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Hi, I downloaded the 3d model you have on your site. It looks really good. Here's a link to a standalone I made using Unity that allows you to move around the model (OSX only).

https://mega.co.nz/#!e9EmiaqK!89u5YTkFFGHFxpCVFNZnE22uetkLBY...

Is this the Highest resolution the model and textures possible on the camera currently?
>No, they didn't. 52% of those who voted on Prop 8 (about 79% of the ~17M eligible and registered to vote, which were themselves only about 45% of Californians) voted for Prop 8 -- so about 19% of Californians voted for it.

So the rest were either not competent to voice their opinion (below voting age), did not have sufficient stake for their opinion to matter or have proved their opinion doesn't count (residents who did not meet local requirements for franchisement or whose franchisement has been revoked, e.g., convicted felons), or simply didn't care enough to go make their opinion heard. I'd say 52% is still a fair number to quote, even if it may not be literally true if you're counting babies and other persons who are legally ineligible from having an opinion.

>After all, opinions change.

Sure, but not all that much that quickly. The latest polls show 45% of the American population still opposes same-sex marriage. While the opinion has shifted from majority to minority after relentless media campaigning, much like that in the article, there are still a very large number of people that hold it; it's still a "popular opinion".
https://www.fastmail.com/ works well and the price is fair.
Most of all just write a lot.

Read well-written copy, whether it is elaborate prose, wartime speeches, or clean and fresh ad copy. Analyse it. Emulate it.

Write first, then edit. Don't do both at the same time.

Read your old stuff and find flaws in it.

Shorten text. Shorter is almost always better.
That was the exactly the reason for lying, though can be justified for the game but you start to question your 'integrity' which is relative to the game you are playing.
Lack of paternity leave ties directly into social assumptions that the mother is the carer, the "mommy track" at work, and through to the assumption of custody for the mother. I don't understand why it isn't a bigger issue. You should even be able to get feminists and MRA guys to work together on this one!
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I would say practice makes perfect. If becoming a better writer is important to you, try to build a regular practice where you write each day and build some sort of feedback loop into this process to help you improve the quality.

There are plenty of pedantic people spending their time on forums who will naturally correct you if you make an error in your writing.

Writing a blog entry once a week and asking a friend or two to review the draft might be another way.

You're not doomed to anything if you take on a mindset where you believe that you can and will improve.
That's true for a single panel, but you are overstates the gain for a panel farm because it ignores shadows cast from one panel into the others, that are extremely relevant early in the morning and late in the evening (exactly the times that tracking gains are biggest).
These two books helped me. The downside is I get annoyed now when reading other people's bad writing.

http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Well-30th-Anniversary-Edition/...

http://www.amazon.com/The-Curious-Case-Misplaced-Modifier/dp...
To be fair as an iOS engineer, I'd appreciate it if more people read the HIG, and considered why things like UIAlertViews are discouraged. :)
Though these days it's worth noting that much of that is COW, cutting down the actual copying (at the expense of some bookkeeping). There's certainly still needless work, however.
Lenovo Completes $2.91bn Acquisition of Motorola from Google
The thing is that this seems to have all of the most useful features of nearly all current smartwatches. If it can deliver text, Hangouts, email, and calendar notifications to your wrist as claimed, then that alone accounts for the majority of smartwatch usage. The Cortana integration accounts for nearly the rest, though unfortunately that's only available with a Windows Phone. Here's to hoping that it will be possible to add Google Now support for Android phones.
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This is going to sound callous, but my reaction is: big deal.

And this should be everybody's reaction, IMO. I'll explain momentarily.

Being gay isn't easy if you aren't in a supportive environment. Hell, being gay will get you killed in some cultures and countries. In some places you'll merely be shunned and disowned by your family and friends. As a straight guy, I know this. How?

Because for the last 20 years or so, I've heard this again and again. The LGBT movement is nothing if not vocal and persistent, even to the point of being heavy-handed. I'm not saying I'm unsympathetic, I'm just saying that if there's a target demographic for "awareness", I haven't classified to be in that group for years.

So when Tim Cook officially announces his sexuality, I'm well aware that this isn't something as casually mentioned as being left-handed, having AB- blood type or a peanut allergy, preferring cats over dogs, or liking the color yellow. I'm also aware that for LGBT folks who haven't come out, seeing a successful person do so can be encouraging and inspiring.

Now regarding my "big deal" reaction...

While civilization will never be without bigots of one form or another, if we as a society are ever going to get past racial/gender/sexual issues, then disclosures like Cook's need to be unremarkable. Comparing America's reaction to Billy Crystal simply playing a gay man on "Soap" in the 80s to today, it seems like we've come a long way in a relatively short time compared to other social movements.

By the same token, an incident earlier this year demonstrated that the tech industry is probably the one of most gay-friendly business sectors to be in. Ironically, Brendan Eich was attacked, ostracized and shunned for his beliefs because they weren't gay-friendly. As an outsider, it does not appear that being a gay CEO in the California high-tech industry is as much of a burden as, say, a restaurant owner in Istanbul.

Finally, Tim Cook is worth upwards of $400 million. Like all wealthy individuals, he is generally insulated from contact with the rest of us simply because of his lifestyle: he doesn't take the bus, doesn't live in an apartment or typical suburban neighborhood, and certainly doesn't work in a cubicle. He likely won't encounter hate unless he tries to personally negotiate the opening of an Apple store in Moscow or Tehran. He's not a monster because he's rich (as far as I know he might be a really nice guy), but he's hardly an "everyman". For what it's worth, I had a similar reaction when many people were showering Mark Zuckerberg with praise for learning Chinese: hell, if I was that rich, I'd have time (and money) to learn Chinese from the best tutors.

In short, anyone announcing that they're gay should garner a "so what?" reaction because as a society we should be moving towards a person's actions being more important than their appearance, beliefs, or sexual orientation. And a multimillionaire making such an announcement today should elicit yawns because he is not representative of a typical person.

Edit: Not surprised by the downvote without explanation. Congratulations, sir or ma'am: you're part of the problem.
I worked at a smaller company who had two weeks paid vacation and unlimited sick days. The sick days rule was an unwritten rule, but man, did it get abused.

We had a woman who was up for a promotion and didn't get it. She went in and asked the manager why she didn't get her promotion and the manager told her, "Well, with close to 50 sick days, I'm not sure you're completely committed to to your current job."

So yeah, after so many years of getting abused, they just started a program where you get three weeks off, period. You can decide how you use it. Be it vacation or sick days, doesn't matter.
Disclosure: I'm the founder of snitch.io - a fully automated ssl monitoring service that launched last month.

This is interesting. I suspect it will appeal to a certain type of person / use-case - similar to LogStash vs Paper trail / Logggly. (I use Paper Trail and love it - check it out.)

However, I'm not really worried about it since many people want automated monitoring, auditing, and alerting that "just works" without having to roll their own client - and then monitor that client.

Doing this at scale is hard. Doing it with frequency/interval guarantees is even harder. I've put considerable effort into a scalable architecture and self-monitoring.

I wish Ivan the best of luck. On a related note if you want to learn about SSL/TLS I highly recommend Ivan's book "Bulletproof SSL and TLS". It is great.

Snitch is already doing a few things SSL Labs isn't doing (supporting custom ports, and IMAPS) and over time the differences in our services will become more and more apparent. I'm very excited about my product roadmap :-)

This is still a pain point for many people and there are many unsolved problems that I'm having a lot of fun working on.

Happy to answer any questions - shoot me an email. This username at currylabs.com
In Chile the State pays for it.

The upward limit on the payment OTOH is quite low (<US$2k/month) but most employers choose to supplement the State payment with the balance of your paycheck.
Uncivilized, really? We certainly have issues, but I think that's a bit much. Those are all very real problems, but for the most part our day to day lives are very civilized. And there are ways to fix these problems, it just isn't easy.
Well, when you go job searching you don't just apply for one job, do you? So the timing is the interesting part. In my experience, companies want you to be open with them about this, so that they do not lose good candidates by being too slow. If you tell them you're interviewing elsewhere or entertaining other offers, they will take that into account. You can straight up tell them what your timeline is like and they will work to accommodate it.

(Of course if they're not interested in you anyway it doesn't matter how many offers you have.)

Remember, recruiting is a job too. The people who do it at the company want to hire you, they want to get those positions filled, that means they are doing their job well.

Or you can just lie about it, as OP did. Perhaps a risky maneuver, but if it's plausible for you to be in demand, I don't see why it's not worth trying.

Personally my approach is a bit more basic. I ask for what I want, and if you don't wanna give it to me then fine, someone else will. But, my numbers are definitely not on OP's level, that is an impressive level of compensation.
> democracy prevailed, the system worked, nobody was harmed.

That's not true. For several years, people in California were denied marriage rights because of Prop 8. It was judicially overturned, not democratically so.

He actually did limit their rights.
Thanks for the clarification. I swear I read it twice trying to make sense of it. :-) I hear what you're saying, but we're unlikely to get that in the U. S. Hell, just getting chip-and-PIN has been moving along with all of the gracefulness and agility of a glacier.
Just out of curiosity, what is the industry your company is in, and what kind of position were you hired for?

This is not at all to find out who you are, but I haven'f seen such salaries as the norm for most developers so I am always curious to know more as to what field and position attracts this kind of compensation out of the gate.
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An interesting hypothesis, undermined if the coffee was black.
Why feel guilty? If they are willing to pay that much, then you are worth that much to them.

I see it as the opposite, they were willing to pay you less than what they see as your potential value. For their own benefit.
Timing in 10GE is sub-nano second. The PCS (physical encoding sublayer) runs at about 11Ghz (<0.1ns), so I think there's still a long way to go.
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I perhaps wasn't clear. There's two different major projects that I've been interacting with - the front UI design, and the python client for interacting with the Internet Archive's APIs.

I've been definitely "eating the dogfood" as regards the Python client for over a year, with dozens of changes, fixes and improvements being done.

I've been "eating the dogfood" in terms of the V2 UI by using it, and making additions and changes to my uploads to work better in the new interface, as well as submitting dozens of requests to the dev team about things I've encountered.

So I'm pretty full of dog food here.
There are the people who make technology, and then there are those who write about it. I've rarely seen both in one person, as each side requires a level of focus and dedication that would do the other side an injustice.

HN in my perspective, is mostly a PR site for technologists trying to push their brand/personality with some bigger agenda.

I've seen a lot of people develop their brand/persona on HN and blogs before trying to push out some tech company. 3 such people come to mind.

To be fair, I'm probably no different, except that I dont post here (yet) -- just consume and opinionate.

So consider the context.

If you really want to be good at writing the best way is to practice. A blog is a great way to get in the habit of writing.

I would also refer you to some well known books like the de facto standard for "good" English composition used by PR's and news organizations: The Elements of Style (http://goo.gl/SPcAOF <== amazon link with my referrer tag)

Like anything they key to becoming "good" is time, focus and dedication -- obviously.

In any case, consider the context of HN and what the motivating factor is for people who do submit posts here -- they write well because they have an agenda and are using language as a tool to advance their agenda -- me too!

(side note: I'm still trying to figure out what the motivating factor is for Redditors though, if anyone knows, please let me know.)

(side note 2: I'm really surprised that in the book mentions, no one mentioned Elements of Style - it really is a big deal. Ask any Literature/English professor. I just re-ordered it myself for nostalgia sake and I'm always catching myself trying to remember the rules from it)
Many seem to think that he wrote that in the letter just to annoy Robert Hooke, who was rather short in height.
>Brendan Eich is entitled to his opinion, and a large not for profit is entitled not to want someone with that opinion as a figurehead.

Except Mozilla didn't make that choice. Eich was not fired or asked to resign. Mozilla made it clear they still wanted him. Eich voluntarily stepped down and excused himself from the community after it had shown its shallow, naive definition of tolerance. I don't blame him for not wanting to work in the industry anymore.
I hope the area of residence / years of experience / original offer / new offer / title bump have all been changed at least somewhat, because if not, the people who hired you could potentially see this and identify you - and they might not appreciate that you lied to them.

If you're feeling guilty about something, tell it to your dog.
Yes, I phrased it loosely. :)

Also see this: http://code.galois.com/talk/2010/10-06-spivak.pdf
There's a fallacy here, and interestingly it's also at play on facebook.

You know when you look through your feed on facebook, and every single day you see that at least one of your friends has done something amazing, commendable or just interesting? That makes you feel that you aren't doing anything with your life, and that all your friends seem to be living more interesting and happier lives.

But stop and think for a moment. Approach it from the other side. If you have 365 friends, and you post one interesting post a year you are faring as well as the average of your friends. It just seems that everyone is doing more interesting things than you because you only notice the interesting things your friends post. You only see the highlights. Nobody posts a "today was boring - I did absolutely nothing" status.

HN is the same. Think a bit about it.

If 10.000 people see a comment thread then statistically someone will be knowledgeable about the subject, whether its the French Revolution or the finer nuances of L2 caching. The most knowledgeable ones will feel they have something to contribute and write a comment. The vast majority won't. On top of that the top comment is (supposedly) the most well-written, eloquent and knowledgeable, and can thus be argued to be the best 10.000 people can come up with.

If I were to start commenting on threads about L2 caches I would make an absolute fool of myself, and prove to everyone that I have no clue what I'm talking about. So I don't.
Hey, how awesome of you to drag stereotypes into this …

If you had read the article it should become quite clear to you why quite a few people knew and some people even wrote about it.

Since in general journalists will avoid to publish the sexual orientation of someone unless that person made public statements about it, most journalists just didn’t write about it. (I think that’s exactly the right guideline to follow. It is awesome when people come out to help others who are struggling, but this is still a personal decision and I don’t think journalists should make that decision for people. There should never be an obligation to come out.)
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Not only can you not knight deceased people, but when knights die they lose their title. #QuiteInteresting. #whenwillhnsupporthashtags.
Thinking about this, backup directly to an S3 bucket would be a great feature for Fastmail.
When I was 25, I got rejected by both Facebook and Microsoft and felt really bad about it, but it's only been a couple of years and my career is now light-years ahead of ahead where I ever hoped it would be. As several others have said, the fact that you didn't get an offer doesn't mean you weren't good enough, it probably means you weren't a fit. And if you weren't a fit, it means that long-term it's better for both you and the company if you work somewhere else. So even though I completely understand your disappointment, know that you're just still looking for the right fit, and a couple of years from now you're probably going to look back and be really happy with how things worked out somewhere other than Google or Amazon.

I'm very sorry that you lost your brother. Losing a family member is always a sad thing, but if it's causing you to have nightmares and lose sleep you should try talking to someone. If this has been going on for a long time you might have depression that won't get better by just 'dealing with it'. I'd suggest you find someone you feel comfortable talking to about it in person: maybe a friend, or family member, or a therapist. But get some help - depression makes everything seem worse than it is, and if you can get on top of how you feel, not only will you feel better, but it'll probably help your job search too.

Good luck - and don't feel alone. A lot of us have been through these same kinds of things and know it does get better, even though it kinda sucks right now.
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There were at least a couple of places where it was mentioned earlier this year (and it was kind of "known" in the past too).

Two links from April 2014:
Out Magazine - http://www.out.com/out-exclusives/power-50/2014/04/15/what-d...

HuffPo (about the same) - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/27/out-power-50-most-p...
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Regarding this being the only piece found... if they needed to get parts off the plane for use as tools, this patch would be a good target piece of metal to go for prying free. I still feel the odds are pretty slim but they make an interesting (if sketchy) case. Hopefully something more concrete will come up in future.
While so many competitors are scrambling to make smartwatches that can't competently track your fitness and can't competently replace your phone, this Band has all the sensors necessary to be a legitimate fitness tracker, the form factor will ensure it's more accurate, and it also can function as a useful proxy to your phone. While it may not have all the features of the Apple Watch, it seems to have all of the most useful ones, like delivering important notifications straight to your wrist. And it's cross-platform!

It seems to me that Microsoft has found the two areas where wearables really excel -- quantified self and notifications -- and focused on these features above all else. It's not high fashion, although the band form factor is hard to be offended by, especially if you have the screen facing down. It doesn't take photos, but why would you take photos with your watch?

This is not unlike the iPod, which focused on storage space and an extremely simple interface above all else.
Practicing is not just about writing a lot and often.

Practice requires constantly going back to what you wrote, too.

My English isn't as good as I'd like it to be, but:

1. I know it would be worse if I didn't review my writing :)

2. I'm bold enough to claim that I write pretty well at least in my first language.

On message boards I'm notorious for editing my posts, sometimes several times in a row, reverting previous changes etc. :) It's a bit embarassing, since this is obviously a neurotic trait. But peaceful minds don't strive for excellence :)

Never be happy with what you just wrote. Keep trying to improve it.
That quote was taken out of context. It's still his and the Church's position that homosexuality is a sin: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/getreligion/2014/01/journalists...
As the "someone" in question, I should clarify that the core screw-up was that the invoice emails were going to the account's "master" mailbox, which was unmonitored because the domain it was managing was being forwarded (IIRC I couldn't figure out how to forward the master mailbox or something).

This was a while ago, so my memory may be failing me, but I'm fairly certain we had an alternate "recovery" address set up - just no one thought to send an invoice there, or call the phone number on file, or whatever... it was a "hey, you show no signs of having received the invoice, so we assume you're a PITA deadbeat and we're going to perma-delete the account for you!"

Moral of the story (from my perspective) - if a customer isn't responding to your invoice, it might just be that they don't have it... try to reach on them a side channel before cutting off service!
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Did you read the linked product page? It specifically boasts sleep tracking and 24-hour heart rate tracking.
Thanks Rahim,

Right now we're using Excel to gather the initial data, but we're working on building it out so that all of the data gathering happens in our web app. We're working on building a sort of 'wizard' interface similar to TurboTax etc. where it will ask questions to narrow down what information is needed.

Definitely getting the output formatted as something investors can play with and double check will be big for us. We're working on developing a method to generate an Excel-based model from the app, but that's definitely one of the more technical challenges we're facing right now.
> Outside of the Valley and New York, where there's less competition for talent, there are many companies that deduct sick days from vacation.

That's a brand new level of fucked up behavior, holy hell.
Just tried the band. I wanted to want it but I wasn't into it. Wearables in general have some ways to go aesthetically. Every band/watch I've tried so far has fairly unflattering proportions (which is totally understandable given the hardware). Wearables would ideally disappear into the fabric of your life but so far they're mostly big plastic chunks you strap to your arm. I definitely like where things are going, but they haven't gotten there yet.
I can't help but think that taking the more money at current company could turn out bad unless you sign a contract with breakup terms.