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smanuelon A Simple Guide to Meditation

I like Castaneda's wording on meditation - stopping the world and not doing. Well, it's not actually on meditation but the outcomes are very similar... or could be.

To perceive the world as it is and not as it's described to us. To experience it directly without any thought or language.

http://alangullette.com/essays/philo/stopping.htm

smanuelon Meteor Raises $20M

Hmm, I didn't know that apps that use websockets needed a different kind of auto-scaling and monitoring.

That's interesting. Thanks!

smanuelon Meteor Raises $20M

I couldn't find any pricing information on their website and that's why I asked.

I've heard people using Meteor on Heroku, DO, etc. but I've always wondered why someone would choose Meteor's hosting rather than host Meteor on Heroku (for example) and use a ton of other available plugins.

smanuelon Meteor Raises $20M

That's cool. Does Meteor actually make, sorry for using such a dirty word, money from something?

smanuelon The Rise of Men Who Don’t Work, and What They Do Instead

> ...and What They Do Instead

entrepreneurs?

smanuelon Elon Musk Had a Deal to Sell Tesla to Google in 2013

Yes, in the long term they can be a software company. Can't predict yet about the car company though.

smanuelon 100 Days as a Black Man in Silicon Valley

Thanks. I just wanted to make sure you don't put all white people in one basket, labeled privileged.

So, by your definition there should be "white non-privileged people" as well, right? This means we shouldn't talk about black, white, etc. people but we should talk about having more non-privileged people in tech?

I like this thinking but I don't understand what should be the mechanisms for making it happen. The only universal (both for privileged and non-privileged) unit of measurement I can think of is talent. Which brings us back to square one - we need more talented people in tech. Which means that people who are responsible for hiring other people should not only look at prior experience, education, etc. but should also be able to discover talent. Which is hard but I think that's the right direction.

Am I right?

smanuelon 100 Days as a Black Man in Silicon Valley

> we need to break the 'privileged white male' echo chamber that keeps coming up with the same dull ideas

Can you elaborate on the definition of "privileged white male"?

smanuelon iPhone Killer: The Secret History of the Apple Watch

Exactly my point. The technology is there (e.g. [1]) but not in watch form factor. It doesn't need to be, and nobody wants a med lab on his wrist. That's why the Watch is not a health device and saying it's the first step/attempt is just blah blah marketing.

[1] http://acceldx.com/

smanuelon iPhone Killer: The Secret History of the Apple Watch

You missed HealthKit. HealthKit is something that solves a real problem. Having all your health data stored in one place, that's something that makes sense.

Apple Watch is Not a health device and I fall short of imagination seeing it as a health device. The first attempt? If they really wanted to create a health device, they would have certainly done so, it's not like they don't have the resources. If they really wanted to create a health device they would have created a device which measures blood pressure, body temperature, does blood count tests, etc. Not a watch that counts steps and sends taps and heartbeats.

smanuelon iPhone Killer: The Secret History of the Apple Watch

So much marketing, so little time for people to get reasonable answers to questions such as: Why exactly do I need an overpriced watch that I need to charge every day and replace every few years? A watch which does much less than my phone. To send taps and heartbeats? Seriously?

Call me a whiner but I really think there are much bigger problems to solve and it's kinda sad to watch Apple do something... because growth and expectations.

Anyway, I hope they find the problem for their solution.

smanuelon Google sends reporter a GIF instead of a 'no comment'

If it's an exception - no. It's fun and it gives a new fresh look to big, evil corporations (but Google is not evil anyway [1]). If it were a rule - yes, definitely infantile and weird.

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/id/101923422

smanuelon Akido Labs (YC W15) Provides an API Layer for Hospital App Developers

Is Akido something like BlueButton+ [1] but which is used (about to be used) by real EHR systems at real hospitals?

If yes, I'd love to give it a try.

[1] http://bluebuttonplus.org/

smanuelon The Village that fell asleep: mystery illness that perplexes Kazakh scientists

A crazy (or maybe not so much) theory: Bacteria. Some bacteria could cause sleep disorders (e.g. Tropheryma whipplei [1]) and this place could be favorable to this bacteria (or another) thanks to the uranium mine.

Just speculating here, but... why not.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20658941

smanuelon The Software Revolution

This post kind of reminds me of a book I read about 10 years ago. "Revolutionary Wealth" by Alvin Toffler:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Wealth

AFAICR in this book, the third revolution is referred to as "The revolution of knowledge" and I think it better describes how and what has changed during the past... 20 years.

Great book by the way. I think it was where I read for the first time a good perspective of how 3d printers could play an important role in the near future.

smanuelon Richest 1% to own more than rest of world, Oxfam says

Allow me to politely disagree with some of the statements. While I realize it's largely a matter of which glasses you've put on, I just can't easily agree with statements which sound like an excerpt from Bill Gates' annual letter.

healthier - I definitely disagree. I can provide a lot of statistics about why I think it is so, but unfortunately I can't provide statistics about what I see happening around me. And sometimes it's scary.

better educated - Disagree. I think there are huge problems with the education system and it's only baby steps that are taken to improve something.

better fed - With what?

So... I agree with "kolev" that these 1% could eventually put their money to better use. Maybe some of them are doing it.

smanuelon Capsela, the game that changed my life

Fortunately Capsela is still alive:

http://www.captoy.eu/toys/iq-key-and-capsela-358/

smanuelon The State of JavaScript in 2015

Yeah, and putting GWT and Silverlight in one basket seems highly unfair. What crisis of GWT? I haven't heard anything about it.

smanuelon Stop writing stateful HTML

I really hope this isn't the day a new horrible term is born. "Stateful HTML"? It looks to me as if the writer is trying to talk about the "isomorphic JavaScript" principles but from a different perspective (the HTML). Am I wrong?

smanuelon 2015 Tesla Model S P85D First Test

The torque is also massive - 687 lb. ft. but still this car seems totally impractical to me. If you drive it like a sports car which does 0-60 in 3.1, you would most certainly drain the battery twice as fast. Charging it every 100 - 150 miles doesn't seem very convenient.

smanuelon Push API – W3C Working Draft

My comment was mainly about serviceWorker.ready.then. I've never seen a JS API using such pattern - the name of the event as a property which is a promise.

A manager object/class also usually rings a bell.

Not that I'm an API specialist but I would rather implement it as:

document.addEventListener("serviceready", function() {

window.pushNotification.register().then(.....

smanuelon Push API – W3C Working Draft

> The push API is pretty awesome

The idea behind this is awesome (although we already have this for some platforms - e.g. https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Networ...)

But the API looks over-engineered. e.g.

navigator.serviceWorker.ready.then(function(serviceWorkerRegistration) {

serviceWorkerRegistration.pushRegistrationManager.register().then(...

smanuelon Introducing Carrot

I would rather wait for v2 (http://introducingcarrotjuice.com/)

Can't handle too much fiber.

smanuelon Advanced iOS virus targeting Hong Kong protestors

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_programming_lan...

but I doubt the author meant it like that.

smanuelon Reddit source code

Thanks! It would be interesting to know what made this guy think that "elegant design" and using .net is the way to run circles around Reddit but...

smanuelon Reddit source code

He was obviously obsessed by .net and circles. But what do you mean by "circles around Reddit" or "circles around something"? Like... g+ circles?

smanuelon Entrepreneur is a silly word, and you sound silly when you call yourself one

There's no problem with the word. The problem is with people overusing it, most of the time as a synonym for unemployed.

And no, if you're working on a cool project/idea that no one is using, that still doesn't make you an entrepreneur.

smanuelon Lecture 2: How to Start a Startup

> What am I missing here? If people like that exist, what's wrong with looking for them?

Because it could be a young kid and brainwashing techniques like that could be dangerous. The question implies that the right choice is "Yes, I would like to work for this God blessed startup for the last 12 months of my life because working here is not a job, it's a mission".

smanuelon CTOs are the new PANDAs

I don't think HN, reddit and PH can help much with consumer products/services or for some sectors like... healthcare.

> by creating something people want first

You can create something people want and people may never know about it.

smanuelon CTOs are the new PANDAs

> In its early stages, the only thing a startup “absolutely needs” is traction; traction will have to happen before everything else; before funding, before media exposure, and now before co-founders as well.

Well, the author just described a good portion of the startup scene which do many of these things before traction. Traction happens because of media exposure, which happens because of funding, etc.

> and now before co-founders as well

If the founder is the CTO, yes. Otherwise, how can you get traction without a working product. I don't get it.