skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought one as well and have yet to receive it. After I paid the $138 shipping (to Texas), a friend tipped me off to their FAQ page where they're advertising free shipping for preorders. http://www.standdesk.co/faq.html By my calculations, I paid an extra $58 for the privilege of funding them on the second day of their Kickstarter. Lucky me!

So, I emailed them and explained how burned I felt by the whole thing. They argued with me that preorders are not being given free shipping. So, I pointed them to the FAQ page. This was on October 15. As of November 4, 2014 at 3:10 PM CST, their FAQ page still says preorders will receive free shipping. If they're not honoring that for preorders, I'd be super angry if I were trying to preorder the desk and got bait-and-switched into paying shipping when they're clearly advertising otherwise. And, lo these three weeks later, the FAQ still tells me I paid an extra $58 for my desk that I paid for in May.

Beyond that, communication with these jokers has been spotty, spread across various social media channels. (It looks like they abandoned Twitter months ago. Friday and today were the company's first activity on Facebook since May.) The Kickstarter page saw very little activity over the summer and then Steven Yu posted a long "we're sorry" post explaining some of the unexpected things that happened to delay shipping and to affect the shipping costs. Every item in the list is something that would have been totally understandable if it had been shared as it was happening. Instead, the company chose to go radio silent. From my point of view, when I've sent someone more than $500 for a product that doesn't exist yet, that radio silence leads quickly to that sinking feeling of having thrown away a bunch of money. Some honest communication about the situations would have just gone so far to not burning through whatever good will the Kickstarter backer community had toward them.

Luckily, it seems that this long nightmare is about to be over and desks are leaving their warehouse. On October 17, I was told via email that my desk was scheduled to arrive "in 2 weeks" and that they would get it processed and out to me "as quickly as possible". Friday I emailed to ask about the status, and as you can guess, I haven't heard anything back.

Overall, the experience with StandDesk has been frustrating and uncertain and after all this delay, they're letting others like IKEA to catch up. For my part, I'll be thrilled to receive my desk, but mostly just so I can never have to deal with this company again. With any luck, packaging and delivery will be good enough that they won't have availed themselves of literally the last opportunity to vex me.
There is also a move to reshore to lower cost areas in the US, not necessarily urban.
Ask HN: What payment processing system do you use/recommend?
I am looking for good alternatives to PayPal and authorize.net for a startup processing membership.
Ben Horowitz Explains What Public Enemy's 'Prophets of Rage' Taught Him
Buy Happy is using Clojure + ClojureScript in production.

http://buyhappy.co/

Clojure web server backend (running on Heroku).
ClojureScript/Om frontend, which connects to server with Sente.

We also have a browser extension (Chrome/Safari/Firefox) written in ClojureScript.
This was already possible by using multiple modules within a single project. Each module can be written in a different language and all modules use same datastore, taskqueue, etc.
I don't think the Lisp Machine actually ran Scheme, did it?
By the standards of academia, that is completely untrue. When I graduated with a BSc Computer Science degree in 2011, the median starting salary for CS grads going to industry was $65k. For comparison, that's roughly the starting salary for someone who just got a tenure-track position in academia (source: http://www.higheredjobs.com/salary/salaryDisplay.cfm?SurveyI...).

So compare: in one field, you start earning a median $65k at age 22 with only a bachelor's degree, and in the other, you start earning $65k in your mid to late thirties, after a bachelor's, a PhD, and often at least one post-doc. Everything before that is "low-pay grinding", except that the academic definition of "low-pay" ranges from lower-middle class ($25k-$30k for the better-paid grad-students and worse-paid post-docs) to taking on debt (the humanities).
The balance of power in advertising is slowly shifting from Google to Facebook
I would think 'geometric' meant x^2 or x^3, while 'exponential' meant 2^x. Are there different words to describe these different growth rates?
Also, the Windscale accident was in 1957. That was extremely early in terms of nuclear anything (power or otherwise); the risks simply weren't all known yet!
Perhaps the solution is to make science 'easier'. Works just fine with arts.
Some extra info for commenters in this thread:

This Scorecard is phase 1 of our multi-stage campaign for Secure and Usable Crypto. We believe these criteria are necessary for any strong security tool, though meeting them doesn't guarantee that a system is perfect.

Subsequent phases of the project will focus on usability (which is a huge problem for activists and journalists who try to use encryption), metadata protection, openness and federatability of protocols, and much deeper audits of the design and implementation security of the software that is scoring highest.
You will surprise how less you know about SUGAR and your health
I'd like to read up on the technical docs. At first, it looks like a Docker rival. One of the concerns I have about LXC is that it isn't using hardware paravirtualization. It seems like that is what Ubuntu is trying to do with LXD (that is, LXD provides a hypervisor backend for LXC), but I am not sure. If this, then that's a much more compelling argument for me to use LXC over something like VirtualBox or ESX, or whatever.

Then again, maybe I don't understand how LXC work at all.
Stuff like this: http://docs.tah.io/examples
With a bunch of shields you can add more functionality
Category: The Essence of Composition
That 'I'm a Voter' App at the Top of Your Newsfeed Actually Makes a Difference
Roadlike - An app to record your personal memories anytime, anywhere!
Roadlike allows you to record your memories at spots and places (along with few photos) you feel are worth remembering in the future so that you can relish these records looking back at them. Your memories could cover your various vacation trips, travels or your entire life’s journey. Roadlike is a personal application. All records created by you are private.

When you are traveling, on our iPhone app & Android app you can create records of your spots even if you have no internet and are in offline mode.

Roadlike app allows you to create records / check-in to places even when you do not have Internet and are in an offline mode.
It's even more important on a global scale - many countries have poor vehicle, road and law enforcement standards. Here in Costa Rica, far from the worst, it's normal to wait for the last person to run red lights and attitudes on drink driving, cell phone usage, speeding, seatbelts etc are decades behind western countries. Automated cars immediately catch up to modern safety standards.
For now, you need to add both -Wno-return-type and -m32 when compiling.
In C, using: struct tm tm_struct = { 0 } ;, the rest of the struct including padding is initialized to zero bits.
Nothing that I've noticed. It was quick to unpack and setup
I'd be extremely interested to see if this brings greater security to the "container" model. Something resembling BSD jails is sorely lacking in the Linux world.
There is no reason why couldn't it be made out of more functions. Absolutely none. In fact, you can fork the repository and do the refactoring yourself, right now.

If I had to guess, the functions are tied pretty closely to how the author is parsing the file; "next" (next token), "expr" (expression), "stmt" (statement), and "main".

As for the project being called "C in 4 functions"; at best, I'd argue that's just a linkbait-y title since it's not actually C (it's a subset). I don't have a problem with the code _per se_; just the title.
Right, but AFAIK there is no way for Java and Python code to access/share the same local development server. Is there a way to do this?
Nogotofail: spot and fix weak TLS/SSL connections
Going on 4 years and it's working out well so far.
I don't understand the American fixation with being "smart".

I have worked 15 years and coded low-level, applications and ops. I've always kept an interest in this and keep a few side projects.

But I am not smart. Anyone could do this, given the right training.

If what you want in life is a science PhD, go get it. Anyone can do it. You may have to work more for it, but that's it.
Newsroom Memo: “Change Isn't Coming to America”
Crazy to think Steve Jobs spent 12 years of his life at NeXT.
I honestly think this comment is ridiculous. Sure, this is an incredible feat, and congrats. But seriously, I would be ashamed to publish such unreadable English under my name.
What about spelling all the words correctly?
What about not being an asshole and criticizing someone just because?
This list could go on forever...
Writing comments is not a contest for who can write the most amount of bullshit in the most non-constructive way.
This would be awesome for India too, as most of the value created in India right now is getting outsourced.

This will force companies to create value and capture value inside India. Initially that would be tough but over long term this can be game changing.
Hm. I'm not convinced - there are plenty of professional programmers (who make maybe $60k, which is a good salary) working at Java shops who do 8am-5pm and think a monad is an itinerant who lives in the desert.

There are loads of professional teachers, professional medics, professional sanitation workers, etc. who just turn up, do the job and go home. Some may and do work long hours for little reward, but a lot don't. There is a culture in academia that you may, sometimes, when you really need to, you may take the weekend off. Or Sunday, at least.
Those are good points. On the flip side, regarding lower ticket races, if you do take the time to educate yourself about one your vote is going to matter more there (and they might well have a bigger impact on your life, to boot). Your vote still won't matter (outside Washington County, Arkansas, anyway: http://www.co.washington.ar.us/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?doc...), but a pattern of people not voting certainly will matter.
Yes, as far as I believe, this should always work in standard C89/C99. In the char array case, it works due to the brace elision rule in aggregates: assuming

struct foo { char bar[3]; };

These declarations are equivalent:

struct foo f1 = { 0, };
struct foo f2 = { { 0, } };
http://reboot.pro/topic/20149-ntfs-now-supported-in-reactos-...
This seems to be really well done and I'm looking forward to reading it in more detail, but one thing jumped out at me: one of the keywords used to identify fixes for programming errors is "refactoring". Refactoring doesn't necessarily (and actually shouldn't) refer to fixing a defect.

EDIT: The Procedural/Scripting split seems overdetermined. All of the procedural languages have static typing, and all the scripting languages have dynamic typing.
After reading that, it looks like the Federal prosecutor is reading the law in a way Congress didn't intend, but which is still valid as there are no qualifiers as to what constitutes evidence.

Thus, Congress screwed up by not being specific enough.
Whats wrong with Memcached? Why are you so surprised?
You can't use any of the variables or mixins if you import the CSS in your LESS file. The syntax is not the issue -- the tooling is.
Studying science doesn't mean pursuing a science degree or a job in a scientific field. For myself I've always been enthusiastic about science, I learned on my own, I took pretty much every science class available in my high school and took AP tests in physics, chemistry, and biology. In college I got a degree in math and pursued another degree in chemistry before finding a career as a software developer.

I'm a huge critic of the flaws in the educational system, but I wouldn't give up my experience studying science in school for anything. It's molded who I am, it's made me a better person and a better developer, and I wish that more people would share that experience.

There are many people who defend studying "the humanities" as something universally valuable and universally desirable, and I think there's truth in that. I think there's just as much truth that studying science is universally valuable and universally desirable, regardless of ones eventual career aspirations.
Exactly. If your time has so little value that you will jump through hoops to get it for free then there is no money there, you will never be a customer. You can be disregarded from a business perspective. It is a strange win-win.
It would appear so. https://www.reddit.com/r/tinycode/comments/2la785/c4_a_c_com... is the post from /r/tinycode and its OP[0] is the same as the github user[1] for c4.

[0]https://www.reddit.com/user/rswier

[1]https://github.com/rswier
Cobra effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect
Hello amluto, we were talking about PTEs here since Linux fork() PTE copying does not happen during fork like in other OSes, but is lazy. So Linux delegates at a latter time both the copying of the PTEs (or huge page entries), and the pages themselves.
Scanning for arbitrary beacon IDs is not possible on iOS by Apple's design. You could certainly do that on Android however.
NTFS now supported in ReactOS LiveCD
?

My understanding of iMessage is end to end encryption. Where the endpoints are the separate certificates on each of your devices.
It's really nice to hear such a personal, candid take on the need for diversity. It's a refreshing change from the politically-charged generalities you often see written by your typical white male twentysomething in the tech industry when they write about diversity. Sharing these kinds of concrete, lifelong experiences really drives home the point of why it's necessary: it's not diversity for its own sake, it's for the sake of not alienating people like our author here, people who undoubtedly have a lot to contribute.
I agree that STEM makes you more employable. But how many of those jobs are in science? There's a lot of engineers, accountants, actuaries, teachers, etc. out there who got a degree in physics, maths or biology.
"The culture shock"

I was also in a G+T program in the 80s and I'd say a major problem in young adult years is no one cares how smart you are, after 16 or so years of being told there's nothing more important than being smart. Much like your GPA, your IQ is pretty much irrelevant once you graduate. Workplace progress suddenly switches entirely over to who you know, who is your dad, who you impress, who you kiss up to, your golf game, etc.
The worst outcome was for Procedural-Static-Weak-Unmanaged, aka C and C++. There is no OO category, since most OO languages can be (and are) used in a procedural style.
It's been awhile since I looked at anything in Telegram and I forget what MAC they use. That diagram makes it look like instead of a MAC, they're using a simple digest of the message --- which is not a MAC.
Oh, sorry missed that "development" part. I'm afraid it's not possible. When it comes to managed vms, python local dev server is still not available(java is), so there is no way to know if using same local server will be possible.
Array languages for Lisp programmers (2010)
Please try kbrock's fork at https://github.com/kbrock/c4
Check out his 'longs' branch.
Google unveils its Container Engine
I think you nailed it. I was trying to articulate this point to a colleague the other day and couldn't do it but that is perfect.
> You don't need to be smart to be a scientist; you need to be stubborn.

Are there any good ways to teach stubbornness to very-non-stubborn kids in a student-teacher relationship?

Too often stubbornness is attributed to some quirk in the child's history/family life that leads them down a self-reinforcing path of self-motivated stubbornness. That's not useful for the vast majority of kids who are surrounded by constant, quick distractions and have parents who lack the knowledge/motivation to instill stubbornness into them.
Interesting. So is it possible for Apple devices to dynamically exchange their beacon IDs amongst each other (perhaps via an app's back-end service) to enable my second scenario of devices being "paired" and monitoring proximity to each other?
Universal Fast Checkout App -3X Faster – Swift Shopper
Xerox Alto File System Archive
Is this something tech people tell ourselves to make us feel better?
Roadlike – An app to record your personal memories anytime, anywhere
I'm being facetious, but Twitter clients were a win-win for Twitter too, until they decided they weren't.
And for a book by Paul Rand, I would recommend A Designer's Art if you can find it.

http://www.amazon.com/Paul-Rand-A-Designer%60s-Art/dp/030008...
> I know this: I am not my job. I am not my industry or its stereotypes. I am a black woman who happens to work in the tech industry.

Just be a person. If you're a techie, a black woman, a white man, a gay man, etc. you have to start asking "what does it mean to be a techie, a black woman, a white man, a gay man, ...?" Regardless of the label you pick, you'll end up denying your own feelings and impulses to fit in with the category you choose to associate with. Some categories are more comfortable than others, but the more comfortable the category, the more people expect from you, and the more of yourself you ultimately have to deny. You are who you are, and you feel what you feel. Your own truth ought to be enough.
Roadlike allows you to record your personal memories at spots and places (along with few photos) you feel are worth remembering in the future so that you can relish these records looking back at them. Your memories could cover your various vacation trips, travels or your entire life’s journey. Roadlike is a personal application. All records created by you are private.

When you are traveling, on our iPhone app & Android app you can create records of your spots even if you have no internet and are in offline mode.

Roadlike app allows you to create records / check-in to places even when you do not have Internet and are in an offline mode.
I have hit this wall as well. Half way through a project I stop and ask myself:

Who is going to use this?
Does anyone have a need for this?
How do I get people to use this instead of X?
Can I monetize this?

Half way through working a project I sometimes give up because I'm not sure I would even use it. That's the problem I'm trying to solve, figuring out what I can build that compels me to see it through and solve a real problem even if it's not MY problem.
99% of raw data is useless. Just as a rule.

Most of it likely gets tossed into a program to determine if somebody actually needs to do anything, or if something is actually breaking.

For example raw user interaction doesn't really grow. While the event is likely ~1kb or so of raw data, at the end your just incrementing a 64bit counter.

This is a baseless exaggerated post but should shed some light on.
In your mind, in your chair, in front of your computer.
Zero to One by Peter Thiel

Highly recommend. Not an easy read but full of great insight by Thiel.
The top committer to LXC seems to work for Canonical:

https://github.com/lxc/lxc/graphs/contributors
Programming languages – a salary/demand analysis
As someone who doesn't know, why would you want to run VMs inside of a docker container? Wouldn't this have tremendous overhead relative to just running the hypervisor?
I would have thought that it's too simple for their workload / needs, something like Redis would have been better?
For some technical data on this, visit the actual project page: https://cloud.google.com/container-engine/
How do you avoid coming up with side project ideas? Want to work on some of mine?
I wonder how long it will be until amazon gets brought up for abusing their market power:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_bundling
In ‘Undeniable,’ Bill Nye Speaks Evolution Directly to Creationists
I'm a BSD guy and have pretty shallow knowledge of Linux but isn't that what LXC is?
What It Means to Live in a Holographic Universe
Have you tried emulating iBeacon with iDevice or a Mac? I'd consider those to have high quality Bluetooth chips and great antennae. If it is still not ideal, the blame could be on the software stack or maybe the whole idea is flawed :|
Docker, well-established? It may get a lot of press but it's not even two years old. It was just merged into OpenStack about 1 year ago.

Edit: You know Docker doesn't use LXC by default anymore, right? It uses a different container library called libcontainer.
It's precisely why I created LokiJS in the first place, then it grew much bigger than that but yeah - that is where it all came from.
You can do a better job of indoor location by using tv signals, than you can with beacons.

(All of the antennas are registered, along with type, propagation, etc, with the FCC, and they produce a large database)

Not that TV signals are great.

But even the bluetooth group itself says not to use beacons:

"According to the Bluetooth Special Interest Group,[24] Bluetooth is all about proximity, not about exact location. Bluetooth was not intended to offer a pinned location like GPS, however is known as a geo-fence or micro-fence solution which makes it an indoor proximity solution, not an indoor positioning solution."
A Penny Saved Is a Waste of Time
DevOps here using their mcrouter tool [1] in production. It's a phenomenal swiss army knife for using memcached.

[1] https://github.com/facebook/mcrouter
I've been seeing this around the web today, but sort of assumed it was a joke. Is this serious? Can't they all just be made to look like characters from The Simpsons and then, I don't know, maybe people can get on with some more important work?
An App to Redesign How We Vote – Co.Design – Business + Design
Best part of the whole article, this line:

“I learned if we could penetrate social influencers first, it would trickle down to everyone else.”

Oh how spot on that choice of words is :)
Carol Dweck hasn't done science? Why would you say that? Do you say that because you don't feel that psychology is a science or is it because of something about her work in particular?

In any case my impression is that the article was about different strategies for improving achievement. I'm not a psychologist, but I've seen some pretty convincing articles that show that praise for how smart a kid is versus praise for how hard they work affects how they handle failure. Increasing perseverance would be a good way to be more successful in academia, I would imagine.