skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's an industry devoted to meditation. For such a thing to exist, you have to start by convincing people that they're not meditating right

The second sentence does not follow from the first. Why do you think it does?
Ask HN: What work-related task have you automated?
Here’s the press release from Amazon and Microsoft:

https://news.microsoft.com/2017/10/12/aws-and-microsoft-anno...
No. I'm talking about an English NHS health settting.
Stepping outside of my "Wallaroo Labs employee" role for a moment.

Comparisions can be really hard. What's right for one application or project isn't right for another. I'd be happy to chat over email with anyone interested in stream processing about the types of applications they are looking to build, the requirements they have etc.

I get nice use cases and information we can use at Wallaroo Labs to help drive our product. In return, I will give unbiased feedback on what you should be looking for to solve a given problem.

My personal email is in my HN profile.

Disclosure:

In case it isn't obvious, I work at Wallaroo Labs, the makers of Wallaroo. I'm also one of the authors of Storm Applied, Manning's book on Apache Storm.
As someone with a toddler at home, it’s been interesting to watch what he’s capable of doing when being presented with a novel problem for the first time and what he can’t. He’s decided to try and learn to roll a set of rings along the ground after watching me do it, and it’s a lot closer to watching those ais learn to walk than what your describing.

I think adults and even young kids can solve a lot of problems at first impression, but there is a lot of trial and error before they build up enough life experience and intuition to do that.
Interesting. Do you have any articles on this? Would love to hear more.
Pornhub taps computer vision to identify porn stars and automate content tagging
There were two discussions when this came out, oddly with the same number of comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15002079 (Aug 2017, 68 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14942902 (Aug 2017, 68 comments)

A list I compiled of 4 HN user authored books on marketing and their launch discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14041248
The distinction is that companies that require HIPAA workloads aren’t going to upload their entire dataset into Google Cloud Spanner, which is not available as on-prem version, and which isn’t HIPAA certified.

So either we need an on-prem version of Cloud Spanner, Cloud Spanner needs to be HIPAA certified, certified to match German privacy laws, etc, or Cloud Spanner can’t serve these situations.
More openings:

* Technical Support Specialist - Brooklyn, New York (https://airtame.com/jobs/technical-support-specialist-ny)

* Senior UX/UI Designer - Copenhagen, Denmark (https://airtame.com/jobs/senior-ux-ui-designer)
Overweight child, healthy weight as a teenager, early 20s gained a lot of weight.

I don't know that I'd say I have a source of depression, I'm not sure my circumstances have an effect.
eh, what's current Firefox market share? I would not bet my money many non techies recognize Firefox at all, it's pretty niche nerd product for people with addon fetish, rest of the world just use Chrome/IE/Edge
I agree that in general the support might be better, but for me Google works as expected at least in my current location (Czech Republic).

If I set preferred language to Czech I get search form in Czech. After changing settings to English I get English search form (with link to the Czech version underneath the search bar).
Just for fun I have also tried Dutch and it seems to work as well (there are some foreign words, but I don't speak Dutch so it might as well be Klingon).

Tested in Firefox and in newly opened private Window, so logon / previous sessions wouldn't affect the results.
One idea is to not hold onto all of the things. An implication that stems from poverty is an understandable hoarding mentality. I would ask instead, "How could I possibly know whether my child will even want this same thing 5–20 years from now?" then donate it to a thrift store or sell it. And focus on free activities like going to the park over object ownership.

I don't consider myself a poor person but I grew up lower middle class and practiced habits like stocking up on consumables in bulk when they're on sale that you'll definitely use before they expire — things like soap or shampoo or toilet paper. I still practice that today because to me it's fiscal responsibility, but it is easy to go overboard as well. I just always try to optimize for reasonable unit economics which can vary quite a bit from thing to thing. Sometimes buying the cheap disposable version makes more sense than a BIFL.
> to sit and do nothing and let their thoughts go around.

Pretty dangerous if those thoughts are "I am worthless and no-one would miss me if I die" or "my family would be better off if I kill myself".
There was Joe Barton's summary paragraph edited to remove mention that he told someone at a town hall meeting to "shut up," and replaced with what was essentially an ad, which only cited his own website. Seems to have changed back, with the addendum that the guy told to shut up later said he "deserved it." :\
The $600M Dollar Story
meh, Mega.nz is still better
The add-on could tell Mozilla which files to keep because it saved the decryption key for those files. Mozilla could then select those files to decrypt, e.g. to prove to authorities that its file-sharing service was not used for illicit purposes. Alternatively, the add-on could filter the IP addresses used to upload the files for potentially sensitive blocks and then tell Mozilla to decrypt the files uploaded by people from such blocks, e.g. in an attempt to engage in corporate espionage (of course one shouldn’t use third-party services for sensitive files in the first place, but if you have to use a third-party service, certainly an ‘open-source’, ‘private’ and ‘encrypted’ one from such a reputable company as Mozilla, right?)
What fails the sniff test about a German having studied abroad at a US university before WWI - when no significant enmity between the two nations yet existed - and, over the next few decades, following a course in life that led him to join the NSDAP and the Waffen-SS? Uncommon, sure. But implausible? (When and by whom was the same information edited into the article about Lombard?)
Toddlers certainly don’t.
Sounds like you have a bias for hiring inexperienced, cheep developers, and not providing them with any mentoring.
Hmm. Perhaps not what I thought. Looks hacked and shady, but perhaps this isn't it.
Some of these are pretty funny. Apparently someone in the House of Representatives is a huge Carly Rae Jepsen fan: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=800487966&oldid=79...
Chrome, Firefox or Samsung browser have all bookmarks sync
Understanding website speed test metrics
>"back in the early 2000's when "clusters" and "NUMA SMP machines" were competing with each other"

Did you mean Numa vs SMP? Or something else maybe? How can a machine be a NUMA SMP? NUMA and SMP are fundamentally different architectures.
Yeah, good luck showing damages. You basically have to wait until your identity is used for fraud, and then probably tie it specifically to the breach.
Streaming Data Pipelines with Brooklin
I have automated my travel from home to work place and work place to home. I work from home 95% time now.
How else is one supposed to learn without access to a teacher?
> I can confirm this. We say "Allah."

Is there any difference at all? I was under the impression that all abrahamic religions referenced the same "God". So when a Muslim, Jew, and Christian say "God" are they not all referring to the same deity?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimosa_pudica is one example for a plant that has died after not being watered for a few days which let the soil dry. Over-watering would not do good either.

Sure, most plants will not die within a week, but a lot will suffer enough and will take months to recover.
Introducing Gluon – An Easy-To-Use Programming Interface for Deep Learning
Where are you based, if I may ask, and where do you get weather graphs from? Fellow Polish citizen here.
I see where you are coming from and I thank you for taking your time to answer in such detailed oriented form.

Is true that “if you look for it, you will find it”, Yet experiences are a often influenced by various psychological and environmental componets. The fact that we have different experiences is absolutely natural, thus I’m capable of comprehending your argument.

I was simply stating my thought analogy based on my past experiences.

Since is rather hard to measure such statements (in a quantitative way) I shall be skeptical of other people’s “experiences”. Thus staying true to my thought process, until I manage to find a common ground by truly “experiencing” what some call “mindfulness “.
Re-Litigating Open Source Software
Not if combined with a Senate and Presidential veto. I agree that it's not clear that direct citizen vote is superior to Representative vote. Though given the low caliber of HoR debate and their lack of party independence (and their historical lack of accountability to serve all their constituents), I believe direct vote should be considered.

Perhaps changes to law like 1) a voter calibration test to demonstrate sufficient understanding of issues (thereby scaling the value of your vote up/down) combined with 2) restrictions on corporate/lobby media ads to manipulate voters could produce better results than the HoRs? Also worth discussion, IMO.
The pilgrims were a large and sufficiently well connected group to arrange funding for their mission. I think they'd support the author's point.
The BBC has a similar mandate in the UK to the state broadcaster in Uppsala. It is more concerned with managing community relations by presenting a unified history than straight reportage, and so often rebroadcasts politically funded, highly speculative and poorly conducted research in "soft" fields, particularly archaeology.
Did he start a podcast that I missed?
How do you fit an elephant?

One parameter at a time.
Suggestions for Facebook
Because I implemented the thing during a bus ride, the sending time was not very random, and looking at a stream of messages she suspected I was scheduling them. When I showed her that even the content of the message was automatically generated, that's when she got angry.
People should be aware that this does not mean you shouldn't meditate. At least give it a shot. The risk/reward ratio is so heavily skewed toward reward (what are the risks, really?) that you'd be foolish not to try it.
> But that isn't especially a communist thing.

It's not, however unlike other countries, by being authoritarian they can get things done. Compare for example a proposed high-speed rail line between Melbourne and Sydney, which has been under investigation since the 80's and it still hasn't gone beyond the basic planning stage.

And it's not like there isn't demand, Melbourne->Sydney is currently the 5th busiest air route in the world.
Right; Wikipedia policy is just that you can't update the entry for yourself or your own organizations, right?
NetBSD – Kernel ASLR on amd64
One follow-up for the discussion on if this is a DoS or privilege
escalation, in the logs we saw:

Service exited due to signal: Killed: 9 sent by nix-daemon[54108]

and were able to (inconsistently) reproduce this with other unprivileged
users.

This indicated to us that we hadn’t tripped just a crashing bug, but
actually escalated beyond the normal access control protections of kill.
What's the stack used for the real https version? I got redirected there (I guess malware doesn't like Safari desktop or uBlock origin saved me) and felt like I fell through a time warp to 2007 (update: 2004, in actuality) with the form Equifax presents. So much low-res skeuomorphism I almost got nostalgic.

Not necessarily related to the security issues, just curious.

Edited to add: The site has a Copyright of 2004. None of the JS tools are later than that. Is this really the current site in use? Unchanged for 13 years... wow. Would be sorta cool, you know, if it wasn't completely hacked.
Hmmm okay, was just wondering, thanks.
I don't think he/she was implying they wanted to pay to live in housing for the homeless. Rather, that modular housing is an attractively affordable alternative to regular housing.
Competitive yoga exists, so meditation isn't far off
Is this clear cut in the terminology? A plausible definition would also be that it's still symmetric MP if remote memory access has non-uniform performance - since the nodes and their memories are symmetrical. After all, you get that just with caches and 2 sockets plugged to the same DRAM.

The historical opposite of SMP used to be asymmetric multiprocessors in the heterogenous sense - different kinds of processors, for example scalar/vector/io processors. Or for a modern day take, ARM SoCs with little low-power cores and faster & more power hungry cores, and GPUs thrown in for good measure.
Did you check if there was a term period for the Non Compete ? They should not be forever unless your employer tried to screw you. 2 years is the max I have seen for junior level employees.
Do not marry unless he/she clears fMRI http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/01/150127212158.ht...
This is easily solved by tool libraries or tool rental services or borrowing from a neighbor that builds stuff.
Another solution is buying one, possibly used, and reselling it after you're done. Most minimalists heavily encourage borrowing or renting things that aren't in your personal definition of minimal (but might be in the next person's).

Because each person defines their minimal set of possessions differently, I don't follow to your conclusion that minimalism is dependent upon non-minimalists.
Perhaps I reified my interpretation the word reify a bit too much :-).
Microsoft and AWS Advance Open AI Ecosystem with Gluon Partnership
So use @property then?
Yeah, looks like a compromised ad/stats provider. That would also explain the intermittent nature of the bad download. I'd hope that the article gets updated with the facts...other companies might be vulnerable to this as well.
If you look at GDP per capita growth be it China or other places, the striking thing is that stability seems to matter more than almost any level of policy differences.

E.g. you can see China's growth skyrocketing after the end of their semi-regular ideological purges, but Deng's large-scale reforms seems to not have affected the rate of growth much.

Presumably when a regime remains stable, people learn to work around even quite severe constraints given enough time.

That of course does not mean that reforms may not be helpful in making life better for people (or worse), but that they may mean less in terms of overall economic growth than avoiding rapid change.
Awesome!

It would be "more Internet" if you took the chance and linked to the store (or at least named it), giving folks in the area a chance to discover something new and perhaps earn the man running the store a few extra dollars.

I know I would make an effort to go if I heard a similar local story. It's more fun when there's some kind of connection.
The plugin that is inspected in this article is now delisted in the Eclipse Marketplace. You can't download it from there anymore (Checked with STS 3.9.0.RELEASE). A new fork without the ad related code as been publish and you can inspect the code on https://github.com/ecd-plugin/ecd .

It's nice to see the community stepping in to "fix" the situation.
MeetupFeed: 85 React talks recorded at meetups and conferences during Q2
If you don't want to pull out your phone, throw Chrome into Responsive Design mode and you'll get the same results.
"An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit." -- Pliny the Younger

"Rarum id quidem nihil enim aeque gratum est adeptis quam concupiscentibus." : https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pliny_the_Younger
Thanks for this! I know what I am doing (after the ali stuff has arrived in a couple of weeks).
one way on a leenukz

parallel -- `sed -ne 's:^processor.*:yes:p' < /proc/cpuinfo`

on openbsd:

parallel -- `perl -e 'printf("yes "x\`sysctl -n hw.ncpu\`)'`

don't try the latter in a shell script without being prepared to
debug tho.
I love how machine learning has acquired the 'just' modifier.
I have practiced meditation for 20 years but I still don't understand what is the purpose of emptiness (I mean I used to think I did but now I'm not so sure). What would be the purpose from a reinforcement learning point of view? A state where I have no likes or dislikes, no goal, no reward signals, where I feel no attraction or repulsion, where the distinction between self and other disappears. An uprooted agent drifting in the world, trying to be 'nothing'.

Would that make me better? I have had many colleagues who dedicated their life to meditation and ended up alone and without a career. I don't think they are particularly happy now, and that is because they prioritised the spiritual ideals above anything else, ignoring other legitimate needs. Is it even a good idea to exist as a pure witness detached from anything around you, or to think that you are not really a person?

What I approve of is being more aware, in the present moment. This practice clearly has a purpose. It can lead to less impulsive reactions / more adaptive actions, without so much internal struggle. But the rest is just playing with your mind - mantras, chakras, Kundalini, they are just side effects of the nervous system. They feel transcendent but are just a bunch of feelings.
People who _really_ like plants? I am one, and I wouldn't even call myself a hobbyist, just a person who likes plants a lot and doesn't mind having a routine of caring for plants, it's not like it's very difficult: all plants are watered on the weekend, a few are watered once more during the week. Yes, it also involves knowing how much water, but it's pretty much the same all year round (unless there are a few exceptionally hot days in a row during summer, then a bit more).
There's a case to be made that a government by a large number of committees and other institutions tends to be more benevolent.

Many of the worst actions of repressive regimes have usually been motivated by emotions, not expediency. As more people get involved, the chance of any single personal obsession resulting in crass harm to, for example, a certain group of citizen is lowered.

Competition for power among people and/or these institutions also results in a sort of crude "checks and balances". There are too many people with considerable power that it becomes impossible for all of them to move billions to Switzerland, and if only a few do so, they risk being taken down by others who get jealous.

Of course, as China shows, this is still far below the standards set by real rule of law. But compare China with the half-bit dictators (Qaddafi, Barack Hussein) and it's hard to deny that it's not quite that bad.
KeePass 2.37 has been released
and so many people make fun of js/node... this dude made over 400k installs part of his personal ad clicking bot net..
You all know that language is notorious for co-opting words and phrases from other languages, without necessarily bringing the original meaning or tradition. E.g. In Spanish the phrase ojalá is used to respond to a question with an optimistic 'I hope so!'. It is derived from the Arabic "ma sha allah" meaning if God wills it, and yet I doubt many a Spaniard cares that they are invoking the title of the Muslim God. Heck, a lot of the Spaniards that I know have the last name Matamoro which basically means that someone in their ancestry was given that name because they killed Moors, and while my acquaintances find the thought of killing revolting, they don't change their name.
So like Pascal's Wager for meditation?
Imagine a robot police force, based on this technology. If a suspect were to attempt to tackle or evade the police, it would react accordingly. This robot police force would be networked, so all police nationwide would learn from every suspect encounter. You may have seen movies where the human "outsmarts" the robot, but when robots are hundreds of steps ahead of humans, how do we defend ourselves?
> agricultural practices too were primitive.

I imagine there was no(t much) fieldwork, crops were raised on the side, if hunting and gathering was indeed easier. What else would explain foregoing that?

Still today I sometimes dismissively assume that sowing seeds and just waiting is the simplest thing ever. Maybe neolithic people didn't need to process the crops either, instead feeding animals and eating them then, which is less efficient, energetically speaking.
“Hey Jude” flow chart
Texting with my gf https://github.com/sjozsef/agf5k
Too late to edit, but small correction: the comment to which I replied talked about 'credit rating agency' (the companies that rate corporate bonds) when I believe they meant 'credit reference agency' (the companies that sell credit histories).

I repeated the error. In my comment, I meant 'credit reference agency', not 'credit rating agency'.
Texting with my girlfriend. https://github.com/sjozsef/agf5k
So you're saying Dropbox is going to drop...into the ocean?
Why does every Swift article use emojis in their code samples?
Aldous Huxley made the same point in the 1960's:

>there is evidently a whole class of drugs effecting the CNS which can produce enormous changes in sedation in euphoria in energizing the whole mental process without doing any perceptible harm to the human body...a great deal of control could be used by not through terror, but by making life seem much more enjoyable than it normally does. Enjoyable to the point, where as I said before, Human beings come to love a state of things by which any reasonable and decent human standard they ought not to love and this I think is perfectly possible.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24712.htm
Well, I think I'm meditating just fine, thank you very much, and I don't need a meditation industry to help me. This is a problem for the meditation industry, because it means they can't sell me meditation products. They need me to believe that I could be meditating better if I had their product or service, so there's a huge incentive for them to try to convince me that I'm meditating wrong.
no, really, that’s what the people who coined the term meant.
I don't think that theme is bright enough.

Perhaps neon green with yellow letters would do the trick?
Oh, in that case, I'm all for people getting thrown in jail instead of down-voted when they claim the US is run by a vast conspiracy no better than China.

And I won't accept it, even socially, I promise.
I don't know what that means. Everyone knows that there is a massive Greek influence on Western culture. The only reason there might not be many HN articles on it is that it's so obvious.
Colorado’s 2017 marijuana sales reach $1B in just eight months
I guess you're right, and I did try to leave some instructions, but we have lots of plants and I didn't want it to become too complicated so I tried to group plants that need similar care together and highlight the sensitive ones.

I believe the friend is eager to learn and loves plants himself, but but maybe finding a friend who doesn't kill their own plants would be a good start...
If you’re allowing the senate or president to veto a national popular vote then it’s not really a direct democracy.
US to leave UNESCO
The original title was "The Next Crisis Will Start in Silicon Valley"

The only sane way to deal with articles like this is to add the word Seldon in front of Crisis. It makes the article more interesting.
Let's not forget that Clostridium botulinum produces its neurotoxin only in anaerobical conditions, which are not met in soil.
You can't "reach" truth. Truth is a quantum state. I think "finding your own truth" is just a euphemism for "be comfortable with your interpretation of reality". (unless you meant to say "peace", in which case you can probably achieve a kind of peace and reasonably observe it)