skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work from home part time (living in a small apartment) and built a standing desk out of a shelf, a piece of wood and a black glass plate. I specifically designed it as small and simple as possible so my work space has no physical distractions and there is no space left for piling paperwork.

I also created a physical Kanban board to manage day-to-day tasks, it's right next to the standing desk and I enjoy its omnipresence because I can always see the big picture of my work. (also the mere exposure effect kicks in :) )

Here's a picture, it's small, it's simple, I love it:
http://www.patrick-wied.at/misc/img/standing_table.jpg
They do, but I'm not convinced that it matters - I'd be very surprised if there's any overlap between websites that use the free StartSSL cert, and websites that are worth the effort of hijacking the cert and MITMing.
Solve ANY Math Problem.
Is the game deeper as it seems on the first playthrough?

Are there any harder to reach options, like having children or reaching old age?

edit: I looked in source, there are no hidden options, you will get everything on the first playthrough.
Long term I see the "sharing economy" being driven by resource scarcity (i.e. it's not practical for every human on earth to have a car), but I totally agree that right now it's often driven by job scarcity.

In my limited experiences with AirBnB people on the supply side either approach "sharing" as a fun hobby (e.g. "stay in our cute guest house!"), or they are truly trying to make ends meet.

True story: I AirBnB'd once and the guy rented out his own bed to us, and slept on the couch (and his girlfriend stayed over! on the couch!). Another roommate was AirBnB'ing a room in the same house, too. I think they were both trying to pay their rent share via AirBnB. Nice guys - we felt welcome and had a good time - but money was not "secondary" to them.
I have a lot of research to do thanks to you guys. Honestly, can't thank you all enough for the suggestions! You are all awesome.
I like it.

Not sure what you consider 'noise' but so far it's better than my unfiltered timeline.

Is there a way to increase the number of tweets?

What are your future plans?
The Economics of Writing a Book
Aren't there companies that don't really spend a lot of money on lobbying even if they make a lot of it? Like, say Apple.
There definitely needs to be a "You need to look at kittens" action there, which randomly gives you one of -Stress or +Memory
Show HN: I made this site, I need HN to give it some traction
http://www.upverge.com
I'm sorry, who are you again?
The offer is appreciated but I'll pass - my reason for wanting SSL is not a business one, rather an annoyance one (i.e. alerts every time I hit my self-signed sites).

Aside: the way you keep mentioning your URL over and over seems really spammy.
Illustrated Sorting Algorithms
Yes. India has GAGAN (GPS Aided Geo-Augmented Navigation)[1][2] to augment GPS accuracy, similar to EGNOS and WAAS. Apart from this, there's IRNSS (Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System)[3], which is an indigenous satellite navigation system independent of GPS.

[1]http://gpsworld.com/gagan-certified-for-aviation-in-india/

[2]http://www.isro.org/pressrelease/scripts/pressreleasein.aspx...

[3]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Regional_Navigational_Sa...
Netherlands’ glowing highway gets a temporary lights off
Thanks for all of this. I wasn't expecting someone to give me a detailed response like this. Really appreciate it. Can you shoot me an email at josejllorens@gmail.com so I have your contact info in case I have a question. Keep in touch! Thanks.
What number would be optimal? 20, 25? Interested in finding this out from people...

Roadmap includes favouriting and retweeting of tweets and certain export options, like "save to Pocket"
What Are You Willing To Give Up?
Oh master, please teach an unworthy soul the path to the true enlightenment you must be experiencing everyday while being close to the metal, because this fool was blinded by the promises of fat runtimes that can deliver business value in a shorter amount of time without having to worry about the cost of virtual table dispatches, memory leaks, buffer overflows or differences in the memory models and libc versions of the underlying operating system.

> For system programming its not cool to abstract the machine too much.. we've learned that lesson the hard way (see the big projects like hadoop in manage languages for an example)

Oh master, please do say what's wrong with Hadoop, one of the best and most successful pieces of open-source infrastructure. Truly you must know of a better alternative that isn't burdened with the cancer that is the JVM.

Also, you must mean something different when you're saying system programming, because in my dictionary, Hadoop ain't it. Not a native english speaker here, must take some lessons apparently.
Just bought my first warehouse. 50,000 Sq Ft.
What should I do? rent it out or use it for ecomm companies. Need some Help.
The fear is precisely that the "relief" is not temporary - that the jobs these people used to have are gone for good, and won't be replaced by equivalent full-time opportunities. So economic insecurity becomes a permanent thing for a (large) class of people.
From a personal revelation about his late father:

http://notch.tumblr.com/post/37823268132/i-love-you-dad

I remember that story and it kind of remained with me. As soon as I saw the title of the "game" I recalled this part of this story:

> ... turn around, see my dad being really close to the dog when all of the sudden a big chunk of ice around him breaks loose, tips over, and my dad falls in. I freak out. Then he stands up, the water only reaching about hip height.

I urge you to read the whole story.
That's a very editorialized title. I would hardly call it "destroying" something if you just strip some features, maybe these are not even used that often. Hard to judge without seeing their stats.

Edit: Someone fixed the title of the submission. Thanks!
Automated deployment would not necessarily have prevented this. Errors happen when humans deploy software manually, and errors happen when humans configure automated deployment tools. The real problem was lack of a "kill switch" to shut down the system when it became obvious something was wrong.
I would like to see a cat version of the game. There could be specific outcomes, e.g. if you don't want to end up de-balled/hysterectomied then you can be an alley cat and live a shorter life that may be harsher. Alternatively you could go for the cosy life by purring lots.
I look forward to the idiotic backlash (not really).
Mod should change the title to remove the editorializing.

This move makes sense. Amazon is a retailer, they do not have the margins to hand over part of a sale to a rent seeker. Comic readers are savvy enough to figure out that they can just go to the website.

EDIT: Looks like the title was updated, thanks.
As it's not mentioned in the post it should be pointed out that it appears TC only took any action after they were called out on Twitter [1].

[1] https://twitter.com/jason (read that last 10 tweets or so)

NB: I could be incorrect and they did this without prompting but that's certainly not the way it seems.
If anyone's wondering about the orbit, it's a geosynchronous but not geostationary orbit.

The geosynchronous part is so that they only need a few sats to cover their region, unlike GPS which is global and requires some 32 sats.

It's not an equatorial geostationary orbit so that receivers at higher latitudes (in Japan) will see a sat overhead instead of always over the equator. This is to deal with the "canyon" effect. Guaranteeing a bird overhead, rather than GPS's catch-as-catch-can, should definitely help signal reliability.

These will be further away than GPS, which are medium Earth orbit.

Some other info (including an animation) here:

http://global.jaxa.jp/countdown/f18/overview/orbit_e.html

It should also be useful in Australia and parts between. They will also park spare sats in geostationary equatorial orbits.

It's a bit inspired, I think, by the Molniya orbit, another technique to get long-duration high-latitude overflight:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molniya_orbit
Döpfner is trying to pivot the Axel Springer publishing house into a digital media company but their efforts are laughable. They sold some of their newspapers and magazines and are investing the money in dotcoms, but compared to Google or even Yahoo they're just small fish. They're clueless about technology so they resort to whining about the oh-so-evil Google.

For a quick laugh, watch this video of a tourist trip to Silicon Valley they did last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug4Rcip9SHg
Didn't know that. Nice point!
While I think screens will never completely disappear, I feel that many of the appliances that are gaining them now (refrigerators? why?) should lose them as soon as possible.

Those screens do not make the appliances that have them better or smarter, like the marketing department of samsung&co. want us to believe.
NASA's Third Rock Radio
http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/05/23/apple-on-pace-to-d...

I guess it depends on what you consider "a lot of money."
Depends a lot on the location!
I made a fix for a mongoose issue that sounds like what you describe and landed it in 1.2.3[1]. Can you verify? And if what you describe is a different issue can you make a github issue? (or is mongoose doing something so crazy that it cannot be helped at all? :P)

[1] https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird/commit/70f90c33dd94...
I couldn't agree more. What an incredibly lame excuse. The problem with such wording as "undue burden," "probable cause," "reasonable suspicion," etc. is that the phrases themselves are so broad and ambiguous, they can and do end up being meaningless when interpreted in court. It's clear that the original intent of the authors is irrelevant when interpreting such phrases as is any semblance of reasoning or logic. The only thing left is the warring parties intentions and their rationalizations for intentional misinterpretation.

What's wrong with undue burden on police and government? The constitution itself provides for many such burdens specifically to prevent an overzealous government from overstepping its power. The courts can and have applied such arguments to specific portions of the constitution, generally with great success. What gives law enforcement the right to be free of undue burden anyway?
TIOBE Is (Unintentionally) Misleading; in Truth, Interest in Java Is Surging
Thanks, we have been working together for 17 years now and it's great. We limit work hours to weekdays 9-5.
I work from home full time and live on a Pier in the Hudson River right across NYC. My home office has a large solid wood workbench and a Herman Miller Aeron chair. There’s an iPad mounted on the wall running Status Board app showing some vital stats.

All work is done on my 27” iMac, while watching the curious life of liveaboards in the marina outside and looking at the Manhattan skyline…

https://www.dropbox.com/s/nhjki7bpcpfpemw/HomeOffice1.jpg

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0u7lbw9d1t0n7ek/HomeOffice2.jpg

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5uzavsek2dz80qf/HomeOffice3.jpg

(Sorry for the poor pics, had to shoot against the sunlight coming in)
There are many interesting lessons from this tale, but the conclusion that automated deployment would have saved the day seems a bit of a jump.

Automation does not protect you from either automated devastation, gaps, or human errors. Your automation tools, just as with written instructions, require configuration -- a list of servers, for instance.

Automation can be bullet-proof when it's a continuous deployment situation, but is less reliable when you do infrequent deployments, as such a financial firm does. I say this having been in a firm where we moved from "a list of deployment steps" to "fully automated" for our quarterly builds, and the result was much, much, much worse than it was before. We could certainly have resolved this (for instance having a perfect replica of production), but the amount of delta and work and testing we did on our deployment process vastly, and by several magnitudes, exceeded our manual process.

An observer did not validate the deployment (which should be the case whether automated or not for such a deploy). They ignored critical warning messages sent by the system pre-trading (the system was warning them that it was a SNAFU situation). Systems in a cluster didn't verify versions with each other. Configuration did not demand a version. Most importantly for a system of this sort, they didn't have a trade gateway that they could easily see what the system was doing, and gate abnormal behaviors quickly and easily (such a system should be as simple as possible, the premise being that it's an intermediate step between the decision/action systems and the market. The principal is exactly the same as sending a mass customer mailing to a holding pen for validation to ensure that your macros are correct, people aren't multi-sent, to do throttling, etc).
It has potential, but I had a hard time relating to my character. I need a lover as a teenager? And 2 broken hearts to stop being a teenager? And the only way to get experience is by losing friends.
I think they miss the boat in some ways... Ownership is nothing but having the right to deprive others of using something combined with responsibility for it's upkeep. It can be convenient, but in many cases, for me, it's irrelevant, or suboptimal. I don't care about having the ability to prevent other people from using a particular vehicle. It's not worth the maintenance time for me - forgetting about the cost altogether. What I really care about is having access to a vehicle when I need one once-or-twice a week - ideally one best suited to the task at hand. Communication technology has improved such that I can get what I want/need without the actual benefits and drawbacks of "ownership".
I am unabashedly a fan of Adventure Time.
Best advice in the post:

"Easy. I stopped reading Techcrunch."

42Floors is a magnitude bigger than my company (http://periscope.io) and has always seemed like one of those runaway startup successes that we aspire to and occasionally despair of. Reading something this is incredibly motivating. Thank you for writing.
MEAN Stack – A Quick Start Guide
Actually it's often not your choice for broadband. There's no other option but fios where my parents live. Because they have a protection racket going with the city.
Could you walk through a bit, your thought process, on buying a warehouse, for instance why you decided to purchase it?
There's something wrong with the math. I tried the integral from 0 to 200 of e^(-x^2) and it gave me 0. It also gives me 0 for the range 0 to 1, and for using x^2 instead of -x^2.

I then tried from 0 to 2 of e^(-x) and it gave me −0.864664716763, which is negative of what it should be.
Because he has users and he wants to keep their private info under encrypted channels?

Hobby sites quickly become apps (even as small as phpBB) and it would be good if we SSL'd everything.
Probably this psychology works for hardware and software too.
This. Google has been talking about personalized search for a decade. And for years they would say that your search results were personalized but it wasn't really obvious. You had to just trust that what you're seeing is better because they say it is and that it's just for you.

But sometime in the last few years this seems to have hit an inflection point. Domain and location specific results are expected now. Where a decade ago I would have to type in "Sycamore San Francisco" now I just type in "Sycamore" and I get what I want.

This also has an effect on adwords campaign tuning. As people become trained to not include locale in their query, the keywords become fewer and more generic. You of course use location targeting but many people crafted thousands of location-specific keywords that get less and less traffic going forward.
I died with hope!!

Also, I noticed that something compounded to solve if you had more of them, notably stress. When you only had 1, it was instantaneous to solve. If you had more than one, the percent counter took time
Good points! Being an historical science, evolution inherently suffers from several limitations.

>> Also, your post seems to suffer from "feigned surprise" :-)

Ha! Good one. :) I admit, it was a bit like that.
No, dual is correct. There's no local way to unkink the phone cable in that image. Just notice that the orientation (whether a cord spirals clockwise or counterclockwise as you travel along it) doesn't change in a properly unkinked cord, but the left and right side of the cord in the photograph have opposite orientations. Whatever manipulation you do locally around the kink (even if it involves rotating the whole rest of the cord around rigidly) won't change the orientation of either side.

A corollary to this is that the kink in the picture wasn't created locally, and is not the kind of kink you accidentally create. Though you can create a stretch of mis-oriented cord by trying to fix what starts as a local kink, but that requires fiddling with that entire section of cord.
Golang was the original name of the language.
Original link to English translation http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/mathias-doepf...

Original link to German source http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien/mathias-doepfne...
Wow. This really struck me - what an incredible piece of art. Thank you notch, for helping me to spend some time this morning reflecting on how I want to live my life.
Elon Musk: SpaceX Will File Suit Against the U.S. Government
I was explaining this to my kids last night.

They know what current experimental robots can do. I asked them to imagine what a supermarket would look like when we have good physical automation to match the information automation. The cashiers up front have already been replaced by self-scan checkouts and a single supervisor. The stocking can be done by a robot forklift about the size of a human... so can the unloading of trucks. The trucks will be driven by software. There's really no need to keep anything except fresh produce out on display in bulk; keep one sample item on the shelves and when a shopper selects it, load it on to a cart in the back. That makes the supermarket much smaller: a warehouse, a display area, and the fresh produce area. If there's an in-store bakery, it's half automated already. The jobs for thirty to fifty people become jobs for five to ten people...

Then I asked my kids what sort of jobs people would have after that. They came up with pretty good ideas: programming robots, designing robots, and repairing them. They asked if there would be jobs for paleontologists, and I suggested that the auxiliary jobs would go away. Would a robot drive the truck? Yes. They offered that a robot with seismic sensors and ground radar would do the initial searching, and maybe there would be specialized digging robots that could be both faster and more careful than a human.

So, yeah. We won't have as many jobs in the future, so either our standards are going to have to rise and our expectations that people are defined by their jobs will have to be replaced.
but they're not bird-like at all :S
That desk speaker is technically 50 hz and higher. I have not seen the monitor ever move. I try to keep levels low at close proximity. I also use Bose noise cancelling headphones most of the day. The left monitor height diff did annoy me at first. I adjusted the Win 7 monitor position setting to account for it, as well as the Everest background that spans the three monitors.
The full paper[1] is interesting, as is the news and views commentary on this article[2] from the same Molecular Systems Biology journal. The origin of life is, of course, still an unsolved problem, and one of the problems has been inferring from geological and other findings what the early environment of Earth was in which life arose. I commend the Hacker News participant here who submitted this article for submitting an article from a journalistic source experienced in science journalism, with a reporter making the effort to seek other commenters besides the primary research journal authors to gain pro-and-con commentary about how important this preliminary finding is. I found the submission interesting, as it suggests some lines of inquiry I hadn't read about before in other writings on the origin of life.

[1] http://msb.embopress.org/content/10/4/725

[2] http://msb.embopress.org/content/10/4/729
Imageshack was used widely in reddit.

The problem was it couldn't handle the load and the link would just die. If a link would become semi popular, it would pretty much kill the imageshack source with certainty.

This was the main selling point of imgur. It didn't suck.
Why not collect for a donation to key congress figures instead.
>BTW – if there is an SEC filing about your deployment something may have gone terribly wrong

I can't help but smile at this comment. Production servers crashing is bad news, but the above is a whole new level of bad.
This is just too good. Thank you very much for the link. I am wondering how many of those guys have anything close to a CS or math degree.
GIT Obsession – Are we the Monkeys in the Monkey-Banana-Water Gun Experiment?
I think a lot of people like cartoons like this because they're forced to be clever with the jokes, whereas something made for adults just throws the sexual innuendo and adult oriented content right at you, not to mention there is little to no philosophical discussion to be had on the average sitcom. You can re-watch adventure time and regular show over and over and each time catch something you missed before.
Opening and closing keynote slides:

"Hello, Gophers!":
http://talks.golang.org/2014/hellogophers.slide#1

"Go for gophers":
http://talks.golang.org/2014/go4gophers.slide#1
I am a CS student who had to use Rust for my OS class. I have had several issues using Rust so far, mostly caused by a lack of verbose documentation and examples. The basic ideas are great, but it's hard to learn about some things, such as lifetimes, because it isn't covered in extensive detail in the official documentation, and not at all elsewhere. The compiler is no help, because the errors aren't online.

I won't be using Rust again until well after its 1.0 release. I don't want to struggle with a language, I want to program in it. Rust just seems like it requires a much deeper knowledge of programming theory in general for one to use it effectively, and people like me would rather just write it in Python.
We prefer to keep a low profile, but can say that our core product is a vertically targeted CMS that evolved out of a few years of custom projects and consulting.
Reclaiming The Jargon File
This one is my favorite of this thread by far!
It's working perfectly on iPhone as well.
repurposed an old flag

The flag was not OLD since there was still code in the CURRENT code base which COULD use it.