skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>And while meditation is good for practicing mindfulness "in slow motion", you don't _need_ to meditate to be mindful.

Yes!! If you wake up and just don't feel like meditating that day, then don't! I view meditation as a tool that helps you reach deep into mindfulness, but meditating to meditate is missing the point. The goal you should have is to be mindful/present in the moment throughout the day.
Who are you to say that it's "too much," when it's their money than they can spend as they wish?
"But you do have trouble understanding that other people might be different from you; with different experiences, assumptions, etc."

In essence, this is the true test of the puzzle; not whether you can solve the intended puzzle, but whether or not you can muster sufficient social and analytical empathy to work with others when your assumptions turn out to be incongruent with the intended assumptions.
You seem to be conflating the choice; really, it's a choice of adding Google to the list of MITM or not. This system can't remove your mobile carrier from the circuit or stop them playing with your data.
Because we soon realize that real life is not what it was all made up to be in textbooks and propaganda based literature.

Personally, I want reality to be presented the way it is instead of constant self-glorification.
Of course in many ways "cloud" computing is just another implementation of a 370/VM mainframe system. I find the evolution fascinating. Oh and I had a comms processor (terminal server to a modem bank) which turned out to just be a MicroVAX 3 runing VAXELN. The CPU was some what "cut down" (I think optimized was the word they used) to make it more cost effective. VMS would not boot on it.
..then call the lab's publicist and get your paper out as quickly as possible.

This is where those "A Pepperoni Pizza per day prevents Cancer" headlines come from.
Building a dope Twitter Bot
Beginners Guide to Mindfulness Meditation
While they're at it, there's this new wave of services with no interface. They believe in the mantra "The Best Interface is No Interface" eg: Operator, Magic etc. Interesting times!
Can anyone recommend a good resource for understanding the history of education, both worldwide and in the United States? Goals, philosophies, implementations, outcomes?
When I was an introverted teenager I read 500 books in one summer. My mom tracked them all in a notebook because she wanted to know just what exactly I was reading.

To this day I have zero difficulty finishing a book. My problem has always been stopping. I'm practically clinically unable to disengage from a book once I've started. Enough so that I have to meter my reading to prevent myself from disappearing for months on end. Not even the internet has made a dent in that. In some ways I wish I were a little more like the author. It would be nice to not feel a little worried when I start a book that I'll go so deep I'll miss something in the world around me.
Show HN: I built a trend analyzer for HN and open sourced the data behind it
MCBT is to CBT as C++ is to C... although don't take that analogy too far, as it certainly doesn't make it much more complex nor add a tonne of painful syntax ;)

Mindfulness-based CBT worked really well for myself, coupled with Suboxone which is being investigated as an anti-depressant itself. I haven't had an episode in two and half years, which is the longest stretch of saneness I've had since I was 16.
I don't think the claim with such posts is that they're newsworthy, just that they're fun or interesting (for some).

It's better for the emotional aspect of technical work to be out in the open, instead of rationalizing itself surreptitiously, as it usually has to—leading to such unproductive phenomena as (a) the sober engineering analysis that just happens to conclude that the best choice for X is programmer's favorite; and (b) the intellectual depression that comes from prolonged working with tools that give one no pleasure. "There is no play in them," as Thoreau said.

The need for play is deep and should be accommodated, since it affects things whether we want it to or not. I think if one revises one's model of software economics to include this factor then the yet-another projects you're criticizing come out looking pretty different. Also the HN connection is clear—this is a site where gratifying curiosity and creative impulses is celebrated. No justification required.

But I'm glad you've registered anyhow. Hopefully you'll discuss some of the things that gratify you!
I hope google penalizes such kind of behavior in their search results
Using such high-contrast fonts hurts my eyes and thus excludes me from enjoying it as much.

Your eyes and monitor may benefit from lowering the contrast/brightness. Most monitors seem to come set by default to maximum or near-maximum eye-watering brightness and contrast, which is great for in-store displays in an environment containing lots of other high-brightness lighting, but horrible for actual use. Turn it down so that black on white is comfortable to view.

It's far more likely someone chose low-contrast because they wished to help visitors eyes or for aesthetic purposes

It makes me wonder if those who use low-contrast designs are the same ones who have their monitors at such extreme settings that they have to compensate by reducing it on their pages, thus making it unreadable to those with their monitors set to comfortably reproduce black on white.
My sympathy; this is a tough situation and you don't deserve to be in it.

Some words of hope: In a surprisingly short time, you will be able to look back at this with some much-needed distance. You'll have moved on to better things, and the problems of your old firm will no longer be your problems.
Its irrelevant, whatever the 'value' of spying. Utilitarian ethics is a horrifying foundation for a nation.
he wrote a whole book of comments...
It looks there is already another CSP implementation in Javascript by James Long (@longster)
http://jlongster.com/Taming-the-Asynchronous-Beast-with-CSP-...
https://github.com/jlongster/js-csp

He did a talk on it at ReactConf here:
http://conf.reactjs.com/schedule.html#communicating-with-cha...

The difference seems to be that James' was strongly influenced by the Clojure CSP implementation in core.async. It's not clear what this implementation was influenced by.
>With all that said, I'm not convinced that people "should" read long form books. I read all those books because I personally enjoyed it. I just can't say with confidence that others should do the same or they will be "missing out" on some unquantifiable intellectual nirvana.

This "unquantifiable intellectual nirvana" was used to be called "civilization".
> seems
> too
> much

relax guy nobody here is angry at the amount he made
For posterity, jessie now has an official release announcement email:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/2015/msg00001.html

Also note that the link to the 7.8 point release above is wrong, the correct link is:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/2015/msg00000.html
Those engines cost more than us$8k each, I hate to think what all the other equipment on board costs. I'd be surprised if the all-up cost for that model was less than ~$25k

I get nervous enough flying my ~us$800 helicopter.
http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Pearls-2nd-Edition-Bentley...

The classic Programming Pearls is not exactly a book of problems, but a book of ideas.

You can probably examine a few of the ideas and play with them like toys. Toys are more fun than problems.
Thanks for the mention, guys. I recently wrote a post about our approach to building landing pages at Intercom. Thought it might be relevant :) https://blog.intercom.io/12-steps-to-creating-landing-pages-...
Really cool! My hindi professor could use this to make his hindi website himself - consider adding the ability to use the embed tag for pdfs and mp3s. See if you can support custom fonts. Also image/content sliders are all the rage these days.
How to Use MyIdol If You Don't Speak Chinese
Only for the toy version of the scientific method we learn in 2nd grade, but not for the "real world" scientific method.

All scientists on the planet look at the list of authors on any papers they read. That way they know the biases of the authors, the types of assumptions they might make, and how trustworthy any data is.
I'm the same way. It's bad enough that I can't read on the train because It's guaranteed I'll miss my stop. I can't read in the evening or I'll be up till 4am finishing the book. I limit my reading to times when I have an open stretch of several hours to avoid it colliding with some other appointment or something.
I just find it a hard pill to swallow when they claim that college for the masses is a good thing when all of the research they're pointing out comes from people at Harvard, Princeton and MIT. Feels very much like an Ivory Tower view on things.
There's always so much fear around quadcopters being weaponised. Yet it hasn't happened to RC helis which have been around much longer.
chill out man. you are turning this into something personal. it was only a comment at the amount he got for cheating the review system. even the OP said he wasn't expecting that much.

stop jumping into the hate wagon everybody
I don't know much about that, I'm afraid.

My best guess (and this is but a guess, I don't have sources for this) is that when the government sold the idea of the 'Mother Tongue' policy, they decided to include Tamil (the native language of many of the immigrants) to make it fair.
congratulations on both findings
UBeam’s ultrasound wireless charging is real and about to be funded
LastPass is awesome but I hate their website login process! It bothers me to no extreme that if I type in my email address with a wrong username, it pops back with, "Invalid password" while typing in a obviously random email, it pops back with a "Unknown email address. Would you like to create an account now?."

I worry that a malicious attacker could finger the service for potential victims.
There's only one engine in there. The red glow you see in the mock engine nozzles is produced by LED light rings; which is a really great idea, btw. That really adds to the authenticity. None the less, the actual thrust comes out of the fixed nozzle you see at the center. I'd pin the cost at significantly less than $25k.

EDIT: I just checked, and the cost of a JetCat (a popular R/C turbine vendor) has dropped significantly since I was in to the hobby. Their largest turbine (>50 lbs of thrust) comes in at around $5,500.

http://www.sitewavesstores5.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD...
I was incredibly lucky to have known Rachel. She was an incredible person. I will never ever forget her. People only knew her as a depressed and moody person; I knew her as someone with a quirky sense of humor and a hatred of the boring and mundane.

-Omer Shah
>Hard to see problem with this behavior. It is the same reason we don't ride horses to work anymore - better stuff available.

Only in this case we abandoned cars for hoping along barefoot on one foot while wearing a diving suit...

>Frankly, I would rather have a race of people reading up on general knowledge and keep themselves aware than a race of people wasting time trying to read story books just to fit in.

We have that former thing, and its producing a race of people who have no understanding of anything substantial, be it politics, world affairs or arts, and jump from BS celebrity tweet to twerking videos.

Of course one can resort to the classic "People have always complained about new technologies and trends, hence there's no problem with them".

For one, "people always complained about new technologies" is not such an obvious and true fact -- how many people and how seriously complained is not measured, nor is their reasoning examing. We're just given some examples of people complaining for some new technology/trend, and are told that all those examples are of equal zero validity, just "get off of my line" kind of affairs).

Second, even if "people always complained about new technologies" that doesn't automatically mean that they were always wrong (nor is proof offered, besides "and yet, those technologies stayed with us and we now are ok with them" as if that proves anything qualitatively).

A more nuanced approach would have been to check whether something was indeed lost (a tradeoff) in adopting those technologies, something that we could maybe preserve if we adopted them with less abandon.

And in fact a lot of our subsequent behavior --which is usually ommited when glorifying technology-- points to that (e.g. the adoption of cars lead to huge cities built around driving like L.A., which we now find less than great. Or the city noises and environment led to a flight for the suburbs. Examples are numerous).
Websites aren't published in braille either. As long ad the site content is compatible with standard assistive tech in the client software, it is fine.
makes sense. I took "from scratch" from an understanding perspective rather than implementation. Thanks for clarifying it. Looks like it'll be a great resource.
Interestingly enough the "mental software" used to handle the crisis of the atom bomb came from mathematics (von Neumann's game theory, in particular the idea of mutually assured destruction) rather than moral philosophy or something which we label as "humanities". I'd probably argue that what von Neumann was doing with MAD was "humanities" but I don't have a good definition of the word.
Relevant HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8542091
The economics of bug bounty programs could lead to misaligned incentives. Because the overhead cost to validate and communicate around bug reports isn't zero, the % of non-bugs submitted could become imbalanced because it is free to submit.

In most systems the reward is zero, so you can infer if a person has taken the time to submit a bug report it is because he/she is invested in seeing it fixed.

Context: I work at a decent sized company in SV on this type of problem.
Do you have visual trouble reading books also?

Your monitor brightness maybe set too high
For example, mobile devices' minimum brightness is far too bright in a dark room.
There is a constant stream of 10 minute challenges on StackOverflow.
That said, when you prove 1 = 0, it's still often wrong.
Free online: Programmers at Work, by Susan Lammers (1986), https://programmersatwork.wordpress.com/about/ interviews the creators of dBase, PacMan, Postscript, Mac OS, DOS, Word, VisiCalc and more.
Millions of dollars are made and will be made with the help of the statements starting from, or ending with the word:
"study" (possibly preceded with the word "independent").

Study -> implies authority -> implies ability to manipulate.
IOW, the problem is a graph, and the solution is a list.
but the tech is not inferior or compromised. except perhaps for the lack of high end gpus on their computers.
Umm, 500 books in one summer? Yeah right! What kind of books? Were they long? That's over 4 books per DAY! I don't think so.
Perhaps Gigablah was trying to be helpful?

HN can be frustrating if you provoke it. The problem isn't so much what you said as how you put it: the combination of dismissive tone and superficial content puts readers here on edge, because too many comments are like that and we all find them annoying. As a result it's easy to have your good intentions misread. If you had explained the thought process behind your comment, I think it would have been received better.
Books surely still have a place and reading them isn't just pure dogma.

I'm currently reading Gods Bankers by Gerald Posner about the history of the Vatican Bank. It has about 10 pages of referenced bibilography on what must be at least 300-400 sources, and 170(!) pages of footnotes from referenced interviews, articles, online reports etc.

You aren't going to get that type of in depth coverage of a subject from something that was curated and thrown together in 10 minutes and put up on the web. Long form writing and investigative journalism still has it's place if you are looking for an in depth view of a subject you are interested in.
You could do worse than: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Classics

They're all available for free on archive.org

https://archive.org/details/harvardclassics
Username enumeration is a valid concern. Requests on the login form (and some other places) are throtted. If you get too many emails wrong you will start only getting errors.
You are not making a fair comparison.

The (somewhat simplified) options available are:
1. Raise and slaughter animals in the most convenient and/or economically efficient way without regards for their suffering. (standard meat way)
2. Raise and slaughter animals in the most humane and painless way without regard for economic cost. (omnivore's dilemma way)
3. Do not raise any animals. Eat a 100% plan based diet. (vegan way).

There is no scenario where animals can trade enduring pain for anything. We are talking about domestic animals. They are born because we facilitated it, with the expectation of a gain from such activity.

I can see why people would want to be vegan, and while I do not share those opinions I respect them. But, if everybody thought like that, most domestic animal species would go extinct in a few decades. Most people would stop raising them, and if a few misguided folks would release flocks in the wild, those are in general not prepared to occupy an ecologic niche. They will either die off or wreck the environment of the region they were released at.

So, between options 1 and 2. The animals are going to die anyways, because if we did not expected to eat them, nobody would have bothered raising them. The only question left is how much suffering are they to endure in the process of dying. Proponents of #1 say this does not matter as long as the plate is full. Proponents of #2 say it is morally right to eat less meat in order to ensure the animals get killed in a more humane way.

How does your previous comment fits in that debate?
This is why it would be neat to have the book in an online format that can be updated from time to time. Something more than a blog, manual or wikipedia. That's in case one wants a book NOW and wouldn't want to wait until the language stabilizes.
Gentoo supports both ways - with or without (using eudev instead of udev) systemd.
Which is also brilliant, but is more about thinking in terms of types (more advanced type systems, then C/C++/Java etc).

Should make a good warm up for learning the likes of OCaml and Haskell
Really? The article claims 2 engines:

> Powered by twin AMT Olympus RC Jet Turbine Engines
It is already normally possible to test whether email address is registered by trying to register with that email address. Unless that process is secured too, it doesn't really make much sense to not pop up Unknown email address error.
Pretty much every great result in Physics had been counter-intuitive: Gravity, relativity, quantum mech, nuclear physics, semi-conductors, super conductors... I'd say every major advance is science destroyed some conventional wisdom and proved previous intuition wrong.
What if you read while standing? Do you have trouble doing other activities while lying down, like using a computer?
Gb – Project-based build tool for Go
it's fundamentally similar to taking apart computers/machines etc.

The biggest difference is that you never have to put it back together again in a working state.
>Who are you, to preside as an authority to chastise and admonish?

I'm a commenter on Hacker News. Who said that only some higher "presiding authority" has the right to "chastise and admonish" rude behavior and name-calling on HN and the internet in general?

>Pretty obvious that nutrition and food are powerful forces for intellect, and the aggregation of powerful intellect at scale is a powerful economy. Regardless of jargon, a well-fed, unpoisoned populace thinks cleary.

Pretty obvious to me that there are far more obvious reasons for wanting a well-fed, non-poisoned populace that to get "a powerful intellect" and a "powerful economy". Basic humanism and compassion for one.
Ask HN: What's the best referral bonus you have ever got?
Recently I heard from my friends that companies started giving referral bonus of $10k for eng hires. I used to get $5k per referral. Just wanted to know what's the cost of hiring today and how referrals save money to the company?
Wikipedia Browser for TRS-80 Model I
I'm with you 100% on this. To me blog posts and internet articles are really good for getting insight into a particular issue you're currently having, or a to be exposed to a bit of interesting trivia. I find books to be far superior if you want to maximize your knowledge ingestion for a given set of time.

I once tried to give somebody my C# 4.0 In a Nutshell book when I upgrade to the 5.0 book. "Why do I need that, I can just look at MSDN?". Hrmm.
Banach–Tarski paradox

This relies on declaring that 2x == x for sufficiently large x. Which is clearly bullshit: they're not the same, you just can't tell the difference.

cantor sets

The wikipedia page doesn't make clear what's supposed to be contrary to intuition about this. Unless you mean the 2x == x issue wrt cardinality?

gabriel's horn

This one isn't counterintuitive at all; smaller things always have more surface area.

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Calculus with infinitesimals works by discarding (symbolic) terms known to be (numerically) below epsilon. Adding things to infinity works the same way.

Both of these will be intimately familiar to anyone who works with algorithmic complexity ("big-O notation") or the IEEE 'float' or 'double' data types.
Wow, the pilot sticks the landing. That has to be difficult. The model appears to be moving much faster than a typical R/C plane. If you add the pilot's viewing angle... it must take a lot of practice.
For a counter-example, consider quantum mechanics.
It doesn't mean that in the original quote.

Substituting a term of art for a common usage is a bug, not a feature.
Sounds like LibOS: https://lwn.net/Articles/637658/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9259292

Or Service Virtual Machines: http://alt.folklore.computers.narkive.com/LXzjsdU7/was-vm-ev...

Or Exokernels: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/exo.html
> I know, I am just hating...

People has recently become quite reluctant to 'hate' on php, as if it is some kind of deformed being who needs emotional support. It is like criticizing Christopher Nolan.

You just don't 'hate' on it with out sliding in a few praises. I know that criticizing the language will result in heated (often irritating) debate with the php fan boys (I call them fan boys because other php users will not come justify the language, with things like, "every language has faults so it is ok"). But I think we can use a little less sugar coating. I am not telling that the language should be killed right off, but please just don't romanticize it's faults and send people who are serious about programming down a path they have to (hopefully) come back 9 or 10 years later (When they are finally disillusioned).

EDIT: he..he..downvotes!
cynical answer: I've seen alot of races get "fixed" by adding a sleep() or similar

less cynical answer: Commonly you already have some kind of means to handle races - locking, transactions, some other variety of extra check - and the fix for newly discovered races is "oh, I didn't realise that could happen. add lock"
Ask HN: Graduate Going to College Career Fair
I graduated college last year but still live around it for my current job. I'm considering going to some upcoming career fairs that are at my college to see what other job opportunities are available. I'm wondering is that strange? Would any companies be considering me as someone who has graduated already?

My current position is some coding but mostly setting up middleware stacks and stuff, so my coding skills aren't the same as someone who's had a fulltime job coding for 1yr. So I guess I'm basically looking for entry-level coding jobs?
reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer

Many good problems there regularly.
Any recommendations for an independent sales lead management iOS app?