skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chinese government is the least likely candidate for the word fucking around, they merely try their best to control and grow.
As somebody with clinical anxiety, I have been prescribed CBT and Mindfulness on the NHS, I think this piece misses several key points.

For one thing, NICE (the UK NGO responsible for analysing evidence and making recommendations on the efficacy of treatments and their cost effectiveness) and an all-party Parliamentary group found signifcant evidence to recommend Mindfulness as a treatment for anxiety and mild depression along with traditional cognitive-behavioural therapy and SSRIs.

Secondly, mindfulness feels, to me, closely related to CBT, a tried and true therapy. It appears to be very closely related to CBT in what it helps to control: intrusive thoughts. The increased focus on meditation is why it's more effective for anxiety and mild depression.

It's most certainly NOT recommended for serious cases of clinical depression. As often, selected application of evidence and over-generalisation is the problem here.

Mindfulness can help with a range of relatively-minor mental health issues, and it can also help prevent relapses in those that have recovered. For those of us who have been helped that's really not something to diminish.

It's not that there's no evidence for its effectiveness at all. There is.

(Disclosure: Mindfulness helped my anxiety a lot. I believe it to be more than placebo, but then I would, wouldn't I?)
And a quick search of Cochrane shows that when you look at good quality research the benefits of exercise are hard to find.

http://www.cochrane.org/CD004366/DEPRESSN_exercise-for-depre...

> Exercise is moderately more effective than no therapy for reducing symptoms of depression.

[...]

> The reviewers also note that when only high-quality studies were included, the difference between exercise and no therapy is less conclusive.

[...]

> The evidence about whether exercise for depression improves quality of life is inconclusive.
Just part of it, AFAICT:

> On 31 January 2011, the sale of the business segment of wireless solutions to Intel was completed. [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infineon_Technologies#Acquisit...
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This is an excellent observation/question and hilarious at the same time. It could be plastic. I've seen trees in malls with plastic leafs were I had to actually try to rip a leaf to make sure that it was real since they looked so real.
I have always found this fear over "foreign states" to be a bit odd. Sure if you are a International Company, or a US Government Contractor it might be a concern but for me a Natural Born US Citizen that rarely if ever travels abroad and never to the nations of China or Russia I have limited reasons to fear those nation states, sure they could steal my ID and cause me some momentary financial harm but the US government is empowered to put me in a cage, physically harm me or even kill me. With the state of the Legal System, and massive amounts laws and regulations that can be used to literally arrest anyone at any time I have much much more to fear from the US government obtaining my information than I do from the Russian or Chinese Governments

I am missing some key piece of information? Why is Symantec willing to allow the US Government to review the code bot not "foreign" states? What makes the US Government the pinnacle of virtue and honor?
I'm shocked that a relatively new clinical practice with only moderate evidence behind it would be overhyped to sell magazines. Shocked I tell you.

I was introduced to mindfulness practice as a therapy for depression several years ago at my university. They were clear it was a new approach for clinical use (though building on a long history of meditation) and that although the initial research results were promising it was still very much a developing area. For what it's worth, I've personally found it one of the more effective techniques I've been taught for relapse prevention. I support both its ongoing use and a robust attitude to demanding high-quality evidence for/against it.

The article is just describing the hype cycle for technology as applied to psychological therapy: "hey, I've a new idea" -> promising early results -> hype -> "this new approach will solve everything" -> ["actually this sucks" NOW HERE] -> "well, perhaps it's helpful for this area (for some people) (some of the time) -> "hey, I've a new idea" -> ...
> The medical community calls what you're doing "terminal uniqueness"

No, the medical community calls it "evidence based medicine".

I've posted links to well run meta analysis by an organisation widely regarded as providing the gold standard for medical evidence.

other people are posting "it worked for me" - exactly what we hear from people who try crystal healing or homeopathy.

> Sleep, eat well, keep active. Nothing about that advice is dangerous.

Depression is a potentially fatal illness. If people are not getting evidence based treatment because they're following advice from people who don't know what they're talking about, those people may become more ill, and they may find it harder to seek help, and they may then die by suicide. suicide is a leading cause of death in men under 49, and in all people between ages 20-35 (in UK, and probably in us if they used same definition).

> (I know what you're going to say next, "but chemicals in the brain!"

A lazy assumption, I've never said "brain chemicals". I've always said "bio-psycho-social".
> The majority of modern men who use (resort to?) dating apps are seeking companionship first and foremost, and being left wanting.

What is your source for that claim?
I don't think Mozilla should do one thing at a time.
I hit https://github.com/trending as a lower-priority time-filler day-to-day. It is a "top 25" of most starred today, also viewable per programming language.

Unfortunately some of the slots are wasted on ever-popular projects which are always on the list, particularly in some of the more esoteric languages. It is also interesting to see how few stars are required to hit the language-specific top 25, especially on weekends/holidays.

No matter how awesome GitHub Discover's predictions someday grow to be, it's always useful to monitor the collective wisdom of the crowds.
// with node.js:
const { Readable } = require('stream');
const ys = Buffer.from('y\n'.repeat(2**16));
class Y extends Readable {
_read(size) {
this.push(ys.slice(0, size));
}
}
new Y().pipe(process.stdout);
Why Should You  Focus on Obstacles Instead of Goals?
That future will not have pre-acquisition stock options though.
Video of it working skip to 23 seconds

https://youtu.be/fWfatVYML9o
How Mob Programming Will Make You More Effective
The BBC is also accused of having a right wing bias by the left. The 'Society' section appears to just be a view on the homepage with a few articles at a time, one of the things you can add or remove from the customizable homepage, not a cohesive category. These are the three articles on there at the moment:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/item/63ca22ff-b580-4fe7-8796-b...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/item/5d33c36d-cd41-4351-97ed-4...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41582874
You're telling me that a feature exists which technically fits my request. Cool

I tell you it only does so nominally. I didn't fully develop its specs but you could have inferred that they weren't matching the existing one's. The topic feature is half-baked, poorly thought-out and integrated.
This is an apt metaphor over how, when hegemonic, the cultural forces of Globalism cut away the branches of local culture, leaving a stump representing what the local culture once was.

Of course, if this were an act of coppicing, it's a renewal of sorts, and the tree will once again grow, more robust than ever, as the Phoenix rises from it's ashes.
That's only because humans suck at consciously simulating things in their head. A well made AI should have no problem forking off a physics sandbox in its "head" to simulate a bicycle it only read about, or to run state-of-the-art ML on the accumulated observations about how humans interact with each other.
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Read the The Life and Adventures of William Buckley [0] for an understanding of what hunter-gather life was like. No starvation, no disease, lots of children and yet a static population.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Buckley_(convict)
You mean having all the information you want proactively projected in you field of view, instead of having to take out your phone and search for it doesn't sound appealing to you?

I'm probably on the opposite side then. I worry that AR will be so appealing that people will willingly give away their last shred of privacy.
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I can't find the Society section. Could you provide a link?

ETA: thanks to Brakenshire above for the directions. I'm seeing the same three stories, and I'm not sure what's left wing about reporting on:

- a campaigner for gender-neutral passports winning the right to challenge government policy in court

- horrible things that some people do when dating

- a (somewhat unscientific) experiment that suggests that people take domestic violence against women more seriously than that against men.
The end result of the immigration one is just the H1B system, where loads of checks turn up at the state departments door one day
You can vote me down but a better way to disagree would be to explain some of the compelling use cases for AR.

And sorry but I don't think workplace safety training makes and entire industry and justification for the technology. One use case? Two? Any? Nothing.
You could upload it to Freenet, then there won’t even be a record what was up- and downloaded by whom: No one will have the metadata.

Info: http://www.draketo.de/light/english/freenet/effortless-passw...

Install: https://freenetproject.org
As bad as Iceland might have been, Greenland was worse.
Would you rather be East Germany or West Germany?
Wait a while...it took about six months for one to happen here in Sydney. Well worth the wait - half an hour of exclusive use of a Hololens. All the while being recorded for market research purposes, but that seemed like a fair trade.
I did a quick search, and found one. The page at https://web.archive.org/web/20060918065212/www.aarnet.edu.au... says:

"The weakening of this frame check which greater frame sizes is explored in R. Jain's "Error Characteristics of Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI)", which appeared in IEEE Transactions on Communications, August 1990. [...] Firstly, the power of ethernet's Frame Check Sequence is the major limitation on increasing the ethernet MTU beyond 11444 bytes. Secondly, frame sizes under 11445 bytes are as well protected by ethernet's Frame Check Sequence as frame sizes under 1518 bytes."

Another page at https://web.archive.org/web/20070426062813/http://sd.wareone... explains why 9000 bytes is commonly chosen:

"Why 9000? First because ethernet uses a 32 bit CRC that loses its effectiveness above about 12000 bytes. And secondly, 9000 was large enough to carry an 8 KB application datagram (e.g. NFS) plus packet header overhead."

(The page doesn't mention it, but I guess only multiples of 1500 were considered, and 9000 is the smallest multiple of 9000 greater than 8192.)

Other links:

"Raising the Internet MTU": https://web.archive.org/web/20070427184111/www.psc.edu/~math...

"Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet" (NANOG thread from 2007): https://www.nanog.org/mailinglist/mailarchives/old_archive/2...

Edit: found the source of the "9000 bytes" de facto standard: https://noc.net.internet2.edu/i2network/jumbo-frames/rrsum-a...
2016 Nice, France terror attack used a truck to kill more people than the Las Vegas killer in less time.
86 Dead, 458 injured
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Nice_attack
How do you pop the dev tools up on that window?

I tried but can't (same thoughts as you, without verifying it myself, not gonna sign in...)

Hitting F12 or Ctrl+Shift+C on the popup page do nothing.

EDIT: chrome on linux Version 59.0.3071.86 (Official Build) (64-bit)
I wrote a Ruby script to scrape stories from literotica.com, joining multi-part stories into one, and then convert it into a .mobi using Calibre for easy reading on the Kindle.
offtopic: is it just me or is the video player on that page unpausable and unmutable?
You get less inches than cm. Less miles than km.

Not so free after all!
Muslims are actually very diverse group. Not only Sunni / Shia rift which is major one but also differences between African/Middle Eastern/Asian Muslims. I think Indians and Chinese are much more culturally homogenous and more likely to take over world.
Encrypting the traffic would only have made it marginally more difficult to intercept (https://portswigger.net/burp/help/proxy_options_installingca...). Also, the guy got 400k downloads, sometimes you don't need "smart".
> I don't get why they'd start competing against Microsoft when they're already being dominated in their own VR niche.

That's an interesting interpretation which doesn't seem to be backed by reality.

That aside: It's a research team. They think AR will overtake VR some time in the future, so they research on it.
I think Crassus would trade places with the average middle class person in the modern world if given the chance. The level of luxury, safety and health we take for granted was beyond the emperors of Rome.
58 were killed in Vegas, as of today's count.
Associated HN discussion currently on the front page:

Please take care of my plant | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15453974 (100+ comments)

And the link: http://www.pleasetakecareofmyplant.com/
The "trough of disillusionment". Great term! http://www.gartner.com/technology/research/methodologies/hyp...
A little research has revealed it is a Dragon Plant (Draceana marginata).

Apparently all of the Draceana family are easy to look after.
I care about outdoor temperature (especially before I go out for a drive in the car), so I put the current local weather in my tmux status bar. It derives your location from your IP address.

https://jezenthomas.com/showing-the-weather-in-tmux/
It might be a better time to say this when the strategy start to fail but this seems like american wishful thinking as China keeps growing strongly.
Some of the upcoming AR headsets have an overlap, as they are basically VR headsets with cameras on the front. I'm personally not a big friend if that, though.

There is also a lot of overlap with how to design UX and controls, but that is mostly a problem for the app developers.

I agree with the sentiment of your statement though. There is a lot less overlap than most people seem to believe.
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Yep, same here. Bought a bonsai, fertiliser and tiny scissors for the little fella. Didn't even last a month under my management. I wonder what kind of care those trees require. Now I just opted for a few cactuses, they seem fine.
Fresh testnet result: Zilliqa blockchain processes 2488 transactions per second
There's also dependency on shadowdom, which has to be polyfilled in ms edge. Other than that, I think Polymer is getting better but it still feels (subjective) a lot like research project.
From a commoner standpoint, for sure.
It's closer to saying "English is the European dialect of Indo-European". Cantonese, Shanghainese, Taiwanese are all languages spoken primarily by Han people, they are all Han dialects. Of course Mandarin has a priviledged position among them, but that priviledged position has not much to do with the Han people, since it shares that with all the others.

EDIT: it may well be the case that people use "Hanyu" (literally, Han language) as a synonym for "Guoyu" (lit. national language, the Taiwanese version of Modern Standard Mandarin [MSM]) or "Putonghua" (lit. common speech, the PRC version of MSM). "Han language" is a poor English translation for "Hanyu" if that's what you mean.
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Smartwatch for the visually impaired displays information in braille
It's a fair question, but I can assure you all it is a real plant and alive. My wife removes old leaves from it 3 or 4 times a year and it grows (very slowly) towards the light if I rotate it.
What is this wonderful floss of which you speak?
Archeologists deal "with touchable evidence".
Archeology is above History and Linguistics.
Since history is written by the ones who controls hashing power.
History has higher entropy before the Gutenberg.
I have a rubber tree (ficus elastica) and it seems quite invincible. Got it from my grandmother about 15 years ago, it spent three years in my dad’s smoke-filled room and has moved three or four times. Right now there’s direct sunlight in spring and fall and a radiator right next to it in winter. Watering is so-and-so, easily lasts a week to a month without any water.

If I forget to water, some leaves will turn yellow but quickly recover once water is available again.

Oh, and it had half of it sawn off at one point because it grew too large, the other half is now also a very presentable little plant.
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Well, this is exactly how financial markets function and why it's so hard to beat the market. I think these people deserve the benefits if they can come up with these solutions; none of them are inherently malicious after all.
This use case is saying "it's a monitor, up close".

Yet another screen doesn't excite me.
Dracaena marginata
Certain vaccines are almost universal; in particular, that's how smallpox was eliminated.
The code is below.
I have to admit that after a few more test I realized that the performance greatly depends on the length of the input, in some cases going as low 2 GB/s and some others reaching the performance of the GNU yes installed on my system. This is probably due to the fact that I build the buffer in a quite naive way.
With a bit more work maybe that can be fixed.

#!/usr/bin/python
import sys

yes = "yes\n"
print(sys.argv)
if len(sys.argv) == 2:
yes = sys.argv[1] + "\n"

size = 4096
buf = bytes(yes * size, 'utf-8')

while True:
sys.stdout.buffer.write(buf)
> Secondly, mindfulness feels, to me, like an offshoot of CBT. It appears to be very closely related to CBT in both its approach and what it helps control.

Really? When I meditate I need to turn my thoughts off. With CBT you reframe your thoughts by a process of what I'd like to call creative thinking and empiricism. So for me, it's not an offshoot of CBT, since mindfulness is not concerned with thoughts but with being mindful on whatever your object of mindfulness is (in 95% of the cases it's your body).

Also, mindfulness was ripped out of Buddhism. Mindfulness was "Buddha's" invention on top of Hinduism -- as I understand it. Hinduistic meditation focuses on concentration (note: I stand corrected if I'm wrong), whereas Buddhistic meditation shifts (eventually) towards mindfulness and depending on the tradition you have like 4+ different forms of mindfulness.

What psychologists/neuroscientists did was take these techniques out of their contexts to see if they were helpful for therapy. And apparently -- according to their studies -- they were.

I just know from personal experience how mindfulness damages me, I also know how it can heal me. I prefer to use it for healing purposes. For me, when I need to be more connected to my body and to other people I use mindfulness and loving kindness meditation (metta) as a practice. Metta makes me more connected to people and mindfulness acts as a multiplier towards that connection (since I am more aware of all my feelings). Whenever I need to code, focus and analyze more I tend to be less interested in meditation practices.

I'm noticing it's not a hoax. I've meditated 500+ hours and my baseline level of being aware of my feelings is slightly but noticeably higher. Even if I don't meditate for months.
Few years ago, I read an article about mindfulness on HN, and it finally clicked with me, why some people recommended me to meditate, and I dismissed it because I was too skeptical. I have since understood it as training yourself to being bored, and through that, focus better on a single task that is boring but you have to do it.

It probably isn't a cure for everything, but looked at this way, it is still quite useful.
I did something similar, my gf wanted me text her that I got home safely after I left her place. So I automated it that when I disconnected to her WiFi and within a certain time reconnected to mine it would text her. She noticed it when she drove me back home once and still got the text.
More reasons "trust us" isn't acceptable anymore.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentat...
> That's an interesting interpretation which doesn't seem to be backed by reality.

Vive is massively outselling the Rift. Considering Oculus were first to market (in the sense that the dev kits were openly sold), and considering that they ostensibly have the backing of Facebook, that seems like a bad sign.

And given this, it's concerning (to me) that they're now seemingly shifting resources to AR.

And as I said before, AR and VR's uses don't overlap. So it isn't like they need to get a foothold in AR to stay relevant.
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BBC is biased towards the status quo. Very, very broadly it's position is economic-right social-left, which is pretty much Official Government Worldview, whatever the government, these days.
...and strangely enough they have less than 1/10th the population as the US. There are more people in the greater-Los Angeles area than there are in the entire continent of Australia
I haven't been through the US system.

I currently work in the bureaucratic end of the English system. I meet very many people who have been through, or are going through, treatment for mental ill health. This includes all settings, from secure (forensic) units, through regular MH hospitals, or community treatment, to primary care. It includes common "mild to moderate" illnesses and severe and enduring mental illness, and also personality disorder.

I talk to a wide range of mental health professionals: health care assistants, registered nurses, AMHPs, doctors (consultants, T3 and other junior doctors), speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, art therapists, psychological staff. I talk to people from band 4 (NHS England agenda for change pay banding) through to band 8d, and also directors.

I'm a member of the South of England Collaborative for Mental Health Quality and Patient Safety Improvement. https://iqmentalhealth.co.uk/

I'm a member of the Q community. https://q.health.org.uk/

Being polite: I know more about this than you do.

The reason I linked to specific twitter accounts is so that you can ask them what their opinion is. You don't have to take my word for it - maybe I would distort their views.

> you tell your GP

I was very clearly only talking about psychologists. I wasn't talking about GPs. If you had asked me about GPs I would have spoken about the frustration I have that they rely too much on medication, and not enough on talking therapy. Even though in England talking therapy is free and easily available.
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Even beyond that, they had a huge income distribution problem, with most of the land (and therefore most of the income; it was primarily an agrarian economy) belonging to very few people. Of course, this wasn't unique to the Roman Empire; it was an almost universal state of affairs until at least the industrial revolution.
A brand new NES game celebrates 100 years of independence of Finland
They should not bite Jeff, thats for sure (unless they enjoy the feeling of excruciating pain).
You can safely coppice a willow tree any time of year and it will vigorously re-sprout. This tree will certainly come back to life.
What if we are in a simulation being trained to be like the creators, they keep increasing the complexity until we mimic their own.

Hehe...