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Man, we love it. We're addicted to feeling good. 1 year ago, we were overweight geeks, blaming a stressful startup life for our unhealthiness. Now we're all in fabulous shape and because everyone's on board more or less, it doesn't take nearly as much individual discipline.

So yeah, mega perk.
+1 the idea for creating a mailing list!
"am just trying to understand it"

Ok here's why I support a major party candidate (spoilers: O-bot) despite said candidates inability to spin cloth to gold:

(1) You can hardly expect either of the two major candidates to mirror your views on all issues. That doesn't make them evil choices.

(2) Throwing away every other issue over a pet issue seems like a bad idea. Obama mirrors my stance on many issues. Many of them I feel are vastly more important than internet privacy.

(3) The actual issue at hand is a lot more complex than the EFF party line lets on. The reality is that cybersecurity threats from you know who are as real a threat to your freedoms as whatever the us government is going to do with your private data. Sorting out the intersection of freedoms pulling in different directions is always hard.

(3a) That said, if we have to do something we can do a lot better then Lieberman/Collins and this Executive Order/PDD is a fundamentally worse proposition, no matter if it's more lenient in a few details, because these trade offs should to be done openly through the legislature.

(4) Romney's alternative energy plan is cold fusion.
Totally. We root for them all the time. Startups should always root for other startups. Why the hell not? We're not going to lose to each other (most likely). It's the back button and ineptitude that always does startups in. So, while we both have a fighting shot, I'll support them in every way I can.
Sorry -- some people struggle with light-on-dark text. I tend to like it (obviously) but I'll probably switch at some point for this reason. I also want to experiment with just making the text larger.

Would be interested in hearing if other people have experienced this issue and had success solving it.
I did not come on HN 3 years ago, so yes, relevant for a number of users (and the majority, probably) since HN has grown significantly over the past few years.
Post points out very well how inferior products that charge can beat superior products that are free. It's quite sad that Linux already has the best experience if you care about getting things done.

In order to save the desktop we must kill the desktop.

Stop the madness and get on with life:
apt-get install ratpoison

The desktop metaphor is the worst kind of skeuomorphic design. Why should I waste precious screen real estate to show a background image?

The only thing tiling window managers need for better adoption is to ship with better defaults and a reference card for keyboard shortcuts.
After using a desktop linux box for about 15 years, I have moved on. Not because the desktop experience was bad, in fact I think it was one of the best out there. Sure, there are rough edges but the user experience of regular desktop activities (launching apps, browsing files) worked for me better than redmond or cupertino -flavored desktops.

No, I moved on because I realized that I don't like the desktop paradigm. The best thing I ever did to my computer was changing to tiling windowing and a keyboard oriented user experience. It's definitely not for everyone, but I don't miss the desktop.
Who needs Congress anymore?
Maybe it refers to direct election. As best as I can tell from Wikipedia, Cali Mahdi was chosen by a conference in Djibouti, and Cabdulaahi Yusuf and Sheikh Sharif were both elected by a national assembly, not by the people. I'm not clear on whether even the national assembly representative were elected, so by the standard of direct democratic election it might be correct to say Cali Mahdi and Sheikh Sharif were not elected.

Now that I think about it, the problem is that the English wording doesn't mean what it logically ought to. When it says Somalia has "elected their first new president since 1986" it's easy for me to read that in context as "elected a president for the first time since 1986" (which seems to be correct if "election" means "direct election") even though a more logically straightforward interpretation is that the person they elected is their first president since 1986 (which you pointed out is false.) Just another bug report to file against the English language :-/
I think getting you to sign up is the start of a process that culminates with you inviting all of your contacts. The username/password step is just the top of the funnel.
A FoundationDB database can scale "horizontally" by adding multiple machines to a cluster, and you can scale the cluster up by adding more machines. This is opposed to standard SQL databases which provide one or more databases per server, but never one database from multiple servers.
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Maybe we should go through the entire backlog and repost all of HN on an annual basis!
I had the same problem as you, I couldn't read on a computer for more than a 15 minutes at a time, my eyes would hurt so bad, get headaches, etc.

Then one day I was on a flight and flipping through SkyMall and saw an ad for "computer glasses" that got rid of eye strain. i was like "yeah, right". But I was desperate, so I bought a pair, and I gotta say, it's been one of the best purchases I've ever made. I no longer have eyestrain, can read for hours online.

Here is the brand of glasses I got: http://www.gunnars.com/
http://911.wikileaks.org/files/messages_2001_09_11-09_05_200...

Seems to be the most action-packed one..
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To make that comparison more fair, the ads need to be canvas that flapped in the wind, slowing you down occasionally (as ads on websites will do) and every once and a while one would lift up in front of the control panel so you had to clear it out of your view (popups).
I use http://TeamBox.com and I'm very happy with it! Simply great tool. It has Gmail integration, makes it easier to add new tasks from new mails.
> The only thing tiling window managers need for better adoption is to ship with better defaults and a reference card for keyboard shortcuts.

That works for hackers but for non-techies that aren't willing to put any time and effort into re-learning the basics.

What I hope to see is more tiling windowing features on mainstream user interfaces for the intermediate users.
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It seems to be:

Nokia sues Apple
Apple countersues Nokia
Nokia sues Apple again
Apple files ITC complaint against Nokia
Apple drops some suits
Apple countersues Nokia again

...and then...

Apple sues HTC

Where did that last one come from?
pg: did you mean auto-opening the other answers that were "collapsed"? -- b/c it looks like they allow us to see past the first now

normal example: http://www.quora.com/Asana/Why-does-Asana-host-its-DNS-with-...

example w/popup: http://www.quora.com/Asana/Why-does-Asana-host-its-DNS-with-...

need something to recursively open all comments too?
I use OS X a lot. But my home desktop has been Linux for the last 17 years, and it will stay Linux for the foreseeable future. Maybe it will never see mass adoption. Maybe it will. For my part it doesn't matter.

What matters to me is that there's nothing I have on my OS X laptop at work that I miss when I use my Linux laptop at home, but I can't say the same in reverse.
Yay for S.M.A.R.T. goals! See also http://blog.beeminder.com/smart
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The good stuff does get reposted every couple years. I can't say I really mind.
And yet the classic old "code a linked list" problem is now a reviled and banned interview question at enlightened tech firms....
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Being elected by parliament is not being directly elected. It is closer.

Also, I didn't really see any mention of how much of Somalia the government actually controls. Last time I talked to my Somali friends from back in Minnesota, it was like 10% - most of Mogadishu and some of the surrounding area. (That info is years out of date though)

So I take this with a grain of salt.
People said the same thing about Apple in the 90's when it had 5% market share.

Have you noticed that Linux is taking over the mobile market?
It's not that they're offensive, it's that they slow my browser down and often distract from the content of the site itself. I'm also wary of third party cookies and scripts running that don't strictly need to be.

I don't disagree with his comment, but I don't feel like I need to be an activist to get people off of Quora. Quite the opposite of harming Quora, I'm changing my own preferences so I still want to use the site, instead of participating in a move to a more open platform (although I support that move).
If you've still got a desk computer which runs linux, regardless the WM you've still got a desktop linux box. "Linux on the desktop" doesn't use "desktop" in the sense by which we refer to the place that contains "My Computer" and "Recycle Bin". No, "desktop" refers to "on the top of your desk".
I appreciate the offer and will take you up on it later once I have done my due diligence.

In case you are curious the situation here in Calgary (not a tech hub by any definition) is entirely different. The recruiters use similar tactics but the pool of working professionals is rather limited so you quickly develop a reputation. Sometimes you get the feeling that the it's the same players shuffling around a dozen employers.

The economics however are completely different because imo job opportunities are very limited. The base salaries you are describing for a recent grad (or American mid-senior level developer) are on par with middle management with approximately 15 years of experience.... So from a financial perspective it's really a no brainer many of peers who can leave are long gone. It's rather depressing but I almost feel like the Canadian education system is a farm team for American software companies.
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The most amazing thing for me was that Cassini (1.50bn kms) is 300 million miles away from Saturn (1.20bn kms), but still it is orbiting Saturn.

Is this just the furthest point of its elliptical orbit? Or is it typical of how we send spacecraft to orbit other planets? Or is it a typo?

I ask because according to the infographic, our communications satellites are at a tiny 35,000 kms, whereas 300 million kms is twice the distance from Earth to the Sun...
>I do not want my private messages broadcast all over the world, especially when I'm a private citizen.

Then maybe it's not a good idea to send them unencrypted over the air.
This is the direction Android will go in. I am pretty sure that in five years most people will have one smart phone that they dock at home to have access to large screens and keyboard/mouse. The laptop as we know it will be replaced by laptop shells with a smart phone dock.

And those phones will run Linux with the Android UI and drivers.

I believe tiling window managers would be fantastic productivity boosters for enterprise use. Less distractions for the worker bees.
(I've ended up with +2 karma despite being sandbagged! =)

I would have to do some research to be of any use to you with respect to lappies over $2K. My focus is on ARM development boards and embedded systems. I am looking at the opposite end of the spectrum: low-power, highly portable, cheap computing. For the common man and woman. Alas, the forbidden fruit keeps popping up at this end of the stick too. Cupertino is no longer content to just sell high powered high-priced development machines. It's not the same company as when I bought my first Mac.

I can't wait to see the first low-power Apple ARM devices where they will attempt to sell a $20 computer, locked down like Fort Knox, for several hundred bucks. What new gimmicks will they use to maintain the reality distortion field? It should be most entertaining.

Clearly you are not of the Apple cult, just a guy looking for a high-end laptop. My apologies for mistaking you for a fanboy.
> I don't see anything similar except standard design choices

How do you classify design choices as standard?
Did you read the news 3 years ago? This was all over the news back then.

There are other news sources besides HN......
What do you think the best outcome is for Somalia?
Apparently, since last time I looked, there's actually source code. It's a tarball containing a collection of zip files of different layouts, with no documentation of how to actually build things, some build trees, etc. Many of the packages in that tarball are years out of date.

It's not a project that anyone else can reasonably use and build on -- it would be easier just to replicate the work. (Which I would like to do, incidentally.)
40k for a bachelor level research project? sounds pretty impressive for something that isn't even a business.
Allow me to say, as a regular user of a tiling window manager, that they have more than a few shortcomings. Shortcomings which go beyond defaults and shortcuts.

- Many applications are designed with a floating environment in mind, and as a result simply translate very poorly to a tiling environment.

- If I'm working with more than three or four windows (which is common) I've basically got my active window and a stack of non-active, tiny, non-useable windows. In other words, it becomes difficult to combine even a medium-size set of windows with a usage model wherein I wish to interact with 2-3 medium size windows simultaneously.

- Often in a floating environment, I can overlap windows, maximizing utilized screen space by covering up unimportant parts of a certain window.

There are basically two reasons I keep using a tiling WM. First, it does pretty well with term emulators. Second, the existence of tabbed term emulators. The ability to spawn and destroy tabs on a whim without changing the screen layout really helps with my thought flow. If I was really a purist I'd be using GNU screen for that, but at that point what am I doing in X11 anyway?
The biggest surprise for me from this years google io was how much I like and use the chromebox. Chrome os is the best linux desktop distro I've used by far. A fast, stripped down kernel and intuitive, minimal ui and seamless auto updating.

It isn't cable of running a local dev server or compiling code, which are things I still need from my computer (I'm hoping for a chrome os pro supporting guest vms) but everything else is so easy I see the os gaining serious ground and think it is silly to leave it out of a discussion of desktop linux.
The Perfect Server - OpenSUSE 12.2 x86_64 (Apache2, Dovecot, ISPConfig 3)
My spark file is a google doc titled 'ideas'. Google docs or similar (jotit etc) are great for accessibility almost anywhere and anywhen, and you don't have to worry about backup.
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2001-09-11 03:38:34 Skytel [005105954] A ALPHA CALL MY CELL PHONE INSTEAD OF MY HOUSE PHONE CAUSE I DON'T WANT IT TO RING, AND CRYSTALS BEEN GOING AROUND SAYING STUFF ABOUT YOU AND ME. I LOVE YOU.
Judging by the 90/9/1 rule, you've already alienated 20 people other than xsmasher and myself.
If that was the case, I wouldn't rent a jetski from that company.

Now, if that was the only company offering jetskis at that particular location, and there was no paid option available.. well, I'd question whether or not they're owned by YouTube, who I sincerely wish I could pay a few bucks a month to, to get rid of their awful ads.
We have deeply different ideas of what constructive means.
I am a fan of visualisations of this kind, starting with Eames' powers of ten, But this didn't impress me. The scale changes too arbitrarily to keep a feeling for the actual distances growing, and the wave line made no sense to me, just irritated. A better take on the subject (regarding overall composition, individual images and music could be better): http://htwins.net/scale2/
I think all of this is close to be pointless, when there is an abundant and sickening Windows bundling problem which persists until present day. End users don't care about any ISVs, ABIs and other such matters, and some even don't have a clue about OS names. They buy a computer with an OS preinstalled. And guess what that OS is? That's the problem which needs to be solved first. The rest as the author admits, will be solved under the market pressure.
Not voting is what people do by default. It's not an interesting choice.
> If I'm working with more than three or four windows (which is common) I've basically got my active window and a stack of non-active, tiny, non-useable windows. In other words, it becomes difficult to combine even a medium-size set of windows with a usage model wherein I wish to interact with 2-3 windows simultaneously.

This is my biggest issue as well. I would like a way to hide these windows and take them out of my next/previous stack. Out of all the tiling WMs out there I feel one has to have this feature but I've been so happy with ratpoison otherwise I haven't looked.
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It absolutely has something to do with programming. The economics of programming make behavior like this deeply foolish. In other circumstances it can be reasonable. And some of the ways of solving the problem are software specific.

But that doesn't really matter. You cite the rules as the authority for what should be there. I agree that the users and the rule-writers have different ideas about what the site should be. I'm saying the rule-writers are wrong, just like the Friendster rule-writers were wrong.
You would think, but I imagine some will be swayed by the numbers even if they do think about that.
I like the mention of PIPESTATUS - $PIPESTATUS[*] is at the start of my PS1
I just Google "unicode [name of character]". Hasn't let me down yet.
grep "help me" ...

2001-09-12 02:47:34 Arch [0282461] D ALPHA |help me moans! |Monie, AFC is bombed.. i am covered with debris ..underground..only my one hand is free to type... aaah... jordan hall also bombed...aaaah

Also, grep usss.treas.gov is really interesting.. Secret Services messages?

Edit 2: Here's a pastebin of all the SS messages apparently: http://pastebin.com/ZhNEtT2Q
Adblock can fix arbitrary sites to a certain extent (only through removing elements, but it could have accomplished what this extension does). Select an element to hide, and if enough people do then it gets added to the blocklist.
Maintaining the system is the one goal. But that distance, and that trust, that the system is yours alone, is what works.
It gave me chills to scroll all the way down, and finally get to the Voyager 1 probe.
I agree the US can produce plenty of food for exports.

Food costs money and the poor have been hit much harder by this recession than the middle class.

American cities require hourly supplies to be sustained. If something disrupted the distribution of food American cites would become mini-hells. Remember hurricane Catrina's aftermath?

(Rising food prices sparked the Arab Spring)

edit: 50-million Americans, including nine million children, will go to bed tonight without having had enough to eat

http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/err-economic-research-r...
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One thing missing is <<- heredocs, which strip (some) leading whitespace. It lets you keep up your indentation in a shell script without passing a bunch of whitespace to the commands.
Just imagine Linus Torvalds being nice and cuddly about a bad software and not telling(shouting)you to fix up your shit. Thank Universe for the Rodrigos of the world.
Check out rice and lentils. Prices are rising.
> And those phones will run Linux with the Android UI and drivers.

You seem to assume Android is just another Linux distro with a different windows manager? If so, you are mistaken. An Android system is very different from a Linux distro - they basically only share the kernels and it is quite wrong to classify Android as "Linux" because it creates confusion.
not Linux. Android. It's NOT the same thing. At all.
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Try Breeze (http://letsbreeze.com). It's like Trello but with time tracking and reports.
NOpe, I do not remember seeing this 3 years ago. I must have missed it somehow. I do not really understand the issue with having a story in top 30 that does not interest you, however. Do you have to click on all of them to feel happy and content, or having one you have already seen before ruins your day ? :)

Besides, the same news viewed 3 years, 5 years, 10 years down the road is not the same news per se, because it gains a different perspective over time. I believe it is valuable.
No, for many years the lightweight alternative has been mingw. http://www.mingw.org/
A system is set up to accomplish something other than its own continued existence, it isn't just a perpetual motion machine or some Kafkaesque bureaucracy. If the system has an aim there is a goal, so to say "losers have goals, winners have systems" is vacuous. It sounds pithy and perhaps even profound, but it isn't.
I feel like a tiling WM could really benefit from a taskbar-like metaphor. It doesn't have to be precisely a taskbar, but the ability to make this or that application completely invisible without sending it to another virtual desktop is often useful.

Perhaps, to stay in keeping with the ability to do everything from the keyboard, treat the "taskbar" like a second stack, only reduced to names instead of shrunken windows.
Unless the "Linux Desktop" provides what costumers want, no OEMs will pre-install it (or those that do will lose money / go out of business). While "what costumers wants" might not be as complex as power users might imagine, it is not something so easily swept under the rug as "no big deal."
You need to understand poor nutrition causes a lot of health problems and can lead to an early death.

Food is not a dichotomy.
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It might be worth mentioning for those that aren't totally confident with DNS that (a) errors in setting up your DNS can take your services off line in unexpected ways (anyone else ever forgotten to put in an MX record and only realised three days later they weren't getting any email?) so be careful, and (b) at the low end one advantage of letting your host manage your DNS is that they can make changes behind the scenes -- for example, changing the IP of your website or moving your account to a different physical machine -- and they'll just update your DNS and everything keeps working. If your site is hosted somewhere like DreamHost but you put your DNS somewhere else, one morning you will wake up and find your site is no longer accessible and you'll have to remember that this is probably why.
I'm not sure updateOutsideSubscriber is a good substitute for the original. It reads like you're updating an existing outside subscriber, ignoring the creation/conversion aspect.

The original function appears to have two responsibilities: it performs a test on the accesses, and then it also converts the person in some cases. The long name follows from that complexity. Unless there was a good reason not to, I would prefer to separate those responsibilities into their own functions with one job each, and then the naming problem takes care of itself:

if all_accesses_revoked(john):
convert_to_outside_subscriber(john)