skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose it depends on what you consider a "pro" or not, and what you are using Photoshop for to begin with.

I started out 20 years ago as a retoucher and digital pre-press. 20 years later, I'm back in the publishing game, but publishing on the tablet. The magazine I am producing as the "eat your own dog food" test run of our bootstrapped tablet publishing tools (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22qqsFHH1HY or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXlHFhbqzHU for more info) is almost entirely photography and video. Guess who is doing the "pre-press" work? Yeah, that's me.

So let me run you through my typical retouching workflow I use to retouch a fashion photo (discussion about perpetrating negative stereo types of female body types ignored for the sake of this conversation):

- Open the image in Photoshop
- Duplicate the background to a new layer and convert to smart object
- Open up the smart object into a new document
- Liquify, patch tool, liquify, patch tool
- Hair, pimple removal with clone stamp
- Masked adjustment layers for very slight color correction, typically make up and teeth and eye whitening
- Save smart object
- Go back to original document
- Duplicate smart object twice
- Highpass filter + overlay blend mode on top most smart object copy
- Smart blur on smart object copy beneath high pass
- Mask the blurred smart object and start painting in skin smoothing on the channel mask
- Now at this point, I might have gone back to the smart object and made some more clean up and liquify tweaks
- Manual corrections done, I move onto color grading and color correction

All of this is done with a wacom tablet, which afaik, GIMP still has issues with (usable but not on the same level as photoshop). Liquify tool in gimp is a horrible joke. No smart objects.

Can you do this process with GIMP? You can. I have. It's not as easy or straight forward as it should be though. It can't be stressed how important Smart Objects are to the modern photoshop workflow.

So as someone who uses Photoshop not only for app design, but actual honest to goodness professional retouching, I have to say if this guy is only using Photoshop 10% of the time, he's probably not even the target market for it. Will GIMP ever make it to actual competion for Photoshop on the professional level? I sure hope so, but not anytime soon. Photoshop CC (I've been using Photoshop since 2.5 on a Mac Quadra 950) is the best version ever. I know I sound like an Adobe shill, but I have extensive expertise that goes back decades now.

Now you damn kids get off my lawn.
PHP Weekly out yesterday
Ask HN: advice needed on how to overcome objections to my new Bitcoin product
I have developed a software application that literally creates Bitcoins from nothing.
Well strictly speaking it looks for arbitrage opportunities on the cex exchange, and sometimes when the market conditions are just right, a couple of simple trades conjures bitcoin out of thin air.

It works, for real. My software conjures money essentially out of thin air.

BUT I have a couple of really thorny problems and I'd like to ask for the help of HN.

1: - no one believes me. They think it's a scam. And indeed it SOUNDS scammy. How the heck to counter this?

2: - people don't trust me. I'm an ordinary middle aged man with a family who has been developing software for more than 20 years. I know I'm trustworthy, but in the bitcoin world, no one trusts anyone. How do I get people to use my software when they are super paranoid about being hacked etc because it seems that everything bitcoin gets hacked.

FYI extra information: my software does not make any great quantity of bitcoin in any given trade - we're talking fractions of a bitcoin each time the opportunity comes up. However I think there's plenty of room to grow this across exchanges and limits on any one users trading limits the amount that can be made.

Any advice welcome. The software is called "coinfinder" and the site is www.bcoinex.com

Thoughts? Advice?

Anton

One thing to note: for the purposes of easy explanation, I have said "bitcoin" above but its actually trading gigahashes which are used by cloud mining to create bitcoin. A future version of my software will automatically exchange the gigahashes for bitcoin so it will be native bitcoin finding.
I'm baffled as to why the experience needs to be 100% consistent across all demographics.

Why can't Facebook adapt the news feed to be the best for each individual, both content wise and design?

I have a 27" screen, why degrade my experience, as a minority when you are completely capable of enhancing it. Enhance the 11, 13 and 17 inch screens too, and let us all have the best experience possible.

The idea that the majority should be the only number worth optimizing is one that should be completely dismissed.
pg, how many moderators are there?
Being gay or left-handed doesn't inherently impact your quality of life. Not being able to concentrate on anything does. So even if it were part of the normal range we should work on fixing it, like we do for myopia.
Not really no, since you break up the 'pipeline' to be owned by multiple entities. Replacing one entity in said pipeline is easier if each of them controls a smaller chunk of the pipeline.
why all the effort to build the flow tree? can't any block be rendered in parallel to a buffer and then copied into the correct location once all the widths and heights are known? in the examples given it seems like all blocks including the green one could be rendered in parallel to separate buffers.
Not the entire brain, just the portions that deal with self control! This is actually where the "Hyperactive" part of ADHD comes from, normally the parts of the brain that control motor skills and the parts that allow for self control grow in tandem, for children with ADHD, their motor skills outpace their self control. Their executive functioning eventually catches up, thus the myth of "children grow out of ADHD" came to be, since the "H" disappears, unfortunately the rest of the problems remain.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120730094822.ht...

http://www.nami.org/Template.cfm?Section=ADHD&Template=/Cont...
I did some design and coding work for the adult industry for a while. The company I worked for had one large members area with all kinds of niches, with thousands of sites acting as doorways into it. Instead of a nice overview, and a smooth experience, they had built in tons of tricky ways to delay the user getting to the content. From loading delays to tricky dropdowns instead of simple buttons.

Users had access to the site as long as they stayed on the phone to our special 2 dollar per minute phone line.

It worked, but it was a pain to work for a company like that. I was fresh out of school and just wanted to get better at my trade, but wasn't allowed to do the best I could. Frustrating.

Needless to say, things have changed in that industry, gotten a lot trickier, and the company has had to switch into different avenues. They now offer payment solutions and run a huge dating site.
This is an interesting question, worthy of some psychological/sociological research, I think.

Certainly people who invested in this must have had some expectations beyond just getting the chosen reward. The primary reward was a developer kit. That's not much good if the product is never offered for sale. So there must have been some expectation of that.

Note that the Rift is still not available for sale. Will it ever be? Maybe not, if Facebook decides to kill it and incorporate the technology into some other project. Will the end result be some DRM'd-to-the-hilt Facebook-games-only device? It's possible.

Going further, I expect that many of the investors had a "we're all in this together" feeling. To be fair, the Kickstarter page[1] encouraged this. Some quotes:

"We hope you share our excitement about virtual reality, the Rift, and the future of gaming."

"... we want to make the Rift available to all game developers, today, so they can be part of the development process. Kickstarter makes that possible. Your voice will be critical to making the Rift hardware and software as great as they can be."

All this is just guessing, by the way. I'm not involved in any of this stuff.

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-...
http://www.nami.org/Template.cfm?Section=ADHD&Template=/Cont...

http://www.kennedykrieger.org/overview/news/brain-imaging-st...

Really a search for "adhd brain development" yields plenty of results. :)
This is just ridiculous on so many levels.

So, should we start debating whether UPS should pay for roads directly in each city?

Are our roads going to start being "content aware" & extorting delivery service vendors?
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Professional pride is one big reason especially when it's not your average Joe who is critiquing your design strategy.
I don't believe the goal was to decrease criticism of YC on HN, I believe that part of the goal might be to reduce HN comments which have provided fodder for criticism of YC in other media.

Being specific, assorted feminist critics of YC/technology have complained strongly about HN comments being skeptical, not toeing the party line, etc. In the mainstream media, it's not too hard to blame YC/you/Altman for views that commenters here might express.

Similarly, such critics have also complained about cursing/mysogyny/racism in github repos and implicitly attributed them to Github, Inc. (For example, I don't work for github, but github could be blamed for the fact that "I have no fucking clue why this speeds things up": https://github.com/scalanlp/breeze/blame/master/src/main/sca... )

You suggested in some previous discussion on this that people who use the endorsing power incorrectly (I don't believe this was clarified but I haven't followed this endorsement thing closely [1]) might lose the power to endorse. Combining endorsement with filtering the "bad" endorsers could certainly work to steer the sort of comments that are endorsed. Rather than filtering all comments one need only filter the much smaller group of endorsers.

If you say this is not the goal and the plan is not to do this, I will drastically reduce my estimate of the probability that this is the goal. But at the moment I don't find it implausible.

[1] Most of the time I waste here is waiting for computations to finish and code to compile. But I imagine if I stopped commenting here I might be more productive, so I'm not personally strongly opposed to changes that might push me away from this site.
Thats a wierd one, how would you rotate them? Can't you just extract them as a 2D texture and operate on that?
http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/adhd/comorbid-depression-and...

Is 13% to 27% sufficiently co-morbid for you?

That is just one of the first results for "adhd depression". I've seen studies with cited numbers far higher than that for people who are untreated.
Because maintaining N different interfaces is hard?

No matter how big you get, coordination between products is a hard problem to deal with (more social than technical).
We almost provide that today with Checkout. If you've used Checkout on a website before, you can easily pay on another site without entering your CC info again.

https://stripe.com/checkout
awesome brian !
Because editing photos goes way beyond adjusting color balance or overall brightness?
Read the other posts in this thread.

People diagnosed with ADHD are three times more likely to be in a car accident. 56& of people diagnosed with adhd who are untreated have substance abuse problems.

Either ADHD is real, or psychologists have found the world's best car insurance filter.

Then there is evidence of structural brain differences,

http://www.kennedykrieger.org/overview/news/brain-imaging-st...

I've seen multiple adults who grew up in previous generations where ADHD was just "being lazy" who have spent their entire life depressed, knowing that they never lived up to their potential because they quite literally could not focus.

It isn't a lack of willpower, it is a physical lack of ability. The fact that the physical lacking is in a missing neurotransmitter doesn't make it any less real.
The similarities with a rain dance are astounding. I think a good diet is also one that is easy to stick to.
I think what surprises people is not so much the idea that walking improves your mood as the idea that your mood dramatically affects your happiness. People tend to think of happiness as a profound, grand-scheme-of-things thing. But here's a thought experiment: take a person in almost any living situation and make it so that whatever his circumstance, his minute-to-minute mood is always happy. How unhappy could such a person be?

The other reason it's surprising, I think, is that while being indoors all day sucks, it's a kind of suckage you don't realize till it's fixed. When I used to stay indoors all day, I'd find myself constantly in a bad mood but not know why. It's kind of like socializing for introverts. As an immature introvert I didn't think I needed social interaction till I was virtually starved of it.
I of course did not only mean the no-fly list. In Germany they also adopted or at least politics are trying to adopt some stupid ideas about terrorism. For example storing telephone connection meta-data. It is a widespread knowledge, that such a thing does not help in preventing terrorism, but they try and try to force it through parliament.

Also in other areas, the US is always the biggest example. For example the managers in Germany always compare themselves in regards to the salaries of US managers. But when it goes to liability, they do no comparison (in Germany, you can as a manager do nearly anything and are not liable for anything). Also of course they do not compare their salaries to those of Japan -- because in Japan, the corporations are bigger and the managers get still much less.

I guess, when the meta-data storage is threw legislation, they could come up with Germany's own no-fly list ...
Slightly more common example of "colors" that doesn't exist in spectrum are white, all shades of gray, and black :)
It should be considered controversial and a source for discussion, by people who know what they are talking about.
Look, my view is this: it's not about maintaining N different interfaces.

Each news feed is totally personalized. This is done without having to worry about maintaining "N" feeds, it's built into the system, built into the approach.

Why is the design something that needs to be fragmented into buckets? This is a broader choice, accepting that all users need to be on some defined path.

You can measure and improve metrics without being concerned about the particular CSS file being delivered to each person.
It's death by a thousand cuts. Sure, freedom of expression, freedom to travel, freedom to do business, etc. are all on nominally on the books but today bureaucracies can target everything individually at once. How do you travel except by taking a plane, bus, train, or car, or using the public roads? How do you do business without a bank account? How do you manage your affairs without using the internet or the telephone or what-have-you?
I am a successful software dev but I have a serious drinking problem
I made a couple million and then lost it all, including the wife and kids. I muddle along now making enough to pay the rent. I don't want to end up like Phil Katz of pkzip fame, but I've come close. I don't know why I am posting this except as a cautionary tale -- stop drinking when you are young. Really. It doesn't get better.
It's too bad. The kid looked like he put a lot of effort into that site and and from the looks of it he is sufficiently competent. College Admissions is a crap shoot. They may as well set minimum requirements, race quotas, and then randomly accept people. Any assertion of "selection skill" beyond that is bogus. I got into one of the "top" schools in the country, and on one of the first days of school an admissions officer came up to me, asked my name and shook my hand, telling me that my essay was among his favorites ever. I never saw the guy again, to this day, and it's a small school. I don't think I saw any of the admissions officers actually around the student body they created. And further, while I acknowledge the talent of my fellow students, only very few were "super stars" with academic qualifications that far exceeded anyone I had met before. Most students (including non-athletes, non-legacies, etc) could be replaced by select students from my high school, who probably worked just as hard, and just not gotten lucky. I think the decision looks worse on Carnegie Mellon than it does on the student that made this page.
> Though it's not really clear to me why this actually results in an efficiency win over maxing out a single core.

i heard the whole multiple core thing is spurred in part by manufacturers trying to increase fab yield: if one of the cores on a multi-core chip is bad, it can still be sold, albeit at a lower price, rather than thrown out.
For a better a/b test you should compare apples to apples. Maybe you just expect to eat more for dinner, and you eat less at lunch.
I wonder what would happen if netflix called their bluff?

People all of a sudden start to notice that House Of Cards plays more smoothly over their 4G cell connection than their expensive cable connection, and how does Time Warner explain that?
What would have been the point? There's nothing he can buy with $400m in stolen bitcoins that he couldn't have bought with his couple million dollars in legitimate money. A mansion? A plane? 100 cars? How would he get away with it?

It seems much much more likely he lost the coins due to incompetence, panicked, and tried to recover them by running a fractional reserve. Then transaction malleability happened, too many people tried to withdraw, and the jig was up.
New app turns you into a walking iBeacon.
No.

Neither the old design nor the design dcurtis mentioned are current.

But the current design is more similar to the old design.
Japanese Professional Baseball’s Twenty Year Long Slump
Want to be taken seriously as a developer? Get a job doing it. First of the month is just around the corner, and you have plenty of time to spruce up the README files on your github page to prepare. :)
So long as the chemical imbalance myth is perpetuated and one in ten Americans are on anti-depressants, all SSRI prescriptions are sacrosanct. Sadly, society isn't ready to have this discussion.
Programming languages are the most powerful, and least usable/learnable UI's
Is it OK to Hire People from Your Friend’s Company? (2011)
Currently under what circumstances will we see performance increases, and by how much?
You will still need to activate Windows XP after April 8th
What on earth are you talking about?

The old design did not work across a set of devices. The new design works across a greater number of these device.

Please suggest an alternative.

note: device could mean anything from phone to small netbook.
Oops, I get it now. It should decrease the sort of comment people attack HN for, but that wasn't the purpose of it. Those comments are just a subset of the more general problem of users saying mean and/or stupid things about any topic.

The real motivation for pending comments, incidentally, was simply that I found, as a user, that I didn't like reading comment threads as much as I used to. HN was an instance of me following the advice I often give founders: to build something you yourself want.
Because maintaining N different user interfaces is hard.
No matter if the underlying approach or data is the same, the user interface is different and from that point on you have to take them all into account when you make a change.
The problem (for the developers) with Threes is that it cost $1.99 to buy. If they made the app free and monetized with ads/iaps (ie, how all major apps monetize), they would have a much more successful app.
I didn't know that part, thank you for bringing that up again (I imagine you've had to repeat it). That reduces my worry level a lot.
Have you looked at Twitter Flight?[1][2]. Quite easy to grasp.

[1] http://flightjs.github.io

[2] https://speakerdeck.com/anguscroll/cal
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Walmart sues Visa for $ 5 billion for rigging card fees
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On the matter of being separate and removed from nature, light pollution is something that needs to be addressed. There's nothing quite like staring into a star-filled sky. An experience had by millions upon millions of our ancestors, a regular imbuing of their souls with an infinite grandeur, has been greatly reduced in the past couple of generations. It is sad, really.

In addition to bemoaning that intangible, but nonetheless real, loss. There has been recent study of the detrimental effects of light pollution on the creatures that share the planet with us.

I think this is representative of an issue that is an underlying cause of a lot of modern chronic stresses. Our disrespect for all the life on earth and to future generations of that life, especially of our own species, by our falling down on the job of our stewardship of the planet.

Now that's a tall order to rectify, but if our collective actions can result in emergent effects that are detrimental to our societal and planetary health, the opposite is possible as well.

opposed to purely pursuing industrial optimization and efficiency.

Not to take away from your general point at all, but
I think the above is just something a lot of people tell themselves or that is assumed but the evidence for it is not actually there.

Similarly, there seems to be a lot of, "Well, we have to do X, because we have to do Y." Where Y is not something that actually has to be done.

I think a lot of things just develop a kind of inertia and go from there. Cars for example in their overbuiltness and overuse are about the farthest thing from efficient and optimized, especially when you factor in their impact on the environment, destruction of human life, and general unpleasantness.
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What is Responsive Web Design? How could it be used to enhance the UX and UI? Why isn't Facebook using RWD? Real, scalable RWD? I must be way off base, but their issues with the News Feed design are surmountable. Not impressed by Julie.

I have never thought of FB as a bastion of design...and I have not yet been swayed to think or see otherwise.
I'm not sure what you mean?

She is pretty clearly referring to the redesign from 2013 versus the design before that.
That was a lot more article than I expected from the title. Wow.
This is really an instance of the general phenomenon that the eminent tend to take fewer risks. A change that decreases revenue isn't necessarily bad; it may even yield a net profit in the long run. It's just perceived as a risk because things like user happiness and product culture (a) can't be as easily measured and (b) don't yield results for a while.

I think this is actually a rational-- or at least natural-- course of action. As you get more eminent, the stakes are also higher, and when you have more to lose you tend to take less risk. In fact, it'd be surprising if a big company continued taking risks by trusting non-structural decisions.

This is probably related to the phenomenon that large organizations tend to fall into bureaucracy. In fact the two questions are probably overlapping, if not identical. How can you grow big and famous and take on big responsibilities without losing your ability to trust your intuition and care about the feel and usability of the product? How can you stop yourself from degenerating into bureaucracy?

I'm pretty confident it's possible. Steve Jobs managed it. My own hunch is that the trick is to hire people who don't care about money too much. The kind of people who think, if we lose a bit of revenue, who cares? Which is paradoxical, my hunch continues, because people like this will eventually make better products in the long run, and end up increasing revenue in a thousand different little ways.