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I don't know much Zen, but after the "Zenish" comments in here, I guess lots of HN-ers do, right?

I maybe am a case of "western individuation syndrome", but for me, loosing individuation for protecting myself sounds rather like an oxymoron. Actually, when there's nothing to protect, there nothing to improve, whatever that guy says. And even if you might say that Buchheit didn't suggest to actually dissolve your personality, it very much seems like he did.

Low expectations, realism when faced with your own challenges, sane aggressiveness or indifference, confronting your own prejudices, vices and frustration, are all possible when one's brain is mentally trained, not when you're living with a general sense of "loosing yourself" or when one's dissolving one's ego.

I don't think "letting go of your identity" leads to "a better version of our selves" or "true self improvement", but to a toxic sense of not being who you are.

"But I am nothing, and so I am finally free to be myself." - if you need to be nothing in order to be free, you ARE nothing.

"By returning to zero expectations, by accepting that I am nothing, it is easier to see the truth." - what do zero expectation has to do with nothingness?

"If I were smart, I might be afraid of looking stupid." - that's not being smart, that's being westernly-smart. Change "smart" with "wise" and see if that sentence makes any sense.

Why does someone always preaches extremes to get rid of another? Now I'm being artistically literal: when you say "I am nothing", just loose the "I".

Hey, I had frustrations, I had problems and conquered must of them, partly with indifference, partly with matured ego, partly with higher self-barricades, but not once I thought of dissolving my ego. What the deuce? - I kinda need it! I was learned to fight and gain knowledge, but then I learned that, when fighting something, you actually give it meaning, so then I learned to give up. So this blog post does resonate with my experience at some extent.

Preparing for "He didn't mean to ACTUALLY renounce your personality": it's dangerous to use metaphors or ambiguous expressions when your next paragraph if a plain-life description. Just don't. Use "lower your expectations" instead of "be nothing". This is logic/biologic-ally wrong. You can't be nothing, but you can't be all of it, neither, so, in the mediocrity principle, just be something, because you already are (how's that for metaphoric?).
Of course, both spellings are common in American English.
That is utter nonsense. Maybe in the Bay Area that's true, but not in Florida.

We've been looking for technical employees (cable'ers, phone techs, etc, etc) for a while (in Florida) and usually come up with crap. We start at $20hr, with full benefits, and a strict 40 hour work week (we like to avoid overtime). That is a very high starting salary in Florida. And we've hired and fired 6 different people for the same position over the last 2 years.

And I can't even tell you how hard it is to find a decent programmer here. Sure there are tons of guys who (barely) write Java or VB. None are remotely qualified to write code for my sister let alone the company. Either I end up writing it or I outsource to NYC. And when you do find someone good, there's a bidding war. I lost a programmer I wanted to hire to one of my customers (a hospital). They offered us a fee if we'd send him over. I sent him him over. They're a good customer so we turned down the fee. :)

These are common complaints down here in Florida; the 4th biggest state in the country by the way. It's not helping that our school system down here is a fucking mess. And that many parents are more concerned about their kids learning evolution than math.

There is one ray of hope for us: the military. I just hired our 3rd vet (I'm a vet by the way too) from a job fair held at the Palm Beach VA.
Polish is nice to have, sure, but if nobody wants to actually play the delivered experience, all the polish in the world won't save it. Nobody should buy a game just because it's polished. While I'd prefer polish on all my games, I'll take an unpolished dwarf fortress over a polished forgettable uncompelling game any day of the week).

As a side note, I'm not sure what rule I've broken to get downvoted. I pointed out that there could be more to this story, and that we don't have solid data on how many trial downloads there were (which is a MUCH better indicator than sales is regarding "marketing" in this case).

For those unfamiliar with XBLA, just about everyone downloads a trial first (every game on XBLA is required to have a free trial, so you'd have to be pretty impulsive to skip it completely), and then you can buy the game from within the trial version's interface.

If the point of the comments here on HN is to add to the discussion, I'm not really sure what I did to justify a downvote. I'm just getting started commenting here and don't really have karma to spare. I really try hard to be a positive member of the site, so If somebody sees this and can point out what I can avoid doing in the future, that'd be appreciated.
Idea of BRICS being the next up brings me shivers and keeps me awake at night. Now that they're in town, they're bound to affect rest of us.
Is “Jupiter” the Future of Windows…PC, Phone & Tablet?
It's a huge deal. I don't use Google+ either but a social network this big will set precedents for everything that comes after it. Every website that might allow you to sign in with g+ id will be affected.
What do they make?
I'm sorry, but 2-2-2 is absurd. I can't get my phone out of my pocket in 2 seconds to answer it, I can't get texts reliably enough to respond in 2 minutes, and quite frankly, despite spending 90% of my time in front of a computer, 2 hours is neither enough to formulate a complete response to (some) emails, nor is it sufficient time to get to a computer to type such a response.
Do you really think that some exec at GE had any role in that?

Note that the tea party has been specifically negative towards GE's rent-seeking.
Ask HN: Which one sysadmin skill do you master better than all your peers?
As a system administrator, which specific skill do you believe you master better than all the peers you have worked with in your professional life?
I have an electrical engineering background and all this FP VS IP sounds like Async Logic VS State Machines. How far off base is that description?
rss to the 'best' page links. since the regular rss has too many items for mee, I would like an rss with only high rated links.
> Is it possible for God to exist in our world?

This isn't the same kind of question, assuming the Abrahamic conception of God, because that God is logically inconsistent. So, if the Abrahamic deity exists, reality is inconsistent, so what right do we even have to consider it reality? Therefore, the Abrahamic deity cannot exist in the real world.

(Nope, no lightning bolts.)
>(ironic that these anonymity requirements are needed to talk about nymwars)

Anyone know what is exactly happening here? I am not advocating for real names, but things like this should still be fixed if possible.
Flash already can do this when you go full-screen. We need a Javascript full-screen mode (it would have to ask for permission before going full-screen).
The one that comes to mind was feeding trays to a conveyor belt in a food processing plant. The trays came on a stack that was from 8 inches off the ground to 6 feet, so each tray came from a different height.

The wood was so rough that I went through a pair of leather gloves in less than a day. (I eventually figured out to wrap them in duct tape while still new, and keep wrapping them whenever I got a chance.)

At least the weather was reasonable. There are comparable jobs in much hotter and much colder weather.

And then there are jobs where it's easy to lose limbs or lives.

That's not counting the gross jobs, like picking up road kill, or the emotionally draining jobs, like putting abandoned pets to sleep.
> Oswald Spengler made a similar argument in 1918

Not really, his main argument was that the western society has lost control of its technology. We (the west) are like a horse carriage where the driver has been thrown of and the horses (technology) are driving the carriage (us) in a wild ride towards the cliff. [An updated version of this philosophical thinking is Bill Joy's Grey Goo article "Why the future doesn't need us." http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy_pr.html]
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Internet's Energy Efficiency
We <i>Still</i> do not know how much energy is required when we send a packet from Japan to Brazil - one major criterion to evaluate the energy efficiency of today’s internet. How would you like to work on this?
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true blood season 4 episode 9 The money raised with this auction will be used to bring children to see the Christmas show of Brentwood Theatre
The tone sounds like a fluff piece. Someone at 35 is "old"? Last I saw, statistics said the average successful founder is 42. Wish I could remember where it was, though -- I know how useless data without a cited source is. (Yes, that's a sly dig at the article, disguised as self-depecation :-)
It's relatively easy toss a coin and always get heads (for both biased and unbiased coins): http://books.google.com/books?id=tTN4HuUNXjgC&pg=PA317#v... (Jaynes's Probability Theory: The Logic of Science, Section 10.3)
Wow,

I was writing from the Bay Area. I suppose I should realize how different the rest of the country is.
I'm satisfied too; but their emails and the procedure to move domains away from them are slightly annoying. Also their panel has too much mess thrown in. Overall I've been using them for years - I'd recommend them.
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Personally I think a FB ad or pitching to friends is a little too impersonal and not a high enough likelihood of many crushes between that group. Instead I'd aim for a small but well interconnected network first, like a single dorm building. The next week, the next one over. Eventually, it could own the campus' attention for a bit, then maybe the next school nearby. Getting a single dorm on board could be as simple as setting up a table in the lobby with a couple laptops and giving out donuts to people who sign up.
This is an ugly hack I came up with to layout my windows how I like them. I have NERDTree and Taglist in a horizontally split window to the left and MiniBufExplorer across the top of the screen. See http://yfrog.com/h7sg7fp

autocmd VimEnter * call<SID>LayoutWindows()

function! s:LayoutWindows()
execute 'NERDTree'
let nerdtree_buffer = bufnr(t:NERDTreeBufName)
execute 'wincmd q'
execute 'Tlist'
execute 'wincmd h'
execute 'split'
execute 'b' . nerdtree_buffer

let mbe_window = bufwinnr("-MiniBufExplorer-")
if mbe_window != -1
execute mbe_window . "wincmd w"
execute 'wincmd K'
endif

execute 'resize +20'
execute 'wincmd l'
endfunction
I also have one for Matlab/Octave that allows you to change to door count to get a better feel for what's going on: https://gist.github.com/411593
Excellent advice and book recommendations in this thread. Though I must admit that upon reading the title, I could only think of this:

http://walkthrough.starmen.net/earthbound/image/screens/36/t...
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If Google is filtering those pages, here's an earlier version of that chapter: http://omega.albany.edu:8008/ETJ-PS/cc10i.ps
For example: It's very important for many sites to know what words are using their users in Google to find them; witch can help them to give users more relevant content according to their interests.
Well spoken; thank you.
I feel like he was saying (at the end) that people shouldn't work on things they find hard.

Was he saying that? Because that seems silly.
Reminds me of Tyler:

It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything.
If we are going to talk about "how can we replace every American job with a robot", we'll have to talk about how replace humans can live ennobling lives of leisures rather than either pushing shopping carts or experiencing empty hedonism.

It would be a good conversation. I don't hear it starting. In fact, there was discussion of these issues in the 1960's and 1970's. By now, with the various crises on our heals, no one wants to consider the problems in this fashion.
The large majority of -ize/-ise verbs come from Greek words ending in -ιζειν [-izein] (sometimes via Latin, in which they end in -izare). English adopted many of these words via the French, which lacks "Z" as a native letter, and so the -ise spelling.

Americans reverted to the -ize spelling on the principle of spelling words as they sound (a foreign concept to the language, we must all agree), and much of educated Britain likewise used the -ize spelling on etymological grounds. (Thus Oxford spelling [en-GB-oed].) Esteemed English institutions such as the Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press still use the -ize spelling, as did The Times, until it came to be perceived as an Americanism in the 1980s.

International English, such as that used by the United Nations, follows Oxford spelling and so uses -ize.
You may have hit on how they could go about making money even after they open source webOS. "Here is the source. Do what you will; if you make money, expect to pay royalties under the following terms". If none of the 'old guard' licenses work for them, they could tailor a new license to their purpose.

I don't think that such an arrangement is in HP's character; however, letting the investment die seems foolish in any case.
Microsoft Annual Review 2011 (15-25% raises)
How is this specific to WebOS developers?
G+ is different from Facebook because Facebook's policies are already firmly set. G+ is still nominally in "limited field testing" and Google has shown a willingness to change the system based on feedback from their users.

So, they're getting feedback from their users.
Because I don't use Firefox.

Well, then, given that it solves a problem you have, maybe you should reconsider that.

I get your general point, but your vision seems to require being locked into one vendor, and I certainly don't want that, especially since I don't use any of the vendor's software.
Are you saying that everything cannot be losslessly converted to ASCII?
I'm not whether this serves as a proof of problems with Japanese robotics.

If Japan builds robots for the factory and the US builds robots for the battle field, it seem logical that US robots would be more useful in nuclear disaster. An power plant leaking hard radiation after a hydrogen explosion does resemble a battle field more than a factory floor, after all.
I also keep mine in Github:
https://github.com/beza1e1/dot/blob/master/vimrc
My favourite two lines (found in another .vimrc long time ago).

set switchbuf=useopen,usetab

Files opened from buffer if exists. Handy for command-t plugin.

autocmd BufReadPost * normal `"

Remembers the cursor position of files.
It is if you don't want to write side effect riddled 'objects'.
While I generally agree with this sentiment:
"if it's important, I'll probably call you before I text you, and text you before I email you."

The combination of the 2-2-2 rule and this sentence - "Needless to say, I've been told to screw off on many occasions :)" - leads me to believe that the author needs a little advice on human interaction. If you're the only one who DOESN'T think that you're an a--hole, then maybe you should get used to the fact that you're an a--hole.
Be sure to check your DNS setup. Ensure that asdf.yourdomain.com is not redirecting to one of their ad pages. Full story here: http://nathanhammond.com/namedotcom-another-unscrupulous-reg...
I agree. Having ego is so outdated. Ego is like believing that blacks are an inferior race, or earth is flat, or earth is 6000 years old.

In other words, "apple is being eaten by you just as much as you are eating the apple". It's not so much that you have chosen to eat the apple, as much as the apple chose to hit the receptors in your brain that will make you eat it. But it's all ridiculous: you and apple are one harmonious system.
Not only is this Zen Buddhism, but this is actually all Buddhism, in its ultimate form.

Letting go of yourself, and saying I am nothing, quite literally means that. We are nothing, simply mounds of flesh and bone. Even our thoughts, and our minds, are not a self. There is no such thing as free thought, no thinker behind the thoughts. All feeling and sensation, touch smell, taste; they all have an origin in the physical realm. Thoughts and ideas are the same, and they have an origin in the mental and physical realm. No idea is an idea floating by itself. They all originate from somewhere, like the sensation of touch or smell. Like, this conversation we're having. The ideas we both put forward have been taught to us, either by books, teachers, or our environments. They cannot be without cause.

An idea: The sun is bright. Why is the sun bright? Because the accepted lexicon of 'bright' is associated with a tingling, slightly painful feeling in the eyes. Why did I say the sun is bright? Because I needed an example in order to explain my words better. Why do examples explain words better? Because I've read words with examples, and felt I had understood more because of them, and so on. See? Where in thinking is there free thought? No where. Then, if we are neither thought nor sensation, what are we?

The pain and frustration we feel from life come from trying to fight with this, trying to see ourselves as a self; a self that has wants and needs that Must be fulfilled. We've become so accustomed to this idea of 'self' that we even shelter it, and protect it. We create elaborate explanations and excuses in order to protect this idea of self, when instead, it should be let go.

By letting go of oneself, you see this person realistically, and in an unbiased way. Pain or circumstance that befalls this person is simply as it is, neither good nor bad; it simply is. We then can improve this person: we are able to see these flaws and these unskillful actions objectively and clearly. Once these are seen, they can be easily changed, since there is no I or me, but a person. Unmetaphorically, and unequivocally, that is what is meant by 'I am nothing' and how it should be used.
If you're joking you got me. I can't think of another commodity whose value is affected by the government to the degree of fiat currency. Even if you leave the impact of government borrowing/spending aside, a dollar (or any other fiat currency) is just a piece of paper until the government institutes legal tender laws and demands people make and accept payments denominated in that currency.
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I bet cyanogenmod's best features will be baked into android, i mean it would be stupid to hire him and be like do what we think it should be, but i bet the UI will become one so you don't have to have cyanogenMOD
I want real names, because they look nice.

This is part of the problem: what you want is nice-looking names, but what you're asking for is real names. Unfortunately, not everybody's real name matches your "niceness" rules, and even the people who have sensible "real names" don't always use those names in all their social contexts.

What I want is for Google+ to list my friends under names that I recognise. I don't care whether they happen to use that name when talking with their parents, their employer or their tax-office, I want to see the name they use when talking with me.
So basically you get an iphone at a regular $199 price when you sign up for a 2 year contract, and you get the already free developer tools!
You might claim that everything can be losslessly converted to ASCII by applying, say, base64, but I would claim what you lose in that situation is readability.

When I wrote that, I was mostly thinking about systems that assume it is always safe to replace "é" with "e", for example.
I think a lot of sites that are like off the radar or think there community is behind them, take a lack in security, and they really shouldn't. Security is one feature every site should think about number #2 or when they say give there users a quality experience if you don't have security then there is no quality
I do think that part was not fully thought out. Some things are just hard, even when they're within your strengths. I think what he really means is that you shouldn't work on things that are hard in a certain way, and didn't realize that only certain kinds of difficulty, those that result from wasting energy on things you're not good at, are bad.
Facebook doesn't go out and actively eliminate users they think have pseudonyms. Google+ does.

Facebook just reserves the right to ask you for your government ID, if there's a dispute or you need to reclaim an account. But in practice pseudonyms are tolerated unless you make a nuisance of yourself.
Would love to ban NYTimes from this site.
I disagree that the author was exagerating when he said that you must become nothing to be truly free. I think it's not about permanently erasing your own identity, but about being able to change perceptions at will.

There are two states we can be in: acting and reflecting. When we are acting, we have to rely on all of our accumulated skill, so we must be confident that we know what we are doing. But afterwards, when we are reflecting on what we've done, we must drop all pretense of having skill and knowledge, and take an outsider's view of our own work. To make a fully honest appraisal of what we're doing we must forget that it is our own work. We must be nothing to see everything.
I was a little disappointed by the abstract nature of some of the later chapters. I bought the book the same week that I stumbled on his blog, but after having read the book, I had to go and deep dive into his blog archives and only then I could connect the dots. I would also recommend reading "Impro" in parallel.
And IMO isn't nearly as good as the earlier one. "I Am Nothing" has a self-help tone that puts me off, and the number of sentences per substance is too low for my liking.

Paul Graham did end up with a similar conclusion, but on the process of leading to it, he kept exploring possibilities. What social behaviors could be objectively explained by the excess of identity? Although he did end up telling his readers what to do, that was just a coincidence. He looked out for the truths and they happen to lead to something that could be applied in real life.

But it all comes down to a matter of taste, and I do greatly admire Paul Buchheit as a person.
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Being nothing is not the goal here. By being nothing, with no thoughts or motion, we would be dead!

The point here is Understanding that we are nothing, to make it easier to let go of the material world, or to let go of any pains that befall us. In this way we have calmness, and gain wisdom.

As for your analogy, that our thoughts and selves are an object in motion, which we must curb to reach a desirable point in space: the reality is, there is no object.
The important question is: how can humans correctly write concurrent code?

We think of "threads" as one of the options. The thing is that we've mostly been using threads with locks (e.g. Java), and slide #3 points out where we have gone wrong:

Drawbacks of threads
...
Drawbacks of events
...
Actually drawbacks of locks and top-level select loops!

In fact, it is "locks" that humans have trouble with.

Note the title of the presentation - Threads without Locks - suggesting another option. (as others have noted, this presentation describes Go, and I personally believe this is why Go will do well)

edit: wording, formatting
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