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I learned to meditate by reading and listening to Krishnamurti (among many others). "Meditation is not different from daily life" he says. "It can be done all day." It's exactly like being in the zone that you get into when you code, play video games, run, exercise, etc.

You can do it better and without needing a crutch activity by consciously shaping your thought/energy patterns; by constantly focus your mind on pure observance and acceptance of all that exists in the current moment without allowing "I/me/mine/he said/she said" ego thoughts to take over (by simply realizing and reaffirming that those thoughts are devoid of value). The ego driven thoughts go away after consistent practice, as does the suffering associated with such thoughts.

Seriously, if you are sensitive to "what so-and-so said about you on Facebook, or what your rivals, boss, friends, etc think" or if your brain just races and races away into the night and you can't seem to shut it down...meditation is the best way to fix all that. Get in the non-ego zone and just stay there all day. And do some exercise, preferably Yoga which is all about balance, which is what life and your mind and consciousness are all about. Don't think about it or "try" or plan or obsess over how it's going to change your life or what people will think about it. Just say this is what I'm doing now and go ahead and do it without ego. It is a huge relief.

http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-dai...

http://www.krishnamurtiaustralia.org/articles/meditation%201...
Misconceptions maybe about the magnitude of the drop, but not the existence of it. The gap down at the open, not to mention declines the previous days, was textbook.
"Consumers" would care if they weren't able to access some killer app because they don't have WebGL. Some of us are working on making tools comsumers will want to use that are only possible with WebGL.
It actually resolves to a public IP: 192.0.43.10, which is why putting http://www.example.com into a browser will give you a redirect to http://www.iana.org/domains/example/
In our (everyone's) defense... it's a really nice photo.
Again, one can't help but feel that a hypothetical 16-core
Magny-Cours would have been a better option.

I think that this quote demonstrates exactly the reason that AMD went forward with their catastrophe - current architectures can't get much more parallel. AMD is betting (heavily) that Intel's architecture will max out in the near future while AMD keeps improving Bulldozer. Should be interesting.
I just read what they wanted him to replace his research with. The nerve...

Did he actually infringe on anything or does the First Amendment apply here?
Haha, that's why I always use a dummy email addy at our own domain and make sure all unrouted mail bounces.
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>This empty state of mind allows for better problem-solving

This is the claim I'd like evidence for.
Getting this post to the front page of HN will help increase the Streisand Effect for Carrier.
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Then what evolutionary purpose do you think mind-wandering serves? We clearly tend to think about various current problems of ours (whether technical, social, or other) when our mind wanders; it's not an accident.
A lot of comments here are about what you can't do with this site (with the usual conclusion that therefore the site is useless). Sure, there are some things it doesn't do. It doesn't teach you how to cook, or do your shopping, or do your homework...

But for what it is, I love it. A recipe is two parts - the ingredients (in what proportions), and how to use them. This completely separates the "how" from the "what" and that's great. Sometimes, I know how to make something, but I need suggestions on what the proportions should be. I like that I can add my own ingredients and find out proportions, or that new ingredients are suggested below. In fact, coupled with the recipes on the side, I can find out how to make it, and immediately vary to my taste. A normal recipe doesn't do that, and unless I've made something many times, I might not have the proportions down pat.

Complaining that this product isn't a different product doesn't make sense to me. If you are completely uncreative when cooking and require exact recipes then don't use this. Or if you already know how to cook something, then why do you care, for example, that "duck" is listed instead of "fat" and "duck legs"? For anyone in between, I think you can use this to easily and successfully adjust a recipe you already sort of know. And that's cool.
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Wikipedia, how about showing ads?
Well, it seemed a rather strong claim. I was wondering whether I had reason to believe myself abnormal in this respect (a fact which I would find interesting).

I suppose you meant that it leads to bliss for yourself?

> You say you can empty your mind, I doubt that. Can you give me evidence?

This is a much weaker claim, the scope of which is myself. The evidence is my personal anecdote, and from your perspective this may constitute poor evidence. But at least if my anecdote was true, then my statement would be true. The same cannot be said for your statement, unless you would like to present (at least) a set of anecdotes.
They must be using a catch-all address otherwise most emails wouldn't exist and bounce without much notice.
Top banking jobs are, for people who make it through the first year and collect a bonus, in decent economic times, the highest paying jobs out of school.

However, if you've ever actually worked a 90-or 100-hour week, you know that it's not a pleasant experience. Junior-level banking averages 70-80 hours[1] per week and spikes to 100+. I lived in a "banker dorm" building during 2007 and saw many, many wraith-like analysts coming into the building at 2:30 am after a day's work.

[1] The reason for this is multifaceted, but one of the problems with banking is that it holds the expectation that analysts (a title that has nothing to do with analysis; it just means "junior peon") arrive at 9:00 am, but work travels down the ranks throughout the day and almost always has a next-day deadline. The result of this is that junior-level bankers don't get started on actual work until 3-5 in the afternoon. If they were allowed to work a late-shifted schedule, they could probably cut their hours down to 55-60.
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GPA and IQ are not all that strongly correlated (about .50)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#School_pe...

Self-discipline, working memory, socio-economic status are all better predictors of GPA.

http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~duckwort/images/PsychologicalScien...

Standardized tests, depending on the test, often test for conformance to expected grading criteria and aren't really any better at correlating with IQ.

In fact, it's often shown that in many cases, high IQ is negatively correlated with GPA (the smartest kids by IQ often get lower grades because they spend an awful lot of time being bored out of their skulls in school).

http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/siegle/Publications/VTBookUndera...

I'd be perfectly willing to take the bet that a randomly selected 90th percentile PSU grad is smarter on an IQ test than a randomly selected 30th percentile Harvard grad (by at least 15 points).
Too little to offer for bootstrapped start-up?
We're a super early bootstrapped start-up with 2 founders (husband and wife) trying to build a community online marketplace. We're also very new to HN and loving the lost hours of reading.

We live on Maui and while we're cash poor we're "location rich" and started thinking we have the perfect 'incubator' to work on the project. Our daughter left for college and we converted her room into a guest room. Our son lives in the 'ohana' (in-law) downstairs where my office is along with kitchenette and bathroom.

We work at home and suddenly thought... "aha! what if we offer to move a pair of talented hackers into the ohana to work with us until launching an MVP and/or acquiring seed capital?"
(airfare, room, meals, small per-diem and equity in the company)

The question is, does an offer like this seem totally slave-labor lame and offensive, or does it sound like a unique opportunity to work on a project that we plan to take national and then global from a groovy location? We think the latter, but then we live here, so we wake up on Maui every day regardless.

Frustrated by a lack of skills (I'm a designer and wife is a writer; we've both 'dabbled' in tech for years), we're just trying to find unique ways to solve our lack-o-hack problem.

Aloha for your replies, we're grown-ups so we can take a flame or two :)
Probably 5 to 15 points if we're comparing 90th vs. 30th percentiles, depending on how we define "percentile" (do we just use GPA, or also include major and research contributions?). Performance at college is more indicative (of talent and skill) than what college the person attended... at least when we're talking top-100 schools (this includes most state flagships).
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I typed in duck confit, and was quickly able to remove duck, and add duck legs and duck fat, to the recipe.
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Isn't enlightenment the ultimate form of self improvement? Maybe you are practicing a different form of Zen than what I am used to. I don't think tracking itself is anti-Zen, but stressing out about your measurements would be. (also worrying about what is and is not Zen seems anti-Zen).
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don't forget Abdur Chowdhury bailed shortly ago as well, he was their Chief Data Scientist (although better known for leaking all of the aol data)
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You also need a front page that doesn't flip me off for not having a browser that supports web sockets.

Even if your app (whatever it is, I can't even view _text_ about it) requires web sockets you can explain that somewhere else in a less… 'gtfo old man'-kind of way.

(I know you guys tried to soften the blow with the whole we heart websockets cuteness but it was very much a case of "… well, sweet then. Closes tab")
It is problematic; more so because it is true.

Households that make more than $500,000 a year pay less in taxes as a percentage of their earnings than households that make $50,000 a year. They also benefit disproportionately from the protections our society offers and suffer less from the economic uncertainty that has become the bane of middle-class existence in the last two decades.

Now I am certain you can find more than a few members of that group who are sympathetic to the plight of the middle class but how many can you find that would be in favor of rescinding the Bush tax cuts?
As an employee of a big consulting firm, I'll second that. How and who you present your ideas to is much more important than the ideas themselves.
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Lost within the story is the amazing, powerful way they delivered the message of how they came to be. Subtle, unique storytelling that is quite unlike anything I've seen before in the way it was presented. Clearly, there's a whole heaping of talented people in there - and not just an amazing product.
(Is that "WHOA" needed? I understand it's in the original headline, but having it in all-caps on the Hacker News homepage is slightly annoying.)

Anyway, I don't find this strange at all. If I was going to guess who, if anyone, would be objective and focus only on merits, I'd put pg and Y Combinator near the top of the list.
Interesting. I wonder if she tried to convince big brother first?
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So who are the top achievers you are referring to?

I think it's more likely that they do and we don't hear about it.

I'm pretty sure if Dennis Ritchie had climbed Everest or something, it would be all over the internet now.

Anyway, my point is that as humans we often make the mistake of seeing patterns where none exist. So, we should be wary of making claims that are unsupported by strong evidence.
AMD's problem is that they can't compete either in the low power high performance (the 45w and under laptop chips), or high power high performance markets (like the high end Xeons).

So they build massively parallel chips, and try new stuff like the Bulldozer platform, which creates a bunch of trade offs. It's very similar in concept to the Sun/Oracle Sparc T-series, with lots of great performing integer cores, and (at least on the first models) less than stellar floating point.

The best thing they ever did was to acquire ATI, which gave them great integrated graphics and allowed fairly balanced and inexpensive platforms. Their long term problem is that the really lucrative parts of the business are all being taken by Intel.
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Please read my other comment on this thread with some links to articles that might interest you. - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3264078

Krishnamurti has a lot to say about meditation, I also recommend the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, the Bhagavad Gita (Jack Hawley translation is very thorough, it's subtitled A Walkthrough for Westerners) and lastly The Upanishads (the one with commentary by Eknath Easwaran is excellent.)
meditation is not about clearing your mind and stopping it from wandering (although that is a basic way of practising it), it is about understanding the nature of your mind and how to control it. it is control of your mental state the same way types of yoga are control over your physical body.

if was about stopping the mind from wandering only, well there are drugs for that.
while cool, I don't believe those characters are technically ASCII.
Wow. This is so human and so sad.
30-40% productivity gain per monitor? Can you cite that?
It also sounds like the filter is more about money. If you have expensive hobbies, you probably can relate to other wealthy people. Consulting firms in particular are looking for people that can "build relationships" with clients.
So? 50 get accepted out of every 2,000+. They admit their prototype wasn't well-polished.

This is like the relative of a famous celebrity (or scientist) not getting into an elite school and admitting some part of their application - essay, scores, whatever - wasn't as well as it should have been.

Am I the only one insulted by this article? If anything, it's also irresponsible of SF Chronicle of sticking both of these girls in the limelight. Imagine if she wasn't Zuck's sister; should your rejection somewhere be published in a major newspaper?
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Could you point me in the right direction to find out more about Post-It notes? The most in-depth thing I was able to find is this article, which hints at what you are talking about but doesn't go into the full details:

http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/frysilver.html
I'm not aware of any studies here, but it's been said many times that solutions to tough problems often present themselves while the ponderer isn't thinking about the problem, sometimes upon waking up or just before falling asleep.
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Better link at: http://xkcd.com/980/huge/
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"On sheer clout alone, the pair seemed like a shoo-in."

I don't think the author is familiar w/ Y Combinator.
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Fundamentally, design is the wrong analogy. In design, there is a designer, and then there is something being designed. In society, the "designer" is already part of society, and he doesn't have the same degree of control an actual designer has.

Let's suppose you assemble everyone together to agree on and implement a design. The design process literally turns into a political process: a competitive effort to benefit fundamentally unreconcilable private interests and opinions rather than a collaborative effort to come up with an objectively good system. Stable, democratic governments aren't designers: they're a manifestation of the powers that be in the society already.

What form of government is a designer? The closest match seems to be some sort of brute-force colonialism--when foreigners try to redesign a society that they, themselves, are not a part of. The next-closest analogy to design is absolute dictatorship. Once you get into stable systems of government, even one-party states like China, or mature colonial states, but especially democracies, the political and economic system governing society is the result of a competitive game between different players, not the result of anyone implementing a design. Framing social problems in design terms is fundamentally wrong--well-functioning societies do not work that way and societies that are designed turn into bloodbaths until reverting to a form of society that's not designed.

I'm not unsympathetic to your viewpoint. I like to design things, too. Unfortunately, some things just can't be designed. There's a process fundamentally dissimilar to design--natural selection--that ultimately produced the human brain out of competing, uncoordinated forces following shallow goals. And when you put humans together in a social context, there are processes fundamentally dissimilar to design, made out of competing, uncoordinated forces, that ultimately produced liberal democracies. The biggest joke on the designer ever is that these undesigned processes eventually end up doing a better job than any designer would, as the blood-soaked social designers of the 20th century discovered.
Paywall and Disqus? (Can't speak for anyone else but Disqus never loads on my browser, it just sits there spinning.)
I read it to be something like: the American economy is structurally set up in a way that disproportionately benefits households making more than $500,000. Empirically, given how real wages have trended over the past 50 years (flat, with decreasing job security, for everyone except the top), that's at least close to true. People seem to disagree much more why that is, though I do agree that a substantial number of people have implausible theories on that point.
Meditation isn't about tuning OUT, it's about tuning IN.

Also, it's not 'suppressing' anything, it's just not paying the 'me' thoughts the attention you normally would.
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It would probably be cheaper for sendwrite to put all the envelopes in a priority mail box and ship them all together.

The white house mail room will anyway do the final sorting to individual congressman, and this way you don't have to pay postage on each letter.

But still individual envelopes though (inside the box).
it's not a fallback, it's the default behavior. originally when you would send mail to a user at a host, the MTA would just connect to that host on port 25. the original SMTP RFC (821) pre-dates any DNS RFCs, so originally there wasn't even a concept of MX records and you just e-mailed someone at the server they had an account on.

after DNS was in place, MX records came along in order to route mail destined for a host to a different server, or just supply a list of backup servers. now since most people just use email addresses containing only a domain, MX records are pretty much common place (since the A record of many domains resolves to the web server). now MTAs check for MX records before trying to connect directly to the host.

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test.jcs.org has no MX record
jcs@thalamus:~> host test.jcs.org
test.jcs.org has address 10.10.10.10
jcs@thalamus:~> echo test | mail test@test.jcs.org

and shortly after, in postfix's mail log:

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This and SOPA lead me to think at some point we might need technically-trained judges and congresspeople.

Understanding whether Eckhart was peddling 'inaccuracies' hinges, I think, on at least some technical proficiency. I'm not a legal expert, and even if there were inaccuracies I don't know if that establishes the plaintiff's claim or whatever.

As more and more legal complaints involve more and more complicated tech, how can we expect even a brilliant legal scholar with no technical expertise to determine facts in complicated cases?
I don't see evidence of this. Intel has moved to a more scalable ring bus while AMD is still using a crossbar (although the Bulldozer module design should allow each pair of cores to share a crossbar port).
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