skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is definitely the first hurdle I encounter. The handful of times I have attempted this, I end up thinking about not thinking (isn't that silly?), or a song comes into my head, or I hear a noise in the distance, and attempts to clear out those thoughts lead to, well, more thinking!

Warning! Completely subjective descriptions ahead:

In my experience the best approach to clearing your mind is not to try and actively clear your mind (i.e. thinking about not thinking) it is training yourself to let your thoughts be more transient.

When I try to meditate I try to let all my thoughts slip. Of course, just like you I will hear a noise or some thought tries to worm its way in, but when this happens I try to relax (physically, there is a wonderful link between relaxing your muscles and relaxing your brain. Instead of forcing your brain to relax, trick yourself by relaxing physically) and let the thought go.

Of course, thoughts keep floating into my mind of course, but the longer I keep the meditation up the more transient they become. At some point they even stop being thoughts because they exist to short to even have any content or feeling associated with them.

I have noticed that with practice the time and difficulty of achieving this transient state go down, making it easier to just start. Early on I would need to be in a quiet spot alone, nowadays I can get the process fairly far even with people in the same room talking (if not to loud).

Anyhoo, I hope that description maybe helps you!

TL;DR - You don't stop thinking or actively try to shut down your brain, you passively let your thoughts become more transient.
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I just used the GMail shortcut (Tab + Enter).
Everytime I go to Google Blog I start playing with the header balls and forget to read the article
I did mean Leibniz vs. Newton but I remember infinitesimals being glossed and wishing we would get into them more.
DNS is distributed. There's only one Twitter.com

See the problem in that?

Furthermore, there isn't just one DNS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root
So I went from MacOS X Lion to Gnome 3, and I have to say, it felt like a positive step -- Lion broke my model of multiple monitors and fullscreen applications; Gnome 3 has a different model to Gnome 2, which I think has been frustrating to people, but straight off the bat, it was better than Lion.
Someone is buying Mitt Romney's Twitter Popularity
...so how is it any worse than the current situation?
I've gone through one acquisition within the last year. Ours came about through a combination of us releasing a new feature and getting some pr that caught corporate dev's attention (they read techcrunch too you know), and we also tried to bring our acquirer on as a client around the same time so we were talking with people outside of corporate development as well.
As at least some of you have figured out, the title is incorrect. Azul did not make Zing open source; we are just making free licenses available to developers working on open source projects.

Regarding performance, you can find some useful information on Azul's website. In a nutshell, Zing's strengths are its ability to GC while the application continues to run; and its ability to support very large memory heaps without a performance penalty. The two combine to permit a single JVM to do a lot more work and to avoid long application stalls when GC is triggered.
wow - it looks fantastic - totally stripped down to the minimal needs and everything is fast (try search).

Nice work again, Microsoft. Its almost sort of a trend now (Surface, Azure VMs) - has Microsoft got its act together?
besides github and a project management saas, what other service is a must for your startup?
I didn't immediately see the send button either, so I attempted the same hotkey combo that sends in Office Outlook (Alt+S) and it sent!
Without some numbers behind those statements they are pretty meaningless. People buy the wrong product all the time and take it back. This is especially true of those people that don't understand what it is they are buying in the first place.
They might if ancient Rome was still in living memory.
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Anyone here used to be a subscriber to seed magazine the printed version?

I paid way back and never received a single issue from them.
It seems like the ruling was based off of particular regulations for the 4G (LTE) spectrum. I have a feeling it would not apply to 3G spectrum.
Chrome handles this much better than firefox.

How so? What can Chrome do that using the Firefox Profile Manager can't?
Since this is mostly satire--what are some actually good articles/blog posts about how to write better? I'm familiar with "Writing, Briefly". Any other suggestions?
0.02-0.04%? That seems higher than Facebook's usual CTR of 0.015%. Maybe Facebook should use blank ads, too, and see their ad revenue double overnight.
Ask HN: Does anyone want to help me make a HN for the fitness industry?
The fitness industry is huge and I know I would love a Hacker News type site for the various Health, Nutrition, and Fitness news, blogs, and products out there.

Does anyone else think this would be interesting?
Try gittip - very similar. This could be a plugin for gittip.
Try this series by Steve Pavlina http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/polyphasic-sleep/
Wow!

However, I would never ever change my primary email to a new service that has not really been tested in the wild yet. Maybe in six months or a year, if everything runs stable by then.
Fair enough. I generally tend to use something like tmux or multiple tabs in a single terminal window, or two windows at maximum, so I can definitely understand the limitations for you there. Something that I have picked up from using a Mac at work is using the Super key to bring up the expose-like overlay to find the window I'm looking for if it's not just a quick alt-tab or alt-` away.
Samsung is trotting out it's 2006 work to show they didn't willfully infringe if Apples patents are valid. I bring up the Prada but because it shows that Apples design patent is of questionable validity to begin with.
Seems like this is thanks to the open applications rule of the 700MHz spectrum auction, Block C[1], that Google lobbied to include and then bid to ensure that it would apply. That spectrum was bought by Verizon for the contiguous 48 states.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_2008_wireless_spe...
No, no, no, no. Instinctively I recoil at that idea. I dont quite know how to explain why, but I'll give it a go...

Im good with computers because I was there in the early days when it was pretty simple. Everything since has build upon those simple blocks. So, I can always work it back as it were. It kinda means I can simplify current complexities down to simple fundamentals. So, it leaves me with an ability to be presented something new, or different and very quickly I can understand it.

Does that make any sense? I assume many people here are exactly like that, or recognise what Im trying to say.

Pathetic I know, but if any one can put it better, please do!!!!

Anyway, all I know is that I am so much better off knowing how it all came together than people who don't. I don't understand how any one can claim to understand any subject with out understanding it's journey as it were.

I make a distinction here between know how to use something and understand it. If all one wants to do is "use", then understanding isn't absolutely necessary. You know, plenty of people drive cars with out understanding anything about how they work.
That's depressing. Charging for wifi tethering is ridiculous.
Right - Thank Google for this one. This was one of the conditions Google received from the FCC in exchange for placing their bid.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iMbsPSv2vatAVvbz_8n0xU3M...
Go's concurrency constructs on Intel's Single-Chip Cloud Computer [pdf]
I'm interested in hearing how you feel about this in a year.
Where do you get that 0.015% is a usual CTR for FB? That's actually quite low, even for them.
Not necessarily. They're not Facebook-only, and it's entirely possible Google may have Wildfire focus more on upcoming Google+ API stuff in the future.
I personally would probably not use it, I never visit r/fitness for example. But if you need a nerd to help build it I might be able to help with that.
> Cocos2D is a robust, free and easy-to-use environment; a fully-functional, stable, Android analogue does not exist

Cocos2d-x is a very functional and robust C++ port / analogue of cocos2d, and it works on iOS, Android and Win32 (not sure about OSX and Linux?). Is that what you call "Cocos2D for Android"? What do you mean exactly by "up to scratch"? Android's fragmentation is a well known problem that can't be abstracted away, but that's no reason to underestimate the value of such frameworks (it sure is a reason to avoid developing for Android though). I for one love being able to develop abd debug in MSVC on Windows, and only touch Xcode / Eclipse for platform-specific stuff.

As an aside, the HTML5 version of Cocos2d-x is also functional but I can't vouch for its robustness
I'll bet there are some smart, hard-working, upstanding googlers here that read that and felt a little sad.
Does this mean that they can simply charge more for the base fee instead?
Ask HN - anybody know an automated GOOG Maps Local Search Rank Checker?
Working on a project where I need to create weekly reports that show the search position in Google Local for a number of keywords.

I've found BrightLocal.com but they don't have archived reports - I need to run the exact same report every week, add to it etc.

Thought I'd throw it out to HN - any help is appreciated -
I think even HTC still don't unlock all of their phones. Same with Sony.

Motorola have merely promised, my Milestone is exactly as locked as it was before that blog post.

Hopefully things will improve, but I'm not holding my breath. Next phone is a Google device.
Or clearer:

Tech bloggers: be concise.
I use Google pretty much entirely because I trust and respect them. GMail is the first and only web email service I have ever used...I've always run my own mail servers, because the trust wasn't there.

I'm not sure I have that level of trust for Microsoft, though my trust in Microsoft is much higher than, say, facebook (which I actively distrust, and try very hard to prevent from having access to anything I would consider private, especially email).
The book linked from the show is The Principle of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development.

Link (no affiliates): http://www.amazon.com/The-Principles-Product-Development-Flo...
Why is airplane boarding always a mob scene?
Don't all of the new Verizon "Share Everything" plans include tethering? I suppose this is only relevant for archaic data plans (pre June 2012)?
Galaxy S3 exploit
Padding is added automatically by OpenSSL unless explicitly disabled. Also I will be switching to Curve25519 (for DH-style key exchange) and ECDSA (for signatures) quite soon. There will be no other use of pubkey crypto, so actually that entire file will be gone soon.
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Computer hacking for 8-year-olds
I remember reading in passing something about companies being able to do funny tax stuff with their advertising budget. Maybe that is the motivation?
I took 2 courses on Quantum Mechanics during my undergrad and I'm taking the Coursera course now as well for fun.

My biggest quibble with how QM is presented is that it is, paradoxically, never tied into physics. Quantum Physics is really a Linear Algebra + Statistics but with extension to complex numbers. In my experience it is just another math course and there is no Physics anywhere.

There's always talk of measuring states, applying Hadamard gates and writing down their decomposition in the eigenbasis but it's abstract and meaningless. What does a particle with some particular wave function look like? As it evolves in time it "smears" out according to the time evolution equations, but how fast is the process? Does it occur on scale of nanoseconds? Seconds? Hours? How is it suspended, or operated on? What exactly is an example of a measurement? There are so many tangible questions that would help with intuition, but are never addressed.

This would be my approach to teaching quantum mechanics. Connect it to a concrete physical system, explore in detail going back and forth between experiment and math. And best, maybe even simulate the system somehow. Some time ago I made an effort to try to simulate what I learned and this was the result (as an example):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a88GlrUmI9Y&feature=plcp
I'ts ugly and it's probably wrong, but it's tangible and the best I could do because finding this kind of Quantum Mechanics, as opposed to a lot of talk about measuring things is very hard.
Because part of the purpose of these networks is to subvert government control. If you can censor one thing (e.g. child porn), then you can censor anything, which makes it useless if you're an anti-government radical in China, for example.
His eyes are still functioning, but the brain can't process the incoming data, so things get remapped to areas of the brain responsible for other types of functions.

Actually, as KingMob explains in [1], the mappings are already there in healthy persons as well. This is the "lizard brain" - the original neural pathways transmitting visual information to various subconscious modules that evolved hundreds of millions of years before the relatively new invention of the mammalian cerebral cortex. As evolution rarely throws out anything that works, the archaic modules are still there, functioning, and in this patient's case, only the more recent higher-level capacities were destroyed.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4319700
There's an entire casino gaming industry on this planet that operates on the same principles: part people and their money with any tactic you can think of. And I've worked in this industry.

I never saw a figurehead that I could classify as evil or unbalanced. Maybe because the market was legit, maybe because everyone - manufacturers, house and players - knew the score. There was also enough legal protection and patenting so that if an idea or concept was stolen, there would be a price to pay.
My argument is mostly about this bit "Samsung ... brought it to market before the iPhone".

Also, I saw Korean patent reference in the article I've linked to. There is no proof of that patent. Korea patent search [1] probably broken. Doesn't return any phone patents or design patents applied for in December 2006

[1]http://detseng.kipris.or.kr/ndetsen/loin1000a.do?method=logi...
I guess we can hope that competitive pressure will encourage AT&T to offer Wi-Fi tethering at no additional charge. My guess is that both carriers will raise their base rate and offer it "free".
That hasn't happened to me recently but it used to happen to me when I was a teenager, I'd wake up and be unable to see for a few minutes (although no hearing problems). It happened every few months. For me it was never related to too much / too little sleep.
Groklaw report on Apple v. Samsung start of trial
Yeah I can see how it would be annoying. I know I wouldn't be too happy if I had to copy and paste since I also spent a good deal of time on the format. However, I think that if I really wanted "THAT" job then the few extra steps, reformatting, etc. would be worth it.

Turns out it did help screen a bunch of people that were seemingly just spamming every posting with their resume along with one who copy and pasted an entire (unedited) email mail chain she used to apply to another position...

Overall I'm not very happy with the performance of the posting, maybe it's my fault...
Hmm, perhaps: there is a passage somewhere about how they set up a scheme where instead of the one person doing all the different computations they set up sequences where each person would only do one computation but for different problems which would circulate through the pool in a staggered fashion of some such.
Ask HN: Suggest some Programmers and Developers Communities
Our startup CodePorting (http://codeporting.com) offers converting C# projects, files and source code into Java in the cloud. We know that our target audience is actually developers and programmers and we are trying to get them engaged as well but through this forum, I need to ask regarding;

1- Which developers communities or groups are out there to whom we can ask for evaluating our Code Porting service and sharing their feedbacks?

2- Which technical bloggers and reviewers can you suggest who might be interested to voluntarily review our service?

Thanks a bunch for your attention in advance.

Usman
>Microsoft have an edge over Google in that they aren't perceived to be as morally bankrupt,

Lol, kids these days, not around during the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s.
Probably, but since tethering is probably a feature 10% of their data subscribers are interested in, they would also raise the data price on the 90% that don't need it (who are also be more likely to walk away if prices go up.)
AT&T has LTE as well FWIW.
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After hearing about those parasitic brain bugs that you can catch from cats I started to wonder if conscious awareness could be merely the collective experience of some kind of bug we caught that has just hitched along for the ride and that hasn't actually really got much of a control over anything really, but just believes that it is the creature it is inhabiting, because it is a bit stupid. Perhaps you could cure someone of it and not even be able to tell the difference. These are the kind of thoughts that keep me awake at night ;)
A new "processing fee"? Preposterous!
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Do you think it would change the dynamic of certain IRC channels if tipping became a regular occurrence?
Please provide feedback on this.

Go to the little gear in the upper-right corner next to your name and click "Feedback" in the resultant popup. I don't know the exact details of your email address and the steps you took to get into this state, otherwise, I would just provide feedback myself.

Disclaimer: Microsoft Employee. Not part of the team that made this.
I don't think it is fair to call it a "failed" alpha port. AFAIK WinNT was developed on multiple CPU architectures from the get go to ensure they didn't take any dependencies on one architecture. Alpha was one of those architectures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_3.1 (also courtesy of the fact that Dave Cutler and a whole bunch of other guys from DEC were hired by MS to build NT) and continued to be supported for a while. I think Alpha's lack of success in the marketplace eventually killed NT's support for it.
This is the sort of price/service regulation that superficially appears beneficial to consumers... but might not be pro-consumer in its total effects.

In particular, it could mean customers who would never use tethering wind up paying incrementally more, because all plans now include that capability, and Verizon still has sufficient pricing power make up the loss from tethering fees with other incremental fee increases.
I filed a complaint with the US Justice Department anti-trust division. And you should, too: http://www.justice.gov/atr/contact/newcase.html

It's easy enough but they are all too aware of it as the response to my complaint came from the same attorney who ran the anti-trust filings against Microsoft the last time.

I also emailed my Congressman who also replied in kind. This Microsoft action is the talk of the town gathered from his knowing response.
Yes, this is known as the "confirmation of file attack" and there is no feasible way for the system to operate without it.

The confirmation of file attack is actually the degenerate case of the "learn the remaining information attack", in which the majority of the plaintext is known except for some low-entropy portion.

You can imagine a standard form letter that contains your credit card number. An attacker can then generate all possible permutations of that low entropy data and find matches where those are stored.

For more information see: https://tahoe-lafs.org/hacktahoelafs/drew_perttula.html
Challenge accepted ;) http://imgur.com/8Citc I'll let you know.
No one is saying that knowledge of the history isn't useful. But it's not the most efficient way to learn the concepts. For example, it would be crazy to start learning basic programming by first studying the physics behind computers.

Learn the history behind your subject, but separate it from the pedagogy. Otherwise you'll have a much harder time learning knowledge that you can actually apply.
All feedback welcome. post here or on the tumblr!
Look at those guys! Look closely...
Definitely bots.
Gmail Tampers with Outgoing Email
> If you can't tell whether a given block is encrypted data or just part of an mpeg, how can you choose to store only unencrypted data?

I didn't say you could :) The point of this alternative is that it separates the stigma 1%-99% toward the upper layer, but puts the implementation 95% into the lower layer--and therefore we get a stable, un-censorable distributed storage network on the lower layer with the "abuses" of the upper layer (CP and political activism both) being an unavoidable free rider, but not something "visible" (in the sense of seeing CP sites listed in your index directory) to people only using the lower layer.

This situation, of course, also describes the Internet as it is today: protocols like HTTP and SMTP are used by everyone, and also by some unethical people who send their stuff over those same protocols in encrypted containers using anonymizing proxies.

The difference here is that the two big hurdles--of identity-diffusion over time after initial data seeding, and of guaranteeing data persistence as long as there continue to be consumers of the data becoming persistent-caching peers--are taken care of by the lower layer, allowing the upper layer to just handle transparent encryption in whichever way it sees fit.

(And thus can we also replace the upper layer if we come up with a better way to anonymously and securely get the right metadata into the right hands, without having to throw out the network effect of all the extant peers. They simply start transmitting-and-caching blocks representing the new kind of metadata exchanges along-side the blocks representing the old kind.)
Nexus Q launch delayed indefinitely, no longer available for pre-order
Before anyone jumps in with "Why do all that coding just to do what I can do with my hand and chest?"...this is a cool hack that shows practical code for breaking down a video file and measuring changes. The same concept could be used to, for example, count number of unique faces that pass through a room/hallway. Or, for a C-SPAN clip, gauge when who speaks when (depending on whose face is center-frame during a debate). And other less pedantic ideas.
http://www.justice.gov/atr/contact/newcase.html

See my post elsewhere.
> Other operating system vendors are free to arrange with hardware manufacturers to include certificates for their operating systems. It's not an antitrust issue that other OS vendors were not able to get their act together in order to do so.

For a lot of users, merely having the option of signing their images simply won't be good enough. Unless the signing keys are available to everyone, you cannot boot a self-compiled kernel on a secure boot system.
Show HN: Easy A/B testing for your mobile app (open source)
Market should correct any attempts at that.
Phoenix was also 7 minutes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2ucH1PT4LQ

Maybe the retrorockets/sky crane in Phoenix/Curiosity (respectively) add a few seconds.
The project has enough legitimate uses I don't see the need to hide my identity.
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Try "The Elements of Style." Classic book on writing well.