skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The benefits of meditation have been studied (not the "10 IQ points" bit), are well-documented, and easy to find. The studies have been ramping up recently, too, which is great, and long-overdue.
Absolutely 100% agree. Carlin, doesn't describe himself as a historian, but he is an amazing story teller.

I'm finishing the last episode right now. Among the topics he covered so far:

- The murder of Franz Ferdinand and the mentality of the Serbian assassins. Carlin has a way of explaining how terribly coincidental everything was: the first assassin failing, the couple escaping and complaining at the police station about their treatment, the driver taking the wrong turn out of the city, the car backfiring near where a second assassin happened to be standing...

- Carlin does a great job explaining the new German nationalism and the status quo before the war. He explains how carefully Bismarck made a web of diplomatic relations to protect Germany against a two-front war that his successors immediately tore down.

- Stories of German efficiency in the initial invasion of Belgium and the exact moments when people realized that this was a different type of war. The French were still wearing white gloves and the Germans issued everyone gray khakis.

- Descriptions of how naval warfare was changing and how most battleships, even those made just ten years ago, became obsolete. One great story is how the British original planned to use these now obsolete ships against the Turks in Gallipolli but the admirals were too hesitant to move quickly and risk the ships because they had an emotional connection to them! Most of those admirals served as junior officers on those ships!

- How unspeakably terrible Verdun, the Somme, the Marne and Ypres were. Ypres, for example, Carlingoes into detail about men falling off of duckboards and drowning in the mud. Most of the time, the mud was so thick and the equipment so heavy that their platoon members couldn't help them or they'd risk drowning themselves. So they'd stay up at night, hearing the survivors slowly sink...

There's so many other stories I can't remember. It's a 24 hour series. Can't recommend it enough.
FireFox 49.01a will integrate OSVR to enable a wide range of hardware in WebVR
Blind athlete runs desert marathon unassisted using smartphone app
"repeated" in this context is not incorrect, but i think "replicated" is perhaps a better choice.

That aside, i think repeatability is a much more useful goal (rather than "has been repeated"). For one thing, meaningful replication must be done by someone else; for another, it's difficult and time consuming; the original investigator has no control over whether and when another in the community chooses to attempt replication of his result. What is within their control is an explanation of the methodology they relied on to produce their scientific result in sufficient detail to enable efficient repetition by the relevant community. To me that satisfies the competence threshold; good science isn't infallible science, and attempts to replicate it might fail, but some baseline frequency for ought to be acceptable.
That sounds very economically taxing.
Seeing a psychiatrist to be diagnosed with AD/HD and, later due to life circumstances, depression and anxiety.

Seeing a developmental pediatrician for my son when he was younger to be diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.

Seeing a rheumatologist to discuss ramifications of the HLA-B27 gene and the family history of spondylarthropathies.

What's the common thread?

See a doctor when you have any health concerns, physical or mental, no matter what others may tell you about it being a waste of time. And not Dr. Google, M.D., but a doctor that you trust. Google their credentials, sure, but don't google a diagnosis.
Okay, so you just don't believe climate change exists.
In a few million years, it would have moved so much that it will cut down commute times from U.S to Australia. Obviously riffing here but I am curious where it will end up in a few million years.
Honest question. How is meditation different from being engrossed with a hobby? Say doing gardening or fishing, and being totally mentally in it. Just wondering..
OSVR's headset gets all the attention. But, IMHO their SDK is far more interesting. It's not tied to their headset. It's about enabling any app to work with any hardware --not just the big players. It levels the playing field for smaller app teams who otherwise wouldn't have the budget to support smaller hardware teams.

> The goals of WebVR in remaining device agnostic align perfectly with OSVR philosophy and with OSVR integrated, it brings support to dozens of devices that can be used expanding the use of WebVR.

> With the current integration, OSVR-WebVR allows users to experience WebVR with any device supported by OSVR. This includes HMDs such as OSVR HDK, Sensics, Vuzix, Oculus and HTC, numerous position and orientation trackers, controllers such as the Razer Hydra, HTC Vive Controller, the Nod Backspin and others.
Agree. Apart from spouse and kids, the only others that get tech support from me are my parents (hey, they raised me and put me through school) and my in-laws (because I'm not an idiot).
I stopped using my computer after 9pm, that was hard but it makes a huge difference later when I go to sleep!
Even chemical weapons dumps after WWI are still dangerous today:

http://helcom.fi/baltic-sea-trends/hazardous-substances/sea-...
This is awesome! Definitely see use in analyzing my Mongo queries. Would be good if you can provide better documentation on the setup process, more screenshots etc.
Definitely learning to program. I now separate my life into before and after learning to program. It really is like becoming literate in a world of people that can't read. It's the most powerful knowledge in existence.
Well... isn't everyone basically spending all their time (working) to just incrementing numbers in a server (bank account balance)?
I'm thinking maybe it was a hybrid of false flag and genuine - Erdogan fearing a coup gets some of his general friends to try to foment a coup. Most of the followers think it's for real. Then everyone gets arrested. Erdogan's friends do a year in jail and then are released, the others treated harshly.

A possible friendly general is Mehmet Dişli, Erdogan's friends brother. https://www.commentarymagazine.com/foreign-policy/middle-eas...
Eileen Naughton to replace Laszlo Bock as Head of People Operations at Google
That's certainly true -- unrelated to the discovery point I mentioned, but it is true. The different tradeoffs are well-understood at this point IMO.
Even if you don't need it for a one app you might get a need for the another app and it's fine that all that stuff is coming as an entire framework from the one team, which means that all listed features will work smoothly being put in a single app. So no need to find and integrate scattered over the interned 3-rd party libraries. I agree that Angular is more for the large (you can say enterprise) projects.
I dislike it when I create an account with Facebook on some site, and then can't do basic things like update my email address.
Most occupations are settled on a 40-hour work week, sure, but that's because employers have done the math and determined paying overtime is worse than extending output. They don't cap it at 40 hours/week for optimal productivity; it's for the bottom line.

However, I can think of very few professions which involve a 40-hour work week, given that most professionals are salaried. In The U.S., 60 hours/week is more the norm (not to mention being subservient to email at all hours) and in certain competitive careers, taking vacations is eschewed.

This mentality is silly.
So Angular is the COBOL of Javascript frameworks?

Actually, I think it's probably more comparable to some kind of Java FactoryProviderServiceFactory thing.
I think fasting is pretty interesting. I occasionally challenge myself with a ~24h fast and I think it's probably worthwhile. A three-day fast would be difficult for me socially -- I don't think I could skip consecutive dinners with the family (and attending the meal but not eating is IMO not polite). That said, it sounds appealing.
I think I read once that in Japan they animate first and then record voiceovers afterwards?
Some please define expert for me.
I'm going through the same thing. Just bought my son his first console. I tried getting back in to it. No interest. The whole time I just wanted to put down the controller and go "actually" do something.
The interesting thing is that it goes both ways. Sometimes, when someone wants to store blobs of data in the database, you need to explain to them that it's probably better to use the file system in some manner. The common refrain is "no, we want to use the database", to which the answer often is "the file system is a database, just one that's already been optimized for what you are trying to do".

Similarly, sometimes it's useful to provide just enough primitives that a "non-programmer" can be trained on how to perform a very constrained set of operations on the data they deal with, and provide them with a simplistic language that funnels them into the types of operations they are most likely to want and away from (or disallowing) operations that are deemed problematic or complex.

The issue is that these options are usually not what you want to do. Not because they are wrong, but because they are much more likely to result in something worse, given the possible outcomes. Usually, the result is multiple of the following: too late, too slow, too complex, too inefficient, too hard to maintain, too hard to develop. That said, given a fairly lax timetable, smart people to design and develop the system with, and a clear vision of what needs to be accomplished, great things can be accomplished. But how often to do we get all that at once?
Soylent CEO charged over illegal, 'unsightly' container home
Unwinding Uber’s “Most Efficient” Service
> my spam filter does a decent job

What spam filter is that?
Isn't this why many self-driving cars employ cameras, IR, LIDAR/radar etc.?
Regarding #3 do you have designated times that you read, etc? I find that I end up spending a lot of little chunks on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and HN when something is compiling or deploying or starting to run. I keep saying I'm going to stop checking all of these inane things, but I always fall back into it with these 5 min chunks where it would be hard to do something else.
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https://lightbot.com/

There's apps for it now but it started as flash games which might be convenient -

http://armorgames.com/play/2205/light-bot

http://armorgames.com/play/6061/light-bot-20
Shoot me an email. It's in my profile.
It might be so, but it's not a reason to not getting start familiar with Angular 2 today :)
Flipkart to Lay-Off Hundreds of Employees
> At least Go reuses the git protocol to its advantage.

I think this is a mistake. Packaging should come from a central server (that can be overriden with a mirror). Allowing downloads from adhoc git repositories is a real pain. First, it makes mirroring the package repository impossible. Second, it makes it difficult for companies to disallow certain packages in a centralized fashion. Third, it makes distro packaging a royal pain. And finally Git simply wasn't built for the this kind of work, compressed tarballs happen to work great for this purpose. Git's mutable history also presents other challenges for pinning to specific versions of packages. Simply put, sometimes a central authority has advantages.

That all said, vendoring alleviates most of these problems for apps and some of them for libraries. Reusing tools does make it a little easier to get started with too. I'd hate to see these features removed in whatever go get becomes in the long term.
1) Playing guitar.
2) Moving to a nicer part of town, closer to my work.
3) Re-connecting with old school chums thru FB.
Learning new things that I didn't care about previously: machine learning, game dev, web dev, and high level programming. Lots of fun!
Nix barely supports Windows, for one thing. I don't think Go developers would consider installing cygwin just to run a broken version of Nix. And it doesn't officially support any BSDs other than OS X, I think.
No, it is not an incentive. As I cannot publish my full stack of software, GPL code is just no option for me. And why am I not "advancing the profession" if I open source as much of my code as I can? But for the license technical reasons not as GPL, but rather BSD?

Your last wish of "start making their own transistors" is really funny in the context, that some of my proprietary code is actually for making transistors.
Jesus christ, that dude was standing next to three shells that were as big as him. They were really launching artillery that large? What kind of power did those shells have? How'd they launch them? I always thought of the artillery bombardments as similar to modern mortars.
But maybe the coup would have been the best that could happen.

Now you're probably facing a Third Reich like Turkey :(
I like them all, I just recently figured out #2. I will add: writing about what you are doing/learning is a great test of weather or not you ACTUALLY understand it. Can you communicate it in an intelligent manner? No? Go back and figure out what you don't know.
Have you ever tried using the alt/ctrl/shift keys on the other hand side? So for Ctrl-B you would use the right-hand pinky to hit ctrl and the left-hand index finger to hit B.
Didn't they have code reviews ?
I don't think this is even true though, it's not like self driving cars are driving on GPS alone. They use GPS to know generally where they are and then sensor data to actually navigate in the space. That said there aren't a ton of mapping providers so rolling out a change should not be very hard.
The difference is that you can accomplish meaningful things in reality with those numbers.
Can someone explain the aluminum link? Is the concern due to secondary radiation?
Yes, I don't know of any self-driving car that uses GPS alone. That sounds problematic for many reasons (enter a tunnel and you're dead!).
I made some arguments about this in another place in the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12188869
At least in the western Zen tradition, there's a strong element of 'try this and see if it works for you' which I deeply appreciate.

Empirical religion ftw.
The lesson we can learn from the poisoned battlefields of WWI can be applied as a counter-argument to anyone saying we should nuke something - consider not only the short term implications of the nuke, but the long term effect on local and global environments.
One problem is that there is no incentive to replicate. From the PhD onwards, academia creates incentives for original research. Replications, particularly those that confirmed existing research, would not benefit the researcher much.
This has more to do with the lack of dynamic linking than vendoring.
Just say no. You are better on a full night of sleep for both your family and your job. They need to be understanding there.
Great post. Antirez delivers once again!

I think this is an excellent read for anyone who wants to gain some insight into coming up with pragmatic, real world solutions to problems (caching) that are usually taught in a very formal, "use this bestest algorithm or you're a dummy" kind of way.

Also the tricks used here are beyond clever.
I really wish there were jobs out there that let you do this. My ideal work week is 32 hours, with occasional bursts of more. I've met very few traditional workplaces that were very open to the idea of part time schedules.

For me, focus is all or nothing during work hours. I'd much rather bring fire for fewer hours each day, and then recharge with some of my other pursuits.
I laughed. Then I started to think.
definitely getting similar result from fasting. Even though it's not as extreme as yours(16/8 - only eating during 8-hour window in the evening) i also have noticed being more "lively" during the day; might be placebo but it's working out pretty well.

The beginning was pretty difficult but once you're used to it it's nice.
I remember reading that indigenous people are very equal amongst their tribe.
Taking a 10 min break from everything and being quiet.
They're certainly sufficient but not necessary. There's no reason why single celled organisms couldn't do that. Maybe not at 20% but close.
I exclusively just use lyft. I've always found that underdog companies give better service.
One of my "Why didn't I start doing this sooner?!" moments was copying my config files to all my machines.

It all started with less(1)... Configuring it is a pain in the butt. One day, I couldn't remember how to do it on a new machine, so I just performed the following command...

scp ~/.*less* ~/*less* newmachine:

It was wonderful! Now I do the same thing for my emacs config, and my .xsession, and my hosts files, etc.
what kind of fasting did you do?
What's your motivation for exercising? If it's for its own sake, or just yourself, it can be very hard to maintain (my gazillion attempts at starting in the past demonstrate this).

Find something to exercise for. It's not: I want to exercise for me. It's not: I want to exercise to exercise. It's: I want to exercise to reduce my cholesterol so I live past 50. I want to exercise so I can participate more fully in (rec league sport, martial art, hiking), and not be the slow guy that gets gassed after 5 minutes. I want to exercise so I can keep my weight under 200lbs (creeping back up, but that was adding in a strength routine so good weight, waist is still slim). It can be vanity. It can be to take care of someone (ever had a sick or injured friend or family member and been unable to help them move? It's not a pleasant feeling, they need help and you're there but can't offer it.).
It would be criminally negligent to use GPS for any control decisions in a self-driving vehicle.

Aside from wishy-washy long term tasks like what route to take, or which street has traffic, GPS simply cannot be used.

GPS can fail, be jammed, or lose accuracy. I can't imagine there is any risk of any production vehicles using GPS alone. Certainly GPS matching physical reality will be helpful, but no car is going to drive on a sidewalk and plow through fire hydrants because GPS was off by 1.5 meters.

Before a car can enter a physical space, it should verify with at least two local, independent, physical sensors that the intended space is unoccupied and that no detectable objects are on a trajectory to occupy that space. Our brains do these calculations very easily and with minimal conscious thought. However, our brains' attentiveness and accuracy leave much to be desired.
Messed up your body how...?
I understand this but there is a reason why Switzerland decided not to join EU in the first place. I don't know exact reason. I suggest they preferred to selectively accept some terms instead of taking all burden of membership in the EU.

I like open-economy and globalisation but I would prefer more decentralised system instead of concentrating all power in the single place and then impose regulations across the board. In short, I would not put all eggs to one basket.

Although, I understand that some people voted for Brexit just because of emotions.
Immutability vs. Encapsulation
I'm trying to fix this part of my workflow myself. I'm a hardcore vimmer, trying to branch out into Java with IDEs. Every time I do it, the IDE brings in more headaches than it saves, by far. Plus, they almost seem to "break the abstraction" and make it less clear what's going on.

I'm sure if I made a dedicated effort (ideally with a human present to answer the hard-to-phrase questions) I could work out all the kinks but it's a big hump to surpass.

For example, Eclipse requires you to re-setup your workspace every time you start a new one, and doesn't even have defaults for switching code tabs from the keyboard. The "find in project" feature is cryptic.

And IntelliJ doesn't seem to actually know how to run code; it always wants a "build configuration" that it gives a cryptic interface for and which the tutorial steps aren't very helpful for.

I google to get around the above problems but the answers don't seem to work.
There is no such thing as 'strict libertarianism'; libertarianism is a spectrum (with one or more dimensions), with many internal divides including issues such as intellectual property. Depending on the libertarian you speak with, they may argue for a robust system of police, or a 'minarchist' government which only deals with external threats and trade issues.

Auctioned cap and trade is good at achieving two objectives: 1) a strict limit, and 2) political cronyism. Most people who suggest a carbon tax are in favor of instituting it, then adjusting based on the resulting emissions. We are no better at estimating the results of any given level of pollution or emissions than we are at forecasting supply and demand response to price changes.
reading hacker news.
I think you are confusing Libertarian with Anarchist.

Libertarian does not preclude a president (who has a veto pen) and courts. In fact, courts are insanely critical to a Libertarian government in order to rule on cases where rights are violated and an executive branch is critical to make sure the court decisions are carried out.

Furthermore, contract law is also hugely important to Libertarians and the Government needs to be able to enforce those contracts when the individual cannot.

What a Libertarian would do is strike down all laws and government agencies that infringe on individual liberties. Especially laws that legislate morality and laws that legislate how individuals can spend their money and use their property. That means you can marry who you want, smoke what you want, and buy, sell, and contract with who you want as long as it does not infringe on other rights.

Other misconceptions:

- Libertarians as a whole do not want to eliminate tax. They want to replace income tax with flat tax and/or consumption tax and leave property tax up to the states. They only want to abolish the IRS because it is an inefficient organization, uses threat of force to collect taxes, and taxes do not need to be that complicated.

- Libertarians are not anti union. People should have a right to assemble. They are generally against people being forced to join a union against their will.

- Libertarians are not anti-government. They just feel the only valid role of government is to protect individual rights and defend our country from foreign invaders.

- Libertarians are not anti-environment. In fact Libertarians often see polluting the environment as infringing on other people rights and therefor something the government can intervene in.

A true Libertarian president would ask the following of every law:

- Does this protect people from having their rights infringed on by either other people, government, or companies: YES, pass this law

- If it does not meet the first test, does this infringe on other's right including their rights to do what they want with their own property/body: VETO