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The more general and, perhaps, more correct notion of karma is dependent causation, which means that everything what we are is caused by our actions - thoughts, deeds, desires (including those in past lives.))

This concept, considered broadly, eliminates any kind of external, super-human forces, including deities and gods. It also opens the path for changes in oneself (a way to enlightenment) due to lack of any other obstacles but ones own mind.

Our own actions is only part of the big notion, and of course, according to ancient teachings, "good" and "bad" doesn't exist outside ones mind, there are just actions and the objective reality, which just is.
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Good luck with this. A week or so ago I even lost the privilege of flagging submissions because I flagged one too many PRISM posts. It's been a boring couple of weeks, that's for sure.
This article is basically about body building. It promotes a focus on how you look rather than how strong or fit you actually are.
Do startup "hackers" really need their own fitness regimen? Are they really that set apart from the rest of the population and that similar to one another? Is there a startup person diet as well? This one-size approach doesn't make sense to me; it seems there are probably variations among startup people & their needs similar if not identical to the general population, for whom one work out plan will not fit all.

"Folks in tech tend to think... differently. They will often think in discrete parts, rather than holistically. (This is call 'neckbearding,' and it's done by people called 'neckbeards.')"

Sorry, male startup people. Maybe targeting startup people as a niche market for non-tech non-business related services is a good marketing move. Personally, I hope to never ride my Startup Bike™ to get a Startup Latte™ followed by a trip to the Startup Gym™. I expect to consume the same bikes, lattes, and gyms as the rest of the population. :)
Stop being a douche with crap examples of posts that would never be on Hacker News; let others have their own opinions. Click and upvote the links you find interesting?
Hoe hondenbed zelf maken?
The Young and Isolated
If this is a pet-peeve of yours, how the hell do you manage to be a reader of this site?
Bike tires are the most frequently stolen part by thieves who won't bother with the whole bike.
I actually came to HN every day in the past two weeks just because I want to read more about the Snowden affaire. From the technological, political, dramaturgical points of view this is one of the most interesting stories a hacker could think of.
He was also making the point that journalists are supposed to disseminate information. Snowden broke the law as he distributed classified materials contrary to his legal access and responsibilities, but Glenn Greenwald has no such legal liability.

David Gregory has forgotten what journalism is. It's not sitting on TV bloviating and collecting a fat paycheck.
>>>>Its very nice to have a simple programming language and API available with things like Webkit and Mozilla browsers, but that still puts too much power in the hands of a few companies, and locks us into particular implementations, and also traps us within the browser. Programmers and businesses do need easy-to-use, cross-platform and cross-device APIs and programming languages. I think we can port a lot of the Web APIs to a language-neutral, binary-neutral, implementation-neutral semantic representation. Dump as much of the unnecessary complexity from Web APIs as possible.

Well, this is exactly why I am a huge fan of technologies like MOAI (http://getmoai.com/) where the VM is under the control of the implementor, whose efforts to put the working VM on Platform-[X] results in a single codebase that will run on all Platform[s]. In my opinion, it pretty much matches your requirements, from the simple language, easy to use API, and more importantly: control over the host environment.

The only issue is that competence in MOAI in developing a cross-platform truly 100% compatible code base means you have to scale your attention from the up-front App, down to the lower-level host code. Or else. But thats 100% of the fun, imho ..

Note that this is just one of many such solutions to the issues you describe, and it is indeed a fertile playground for anyone with as much affinity for Lua - and similar tools - as one must have, to suffer the platform wars pleasantly, these days ..
One related thing that bothers me, if you use more than one computer for your Skype chats, the conversations aren't fully synchronized among your PC's. With always on supernodes, this is trivial, yet it still doesn't work. How Skype itself never fixed this, and MS after spending billions on the acquisition also still hasn't fixed it boggles my mind. If they're not fixing simple but very important bugs like this, what are all those developers working on?
I agree; four of the five random picks I made took me to this author's website: http://www.theleftroom.co.uk/?page_id=2079.
To collect and store the data, stupid.)
Is this surprising? These are people who believe in the morality of the state. Of course they believe in this, because their government is moral and of course would never do something unfairly or politically motivated like those goddamn caveman Republicans would they?

Remember where the neocons originated: these were Democrats who became frustrated by the post-Vietnam anti-war sentiments in the Democrat party (the 5 minutes that the Dems were an anti-war party).

Let's not forget that guys like Hitchens were some of the biggest cheerleaders for war post-9/11. Fake "liberal" and "conservative" labels that are more about Jesus and abortion than real politics are almost entirely meaningless. When someone says they are a liberal nowadays, it means nothing more to me than if they said they were a Yankees fan. I know it's going to be yet another indoctrinated statist.
"What do you do for cardio? Lift weights faster." ;-) http://www.jensinkler.com/lift-weights-faster/

If you're not particularly fit then rigorous strength training including ballistic and plyometric activities will get you out of breath, increase heart-rate, and give you a serious workout while being a lot more fun than running on the spot. (But as always, different strokes for different folks..)
How did I not know about this?! This is amazing! Thanks for this! Worth a shot!
I have to wonder whether this is because it would have been (suddenly) unpopular, or because they found out what kind of data the NSA is able to offer to every secret service in the world ...

Also, SCNR: it's "its" (possessive), not "it's" (= it is) in the title (says the non-native speaker who firmly believes that such mistakes are contagious).
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That's more what I was hoping for, thanks :)

I wonder what internal Google has explored along the lines of prompting the user with clarifying questions. Like Google Suggest and Spell Check exhibit the level of intelligence needed I think.
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> we are all parasites living off of the labor of the machines

but some parasites are more equal than others - namely, those who owns the machines.

You might ask, why do some own the machines (or means of production), while others dont? Its not a question i m in authority or knowledgable enough to answer, but my take on it is that its a snowball effect - once you gain enough capital (or, as i called it above - means of production), you can effectively get other people's productivity as a lever to increase your own. Note, only those who already have capital can do this - people who cannot accrue capital either take big gambles (like borrowing lots of money without being able to pay it back, if they can borrow it at all). Or they just don't do it, and remain status quo. Either way, the only option left for them is to live or work. Thus the cycle perpetuates, and this is the "cause" of the wealth divide - not because some people worked harder, but because opportunities don't come knocking equally.

In aa he world where automation is completely replaced all labour, either everyone is capable of being an owner, and thus, all profit to be made using automation is so thin you don't get much of an advantage doing it compared to someone else. Or, some small group basically owns all means of production, and essentially owns the world and everyone in it (either via their power to control resource supply, since they own it!), or indirectly via lobby/"taxes" they pay that the rest of the meeples gets to live off.

I m hoping the first scenario comes to pass, but i highly doubt it. Looking at the world now, its much more likely that the 2nd scenario comes to pass.
Neocons and Neoliberals (which is what I would characterize the "liberal" elite in DC) are pretty similar in most ways. They simply differ on whether it is military force or economic "liberalization" that should be used to promote "freedom and democracy."
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What's more fun when you constrain to only humans is that nearly all other mammals are dichromats. Old world primates then re-evolved trichromic vision.

This provides some reminder that evolutionary pressure does not select for optimal coverage of the EM spectrum, but for the portion of the EM spectrum which will provide advantages.
When did you last use opengl on linux? Do you use opengl on OSX?
Is communication to/from ZeroMQ encrypted? If not it seems like this wouldn't be a very secure way to configure or distribute files over anything other than a VPN or LAN?
Reading between the lines of this article and the "at this time" weasel words, it sounds like might still be on their "things to do" list.
UI note: when something looks like a button, it needs to be a button. The genre "buttons" are only active right around their text, which means that "SF" has a much smaller active area than "History", even though they present the same visual appearance.
Right because I meant those as serious examples of what has appeared here and not humorous, satirical exaggerations meant to highlight the irrelevance of the actual articles which get posted by extreme comparison.

Also, calling me a douche for expressing an opinion shows that you are clearly a very intelligent and thoughtful person so I am very interested in your well considered opinions on important matters. I'm sure you contribute a lot to not only this community but the world as a whole with that keenly honed intellect of yours.
Please post more about Snowden, PRISM, NSA, GCHQ, and all the rest. I will upvote every one of them.

For those who think that "we all know essentially how this will end", think about what the world would look like if every major change had been met with this kind of pitiful attitude. Every revolution, every change for the better, has come out of people rejecting that sentiment.

It's not too late to turn away from the abyss and go back towards sanity and a better future.
>Ayn Rand is more associated with the right-conservative movement.

Then why was she all over those links you gave me? I think your movement has moved on without you.

>is simply the belief in a voluntary society - one with coercion.

You meant without here, right? Then we're talking anarchism. Since libertarians always talk about free markets, that would make it ancap. Which is an oxymoron.

> they're willing to force others to comply via the barrel of a gun (or proxy gun - aka, military, police, etc) with property confiscation (non-voluntary taxes) as the primary means.

A but this is exactly my issue with libertarianism: it's so much more complex than this but libertarians just hand wave all the problems away. Just a few more incantations of "laissez faire" and Utopia will arrive.

I'm not pro-coercion, I simply recognize that capitalism itself implies a level of coercion no matter how you package it up.

>You have some reading to do.

As do you:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism

http://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchy101/comments/rbxjm/an_anarchi...
>You don't classify innocuous material just because it might be embarrassing.

You're wrong. That's a well-known, ongoing, and acknowledged problem in the US which even has its own act of Congress as an attempt to deal with the problem.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/111/hr553

Here, if you like a good Catch-22: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121126/01371621143/defen...
Was the same with Dorner and the LAPD.

(not to compare Dorner and Snowden, only about focusing on the man hunt and person instead of the broader issue)
This is what I was getting at in the discussion about X window managers. There is basically no purpose to be running X at this point, when you could just run a web browser and implement the distributed window system inside of that instead:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5876723

There are a lot of advantages to running the window manager (and ui toolkit) in the window server itself, like NeWS used to do, but X doesn't do on purpose:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5845119

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5844332

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5876685
Just like Hacker News is, right? Oh.
The problem is that Snowden has become the story. It's no longer about PRISM or the legitimate surveillance and privacy concerns it's about him.
TL;DR- No.[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
I read most of it, but you really lost me in the first sentence. If you are actually the CEO, that's one thing, but one sure fire way to piss off the engineers is to think of yourself as "the boss" simply because your role has "manager" in the title. Everywhere I've worked, the engineers answer to an engineering manager, and the engineering manager is a peer to the PM.
Well, I frequently feel very very helpless indeed. I am not a brave person.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why talking about politics in HN goes nowhere good, ever.
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As a non-US HN'er, I totally agree with this. I come here for tech news, not US politics.

Some HNer has set up a nice filter:

http://diff.biz/?remove=%28nsa|prism|privacy|crunch|snowden|...

It filters away all stories containing keywords nsa, prism, etc.
Hear, hear.

This isn't a quaint distraction that's getting in the way of us discussing serious issues like gradients in web design buttons... this is a big story and deserves to consume some HN news 'cycles'.
> But we all know essentially how this will end: Prism isn't going away and Edward Snowden's fate is grim

It is not obvious to me that either of these propositions is correct.
[2012] by Jimmy Carter

(he's not writing about current events)
Oh give up.

"Edward Snowden's favorite brand of chicken pot pie"
"Kim Dotcom braids his hair!"
"Julian Assange orders Cherry Coke instead of regular!"
"Elon Musk buys three rare white leopards!"

Do you really like to argue by ridiculing others this much? There hasn't been a story even resembling anything like this, people have actually upvoted things they found interesting.

More links means more people are writing about it. This is good.
Can you explain 'crime by analogy' a little bit? A google search yields surprisingly little.
a senior [Obama] administration official... warned in unusually direct language that “if Hong Kong doesn’t act soon, it will complicate our bilateral relations and raise questions about Hong Kong’s commitment to the rule of law.”

Indeed.

The rule of law requires the government to exercise its power in accordance with well-established and clearly written rules, regulations, and legal principles. A distinction is sometimes drawn between power, will, and force, on the one hand, and law, on the other. When a government official acts pursuant to an express provision of a written law, he acts within the rule of law. But when a government official acts without the imprimatur of any law, he or she does so by the sheer force of personal will and power. [1]

It seems that the US government wants other nations on board, in its battle against the rule of law, and its authority to create secret laws, secret courts, and so on.

[1] http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Rule+of+law
"Can we please slow down the stories about ..." - If the community didn't want them they wouldn't surface.
They clearly do.
Jimmy is on to something here. It must be politically easier to support this view when there is an ex-president in favor of it.
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Some comments ask whether Pierre de Fermat may have had a proof of his conjecture (which I now call the Fermat-Wiles Theorem) using the mathematics of his day. Agreeing with Colin, on historical grounds, I think Fermat did NOT have a proof of his famous conjecture.

The historical reasoning works like this. In Fermat's day, mathematical "publishing" was not submission of articles to peer-reviewed journals, but people interested in mathematics sending personal letters to one another. (One of the first mathematical journals, if I remember correctly, began as a collection of mathematicians' letters to one another, something like turning individual emails into an email list.) Fermat was a lawyer by occupation, and did mathematics in his free time. He corresponded with other mathematicians of his era, including Pascal. In all the surviving correspondence Fermat had with other mathematicians, there is no trace of a proof of "Fermat's Last Theorem," even though, as Colin pointed out, he wrote about simpler cases of that theorem.

The real historical reasoning comes in by considering dates of the primary sources. Fermat's note to himself in the margin of the printed Latin translation of Diophantus was written EARLY in Fermat's investigation of number theory. He read that book, taking notes in the margins as he read, and then he wrote for years afterward about interesting number theory problems. The book with Fermat's annotations was published after Fermat's death by Fermat's son, and that is when the marginal note became known to the world, but Fermat had plenty of time--and plenty of pieces of paper with wider margins--to write out a complete proof of his conjecture if he actually had one. So as essentially all mathematicians have concluded on mathematical grounds, and as all historians have concluded on historical grounds, most likely Fermat briefly thought he had a complete proof of his conjecture, which he then worked on, discovering a mistake in his reasoning. He proved a simpler case of the theorem, died, and then when his notes were published, other mathematicians worked on the full conjecture for 350 years before Wiles found the complete proof, based on advanced research by other mathematicians still alive today.

Google Books links to the historical background from mathematicians who write good popular books about mathematics:

http://books.google.com/books?id=I-RSVN6TjXsC&pg=PT95

http://books.google.com/books?id=ZhK73qVgOw0C&pg=PA265
I'm on board with the assessment that government and government agencies have some truly brilliant, dedicated people working in them.

However, some - maybe most - of those people work all day long to impede the effectiveness of others. And that's in the best governments.

I agree that we shouldn't assume that government workers are hacks.

But I think you can fairly label almost any government "stupid," when you consider how it behaves as an entity, regardless of the mixture of the people that act as its cells.
> see how many years I could keep it running without a reboot

> I decided set up the panels on the deck facing west.

There seems to be some disparity between his goals and the stability of the environment in which he's placed the equipment.
No. To suggest otherwise is to attempt to redefine "journalist" in a way that is quite frankly un-American. The Constitution enshrines freedom of the press for exactly this reason.

You see, all the USSR should've done was re-labeled journalists as 'activists' before having them rounded up. All better! Oh wait, they did…

Betteridge's law of headlines strikes again.
In other news, Dr Dre doesn't build his Beats by Dre in a shed at the end of his garden ;-)

A more serious parallel though, this is true of many artists (fine and modern alike) such as Damien Hirst with his spot paintings of which over 1000 exist and were supposedly mostly produced by other artists he selected. I think in the context of artist as curator, this is quite acceptable.
Clearly you have issues with your personal appearance. Because you took beautiful to mean outward appearance instead of inner beauty.

So no, I will most definitely not "NICK" that entire sentence. And maybe you should welcome yourself to the new 'millennia', where people know how to spell it correctly and also understand the tone of an entire piece of work before taking one sentence out of context.

Have a wonderful Monday.
>Are they really that set apart from the rest of the population and that similar to one another?

Yes. :) Lifestyle is one of the biggest factors into fitness regimen fit. The lifestyle of folks who work in tech/startups, especially with regards to variability, tend to be far different than your average working Joe.
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It seems that the HN mods is killing most of the bad Snowden related content. Yesterday morning the front page was covered in his flight details, then in the afternoon it only had 1-2 Snowden related pieces of content.
I'd wager many of the upvotes are more in-line with "i love watching things burn" than "maybe this will help".

Also, are you sure it's not too late?
People can flag submissions. I don't know if there's a karma threshold for flagging.

People should be visiting new and flagging articles that don't belong here, and upvoting good articles.

It's a bit worrying that "over flagging" could cause someone to lose their ability to flag articles - some users have reported that.

Still, most of the Snowden articles are garbage and should be flagged.
americans think they rule the world? it's out of your "jurisdiction" and they are only acting according to their laws! not yours.
A preprocessing pass to convert those stupid trigraphs and digraphs. :)
Ah, alright. I'm familiar with OldVersion and that was how I was originally anticipating installing it, so I guess that's what I'll do.
Yes, they encrypt the messages in the application layer before sending them over zmq.
Yep: http://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-313.01.02f01-driver.html

Nominally these are to support higher end cards for things like CUDA and OpenCL. Interestingly, though, the official drivers contained in updates from Apple have evolved support for pretty much every nVidia card since 2010, and recently starting gaining support for the AMD 7xxx series. For example I run a hackintosh with a fully enabled GTX 470. In Snow Leopard days I had use the nVidia supplied drivers for their workstation cards, these days it Just Works.
Everything he mentioned is still current and ongoing, but it's true that he could not be writing about Snowden's revelations, if that's what you mean.
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Is anybody else watching this with glee? This is the stuff movies are made of. The school yard bully who has been tolerated for years is finally being put in its place. "Oh shit, Snowden poked you in the eye? Maybe if you didn't spend so much of your time bullying everyone else, he wouldn't have done that... P.S. if you want him, you're gonna have to go through all of us... we're not putting up with your shit any more either."
Dates on these sorts of things are very important. Good catch.
But if they reported on it they might have lost their access!