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Tricky question. The sections that describe the process of dying were fascinating, especially those sections that describe the grand luminosity. I found the message behind the ideas and processes he describes very positive.

However, Sogyal Rinpoche's message about compassion seems a little thin to me in light of the allegation. He is accused of abusing his position to coerce followers into a sexual relationship. Doesn't seem compassionate to me.

I'll admit that I've judged the man based solely on accusations and intimations. But the accusations are strong and are repeated. I encourage you to read the article I linked in my original response.
I'm 20 and I have been interested in science, technology, and spirituality for as long as I can remember. I've seen a lot of life and a lot of death in my years of wandering in the West. I guess that's why this book resonated with me.

To me, Buddhist thought just makes logical and intuitive sense with everything I have studied about astronomy, physics, biology, and chemistry. It just feels natural and has no arrogance about it, just a gentle affirmation of life and love. It also shows the darkness inside us and how to conquer it with mental force, not physical force.

Buddhanature, from my experience, is about fully embracing life and transforming your suffering into potential. And the most practical way to achieve this goal is to have a clear vision of reality, live in accordance with natural principles, and keep developing your mental capabilities.

I fully agree that Buddhism is not about anything mystical and that people overthink and project a lot of madness into it. The only thing people can do is keep striving, there is no higher goal than enlightenment.
I think there's something wrong with it. Why do I get something of mass '1' to affect something with a mass of '1000000000' to such a large degree?
For the record: I'm not American, and while I don't self-identify as 'European', Scotland/the UK is considered part of Europe.

I know that it's a lingua franca, and that there is a certain expectation that important information online will be in English - but even as someone who only speaks/reads English I think that's an unfair and unreasonable expectation.

Regardless of country, if you can't read and understand the rules/signage, you'd better have a 'native guide' or you're going to do something wrong and not understand how to put things right. That's as true for Libya/.ly as it is for Germany/.de or China/.cn.
there are various algorithms to reduce the complexity via physically motivated approximations, see http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~scandal/alg/nbody.html for an older but accessible introduction
Consequences of Bad Product Design
Please don't make it free. "If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold."[1]

This is the kind of thing that will provide value if it's quick and focused. Ads would wreck it!

But do make it affordable though ;)

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[1]: http://www.metafilter.com/95152/Userdriven-discontent#325604...
I work in Switzerland as a physicist, have friends who work at CERN, and have toured the facilities. Seems like a great place to work! Just make sure you are payed a Swiss not an American salary as things are a tad expensive here in Switzerland.
> SSDs for the stuff you can't afford to keep on an SSD

I think you meant 'in RAM' there.
The simulation is quite bad numerically. If I start with a proto disk and then put an non-moving OMFG particle immediately to the left of it, the whole system that is initially at rest will end a with a considerable momentum to the left, even though no or almost no particles carry any momentum to the right. That is not only not to physical scale, generating momentum out of nothing is completely unphysical.
Same here... I counted 14 boxes with numbers around 30, so that was 420. I rounded up to 500 because I knew there were skipped boxes. All under 5 seconds.
All of the medicine prizes (and most of the chemistry prizes are related to carbon-atoms :)
What have you been eating and drinking? Does your employer provide you with unhealthy snacks and/or energy drinks?

Are you going out to lunch at restaurants and having big portions?

Are you drinking alot of coffee with sugar and cream in the morning?

Gatbage in, garbage out.
I wouldn't doubt it if he did fall to his primal urges. It's the human thing to do. The predator and prey games play out everywhere in society and in most instances, no one is really thinking about it.
Whether or not adult content was physically hosted by vb.ly or not is really a technicality. If the link results in porn in your browser window...
It's like referring to Donald Knuth as 'the TeX guy'.
I never understood why certain books who are covering a framework or a very particular aspect of programming must start with what is basically a short tutorial about the programming language they are using. Maybe it's just me but I always assumed that someone who buys a book about JQuery already knows Javascript and if he doesn't a short tutorial just isn't enough. Take a look for example at [Hacking - The Art of Exploitation](http://nostarch.com/hacking2.htm), a great book that deals with stuff like buffer overflows, network sniffing and shell code injection but starts with a tutorial about C...
I've considered that but have not tested it as I didn't like how it looked visually. Perhaps I will though, since conversion is key for me. Alternatively, making the "preview" smaller would help.
No, it's normal, and blaming it on a medical condition is dangerous and not helping you fix it. Perhaps in some people it's due to ADHD, but in most it's not.
This is what your firewall is for. If the IP is from Libya, send the packets to the web server that hosts the "Libya is excellent!" page. If it's from the country that your users are in, show them the real content.

Technical solutions to social problems sometimes work :)
It's a shame that lots of maths education can actually completely miss what you can practically do with things like integration, differential equations and numerical techniques for integration.

This simulation is built around Euler integration - which is pretty much the easiest numerical integration technique:

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

Even with fairly simple differential equations and numerical integration techniques you can model some really interesting stuff.
Do you guys have any timetable when to better support the german market? I really would like to use your products, but since most german carriers do not accept SMS from your system right now, it is not feasible.
I totally disagree, based on my experience of using semantici.st for my blog and email.

Especially for personal domains, you're going to want to tell them to people. 'Just email me, my address is whatever at richard dot s d o m a dot in.'

It's a huge chore and confuses people. These things are fine when written down, but become unworkable when you decide to go outside and interact with people. (And I don't mean that in a snarky sense - that's exactly the experience I had. It was fine while I was being reclusive and hiding in my study, but when I realised I needed to interact with other living humans outside, it's a liability.)
> That's as true for Libya/.ly as it is for Germany/.de or China/.cn.

I think that you're a lot less likely to run into 'oddities' in Germany than you are in China or Libya.
I guess they block Google, then?
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Ask HN: Suggestion for DVD duplicator?
We need to short run custom made DVDs and are considering purchasing a DVD duplicator - a tower that burns 3, 4, 5, 10, whatever DVDs at a time. Does anyone have a favorite they could share? Any tips or things to avoid?

Thanks!
I learned javascript and jquery at the same time, and it turned out to be a lot more efficient for my purposes rather than learning pure javascript first. So for newbies I think there is benefit in including the general language tutorial first
Wanted! = Acted

The US senate, house, and president all want lots of things that never come to pass, because we have a government with lots of competing interests that (mostly) all have to agree on something before it bbecomes a law. This is in stark contrast to Lyybia or any other dictatorship where laws can be changed at the whim of whoever is in power.

That's not just at the top, either. Dictatorships are usually run like fiefdoms: people are given absolute power over everyone below them, so long as they don't piss off the people above them. So the guy who runs the registrar can do whatever he pleases so long as his boss is ok with it.
Google cache:http://lukaszielinski.de/2010/10/06/calculate-the-average-sa...

It's a nice little trick.

You could also use my absolutely horrible looking http://average.heroku.com/
Read that again, the articles author is quoting someone else making that statement.
I think you're more likely to run into rules printed in English in Germany, but that aside every country has their quirks. It really wasn't that long ago that Germany and France were having a go at Yahoo! over Nazi imagery that was hosted on their services, or for sale on Yahoo! Auctions.

60+ years after the end of the war, it might not be immediately obvious, especially to an American used to 'first amendment rights', that your web page with screenshots from Wolfenstein 3D is possibly illegal.

And that's just an 'oddity' that I, someone who has never even been to Germany, know about.
Life lessons, by jack handey... er, Dorsey.
They would probably block google.ly, or at least filter it.
I disagree. SSL renegotiation is something which should never have existed in the first place. We'd be better off if the TLS working group had removed renegotiation from the standard rather than trying to fix it.

If you want new keys, open a new connection.
Looks like a simpler version of streak.ly
301 redirects.

See: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en...
What a strange infographic. Why are google & oracle on opposite sides, but nokia & quallcomm neighbors? Deliberate or accidental? It looks more "graphic" than "info".
How to become a freelance web developer
Steganography.
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Why are people downvoting this? It seems a legitimate question to me.

loewenskind, can you provide links to more information?
Someone yesterday posted a question about where to find freelance work, and I've been fairly successful at this, so I thought I'd write up a few of my thoughts on transitioning to the freelance thing.
One interesting thing about the idea that most companies can't be like Apple because their super-focused design attitude is risky and costly is: how did Apple get here? If it's so hard for a company to bootstrap themselves into this philosophy (and get large while doing it), how did Apple pull it off?

If my understanding of history is correct, it took a few failures and a dark period of non-success. Perhaps there is an additional lesson in there about recovering from failure and turning unsuccessful enterprises around.

On a related note, can anyone recommend a good book about Apple's history and particularily the story of how Steve Jobs turned the ship around when he returned? I'd be willing to bet there are a lot of interesting stories in that history which probably haven't been widely disclosed.
How to signal an already running process whenever some file is renamed
I am working on a project to manage files. The idea is to transfer information about a file's location through file name itself. So, whenever a user renames a file, the process will scan the filename and move it to the desired location. But I don't know how to signal the process whenever any file is renamed.
I'd actually argue the opposite; Apple pays so much attention to detail that they figured out that multitasking isn't really important, so they could just do it later. Copy and paste is awkward, it isn't absolutely necessary, they could just do it later.

Even the antenna thing: only the tech press knows anything about this. Apple said that just under 2% of people returned an iPhone 4. During that whole scandal, I asked my friends that haven't ever heard of HN, "What do you think about the iPhone 4 antenna problems?" and they had no idea what I was talking about. Even among those of my friends that have iPhone 4s, only 2 out of 5 even had the issue at all, and lately, my Nexus One's antenna has been acting up...

Apple is good at making MVPs, and then improving upon them. Eventually.
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Can Google TV make an impact?
And posted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1051809
I agree.

I'd almost argue that it can be a bad thing - I've lost count of the number of times I've been stitched up by someone with a small level of knowledge who extrapolated incorrectly from it. A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing as often as it can be useful and in 6 months that's all you're going to get (actually in six months coming from nothing you're going to know way less than most graduates and how many people consider that a decent skill level?).

Good founders should bring intelligence and an ability to learn quickly to the table, they should be willing to trust the experts they hire, but I think saying that they should be able to program is a very programmer centric view and no more valid than the sales guy saying you should go sell for 6 months, or the account saying you should be a book keeper for 6 months.

Sure these things are useful but it's perfectly possible to be successful without it and I'd suggest that it wouldn't be close to the best use of 6 months.
This Oct has 5 fridays, 5 saturdays and 5 sundays.
I believe the article said that was because the British 'unpegged' their currency from the gold standard. Why couldn't the British have simply printed more money?

Back to today...

Is the real problem China, or is the US printing too much money and auctioning off too many t-bills/bonds?
import pprint; pp = pprint.pprint
That's bickering over pennies though. If $40 scares you you're in 'hobby' territory. For $150 you can get a flat rate 100 MBit connection, including a machine. That's 4 times as much dough, but it gives you 32400 Gbit/month, or, by your math, $3200 worth of 'value'.

Measured traffic is nice for bits & pieces. Flat rate is pretty much the only way to go if you're using a lot of bandwidth.
Think again; German rules for these things are different from UK/US rules (and other European nations) in several significant ways.

Particularly in relation to their data protection rules (for example).
that's a great project you have there too, the more the merrier! :) I'll drop you a note in a few days describing my libevent replacement in Mirage; it's basically using LWT to convert async events into synchronous looking code. Would be interesting to compare notes...
RFC 2822 regular expression for matching email addresses
Basic common sense would highlight that this is grossly inaccurate and a quick google search confirms it:

Let’s think about this, a year can only start on one of seven days, so there are seven possible basic calendar years. Add leap years, and there are fourteen basic calendars. Period. And one of those calendars only gets used every 823 years? How would that be possible? It’s not of course, all fourteen calenders get cycled through regularly, in fact 2010 uses the exact same calendar as 1999.
Verisign is a complete pain in the butt, a company that should have been taken to the cleaners long ago. But I don't deal with them directly (though they keep trying) but through my registrar, like most people.

Verisign once upon a time actually was a half decent company but then they got greedy and started screwing people over.
In Short:

This made me chuckle.
Some more details and lighter implementations here: http://www.regular-expressions.info/email.html
Introducing Phoebus. An implementation of Google's Pregel in Erlang
How did your rates evolve over the last four years? (from when you were a beginner with no experience, until now)?

Was it tough justifying high rates with little experience?
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That's one scenario.

The other is you muddle through, learn a bit and do an OK job pulling together the prototype. Sure it doesn't look exactly right but you can log in, see some records, make some updates and it's all fine in demos and pitches - hell you've even stuck it on the web for friends to poke and prod.

You now think it's all straight forward and you're nearly there. The whole this isn't secure, is held together with sticky tape, updates aren't transactional so when something does go wrong the data is left in a mess, it has no error handling or referential integrity and won't scale beyond half a dozen users which is all it's ever had to put up with as a prototype but you've only been coding for six months so you hardly understand that these problems even exist let alone understand what's involved in solving them.

Personally I really really don't want to be the tech lead who has to then deal with someone who knows way less than they think and is being told that the thing needs to be rewritten and by doing so is not only delivering bad news but is also having to criticise the persons own personal work.

Some CEOs will benefit from this sort of knowledge, others will be damaged by it - there is no simple rule.
Part of the Mirage goal is to experiment with different parallelisation frameworks on top of a very simple serial core: Erlang's OTP is one way to do this, but there are many others. Personally, I love OTP but dislike the Erlang syntax and lack of static types, hence my choice of OCaml (and also, there are very reliable OCaml-to-Xen bindings available around as part of the Citrix XenServer project).

As another poster on this thread put it (being sarcastic I think, but actually spot on):

GIL getting you down? Just define away parallelism and let the programmer handle it!

We are indeed building multiple parallelisation strategies on top of Mirage, which work across cores and hosts seamlessly. But first things first, and getting the efficient serial version out is top of the list right now...
x is down
Link to first map: http://xkcd.com/256/
Trouble In Clever Domain Land: Bit.ly And Others Risk Losing Theirs Swift.ly
Culture clash... looking at the sites screenshot here: http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2010/10/official-vb-... (NSFW) I can see how under strict Islamic law that pic would be construed as "obscene, offensive and illegal".

I have... minimal sympathy with these people - a lot of the fault lies with themselves for not understanding the rules, morals and society of the country they were buying from.

I don't think that this generally makes .ly domains any more "unsafe".

(on the other hand; if this is an example of Libya deliberately creating rules to seize domains that is another matter, but at least in this case the complaint seems "legitimate" so we may have to wait and see)
Maybe it's just me but I always assumed that someone who
buys a book about JQuery already knows Javascript and if he
doesn't a short tutorial just isn't enough.

There were many to come to Ruby by trying Ruby on Rails first, and I think there are many to discover Javascript by having to accomplish something with jQuery. Of course that's not the ideal way to learn things, but your assumption is often wrong.
Sure, rules differ, but someplace like Germany, you can be pretty confident that things will go through some kind of due process that can be navigated. In places like Libya, I would not really bet a lot of money on that.
I started at about $50 / hr and now I charge about twice that for smaller projects. For longer-term or larger chunks of work, I give discounts because it saves me time looking for work.

The high-risk, high-reward stuff is fixed-price gigs where I charge a set price for the whole project. I've taken a bath on some of these, though never lower than $50 / hr. On the flip side, the good ones have worked out to high hundreds per hour. Stressful, though.
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You are correct. It's generally used for illegal purposes. I'd like to think there's some grey area. If I pay for cable, and have access to Hulu, can I torrent a copy of House too? Probably not since the rip is stripped of advertising. And there is legal video distributed via BitTorrent. Yadda yadda yadda.

It's just a given that many people want a TV device that can acquire and play video from anywhere and in any format. Bittorrent would be a killer feature for me personally, that is all.

If AppleTV doesn't do this, the adoption rate will be lower. I think it's safe to say that AppleTV hasn't been a runaway success to date with the iTunes Store as the only source. The video sharing stuff in the new AppleTV indicates that Apple wants to open it up to more options. The question is how much farther can it go via 3rd party apps and it's exciting to think about.

But Roku or Boxee, as others have suggested, look a lot more attractive in their openness and integrated sources right now. A theoretically hackable Google/Android device seems quite tantalizing too. A fast VLC on the AppleTV sounds like a killer device just begging to download content too.
the map is pretty big so I may have missed it, but I'm surprised I didn't see stackoverflow on there. Its ranked 333 in alexa
What did you do? I can't seem to get a "tiny" to do anything to an OMFG no matter how high the velocity of the former.
500. Thought process was something like "there are a lot of 30s in the list, at least 3 groups of 3, so a really conservative estimate would be 300. But there are about that many boxes again having numbers in the double digits below 30. So, uh, let's go with 500."
OK sorry, actually the Game Gear came after. The Lynx came out about the same time though. Anyway, everybody at the time thought that the game boy will fail because it was so dull.
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