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I do couple of meditations like whirling, vipsana, gibberish etc. depending on the need of my body. Meditation is not a quick fix, infact initially meditation might result in fall in productivity as your body energy is re-balanced. Meditation is a long term solution and if learned properly, it will improve your productivity and make you less stressful. So, the most important point is to learn meditation from a master.
I will suggest you stay away from the websites etc. which talk about meditation as most of them are money making pockets which teach half cooked ways to make you flowing money towards them.
Btw, a proper sleep is one of the best form of meditation and if you are suffering from lack of sleep, you should increase the physical activity, for instance play tennis for one hour daily. This will de-stress you as well as ensure good sleep at night. Ensure 6-8 hrs of sleep everyday, this is the natures way to get rid of stress....
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The post is a copy of a quote from Niall Ferguson. Interesting concept that would be nice to discuss without prejudice.

Related to such a discussion is the position we are fed "too big to fail". That is, we have to bail out financial institutions such as AIG due to the size of their obligations and how interconnected they are.

I would very much like to see analysis of the concentration of these debt obligations. That is, does only 10% of people (globally) hold 90% of the bad debt? Yes, I realize the debt is really held by institutions, but people hold the ownership of the institutions. So, if the debt is cut out and thrown away as a doctor would do to a malignant tumor, do you get rid of most of the debt by only effecting a minority of interests?

Does anyone know of such an analysis?
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Since the schemas are vastly different there's probably no alternative to building a custom ETL process. If you already have a workable solution to convert the data then you should probably just get to work and do what you can to keep your unknowns to a minimum even if it is a slow and tedious process. But if you don't really know if what you're doing will work then be honest about that upfront - you'll need to factor in additional time to compensate for mistakes. Try doing your conversions in a series of small steps with the appropriate testing along the way.

I've seen projects that sound like yours go way over budget because of well-meaning attempts to use "silver bullet" tools (often championed by non-stakeholders) that either took too long to figure out how to use properly or didn't end up working as well as expected.
Netherlands internal software-piracy rate: 28% (vs. 20% for the United States). http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_sof_pir_rat-crime-soft...
It's not so much that they're "refactoring themselves out of business" but they're "not refactoring early enough themselves out of business".
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For most web startups, MR is not fixed, and it does increase with the number of users. This is mostly due to the price of advertising not being fixed. The value to advertisers increases for every additional user.
Energy comes in a lot of grades. Low-entropy energy is useful (e.g. electricity). High-entropy energy is useless (e.g. the oceans at their normal temperature).
This is hard work. There are no magic bullets.

Some kind of ETL is all you got. Look forward to lots of exceptions.
But Carbon is finite, too. (And on the same note, Dollars are finite, too. We have to store the bits somewhere.)
When the creditors come, they will get back what they have borrowed: Dollars. Why should that be a problem?

Remember: The US is indebted primarily in Dollars. Not in cars, gold or Euros. They can not go bankrupt for lack of their their own currency.
If it was my main life project, and the number of users signing up between each groin kick was increasing exponentially, my entrepreneurial fire would keep me going.

But when the ratio between groin kicks and sign ups started going in the wrong direction, I'd want out.

Hey, it was your metaphor, not mine... :)
Is what Jeff Atwood doing even legal?!?! You can't just "quote" 80% of someone's work and then publish it as your own! In the article I counted only 6 sentences that Jess Atwood wrote himself. Can I just, say, "quote" a best seller, add a few words of commentary and then publish it? I think not.
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not pedantic at all. I have not made a net income to be taxed in years (yes local governments have profited from transactional taxes; sales taxes). As a consequence, I have not starved to death (obviously) and am not writing this post from jail. However, I have provided much value to my community in terms of goods and services. If you were to come to my community and ask about me, you will find many that value my contributions to our local society.

I believe now is a great time to think about alternate economies instead of holding steadfast to rules that govern the current domain.
High entropy joules are 'intrinsically' worthless and easy to come by.
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I think you may be confusing two things here. The federal debt indeed is backed by the taxing power of the US government. That is, if you lend it 100 dollars today, you can have some confidence that you will get them back plus interests in the future.

But the dollar isn't backed by much; it's backed by trust, which itself depends on the acts of the Fed (i.e. it really depends on what the Fed does). If you can buy two widgets for 100 dollars today, you don't have much confidence that you'll be able to buy them in the future.

In either case, there's nothing to guarantee your purchasing power. With gold, your purchasing power isn't 100% protected either (because new gold is digged every day) but at least you're much safer from arbitrarily high inflation.

But you are obviously correct when you say that money isn't worthless.
Nice theory. Though the existence of other currencies complicates the picture.
If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to promote it, does anyone come to the party?
I'm not proposing we all act as dilettantes and don't provide value to our communities. I work about 90 hours a week and do provide value. I simply prefer to have the money circulate in a tighter community.
Sorry, but it's just a fact of life. If you become 'famous', you attract criticism, crackpots, abuse, death threats, etc etc.

Indeed. A case in point (just one of myriad so): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh#.22The_Crime_...

The Lindberghs eventually grew tired of the never-ending spotlight on the family and came to fear for the safety of their then three-year old second son, Jon. Deciding, therefore, to seek seclusion in Europe, the family sailed from New York under a veil of secrecy on board the SS American Importer in the pre-dawn hours of December 22, 1935.
They are so wrong it's not even funny.

They predicted 8% S&P growth and 34% Internet stocks growth for 2008.
The comment has nothing to do with the subject of the article. It is a criticism of one minor statement, in one sentence of a piece that has absolutely nothing to do with medicine nor naturopathy, nor the difference between them.

I thought that the editorial was a great piece of writing, with provocative questions that matter deeply to most of us. Yet, of the universe of insightful things that could have been said about the meaning of work, the American work ethic, or the value of work/life balance, a one-line, off-topic comment has been voted the second most insightful remark in the thread. No, it's not ad hominem (because it doesn't go so far as to discredit the author's opinion based on his sister's degree), but it's close.

Finally, a factual correction. The author's sister could have been pursuing a degree in pickle studies at Hamburger University for all I care; his point would have been just as valid. But regardless of your personal feelings about naturopathy, NDs are certified to prescribe medicines and perform surgical procedures in at least a dozen states, and in some others, they're even licensed to be primary care providers. That sure sounds like "medicine" to me.
Yes. Also read this thread which tells you how to start news.arc, which is what you want for HN.

http://arclanguage.org/item?id=3426

If I recall properly you may need to manually create the "arc/posts" directory too.
Having read the thing, two quotes come to mind. "In biblical terms, there is nothing new under the sun":

"You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."

-- Commencement address by Steve Jobs

"The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty, and this experience is of very great importance, I think. When a scientist doesn’t know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty damn sure of what the result is going to be, he is still in some doubt. We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress, we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty — some most unsure, some nearly sure, but none absolutely certain. Now, we scientists are used to this, and we take it for granted that it is perfectly consistent to be unsure, that it is possible to live and not know. But I don’t know whether everyone realizes this is true. Our freedom to doubt was born out of a struggle against authority in the early days of science. It was a very deep and strong struggle: permit us to question — to doubt — to not be sure. I think that it is important that we do not forget this struggle and thus perhaps lose what we have gained."

-- "The Value of Science," address to the National Academy of Sciences (Autumn 1955) in What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character, Richard Feynman.
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I can't be too specific about the circumstances ...

A colleague of mine was teaching a class, and after a few weeks set a test. He also took a note of who sat where, and noted that three friends, A, B and C, were sitting together in the back. When he graded the test he found that on question 3, A and B had identical incorrect answers, whereas on question 7, B and C had identical incorrect answers. He joked that this showed that A and C were conspiring to make it appear that B was cheating, but the evidence was clear - cheating had occured. He decided it was an interesting lesson for him, and it was OK since that test only counted for 5% of the final grade.

For the next test he created two, nearly identical tests, differing only in the actual numbers. All the calculations were identical, just the numbers were different. He gave these out alternately.

As office hours approached on the day after the graded tests were returned, there was a very long queue. He invited the first student in, who immediately started complaining that on question 6, he and his friend had identical answers, but his friend got full marks and he got zero. "But the questions are different," said my colleague. "But the answers are the same - why don't we get the same grade?" complained the student. After running around that little loop for a while the light dawned, the student became very thoughtful, and left. "Next!" said my colleague. No one came in, and when he checked, the queue was gone.

The students complained to the Dean, and my colleague was told in no uncertain terms that it was unacceptable to give different tests. In particular, it was unfair not to have warned them, or made it obvious. The students had no way of knowing that they were equivalent, it was impossible to prove that they were equivalent, so he was instructed to give identical tests to everyone.

On the next test he handed out alternate blue and yellow test sheets. There was muttering, but no outright complaints. Within an hour, however, he was summoned to the Dean's office. "You were told to give identical tests!" shouted the Dean. "I did", said my colleague. "They were on different colored paper, but they were identical tests."

The reaction from the Dean was, says my colleague, remarkably similar to that of the student discovering that the tests were different.

Fortunately that was the last "in class" test. The final loomed, and one by one the students dropped the course. The final test was only taken by 12 of the initial 40 students, and all passed. Interestingly, of those that dropped out, several were later disciplined for cheating in other classes.

So the evidence suggests that cheating occurs.

But we knew that.
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Ask HN: Goal Setting Software
Hey people,

Does anyone know of any good web based software out there that allows me to keep track of goals and the stuff I need to do to make them?

I used to use todo lists, but they're not quite what I'm looking for. I want something more along the lines of a roadmap, kind of what Trac has if anyone has used that...

Cheers

kev_the_dev
Paying to work? Oh, this is not good.
Maybe it would be better if the machine's owner could extract that secure channel, rather than the OS. For example, if you could reflash the BIOS with a JTAG header on the motherboard, then you could be sure that no compromised BIOS code survived (unless your JTAG programmer was broken). Or you could have a boot monitor in non-Flash ROM that could checksum the Flash BIOS, and then you could compare the checksum to the version before the malware ran, and pop the Flash chip out of its socket to replace it if necessary.

Does that answer the threat model you're thinking of?

A lot of the stuff under the "Trusted Computing" rubric goes a lot further than what you're describing. Some of it is designed to allow third parties (other than the OS and the machine's owner) to establish a secure channel to the chipset and the hardware over the network. That is almost certainly a bad idea.
In college when I graded introductory programming assignments, there was the time a student turned in a printout of their program and execution trace for an assignment.

Unfortunately they forgot to remove the email headers from the other student who sent it to them.
Always code as if the future maintainer is a maniac serial killer who knows where you live.

With the current fuss over the spit in the face (reprehensible act) perhaps this advice is more apposite than usual.
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it's a bad idea, it's poorly executed, TC gave it a bad review, and it still got funding.

It's so weird for people to base VC investments purely on "the team" -- I've always figured (as I gradully ramp my startup to my full time job) -- its great to have a great team -- and you know what else helps? having a fucking awesome idea.
No, it's paying to learn. Interns are not necessarily net producers. There is a cost to the "employers" to have an intern, even if you pay them nothing. They take time from existing employees, and use resources.

This is not to say that interns are a bad idea. They're not. They're an excellent idea, but internships are a part of education. They are one of the most valuable, useful and effective parts of education.

Paying for them is not stupid. Assuming employers will continue to pay for them in the current climate is questionable.
Just to further clarify what I want, I like to break tasks down so that I'm constantly working on the "Next possible logical step" no matter how small.

Most of the time I just write them in a list in a text editor, but then i get to the point where i need to clear out my scratchpad - thus losing track of my progress.

Obviously seeing my progress in a chart/graph is not necessary to get stuff done but it might help with motivation :)
I respectfully disagree in the detail of what you say. It's essential to have a great team. It's good to have an awesome idea, but if you have a great team then the ideas will come, and even if this one won't work, the next one probably will.

VCs need to work with the team, need to have faith in the team, and need to have a sense that the ideas will come. The current idea is a good start, and an indication, but in the grander scheme of things, it's the team that reall counts. They're the ones that will make things work.

A good team with an awesome idea is not investable.

An awesome team with a good idea, is.
Fun for sure but for priority queues it would be more practical to just use Python's built-in heapq module: http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/lib/module-heapq.html
I still hate Air. Here's why:

Of all the companies, do we really want Adobe to be the gate keeper of yet another format? Isn't PDF and Flash enough?

Air encourages bad User Interfaces. One UI across multiple platforms leads to horrible, non-standard interfaces on all platforms.
whats so great about it?
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I guess the reason he can't do the same with vmware images is that git is slow with huge files. On the other hand, vmware snapshots should allow what he wants - to keep several closely related versions of the system and the ability to start any of them. Am I missing something?
I counted the occurrences of the words "me", "my", "myself" and "I" in the article with a bash command:

tr -cs 'A-Za-z' '\n' < paul_carr.txt | grep -i -w -c "me\|my\|myself\|i"

Result: 82 out of 1858 words.

That's 4.4%, ca. 1 out of every 23 words.

The author is thereby scientifically proven to be on the very far end of the introspective scale.
Fame? c'mon, Fame! :-)
Google, maybe...
Yet another format? They are just churning out yet another app on the same flash format, that's been installed on almost over 98% of desktops all over the world! So what's wrong?
And if you have used some specific apps like eBay Desktop on Air, it rocks, esp if you are a power eBay user.
Air is a good thing, I just hope that they learn from their PDF/Acrobat mistakes and do not let Air/Flash go down that path!
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erm, Air apps require Adobe Air -- not Adobe Flash.
It's good to have an awesome idea, but if you have a great team then the ideas will come

David Hornik (August Capital; Ventureblog) basically says this also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwY0ac5XI_0

And, the truth is, A teams usually don't have B or C ideas, because they recognize, "Gee. We're looking at this thing. It's an interesting market. We have an idea. A particular approach." And, maybe it's an A-minus idea. Maybe you say, "Well, I'm not sure how that's going to evolve, but it'll probably evolve in an interesting way with this team," then I'm happy to invest and see how it goes, because, historically what's happened is they've figured out that there was some other twist, or there was a better market, or there was a better way to get to a group of people.

And so I would always start with the people, first.
Correlation implies synergism!
pclark, well you will have a hard time finding a framework that is more fitted for online/offline services, that actually allows you to create a proper UX and design experience and that is so easy to get going with. No other crossbrowser frameworks work as well as this IMHO
What would a professional do?
Photoshop to image editing is what Google to search engine is. There is No comparison (at least, as yet), period!
I found this book to be a good introduction: http://www.amazon.com/Miracle-Mindfulness-Thich-Nhat-Hanh/dp...
for a bloody good reason -- it shouldn't be done.

The solution? Web Apps + Google Gears. Then it'll run on any OS, even iPhones -- and can be offline. You have the added ability of creating a "nice" UI that users will expect - if my mother was to open an Adobe Air, she'd be confused as hell. Its neither a web app, nor a native app.

Don't make web apps look like desktop apps

Always make desktop apps look like their native OS. If you can't do this, just make a freaking web app.
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Definitely worth watching. It gives you a totally different view of macroeconomics.
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are you insane? Why do you think most people take photos? To remember and share memories.

How do you think most users of digital cameras share photos? via email? Print them out? You know, and I know those two methods are rubbish.

Even if there isn't millions of users - you'd only need a few thousand to get your startup rocking.
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of course, sorry - by great I meant "mind blowingly great" :)

Maybe I'm biased because I have no previous ventures and VC mildly interests me :)
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