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Thank you for educating the discussion on what meditation is and isn't. Western culture/medicine seems to have fixated on meditation being only mindfulness which is just one facet of the journey inward.
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Not to diminish your experience, but the GGP specifically said any public school anywhere. A single datapoint is then enough to disprove that assertion.
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oooo, thanks for the "number disconnected" idea. This is perfect.
We are in the process of working with folks on a more "pythonic" API. Our first goal was to get something that would be easy to use out the door then get feedback on ideas we have for something more idiomatic to the language. It's an approach we plan to take when we add support for other languages such as Go and JavaScript over the next few months.

We are looking for folks to help drive the next version of the API. The first one was done with feedback from a couple of clients who were interested in using Python and in many ways reflects their tastes. Feedback from a wider range of Python users is something we are actively soliciting at this point.

disclosure: I work at Wallaroo Labs, creators of Wallaroo.
Prime example of the observer effect.
That manual counting of cores is what I thought we would let `parallel` handle! I have never actually used parallel, though, so I don't know how to best do it.
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How is GNU yes so fast?
>if everyone started doing the same thing, no one would benefit

That is true, but I don't think anyone is claiming to make the world better. The question was more how individuals improve their situation, gaining a competitive edge if you will. That will always come at the cost of others, but in this case the hacks are really things almost anyone can do, so it's hard to object on moral grounds.
I completely agree, and would like to highlight one part of your comment and build on it a bit:

> I was introduced to mindfulness practice as a therapy for depression several years ago at my university

Compare that to the other scenarios described in the article, or how another commenter here mentions "mindfulness events for executives and corporate". I think that just shows how mindfulness is not the real issue, but how it is applied (or worse: how things that are not mindfulness being sold as mindfulness).

To give an illustration of effective mindfulness that (hopefully) does not come across as pseudoscience, I'll describe how my anger would explode in the past, and how mindfulness helped me solve that (note that "anger management" was not listed in the article).

Mindfulness was suggested to me by a therapist (so not a magazine selling snake-oil), and despite my extreme skepticism at the time, it was very effective when I actually sat down to do it. And if you look at how my angry emotions would run away from me, this makes a lot of sense.

One cause was a reinforcing loop: upsetting thoughts causing hyper-focus on other upsetting thoughts and memories, causing more anger, bringing up more thoughts/memories. So basically, what we all have, but the feedback loop was amplified and out of balance (years later I have been diagnosed with ADD, and hyper-focus is one of the symptoms - I would not be surprised if this was the main cause of anger management issues that many ADD/ADHD people suffer from).

The other issue was me trying to control these escalating emotions, which was so frustrating that it became another source of anger in itself.

As others noted, mindfulness is mostly about becoming consciously aware of where attention is drawn to, being able to step back, and guiding attention where you want it to go to. This is different from trying to directly control the emotions triggered by whatever I end up paying attention to; I can let my emotions freely sort themselves out, as a result there is no frustrating self-inhibition.

That is all that the ten-minute-breathing exercise is for: practicing the ability to step back from the thoughts as they appear to you. That is what lets you take control of where your attention goes, allowing you to guide it elsewhere. I don't think the meditation does much else, except maybe letting out bottled-up emotions.

The funny thing is that practicing this awareness for myself has also helped me to be more aware of what others are saying and thinking during conversations, and making sure that we are actually talking about the same things. So my inter-personal communication has improved too.

Anyway, my point is that yes, mindfulness has helped me tremendously, and there is nothing mysterious about why it did: the main source of my anger was the way I processed my thoughts. Mindfulness can be great for helping with problems caused by that. However, if the main causes are external factors, like a lack of social interactions, or being in an abusive relationship at home or at work, then what would the problems be that mindfulness can solve?
We had a large community discussion about this last year: https://brson.github.io/fireflowers/
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Looking over the list of symptoms, I definitely had that. Very severe in my teens, got better in college, and now it rarely bothers me. Improvement seems to have come from numerous changes to my life, including the whole exercising thing. Being really fit was a big confidence boost, though I don't need to remain at that level of fitness to retain the benefits. But the biggest impact was my worldview and how it has changed.
I like the telegram API :)
I don't think that can be the only purpose of dreams because I would think that children need to learn a lot more than adults, but they sleep about the same amount.
It's funny because the article's only mention of java is "Wallaroo isn’t built on the JVM, which provides advantages that we will cover in a later blog post."

Quickly followed by pointless Factory classes and classes implementing an interface with one method.

I guess the reason is that classes are picklable and functions, by default, are not? This is supposed to be a distributed system after all.
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benchmarking is useless when comparing different conditions

ie your computer is probably faster than op's
I've never understood why ads couldn't just be images. I guess it's just an attention grabbing arms race to the bottom?
How? AFAIK, the only way to do it is to create a different user for each app, like Android, which seems absurd to me.
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And if he's doing it, others are too. There's a very high likelihood that all this data has been compromised.
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Glad the title was updated.
The truth is all AV is pretty bad.
How is a state which allows and encourages wage labour and trade 'communist'? Totalitarian everyone agrees on, as to whether it is Communist or Socialist other than in name is heavily doubtful.

State intervention in a capitalist economy does not the abolition of the value-form make, it makes a state capitalist economy.
I’m still confused... most orgs running HIPAA workloads are still doing so on prem, AND using very much non-free software.

Google, and Amazon, and MS, undergo extensive third-party audits and people can, and do, run HIPAA workloads there.

I’m not sure what distinction you are trying to draw.
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New Cloud Foundry project helps developers run their cloud apps on their laptops
Easy pickabability was a strong driver for this initial API.

disclosure: I work at Wallaroo Labs, creators of Wallaroo.
I wonder if this was actually an attempt to scam the advertisers into thinking they were receiving genuine add traffic, in order to get affiliate revenue. Using actual customer data might have prevented the advertisers from getting suspicious.
How do you teach yourself?
What is your experience learning on your own?

I've found these are the biggest pain points when it comes to teaching myself different things (music, coding, drawing, language, etc.)

* Having a broad or vague goal instead of broken down milestones (i.e. "learn how to make music" vs. "learn how dominant chords are used in this one song")

* For the bigger goals, a sense of overwhelming by all the different topics and available materials (for music, some of the things I've come across and interested in - jazz piano, pop piano, improvising, accompaniment, composing...)

* Questioning whether the tutorial/book/resource I'm using is worth it or a waste of time. I think this is in large part due to the fact that most resources you find are not specifically tailored to what you're trying to accomplish.

* The psychological stuff - self doubt, procrastination, etc.

* Not dedicating time each day to making progress (possibly because of some of the above)

What have you found that works for you when you're trying to teaching yourself something?

What do you struggle with the most?

Why did you decide to teach yourself vs. other options that may have been available?

What is your best/worst learning experience?

How do you define your goals? (success metrics)

What are some of the other things you think about?

For example:

* budget

* time

* discipline/commitment (hobby vs. something you really want in your life)

* considering a more traditional learning environment (classes, college, lessons)

* online learning sites (MOOCs, Youtube, etc.)
Boredom is an emotional state, it is not the absence of stimulation.
Did the same; my SO wanted me to send her a periodic reminder as a text message on a given hour; I put together a Tasker task that composed a bunch of randomly selected parts into a sentence.

It took about a month or two for her to notice, though I believe that what ultimately did me in was that time when I was talking with her on the phone when the SMS task executed...
I've used the similar Apache beam project before. https://beam.apache.org

I mainly used their java libraries, but the python binding have been coming along.
My parents have two giant black walnut trees in their front yard in Norval, a sleepy town outside of Toronto. I used to have to pick up hundreds or thousands of these staining green balls of yuck. First couple years you go through the trouble of eating a few, but they're harder to extract than normal walnuts plus I was a kid and didn't appreciate it like I would at thirty-two.

One day I was out in yard after these bugger balls had started to fall and a Jamaican accented guy in his 50s drives up our one way street. He stops the car and asks if we're doing anything with the nuts. I say "we might eat 5 a year, if you want 'em you can have 'em, but try to get them before my mum yells at me" and that was it.

Twice a fall he drives up loads up his little car with walnuts and brings them back to his Jamaican themed natural foods store where he and his wife clean them and sell them.

What I love about this story is just how anti-internet it is. There was no web crawler looking for excess nuts, no search engines, no cold emails or fake users 'til you make it, just a dude driving around and a kid in a yard.

And a natural foods store that really lives up to its name.
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Of course. Though 37MiB/s compared to 10Gi/s probably means that the GNU version used by Fedora has a faster implementation than Apple's version.
What you're describing can be helpful, but I'm describing a state where you fundamentally go beyond any involvement of thoughts including a countering internal dialogue. By many accounts, the key indicator of being in this state is one of peace/bliss/serenity/total contentment.

In fact, I should really say you operate from a place which is 'before thought', since 'beyond' suggests something after the thinking process. Actually it can almost feel like thinking is a strenuous burden in this state, which suggests you're 'before' the thinking process.

Observing thoughts while still operating from "within your mind", which it sounds like you're describing, doesn't necessarily lead to that experience.
Psychedelic Therapy will be the next one.
However, road damage doesn't scale with the weight. The damage roughly scales like the weight per axle to the power four! e.g. http://www.pavementinteractive.org/equivalent-single-axle-lo...
Not OP, but in my case, I believe she finally noticed when a text message arrived on-schedule while I was having a coversation on the phone with her...
So was it Equifax that was hacked, or Fireclick?
> As such it is a practice in not letting yourself be affected by things you do not want to be affected by.

Meditation can be a lot more, but yes, I agree that this is an important lesson that can come from it.
> But I know people who are being denied any other option.

Am I correct in guessing you are talking about a work setting, where the situation is similar to something like: "if you're overworked we're not going to address the root problem by lowering the amount of work to a sensible load, we're going to make you do more work in the form of mental exercises to strengthen your resilience, so we can burden you with more work!"?
Not the OP and not in any way an expert, but the way I read it: the original post is completely correct -- insofar as it has been written. One could think, "I have examined it and determined it to be completely without merit". Having done so, there is no further need to examine -- because it is without merit. This is obvious.

On the other hand, you can think of it like the proverbial box, of which we are often encouraged to think outside. You can examine the entire box and discover that it holds nothing. But if you never look at the outside of the box, perhaps you will never see what others find valuable.

To bring it back to more concrete terms, to the extent that the original poster is looking to find a pavlovian response, they will find it. And from there, the rest follows by simple logic. But if you are looking for something else (or, in fact, nothing), then perhaps you will find something else.

I often find this when I talk about more technical topics; TDD, for instance. TDD is often a waste of time when applied the way many people apply it. Having studied a lot about TDD, many people are wedded to the definition they have created. Eventually they get disillusioned when it doesn't work. When they examine it, they realise that it can't work. That is the expert's mind. But the secret is that they are not doing TDD. If they throw away the expert's mind (in other words, don't do it the way that doesn't work), they have a chance of discovering TDD that works.

Disclaimer: I meditate and enjoy it. TDD helps me be more productive. YMMV.
Advertising on the web was never stable or reliable as a revenue source, it just seemed that way because the infrastructure of ad blocking wasn't available or well known.

The well of consumer trust has been poisoned by companies that saw the web as a Wild West platform where they could make money without bothering with ethics or standards, but now users are aware that all of those malignant and annoying ads can easily be blocked, and companies are getting desperate as they realize all too late that they were participating in an honor system in which they had far less power than they wanted.

Why would we surrender and pay the Danegeld when we're clearly winning the war?
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Ask HN: Is AWS Free Tier a viable option to cut down initial cost for a product?
I and my friend are trying to launch a product(something like Instagram for a niche market) However, both of us don't have any experience with hosting yet. We need someplace to host that can support at least a 100 or so people so that we can at least show it to others before we can launch it. So is AWS Free Tier good for that, or should we look for some alternatives?
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>Once you have these skills you can (presumably) use them for other things and to achieve various effects. But it starts there.

They said the same thing about brain exercises like Luminosity. The brain is way more complex, and you can't just hack your way to becoming the ultimate programmer. Perhaps there are legitamate factors that lead to unproductive and stressed out workers.
1990 - 2010 : Don't trust user input

2016 - 20?? : Trust everyone
The social experiment is also very interesting in itself.
Ask HN: What is the best way to do marketing for a website about rental cars?
Here is the website:

www.autolook.co

In a nutshell: We automatically track the prices for all rental cars 24/7. When the prices drop, we notify the user, so he can get a rental car for less money.

We'd love to hear your feedback.
> I don't remember being able to use a callback to calculate my replace string as a function of the match results when doing substitution in Perl.

That's easy with the `e` (eval) flag.

say '13 37 123 42' =~ s
{ ( \d+ ) # get all the numbers }
{ my $total += $+; # replace with running total }egrx;
__END__
output is 13 50 173 215

> I think they're ultimately more powerful than in Perl

No. Perl regex are more powerful than Python because

1. the programmer can pick from a large selection of delimiters

2. the full-featured engine is built-in and ready to use, but in Python you need to install the third-party "regex" module because the built-in one named "re" is hopelessly dyd¹

3. you may enable verbose (readable) character classes

4. the regex subsystem is pluggable with a common interface and you can within a lexical scope switch at run-time with more restricted implementations which have less features but better performance in some cases: https://metacpan.org/search?q=re%3A%3Aengine%3A%3A

5. you can embed arbitrary code with (?{...}) and (??{...})

> We lose first class patterns, but gain first class functions and classes :)

Perl had first-class functions since 1993.

You love having first-class classes in Python, but do not realise the downside. Python's one true meta object system (with its ageing design from the last millennium) is flawed: horizontal composition of methods with the same name does not emit a warning. Since the system is baked into the language, it cannot be changed. Contrast with Perl, where the language only provides some primitives on which to build a meta object system (incl. first-class classes). This enables bugs to be fixed, and the competition among several implementations on CPAN breeds excellence.

¹ https://i.imgur.com/66z4KDA.jpg
So python is the new ruby now.
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Here is a clickable link for easier access:

https://www.autolook.co
Your best option would be to use the [Return receipt] or [Delivery status notification] options. The latter will be an automated notification from the mail server stating it accepted or deferred the e-mail.
Hey folks! I just spent the past few nights building LearnSearch, a web app where you can share learning resources and upvote the ones that help you or are valuable in someway. I asked a lot of people what they wished they knew when they started self teaching or learning something new, and the feedback was always that they wish they could tell the good resources from the ones that lead them astray, and that others were vital in letting them know about this. I wanted to make this same interaction scaleable, so I built LearnSearch!

At it's core, LearnSearch is trying to bring that experience of asking the right person and getting actionable advice on how to learn something, to scale so that we all can tap into our collective experiences.

LearnSearch is still in its early, early infancy, and I'm going to continue to build out different feeds, my big vision is that users will eventually be able to upload their own learning guides and paths, linking together relevant resources in meaningful ways. You'll also be able to search the body of knowledge to find exactly what you need.

It's my first real crack at a side project, and it's got about 50 users so far! Small things like that make me happy. I'm gonna grab a quick nap, since I haven't slept in a while, but I'd love to hear what you guys think ;)
I built the same habit in childhood. What's interesting is even as an adult with a comfortable salary, I still apply the same framework. It's easy to overlook that part of the cost of buying something you don't like is frustration plus time to return it to the store and then do more research too along with the opportunity cost of waiting on trying the next alternative. Sometimes I just buy my top 3 options and return the 2 I like least to speed that up. I'd also consider myself a minimalist, so I think "Do I really want to own, store, and maintain this product for years to come? And can I spend a bit more now to find a BIFL version in the same category?"
It's literally the first commandment.
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Which is sad, because I get the impression that in the situations where it does seem to work (alcoholism for example), it's both very effective and one of the few therapies that work at all.
Equifax. That url is Equifax controlled. It just mentions fireclick in a comment. Click the url for the js and you'll see that it does a document.write to inject a script that's an akamai cached copy from an obscure .cc domain hosted file...this one: https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/248/5462/3h/hints.netflame.cc/se...
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What's interesting is that "mindfulness" via what westerners think of meditation is only one of 110 different techniques. Some of them don't work now (wrong time), some wont work in the future, and some won't work for certain people.

When going this route, its best to try different techniques until you feel a change. Once you do, start working with the technique for a time. 3 minutes starting, then 3 days, then 3 months, then 3 years. That provides mastery... Then you can work on another one.

And no, meditation via breath doesn't work on me. I've tried with lamas. Nope. However when I started working with visualizations (think Hololens without hardware), I had other people near me that could tell me the shapes I was projecting. That was -- neat.
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Some new drinkwater installations in the Netherlands use membrane filtering to clean the water so thoroughly that it's not actually potable anymore, they have to add calcium (and maybe other minerals?) back in.
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I assume that there has to be a legal definition that outlines what will qualify a business as a credit rating agency. The requirements are probably cumbersome, but something must be written down somewhere to objectively define the requirements.
Yeah absolutely, my project is actually just a link sharing site a la HackerNews, so it would automatically link back to your repo.
I stopped trying to learn about machine learning in general because mathematical notations are always used everywhere in ML.

I think it's odd that programming languages and code have not replaced math. I mean I agree that you need math for ML, but that doesn't mean you can't show what you do with pseudo code.

Math is fine to prove things or simplify a formula, but when it involves computing, why not use code instead? It's okay to use math in physics, but when you deal with computing and data, I think it's a little misplaced.

Not to mention that the language of mathematics is poorly defined. I mean I would love to learn math by learning its syntax.
> In effect, the TCG specification will transfer the ultimate control of your PC from you to whoever wrote the software it happens to be running.

It doesn’t sound like a bad idea if user has a freedom of choice what software to run.
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