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Tell HN: A spiritual Start-up/experiment for world piece
(fellow HNers this is going to be a longer than usual message so forgive me in advance please!)

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First of all, I’m writing this message because 1. I’m inspired by Om Swami [0] and 2. I think our planet need us to do something tangible, positive today immediately (not in terms of technology :p). Recent UN report says that 60 Million People Displaced By World Conflicts [1]. Tensions amongst world powers may cause another world war [2] which if happens, could devastate the whole planet with potential loss of billions of lives. World Health Organization’s first global report on antibiotic resistance reveals serious, worldwide threat to public health [3]

During this difficult times when our entire planet is ridden by wars, natural calamities, diseases and perversion of values, we often think that if we could do something about it. But the next thought tells us that “what a lowly individual like me can do?” and we end up abandoning the idea of making a change and rather choose acceptance as an excuse.

It’s true that one individual could hardly make a difference especially when the whole is collectively working against it. But the same collective efforts channelized in positive direction could make the difference we individually desire.

This is the need of the hour. And what do we need to do? 5 minutes meditation once a week on the same topic at the same time from wherever we are [4].

From time in memorial, India knows and practices meditation (Yoga) for its evolutionary and liberating effects for body, mind and soul. Modern research also verifies the positive effects of meditation [5]. For skeptics, there’s even a research on yogi’s mind capabilities [6] by a leading psychiatric institution Menninger Foundation [7] (Detailed Report [8])

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At this point, it's semantics. In France there is a thing called PACS [1], which is kind of what you refer to.

However to make that equivalently semantic "government version" union would require changing of a large amount of legal text (e.g. taxation legislation). If the "government version" was simply a stand-in for "married" (i.e., reusing the variable) then what difference has been achieved even semantically?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_solidarity_pact
> Manned aircraft, even quite low-flying ones, are not trespassers — at least so long as they comply with FAA rules on overflights, which usually means 500 feet or higher. Helicopters can go even lower without trespassing so long as they are operating in a safe manner. As a result, unless the drone is quite low, there may not be an actionable trespass at all. And if there is no trespass there may be no intrusion justifying self-help.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014...

Edit: Nolo has a page about the issue: http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/what-do-when-your-nei...
Try blending it once de-thawed if you're experiencing that.
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Have you ever seen a drone? They sound like an angry hornet's nest and fly about 20 minutes. The stalker stuff is pure FUD, promulgated by people who are afraid of them based on a hypothetical that has to date never happened. Once.

Read every story that claims it has and think hard.
It's a huge problem for us, we manage analytics on a large group of sites and reporting back to the client has become a huge pain.

We have to setup custom filters for all of these. Google does have a feature to automatically remove know sources, but it's not turned on by default. Here's the announcement: https://plus.google.com/+GoogleAnalytics/posts/2tJ79CkfnZk

We also run Piwki on all our client's websites as well and they block this junk automatically: http://piwik.org/blog/2015/05/stopping-referrer-spam/
(continueing remaining post)

considering it an experiment, if successful, would not only be helpful for our planet but also rewarding for our individual selves. I can definitely squeeze 5 minutes out of 70080 minutes per week to see if there’s any truth in it.

PS. Just like U.S. continues to produce brilliant research in technologies and material sciences, India continues to produce brilliant souls for spiritual evolution and liberation of human beings. I consider Om Swami amongst one of such evolved soul. But he’s treaded life more or less like one of us as you’d learn from his memoir [9]

"
In the 1990s, an eighteen-year-old headed to Australia to realize his worldly dreams. With little money or support, he struggled to survive there. Two years later, he was earning an annual income of $250,000; by the age of twenty-six, he was a multimillionaire. Yet, worldly success was merely a way station on a journey that began years ago.

As an eight-year-old, he saw a vision of God in a dream, an experience that left him with a sense of deep joy and peace. The dream triggered off his desire to meet God, to see a manifestation of the Divine. He practiced astrology, intense meditation and tantra, yet God was nowhere in sight. Deeply frustrated, he dived into materialistic pursuits to distract himself from the restlessness within.

After years of living the good life, he found he could no longer ignore the old restlessness; worldly pleasures just couldn't fill the void within. He moved back to India and finally did what he had always yearned to do: renounce the world and become a monk.

In the Himalayas, in terrifying silence and solitude, Om Swami practised intense meditation. Death was always close as he confronted starvation, the fierce elements and wild animals. Finally, his sadhana brought him to the ultimate realization: I am what I have been seeking.

This is an astounding memoir of the making of a spiritual life in today's challenging and often confusing times. If Truth Be Told: A Monk's Memoir will light up your path, wherever you are on your life's journey.
"

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54pr9bQ8iiA
1: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/18/world/60-million-people-fl...
2: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/08/yes-it-c...
3: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2014/amr-report...
4: http://omswami.com/2015/06/the-greatest-secret.html
5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_on_meditation
6: http://www.neilslade.com/Papers/Rama.html
7: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menninger_Foundation
8: http://www.swamij.com/pdf/swami-rama-beyond-biofeedback.pdf
9: http://www.amazon.in/If-Truth-Be-Told-Memoir/dp/9351368068/
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If that happened in Canada you would be in jail after the first offence.

I know a buddy who owns a gun, and he is only allowed to discharge it at a gun range. And he is only allowed to carry his gun on his person if he is on the way to the gun range.
I think that seniority is closely correlated to understanding tradeoffs. Where a junior and a senior can make from time to time the same decision, how they do it is different. For junior it's often the only option he sees, or doesn't even realize he's making the decision that will have consequences. Whereas senior will think of the context and what are the possible options. All of them will be suboptimal and tradeoffs will be involved. And he'll pick the one that makes most sense with limited information from the context (tech properties, people impacted by the decisions, effort vs importance etc.).

...And senior's decision will unfortunately often be suboptimal as well, but that's what it is. He at least tried to understand the consequences and didn't have access to more information to evaluate it better. But he tried and will reflect on the failure and hopefully do slightly better next time at least in similar context.
I believe they also have 2 or 3 "correction" fires of the engines in every trip. They know of their exact position by looking at the planets and radio waves.

I remember reading somewhere that the Curiosity mars ship initial impulse was so perfect that there was no need of additional corrections.
84,000 websites serving the X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett header
All the bugs discovered by musl, and how many are glibc-related:

That's just a crazy number of bugs.

The page doesn't say how they were found. By building test suites during the creation of musl? Do conformance suites not already exist?? Or were these (hypothesized) tests just more rigorous?
Is it possible that the difference in cost of producing ten Chicken McNuggets and twenty Chicken McNuggets is negligible?

Chicken McNuggets are likely produced by machines, since they all come in the same n shapes (n a small integer). Whether I order ten or I order twenty, I feel like the McDonald's employee opens a bag of them into a fryer without counting them out. Maybe they always cook the same number in a match to keep the result uniform. Maybe the difference in cost for the two box sizes is trivial. And maybe the other half of the batch has a non-trivial probability of being thrown out because another order of 10 McNuggets won't come within "safe" food serving time, so they may as well give it to me for the extra $0 to make it feel like I got a deal.

Or maybe it's just something Marketing thought up, even though it reduces their profits. I'm under the impression that in other countries (Canada?) the retail price of 20 McNuggets is greater than 10.
> Throwing out food feels bad.

There's a positive side effect where your purchase impacts Costco's sales volume, which impacts their negotiating position with the suppliers, which makes the same product cheaper for everyone else.
Awesome, now we can dox icanns board members and their families.
Do they actually care about those comments? Have they in the past changed politics based on similar comments?
The title made this sound like a far more exciting duel, with shotguns mounted on competing drones. "Rural drone shotgun battle".
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I heard both :) not to mention the Hungarian pronunciation of c-h-x where I originally come from -- I am using this nick for more than twenty years and 1993-2005 I heard it only in Hungarian as my contact with the Western world was mostly virtual. Then everything changed at the first DrupalCon in Antwerp but I am getting off topic here.
In Modesto, CA unlawful discharge of a firearm (firing into a neighbor's yard because you believe the CIA is flying a surveillance drone there probably qualifies) might land you in jail as well. The victim didn't call the police.
I definitely expected an article about Acid and the other research chemicals commonly masqueraded as "acid", when in fact they are dangerous research chemicals or hints of all sorts of drugs mixed together.
I so wish more places would let me get a smaller portion, or opt out of certain things, even at the same price.
Don't worry about the girlfriend thing. That will fix itself if you fix all the other shit.

Go and get another job as a statistician - by this I do not mean applying for them. Work out where you want to work (ish), find some excuse to get to know people there and just talk about coming to work for them. Is there an annual "stats in the advertising industry" conference? Go there, pay attention, talk to people about stats. Pretty quickly, if you know your shit, doors will start to open.

I got a job offer off a usenet post once.

When it does get to the point where you're physically in their building and talking about whether or not you could come to work for them, fess up. "You should know I've made some mistakes in my past and ... my legal record shows this ... I want you to know before you find out".

Voila. Do the full Trainspotting thing - washing machine, big fucking TV etc. Then meet some women and just be nice. Problem solved, I guarantee it.
I couldn't find it anywhere. What are your thoughts on collapsing empty columns to take up less horizontal space?
Often having as little as google ads on your website or a flattr button is considered "commercial activity" by courts.
I was actually trying to find automatically-updating charts with 1-minute granularity on Pingdom yesterday. It doesn't seem to exist on Pingdom, but this site has it. So that part at least seems nice.
The assumption is that 10 nuggets and 20 nuggets are alternatives that should be compared. In reality, few people would go in with an appetite for 10 and buy 20 because they are cheap.
> They took great care to make sure the ads were unobstructed.

Definitely. My comment was not a sarcastic "they just want ad views", it was a genuine compliment. Good for fixing a screen as well as getting "extended" ad views.
Shooting weapons in the air without knowing what people are around and what exactly you are aiming at should be considered mental illness or at a minimum felony operation of a weapon and their guns should be seized.

Seriously, if you a "fan of gun" and want guns to be legal, you need to have strict rules or people think of them as toys.
Is it just me, or are the bin sizes listed from jemalloc (assuming 150 should be 160, and 182 be 192) not dividing each power-of-2 range linearly?

16, 32, 48, 64, 80, 96, 128, 160, 192, 256, 320, 384, …

It looks like, from 64 and up, each power-of-2 range is divided into two quarter ranges and one half range.
Have you actually experienced this personally? Because I freeze milk routinely, and have never had any problems.

Let it thaw completely of course.
It might apply to some positions like SRE, but surely for an engineer working on one of their mobiles apps, there are still many problems to solve.
> The textbook definition of ACID Isolation is serializability

Not really: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID

He confuses ACID and isolation levels. Typical internet FUD.
So give it away for free. After eating yell "I have extra, anyone want some free nuggets?". If no takers just walk away.
You're a hero. That is an awesome idea.
That sounds like a "no one will ever need more than 1MB of RAM" statement. Of course consumer drones will get better.
Design courses: http://www.coursebuffet.com/sub/design
Except he contributed to many of the userland tools and was part of the UNIX working group, which does make him a co-author, even if he didn't wrote the first kernel lines.
I guess drone delivery services are going to be out of the question for rural areas unless they are really flying high.
Dawn of the Progressive Single Page App [slides]
Sounds like he means two costs $x and 1 costs $x. i.e. literally the same price.
Well, I agree with you, but, in all fairness, the individual did know exactly what he was shooting - a drone. And he took it out in one shot.
"We need to get a new carbon filter for that MilliQ machine"
"Wait there's a carbon filter in the milliQ machine?"
"Yeah..."
"...oh, that explains all those results I got"

^ Actual conversation I had in a breakroom.

Stuff breaks all the time. The temperature of the lab changes. Connections get loose. 95% of the time, when the experiment doesn't work, it's because you screwed up on something that's either difficult to control or impossible to control or which you didn't even realize probably wasn't the thing you expected it to be.
> > This is the third time discharge from your firearms has hit our house and property. The first incident left a bullet hole in the door by our garage. The second incident occurred last Thanksgiving when birdshot from your skeet shooting activities rained into our backyard. The third, of course, being what we're currently discussing.
They mention adding bacterial culture - quark cheese involves none of that. See the link for "yoghurt cheeses" at the end of the article.
Headline: ICANN jeopardises the DNS from which they derive relevance.

/>10yr NFSN client
They are not being required to publish their home address or phone number. Businesses are being required to publish their business address. If you're engaged in trade as a business, this is a reasonable requirement. (Otherwise, how do your trading partners reach you if they need to for legal reasons or any other legitimate reason?)

At the same time, it should be perfectly reasonable for a business to hire a registered agent and supply their contact information. The point is that the business be reachable.
There seems to be yet another threat to our collective privacy every month or so. Normally, I sit firmly on the side of an individual's right to privacy, but in this case, I think ICANN have a legitimate point even if they're being quite heavy handed about it.

WHOIS is an extraordinarily valuable protocol with a heritage dating back to the ARPANET days. As an example, for quite a while we've had this ideal of the semantic web we're trying to move towards, but in practice each website is its own special snowflake with more concern given to legacy rendering in Internet Explorer than making sure that contact information is easily findable and semantic. But it's mostly okay, because if I really need to contact someone there's this almost 40-year-old protocol which gives me unfettered access to information such as a technical contact email and an address.

Many registrars don't seem to pay much attention to the quality of their WHOIS records and most people or businesses probably don't give it a second thought or check the records after registering a new domain. But they should; and I applaud ICANN for their efforts to uphold the quality and integrity of WHOIS.

That said, the right to freedom of speech implies that one should have the ability to disseminate ideas with complete anonymity. ICANN's proposal would completely undermine this, which is unacceptable.

I think there is space for a middle ground, where ICANN can ensure that the WHOIS records aren't what amounts to a blantant lie in the case of anonymous registrations (i.e the registrar providing their own details as the contact information). The current situation is pretty bad: if I want to contact the owner of such a domain, all I can reasonably expect is for any email sent to be blackholed by the registrar. I'm not talking about attempting to deanonymise the owner of such a domain, merely the idea that a domain is a named endpoint with an owner who is contactable through freely available means.

Imagine if ICANN created a new class of domains where it was made explicit in the WHOIS that the owner wished to remain anonymous, but nonetheless provided accurate information such as a pseudonym and a means of contact without violating their privacy. This means of communication could be some form of email hosted by a trusted third party, or potentially something more esoteric such as a GPG-encrypted message embedded in the bitcoin blockchain.

This would preserve the correctness and utility of the WHOIS database while respecting the rights I believe ICANN have a responsibility to uphold.
Agreed. Pour a gallon of milk in a crock pot, heat it to the Right Temp (I forget what that is), add a teaspoon of regular yogurt (for culture), and then let it sit (I forget at what temperature). It's tremendously simple.
I was able to renew a domain recently specifying a PO Box address.
That just raises more questions. Forgive me, I'm Australian.

Why, after having live fire arms discharged in your direction (on 3 separate occasions) did the victim NOT call the police?

And why after going to small claims court, was the shooter not brought up on this? The shooter doesn't appear to have disputed the claim that he shot in the direction of someone else's property.
I still do not understand how 1M free theme downloads translate into 6 figure business.

Does that mean every 10th downloader actually gets you a comission of $1 on some affiliate purchase or does that mean that every 100th downloader buys something generating $10 in affiliate income?
I wanted to add that there are several forms/types of Vipassana and several different types of centers that conduct retreats. Many people get confused and think that there is only one type of Vipassana.
Take a look into The Insight Meditation Society located near Boston. They also have a large center near San Francisco, and various groups around the country. I think you may find the instruction less 'cultish'. Insight Meditation Society (IMS) uses a sliding scale to charge for its retreats and I have found them to be my favorite center for going on a retreat.
Another thing to keep in mind is that it is not necessary to do a ten day retreat. You can start with a 2-3 day and work up from there.
This is why it's time to move to Rust. Trying to retrofit single-ownership semantics to C++ never quite works. It almost works. But not quite.

C++ has been trying to get single-ownership semantics to work right for almost two decades. "auto_ptr" went through three standards revisions before the C++ standards committee finally gave up and dropped it. Now there's unique_ptr, where, after sprinkling on some move semantics, almost works, with fewer holes than auto_ptr.

Getting this right needs a borrow checker, like Rust's. Now that borrow checking has finally been figured out, there's a way out of this mess. Trying to do borrow checking via the type system just doesn't work out well.
I just wrote to ICANN with their basically arguing that, although I used minorities in the US as an example.

There has got to be a few radfems who have top level domains too. Say what you want about their politics but they are excellent at wiping up a shit storm.
NameCheap sent out an email about the same ICANN proposal a few days ago. Unfortunately, the NameCheap email focused almost exclusively on the lack of privacy for businesses. It merely glossed over the more important issues, such as ambiguity about what counts as a a business, as well as the requirement that privacy services disclose their customer's identities to anyone who asks.

This is bad. Very bad. The NameCheap email probably gave a lot of people the wrong first impression about what ICANN's proposal really means. Seriously, it sounded like they were just complaining about their bottom line. And since a lot more people use NameCheap than NearlyFreeSpeech, not many people are going to read the more thorough analysis and urgent call to action that the NearlyFreeSpeech article contains.

If anyone around you has read the NameCheap email, please tell them to forget about it. Tell them to read this article instead.
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Please, as peonicles says, do share what these failure patterns are. I am kinda curious, as I thought the Android API is pretty good, and makes you make applications that don't block GUI by default.
> Scala pretends to solve this problem by "layering" code.

From my perspective that's the large difference between Java and Scala. In Java, complexity leaks into the use-site (especially with Generics), in Scala it's possible to shield the user from that complexity.
> no false positives

> will not catch everything in any way

This is why I'm unsure of the value. And to be clear, by "unsure of the value" I don't mean "unsure whether it has any value." It certainly has value. I'm just not sure how much, as, say, a dollar figure.

"No false positives" is fine marketing, but in practice you aren't replacing anyone's firewalls, endpoint agents, sandboxes, SIEMs, etc. All those false positives will still be there, along with many legitimate detections your system never sees.

If money were no object, then absolutely I'd buy. But given that money is usually a factor, that you're limited to detection, that you're only effective in scenarios where attackers touch your decoy systems, and that you're competing for dollars against products that detect more, detect it sooner, and often prevent it automatically, I don't know.
How about a larger size which is less expensive than the smaller size?

http://i.imgur.com/k8Dup.jpg
I think the European practice of having a candidate on a 3 month evaluation period(when it is easy to fire) and then having a job security afterwards seems a reasonable balance between employer and employee needs.

It is hard to pull wool over someone's eyes for 3 months especially in a results oriented field like programming.
Here in Spain it is the same, 4, 6, 9 and 20 pieces