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There's nothing wrong with sleep, but meditation is a little different.

Think of it like this: say you're at work and have an important meeting in a few days. If you're anything like me, your mind will constantly return to it. You play out scenarios in your head about how it will go. If you're a natural pessimist, you can imagine all sorts of failure modes.

So let's say your normal response is to spend ten seconds of fantasy, in which time your heartbeat rises, stress hormones begin circulating in your blood, muscles clench. You may even mutter to yourself.

So then, you meditate. It's a bit like training yourself to spot when your mind wanders. Now you only drift into useless fantasies for five seconds before you catch it and bring yourself back to the present. Only half the hormones enter your blood. Your heart rate is lower. Your stress is less.

Anyway, that's one benefit I've found.

There are others, too. Many studies have found that the key to creativity lies in taking a break from work and letting the mind relax. Well, I often find I get my best ideas during a meditation session. Like all other ideas, I try to bring my mind back to the present and ignore them, but after the session, they're still there for me to use.

I could get into the spiritual side, too. You don't need to believe in a god to see that there's times when you feel more connected to other people and to nature. I don't know why, particularly, but meditation seems to make this happen more often. Speaking for myself only, it's a very pleasant feeling.
There is a (non-stretched) Fire Engine Limousine in my hometown, I don't know which company it belongs to but I've seen it a few times in central Manchester. Looks like this:

http://www.needalimo.com/our-cars/novelty-limos/fire-engine-...
What didn't you like about the way I asked?
Predicting the next 25 years
If I understand correctly, the "Ground Software team" uses LabVIEW extensively, which has only limited support on OS X and Linux:

http://www.ni.com/labview/os-support/
I use Ashtanga yoga as a means of getting into a meditative state, and I find that maybe 10% of the time I actually achieve some extended meditation while performing the movements and breathing. I trust that with more practice that will improve, but the immediate benefit I have felt is improved flexibility and reduced pain in my joints (I'm 31 with above average mileage).

On the other hand, I took up slack-lining a couple summers ago. When the weather is nice, I can hang a line and spend about 15-30 minutes walking it, but it always feels like hours have passed when I finish. The concentration required to balance is the best means I know of for leaving the world behind.
This type of thing is already present in a number of larger cities. It's usually called a private library, a private club, or an "athenaeum."
Recent Copyright Infringement Rulings Help To Unpack Safe Harbor Guidelines
It's more that your comment didn't add anything to the conversation.

If you'd said "You can find the previous conversation at XXX" then you'd be contributing. As it is you just added noise.
Thanks rietta. Unfortunately presidential pardons are difficult to get without help from a political connection.

Based on the data (http://www.justice.gov/pardon/statistics.htm) in addition to the cumulative experience of those who have turned their lives around for decades and still been denied, I made a decision to try that later when I have a better history to present in my petition.

As you can see, the odds are scary. My chances of getting one without a friend in government (or part of a lobbying body) are really slim.
Okay I'll bite. Why?
You seem to be working under the delusion that the worst thing that can happen if you lie to your employer is that you might lose your job. No.
Gold buggery articles are like one of the four horsemen of the web site apocalypse. It's one of those quasi-religious subjects that only creates flames.
I'd read the course was already paid for before the mom started the Kickstarter, and in their TOS it says you can't use it for "fund-my-life" and charity purposes.
There are sections of I-15 where the speed limit is 80MPH. Does Virginia have any such high-limit stretches, such that going 1-5 over is a felony, or is it too densely populated?
Intrigued to see this on HN. Could someone explain the context?

Why do you meditate? For its therapeutic benefits. It helps me see things with fresh eyes.

What kind of meditation do you do? Mostly watching my breath. But most of the effort is actually in getting to my cushion! I love a lot of the sentiment in Zen, eg; "What is known as 'realising the mystery' is nothing but breaking through to grab an ordinary person's life".

How long have you practiced? Over 10 years.

How long is each meditation session? 30-45 minutes.

Do you meditate alone or with others? Mostly on my own, though I go on week-long, silent meditations twice a year to a place in Devon, UK called Gaia House.

What effects or benefits have you experienced? It has effected the most profound and radical change possible. It has given me access to a freedom and peace that I could never have imagined in my wildest fantasies.
My problem is rich people soliciting donations for their selves (under the sneaky implication they are somebody who needs this).

As to Fraud from the Kickstarter: "My goal is to raise $829 to cover the cost of RPG Camp." The fraud is the implication the girl needs the money and won't get to go if we don't fund it. Or any implication this will help other girls than this one. Additional fraud is the Kickstarter is being run by a minor who can't enter into contracts, set up Amazon/Paypall accounts and so on.

I guess it isn't fraud if you have enough after the fact apologists.
You're often not allowed to change your name for this sort of reason.
It's the difference between a baseball game and a home-run derby. Nobody's complaining that home-run derby is "cheating" because all the pitches are ideal. It's a different game altogether.

The tool-assisted speedrun people are simply playing a different game.
The guilt part is entirely up to you and not essential to taking the vow. :)
| Is it actually illegal to reenter the US as
| a citizen without a US passport?

I've talked to the border patrol over the phone about this before (with relation to re-entering with an expired passport). As an American citizen, you can't be denied re-entry into the country. Without proper documentation, you might get tied up at the border while proving you are an American citizen (though I'm not sure what lengths they would go to to figure out if you really are a US citizen without even an expired passport though).
This is a great story! By the way, I do not think the author of the article (Epstein) got away with anything. I am pretty sure Nabokov knew very well that he had not read the book. It is not a coincidence that Nabokov gave him a job reviewing movies afterwards. I think Nabokov read his essay, knew he was describing the movie, but nevertheless liked his writing and thought that Epstein was especially good at describing movies.

So Nabokov either thought that he would use Epstein for his own amusement or (more likely) he would try to secretly develop Epstein's talent without telling him that he likes his writing as too much self confidence can be disastrous for a young writer.

It seems that Epstein was luckier than he imagined. Although, it also seems that Nabokov gave up on him eventually.
We're talking about what to do in rare but extremely bad situations where there are literally no good avenues... not what people should do in normal circumstances.

"Extortion" was too strong a word. I meant it in the sense of "aggressive negotiation". Demanding a positive reference not to blow something humiliating is not extortion. If you demand money not to blow something, you're breaking the law, because there's no connection between the payoff and the threat (exposure). However, with a reference, it's "we're going to part ways, but it's best for both of us that we tell the same story, so let's get straight about what just happened". That's how you present it. Not really extortion.

Your advice to OP has a lot of value and on the whole I agree with what you are telling him to do. OSS contributions are a really good idea for him.

However, I still contend that an "odds and evens" mixed strategy will perform better than full disclosure.
If someone wrote about their experiences travelling the world, would you make a similar criticism? After all, they are flying, which causes a lot of extra carbon emissions.

Or is the fire truck particularly bad for some reason?
This is why, if your data is sufficiently important, you'll want to:

1) Test your backups, to detect when your backups are no longer backups.

2) Make geographically diverse backups, so a single tidal wave can't wipe out your data. For bonus points, have enough geographically diverse backups that the world is probably ending if they're all being wiped out -- at which point you have bigger problems to take care of.

3) Make backups with a diverse set of mechanisms, so the failure or compromise of one (or N-1) can't fail and compromise all backup copies. Making backups on write-only media and hiding them means current failure or compromise can't fail and compromise previous backups, and may help back your data up against theft, landlords, angry neighbors, spurned girlfriends, or even the occasional corrupt government official.

Mirroring (be it software or RAID) is not a backup system: It is far too dumb, far too happy to overwrite your old good data with new bad data. You want a history, where old good data is not replaced.

Git is not a backup system: It is a version control system. While it may have some of the properties of a backup system as goals, that is not it's primary use case. As a result we see articles like this where we've seen how it can fail in achieving the goals of a backup system as a practical matter in this very article, even when intentionally attempting to use it as a poor man's backup system in the form of mirrors.

Such problems are not unique to git, of course. On a personal note, I've managed to wipe data with both git and perforce in moments of weakness. If you want to treat me kindly about it, you could say I used both to the point where the statistics were against me not shooting myself in the foot. And, fortunately so far, the use of proper, separate backup mechanisms have always allowed me to restore the majority of my data and left me relatively unscathed.
Why is it either/or? Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 depicts a dystopian future full of both bookburning and constant information. I think Huxley and Orwell both had it right (though the authoritarian disinformation and suppression of information may be more subtle at the moment than Orwell imagined).

When we become overwhelmed by trivial information, we start to hate substantial/meaningful information, and both what we hate and what we love conspire to bring our ruin. (Not that I am that I'm a cynic or anything ;)
I would say that it is because each time ToString() is called a new string is created, and at least in the Java I believe that is what will happen, comparison will be false because they are not the same instance.
Well, I'm not much of an intellectual either, but if there were sufficient amounts of free whiskey, cigars and monocles, it still could be worth a try...
The 'shades of white' reminds me very much of most of the websites on the internet :)
You know, this makes a lot of sense, and it's in line with what Jobs would have done: "If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth -- and get busy on the next great thing."
He'd love to use it as he has had an excellent experience running it on gentoo/debian/ubuntu linux, however as he's unsure of its support on suse and prefers ZFS now anyway he won't.
The grocery store is perhaps a mile away, and he perhaps goes twice a week? So that's 100 miles/year, two orders of magnitude away from the national average. It's also substantially less co2 production than a flight from SFO to Hawaii.
As I read the front page, it looks like a small amount (deposit?) has been paid and 1098 dollars are left to pay. I'm going purely on information on the front page; the rest of it is comments and people's private investigations and all sorts of other stuff with, frankly, as much weight as the front page itself.

I suspect a great deal of people's upset is caused by the fact that her mother could afford it. I've got no personal issue with people raising funds however they can. Other people's opinions differ, of course.

I don't consider a training course necessary to create the product "fund my life", but again other people do. Presumably they'd be happy with a mountain of textbooks and some expensive hardware (although some of them complain that she intends to also buy a laptop, brilliantly on the grounds that it's a common item in their particular social environment, which presumably means that it's something they had to buy with their own money so why should she get one for free).
It's easy to engineer a credit expansion--inflation--in the economy when all of the real estate and stocks have been discounted--lost--80%+ off their pre-depression price levels.

Bernanke has been trying to create inflation--credit expansion--since December 2008 and even a trillion dollar unfundable deficit can't do it! Why?

Asset prices aren't cheap.

The fact that unemployment strangles wage increases-inflation--and might be enjoyed by corporates seems lost on everyone in these discussions.

It's taken trillions and billions of guarantees--insurance--, subsidized purchase programs, credits and special financing programs to take the SP500 just back to October 2007 levels. The Nasdaq is still, what, 40% off of the tech top from over a decade ago?

But wait, Apple is minting money--true-- and AMZN is still losing money! The NDX is nothing without those two favored stocks.

Correlation vs. causation, pal. Don't conflate the two!

Cheap assets and labor drive credit expansions and economic fortunes.
You're less likely to have numerous health problems by following a vegetarian diet. As a vegetarian you are, for example, less likely to have heart disease, the number one killer in the United States. [1] Interestingly, some of the oldest people in the world eat a primarily plant-based diet (though not exclusively). [2]

The issue is that you need a well planned veg diet. You can't just eat french fries and white bread and expect to maintain your health, obviously. For me, after a couple months of tracking my food and learning the calories/fat/protein of a lot of plant foods, I don't really have to think hard about creating well-balanced meals. It's a learning process.

I'm sure it's possible to have a healthy diet that includes a very small amount of non-red meat. That small amount is probably not going to hurt you that much. [3] However, you can get every vital nutrient you would get from meat from a plant source without the tacked-on fat and cholesterol.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/30/vegetarians-heart-h...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/magazine/the-island-where-...

[3] http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/study-urges-moderation-in...
It mainly mean that instead of using a shell that runs /bin/sh and associated control commands (ls, cat, whatever), you've to bring your own shell code and call the functions yourself. I assume one would write such a loader in erlang that serves a webpage to query any content from the fs, database, etc.

Also, IPC seems to be mainly network based, which means latency. Some modern OS designs function with the same base ideas:
managed runtime, small codebase, fully contained processes but use system-local IPC and thus, do have multi-processing (instead of multi-nodes, or in fact, in addition to multi-nodes).

Maybe some of those should be written in a web-friendly language and ship and httpd for adoption (so far they've not been adopted as the cost of rewriting apps > using archaic OSes)

Ideally I'd see an OS with:

- above characteristics (singularity, plan9 like)

- Simple, fast, efficient filesystem (i.e. with features and performance as good as popular databases) - so you don't need a database server

- clustered resources that are language-aware: filesystem (database), cpu, memory are networked resources, but you get control from the code about what is executed on the same local instance (ie same physical system) and what can be shipped to "any instance" - this brings true, full elasticity. (all this is also a little plan9-ish but not exactly)
When I first saw the film Clockwork Orange many years ago, I found Ludovico Technique very disturbing. Now it's just another day on the internet. "Amusing Ourselves to Death" is a great book, but I haven't read it in so long I can't say if it's still relevant or just come to pass and now unremarkable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludovico_Technique

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death
Article says the milage is 47k, crazy low for its age.
fwiw I still enjoy using textmate. Also I guess part of the success of ST2 is due to support of textmate bundles
I would think it's controversial when applied to engineering. This implies that the basic tools of software development are somehow viewed/used differently by people of various genders/ethnicities/etc... solely because of this "diversity" which I think most people would disagree with. And if one were to argue that being asian/female/poor somehow effects how you develop software I would love to know how those differences manifest in day-to-day software development.

It's not really a question of believing one gender/etc... is better at something here it seems to be a question of not believing it as the author seems to think "cognitive diversity" can be achieved simply by adding women to your dev team.
How would it be decided, though? By the person posting the Kickstarter? Despite claiming to be about raising less than $1,000 this Kickstarter allotted up to 5 rewards for $10,000 donations -- so I'm going to guess in this case they wouldn't have voluntarily put a sane cap on this.
Because they used to stink and rattle.
For C it should most certainly be the ability to interleave the switch-case and a block statement as per Duff's device:

register n = (count + 7) / 8;
switch(count % 8) {
case 0: do { *to = *from++;
case 7: *to = *from++;
case 6: *to = *from++;
case 5: *to = *from++;
case 4: *to = *from++;
case 3: *to = *from++;
case 2: *to = *from++;
case 1: *to = *from++;
} while(--n > 0);
}

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff%27s_device
You can't get B12 from any plant source, though.
Asynchronous Programming: From F# to Python
What a great thing this would be for someone that does kid's parties or activities. I have a firefighter friend that borrowed a reserve engine for a water-themed kid event we had. He had fun for 2 hours, spraying people 100' away with water. For a while, everywhere I walked, I had a constant stream of water hitting me on the top of my head.
Are there any tools for integration between vim and chrome dev tools?
Demanding, using "strong negotiation", a positive reference from somebody to whom you lied about your criminal status seems like a good way to get a billboard erected with your face and a URL to your LinkedIn profile on 101.

This isn't the first HN comment you've left where you suggested playing hardball to get positive references from employers. You have an idiosyncratic view of the dynamics of employee references. I find it disquieting, but that obviously doesn't make it intrinsically wrong. I do feel safe saying that it is out of step with the way most employers view the same dynamics.

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5007550 - "For me, it's really about references. I don't need a severance, but if you don't agree on a good reference I will do everything in my power to fuck up your reputation.")
Oh? The front page? Whoo hoo! (is that hard here? it's hard on reddit) I've gone ahead done that just-in-case. I am not really here looking for active leads (though I certainly wouldn't throw away an opportunity if it presented itself as a result of this posting), but some of these responses have been really uplifting.

I am really here pinging this community for people that have been in or have dealt with the circumstances of my disposition who would like to take a moment and give some pointers. So far the response has been better than I had anticipated.
I don't know about him. But having had my home broken into many times its easy to become obsessed with preventing entry into your home.
Well, more education/vocation HAS to be the key. There are less female engineers. The objective has to be to have more around, not to concentrate them in a few companies.
Somehow I am not surprised that her day job is running a debt collection company.
For reasons of self-interest, most employers are not going to fuck with their exes' reputations after parting ways.

There are exceptions-- sometimes you have to hire legal professionals and very occasionally one might have to hire illegal professionals to make someone do the right thing-- but those are way outside of the norm.

If he does good work and still gets fired, it's probably by a boss who had little choice in the decision and doesn't want to fuck him over, not someone who's going to be vengeful and make a bigger mess than what already exists.
I'd be pissed to be his neighbor. The firetruck spews dirty exhaust, is unsafe if there are kids running around, and definitely is an eyesore. Even though there's no HOA he is probably running afoul of city or county zoning rules...you shouldn't be able to park large work trucks in residential neighborhoods.
and a 28 minute version in HD here: http://vimeo.com/56682925

(Hey Craig! ;))
Criminal prosecution for fraud? Does that really happen with any regularity? I think by far the most common consequence of being caught lying about a felony is firing with cause.
Is it still fraud if you announce it in big letters on the front page? If there is no deception involved?

"My problem is rich people soliciting donations for their selves (under the sneaky implication they are somebody who needs this)."

Are you by chance a citizen of a major first world country? If so, have you tried to do anything about this already? Major industries constantly take subsidies and kickbacks and all the rest of it that they don't need, with the money being funnelled to wealthy people. Have you written to your representative to ask about this? If not, maybe you could start there rather than here.
Thanks!

I agree with you about the things to look for in a developer. Especially self improvement. I often ask developers how they keep themselves current and I either get really good answers or confounded looks.
Screw the Mirrors
It could be a multiple of the original amount, perhaps. That is, at a 2x multiple, say, an attempt at raising $800 could go no further than $1600.
Don't fire hydrants solve that problem?
But the author is stating that "woman are x" by stating they bring more "cognitive diversity" to a team. In order for this to be true, woman in fact "must" approach problems differently than men or there would be no diversity benefit (whatever that may be in this case).
The problem with many of these languages is that they don't have an official spec, just a reference implementation. They aren't standardized in the same way javascript is. That makes it difficult to integrate them. There's no way multiple languages will be cross-browser in 2 years.