skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. In fact, it's 100% free. They never ask you for a donation. And you're not even allowed to donate unless you stay the full ten days. It's run completely by volunteers and old students, who walk away from their jobs for a week and half in order to cook you free meals.

I'm also weary of personality cults. Goenka did everything (he passed a year ago) to make sure you don't worship him. He claims throughout his lectures that he is not a sage, but instead a mere "householder." He doesn't say he's enlightened. He tells his story of having migraines, learning from another Vipassana leader the technique, and then dedicating his life to teaching others.

tldr; don't knock it till you try it.

But I do agree with the author that there all elements of "faith," whereas he claims you don't need faith. There are concepts in his lectures that imply belief in reincarnation for instance. That being said, 95% of the course is just about developing concentration by focusing on your breathe, and awareness & equanimity by focusing on sensations of the body.
You're totally right. Not only are computers laden with a lot nasty chemicals, but the insides can become really hot, which could help the chemicals leak out. At the same time, computers have become indispensable to our lives.
> I continually find it amazing that human lifespan has gone up, not down.

I suspect you’ve never spent time in rural peasant villages. Many rural peasants (still today, but even more in the past) eat a simple and often poorly balanced diet punctuated by occasional periods of near starvation, do demanding physical labor from an early age until their bodies break down, catch all sorts of diseases that suburban office workers are never exposed to, sometimes get serious bacterial infections when they suffer any kind of laceration, have vastly inferior treatments for pretty much every medical condition, even something simple like a broken ankle used to be permanently crippling, etc., and you find it "amazing" that life expectancy has improved?

If you want to talk about exposure to various carcinogenic compounds, any family who cooks on a wood fire in an open hearth in the middle of their house is breathing more smoke than all but the heaviest of cigarette smokers, worse than the worst air pollution Beijing has to offer.
Estrogen isn't unusual within a man's body, either. An excess or lack of either estrogen or testosterone can have adverse effects in both men and women.
Can we change this title to something closer to the original title of the article? The current title is inflammatory and will likely just bring out all the conspiracy nuts.

"BPA alternative disrupts normal brain-cell growth, is tied to hyperactivity, study says"
Honest question: Is glass an option? Aluminum?
Behind the paywall?
Funny.. Some people are like "this took you all day!" others say it was fast... I felt like it was taking me forever, but looking back feel like I got a lot done.. today feels much slower and I'm a bit frozen with decisions to make...
For adults, go get yourself a Hyrdro Flask. It's a double-walled (thermos-style) food grade stainless steel bottle. It comes with a 100 year warranty, and after your grandkids are done playing with it, it's fully recyclable. There are several products like this on the market, but I am a happy Hydro Flask owner/user.

Aluminum bottles are a non-starter: aluminum is toxic to humans, and has to be coated to not leak into your food. Often times there's a plastic liner to prevent the aluminum from coming into contact with your food/drink.

Some steel bottles are crap: they actually do stain/rust, and being non-transparent this can be hard to spot.

Glass bottles are nice, but obviously more breakable/dangerous than metal.

Personally, I don't trust any plastic bottles: not Nalgene not any other kind. Had a Nalgene bottle once; after it took on a stale water odor, I could not get it out with anything. This article particular finding is far from the last one in terms of which plastics do what to the organism.

For baby bottles... I guess the search is on for the next best type of bottle.
Can't it be set to have a single per-album volume setting?
Why use the Canon 1DX? The photographer has a long-standing and public relationship with Canon.

Why not use the Sony A7S? The photographer uses a Canon 200-400mm f/4 lens, and the nearest Sony equivalent is 70-400mm f/4-5.6, which means at the long end it captures only half as much light, instantly negating any possible ISO range advantage offered by the A7S.
> we have surrounded ourselves with chemicals that our bodies never evolved to deal with

A healthy human body clears BPA fine.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2199288/

The problem is many people are getting exposed to quite a bit all day long by eating and drinking a lot of canned/bottled stuff. I wouldn't freak out about what a water bottle is made of if you don't have chronic high exposure.

More important than freaking about minor exposure is supporting a strong metabolism, immune system, and liver function. The body can clear stuff like this fine if running well. You want to be running a high metabolism on plenty of sugar and starch.
Eh, everyone praised me for being smart. I never studied much in school. When I got to college that didn't work anymore and I couldn't just get As without trying much. But I did work hard and did well, despite the lack of praise for effort.

So I'm skeptical that it really matters that much what people do. I do think that too much praise isn't useful, because kids aren't stupid and understand what's going on.
I don't know if they still do it now, but years ago I noticed that the major super markets will actually sell any canned item that has a dent at a reduced price.

That's is fact, not urban legend.
Using printf?
Run Any JavaScript Function in the Cloud
Glass is making something of a comeback, presumably related to this trend.
This was 10 years ago, and all the acquired employees were laid off within a few years.
> For baby bottles... I guess the search is on for the next best type of bottle.

Is it possible to make stainless steel baby bottles?
At this stage and without backing/guidance from networks like YC, TechStars (tried both a few times) or big angel or VC firms we have nothing to lose in telling our story.

We are technologists who have a history of creating innovation that gets noticed & or a novel idea we published in 2007 has gone onto have million of users after being copied 100 or more times.

Our weak point is networking and overall connecting with people & getting the right people behind us! It's so frustrating.....
So you need to find out why they are not commenting or adding content. Can you reveal the url?

Or if you don't want to post here, email me the url on my profile (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bbcbasic)
AWS has really taken the IaaS thing seriously. I don't think about failed hard drives, power supplies or switches anymore.

I think about the health of my applications and design them to fail gracefully when failures happen. You can do this with hardware but then you've got to go to the DC or send someone there to fix it. It's not just an API call away from being fixed.
Yes, this is normal.

Turn this around, and see it from the "big wig"'s angle. They get in some guys (you) who obviously have not been around the block a few times already. More importantly, there is no attorney present and no way after the meeting to establish who said what, when, to who, in what setting.

His upside to screw you nine ways to Sunday is a big bonus. Where's his downside? Simple: none.

You cannot even name and shame as someone else suggested. Retain an attorney to properly advise you before you put names up here post-May.

Chances are the "big wigs" you met were not C-level, nor the level of management below that. If my guess there is correct, then you were not really dealing with "big wigs"; you likely were dealing with essentially middle management. The closer to middle management you get, the more prevalent this cutthroat behavior comes out. I could post a wall of text on why I personally have found this to be the case in my anecdata experience, but this response is getting long in the tooth already. At Fortune 50 levels, if you are meeting with C-level or direct reports to C-levels, there might be some mitigating factors that makes them more trustworthy, but again, I don't have the time to get into that here.

Suffice to say, when these impressive-sounding Names start dropping by, you need someone with the sales experience to qualify the opportunity. There are ways to generally suss out how serious they are about vetting your team/tech/org, mostly in the vein of making them come to you. Most middle management won't have the budgetary clout to spend anywhere close to what a Big Name will really spend (easily 5 figures and up, or an equivalent amount of staff time and expenses) doing just due diligence evaluation.
Not open source but I've had some people send me translations which I will implement if you'd like to send them to me - anthony@175g.com or we can talk more.. thanks.
Nor are they ignored in idiomatic Go.
HelloSign (YC W11) Is Hiring Front-end Engineers (React + Flux, SASS)
I did a vipassana retreat. It triggered a manic-psychotic (bipolar) experience. More at: http://livingvipassana.blogspot.com

Now, admittedly I had done very little meditation before hand, but _please_ don't just jump into this course like I did. And no, there was no history of manic depressive behaviour in my family so this came as quite the shock.

10 days of total silence (no reading, no writing, no eye contact, no nothing) is a really serious stress on your brain. Do not take it lightly.
Glass. It's expensive and fragile, but good old silicon oxide is as inert as you can ask for.

Extra estrogen in a female baby is absolutely a concern.

I was part of an investigation that dosed nursing rats with BPA and investigated the effect on female offspring. I left for graduate school in polymer chemistry, but you can read the results here: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/pr401027q

It's no blockbuster paper, but the whole of the evidence gathered suggests you shouldn't expose your baby to BPA just because it's female.

There's also a link between post-menopausal hormone replacement therapy (older women taking estrogen after their body ceases production) and breast/uterine cancer.
Good reason to not use hand sanitizer and lotion, then. I have a highly sophisticated self-repairing, self-lubricating, self-renewing exterior on my person, and my ancestors needed neither lotions nor aerosols of alcohol in the millions of years prior to whenever those things suddenly became popular.

Also a good reason to pay cash, which was another long tradition of my people.
I know it's certainly possible to make glass baby bottles.
This is unfortunately more common than many people think. I worked for a startup that had gone through something similar, though perhaps not as egregious. The patents were the only thing that (barely) saved it.

As much as HN likes to hate on patents, this is a huge reason why startups should file some if you have some technology worth protecting. Most probably they won't be enough to save you anyway, but it may be better than having no recourse at all.
Do the klean kanteen or whatever steel ones smell in a day or two like the SIGG ones I used to get? They were the reason I switched to plastic. You had to constantly scrub them and put cleaning pills in them.
Product Hunt/HN but for startup related podcasts.

I wouldn't pay $30/month for it but I would buy the app, or bookmark the site.
I've done the course a few times now, and I would say the hardest part is integrating meditation into daily life. Goenka recommends meditating twice a day, one hour each sitting. Sometimes this isn't possible, so I just try to meditate however much I can.

I have heard from others that serving a ten day course (as opposed to sitting a course, as the author here did) is more beneficial as you are able to talk with fellow servers, help prepare food, and can even read a newspaper. Although you can't go deeper into your mind, you learn to integrate meditation into daily life better. I have yet to serve a course.
That's more about the attractiveness of the product than safety. Those dented cans are sold somewhere else. Here's such a place near where I grew up: http://www.npsstore.com/about
The claim that neoclassical economics is a straw man, is a double edged sword.

On the one hand, you are right the economics can't be accused of ignoring obvious flaws in neoclassical economics (e.g. various market frictions).

On the other hand, neoclassical economics contains some core truths that fundamentally inform how most economists think. It is a kind of zero'th order approximation to reality for economists (and the first order approximation is "optimal taxation theory"). So I think that mainstream economists do have a common set of beliefs that is strongly influenced by neoclassical theory (someone else in this page mentioned free trade, which is probably the best example of an application of neoclassical theory that almost all economists agree with).
Some non-SQL query languages have explicit constructs that deal with distributed cases. For example, SPARQL can do federated queries using the SERVICE keyword. [1] gives an example.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14980386/connecting-linke...
To start as a couple of others have already pointed out you haven't implemented all the criteria.

If I was evaluating your solution based on what they are asking for I would have passed on you as well. Your solution is unnecessarily complex and over built. They are asking if can you use JS to manipulate a select box. Not including tests you have brought in 400+ lines of code (184 lines of code + the EventEmitter library) to implement 75% of the functionality you were asked for. That is a lot of code to take an item from a select box and add it to a list. Knowing that developers leave I would not want to inherit a solution like this.

To put it in car terms you built a 911 when the customer was asking for a vw bug.
Relevant XKCD: http://xkcd.com/154/
Not OP but my best friend in High School was basically OP. My family was "house broke" and I never had allowance, everything was "no" (literally everything) and I learned early that I had to make for myself. Worked through High School, saved up for the gadgets I wanted, etc.

Best Friend came from a wealthy doctor's family. Large house. Every game console, new computers/cameras/etc basically every 10mo. He isn't passionate. He never had to work to put two and two together. It was a credit card away. He got whatever he wanted whenever he wanted (I wouldn't call it spoiled, just more so "available"). He just doesn't have drive because he never _had_ to. It's like the quote "If you can, give your kids enough to do something, but don't give them enough to do nothing."
Ummm, no these two people report directly to a fairly well known name in tech.

Also, what do I have to lose in naming and shaming them when we may just as well open source our work when we tell our story.

I'm tired of being stepped on and not being able to get the right people behind & helping us!
So two very different thoughts here, and I basically agree with both: yes, there is still a place for simple, mostly analog, NA powered sports cars, and yes, it is a distortion of the system for a 918 to get some kind of green subsidy.

I was just speaking towards new paths in getting the most out of ICE-centered power systems, that an alternative power store and MGU can uncover better turbocharging options vs. a purely mechanically coupled turbine/compressor. These technologies are being developed at the less price-sensitive high end of the market, just as Tesla is doing with an all-electric drivetrain. They started at 100K+ roadsters, developed to an 80K luxury sedan, and are developing down market from there. I think it's totally appropriate to encourage a shift in industry standards, as you say, with incentives in this segment of the market (let alone where the Prius sits). It's a bit of an absurdity with the Porsche, but take heart that there are only 918 being made…

As far as what kind of sports cars we should be encouraging, even mid-market cars are so fast now you really can't enjoy them on the road. That's why cars that emphasize a fun driving experience at still-sane speeds are the most interesting to me now, like the FR-S, the Miata, the Elise, etc. But that's a separate conversation.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8877502
Prison Map
“Text neck” is becoming an 'epidemic'
Arc. Besides boosting your productivity, it will stretch your mind in ways you have yet to imagine.
Also, the first 200 pages seem to take forever. I almost stopped reading. Then next 200 pages go by much faster, then the next 200 even faster, and so on...
Glass or ya know, glass...
I'm not one to throw around the c-b word, but I really thought this article would be about a prison in a Buddhist country that used meditation as a form of rehabilitation. I was disappointed with the actual article.
I bought "Mindfulness in Plain English" and I've read it a few times. In the couple times I've meditated for at most 20 minutes I got some amazing experiences and insights that, I don't would be an exaggeration to say, changed my life and how I viewed other people, things, and events in my life.

That said, even though I've always wanted to give my self a time and place where I could really "break the barrier" to meditating more often, I'm not so sure I'd do some thing like that after this...
As much as I liked reading this account, but still, am I the only one who thinks that he made the visit, wrote this...only to advertise his website?
AFAIK Teradata doesn't allow you to intercept SQL after parsing like Postgres does.

I think you are trying to ask if the sharding example in this post is similar to "the primary key hashmap thing that Teradata has*. I think the answer is yes: teradata does hash-based sharding, and this is how pg_shard implements the same outcome.
I think you seek https://99designs.com/tasks/
Most visibly: Tab completion can get the wrong/unexpected file (note that it doesn't have to be the same filename to cause this problem...if I'm expecting "my<tab>" to complete to "my program", because it is the only file starting with "my" but instead it completes to "My Documents" or requires a double tab and more specificity from me, that's an annoyance). Windows tab completion is perhaps the perfect storm of annoyance for me, with regard to case insensitivity. It'll complete to the first thing it sees case insensitively and then require cycling through all matches to find the desired file. This would also break file globs, or at least my expectation of what file globs should do.

This is, of course, a mild bit of user hostility, but it is less friendly and harder to use, to me, than case sensitivity. As I noted above, it's mostly a matter of what you're used to, but in the absence of a reasonable case that case insensitivity makes life easier for users, the right implementation is the simpler one.

The more dangerous stuff is where the OS decides that one file is actually a different file, through character conversion or through Unicode mapping. And, that, (not) coincidentally, is where serious security bugs were found in git. And, git is not alone in running into these problems.

In short, I find it annoying that the OS would decide it knows what I want, when I ask for something else. But, more importantly, it has been proven occasionally to be dangerous, and often to be error-prone, in implementation. But, on that front, I'm probably just going to repeat what Linus said less effectively.
In your story, I don't see how lying hurt the person. Seems it helped get a discount for a while.
A time of change…
I prefer Firefox. With chrome, when my tabs increase more than 10, the system slows to a crawl. This happens with each subsequent update of Chrome. Firefox can handle hundreds of tabs without issue. Loading tabs on demand is a great feature for tab heavy users like me. Session restore is very reliable. So I dont mind those rare moments when firefox freezes. Using Chrome also creates this nagging fear at the back of my mind, as to how much info google collects about you.
I'm like Richard Stallman is for FOSS on this: One case of "sue for cross-pollination" is too much. Our food supply and the freedom of people to survive and save food stores is too important to let Monsanto and others fuck with the food chain. Food is not a place for a EULA.

And if you're some sort of liberal hippy who wants to save the entire world, then perhaps the government should buy out these things to ensure it's a public good rather than a Q3 profit driver.
Is it the bank account part of things that you see as the issue, or is it a solution to everything that is limiting it from being available to you? (i.e. would you also want/need a company set up for you in a supported country to process the transactions?)

How much would this be worth to you?
Then I fail to see how this is a stupidity. Linux is doing the right thing: there's no way for it to mount the filesystem without damage.
Quiver.js – Middleware-based Component Framework
My experience, and that of the people I've talked to afterwards, is that the course is profoundly difficult for many people. It amazes me that in the two courses I've completed, only a handful of people (~5-6 out of ~150-160 total) quit early.
Lua uses this to handle errors---I don't find it really tedious. A common pattern is kind of the same---to return either one return value and nil and then an error message or an error code (Lua, like Go, has multiple returns) in case of errors. This results in code like

let res, err = some_function()
if res == nil then -- you can also check for err ~= nil like in Go
-- return from this function with something, err contains more
-- information
end

I think it's very neat---you can also return nil, err from this function if you can't deal with it and some code up the stack should be able to handle it in a meaningful manner. I don't find it particularly tedious; i.e. not less tedious than writing try..catch blocks, and you can clearly see where are the function exit points, whereas with exceptions, any line can theoretically throw an exception. A missed error check can be troublesome, but generally using nil as a value further down in the function will hopefully trigger another error which might be then caught so you can spot the bug.

Lisp's continuations are also IMHO a great mechanism---you catch the error and then you can tell the function down the stack what it should do: you can abort, or you can try fixing the error and continuing, or you can try again for some number of times and then report a new error if that fails. It's more flexible than stuff I've heard of before.
That is a great service! Thank you for the link!

However, its not quite what I want - its really focused on tiny jobs, They won't do anything if it takes over 30 minutes, and I don't think they'll create anything (e.g., a banner ad), only modify something you already have.

I'm fine with a job taking 2-3 hours and billed accordingly, its the latency and overhead of finding/scheduling these small tasks that sucks.
Which is pretty ridiculous. Convention dictates that people use Makefile so that's the file people read and edit, yet the make utility reads makefile first by default. Including both is a great way to confuse users.
If a function be advertised to return an error code in the event of difficulties, thou shalt check for that code, yea, even though the checks triple the size of thy code and produce aches in thy typing fingers, for if thou thinkest ``it cannot happen to me'', the gods shall surely punish thee for thy arrogance.