skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a person who loves games and has some experience of mindfullness/zen meditation:

Games are about reasoning and reacting to external stimuli. Meditation usually involves more passive observation of self's inner self.

To put it another way - games are dissociative, while meditation (the mindfulness kind anyway) aims to be anti-dissociative.

One more point of view: I can play a game hours without being aware of the time that has gone by. When meditating I'm aware of each breath I take.

I have no vocabulary to exactly specify how games and meditation are different - I can only state that the experience is different.
> Swap [Burning Man] with any modern or long lasting festival

You can't really do that. Burning man is different from a normal music festival.

I've never been to Burning Man, but I've been to other similar week-long psychedelic festivals, like Boom in Portugal and it's definitely not your 'normal' rock music festival.

First there's the 'non-commercial' side - no companies or logos or other publicity displayed anywhere, then there's the international aspect - literally, it's a gathering of people from all over the world. Then there are the drugs, the virtual lack of alcohol, the psychedelia and the 'unsanity' that people experience for a week, which manifests as all kinds of forms of art, music, yoga, martial arts, shamanic rituals and so on.

'Leave no trace' means people are conscious and careful about the place, so the festival ground is always clean.

People change, they become non-competitive, extremely nice and generous to each other - sort of like a sect, but in a good way :)).

So the festival is not just a great amount of fun and suffering from weather extremes, but also a very 'spiritual' and introspective experience - in which I personally regain hope in humanity..

Boom Festival is always a powerful experience, but 'burners' who've been at both claim Burning Man is even more powerful.

Of course as these events gain popularity, more and more people are going to be attracted to them and inevitably that's going to change the 'old spirit' of the festival.

But this is the rule of life - old gives way to new and it's been like this since the beginning of time, right ? :).
Except the article states that they were living in a "posh" downtown apartment.
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> The mops, when properly squeezed, produce liquid capital, i.e. money.

"liquid capital" -- such a sublime, apt description/definition of money. Surprised I've never encountered it before, in awe of its simplicity and insightfulness. So obvious I should have thought of it myself.
> If you're new here, you should know how censored this place is

There has always been a trend of people creating 'throwaway accounts' on here, I mean, you know, if you really want to get heard. Some of the best comments on here are from these types of accounts
You are right its become a "corporation" of its own. I know a company/app that was shutdown by Burning Man lawyers this year because that company had an app named "Burningman" that was about burning calories. Completely unrelated. They spent good part of last year fighting their lawyers but in the end gave in.
I've been to Burning Man several times and this article is spot on. No matter which year I go, there is always some new group "ruining" the event according to the "true" burners (and since BM is all about inclusivity, this group seems to grow exponentially). The first few years I came, the moaning was about "sparkle poanies", people in their 20s who came to party for a week with drugs, costumes, and glitter... without bringing a weeks worth of food or water and no tent or shade structure. This evolution is inevitable and it doesn't change the fact that there is no event like Burning Man on the planet. Standing in the middle of a dessert as a city as vibrant and alive as the Vegas strip pops up around you is an experience I'd recommend for anyone.

In my opinion, the only group that is on the path to actually "ruining" BM is the organization itself. From the rapid price hikes to the parking passes to general incompetence running infrastructure for such a large popup event to clashing egos, every time I talk to a current or former employee I get the sense that BM is run by children, half of whom want to run it like it's the 90s when the event was a tenth of the size it is today. The worst part has been the antagonism between the BM org and the BLM/local law enforcement. Every move the org makes seems to make life harder for attendees (although the cops seem to have stopped arresting for drugs, giving out heavy fines to recoup lawsuit costs instead, so I guess that's a plus).
I agree. It doesn't have to be collusion, in fact, I can easily imagine that there's no large scale coordination, maybe just coordination in small 5-10 person teams. For any incentive scheme, there's going to be a subset of people trying to game it. Given that potentially tens of thousands of employees were presented with the same incentive scheme (the performance system), it makes sense that many people/small groups could independently create similar strategies.

I think it's made more concrete by thinking of how many times you've thought of an app, business, screenplay, etc. and realized later that a dozen others have had the same idea. I bet a dozen people in this thread independently sketched out an app like Uber/Homejoy/"AirBnb-for-X" at some point just based off having the common annoyance of taxi-finding or hiring help.

In standup comedy, this happens a lot because we're all living in 2016 so any joke about the election, Bradjelina, Game of Thrones or any other sufficiently public/widely-discussed topic will have dozens of people trying to make a joke off of it. I'd guess that the set of actions you can take in a 'corporate game' is more finite and structured, so it makes sense that thousands among tens/hundreds of thousands adopt the same strategy.
Also a similar bit of history is that Apple had a Unix as well called A/UX:

http://www.aux-penelope.com/
"Enterprise Video is a huge content niche." - most definitely, almost this exact same thing is in my ideas notebook (as I'm sure it is for many people), especially with Office 365 integration.

There's going to be a whole ecosystem around more internal video production, webinars and training sessions going forwards. Going to be a really nice niche.
Design for Life
A friend showed me Lumosity and I thought "there's no way this can work", when in life do you have to distinguish the direction moving colored arrows are pointing? The reason I so quickly came to this conclusion is because of the concept of specificity in strength training -- your exercises have to be picked so that they support your goals. I imagine that an approach like this in the brain-enhancing-games space would look a lot more like what we think of as homework.
Presumably their call center employees weren't.
Here's a (not quite recent) story of somebody abandoning CouchDB when it exceeded one instance:

https://blog.hipchat.com/2013/10/16/how-hipchat-scales-to-1-...

So maybe my info is out of date if 2.0 fixes this.
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No. Always get it in writing.
The relevant issue is whether two comets could strike both Earth and Mars within the interval required for either one to recolonize the other.
"Fair" in the sense of "gender-blind"
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> We all will sooner or later act like our grandparents and say "in the past everything was better". If we are honest, it wasn't.

I don't know — I think maybe it was. Not on some absolute scale (although I doubt that no single aspect of the past was absolutely better than an aspect of the present), but on a relative scale. I recall reading that part of the reason most of our musical tastes don't really change after high school is due to physical and emotional components of discovering music young vice old. Can't that be the same for other experiences too?

Imagine you're twenty-four at some event: you have food in your belly, friends around you, and you're having a ball. You don't really have any other responsibilities other than making it back to work once your vacation is over.

Now imagine that you're 36 at the same event: you have a wife and a few kids, food in your belly, friends around you, and you're not quite having a ball. Maybe you brought your kids, and maybe some aspects of the event aren't kid-friendly. Maybe you didn't, and you've got that constant back-of-the-mind worry that all parents have. Maybe your wife is with you and you're both enjoying the event, or maybe she's with you but you had an argument, or maybe she's not with you because the event's not her thing, and you miss her while still enjoying the event, or maybe she's not with you because you had a fight and you just want to leave the event and apologise. Meanwhile, the project back at work is still going on, and while you have faith in your subordinates, you know that they really do need you for a few key decisions every week, and you worry that they might be blocked until your return.

You're 48, at the same event. One of your kids is driving now. You can't believe the law lets someone that unaware of his circumstances to drive, and you're worried that maybe you shouldn't let him, but you're worried that if you don't he won't learn to notice his circumstances. He's not at the event, and you've got that constant low-level dread every parent has that he'll kill himself or someone else on the road. Maybe you and your wife have kept your relationship strong through all the increased cares and responsibilities, or maybe you've let it slip because there's only so much time in a day. Meanwhile, you've realised that some of the hopes you both had for your lives will simply never come to fruition: at this point in life, some doors are forever closed. And then there's your career: you've reached a high point in terms of capability, but you're still just one man. Most of your subordinates are good and trustworthy, but they don't see the bigger picture. You try to show them, but they're too caught up in the trees to see the forest. And then there's D—, who was a great and loyal guy, but you raised him up a little fast just as things began to go wrong in his personal life. Now he's underperforming, and honestly you don't believe that he can get better. You want to repay his loyalty, but you also want to repay the loyalty and hard work of all those D— is shortchanging.

Which of those people is going to enjoy the event better?
Let me ask an incendiary question (I feel not great that I even have to qualify this, but I'm admittedly nervous of talking about these sorts of issues in certain lights given social context nowadays); but you're clearly thinking about this comprehensively enough that I'm curious to hear your thoughts, I don't necessarily have an answer either.

Is some amount of inequality at scale _necessarily_ a bad thing, if it arises from a fundamental systemic property of the socio/business/economy context we've bought into? I'll make a rather absurd parallel; look at money itself. To have more money enables gaining more with less effort, (citing the common "boots" theory of economics, basic laws of investing returns, etc) Therefore, enabling anyone to have more money than someone else creates significantly compounding inequality. Should we ensure that can't happen? I acknowlege it's a bit of a strawman but I would hope it also conveys a point both of implicit systemic cycles and tradeoffs of redressing them. As you concede, there's a tangible benefit towards hiring known entities and cohesive teams, even though at scale it tends to favor the incumbent majority.

Rather than ask if the inequality is in itself bad, I'd try to look at the funnel and see if there are any truly improper barriers to the out-group, and focus on rectifying those. Like in CS I'm always wary of KPI based iteration since it can cause "overfitting"/ignoring transitive effects, and "raw diversity numbers" to me is a very opaque KPI.

(Whether the systems that lead to these patterns is good is a totally separate discussion and one so huge I don't think I have the background to speak on it well, but I'm trying to question pragmatic steps to be taken that don't involve a burn-it-down-and-rebuild or throwing the baby out with the bathwater)
I agree - if my only option to make money was to work for someplace like that, I'd take it - but at the same time, I have no love for someone trying to steal my money - which I'm using to feed my child and mostly keep her out of filthpiles.
yummyfajitas:

THANK YOU for posting this comment. I absolutely LOVE these two quotes, and can't tell you how many times I could have used them over the years.

These two quotes are now a permanent part of my arsenal for responding to busy individuals who say they "want to understand" a new technology or idea, but what they actually want is for the new technology or idea to be explained to them using only simple concepts with which they are already familiar, so they don't have to learn anything new.
> Okay, this whole theme is getting a bit annoying

> It's too bad that Obama later started executing people remotely,

Civil war in Syria. hundreds of civilian drone killings. Failed to close Guantanamo.

'It's too bad' is a huge fucking understatement. If a selection process yields peace prize to these kinds of people that is in fact, 100% worthless.
The weird thing is that there is an initial lift but only because you are learning something new. You have to figure it out, it takes effort and creates new pathways, etc. Once you have learned it, you tend to be on auto pilot. The thing to do is keep learning new things: photography, baking, woodworking, etc. It is the challenge and discovery that are important.
Bubble sort question probes the understanding about the complexity theory,

It's just that, again, you're picking a very marginal example to do that with.

And more fundamentally -- simply asking someone "What's the complexity of $foo"? doesn't tell you anything about whether they "understand" complexity. It only tells you whether they've adequately memorized that particular cell on their crib sheet.

As they are thoroughly incentivized to do, thanks to people employing interview techniques like these.
> As to Burning Man itself, it always felt like one of those events that I was not cool enough to go to.

So you're playing your own gatekeeper? If you wanted to go, just go, you might just learn a thing or two about coolness, yourself and other people.

Coolness is largely an illusion.

In any case, isn't being uncool the coolest thing nowadays? At least that's the impression I get when I look at hipsters. 20 years ago, no-one would be caught dead looking like they do, it would have been totally uncool. Now it's cool (perhaps not for long anymore).

In my opinion, there's no substitute for authenticity, and anything that's considered cool or fashionable is merely an imitation of real authenticity (see e.g. late-stage hipsterism).
All the true scotsmen joined burning man 10 years ago!
When I was 24 I got in a skiing accident. I broke my femur into 4 pieces.

Ski patrol took me down the hill. They threw me in an ambulance. They gave me some pain drugs which blurred my memory. The ambulance took me to the nearest hospital. When I arrived there, they gave me several options to remedy my shattered leg. I chose one - the next day I could not remember the other options nor why I chose the option I did.

So I'm just curious. Where in that equation would open straightforward pricing have helped? Would I have refused an ambulance ride? Would I have done the research to call my own? Would I have requested to be taken to another hospital - the next closest one, by my guess, being an hour away? Should I call ahead and make sure their prices are reasonable?

I don't understand how the free market can work with medical care. People oftentimes are not in a position to make decisions based upon price. The free market answer to "not dying" is "I'll pay everything I have".
This limitation had to be lifted for CTEs to be reused, which is in the same labs release as the JSON functions mentioned here.

I haven't checked yet if it is lifted for CTEs only, or all cases. But CTEs are a replacement for most (all?) uses of temporary tables that I can think of.
Could you be more specific? I think path similar to Redis would work just fine.
As a result of this, could companies be expected to have a workforce age profile reflective of the local area or national pool, as might be the case in other recruitment efforts? How would they do by seniors or those approaching retirement age and reflecting those proportions in their workforce.

As the demographics change does a company's workforce have to change along with it, if so to what degree and with what allowable lag?
HTML 5 as a human right? How about JavaScript?

This argument is just absurd. Apple isn't denying anyone access to the web. Could we argue that a company forcing IE 6 on employees is violating human rights?
Did you know that there's a reality tv show based on this premise?
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I don't think it mocks the notion that something has been lost along the way.

Instead, it seems to say that there are many ideas of what the "one true essence" of Burning Man is, and each of those "essences" have been lost, often times more than once in a single event.

So if one points to a single event that "ruined" burning man, you're picking out one thing that was its True Essence, inadvertently putting yourself at odds with all the other people who thought that something else was the True Essence of Burning Man.

All in all, perhaps the essence of Burning Man is more resilient than we think.
Again, maybe because Marissa chose a metric that changed the status quo. And fairly applied it. No need to think its a coincidence. It could be exactly the right people got put in position because they were fairly measured and promoted.
It's not a coincidence AT ALL that it happened when a new boss got in town. That could be when the biases got removed.

But this forum will not give up on the idea that women in management has to be a mistake and can't occur except by some cheating.
> The reason they accept Medicare is because it's very difficult, legally, not to.

Source?

I'd find it hard to believe that doctor's are forced to accept patients with Medicare or Medicaid.
The keywords for AGPL are: modify, packaging, distribute.

If someone modify AGPL code, and repackage it, then distribute to clients (AGPL include via network), then they must disclose the source code to clients only.

RethinkDB drivers are in Apache 2.0, which most companies package it in their software and distribute to clients. In this case, the proprietary software need not in AGPL. This is why drivers are in Apache 2.0.

You only concern AGPL when you want modify, repackage it, then distribute it (include via network) to clients WITHOUT disclose source code. If yes, you are in 0.1% of minority that want compete directly with RethinkDB using RethinkDB.
I'm all for getting case law in the record for calling a spade a spade in situations like this. The US has laws against age and other discrimination.

The 'More Perfect' podcast had a great episode about Batson, jury selection, and racially motivated peremptory challenge that speaks to the same points (though sadly, still unresolved in our justice system). See http://www.wnyc.org/story/object-anyway/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batson_v._Kentucky http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/24/us/supreme-court-black-jur...

If the laws need changing then that's a discussion we should have. But you shouldn't be able to weasel around them by inventing a term and then equating it to things that are illegal.
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There's no literal need for a "reasonable alternative". We have plenty of other food options. I can fully appreciate that lab-grown meat is probably what will make a large-scale difference, but your analogy if not applicable. It's completely possible to opt out of animal agriculture in he US right now.
> The judge limited the class to people who had an in-person interview, which means that job applicants who only had phone interviews can't join the class.

I feel (anecdotal only) that it's pretty easy to approximate age due e.g. to lexicon and potentially dialect, and that it's even easier to pick up on certain vocal changes in older candidates, so I can see the argument in favor of including phone interviews in the class.

That said, the argument for restricting it to only people who passed the phone screens appears to be that the phone screen establishes an initial impression of qualification (skimmed from page 13 of the ruling; I could be entirely wrong and could've quoted an irrelevant passage, but I'd like to think this is accurate):

> The proposed class would include an unknown number of “applicants” who demonstrate no plausible qualifications for the job. To establish a prima facie case of an ADEA violation, the plaintiff must show, among other things, that he was qualified for the position.

https://www.scribd.com/document/326637833/Google-Age-Discrim...
Not directly on topic for HN, but I submitted it anyway because we do often talk about surveillance, police procedure, drugs, effects of wealth distribution, and similar things. Most here are coming from a world quite removed from the people and neighborhoods that experience the kind of crime covered in the story, so I thought it could be interesting to see what it looks like "on the street".
I can write reliable code requiring less maintenance in C or C++. What you're engaging in is language zealotry. Rust isn't a panacea.
You're also missing the frequent abuse of the ER by medicaid members, the number of patients that go to the ER for a cold and waste everyone's time and money is way too high.
That's like, your opinion maaaan.
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What caught my eye in your post is that you have accumulated some useful knowledge from strength training that you just applied elsewhere in your life. Don't you think it's possible that the exact same could happen to people solving puzzles? I doubt that a scientific study would find that strength training leads to improved problem solving skills, and yet it has for you.
"Background material needed for an undergraduate course has been put in the appendix."

So just being honest, the Appendix is still rather terse and advanced for me. Does anyone have suggestions for prerequisite readings that would help getting someone prepared for this text?
McDonalds has a monopoly on McDonalds's hamburgers too.
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But should she be ousted and a new (male) boss installed and it goes back to 80% men, then all would be well and normal? No laptop outrage then.

I'm not suggesting that the change was a statistical fluke. I'm suggesting that maybe in this case some women at Yahoo! were better management candidates than some of the men. In a ratio that's large but not unprecedented. Look at the rations found in other companies - so often its 80% men but that's not seen as unusual or wrong.
Nothing about N-back, which is the one braintraining thing that had evidence for it.
I think he means inflation adjusted. I feel the same way about any large public firm that beats Standard and Poors for decades. It seems suspicious.
Really, choosing Obama as the inflection point for the legitimacy of the prize is misplaced: Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973. While maybe Obama didn't do anything to deserve it, Kissinger arguably did do things that should have prevented him from being awarded it.

https://youtu.be/DwGtctUYhRI?t=2475
It is not about aversion to change - it is about maintaining an elite position.
2 years. It's cheaper to do that than to continue the war.