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It's perhaps a sad symbol of our time. Learn to be a millionaire in a weekend is something you can only sell to optimists. Pessimism bring skeptisism.
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I used to do from 1-3 hours of trail riding on my mountain bike every day. Lost 70lbs of fat doing so.

The benefits to my physical and mental health were huge.
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3 to 4 times a week. Running, weights and occasional team sport (footy, basketball).
I try to mix it up a bit to keep me challenged and motivated.
Seven hours a week, assuming golf doesn't count as exercise.

My commitment to myself is to spend at least a half hour a day on average doing something. This is an antidote to being a professional sitter. The doing something was a response to having trouble with sticking with other plans.

For the last several months I have been doing.
Four hours - weights and biking/running/swimming.
Three hours - stretching and body weight exercises.

Before that it was almost entirely rock climbing at a gym.
Cool. Some tech specs: http://www.i-movix.com/en/component/docman/doc_download/23-s... (pdf)

I know CCDs but not CMOS so well. Image quality seems pretty remarkable. Fast lens, fast readout.

If you add a bunch of storage, how long can one record?

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edit, moar: http://www.i-movix.com/en/company-information/references
That still won't help someone who's trying to paste it into Twitter or a Facebook status feed.
Depending on the age I would recommend Lego MindStorm. Not only does it develop 3D spatial skills (the robot) but it has a graphic user interface for programming it to move.
It covers basics of if-then-else and loop logic.
As they get more experienced they can program using the Visual Studio .NET toolbox kit
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CAMPINAS, Brazil — On the night of March 8, cruising 22,000 miles above the Earth, U.S. Navy communications satellite FLTSAT-8 suddenly erupted with illicit activity. Jubilant voices and anthems crowded the channel on a junkyard's worth of homemade gear from across vast and silent stretches of the Amazon: Ronaldo, a Brazilian soccer idol, had just scored his first goal with the Corinthians.

It was a party that won't soon be forgotten. Ten days later, Brazilian Federal Police swooped in on 39 suspects in six states in the largest crackdown to date on a growing problem here: illegal hijacking of U.S. military satellite transponders.

"This had been happening for more than five years," says Celso Campos, of the Brazilian Federal Police. "Since the communication channel was open, not encrypted, lots of people used it to talk to each other."

The practice is so entrenched, and the knowledge and tools so widely available, few believe the campaign to stamp it out will be quick or easy.

Much of this country's population lives in remote areas beyond the reach of cellphone coverage, making American satellites an ideal, if illegal, communications option. The problem goes back more than a decade, to the mid-1990s, when Brazilian radio technicians discovered they could jump on the UHF frequencies dedicated to satellites in the Navy's Fleet Satellite Communication system, or FLTSATCOM. They've been at it ever since.

Truck drivers love the birds because they provide better range and sound than ham radios. Rogue loggers in the Amazon use the satellites to transmit coded warnings when authorities threaten to close in. Drug dealers and organized criminal factions use them to coordinate operations.

Today, the satellites, which pirates called "Bolinha" or "little ball," are a national phenomenon.

"It's impossible not to find equipment like this when we catch an organized crime gang," says a police officer involved in last month's action.

The crackdown, called "Operation Satellite," was Brazil's first large-scale enforcement against the problem. Police followed coordinates provided by the U.S. Department of Defense and confirmed by Anatel, Brazil's FCC. Among those charged were university professors, electricians, truckers and farmers, the police say. The suspects face up to four years and jail, but are more likely to be fined if convicted.
If you do a bodybuilder-style lifting workout, it will target specific muscle groups. But if you're doing squats, cleans, deadlifts and their variations, you're using many muscles, sometimes your whole body. The transfer is going to be the same.

You are exposed to more risk (I'm recovering from a minor strain in my lower back from deadlifts - I'll be more conservative next time), but I think in the long run, the rewards outweigh the risks.
I go indoors-climbing about 1-5 times a week.
Gymnastics 1-2 times a week (even though I haven't been showing up for some while now)
In the summertime I also go jogging maybe once every one or two weeks
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heeeeyy.. I'm a climber as well :-)
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I love DokuWiki. It's really easy to set up, and doesn't even require a database. It uses flat files, which you can read even if the DokuWiki site is down. It's pretty easy to use as well.
I think the rationale behind this is important for all SAAS (and software) businesses to learn from:

a) Desirable customers really don't care about the difference between $4 and $9.

b) The user experience of consistent and predictable pricing is much more important than getting prices which are "rationally connected with costs" or "as cheap as possible". (Businesses in particular hate microtransactions. OKing a $20 a month transaction is trivial, OKing an ongoing variable cost is not -- I need to attach detailed projections and get the projections vetted by three people.)

c) If you prominently advertise Only Costs $2! and Use Us Because $10 Is Too Much To Pay For This Service! then your customer base is going to be primarily people who are looking to spend no more than $2 and you will have to write blog posts when you plan on doing major, disruptive changes like charging more for a business input than their morning latte costs.

Edit:

Prior blog post on pricing here:

http://blog.assembla.com/assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/7870/S...

Factoids: Most popular plan costs $2.30. Average ticket size below $10. Company very, very proud that their average customer spends less than the cheapest plan at competitors. (This was, apparently, not a red flag at the time.)
Apple's new ads don't take on Microsoft's "Laptop Hunters" directly
Can't this be done on cia.vc (continuously reloading the website and via IRC)?

Have to modify Zawinski's Law to "Every program attempts to expand until it can tweet it's useless status".
I wish the video would have focused more on the "nuclear effect" aspect to all of this. I feel pretty confident that in the end there will be something discovered, it just won't be fusion by any means. It will be some other nuclear effect.

It also strikes me as odd that nobody seemed to really bring up neutron emission or anything like that. They keep talking about heat as the sign that something is happening, but not neutron emission. My first thought immediately was, "Are you seeing neutrons??" maybe that just got edited out of the final cut of the segment?
I'm not someone who can exercise for its own sake. I'm no good at creating a structured routine for myself, and I'm terrible at following schedules. I get around this by living a bikeable distance from work and the grocery store. I've been able to cram in around 30 miles of bike riding per week simply by forsaking the car in my daily activities. If you can't keep yourself sticking to an exercise schedule, try piggybacking it on to your existing routine.
Totally agree. I find organised and/or team sports to be most effective because you are committed to going regularly.
Or a completely different take on this "issue".

http://garrettdimon.com/archives/2009/4/13/the_downside_of_p...
I play ultimate here at school, which entails three practices a week. I find that if I don't exercise on a weekly basis, I become easily irritable.
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I think that the reason in "Users were very aggressive in reducing their user counts, and our average selling price became very small - less than $10/month" is that I think their average account (like mine) wouldn't benefit from using the service at any price above ~10-15 dollars. Most of software they provide is free, hosting is cheap, I don't see any value to upgrade/pay more at that point. At a price above 20 bucks with more than 10 users, I would switch to a VPS/dedicated server (30-70 bucks) or a internal server, which is also a good investment.
Specifically, CC-BY is similar to MIT/BSD. CC-BY-SA is more GPL-like and CC-BY-NC is not very open-source-like.
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When I was in school, I learned the real value of exercise. When I had time to do them and still get 6 hours of sleep, I stayed healthy. When I didn't, I'd start to feel sluggish after a week and I was prone to sickness.

Doing a startup can be particularly difficult because there's nothing to force you to go out. But the toll it will take on your mental agility will compound.

You don't need an enormous amount of exercise. I'd advocate going out and taking a walk whenever you're stuck on something. It usually clears my head and I'll have an answer for what I was working on when I get back.
I play ultimate frisbee for my university. We play for three hours three days a week. That's enough exercise for me.

When it's the summertime, and, thus, when I have more time, I work out with the powerlifting team.
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I exercise thrice a week, on average. Twice are chin-ups, sit-ups and push-ups followed by a run. The other is basketball.
There are a number of ways to make this rigorous, at least for some narrow classes of operators.

For many self-adjoint (or normal) operators, you can use the functional calculus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_calculus

You can also do it pretty explicitly using the Fourier transform, or, more generally, the pseudodifferential calculus. This approach typically only gives an approximation, but is often much more useful in many applications. It is also at the heart of a mathematical field called microlocal analysis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-differential_operator
I dunno.

Winners never quit and quitters never win but if you never win and you never quit, and furthermore, you are not convincing anyone, then you ... might want to honestly and seriously re-examine what you are doing.
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If you can triangulate them then the solution seems fairly simple: automate the triangulation, and have a pre-recorded voice respond to transmissions randomly with a stern command in Portuguese: This is the United States Navy. You are transmitting on a restricted channel. Your location is blah. Cease communication via this channel immediately or we will take appropriate measures to protect our national security.

I think it would be more effective if you made the monitor random than if you made it deterministic and perfectly effective. If every transmission got the reprimand, it would sound like a joke. If it happens infrequently enough then the users will react like OH MY GOD THE FLOORBOARD IS CREAKING HOLY "#$"& THERE ARE MARINES OUTSIDE MY WINDOW. (Google "panopticon". Yay, I actually learned something in literary criticism!)

Incidentally: even if you can't triangulate them accurately, I'm going to bet that an illiterate truck driver told he was broadcasting from 38.89767 N, 77.03655 E would believe you. Even though he is most probably not attempting satellite piracy from the Oval Office.
I cycle around 30 min everyday to get around town and on nice days or weekends I'll go for longer trips on my mountainbike. Used to do long distance running and martial arts 3 times a week. Don't care to pick up running again, which can be perfectly substituted with cycling, but I'll get back into martial arts.

I'd really like to spend some time hiking again in the Rockies or back in Germany in the Austrian Alps :)

As mentioned on here - you have to get in the habit of exercising like 2-3 times a week. Usually you'll get that in any team sport through high school, such as basketball, soccer, football, hockey etc. After high school you just got ta keep up that rhythm. However, it will more difficult to get into the habit if you haven't started it earlier in high school already.

AND: NO JUNKFOOD/ NO POP/ NO FRIES... VEGETABLES/ FRUIT/ WATER etc. instead; DON'T EVER EAT AT MCDONALD'S (THAT WILL F*CK YOU UP INSTANTLY)
For what it's worth, I'm interning at Microsoft this summer, and none of my interviewers (6 or so) asked questions like this. Most of the questions had to do with arrays of integers, with one linked list question and 1-2 C string questions.
I'm currently doing the P90X lean program. After I finish that, I'll double my weights and will switch to P90X classic. I workout every day, since its pretty easy to make the time commitment when you have a daily routine.

You definitely see results fairly quickly + if you stick to the entire weekly regiment you'll focus on muscles that you tended to ignore before. i.e. for the first time ever I'm getting decent muscles on my legs.

As far as visible improvements(besides actual muscles), when I started out I was doing 10 more or less crappy pullups, and now I can do 15 proper ones(you know where you fully extend your arms)
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The technology could be there within 10 years easily if people were working on it (which, AFAIK, no one is for consumers), but because of the psychological issues involved I'm not sure people will be investing the time. But if you look at the DARPA Urban Challenge you'll see that many (not all) technical hurdles have already been overcome.
Different x86 microarchitectures have had errata (such as TLB consistency) that, if you're a kernel VM developer, can bite you in the ass. That's annoying, but it's not an intrinsic flaw in the x86 architecture, and it is not as if there are latent x86 vulnerabilities lying around waiting to be exploited.

On the other hand, at least two times now, Sun managed to screw up floating point in a way that compromised security. For instance:

http://www.matasano.com/log/222/this-old-vulnerability-umulu...
Are you arguing that Solaris/UltraSPARC is a better real-world virtualization platform than x86?
Maybe because the problem is arising people will move to short urls on their own sites so that they don't even need to be shortened for twitter and such, because honestly the problem isn't that the urls are redirecting its that the urls need to be redirected because of an unnecessary long url for clarity.

In all honesty I don't know very many people that look at the full url before they click on it; the domain name does most of the work and the description accompanying the url does the rest.
I do CrossFit (crossfit.com) 2-4 days a week, its really hard, has good results, and is time efficient. I also swim occasionally.
It's funny, because the awk-like D language is my least favorite aspect of the system. DTrace had an example to build on in this space: libpcap, which is the lingua franca of packet-level network programming on every platform at every performance level. If they had just took their probes and promoted an API with Python bindings, I'd have been all over it.
By looking at the URL item?id=569492 you should expect to get nearly 570,000 posts. Maybe RSS is not the best :)
Good deal. I'll pay 20k a year extra in taxes, but I'll save 30 bucks a month off internet
I'm sure things have changed, but the last time I made stuff with EPROMs was back in the 80s. When cleaning out a garage back in the late 90s, I threw out several old arcade video games (She Who Must Be Obeyed had commanded it), and the stickers had fallen off all the EPROMs.
Ask.com brings back Jeeves in the UK. I'd love to see him here, too.
Right, but real estate is one of those rare places where people will lend you a few hundred grand in "startup capital" at a reasonable rate. (yeah, you need more money down for investment properties, but still, lots of easy loans to be had).
I run about 3 miles every morning and then a longer run on Saturday or Sunday. I've found that I really need to exercise every day, or during the day I can't get into that deep zone of concentration where I'm the most productive. Running more than 3 miles, and too tired and sore, and end up napping during the day.

It's also fun and feels good :)
I was spending too much time at the computer, and decided to put together a basketball team together for the UCSF (mission bay) rec league. I also shoot at the park on Folsom & 7th every day from 5-6pm. Feel free to join if you like to ball - it's great exercise.
No, not really. Involves installing Python/IDLE and then importing a module. Not difficult, but probably not what you're looking for!
This is great advice.

No matter how many resolutions I've made, I'd never follow through on going to the gym. I eventually realized it's not that I don't like exercising, it's that working out in a gym is incredibly boring.

I started taking taekwondo classes 4 days a week (classes are about 90 minutes), and it's great. The workout is much more strenuous than I was getting with a personal trainer for about 1/8th the cost, and it's building strength, endurance, flexibility, and balance. I'd had minor back problems my whole life, and they've completely gone away.

Plus, there aren't many workouts with such a clear and tangible progression from novice to expert. It is very motivating to attain new skills, and yet know that there's a lot more to learn.

Also, I try to get out on my bike on the weekends when the weather is nice.
"are dense and difficult to understand"

Wasn't that the point of the rush, to scare off people not l33t enough to be on HN?
and worth every penny. it even has build in terminal functions.
I've been playing 2-3 times a week for 18 years at a high grade. I have no doubt its much less of a variable in the NBA but I am suggesting it is a variable that rarely gets mentioned in that there a number of definitions people could take for the term "hot hand" and ways it could be discussed. No one is the perfect robot.
An LLC is enough to protect you personally from liability, if you're really worried about that.
That's not the compromise. You pay 20k a year extra in taxes, and save 30 bucks a month on pretty much every service you could be spending 30 bucks a month on. It adds up, especially when you consider that some things that you'd pay less for here are just of absolute crap quality, and you'd likely pay to upgrade here (like, say, paying for extra medical coverage) to take you to the base "free" level provided there.
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Maybe not a great deal but there is something going on there. Discussing basketball in terms of coin flips which takes skill and technique out of the equation is definetely missing something key or so it would seem to the player. If you can prove that statistically it doesn't matter then so be it.
Unless you don't want that service and are therefore subsidizing it for everyone else.
Windows 7 is what Vista should have been in the first place -- smaller and snappier.

To late for Microsoft to capture those that jumped to Mac, but might keep some Windows people around longer.
That is really a fantastic answer, Greg! Thanks for the valuable information.
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Too late:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/20/apploop-transforms-blog...
You have 100Mbps for $41? Where is that?
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I run with a group two to three times a week. If I were not running with a group, I don't think I would run at all. The social aspects and accountability of exercising with other peers cannot be underestimated.
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Oh god yes, if only I could opt out of that terrible $11 100Mbps internet! How dare they fulfil their basic governmental mandate to take advantage of natural economies of scale to offer high quality basic services at a low price.
We do something like this where i work. However, if a null or bad thread gets handled sometimes you get something uninformative, such as sem_wait() on top but doesn't really tell us where or what happened.

Good article, though!
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I just do theory (Winner of the 2007 Aaronson/Gasarch Complexity Theme Song Contest)
http://www.scottaaronson.com/jdtheory.mp3
SRI also has a history of being flim-flammed. Look up Harold Puthoff and Russel Targ.

It's very simple to tell if there's fusion going on: if there's fusion, there will be helium. No helium, no fusion. Excess energy is a red herring.
that is nothing compared to what they could gain
Maybe, but a) there may be statutory rights issue, b) this just seems likely to annoy people and c) you might run the risk of actually having to comply with gambling laws if you take money from people and offer them a chance of doubling it.
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Feynman would have more fun with this question.
All of the results where "it works for a while then doesn't" are apparently caused by one thing: contaminants in the palladium. Some palladium is refined from spent nuclear fuel.

I read interviews where the guys says: "I had this great palladium, it gave results every time, but then it ran out and this other stuff doesn't work".
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Ah yes, that horrible "doing something good for other people" thing, combined with the "creating a sense of belonging to a group" stuff. Horrible concepts, horrible.
Comments like this, telling why they upvoted/downvoted are part of the reason why digg is unbearable.According to me they add nothing to the discussion and is just noise.

What does the HN community think ?
The real cost isn't 11$, and it's debatable whether there is a government mandate to take advantage of natural economies of scale. I for one, don't believe that.
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Just read this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=560045
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fluff articles by someone who doesn't contribute ANY comments: 210 submissions linking to his website vs 2 comments.

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This. THIS X 10!!

I find that my ability to exercise is very heavily impacted by even the most small amount of junk food. Anything with flour or sugar is pretty much out. Even diet soda gives me a headache now. :(
0 * 3 or 0 * 4 is still 0 :D sorry couldn't resist