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The quote refers to an idea in Zen Buddhism called shoshin, or "beginner's mind". The general idea is that the more you believe you are an expert on a subject, the more closed off you become to new ideas and ways you can improve. Instead, shoshin encourages you to approach all things with eagerness of a beginning.

If you're interested, you should read Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, which is a short book collecting some of Suzuki's teachings.
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This is a bit tricky to explain.

It's a shift in perception to something that lets you view thoughts without getting caught up in them. So countering one thought with another isn't it because then you're still in thoughts. However...

The reason this is tricky is because a logical process can be used to reach this realisation - indeed I experienced this state while working with the koan "Who am I?" on a Zen retreat. As I continued to ask myself that question I "took myself apart". I deduced that "I" wasn't my body (because when I sleep my body remains but "I" don't), that I wasn't my thoughts (because I can observe them), nor the other "aggregates" as they're called in Buddhism. The one that I'd struggled with was my awareness, but I realised "I" wasn't even that.

Through this process of logical deduction I realised on some deeper level that I just fundamentally didn't need to pay any attention at all to my thoughts. They became as insignificant as if someone had left a radio on. Note that this is different to just the usual meditative technique of observing thoughts. At this stage, there is no technique involved, it's just how you operate at that time.

So then what? I just ignored them! Totally. I didn't try to shut them off, I literally didn't care if they were there, and I didn't pay any attention to them. In doing so I just felt so at peace. I didn't need to do anything to reach step 2. There is no step 2 :-D.

This is called "non-doing" in Taoism, and this serenity is claimed to be our "natural" state - that's to say if you view our continual pandering to thoughts as "unnatural", which it did strike me as. More like a big, habitual mistake to be honest. I guess this is also called "transcending the ego".

So I'd stand around at this farm where the retreat was happening. I didn't care that there were sheep in the field, but there were. I didn't care when it rained or if it didn't. At meal times I could see when something needed doing, and I did it, but I didn't care for it. I just felt deeply contented.

So it's very different from recognising an optical illusion, unless it's at a level where the recognition goes to your core and causes you to absolutely ignore your thinking mind, and not feed thoughts on any level (even sub-vocally).

Now the tricky part is it's so habitual to fall back into listening to your mind. I haven't experienced that state since the retreat (although it did last for a couple of weeks). However, it proved to me beyond doubt that it exists. It also has made me re-evaluate my life, why I do what I do, and what's important to me.
Many people who _think_ they're not overweight are in fact overweight. Just because you believe you're a healthy weight doesn't mean you are, and just because you are the same weight as everyone else doesn't mean you are a healthy weight.
> Rather than GDP I'd measure the likelihood to die of disease, famine, war, etc. Technology is a tool.

GDP is a measure of the amount of stuff that a society produced that people in that society found valuable. Things that help avoid death are included, but often people have higher priorities; if they find something else more valuable to them, who are we to tell them they're wrong?
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"Mindfulness" is an occult method. End of discussion. It can be, and has been studied not by science, but by people working with the occult.

And mindfulness is more of a byproduct of meditation, controlled breathing, or other techniques that Shiva told Shakti.

We'll eventually be able to analyse these things in the words of science. But not yet. If you're looking for proof, you will be looking for a very long time, unless you're willing to do the research on yourself. And then, N=1 research usually isn't looked highly upon.

EDIT: How nice. -1's and hidden by a moderator. Somehow, something I said was "wrong", or more likely disagreed with someone's world view. But instead of discussing, it's easier to hide. Pity. I expected better from a group of people who claimed to like science.
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classical music has notoriously bad metadata on spotify – it just doesn't fit into the data model of artist/album/track. i think that causes the system to filter out a lot of the listening data or fail to find patterns.

not sure what's up with jazz but i'm guessing it could be a similar problem
I was taught to change the dirt every spring, before the main growth season. My plants seem to like it, or at least that doesn't lead to any deaths.
Next step: Editing the playlist
Maybe refine it to training yourself to accept being bored. In the sense of paying pure attention to what your are doing without judging it. This is the core focus of some forms of zen practice for example. There are clearly meditation practices which seeks other goals, but mere judgement free acceptance is an important goal for some.

E.g. you're doing dishes. It may be boring, but boring is a judgement. Set aside the judgement and there is just the act of doing the dishes, which is neither good or bad in itself, it just is. The outcome may be good (clean dishes), but the act itself is just sensory input and muscular impulses that you let rise and fall in your mind.

As such it is a practice in not letting yourself be affected by things you do not want to be affected by. The feeling of boredom that may arise if you let it, is just another object to meditate on. Learn to set it aside, and a lot of objections to doing "boring" tasks falls away.
I haven't read the article but Dr Ben Goldacre has written some great stuff on this. Incidentally he was the first person to get me engaged in science as a teenager, and I love his catchphrase: "I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That".

http://www.badscience.net/2009/11/all-bow-before-the-mighty-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1Q3jZw4FGs
That's a known issue with a relatively small impact on GDP, and there are ways to fix it (imputed labour costs). All models are wrong, but some are useful; GDP is pretty good as far as it goes.
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For the guy it is worse than privilege. It is pure luck he was born into a good family and not say alcoholics in a ghetto. And that they managed to exploit the limited upwards mobility they had. I wouldn't call it a privilege. Privileges are earned or given.

Three role of multiple draws of the luck is underrated. Generic lottery, family lottery, location lottery, avoidance of terrible things in life.
You can have way better chance in a society where inequality is low and/ or social mobility upwards is high.

The privilege part is him earning the spot in a prestigious school.
Maybe now they'll add the Hacker Safe badge to their site so this never happens again.
I'm a fan of alternative pricing models (as opposed to saas) but this one seems odd.

A selling point of "avoid lock-in" doesn't play well against a hosted service that the customer has to pay you to download from.
No, one of the 8 interviewers thought one of her whiteboard questions was “correct but not clean enough” and another thought her design interview was “too disorganized”.
The obvious killer app is putting AR name tags on everybody in a work/conference setting, so you don't have to worry about seeming rude to have forgotten the name of somebody from another department that you've interacted with maybe twice.
Good one, but that's kind of hard to do while driving, though.
> Imagined we asked a Roman emperor if he wanted to trade his position for what we have - I doubt he would hesitate for long to say yes.

I don't feel so confident he would take that decision - not if he knew he would become one peasant among millions - and I certainly don't feel so confident that he'd be happy with that decision five or ten years on.
From Word Bank: "According to China’s current poverty standard (per capita rural net income of RMB 2,300 per year in 2010 constant prices), there were 55 million poor in rural areas in 2015."

Your statement "there's around 700M in China that still lives in rural areas with under $1 a day" is simply wrong.

[1] http://www.worldbank.org/en/country/china/overview
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> “All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

A quote from Blaise Pascal, a philosopher who spent a lot of time sitting quietly, alone, thinking.

Great quote, but he was probably talking about thinking, rather than meditation.
This is actually pretty awesome :-)
> (given the mental privacy we are used to)

I sometimes evaluate the impact of the lack of privacy in personal thought in light of the possibility of demons/aliens/whatever a more-advanced species should be labeled, which are typically classified as non-omniscient (versus most definitions of God). The requirement of locality (non-omniprescence) seems to be the limiting factor, but this limitation is only effective in coordination with limits on long-range/high-speed capabilities, which could be augmented via unknown technologies. I think it is reasonable to assume that if such beings exist, human thought would not be kept private from them.

Nearly all technology interactions are recorded by various 3rd party companies; it seems the various collection and aggregation techniques employed by those companies and government agencies (across companies) already offer a few humans in a privileged position a sufficiently capable approximation to reading minds.
I guess it just spreads the cost, as getting one bitcoin at once is getting a bit prohibitive these days.
It's not. Or at least not anymore. Market shares seem to be equalizing at least according to the latest Steam Hardware Survey: https://www.roadtovr.com/oculus-rift-closes-in-on-steam-majo...
Then make the bird sing the complete soundtrack of Doom.
Depending on how it's copied, they can be preserved.
That blog post is from a year ago. And since Cockroach DB 1.0 was only released in May this year, it's a bit misleading to link to that post as though it was the current state of the sofware.
I'm not sure why, but Lyle was one of my favorite characters in the book. I never got the joke until now though.
> These big companies Like Facebook and Amazon need to create gigantic free universities that are incredibly appealing to attend, giving the corporation the chance to cream off the most promising new employees.

That sounds very dystopic to me; I prefer universities to be publicly owned, managed, and funded (and completely free to join), and for them not to concentrate on following "what employers want" in their cursus.

I am a bit tired seeing universities change their program all the time (at least in CS) to follow the latest fad or latest trendy platform / solution / language. University shouldn't form people to get a job; they should provide general knowledge, encourage open mindedness and critical thinking, and provide a strong theoretical background for their students in their specific knowledge domain.

Let the students learn their job during their first employment; but in university, give them enough deep understanding of theory so that they'll be able to adapt to whatever tools / solutions will appear in the future (and also concentrate on making them able to learn and adapt by themselves in general).
What about it is despicable and worthy of mockery?
I for one would love to be able to live in the city affordably. I currently commute from Oakland and pay through the nose for the privilege.
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That blog post is referenced in their FAQ today, under the topic of what it can't do right now. Sorry if I misunderstood the situation, I’d appreciate any updated links.

See: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/frequently-asked-q...
You seem to miss the part where I say

>If the collection wasn't incidental, what mechanism could the FSB exploit to non-naively identify tools that it didn't already have, and flag them for retrieval?

Emphasis on "non-naively." Antivirus seems like a highly ineffective tool for espionage of the sort being claimed in the article. You either have to blindly fish for something or already have a fingerprint of what you're looking for.
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Once you realise that the reason you can't find the critical production code that's fritzing is because it's in another goddamn repo you didn't know about, you become a fan.

Having to reverse engineer CI/CD (or find someone who used to work on a project) to find where something came from is nuts. It should be as easy as search.
Also how many are successful at the risk.

It it's like gambling or investment, if you're poor you can probably invest once, va banque. If you're rich, you can invest many times with smaller stakes and more likely not bust.
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You can install Firefox Beta or Nightly and have unrestricted extension installation options (or use a Linux distro's packages: most of such firefox packages do not require signed extensions).

It's a measure to prevent casual trojans, there are many ways around it for non-casuals and developers to employ.
I agree that for these types of constructs a more functional style could look better. That being said the OOP approach as the merit of reading in the proper order: you get your args, pick the 1st and then use that or the default "y" value.

If you rewrite this to use function calls instead of methods you end up with something like:

(or (cadr (args)) "y")

Which is fine if you're used to lisp syntax but it's really a matter of taste at this point.
You don't want to create a commit in the parent repo all the time. If you fix a typo in a comment in a submodule, why commit anything to parent? Anyways, which parent, since there can be many. There should be more than one. Otherwise why use a submodule?

Another problem is that one forgets to update submodules when switching branches. Afaik git does not do this because of possible data loss in submodules?

I like submodules in general. They are great for dependencies where you want to follow more closely than release version. Still, it would be even easier in a monorepo. The main reason is probably that every anti-dependency is visible.
You’re right, the real distinction is on-premises vs off-premises, I should have made that more clear (although free software implies on-premises being possible)
Gold is a relatively fixed supply, so the per-capita price of gold grows as population rises. It's not a good proxy for costs of living/happiness; if you want to measure household savings a better unit would be something like "how many calories of the cheapest available food could they buy?"
Why would I want to talk to fat women? I have money and I’m jacked. There’s no world in which I need to deal with fat chicks.
Talk about the games he played (or still play) that could be improved with programming.
There is no need for scientific proof. I observe that being mindful changes things for me: The way I listen to people, the way I eat, the way I handle rejection or anger or any other feeling. I realize that being mindful (vs mindlessly and blindly doing things) sharpens my senses, makes me think clearer, makes me change perspectives, create more categories or realize that I think within categories.

I got in touch with mindfulness by reading one of Jon Kabat-Zinn's books ("Wherever you go, there you are"). That was almost twenty years ago. Shortly after that I read Ellen Langer's book "Mindfulness", which is more about the negative effects of mindlessness.

I think that the pure process of observing something (mindfully) has the potential to positively influence the results. Whether I sit down quietly and observe my feelings and thoughts (things that happened in the past or things that'll happen in the future) as they come and go. Or as I interact with people, or as I walk, travel or engage in any type of activity.

I don't need scientific evidence that all of this has a measurable positive effect. My own observation is enough evidence for me.

Edit: typo
Same comment, I'd like to know more about the setup if possible. I have an old arduino (1st gen) lying somewhere.
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I don't think most people in Scandinavia has any problem accepting this. Pretty much everyone in the world who knows about Vikings know that raping and plundering is what they did for the most part when they set sail to distant shores.
It is. Bigger vessels means more banks erosion. This is an issue now, this may not have been one at a time of animal traction or river barges.
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> Quebec has repeatedly voted to secede from Canada.

I believe your point may be refuted by the fact that you state outright lies like this whopper here.
> The beauty, and intrigue, of this solution is the community that is formed, enabled by the use of technology, to solve a problem together collectively.

How is this problem solving? They're basically voting whether or not the plant gets watered a day. A simple humidity sensor / specialized algorithm for the plant type could make better decisions.
I don't think most people are expecting to get to that level, though. You can get benefits without getting that deep.

But the key is you can get benefits rather than have a guarantee that you will get very specific sets of benefits. It's not a wonder-cure for every mental problem around.
(Admittedly, I don't remember very well what it's like to be poor. That was a long time ago. I do remember how pretty much everything is designed to take money away from poor people because they're poor and their defenses are weak.)

I would not expect it to be fun to loose $100k in home value moving away from an area that's dying. But that is part of being an adult and being adult enough to be allowed to make such an investment. Sometimes the investments go well. Sometimes they go poorly. And avoiding that risk is extremely easy; lots of people rent. I don't think we should bail our people's bad home investments just because they're poor. If they need to go bankrupt, there's already a process for that. And if that process is bad, we should just improve that process.
that would be interesting to see/interact with remotely. I can help you with the project if you are interested in doing it....
> Mindfulness helped my anxiety a lot. I believe it to be more than placebo, but then I would, wouldn't I?

Even if it improved your quality of life just because you think it did, so what? A reliable way to placebo yourself with actual results would be amazing.
There’s an app for that? We talk about developing for cars with iHeartRadio
HSTS doesn't help if it's your first visit to the site. To work around that they'd need to get into a preload list.
I don't agree.

Because this (not requiring PC to show VR) either means:

1) Oculus is standalone (not requiring nvidias/amd 200W+ 200USD powershouses) with comparable quality/features to what other (with PC) sets are doing currently

OR

2) it is not standalone UNLESS you have much (and here I mean much!) worse quality

ad1: this would mean that Oculus did a great breakthrough (rendering price of nvidia stock overvalued tenfold - which we don't see) while also solving heat dissipation issue (look at your typical GTX card and cooling they require and POWER they require).

ad2: currently, AAA games do require powerhouse in graphics department, and they still have a lot space to improve (from visual perspective). For VR you need 90fps lowlatency dual(sic!) rendered graphics - this brings you either subpar quality (A LOT OF SUBPAR) - hence I concluded this "no pc required) marketing gimmick of Oculus. Yep, it may work, but not at the level (not even close) to other solutions.
Good for San Francisco. They've got an overpopulation of wealth and poverty, so it makes sense to use local taxes to provide for the disadvantaged.

More cities should follow this model. Wealth balancing should be a local action.
Just add a low-water sensor and loud buzzer.
>If it's I/O bound why are they changing at all?

Who said I/O functions didn't change between Python2 and Python3?
Did school teach you to over-interpret? I don't mention playgrounds, nor the "agency" of 6yos. Do you trust your 6yo's agency next to a busy highway? No? Then why is she responsible for dealing with her teacher's poor attitude and teaching habits?
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> democracy is optional for economic prosperity

This is quite obvious. We've had economically prosperous countries for ages now. Even in feudal times.

Doesn't mean the average citizen is going to prosper.
Why is Fibonacci used in agile planning poker? (2012)
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There's a lot of tools and services to monitor the technical side of email deliverability (e.g. SPF, DKIM, DMARC, IP blacklists).

But what solutions are there to monitor actual inbox placement? (e.g. if your email actually reaches the recipient's inbox and not marked as spam along the way).

Do you use anything?
IIRC viking is an action akin to "raiding", maybe that's why? People groups who vikinged also traded.

As to why make the assumption, unless there's evidence of Scandinavian goods in Byzantium it's a good assumption.
I'm trying, but I can't find a way to understand what you describe in terms of my experience with mindfulness practice.

Conditioning for what? Defense against what? It just seems entirely disconnected from my experience, which is "just" a combination of deep relaxation and a sensation of being more alert to (some) mental impulses rather than blindly following them (all the time). It is not a miracle cure for anything. It won't give you mental superpowers. But it offers a different way of looking at things that sometimes offers surprising insights.

I'm sure there are some incredibly poor events for executives and corporate, given the money you can potentially make, but that says very little about mindfulness and more about these types of events.
I was going to reply "fewer inches!" but then I realised that inches are (at least in principle) not discrete; half an inch is a perfectly reasonable measurement.

Anyone here know which of "less inches" or "fewer inches" is grammatically correct?
Specifically, everything is an integer with the auto lifetime (gets discarded with the stack frame) unless otherwise specified.

I think most modern compilers will warn on encountering such short hand due to the common error of accidentally declaring integers when you meant to assign a value to a variable you forgot to declare.
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As we say in Brazil: "monkey that can't eat a banana will say it's unripe". Some people try medidation and succeed, some don't and think that the ones succeeding are faking it.

> And then, N=1 research usually isn't looked highly upon.

Genius!
I would love to see the same thing with "Please take care of my planEt"!
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Just tried http://www.equifax.com/fcra myself...it redirects to obviously shady sites, right now.

Edit: Currently it's doing it only for specific client user agents. Try an android one. This javascript is driving part of it: https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/248/5462/3h/hints.netflame.cc/se...

Edit: Found the bad bits. They are here: https://aa.econsumer.equifax.com/aad/uib/js/fireclick.js

See the part that starts with document.write()

Edit: maybe a red herring. Sure looks shady though.