skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. I do a lot of different ways of it though, whatever strikes my mood. Much of it is the many variations in chinese martial arts:

(either no music, or mild music, like rain patter, nothing w/ lyrics)

I find meditation is a lot about your breath, so you can do all of these either with normal breathing or these variations:

1) n/n*2/x breathing. (i'm only at n=3 atm)
2) full lung & empty lung variations
(this link does a decent job explaining : http://www.yogaindailylife.org/esystem/yoga/en/020200/exerci... )

The different types of mediation i do are:

1) moving: Tai Chi

2) standing: holding ball (from tai chi)

3) sitting : Grand Circle of Heaven (found this link which explains it well : http://ymaa.com/articles/martial-grand-circulation) (imagine the energy flow in a circle though your body as you breath)

4)(This one i think i made up on my own) : any of the above while having having pink noise playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXtimhT-ff4
To control stage fright before a presentation, build up courage, etc. I sometimes repeat the Litany Against Fear.

I find it does an amazing job of getting my mind to focus on the fear like it's an emotional cancer and excises it pretty effectively.
I've been addicted to Rx since I started using ReactiveCocoa in my iOS applications. I was disappointed looking at Dart initially when I saw it was heavily future based and not observable/signal based.

I haven't looked at Dart in awhile but I hope this means Rx style composability/async/error handling is in Dart's future.
Depending on whether and how you handle intermittant connectivity, you might want to look at the sync-based back-end architecture described in this book: http://www.amazon.com/Enterprise-Android-Programming-Databas...

Disclaimer: I wrote parts of that book.

If you use Couchbase, you can implement a similar concept using Couchbase Mobile in the mobile device or in a gateway.
Don't Let the Computer Bully You
But against peer enemies, such as the Russians, we'll never get close enough to strafe.

How many times have US forces fought the Russians since 1776?

Also, given that the US military budget is bigger than the next ten combined, it's probably possible that both situations can be covered. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_e...
You should seriously consider to task it if not done yet, is simply delicious if properly prepared. Just keep trying, is just a cultural wall. You'll thank me in the future.
If the law in your jurisdiction requires more than payment of actual damages in this sort of situation, then I would argue that your law is broken. Clearly those damages can not exceed the full cost of the original plan plus any actual costs of dealing with the early transfer, so a bill for 100+ bucks is just a shakedown, pure and simple.
> This is why personal references and recommendations remain everyone’s favorite hiring technique…
> …which in turn is a major reason why the tech industry’s diversity numbers are so disastrous.

I'm not buying that argument. I would however agree that recommendations and references create a lack of diverse ideas/approaches. Lack of racial/gender diversity: That would indicate that the people in the minority just aren't reaching out or participating in the community.
Hey 392c91e8165b, I think I can relate to your 'bad things happen' when trying to meditate for more than a few minutes. You might check out this book: http://www.amazon.com/Full-Catastrophe-Living-Wisdom-Illness... Gave me some different perspectives on meditation that've helped a lot with that sort of thing (assuming it's anxiety related).
It seems to be more about ideology than theory, but theory is as overused as "reactive."

React is a good example of a framework that lies outside of this: it is a simple solution for the problem that doesn't involve callbacks, promises, or even observables. My own project, Glitch, solves these problems by managing time:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/smcdirm/managedti...

It doesn't block, it doesn't use functional abstractions either, Glitch simply replays code until all writes have seen all reads (it also doesn't requiring lifting of time-dependent values in the same way that React doesn't). Also, see:

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/230746/control.pdf

Which argues that we might have given up on control flow too soon.

Still this isn't a bad essay for what it is, even if it isn't very general.
I learned to meditate in my late teens (I'm 68 now), to fight depression and low self esteem. It was very hard for me to meditate, and I still sometimes have trouble getting into a meditative state. But I usually spend 20-30 minutes meditating during the day, or before bed. It helps me clear any depression I feel. No idea how or why it works, but for me it is very helpful.
Atlanta is a pleasant enough city. I'm from there originally, though I moved to L.A. about 15 years ago.

I left because I wanted to live in a big city, not in suburbia. Atlanta has some of the plusses of a city, but they're relatively limited compared to LA, SF, NY, DC. It's more a collection of suburbs than a city.

If suburban life is what you want, Atlanta is fine for that. Honestly, most of Silicon Valley is suburbs, outside of SF itself. And they aren't as appealing as Atlanta suburbs, with many more trees and a lot more space. If that's what someone wants, Atlanta is a better choice than pretty much anywhere in California.

One of the best things about California, particularly in LA and the Bay Area, is that there are more people living their lives according to their own unique desires than anywhere else I've ever been. Having "odd" choices about your lifestyle or having crazy dreams and aspirations is the norm here, and that's something I want around me. It's a plus for me to be surrounded by that kind of thing. There's some of that in Atlanta, but it's more localized to certain areas. Here it's everywhere, just how things are.
I love that it's not about goverments but governance. Open Source projects can use this. Apartment buildings.

Obviously getting modern tools to shitty politicians is always going to be the focus with things like DemocracyOS, but I'm really excited to see this for deciding stuff on the small communities I'm a part of.

The one weird thing is that they're non-profit, open source. I hope they survive on that model. Is it only donations?
To me, this seems pretty similar to Clojures lazy-seq. A seq is (afaik, I'm no expert Clojure guy although I enjoy it a lot) something with a 'next' value. A lazy seq basically can wait with returning the next object, and therefore be evaluated when it decides it's ready (like new data comes in, like a stream). Please let me know if I misunderstood this!!!

As a someone who does JS for my day job I'm really enjoying playing with Clojure in my evenings and weekends (like now, it's Saturday night 00:30 here in Berlin). A small part of me dreams about doing it full time ;).
Wondering why you're not actively hiring?
Heh, I kinda let that dig slide, because the rest of the comment was very well thought out and on-point. However, of course I disagreed.

Atlanta is by far the technology hub of the southeastern United States. It has no competition to the west until you reach Houston (and even that is mostly specific to the energy industry). It faces only mild competition from the Research Triangle region of North Carolina, and beyond that it's a technology DMZ all the way to Chicago or the northeast.

It's home to Georgia Tech, perennially one of the top 5 engineering schools in the nation, and pumps out thousands of new programmers per year in addition to the thousands who migrate here. It has a highly diverse business base, not tied to any one predominant industry, and its Buckhead and Midtown districts have one of the most thriving startup scenes that you'll find outside of SV or NY.

Of course, if a Georgia Tech grad is in the uppermost percentiles, then odds are he or she would be enticed by Google, or a west coast startup. I'm certainly not saying that Atlanta is in the same league as San Francisco, or even New York (at least not its finance/quant opportunities). But my earlier point was that these environments are extreme outliers, and virtually no other city is comparable to that either.
What are the main issues/shortcomings of cloud computing?
Too bad they couldn't repeat that kind of success https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle
FRP is no more than reactive programming (sometimes known as dataflow programming) using a pure-functional programming style rather than an imperative style. It's just that the term "reactive programming" itself has been hijacked by some to mean something else entirely (roughly: concurrent, low-latency programs in general).
Hi! We are trying to get enough philanthropic seed funding to find a sustainable model. Maybe OS SAS, or github's: free as long as it's open. For the moment it's all grants.
Out of curiosity, which jhani states have you reached and what specific anapanasati technique do you use (focus on breath at nostrils, breath throughout the body, kasina, etc). I'm working to achieve first Khama currently, but getting a bit stuck in access concentration.
We believe that you cannot put a price tag on the right to participate. So the nonprofit is a fundamental first step in our mission.

We want to figure a self-sustainable model, donations can only get you that far. The task ahead of us is a big one: we want to build governance for the internet society.
Many startups today use AWS/Azure/GCP/Rackspace/etc to power their IT, especially when they just got started.
When they grow at scale, some of them prefer to get back to owning hardware, or colocation. Others stay there.
In your view, what are the main issues that cloud computing has? If you can, be specific about your use case.
Thanks!
I would absolutely buy and play Goat Tycoon.
I'm not conflating anything, I'm using standard physics terms. If you want to trample over the defense you need momentum, which is a function of speed.

Sounds to me like you're arguing for no reason.
it's not easy being an entrepreneur and building a network of likeminded people from around the world :)
It's originally from Mahatma Ghandi: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/50584-your-beliefs-become-yo...
Meditation is basically 'flow' while just sitting. And in time, the idea is that you can extend it to any activity.
Interestingly enough, the number of <5 letter words in English is of the order of 10-15 000 [1], while the number of languages is 7000. Since most languages (I guess) have more than one word for male genitals, it is technically possible for all English <5 letter words to mean precisely that.

[1] http://norvig.com/mayzner.html
Note that Erik Meijer was also one of the guys behind LINQ and adding generators to CLR languages when he was at Microsoft.
Exactly, this is a political game. "See? People arn't paying for privacy, they don't want it.

I don't pay everyone I meet a dollar not to mug me, it's nonsense their customers have to do this.
In a way, maybe. Defense contractors have figured out that they need to distribute facilities into numerous congressional districts.
It may be best to explain to your relatives that the federal US government was mostly intended to provide for a common defense and a few other common things, and the states were supposed to be the real movers and shakers. It appears that things may be similar in the EU, where the individual decisions are left up to the member nations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_leave#Europe

...(certainly someone can correct me if I'm wrong). If a state wants to mandate maternity leave it can:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maternity_leave_in_the_United_...

...In recent times, the states have seemingly ceded a lot of their power to the federal government. Maybe someday there will be an Article V convention and some of that will be reversed.
I have an opinionated statement about RapGenius: they're a bunch of idiots. Did you see them at that Techcrunch event? Seriously watch it and tell me what you think about them.
the name isn't the difficult part, so changing it will not make it easier for people to grok.
Tongue receptors are the same in all humans. If fresh, properly prepared and cooked by a competent cook, lobsters, shrimps and mussels are one of the finest foods available. If an insect or spider can taste like this I will try it.

Cats are said to taste pretty much like rabbit. Edible, but nothing really special.
If you fill the "Title", "URL" and "Text" field of the submit form, then the "URL" is ignored.

If you want to add some remark about the submission, left the "Text" field empty and after submitting add a comment.
You forget that Mint KDE is Kubuntu, if you look at the package sources ;)
Ask HN: Is there a future in .NET? Should I invest in learning it?
I'm a new grad....I considering putting some serious time into .NET, but I can't quite see what is happening here.

I am wondering if MS is abandoning the project or if it's the exact opposite and they are wanting to give it a fighting chance now that nobody pays for software?

Is this an attempt to bring in OS X/Android developers?

Is this aimed at being an alternative to JVM? Seems like that might be promising in certain scenarios.

Anyone who is a .NET developer now, how to you think it stacks up against other frameworks like Ruby on Rails or MEAN stack?

(no flame wars please, I'm just going to make a career decision and would love some feedback) Thanks!
Those papers relate to real reactive programming (aka dataflow); the article discusses something else entirely, namely ways to write concurrent, low-latency, responsive applications. Unfortunately, it picks the more cumbersome approaches to achieve that goal.
Usually. Sometimes they enlist (or allow themselves to be drafted) because they think it will further their larger ambitions.

Here's an interesting story of a potential future US President who didn't survive WWII: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_P._Kennedy,_Jr.

His younger brother took his place doing that whole presidency thing.
Your quote is in the article verbatim.
Apollo wasn't all that different. It ended the successful relationship with McDonnell-Douglas which had produced Mercury and Gemini and brought in a number of different contractors at the same time: this was the result of lobbying and pork-barrel politics IIRC (I am not an expert). Unsurprisingly this transition set back the space program quite badly. IIRC things only really started to shape up again after the Apollo 1 fire which killed three astronauts.
All you need is a base of inviolable principles on a moral basis of respect, peace, etc. How one would get there is a good question.
If we go back to the 80s and the original reactive programming languages designed for embedded systems (which inspired FRP), we can see even more differences.

In systems, there is a big push for (and against) "event-based programming" models with respect to concurrent and distributed systems; e.g. see:

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/hotos03/tech/full_paper...

where the definitions are even more different.
I've read any number of peeves against certain forms of language use, and don't agree that that necessarily pigeonholes someone into marketing.

Lisp, for example, uses 'car' and 'cdr' because of the hardware registers of the IBM 704. Some prefer 'first' and 'rest', but compact composed versions like '(cadr x)' for (car (cdr x)) don't exist for those English variants.

"to curry" as a verb has advantages over your preferred term of "argument deferral", if only because I can write:

def curry(f, *curry_args):
def curried(*args):
return f(curry_args + args)
curried.__name__ = "curried_" + f.__name
return curried

using a one word function name instead of "argument_deferral". (I've also seen 'xapply' in Python code, as in http://bytecodehacks.sourceforge.net/bch-docs/bch/module-byt... ).

It also has the inverse 'uncurry', mentioned in https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/6.12.2/docs/html/librarie... .

Your version would be "undefer the argument deferred function", I believe, vs. "uncurry the curried function". Not only is it longer, but I see a possible ambiguity: "undefer" might mean to actually call it.

In general though, there is a lot of specialized vocabulary. "A trampoline is a loop that iteratively invokes thunk-returning functions". "I used an AVL tree in the hidden Markov model." I don't see how the big problem is the inability to understand the concept from lexical decomposition of the term.
I never click on the links. That's asking for trouble. The comments are the value of HN.
Ya, it is more systems than PL. See my reply to your other comment.
There was also that "Little Ice Age" thing.
Do you have an objection to all physical contact between consenting adults, or only to certain kinds?
Second that.

A friend made a platformer for an incubator called "Runnin' Around With No Shirt On" where it's basically about a (shirtless) guy running around in hell (and dodging all the basic platform obstacles like spikes, moving platforms, etc.). The goal of the game was to defeat Satan in order to get his shirt back.

It was the most ridiculous thing I've ever played but I couldn't go one second without laughing at how ridiculous and how much fun it was to play.

I love "serious" kinds of play and games with these awesome narratives but sometimes you just want something funny and fun to play!
This seems like a non-problem:

1. Disable auto-connect to open wifi.

2. If you connect to wifi and it's broken, just pull down the quick settings panel and turn wifi off.
Love the direction this is going. Dreamt about such a system in the past as well. Looking forward to a mobile first experience which enables me to weigh-in on (local) issues in real-time.
This reminds me, when I was thirteen, we visited some friends of my parents, in Pennsylvania, who were Mennonites, but there was an Amish community near by and we would see people in the typical garb as well as horse and carts.

Once story our friends told us, is that Amish are not allowed to own a house with electricity connected to it. So they never make the final payment on their bank loans, so they never technically own the building.

I'm sure this annoys the more devout in their community. Just goes to show that no matter what belief or religion you observe, be it Christian, Jew, Buddhist or Atheist, there will always be those that follow the letter of the law, but not the spirit of the law when it suits their own interests.
For five years now, I've struggled against torrents of thought and anxiety. I meditated and prayed begging for some relief to no avail. About four months ago, I found Ashtanga yoga, and to say that it has changed my life is an understatement. Mentally, I have reawakened. I now think patiently and deliberately with a discipline and focus I've never experienced. A child-like enthusiasm about the world, despite its suffering and strife, relit within me: hope and faith abounds. Occasionally, of course, I still do struggle, but I struggle in peace and with confidence. The physical changes have been equally striking. I've always had poor posture, mild scoliosis, and a hip imbalance. Now, that's all gone: my posture is remarkable and effortless, and I carry a sense of self with every step. I also kick way more ass at CrossFit than ever. ;) Unlike most other yoga, Ashtanga intensely focuses on the breath as well, which has increased my aerobic capacity dramatically.

I'm of the opinion that meditation alone lacks the mind-body dynamic of Ashtanga yoga. Ashtanga trains you to stay focused, keep calm, and breathe deeply despite the intense (and sometimes painful) physical practice. The physical aspect is also a beautiful reminder that mental and physical transformation takes patience and time. Struggles with strength, endurance, and flexibility serve as a tangible marker of one's progress and the work that remains. Gauging the progress of one's mind is insidiously difficult, particularly because you're using the very thing your trying to fix to measure it! Also, if you're restless like me, the postures will keep just enough of your mind occupied to allow yourself to explore yoga's meditative aspects.

Ashtanga is my answer to David Foster Wallace's remarkable speech, "This Is Water".[0] The mind is indeed an "excellent servant", and I can proudly say that I am its master.

Fun fact: When Sri Pattabhi Jois, a great Ashtanga guru, was asked by a student asked him why he would not teach him "meditation", he is said to have replied: "mad-attention".

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhhC_N6Bm_s, http://www.metastatic.org/text/This%20is%20Water.pdf
> I do care about being forced to inhale disgusting and cancerous smoke in enclosed spaces because of their habit.

You are free to vacate the space; the smoke will not give you cancer anyway and 'disgusting' is pure prejudice.

> I see no reason why we should accommodate that as a society.

Because in a free society we tolerate different lifestyle choices.
It can't be that hard if that is most of your time. But maybe you are burning older contacts even faster than my limited sample.

YC: ask his previous investors and employees what they think, independently and in private.
Thanks for your insights!

Totally agree; finding out what democratic interaction should look like and how it should work for societies in the current hyper-connected paradigm is -at best- something that will take a lot of time.

There is, undoubtedly, a technological challenge to address, but moreover I think the greatest challenge is the cultural one. We're risen to think communites (countries, towns, organisations, etc.) should be managed in one of so many fashions, but we're willing to ask ourselves time and again what other possible ways there are for doing this, and implement on that.

We may not nail it soon, but we'll definitely try as long as we can.
hi! some pilot live implementations with council-members in the US: marfarrell.democracyos.org (SF) benkallos.democracyos.org (NYC). Would love to know your thoughts. pia@democracyos.org
In fairness I didnt fully read the article, myself. If the quote was buried and GP thought it was a good idea to highlight it then I agree it was a good idea.
I wonder how possible it would be construct UAVs that were specialized for air to air combat. They could operate in something of a hybrid mode, perhaps with ground control most of the time, but acting in full automatic mode during the dogfighting.

There'd be a lot of advantages. I presume such a dogfighting UAV would have visibility in all directions, all the time. They could potentially pull much tighter turns than any aircraft with a human on board, and with real-time point to point communication, could work together in ways that are impossible with human flown fighters.

Part of me wonders if a lot of the amazing game AI that has been developed could apply directly to such a project.
Did you end up eating them? I'd find it hard to eat them as I'd end up feeling like they were pets. Do you have any photos of them standing on your car or bike??!!
> But in Walmart's case the growth was slow

I'm not sure I can agree with WalMart having slow growth[0].

http://corporate.walmart.com/our-story/history/history-timel...
> I liked to say that you could add a joke to nearly any somber real-life situation and it would instantly become funny.

I know you meant "goat", but you're still speaking the truth :)
The ability to taste some compounds varies. For example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenylthiocarbamide

So everyone can taste bitter, but not always from the same things.

A similar thing is probably at work in people who find raw tomatoes extremely unpleasant.
IIRC it was increasingly unlikely that the Axis could actually win a conventional war in Europe during the period of the Manhattan Project. The big fear was that Germany could develop its own atomic bomb first.