skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The hosted parse.com service is meant to support hundreds of thousands of apps. It was not really meant to be self-hosted by individual developers serving a couple of applications.
Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel's Disaster Survival Plan
There has been quite a bit of research surrounding mindfulness meditation for a couple decades now.

Here are some cursory studies addressing your three questions. They are easy to find on Google Scholar.

Decreased stress and anxiety
http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/acm.2010.0142

Increased Focus (specifically for people on the ADHD spectrum)
http://www.ahc.umn.edu/img/assets/20825/MindfulnessADHD-Zylo...

I have to imagine mindfulness is a difficult concept to disentangle from meditation itself, however there do seem to be attempts to create measures for this:
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1073191107313003

Here's a meta-analysis summarizing many studies about the effects of meditation. Effect sizes seem consistently positive albeit on the smaller side:
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12671-012-0101-x
It is contradiction with the original meaning and purpose of the whole endeavor - the search for ultimate reality, of what is.

As soon as you ceased to follow the method and start to pile up nonsense it could not be called an inquiry anymore. Some other definition is needed, and the word speculation is better candidate or a dogmatic theology.

At least, ceasing to rigorously follow the scientific method disqualifies one from being a scientist. Similarly, ceasing to follow laws of logic and to keep a "converging/recursive process of approximating to what is by removing nonsense and misconceptions" (which maintains so called connection to reality) in philosophy disqualifies one from being a philosopher.

Please, lets not start about so called ultimate existence of abstractions. Categorization of abstractions is another kind of endeavor.

The obvious example is so-called philosophy of death. No one has been there but so many has a lot to say about it.
I don't understand your argument. He is right there on video, from just a couple days ago, saying that he and his team were tasked with designing a Muslim ban. I'm sorry, I believe my lying eyes.
That is what leapt to my mind as well.

Its entirely possible that there were other self-replicating molecules on Earth that evolved first, but DNA simply out-competed them to extinction.

If we ever produce a competitor to DNA that was more 'virulent' than DNA, it would similarly out-compete DNA.

It would be the most pandemic of plagues that would affect every form of life. Even if we could protect our own DNA against attack somehow, it would attack all the bacteria that is symbiotic with us and which we need to survive.
It used to be at my corporate, and then it got too corporate :(
Most content today does come from a CDN. Some content owners and some CDNs (in some locations), will host servers in the local cable company regional centers. Usually google does this. Netflix provides software, to cache its movies, but the local cable company has to install and pay for the HW...Google probably pays for search and maps to be hosted though.

You really need to do a comparison. Maybe after dinner and after midnight run a comparison between your cable connection and your wireless phone connection. Pick a movie and test both. As WFM mentioned, if you can run a traceroute, you can see how your home connection gets to the CDN. In some cases it might terminate at Time Warner, but probably most cases it terminates at the CDN or the content owners origin(Apple for example).

I kinda expect that the after dinner test will suck and the after midnight ones will be much better. You would still need to narrow it down from the cable connection vs the origin (content) server. One way to do that is to compare a video on netflix vs instagram vs youtube. You are looking for throughput and errors/buffers.

You could also check this:
https://www.google.com/get/videoqualityreport/
https://www.battleforthenet.com/internethealthtest/

I would say complain to the FCC, but...
Gray codes are useful to eliminate race conditions. We use them in chip design for FIFO pointers, for example where one end of the FIFO is in clock domain A, and the other is in clock domain B. By using a gray code, only one signal toggles when a word is added or removed.

A normal binary code would have a race between multiple signals toggling and when they showed up on across the boundary. You can convert between normal binary and gray codes with a tree of XOR gates.
This is good stuff, but I wish so much effort wasn't spent into making a single breed. If you have the greenhouse space (granted I see this is exponential), and some variation is a coin flip whether its better or not, please peruse both!

I would love 5 varieties of hardy tomato each testing better in its own way!
One important key to success of the 2600 was that Sears sold their own version and it was always featured prominently in the the Sears Christmas Catalog. The selling power of that one catalog was huge.

As to the technicality, the C64 (August 1982) was later than the 400/800 (November 1979). By the time of the C64, Atari was building getting ready with the next XL line and the 800 was selling for a lot less than its 1979 price. Atari did not keep up with Commodore on price. The C64 was inferior because it didn't have the Jay Miner lead chipset. The fortunes of both companies changed as Commodore got the Amiga and Atari got the 520ST.

I should point out that Atari and Commodore outsold Apple. The Pet and VIC 20 were a sales monster and the C64 took over from their. When people say the PC took Apple's market share they are ignoring the fact it really took Commodore's and Atari & Commodore had already took Apple's. The Apple II being very profitable offset this.
1. We're totally focused on TLS certs right now - and we've got more things around that we want to improve to fill our roadmap for the next six months.

2. We generally focus on active, registered companies (since we can check most of the details before payment) but we can (and have) done certs for individual developers before, albeit not at the same speed as registered companies - Troy Hunt / Have I Been Pwned used us last month, see https://www.troyhunt.com/journey-to-an-extended-validation-c...
The Immigration Ban Is a Headfake, and We’re Falling for It
> I don’t want people to not eat a great-tasting tomato because they’re scared of it

And we also don't want anyone to claim exclusive rights on producing such tomatoes, because some moron came up with the idea to patent genes.
TiddlyWiki producted the best demonstration of a Getting Things Done methodology (organize things to be actionable, display things under a given context, organize things by blockers) I've ever seen.

http://mgsd.tiddlyspot.com/demo3.html

This provides so many more features & organization than what a traditional Todo app provides.

The UX was great, but I didn't like the local data-lock-in due to tiddlywiki. ( Also - the whole ticklers (notification) system was a bit clunky. )

Once in a while I get the motivation to reproduce this as a full-fledged web or mobile app.
Does this mean that consciousness is a dimension? Would a (say) lifeless planet 'be' 3D if not observed or would it remain encoded in 2D? (Asked by a layman).
I remember them moving randomly at first, then when they "caught sight" of you they would start tracking you. Except for the orange one, who would always go the "wrong" direction.
had at least one water sample that measured at or above the EPA safety limit of 70 parts per trillion (ng/L)

Just for reference, here are the EPA safety limits for other chemicals....[1]

Cyanide - 200,000 ng/L

Lead - 15,000 ng/L

Mercury - 2,000 ng/L

Benzene - 5,000 ng/L

Glyphosate - 700,000 ng/L

PCBs - 500 ng/L

[1]https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water/table-re...
Yeah, I tend to research docs and libraries on-the-go, so working mobile documentation really helps me out.
>But they very much don't want to go down that path, because then they'd have to come up with some argument that there is no such thing as culture.

And that holding an opinion that a particular culture is worse is wrong.
This reminds me of OneNote on the web. With fancier animations, and less functionality.
How to schedule HipChat posts using AWS Lambda
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No, I don't miss the point. It would very weird in all the cultures I'm part of to ask those questions first, not because anyone cares about money, but because those are too specific and would weird the other person out.
Jeff Bezos: ‘we do not support’ Trump immigration order
> Your counter-argument here appears to be "it's hard."

The counter-argument here is that it gets progressively harder. If something is getting progressively harder for the same benefit, what's the purpose of continuing to do so?

Likewise, if something is a consistent difficulty, but with diminishing returns, what's the purpose of continuing?

> I suggest avoiding caffeine after noon because it's a crutch.

I take it you don't suffer from ADHD or any other learning disabilities. Some people need crutches to walk and not everyone is wired for the same focus and concentration ability. Calling an enjoyable harmless habit a "crutch" is nothing but a snooty high horse remark. We're not talking about popping adderall here (which has its own legitimate use cases), we're talking about 1 cup of coffee/day.

> In general you shouldn't be working out once you cross that time threshold, either, since you want your body to be preparing to sleep. Spend some time in the kitchen preparing your breakfast and lunch. Do some laundry or house cleaning. Get your things ready for the next day so you wake up without stress. Then grab a physical, paper book and read until you start to feel drowsy.

Again, thanks for the snooty and terrible advice. People fit household chores into the time-frames they have, and frankly house cleaning is a sometimes vigorous physical activity that's very likely to leave you in a state of elevated heart rate, just as a workout would have.

> Possibly the number one greatest thing about waking up early is that you all of a sudden have an extra two or three hours all to yourself. You can work out early in the morning, work on side projects, actually sit and eat breakfast, etc. I basically eliminated my afternoon crash since I no longer skip breakfast and overeat at lunch, and I don't hit a major caffeine low.

The time doesn't come from nowhere. There are only 24 hours in a day and early birds just shift the productive day to 3-4 hours earlier. If you're in bed at 9PM, You lose out on the productive 9-12 hours.
> when I see a new thing by antirez on HN, I am likely to click it because it's usually good stuff, but I am not going to be following his blog

In that case following his blog explains how he made that good stuff which helps in building skill and also helps others to build great stuff.
> "I expect interesting movies"

I'd say you want an interesting but expect incredible production values

Which is to say I don't think it's a situation of expect in the sense of demanding but rather "expect" in the sense of "habituated to".

Production values might not be the explicit choice of that many people but a good proportion of people would choose X movie with high production values over X movie without. And that's something that's reliable. Things like plot, character and dialog are hit-and-miss if you are looking for quality. Not that they can't sell but they can't reliably sell.

Altogether, "grooming" gets added to everything because it can reliably move people's choices a little bit. Other factors may influence people more, other factors may be what people say they want but a lot of these factors are less reliable, there are a lot of factors where a change might turn as many people off as it attracts but surface unambiguous can be added. And there-in lies the secret of the mass-market surface appearance arms race (similar to the music "loudness wars").
> Can we get a Red/Green/Blue Mars miniseries on HBO, please?

It was going to be coming out this year, but production was abandoned last year at the last minute after the showrunner quit: http://deadline.com/2016/03/red-mars-pushed-spike-tv-showrun...
> Also, fetch isn't required for either React or Vue.js, could certainly just use the built XHR API to get down even further.

While true, Mithril does have an XHR interface built in, while Vue doesn't and I don't think React does, so it's a fair comparison to include those in the bundle.
The Wordpress backend still has scaling issues with many popular plugins. Helping a site with 100,000 customers in a woocommerce database migrate to a more robust ecommerce solution because it takes 15 minutes to log in currently.
Salesforce acquired Quip last year.
I believe it may have been a limitation of the API Gateway + Lambda thing. Just checked the docs again and it says there is an "Integration Timeout" as follows:

> 30 seconds for all integration types, including Lambda, Lambda proxy, HTTP, HTTP proxy, and AWS integrations.

So not Lambda alone, but in conjunction with the API Gateway.
Why don't you use GitHub (or similar) and markdown documents etc for this?
Look for indie movie theaters in your area. I'm a little spoiled in that the town I grew up in had an amazing indie film theater (Cinema Arts Centre) and now I live in NYC where I can go to the IFC Center or Sunshine Cinemas to see indie films.
> I'd love to either be able to do this ourselves or for the browsers to test the effectiveness of their own UIs.

That'd be pretty cool. A flag you could set (probably in head > meta) that instructs the browser to use a default padlock instead of a fancy EV name for display HTTPS info. That'd obviate the need to have two separate HTTPS endpoints for your app too. Combined with User-Agent verification you could infer what % of clients respect the flag and what % impact (if any) it has on their conversion habits.

Course I doubt browser vendors would be up for adding something like this. Would probably be a pain as the rendering code would be separate from the display of the overall chrome.
I'm relatively new to the Serverless/FaaS space. Or to be more precise: I missed AWS Lambda and only heard about it when OpenWhisk was donated to Apache.

I have a couple of questions, maybe someone here has answers for me:

1) In particular I'm wondering about expensive one-time/setup operations (e.g. opening a database connection) that are usually done once at startup of a service. But that doesn't really apply here. How are these things handled?

2) As a Java guy I also wonder which of these tools support Java and how they deal with dependencies and JVM startup times etc.

3) And my last question: How do these integrate into development workflows? Continuous integration? Run this offline/local etc. Will I need a Kubernetes instance on my machine?
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This doesn't surprise me. Early in my career I tried to take advantage of flex time so I could miss commute traffic. I came in at 6:00 and tried to leave at 3:00. Three things would happen:

1) Managers scheduled meetings at 3:00 or even 4:00. "Yeah, I know you normally leave at 3:00, but this is the only time I could find where everyone was free." Dolt. I'm not free.

2) I'm sitting at my desk at 2:45 and someone walks in with a Problem. It's not something that can't wait until tomorrow in the great scheme of things. But they're planning to work until 7:00, and if I don't solve this problem they're going to be unable to do anything until tomorrow.

3) I'm in the groove. My fingers are flying, code is being created. Five or six mental balls are in the air. I'm in a mental state that doesn't happen all the time, or even every day. I don't want to stop, and it's time to go home. If I came in late like everyone else the longer I stay the better my commute. But since I came in early every minute I stay is two minutes I lose from my day. So do I shut down and leave, or do I mentally commit myself to staying for at least three more hours?

Beyond that, while being all alone is great if you have everything you need, I found people need input from me and vice versa quite a bit more often than I expected, which really cut down on the actual productivity.
Analytically differentiable (being able to derive a formula for the derivative) is not the same thing at all as analytic functions of complex analysis (which are infinitely differentiable, etc). If anything, the term "analytic function" seems more of a misnomer to me, but "analytically differentiable" is used in its proper sense in the article.
Hmm… I'd look but there don't seem to be any builds since late November on mozilla.debian.net.
Second this. All these fancy services are neat but hosting private data in the US is seen in Europe as a major security risk, when it's not a complete no-no. Would be cool to know about self-hosted options.
Yeah, exactly. I also use this for Math–there are many concepts from Statistics that I end up using a couple times a year, and which are most helpful if I remember most of the details when I need them.
Super Gridland is an RPG-puzzle hybrid that’s far deeper than it looks
In a way, yes. See grinich's comment which explains the chronology/genealogy:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13524866
A muslim ban not based in religion sounds nonsensical to me.

I agree. Will you admit that sometimes people figure out ways to accomplish their goals under the cover of something else? That they know something won't be politically or legally feasible to do head on, but that they can accomplish another way if they don't express their actual intent explicitly? I think it's hard not to argue this happens. This type of accusation is thrown around all of the time from all sides.

In this particular instance, we've got explicit evidence of exactly that from one of the people who was involved in doing it. It's really hard to ignore this, or even deny the possibility without being disingenuous.

And this is ignoring the submitted article all-together.
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I was hearing today about the Dogme manifesto today, seems like it could be relevant:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogme_95

It's basically a set of rules to cut down the cost and complexity of film production, to give power back to directors. I wonder whether you could have a category of films like this, aiming specifically to exist outside the normal Hollywood system.
I work with one of the authors of the Hu et al. paper that this article is based on. I'm happy to relay any questions people have to her.
My imaginary pop machine has a second parasitic vending machine next to it that can automatically buy $0.50+2h beverages, and sell acquired stock at a variable instant price, dependent on its internal prediction model and the number of currently available bottles.

That parasitic vending machine has another parasitic vending machine next to it, which has an ever better prediction model, such that it buys from the other two machines only when it knows that the second one hasn't bought enough to meet future instant demand. For instance, perhaps it knows the schedule for a nearby convention, when the other parasite only knows average daily purchase volume. So 2 hours from the end of the headline event, the third machine puts in a big order from the first, and then two hours before the end of the expected surge, buys out the second machine so that it can't undercut using its available stock. It then sells out at a higher price and waits for the next opportunity.

So the only time anyone ever sells a drink for $2 is when an unexpected busload of thirsty tourists drops by and buys out the entire stock of cheap, instant beverages.

In your example, you have also forced my hand. What happens if I instead buy a 2 hour ticket, right in front of the guy, and ask what his price would now be to trade my ticket for his?
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what about human consciousness?
Google Drive for Teams is coming soon which I'm hoping will solve a lot of these problems

https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2016/11/google-team-dri...
This advice is valuable to more than just "airplanes," because the truth is that there aren't just two classes of companies -- "airplanes" and "spaceships" -- there are infinitely many.

And it's just as important to realize that your $2B company is not a $20B company as it is to realize that your $200M company is not a $2B company.

If your company can plausibly be $50M, and you realize that, you can get wealthy and your investors can have positive outcomes (not "wildest dream" outcomes of course). But if your company is plausibly $2B, but you try to make it a $20B company, you and your investors will end up less happy than $50M guy, even though his company was worth 1/40th of what yours is.

I think that the story of a lot of companies during the Great Recession is of over-funding themselves to their eventual detriment -- even companies that are objectively very valuable.
Luckily this will all be fixed by Scott Pruitt, by getting rid of silly safety limits (read: business killing regulations) all together!
If you refrigerate tomatoes, they go bland --- the cold temperatures kills some of the flavour.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/science/tomato-flavor-...
I thought the idea behind core hours was supposed to be less than 8 hours, as it's time everyone is guaranteed to be there, with wiggle at the beginning and the end, not just 'these are your hours'.

Like at a previous job, core hours was 10:00am to 4:00pm. Some people came in at 7:30am and left at 4:00pm, some people didn't get in until 10:00am and left at 6:30pm. But from 10 to 4, everyone was supposed to be there.
There was a project that forked Wave when it was handed to Apache, can't remember the name but it seemed nice to use
"A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works." - Dr Strangelove
I have found that discussions on 'free will' tend to be doomed from the start because no-one can agree on a definition of free will.
Not really related, but even as a scientist I really don't understand how ng/L == parts-per-trillion. I know that's a correct conversion, but it doesn't doesn't make much sense. I guess that's why part-per notation are called pseudo-units.

A more substantive comment:

Some of these are particularly scary, especially if you have a job where you're potentially exposed. For example, for benzene has a pretty strong odor, but 5000 ng/L is supposedly 1000 times below what you're able to smell. And it's a carcinogen...
I would too, if I theorized that there were toxic compounds in my water, and then found a study that proves that to be correct.
Good question. I've listened to "How to Listen to and Understand Great Music" from The Great Courses [1], and that did help me appreciate and enjoy classical music. Doesn't cover jazz, though. An equivalent for jazz would be great.

They do in fact have a course "Elements of Jazz: From Cakewalks to Fusion", and it's only 8 x 37 minutes. I haven't listened to it, but from my experience with their courses, I'd recommend it (though don't buy it at the full price on their website, wait for a sale or check amazon/audible/...)

[1] http://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/how-to-listen-to-and-...

[2] http://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/elements-of-jazz-from...
They're not toxic, they're just alternatively healthy.
I have not used Quip.

I used to work on Dropbox Paper, and I now work at Google (again) and use Google Docs for work documents (for obvious reasons) while I keep personal stuff in Paper.

IMO Paper's realtime collaboration experience is superior to Google Docs. I'm curious to know if you've tried it and what you find better about Google Docs?
And by cutting 2/3 of the EPA workforce

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/01/30/...

And by removing two regulations for every new regulation :(