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Trying to figure out the best way to pitch an idea to Google Australia to create a new job role for me in Melbourne (the only Australian Google office is in Sydney) in an area they don't currently cover ... oh and I'm not currently a Google employee.
I'd like to see a 3-fingered magnify gesture, which would double as a hover indicator.

3 points define a triangle, which can be circumscribed by exactly one circle. Associate the 3 fingers in a triangle gesture with a reticle/magnifying glass. Initial placement of the 3 fingers defines the "magnifying glass." Expansion or contraction of the circle defined by the fingers does not change the size of the reticle but instead controls the relative zoom. The cross-hairs in the reticle can also be hovered over GUI items to give a hover functionality.

This would have utility beyond enabling hover. (Sometimes it is more convenient to momentarily magnify a portion of the screen than to zoom the whole screen. One example is Google Maps, where a zoom-in/zoom-out sequence can cause unwanted downloading of map tiles.)
I've hit 3 dan before, but right now I'm probably a weak 2 dan. Life & Death is the key, so hopefully running through a thousand fresh problems will do the trick! If you do the same, you can do a lot better than 5k :)
Actually I disagree. I think they should have went after the EnV market, and I thought they were. They ended up doing the worst thing possible... a nice featurephone, with high-end smartphone pricing.

It was obvious that it would fail, and from reading the Engadget story, it appears that even MS knew it would fail.

I would be interested in knowing how much of Robbie Bach's and J. Allard's career rested on this product. Because, consider this, if reports are true, and MS knew this was a failure, why was Robbie Bach, the President of E&D presenting this phone at the Kin special event? They should have had a second tier GM doing the briefing. But I think at that point they already knew Robbie was toast, so might as well throw him out to the wolves.

In anycase, I was just giving you a hard time about bringing up sales numbers comparing arguably the greatest flop in MS history vs arguably the greatest launch of any consumer electronics product in history. But clearly, I'm the only one who finds humor in that. :-)
The Indian parents living in NA are still carrying their "culture" from 1960s (or whenever they left India) on their backs.
Parents in India, esp in Cities, are open to "love marriages", as long as you don't deviate too much in terms of caste, language, social status, educational qualification and economic status :) . Yes, all that matters.

Indians do not marry for love. Love is what happens afterwards.
"How to do x in y lines of code", where x is a perceived to be something very difficult and y is a small number, encourages people to try things that they would be otherwise be too intimidated to try.
I'm truly unamused by your lame thingy.

Sure, you can take a poke at this or that not entirely proven cancer association. But your "tongue-in-cheek" site definitely facilitates the devaluing of the many and subtle cancer associations that have been demonstrated - it is not a constructive contribution to the discussion on this subject. For example, while the case automobile pollution causing cancer might not be air, do you have proof that it doesn't cause cancer? Having "incorrect" as the alternative for each assertion on the Daily Mail is seriously problematic.
I don't think so. If you count collecting samples and returning to Earth with them, there's Apollo (from the moon) and possibly Hayabusa (from an asteroid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa).
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You've also managed to mangle the formatting of this entire page.
> There are about 2000 Verizon stores

Not to mention other outlets like BestBuy that sell Verizon products.
Thanks all for the book recommendations!
Do you print source code?
But once you get past the first round of stomach churning illness that food and tea is great! It's usually all I eat when I visit family in India. I haven't gotten sick from road-side food for the last 6 trips back.
Not yet. I was hoping to find a less drastic (and more educational) fix. I'm also a little worried that rebooting might make the situation worse since I don't really understand how FUSE works under the the hood.
The Japanese Language Proficiency Test N1. It has been a personal demon of mine for the past five years and I've only recently got the confidence to say that I may one day be able to pass it. Required for post-grad study in a Japanese university or work at a Japanese company (for a foreigner at least).
Build a successful web app so I can do less consulting.
I think I've heard it used reasonably, but I can't really remember the specifics. Basically, it's when the cause for the exception follows naturally from the logic behind the rule. Contrived example: If something holds for most birds, an exception for penguins might qualify.

In any case, this is just an exception that breaks the rule.
According to this comment http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1497450 Shazam sold the patents to Landmark, which the parent of the linked comment pointed out is owned by BMI. Shazam deserves any flack it gets and more if those are true.
Bertrand Piccard, who is leading this project, comes from a family of explorers (e.g. he was also the first to travel non-stop around the world in a hot-air balloon). He also gave a pretty interesting TED talk (starting with ballooning as a metaphor for life, then moving on the solar airplane project):

http://www.ted.com/talks/bertrand_piccard_s_solar_powered_ad...
Sure. And again, they make that clear. It's quite easy to find out that MongoDB doesn't "have single-server durability". If, like me (and at least one commenter here) you say, "what does that mean?", you can quickly find an explanation on their web site, or in many other places.
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I went to the MongoSF conference. I found they explained it extensively in their conference talks.

I don't know about their marketing, but it's easy to find on the web site.
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The problem here is that it's too easy to make and use a software invention once you have a sufficiently detailed description of it (source code). An analogous situation would be the invention of a new homemade bread. A detailed recipe of the bread in a cookbook would make it very easy for anyone to make use of the invention and very hard for the inventor to stop infringement. In such a case, the law must take sides: either it protects the public's right to share information over the right of the inventor to benefit from his invention, or vice versa.

It seems to me that the law sides with the public by forcing the inventor to choose between patent and copyright. If the inventor chooses patent, his invention has protection, but the public is free to share information about it. Indeed, to obtain a patent, the inventor must fully disclose the best way he knows to make and use the invention. On the other, hand, if the inventor chooses copyright, his particular expression is protected, the public is not free to share it (republish it), but the underlying ideas behind his invention are not protected.

So for instance, a musician could patent his unique method of strumming a guitar and he could copyright his music recordings and explanations of his strumming method, but has no way of preventing public discussion generally of his strumming method. His invention does not mean that there can be no more learning and innovation in the field of guitar strumming.

Similarly, a software maker can copyright his expression (source and object code) of his work, and patent the use of his work, but he cannot (should not) prevent public discussion of his work generally.

To hold otherwise would mean that intellectual property (IP) holders could stop all learning and progress in the areas in which they hold their IP. But the purpose of IP is exactly opposite. The US Constitution says that Congress shall have power "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts by securing for limited Time to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." (US Const., Art. 1, Sec. 8, Cl. 8)
As common wisdom goes, children are created through an act by one male and one female human, and subsequently carry about 50% of each partner's core DNA and 100% of the female partner's mitochondrial DNA.

As a result, neither egocentrical males nor lesbians can bear children by themselves, even though artificial insemination and foster mothers may make it easy to live in the illusion that it's a possibility. (Or were you implying that the backward model of gender roles that is expressed in "carry my child" would be sure to drive any sane woman away unless the OP is a lesbian woman, because lesbian women can get away with chauvinistic opinions without raising any red flags?)

On the other hand, yes, his or her wife may be perfectly able to carry his or her existing child around if he or she is a single parent with a sore back.
Uh ...

In the same way as the Daily Mail, the BS headlines is problematic regardless of the valid point available when you read the article.
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The difference between philosophical statements and practical matters is surprisingly difficult to articulate. You can rarely point to a single moment when the one becomes the other.

Every practical situation starts out life as a philosophical position. The atomic bomb was once a napkin doodle.
And the previous Operation Just Cause, to remove Noreaga, just because.
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The process of extending government control:

1. Select industry.

2. Cherry pick examples of failure.

3. Catchy name for the fear.

4. Amplify public fear of failures.

5. Regulate and tax.
Interesting, I'm in kind of the opposite situation:

I recently asked my very excellent girlfriend of 5 years said question. I procrastinated so long at least partially due to residual trauma from an early parental divorce (plus the subsequent decades of court battles and screaming).

My fiancee's approach was a combination of patience and understanding for 4 years, then basically telling me my time was up. The latter strategy wouldn't have worked without the former.

One thing I'm certainly glad we did is to talk about it honestly and deeply before taking the plunge. I doubt I would have been able to work up the courage to do it otherwise.

If marriage is important to you, tell her so, and give you reasons why.
Are either of you going to be at the go congress in August?
As a father of 4, the only downtime I have today is being taken up by writing this comment. Gotta run!

P.S. never let them outnumber you
I will not argue with you over this, only point out that the majority here do not seem to agree that the report is "shoddy", "rushed", or "badly reviewed", and labeling it as such does not make it so.

If the most "glaring" error that the AGW "skeptics" could find after sifting through a 3,000 page report with a fine-toothed comb is a difference between "prone to flooding" and "below sea level" -- and if that error was primarily the result of faulty government data, rather than primarily the result of faulty research methods -- then that's actually indicative of a really fucking solid report.

The strategy among the "skeptics" here seems to be to find minor errors in this report, and then try to use those minor errors to cast a shadow over the rest of the report. What they don't want anybody to notice is that they aren't actually arguing with any of the conclusions of the report.

Well, fortunately, people are noticing this, and calling them out for using this ridiculous tactic.

So, go ahead and keep attacking it on those grounds, but you're not likely to convince many people here. The only thing that's being accomplished is to make the "skeptic" view look more and more absurd.
It's really important to have a great teacher and find a decent school. Find a school that divides it's classes into beginners and not and then go watch a beginner class. The basic moves are important and actually quite fun (front snap, sidekicks, etc.) and really hone your core, leg and hip muscles that you'll be using as you learn more advanced techniques and it should always be a challenge. Once you get to the yellow stripe/yellow belt level you learn your roundhouse/turning kick and back kick which are the biggest staples in competition and by far the most used techniques at all level of sparring.

I also recommend finding a school that does multiple form of martial arts. Not only can you attend a variety of classes, a lot of masters will incorporate aspects of the other martial arts into each other for a more rounded course. Right off the bat we learned basic technique, self defence moves, patterns and traditional movements such as one step sparring.

If you show an interest and find a good school, there's absolutely nothing to be worried about on the boredom front.
ahhh yeah I live in CA where it's insanely high and has that crazy sliding scale, I figured it as 0.15-0.27 from some website.

Unless the company was in CA and it was totally legal, the equipment becomes paraphernalia and they won't do shit with it... and of course if they can screw you there they will.

anyway whatever it's a moot point, law will never pass
Can you get to some specifics about that? That might help you focus a bit as "better programmer" is rather general. What specific areas are you trying to improve?

Also, it might seem that your lack of discipline and commitment comes from complacency due to the day job, but in my case, after being laid-off, I found myself procrastinating just as much (I got all day now right?) so be careful about making any sudden moves in that area.
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Your data is fine -- it's hidden while something else is mounted on top of the folder.

Rebooting will fix it. But you should be able to just unmount the filesystem, which will also fix it. Does 'mount' list something mounted there? Does 'df /path/to/folder/' reflect the FUSE filesystem rather than the underlying filesystem? The input/output error sounds like the FUSE filesystem being mounted indeed, and just being broken.
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I guess what I was trying to say was don't worry about over scaling. But take some time to make sure you aren't over scaling for 6 months in a row :-).

So I'd argue.

for #3

3) Don't stress out about the minimal resources necessary from day one. Figure out what the minimal resources are over time, and just take advantage of the fact you can delete servers.
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I'm not sure that it's my most interesting, but I want to someday make robotic fireflies.

I'm about to leave the East Coast to go to Stanford, and I don't want to live in a firefly-free world. I thought about trying to import them and have them breed, but apparently most species like humidity and standing water, which the Bay Area isn't too long on. I'm also not sure if they could find stuff to eat out West.

So robots are the logical solution. I realize it's going to be really hard to make something that small that's light enough to fly that blinks a light, has enough power to go for more than a few minutes, and can have the logic I'd like it to have. (In a perfect world, I'd like it to randomly roam campus for a few hours and then come back to where I launched them from.)

Also, my friend who's into robotics tells me that the US government has put a lot of money into robotic insects (for spying?) and not really gotten anywhere.

Nonetheless, someday I hope to make this happen, even if it doesn't quite have all of the features that it has in my mind.
Only briefly - until their head exploded.
We deployed it to production recently, and we were well aware of this. I feel their documentation is quite clear on the point.

We're also using it single-server, but only for analytics where loss of a small amount of data isn't a big deal. I've made it very clear to all and sundry that if we're going to put any data that has more value into it, we first need at least one additional server instance.
This looks really nice! Our server is based on Node right now but we've had the idea of porting to Erlang later. Maybe Clojure + Netty is another option to explore.
Applications of the same idea have been around for some time, e.g. Plan 9's file system (e.g. GUI elements are part of the FS, , bash's /dev/tcp/<host>/<port> etc., and indeed /proc's file system seen in Linux and, in a limited way, in Solaris.

Seems like no Linux app framework can be complete without reinventing its own virtual file system, with various syntaxes for paths to e.g. network shares but that are inaccessible when used on the command line, etc.
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Have you tried `fusermount -u` on the mountpoint? That's the fuse-specific command to force an unmount, which might clean up the FUSE mount even if the OS's VFS layer doesn't think there's a mountpoint there.
Running a hosting company was actually a pretty profitable business back in the 90s. (It probably still can be if you have a really solid niche). I should write some blog posts on our experience (there were many positives).
you didn't explain how it "grows into a nightmare". just pricing or what? i just used rackspace's pricing tool to price out what a virtual server would cost with the same amount of ram and bandwidth i get from one of my dedicated servers; the cloud solution was about $40/month higher.
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Although I think they're overdone, I think "x in y lines" is avery relevant to the hacker community, while "x things about y" isn't always. Doing "x in y lines" generally implies an unusually elegant solution, that could be of great use.
Has anyone done the cost equations? And I'd imagine migration is a bitch on dedicated hosting.
I'm okay with the high lowercase L, but I am with ya re: the lowercase T and S, they ain't so great.

Is it just me, or did the lowercase T come straight from the Twitter logo?
I'm curious about what HN participants think of how Nixty's business model compares with that of other companies providing comparable services.
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Says alot about HN that this reply hasn't been downvoted more.
Either you believe what you wrote - in which case you're a total idiot - or your sarcasm is seriously lame; I really can't tell which.
1) Overcome my periods of overwhelming lack of passion and focus, that could potentially be rooted in some medical things

2) Write a few philosophical fiction books

3) Run a Micro ISV while I'm writing those books :)

I guess none of these are unique to us all here, but they're my current life goals.
Is it the rendering or the font choice that you don't like? I, for one, install Lucida Grande as my system font and Monaco or Menlo as my monotype font and think the design looks much fresher.

Sure, the rendering isn't 100% perfect, but with sub-pixel smoothing, I really don't mind it.
> Your data is fine -- it's hidden while something else is mounted on top of the folder.

I thought that was the case. But the truth is I don't really understand how mount points work under the hood. Where is the mount point information actually stored? I'm guessing it's in kernel memory somewhere, but I don't really know, and Googling hasn't been much help. Is there an article somewhere that explains this?

> Rebooting will fix it.

Good to know.

> But you should be able to just unmount the filesystem

Yeah, you'd think. But everything I try to do to that directory results in "Input/output error".

> Does 'mount' list something mounted there?

Yes:

Python@fuse0 on /Users/ron/devel (fusefs, nodev, nosuid, synchronous, mounted by ron)

> Does 'df /path/to/folder/' reflect the FUSE filesystem rather than the underlying filesystem?

[ron@mickey:~]$ df devel
df: devel: Input/output error
[ron@mickey:~]$ umount devel
umount: devel: not currently mounted
[ron@mickey:~]$ ls devel
ls: devel: Input/output error

You can hopefully see why I'm puzzled. I would really like to understand why this is happening.
I wonder what would happen if they'd done that, and then sold them a fake list.
Big machines like seed producers and oil companies are extremely lazy when it comes to dealing with inevitable contingencies. Stockpiling food seems like a defensive strategy to me. A better approach would be to proactively encourage seed stock variety even if those seeds do not have a high yield. Then when something like this happens it will be much easier to pick a resistant strain from the naturally diverse population. Overall average production and profits might go down but there won't be any spikes in crop loss because of lack of diversity.
I am getting married next year. we are merging two divorced families (with both have kids and this will be a Brady Bunch size family).

My goal is to make it work. We are doing pre-marriage counseling, talking openly, pushing myself to grow, practicing patience and acceptance, and everything I can.

It is a huge challenge, but it is completely worth it.

My secondary goal is to stop working in tech and focus on my retail business (which is profitable and ready to grow).
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503 over the weekend is what he said - not 503 in total. MS probably needed to sell that many every hour to pay for that marketing campaign alone.
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Thankfully MIT doesn't have class rankings. :)
As much as I like what he's doing, he's so fucked.
"If Microsoft teaches its clients to be vendor-independent, they'll be doomed."

It's this sort of statement that is absurd. In some sense it is fundamentally true, but true of virtually all companies.

Apple doesn't want iPhone users to be vendor independent. Otherwise they'll use Android phones.

Google doesn't want users to be search engine independent. They make their money from people clicking ads on their search engine site.

Nike doesn't want you to be shoe-independent.

Starbucks doesn't want you drinking tap water rather than coffee.

Every company wants you using their product. And the more the better.

My issue with the statement is that there seems to be this odd implied notion that MS will go into a space where there is no upside for them, simply to create downside for another company. This is patently false. They go into markets where they think they can make profit, either directly or indirectly. This is not any different than what Google or Apple does. The only difference is that MS has done it longer (Apple has struggled with its core market that it never had the chance, but now they're flourishing, you're seeing Apple doing things just like MS did if not more egregiously). And there's nothing wrong with it. It's business.
I didn't realize there were so many denialists here.
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Suppose these guys conspired to delete email and not handle FoI requests properly. Any change to the science? Any change to the conclusion that global warming is man made?
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That just confirms that I need to use A/B testing lol.

Thanks for the insight.