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There are a lot of free resources about meditation online. You can search on youtube for dharma talks or guided meditations.

A lot of monks publish free resources online as well:

A pdf on the basic method of meditation from Ajahn Brahm: http://www.dhammaloka.org.au/files/pdf/Ajahn%20Brahm%20-%20T... is a good place to start.

Also one thing that is taught in a meditation class is to not judge or despise the thoughts that arise, just notice them and let them pass.

It also protects against your wife getting out of the car with the key in her purse while you drive back home after dropping her off.

The steel casing was in the survey provided to the contractor as part of the contract documents.

http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2022757238_berthapipe...

After reading this[1] xkcd post about the ROV he built, I've wanted to try and build a similar one when my son is old enough. Then after seeing the Oculus + drone video I wanted to add that in as well and go "diving" in Puget Sound

[1] http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/11/05/submarines/

Seattle Transit Blog had a post that touched on that topic. (which I can't find) I think the reason to not do that is that the tunnel is too deep so you would not have stations downtown since the cost of each station is more then a transit only tunnel.

Is the early example in the document correct?

Using an input string of abc123 he claims [a-z]+\d+ will match the entire string (which I agree with). He then says that [a-z]+?\d+? will only match abc1. Wouldn't it fail since the non-greedy match on [a-z] would just match 'a' causing the non-greedy match on \d to fail trying to match 'b'?

xkcd had a comment showing relative depth of the oceans and lakes. The kola borehole was also on there.

https://xkcd.com/1040/

But now that you know that pothole is there you avoid it your next time passing. I assume an autonomous car would have a similar memory about road conditions. I also imagine the cars could share that information among themselves so instead of each driver having to learn about the pothole only one car would have to and then the network would be aware of it.

From the name I thought this was Cloak the VPN tool.

https://www.getcloak.com/

I'm surprise the app store allows two apps to be named so similarly.

Agreed. That and blank lines between the if blocks to visually separate the code blocks as well.

A friend pinged me over IM to ask if it was down. I hadn't noticed since I've been using the Gmail Offline chrome app. (Which I really wish they'd merge with the main gmail app)

I think it's type 1a. There was a discussion on this recently after a new supernova observation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7104056

Basically it's unknown if it is a two star system where the neutron consumes the partner, or a three star system where two neutron stars collide head on.

Correct, I called out the provision that patents must be licensed at a reasonable rate in the attempt to draw the parallel with the reasonable market rate compensation for eminent domain, but left that portion out by accident. Thank you for calling it out.

No, I'm not kidding, I was simply pointing out that there are other incentives besides financial. I never said intellectual curiosity would pay the bills just that I felt claiming 0 incentive wasn't completely correct. Something along the line of no financial incentive, or greatly reduced financial incentive is better.

Governments can take your land through Eminent Domain if it is shown to benefit society as a whole.

Also is the government "taking" the drug, or just not extending monopoly patent rights for it? Also even patents (in the US) have a provision that they be reasonable licensed in exchange for gaining the temporary monopoly.

Although I'm sure there has to be more to this story. If Bayer wasn't going to sell the drug in India (since it wasn't made for Indians) has that 'privilege' been taken from them? They still have monopoly rights elsewhere in the world.

It does make me wonder why, in an attempt to capture more revenue, it isn't being released and priced locally in the Indian market? I'm guessing fears of re-export degrading sales in the western world?

I'm sure I'm being very pedantic here, but the "no incentive" argument has always bothered me. Saving a life is an incentive. Satisfying intellectual curiosity is an incentive. So the company does in fact have incentives to develop something new without this "privilege." The may have a strongly decreased financial incentive, but that is very different from no incentive.

What affect would expansion of the universe have on the bullet? Would it just be a little longer and pointier?

I thought the same thing as you and had the same reservations when a marketing exec asked me to put one on the purchase page for a startup I used to work for. I was shocked when the A/B test we ran showed a lift. I wish I had more details but this was about 5 years ago.

I think people just want some assurance, even if it isn't backed by anything they understand, that a shows them that a decision they really want to make is ok. Putting a shiny badge that says it is safe is enough to sway some people.

I wished the article went into more detail about how it could form. My hazy memory of astronomy from college, I thought matter falling onto a neutron star from a companion star was how a type IIa supernova occurred. How would the neutron star be "swallowed" without triggering the nova?

So when Obama's term is up and a new president is elected will the problem go away?

Labeling it as "Barack Obama's NSA" incorrectly boxes the issue into the typical left/right categories we use in American politics. It will turn off those on the left, and not get the point across to those on the right why this is an issue. Since he used that kind of partisan language in the press release it really makes me question his motivations on this. Is he against it because it is wrong, or because it is an opportunity to ding the president and get his name in the press again.

What kind of beef cattle do you raise? I'm trying to track down heritage breeds but having some trouble. If you have any leads please contact me through the email address in my profile.

for #1 I was wondering if you could build a messaging system where the sending system didn't know the location of the recipient. It also would mask the connection between sender and recipient. Basically you would send a message to a key to several servers in the network. Each server would look at the key, and if it matched their address they would store the message. They would also forward the message along so an outside observer wouldn't know that that server held that inbox. Basically 10 messages would come in and the same 10 would come out and maybe one would be stored, but you couldn't tell that. You would have to age out the messages, and I'm not sure if you could guarantee delivery. By observing the network you could tell where messages were originating, but not where they were terminating. That is the extent of the though I put into it, it's fun to think about but I'm sure there are many holes in the idea.

for #3 the post runs the stories they publish past the government to make sure they do not publish anything that would be truly damaging. After consulting with the government I assume they decide what to redact and what is ok to publish. I think this was the crux of the government case against Manning in regards to responsible v. reckless disclosure.

I personally can't stand smoke detectors and would love for someone to improve on them.

My house has very high ceilings, so dealing with any issue with the detectors is a pain. I change the batteries yearly (even though all my detectors are connected to power) mostly for safety but also since I can never find which alarm is beeping. Mine beep once every 5 minutes if the battery is low, twice every 5 minutes for some other issue and blink a red LED is something else is up. They might blink green if everything is OK, or if it's tuesday I don't really know, I just know they are terrible and non-sensible. It's almost like they want me to turn them off. (Have I mentioned they make me angry) So if it ever gets to the point where one has a low battery I spend forever moving from room to room waiting for a beep. Also since the beep is so short it's hard to even tell if I'm in the correct room when I hear it.

Additionally one night an alarm went off in the middle of the night that we had never heard before. I had no idea if it was a smoke detector or not. A simple interface where I could get status would have been great then. Another night (why is it always the middle of the night?) we heard beeping from an alarm, so I went to the garage, got the ladder and climbed up to the alarm only to find out it was the CO2 detector near the floor that was beeping. I can't say it enough, an interface with words to describe the system as opposed to beeps is all I need to be very happy. I'd pay for that.

Give me smoke detectors that report status to a system so I can see which have low batteries and which alarm recently triggered (which they can do for reasons other than smoke). Heck even let me disable the kitchen detector for a set timeout when I'm frying something. Please do this.

I work at Grameen Foundation, and we do that in developing countries. The system we are developing, called MOTECH, is a modular application that can be used for Pill Reminders, tracking appointments or sending periodic educational messages.

We have a lot of work still to do, both on our documentation and our code. You can read about the system here http://www.motechsuite.org/ or watch a video describing some of our implementations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzYy6NETvGI (there are shorter videos in our channel if you don't have 14 minutes). Our code is on google code if you want to check it out or even help out http://code.google.com/p/motech/

Would some of the issues around pharmacies being required to sell birth control or plan b medications fall into the same category?

Vittana already does that. http://www.vittana.org/

Do you really think an autonomous car will seek out and join a traffic jam? How many times do you think an owner of an autonomous car will have to be left stranded because their car intentionally got itself stuck in a traffic jam and couldn't pick them up before they trade that vehicle in for one without such a short sighted "optimisation"?

Are the streets really free? Don't property and gas taxes pay for them? Is it really that hard to imagine a system that charges per-mile for driving on them? I don't think the three options you list are the only three and I also don't think this is an intractable problem.

Couldn't that "location" be a parking lot? The article did mention that some 25 - 30% of a city is devoted to the car today. Some of that is the street, street parking and parking lots. Why would the car circle instead of 1) returning home 2) performing a secondary function (delivery, driving another family member) or 3) parking?