skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a good question. I view them as separate but interrelated, and often times I'll practice pranayama without doing a corresponding meditation (e.g. after asana).

Pranayama in many ways is exercise which readies you for meditation. The Anapanasati Sutta makes reference to a form of it as a preparatory practice. It has helped me investigate and understand bodily sensations that arise in meditation that previously would have been distracting to me. Or to not be overwhelmed with fear or thoughts in meditation when occasionally you realize "hey, I actually haven't been breathing for a while".

Happy to talk about it more off thread if you'd like (email in profile).
I seriously considered switching jobs in December, as in had an offer and accepted it before backing out and taking the counter-offer from my current employer.

Honestly the deciding factor was that I couldn't stomach the idea of getting up two hours earlier every day. My mornings are long, drawn out affairs where I have ~3 hours to hang out with my kids, listen to the radio, do some chores, and generally prepare myself for the day. Having had that for the past several years, the idea of giving it up was just too much for me.
I have an instance running on a BeagleBone Black that’s tied into HomeAssistant (which is also set up with HomeKit support, so I can easily surface virtual “accessories” or “sensors” on the Home.app or on the Apple Watch and configure them with visual Node-RED flows.

It’s really quite pleasant to work with.
As other commenters have pointed out, this is backwards. The unsolvability of the halting problem says that there is no one algorithm that can tell you whether an arbitrary Turing machine will halt. But for special types of Turing machines, it is often possible to say whether they will halt. So, if you define a special type of Turing machine, and it turns out that the halting problem is unsolveable even for that restricted type, that is noteworthy.
Regarding the actual copyright question: copyright requires 'creativity'.
If you're just downloading an MP3, there isn't any kind of ad injection going on.

Ad injection would apply if you were using your favorite podcast network's app, webplayer, etc.

Ads in a plain MP3 are "baked in"
Plenty of bands from then have toured with original members of a couple replacements years after they initially broke up. The Rolling Stones, for instance have changed much of their line-up. Pink Floyd is another example.
* the people reporting drone sightings before the police turned up at Gatwick were pilots*

Considering that a passenger jet on final approach has a speed > 300 km/h and that a household drone is something like 30 cm wide you wonder how many of these drones were in fact hovering kestrels on the hunt for voles. How can you distinguish the two?
LocationSmart advertised themselves to bounty hunters[1]. This kind of unethical/illegal location sharing from other location brokers like Zumigo is unsurprising.

1. https://twitter.com/sephr/status/1082711937257893888
This made me curious so I checked our local library that has study and meeting rooms. But looking at their online calendar, they're all reserved for most of the day.

At least it's nice to know people are using our library.
Is US Economic Growth Over? On Faltering Innovation (2012)
What I'm going to say is a very personal opinion and I understand well that it's not everybody's:

You'd have to pay me a lot of money to have me work in a place with separate offices or with people that think that "accidental eye contact is just not okay". A lot of people (not arguing that it's the majority, I have no idea) are actually more productive and happy in an open space than in a box cut out from the rest of the workers.
Loans are a mix of subsidized and unsubsidized, sure. But the issue is that the incentive is that of any loan owner: repayment of the loan. With Lambda School the incentive is making better, more employable, engineers and the loans will pay themselves off. What good does it do the person and the economy if a bunch of people are straddled with debt for 30 years for a degree they can’t use being hounded by creditors while the universities remain the same? In the end there’s a network of entities that all own debt that will never get paid back, debt that is for all intents and purposes subprime. Remind you of anything?
The metaphor was more about complexity than success or quality.
Because one of the scenarios we were talking about is interactive use - i.e. command prompt. Current directory (and other implicit state like that) is convenient there, and removing it would make it that much harder to use.
responsible disclosure is one thing, responsible development is another. the "OOOPs" feature of the intel cpu family, et. al. was a very obvious problem from the start. Some kid decided to actually develop the exploit, after years of responsible developers, and high level enthusiasts refraining from developing such things. Just because someone hasnt done it does not mean you are the first to think of it.
I wonder if any company in a similar position has just done a total liquidation and turned over all cash as a one time super dividend. That seems like the honest and fair way of doing it. Though it's probably less lucrative than a debt-fueled stock buyback and dump strategy.
Same in my part of the US -- I believe that with every cab company in my city, the drivers actually own the cabs and are contractors. It's been that way for at least 20 years.
Because that is what the sanctions define.
mortgages and auto loans are secured with assets. the lender can take back the car or house if you default, greatly limiting the risk of lending.

a better comparison for an unsecured loan would be a credit card. please let me know if you find a credit card with anything near a 10% interest rate. afaik, the best rates are around 14% and only go to people with very good credit.
Amen on getting rid of the H1Bs! Not only would doing soclear out the deadwood, the improvements in skills, capabilities, communication ability, and critical thinking would dramatically slash the true cost of software development.
Am I missing the details in their blog post or do they detail the customizations that they've made to Python 3.5 to suit their purposes?
Dolphin runs Wii. Code, Xenia does XBox360 - but the future for XBoxOne emulation looks bleak.
You've got to recognize you're an outlier.

In practical terms nobody plays games on Linux unless they're using something like SteamOS or, technically, Android.

Given how ridiculously hard it is to get a simple application to run across all the various distributions of Linux that exist, expecting something as complicated as a game to run at all is asking way too much.

Windows is ridiculously hard to support, but at least it has sales volume to justify the work necessary to get a game launched. Linux doesn't.
I might end up at a desk near you! I'm currently looking for a co-working space in Denver.
Your right I probably should have disclosed that I previously worked there but it's fairly clear from my post history so I figured it didn't matter. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Most people just get a game console or play games on their phone. A very tiny group of people do what you do on Linux.
Yeah this is a core reason why a long driving commute is an absolute deal breaker for me and probably why I'll never end up working for a big corp in SF.

In Vancouver I can wake up at 7am, go to the gym in my building or the nearby community centre, read, do some shores, have a lazy breakfast and still walk or take a short bike ride into work at 10am.

I can't imagine throwing all that free time away just to sit in traffic.
I have three kids, though none are school aged yet. My mornings are when I have the highest quality interactions with them. We are all the most well-rested we're going to be for the day, which means everyone is likely to be pretty agreeable. Plus we have our routine figured out, and going through the motions gets us all off to a good start to our day.

(But also, the chances of me getting "An hour of meditation and reading the paper" are roughly zero :) )
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18850265
I never had to use the compiler back in my early Mac programming days, as I got into Mac programming starting with Lightspeed C (later THINK C). Some of my friends used MPW, though. MPW was much more expensive. I do remember having to use it years later when I was trying to compile an C library for use on the Newton. I discovered that it was pretty far from an ANSI/ISO compliant C - for example, it didn't accept the question mark (ternary) operator at all. But the MPW toolset was very cool, including the Worksheet concept. I still use the Worksheet concept in BBEdit on MacOS X and it is wonderful; I use it to handle the workflow for producing podcast episodes.
Funny. I thought the shorter focal length made his face look more interesting and features look nicer whereas the 200mm lens made his face look like a big block with no definition and large neck. Crazy how subjective something like that can be!
Has anyone used a recent Lazarus version to create apps that can connect easily to an HTTP API?

Some months ago I had a need to create a "quick and dirty" API utility for internal use and I remembered about Lazarus.

However I couldn't find an HTTP client component that I could use. I just wanted to do the equivalent of a curl GET/POST call.

I'm not sure if maybe I'm not familiar enough with the wiki structure so I missed it, but I remember I searched for about an hour before I gave up.

I'd really like to start using a Delphi-like IDE again as I think it is a very useful and productive tool, especially for ad-hoc stuff.

Any pointers in the right direction would be greatly appreciated!
Is there any GPL code remaining in the base at this point? I thought it was all gone once they replaced gcc with Clang.
It's not going to take off like HTML did if one has to depend on "cloud" vendors playing nice or lasting.
This happened today. Can we not even wait for the incident to conclude and for them to get some planes off the ground before we start blowing the conspiracy whistle?
It reminds me of this (scroll down to "Regular Expression Pathfinding" section):

http://realgl.blogspot.com/2013/08/battlecode.html

tl;dr: competition counts cycles but excludes certain standard library functions, one of which is a regex matcher, so someone naturally decides to use it for much of his algorithm.
Without clocks I will naturally go to bed between 5a and 7a and wake between 1 and 3p. I've had a "normal" schedule for most of my life, and have gone long stretches (months) where I was in bed every night by 10p. It doesn't stick. Without alarms and diligence, I will always revert to my natural schedule within days.
>Vegetarianism/veganism as an ethical stance is about humane treatment of animals.

No doubt, but there are health-related reasons to do it as well; I'm not as concerned about a plant-based meat substitute triggering my diverticulitis, for instance. I actively avoid eating burgers because too much red meat definitely does.
I am not sure if IBM can deliver anything nowadays. I had a run with their cloud but I would change profession rather than working with their system ever again.
> Chain length is number of blocks, which is controlled by miners, not "laity".

A block is a set of transactions, transfers of currency from one address to another address. Miners don't just add blocks because they're bored. They add blocks when someone submits a transaction.

So the number of transactions that occur is closely related to the number of blocks in the chain.
It's like Mac gaming. It sucks. Unless it's a for-Mac native title, which is exceedingly rare these days, it's going to be trash because the publisher invariably uses some crappy DirectX to OpenGL wrapper that cripples performance and crashes constantly.

Developer kits like Unreal and Unity have helped a lot here, but those are far from flawless. Even those struggle with Linux because there's just way too many distributions and way too few standards.
That is the case at pretty much any retailer. Grocery stores, drug stores, clothing stores, etc.
I'm not saying it isn't a problem... the larger issue of littering in general, and wildlife preservation are huge to me. We have very well managed waste disposal sites, and do a lot of subsidizing recycling efforts.

My point was that if you aren't littering, then the net cost to the environment isn't such a huge thing. I'm also not a fan of government subsidies in general. Your point really isn't a subsidy, it's a means of greater use, which is generally considered a good thing. Unless you'd rather have more environmental waste that isn't used for any secondary purpose.

I'd love to see more/better efforts with regards to wildlife conservation, not littering etc. I like to do road trips while on vacation. Seeing the shear amount of litter on roadways, in the mountains and everywhere but a proper trashcan that will get disposed of reasonably is upsetting. Frankly, I think that getting society as a whole to respect their environment and other people's property (littering and vandalism) would go further to improving things than not.
Constant complaining to customer support when the package kept being marked “building closed” when they decided they didn’t want to deliver (this is a house, not an apartment, so no building to close).

After 3-4 packages arrived a week or so late because of the same issues, they finally blacklisted amazon delivery. Since then, it’s been usps.
> nothing in between me and the person in the desk across from me.

You literally couldn't pay me enough to work in an open office space. Those things are nightmares.
Indeed, Object Pascal in Delphi 6 had blazing fast compilation (for various reasons not least it's unit system), like click and it runs a half second later on a 250,000 line codebase.
I have a first hand report from someone who works at gatwick that there was a drone hovering near the control tower for a while but I'll admit there seems a shortage of photos.
From here, iirc: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/ibms-early-computers

Don’t have it with me, or I would check for the specific quote.

This has come up previously on HN, and I wrote a few more details back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16274812

(Although still not an exact cite. :-( )
>>somewhere considerably more affordable.

Your local library. It has desks, internet, restrooms. And there are more than one so you can pick the one that best fits your needs.
Now we have to go back and look at everyone’s post history in every thread?
To get a bit into the theory: a string is a sequence of symbols drawn from some "alphabet", and we can define operations like concatenation, counting, matching and substring on it. In particular, a natural operation on strings is lexicographic comparison, whereby you compare the first characters of two strings, if they are different, the two strings compare that way, if they match, you proceed to look at the second character, etc.

Encoding translates a string from one language to another, and it's often a reversible translation. The obvious case is to translate from Unicode to binary and back. In Unicode, the alphabet is the set of all Unicode codepoints. In binary, you have a stream of octets and the alphabet is the set of integers between 0 and 255. So UTF-8 is a standard that specifies how to perform such a translation.

Since we're often going back and forth between Unicode and binary, and because real processors work with bytes, it's reasonable to call "encoding" translating a string to binary and "decoding" translating binary to a string. The math doesn't require that, though.

Collation represents a string as an expression (usually also a string) that is trivially comparable. For instance, supposed I wanted an English-friendly way to compare band names. I might map all codepoints that look like A or E to "A", then K, S and C to C, etc., discarding any accents and maybe throwing out leading junk like "The" or "A".

That's why a case-insensitive collation won't let you have Foo and FOO, because they would both collate as FOO. It also means, unlike encoding, collation is expected to be one-way.
Vanilla pudding may taste worse with meat :-). I am also not sure about pineapple juice.
> However, I’d take issue with federalism being more developed in the US than Canada. In my experience, the federal gov’t wields much more power in Canada than the US.

Federalism being more developed means exactly that - that regions have more power relative to the center. The stronger the central government is, the less federalism, and the more country is a unitary state rather than a federation.
Yep. The Philips one is a joke.
It's interesting to me that Apple and IBM took opposite approaches during that time, and neither one worked out great in the long term for them. IBM's architecture was a runaway success, but the company itself was sidelined just like Apple was.

One wonders what a winning strategy for an original hardware developer would have looked like, in that arena.
IoT default security is no security at all. Who needs that anyways, not the teenage kids in Eastern Europe who just want to have a 100GBPS ddos network.
Someone needs to invent a drone interceptor that just flys into another drone and ruins the props.
Weird sentiment in my mind. Regarding the job and home, I can maybe understand the argument. Regarding my friends, I feel that their randomness (or "defaultness") is an incredible miracle. I am not social and I have never exactly had a high self esteem. The fact that I do have a small, extremely close group of friends, with a wider pool of people I know casually, is proof to me that I am not only incredibly lucky, but also that at least someone sees me as valuable. The idea that I could create something better by myself seems not only "out of the question", but arrogant and absurd. Of course, the author might say I played right into what he wrote, but it really comes down to a matter of belief, doesn't it?
Pithy, but wrong.
Our train of thought goes like that:

* in non overloaded case LIFO/FIFO make no difference[1].

* in an overloaded case LIFO has better reliability properties, e.g. no standing queue and therefore faster recovery times.

There are alternative approaches there to the problem: Facebook queues switch from FIFO to LIFO when overload is detected[2]. Airbnb uses the same approach[3]. We tend to stick with a simpler way of using LIFO by default.

[1] Given that one does not care about message ordering. If order matters, as mentioned in the post, one can use CoDel or use LIFO only between different connections, maintaining FIFO within each connection.

[2] https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2839461

[3] https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/building-services-at-a...
Apple Should Buy Tesla
Libraries are amazing and I'll sing their praises all day, but I have two complaints and they both revolve around pooping, which genuinely distresses me when considering where to work for the day.

1. At a library, when it's poop time, you gotta bag everything and bring it with you. Mildly annoying if you're using a mouse and notebooks etc.

2. If you're in a major metro library, no matter how hard they try to keep it clean, the bathrooms are full of people using the sink as a shower, and the toilets are foul beyond measure.
Thanks for the help, I'm not sure what you mean exactly by 'OpenType number variant' flicking, however I've since updated the countdown clock with a monospace font.
The metric of "has Iran detonated a bomb yet" is far to simplistic. What we should care about isn't how quickly Iran gets a bomb, but the probability that it ever does.

To see this via a argument to absurdity suppose that we had an alternate deal that was magically enforced and said "Iran will cease development of nuclear weapons for 10 years, and then we will give them an ICBM or two with warheads on top".

And, I mean, it's certainly possible that it was just a bunch of yahoo's and the deal was effective. It's also possible that the USes various spy agencies have information that made people legitimately concerned about the status quo. It would be outright negligent of the government to tell us (and thus Iran) which it is.
The question is at end of day if having strongly independent minds inside the company is better than having them outside the company. Yes its all about the bottom line, but just like costco gets a better bottom line by having extremely low employee churn through better wages, google/fb thinks they get a lot of benefit by keeping even opposed minds inside.
ANSI Lisp, and related dialects, including most of its predecessors, are thoroughly imperative. If you have a program design in your head intended for Algol, you can probably implement in Lisp with essentially the same organization.

In my own dialect of Lisp, TXR Lisp, to demonstrate/test the foreign function capabilities, I took a C code sample from MSDN (a minimal Win32 program to create a Window) and translated it, almost expression for expression:

(deffi-cb wndproc-fn LRESULT (HWND UINT LPARAM WPARAM))

(defun WindowProc (hwnd uMsg wParam lParam)
(caseql* uMsg
(WM_DESTROY
(PostQuitMessage 0)
0)
(WM_PAINT
(let* ((ps (new PAINTSTRUCT))
(hdc (BeginPaint hwnd ps)))
(FillRect hdc ps.rcPaint (cptr-int (succ COLOR_WINDOW) 'HBRUSH))
(EndPaint hwnd ps)
0))
(t (DefWindowProc hwnd uMsg wParam lParam))))

(let* ((hInstance (GetModuleHandle nil))
(wc (new WNDCLASS
lpfnWndProc [wndproc-fn WindowProc]
hInstance hInstance
lpszClassName "Sample Window Class")))
(RegisterClass wc)
(let ((hwnd (CreateWindowEx 0 wc.lpszClassName "Learn to Program Windows"
WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW
CW_USEDEFAULT CW_USEDEFAULT
CW_USEDEFAULT CW_USEDEFAULT
NULL NULL hInstance NULL)))
(unless (equal hwnd NULL)
(ShowWindow hwnd SW_SHOWDEFAULT)

(let ((msg (new MSG)))
(while (GetMessage msg NULL 0 0)
(TranslateMessage msg)
(DispatchMessage msg))))))

TXR Lisp benefits from featuring the referencing dot operator a.b.c.d for accessing structure fields (which is a syntactic sugar for a (qref a b c d) form). This is much more important than having infix math, because the notation supports the expressivity of object-oriented programming, which strikes at the heart of larger scale program organization.

The full program with all the boilerplate to define Win32 types and bind to the foreign functions is here: http://nongnu.org/txr/rosetta-solutions-main.html#Window%20c...

The original C is here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/learnwin32/...
The creative act here is my movement. If I go to an open space and walked the outline of an airplane I have created something, even if it can only be viewed in the data that the phone has collected, the creative act was mine.
I find it strange that you draw the line with the introduction of algorithms. It's somehow less immoral to skip ads if the user has to put some kind of manual effort into it each time? It has the same effect on the content creator.

The content creator is not rewarded by your extra effort. A lost view is a lost view.
Simple way to do code splitting for Redux
Brick and Mortar retail has to adapt and change with the technology and the times. Sears COULD have integrated retail with online shopping IF they remembered to focus on what ONLINE couldn't deliver. Brick and Mortar retail isn't going away for those who understand it's real value. It has to focus on what the online business can't do... customization of products, personal service and relationship building. If their salespeople became consultants and the products they sold were better suited for customization, they would have built a LOYAL customer base that needed their expertise.
There are also quite a few German/Austrian dishes that are sweet but are a full meal. Look up "Kaiserschmarrn" or "
Zwetschgenknoedel". "Kässpätzle" are not sweet but also a full meal.
> Replace Iran with South Africa under apartheid and ask the same question.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Israel_and_the_ap...
You said I should only run the lts version which dell ships...