skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've tried standing desks a few times and what I've found is that if your going to work more than regular hours it's a bad idea. That is you should not stand more than 8 hours a day for 5 days a week. And even then that should be punctuated by breaks such as lunch, meetings, etc.

The main difference I found say compared toa cashier is that you barely move. You don't twist side to side and so on. This might seem small but it's important.

The biggest issue though is that if you're doing a startup with long hours you need to be very careful. Like everything else overdoing anything is bad.
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> they will than attach reviews to your shop

They will come and stick reviews on your window or what?
In this game, one of the factors is frauds. The solution provider who is able to keep fraud rate under control will have an advantage.
Press coverage of the Syrian internet outage at the time:
http://www.cnet.com/news/blackout-syria-vanishes-from-intern...
"The Middle Eastern country has been experiencing an Internet outage for several hours, and many people on Twitter are reporting that phone lines are down as well."

http://www.renesys.com/2012/11/syria-off-the-air/
"There was one brief whole-country outage of less than ten minutes on 25 November. By the time that one was confirmed, the outage was over. It would be reaching to call that a “precursor event” or “practice run,” but that’s a possibility."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/30/anonymous-declares-...
"The Syrian government said that terrorists were behind the outages, but CloudFlare, a firm that helps accelerate Internet traffic, said it would have been extremely difficult for any type of sabotage to cause such a comprehensive blackout, according to Reuters."

http://blog.cloudflare.com/how-syria-turned-off-the-internet
"All the edge routers are controlled by Syrian Telecommunications. The systematic way in which routes were withdrawn suggests that this was done through updates in router configurations, not through a physical failure or cable cut."
I agree with that to a point. But unless these products are profitable it doesn't really matter if they produce revenue. Folk long-argued that it was valuable for Google to have all of these free products because it kept them in the Google ecosystem. They were spending more time on Google, which had real value.

The problem is the cost that comes with lack of focus. Exploding headcount. Unclear corporate vision. When only a few of your products make nearly all of your money, why spend a bunch of energy on a lot of things that lose money, or make practically no profit?

I'd love to see Amazon spend real effort on making AWS easier to use [for people who are not deeply steeped in AWS already, it's hard]. For the love of God, I can't believe AWS console still makes you globally switch on region for everything. Can't there just big a dashboard that lets you see and control, ya know, everything? It's things like that. Things that have been bad for a long time. Instead of pushing out redshift or cognitio or zocalo or workspaces or elastic transcoder, how about they make AWS as a whole a better product? Something easier to user. Something more consistent.
Plus you will advertise Amazon with their logo on the device :-)
AdBlock Edge.

When I first installed it, my motivation was partly to fuck with The Man.

But good lord what a great web experience I've had since then. It's almost a completely different web, with a completely different purpose, to inform me rather than to sell me.
Using page-down instead of scrolling help.
Still horriblue UX/design, though.
A proper function will always return the same value if you give it the same input, so there's no need for the computer to always re-run the expensive computation.
How they will implement reviews for local shops is speculation at this point, but yes. They will allow reviews for local shops and use them to influence buyers choosing where to cut their hairs or where to buy the best cakes.
Well, I didn't read the part where OP stated that he was doing a right...
Ask HN: How can I make experience as a Sys Admin?
Long story short: I am still a student in EU and in the last years I had internships and worked part-time mainly as a backend developer but, considering I ever joined only startups, I had chances to work also on the frontend and as a devops for a short time.

So I really liked the few things I did to help the Sys Admin(s) in those jobs and would like to have some more experience in the field before decide in which career path invest my future.

The problem is I can't find any junior Sys Admin job offer, even looking at medium-big companies. The most low level offer I found asked for strong experience on aws/azure and its specific components that I obviously don't know at the moment ( nor I have the money to make for myself a big enough testing architecture on which make some experiments).

Considering all that, is the best solution to try to just get a job as dev and then work from the inside to move on the Sys Admin role? Are there specific types of companies that I should look for (I don't know, maybe in consulting firms it is more common to have a team mentoring new sys admins considering the big amount of work)? Would you suggest some books or screencasts on the matter? Any other suggestion?
I've been looking for a hands-on tutorial for H-M typology for a while now.

For an introduction, I would also recommend "Algorithm W Step by Step"

http://www.grabmueller.de/martin/www/pub/AlgorithmW.pdf
Commuting to work by slip-and-slide sounds like a blast to me...!
Nexus 5 looks great. Tried it on a Nexus 7 and got the Snowden head floating over pages of black.
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"The Ruby Programming Language" by Flanagan and Matsumoto may not have that as it's main goal, but gives a very good overview on why features are how they are and even gives some advice from the creator of the language himself and some commentary on them (e.g. flip-flops are considered an implementation oddity kept around for backwards compat).

http://www.amazon.com/Ruby-Programming-Language-David-Flanag...

I think it's the most relevant Ruby book, because it documents the basic thinking and mental approach of the language, which is actually very stable.
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At least they all had a "skip intro" that would get rid of it all
To judge by the number of researchers from Disney Zurich who were on the road giving job talks this spring, it seems that Disney may be asking the same question.
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What a novel idea!

Seriously though, Angular gives you the ability to do this in the browser, here's an example of how to implement an Excel-like spreadsheet using Angular: http://thomasstreet.com/blog/legacy/spreadsheet.html
Everyone seems to be trying to reinvent the scrolling these days. Meanwhile the craigslist's designers and UX engineers (if there are any) are having hell of a fun.
Well.. I knew our(US) government downplaying Snowden's credentials was just propaganda(lies)... But wow, were they ever downplaying his credentials. And our media was mostly content to just spread the propaganda with a smile :|
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NSA started to move towards "two-man rule" system where system administrators work in pairs when accessing servers with highly classified information only after Snowden leaks. When you know that Russia and China have good track record of long running human intelligence operations in the US, this looks like really gigantic security lapse.

They are not stupid and they must have been discussing it. There must have been strategic decision where they prioritized the expansion of intelligence collection over internal security (effectively cutting the work that skilled people with security clearances can do to almost half must be real cost and resource bottleneck).

If I had to guess the situation, I would say that for every whistle blower there is two spies who spy for Russia or China and they have collected all documents they can. Russians&Chinese spying US spying the world. The cost of setting up good HUMINT must be fraction of the cost of the NSA infrastructure.
I found "another math genius" vs "He ain't smart enough." pretty funny
Since it was promoted as something similar to Grantland under ESPN's umbrella (semi-autonomous site run by an individual with strong creative control) I thought it would be able to cherrypick individuals who were not just competent with data, but also writing. After the first couple months, I kind of gave up. Even when a piece is interesting, the quality of the writing has been disappointing.

It also irks me a bit that one of the guiding principles in Nate Silver's manifesto was that they would not chase the news, but would take their time to provide different insights than other outlets. Instead, it feels like they're constantly chasing the story of the day or yesterday.

Finally, a disappointing number of articles feel half-finished. As if one of their staff writers had an idea, ran with it for a while, then got tired and stopped at their first set of results. Sometimes I take that as a challenge and go scrounge up more data to try and pull together what else is going on, but most of the time I just end up not caring.

They still have a handful of lengthy and interesting pieces, but they're rare enough that I only check the site maybe once a week. Conversely, I check Grantland 10+ times a day, because their writers are engaging whether it's basketball stats or pop culture junk.
Right. Without state using only pure functions, you get to ignore change and time, therefore even the notion of "reactive programming" is not very meaningful.
it's so nice to have an alternative, though Joda works well enough currently.
Hi, I would like to have some feedback on the website I've created. It's called Invoice At Once.
It is a small service for users who need to create and print an invoice in an easy way.
I think it would be useful for freelancers or any independent worker.

Any feedback or fresh ideas for improvements would be great.

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Ask HN: Why hasn't Dart become mainstream?
There was a lot of hype for Dart a couple of months/1 year ago and now it seems it faded away. What happened?
What is the target market for this? If its financial industry professionals, why would they use an iPad in lieu of a desktop they're spending all day behind?
Been there. I think you have to hold some trade secrets back to avoid this fate.
Interesting that that screenshot shows other windowing decorations, but that "close" is hidden in a menu option.
Human Need Not Apply
Considering every damn SMTP server out there that talks STARTTLS actually just accepts any certificate by default including self-signed ones, isn't this entire point moot?

It prevents casual attackers watching the wire i.e. network taps but doesn't prevent MITM at all as you can just proxy it with another self signed cert and it goes through.

I know this because our SMTP gateway does exactly that, transparently with postfix.
Stop.

"Weak Men Are Super Weapons" is truly worth a read. It's not one-sided, it doesn't pick fights and it's quite fair to both sides.

Smearing language on a subset of a group can rapidly cause long-term smearing on the larger group and it's completely expected and fair for innocents to want to protect themselves from the effects of this.

I'll quote from the article:

So the one problem is that people have a right not to have
unfair below-the-belt tactics used to discredit them without
ever responding to their real arguments.

And the other problem is that victims of nonrepresentative
members of a group have the right to complain, even
though those complaints will unfairly rebound upon the
other members of that group.

I strongly recommend that everybody in the tech community reads it.

It's not enough to just look at what people believe, take offence and respond before understanding them. You have to treat people with respect and be careful not to unduly tar each other with the same brush.
TAO bricking the Syrian main router and MonsterMind implementing a sort of cyber-MAD system, are explicitly called out as exclusive revelations. They are important because:

* Until now, any loss of Internet connectivity in Syria has always been interpreted as "bad dictator censoring people". I'm not saying that's never been the case, but now we know the US can have more control on global internet infrastructure than we knew possible. Next time some "bad" middle-eastern country loses the internet, US propaganda will have a harder time making people believe it's all due to bad actors.

* As Snowden eloquently says, an automated response system has very serious ethical challenges. Automation is not flawless, we've learnt it in the '70s and '80s through a number of very close calls with nuclear missiles; and in such an ethereal world as the internet (where bits can be faked almost at will), aggressive response should probably never be automatic.

The article also fleshes out Snowden's career in a better way than most similar pieces, and heavily suggests that the "second leaker" theory has some legs (at one point, personally I thought the second leaker was actually a USgov operation to distract reporters from the Snowden trove and/or spend some capital to re-establish relationships with them; but if Poitras really lawyered up when asked, chances are that there's something else as well).
The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you. -K Thompson (plan9 fortune file)
Now I wonder whether Google was misunderstood with the "2048-bit keys" or they did it on purpose to push everyone to use RSA. Why didn't they suggest ECDHE, too? Why push everyone to usa RSA now, just to tell them to use something else a few years later?
Wwoa! Didn't know about /usr/bin/units thx!
Solidarity for the non-technical PM's (sorry you learned through battles - that is where we differ).

Great advice in this article for both technical and non-technical product folks.
Good comments.

You can edit your profile to put information there that you would normally put in your signature. For example, https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=wglb for mine.
There will always be misconfigurations, so we will always need ways to detect and handle them.

Encrypting everything everywhere increases the cost of snooping, which is good. It's a long way from perfect, but that shouldn't stop us from making an improvement.
We already have an issue in the united states with not enough jobs to go around, if this dystopian outlook is truly inevitable, what are our options for mitigating it, or at least coping with it?

I have thought quite a bit about autonomous vehicles and how I can't wait to buy one and never have to drive again, how many benefits it will have on society (faster commutes, fewer accidents, etc), but I hadn't considered how much the transportation industry will be affected and especially how much truck drivers in particular would be ideal to replace. The NYT ran a story the other day (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/upshot/the-trucking-indust...) about how we don't have enough drivers to fulfill the needs, but "Autos" could swing that pendulum swiftly in the opposite direction once legeslation and production catch up. How do we handle 3.6M truck, delivery and taxi drivers looking for a new job?

I haven't read it yet, but I have recently had recommendations of the book Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (http://smile.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00LOOCGB2/0sil8/re...) which I look forward to reading and hope it might be relevant.
The recommendation I've seen from others before building my standing desk, and certainly the pattern I follow, is to alternative sitting and standing. My desk is set up for a standing situation, but I can undock my laptop and sit at any time. Some days I stand 65% of the time, some days I stand 10% of the time.

Mix it up, feel better.
To save others clicking through the article again, the SO question is here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1028250/what-is-functiona...
Another thread with very remarkable discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8169367
Not my graphic, however I agree with it as I used to be on the student helpdesk at college when we had to support 3.1, 95, and 98. Naturally our individual call center team's experience is an insignificant sample size.

I don't think anyone believes it is actually every other exact release (hence the original quotes), but the feeling/humor is shared. Sorry you disagree.
What makes you think they are not buying this data already from credit card companies?
This is probably Retina only. Doesn't look good on my regular joe pc.
That one is amazing.

Just because a bug seems impossible doesn't mean it is.

This comment reminds me of the magic switch (story [0], light HN discussion [1]).

[0]: http://catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=181045
I can't sign up because all my amazon accounts are associated with other Amazon payment services? Is this an AWS thing?
It would be really helpful to have some more context.

(0) Can you link to the product?

(1) When did you start and what has the growth trajectory been (e.g., weekly growth rate)?

(2) Is there some marginal cost other than server space that is limiting growth?
Crimes Against Logic: Exposing Bogus Arguments
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I met Emily Whiting (one of the authors) earlier this year; she had a few of the fabricated tops with her at the time and I spent a few minutes playing with them. It should be noted that while these are much easier to spin than un-optimized solids (which don’t spin at all), they are still much, much harder to spin than normal tops.

Still, it’s a cool little project.
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They haven't really reached (2) in any market besides books. As dominant as Amazon is, Wal-Mart still towers over them for just about every product category that isn't printed on paper.

I'd argue (3) shouldn't read raise prices - that isn't really Amazon's MO, (3) should read "leverage their de facto monopoly to squeeze suppliers for all they've got, Wal-Mart style". This is certainly happening in books.
The big speculation was whether it would be Mirzakhani or Sophie Morel, in number theory (Langlands program etc). So now we can start betting on the next round of Fields medals: will Morel be next?
Wow, talk about doing a deal with the devil. Amazon will just apply their standard rule book to the situation and choke the market, and use the data to make it easier to determine what markets are worth investing in for hyperlocal sales tools.

It honestly seems like no good can come of this, it looks like a wonderful tool, but the risks? Eeesh.
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It's not really unique to Angular is it?
This is a matter of UI design, then. Eventually I'd expect secure sites to be the default (with broken lock symbols in the URL bar if not), with higher levels of security carrying something like the secure site symbols we see today.

Encryption and identity assurance are two different things - you can easily have the first which makes passive monitoring much more difficult without the trust infrastructure to mitigate MITMing.

For the average user, knowing what we know now, I'd say the first is a much more clear and present danger. The second requires a person to actually take interest in your traffic.
Why not call it the Fields Medal?
Dismantling Paleo grounds: A devastating book review
This man speaks wise.

It will inevitably take A LOT OF work to do one campaign than most people anticipate. Don't underestimate the work of promoting and handling it.
I'm in Canada, not the US, but I have one that gives 4% cash back on gas and groceries and 2% at pharmacies and for bill payments.

http://www.scotiabank.com/ca/en/0,,86,00.html
The problem is that modern life is not geared toward moderation. The way our economy is structured, most people have to spend their entire day working in order to make ends meet. And for a lot of people "work" means being tied to a computer for 8 or more hours. The human body is really not well suited to doing any one thing for longer than 8 hours at a time, but unfortunately our lifestyle almost requires it.
Running a 24×7 Service in an 8×5 Workweek
It is articles like this where Instapaper text comes in very handy. Clear out all the flash, and just show the content.
Hello World, WebGL
A fine explanation of her work and trajectory for the intelligent nonspecialist: http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140812-a-tenacious-...
That isn't a new strategy. Starbucks did it all throughout the 1990s, opening locations sometimes literally on every block of major cities, many of them money-losing. They waited for the existing coffee shops to be driven out of business and then thinned out their locations to a more sustainable density.
True. But now she takes her rightful place in a line reaching back to Omar Khayyam and earlier. Congratulations to Maryam Mirzakhani.
How naive are you as a manager?
I get your comment and agree with it, but... It's funny how us (the HN/startup/pro disruptive audience) is very pro change (let's get rid off the middle man because we can create software that can do this cheaper and more efficient) and now we are 'rooting' for the brick and mortar business. There is a sociological take away somewhere here.
LESS. I don't enjoy logic in stylesheets and having to mess with Ruby mucks up most JS based build systems IMO
"If the designers of X Windows built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed the same principles . . . but you'd be able to shift gears with your stereo.

Useful feature, that." -- Marcus J. Ranum, Digital Equipment Corp.
What is it with swipe cards in the US? A lot of businesses in the EU don't take them due to security risks and only accept chip-and-pin payments,yet US parties like it's 1991?
This is a quirk of HN posting policy: to use the original article title.
Guess what – meetings – they suck
As a European, I've always been somewhat aware of a certain degree of internal propaganda going on in US media (things like different magazine covers for international editions were always quite glaring), but since 2001 the situation worsened so much, I do feel for you guys. Lessons from the '00s were not learnt, US newsrooms are full of sycophantic Judith Millers and people like Greenwald are still ostracized. EDIT: not that Europe is much better, eh -- just slightly (or it's just done more subtly over here).
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This guy is loner I like his argument when debate with massimo pigliucci
Ask your customers to pay $5/month and bootstrap. Then, with revenue, look for investors if that's the path you want.
I'm only being shown free and/or cheap movies. I guess there must be some sort of system in place that doesn't let me see whatever you are all talking about (Germany).
Oh, this is great: I'd only seen the one for Dr Mirzahani. Truly inspirational. I wish I'd had these role model stories as a high schooler!
So... PS3 "trounced" Microsoft in the rest of the world?
He is a fucking legend.
Robin Williams and Why Funny People Kill Themselves
Java doesn't really give you a choice though, because so many of the standard library classes have exceptions baked in. Any code you write related to file I/O for example will have to have either a "throws" or a "try/catch" on it, or else it won't even compile.
If you have an easier time visualizing diameters, that's 3.02" for the can and 3.34" for the jar.
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This was completely unreadble on iOS6.

It's amusing to think that some believe Apple is deliberately crippling browsers on older devices. It's sites like Wired that are doing the work for them.