skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Injecting Mock Objects for Powerful Testing
Barnes & Noble Stores Will Not Stock Books Published By Amazon
Both times I've done this I just left my locked car at their place while I took their car to get checked out. It was no big deal. Set up an appointment with them and an appointment with the mechanic so everyone is ready to go!
You can export them with this Python script http://hivelogic.com/articles/backing-up-flickr/ or with Bulkr (paid version)
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ZFS Comes to OS X Courtesy of Apple's Former Chief ZFS Architect
They'd just offer the same service mechanics already do for used cars, and using the clearinghouse function as a lead generation mechanism for it.
Thanks - that's why I use sendgrid & mailchimp. Don't have time to care about these things.
Heh, I'm sure it depends on your market. Here I'd say it's 50% obvious jokers, 49.5% who could be all right (but could just be less obvious jokers) and 0.5% who really sound like good clients.
Does it choke on uploading your entire photo collection at once? I bought a flickr pro subscription, but getting my photo collection up on there reliably was like pulling teeth.

Smugmug also doesn't support RAW/DNG uploads, which makes using it as a photo backup and sharing service unattractive.

Do smugmug staff also look at your private photographs?
"Angry Birds" Maker Says Piracy Isn't All Bad, Can Generate Business
Building a great mobile App may take hard work, but it doesn't have to suck
Flickr is not the only last Yahoo product, people still use Yahoogroups (I do) and it seems to be working...on autopilot may be!
ZFS released for Mac OS X
I checked, it is in their Terms of Use http://www.smugmug.com/aboutus/terms

A. General Terms
13. User Content

a. User Content that is... obscene, pornographic, indecent, lewd, sexually suggestive... including without limitation Photos, Videos or other User Content containing nudity that would be unacceptable in a public museum where minors visit
A harsh, anti-meme stance is the only sane one of any sizable community that wishes to maintain integrity. Otherwise it risks devolving into ever-increasing depths of groupthink (and thus, mediocrity). Discussion gets pushed to the margins, and then the site is left to die.

Devaluing any sort of metrics also seems vital. It's sad that people would rather increase scores than actually, you know, discuss things.
Just a suggestion, comment formatting needs to be fixed before I can use it over any of the other HN readers.
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The article seemed a little short for me, but then I am actively trying to select between Lua and TCL for some personal scripting projects. There are many fine features with each language and few downsides, so the selection process is hard. Of course, that's a nice problem to have.

TCL is ahead by a nose at this point with Unicode support baked in (vs. using a library) and file system handling built in (again vs. using a library).
http://builtwithbootstrap.com/ has tons of examples of unique sites that you wouldn't think "Oh this obviously uses Bootstrap" just by looking at it.
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I've been using Uploadr for years, paired with direct individual uploads and I've never had an upload problem of note (>6000 uploads).

Once the photos are uploaded, well, that's another story. Photo management was never at the top of the work queue, I guess.
In our experience, Heroku has orders of magnitude more issues than AWS. Look at their status page for a list of issues since only Jan 25th: https://status.heroku.com/

They pretty much have an issue every other day. Sure it usually only effects a small subset of users, but you wind up getting bit by them more often than necessary.

We were on Heroku for more than a year before we couldn't tolerate the sporadic outages and performance degradations anymore.
They'll allow that kind of content only in non-public galleries that are also password protected. It's possible to slip some things through the cracks, but if and when they're found they'll delist the photos.

There's no value for me in paying money for a service which requires I lock up my photographs like Fort Knox merely because they contain skin. Your friend's mileage may vary.

(this is the relevant section from their TOS: "By using any Interactive Areas, you agree not to post, upload to, transmit, distribute, store, create or otherwise publish through the Site any of the following:

Any photograph, video, message, data, information, text, music, sound, graphics, code or other material ("Content") that is unlawful, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, indecent, lewd, suggestive, harassing, threatening, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, inflammatory, fraudulent or otherwise objectionable or harmful, including without limitation photographs or other Content containing nudity that would be unacceptable in a public museum where minors visit;")

edit: It's also not hard to find them discussing their policy, like the customer reps on their public blog: http://don.blogs.smugmug.com/2007/01/31/the-dark-side-of-the...

"I’m afraid if you’re a nude photographer, SmugMug isn’t the place for you. We’re a family safe site, and we will ask you to take down any photos that violate our terms of use."

"Our nudity policy is pretty simple and written in plain English. You can see it in our TOS. The summary line is as follows: “we prohibit the uploading and display of photographs or other Media portraying explicit nudity that would be unacceptable in a public museum where minors visit, for example. If your photos would only be suited for adult sites, adult magazines, or R-rated movies, they are not suitable for Smugmug.”
We do enforce this rule to the best of our ability."
>FCPX might be a good tool for a small time editor that needs an occasional video, but it is not up to professional standards yet.

I don't buy the argument hat only non-professional people are creative. I've worked with film and video for 20 years, including professionally.

That the outcry comes from people who completely ignore the massive advance in usability that FCPX represents, and instead focus on outdated (output to tape) and things that are supported by third party or FCP suite applications (7 to X migration, output in raw) tells me that this is not an outcry of creative professionals.

Sure there are a lot of people cutting together formulaic reality TV shows who want to preserve their workflow. That's fine, stay with FCP 7.

If preserving your workflow is your primary concern then you're not the target of this product, yet. FCP 7 didn't stop working.

You have failed to mention any serious features that it is missing, yet you say it "might be a good tool for a small time editor that needs an occasional video, but it is not up to professional standards yet."

This is exactly the same kind of nonsensical argument I hear from Canon fans. To them, Canon cameras are "professional" and everything else isn't, because they don't have the "Canon" name on them and therefore, can't possibly be "professional."

Its circular nonsense.

You, not a single person complaining about FCP X here or elsewhere, has named a single creative feature missing from FCP X, or otherwise justified the claim that its not "professional".

The references to what "professionals" need is an example of the fallacy of argument from authority. "I'm professional, therefore you're an nitwit if you disagree". Worse, its argument from false authority because nobody here is appointed to decide what is and is not "professional".

FCP X has been enthusiastically embraced by the editing community. That's my point. They're not the ones complaining (who I suspect are all on the payroll of Adobe or Avid, or otherwise bought into those systems....)

If the outcry were legitimate, the people engaging in it would be able to recognize that FCP X has moved the state of the art of editing forward significantly. They do not, they only talk about what they claim is missing, and often claim things are missing that actually aren't, but are just different (Showing they haven't even used the product enough to give a "professional" opinion.)
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Why isn't Lua more widely used? One reason is a consequence of it being an embedded language. Lua has had 5 major versions which are very incompatible with each other. You're just supposed to stick with the previous version until you upgrade your code.

I read all the Lua papers, and they are quite fond of "getting it right" (which is refreshing). They will break things to get it right, whereas other languages stick with all their old design warts in the name of compatibility. I like this approach, but it comes at the expense of popularity.

Compare Lua with Python, which has had basically 1 major version for 20 years Python 1.x are all compatible with 2.x -- that was a license change; and Python 3 is having adoption troubles which proves the same point. Python 3 was the chance to "get things right", or fix old design warts, but you can see what a big impact it's having on adoption, fragmentation of libraries, etc.

The other reason is that embedding a language isn't as common a use case as a scripting language. I've tried to write stuff in Lua rather than Python, but really Python's "batteries included" philosophy just kills any advantage Lua has.

The main reason I would like Lua is so you can distribute stable (small) executables... but when you're starting out Python is a lot easier. You don't want to download LuaSocket or whatever and mess with the build system.
Speed& Simplicity

LuaJIT speeds can rival code written in C. And if you are still not getting the speed you want, see my 1st point above (Integration with C and C++ for that matter).

The simplicity of Lua is, I think, really underrated.

It is a good learning exercise to write some small benchmark / utility / tool in Lua so you can get an idea of how quickly you can develop, and how fast the resulting code will be.

Then read through the Lua source [0] to see just how little code is required to give you that platform for your ideas.

[0] http://www.lua.org/source/5.1/lua.c.html
Apple’s quarter results visualized
Me too. Chrome 16.0.912.77
Check out how we use Postmark bounce hooks (http://developer.postmarkapp.com/developer-bounces.html) to catch these problems in Beanstalk: http://blog.beanstalkapp.com/post/758755557/handling-email-d...
4 tips for local SEO
You've obviously never used PowerShell then if you think *sh are horrible ugly and inconsistent!
Looks like you've discovered that KBB applies a linear mileage cost. Does that reflect reality? I doubt it -- at least, not after you reach a certain mileage.

I'm curious if you grabbed data to extend that chart out to, let's say, 200k miles. There should be a sigmoid somewhere out there.
I'm learning iOS development. I won't start this now, as there's alot more of iOS to learn, but what are the main languages/frameworks are being used server side to interface with iOS apps?
Aggregating data is content if the data in aggregate has more value than the pieces do independently. Isn't that essentially what all content is: a new organization of pre-existing data that has more value than the pieces separately? A song is a particular ordered collection of sounds that has more value than its individual pieces.
Reddit Status Page Headers
Quite funny touch by the Reddit guys. Try running `curl -i status.reddit.com`.
I am a reasonable person.

I disagree with your final statement, I think that BB posts far too many of the details for anyone to want to click through. I also think they present in a way that says there is not more content to be seen.
The Apple Boycott: People Are Spouting Nonsense about Chinese Manufacturing
In lua, the metatable is the killer feature that python doesn't have.
From the article:

> Boycotting Apple for better Foxconn wages and conditions is like having sex for virginity. Entirely counter-productive and exactly the wrong thing to be doing.
I suppose having and stating an opinion that isn't kissing someone's ass makes me a douchebag according to richardlblair. I think I can live with that.

All Mr. Grouchy did was give a couple examples of completion and oh-my-zsh. I think you would have to be really fed up with bash or whatever default shell your system has to take that bait. I never said I expected him to write a complete job. I just think there are better arguments to be made.

In fact, there are hundreds of posts on HN that give someone's evangelical tale of trying a new program, and several about zsh. This one is far from exceptional in my mind.

To me, it was like saying "You should buy a Tesla Model S because they are really fast."
Is that a real photo? The atmosphere is thicker than I'd expect and something about it looks subtly wrong.
Thats $54 million in operating fees. You've got a pretty good company right there.
>"anyone who is creative will think FCPX is better than FCP," which is silly.

Then you say:

>FCPX really is better.

So, obviously it isn't silly, because I accurately predicted what your opinion of the product would be.

>being resistant to a major workflow change does not mean you're "not an editor" or "performing only rote tasks" like nirvana asserts.

That's not what I was saying. I'm saying that this outcry is baseless and nonsensical.

If the workflow change for FCPX would negatively impact your job, then don't switch to it. FCP 7 didn't stop working when it was released.

Thus there is no reason for an "outcry". Which is why I think the outcry is really from people invested in, or employees of, Avid or Adobe.

Further, since the complainers improve the massive improvement in creative editing ability and instead focus on allegedly missing features (most of which are not actually missing) its clear to me that none of them are even addressing the main point of an editor-- to enable creative editing.

I'm sure there are people who just assemble shows based on a formula, for whom workflow is much more important than creativity. I was wrong, though, in assuming these people are the source of the outcry-- that was a mistake-- the outcry is coming from people invested in the Adobe and Avid alternatives. Those for whom workflow is a bigger issue have no reason to complain because they don't have to switch to FCP X.
good and cheap?
The Geopolitics of Internet Infrastructure
I'd go further and advise people not to trust any online service as the only storage for their photos. I can understand using a service like Flickr as your offsite backup solution in case of HDD failure, house fire, or whatever, but why on earth wouldn't you also keep local copies even if you thought the online service had a bright future? Disk space is incredibly cheap.
My First Two Weeks at Startup Chile
>he'd see that there are no new ways to learn

>And this @nirvana nitwit has no idea what he's talking about

>it takes a real moron to turn around and say

QED
If you don't want people treating you like an asshole, stop behaving like one.

Case in point: "Now, however, the outcry about FCPX from "professionals" is really about those "professionals" not wanting to learn anything new, because they really aren't editors, they're just cutting things together by rote."

Sart with those air quotes. These people aren't "professionals" they're professionals. Denigrating others like this is just a dick move through and through. Stop it.

And then there's this:

"I'm not aware that the previous version of Final Cut Pro has stopped working, or that anyone has been forced to upgrade to FCPX. Nor am I aware that the new UI for editing, which naturally involves a new workflow, makes it impossible for people to adapt to it, or prevents them from sticking with their previous version."

Translation: "I'm not aware of any of the specific problems that have been discussed extensively and in great detail, nor do I understand how any of this works in practice meaning none of the conversations I glanced at made much sense to me anyway, so in truth, I have absolutely no idea what's really going on."

And yet you've got no problem insulting people who are very familiar with the problems by saying they they are just "doing things by rote" and "simply don't want to learn."

Again, total dick moves.

If you have any genuine interest in this, and would like to stop coming across like a complete ignoramus, start by learning more about XML. This really is lynchpin stuff, and if you can appreciate why that it is so important to high-end professional workflows (i.e. on shows with budgets in the tens to hundreds of millions), you may begin to understand what the issues are really about.

I promise you, a new UI is the very least of it.
More like common sense car buying, not really "hacking". As others have mentioned, don't rely on Carfax. I sold a car that had to be almost a quarter re-built (and disclosed this to the buyer), and this was not on the Carfax report. But, it's still worth doing.
Are you arguing that dollar value of depreciation is more important than rate?
pretty obvious advices. really. but good to see the data points.

...now make a post on how to find a decent mechanic, and then i will droll over
Why recommend a Flickr replacement that has all of the same potential pitfalls of Flickr? In this context (HN) in particular, OpenPhoto seems like the best alternative: http://theopenphotoproject.org/
Great big picture specifics!
Is there a goal of some sort? I feel like I just completely wasted my time
Jonas wrote:
> The advantage is that the controller knows nothing about the DOM, so it is usable and testable without the DOM.

Jeremy wrote:
> You can certainly test views that "know something" about the DOM without actually using the DOM as well...

I've been wondering for a while how to eliminate the slow and brittle Selenium layer from integration tests (perhaps I'm not the only one?). I'm thinking that if you can do away with the DOM, you might be able to somehow run the integration tests on the server, without launching a browser.

Do you have any concrete ideas how to do this, or are you only talking about unit tests in the text I quoted?
When you submit an article that you wrote to HN you could at least have the decency to spend 5 minutes proofreading it, couldn't you?

oh-my-zsh is a great way for lazy people to get fancy features without having to look at the easily accessible manual ( http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/ ) or even the user friendly guide ( http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Guide/ ).

I never said I expected you to list every feature. That's a pretty ridiculous hyperbole on your part.

I also wasn't "trying to give [you] a hard time". I was merely expressing my opinion. I'm sorry that you can't handle any criticism.
More Startups Should Begin as Freelance/Consulting Projects
Sounds like good advice, but I'm really curious about your use of the term "rust belt". It refers to a geographic region that once had strong industrial output, but has suffered economic decline as those industries have become less important/relocated off-shore. It doesn't have anything to do with the propensity for metal to rust in those areas. Unless there's some other usage that I've never heard before.
Legislation proposes to create Colorado small business capital market
I'm self-hosting my photos. The Linux server is a NAT firewall, but also a file server and Web server. Combined with a dynamic DNS service, works well enough. I've literally terabytes of space available, at little to no additional cost (I'd keep this machine around anyway).
What is this you ask? a) it is a strangely addictive game b) it is an experiment for a blog post I'll be writing on user experience design -- particularly around offline IA. Some more info here: joshrweinstein.com
Apple Is Totally Serious About That Stuff They Put At The End Of Their Emails
The article states: "[WePay's] ambition: to move beyond what WePay calls the “unstructured economy” to be the dominant way people make payments and buy things online. ...Since WePay can’t yet match PayPal’s brand or awareness, it aims to offer more appealing design, an expedited set-up process and better customer service."

If WePay intends to overtake PayPal, I think it will need to do more than that. An "appealing design, an expedited set-up process and better customer service" are easy to replicate.

How about thinking out of the box and re-engineering the system? How about focusing on and addressing PayPal's weaknesses? How about creating a system that inherently includes automatic fraud prevention (for both buyers and sellers)? How about minimizing (nearly eliminating) all dispute resolution scenarios? How about extending such protection to the services marketplace (as opposed to just products)? How about creating a truly globalized payments platform (there are several countries where PayPal fails because credit cards are not used or available as the main form of payment)?

I am a co-founder of a nascent third party payments aggregator (TPPA) called PayGuard. We are currently building our Beta, and our system addresses all these issues.
I just posted a quick description on this thread -- it's both a game and experiment
Facebook IPO To Raise $5B, Filing Wednesday, Morgan Stanley In Lead
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lua (the language and core libraries) is stable and small. many developers are attracted to node.js or rails due to the community ("look, everyone else is doing it!"), ecosystem (abundance of modules/gems to choose from), and rapid release cycles.

lua seems to have more of a relaxed, niche community among game developers and scripting language embedders.

i've been using lua for about a week so far, for a music player i'm building (http://cloudplay.fm/) and i'm writing the song search/ranking system in lua. it's wonderful to be able to prototype it outside the application and not have to deal with the integration until you need to.

i would consider using lua on the server-side (see http://luvit.io/ for a node.js-style interpretation, although i'd prefer coroutines instead of callbacks) but there needs to be more work on the library front.

to help lua grow, i'd fix these things:

- add unicode support

- bring the CLI up to par with node.js (i use node as a calculator, too)

- build a modern distribution that includes frequently used luarocks
Skin transformed into brain cells