skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've just found my thinking to be much clearer. Meditation is essentially practice in awareness: awareness of your thoughts, awareness of your focus, awareness of your emotions. It doesn't mean being able to ignore or eliminate them, just becoming aware of them and reacting accordingly.

Ideally, I'd like to do it twice a day for 20 mins each, but right now at least I average every other day or so for 20 minutes after the kids are asleep.

I first heard about it when reading stuff by Ray Dalio, founder of the hedge fund Bridgewater Associates. He called it the best return on investment he ever made so that piqued my curiosity.

There's a great online resource at http://www.insightmeditationcenter.org/books-articles/medita...

There are a couple of different types of techniques that seem to be variations of each. Transcendental Meditation is possibly the most famous (or notorious). It's expensive and has a "secretive" air to it.

Sara Lazar, who does research on the effect of meditation on the brain, was really helpful. Check out her talk here: http://www.tedxcambridge.com/thrive/sara-lazar/

She recommended a few places that eventually led me to the Insight Meditation Center.
Curiosity Mars rover beams images of ancient streambed
Hi, John, you have some cool ideas there! Hope to see you hacking on Persona. As a member of the team, I just want to clarify that this is not an effort to make firefox alone more secure; it's an effort to make the web more secure. Any browser vendor can implement the protocol, natively or in a plugin, and we hope other browsers will. Same for identity providers. The spec and code are all open-source: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid So Mozilla's strategy remains the same: Put the users of the internet first. That's why we made this.
Most U.S. online shoppers research at least half of all retail purchases online
For crisp edges, use anything but crispEdges
Because if you can't build much-to-any more housing in Silicon Valley, salary increases there just serve to bid up housing prices further, rather than motivating people to build more & better housing.
It is never a good idea to pay developers to support a platform [1]. I struggle to find a single proof point of a successful platform where early dev adoption was kickstarted by the provider paying for apps.

All that paying for apps does is get uncommitted developers doing second-rate work. It sets the expectation that payments will continue as well.

I was bullish about ADN until I read this news. Now I fear it is doomed...

[1] http://ceklog.kindel.com/2012/09/26/paying-developers-is-a-b...
My NFC tag is simply a link to my vcard.... Well, a php file that looks like this:

<?php

header('Content-disposition: attachment; filename=klinquist.vcf');

header('Content-type: text/x-vcard');

readfile('klinquist.vcf');

?>
Yes, actually several if you count all the various side motions and what not. And at no time before, during, or after did the times become an 'military enemy of the US.'
I've skimmed through several screenshots and videos on mindmapping over the years and still don't get it. To me it seems little more than a glorified tree structure. What would this buy me over, say, a wiki or (my favorite) a plain text file in Markdown/reStructuredText?
When you click the "Sign in with Persona" button on a website, the dialog that pops up has a "This is not me" button which logs out the current user and allows you to login with a different email.
It should, but my laptop doesn't even come with a LED and turning on the camera causes no visible changes.

I have considered putting some aluminum foil in front of it, though.
> Indeed, letting teachers decide what to do on the basis of what's rasiest and most convenient for them is bound to have a 1:1 correspondence with the best way for people to learn.

I consider myself a professional educator, so I will treat this statement as if you were aiming it directly at me.

I'm not yet 10 years into my career, but I daresay I have a solid understanding of what facilitates effective learning among my students. I can quickly, accurately, and individually asses and guide my students on a path which best suits their needs.

There is nothing a standardized test in my subject area can tell me about my class that I don't already know, and there is much that a standardized test will not reveal about the individuals within my class that I and my colleagues already know.

I would like to see my students freed from wasting their valuable time preparing for absurd tests which do not serve them in any useful or meaningful fashion. My admins know how my students are doing because they receive reports directly from me. They know my word is good because I am a professional.

The implementation of my wish to eliminate meaningless standardized testing and have more control over my curriculum would not earn me one more cent than I currently make. (I make less than 45k / year and I'm 6 years into it with a masters degree.)

I love my work and seeing my students succeed is why I do it.
Scammers making malicious phone calls regarding Microsoft's Internet Explorer
Obviously you have several factors in play, and available land is one of them. But both SF and Manhattan would be cheaper than they now are if they had Chicago's more liberal attitude towards development, construction, and rent controls. Not as cheap as Chicago in the limiting case, but still cheaper. Indeed, even if SF had only New York's somewhat more draconian attitude towards development, it would be a lot cheaper than it is now. Rents in SF are comparable to Manhattan even though Manhattan has half the land area and twice the population.
What a strange idea. I wonder if it will work. We used to kid that the app store turned development into a popularity contest. Well, this is exactly a popularity contest, no metaphor.

On the other hand, I'm glad they're going to suspend developers who goad; I am sick of every app on my phone asking me to go give it five stars.
If payment is based on the ratings user give to the applications, wouldn't the "second rate" applications not make any income? Also, it's opt-in - nobody says a developer has to participate.
It took me about half a year of lifting to get where I wanted to be, and tracking was instrumental in achieving that. But now it's all just maintenance, so why should I track? Some people approach it like a sport (that you want to continue to get better at) and some approach it like exercise (to maintain a level of fitness) – both seem perfectly fine to me.
Right. So punish JoeClerk, not SomeDude.
WebPal version 2.3 Released : The WebPal Blog
Cyrus over at Ars has posted a nice review:

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/09/how-startup-sausage-...
What does the size of each vertex represent? Also, how do you lay out the graphs?
Just checked and Bing gets it too!
Interesting. What languages do you support?
Open Source Mobile Backend As a Service (MBaaS) released
If Google owns the entity then Google better be behind these campaigns
It's not just Jane Street at this point. Jane Street has been using OCaml for a while, and others heve been picking it up too...
I think you missed the point, let me go get it for you:

It's a location based application. Operative and key words there are "location" and "based". It makes more sense to release in a limited location you have proximity to and are familiar with in an early release to iron out all the bugs before making an international release where tracking down inaccuracies can be much more difficult logistically.

I doubt it's an arbitrary restriction, it's done for the sake of ensuring the app works as designed in a controlled test-environment.
Medallion/contract holders would get to squeeze out the overhead costs of employing drivers and would no longer need to ensure/insure the drivers' personal safety. This sort of automation promises to increase their profits directly.

So long as this was pitched as a service for them as opposed to competing with them, I doubt they'd fight it.

The only place I think you'd see push-back, is where drivers are not medallion/contract-holders but have (union) contracts that protect their place as the vehicle operator. But that's far from universal.
Agreed. There are a lot of other possible optimizations, from the often-mentioned buffer size settings:

net.core.rmem_max / net.core.wmem_max
net.ipv4.tcp_rmem / net.ipv4.tcp_wmem

to metric tunings like:

net.ipv4.tcp_no_metrics_save / net.ipv4.tcp_moderate_rcvbuf

I've been playing around with these settings on very loaded machines:

# Retry SYN/ACK only three times, instead of five
net.ipv4.tcp_synack_retries = 3
# Try to close things only twice
net.ipv4.tcp_orphan_retries = 2
# FIN-WAIT-2 for only 5 seconds
net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout = 5
# Increase syn socket queue size (default: 512)
net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog = 2048
# One hour keepalive with fewer probes (default: 7200 & 9)
net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_time = 3600
net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_probes = 5
# Max packets the input can queue
net.core.netdev_max_backlog = 2500
# Keep fragments for 15 sec (default: 30)
net.ipv4.ipfrag_time = 15
# Use H-TCP congestion control
net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control = htcp
I like this a lot. But I wish it had some physics added to it. Maybe that will be my fork.
> How would you implement this?

Include experienced professional educators in on the creation and updating of NCLB, RTTT, or any policy aimed at education.

> Would you eleminate all elected officials from education policy, such as local boards of education?

No.

> Who would determine what qualifies as an "experienced, professional educator"?

Similar to what happens within the law, medical,or any other professional community -- a team of professional, accomplished people within the specific field would set the bar and determines who qualifies.
Agree on all points, though I think there's something to be said for 10 minutes 7 days a week – routine is really important. But having a yoga mat, balance ball and some weights at home really helps on rainy days, and making sure you enjoy your workouts rather than dreading them sounds so obvious, but it feels like most of us have been indoctrinated with the idea it's something we have to suffer through.
Backend Services include: Enterprise Data Sync and Replication, Push Notifications, Location-Oriented Apps, Offline Apps. Platforms Supported: Android, iOS, and PhoneGap
That has not been my experience, but admittedly it has been many years since I bought anything with Intel graphics.
Rust statically prevents leaks and double-frees, warns about implicit copies of large structures, and has GC built in if I want to use it. It's certainly more familiar to a Python dev than C++. The whole trait system is even like a built-in and vastly simpler zope.interface.
Ion Storm rivals Looking Glass Entertainment as one of the bigger disappointments of the 1990s PC gaming scene. Both companies produced an incredible roster of games -- Thief, Deus Ex, and the amazing System Shock series (which managed to frighten so much with so little) -- then vanished after figuratively lighting money on fire.

Can anyone point to companies producing games like this today? Games that are sparse, minimal, and full of atmosphere and character? I'd really like to find a few before I give up and buy Halo 4.
SF isn't a mega-city by any means. It's the 14th largest in the country (between Austin and Columbus). An SF-style city can't be as inexpensive as Topeka. But it could be as inexpensive as Philadelphia or Boston.
Or actually, if there are residents living nearby who could setup a web cam, you would pay them a fee each month. But yeah, video would work better.
this is also another really terrible argument that is used to rationalize bad behaviour constantly.

At least we arn't as bad as THAT guy.

If the USA does not have the level of human rights abuses of say china, does that give them a free pass? They cannot be questioned or criticized until china "cleans up its act", and everyone complaining should complain about china instead?
That's fair. I'm conjecturing somewhere into the future: D never really took off, but I'm hoping Rust will.
If the problem is that Google Play won't let you download an app from the U.S. store based on where your current ISP is located then: 1) that's dumb* and 2) download Field Trip when you get back to the U.S.

The point is developers shouldn't have to worry about people in un-supported countries downloading their apps and finding them worthless due to no content.

* (it should be based on your Google Play account settings or billing information)
If that is true, then in a multicultural or multi-religion group no rights exist at all after time passes.

Well... kind of, yeah. In real life, most multicultural regions have codes of "rights and freedoms" designed as workable compromises between the moral philosophies of the various cultures living there. Once such a code exists, it will usually be amended rather than scrapped, and new arrivals made to conform somewhat (because it has become a shared culture), but that is, in fact, how it works.
Ask HN: How do you bootstrap a content rich iOS Application?
Open Source iOS libraries you absolutely love etc.
Unfortunately "when it's ready" did not apply to diablo 3 or starcraft 2 (battle.net for sc2 was months from being ready).
Three founders is three too many. Businesses don't need founders. They need owners and they need managing directors. Too many people think that becoming the former magically makes them into the latter.

Here is a test for the next time you are founding something. If you weren't a founder, you were just hired labor, and someone tried to give you 93% of this company and total autonomy in exchange for running it full-time, but NO other support of any kind and you would be completely on your own in every aspect of running this company - would you accept this?

For most ideas, the answer is, "Hell no. I have a lot better things to be doing with your time than running your worthless company without any support from you, full time in exchange for 93% of it."

People somehow fail to apply the same standard to their own ideas. They accept this bad deal just because the person who "gives" them 93% (or 100%) of the company is one and the same person, themselves.

Let me illustrate with an example. Think of an idea for a web site that you have.

If someoe approached you with that idea and asked you to code it, but they would not help in any way, would you do so in exchange for nearly 100% of it? Probably not.

But when you make YOURSELF the same proposition, you often end up saying, "Yes. I will code this since the result is mine."

You forget that the result is not worth the work and you would not accept it under more neutral terms.

This is simply illogical. Stop thinking like a founder, and start thinking like a managing director.
IIRC they were redacting information they judged to be dangerous to release. The unredacted dump was released due to the error of publishing the password to the backup archive they distributed on the internet for redundancy in a book.
+1. In fact in sites like odesk, you put people off by charging too little (putting you in the same league with guys no one wants to hire at any price whatever low).
My point is that I see the comment I replied to as incredibly biased. I see it as laden with charged words and assumptions of the nobility of "our" side and the badness of "their" side.

One man's state secret is another man's dirty laundry.

Edit: In other words, you weren't really saying anything :D

Edit 2: I always come to regret saying "you". Pointing fingers doesn't feel good.
People tend to make and disseminate plans to their minions prior to executing them. Thus, the plan could be leaked before the thing that is planned occurs.
Love how there was obviously no testing of the site on Firefox, as clicking the video pause or volume buttons hides the entire video. Pause/volume works fine on Chrome/Safari of course.
The TechDirt article was very distracting, but it seems that they way the US Military tells its own members "don't send secret information to a given third-party or we will hang you by the neck until you are dead" is by declaring that third-party an enemy. The documents are entirely about how they are prosecuting "Subject."

Saying "enemy of the state" is sure good link bait, but it doesn't mean the US is in a state of war.
Stormy weather: Why is ION Storm's future so cloudy? (1999)
You might want to check out http://codereview.stackexchange.com/

For a while I was following it, but I found I rarely have the time to review everyone's code.
The size is based on the number of languages influenced across all paradigms, the layout is random.
What about former servicemembers? What about defense contractors? Their subcontractors? The downstream impacts of this decision are vague and unsettling.

If I hypothetically supported/donated to wikileaks would I later be ineligible for employment at a very large portion of the US workforce?
There is also the sunset which has good food, cheap rent, and the M, L, K and N to get you places.

But the issue here is there is nothing good in soma besides jobs. In the weekend, I don't want to go to soma. I want to go to Northbeach or the mission or the castro.

All that being said, I haven't lived in Dogpatch, so it could be fantastic.
The problem being that libertarianism places a heavy emphasis on absolute private property, which is a positive right. It's my right to evict you by force from occupying an empty apartment in my building unless you pay me the rent I want.

Now, you can certainly argue coherently in favor of absolute private property (though I would argue back, extensively and in detail, against the absolutism), but to do so, you need to start by admitting that it's a positive right.
This is not limited to game studios, or even software in general. Unfortunately it's everywhere.
It's cheating to define "the Mission" as "the part of the Mission that best supports my sweeping generalization".
The book "Masters of Doom" tells more about it. And of course the story of id software, Doom, Quake, Carmack and Romero.
A major problem with this article is that it does not clearly define what "Enemy Of The United States" means in this context. Who made this decision? Is this a special status / designation with associated repercussions, or simply a description used by an anonymous writer in the Air Force?

NB that I would not defend the latter case, but this article does not really tell us exactly what the leaked paper implies about US policy towards Wikileaks.
I agree, that history was a very interesting take on the nature of business.
"Make it a criminal offense for your people to disclose that information to news sources" is exactly what is happening here. A member of the military (presumably a female in the Air Force, from context) was leaking information to (EDIT: suspected of corresponding with) Assange and/or Manning.
Agreed, but part of it is just people having ridiculous expectations for how long it takes to get places by transit. San Francisco still has a lot of "car culture", where people think a 30-minute car ride is great, but a 30-minute bus ride is intolerable. Even a 45-minute train ride isn't that damned bad, if it means that you can run on Ocean Beach every morning, then read a book for 45 minutes and pop into the office. Perspective!

I was also recently surprised by the number of otherwise reasonable friends I have who are just completely unaware of life outside of SOMA and the Mission. I've had a lot of people tell me that they didn't know where the Inner Sunset was located. If they can't walk there in 15 minutes or get there by BART from the Mission stations, it doesn't exist.

Public service announcement to 20-something SF newbs: there is life outside of the Mission and SOMA, kids. The rent's cheaper, too.
I had an idea to build something like this where expert programmers will be ready to chat with people who needed code review or help with their code. Stack Overflow is nice but many programmers don't have time to wait and don't want to scour Google, they want to get the answer quickly
"nginx only uses HTTP/1.0 when it proxies requests to a back end server"

No more:

http://www.quora.com/Why-doesnt-Nginx-talk-HTTP-1-1-to-upstr...

http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_upstream_module.html#...

http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx/2011-August/028324....
It's great to hear success stories using these methods. Do you think you could post example mindmaps (with personal information removed) that showcased how you used them to achieve those goals?
Sure thing. In addition to many of Mozilla's own sites, here are some examples:

- Times Crossword: http://crossword.thetimes.co.uk/

- Openphoto: http://current.openphoto.me/

- Voost: https://www.voo.st/

Our test application is this notepad application: http://123done.org/ (which you can clone from github)
Yep, I use a tag by my front door to turn on 3G and Bluetooth on my phone before I leave. It's great. The phone (Galaxy S3) needs to be turned on & unlocked and the centre of the back needs to be within about an inch of the tag to activate. It seems like a decent security tradeoff.
For now just an email to the list but it can turn into a more interactive community
Once you're dependent, you have no incentive to progress through your own hard work.

You mean, except for all the good incentives like achievement, mastery, purpose, learning, and contribution to a community that actual successful professionals are motivated by, rather than the motive against starvation that you seem to believe is the only reason anyone gets up in the morning?
From the outside, C++ appears to be such a mess that I actually cannot tell whether C++11 made it better or worse.

I don't think systems programming is going anywhere—I mainly stick to Python, but would like something lower-level available that I actually enjoy writing. The thought of having nothing better than C++ for the next however many years is terrifying.
Can't wait to try it out.

I do wish google would be a tad less serious with their advertising. These overly earnest, schmaltzy ads are getting old.
FTA:

"If you bought a machine with those specs commercially it would have cost about $10,000, but that would not be a variable pitch one. This machine cost a (fairly) large multiple of that, not counting our time, tooling and so on, but it could be reproduced well under that $10,000 mark if you already had all the tools and the knowledge and you didn’t have to go through a prototyping stage."
Then you'll start seeing an authentication page hosted by Google, instead of the Persona fallback. Native options are always tried first, both for client-side navigator.id functions, and for server-side authentication. If one of those is missing, then login.persona.org fills in for that component.
Easy solution: Make plans for every possible option, so you don't know which one will actually occur.

Oh, wait. The Pentagon already does this: The have battle/attack plans for every country in the world! So I guess they should leak those and let people scream in outrage?

A plan is not equal to intent. And you only know intent after it happens, not before.
I learned about mindmaps after reading one of Tony Buzan's book on the subject many years ago. I find it very effective on paper, but in software mindmapping utils, it is, as you say, often not more than a glorified tree structure. I'd highly recommend to give it a try on paper though, it's an excellent technique imho.
Sure, it's not an ugly urban cycle if you're one of the gentrifiers. Then it's full of win.

It's less obviously "progress" if you are somebody who wants to live near the rest of your family, or has a landlord who's decided he'd like a richer tenant, or are in an "urban renewal" zone, which has been bitterly joked about as "negro removal".

I'm a tech guy who has lived in SF a dozen years, so it's all wine and roses for me. But that doesn't stop me from noticing the downsides for others.
The crispEdges circle doesn't look good – but it's certainly not “blurry”.