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> Frankly this is a vanity metric anyways.

Not really. The German government (through the federal government, the state of Lower Saxony, and the investment bank of the council of states) owns a large share of VW, and so a lot of this money goes directly back into the tax budget.
Most people care, unless it means they drive or fly less.
Corporate personhood is not the problem here. You'll find many instances of corporate lawbreaking in countries that lack the legal concept of corporate personhood.

The real problem is that breaking the law and then paying the fine makes corporations better off than obeying the law in the first place.
Yes, fully agree. This is a difficult time for all social justice causes.
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Was it exploiting them more than fast food and other industries?
> As a listed company you would be taking away many peoples jobs and savings who are innocent parties in this.

1. Nationalize part of the company hurting investors.
2. Auction the shares to the market
3. Profit$

This way a "too big to fail" company can continue running its business as usual while punishing the value of the company. That doesn't means that personal responsibilities are forgiven, any one that breaks the law should be prosecuted.

There are probably a lot of other solutions, the problem is that economics is not about economy but about politics.
Doubt this is on topic, thanks for the heads up though.

Tried calling a few times, at first got the same 2 minutes of silence but sometimes went straight to the message. Once you get on the ACA prompt you can hit 1 to support it without waiting through statement
Why would yogis want to run the world?
I first wonder what advantages are there in using .NET Core over anything else. I personally can't think of any and I'm a fan of c#. I would love to hear and this is not sarcasm as I started out in the ASP.NET world a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away.
Are you autistic? Read the fucking facts.
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It was cutting edge technology, but looked inferior to the physical models used by shows like Star Trek TNG or DS9 (I say sadly as a huge B5 fan).
You are only one who gets it.
I don't agree with the view that following specific people's work is the equivalent of cult personality, although thats how cults start out. It's not transpositional.

It's a decent starting point for those just starting out in the community/open source culture to get the hang of it.

The general idea however is to keep an eye out on places like HN to general trends and follow popular/radical repositories in those areas.

However, I would strongly suggest to not fall for the trap and limit yourself to just following people / news. Get the news but dig deeper, read posts on that topic, clone and play around with repositories, create and share small projects, connect this to what you already know and create ideas, no matter how useless you think it is, read influential papers (re-read them) and get involved in conversations on them.

That is more fulfilling and impactful than following personalities.
He's saying that the original move we've all seen had its special effects upgraded over the years :)
I am wondering, why this comment is not higher? It seems much more relevant than top comments.
Even better! We should unionize everyone and use the mandatory dues to pay for ever more bureaucrats/admins/interns, so that when we reach full-robot, everyone still has a job. :-)
The danger is that this is exactly what's happening, without the churlish conclusion.

This is a call for reports to be rewritten by staff sympathetic to the current president's cause. That's the first step to "securing our cyber borders" via VPNs, proxies, vetting of internet companies, etc.
> I still caution fitness band buyers that they should consider themselves early adopters who should expect some troubles while the quality evolves.

I don't buy this. Many, many millions of fitness brands have been sold, for combined billions of dollars, over a good number of years. We are not on the startup upswing anymore. I'm not quite expecting perfection yet, but I am expecting them to not outright suck. The construction methods are clearly inferior -- the damn things just fall apart because they are glued, rather than using fasteners. They are making low quality, designed-for-obsolescence junk. Many of the flaws, like coming up with a good band that attaches around your wrist and doesn't break, were solved in wristwatches over a hundred years ago.
Well, except you have to go back to the Supercharger bit.

Every year they roll out more and more Superchargers, and the 100kwh battery for the Model S exists now.
I think it says it was pointless, not harsh. The suggestion is not any less harsh.
We could, one day, wake up to discover that we are actually living in the matrix. The rules of physics were only added by the machines to keep us amused so that we don't discover the true nature of our beings (batteries for the machines). Yeah... I don't believe it either :-)

But the key is that we can't know. Maybe "God did it" is the truth and the rest is just appearances. Maybe our mathematical constructs do represent reality closely. Even if we build models that are isomorphic to our perception of reality, there is still no way to tell if they are in any way similar to the actual workings of reality. The FSM can certainly alter our brains so that we just believe we see things happening in a consistent way, even though they are not.

Like I said, it is tempting to believe that the simplest solution that we can imagine is close to reality. This is very unlikely to be the case, IMHO. It's fine to believe it is, but that is not science any more. You are entering into religion.

Newton's laws are not known to be "more wrong" than relativity. Relativity matches our observations more closely and is simpler in some respects, but it could be just as wrong. Or more wrong. We have no way of measuring how close to reality our models are. We can only measure how closely they match our observations. As one of the other posters quoted: All models are wrong. Some of the are useful.

Even when you have a model that is completely consistent with observations it does not make it more likely to be correct. Imagine creating some byzantine model with a myriad of exceptions to explain away any discrepancy. Obviously as long as we accept complexity, we can model anything. These models are not usually useful though.

So as much as I understand that you want to ask, "Is this model more likely to be closer to the truth than other models", it isn't a question we can answer in science. We can only answer the questions, "Is this model consistent with our observations?", and "Is this model simpler than another model?"

The article claims that the model is at least as consistent as other models while being simpler in some instances. I think work needs to be done to verify those claims.
And yet another nit must be picked. Breath awareness is simply one way to meditate. There are a broad array of different meditation techniques and some do involve breath control.
Comes as a surprise as she is the only person in the DOJ authorized to sign off on foreign security letters [0]

How nice that Trump right out of the gate has kneecapped his administration in terms of intelligence gathering! At least until a puppet replacement is approved by the Senate.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/us/politics/trump-immigra...

[Edit: earlier in the day I read that the acting AG was the only Senate approved signatory. As somebody below me pointed out, that is no longer the current interpretation of who is able to sign these letters in the provided link. I'm keeping my post up as originally written because things moved so dang fast today.]
Those were US attorneys.
This is true. Although, Uber won't be the last taxi company.
Obama's order was to withdraw the visa waiver program for those 7 countries. Citizens of those countries could still apply for a visa and then enter the US. Trump's order banned legal and vetted immigrants, a ban which initially included even lawful permanent residents. The two aren't even remotely comparable.
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This doesn't make sense. Companies like Google have plenty of shirts and hoodies with the companies names on it. Plenty of swag on campus too for new employees and university events.
I'm not the OP, but it is an important distinction, breath control (pranayama) is yogic.

While I can't speak for other traditions that feature meditation, at least in Theravada Buddhism, training of the breath is an essential part of the practice for the development of mindfulness (sati), beyond "observing the breath as it is." This gets de-emphasized in the modern vipassana movement focusing on "bare attention", but canonical interpretations of the Anapanasati Sutta [1] on the mindfulness of breathing to indicate that one only uses bare attention to "discern" long and short breaths, but "trains" oneself to become aware of the whole body, to calm bodily fabrication, and the rest of the items on the list. This is taken to mean that one can use right effort to breath in ways that are conducive to being aware of the whole body or ways of breathing that calm bodily fabrication, etc. So, while definitely not as gross as counting fixed durations like on the site linked, exerting oneself to influence the breath has a place in at least one very prominent non-yogic tradition.

[1] http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.118.than.html (perhaps the second most important sutta related to meditation in the Pali Canon, next to the Maha-satipatthana Sutta [2])

[2] http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/dn/dn.22.0.than.html
I’m still in undergrad/studying for B.Sc., so it’s not like I’m expected to do actual science, but you’re right indeed.
As long as the debt in question is not a student loan, which usually survive the bankruptcy.
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That's one heck of a wordy security audit request.
Try implementing the tips in https://www.supermemo.com/en/articles/sleep

In a nutshell, with a bit of free running sleep you can readjust your cycle.
I could only hope like he pins big tech against a wall and forces them to bring their full force to bear.
If so, then Google should do the right thing. They know they have a lot of allies, and public opinion, media, NGOs, customers and most voters are on their side.

The problem: could Trump do this legally, and legally force Google not to disclose it? What can Trump do with the NSA data? I haven't seen any stories addressing this, beyond vague "concerns".
I have a Garmin Forerunner 10 which I haven't had any real problems with yet. I will say this about it, that makes me trust it infinitely more than any Fitbit I've ever had: It's built like a watch. A cheaper digital watch with a rubber band and plastic screen, granted, but still a watch nonetheless. And when you're not using it as a GPS tracker, it just functions as a normal digital wristwatch.

How we managed to go from watches, which are a solved problem and just work, to shitty fitness trackers that break in an embarrassing number of stupid ways, I'll never know. All you had to do was take a normal running watch and add sensors to it. But nope. Instead we got all these inferior bands that break constantly because they're literally glued together. My Garmin, meanwhile, is held together with four tiny metal Torx screws. The difference in quality, and how many corners are cut on fitness bands, is so immediately obvious that it just screams out at you.
My experience over the last few months has been v. good. Earlier (maybe even 6 months ago), my sentiment would have more mirrored that of the parent. The main downside at the moment is many of the packages on NuGet don't target dotnet core.

The above opinion is based on my experience developing a Kafka client library (I use OSX / VS Code) for Confluent https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-dotnet as well as a substantial side project.
Russians did this with the German Giant Schnauzer and created the Black Russian Terrier. Their Giants are also significantly larger than the ones with German heritage, but both are recognized as the same breed.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13526152
Still a work in progress, this was created in the span of less than 24 hours this weekend. I felt it was important for everyone to share their experiences after this weekend to help communicate how this affects us all as a society and not just those who are directly affected.
FWIW, here are 3 executive orders related to cybersecurity that President Obama signed:

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/0...

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/0...

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/0...
C# itself is a nice advantage, it's a pretty good language in wide use. Another would be the way modern stuff like dependency injection and packaging are baked in.
> I think this is a problem with wearables in general. All in all, I've never seen a wearable last more than 9-10 months.

Why don't watches count as wearables though? I've literally never had a watch break on me in my life, except for a cheap mechanical watch (you get what you pay for). If these things were just built like digital watches they'd be fine.
Civilian systems which constitute critical infrastructure (defined in section 3) seem to be included in the review.
Thanks for saying exactly what I think.

I am fine with people making money -- our economy is a big but closed system and the money flows in all directions. Not a problem that somebody wants to make a buck.

But when they do it in a way that most of their customers hate their guts but can't get anything else (due to monopoly or oligopoly) then eventually people find a way around you. It's inevitable.

Current prices of movies and books are insane for the value they're giving you. Not to mention Amazon has been caught red-handed several years back that they can remotely delete any file from your Kindle if they so desire. I have no doubt in my mind that Apple, Google etc. can all do the same. Business interests > consumer interests, this hasn't changed ever since the first economy in the world emerged.

It was then I took the decision to never buy digital goods from corporations. You never really own what you pay for.
While I do agree you in general, I believe the comparison is valid in this case.

The history of our product is like this.

The MVP was about 80% done in Laravel around the time I joined the company.

I joined the company as a symfony developer who was supposed to migrate the MVP to using symfony because "enterprise" and yadda yadda yadda as desired by our CEO.

We were successful in migrating to symfony 2 after about 2 months of work. From there, the system evolved over a few months going through multiple chaotic pivots.
While the product worked, we had taken on a non-trivial amount of technical debt due to the rapid pace of evolution and numerous pivots.

As we were about to move to the next phase in our development, I spoke with our CEO about the technical debt we had incurred and possible ways in which we could shed it.
Being a technical guy, he understood where I was coming from and allowed us a month to clean things up.

The plan was to migrate to symfony3 while cleaning up the mess we had created.

However, while were working on the update, we started experiencing some of the same pain points we had before including performance issues, composer memory issues, poor library availability, late or no feedback on github issues etc...

Since I had done a project using the rc1 bits of asp.net core and updated the application to rc2 bits after and had a good experience I suggested that we gave it a try.

The performance and dependency management issues went away. Development speed also improved as we had better tools to work with.
Government cloud customers already have various requirements and certifications. See DoD SRG and FedRAMP for examples of such certifications by the US government.
literally first time I'm hearing about Google Wave
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you're not doing meditation any favors by promoting it in this light.
That impression goes away quickly when you meet him since he is a tremendously empathic person and clear speaker. The difference, in my opinion, is that he expects another level of effort/investment from the consumers of his work than other open source contributors.

That mismatch often causes frustration from people that are not used to it. In my case, it quickly went away once I understood the implicit contract.
wat?

Please show me where it says or even alludes to such things.
I don't see much point to hypothesizing about jackbooted Trump soldiers showing up at Google and demanding their data until it happens.

Furthermore, it misses the larger point that all of their data is readily and easily collected by the NSA already.
I wrote up an article on this: https://medium.com/@jcahill84/insurmountable-documentation-s...
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Same here. It's not a book overflowing with positive attributes, but it _did_ have a massive and positive impact on me as a child. The Rich Dad Poor Dad board game also had quite the impact, despite being poorly designed (as board games go).
In 2011 Obama banned Iraqi refugees for six months. In 2016, the department of homeland security listed the additional countries as countries of concern.

"After careful consideration, and in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Homeland Security has determined that Libya, Somalia, and Yemen be included as countries of concern, specifically for individuals who have traveled to these countries since March 1, 2011."

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2016/02/18/dhs-announces-further-tr...

Obama has dropped more than 100,000 bombs across the middle east, many countries are going to be of concern now. People tend to not like it too much when you bomb them.
Look at this image: https://cdn3.pcadvisor.co.uk/cmsdata/reviews/3585633/fitbit-...

See the black band that wraps around the charging port? There's no screws in it. It's simply glued on. The charging cable uses metal prongs to attach into that port, and over time, it will eventually defeat the glue and pull the black band off the Fitbit entirely. Then you can no longer attach the cable to charge it. I've heard of lots of other people who've experienced this same problem. It's a bad design flaw.
Don't worry - I guarantee if this is a hit piece, and even if not - Tesla will make a blog post listing specifics from the vehicle telemetry and so forth to paint the (ex-) owner in a bad light.

It wouldn't be the first time they've done that.
"Making GTA V cost $265 million" <-- Your point probably still stands but this number isn't completely true. The total was $265 million but 'only' $137 million was development cost. The rest ($128m) was marketing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_video_g...
Dangit. I came here to get an explanation of what this is. It looked like a joke page making fun of designers.
Alternatively, younger people don't know what they are missing. As the article points out it's not a sudden drop it's a low change over time where A is almost as good as B and B is almost as good as C ... until it's cardboard.

I have done this experiment with Apples and Oranges kids really prefer the full flavor options and they are not just preferring their childhood tastes as they are still kids.
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Yeah, because copy-pasting a movie's poster in a website and then "distributing" the video file costs so much.

Sorry for being sarcastic. But maybe you should make a clearer point. If I did understand you correctly however, the digital goods cost cents for the distributors, at best.
Is it better to meditate with the sound of rain as provided with quietkit, or no sound at all?
I'm surprised no one here has mentioned Jose Valim yet.
I had one brick during a firmware upgrade too. It wasn't even a firmware upgrade I started! It just started upgrading automatically and then died, for who knows what reason. It could've been as simple as it has no error recovery whatsoever and I moved my phone away from the band during the process (because I didn't know it was even happening).
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I don't think it goes either way. An argument could be made that the review ends up saying "Everything the NSA does is irrelevant, shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders".

Obviously I don't think that is actually going to happen either, but, nor do I think this means the NSA would be expanded here.
The fact that this is flagged is ridiculous. The USA is undergoing historic turmoil - history is literally being made; meanwhile on Hacker News: here's some JS tips for your next webapp!
I used to but I've found that since RavenDB started the problems he has and blogs about are very different to the problems I face everyday.
The end of net neutrality and maybe the beginning of a Great Firewall of America ostensibly to protect the people.
I don't see that part. "Russia" isn't in the text at all. Would you point out where you're reading that?
Things can repeatedly break until you're out hundreds, if not thousands of dollars, and until it has spent more time being (not) repaired in the shop, while the dealership repeatedly tells you nothing is wrong with the vehicle despite the vehicle saying there is, to the point where lemon laws kick in.

But you seem to think he's just whining.
I started getting into meditation a few years ago after realizing the reason the world felt less 'real' than it used to was because I could never 'get out of my head' and have more direct interactions with external things. (For example, I finally went to Tokyo and moved to San Francisco and the difference each made was pretty minor—like looking at high res photos on the internet; it was a stark contrast to when I visited NYC seven years prior and was blown away just walking around. ) It soon became my number one priority after also realizing that all the times I remembered really enjoying myself, I was in that 'out of my head' state (you have a much better sense of presence, the 3Dness of things is much more apparent, smells, tastes, interpersonal interactions are all way richer).

Anyway, I decided to make a wide survey of meditation resources from old religious texts to modern neuroscience inspired teaching, to a number of things in between.

The first source that really made things click for me was watching some of the youtube videos from Ajahn Brahm. He's English, but trained as a monk in Thailand for many years, and has a background in physics. I think it's a combination that makes him pretty well-suited to explaining these concepts to techy Westerners. He's also got a light, humorous style to his lecturing, so it's easy to watch (if a bit cringeworthy [due to corniness] at times. And you'll get an occasionally bit of religiosity [he is a monk after all], but he mostly keeps it out.) I'd recommend this one for starters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEw2mHpVv9A

I also found bits of Jon Kabat-Zinn's "Full Catastrophe Living" to be very helpful in the early stages (it focuses on another form of meditation called 'body scan' which has some unique benefits, and can be easier for beginners. It's often the choice of style when teaching for therapeutic purposes).

Edit: I'll also add the way I see meditation instruction fitting into the practice: there aren't that many concepts, but each has extraordinary depth, so you just have to keep revisiting regularly; you'll often find that if you've improved in your practice, you can go back and see the same old lecture and interpret it totally differently, even though it made a kind of sense the first time. You'd think you wouldn't need to be told, e.g., "just allow your thoughts to arise and disappear on their own" like a hundred times, in different ways—but you probably do :)