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The article compared meditation to psychedelics because the author is misguided. They may produce remotely similar states of mind. That does not mean they are equal.

There is no claim of salvation in meditation. Only claims of personal benefit in terms of calm and compassion, plus an increasing body of scientific evidence of cognitive benefits.

Invisible men in the sky are the antithesis of Vipassana, and anyone who uses it to ensnare anyone are frauds. The only benefits are within yourself, and the teachings make that abundantly clear.

Also, implying that Vipassana and meditation can harm anyone is absolutely ridiculous. It cannot do that anymore than reading a book or eating breakfast can.
Probably the closest you'll get is this: http://rancher.com/rancher-os/
Yeah. Well most Linux software is kind of multiplatform anyway, or at least portable. My reason for citing Linux here more than Windows is that Evince was included by default in many distros.
The arch beginners' guide on the wiki will walk you through the installation process even if you don't know what you're doing. Still not as easy as Ubuntu, but should be feasible.
What's an LMS?
I totally used to agree with that, but it only took one hour with a touchscreen windows PC to make my MacBooks all feel broken.

I still mainly use my MacBook Pro, because overall, Windows just doesn't cut it for what I need to do. And I personally don't really need touch that often -- but every single time I do (on the phone, holding a baby, jerking off with right hand, whatever), it is maddening that it doesn't work.

Even if limited to just basic scrolling and tapping, basic touch screen support is still way better than nothing. I think you are right about why Apple doesn't do it yet, but I think Apple is utterly wrong not to do it for that reason.

It's a classic case of making the perfect the enemy of the good.

Truly awesome touch (and stylus!) support would be great; no touch support at all just feels incorrect.
Of course, I wanted to emphasize that there is no single power continuum, so PG's argument rests on sand.
I would like to imagine what that conversation be like for the "France is Bacon" guy.
Importing Indians does count 1), 2) labour pricing does affect everyone else in the market. A hard working labour pool forces others to compete.

The Indians part seems irrelevant from what you're saying. It seems you think British people are lazy?
We wouldn't have used such a headline but we were not the one submitting this. We contacted the admins to change it.
Try Manjaro, it's Arch based, batteries included, lightweight and pretty. Has an installer

I recommend the XFCE flavour as, imho, KDE Plasma 5 isn't ready.

https://manjaro.github.io/
Those are very keen observations and not commonly voiced in that combination. I can't remember the last time I read an article about the development of PLs that I agreed so much with.

If I had to venture a guess about future development in PLs, there would only be one pattern that I find reliable enough: In a rough birds eye perspective, PLs have moved from hardware-specific things handling mutable state to more formally defined beasts fed by mathematical concepts. That's one trend I expect to continue, but then also not ad infinitum. In my view, Haskell is a good example of how you can overdo it, with the best intentions: concepts that are beautiful and frictionless in pure math become a cumbersome burden and an impractical cognitive load when translated too directly into a PL. I want more math in PLs, but I feel we haven't found a good balance yet. Maybe this turns out to be a moving target, too.

There are two languages I expect to keep their (niche) places for the foreseeable future: C and Lisp. Both are such a peculiar mix of properties that they are incredibly hard to beat in their respective domains. Maybe the same goes for Ada and Java, I wouldn't want to do any injustice :)
New Dutch 'stealth' Startup generates lots of buzz. Why?
Then stay away from Kickstarter! On the technology page today:

"HidrateMe, a smart water bottle that syncs to your phone"

and next to it

"Trago - The world's first connected smart water bottle"

https://www.kickstarter.com/discover/categories/technology
Liukas believes that the profession only became dominated by men after people realised that it was well paid and highly creative.

Might be projection on her part - there are professions she could see herself wanting to do, because they paid well - Assumes all the men are the same.

My parents wanted me to be in Finance, Accounting or in Medicine because those jobs paid well and had prestige. I went in Software Engineering because I tinkered with programming since I was 13.

I'm sure she'd be similarly offended by reading same sexist remarks from the article, switching genders:

"Why men make gifted coders"

"Liukas believes that the profession only became dominated by women after people realised that it was well paid and highly creative."
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The conclusion reached: hype can be very, very wrong, but nevertheless: it is hype. Making bold claims nevertheless gets you some eyeballs/ears far and wide ..
Its a synonym for Developers in the UK.
> guilty until proven otherwise should be the norm

This is a scary statement to me. Why should it be assumed that I am guilty of something because I don't want my communication to be read? This amounts to saying that I have no right to privacy.

It seems that you're saying that I should just trust the government to not read my messages if I am innocent. However, I don't think it's fair to say that I only have the right to privacy if I trust the government to stay out of my communications because that's not really privacy at all.
My mistake was to do exactly what PG did not do; name names. By Flub I mean any new language that its users would like to see displacing Blub. I mentioned Haskell and Rust as _examples_ of languages which have gone through popularity surges, and remain curious why they haven't made more of an impact, by PG's original logic: pick the most powerful language you know.
Saying “1.5V of Energy” is incredibly embarrassing for a company that is trying to market a product like this. Perhaps they are just trying to dumb it down for the masses?

I think they're being intentionally misleading - and counting on the "dumb masses" to not understand that - so they can claim that 8x improvement, since it comes entirely from the also-misleading "more than eight 0.1 volt steps between 0.6 and 1.5 volts" statement. (It's technically true, but irrelevant.)

As an aside, do schools today teach power, energy, voltage, and current in the standard curriculum? I know I was taught that (and Ohm's law) somewhere between elementary and middle school, but that was many decades ago...

Also those discharge curves are constant-current, but devices which already have boost converters in them will be drawing constant power, i.e. as the voltage goes down the current will go up. That means the discharge curve will look even steeper at the end, with less "wasted" energy.

At least they didn't claim "up to 8 times or more".
They're cheap, usually last longer than rechargeables (I think) and recharging is a pain?

Not very environmentally friendly I know.

Most things seem to have built-in batteries these days so there are fewer and fewer reasons to use any of them I guess.
I bet you can script it. But for that first you need to know enough about it. That's where the trouble comes in getting started. E.g., a colleague suggested me to put "noatime" into my fstab. Now you might say that's about 5 seconds. But if you don't know what it is and you take responsibility for your system, then what you first do is read about it. So I spent about 10 hours reading and discussing about noatime and then decided not to put it into my fstab because I learned that the default is already "relatime" which is a little slower but much more compatible with some tools. Instead of 10 seconds I've spent 10 hours and in the end didn't change my config at all.

That's what I would expect when I get started scripting the setup myself. If I don't do it then using a sensible, community decided default would be better than doing something without investigating. Would you agree?
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A similar (although as the article says, not identical) way to get more life out of a battery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule_thief
Almost 80% of apps featured by Apple aren’t new
> much superior, existing scripting languages (Python, Ruby, even Perl or some Lisp dialects) were passed over

Python existed in 1995, but I doubt it was very known at the time.

Ruby was created in 1995

Lisp is older, sure, but maybe there were concerns about the syntax and interpreter requirements?

"But, all things considered, it was as close to perfection"

Pascal didn't have a braindead way of dealing with strings. C's syntax is weird and prone to bugs, "if (a = 1)" being one example.
Agent and control server written in Go : https://github.com/turbobytes/pulse
This has been around for a long while. It's in need of much love from online communities.
I have somewhat similar view, though I got it from books like this one: Welcome to Your Child's Brain: How the Mind Grows from Conception to College. Different times come up with different understanding, perhaps this time we have a better one.
So sorry to hear this; Evince rocks!

On a side note, as someone with cancer i'm getting more and more annoyed with people saying 'lost the fight' 'after a long fight' etc. Somehow (and I know more people have this) it makes it feel like you didn't try hard enough. Stop saying that please.
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Luxury Retreats, an Airbnb for High-End Homes and Guests, Raises $11M
Higher up front costs. A 4 pack of double or triple As only costs a few bucks, less than a dollar per cell even at retail prices. Comparatively you need to spend at least $10 just to get a couple eneloop cells, 2 to 3 dollars per cell, plus at least that much for a charger (a decent one is more like $40).

Then you have the hassle of keeping things charged, which realistically means having a stock of extra batteries lying around. Also, it doesn't help that the cheapest rechargeable batteries and chargers lead to a comparatively bad user experience (batteries not holding a charge long, low lifetimes).

Similarly, look at kitchen knives. Most folks have sub-par stamped kitchen knives instead of a decent chef's knife even though you can get decent ones for 30 to 40 bucks or so. It's a matter of high up front costs and not knowing what they're missing.
Why not?

Writer Rebecca Burn-Callander couldn't find a good angle for her article, so you're now a sexist.
.cc was the new .com 15~18 years ago. I know because there were ads on the radio and the precaster I had worked for built their web presence on a .cc domain. After the better part of a decade they apparently bought the .com on the open market.
In Gentoo it would be:

emacs /var/lib/portage/world

This file contains a list of all packages you emerged manually. Just remove anything that you don't want.

Then simply:

emerge -uNDa world && emerge -a --depclean

This will first update the system and then remove any package that isn't listed or is a dependency of [a package listed] in the world file.

Though if you are serious about system maintenance, whenever you emerge a package you don't want in your world file (e.g you may want to re-compile a dependency) you should use the '-1' flag of emerge:

emerge -1a dependency

I also have my Gentoo 64bit installation since 2007 and have changed 4 or 5 machines since then. There are the occasional problems (as is the case with any distro) but if you are a bit interested in how things work instead of how things get fixed, you can solve them.
aptitude has a safe-upgrade, which doesn't remove packages unless they're unused.
Thanks for sharing. I was wondering, why do we need the sleeve ? Can the voltage boosting module be part of the remote itself ? Isn't that what a dc-dc module does ?
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Oh absolutely, and the stuff going on out in China right now will scar generations in numerous ways.

But in the UK at least, coal mining and even big/heavy industry is mostly historical now. Coal mines, ship yards, even a lot of the bigger factories and nearly all the mills are now very quiet. A few still around, but not many.

It's why Fred Dibnah was so popular in his later years: walking, talking history.
And some of these make the working conditions UK in the 70-80s look pretty good by comparison.
You might want to reconsider your Node.js callback API.
The standard way of returning errors is via the first argument :

callback(err, data)

while you suggest doing it like this:

callback(data, err)

Apart from being an eyesore, it breaks compatibility with a ton of third-party libs like `caolan/async`.
Because its a male dominated profession.
"I'd finished college, got my degree and had a highly paid job in social work"

Is that the famous British humor, or do they actually get paid pretty well on that side of the pond?

The popular theme of denigration of labor and blue collar work in general was carefully followed to the letter in the story, but, the author hid some social rebellion in there, describing the feeling of brotherhood and family the workers feel for each other. I worked some labor type jobs as a school kid back when that would actually pay your tuition without taking out loans (aka I'm old) and I also did some time in the reserves and shared adversity leads to brotherhood. You put up with insanity because 1) you actually can do it and 2) your brothers need you. To this day no one has ever had my back and vice versa quite like this one grocery store night shift manager or this one sergeant I was assigned to in the army. Never, in all my white collar experience since. Given the working conditions I don't think making a life of it would be wise, but its an experience worth having.

There's a side dish of most people are extremely soft and aspire to be soft, yet, most people really can also be old school tough.

Also a lesson about anxiety, telling the kid they're going to drop the face would probably create great anxiety and terror for every second from when he heard about it until after the drop, assuming the kid had any idea what they were planning.

It was an enjoyable story and thx for posting.
Tracking GPS chip with SIM card to put inside Macbook Pro
Anyone knows what's the smallest GPS tracker in the world that could fit inside a Macbook Pro? I guess this GPS tracker would have to use a nano SIM card and I there should be a way to hook MB battery to power the tracker.

I live in one of world's 10th most dangerous cities in the world and MacBooks here are about 4x more expensive than in US, so investing some money on a good tracker for it is worth it.
There is no evidence that the real world has anything to do with a continuum, real numbers, or R^3. When we look closely at things, we always find combinatorial structures of discrete entities (smooth matter -> atoms -> protons -> quarks). For example, electrical charge is discrete, not continuous, and the unit appears to be 1/3 the charge on the electron (as carried by quarks).

The balance of evidence is that our universe is spatially compact, with time bounded in the past (Big Bang), so it is possible that there are no infinities at the cosmological scale either. The evidence for the temporal future has recently changed from closed (Big Crunch) to open (infinite expansion).

There are various theories about how space and time emerge from discrete quantum mechanical structures. For example, a simple derivation in Loop Quantum Gravity gives a discrete spectrum for area. At the moment, we don't know which theory is correct, but it is likely there is a smallest finite unit of area (and volume).

Another reason for rejecting real numbers in physics, is that each value contains an infinite amount of information. The Holographic Principle is interesting because it rejects the notion of an infinite amount of information in a finite space. In fact, it goes a lot further, and says the total information within a 3D volume does not scale as the volume (!), but as the 2D surface area. Essentially there is one bit per Planck Area, so 10^66 bits/m^2.

It is easy to imagine, but not to describe or prove, a combination of these theories that implies everything is finite, discrete and combinatorial, without an infinity or a real number in sight.
I saw the headline , didn't even read the article and came here to say this and saw your comment.

I've been struggling with auto-layout for about six months now. I finally get it but there's a certain impedance mismatch between how you want your elements to be laid out and what constraints are required to achieve the same result. Humans beings aren't wired to intuitively think like a constraint solver.

I'm not an experienced developer but my thinking on this issue is that the platform should provide some functionality to achieve the most common boiler-plate layouts and anything more complex should be written in code.

Usually constraints are simple and so are the layouts. But to achieve more complex layouts you need constraints which are at cross purposes to each other but have different priorities. It's not intuitive to work through this stuff.

Here's an example :

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25766747/emulating-aspect...

The answer there is great but tell me , you could have aspect fitted the view to it's parent in just four lines of code instead of going through this confusing series of constraints.

I was making a tic tac toe game and I decided to try and draw the boxes and lines using auto layout. The constraints were making me tear my hair out and finally I wrote 5 lines of custom layout code and it took me only ten minutes and this was after futzing about with the constraints for half an hour and it did what I wanted to on an iPhone , iPad and for any height or width.

I personally believe in a simplified version of FlexBox for common cases (yes I think it needs to be even simpler) and custom code for anything more complex.

Bringing in all the baggage of a constraint solver to do your layout is like trying to use an Abrams Tank to kill a mouse.
This post is why hiring processes suck for the company, but IMO the solutions presented here swing the pendulum too far in the other direction. Aptitude tests and work sample requirements are great, but there's some kind of ethical line crossed when you're constantly taking and taking from your applicants without giving anything back in return (e.g., meeting someone face to face).

I've been on both sides of the fence before and I know what a grueling process hiring is for both applicants and managers, so I certainly appreciate the time commitment that goes into hiring. That said, if your company wishes to present itself in a way that is caring of its employees, a great first impression would be in the hiring process.
I know the feeling. We're somehow wired to blindly believe in the decades ahead of us for so many aspect of our lives -- be it compound interest or love affairs.
The most peculiar aftermath of losing somebody you love way too early is this sort of spell being irremediably broken. You start being skeptical about even the not-so-distant future, because you can't help but feel it might won't be for you after all.

It's not even a good or bad thing on its own, you've always known it was part of the game: the sun rises, bigger animals eat smaller animals, tides come in and out; yet learning to live with it on your skin affects you deeply. Anyway, thanks for your comment.
Serious suggestion: Post some screenshots of some example GUIs. It's very hard to evaluate wether a GUI library is worth spending any time on without seeing it.
I've only used GitHub Pull-Requests for that, and I guess it's the perfect way. Your friend could create one pull-request for each chunk of changes (better when scoped to one feature), and then you go visit the PR to enter comments on his changes.
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An impression I have is that, bad as hiring practices are, we still hire good people most of the time. At my workplace we have the mainstream HR hiring process, but we hire plenty of talented, creative, engaged people, and have a healthy culture. Some things like the personality test, are a pure cost with no conceivable impact. Everybody should know how to take a personality test by now, just like we all learned how to pass a "behavioral" interview.

A process that admits some variability, even if by accident, may make your organization more robust in the long run by avoiding mono-cultures, both technical and personal. Some of the skill areas that my employer depends on, including mine, were hired by accident.

The most frustrating thing is HR won't let you see what's out there and adapt your requirements to what's available.
>Is there really some point in sitting and trying it all day long? I mean, if you cannot "get" it within an hour, aren't you doing something wrong? Or it takes different length of time for different people?

Disclaimer: I am more a follower of Zen Buddhism.

There is no right or wrong. The goal of this, any other forms of Buddhism, is satori. It can take some people a year, some people a lifetime, but at the end, practice and satori are one.
I still prefer DVI for its satisfyingly solid and chunky connectors, with positive retention screws. I've seen bent pins but I don't think I've seen anyone completely break one in the way that HDMI does.
NiMH cells are expensive compared to alkaline cells. A quick check on Amazon shows that, when buying a decent amount of AA cells at a time, alkalines go for about $0.28 each compared to $1.67 each for NiMH cells.[0][1] Add in a charger (and consider that most cheaper chargers are really crappy--look for NLee the Engineer's reviews[2]) and many don't consider the benefits to outweigh the initial capital costs. (Also, alkalines tend to operate at 1.5 V for a good portion of the voltage curve whereas NiMH cells are usually around 1.3 V. This can cause problems in some devices, although less so today than, say, ten years ago.)

I absolutely agree that NiMH cells are superior in almost every way, but it's not irrational to prefer disposable batteries.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-Performance-Alkaline-Batt...

[1] http://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-AA-Rechargeable-Batteries...

[2] e.g. http://www.amazon.com/review/RMWO7UZ9TAVRF/ref=cm_cr_rdp_per...
You did read that I was talking about an 8 year old kid who is learning the words "clothes" and "red" in school? Still a few years to go to ask for and look for programming help in English.
Do you continue to sit?
PHP has built in support for ebcdic. It's bigger than nix.
One thing is clear: Hyperloop is here to stay — as long as these early prototypes function according to plan

Hmm, author might not be familiar with how prototypes work.

I think its a great idea though, hope they get somewhere with it.
I've just been rewatching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Friends_in_the_North , and it's great (although not the same bit of The North).

It stars a James Bond and a Dr Who, and thanks to Game of Thrones I've just got to watch Peter Vaughan tragically decline twice in a few days. It's available on tpb.
Yup, a paid Trello clone with marginal functional differences.
Remember that Liukas is not a native English speaker and she might not have understood how that will be understood.

Secondly when you talk to any journalist you have to be ultra careful they don't twist what you say into some thing that fits their agenda or their own biases.