skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not going to use this app but I will keep it in mind should an awkward situation arise due to my constant cleaning of my friends list.
The cost breakdown shows that someone who upgrades with every major release saves money going with the CC. Plus your average art-focused computer user may not want to worry about updates and stuff.

I agree it would probbly be smart to have an old copy of CS4 sitting on your computer though, just in case.
Tax collection in Latin America: Electronic arm-twisting
time machine

in the event of a theft, I can walk into an apple store, purchase an in stock macbook, let time machine recover for ~30 minutes, and get back to work

edit: just to be clear, I bet the vast majority of users will, even after this 24+ hours, experience less net downtime. Nonetheless, when I need to hit a deadline, with installed software, I have a viable plan b. The viable plan b here appears to be to grovel before clients whose deadlines you've blown...
Yeah, that's pretty clearly the wrong page for buying photoshop. But I quickly found the right one by going to Products > Creative Suite 6 > Buy CS6 > Buy Photoshop CS6. The real problem is finding it if you don't know that it's part of Creative Suite 6.
Of special interest to HN readers, Jeremy Ashkenas and Mike Bostock get a shoutout on page 60 of the report as being "Digital Stars":

http://i.imgur.com/X5w61xm.png
It's great for design ideas of almost any kind. For example, I wanted to see how people were setting up their stacked washer and dryer units: http://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=stacked%20washer%20d...

Another source for home decor is Houzz, which is more of a professional designer portfolio + marketplace, but also a good source of inspiration. http://www.houzz.com/stacked-washer-dryer
Thirdly noted.
And then notice what a tiny fraction of views his original content gets: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn-K7GIs62ENvdQe6ZZk9-w

Conclusion: >90% of the value fot audiences lies in the original source material rather than his enjoyable remixes of same.
Facebook has Parse, maybe if that demo matures to having RAX needs then it's worthwhile.
I wouldn't have minded seeing something to help keep things fresh and moving forward. Definitely didn't need to be cheesy or stock photography.

p.s. "drugged Joker victims" is a hilarious way to describe it!
At this stage, people who arrive at Pinterest's signup page already know what they're getting themselves into. The word-of-mouth factor is massive. A new user has heard from her friend how great the site is. She's not going to be daunted by signup flow that has a modal you can close, or whatever else your post was about. You've missed the point entirely.
Hey Chris! I wonder if you remember me. I wrote the post on the Compaq Presario R3000 back in 2006.

I'm glad to see you still have the website going and even got the .com for it.
> You're bringing up Edward Snowden, who has literally nothing to do with the conversation at hand.

That was pretty clearly a response to the line he quoted directly above, i.e. rebutting the notion that an action's morality is solely determined by whether or not that action is classified as a crime.
We want to create a culture on the site that explains the engineering and industrial design concepts behind the items on the site. How to inculcate that imperative isn't clear, but we're starting with community outreach and then hope to lead by example (the Roku guide is a step in that direction).

We were at the World Maker Faire in New York last fall, and we'll be at the Bay Area Maker Faire in San Mateo this weekend [come visit us! :-) ]. At each Maker Faire we brought a supply of e-waste items that faire goers could take apart themselves. As they turned screws and pried access panels we explained what components do, and some of the design decisions that went in to the products. The reception was phenomenal, particularly among school kids (with a roughly even breakdown of interest between the genders). We are also reaching out to Makerspaces to spread awareness.

We're hoping that the site will evolve to provide a similar virtual experience to the one Faire goers experienced at the Maker Faires. Essentially, we want the site to show that it is okay to take things apart, whether to repair, to salvage components, or to learn. The hope is that the guides on the site, submitted by users, will allow anyone to "take something apart" without having to pick up a screwdriver.

Creating a new guide is as easy as uploading a bulk selection of images, and clicking "Continue" a few times. Basic image editing like rotation and cropping can be done on the site, and it's easy to include image annotations and tool lists.
Link to the paper (paywalled): http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6185/732

It be interesting to see how biocompatible and what the durability of these material is. One of the problems with current generation of joint implants is that nearly all of the materials we use (for biocompatibility, corrosion resistance, and durability reasons) are all way stiffer than the material (bone or cartilage) that they replace, resulting in stress shielding in bone, and increased wear at contact surfaces in joints (especially when you only have a one sided replacement).

If Titan (god, I hope they give it a better name) turns out to play nice in the body and is sufficiently durable, it could be pretty interesting to see what happens to implant design in the future.
> Who screwed Britain? If you're going to tell me that it was George Soros, I'd like to hear why you're holding him more responsible than e.g. Helmut Schlesinger, or the reporter who paraphrased Schlesinger's quote and sent the market into a panic?

As I said elsewhere, there's plenty of blame to go around. Lots of people were complicit, some of them more so than Soros. But Soros is the only one who's commonly held up as some sort of heroic capitalist ubermensch, so he's the one I went after.
Of all the comments I've made, I can't figure out why this is the one that sits at -1. Interesting.
His premise is something similar to what I was going to write and then didn't for brevity - the general justification touted for Soros doing what he did is that the British government were incompetent and deserved what they got - it's equivalent to saying the drunk deserves everything he gets because he should have known better. A third party's incompetence isn't a moral justification for your proactive exploration of their incompetence.
Too bad GIMP is such a crappy alternative.
That's exactly the verifiability problem I'm talking about.
What's tough here, and I agree wholeheartedly that the Times isn't doing a great job digitally, is that the companies that seem to have a better grasp on digital (HuffPo, Buzzfeed, Vox, etc.) only have a grasp on strong digital business models and don't seem to have a grasp on delivering quality journalism/user experience.

The Times is still a great news site because of it's great reporting. And valuing great reporting is inherited from the paper newspaper days. But it would be amazing to see a company value great reporting while simultaneously seizing the ways the internet has improved our ability to communicate.
I'm in Vancouver and I would have to say . . . Toronto. The West is the Best, but for startups the East is the, er, Beast?
haha, exactly the same experience here. I couldn't really see what the point was until my fiancée started searching for wedding venues and ideas.
It still costs money to acquire new users. It's easy to think when something becomes a household name there is no need to keep spending to bring new users on. As with most social sites the bigger the network is the harder it is for competitors to come in and steal their position. Pinterest user base is still "only" around 50 million. Thats 5% the size of Facebook.

Additionally the markets are not treating tech stocks so well right now, this might last another three months, and it might last a year and a half. What you know for sure is that you don't want to go out and try to raise money when the market is really down. You'll be terribly diluted if you're even able to raise money at all. They get what you can now, because they don't know how long it will be until the IPO.

These are only a couple of the considerations, if they are planning an IPO very soon then there's a completely different motivation. Hope this helps.
Silly Con Valley – The Podcast episode 1
Yandex: SPDY gives less than 1% speed-up for already minified static assets
good point, maybe the minimum for backups and the like have gotten so good that Toy Story-style "We have lost everything" situations don't really happen as much anymore.

Design tools are definitely a different category than some other enterprise-y software though. At least Evernote still allows me to use it if the servers were down.
The trouble is that the lock-in is immense. I know people with upwards of 20,000 PSD files in stock ready for when clients return and want similar jobs done. Every piece of print hardware I know of uses Pantone standard colours which no other software supports properly or fully. None of the plotters I have used support anything but Photoshop and Illustrator through Adobe Flash plugins. For all the cries that Sketch and Pixelmator replace Illustrator and Photoshop.. they just don't on the professional level.

Adobe software is ingrained in every business, I personally know people who would have lost thousands or tens of thousands of dollars due to this if they had upgraded from their CS6 versions to CC. There's no option for them to change to anything else even if they had.
The Smash Brothers (Episode 1 – Show Me Your Moves)
My cat does the same, if I am laying on the bed and she walks through the room, the mirror allows her to see me.

When she sees me in the mirror she jumps up onto the bed for pats
Tricking the Uncertainty Principle
I really hope Mailgun will survive any acquisition or merger Rackspace goes through. I love the quality of service they provide.
I'm actually shocked this isn't getting upvoted, this is pretty awesome looking.
So a joker decided to embed some Anti Virus bait in the blockchain, just a few bytes is enough to make the software go nuts deleting a whole lot of files the Bitcoin client needs. The solution the Bitcoin developers suggest is pure old-school malware style, XOR the blocks to hide it from the Anti Virus suites. Classic.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/4069
> DRM certainly serves a purpose, which (as articulated in the source article) is to provide publishers with leverage over distributors

So, it means they lie when they insist that DRM is about piracy. And if they lie about this, they can lie about whatever else it is for. So it's logical to assume it's something bad. The unethical nature of DRM and its derivatives like DMCA-1201 which are forced on people through undemocratic means only prove the point that intentions behind it are never good.

> It's a great example of the reality of film industry economics

I meant it's a bad example of competition that can be used as a case study. Because it didn't turn out to be DRM-free despite being crowdfunded. My point above was not to debate the benefits or downsides of crowdfunding vs. publisher funded production but to say that successful DRM-free examples provide practical ways to demonstrate that DRM is not needed. So Veronica Mars is not relevant to the subject at hand.

> First, backers of the movie were entitled to a digital download as part of the Kickstarter reward.

They made a mistake of assuming it means what any normal person would expect - a DRM-free video file. Not some DRM Flixter garbage. Their second mistake was trusting WB to act decently like many other authors of the crowdfunded projects who release their works DRM-free. But WB is WB. They had to know better that if the pledge never said "DRM-free" explicitly, they were risking never to get it.

> As a rule of thumb, about 30-35% of respondents in surveys cite DRM policy as a major influence on buying decisions, in fields from e-books to videogames.

Very interesting, good to know. Do you have any links to such surveys?

> Here's an alternative scenario: a big studio decides to do DRM-free releases, and its domestic and overseas distribution network cuts presale revenue offers by half.

What does the network care? Network is the middleman, not the owner of the IP. According to Netflix for example, they don't care about DRM and wouldn't use it if not for publishers' demands (I don't believe them though, since they have some content which they own, and it's not available DRM-free either). So why would distributors care about DRM? Usually they blame all that on the publishers, not the other way around.

And if some distributors want exclusivity - they can get it. They can agree that the publisher will sell that content only through their channel. What does it have to do with requiring DRM? Same thing can happen with a DRM free release.
We moved an analytics web service we had on Rackspace to Linode the other day, and the results were fantastic.

We've been able to lower prices by 75% due to actual lower cost as well as requiring fewer machines because of the increased performance.
Thanks, snide. I really appreciate your thoughts - this gives me a whole lot of hope for someone new like myself.
How to Easily Clone DVD
How to easily clone a DVD movie? There are many software tools can do that, some are very easy to use, while others might be kind of complicated. DVDFab DVD Copy is the most easy-to-use and quick-to-learn DVD cloner software that lets you clone a DVD movies as easy as pie. You can see more info about the guide at: http://www.dvdfab.cn/dvd-copy/how-to-easily-clone-dvd.htm?ad=hcj
Adobe CS6 torrent stats is probably an interesting graph to look at also.
yeah well if you just added a couple of input/output functions to it you could potentially do it with SassScript :p
The simple solution is to not allow your anti-virus software to scan anything that cannot malware. There are exceptions to the rule of course such as MP3s that had executable code, but why does it need to scan every single file on your system?

Full disclosure: I used to work for an AV software company and personally think that AV is a dead technology.
I'm glad you have your toy for just 30$ per month but some people do real work with CC.
It is serious.

It is a deconstructivist line of reasoning that has crossovers into other Postmodernist theory and philosophy such as Foucault’s.

The comments, which are worth reading, even brought up Sapir / Whorf as an analogous subject.
Analytics for marketing or other purposes might be interesting, but really as I said above, I sort of enjoy programming and don't want to spend the rest of my life buried in Excel sheets. I also think there's more money in programming and jobs are easier to get in programming.
I use Spectacle. Full screen is Command-Alt-F. you can also make the window take up a half, third, or quarter of a screen with 1 shortcut. It takes some getting used to, but I find it hard to go without it.

http://spectacleapp.com/
Thanks for the thought. My assumption of how to get a sense of market opportunity would be to reach out to my target audience, build an MVP and try to get some beta users going.

Would that be what you're thinking of?
Massimo Franceschet's 2010 paper "PageRank: Standing on the shoulders of giants" lists some fascinating historical precursors to PageRank.[0][1][2]

[0] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1002.2858v3.pdf (pdf)

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.2858 (arxiv)

[2] http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?cites=11605628719410021... (citation network, 60 citations)

[3] Massimo Marchiori's 1997 paper for comparison http://www.w3.org/People/Massimo/papers/WWW6/

*Edited
Since stock price seems to be independent of actual company performance these days...

Is Rackspace actually in financial trouble? Or is it a case of shareholders moaning that their returns aren't good enough?
My recipe for dealing with "cranky" proprietary software like this:

Step 1. Buy CC subscription and install what you need.

Step 2. Look for a good patch/crack that makes everything work ofline, and that still allows you to update.

Step 3. Make peace with the risk of having installed some possible malware on your machine with the patch/crack (ie. do the sensible thing of doing you shopping and ebanking on the other dedicated machine you only use for this).

Step 4. Stop caring that step 2 is illegal and get on with your life, you paid for the damn thing and nobody will really sue you for using it in a way that breaks the damn EULA anyway...
Quite frankly, if a persons workflow doesn't include a potential for downtime then they only have themselves to blame. This whole 'down to the wire' and 'stop the press' mentality is a combination of drama-grade fallacy and unprofessional project management skills.
They'd be crazy not to take $200m for 4% give or take. Given the beating high flying tech stocks have taken lately on Wall St., and the continued Fed tapering, who knows how much longer the easy money gates will remain open. Better to take it now, and have tons of cash to ride out any eventuality. Bull markets don't run forever, and clearly Pinterest is hardly even in the first inning of monetization, so they're going to need the money. The public markets, even in semi-euphoric mode, will not react well to zero sales and $200m a year in losses.
Pulling back the curtain on P-values or how I learned to love small data
It wasn't a little down time. Also they handled it poorly.

I had four staff without access to key systems for our designs. I had to call customers and explain why deadlines were going to be missed.

Made me look unprofessional, especially since there was NO announcement by Adobe. I had to search Twitter to find out what was going on.
In BC, UBC and SFU are considered recruiting universities with UBC being slightly ahead of SFU, but behind Waterloo in Ontario. Vancouver is quite hot now for startups and tech in general. SAP alone has 1,000 employees in Vancouver, plus Microsoft which is doubling. IBM is decreasing its size though. Vancouver is often considered better for lifestyle except for the cost of housing. If you like the outdoors, Vancouver is the obvious choice.
Mailgun cofounder checking in: we will, and yes - we will. ;-) Rackspace has been a great home for our team, we continue to grow nicely, we're funded very well and plenty of exciting things are on the roadmap.
So if your service is down, I can't open my garage? Or does it still work over wifi?
What the Death of Homepages Means for the Future of News
Shouldn't they have their own $200M by now? No but seriously.

Oh. http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=pinterest
Rackspace has been dropping the ball on support, big time, over the past 6-12 months. I'm not sure what's changed, but it's not for the better.
The other thing is that this outage is affecting whole departments. If you lose your laptop, that's one person out. If the SaaS goes down, all users lose out. In a department heavy with photoshop users, it brings that department to a halt.
I'm a developer, and I only use Adobes products to pull images and the like out of Photoshop/Illustrator files given to me by my design team. I don't want to use Adobes software, as its entirely wasted on me. But I don't think any of the other apps handle PSD's (a horrid file format) well enough to allow me to replace them :( Anyone in my position that has replaced them? What should I look at?
You can. It says you can still use your normal garage opener. My question is since it syncs with your server, can you open my garage? Someone can open my garage if they gain my password, my phone, or my wifi network. Is this correct?
Brilliant, thanks very much! Gives me some more reading, I'm currently working through SICP :)
> Why is the USA one of the only first-world countries that have such prevalent usage of cheques

I'm actually thinking about writing a blog post explaining my theory behind why this is the case. Would that be interesting?

tl;dr of my theory: geographic size and decentralized gov't in the US allowed a paper cheque system to outlive other countries'
Hi, thanks for your reply. I make my living with a combination of professional photography, videography, a smidgen of web design and some graphic design. So yeah, no real work there.
Same here in Australia. I could post my BSB and account number here and the only thing people would be able to do is send me money.

Being able to write checks against anyone's routing/account combination in the US always terrified me.
I submitted a pull request which sets up the project to use cljx to work in both Clojure and ClojureScript.

ETA: Just realized that <!! and >!! aren't available in ClojureScript, so it needs some more work to be complete, but the pull request should help you get set up to develop for both.
HP would be my bet. They have "HP Cloud" which is OpenStack, and they're trying to get more into services in general.

OTOH, kind of a clusterfuck in general, and presumably if HP had any interest they would have just done the deal rather than this customer-terrifying announcement.

Maybe someone from Asia?
When Life Gives You Lemons Plea
fraud is often priced into these systems since most payments instruments in the US aren't push-only. Sorry if it sounds like I'm justifying...
In case anyone else is confused by the typo in the title -- it should be "If This Is a Man".
I feel like this website is missing some critical information. Is this a product? a service? Can I buy it? do I build it? What is this other than a remote garage door monitoring tool?
You don't have CS5 or 6 running on backup computers in case of CC or general internet outages? Did you explain that to your customers?
I don't think I read On Lisp the same way. From 3.1: "If a function is advertised as destructive, that doesn't mean that it's meant to be called for side-effects. The danger is, some destructive functions give the impression that they are. For example,(nconc x y) almost always has the same effect as (setq x (nconc x y))". Calling it dangerous sounds like a warning to me. I definitely agree, though, that he makes the case that the preferred approach is writing side-effect free functions. I'm not sure what you mean by "persistence" though, because Common Lisp doesn't have persistent data structures.

I don't know if its emphasis on functional programming and values makes Clojure unique, but that's definitely one of its core design concerns. The "article" is a chapter from a book on Clojure, and learning to write in a purely functional style is essential to learning Clojure. The point of the chapter isn't to get to the heart of what makes the language unique, it's to offer instruction on how to use it.