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Just as note: a lot of these tutorial sites advocate methods that make what you're trying to accomplish harder than it has to be or leaves your work (or just layers of it) in states where it is hard to manipulate thereafter. This can leave people with a bad taste in their mouth, and while in many cases Adobe deserves the snark (especially when it comes to documentation and organization of the tools), a lot of the complaints are simply just people not knowing the capabilities of the software.

Before going to generic tutorial sites, try to find some prolific digital artists or designers whose work you are trying to mimic. See if they have blog, Dribbble (I keep a small bucket of nice freebies I come across there here - http://dribbble.com/mandynicole/buckets/50265-Workflow-Resou...) or deviantArt posts on their process, particularly with source files to boot. Adobe's forums can be really helpful too, and there's a lot of great advice on design message boards for professionals that know the software in and out and know the most effective way of accomplishing a certain look.

Also, with this audience especially, don't be afraid of using (or writing!) scripts to accomplish more abstract or tedious tasks. Both Photoshop and Illustrator accept JavaScript, VBScript and AppleScript. You can see some of the fun stuff people have done for Illustrator through Scriptographer here - http://scriptographer.org/gallery/ (and also tutorials on how to make your own). Have fun!
"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

Some people argue that this means:

"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of persons who belong to such a militia to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

This raises two questions:

1) Why did they not write that?

2) Did every person who fought against the British, and who had a weapon of their own, belong to a militia when they purchased the weapon?

Aftern considering these questions, it is clear that the second interpretation is not what they meant at all. What they meant was:

A) A well regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free state.

B) A well regulated militia cannot happen unless US Citizens have the right to bear arms. That there be a large element of the population who can rise up and form a militia, "officered by men chosen from among themselves"[1] is necessary for (A) to occur. Therefore, whether or not such a militia exists, and whether nor not a given person is a member of such a militia, all persons have the right to bear arms because one day they may be needed.

So when people say "Well we don't have an organized militia so you don't get to have guns", they have it exactly backwards. Instead of banning guns, we should be organizing militia. Not government militia. Not state militia. But organizations of free citizens getting together to organize and practice. This is exactly the opposite of what the federal government has been doing. Where these organizations exist, it has been shutting them down by force.

By all means argue that we have no need of a militia, and that we should therefore strike the second amendment. However, do not pretent that the second amendment means that only army reservists or state police should have guns, or that "regulated" implies that the very enemy it protects against (the state) should do the regulating.

[1] http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa46.htm
Addendum: figuring at a specific game of life board would be tough, because multiple boards could produce a single result. However, figuring out some board shouldn't be too bad, so you should be able to generate a valid board fairly simply. And now I'm interested in trying.
I guess that's personal preference. Growing up in Indiana, we hit 100+ in the height of summer (and humid as hell) and subzero in the winter... While I don't _enjoy_ those extremes, it does really lend to a sense of time passing and makes the really nice days throughout spring and fall that much more enjoyable. I miss waking up on Xmas to a foot of snow, despite not enjoying snow, and having to huddle around a fire to warm up after being outside. I hate the cold, but I dig how it brings people together. As for the heat, you'll never appreciate a cold beer or lemonade (or both) like you will after mowing your lawn in 90+ degree weather. And those first few days of spring where it's light sweater weather in the morning and then 80 the rest of the day after having just braved a winter of snow and freezing temps? That's my favorite time of year.

Clearly I'm nostalgic.
This is extremely common and is like second nature to any Go programmer. This is true of any sort of concurrency.. If you have a for-loop in a Java thread, you're going to have some sort of terminating condition or way of signaling death to the thread.
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The Eagle Ford formation is similarly lit up in an arc south of San Antonio, TX. Cool stuff.
Not likely. Amazon and Apple provides a lot more content than just TV/movies. Netflix does not.

Netflix does one thing and it does it extremely well. The Amazon prime tv/movies web interface is a complete and utter nightmare to use that I only ever go to for the tiny offchance that Amazon has something that I can't find on Netflix.

I would have no use at all for a Netflix branded tablet or anything like that.
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This is huge. http://www.theflightdeal.com/ has been quietly doing it for a year and it's awesome. I'd buy stock if I could.
Good App.
Are you planning to make the app open source ?
I agree with you that it might be nice if you could actually rely on it, but OTOH I have never personally encountered an error caused by a non-boolean predicate.

However, it's not only nonzero? or defined? that don't return boolean values. see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5074676 for more examples. If you read through the core libs documentation you'll find more examples. You just cannot rely on predicates returning true/false in all cases, so you either have to learn not to rely on it at all or learn every example where it doesn't. So just don't rely on it.
Honestly, I don't know enough about ePub distribution to answer you. I would love to do that though.
Can anyone with more knowledge of the subject comment on this? Is this feasible as a new energy source or is it a hoax?
Software patent is not innovation.
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In response to http://hnproposition.blogspot.co.uk/ - would you take $8K to build an MVP you've been 'sitting on' for a 50/50 equity split?
As a non-Texan, I'd be interested if could you share some of the dysfunctions of their government? I haven't heard many people claim that before, so I'm curious as to what I'm missing.
If you read the entire article you'll notice that this isn't the only "interactive graphic". Go down further to where it says "How the Tax Law Might Affect You". It pretty much covers all the bases.

This submission seems to be deliberately misleading. The article itself is far less insulting.
I appreciate this article because this is someone outside the tech milieu bandbox that basically comes to the exact same conclusions as the tech insiders about prosecutorial blindness and overreach.
People can sing happy birthday to you without being arrested. I've done it many times, even when I was poor.

I'd rather see the copyright period shortened so that there is adequate incentive to produce without us having to pay forever. We should pay as much as we need to pay. And not pay more just because the industry has better representation in Washington than the people do.

We could, for example, make a song public domain after 5 years, unless it has not yet produced 10 million in revenue. That is more than enough incentive to write a song.
Interesting. I wonder how much work it would be to port this to AppEngine. Then, you could host node.js apps from Google's infrastructure.
No problem, just making sure this doesn't happen everywhere :)
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Is that generalization actually supported by data?
Have you been to Austin? Or Dallas? (I'd personally stay away from Houston and San Antonio). It sounds like you're passing judgement without really experiencing the area.

Texas is a fairly reasonable state when it comes to most of their laws. There has been some controversy around the human-origin that will be taught in schools, but this issue isn't isolated to just Texas. And beyond that, if you really dislike the public schools, you can always go for private or charter schools, or even homeschooling.

Texas government tends to stay out of the way of their people for the most part (at least compared to NY or CA). No state income tax, though, property taxes are fairly high in the cities and suburbs. Gun laws are very lax. It's overall a pretty good state.
Thanks for posting. This kind of stuff is why I read hacker news!
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A brief read of the sessions docs throws up three concerns

1. Stuffing a lot into a session cookie (the term can easily exceed he 4096 bytes limit suggests that this is not designed just to store session ids)

2. There is implication of one site secret key - a flaw in Flask which it's dangerous was supposed to fix - but even so there is the implication the MAC check guarantees
No one has played with the cookie. This is flat eke bread and butter breaking those

3. It still is making the base assumption that the developer can willingly stick whatever he likes in a python duct and have that magically comeback from the client untouched - of that seems to be so.

Just I prefer having caching problems on my server than never knowing if the information from the cookie can be trusted
One of the best things I heard the Weebly founders say at an event was that an exponential function looks like a flat line for a long time.
Would probably need to know more about what it does, but as a bootstrapped startup, we've been very frugal about what we spend money on. To knwang's point, the value prop would have to be abundantly clear (which is always the case). Saving money isn't as important as saving time. Time, as you've probably heard, is the scarcest resource to startups.
Adioso does this. Inside the company we actually call it the long-distance relationship query.

http://adioso.com/us/nyc-to-omaha-nebraska-in-march-any-frid...

From your suggested query, we're just missing time-of-day and wider timeframes than just a month, but we're close.

The reason it's not a simple MySQL query is that most flight search sites don't have all the flights from all the airlines on all the dates pre-cached in a local database.
Who said anything about leftism? The quote was about dysfunctional government. You do realize that there are dysfunctional governments outside of leftism/socialism/fascism, right?
> In that given, its not unusual that you want all of your employees to be able to work on various parts of the stack as focus changes or what not.

Isn't it? I'm a frontend dev. While I'm capable of digging into the backend and mucking around, it's not a typical part of my job. There are backend devs who I can talk to, who are writing Scala or Java rather than Javascript or Ruby, who can deal with problems faster and better than I could.

Changes of focus like what you describe seem to be typical of far more nascent companies. In that sense, Reed's team was like a startup: everyone had to be ultra-capable because they had to pick up anyone's slack at any time, just like a CEO of a ten-man group sometimes has to clean the kitchen or code a component that no one else has time to.
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When will the media learn their lesson? After falling for the Te'o hoax, they include more hoaxes in their reports.
Because those sites don't show interesting deals. theflightdeal.com uses a .06/mile metric which only shows amazing deals (ie. $400 to Hawaii from NYC). I assume Hipmunk is doing something similar.
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If you're interested in learning more about Clojure and ClojureScript, check out the upcoming Clojure/West conference in Portland, OR March 18-20th (http://clojurewest.org/schedule), including a keynote from Rich Hickey, creator of Clojure. There is also a 1 day training class the day before on ClojureScript if you want the deep dive (http://clojurewest.org/training). Register here: http://regonline.com/clojurewest2013
Hi,

I'd love to start making systems like Raspberry Pi.

How does one start designing entire system boards like this? I know digital circuits and simple DC circuits.

What else do I need to know? I've heard of Eagle before but I don't know to do board layout.

Is there a resource for a kernel engineer to go off and get started designing hardware?
From what I see, they somehow managed to get some top notch clients using their product. I guess it's the level of professionalism their product projects for itself.
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If you're interested in security and have been following tptaceks notes, then no doubt you will have seen his recommendation for reading The Web Application Hackers Handbook.

I'm just a rank-and-file web developer, but I would also strongly recommend reading this book, regardless of what language or framework choice you've made.
Isn't that what the entirety of US pop culture is for? We lionize young people for small accomplishments constantly only to tear them down when they cannot meet our expectations from Lindsay Lohan to now Manti T'eo... It seems to be a larger problem of this celebrity driven bullcrap. Remember when Valleywag was a thing?
Yes, if you change the defaults and don't read the docs it is possible to get in trouble.
All of the classic planning advice is based on about a century of economic history, most of that time period having little resemblance to today and things are only getting weirder, faster. Inflation is increasing (and increasingly under-reported), investment returns just--to put it bluntly--suck, social safety nets are falling apart, and we're expected to work for much longer in a world where age and experience don't count for much anymore.

In short I don't think retirement is something you can "plan" for if it's more than 20 years out or so. It's more like disaster preparation. Save as much as possible, live as far below your means as you can handle, keep your skills valuable. Keep your money diversified and expect your returns to just about keep up with the real and honest cost of living increases until the world economy feels like taking a dramatic shift for the better. We're still "unwinding" from all the previous crises so I don't foresee that happening anytime soon.
Yeah, the state with the surplus. The weather in Texas isn't anything to write home about, but in every way that matters it's a more competently run state.
Especially during a recession? 95% of Americans are never going to make that money ever. The state of the economy is irrelevant.
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Congrats Audrey! =)
How big was the game board? It doesn't seem like running life backwards would be an obvious thing. If I have a 3 by 3 grid with the center turned on I think there are 8 choose 3 or 56 possible previous boards that would lead to that. I guess you're just looking for any possible previous board not a specific one but it seems like any decent sized board would lead to a seriously large problem space in a hurry.
I also dislike puzzle questions in interviews and never use them when I'm hiring people.

[edit] Here's a cool page at wolframscience about testing for reversibility http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/page-1017a-text?firs...
Yup. South of Palo Alto it gets too hot in the summer. Farther north it gets foggy and cold too often. Palo Alto and Menlo Park have it just right.
I'd love to hear your thoughts.
I tried that too, but then I discovered people will sleep in unlocked cars.
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There are lots of things that people "shouldn't" do, like jump off of cliffs, jump out of airplanes, follow traffic even if traffic is going 75, yet people make the judgment that doing is better than not doing. In all of your "make stuff, do stuff, buy stuff, destroy stuff," life, have you never once colored outside the lines to accomplish some greater good?

There appears to be a vast cultural disconnect between those who recognize the nobility of Aaron's effectively harmless stunts, and those who take a hardline stance in defense of the status quo.

It is my sincere opinion that any sort of prison time should require genuine criminal intent (that is, the intent to do serious harm), that the judicial system should focus on prevention and rehabilitation, not punishment or deterrence, and that sacrificing the odd "example" here or there is an unacceptable infringement of the rights of the one who is made an example.
Where abouts do you live? I am planning on visiting Rapid City, South Dakota in a month or two and would love to have a Hacker News meetup somewhere nearby.
I'm sure that the kids are sad because their 1 parent is always off doing a more-than-fulltime job so they are always left at daycare where the creepy dad figure tries to teach them about jesus christ and tells them that if they play video games and listen to rock music they will be going to hell.
Just to clarify: It was a 800*800 image (or there abouts), and the GIF was pictoral (it was actually lena). It wasn't a typical GOF board. The question even hinted that if you can't get an exact match, then return a board that "comes close as possible". Without posting the whole problem, it definitely seemed like the kind of problem that would take at least a few days.

On the other hand, I once had a company give me a problem that was essentially to build a page that displays products from an API endpoint, and have that page infinitely scroll. That was something interesting, because infinite scroll is a useful skill. I had never implemented infinite scroll before, so in order to complete the task, I'd have to educate myself. And infinite scroll is a skill that I can use again. Conway's game of life in reverse is not a skill I'm ever going to use again, except for the next job interview busy work.
The most interesting thing is that the manifesto really walks a fine line. For example, here is one of the most relevant parts:

"We need to take stuff that’s out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks."

Now here's the funny thing: The first two arguably aren't illegal or infringing. If something is out of copyright then you can copy it. If you interpret buying a secret database as actually buying the distribution rights to it, neither is that. And if you read it in that context, you can imagine circumstances in which the same could be done to journals in specific circumstances, e.g. as a call for academics or their universities to retain their copyright so that they could do so with authorization, or with the subset of journals that charge for access but still allow liberal redistribution by those who have paid, etc. On the other hand, he's talking about civil disobedience, which implies lawbreaking. It's a conflicted piece.

So you have that, and then you have the fact that he was known to do work on text processing that may require a large corpus of articles for a database, which provides a rational alternative justification for downloading the articles other than to post them to file sharing networks -- or perhaps he intended to do that and also post that subset of the articles downloaded which could legally be posted, either because they're in the public domain or were appropriately licensed.

The point is we don't know, and the prosecution has the burden to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. So even if you think it's more likely than not that he would have posted them all to Pirate Bay, do you think so beyond a reasonable doubt? Because if I was on the jury, to me, the above doesn't feel like beyond a reasonable doubt.
I'm not against her losing her position, I just think it's a distraction from the real issue. Posters above, like javajosh, think terminating her will act as a catalyst for change; I don't.

At this point, probably the best thing to come out of this so far is Lofgren's bill to decriminalize TOC violations.
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I bought a Pi for unknown reasons initially. It's currently serving as a cheap VPN server now though and is handy for running scripts that need to be on all the time.

Perfect little "server" for £25, can't beat it really.
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This is really cool. I started writing something similar last year to get to know Python and when Google released their official client I stopped.
I've been using grive for a few months on a few different Linux boxes, including some running on ARM/Linux.

It works really well in my experience. Not quite as slick as the install-and-forget-it nature of Google Drive for Win/Mac, or Dropbox for Win/Mac/Linux, but it does what it says on the tin and I like that because it is fully FOSS I can easily take it with me on ARM/Linux.
It always puts a bad taste in my mouth when information/knowledge is locked behind a pay-wall. It frustrates me when I think that someone somewhere is getting turned down from what they want to learn from because they had no money to pay for it or doesn't have the means to pay for it. I know the authors should profit but why can't they do something like https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ or http://debian-handbook.info/ or http://www.aosabook.org/en/index.html or http://philip.greenspun.com/seia/ or http://learncodethehardway.org/ or http://10print.org/ etc etc etc... Aren't the authors of these books making money? Or is it the fear that people just won't pay for it if its also free to download even if they can?

EDIT: I didn't 'click-through' to the book's original site because there was no mention that the book is also available to those who can't afford on this announcing page. My mistake.

Another great resource: http://gettingstartedwithdjango.com/ and videos here: http://gettingstartedwithdjango.com/pages/gigantuan/
Well put. At this point, Swartz will be Willie Horton for any of Ortiz's opponents in the hypothetical Democratic primary.
Ask HN: R&D jobs?
I've been a dev for about 8 years now.

I did some cool work (low-level, RE, R&D, etc) for a government contractor, but eventually burned out and had to leave. Started freelancing and have been moderately successful at it, but I'm not very excited by web development, particularly the pop engineering mindset that seems to pervade it. (The web always feels like a second-best delivery mechanism, too.)

I want to work on technical problems in an R&D setting, eventually building a product and delivering it. The research aspect is vital! A few examples: improving tooling for developers, such as compilers, runtimes, languages, and such. How do I move towards these positions?

My ideal position would be in MS/Google Research, but they want PhDs.
I just wanted to thank you for engaging me in a polite and civil way. That is a precious rare thing in political discussions, especially gun discussions.

I feel like I've learned a lot from your contributions here.