skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love it! GIMP is one of those tools that's "almost" a photohop killer, not quite yet, but this is a big step in the right direction. Good job GIMP team!
As an asside, I think the plugin API and scheme joice is great and a blast to develope with I'd just like to see others jump on board.

EDIT: I thought I'd add this since there seems to be a large discussion below as to the type of user for which GIMP is applicable. I'm a software dev, in the past couple of years though mainly web apps where I've had to at times do graphics, for this GIMP worked fine for me (that's my pitch in the discussion). I think GIMP shines (as well as the traditional imagemagick) for batch processing, the scripting is easy, clean, fast - and lispy :)
Some links for those interested: http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Basic_Batch/
http://www.squidoo.com/gimp-how-to-write-a-script-fu-macro
Is Google Search a "product" or a "service"?
The typical politician will avoid giving real answers whenever possible, and respond to any questions with canned answers that carry as little meaning as is humanly possible. Obama has shown no sign of being any different from the usual in this respect. And why should he? The current US political environment punishes deviations incredibly harshly.
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Well, Rails is a web framework. It's not an end user desktop environment like Gnome, KDE, NeXTStep, Windows or what have you.

Collaborative development does rather well with developer tools.
Wow, so much negativity in these comments. To me this is the logical conclusion of the phone camera (a lot of people had this idea, I'm sure, but they seem to be the first to get it out). After bashing Samsung for their iPhone copying, I applaud them here for making something innovative. Camera phones (always available, and now internet connected) are a not-insignificant part of the social web revolution--people want to see and be seen (and apply some filters, too).

Front like a camera, back like a phone. Slick UI to control the camera instead of the usual confusing array of buttons. Image quality should be equivalent to other P&S, which is better than the usual camera phones. 16 MP is just a number to sell the thing into the target demographic: active camera phone users, not DSLR users.

And I think leapfrogs is not an exaggeration. If this takes off, Samsung will have the edge and can start branching out into other wireless-enabled cameras, camera OS's, and who knows what else they can think of. The pure camera manufacturers will be playing catch-up forever, just as the old cellular phone manufacturers were leapfrogged by Apple and never caught up.
Can we officially make that a color name please? / CC: UN Committee on Color Names
The camera's software isn't controlled by carriers, unlike smartphones.
Never mind, you can order a $20 Pepsi.
The interface looks significantly better, at least from the last time I messed around with it (which was a while ago).
Science says that it's faster to hit a distant infinite target given sufficient mouse speed vs a small but local target.

given sufficient speed.

However it says nothing about whether an application's menu bar is important enough to warrant that extra acquisition speed.

Also the mac menu bar does not present an infinite target, particularly if you have any significant horizontal velocity, which is extremely common with wide screen monitors or multiple monitors.

Also with the advent of large/multiple monitors there is the need to change where you're looking causing extra delay for refocus.
With government interventions I usually base my reasoning on these facts:

Income inequality is known to lower growth, and the development of industrial economies occurs concurrent with the growth of the middle class. The oft-praised Scandinavian economies are extensively socialized. However, it's also known that subsidies, benefits, etc. can create harmful disincentives and lower productivity.

So to whatever degree that markets are effective, socialist policies can add benefit within a certain kind of mix that lowers inequality without destroying productivity. And I agree that this doesn't translate directly to subsidies or targeted programs. These kinds of interventions are a powerful tool, but they need to work with the market incentives, not against them. That was the mistake of the Communist concept.

Modern thinking in this realm tends to look towards concepts like basic guaranteed income - instead of affecting firms(which, as we already know, will optimize emotionlessly, ignoring negative externalities) these concepts ultimately rely on the ambitions of the most motivated individuals outweighing the downsides of potential freeloading.
But how do you hold it comfortably with that big bump on the back?
How to dress 'Startup Suave' (INFOGRAPHIC)
What's the point of 16MP anyway? I've been very happy with my Nikon D40 shooting at 6BP.
They were pretty shitty back when he first started but they've improved steadily, and he really does churn them out. And Redditors do love their novelty accounts.
I don't think so. The average filesize of a JPEG image on the web is what, 50KB? At those sizes, it's just not worth it to put a system in place that could introduce more bugs through extra complexity. Especially since duplicate images would be relatively rare, as in 0.00001% rare. Completely not worth it. You'd still need extra database entries too, so you're not even saving on the overhead, database size or queries.

Look at it this way: during the time spent coding this feature, I'm pretty sure disk drive space would grow more than the extra space you'd need for the duplicates (relatively speaking over the long-term of course).
There are nice terminals for Windows and you can install gnuwin32 & win-bash to get almost complete UNIX command-line experience without Cygwin burden.
"To get the embarrassing statistics out of the way first, the survey found that 51 percent of respondents believe that stormy weather can interfere with cloud computing"

Didn't stormy weather take out amazon recently?
It's a shame they built a massive, 11-pound x86 desktop PC in a bloated tablet format rather than taking the opportunity to build an ARM-based tablet for WinRT with an unusually large screen. There are probably still quite few issues that need to be solved to make LCDs light enough for a truly mobile tablet at that scale, but Sony is in a good position to at least experiment in that space.
Nice, not familiar with Pixate, but I wonder if the author has considered making this work with SCSS too :) That'd be pretty bad ass if it could be done fairly easily and would be nice for styling nested layouts.
Good luck with SWYM!
Such stories shouldn't be flagged according to the submission guidelines.
I wouldn't call 1000 people nearly large enough of a sample size to make sweeping statements about an entire nationality.
Show HN: Punchball - An easy way for teachers to auto generate class activities
(author here) Two points, (a) I was describing general lazy initialization, not just Singletons and (b)I believe the Enum approach is not lazy.
As someone who uses Photoshop almost every day, it's nowhere near a "photoshop killer". The workflow is still one of the worst I have stumbled across.
Yep, it does Windows->Single-Window Mode.

So. Much. Better.
Just an example of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poes_law
So, is this an app that bundles it's own X11, or is it using a Quartz/Cocoa backend for GTK?

EDIT: I downloaded it, and the app bundle doesn't seem to have an X11, so that's nice. However, upon firing it up, it throws up a splash screen in front of all other applications. Who still thinks that's acceptable behavior on a multitasking operating system? Also, the app quits when the last window is closed, which isn't how OS X apps are supposed to behave.
How does one develop the habit of keeping a journal? I've tried several times, but have never made it more than 3 weeks before I started to forget to do it.
> Pretty weak, typical round-about answers that you'd expect from any politician.

Pretty much. Though it did amuse me that he answered the beer question.
Sources:
http://www.citrix.com/lang/English/lp/lp_2328330.asp

http://www.citrix.com/English/NE/news/news.asp?newsID=232830...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/joemckendrick/2012/08/29/most-am...

> For example, it is reported, when asked what “the cloud” is, a majority responded it’s either an actual cloud (specifically a “fluffy white thing”), the sky or something related to the weather (29%). Only 16% said they think of a computer network to store, access and share data from Internet-connected devices. (That’s the right answer.)

Hrm... sounds like the survey was engineered from the start to elicit a specific response

> The clincher is that 95% actually already use cloud in some form, from online banking for social networks.

wha..?
Online banking is cloud computing now?
How Reddit Got Obama
No, Samsung did not try to pay Apple its $1bn fine in nickels
You're right haha

>Severe storms cause Amazon Web Services Outage

http://gigaom.com/cloud/some-of-amazon-web-services-are-down...
this page removes a lot of the noise... love it.
In my opinion this works only for products and services with an existing demand, i.e. in the worst case a copycat product, in the best case a product solving a very explicit problem. If your product/service is relatively innovative (i.e. for example 4square in their beginnings) and there is no explicit demand existing, these strategies won't help that much at all.
Happy 40th birthday, video games
That's true but its still pretty funny and interesting nonetheless, I'd estimate that on a larger sample it would still be over atleast 30%
The grandparent was posted on the merits and relevance of the material. If you read the context, BO tells Reddit: "I'm all for internet freedom, but don't sweat it if a couple of details are either here or there." Which in matters relating engineering and/or IP law, is a bit of a flip answer. That Potus laid down a [SIC] error is poetic irony, humourus (or not). So your comment, is not really warranted and should at least be qualified.
What is your top request for the Web Platform?
If the 1000 subjects are chosen well, it's mathematically legitimate -- and the authors give appropriate error bounds based on the ratio of the sample to the population. More detail here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_(statistics)
There is no .fonts directory and this is a desktop machine - I want to install the font system-wide. Plus, the problem with half the running applications not seeing the font still exists.

So I'm not a technical user for you because I insist that such things should not require no more attention than a double click on the font file? Technical users aren't by definition masochists who take the longest route just because they can. I need to get stuff done - stuff other than installing fonts and learning the pecularities of a particular desktop Linux flavour!
This explains why the Internet is more expensive everyday. I shall hack my mobile so it presents as a desktop browser so I can pay full price. Every little bit helps.

Oh, and what a seriously lame article in almost every respect. Awesome interface etc etc. This was the gentle reminder I needed to push me from these mind-numbing articles. Good luck and good night.
Github itself is a Github project, therefore using anything other than the API would be some code duplication. Merging, Pull-Requests, Branches, Issues: all this is already covered when using the normal API.

I'm sure it could be "more efficient" when having code explicitely for this purpose, but then again you have to maintain to different code bases which do the same.
Furthermore, the author is implying that this is a condition specific to Americans when there is no evidence comparing US citizens to other nationalities in this regard.
They will only 'run' that number if they're not actually doing anything.
It's not wrong. Yet if the handouts and food stamps weren't available you can bet your education would cost less. Free stuff enables you and others to pay more, which promotes inflation. In the same vein, easily procurable student loans have made tuition soar.
Double clicking a .ttf and then clicking the install button has been in Ubuntu's/Debian's default for years now.

I mean, you installed a stripped down desktop for some reason, of course it's going to be missing some features when you could have just used the default installation that has all of that already.
Dogfooding aside, the vast majority of the time is spent running tests and actually deploying the code. The time to hit the API to merge the commit is negligible in comparison.

Also, Janky and Heaven are both tiny apps that don't necessarily have access to the file servers.
I have a couple of libraries

a library for mapping http requests to domain objects (see 'naked objects' pattern), with convention based runtime form generation. no more writing controllers, most views are generated, full feature REST API out of the box. A bit like Django admin template, but more powerful.

an in memory 'db', persisted using an event log of user inputs to the domain model (see 'prevalence' pattern). no more worrying about network latency, no more mapping objects to database columns, no more writing update scripts (or at least not much)

I don't think either of these approaches have much love in the mainstream, but I think they make me way more productive than the standard MVC/(SQL/NOSQL) approaches.
I know Intuit is doing cool things with mobile testing. I'll be sure to check out IMAT! :-)
> Suppose some manager doesn't recognize that you're being a positive influence?

Then one of you is wrong.

Yes, bad managers make bad decisions. A contract doesn't protect you from bad managers - it merely makes it easier to stay around to be subject to their badness. Why do you think that's worth something?

Contracts actually make bad managers look better that they would otherwise. Yes, bad managers survive longer when unions are involved. Why do you want that?

Life's too short to work for a bad manager. Of course, if all managers are bad (for you), maybe they're not the problem.

> People working manufacturing jobs---a skilled trade, you know---take pride in their work and I'm willing to assert, just as blithely as you were willing to assert the opposite, that they'd be plenty willing to try to improve the product, improve processes, etc., if they were but asked (and lots of improvements can, indeed, come from the rank-and-file in that way).

We can test that hypothesis by looking at what they demanded through their union representatives. Care to predict the result of said "look"?

I'll save you the trouble - they didn't demand anything to improve product quality or increase productivity.

On a related note, the head of one of the US teachers unions said that he'd start caring about kids when they started paying dues.
Why the heck have I got -1 for this comment? Pretty constructive feedback if you ask me! The text is indeed overlapping... I would have thought their target market consists of iPad users!
no idea what you are getting at.
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. Customers either don't care about unions or slightly favor them, but the end results of a union do drive customers away.

I don't think it's at all arguable that unions--at least American unions--are detrimental to the health of the businesses their employees work for.

Fundamentally, these unions are parasitic. They treat the wealth of its host as a given and find ways to extract more of that wealth. The flaw behind this is that the wealth of a company is not a given--it depends upon the customers, and the more you try to extract wealth from the company, the greater the impact on the customer. Either that, or the company just goes flat broke[1]. A company that doesn't have these additional costs and distractions is more able to focus on the customer, or at the very least can do just as good a job without going flat broke. The experience of US automakers vs foreign competitors, or Boeing vs Airbus, or unionized retail vs. Wal-Mart and Amazon, bears this out.

[1] If the company just goes flat broke, then the union isn't a problem per se, just a con game on shareholders. Airlines are an example: http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/unions-and-airlines
OSX got nice touchpad, Windows has awesome game libs, and Linux comes with shit loads of developer goodness. But yea, now OSX has home-brew so it almost like a better linux, but still forces you to buy overpriced hardwares.
> He runs a small business that makes good money, and it
> happens to use technology. Not the same thing.

As opposed to what? Having no business (making no money), hyping everything out of proportion and having technology for technology's sake?

> if by "great" we mean innovative

Any justification for this lame definition? I call the service great if it is really useful for customers and make money for the owners. Sure, inventing a way to put pants on over your head may be innovative, but how it is great and what's the point?

I got pretty tired of all that useless social hypeware with no purpose (other than burn VC's money) and business model.
Batman fan builds batpod replica
Work from someone else's desk
I have to agree. I read your parent comment, and I just realized what bothers me about "startups", and how they operate.

I guess I had naively been assuming that a "startup" was effectively a phase in business, where you are working hard to build a product early in the businesses life. You are "starting up." However, I assumed that the end goal is to make sure that product grows and supports a viable business that enriches customers lives and provides a stable business for the people involved to do what they love.

Reading Sabats comment though, it sounds like his definition of a startup doesn't involve starting a small business. If it doesn't, then what are you doing? I have some things in mind, but I leave the question open to others to fill in.
I agree -- BTW I'm still waiting to hear back about my new color name: "Unforeseeable Fuchsia".
If only it was that simple haha
Maybe by designing a set of base interfaces, with extension (ala opengl, w3c)
Encouraging to know this model scales to 100 employees at least.

Purely out of intellectual interest, I wonder if a company the size of Google or Facebook could also ship in this way, or if the whole release manager/team is essential.
For people who need to put some text on an image[1] or who need to tweak some minor stuff gimp is a "photoshop killer" - and it's nice to push people to legally free software rather than a pirate download of Photoshop.

[1] But see this gimp document - the first returned hit in a search for [gimp drop shadow text] - which appears to be weirdly complex.

http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/The_Basics/
You either maintain a codebase that calls out to the Github API or a codebase that calls out to Git? What's the difference?
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/photo-obama-answ...

Of course, there is no proof that what he is typing on the laptop is answers to questions on Reddit, but then again, no picture is really proof that the person writing the answer is the person they claim to be.
> (That's the right answer.)

Every one of those answers is correct because the question is vague. It is a "fluffy white thing"; it is "related to the weather", and it is a "computer network".
For anyone who's not doing graphics as their main job description it is a photoshop killer. Asides from integration with other Adobe products, print colour management and a few higher level features it has everything a person might need who's main job is not image processing. That's most of the "market" in terms of general home users and web designers who need to process photos and do logos etc. So while I imagine photoshop can keep a lead, and an inertia, with professional graphic designers, people working for magazines and photographers the only reason the GIMP is behind in raw numbers is that people pirate photoshop. In effect it's free competing with free; piracy is functioning as shareware, market-shareware.
"Americans think" doesn't imply "only Americans think." I don't see anything in there saying citizens of other countries are different.
>Windows is horrible to use, everything is poorly designed

Without qualifiers, that statement is meaningless. Perhaps you mean it's horrible for some devs? (Millions of others are doing just fine with Visual Studio).

For regular users, dropping them to Linux will be like replacing your mom's car's controls with the controls found in an airplane cockpit(command line) or playing "who moved my cheese ?" with the Linux desktop. Granted, everything is moving to the web these days, so why not just give them an iPad or a Chromebook?
Does it have Retina display support? I'd download this in a heartbeat.

It's frustrating how long it is taken Adobe to update their software for Hi-DPI.
> I would imagine you would need precision to the hundredth of the millimeter when making guns?

You do for some types of shooting, but in general no.

And, even if you did, what makes you think that 0.01mm requires modern equipment?

Moreover, tight assembled tolerances don't require tight part manufacturing accuracy. You can hand-fit parts.
I didn't expect any real, solid answers from Obama. The reason is simple: he's not stupid. He knows that the Internet remembers everything, forever.
CS6 is the first Photoshop update in years where I'd say it has fixed a TON of problems that irked long-time Photoshop users.
Blog Author here: You're right, I agree. I tend to write posts targeted at founders who are building problem solving products, not the foursquares and twitters of the world.

I think in limited instances it still could possibly be a helpful strategy (if only to just start engaging the community at large and increasing brand awareness)
> Because these people are starving? Is that not a good reason?

Certainly not, if/when it's true that giving the free food causes more people to starve in the long run. Less misery is better than more misery, as sad as any misery is.
Imagine a world where instead of looking down on people who know less about our field we look upon them as a chance to share our knowledge.
But they are hitting the API to get the OID of the master ref as well?

Not having access to the file system is a fair excuse...
The take away here is that you should always lie or people will get pissed. The truth is "fuck you guys" but the best answer is, "excuse me" followed by "something came up I have to leave" followed by later saying "thanks for theopportunity, but I'm no longer available"

^ now that is smooth. No burnt bridges, still let's you eject.
No it has nothing to do with Samsung. In ICE Google changed how the partitions are handled: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11714077&...

It was pure engineering tradeoff to improve things in the long term. If anything OEMs would have preferred the old 'just works', sub-optimal, gives-an-excuse-to-obsolete-a-phone, lower support issues, solution. The ball is now in operating systems' court to support this standard in a way it wasn't envisioned to work a few years ago.

Even ubuntu has been slow on this front.
I hope Reddit follows up with a blog post on how they handled the load and how it affected the amount of new sign-ups
>Being enablers of dysfunctional behavior is an acceptable solution?

It's funny that some people are fervent believers in Darwinian evolution and at the same time they think an organisms desire to propagate its genetic information is somehow dysfunctional. It's like they disavow the divine yet they can't let go of the idea of divine teleology. I'm not saying creationists are right, I'm just saying that they are ideologically more consistent than most Darwinian evolutionists.