skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925492710...

Looks like Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), a specific practice developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn.
Due to not being able to sleep?
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I think it is really hard to resist the "dark side" that investors want CEOs to follow. You also have consider what happens to the company if the investors force a buyback on the founders if the company is not meeting their growth targets. Once you sup with the devil and accept outside money you really have no choice about the path you are on.
I agree. Platform risk is real. This business should have diversified its acquisition channels, incorporating both paid and earned media.
Related: "Dorm of the Deaf" http://dustinland.com/archives/archives319.html

> When the world around you doesn’t give you feedback,
> and the best gauge you have of your own noise level is
> frustration on the faces of the people near you

People laugh at HN suggesting technical solutions to every problem, but this really does seem like something that could be solved (or at least mitigated) by a microphone, some small LEDs, and a gutted wristwatch. Light up more LEDs depending on how loud the sound is relative to the average level of the previous N seconds of recorded audio.

A web search for [wrist sound sensor] didn't find anything relevant, but this is probably because I don't know what such a device would be named.

edit: Following the trackback at the bottom reveals the author is a hardware hacker. I wonder if she has tried to build such a device -- if not, maybe it's much more complicated than it seems.
The same reason anyone forks: some core developers are not happy with the way development is headed.

The reasons are myriad, both technically and politically, and you probably won't understand them unless you engage. If they weren't, we wouldn't be seeing something as drastic as a fork.
The article talks about power requirements and the manufacturing process, but seems to leave out that any image projected into your eye from 0cm away will be blurry beyond recognition. The eye won't be able to focus on it. Has research overcome this limitation? It's very interesting to think that it's possible to project a sensible image into an eye from point blank.
sigh time to start looking into Go
Well even the ROI calculated example is unstable ground. One change to one of several invisible algorithms can turn your boom to bust. And user acquisition costs tend to go up. You can find yourself priced out real quick. Particularly during the holiday season.
I don't know why I was being quite so aggressive when I wrote that. I'm sorry... I think I was taking frustration out on you when you had nothing to do with it.

I still disagree with the assertion that "how many friends you do or don't have is entirely up to you". It may be true in some extremely narrow sense, but if it came down to it how many people would give up the spouse they love because they were the problem, or their children because they were, or drop everything and move to where people were more similar to themselves?
It probably depends on the exact type of sites you normally visit; I default to JS off but the majority of sites I visit are "pre-Web 2.0" informational types which are perfectly readable without JS. As you notice, it's mostly the newer sites which are problematic.

Web developers pick the tools that make their lives easier (as you'd expect), but that doesn't always mean that users get the best experience.

...which I think is both selfish and somewhat ironic since web developers are almost certainly users too.
That's like comparing a lit-match to a gas pipeline fire. Detonations dissipate quickly - the meltdowns are a constant flood of radioactive particles into our atmosphere. Only the fire doesn't end - because we don't have the technology to stop it, and perhaps will not ever.

So no, I don't agree - likely the number is much less than 507 and uncomfortably close to the number of plants already in disaster-mode.
Got to hand it to the global warming alarmists. They may be pseudo-scientific frauds, but they make great propaganda.
Easy, once most of their friends have left, they will leave.
The pacific ocean isn't really noticing any effects. Water is great at stopping radiation. In fact, open pool reactors like this one (http://www.ansto.gov.au/__data/assets/image/0009/45495/OPAL_...) are serviced by scuba divers.

The increase in radiation in the pacific is lost in the noise when compared to naturally occurring background radiation. There are some areas directly around Fukushima where that is not the case, and it is a big mess, but I would happily eat fish from the vast majority of the pacific.

A far bigger threat to our ocean is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
It probably depends on the country, but I'm from France and the member of the committee were known when I was almost done with the writing of my dissertation. I don't see how they were supposed to meet with during the process then.
Remember, boys and girls: A "like" has no intrinsic value whatsoever. It is worth exactly as much as the paid conversions it eventually drives.

If Facebook reduce the exposure your posts get to interested potential customers who have voluntarily liked your page, then those likes are worth less accordingly. You should be proportionately less willing to spend money promoting on Facebook as a result.

The only reason this sort of strategy works for Facebook is because too many people don't understand the basic economic model at work here and just throw more money at the auction hoping for the best, which is a race to the bottom that drives prices up for everyone and benefits no-one but Facebook.

Of course, Facebook do just about everything they can to obscure how much money you're actually paying and what you're really getting for it. Even with paid ads, the numbers they themselves report frequently appear contradictory unless you know exactly what they mean (and sometimes even then). Never trust these numbers. The only things that matter are how much money in total you spent on Facebook in a given period, and how much money people visiting from Facebook spent with you in turn.
HSMs also vary by manufacturer. The SafeNet Luna you linked to has both tamper as the case level and tamper as the actual HSM level. If you read the FIPS documentation for the SafeNet Luna SA, it has a PCIe card inside with a cryptographic module on the card that is the core to the system. Tampering with that is ever more destructive than just opening the case.
The Media Lab is a particular institution though; I'm not certain what works for PhD students there would uniformly apply to just any PhD students.
Because you can only spend money you have. If you have lots in the bank then you can spend a lot - most bootstrapped companies can't afford to have any burn rate without soon being out of business.
Just 2$, if you pay annually.
I appreciate this perspective. If you're opting in to receive posts from a brand, why should Facebook throttle that brand's posts. But as a counter argument consider how many friends users have, how many pages they like, etc... there are so many posts coming from all these friends and likes, that it would take constant attention to see them all, information overload. Facebook has to optimize the stream for usability.
A similar tool, though not designed for exactly that purpose, is a sound level meter or a loudness meter. There are small handheld ones, but I don't know of any that could be worn on a wrist or that have a useful UI for a deaf person.
Good catch, "un-inhabitable" was the term I was looking for, thanks :)
So true. Just like when Adwords changed its quality score algo.
This is very true. I would argue that no founder should ever run their company like an outlier as the risks this induces are far greater than any reward. The hedonistic value of money decays at an amazing rate.
Compare with https://github.com/joyent/node, similar readme and commit numbers. Looks like a node.js fork. (EDIT: maybe you already understood that, I thought it might have been a different thing from node.js altogether until I saw the repositories shared a README/history)
The discussion of forum is categorized by tags, which looks like quora or stackoverflow?
Execution time per page is generally less than 5ms.
The goal of meditation is not to get a better brain. As the goal of yoga is not to get a sexy body. These articles and even more the countless yoga ads with young beautiful ladies are really counterproductive from the viewpoint of yoga. They might be helpful from another perspective.

I can't summarize the real goal of yoga properly (meditation is one of the important exercise beside contemplation; the asanas are for preparation only), but it's more to be able to let go of the selfish desires like becoming smarter, getting a sexier body, getting more money, fame, admiring ("Oh, you look so good lately" ... "Yes, you know, I'm doing yoga."). The goal is more to be able to coordinate (not suppress) the desires to avoid doing harm and at the end creating harm for yourself. Meditation gives us insight to where the desires are coming from. Are they essential? Do I need to fullfil them? Or do I need to eat another snickers just because the last one has made my blood sugar go like a rollercoaster?
Title should be changed to "Facebook reduces amount of free advertising it gives companies"
Joyent is accused of:

1. Fixating on platform stability over project evolution

2. Ignoring the community on project direction

3. Preserving public image over project committers

4. Being a total square

NOTE: I am against the fork.
The problem is it is very easy to fool yourself that you have these things when you don't really. There is the slight problem of redemption rights that pop up when your investors work out you are just a normal business.
> provably safe

There's the thing.

The reason that some problems can simply be solved more efficiently (on current hardware architectures) in C than in other languages is that there's a difference between what is "provably safe" and what is "provably safe to a compiler". That's the whole point of Rust's unsafe{}; not to write code that's actually unsafe on purpose, but to say, "this code is safe, even though you can't prove it" (indeed, perhaps unsafe blocks ought to be renamed to safe blocks; that would also alleviate the problem of opposite meanings of unsafe blocks and unsafe functions).

That is to say, it's not true that there are data structures impossible to write in a provably safe way without automatic GC, since whatever automatic GC can do the programmer can do too (although, admittedly, at some point one begins to blur the line between GC and manual freeing, such as with reference counting). It's just that it's a lot easier for the compiler to prove that GC-managed code is safe.

I'm not sure that being forced to have the compiler prove that your code is safe rather than being able to say, "no, I proved it myself with more advanced techniques" is a good thing. Admittedly, most programs written today in so-called "safe" languages are probably beyond the scope of their programmers' abilities to prove safe, but then again, a lot of those programs turn out to be horribly unsafe even with the compiler's help!
>Where are the awkward backflips of syntax, special compiler or VM knowledge, or version specific optimizations here?

And then you follow with 2 links that are nowhere near idiomatic Java. Plus they are microbenchmarks (which he also mentions).
Should digital monopolies be broken up?
FB's demoting the value of that 'like' button for non-publisher brands, while preserving its value for publishers.

Remember, small to mid sized advertisers make up roughly 55% of US ad spending [1], so if Facebook wants to fulfill its mission, it can't just churn and burn these little guys and hope that they come back wallets open. There are such a dazzling array of options that aren't Facebook that it isn't as if they're the only guys in town.

FB should understand that advertisers could, for the most part, care less if a giant fireball hit Facebook's offices and the company disappeared tomorrow. There are tons of perfectly serviceable replacements for, users, the people who pay for the social network, and investors looking for better opportunities.

[1]http://kantarmedia.us/press/kantar-media-reports-us-advertis...
What about workers compensation and unemployment insurance?
"The goal of meditation for me."

"The goal of yoga for me."

You clearly take the spirituality focused route in your yoga and meditation and thats great for you but you can't proclaim that the only right way to do it is your way and everyone doing it for different reasons is wrong.
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they say the same about almost any waste... but at the end the oceans are clogged with waste.
It's way easier to run a Hello World web app with Netbeans!! In fact, a new web app project by default creates a project with default settings/xml with index web page saying "Hello world" - it can't get any simpler than that! give it a try :-)
Actually it stands for "iterator" and j and k are alphabetically next so your assumption there is spot on. I worked at a company that had coding standards that were put in place by a group of people who said "you can't use 1 letter abbreviations as they don't make any sense" to which I replied with "unless your using an iterator in a loop". Exception found.
I really like the idea of using this as a defensive measure.
Sounds like I just registered linkell.com :P
As someone else said, your dissertation realm doesn't matter, so you have to work extra hard to make it count. Its usually up to your committee to accept or reject it.
The value of facebook for you is the ability to see lots of ads?
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> 1. Fixating on platform stability over project evolution

That's... hardly a bad thing, in my humble opinion. The other language I use at work, PHP, is a case-study in what happens when you "evolve" a project willy-nilly with little regard to platform stability. Nowadays, it's better, because the community has become more involved in the process, so I can see what #2 and #3 are Bad Things™ however.
Yes, the forkers are doing themselves a disservice. Joyent is accused of not communicating with the community, and yet the forkers respond by also not communicating with the community [EDIT: they have refused multiple opportunities to comment, Joyent is publicly appearing to make a consolation effort].

If Node wants to be taken seriously by a broader range of companies, it should be stable. There are forkers on the Joyent Node advisory board. As an open-source project, transparency will go a long way to gain community support from either side. So far, Joyent is winning the communication battle.

Recent article on the subject: http://readwrite.com/2014/11/13/node-js-joyent-possible-fork...

Arguably, this has been stewing for a while: http://venturebeat.com/2013/09/18/can-this-startup-steal-nod...

I am a huge node proponent, and don't encounter problems from outside the project. Joyent's articles and purpose have always been more clear to me than StrongLoop, which is why I use the services of the former. However I have a hard time believing these articles and rumors are the whole story, hopefully someone can chime in with more specific information.
Willy Wonka-style elevator uses magnets to move sideways
A LED would require to look at the device in order to notice the sound. An alternative might be haptic feedback as available in the Apple Watch.
Enjoy your fish! I for one am taking heed of the warning signs from the thousands of dead animals washing up on the shores of the west coast - not to mention the alarming drop in the number of sea-urchins, starfish, shellfish, and other species who simply cannot be found.
Unless I missed something when we were covering eye physiology at uni, contact lens screens are useless. The area we can actually attend to and process data is tiny, which means the screen has to be directly in the center of the contact.

For example:
A physically separate screen means you can swivel your eyeball and look at a different bit of text on a book page, or a different character on a movie screen. With a contact lens display the content you are attending to is always on the center and swiveling your eyeball to change targets will do nothing.
The Fukushima accident was a rare event, dumped a small amount of waste compared to ongoing industrial operations, and the most worrying part of the waste that it dumped decays on the timescale of decades, and not millenia.

I don't have stats about what gets directly into the oceans, but when we mine gold, copper, and other ores, we create entire ponds called "tailings ponds" full of arsenic, cyanide, mercury, and all sorts of other nasty substances. These ponds leak into the environment on a regular basis. Short of seeping into the environment, many of these substances NEVER GO AWAY. THIS IS A HUGE PROBLEM.

Nuclear waste comes in small quantities, in neat, easy to handle packages, and the most dangerous elements in it will decay relatively quickly. Over the entire lifetime of the nuclear industry, less than 80,000 tons of radioactive waste have been produced. Meanwhile, one mine alone produced 237,000 tons of arsenic trioxide over its lifetime. This substance is just sitting in the abandoned mine now.

The most worrying part of the nuclear waste story, to me, is that NIMBYism and fear has blocked attempts to produce permanent, safe facilities for permanent sequestration, so it's stored almost as poorly as our super toxic tailings. At least there's less of it, and efforts are made to clean it up when it gets into the environment.
This can be said for _all_ businesses really! A good tip for anyone.
I actually registered it a year ago, but not too sure if its a good name.
PHP?

I had the feeling that much evolution happend from 1 to 5 but not much afterwards :\
Is it feasible to move the content instead?
Advertisements in the sense you're probably thinking of is not what works on Facebook. It's not just "$5 off all Amethyst Geodes today!"...

There's a very simple formula, and that is to humanise your business. Put a face/person to it so to speak. Then, the people who 'like' the business page, will get decent, curated content that they like (otherwise, they wouldn't 'like' the page). Rinse, repeat several times a week and you do get a very good following and interaction.

Sadly, the article (in my experience) is right, organic is no longer a thing -- you really have to 'boost' a post for it to be seen by a good number of people (or just get really lucky). This was not the case about a year ago -- you'd get a decent amount of 'reach' and interactions with said post. It just simply doesn't happen now for the majority of pages as Facebook is trying to goad people into paying for each post.
If the lens knows its own orientation, then its display can change with the orientation. The lenses themselves don't need to embed gyros. I can imagine wearing an upside-down U over the bridge of your nose which has embedded sensors that measure where you're looking.
From companies he "likes".
Hang on, do you think the fissible material from a bomb just vanishes? It is just hurled across a bigger area due to the fact that a bomb explodes.

Exactly what level of physics education do you have?
I don't have very specific details as I'm a bystander too but it seems Node has been stuck in 0.10.x land since early 2013 (http://blog.nodejs.org/2013/03/11/node-v0-10-0-stable/) while Node 0.12 and 1.0 releases were being talked about well over a year ago by former BDFL Isaac Schlueter (now at npm). Joyent, the current project stewards, have not been able to deliver a stable release in that time and don't share public plans / aren't communicating very much.

One of the many symptoms of that slow development process is that Node.js is basically running an unsupported version of V8 (https://twitter.com/jmayer/status/532971494695907328).

From what I've read, node-forward is/was only meant as a fork in the GitHub sense: they'd try to get their stuff merged back into node mainline. The GitHub fork has since been made private (https://github.com/node-forward/discussions/issues/7) and they're working to set up a proper governance model so that the community can truly be in charge. Joyent has reacted (I believe, it might have been in the works prior to node-forward) by proposing a node advisory board (https://github.com/joyent/nodejs-advisory-board) but it seems to be too little too late for at least some of the people behind node-forward (I've read what seem like irreconcilable disagreements about how it should be run).

I have no idea what (if anything) io.js is in relation to node-forward or if the same people are behind it. Can't find any announcements / endorsements on Twitter, so maybe it was just posted here before whoever is behind it were ready to go live.
>swiveling your eyeball to change targets will do nothing.

Unless you put a MEMS accelerometer/gyro on the contact lens and change content as the user moves their eye.

These are engineering problems, not insurmountable physics problems. Saying stuff like "contact lens screens are useless." is unrealistically pessimistic :)
Pair it with eye tracking. Main problem I see with it is LEDs on a contact lens wouldn't be in focus, at least without some other optics to make them more directional.
Is there a reason they are using sleep(1) instead of pause()? Seems like a waste to use sleep if all you are doing is waiting for a signal.
Node is the obvious leader amongst V8 shells, but there's also

- https://github.com/attractivechaos/k8 and discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7913950

- http://silkjs.net/

- https://code.google.com/p/teajs/

- https://github.com/samlecuyer/sorrow.js

- https://github.com/tlrobinson/narwhal

- d8 (bundled with v8 source)

Not counting other CommonJS-compatible platforms, or javascript shells using engines other than V8, or server-side javascript application frameworks
Check out Pilog which is a query language DSL for working with picolisp's built-in databases.... I'd be interested in hearing from people with more knowledge of SQL than I do to see how they compare.
Thompson's conclusion that compromising computer systems is no more amazing than driving drunk surprises me. I must have missed that in prior readings.
5.3 is basically a whole new language. Development is pretty quick and regular ever since 5.4 and the new RFC process.
> perhaps unsafe blocks ought to be renamed to safe blocks

We have had long and heated discussions on this topic, actually. My personal position is that the code inside such a block has fundamental tension: the compiler must assume that it is safe, while the programmer must in all cases admit the possibility that it is unsafe. Given that keywords should be optimized for the reader rather than the compiler, I prefer `unsafe` to `safe`.

However, that's not to say that there doesn't exist a better word entirely. Perhaps `unchecked` would suffice...
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