skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Self-guided experience "trains" many people, and some of them infer a rule that double clicking is for opening things. Older people especially can fail to notice that many widgets respond to their first click and continue with the same action on the second click, so their behavior doesn't stand much chance of correction.
Wait, how, exactly, does a local police department have someone's Facebook page taken down? Is there any source anyone can find that verifies that's what happened?

Radley Balko did some reporting on this story, after Ben Swann broke it, and neither of those two reporters said anything about Facebook.

Other reporting I've found actually points to Facebook advocacy pages for for Banda, who currently does have Facebook pages.
Show HN: Bud – A new build tool for C# projects
Nero?
Bud is a build tool for C# projects.

It was inspired by tools like Maven, SBT, Gradle, Rake, Gulp, Leiningen and others.

Bud is still very much work in progress, but it already knows how to do a number of things. For example, Bud knows how to build itself, download dependencies, publish projects, and generate Visual Studio projects files. More features are outlined at http://bud.urbas.si/Docs/Guide.

Feel free to give Bud a try. Just follow installation instructions: http://bud.urbas.si/Docs/Guide

Every piece of feedback, technical or otherwise, is very welcome. If you have a feature request or a bug to report, please drop me an email.

Thanks!
Don't try to beat China at manufacturing. That's a fool's errand for nearly everyone. Let them make most of the things. Concentrate on quality and whatever your core business is.
DNS Made Easy has an excellent uptime and features like DNS failover and ANAME records. Route53 from AWS isn't bad, and they added new fucntionalities recently. And with CloudFlare you get a DNS provider along with their caching and security features. There are plenty of cheap options that aren't your domain registrar.
Best global VPN?
With recent revelations about spying by national governments, ISPs, MITM attacks on webpages and the like, I'm going to get a VPN.

What VPNs are the best to use? I'm looking for a service which will a) not log my behavior, b) works globally (North America, Europe, Asia) and c) doesn't require me to install proprietary software.
There are no studies like that since there is no such thing as placebo meditation.

Meditation, in general, for the usual western mind, can be seen as mental hygiene.

I could guess you never read a study about the benefits of oral hygiene but you probably never doubt its benefits - because of culture (parents/school).
"Our" culture is very advance in many "sciences" but is a child in others.

Give it some decades - your grandchildren will teach their children about meditation, in the same manner any parent, nowadays, teach their kids to brush their teeth before bed.

Answering your question, even though I don't know (and care) about peer-reviewed studies about this, I can tell you that mindfulness has many benefits (verified by myself) and I've experienced most benefits given by the first link of [vanderZwan] reply.

By the way, one can reach a state of "being in the zone" with much more ease (which is a requirement to excel at any sports):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)
Except that if the parent function terminated before the coroutine it have launched, you would get memory overwrites.
This just in: abstractions are slower to process, faster to develop.

It's not like this has been true of high-level programming languages for decades...

Even jQuery's harmfulness has been discussed for years[1][2] as well as that of other front-end frameworks Angular[3].

Just like high-level programming languages, the goal of abstractions is not to achieve better performance, but to enable faster development time with less expertise, which most firms figure translates to more profit in less time.

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[1]: https://jsperf.com/jquery-selectors-vs-native-api
[2]: http://james.padolsey.com/general/javascript-abstractions
[3]: http://jsperf.com/angular-foreach-vs-native-for-loop
On humanity scale, it looks differently: we don't need the amount of labor we have now to maintain the current level of consumption. We can produce the same amount of goods and services without 100% of people contributing.

May be we'll finally become OK with some of the people to live on welfare checks? It's not "slacking" when the humanity just doesn't really need your input.
He's talking about right after that gap. At the start of the gap the disparity between real and expected holdings is small, but right after the gap, the disparity is huge, implying a lot of btc were lost during the gap, or a mistake has been made in the analysis.
But there are far more potential victims of injustice than politicians, judges etc. Since we're talking about a democracy here, it should be possible for this majority to create an environment where the selfish interests of politicians and judges align with the need to protect innocents. Yet this same democracy creates an environment where protecting innocents puts officials at a disadvantage.

Things are clearly very backwards.
Basically he's trying to say

"Each of the 3 questions must be unique and only asked to a single god, and each god can receive 0, 1, 2 or all 3 questions out of the 3 unique questions".

In other words, don't create 1 question and ask it to multiple gods. But if you create 2 or 3 different questions, it's fine to ask them to the same god (forgoing to opportunity to ask them to another god).
To verify a method scientifically, one must compare it to something with the same structure but different content. To verify a tablet, one compares it to another tablet without the purported active ingredient, to verify traditional acupressure, you would compare it to pressure applied in arbitrary places, to verify mindfulness meditation, you would have to compare it against things with a meditative form, but without the mindfulness content.

I think that hasn't been done. At best investigations are general and barely scientific. It is very dubious to claim that science has demonstrated this is not a quack technique.
> I'm a thief for protecting my PC from malware?

Well, yeah. You're a thief for robbing content creators of their revenue. However, that's justified because you're trying to protect yourself from Malware. You're sort of conflating two separate things. You may not be trying to steal, it may not be your intention at all, but you cannot deny that it is the end result of your actions. Actions which are indeed justified.

Though, I suspect ad companies will find a way around adblock programs soon. It wouldn't surprise me if they came up with some sort of package an owner of a website could download, then install into their web directory. The ads would then be served locally instead of from easy-to-block 3rd party networks. This would make blocking ads infinitely harder, especially if you've never visited the site before. Your adblocker wouldn't know if the ad is a regular image file or if it's an ad since it's being served up locally.
I'd distribute it between SpaceX, NASA, and other space agencies and let them decide what's the best way to spend it :D
> I think it's unfair that some people can afford secretaries, accountants, editors, private schools, etc., those seem much less fair than ADHD medicine.

Yes, but between two people who are otherwise equal (in status), the one using the drug has an unfair advantage.

> One of my childhood heroes, the great mathematician Paul Erdos, was a famous amphetamine user, does that mean the wonderful contributions he made to our understanding of the universe are "unfair"?

To his peers his actions may have been certainly unfair. The least he could have done was disclose in his publications that his results were obtained while using these drugs.
Disney Takes 3D Printing endeavoring into the industry
Honestly, I don't even know if Buzzfeed readers would care. It's not like they go there for outstanding journalism or anything; I suspect Buzzfeed is seen as more of an entertainment website with news articles than the opposite.
For cable, yes, but I don't see how "bundling" applies to credit cards. That credit card companies compete on benefits would also seem to argue against your point.

AmEx tried doing a piecemeal benefits program on their Zync card, but AFAIK the product uptake was poor and they no longer offer it.
What the Apple Watch Could Be
This idea reminds me of the primary premise of a book titled The Halo Effect. It basically goes on to say that glorifying the apparent traits of highly successful companies is a good way to miss the underlying wisdom, if any, in addition to the possibility of just plain good fortune, that allowed the success of said company. Plus, even a person from a successful startup may be unaware or deluded of the true reason for his or her success.
I'm saying both that I wouldn't expect Buzzfeed to have much in the way of journalistic ethics, and that brief opinion pieces on ad campaigns and board games are not journalism. It's not censorship when respectable publications won't publish a few hundred words and animated GIFs on "Why Monopoly Is The Worst Game In The World, And What You Should Play Instead" in the first place, so I'm not seeing it as particularly terrible if a more permissive editor takes it down after a complaint on the basis there's really no upside to keeping it.

I think it's a pretty open secret that the comparable brief lightweight pieces and listicles on fashion, travel etc. that appear in the supplement sections of even respectable publications are heavily influenced by who the fashion columnist had lunch with and what freebies they've been given, and nobody really cares.

We start worrying about chilling effects on free speech when they cheerfully ignore major scandals involving high street banks because that high street bank is attaching strings to their money.
This isn't like a full blown counter-argument, but a pattern I like to look for whenever there's debate on some kind of public policy change is if the 'anti' side is predominately an argument for the status quo of car culture.

To me this is the real climate change denial-ism. Not the abstract argument over whether its real or not, but the steady stream of personal and political decisions people make to prioritize car culture over X.
It may be true that this particular sample is too small; I haven't looked at the experiment in detail. However, just pointing out that n<=20 per group isn't enough of an argument to justify this statement. Significance is about more than just the sample size. The idea that it's impossible to get significant statistical result with small samples is a common misconception.
The tolerance/withdrawal drawbacks for adderall are nearly non existent if you don't abuse it and take weekends off. Sure, after the well known honeymoon phase of a few weeks it's not the superman pill you might have expected would last forever, but otherwise responsible use will keep you more productive. People with little will power or addictive personalities (which a third party can't possibly always know) aren't usually equipped to deal with such moderation, so instead we let the "gotta work 7 days a week!" grinders stigmatize an otherwise safe and useful medicine/tool.

When used responsibly I can assure you it's more effective and has less side effects than caffeine IF you tolerate it well (not everyone can, just like not everyone can tolerate caffeine)
The major reason why I'm walking around with 5 credit cards in my wallet is that, as being relatively new to the country (4 years), I needed a way to boost my credit score. Note that the recommended number of credit lines (by CreditKarma) is supposed to be 20. I'm working on it :)
Thanks for posting the link. Is anyone having trouble viewing the videos? I can watch them from my browser plugin, but from VLC or mplayer the video is buggy. In all cases the audio amplitude is very low.
>Yes, but between two people who are otherwise equal (in status), the one using the drug has an unfair advantage.

Okay. Between two people who are otherwise equal (in drugs), the one with the more servants has an unfair advantage.

>The least he could have done was disclose in his publications that his results were obtained while using these drugs

Should the same go for caffeine?
Ask HN: What OS do you run?
What OS do you run/develop on and on what hardware?

Also, what's your toolchain/development stack?

OS: Arch Linux

Hardware: Desktop (custom build), ThinkPad T510

Tools: Ruby, Rails, Vim, Git, etc
Costco to Pay Almost Zero to Accept Credit Cards
Route 53. Managing Route 53 from the command line with CloudFormation adds some convenience, and also lets you store your zone records in Git.
This leaves out some really important background. Makerbot quietly sold out to Stratasys in 2013. When they did that they lost their soul and their independence. The first sign of that was when they went closed source alienating a huge portion of their customer base. This is just another shoe dropping now that Stratasys owns them they are moving to more tightly integrate Makerbot into the rest of the company. These layoffs are supposedly to remove duplicative positions due to the buyout. There is a good documentary on Netflix about the 3d printing revolution called "Print the Legend" It covers a lot of the history behind Makerbot including the fact that there were really 3 co-founders instead of just the one that gets regularly mentioned in news coverage.
This switch-off is not without controversy:

- The initial requirement was for at least of 50% of radio listening to be DAB before January 1st, 2015. This requirement was changed in 2011 to "digital listening", including streaming radio over Internet and DVB-T in the statistic. The actual percentage for listening over DAB is not published individually.

- 25% of new cars sold do not support DAB. Cars in Norway have an average lifespan of 10.5 years.

- The majority of road tunnels do not support DAB, and will not support DAB before the FM network is switched off.

This last point means using radio to contact drivers in case of emergency won't be possible at all, because:

1. The 20% of cars using DAB will not be able to receive anything while inside the tunnel.

2. The 80% of cars not using DAB won't have their radio switched on, as there is no reception.
Quite a diferrent claim from "it works for me" to "it is verified by science".

Google scholar shows over 2 million results for published articles on oral health. Pubmed has several thousand of them. You really want to pretend that's a cultural thing?

It is quite clear you don't care about peer-reviewed science. That's your prerogative. I wouldn't have commented if the OP hadn't implied that mindfulness specifically (not meditation generally) had scientific verification.

> Give it some decades - your grandchildren will teach their children about meditation

That is an easy claim "in a few years, you'll all be scientologists" is just as simple. And, even if true, would have no bearing on whether mindfulness meditation is verified or not.

> flow

Can you show scientific evidence that meditation improves the achievement of flow? That's a new claim I've not seen before. Again, easy to say. I don't think it impossible, but I'd like to see that it is more than something you're making up.
Watching those high-tension lines (and complete towers) being pulled along by the earth and snow would make me get out of the way much faster!
I'm working on a split testing service and SDK for desktop (OS X) and mobile apps. Mainly for myself so I can understand the math behind A/B testing better.
> Radio should be about accessibility and content, not the medium - which should change naturally and over time.

That is actually the main argument in favor of DAB. The FM space in Norway only has space for 5 nationally broadcasted channels, DAB has space for 40 (22 already used).
The author may have a dog in this fight, but it would be incorrect to claim they have a beef with MakerBot's founders, given that Zach “Hoeken” Smith, one of the founders, has been openly critical of the move to closed source, and also was forced out of the company.
The military ran tests comparing the efficacy of caffeine and amphetamine. Amphetamine was not shown to improve performance over caffeine, although it gave the perception that performance was improved.
> code written more than 5 years ago likely has no maintainer and no one in the lab knows how it works.

Very true, but this happens regardless of whether it was Python2.x, Python3 or MATLAB code.

The problem is that many academics writing scientific code rarely have the training/education/experience to write maintainable code (if you feel this does not apply to you, you are probably the exception, and if you ever shared code with colleagues, you are aware how rare your skill is in academia). Also most of it is or started out as, quick experiments, try-outs, for that, and some other (even political) reasons, there is not a lot of incentive to write beautiful maintainable code.
Unless things become very niche, and specilised. Lots of niche businesses.
We should fix multicast to help make decisions like this easier. Right now each additional IP-streaming listener is an incremental cost on the broadcaster - radiating broadcast has a huge advantage here, which proper multicast would remove.
Neat! We played 'Uno' where our decks consisted entirely of cards that cost 1 Mana (or zero) to play. My son won all year at school with one of his.
You do though. You can exert market pressure by not buying when the price is too high. And you can pirate, in fashion as in entertainment. You may not want to, but you do have that option.
http://www.scala-lang.org/download/changelog.html

Python has PEP's. C and C++ have a ISO standards body. JDK has JEP. Adding a new library feature, let alone overhauling core types, is something scala added as if it was no big deal.

In python, when "new classes" were introduced, it was a big honking deal! You can bet it was heard about everywhere, in the documentation, etc. cpython interpreters like python 2.6 have support going back 5 years, and the changes between 2.x python versions are small compared scala.

There's a reason why enterprise languages move like a toad. We can't have legacy systems breaking. We want our legacy libraries to keep working. In 2015, I write python 2.6 code that works in python 3.5-dev, because they carefully planned releases and I write idiomatically.

Ask yourself if uninitiated generalist prorgammers can really grasp those hieroglyphic walls of text. It's encoding too much information too densely, and inside the density, there's so many clever tricks that block could doing.

It entices solipsistic programming. Long evenings and hard work goes into programming blocks of logic that aren't portable or readable as a future consolidation. This is where scala user's get protective. Their mental thought is legitimate, the output however means nothing to fellow coders.

With java, you could say we satisfy the longterm code quality. Even though I'm cynical of the JVM, I realize that my time and effort would hold out on the long term and my team would have code that would be a legacy into the future.

With scala, their is a sense of urgency coupled with a legitimate sense of eureka! But it all ends up looking like schizophrenic scribbling on a napkin to others.

Scala must limit the grammar in your programming language.
Bad luck, Norway.

The UK is in a roughly similar position, but our govt is unlikely to switch off FM until 2020-ish at the earliest (was 2015, then 2018... now "whenevs").

It's sad to consider how governments foisted DAB on listeners exclusively for the benefit of state broadcasters - the list of fails is extensive here: DAB gives you demonstrably worse reception, poorer sound quality, more expensive hardware, added costs to replace old hardware, added costs to run (4x power consumption), etc.

The magic carrot of 'more channels/ more choice' thing never happened either: thus, a bum deal all round.

I would guess the upside for broadcasters (cheaper infrastructure, more listeners) may have been significantly overstated too.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/sep/25/digital-radio-s...

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/dec/16/digital-radio-s...

24 problems with DAB (2010)

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2010/apr/12/dab-r...
Gaming credit cards isn't a futile game in the US; there are signup bonuses for most of them ranging from $300-multiple thousands of dollars worth of value, depending on how you spend them and what you're interested in doing.

American credit cards nearly universally offer lengthy interest-free grace periods, as well, so there's little risk as long as you have enough base spending to qualify for the signup bonus.

As an example, you can sign up for an American Airlines credit card and earn 50,000 miles after spending $3000 on the card. Buy $3,000 worth of things you were going to buy anyway, and then you have a one-way business-class ticket from the US to Japan (worth at least $2K, probably significantly more).

There are hundreds of these offers, so gaming credit cards can be a significantly net positive hobby for people who know how to manage their spending and who don't actually use the credit facility of the cards beyond the grace period.
I don't mean to sound critical here, but I find it interesting that, quite often, discussions like this assume that who the speaker likes or the ideologies the speaker accepts are the ones that will be vindicated in the future.

I'm reminded of AskReddit threads, where people ask "what will people 100 years look back on our time and think was crazy?" and the top responses are always relatively uncontroversial (e.g. "people will look back and wonder how we could have banned gay marriage").

I wonder if there have been any good discussions, on HN or Reddit or somewhere, that focus on that question from the perspective of "what kinds of things will people believe in in the future, things for which I'll be on the 'wrong side of history'?"
> Nothing about using credit cards in the US is significantly different than anywhere else in the world

There is one big difference: the widespread use of credit scores. If you never use a form of credit that reports to a credit score agency, you may find yourself unable to rent some apartments, and it can also affect your mortgage rate.
Be interesting to see how fast we realise this and if that will vary by region.

Parts of Europe strike me as the ones most likely to lead the charge (the Swiss had an actual vote on Basic Income just recently) and many existing benefit systems (welfare systems) come fairly close to a ad-hoc de-facto basic income.

Assuming the basic income is sufficient to cover basic needs, I'd be quite happy (as long as I could afford a reasonable computer and internet) to just write open source software for the rest of my life.

The only reason I write any proprietary software is to pay the bills with that incentive removed I'd program just as much.
You post is insightful except for the last paragraph. If Iran were not a theocracy why would we might mind if it dominated the region? Surely it's no worse than Saudi Arabia. And wouldn't Israel behave better if someone could stand up to it?
But if you have the transmitters, "linear radio" (ie radio) is cheap and green. You can add as many users as you like at no extra cost.

Streaming internet delivery, by contrast, consumes finite and expensive mobile phone bandwidth. And if you're listening to "linear radio" as distinct from a service like Pandora, consumes bandwidth to absolutely zero benefit.
That's the word. The dirtyness comes from context.

And I'm not a native speaker either, btw.