skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the title is grossly misleading, then. There was never a question about how 'cloud computing' worked, there was only a group of people that didn't know the term 'the cloud'.

Honestly, I'm going to flag this article because of that.
I said there are some quirks , OSX is very usable in general although first time users do have to learn the ropes. For example, maybe everyone likes the fact that the maximize window does different things depending on the app or hate using keyboard shortcuts but i don't. I didn't mean to be anyone's advocate, as you seem to do.
I'm confused. You double clicked an application icon, and the application opened? You seem to be conflating the popular hate for focus being stolen due to some non-consensual event, and the consensual starting of an app. If GIMP didn't have a splash screen, there'd be no indication it was loading at all (and it's one big fat app.. several generations of code including a huge chunk of Python loaded at boot).
I enjoyed this one about using message passing functions to compose a lexical scanner in go

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxaD_trXwRE
What would you have asked? Those are all pretty topical this particular election season. Any 10 questions seem inadequate for a president, no?

Also, he brought up Afghanistan on his own in response to the 'hardest decision' question. That's not exactly a fluff answer.
I can't seem to be able to reply to you directly, so email me at admin@serpiq.com and I'll gladly connect with you
I really like the way that you outlined the technical tips for implementing the strategy, but I think that you shouldn't have made the post about getting blog comment links.

30 minutes a day is a waste of time for blog links. Even if you get 10 a day from dofollow blogs, the ROI is very low. However, if you take the same strategy and get 1 blogger to blog about you every month, then there's a much better ROI (as long as it's a decent quality blog).

The bigger issue here is with Google's Penguin update. Building low quality links can now hurt you. Blog comments are a perfect example of low quality links. There are all kinds of automated software packages for spamming blog comments with links. If you do the same thing manually and in a high quality way, you're risking a chance that your link building footprint will look similar to a spammer's-- at least in Google's eyes.

As someone whose site is just climbing out of Panda (thankfully not Penguin), I would probably choose not to link to my site if I was going to start commenting on blogs at a large scale. I'd just focus on the relationships.
It still seems to me that this is all a red herring, and you're ignoring the overall thrust of my comments to argue with a point I did not even really make. As I said, whether grandparents offer zero evolutionary benefit or simply less evolutionary benefit than immediate parents is immaterial.

My point is that nobody has yet presented enough evidence to argue that simply "listening to our bodies" rather than taking any proactive measures is the best path to longevity. The view that evolution has given us natural lifespans that are as long as can be doesn't seem to be supported by the evidence.
It gives an unwarranted endorsement to GRPN; their business practices are fairly reprehensible, so if a marginal investor or marginal small business customer gets screwed because a well respected guy lent credibility to their board, it's a poor choice for him.
Amazing Leap Motion Demo
Intel OpenGL Performance: OS X vs. Windows vs. Linux
How to get native-like scrolling in UIWebView
Splash screens are fine, splash screens that are set to always on top are not. Important distinction.
But, you see, Americans. Ameri-cunts, if you will. They're dumb. And fat. Mainly dumb.

Also, AmeriKKKa, if you're being traditional.
ISC2 Board Petition Snafu
Firstly, just no, stop arguing against a straw man. I'll agree that putting window toolbars at the top of the screen seems more efficient. I honestly don't have much experience with OSX, but given what people say, I'm willing to assume that it has examined these details and come up with a nicer all-around experience.

However, the nicest experience in the world isn't sufficient for success. Something has to make people get over the activation energy and earnestly investigate something other than what they know without complaining what's different and lacking - generally social factors.

> This is because you reject design

No, it's because I acknowledge that design happens within a context - most design is not universal. What is an appropriate UI for a CAD program is not appropriate for an airport kiosk, and vice-versa. When a user wishes for customization, they are designing within their own context. Their judgment is small in scope and may end up hurting other aspects of their experience, but it's ridiculous to say that the opinions of a blessed Designer aiming for the 'common user' are more valid than their own opinions of what they desire.

I had skimmed the tap to zoom patent and all of the claims seemed quite generic. I'll have to examine it in more detail, but I have to ask - if the patent does contain a novel technique for using a capacitive touchscreen as input to a UI, why does it include the specificity of zooming, a quite necessary and obvious activity for most UIs ?
Starting with Honeycomb the storage partition is exposed through MTP (or PTP), this way it can be accessed concurrently by both Android and your computer. Before Honeycomb, said partition could be accessed as an USB mass-storage drive but that required it to be unmounted, thus making all data unavailable to Android while it was connected to a computer.

In my experience only Windows 7 has passable MTP support. On Linux I had mixed results with gvfs and mtpfs (slow and crashy). jmtpfs [1] is a nice replacement, though. Google also released an application for OS X [2] but I can't try it since I don't own an Apple computer.

My solution to the problem was to install a WebDAV server (such as [3]) on my device (Galaxy Nexus) and access it wirelessly.

[1]: http://research.jacquette.com/jmtpfs-exchanging-files-between-android-devices-and-linux/
[2]: http://www.android.com/filetransfer/
[3]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.theolivetree.webdavserver
Most polls you see on TV are around this sample size... it's often that you see 1000 person polls on news networks (look at the small print on the screen).
I hear there's this thing called "Hacker News" where interesting stuff sometimes gets posted. =)
The icon bounces when an app is starting in osx. I am sure there are probably a couple, but normally Mac apps do not do splash screens.
It depends on the answers he gives to questions. From what I've read, they are fairly generic, which is ok, but I think we expect more on the internet. Its a good step in the right direction though, I think.
It doesn't matter that it's not correct, the sad truth is that if you get that problem and write a loop and some math operators and update a variable for each run - you're in the top 10% of applicants!

There's a mindboggling amount of people applying for programming jobs who can't even do that!
This feature along with the single window view makes GIMP very usable on the mac.
That used to be true of people I know, but a bunch of home users have since moved to Paint.NET on Windows.
My experience (which is a little stale) of watching "photoshop experts" is that this is a familiarity effect. Photoshop workflows are uniformly bizarre and awful, in my experience. Serious practitioners are like voodoo priests, pulling tools out that have no sane relevance to the problem at hand and making them work.

But it works, because you know it really well and have spent (literally, in most cases) years perfecting your art. You haven't done that wiht GIMP, so of course it sucks. But the suckage isn't inherent, it's because the problem is inherently sucky, and you've simply trained your eyes not to see it.
OS X app icons bounce in the dock while the app is loading. If it takes a really long time, a splash screen is ok, but a splash screen that sticks around for a full minute and thwarts every attempt to raise a window above it is just insulting.
It sounds like your parent poster is saying it shows the splash screen over all applications and there's nothing you can do about it. Which is needlessly inconsiderate.
Slightly off-topic (but I know very savvy people are here, so I can't help but ask):

Anyone knows where I could find a JPEG-2000 plug-in for GIMP that works on this Mac version, along with instructions on how to install it?
A good interview doesn't just filter out bad candidates - it also persuades good candidates, who will undoubtedly get other job offers, that they want to work for you. It shouldn't be a courtroom-style grilling - it should be difficult but fun. Honey to catch your flies instead of vinegar.

I'm not saying this was a problem with the interview described as there isn't enough detail in the original post to say what happened really.
Windows 8 and Phone 8, Official Launch Dates Announced
It may as well be true. Cloud is just an over-gloried term for "hosted on virtual servers" and yeah, it's all supposed be very fluid and squishy and automatically scalable but really most of the stuff hosted in the cloud isn't being built that way.
It seems that we just don't understand each other then. Sorry for wasting your time.
How often does code go through security audits? Is every feature audited prior to deploying to live?
GitHub is making money by selling private repositories which will often contain very sensitive code, so ensuring nobody can gain unauthorised access to them is presumably one of the top concerns.

I'm interested in seeing how tight security requirements fit in with this almost continuous deployment strategy.
You realize that there exist more than two business models in the whole of the world, right?

Where do you get this strange taxonomy of "products" versus "services" anyways?
> Also, the app quits when the last window is closed, which isn't how OS X apps are supposed to behave.

If anything, they're ahead of the curve. Most Apple apps are beginning to follow this behavior: App Store, Calculator, Contacts, Dictionary, DVD Player, FaceTime, Font Book, Game Center, Garage Band, Image Capture, iPhoto, and so on.
Well, they are not handling it that well. The site is down right now.
I believe trek has updated the site's theme in the interim. I was also having some contrast and font size issues, and the new theme definitely addresses my complaints.
Fivepad isn't a listings site, it's a bookmarking app. You plug in the URLs for the listings you find on other sites and it shows you them on a map and helps you coordinate with roommates.
ok, really fixed it this time
Just hope your coffee mug doesn't start moving the mouse
Products like this are quite socially and economically valuable, and also require a great deal of capital investment to make work. When the investments demands quick return, then those who have to make it all work seem to start making decisions that end up removing most of that value.

So Twitter is quite valuable as infrastructure; but when they try to turn it into a product that they can use to return the investment, it ceases to be infrastructure and becomes less valuable.
Yes, that's always been my nagging concern about 3D printing. Sure, it can print any single thing, but nearly every machine is made up of multiple parts. So either there's a set of construction machines down the line from the 3D printer, or 'some assembly required'. The related consideration is that each part of a constructed item has to be printed separately (and probably serially).

Another issue that occurred to me when typing the earlier comment was, what about the inside of a hollow piece. I know there's camera+software setups that can generate a CAD-like model of anything based on a set of photos, but how would they determine internal structure. Seems like those systems would have to be augmented with an additional, small flexible camera that can image the inside of the object.
I'm pretty sure the vast majority of Americans on reddit were already going to vote for him, and that it will have virtually no impact on anyone who doesn't use reddit.
Unions are simply a balancing force to that of the management whose sole purpose is to extract as much profit from the enterprise. Yes, a lot of bad things can happen when unions gain too much power. But that doesn't mean unions are necessarily evil. On the contrary, they are a necessary evil, as a balancing force of the evil of the profit incentive.

The free market generally does not have the power to correct for overreaching management. In many cases the signal necessary to make a judgement is not propagated to consumers, at least not in such a way that it will cause a change in consumers purchasing decisions. This is where unions are necessary to correct against overbearing and unrealistic management. Society is stronger, and the economy is stronger, when the "wealth" of a nation is well distributed among everyone. Wealth here being everything from health, leisure time, assurances against bodily injury, etc. Unions are but one tool to ensure this equitable distribution.
It's content on the web. It gets shared and linked to like everything else.
Hold it like a point and shoot camera.
I've been doing active (and oftentimes aggressive) link building for a few years now, I guarantee that this method is safe. I do agree that a judgement call needs to be made when choosing to comment on a blog post to make sure that the quality of the post and site is up to standards.

Honestly, if someone asked me how to get a lot of links to a site, I would not tell this method. If you want a lot of low quality links, you need to be automating heavily. This strategy isn't meant for low quality links.

Just because there's software out there to automate blog commenting doesn't make all blog comments bad. A good comment on a good popular post is gold.
the ascii art?

noticed that they use chartbeat. pretty cool
Comparing Google to auto manufacturers that employ mostly union labor is not fair because the supply and demand curve for employees is completely different. When a potential employee goes into an interview at Google he/she knows that they are in short supply and high demand. This gives him/her leverage to negotiate salary, work conditions, etc. Google provides such a great work environment because they know this and are proactively meeting the demands of the candidates they're trying to attract.

Most employees at auto manufacturers do not have this same leverage. They can't threaten to leave for higher salaries or better working conditions because they are in large supply, small demand. Forming a union gives them this leverage so that they can negotiate at the same level as their employer.

I feel like the negativity towards unions is a result of some recently holding more power than the employers and getting unsustainable pensions and other extravagant benefits. But when the balance of power is closer then unions have been successful and often in necessary in making sure that employees are working in a safe environment, getting paid a living wage and generally not being taken advantage of.

TLDR; Labor unions are not all bad/good. They simply give employees the same leverage as their employers in industries where the supply for workers outnumbers the demand. It's not good for that balance to get out of hand in either direction.
> Private files might be a good idea too, maybe forcing people to fill in a secret password first before being able to download?

That's what I was thinking. However, maybe people shouldn't be posting sensitive files up there in the first place anyhow. I just worry when someone randomly guesses a link and stumbles upon an "sensitive" file.
Notice how most (all?) of those are single window applications.
Better than a 1/2.3" sensor in front of a f/2.8-5.9 lens? Right.
Interesting idea! So basically every several hundred years we would shift the center of time farther and farther away from Greenwich. That explains why the British are opposed. I was thinking timezones would stay relative to Greenwich and the "leap hour" would be thousands of accumulated leap seconds applied at once. Your proposal sounds better.
Why isn't Twitter taking these data analyses and enterprise targetted services and acquiring a service or two and developing them in house? It seems like they already do a lot of liaising with companies, and this is a solid extension.
The ASCII art is on every page of their site and I swear it was on here early last week too.
That can be intentional, to encourage strong people to become leaders and mentors.
There's an even easier strategy and it can be very successful: use your company blog to write generic startup fluff for HN even if it's irrelevant to your company and users or customers, which it will be almost 100% of the time.

Edit: I'm not referring to the author's blog.
By this logic, the humane thing to do now is to create a super-virus that kills all humanity. No more human misery, ever. Thanks for that. :)
They have been profitable since 2009, apparently (http://www.wired.com/business/2009/12/twitter-earns-first-pr...)
Inflatable robotic arm for DARPA
The SmartPhone Who Loved Me: FinFisher Goes Mobile?
No: http://i.imgur.com/5AMU4.jpg

(Edit: that's Gimp and Acorn in the screenshot, respectively, in case you weren't clear what was going on.)
OT but is this an official signed application that can work with gatekeeper on 10.8? I recently discovered that my open source project won't work by default on osx 10.8 without me paying $99 to get an apple certificate, which I'm not very interested in doing.

What are open source/free projects supposed to do about gatekeeper?
I guessing they would like to run some apps that aren't arm compatible, most desktop apps aren't yet. With the usual price tag sony puts on their computers, I'm guessing that they will market it as a touch screen desktop. Like the HP media center pcs.
As much as I love it, Reddit has some pretty unsavory corners. Assuming this makes any news outside the tech space, I'd be curious to see what comes out -- "President Obama answering questions on website affiliated with necrophilia" ?
They also matter if you do a lot of "digital zoom". While I'm not a fan of digital zoom, people seem to use it.
Sarbanes-Oxley puts a big damper on production deployments at big companies. I don't fully understand it so I won't try to explain it.

(I will complain though: the law says developers shouldn't have control over production systems. If that's a requirement, who's going to write the software?)
> Society is stronger, and the economy is stronger, when the "wealth" of a nation is well distributed among everyone. Wealth here being everything from health, leisure time, assurances against bodily injury, etc. Unions are but one tool to ensure this equitable distribution.

I'll agree with that, but I think regulation and Big Government™ are a better solution and unions have outlived their usefulness. You can tell because most people who advocate for unions just rest on past glories.
I just realized that they covered that Macbook's Apple symbol with a Reddit alien.

Chances of this being a staffers computer...rising. But then again, AllThingsD has an email from Alexis (admin) that says that this has apparently been floated for years and they were notified before hand. http://allthingsd.com/20120829/how-reddit-got-obama-there-ar...
Startup / Business feasibility
I know there is a lot of texts out there talking about "how do you know if your idea is feasible".
But i would like to know if there is any way i could check if an idea is feasible.
The idea is to create a product, so it would need to be produced, mounted, shipped, and stuff like that.
So my two questions would be, is there any way i could check the feasibility of this idea without overexposing it? And if it's feasable, how would i go after sponsorship to the idea?

Thank you
There really isn't much of a point to 16MP, but seeing how the camera comes with it, and how people will practically use it (i.e. downsample), there's really nothing you can do but accept that it's there.
Strawman argument invalid: Mac being marginally better is a valid point because GP builds his argument on Mac being better.
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They didn't. I spent an hour and a half just refreshing the page and only ever saw "Reddit is under heavy load..."
I'm pretty sure the vast majority of Americans ... were already going to vote for him.
Is the other guy remotely viable? Really?

Edit: a guy from Europe's viewpoint.
There is a mention of security in one of the paragraphs, and it is only because the people running the testing platform have to make certain that you can't use a bug in the automated browser framework (Selenium) they are using to take over their network. When I read this title (which was modified from the original for HN) it made me wonder "how is security a key selling point for a testing framework", and then I found out that it wasn't ;P.
Ah the VAIO brand name now makes sense!
When I made my comment I was really referring to one or two-step processes, such as creating a new layer, or adding a border to an image. These things are very easy to do in photoshop, but GIMP makes them more complex than they need to be. (adding dialogues when you create a new layer), requiring a filter to add a border to an image (but I'd be surprised if they hadn't changed that by now).
Also GIMP is in desperate need of manpower.
I'd like to see this tech on Samsung's NX mirrorless line. If Samsung wants to compete with the big boys, they'll need to differentiate, and Android's one way to do it.
I assure you that those same people have probably forgotten about it by now.
Well, he also did a Google Hangout, and I think we can all guess what that's also being used for.

:)
If SEO and link building/link earning was this easy, then everyone would be doing it and there would be no need for SEO firms. There would be no SEO industry. Companies wouldn't be hiring SEOs to do link earning for them.

Go ahead and try all of these methods described in that post and then see how well it works. Shortly thereafter you'll be contacting a good SEO firm to clean up the mess, remove bad links, and start creating content for you that earns you links.
I dislike titles such as these that beg the question.
>> Sure, your camera doesn't need apps.

A lot of people seem to like using apps on their phones for photography though. This Samsung camera seems like a great Instagram camera.
I wasn't tearing out components. I was doing everything exactly the way I'd been doing forever, and it no longer worked. Which is bad in itself, but maybe it's understandable that niche usecases break every now and then. It's just that it's happened so often and for so many parts of the system that it's hard for at least me to think it's isolated incidents rather than a cultural issue.

The truly toxic part is that every single transition adds complexity and reduces transparency, making it harder and harder to understand the system. It's just not the breakage alone, or the complexity alone, or even the lack of transparency. It's the combination of all of those.

In the start of this thread jrockway proudly says that all you need is deep understanding all the components and the system as a whole. Back in the day this was not actually an unreasonable thing. But it's been getting less and less reasonable for a long time.

(Incidentally the audio example in my original message wasn't even directly related to pulseaudio. It was a few years back, but IIRC it was some daemon tweaking the device permissions, and something else adding users to a special group in the GDM login path but not the console one.)
Well, EC2 and the like aren't, but there's no virtual servers to be seen on e.g. App Engine. It depends on the level of abstraction you work on.
Several million a year isn't 'real' money?
Thank god, maybe I can finally leave behind Pixelmator.