skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can understand if this post is provocative to some, but I don't think there is any getting around that.
To meditate is to reprogram ones mind. There are many ways to do this. This guy reprogrammed himself to feel more suffering and pain. Since he is so invested in the idea that meditation must be good, he instead of realizing that he is causing himself harm, he justifies his practice by saying that happiness isn't the goal.

"I realized that meditation was not meant to purge our minds of negative emotions or thought patterns,"
Meditation is a tool. It doesn't have any purpose.

"I realize that I should not ask myself how happy I am but rather how attached am I to happiness. How much do I judge my self-worth based on how happy or sad I feel?"
There is no should.

I want to give everyone here the opposite of his advice. Focus on the positive things, not everything.
On the one hand I am an experienced software engineer with a computer science degree. On the other hand I was never interested in AI and I basically know "nothing" about AI, computer vision and artificial neural networks. AI always seemed too far off and bothered my engineering spidey sense for intractable problems.

So I may embarrass myself with the following...

The more software engineering experience I get the more neural networks bother me. I have not studied them in detail... and yet, they seem like a crappy solution.

Throw a lot resources at something, add a bit of math and push a pile of data through.

Does that ever lead to result that can't be bested though simpler more traditional methods?

For example, the math behind how the network is organized and learns, that same math can be used to write algorithms which reveal patterns in data. Patterns which can then be studied further.

Then there is the doing of things. What ever pattern is responsible for doing something in a network, the same function can be described much more simply by an algorithm.

It just seems like neural networks would be interesting only if an alien spaceship with stupefying computing resources fell on us. And it fell on us in such a way that we could fully utilize the power of this new super computer while at the same time we could not learn anything new about algorithms or anything else. Only then does it seem like "train the neural network" is a smart strategy.

In every other scenario is just seems like a decent if somewhat lazy start to an investigation. Really just a way to kick the tires of a problem.

So did I just completely embarrass myself with my lack understanding of ANNs?
But a much better way would have just been to add a "subscribe" button to podcasts in the itunes store, even if they were still in the music app, (which was once called the "iPod" app). Just as magazines in Newstand are allowed to let users subscribe and download new issues in the background.

Being in the music app also allowed them to be searchable by spotlight, which even gave you a blue indicator of what episode was un-listened.
OK so by your logic everyone in my scenario that would have received the cash could instead create pieces of paper that are promises to pay back the money and sell them to the fed. Would this still constitute an "asset swap" that doesn't create inflation.

The problem is that new money was created to buy relatively worthless assets, increasing the money supply and decreasing the relative wealth of dollar holders to those that the fed bought "assets" from. Once the banks spend this money, the latent inflation occurs and prices increase, making everyone that had dollars poorer relative to those that received the fed bailout.
Mathematical formulas are a big reason; wikipedia uses images which look passable unless you start zooming in. Another reason is that with HTML you're never sure if you'll end up with the fonts as they were intended. Lastly, because HTML is not a page-oriented markup format, the presentation in general can differ from system to system; e.g., you can't say "on line 2 of page 3".
The window isn't that narrow, I think it can still pose a problem. Last time I left my phone on by mistake in my bag, when I picked it up I had "Welcome to X country! Your roaming rates here are..." from 3 different countries, none of which were the starting or landing countries.
I think they're a P2P, 'cloud' storage service. Space is shared by users (or that's what I understand). You can also choose to upload (some) stuff to their own servers. And everything with strong AES encryption.

I haven't tried it yet, I still stick to the old fashioned solutions (Dropbox, Backblaze, Time Machine) as they serve me well, but sounds like something interesting with uses to explore (…maybe not the very same ones that have current services!).
I use LastPass. I have absolutely no knowledge of what my passwords even are for 90%+ of the services I use. A few daily-use ones i've just struggled through memorizing the generated passwords. Mostly though I use the Chrome extension that contains all my passwords.
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Or we can keep it as is, undemocratic and non-functioning with fiscal union on the horizon all controlled from and dominated by Germany. I'm amazed no-one thought of that before!
The EU has proven itself to be completely economically inept

Err, what? The EU (& Common Market before it) has done wonders for trade and business. That's why many countries want to get into it.

Several member states have had soverign debt crises (but then, the USA almost defaulted), but that has nothing to do with the EU. (More EU intergration might have stopped that)
I don't think the UX is too complicated. Its smart, though somewhat troublesome because its not something your users would be familiar with (bookmarklets?). To be clear, its unfamiliar, not complicated.

If you're getting the users to install the bookmarklet, they've done the hardest part as far as your implementation goes.

IMO, the hard part of the UX is picking a price that you'd pay for it. I love the idea of this app, but that particular aspect can be taxing for those people of us who who are less ambitious/frugal than others. I would put an emphasis on suggesting how to decide on a fair price. Many people don't have any sense of price or negotiation, and could get 'bored' because they don't want to take a second to think about what something is really worth to them--or conversely, they get bored when they start over-thinking about what its really worth to them.

On a side note, have you considered adding some sort of price-check input for bidders to report other outlets that offer lower prices? For instance, a seller be more inclined to give a discount if the user can report a lower price elsewhere. This shared information makes both parties better off.

this is sort of off topic, so you can disregard it, but i was curious what your thoughts were about the potential for arbitrage, where users of this tool get discounts and resell on somewhere like amazon or ebay.
Good question.

Enlightenment, in the context you mentioned, indicates that you abandon one consciousness and get a new one.

However, what happens through meditation is not the same as that and it has a different point than Enlightenment - meditation is an activity for changing your mind, and the result of modern meditation is that your mind gets darker and you can lose yourself. People can see lots of illusions in the darkness of their minds, and within a relatively short period of time through meditation they can make contact with some very strange phenomena.

What is the source of the strange phenomena in their consciousness? It can happen because they contacted an external consciousness. If the practitioner is weak-willed, the wandering consciousness will enter them immediately and can push their own consciousness out of the way and just drive their body. At that moment, they will show a different kind of behavior, oftentimes claiming knowledge of something that they didn't see with their own eyes (what they don't know).

When the other spirit enters them, their own consciousness just becomes dormant and feels less of a burden so people mistake this for nirvana and peace. People don't recognize this about themselves and only try to change their mind through meditation because they don't know the structure of consciousness and how the mind is generated. The fact is that people's consciousness doesn't change very much without Enlightenment, so no matter how much they practice meditation they won't be able to know Buddha's teachings until they open their eyes to how the world works.

There are two things in the core of consciousness - karma, and virtue. If you have more karma it makes your mind darker, and if you have less Karma and more virtue (conscience), it makes your mind brighter. This happens because what you have done gets input into yourself again.
Because people have their own karma, they have their own perspectives and perceptive ability, but can't easily find out what result in their life comes from what questions they have because they can't see what causes lie in themselves and what kind of problems they have. That's why we need a good teacher. Buddha noted that common people always see things in the exact opposite way, and it's because they have karma.

On the other hand, an Enlightened one can realize what is in the actuality because he burned out his karma completely and doesn't use his mind to perceive the world. As a result of stopping and removing his karma, he can recover his own consciousness, and if he can keep his life then he comes to attain his Enlightenment through his life activities teaching what he can see. It's through this teaching that Enlightenment is attained, but until now this teaching hasn't been passed down properly.

So the reason why meditation doesn't work to produce Enlightenment is that it's not a way to recover and save oneself - it's a way to abandon oneself and never be reborn. It's the exact opposite of Buddha's teaching!
Our current concern is with making a product that works well for our users. We do have some paid services that will be coming in the future :)
It is not a mistake. We currently don't support tablets in this release as development did not finish in time for this '1.0' style release.

Fortunately, you can test out Nightly (our developer oriented release channel) which has some tablet-optimized changes available for download at http://nightly.mozilla.org

[I'm a Mozilla QA Engineer]
Not to take anything away from Gene Sharp, but per CNN:
He's been called the father of nonviolent struggle.

Should Gandhi be the father of nonviolent struggle, or someone before him.
Ask HN: Is Android a case of predatory pricing?
Microsoft have been making the Windows Phone OS entirely by themselves and they sell it as a commercial product. It is a 'fair' and direct approach: you have made a product, you sell it, you get the money. (Meanwhile, they are also getting money from Android devices using some patent agreement, but it is a different question.) Google have been making the free Android OS using the money they have earned from their main business (also they use open source, but it is also a different question). Hardly Android is a charity project, eventually it brings profit to Google by significantly increasing traffic to their search engine and services. So Android is obviously commercial, though indirectly. It seems to me that this is a classic case of predatory pricing being commited by Google over Microsoft: Google uses money from their main business to make a free competing product. I can imagine a correspoding example with tangible entities: what if the BMW company decided to produce scooters and give them away with no profit taking finance for the production from their car business, thus killing the scooter market and becoming the monopolist. This would be an immediate case for the authorities such as the Federal Trade Commission to take action. For me this example is the same situation as with Google and Microsoft. What do you think about this idea?
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Seriously? Put most tables facing the wall? Who wants to look at a wall and have no screen privacy?
That's because I was already doing that work in a different comment and don't want to repeat myself. Feel free to address my remarks there.

I'm not saying it's not a complicated moral issue, but in my judgement it's far simpler when you're talking about big corporations with a lot of money and power. If a tiny business was too scared to take the proper stand, that would be one thing, but the big mega-corp ought to at least try to do the right thing, and then only back down when there are serious legal issues they can't get across (see Twitter vs. the US government regarding releasing user information).
Great work. Very useful service. Now only if there was an easy(ier) way to crop, enhance, tag, etc across platforms.
Been keeping an eye on AeroFS. I don't see why syncing and storage should be mixed together (Dropbox)...

I just want them to support syncing existing folders rather than blessing a particular folder as the syncing one. Then we've got a nice zero-config p2p replacement for rsync.
When Politics Became Lethal
America is no longer the land of opportunity
Right.

We currently don't support tablets in this release as development did not finish in time for this '1.0' style release.
Fortunately, you can test out Nightly (our developer oriented release channel) which has some tablet-optimized changes available for download at http://nightly.mozilla.org
[I'm a Mozilla QA Engineer]
As an aside, you need to get some serious lorum ipsum on your site if you are going to promote it as you've done.

Good point. We've been so "heads down" writing code, that the website hasn't been much of a priority to date. Truth be told, I'd forgotten that "coming soon" was there. Thanks for pointing it out. :-)
same question. if it works well, i'll definitely use it instead of my own frankenstein hackery

EDIT: seems like no go: 500 rows take ~10sec to render

http://jsfiddle.net/JKg33/

caution: will freeze firefox while rendering
All that time and energy you spent making your own desks could have been poured into your product instead. Just saying.
Ask HN: What are some of the key metrics to track after launch?
We just launched www.jackpotbuddy.com this past Sunday. Just curious what are some of the key metrics others track. So far we are tracking:

1. Visits 2. Bounce Rate 3 Avg. time on site 4. Avg Page view per visit 5. Demographics

Anything else we should consider?
Where's this magical place where the government takes care of you? I've never been there. More like, if you get injured and can't come up with enough money, go die. If you can't afford food to eat, go die. If you can't find a job, it's cause you're lazy, go die. If you can't afford a car to get to work, we will not provide a bus, go die. What on earth are your generalizations based on?
So I came to discuss my opinion on the article, which is precisely what this forum is for.

Fair enough. I guess your earlier post just struck me (and apparently some other people) as overly antagonistic or something. No biggie...
Node.js performance 0.8 vs 0.6.19
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Maybe all government contractors should be required to be 501(c) registered. Nonprofits always when there are tax dollars being spent.
It's not like it's hard for a site which offers programming tutorials to just change the password storage method.
Well Gandhi never wrote it in book form that could be read by others and implemented.

Gandhi could be the father and Gene could be the "Engineer" of non violent struggle ... :)
Iron Law of Institutions:

http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/001705.html (ignore the partisan aspects)
That Anne Frank was a great writer wasn't she? What ever happened to her?
> We decided to build instead of buy

Meaning they decided to procrastinate instead of working on their product/service.

> we instead chose to purchase solid core doors from Home Depot (~$40 each)

Meaning they instead chose to spend more on something that wasn't designed to be a desk than an actual desk.

From [1]:

Ergonomically, door desks leave a lot to be desired. Keyboards were usually too high. Typing for hours could be uncomfortable. And those angle brackets have sharp edges; accidentally scrapping exposed flesh against those was a mistake that wouldn't be repeated.

[1] - http://glinden.blogspot.co.uk/2006/01/early-amazon-door-desk...
Check out this (awesome) talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmNOAtZIgIk

There are a number of areas in which unsupervised feature learning outperforms the hand-programmed models we have been fine-tuning for decades.
I'd disagree, mostly because I know a "Jon" who was actually interested in programming, and he's gone pretty far already (we graduated a month ago). Despite my 7-8 year head start, we're in pretty similar positions.
>> When I'm joining multiple tables and looking for specific

>> rows/objects that match multiple restrictions, ORM turns into a

>> migrane of epic proportions.

>

> Perhaps you're doing it wrong. Put the complex query in a proc or

> view, and use the ORM to map the result set into memory. Using an ORM

> doesn't mean not using SQL when it works better.

that's what he sad: use sql when it works better. if you put it in a proc, a view or your application makes no difference.
Multitasking May Hurt Your Performance, But It Makes You Feel Better
So having multiple containers having one container as long as the carrier says it is baby formula prevents such an explosion? I'm not entirely certain that they stands up to the "mix of deterrents and science" test, though.
Amazon does this. If you look at a product and then come back later to buy it the price will be higher than it is if you bought it immediately after looking. If you want to get the best prices and look up things whenever you want, use one computer to do lookups and one to buy.
He does touch a valid concern though.

I know people have largely moved to using remote services to send their mail. However, if you're about to introduce a queue only for that then a local MTA seems a more sensible choice. A minimal postfix satellite config is 12 lines - not rocket science and robust as a brick.
Is this a YC company? If not why are they so concerned about doing things the YC way?

Anyways I am just happy to see something Seattle related.
You may have missed the "similarly priced rails work" part. I did on my first read.
It should be, but there's no concrete teaching of how things in the reality are and how the world works, in current Buddhist scripture, much less any kind of meditation.

The meditation that Buddha taught is vastly different than the modern ones. He let his disciples sit when they had nothing to do. What he guided them to practice is not to do with breath, nor concentration, nor compassion. But much more concretely, he taught to try to pursue and then confirm the reality of what you've heard, and that you should only allow yourself to accept the reality once you've confirmed. Confirmation is essential because people can easily deceive themselves when they misunderstand something.

If there's anyone who opened eyes to reality through meditation, you should ask them concrete questions about things in the reality to verify. They probably have understood the term reality as one experience, state, or object, which is the indication that they are being deceived by someone/something. You'll have to verify case-by-case to be sure.

Reality can be defined as the set of results which are determined to appear from the problems that things in the world have. Because these results are determined in a fixed principle, someone who knows Buddha's teaching can easily recognize an discuss any field of study at length without difficulty, even if they've never studied it before, because they can realize how it works and thus recognize the problems (matters) involved in the field through the person they're talking to.

Hope this helps. Ask any questions if I can clarify something
It appears the page has already been tagged as "It is written like a personal reflection or essay rather than an encyclopedic description of the subject." in 2011, but so far nobody has decided to tidy it up.
Does anyone know how I can +1 a page that doesn't have a +1 button on it?

I want to do this for 'search plus your world', and I'm shocked it's not immediately apparent.
We definitely agree! And we hope to solve that some more if we can.

The mobile components provide cropping and scaling out of the box.
Cracking a Safe with UX
Simple url shortner function
Perhaps the TSA could be said to be show business for people too ugly for politics? Just going with a theme, apologies to Woody Allen.
How to avoid burnout when starting your own business
Hate to be that guy - but is there good scientific evidence for your claims?
The simple fact that there are "fancy numbers" involved or even if some schmoe did a fancy calculation using "rithmetic" doesn't mean there's any science going on here. Is an 11-inch Macbook Air sized amount of thermite drastically less interesting than a 13 inch one; I mean come on. It's clear that many of these things are completely arbitrary, especially those distinguishing between laptop and tablets.
The flowchart is useful but what I can only think is the majority case could probably be summed up in one prerequisite statement:

"First change all of your image tags to CSS background images"

If you're not willing to do that as a first step, then you're probably not going to be able or willing to do any of the other steps.

Also, this is really what we've come to?
Thanks for having an open mind. :) It's hard to meet someone like you.

I learned like this from my teacher, a man who claims Supreme Enlightenment. He says that he is a Tathagata. It's the same name that Gautama Buddha said others should call Him while he is alive. All His teachings are free and for a while before he passed away he was available for answering the public's questions.

Here's one site with some decent English translations,

http://www.tathagata.co.uk
I think there is plenty of room for multiple podcast apps to do well, even with Apple's version present. Podcasts really do make up an important part of many people's day (not unlike an audiobook, or NPR, H. Stern, Rush, etc.), and the way people want to consume and manage podcasts varies substantially and that opens up possibilities for multiple apps.

I don't even see it as that far-fetched to imagine this addition helping 3rd party apps. Say Average Joe doesn't even know what a podcast is, but the Apple app is interesting enough that he tries it/them out and suddenly "podcast" is on his radar. He is now a new potential customer for a 3rd party app that has a feature he'd like but is missing from the Apple app.
I turn up at 9-10am and then churn out code for 7-10 hours.

This is why I don't have a blog.
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Well, Gandhi's techniques aren't really generalizable to anything else - any other imperial power than the British Empire would simply have shot him and massacred his followers. You couldn't do it in China for example (remind me what happened to the guy in the photo in Tianenmen Sq, standing in front of the tank). By the time Gandhi started his movement, the British had learnt the secret that had eluded everyone else: empires are actually more trouble than they're worth, how do we get out of here?
How is it bragging to say that they didn't raise the round? If you care about what's going on inside the mind of a founder who choses NOT to raise a round, this post would be interesting to you.
Any chance of opening up some more beta invites? I've been waiting awhile :(
Posting it on your Google+ profile will register as a +1 on the button.
From experience, that's pretty much no vendor these days.

I will say positive things for Microsoft: you can always trial their software before you buy it.