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Life is an experiment. Whatever you do, try, learn, iterate.

Remember, though, that time is your precious resource. You'll never, ever get it back. All life hacks must either extend your time, shorten tasks, or make your time more meaningful.

Here are a few things that came to mind:

Productivity:

* Make a check list. Once you start, you won't be able to believe that you lived life without one. Can't overstate this one.

* I wrote a script that takes screenshots every half minute and lets me see what I've been doing. Huge time-saver. Check-lists also help.

Mental/Spiritual/Creative Well-being:

* Read an actual book that's actually not on a screen. Don't do anything else concurrently.

* Keep short, creative side-projects/weekend projects that you can be excited about. It'll keep your creative juices flowing.

* If you're in a rut, start saying "yes" to things more. It's too easy to stay in.

Fitness:

* Cold shower in the morning, and/or swimming in cold water. A few minutes of this and you'll feel like you ran 10 miles.

* If you're going to enjoy soda or something bad for you, enjoy it in small sips.

* F.lux for your eyes.

* Eat when you're hungry or low on energy. Don't eat when you're not hungry or not low on energy.

Social interaction:

* "Flirt" with everybody. Men and women. Don't overdo it or be weird about it, but the qualities that are successful in flirting tend to be endearing.

* Pay attention to people. "Being there" mentally can be hard, especially when you're tired or your company is tiring, but you've got to try.

* Low self-confidence is a road to all bad things. You're better than that.

* "I like your shirt/watch/shoes/bag" and get ready to hear a story.

* If you can use someone's name, use it. If you can't (and I forget names _all the time_) see if you can introduce a nearby friend.
->* Need help remembering names? Apparently this is an old sales trick (I haven't tried it but it's brilliant): index names in your phone book by category, as you may know WHERE you know a person from but may not be able to remember their name. So for a guy you know from college and whose number you have but you can't remember his name, you can go through your "College" contacts to find "College Ted." Hopefully the name resonates when you see it; I haven't tried this yet.

Time for sleep, I think, but hope these are helpful to someone...
Won't pretty much any random combination of notes in a scale sound equally good as 3.1415926535798?
Well, the reactor is melting right now....so.....
The sad part is that some people are STILL trying to argue that...
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My quick Rosetta Stone for inexplicable school behavior: assume the goal of schools is to employ people and that educating students is an industrial biproduct.
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If a meltdown does occur, damage will depend on whether or not the reactor's containment structure holds. In the case that it does hold, the plant itself is FUBAR'd but, otherwise, there isn't significant cause for concern. This would be analogous to the Three Mile Island accident -- in which a partial meltdown occurred but was successfully contained.

If the containment structure is breached, the resulting fallout will be comparable to that of the Chernobyl disaster which, like most Soviet reactors, had no containment structure whatsoever. Wikipedia has a good article on the effects of the Chernobyl disaster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster_effects
Kohana 3.x has nothing to do with the Codeigniter framework. Even Kohana 2.x was a complete rewrite from Codeigniter.

Kohana is indeed a much modern PHP MVC framework. It supports a cascading file-system and HMVC out of the box. There is a lack a polished documentation but I've been working with Kohana 3.x since it's release and the documentation hasn't been much of an issue.

However, if you're new to MVC and/or programming Codeigniter might be a better choice.

Concerning the post. I'm not sure how useful this is. The amount of time you spend installing modules/plugins is disproportional to the amount of time you spend on building your site. Normally you end up using a handful of modules over and over again anyway.
On the topic of doors. I have a hack that speeded up transit and benefited many many people daily.

There was a main entrance gate at my old high school. There was four sets of double door that opened out, that allowed students into the campus. These doors are damn heavy and one night I was cruising with my friend and I told him, I got an idea. I refused to answer any of his inquiries.

We arrived at the high school, I climbed up onto the top of the gate. On each door was the little hydraulic system to stop the doors from slamming shut ( know what I'm sayin?)
These hydraulic arms were just little planks of metal. I pushed them down with my foot. This created tension when the door closed on the two arms. Instead of sliding freely(and the door closing), the arms rub and create enough friction to hold the door open.

Now instead of the doors swinging close, they remain open daily, until they are closed for the night. Every day I would walk through them, and see every other student walking through my simple little hack that got the doors to stay open all day.

tl;dr: Hacked some doors at my old high school so they would stay open instead of closing.

Edit: My logic is: I used the doors... four times a day average. Took three seconds to open and walk through vs one second to just walk through. So two seconds to open. About 180 days of school times four years.

180x4x2/60= 24 minutes

While not substantial, I just saved a person 24 minutes of their life.
Are you shitting me? This is Japan. Earthquakes happen very often and it's well known even by common people that they are closely followed by tsunamis. The fact that they didn't go together in any of the scenarios is mindblowing.
Your comment broke my sarcasm detector.

According to Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami#Generation_mechanisms

"The principal generation mechanism (or cause) of a tsunami is the displacement of a substantial volume of water or perturbation of the sea. This displacement of water is usually attributed to either earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, or more rarely by meteorites and nuclear tests."

Like the previous gentleman stated. Better advisers?

EDIT: spelling
Very entertaining, especially when it picks up images. Too bad it loses them too fast. Can you please add an option to keep images for longer? I love Hitler spinning around.
...work under 40 hours a week on average....

No teacher I've met works under 40 hours a week. My parents are both teachers, as well as at least one friend. They may be "on the clock" for less than 40 hours a week, but consistently have to work up to 60 hours a week to satisfy all of their responsibilities (including meeting with students and parents, grading assignments, attending meetings, etc).
I used to be bad at names, but eventually I figured out if I repeat a name a few times within seconds of learning it, I generally remember it. "Hi Kevin, nice to meet you, I'm Pat. I was going over there to refresh my drink, you need anything Kevin?" It can sound a little weird, but it's made a huge difference for me, and people love it when you remember and use their name.

Quit drinking so much soda, and switch to diet when you do. (I lost a ton of weight like this. Seriously, a bottle of Coke is over 200 calories. If you drink multiple sodas a day, you can cut out the caloric equivalent of a Big Mac and fries without altering what you eat at all.)

Buy as many monitors as you can fit on your desk. Consider a bigger desk.
You were linking to Fukushima Daini and not Daiichi
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11031305-e.... It doesn't mention that the AC power is restored
One could improve the student evaluations by assigning a heavy bias to the opinions of students who are highly successful after graduation, correcting for the economic advantage provided by their families.
T-shirt idea:

For your own safety . . .

(Back)

. . . don't touch anything on this side without permission.

(Lower back)

And if you're reading this and not a kid, pick yourself up and reread the above. Have a nice day.
I'm not trying to sound extra cool, if that's the reason why I'm being modded down. Those are just hacks I did when I was a lot more foolish than today. As with many things, the actual implementation is quite lame and dubious...

Escaping classes: we had these forms where we were supposed to enter our missed classes and then present them to the various teachers for signature at the end of the month. The weakness of this concept was that teachers had gotten so used to the forms that they didn't keep records of their own when people failed to show up. If you simply "forgot" to fill out and present the form 80% of the time, they would happily sign the other 20% without getting suspicious. Of course, after about a year of this, some of them were on to me, but since I always showed up for exams I guess we came to a silent agreement. One time, a teacher figured out what I was doing and asked me point blank; I admitted everything and to my surprise he said it was OK but I shouldn't tell anyone.

Skipping phys ed was harder. We had several sub-groups with different teachers. Turns out, when you left one sub-group for another, but failed to show up at the new one, nobody noticed because the new and the old teacher didn't ever speak to one another. This only worked because I didn't even show up once at the "new" teacher's lessons so she didn't know who I was. It sounds cool, but it almost got me expelled when school administration found out after two years. However, maybe I got lucky, they were simply incompetent, or they just decided to not care, because after the "formal investigation" was announced, I never heard from them again. Maybe they were ashamed that something like that could actually happen and since I never bragged about this exploit they just chose to ignore it.

Getting past assistants: this involves flat-out lying, which is why I don't do this shit anymore (nor do I need to at my current job, thank the gods). I believe assistants are in constant fear of screwing up. They're supposed to screen the calls and weed out people who just want to sell stuff to their boss, but at the same time they're terrified of false positives. So I basically implied that I knew their bosses. It worked almost every single time, the lies just had to be bold enough. Like, "oh, when we were playing Tennis the other week he said I should coordinate with you about getting an appointment in this month". Stuff like that.

Getting girls: leaving aside the classic wingman tactics at parties (most of which involve either distracting a girl's friends in order to isolate her and/or putting on a show to appear cooler), this one is actually more of a self-hack. It involves faking confidence and importance, and saying things that sound smart because they're prepared in advance.

Like I said, pretty stupid things, actually.
Same for the Swedes, but they get naked at the drop of a hat.
> That said, if you're looking at something worse than a traffic violation--invoke every possible right that you can.

Definitely true – I'm assuming we're talking speeding tickets or missed road sign of some sort. If you're transporting drugs or weapons, or driving under the influence, that's a whole other deal.

Hack:

Don't transport anything illegal, including an inebriated driver.
iCab and all other "browsers" on iOS are skins round the built in webkit. (It would be interesting to see if and how they are effected by this bug).

Opera hasn't released its actual browser for iOS since doing so is banned by Apple's policies. Same for Mozilla. What they have released is Opera Mini which displays pages rendered by what is effectively a server-side browser.
I've been running iTerm and MacVim in fullscreen mode and that alone has done wonders for my productivity. I like the idea of closing Adium and the mail app, but I just don't know if I could do it! I feel paranoid when they're not open.
This is especially true at airports, eg. queues at checkins, boarding pass counters etc.
No, hoping that every site I want to read will have a way to increase text size is not the proper way to address this.
Er, hinder us all and lose money.
To take on the Vietnam points: I recommend you read the Pentagon papers (hardly a lefty account) - the distinct sensation you get was that the war was unwinnable, for the simple reason that they did not have the people on their side.

The South was not a cute democracy, it was a brutal, corrupt dictatorship (with whom the US themselves had huge issues). Remember those monks setting themselves on fire? They were protesting the Southern dictatorship - not Ho Chi Minh.

It seems to me the "it would have been better if ..." is a bit moot as it was probably never going to happen. It is also based on an analogy which strikes me as a little simplistic (outcomes for Western backed 3rd World countries have been highly variable, especially in the absence of a communist threat).

One thing that is for sure: Given the outcome, it would have been much better for everyone had the country to have been left to it's own devices from the outset, not starting their post-colonial era with the bitterness and destruction of decades of war.

Finally, Vietnam was aligned with the USSR, not China, with whom they were at war in the late 70's.
No, that is not the plant where the main problems are.

They are talking about the Daiichi reactors here:

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11031305-e....
Multiball works!
If you uncheck realistic pickups, images stick much better.
Sitting next to another person while writing increases my writing productivity by at least 400%. In retrospect it took me way too long to break down and try this.

My shot at immortality costs me $120/year for membership in the Cryonics Institute and $170/year for $250K of 10-year term life insurance of which $50K goes to CI.

I lost 20 pounds on Seth Roberts's fixed-point diet (aka the "Shangri-La diet") and gained 10 of them back after the diet stopped working, but it's ridiculously easy and works better for some people than others.

An awful lot of the rationalists I know have moved to open relationships.
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You're talking about 5 students per graduating class.
> An awful lot of the rationalists I know have moved to open relationships.

Why?
First, firefighters and police were not excluded from the bill; they were explicitly included under the rubric of "public safety employees" (as opposed to general municipal employees).

Second, the difference in treatment contained in the bill is that public safety employees can collectively bargain on hours, working conditions, and wages, whereas general municipal employees can only collectively bargain on wages. I'm no expert, but perhaps a firefighter sleeping in the firehouse so he can hop on the truck at 2AM faces different concerns than the secretary to the tax collector.
Perl (sorry for sleeping before answering :-).

I've pointed the Python guy to Moose, "Perl Best Practices", etc. Didn't help. Sigh... It is sad when people don't stop the language wars garbage after turning 20. :-(

At least he didn't argue to replace the toilet paper with bills...

In my anecdotal experience, this seems to be a not totally unusual Python thing. (One True Way, etc.)

(And before someone starts arguing about that it might be motivated with a rewrite in some cases -- they guy is so new, he doesn't know the particulars for that area.)
I think some background on the author is appropriate here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micha%C5%82_Zalewski
It's interesting. I've been reading the science subreddit and a lot of people are holding this up and some kind of engineering triumph, but to me it's an absolute engineering failure. Even if nothing bad happens from this point forward, two reactors were almost certainly destroyed and they'll have to sit dormant for a long while before they can be properly cleaned up. And as far as I can tell, there's still a very real risk of meltdown/containment vessel breach.

From my perspective, the root cause of what happened is that no one anticipated an event that would simultaneously cause failures in multiple systems (power loss, and destroy probably multiple redundant generators). It's easy to say after the fact that of course someone should have thought about that, in your words they should have had "better advisors", but I'm not sure how useful it is. All nuclear accidents that I'm familiar with were unanticipated. Can anyone really argue that they all just had bad advisors or engineers?

To me, this is the real argument against nuclear power and I say this as someone who still thinks that overall it's a good idea. How can we say something is truly safe when the accidents that did happen were not anticipated?
Chernobyl was worse than just a meltdown. The graphite moderator caught fire and helped carry fallout into the atmosphere. This would not likely happen at Fukushima, as it is water-moderated, nor would the uranium fuel be able to catch fire as happened at Windscale, because modern reactors use uranium oxide instead of metallic uranium. In the event that containment is lost, there will still be contamination, but it probably couldn't be spread anywhere near as widely as the fallout from Chernobyl.
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Brush while in the shower.
A lot of people were linux fans who were very eager to see meego succeed. A small but decent amount of people bought the n900 and were waiting for the successor(I bought an n900 because I decided I couldn't wait for the first meego phone about a month before the announcement).
(British, spend significant amounts of time in the US/France)

It varies hugely depending on context, even in London. For example my main group of friends in London is unusually tactile (for anywhere in the world). A kiss on the forehead, a slap on the arse, a hug for no particular reason in a completely asexual, gender- and orientation-nonspecific is completely normal[1]. There is no frickin' way I'd extrapolate from that to any other friends groups, let alone work colleagues, anywhere in the world.

[1] I have a theory that it's because we're all incredibly dysfunctional and run each other on the same code paths we'd use for cats.
Here's another data point. In South Africa, in black African culture (can't be more specific than this, unfortunately), it is considered polite to enquire after someone else's health when greeting: "hello, how are you". Or rather it's considered rude NOT to enquire. The standard response is "I'm fine thanks, and you?".

When I listened to talk radio in South Africa years ago, I remember white people calling in, and wondering why the automatic response to the phrase "hello" was often "I'm fine thanks and you".
Are the containment domes intact in Japan?
Edit: found this on IAEA site: "Containment remains intact at Fukushima Daiichi Units 1, 2 and 3". It doesn't even mention the 4th, but does say the explosion occurred outside unit 1s primary containment dome. What does that mean? It's outer shield is wrecked?
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Private schools, which generally have much better results than public schools, pay their teachers less than public schools -- so it seems pay isn't the deciding factor.
Fairly sure Ratfish was being sarcastic.
- Get more memory for sure.

- Try using memcached first. Eg. libraries like johhny-cache.

- Add varnish proxy in front.

- You can cache full pages, with the django cache middleware. Commonly most pages are same for everyone not logged in. Even if you're logged in you can cache full pages and just pull specific items via a jquery scatter plugin for example. I do that to pull the "welcome user, login/logout" bits on top.

if you need more help, email me.
Is it not possible for a site to go downhill over a period of time? Ie: it is possible that the network was good when you were younger but no longer.
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While I love econtalk and listen to it every week - I'm actually a bit surprised that it's this podcast that made it to the front page. To me it felt a bit meandering and russ really seems to struggle at points in keeping the conversation going.

Some of the recent podcasts that I thought were much more deserving of front page-hood:

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/02/cowen_on_the_gr.htm...
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/01/deer_on_autism.html

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/01/hanson_on_the_t.htm...

These three were incredibly thought provoking and still have my mind in a flurry. Check them out if you haven't.
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Japan ministers ignored safety warnings over nuclear reactors
How the Japan Earthquake Shortened Days on Earth
I bake chicken wings and drumettes for a slow, but low-fuss dinner. Cover with salt and spices, rub in three tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil, bake on aluminum foil for 50 minutes at 190 C.

In those 50 minutes, I can clean my apartment, go for a walk, start the laundry, or whatever. The prep time for dinner takes me all of five minutes. They taste delicious and it's very easy to scale up (provided you have oven space) for visitors.
"If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)" http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There was a post on Reddit (can't find it now) that claimed this map had been debunked but didn't link to a source. Anyone have a source on the map or a debunking?
I think it's too soon to say that this failure mode was never considered or even conceived of in the contingency planning for the power plant. If you have a source that says otherwise, please provide a link.

Keep in mind that this is currently estimated to be the biggest earthquake in the recorded history of Japan. It's completely unreasonable to expect stuff to totally not break when the big one hits. If some reactors are damaged beyond repair, that's understandable, as long as the radiation is contained well enough to keep the public safe. After all, good safety plans will always be willing to sacrifice expensive infrastructure in order to save lives.
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Thank you for the Prince of Persia series.
I really wish that there was a maintained index of all such series :(