skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently moved from Windows to Mac and this was one of my top 5 problems - not having a decent image editor. I used Paint.NET while on Windows for the occasional "magic wand" work but on Mac every app was either too limited to use or . I've tried GIMP (pre-2.8) but its "multiple windows" and crooked X11 was a huge turn-off. With all that being said, the new GIMP (which is in a single window) was a huge surprise. Since I installed it, I haven't looked back at my old Windows desktop machine.
Nice that d3.js is getting so much press these days. Really great little library.
> But I wanted to call out

> Why on earth would you

> Really, it sounds like you just

You don't come off very nice.
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Maybe because a far superior mobile browser, Chrome, is available on Android devices?
What are all of the implications of LGPL when use with browser javascript anyway o_0
This article doesn't say much about Java, it is mostly about OOP patterns
Apple's iStuff wasn't so trendy in 2003, so it's unlikely that the Mexican telco chose iFone because of Apple.

Today, it would be another matter. Today, a new product named iSomething is most likely trying to piggy back on Apple's coolness factor.
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It's great that they're using Adenovirus for this. One of my favorite. I'm really excited to see viral therapies starting to nudge toward the mainstream.
At Kera we're only limiting users to people with google accounts.

You mentioned
"completion rates as low as 50% with forced Facebook logins, while another one allows signing up with different methods (username/password, Facebook, LinkedIn) claims completion rates of 90%"

Do you have more information on this?
It is true that for people to buy ideas they must have value. But the transaction must also be feasible. The trouble with ideas is that I can't easily prove to you the idea is valuable without having already given it to you, thus destroying your incentive to complete your end of the transaction.

It may be that there isn't a market in ideas because they have no value. But it may also be that there isn't a market in ideas because it's too difficult to facilitate the transaction.
Andy Rubin as a startup founder of 10 years ago is to be congratulated, too. His vision of an open source, Linux-based mobile OS has wiped away the competition and is now the dominant player. Android has stolen most superlatives from competitors in just 4 years.

That said, I believe it is time for start-ups to get ready for a post-Android world where the forking, customization power of open source software, combined with the diversity and power of mobile chips, will come into play. New categories of devices, solutions based on powerful mobile chips may open up new horizons for aspiring startups.
The problem with techie ppl posts about the problem with x
Not terribly suprising...

I think that most computer science grads are not interested in building enterprise software or rails web apps, but would rather work on advancing the field of theoretical computer science. Unfortunately, I doubt there's much demand nowadays for this type of work.
My point, and that of the previous commenter, is that taking gender into account when making decisions is not always sexist. And I am disputing your assertion that this view automatically makes one a defender of sexism and prejudice. Separate male/female lavatories is one example of accounting for gender in a non-sexist manner. Someone else mentioned organizing hotel accommodations with same gender persons sharing rooms. Department stores put men's and women's clothing in separate areas.

I don't see how poverty, affirmative action, or race is relevant so I have nothing to say on that.
At Kera we're only limiting users to people with google accounts so it's interesting for me to read:

"completion rates as low as 50% with forced Facebook logins, while another one allows signing up with different methods (username/password, Facebook, LinkedIn) claims completion rates of 90%"

Do you have more information on this?
Dear Apple, stop making profits.
People warn about this all the time, but if you actually tried to do it, the generator would instantly trip its breaker since there is no way it can power an entire neighborhood.

For a normal installation - definitely, do it properly. But in an emergency? Just turn off your main breaker.
"Why Apple is in trouble: 47% of all revenue comes from the iPhone and it's clear that that market has moved past their sweet spot"

This is not clear at all. Selling tiny computers with mobile broadband is clearly going to be the biggest hardware business for the next 10+ years and 10 years from now the device that generates the bulk of Apple's revenues will probably still be called an iPhone. It may bear little similarity to the current slab/multitouch input phone of today but will serve all the same purposes. And Android based competitors may be 90% of the market then and Apple may still be the most profitable company in the world.

I have a hard time believing the story that 'Apple is in trouble' because they have the highest margins in one the biggest markets which is still rapidly growing.
The data is interesting but the quality factor is the most important. I.E. A 20000 dollar web designer may actually cost you money in the long run vs a higher paid one.
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Couldn't agree more with this. What apple needs to do is not necessarily only innovate with features, but also with price. Otherwise they'll lose the market share (happening), devs won't prioritise iOS anymore, the iOS ecosystem advantage will become less relevant and well see the same pan out as we've seen when w95 hit the market.. In the end, it'll all boil down to marketshare.
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Developer/Filmmaker gives up birthday for charity
Today I turned 24, and I thought, "crap...what have I done with my life?" Instead of getting stuff that I really didn't need, I figured why don't I make this day a day to bring people together as one, no matter what your gender, religion, or race and just do something awesome for people we have no connection to.
The internet is pretty sweet. And the communities like reddit are massive forces that really have the power to open people's eye to the funny, the unjust, and the awesome.
This year instead of celebrating me, I wanted to celebrate all of us, and others who don't have everything we do. I wanted us all to come together and get the basic need to people in underdeveloped nations around the world. Water.
You may not know me, and we may not know the people we're helping, but we can definitely impact others. Great things always start somewhere.

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Is better to not care and at least have some abbreviated idea about a topic, or better to not care and no idea?
> The actual wiring process wasn't too difficult (have a properly licensed electrician do it. NO EXCEPTIONS!)

Why no exceptions? This isn't really that hard to do, as long as your have some knowledge, and you researched in advance what to do.

Obviously if you are unsure of your skill and/or knowledge level don't do it. But you don't have to be licensed to know what to do.
TS;DS
Too short; didn't satisfy.

Seriously, though. I think people don't give enough space to ideas. Not that everything needs a thousand or ten thousand words, but if we're going to talk about a major thing like "how the nature of news consumption is changing," why not really think it through, ask other people for their opinion, present multiple viewpoints, make references and so on? Like this post, there are some ideas, but they're just sort of thrown on the table like a handful of notes on napkins.

The reflection of TL;DR (not the opposite, above) is TH;DW - too hard, didn't write. It takes time and effort to flesh out and explain an idea or point of view. It's hard to do sometimes when you know a lot of people are just going to skim it, but I think a well-presented idea is its own reward. I look back on some of the pieces I've written with pride, even though some of them received very little traffic precisely because they were long and, in a way, in-depth.
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Okay guys thanks for the feedback, I actually have two launch pages. This one was an attempt at not giving too much away and it looks like I should have stuck with the other one. I'm going to delete this for now because getting confused with a porn site isn't good for any startup!
tl;dr: "different languages are appropriate for different uses"
The comments do in fact contain more interesting insights than the article itself. Good discussion.
Server operating system definitely.

But Java and .Net are both effectively proprietary.
And yet, even with that strategy being implemented for the past few years, the iPhone is losing in global market share, and Android is 5x bigger now. So it's not very effective in this context.
> From an app developer's perspective, there's no contest currently.

To be more exact, this is the perspective of a developer looking to monetize their application by selling directly to users.
I'm not convinced. After all, colonization of far away lands has been done throughout history and in many cases the return trip was as hard as it would be on Mars.

I picture the confinement problem as the most troublesome, but astronauts spend months in orders of magnitude tighter spaces and surviving in relatively good condition.

There's no reason at all you should send untrained people on those first missions and there's also no reason at all not to schedule yearly trips to bring back the people who couldn't stand the pressure.

Now, of course it will be insanely hard, there will be highly complex issues with no apparent solution that will have to be solved via improvisation without the proper means. But humans seem to have done it again and again.
Funny, that is exactly why I don't use Apple products.
He doesn't send any special signal: his money goes with the rest of the money from other buyers.
Actually Android is closer to shared source than open source.

A typical open source project has an open repository, allows third party contributors, open issue tracking etc. Last time I checked Android had none of these and only released source code after a release.
I find it hilarious that this post basically ends with a TL;DR:

Information isn’t consumed by quantity but by interest. We really don’t need to read more, faster.
To expand and clarify: I always say this (and mean it) facebook is a great tool, its just not for me.

I don't know everything about my social circles/family because I get it from a website newsfeed or because I browse pictures on a website. I know because I have personal communication with the people involved. I know someones birthday because I remember it, not because facebook told me about it. My friends/family will share with me when they get an SO/engaged/married/divorced, not a website.

I don't wan't a layer between me and people. For some people it works very well, and good for them, I mean that, it just isn't for me.
Here's the three step trick that works across the board:

1. Pay more

2. Offer amazing benefits.

3. Sponsor tech events and become active in a tech community.

That's what I say to everyone who "can't find anyone decent." Decent people can pick and choose at the moment. If they aren't choosing you, you're not giving them enough reasons.
A note for people doing benchmarks - please post your configurations for the services with your post as well - it would be even better if your tests were posted on github or something similar so others can reproduce your tests and validate/update them.

Also, unless you're running all of the tests concurrently, we really need to see your IOPs records during the tests, since a single lagging EBS volume in a Raid-0 array will still negatively affect disk performance (either that or spring for dedicated iops), and thus skew your benchmarks.

Making sure you're not getting a spike CPU steal time would be great as well; same reason.
So, really, an opportunity is a tested idea. I completely agree.

It's hard to come up with an idea without at least some intuitive sense of what kind of need/desire its fulfilling. I think people deceive themselves here because they have a naturally inflated sense of how great their ideas are.

To use your phrasing: people think their idea is great enough to require very little testing to become an opportunity - their intuitive sense of how great their idea is is enough to begin immediately calling it an opportunity.
I believe that the author perfectly illustrates the root of what really motivates behavior on social networks. It's very much about displaying your life as you want it seen, and choosing what to like, post, phrase posts and upload around that idea.

You may argue that the above is merely a cynical point of view (Or that the author just has emotional issues), but you risk missing the opportunity to (attempt to) objectively think about what motivates people/yourself to post on social networks with such wide audiences.
It bears repeating that "what we call Android" is more then just what is available as open source. It's all that plus a lot of closed source: Maps, Play, Gmail, etc.
I built this web app last year to help my colleagues evaluate and compare different insurance plans. I would love to hear some feedback.
I skipped to the bold and read just that part. But yea, I agree with OP.
works like a charm. I donated a buck. Happy birthday kid.
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I would agree except.... people aren't real on facebook (or Twitter, blogs and forums for that matter).

The emotions I felt when reading my facebook news feed were not the same emotions I had when hanging out with these people in real life.

Before I called it quits I found myself hiding and deleting people because of the things they were willing to say and do on Facebook that they would never say or do in-person.

So, maybe it was a personal problem for me too. But the solution was to get rid of the medium.
Apple was accused of calling their own customers idiots with their 'Genius' ads (which they quickly discontinued). I'm assuming you will also be boycotting Apple?
My fault. Noted.
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I wish the columns that didn't have any data in certain countries wouldn't animate to 0 but fade out instead. With these kinds of comparisons, the only way to really see how different segments are trending is click the button and watch for the overall direction of the animation. When a ton of columns drop to "no data", it makes scanning the animation a lot harder. If they just faded out I think it would be easy to mentally eliminate them from your scan.
They wouldn't. Most situations where GPL exclusions are enforced are still willing to include a modern gcc toolchain.

But still, it's FreeBSD's distro, and they get to write the rules. And clang is a modern, attractive compiler. The feud may be dumb but the choice isn't.
I assume by talented you mean experienced. There is also the other talent of showing promise, but most companies don't bother with that and prefer the ones that the ones that come out the womb as objc rockstars.
Actually I think the correct statement is that iOS has such little fragmentation (in comparison to Android) that it is effectively zero.

Every developer can safely target iOS 5. With Android it is still 2.3.
Agreed.

I recently saw a thread on Slashdot (which I hardly ever read these days) started by someone who'd got a bit burnt out and whose skills were by his own admission out of date, asking how to get himself back into the game. It got a lot of replies saying "staying on top of the game is your job, which you are clearly terrible at: give up now" and no actual advice. Which made me realise just how (generally) positive, inspiring and helpful HN's occasional burnout threads are.
I read CompSci at UCL graduating in 2006. Of the people I'm still in touch with, most do Java at ibanks or went on to non-computer work. The remainder are smattered about higher education, bioinformatics and the web-startup scene. Not a one has had trouble finding work, and they all studied a lot harder than I did.
I find it odd that while the article is titled about Java, all of the code examples are in Scala.

The statement "function composition is a degenerate case of the Decorator pattern" in the blog is bizarre to me. OO languages like Java have to resort to the Decorator pattern to handle their lack of composibility; that seems far more degenerate than a language that supports this kind of composition without hacks.

Also this article is 2.5 years old.
Another complaint post, hurray! Don't hate the player, hate the game. ;-)
"it definitely indicates something that person has to deal with"

I don't agree. On facebook you see idealized lives of others and it can be pretty depressing.
You see others going on vacation but you don't see them fighting with relatives ( ok, I see that, it just annoys me) and you can start thinking that their lives are better than yours.

I don't know if this is an accurate source, but I think this can be a problem for not so (mentally) stable people: (They could suffer from this without facebook too, but the dose on facebook is much bigger than in a close friend circle.)

http://www.uvm.edu/~pdodds/files/papers/others/2011/moreno20... - FEELING BAD ON FACEBOOK: DEPRESSION DISCLOSURES BY COLLEGE STUDENTS ON A SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE
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Of course just comparing on price ignores some big differences.

Nexus 4 has no LTE. Nexus 7 has terrible build quality. Nexus 10 has nearly half the battery life.
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I'm interested in learning this too. I was just looking at Slideshare's case and learned the following:

In this talk the founders mention how they were "outsiders" located in the Valley without much connection, and that their initial angels and advisors were their attorneys or those who had tried their service and were impressed by its utilities. http://siliconangle.com/blog/2010/02/24/slideshare-founders-...

In the first ever Techcrunch article about them, Michael Arrington mentions Ross Mayfield (VP of Biz Dev at Slideshare) made the intro. http://techcrunch.com/2006/10/04/introducing-slideshare-powe... This was Oct 2006.

It took them some time to get connected to the advisors: started the company in 2006, got advisors in 2007 - 2008. See http://www.crunchbase.com/company/slideshare and http://www.amitranjan.com/2007/07/05/slideshare-news-welcomi...

Of course I'm only studying the surface, but in their case 1) useful product that the mentors would use (businesspeople use slides) 2) well-connected team member 3) time and persistence seemed to have helped.
>I don't think he was ever blaming the people he's connected to on Facebook.

Swizec never said he blamed people. Swizec (correctly) said he blamed the social networks.
Because if you do it wrong and kill someone or burn your house down or any of the other innumerable bad things a 5+kW combustion engine device can do, it's your fault, and your insurance may not even cover it (not to mention any legal issues). Having a properly licensed/bonded electrician do it, generally, will keep the liability out of your hands.

Given how cheap it was for the actual labor, I'm not comfortable taking that risk. YMMV.
Unsurprisingly we see the same exact phenomenon in finance (though it isn't quite as pervasive)
Bear in mind that this blog post is 2 years old and relates to stats that are 3 years old; and that finance was and is a fairly major industry in the UK.
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The problem with TL;DR is people saying it and expecting to be applauded for their keen ability to lose focus after five lines, whereas they actually appear like some kind of idiot child presenting a truly godawful crayon scribbling.
I used to run a university comparison site largely based upon HESA data so I have a reasonable level of expertise in this field.

The data is hugely flawed, primarily because under the title of "Computer Science" they're aggregating together all technology related degree. So it includes subjects like "Game Design" and "Multimedia" which have very low employability which brings down the average substantially.

There's also a strong correlation between university quality and employment rate. At the top CS departments employment is often in the high 90s.

I actually wrote to the government minister responsible for higher education (David Willets) on this precise issue expressing my concern that the poor classification of subjects was resulting in misleading news coverage which in turn would scare much-needed students away from studying Computer Science.

Here's the reply I got:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/11248954/243427%20Signed%20letter%2...

(apologies for it being in PDF)
iPhone has much, much better CPU/GPU than Nexus 4. Nearly twice as fast in most cases.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6426/ipad-4-gpu-performance-an...
RDS/EBS snapshots being bound to their region is a big stumbling block. Especially for RDS, because the only solution is mysqldump (or similar) and that not only blocks the production database but takes hours for databases above 10 GB. So at the end of this you have a very out-of-date backup that you can transfer to the other region.

Cross-region snapshot mirroring would be a great enhancement feature for AWS.
That actually sounds pretty reasonable.
perhaps try facebook w/o the metrics? no likes might make you less envious. http://bengrosser.com/projects/facebook-demetricator/
"If Theo's machines get owned, we're boned" is not the scenario that signed releases addresses.

No doubt you can concoct a scenario involving malicious robotic brain worms coercing Matthew Dempsky into committing a malicious system call. "PGP doesn't address that!", you'll say, "so it's all just theater".

At the end of the day, you're simply wrong about the utility of release signing. You were mistaken about whether their security was compromised because signatures are fetched from the same location as the binaries (you were tripped up by the concept of "public key cryptography" there). And you were mistaken about the different threat models handled by SSH vs. PGP keys.
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