skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
West and East coast in the US are 3 hours apart (timezone - ta-da!). Same issue with timezones applies even in the USA. Realtime support is hard to do anywhere in the world. What happens when the operator is overloaded with too many requests. There are many ways to make this scale and work even across timezones and languages.
What puzzled me is that training for high schools varies so much that not all students interested was given some basic help.
Is that because it needs to know your password to pass it on to the mail server?
I posted this to HN to demonstrate that there's still room for a Reddit competitor, which is interesting.

People often reference Digg's power users as one source for the degradation of Digg. I think future conversations will also mention Reddit's moderators leading to the degradation of Reddit.

Maybe Reddit is a case of a system working just well enough that a competing system can't gain a foothold, like the music industry. On the other hand, with Reddit's recent actions against the wishes of the community, they may be passing their baton to a future upstart.
I must say that I'm almost enjoying more Charlie's blog than Charlie's books :) If you scroll back a bit, there is also a very interesting piece about Scottish independence, with extensive comments: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/06/the-scot...
That's a short timeline and a perverse incentive. One of the clever parts of SO bounties is that they're taken from you whether you award them or not, so the incentive is to be a nice person and do so. Here the incentive is to never award and hope you get it back.

I understand you don't want people potentially throwing away money - its a problem where you need a high volume of answerers for the no-refund model to work. Just something to think about.
Just out of curiosity, why doesn't Gimp cut it in your books?
> We ascribe moral culpability to the human killer not because of their choice to kill, but because of our own perception that the killer understands what it means to take another life.

Choice is most definitely a factor determining moral culpability. Consider a driver who drives into a pedestrian killing him, because at an unfortunate moment, the driver was paralyzed by an unexpected stroke. The driver witnessed the entire event with full understanding of what it means to take a life. Is he morally culpable? I would say no, because he was not in control. You can also imagine similar scenarios involving coercion or accidents.

The key point is whether we are in control of our actions, or merely witnesses with the illusion of control. I don't see how this can be separated from moral culpability.
I never used it because I've got Photoshop installed on Windows but just gave it a try.

The first thing I noticed was the enormous lag of the mouse movements. So I think for an free alternative I will stick to Gimp.
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I just used it without lag. Consider making a bug report instead of a snarky comment on HN?
Actually, a midi keyboard has a longer way from keyup to keydown because you need to express differences in the velocities.

Then again, many more people have midi keyboards than steno machines, so it might be worth the try to adapt it for plover.

An even more awesome idea would be to use something like the EWI or the Eigenharp pico as a steno device, since those are more portable than either a midi keyboard or a normal keyboard. Not sure about the Eigenharp, but for the EWI you'd have to use another firmware (than the current one which translates fingerings into single midi notes and doesn't support chording), which sadly puts it out of the frame.
Minor nitpick: fraktur is not an alphabet, it is a style that some fonts exhibit. So "nowadays we use the latin alphabet" is not a change.
My money is on UX. But let's hear it from OP.
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I had this, but got rid. I find my mastery of regular paint suffices and for anything else, I can hop into Photoshop.
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GIMP is too complex (and too slow to startup) for simple image editing tasks.

None of the substitute photo viewer type apps on Linux really seem to stand in particularly well either - I like Shotwell at the moment, but it still lacks an easy to use crop/copy/paste workflow.
I prefer to use photoshop than using paint
I don't disagree with swap being helpful in some (maybe most?) cases.

But there are cases where it clearly does more harm then good. I had a postgresql datbase server with a lot of load on it. The server had loads of ram, more than what postgresql had been configured to use plus the actual database size on disk. Even so linux one day decided to swap out parts of the database's memory, i assume since that was very rarely used and it was decided that something else would be more useful to have in memory. When the time came for queries that used that part of the database, they had a huge latency compared to what was expected.

Maybe i'm misremembering and maybe there was some way of preventing that from happen while still having a swap enabled on the server..
For several years I had put off using Paint.NET over GIMP due to the dependency on .NET, but as soon as I realized that it still managed to outperform GIMP, I moved on the spot.

Still do not get how GIMP gets compiled on Windows to perform so poorly.
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Exactly. That is one thing I hate in the US. You leave a company and they cut all your health benefits. Left on the street. And when you do find coverage you end up paying nearly 1K per month for mediocre coverage. In comparison in Australia I remember paying $100 per month (5 years ago) for private coverage on top of medicare (free).

In the US at my previous gig, I remember hearing older folks with health issues afraid to get made redundant because they would loose their health coverage. None of those fears exist in Australia.
Gosh, I see so many people having issues like this... and get really confused, because I've ran Linux on my laptops for the past 4 years, and they've all worked completely out of the box with whatever version of Ubuntu was the latest at the time! And I don't go out of my way to pick a laptop that supports Linux, I just buy whichever fit my requirements the best.

Of course, now I'm just using a rMBP, but yeah, I wonder if I've just been very lucky?
I've done almost nothing and I look at my code and wonder that. Yes, I'm doing it wrong.
A wireless version of the Peregrine glove would fit:

http://theperegrine.com
The point is that there's nothing you can do. You are not the one making the choice. Hence the only solution is to restrain the police.
In case you don't enjoy clicking through half a dozen pages to get to the download, the actual link is on this page http://www.dotpdn.com/downloads/pdn.html
I upvoted this because it's objective and new information. I know a lot of people here hate Yo because of the underlying phenomenon they represent, but isn't it at least a little interesting that someone in a studio apartment can command so much respect? It seems like the internet has rewritten most of the world's social rules, and we have to acknowledge that, on average, we seem to be moving closer to a meritocracy. I'm keenly aware of how strange it sounds to call an insider-driven industry (VC funding) a meritocracy, but if you compare the current state of affairs to any point in history prior to 20 years ago, people care far more about what you have (users) than who are you are or what your pedigree is.
Ah hah, alright, that makes sense. I knew I was missing something, thanks.
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For me on Windows it is dog slow, even on i7 system.

Don't get it actually, as it a native code application coded mostly in C, unless Python and Guile plugins now own the majority of the code.
Well, Paint.NET is for people who don't want to buy Photoshop. Adobe products are not priced for people who only use them occasionally.
It's been a while since I looked at it, but my impression had been that Gmail does follow IMAP, but some features of Gmail aren't represented in IMAP. A simple example is that IMAP expects a message to be in a single folder but Gmail allows you to use multiple labels. I'm pretty sure that this particular issue had no real impact, but there are others that do (difference in handling deleted messages sounds right?) IMAP has no concept of "Archive", which is a key Gmail feature. I think I remember some talk about how Apple deals with that.

I don't think you can blame either Google or Apple or IMAP for this. It's how standards work: good for interop, but don't always deal with innovation well.
Yeah, who needs attack dogs or weapons to secure your illegal operation? Just scatter some toys in the front yard and park a mini van with stick figure family in front. Done. No police will ever barge in on your operation as clearly "kids live there"
Swap to use a slightly faster function someone else already wrote, or rewrite your code. Seems like the latter is more guilty of premature optimisation if this library is fast enough for the particular use.
yeah it's definitely not synthesizable in its current state, not to mention that he's going to have a bad time if he messes with the clock the way he does in this code (the way he generates his slowClock, unless his tools are clever enough to recognize this pattern and do the right thing).

It's a cool project though, but if I were him I'd learn the language with some simpler and smaller designs, maybe some stuff he'll be able to re-use in his final CPU.

As it is it reads a bit like someone who wants to write a kernel in C while not understanding how pointers work.
I managed to run it using mono. It wasn't flawless.
I appreciate that the author wants to get something back, but really? Why would I have to click through 4 or 5 pages just to get the download started, while nearly being tricked to click several abusive CNET "Download Here!" ads. Free apps like this would make a much more professional impression if they didn't clutter their websites with ads that no one will ever click (except for by mistake).
You should definitely check out http://pinta-project.com/
Pixelmator is my go-to OS X alternative.
There is now enough tech information (videos, stories on scaling & stack etc etc) freely available online that there should be no excuse for getting the tech foundations wrong. Unless of course the head of the fish isn't tech savvy running a tech company then you have a classic technology issue I have seen too often.
JIT'ed bytecode only carries a ~10% performance overhead versus well-optimized compiled native code, so the argument that a .NET program would be slower is bogus nonetheless.

In this case, GIMP is fully POSIX and GTK based so it needs to translate all POSIX stuff for Windows + rely on a subpar implementation of GTK for the Windows platform.

A good example of how native vs managed usually impacts performance much less than the application structure.
My GF is a teacher who did some graphics design and typesetting part-time during her time at the university. She used the Adobe products of course. When teaching at a school for the first time, and doing image manipulation with the pupils, she had to use Gimp because it is free and because of that the "oficially recommended" program. She had real trouble adjust to the GUI and teaching it to her pupils and at the same time the tool was way oversized for the tasks. I showed her Paint.NET and it was like heaven-sent for her.
It has been long time since I tried, but ...
http://code.google.com/p/paint-mono/

Then there is http://pinta-project.com/, that was created basically as a cross-platform clone of paint.net

Apart from that, if you want a painting tool, Krita is reasonably good.
I'd be curious to see teams ranked by the combined salaries of their players.
Come on guys, give me some credit. We're having problems with internal processes right now because our offices are split between Melbourne and San Francisco, and there's only 2 hours in the regular working day of overlap. Being a couple of hours out is nothing compared to being almost the entire working day out.

The more your support has to do shift work, the harder it is to get and vet support, train them properly, and the more expensive they are to pay. The more they're awake during normal sleeping hours, the lower the quality of support - and I say this having spent two years doing support for in-timezone sleep medicine equipment. The article also states other problems with response lag and low efficiency, which is what happens if you can't adjust your work day (and if you do, then you're out of sync with local services).

The kind of condescending 'get over it' comment from grecy is utterly beside the point - regardless of whether you deal with it well or not, out-of-timezone sync support is more difficult to do, and that is something worth mentioning in a list of hurdles an Australian startup might face.
Really?

Was refering to "if he takes it down, here's a copy". Implicit in "he takes it down" would be his having regret posting it, and wish for it to be forgotten.

This kind of thing -- personal stuff a person wishes to take back that are multiplied and made available for no reason by gossipy eavesdropers is part of cyber bullying too. "Hey, I can hurt this guys with a simple copy/paste. Why not do it?". In high profile cases, they'll even cite the Streisand effect, as if that justifies what they do.
pure gesture input just doesn't work (as repeatedly demonstrated with Wii, Kinect, and Leap Motion)

That's just untrue. I'm not saying that, from a gameplay-oriented perspective, gestures are better/more adapted (which is definitely wrong to say at the moment anyway). But for a data visualization and/or 3d world manipulation use, gestures are really promising.

The devices themselves and their lack of general use don't prove anything: The Wii and Kinect don't track the fingers, and the Leap Motion is a lot more spatially restricted (which might bring incomfort after prolonged use, and is unpractical for wide movements). Besides, developping new ways of interacting reliably with gestures is not something you can do in an afternoon, so it might take time for pure gesture input to prove its worth.
Plus Paint.NET occupies a sweet spot: it is simple enough to easily do easy tasks like cropping, while complex enough to do so slightly more advanced things.

I find it to be especially popular among IT professionals as they usually don't need to do photo-manipulation ("photoshopping"), but need to process images every so often.
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HN would be much more interested in seeing the code than in the extension itself. You may want to resubmit this with a github link instead.

As it stands, there's very little information on the linked page. It doesn't talk about the compression algorithm or any internal details.
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But likewise you can use excanvas.js to let your canvas code run on IE (emulates it using VML)
No. Of course not. But it was an example of how that kind of stuff can be stopped. They are both PP* on user published content.
This article was making rounds in my social feed about a year ago. Disturbed by the extremely weak and some absolutely flawed arguments, I wrote a note: https://www.facebook.com/sharjeelqureshi/posts/1015180699836...
I'm also in the habit of journaling. But for me it is much easier to write than to read my journal. I write almost everyday and some days I write several entries in the journal. Now I'd like to have a good method to retrieve the knowledge buried in the journal. For some entries I set alarms (after one year, three months, ...) but the rest is just buried. How do you effectively retrieve and review old entries? Do you have a consistent method?
The disclosure process is always fraught with peril (and pain) and its a safe bet that no matter what a discloser does, there will be some person or group who thinks they should have handled it differently.
In a case like this, when reasonable time is given, and the world gets to benefit from a great deal of work (effectively done for free), i tend to simply say thanks, and make notes..
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A lot of reddit posts (or HN posts for that matter) link to quality original content like yours, but never see the front page of any subreddit. And because of duplicate link penalties or prohibition, you can't try again.

That isn't actually true for HN. As long as you're not doing it too much, you can resubmit it until it generates some discussion. But it's important that the goal isn't "to get my stuff onto the front page" but rather "my stuff is inherently interesting, so reaching the front page would be a net positive contribution to the community."

I don't know what Reddit's rules are regarding resubmits, though.
It's probably unavoidably a time of turmoil - with so much at stake there's a disincentive for all companies to universally "place nice".

A cambrian explosion of standards and partnerships from which most likely one or two durable standards will emerge, hopefully the "best", is natural - but painful if you're impatient to just get something done.
When you say you want a PCIe one, do you really want to start by writing your own PCI slave? It's a bit of a pain. And having the FPGA on the PCI bus lets it crash your development PC when you get it wrong.
I think the most important part of modern web developement are frameworks:

JS frameworks: jQuery, AngularJS, BackboneJS

CSS frameworks: Bootstrap, Foundation

and tons ready-to-use solutions on Github.
Man, I have so many questions :)

Why not just use the haskell version?

What did you use to check the haskell version?

What did you use to check that C implements what haskell implements?

Edit: I have read http://ertos.nicta.com.au/research/l4.verified/proof.pml, but I'd like to know more about tooling. Like, did you use agda, e.t.c?
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Looks like this comment of mine was irrevocably wrong and completely irredeemable. No apology is possible and I'm sorry for my very existence. Go social voting sites! Go internet culture! Yay.
Thanks!

Yes, I agree with you. I was prepared for the traffic and also for criticism (and for the trolls out there!). But I learned that with this amount of users there will be light shed upon all small cut-corners you make that you think no one will notice. Which in my case was good for future projects.

In my case I was more eager to show the game than to actually get _a lot_ of users since there are no money involved since it's just my spare time project. However, if it had been money involved and if I had made investments (other than my own time) I probably would have investigated the best time of day/week/month to publish my project.

But I gained a lot of knowledge from this fuss :)
Yes, but with the interpretation on I found that the interpretation was about the same volume as the original track, which I found difficult to follow. Of course this probably depends on the speaker and interpreter.
To be successful, you can do nothing poorly. That's the trickiest bit.

If you do any of these poorly, you don't have much chance:

- Product Usefulness

- Usability

- Customer Support

- Pricing

- Advertising/Marketing

- Reliability (eg. uptime)

Just one of those being bad is enough to sink you. I think the hardest part is needing to not drop the ball on any of these things.

Don't just perfect one of them and hope it compensates the others. Our tendency is to work on the ones we're best at, but you just can't afford to neglect anything.
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I believe that's ligatures, not diacritics right there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_ligature
I've been in several offices where people think they need Photoshop to crop or resize photos. Consequently no-one has Photoshop (because its expensive) and people end up pasting 2000x800 images of logos into their letterhead and wondering why all the word files got so big.

Paint.Net is brilliant for doing common tasks like that.

Its a shame you have to play 'guess the download link' - that has really stopped me from recommending it to people recently.
It goes crazy if you leave the browser tab for another one, and then come back a few minutes later. Like an automatic fast-forward.
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>"Traditional" air strikes haven't been going on since 2001 (for Afghanistan) and 2003 (for Iraq).

So? If there's an operational need for them, they'll come back at an instant. They haven't stopped because drones, just because that part of the whole operation was over. You usually do those at the first stage of a "war", not at the "ocuppying force" stages.

>The Germans used the same argument to complain about Americans using a brutal, evil weapon in WWI... that's right, the shotgun, the "OMG drones!!" of 1917.

Is that said as if things turned all the better for the increased arms race? If anything I'd like to see those things controlled and restricted, like with do with other kinds of weapons with international treaties.

There's an hypocrisy involved in all this, that usually the persons saying it's all OK will be all tears and patriotic songs if it's even a person on their land that gets the same treatment, wheres the lives of 100s of innocent people on foreign lands are somehow not worth much.
The situation in the UK is very different [1][2]. I'd love to know where you're talking about.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/jun/25/house-prices-ou...

[2] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/housepric...
Agree, the goal is important. I actually tried before with some projects that I've might not given too much thought to it more than "I want to get a lot of users fast!" rather than "I'm proud of this project, let's hope others like it too."

This time, it was the latter, and it got a lot of more reaction than any of my other projects have ever had.
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I second Pixelmator. It's great for simple edits, and also provides some of the more complex, Photoshop-esque tools. Also pretty fast.