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Neither do I! Want to make some for me for free? :-)
I don't know, that paragraph struck me as true in a way that has nothing to do with meditation.

When I go out with friends, I have "fun." I enjoy it at the time, but not in retrospect. I come home tired. When I go out with the person I love, on the other hand, I truly enjoy myself—even if we ended up doing absolutely nothing but, say, waiting in line all night, I come home invigorated, and remember the night fondly.

This isn't a matter of remembering them fondly. The feeling I recall is that I was able to be myself the entire night; I had none of the "jealousy, suffering, discontent and stress" that comes from a social situation where you aren't truly aware of the motivations of the people around you, and thus have to put on a "face" of only the highest of social intentions and mannerisms (perpetuating the cycle, because then they don't know what your motivation is.) This may be a relic of introversion, of course, but I think everyone can feel it to some degree.

Also, the author is speaking of a different type of party than that which you're thinking of, I believe; he's referring to open-to-anyone parties with bouncers and alcohol—amateur versions of nightclubs. In such a party, everyone is indeed on edge. In a private gathering of only your true, closest friends, you will indeed be able to "let your hair down" and the negative emotions will evaporate... but most parties are not that party. Songwriters; pop, rock, rap, and hip-hop songwriters in particular, go to the more common type of party exclusively; it's part of their their livelihood to attend these "events." Thus, this is what they sing about. I hesitate to reference a song less than ten years old, but this is a somewhat relevant description of the sentiment the author is trying to capture: Glass Danse by The Faint -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSwzvatqE6I

Now, I don't know what all that had to do with meditation, but for the fact that your own mind is another place where you can "let your hair down" and be yourself, and that many people are so socially immersed at all times that they forget that their thoughts are not bound or inspected by the same social contract. I thus imagine that meditation can invigorate you in some of the same ways.
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do the casinos make more off people who play slots or table games?
I almost get the sense it's a flat out scam from looking at it... especially as someone else mentioned about the links to foreign language sites, etc, and asking for large amounts of money from investors so upfront...
Kenny G plays soprano saxophone, not clarinet. Insufferable either way, though.
You're looking at everything through Zen-colored glasses.

> Questioning anything in this way, i.e. deciding if something belongs in the "Good Bucket" or "Bad Bucket" again simply shows that he doesn't get it.

What this shows, to me, is that he is an empiricist trying to decide if meditation is an effective path toward what he seeks to achieve. It might be that once you are "of the Eastern philosophy", you no longer accept empirical evaluations; however, you have to bootstrap yourself into that sort of thing. You can't evolve straight from a fish into a bird, you have to have a middle stage where your fins (empirical thought) assist your wings (seeking enlightenment) before your wings are strong enough that you can shuck the fins off.
If I could explain what made a piece of music could I could write a direct algorithm. The kind of heuristic I mean is something that would rule out the vast majority of dissonant crap that has no chance of sounding good.
Hrm "Get In. Get Out. Get Smarter." Don't like it already, sounds trite.

"Ya tai!
- Hiro Nakamura, Heroes "

What has that got to do with anything? And it is "Yatta" not "ya tai."

The entire style of the site feels cheap too. I'm not sure, maybe the striped banner up top? You need a logo.
Deserves a double upmod, for absolute truth and the coinage of a phrase that readily sums up my addiction -- info-crack.
Just wait for the next "Meth Prevention Act." Seriously. Do you really think that real-time reporting won't be imposed eventually?

The powers-that-be already require prepaid debit cards (so you cannot make anonymous purchases on-line) and cell phones (no more anonymous calling) to be registered in this way.
Meditation changes your brain structure which changes your experience. This is in the domain of science, not faith: it is measurable.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090512134655.ht...

At the beginning it reduces the impetus of your emotions. Your emotions do not change, but you do not feel you have to follow them. The biological change is more inhibitor neurones from your neocortex to your hyppocampus.

http://www.cogsci.uni-osnabrueck.de/%7eleggert/lucas_eggert_...

Further down the path, it changes the left/right balance of your brain functioning leading to a more pleasant and holistic experience. This can also occur with a left-brain stroke, but you lose brain functionality that you don't with meditation. Eg:

http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=...

While there is a lot of superstition, it is foolish to assume that all pre-scientific experience is invalid. Just like many people with high school science believe in a "scientific religion" (i.e. it doesn't fit with theory therefore is wrong, rather than doesn't it fit with theory? hmm. how interesting!), many Buddhists believe in a Buddhist religion. That does not mean that there is no valuable knowledge gained by the best practitioners of Science or of meditation.
DIY home radiochemistry from some who actually seems to know what they are doing (a nuclear engineering grad student):

http://carlwillis.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/uranium-chemistry...
Oh, but if you get a loan at 10% or 15% interest and are late on a different loan you can get a universal default where your rate is doubled to 20 or 30%. Also the credit card companies have successfully lobbied the government to make it harder for consumers to erase these debts with bankruptcy.
Here is a simple example which pops up too often: i need a "flatpages" controller which will display a page based on its url. Or, as another example, a category tree. With regexes, this is a piece of cake. With routers that try to hide regexes, i have to undo the work done by the router.
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Portability between servers and reusable apps are the first examples that came to my mind. A reusable app would need an extra installation step and need to duplicate its routes in more than one syntax for different webservers.
No. The odds are already in the casino's favour, and the casino has more information than any of the players do.

What they're doing here is identifying suckers, and further exploiting them.

AFAIK, I don't know anyone with a gambling addiction, but when I hear the retarded ideas that people have about how probability works, it gives me pause.

We're a select group, here on HN. Many of us took math classes beyond the first couple of years of high-school, and a lot of us went to university.

The average person out there is at a severe disadvantage, especially when powerful corporate interests are exploiting well-known cognitive deficiencies.
"this is a document DNA"

What is this supposed to mean, lack of apostrophe notwithstanding?

Also, the title of your submission sounded at first reading as if you were insulting us.
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To me Pylons looks very Rails-like, except for configuration files, which are in .ini files (painful).
Thanks for posting this. My project is a password manager and my users will certainly appreciate this article.
Thanks for the feedback. The Hiro quote is just a placeholder until I get a good one to put there. I like Hiro. I'll fix the spelling though!

Don't worry, if I get some funding for this the first thing I'll do is hire a graphic artist to make it look better. One guy can only do so much.
The feelings will always come back. The question is whether they are overwhelming or rootless, and that is a question of view. The various forms of insight meditation help see through the solidity of experience.
Sounds like a business opportunity, if you don't mind being a Global-War-On-Everything-Industrial-Complex douche.
> And isn't it suspicious that meditation always leads to a higher place?

Er, what? Meditation is a chance for you to stop reacting to everything around you, stop reacting to the animal impulses that keep floating up in your mind, and just see the world and your mind for what they are. If somebody cuts you off in traffic or makes fun of some idea that you hold a little too close for your own good, you probably feel anger or irritation building up, but that's just some animal part of your brain making noise. (It doesn't know that not everything is a matter of life and death.) You can let it go, and you don't need to get mad and snap at people because you had a crappy day at work. (That doesn't do anybody any good.) Likewise, don't get so caught up in thinking about a bug that came up this morning, or whatever, that you forget to taste your lunch. You can spend so much time worrying about an idea, something that doesn't even exist, that you forget to appreciate the things that do.

If your idea of a "higher place" is a world in which people stop doing as much stupid shit because they're no longer reacting like threatened animals half the time, then, ok, cool. (I think that capital-e Enlightenment is another idealized thing to drive yourself crazy trying to chase. Not all Buddhists believe in enlightenment, though there are probably as many Buddhisms as there are Buddhists.)

Also, a lot of the religious stuff came into Buddhism because, well, try showing that stuff to someone thousands of years ago in India, then having them explain it to someone else, ... who shows someone else in China how to see their mind working that way, who ... and see if it gets a bunch of their cultural symbolism mixed in along the way. Nowadays, we talk about the mind like it's a computer. Is it a computer? Or do we just talk about it that way because that model seems useful to us? Will that seem weird to people in the future?
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i think if someone decided to lobby the issue such legislation would have a decent chance of making it into law, but you can't legislate engineering. real-time monitoring of all retail sales in the united states is quite an undertaking. and as smart as it may be to be concerned about government intervention into our lives, i think there are better outlets for that energy.

[edit, thought better about some "no need to put words into my mouth" type stuff]
Greed was alive and well during the Clinton administration. Has Mr. Will forgotten the dot com bubble?

I dislike George W. Bush as much as anyone else, but blaming him for everything is ignorant.
How does that quip apply here? The folks running P.F Chang's seem smart enough to have a formula that works.

Do you think people who like P.F. Chang's are dopey?
I believe they really can make it.

Though Loopt is not the first one to come up with the idea. But they are so far the most visible one who create a good product that users want! I really want to see their success.

This may sound as bragging. I thought idea similar to loopt on 2004 after hearing about dodge ball and asked my then boss the possibility to do this and we decided this was not the focus of the company. Also even I started to do it, I wonder I can achieve the same result as Sam did. I know idea is worthless and the execution and result is the king.)

Perhaps chasing one's idea and having the guts to do it in the right place and right time is the true cause for success.
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Motorola Razr2 V8 they must have known it was going to be something special. Special enough to include stainless steel body which ensures stability. This 2 megapixel camera phone with video capture and playback is perfect.
is there similar software out there anywhere else? i am kind of stunned if this is the first attempt at solving this problem. it seems like a niche that might be dominated by an obscure commercial package but i didn't have much luck with google.

[later] i'm impressed so far, i haven't thought about email like this in a long time.
I prefer WANKOS (Wolfram's ANKOS...)
"Typically folks recoil in horror at the notion that their enjoyment of music would be affected by this."

Any links to support the claims that branding works, and that modern music is a function of the tribal effect of being part of a mass-media phenomenon?
^^ Yeah but realistically it's filled with 90% pirated material. At $15-$20 per movie, $10-$15 per CD, $20-$30 for HD, it's still a bargain.
I wouldn't touch this without first giving it a very thorough security audit. Zed is right that most MTAs in use today are Byzantine horrors, but he misses out on why they were written that way: security. A mail server needs to bind to a privileged port, aggregate every user's mail into a single outgoing queue (which must be stored on disk for reliability), setuid into arbitrary users for delivery, and sometimes execute arbitrary commands given by those users (procmail). This is not an easy thing to get right. The reason for the strange design of Postfix, qmail, et. al. is to allow them to implement privilege separation wherever they possibly can. The thought of throwing all that away, and substituting a lightly-tested, monolithic program written in a dynamic language that permits monkey-patching at runtime and doesn't have Perl's taint checking support, makes me nervous to say the least.

Mail servers, web servers, C compilers, libcs, and crypto libraries all seem to share the common property that their basic functionality seems enticingly easy to implement, inducing the naive to look at the mainstream implementations and think, "Look how stupidly bloated these are! I can do way better", and go on to produce nice elegant, minimalistic implementations that immediately fall over when put into production.
The page appears to be down for me.

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://nrds.co.uk/
Attacking sendmail at this point is a bit silly. There are numerous options available that don't require learning sendmail's configuration syntax.

While this project seems interesting, I'd be curious to see what its performance is like. High volumes of spam make performance a top concern.
To me, the signup/login forms are not clear. You use "login" on the signup form. I instinctively associated that word with logging in, so i kept looking for where to "sign up". A better word would be username.

When signing up using the big orange sticker icon on the right, you get no status message as to what happend after submitting the form. It was only after trying to sign up using the top left link that it told me "username exists" which meant the sticker signup apparently worked.

Not requiring a password on initial signup tells me you want ease signing up as much as possible; why are you requiring email validation then? Seems counter-productive.
Let users gain instance access, and then delete accounts that haven't validated after a set timeframe, (with reminders).

Minor pet peeve. The facebox boxes have too little padding on the left/right margins. It does not look nice.

I tried to sign up for a course by clicking on the plus sign, but after I do that I am lost as to actually how to "take" the course. Maybe this is a lack of content issue, but I'm still puzzled as to whether these courses have video, audio, read like a textbook, or??

That is all for now.
Objective measurement is cool, sure, but more important here is how meditation makes you feel.

Actually this is a kind of measurement, one to which only you have access. It might be condemned as subjective rubbish by some, but it is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

Unlike religion, you aren't required to believe anything. Unlike mainstream science the result will not be publically reproducible. But that's OK: you're trying to advance self-knowledge, not public knowledge.
Using javascript for sign up.

Even though something like 90%< of users have javascript enabled, I think it is an unnecessary risk to have a signup form be 100% dependent on javascript. Especially when it is so easy to just provide a real link to a basic signup page and then load that right within the facebox using jquery. Pretty sure you are using facebox and facebox makes this ridiculously easy.
Some Interesting Wolfram Alpha Queries.
If employee Smith can get a payout of $1m now versus keeping a chance of getting $5m a couple of years from now, he might pick the $1m and leave. Facebook can probably hire someone else at the same salary and give them far fewer options because Facebook is seen as a far safer bet now than when Smith joined. The result is that the rest of Facebooks shareholders potentially win a lot of money.
Thanks for the links... You've made my day with that ACL rule.

I had the new file permissions issue but hadn't had time to hunt down the solution.
The fact that employees are willing to cash out now might mean that they are less confident about the potential of cashing out big in the future.

It might. Or it might just mean that some employees want to buy houses, new cars, etc.

People are very good at "doing without" when they're starting a new company, but there's a point where life catches up and they want to start living in a bit of comfort. This goes double (or more) for those people who have families -- I'm not sure quite how one would explain to a 3 year old that they're not getting the toys they want because daddy wants to hold on to his stock options so that he can become a millionaire when facebook IPOs a few years from now.
Government is pushing ePrescribing pretty hard. It will happen some time after ePrescribing is universal. Some politician will wake up one day and say to themself, "Why we already have the ability to track this real time. We just need to force all e-prescribing systems to register whenever someone buys whatever-needs-monitoring."
how does that help with OTC drugs, or do you mean that this will push those to require prescriptions too?
D'oh. Thank you.
I signed up. The "conversational japanese" course was highly rated and recommended, so I enrolled in it, but I don't know what to do now. There doesn't seem to be anything there. Where's the course?

The "enroll" button was a bit scary, I wasn't sure what that would do. I'd expose as much of the course materials as you can without forcing someone to enroll.
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If someone could objectively show that focused practice of an art has the same mental benefits of meditation, then I would consider that personally useful, not just "cool."
> Don't worry, if I get some funding for this the first thing I'll do is hire a graphic artist to make it look better. One guy can only do so much.

HN understand this, but users will not. Ever.

This isn't specifically about your site, but about your response; that mentality could work against you. I didn't spend much time thinking about the graphics on your site, but if you provide whatever the user is looking for, who cares about looks. Shiny shiny is just the bait.
One question I couldn't answer from the front page was whether this is aimed at regular users or is a business-to-business product - I sense the latter, but it's not obvious. Please repost when your demo is functional again.
body = view('confirmation.msg’).render( list=list, [...]

Rebinding the list builtin in the snippet on your homepage? Is there a good reason for that?
"They have won at the game of life, in that they fit in, are laughing, are enjoying themselves, yet the author feels that there must be something wrong with them."

You misunderstand. After you meditate for a while, especially with a knowledgeable support group (the sangha), you become extremely attuned to human emotions (since you watch them very closely all day long). If you then go to a party, a family gathering, or if you turn on the TV, tiny changes in people's voice, expressions, and breathing will give away what they're feeling - fear, unease, and nerviousness.

Imagine two people that have truly achieved something meet for the first time. Let's say, for the sake of the argument, Einstein and Feynman. Try to imagine in your mind what the meeting would be like. Would they laugh nerviously and use smalltalk? Would they use drinks to break the ice? Would they be, even momentarily, afraid to approach each other? If they are truly accomplished people at peace with themselves, none of this would take place. Now compare this to a typical party or gathering. Do accomplished people who have no need to defend their worth act this way?

The author isn't asserting that he's "better" than the masses. He has simply observed his suffering, and now he observes it in other people. Most "accomplished" Westerners are unhappy, and use incredible amounts of substances to mask that unhappiness (cigarettes, alcohol, prozac, whatever). And if it's not substances, it's behavior (compulsive shopping, addiction to following sports, internet, any kind of waiting for something to happen in your life, and watching nothing happen day in and day out).

It's not contempt. It's compassion for other people's pain.
Wolfram gets the correct answer to a simple maths question
Wolfram (http://tinyurl.com/r5lz3u) gets the correct result over Google(http://tinyurl.com/ohzt6z) for this classical simple maths sum!
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Here is a link to a more original recording.

http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/song/The_Last_Time/14716915

If that second video is were the Verve stole their sample then I think there's was sufficiently different as to be new. It wasn't a real sample, not like "brush your shoulders off" ...I just heard that for the first time because of this story. I was getter mad just listening to it.
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