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A comprehensive, introductory course on Mindfulness Meditation
There seems to be some interest here recently on meditation its beneficial results that are of interest to hackers. Developing the capacity for strong, calm focus and eliminating the detrimental effects of unhelpful mental functions are skills that take practice.

Many of the posts that have been floating around don't give very much substance on the nuts and bolts of how to meditate. Since HN is an erudite crowd of people who don't shy away from detailed topics, a more thorough reference is in order.

This is a 6 part introductory course that should take roughly a month to complete. It is self-paced and costs absolutely nothing. Each week you add on to the foundation you build the week prior. There are 6 lectures covering the topics and practice. Each one is a bit over one hour long and has lecture notes to go along with it.

The teacher's name is Gil Fronsdal. He was ordained as a monk and eventually returned to lay life to get his Ph.D in Buddhist studies from Stanford. He is renowned for being exceptionally clear and simple without sacrificing any detail.

If programming is one of the most powerful tools used for hacking computers, then Mindfulness Meditation is one of the most powerful tools for hacking the brain.

Good luck!
There seems to be some interest here recently on meditation and the beneficial results that are of interest to hackers. Developing the capacity for strong, calm focus and eliminating the detrimental effects of unhelpful mental functions are skills that take practice.

Many of the posts that have been floating around don't give very much substance on the nuts and bolts of how to meditate. Since HN is an erudite crowd of people who don't shy away from detailed topics, a more thorough reference is in order.

This is a 6 part introductory course that should take roughly a month to complete. It is self-paced and costs absolutely nothing. Each week you add on to the foundation you build the week prior. There are 6 lectures covering the topics and practice. Each lecture is a bit over one hour long and has lecture notes to go along with it.

The teacher's name is Gil Fronsdal. He was ordained as a monk and eventually returned to lay life to get his Ph.D in Buddhist studies from Stanford. He is renowned for being exceptionally clear and simple without sacrificing any detail.

If programming is one of the most powerful tools used for hacking computers, then Mindfulness Meditation is one of the most powerful tools for hacking the brain.

Good luck!
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This is the new old HN: http://techstartu.ps/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqQ6Z-HmAqY
When there is no interesting technical/startup/business story, and other stories are worth read, so why not read them?

If there are startup stories, articles or discussions that are worth reading, they'll hit the front page in HN.

That being said, HN is community for self-improvement. The story "How money restricts life's pleasures" has no relation to hacking/finance/startup but can be life changing and may be even change the track of your startup.

You are your startup. Improve yourself and your startup will also improve.
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The growth factor also lends itself to a simple expansion of interests. More people mean more attention to a more diverse set of subjects.

The Internet couldn't have supported Wikipedia before the Endless September.
I guess you're joking, but just in case... Knuth hasn't used email for years. http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html
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> we were donating to help out the reddit team rather than Conde Nast.

In other words, you and the other donors lost a game of chicken with Conde Naste, and are paying for something that they now do not have to.

I suppose it's possible that they really would have shut things down or just let the site rot, but it seems a bit odd. Hard to know without more information though.
> Is contract law so inviolate that most people here would advocate honoring it?

Assuming that the contract was made in good faith, he had the opportunity to counsel a lawyer, the other guy didn't lie to him, etc, etc. Then yes I would normally believe the contract should be honored - it is bad horrible contract from Zuckerbergs perspective, but it is still a contract that he signed.

However this was a long time ago, and since the guy didn't show up until now it don't think it is fair to actually give him the procentage of facebook - a lot has been sold to the investors and he could should have shown up years ago.
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From what I can see (from the unmodified one posted above); there are just two excel documents in between the video feeds to label them.
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Zuckerbergs? If he gets 80%, it is going to trash the other investors too.
How would this work out though? As Facebook is owned by so many different investors now, they can't take away what they paid for?
Google is not competing with Apple on devices. Google is more interested in an ecosystem where they won't be at the mercy of other companies. Imagine a vibrant, rapidly expanding mobile internet devices and google doesn't have any footprint on it. They would have to rely on Apple and other smart phone manufacturer not screwing with them, literally being at their mercy.

With Android, this is not the case anymore. Even if Apple decides to screw with Google and provides Bing as default choice for all their products across the board, they have other options.
How does Apple actually scan for private APIs?

Couldn't you write the instructions necessary to make the private API call on the stack at runtime and then simply execute an assembly jump instruction?
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With the help of online outsourcing, you definitely are making more profits without investing on expansion of infrastructure. These would have otherwise burdened you unnecessarily, and hampered your growth prospects.
There's an annual RPS tournament in Las Vegas with a $500 buy-in. Andy Bloch from MIT blackjack team and high stakes poker fame is one proud RPS champion. Pretty serious business!
Wikipedia has to fight entropy as well. They have admins and other moderators who enforce policy about what users can do. Becoming an admin requires spending at least several months editing, and collecting enough friends to get you voted in. HN lets anyone join and submit/comment/upvote stuff right away.

I know it would be a lot of work, but it would be nice to have a "filter all comments and submissions by people who joined after time X" feature. Or at least let me ignore specific users. Oh, and anything I flag should never again be seen by me.
About a year ago a friend of mine was creating a (very small) gaming website, and had created a fairly basic landing page until the site was finished being developed.

As they were between developers, I took their PSD, sliced it and coded it into a basic HTML site, with their analytics.

In the two months that followed, no less than four gaming communities out there stole it as their landing page, without removing analytics - and the best part of it is that it wasn't even a well-designed page, it was REALLY basic.
I definitely think HN has become somewhat of an Apple PR centre as of late. Anyone on here is surely going to get that news from another outlet aren't they?
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How can they be linear? There's an unbounded range of signal strength. Right next to a very high powered tower, it's going to get better signal strength than right next to a microcell, for example. My impression was that they were just shifting the scale so that more instances would be <5 bars.
One thing's for sure: it's the best way to browse HN on an iPad

Really? There are no comments, you can't login, and you have to bounce to Safari to actually read anything. It doesn't even look that slick. What's the point?
It depends on where your interests lie. Math is all around us and is involved in most everything we do, so any subject will work.

When was the last time something made you stop and think "that's cool--how does it work?" What was it and what about it caught your attention?

Just live your life and something will eventually catch your eye. Every "huh, that's interesting" moment is an opportunity to dissect it and learn the math that's involved.
Ask HN: Are irrelevant degrees at all useful?
I've seen discussions on HN before on the question of "is a degree neccesary for career advancement", and given I'm happy with where I am at age 20, without a degree, I'm of the opinion that while a degree might help, it certainly isn't always a requirement.

However I would like to go to University (I left school at sixteen as I was bored and wanted to sink my teeth into something more useful), and am looking at working towards a place at Oxford starting September 2012.

Here's the thing: the subject I would really like to study is Music, rather than one of the many degrees that is actually related to where I currently work and where I hope my career will lead me (CS/Business/Marketing/etc).

Can anyone give me any thoughts on how you would feel if you were looking to hire someone in that kind of area, and they held a Music Degree from Oxford? Obviously I understand that it wouldn't be AS useful as a relevant degree, but would it at least serve as a demonstration that I'm not completely dim, that I know how to apply myself, and that I can achieve what I set out to?

Thanks,
Corin
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Right now all I see is two URLs unrelated to the topic and a couple of people using columns A and B to chat. Vandalism, or a google docs issue?

Update: now the whole spreadsheet is completely blank.
Same as the Debian policy. That doesn't seem to be a big deal in that community. Are the guidelines for the the App Store? Does it seem okay to ship a product with known bugs? Admittedly, I've never gotten an app approved by Apple, but as an iPhone user I can appreciate these things.
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Funny, this reminds me of all those old 2d mass-spring engines. I believe there was a cool one like asteroid where you could shear off one of your engines making your ship spin around. It was open source too. Can't remember the name.

EDIT:
Ah, found it: http://www.alecrivers.com/physical/overview_physics.htm

There is even a older one that was an form-based application for windows where you could edit particles and connections. Pretty fun.
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While I agree that there is a net benefit to granting some form of exclusivity to creators, much of your argument appears to address a hypothetical world in which the current protections are suddenly replaced with none at all.

I'd be very interested in a consideration of what would happen a hundred years later, when copyright is just a historical footnote on Wikipedia. Would there still be superstars of creation (like Pixar, Rowling, etc.) who find new ways of exploiting their creations? Or would we eventually find a way to crowdsource enormous cinematic and literary creations, with, as you said, the creation being owned by everybody and nobody? Would society as a whole benefit in the long term, despite losing out on the future creations of our current creative powerhouses?
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>> but it would be nice to have a "filter all comments and submissions by people who joined after time X" feature

That's a bit much I think, very elitist.
I've hired a lot of programmers, and a music degree from Oxford is something I'd view as a plus, provided you could demonstrate that you also have the necessary technical skills.

Personally, I was a philosophy major.
It's here : http://news.ycombinator.com/classic
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Speaking of long responses, feel free to ignore this, I just wanted to explore your idea a bit.

If I am understanding you correctly, it sounds like in your example of re-writing your landing page the question you're facing is "Can we measure the value that re-writing the landing page generated" (or even "Can we measure value"). It sounds like the elusive nature of the answer to this question is coming from a couple of sources:

1) Incompleteness of information - you can't possibly know who's sharing links to your site or what exactly caused every new visitor to decide to visit (was it just x,y, or z? simple correlation?).
2) Complexity of information - even with perfect information of the environment your site operates in - the number of variables affecting it is so large that it would be near impossible for you to comprehend how they all interconnect and determine the root cause of the up-tick.
3) Inherent subjective nature of value - The new trend could be fleeting, or even worse -- you might have changed something that increases short term performance but may be detrimental in the long term (Reddit gold?). This makes it hard to categorize this as good/bad/neutral.

I think the root cause of all of these issues in relation to your conundrum is the basic desire or need to categorize information we receive about the world. In this example, you would be attempting to categorize the rewrite as an action that was either positively, negatively, or neutrally valuable, and at least the above 3 limiting aspects of this information are preventing you from easily doing so.

The two extremes of the options you'd have, given this, would be on one end to try and minimize the limiting aspects of the information (maybe going so far as to invent some type of analytics tool with AI that can tell you with X probability that the action will be worth it), with the other extreme being to throw your hands up and ignore any information related to it. I think the question obviously isn't "which option do you choose" but rather where do you draw the line -- where do you stop and decide that whatever else lies beyond your current state of understanding can remain unknown?

I think in the literal sense, this is relatively easy, as we have to make choices based on limited information every day. The real trick is in the follow-through: refraining from judging our decision to limit ourselves (or not) as either good or bad.

Sources: just my own thoughts and opinions...
If by application you mean registration, then yes, it is required for some purposes, at least in the US:

http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html#register
This is a great audio course, but I'd still recommend that folks interested in learning how to meditate try to get to a meditation center at least once, to get face-to-face instruction. It really makes a difference.
Monads are a special case of Arrows.

You can think of Arrows as generalised functions: the type of a function is X -> Y, whilst the type of an arrow is A X Y, where A takes the place of the infix type ->. So another way you can write the type of a function is (->) X Y, from this (+ technicalities) we see that functions are Arrows.

Monads are a special case of arrows where A X Y becomes X -> M Y or (without the infix syntactic sugar) (->) X (M Y); Monads can take control of the outputs from operations, whilst Arrows can take control of both the input and output to operations.

I found Monads made a lot more sense after I learnt about Arrows because Arrows are what I wanted Monads to be.

btw, the "killer app" for monads, imho, is parsec:
http://legacy.cs.uu.nl/daan/parsec.html

whilst the "killer app" for arrows is probably FRP:
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Functional_Reactive_Progr...
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First off, I don't think the lack of a degree brands at all someone as dense or slow. Also, depending on the degree and school it's received from, the holder's persistence and/or determination can be generally deduced.

However, I would not choose to hire someone who didn't have a clue about the general area the job offer was on, regardless of what the job specifically required. I would rather try and judge her suitability from a personal interview, instead of a few lines on her resume. For technical tasks, you don't have to be a CS grad to solve them. For research and development, I'd value a formal background on CS more.
Most news can be received from various outlets. It's the context that matters; I enjoy discussing about Apple-related news here with my peers.
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I've been here 1184 days, and consume the majority of my online news from links on HN.

It's always been like this.

Like any social news site, you can never get content that perfectly suits what you want. When you start looking for content you think doesn't suit your tastes, you will find always find it.

Nothing has changed.

Vote up posts you think suit HN and ignore ones you don't.
Previous discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1486158

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=707236
You're asking the wrong questions :) Is it a significant portion of accounts? Yes. There are thousands of free accounts and about 600 paying. But do people who actually use their free accounts stay free? No, at an overwhelming rate, they upgrade. Something like 30-50% of all free accounts with more than 5 time entries upgrade.

Most free accounts are drive-bys or people who are merely curious. I'm also looking into ways to capture some of them, convince them to get over the hump to actually trying it, but I don't worry about how many accounts are free vs paid any more.
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I am by no means rich, but the thing that nags me with all of this is that they seem to assume that getting rich is so you can buy expensive automobiles, huge houses (granted, I would properly buy a good car and a large house if I could) and that this alone will bring you happiness, but this seems an awfully shallow look at things.

I can't stop to wonder if one wouldn't be happier if you had a large house and a nice car but used them as a means to an end (eg a large house so that you always had space for guests, maid service so you didn't have to waste time cleaning up, etc).

All of these studies seem to find nothing more than the fact that people who have no direction in life won't get it from money - which is both true and very obvious.
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Befriend a superconnector. A superconnector is someone who knows everyone.

You can identify a superconnector from a mile away. They are the ones who are usually talking on their Blackberrys - talking with contacts and setting up deals. They love playing the role of connector and introducing people to other people. It's their raison d'être.

When I first started my business, I was lucky enough to find a superconnector client. He was very happy with the results of my marketing work and proceeded to talk up my book and introduce me to influencial people and business owners in his network. Years later, I'm still benefiting from it.

Find a superconnector. Befriend him or her (and be a good friend) and deploy the "first, ten" marketing strategy by Seth Godin as your newly expanded network unfolds: http://3.ly/firstten

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What's the difference? I see different ranking, but why?
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Single page, fewer disctractions:

http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.asp...
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Could you elaborate? What is "classic"? A special way to rank the stories?
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I don't think the value of a site like HN lies in the submissions - or at least not entirely. What I find really engaging in HN is the quality of the comments, very often insightful and pointing to interesting resources.
If you are a startup or a job seeker, you can also come to our startup career fair and meet other entrepreneurs on August 17th at the Stanford Park Hotel in Menlo Park, CA.

Here is the link to register: www.careerelement.com/jobfair

We expect over 300 tech job seekers and 20-30 startups.

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Cheers,
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iPad's (at least in my office Fortune500) are very much the new must have tech executive toy. Toy is probably the wrong word as they are carried everywhere to every meeting.
Still a small issue: the graphs aren't the same scale (64b goes 0-5; 32b goes 0-4)
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I wouldn't call it an "Apple PR centre". Most of the Apple related submissions recently are of critical nature (e.g. antenna issues, restrictions of the iPhone SDK). I agree, sometimes the Apple related share of stories on the front page is overwhelming, but you should also consider how many startups/developers depend on things happening around Apple.

For me it's not about getting the Apple news from HN, but following the (high level) discussions about them.
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> Sprint already has a phone on the market

Sprint and the Evo 4G are using WiMax though, not LTE, I believe.

And though there is no 4G standard yet (LTE is 3.9G, the candidate for 4G is LTE-Advanced) WiMax definitely isn't it.
I'm new to HN, I only signed up a month or two ago and it's been a great portal for tech stuff for me, it takes pride of place in my RSS schedule.
Music is far from an irrelevant degree; it actually requires surprisingly sophisticated mathematics, and you emerge with a genuine skill.

Irrelevant degrees are things like 'asian studies' or 'art history', where you learn how to criticize without learning to create.
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Got for it - if you have the drive to get into Oxford and through the degree then, to be honest, I suspect the exact content of the course isn't that important. (I know very successful people who did degrees at Oxford in classics).

Actually, I personally would look on someone who does a music degree rather positively as it is the kind of course that only someone who has a passion for the subject is likely to do, rather than doing something purely for the career/earning prospects.
Degrees are for signaling. If you want to signal that you're as smart as a typical CS or Business student, pick a program they would drop out of (Math instead of CS, Economics instead of Business). If you just pick music, it's not a strong indicator of your skills.

I used to work as a recruiter, and the candidate for whom I got the most interview requests ever had a triple-major: music, physics, and math. You don't have to go that far, but if you can minor in math at a minimum, it's a good idea.