skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it probably wouldn't change at all, given that twitter's recent changes have had exactly zero impact on the average twitter user. Limited Run is not a twitter client developer.
They are largely boilerplate answers to softball questions. Nothing you couldn't get from listening to a White House press conference.

Questions about the state of Iraq, Syria, Libya, Iran, Egypt, et al would have been more interesting. Characterizing sending more troops as a hard decision is not too surprising.
This redditor's reply to that student was along the lines of what you were looking for:

"Unfortunately you went to law school at a time when the job market for your prospective field was wildly oversaturated. I don't really feel like you can blame any politicians for that one.
Best of luck finding a job, though."[1]

[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/z1c9z/i_am_barack_obam...
It's biggest purpose is to normalize html across all main browsers, and make them as supportive of HTML5 as possible.

You can put any other frontend framework on top of H5BP - Bootstrap, Foundation, etc. It's not mutually exclusive.
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We may have miscalculated what optimal meant in the past, but by definition, it can't be super-optimal.
Is Obama viable after a failed 4 years?

Your comment is maybe from a European with your own viewpoint.
"UML diagrams are highly overrated."

"XML is highly overrated"

Whoa. Steady on there, tiger. My brain can only handle so much controversy in one day.
There's also Yeoman in the works, which appears to be a more ambitious H5BP, but by the same people:

http://yeoman.io/
Really? That reminds me of Microsoft technical support circa 1993:

Step 1: have you tried rebooting the machine?

Step 2: have you tried reinstalling Windows?

I thought those days were over.
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US patent laws derive directly from Clause 8 of the US Constitution, where
it says that Congress is empowered..
"..To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to
Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries"

Note the words "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts..."

I would say that any necesary condition on a patent would be that it indeed "promotes the progress
of Science and the useful Arts". In other words, the purpose of even sanctioning patents is
so that people would have incentives to go out and invent things. The assumption is,
that absent a patent, folks will sit on their bums and not invent anything.
With a patent, the inventor can profit, but so does society. If there is no benefit to society,
why allow the patent?

Until relatively recently (the 1980's?), software patents were virtually nonexistant. Did that
stop "inventions" in the world of software? That's laughable, since that was the time of
immense creativity, new companies, products, inventions. To me that is PROOF that patents
in software are hardly needed to "promote the progress of Science and the useful Arts". Think
of all the software companies that came of age in the 1980's and 90's. WITHOUT patent
protection (for the most part). WHY allow software patents? For what purpose?
The only reason I can see is to benefit the legal profession. And large companies.

In addition, software patents have a number of flaws, mostly due to practicalities
deriving from the ease with which software designers can conjure up new techniques,
visual elements, user-interface designs, wire protocols, languages,database designs, and
the like. Software is a "soft" science - it doesn't require expensive
laboratories or extensive field trials.
It is playing in a virtual world. You can sit in your room and without spending millions
of dollars, come up with amazing things. But so can the person across the street or around
the globe! And they do! So MUCH of what is "patented" are just "obvious" takes or re-takes
of what already abounds, or would abound, should someone else in a room have to solve
that same problem. Many patents are not novel, complicated, unusual. Clever, maybe.
But someone else in the same circumstance might come up with the same exact thing.
Why should the first person be granted 20 years of "protection"?

IF we were to allow software patents at all, say, for truly novel, complex things (yet
to be determined how you would define this), we should limit the term - to say, 3 years.
So yeah, go patent your "One Click" or your "Bouncy Screen" - if approved (dubious for these),
you would have only 3 years to profit from your exclusive deal. Far fewer patents would be
applied for. Far less litigation.

And software designers and companies could create great things and compete on what they
are offering, and not who they are suing. And, believe me, tech would flourish. Software patents
are a TAX on everyone.
This.

People can be so cynical and unappreciative. It's easy to get caught up in the now and take the little things for granted.

President Obama's predecessor didn't use EMAIL!!!!

Now Obama is taking questions on Reddit.

It's all about perspective. His use of technology is completely different than yours. There are so many ramifications for everything he says and does. You can't imagine living in a world like that - very few can, because very few will.

So just take a deep breath and enjoy the entertainment.

This is just a cool way to suck the air out of the RNC convention news cycle.

Stroke of (political) genius, if you asked me.
^^This is a nice, clear, and level headed response.

Combine conflict of interest and lack of transparency, and you can explain a lot of problems.
For anyone who's not doing graphics as their main job description it is a photoshop killer.

Doing Graphics is not my main job description, far from it (somewhere between damage control and janitor is more like it), but I still do a lot of front end development, at my job I prefer to do all the graphics production work myself for the apps I'm building and have tried using GIMP a crap ton of times over the years - I've never found it to be a suitable replacement. Maybe its familiarity but I've honestly tried to use gimp in this role and just getting around has always been a complete nightmare compared to Photoshop. It may be able to do the job that Photoshop does, but nowhere near as easily.

Having our Devs at our shop use Photoshop is an expense, but like good chairs and big ass monitors, at the end of the day a few hundred bucks every few years isn't really that much and if its that much easier to use then its an expense we'll eat and happily. This also means from our devs perspective the choice between PS and Gimp is not a financial one, and once you take money out of the picture most folks are going to choose PS. So anyway, no I don't think this is a Photoshop Killer.
A "native" version of GTK had been in the works for years, mainly supported by people who wanted to run other programs with it (CinePaint, I think). It seems that nobody had the interest in getting Gimp working with it, the skills to accomplish that, the time to dedicate to it, and the spirit of sacrifice needed to work on a GTK 2 port when GTK 3 is already out. But somehow, in the end, the stars aligned.
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You can prove this empirically. TC publishes dozens of posts a day- are there dozens of billion dollar companies being created daily?
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Part of it is you won't spend as much time thinking about it. Say you have a wireless keyboard that is a little dodgy on Linux, but works most of the time. But every now it fucks up and really pisses you off. If it never worked on OS X you wouldn't even remember it because you would have sent it back or resold it.
I don't think we want to have this conversation here.
Fair enough. The author did accept the deal they presented on his laptop the second time around.
Bend org-mode to your will!

http://orgmode.org/

I have a org-mode "capture" keybinding set up so I can just hit a key while programming and a small popup buffer asks me for some notes on what I'm thinking about. It can then add it to tomorrow's TODO list or perhaps a journal file/folder of my choosing.

Best part: because it works with Emacs, it doesn't break my flow. I can just capture thoughts while coding and immediately get straight back to coding.
Any thoughts on this new GIMP vis-a-vis Photoshop Elements?

I don't mind paying <$100 for a decent graphics editor. My primary use case is tweaking screenshots, app icons, buttons, and the like for my iOS apps and the web site. I want to get in and out as quick as possible, so I can get back to my other work.
I have two monitors on my Linux desktop. A month ago full screen on video stopped working. Or I guess I should say it moved to the center of the two screens so is unusable. I have no idea why.

Is this in Chrome on sites like YouTube? If so, I believe it started with Chrome 20 when Chrome switched to its native Flash driver (see http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/Mi-YgjN...). This happened to me too, and I still haven't resolved it.
I haven't had any trouble using a Nexus 7 with Windows, it's worked like a charm. What's supposed to be the huge problem with MTP, exactly?
whoosh I guess I thought some people might enjoy the sound of other people at work? Rain sounds weren't exactly intuitive for me either living in Seattle. Thanks :)
To be fair, that totally depends on how the application is written. You can have server-side-rendered page with single-page application, with or without Ember.js.
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I guess I'm just more curious to see if the benefit provided from using reddit will outweigh any potential consequences

That's an awfully long-haired way of wondering aloud to no-one in particular whether associating with Reddit will be considered to be a liability. I'm fairly sure the President has a near-army of people whose job it is to worry about such things.

Was the...did you say "necrophilia?"...really an issue outside of Sean Hannity's (or whoever's) shrieking fanbase? I think those people have less power than even pot advocates in the national landscape.
Ok, but all you're gonna get from him on foreign relations ESPECIALLY is the exact boilerplate that comes out of the state department. There are actually policy reasons to stay boilerplate on that stuff, above and beyond political considerations.

That said, he did come about as close as he could to acknowledging the surge in Afghanistan didn't accomplish much. And he called for a constitutional amendment on Citizen's United, which he apparently hadn't done in public before (according to news outlets trumpeting it).
This was posted just for the News. Nobody else had this story up on the wires, I looked around. And it seemed pretty relevant just on the decisionmaking & timeframe. You have a new CEO at Yahoo, and she extircated herself from the situation pretty quickly.

Reuters: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/08/29/us-usa-campaign-yah...

Wash post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/yahoo-fires-washingto...
Photoshop Elements is a < $100 package (you can get it for $60 on amazon.com) and it's still vastly superior to the GIMP since it supports some of the non destructive editing tools like Adjustment Layers :
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/adjustment-layers-in-p...

When you can get something that good for $60 there is absolutely no reason whatsoever as to why you'd put up with something like The GIMP. None. Photoshop had things like Adjustments Layers since 1996 with Photoshop 4.0, the same version that introduced an easy method to make your own automation (macro recording). 1996. The GIMP can't beat something that was made in 1996. I'd rather put up with a VERY old version of photoshop running under a PC emulator with an old OS than use the GIMP. That's how different the two software package are, and how useless The GIMP is.
Now I know my disease, a septic shock variant of analysis paralysis.
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So why isn't there a decline in appetite as the fat reserves grow? It won't matter while there are no side effects of adding more fat, but there seems to be a widespread belief that fat causes all sorts of health problems. At the least there is decreased mobility (more likely to be eaten by lions), earlier mortality (eg heart attacks) etc.

I wonder if there are any studies correlating obesity levels with reproductive success, and success of the offspring produced. That is what should end up controlling the genes and behaviour behind all this.
I haven't tried GIMP in ages, but have a look at Pixelmator. It's a great little app. http://www.pixelmator.com/ It has a lot of features for not a lot of money, and a very Photoshop-like interface.
Interesting, do like the "implicit currying". And the decorator motivations read better when they are expressed with the <| rather than when they are just "escaped line breaks".
Michael Moore, truth teller? Ha.
Pls. Note the headline was edited. It was not really a point to refer to the site per-se. Sometimes things just end up where they end up online. I understand your comment, though. (edit: Alt source links added to comment section). Cheers.
Can't agree more, I'm a front-end developer and for years I have tried to move from OS X to Ubuntu but I always come back to OS X and one of the top reasons is the Photoshop > GIMP situation, have tried to use it but I can never get any productivity out of it, it feels like trying to use a hammer to get a screw in the wall.
Agree, this is why I said "for the best chance" which is, IMHO, far from saying "for a sure thing"
What would be a sensible, simplified tax code even look like? The GOP plan looks disastrous. I'd like us to take a look around the world and see which types of tax codes seem to foster the best business atmosphere.

I recall reading somewhere (no time to find a source, unfortunately - waiting for a train) that the biggest predictor of economic success is not tax policy, but effective application of law instead of arbitrary application of law (lookin' at you here, SEC).
I really like the page's background color. Overall the non-white background is gentle and soothing to the eye. Add to that the fact that the page is not too littered with ads and other graphics, it's presentation is overall great! (The real kicker is the background color through :)
The OS X menu bar is modal. It depends on what application is current. There's also research indicating that the usability of modal UIs is poor; it's also measurable scientifically.

I personally don't mind the OS X menu bar's location, but its modality is a big pain point. Combined with the fact that apps often don't exit when all their windows are closed, it's a bit of a magic box of functionality where I'm never certain of what's going to be there, and how to get it back if it disappears. At least Windows' menu bars have a sense of location.

Don't mode me out, bro!
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> Presumably has has other things to do.

I also have things to do and manage to fit in at least a couple of hours a day on reddit
There's more to accessing commands in a UI than physically manipulating an input device. I think you've got tunnel vision here.
I don't know about the others, because I mainly do photo stuff ( Darktable seems decent though, and it has a been a long time since I've run linux on my desktop computer so I don't know how far it went ), but the GIMP is NOT functional in any way for a professional and a professional who is not willing to spend some dollars to get something that triples his productivity is NOT a professional.

The GIMP doesn't even support something like Adjustment Layers and that's a feature that was added to Photoshop 4.0 in 1996. Get real. Those who make that kind of argument for the GIMP, even pretending it could be used as a professional tool, have no idea what they're talking about.

Even the all-public, cheap edition of Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, that you can get for $60, has features like Adjustment Layers.

The GIMP has been working on that stuff for a long time and they're still not done yet. They put off all features related to non-destructive editing until they finally fully switch to the GEGL engine.
The real missing piece is 8BF (Photoshop plugin) compatibility. There is an entire ecosystem of productivity enhancement out there that's missing from the GIMP, at least from the professional photographer's point of view, that, absent a coding pro photographer scratching his own itch, probably isn't going to be filled. Selling a $200 plugin for a $600 program to reduce image turn-around times by an hour apiece works in the pro world; selling a $200 plugin for a free program to people who have essentially all of the time in the world to do things the hard way is a fool's game. That's a sort of chicken-and-egg problem—until there is sufficient pro adoption of the GIMP, the tools won't be there; and until the tools are there, there won't be a large-scale pro adoption of the GIMP. (A wedding photographer, for instance, may have 200–300 images from a wedding that "make the cut" for the album and slideshow, and need editing. Spending even ten minutes per image on skin is a week's work somebody has to do and somebody has to pay for. A plugin that takes that down to two minutes is the difference between profit and failure, even if the big prints still need manual work to look right.)
I'd love to hear the backstory behind this. Company hackday, or a day spent shipping a major set of new features?
Its strange for me to read something like this since I have recently switched back to Linux and I've never been happier with it. I've been a sometime user of it since around 1997 but it could never survive long as my primary OS. I bought my Frankenputer parts from Newegg without checking on hardware compatibility for any of it and it all worked great. I had only one problem which was wake from USB keyboard and I googled it down pretty quick (was a new issue with Ubuntu Precise it seems).

I like OS X too and had a Powerbook for years but all other things being equal I'd prefer to develop and deploy on same OS and Linux is just fine for development so far.
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We don't know how much warning Apple gave them. To be fair, two months to update such beastly products is really nothing, especially when you have to change core functionality (like on-screen rendering in an image-creation tool...). I'd say 4 to 6 months would be an acceptable turnaround time for the most important products.

Compare with Microsoft, which simply won't support retina "for the time being"...
That's odd. I don't think I've ever seen this behavior. I just tried it with Pages and the application remained open.
What I think is missed by a lot of people here is the opportunity for 'visual programming' to help with visual tasks, which is a lot of what people do on computers (making games, CAD, maps/GIS, images, 3d models, etc.). It will help because at the moment there's no way to 'see what you are doing' and code/program it at the same time in any of these areas in a realtime way. When this changes it will cause massive ramifications through these industries.

I do agree though that the title is a ridiculous assertion though (because everyone can already program, and visual programming is in no way going to stop people from having to become domain experts to do anything really interesting).
It's rather disappointing that in a democracy you have to lobby, i.e. spend lots of money to get anything done. What would be really great though would be a direct democracy, perhaps one that is Internet-based, where voters can raise motions and with sufficient votes pass them. This is a castle in the air though...
> I've personally not yet seen an anti-patent argument from someone who actually understood what patents were, how they worked, etc.

If you are interested... Stephan Kinsella, according to his website, has worked as a patent attorney since 1992, and is therefore likely to know how patents work. He gives talks and writes articles and blog posts and at least one book against intellectual property.

A talk that turned up quickly: http://mises.org/daily/4848/

A collection of links to his writings against IP (and, it being his website, at the top you can find pointers to more information about him and stuff): http://www.stephankinsella.com/publications/#IP
I'd like to add that Photoshop Elements is probably fine for the average user / developer that deals with graphics and that costs only around 60 Euros (Mac AppStore). And with all the guides, filters etc... around for Photoshop and the guaranteed compatibility with PSD files, it's a very interesting deal.
On the other hand, a "sickness in our industry" doesn't have to be the majority behavior. It may seem more common than it actually is since it's easier for the press to talk about the businesses that just care about quick exits, but there are still companies behaving that way.

Jason's problem doesn't seem to be with the reporting; it's only coincidental that it's easier for press to report on the businesses he finds fault with.
Oh, you mean defending "innovations" like rounded corners?
That you can't understand a love affair with the iPhone just means you don't appreciate good design.

I'm not a fanboy but I did envy my wife's iPhone for years. I like my Android better today but what choices did you really have when the iPhone came out? It was the only game in town. I was chained to a Blackberry is the only reason I didn't have one.
I could not fail to disagree with you less.

(^ that means I agree).

This idea that you can arbitrarily switch between database X and database Y with radically different models is a really harmful fallacy. Code which attempts to ‘abstract away the details’ is often leaky, buggy, complex, and just as prone to tight coupling as any other solution.

At the very least, such has been my experience. And I think certain individuals have a policy of downvoting those comments they disagree with rather than explaining their counterpoints in a comment.
It's weird that there has to be a pointless conspiracy theory about everything.
What's SOA? And how does it help with cognitive overload issues?
Give it a try with TextEdit and you'll see the expected response.
Why is / inherently better as a path delimiter than \ ? DOS was built to be compatible with VMS and other DEC OS's, which used / as a switch character.
The "application of law > tax policy" seems like a true observation but may not be causal (just look at the massive amounts of corruption in India... and, come to think of it, pretty much every developing country)

That said, I suspect that it is causal on the macro scale. Corruption is rampant in those countries and it turns entrepreneurs off because it's too hard to get anything done without being buddy-buddy with the fat cats. America isn't anywhere near that bad -- it's kind of the opposite, where entrepreneurs fear regulation, more than they fear corruption. From what I've seen, anyway.
Just a Mead 5-subject spiral notebook. It's not super thin paper, but it's not really heavy, either. I've never had an issue of bleed through, but I don't write on the back side of the page, either.

A Pigma Micron might work well for you: http://www.sakuraofamerica.com/Pen-Archival
Doesn't the supply and demand curve set the market equilibrium for the wage/contract,etc? Don't like the job...go find another one.
I have no experience with Redis or MongoDB, but your statement is only true if the storage layer is transient. Some of us use servers that don't go away upon shutdown, backed by a SAN.