skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vipassana, as others have said, is just a meditation technique where one concentrates on the sensations in the body. That may sound very basic, but one can derive some very profound observations from that simple experience. It is usually taught in 10-day courses because it's extremely difficult to learn otherwise. The 10-day courses I've attended (3 so far) have all devoted the first 3-4 days to anapana meditation, a different technique that develops the focus necessary to even attempt vipassana. Without that focus, it's very difficult to get any benefit from the vipassana technique. Even as someone who has been through the courses, I find that my daily practice doesn't come close to matching the depth that I'm able to achieve during the courses.

The primary reason for this is the "noble silence" that's observed during the course. Students avoid communicating with each other, both verbally and non-verbally, for the first 9 days of the 10-day experience. This is, in a sense, another form of sensory deprivation. When your mind "turns off" the part that pays attention to what's going on for the purpose of figuring out what to say and how to respond, it changes the way you think and what you're capable of achieving during meditation.

So yes, the technique can be used outside of the 10-day courses, but it's a very different experience from what you get in the 10-day course. Personally, attending these 10-day courses has been very beneficial to me. But I stop short of recommending them to anyone who isn't sure they want to attend. It's one of the hardest things I've ever done. Sitting 10+ hours per day can be exhausting, both physically and mentally. And many people aren't equipped to essentially be alone with only their thoughts to keep them company for that amount of time. But if all that doesn't scare you off, there's nothing else that should and it can be a life-changing experience.
Yep, I remember learning all those html, css, js stuff but I had no idea how a site works and all the server side, DNS, etc. SO true...
With psychoactive stuff (coffee, alcohol) there’s a pretty obvious reason to acquire the taste, if you want the effects.

Beyond that, I find it interesting to put in some effort to understand why people enjoy things that I don’t. Sometimes you end up liking them after all, sometimes not, but I’m not going to categorically dismiss something just because I had a couple of bad experiences with it.
> Yes, there are among our 7 billion fellow humans some that believe people should be left to die at the hospital door because they can't afford care,

Wow, strawman argument much? What if they're dying of an acute cancer that requires a million dollar treament? A treatment that could provide food or medical treatment for thousands of other people?

What if they were dying of some incurable disease and would simply take up a hospital bed for no use?

You seem to think of costs as floating in a vaccum, rather than a redistributive method for limited resources.
Cutting through all the bullshit and tribalism around languages and frameworks one finds online is the hardest part imo. whats important is defining a basis to choose; employability, cool, theoretical etc, and basing how you spend your time on that. Not on "x says y is the new hot I better learn that!" That's a treadmill that never stops.

Edit also understanding the first language and framework you learn is just the beginning, there will be many. That's something that surprises many.
It is rumored that some metro systems are utilizing face recognition technology. Also, I'm pretty sure our license plates are scanned and recorded as we drive throughout cities.
I'm not saying it will go away, I'm just saying, as the trading volume and usage of BTC increases, the amount of money it takes to move the market grows higher. This should result in lower volatility than we have now, but how much lower is an open question we'll see answered if Bitcoin keeps growing.
The question should be "what".

Static HTML will often fit the bill
My understanding is the Emperor wanted to surrender, the military did not.

We may never know.

[Please don't quote Reddit as a ref]
...that's not what bike shedding is.
Maybe just throwing it out there as an additional resource: Coursera has a "learning how to learn" course, which includes lots of references about the theory of learning but many hands-on tips too. It's not too time consuming and doesn't cost anything, so probably can't hurt to look at it. I liked it and try to apply some of the ideas when learning.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn/
Uh, isn't that exactly what we did?
Revenge of the Son of the Lisp Machine [pdf]
For me a doctor is much more than someone with domain knowledge and access to medical services. My experiences, however, are purely with dutch doctors.

A good doctor, especially when treating chronic patients, forms an essential part of the social structure necessary to treat a disease. In most cases handing out recipes for pills is (or should be) only a minor part. Many chronic diseases are exacerbated (or caused solely) by stress, unhealthy eating habits, lack of activity, depression, social isolation, unhealthy working environments, etc. Why treat the symptoms when you can treat the causes? Armed with this knowledge, an intelligent doctor treats using medicine and spurs habitual changes.

Another thing. You mention doctors are not intelligent and basically a human rolodex of knowledge. As an outsider, I've seen the complexity of our current understanding of the immune-system. Immunology alone has nothing to do with rote memorization. Compare it with diagnosing an extremely complex self-repairing, self-diagnosing, self-reproducing group of information systems. We have no complete manual. Performing proper tests is expensive and not 100% reliable. Although each information system within the group is similar, they are different in slight, unpredictable, undocumented ways. Oh, and each year, around 10 important books are published on new findings about these information systems. You only have time to read 5.
Another not-WordPress alternative is a software called NibbleBlog [0] which is nice because it's also written in PHP and will likely be easy for existing wordpress admins to deploy. No change in tooling. This also doesn't require a DB, it can run from flatfiles.

[0] - http://www.nibbleblog.com/
Yes.

http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#arithmetic-with-overflow-i...

http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#exception-handling-intrins...

http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#call-instruction
This comment illustrates an important socialist fallacy... employees are not the biggest part of the economy, consumers are! Consumers win when the products and services they buy are less expensive & better (ie the people who produce them are more efficient).
Another similar tool: http://proselint.com/
It's hard to get reliable numbers of the number of Venezuelans having bitcoin. According to [1], surbitcoin.com had 85,000 users in November 2016 (on a population of 30 million). Quartz reported in November 2016 a weekly bitcoin volume below 400 bitcoin on localbitcoin.com. That is not bad, but I would not call it Venezuelans running away from Bolivares into Bitcoin.

One of the problems is that you would have to be crazy to want to sell bitcoin for Bolivares if you can't immediately spend them.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/16/venezuela...

[2] http://qz.com/876067/the-chinese-principle-wu-wei-eliminates...
One objective way is to look at average height, which increased throughout the 19th century in the US, and increased in other countries when they adopted free market agriculture. Height is a good proxy for having sufficient nutritious food.
> If they now added whatever the state-of-the-art is for a service such as this, wouldn't that create quite a compelling service?

Right, but that wouldn't be e-mail, and this seems to be e-mail. He made the decision to shut down e-mail accounts (including mine!) to prevent data leakage and that is not a decision that anyone should be forced to make; it is a deficiency of the system.
Diabetes is punishment enough for your hypothetical gluttony. I see no reason to arrange society in a way to further punish sick people.
One important concept in testing is "code coverage". The technique is to (conceptually) place a unique print statement in every branch of every "IF" statement or loop (every basic block), and then try to write tests until you've triggered all of the print statements.

EDIT: This explains the concept, and gives a minimal approach to testing (i.e., you should test more than this, but at least this). Of course, there are tools to automate this, but not for every (new) language.
You're right, but he's taking about a particular style of writing for a specific audience. His "rules" seem reasonable enough within that context.

The passive voice prohibition is more of a lazy pedagogical tool than sound style advice. Nothing wrong with using it, but it's often used poorly, and it's easier to say don't use it at all than to explain how to use it well.

My favourite "style guide" is Clear And Simple As The Truth: Writing Classic Prose by Francis-Noël Thomas & Mark Turner, which takes the time to explain what it means by "style" and has almost nothing to say about passive voice and adverbs.
It's interesting since I proposed using LLVM in place of inline assembly a while back. I got this counter point when I asked on ESR's blog:

http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2011-October/043724...

Any LLVM experts have thoughts on this or my original goal within the context of LLVM's current situation?
I think this is because while we've been messing around creating novel human genomes for at least two-hundred-thousand years, we've been creating non-human thought processes for only 40 years. And it's really only picked up in the last 10.

Our butts are at least partly covered that we do anything particularly awful on the genetic engineering front because genomes have been scrambling around in all kinds of different configurations for billions of years now and nothing too awful has happened. Except, arguably, us. Although I like to think we're the best result so far rather than the worst.
Keep your grammar-nazism to yourself. Reading shit like this is "a bit annoying".
At most companies of the G or A size, it all depends on the team and manager, as they'll define the day-to-day culture and work. Note that Apple is much, much more siloed due to its secretive culture, and if talking about and open-sourcing what one does is important, G is the much better choice. But mostly, team and manager should be the deciding factor.
> The US and Iraq were most decidedly not allies then.

Actually, the US and Iraq were allies until Iraq invaded Kuwait. Ambassador April Glaspie.

We have no opinion on your Arab-Arab conflicts, such as
your dispute with Kuwait. Secretary Baker has directed me
to emphasize the instruction, first given to Iraq in the
1960s, that the Kuwait issue is not associated with
America.

The Iraqis even sent an Exocet missile into the USS Stark and other than bombing one of their oil platforms, Reagan turned the other cheek.

Until after the Kuwait invasion and until after Thatcher lent H some of her testicles, yeah, Reagan and Bush were Iraqi allies.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Saddam_r...
For me it was getting enough experience with the various tools and tooling to learn the right tool for each job.

I started around '08 on a Django-based stack with really only university courses and prior Python programming experience. I was very active reading about the tech stacks which helped substantially.

When building mostly static content, I relied heavily on templating. When it came time to add interactivity, jQuery was right there waiting for me. When more complex behaviors were needed, I had to figure out how to write actual javascript rather than string callbacks together. Then learning to manage dependencies and assets became necessary, ... and so on.

A mentor would have been an enormous benefit. I was very lucky in that I got a wide berth to work in, and much opportunity for greenfield work.
Careful getting too DRY with your tests. Far too many projects have test that should be failing but aren't because of some silly side effect, caused by DRYness and lack of isolation.

I'd go as far to say that attempts at DRY cause more problems in test suites than copy-paste coding, many of which never even get caught. In a test suite, this is very bad.
Yeah, I wish I could recommend WordPress to people because it's really nice at what it does, but the security flaws are too serious.The fact that it takes months for them to fix serious vulns reported to them only makes it worse.

Seriously, there are youtube tutorials about 'How to Hack Wordpress.' It can't get much worse than that:

https://www.youtube.com/results?q=wordpress+hack
It's the first choice among a huge number of web devs though, which seems contrary to it being that the person deploying it doesn't know better.
This law does not seek to keep people from being on-call 24/7... it aims to provide a new "right" to workers where they can expect to go home after 7 hours and if they miss something important after hours (even if it hurts the business dramatically) not be concerned about losing their job. Again, this is in a country that already has 23% unemployment for young workers. I just want to make sure the rest of the world doesn't see these as "progressive" moves, but rather "regressive" as they strip the opportunity for young (currently unemployed) workers.
JS does - I didnt focus on JS.

PHP has an unofficial spec now but didn't then. Here's what I wrote about it when it came out: https://circleci.com/blog/critiquing-facebooks-new-php-spec/
I'd love to move client's mostly static sites to Pelican or Hugo. But that means that every time they want to tweak something that isn't content, I get a phone call. So I stick with locked-down* versions of Wordpress, configured to automatically update, and hope for the best. So far, I haven't had any trouble, but if a site did get hacked, I have backups on hand to deploy a new server in seconds.

*Besides best security practices for the server, database and Wordpress install, and clients aren't allowed to install new plugins or tweak the actual source code. The lightweight UI customization that themes provide is usually enough.
I think geopolitics gets in the way: Saudi Arabia is an ally to the United States- not the GOP or the Democrats. This arrangement is probably seen as best for American Interests, at least by several administrations regardless of party - I have read theories about the petro-dollar but I'm not familiar enough with Economics to weigh in.

Not too long ago, the Republicans pushed a law allowing families of 9/11 victims to sue the KSA. Obama vetoed the bill and the GOP overrode the veto. Not long afterwards, the GOP whip[1] was regretting the law and blaming Obama for not pushing back enough(!). Now, I don't think there's a conspiracy going on, it's just realpolitik/ nation-state equivalent of having a friend who is a dick but lets you play with his nice toys.

1. Might have been "senate majority leader" I'm on mobile and haven't looked it up the correct title.

Edit:
I am assuming that the Saudi government wasn't involved in 9/11 and that it was the actions of religious extremists. Publicly blaming the Saudi government might not be the most prudent thing to do, just as Uganda shouldn't blame the US government for the actions of American Christian evangelicals stoking homophobia in Uganda. I know it's comparing Apples to ghost pepper
People also "voluntarily" made mining companies hugely successful in the 19th century. But that doesn't mean the workers, that worked there "voluntarily" didn't suffer greatly from their work.
> a temporary solution...

>> the problem is as temporary as [Uber] wishes for it to be

My point was that the solution chosen, binding unionization voted on by a minority of drivers, is not temporary.
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If you actually read both links I provided, you might find them interesting. Also, why shouldn't I quote r/AskHistorians when discussing historical events?
The USDA recommendation for a healthy amount of beef per day is 5-6 ounces. That's about $2.25 per day. Heck, a pound of apples cost more than that. A loaf of bread costs more than that. $6.99 is the regular price, too - it's often on sale as it nears its expiration date.

How cheap does it have to be before it is successful?
Thanks, I might not be right about any of it but saying bad things about apple and google, or both at the same time :) tends to result in downvotes.

As in most things there's probably some truth on all sides.
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I was thinking the same, until I read this article about different qualities:

http://tweakheadz.com/16-bit-vs-24-bit-audio/

TLDR: 16/44.1 is enough for listening purposes.
I did this for a whole year - Oct 2015 to Oct 2016. Cold turkey like the author.

It's nothing extraordinary. Or at least nothing as challenging as launching a startup. It's all about willpower and willing to do the extra work. I found only eating what you cook, and sticking to whole natural foods (un-processed) makes this extremely easy.

I didn't manage a total of three or four times. Those were social events: a wedding, a birthday, and during a trip to another another country.

In terms of benefits, you lose quickly a lot of weight, and perhaps a bit more energy during the day. Overall a very interesting experience. I would say thought that if you're looking for a healther lifestyle, committing to regular moderate or intense exercise has a better ROI than cutting sugar.
I've not done this, but intend to, if you want to learn Japanese I've had many people recommend this to get started: http://store.steampowered.com/app/438270/
> Doesn't AS/400 use an IR approach as well? Which let IBM seamlessly migrate the underlying CPU a few(?) times now?

In these systems both something like IR and final assembly is stored in the binary. The OS recompiles the IR for the current CPU if necessary and replaces the assembly in the binary. That way there is no compilation overhead unless architectures are changed.
Fascinating. And dangerous.

If you see a pattern and you search a explanation for it, you can get wrapped up in the hunt and end up investing a lot of time into a wild goose chase.

Our math profs warned us to do this, because if you zoom out wide enough, there is a pattern in every noise. As a undergrad, i got obsessed with the idea of creating a meaningful divide by zero operation.

The result, if i remember correctly, was a "fractal" cave, interconnected, the walls defined by aggregated infinitys reseeded by the "echos" of all previous caves until the next "digit" of the original seed number is reached. What a useless operation, one might think- but i got obsessed with it, because it generated sequences.
1/0 = |1|0/0=1|2|3|5

Some of the results started to look like the fibonacci-sequence(its basically a algorithm mapped to infinity echoing back and forth along the cave-walls after all) and i lost a semester chasing this numeric day dream. :(

Shame on me, i woke up when my math prof zoomed out over some random pattern revealing "patterns". The Truth is, we humans want to see patterns. Desperately. So desperatly it can eat lives.

Still a fascinating read, can fully recommend. But wake up if you what you find eats you.

PS: To double my shame, i did never publish this. So if you venture down the rabbit sinkhole, put a warning sign up.
Wrt acquired taste: I used to hate the taste of cilantro, but kind of came across it alot because of Vietnamese friends. After some time I slowly began getting used to it and now I actually love the taste. It's so refreshing and really spices up many dishes making them much more interesting. Point being I think just because you don't like something initially it isn't inherently bad and you could be missing out. :-D
> 1) There is a field MTU in the IP header.

You don't need this in every packet, you only need it in one packet (or once every few minutes). Instead of putting a field in every packet that only <1% of them need, we could create an out of band message to notify when the MTU has been exceeded. And the endpoint that needs to know that is the sender, so that's who you would send it to. Which is what they did.

That works perfectly well, the problem is that many misconfigured firewalls drop the ICMP messages. No one predicted that level of incompetence when the protocols were being designed.
"Double top"
Just like gold it will deflate.
Libya and Ethiopia would like a word with you.
Food could be free and there'd still be malnourishment. It's necessary to look at a bigger picture when looking at the overall performance.
Now I have a new person to nominate for best non-descript software package and website. I couldn't even figure that out from the website let alone what this is or what it's meant to do.
I see WP Engine touted as a solution. My limited experience with a client several months ago was "hey, we're getting really big, we need better security and better performance", they shop around, and get sold (in a literal sense) on WP Engine. Signed up, and my friend started to try to migrate things over. Oh... yeah, they don't actually support many custom plugins - you could select from some blessed ones, but the client's traffic was all using a custom theme and set of plugins. Those wouldn't run on WP Engine.

I too (and many others) could make most WP hosting really secure if I got to say "you can only use these 9 plugins (or whatever the number was) and no, you can't put any custom code on the server at all".

EDIT: Indeed... every moderately-sized WP project I've worked on ends up being dozens of plugins (more than 15 being average, and one recent one having about 45 active plugins). Every time I mention that to anyone I know who 'does' WP they all recoil in horror and say "I'd never even work on that - that's impossible! Why would you need that many plugins ever?!" And then I think... they don't really understand WP, or they don't understand clients. Or... yeah, it must be my problem, because I'm somehow not good enough to deliver everything a client asks for in wordpress (requirement) in the mythological "3-5 plugins" everyone tells me is their max.

EDIT2: The client project referenced above was getting tens of millions visits per month, and as such the WPengine number I was told was somewhere in the region of $1500/month.
Consuming fat makes you feel full. Like many people, I find that eating a higher-fat diet makes me feel full & able to tolerate eating fewer calories overall.
The psychology of any market is the same. Nothing has changed in centuries.

What goes up...just come down.
>Meta-programming to generate tests has only lead to pain in my experience.

Likewise, although I view it as a deficiency of testing frameworks that require metaprogramming for parameterized testing. They shouldn't.
I try very hard to understand why they do some things, and come up short. With a lot of the minor UI tweaks, it's certainly not based on any real-world research, because some of the tweaks go against what's already established or being published in journals.

They probably do have reasons, but as to what they are, no idea. And as to whether their reasons are beneficial to the user, in many cases I can say no, absolutely not.
> beyond anyone's wildest expectation over the last 8 years...

Some people were saying it was going to take over the world and replace fiat currencies. That hasn't happened yet. And when it crossed $1000 for the first time, some people expected it to keep going up exponentially.

It's gone beyond the expectations of many sceptics, I give you that.
I love wordpress, but I don't love PHP, updates, security flaws, or hosting. I haven't done it yet, but I'm considering using the Simply Static plugin[0] to migrate to generated static pages from my wordpress instance, which sidesteps all of those problems.

[0]: https://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-static/