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Hilarious Celebrity Falls of the Stage
Take a look at some of the most hilarious celebrity fails of the stage.
When I first moved to the states and started high school I was really bored since everything we were learning was way behind the education I received back in Europe. I chose to be a teachers aide in the language lab, conveniently during a period there were no classes there simply so I could work on the computers (already ancient mac classics and a single IIGS) where I got to play around with Hypercard and attempt to make programs... I think that teacher let me get away with a lot - and it was a huge learning experience since all I had at home was a Compaq 8086.

On the other side of things, I worked for Seton Hall Prep school for a while when I moved to the east coast - managing the network and maintaining various systems including the community machines as well as the classroom machines. While the machines were locked down quite well, and we even used a desktop replacement, one of the students had figured that running Help from MS Word, gave them access to MS Access (not generally something they had access to) and the student was writing a pretty basic VBA application with forms etc on top of Access. I managed to figure out which student it was and made sure he knew not to do anything bad with it and I would be more than happy to help him out and pointed him in the direction of learning more advanced stuff. I do wonder if he is a programmer now :)
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I think it's fair to say he talks like a quack. Maybe not in the New Yorker article -- I assume he had to be a bit more respectable there. Every time I've seen him linked on Hacker News, however, he's been extremely derogatory of other nutritional researchers. In this particular post, he compares some researchers unfavorably to schoolchildren, calls others lazy, and adopts a generally belittling tone. By speaking directly to the public and taking a dismissive attitude toward what he calls the "authorities," he gives the impression that he has given up on convincing other nutritional researchers of the validity of his views. He then makes a case that his views are quite obviously right if you look at the data a certain way. They're so obviously true that lay people such as myself should be persuaded, yet the nutritional "authorities" refuse to acknowledge them. That's his most glaring warning signal. Personally, I think it's reasonable to assume that nutritional researchers are mostly intelligent and honest people. When experts are blinded, they're blinded by knowledge or by powerful ideas. Whether Taube is right or not, if he is able to convince me but not able to convince other nutritional researchers, it's because of something they know that I don't know.

Maybe this is a paradigm shift in nutrition, and maybe lay folks like us are better equipped to understand this breakthrough than people who have been studying nutrition professionally for years, but that's unlikely. It isn't just unlikely because such paradigm shifts are rare: his ideas just aren't that inaccessible or revolutionary. So for me it's a red flag that he's so derogatory toward nutrition researchers who disagree with him, instead of treating them as an important audience for his ideas.

Or maybe -- and I think this is the most likely explanation if he's really a reasonable fellow -- he's not so much an outsider as he pretends. Maybe his ideas are part of a spectrum of respectable opinion in the nutritional community and accorded some consideration by other researchers. Maybe his defiance of the "authorities" is just a rock star act. If so, can you blame me for believing it?
All good ideas. We work with partners in academia to study exactly those kinds of things. This service is just a very simple example. It's surprising how just one question and raising your awareness can make a huge difference. We've seen this in a number of published studies.
Http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&pub=xa-4ab60e2f3ba2d28b
Gothenburg, Sweden (I wonder what hitrate that will get on HN?)

At Aeroflex Gaisler we are looking for a talented embedded hacker that will create software for our system-on-chips based on our own LEON (SPARC32) processor. Previous experience with real time operating systems (e.g. VxWorks, RTEMS), device drivers, and other low level hacking is necessary.

We are also looking for someone interested in developing simulators for our systems. Computer architecture and C/C++ skills needed. Qt a plus.

Toolchain wizardry (GCC, Clang/LLVM) is always a bonus!

Drop me a line at $HNusername@gaisler.com if above sounds interesting.
I launched http://www.dinnerdiner.com/
It's my very first Rails project: a service that helps you find restaurants close to you (using HTML5 Geolocation API and the very good geokit-rails gem).

Suggestions and reviews appreciated :)
For what it's worth, this test has little to do with JS execution speed. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=622358#c3 for an analysis of a profile of the test in Firefox. In brief, 80% is canvas operations due to the emulator making 1024 putImageData calls for every single frame. The time spent actually running JS is about 10% of the total time.
Actually, long s is still very frequently used, and will never become extinct. Look at the integral sign! Long live long s.
Androd port?
Android port?
Bastard Files (managing files with non standard extension in emacs)
Yes... Or square with a courtyard in the middle.
Just another SYN flood tool in C
The problem here is multi-fold. On the one hand you have the fundamental problem of comparing what did happen with what might have happened. There are too many possibilities and too much complexity in that problem to ever come up with an objective answer.

On the other hand, the news media is not about informing people it's about getting as many viewers as possible, so we hear a lot more about exceptional events than we do about ordinary developments. Unfortunately, the human psyche isn't well protected against hearing lots of exceptional news, so people develop quite distorted ideas about the world and events within it (and develop quite distorted risk models as well).

The danger of a distorted perception of reality and of excessive and unwarranted pessimism is that it can quite easily lead to devaluation and neglect of the very things that are in actuality making life better.
Yup, quite remarkable. Remarkable that people are willing to dedicate vast amounts of efforts and resources toward projects which are hugely beneficial.

Capitalism.

It works.
I like it. Beats my iCal "diet" calendar. Brainstorming about how this can be used to track muscle gain for those with bioelectrical impedance scales. IE, you're gaining weight but body fat % stays the same, ∴ some amount of muscle gained.
This article is what made me grok Git. I show it to people who are new to Git instead of a standard reference manual, because I believe this material makes you much more self-reliant.
tbh i lold at this.
Replacing Traditional Storage, Databases With In-Memory Analytics - Slashdot
Uh, his hack script is just "git pull --rebase". This is even the default when a fast-forward is safe.
I disagree. If your goal is "go to bed earlier" you'll be able to wake up earlier. This does not cause a novel to be written. If your goal is "write a novel", then you are only making progress toward your goal when you're actually writing a novel.
Thanks for making it free. I'm trying it out right now. For me, it lacks one critical feature that another competig app seems to provide: a timer. I'm using both discrete counters and timers to time tasks and completion time. Not a big issue, but something to keep in mind. Thanks for making it free and all the best!
Some hobbies are more dangerous than others. I think it makes sense for us to discourage people from getting started on the more dangerous hobbies. Also, people do blame alcohol.
Question:
- US phone numbers only or other?

Ideas:
- Provide an interface via twitter, either personal msg or DM.
- You could also provide an optional weekly public tweet of weights reported.

Btw, I have twitter set to SMS me on receipt of a DM, which you could exploit to provide broader SMSs and save a few $s. Just sayin'.

I really like the simplicity of the app.
Once, everyone used "'tis" instead of "it's", so there was no danger of confusion with the possessive.

<http://www.word-detective.com/back-d.html>;
Nice but this is basically what http://www.p8tch.com/ has been doing for years with real qr codes. You get a patch with a qr-code that you can redirect to any URL you want.

I have one on my backpack, sorry for the awful picture: http://i.imgur.com/DvyCy.png
US phone only, for now.

Longer term, we're looking to understand better people's sensitivity around sharing weight. It's a tricky area. There are several studies in academia exploring this where we've partnered with investigators.
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Thanks for your informative take on the WMF's current woes.

P.S. Jimmy Wales doesn't run the Wikimedia Foundation.
Deleting data from a large scale system I'd actually pretty difficult, since the whole system has been designed NOT to lose data (redundant copies, caches, multiple data centres, backups).
it's easier to pull yourself across activation costs than it is to push yourself across them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpS_cJP5nzs
Expedia Drops American Airlines Tickets From Listings
I'm quite passionate about Android the platform. I love my incredible.
Yep, but you cannot argue with pedants.
That is completely unacceptable, and Apple needs to fix it fast.
This sounds brilliant, virtual memory is a hardware feature which is currently sorely underused in user space. Unfortunately, most mainstream kernels don't give you deep enough access to the VM subsystem for serious trickery. For example, you can't map the same memory at multiple addresses unless it's file-backed; there's just no API for it. I have to admit I don't know if this would cause problems with caches on certain hardware.

In any case, you're free to mess with (virtualised) page tables when the parent is a hypervisor.
Emm, this is China. There are lines 2 times like these for the salad bar stand at most restaurants.
The US does, in fact, indirectly check passports for foreigners leaving the country: they have the airlines collect and return the I-94W visa waiver counterfoil that the immigration folks staple inside the passport when stamping it. (I assume that visa holders on a white I-94 got similar treatment. Not sure how it works/will work now that ESTA has entirely replaced the visa waiver cardboard thing; I'll be finding out in February.) The airlines in turn check passports against tickets to ensure that (a) the right person is flying, and (b) they're legal at the destination (so the airline doesn't get fined).

Presumably it gives them a chance to check for over-stayers.
Because he says he can?

Typically it's ok to err on the side of caution but when someone offers to do a bunch of work if you just indicate that you'd like it done the safe bet is to assume that in fact they are qualified, after all their reputation is on the line in public.
Wikipedia gets so much traffic from google that the harm there is minimal compared to what's happening to stackoverflow.
> Yes, I am not sure why you are continuing to argue - I got it already.

No, you sure didn't.

> Will it help if I admitted that Apple invented sliced bread?

It sure would. That kind of "irony" would place you firmly in the delusional group thinking there are "Apple fanboys" and that you and them are at war. You reeealllly think I think somewhat like that, huh?

> We agree that you are convinced of everything you said and we also agree not to investigate anything objectively

I never agreed to the second --but you seem hell bent on it. Notice how beside ad hominens you don't provide any arguments in this "reply"?
Plenty of room here. It just depends where you want to be. For our last office space it was a choice between individual offices for everyone, but the 'wrong' side of the 101 in Menlo Park, vs desks in downtown PA. Downtown PA was very much a unanimous decision.
This guy? http://twitter.com/#!/billzeller

Has anyone tried using Twitter?
Does this seem trollish, or perhaps creepy to anyone else? This is a new account posting a suicide note and asking for help for a "friend of a friend."

This seems like posting to Hacker News to ask for advice because your house is on fire. Oh, and by the way, if anyone happens to be in the neighborhood, could you bring a bucket of water?

Call the police, call a suicide hotline. Get help from real professionals.
My best Friend was doing a PHD in a Biochemistry related field at University College London back in 2003. He was an outgoing person, had a hot girlfriend and lots of friends. He had a what seemed like a great life and an even better future.

One night we went out together (which we did a lot) and had a great night. We went our separate ways about 4am and I we arranged to meet at 5pm the next day.

At 2pm the next afternoon I got a call from his flat mate saying that he had committed suicide. He had access to all kinds of chemicals and substances at the as part of his studies and he had been taking little bits for months and months and making a potent cocktail of poison. He drank the poison and died instantly.

There was no note, no explanation and no reason anyone knew. I was the last person (friend) to see him alive.

I'm hoping you get to this person and that this is just a cry for help. If they really wanted to be dead perhaps they would have done what my good friend did - and do it without any chance of help.
Hey just wanted to say thanks for the cool product you are building. Etsy is just great. (the video is cool too)
This seemed like a place where someone might know him. The police are aware of the situation, but perhaps someone who knows him personally might be able to contact him.
I think from.bz is the site of the author, so it seems legit
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A very interesting perspective. Now hurry up with HPMOR!
One of my clients is a Bank. I work occasionally on one of their intranet-sites-that's-actually-not-on-the-intranet-but-the-internet, and it has a password recovery procedure written in plain text on the login screen and open to the most basic social engineering imaginable [Have to be careful what I say here. I'd love to describe just how easy it is, but I'd better not]

I've spoken to them and told them this is A Very Bad Thing, but they just brushed me off, so I wrote a pretty strongly worded email outlining how and why it was bad, but they just said [paraphrasing] "That's our procedure. people forget passwords all the time and we need to make it easy or they'll get upset"

The people in charge honestly seem to have no idea that people from outside the company can see this site. I try and try, but now I just despair
You could just write "return;", that would make it obvious that no value is returned.
Good job getting in contact with the police. Anytime anyone makes such statements (credible or not), it's the right thing to do.

I hope he is found and gets the help he needs.
Thanks for the concern... I saw this a minute after the post went up on Facebook and talked to a friend + colleague of BZ. He called Princeton Public Safety about 10 minutes after it was posted, and they informed him that they were on the way and that someone else had already called in.
He also called a friend of his (J) who's in the area, and I think J is going over to check on him now.
You're not writing a novel when you're hungry or tired.

When most of the "lower levels" of Maslov's Pyramid are satisfied, THAT is the time you can actually be productive with the "fancy" things like writing a novel
I think the key is in the line "Modifying behaviors at lower levels automatically improves behaviors at higher levels". Of course you're only making visible progress towards writing your novel when you're actually writing, but if getting to bed earlier enables you to write more in a day (say, because you have more productive time available to you - some people work better in the mornings) then your novel-writing goal is accelerated by your getting-to-bed-earlier goal. Hence 'leverage'.
A few years ago at a HS reunion, I found out that one of the most popular and successful guys in our class committed suicide. It shocked everybody who heard about it, but also woke me up to the fact that people who commit suicide often show no outward indication of intent.
Yep, that must've been my friend who called in beforehand. Lets hope everything turns out okay.
Robert Scoble's advice for startups planning to launch at SXSW
Thumbs up for the inclusion of export to email/CSV; I wouldn't use this kind of thing if I couldn't make a backup.
Thank you, I didn't know about transhumanists/ism before this.
Incidentally, I work at a bank, and to get access remotely you have to have a randomly-generated username, a random password, and a client-side certificate. The VPN software denies all outgoing connections except to port 80 (and the VPN port, I guess) when it is not active. When it is active, it makes all the network interfaces that aren't the VPN disappear (so you can't see your link-level network anymore). Then, it asks for your password every 24 hours.

Usually I find the commute to work less stressful.

But it does show you that some organizations do take data security seriously... perhaps too seriously. (The port blocking is just security theater. I can run whatever I want over port 80. But the random username / random password / client-side SSL certificate is excellent security.)
Want more people in your nightclub? Make them queue...
Actually, the bank is lucky that they didn't get exploited by some kids in Russia and then get shut down by the government.
Great, so assuming this is real the correct channels are acting on this faster and more effectively than any others. Hopefully tomorrow he will wake up a new person. Unfortunately, the post still lives on hacker news and wherever else you mentioned it. Do this person a favor and DO NOT repost his suicide note despite his instructions to do so.

ETA: Sorry, replied to the wrong person. I meant this for the OP.
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This is sad. Perhaps an appeal for the guy by name would have been enough.
He's been going through the older videos and rerecording them to improve their quality, but he sees new content as a higher priority.
That's a pathology called "non event feedback", just because you've avoided catastrophe with risky behavior in the past doesn't mean that the risk doesn't exist, it just means you've gotten lucky.

Why change wikimedia's method of fund raising and budgeting? Because wikipedia is a valuable resource and it would be far greater if we could ensure it remains available for reading and continued revision not just for the next year or the next decade but indefinitely. They've already raised enough money to have ensured that had they invested the money correctly. Instead, the money has been squandered on salaries for positions within the foundation which provide questionable value.
I have a 10" Samsung N210 - proper 'netbook' (Atom, 1G RAM, etc) - and is fast enough for my dev needs (HTML/CSS, C, Python). I do need to farm compiling out to my main machine (a quad core) with distcc if I need to compile anything >10k LOC though.

I'm happy with it.
Did you write an app to do this? Sharing it would be awesome...
Yes, I see that he is no longer the chairperson, though he still sits on the Board and I would expect holds other powerful positions relative to Wikipedia. It'd also be silly to think that he didn't exert a large influence on the Board as presently composed and Wikipedia's community as a whole -- his face was just plastered all over the site for four months, as you may recall.
I think the best way to get started is having a habits calendar' aka seinfield's "don't break the chain". You track something like "work on this idea/project 30min everyday", and multiple times you'll try to do it quickly to 'get rid of the task' as quickly as possible.

As you'll notice multiple times though, once you get started, you'll feel like going way past the 30min mark. Also, not having the 'responsibility' of working more than 30min will usually make the rest of the time working feel like less of a grind and more pleasurable.
Creating SQL Schemas in C
I have to close my web browser, too. I don't need any enforcement (like host file blocks), just a clean workspace.
Solving some of the problems with wsgi.file_wrapper
But the random username / random password / client-side SSL certificate is excellent security.

The SSL certificate is, but not the random username. That's just a maintenance hassle. A username is not a secret - that's what the password is for. The random password isn't so great, either, because it pretty much forces you to write it down and then it just becomes a (poor) version of the SSL certificate. It should instead be a strong password that you can actually remember.
WebApp for making Habits and New Years Resolutions stick
persuaded me that I was wrong

I was wrong (or at least myopic)

technically, I was wrong

raises the possibility that I was wrong

etc.
Alcombinator
Maybe, but there are other factors. Firstly, the question is the size.

Were all the advertisements the same size? (i.e. were they all images or were some text - like google adwords?).

Then there is the question of how non-donors feel. The ad campaign made me negative about WP (and I bet quite a few other people).

The third problem is the damage to the image of WP. An idiot on the top of every page begging for money really knocks the image for me.
'Thousands of faceless people' generally don't make great donation drives, advertising campaigns, etc. Sounds like the ad campaign was effective to me and nothing to do with Wales' ego.
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The rounded triangular blocks of the Vienna International Centre (Vienna UN offices) are a curious architectual solution to this problem. Having been built in the 70s, they're not exactly pretty (and currently being cleared of asbestos), but they do provide a vast number of well-lit offices along with larger central areas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_International_Centre
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Apesar de ser consideradas umas das mulheres mas bonita que circula na web, com suas fotos é vídeo incrível pessoalmente ela não parece ser grande coisa
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Back when Windows95 was introduced, people around the world lined up in front of their local stores.

The Engadget story is about a line at one store, in one place in the world.

So no, this doesn't qualify as "an Android phone that people line up for like they did for Windows95".
Nice. I like it, simple, solves a real problem.
By way more aggressively removing useless sites.