skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are richer now and live longer, but still mostly miserable.

Really? Do you have a citation for that? Because most evidence points to the opposite... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report

Six key variables explain three-quarters of the variation in annual national average scores over time and among countries. These six factors include: real GDP per capita, healthy life expectancy, having someone to count on, perceived freedom to make life choices, freedom from corruption, and generosity.
Walking meditation e.g. as described in 'Mindfulness in Plain English' is slow and deliberate, and I don't think one can get much physical benefit out of it.

I'm no expert but I think concentration is only part of the picture. This can be concentration on the breath, or concentration on a physical activity as you describe it. The other part is using the highly developed concentration state for the actual (mindfulness) meditation, which is pretty hard if you're moving around, at least for a beginner.

I'm talking about Vipassana practice, which is all I know about. As you say there are many forms of meditation.

edit: I used the word 'deliberate'. I should say seemingly deliberate. To be exact, it's not about deliberation or thinking at all.
You might have to face the fact that the business really is worth nothing. A business with declining revenue and dying technology is not an attractive opportunity.

As has been suggested already sell or give it to your employees. Retain a small stake and if they do well then you will get something out of it.

The other alternative is to put it into run out mode. Fire everyone you can and just milk the business for as much cash as you can with the aim of driving off your customers and winding the business up.
Yes, it does verify behavior... "up to" how well your types describe your program's behavior. That is, you get a free proof that your program does at least what it says it does in its types.

If, for example, I give one of my Haskell functions the type "f: [a] -> a", I know that it a) does not have side effects, and b) must pick some element from the list to hand me back, i.e. it cannot just construct or cast "something" to an 'a' and give me that. (There is a caveat around explicit "unsafeXXX" usage, but that's mostly beside the point.)

Both of those properties constrain behavior and are impossible to prove using unit testing.
2-stroke gasoline engines such as dirtbike engines are run with oil in the gas (thus oil in the intake) for economic and spatial reasons (removing or shrinking lots of parts like oil pumps, oil pans and ports.

It doesn't really lubricate like a 4-stroke where oil is pumped up and then scraped back down into the pan. It is still pumped up but it is stored in devices inside the cylinder liner where it is only dispersed as necessary. Each cylinder instead has oil squirters (receptacles) in the cylinder liners and essentially when the pressure under the piston is low enough that the system has determined there is insufficient oil, spring pressure from the oil squirters forces out enough oil until the pressure in the cylinder (under the piston) is enough to overcome the spring pressure and thus the oil squirters stay closed [1].

[1] http://www.wartsila.com/file/Wartsila/1278511883776a12671067...
... but I like adding different kinds of numbers without compile errors. I get that floating point and integers can be dangerous together, but forcing me to cast in order to add an i32 to an i64 seems like a case of missing a reasonable default.
ASIC. The timing will be better. Less power will be burned.

The only thing an FPGA wins on is NRE (non-recurring engineering).

The real problem is that the giga-sample DAC's/ADC's aren't willing to speak one of the actual high-speed interfaces or put a DSP directly on the ADC/DAC. So, everybody needs to use an FPGA to shoehorn the data into a useful form.

If somebody put an actual DSP on their ADC/DAC, FPGA's would evaporate for this application like they have evaporated for so many others.

Any FPGA application with volume eventually gets subsumed by special purpose hardware on a microcontroller. For example, people used to use FPGA's for PWM, motor control, etc. Now those blocks are standard on microcontrollers.
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LD_PRELOAD is super fun. And easy
Seems silly to me to just leave it sitting there for decades if its internal heat is being generated by how the isotopes are in close proximity to each other. Or I might be misunderstanding why it's generating its own heat.

Could they contain and cool down the waste by slicing off chunks of the mass and containing each chunk in lead-lined boxes? Essentially re-processing the lump into crude 'control rod' sized chunks and storing them in little lead boxes to contain the radiation being thrown off.
I've just started looking at Rebol, and you may find it worth while -- it has a very interesting take on DSLs.

http://www.rebol.com/
Why and in what way is thinking about sensations and one's body different from thinking about past or future?

Aren't there other ways to condition mind to bring back its thoughts away from the Past or Future, why is focusing on breathing the only way that meditation teaches?
Why is it foolish for them to pay for an ad you already admitted to wanting to see?
he's referring to the silly "you'll get your ass handed to you" tone of the post. it's ridiculously adversarial and self-aggrandizing. he might as well have written "tango down" after showing a reversed chip..
Why not just hire based on merit, and let gender and race percentages fall where they may?
...but Robert Heinlein predicted why or rather how the web would work on us. In 'Friday,' he gets wrong that it will be a system with metered, limited access...

...but (to my mind, remarkably) predicts that multimedia-enabled hypertext will lead to associative impulsive serendipitous browsing, not structured intentional behavior. The one scene in which the eponymous character interacts with the network is given primarily to a discussion of her own digression into subjects far afield from her nominal research topic.

...he also predicts that this might provide surprising value.

RIP RAL!
As far as "modern signal handling" goes: On OS X, you can also just create a dispatch source of type DISPATCH_SOURCE_TYPE_SIGNAL. If your code already uses dispatch, this is much easier than trying to wire up to kqueue directly.
I'm thankful for your comment and the original's author article, it helped me realize I'm not (utterly) mad.

Even though I haven't been completely deaf in a fairly long time (some form of congenital defect, sorta fixed, on and off, will get worse again), I still have a very hard time judging loudness. The way I do most things - even mindlessly simple like walking, grabbing a pen on a table or eating - I minimize sound as much as possible, like not/barely touching the floor with my heels.

I know it's kind of ridiculous to most people, but I'm also not sure the same people quite realize how continuously stressful it is to have little to no feedback from a sense you should normally be able to rely on.

These behaviors have become second nature for the most part, but I still feel like I'm letting down everybody when I do make noise, on the few occasions where I'm not mindful of my actions.

As a bit of an aside, I find it interesting that the loss of a sense generally seems to bring about a completely different level of introspection and self-awareness, not better or worse, just profoundly different (or I'm completely biased).
There are lots of businesses you might follow and want to get updates from: your kids karate school, your favourite band, the local revue theatre, your yoga studio, the bar on the corner, your mayor ...

This ongoing "crack down" on company pages doesn't just "sting entrepreneurs" it is day by day making Facebook less useful to me. Now our karate dojo needs to take out an ad to let us know it is kata week?

I think this is one of the weaknesses that may allow a competitor to eventually pry me away from Facebook; let me control what I want to see.
Please spread your religious propaganda elsewhere.

HN is a place to discuss, not to proselytize. Thanks.
My main problem with this is the odd implication that text files are anything more than just a form of art. With rules. And, typically, well agreed meaning. You even refer to them as "interpretive ASCII art."

That is to say. Sure, I can not literally draw a box around some code. I can, however, put "boxes" around many parts of code. Be it by shuffling them away to another repository/file/namespace/whatever. Or simply appending "thinkThrice" to the function names.

More, it is easily argued that all art is "interpretive" at some level. The odd believe that a set of well agreed upon sets of interpretations (you know, the alphabet) are somehow less appropriate than mere free form lines on a wall is interesting.
I disagree with the idea that people hate learning. As a parent, it is quite clear that people love learning. They hate being reprimanded. Which is what a lot of people mistake for teaching.
In addition to what LiveTheDream said, you can export to plain text with org-export-as-ascii.
It's raining node forks: https://github.com/io-forward/io-forward
I found Waking Up by Sam Harris pretty interesting.
It's a bit more abstract than a how-to manual, more why and what.
http://www.amazon.com/Waking-Up-Spirituality-Without-Religio...
Another useful export format is ODT (and probably ODF).
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I don't see why Facebook ever let unpaid ads be posted in the first place. The reason Facebook is able to be free is due to 2 things: users giving up data in exchange for the service being free and paid ads from businesses.

That being said, if you're so reliant on Facebook for your advertising moreso than other channels then you need to reevaluate your marketing plan and diversify.
He also predicted in this video "digital nomadism" when he mentions about being able to live anywhere in the world and still work.

Yeah, I'm British but I'm posting this from Singapore. #yolo
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The best resources I have found are books, audio tracks, a good meditation app and discipline. In regards to the latter, the hardest thing about meditation is consistently doing it.

Books: "Calming the anxious mind" by Jeffrey Brantley, "Mindfulness: An eight-week plan for finding peace in a frantic world" by Mark Williams and Danny Penman, "Mindfulness for Beginners" by Jon Kabat-Zinn (my favorite), "Wherever you to there you are" by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Audio: The second and third book both have cds or downloadable tracks. The audio tracks are a good way to start.

App: Insight timer. I have been using it for years.

Most of these books approach meditation from a non-religious approach.
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The thing i don't like about the term "meditation" is that its too closely intertwined with spirituality. Where meditation should actually be associated with relaxation.

This article only mentions the control group twice, once to say "None of these changes were seen in the control group, indicating that they had not resulted merely from the passage of time". This is just bad reporting - How about telling us what the control group were actually doing?

If they (control group) were not taking part in any type of consistent relaxation for 8 weeks then how would you expect to see any changes in the control group?

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/yoga-woo/
I know Gil Fronsdal and the community he serves. His talks are always practical and empathic. There won't be any woo or supernaturalism in these, but a generous humanity.
It's better once you keep it from messing with your text background color. I think this does it:

(defadvice shr-color-check (before unfuck compile activate)
"Don't let stupid shr change background colors."
(setq bg (face-background 'default)))
Can you offer some background on why you decided to attend? How much experience with mindfulness did you have beforehand?
Focussing on breathing is one particular instance but not the only thing you can do. Essentially you are practising focus and learning things about your mind you might not have noticed before
Correctness can be demonstrated by mathematical proof. But I am using haskell, which does not have a type system powerful enough for that.
The Mindfulness in Plain English book mentioned above, or the Insight Meditation Center talks linked below, are both without fake spirituality or mysticism.
In the end, email is the best way to communicate with your customers. You have full control over the list. Even though gmail might push the content to promotions tab, the customer can change that setting for your emails and receive it in their inbox.

Facebook is double dipping. It's charging customers to acquire the likes and then charging them again to communicate with those customers.

With email, you pay once to acquire the customer and then you can email them all you like until they unsubscribe.
I think the main issue is that no one wants to get anywhere remotely near it.
It seems like most languages are converging on a pretty standard feature set -- to the point where what "the" language is might not really matter because all its competitors will probably be roughly similar. I think we're at the point where almost every language will have:

- Lexical scope & closures

- Reflection

- Functions-as-objects

- The standard map/filter/reduce functions (sometimes under different guises and names)

- Immutability mostly by default, with the ability to override it

- Some hybrid of dynamic and static typing

The last one is probably a sticking point for a lot of people, but as far as I can tell it doesn't seem clear that either dynamic or static typing is obviously better in every context, and it seems like a lot of languages are recognizing that, either by introducing duck typing into a static context (IE, Go, or to an extent templates/generics), or introducing optional type constraints into dynamic languages via hints or asserts or just doing some JIT magic.

Anyway, I just see a lot of convergence. In 2000, different programming languages were really a lot different, in 2014... most of them have a pretty similar feature set.
Yet when you come to examine it the original affluent society was none other than the hunter's - in which all the people's material wants were easily satisfied.

Except that hunter-gatherer tribes routinely starved during lean periods. As much as the author pines for a golden age, it simply didn't exist.

This fellow should read more books on paleoanthropology and fewer on philosophy.
Or Dart. It's a lot closer to node and JS than Go (it uses asynchronous IO), and can more easily be used across both the server and client (Go's compilation-to-Javascript support is less developed). It's also surprisingly fast for a dynamic language, and has the generics Go lacks.
Headspace link: https://www.headspace.com/headspace-meditation-app
It verifies all the behavior that you tell it to. Consider the simple example used to help teach people to use type systems effectively: tic tac toe. You can write an implementation of tic tac toe in which the behavior of the game is type checked. You can even do so in java, although it is certainly more effort than in a more powerful language.
So it's now almost 30 years after Chernobyl, so if I read this naively:

> When this photo was taken, 10 years after the disaster, the Elephant’s Foot was only emitting one-tenth of the radiation it once had.

the Elephant's foot will currently have 1/1000th of the original radioactivity it had right after the disaster, and 10 years from now it will be down to 1/10,000th. At that rate it would be indistinguishable from background radiation within a century or so (just guesstimating here, but that's a lot of powers of 10 -- I'm probably being pessimistic).

I'm guessing that this is wrong, though, and that the radioactivity from longer half-life radionuclides will eventually start to dominate and the "effective half-life" will be much longer.

Does anyone have any idea how long it will be until Chernobyl blends into the background radiation?
This is incredibly upsetting. Amazon publishing false status reports for public consumption is directly equivalent to libeling every single customer they have, simultaneously.

I was trying to register a new domain during this outage. When my registrar's site wasn't loading correctly, I dug around and discovered they use AWS. I then checked Amazon's AWS status page to see if they were the culprit.

Nothing but green icons across the board.

Amazon having the audacity to tell such a gargantuan lie seemed inconceivable, so I was absolutely convinced that the problem was the registrar's fault. I decided the registrar must have become shoddy at some point without me noticing, and so I made a "to-do" note for myself to switch to another registrar this weekend.

If I hadn't happened to stumble across this HN submission, the registrar I use would have lost a long-time customer due to Amazon publishing a maliciously false status page for AWS.
> It would be cool if there was a "Wikipedia" of reverse engineering, whereby every consumer item out there has a web of articles, and an army of the curious has fun by stripping devices down and collaboratively documenting innards to the lowest level possible.

Not to be too shameless, but I was excited to see someone else explicate the idea. A few buddies and I are building a platform for precisely that[1]. Images can be annotated with hover-over notes with linked components, and it is possible to search for things by component (ex. c:msp430). We have also been bringing e-waste to Maker Faires to give kids the opportunity to get comfortable disassembling things and identifying components and basic engineering concepts.

1. https://www.takeitapart.com
This sounds similar to the sort of social anxiety I've felt around trying to figure out how to avoid creeping people out.
8 years actually. One could work in an industrial research lab; I like it. There are plenty of dev jobs that work well for PhDs (look at Google).
> Computer dependent society

Yep!
This has been brewing for a year and a lot of people in the community felt it was inevitable [1]. Plenty of early node people were never keen on Joyent's grab in the first place.

The idea that the majority of core contribs are being uncommunicative is not really borne out by the growing community around node-forward and how open it actually is. They've set up live chat, a mentors list, help pages, given access to anybody who asks to the fork and are actively seeking input on new features like better numerical comp libs. It probably seems less communicative than it really is only because they want to wait till the concept is past nascent stage to announce anything. Totally not surprised that people have gotten fed up with Joyent and that forks are happening.

1 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/nodejs/mqSf47HhmyY
I like this vision, but I just don't see it catching on. (Unless it has an obvious fallback to text). There are just so many tools that operate on text that you'd have to replace. I can't imagine people dropping, say, Git so that they can have videos as comments. At best you're probably dealing with some sort of markdown-esque meta-language that you embed in the comments.

The only significant language I can think of that shirked the code-as-files paradigm was smalltalk. Arguably that did not do the language a lot of favors, in that one of the main problems with smalltalk was that it always felt like a walled garden. It was definitely a very /nice/ garden, but interacting with the rest of the system was a very alien experience.
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> 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.

They probably don't want to publicly call out one of the core committers whose promised work is lagging. Or admit that the previous project lead was a poor choice who let it stagnate (but yet is inexplicably in the "Joyent did a bad job" camp). What good would that do anyone, apart from satisfy our boundless curiosity?
If you were staying over at someone else's house, would you have found it welcoming for them to say something like, "oh and I'll text you if you make too much noise with anything."?
Yeah, that's deliberately selling Ken's involvement as hard as you can without dishonesty, and it still shows he wasn't actually involved in go, just "exploring ideas for a language".
Ditch both.
They weren't expecting to see changes in the control group. Control groups represent the baseline, untreated state.

Also, meditation and relaxation are not the same thing.
I used to run a small bar. We spent thousands of dollars building up our Facebook likes to around 4000 people. Then Facebook started deliberately throttling our access so that we had to pay to reach the people we had collected. People that, in part, stayed in Facebook, or came to it, because it gave them information about small businesses like us. If we had been told upfront that we would only get access if we paid perhaps we wouldn't have put in the effort. But we weren't. There were other ways to upsell us which would have maintained trust and built a respectful relationship. Instead they abused the people who helped them, and sold their mendacity as a virtue.

I don't do that business any more, but I really feel for these small business people who, in most cases, are struggling to get by, and who need support, not abuse from a faceless, greedy corporation.
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Not clear what distinction you are trying to make. They practiced mindfulness meditation according to a specific, published plan, and brain anatomy changes were noted. It doesn't seem they are making any claim other than, this series of exercises produce this effect.

The paper doesn't seem to be available, but the abstract at the author's page[0] says "Healthy but stressed individuals are randomized to either a meditation-based stress reduction intervention or health education control intervention."

[0]https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Perso...
That's only the case if the LEDs transmit light in a broad cone or hemisphere. If the cones are very tight (like at laser in the most extreme incarnation), you can point the light sources at different angles and force it to map onto the retina properly. The important point is to reduce the circles of confusion acceptably. You don't necessarily need them to be zero radius.
Apparently the average is five chunks now
You're right, meditation is relaxation with a sprinkle of woo.
> It's a complete monopoly and the barrier to entry is huge. Might be a good thing to break them up.

The actual vote is for breaking ALL the search engines, despite of the size or if they have abused or not.
It says right on their github that it's no longer being developed, and has split into two other extensions.
10000+ commits and 574 contributors. Boy, this has to be good. Can somebody explain?
To my mind, that's a shocking number of attacks on a relatively small target. It makes me wonder what sort of numbers the really famous sites are seeing, and if they track the data in this way as well.

It's amazing that in nearly-2015, enough people still use passwords like '123456' and 'password' such that they're still at the top of the guessing list in hacking attempts. Some of us will never learn, I guess...
http://www.psxdev.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=128
Fair enough. I always considered computer viruses to be self-replicating, which I thought meant among computers, but Wikipedia supports your definition. Still, is this really self-replicating at all? It sounds more like an Emacs extension that simply "colors" files in some unique way.