skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was? I don't remember it that way.

There was definitely a lot less web spam before web spam, and pages loaded faster, but we weren't more secure (we were less secure, for reasons having nothing to do with web spam), and we had fewer choices and less content.
The whole concept of a meditation app strikes me as kind of contradictory.
Never profiled it but I would guess that is largely due to the npm's main problem: It doesn't locked dependency versions. As a result it probably builds the dependency graph a lot more than it should.
Batteries: an unfortunate weakness of ibeacons. I would recommend a six month schedule of preventative battery replacement. Someone at AnDevCon recently showed how to replace Estimote batteries though it might be less work to just go with Sticknfind or another maker that allows battery replacement.

Range: use the SDK to set power to a lower value, to avoid overlap.

Installation: maybe install small (white) plastic boxes to the wall with screws, then can easily place or remove beacons. Color becomes less of an issue as well.

There's a product "BluFi" or something like that, plugs into a wall socket and utilizes both ble and WiFi. Might solve several problems in one blow. I have no experience with this however.

Android prior to KitKat has some problems with BLE including inability to clear the device table without wiping and reinstalling the OS.

I agree that BLE doesn't scale that well. Currently it's something of a solution in search of a problem, but future potential is good.
The Die Shot, http://m.eet.com/media/1129709/12650-click_here_for_larger_i... is gorgeous.
Hi Jedisct1, any chance you know the dataset and performance numbers for the "proof" benchmark? Would love to show why we switched to a GPU cloud architecture :)
I had a project that got really popular and went through like 5 name changes. It was a horrible experience. My advice to anyone who is ever involved in naming a software project:

spend no more than 2 minutes picking a name, and stick with it
In fact, a long felt and unmet need in the field would serve as a secondary indicia of non-obviousness.
60-90 minutes of my own time every morning focused on deep diving into ever more complex problems.

90 minutes of my employers time focused on going deeper into a topic that I'm working on.

I get breadth through a combination of: hn/reddit, talking to friends, talking to co-workers, reading books, and listening online courses/podcasts during my commute.

IMO far too many people spend their valuable learning time on breadth instead of depth. e.g. There are plenty of day job mid level Java devs who are learning Go via writing a side project. What a waste. They could be becoming senior level Java developers instead.

I suspect part of the problem is the desire to mix side project time, marketing time, and learning time.
How dare they try to sell what they made!
This has been on my bucket list for ages. Perfect environment to disconnect from the world and rediscover ones self.
Sorry, but this whole college uprising is way too coordinated and the idea of personal space/safe space, college costs, and the like, are just political staging for the 2016 election similar to how OWS was for 2012. Its all backed by groups with connections to political players who need to energize this group as the candidate they will be stuck with is damaged and boring goods.

Figure the focus of one campaign will simply be "fixing" college, from how students are coddled to offering to pay for it all. Just watch.
The problem with cheap is that people have huge expectations. "What do you mean I'm not entitled to life-long free updates after I paid you $0.9 for your app? I AM A PAYING CUSTOMER AND I WILL NOT STAND FOR THIS!"

Happens a lot. I write books, here is a lovely email I got from somebody who spent a whopping $7:

> Please refund me this purchase immediately. I cannot believe you are selling a product that is obsolete. React no longer uses [mixins] and we are already on React 0.14 RC-1. Considering that this product is effectively ONLY 35 pages, I would have expect you to have kept the code current. I will contact my credit card company today to ensure a credit was issued. Ed Post Script: I have perused your website before and was hesitant. Today, I took the plunge and am very disappointed!

I never get that sort of behavior from people who buy the $59 package.

;)
No technology prevents a 3rd phone from taking a picture of the screen of a different phone.
$160 USD / day is very inexpensive compared to a lot of popular destinations.
It's more like he is implying that something like Da'esh will exist no matter if Islam exists or not. Their brand of violence is not rooted in ideological beliefs but rather psycopathic killing for killings sake. That Islam allows a way for them to recruit does not mean they are Islamic only opportunistic. The other issues of famine, fear and a power vaccume are more likely the reason they can last for so long. Groups like this in the United States tend to burn out very quickly or reduce their violence to attacks on rivals and divirsify their actions to more capitalistic actions.
We do. It's called phone bill cramming.

Premium phone services are almost as dead as premium Minitel tiers. It's an idea that's definitely been tried.
This is the same argument that's used by people advocating expelling ten [white, straight, cis, male] students for the same purported crime. "It's okay to leverage overwhelming power to commit outrageous acts of injustice toward so-called privileged persons because they'll just wave the magic priviledge wand to make everything better." This argument only serves to dehumanize the out-group which has been labeled as "priviledged"; it's a modern witch-hunt.
Exploiting Emotions About Paris to Blame Snowden, Distract from Actual Culprits
It's impossible to 100% protect against copies of media being made.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole
We provide a public facing API that can answer lot's of questions about URLs, FQDNs, and root domains. The example you gave is one of them. We calculate a large number of statistics about every URL, FQDN, and root domain that we know about on the web.

We also calculate MozRank which is our version of Google's PageRank as well as some in house higher level metrics like PageAuthority and DomainAuthority which are machine learning models derived from all of the other metrics we compute.
Does it support installing packages globally and then having them actually be available, without having to install them locally as well?

This is my biggest bugbear with npm, as it pretty much rules out doing shell scripting with node.
Golden Oak is housing targeted at extremely wealthy Baby Boomer grandparents. Nothing to do with urban planning at all.
That's pretty conspiratorially-minded.

Hillary Clinton's campaign, to the extent it has an opinion, would prefer these mini-conflagrations simply not happen during the election year. They do nothing except inflame the Republican base and alienate everyone except a small subset of student and Tumblr activists. Their very existence suggests that sooner or later she'll have to engage with the topic, which is a negative sum game for the Democratic candidate compared to yelling about how crazy the Republican candidates are.
How'd you feel if the future way to interact with your phone is through voice?
your statement, I am sorry to say, fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations. ...

(It's true of most criticisms in this discussion; sorry to pick on yours to make a point.)
Right, of course. My point was that even if there is someone who was perfectly qualified to be a gatekeeper, there are still other problems to consider.
There will be no inflection point. The process is gradual and is long under way.

To clean a house in the area can cost ~$150. Good nannies can make $50-60K a year. Plumbers are expensive. Gardeners are expensive. And so on. This is just basic economics.

Also, I think the commutes are somewhat blown-up. Plenty of cheap places in San Jose that aren't much more than 40 minutes away if you avoid rush hour.
> Charlie Hebdo's targets ...

Who was it that killed who again?

>Charlie Hebdo's targets weren't simply religious extremists preaching from Saudi mosques; they were a portrayal of the French Muslim population as violent extremists, the dangerous other.

It sounds like the author is saying that the satire cartoon invented "racism" against Muslims. But the cartoon "targets" proved the magazine absolutely, positively, bona-fided-ly correct.
They proved Charlie Hebdo right.

>You sow the wind, you reap the whirlwind. What did you expect was going to happen?

So the author actually blames religious attacks on the act of people talking about it happening. In some circular way, the cartoon magazine created religious violence?

I cannot fathom how the author would explain religiously motivated violence in places where a satire cartoon isn't there to talk about it.
> Wars between different factions of the same religion are the rule, not the exception

Exactly. For example, the US and Saudi supported "rebels" in Syria are Sunnis. Assad is Alawite Shia, Iran too. Now look at who's with whom. ISIS are inspired by Wahabi teaching, which was effectively able to grow thanks to Saudi Arabia and Oil, but consider any Muslim who's not ready to accept Wahabi view apostate, that is, somebody who is, according to their religious views, to be killed(!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabism

The chaos in Iraq after US invaded to "bring them democracy" resulted in de-facto war between the Shia who got to the power and Sunnis who lost the influence. Yemen, where Saudi Arabia performs military actions now, has large Shia population.

Etc. It sounds complex, but it's not, once you understand what's going on and see how obviously groups support or fight one another exactly based on the religion, you can't even imagine that people can ignore the predominantly religious background for the most of the conflicts.

If you don't make a difference between Sunni, Shia and Wahabi, it's your problem, but people lose lives because of that in the Middle East, in hundreds of thousands.

Which is not to say that it's not even much worse (proportionally) for minorities like smaller religious Muslim groups and even worse for Christians there.
> However...the more languages we have the better, MATLAB makes me cringe for multiple reasons.

I didn't want to get into this holywar, but god darn it, what kind of half-assed language uses the notation C = A.dot(B) for C = A * B? It's as if the authors of Numpy took just enough classes of Linear Algebra 101 to learn about dot products, and then dropped out of college to pursue their glamorous careers developing their Matlab knockoff.
I guess it depends on who you ask. Some of us are afraid that they'll rename Los Angeles to something Hispanic-sounding.
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I have tried headspace before although found it's constant notifications to be quite annoying. If it makes you put in the time though then great, but the reason I mentioned 2+ years was because these things take time to become good at, app or no app (but it is worth the investment!)
I don't use customize either, but there are very few things^1 that will be put in it without you explicitly customizing the variable and choosing to save it. So rather than typing elisp code out by hand, you can use the more user-friendly interface to set a variable. If you're -- for example -- version controlling your init file and you use customize, you want to have your customize block version controlled.

[1] The only one I know about is `package-selected-variables`, which are "packages installed explicitly by user". It's used to make sure those packages are not considered unneeded if they aren't a dependency of anything.
Less "content" was great. It was nicer to sift through a few pages of search results to find a few dense authoritative sources, edited and published by people with something to say. Today, the results are better ranked but more fragmented and sparser in originality, with a heavy weighting towards commercial platforms that aggregate tidbits.

(I don't really see what security has to do with this)
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> That Islam allows a way for them to recruit does not mean they are Islamic only opportunistic.

Simply wrong. Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabism The ideology existed longer than the specific group called ISIS. They just dialed it to 10 what was always more and more cooking for the last few decades. That they are a bit more extreme than how Al-Quaeda is perceived in the West now doesn't mean that the exact Islamic ideology wasn't fully formed before, including the treatment of those with who they fight.

The reason why they call themselves "people of hadith" is because they really believe to just repeat what their prophet was doing, and that that is the major goal of a true believer. It's in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadith that they can read about every beheading and stoning performed by Mohammad. They just literally ask themselves "What Would Mohammad Do" in the sense that they "reject the use of Hellenistic philosophical discourse "(kalam)" in favor of strict textualism in interpreting the Quran."

Pretending that all this doesn't exist (on rejecting to learn) won't help anybody understand what's going on.
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Immigrants from Mexico don't follow a religion that instructs them to kill.
The purpose of the app goes against Apple's interest.

I'm OK with no apps being on the App Store that will affect the appearance of other apps. The app is, in a way, a partial rewrite of the operating system. Of course Apple doesn't want apps that alter the OS in the store.
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Not everyone knows their role model. I mean, the closest thing to my role model would be Richard Feynman, but there's no way I could behave like him. I wouldn't even know where to begin.
Ask HN: Should I charge the military more to use my SAAS?
I'm thinking of having a price list that charges the military more than other buyers.

Perhaps free for personal use, $amount for business users and $amount X 2 for military.

Any thoughts on this? Good idea, not good idea?
This is not "giving fast lanes" to anyone, it's not counting that data against the users' data cap. It's not remotely the same though it can (and probably will) result in changing user behavior towards those services.

The more subtle distinction here is that they're playing the customer in the best way possible. Get users used to "free" for some thing and if the FCC comes back to slap them, T-Mobile says "well, we want to give you free data but the FCC wants us to charge you for it."

And then people continue using more data and upgrades their plans (or pays for overages) making them more money or people throw a fit at the FCC.

Either way, T-Mobile wins.
Benchmark in the second link he gave was quite impressive, and also includes sigma.js (bottom left corner):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax7KSQZ0_hk
I'm not sure why you were downvoted -- I had exactly the same thought.
I struggled for a long time too in the beginning. Mainly I would get bored. I finally broke though that plateau though by realizing boredom was just another thought passing through my mind that I could observe, instead of be a part of. You just have to keep at it to arrive at these insights.
You might actually be right that specifically exploiting the H1B system is statistically an Indian phenomenon, but the way you ask it makes it a huge distraction when talking about the larger issue.

However, the way you asked it made it sound like you were suggesting Indians are the only ones exploiting their own people. I'd argue most cultures exploit their own in different ways.

Personally, I don't think that's an important question. I think the bigger question is: How can we fix the laws and regulations so our government doesn't inadvertently create an incentive for employers to set up IT shops consisting of cheap immigrant labor tied to sponsoring employers? Can we solve that problem while encouraging the best and the brightest people to work here, earn good salaries, pay taxes and start businesses?
If you like sigma.js, it's worth checking out a very active fork of the library with commercial support: https://github.com/Linkurious/linkurious.js

For example, sigma.js is blurry with an hdpi screen. Here is my PR to fix that: https://github.com/jacomyal/sigma.js/pull/639
What the hell is this glowing sea thing?
What other names is this creepiest and most beautiful sea thing called? Glaucus atlanticus!

http://www.infonotch.com/glaucus-atlanticus/
I wonder if anyone has explained how looking at everyone's internet history would have prevented the attacks in Paris?
I don't think you should do this. If you're doing it for moral/ethical reasons, you're just screwing all the taxpayers. If you want to take a stand, just refuse to sell to .gov & .mil domains.
If you pack a vehicle in a container you'll have it available when you arrive.

People commonly containerize custom motorhomes as they travel between continents. Arranging travel for people and cargo on the same ship is less common, however.
And a brick of clay is even more secure. That doesn't mean it's a replacement for a computer.

Not that Apple has a particularly great security track record anyway. Remember jailbreakme.com?
The eagerness with which people recommend those very intense ten day retreats to anyone saying they'd like to start meditating indicates a problem, in my view.

Plenty of people find them valuable, but they're also a pretty extreme way to start out. To me it seems likely to turn people off; after all they're designed to be a kind of boot camp experience.

And then on the internet people are often bringing up how they sit in lotus posture for an hour every day...

People can discuss whatever they want and make whatever suggestions they want, of course, but I think it's all likely to construe meditation as necessarily tedious, painful, and time-consuming.

I'm curious, have you tried maintaining a habit of sitting for something like 10 or 5 minutes per day? In some non-contorted posture, like kneeling on a meditation bench?

Not to imply that "everyone should be able to do that" or whatever, but if all your attempts for years have been ambitious, that could be demotivating... whereas kneeling and breathing for 5 minutes is a great way to get started.
Interesting. I am gonna try it in the coming days.
Making using a shrinkwrap not awful would be amazing.

Having fast immutable shrinkwrap installs, and the ability to upgrade or selectively upgrade packages in the shrinkwrap vs. the semver in package.json would be a huge win.
Our index and API are primarily used by web marketers. We have no interest in building a general search engine, but there's nothing special about it that is for SEO.

For the most part, we just provide general facts about the web, and we've been contacted by academics on more than one occasion for data sets.
Very long time for all of them, yes, but marginal employees can be reduced through automation fairly quickly. Go from 3 people to 2 at a restaurant by using more pre-cooked food or automation, buy a better PoS/order management system to remove one waiter from front of house, etc.

You don't even need to fire anyone -- just hire more slowly than otherwise when things are growing, and potentially not replace people when they leave (although that's less scheduled).
Also, 'ie', the only until recently mortal enemy of javascript.
reddit gets mentioned a lot in these parts.
Is there a subreddit i don't know off?
Hahahaa. As someone who has spent a couple of years of years in the DRCongo, and comes from a colonised country (India), I am not sure how to slot this (good,bad, bit of both). I think it's probably short/medium term good , but long term bad. The ecological consequences alone suggest that it's long term bad. The only problem is that having spent a lot of time there and now knowing a lot of people from the country, I am biased towards short term good.
My guess is that its the large amount of nationalism Europe has traditionally had. Politicians and leaders have always blamed internal problems on outsiders going back to the dawn of time, while this happens everywhere it is much easier to do so when you were at total war with those outsiders n years ago.

The Americas are in a unique situation because the dominant power, the US, contains large percentages of citizens with South American, Mexican, Canadian, and Asian, heritage. You still get violence and hate speech, but the strife between them is relatively short lived even when considering the likes of Japan, Vietnam, and China.

Then you have the religious and cultural differences between western and middle eastern values. I think this transcends everything as you see the same distaste of middle-easterners in both Europe and the United States.
It wouldn't fool his audience that C was the very first systems programming language to exist.

However telling the truth is worthless, lost time and doesn't contribute to the learning of younger audiences.

Please excuse me, I have some books to burn.
>it's kind of funny that skeptics like to dismiss impressive sounding treatments as being placebos. A placebo is a pretty impressive phenomenon!

It's not about whether a treatment works at all - it's about whether it works better than any old random thing. If it doesn't, you can hardly call it a treatment. Sure you could go "hallelujah, a new medicine!" when you find that a sugar pill provides a slight improvement, just like sand pills and empty pills and homeopathy. But you haven't actually discovered anything new.
Personally I just used to use the built in timer with my phone and do 30min sessions. But these days I have far more success with just sitting without a timer. I recommend doing it at night where you can do this unbounded by anything.
Are they specific values or are they intervals? You can't have it both ways.
I wish Taleb would stop making up weird phrases and pushing them in his writing. What does "skin in the game" even mean? I mean linguistically. It's a weird phrase that I still have trouble parsing and have to stop and think every time I see it. Why not "involvement"? Why "game"? Which meaning of "game" is even in this? Does he mean "have a portion of the skin of the game animal that would be killed at the end of the hunt allotted to you"? Or is it "to wager some of one's own skin on the outcome of a game"? But then your skin isn't really in the game per se, is it? As in, it doesn't take active part in the game, right? So how is it "in" the "game"? It just hurts my head :(
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Why should they get a discount?
Wait, if HTML5 specifies how to handle it... doesn't that make it syntactically valid?
And the majority of Android users does not install applications outside from Google Play Store either, and the lastest malwares that appeared for Android are from places outside Google Play Store. So where is the point?

If the user jailbreak (iOS)/allow external applications (Android), they increase the chances of malware simple of the fact that there is nothing Apple/Google can do outside App Store/Google Play Store. If they don't, the chance is reduced by far (however it is not 0, there is cases of malwares in both App Store/Google Play Store; the most recent case was in App Store btw).
I work on a fairly large frontend project where everything is modularized. So we have maybe 50+ dependencies that are our own. These constantly change. I detest changing branches and having to run npm to get the correct version of stuff. Takes minutes before it even starts installing packages.