skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been meditating about twice daily (15-30 minutes) for about two years, and more sporadically for a year before that. I started because I was feeling really confused and anxious and desperate about stuff in general, and needed some kind of anchor or Regular Good Thing in my life. I could go on and on about the various benefits and so on, but I've rarely found that type of thing very interesting to read about myself, so...

Here's a thought. There's a bias in the current "secular" discourse about meditation, probably inherited from the psychiatric perspective of the "mindfulness" movement. Let's call it the emotional bias. The whole discussion seems to revolve around "emotional benefits." This might seem like a natural given, but let's question it.

Just to shake things up a bit, let's compare meditation to some other activity. Say, reading. It would be weird to talk about reading only in terms of "emotional benefits." Like, "I read twice a day and I have found that it gives me a noticable increase in feelings of joy and wellbeing." You would say, "okay, but what are you reading? Is it interesting? What have you learned?" Of course meditation and reading are not the same thing, but I just want to point out that it's not immediately obvious that everything people do intentionally is for "emotional benefits."

For me, while I do appreciate emotional benefits, the fascination of meditation for me is more cognitive. It's almost like a puzzle. I can't really explain it. It's not clear what the puzzle is about, but if I had to say something, I'd say it has a lot to do with the relationship between myself and "phenomena." Maybe between my mind as such and its specific manifestations -- I'm aware this might sound pretty crazy. It has to do with figuring out (or penetrating or unravelling or getting to the bottom of) some kind of fundamental confusion.

So, I'm not very impressed by the dogmatic version of secular meditation. I caricaturize this dogma as saying "meditation is purely a technique for improving your emotional life and your career performance, anything else is religious woo-woo bullshit nonsense." It's such a cocky attitude. "Alright religious people, you've been messing around with this stuff for thousands of years, now we'll take over, throw out the weird stuff and do it properly."
What is it about? I didn't get it.
Most encryption algorithms (including block ciphers) can be used as a hashing algorithm for passwords.

Just encrypt a common known plaintext string and use the password as the encryption key. This is exactly how various hashing schemes like UNIX's crypt() (based on DES) work.

Knowing the plaintext (e.g. a set of NUL bytes) is useless as long as the encryption scheme doesn't have a weakness against known-plaintext attacks [EDIT] that allow you to recover the encryption key somehow.
$12/hour is a decent wage in parts of the US.
Actually doing SNI can be the stupid solution. We still have a large number of customers on Windows XP and we probably will for years to come. SNI isn't supported on any IE browser running on XP, so you need to buy the extra IPs anyway.
15 spots left! This is going to be another good one, so book quickly if you want to come.
Well there was an entire lawsuit about the environmental impact of the ships which the government lost, so presumably there's SOME evidence that they're harmful.
"Cinderella Story" is now a pop phrase which simply means exceeded expectations. It is most commonly used in sports. In this context it fits perfectly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella_(sports)
"Ms. Amoruso also outgrew eBay, which she said was a terrible platform to start a business. Competitors started flagging Nasty Gal for breaking the site’s rules by, for example, linking to Ms. Amoruso’s Myspace page. Fed up, she decided it was time to start ShopNastyGal.com."
Paying a couple more dollars an hour more may result in $100-$200 more, but produces much better work.
I like the typography. The fade effect needs to go. The color scheme on the maps page, while neat, doesn't make much sense to me in the context of the rest of the site.
In my hometown (a very rural area), most folks would be very happy to make an hourly wage of $12.
Oracle isn't a database company anymore.
seems like it's working properly now.
Yet their customers keep coming back for more.
Correct. USA is limited by inflation, not debt level.
Why did Alan Kay say the Internet was done well, but the Web was by amateurs?
This proves the opposite. It is much harder to steal bitcoins than cash or bank deposit. You have to infect the computer, break the password, and know where to go in the first place.
it's very stylish, clean and minimal.i look forward to see your new works.
I think the tool needs a good reading pane. Not a hover type.
I wish to read the whole article (when I have the content on the feed).
Not very sure placing the reading pane on right will be a good idea.
Wow. That was a bad one, sorry, and I can't edit it.
It was supposed to say: Unfortunately both types die with exposure to magnetic fields - I accidentally took mine into an MRI scanner. This may not occur at a lower field strength with the chip-type card however.
Just don't lose control of the code.

Outsourcing to $12/hr programmers works well when you're designing the structure of the code and the way things work. Not so well when you give them a free reign of how to code a feature (for example)
Headless testing with GhostDriver and PhantomJs
He says the setup means terminal only. I'm not familiar with the Kindle, but there is a browser "built in". Perhaps it is very awkward to switch between the terminal and other apps, but it should be possible to do webdev with a server on the Raspberry and test in the Kindle browser.
Great effort! Not meaning to hijack your Show HN submission, I would be very interested to read about your back story of doing a startup in Iran.
A law firm perhaps?
Your right that the way to solve the current issue is to increase voltage, but that creates a list of other problems, the most notable of which, death, you've already touched on, but here some others:

1) You likely still want USB charging support, so now you need a boost converter in the phone or cable.

2) Your PMIC needs to accept the higher input voltage, and you have to be willing to accept the reduced regulator efficiency from the increase in Vin - Vout.

3) 24V running around in a phone creates a lot of possible problems that you don't have with 3.7V cells. Increased moisture sensitivity, gradient induced oxidation, etc.

4) You still need a ton of power. If you jump to 24V then you still need ~42A to hit a 20 second charge, go to 60 seconds and you need ~327W or 13A @ 24V. That is still a massive charger with 10 gauge wiring (1 conductor is 2x + the diameter of the entire lightning cable).

Keep in mind these are lower bound numbers all around. Reality could be 50-100% higher for power needs. The ESR value I threw out above is also a very optimistic minimum hoping that this new tech has much better ESR characteristics than current super-caps which for large capacity models can be up in the hundreds of mOhms which causes a huge thermal issue.

Its still a long ways from being even remotely reasonable for super caps to replace batteries in high power devices like phones and tablets.
It is true that my patterns were already set when I hired them. That's a good advice.
How am I supposed to feel confident in pursuing a career in CS with 3rd world developers doing the work for $12/hr?
> Oracle might want to consider paying $1B to the Postgres devs

There's no single Postgres dev, it's been community-driven from the start and the various postgres companies mostly provide support. So there's nobody to pay $1bn to really.

If you look at the contributors page[0], out of 6 "core devs" there are 5 different companies, with EnterpriseDB being "overrepresented" at 2 core from the company, plus a pair of "major contributors" out of a truckload.

And these people are probably Postgres devs first and foremost. Not Tom Lane or Josh Berkus, but even if Oracle bought out EnterpriseDB they might just cash in and work on Postgres from an other company.

[0] http://www.postgresql.org/community/contributors/
-e 's/fashion/startup/gI' -e 's/Nasty Gal/SomeStartup/gI'

For a brand like SomeStartup, it's dependent on the people running it and their ability to constantly shift with the tide. Very few can do it, but some entrepreneurs do pull it off (and they often end up as huge startup brands).

startup trends have a short life expectancy, but if you can change with them season after season, then you'll be a monster in the startup world.
Why do you think it would result in better result? You are assuming people from countries with higher cost of living would do a better job than people from countries with a lower cost of living. This is just not true.
Monitoring Drupal With Opsview
Now in six US cities: https://www.car2go.com/

My 8.5 year old car has 31,000 miles on it. I haven't had a job since 2007 where I have to drive to work. My daily commute now is a 1.5 mile round trip walk. I hate traffic and don't understand other Americans who are fine with driving long distances on a daily basis.
Looks good. One note: a tiny English glitch that stood out to me was that you say to contact you "in" Twitter and Facebook. Generally people say "on". If anyone knows why that's the convention, I'm interested.
Nasty Gal initially started out by selling vintage clothes which happen to have huge margins. One piece she purchased for $8 sold for $1000. So I'm sure the margins are still there now that Nasty Gal is trying to become more of a brand. It wouldn't make business sense to abandon a profitable strategy only to shift and scale to a non-profitable one.
In our old house some genius used paper clips instead of fused wire in the (very old) fuse box. Not sure how I didn't die when I draped and extension lead in a puddle and got a shock. After I recovered I looked in the fuse box to see why the fuse didn't blow and found one fat paper clip over the gap.
I'm not sure what current the box took, but I'm sure glad it wasn't 200Amps.
Looks great, congratulations! It would be even better if you had an attention-grabbing picture on your index page, instead of just black text on a gray background.
Is Linode website down?
> That lives you with around 30 applications. Off these applications, I focus my attention on Eastern Europeans. In my experience, Eastern Europeans have the right mix: low cost of living, high level of education, high level of integrity.

> I have hired developers from India in the past but it is harder to find the good ones among a lot of low quality applications.

Since when is it okay to be casually racist when making hiring decisions? There's a reason this sort of shit is illegal in the US when hiring employees.

Don't be a dick.
The mind is a little like an elastic cloud of computers, that are coming online with increased demand, and going offline as demand recedes.

Compute nodes (thoughts) only go offline as your demand (meta-cognitive emphasis of thoughts) reduces. You will find that, a daily meditation practice resets the cluster. During the day, only the necessary thoughts arise to help you deal with real, current load. The capacity of your brain to load necessary thoughts is no longer impaired by the running of thoughts that were useful yesterday.

Ergo, meditation ideally allows your mental cluster to be stateless, at least day-to-day (it is going to be stateful during any given day).
That groovy pirated Android keyboard: Could be loggin' your login
So now we have trivial UI themes floating in the top half of the Hacker News front page. Lovely, just lovely.
So what's wrong with someone crawling the website exactly? What are you losing a the moment that makes you want to block him?
Did you investigate rail shipping? I had a collectible truck shipped by rail and it was much cheaper than OTR. It was some time ago though, but I imagine for something as large as a fire engine it might have been very cost-effective.
Not everything can be outsourced. Like someone said in the comments, it is harder to outsource a new project, much easier when you are set the conventions in place already.

Also a lot of companies still need face to face. I am a freelancer myself and I don't feel threatened by outsourcing.
Thanks! I appreciate it ;-)
Competition in action, reducing prices for consumers. I like it!
T-Mobile kills off the wireless contract
Thanks. I tried many color schemes on the map page, I couldn't find what I wanted. Google's color wizard didn't help much.
I would just like to add, that the general person uses a car a lot more often than a plane - and it all adds up.

A lot of cars are used by a single person. Almost never (generalised) to it's full potential.

I'm uncertain about this, but I think most planes are very well utilised (closer to the full potential rather than to the opposite) - since it's so uneconomical to go empty or close to empty utilisation.

I'm not however disputing that a plane emits a lot more emissions than road bound vehicles.
It's not an either-or choice. Salt's security is good but it's been a request from that team, as from others, to get security into the libzmq core. Doing it at the application level is problematic for many reasons. It's unreasonably complex, and does not play well with 0MQ sockets (many of which like PUB-SUB and PUSH-PULL are unable to do two-way negotiation).

With CurveCP you can still use TLS for key exchange itself; what CurveCP provides is a highly robust answer for the actual connection: short term keys and nonces. It's new but so is Salt's crypto algorithm, which was not built to quite the same level of paranoia as CurveCP.

We're still some time away from working code in libzmq and as much as a year or two from a crypto layer that's properly hardened. Having it in libzmq will mean it gets much more attention, which can only be good.
I knew my comment would be controversial.
How did you "package the files into a Google Play app." ?
Thank you :) Well I have that huge Cinema Display with a picture in it. But you need to scroll a little.
Java 7 Design Flaw leads to huge backward step for the JVM
Thank you:)
Many people are doing startups in Iran, and it's not a new thing. Iran is a developing country but there is a good market for technology-related startups inside the country.
Unfortunately, there aren't many investors so we have to invest our own.
perfect responsive and minimal design . congratulation dear sallar .
Where is he racist? By saying that he is getting a lot of low quality applications from India? He is just describing his experience
That is how most of the fashion sites start out. There's some point in time where they find a desperate luxury goods manufacturer willing to give them a deal, or meet a guy who inherited his family's shirt factory and wants to try out something new, or they get lucky selling a few pieces of vintage clothing. Then for a while, the site does very well.

Eventually they run out of high margin stuff to sell, because they literally run out of the stuff (in the case of vintage clothing) or their suppliers start raising their prices. Then they need to sell more stuff, which requires more employees, and bigger warehouses, which continues to eat at the margins.

There's also many copy cat fashion sites, since between 2009-present "fashion internet" seems to have been a trend for fresh MBA grads. I'm not really sure how they get started, but I'm pretty confident they also don't make any money.
Who accepts the job for $12 when there's written $12 to $17?
Chess mania captures Armenia's attention
Nginx can (and according to wikipedia Apache can too), I have been doing so until my old certificate expired. It's called SNI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication) and if your openSSL version has support compiled in, it works without any additional configuration (Beyond just normally specifying the correct certificate and key for the correct server)
I've seen some godawful code coming from people making close to $100/hr.
'What have we come to where I can't sit with a friend and shoot the shit about dongles?'

Well, it sounds to me like you've come to a professional environment, such as a workplace, or a technical conference.
But is it reasonable to see these limitations hold in the future? I'm not so sure.
Well, that just makes me feel bad for the US…
You got me at "and everyone has PowerPoint.".. ;)

I like the idea though, it shows you can find the right people without throwing too much money in, provided you plan it right, and put yourself in the developper's shoes at some point. It would be interesting to evaluate how much the recruiting costed you as well in the price. Your time, the paid (I hope they all were) trials, and the time to organize your guy's work once in the place.. Just being curious!
Interesting, I did not know this.

Did you run MySQL in READ COMMITTED or REPEATABLE READ? And would it matter?
Eastern European could be a geographic description. For example a sizable part of Russia's population is not russian, even some Jews left.
Yeah, another nice work from Tehran :)
I used eclipse and followed the documentation (http://developer.android.com/guide/webapps/webview.html) that uses a web view. i found a repo in github with a sample project:
https://github.com/tscolari/android-webview-sample-app
I wonder if the local security simply didn't care?
Benchs:
http://blog.inetu.net/2013/01/nginx-vs-apache%E2%80%94which-...

http://blog.celingest.com/en/2013/02/25/nginx-vs-apache-in-a...

http://readystate4.com/2012/07/08/nginx-the-non-blocking-mod...
I haven't seen the Formula One logo mentioned, and that's definitely worth looking at if people aren't familiar with it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_One
People might just change their country to Ukraine (in oDesk profile) if they are reading this article.
When people know where they want, they check the consulate of that country. Actually, even if some website tells you that you don't need a visa, you better check the consulate anyway.

On the other hand a map would be an interesting way to see what country you can easily go.
it took me 5 hours of my time (mockup 1h, design + packaging to google play 4h).

it costed me $130 for the two developers I trialed.

it takes me maybe an hour to three hours per week to clarify the requirements, review his code and chat with him
I don't think you can compare them
Wasn't responding a minute earlier, but now it seems to be working
So these are people who live outside of the United States that describe their nationality as "American"? Do any of them live in countries that actually have "America" in the name?
Are any of these making any money? Ron Conway's second angel fund had Google in it and it only returned 1.5x because 80% went bust.

A rough calc of what it would take for one runaway success to payback the total funds invested;

Assuming $20k per deal, $7.4m invested.

Assuming 7% equity per deal, that would need one success to sell for $100m and have no follow on dilution or liquidation preference stacked on top. Given this is seed, assuming 50% dilution that's $200m+ just to return the money back to shareholders. For a big success of 5-10x on the fund, one of these has to hit $1-2 billion. I'm still ignoring liq pref which could be a killer.

A couple of these numbers might be off a bit, but I'm a bit sketchy on the spray and pray of a 369 (or 500) company portfolio unless you are really #1 (YC) and can effectively synthesize "the index".. and then you will only generate beta ("market") returns.
Why Bitcoin grows unusually faster than normal businesses
Great writeup. Another approach I've seen to get inexpensive face-to-face work is to call a local high school (sometimes college) and ask the CS teacher if any students have some knowledge in web development / mobile development that they gained outside of school, and then see if such a student wants to work for you. It's usually a good deal for the student since they get to improve their skills and learn more while getting paid better than a bagger's salary, and it's a good deal for the boss because the student is probably a quick learner and can fill in any knowledge gaps quickly, plus a part-time work agreement during the school year is a low-risk trial period that can lead to full-time in the summer.
You seriously consider parts of Europe to be a 3rd world countries?
Rue La La is a flash sale site (a la Gilt Groupe, Amazon's MyHabit, and so on). Their inventory changes pretty quickly (something like 48 hours, I think), and different brands are featured during each iteration.

NastyGal doesn't appear to have rolling inventory; rather it seems they have relationships with some set of brands, but the brands themselves aren't front and center. Moreover, NastyGal also appears to have its own brand, which RueLaLa does not (though Gilt Groupe does have its own Gilt Home (ie furniture) line).
"How am I supposed to feel confident in pursing a career as a 3-star Chef with McDonalds employees doing the work for $12/hr?" :)

Don't let yourself become commoditized!
10x kudos! really great resource to start from!
ARM even implemented hardware java bytecode instruction execution. [0]

I don't think it ever got very far in the market, but I don't know all the reasons behind it.

[0]: http://www.arm.com/products/processors/technologies/jazelle....
North Korean citizens can live and work in North Korea without limit by virtue of their citizenship.

I'm not so sure
"British citizen" is in between "UAE" and "US" citizens, based upon the UK, I suppose, but it would ideally be sorted in alphabetical order.

That aside, providing more links to information on each result would be handy. There are too many details involved to really trust the results. For example, you can't travel to the US under the Visa Waiver Program if you've ever been arrested for anything even if no conviction resulted.
I think your site is great (I really like minimal designs). I have found another tiny typo under /contact, in the h5-tag: "to open up you email client" should be "to open up your email client".
If what you want is pure Camellia sinensis, wouldn't that make fluoride an impurity? Generally, if an added component is undesirable, isn't it automatically an impurity, regardless of whether it was added naturally or not? You got me scratching my head over a word. :)
Just don't try to compete with them?

"Normal" Web-Programming isn't something you need to study CS for...

Try to learn how to write good specs and pay those people yourself for stuff you don't wanna do.
I don't know if the author considers Czech Republic as part of Eastern Europe but $12/hour is pretty low there. It would be OK for a high school/undergrad student to earn some extra money that way, but other than that it must be a desparate "developer" to work at that rate.
That's not how it works. Devs place bids within the users budget. Typically the dev who quotes the least will be chosen for the job so when the budget is $12-17 you are most likely to get selected by bidding $12.
> Seriously, if you are an online entrepreneur, do yourself a favour and start outsourcing. It is low risk and has great returns.

If you are a serious online entrepreneur and have 0 experience outsourcing online, be very careful. It's very hard to find the right developer at $12/hr. The picture isn't always as rosy as the OP paints it.

> Once I picked three candidates, I tell them they are entering a trial period where I need them to develop a small project.

This is really good advice, but this means you hired a developer at 3 * $12/hr, which means you're project actually cost you $36/hr. This is reverse thinking for many people, since most people go to oDesk/elance/etc because they think their dreams can be created for $12/hr right off the bat. The reality is, you should expect to pay a large amount of money up front (trialing developers) to then get lower ($12/hr) returns later. This is a massive misconception in the outsourcing world.

TL;DR - YMMV.
This is obviously a PR article. Oracle is not just a database company anymore. Comparing Oracle to a 100 people company does not make much sense either.