skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm actually pretty sure it was a adopted from the original multi-window interface of Photoshop on Mac.
The free market generally does not have the power to correct for overreaching management.

Can you explain this claim? Specifically, why "overreaching management" is bad for consumers, and why the market can't correct for it?
Look at AnyAsq:

http://anyasq.com/
As much as I love it, the internet has some pretty unsavory corners. Assuming this makes any news outside the internet, I'd be curious to see what comes out -- "President Obama answering questions on new technology associated with necrophilia AND child porn".

I'm being snarky, but it's comments like the one you just made which are echo-chambered into "there is something wrong with communications medium X because it was once used by group Y". Reddit's a big public forum: any big forum will have those issues.
There was Seashore, which was a simpler image editor based on GIMP, but native integration never seemed to be a priority for GIMP. I think there's a commonly held view on open source projects that they're all doing you a service, and if you don't like the tool they wrote you can fix it yourself or use something else. I can't say there's anything particularly wrong with that view, but it doesn't always lead to the greatest user experience.

I can only assume that someone (or several someones) with the time and knowhow to get this done finally came along and decided it was worth investing their time in. I doubt it's as exciting as working on the image editing features.
The truth about Goobuntu: Google's in-house desktop Ubuntu Linux
This doesn't look much like reddit: https://secure.assets.bostatic.com/hydepark/images/redditors...
Be nice, Michael.

37signals once built software I loved. Salesforce builds software I loath. 37signals could have been great -- a Salesforce with wonderful software -- but the CEO is happier to pat himself on the back and brag about laziness. That's my logic. Do you feel that I am incorrect?
Does anyone happen to know if there are any leather bound notebooks with pre-numbered blank pages?

Moleskine notebooks look promising, except they aren't really leather and don't have pre-numbered pages. I guess I can number the pages myself, but it would be nice to already have it done.
"As for myself, I had fallen in love with the iPhone, so using a Mac on a day-to-day basis was a must."

What? How? I've got an iPhone and have never felt like having a Mac was a must. Am I missing some major parts of the system that don't work if you don't have a Mac?
Seriously. That would be like the president having a Twitter account, or a telephone.
Now if only Inkscape would follow suit. There are plenty of good bitmap image editors for the Mac, but I could really use a good vector editor.
Lift: Habit-Tracking & Self-Improvement Experience On iPhone
What is App.net
Some companies outside the software industry are much worse.

At least around the time I graduated college, the recruiters for Caterpillar were obnoxious. At a job fair, I overheard a situation where someone apparently didn't meet the minimum GPA requirement and the recruiter was publicly and loudly berating the person for wasting his time. I talked with some of my friends who were in the engineering school and they said that this was fairly normal behavior for Cat recruiters.
Interview with PlayMob Founder Jude Ower
Ember's getting there. Check out the "Guides" section on emberjs.com
Sorry to hear that, but the launchrock widget works for me :( FWIW, I'm on Chrome/Mac OS, how about you ? I also updated the obsolete signup link.

If more people have trouble with launchrock, I'll bring that in house. So much for building on the shoulders of giants :)
>balancing force of the evil of the profit incentive.

Seriously, you need to work on your language and mindset if you think profit is evil.

Profit is just a surplus of outputs for inputs given. It's what makes people get out of bed in the morning. It is most definitely not evil.
Simple Password Encrypted Files w/ GnuPG
I would like to bounce back with a comment... but I am afraid I would be infringing on an Apple patent.
Pretty sure that answer was ready to finish the rally.

As he did use it on a very lowly voted question
I'd say at least 25% of the OS X apps I try have an installer and therefore require an uninstaller that often doesn't exist. Usually someone on a forum somewhere lists a sequence of terminal commands required to remove an app and it's background services. If I'm lucky.

Happened to me several times in the last two weeks alone. I vaguely remember it took me ages to get VMWare or similar off my machine.
Heard about sammy, but never looked into it until now. It looks really interesting. I've been looking at emberjs for the past couple of days and I do like what I see, but I always felt it was a little too heavy for what I really wanted. I'm just not ready to make my app just an api enpoint...it's just too much abstraction. Regardless, I'll continue to follow emberjs.
I think this is probably fantastic advice, but I can't seem to let go of the searchability of electronic notes. It is also nice that I mostly do not need to worry about things like losing the notebook or filing old ones.
Actually the modal behavior is pervasive in this application which is very irritating. Hopefully the GIMP devs can fix this. I opened the app on my 13" MBP and the tools all persisted to take foreground. Meaning, all other applications stayed below the GIMP. I can't use it like this. Oh well. But, I a looking forward to it being fixed.
> Also, many codebases are not set up to provide a decent stack trace without using a debugger.

Is that not a problem of the codebase, language, and/or debugging system being used than a problem with printing/logging?
>badly interacting upgrades of the OS and separately installed packages and system versions of python/ruby/etc., that I do most of my dev work in Debian in VirtualBox now

Well, sure, but (unless I am mistaken) that is no longer on the topic of the Linux desktop.
And?

I’m really not sure what you expect. The President has a busy schedule, plus (as the guy running for office) enough money to hire people to do stuff for him.

We all nearly always plan what we say and do. The stakes might not be quite so high for us most of the time – but the principle behind it is the same.

The only difference is that the President can afford people whom he can delegate some of that planning to. It’s very simply not possible to do this any other way.
As a customer, security is important when you are testing your internal, firewalled, infrastructure. This is one of the main reasons Sauce Labs (where I work) gives every test its own VM that's destroyed afterwards. Using a shared or reused VM opens the door to malicious code running in the background.

There's an article devoted to this topic here:

Security Through Purity — http://sauceio.com/index.php/2011/09/security-through-purity...
Have you tried this: http://kuoi.com/~kamikaze/read.php?id=129

Looks kind of old, but it might still work.
Redhat and Canonical are big companies that did bet the house on Linux. A few years back I was confident Canonical was what desktop Linux needed to get its shit together.
And today I'm typing this on a Zareason laptop that's supposed to provide 1st class support for Ubuntu (even has an Ubuntu key), and the mic doesn't work, Fn keys don't work, youtube videos appear in monochrome blue, and it likes to boot itself up randomly from time until the battery drains...
Ask HN: What happened to Microsoft Surface?
Not the tablet/pc thing but the table with touchscreen. The Url I had saved for it is now for the Surface tablet...

Anyone here now if it's cancelled or what's going on?
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 vs Motorola Xoom 2 vs Google Nexus 7
> Do you feel that I am incorrect?

Yup. That's exactly how I feel. I don't know why you're bragging about your incorrectness all over the internet, though.
thank you rev. please transfer karma to my account. thanks in advance and wishing you much success.
Hi windsurfer, thanks for the heads up, we have found it works on some android devices but not others (it seems to like chrome browser on droid) .
We didn't want to offer a crappy broken version to the masses, so we are working on native app versions for both IOS and Android, stay tuned :)

P.s. new desktop version will go live by this weekend :)
"Power Users" can have the best of both worlds by simply right-clicking and selecting "Open" to whitelist specific non-signed apps that they want to trust.

I'd mostly expect people who turn it off entirely to fit the "don't really know what they're doing but like to do whatever a forum post tells them to do" archetype.
As someone who uses GIMP on a regular basis, I find my experience to be exactly the opposite - Photoshop's workflow is very irritating. I think it's just a matter of what you're used to.
Doesn't work for 8 x 8.
Ah, so in that case it would literally come down to not wanting to have to innovate. If they truly thought that people preferred to have it the way it is, you'd think that they wouldn't be afraid of this.
For what it's worth, GNU/Linux never really was about some desktop conquest, so this whole discussion "What killed the Linux desktop" is quite absurd.

That aside, what we have here is a thread apparently devoted to shitting on the work of people who built something for fun and gave it away for free.

Good job folks!
> Pretty naive to think the President is the savvy one deciding to do a reddit AMA

Isn't that a tad bit presumptuous?

WRT his decision, I suspect it bubbled upwards through his campaign staff, and at some point he said something like, "Cool".

Don't think that takes away from his decision, regardless of nature of the chain. He could have said "Nah, not wasting my time with that" when presented the option, but instead he decided to do it.
Humanity as a whole has some unsavory corners. Learn to live with it.
Data migrations are done carefully with the Large Hadron Migrator Ruby gem: https://github.com/soundcloud/large-hadron-migrator. Facebook has a similar tool: https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=430801045932
Vanish can cache snippets of content. They refer to this as Edge Side Includes.
Not an SEO expert in any way, but I read that Google discounts links after the first n on the page. The n threshold varies with whom you listen to. Those pages look too much like link farms, so it's understandable why they would do that.
Very cool, but instead of tracking your keywords only in google, why not use http://mention.net or some other similar tool?
2009 was a low year for nickels, 1.2b coins is more typical

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

Still if coins stayed in circulation 20 years, $1b is same order of magnitude as all the nickels in circulation.

If anything, $3-4 in nickels per American seems on the high side, unless there are a lot of full coin jars.
Why can't i move a selection within a layer? This has to be the most persistent problem in the mac version that hasn't been fixed. With every new GIMP version i curse this bug.
Oracle reportedly knew of critical Java bugs under attack for 4 months
They should have fed these monkeys Highly processed, sugary foods and fast foods. Foods containing pesticides, low fiber and containing preservatives, antibiotics and growth hormones(a typical poor American diet).
Then see which group loves longer.

This would have had far more value since it is truer to life at least for Westerners.

The less food you eat, the less wear on your organs right? the less toxins your body accumulates.
This is running Windows 8 Pro or standard. This thing is really a full-blown PC in a tablet disguise. With a bluetooth keyboard, you can run Visual Studio and any other full-blown "real" app on this. This makes it much more capable than something running Android as it can do more than just browse the web.
No worries at all mate, thanks for the props! We have rewritten a new version with some cool new requested functionality, just bug testing atm, planning to push live in few days ;) stay rainy and code on!
Hello RabinL :)

Thx for the enthusiasm !

What kind of app are you working on ? (iOS or Android)
Luckily I have a very simple answer for you: I have never seen that app before. It looks very sexy though and I will be giving it a shot. Thanks for the recommendation!
The real difference is that on OSX is if something doesn't work it doesn't work. Under Linux it may work, or work badly, or you can probably hack it to make it work well. I used to think I liked the latter but there's something appealing about the binary clarity of OSX.
That's .... very .... slow ....

PadMapper suits my needs far better. Dittos CLMapper.
Ah, that makes a lot of sense. Is there a process for using money for the beneficiary before they reach majority?

That seems the only downside of not having one of the parents retain custodianship (which is bad tax-wise if they die). It's not really a big deal for me, since I'm using my kids UTMAs as college-savings/nest-egg and have no plans of using it before they are 18.
>> what's the point? - that you can play Angry Birds on your P&S camera?

Instagram? Snapseed? Hipstamatic? Direct upload to Facebook? Untethered transfer of images to your other devices?
> needing to maintain some public repo or an open-source project in order to get a job makes it no longer fun.

I completely agree, and I already have an above average amount of open source code available on Github. Some startups have found my projects and mentioned them in interviews, which was great, but I've never been directly asked for my code before an interview, and I like it that way. Writing code for the purpose of showing to potential employers would ruin the magic.
Maybe they're just not marketing it to the public at large, since it's so expensive. A few months ago I saw a few at the Vancouver aquarium that people could interact with. It didn't see the Microsoft brand anywhere on them though.
Android desktop might be excellent. However alot of the Android stack is not open source or free software.

An Android desktop will be a proprietary desktop built on top of an open source kernel.

It might be terrific, but it won't fulfil the dream of a free software OS and desktop.
> "the internet has some pretty unsavory corners."

Average voters actually use the internet and understand it. There's porn and stuff "out there", but most people don't run into it when they're visiting facebook, yahoo, espn.com, and other mainstream sites. The average voter isn't going to question the judgment of someone who "uses the internet" because it doesn't seem seedy to them.

The average voter doesn't know what reddit is, and wouldn't "get" it from the homepage. On the homepage right now, there's Obama's AMA and a couple of other serious political stories -- sandwiched between half a dozen memes, a picture of a canker sore shaped like a penis, and several instances of the word "fuck". You don't have to go looking in the unsavory corners of reddit to find stuff that would make my mom question the judgment of people who use the site.
You should hit up Elance and MashLogic (two companies I have worked for previously) – they're good starting places, and backed by solid companies. I enjoyed interning at both.
It looks like they renamed it all:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PixelSense
Oh, I forgot to mention the bookmarklet. There's a bookmarklet. I see where you're coming from, though, but we've all seen what CL does to people who try to use their data. I believe Fivepad lives within the TOS boundaries, since it's not doing generalized scraping.
Every commit is reviewed by at least 1 person. Depending on the feature, several people may chime in. I find that reviewing smaller diffs is much easier. We also use Team Mentions (@github/api, for example) liberally to get more eyeballs.

We also have regular audits with external security firms.
I can sympathise with you about external monitor issues. In my office, we all have laptops with external monitors. When we have meetings, all the Windows/OSX users simply unplug the external monitor and take their laptops into the meeting room. The linux users normally just take a pad and pen, as it's too risky to attempt unplugging the external monitor while linux is running.
The NevBlog bothers me quite a lot. A lot of it deals with the authors ego, and how he doesn't explore other options.

Validating a taco stand is not a good way to encourage exploritory businesses. Yes, I do agree with a test first impliment later approach. But it ignores an attempt to find a normal baseline. One example: There is an much gossiped about tamales guy in chicago. He hits of many bars at times when people are buzzed or drunk. He makes a huge business at doing this. That doesn't really need tests. That needs the abilty to start it up.
Interesting ... what's your QA process? Do you have a staging environment where you try stuff out (looking for bugs) before pushing to production?
Thank you. There's some buggy behavior about windows staying on top despite switching applications, and this fixes it.
The Washington Post Launches API Portal for Developers
"Front page of the internet" was always an ambitious tagline.

Reddit is living up to it now, though.
"If there's two supermarkets in town and one is unionized, the other one will probably be better for the customer in some way, usually because they'll have lower prices."

This does not at all correspond to my experience.
I guess I'm just more curious to see if the benefit provided from using reddit will outweigh any potential consequences. I do believe this will mostly be overlooked by news outlets outside of tech spaces, but... Most people don't understand reddit and it'd be ridiculously easy for opponents to spin this one deep into the negative.
[Tutorial] How to play music in your iOS Application
"I'm just tired of it being treated like it's the most important thing you could possibly ask the President about."

If you're too jaded to care about millions of Americans dying for no reason, the destruction of the black community, the spread of AIDS and hepatitis, and our crumbling infrastructure, all direct consequences of prohibition, then that says a lot more about you than it does about those who would challenge Obama on the issue.

The reason people treat it like the most important issue facing society is because basically it is.
If GitHub uses GitHub to deploy GitHub, what happens when GitHub goes down?
Wow.. I always felt alone and guilty for thinking in this way. It's good to know that I am not alone in the world.

I wonder if we can classify programmers depending on whether they are agreed with this or not. Something like a PQ (Programming Quotient)
I'm curious as to US attitudes to unions. I get the feeling they are viewing more positively (although ambivalently in Europe/UK) whilst anti-union sentiment is more deeply ingrained in the US.

(The UK is probably an interesting middle-ground as it is in some other areas)
This is not a good strategy - generally, these links won't benefit you for SEO purposes. If you want an "SEO for startups", I heavily recommend this guide: http://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/seo-for-start-ups/ which comes from one of the top agencies in the field.

In general, blog commenting is good to build relationships, which then can get you links that pass value. However, in the short term, they probably do not help. You should build relationships with influencers in your space - however, it's not necessarily true they will come from inputting these keywords in Google's Blog Search.

If you're paying attention at all (you're running a startup in the vertical, right?) you should know who has influence. Start there, add value, connect - the links and secondary sites who may also be interested will show themselves organically over time.
TechScape: Steve Jurvetson ... Not Your Garden Variety Venture Capitalist
I'd really like to learn more about your usage of irc and how the bots were set up. Did someone create the bots for different tasks by hand or are there good libraries for setting them up? Does everyone have irc open all day? And if so isn't it incredibly distracting?
Hi! I'd love to help you out. Left a note in your contact form.
I'm a very happy vim user too. Sadly, short of commercial IDEs, developing lisp without slime is like developing Java without eclipse or intellij; it's just an inferior way to interface with the language.

For vim users, the two choices are vim+slimv and emacs+evil. I find evil to be closer to vim than slimv is to a good slime experience, but that can change. Also, if you have any vim plugins that you really depend on then slimv probably edges out evil.

On the other hand I started out several years ago with viper plus a bunch of hand-coded elisp functions to use my most commonly-used vim commands, so we've come a long way.
I wasn't actually responding directly to you, but I will.

Doesn't matter if you offer guest commenting by default. I close the browser tab the moment I see the non-standard comment box. I don't have any idea what hassles some arbitrary-comment system will have, so unless I really have something to say, then I'll just not bother.

I have a Disqus login, and sometimes I'll have something important enough to say that I'll go through the pain of using it. But it's not easy, nor simple to do. It adds extra burden on the user, and IMO reduces conversation on sites.

This is not unique to Disqus, the same problem exists for all third-party comment systems. The fact that the comment system is third-party is the fundamental problem that you'll need to overcome. When I see somebody else's branding on the comments, I'm out. Don't even stick around long enough to read them.
Isn't Unix time UTC, which includes leap seconds which is what is causing all these glitches?
Yup. I don't have much sympathy for him, considering he took out $160,000 in debt with only a 50/50 shot to pay it back (that's your chance to get a high enough salary coming out of a top law school to service that debt, outside of Harvard and Yale). His poor decision is further compounded by the fact that he decided to go to law school after the legal market crashed in 2008 and people started to realize how ridiculous first year associate compensation was getting. I'm not really sure why my tax dollars should be bailing out a guy with a college degree who took a six figure gamble (though I suppose we've already set the standard by bailing out those who took gambles much larger than that).
And, you can look at logs from production when something goes wrong. In my experience the debugger can only take the place of logs if you have access to the same data, and in many organizations you don't get that luxury.
This is a great idea that I've been practicing with not as much discipline as I would like. I've been slowly converging on an optimal (for me) paper size. I use the Pilot G-2 pen which writes well and feels good but is still cheap.

But I haven't been able to find a paper that is thick enough to allow for double sided writing. The composition pads tend to have really thin sheets that the ink shows through. Does anybody have suggestions?
I'd definitely agree. I guess more specifically (and more charitably), I'm thinking of the section of the audience that uses photoshop but doesn't need any of its intermediate or advanced features, whether they paid for it or not. There's a lot of them. If they had more awareness of their own (lack of) requirements, I think it would be a greater opportunity for the < $100 graphics packages to pick up more sales (since that's definitely a more attractive price than Photoshop's), or just more users in Gimp's case - if they were willing to put the time in to learning the interface.