skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I might use GIMP for finishing touches or work involving multiple layers, but on the whole darktable[1] is a much better option for the vast majority of photography work, both in terms of UI and plugins.

EDIT: And that is not because I think GIMP is terrible, but because darktable was designed as photography workflow software. That results in better fitting UI for this use case, and non-destructive higher precision image manipulation (floating point values instead of 8-bit channels, if I understand correctly).

EDITEDIT: There's also RawTherapee[2], but I haven't followed the development of that and can't say how it compares these days.

[1] http://www.darktable.org/

[2] http://www.rawtherapee.com/
One can do the same stuff in Photoshop with less learning. But this also shows it to the GIMP skeptics that if you put a little more hardwork GIMP can do outstanding stuff too and you will also save a good amount of money. GIMP is a boon to beginners (& students specifically). It's free, capable and accessible. Stuff like this should be showcased a little more so that beginners don't run away from GIMP.

I for one am happy they put all the stuff in a single window. GIMP & Blender are those FOSS killer apps in multimedia/graphic tools, they give lots of power to the user. I would like to see some FOSS app do so well in video editing & FX. The ones we have now are not even comparable to Adobe/Autodesk ones.
I didn't say that all artists, or even necessarily "the best" artists, fit a certain personality stereotype. Rather, I'm suggesting that the Steve Jobs personality paradigm is more commonly found among artists, and within the fields of the arts, than it is in business.

"The best artists are social, because that's where the most ideas flow freely."

Strongly disagree with this statement. History abounds with brilliant artists who were socially well adjusted and socially oriented. But it provides just as many examples, if not more, of artists who were introverted to the point of isolation, or who lived tempestuous social lives, or who wrestled with crippling mental illness (there is a shockingly highly incidence of bipolar disorder among history's great novelists, in particular).

I don't think one can make a categorical declarative about the personality types of "most artists," or "the best artists." There is too much variance within the set, and there are too many variables to consider. And "best" is a subjective minefield in its own right.
$5-6k each month is certainly decent for the original time you spent programming. Now you can just collect on earnings and maybe release updates as needed, but it's definitely more lucrative than other markets. Thank you for sharing your own personal anecdote. It's one of the main reasons I value HN's community over others.
great illustrations.
Depending on your demographic of players this may be a mistake. HN will complain a lot about Facebook login but take words with friends as an example - you can play the tutorial without logging in and then it's FB login to play for real. Period. Why? Because a major driver of growth for them is Facebook. They've optimized their flow so that the average player invites other players, they used OpenGraph to post a lot when players take in-game actions, basically Facebook allows them to grow their userbase by having each user spread the game to more users.

The fact that so many games have Facebook only login is a sign that when done right, with a demographic of players that accept it (almost all, the SF Bay Area is way more anti facebook-login and sharing than most of the rest of the world), the players you lose by having only Facebook login are made up for by the viral spreading you get from Facebook users.

The caveat of course being that you have to design, from the ground up, for the game to spread through Facebook. If you don't, it's not worth it. But if you don't, you need some other strategy to make the game spread, and there are very very few unfortunately.
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Most likely. Under the "online tutorials" link she says, There are also tutorials which cover a range of editing techniques - including the basics and tools of GIMP, the editing program I use.
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I have been notified that Cefco 82 at this address: 3001 Gholson Rd, Waco, TX 76705
has been made a drop off point for West, Texas. They are currently accepting clothes, Hygiene items, Non-perishable food items, house hold items, blankets, pet supplies, and school supplies. This store will be a drop off point through Tuesday.

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The Gimp finally supporting [1] a 16-bit workflow could make its way to pro photo retouching.

[1] https://plus.google.com/116634837115748851709/posts/hY3orKUQ...
SmartCheck - A Smarter QuickCheck
+1 agree completely, honestly its rare that a company honours glitchy orders, at least in my experience, so I'm quite shocked actually. I've been a Razer person for a while, and I haven't found anything else quite like it. What do you use, and why is it better?
Yahoo Will Shut Down Upcoming, Deals, SMS Alerts, Kids, Some Of Mail
WordPress Security Attacks & Vulnerabilities for Admins
I think it's a somewhat sleazy ploy to get people to find the tutorial DVD that you can buy[0]. There does seem to be some content there, but I really don't like this submission as it only says "here is what you could achieve" without giving away at least a little tutorial. I could achieve the Mona Lisa with MS Paint, probably, but how is that noteworthy?

[0] http://www.rosiehardy.com/online-tutorials
Stephen Colbert: What Could Go Wrong With Bitcoin?
Thanks for your interest, Tom. I'm one of the founders of EF.

It's the sum of the valuations in most recent funding rounds plus in two cases the valuations implied by rounds that are - all being well - closing soon.

It doesn't take sales or Kickstarter amounts into account.
It's funny you say that because I remember their add. I made a jab at the company and - 2 rep.. If they knew the company they would have +2 rep me haha
Most of the work I release is licensed using MIT because it allows other developers to build with my code without limitations or requiring full attribution. I like the idea of anybody having direct access to change or update what I've written to make it better, faster, cleaner.

Until I can find a more "free" license I will stick to MIT as well.
Bitcoin's Image Problem
How To Build A Political Social Network That Actually Works
If Ray Kurzweil Lives Forever, Should Medicare Pay for His Health Care?
For reference, it's HIPAA not HIPPA. Common mistake.
Hey, I downloaded the zip sourcefile from the github repository but any change on the tree example code (for example commenting out tree1) increases load time tenfold. Has anyone experienced this?

Thanks for any reply.

edit:
after I deleted google analytics code, everything went hunky dory. Thanks for this amazing piece of code :)
If you use Chrome/Chromium, you can try setting the "Override software rendering list" option in about:flags. Worked for me.
If you can hide the fact that you've rooted a box, you should be able to hide the fact that you're doing bitcoin mining. Worst case, run the mining in the kernel idle thread...
Pforex
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Should You Be a Digital Tattletale?
Hope for the best :/
IANAL, but I believe that in most jurisdictions conspiracy requires two or more co-conspirators (i.e. the crime of conspiracy to commit a crime means two or more people agree or plan for a crime to be committed).

Attempting to commit a crime is also a crime in many jurisdictions, and only requires one person - maybe a prosecutor could convince a court that Derbasti was going to steal something, as demonstrated in a HN comment, but the plan was foiled.

Also, perhaps it is a threat - if other comments could be used to show that he/she was threatening the local supermarket unless they do something, perhaps charges for threatening could be filed.
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Yeah I assumed the HN crowd would be more affected by the facebook connect restriction. I think there's definitely pro's and con's with facebook connect, email reg, and guest play. I do think there's some aspects of playing real people that's more appealing.

Finding the right demographic would be great, I think at this point we're still trying to figure out what to do with the game play to make it fun, clean up bugs, tutorials etc.

We're also working on the android version, mobile we think will be a huge driver for this game (in our mind).

Really do appreciate the feedback, and we'd love to hear more from you
sad to see upcoming getting shut down, although for me and where i live it never really worked like i wanted it to. anyone know of such a service that's truly comprehensive? it seems that events per location are all hidden behind obnoxious barriers and no one has done a good job of bringing them together.
Original paper at [0], some corrections/comments at [1,2]. [3] argues that the proposed new ideas and the classical (Newtonian, If I understood this correctly) concept of gravity are actually identical, given suitable identifications of various entities.

[0] http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.0785

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1012.5858

[2] http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.3876

[3] http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.1015
Sideshow, one month later
More free than MIT? Public domain?
Y Combinator’s Paul Graham Takes Healthcare Crowdfunding Non-Profit Watsi
Bah, the landing page forces me to login. No, I won't sign-up. I want to know what features do you offer, with some screenshots to get a feel of it.
It will spring back to life if you put it back where it belongs - no spiders have been hurt.
Your comments seem strangely insensitive, given that I already said that I'm a physicist (and presumably a modern one).

As I've already indicated, there's reason to be skeptical when physicists stretch past the usual boundaries of the discipline. (Though it still could make important contributions.) But modern physics as modern physics is, by and large, solid science.
GPL restricts my freedom in an effort to protect it. BSD and MIT and other licenses like them carry no such restriction.
http://unlicense.org/, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL
I tried it on http://paulgraham.com/startupideas and here's what it gave me:

"How to Get Startup Ideas

[1] [2] [3] You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally. Live in the future, then build what's missing. [4] [5] [6] [7] Live in the future and build what seems interesting. [8] [9] [10] 10 [11] 11 [12] 12 [13] 13 [14] 14 [15] 15 [16] 16 [17] 17"

doesn't seem to work at all...
Show HN: Munin Graphs on Android - My first app
A very thorough analysis. I think it's lacking an important category, though: the free apps that generate revenue by (usually compulsive) in-app selling, a la Farmville. They seem to be common among the top grossing.
> So try to not be a bottom level programmer for long - either become a tech lead or a manager asap.

What if I want to escape the stress, but want my colleagues to escape it too? We can't all be managers.
You drag it slightly off the web and she will hold on for dear life. Verly funny!
over 30 years, 0.78
but at the same time the last desktop computer I bought (a i7 24GB RAM 4TB HD linux box) / the first one (a Macintosh, 131072 bytes! of RAM, 400KB floppies): 0.06

unfortunaterly all the rest is about equal, still no flying car, no affordable housing, no significant robotics, no real replicator, no space ship, nothing.
That’s not justice, that’s barbarism.
Are your games getting discovered by the right audiences?
There are many ways to do meditation (and many goals) but generally in silent meditation you pay attention to what your mind is doing, how you are feeling emotionally and physically, etc. To have a "reference point" you can pay attention to your breath.

http://www.audiodharma.org/series/1/talk/1762/ is a good, free introduction (this is from a Buddhist center, but the podcast applies to mindfulness in general).
> That's an expectation that, while your data might consider it irrational, is part of the human experience and why numbers cannot quantify what we feel.

You seem to be claiming an axiom that we should make reality conform to our irrational emotions more than our attempts at rational analysis -- I think what you're hearing from other engineers is that they've experienced the same conflict and have decided that it's the emotion, rather than the rationality, that ought to leave when deciding how to act.

If you disagree, I think that all you can say is that your personal opinion is that life is aesthetically more pleasing when you stop attempting rationality. I think you should try to recognize that this is just an opinion you have, and not some objective truth that everyone else is failing to acknowledge.
Highly depends on the market. If you're aimed at tech geeks, maybe, but I'd guess that your average iPhone/iPad user doesn't really know what iOS is unless they've jailbroken.
Five Creative Uses for Google Alerts
Neat - any plans for iOS? BTW nobody I've challenged has responded, would be awesome if with your admin superpowers you started a 'random' game with me. I'm Jeremy Rossmann, fb username jvross.
Unable to get write lock on 'subscribe' method for: com.commafeed.backend.services.FeedSubscriptionService

Another waste ...
Reddit Under DDoS Attack, Some Site Functions Disabled
"Not only does the organization pay the opportunity cost of losing engineering talent to the duties of management"

In my experience a lot of these managers were essentially failed engineers, they never demonstrated they were at all good at engineering, so no loss like the one above you've seen, and of course they make terrible managers due to poor technical judgement and envy of those who can do it.
The rights here are the Miranda rights, not the requirement to be told about them. There's no exception to those rights being discussed as far as I can tell, just an exception to the requirement.
Exceptions breed ambiguity.

No turn on red.
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BOSTON BOMB,FATHER SEZ ITS SETUP,
Let's cut to the chase, what if, as in this case, granting an individual their full rights could deprive others of their rights, like the right to not be blown up by another bomb?

You are suggesting that rights only have value if there are no exceptions to those rights. I disagree.

Rights have value, but there must be a way to assign value to each individual right for each person, otherwise, when you cannot grant everyone in society all of their rights simultaneously, how do you decide who gets which rights and who does not?
The danger of the smartphone utopia trap
Chrome on Mac OS X shows the address bar in presentation mode when you put the cursor at the top as well.
I'm far from being blown away. Researchers in AI have demonstrated AI systems with a "blank mind" that can learn by interacting with its environment given some reinforcement learning. They often operate in simple toy examples, but once confronted with the real, complex, messy reality, they fail. I found mostly two reasons: Either their mechanism is too simple and can't solve other than simple problems or it's (computationally) too complex and doesn't scale.

So I'm not saying this approach is bad, but we have yet to see whether it does more than simple examples.
IMAGE TECHNIQUES FOR CREATING DEPTH IN WEB DESIGN
Well, theoretically anything can be done with Paint as well. For someone whose job requires image manipulation, Photoshop is probably well worth the money and is more valuable than their time.

I do agree though, GIMP is underrated.
All I can tell is that you've coded up a login page.
We live in a three-dimensional world, something that designers are trying to recreate in web design every day. The element of depth can add a greater touch of reality to certain design projects.
Creating it can be easier than you think. The key to simulating reality on the 2D screen is by creating depth using images. This can be accomplished in a variety of ways, from the photography itself, to layering of images, manipulation and the use of special effects.
You can download stable releases from http://llvm.org/releases/ - it has binaries for some common platforms. A stable release is made once in 6 months on average.

But to be on bleeding edge, yes, you update from SVN. It isn't hard, but you better have a beefy machine to build&link all of it in reasonable time. This page summarizes it nicely: http://clang.llvm.org/get_started.html
RuneScape dumps Java for HTML5
Intel HTML5 Development Environment
This will be interesting when there is experimental evidence to back it up. I wait with bated breath.
The only Razer product I've been truly happy with was the Diamondback, which was nearly identical to the MX518 in terms of hardware. With a bit of driver hacking (really just substituting the vendor and hardware ID) you could run the MX518 with Razer drivers, which I did for a long time.

I used Razer products since the Boomslang (with its floppy button problem, which was a material flaw, not component related). Among others, I had a Nostromo and Lachesis.

The Nostromo was nice enough, but had some pretty strange glitches (it would at times switch profiles and just act really strangely). The hand-rest was coated in some rubbery thing which absolutely loved to attract any dirt and dust in the room, and ended up requiring very frequent cleaning.

As for the Lachesis, there was a HUGE component flaw in the sensor, which was partially remedied by a ton of driver updates, but never fully fixed in my case. The cursor would drift, be subject to negative acceleration or simply not respond at all. Definitely not the kind of thing you'd want for any kind of input, really.

What Logitech offers for me in this case is seemingly iterative hardware development, and great support. It's not flawless, it's not flashy, but it's safe and they have excellent customer service to make up for it. I'm no longer young enough to care for flashy gear. ;)
Please don't. Licenses like MIT, BSD 2-clause, etc. are all well-understood by people in the legal profession at this point, while these really add nothing to the table. There's no need for the proliferation of open source licenses.
Redesigned LinkedIn apps ditch HTML5 for native code
That's an extremely dogmatic position. There are certainly situations where it is not useful or even accurate to proceed under the null hypothesis, but the converse is also very much true. Checking Wikipedia, I see they also describe the scenario as "accept or fail to reject".

If you want to argue for why "accept" is materially different from "fail to reject", feel free to do so - but I suggest that the chasm is by no means wide.
In some countries, public domain doesn't actually exist, so software put into the public domain actually has uncertain legal standing there. Better to retain copyright and put a very permissive license on it to avoid ambiguity.
I was almost convinced this was a spoof of "Physicist proposes new way to think about intelligence." Not only is the title nearly the same, but both are essentially boiling the subject down to entropy.
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It's important to remember that as well as giving others 'freedom' MIT also protects you from being held responsible for your l33tstrcmp causing a plane to crash in to the ground.
If you are sufficiently smart and capable of putting your knowledge of psychology to practice, you can usually work with the authorities to get what you want. If you get into trouble, your smartness or ability to act smart based on your knowledge isn't sufficiently broad enough. 'IQ' alone isn't enough information.
Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini to Launch in Mid July
wow. I honestly thought that when I heard that argument on 4chan, that the people on the other end making that argument were aware how crazy their line of thinking was. This was the last place I expected to see that sentiment reiterated.

You live in a society of laws, that guarantees your freedom. BSD and MIT do not guarantee your freedom. They are free in a purely anarchist sense. This is not a good thing™.
As far as I can see, most jurisdictions require some action beyond mere thought or talk. Two guys talking over their beers at a bar is not enough. At least that is what the German Wikipedia is saying about European law.
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Agree, I don't want to give my personal info to any site nor I wish to remember yet another un/pw combination.
And AppEngine.
Agreed, I'd like to see a 'public' login with a few categories of RSS feeds which I can browse and play with (read only is fine).
Google Chrome Gets Business-Friendly
Assuming that they have arrested the correct person

This is not something that you get to assume.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Due_Process_Clause
There are levels of transparency. The level you are talking about still require the wifi to either be entiredly open or to have the authenticaten details stored in the phone manually. The level I'm talking about is where your phone automatically authenticates using the sim card when you happen to go near an access point, and then manage to do a handoff with no manual steps involved.

I'm not saying multipath TCP will be very nice for mobiles, but it will mostly be home and work networks that will be used, just like how it is for wifi use in the mobiles today.

As for 2 second handoff being smoother than anything else out there today, that is just not true. The situation for phones doing handoff with EAP-SIM/AKA is pretty similar if not better.
Miranda is for legal proceedings. I am in favor of getting as much info as possible before erasing him from the face of the planet. Who cares if it is inadmissible. Here is a kid with scholarships and naturalized randomly blowing up his neighbors for allah(presumably), we need to know why and how he became radicalized, we don't need more evidence for trial.