skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Suppose you say you're practicing and teaching mathematics but you cannot tell me what mathematics is. How can I trust that you know anything about what you are teaching?

That is perfectly fine. But it does not prove anything remotely close to what you stated.

> The burden of proof is on the person who says that something exists, not the person who says that they have not yet found evidence of the thing's existence.

Now you are just being difficult. I did not ask you to prove anything. I said I was curious as to why you believe it is not way to solve problems, in the face of a huge number of people who have practical experience saying it is.

> If you have some evidence in your life quality that meditation has helped you, we should confirm what the concrete benefit is.

A concrete benefit is reduced stress levels. And this is a concrete benefit that has had plenty of research to confirm it.

> What I claim here is that there is a huge difference between the practice of meditation that people are learning and teaching in modern times, and the specifics of the method of self-reflection that Gautama Buddha guided his disciples to make efforts to undergo.

This is a very different claim from what you made earlier.

> However, I don't know you yet, and it would be a mistake of mine to share his real teaching with you if I don't confirm how genuine you are.

This is just pure, utter bullshit.

> To be clear, no, I do not mean that meditation is not sufficient by itself. I mean that meditation is not something that makes you closer to Enlightenment. Enlightenment has very strict preconditions and meditation is not a teaching that you can practice which helps you fulfill those conditions.

This was not the claim I was responding to. I was responding to your specific claim that Gautama Buddha did not teach that meditation is the way to enlightenment. This was also the entirety of the context for my use of the term "nirvana". If you have other beliefs with respect to what enlightenment and nirvana means, that's an entirely different subject. While I practice meditation, my interest in Buddhism beyond that is one of a general interest in philosophy - I'm not a Buddhist.

> So I would like to see how you respond before telling you more.

I did not ask you to tell me more, I questioned specific claims you made that to me directly disagree with facts, and you avoided answering the questions as best you can. That to me tells me I'd waste my time listening to anything more.
It's not bad rhetoric, but there are a few problems:

First, the ranking algorithm for a local search is not necessarily the same as that for a web search (even a web search with possibly local intent). In fact, the results from this tool were total garbage for the last local search I'd done (zurich augenarzt). It gave me results in Germany, results where the address and map pins were wrong, a link to the front page of some local search company I'd never heard of, etc.

To go back to my previous example, in fact the most appropriate result that this extension was able to give was pointing to the Facebook page of a eye care center in Zurich (hey, at least it was the right city) showing content that had basically nothing to do with their business. The only valuable content from the point of view of a potential customer was the link to their actual website. Which brings me to the next point.

Second, the supposed Google+ results are not actually Google+ results. The link is generally pointing to the website of the business itself. At least for me that's generally the result I want. The Google+ page is only used as a fallback when Google doesn't know which website is associated with the business. Of course a local search company's goal is for as many users as possible to be funneled to their web site. It's not a goal I'm very sympathetic to.

Would the "few engineers from different local search companies doing this purely as a side project" still be happy if the link to their site was treated the same way the G+ pages are treated in the results right now? That is, as an auxilliary link rather than as the main result?

Third, companies like Yelp have made it abundantly clear that they don't want "their" data aggregated by Google. While an actual production version of this would depend on that. You can't have it both ways.

As a final note, you guys really need to redo that video with a real human doing the talk. It's hard to get the viewer to sympathize with a bad voice synthesizer, and it comes across almost as cowardly. And worst of all it's pretty hard to understand. It took me almost the whole movie to figure out that the word I was hearing as "parrot" was probably "powered".
will definitely do
Cyber crime: First online murder will happen by end of year, warns US firm
Some benchmarks for difference C++ methods of converting a string to double:

http://tinodidriksen.com/2011/05/28/cpp-convert-string-to-do...
There is nothing hard about kicking repeat offenders from an "official" mailing list/subreddit/IRC channel for breaking community guidelines. You just need to set up clear rules, explain them if needed, and expel people too thick to follow the rules, and have enough moderators. Trolls may still complain on other forums, but it will make the place much more liveable for people actually interested in exchanging and contributing.
They should have given you some lessons on how to use punctuation, together with the sound cards.
I don't think this problem is anything particular to open-source communities. There's lots of popular software that is poorly received (Windows 8).

There's the software people hate, and the software nobody uses.

(Of course turning it into a personal attack is very poor behaviour.)
Haven't they moved away from this trend with the watch? I feel like it's way too customisable to be an Apple product.
How to back up apps and app data on Android with or without root
Oxford Scientist Explains the Physics of Playing Electric Guitar Solos
It is nice to see how Julia circumvents the problem by introducing a macro @printf. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19783030/in-julia-why-is-...
Most people who speak fluent English learned it out of their own initiative, outside of school, by attending courses or taking private lessons. Not everybody's parents could afford paying for it, though.

English at school isn't taught properly as I said, or at least it wasn't back in the 90s (I was born in 1981). I suppose things must have improved since then, but not radically.

Most English teachers were requalified Russian teachers back then, since Russian used to be a compulsory subject under communist regime and they'd be out of work had they not switched to English. There were hardly any qualified English teachers, so, no competition for the job.

You can imagine the outcome. What's more, the didactic method was terribly obsolete. As early as in primary school we would have to memorize loads of grammar rules for past perfect continuous and whatnot, while lacking the most basic vocabulary.

Older generation (+40 yo) never even had that, and living behind the iron curtain one did not have a strong incentive to learn English in the first place.
> Also, these communities’ openness means that a minority of difficult members (including, for example, a sincere misogynist or an insincere troll) can disproportionately affect the tone and dynamics of interactions. Finally, the ideology and rhetoric of freedom and openness can then be used to (a) suppress concerns by labeling them as “censorship” and, to (b) rationalize low female participation as simply a matter of women’s choice.

> I argue that some otherwise commendable features of the free culture movement also contribute to the gender gap. That is, the geek stereotype and discursive style can be unappealing, open communities are especially susceptible to difficult people, and the ideas of freedom and openness can be used to dismiss concerns and rationalize the gender gap as a matter of preference and choice.

I'm making a second reply purely to point out that the article you cited talked about confounding influences as being one of the main sources of the problem, while you attacked my comment for talking about confounding influences being part of the solution.

That seems absolutely insane, and suggests you didn't actually respond to my comment on the merits, but rather, out of anger someone didn't agree with you.
Why Everyone Loves Rembrandt
This is an argument against the style, but not the substance of what the person has said.
It's disappointing that this has had very little coverage and/or discussion in the tech community outside Australia.

I realise it's at a national level and therefore a domestic piece of legislation, but that doesn't stop internet users the world over rallying together on issues like net neutrality and SOPA.

For days, the SOPA campaign was everywhere. It too was a domestic (US) piece of legislation, but it's "forced" on other uses (through sites like Reddit, etc.) in countries where it doesn't specifically apply.

The data retention scheme proposed by the Australian Government is draconian. It has very little public oversight, it costs consumers money and inhibits the free ideal of the internet. At a basic level, the spooks want every IP address of every consumer for every connection to be kept (by the ISP) for two years.

My name, address (subscriber information) will be tied to my IP by the ISP. I connect at 5:43am to Facebook. That's logged. I leave Facebook and log onto Reddit at 5:55am, that's logged. For two years. I send an email to Activists-R-US at 6am, that's logged. Not the "content", just the fact that I did it.

And, best of all, it's all classified as "metadata", so accessing the records doesn't even need a warrant. In fact, any agency in the country with "investigative powers" can request the records from the ISP. That includes, and is not limited to, councils who are investigating lost dogs or parking infringements.

The Attorney-General in Australia, George Brandis, couldn't even describe or explain what he wanted to be retained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbtgULCY5zk

We already have fairly tight rules when it comes to internet spying. Every ISP - to get a carrier licence - needs to submit a Interception Capability Plan (ICP) with the Government, explaining how it can - if necessary - tap that connection for spying. If you change your network and it changes the way the lines are tapped, you have to let the Government know straight away.

We also have mandatory retention orders, which can be applied to a subscriber account if a court sees fit. This orders the ISP to keep the information on the user for a limited time.

If the authorities have their suspicions, they have ample opportunity to get what they want under the current laws.

Data retention is, as I said, draconian. It turns presumption of innocence on its head, and it will be used - one day - to track down to prosecute and jail journalists and whistleblowers.

It will eventually be used to track down and prosecute copyright infringers and "trolls".

I realise that's a slippery slope argument, but legislation - once it's on the books - is often used for things it wasn't intended for.
The “he said, she said” of how the FBI found Silk Road’s servers
I think the key is the paragraph about honesty vs. politics. In several projects people put on a corporate face on the mailing lists while doing backstabbing and politics on IRC and Twitter.

Linus is at least honest.
> however, they're not uncommon in any large community when dealing with highly controversial topics

Come on. We're talking about init systems here, not the Palestine/Israel conflict. It should be possible to have a level-headed discussion without insults and death threats. Saying "Poettering is a prominent, controversial person, therefore it's OK" isn't right.
nice - I was tracking this in the context of my book on Backbone http://pipefishbook.com/references , but isomorphic JavaScript has potential to address programmable devices via the web too, e.g. what if your lamp would speak JavaScript?
From wikipedia on Susie Maroney who swam Cuba-USA first (with shark cage, and much younger):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susie_Maroney#Achievements

Completed 160 km swim from Jamaica to Cuba (15 September 1999).
During Hurricane Floyd, a category 4 hurricane.
It wasn't just the iPhone. Remember the Slashdot review of the iPod? "No wireless, less space than a Nomad. Lame."
It's the Hare Krishna not the Dalai Lama
Scientists create crystal which would allow us to breathe underwater
To me the so called hideous skankphone user interface looks a loot like the new flat design of iOS 7 with it's flat buttons and strong colours.
it would be nice to see an isomorphic approach to this
A critical look at India MOM
Most of the particularly vicious flak Poettering gets isn't even really from the Linux kernel community, but just from random internet people who have an opinion. There's traditionally a bit of an expectation of a "meritocracy of code" in LKML where you can't yell too loudly if you don't also contribute (not necessarily literally "code", also documentation, testing, code review, hardware specs, etc.). I think the degree to which it's an idealized meritocracy can easily be overstated, but it does tend to at least raise the bar for ranting, since you can't only rant without ever doing anything else. The general internet doesn't really feel constrained by that, so you have people who know next to nothing about the Linux kernel who nevertheless feel entitled to very strong and intemperately expressed opinions about it.
These 3 examples are easy to work around using zombies. Even whitelisting only people who have already written to you can be attacked.
Imagine you are sitting next to a person who will be taking over your code. How would you explain your code to him/her? Just write down that imaginary conversation and very likely you will have the best documentation of your code.
> How they will do this in a city with thousands of cars is a different question, and authorities haven’t given any details on how they will try to find Uber cars in the streets of Madrid.

Easy. Undercover inspectors just book an Uber ride. Soon as they step into the vehicle, they present ID and fine the driver.
They do need money, that's a way to give them some.
In the article he talks about people posting stuff about him to other websites, namely youtube , 4chan (or at least in 4chan "style") and petition websites.
blogspot is really annoying about that. Adding ?m=1 works here: http://nelenkov.blogspot.fr/2014/10/revisiting-android-disk-...
I would rather let google show me results that it wants than giving power some government authority to "fix things".
If you aren't clear on what he did before then you can't be clear on how prison changed him, or if a reform-based jail would have ended up with any other result.

As I pointed out, he acted quite bad before he went to prison. I agree that at the US prison system “is an expensive way to make bad people worse” as the old saying goes, but I don't understand your point in saying that. Are you arguing that no one should be sent to jail until reform occurs? Are you calling for wholesale reform of the prison system? Will you be voting for politicians who aren't "tough on crime"?

If so, then you should change your tactics. You started off focusing on weev, and suggesting that those who supported his imprisonment should be embarrassed for doing so. This suggests that you are defending weev, but that it's okay to imprison all those other people who aren't weev.

I'm embarrassed that the US incarceration is 7x that of Europe, conditions in the jail so poor, and chances of returning to public society so reduced. I have no special embarrassment about weev.
Folks from those communities have tied up this debate to their identities.

http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
Forget cybercriminals: How to protect data from disgruntled employees
"A startup is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model." - Steve Blank

http://steveblank.com/2010/01/25/whats-a-startup-first-princ...
The book is not about this variety of Buddhism; Zen is a school of Mahayana; the book discusses Theravada. This is mentioned in the book at some ponit.
I gave it a quick look, and it does seem interesting. A good addition to the "IFTTT for [category]" crop that is popping up like mushrooms lately.

One small nitpick: When you add components, it's not very clear which are usable as triggers and which as actions. Some indication of that would be nice.
The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Why should it? There's not too much a lamp can do besides being switched on and off and maybe changing the brightness and/or color. I guess a REST interface, it not a simpler protocol, would be more than sufficient to control it. Why bother with the power you need to run a JS VM?
Is she cooking from one app/format that could be projected easily? When using a resource like that, I usually cook from a mixture of books, blogs, recipe sites and so on. It would be too difficult to get that info put onto a clearly readable display IMO. Sometimes they're lists, sometimes they're fragments of info in image captions, or in a story.
BAE Systems Is Looking for an Information Assurance and Security Engineer
It's not suddenly somehow his fault that there's people out there who take code being posted to the internet as a reason to harass and threaten someone, even if he did post that code to the internet by himself.

The community ought to rally around him and ostracize people who take it from "technical disagreement" to "personal attacks", not wring their collective hands about how it's really unavoidable and/or his own fault. A community that implicitly condones such behavior is complicit, even if only a minority actively engages in it.
There are always extremes like that, even when dealing with the most innocent topics you could imagine. People can even react similarly with death threats over a change in cartoon TV show that they didn't like. In any sufficiently large community you will find some small percentage of such people, it's nothing exclusive to init systems or even tech as a whole.

And it's absolutely not "Poettering is a prominent, controversial person, therefore it's OK"! It's never OK. It's rather "Poettering is a prominent, controversial person, so he should be at least prepared for that and not act like he's surprised".
But will isomorphism die now that Google is capable of indexing the content rendered by JavaScript apps on the browser?
Computer equipement costs the same roughly the world over. Sure someone in Philipines can buy locally made bread cheaply, but they can't buy locally made cheap smartphones.
Surely the idea that a VR 'rig' will cost about as much as the monitors it replaces would change that though?
Microsoft to End Skype Calls to Phones Within India
The renaming trick makes me feel a cpu is just a fixed size activation frame/scope under reduce/fold.
so, from your point of view, are there any better ways to prevent automated spamming ?
I don't know much of the drama around systemd, but this sounds like a typical "everyone's an asshole except me" post. First, he's shooting a broadside against all Open Source communities, but it all seems to be about 'I don't agree with Linus'. To me the Linux community seems to be quite successful in quickly identifying and kicking out destructive assholes and drama queens which don't help solve problems but only create new ones, otherwise Linux wouldn't be in the state it is.
Considering that code which runs client-side is untrusted ,your users could easily change it, how does one deal with security in "isomorphic JavaScript"? Is it just the rendering running on both sides with all business logic remaining on the server?

If so, the main advantage would be that you could combine the responsiveness and speed of a client-side app with the ability to serve static HTML for clients without JavaScript like some search engine bots, right?
Deterministic vs. Probabilistic Thinking
Although you're right about it being relatively the most complex, it's absolutely a very simple algorithm.

noatime:

if false:
update()

atime:

if true:
update()

relatime:

if a > b:
update()

Doesn't seem very complex to me.
> You started off focusing on weev, and suggesting that those who supported his imprisonment should be embarrassed for doing so.

The submission suggested that liberal left-leaning supporters of Weev might be embarrassed of their support for Weev when they discover just how unpleasant he is.

ewzimm said "I don't see how this should embarrass anyone who thought sending him to prison for so long was a bad move. If anything, it supports their argument. It sounds like he picked up his racist habits in prison, which is kind of notorious for that kind of thing, so this just goes to show how putting people in there does more harm than good."

Which seems a reasonable point to male. People who support freedom of speech do so for everyone, even the dispicable humans in Westboro Baptist Church.

Are you saying that Weev's computer misuse didn't deserve a prison sentence but because he's a despicable human fuck him, lock him up?
I enjoyed both "The TeXbook" and "The METAFONTbook" as great documentation. It helps that they're literately programmed, obviously, but you can't go wrong reading Knuth's commentary.
> It's rather "Poettering is a prominent, controversial person, so he should be at least prepared for that and not act like he's surprised".

I don't know. I wouldn't expect being harassed due to software I wrote.
This is pretty much it: Linus Thorvald telling people to go screw themselves is an argument of "I am widely recognized to have the loudest voice because of many useful contributions, now accept my opinion or go away".

This carries the danger of people shortening it into "I have the loudest voice" in their mind, which begs the question how other communities unite the role of "last instance for contentious questions" (aka benevolent dictator) with the ideal of being nice to everyone.
It does seem a bit exaggerated:

"In its current iteration, a Gimbal beacon requires a third-party app to trigger advertisements, and requires those apps to receive 'opt-in' permission from users in order to collect data and send notifications. (Users, of course, also need to have Bluetooth enabled.) ... Gimbal-powered apps may collect your current location, the time of day you passed the beacon, and details about your device."

If the beacons are doing anything more, it is not reported in this article.
For me, it sounds more like an "that weird, abusive shit people talk about? It's real!"-post.

He does, for example, admit that he did not always live up to those standards he wants.
> (and taking it to a personal level such as killing people, thats just insane)

It's not "insane". It's a thing people do because they get the impression that it's socially acceptable, because see, everybody sympathizes with people griping about systemd, right? Everybody agrees that Poettering is the devil, right? He's bringing it on himself by sneaking into people's houses and installing systemd on their computers, right?

It's not insane. It doesn't stem from some imbalance in brain chemistry or some other mental issue. Labeling it insanity belies the community's responsibility for setting standards of acceptable behavior.
Wifi beacons were deployed in London[1][2] as part of advertising systems on waste bins. These logged your MAC address as you passed by and allowed targeted advertising. I believe they were removed once the rollout was publicised and people rightly kicked up a stink about it. It was an opt-out system because if wifi on your smartphone was switched on (which most people probably do) then it would automatically log your phone's presence. Users would have had to switch off wifi to avoid being tracked.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23665490
[2] http://qz.com/112873/this-recycling-bin-is-following-you/