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Just remember you'll be dead all too soon and let life flow accordingly.

Your problem is that you thought understanding could guide you in meditation. It can't. But it's still necessary for advanced techniques. Anything worthwhile takes time and discipline--don't give up. Real meditation isn't a weekend retreat. Sorry yuppies. :(

I highly suggest "The Tibetan Book of The Dead" and "The Power of Silence." Try to find the TBOTD version translated by W.Y. Evans-Wentz if you're not one for happy meal, watered-down philosophy. Take these texts with a grain of salt at first only because they will be thoroughly alien to your mind; once absorbed use wisely.

"...that which clingth not no fall can come. Where no fall cometh, there is rest, and where rest is, there is no keen desire. Where keen desire is not, naught cometh or goeth; and where naught cometh or goeth there is no death, no birth." -GB, TBOTD

"Cutting our chains is marvelous, but also very undesirable, for nobody wants to be free." -CC, The Power of Silence

EDIT: btw yogic flying is for idiots. Those who've practiced meditation for years and those fewer who've reached Nirvana have accessed and gained control enough to manipulate what they call the dharmakaya which is connected to the right temporal lobe I believe (also referred to as the silent mind). Those with this degree of mastery have OOB experiences with great maneuverability.

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

Definitely agree this juggling rests in experienced hands. A vet knows what balls can be dropped and which ones cannot. My thoughts on this are: 1) As a rule of thumb, the longer the project the more structured it should be--which should be a no brainer. 2) Having a clean dispatch module allows you to sweep the mess under loosely coupled rugs. 3) Programmers are code excavators first, curators second, developers third.

A woman could hack a vuvuzela instead or blow one (the horn).

Out of curiosity, what barter product was it? I've been working on an offline sharing site (http://pickupon.com/) specializing in direct trade for a while and just started inviting friends. Any opinions/advice in this area?

I would test this theory on a pet first.

It would be interesting if features and the amount of content produced by them scaled with the frequency of interactivity between contacts. WLN seems to draw just another arbitrary line. Although it has some flaws, using levels of shared knowledge in the form of questions to be answered to access content isn't a bad proposition either.

Different learning models (D. is most relevant to this post): http://www.mudrashram.com/enhancelearning1.html

Thanks, this was the type of answer I was looking for. S3 definitely sounds affordable. I knew bandwidth would get expensive but had no clue exactly how bad.

MVP is convenient. It allows users to pay for their level of involvement from what I understand. I agree if a startup is going to play that game they should be transparent.

Some people get paid to stick company advertisements on the sides of their cars. Perhaps an analogous plan could exist where people agree to post/blog/tweet about the company and use a company avatar in exchange for an MVP account. More followers = better account. I'm sure there's stuff like this already but certainly having a universally recognizable karma system online would help--as sinister as it sounds--still good for business.

Also, sites can and do allocate system resources corresponding to account level. This hypothetically gives the user a taste of the real deal on a meager allowance.

Just my take on MVP.

I have many friends who are much less intelligent than I who are attending "better" schools for infuriatingly trivial reasons. Getting good grades has as much to do with intelligence as it does with your ability to take tests--unless you come across a really good teacher. Forget about dreams of elitist schools (for now) and find/start a project to build a knowledge base around. Make sure it's something you have the resources for and also is big enough to require you to learn new subjects. This project will serve as your point of reference for "building" new learning habits quite organically around. It will tell you what, how, why, and with whom you will learn with versus vague ideals and arbitrary academia romanticism dictating your future. However, realize the project itself is merely a crutch for your brain to grow stronger on--you will eventually outgrow it and require a new one. Walk into a professor's office, they are very lonely and love attention, and I guarantee you they are working on something you could define as a "project" and would love to point you in the right direction. Most have to in order to keep their jobs. Undergraduate students have a hard time understanding that they need some sort of internal locus and not their friends and teachers in order to be intelligent--but they eventually catch on to this like you have just now. The hardest part will be the sacrifices you'll have to make and endure in every imaginable facet of your life; you'll have to cut a lot of loose ends (bad habits/routines) off from your life. Eventually, though, you'll find your path to enlightenment and it's always one with heart and is rarely found but more so stumbled upon (hint: always within close proximity of powerful computers and by path I mean nerd and by stumbled upon I mean HN). Only then, once found, will you know if you will need to attend a particular school or not. (good music helps to rewire your brain and the subsequent lonely spells; cats are smart because they're curious, not the other way around; also, the smarter you get the more you laugh...muhahahah)

...sooner or later you're going to realize just as I did that there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path. - Morpheus

http://www.odopod.com/work/donq-ladydata/ for laughs.

This lost-and-found marketing ploy is certainly working out well for BP. ;)

!(Thanks for the commentary)

1) Although videos are visual aids by definition, it wasn't suggesting that a human could visualize any dimension except the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd I believe; this is why mathematicians must use numerical expressions (iterated for the nth time on HN) because human cognition is inextricably tied to interpreting perceptual data within the 3D Cartesian plane. 2) It is a youtube video. 3) Node (n-2) of this one was merely suggesting rather matter-of-factly that confusion is a weak conjecture. 4) I really don't disagree on node (n-1) because any spatial dimension can be parametrized possibly dispelling the "4th" part. I'm assuming your beef is that time breaks down in 5D (or 4D depending on who's counting) because it ceases to move in one direction? 5) If the former is true, Poe's Law still holds, and no matter what, I plea the 5th on further comment of this submission other than god forbid an innocent observe this video and enter into the nth dimension with an error margin of +-D. ;)

I have to disagree. Just because "results where in 5-space and up you can see and exist in all time simultaneously" appears to be "wacky" doesn't mean it's not possible. It's simply not part of your definition or interpretation of your current existence, which makes the 4th dimension seem out of place.

I'm glad my 4th-dimensional-former-undulating-self-blob observed this point on the 3rd dimensional plane.

Obligatory link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1385543

Sorry, but you're horrifyingly correct.

Any europeans here on HN? I had a german professor last semester tell me many schools/teachers don't require students to buy specific textbooks and do homework problem sets in Europe. They just expect their students to understand the material, turn in good labs or essays, and pass the tests. He was obviously criticizing that american college students are spoon-fed their education.

Yeah, kind of thought so--a little diversity can be refreshing imo. I noticed that HN redirects you to a previous submission if you use the same url. Perhaps the same could be done if you post something with the same url used on a previous reddit or digg submission.

It seems a lot of people are concerned about HN turning into other communities. How is this avoidable? Require everyone to debug a snippet of code before registering or logging in? I personally wouldn't mind this.

True. I realized this a while ago and my life is a lot less confusing. I've dabbled in media long enough to know it's more magic than reality. When you need to find, shoot, and edit a piece in less than 24 hours on a limited budget the truth stretches as much as your dollars do (this varies on whether your producer is Lucifer himself or not). Long story short I'm not involved in media anymore, you should spend your time on things you hate loving versus things you love hating, and read HN.

About a week ago, I decided to cancel my ISP bill at home. The support technician was very confused when I answered him that I would not be switching to another provider. The most noticeable result from the experiment thus far is that I sleep much better and longer--making me more relaxed. Also my eyes don't burn and I can even go outside without sunglasses. I surf less (obviously this comment got here somehow) and actually program more. The necessary stuff gets done, the unnecessary crap doesn't (at least not on my watch). I see more, and look at less. I'm beginning to think I'm more of a feedback junkie than information addict.

Just wanted to say thanks for the link--I've been searching for a legitimate ebook directory.

If you're still alive read "The Tibetan Book of The Dead" (I'm not Buddhist but it will provide you with a deal of clarity if you can see past the metaphors). I'm not a fan of platitudes but I think taking responsibility for yourself and living on your own terms starts by ending self-pity; death is invariably linked to it--you must let it go out of scope before you do.

You could find a CSE student or a hardware engineer looking to switch focus into orthopedic surgery or medicine; the idea being you two would learn from each other and pass on valuable connections and resources gained from past experience.

This isn't a very technical or sophisticated method but it works for my cohorts and I. When considering a new startup idea or really anything (domain name, features, marketing) we just put all our ideas up on the wall for about a week or two. By the end of the week, whichever idea has been built upon the most (variants or child ideas) is pursued and the others shamelessly forgotten. If no idea gets built upon it means our current work is more fertile than any of the new ones.

Also, #5 struck my attention and echoes the fact that most good "new" ideas are too contrarian for the general public to pick up on and are hardly profitable right off the bat. Some say primordial Google (search) was in this boat but Yahoo had existed since 1995 along with others, hints the next "______"s are easier for people to find because they are fed up with the old system and will type in "______" without spam/flashy ads or "_______" with such and such feature that works. People first need to know what "_______" is to search for it. A fact that spells disaster for truly revolutionary ideas.

Thanks, sounds interesting--I'll try to make it.