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Those are problems that should be solved by Twitter and Facebook. Give people a way to put a link with shorter link text, something simple like Markdown [text](url) format.

If the message is being sent to SMS or some other constrained medium, then automatically shorten it. Chances are that link won't be distributed beyond the device it's sent to anyway.
I can't recommend this enough. I'd lost weight before, but could never keep it off. Biking helped me sustainably lose 30 pounds. I also get to be even more smug than Prius owners.

The downside is that my car doesn't start anymore because I never use it.
If you cannot do any excersize (ie - can't leave the office) I found the Tibetan Rites to be a very good alternative to jogging/cycling. At least you are doing something.

Since I started doing to tibetan rites I manage to work longer without needing a break, and manage to keep to deadlines more (but yea, still miss them). Apparently helps getting the entire energy system flowing which in turn leaves you energised and refreshed.

More info here:

http://www.lifeevents.org/5-tibetans-energy-rejuvenation-exe...
Turnitin is generally evil. They don't just keep the work of students without the student's permission, but they crawl sites for any potential school work they don't already have: http://turnitin.com/robot/crawlerinfo.html
What works for me is to think that white space isn't "empty space" but instead "space filled with white".
for minimal time commitment i would definitely recommend running. i recently started running to train for the nyc triathlon. running is easy to pick up and offers serious physical challenges. time wise, you can adjust the challenge to your fitness level by increasing the speed without increasing the time. as noted elsewhere, you dont even need a gym membership, all you need are a pair of sneaks you feel comfortable running in.

as for things you can do at home i would recommend the basics, ie. pull ups, push ups and the plank instead of sit ups. mix in various twisting efforts into the standard pull ups / push ups/ plank and you will start to notice the difference in just a few weeks. add a medicine ball to your routine to mix things up and confuse your muscles. these kind of exercises can be done without leaving your house and for a few minutes at a time.

if you feel comfortable exercising outside the house i would seriously consider exercising with other people. friends, strangers, people who are at your level or a bit beyond to help motivate you and get you past your current plateau. get social. you will find that fitness is an infinite challenge with no level cap. whereas your mage in wow can only get to level 80 (currently) you can keep going indefinitely. but beware! you can also regress.

doing the aforementioned will bring you a long way to getting in shape in just a few weeks. after that you will start to plateau if you do not ratchet up the intensity/time/difficulty or mix up your routine.

something i would definitely not recommend and specifically argue against would be any sort or weight training. weight training, imho, should only be done by those who already consider themselves in shape at a certain threshold. weight training works to isolate specific muscle areas and does not on its own encourage an overall health level.

personally, i had been a swimmer in my high school years and then did some club water polo. i always biked but never ran. so last year i decided to get into the triathlon scene at the sprint level and did my first last october. the tri concept is appealing to me because of the multidisciplinary nature and multiple entry points for the novice. i would wholeheartedly recommend sprint distance triathlons to those in moderate shape looking for a physical challenge.

lastly, but perhaps most importantly: stop drinking soda excessively. some might even say completely. just this one act will go a long way to slimming you down and greatly adding to your overall health. follow this up by cutting out sweets/chocolate/popcorn/insert favorite junk food here. it can not be overstated how much a healthier diet will help you reach a greater level of fitness than exercise can alone.
Maybe, but the claim isn't that bogus - the students haven't given Turnitin.com rights to use their work especially for monetary gain.
Er, the demo is intentionally shown to all browsers on clicking the "demo" link. Otherwise you'd have to get IE6 running to test it out, which would suck.
Man I love slow motion. And the quality is fantastic.

The best thing is the promise that not all that far off, consumer recorders will be able to do this too .. they always track a few years before the professional equipment. Well, maybe more than a few years, but the cycle seems to be speeding up. Exciting times for video fans!
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I've been trying so hard to get in the habit of exercising for any amount of time on a regular basis, but every time something's managed to break it, something usually involving massive amounts of pain in my legs or chest that make me not do anything for like 3-4 days when it becomes impossible to get motivated to pick up the routine anymore. (My doctor is pretty convinced I'm just accident prone.)

So far the list's included p90 (gave up first day), two different gyms (smelly and old vs. new and clean?), wii fit (this gets boring fast), pilates, walking around, snowboarding (live in LA, don't get much of a chance to go see snow...), swimming, or (really) sex. The last of which is the only thing that happens regularly but isn't enough exercise. Oh well.

I'd love to do something I could actually stick with, but I don't have a huge motivation to do so when clothes still fit (even my teeny weeny not yellow or polka dotted bikini) and I can go up a couple flights of stairs without a problem. I'm pretty surprised to see so many people here are exercising regularly (or maybe they're the only ones answering...:P), maybe I can pick up a few good tips from here :D
I'm actually kind of torn over the result in this case. On the one hand, it's great that the court adopted an expansive view of fair use. In particular, I'm glad that the court strongly approved Pierre Leval's transformativeness test, which is a great standard for internet services that use copyrighted works in innovative ways.

On the other hand, you have to admit that it's weird for the students, who are forced to submit their personal works to this third-party service.

Consider an analogy: your startup got a great valuation from a VC, you're signing the papers, and suddenly the lead partner says to you, "Oh, one more thing. You have to submit copies of all of your software to Microsoft for archive purposes. But don't worry, they promised not to do anything with it!"

Sure, Microsoft will probably just leave your source code on an archive disk and never look at it. But still, it's a weird feeling.
So I'll assume, since you think that "I can google this" is a cop-out, that you never hit up Google in real life to look up some obscure technical point about a function that you need to call once every couple months in your coding? You know every interface and implementation detail for every standard library call in your language of choice?

I call shenanigans.

In our profession trivia is useful and even extremely important to be able to keep in your head; however, it's all but useless as an interview filter unless it's highly targeted to a topic that the job description requires expert knowledge of.
In case you miss it, he makes money selling text ads:

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It's always the time.
They can't, really. This case focused at times on the fact that you could never actually see the papers on the website. Google wants to display content of books, so this case is inapposite.
Swing dancing is a lot of fun. It seems to be somewhat popular around the few colleges in the area. Swing is somewhat simple, and like you said, it can be really high energy.
I doubt that "auxilliary deisel generator control rooms" have still much to do with the reactor.
I have to give to him, he's really creative to figure a way to send 200k+ emails a day and actually have people appreciate his services.
Got your own private sewerage line hooked up then, do you? Made a deal with a nearby power company to run some lines down to your house? Paid up your subscription to the Fire Fighters' Guild?

Delivering basic services en masse is one of the core functions of government. Everyone going it alone is far less efficient. I struggle to think of a single example of a situation where organising utitily provisions individually is a better idea. Internet access is now a utility and it is being treated as one in progressive countries. How can you argue with that?
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I agree, but please don't let that be the short link. The Amazon link DannoHung mentions is a bit weird, but Amazon's default links are really helpful, with the title in it. People often link to a book like this: "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Designing-Web-Interfaces-Principles-In...; is a good book!" I find it useful that when I mouseover the link, I can see the title of the book, and then realize I either already know the book, don't like the book, or would like to read more. If the link is just <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596008031">this</a...; I have to click before knowing what exactly the book is that the person recommends.

Useful URL's are a good thing and it saddens me that the current debate does not focus on that more and that people even argue that standard url's should be short and non descriptive.
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Ouch, I'd advise you to never go skiing without copious amounts of sunscreen. I've gotten crazy sunburns from the sun reflecting off the snow.
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Clearly you didn't even bother to watch the clip.

The American Physical Society IS the ultimate authority this topic. 60 Minutes went to the American Physical Society to provide an impartial scientist to 60 Minutes to essentially go out to one of the lab where the work was being done and do a hand on peer review of the work being done. The impartial scientist went to that lab, looked closely at everything for 2 days, came back and said "something interesting is going on." and said he was shocked he's coming back to tell 60 Minutes that something was going on.

So why don't those who don't even take the time to watch a few minutes of video about a subject shut up and quit annoying the people who are trying to get a little science done.
The problem of this guy, it's not spam. It's legitic sign in and welcome emails from reliable sources. :-(
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Do you have an idea, how to do deadlifts and cleans without "professional" weights and without a gym?

Bodyweight squats are good. So are chin-ups, pull-ups, dips, push-ups, burpees and planks. I'd avoid sit-ups, especially if you hunched over your desk all day. A fun way to spice up the workout is "Parkour".

My workout is running a few kilometers to a selected tree, doing some of the exercises above and running home. Takes about an hour each. Three times a week.
Brilliant strategy. I remember a few years back a port scan of NSA.gov would give a stern "THIS COMPUTER SYSTEM IS PROPERTY OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS WILL BE PROSECUTED."

As a twelve-year-old messing with netcat for the first time, it terrified the s!&t out of me.
5 days a week Monday to Friday with each weekend off to rest. I eat healthier foods by making sure I have home-made food with me, in my office, every day during the week.
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I'm an outlier. I could never stick to running or lifting weights. Too lonely, too boring. On the other hand, a team sport that met once a week was too easy to skip.

So I fight. I admire fighters, and I figure it is right for a young man to try to earn himself some glory.

It's the hardest thing I've ever done. I lost 20 pounds. I did things I never thought I could do. I've cried after practice.

On the downside, my schedule is packed between grad school and Muay Thai/ Jiu Jitsu practice. Also, I'm not sure that getting punched in the face is the best way to stay healthy.

But you know what they say: it's better to burn out than to fade away.

Plus, there's no better cure for the ennui, the malaise of the modern world, the lack of purpose, the depression of your savanna mind sitting behind a desk all day than to experience your body as it was meant to be, in all its glory, in the world's most honest and objective form of competition.
60 Minutes went to the American Physical Society to provide an impartial scientist to 60 Minutes to go out to one of the labs where the work was being done and do a hands on review of the work being done. That scientist went to that lab, looked closely at everything for 2 days, came back and said "something interesting is going on." He also said he was shocked he's coming back to tell 60 Minutes that something interesting was going on.

What have we got now with M Theory? 7 new dimensions we haven't explored at all and alternate universes now going out ad infinitum... that means the potential explanations why palladium makes deuterium go all funky would be almost as infinite considering our current state of 4 dimensional scientific inquiry processes in a potentially 11 dimension universe.
I've been doing this (other than doing it I'm unaffiliated with the site):

http://www.simplefit.org/

It's been good - it's a program of pull-ups, push-ups and squats with 3 sessions a week and a series of levels to work through. Pretty nice if you're busy, none of the workouts go past 30 minutes because there's a focus on high intensity in the workout.

Probably wise to take the guys nutrition advice with a grain of salt, since it doesn't see to be his main area of knowledge.

Other than that I run about 5km 3 times a week.
Can't be very sure, but I think they aren't going out of business. They are very big in Russia (I have a few VPSes with them, the numbers are sequential and my IDs are around 20 000).
Oh my god. HN has turned into digg, the first AMAZING $FOO post.

I fear it may be time to move on to the next thing.
It's as simple as this:

Does it stimulate intellectual interest? If not, don't upvote.

Does it discourage intellectual discussion? If so, then downvote.

Note: One-liners often end what was otherwise an intellectually interesting thread.
Got that, but the point is should you add a comment of your own every time you downvoted/upvoted if it does not add to the conversation. It just feels like a way to make your presence felt
I think that discussing it isnt worth a news post.
Both this and the parent should be downvoted for being reddit-like, pointless one-liners.

Note that comments complaining about the downvote should be similarly downvoted. If the posters seem genuinely surprised about being downvoted, or if there is a reason for them to wonder, a kind soul may be willing to post an additional post pointing out why they've been downvoted, but this should only be done in cases where the downvote is not obvious. In this case, it is.
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While I'll grant you that this is not exactly the best HN has to offer, and it would be a shame if this kind of post were regularly upvoted here, there's no need to get all melodramatic.
That's a good point, sorry I missed it.

Whenever downvoting, be sure to explain your reasoning thoughtfully, again avoiding snarky one-liners.
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If you liked this article you'll probably also enjoy this interview with Reid on the VentureVoice podcast: http://www.venturevoice.com/2006/11/vv_show_40_reid_hoffman_...

Man I miss the times when VV had new interviews coming out every couple of weeks. They were consistently very high quality and insightful.
Worth noting that the original article from TorrentFreak is here: http://torrentfreak.com/isp-speeds-up-customers-bittorrent-d...

This was submitted already to HN yesterday, but did not gather enough votes to make it to the front page, which seems like a shame as this is a very interesting and noteworthy development.
See my caveat: "well-known performance issues".
If this is a good-faith effort, it'd make sense to make it configurable, like the HTTP proxies that ISPs were running back in the day.
I agree with this. If you're looking for exercises using body weight only, I'd recommend checking out Ross Enamait or Matt Furey, both of whom publish reasonably priced books with good workout suggestions.
I cycle to work every day, which is about 4.5 miles each way. This adds up to about 40-45 minutes of exercise per day, which is awesome as it's both quicker than public transport and also keeps me fit.
The park is definitely the better workout, because the uneven surface also makes you work out all the small muscles you need to keep your balance. People who run 5 miles on a treadmill often get tired after 2 in the park. Best to run on the grass if you can though.
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For what it's worth, I spent a summer pulling off manhole covers for a living. There's no machine required, just a bent rod with a handle, and they're easy enough to open.

And for the record, yes, it is quite easy to drop the rectangular covers into the hole.
clock speed

Yeah, I knew when I wrote that I chose poorly. I mean perf per core: that is to say, tasks that require clock speed.

web serving, virtualization, database workloads

Virtualization: Virtualizing Solaris is a practical non-starter -- every workload I've seen has fallen into one of two categories: either full system integrated applications (the appliance model that the majority of third party application providers seem to insist on these days) or common internet workloads (DNS, SMTP, HTTP). The former are more or less uniformly disallowed by vendor best practices -- nobody wants to do it. The latter is arguably better served by using the tried and true virtualization of the 1970s: preemptive multitasking multiple processes in a single host image.

I have been attempting to advocate Solaris virtualization in our organization and have failed. I can't make a case for it that has justified even one server purchase (or reclaim).

Web serving: $1000 PCs have been doing wire rate 100mbit static file serving and SSL for a decade or so. A lot of web workloads tend to coagulate around serializing resources (databases being the big one). In cases where that's not applicable, an arguably better solution is to cluster cheaper standalone machines. If there was a web workload that didn't apply well across multiple machines but could be run efficiently on multiple cores in the same image the T1/2/2+ would be a win. I don't know what that workload would actually be, however.

Database workloads: Maybe, and probably for certain loads, but a Google search for "T2000 oracle" doesn't look promising.

properly cast hardware

I'll see your "properly cast hardware" and raise you "do the right thing for the business". Esoteric hardware shopping is fun for engineers but it's not sound decisionmaking for the stakeholders. Shame really, as I quite prefer the IIgs's Apple Desktop Bus keyboard over the spongy thing on this ThinkPad.
When I read the title I was hopeful. When I read the first comment and saw there was no breakthrough, I thought of the pain that something like this segment will cause editors at wikipedia's cold fusion. I went through many of the refs there a while back, and the gist was as follows.

The whole thing has not yielded any significant results or breakthroughs since the first debacle. Various methods and theories continue to be proposed. A big source of vindication for supporters was a DOE report that said CF was not disproven. Many supporters take this to mean that CF has a chance. The scientific community has not thrown CF out and peered papers do get published, but CF's penetration is absolutely minimal.

I really hope that the people working on this succeed. It may be a waste, but we don't know the chances on this lottery. This sort of reporting is annoying and sensationalist, though.
The price $11 is probably the best market price they managed to find in Stockholn. It is not like you only need to pay $11 a month and you will get 100Mbps wherever you live in Stockholm. It is not socialism that gets you 100Mbps in Stockholm (but silly simpleton republicans: it is NOT NOT-socialism that gets it either). Sweden has always been ahead on telecom and we happen to think it is important.

The municipal owned black-fibre company is http://www.stokab.se/

For some sample prices: I currently pay 320 SEK for 10/10 Ethernet (my condo is 3 years old and is wired, but on a 5 year lock-in contract with the company that wired the condo). The cable company offers 8/24 for 319 SEK. No deal.

A friend of mine gets 10/100 for 239 SEK, also ethernet. It is rental apt, they all have been wired by the owners to stay competitive / attractive. This is quite common. Another variant is that the power-company wires apartments with ethernet. A collegue has that and gets 10/10 at 195 SEK or 100/100 at 235 SEK. This is usually combined with freedom to select operator, who bundles various non-internet services over wires, such as digital-tv or phone (and as such they compete with price AND service bundle).

If your house hasnt been ethernet wired you're stuck on ADSL or cable modems, and the price level is around 200-400 SEK (this is typically bundled with digital-tv and phone as well).

Most of the end-user prices that are in par with the $11 from the article are lucky bastards. One collegue pays 89 SEK a month for 100/100 ethernet, which is less than $11 with current exchange rates. His condo owns the last-mile wiring and can chose the lowest-bidding operator to connect them to inet.

In two years my condo's 5 year contract have expired, our last-mile wiring is ours to control, and I too hope to be in a similar sweet spot to chose the lowest bidder.
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Confluence has traditionally free for open source projects. I upvoted this because I think this limited-time offer ($5 for 1 year) would fit many small, distributed startup's needs for a centralized knowledgebase (if they are not already using Drupal or Backpack). Jira is also included in this $5 offer too [separately - not 2 for 1] (we use that too - our testers/business analysts love it)
Yeah you're right that's why I said for search purposes. Still, I'd like to see if the music industry would let me keep an archive of all of their songs (without paying for any) just for sound analysis.
I don't click a link until I've read the comments on HN. :)