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I use the iPhone app called 'Soto Timer' when I'm away. It's free and allows you to configure multiple periods (so you can sit, rest or kinhin, sit, rest or kinhin etc)

Sitting every day is most important. There is no substitute for this. A good way to convince yourself of the benefits, and to reinvigorate your practice, is to throw yourself into the deep end and do a retreat. The 'container' of a 'retreat' (retreat is an inadequate word, if you've ever done a proper retreat you'll know why) allows you to sit for extended periods and remain mindful when doing other simple activities like cutting food for your lunch.

As you said though, meditation is a 'practice'. There is no 'attainment' - if you're not practicing, the benefits are basically nil. As such, you need to practice for it to be worthwhile.

The best time to sit is first thing in the morning. Set your alarm, get out of bed (no excuses) and sit down. This is good for two reasons. 1) if you do nothing else all day, at least you've done your meditation and 2) as you've not had a chance to distract yourself yet, you're more likely to remain present. Of course you'll distract yourself with your plans for your day and convince yourself that you don't have time for this, that you're too tired, but these are just stories like all the others you tell yourself. Let them go, and return to your breath, again and again and again.
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More appropriate for Reddit - however being a Kiwi (and someone who once had a trademark problem) I find it amazing the Maori Advisory Board had no problem (I think 'shame on them') and wonder why they did not object.
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Wow, the data was aggregated from 199 different source materials:

http://xkcd.com/980/sources/
As an administrator of an online message board, I concur. Web content is being so efficiently aggregated that some forums turn into the awkward conversation between two redditors: "Check this out!" "Heh, yeah. I saw that."

Communities before were usually separated by platforms, because the platforms were not yet sophisticated enough to support vast communities of varying opinions. Now we have a few big players that can do this and more. Social media has turned into a war over who can blow the most filter bubbles, and with services like OpenID and "connect with facebook", everything has slowly become part of the same identity.

I'm hoping that a new platform will eventually come along to pry this apart, but it's going to take a completely different paradigm to cause it. Unless something like Google+ proves otherwise, websites like Facebook and Twitter et al have the potential to monopolize social networking.
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Do the carriers count these reported metrics against data caps? Overage fees can quickly add up I'm not sure I want my phone using my bandwidth in that manner. Granted, the amount is relatively small compared to user-triggered activities (viewing online video, etc), but the point remains...if I'm nearing my bandwidth limit and am consciously trying to limit my data use, but they're collecting and sending out as many metrics as they indicate in real time, that's not cool.
Ask HN - Can the CAP theorem applied to our Brain?
When reading the CAP theorem you have probably asked yourself: when is it likely for a network to be partitioned? Couldn't a computer (one node) itself be considered as a network (devices communicating with each other)? Especially when there are more than one CPU? And is a LAN a network which can fail?

Isn't our brain the perfect scenario where CAP applies? (a lot of neurons communicating via synapses)

What do you think?

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"People all over Europe have learned to drive cars with manual transmissions - because after the initial pain, the vegetative nervous system kicks in and the wheel, the pedals, the gear switch, all of them become a natural extension, of which you don't think about anymore, just like breathing. And if automatic transmissions are great too, that's because they stay out of your way."

This is how it is, every time a user gets familiar with _concepts_ of his/her user interface, such as a minimize button, a window, a taskbar, it is "re-invented" and changed. No longer is there a minimize button in latest Ubuntu, the taskbar is no longer a taskbar its some weird form of activity with grouping bar in Windows 7.

All the concepts of the user interface such as buttons and scrollbars are exchanged, the basis of what a user _interfaces_ with, is changed. A great suprise then when a user has to relearn everything and gain new concepts just to use a new tool or web a new website. Many just dont go down that way and stick it out with facebook as "the internet".

Tip for UI designers: Stop designing, stop your user-interfacing design, there is one already which the user knows. Focus on _your_ data and fit it into the old and tried concepts of buttons that look like buttons and have only one function, not also state "button is staying pressed in", thats a checkbox. Darn it.
> Users don't like our convoluted, hard-to-use systems

To me Facebook is just as convoluted and hard-to-use as anything else.
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I'm also looking for a job as a software test engineer (currently unemployed). I have a small problem - I don't have a suitable project to test. I've heard that software testing is largely a domain of large corporations, and you can't really learn it if you don't work in one.

Could you suggest any places where I could find open-source projects in the need of testing ? And how to select a project ? What kind of projects are likely to need it, and when it's a waste ? Or - at least - where NOT to look for practice in software testing ?
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I am running a TeX distribution with only one binary. And with bibliography and index: these could be done with the Lua part of LuaTeX. True about the others.
The overwhelming majority of those were from government or scholarly, peer-reviewed sources. xkcd is probably the most exhaustive web-comic I know in terms of social commentary. Humor of some of the points aside, it's a valuable visual comparison, seeing how many resources could be acquired with a small fraction of the current United States debt.
I don't know, maybe the author is trying to do something with the iPad which is simply not supposed to do. The iPad is beautiful, pleasant to use etc. but writing a book on the iPad is maybe not the things one does.

I use my tablet to write — quite a lot — way slower than on my regular keyboard, but with time to think. Everything is in text files, synced to my desktop where the typesetting is really performed.

Writing publications or books is a long process where basically the final rendering is taken care at the end because the quality of the wording is more important.

So, just a text editor with hard work on the words, sentences, ideas are where 99% of the time is spent.

Maybe the author can provide an extremely pleasant way to write on the iPad and on the Mac with syncing of the work to have the feeling that the work is never lost, that one can always update a bit of the manuscript and just run "make" on the Mac some times to times. Everything in a smooth workflow.
The pxfonts package provides Palatino/Palladio for use in equations. Those are vector fonts, not MetaFont programs.
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He posted it on his G+ wall. (https://plus.google.com/111588569124648292310/posts)

I pick two real numbers through some process unknown to you. It might be random and it might not. Maybe I always pick "3" and "100". Maybe I roll two dice. Maybe I write C code by mashing a keyboard until it compiles and prints two numbers (or produces Windows ME). Maybe I always use 0 for the first number, and for the second I call my aunt and ask her for a negative real number, which I multiply by the estimated number of protons in the universe. (At this point, my aunt is used to that kind of call from me.)

I put these two numbers on slips of paper and put them in two envelopes. I thoroughly shuffle the envelopes, and then you choose one via a fair coin toss. You open it and look at the number. You are now given the option (as in the infamous but very different Monty Hall problem) of switching to the other envelope.

Your goal is to pick the envelope with the higher number. Can you come up with a strategy that guarantees you a better-than-even chance of winning?

It has to do better than 50% no matter how I picked the numbers--if your strategy includes the rule "switch if the number is a 2", it's wrong, because I could always be picking 2 and negative 100, and in that scenario your strategy will fail at least 50% of the time. This means your strategy must work even if I have guessed what your strategy is and am cherry-picking numbers specifically to defeat it.

I cannot emphasize enough that you do not know anything about my process. Not only do you not know the numbers, you don't know which random distribution I am picking them from—or whether it's even a random distribution at all—and there is no deductive basis for estimating the odds that I'm using any particular method. (This gets at what is sometimes called the difference between risk and uncertainty.)

I'll post again tomorrow with the correct answer and a bit more about the puzzle.
Metafont is hardly used these days. All TeX distributions use either a Type1 font of Computer Modern or Latin Modern. And the equation typesetting has nothing(!) to do with Metafont. Everything is set into the TeX binary (and its formats). You just need a good math font (and that is not trivial, but not related to Metafont)
He's CEO of JCPenney. I don't think he would have gotten to that level at Apple. And if your passion is retail, CEO of it's a dream job.
2 cent take: While it may have been an epic build story to get LaTeX running on an iPad, I guess I gotta ask why not just install an iPad ssh client (iSSH, Prompt, etc.) and run LaTeX remotely? Or if you really insist on building a native client, why not one that talks to daemon on a system with LaTeX installed?

Viewing the output would be trivial: convert the output to PDF. For the ssh client case, push the PDF to a cloud file service like Dropbox. In the native client case, have the daemon push back the PDF for native client to render.
Go and find some download stats for some LaTeX distributions. LaTeX is still used in academia everyday, and I conject that it is used to generate docs in business too.

LaTeX is about as far from dead as the desktop computer.
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It does, that's how LaTeX starts up and why you have to run it as latex instead of tex. Ditto texinfo, and probably ConTeXt. For a variety of reasons the TeX engine still has to reload a lot of stuff because it might possibly have changed, which is a suboptimal situation; but there is a concept of a "dump" state that has most of the kernel initialized. I suspect people don't care enough to work around it, and the people most likely to do the work (TeX kernel hackers) are also the people who are most likely to be inconvenienced by it not noticing the tweaking they're doing.

Which is not to say it's not a good idea here.
> Stop designing ...thats a checkbox. Darn it.

Exactly!
This is true. To sit right after getting out of bed in the morning, that actually might be the only chance for a regular practice, in this hectic material world. One usually has to visit the bathroom, and that can be enough for the day thoughts and habits to fully kick in - one grabs a tea, a piece of dark organic chocolate, talks with their partner, pets their dog - realizing few hours later or sometime during the day (if at all), that he actually skipped a sitting, but despite that, morning is most probably the best time. I know, once the initial one or two-week period is fought through, then the energies are different and practicing is easier ... at least until life creates its next whirlpool day and kicks one off the track. Waves. Anyway. Meditation is the art of coming back after losing track, in micro (the practice) and in macro (the waves), and the great thing is, that every next wave is better, because one puts to use what he has learnt before.
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Here comes the problem: Apple requires it to be a single binary, distributed once. You can't install packages the LaTeX ways should you want to, so you have to bundle most (if not all) packages into the single binary.
These are some great tips. One thing to be aware of is that there will be a natural tension between your and the dev team, as devs tend to be a proud bunch and your job is to point out deficiencies in their code so many won't appreciate that. Accept this tension as part of your job, and be sure to always represent the customer as tdicola mentioned.
I would be surprised if the investors agreed to this acquisition without having a 2x liquidity preference.

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It's a quirky mess, but none of the others, to my knowledge (and I've used most of them, which certainly includes Lout) do nearly as good a job typesetting. Lout does a bunch of things subtly wrong that I can't remember right now but that are very visually distinct, and troff is so far down that road I can recognize troff typeset documents at six feet from a glance.

Lout's equation formatting is especially primitive as I recall, and that is a huge amount of work to get TeX-like quality for. I am unaware of any system that typesets mathematics as nicely as TeX does.
There is no "too big to fail". There was a little financial incident in a small north american country some time ago, where some "too big to fail" institutions failed. I've already heared some teens don't like Facebook anymore because mom and dad are also there.

What changes is the web framework style. Asynchronous page loading provides a smoother experience compared to refreshing the whole page. Gmail and Thunderbird will be increasingly similar. Just that one is in a sandbox called browser and the other's sandbox is called operation system.
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I think, this is a dangerous illusion, nothing will get easier, there will always be enemies of freedom, fighting hard for their goals (control, exploit, suppress others)!
I suppose, this fight is a never ending story.
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Services like Spotify and Netflix are marginal cost services. Their intent is to monetize the previously non-paying customers like yourself at unheard of low prices.

However, it's not all gravy. Marginal cost services cannibalize a portion of the existing market. The degree to which this happens depends on the popularity of the service. It may a small percentage or in the extreme, every customer.

If Spotify remains relatively small and is kept in check, then it will likely be a net benefit to artists and labels as it costs them little to participate.

However, it's also a disruptive innovation at a radically lower price point. If the lion's share of the music market were to switch to Spotify or a similar service, the drop in revenues would not sustain the market since great content is labour intensive and expensive.
"But, he's going to basically 'donate' an hour a day to review code and help shape strategy, and is interested in coming on board for salary/equity if we can find seed."

My beef here is that the people who do the least amount of work or, in the case of you and your wife, have the least amount of tech-related skills, would be running the show. If I'm working all day on your startup, the last thing I want is to have that day end with a CTO looking over my shoulders and criticizing my code, especially when that CTO obviously lacks the same amount of commitment that I have. It'd be even more grating if that CTO would then come on full time and essentially jump over me and my colleagues who have done all the work, both in salary and title.

Also, you'd have to be able to prove that you are actually an interesting founder to work with and have skills (if not coding, something else) that will be an asset for the company in the long run. Nobody wants an "idea man" as his/her boss.

Lastly, if you work 12 hours a day, whether you do so in Hawaii or in Siberia doesn't really matter all that much. If you only expect your coders to work for 4-5 hours a day, now that's something else.

Coding-for-space isn't offensive, it just isn't all that appealing.
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I'd like to hear more about this from the other side. Someone on the original thread has commented to the effect that the library permitted the contractor ("Katipo"?) who wrote the software in the first place to sell the IP to the people who are seeking the trademark... No idea if that's true, of course, and really, why try to trademark it in the place it came from? But still, I'd like to know more.
so true, I dont ever imagine myself writing TeX on iPad 0_o
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>This requires full access to the OS utilities, and naturally LaTeX environment does that. If anything, this is Apple's fault.

I'm interested to see how this could be justified, instead of "hit'n'run" style.

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Why have no one suggested to split LaTeX into two parts like the Emacs server, or something?

With a client and a server to run on your desktop/laptop/etc.
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A few years ago I met a 'superstar' type developer who was considered hot shit amongst the usual crowd. I met him with a view of hiring him (or, trying to) mostly because of his reputation.

I think i must have been the first person who really drilled into his knowledge, because he was more interested in talking about who he knew, projects he had been associated with etc.

I got a funny feeling about him, and asked that he do a simple code project. A week overdue later, he asks for our FTP credentials to upload it. I say that we don't run ftp anywhere, and that he needs to scp to the box. He said he had no idea that ssh can 'copy files'. urgh. He later worked out that his GUI FTP client supported SSH and got so excited about it that he messaged me to tell me about it.

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Yeah, my problem was with NaCl and DartVM, not WebGL/WebM.

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Um, for about any other reason that you would want to use document editing software on a tablet? For instance, I use LibreOffice and its ilk only for the most throwaway documents (and open others' files). Having an iPad means I don't need to lug my laptop around to work on my thesis (I run Emacs on a VPS via SSH to do it, and while personally I don't particularly care about the aesthetics, I'd say the use case is certainly there).
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