skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a GIMP thing, unless I'm misunderstanding you:
http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-using-selections.html
It's easy to pull mail into a desktop client on a schedule. Why haven't you taken a few minutes to set one up?
The fact that there's not much of a basis of comparison between the ad services, and the fact that he used the term "shaken down", makes it pretty obvious that he's referring to the part where he tried to transfer his page to a different name and Facebook asked for a higher ad spend in return.
At iDoneThis, we have several shared email inboxes (Helpscout is fantastic for this: http://helpscout.net). What ends up happening is that most of our emails are processed out of shared inboxes, which makes it easier to respond in batch (as Harj points out) while still showing responsiveness (because people batch at different times). We end up hardly using our personal company email addresses.
With the huge number of form factors and display types applications have to support these days I think the kind of pixel-perfect UI design we've gotten used to from PS and FW is going the way of the dodo. Interfaces need to be able to adapt and the pretty but rigid products of that school of design are just too inflexible.

I do think there is an opening here for design tools that can help create declarative UIs in a more visual way though.
Related post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4450308
I applied for lobste.rs, sending an 8 paragraph email about myself, the admin didn't even take the time to reply to me, which I find extremely rude, if I am too lowly for his application, then letting me know how to improve would really have been polite.

As it is, because of how I was treat by them, I have an extreme aversion to this website. I don't see it as competition for HN, I was merely curious about the community there and it's comparison to the one here.

I guess I got my answer...
The Department of Muppet-ology at Goldman Sachs...
I wouldn't be so certain of that.

On a vacation a few months ago I turned off automatic email fetching on my phone to try and eke out a few more hours of battery, and just kind of left it there to see what would happen.

On an average day I hit the "get my email" button twice. Once when I wake up in the morning to see if there's anything pressing, and once on my way home from work as I'm walking towards the train.

I have absolutely not missed the disruption that having a constantly-up-to-date email client in your pocket creates.

I have also yet to miss a single email due to this - people have better sense than that. If they need a quick response they know to call me or to text.

From this I've started pruning the apps and services that can interrupt me pretty hard. At this point I'm down to my calendar, my SMS client, FB direct messages, and the NYTimes (they seem to be pretty responsible, but they are on a short leash). It's worked out. I'm very much enjoying this pull lifestyle, instead of push.
Oh, I agree. I don't have an idea of how to properly run such enterprise, but had fun playing pretend. Though I'm serious when I say that I'd love to work with or for a company that would focus on software/hardware R&D. More so if someone would be kind enough to give me some funding to try and make such thing work. I don't aim to be rich, I just want to build stuff. :)
> That signal simply doesn't reach all interested parties,

Sure it does. I, the customer, see both the price and the service. If I'm willing to pay more for more service, I can do so.

And, this signal also reaches the employees as well. If you don't like it, go elsewhere. If you're right about how valuable your service is, customers will make the same choice. If you're wrong....
So the author would turn it into a nerd wet dream?

Twitter doesn't make money because the idea isn't amenable to making money. It's that simple. There is this weird theory that if you get a bajillion people to use some website, it's worth a lot of money. No, it's really not.

It's like trying to monetize a park. Sure, you can do that, but when you look around you'll realize you have built a carnival. That is the future of Facebook, of Twitter. They are going to turn into carnivals. Not because of bad management, but because they are corporations, and either they will decide to make money, or they will go away.
I really don't see much difference in clutter between minimising to the taskbar and having an icon on the dock.
I'm curious if 3D printed guns will be easier to get through airport/other security. Could one be printed with minimal metal parts (save ammunition)?
HP buys big into Windows 8 touch devices
I find myself in the strange position of doing mobile apps for a living but not really using my own smartphone much. The main thing that would keep me from going back to a flip phone is that texting on a phone keyboard is just too painful.

I also find the maps application pretty useful sometimes, but I have uninstalled a bunch of other distracting time wasters from the phone.
Clearly they take a weekly total and divide by 7. 7:48 of 'religious' time is just about 55minutes a week so I'm guessing an hour of church a week.

Would be interesting to do the multi-variable analysis across different factors like education, location, etc.
Is there anything like a hardware regression suite for testing new kernel features? or what about distribution features?

I don't even know what that would look like. Does anyone else?

Maybe a registered farm of devices that test distribution release candidates.
It looks like a cool site, would be nice if we could register.
> If he said something closer to "Thank you all for your time. You're doing fascinating work but I don't think that this would be a good fit

We can be almost certain this is not what he said, because the lead had to run after him and ask him why he was leaving. It's really quite challenging to leave unexpectedly without giving an explanation and leave a pilot impression: "Thanks but I gotta go" doesn't cut it when you clearly already booked the whole day for the interview.
Which of those are you doing?
Les liseuses numériques ont eu la cote en France cette année 
En France, les consommateurs commencent à intégrer les liseuses numériques à leur panoplie high-tech. Ce sont 300 000 unités qui ont trouvé preneur cette année, et cela n’est pas terminé.
> But a company that's flourishing customerwise can still have rapacious or simply bad management.

If true, so what?

You're assuming that this undefined "good management" has value that isn't reflected in the customer experience. That's simply not true. Even if the bad management only directly affects employees, they affect customers. (Good employees leave unless shackled by seniority rules, which is the only rational way to run a union.)
It seems fairly obvious that the reason is that facts which do not fit the narrative are not talked about. Confirmation bias in action.
"That said, desktop problems , even on Linux, will happen"

Sounds like something written by someone who's spent almost no time using any of the Linux desktop environments (let alone trying to connect to a projector). And sure, Mac lovers might move to Unity rather than Gnome, Xfce or whatever, but presumably only if someone forced them to use Linux in the first place.

Also hilarious is the suggestion that Google's graphic designers are running Ubuntu, considering Creative Suite is Windows and Mac only. I've received seen plenty of creative out of Google, and none of it was done with the GIMP.
This account is 4+ years old and I was a lurker as well for a while before creating an account. I too have noticed a distinct decline in the quality of commentary over the years. It's not downvotes that are messing up the community; it's upvotes. The things that get upvoted more lately seem to be short quips or similar scoped posts. Maybe pg needs to experiment with removing the upvote feature from new accounts until they reach a threshold of x karma. If it wasn't for the 10 or 20 prolific posters here this community would be full of people with nothing to say but saying it loudly. I don't know if the removal of points from comments changed the environment for the better but I can only hope that it staved off the decline in community for a bit longer than inaction would have.

Edit: I think it's funny that the title of this post was changed to lobsters from its original title.
Which have nothing to do with adjustment layers.
"Google is a paying customer for Canonical's Ubuntu Advantage support program."

Good news for desktop Ubuntu users.

'Chris Kenyon, who is Canonical's VP of Sales and Business Development, and was present for Bushnell's talk confirmed this and added that “Google is not our largest business desktop customer.”'

Better yet.
Nowadays, that actually isn't very true for end-users - rpm is catching up really fast in all the areas that dpkg was formerly better in.

A good StackExchange thread: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/634/what-are-the-pro...
Get up

Check email on phone / check HN / check reddit

Shower/get baby ready

check email / check HN / check reddit

prep backpack, get things needed for work

bike to bart (music)

check HN / check reddit (music)

arrive at embarcaderro

go to starbucks - order "large hot water" {free} - insert teabag supplied by office (restock once a week) [mighty leaf green tea tropical]

walk to client site

work / email / work / HN / reddit / meetings / work / email / txt / call wife / eat / HN / reddit / etc

wrap up

walk to bart

email / HN / reddit

arrive to home station

bike home

family time

dinner

family time

work / HN / reddit

family time

email / HN / reddit

sleep

rinse/repeat
Numfocus is collecting donations in his memory for the education of his three daughters: http://numfocus.org/johnhunter/
Is "r2" the current code base?
Just think about it. Lets say that everyone in your society was convinced the best way to settle a disagreement with you was to have a walk off [1], do you think you would worry that someone owned or was carrying a gun? Looking at the NRA surveys of gun owners, #1 reason for owning hand guns is 'self defense'. If you're not going to be attacked that reason goes away.

[1] Yes that is a Zoolander reference.
Did the hospital use a medical checklist? This is a question that I like to ask everytime a medical procedure went wrong, because a checklist is a very useful tool in saving lives and preventing medical errors. However, the medical checklist haven't been adopted as fast as it should.
I'm just a casual user, and I didn't really notice any difference between deb and rpm. But I did notice a significant difference between apt and yum. Yum was much slower and less clever in figuring out dependencies. I've had yum uninstall unrelated programs sharing libs with the one being uninstalled. It seems like apt(itude) has more advanced resolution algos built in. Plus more is avail as deb than rpm, no need for manual download via websites.
"Professionals can afford professional tools" is not much of a counterargument against "it's free". Not everyone is a professional, and in this case it's not supposed to unseat the professional product.
I DO blame PG for the mindless enforcement of the "Title MUST match the linked page's title" rule. Sometimes this is a good rule but there really are exceptions!

EXAMPLE: This very post was actually submitted with the title

Yehuda Katz launches HN competitor - Lobsters

but then some mod just changed it to 'lobsters' which means absolutely nothing. How is that an improvement?

EDIT: Please invite me to Lobsters!
6 minutes of Education is pretty sad.
Seems a bit similar to http://ge.tt/ - They also feature a drag-and-drop uploading, with 2GB for free, user registration and an API with wrappers for a few languages. Two features from them that you should maybe consider is a) to automatically start uploading when files are dropped on the site and b) if no file has been dropped on the site and the user clicks the upload button, present them with a file chooser.

Otherwise, nice job. I like the simplicity of the design, but it is a bit bottom heavy because of the big, black button.
I couldn't go back to texting on a standard keypad, but I find the keyboard on the Alias 2 to be quite straightforward and is generally quite painless (except when I miss the space bar and hit the end key - that's just poorly placed).
How do I set that up with GMail? It's trivial on a desktop client, or one where I own the server.
While he obviously has to be and is good on his feat, do you realise that for much of his public speaking he has speechwriters working for him?
Because I'm not using a desktop client.
> Unions are simply a balancing force to that of the management whose sole purpose is to extract as much profit from the enterprise.

You say "profit" like it's a bad thing. It's not, it's what funds new good things. And, reducing costs is a good thing. It produces "more".

BTW - Management's goal is to extract as much profit for managers, not for the enterprise.

One big problem with the corporate model is that no one has a long term interest. No one at GM ever got fired for agreeing to the contracts that broke the company. Instead, folks did get fired for not giving in.
"So shame on TechCrunch for publishing something that belongs on TMZ."

...

TechCrunch essentially is TMZ.
Similar to Google which is commonly used as a verb.
It has simultaneously been the Year of the Linux Desktop (tm) and the Year of the Death of Linux on the Desktop (tm) for several years now.

The only thing that is new is these stories are hitting HN, instead of just Slashdot like usual.
I used matplotlib extensively when I was doing research back in school. It even made it into the work I published (after I got ridiculed for using excel to make plots). Being able to pre-process my data with numpy and generate all of my plots automatically via matplotlib calls kept me sane.

John's contribution to the Python community was extensive (I don't know of any comparable plotting tools) and won't be forgotten.
>if he doesn’t want an uncomfortable “boxers or briefs” moment, he can control that.

Jokingly I did actually comment that.
Part of this was also structural, if you think about it. the professionals were typically self-employed or partnerships. The professionals, in other words, were the bosses/upper management. The need for a union, somewhat redundant. Notice, that changes when the State becomes involved. Then you do see, say teachers unions. Hope this helps.
Ask HN: why are there no angular lines in online UI/UX
Thinking about it recently - why are there no angular lines in the UI of everything online...

There appear to be only grid-based tables.

While there could be a UI/UX where the screen real estate is cut in an angular way.

It would be interesting to experiment with this as I think that certain types of data could be central - but others could be trimmed to the corners of a screen and do not need to be presented in a square and flat table.

Any thoughts?
I'll second this. It is also my experience, having used both Fedora and CentOS (2002-2008) and Ubuntu (2004 to now).
I just bought two wildcards from sslmatic.com (I was pretty happy with their prices). Only downside is that you need to pay with paypal.
I think it's more that I just don't like assholes.
The Early History of HTML (1990-1992)
I would, indeed, turn it into a nerds wet dream. What is wrong with that? Their current strategy seems to be focused on alienating the very people who helped the grow. Twitter doesn't make any money because it is focusing on finding a way to make money with messages that are no longer than 140 messages. A big userbase does equal value, though I agree it does not mean it is worth a bajillion. Maybe two billion like instagram.

Monetize a park? Well, you can rent out some designated areas for birthday parties during the day. Then put a big movie projector during the night and sell over priced pop corn. You can do paintball matches during the weekends. Maybe build a small lagoon where people can row some wodden boats while reading poetry. You might even go as far as putting some small vending machines that sell bird food, so the kids can feed the pretty birds. No need to build a carnival when you focus on finding alternate business models. Though to build the lagoon, paintball course, outdoor movie theater, you need engineers... :)
I'm not so sure. Hundreds of thousands of people order firearm parts, so any individual is lost in the noise. Also, many sellers of firearm parts value the privacy of their customers.
As tragic a loss as this is, I'm not sure that this was a simple 'skipped check' complication. Chemotherapy does sometimes result in complications like organ failure even if no actual errors are made.

I'm not a physician, but I'm did fly as a pilot and learnt all about checklists. Capt. Sullenburger would like to apply the lessons in his 40 years of flying, to the healthcare industry.
How brown became the red-hot color for new cars and trucks
Sony is firmly in the 1993-1995 era Apple where they keep turning out decent products but never hit the high notes they used to.

They're effectively rudderless, with the television, game, movie, electronics and various other key enterprises not firing on all cylinders and often moving in opposing directions.

This is akin to Apple that, for a period that went on far too long, they were making dozens of different models that often differed in little more than price and badging on the front, with models specific to certain channels and retailers.

The problem is they don't have a visionary they can re-adopt. Changing a company as diverse as Sony, with so many competing interests and a typically Japanese corporate culture that's as flexible as someone suffering from rigor mortis... Prognosis isn't good.
There are stories all the time about prisons being run for profit. If the prison industry is profitable, perhaps it can be made profitable enough to pay for more courts as well. More prisons would of course be a net gain rather than a loss.
What confuses me is why he didn't ask them their opinion. Why didn't he say:

At this point, I'm concerned I'm not a fit for your organization. Much of my time has been spent enhancing my business knowledge in lieu of coding, and that doesn't appear to be valued for this position. I don't work on open source projects and my free time is spent broadening other horizons, not coding. Do you still think I'm a good fit for this position?

Even if he wasn't technical enough for their coding position, maybe there was another position - PM, team lead, consultant, etc. - that he would have been hired for.

I'll may get flamed for this, but I see a guy who spent who got insecure about his technical skills for a heavy coding job he shouldn't have applied to (or been recommended for). I see this all the time. This doesn't mean you can't provide value if you're not a coding ninja; I'm not, yet think I do a pretty good job of it. But I also don't compete with recent CS grads for coding jobs at Google.
No one could argue that the patent office never lets through a patent that claims obvious subject matter. Mistakes get made, and bullshit patents issue.

In general though, the examiners I have dealt with are more likely to advance bullshit rejections than issue bullshit patents.
Do you have a cite for that?

All I see on Google is other folks saying he would support de-criminalization of marijuana (and AG Holder actually de-prioritized drug offenses for awhile before the DEA basically decided to ignore them and still continue their busts).
I'm surprised there isn't a "Photoshop yourself with Shirley Hornstein" meme yet.
"I'd like your leave to go a bit meta here"

Leave not given, since that doesn't mean anything.
The question I wanted to ask was "under what conditions would you call for an accelerated withdrawal from Afghanistan, or an extended presence in Afghanistan, compared to the announced 2014 withdrawal date." But Reddit was in read-only mode most of the time.

I really hope Romney/Paul and Gary Johnson (again) do IAMAs.
Something overlooked in the "he didn't give interesting answers" complaints is that just being able to ask a question (even if it goes unanswered) is a form of communication with the President that's never been available to an average citizen in this way.
It does give you exactly what you want: easy access to old email, a simple way of writing new email, and a scheduled time for getting new mail.
No, really. I was expecting downvotes and I see I'm getting them. I understand people don't want to hear this. Why am I saying this then? I have nothing to gain.

Altruism. It exists.

Run for the hills!

http://pt.scribd.com/doc/95493792/The-End-Game
iPhoto has done it forever. It still feels "wrong" to me though. I guess I understand the reasoning behind it, and iOS mostly works that way (at least as far as a normal user will notice), but so many Mac OS apps - both current and historical - have _not_ worked that way, so iPhoto always seems strange to me.
Sony is a lot like Apple in that they have these designers cooking up crazy designs and inventing new things, and they have people who know how to make something very cheap and inexpensive to manufacture.

The difference is Sony doesn't put these two kinds of people in the same room.
Why such hatred against phone calls?
Sounds good, but it will introduce new problems: 1) someone called and said "I sent you that urgent email; didn't you get it?!?" and you had forgotten about the rules you set up for email receipt. 2) Services that send email notifications now have to add another reminder so people may have to check their email rules in addition to the Spam folder in case mail is "lost" there.
So it's different in that Olark can't be used by two sides of a marketplace without using a chat application like Adium and having accounts?
i think it's a reference to knuth's advice on the matter
Getting started with F#
A repost of my F# introduction from my new octopress blog.
Frankly who cares what HP does at this point!

They gave up so farking quickly on webOS - and I have not seen a client buy their servers in a few years, as well as not having spec'd them in a long ass time... HP is DEAD aside from printers, in my professional opion.

(YES they will always have customers - but not from me)

I have several HP servers DL3 and 5 series sitting next to me right now - servers whom have had no power in 3 years (385 and 585 series with many gigs of ram, just sitting in my garage for years)...

I used to be able to disassemble HP servers with my eyes closed - but no longer. I never interact with them.

If HP were smart they would build a holistic server deployment system with the following: (disclaimer I design and deploy very loarge corporate networks and datacenters - but the following is my personal opinion):

Build an open compute server platform with includes:

* chassis-less servers

* integration with BLine/Panduit products to support the previous bullet

* data center infrastucture as a commodity - drop the chassis wrap and adhere to open compute standards

* many other things - sorry too tired to type at this point....

HP has done nothing right in the last few years....

They should have tried to get Marissa rather than let he go to yahoo... I mean even though Yahoo appears to be a lost cause... HP is in the same boat...

There is so much opportunity for HP - but they have not a single person with real vision...

/rant (sorry)