skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The value proposition for Adobe's software-as-a-service offering is lacking for people who only use one of their products, or who don't already stay on the bleeding edge by paying for upgrades every 2-3 years.

Photoshop is the only Adobe product I use as a web developer, and I've been using it less and less as I do more backend and client architecture and less design implementation. For my needs, Creative Cloud is a really bad deal.

Creative Cloud might be a great value to people who use lots of Adobe products, and good for them. But even if this were a good value to me, I still wouldn't buy it. I do not trust software as a service, at least for software that runs solely on my own workstation. Unless Adobe wants to subsidize the cost of my own hardware, I don't believe that their subscription model benefits me as a consumer.

I think Creative Cloud will present an interesting challenge to the Open Source community. Open Source alternatives to Photoshop have kind of languished in recent years, and I wonder if Adobe abandoning traditional software licensing will spur new free software development.
Devil's Advocate: incorporating highly critical viewpoints into decision making could potentially make them better overall.
> what is the [maths] relevant literacy-like skill?

I'm deeply convinced that the answer to this is easy - the ones that programmers use.
What Is Idempotent in REST?

http://www.infoq.com/news/2013/04/idempotent
I read the same article. It said graduates during a recession may take up to a decade to have their wages catch up to what it might have been had they graduated during normal times.
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For what is worth:

1) Try music tech journalists first.

Computer Music, Keyboard, Future Music, The Mix, Electronic Musician, and such.

2) Also try "Popular Science" style of magazines.

3) Make sure your emails dont go directly to the SPAM folder. No plethora of URLS (looks like spam), capitals (looks like spam) etc. They should also not look like desperate pleas for publicity, or they will trash them manually.

Better send a short message to each journalist, to pitch the idea (1-2 paragraphs), and only then send the full thing, when they will be waiting for it.

4) Go with lesser players than Wired, Gizmodo et al. If those lesser players pick your story up, there are high chances it will also be picked by the majors (most news are recycled from source to source).
FWIW, Mike Moritz at Sequoia was a tech reporter before he became a VC.
I've been using CC since it came out - the killer feature for me is that you can install CC on all your computers - PC & mac with the same license key. As someone who hops platforms and computers all the time, it's fantastic.

I always used to pirate Adobe software, but the monthly pricing is very reasonable and you get all the Adobe software for the price, rather than web/print/video bundles like they used to. They've really turned around and made this pirate into a customer.
It is not that people can't do math. It is that other people (who supposedly can but in fact cannot OR will not do them properly) insist on them doing the math they do not need (like computing the second derivative of the unemployment rate) or doing wrong the math they DO need (like with their mortgages).

As long as people can add, subtract, multiply and basically understand what a division is, they can do math. The problem is they are scared at what other people tell them 'math' is.

I am a mathematician, a professor of mathematics and witness to what I have said.

Of course people cannot do 'math' when 'math' means being able to compute multiple integrals or roots of third degree polynomials. That is not 'math' that is UTTER RUBBISH EXCEPT FOR PROFESSIONALS in all caps. Really.

You do not expect the average man to be able to write a sonnet with alliteration, second order metaphors and in iambic, do you? And they call themselves "literate".

People are not lazy, they are scared. An the blame falls on BAD MATHS TEACHERS, in all caps. Really.
the threat to reveal his identity confirmed he made the right choice not to work there! he got a bad vibe and then something bad soon happened. bailing was a good call.
What cracks me up about whindshield damage is that every time I get a new car within 2 days or so I get a stone on the windshield chipping my otherwise perfect view. I always get it fixed but you can't help but notice the repair (especially at night they can be quite annoying).

Of course, after the initial maiden impact nothing else will ever happen for the duration of the ownership of the car.

This is probably somehow related to Murphy's law. The secret to these impacts seems to be that I'm behind the wheel and on any highway at all. I've contemplated not driving the car for 2 weeks after buying but I'd hate to admit that I'm getting superstitious about this.
That's a good one. And it seems you've made the common mistake to email news@. My general advice is: Never, ever email news@. A news site doesn't cover you, a writer does. So go after writers, not publications.

This article should outline all the steps you need to follow: http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/80121/How-To-Get-Media-...

(It should be easy to get a post based on the traction you have shown above)
There is a great deal of honest introspection that has to be done in order for someone to reach the conclusion that they are a #2 or #3 and not a #1. I find most people don't do that.

That being said the other side of the coin is once you know your strengths and how you operate you will find many people look at you as if you are broken if you admit you don't wish to be the "UberFounder" or CEO. It has also been my experience that many of the "UberFounders" or CEO's are threatened by a competent #2.
> The US government can take those away, they can go after the company I am purchasing services from, but they shouldn't be allowed to freeze my assets in other countries.

If you break the law in a given country that you have a business presence in (and derive income from), and simply deposit your money into a bank in another country, you think there should be no redress at all then?

I imagine there are treaties and agreements regarding asset seizure between many countries (UN agreements?), as part of the various "the wars on drugs" and RICO/Racketeering laws. I know very little of international law though, so maybe there are no such agreements/treaties/UN-resolutions, etc.

note: I am not speaking of the case in question, I am speaking generally.
Try gandi.net. They offer free whois privacy with registration and their prices on .io domains are VERY good. One thing you will have to do is let your credit card company know about the transaction as the charge will come from France and will be flagged as fraudulent (at least that was my experience with AMEX).
If you're not a professional designer and are looking for some Adobe suite alternatives on the Mac, may I suggest:

Pixelmator[1] (replaced Photoshop) Currently $15

Artboard[2] (replaces Illustrator) $29

Scribus[3] (Cross platform - replaces InDesign) $Free

These apps serve me well for basic Web/App Art, my resume, and the occasional flier. The only thing I do miss is the Illustrator XAML export plugin for when I work on WPF/Silverlight stuff.

[1]http://www.pixelmator.com

[2]http://www.mapdiva.com/artboard/

[3]http://www.scribus.net/canvas/Scribus
Wall Street bankers appear on the news on CNBC all the time.
Would you mind going a little more in depth about VP8? Last I heard it was supposedly amazing but that was awhile ago.
That's because mathematicians need notational flexibility, because more formal (unambiguous) syntax would hurt their ability to digest huge chunks of data at once. At least that's what I read somewhere in defence of mathematical, cryptic and ambiguous notation.

It sounds suspiciously similar to what Lispers say about macros and s-exps, btw ;)
MG Siegler is quite clearly not a reporter anymore. He's a venture capitalist and he writes infrequent opinion pieces on Apple and Google products for TechCrunch.
This might be problematic. Photoshop works for a lot of us because it is a stand alone application.

Curious to see what kind of lag issues will occur on a cloud based solution. As mentioned above, it seems more like an anti-piracy issue solution.

While Photoshop is the standard, several other applications exist that do a good job as well. They might lose market share over this move.
There's no real lock-in as long as you cushion your application code from their APIs and infrastructure reasonably well. I was worried about lock-in myself with a side-project I took on a year ago. I decided to go with with GAE despite experience with raw AWS, just because I was a one-man-team about an hour a day, and didn't have time for all the technical overhead. But I made sure that I could switch to more flexible hosting without much difficulty. Their Datastore might be the hardest to abstract away if you rely on it too much, so I wrapped it inside a non-queryable blob API that could really have any kind of backend to it.
Too bad the $50 plan is only with an annual commitment. It's $75 if you want month to month.
Sounds like a single layer 3 network but multiple layer 2 data links. Usually 'internet' is reserved for networks connected by a layer 3 device but a layer 2 device still has to make 'routing' decisions between the data link layers, which is usually called 'switching' and not routing.

I'm not sure if there is a common term for an aggregate collection of switched data link segments, perhaps "layer 2 network"?

In any case, using "internet" to refer to connected layer 2 data links isn't a particular strong abuse of the term in my mind.
it's not biased if it's true.

iPhone > Android ;)
Adobe is going to lose plenty of money and customers over this. I don't want to deal with trying to upload large files on 512 kbps upload. It's a truly stupid idea.
You only need to get approved if you're going over $10,000 USD monthly.

If you were doing that much in BTC trading each month, I doubt you'd use an unreliable platform like Coinbase to start with.
"The guy is full of him self without accomplishing anything that would warrant that."

This would unfortunately describe alot of the VCs out there very well indeed.
Performance Anomaly Detection in Node.js
I sympathize with the OP on all he says, but what does he mean by this, aren't these expressions synonymous, the only difference being the tone?:

> although saying “my bad” when you mean “my mistake” comes close

...and going further on the linguistic ambiguity route, most people saying "can't do" actually mean simply "I hate it / I'm not good at it, and because it's so much effort for met o do it I'd rather not have to do it"... and the only bad thing in it is the uberannoying implied "I don't want to learn it, don't try and teach it to me"...
This is how I would now explain what I've created for the cruise and travel industry. For a while I thought I was creating a tech company but it's become apparent that we're just using tech to reach an underserved audience and connect them with each other and with businesses who want to reach them in a new way. Plus, how can it be a tech company when I'm the only tech person.

My brother and I have found a new and interesting way to provide value to cruisers, travel agents and resellers and need help. Please contact me if you're interested in hearing more.
Well... I don't comment often, but as someone with a B.A. in mathematics who minored in philosophy, let me follow up on your comment:

Would a philosophy class really be good for high school students? Broadly speaking, I mean, not those 1 out of 100 students who are reading Sartre or Nietzsche (or even Dostoyevsky or Kafka) on their own, already, anyway.

A survey course, I mean, a 101-type of course, like you would see at a University. My feeling is that a course in introductory logic is the #1 most useful course that's missing in high school right now.

And again, there are going to be a few students for whom this would be redundant, but something like 99/100 students do not understand the machinery of thinking. If there's one thing my university education taught me, it's the machinery of thinking, carefully and rigorously. Most people never learn this, and I feel like this then precludes any understanding of anything advanced and even slightly abstract--and that includes both philosophy and (of course!) mathematics.
Here is one list of short .io names:

https://iwantmyname.com/blog/2012/05/100-shockingly-short-io...

and here is another:

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I did not bother to verify availability.
It's a delicate balance between accessibility (to your site and product) and good security practices (forced periodic password resets, force the use of special characters in passwords, etc).

The approach I like best so far is screening for the 1,000 or so most common passwords during account registration. Lists of these passwords are available from the Twitter Most Common Password list[0] or other leaks. If the user picks a password form this list then I politely ask them to pick another password.

Optional: Suggest passwords to users! Write a simple generator that mixes two inoffensive dictionary words, a few numbers and a symbol into a string that should be fairly easy to memorize (ex: 9Nitrogenchair$) to make the password-picking job easier for them.

[0] - http://elementdesignllc.com/2009/12/twitters-most-common-pas...
Apple extends banhammer to apps with sharing, recommendation and App search
Posting the same comment 4 times trying to sell a list is just ridiculous.

One comment was enough.
Why is it that something seems to be much appreciated by the community, but no journalist seems interested?

Hard to say. Bloggers are usually always hungry for content, but the popular blogs are harder to crack, as they get enough eyeballs that people compete to get on their sites. Remember that they're ultimately eyeing everything through a lens of "What is going to get me the most ad impressions and generate me the most revenue"?

Getting press coverage isn't necessarily as simple as "get on the front page of HN, get mentioned by $FOO publication". The field of PR is a big area, with a lot of accumulated idioms, patterns, experts, relationships, etc.

Should I continue writing emails to these people until they either block me or reply?

I would. What do you have to lose? Don't be annoying or whiny or turn into a stalker, of course. But there's a lot to be said for persistence.

Or should I skip tech journalists and try to find another way to make service visible to more people?

One thing I'm a big fan of, is the work of Ryan Holiday, author of Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of A Media Manipulator[1]. You might also find some value in a fairly basic book on PR like The New Rules of Marketing and PR[2] or some of the "Guerilla Marketing" stuff by Jay Conrad Levinson[3].

Also, if it's really important to you to get coverage, hiring a PR person isn't always a bad idea. I know there's been a lot of negative stuff said on HN lately about PR agencies and startups, but part of the "secret sauce" is the pre-existing relationships these guys have with journalists. It may or may not be fair, but a good PR person can help you get coverage that would be hard to generate organically. If you're even slightly interested, I know a good PR guy who might be able/willing to help. Shoot me an email and I can arrange an introduction.

One final thought, is to try using a press release submission service like PRWeb[4] or PRNewsWire[5]. It will cost you a little bit of money, but it's an option to get some attention. Note that you won't get TechCrunch / Gizmodo type coverage out of this (well, probably not anyway), but your thing should at least wind up listed in Google News.

There's also a lot of interesting PR related advice on Quora. Check out this question[6] and some of the "similar questions" links around it.

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Trust-Me-Lying-Confessions-Manipulator...

[2]: http://www.amazon.com/New-Rules-Marketing-PR-Applications/dp...

[3]: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3D...

[4]: http://www.prweb.com/

[5]: http://www.prnewswire.com/

[6]: http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-blogs-and-sites-a-new-sta...
Wow didn't see that coming I suppose Google knows what they’re doing though. Is KR also a general partner?

I threw up in my mouth a little bit reading the title.
Pixelmator1 was nice because it was a bug-for-bug clone of Photoshop 5 (not CS5, v5) including shortcut keys. Pixelmator2 was a step backward, IMO, without adding many new features except stability.

If you're going to throw away all your muscle memory anyway, I'd suggest looking at Acorn. http://www.flyingmeat.com/acorn/
Well the lack of ability to actually buy coins via Coinbase is certainly something specific you're doing. I know personally a few thousand dollars were not sent to Coinbase because Coinbase simply cannot accept transactions most of the time.

I'm shocked that months of running the service, and it's still very difficult to buy, and the only remedy is to try at specific times. It seems terrifically incompetent, despite the continual "we know and we're working on it!" line.

At the very minimum, you'd think you'd email customers that attempted a purchase to tell them you have capacity open. Or let them reserve. Or really, anything but what you're doing.
i think you mean DES not DSA.
I understand that wavelet is amazing, but am a little sceptical about it being used outside of a few specialist areas. The general trend seems to be towards using increased storage and power to avoid compression (raw), rather than making files smaller.
I'm trying the free trial of CC, but I can't work out how to actually run any of the apps. I click the "Apps" tab at the top but it just says "Learn More" next to everything?
What happened when my startup was featured in Techcrunch
Also, if you are doing low level graphics Snag It can be a good alternative for minor jobs.

http://www.techsmith.com/snagit.html
Ever heard of Chrome's inspector and just deleting certain nodes? 3 seconds you're done.
It's up to the publisher to do that, I know that there will be a kindle edition, but am not certain of any other formats. I imagine all of them will be DRM'd, sorry.

In the near future I will also have a performance chapter in a different book (written quite differently, and expecting more JS knowledge), but that title hasn't been announced yet. That text will have a DRM-free ebook for it, but you'll have to wait a lot longer.

Lastly I'll have learncanvas.com up at some point this summer, where I will begin posting a lot of canvas performance tips with live examples, among other things.

(The page count surprised me too. This is my first book, and it's been quite the overwhelming experience!)
Adobe explores cloud-enabled hardware
That's mainly directed at the person who wrote the essay (a math professor) and others like him who blame the students rather than themselves. I think he should be examining the state of math education in this country rather than chastizing the people it has failed.
The excellent Sketch does it quite well, better than Pixelmator IMO

http://www.bohemiancoding.com/sketch/

It's not a look alike of photoshop, it's entirely redesigned and is fabulous and worth it.
Well, Janellia is actually in my research area, so you pretty much nailed it.
My company performs security assessments for businesses, and man do I hate the perception that having a security company's logo or "certification" is the correct way to "prove security."

While, unlike most of the badges you see on sites, we do not perform recurring or daily scans, we still field requests for this type of seal all the time.

It's our policy to refuse them outright.

Our reasoning for this is twofold: primarily, it provides a false sense of security. As the article rightly points out, having a badge on your site does not make you secure. Sure, maybe it'll find some "low-hanging fruit" that you can fix, but it's not going to address major security concerns.

The second reason is to protect our own reputation. Security scans, at best, provide a snapshot in time--even if it's a recurring snapshot.

Security is a process, not a state; these seals and logos do everything to lull people into forgetting that.
When I hear, "I can't do math...", it gets immediately translated in my head to, "My math skill are on the level of a typical 5th grader, and I don't want to be asked to do math because it will expose an embarrassing ignorance." The author's approach to people that feel this way is likely to humiliate them further.
..but iOS is better than Android. ;)
Ask HN: Company/Individual producing analytic reports on startup scene in India
Do you know of a company/individual that focuses on producing analytic reports on startups in India?

For example reports of the kind produced by 'Wolfram|Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook'.

Possibly these variables on various graphs to get a quick picture of the scene - companies, founders, founder backgrounds, number of years of operation, funded by, valuations etc.

Or any of you interested in gathering these statistics and plotting graphs?
Moving exclusively to Creative Cloud feels like Adobe's way of admitting that their updates have become less and less impressive.
Currently available as-of-this-moment 3-letter .io domain names:

http://pastie.org/7809651
There is no requirement to use some kind of cloud storage. You can use the programs like you always have. Most designers sync with tools like Dropbox anyway, so large uploads aren't uncommon already.
I'm looking forward to switching to Creative Cloud at work - I'll never have to make the case for upgrading again, always getting new features as they're released, and I'm sure my employer will be as happy to smooth out one more expenditure timeline as Adobe will be to smooth out its revenue timeline. Going CC-only makes sense for business.

However, this totally kills my hobbyist usage at home about three to five years from now. I only ever use Photoshop, Illustrator, and occasionally After Effects for my independent design projects, and was finally able to justify upgrading from CS4 to CS6 a few months ago. A few hundred dollars every few years is worth it to pursue my own experimental work.

But I'm not going to justify $50 per month for that, and I have a hard time imagining others justifying it. I think Adobe just priced themselves solidly out of the prosumer market.

(Just to add a little math to this: A $700 upgrade every three years comes to $20/month. If Adobe can offer an a-la-carte Creative Cloud where I can get three or so apps when CS6 finally no longer cuts it, I suppose this will ultimately be a non-issue.)
I would like to know more, could please explain further and give some examples?
$50/month is for everything. It's $20/month just for Photoshop.
It could be that their bias is a legitimate bias. Or, it could be that it isn't. Rather than attacking someone for a bias, wouldn't it better to prove it by writing about it ... just like they do?
I think it's startups plural, and going after different parts of the diverse Adobe user base.

In my case, my company Drifty (http://drifty.com/) is making simple web development tools that replace Dreamweaver, Edge Reflow, and the like, for a crowd that is less pro-dev/designer. Many of our customers tell us they pick our products over Adobe's.
I'm currently working on a 3GB PSD, with the fastest connection I could purchase, that will take 11 hours for me to upload. It would also consume 15% of my storage capacity on their Creative Cloud with one document.

Suffice to say I won't ever be using the "cloud save" crap.