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How do you learn how to play baseball, for example? You have to train repeatedly in order to build up each individual skill such as batting, throwing, running, etc. What you're doing is using repetition to create associations that you can then use semi-consciously. For example, you put yourself into the "batting" mode and you cue up a bunch of sub-conscious reflexes that let you hit a pitched ball.

Meditation works very similarly except the goal is to train the mind. Much like our bodies our minds are not under our complete conscious control. We can't, normally, just turn off or on feeling sad, or being angry, or relaxed, etc. That lack of control has consequences. For example, when a person is in a heated argument the fight or flight reflex will dump adrenaline into their system and create a variety of other reactions that results in diminished rationality, aggressiveness, etc. That phenomenon is the root cause of a ton of negative behaviors in people and a reason why verbal arguments turn into verbal, and then perhaps even physical, fights instead of conversations.

Generally the most important transition is to a state of relaxation, since it's easier to consciously go from that state to most other mental states intentionally and it's typically harder to go to a state of relaxation from many other mental states (anger, sadness, anxiety, frustration, etc.) However, meditation isn't limited to just relaxation.
There's little chance this kick Adobe into action. They're moving slower and slower (and subscriptions are a license to snooze). It makes me very worried it will be 3-4 years before CS is in line with retina (instead of 1-2).

FWIW - I don't see how retina can be solved easily: Apple kinda screwed it. Mainly, how do you show 1x pixel accurate content on a device that won't do 1x pixels?
If many products are targeted at men or women then it certainly isn't true that the line is drawn at underwear. Catering to a specific subset of all people is not stupid even if it halves your potential audience. If that were so then the countless brands wouldn't set out to appeal to the tastes of each gender. If the numbers showed that most people like unisex things then that's what they'd all be pushing.

You seem to regard the distinct tastes between the genders as some kind of marketing brain washing. Masculinity and femininity weren't concocted in the board room.
>> This is most likely the catalyst for why UBS is actually suing

unlikely. from their quarterly report " NASDAQ ultimately filled all of these orders, exposing UBS to far more shares than our clients had ordered".

their clients ordered X shares of FB. UBS sent out 5 * X shares (or something like that). they sent out extra orders because NASDAQ wasn't sending acknowledgements for the initial orders. so UBS had to liquidate 4 * X shares at a loss, because the price took a dive. the loss from liquidation is why they sued.
I've done a lot of over-nighters and more (3.5 hours in a week in the Army) and never, ever experienced something like that.

I'm not a doctor, but you were either dreaming or having a stroke in my mind.
Inconsistent application is the entire point. Power is most fearsome when arbitrary.
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This been discussed a million times already:

"the phone was first introduced at the 3GSM World Congress that was held in February 2007. Sales to the European market started November 2007" [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_SGH-F700

Edit: typo
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Yeah I don't have that option anywhere. I've seen other sites say that there should also be an option to upgrade but I don't see that either.

Maybe they're rolling it out in phases?

Oh well, it's not like I ever used hotmail to begin with
I used to pay for Fastmail.fm as a mail service. It wasn't that cheap, but the top account which gave plenty of space and the ability to have my own domain wasn't expensive.

They kept the old versions of their web interface alive for many years after the active development of the 'default' moved on to different designs. Which was very helpful for me, as I much preferred their non-Javascript laden interface and kept the one I started with for many years of use.

I only moved on when I tripped their anti-spam/account hacked filter and didn't have my business e-mail for three days because the messages the interface gave me were misleading. Apart from that, I was very happy with them and they were very sensible about what they'd do with the interface.

As an aside, I think $12 a year is unrealistic for paid webmail as you'd need a good level of scale to make it pay for such a small amount. You're already talking about a service a small number of people want (interface staying the same and willing to pay for it) I'd expect you'd find the same people would be willing to pay enough to make the service worth running.
Yep, because "Samsung" and "Apple" is dangerously close to "Levy's" and "Levi's".
HN doesn't appreciate concise one-liners. You need to wrap your claim in a wordy anecdote with some explanatory flavor, to give readers a sense that you put a lot of thought into your typing.
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>> this lawsuit wouldn't be happening if FB's stock was at $50

maybe not from UBS, but probably from somebody else. if you were putting in excess short sell orders at the open an FB had gone up, you'd be in the same position UBS is in right now.
Try sending yourself an email. It will bounce back to that very same email address with a Delivery Status Notification from Hotmail's postmaster saying it couldn't be delivered.
Can't recommend Facebook ads pointing to FB pages...
Comments on top are something I'm thinking about. Tell you what, in order to continue this discussion, would you mind moving it to a new thread on NewsBlur's community forums: http://getsatisfaction.com/newsblur. Just give it a good title and file it under Idea. That way everybody else can participate.

Also, that bookmarklet is a huge feature I'm working on for the next couple weeks. Thanks for the good ideas.
Well, there's the part about not being able to see and hear.

I was exhausted and most-definitely not thinking straight. I pretty much collapsed into bed and probably slept ten hours. I woke up feeling just fine and just in time to present my paper.

I was younger and definitely stupider. No, I didn't go to the doctor. Dumb. Lived to tell about.
It's not an apology, it's a rationalization and a disclosure that Twitter has erected a classic legal fiction -- a Chinese Wall. In this case, Twitter has revealed two distinct groups that are not permitted to interact directly for reasons of decorum and liability. One polices the Twitter zeitgeist for memes that are distasteful to their partners (@nbcuni in this case), and the other reacts to breaches of Twitter's AUP.

Like with most abuses of corporate Chinese Walls, and why they are really just fictional constructs, there is a trampoline available for coordination -- in this case it's the partner itself. "We have encountered something you would find disparaging. Would you like to hellban? If so, please forward the following infringement to our unsuspecting moderation team.."

I find particularly nice that Twitter's own general counsel decided to spell it out in long form for the audience. It's a little like the ring leader explaining the physics supporting the acrobats after a performance.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_wall

* http://blog.twitter.com/2012/07/our-approach-to-trust-safety...
> allowing you to have a conversation with the characters and follow along with their thought process.

Which were muddled, confused, and, pretty much by definition, partially incorrect.

Historical development necessarily involves recapitulating the confusions of the people who finally got confused enough to throw over their original ideas.

Even if you trim the history down to only the path that actually lead to modern theory, you still have a lot of confusion to get through before you can actually introduce the main idea of the topic in all its glory. And that's in addition to the confusion students have naturally.
People that use Outlook also tend to have more... valuable conversations in their inbox and demand more in terms of security and privacy from their mail providers. I hope that as part of courting this group of users to outlook.com, Microsoft has invested in things like S/MIME, PGP, 2FA, and other security enhancements. I haven't signed up, but can someone who has give an outline of what security features they are advertising?
"This is definitely the first hurdle I encounter. The handful of times I have attempted this, I end up thinking about not thinking (isn't that silly?), or a song comes into my head, or I hear a noise in the distance, and attempts to clear out those thoughts lead to, well, more thinking!"

Yup, that is exact right. The guy who taught me that it was about 'being the stillness' (I know, I know, but this was they 70's). Lets say you are looking at pond, smooth as glass and a pebble falls, ripples spread out. You can't stop the ripples, you can just note them and wait for them to pass. So you note the thoughts as they pop unbidden into your brain, and then wait for them to pass. If you were in a horror movie and the killer was walking in your house, you'd be scared to death trying to be invisible. That is 'being the stillness'. Actively not thinking.

"I struggle with even imagining what it's like to not think about something. Something new or something old. Anything at all. I will note that I also have trouble sleeping for the same reason, ..."

There were lots of people who fell asleep in our class. I did too a couple of times. One of the party tricks you can do while meditating is what some folks call 'lucid dreaming' which is you are balanced on the knife edge between consciousness and unconsciousness, you can learn to let your unconsciousness start up without leaving consciousness completely behind. Me, I end up going to sleep if I try that.

But having a lot of stuff happening at work, at home, and in the world, sometimes I meditate to go to sleep. But its a two step process, meditate, then once there allow yourself into the unconscious state rather than holding on to the conscious state.

There was an engineer at Google who had dug up a lot of interesting references on meditating. Some folks have decided it is a form of self hypnosis since the mental state most closely resembles that of being hypnotized.
Sounds like hypotension, a drop in blood pressure, like when you get up "too fast" sometimes from a relaxed state. Maybe hypoglycemia otherwise, or as well, especially if you hadn't eaten in a while.
Um, it gets worse. Apps are classified by how much the writer thinks the app is girly or manly, not actual usage numbers. The writer put all puzzle games in the girly category.
For all I know this was a mini-stroke of sorts. I wish I had gone to the doctor but I was younger and much stupider than I am today. After I regained my senses (meaning sensory abilities) I slept and woke up on time to present my paper. Years later my though is always the same: What a dumb-shit! Things you do when you are young and stupid.
What days were those? Apple has been filing these sorts of lawsuits for ages and ages.
Noticed this as well, since I use KeePass. Oddly enough there didn't appear to be a restriction the type of characters used.
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"No optimization, no professional consultant, no special relationship with an account manager."

Mildly disingenuous to not mention your own expertise, given that you're plugging a Facebook optimization platform that you created at the end of your post.

Also mildly linkbait-y title given the whole "made $10k" text -- if I sell a crate of contents worth $20k+ market value for $10k... but others have commenting on that already.
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My experience is that you start out being aware of your breathing etc, in order to get into the "spaced out" state.

I'm not lying there the whole time thinking about my breathing. I start by thinking about my breathing, so I can use that focus to exclude/ignore the usual rush of other thoughts. After some time, I'm not consciously thinking at all.
Some engineers may have been raised in an environment of distrust of doctors, or of scorn upon those who call the doctor for anything less than a confirmed broken bone or heart attack.

Edit: for such people, it would be useful if schools taught what sorts of issues are doctor worthy, and which should be ignored or dealt with by over-the-counter remedies.
Ha - I used to work with Ted in my P&G digital analytics days. Nice to see him shaking things up in this industry.
I like graphs but google can do a way better job than that.
Seems to be up and down like a yoyo.

Also, there's an issue displaying correctly in Chrome on a Mac. I suppose that's not MS's favourite software/hardware combo though.
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> I have to say that history is valuable in mathematics because it explains why people are interested in certain problems.

Motivation is essential, but there are motivations other than the ones that historically lead to the creation of the field.

In number theory, one of my favorite examples, the motivations that lead people to be interested in it now come from modern cryptography, which flatly didn't exist when the field was founded but provides more interesting and relevant examples than the obsessions of century-old mathematicians.
I think the curious ones should be discounted. You would be surprised at how tempting a vague ad might be to naturally curious humans. The 0.04% figure of mistakes is interesting to me as 'background noise' for ad clicks.

This would probably be an interesting area for more academic research. How do you measure accidental clicks? Do some non-ads receive higher accidental clicks than others? What if it was a blank black ad? What if you mimicked actual ads but with the 'why did you click' question? There are lots of ways this phenomenon could be further explored, and I agree with the author that for a multi-billion dollar industry this exploration is warranted.
Jaynes' ideas occasionally surface in science fiction. Two examples are Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson and Aristoi by Walter Jon Williams. The last one is an underappreciated gem IMHO.
I can't help but feel like people are already convinved that simply beacause Steve Jobs wasn't involved that apple has lost it's magic, regardless of the actual content of the ads. If they released the Mac Vs PC ads now, people would probably denounce them as the worst ads ever made, convinced Steve would never let ads like that fly.

I would love to show these ads to two groups of 100 people and tell one half that the ads were made after Steve Jobs died and tell the other half they are the last ad series he helped work on before he died. I get the feeling the second group would be a lot more likely to spill out sentences like "oh wow, I can see the new bold direction he is taking, these ads are amazing!" or "Wow, he really knows what the current market is like, these ads are amazing!".
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Which is the fastest blog according to you guys?
Samsung filed a patent for the phone's design in Dec 2006. Must have been working on it at least some time before that. iPhone was introduced on Jan 9, 2007.
> it's be relatively impossible to define which is which, either, since this infrastructure has no "index" or metadata; it merely is a big bucket of blocks named by their content hashes, of which most--not just the encrypted ones--are meaningless unless you have another block giving the order in which to string them together to make a file.

If you can't tell whether a given block is encrypted data or just part of an mpeg, how can you choose to store only unencrypted data? I suppose you could make an argument for building this system on top of a nonencrypting distributed data store, like bittorrent, for the sake of looking like that nonencrypted protocol to anyone intercepting the traffic. But there would have to be some metadata that let the encrypting protocol know where to find its stuff, and if the user who's downloading it can tell, so can anyone intercepting the unencrypted stream. Wouldn't you just end up with a situation where the upper layer is to the lower layer as freenet is to the internet?
That's not true for a lot of subjects.

For example, every math program I've looked at teaches integration of complex functions the way it was arrived at historically, which involves increasingly complex shapes in the plane that eventually lead to the general case - some program spend half a semester going through this construction.

However, if you're familiar with vector calculus, it is an immediate result of Green's theorem in the plane - doesn't even take 5 minutes of work. Engineering programs often go that route.

And if you structured the material in the "right" way, it would be even simpler - Green's theorem in the plane is itself a special case of Stokes' theorem; However, "simpler" is relative - stokes theorem is much more abstract. So it's "simpler" in the sense that you can prove much, much less. It's more complex in the sense that you have to grok all those higher-level abstractions without a mental picture.

Sort of like software engineering - LISP is a better fundamental system. But it is too abstract for most people in the field. And so are APL/J/K, although in a different way.
I thought the point of IronSpread was to increase productivity.
Corporations usually look out for each other.
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I just used the keyboard shortcut (Ctrl + Enter).
Have to agree. I'd get a very sore neck after a few mins with a monitor that high up. Apart form that, top job.
LG KE850 also had an phone that predated the iphone with a similar design

http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/11/iphone-and-lg-ke850-separ...
Absolutely people want a service, but to build that service - which will be done by hackers - we need to have a protocol to work to.

But you're right - we need to nail the user experience.
"Similar abilities have been observed in monkeys, but TN’s is the first study of these abilities in humans."

Maybe it's not exactly the same thing, but quite a while ago (10-15 years) I read in a book about the brain of a patient who had similar damage in one half of the brain. Both his eyes worked, but he couldn't see on one side, and when a piece of paper was held up into his "blind spot", reading "plese stand up", he stood up, making up a rationalization for it (like "my leg felt sleepy", "I thought I heard something", etc.) I'm not even sure if that was just about one patient, maybe it was several. But at any rate, I knew this ages ago, by randomly picking it up from a book from the library -- so how is this a surprise?

I get that this is the first dedicated study of that stuff, but it surely it isn't complete news?
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IMO, the simple approach is dangerous. Saying here is the theory have at it is fine if you want to teach someone how to design transistors, but the point is not that QM is correct it's just the best approximation yet and in no way the 'holy word' on how the universe operates. The single most important thing to teach science students is to discard existing theory's when reality does not support them and to require any new theory to also be supported by the body of existing experimental evidence.
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I'm thinking more of engineers who happily work on scramjets and ignore that extra mass budget and those empty payload bays that aren't for cameras.

Someone on here recommended an inspiring TED talk by the head? of Darpa. Rather than finding it inspiring, I found her naiveté or willful ignorance chilling. Somewhat off-topic.
Excel can do some pretty impressive things.

Another cool-but-probably-useless example:

Excel as a 3d engine

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131968/microsoft_excel...

Check out the videos to get a quick understanding of what they did.
Try this: Sit in a relaxing posture. As you inhale, think "1". Exhale and think "2". Inhale and think "3" and so on up to "10". Then start over. In the beginning you will often end up counting 11, 12, 13, 14 and then realize you counted to far. Just start over with inhaling and counting "1" and so on. In my experience, after 30-45 minutes, the mind and body will come to rest in a profound manner. For details check out "Mediation for dummies", this is where I leared the technique. Best of luck.
> the controversy over the invention of calculus

... which lead to the less-intuitive epsilon-delta proof framework replacing the much more intuitive infinitesimal framework calculus was originally founded on, until the 1960s when infinitesimals were reformulated as part of nonstandard analysis.

(Unless the controversy you're talking about is the utterly uninteresting one about Leibniz vs Newton.)

Another example where a historical development would lead students through a completely pointless diversion (epsilon-delta proofs) simply because Robinson was born in 1918 instead of 1618.
outlook.com is basically in beta. They haven't even updated the calendars. I suspect that they will continue to iron these inconsistencies as the launch date of Windows 8 approaches.
And there was never an exploit that allowed malicious websites access to your camera in flash...

https://www.google.com/search?q=flash%20camera%20exploit
I took it to be an exercise in sarcasm to emphasize the point being made. Admittedly, though, I didn't read many of the points through all the way ;)

I do have a habit of reading partially through an article and then commenting ...
> Microsoft have an edge over Google in that they aren't perceived to be as morally bankrupt

Hahahaha what
Tech bloggers need way more help than the fundamentals provided in this article. In fact, they are hopeless and should all just stick to writing code.
Apple spent years suing MS in the 1980s and 1990s because of claims that MS used ideas from Apple, rather than Xerox, in creating a windowed shell for an OS.

So the days when Apple thought they didn't need to do this were the days of the Apple II.
They were making tons of money and a majority of their funding was untouched. Solid.
If you want to take to that level of absurdity, we should all be hosting our own DNS systems, so we aren't dependent on other entities.

With sufficient backlash at twitter, we can reduce the possibility of this happening.
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I'm astonished at the low CTRs the "big" advertisers are satisfied with. Most of the direct-response people I know (including me, although I'm a comparative novice) tend to junk anything getting below 0.1% clickthrough rate out of hand, and aim for .2% - .5% or higher.
What about AT&T? Will the FCC force them to stop charging too, or is there some reason why it's different?
They hit me up last spring and I briefly considered moving out there to join them. Surprise, surprise!
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