skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a fan of blog commenting for link building. Most blogs use nofollow on the comments links, and that makes them near worthless (except on very high traffic blogs where comment links send meaningful traffic). Moreover, many blog comments are spam. You don't want to be sending the same signal as spammers to Google.

What I do like about this strategy isn't even mentioned about the author. Blog commenting can be a great way to start a conversation and a relationship with a blogger. Once you've done that, then you can get some real links instead of the crappy links in the blog comments section.
At first glance, it doesn't seem like this Mac version is capable of using the system's installed fonts - only the fonts bundled with the app.
If you need to do basic image editing on OS X I'd say use Acorn[1] or Pixelmator[2].

[1]: http://flyingmeat.com/acorn/

[2]: http://www.pixelmator.com
Wow, it's pretty amazing, but you've described one of the use cases for my upcoming webapp: www.alertoid.com

Technically, Alertoid would be an RSS reader that goes beyond the Read/Unread tagging, with the Commented/Comment Approved stages you described. Furthermore, it can be used for inbound marketing: as you monitor the keywords that interest you, you see the blog posts that mention them and can use those as starting points or ideas for your own blog posts, because if bloggers love comments, they love answer posts or reposts even more, and it's another great way to start a conversation and get backlinks.

/shameless plug

Hope my pitch was clear enough, don't hesitate if you have any feedback. If you're interested by Alertoid, email's in my profile, would love to hear from you, even more if you're a marketing/PR professional.

Feedback on SERPIQ: I just signed up, on the confirmation page (http://serpiq.com/users/sign_up) I see "You have signed up successfully. However, your need to confirm your email address." but a signup form is still there, empty, as if nothing worked. That doesn't seem right!
The real reason why more women don’t rise to the top of companies
Who still thinks that's acceptable behavior

Adobe still does, and of all apps, GIMP is going to be one of the most likely to emulate them.
actually both. home and work. my children's friends think I am a hacker since my console looks like a hacker's computer.
It makes for a cheap way to run Oracle since they charge per core.
Looks nice.

All I can think of is a quick custom 404 page or some less cryptic exceptions rather than the PHP errors/notices when a file is not found.

Suggestion: file deletion? private? (This may be abused?)
Given that the jury is already supposed to be isolated from inadmissible evidence or influences in the media outside of the trial, I wonder if anyone has looked into what the effect (positive or negative) of having juries make their decision using a transcript, only having a picture or video of one of the parties available in the case that it is important and accepted evidence (such as "we have a video of the murder taking place; for reference, here is a picture, so you can recognize his face in the camera").
The users you describe typically pirate Photoshop in my experience.
I've been thinking about this for a while.

The biggest problem in Silicon Valley is that people don't think about what they're building. There are so many stories of founders receiving millions in funding and startups being acquired for tens or hundreds of millions of dollars that it creates a really unique subculture.

That subculture is what Jason Fried is referring to. I don't have a problem with it per se but I do wish everyone here would stop and ask "is this the best way to create value for customers?".

There's a lot of talk here about changing the world and delighting customers but if you look deep into most of these venture backed companies it is strictly about big exits. It's what the VCs want, what the media hypes and what founders (blindly?) follow.
I'm in the same boat as the author, I really have few complaints after moving full time to OS X from Linux.
Just hit google real quick, and found this headline on that Twitter Buys TweetDeck For $40 Million | TechCrunch I think you're probably right in terms of the mental framing...but, back of the envelope, 10x tweetdecks = 400m = 6% equity stake in Twitter $7B. Its not a bad biz model. Twitter has 2x orders of magnitude more mkt value. They should put that to work.[1]

[1] Or they dont, and/or cant issue shares anywhere near that price after the FB ipo collapse.
At 20 inches, this thing could BE your coffee table!
> You have presented a straw man argument.

Not at all. I've described what happens when the different strategies are implemented. Why should we expect anything different this time? If things are going to work out the same....

> "I don't think that your desire to feel good about yourself" Please, please, do not project your moralising onto me. I don't give a fuck how I feel.

You're right. I don't know why you're advocating policies that have such harmful effects. It was wrong for me to attribute to you a positive motive.

I didn't mention the free market and nothing that I wrote depends on a free market.

However, now that you mention it, I'll point out that poor people in the west are fat, not starving.
"The pure camera manufacturers will be playing catch-up forever"

Why? Nothing stops other camera manufacturers from using Android in their products.
Disclaimer: I haven't used the most recent version of GIMP yet. Also, I'm not a designer and that colors my position.

What I've found to be the case in prior versions is that it's not sufficient for many minor edits, because it's not 100.0% compatible with the PSD file formats. Even 99% isn't enough in some cases, unfortunately. Since I'm typically editing a file created by a designer in Photoshop, and since I might need the designer to build on my changes, I don't trust anything less than 100.0% compatibility.
As stated in the top of the thread:

"UPDATE: Hey everybody - this is barack. Just finished a great rally in Charlottesville"

So he's doing it while on the road.

This pic shows he's obviously in some kind of temp office/building: http://i.imgur.com/oz0a7.jpg
The Foreman's Aha Moment Was Based on Misunderstanding Prior Art
> #2 contradicts itself. It says that unit tests will make sure that code that already works doesn’t break but at the same time it won't help writing good code.

No, the only thing you can say about the quality of code through tests is that if you change some code and it still passes the tests, then you didn't break it. The tests say absolutely nothing else, because their output is binary - pass or fail. They say nothing about the efficiency, readbility, complexity, or style of the tested code.

Tests can help take you from broken code to working code, and not a step further. To make it good code, you have to look at the code, not the tests.
Eh, the only reason it's a photoshop killer for really simple edits is because photoshop is really kind of the wrong tool for such jobs anyway.
Unless Google has legions of Oompa Loompas hiding in its server rooms running around retrieving data as queries come in, it's a product that provides a service: it does not scale linearly with the number of people working on it.

Put another way: each additional cleaning lady client consumes more of her time, and pays her more money in a fairly linear way. Google search users do not fit that pattern, and, more importantly, neither do Adwords customers.
Even if you have an innovative product with no existing demand, there are still blogs/communities that this strategy will work with. What is the more generic vertical that your product is in? In 4square's case, they could hit anything mobile based, social network based, or people doing geo-based mobile development.
The merge API takes branches: http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/merging/
Your understanding of VC timetables is wrong. It's almost unheard of for a VC to book a profit within a year.
This comment was one step away from "fucking stoners"

No it wasn't, in any way, shape or form. I support legalisation, I'm just tired of it being treated like it's the most important thing you could possibly ask the President about.

If you think the "jailbait" scandal defined reddit at any point

Defined for who? It was on national television. I assure you that a lot of non-tech savvy people will have had their first exposure to Reddit as a result of that report.
oh man I've wanted to build such a webapp for so long. That's awesome, congrats!

I'd love to hear how you're tackling the problem of tracking the actual comments that were left without resorting to a browser plugin in order to pull the details from the actual form on submit. Or maybe I said too much :)
> Pi, as it turns out, may serve as a source for random sequences of digits. So apart from its geometric meaning, Pi stays interesting.

Right, but the fun part (for me) is finding out how and why pi can be used as a source of random sequences of digits, not the fact itself.

> I think most mathematicians [...] would disagree.

I would be surprised to meet a mathematician who enjoyed learning theorems/proofs more than finding theorems and proving things on their own. That's why I said the interesting part is the process of manipulating expressions rather than the expressions themselves.

Based on your gravity/tides example, I think you would take the same stance (Do you?). I just wasn't clear enough in my previous comment.
Yeah it's mostly sanitized, but I'm still impressed though at his overall level of savvyness, deciding to do a Reddit AMA at all. Come on what did we expect? A heart to heart with a unicorn, err... I mean honest politician? :p

He seems to be getting credit and generating overall positive impact, regardless of the depth of his answers.
Since you mentioned using Time Machine, why not revert to a good state using that (instead of a re-install)?
Totally! Each company should work in it's own best interest. I'm only pointing out that the interests of craigslist are neither the interests of developers nor the general public.
This is awesome! One of my biggest gripes with using OSX was how terrible the GIMP experience was.
This is not an issue with Apple or Samsung, it's an Android decision.

Support for the USB Mass Storage protocol has been deprecated in Android in favor of MTP (Media Transfer Protocol) starting with Ice Cream Sandwich.

The experience in Windows and on Linux is just as poor with this phone. (I love the phone, though.)
Yeah, the multi-window thing only ever made sense for tiling window managers. And even with that it was a bit of a stretch.

That said, I don't think there's a more under-estimated or misunderstood program around.
American manufacturing didn't leave. The US manufacturing output has doubled since '75, and it's bigger than Germany, France, Brazil and India combined.
Reddit page on BarackObama.com (view source)
404: Great point, I should add a 404 - regarding errors, I need to catch these better in the next release.

File deletion is in the pipeline, with user registration. And also file download stats.

Private files might be a good idea too, maybe forcing people to fill in a secret password first before being able to download?
This is a great move.

Serious question: how did this not happen 5 years ago? Is there some technical reason? It's so hard for me to understand why the creators wouldn't have always had this as the #1 feature improvement to make ASAP.
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I briefly mentioned your main point, regarding starting a conversation and really getting involved in the community. This strategy is absolutely focused on quality over quantity, I outlined it the way I did just so people could follow it and gather a lot of possible sources of blogs to try and comment on.

In regards to the nofollow topic, I left a comment on the post explaining my thoughts about that: http://www.layeredthoughts.com/seo-link-building/the-really-...
So despite the great ideas and tales of pens & paper (and moleskin) here, I'd love to hear some thoughts on good digital solutions to the programming journal.

I use and am totally in love with Day One (iOS & OSX) for my personal journal:

http://dayoneapp.com

It could very easily be adapted into a programming journal (it supports images w/ each entry & monospace fonts, which are both great). Unfortunately, they don't yet support multiple journals, so that's out as an option for me on the programming side.

Any thoughts / suggestions on good apps that will fit the bill? I know about Evernote but would love something a bit more "journal-specific" and perhaps better suited to this task...
Wow, he only answered 10 questions, and it;s over.

http://www.reddit.com/user/PresidentObama
I more or less disagree. My main frustration with Linux For Personal Use is that I can't buy a piece of hardware that I know won't regress with new versions of a distribution for three plus years or get any service if it does. My reference for the importance of this is a perfectly usable 2008 refurbished Macbook. I upgraded the RAM once recently for a bit more snap, but otherwise have no complaints over the three or so Macintosh releases since then.

Could the UIs and third party application situation be better? Of course. But considering all the garden variety crash bugs, power management bugs, lockup bugs, video driver misbehavior, hit and miss peripheral support, and in general just analysis paralysis about what hardware I should buy, and even then there is a less-certain future with regard to regressions.

Even given Windows's monopoly power in the commodity desktop and laptop markets, its reputation for dealing with sleep and drivers is only so-so compared to Apple Hardware and Software. If Window's monopoly power -- which buys you full attention from hardware manufacturers and their driver divisions -- only gives you mediocre results, what are the odds that a bunch of kernel hackers who receive almost no continual consideration from hardware vendors have a chance? To me, it looks like absolutely not a chance of becoming stable over time. I have completely given up on Linux laptops for this reason: by using desktops with Linux only I have cut out a lot of the problems, but not all of them. It's a kind of medicore that I can bear.

I want someone to sell me Linux distribution on a laptop that simply will not break over in its kernel-oriented features in five years of upgrades. I want that distribution to stop-ship if it a new version introduces a power management bug to an old laptop, and do whatever it takes to work around some lousy hardware bug or whatever. I want them to do whatever to work with Skype (such as statically linking whatever libraries, etc) and test Google Hangouts to make sure the webcam and microphone works. And it they don't work, they absolutely cannot ship. Until that day, I use Linux -- and I do mean the kernel in most of these cases -- as my personal operating system most of the time in spite of these problems because of my professional and philosophical needs, and not out of preference in any other dimension.
I assume they're thinking of things like automatic bill payments. From what I can tell these days, if it involves storing your private information on a computer you don't own via the internet, it counts as "cloud computing."
It is not just Americans http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApQlMm39xr0 :)
"It doesn't look like _you_ beat your sig. other, this time." (or any other time).

While not saying that this person did ever beat them before, someone might make that connection.

So "Americans think" (and others might think, but we have not queried them). It's at least ambiguous in that it allows for easy misinterpretation.
If I was Steve Huffman or Alexis Ohanian I'd be feeling pretty good about myself today. You know Reddit's become a fairly important piece of infrastructure when sitting presidents are conducting interviews using it.
Amazon generally doesn't have release teams (except for the retail website).

I can't find it right now, but I know someone gave a talk on Apollo, which is how Amazon does deployments.
Elliptic curve calculator
The arrogance comes in the way you deliver your argument and insist that your preference is the only valid choice, regardless of any difference in conditions; it has nothing to do with the science.

I took the same Human Factors class that cites the same decades-old studies that you're pushing as ultimate truth; all of that science was done when multi-monitor setups weren't even supported, let alone common. I have no problem agreeing that a universal menu is optimal for certain sets of conditions, but that doesn't mean it's the one true way for everything.
YAWN

Seriously. He won't answer anything in a _meanful_ way.... and only safe questions will get answered. Next?
In general open source creative tools have come a long way - with Scribus, Gimp, Inkscape, Darktable, Ardour, Blender, etc. all being quite functional, I think there is a pretty strong argument for the 'open source creative suite' being more than capable enough for all but the most stringent professionals.
> subsidy and direct-aid programs like this are never meant as a permanent solution

How long has this program been in place?

These programs waste resources so they're not available to solve the problem. In addition, their supporters and dependents fight to keep them around and will sabotage efforts to make them unnecessary.

That's why there are few things as long-lasting as temporary govt programs.
I think it's an awesome, inspired idea - a direct public forum of discussion with your leader. I can't get to the page to see how he's handling it, though.
there was a jpg of BO with a mac in a windowless room

edit: link
Verification photo: http://i.imgur.com/oz0a7.jpg
Photoshop's splash screen doesn't stay on top of all other windows and steal focus, at least not in the version that I have.

If anyone from GIMP is reading this, I strongly recommend that you fix that or at least allow us to disable the splash screen. Thank you.
Yes, they did. Yes, it's all a bit dodgy, especially when you consider $10k of their Kickstarter funding isn't really crowd-sourced at all, coming from Appcelerator (who acquired the Pixate founders' previous company)

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/08/26/is-pixate-astroturf...
Education gaps explain most metropolitan unemployment in past few years (.PDF)
Ryanhuff, I think you fail to realize how stupid the patent system looks when they grant patents like this. I have read the claims. These patents are junk, all of them, on multiple grounds: prior art, obviousness, failure to describe. Junk, junk, junk. Granting these patents makes the patent office look like either idiots or corrupt officials. Defending these patents is just mindbogglingly stupid.
In a different conversation about Pixate (a few days back) I mentioned LESS and SCSS/SASS and I suspect as long as you write your CSS parts to conform with Pixate's standards, your SCSS code should work fine since the pre-processor will compile it down to CSS anyways.
It uses GTK with Quartz support, which has it's quirks :(, and the GTK engine they are using looks nice (murrine + theme zukitwo). I been using Wireshark with GTK-Quartz in that mode for a few years (compiling on my own) but they have managed to integrate GTK menus to the Mac menubar.
Sure... so why the culture difference?
Because most consumers aren't well informed?
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Coming from the perspective of a developer:

I used linux as my only OS sans VMs from roughly 2008 till 2011. I finally gave up because it handled monitor switching, multiple monitors so poorly (using Nvidia GPU). I begrudgingly switched to windows because I owned the hardware already, and it was the only option. Windows sucks, the lack of a usable shell kills it, full stop, nothing else windows does matters. And no, cygwin doesn't cut it.

Fast forward to now, the only computer I manually interact with is a macbook air. The old desktop hardware became my file server(running FreeNAS) despite being many times faster than the air.

Through this experience I realized what I actually cared about...I run four 'apps' 99% of the time: chrome, sublime text(everything non java), iTerm and IntelliJ(java). That is really all I care about, anything that prevents interacting with these applications as quickly as possible fails. The support stuff, git, a database, a message queue, etc. Runs anywhere. I _rarely_ interact with the 'OS' in ui terms. I rarely use finder, I only use the dock to empty the trash (launch everything through Quicksilver). At the end of the day I love OS X not because it has 'awesome' UI paradigms, but because of all the options I see it the least, it may as well not be there.

OS X is the only OS i've ever used that I just don't think or care about. It sleeps, it wakes up, it deals with new screens, it does all the OS shit so I can just use the apps i want to. Thats why I am hooked using it as a dev machine.
But there are strong personalities in the Linux community as well.
I don't want to mar the conversation with a pro or anti union debate. Let's take it out.

You have to turn those "what ifs" into "so whats" because there is always the chance that a manager is going to fire you unjustly. If the organization is setup properly, the loss of your employment would adversely affect your department's profit numbers. Since the manager is responsible for those numbers, one can assume there will be repercussions for a decrease.

This all assumes that the organization is a well-oiled machine, but since a vast majority aren't, you have to assume that you will be fired for any reason. The good thing is that if you can provide value to one company, you may have a good chance at providing value to another company (especially if it can be quantified on a resume). These are known as transferrable skills, and they're what good employees retain in order to get a high-paying job.
Is the President of the United States - Does an AMA
I doubt most GIMP developers care(d?) about Mac. Or had Macs. Open source stuff tends to live in a special universe where everyone uses Linux.

(In fact, based on another post, it sounds like the windowing toolkit picked up Mac support, rather than Gimp doing anything super special.)
Honestly though, maybe they just have a sense of humour... You know, if I received a survey like that I would definitely say that cloud computing has something to do with real clouds... I mean, who could resist?!
I'm not sure about photoshop killer ... although I do suspect that outside of the professional class of photoshop user (webdevs, print designers etc), a great many people who have a less-than-legitimate copy of photoshop and dramatically under-utilize its features could do worse than try out Gimp. These are the users for whom an entire copy of photoshop is massive overkill and a terrible waste - the absence of some professional-level features from Gimp won't be a problem.
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Well, I'd love to have you as a beta tester! Haven't got around to tracking comments yet. Looks tricky indeed.
They probably received more traffic because they left Facebook than they did from Facebook's ads.
Defied, glad you got it working stable. Did you contribute your fixes back to the Selenium project?
I still hold that Linux has a lot of "usability." It is extremely useful, extending itself into every possible use I can think of. It is an extremely useful tool.

That said, maybe Linux in it's current stage isn't destined for the pickup approach of Windows or OS X. I believe that Linux is not following the same path as Windows or OS X, and because of that it may not end up at the same destination.

I agree with the original article; Linux is produced differently, often with different goals than Windows or OS X. Trying to shoehorn it into the same path as Windows or OS X may not prove fruitful till we see someone with the drive to change everything onto the design path that Windows and OS X are taking.
Actually it's lack of MTP support in OS X.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol