skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a note - meditation can have negative side effects: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/06/the-dark-k...

This article, which has been submitted to HN before, investigates several severe reactions to meditation and the nonexistent research in, or even interest in researching, its downsides.

Having a negative reaction to meditation is not surprising, if you think about it. Deep introspection can lead to crippling mental states, depending on what you do or do not find. You may expect to find meaning and find none, or you may find something haunting from your past or within your psyche. Either can be a disaster for your personal well-being. I find it somewhat vapid to discuss meditation as simply an efficiency lifehack.

From the article:

> For Britton, this widespread assumption—that meditation exists only for stress reduction and labor productivity, "because that's what Americans value"—narrows the scope of the scientific lens. When the time comes to develop hypotheses around the effects of meditation, the only acceptable—and fundable—research questions are the ones that promise to deliver the answers we want to hear.

> ..."But," she cautions, "what about when meditation plays a role in creating an experience that then leads to a breakup, a psychotic break, or an inability to focus at work?"
What happens if the target website does not want to be embedded?
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Yep, Kennedy had his speech prepared by a native German speaker. There was no confusion.

An equivalent(ish) English example would be saying "I am a New Yorker."

Does it mean you literally are a Reuben (or New Yorker Sandwich)? Hell no, it is plainly obvious that is a ludicrous interpretation even without grammatical context of the rest of the speech.
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Note: If he'd gone to Hamburg and said "I am a Hamburger" this would have also been totally fine.
If all apps had equal access to zero rating, then that'd be one thing. If I can just go to some site and pay for traffic to my site, cool. But is that reality?

On top of that, I would be surprised if some carriers are not just doing it as a marketing service. In Guatemala, I see huge billboards saying you don't need to pay anything to use Facebook, Whatsapp and some others. If you have an active line (meaning you've spent a dollar in a month or two or something low), you're set to use them.

Even promotion like that is somewhat anticompetitive if there's no way for other parties to let users know.
I wonder if anyone would've picked it up? You would have to listen to the song over and over. Then figure out morse code and what letter each signal represented.
Get in touch via my website: writeclickmedia.com. For obvious reasons, I don't want to share too much here. Happy to help, though.
After the previous attack on Charlie Hebdo in 2011, when their office was firebombed, their website got hacked.

Not sure why the previous poster thinks this might be ISIS on the other hand.
Not sure I understand your question.

PS: What does [Flagkilled] mean?, I see it at the end of my post.
This looks really slick! I think I can get a lot of use out of this at work.
The only time the author hears about Kik is in the quoted joke. In the joke, the admirer asks the object of their affection if they are a user of Kik, rather than asking directly for their contact information. Kik is really difficult for the author to describe on Medium. Luckily, Kik isn't super relevant to the author.
This comes across as though they never intended to make an app for the app store and all along just wanted to call out apple on their term sheet. It is purely a moral stance. Which is fine, but the article is slanted differently.
EFF have a lot of time on their hands, apparently.
The author of that study (Bruce Alexander) wrote an incredibly in-depth book about the relationship between environment and addiction. It covers not just drug addictions, but also other addictions such as overeating and excessive consumerism.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Globalization-Addiction-Poverty-Sp...
Cobol is above Ruby?
You find yourself sent back in time to Ancient Greece
You find yourself sent back in time to Ancient Greece.

As an engineer from the XXI century, how and what would you contribute to the society? What practical benefits would they have for suddenly having you around? What inventions would you be able to accelerate and actually make happen with the resources available?
How our startup was bought by Google without even trying…
Title II for Internet providers is all but confirmed by FCC chairman
You're not being pedantic at all. It's a fairly egregious error for an article about hearing.

It would be like an article about a camera talking about its fast f/1.4 shutter speed.
It seems to me that a simple way to eliminate the feedback issue is to separate the microphone from the speaker. Hearing loss runs in my family, so I've watched my relatives struggle with hearing aids, and I've decided that when it's time for me:

1) I will build it myself and figure out the details, to hell with the audiologists and their racket.

2. I will carry the microphone and amplifier in my shirt pocket. No more feedback.

Ironically, with the advent of personal electronics, everybody wears some sort of gizmo on their body, so I think we could just persuade the elderly that hearing aids don't need to be invisible any more.
Today we launched a new app that will make it easier for people to take action on digital rights issues using their phone. The app allows folks to connect to our action center quickly and easily, using a variety of mobile devices.

yeah, maybe they made the android app just so they could bitch about iOS.
I might be wrong on this, but I recall a hearing specialist advising me not to use earbuds at all, or at least limit the use to max 1 hour at a time.

The issue isn't necessarily about all "earbuds," the issue is that many earbuds (including the ones included with Apple iOS products) don't seal the ear canal very well, so a listener is exposed to outside sounds in addition to sounds from the player. Since the outside sounds have a tendency to mask the sounds coming from the earbuds, the listener will often turn up the volume to better hear the audio material and therefore be exposed to SPL's that can cause hearing damage over long exposure times.

The advice to use something like the Superlux HD 681 is that circumaural headphones offer some (not a lot, but some) shielding from outside noise, so a user won't be tempted to increase the volume level as much. Active noise canceling headsets and in-ear-monitors (like Etymotics-brand) provide better sound isolation so that users can keep the volume at more moderate levels.
Here are two discussion threads from the Nokia forums:

http://discussions.nokia.com/t5/Asha-and-other-Nokia-Series-...

http://discussions.nokia.com/t5/Asha-and-other-Nokia-Series-...

This info comes from poster Abi99, who seems to be a highly regarded member with over 11,000 posts on the official forums:

"The Nokia 220 is — after the Nokia 108 — the second phone from Nokia which uses MediaTek Feature Phone MAUI as operating system, called Nokia Series 30+."

"The new Nokia Series 30+ platform (MediaTek) does not allow to add apps."
> It is maddening that I can't get any more volume out of this device without jailbreaking it.

Use a pocket battery-powered amp and a small portable loudpeaker? That'll get you both more gain and better sound than the tinny built-in speaker.
I honestly want to know how is it allowed for someone to humiliate and make fun of something that is sacred to other people/culture. 'Free speech' I know, but when does someone's right to express themselves ends? Doesn't (or shouldn't) it has its limits?

There are many other instances where you can't get away with something just because it is free speech. How come guys like Julian Assange are not protected under 'free speech'? How about people who sign NDA's? How come it would be heavily criticized (and probably illegal) for a newspaper to start running weekly cartoons where they make fun of the black population in America, depicting them with the all the token representations and slurs that are now widely accepted as 'racist'?

I really want to know what's different, what's permissible, what isn't. Are there some written rules about this or is it just the result of how things are perceived by the majority of the public (i.e. what we like vs what we don't)?

Disclaimer:

I'm not muslim, I don't sympathise with their religion and neither I'm trying to condone what happened. I made up an example with black people because that's a very sensitive and controversial issue in the US, but the intent is not to spark controversy around racism and the likes. I'm probably going to be downvoted into oblivion but I want to know if at least I get an intelligent point of view to these issues.
What's your take on solutions like Qubes, Bromium, Invincea?
They will have intended to make an app, and will have checked out both contracts that need to be signed with Apple, and Android and decided on not to persue developing for Apple.

You have to look at these things before you start developing.
The difference is that (in theory at least) there's no discrimination for or against specific music streaming services. This is unlike the zero-rating described in the article, where specific social networks (and one specific encyclopedia) are unfairly prioritized over others.

If AT&T were to, say, exempt all social networking sites or all encyclopedic wikis or something to that effect, then I wouldn't be nearly as opposed to it.

Granted, as a happy T-Mobile customer who has put the free music streaming to good use, I'm probably biased in favor of that variety of selective discounting. However, I'd be opposed to it if, say, only Pandora was allowed or only Amazon Prime Music was allowed or somesuch.
For me, this is the whole point of perl: You can learn one tool which replaces three, each with their own syntax: Sed, Awk, and Grep.
Yeah, I would be more interested to read an examination of why they are OK with publishing on the Google Play store. You would have to be nuts to expect the EFF to think Apple's dev agreement is peachy-keen.
All research I've seen finds that talking while driving, even if it's just to a passenger increases accidents by a large amount. Other studies show that people tend to vastly overestimate their multitasking abilities.

So in short: very few people can actually talk safely while driving, and the people that think they can probably can't.
I don't know. Every Texan I've ever known likes to name drop Austin to defend their state to the point where it's like saying they've got a black friend so they can't be racists. Or, they let a gay guy hug them so they're not homophobic.

At some point it starts to make you cross-eyed :P

I'm sorry, I'm know I'm poking this subject with a stick. I hope everyone understands the satire and frustration of my statement.
Many of those younger than me (10–16 years old) who I've talked to about this matter don’t even have a Facebook — Instagram is all that they need.

As a 15 year I totally agree, but Hacker News is one my favorites site because I just love discovering new things on the web(That's the only reason I visit HN)

Also Facebook simply "Stinks"
I doubt this will actually motivate Apple to change in any way, but the EFF article also links to a petition: https://act.eff.org/action/apple-your-developer-agreement-tr...
Along these lines, overlay VPNs can be used behind the firewall to segment the internal network, e.g. to isolate developers -- finance -- task workers. This limits the scope of any breach and makes it easier to contextualize activity.
Music video made with iPhone6
You should see advertising in Mexico. Thin, White, Tall people. Everyone in tv ads is a 6.5 ft Sweden blonde.
For any other non-profits or companies who might need a similar app to notify users, both the app (Cordova + Ionic) and the APNS/GCM push notification server are open source and available here:

https://github.com/EFForg/pushserver

https://github.com/EFForg/actioncenter-mobile

If you're an Android user, consider downloading the app. Its really, really simple - it just sends you a push notification if there's an action EFF needs your help with - but we hope to improve it over time.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.eff.action...
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I use malloc and brk :-/
tl;dr

Yes?
No?
> Ban on Reverse Engineering: Section 2.6 prohibits any reverse engineering (including the kinds of reverse engineering for interoperability that courts have recognized as a fair use under copyright law), as well as anything that would "enable others" to reverse engineer, the software development kit (SDK) or iPhone OS.

Wow. EFF should sue Apple over that alone. Private companies aren't supposed to "contract-out" your rights. This will be an easy win for EFF.
There's absolutely nothing illegal in the U.S. about insulting or disparaging black people, or members of any racial, ethnic, or religious group, including by slurs or caricatures.
(No snark intended), just google it. For example the Wikipedia page for free speech in the US is pretty detailed, and covers a lot of the legislation regarding it.

Lots of people have asked and answered this type of question over the years, and most of it's been documented!
Surely this is exactly the kind of thing the EFF should be doing?
Are there people who actively use G+? To me it seems to have turned into this weird thing that tries to offer a lot of functionality but doesn't really make it clear what it actually is. It was supposed to be a social network and now it's Google's "social layer" - whatever that may mean. I personally don't even know anyone who would describe G+ as relevant.
If you know Morse code already it's probably something you can work out in real time in your head.
Probably not, but in some cases sed and AWK might be faster. I am a big fan of AWK. It is limited in some ways that make it impractical to use for really serious programs, but it is very expressive. Look at [1, 2].

[1]: http://c2.com/doc/expense/

[2]: http://www.pement.org/awk/awk1line.txt
Today, I was working at the HQ of a major UK telco. I connected my personal MBP to a random ethernet cable and lo, I could RDP on servers and do everything I wanted, without any prior authorisation. If you think all enterprise networks are as locked down as the ones found in banks, you're sorely mistaken. BYOD is a reality.
Literally speaking? [Yes.][0]

> "In a series of new studies on mice, her team discovered exactly that: When the mouse brain is sleeping or under anesthesia, it’s busy cleaning out the waste that accumulated while it was awake."

The NIH [also wrote about this in optimistic tones][1], if you're not a fan of mainstream science reporting.

[0]: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/12/opinion/sunday/goodnight-s...

[1]: http://www.nih.gov/researchmatters/october2013/10282013clear...
or a movie or even a novel
I'm curious what you find profound about consciousness? There are plenty of theories about why we have consciousness and what it is that do not require mystic explanations. I'm sincerely curious if there are other concepts you think are too profound to be 'created by matter'
Howdy!

To date I've done 0 outbound sales/marketing. Just face-to-face interactions with folks at trade shows and our referral program. About 30% of our customers are referrals.

It's possible my co-founder are just so likable that our customers rave about us on private Facebook groups with their peers (our target demographic).

In this little niche, just being new and "not those guys" goes a long way. Add in a smile and an ear that really listens and you've got a pretty good initial sales strategy.
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> I'm not sure how much competition Wikipedia has as a free online encyclopedia.

I'm sure TVTropers resent that remark ;)

> Also, Wikipedia is a non-profit, and doesn't really make more money by having more people use the site.

Sure it does. You can't possibly tell me that you haven't noticed all the popups begging for money every year around the holidays. The more eyes on the site - and therefore the more eyes on those donation boxes - the more potential donations, and therefore the more money.

Being a non-profit doesn't mean there isn't competition involved.
VPNs can be used on the internal network to separate Dev & Production systems. This works best with strong endpoint isolation. Qubes has a paper on physical vs. software isolation, http://www.invisiblethingslab.com/resources/2014/Software_co...
making apps that send notifications over proprietary push-notification channels instead of supporting open, accessible, cross-plaform communication channels like email?

nah, that wasn't what i donated to the EFF for.
Really? What consistency and reproducibility does "An individual is a worthwhile human being" have?
Technically there are two complementary sets of dimensions: time and amplitude vs frequency and phase. Both are complete encodings of the waveform.

The article is extremely muddled from a technical point of view. When dealing with perceptions it is extremely important to distinguish physics and physiology. In optics we have radiometric (physical) vs photometric (perceived) values: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photometry_%28optics%29#Photom...

It appears in the article they are doing some kind of implicit averaging over the ear's response function at each frequency, which may make sense in terms of perceptions but makes very little sense in terms of physics.

A much better visual analog would be a blurred photograph rather than a cropped one. "Turning up the volume" simply increases the brightness of the images, which doesn't do a damned thing to reduce the blurring.

One thing that people with normal hearing don't get is how much information is in the high frequencies, which are where the most loss normally occurs, although there are also "notch" losses that happen to people whose ears are routinely subject to loud noises in narrow bands.

We tend to think of "high frequency" sounds in terms of single notes, but in speech the high frequencies are most important in the unvoiced constants, the "s" and "th" sounds and similar. Losing the high frequencies blurs the edges of speech, often making the shape of it unrecognizable. Frequency-dependent enhancement sharpens the edges and brings it back into useful focus.
I don't have a problem with different types of content being treated differently. It's still a fair playing field for all providers of streaming music. I've always thought that carriers should be allowed to prioritize content based on it's type in order to keep their networks running optimally. The problem for me is when specific companies can be prioritized over others.
I think maybe he meant from the perspective of muslims. That answer is here :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Asma%27_bint_Marwan

This is what makes this so difficult : muslims killing because of negative opinions on islam is something that is sanctioned by the religion, and that was practiced for over 15 centuries now.

A very uncomfortable question is what muslim children in the west are taught on this question.

I'm sure this will get downvoted, but it's simply the truth.
Looks like they actually started, then abandoned it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8854100
https://github.com/EFForg/pushserver/blob/ce2e5034629185af64...
> Zero-rating is not the same as censorship.

And "firearms" are not the same as "murder"... but in both cases that tool can be used to accomplish that objective.

"Welcome to MonopolyNet, subscriber! Please enjoy complimentary uncapped access to our millions of pre-approved* sites!"

"* Unapproved sites are available for a low low fee of $99/day, and may include sites with objectionable material or controversial content."
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I think it would be really effective and tongue-in-cheek if EFF released their app on Cydia.
Yes. Data is still way too expensive in Mexico:

$1USD = 8mb ($2 MXN = 1 mb)

In context:
Daily wage is $4 USD
FBI director confident North Korea was behind cyberattack
Chief Says F.B.I. Has No Doubt That North Korea Attacked Sony
There's a tethering nag? I'm not paying for tethering either, but I'm still able to do it without T-Mobile yelling at me (as I've had to do several times due to network issues with my ISP).
Agreed, but it got the OP's attention. The title also reference's Peter Backus' paper I cite: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/pbackus/gi...
Thanks for your detailed follow-up! My apologies for only reading it now. I was always a bit sceptical of the fasting experiments being representative of humans, but I'd never looked at the specifics of it.
The Play Store agreement has a very similar clause which applies to all apps plus the store itself (haven't checked the Amazon one). The Android SDK agreement also has one, which may or may not be preempted by whatever parts of it are available under open source licenses (depending on your interpretation of "require"), but definitely applies to anything closed source (e.g. the new Java compilers, if I remember correctly). So basically the EFF is full of shit.

> Security Features. You may not attempt to, nor assist, authorise or encourage others to circumvent, disable or defeat any of the security features or components, such as digital rights management software or encryption, that protect, obfuscate or otherwise restrict access to any Content or Google Play.

- https://play.google.com/intl/en_us/about/play-terms.html

> 3.3 You may not use the SDK for any purpose not expressly permitted by this License Agreement. Except to the extent required by applicable third party licenses, you may not: (a) copy (except for backup purposes), modify, adapt, redistribute, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, or create derivative works of the SDK or any part of the SDK; ...

- https://developer.android.com/sdk/terms.html
Yes. Data is still way too expensive in Mexico:

$1USD = 8mb ($2 MXN = 1 mb)

In context:
Daily wage in Mexico is $4 USD

Yes, 4 dollars...
Good point. As ever, things are more complicated than they might appear at first...