skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the flip side is, why does only music get this benefit? What if I didn't care if my 50mb download takes 10 times as long? Wouldn't it then fall under the same kind of "using dead time" thing?
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It's one way of thinking of what learning is. Some learning just is experience. Simplifying the experience, using the mind, can sometimes make the learning more complex than it needs be.

Choosing to make the distinction between the thought stream, the external world, and the observant self is one way to think. It is already on a layer of abstract conceptualization that is more complicated than it need be.

I just like letting go of the idea of what everyone else says learning, experiencing, and thinking is, and just let everything flow. That's when I feel most comfortable. When I let go of 'a way I think I should be' and I know instead 'I have always been the way I should be. It feels like a conscious jerk in thought when you remember to stop guiding yourself, and you just know you are already there.
I think one of the most challenging things is working on the sales side of a start-up. As an engineer, coding is relatively straight forward, but sales is a different animal.

When working on sales, I think engineers underestimate how truly difficult it is for someone to sign-up, or take their wallet out to pay for a service. The assumption of creating a great product isn't enough for success.
If libuv doesn't support TLS, how does Node.JS implement HTTPS?
Can you check if sales taxes even apply? For some types of things there is no sales tax. Also it's not the end of the world. You can use software such as https://taxcloud.net/default.aspx which is compatible with numerous systems.
So it's like a CPU can't process fast enough and start to losing signals.

Just like the choppy adobe flash player on OSX!
Do you know anyone who votes republican and goes to church every Sunday? Because that's a plurality and sometimes majority of the United States and I'd bet they're substantially different than the people you know.
Why? Because the last I heard, doctors wrote like 300 Million prescriptions for pain killers last year. So, one prescription for every man, woman and child.

You might say that if all are medically necessary than who cares, but why the ramp-up over the last decade?
Oh, ok. Sorry, I wasn't aware that you were talking about books from your original post.
delicious. talks of it's death were greatly exaggerated.
A Career Epiphany
Sex is sex, but money is money
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One of the first FORTRAN programs I wrote, as a kid about 45 years ago, generated a table that showed, based on cost of cigarettes, interest rate, number of years, how much money my father's cigarette addiction was costing him.

Of course I couldn't find that output today. But one thing I remember quite clearly is the cost of cigarettes. They were about $0.30 per pack back then. I'm sure I wouldn't have gone over $1.00 per pack in my table.

Even allowing for inflation, someone is making a lot of money off the back of addicts.
Hmm, I'm not sure you understand it any better than I do.

The article says:

>Well, if you get hearing damage at a specific frequency, you’ll start to lose sensitivity to the quiet sounds at this frequency. However, your sensitivity to loud sounds remains the same.

If their sensitivity to loud sounds remained the same on the one hand, why would they be unable to tolerate certain sounds on the other hand. Seems contradictory.
It Sadly Unclear Whether This Article Will Put Lives at Risk
A successful company will pay back the government many multiples of its investment in the form of corporate and income taxes. Also, financial incentives incentivize entrepreneurs to make the venture successful. Imagine the government taking over the commercialization of the drug...
is there an email address I can reach you at?
There are options aside from Methadone. I've had experience with this in my family as well. To me soboxone looks like a miracle drug. It gave me my friend back.
There are years of work and millions of dollars between discovering or inventing a chemical that seems to have a certain health benefit and having a safe, thoroughly tested drug ready for manufacturing. It's the difference between science and engineering.
Just change your browser agent (or at least that worked til Sept 2014)
My brother died of a heroin overdose, so this is a topic of interest to me. I struggle with my own demons as well and should be taking my advice too.

One possible way out: http://www.howtoquitheroin.com/How_to_Quit_Heroin_with_Krato...

But there's no point in quitting if you don't have a plan for how to live your life not addicted. Fill it up with good stuff and drain out the pus of emotional pain that put you there in the first place. Good luck!
People forget that about the American Civil War, quite often.

It's estimated that the Normandy landings on D-Day had 14,000-19,000 casualties total (all sides).

The Battle of Antietam had 22,000 casualties in a single day. Cold Harbor may have had up to 7,000 in a matter of minutes.

At Gettysburg, Pickett's division suffered around 60% casualties in their one charge, including a 100% casualty rate among regimental and brigade commanders, prompting his famous comment to Lee (on being told to prepare his division for a possible Union counterattack) "General Lee, I have no division".

It was a relentlessly and almost unbelievably bloody conflict, and yet both sides found the will to keep it going for four years. What sticks out to me is Grant's comment after the first day at Shiloh (which had been close to a massacre of the Union forces) in response to Sherman, who said to him "Well, Grant, we've had the Devil's own day, haven't we?" Grant simply said "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow, though."

And he did. In the end it was that stubbornness and willingness to keep pressing on in spite of the horrific casualties that won the war.
Surprisingly, Perl outperforms sed and Awk
For those interested in implementing other similar systems, the O'Reilly book on Collective Intelligence is exceptional: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596529321.do
Will China’s Economy Dominate the 21st Century?
My startup makes a tool that many ADHDers find to be helpful, called BeeLine Reader. It's been featured by a couple ADHD blogs and is periodically discussed on reddit's ADHD subreddit. HTH!
Please. This piece is not about empathy for people who've been disrupted. It's a self-proclaimed intellectual bemoaning the fact that the change that is inevitable isn't happening the way he thinks it should. He's not feeling for the factory worker in Detroit who is out of a job. He's feeling for himself because when he strolls around the East Village, he's sad that there aren't bookstores. He's sad because now everyone has a voice and his voice isn't as loud or meaningful. It's the exact opposite of what you're suggesting: 'getting some' empathy for people.
It sounded to me like he became an entrepreneur out of trying to be an entrepreneur, which in the end was a pretty neat trick.
The language IO has a very simple grammar[1] and ignoring libraries is a pretty productive language.

I suspect that you are on to something, but instead of the grammer being the guide instead the abstraction that the language gives you, but with a correlation between abstraction and the complexity of the grammar.

[1] http://iolanguage.org/scm/io/docs/IoGuide.html
exp ::= { message | terminator }
message ::= symbol [arguments]
arguments ::= "(" [exp [ { "," exp } ]] ")"
symbol ::= identifier | number | string
terminator ::= "\n" | ";"
GOP Senators: Paris Shooting Justifies NSA Powers
Show HN: Fnlet – macroizing the Y-combinator
It's a lot easier to delete specific lines using sed. Also you can have sed do replacements to the n'th instance of something. Doing that in Perl is a bit more complicated and a lot less succint.

$ echo "foo foo foo foo" | sed 's/foo/bar/3'

foo foo bar foo
Looks interesting. I'm certainly interested in Japanese teas and like being able to sample a variety ( http://gwern.net/Tea - might I encourage you to also explore the world of oolongs as well as greens?), but looking at your current front page, my first thought is 'it sounds like a good idea, but how do I know the tea they send will be any good? What have they sent in the past and/or plan to send for launch?' You have a listing of families, but not the specific ones.
here's an example of the first useful grep I learned :

history | grep "git push"
I started this project in December. Me and a few of my friends went on holiday together. One of our friends took about 1000 photos with his DSLR, totalling about 6 GB. Due to the size of the photos, he had difficulty sharing them with us.

I know Adobe Lightroom can resize batches of photos, and there are a bunch of free installable tools that can also do it, but I wanted to make something that was extremely convenient. Short of building it into operating systems, I couldn't think of anything easier than a webpage where you just drag in the photos and click "Start."
to choose from an effectively unlimited selection is something that ultimately benefits literary culture

Prove it.
There are many, many critiques of silicon valley that are relevant and problematic and need to be heard and engaged with more.

This is absolutely not one of them.
It's not exactly out of character for 'high profile' node community members is it.

I love the work they're doing, and the community they've fostered might be one of the most progressive in the industry, but they can be insanely pretentious at times.

(irony of responding to a comment about generalization noted)
Why Crappy Developers Are More Productive
Blockchains for Digital Artwork
Also fascinating: around the same time in China, there was a civil war involving a quasi-Christian cult/reform-movement (the Taiping Rebellion). Over 20 million people, mostly civilians, were killed from 1850-1864. That's an average of almost 4,000 per day, for the entire 15-year duration of the conflict.
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Hint: Not fired.
Thinking like that leads you into the tricky realm of the government profiting off vice. A huge part of the $10 price tag is tax. But at least the government doesn't advertise cigarettes, like it does with the lottery.
White House responds to petition to fire Aaron Swartz's prosecutor
It's interesting to read this after the article earlier today about how teens use technology. This proverbial buggy whip manufacture laments his lack of brick and mortar book stores, while the teen already sees Facebook as being passé.

It must be tough to fight progress. It's a battle you're never going to win.
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Hint: not fired.
You are correct, what I am calling "mindful thinking" is not really meditation in the form you are describing, hence why I said in my grandparent post that I don't really meditate. To explain more thoroughly there are two different techniques I make use of:

The first is an outward facing approach, where I try to clear my mind of all inner thoughts and focus completely on the external sensations I am experiencing right now. So for example when entering this mode of thought I focus on putting all thoughts and concerns out of my mind and instead focus solely on the sensation of wind blowing on my skin as I'm walking along, or the sound of birds, or the colors of objects around me. It is hard to explain but by focusing in this state it is as if the colors are brighter, the sounds more vivid, basically all sensations enhanced as I am paying attention more closely with full focus. It is as if the world was a YouTube video playing at 240p and suddenly it switched to an HD stream. The result is an intense feeling of satisfaction in my existence and place in reality.

The other technique I use is to focus entirely inward on identifying what I am feeling or thinking right now. In this state of self awareness I focus on acknowledging and identifying my inner feelings objectively and thinking deeply about where they are coming from, whether they are coming from opinions unsubstantiated by fact, or whether they are rational, etc. I find it helpful to imagine my inner emotions as if they were someone else's so that I can properly see them in the right scope. This is especially useful for dealing with feelings of anger, frustration, or stress. This technique is the exact opposite of the first in that I could walk a couple miles and not really notice anything around me because of the internal focus I had.

Both techniques are similar in that they put away all non essential distractions, and non productive thought in favor of enhanced focus on the here and now and my own existence and place in reality. However, the first is focused on where I am externally, while the second is focused on what I am internally.

At any rate, I find that both techniques are useful to avoid getting wrapped up in a distracted state of non-awareness of self and the real world. I feel that especially working in tech it is easy to become so focused on computer code, and/or distracted by the dopamine triggers from Instagram, Reddit, Netflix, video games, and other distractions that you never stop to think through your own internal thoughts, or fully experience the reality around you.

But by spending time each day to focus on regrounding myself in both my true external reality, and my true internal state it helps me to keep these outside distractions from taking over my life completely and causing me to waste my life on nonessential things that in my opinion don't bring true happiness, just distraction from unhappiness.
Petrobras is hardly a private corporation - the Brazilian government is the majority shareholder[1]. What was done to Sony is entirely different as well - this was a clear effort to cause damage to them, not a means to gather intelligence.

Per your own link, broadcast services are only legitimate targets for attack under the Geneva Conventions if they are of fundamental military importance.

[1] http://peakenergystrategist.com/archives/tag/petrobras/
You're right. I haven't read it. I'll do so.

Aaaaand nope, I still agree with the court findings. I think that the dispatch officer and the officers who checked the house should be disciplined by an internal affairs investigation, and possibly that the procedures followed by officers should be updated to respond more usefully to claims of burglary. I can't be exactly sure which of these things I would have liked to happen because I'm unfamiliar with the details of how and why the DC Metro Police operate, and I'm therefore not sure exactly where the blame of incompetence actually lies.

But to suggest that the officers in question had a special duty to the women is still wrong. The dispatcher was informed that a burglary was in progress, not a rape. I have no idea why Warren decided this was a wiser course of action, nor any idea if the dispatcher simply heard or recorded it incorrectly; given that the dispatcher also used the wrong code, I'm inclined to give Warren the benefit of the doubt over the dispatcher.

So yeah. It's strange and possibly suspicious that the officer who knocked on the door failed to notice screaming from the second floor. It's not clear to me that an officer should break into a private home to prevent a burglary, but I am also not a lawyer, so I'm not familiar with the case law on when a policeman should or should not force entry. My instincts say that it would be a Fourth Amendment violation.

If he heard the screaming, then the lack of forced entry is the failure. If a Code 2 burglary merits forced entry, then that is the failure. But presuming good faith on his part--i.e., that he didn't hear anything--then I find his actions entirely reasonable and your demand that he stop a crime that he had no idea was going on completely unreasonable. To suggest that his time was best spent doing nothing but verifying that Douglas or Warren, specifically, was not being raped is to suggest a special duty over and above the general duty a policeman has to the general public.

Source: http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=9108468254125174...
Sorry to disagree, but a knowledgeable camera person would never talk about a "fast f/1.4 shutter speed". A camera article, review, or blog post that said that would be loudly criticized in the comments.

The phrase just doesn't make sense - that's why I chose it as an analogy. It especially doesn't make sense as a figure of speech referring to some characteristic of the sensor.

A more sensitive and less noisy sensor may let you use a higher ISO setting and therefore allow either a faster shutter speed or a smaller aperture for the same overall exposure.

A lens with a wider aperture would allow you to use a faster shutter speed or a lower ISO with the same exposure.

Similarly, a slow shutter speed would allow you to use a smaller aperture for more depth of field, or a lower ISO setting for less noise. Or a fast shutter speed would allow you to a wider aperture to blur the background. Again all with the same overall exposure.

Aperture, shutter speed, and ISO setting are closely linked - changing any one of them will affect your overall exposure, or you can change two or all three of them in combination to get the same exposure while altering other characteristics like motion blur or depth of field.

But they are three very different things, and even in casual conversation someone who knows cameras would not mix them up.

BTW this goes way back to the film days. Shutter speed and aperture work the same now as they did then, the only difference is that you changed ISO rating by buying a new roll of film instead of turning a dial.
All t-mobile plans that qualify for free music streaming are "unlimited" in that after you reach your data allotment it does just that -- cuts bandwidth by an order of magnitude. Its entirely possible that it works the same way as is suggested above.
Could you please recommend one of the others?
I think he makes some very good points about an obsession with objective quantities over more subjective analysis of qualities.

Especially when it comes to literary works, art, and discussions of politics and economics.

I've worked in tech for the last decade so I know from first hand experience that there is plenty of subjectivity in the decision making and design processes.

But at the same time there's an attitude that "if it sells, it's good". Sometimes when I'm in meetings it seems like were selling lowest-common-denominator products on after hours television. Basically just trying to come up with scams instead of trying to build real value.

Furthermore, thinking that web pages and software are the best approaches to "solving the world's problems" definitely lends towards a digital and quantified solution.

From what I've heard at The New Republic they wanted to start using the same sort of metrics that a company like Bleacher Report (which I was the first engineer at) might use.

There's world of a difference between stories about 3rd tier college football teams and the history of intellectual criticism that made The New Republic what it was.
Glad you like it!

From what we're seeing, there's very clear interest in beacons across a wide variety of verticals - hotels, events, museums, etc. Retail is definitely one of the significant verticals but not the only one.

That's also one of the reasons Beaconstac is a developer-led platform with SDKs & REST APIs - we think it is best to let developers figure out how to add proximity-based applications to the verticals they work in.
Reading this article makes me feel old. I'm just on my twenties and the only service mentioned in that article in which I have an account is WhatsApp.
The world's biggest ship – for 53 days
I never saw it until I used over 1GB in a day (out of my total 5 per month).
This is really great. Thanks for posting.
> hearing aids sadly have a stigma attached to them

It's probably worth distinguishing between two kinds of phenomena that might be described as carrying a stigma:

- Something might lead other people to mock or otherwise denigrate you for exhibiting it. Being fat is a good example here; fat people get a lot of messaging from society that they're worse people for being fat.

- Something might carry no real significance to the rest of society while still being viewed, by the individual, as painfully embarrassing. There's a traditional view that women don't like to wear glasses because they think the glasses ruin their looks. I don't know how well that currently corresponds to reality; I've known one girl who really hated her glasses for that reason and another who, not needing glasses of her own, liked to take other people's and wear them -- but that's the prototype of a "category two" stigma: a woman who hates wearing her glasses even though no one around her sees anything wrong with them.

I suspect that hearing aids are firmly within the second category, which means getting people to wear them "openly" should be doable.
Probably the README was edited via github's web UI.
Plus, the good old English profanities tend to have Germanic cognates: the German "ficken", "scheiss", and "kott"; the Dutch "fokken", "schijt", and "kut", the Swedish "focka", "skit", and "kunta".
Programming on a Keyboard - A Piano Keyboard
I'm a fan of ClojureScript and one reason being how easy it makes it to take advantage of the Closure compiler. But it can be a double edged sword. At times the advanced compilation mode breaks your code, and it can be extremely difficult to track down why. The combination of symbol renaming and dead code elimination usually means final JavaScript that looks utterly nothing like the ClojureScript you started out with.

Just today I had an issue where the Closure compiler decided my call to (set!) wasn't necessary, and so it removed it, completely breaking my app. The best solution I could find was a work around involving a pretty large let block. I was just happy to get it working, debugging optimized Closure compiled code is not fun at all.
I really don't like these "Teenager's view of social media' type posts. All of them make the mistake that teens only have time for two or three apps and that the teen demographic is very homogenous. I get a little disappointed when a post like this then gets reported as the demise of Facebook, because that's not really an accurate observation.

Looks like I better write a response post.
Would be interesting to see the numbers for the Android version.
"It's as if over time, we leave parts of ourselves all around us, which in turn, come to shape who we are."

I like that.
I like the analogy as a hook and lead in but a bit disappointed to find the actual content a bit lacking, but perhaps that's the point?

Would be helpful to include a brief summary of the three different practises of Vipassana or insight medidation as a whole just to provide an introduction.
So was everyone of these "gatekeepers" just a "self-proclaimed intellectual" before social media came along and "liberated everyone from their tyranny"?
Yeah, sulfa wasn't very much fun for me.
Not yet, if this bit on the wiki is up to date: http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Features#TRIM_Support

Clicking through some of the links there, it sounds like the Illumos devs aren't entirely happy with the current FreeBSD code, but a new implementation looks stalled.
Yes, I agree with the article. I'm saying that people in general (even in this topic) seem to not mind the issue when it's personally advantageous to them. (if that weren't the case, the article would merely be stating the obvious and not be newsworthy.)

And I'll admit that unlimited streaming music does sound nice. But net neutrality is important to me, and so it would be hypocritical of me to dismiss it when it benefits me.
I think we'll be seeing more research like this in the future, where we develop drugs by mimicking nature instead of starting from scratch in the lab. Nature has had a few millions of years more to build and test things.