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Meditation didn't "click" for me for a long time because it wasn't ... aggressive enough.

A friend taught me this: Sit or lie still. Burn your body with a white-hot fire, starting at your toes. Incinerate yourself. Visualize intense fire with a child's pure unfettered imagination. Let that fire burn your body slowly, creeping up inch by inch with its quiet impersonal anger. When your body has burnt up, the fire quiets down and the weightless ash blows away. Then you open your eyes.

This worked for me - I felt it! - and opened up meditation for me. I have since had very good success with the Headspace app, for instance.

Another important thought for me was "Meditation is watching your thoughts go by like the bubbles in a glass of champagne."

Overall, in a nutshell, what meditation has done for me is: There is more of what should be. There is less of what shouldn't be.
I hate to be that guy. Criticizing is so easy to fall back to, and I try really hard not to do it. But this is.. kinda bad?

It isn't anything to do with IPython (except that it runs code and IPython runs code).

It handles the easy parts (yes, you can get Python to exec() code, and you can wrap that in a Flask webapp), but then punts on the hard parts ("a simple frontend.. isn’t hard", "concurrency", "security")

52 lines of code for a fully functioning, elegant, session-based Python kernel is not too shabby if I do say so myself.

Except it isn't IPython. It's true that it is short.

I guess if I had any suggestions they would be to remove any reference to IPython, and call it something like "a remote python code execution service". That's probably a fair name for it, and as such I think it is fine.
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Yeah the irony is that the link to wiki on Tim Berners-Lee is actually

http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org...

Is this WHAT TIM BERNERS-LEE WANTED??!!!One1!?
They can get the info they want with more sophisticated techniques from what I've read. Also, Apple already gave them the iCloud backups. The legal precedent of forcing companies to break their own security for the FBI's sake is the prize at hand here it seems.
PayPal and ridiculous sounds about right
A lot of time? I'd say 30 minutes a day (consistently) is enough to get significant benefits. And after all, don't we all easily waste 30 minutes a day or things which really don't contribute much to our lives? Say, browse reddit or watch a TV show. Personally, I've found that trying to meditate in the middle of the day, even late at night, when I'm all "wired" from/during work, or just everyday life, is hard. What I found way easier to stick to is meditate first thing in the morning, only after going to the bathroom. At this point, if you're like me, you're the least anxious / stressed / wired or however you want to call it, and it's way easier to justify spending 30 minutes just being present and quiet. Any other time of the day and it feels like "I don't have time for this", even if I just wasted 30 or 60 minutes procrastinating (or I know I'm about to).
Ideally you choose their poison, not your own.

Unless you want to commit suicide to be able to bring your strong, genius heir to power.
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Your last statement really resonates with my experience. The effects of meditation are indeed subtle but powerful. And I also vouch for Headspace.
All right, so this article can be probably condensed to these two points:

1. "Mathematics is hard and inconsistent, but so is programming".

Well, yes, but this is exactly the problem! I pity poor souls who started their journey into programming with, say, C++ — the champion of consistency and elegancy. But there are other ways and other languages. And, with some effort, it _is_ possible to provide gentle introduction into programming world. The same should apply for mathematics.

2. "You can't learn mathematics on your own, but it's the same with programming".

And here I deeply disagree. Programming as activity is _the_ perfect learning environment. Find some coding sample, compile and run it (or paste to REPL), see if it gets you the same result. Try to change some variables in the code, see how behaviour changes. Can you run it without this function? What this method does? (A quick look to the documentation reveals everything, including additional arguments to try). You can tinker and hack and play and learn with every language and environment out there, it's like a perfect experimental setup where experiments are cheap, and everything is perfectly reproducible, at least on your own machine. ;)

With math, there are no docs, no playground, no explanations, no nothing. Either you are the part of mathematical community and can hope for explanations and knowledge transfer, or you are not. In programmers parlance, it's like being the part of a huge legacy project with long compile times and cryptic documentation, where the only way you can learn is ask your senior colleagues questions like "what this class is doing?" and get answers like "oh, we are not doing _that_ anymore, this is an artefact from like 15 years ago, still widely referred in the docs, though. Here is the right way instead". Sounds familiar?

This is why learning math is way harder than it should be.
Ah, ok....thanks.
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Correction: the bitcointalk link above is wrong, it should be https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=244656.0. I also got the times wrong because of that - BitcoinJ released payment channel support 2.5 years ago, not "nearly two years ago" as in the original comment (which cannot be edited now).
This is hilarious. You're fighting the good fight, sir.
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> what happens if Apple says no.

They would be fined, or executives charged with contempt of court and possible jail time. That would also make the Judge mad at them, and not likely to agree to anything they ask.

The Judge has a LOT of power - he can impose some really high fines, and that's just to start with. Apple will not mess with him.

> I don't know what the next step of FBI will be.

Not FBI. If the Judge says to do it (so far he has not), he will be the one making sure they do it. The FBI will just complain to the Judge if necessary, not actually do anything.

> Can they say okay give us the device and we will give you the data but not the actual 'modified os'?

They can ask the Judge if they can do that. It's up to the Judge to say yes or no. They'll probably have to explain why it's better that way, and that the end result would be the same. The FBI can then argue against it, (or accept it). The Judge will listen to both sides and explain his reasoning in a paper.

You might want to try to read all the stuff the Judge writes in this case. Ignore what the lawyers for Apple or FBI write, read just what the Judge writes (he will summarize what the lawyers wrote, so you won't miss anything).
Few things are impossible to code. It's hard to create a JIT for Python and the reference implementation for Python is not the right place to add such a JIT for the reasons stated in the comments above.

It's not that the Python developers preventing discussion, it's just this discussion is always fruitless, has been had many times before and the people invoking the discussion often blame the cPython developers for their response. Nobody wins, it's a waste of time.
> It took me half a minute to realize it had to do with URLs

Oh! "curl" is "c url". It's taken me several years to understand that, and I knew exactly what it did! I imagined my data "curling" off the website, down the intertubes to my filesystem.
This is perfect. I love receiving notifications because it makes me feel connected, even if it turns out to be an advert and not one of my friends it will be a nice distraction. Then, Ill be able to browse all of the cool neccessary gadgets I see on buzzfeed.

If you aren't like me, you are in a tough spot. There are virtually 0 messaging or communication tools for mobile. Sure, being interrupted by ads could fet annoying, but what other options do you have. Phones havent progressed to the point where they include a short messaging service by default, especially a low bandwith universal one.

There is really limited action in the space as well. It will be hard for companies to compete with the level of trust and security that is hallmark of facebook.

I heard apple was going to roll out iVoice, where you can speak directly to someone using your mobile device, and it is rumored messaging and video could be bundled in.

Surprisingly, google, snapchat, yikyak, sms, twitter, kik, telegram, wechat, textie, skype, hangouts, AOL, Signal, zendo, wire, chatSecure,yahoo messenger, slack and hip hat have failed to launch anything in the space.

With no alternatives, Ill be embracing the facebook ecosystem as it links me directly to my computer, documents, music and search(as well as all my hardware) which they make, if not for this lockin and lack of options, i would probably br upset
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This website reimagines lines of code as whimsical Pokemon-like creatures
Those only act on the currently defined context.

Especially __FUNCTION__ is by no means an equivalent to source_location.

__FUNCTION__ tells you, in what function you currently are.

source_location tells you "in what file has this method of this object been defined". Because of duck typing this is much harder to answer in Ruby. But even in C, because of linking it can be non obvious what function actually gets called.
This looks like a pretty good equivalent to VB before it went all .Net and got a steeper learning curve.
I tend to think that hypothesis 2 is the more likely. I like good wine, but I love it when I get a good wine for a low price. I get far more pleasure out of drinking good cheap wines than I do out of drinking good expensive wines.

Also pointing towards hypothesis 2 is that unreliable wine regions are on average cheaper than consistent regions (all other things being equal). The best value wines in my experience are wines of a good vintage from a marginal region. The history of the region prevents a producer being able to charge a premium when they actually have a great product.
> What exactly are you arguing against?

I was arguing about your statement that seemed like a blanket one. I have no problem with the use of search in this particular case.

> But we live in a world where this authority is centralized

Yes, but that does not mean there is no alternative. Large scale societies are still very recent in Human History - and authoritarian systems have largely led to wars up until now, so assuming this is the only working system is just survivor bias at work.
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Yeah, and the manual was GREAT! It included a bunch of historical details about how the actual colonization of North America happened, it was a fascinating read and much more complete than anything I could find in pre-Internet era.
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It's an absolute joke, or at least it would be if it wasn't so frightening. I hadn't heard about the Anime case before, how is that even possible in a (supposedly) free, civilised country?

British people tend to take on a superior tone when American politics is discussed. We love to mock the obsessions with guns and single-issue politics. At least freedom of speech actually means something there, is protected by the constitution and valued by normal people. We have absolutely no right to act superior.
I have just played (and finished) a game from scratch just a few weeks ago and I can still attest this has not aged at all.
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What you are looking for sounds a lot like TMUX + Bash (scripted tmux setup).
Then you can run that inside of iTerm.

Tmux supports tabs and dynamic splits nicely via ncurses.

Also check out tmux ressurect [1] for saving tmux session persistence.

[1] https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect
Although there is plenty of information out there, I am working on making tutorials, guides, a new language reference, and even some lexical diagrams in SVG:

http://www.getlazarus.org/learn/language/lexical/
22 hours. That's the time needed to break it.

The pin is so short (4 or 6 digits) that if you can remove the 10 tries limitation and time escalation (Apple can with a new firmware) it's a matter of time to hack the phone (22 hours. 80ms [1] per attempt * 10^6 pins). It seems a farce to me that Apple says that they can't decrypt it (or maybe they never said that?). With a stronger pw it would be a different story though.

Am I wrong in any assumption?

[1] http://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/02/encryption-isnt-at-stak...
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If you really want to know you should probably ask a lawyer or the rights holder but here is an interesting page: https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Defining_Noncommercial

"The empirical findings suggest that creators and users approach the question of noncommercial use similarly and that overall, online U.S. creators and users are more alike than different in their understanding of noncommercial use. Both creators and users generally consider uses that earn users money or involve online advertising to be commercial"
thanks :P now it's time to another experiment!
Gig work that works (perhaps), but only for US citizens. I wonder why they impose that restriction, seeing that they also state that as a contractor (giggler?) you are responsible for all your own tax issues.
> Mind you they _will_ hurt you over time if you just push them away.

How do you know that? (I'm not being facetious.)

I seem to recall there being reasonably solid[1] evidence that thinking about traumatic experiences can actually worsen anxiety and other PTSD symptoms. (Too lazy to look up references, and I don't have access to any paywalled journals anyway, so...) The evidence seems to point to just leaving things be may be better (well, less bad) than trying to "work through" the issues because it means that you'll be wallowing in the traumatic experience over and over.

[1] By psychology standards.
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Great explanation. If you want to get even closer to the metal there is Simple.Data
http://simplefx.org/simpledata/docs/
where you write queries like

var albums = Database.Open().Albums.FindAll(db.Albums.GenreId == 1);
//or FindAllByGenreId(1)
foreach (var album in albums)
{
Console.WriteLine(album.Title);
}

and they return dynamic objects. It's smart about cases, _s and all with 0 configuration.
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It's a backdoor like a bank vault wall is a backdoor. It is entirely a shield so far, with no actual vulnerability in itself, but in the meta it can be replaced.
If you've sustained some leg injury or are recovering from one, you should probably not go for a run, but taking a walk might be crucial in the recovery, or at least beneficial.

Similarly, I'm sure that some form of meditation is healthy for the vast majority of people, even if it's just five minutes of staring out your window and focusing on your breath, or at least not getting wrapped up in a thought. I know quite a few people (including myself pre-meditation) who run a constant internal monologue, and even that little bit can be hugely beneficial.

But fundamentally I do agree that going off to something as intense as a retreat is probably not a good idea for everyone. It's just not either/or, in my view.
Not unlock, but extract a very limited set of data, comparable to what a non-smartphone would log.
nuttx comes to my mind. Pretty decent one.
As has been said many times over, this is setting a precedent where the FBI can ask Apple to do this again, with the software already created. The "only function with that phone" is a negligible hinderance to using this on another phone.
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And add Bitcoin donation as well!
Its not working for me on my own hosted email. There is no "gmailify" option. Am I missing something or does gmailify ONLY work for hosted-non gmail accounts e.g. Yahoo, Outlook etc. ?
I followed his GitHub link at the bottom of the post and see that he's Australian. My preconceived stereotypes of Australians suddenly explains quite a bit of his writing style and humor, and makes the post that much more enjoyable.
`buffer` was indeed an array, not a pointer. The bug was the bracket!
"Pervading the offices in San Francisco and Arizona, meanwhile, was an almost fraternity-like atmosphere, with whiskey shots, kegs, and bottles of champagne."

Sounds like an awesome place to work.
Thank you for all your hard work on this, this new version looks and performs so much better than the previous one
Yes, but it's only Paradox recently. There used to be dozens of big publishers of Strategy games before (SSI for example) as well as many minor ones. The genre is clearly verging extinction apart from the big ones remaining.
I think this is likely to be the case, Facebook do have this as an option on their other adverts.

I just finished running an advertising campaign on facebook and was surprised by how the clickthrough rates varied by platform. Mobile CTR was about 15x higher than Desktop, so I'm not surprised they're trying to offer more options.
So here is a simple question. How will we know if the US becomes successful in having manufactures put in a backdoor? Can it be done to the current 6 models through a software update?
Well, downtime can be valuable. When I think about problems all my waking time, I get kind of burned out. So sitting quietly and just breathing, in that situation, is actually more valuable than thinking. It's kind of like having a nice bath or sauna.
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Try this cool app: http://www.calm.com/
I also enjoiy using another app called Pause, developed by Monument Valley team.
on a side note:
Loving the diversity of buzzfeed.
FB would be filled with listicles
And HN would get the occasional long form article which is a very intersting read
It's been a few years since I did serious computational linear algebra, but at that time Matrix Computations by Golub and van Loan seemed to be the standard textbook in the circles I moved in. Rather than trying to provide ready-made production-quality implementations as Numerical Recipes does, it instead concentrates on presenting the relevant mathematics, often in more depth and with more discussion than NR because it's a specialised text, with outlines of the relevant algorithms. For production use it refers to relevant BLAS/LAPACK functions so you know what to look for. If you decide to get a copy, make sure it's at least the third edition, as I think earlier editions referred to predecessor numerical libraries.

BLAS and LAPACK themselves are constantly evolving to add new or better production-quality algorithms as the field develops, and I highly recommend using the functionality they provide instead of trying to reimplement any of the basic algorithms in-house. There are heavily optimised versions of these libraries available for almost every platform you can imagine, their own documentation is pretty good, and often recent research in the field also gets written up as background papers and incorporated fairly quickly (the magic words to search for are "LAPACK working note").

If memory serves, the GSL actually depends on having a BLAS implementation available for some of its functionality, so if you're not limited by the licensing you might already be using the same sort of code under the hood anyway. :-)
Indeed, it does seem like the author desires features in the frontend that are not available in the Jupyter Notebook. The solution then is to keep the IPython kernel and create a custom frontend rather than throw the two (server & client) out.
VC backed companies usually have one offering and they have a huge motivation to succeed. Google's reaction to a failed project is a simple "meh". I would compare this more to a government subsidised production that would obliterate competition. And no competition = bad thing. This is why we have anti-trust laws.
Why don't they also design the iPhone 7 when they are already at it?
Well, there is Civilization Revolution 2 for iOS which is a nice squares based remake of the series.
I wrote that too quickly. Brown rice has sufficient variety of protein so a person can survive on diet of rice and juices for many months, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_diet
Deep AI already started with deep learning, which improves exponentially every year, if you look at the performances. It already freaks me out that you can put together cheap drones+guns+self driving+better-than-human level face detection. Imagine controlling a drone botnet...
It falls into the whole consumer vs producer idea. Very few people ever stack up on the producer side.
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This seems to be an unfortunate relic from the fight against the clipper chip.

Buying hardware that you don't own and control is a big problem, but that doesn't mean all methods of securing the boot process are evil. The important bit is that it's the owner of the hardware that's in control of the keys, and that (s)he can retain sole control of the signing keys if desired.
Sorry, I can't scroll on your site, I just keep jumping up again. (latest Firefox)

Also your information is really outdated, maybe you should add Windows 10 devices and add some pictures or screenshots?
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"Burden of Proof" isn't just a legal term:

http://ddo.wikia.com/wiki/Burden_Of_Proof

vs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_burden_of_proof

> There's nothing wrong with saying that the original study lacked evidence

To show a study "lacks evidence" you need to show where it is lacking. Any plausible hypothetical not refuted by the study evidence, but also not compatible with the study conclusion, is proof of this.

> making up your own facts

Which facts? A statement preceded by "I would say" is one not presented as fact, but explicitly as opinion.
There's not one 'proper' way to meditate, but what you're describing is indeed the most basic, no-frills approach, and so far it's been my preferred form.

That said, even most basic teachings add a 'warmup' and 'cooldown' to the breathing part. I've been using the Headspace app and the core template always includes the following:

- sit down comfortably, and use a soft focus on some point in front of you
- breathe in and out a few times, audibly enough that someone sitting next to you would hear it
- close your eyes and focus on the points of the body that connect with the chair/floor/whatever.
- do a 'body scan' from the top of your head to your feet. As you do this, make note of tensions, as well as pleasant sensations, but don't dwell on them.
- this body scan often leads to a more general awareness of how you're feeling physically and/or emotionally. Make note of that too, but once again don't dwell.
- do the 'core part' that you describe
- once you're done with this, basically do the earlier steps in reverse.
- for bonus mindfulness practicing: think of what you want to do next, and practice maintaining the state of mind you're in (focus only on what you do now, rather than constantly being ahead of yourself in your mind)

Personally, I've found the warmup to be crucial to my own meditation, and the cooldown to be very beneficial in 'maintaining' the calmness throughout the day.
I think Civ.Net was the first game I played on the internet against someone I didn't already knew. Could have been early 1996.

It wasn't the best gaming experience though. Each turn took like forever (well, minutes), after a few hours we had to pause the game and agree on when to continue the next day.

Still, finding an opponent "on demand" was something that did hint about what was to come later.

(well, there were BBS "door games" earlier, but not really "real time" in the same way)