skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whilst it's possible to treat Buddhism as a religion, the true beauty of it isn't about what you can learn academically but what you can experience.

All you really need to know is how to meditate. Sit somewhere (doesn't have to be cross legged, can be in a comfy chair if you wish). Close your eyes. Breathe naturally.

The key to meditation is to observe without reaction. It's common to start by observing your breathing, as this can have a calming effect.

Your mind will frequently try to distract you. Recognise that it is happening, but without judging yourself then return to observing your breath. In time as your awareness builds it may be possible to take more in, but the idea at first is to improve the stillness of your mind, and it is easier to do that when you can focus on something like your breathing.

There are a multitude of interpretations about what you learn about yourself from meditation. If I told you what I thought it meant I'd put barriers in the way of you finding your own interpretation. That's all reading the books will do too. Your experience is your primary guide, any other sources should be in addition to your experience, to offer guidance to make sense of the experience, but not the focus.

Good luck.
> Because we should all talk to lawyers before we do anything.

Not "anything". Starting a business, especially in a highly-regulated domain, OTOH, is not the same as "anything".

And, even granting that one might not be aware enough of the regulatory landscape to recognize that need, when someone who is knowledgeable points to the specific areas of risks and you just blow it off as a sign of success than someone is "hating on" you, yeah, then its arguably gone from innocent to willful ignorance.
I realize there were probably other factors that contributed to the text in that email, but I think what is interesting to know here is:

Were there any other significant factors specific to his business that made you mention customer disputes as such a significant reason?

(Note that I'm not asking what the factors were, I'm just asking if there simply existed any.)

The reason I ask is, I imagine there might have been other similar businesses with a high rate of customer disputes, and I imagine there may have been other factors in his business that could have resulted in you not wanting to work with them, both of which would be reasonable justifications for avoiding this business -- but what baffles me is how a company with "zero customer disputes over [their] entire history" can get an email blaming his customer dispute risk as the primary concern.

Note that I'm not disagreeing with the soundness of your ultimate decision here, I'm just confused by the email you sent justifying it.
I'm sure that the NSA agrees with you.
I admit i'm not super clued-up on this, but i just looked up the new MacBook, it turns out that the sum total of its ports is one (1) USB-C and one (1) 3.5mm headphone jack. Does that mean i have to choose between charging, connecting a video projector, or using some USB hub i'll have to lug around to be able to read someone's presentation off a USB key while simultaneously connected to a projector? I wouldn't want to be in a position where i'm forced to run on the battery in certain circumstances, either (i'm a bit paranoid about the battery running out -- this is not impossible if one is giving a presentation after having spent a few hours on a train [in a backwards country without power outlets, of course] working hard)...
I guess John Oliver will be drinking Budlight Lime live.
That will only matter if companies don't train customers to expect frequent upgrade cycles. It's worked for consumer electronics, but there will be strain in previously "came with the house" objects. You'll need to sidestep people's habits, in the way that the microwave did, perhaps.

And we're only worried about vendors going out of business because it's the early days and it's largely startups pushing the trend. With a Samsung or Apple, it's more that they'll quickly (by home equipment standards) stop supporting whatever doesn't stick to the wall.

There is a case to be made for self-contained objects that don't derive most of their value from an ecosystem, but work normally with no network. Work up from a toaster, not down from a computer.
Tornado comes dangerously close to unsuspecting drivers in a suburb
No, it's not. This article is about Hola which was a VPN and how it was being used for malicious purposes. It stands to reason that people reading the comments are either looking for or seriously considering going with a different VPN provider in light of this news (compounded on top of the story that broke a day or so ago about being used as an exit node). I posted about a service I use that I find reliable and cheap that fills nearly (if not completely) the need that Hola once filled.

I am a 3rd party who has no connection to PIA and receive nothing for recommending them. There are countless cases of a HN post concerning some tech or concept where in the comments you can find alternatives that other HN'ers have recommended. I'm unsure how, given all of this, my comment is "completely unrelated to the article".
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> I'm not going waste my time weighing in on whether we were clever hackers or bozos -- the truth, as always, lies somewhere in the middle.

No, it doesn't always. The truth is not in the middle here; you guys were being breathtakingly clueless. Trying to pass it off as cleverness is just self-delusion, and none of the excuses your team has written are justifiable. You should probably do some honest introspection before taking your next pass on starting up a business. Not doing so is a disservice to yourself.
I agree, but I would be more careful in throwing out that the highest marginal rate has historically been 90% or more. You're likely to scare people, unless you clarify that the income brackets were also much different. Today the highest rate kicks in at $225k for individuals, roughly double for couples.

But the fact is that, although highest rate used to be much higher, historically the brackets were also created so that the highest rates affected only a small number of people (i.e., the very, very rich). E.g., after adjusting for inflation the highest income bracket back in the 1930's was income above $75,000,000/year. For most of the last century the highest bracket started only for those making above $2M (in adjusted dollars), or roughly ten times above where highest bracket starts now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_State...
The FBI can easily follow one suspect, but it's an expensive provision. The issue is when you decrease the costs you can start following thousands of suspects for the same net cost so it takes a much lower standard of evidence to start. Suspect > suspect’s friend > friend of friend and you quickly hit the point where everyone is being watched.

Worse large lists quickly become meaningless. Both the 9/11 hijackers and the Boston Marathon bombers where on a list, but that list was simply too large to be useful because 99.9% of everyone on those lists ended up doing nothing.

Now consider something like a DNA database. With 100 million random people on it a 99.999% accurate test going to report a false positive every single time and most tests are nowhere near that accurate.
If the crypto/implementation turns out to be unsound, first you have to 1. learn that the flaw exists, and then 2. take steps to remedy the situation. That's a window of opportunity where "obscurity" can potentially buy you time. On the other hand, if you assume your public keys are widely known and distributed, you're more likely to drop everything and take care of step 2 ASAP. So maybe it's a wash...
Except:

Bugs that are not eligible for submission:
* Bugs on internal sites for United employees or agents (not customer-facing)
* Bugs on onboard Wi-Fi, entertainment systems or avionics
Roughly OT: I have yet to have seen anything that makes me look forward to the IoT, and when I talk to the voices of vendors in my head I'm basically telling them "Stay out of my refrigerator, my furnace, my toilet and my smart doorlock that I'll never have."

I just don't feel that anything relevant to the IoT is missing from my life. At all.
Hopefully he'll be indicted on corruption/racketeering charges anyway.
Researchers Find Missing Link Between the Brain and Immune System
Yeah, I know... I wonder if there's an improvement on the canary system somehow. You can't tell if it's just a page left by the wayside or an important clue...
For some reason (which I'm not sure isn't a reasonable amount of paranoia based on hard-won experience under the regime that Putin is running) some people believe that anyone who expresses the Western minority view that the conflict over Crimea isn't entirely Putin's fault, and that its population trying to cling to Russia isn't the worst, least understandable thing in the world is being paid by the Russian government. I've been accused myself.

I'm a black American from Chicago, and that's honestly a majority sentiment amongst friends and family, for what it's worth.

Putin is terrible for so many other reasons than this struggle between duelling right-wing nationalists.
Google for something like "fiber converter". Normally if you run a copper ethernet cable between two buildings its a lightning magnet and next thunderstorm you'll get a big enough ground loop to blow up the gear on one side or the other if not both. So for $50 (seriously) you can buy a gadget thats been around for at least 20 years that has ethernet on one side and two fiber SC connectors on the other side of the box and you run non-conductive fiber between the buildings and sneer at the lightning gods whom will simply take their vengeance in another way LOL.

All you need to do is only run one fiber jumper, the TX from one side to the RX on another, not the two you're "supposed to" use. SNMP traps run on UDP and work just fine, old style syslog runs over one way UDP too. Note that your production/secure network can DDOS your IT/insecure network if enough people on the secure side try to use a DNS or NFS server on the insecure side, it'll just spam packets forever and never get its response, so its not like firewalls are completely pointless.

In the really old days we'd do something similar to RS-232 cables, physically yank out pin 2 or pin 3 (conveniently they swapped TX/RX on 9 pin vs 25 pin RS232). PPP negotiates connections, SLIP doesn't care and works great.

(edited to add another thing we did back when 10 meg ethernet was "new" and just replacing thinnet and thicknet, was pulling the approriate pins for TX, before auto negotiation existed, before 100 meg ethernet even existed, you could get away with that... I suppose if you had two smart-ish switches that could be forced to 10 meg no negotiation, you could do this today...)

Also there were production machines that output error, alert, and log messages to theoretically directly attached parallel port printers and there also existed converters that could go from parallel port to serial port (presumably for serial port printers, which really did exist in the 80s), which makes a pretty good unidirectional connection from a secured device to a semi-secured logging server. Bidirectional parallel ports didn't really exist until maybe 1990 or so and never did standardize, not really.

I made a lot of money implementing this kind of stuff in the 90s. It was fun.
McDonalds paired with Lime-Rita's for John Oliver. The most powerful or prescient talking head on TV? Quite possibly.
Introducing the appFigures app for iPhone
You should also try https://github.com/glennw/servo-shell (it's a webpage, and you don't need to rebuild servo or anything though building it in release mode is preferred), which gives you a browser experience.
Have they actually officially blamed anything?
Plus, how do you say goodbye in that situation? How do you not just completely break down from the overwhelming emotion of it all? Pride, guilt, relief, worry about the future, probably worry about all the remaining employees... I think anyone would be hard pressed to keep a stiff upper lip at a time like that.
That's a straw man argument. If you buy a purpose build hardware for Ubuntu support, you will get a similar working result. As well as on many other configurations. On the other hand OS X only truly supports Apple hardware. Almost every Hacintosh build suffers from some kind of incompatibility.
I don't think github allows you to use the same key for different accounts. Maybe it's the way they identify the user who is pushing over ssh?
Getting there slowly... For the moment I use `babun` and everything works well. http://babun.github.io/
It is interesting that this is part of PowerShell and not Windows, unlike Telnet.
The central point discussed here in that the mobile and internet infrastructure is far ahead of its time in Seoul. But the author makes a few statements that don't settle well with me:

> By 2020, the [South Korean] government predicts, it will be 1,000 times faster — so fast you could download a feature-length movie in approximately one second. In the same time frame, the Federal Communications Commission hopes to wire most American homes with broadband Internet with speeds of at least 100 megabytes per second, or roughly one six-hundredth of South Korea’s goal.

South Koreas's land size is MUCH smaller (smaller than most US states). Although there is something to be said about why any single US state isn't as good at infrastructure as South Korea (probably California can be the only candidate), that is a different interesting discussion.

> By contrast, American mobile design is fetishistically minimalist. Silicon Valley applauds itself for good taste in this regard, but this aesthetic has sprung up partly in response to a deficiency: Americans have learned to strip out bandwidth-guzzling elements because they slow down loading times.

This can't be farther from the truth.. "our" design aesthetic is not on a basis of trying to save bandwidth. I don't think we will ever have "Pages are drenched in neon and populated with googly-eyed cartoon animals." even if our infrastructure was better.
SBIT & PBITs are the ones that run automatically, with SBIT running automatically at startup and PBIT running on a watchdog. The SBIT time budget and scope is usually much smaller than IBIT so time intensive tests like ones that talk to sensors on the bus aren't present in SBIT. You can think of the stages as SBIT: can I run? IBIT: should I run? PBIT: am I running right?
Stop Uber, Lyft at airport to avoid anarchy on the curbs, aviation director says
I think you are talking about private keys.
The block function diagrams would be clearer if they were stacked like they work instead of being turned on their side. That is,

▥ ↦ ▥ ▧

could instead be:

▧
▥ ↦ ▥

I hope that makes sense!

Also, the dropdown menu for levels could be replaced by something more informational (perhaps a tree control?), that indicated e.g. by color which levels have already been solved.
Adding an opt-in method of installing the Chrome extension during installation = Hey thanks! This is really convenient and helpful!

Bundling the extension by default during installation = Really?! Are you kidding?! This extension isn't vital to the Dropbox experience and is only useful to a small subset of users. If you tell users this extension exists, those who want the functionality will gladly install it. I hope you're at least bundling a 1.0 version when this build is released since the version on the Chrome store says it's BETA version 0.9.7.
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In a Digital Chapter, Paper Notebooks Are as Relevant as Ever
Good riddance.

Hopefully the next president won't be another corrupt liar (Platini, Warner etc).
They really need to announce a conhost replacement.

The "experiments" in Windows 10 are undeniably improvements for when we still use things like cmd, but Powershell needs a modern terminal window and there needs to be a native answer to Putty for both SSH and Powershell remoting.

I'd say after SSH this should be a priority for the Powershell team. Conhost is holding them back. A lot.
> Notch got lucky.

Lucky that he made a product that millions of people were willing to pay hard cash for? Luck is a funny word, and it can be used to dismiss people's sacrifices and hard work too easily.

If I plunk down 1 dollar to buy a lottery ticket and I win the jackpot, that's very lucky. Sure, I sacrificed a dollar, but that has very little impact on me. The risk is low. If, however, I plunk down a couple million dollars to buy lottery tickets and I win, it's less lucky because my chances of winning are greater and of course my risk is much higher.

In spending his time working on Minecraft when he could have been doing any other number of things he was putting the equivalent of the amount of money he could make working for someone else down on the table as stakes. Sure, there's an element of luck, but it doesn't mean he doesn't deserve to reap the benefits of his risk having paid off.
How to Break FIFA
> Given our changes in leadership and culture, we decided to give it another try and this time, because we are able to show the clear and compelling customer value, the company is very supportive.

Is that code for Ballmer's regime vs Nadella's regime?
A lot of people seem to be jumping to the conclusion that their systems are malfunctioning because of being hacked rather than their systems malfunctioning on their own. Hard to know what is happening from the outside, but their systems may just merely be bad.

That said, the plane communication protocols aren't terribly secure, so it's certainly feasible someone is playing around with them. Maybe they'll decide it's in our interest for us to know at some point.
It sounds like nothing more than run-of-the-mill envy and fear of change.

Someone else is getting rich. I don't think people anywhere - Sweden or otherwise - are immune to it. I believe it's an extraordinarily common human attribute. I think the culture at Mojang amplified, perhaps even was responsible for, the sense the employees had that it was their baby.

I inherited a business with a dozen employees when my parents died at a young age. The tenure of the employees was long, averaging ten or so years. The employees believed the business belonged to them (they had never been promised ownership, they didn't own it in any regard), that their jobs were perpetual, and that their roles were to never change. For the next year, they were fond of quoting that "well, I was told that my job was x y z by the previous owners." I've never met more entitled people in my life, and this was at a small business that didn't make tons of money. That extreme atmosphere of entitlement, in that case, came from how the former ownership had, basically, allowed the inmates to run the asylum and never have to deal with change. It became, as the years went by, an increasingly entrenched mindset that it was their business, and they were all very afraid of change at their ages (average age of 45).
The internet has always been full of delusional people with extreme opinions untroubled by logic or argument.

I wouldn't worry too much - good moderation systems were built to handle these from the start. The places where paid trolls are likely to be most effective are also the places where you see the largest quantity of ridiculous posts from ordinary people. I'm thinking newspaper comment sections here, but Twitter might count too.

Whether someone is posting nonsense because they're paid or just because they can't sleep (https://xkcd.com/386/) the response to it is the same: robust forum software combined with people who point out their fallacies.
Goodbye, you slithering snake. Here is to a new generation of reform in the FIFA organization.
great answer!
5 Steps from Startup to Unicorn
I bought an LG smart TV a while ago. It stopped receiving firmware updates after a couple years and is now way behind current models in terms of features--and, I can only imagine, security patches.

I will go out of my way to buy a dumb TV next time.
Deportation Defensa in Immigration Law
Full Stack is the "C# Developer". Front End has disappeared, maybe we filled it, I did see some interviewees in here yesterday.
3D printer combinations
Yeah I'm having trouble with that argument too. How do you reconcile "countries interact in the lawless state of nature" with high-profile espionage prosecutions of non-citizens?
The paper can be found in Nature here:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...
Ah, yeah, that sucks, I missed that part. I thought 10098 might have felt sorry for his kids because of the minimalism thing.
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My understanding is that this was a project -- not really a company, never intended to make a lot of money.

Now if that is wrong -- if they intended to generate real revenue and profit off this thing, and raise money -- then yes, they're idiots.

But if this was something put together as a project, something fun and interesting to do, then I understand why they didn't consult a lawyer.
IBM Bitcoin Rain Event and Commercial
Isn't ISE pretty ok? At least it has decent enough copy and paste...
Does anybody have a good (and easy!) guide how to do that on my Mac or Linux machine (client and server) ?
I'd agree it would have been nice to have given at least some stock options to employees. The $300k bonus for staying 6 months, though, is a lot more than what one should expect to get when joining a startup. (Zero would be the usual amount because most startups fail)
Will Putin come to his aid?
Really? Have you tried getting a server in your own city?

I hardly notice the difference when my VPN is connected.
Oh, right, I could've sworn it was the other way around, sorry for the confusion.

Either way, it was pretty clear he wanted out, with what I think are valid reasons. The article makes it look like a "take a money and run", leaving a dissatisfied bunch of employees behind.

First, the employees seemed dissatisfied before (why that is relevant to the sale, I am not sure), and it seems to me the deal was pretty good for them.

Second, and this is just my impression, is that Minecraft, from the community's PoV was already completely outside the hands of Mojang's founders, so they didn't exactly abandon the product.
Agreed that it's too steep for people who want to use it as a hedge against negative payment processor action. We're Balanced customers and working on moving to Stripe now in time for the June 11 deadline, and I considered Spreedly to make it more cost-effective next time we have to switch, but it's just too pricey as a middleman for the small-ish volume we have. Most cart systems already make it somewhat easy to switch to a different payment processor.
Agreed. But perhaps we can come up with a general framework for identifying extreme poverty (that's on par with the $1.25/day threshold currently being used).
Migrations stay pretty small. Most of them just add a column or index. We also have to make sure tables aren't too hot to migrate. See a previous post for more on that: http://githubengineering.com/using-mysql-performance-schema-...

It's also really important that migrations don't affect the running app code. New columns shouldn't be used yet. Removed columns or tables need to have all references removed first before running the migration. We confirm this with a deprecation helper that sends metrics to Graphite.

That's about all I can answer from the app side :)