skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could have something to do with a pending deal with AMG which would lead to a very different development cycle. http://www.leftlanenews.com/aston-martin-in-talks-for-amg-en...

From a reliability standpoint there have been more problems with them than their German counterparts (ie: Lamborghini - engineered by Audi with Italian design, or Porsche). From an engine perspective this move makes a lot of sense with the rising cost of compliance with EU emission standards.

Cars will continue to look awesome, will be more reliable and cheaper (relatively) to service.
you're asking if something is as simple as a ferarri?
>But you are correct that if someone only wants Photoshop, they only pay $19.99/month with no annual commitment.

The $19.99 for photoshop is with an annual commitment, it's $30 without it.
wheezy is a version alias for v7.

testing is testing. it points to the version that is on testing, be it 7-wheezy, or 8-whatever.

the only exception to the rule is 'sid'. debian sid is always the bleeding edge, it never becomes a proper version.

btw, i hate every versioning alias scheme that does not force the number to appear. such as debian, ubuntu, android... it's all just idiotic.
Neat information, but that map is very difficult to parse.
That really depends.

They do sound way, way better though.

I got to drive a Vantage GT4 on the racetrack recently: http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshu/8368748201/in/set-7215763...
I wish I knew how much I could do at age 15. Once you complete one large project, it feels like you can just keep trying. Yet you will never have so much time as you did in your teens. I would tell my younger self to just work on something, even if not a start up. Work on something just so you can see yourself improving. That way one day you won't ever think something is impossible.
>support his immorality because he helps them get free things.

What a terrible argument. I have to support government thuggery, or else I'm a freeloading terrorist? I've never had a MU account, and I definitely don't look to Kim Dotcom's actions for moral guidance; but, I reckon I support the notion that the DOJ ought to follow the law. If that means that Dotcom gets away with something, well then so be it. Fix the law, don't just ignore it or make it up as you go.
That doesn't seem unreasonable at all. There are plenty of power users like myself who do pretty much everything in Dropbox, and there are also plenty of tiny little files created every day that can count towards that.

For example, deep down in my Dropbox I have a Code directory, which has plenty of other folders for most of the personal projects I work on. If I create a rails project, that puts in a bunch of basic files which can easily count for 100. I initialize a git repository on there and that can generate a few hundred more files. All of those add up quickly.

Here's the results of a few commands showcasing the size of my personal dropbox, and I'm sure there are other power users who are similar to me.

ls -aR Dropbox | wc -l

74397

du -sh Dropbox

32G (Just to note, .dropbox.cache accounts for 10G)
Some pay-as-you-go services are prepaid and thus don't have that problem (e.g. NearlyFreeSpeech.net, DiamondCard.us, I think Skype). I'm curious about collecting from postpaid customers too, both for pay-as-you-go and fixed per-month models (unless paid-per-month Internet services are always prepaid?).
If that's 1 billion new objects created every day, then I believe that puts them somewhere in AWS's top 1 customer.
Hmm, except that http://www.bingiton.com is simply redirecting to http://www.bing.com.

Am I missing something?

Added in edit

So risking selection bias I've just performed 5 identical searches with Google and Bing. One was so-so, and the other four were clearly better with Google. I'll see if I can set up my own blind tasting with Google, Bing, and DDG, but it's not looking good for Bing. It will be interesting to see if the blind version gives different results.
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I've always wondered why YouTube doesn't push seriously into the video game and eSport streaming business.

Most streamers have YouTube channels that they advertise on Twitch. YouTube is obviously massively popular, and could possible grant more audience to eSport streamers. YouTube has streaming, but it feels like a side-project.
Hey, thanks for the feedback! What were you doing with Soundslice when it felt slow -- were you zoomed out (such that there were a ton of annotations visible on the page)? Or was it just slow in general, even when it was zoomed in?
check out gxstream
The story behind [3]: http://blog.twitch.tv/2013/04/regarding-todays-assorted-inci...
A similarly off-topic question: Why isn't "automatically crop margins" a standard feature on all PDF viewers?

I don't care if it perfectly matches the way the PDF is supposed to look printed out, I just want to read the paper. I can scroll through web pages and flip through PDF pages just fine, but I loathe mixing the two metaphors, so I have to be in "fit page" mode. I'd find entire pages of PDFs perfectly legible on my 11' netbook or 6' e-reader, if only the damned things would crop out all of that wasted blank space and use their entire screens for the content.

No, the zoom feature on most PDF readers is not adequate, because you then lose the ability to progress exactly one page forward and backward at a time (at least, this is the case on every reader I've used). Not to mention, who wants to do that manually every time they want to read a paper?
Maybe some day. I'm from Portugal so it's a bit far from the Bay Area. Is this just a side project, do you have any greater plans for this? You already have a very nice domain.
RPG 'Beautiful Escape: Dungeoneer' - tasteless or genius?
So I played this little RPG that involves locking people in a basement and torturing them. Not really my thing, but I can't work out if it's a work of undiscovered genius, or if it's just plain sick. Anyone familiar with it who'd care to voice their opinion?

Review and download link in case you want to get an idea of it: --> http://www.wheretoplayfreegames.com/2013/04/beautiful-escape-dungeoneer.html
Why Do NPR Reporters Have Such Great Names?
> Young industrial design graduates have a very hard time finding work in the field.

RISD Industrial Design graduates often end up in software UI design, actually.
> The client might see an OK response to the first call and error responses to the others, but from the server's perspective, it's the same as if the call had only been made once. That's what makes it idempotent.

This seems like a rather hollow meaning of idempotency. HTTP is a communications protocol. Why bother specifying idempotency if it doesn't apply to the communications?

The client gets no benefit at all if the server doesn't faithfully serve idempotent responses, and in fact a great deal of the benefit of idempotency is lost. Specifically, the client cannot reasonably resume a dropped connection if the server changes its responses during a retry scenario (which RFC2616 says the client should do). Would it be idempotent if the first response to "PUT /foo" was 204 and the second response was 405?
Are there any publications regarding how much money Twitch streamers make?

I imagine actual regular casters of top eSports, like LoL and SC2, are making much more money than some dude streaming World of Warcraft.
maybe adjust your landing page copy based on that?
>Here in the real world a desktop environment like Unity is a whole lot more than just a window manager.

That is why we distinguish between 'window manager' (only manages windows) and 'desktop environment' (a whole lot more).
Well, people don't Instagram entire project directory trees with months or years of cruft, but they will stick those in their Dropbox. I would kind of expect Dropbox to boast much higher numbers.
how do i check zapier status?
> coming from a culture which pulls in media from all over the english speaking world

I really enjoyed this about Australia. When I was there we liked to turn on the TV each morning to watch the cartoons, because they had stuff from England and India and all over the place.
ETA: Seems the answer is "yes".

More like "it depends" or maybe "if you want it to be". For the vast majority of basic use cases (listening to music using XMMS, Rhythmbox, Youtube videos, etc.) it usually "just works" with most recent Linux distros on most non-esoteric hardware. At least that's been my experience using that last 5 or 6 Fedora releases, on a variety of hardware.

Now, if you want to get into fiddling with JACK vs. PulseAudio and tweaking ALSA, etc., then you can get into some complicated shit, most of which I don't understand, which I why I just leave it alone. But, I'm not doing specialized audio production and editing stuff either. That's a whole different world, which I can't speak to at all.
Sad for Fireworks that was a very good tool for WebDesign. I might be switching to Corel Draw as I dont want to have anything to do anymore with Adobe.
Insanely cool Macintosh SE mod - MpxPlayer
For everyone claiming sound is a problem, there are dozens of users for whom it just works. Most of them are not passionate enough about sound to say it just works.
Sounds like someone was hired in the PR/Marketing team and this was the result of their effort.

"Dropbox has how many users? Wow! We should have a conference! imagine if we just get 1% of the users at the conference! Imagine if we charge those attendees $350! WOW - I am a marketing GENIUS!"
Oh yeah, I forgot that one - insanely cool hack by Guillaume Charmes: running firefox+vnc from any server with a single command:

docker run creack/firefox-vnc
Ctrl+F "ajax" isn't finding anything, so...

The poster here goes by "ajax" on more useful communication channels (i.e. IRC). He's one of the most competent hackers I've ever been able to work with, and his ethos comes through loud and clear here: If code is broken, fix it. If code is being misused, stop abusing it. If code is missing, write it.
Obviously, there are worse failing modes than ending up running a company you love. :)
2/3 of the DOJ budget is just FBI and the Federal Bureau of Prisons. ATF and DEA are also part of the mix. Actual litigation resources is only $3.3 billion, or about the equivalent of three large law firms. For an agency tasked with prosecuting everything from rapes in Indian country to to international crime rings.
I think GP's point was that you either 'deal with it' or find someone else (a packager for a distribution) to deal with it on your behalf, if you are having issues then a distribution is a possible solution.
What it shows is that the server is not configured to return a custom error page when an exception occurs. Beyond the obvious usability issue, this may be used by an attacker to identify sites that leak internal information. It's not a vulnerability per se, but it's a gateway to helping find them.

More info: https://asafaweb.com/Scan?Url=telegraphcottages.co.uk#Custom...
Are they using a public lib to achieve the resizing?
Clean easy to use, good job !
I have a proposal that's in one sense the best of both worlds: auto-canceling subscriptions. Like where you automatically stop charging the user if they stop using your service.

I take it that the cognitive overhead of perennially re-evaluating whether you're getting your money's worth is a big reason developers like pay-as-you-go. And the biggest reason you wouldn't be getting your money's worth is that you're not using the service at all.

That's how my startup does our tiered pricing and I just wrote a blog post trying to convince other startups to do the same: http://blog.beeminder.com/autocancel

EDIT: I thought I'd try spinning off a separate discussion on auto-canceling subscriptions if folks are interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5664998
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Auto-Canceling Subscriptions
Well, Dropbox bought Mailbox, which hints that they are keen to 'consumerize' at least some of their business. Which I'm wary about- like when my cellphone provider makes an app to view my bill, the results are invariably awful. There's a lot to be said for focusing on your core competency, but I can understand the desire to not be another "dumb pipe".
They don't even own DBX.com... which is the trend these days. They should be trying to get it with all their money.
Older thread with more comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5663581
Google services survive if they make money, aren’t social
> Then a question might be: what is the relevant literacy-like skill?

How about "I'm terrible with names."
Yeah, I'd like to add pretty much all engines. Currently I'm not dedicated any cycles to the project as we're in crunch mode getting our game done. But after that I plan to head back to it. First engines on my list are the various cocos2d variants.
Yes, if they are offering it to the general public.
Drop-in replacement of Django admin
I tried, but Bing really didn't give me results that were more germaine to what I was looking for. While it wasn't quite as bad as Cuil, it still wasn't great. I switched to DDG a while back and have been much much happier.
Using Google Glass: stuck in traffic
I like this concept but it is a client that can cater for this schedule.

I work three days a week as a consultant and the rest of the week I work on my product http://weekplan.net

Yes you have to context switch a bit, but you can deal with urgent stuff for both the client and your product on an ongoing basis.

It is easier to find a client that is ok for you to work only three days a week, and this is very important because it makes finding clients easier and therefore you re not distracted from your product.

Also because I can't work on my product for three days, it gives me some perspective on what I am doing and recharge the motivation battery constantly.
Friendster was the extreme case because, of the poor management behind the company. For instance, they went through 4 CEO's over a short period of time and they chose to do a full rewrite from Java to PHP instead of trying to scale the service and because, the rewrite wasn't implemented properly it had to be rewrote again a couple of years later. Moreover instead of sharding/portioning, Friendster chose to scale their service by purchasing an SAN and using daisy-chained MySQL which resulted in considerable slave lag. For comparison, Facebook on the other hand used colleges to "portion" their database in the early stages of the company.

Instead of doing the rewrite, Friendster should have focused on trying to scale the service like Twitter did by bringing in PivotalLabs - if Friendster sharded their database for instance it would have helped them immensely and may have resulted in a different outcome for the company.
This is a pretty awesome article on the topic, and I tend to agree that it pretty strongly depends on who you're targeting as a market. In my experience, developers like pay-as-you-go, but management of most stripes seem to prefer tiering, even if it isn't a company you'd necessarily call "enterprise". Tiering might cost more money, but is less hassle--especially if you've got a yearly subscription option.
Yes, I can see how it would annoy some content creators too. I'll check out the TOS for sure, thanks.
Am on debian squeeze, and am not able to find out how to switch between soundcards as the default. Sure I can fire up VLC or Audacity and select within, but the default movie player picks the default sound card and I can't see a way to change it. A minor gripe, probably user error on my part. Also youtube etc use the default soundcard.
You're forgetting perhaps the most powerful ethos of ajax: If the code can be deleted, nuke it.
I think he was trying to argue that "good" is subjective. That Ferrari/Porsche aren't necessarily good, as it depends on what you value. If you value simplicity and reliability, perhaps you would view Toyota/Honda as superior.
this was just a matter of time
It's certainly a very good deal for Adobe.

As a customer I don't feel it's a good deal for me at all as it forces me to pay for upgrades and products many of which I don't want, and divorces the money I pay from any specific product, so that I can no longer choose to reward products which address my needs, and ignore those which don't. I have no particular attachment to Fireworks for example, but Adobe streamlining their product offering and making it into a subscription suite only subsidises things like Adobe Bridge which simply shouldn't exist, at the expense of apps and features which customers actually want. It's around $80 a month in the UK for Adobe CC, and of course they will increase this gradually over time as more customers are locked in.

Given the CS updates of the last few years, I have trouble finding reasons to upgrade from CS5, which works fine for me currently, and have no interest in paying them money every month to change the UI around arbitrarily and add more misfeatures like 'Save for Microsoft Office' in CS Illustrator, or reinforce the lack of working interchange between InDesign CS versions (in order to force upgrades). As a long-term customer it feels like Adobe updates are now more focussed on forcing participation in the upgrade treadmill than adding features or improving performance, and this move to subscription pricing with a 'creative cloud' just reinforces this trend - Adobe is now all about customer lock-in and forcing customers to pay in-perpetuity, rather than producing great products. The last great product they produced was Lightroom, and I've seen nothing impressive in the CS since that (for my use). One telling result of this move is that they have now withdrawn the 'perpetual license' that they started selling last year - that lasted 1 year it seems.

Perhaps this is inevitable in the mature stage of a corporation, but I'm sad to see what was once a scrappy underdog fighting the likes of quark become focussed on keeping wall street rather than their customers happy.
Is there a github branch?
It's Lisp, so writing about Lisp rather than in Lisp is potentially awesome, e.g. the ideas page lists "serious documentation projects" and "Maccarthy fanfic" as possible entry points.

One of the distinguishing features of Lisp is that people write love songs to it.
If you owned a retail store, and someone came in every day yelling and screaming and breaking things, would you say they should have the right to do so, since the store is open to the public?
For the most part, sound is not still a problem.

I commonly use 3 machines where I want sound (work,home,laptop) running a variety of different distros (arch,debian,ubuntu) and sounds works for me in all of them, mostly alsa although ubuntu is pulseaudio.

In the 99% case it just works, the only config I have to do is for my external DAC and that requires a few line config file (telling alsa to default to using my DAC rather than the first card it finds)
Adobe Creative Suite going subscription-only
Why? If you really feel strongly that this is practical and everything should be allowed, you can go ahead and offer your own Nazis-and-pedophiles-welcome streaming service. I don't see why others should have their freedom of association revoked just because of your personal whims.
I'd always taken "dialect" to refer more to idiomatic differences than pronunciation differences in regional language usage. The canonical example in the US being the variation in what people call a carbonated beverage, whether it's "soda", "pop", "coke" (note the lower case: in parts of the South, "a coke" is a carbonated beverage, regardless of brand; if you want a Coke, and don't want to clarify, you should ask for a "Coca-cola"), or anything else.
HSBC Bank USA was not the entity that laundered the money. The target of the DOJ probe and the organization that paid the fine was HSBC Holdings, the U.K. entity.

If you want to argue that HSBC the larger entity had a presence in the U.S., even though the problems did not arise out of that U.S. presence, how do you deal with the fact that Megaupload had U.S. servers?
9-to-5 is obsolete
We Want You to Speak at #MozCon 2013
Does anyone use Gimp, professionally?
If they start mining our creativity data, the internet has officially jumped the shark.
The "Grouponification" of Reading
Wrong username/password for the demo or has some asshole changed them?
Fascinating topic, but the presentation ... well,
let me just offer Edward Tufte as a resource:

https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi
> JavaScript is the fastest interpreted language...

A nitpick: Current Javascript implementations are fast specifically because they are not interpreted. Look at V8 or JagerMonkey; those are JITting compilers, not interpreters.
So here's the thing - they're not actually that good. Let me preface this by saying that a) my perspective isn't a normal consumer one -- my business has put tens of thousands of miles on various Aston Martin models (we rent them) and b) the last model I've dealt with extensively is an '06 DB9, so things may have changed a lot in the past few years.

But that being said, despite being IMHO the most gorgeous cars on the road, Astons are not particularly well-engineered.

First, we had an '02 Vanquish and an '03 Vanquish, both of which had a very fundamental and deeply expensive flaw in the transmission design. Without getting too deep into it, they used a "auto manual" style transmission, which was basically a 6-speed manual combined with hydrolic actuators to shift automatically. No manual clutchwork required (same design, basically, as BMWs SMG). On just about all similar cars, after a while (i.e. 12k - 15k miles) the clutch needs to be replaced. On Ferraris and Lamborghinis, it's a simple job that costs a few $thousand - drop the transmission, replace clutch and flywheel, and you're good. On both the Vanquishes, the way in which the clutch would fail would literally destroy the entire transmission, and we TWICE had to spend $15,000 to rebuild the entire transmission after a failed clutch (one on each car). I've never seen another car with design like that, and since it happened the exact same way on two different cars, we're pretty sure it's endemic to the design.

Move to the later models - we had a bunch of 05 & 06 DB9s, and they just weren't great. The brakes were notoriously bad, the bodyflex was particularly bad on the convertibles, and they suffered repeated electrical gremlins.

So from my purely technical perspective as a heavy user of Astons, I'd say I'm not impressed with their engineering.

NOW - that all being said, I'm not going to make any judgment about this guy and his work at Tesla and what this means about that. There is far too much that goes into the production of a car to make any real judgment call about things to come -- Astons could have been beautifully engineered and then ruined with bad supplier decisions, that were outside this guy's control. Etc. etc.

So them's my $0.02.
There's a good NuGet package for dealing with this now: http://brendanforster.com/blog/custom-server-headers-bad-for...
A graphic designer is typically associated with print and advertising (typography, layout). A visual designer is typically associated with apps (icon design, look and feel, design language). Obviously there is a lot of overlap and it's not hard for a graphic designer to get a job as a visual designer (most of the ones I've worked with, and my wife, are trained graphic designers working in visual).

Now how about motion designers (visual specialty)? Or 3D model designers (visual but usually industrial or game designers in this role)? Or interaction designers (UX but not visual related)? Or visual production artists (not really design, but often done by visual designers)? Or visual designers who specialize in pixels vs. visual designers who specialize in vectors?

The field is very diverse.
Destiny, who is a very controversial streamer, (and probably doesn't make this much anymore) said he made about 3.5k/month from streaming 1.5k for lessons. He was a pretty heavy streamer with lots of viewers. This was 2 years ago though so the numbers may have changed.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/g7q91/iam_destiny_i_qu...
Curiosity and The Practice