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After healing myself from serious suicidal depression / mania without long term psychiatric drugs, what I can say is this..

Depression should be examined as a strategy one uses to avoid feeling past a certain threshold. Certain "emotional states" get coded in as unsafe in our implicit memory system and instead of experiencing the emotion we push it into our cortext where we can wrap a story around it..

Writing Gratitude letters is as effective as Prozac in many people; this was in fact one of my primary tools. The other was a commitment to feeling all my emotions without trying to escape them and to face the fear and anxiety directly. This felt like dying -- in fact this is what has been called "an ego death" or "spirtual rebirth". In Modern speak, I'd say this is the rough equivlent of using your cortext to bootstrap an emotional experience in the lymbic system that recodes implicit memory in the amygdala.
It's damn hard to do, and for good reason -- you don't want to give write access to your source code to any old program.. This is why psyhedelics can work well -- they can rewrite those implicit emotional memories.

I've been having great success with this model with my coaching clients and am developing a more robust model and writings on this.. Of course, happy to provide my usual free session for benevolent hackers who may be struggling with "depression".
Aside from waste storage there's also the cost of dismantling old reactors. The Wikipedia article on nuclear decommissioning makes for some depressing reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_decommissioning

The tl;dr being "with a few notable exceptions, it's just too damn expensive so we just ignore the problem"
Thanks Chris, probably read into the delay a little just because I could find any mention of the meeting actually taking place or not, apart from your tweet about it starting.

Understandable though with all the other stuff you've got going on. Cheers :)
I guess I got older version when I followed the first url to download. In any case, yet another browser with demented tab switching order. Why do the they do it?

edit: Installed the alpha version.

What I find interesting is that regular Yandex detected Opera installation and imported data from there. Alpha version imported from Firefox (though I still had the Yandex installed).
Did one a couple years ago - there were just 4 of us, and I was the only software guy. In ... about 30 hours (including my drive time to/from home a couple times) we had a decent-looking and moderately functional piece of software. It actually did quite a lot of stuff, but not what was originally talked about. But everyone was still impressed. Why? Mostly because I was able to focus on a few core things while saying no to most ideas/requests. I just kept saying "no", over and over, while working. Once the base was done, it was easier to say 'yes' to some ideas, or at least sketch them out.

We came in second place, out of about 20 teams that started the Friday night. I chalk about 80% of it up to the focus/constraints and ability to adhere to those.
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You think meditation is relaxation, you do not realise how much effort it takes. I'd suggest finding a tutorial and trying even 5 minutes.

As for the "sprinkle of woo", some meditation practices comes with buckets of foo, while some are entirely woo free.
I've seen many of my clients set up their own backup systems and have those fail at the worst times. Last month a large client of ours called our managed support team at 3AM saying they hired the wrong developer who completely trashed their database and hosed their entire application. They had their own backup system in place and it silently failed, but luckily they ordered our internal backup solution as a secondary. We were able to get them restored in 5 minutes, if they didn't have our solution in place they would've had to spend weeks fixing what the developer broke.

Current Linux backup solutions are not made for humans. Have a look at the mondorescue guide[1], nobody is going to read that and comprehend it with full mastery, meaning you're leaving yourself open to losing data. VPS providers offer backups that are usually in the same datacenter, which means you're SOL if there's a disaster. Those same providers also don't allow you to restore single files/directories from snapshots, usually you have to launch a new instance or revert everything back to snapshot.

[plug] We ended up creating a simple Linux backup solution[2] that's as simple as copying and pasting a single command to get installed, notifies you if your backups aren't running, handles snapshots, and is secure. Restoring your data is a single command away, so you can focus instead on building your startup rocketship. Our mission is to make data loss a thing of the past. [/plug]

[1] http://www.mondorescue.org/docs/mondorescue-howto.html

[2] https://jarvys.io
Reading the github page, though, this is really about tweening with no mention of interruption. However, using Verlet (not Newtonian like rebound-js!) you can easily combine both approaches since Verlet allows you to mess with a position directly (velocity is implicit in position deltas, so really stable although less accurate).

I wrote a rejected paper about this a few years ago; it might be useful as a reference:

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/191705/uiphysics09.pdf

I wrote that when I was doing a lot of work with WPF, whose animation/data binding system is fairly similar to what is being explored in Javascript today (with frameworks like React). But beyond data binding and canned animations, I think physics is the next step.
It depends if they charge a premium or not ... if they charge 20% more than market rates I'd be happy with it. But yeah, that's pretty unlikely - its more likely to be a race to the bottom on prices for some services.
They can, but the incentive is lower, and the information the driver has about the specific person is higher, which should help.
I didn't appreciate the insinuation that people who DO attend hackathons have no lives.
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> Also, no mention of procedure if customer does not get satisfied by the service.

Whether amazon cover the service with a guarantee or not, the killer feature will be the reviews. This could wipe out 'find a tradesman'-style web sites over night.
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Do you have a pointer on the content ownership change? It's not easy to keep up with the flow of FB policy changes.
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Might this compete with Thumbtack [1]? That's the comparable startup that comes to mind.

[1] http://www.thumbtack.com/
You can always add custom CSS-styling to the mix, if you don’t want to use third-party clients.
I think he means startups like Uber ... selling services for a percentage of the fee, with an awesome mobile app.
I have suffered a few commercial backup packages, and by and large they've been pretty grim to use. Veritas was the last one and (at the time) its interface was a horrid java lump combined with a fairly arcane backend of config files. And it was eye-wateringly expensive for what we needed (or had the budget for).

If I was still backing up to tape units I might still consider them as last time I looked at OSS tape-backed backup it was pretty spartan.
I could write "Conduct improv brain surgery on the guy sitting next to me" in my daily planner and it doesn't make it routine. Calling a knife a fork doesn't make it so, and calling something routine that isn't likewise doesn't make it so.
Enter it into the edit field :P (I know it seems surprising)
Its better than anything I built when I was 15. Keep it up.
Depends if the Amazon->Provider model is more like Yell->Advertiser or Uber->Driver.

If Amazon provides leads but the service provider still does marketing, customer service, accounting, payments, sets prices, insures against fraud, closes the sales and so on, you'd expect Amazon's margin to be pretty slim as they're basically a telephone directory.

But if Amazon manages the customer relationship, does all the advertising and customer service, sets the prices, makes the final sale and all that, so the service provider just turns up to do the job, they could probably make a much better margin.
If you consider that the service provider pays nothing to acquire the customer and close the sale, plus Amazon brings the platform and payment processing I think it's very reasonable.

As they rightly point out in the benefits these aren't leads, they are closed sales.
> Why and in what way is thinking about sensations and one's body different from thinking about past or future?

Being aware activates a different part of the brain to thinking. See https://www.coursera.org/course/meditation and "The Science of Happiness" on edx.org for more.
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And Alay Kays Dynabook proposal [1] was written in 1972, based on work dating back to the late 60's.

There's the interesting question of what developments Clarke were aware of at the time, but yes, multiple people were envisioning these things back then.

Many of them were also extrapolating from Vannevar Bush's Memex, as described in As We May Think, in the Atlantic in 1945 [2] taking account the intervening advances in technology.

[1] http://www.mprove.de/diplom/gui/kay72.html

[2] http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-ma...
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Thanks Jonaldomo! Had to skip a few classes but it was worth it.
indeed, 15% to 20% is very very stiff. 8% to 10% would have been okay for a matured line, while 3% to 5% during promotional/inauguration period would have been better suited.

What is this? the 90's ? Anyone can set-up a simple free website and offer his services, of course a little bit of marketing and patience is still required, but for a smart man, that doesn't cost anything.
The inconsistency of UI design style across different Amazon service always bothers me...
Something that would make cloud backups easier would be the ability to manage my cable connection's upload versus download speed.

Sometimes I just want to upload backups and it not take 3 weeks.
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I'm on it ;)

Small businesses want to buy services like they buy apps and products online. We're building that. And it is difficult.

Mail me if it sounds interesting (especially designers and developers): me at daniel sim .co.uk
perhaps it is. Look at the fee, its outrageous for any long term business. 12% profit margin anyone?

This definitely smells like a attempt to draw in fresh startups/people with loose pockets. But it is not as bad, as I make it sound.
from the issues that have been opened [1] and closed [2] it looks like indutny, jonathanong, and rvagg are involved, aka all people involved with node forward

1. https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/5
2. https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/7
Skip how many classes?
In New York, where the story takes place:
>A poorly designed hailing system in which I need to physically see the taxi in order to request its service.

I actually prefer taxis if I'm in Manhattan because it is about 10x faster to hail one of the many taxis rolling by than it is to wait and watch on your phone your Uber driver slowly make its way to you.

>A poorly designed (non existent?) tracking system, in which the taxi that I've requested may, in fact, be service another passenger, and have no intention of coming directly to me for the next 30 minutes. Or, never at all.

In New York, the cab's center lamp is lit up when vacant and available for hails.

>Almost no feedback, and certainly no "default opt-in" feedback mechanism on the driver, providing no incentives for the drivers to behave professionally or courteously for every ride, resulting in frequent rude or abrasive customer/rider interaction.

Tipping is the main incentive. Reporting of bad behavior goes through 311 (in New York). If you pay via credit card, the cab's medallion number is even on your receipt, so you don't have to remember it when you're in a huff leaving the cab.

I'm not saying the taxi cabs are the best system, but I want to quell misinformation.
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In India, they have stake in 3 e-commerce websites: Amazon.in, Junglee and Jabong. All of them look nearly the same theme wise.

Pretty interesting pie is being cooked up in India. I wonder if their 1.2 billion $ attempt to buyout Jabong would go through or not.
bill gates admits that he has autism, and in his world everything is about him. which is partly why he spent so much money taking guns from consumers instead of criminals in WA when he himself has an armed security team.
Actually, for anyone living in an actual city, bikes and cars are generally roughly equivalent in terms of trip time. For example, I have an 8km commute on the outskirts of Paris - it takes about 45mins, regardless of whether I run, ride a bike, take public transport, or drive a car. (Ok, to be more precise, in includi the time to change into sports gear for the bike / running. Without this the bike takes about 30mins. Running does actually take 45 mins run time.)
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Well, I think it's stupid of them, though they're of course "not" switching to coal. They're switching off their nuclear, and just haven't been able to replace the coal yet.

But it's not a given that their rollout of alternatives will be better/safer than nuclear either.
Someday, people will say "I program in HTML" and be correct.
If the control group were doing nothing for eight weeks, they would expect no change. An expectation of change can illicit substantial differences. That's the placebo effect.

When administering medication and checking for results, the control group is given a sugar pill rather than nothing. If they were given nothing it would not eliminate the placebo effect.
I'm currently using Quod Libet on XFCE/debian, anyone who can suggest a better player (e.g. one that supports actual playlists) let me know! (small and fast is important.)

(I could use VLC, but manually managing playlists as files is too fiddly, esp when there's no library and you must go find the actual music file to drag.)

Fair play to these guys, a blazingly fast music player can be made a much simpler task by sticking to one platform.
I grew up a bit farther than 45 degrees north of the Equator. I've been living in the tropics, about 22 degrees north, for 3 years now. I love my life here, but I still prefer the weather back home. You can always put on more clothes and/or walk more quickly, but you can't wear negative clothes.
Awesome idea. Site looks fancy :).

I wonder, what stack is this built on?
what an ugly, slow and spyware-seeming browser.
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You can opt out from the Twitter App. Or enable "Limit Ad Tracking".
The problem is that pretty much everyone realised the problem at the same time. In order to disinvest there would need to be people willing to buy, but in this case it seems his assets became unsellable pretty much overnight. It's not like Uber was always certain to win; for a long time there were plenty of people who thought Uber would be legislated out of business. Now it's looking like that won't happen. Consequently his position is sensibly pragmatic - his business is failing and he has no way to get back much of his money.

The best investors realise that there is always a possibility of that happening.
Customizing something and making it yours is a powerful thing. I think that ultimately that's the reason. One reason is that you make things uniquely fit you. But, I think in more cases than we are aware or want to admit, the emotional reasons are the real reasons. Sometimes its nice to have something you made, not something that was mass produced for everyone.

"Resource hogging" always seems like such a crazy reasoning. It's more aesthetic than practicalities. Is your memory really so scarce?
Oh boo-hoo, "it's really inconvenient and unhealthy and it's competitive and I'm a damp rag." Man that read sucked the life out of me.
The link sends me to a video for a "Telemetry Alliance" product. Could the original poster fix the link?
YMMV I guess. I did a similar course and the religiousy aspects did put me off a bit (bowing and prostrations), but the leader did explain there was no worship involved and that the practices were to remind you of what you wanted to aspire to. He offered the techniques and said they worked for some people but not others, and to take what worked best for you. Maybe your videotaped guy was too pushy?

We did have to read some Buddhist verses every morning which was incredibly boring, but hey ho, it was a Buddhist retreat so I expected something along those lines. And anyway, it provided a chance to be aware of the resistance I have to organised religions.

> the recorded chanting they play while you meditate is hypnotic programming

I probably wouldn't put it like that, but if the chanting didn't induce some sort of effect it would be pointless to do anyway. "Programming" isn't it though.

> I tried to skip a session because I didn't get enough sleep and the management came and got me out of my room. That's when I knew it was time to leave.

I got tired with the 5am starts, but the discipline is something I find lacking on a normal weekend so overall I found the experience valuable.

> Many of the people there mentioned they go several times a year, with that glassy eyed obsessed stare. At least one person mentioned they had moved their home to be near the group.

Yeah, some people can get a bit over-excited - but the benefit of it being a silent retreat is you don't have to listen to them go on about it :-)

TBH if you found a decent teacher you'd probably form a different opinion. I think these retreats need to be taught very delicately to emphasise the practices while not pushing a dogma or religion on you.
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Ah, you're right. I believe it's spread unofficially, though, because I've heard about the practice from several areas of the country.
Biggest worry for me is impostor syndrome. I'd be terrified of turning up and being absolutely useless and achieving nothing. I don't go to conferences for the same reason.
I can't respect a player with "Gun N Roses" in the screenshot.
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With much delight, I stand corrected.

Haskell perpetually astonishes me. Not only is it, more or less single-handedly, keeping the Holy Wars alive, it now appears to supply punchlines to jokes. Amazing.
I'm a bit out of the loop on corporate data gathering. Why is Twitter collecting this data?

This is a sincere question, from their point of view what exactly are they doing and why?
Is there anything about obnam that is Linux-specific? As long as I don't need any HFS-specific features, it should work on OSX, right?
Have a look into mpd and ncmpcpp. It's about as good as it gets, once you've learnt which keys to press.
He didn't claim lower mortality, nor that they wanted it. We assume living long is important, but some people value their lives less than others, just as some value their possessions less. It's the nature of tribalism to not value your life much. So I wouldn't count high mortality rates as "bad" any more than low possession counts.
I can't recommend his "Mindfulness for Beginners" book enough. Although I've been "meditating" for years, this book is packed with subtleties that are easily missed. In other teachings, it can be very difficult to separate religious dogma ("all you need is love, man") to the things that actually make a difference, scientifically, to your practice ("bring gentleness and kindness to the process").

One line especially made me realise I'd missed something important for years: Be aware "as if your life depended on it". That's about it.
My guess would be that ads for app installs are hot these days and this is probably the best signal for it.
I didn't downvote, but... It's actually pretty irritating that discussion of any project not hosted on GH gets "Why not Github?" question, every single f-ing time.
I hope this will end, together with LinkedIn invites.
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I had a copy on my computer
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It's only 10x faster to hail a cab if you're somewhere in the lower half of Manhattan AND it's not at a peak time. Outside of those conditions, I find Uber much faster.

Although yellow cabs in NYC are required to take you where you request, some will break this rule, or just do it begrudgingly. Same with taking a card, they will do it but make a big show and a stink about it. One even said I better give him a "big tip" for taking me to the airport.
So just to be clear, this "server"

* doesn't actually convert the markdown to HTML, it relies on client side rendering.

* doesn't serve anything but markdown files (no css, no js)

The reasoning given is "simple and elegant".. I didn't realise a complete lack of functionality was "elegant". If so, this ceramic tile right here, is actually a very elegant computer.
I realize that most people here thin medallions were always a and idea, bad for consumers and should die.

But, the fact is that they do exist and were promoted by the municipal government (this is a municipal government system, isn't it?). Even if it was a bad idea, aren't they responsible for it? They sold or issued medallions on the grounds that they are a resellable perpetual license to run a taxi. If i'm not mistaken, the city made money selling them.

Unless you consider the whole "contract" void, I can think of only two logical perspective. Either the city is violating that contract by allowing uber to operate or uber is a new kind of service with no bearing on that contract. IE if segways had replaced cabs, tough luck #1 sounds prohibitively expensive to accept & #2 sounds dishonest.
Your comment is great because I understand it. I've read up on meditation a little here, a little there. It was difficult for me to understand at first. What is meditation? What is the point? What happens when I do it right? When can I tell I'm doing it right? I just completely didn't understand it, and I couldn't find an explanation in any of the books that I read. I was making it out to be very complex. Then I actually tried it. I didn't get it, so I gave up. After my 4th or 5th attempt, I concentrated on my breath and that was it. I grasped a better understanding that time of what all the fuss is about. I was a little better at being in the "now" that time, and I even felt different for a short time afterwards, although I couldn't describe it in words if I wanted... Then I haven't done it again since.

A question for you when it comes to anxiety... Do you feel that you control the anxiety much better now? For example, I've developed anxiety when I'm at heights working to the point that sometimes I lock up, and feel like I'm about to start having a panic attack. Do you feel like you can intercept those emotions and react physically in a calm manner?
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> This is off topic but I always find statements like the above rather bizarre. Why must humans insist on living in places where the environment is hostile to human life?

Because by an unlucky twist of nature (physics and chemistry combined) the richest soils are found in temperate regions, so the lands that historically were capable of sustaining a high population density are in the colder regions, the ones where you need heating at least in winter.

Even now, with advances chemistry and fertilizers we'd not be able to sustain the worlds population if we all moved closer to the equator and gave up on regions that require heating at least in winter.
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You are suggesting that Uber paid the New York Times to write this piece on medallion prices?
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