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Can you empathize with how frustrating your posts are to somebody like me who actually knows a thing or two about law? Look, I assume you are generally an intelligent person who is capable of understanding some abstract things, given that you likely know to program since you're on this site. But your argument is Fox News level arguing:

- "my opinion..."

- "can't be bothered to search..."

- "I don't really care much for the legal issues, the law is just so complex..."

You know (by your own admittance) nothing of the underlying issues, yet you have a (somewhat) strong opinion on them based on your "feelings" and what your read left and right, and you have a completely warped view of reality on the facts in these issues. What does it take to convince you otherwise, without me having to spend hours compiling numbers or writing pages and pages of text? Is it enough to mention three-strike laws, which put people away for other offenses for decades for relatively minor property crimes? Or the explanations brought up elsewhere in this thread on the actual sentence in this case? I mean basically you're asking me to argue the 'why' for things that are plain not true.
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I'm a big fan of knockout. I find myself using it in a lot of places. The declarative binding makes it so much easier to come back months or weeks after writing code and clearly see what is going on. That is opposed to the old way of using Jquery and a mess of glue code to tie models and elements together. Knockout has also saved me a lot of time and reduced the amount of javascript needed significantly.
Is double-edge sword as you may guess.
So you're saying at some point you will make the decision to trust them based on... what? Will you go to their premises and inspect everything they do?

Will you analyze all their processes? And for how long? At which point will you decide it's "satisfactory"? Will you account the cost of the analysis in your process?

If the source code is in a language you don't understand, what will you do?

If you go down the rabbit hole, it's endless.
I used to meditate while running (at least for some definition of meditation) - but the downside is you have to be exceptionally fit to do it. Can't imagine me being able to do that now!
shrug. placebos are pretty powerful. it's a useful tool. since starting meditating regularly i use it quite practically. it helps when you're in an environment with screaming kids, for example. i don't really care if it's placebo (which would be what? working only in my mind? you don't say...?) or not (but what else could it be?). it helps.
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You repeatedly see deep breathing recommended, which is exactly wrong. Do not take deep breaths to calm down. Instead take shallow breaths as slowly as possible. You want to boost blood CO2 levels. This is how bag breathing works to reduce anxiety.

Overbreathing/hyperventilation induces anxiety. A high breathing rate is correlated to disease and illness; the healthiest people breathe the least.
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Ask HN: Locking Android Tablets - How fool proof is it?
I am the IT manager for a large retailer. We are thinking of purchasing hundreds of Android tablets for our workforce instead of low end laptops, what we used to buy traditionally. The primary use for these devices would be to capture data related to budgeting and Purchase orders and using our ERP tools.

As we do not want the staff to use the provided tablets for playing games and facebook and watching videos etc, we want to install AppLock (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.domobile.applock) or something similar.

My Question is .. Is it possible to overcome the AppLock's Lock by fiddling with the filesystem of the device by connecting it to a PC/Mac - other than by factory resetting the device (which will erase our in-hour ERP apps anyway).
>What is this, a formal debate with research and fact-checking and carefully proofread dissertations?

No, you're right. Let's keep this emotional, fact-free, and useless.

>the argument 'a link is a link' without any consideration for context, intent, etc is prima facie stupid to any reasonable person.

No, you're making a false dichotomy of this. The fact is that a link is a link is a link. Tying this in with intent and context is a different matter altogether. The nature of a link doesn't (or at least shouldn't) change between applications of the term, whereas intent and context can. However, if the crux of the matter with regards to intent and context is that a link "posted" by a link aggregator points to something it shouldn't, the effect of that action can't be split out differently simply because a different actor was involved.

By analogy, it doesn't matter that I was swinging a chain saw around my head on a rope with the intention of evenly cutting my hedges, the fact of the matter is that my neighbours are approximately one head-length shorter than they were when they stumbled upon me. Whether or not I'm a gardener or a dedicated chainsaw murderer doesn't affect the outcome here.
here are the currently available apps http://glass-apps.org/google-glass-application-list
Arguably, if you root someone's box you could install a modified TLS stack that would allow for a MITM attack to capture the 2FA login flow. (But this would be obviously a little more difficult)
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whatever is a mystery is a placebo. That view wont help you mate.
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You don't ban pool halls because mafia members wink and nudge to each other all the time there.

Banning the pool hall is not going to deter the crime. And banning links in chatrooms by making it illegal will not do anything either.

The problem is not the criminal, it's the guy trying to classify the criminal. Just because the baby is in the bath water has a little dirty water on him, doesn't mean we bag up the baby and throw it out.
I've been trying to find a no bullshit guide to meditation for a long time now but I can't. None of this energy, chakra bullshit. Just a proper guide to relaxing your body and calming your mind through breathing exercises, positive thoughts and maybe some external stimuli (like music). But almost every guide I read has to do with how the stars channel their energy through your heart to make you feel one with nature.
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I ask this fairly often - Can anyone show me some decent studies (with significant sample sizes, good controls etc.) that show any benefits of meditation worth the 30-60 mins a day that you need for it?

Alternatively, can I get the same benefits from just lying on my bed or listening to music for the same amount of time?
This is the voice of a high-functioning sociopath. It's shocking because we usually don't hear these things spoken out loud, although by now it's pretty well known, or at least widely suspected, that the top management of many of the most successful corporations are largely sociopathic.

Look hard at the advertising and sales techniques that we are awash in: this is the style of thinking that animates them. Why does a car commercial have music? To trick the brain into making a major financial decision based on emotion, bypassing the rational process. Good for Toyota, bad for you.

One of Steve Jobs' proudest moments, in one of his last keynotes, was announcing an alliance with Zynga. This is the man who spoke derisively of others' "taste".
The article you linked to includes an explanation:

"Influencing our judgment in this case, among other things, is our recognition that the intent of the temporary possession and short display of the magazine was to promote the First Amendment purpose of informing an ongoing public debate about firearms policy in the United States, especially while this subject was foremost in the minds of the public"
When naming a price on a trading pair (BTCUSD), the convention is BTC/USD -> 1 BTC to X USD, where X is the price.
I'm really hoping to get a Twiddler3 once it comes out: https://plus.google.com/105804767481830727070/posts/j4M9fmRr...
Where exactly do they get their scanner tools from? I always thought these were police/3 letter agency only?
Often I find I spend days or weeks deciphering mathematics in compsci papers only to find the underlying concept is intuitive and plain, but you're forced to learn it bottom up, constructing the authors original genius from the cryptic scrawlings they left in their paper... and you realise a couple of block diagrams and a few short paragraphs could have made the process a lot less frustrating.

This is SO TRUE.

The same thing happens to me regularly, and not just with "computer science" but with other technical fields, hard sciences, and mathematics. The purpose of most academic papers is not to explain (let alone teach!) ideas in an intuitive manner, but rather to express them in formal, correct, unambiguous terms -- that is, to make them as accurate and critique-proof as possible for publication in some journal.
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Well, the page on the "Lego friends"site:
http://friends.lego.com/en-us/products/41027-mias-lemonade-s...

I don't see fire fighters or policemen or construction staff, so her statement (and other peoples argument) is valid. How to interpret this fact can be tricky, because there's still more variety than traditional 'girly' toys I think, but when contrasting this with the "City" line of toys (http://www.lego.com/en-us/city), the gender bias is blinding.
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The progression of math knowledge in the US is more or less the same, since our high school is the equivalent to your last two years of secondary school combined with college.
In addition, the problem most people don't recognize with this, is the database keeps a history of where the car has been seen. This history is ripe data for divorce attorneys who can use it to show that assignations at motels took place.

Already, mapping technology can cause marital problems - I had a neighbor who split up because the Google car photographed a motorcycle in their driveway that wasn't the husbands.
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Rights-managed (vs royalty-free) stock photography is typically based on duration (and medium).
How is that even related? Is your point that some offenses are prosecuted and others not? That's prosecutorial discretion - the hundreds of thousands of nmap scans that one might construe as 'precursors to a cyberattack' if one were to take literally some interpretations of some laws aren't prosecuted either, because they wouldn't stand a chance in court. I honestly don't see what your point is, giving one example of millions of actions and responses from law enforcement, or lack thereof.
no, it required a confirmation text/phone call
> such gross exaggerations

Echo chamber or not, the sentences either discussed or awarded in the cases above are disproportionate and unjust.
My goto app on the iPhone is btcReport due to the clean interface, but I needed LTC as well so I built this.

Interestingly I deployed it as a Django app on elasticbeanstalk and all the hackernews requests have just triggered autoscaling so thanks for testing it.
It's of course a theory. But "I'm going to make up this accidental shortfall today by making bigger bets tomorrow" is how a lot of fraud starts innocently.
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Meditation in the context of these bobo articles is just prayer for westerners who hate Christianity. It's a warped solipsistic form of prayer, however. Of course if they knew a damn thing about real Buddhism or Hinduism they'd avoid using terms from those religions, too.
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Different traditions recommend different breathing techniques, but the most common teaching (that I've come across) is to not make any conscious effort to modify your breathing, instead concentrating on simply observing the breath as it is.
It does not work for me :(
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This stuff can be no surprise to many of us, right? I'm not sure I would have made it out of the darkness of my formative years without those profound psychotropic experiences I had as a young man.
I think facepalm is correct when saying the author implies something more than just hating ads, when she says "I should be taking them on a long hike or handing out aprons and baking cookies. But we aren’t doing those things; instead we spend our weekends hunched over expensive plastic bricks".

If the issue was just the ads, playing with the bricks themselves wouldn't necessarily be bad, but that's what she implies.
I'm not a native speaker, but the for me the connotation in the title is that people are negative to Java8. Is that correct?
It used to be that taking a screenshot briefly stopped the touch event, so it could notify the sender when you took a screenshot.

iOS 7 fixed that bug, but added an official way for apps to detect screenshots. I would guess snapchat has just hung on to their old interface out of tradition, since it still works. It just doesn't have anything to do with screenshots anymore.
To be quite honest, I am surprised by the thoughtfulness of the responses here. My theory is that power is like gravity; it tends to congregate (using this analogy there are plenty of object lessons that can be drawn). In the United States, at least, we have a central point where power has been gradually been pooled largely in contravention of supreme law of the land. Without getting into a long diatribe, I believe that self-government, i.e. Democracy, works best when power is decentralized. If power is centralized there cannot be self-government and self-government must be, by definition, federalized and decentralized. Democracy and centralization are polar opposites. Granted, both must give a little in the practice of economic and social stability, but we should do this only to a minimal extent. Once people learn that they force other people to give them what they want through the force of politics we have lost the ability to self-govern and Democracy becomes a Cronyocracy.
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To a certain extent, I used to feel that way too. But now I have to ask 'why waste your time hateingthe ads?'

Sure they could be better or more entertaining. But most ads are easily recognizable and easily ignored. As much as I get a similar reaction to being manipulated once I recognize the manipulation I can use the info for my advantage or to move on.

Maybe this is naive but without advertising how robust would the worlds economy be?
Needs keyboard support (PC and Mac) like for undo. Also needs to support moving objects with the mouse.
I've finally hit upon an electronic calendar scenario I am happy enough with to try for a few months. I use calcurse, with the main directory for daily, and subdirectories for Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, and Yearly.

I have aliases defined to reach these subdirectories because I am lazy:

# calcurse stuff
export Week='-D .calcurse/Weekly'
export Month='-D .calcurse/Monthly'
export Quarter='-D .calcurse/Quarterly'
export Year='-D .calcurse/Yearly'

I use tmux and a startup script to open daily, weekly, and monthly

#!/bin/bash
# Start a session named cal, name the window "Day",
# pane. Detach the session for the setup process.
tmux new -s cal -n Day -d
# Create second window named "Week", split it and select left pane
tmux new-window -t cal:1 -n 'Week'
# Create a third window named "Month", split and select left
tmux new-window -t cal:2 -n 'Month'
# Load the calendars
## Note ^M and Enter seem to do the same thing
tmux send-keys -t cal:0 'calcurse' ^M
tmux send-keys -t cal:1 'calcurse $Week' ^M
tmux send-keys -t cal:2 'calcurse $Month' Enter
# Select window 0 and re-attach the session so we can reach it.
tmux select-window -t cal:0
tmux attach -t cal

Now I can set up tasks and priorities, and update according to the work plan. Share via rsyn. And not dependent on the cloud (I can rsync to a stick). Drawback; it is not integrated with Evolution or Thunderbird.
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I've talked to quite a lot of people who went to a Vipassana retreat, sometimes as an exotic break from, say, partying in Thailand, without any back info or experience, found it super amazing and intense and great — but then didn't keep up any kind of meditation habit.

And though I think the organization is quite impressive and obviously appealing to a lot of people, I'm quite skeptical about this approach to beginning with meditation.

Of course I appreciate that going cold turkey into a difficult retreat is in fact quite heroic, but I sometimes think that the glowing reviews and recommendations are not so much grounded in a sober assessment of the best way to start meditating.

And so I must play the boring guy and point out that there is a large number of smaller local organizations teaching mindfulness meditation in a simple and straightforward way. You don't have to go to Southeast Asia, and you don't have to go on a strenuous retreat the first thing you do.

I started meditating by myself, then joined a local group for longer evening sittings, then did some one-day retreats, then went to a temple for a weekend retreat, then a four-day, then a seven-day, and now I try to go to a four-day or seven-day at least a couple times a year.

This wade-in approach has been very nice and rewarding for me. It's helped me keep up a habit of (more or less) daily meditation for a few years. And yes, it is the most valuable and wonderful habit I know.
You're being specious here and you know it.

Sure it wouldn't take days to set up, but for someone who has never done it before, it will absolutely take more than 5-10 minutes to correctly set up and test node with grunt/gulp (and all the other tools you might need: less, sass, compass, uglify-js, bower, etc) to replace the various worklows that Codekit provides easily and painlessly.

Again I am not saying there's anything wrong with grunt/gulp, but as I said, "effort vs. result" is an important metric, and if a tool like Codekit gets me the same results faster and easier than spending time learning how to install and configure grunt/gulp and all the tools they automate, then that's a win for me.

To each their own though..
I love that you can use it to buy hats. Clearly they have bought into the Valve method of raking in (crypto-)cash!
OK, I'll bite. Meditation allows you to gain an otherwise impossible level of control over somatic functions (heart rate, pressure). That's why it's often used by freedivers to learn to hold their breath for example, and, to a greater extent, it's used in static apnea to help you hold your breath for a ridiculous amount of time (see Jacques Mayol).

That doesn't mean it's only useful to static apnea champions, though. The potential uses are wide-ranging, perhaps stress control and introspection is what most people can get from it.
"We're used to working in JavaScript all day long. Having Node just makes it feel like a very natural extension of our work environment," Liu said. In the six months working with Node.js, Netflix has seen "huge gains" in developer productivity."

Everyone with the same speech, and it's awesome. Context switching is a huge problem.
tl;dr: the author thinks the movie is about corporations and seeks for meta-buzzwords

The beginning of the movie (until the escape) is more of a double-reference to 1984 and A Brave New World. What comes next emphasizes more on the philosophy of Lego construction: combining and inventing instead of following the instructions. At no point in the movie the means of productions and the society based consumption are questioned. There is not even one clear reference to liberalism/communism (or such). Some satires do critic specific things (Starbucks), but that's it.

If you are looking for a hidden marketing message in a movie named "The Lego Movie", you probably have time to waste. I may sound a little aggressive but I was unnerved by the fact that the author consider plain activities as hiking or cooking as necessarily better than creative ones (well, maybe I do not identify sarcasm). I really don't get how playing with games from Lego can be such a bad thing: it's just a game, you are not locking them in some corporation's golden prison.
It's brilliant that you polled all 7 billion people, did I miss my survey in the post?.
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Deliberately lowering the breathing rate is extremely powerful. Who cares what some alleged "tradition" says.

More powerful is vagus nerve stimulation coupled with reduced breathing. Hold your breath for a minute at a time with your face in cold water.
I wonder where they'll draw the line? I mean what if you just say where to find the info? For example much of the Stratfor stuff Brown linked to can be found by googling "wikileaks stratfor". Does saying that make me eligible for 100 years too?
My understanding is, because they're kept on the disk, other apps can access them with no extra permissions - thus the reason they're "encrypted".

If you know the key, and because Snapchat will have to know where the files are, malware developers can write apps that scan the image directory, decrypt the files then send them to their own service.
"trying to distribute" is a false characterization of "posting a hyperlink". It was factual, newsworthy information that certain documents were present at a certain address. Regardless of intent, communicating this fact is not and cannot be a case of "trying to distribute" what is at the link, because the link is not the documents. The only thing he distributed or even tried to distribute (as far as I can tell from the article) was a small piece of truthful information, not the documents.
"However, if the crux of the matter with regards to intent and context is that a link "posted" by a link aggregator points to something it shouldn't, the effect of that action can't be split out differently simply because a different actor was involved."

head explodes

If you're trolling, congratulations, you got me.

If not, it doesn't make any sense to continue this. I don't see a way to convince anyone who doesn't see the difference between somebody posting a specific link to stolen data and a link aggregator. It's not about the link, it's about posting the link, and the intent and context of that action. I honestly don't see how to go deeper on that.

The 'analogies' game is quite tiring, I'm not even going there.
I think the request for proof lies with something that claims to have a certain effect or benefit.

On the other hand, it has been proven that taking breaks can enhance concentration and endurance. Meditation should be no exception.
Fascinating stuff, the really interesting stuff comes when you can zoom right in and see what the cables go past.

For example, the cable in the Indian Ocean that goes very close to Diego Garcia, which has a US military base on it. Supposedly the cable doesn't have a landing there, but there is some evidence which suggests the cable might actually go through the island.
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I think it can in theory, but the reason it hasn't been done in practice is basically that mathematics is too damn big. Look at Whitehead and Russell's original attempt to do basically exactly what you're asking for: it took them a few hundred pages to build up enough machinery to prove that 1+1=2.