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> Why would that be relevant whatsoever to why someone kicks their partner? You said you don't agree with abuse as a preface and then immediately put physical abuse on the level with having your feelings hurt by something someone said.

1. I stated that I don't agree with abuse (physical or emotional).

2. I stated that in this case I thought the emotional abuse Bukowski's fiance inflicted on Bukowski was worse than the physical abuse he inflicted on her. That's my opinion. I think the way that she casually taunted him with her infidelity is _serious_ abuse. The kick is also terribly abusive.

I don't know all the facts, only what I saw in the video. I don't know if Bukowski went on to be a serial abuser or not, but that's not relevant to what happened in the video, which is the subject of this discussion.

You say: "I don't know if you yourself has been in an abuse relationship or know anyone that has been" - the answer is yes. I don't know if you've ever been cheated on by someone you're in love with.
Almost every doctor or lawyer I know would likely gladly trade CE for "programmer-style" self study - and CEUs can keep your skills sharp if you do them right.
A user doesn't care what underlying technology it has. Even crappy phones have some web browser on them. A user cares about thing like "Can I get Shazam installed?" or "What about my Facebook app and the game I saw my cousin play on his iPhone?" If the answer if no, they don't care what magic soup of technology acronyms there are inside.
I don't agree. I think Rick Perry would do backflips if he could get the Hyperloop (probably the best example of a "California idea" around - meaning the ideas that Californians base their identity on) built in Texas first. He's already actively trying to bring Californians out here. Also, there is definitely enough private money here to fund it. The problem, as mentioned elsewhere, is that it's oil money. If this is powered by solar, probably won't fly.
Right, because porn lends everything an air of legitimacy.
those "other court orders" could have been for accounts that were not encrypted, like the free accounts.
Not many know/do this, but it's possible to have a smartphone without a dataplan (or at least is for the gophone plans). Walk into a store and ask for them to set a SIM card up for you. Tell them you don't have the flip phone with you (if they ask) and they'll likely program the card for an all 1's IMEI. You might be able to do this yourself online as well if you purchase one from their store , but I'm not positive.

Once you have your 1111111111111111 IMEI SIM card, cut it down to size if necessary, turn off cell data on your smartphone, pop the card in, and power cycle your device. I've had this running successfully on a few different devices (iPhone 3gs, Nexus 4, Samsung Galaxy) for the last 2-3 years. I use their 2-dollar a day plan (free to receive texts, only get charged if you respond or make a call) with the majority of my usage over WiFi only - but I still receive texts for free and can respond/call in an emergency. Costs me ~8.33 a month.
Even I'm Gentoo fan, I have been used Debian for a long time and it was pure satisfaction. Great Linux distro and I hope it will last forever.
Happy B-day debian :)
> that maybe his books are worth picking up and buying.

They are, no matter what your politics. It's good stuff.
Are you saying giving gifted and talented people resources and means to build things that they build amazing things? This is ludicrous!

To your point though, Google probably has many "Paul Buchheits" (by that I mean at his level of intellect and ability), and so do many other companies. Being on the end of having a good idea, and not having the companies backing to build it, it sucks and discouraging. Thats why people make startups though (or at least why I like to believe some people do), to take that idea that the company didn't give them the time/resources for and build it themselves. One part to show the company that they were dumb, but also because they believe in the idea. I think as corporations try to maximize profits and throw things like 20% time out the door, the world will see even more startups and I do believe we are currently seeing that type of trend with the newer generation. Ideas can consume people, and if corporations learned to harness that power (Like 20% time and hackathons) they could innovate in ways that people believed impossible.
App for building apps
> I seem to remember that a minimum interval of two seconds was the rule for following another vehicle ...

That's a reasonable rule of thumb, but it doesn't work in all cases -- it makes too many assumptions. It only takes driver reaction time into account, and it serves to partly explain why accidents in fog tend to involve many cars and high levels of injury and destruction.

The reason? The two second rule assumes the car in front of you has the same stopping distance characteristics as your car, once the brakes are applied. But if the car in front of yours abruptly stops by hitting an immovable object (instead of skidding to a stop) and you are two seconds behind him, you will surely collide with him also, and the car behind you will collide with you, ad infinitum. People who drive at normal speeds in fog apparently don't realize this.

So a new proposed rule -- if you can't see the car in front of the car in front of you, pull over and catch up on your reading. I doubt this rule will take hold.
I'd have liked to see some sort of screenshot tour (or a product video as there is presumably a real-time component) before signing in - there's very little detail available, which might be good for conversion, but it meant I didn't click the button.

(When I did, I was given a "sign in with Google" chooser - did you consider telling people what is going to happen before they do that? It might seem obvious, but it might put people off too.)

Also, have you considered per-domain pricing? With the demise of Appointment Slots, this could be something you could sell to a Google Apps for Business customer for all their users.
> Windows Phone YouTube app blocking

Wasn't the issue that the app displayed the YouTube videos without the advertisements though, and this was against the Terms of Service?
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That's sad.

I remember being in direct competition on a project with a google 20% team, and only beating them by a few weeks. We had fun with that.

I guess that's just the natural life cycle of companies?
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> What the hell does "Gen Y" have to do with anything?

and

> I'm not even going to bother reading this article.

Are a little silly in the same comment, since exactly that question is answered in the article at some length.
The policy is that you don't ask, you tell. If your manager needs you to focus on your primary project, she can ask you to bank your 20% time for up to a quarter, but then you get to use that saved time.
Undocumented YouTube: Why Microsoft is more credible than Google
I have a ThinkPad. The keys are closer together.

Used for most editing tasks. Those seconds are fractional compared to thinking time before cutting code. I'm not paid in words per minute.

w, g, / are used more than the arrows anyway.
why don't you map escape to caps lock?
For some context, this article is part of a moral panic going on in the UK right now regarding trolling, "cyber-bullying", etc. that was set off by the suicide of a teenage girl which was blamed on internet harassment. The suicide story has fallen apart since, but never let the facts get in the way of some good outrage, and the usual suspects are in full force using it as leverage against free speech.
Not really, as zeckalpha pointed out, this is quoted out of context and was talking about OpenText:

"The difference between Google's advertisements and OpenText's is Google (usually) identifies advertisements as advertisements."

Also, Google results have gotten significantly better than they were in 1998 so even if we ignore the OpenText context, I don't see how this could be a successful prediction as you're trying to imply.
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We've been around for two years and we're growing fast. Unlike a lot of early stage startups, we measure our growth in revenue, not users, and it's been exponential since the day we launched.

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In a vacuum, water will promptly vaporize at virtually any temperature.
>>Yeah. We really hate public transportation in this state. When we do finally imbibe, we usually suck at it (Houston Metro, especially Metro Rail).

Everybody sucks at public transit when starting from scratch in the US. Our property rights and sheer land mass make it much more difficult than other countries that have figured it out.
Power and fame are strong motivators too.
Selling clothes online
Hey,

a few friends and I want to found a european startup that sells unique clothing online. But as you know there are already lots of websites that sell clothing. To create something new we decided to restrict our inventory to items that you normally cannot buy online like bags from a small Italian bag manufacturer, young labels that sell most of their clothing at promotion events or just unique looking clothes in general like a dress consisting of feathers.

Do you think that our concept has potential to work? Is there something you would improve / change? Would you buy clothes at our store? If no why not? If yes, what part of our value proposition is most important for you? What do you think our target demographic looks like?

Do you buy clothes online? If yes, do you buy only certain kinds of clothing (only t shirts and trousers, no shoes etc.)? If no, why?

How important is it for you that your clothes look like they definitely did not get bought at H&M, Peek & Cloppenburg, Zalando etc. ? What do you look for in clothes except for the obvious things like that you like the look and that they fit? Do you think big clothing sellers have any serious shortcomings (especially those who sell online)?

Edit: btw we want to mostly focus on local businesses and want make sure that all sellers are verified!
Google employees that become whistle-blowers don't have to face the same adversity as government employees that become whistle-blowers. It's also easier to sue Google than it is to sue agencies like the NSA.
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Probably just some NSA agent logged into your account.
To be clear, you're talking about the case where the application dequeues the data from its receive queue and then crashes. If you close a socket without reading queued data, you get an RST.
I can confirm this. When I went on interview at Google and asked various engineers what they did for their 20% time they all said they didn't have time for it.
> And what’s more, if 20% time has been abandoned at Google, are other companies, which reportedly include Apple, LinkedIn, 3M and a host of others, wise to continue trying to copy it?

I thought it was Google that copied it from 3M, who invented the Scotch Tape during the 20% time?
>If you want to blame anyone, you need to blame current financial thinking by most board of directors.

I don't have an MBA, but my understanding is that this is what MBA programs teach, and is at least partly to blame for Wall St's, and boards of directors, short-term, bottom-line, quarterly focus.

There are some people in the MBA world trying to correct that, one of which I know of are the Throughput Accounting [1] advocates. Maybe more as well.

Can't come soon enough.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throughput_Accounting
How frequent was this scheme ? I bet all giants had this, Bell, Kodak ... Disregard towards little creativity bubbles can be harmful.
Worse. The University of Cincinnati.
Death threats are hardly new, Gainax got them when Neon Genesis Evangelion ended abruptly in 1996.
Someone did precisely that. His name is Edward Snowden; you may have heard of him.
Michael Church is someone who is not worth listening to. He made massively incorrect assertions while at Google, and continues to after he basically talked himself out of his job in a very public way.

Engineers get 20% time period. You can be asked to defer it for a quarter. On the other hand, most don't take it.
Wow. A real-life version of "u 'avin a giggle m8? ill bash yer fookin 'ead in swear on me mum".
Whether or not monogamy is a gift or an entitlement depends entirely on your culture / value system. I think that abusing someone's trust is, well, abusive.
Microsoft's response sickens me. StepTo: I need security at public events, people are threatening my life because of the role I have at Microsoft. Microsoft: Uh, no. No wonder his former role goes unfilled.
This is not clear from the marketing materials, but it does do this currently. That is something I should change.

You can see an example here: https://www.bespeak.io/book/demo
Hi beat. You are probably right and this is NOT a good FIRST question. BUT... it is a great question (that is seldomly asked) for later in the conversation. And of course you should be able/willing to follow through. (also see my other answer here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6224784)
I agree that there are circumstances where you need application-layer acks, SMTP being a canonical example.

However, there are other cases where you don't need lock-step app-layer acknowledgements; for instance, if your messages are idempotent.

I'm really just reacting to the forensic work in this article, which suggests (maybe I'm misreading) a problem that TCP doesn't actually have.
But it could correspond to other benefits such as applying the time towards paid time off or something like that.
>allows me to better interface with people from different backgrounds within a work environment.

Personally, I like to relate to people, rather than interface with them.
If you want a web site that looks like it was shat our of Twitter Bootstrap with 20 lines of CSS changed, then by all means hire someone who doesn't care to do anything more than the bare minimum to meet your requirement

That actually made me laugh because 90% of the people we see think that is design.
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I've started to use relative line numbering (numbers.vim is highly recommended) and that has made me use 'j' and 'k' in motions quite frequently. I wish I had made the change earlier!
The down-side to a front rudder appears to be that it creates turbulence underneath the hull of the boat, where the bow rudder creates turbulence in the water behind the boat.

A rudder also creates drag. Having drag behind the boat is a lot easier to deal with, it has a damping effect on movement, than drag on the front which would make it more twitchy and erratic.

For a racing boat maybe you're willing to deal with twitchy.
Me too. My productivity curve looks very rocky, with very tall spikes -- huge amounts of very hard stuff done in hours -- and days where nothing happens. There seems to be a longer-duration cycle too. I have super-productive weeks and ho-hum weeks. Overall the average is decently high.
It goes more in the opposite direction I think. "The Firm" has a centrally planned economy that in the case of an organization like Google can easily be as big as a small country. So it naturally tends to behave the same way as any other large centrally planned economy.
the developer should provider a converter tool to convert .bashrc/.zshrc to fish config
zsh is really just fancy bash. fish feels like a brand new shell, and in my opinion, what a shell should be
I think you're definitely on to something. I've thought about a kind of "procrastination redirector" where you have, say, a list of "bad activities" and a corresponding list of "good activities".

For a simple example, you could change your hosts file so that news.ycombinator.com redirects to a tutorial for whatever new language/framework you've been dying to try.

You could come up with a neural-linguistic-reprogramming-esque way of getting yourself to do just about anything: "Sitting on the couch? Why not walk one lap around the house?"

Voila: a machine that nags the shit out of you.
Please let us know how to identify some civil libertarians.

It would help if they aren't also crazy in their own right.
It's not a TCP problem. It's a problem with the linux implementation of TCP.
And it wasn't what we would consider a "nice house" in the present day. It's not on a cul de sac and it's no McMansion, just a house that a guy used to living in boardinghouses, bedsits, and apartments for fifty years would be proud of.

Water view, but it's of the harbor, which is mainly shipping. Kind of like the difference of a bay view from Oakland, CA and the SF Peninsula, Tacoma/West Seattle and Magnolia, or Newark and Manhattan.
My first priority is working on a better marketing site, which means a product tour; I realize this is lacking.

Per-domain pricing seems very interesting, I will look in to it, thank you!
In the age of the Internet will that actually work though? It would be be that hard to find the names.
Just speaking up is not enough - as long as people can hide behind anonymity, the social repercussions are limited, they can just change screen names if needed.

Since they are taking advantage of the fact that their target is not anonymous, then the best response is to pierce the veil of anonymity the attacker hides behind. Don't just speak up - out the attacker if you know them.
I'm sorry, but "I wish people would use spell check when writing blog post titles" comes across as rather sarcastic and rude. Perhaps you didn't mean it that way, but the internet removes all tone and context.
> Can someone explain the boiling water on his tongue?

The main thing stopping the molecules of a liquid boiling away (flying off, out of the container) is the pressure exerted by the gas above or around them.

If you make the liquid molecules move faster (i.e. give them energy, i.e. heat them up), a greater proportion of them will be able to overcome this pressure. So heating increases evaporation and leads to boiling - which we're familiar with.

Alternatively, if you reduce the pressure of the gas pushing the liquid molecules together, you don't need to heat up the liquid as much to get the same evaporation/boiling effect.

Reduce the gas pressure enough and the liquid will boil at a very low temperature.
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Hitler ate potatoes!
or prezto https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto
I am a year-or-two-old fishshell convert who is reasonably well versed in bash and tried using zsh and bash with a big .bashrc.

A few things stand out to me as huge pluses:

- It has a lot of cool functionality out of the box such as highlighting, smarter autocomplete (type in a partial word at the prompt and hit up instead of the cumbersome bash ctrl r/s history prompt that loves to beep at you), directory history (alt left-arrow and alt right-arrow), and more.

- You don't need a 10k .bashrc or 1k .zshrc to unlock most of that cool functionality, it's just enabled by default. So anywhere you have fishshell installed, you get 95% of what you're used to, no need to git clone or scp over your .bashrc.

- Startup time is _very_ quick compared to bash or zsh with said 10k .bashrc or 1k .zshrc, and is comparable to bash or zdh with no startup file.

The only weird error I ever ran into was with an older version of fish shell complaining about missing directories in your PATH every time there was an automatic completion available. I have not run into that issue with newer releases.

It is not sh-compliant, which will occasionally wreck havoc when you have a program that shells out without explicitly using sh. I remember running into this issue specifically with vim and emacs on more than one occasion, but truth-be-told I consider this a bug with those programs rather than a fault with fish.

There's also the matter of it not being installed on some machines, but I've used bash for so many years now that my brain flips back into bash-mode anytime I see that familiar colorless prompt with a dollar sign at the end.

It's not an essential upgrade. I also wouldn't bother using it for shell scripts either. But I'd say give it a boy scout try for interactive usage and see how you like it.
I'm also running Chrome 28 (Version 28.0.1500.95) on Windows, but everything is running fine. I'm wondering if Chrome itself is locking up, because the calendar demo is has only one demo of the polyfill picker, the rest are the native calendar that it uses when it detects it is available.
It does not take exceptional memory to memorize pi to 100 places--for context, that is only 10 phone numbers worth of digits.

The research is on the parent's side: most people can improve their memory performance with focused practice.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/02/20/magazine/mind-...

This should not seem that surprising; we easily accept that most people can improve their physical fitness with exercise, for example.
"Boiling" is really a liquid turning into a gas [1]. This happens when the liquid has enough energy to transition into a different state [2], that is, when the vapor pressure of the liquid [3][4] equals the surrounding pressure. Thus at the pressure given in the article (say, 0.5 psi), water can boil at around 79.6 °F / 26.4 °C [5].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_point

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_of_vaporization

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vapor_pressure

[4] A solid can "boil" too, but it's called sublimation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublimation_(physics)

[5] http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/boiling-point-water-d_926....
Marc writes really well and his blog is full of very open thoughts about start-ups, being a hardware creator and marketing.

Back in April he posted an insightful article: when you are losing.

http://marcbarros.com/when-you-are-losing
Gotta say, this one is my favorite:

112 function hey_virtualbox_shut_down_or_i_will_fucking_cut_you
113 VBoxManage controlvm $argv poweroff
114 end
Dismantling the Monorail
The callback-based example is complicated for no reason other than to support your argument. This is how it translates:

f(print);
Yes now, I live in the United States not far from where I was born, but in between I have lived twice (three-year stays each time) as a bona-fide foreign long-term resident of Taiwan. One of the cool things about Hacker News as an online community is the number of participants who have lived in more than one country, and indeed use English as a second language, which helps Americans who participate here get out of the bubble of only hearing American points of view.
The dominance of non-relevance is interesting for HN. Was writing exact the same thing, and just saw yours.

In this and some other technical topics, people end up discussing their personal tastes with web site's design, their individual UI frustrations with some button on the web site, the font, the color, and other random non-relevant topic; like now the profitability.
A little reminder of debian (amongst the big three) legacy https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Gldt1009...
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