jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
My advice is programmers who need graphics for their apps not for those planning to become designers.

Hire a designer - but for their design skills, not their photoshop skills.

You should (slowly) develop basic photoshop skills. This will let you go further before you hire a designer and also let you communicate with the designer much better.

Steps:

1) Ask a designer friend to show you the very basics: layers, file format, resizing, colors, simple tools like text, bucket fill, etc.

2) Use a cheap Photoshop substitute - Paint.NET, Gimp or Pixelmator depending on your OS.

3) Learn by (i) watching a designer, (ii) reading online tutorials, (iii) trying simple stuff you need

Over the years, I've gone from simple to more complex:

- Crop & resize images and convert file formats.

- Convert transparent PNG icons to transparent GIF.

- Made very simple 16x16 transparent icons for web apps - by zooming in and toggling individual pixels!

- Changing the colors in a designer's graphic to try out different color themes in a web app.

- Simple text logos - watch a designer & you'll see a lot of this is about having a huge selection of fonts & picking a good font/color combination.

- Business card design - some cards are just good text, colors and alignment

- Basic fake miniature effect on some of my photos (following online tutorials)

- Simple app icons (again, online tutorials)

Edit: add opening paragraph
You should think about it from a legal perspective: if you use GPG, will the FBI show up at your house just because the local drug dealer also does even though they never send you a message?

Now, suppose that there’s a transaction chain which involves you – say said local dealer buying from one of the few other people using it — and how you’d prove that you weren’t a knowing participant in some sort of laundering scheme or deal. This is why tumblers aren’t likely to be used by most people and why running a Tor exit node is so risky: you have to worry about being charged with the worst thing done over the network and proving that you aren’t just trying to look like a naive user.
So, would you recommend OP go through a headhunter? I've heard mixed things about them, mainly that they don't do much in exchange for taking 15% of your first year salary.
Not only Forbes, apparently.

https://twitter.com/JacquelynGill/status/1198437407475015682...

(from the parent's link)
http://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/#How_does_Versioning_protect_m...

See also the followup question:

Q: How can I ensure maximum protection of my preserved versions?

Versioning’s MFA Delete capability, which uses multi-factor authentication, can be used to provide an additional layer of security. By default, all requests to your Amazon S3 bucket require your AWS account credentials. If you enable Versioning with MFA Delete on your Amazon S3 bucket, two forms of authentication are required to permanently delete a version of an object: your AWS account credentials and a valid six-digit code and serial number from an authentication device in your physical possession
Don't forget to analyse moves and comment on them. It makes it more realistic.
Makes me rethink the purpose of Stuxnet.
I would recommend you look into the history of Silicon Valley. As I understand it (and I don't know much about it), it was a lovely, inexpensive place, a very prestigious college decided to do some stuff to help develop local businesses and then some folks who really loved the place went there to start their business(es) because in part because it was so lovely. Do a bit more research and see if you can find a "formula". I'm sure that luck/happenstance plays a role but that doesn't mean you can't get clues for how to encourage something similar to sprout elsewhere.
Love this. Perhaps the best response should be to respond with the exact phraseology just used, e.g. to "Don't take this the wrong way, but ..." followed by some negative personal criticism you could reply with "Don't take this the wrong way, but now I really want to punch you."
where did you click? i am unable to get the download
Here's a question... if there was no Facebook vs if there was no Wikileaks, which would impact the world the most now and going forward?

If there's no Facebook I honestly don't think the world changes all that much. People are on MySpace, and some of the other social networks are more popular. 10 years down the line, I don't think the world looks noticeably different. Whereas I think with Wikileaks the whole dynamics of US foreign relations will change.

Both are speculative, but I do think that Wikileaks is more impactful than Facebook. With that said,if they gave the award to "the social network", I'd be in more agreement.
This is the first time I've seen that article. Can you explain more? Is there more surrounding this article?
Each of the claims is independent and additional. They are made so that it is possible for the patent examiner to approve the patent claim by claim with a more narrow scope, rather than rejecting it as a whole. From the applicant's point of view, the best case is that all claims are approved, but the usual goal is to write a series of increasingly narrower claims so that at least something gets approved. If nothing is rejected, you probably have not made it broad enough. Having a more narrow scope may also determine in a law suit whether something is infringing: if you have an explicit claim, it's more clearly infringing.
Why no Russia in top countries? Do they have a similar site?
I'm in the same position as you. And I've been trying to do this without much sucess. And then I found this book and it really has the very basics down pat:

http://www.amazon.com/Non-Designers-Design-Book-Robin-Willia...

After you finish that, you'll be able to put together great wireframes and layouts.

For the color part I'm reading a book on color theory. The very first thing I learnt in this book was that there is a reason that beginners cant work with color - because they cant "see" true color. This takes a while - google for "Color constancy"

These are the very basic steps that I wish someone had pointed me to ... everyhting else builds up from here.
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I think the legality of it is that you do not have it on you in public. I am not a lawyer though.
This article is an exaggerated pile of crap. Pardon my language.

Amazon is not taking down erotica. They still have a very large and healthy erotica/romance section.

What they are doing is removing incest-erotica published by Amazon's Createspace. According to the pages the author links to in his post, incest-erotica from other publishers remains available for sale.

Incest, by the way, is illegal in most of America, except possibly in the South. It's no different from Amazon removing bestiality-erotica or pedophilia-erotica published under its own label.

Long story short: if you want to publish incest-erotica, don't publish through Amazon's CreateSpace.
It took me a week+ to get this far with it, and it's still not totally right. It is definitely not "easy" to do.

But, I'm thinking the main reason someone would do this is if they wanted to not be responsible if there was a break-in, and to trust a 3rd party who specializes in it.
"The set may not be resold, sub-licensed or rented." and thus incompatible with all open source licenses.
"it's ONE coupon, un-targeted, delivered to a wide audience"

Name me the best company in the world to solve that problem with Groupon.

This may not be coincidence.
Thank you for your reply. Now that I think about it more and in line with your comment, with HN being a start-up atmosphere, I guess it makes since to see more of the generalist mentality.
Most of Jobs' wealth comes from shares of Walt Disney Co. that he received when the media conglomerate acquired Pixar in 2006. Disney shares recently hit a 52 week high of $38.

I'm surprised that most of Jobs' wealth comes from the sale of Pixar. Even with Apple's stock price ($323) valued at nearly 9 times the value of Disney ($37).
Unless you need
1. Chat
2. Friendlist (prefilled with your friends)
3. Realtime communication
4. Federation
5. Social (activity streams)
Diaspora fails on 1+2+3 and does a poor job on 4. XMPP needs implementations for 5 (spec and demo implementations exist).
I know that serving up ribeyes carved off sacred cows is your schtick and all, but on this issue you're just wrong. Browser javascript is the most hostile environment crypto is deployed in today; it's worse even than microcontrollers that have to use CBC-MAC because SHA1 won't fit in code space. It doesn't work.

I'm writing up a document about this now, as luck would have it, but in the meantime you could try not taking my word for and instead read Nate Lawson, who is smarter than both of us put together:

http://rdist.root.org/2010/11/29/final-post-on-javascript-cr...

Here's a hint: it's not about "encoding issues". SJCL is nice work, but SJCL is to a working cryptosystem what mixed oxide U/Pu fuel pellets are to a working nuclear reactor. Don't be like that boy scout who irradiated his whole suburb building something in his garage.
Quit if you don't like it.

Many people have that choice only in theory. Secondly, who's to say what is 'safe'? Obligatory communal prayer every morning at school or work could be considered a form of brainwashing. I certainly don't think it's safe for my kid or even myself. I'm too informed on the human psyche to not be afraid of what others could convince me to think or do under the right circumstances. But if even communal prayer isn't safe, then what is?
It must be a struggle to keep the buildings connected to water, sewer and gas lines as they keep shifting.

"Ideally, the foundations of buildings should reach bedrock, which in the region is about 50 meters deep. But these buildings in Santos’ waterfront has foundations that are only 4 or 5 meters deep. After the leaning in the first building became visible, there was realization that the practice of placing tall buildings on shallow footings could not continue, and a requirement was added to Santos building code to use deep foundation for tall buildings."

This reminds me so much of software development: we ignore sound engineering practices that have been known for a long time, then scramble to prop things up when they start to fall apart.
I hear people talk about the "burden of regulation" a lot, but outside of breweries and distilleries, what are the regulations that are so burdensome? Things like building codes and inspections or are you think of things at the federal level?
If the long term positives outweigh the long term negatives you should switch – even if you have held your current position less than one year.[1] The difficult part is determining long term positives/negatives and how important they are to you.

Some things to consider:

• Will you learn more/less?

• Will you work with people you enjoy more/less?

• Will you enjoy the work you are doing more/less?

• Will you be respected more/less?

• Will your work-life balance be better/worse?

• Will your location be better/worse?

• Will your compensation package be better/worse?

[1] If you have a better opportunity at another company and your current employer genuinely cares about you they will either improve your position (to convince you to stay) or they will have no hard feelings when you leave (assuming you were respectful, considerate, and upfront about the situation).
Wow, bananas are really scary:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose
Right, but someone still has to do the representation (encoding the information into the machine readable format), and how can you ever know that someone is encoding it correctly?

In addition, your assumption is that everything can be encoded in an axiomatic language (probably not true), and that we have enough information to encode it all even if it was possible.
As someone who is hiring right now for a front-end position I really really hope this takes off. Far too many people have no realistic or publicly available code. Even for the back-end positions we're hiring for it would be awesome to see a custom implementation of something like to-do app.
I made Try Haskell and purity and types are Haskell's whole thing, so technically I can teach the good stuff about Haskell without needing IO and threads and such. The security measure for disabling IO was to merely not run in the IO monad. Interestingly, there is a completely pure filesystem library for Haskell http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1036 that I'm thinking of using, to demonstrate the difference between side-effectual and pure functions. I agree regarding the other two, security is a big problem for them. I'm trying to get a trylisp setup but many of the Lisp guys think it's fairly impossible to do a safe sandbox.
I agree, this RFC seems to propose a great deal of different additions/changes to the HTTP protocol without a unifying reason why. But the committee/process is all in the open, through the IETF, so now is the time to voice your concerns!

> Reading the RFC, this seems to make HTTP stateful

The reasoning behind this seems to be that the alternatives right now are either polling or a homegrown websocket based protocol. The authors argue that rather than continuing to let different implementors make bespoke or otherwise non-standard polling/subscription based websocket implementations, to standardize on a RESTful way to subscribe to a stream of updates.

> It also uses PUT to patch things, but then why not use PATCH ? You could say it's non standard, but at this point, everybody uses it. Plus their stuff is apparently deviate from the original standard as well by allowing headers after the first line of the payload and introducing the forGET command.

I've personally seen both PUT and PATCH used for updates, so this didn't seem particularly odd to me, and seemed more like a nod to one particular method of updates.

But yes, the overall RFC is proposing to modify HTTP from a state transfer protocol to a state synchronization protocol, so that clients and servers have to hold onto state and send diffs between their internal states, and then implement some reconciliation algorithm (e.g. OTs or CRDTs) to merge state. This seems like it is in response to a myriad of bespoke long-polling or websocket based update mechanisms.

> They also mention a really cool RFC on a JSON patch format: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6902

Yup! Super cool right?

> I'm reading RFC and getting excited about it. Damn, that must be what they call growing old.

Well, you could do that, or you could read yet another article about startup financials, which is all that seems to trend on HN these days ;)
What were the population differences between the small and large states back then compared to now?
The new sony z series has a lot of pixels. I don't know much about IPS or colors though, specs from the website below.

The VPCZ117GG/X	- 13.1 (33.2 cm) wide (FullHD: 1920 x 1080) ; VAIO Display Premium, LED backlight, Adobe RGB 96% coverage
For the last eight months I have been working on an app called Lighthouse. It's nearly ready for public (beta) release, probably in the next couple of weeks.

Lighthouse is an all-or-nothing crowdfunding app that uses the smart contracts feature of the Bitcoin protocol. You do not need to deposit money with a third party site. Anyone can create a project, or pledge money to someone elses project and revoke that pledge before the project is claimed if they want the money back.

Unlike Kickstarter, there are no fees and it works in any country, although you do have to use Bitcoin so you are exposed to volatility and exchange fees (if your costs are in some other currency which is quite likely).

Over time I expect and hope that volatility will slowly decrease, and there are lots of ways to optimise currency exchange fees. So whilst this is somewhat exploratory today, I hope it can grow into a real competitor over the long run (5-10 years).

http://blog.vinumeris.com/2014/09/12/lighthouse-alpha-now-op...
I am not familiar with a millenia-old tradition of directly paying cash to magistrate and officials in either Korea or Japan. Taiwan native population makes a small portion of the contemporary population: the island occupants are mostly descendants from expatriate Chinese democrats (who rejected that tradition and many others). All are also countries that have started democratic transition several decades before China (and that argument of three decades to transition is heard a lot more than the presumed contempt OC mention). That discussion should certainly include a discussion on rural vs. coastal China too -- but that would be further beyond my depth.

More importantly, my point was that "claim" is very far from a single, consistent argument about how 'Asia' works (I do not think that 'Asia' is really a consistent entity). It's more a convenient accretion of reaction to local experiences, often negatives. Western values work fine say, on Pacific islands that have had an incredibly different culture.
More direct link to his homeschooling site (because his profile is quite lengthy and filled with links): http://learninfreedom.org/
Nothing but time and money prevents scaling. If we really really wanted to we could add a lot more doctors and nurses several years from now if they start training today.

Obviously a plan that doesn’t help the first few years. So not useful in this pandemic, but perhaps something to think about.

I think your link is very US centric, this problem exists in the whole world (although the US isn’t alone in having a doctor shortage that could be called artificial).
What you want is a theory of local hidden variables. [0]

They are at odds with what quantum mechanics predicts (and what we have observed).

On a semi-related note, I might be reading too much into your comment, but I very much dislike when people imply that scientists haven’t thought outside or the box or tried other non-mainstream theories. They try all the time, but fail because those theories often aren’t true. What we’re left with are the best extant theories, even if they’re obvious incomplete.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_hidden-variable_theory?w...
Snark is unnecessary. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Is there any proof of detonation? I can't find any references to that occurring. It seems to be an entirely mechanical process.
NeoChat only needs Kirigami (for the UI), KCoreAddons (for the about screen), KNotifications/KWindowSystem (for the notifications), KConfig (for the configuration). Probably the KNotifications dependency could be made optional without too much ifdef but I'm not sure if this is something users want.
> It's not even small data.

We get it. Your data's pretty big.
Are you referring to the S3 API? I believe the S3 API is explicitly licensed under Apache.

Disclaimer: I was previously employed by Amazon and currently Google. Opinions are my own, I'm not a lawyer, etc.
How many Americans today are aware they (well, their ancestors but that does carry responsibilities to younger generations) are guilty of mass murder and ethnic cleansing? And how much of that genocide was preceded of much hate speech? (how much were the free speech protections a factor in said genocide)

I think you may be right that ethnic genocide alone may not be enough to change a whole population's opinions around free speech rights, that there may be additional factors required such as general awareness of how bad it was to engage in such acts and what contributed to those acts.
Is that relevant? I'm not arguing against the claims that tether is shady, I'm only arguing against the outrageous claims that you can't convert USDT back to USD that some tether opponents claim.
A police force of 2200, just for one building. Compare that to the Atlanta Police Department which has 1800 officers for a city of 500,000+ people and a size of 136 sq miles.
I sort of disagree, and here's why:

In your assessment of the situation, the equation is:

value brought to company without overtime + value brought to company by doing overtime = salary

but the overtime is paid, so:

value brought to company without overtime + value brought to company by working overtime = salary + overtime pay

presumably, what's negotiated annually is salary. if overtime is compensated separately, then it really should not figure into salary discussions outside of maybe some small consideration for their not having to staff a separate on-call team.
The way I read you comment is that "the company can just spend more" so that everyone can work 9-5. The reality of starting a business, or even running a business in general, is that cash is limited (isn't it always?).

It's not about 'working for free', either. It's recognising what the reality is. Working for a startup is a choice and a trade-off. IMHO, wanting to work for a startup but only 9-5 is a little unrealistic.
Because I respect the rights of private property, I have to allow social media sites to post rules at the entrance explaining what you’re allowed to do. As long as they enforce those rules evenly, then you know what you’re signing up for when you register an account.

I’ve not heard any legitimate, evidence-backed claim that any of the major sites are enforcing their rules unfairly. Instead, the claims are usually along the lines of:

“I got banned for saying we should do violent stuff! And yet they allow this other ideologically opposite person to have an account!”

“Can you point to a specific post where the other person is saying we should be violent?”

“No, but everyone knows they support it!”

Well, “everyone knows” isn’t evidence.
The way people blindly defend this simplified notion of Free Speech makes it seem as though they believe it is some kind of universally guaranteed right that is like a law of physics. No, we enjoy this luxury of debating the ethics of free speech because we live in a society that permits it. Right now, that society faces an imminent threat from violent insurrectionists. We need to prevent them from organizing and carrying out their plan. I don't care if it wades into questionable ethical territory. This is not the time for a nuanced debate. This is the time for action.
Did all machines in all states have an auditable paper trail, and were all subject to a software/binaries/distribution/internet connectivity audit, including administrator backend access to data?

Is this documented anywhere on some authoritative site?

> Is it surprising that people switch their viewpoint after their major concern was satisfied?

No, however, an (un)observed change in viewpoint does not necessarily represent satisfaction, or prove that all shortcomings have in fact been remedied.
My parents couldn't control my use of the Internet but that doesn't indicate bad parenting. My parents were able to teach me the values that enabled me to differentiate fantasy from reality, right from wrong.

That is good parenting, teaching your child to make good decisions, you can't guard them forever especially from themselves.
Here are more sites that feature the Konami code:
http://konamicodesites.com/
(note: you have to perform the Konami code to enter that site!)
Most of these guys were born and already famous before the steam engine patent - let alone the real industrial boon

The Wikipedia summary isn't wrong, it is just misleading. The inventions and innovations that lead to the industrial revolution were founded in the late 18C, but the real transformation was much later (although it did happen, comparatively, quickly)

It is a bit like saying that the 'Internet era' is from the 1950's, because that is when the integrated circuit was created
> - Most part of the world are still fairly not developed to support the data requirements of smartphones, especially in Africa and Asia.

You would be surprised. Where you can find a cellphone network, you will find a data network. Data is often a place where carriers know they can make money.

What is more, a lot of the equipment is newer (i.e. not as much legacy equipment) since a lot of the networks are new.