skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(I also practice meditation, although a different system.)

To me, it seems like 10 days can barely begin cracking the ice, so to speak. I think even more powerful results would be achieved by removing yourself from your normal environment for 10 days (just go somewhere else and do something unusual), and then go and do the 10 day meditation boot camp.

But of course, very few people can afford the luxury of spending so much time away from work, family, etc. That's just an unfortunate fact of life.
Apart from gaming, there's other interesting things this could do especially with a higher resolution display and fast connectivity.

For example , virtual tourism. Take a safari by streaming a 4K video via a mounted camera on a pivot on top of a truck.

Of course latency induced motion sickness could be a serious issue there but you may be able to get around this by streaming feeds from multiple cameras.
Still no numbers on how many actually sold. Ten times an unknown number is still an unknown number.
Seamlessly make super long tweets in Android and Chrome
Holder will reply that the prosecution had nothing whatsoever to do with the FOIA.
"LG says it takes about six weeks to increase the frequency of deliveries. Happily, from mid-February, LG will ramp up production of the Nexus 4. Finally!"

So ... if it's 6 weeks to increase production ... and it's on sale since November 13th 2012 ... what are they doing ?

Bullshit.
> The old desktop mode was great at first, until I realized there wasn't a start button

There's a start button, it just doesn't look like anything. Throw your cursor to the bottom-left corner and click. (And the little "show desktop" widget is still in the bottom-right corner as well.)
I got mine a month or so ago and they announced both time so far before it went on sale.

If you're just checking randomly you're unlikely to get it in time before it sells out :(
These school baby killers should watch and listen more to politics; maybe they'd find a better target for their suicidal idiosyncrasies.
I kinda regret getting a psychology degree and not getting a CS degree.
Pinner, a new pinboard client for iOS
One approach is to reflexively attack Republicans even when they are on the same side. Another is to consider this a rare moment of bipartisan comity; if Republicans see the light on open access, copyright reform and prosecutorial abuse on this, fantastic. There are times when Obama and the DOJ are wrong and the Republicans and Democrats in Congress are right. This is one of those times. After all, the US allied with Stalin to beat Hitler, sometimes you do what you gotta do.

Re: what Swartz would think, he wasn't exactly a fan of Obama's DOJ or drone strikes either.
Is there a standalone, open-source version of this available?
thanks! ...but let me clarify. book learning is utterly awesome!! when i say "resolving issues"... i mean purely the personal, subjective, 'worrisome' kind... the endless spinning narratives we struggle within. the attachment to solving issues these through out-thinking the anxiety: this process got deprecated ;)
Writing Clojure With Vim In 2013
I wish I could up vote this 10x. When folks were saying "Oh with HotSpotUltimateOptoMix III Java is going to be faster than C code!" or whatever the optimizer de-jour was I would sigh. We have very much reached a stage where there are computers which can dedicate way more cycles to your effort than you need to get it done in time, we can spend this "surplus" on making writing code easier, and that is a huge win. Enjoy it. Don't worry that someone could craft it in C+Asm and give the idle loop more cycles to play with, it doesn't need them.
desktop or mobile rendering?
They probably expected several hundred thousand, and the demand has been in the several millions.
Spearmint: Practical Bayesian Optimization of Machine Learning Algorithms
How do you know the other person is running and not riding a bike :)?
It seems like you're just assuming that everyone has a very simple, AM radio view of their government.

Things like disliking the political appointees of an institution rather than the institution itself, or disliking parts of an institution rather than the whole, are not difficult distinctions to make. Similarly, I can judge the work output of any institution and my opinion is not likely to be 100% positive or 100% negative.
It's well worth looking at the list of sponsors at the FRPAA Wikipedia link. Heck, I'll cut and paste -- it's a long list, but these people deserve recognition:

Senators John Cornyn and Joe Lieberman

In the House, Representatives Michael Doyle, Frederick Boucher, Michael Capuano, Jerry Costello, Bill Foster, Barney Frank, Gregg Harper, Paul Hodes, Tim Holden, Dennis Kucinich, Rick Larsen, Zoe Lofgren, Stephen Lynch, Dana Rohrabacher, Fortney Stark, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and Henry Waxman

I only follow the politics of open access loosely, but my impression is that Lieberman has been a strong supporter since well before it was fashionable - well back into the 1990s.

I disagree with many of these people on many things, but I think this work is admirable, and worth supporting.

Edit: I notice that Senator Ron Wyden is missing from Wikipedia's list. Not sure what's up with that. He was definitely involved.
NASA, Boeing, etc. optimize for a different cost structure than Space X. Space X wants to build cheap rockets, Boeing wants to build products that will be funded by governments. This means Boeing has subcontractors in various voting districts in the US (military contracts) or around the world (other government / commercial).

If some rule said Congress couldn't pick projects based on what districts got the work (good luck with that), then Boeing would change its model.
I'm as partisan liberal-democrat as anyone, just read my posts. But what's the negative outcome here? Nerds start supporting a conservative texas senator? It's not like this is the issue that hinges on Cornyn winning or losing to a Democrat in 2014 - his seat has been republican all the way back to 1961 at least.
Not at the moment, but with enough interest, it's something we could do at some point.
He is taking a break, for his personal need. I don't think he is advocating that we all do.

Time for us to carry the ball.

Personally, I have no hope in Congress. But I still do, perhaps, have some hope in the people. Who have the power to change Congress, and to reform the judicial system.

For decades, people clamored for "tough on crime". Many of those voices may not change; however, many other voices may arise to insist that we... well, in the nature of things here, "look at the data" and "make some sense".

P.S. I meant to add, that we currently -- as we did last year with SOPA/PIPA, have momentum and national attention. We should not miss the opportunity to take it and use it to (metaphorically) burn away at least some of the corruption before our eyes.

And this should give at least some pause, hopefully, to those seeking to foist ever more corruption upon us. They are relentless; such respite would serve us well while continuing to construct an effective response.
Yes. Can someone reading from Stripe please provide the CoffeeScript version? I'm really interested in checking it out.
Out of body experience? I imagine the future will be more like Avatar or Surrogates [1].

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl_h9RaL0es
Exactly. Words are cheap.
yup, so let's start a campaign to have it rejected!
Learn from your failure; turning your failure into learning. Then there is no need to recover, only a need to move on to your next lesson.
A discussion, let alone a democracy, cannot function if one requires everyone to agree with them on every sub-point of every item related to the topic of question.
Evidently something went wrong with the batteries on the Boeing 787, so if those engineers were so good, how do you explain that there was a problem? The proof's in the pudding. Have you heard of Tesla batteries catching on fire? Me neither. (GM's Volt, however, is another story.)
Blog entry, already working on it. It's fun.
Xombrero - browser that takes user security seriously
False -- if there are nodes being added or deleted from the system, Cassandra provides no guarantee of consistency. Two nodes might disagree on quorum membership and thus quorum accesses may fail to overlap, leading to inconsistency.

The consistency claims are overblown.
I really don't know where they clone you guys, but aside from a bunch of macs and some linux, I do have windows machine, on which I spent many happy hours (playing and working).

I upgraded to win8 when it came out, I can't imagine anyone visiting HackerNews being confused by Win8 interface, even businessy lean startup types. Everything so far was good and while I switch to desktop mostly, Metro interface is fine and makes me want to get a tablet (since I have quite a few already, this will not happen soon, again ipads).

My Win machine is at least 3 years old, it feels with W8 way more snappy then my iMac 27" that I got last year. In fact, I am using it now because StarCraft II on iMac got iffy and screen ... well it crashed pretty much.

Again, I don't know why you have such hard time with Win, it works really well. Feel free to ask me any questions. I do spend most of my time on linux and osx, but still...

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Reason why I like win8 so much is that it is modern interface and how future interfaces will be. That is why so many of you feel resistance to it, because it is new.
in the computer field, as of today, a CS degree is not important. the only reason for someone to regret a CS degree is if they had an opportunity to do a startup and they refused, and someone else did that startup and made some serious money.
Don't blame Windows 8 for breaking your grandma's computer. She ain't the one who installed it without knowing how it works.
> No clear plan to maintain gains. They suggest 1-2 hours daily meditation afterwards which is impossible to maintain.

30...60 min twice a day to maintain gains or continue progress seems to be the norm in any meditation system anywhere.

To maintain living status you need to keep breathing 24/7, every single minute, continuously.
The entertainment industry backs predominately Democratic candidates, but this is more or less orthogonal to the notion that strict or lax copyright is ideologically leftist. The parties certainly lean one direction or another overall, but they are conglomerations of agendas by convenience and happenstance not carefully constructed to reflect an ideological framework.
A dollar today is more valuable than a dollar tomorrow.
Wanted: Surrogate for Neanderthal Baby
I only use "the old desktop" in Windows 8, and the "new UI" is basically a full-screen start button with status crap in it. The only time I see the Metro side of things is when I check the weather, or use Trackage.

If you're approaching Windows 8 on a desktop or (non-touch) laptop with the intent to stay strictly within this new interface, you're misunderstanding how the operating system works.
It wowed me because I have earned over 70k a year in my life and also have only earned 26k a year. I studied economics at university. I know what I am talking about. You must not ever have been poor. That is a good thing.

Here on hackernews 70k a year is almost working class. But I know families of 6 that live on 35k a year. So to read over 70k is not a lot of money to someone stuns me.
It'd be nice to have more time to properly deconstruct this. Did anyone else feel that the author and the author of the linked page about decentralization don't really grasp the decentralization ideas elaborated within cypherpunk culture?
Additional coverage:

http://gawker.com/5977130/could-you-be-the-adventurous-woman...

http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/medizin/genforscher-georg... (in German)
Padrino event in San Francisco
I don't believe anybody is disputing that what Cornyn is doing now is good. Nobody is saying, "These questions are bad because Cornyn did bad things before." They're disputing that he is, as a whole, somebody you'd want to give your unreserved support for just because he did this one good thing.
As a programming language, Dart isn't particularly interesting, but as a tool, it's very interesting. You can actually write client code that can be reused: as your web UI, as your smoke test, as a Chrome extension, etc. And it's easy to write tests for, with Hamcrest-style matchers.
I came across this article on Longreads. The author had a more irreverent take on his 10 day course in India, but in the end, he said it helped him deal with stress better.
http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/print-view/the-quiet-hel...
Metro was the interface for WP 7.0 [Initial release for Windows Phone]. You can't tell the difference between it and WP 7.5 [Mango] just by looking. The backport of WP 8 will be 7.8 which has yet to be released.
Where Cornyn stands on other issues is hardly relevant to the point at hand: Cornyn has a long-standing, deep-abiding interest in open access, an interest which is admirable, and certainly explains why he might have a genuine interest in the prosecution of Aaron Swartz.
> medical: paid for by my work. If we were buying it on our own that would cost about $150.

where on earth would you get health insurance for $150, and you have no copays of any kind for doctors or medication? or you're fortunate enough to have no medical issues ?

Also I'm kind of talking about NYC here still.
Added those now as well! (and, yes, that and as a complement to the fission verb)

Do you mean scrollback across refreshes or something else? (you can email me at robbyw@cueup.com since HN will start time-limiting our conversation at this depth)
While cool, the cynic in me says this is driven by nothing but desperation.
If you are getting a T pass for $35 then your company is just paying for a portion of it; some companies give it to their employees for free, but that doesn't mean it's free.

That said, a T-pass is $70/month and most people can pay that pre-tax. Still considerably less than car ownership.
This is only my experience, but it may help. I have an MSEE and had a hard time finding work in 2008. I found 3 jobs since but all were mediocre. Back then I'd probably get a response rate under 5%. It might be 1/100 tries before I get the job. It's not my interview skills - once I get in person I'm more than 50/50.

I think there are two reasons electronics majors have a hard time finding work, which the software people here haven't experienced.

First of course is that there are much fewer electronics jobs. You can just look at craigslist or whatever. There might be 1 job for every 10-20 software posts.

(As an aside, I taught myself web development and recently applied to 6 or so companies. 3 responded, plus another I didn't apply to found me on LinkedIn. The market is that much different.)

Second is that advanced electronics is already highly specialized, yet prohibitively expensive to tinker with designing (integrated circuits, power supplies, etc). Nor would you have any personal use for them. That means you are useless when right out of school. That in turns means that companies have no incentive to hire, except from only the best schools.

The options thus are to either find a non-design job (tech support, marketing, applications), or find work at a company whose product is not so expensive and you can build something similar with an Arduino or whatever.

Or, try to get into a highly regarded graduate program.

Or, as some have pointed out, try your hand at software.
Sen. Cornyn is also the former Attorney General for Texas and a former judge. He's a serious guy on these issues and one of the top thinkers on judiciary issues for the GOP.
Oculus Rift might also be the first thing to truly disrupt the cinema industry, if it works that well for movies, too (although you obviously lose the ability to move in a movie, but maybe that can change in the future). I guess the cinemas could buy them en-masse before everyone has them at home though, and before they got to experience it for themselves, just like with current 3D glasses, but I think the difference will be minimal from what you can experience at home, and what you can experience in the cinema with such goggles.

There's also potential for stress, depression therapy, etc.
that the author and so many others here are describing fantastic learning experiences suggest to me the word "impose" might be a little off.

even though you don't talk to or engage with people, the experience does not ring of aloneness actually. i felt incredibly connected to other participants and at the end when you begin talking again, there's a wonderful sense of camaraderie. made a bunch of new friends.
Is there any upside to releasing sales numbers? Even the high estimates are far below the iPhone or Galaxy S3, so the numbers would just be used to justify arguments that the Nexus is a failure.
Nope. I've had no problem running anything that worked on Windows 7. Even older apps which need Windows XP compatibility mode work fine.
full service laundry in new york city is always at least 40% more money than doing it yourself - which is logical since it's the price of the machines plus the service. I believe you might be comparing two different areas.

edit: some googling reveals 85 cents a pound is the cheapest and most are 90c-$1: http://centzy.com/nyc/laundry-10024 so about $20-$30 for your size of load, guess our loads are bigger.
Not original source, but close enough http://js2coffee.org/
Efficient JavaScript Vector Math
My understanding of facebooks Pod Architecture for HBase was not the name node but simply scaling HBase, HBase gets rather unpleasant at facebook scales. The facebook HBase fork has things like compactions disabled to improve performance.

I ran a HBase cluster with 1PB storage, it became very unwieldy at this scale, thousands of regions and lots of tricks to keep it happy. As for SPOF, the name node now has HA and it works very well.
As an adjunct to this article, I should mention an experimental project I launched just yesterday called VOW of NOW. It's a 30 day program that tries to instill meditation as a daily habit by leveraging powerful incentives: http://vowofnow.com

A bunch of people are taking the vow already, and I'm excited and hoping it works for them and is the beginning of a more zen life. We'll see. I welcome everyone to try.
I upgraded to Windows 8 pro about a month ago, despite my concerns that some of my more eclectic software & hardware might not make the jump (given prior experience with major Windows revisions).

Specifically, I'm running an M-Audio ProjectMix I/O multichannel soundcard/mixing desk through a PCI-e Firewire card, for which I record multitrack audio and produce video. I'm running two monitors and a 1080p HDTV off a single ATI Eyefinity card. I've also got a pile of more common software - an old version of Photoshop, some webdev crap I test with for building out my hobby sites.

The installation couldn't possibly have gone smoother. I downloaded the upgrade, which ran and had me on Win8 Pro in about a half hour, probably less. I remember it going very quickly. I was upgrading from Win7 home.
Unless of course the idle loop isn't idle. Since the end of the assembler era there has always been a trade-off: programmer time vs processor time. And programmer time is about as expensive as it was in the past, cycles have gotten cheaper and cheaper.

But the cost of a cycle still isn't 0, and likely it will never be. Optimizing a chunk of code and making it perform 10 times as fast can be a huge competitive advantage when you're operating a sizeable cluster that is really working instead of idling.

For one-offs and incidental use optimization of any kind is nonsense.
I agree completely. I'm not suggesting that people can't applaud overtures towards open science or open access or an accountable DOJ. I'd just hope to maybe shape and direct the applause, so we're clear what its real target is.

I like Richard Posner, for instance, but I'm disquieted by how quickly the Reddit/HN crowd decided to lionize him once he came to a conclusion they liked regarding patents. Posner for SCOTUS! from people who understand the abstract from one case he worked on. Sheesh!
I'm sure I could get used to win8 quite quickly. I'll probably install it next time I upgrade my windows PC. But admit it - you had no idea how to shut down your computer in win8 until someone told you.
Load testing the Mozilla Marketplace
They should flag cnet/Download.com next.

I downloaded something recently that was, unfortunately, only available from their site. They now wrap downloads in their own executable that presents something that looks like a TOS but it's to install browser toolbars. Even if you decline it STILL installs some coupon browser plugin on your system.

Does anyone know if there is a way to present things like this to Google for review?
I really don't want to derail the thread, but one of the people participating in that G+-thread (Mike Taylor) has written some very good articles at http://reprog.wordpress.com/ (and I really can't remember if I picked up the subscription here or elsewhere)
Maybe you have to see it to understand, because I don’t understand this argument at all. What is it about a flat rectangle that benefits from retina? If anything, I would think textures would benefit from retina.
> gym is a very therapeutic experience for me. It helps me empty my mind of all stress-causing stuff in my life (e.g. work) and I get to focus on just one thing: lifting weights. I also gain additional benefits

I had the exact same experience with lifting.

But I've found an even more powerful vacuum-cleaner for the mind: racing sportbikes. Squeeze the throttle, hear the engine climb above 10,000 RPM, and feel the mighty rush of speed, and poof! your mind is crystal clear, free of all the daily junk.

http://florin.myip.org/blog/engines-joy

But meditation is better than all of the above. It seems like it tinkers with the hardware directly, whereas the other methods are more round-about.
I'm personally not a fan of 1, and I don't know that it can ever work to complete satisfaction. Two reasons:

1) domain names change sometimes. especially with the current trend of weird ending domains, and "www.getx.com" which later becomes 'x.com' when they finally pay the squatters. Or a rebranding, or subdomains, etc. How do you handle changes, without recording them? Proactively you can change your password when such a thing occurs, but that's not a reliable assumption.

2) versioning. If you have to change a password every X time periods, how do you track which version you're on? without a database? you could salt it with the time the last password was created, but what about time zones? different calendar systems (did I set that password in china, or jerusalem, or canada...?)?

All of which leaves you with a database of some kind in some (fairly likely to occur) situations, which means you essentially have a password manager. As you point out, a 90% solution simply isn't good enough.
I was running Windows 7 Home edition (I'd bought a new computer in July) and the upgrade to Windows 8 pro was $15. That's about as cheap as a major operating system upgrade comes.
Petition to end the cable monopolies
The parts of Brooklyn that are closer to the waterfront have become quite expensive, I agree. They are not on par with Manhattan when you compare the actual size of the space, but they are getting closer. They should still be high on the list of living places, because Brooklyn has more of a community feel to it than Manhattan does. Rather than going further back into BK, I would suggest looking into Queens, esp Astoria. This will also offer you easy access to Midtown. Same with Long Island City.

To the list I should add Jersey City. It's rapidly changing and has multiple train (PATH) stops that quickly get you in to the city (well, not now with Sandy repairs, but normally). It remains far more affordable than Manhattan. The fact that the NYTimes in the past month has wandered in to JC twice to review restaurants is a sign of the changes taking place. And along it's waterfront it has some pretty stunning views.
"Normal people have like a mental secretary"
So jealous