skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Your example (laptop being stolen) means you probably don't even have access to your data.

Err.. what? I confess I've not looked into Adobe too closely, but why would you keep your data (only) on their servers? You'd need backup -- just as you'd have to have backup in place for your personal machines.

A typical scenario is a photographer that edits images -- you have maybe a terabyte of data you need access to, and have backed up, in the day-to-day -- and you need access to editing software.

Also, you seem to misunderstand -- I'm not saying I won't use or pay for SaaS (be that Software or Storage as-a-service) -- I'm saying I want a viable self-host alternative -- where self-host might mean that I can pay someone -- anyone -- to get things up and running quickly if I need it, and not be limited to whatever support any one vendor is willing/able to provide.

Now, personally, I'd probably take self-hostable to mean there's a tested ansible recipe that I can plug into a fresh vps, and be up and running. But not everyone wants to, or knows how to, be their own sysadmin -- but having someone guarantee that, yes, if you need it, this and that company can get you up and running in an hour for $amount.

> Here people can't work, but imagine the amount of work if there was a data failure on your machine? Your example (laptop being stolen) means you probably don't even have access to your data.

Ok, so lets say we're a small team of 5 non-technical designers, and I've lost my laptop. I have yesterdays backup, and my team mates can work. I'll have to spend an hour installing Photoshop on a new macbook pro I went to the store and got. Maybe an hour restoring backups or whatever. Lets say I loose 4 hours of work, and make up 2 in the evening. So we've lost one quarter of a total of 5 work-days today, due to catastrophic failure.

Now consider this outage: the whole team is down, and we've lost (more than) 5 work-days. If there was a viable self-host option, maybe we could've all squeezed in 6 hours of work after throwing dollars at Whomever Inc to set up a fallback solution for us. Also much better than all eggs in one basket.
Circle Emerges From Stealth To Bring Bitcoin To The Masses
No one other than Adobe can provide a Creative Cloud that you can type cc add remote creativebucket.org and keep working. You can, however, type git add remote bitbucket and should be working to several remotes.
Wheeler and FCC Pull A Fast One On Net Neutrality
I am not sure how true this is. Most of the public sentiment has been 3rd parties not able to understand the material. I think the adult population is vastly under-educated. The problem isn't the children, it is the parents. The parents can't understand their own child's homework. Whose failing is that?

You see this in developing countries where the whole population is illiterate. It usually ends up that the children reach a level of proficiency that enables them to teach their parents.
Also probably the reason slavery lasted so much longer past the end of the civil war in parts of the South. Interesting parallel I guess, as paper checks seem just about as antebellum to me now.
And yet another fashion magazine expert. So many! I'd like to point out that your image is solely based on low-grade chick-flicks.
Exactly! They are optimizing for their current users (or soon to be users). In other words, you may be a little out of their target market. Second, if someone came to the site directly, then they have at least some brand awareness. So they have some idea what Pinterest is about in the first place.
(Balanced co-founder here)

Balanced would be happy to discuss working with Venmo/PayPal as a vendor to power their push to card payouts if they're interested.
That video is incredible to watch.

It is so amazing that I am slightly worried that it might be faked.

I really hope that this technology becomes an economically-viable and long-term means of helping parkinson's tremors.
Andrew Ng Leaves Coursera for Baidu's Deep-Learning Team (Chinese)
The malicious code would have exploit software that handles the block chain. In addition, the size of the transaction affects your transaction fee, so you'd have to take that into account. Effectively, it's not good business if you're looking to do something like that unless you know you'll get a good payout.
Teaching is harder than working in high tech
> I think the question is why society should bother to spend further resources on enabling this for him?

Something regarding that variable quote about how you can judge a society on the basis of how it treats its X (criminals in this case)
The browser is dead. Long live the browser
Why does it say "Welcome to TakeItApart.com False" on the banner? Is it false that I am welcome? ;)

(I'm assuming it's a bug...consider this a bug report)

Very cool site. I've needed something like this for a while. I'll bookmark it, and when I have more time I'll be glad to contribute information about Logitech trackballs and some Asus Eee PCs which gave me disassembly trouble a while back!
That's a great idea. Fulfillment could be a problem, but maybe we could just connect people who have parts with those who need them? The best we do currently is create Octopart links for hover-over notes that are marked as components.
There is a distinct tactile and visceral pleasure in designing and building your own furniture that goes beyond the pleasure I receive design and building complex software projects. The permanence, the necessity of planning, the measuring, the careful diligence required at each step.

Most of the furniture in the condo I inhabit with my wife is either designed by us and built by me, or designed by us and built by a local craftsman. We have been very happy with everything we've acquired so far. There are a few "stock pieces" that came from various furniture stores, those themselves either being one offs or antiques, but for most part, it is all custom.

The prices however? Oh how those prices cause us pain. The raw material costs alone are eye-opening. Having a craftsman build furniture for us after we have designed it, causes frequent sticker shock. I just know if I walk in and want something, we are talking North of $2,000 as just the opening price. We have been on a bit of a spree this year buying five new pieces in the first half of the year whereas normally we buy one piece per year.

The one thing I know about the furniture that is our home is that it will last probably longer than our lifetimes and other families will hopefully derive pleasure and utility from the items long after my wife and I are both gone.
and that makes perfect sense!
You don't just stick a bunch of creative people in a room and get a movie, any more than you put 100 people in a field and get a factory. Yes, it's a creative endeavor, but (speaking as someone who works in film)95% of the input consists of grunt work, spread across technical specialties from accounting to schlepping things into and out of trucks. Even the writing, acting, directing involves tons of grunt work. Indeed, the whole skill of film/TV work is to aggregate the work of hundreds or thousands of people so as to make present an illusion of a few people engaging in (mostly) effortless natural behavior.

Putting on my screenwriter hat (which is maybe 10% of my activity in this field), I very much want the option of selling my work to a producer for cash money. Money up front pays the bills. I have ownership interests in a few films too, but it isn't worth anything. since most films don't make any money this is sadly unexceptional. It's a brutal market, but also extremely egalitarian.
That solder mask is cool, but placing epoxy dots before placing the component works pretty good, especially if a reflow oven is used anyways. Misaligned components at high-tolerance has been an issue with solder masks, and not all silicon based solder masks are CE-compliant. The time it takes to drop epoxy dots is less than the time to retouch and realign the component.

I used to program PNP and CNC machines back in the heyday of Cray, then moved up to developing the software to program PNPs and CNCs (shit, I've come a long way since then but still miss the sweet smell of lead in the morning from the wave solderers) improving "fiduciary" operations and increasing speed, accuracy, and feeding.
This hand-wave over designer's inability to build enough slack to deal with Adobe's failure into every project is a combination of unsubtle trolling and egregious sociopathy.
Circle’s Bitcoin-powered financial platform is a glimpse at the future of money
You're forgetting that Nokia (and a few others) managed to sell a few hundred million iPhone-uninfluenced Symbian devices before that platform was flattened by Android. That's plenty of evidence that the mass market already wanted smarter devices iPhone or no iPhone.
We've learned to live with centralized water and electricity and banking, all outside of our control, rather than rely on on-premises solutions. SaaS, too, will win out after a few hiccups.
Wow, good point. Cats usually have this entirely different set of vocal and bodily language when communicating with other cats. Isn't that a sign of higher intelligence? To be able to learn multiple languages. Even if each is fairly small, it's rather fascinating ability to be able to classify your total known language into two distinct sets and knowing which set to use with whom
The essence of doing a startup efficiently is learning how to get leverage on your time. Having a family makes that non-optional from a company point of view, and you have to learn to find the ways to get similar leverage on a family front. Maybe you want to be there for bedtimes but don't mind a nanny doing the driving to school, for example.
But that would be illegal right?
> risk of having installed some possible malware

Are you talking about the Creative Cloud drm or the crack?
I've just started getting into making my own furniture last year. I've found it is a really code release from coding/designing/staring at devices all day long. Building a website or app is very rewarding, but there is a different feeling when you build something with your hands that you actually use. It's nice to have an actually hobby.

I've made 2 tables and a desk. It started out of necessity: I have a really weird obtuse-angled wall that no desk would fit inside. Wrote a post about it if anyone wants to see. http://bit.ly/1k6XiU7

Haven't moved onto chairs/couches etc because the whole upholstery thing kind of scares me. Also - you can easily build most furniture for a few hundred dollars, but you have to look for it! I have a construction dumpster near my house right now with a ton of old pallets they are throwing out, that right there is enough to make some really cool stuff. Also re-purposing is really "in" right now so in my opinion even better :)
Virus signature uploaded to block chain confuses Microsoft Security Essentials
QuadraClicks Mouse?
This is a really good product, how come no one thought of it earlier?
I just bought acorn and idraw but everyone here is recommending pixelmator and sketch :(
> Bicycles generally accelerate much more slowly from a stop than motor vehicles.

Usually ( and I say this as a cyclist and pedestrian with no driving license ) that's because the majority of cyclists stop in a high gear, and then have to 'tread molasses' to start moving again.

It takes very little effort to shift-down when approaching a stop, which means that on my bicycle I'm ready in the lowest gear and can move off much faster than the motor traffic and have 20 metres or so lead by the time they clutch / gear / brake-off / move.
Growth...growth might be in their future plans. Acquisitions, KLO, more employees, new directions. I hope they go big. Great service, smart design that works. Monetizing would be easy.
Getting a job at a top university will not make you a better researcher
I like a nice through mortise.
It is amazing how under-valued persistence is in engineering. It is the trait that I find the most exciting to discover in any candidate.
Ask HN: Optimal negotiating strategy for real estate purchases
We're on the buy side of a real estate transaction right now (actually, several, if you count various auctions we've been in and an escrow we dropped out of). Some good friends of ours are on the sell side right now.

We're both finding similar issues -- in our market at least, the convention seems to be that sellers set lower-than-market listing prices, leading to multiple-bid situations with competition on both price and terms (such as size of down payment and whether there are appraisal and inspection contingencies), and then realtors who optimize for the transaction closing rather than the getting the best terms for their clients.

What is the best way to play from either buy or sell side in your view?
MSE was top-notch when it was first released. It aced all the malware detection benchmarks, not to mention it was completely ad-free and extremely lightweight, which was unheard of in the free antivirus market. The high detection rate and low performance impact made lots of Windows users flock to MSE, myself included.

Nowadays, MSE is still lightweight, but it sits at the bottom of every malware detection benchmark. I've been recommending MSE to everyone around me, but recently they started getting all sorts of malware despite keeping MSE up to date. All of these were easily detected and removed by avast!, BitDefender, and Malwarebytes, but MSE just sat there like a cow, oblivious to the malware's presence.

Why has Microsoft let MSE rot like this? Now that MSE is built into Windows 8, are they afraid of getting slapped with antitrust fines if they shipped an antivirus that can actually compete with third-party offerings?

This year, I'm moving my family off of MSE. So long, it was good while it lasted. But third-party antiviruses have caught up in the meantime, and now they're just as lightweight as MSE.
I've had fair success using Gimp for similar use-cases -- with the caveat that that is mostly for design mock-ups made in photoshop (no vector graphics to speak of).

There's definitely a learning curve, and Gimp still has a long way to go -- but it's passed into "usable" quite a while ago for my uses.

[edit: if anyone knows of other alternatives (preferably that runs on Linux and/or under Wine, preferably Free software - but also closed source -- I'd love to hear about it]
I seem to remember just having some text copy+pasted into IRC channels used to send peoples anti virus software into meltdown.. but this was sometime like 2000-2001
FWIW, I moved from Pixelmator to Acorn and prefer Acorn immensely. Don't feel so bad.
My experience has been the opposite.

Live Chat help seems to fix just about every single problem we have on the fly, and they open Tickets when it gets more complicated, with thorough and fast follow-up.

I have never been happier with my hosting support, and I've used company after company over the years. I've now been with Rackspace (Sites and Cloud Servers specifically) the longest.

I should note that I ended up with them because they took over SliceHost (also great support), so I didn't really "choose" Rackspace based on anything, but loved SliceHost, and the transition was seamless, and the great support seemed to follow.
From a comment on that issue:

>Just for fun, there's about 8000 reachable nodes on the network at the time of writing. Assuming that a large portion of the network is unreachable (NAT, filtering, intermittent, just not listening), it's probably safe to assume there's probably at least 50,000 nodes with the complete blockchain. If we XOR just the chainstate, we cause 50000 * 430 MB of disk writes, 50000 * 430 * 2 MB read and write combined, somewhere in the region of 43TB. If we XOR the entire blockchain on disk we cause 50000 * 21000 * 2 MB of IO, around 1.95PB of RW across the wider Bitcoin network. Incredible.
This seems to be "reporting" from an unconfirmed rumor that was originally posted here and has been bouncing around the chinese net for the last 24 hours (I saw it a few hours ago)

Original source:
http://www.marbridgeconsulting.com/marbridgedaily/2014-05-15...
Enrolled in current iteration and think it's good enough to finish.

A great excuse to learn Scala. A serviceable introduction to functional programming. Middle of the road in quality relative to other computing coursrs on Coursera I've taken. Work load toward the lighter end for a Coursera course focused on programming [among those I've taken]. Use of IDE encouraged. Use of SBT required.

Of note: assignment structure and IDE encourage and facilitate testing practices. Also for a later iteration of a programming course the discussion forum is very active.
I sure hope not. It's rare for me to encounter SaaS that provides a better service than something I can install and run natively.
Turning CapsLock into a modifier key changed my life.
Good Design is Good Business – Hi-Res Posters from the IBM Archive
> What am I doing wrong? Am I like a person outside of the 14-22 year demographic watching MTV for the first time?

Nah, you're probably just a cynical pedant. Pinterest has one of the clearest and most compelling landing pages of any social network ever. Not to mention it's a household name now, they're nearly at a point of recognition like Facebook or Google.

You don't see Google explaining what they do anymore do you?
This seems to be "reporting" from an unconfirmed rumor that was originally posted at the link below and has been bouncing around the Chinese net for the last 24 hours (I saw it a few hours ago).

Original source: http://www.marbridgeconsulting.com/marbridgedaily/2014-05-15...
Well how many of you felt frustrated when not being able to use Cmd+x / Cmd+v for moving files/directories in finder and have to take a recourse to mouse, open the source and destination finder windows and drag files manually?

I recently discovered this gem that accomplishes the feat using keyboard shortcut. Use Cmd+c to place the file(s)/directorie(s) on clipboard. Now move to destination directory and use "Cmd+v" to do copy-paste and use "Cmd+Option+v" to move the selected files and folders.
what made Fireworks cool is that it used png as native file format,so even if you didnt have the software installed,you could open the file with any soft that support PNG. And guess what ,that wonderfull piece of software was retired by adobe.
If your whole business relies on staying in step with giant competitors with huge piles of money thrown off from other successful ventures to lower their costs and prices more aggressively then you can, it's going to be an ugly business in the long haul.

Price is a terrible competitive advantage because unless you have a revolutionary cost structure to go with it, you're hosed once someone does something reckless, like lowering below cost to drive you out of business.

Google and Amazon aren't going anywhere because they own search and ecommerce. Hosting and infrastructure are nice businesses for both companies, but they are fine without it. Rackspace without hosting and infrastructure revenue is not a company.
It's called 'planning for the unexpected' and encompasses a wide range of scenarios, only one of which can be blamed on Adobe.
Live Indian Election results on Bing
I must be missing something...
Please, no. Just, no.

We have 80+ servers with Rackspace. Would go to AWS before enduring a GoDaddy-owned Rackspace, on general principles.
Transactional Memory: History and Development
You must have a developer account or something. Pinterest, for me, is free and they don't seem to be placing ads or monetizing sales like Etsy. I only connect to Pinterest at 3 distinct times/places: waiting rooms, king conference room (toilet), and when I'm looking for inspiration and ideas (sometimes all in one :)...so I am probably not considered a hard-core user.

How does google search attempts equal 200 million USD...if that were the case searches for Obamacare or Affordable Care Act would have paid the national debt thrice over. [I just used a gov't example, I don't care what the healthcare bill is called]
Could you elaborate on why you think it's a dead technology?
Youtube deletes Glossika language channel over false abuse complaints
Just 8000 bitcoin nodes? So much for the People's Distributed Currency.
Can someone please tell me why I would want to open my garage door if I'm not either in front or inside my garage?
BattleBlock Theater : le jeu de The Behemoth enfin en version PC 
Découvrez le jeu vidéo BattleBlock Theater par The Behemoth. Ce titre vidéoludique débarque sur la plateforme de téléchargement Steam incessamment.
F-Script anywhere with LLDB
I'd have to agree... we have tickets that go days without response, for things like requesting an increase in server quota (nothing ridiculous - like the ability to spin up an additional 6 servers / 96GB RAM - when we are a long term customer who spends five digits a month with them).
I think it is a basic ability most animals have. They need to know which animals are prey, dangerous or harmless. Just look at how dogs reacts differently when they see another dog, a cat or a human.
Circle emerges from stealth mode
I used to do this until somebody sent me an Illustrator file. GIMP or any other free alternative (e.g. Inkscape) I've found won't handle those correctly.
I worked with rvb closely last year and we always used to make fun of him whenever this debate came up. Then one day we realized he had co-authored a paper with Eric Brewer on the topic: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/hotos03/tech/full_paper...
Surely there is something? E.g. Google Maps was a breath of fresh air after MapPoint.
So in your mind, there's no difference between engaging in a transaction that both parties enter into willingly, fully in control of their faculties, and robbing a drunken, passed out individual? Because that analogy holds those two things to be equal.
If you're using it for outbound mail, you might look at using Mandrill. They're much bigger -- it's MailChimp's backend, used by 5M companies. That means mail is their primary business, their ISP relationships are solid and you can count on them to have 24/7 staff if anything does go wrong. They're also quite competitive: 12K free e-mails per month, then cheaper than both Mailgun and Sendgrid.

http://www.mandrill.com/
I believe that we will see a marked decline in the Cavendish varietals because of Race 4. But the upside is that there are so many other delicious banana varieties that are currently excluded from the market place because of the commercially 'perfect' quality of the Cavendish. To me that's like living in a world of only Red Delicious apples.

That being said, managing the fungal infections effectively continues to be an industry priority, as it should be.

Snopes - http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/bananas.asp
I've always admired Pinterest. As a guy I don't really understand the appeal of it myself, but my soon-to-be wife absolutely loves it, so does her mum, her sisters, my sisters and my sisters friends. They seem to have done a fantastic job at capturing the female demographic and it has paid dividends for them.

Congratulations to the team, curious to see how Pinterest can take it to the next level. Most likely the e-commerce route is the one they will be taking.
There are many articles describing why but really it comes down to this: malware authors can pump out so many copies of their software at once that signature-based detections in which the AV industry relies on are no longer reliable or effective.

We're at a point now where what may have worked as a defence against stuff being found on floppy drives just isn't able to scale for today's modern infrastructure.

AV is really a last-line of defence against being forgetful, and nothing more.
Top NSA Whistle Blowers who came before Edward Snowden