skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now to bounce off this. I think that there may actually be a difference between what this practice can do for you and the experience of being in the flow. However, I think they are closely related. My idea of what it means to be the flow, you are, in a sense, not acting from your conscious "I" mind, but just kind of acting without acting. This is the whole Taoist Wu-Wei concept. But really, you are coming from the space from which thought arises, rather than the thought itself.

So when you are in the flow with coding, swim, or bike ride, you are in the midst of an action that granted you access to this state. But you did not actually consciously enter this directly state by choice.

But the I think the trap can be that you can only access this when you are doing things that lead to being in the flow. What about being able to enter this state when you are really upset about something or when things are going badly, or when you are bored, or when you are doing something compulsively.

The practice I believe is trying to access this state at random times of the day, and especially in those times when you are not engaged in an activity that lends itself to this awareness, but actually engaged in activities that do the opposite (such as being annoyed at someone).

The idea is that you are building this muscle that allows you to access the "flow" more and more and eventually maybe realize that in some way can always access the space from which thought arises, because that space must always exist.

But again, this is theory. Practice is hard. I'll take a moment now.

The concept for this came from this ebook. I've only skimmed it.

http://www.greatfreedom.org/Gallery/ShortMoments.pdf
I always take the night trains when I travel in Europe, but it is infrequent enough that I am not going to be able to save them. This makes me sad as well.
The vast majority of Google employees are not downloading public data or working on Googlebot. They are working on either converting public data into better advertising algorithms or creating a product that will capture peoples' attention.

Yes, it is true that Google pays a lot for infrastructure to download the data. But it is a drop in the well compared to the price of actually generating the data. Otherwise they would just do that.
This is true, but making service unaffordable to even the middle class during peak time is not the solution.
The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil
The site fails to load without javascript.
>>Whether these crimes deserve any police attention is something that could be discussed, but surely we can agree that prosecuting black kids but not white kids is something that drives inequality in society?

Yes, we can agree on that.
I agree 100% with Ian. I came here to say the exact thing, but he beat me to it.
For those that don't understand the reference:

http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm
nothing, it's their loss. But seeing how you can get JS support "for free", then there's no reason not to have both available.
The implementation in Blink is now passing the Promises/A+ tests at 100% [1], and we'll be updating the V8 implementation accordingly. We want to be shipping the one in V8 ASAP, but as you note it needs some work, so we'll be addressing those issues and then getting it out the door very soon.

[1]: https://twitter.com/ChromiumDev/status/413035115665575936
Man's severed hand attached to his ankle, later replanted on his arm
var works differently in CSS than preprocessors, and in such a way that you can't combine them with preprocessed calc etc. statements.

Having said that, I don't know if this polyfills the var spec exactly.
Millions of users will have "Logs", an UI for the journal. Because journal logs more and allows more things, the UI will be more useful. Easy to do with journal (log attributes with each message), impossible with "/var/log/messages".
Nope, just released the CLI/Node API today and haven't used Grunt personally. But would welcome someone making one! :)
You're arguments are so poorly constructed that they don't deserve a thoughtful response.
Statistical Analysis of Baby Names
The part where he got three years probation because the judge was pissed off about his shenanigans.
How is that a short survey ?
I avoided preprocessors for a while too, but I can't imagine not using SASS now. Even if all it had to offer was nesting it would be worth it, but with variables and mixins it really shines.
Was this ever a secret? I thought this was a relatively prominently advertised feature in iOS 7.
I'd like to see the statistics that lead you to believe that very few of the people that "do graffiti" have anything to do with gang activity. Perhaps you mean the fully commodified art form which is practiced on building walls with the owner's full permission but with a certain kind of serif and flare? Or maybe you mean the occasional lewd remark on a bathroom wall? Certainly, you are not referring to the vast majority of graffiti you might see in public places in New York, LA, Chicago, Oakland, Detroit, Baltimore, or any other giant city which is in fact a log of blood, death, and hatred committed in service to gangs.
To me they chose the wrong word, they are still preprocessing because current css engines don't accept future css. Therefore it must be preprocessed by Myth before its usable in the browser.
What’s New in LoopBack 1.3 – The Open Source, Node.js Mobile Backend
A tag on City Hall, deliberately in front of the police.

I would expect a more severe sentence if I keyed a cop car vs some random car on the street. While I'm uninterested in discussing the severity of the sentence (I have no experience or knowledge to be able to judge), it stands to reason that if you directly attack the justice system you will not be treated kindly.
We made the service completely non-mac-centric. One of the basic ideas is, that you can develop a service on the mac that uses all the frameworks of OS X, but the client can be written in C, C++, Java, … Anything that knows HTTP and JSON.
Yup Chrome not so good, Firefox seems fine.
It seems as if continuing to address these scalability issues is what will be one of the largest deciders in Meteor's future. It seems as if I near constantly am perusing posts on the framework here, and after going through the Discover Meteor book as well as several small projects that were largely simple prototypes, I've began to have a lot of faith in it for these reasons:

1. It is EASY. Like, really, really easy. I went through Discover Meteor in less than two days, and was easily imagining how to implement other applications after one run through.

2. It is accessible. The free deployment on the .meteor domain, the open source sensibilities, the constant growth. It's got a good snowballs path going on growth.

3. The developers really believe in this product. Everyone on HN has an opinion of the best way to develop software. That said, I feel there is a certain intrinsic respect we share for one another here(MOST of the time ;]) and to ignore developers who are as passionate as these guys building a functional product that clearly has room to grow, we'd be fools to ignore them if we didn't have the time and/or interest (and the interest is hard to not have with what it offers so easily).

This article seems to really further my faith in Meteor. Stopping the "pull and diff" method is a great first step towards making it truly scalable in the sense other frameworks have developed the capability.
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We are looking for a Canadian company who will take on our electrical
expenses -- on their books, rather than on our books.
It's systemd. The way the project is spelled has been explained multiple times. Your criticism is bit weak if you insist on spelling things incorrectly seemingly on purpose. Gives the impression you might also not be completely showing things in an objective light. But oh well.

Anyway, your entire complaint is explained at every systemd presentation. The maintainers want to have something which can be used as the basic building block for Linux. Various other projects now rely on that.

So systemd is successful, but surely it is a conspiracy! hahaha
I didn't realize the entire site was on github (obviously I didn't realize any of the site was on github to be honest). Thanks so much for the links.
It's probably a result of rapid expansion. eg, they did $3M revenue over the last financial year, but only started that year with 20 or whatever employees. So you should probably be dividing by something like an average of 26 employees and not 34, which gives $115K per person and seems more in line with reality.
The article describes the imbalance of policing white and black communities.

It then describes the stupid sub-optimal workings of the punishments, allowing the reader to draw their own conclusion about how someone subject to those restrictions is supposed to move away from crime.

It is stupid that a non-violent misdemeanour offence can prevent someone from travelling outside an area.
If we're going to choose a transition language, maybe we should think about it a bit more ? Considering how different paradigms are entering mainstream, why jump for a class-based statically typed OOP-heavy language? Dart might be better than JS, but is it better than most other candidate languages?
There's nothing to learn. Even if you use nothing more than nesting it's a huge boon to productivity and readability.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/05/09/46357.htm

Alternative take on what has happened here.

>>> This reporter accompanied Constantino on one of those trips, watching as the lawyer handed a guard his passport and driver's license. After calling City Hall staffers from inside the guard booth, the officer told Constantino to come back the next day.

>>> Instead, Constantino dramatically turned himself in at Manhattan Criminal Court that Friday, after the stop-and-frisk protesters were convicted of disorderly conduct.

>>> "Your Honor, I refuse to leave this court," Constantino told the judge. "I am choosing in peace and love not to leave this court."

------------------

The purpose of getting arrested was to protest the Stop and Frisk laws in NYC. It seems like Bobby Constantino is milking the story for all its worth though, and turning it into something else.

Not that it is a bad perspective or anything, but I think it is important to remember his original purpose for getting arrested.
ECMAScript doesn't flow as well as JavaScript though.

How do you pronounce it, anyways? E-C-M-AScript? Ec-maScript? EczemaScript?
Actually, nesting like that creates unneeded higher specificity. You'll end up with .titlebar .titlebar-button and you'll end up running into race-conditions with specificity and the ordering of your CSS will then become important.

You're often better off just using BEM style selectors and using the selector name for nesting.

.titlebar {}
.titlebar-button {}

As for mixins, yeah, you get some benefit if you're trying to be super tricky. But that button you've created is used once or twice, plus you could just use CSS variables and colour functions.

The question is now whether the added complexity everywhere else is worth that tiny benefit. There are plenty of people who have built large front-end sites and found that Sass/Less in fact make it harder to maintain.

But honestly, this stuff is totally subjective in a lot of cases. Different projects, different tools. If it works for you then stick with it, for other people, Myth and Rework are perfect.
Indeed, the cloud apps are restarted automatically after a crash.
Sigmo - The Universal Translator
The init system differed a lot across distributions. Systemd made it more the same within distributions. Solaris uses something systemd like. *BSD use their own thing.

I don't get what you're complaining about, the fragmentation has been reduced :P
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It's easier and safer to make your quota by arresting a pot smoker than an armed robber or a street gang member.

At the end of the day, the police clock out and go home to families just like anyone else . They want to stay alive just like anyone else.

If people think the police should be risking their lives more than they do, then let's pay them 4x what they get today -- I'm willing to pay higher taxes -- but let's not pay them a 5-figure salary and have unrealistic expectations of how far they should stretch.

Then, too, there's the Giuliani tactic still being applied in a lot of places of arresting people for the tiniest offenses such as spitting or loitering, in order to clean up the streets and convey an impression that the police were in control. It worked in NYC, at least.
> but surely we can agree that prosecuting black kids but not white kids is something that drives inequality in society?

Only if we're punishing them under the same circumstances, which I don't agree is necessarily the case. I think we should punish someone who marks graffiti in order to mark gang territory or intimidate others more harshly than someone who does it as a prank.
You're wrong. People downvote the off-topic and obnoxious comments. I've been posting here for 3 years. Off-topic negativity (and I've made some boneheaded comments, I'll admit) gets exactly what it deserves: downvoted to shit.

You make what would be a strong case if there weren't data, but I have the data from 3 years of posts (with-- again, I'll admit to this-- a wide range in terms of quality). Downvoting works and is democratic. Rankban isn't needed.

Also, I've heard that I'm not the only one put on rankban for criticizing VC.
Objective-C has nothing to do with UI. BTW: The first web server has been developed in Objective-C.
This might be not a very good example. But generators have more good features than just cleaner code.

1. You write code almost like synchronous one. You can use any control-flow statements you are familiar with. Just dont forget to turn a promise into real value with `yield` keyword.

2. How much times have you wrote such statements?

X.prototype.foo = function() {
var self = this;
// or
var that = this;
this.bar().then(function(x) {
that.baz(x);
});
};

or
}.bind(this));

With yield you can just write your logic, not a boilerplate:

X.prototype.foo = async(function*() {
var x = yield this.bar();
this.baz();
});
This is what I've been exploring in the past couple of weeks. I love the frontside MVC framework position, and being able to build out a resource, hook it up as JSON, then just hop over to Go and recreate it with a clear goal in mind has been a lot of fun. I don't need the performance as bad as many- this is more me just trying to still figure out 'my' language(I'm not long in the industry). Go is starting to feel like it could be it, but it's hard to deny how quick Rails is for getting up and running in record times.
Ideally, treat drugs as the health problem they are, not a crime problem.

Stop putting people in jail or prison for minor offences.

Stop including weird restrictions in parole orders.

Stop making community service being about "punishment" and move it towards "rehabilitation", of the offender and of their area.
The first officer had it right: "What are you, some kind of asshole?"
This is a terrible way to think and only furthers racism in the world. You need to have more self-respect for yourself, and expect it more from others than what you're implying in this comment. I, as a black man, do not welcome being hassled for my race. That "good data" you're talking about is corrupt because they focus on black people while non-blacks get away. We already know there are things made illegal for the purpose of oppressing brown people(see why weed is illegal), we already know the police are watching black people more than other races. We know the justice-system is not exactly balanced in terms of race, so I see your "good data" as heavily bias data designed to make one reach the conclusion the data-gathers want you to conclude. Furthering racism, furthering unfair jailing, furthering lining the pockets of those who benefit from jails being full, war-on-drugs, and starting wars.

You should probably watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQnxnYEVp4U
How the SF tech industry can redeem itself
I agree with the general point, but "riding dirt bikes in the street" is possibly not as innocent as it may seem.

In rural areas riding dirt bikes on the street might conjure up images of a couple of brothers tearing around a few fields, generally making a mess but ultimately just doing it to have fun. In cities however there is often (by no means always, but often) something else going on.

At least in Philadelphia, gangs use dirt-bikes and 4-wheelers to 'patrol their turf' and flee the police (who are largely powerless to stop them, as they travel in groups of 10 or more, and all split the second a cop turns his lights on). In these instances it isn't harmless fun, they are basically neo-'biker gangs'. It is a big problem in north and west Philadelphia.
this is cool, but the problem i have with the variables is that it's based on a suggestion of a spec that mozilla hasn't even finalized... if it changes in the future, this could break
I kind of like it. It looks nice, and the the low info density makes reading (relatively) dense subject matter easier. With this design trend you'll probably start assuming that there is room to scroll when there's only a title on the screen.
Yeah, but this all makes sense as long as it's someone else. "I don't care if there's gross miscarriage of justice for hundreds or thousands of other people as long as I feel safe" is what you're saying.
The activity for critbit seems to have died in the last half year:

https://github.com/bos/critbit/graphs/contributors
There is nothing wrong with working hard to get their attention. It isn't a 2-way street until you've already proven yourself, that's when the relationship become symbiotic.

The dating analogies don't apply.
They're everywhere. Pay attention to the products/projects you admire. Look for Dribbbler's that also discuss goals instead of just aesthetics, and also try and find the design posts/comments that are made on HN. They exist but I feel the good ones are an elusive bunch that are often considered/confused with engineers (and maybe that's because good thinking is just good thinking and isn't confined to one profession, but I digress...)
There's a big difference between a data file hiding somewhere and a full on UI with logs and maps that anyone could pick up your phone and see. Everyone I've showed this too was surprised.
Please show the bar names over the pins, or, at the very least, on hover. It's quite a pain to figure out what the options are in Boston right now.
As mentioned in many of the previous threads: Did you ever had to maintain services? Debug why openldap wouldn't startup? Then figure out what the actual command it would run? This all to get to the stdout&stderr output? While journal makes this available by default? Aside from just reliably stopping services and reliably being able to configure services (configuring, not editing shell scripts which all are similar but different enough to be annoying).

Cool that you didn't run into the various issues that systemd makes easy. But various others have. Suggest giving it a try.
Congratulations on Treehouse's success! I totally believe in the 4-day work ethic.
Yikes. That was one of the most horrifying parts of the series.
I've been working 4 days/week for the past 3 years, which does mean I make 20% less than I could be making, but at this point there's very little that could convince me to ever go back to 5 days/week. It's good to see little pockets where the idea is growing, because it's been tremendously positive for me.
> the expectations of the people who made a bet on us either with their money or their hard work that we feel we've let down, even as we know that most startups do not achieve this goal.

I'm sorry to hear that you feel like you've let people down. That's a terrible way to feel and live your life. Investors and advisors back you early on because they believe in you. Embracing that philosophy is liberating, and actually, allows you to take more risks and become more success (and happy) from my experience.

I'm sure they'll be supportive of your next venture.

Thank you for sharing your experience with everyone. I'm sure this wasn't an easy blog post to write.
This is for the Homeless Youth Alliance in the Haight.

They provide a valuable service and could use some help. What better way to help abate the negative backlash then by giving back to the city?
If your plan is to have excellent punching bags for when things go south who you can blame and who will not fight back early on, then your not hiring him was a good plan.

If your culture is sick enough that this is what happens, then no good devop should want to work for you.

Defensive behavior goes hand in hand with cultures where you need to defend yourself. Nobody is good enough that they never make mistakes. What matters is what happens after the mistake. In a good culture, whoever knows what the problem might actually be - who was often the cause of said problem - will immediately speak up and suffer no consequences for doing so. But the person who screws up and then tries to hide it will get fired.

I do admit that there are too few good cultures. But those that exist have to filter out defensive behavior if they wish to remain good.
>He wasted valuable city resources

There's real civic value here that greatly trumps any sort of tax payer whining. Especially considering that internal anti-corruption mechanisms clearly aren't working and so many jurisdictions are hopelessly corrupt. We need more money spent on stuff like this and less "Police Department announces new SWAT military vehicles" whose maintenance and lifetime budget over whats essentially war machines in our neighborhoods greatly trumps what this man did.

Also, he's white and educated and thus you're paying attention to him. See, its working.
Looks interesting. Mind sharing how exactly my photos will be manipulated?
Feinstein: NSA phone surveillance 'important' but not 'indispensable'
Show HN: Gitignorer- Easily generate .gitignores for your projects.
Well, I don't know how to do nesting right now so there WOULD be something to learn :D

Maybe it was that a clear winner never arose between LESS and SASS or maybe that I always let things play out a bit before jumping onto a trendy technology. I guess I'll have to just get with it since it's not really going away.
When I worked on political campaigns it was summer (anywhere from May to August) until election day (first week of November) for 90+ hours a week. I joke around about my very first job where I worked 96 hours in the first 6 days, and since it was July it only got busier from there. It gets to the point where you would much rather do 10+ hours of work every day of the week than take that Sunday off but have to sacrifice sleep for the next week because of it.

Particularly for statewide and national elections, the last 2-4 weeks before a campaign there is nothing else. No downtime, no family, no hobbies, nothing. Just the candidate, the message, the voters, the outreach. It’s rare in those major elections to get more than 2-3 hours of sleep (or sleep at all) in the last 72 hour push. Again these are elections for POTUS, Senator or Governor in contested states. A state rep race is going to be much more low key but still easily 60-80+ hours for the final month or two.

Things may have lightened up some since I moved to programming, but I doubt it.
You should switch to dogecoin since it has a faster confirmations.
I missed that one.

The top comment on that HN discussion, by RexRollman, is right on target: companies shouldn't be allowed to use the word "buy" for this kind of thing
> In NYC, you can't even walk down the street while black.

Where I used to work, in Chelsea, I used to see a trio of policemen frisking and/or questioning a different young, black man or woman at the entrance to the subway three out of the five days in the week.

Chelsea is a fairly wealthy (and white) neighborhood. Go out to East New York, and you'll see much worse.