skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use the Headspace app and it doesn't feel nagging at all. No notifications, no remarks when I miss a day. I've tried a few other programs, books and podcasts and Headspace is the only one I've managed to keep using for more than a month (63 days so far). I also really enjoy the narrator, Andy. He gives a lot of helpful advice that has made me stop worrying if I'm "doing it right." A session where I just can't get my mind to rest isn't wasted, it's a learning experience. Maybe it's the app, or maybe it's because this isn't my 1st (or 2nd or 3rd) attempt at building a habit of meditation, but that idea just recently clicked for me and has greatly improved my enjoyment of meditation.

I'll look into the Tara Brach podcast as well though. More opinions never hurt.
Complaint says he didn't have a permit. Where I live, we aren't even supposed to install a toilet without a permit. Want to cut down a tree in your own back yard? Permit from the "tree committee". Put up a sign in front of your home or business? Multiple permits from zoning and building committees. Thus it does not surprise me that some process is required prior to dropping a live-in shipping container in a major urban area.
“Unpermitted structures pose a safety risk,” City Attorney Mike Feuer said in a statement. “They also can be unsightly and erode the quality of life in a neighborhood.”

Basically, there are building and lot codes that are in place to protect neighboring real estate values against urban blight or non conformance to community standards.
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What? There are lots of cases where they try and plea bargain it down to life.

Why plea bargain down to life if you prefer death penalty.
Well, he owns some property with a box container on it. From his Instagram, it looks like it was more of a novelty hangout than an actual house.
> Why are you assuming that my job description would/should be "engineer"? Why not, say, QA lead?

Because that's what this entire conversation is about.
General Motors is another great example of a "non-software" company that effortlessly became staffed to rival Uber's employees -

http://fortune.com/2016/03/11/gm-buying-self-driving-tech-st...
Exercise, even simple stuff that doesn't require going to a gym or expensive equipment like pushups and squats. I started doing those every day since the start of this year and I can't believe how much it has improved my fitness and health. Squats in particular gave me a lot more stamina with running, climbing stairs, etc. It takes less than 10 minutes a day to do a few of each (I worked up to doing 50 of each) too.
ADHD medication, 1000%!!
I've been a bboy off and on for almost a decade, good to see more people getting into it lately, dancing is the healthiest thing I do by far. Some unsolicited advice, there is more to it than just the moves, you'll enjoy it more/longer if you develop a deep appreciation of the music and culture as well.
I'm upset because they didn't stand up for the little guy against the big guy and then they decide to fight a little guy and claim they are protecting free speech.

I'm not saying they owe me. I'm saying they have a professed legitimate business interest in protecting free speech. They are claiming to be champions on free speech but they are only going after a pet sitting business and other small fry.

I'll update your allegory. Your house slowly burned down over a period of several months and the fire dept did nothing. Later the mayor busted two kids for lighting off bottle rockets, and declared the town to be leading the fight against fire.
Humans are always more scared of things they can't see. Things like toxic gas and the mythology that built up in mining communities, cursed area/tombs killing people (possibly there are good reasons to avoid these places like biological disease presence). Religion and gods and and allthat carry on - you can't see them but they can hurt you. Radiation, particularly ionising, is somewhere in that collection of hard to understand things. Being able to detect a danger with your own senses is very reassuring.
You likely care for responsiveness on when you are on a mobile device. And well, mobile chrome browser doesn't support extensions yet.
As far as I can tell, he has never actually "lived" there.
It's easier than most are conditioned to believe..
It's in the Indian Vedas, Mahabharata and Ramayana. It's worth picking up copies, they've got planetary colonies, nuclear weapons, hollow earth, even instructions on how to build anti-gravity devices, a lot of the medical science in them is more advanced than we have now, in fact just today the Indian Government announced a multi-million dollar expedition to find a plant mentioned in one of them ( http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-07-indian-state-life-savi... )

Also I realise this sounds crazy out there, but if you're interested keep an open mind and read them. The actual copies and stay away from research authors like Childress.
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Say everyone in the world started using this today: what solution would Google need to use to deliver ads to get around DNS blocks?
"Disruptive innovation"
Last time I tried Veertu it was crazy buggy. I emailed them a bunch of bug reports which, to their credit, they did acknowledge. It will be interesting to see if they're fixed.

Edit: No, they're not. The Ubuntu image, on my iMac, just flickers its window horribly and is unusable.

Edit 2: There are some improvements. The Debian image now boots! It boots into the installer, which is interesting. Doing a full GUI install right now.

Edit 3: The same flickering problem affects Debian after a GUI install. Shame.

This is a video I made earlier, demonstrating the problem: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4419997/Flicker.mp4
Is that really an argument? that you don't need to write it at the beginning? you still have to do it...
One of the requirements for democracy is a free press, but Erdogan has been oppressing it for years through means such as shutting down newspapers he didn't like and jailing journalists. There is also a law against insulting the president that has lead to over 2,000 people arrested. Reporters Without Borders lists Turkey as 151 out of 189 countries for freedom of the press.
Because apt-get doesn’t exist on the system I use, and most system packagers can’t/won’t keep up with the rate of change of development, anyway.

CPAN, RubyGems, etc. all exist because system packaging systems are (a) specific to a particular distribution, (b) generally many versions behind the development versions, (c) really hard to get into unless you are already a system packager for a particular distribution, and (d) effectively don’t exist for two of the largest platforms where you will find users.

I’d suggest making some sort of meta-system packaging system that works for all the languages, but xkcd 927 (and I wouldn’t use it myself, anyway, because it would probably not install Ruby packages correctly and would solve things worse than NPM already does).
Demand may go down, but I don't see the car market necessarily consolidating (or going away) like you're implying here.

Technology and economic growth often increases the number of "single person/family" consumer products, rather than decreases them. The "sharing economy" isn't necessarily the default goal that everyone progresses towards for all products (although it may seem like that at times, living in a tech bubble), and "cars" have historically been one of those products that people buy more of, rather than less, as time goes on. Whether this will hold true in the future, who knows? But I don't see it as a given that the market will drastically decrease.

People like customizing their cars, storing things in them, the familiarity of them, and treating them as a "home away from home" even if it's just going to the grocery store. My husband even gets anxious when he's away from home without his car (if, say, we're on vacation or we took a cab somewhere. He never takes public transportation). It's a guaranteed safe place, a way back home, and something he can count on. Sure, you may feel very differently, but you are not every person.

And when you say: "Who makes the bus you last rode on?" Well, I did't have the dubious pleasure of experiencing a city bus until I was 22. Sure, now I ride one every day, but I know plenty of adults who have never been on a bus, much less have convenient access to a route. And while driverless vehicles may facilitate the expansion of public transportation to increasingly rural areas, at some point, you'll hit an absolute mathematical wall at which "the cost of the car transporting itself from customer to customer" will be greater than "the cost savings/reduced environmental impact of sharing the car"

Long story short: I think your assessment of the market is a little premature and somewhat egocentric. Sure, it could absolutely happen that way, but I could also see driverless cars becoming an even more "single user/personal consumer product" than they are today. It's hard to say.
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There's a reason the paren keys had really fast auto-repeat!
Not dupe. That thread is about the possibility of being charged. This thread is about him now being charged.
Turkish media had overwhelming evidence on this (all members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and many high ranking generals had been incapacitated by their subordinates during the coup attempt). Sadly, none of the communications, testimonies, or sequence of events even superficially surfaced on the Western media.

This coup attempt was unusual to Turks in that for twelve hours we didn't know who was behind the coup. Contrast that with the coup in 1980 where the entire Joint Chiefs of Staff appeared on state TV, and informed the public of their action.

Edit: Search & translate hurriyet.com or sozcu.com.tr's archives for details. The Hurriyet newspaper is more mainstream, trustworthy, and has been critical of Erdogan. Sozcu is vocally critical of Erdogan (and usually for good reason).
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Sweden to investigate sex lives
I Went from $80,000 in Debt to a Net Worth of $200,000 in Six Years
If you pay $750k for a home and someone buys the highest parcel in the neighborhood (which used to be open park land), and puts up a shipping container that gets graffiti'd, your real estate value is going to take a hit. The neighborhood is now uglier, has less aesthetic quality, and is potentially endangered in case of earthquake.

Many cities have ordinances such that someone can't buy a lot in a neighborhood and turn it into a landfill such that everyone's property values suffer.
where does the money come from to open source these things?
PolitePol.com – RSS web generator
Open source project. If you website doesn't provide RSS feed, you can use this service. Implemented on python and javascript. Source code you han find here: https://github.com/taroved/pol
Depends on how it's done, but maybe. If it's an added Pokestop with the companies name and picture, and maybe on certain days they can promote (outside of the game) that certain in-game items will be guaranteed to be given at their Pokestop, or certain Pokemon might show up that day (based on an agreement with Niantic), then I don't see any issues with that.

Like for example I remember when Gamestop offered download codes when people visited their shops to get a specific Pokemon in Pokemon X and Y, for example. That seems fine to me.

But if it gets to the point (as it often does), that company Pokestops are advertised from other Pokestops, or the screen gets completely taken over (think a website where the entire border of the site is an ad for one company) and there's autoplaying videos and they tell you to go to their place for REAL WORLD items (like Burger King says "Try our new Bacon Double Taco Whopper!"), then that will suck and I'll stop playing the game.

I'm already sick of dealing with it on websites, I don't want to deal with that while playing games too.
I didn't "advocate for lawsuits by everyone against everyone else". I said that one might be subject to a tort or trespass lawsuit "if [one] reduce[s] the value of your land by rendering it a desert over a period of years..."
Wow, they're not wrong to complain... the least he could do is dress it up a little. Maybe a rusted out car on blocks and tires strewn about. An old washing machine would definitely add character. Or, say, a couple coils of chicken wire and a stray dog...
From reading a few articles with help of Google Translate, the current purge of Gulenists seems to be similar to persecution of Falun Gong in China. Just another case of history repeating itself.
The events of 2013-2014 that solely aimed overthrowing Erdogan were undeniably controlled by Gulen movement. However they lost the battle big time.

One or two weeks before the coup, some army officials in Izmir were detained linked with a previous army spy case and they were linked to Gulen. The supreme military council was about to be happening with the agenda of sacking multiple army officials related with him.

IMO, coup was not solely planned by Gulen, but they were involved significantly.

Lastly, again, check multiple coup officials' statements.
Years ago, because while I was maybe okay with them having my information I realized that they would always be using me by proxy to violate the privacy of my friends and acquaintances.

So, I left. I occasionally miss parties--no big deal.
re:[1], I can't find anything regarding "pay", "wall" or "paid" on that page. What exactly are you referring to?
They cant demand that. If anybody tried to pull that I would be outta there.
This is really great. I use the Pomodoro Method and only check distracting sites in between, but maybe I need to be even stricter and limit it to 2x/day (considering I'm wasting time right now).
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I had a similar moment a few years back when I saw a video of a WoW player quitting [1] that brought me to tears. I felt really bad for a while and slowly stopped playing.

After I learned to program a few years later, I couldn't enjoy gaming any more. I'd try to play an hour or two here and there, and would get bored pretty quickly. But I eventually got nostalgic of those 20 hours nights. I sometimes miss the focus and dedication I had, even if it was just for a game that didn't bring me anything real, the way I felt while being so focused was enjoyable, not the game itself.

I tried to get back into it now that my life is in a much better position. I know the time I would spend on that wouldn't be spent on anything more relevant as it's time to off my brain. One thing I decided though is that I would only play with my wife; if she'd stop playing, I would too. So far, it has worked great, we've been spending more time together with that and usually help each other stop when we've been playing enough.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0n_D_xc1Ug
Maybe I should be opening all projects in the same workspace.

In any case, you have to add the keyboard shortcut:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/4079639
Well, it's not all he eats. Just for routine meals. He treats regular food as a treat or experience to spend your entertainment budget (of both time and money) on.
Maybe we can leverage Pokemon Go players and have them hunt for un-detonated ordinance while they're looking for Jigglypuffs.
Though that just shows there were some alleged Gulenists involved and I gather Gulenists are about 10% of the population. It doesn't prove Gulen himself was involved.
Where's your moment? Who appointed you guardian of the topic?
Just like Angular 1 was backed by Google. It boggles my mind that people are still falling for the "backed by Google" thing, after Google has shown time and again that it loves to abandon products.
Who said it must be a commercial organization? Public universities and non-profit institutes do plenty of research.
So they are paying for browser.. protection... in advance? Like a Racket?

Is that even legal?
I deleted my facebook account shortly after being talked into creating it. Why?

1) I started to lose respect for my friends, after watching their drama on FB. TMI.

2) I was being bombarded with small games that were clearly carved out of psychological tests for the purpose of gleaning data about me. Facebook do not have my authorization for obtaining, storing or sharing psychological profiles, whether or not their fine print says so.

3) I've visited their campus and it is creepy, right out of some dystopian novel. This topic is far too complicated to explain here. I'm sure folks must have written books about this by now.
So pharma research can be yet another political weapon to control or wield against the other side? No thanks.

While the for-profit system has some flaws, at least their motivations are relatively straightforward and when there's a reason to change their policies by discounting or even giving things away free, they can choose to.

If the government tried to do that, it would turn into a multi-month (year?) debate before anything would be done.
How is confirming your identity online a novel and patentable idea? That's absurd.
So are the carrots you buy ecpensive? In april? Two years ago? Basically, you go to the supermarke, get your carrots and say: whatever, lets just get over with it.

Sure, you can get use to a new currency - it took us the best part of a decade to stop thinking in our old national currencies in the eurozone, and some people, and for some things, old currencies are still used mentally and in conversation.

The good thing in the Eurozone is: I dont need to. A currency must, above all, get out of my way.
As a former neuroscientist, that's somewhat true, but it's pretty bad all across academia. Every department takes on more grad students than can possibly fill academic offices.
+1 for solo traveling. done waiting for others and done not being concerned about making other people wait
Or acknowledge it, write it down if it's an actionable to-do, then let it go. It probably won't return, and you'll have a great list of things that were previously buzzing around in your head, taking up space now down on paper in front of you.
Linux runs on toasters because people with a vested interest in selling toasters running Linux pay people to do that work.
1) quit smoking

2) quit drinking alcohol (as a daily habit, I still drink an occasional beer with friends)

3) a whole foods plant based diet (https://medium.com/@borkdude/tl-dr-of-my-long-term-weight-lo...)

4) meditation

5) regular exercise
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This. Always add on at least 15-30% if they ask. Has worked very well for me.
Baidu uses millions of users’ location data to make predictions
IMHO that's a trivial detail that doesn't really change the discussion or topic (but I don't really get why this attracts so much discussion at all, so maybe I was to quick about that)
Extrajudicial killing is very popular in the US, by drone (against Muslims), by gun owner (Stand Your Ground laws) and by cop (against minorities).
The irony of someone being sarcastic about DoD research while communicating on a medium that was a direct result of DoD research is pretty funny :)
I don't think that episode has done anything to reign in what is seen as acceptable. Those doing the deeds are treated as heros and those ordering attacks are rewarded with money and medals.
Hello guys,

I live in the region (West Flanders, Belgium) so here are some local stories.

* When my brother in law was a kid, he found an old bomb at the roadside and decided to take it home on his bike, saying things like 'Look what cool stuff I found'. Of course mom panicked and called the deminers. All friends came to look how the dismantling went.

* In fact I know plenty of people finding old grenades and stuff. People die every year messing with them at their kitchen table, even if everybody should know by now not to do that.

* Lots of farms have a heap of old bombs on the terrain. Once a year or so DOVO comes and picks them up.

* Polish people are used a lot as cheap builders and road workers. In general they dont understand Dutch (the local language) or even English. So while people try to warn them not to touch any strange metal things they find on building terrains, the message doesnt come trough (' Know nothing. Talk boss'). Nasty accidents happen as a result.

* A few years ago, an old lady dug up a hand granade from her vegetable garden. So she calls DOVO, the organisation that does the demining. DOVO responds something like no time, call back later. This pissed her off enough to throw the bloody thing in a bucket, drive to dovo, and give the bucket at the reception desk saying ' This is yours'.

While typing this, my wife asks why I'm typing on that nerd site of mine. So now she suggests going to the dunes 2 km from here and taking a photograph if I see one. Sorry guys, Im not messing with old bombs in the dark after the Brussels terrorist attacks, but yes, it's that easy.
Thanks for the list. Do any others come to mind?
Becoming a cyborg. (Yes, seriously. But not relevant to 99% of the people here.)
My comment may have come across as snide, my apologies for that. But I stand by my point; if we want to discuss something we shouldn't stoop to derogatory use of names. In English it is permissible and customary to refer to officials by their last name (e.g., 'Obama', 'Hollande', 'Merkel'). Using their given names, unless done in an obvious tongue-in-cheek fashion, laces your opinion with weasel-speak. It detracts from a sensible exchange of ideas, views, and standpoints.

If we all resort to using whatever we feel is most applicable for Erdoğan (or any other demagogue) I would be very surprised if half of the pseudonyms used did not hint at the alleged illegitimate consummation of those of the caprid persuasion — let's not venture there.
Create a topic for your own question.
It would be useful if their website described what exactly it installs. A recursive DNS server with a web UI and big list of null-routed domains? That's my guess.

How does that help mobile users outside their home network without also setting up a VPN back in?
I deleted mine a while ago, maybe 6 or 7 years. I never found it useful. I never felt the need to upload/share anything so my wall was pretty empty, and most of what was shared by people in my network was kind of stupid.

I also didn't like their practices as a company, and didn't want to be part of it.
they are basically changing the official WGS84 coordinates of a number of famous Point Of Interest.

The way they do it that they measure the position of some reference point in WGS84 on every tectonic plate, then they measure the relative position of a bunch of point of interest from the local reference point. At a regular interval, they re-measure the actual coordinates of the reference point in WGS84, and that automatically moves all of its dependent points of interest in WGS84. Tectonic plate movement is why WGS84 is not always the best way to store your points of interest, keeping them in the local reference also helps propagation when an update occurs.
The difference is in sustainability. Sure, some people always want more; morality is no barrier for them. But most people run into trouble only when they face a significant conflict of interest.

Thinking about companies I've seen the inside of, when the company is doing ok, it's rare for people to just up and do something sleazy. But if they company could collapse, suddenly the moral calculus shifts. Even if they don't do something dubious, they often will consider revenue sources they would have ignored before. As they say, desperate times call for desperate measures.

So I'm much more likely to trust a company I'm paying a fair rate for what they're doing. That's not to say that those people don't turn bad sometimes, but it happens a lot less.
The obvious two: Optimal gets to see every domain name your computer asks for, including personalized domains like yourname.bloggingservice.com; Optimal gets to answer those requests in any way it wants to (MITM attacks).