Minsky story:
About 15 years ago I invited Guy Kawasaki to speak to a student group at MIT and he accepted. I was able to schedule in about an hour to tour him through the MIT Media Lab, in the evening. He and I were wandering from area to are when we came upon Minsky, working in a lab. Being a former CS undergrad from a different school, I was pretty excited, so I decided to go for it and introduce myself and Guy to this famous person. Guy said, "Wow - you're the Marvin Minsky?" Without batting an eye, Minsky said, "Wow - you're the Guy Kawasaki?" And then proceeded to spend ten minutes walking us through what he was working on.
Many cops are ex-military.
"I heard about a small business that makes bingo cards for non-technical ....created by some guy in Japan"

Trying to say this in a nice way: I personally don't think it's good form to use these "insider" type things. Would be curious how many people are aware of what you are referring to or even for that matter who "PG" is (although that one for sure I understand as being a necessary part of some indoctrination..)

That said since I know what you are talking about I found it enjoyable!

Anyway, for one thing it's not particularly googleable. So it's not like saying "write your own shell script perl is to much work for that" where because this site is for hackers and further "shell script" or "perl" can be understood by newbies by, say, "searching that site funded by YC that is run by a guy in PA and has a funny game like name with an animal in it".[1]

I do agree with your point. Specifically because not knowing something can sometimes be an advantage instead of a disadvantage because you can be more creative in your approach.

[1] duckduckgo.com
just trying to get the next "investor" in.

But overall I am disappointed with exchanges I keep all the crypto in the wallet and take out what I consider risk/loss to play/pay someone.

The whole Idea of crypto is not to keep it with a designated third party.
I switched to a treadmill desk setup in my home office about a year ago and have been pretty happy with it.

http://imgur.com/a/zbm35

The desk itself is electric height-adjustable which makes it easy to switch between walking/standing and sitting with the push of a button, and the monitors are mounted on arms so I can move them to the correct height when I switch positions.

It took some getting used to before I could walk for extended periods of time, but now I don't really think about it anymore, I just start walking and before I know it, an hour has gone by. That said, I have found that it's hard to really concentrate while walking. If I find myself in the middle of a particularly difficult programming problem, I'll often need to sit down before I can really think about it.

But there's a lot of time throughout the day where I'm not doing anything that's super mentally challenging, like reading HN :) or catching up on email or finishing light programming tasks, and I try to walk as much as possible during those times.

At this point I typically walk between 1-3 hours total per day, and end up alternating between walking/standing/sitting every hour or so. Sometimes after sitting for a while I find myself starting to feel sleepy, switching to walking at this point usually wakes me right back up and keeps me going. Not sure, why, probably a circulation thing.

The setup wasn't particularly cheap to put together (though you could certainly do it for a lot cheaper than I did), but after a year I've concluded the cost was totally worth it considering how many hours of my life I spend (and will continue to spend) in front of a computer.
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DC's is a bit more pleasant, but in terms of actually transporting people NYC's is much better. NYC has a much better coverage of the area, longer hours of service and is much cheaper.
"I'm pretty sure davidw knows that"

35k karma (davidw) means more than "pretty sure" I'd say that's certainty.
This is not a new account.

The problem with HN comments is not just new users who do not know that the expectation is of colleagues discussing a problem to work to a solution, but also of long standing accounts that allow themselves to be "trolled" by emotive subjects.

Some people should stay away from gun control; abortion; Israel / Palestine; vi vs emacs; etc etc.

It'd be great to see some research on online communities where approaches to this have been tried.
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You ought to go look up what "militia" meant at the time the Constitution was written: its composition and rationale.
That's a shame, I actually quite liked Vircurex for automated trading purposes. Luckily for me I've only got like .3 BTC currently on Vircurex, still sucks to see your own money "frozen" on some website not being able to get it back.

The whole problem here looks to me as a flaw in the design of current crypto currencies, because transfers take that long to complete you will always need escrow type services to make it useful.
Regulation will not help, because the problem that causes this kind of stuff is embedded in bitcoin, but called a feature: Transactions are not reversible, and nobody can make transactions on a wallet other than the owner.

So in a system built around this, any hack, from good old Mitnick-style social engineering attacks, to something purely technica, will cause irreparable loss. Any computer , network, or even individual that has control of enough coins will have a huge target planted on their heads, because all thefts are final.

The security systems on a regular bank do not put fraud avoidance as their number one priority: That's just number two. What they really care about is fraud detection, because for most forms of fraud, and especially the ones that could ruin a bank, early detection allows them to undo the damage. If I could take a billion from Bank of America, and there was nothing that could be done about it after the fact, there would be millions of people working on finding ways to do just that. The payoff would be too great for it not to happen multiple times a year.

So the best the Bitcoin fanatics can hope for is for the major thefts to be rare. Still, they will happen, it's just unavoidable when the stakes are that high, and the rules so in favor of the thief.
If you store your money in an unregulated exchange then you deserve whatever happens to you. This is basically no different than when people who don't back up their hard drive complain about losing all their stuff.

If you want to make a trade then sure, put a couple hundred bucks in or whatever, but realize that whatever you have in the exchange could disappear at any time.
This is definitely interesting and insightful, especially the lead-gen aspect of investing in OSS with the prospect of future leads. Kind of like a16z investing in PandoDaily - surely that won't provide a legit return, but it will give high visibility into the ecosystem.

However, I disagree about the Github portion.

The Github investment was the perfect type of investment. They conquered the consumer side of the market, they knew their customer acquisition cost, were growing quickly and were profitable. It was the perfect example of just pouring gasoline on a fire to accelerate things.

The next logical step is to move into the enterprise, which they have been doing. I suspect that their customer acquisition costs into the enterprise are just as low as the consumer side - because they will have internal advocates from the same developers that either have a free/paid account on the consumer side.

So it is the perfect, de-risked, investment for any investor. A16Z happens to be cream of the crop, so they were lucky enough to get that deal.

Aside from that...OSS companies actually do make a lot of money. See Sun, RedHat, etc. Selling enterprise versions and support can be VERY lucrative. The only way to do that is to grow significantly and become a major player in the industry - which npm was slowly getting there, with the investment it did accelerate that likely. So I don't think they would see it as a loss-leader just to build out a funnel for future deals. That was likely just a bonus, or even "down-side protection" as it were.
Eventually, one gets bored of being polite when the conversation repeats itself ad infinitum.