skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been a fan of Fw for many years and now primarily use Sketch. It doesn't have the raster capabilities of Fireworks (Pixelmator's there when I need to work w/ bitmaps), but it has the same concept of Stylized Shapes and Shape Groups instead of Layers.

Lately I've also enjoyed its "Copy CSS Attributes" feature for building linear gradients or shadows visually, then getting code which I can quickly use in browser.
Pepper Hamilton LLP on Bitcoin & Federal Regulatory Considerations
Chromebooks should be able to support USB serial if you unlock them into developer mode (which is supported).
None of those are interpreters. You're trying to compare Javascript against other JITted / compiled languages. Mozilla themselves claim that asm.js is only about 2x slower than C.
It's harder to detect the framework when ASP.NET MVC is used. No view state in the source code, no .aspx extensions and the server response headers identifying IIS and ASP.NET can be removed. There's always HTTP server fingerprinting but you're moving on past the low-hanging fruit now.
Reliability has always been a criticism of Aston Martins. Apart from that though, stunning cars to both look at and drive. A friend is a car dealer and he lent me a Vantage V8 for a while. This was the cheapest, most base level Aston Martin, but still a stunning piece of kit in every department. Have to say, despite the reliability criticisms, it didn't fail in any way.

One thing that I didnt expect was how easy it was to drive. Im a rubbish driver and one thing I hate is changing cars. I get used to my car and other cars a like aliens to me, until I get used to them. But I was at home in the Vantage with in a mile. So, so easy to drive.

Quite what Tesla will get out of it though, Im not sure. Perhaps its a quality / value / production thing. I do think that in context Aston Martins are very good value.
That's true, I've lived in Texas and now California. The accents vary a lot, even within Texas, DFW, South Texas, Austin have slightly varied accents; the only thing in common is when Texans say "ya'll"
When I resize the window the day counter at the top overlaps itself. And why is it upside down in the first place?
I've also been going through SICP, using racket. However, I've been using Neil van Dyke's SICP-compliant support package, so I feel my use is closer to SICP scheme than racket (if that claim even makes sense)

I use this line at the top of my scripts :

#lang planet neil/sicp

See here:
http://www.neilvandyke.org/racket-sicp/
Wow... this is extremely anti-business. I don't think you understand that offering a service puts you in a situation of both liability and obligation. As it is, you don't technically have an obligation to do more than is provided for in your terms; however, the reality is that, in order to be successful, you need to do whatever your customers require within the sphere of services and offerings that can be expected based on your claims and advertisement.

Requiring businesses to provide their products or services to absolutely anyone -- and continue doing so even when a user has clearly violated the spirit of service or product usage (because in this scenario there would be little or no value to any kind of terms of use) -- means taking away any means any business would otherwise have of protecting its revenue stream in reasonable ways.

Freedom of speech on private forums... now you're coming across as either a troll (successful) or a kid who's gotten banned for posting too much porn/hate speech/insulting mods too many times.

Anyway, there are good reasons that governments shouldn't restrict a business' ability to choose not to do business with entities as they wish.
I really dislike the "it brings new users" argument for piracy. If it made business sense to provide a free entry to their product they would. Pirates aren't somehow doing them a favor and its moral acrobatics to pretend like they are.

For students they have heavily discounted licenses and I know a few low-quality(I don't know anyone worth their salt who pirates it), professional graphic designers who use pirated copies. It is lost revenue and if they wanted to provide demos that should be up to them not the pirates.
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This is completely anecdotal, but I've noticed very little difference after moving from Iowa to Boulder, CO although they're considered different dialects here. However, I can pick out people who live here from Texas or California almost instantly as well as anyone from the south/east coast. Of course, I'm not refuting this at all, just giving my own 2 cents.
Also, if you live in Florida, Kentucky, Massachusetts, or South Carolina and have comprehensive insurance, there is no deductible for a windshield replacement.
Your time should be a lot more valuable than that, so even if it was free you should evaluate what Dropbox is worth to you. If your work depends on Dropbox in some manner, it will most likely prove worthwhile.
My neighbor used to have an F430 or F360 (I forget) and told me that he allocated $25k a year for maintenance and clutch replacement.

The DCT on the 458 is rated for the life of the car, though.

Note that Aston was sold in 2007 and I believe engineering quality changed after that.
> I remember reading about how Japanese advertizers would use Google queries in ads instead of URLs

This is probably because it's hard for the Japanese to correctly remember web addresses, since they're in the Latin alphabet. By having them remember search queries instead, this problem can be easily avoided.
> Striving to eliminate as much as possible the reporter's subjectivity results in what we see frequently in the media today: "He said, she said" journalism where the reported facts consist merely of reports that varying parties made various claims.

Wikipedia does that too to some degree. The goal for claims in a wikipedia article is that they be verifiable, not that they be true. The definition of a "verifiable" claim is that somebody made that claim in a "reliable source". So people wanting to push a point of view will pad out the article with references to other people expressing that view. Pointing out that the view is wrong and explaining why tends to be discarded as "original research".

In instances when the conventional wisdom is wrong but widely reported, wikipedia will tend to report that conventional wisdom.

The good news is that often when this happens, you can find what contrary points of view are being suppressed by skimming the associated talk page. It's usually worth doing that on controversial and/or current topics.
Actually, no; "data" can be either plural or singular.

In this case, you can substitute "data" with "information", and "most information isn't big" definitely sounds grammatical.

Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/data
Fisker then left Fisker Automatives, and that company is now in the process of dying or dead.
Also, talking about facebook, facebook is totally inefficient and not economically viable.

Seriously, a mainstream website to share photos and comments, have you seen their datacenters ? And facebook is not even a search engine. So what's google then ? Barely an assisted regex search.

You won't meet new people on facebook, you won't gather for new activities with strangers, it won't list available jobs opportunities or actually make relevant stats to tell people what jobs are needed, you won't find local businesses unless all of them subscribe to facebook, you won't post ads for something you neighbor could need.

So what is facebook for then ? Just to tell people you know, that you're making... a party. Or to advertise about your hyped bar.

Facebook is this huge device you connect to but can't use the data, because it's a trade secret. It's plain useless. That's because it use the star network pattern, instead of the mesh pattern.

I guess the main, elephant-in-the-room excuse, is because people are afraid of sex offenders.
Federal case law protects the rights of people to refuse service based on protecting business interests. LegalZoom has a nice blog post on it [0]. Unruh Civil Rights Law does prevent arbitrary discrimination though.

[0]: http://www.legalzoom.com/us-law/equal-rights/right-refuse-se...
Ha! Caught you not mentioning your blog posts while I was adding this comment to my "canvas performance" bookmark list and saw a familiar name.

http://simonsarris.com/blog/tag/performance
Visual design is concerned about aesthetics, or at least how visual characteristics influence usability. Interaction design is more concerned about the overall story and workflow of the artifact. These are quite different jobs.
Post author here. To try to answer some questions that came up off-line:

We do try to be clear about this policy up front:

> If you stop using Beeminder, we automatically stop charging you. We only want your money if you're actively getting value from Beeminder!

And here's a thought experiment: Suppose you subscribe to the print version of The Atlantic Monthly -- like actually delivered to your house (stay with me) -- and they have a little tracker that tells them when you crack it open. If you didn't ever open last month's issue when it's time to send the new one, that's it, they don't send it and don't charge you again.

Even with the magic tracker, that's probably no good because you might want to collect them. Not likely but they probably shouldn't presume you don't want what you explicitly paid for since it has possible value whether or not you open it. I know one startup (http://serps.com) with a similarly watertight excuse not to auto-cancel subscriptions: SERPs constantly fetches and compiles data for you. You can take a multi-month hiatus and still be accumulating value that you'll use whenever you come back. (It also costs SERPs money each month to do that.)

But for the rest of us there's really no way the user could prefer to keep getting charged without any possible value accruing.
Electronic Arts Selected for the Future of Star Wars Gaming
To the space station -- and beyond -- with Linux
It would be great to see Sketch available for the PC. In the meantime, for of those on Windows, I would recommend trying Xara Photo and Graphic Designer.

http://www.xara.com/uk/products/designer/

They have a free trial, but they are actually giving away an older version of the software for free until 20th May 2013 (in the hope that users will upgrade, no doubt)

http://www.xara.com/us/specialoffers/designer/

Xara is more of an alternative to Illustrator but it includes some basic bitmap manipulation tools.

I have used Xara for many years and, in my opinion, it has a much better interface than Illustrator and is much more responsive in terms of screen redraw and speed. It's not completely equivalent to Illustrator in terms of features, but I would recommend downloading the trial (or the free version) and trying it out to see if it's suitable.
You can prefix your command with pasuspender to temporarily disable pulseaudio. This is usually what I do. It's kind of inconvenient and half the time I forget to do it, so sometimes I just write a little launcher script that includes it.
SB 327 would prohibit North Carolinians from purchasing vehicles from Tesla
> Once you do something as drastic as changing the default window manager on a distro you are largely on your own.

That's crazy. When did Linux get so _fragile_?

A windows manager is the application that handles windows management. Applications (browser, word processor) don't care what WM is running, and neither should utilities.

Changing a WM is strait forward. Exit, run 'xwmconfig', then startx and I'm back in.

Maybe Slack has me spoiled, or something - are the so-called modern Linuxi really so crufty that changing a WM cripples the host?
Isn't that the way it should be? Especially in a production environment - not upgrading unless you're sure your core packages don't break your product?
Real question: assuming you live alone is 'next to your computer' eg in your own home considered a safe place?
What's the risk of a physical robber stealing bits of paper next to your computer desk then hacking your accounts?
I think all of these dialects are being lost and becoming the "TV/Movie" way of pronouncing things. IE, most people in Pittsburgh sound like most people in Chicago or Los Angeles (which all sound like the dialect we hear on TV), but you get certain types (especially working class) who have been more isolated (didn't go away to college, etc...) that have very strong dialects.
I wonder what the thought process was behind allowing comments on a blog posting like this.
The systemic dismantling of what it means to believe
Crash Notifications for Your Repositories
I just generated a list of all the 3 letter scrabble-legal .io domains available (4 letter domains are going as we speak). Any interest?
"It really isn't."

"Not really."

"Linux sound hasn't been a problem for some of us for, oh, I don't know, well over 10 years"

"Sound on Linux wasn't a problem 5 years ago. In fact, it wasn't a problem even earlier."

"Sound setup bad? Not compared to 5 or 10 years ago, no. During that period (I can guarantee!) both Win and OSX were ALSO -miserable- experiences."

"No, sound is not a problem on Linux. I wonder if it ever was actually."

"I don't even understand where this myths come from."

Another reason I gave up on Linux was all the denialists that insisted that everything works fine on Linux and that if it's not working fine for me then I must be doing something wrong.

I don't understand how one can come here and say "Not a problem" edgewise to so many comments saying "Yes, definitely". Never listen to a fanatic, I guess.
Were they any fun to drive? After Ford bought Aston, I always assumed the cars would feel like souped-up Tauruses with Connolly leather interiors, but I've never actually sat behind the wheel of an Aston.
Is Pixelmator ever coming to Windows?
I'll put it this way: grandparent's example was from 7 years ago. If Wales was not a figurehead, his chosen example should be a little more recent, shall we say?
Same here. I particularly liked its ability to do frame by frame animated gif editing easily. RIP.
I noticed these two features. What feature does the gray bar that you can toggle by single-clicking pertain to?

Gray bars: http://i.imgur.com/hic2avC.png
"Software is hard. The way to fix it is to fix it, not sweep it under the rug."

Love this line. Been thinking a lot about this as I work on scaling a large-ish SaaS product that has been in the market for 18 months.

One other interesting dynamic: sales teams always think it's better to add things than to remove things (after all, you can't sell the things you remove), which I now realize is partially the reason many enterprise software packages feel "bloated" over time.
> What does that even mean?

I think it means 'use Slackware'.
Moving to India: 12 Ridiculous things that make no sense
Given that works of the US government are automatically in the public domain, it's not surprising that its publications had useful source material for very general summaries, for the English Wikipedia anyway. But article introductions are a pretty specific case, and there are few reasons to change them often. I don't think they're good proof of bias in the details of articles.
Origin of email
Aw! This was super kind, and I like the idea of stressing proportionality. It's nice to be told that the abstraction can wait - I've felt like I should be abstracting more at times, but it's not my natural instinct, so it's nice to be told I'm doing things right on that front! I feel the same way about anyone who can teach older (or younger!) mathematicians - keep on keeping on.
I'm glad Docker is getting this level of attentions. I like that they have focused on making building and managing containers easy, and that this functionality stands alone. Compare this to, e.g. Red Hat's OpenShift, which implements a similar container system but bundles it as part of a larger PaaS platform.

https://www.openshift.com/wiki/architecture-overview

https://www.openshift.com/wiki/introduction-to-cartridge-bui...
Oh god, it's a recursive acronym where the first word can also be an acronym for something else. I'm not sure what you would call that. An ambiguously recursive algorithm?
This was exactly my big gripe with the story, particularly Swisher's insistence on writing it as "rags to riches" (even using that very well worn cliche verbatim). The fact is, Systrom, like Zuckerberg, was practically guaranteed success in life, starting with his $30k/year prep school. This isn't rags to riches, it's well-off to obscenely rich, or if you prefer, how to go from the 1% to the .1%.

Not that it isn't a story, it sure ain't Horatio Alger, though.
You know what, this article makes more sense on What Ive is doing at Apple than any other I've read. That's why Apple is unique in the industry, because while the other guys are thinking - skeumorphic or flat - Ive is dealing with Human Experience of device/system. Everything else than that is a fad, and they come and go so fast, whereas we still have our senses and bodies unchanged.
At about that same time, members of Counter Logic Gaming were claiming to make 5-6k a month each streaming, and that they actually lost money going to tournaments and winning them, if they had just put in a normal amount of time streaming over those weekends.
Why is Facebook blue? The science behind colors in marketing
Free vector illustration program for Windows (until 20 May)
From my own personal perspective it might be a good idea, because I think it really messes with your branding -- I saw the WebCode page and knew it felt familiar and thought it was "that cool app that outputs Obj-C code" but looked in the feature list and couldn't find it, got very confused, and then did a google search...

It doesn't help that, as far as I can see, PixelCut doesn't have its own homepage, and there's no link from the one app page to the other app page so I didn't even know they were made by the same developer without looking at the copyright notice at the bottom!

Just my opinion anyway. Great app either way :)
A social platform for record collectors
there's lots of online resources to keep learning (coursera, udacity, mit open courseware, etc), but the real benefit of the phd is the structured environment and the experience of a mentor to help guide you. Getting a phd just cause you want to learn more is like joining the army because you want to get into shape.

If you are really self motivated and passionate you will enjoy your phd experience, though at that point you probably don't need a phd to begin with...

Despite these cons, going through a phd is amazing (in my experience). You're surrounded by lots of smart people studying the same thing (or close to it), which is significantly different than just relying on those who reply to your forum posts. When i go into the office and talk shop with students/other professors/my advisor i get to talk details (math, different approaches, similar work, etc) as opposed to having to setup the problem over and over again, simplifying the idea and methods... Ideas move fast, and with a good advisor and research group it's easy to stop caring about who is on what publication and be excited about contributing to a solution

Edit: there are a lot of people who take the stance that doing a phd is working slave labor for a professor over the course of 4-5 years of your prime - in a sense they're right, but then again, if money is all you care about then by all means don't do a phd...you won't enjoy the experience...there are lots of other ways to make money if that's what makes you happy
It is up to them, but the parent is arguing that it's a bad business decision, and I agree. Even their "student" versions are wayyy too expensive for people to dabble with (especially penny-pinching students).
True. However, there are also the more difficult-to-measure networking benefits of attending a conference like this.
Dropbox are a great technology-centered python shop. One may bump into a future co-founder, or a college senior may impress someone enough to be offered an internship, or an Ops guy could find inspiration in how they scale, etc. So it is possible that even if your direct day-to-day work doesn't depend on Dropbox, you could find it beneficial.
Note that for a huge amount of software functionality, the amount of tests required to "exercise full functionality" is infinite, and very rarely can we mathematically prove that a finite set suffices. When code is multi-threaded, for instance, this tends to happen a lot.
Nice. Bookmarked. I never liked how Youtube solved playlists. I like the URL pattern, because it makes it easy, to write a bookmarklet that turns all Youtube links on a page into a playlist. :)

Some room for improvement:
Please add title attributes to the buttons. Also the loop-button is a bit confusing to me. Maybe standard icons as seen in many other players are easier to understand. It would be nice, to have the volume slider slideable.

Mixtube did a similar thing, but seems to be broken at the moment:
http://mixtube.org/
Many streamers moved from Own3D to Twitch because Own3D was not making good on owed payments. Twitch needs competition to force it to improve its ToS, but it's been good for gaming.
> When the iPhone came out, nobody used touch devices.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_DS_sales

By the time the iPhone was released in 2007, more than 40 million DS units had been sold worldwide.

I think it was last year the iPhone managed to beat the DS for total combined sales.
The font is kinda awful here on Chrome/Win7.
What I'm saying is - contrary to your point of view - that there were workers revolutions against communism and that there weren't workers revolutions against capitalism.

I.e. a revolution of some type in Russia in 1917 would happen for sure because people were tired of monarchy. Not capitalism.
Learning from Rocky
Planet Money T-Shirt
I like the new description line of "Docker is an open-source engine which automates the deployment of applications as highly portable, self-sufficient containers" better than the old one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5609995. "Improved, as promised" seems to a major theme here. :)
I have the symbols memorized, and every keyboard I use regularly I've popped the keycaps off and rearranged them properly.

I have memorized my password in both modes.

All it takes is a quick glance at the keyboard to know which "mode" I'm typing in. Because whenever I type dvorak the keyboard looks Dvorak, when the keyboard looks qwerty it switches my brain that way.

I don't have Qwerty as an option on my computers. It's dvorak only.
Difficulty Focusing at Day Job (startup on the side) is Building
It has always been hard.

From time to time I get very invested and lost in my work (I work in finance) but I usually drift and think of my startup. I make sure to never actually work on anything at work but sometimes I'll read relevant news, Google to solve coding questions / issues I have and so on. Then some days it is just terrible. Literally just sit there staring at my computing in this sort mental pain and frustration.

My job is actually pretty good! illt really is ideal for what it is (accounting background and in corp finance). I certainly would be happy (presumably) if not for my newfound love of coding and creating spurred by my startup. But I can't help be so passionate for my startup that it remains on my mind all the time.

I just wish I could get a REAL month to work on it. Wake up and get to have nothing else in my way. The day job tires me out.

What do you do to get through it? I really can't afford to be without any income just yet unfortunately. At least the startup has monetization strategy baked in but with that isn't an option yet.

Any insight would be great. I'm going crazy.