skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You make valid points, I was merely posting that question/pov since I've had Bluetooth headphones for a few years so it hasn't really affected me, and I agree that the industry unfortunately looks like it isn't going back.

I didn't check prices, I just assumed by now we would have access to cheap ones by now since every phone is going Bluetooth only. That's my mistake.

I agree the pairing process can sometimes take a couple minutes, especially if not familiar with the Bluetooth controls on both devices, but I wouldn't call that a nightmare.

I didn't think about the charging aspect, good point. I guess I'm spoiled due to the long battery life of headphones like Bose that I have that never have run out of battery, even on 13 hour flights. But ear buds definitely are a different story. However my Bose's batteries are still running strong years later (they also have a replacable battery) and no, I don't work for Bose, they're just the only Bluetooth ones I've had.

Also I've found AUX cables break over time causing static. Seems comparable to "bugginess" of Bluetooth, but I've never experienced any bugs with these headphones (again I've only owned 2 Bluetooth headphones so I'm uninformed). I'm genuinely curious what bugs Bluetooth headphone connections have, care to elaborate?

Thanks!
The process of proposing and adding an emoji to Unicode is slower and less easy than you seem to think it is.
How in the world have you gotten 3 cars stolen? There's gotta be something to this story.
Not sure what you’re implying with your statement about the Republican talking point. The point of the point is the U.S. was designed to be a Constitutional Republic which isn’t a democracy.

The Constitutional Republic is designed to protect the rights and freedoms of the individual via the Constitution and bill of rights. If by Democracy one is referring solely to majority rule, then protection against individual rights and freedom are lost.

The U.S. should fear the latter, not the former.
Started an online course on algorithmic trading at https://algotrading101.com and some Udemy courses 4 years ago.

Revenue peaked at $20k/month 2 years ago and is less than half of that now. That's probably because my SEO rankings plummeted this year, and that people seem less and less eager to pay for online courses. Maintaining the course is quite passive (answering students' questions by email) but growing revenue is an active process.
Direct inward foreign investment experienced a large anomalous and record breaking peak in 2016, the year Brexit was essentially announced. The total size of this investment was almost half the FDI of the EU for that year. [1]

Provisional quarterly estimates suggest that the downward trend in net FDI earnings ended in 2017, recording the first annual increase since 2011. [2]

1: https://unctad.org/en/PublicationsLibrary/wir2018_en.pdf (Annex, table 1)
2: https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpay...
About a year ago, I actually joined the WELL---it still exists, and I was curious about what it looked like.

Sadly, it turns out that it's largely moribund. There was barely anyone on there, and nothing interesting was happening.

They were more than happy, however, to take my money for the $15/month subscription fee. So happy, in fact, that they ignored my multiple emails trying to cancel. And nobody answered the phone. Ultimately, I had to contact my credit card company to block the charges.
There are “studios” that have been setup inside a few accelerators that would be the only way I’d do this. They aren’t cheap, but they’re generally people with some startup experience who know how to crank out code and not give you as many headaches along the way.

I would not use a random contractor, and would only use the above as a last resort. It’s cliched, but if you can’t convince a technical person or two to join your team early and go in with you on it, it’s going to be tough to convince others too. Think of getting a few people who know how to build things as your first investors (even if you’re paying them... you should be paying them unless you are splitting equity like founders).
“A Pure Genocide”: Extremist Persecution of Christians, June 2018
I don't get what you mean in this sentence :

>> Try to hold focus on an imaginary object during meditation.

Could you explain what kind of "action" it is (or non action, I don't known anything about meditation except for clichés) ?
This piece reads like a 7th grade given an assignment to write 1000 words on a confusing subject. I thought there was a second page because it ended so abruptly.

It’s a bunch of content on Brand and then makes a slew of subjective statements that seem like I’m supposed to know the author. Or look for future pieces.

So the piece informs and then adds some apocalyptic musings with no basis other than the author’s neuroses.

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As I sat on the couch in my apartment, overheating in the late-afternoon sun, I felt a growing unease that this vision for the future, however soothing, was largely fantasy. For weeks, all I had been able to feel for the future was grief. I pictured woolly mammoths roaming the charred landscape of Northern California and future archeologists discovering the remains of the ten-thousand-year clock in a swamp of nuclear waste. While antagonism between millennials and boomers is a Freudian trope, Brand’s generation will leave behind a frightening, if unintentional, inheritance. My generation, and those after us, are staring down a ravaged environment, eviscerated institutions, and the increasing erosion of democracy. In this context, the long-term view is as seductive as the apolitical, inward turn of the communards from the nineteen-sixties. What a luxury it is to be released from politics––to picture it all panning out.“
Big Data Analysis: Analyzing Hacker News Stories – Kaggle
They did for some early tests. I was thinking Dragon not falcon 9, it’s funny how memories can just be off for stuff like this.

But, as you say Falcon does use air breaking.
How Impartial Media Can Be Manipulated, Leading to Drastic Consequences
you are neglecting the difference between zero and positive sum in your examples. using a club is zero sum, because (as implied by the article) it doesn't reduce the global rate of car theft, so you are merely shifting the burden to other car owners.

you are right that most areas of life are competitive, but the examples you provided are probably not zero sum. when you get educated, you don't just increase your leverage to take more out of a fixed size econonic pie; you marginally increase the size of the pie with your skills. increasing your physical fitness means less burden on health services. everyone you interact with has a more pleasant day when you aren't filthy.
Honestly, I'd much rather have seen it be a bunch of console-oriented convenience libs for .NET and focus on making a good REPL console for .NET languages.
Why copy the code that can run only on Intel CPUs? It doesn't make sense.
Improving Intelligence Community MISP as an enabler for intelligence analysis [pdf]
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20080519-00/?p=...
Viruses (in particular, RNA viruses) are great to study if you want to learn how genomics and the genetic code works. They are much nicer than studying large organisms because you can understand every part of them. They have just a handful of genes which correspond directly to proteins found in the resulting virion.

In fact, viruses like HIV and influenza are very much like compact computer programs. Every part of them has a particular purpose and interfaces with the host organism's mechanisms. It exploits the host and forces it to reproduce the virus. HIV's genome is even compressed using overlapping reading frames. It almost seems like it must have been designed.

One really cool part of the virus reproduction is that it must get the host to both reproduce and express its genome (ie. make proteins out of it). These things happen at completely different parts of the cell, yet somehow enough of the reproduced genomes end up in perfectly formed virions that the whole thing keeps working. Fascinating.
The TI-99/4A didn't ship with a compiler. Neither did the Atari 400 or 800, the Commodore VIC-20 & 64, or for that matter, the Apple II. Sure, the Apple came with a BASIC interpreter, as did several of the others, but not a compiler and you could usually purchase an assembler. This isn't something we "lost," it's something we didn't have.
I love my Bose ones, they seem to be as good as my wired Senneheiser ones. That's just my opinion though.
Statement on UK by UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
Not the OP, but have a similar story. According to my goal-tracking apps, I meditate about 65% of days, and I average about 10 minutes a day. (So, not a ton, but pretty consistent.)

The most common way that meditation changes me is to help me identify that I'm in a rumination cycle and to break out of it, and to be more present in certain moments. For me, it's not that I have noticed a baseline change, but rather that it's a skill that's super-helpful in key moments. Some examples:

- When my mind is racing while trying to sleep

- In moments of anger or frustration when I'm ruminating about some slight or when someone has reneged on a committment

- Noticing that I'm distracted or anxious when out with friends or at a concert
The Z Garbage Collector by Erik Österlund
Some of them got their driver license early, some of them had their parents do most of their driving until they moved to the city.
Ask the Java Architects by Mark Reinhold, Brian Goetz and Team
My daily languages are Java, C#, JavaScript and occasionally C++.

Yet I still make the effort to have a grasp of what other languages offer in terms of tooling, paradigms, libraries, whatever.

It always pays off to learn.
I've built 40+ web-apps in the last decade through freelancing and then had my own web-firm with a team of 8 developers all remote. I got tired of building MVPs and so switched to AWS Training and Consultancy since my passion is with educational training.

What kills projects and drives up costs was:

Client doesn't have a clear vision of what will sell.
This is evident since they have multiple business models or they keep changing features to tweak the business model.
Have one business model and be confident that you won't change anything. If you have to change then you didn't do market validation and you are wasting money on development.

Client's don't understand the scope of what goes into a app and when you ask them to block out the pages they need come back with only 30% and then an estimate is made based on whats presented. They never think about the admin panel, the auxiliary pages, support pipeline, on-boarding flow. If you can find an "Interaction Designer" who can not only wireframe but design end to end flows this will migrate developer waste.

Bringing in a technical advisor, developer, designer mid project always inflates budget because they provide conflicting advice, try to over architect over process, or now we have two sources of truth, the advisor and the client. If you want to bring in more resources you need to understand you'll be expected to adjust the budget and pay more since you made more work for freelancer/firm than previous.

Flipping the coin I have been brought into projects as a technical advisor, and I have found developers totally lieing about their work by logging fake hours or outsourcing when they are not allowed to. I helped the client gain visibility by showing them how to read git commit history, what a sprint should look like. Re-estimate out tickets and gauge an alternative velocity to help the understand if the speed of the developer matches their cost. What a good/bad commit looks like. But I don't tell the developer what to do, create tasks or make in detail architectural decisions.

AWS, Rails and NodeJS are good as your primary stack since bootcamps churn juniors as low as 2.5K CAD on Rails and NodeJS. AWS is good since it gives you full visibility and helps you enforce good practices so you have less technical debt down the road.

I've hired developers out of bootcamps, hired them off of upwork, randomly cold-emailed developers I liked. I get them from everywhere. Its a 1:40 ratio to find a developer with good work ethic.

I care about work ethic and best practices/good habits first and developer experience second.

I would suggest getting lo-fi sketches of every possible page in desktop for your admin, marketing, support, onboard, auxiliary and core pages.

Then you get a developer to code them

Then after the functionality is in place you bring in a UX designer to polish the designs.

If you have the money I would get a Interaction Design on day 1.
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> Would you start a construction company without a technical co-founder, and just hire freelance carpenters to build the first few houses?

I personally know cases like this. If you are an amazing seller this is viable.
Saying "everyone should speak" actually means "everyone should speak according to their purchasing power in the market" right now - so I think your premise, while well meaning, is not realistic.

Having liars with big pockets broadcast lies (propaganda) works very effectively, no "black market suppression of the truth" is needed to weaponize bad ideas.
Thanks, I was wondering if you can parse all comments for a link to Amazon or something (but even that probably wouldn't get the recommendations without links).

At least for me, OneLink doesn't work. Apparently you need to be in the US, Canada or UK; the other countries aren't supported so far. Pity.
This is really amazing stuff! How do you keep moral and focus when tackling harder projects?
Interesting site, but really need to work on the mobile view of it.
Buy a Mac - not only a compiler, but the full professional development tool suite is installable for free with only two clicks.
Story of a failed pentester, perhaps?

Social engineered their way into an unlikely scenario bound to raise suspicion.

Tests and methods were pretty successful, otherwise.

Still, I cannot fathom why companies insist on the rickety tinkertoy that is Microsoft Windows.
Apple has APFS, which might get a decent Linux driver soon, since Apple has recently published a fairly detailed description of how it works. Theoretically, nothing prevents someone writing a Windows driver too, which would allow APFS to become the modern standard for cross-platform requirements. Only I suspect that such Windows driver won't be free or common enough to make this practical.
I feel this describes my experience to a 'T' and wholeheartedly agree to the advice here.

Edit: All I am trying to do, from being a fellow complete newbie, is to add support from N=1 to N=2 of the path from Headspace-->Other videos and literature-->10-day retreat-->Local group. Hopefully this can help others who are intimidated about trying to pick up a mediation practice. :)
One of the best ways to learn advanced level meditation is to travel to a vipassana meditation camp. They usually hold sessions lasting over 10 days where you are not allowed to have any outside contact with the world. It is also conducted by trained Buddhist monks. You'll easily find multiple reviews for this course on the internet ( just google 'vipassana meditation' ) and it's one of the best crash courses that you can attend. They charge no fees and you are free to leave at any point in time.

I've been meditating since I was 14. My father used to forcibly take me to a vihar(a Buddhist temple) every weekend for meditation sessions back then. Meditation is great for when you want to calm your mind. Just the act of observing your thoughts for a small period of time gives you a lot of insight on how your mind is working.

EDIT: This is probably not for meditation beginners based on comments but for people who want to explore advanced meditation techniques. They accept pretty much everyone though.
> signal to noise ratio

This is another euphemism for hearing ideas you disagree with. You choose who to friend/follow/read. Occasionally those people will say things you don't agree with.

> you don’t know what information to trust

Just because someone landed a job at [fill in traditional media outlet] does not make them more trustworthy. You're simply being exposed to the reality that their bullshit is just as much bullshit as everything else.
"this generation" is buying a lot more computers (the traditional pc/mac kind) than their 1983 equivalents, even accounting for the greater world population today.
I also recommend checking out glyphdrawing.club for a contemporary web-based editor using inventive unscii fonts. It features an original font and some contributor-submitted ones! Really fun to play with.

https://glyphdrawing.club

https://github.com/hlotvonen/glyph-drawing-club

https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/glyph-drawing-club-edit...
Sam Harris recently released a meditation app for iPhone and Android. As the reviews attest, it is outstanding, the best thing I've seen for getting started on your own.

https://wakingup.com/
I'm not an expert on the topic, but the way from a x86/x64 disassembly to an ARM binary is very long. The identification of segments is not 100% accurate, manual corrections will be required, addresses have to updated etc. I'd say fully automatic translation is not really feasible, but I expect to be contradicted :)
Some clues about why male Guinea baboons fondle each other’s genitals
I'd also recommend taking a look at the following libraries

https://github.com/lspector/Clojush

https://github.com/emilyagras/clojenetics
I don't think there is a specific education you can take that will shield you from influence or propaganda.

In my experience, it's about something else. Something more fundamental.
A second example is Java's checked exceptions. They make errors part of the method's interface, but are almost universally hated because doing anything useful with errors is just too damn hard.
I recently had a house built, which exposed me to a dozen general contractors (people/companies referred to as builders). Not a single one of these small shops had a carpenter on staff. They were all basically project managers that subcontract all labor and earn their fee by adding 20% to however much is spent.
Some people keep "favorites", which are public.
I don't buy it - your kid may just not be into programming as much as you were. I was born in '83 and in the 90s (when I got into computers) QBasic was already well buried in some obscure directory inside DOS (or later the windows 95 installation CD) & with all the piracy there was no shortage of games around.

I still got into programming as a kid & have been doing it for a living since I was 18. And I had plenty of friends (most!) who just wanted to play the games, as well as those that got into programming to make their own.
>they just route all your data through TOR which is actually a pretty poor thing to do from an OpSec perspective.

Could you elaborate? (On the second half, i.e. why you say so.)
This.

Also the author do not mention that LLNL zfs Linux port is not as production ready than FreeBSD one.

Personally I use nilfs2 on top of lvm since is Linux mainline from many many years, it a logfs like Hammer volumes, so it protect effectively against accidental overwrite/deletion and can be live resized both in grow and shrink so coupled with LVM can be a poor man's pooled storage... But Hammer on Linux will be a success like OpenSSH!
No. This is dangerous advice. An intensive, torturous retreat away from friends and familiar places is one of the worst ways to start meditating.

https://www.google.com/search?q=vipassana+psychosis
Sounds like a "Yes". Thanks for the reply, dahdum.
They (Brass Horn) mention this pitfall on the product page:
https://brasshorncommunications.uk/projects/Onion3G/
Here's the thing:
1. Homeless people are screwed by society in almost every possible way.
2. There are a million ways to get free food when you're homeless. I.e. hunger is a solved problem for most homeless people.

With this context in mind, you can see how offering someone your half-eaten leftovers, or forcing them to go on some journey with you in exchange for a basic meal, is not only unhelpful--it's downright insulting.

If you don't feel comfortable giving them money, or engaging in an honest conversation, then just say sorry and walk away.

And if you feel like you want to help homeless people without giving them money, then give the money to an organization instead.

The bottom line: don't expect homeless people to be grateful to you, especially if what you're offering is next to nothing for them.
Um, a 10 day retreat where you are cut off from the outside world is definitely not a good way to begin meditation.

I mean you're basically advising a beginner hiker to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. It's grossly irresponsible advice.
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anecdotal report: Im running a medium sized MariaDB database of appointments and invoice backups on a 4 disk BTRFS filesystem with deduplication. snapshots work, its stable, and it performs well.

I feel like so much of BTRFS though was death by committee. It was trying to do every single thing ZFS did, regardless of whether or not the specific feature from ZFS was mediocre to begin with.

focusing on a release cycle and communicating would have helped it alot instead of vague things like "it is ready enough" and "some features arent ready"
The book they mention, Altered Traits, is a great read for those interested in what hard facts the numerous studies on the subject have yielded so far (+ some nice stories about "olympic level meditators").

The authors make a point of painstakingly explaining why these kind of studies are hard to conduct, what a good one looks like and why they had to discard ~99% of them to write the book because of statistical insufficiency, lack of proper methodology etc. At a time when many meditation apps claim to be "science based" I found this quite relevant.

They both are proficient in meditation and have been associated with the western scene very early on. It's mostly about mindfulness/vipasana meditation since that's the subject of the majority of the medical studies.
I have to disagree. I tried it for a couple of weeks but have unsubscribed. The problem is that Harris talks way too much during guided meditations. A good guided meditation normally has a judicious mix of instructions and silence, but Harris keeps rambling on, making it difficult to concentrate on the instructions. He has an old guided meditation available on YouTube; that one is much better.

Insight Timer is a much better app IMO. In terms of better guided instructions, I would recommend Peter Russell, Michael Taft, Joseph Goldstein and Sharon Salzberg.
Using it on root and nearly all personal fses I second, especially hoping that it's development speed up a bit, the cleaner it's still a pain and a small wrapper to diffs between cp's can be a very nice addition!
If driving means being home with your kids 30 minutes earlier, then being productive on the bus means absolutely nothing in comparison. Besides, I like to listen to podcasts/audio books while driving, so it's not completely wasted time.
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