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Three cheers for you, my friend. No one knows the loneliness of being Dad like Dad, and you did an excellent job of articulating it.

Doing the right thing as a parent often goes un-celebrated, un-thanked, and most certainly un-paid. This is one of the great failures of our society, and the main reason there are so many fatherless children out there.

If two people are going to make another person, then at the very least they need to continually communicate what their roles are in raising that person and, maybe more importantly, support and encourage one another in those roles - BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE IS GOING TO.
They probably did it manually. It's not that hard considering it only includes scrolling, positioning elements, opacity changes and CSS class substitutions.

The reason why it looks fluid is because they use appropriate easing functions that feel more natural and snappy.

Also, apart from the scrolling, it can be done using only CSS animations. Check out my website for tons of CSS animations: http://bbxdesign.com
it really is. the cost is steep but i justified it based on how much time i spend in front of it.
Is it me, or could we use a new wikipedia-- maybe even use git to push changes, and track changes a gitopedia if you will.
We go into this in detail in the FAQ. A good place to start might be: https://assemblymade.com/help/general#general-6
This little app called f.lux (http://justgetflux.com/) really helps with the eye strain problem.
Use redshift (http://jonls.dk/redshift/) if you're on linux. Allows you to set the daytime color & can read from a config file.
I lost years’ worth of Google Docs files because of a poor user interface
The most useful part about this article for me was to discover that Northrop Grumman's CISO is phishing its own employees. Brilliant. Wish I had thought of it. Great way to keep people on their toes and aware of what's going on in the space.
Ask HN: Do FedEx, UPS, TNT and DHL have an oligopoly in the courier market?
Hey HN community, we've just launched the beta for a comparison tool and database for international courier services (www.goshippo.com). Intention is to make sending (and selling) stuff internationally cheaper and easier. The trick is to include small local courier services in our database because they offer better rates than Fedex but are harder to find. Looking for feedback and beta testers right now. Any thoughts are highly appreciated. Right now Northern Europe and US works as outbound countries. I'm happy to prioritise integrating any other country in exchange for beta testing and feedback!
Well, the only ones qualified to teach such a course are probably too busy to teach it. Although, no better way to learn than to dive in head first.
My understanding is that it IS possible to register rather quickly during non-peak times. You are also not required to go through the marketplace to acquire insurance. And finally, open enrollment ends in March 2014, so there is plenty of time to get this sorted.

The media coverage and congressional circus is blowing this way out of proportion.
Interesting.I am around your height but I can never remember anytime since third grade when I did not have a girlfriend or a short fling.If you have to possess only one attribute in the dating game it should be self confidence.
I might be horribly misreading this, but it reads like they're talking about no specific threat or problem but rather arguing if that was part of the contract or not?

If that's the case then shouldn't lawmakers, being lawmakers, pass laws so that future government projects include a clause in the contractual arrangement? Isn't that just common sense?

Seems like this is a trend with the US government, they try to find others to blame instead of just fixing the damn issue. They had this massive set of hearings about people abusing military disabilities (e.g. claiming for disabilities obtained before joining the US military) but didn't actually, you know, fix the freaking issue -- or even try to. They just berated the people being advantaged from it.
I can't believe dating websites are still around. Facebook makes it so incredibly easy to meet random people (at least friends of friends in some degree) and makes easy to flirt with or start conversations with those people.

In one bored night you could start a conversation with the cute girl that works with your friend Sara, your friend Jenny's sister, and your cousin Sue's roomate. Social media makes dating like shooting fish in a barrel.
> But don’t call me a misogynist: I love women. One must simply see them for what they are.

> When I meet a new girl, my frame is “I’m going to bend you over my kitchen table and fuck you like the dirty ho that you are.”

Nice. :-/
no doubt you built it last night - some testing would have been nice before publishing - i tried to snap http://imolly.herokuapp.com and i got Amazon's error page
As far as I know, cloudant's product is BigCouch which was a fork of CouchDB but has recently been merged back in:

https://blogs.apache.org/couchdb/entry/welcome_bigcouch
Regardless, government site or not, who currently does care about security?

Most code I have seen widely in production is using old sql injection vulnerable code. No sanitization and no proper session handling.

You would think that people would care about something like security with all the privacy concerns.

I wish I had better words to say this, but I had just woke up and out the door to breakfast.
Yes, I actually have that installed. Back when I was originally trying to get it to work, that wasn't available.
Criticism is prevalent in academia, especially with new ideas at the cutting edge. The idea that "criticism is not tolerated" tends to emerge from ideas that fall far from the trunk knowledge of the field. If your new theory of physics comes into direct experimental conflict with the Standard Model, expect to get the cold shoulder.

(Actually, at APS meetings and sectional meetings, almost everyone gets a chance to speak. However, not everyone attends the "new perspectives in physics" sub-meeting when there's a talk on another topic in the adjoining room.)

This sort of groupthink rejection sees more light when an issue is closer to public policy. In the nascent field of climate science, for example, I wouldn't be surprised to see papers claiming global cooling or stasis rejected almost immediately. Almost everyone in the field these days would appear to believe that global warming is occurring.

Coming back to my original thesis; the peer-review process is full of criticism. Search around for web pages aimed exclusively at coaxing young graduate students out of peer-review induced depression. Peer review can be brutal, and the anonymity can double its impact.
So let me get this straight. MLM where reps sell products face to face, answer questions, offer sales suggestions : BAD. Walmart beat supply chain down so everything has to be made in china because us regs(child labor and environomental) to expensive and employees down so employees can't afford to support themselves, GOOD. Facebook were people spend mass amounts of time clicking on games and wasting time as the company sells every click to the highest bidder: good. Google auctions search results off(except 14% of the front page is organic) so most of the product profits go to them: GOOD. Malls were most of the profits end up in real estate developers hands who probably got kick backs from the local government to build it in the first place:Good. Show me a billion $ business model that isn't slimey. Also, I would buy the peer pressure angle except women spend $700 on a purses all the time. Adn nobody bad mouths those designers. Apple came out with an MP3 player that doesn't even play MP3s made obsence profits while child make the electronics in sweat shops. Also, most recuiters for consulting companies make juice off the billable hours fo the people they bring in why isn't that frowned on?
The only positive aspect of this, and make no mistake - this does not excuse their fishy behaviour - is that Yahoo has lead the way in defending its user's privacy against the NSA.
Density of population is the major factor Holland is a small densely populated flat country which helps with cycling.
Here is my pithy theory that explains a lot of this, which in my opinion seems to fit the data and is backed up by copious anecdotal evidence.

"Men put more work up front -- making the first move, taking the women out and showing them a good time, etc. Women put more work once the relationship gets going (i.e. after much sex has been had). They put up with their guy's frustrating habits and work to advance the relationship forward."

Now, this is a description of the MAJORITY of interactions, not all, of course. Some women chase men (or are more open to advances from men). Some men are very marriage minded. But the majority behaves as I described. To see why, I highly recommend this article: http://denisdutton.com/baumeister.htm

Now, how does this affect the marriage market? Well, the conclusions follow directly from observing the trends that are occurring in the last 50 years:

* More women work

* Women work longer hours

* More women are educating themselves

* More young women are independent financially

* In fact, young unmarried women make more than male counterparts

However, in some ways the situation is pivoting again:

* Technology is making traditional college educations less useful

* The internet will soon disrupt college education

* Income inequality penalizes wage earning in favor of capital (running a business with clients is more inflation-resistant). Entrepreneurs are the new finance guys.

All this should combine to once again change women's perspective on who's dateable

Women respect risk-taking men (see the article), and want to have children with a successful man whose risks paid off.

And it looks like the humble folks on HN with their lifestyle businesses or those in successful startup cities will have the advantage in terms of earning potential, freedom to choose, and also women.

If they would just work out more... :)
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I'm not so sure it was incompetent engineers on the bottom of this equation who caused it to fail.
They have a handful of APIs, but the REST API (http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/api_rest/index.h...) provides the services you would most likely be using in building a new app.

The REST API allows you to retrieve metadata for a relational data model and to perform CRUD operations. The data model itself is typically created through Salesforce's web interface, although there is a Metadata API that can be used to manage the schema by uploading XML files.

There are standard objects (think database tables) for things like Users, Accounts, Contacts, Task, Events, Leads, and Opportunities (note Salesforce's history as a CRM application) which you can extend with custom fields, and you can create custom objects, and define the relationships between objects.

You can also expose custom server-side functionality as a REST endpoint by writing code in Apex, a java-like language, that runs on Salesforce's platform. This can be useful for dealing with multiple records in a single transaction, for example. The Apex code can also be managed through the Metadata API, the Tooling API, or the web interface. (Salesforce pretty much never deprecates old APIs so you can still use the version of the SOAP API you were using five years ago, for example. But this can also be confusing to new developers who find there's a lot of overlap between the old SOAP API and the newer REST API, and a little bit of overlap between the old Metadata API and the new Tooling API.)

One of the unique features of the Salesforce platform is a robust security model. Each object has row- and field-level security that can be configured through the web interface. This is particularly useful for apps used by large organizations. Different types of uses can have access to different fields. Ownership of records can role to the management within an individual's national division, for example. Your app doesn't have to enforce security. You call the API as the user, using an OAuth token, and see the data to which the user has access.

Another unique feature of the platform is that it is licensed per user. You don't scale by adding VMs or containers. It's nice to not have to think about scaling hardware, but most developers would probably rather think about scaling problems than ponder all of the convoluted licensing options Salesforce offers, much less talk to a sales rep. As a developer of an app for distribution to multiple customers, you also have to be cognizant of the various types of orgs (a company's Salesforce instance) in which your app might be installed.

If you're building a standalone app that doesn't need to be installed alongside customers' Salesforce CRM apps, and just want to take advantage of Salesforce's data modeling, security model, and API, you can use database.com, which has more developer-friendly pricing (in terms of transparency, not necessarily impact on your wallet).
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Assuming your monitor is inside the range your eyes can focus on, if it's straining your eyes, you can try turning the brightness down, as well as using f.lux or redshift to reduce the color temperature from ~7500K to ~3500K. You might appreciate the low color temperature even during the day, as it's less blue light for your eyes to deal with.
Being in Hawaii isn't automatically a happy fun lifestyle. It's a popular tourist destination, but it's still just a place like any other.

And it's a pretty shitty place when your spouse leaves you because you can't go with them.
Are you countering his argument or just grumbling to yourself?

What drive less car can do and the system in the whole can do is to be able to know where and when a car is driving in the vicinity where normal human cannot perceive. So the situation you describe will not happen at all if those systems are in place. Actually, you just describe a scenario where it is preferable to have a system that monitors human error that could prevent accidents like the one you describe to happen.

Also I don't know whether you have been following tech recently, and if you have seen the intro to drive less car, you would probably seen or heard about the infamous laser and radars mounted around the car as shown in the article in the link: http://www.slashgear.com/back-to-basics-how-googles-driverle...

It is virtually impossible for the car to crash into anything because the car can literally "see" everything around it. Also the algorithms is smart enough to anticipate or plan an alternative path to prevent collision with the objects. You sounded like you have never heard or been following tech especially machine learning, so I forgive you, but you should do some research first before posting comments like this...
Now unbalance it a bit, if the 6'2" can't hold a conversation he's going to fail. This means that holding a conversation is more important.

Same thing if he's not well groomed, same thing if he's out of shape. Same thing good career vs unemployed.

And these are all things that can be improved if you work at it.

Height is an advantage, but it's not the most important one.
Are they hot enough to melt the snow?
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I actually don't have a problem with private surveillance, regardless of purpose. As long as it's legal (!!!), it's probably more effective than what government agencies like the NSA could do with their more intrusive and illegal methods. I would love to see the NSA domestic surveillance done away with and then have some sort of transparent government incentive for companies that can effectively monitor terrorists, dissent groups, disruptive individuals, whatever, legally. Like private investigators looking into terrorist groups. That's fine, and if the public doesn't like what those dollars are being spent on, such as monitoring peaceful protests (and how are police supposed to know the protestors have peaceful intentions unless they look into them? I've seen some nasty things happen at some of the occupy events in Zugatti park...), they can vote the guys out of office who are in charge of designating targets. It's the complete lack of accountability that causes problems...
Looks like this could maybe be an influencing factor to Tesla's success there, after a German magazine doubts its potential in Europe (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/german-magazines-story-teslas-...).

Teslas are the ultimate commuter car - great for short distance, back and forth, stop and go. If Europeans are already doing these sorts of commutes on bicycles, what is the point of a Tesla? If what they really need cars for in Europe is long-distance travel, a Tesla probably isn't the right match.
I lived here: https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!q=rolling+ridge+way%2C+...

You can make of that what you will. I would call it rural.
There are always haters. And people also complain about Python too. Specially in the performance side, but I don't change languages just because of that. :D Do what is best for your team.
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I had an HP laptop that I bought around 2009. It lasted a year before the insane heat issues started; I agree with you completely regarding the engineering issues. In the end, I ended up buying a Lenovo about two years ago, and it's been perfect for me.

Getting back to the original story, I don't think I've bought a desktop since 2003. I prefer using them, but laptops are just so convenient.
How would that address the issues of contributions and quality of articles? Would using git not reduce the group of potential contributors?
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Excel has been partly to blame for many bugs in mathematical models, in part because of its datatypes and in part because of its builtins. Some of these bugs are not at all easy to spot, depending on how you go about the building and the verifying.
You are correct, I just get annoyed at flippant comments about changing government policy that just happens to affect billions without thinking through the consequences.
Whereas marrying someone simply because they are hot does?
Can't get computer to boot because of a defective video card. Apple need to acknowledge this or they going to loss a lot of fans.
I would rather bike in cold than subtropical heat, personally.
Ah, I thought it's some new add-on. It used to be called Collusion.
Bicing!
>I wish my biggest problem was being forced to stay in Hawaii.

I don't think Hawaii is as great to live in as it is to visit. Cost of living sucks, traffic sucks, traveling anywhere to visit relatives or another state/country requires flying. All of Hawaii only has a population of 1.4M. The metro population of Honolulu is 953,207. The state itself is just a little bit larger than New Jersey if you add the area of all the islands. Sure, the weather is great, but living in Hawaii for the rest of my life is not something I want to do.

Now imagine being trapped there until you die because you're on a tenure track.
How is it not? It has no tangible consequences (assuming no unplanned children/marriage), wastes time and is fun.
> Are there reasons why it's affected by capricious international politics or policy, but Bitcoin won't be?

Well not being used for transactions probably makes it less stable. Gold is mostly just an investment, which means it can vary a lot based on the other available investment vehicles. Bitcoin has many real world uses, which I think will add stability.
And I doubt raising the tax rate on fuel would do much at all, in America at least. Gas prices have gone up significantly over the last few decades and we drive more and more.

EDIT:

Can't reply because of HN time restrictions on long threads, but I think the reduction on driving is more due to cities and housing centers within cities getting denser - even Houston is doing that, and we've traditionally been very spread out. We still are, but it's improving.
Height absolutely has advantages but at 5'9 with friends that are both taller and shorter I can say that without a doubt, effort is an under-appreciated equalizer for men.

Its not 100% with 100% of women, but by putting in effort, i.e. learning how to talk to women, dressing well, and being friendly and social with other people... any guy can vastly improve their dating situation.
I completely agree. A solid typeface evaporates between the page and the retina. Its shapes ease reading and allow the reader's vision to soften around the text and concentrate on the signal rather than the delivery modality. This is especially clear in mathematical typesetting and no discussion of type on a site with hacker in the name would be complete without a nod to the godfather (Donald Knuth) of both digital type and typography (both micro and macro see:

http://books.google.com/books/about/The_elements_of_typograp...

for a discussion of LOD in typography from a master designer)

To properly design his multi-volume set of CS/mathematics books:

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/taocp.html

Knuth developed an entire software toolchain that spans type face creation (metafont) to the document layout programming language TeX (yup, it's an actual Turing complete language!):

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=67555

He is also responsible for the creation of "literate programming"... All this in his spare time, of course, while he wasn't occupied with his responsibilities as a CS professor at Stanford, teaching, doing research (on things other than digital typography, e.g. the content of his books, combinatorics, etc. (...). Truly an inspiration!
> Whereas someone who is, say, 6'2" will be attractive to women solely on the virtue of being tall.

This could not be further from truth.
Yikes. I've still been using Rapportive, but learning that it's being adapted into this monstrosity has instantly dissolved any trust I had for the product. Removing it now.
The genius is in saying no to to the right things. It's in the sort algorithm that puts the right ones in the top 10. The original iPhone was great not because it did not have 3G, and the os did not support copy paste. It was great because it was released early with a pack of "bang". Bang as in the competition is dead, it's already too late for "adapt or die". Cutting features or lineup for the wrong reasons is why some of the space the iphone filled existed: BlackBerry refused to produce a device with wifi because it pandered to the carriers who wanted to sell more gprs packets and sms at 25c a pop.
PC's are far from dead for consumers but, for manufacturers and retailers, the high-churn glory days are over. With high-end gaming now chained to the console cycle, even gamers won't get the itch to upgrade more often than Sony and MS refresh their platforms.

Intel, AMD, etc. might want to consider slowing their desktop product cycles down a tad. Instead of spending extra to bring every incremental performance to market as soon as it can be, perhaps longer product cycles will bring down costs.