skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's funny but I avoid Adobe products more than anyone else these days - an 'honor' held by Microsoft for a very long time. I don't know what is worse Acrobat or Flash at this point (esp. on mac).
It doesn't and it's so easy. And it's free.

There's no excuse. Someone walk off with my laptop, or the biz's, it's a shrug of the shoulders, fill in the insurance claim, and back to work.
Softimage was bought for a purpose and spun off later. It was bought by Microsoft to port Softimage|3D (and develop XSI) for NT platform - to show NT is as powerful for those applications as IRIX was. It was done, and it was sold later to AVID, now Softimage is part of Autodesk.

On a side note, I always thought Autodesk was Adobe's natural predator, I was expecting a buy offer from them.
I use TrueCrypt for some pieces of data and even on entire backup drives, but haven't bitten the bullet and did the whole boot drive yet. Any gotchas / tips?
Facebook and the Hotel California
I know you probably aren't entirely serious but people can and do change when their choices disappear.

Fundamentalists may differ.
Read the SEC report. The flash crash was precipitated by a fat fingered mutual fund. It was exacerbated, among other things, by the stop loss orders this price decrease triggered.

...stop-loss orders to lock in profits...

Go learn what a stop loss order is. I blame the retail investor for placing an order he doesn't understand.
new is a keyword and has various other gotchas. The most egregious is probably is the silent but deadly failure when you forget it altogether:

function MyURL(loc) {
this.location = loc;
}

// benign:
var url1 = new MyURL("http://news.ycombinator.com");

// redirects the user to Hacker News:
var url2 = MyURL("http://news.ycombinator.com");

Calling a free function binds the global object (window in the browser) to the implicit this parameter; assigning a URL to window.location is clearly quite an obvious bug, most cases of forgetting new when calling a constructor are much more subtle. Luckily, you can defend against it in the constructor's code:

function MyURL(loc) {
if (this === (function(){return this;})())
{
// might want to log this during development, too...
return new MyURL(loc);
}
this.location = loc;
}

I strongly recommend reading what Douglas Crockford has written on the topic of JavaScript, or watching his excellent videos. (this from someone who detests video as a medium of conveying this sort of info)
Ah, gotcha, that's cool. Well if you are ever in Colorado ping me, seriously awesome mountains to ride and echo mountain is (I think) the first terrain park only hill in north america. fun stuff and a helluva workout too.
Its got a pause button.
Can everyone commenting on this please remember that Adobe produces software aside from Flash and Reader?

Those two may interfere with your browsing habits but just because you don't come into contact with anything else Adobe produces doesn't mean it doesn't have some importance in the software industry.
It's really interesting, when you think about it as a system that changes in response to observation.

Can you imagine if physical systems worked like that? That observed physical phenomena would change in response to what the experimenter/observer thinks will happen?
see also http://neighborgoods.net/
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After talking with a few small PHP teams this seems like the logical conclusion whenever growing a team of PHP developers. Its just very hard to perfectly recreate your server environment locally on multiple OS's.

Its a great solution, but I much prefer working with RoR or Python/Django where recreating the server environment locally is much easier.
No, you're wrong. It was a CAWUG user group meeting at the Apple Store in Chicago. There is no way in hell I would mistake you for anyone else. DHH was there as well.
>I'm really amused that you called them muggles,

... and assumed they're a nerdy teenager that struggles with social interactions, or was that just me?
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How do you even begin to make a return on this money? Put redirects in a frame and put an ad in? Charge for some sort of premium service and hope people don't go to one of many other url shortening services?
I'd say it does. I was a gadget fiend. I know I don't want an iPad, but I would've needed one if I hadn't have tried to declutter my life. Having done so, my tiny house is now that much more spacious (but slowly clutter creeps in and now and again I have to have a massive clearance) and as the article says, I have less to worry about. In addition to this I no longer need an iPad. In fact I used one for a few hours and found it quite heavy.

This year I bought an ebook reader, not because I wanted one but because I was going on holiday and wanted to read 10 books. The cost of an ereader was cheaper than buying those 10 and losing the luggage space. I read 15 books on that holiday, mostly from Project Guttenberg. I could've took a laptop and read them on that as a compromise, but I wanted something my eyes wouldn't get tired over, and a computer screen would've reminded me of work. My E-Reader now sits in the kitchen until the next time I take it out - I'm in the middle of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five and I know I should read it but I don't. Still, next year I'll take it out and I'll get my books for much less than taking physical copies.

Last year I had a clear-out of all my old DVDs - and I used to have more than my local Blockbusters (as a massive film buff a lot were obscure too) so I gave them away to charity shops. If I can find epubs of my books I think I'll do the same with them next year.
What's the smallest conceivable reliable distro I can host Rails (or, better, JRuby/Rails) on? Getting it up and running on Tiny Core seems like a Project.
This is great PR. I'd be willing to bet this fundraising announcement was fast-tracked to counter the whole ".ly is unsafe" story from the past few days.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1763431
Don't know about the rest of Adobe, but the flash team is heavily intertwined with mozilla and google developers. Go sample irc.mozilla.org sometime.

Fun fact, the first JavaScript was written by a Netscaper in Lisp. The first ActionScript was in Standard ML, and now both guys work on ECMAScript :-) ActionScript's engine powers Mozilla's JS engine (yes, flash and firefox engines off the same code base!) and the Lisper guy works on V8. Get into the javascript scene and you will find the intellectual incest that is hacking.
Ah, sorry - I didn't realise.

Well, I suppose this is a reasonable strategy.

CP+B have done similar things, and tried to explore how crowdsourcing can create buzz (e.g. with Brammo) .. I think at one stage they even decided to ebay the services of their designers to create a sense of the agency's openness to 'new'.

It does seem that aesthetics aren't the main driver behind branding decisions any more. It's impossible to stand out by having the nicest looking identity.

Taking an approach like this makes sense on lots of levels, especially when marketing budgets have been reduced; create a couple of reasonably strong memes, which last long enough to seep into the public consciousness before they die .. and gain phenomenal exposure without spending too much. Gap get to create the hallowed 'relationship' with the customer by involving them their own brand 'journey'.

I did make myself slightly sick after reading back over that last sentence, but to an extent I think it's true. We all build up relationships with brands over time, and the course these relationships take can be manipulated.
I don't think the market for pad computers is anywhere near as large as the market for desktop PCs (circa 1995) or mp3 players (circa now). It's just not an "everybody needs one" sort of product.

That statement got me thinking so I actually went and looked it up. In 1995 The US personal computer market saw about 21 million units shipped and 58 million units shipped worldwide. Estimates figure Apple has shipped about 8.5 million iPads worldwide in the 6.5 months since it's launch, and they are projected to ship about 45 million in 2011. So it looks like even disregarding other pad devices, the iPad alone has a market approaching the size of the pc market in 1995!
Top 24 Agile Web Testing Tools
The current situation around this type of tools is quite entangled, some tools are extending or complementing others, some are competitors and new ones are sprouting out of others...
The following post tries to get some order and structure in the landscape of those Agile Web Testing Tools.
And http://rentalic.com/
This is probably one of those high priced mergers that wont really help MSN compete with Apple. Doesn't Apple hate flash? And isn’t HTML5 the future? I think MSN would be better off spending money on a smaller company that can really help its mobile strategy.
I do acknowledge that this is something that looks very "oh, how obvious!" to the modern crowd, but deviantART is a 10 year old PHP app...

Of course, even if you're running a modern web framework in Ruby/Python/somethingtrendy, a VM makes a lot of sense. It lets you run the exact versions of everything that your production environment is, without having to worry about it.
Aparapi: API from AMD for running data-parallel Java code on GPU
It's a little strange in how it's implemented, but I think this is a good off the shelf awareness campaign for anyone using google apps.
"While it's in the design industry's collective best interest to never work on spec like this, it might be in an individual designer's best interest to design Gap's logo for free."

People play the lottery - but I wouldn't argue it's in their best interests to do so.
MEETING: Chicago CocoaHeads / CAWUG Tuesday Jan. 13th, 2009
Agenda: - Special Apple Store Presentation: Jason Fried, founder of 37 Signals -
adjournment to O'Toole's When: Tuesday, January 13th, 7:00 PM Where: Apple Store
Michigan Avenue 679 North Michigan Ave. (at the corner of Huron & Michigan Ave.)

(Everyone in the audience was a developer.)
sounds fascinating, but there's no book title in your post!
I believe it. I know many programmers who are very passive interviewees, too. "It's his job to interview me" said one friend, a man I recommended for an opening at my then-workplace, The man was obviously far better than I am, though he had been unemployed for the previous year (in part due to his poor interviewing skills.) When he got rejected, after talking to both my friend and my boss, as far as I can tell, the boss was kinda busy and distracted, and my friend just passively answered the questions he was asked rather than using those questions as a way to jump in to some story bragging about himself like I would have. Also, my boss was suspicious that the only job on the resume for the last few years was working for me.

Now, my friend was able to finally get an employment agency to notice him, (one that did not know that my business, at the time, was probably less than a $10K/year affair) and as the man really was good, he was able to leverage that in to a full time job and has been working since.

The thing is, programmers use those sorts of sales skills a lot less often than other professions do, so many good programmers almost entirely lack those sales skills, which can be a huge problem if you get stuck in a situation where you don't have someone else nearby who knows you are good.
Paxos is the quintessential example of a highly available, consistent system. It is available as long as more than half of the nodes are up and able to communicate with each other. It remains consistent, regardless of the failure pattern. You really do only have to worry about a true network partition. This isn't a probabilistic argument in any sense.
I'm not sure exactly what you are looking for, but IndieGoGo has had a lot of successful non-US projects. Community is building every day, and the payment options (e.g. PayPal & direct credit card) are not US only. Check it out.
Very good summary of my opinion as well. The keyword here is 'net'.
Well, are Flash and AIR supported on Windows Phone 7?
It's so easy and tempting for a bartender to steal that sometimes I catch myself stealing from myself.
The HTML5 that we talk about on Hacker News can be found at http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/.

The HTML5 that the tech press talks about (I provided two of a large number of examples) is something entirely different: it refers to the general process of improving today's browsers. The day the HTML5 spec is approved, nothing will have changed on this front.

It's similar to how parts of CSS3 have been implemented before any browser has completely implemented CSS2.1. Improving browsers is a process, and it is not a single news story ("HTML5 NOW KILLS FLASH!" -- "HTML5 NOT READY TO KILL FLASH YET!").
Not disagreeing, but Innovators Dilemma theory says that companies that are about to be disrupted are enjoying the greatest profits and margins ever. The problem is that the reason the profits are so high is that they've shed their less profitable divisions and products that might grow into the next big innovation. Let's say something disrupts MSFTs Office and shrinks its revenue - what do they have that could replace that?
You should be worried about what features have enough browser adoption in your target market to enable their use, not whether the W3C has marked a large group of loosely related technologies "done".
even for RoR or python - might make sense for those working on multiple projects simultaneously, using different generations of frameworks
That's a great idea. Do you know anyone at those schools that I could contact? Are there intern job boards that I could post at?

Thanks!
Note, however, that those were all originally acquisitions. FCP was born at Macromedia and Apple purchased the product and hired the team. Shake came from the Nothing Real acquisition. Logic is from the Emagic acquisition.
On the Importance of Design and Brand Identity
Dear Quora: I have taken the liberty of improving your logo
It's not true. It's a common misconception that anyone with a cracked version of Illustrator / Photoshop can design.

Crowdsourcing isn't democratising design - it's reducing the importance of good design .. in much the same way that bad acting increases our tolerance for poor quality soap operas.

Good design is clear thinking, made visual. Good design solves problems and it follows conventions which take time to understand.
Beat me to the punch... Oh-my-zsh ftw. Robby Russell has a great blog about rails development too. http://www.robbyonrails.com/
Adobe is a type of brick, so not particularly soft.
From Experimental Physics to Internet Entrepreneurship: One Scientist's Journey
An amazing talk by the founder of Sohu.com (kind of the yahoo of China)
Old Gap logo still on corporate site
As you have yourself pointed out, Paxos will in some cases (when less than half the nodes are up) become unavailable, but remain consistent in all cases where it is available.

So it is tolerant of partition and it sacrifices availability in favour of consistency. So it is CP, not CA.
Indeed, but the judgment call about whether a fire can safely be fought would rest with the experts - firefighters.

If I own a very poorly maintained property but my $75, they may be obliged to turn up but I can't force the firefighters to enter an obvious firetrap just because I have a receipt for my payment. They'll do the best they can under the circumstances. The payment or non-payment of a premium tells you nothing about the safety risk of fighting a fire in any given building. Look at some worker's comp policies and you'll find the conditions revolve around the activity performed rather than exactly where that occurred. Otherwise you'd need to assess the financial risk for all possible firefighting scenarios in advance.

Here's an example application for insurance for a volunteer fire department (I can't give you a contract offhand because they're unique to each FD). The insurance company does ask what you claim, but this is in order to calculate what the premium should be. Note that this draws no distinction between whether or not lives are at risk from a given emergency call. If a FD has a policy of responding when that is the case (which they normally would), then the insurance is going to priced to include that anyway. Calls to which a response is purely optional probably make up a tiny fraction of the total, and would have a correspondingly marginal effect on premiums.

http://www.phly.com/products/forms/VFireDept/VolunteerFireDe...
I concur with you. I don't understand why folks must criticize or demean Zuck. What exactly are these people criticizing him for? That he did not solve the biggest scaling problems and instead let his employees do that(ever wonder how they attracted those employees in first place)? That he did not write every line of code(where would Facebook even be if Zuck insisted on writing code himself)? That all he's got is a site with 500M users and a shit load of revenue(raise your hand if you got a site with .0001% of that)?

Good god it is outrightly ridiculous. Yes, I am a Zuck fanboy. At least I can admit it and cite a few reasons why. All I keep hearing from the other side is "omg all he's got is a freakin php site". Yeah, that's why he is a billionaire and you are not.

People keep saying "all Zuck did was scale". DOH! Scaling is what separates McDonalds from your local burger joint and facebook from millions of other php sites. If scaling is all Zuckerberg has done, good for him! That is all he should be doing.
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Insightful, thanks.
Please drop us a thread/article in a few months, so we may see the sales curve.
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The problem with a full box of big data tools
I'm not quite sure why this is being voted down. Anyone care to share the reason? Factual inaccuracies? Criticizing Bayer scientists? Vilifying HFCS? I'd love to get feedback on how the above post is out of line.

I'd like to point out that there is huge financial incentives for the chem-companies to prove it isn't chemicals. Case in point, take the book 'The Idiots Guide to Beekeeping'

In this book they suggest small-cell beekeeping as a way to help prevent the infection of mites. The chem companies and suppliers are furious that they would suggest this and are aggressively applying pressure to the publishers of the book. The publishers, who know little about beekeeping are in turn applying pressure to the authors to redact their stance on small-cell beekeeping.

I'm not making this stuff up, checkout this email thread: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/BackwardsBeekeepers/messa...

(For context, Backwards Beekeepers is one of the largest organic beekeeping groups in the US, based out of Los Angeles.)
I'm not talking about the time to install, doesn't seem that would be that big of a deal.

But I'm afraid border patrol agents will see the truecrypt banner on boot up flag me as some sort of pedo or some such, and make my life hell as they don't believe I don't have a hidden partition.

Or perhaps I'm overly worried about this sort of thing.

Anyone have truecrypt installed and regularly/ever crossed borders in the last few years? Do they give you shit about if you just decrypt the disk for them?
I just want to share, I have been subscribed for 2 days now, and I see a ton of good domains. For example. hotelhawks.com That sounds like a business, a great brand etc. This is a great tool, and is now my goto for brainstorming names.
Does that mean the new runtime will be called FlashLight?
According to a conversation with Noah Gift of http://www.amazon.com/Python-Unix-Linux-System-Administratio... and python atlanta, it seems that's so.
actually it wasn't ever broken. while we are revamping our architecture the urls/params are exposed however you can only see profiles of people who are in your group (which you can do on the site directly by clicking on their names)

We restrict all access and indexing of groups to only group members. While bots or curious folks can systematically change uid numbers they won't be able to access anything in a group unless they are already members...

not a privacy bug but exposed uids which we are soon fixing
I'm running on Ubuntu with a side-by-side MacOS X in a VM, and I couldn't help think "aahh...shit". Some habits die hard.
Right click on the battery icon and go to Power Options. Under "Select a Power Plan" you'll see which plan you have selected (e.g. Recommended, Power Saver, High Performance). Click "Change Plan Settings" and then "Change Advanced Power Settings" under the battery column to get to a menu that lets you change everything that affects power. Turn WiFi to power saving mode if you have a strong signal. Turn USB to selective suspend if you don't have anything plugged in. PCI Express to maximum power savings. I leave the processor at 100%, but you can change this to 75% or lower if you're just browsing. Just keep an eye on the number of programs running. Search and Indexing shoule be set to power saving (windows can organize your MP3 collection for faster searches later). I set my display to the minimum when on battery, and turn it up manually if it's too dim.

Once you have all of these settings tweaked, the computer will automatically use them whenever it's on batteries alone, and revert when you're plugged in.
Ask HN: AwesomeReminders - Is this real life?
So AwesomeReminders now costs $40 a month.

Is it still growing modestly, even at this price

How many subscribers are there now?
I wonder how long this took to set up? And why they don't run their production servers as VMs as well?

Edit: I think it's an awesome idea, btw, and something we try to push to web service shops at GridCentric.
Not to mention all of those applications had a windows version. Yes, even Final Cut (at least the version they shopped at NAB).

I personally got royally screwed over Nothing Real purchase (we had a site license of both linux and windows version).

Chalice, Shake (and Tremor), Final Cut, Logic, India Pro... - all acquisitions followed by "Mac only from now on, sorry".
Facebook's worth is unknown.