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> Where meditation should actually be associated with relaxation.

Thanks for the tip! Might as well just smoke a joint if it's all about relaxing, hey?

It's pretty amazing to discover some of the less obvious aspects of yourself, I wouldn't dismiss "spirituality" without thoroughly investigating yourself first...
Great library. Original discussion (April 2014): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7663775
The web is the new app apparently.

Frankly i see design wankery invading computing left and right these days. Makes me feel like that old grump yelling about lawns...
Here is a write-up of my experience doing that particular 10 day meditation course, which I'm surprised to discover wrapped up almost 10 years to the day: http://weblog.squareapple.net/archives/2004/11/26/art_of_liv...
Amazon ELB latency problems
What a pleasant surprise =).

What Pete said (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8670147) is true. I'll just address the issue of interruption here that people asked me about more than once: one of th major goals of this library is to enable interruptible and additive animation (a-la ios). There's currently no easy way to do this with CSS(1). Whether this by default uses a physics engine or not is not important; it sure can, but I decided to keep it simple. And no, in all likelihood this tiny lib doesn't beat the performance of other animation-specific libraries or the GPU accelerated CSS animations, but I was aiming for a good API first and foremost. I'll optimize accordingly.

(Also, check out my post here on the other problem with animation in gneneral: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8561824)

(1) Imo, the danger of CSS is that it tends to get us 80% of the way there with 20% of the effort, while not being able to provide us with the power of achieving the last 20% at all.
This was my worry too until my first one.

Even if you don't have full mastery of the tech being used, asking the _right_ questions can help a lot!
Similarly, coal and other fossil fuels only look cheap because currently nobody is paying for the climate change they cause.

We have to choose between evils. I think nuclear power is better, because nuclear waste is relatively easy to contain until we figure out what to do with it (for example burn it up in breeder reactors), whereas the world's climate is a system we don't fully understand and meddling with it can cause irreparable damage.
"still overwhelmingly for a certain demographic (particularly non-inclusive as they are invitation-only)"

Isn't the OpenBSD hackathons basically self-selected by being for people who contribute to the project.

"still likely to be not very healthy"

Given the trip reports from the last couple, they had a lot healthier (and funner) time than my last trip to Vegas. I seem to remember a hike as part of the events.
By random you just happened to pick the country with the highest average life expectancy? :)

"According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Andorrans' average life expectancy is 83.5, officially the highest in the world."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7649339.stm
YouTube deletes 7hr science symposium video due to bg-music in the lunch break
> I wish they introduced the ability to have structured bids / sell orders for things like food delivery, and even transportation service.

Yes! That would be very interesting to see. If we could, sort of, commoditize a certain service (eg. transportation), and build a bid/ask order book for it (potential customers are bidders, and transportation services provide the asks).

The problem, as I see it, is defining the base unit. In order to have a unified order book, we need a base unit for this order book. What are we selling? Is "1 mile of transportation", or is it necessary to build different order books for different locations? I suspect most transportation service have a base fee plus a $/mile rate. So now you have two variables, and the price of "1 mile of transportation" will depend on the quantity of miles, which makes it a non-commodity (1 ton of iron ore in the spot market will cost roughly the same as 100 tonnes).
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Microsoft Releases Open Source .NET Core CLR for Windows, Mac and Linux
Maybe if we funded it appropriately. Actual funding has been really low:

https://imgur.com/sjH5r
While it's not meditation, one of the best things I've discovered recently for relaxing with minimal effort are binaural beats (also branded commercially as "HemiSync"). Put those on for half an hour before going to sleep and it's like nothing else.

There are free apps for android (and probably ios as well) you can use. You just need earphones.
The GitHub repository is at https://github.com/dotnet btw.

I was very surprised to see this happen!
I guess they're lucky not to be sued, Youtube "just" deleted the content :(

Copyright and patent laws are definitely pushing our industry back. Especially patents.
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Yes. but what enrages me is that this can only be done from the app. after you've installed (/upgraded) it and they have scanned your device.

My current twitter install on android doesn't have the feature to disable it yet, which means that i have to follow an upgrade path that includes updating -> toggling flight mode -> opening the app (if that works) and then toggling the setting.

I cannot disable it from the web interface, or this is put under a very obtrusive description.
2 Things.

1. I don't think Monadic == Imperative...

2. Can you post the Haskell code?
Depends on which genesis of the word 'hackathon' you prefer.

OpenBSD and Sun both did 'hackathons' in June 1999, OpenBSD's more of the high-bandwidth collaboration type, Sun's more of the 'promote our APIs' sorts.
this was something OnePlus said they could not replicate and as such dont think this is the fault with other users handsets,
Yes, and from amazon.

https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace
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This article seems to be a delusion based on the premise that 'primitive' people don't feel pain and sadness at the loss of their loved ones. And hence aren't saddened by the high infant and maternal mortality.

The fatal flaw is the assumption that he thinks he knows someone else's thoughts and feelings. It's a bizarre thought experiment void of any relevance to the modern world.
When all else fails, lawyers bomb them to insolvency...
Me three, I'm taking it as a sign that I am now over the hill. Isn't there a COBOL program on a mainframe I can be coding on somewhere?
There's a line between "use" and "hogging"...

My computer is noticeably slower when Firefox is running. Quite often, Firefox will grab the audio device and not give it back, silencing all other programs. Sometimes the fan will just spin up and the computer will sound like a hoover until I quit it. Over time it just uses up more and more memory, rarely giving it back. It's not unusual to look at the task list and see Firefox taking up 400+MBytes, even though you're doing very little. (Right now, it's taking up 420MBytes. All I have open is the HN page with this text box I'm typing in.) I also think it does something rude with the GPU, too - when I'm not running Firefox, the auto-hide dock pops up perfectly smoothly. When Firefox is running, though, it stutters as it pops up.

The X11 version is terrible to use over a network too.

(I had a whole different set of complaints about Safari.)
AKA why I don't like $COMMON_PASTTIME. This could easily be "Why I don't like Hand-gliding", or "Why I don't like book-clubs"

>Domestic and carer responsibilities are unevenly distributed, which means women are more likely to be too busy to attend hackathons than men are.

Domestic responsibilities are unevenly distributed. This is bad. It has nothing to do with Hackathons.

>Attending a weekend-long event means massively rearranging my life.

Has this guy never been on holiday?

>if I spend two long days in poor lighting and poor ventilation, sitting hunched over my laptop at a meeting table in an uncomfortable chair, eating pretty average catering food or pizza [...] I feel like crap.

If that's an issue, bring your own food. Drink more water.
"The best investors realise that there is always a possibility of that happening."

Exactly. Especially with things that are very dependent on legislation.

This is not a material asset, it's a license. Cities might one day legislate a medallion is not needed anymore, or increase their number, or change the rules in some way.
I'm a bit puzzled by the use of "blazingly fast" to describe a music player, as typical PC CPUs have been powerful enough to decode audio formats like MP3, OGG, FLAC, etc., for a long time - I remember listening to MP3s with WinAmp on a Pentium 200 and had no problems with that. Given the low resource requirements of the task, the fact that this player is Windows 7/8 only is even more odd.
Ask HN: Open Source Google Inbox Clone
Is there anyone who is working on a Google Inbox clone that is open-sourced?

(iOS/Android/Other)
I think the biggest difference in mindsets between the US and Europe (other than the isolationism/socialism divide and religion) arises from their different scales.

Europe is far more densely populated. The cities are generally much closer to each other. There often isn't the equivalent of American "suburbs", instead there are more (and smaller) cities. Most people living in cities get around by walking or use the public transit.
What Brian Little Can Teach Us About How We Monitor Ourselves
Isn't that what Go tries to be?
Using the URL scheme essentially can't be blocked because it's necessary for inter-app comms.

It could be blocked via a permission as well (and just look like the target app is not installed.)
Try hailing a cab in Manhattan once it starts raining.
24 hours later, and I still get the same message from Al Jazeera!
Benedict Cumberbatch Can Charm Humans, but Can He Fool a Computer?
Well - The video is the answer to how to become a better designer.
30 social media marketing ideas from big brands
Ad Targeting usually implies some kind if data "leaking" to get that targeted information. They are building that profile somehow and I think that's the part people mostly don't like.
That's still far from a general solution.

Let's consider an example. One of the classic concurrency problems is managing a bank transfer. In this problem it's important that the debit and credit operations happen atomically. If one operation fails, then both operations should fail.

In Clojure, we'd write:

(defn transfer [from to amount]
(dosync
(alter from - amount)
(alter to + amount)))

How would you write the same thing in Java?

A lot of the problems with dealing with concurrency are in communication between threads. BlockingQueues and Executors only deal with a small subset of concurrency problems, and blocked threads are a fairly inefficient use of resources compared to async solutions.
http://hackaday.com/2014/11/18/thalmic-labs-shuts-down-free-...

This was the link that I tried to post, I submitted it 9 days ago when I subsequently posted another Myo link to the offical website which was allowed to stay up. I tried to post 3 times each time it just disappeared and threw me back to the submission page. I then tried to make another submission, one about a drone being used by an estate agent, which went through fine, then I submitted a direct link to the Myo site which also went through fine. So I tried my original link again and got the same 'error'.

Interestingly enough if you look at the original article I tried to submit there is a line that says:

"Quick aside, but if you want to see how nearly every form of media is crooked, try submitting this to Hacker News and look at the Thalmic investors. Edit: don’t bother, we’re blacklisted or something."

So evidently others had a similar experience to me whislt trying to submit the story.
Which syntaxes are you referring to?

Without knowing which one's you mean, can I offer a suggestion: Instead of looking at these syntaxes and more overhead, (feeling that you need to somehow mentally parse them into whatever they de-sugar to) try to treat them more as a chunking [1] opportunity.

So for example, when you see code in a monadic do block, don't try to mentally de-sugar it to the function calls it results in. Rather think of it slightly like imperative code where x <- someMonad ~ x = someMonad(). This of course isn't what's going on really, but in many cases it's close enough for you to use it and move on.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunking_%28psychology%29
I was just remembering my first job, where we still developed 16-bit based clients. I was thinking "Wow, I don't remember it being so difficult to debug...", then it dawned on me, everything we were doing was on machines running Win NT 4!! 16bit Delphi 1 was an amazing achievement though, and the 32bit transition was fairly painless for us too.
Marketing with colors outside of the Estados Unitos will also have it's own perils.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_in_Chinese_culture
I think the beautiful thing is, that you can use whatever browser you want. Yandex' is just another option, that might not be right for you, but might fit the needs of several others.
Hopefully I'm being Captain Obvious, but:

Using hackathons as a hiring tactic doesn't seem like a very smart idea, given how self-evidently discriminatory it is on the axes the OP describes.
I would rather pay someone to do that than to do my laundry or my coffee--but I see your point.
Language wars exist because of how human social behaviour works ("othering", tribalism, etc). The funny thing about that is that the more similar two languages/ideologies/religions/etc are, the stronger will their adherents likely feel about the distinction. Especially with "forks" (e.g. look at how much the various Muslim sects hate each other in the Middle East).

Just be glad no programming language has tried to recruit users with promises of a pleasurable afterlife yet. The "wars" between the various programming language communities may be bad enough as it is, but at least they're not blowing each other up yet.
GitHub's Atom has this as a package pre-installed. Pretty nice I must say.
But surely this is a two-way street?

If Facebook becomes less valuable to me as a website operator then I have less incentive to keep any Facebook integration on my site, and if I remove that then they lose the insight into my visitors that this currently affords them.

That wouldn't bode well for their idea of selling ads based around users' off-site activity, would it?
> Yeah, I can't fathom how that spec got drafted with SHA1.

I'm not sure, PBKDF2 existed then... though computationally expensive KDFs for passwords have become more popular over time. And grinding the server for SRP isn't totally cheap.

> How's that going? Is there anything amongst the PHC candidates looking like it'll 'win'? It's gone very silent.

Been pretty silent from what I've seen but the schedule gave a fair amount of time for review... though I'm not sure how much review various proposals are getting, since this is a domain with basically infinite shed-painting potential (as my own comments here go!), makes it almost feel pointless to review.

> Afaict this probably isn't too much of a problem for a client-server PAKE?

I'm not sure. It would be an unfortunate result if you sought out to make it more secure, and maybe its less secure. (E.g. server database never leaks, but lots of opportunities for timing attacks show up)

> The password is only hashed on the client/users, probably somewhat noisy and unique, machine. You're already talking about pretty sophisticated and targeted attack that's hard to pull off on a repeated basis. I know that's not a "sound" crypto argument, but you can't easily make a user enter their password 10,000 times for example.

10,000 probably isn't needed though, since extracting a few bits may let you reasonably grind out the rest against the server only; if you make pessimal (read: reasonable) assumptions about how much entropy users actually have in their passwords.

Consider an attack where the attacker code is running in the background (say in another browser tab/nacl) performing cache timing while the user logs it. It's a sophisticated attack, but it could potentially extract quite a few bits. It may be a somewhat complex attack, but a simple conventional hash PKKDF2 would be invulnerable to it.

Yea, I don't see any concern on the server. Server's commitment shouldn't be using an intentionally expensive hash, and normal cryptographic hashes in wide use are constant time.

> Hmm, interesting. Any information on this?

Will look when awake. But the result was something like checking which subgroup a point was in leaking log2(cofactor) bits about the secret. The normal way of avoiding this by multiplying all your values by the cofactor isn't readily available when you're doing some ugly trick of constructing points with no known discrete log from a hash.
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The problem with JS is not interactivity but a lot of aggressively annoying advertisement and data grabbing which usually comes along JS.

My solution is to use different browsers. My default browser has JS turned off. If I encounter a possibly interesting site which requires JS then I use another browser for that. This solution keeps my default browser clean without need to configure any JS blocker.
> I find it endearing that our visions of the future always see the best (or worst) of humanity, but never the mundane or banal.

Because the banal makes for boring stories.

Star Trek could just as well have been set aboard a naval ship island hopping in the pacific or similar. Being crewed by the best and brightest of their generation, and equipped with the latest science had to offer.
Ask HN: Which companies doing Clojure dev in Netherlands?
I wonder which companies are pushing Clojure code to production ? Please also indicate the city.
Looks fairly good! ( I'm all OS X though :| )

If it's got Gapless Playback, definitely list that as a feature!
Show HN: Glitch flickr images by given keyword
Did Philae graze a crater rim during its first bounce?
MIT's Football Team Is 10-0 and Finding Success in the NCAA Division 3 Playoffs
I also use org-mode, mostly for writing documents. Customizing embedded code, referencing the lines and in the end publishing to beautiful pdf, html, markdown is really awesome.
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I can also relate to the article because some hackathons that I have been to feel like you're building this thing that you know you are going to throw away. And events where you are able to use a new language you're under time pressure to just get it working rather than understand it. I'd rather spend a whole day on my own projects.

I've been to two other hackathons that are focused on attracting girls and women into the STEM arena (http://www.stemettes.org/events) but they don't exclude guys. The idea is more around splitting the participants into groups of different ability and helping them build something. I really enjoyed that the event is about learning/mentoring more than about wining prizes and I found it really rewarding to help kids that had some interest in coding.

The events are quite different from the 48 hour hacks because they are also catering for 6 year olds with short attention spans, but it felt like I was helping to show that coding is accessible to anyone of any age.

If you're a coder in London I highly recommend volunteering with them.
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I am sorry for my ignorance, but can somebody explain what this list means? How are they checking for those URLS? Are they monitoring all URLs I visit in my device? Should I be concerned?
Perhaps they just meant, "Compared to the other ones you're probably using"? Because I know iTunes is legitimately starting to give me problems, despite my Mac only being a few years old. Naturally, Apple is trying to cram a ton of crap into iTunes, when all I want is to be able to play music and make some playlists. I would gladly switch if there was something fast and with as low a barrier to entry.
I started learning React recently. I really like the way the code is laid out and I enjoy writing it so far, but trying to use jQuery animations with React seems to pretty much ruin that neatness and readability.

I did try the experimental CSSTransitionGroup, but it has some serious bugs, and didn't seem designed for in-place transitions. It's hard to find a good number of examples at this point though.

I came across the React Tween State GitHub page while googling, so I'll have to try it out. If I can get comfortable with basic animations with React, I think I'll be using it a lot more.
> They don't have also a strong competitor

BitBucket is a good underdog IMHO. I use it for all my private projects or stuff I don't want out in the open just yet since they offer unlimited free private repositories.

It's rather nice to be honest.

They support Mercurial if you're into that as well.
I think so, they look interesting but I haven't been to one so I cannot report. From the pics it seems to me that they're something like 90% male in their 20s-30s.

I realise now that my other post was not very clear. I went to a "hackathon" but not an OpenBSD one.
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Will Apple phase out URL schemes now that we have extensions ?

But the thing is that URL schemes are very convenient in some cases.

One possible solution could be that you have to include all the URLs your app intends to open in its plist file. So if you're going to list hundreds then they can go ahead and reject those apps. But this wouldn't provide perfect privacy.

So my guess is that URL schemes will be yanked soon and all developers will be forced to use extensions for inter-app communication.
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Limit Ad tracking is an iOS system setting. For Android you can set "Opt out of interest based-ads" (Accounts -> Google -> Ads).
You can set both before upgrading the app and no scan will take place.
Duh, you don't say ;) Where's the edit field exactly? Is it the "New Tab - Yandex" area?

Clicking on it does nothing, typing does nothing.

And I can't really spot any other candidates for the "edit field" role... Screenshot: http://i60.tinypic.com/34hjfd1.jpg
I think it's easy to dismiss Google Glass because it's never been "necessary", in the entire history of human civilization, to have a computer on your face.

But in order to test the "is this a fad or is this truly transformative" question, my guess is that at its core there is no question this is a transformative technology. Here's how I've reasoned to this conclusion.

Having an unobtrusive computer on your face, where you get no-friction, continuous access to the user's basic senses of sight and sound while they're out living their lives (far more time than your typical person spends sitting in front of a computer), is what this is all about. If you can't imagine uses for computers unless we're sitting in front of them or holding them in our laps, my hunch is you're not very bullish on human innovation.
I'm on Windows. Ctrl+L doesn't work, nor does clicking on the title of the page (I tried even that!)
Good points. It's best to avoid wet weather with skateboards, electric or not.