skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great to see that enlightenment in the form of meditation is getting attention from the main stream media. We are getting caught up in our daily routines so much that we often forget who we are and what it is that actually makes us happy. Meditation, even when done for a short period of time, can truly change ones perception and bring in more happiness into ones life.

Taking meditation into a business perspective, I believe it can truly enhance teams and have people work together better. At my previous company, one of our developers introduced me to meditation for the first time. I enjoyed it so much that I've asked him to 'lead' a collective meditation session every morning in the office for all the employees who were 'open' to it. After a few weeks most of our team participated in these sessions and the feedback from our employees was very positive.

Now I have never tried to find a correlation of these sessions with actual productivity, but overall everybody seemed to be more focussed and happy in the office. If I ever get to found another company, I would definitely like to explore the options of team/office meditation sessions again.

For anybody interested in connecting with the inner self, Eckhart Tolle really knows how to translate the concepts of our inner spirit into plain language: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE1dWwoJPU0
"The G-test statistic is 3.8189 so version 'Meditators' wins with 94.93% confidence." [1]

I'd have expected them to go for a higher level of statistical confidence.

1. http://elem.com/~btilly/effective-ab-testing/g-test-calculat...
Is there a solution to my manic cloud
This falls under the framework/shared code exception I mentioned. That's an excellent time to use some abstraction.

My concern is this looks like an unnecessary complication for a single rails application which is the most common use case for rails.
So there are two separate things here.

The first is whether or not developing a habit of continuous self-awareness is important. For the individual meditators like you and me, yeah, this is the goal. I don't expect others to try to reach this. It's not something that people who have not meditated, or who have not been graced with the realizations from meditation will understand why that is important. Until you reach that point, there is nothing in the world that will convince you of the importance. And even if you are persuaded that this is the standard, you're reacting to things inside of you that you are not aware of. You can't force someone to be mindful; why would you want to force someone to be continuously mindful?

The second is why you are upset by this apparent lack in the article. Perhaps it is something to investigate on the cushion.
You're misunderstanding the crux of the issue. Think of the NSA as a man in the middle. Every signal you send is allegedly stored for later processing. At that point, it doesn't matter how many layers you have encapsulating your data -- it can still be analyzed and decrypted given enough time and resources.
Nice article, but it looks like a simple case of reciprocity: "Hey, the people here just gave me an 8 week meditation course. The guys here are really nice. I should also be nice to everybody here".
Left and Right Brain User Personas
Yep, didn't mean to suggest the course is irrelevant to computer scientists. I meant to imply that if they're teaching it to CS students third year, presumably physics students are learning it earlier and/or in more depth.
Thanks for the opinion. Good luck implementing your crypto.
Disruptions: How Driverless Cars Could Reshape Cities
It seems more like the difference between "reporting" and "science" to me. If you're interested in the science, consider reading the linked research paper instead[0]. It may adopt something closer to the tone you're looking for.

FWIW, I agree that Bayesian statistics strikes me as regrettably underused in modern social science. But it's my impression that scientists of many stripes continue to use classical statistics instead, so calling something that doesn't use Bayes "not science" seems a bit off.

[0] http://www.socialemotions.org/page5/files/Condon.etal.2013.p...
I wrote this on G+. Feel free to offer solutions or discuss here or there.
oh, meshnet is a name of a specific project. well, that tells how well informed I'm about them, I thought it as a generic abbreviation of mesh network.
I can imagine this in the science books of the future. I usually check with a few cases to see if I understand the subject correctly, but sometimes I have enough samples to test.

This would be great: the student can see the default example, learn the subject and then try to check if he understood it correctly seeing how it behaves changing the parameters!
If they're sealed and there's no oxygen in there, then there's no boom.

Since hydrogen is so light it makes for less aerodynamic drag on the moving parts.
Ask HN: Combating thoughts of suicide/depression
In the best point of my life (job/my own place/done school wise), I'm always in the same state of depression and I'm finding it harder and harder to keep everything together and keep pretending.

I can't stand being around ANY people at all ever for whatever reason, I find myself almost in tears at multiple times during the day and its not for any particular reason.

I stopped lifting and bodybuilding. I don't have any ambition left in me to devote the slightest thought towards it.

Everything is good for about one or two weeks, then I break down, recoup, and repeat and try to channel it into my work or relationships. I can't do it anymore and I don't know what to do.

I'm not happy and it's hard pretending to be. I can't think happy things. Chaos invades my mind at all times.

I feel lonely constantly. You know that feeling you got when you fell in love with the girl of your dreams? You know that feeling when she has to leave for even the shortest time? It's the worst feeling ever, that's what it's like all the time. I could be out having the greatest social time and it makes me feel even more alone.

I've been doing well with it for the past few years but now it's gotten to a point where I truly don't believe I'll make it for another few months.

I don't enjoy any facet of life anymore.
This implementation is vulnerable to timing attacks [0]

[0] http://emerose.com/timing-attacks-explained
That's the first thing I thought! it was kind of weird to get deja-vu from something I experienced when I was a kid.
Growth: The problem solver that creates problems
The article made no pretense at being journalistic reporting. It's published in the Op-Ed section, after all.
Something that seems to be missing from the current world: A P2P noise network.

A sufficient amount of encrypted noise emitting from many nodes makes the task of capturing and decoding everything quite a bit more challenging for an intrusive regime. Effectively, this is steganography: Everything should be encoded in cat pictures with an accompanying text of hot keywords.
What I hear when people cite the Zimbardo experiment
In a harder science, sure. But 95% in psych strikes me as remarkably good (though I agree the sample size seems small).
This looks very interesting even if I can't think of a use case yet. It would be nice to see a license file though.
Swiss here. It's not really any better here. Right now they're trying to push a law that would legalize it for them to save metadata for all connections up to 12 months. And they could legaly install RAT's on phones and PC's.
It's called "BÜPF" but i can't find an english page right now.
You might want to use google translate on the petition site (by the local pirate party, CCC switzerland etc.): http://buepf.ch (and sign it if you can be bothered)

//edit: direct gtranslate link: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&pre...
Or they do put opaque labels on the EPROMs but such labels occasionally fall off or are forgotten.

Belt and suspenders.
There are some other methods, some listed in the OP:

- Commotion Wireless uses p2p wireless between mobile devices, which pretty much qualifies as a separate physical infrastructure

- If you're ok with the NSA knowing that you sent a message to someone on the network, as long as they don't know who received it, you can post encrypted messages to Usenet. Lots of people receive them, only one can decrypt. I think Bitmessage works this way too.

- Although not listed at OP, there's some academic work on scaling up Dining Cryptographer networks, which maintain anonymity even assuming an adversary who monitors the entire network. For example: https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi12/strong-scalable-ano...

Also I don't think it's been established that the NSA is recording all internet transmission, though that's a good working assumption.
When you are a non-voter you can fix your situation by paying a fine.

If you stay non-voter, you cannot get hired by government, cannot ask loans from government owned banks (or from the government itself), cannot get issued a new passport, cannot get issued a new id, cannot vote, cannot study in government schools and universities, your companies cannot provide services to the government, and you are considered a draft dodger (ie: for example if you want to join a private school that requires you to have completed military service, the school would be breaking its own rules if it allow you to study there)

If you do that in three elections in a row (here we have elections every two years, thus this is 6 years) your document related to voting is revoked. (meaning that you become de facto stateless, although de jure you are still brazillian).

"government" here apply to all levels (example: the part where you cannot join government schools, apply to federal, state and city schools)

Also this applies to overseas citizens (you must to the embassy and vote there).

You can "justify" your vote, this is showing up into any random voting zone (not necessarily the one where you are registered) and explaining why you won't vote, but usually the only explanation accepted is that you are away from your zone (ie: if you are into a city where you are not registered as resident).
It is. The grassroot NSA-YOUTH movement thrives on all these new snoop apps.
HD is hard. Game companies are barely got to 1080p/60fps for their games with most of them cheating to get near that quality. This next generation they may be able to just throw process cycles at it for the PS4/XBone. I can't imagine how long it will take to get to the 4K/60fps quality rate.
I haven't used google voice, but since the article mentioned that the client was not satisfied with a google voice number I assumed they must have had some way of knowing.

You can take all sorts of little clues from these kinds of things. For example if a website is phrased and designed to look corporate but the only number published is a mobile and the email address ends in @hotmail.com then you know you might be dealing with a single freelancer.
That's certainly logical, but I can't speak with as much anecdotal authority about those communities.
Conversely, this could be a way to bring bitcoin to the attention of people who aren't already in on it.
Hi,

I'm the originator of the drogulus.

First things first: it's an unfinished work in progress and an experiment on which I've been hacking during my 40 minute train journey in to work. So, yes, "something something - Kademlia-like crypto-signed homoiconic datastore - something" just about sums it up.

I can't spend a lot of time answering right now, but I gave a short presentation about the drogulus at this year's Opentech in London which resulted in the following blog post (giving a high-level overview of my motivations and intentions): http://ntoll.org/article/ppdd I followed up with some clarifications in this post: http://ntoll.org/article/drogulus-questions-and-clarificatio...

I have several more blog posts in draft form about other aspects of the system.

It's very early days and I'm pretty sure there are lots of problems with what I'm doing. But, as I mentioned in the first post referenced above, I'm having too much fun to stop. ;-)

Happy to answer questions and constructive feedback, comment and critique is most welcome.

N.
Why not?

I can tell you from my own practice, that you eventually become OK with things that arise and passes. That includes what non-meditators tend to consider as "negative" emotions.

More to the point, what you associate with "self-awareness" is just that. An association. It is as real and unreal as the emotions driving this person to make that comment with that tone. Both are things to investigate, and if not examined, both can form obstacles to practice.
I do not know if it was your intent, but your comment came across as hostile and arrogant.

The article doesn't assert that the participants had mastered anything. Novices experience the benefits of meditation to a degree. Even minimal sustained practice has been shown to increase focus and provide a sense of well being.
Irish High Court rejects US request for provisional arrest warrant for Snowden
Sweet, thanks! I used Apple Configurator to configure a proxy on my Apple TV, and am taking apart the apps that are grabbed over HTTP. Cool stuff!
> there is an ongoing debate

Is this like the debate on climate change? Where 99.99% of the scientists agree it's man made, yet a few others think it's natural.

> It's not a settled issue like you're making it out to be.

Yeah, I think it's pretty much settled by everyone but the US government.
Yes.

I run the IT ops of a startup. Pay is good, no equity though. Nights? If necessary. Weekends? If necessary. I was working on a federal holiday (July 4th) for no additional pay because we rolled our app out the night before.

The US has a long way to go with regards to labor rights.
But those do usually not slap the "science" label on their result/products. You would most likely laugh in a similar fashion at some guy who's product works well for 10 out of 20 random clients and now goes around telling the world that he has scientific evidence that his product is the only product that got it right. The social world is complex and anyone pretending things can be explained by a simple cause-effect relationship is just a charlatan.
Come on, surely you already have far more internet points than any one man needs. Share the wealth a little!
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The process of law should not be occult. It's hard to imagine how a secret court could do anything other than pretend to carry out a legal process. For law to be law it needs to be at least in principle knowable by the people to whom it applies.
I don't know anything about Docker being production ready, but both LXC (used by docker) and OpenVZ are production ready. OpenVZ is a mostly equivalent technology that has been around for a number of years, but IMHO hasn't gotten the management features and updates that docker is getting.

You can use OpenVZ right now for similar things, but it isn't as easy to create small single-use containers.

The nice thing OpenVZ has that docker doesn't currently support is mounting a Host directory (read-only or read-write) into the OpenVZ container so you can easily share lots of data to many containers with one copy. Right now, docker supports sharing volumes between containers, but not with the Host system.

For example, you can make very small OpenVZ containers by using common /usr, /lib, /lib64 directories and mounting them read-only in all of your containers. It's easy to bring up OpenVZ on a Centos6 machine and you can run Ubuntu containers in it if you like.

I have nothing against Docker and hope they keep adding features, but my current experience is with OpenVZ.
No, that's $20k per certain number of man-days a month, with those man-day/months ending after a year.

If I agree to 8hr/month of support for a year, that doesn't mean if you don't contact me for a year I will give you 96 hr at the end of the year.

This is incidental, anyway. There are many ways to structure a job to end after a time frame. 20k/year is just referring to a job that brings in 20k, that you know will be over in one year.
This has been a problem before: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2003-0063

Untrusted data being sent to a terminal emulator does not imply you are logged into an untrusted system with it. Users should be able to view arbitrary files through their terminal emulator safely, should be able to use IRC safely, should be able to use finger safely, etc.

There are enough people here reporting errors (having it hang with certain output, crashing X.org, etc) to cause me to be very wary of this. I am not confident it would stand up to a security review.
It is well tested and widely used. Thus, it is more likely to: be familiar to the average Joe developer you bring in off the market to work on your application, and it is also less likely to have a lot of the stupid security mistakes I see in custom rolled authentication code.
I remember seeing this several years ago, and was thoroughly impressed. The gentleman who wrote this library used it in an interactive essay called "Ladder of Abstraction." [1]

Here is its previous HN discussion: [2]

[1] http://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3099595
Excellent analysis. Noting with amusement that the unit "nm" used in the blog is not an SI unit derivative.
Are you sure about that?

https://github.com/codahale/bcrypt-ruby/issues/42

I'm not refuting. I'm asking a question because it was discussed quite extensively here:
https://github.com/codahale/bcrypt-ruby/pull/43
He could also have used /dev/urandom to generate his random bits instead of running a python script.
Cassandra vs MongoDB vs CouchDB vs Redis vs Riak vs HBase vs... (2011)
THANK YOU. We might see 4k screens take off for computers, but they don't make sense for TVs right now.
Question Bridge Interactive by Hank Willis Thomas — Kickstarter
The problem is that probable cause doesn't mean it is actually encrypted. What happens when they have probable cause, but it is actually sensor data?
The Psychology of Nostalgia (in under 300 words)
Shame he didn't include xmonad, on my pc it takes about 7/8 MB, but I guess you also have to consider another 4/5 MB for xmobar.
I get a "This item is not available in your country' error when I try to install from the Play store, which is strange for a free app. Anyone else?
PostgreSQL 9.4 will support document database model using Hstore
Yes, a quick check through the source files indicates a MIT License, though it'd be better if it was made clear in a LICENSE file.

This project looks great, I hope it takes off.
Yes.

One must remember that pre-colonization India, say, the Mughal empire, included not only India, but modern Pakistan and Bangladesh of course. Not a central point, but an important one.

In the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith goes on about "the mercantile company which oppresses and domineers in the East Indies". Acts of Parliament in 1700 and 1720 forbid import of fabric from India. Later on, England began forcing English textiles in India itself with various laws. England purposefully destroyed the thriving textile market of India (again India being India/Pakistan/Bangladesh in the time before and during the British occupation).
The Question Bridge Interactive project seems particularly needed on the heels of "The Jobless Rate for Poor Black Teen Dropouts is 95%" article - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6003761

The data visualization looks really interesting.
Lita: An alternative to Hubot for Ruby programmers
The crux of the issue is that somebody thinks the NSA is limited to using existing infrastructure. They aren't. You will be more successful in your aim by simply using the existing infrastructure in a way that is impractical to attack.

The most secure method of transmitting a message is a one-time pad. There is no way to analyze or decrypt it without its mated random pad. However, for internet traffic, this is horribly impractical. So you use alternate methods with some tradeoffs to achieve security that is practically impossible to attack.

The only benefit to alternate infrastructure is to work around government-imposed sanctions on traditional internet services, such as Iran, Egypt and other countries shutting off internet access. Project Byzantium is one way to work around this.
The "I tripped" explanation is used in many of the stories. Including when multiple bullets were fired. Either it is a lie or they are very careless.
NSA Rejecting Every FOIA Request Made by U.S. Citizens
No you're right my bad. I commented way too quickly.
Actually managed to cuase an X.org crash on my 32-bit Ubuntu 12.04. Can't seem to find the error log though.
Effect of Meditation on Math Speed
Bruce Schneier: Surviving in a Feudal Security World & PRISM [video]
I thought this was a few years old as well but I'm happy to be reminded of it.

I really enjoyed this
http://worrydream.com/#!/ExplorableExplanations
I did not know that. Thanks for useful info.
I agree with you, but I've learned that most programmers don't. Many times I've taken over a client from someone else who warned me they were horrible to work with, and I found they just wanted fast turnaround (i.e. within a couple days) for very small changes (15 minutes to 2 hours), maybe 2-3 such changes a week. I did the work, billed them, and they paid. If it was a bigger change I'd tell them that up front, and they'd okay the work and accept a later delivery, or work with me to change the scope. It makes the client happy and wins you all kinds of good will. With a good relationship, these "unreasonable" clients were all quite reasonable if I occasionally had to tell them I was booked and needed an extra week or so to get to something. I've really only had one true problem client, and with him it was more because he wanted to change the project scope repeatedly without changing the cost. I think a lot of programmers in client-facing roles would benefit themselves (or their agencies) if they prioritized client satisfaction as highly as technical excellence.
His opinions on the films made from those comics are relevant as well; for example, about V for Vendetta:

It's a thwarted and frustrated and perhaps largely impotent American liberal fantasy of someone with American liberal values [standing up] against a state run by neo-conservatives — which is not what "V for Vendetta" was about. It was about fascism, it was about anarchy, it was about [England]. The intent of the film is nothing like the intent of the book as I wrote it.

http://www.mtv.com/shared/movies/interviews/m/moore_alan_060...
Anti-conformity to the "mainstream" seems to be a compulsion, or even an addiction, with self-described hackers.

You are correct. Is there a point though?

Why not maintain the hacker ideals of innovation and disruption while hacking others' perceptions of you to make yourself seem more trustworthy and respectable?

Precisely. And this cuts both ways. Hope you can see that.

You will surely wind up with someone of the sort as your boss. That's just the way the world works.

Sure, hence HN, YC and the audience here that is actively striving towards being their own boss. Actively changing the way the world works as part of their striving for freedom from such bosses!
Which is funky, because I was playing games in 1600x1200@60fps in <2003.
Apparently someonewhocares does not work with it.