skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are being a bit unfair.

Gearbox wise, they were on the edge of what they knew, but had to keep up with the competition, and well, pointless fashion. It was an optional extra that customers didn't have to have. That gearbox is not typical of the engineering at AML. Yeah, they should have not released it with out more R&D, but equally, the gearbox is not representative of the whole package.

Bodyflex wise, or the loss of torsional rigidity is what happens when you cut a roof off, and well, make things worse by adding a load of structure to make up for it, ish, adding weight. But that happens to greater or lesser extents with other cars. All lose torsional rigidity and gain weight, unless specifically designed to be convertible. The DB9 is long, and there for suffers more than a shorter car. Same problem with a DBS, but why any one would want to buy a DBS and compromise it is beyond me. But, much better with the Vantage. So, IMHO, you get what you gat. If you must have a DB9 type car chopped up, it will flex more.

Dunno what's wrong with the brakes, but given that you say the problem was for 2 years of production suggests that its a problem solved.

Electrics. Ahhhh, never a good thing on Astons!! Which for Tesla is pretty ironic.
One of the higher kickstarter levels includes solar panels, so I'm guessing it is possible.
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Text of SB327:

http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/Senate/HTML/S327v0....
After SimCity debacle, EA leaves no doubt: Sims 4 works offline
Airbnb essentially just e-mailed people that listed rentals on Craigslist with a message that said "hey, you should list this on Airbnb.com too". You could call that spam, but there's nothing fake about the content of the message, nor is the linked website purporting to be anything it's not.
The only accent I've really had trouble with is the deep southern accent in and around New Orleans. The heavy Cajun accent from the rural areas is nearly indecipherable to me but even in the city some things are just weird. Most of what gets me in the city is that there is strong French influence but nothing seems to be pronounced the way it would be in French. e.g. Milan is pronounced 'm eye - l i n'.
Kerning: Look at the a in was, or the e in difference, or OS X - all of these have too much space and the difference is obvious.
Distortion: IMHO Fonts carry meaning and affect legibility, they are not just there to make text look nice on screen. Deforming a font subtracts meaning, and in some cases will make it less legible, particular an automated deformation like this.
"Q: Why can't citizens of Cuba, Iran, Myanmar (Burma), North Korea, Sudan, Syria, Brazil, Italy, Quebec, and Saudi Arabia participate?
A: Lisp In Summer Projects is similar to Google's Code-It, which is where the requirement originated. Lisp In Summer Projects does not have access to Google's cadre of lawyers and cannot invite legal risk to ourselves, our associates or our sponsors."

-- what's up with Brazil, Italy and Quebec that they're on this list, can anyone tell me?
This is business. Why is Adobe expected to do anything that would benefit anyone other than themselves?
Audiobus only works because Apple's multitasking rules specifically allow audio apps to work in the background. It's not limited to just VOIP apps; for example, I use Dropvox all the time to record while my phone is locked. Not saying Audiobus isn't cool, but it's really not even close to equivalent to Android's intent system, and it doesn't solve the same problem.
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I was suspicious that something was up with Fireworks after purchasing the web bundle for CS6 and noticing that Fireworks didn't adopt the new dark minimalist design that Photoshop and Illustrator had.

I use Fireworks for all of my preliminary UI design work because it has the precision necessary to get across certain crucial design elements. Unfortunately, this is not possible with the low-fidelity wireframe alternatives and not intuitive in Adobe's other products.

Yes, many of Adobe's products have overlap, but prototyping is a key part of the design workflow and deserving of a dedicated platform.
Is this the same in reverse? What about a black background with white text?
Oh my. In my day they just gave us coupons for free personal pan pizza for each 10 books we read.
Make it a notification setting then, you can already decide what type (if any) of notifications may appear on an app-by-app basis. It's just ridiculous that there's a notification of a new message sent to the device and then the message is not immediately available in the app.
"Which means that if something really does rise up and try to replace JS, you will have pleeeenty of lead time to get ready for the change. Like, decades of it."

Amen. I am getting kind of tired of this litany of breast-beating over how "ugly and awful" JS is and how it is "doomed".

I find that the things that make JS "ugly" to a novice (functional scoping, module patters, etc.), are the same things that make it powerful and elegant in the hands of an expert.
> 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.

Tertiary sources are by design about summarizing and relaying what secondary (and sometimes primary) sources have stated about subjects. They serve a different function than news reporting.

What is a sensible approach for an encyclopedic reference is not a sensible approach for news reporting.
Amid a barrage of password breaches, “honeywords” to the rescue
Well, after removing all the default headers, there's the CSRF token, certain paths that will bypass a regular 404 detection, and so on... There are ways.
I'm curious how it can tell if you've paid up if you are using it offline? I would assume if it isn't able to phone home to check your subscription, it would fail.
Los Alamos has been running a demo quantum key distribution system
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Capacitive v resistive...

DS had a stylus for a reason.
Did you actually read this case? An editor is topic-banned from editing pages about Indian religions after a pattern of advocacy is detected. The ban expires, and the editor resumes contributing to pages on those topics, but without the advocacy; for instance, the user adds negative material about topics he'd previously advocated for.

Another Wikipedia editor notices the resumption in editing and goes nuts, trying to out the user, appealing for the user to be banned, and picking intractable fights.

What conclusion was this case supposed to come to?

Is it your belief that the whole of ArbCom are secretly in the tank for commercial transcendental meditation?

Also, look at how much time Wikipedia sunk into trying to resolve this case carefully. How do you find a way to make that a bad thing?
There's a preponderance of call centers in the area within a couple-hundred-odd mile radius of Omaha, NE, as that's supposed to be the most "neutral" accent in the Continental US. Particularly, that includes the metro areas of Des Moines, IA; Omaha and Lincoln, NE; and Sioux Falls, SD. (I'm not sure if Kansas City, {KS,MO} is also included in that set. I grew up in one of the cities with a lot of call centers, and the MO accent, at least, is pretty clearly distinguishable to me.)
I'm glad you noticed :) We're trying really hard to address problems and suggestions as they come up, and be quick about it.
Yes, for sure. I'll have nicer buttons with title tags soon.
When users expect everything to "just work", it means that automated configuration has to integrate with a ton of components, thus supporting alternatives for every section of the stack becomes a huge endeavour.
According to "3. Deficient research skills / Chronically poor knowledge of the platform's features", "Re-inventing or laboring without basic mechanisms" is a bad thing. I don't think so. I routinely work on a carefully chosen subset of a (big) language/platform, having benefits of such an approach - both immediate (stable compilers, proven patterns) and long-term (better maintainability by somebody who's not an expert in all facets of the language/platform).
Btw., Edinburgh-based SkyScanner is a notable Scottish startup.

I would definitely talk about entry-paths into the industry, e.g. Codecademy et al.
Yeah, and Windows Mobile devices with touch screens had been around for quite a while before the iPhone came out...
Ex: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Wizard
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BlackBerry Z10: New Products and Old Domains Don't Mix
I would argue it depends more on your definition of "big part of". :)

He could be accidentally correct, after all, if you happen to agree with his definition.
"Touch" screens with styluses have been available since the 90's if you will, but they were a completely different beast than the first iPhone, and what we have today.
Also, we just implemented this slightly over a month ago, so no numbers yet on how it is working out.
There are problems with stacking multiple canvas elements, of course - increased memory usage and significantly increased composition overhead to name two.
To please customers?
Well, you probably wouldn't do it that way, for starters. There is a mature toolkit of techniques for narrowing down the interesting bits of the genome, so you have less sequence to look at.

But yes, the day will come when it's feasible to simply sequence and compare large numbers of genomes. But by the time sequencing technology has got that much better, so will computers have!
Can I emphasize the use of code samples right on the homepage?

As an example, Requests (http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/). If you've ever done URL fetching in Python you can immediately see the value and cleanliness of it.

A couple of projects I've come across don't have anything like it, and only have more of an API reference. I understand it may be early days and documentation hasn't yet been a priority, but I really love to see the advantages of the library, particularly if you compare it to the old way of doing things.
Sadly... now that I was considering buy a licence...
You probably already realize this, but pirating software and using it for commercial purposes is generally a terrible idea.

Morals and ethics aside, your piracy exposes your company to legal threats, which could be costly and painful to your colleagues.
The Kleck number of 2.5m is based on a phone survey of 5000 Americans from 1992. In other words, it has no scientific value.

Haha, strangled with her own panty hose huh? Listen, I don't know what gun people get off to, but alley-way rape occurs about as frequently as mass shootings. Almost all sexual assaults are perpetrated by known acquaintances of the victim. Adding a gun to the mix is only going to make things worse.

And you are being a bit disingenuous. The overwhelming majority of gun owners are males. It is 100% an image thing, just like driving a big truck or getting a "badass" tattoo.

All I'm saying is, if you don't think corporations are above profiting hugely off of hysteria and fear, you've never watched the nightly news.
A Youthful Rebellion Against The Permanence Of Facebook’s Walled Garden
Sorry to hear that - agreed, it seems like the best support for all these exchanges is to not need it, because good luck getting a response. I've even seen situations with BitInstant where e-mailing them is pointless, but starting a reddit thread in r/bitcoin is the best way to get a response. This needs to change if Bitcoin is going to be the currency o the future.
Because of the book, I haven't been able to blog about canvas performance in a long time! But very soon there will be a return to (canvas and performance) blogging.
I feel like Adobe never really got macromedia tools at all. They knew they wanted to own the content creation market, but they never really understood the developer side of the content creation game. Fireworks is the last Adobe tool I use these days and I'm disappointed they can never understand why someone like me would continue to use it.
Right, so it's the latter -- People are using dropbox as an automated rsync. Which is fine.

It's just fundamentally different than people sharing over a billion memories and moments each day, I'd argue their tagline is very misleading.
Here's the discussion, to save others a few clicks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5663793

Thanks for doing it (and putting it back online). Really useful if you're looking for a quick .io inspiration.
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Why is a number more useful than how Ubuntu or Android do things?
The piracy amounted to blocking a few urls in the hosts file, between versions they never changed these urls, not even between updates. I'm going to draw the conclusion that making it so easy is at least a tacit acknowledgement of Adobe being OK with having such an effective funnel.
This is absolutely unacceptable, and the main reason I still use a SoundBlaster Live instead of my onboard sound. The SBLive can do hardware mixing and the Linux driver makes this transparent, so even OSS programs can run simultaneously.

ALSA is supposed to be able to do this transparently (in software) with dmix, but in my experience that only works with ALSA-aware programs, not those using the OSS API. I don't care that on Linux OSS is deprecated: it should just work.

In short, Linux sound is still obnoxious unless you are lucky enough to have hardware mixing work, or you only use programs which properly deal with ALSA.
What? There is plenty of platform lock-in going on with JavaScript code. Much of the most interesting JS written today uses APIs that are limited to certain browsers or runtimes. asm.js is only supported by Mozilla for now.
I feel like the sentiment of "I can't do math" stems mostly from the way math is taught. To contrast we can look at how reading is taught to elementary students. Students read books at their "level." Once they are comfortable with the words and concepts in a given level then the difficulty of the content is scaled up appropriately. In math, students are often pulled along with the rest of the class. It is very difficult to understand division when you are still struggling to understand subtraction. This happens for a number of reasons but mostly because it is more difficult to teach math on an individual level the way reading can be though. I think that the solution to issues like this will/would look similar to the reverse model that the folks at KahnAcademy are creating. It's clear that it is difficult to teach math of every student is at a different point and understands a different amount of math. By transferring the teaching onto prerecorded videos the students are able to learn at their own pace and rewatch the lessons for more difficult concepts without exasperating the teacher. Salman Kahn has stated that his cousin (that he first started making videos for) told him that she liked learning from him in his videos more because he wouldn't get frustrated when she didn't understand a concept. She could just watch it again. This also frees the teacher to help the students who are learning at a slower rate or have gotten stuck with a difficult concept.
Fisker Karma. What irony.
I always figured it was a timezone thing that they eneded up there. They'd end up at most 2 hours difference from all major time zones, and average about 1.33 hours across them all. That makes it much easier than getting people to work by 5am in california to be able to handle the east coast, or working until 8pm on the east coast to handle california.
I find the graphic at the bottom to be absolutely beautiful. It's one of those rare moments where I looked at the DOM to see what was going on under the hood.

Unfortunately, this page also seems to cause Chrome's rendering engine to consume a full core on my machine to run. I'm not sure if that's Chrome's fault or the page's fault, though.
I really like this Soundslice canvas app. Why didn't Soundslice use Scalable Vector Graphics? CSS Animations would replace a whole heap of code: the entire requestAnimationFrame callback, for example, would be eliminated. Text rendering would be handled by the browser, instead of taking the performance hit of being rendered to the canvas bitmap every frame, so text rendering caching would not be necessary. Element stacking would be handled by the browser's built-in compositor. You wouldn't have to think about crazy microoptimizations like grouping fillStyles together. SVG can easily be accelerated by the browser, since you're describing intent instead of specific procedures, unlike Canvas' immediate mode drawing. Finally, vector graphics aren't locked to 72dpi, so they look amazing on a MacBook Pro Retina or other device with high DPI (unlike the canvas implementation, which looks pretty chunky!)
You can turn it off and on though.
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And Syria, and Sudan, and Saudi Arabia? As far as I can tell these countries are in good relation with the US, some even great allies.
As someone who bought several thousand shares at $17/share when it went IPO, its hard not to be excited for TSLA.
Modern Desktop Linux is very fragile because everything has to be configured and managed automatically. You haven't been able to startx without a lot of reconfiguring for years.

Ideally you want a full Desktop environment, but at a minimum you need a session manager (for auto-starting everything else, communicating with the * kits, * buses, * agents, and * managers for device integration, etc . . .), a settings daemon (stores settings for applications that care to use it, might be more than one of these - Xfce has two or three at the moment), a desktop manager (like a WM but for desktops), a window manager, a compositor (for special effects, might be part of the WM), plus miscellaneous bars, launchers, and plugins for same.

It's perfectly possible to split all this up, but then you have to make all the parts compatible. Most distros want more integration, not less.
Amazing? Here is what it looks like on Chrome 27 under Ubuntu: http://i.imgur.com/rDiKbvd.png

Poor contrast with small type is not cool. The resizing is neat, I guess.
"Intents" remind me of OpenDoc. Are we going back there?
Always be closing amazing talent.
Quebec has restrictive laws governing contests in which prizes are awarded.
I'm surprised nobody has pointed out that this is not an official announcement from Google. It is merely an updated KB page.

Google is treating .io as gccTLD for at least 6 months.
Here are two good examples of successful SaaS apps that use both tiered pricing and pay-as-you-go:

1. Mailchimp - http://mailchimp.com/pricing/

2. Campaign Monitor - http://www.campaignmonitor.com/pricing/

I'm guessing that they do this to serve both markets: developers and B2B customers.
Not necessarily if you take data deduplication into account. (You don't upload files they recognize the fingerprints for.)
No they're not committing fraud (a crime), they're violating their software licence (a tort) at most
And how is that relevant?

Comparing 10 hours use of Photoshop per month vs hiring somebody for minimum wage for a month?

That's not even Apple's to Oranges, it's Apples to Universes.
That's sort of what I'm working on with Trovebox [1]. It's specific to photos (and videos soon) but you can select upwards of 7 storage services. Anything from Dropbox and S3 to storing files at the Internet Archive.

The software is part of my fellowship with the Shuttleworth Foundation and everything is open sourced [2].

[1] https://trovebox.com

[2] https://github.com/photo
I did the same thing, and didn't even realized until now that there even was a way to get to the their real site.
Adobe's own online presence is a prime example of how they don't understand the web.

Same goes for the decision to drop CS and continue with only their cloud-based services: they should've done that about 10 years ago. I can't remember for how long I've been saying I'd be willing to pay monthly for their programs if there only was such a subscription.

And I'm not trying to brag there. I'm meaning to say that it's ridiculous how slow they have moved. I've never met a person who didn't agree with the above.

I wonder how many students would've shelled out 20 bucks a month instead of downloading Adobe's software illegally if they'd done this sooner.
>but I also don't know a single professional user who didn't pay for it.

You'd be surprised.
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Frisson is not in deletionpedia - perhaps they do not retain articles that were simply merged, etc.

Your frustration is shared by many, many people. Here's a well formed article on a software package:

http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=EleBBS_(d...

that was deleted because some kids hadn't heard of RA before. There are thousands of these.
The first of Square's Open Source announcements is OkHttp:
http://corner.squareup.com/2013/05/announcing-okhttp.html

Looks pretty handy, built in caching, response compression, and the ability to point to multiple data centers in case one is being flaky.
I had the same impression from the blog post. I think it's a good idea, even in a blog post, to always say, "Our project is a tool that ______".
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"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."

I'm experiencing exactly this. It's like they want to have every feature to be able to whip out for every type of customer. They dread the circumstance where they have to say "Sorry, we don't do that."
Hah! I've been building something similar for personal use: http://bchanx.com/jukebox

I also like your interface, props!
>in parts of the South, "a coke" is a carbonated beverage, regardless of brand

I'm curious, is something like Fanta or (carbonated) Ice Tea ever considered a coke?

To me—not a native english speaker—coke means Coca Cola Coke, Pepsi Coke, or Dr Pepper. That is, it's synonymous with the French word 'coca' or the Dutch word 'cola'.
A lot of it probably stems from the use cases. Most Linux distros have the "out of the box" use case down. When people start to fiddle with it or push the limits, they increasingly change their tone. Nothing fanatical about it. Just different points of view.