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Ask HN: Best file management process for web teams?
I wanted to reach out to the web community and find out how teams manage large binary files (PSDs, Videos, audio, etc) in web projects. For years our team has used SVN to sync files between individuals working on a project (documents, code and design files), but its showing some weaknesses. Here is a breakdown of what we've tried.

1) Subversion/Git. The binary files are huge and smaller incremental changes bloat the SVN repo size when you commit them back in. This makes backing up the repo an issue. Designers tend to have issues with the concepts of SVN and is not intuitive the their workflow. When a conflict happens its usually a bit of a mess.

2) Cloud services. We've tried storing files on the cloud and have them sync. The problem here is when you save a change to a PSD for example, the whole file will get sync'd to the cloud. The solution here would be making a working copy of the cloud folder, but it can easily get out of sync pretty quickly.

3) FTP. This is how we originally worked, each connected to an FTP and uploaded the latest work. Was more tedious than SVN, and syncing issues were common place.

Any thoughts on the matter would be very helpful!

Thanks
If you draw a box around labour and management and compute the relative bargaining power of each group, child labour worsens the bargaining position of labour (by increasing supply). It is in the collective interests of China's poor (children and adults alike) to see child labour ended.

What you have noticed is something completely different: it may be advantageous for an individual family to send their child to work.

Restrictions on child labour put the system out of Nash equilibrium but they perform better globally with respect to helping the poor. This paradox manifests itself in many places; I suspect, given that this is Hacker News, that you may be familiar with a few of them already.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox

The critical conclusion that free markets search for nash equilibria but NOT global optima is highly relevant to fiscal philosophy and entrepreneurship.
Though, if anyone's actually interested in coding a game in this style in Unity3D, I would heavily recommend against using Unity Components directly if you're at all concerned about performance and code clarity.

Instead, have one MonoBehavior and a base properties class which you can delegate your events to (usually only a half dozen). That way you're not relying on undefined behavior on the Unity side, and you can, eg, new and clone properties without issue.

I use something similar for Under the Ocean (http://www.underthegarden.com), which has to deal in worst case with hundreds of objects with potentially tens of behaviors that cannot be known ahead of time.

The system works damn well - for my type of game, perhaps it's the only way to do it. But performance is forever a concern. Monobehaviors are nice (eg, you can edit its variables in the editor), but they're heavy weight.
Building a car in 10 years that costs under 20k and 100mpg is a yawn-worthy goal. If that were seriously the Country's 10 year goal, do you think that would inspire anyone? I thought this letter was a pretty good example of people's "Big Vision" stuff being actually pretty small and extrapolating from current trends.

His examples are pretty flawed. A more direct example would be "Other presidents have gone to war, you should too". In addition to the war on terror and war on drugs, of course.

Here are two good/crazy government 10 year goals:
1) Eliminate the need for a legislature by using technology to collect votes.
2) Do more for less - find a way to provide today's services for 1/10th the cost. That way if you want to keep spending you can spend it on new stuff.
> I would expect at the least, American readers to be familiar with the "Continental currency" and its devaluation to 1% of it previous value

Indeed, we're all taught in high school about things "not being worth a Continental" during the American Revolution.

This doesn't really disprove my point though. No one believed in the government backing the Continental currency (for good reason as it turned out, the Articles of Confederation later gave way to the Constitution).

You're saying gold is valuable, but again, it's because people give it value. Whatever contribution of value gold makes to our electronics is included in the component cost, you could as well be arguing that plastic, glue, or lithium is intrinsically valuable.

And if we theoretically started finding gold nuggets in every square meter of soil in every home in America then guess what: the perceived value of gold would drop. This has happened throughout history: The Roman Empire switched to using gold coins instead of silver in response to an oversupply of silver being found in their new colonies. The finding of gold in the New World caused prices in Europe to shoot up as a result (people had more gold money to spend but the same amount of goods to buy, so the goods simply became more expensive).

Gold, like _everything else_, is worth exactly what people think it is worth.
Silicon Valley runs an unemployment rate of as low as 4% vs. 7.8% nationally.

~4% [1] is inline with the overall unemployment rate of college graduates nationally.

[1]http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2012/...
Am I missing why anybody would want to use multiple analytics services? Isn't this just creating a challenge for yourself to integrate the analytic data to understand end-to-end behavior?
Yes, it certainly mitigates the scale of a potential breach and I like that the reduced scale/potential value makes it a less attractive target to hackers (assuming the server side is also built in a secure way). I havent investigated, but it makes me nervous to think that if my phone is stolen, the thief gets my data too.
It smelled incorrect from the get-go.

1) The DOJ cannot shut down a global internet currency.

2) If they DO try to, it will push its value UP, NOT down. The black market effect at work.

3) He seems to not realize that cash itself can be used as an argument against "everyone who uses bitcoin is a knowing co-conspirator in money laundering". Every dollar bill has a trace of cocaine on it, does that mean we are all guilty of money laundering?
The gameplay is the way the code feels. That's what defines the gameplay, as you describe it.

I never played it, and don't particularly care about what people think of either experience.

I didn't say it was the same, but, if someone feels that way, they are entitled to care about different aspects of the single player experience.

People are entitled to be as aggressive as you are, and I find it strange that you would ask others to keep their opinions to themselves, if they found Black Mesa to be the superior experience.
Apple, which has the highest profit margins, is on a crusade to make labor less cheap, thus lowering profit margins for everybody, which will hurt their low margin competitors much more than themselves.

I'm not saying that's their only reason but let's be careful applauding their altruism and ignoring the business merits of their policy.

BTW, also, if some Apple competitors can only exist because of the temporary cheap labor pool (one day China, India, etc will modernize a lot more. maybe it will take 50 years but it is temporary), then maybe that says something interesting about their businesses.
"Abraham Lincoln had a single-minded vision: Preserve the Union. Franklin Roosevelt didn’t really become great until he united America behind the cause of ending Fascism and Imperialism. John Kennedy asked us to put a man on the moon. Ronald Reagan was hell bent on winning the Cold War."

All of those examples are centered around war and/or homeland security and some of them don't have a lot to do with entrepreneurship. The beauty of the world we live in today is that we don't need a leader to supply us with a unified vision/direction; we have tons of companies simultaneously working very hard on innovating in a multitude of different areas.

There are a ton of problems to solve, so why focus on one?
A List Apart 5.0
>Law is there to protect the innocent first, if not, then it has no purpose.

No, actually. The primary purpose of the law is to maintain order. Protection of the innocent is a highly desirable feature, but if too many of the guilty are released people look to their friends and family to deal with transgressors.
CNET forbidden from reviewing Aereo following CBS-Dish controversy
This person has clearly never been to Honolulu, as our system load and human capacity problems are evident even to tourists on a weekend-long stay. And yes, folks, it's directly the fault of the city and county of Honolulu for not creating infrastructure to accommodate the growth. It's a very backwards political system; one that dreams of a long-gone Honolulu from the 1940s. This island is pushing a million people, and our systems simply cannot withstand the amount of friction being applied to them. The whole system breaks down continually.
FWIW I'm quite cognisant with the Greek alphabet. However LATEX isn't a word in Greek as it uses L which is roman script.
CBS is making a pretty good list of everything I'll probably now buy.
I live in a capital inside the amazon in Brazil. Before that I lived in the NYC and in the brazilian capital. This is an extremely violent and poor place.

There is so much to talk about all of this and it certainly requires more than just a comment. I will just answer your questions:

"What has been your experience?"

Pretty good. The amount of problems to solve is immense, it is a great place to start a company. Violence, climate and lack of infrastructure is tolerable. The real problem with places like this is that the lack of basic education which leads to some social problems you wouldn't expect: lack of manners, widespread corruption, this makes me sad and I plan to leave as soon as I have my first child. I contributed a lot to change this here.

"What can other Hacker News participants learn from daily life in the Third World?"

There is a lot of money to be made here. The problem is most problems cannot be solved with cute web applications.

"What Third World problems are important for hackers to attempt to solve?"

The biggest problems right now involve education and health. Example: 60-80% health problems follow the same pattern: you see a doctor, he asks for blood/urine tests, you get the results, go back to the doctor for a prescription. Build something that the poor can explain their symptoms and do those tests without going physically to a doctor and become a semi-god here. That would involve a website (or phone call) and portable blood testers. (Specially for things like malaria, E. coli, colera, dengue fever, typhoid fever, etc)
https://www.pythonanywhere.com/pricing/

502 Bad Gateway

nginx/1.2.5
Agreed but this of course depends on if they store it on open repos vs Private repos.

We store our repos on private repos and we have a script on deploy to replace the wp-config with the actual server details on deploy.
+1 for Focus Mode.
Why #Vine is 6 seconds?
Iterating over 100 items doesn't take 16ms. I'm not sure where he got that figure from.

But your example is a bit exaggerated. I guarantee you that an RTS like Supreme Commander doesn't update the physics simulation or game logic at 60 frames per second. It's probably more like 10 FPS with the rendering engine interpolating objects at 60 FPS.
Github for Recipes
Programming++
Component-Entity System designs are not at all related to Clojure or functional programming languages. They got their origin in MMO engine design, and have since become popular with game engine theorists.

You could implement a component-entity system in C or C++ just as easily.
Weebly hiring Javascript hackers and ping-pong masters
The article states that they already have omniture integration on the paid plans.
"It is patently impossible to discuss social engineering or the automation of a society, i.e., the engineering of social automation systems (silent weapons) on a national or worldwide scale without implying extensive objectives of social control and destruction of human life, i.e., slavery and genocide."

--Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars
By definition any company hiring children in China is doing it illegally. By definition any company hiring children in China and working for Apple is doing it (one hopes) in secret and without Apple's consent. Given those two premises, it's not hard to extrapolate that said company is unlikely to place a high priority on avoiding inhumane treatment of said children.

Child labor and humane treatment of workers do not go hand in hand. After all, if you are paying fair wages and have good working conditions, why would you choose to hire children instead of adults?

> After all, who in the right mind would send their child to work at such an early age is they don't have to?

Many people. You don't think any child is working because her parents ignorantly don't see any value in an education? Your view that parents are universally well-intentioned and know how to make the right choices for their children is as naive as the view that no child would be better off working than going to school. Unless you think China has the capacity to inspect every home to make an individual determination of a child's right to work, I think most of us prefer it be universally banned than universally allowed.
Macmillan will sell e-books to libraries in pilot program at $25 per title
Ah, when you said "web analytics" I think I got confused between analytics delivered via a web app and analytics about the systems implementing a web app.
Consumer Spending and Inequality Denial
Work for America
You miss the point. Even if it is not illegal for you to connect to the printer, it is illegal to spam.
Profile updated. Thanks, didn't mean to be disingenuous. Its okay to call me tacky - I actually think this stuff matters.
A while back we used Siri and natural language to do flight search and status, www.youtube.com/watch?v=edJ-1caUmmc

The inspiration came from sites like SkyScanner
At a federal level criminal defendants face increased sentences if they do not plea out. Even worse, criminal defendants will get hit with additional charges. So the choice is, either admit guilt, or we will throw every charge we can at you. Due to weakening of double jeopardy laws, defendants often first get prosecuted at a state level and then can face similar charges at a federal level. The system gives too much power to a prosecutor, whose only measure of success is number of convictions, and who will face no penalty for wrongful conviction. Lost evidence is also a problem, but I think it is secondary.
Go to www.owl.com and you get AOL.com with an Owl background
Meet Watsi, Y Combinator's First Nonprofit
Shoot us an email at friends@segment.io we've working on support for these types of big guys, and are looking for users to test them out for us.
I enjoyed watching this ad, as it targets people from my generation (I was born in 1988).
Vasili Arkhipov: The man who prevented nuclear war.
I’m Not Going Back to My iPhone
"When significant child labor exists, it does so for a reason."

The reason is that it is in the interest of wealthy factory owners to keep the cost of labor as low as possible, just like when child labor was prevalent in the United States.
you can spray paint gold on a turd but its still, at best, a gold turd.
> That $400k is nothing compared to the total cost. Sony reported an estimated outlay of $171M for insurance, customer support, and rebuilding their user management and security systems. Since the breach, partially due to a drop in customer confidence, Sony’s stock price has dropped from $30 to $13.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc.
Hack Insight Magazine Launches
Interesting. Questions come to mind:

Encryption? (or would that require another layer a-la BozCryptor?)

Error/collision management - when Dropbox syncs files, there is a master repository (Dropbox.com) and a file isn't synched unless it exists there.
That news should make $AAPL drop by 5%. </sarcasm>

There's only positive things that can come out of this. A business leader taking it's leading position to put pressure on business that violates human rights.
Offensiveness aside, the analogy Atwood makes is just nonsensical. Ragequitting is storming out in a temper-tantrum, maybe analgous to a school shooting. In this instance, there is no "rage" in evidence. Swarz didn't gave no indication that he meant his suicide to be symbolic or carry a message (as ragequitters do, the message generally being "fuck you all, I'm out of here.") Atwood's whole thesis is flawed.
This is neat stuff. It's the future and, yes, in some fields it is now.

I've applied GA/GP techniques in a number of areas. There are still a number of issues when applying this method to mechanical design.

A naive implementation can produce structures that are either impossible to fabricate or insanely complex and expensive.

It is easy to also optimize away safety factors. The pictured truss might be optimal under ideal conditions yet fail in spectacular ways if even a small crack or a bad weld develops somewhere. Remember, rust never sleeps. There's also the case of material quality and consistency (is all aluminum equal?).

One application that was a lot of fun to work on was the evolution of an optimal cooling solution for a very high power (1500W) LED array. I evolved the solution using what I am going to dare and call a manual-GA approach.

All of the mechanical modeling was done using SolidWorks and FlowWorks/SolidFlow FEA package. The mechanical model was designed to be parametrically controlled from extensive geometry tables that could be edited with MS Excel (which made it so much simpler). The approach was to run reasonably realistic (meaning, close to what you could actually fabricate) structures. Each structure took 16 to 18 hours to run. Using multiple cores and machines we could get a set of them done overnight for evaluation the following morning.

The evaluation function consisted of agreed-upon parameters that came out of the FEA simulation: delta T, max and min temperatures, thermal uniformity, etc. These were used to calculate a score for each structure.

Once enough data (enough variants or "chromosomes" if you will) accumulated, the manual "natural selection", "reproduction" and "random mutation" steps would take place.

Over a period of about eight months this work produces some really interesting, unexpected and, I think, innovative approaches to the problem.

I learned a lot by taking this approach. I also learned just how hard it would be to fully automate such a project. I am not necessarily speaking about the tools involved as much as the need to encode manufacturing knowledge into a system such that it autom-magically evolve objects one can actually construct.
The Million Dollar Club: InSync
could not agree more (born in 86)
A 100 mpg car is highly constrained by the laws of physics to be crappy, or at least extremely unappealing.

A much better goal, in terms of usefulness, challenge, and well-defined-ness, would be to develop a self-driving car. This probably could have been done 20 years ago if we had started a Manhattan-style project. But I guess we'll just have to wait for Google.
Is it a Linksys WRT54G? If so - check out my comments up top. The devices just tend to fail, with approx 50% mortality rate over 3 years.

With that said, I have a Linksys WRT54G that is now about 8 years old and still going strong, so obviously there is variance.
http://business.ftc.gov/documents/bus24-avoiding-office-supp...

They threaten, talk to A/P directly and demand payment (skipping over the original agent), all sorts of ways.
Eliminate the need for a legislature by using technology to collect votes

Oh, please, no! California's government is a mess, thanks to all the propositions that have forced it legislature to do more while tying its hands on funding.

While I agree the idiots we have right now are far from ideal, falling back to the base common denominator is not the right solution. Representative democracies allow the representatives to make hard, unpopular choices, something the average citizen won't do.

It we want to dump the legislature in favor of pure democracy, we will need a better way to qualify who can vote. And I'm sure that wouldn't be used to disenfranchise some group of people[1].

I think before we consider dumping the legislature, we could play with different options. One I would like to see is having congressional seats divided up among parties by the percentage of the vote you get. So congress represents the entire country and the senate represents each state (or vice-versa).

1. I like the Starship Troopers method of qualification, though: serve your country (military or otherwise) for a minimum time period and you can vote.
If only there was a politician who had lofty goals.. like a Moon Base!
Anyone interested in processing large datasets with R should look into Julia (http://julialang.org/). It's still new and missing some features, and it's a long ways off from the package availability that CRAN offers, but it's converging at a remarkable pace.
This was news about 6 years ago.
He's a Brazilian in Florida. I don't think this has anything to do with his nationality.
congrats on the launch!

i wonder if they will be able to fix the leakiness problem across all analytics platforms... somehow none of my analytics reports are ever accurate.
Bob Pease from NatSemi was against Spice modeling for the same reasons: you get too many numbers and too little insight. One can use fast computations but not without a reality check.
It may just need some getting used to, but at first glance - I am not digging it all that much. I understand the thinking behind content first and thinking outside of the "Desktop as "real design" mentality, but I feel like the desktop (and even iPad landscape) version now suffers due to that mentality. The shift of the menu and navigation to the bottom is also very annoying for finding other pages quickly - and I know I am going to miss the quick glance of multiple stories every other week on the home page. The old design was easy to digest and get a summary of what was in that issue and whether or not I wanted to read it. This version, not so much.

I like the idea of moving in the "boldy art-directed magazine" direction, so maybe it will just take some time to get there and feel comfortable in that role. But for now I feel like it is forcing a responsive, mobile design at larger sizes and the layout suffering for it.

All that said, I adore the content (usually) and look forward to what they have prepared for the future. Like any drastic change, I am sure I will grow accustomed to it and will stop whining about it in a month or two.
Is Guest Blogging Worth the Hassle? [podcast]
What is the correct way to instrument SCALABLE website analytics if you have a massively-trafficked (almost facebook-size) website?

Are there any resources on this topics?
If I was The Decider in Chief, our big goal would be to build a car-free city:
http://www.carfree.com/
Maybe I understood incorrectly, but Apple will pay children their fee.
very cool. How does the output compare with something like Virtuous 10 Studio?
Why do you need a co-founder? I'm assuming you're looking for a technical person based on your summary. You should learn to code. It's not nearly as hard as people think and it gives you one of the two skills a technical person is looking for in a partner. The other skill is the ability to raise money.
Just my 2 cents.
Ask HN: Anyone in NYC area using Verizon FiOS?
Wondering if anyone in NYC area is using Verizon FiOS (residential or small business) and their experience with it. How's the performance and service availability (up/down time)? Is it recommended?
Considering the answer is mostly a list of the most populous states, it's particularly not useful.
you guys should try Action.IO https://www.action.io/
Google Hacking Database from Johnny Long
Sounds like a great reason to form an LLC for any software endeavor.
TL; DR?
good faith doesnt matter. it (at least should) matter what the law says.