skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the long run, as has been pointed out, the rise of a lot of graphic software packages at this particular juncture has everything to do Adobe's current subscription model. Like many designers, I'm still forced to use Adobe at work because it is being advocated as "the industry standard."

At home, however, I've spent the last year looking for alternatives to InDesign and Illustrator. Ironically, the best two that were found were QuarkXPress (expensive, but had most of the features to equal what was being done in InDesign) and PagePlus, which was the one chosen (granted, it has to be either in a dual boot or in a virtual windows environment, but it does the job).

The problem when the Affinity Suite--most notably Affinity Publisher--finally comes to market is going to be getting commercial print shops to take their native files. Most shops work with hi-res PDFs now anyway, but for that 5-10% of jobs that need to be corrected within the native file(s), the shops are going to need to be able to open the file format. Currently, most professional print shops (in the states) take InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, PDF, QuarkXpress, and sometimes Freehand, Microsoft Publisher and CorelDraw files.

I submit two thoughts:

1) Affinity will need to allow Publisher to import and/or export .idml files so that previous users of InDesign can use their files in Publisher (the open-source program, Scribus, claims to have achieved .idml import currently in version 1.5 which is a developmental build) and export to an interim native file format that the commercial printing world can work with.

2) Affinity will need to go on a massive marketing campaign targeting printing vendors and extolling the virtues of adding Publisher to their armory of tools.

Having said all that--and currently being a PagePlus and DrawPlus customer as well as a proponent of the Designer beta--I can't wait until Affinity kicks Adobe's a$$.

By the way, as a Sketch user, Bohemian Coding's app seems to have been made to compete directly with Fireworks. Although it does work in vector, Sketch does not have the chops to fully compete with Illustrator (which is the territory that Designer fully stands in now). The only app that could have made that claim on OS X is/was Freehand (as DrawPlus, CorelDraw, Canvas, and Xara are all currently Windows-only).
where are you located? how can i contact you?
Theres also the SocKit from arrow:
http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?Language=E...

Very similar to Zynq but from altera rather than xilinx
well it's nice to know the lang.. mebbe ill take it or know it or have a cousin that speaks it.
Yeah, they should have.
I understand that not everyone lives the same kind of life, so have a look at this - it's full of seemingly inane or useless skills some consider basic life skills: http://www.amazon.com/The-Modern-Gentleman-2nd-Edition/dp/16...

I'm interested in these things because I can't predict the future, but like to prepare for it. Also because knowing how to mix a drink or who composed Peter and the Wolf makes for interesting conversation with people I naturally feel comfortable around. Each to their own I guess.
Location: Orlando, Fl

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Email: james AT creixems DOT com
What do you think about British sovereignty?
Let me guess: when you drink beer, you prefer Dos Equis.
True. It's quite a challenge satisfying both sides of the spectrum, especially when it has to be wrapped in a consistent UI. Thanks for that thought though. I'll look into that.
The Last Word on Cordova and PhoneGap
Nice list. Seems like they did a "major" reform around the turn of the century, many examples I've seen seem to be replacement around 1999/2000.
Hulu Chooses Cassandra Over HBase and Riak
The cubicboard could be considered the raspberry pi of the FPGA world:
168 gpio, 512mbit ram, cyclone V with 25k logic elements (huge, a nios 2 cpu uses 600LE!), usb, sd leds and pushbutton onboard - $39.
https://code.google.com/p/cubicboard/
His name is spearchucker, so it may not be a stretch to call that a basic life skill in his neighborhood.
Cool, but I think most of the people with glasses wouldn't want to rely on gadgets even more. If you can see display, but can't see physical controls or paper, that's an issue waiting to happen.
SEEKING WORK - Remote and In-house

Location: Orlando, Fl

Remote: Yes

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technologies: UX, UI Design, HTML, CSS, SASS, HAML, JS, PHP, WordPress

Resume: http://webjac.com

Email: james AT creixems DOT com

I do UX Consultancy and design. A little bit of photography and branding and develop landing pages, logos, websites and custom WordPress themes.

I'm also available as a front-end developer. Both as freelance or for hire at the time.
Is there resources where people share their FPGA projects? I really like idea of FPGA but have hard time to find real world project for it to start my introduction with.
I'm completely puzzled about these downvotes. The first paragraph I was replying to is definitely a job for Telehash, and I was genuinely excited about the applicability of the technology.
I'm aware of the connotation. I chose the name based on my favourite character in MASH. HN offers no way of changing my name. Another basic life skill is asking rather than assuming.
Collatz sequence generation performance profiling in Clojure
This is cool but I would love if these features were implemented at compile time instead of using functions. Great work either way!
It's "programme" in British-English for everything except "computer program" (in my experience). Probably because most programmer-culture is centred in North America.

I imagine that it's simply some NYT writer(s) using the British-English spelling, rather than a wider cultural trend, unless somebody is aware of any other examples?
Are we now all supposed to google for whatever the heck "banlieue" or "la BAC" is supposed to mean? :D
This doesn't directly answer your question, but there is a post here every month that asks "Who is hiring" and another, "Who wants to be hired". Browsing those might give you a better idea of what people are actively looking to give you money for :) https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
If We Release a Small Fraction of Arctic Carbon, 'We're Fucked': Climatologist
What's the point of noobstories?
> More broadly, the algorithm reddit uses is not only known wrong/buggy:

> http://technotes.iangreenleaf.com/posts/2013-12-09-reddits-e....

Reading that article, I get sent to https://github.com/reddit/reddit/pull/583
which contains https://github.com/reddit/reddit/pull/583#issuecomment-35440... which notes that the issue discussed has actually been fixed.
I'm curious why they don't have this up at the top normally.
BitChirp[0] is a Twitter clone using BitMessage's infrastructure (though I'm not sure if BitMessage could ever handle Twitter's scale).

Also Twister[1] based on BitTorrent + a blockchain for user registration.

But of course these will never take over Twitter's kingdom.

[0] https://bitchirp.org/

[1] http://twister.net.co/
I'd argue there's a vast difference between using two different, accepted spellings of a word, and using a Chrome extension that alters English words, transforming them into not English words.
Is this similar to CoinJar's Swipe?

https://www.coinjar.com/dna
Thanks everyone, we are expecting a number of suppliers joining in next week
> you could take a very large quantity without even realizing it

And that would somehow be better if the stuff you take doesn't have high purity, known concentration and comes with a clearly defined recommended usage?

Plenty of OTC medicines will hurt you badly if you take too much of it or mix it in the wrong way, and while some people do hurt themselves, the vast majority of consumers are perfectly capable of reading the dosage recommendation on the box and adjusting their consumption accordingly.

Designing dosages and appropriate guidance and packaging to avoid accidental misuse isn't exactly rocket surgery.
Behold The Most Insane Crowdfunding Campaign Ever
Have a look on OpenCores - http://opencores.org/
banlieue = subburbs. Paris == 1M intra muros (~15km radius from notre dame) subburbs == 12M (~40km)

BAC = Brigade Anti Criminalité (Anti Crime Unit) But everybody refers to them as the BAC or in slang the «cowboys»
Aside from all of the very good practical reasons to roll back drug prohibition there is an even more fundamental reason: the cause of liberty. People should and must be allowed to make mistakes. Being "allowed" to engage only in activities chosen from a list of behaviors that have been determined to be safe and unobjectionable activities is not freedom. But that is much of the nature of drug prohibition, the idea that the collective (the government) is in charge of what you can and can't do with your life and your body, not you. Without the ability to make choices that others, perhaps even lots of others, disagree with or object to there can be no freedom. The law should come into play only in so far as people cross the line into actively harming others, otherwise it should not intrude on how people decide to live their lives.

Very, very well said.
Anyway this isn't a solution to anything. What do they want, create their own Gaza out of those problematic areas?
Approximately correct to my experience. Note that foreigners will blow past the low end if they are not willing to live like Japanese people, particularly with regards to food budgets (with some exceptions, food like you're used to is systematically more expensive than Japanese food) and rents (middle-class Americans would often not tolerate the kinds of housing arrangements young Japanese people do).
The banlieues are the suburbs (of Paris). The word has become terminology which is used in international media. It's valid English: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banlieue

The BAC are the "Brigade anti-criminalité", that term is more obscure. Basically a special unit of the police. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigade_anti-criminalit%C3%A9
It was just a joke, spearchucker.
Out of a sufficiently noisy continuous dataset, you can actually do that quite easily simply by moving the start position until you hit exactly +0.00C. Which is what I suspect he did. If you move it forwards a few months, you get negatives until you leave that one anomalous spike out, and if you move it backwards, you start to get positives very quickly.
https://github.com/hernan604/Tutorial-Joose-JS-PT

Joose js tutorial in portuguese =)

Its possible to have all the moose power in javascript
Looks good, but I think it's too detailed for the intended use case. If you're trying to demo your website in a phone, you want a generic smart phone, that emphasises your app, not your choice of phone.
Oh! Stupid me! I did not flee, because I could not move out of the city. Courage is not always a choice.
Would support have received, investigated, fixed the issue and uploaded fixed binaries before we finished our two-week assignment?

Believe it or not our problems existed (professor included, happened during assignment reviews) but as new users we decided to just finish the assignment and move on. Subconsciously we felt it was a better return of investment for our time.

User Experience 101: when new users of your product face problems, they don't contact support and just leave as soon as possible for an alternative.

Support is there for people who already use the product and/or have no alternatives (which LispWorks has many).
Those smart enough to realize that integrated webcams pose a security risk are pragmatic enough to just use a sticker. That said, I think your design is a good one - and doesn't detract too much from the aesthetics of the device.
Wasn't familiar with the advert till I just looked it up. But no, I have to say, that if I am feeling pretentious, I would have to claim to be more Churchillian in my tastes. What really sets you up for breakfast is some Carlsberg Special Brew, washed down with a nice glass of Buckfast Tonic Wine.
> If Twitter would then also allow people to unstick a tweet after reading it

I really like your idea of a stickied tweet but they should probably automatically unstick it once you've seen it.
How about "slow" or "old" which would show submissions in which discussion still happens after x time units after submission date.
The actual meaning here is "clone" a single folder or file, not checkout.
A lot of people didn't consider the military junta to be a legitimate government, and as such, couldn't have changed the name of the country.

Even wikipedia still calls the country Burma.
Yep, as the Google N-Gram view in the article shows, usage of "theater" overtook "theater" in the late 1970s, but the two had quite similar usage rates from the 1940s onwards.

Style guides generally update to represent the editorial team's preferences, to reflect changes in the wider world (e.g. see the comment in this thread about "Constaninople"→"Istanbul", or to make a point (see the New Yorker's continued use of diaresis in coöperation etc.[1])

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_%28diacritic%29#Engl...
> That is, is there some essence of your position which I haven't adequately addressed? If so, what is that essence?

That essence is something you and I have in common. I believe this thread sprouted because of how my original comment was interpreted. I think you are the first HN reader to actually give a decent word for word analysis of my comments. A lot of the time I just have to endure obvious misinterpretations, elaborations, misquotes or sometimes just plain fabrications. It's good to come across someone who takes time to read boring old English.
You could try a VPS from Digital Ocean, cheapest option is $5 and gives you 1TB of bandwidth.
Entrepreneurship as Experimentation
There isn't really a way for Twitter to know if you've seen it if you don't interact with it in some way.
How to make Backbone.js x10 better
It is all about the cunning use of flags. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTduy7Qkvk8
Summary of the most common barriers faced to contribute to open source
5 Entrepreneur Ideas That Investors See Too Often
Why would you want to change it?
Other useful views:

https://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=100

https://news.ycombinator.com/classic
Are laptops with microphone hardware switches available?
In fact, we «banlieusards» from Paris have a tendency to consider ourselves as «THE» banlieue. The most emblematic one.
But most big cities have one of their own. Marseilles, Lyon and Lille have theirs.
Spying and hacking is the bread and butter of foreign policy. This should come as no surprise to anyone.
> Is there any reason why we can't design a federated (non-centralized) version of twitter that doesn't depend on a business model of monetization?

Another alternative would be a business model that doesn't include advertising. App.net[1] attempted this, but clearly that didn't work out too well.

[1] https://alpha.app.net/
Computers, Paradoxes and the Foundations of Mathematics (2002) [pdf]
Twitter https://twitter.com/newsyc100
That is only applicable if you take up PR (Permanent Residence) in Singapore. Hence many expats stay here on Employment Pass which has no such obligations.
I'm a newbie in web development (well technically not development but the web infrastructure, CDN/DNS/Nameserver/etc.)

As long as I use CloudFlare, it doesn't matter what host I'm using, right?

I've been thinking of ditching shared hosting and switching to Heroku since it'll be free (and git is always awesome).
No real opinion but considering Gibraltarians overwhelmingly voted to stay British I guess that's the way to go.
Try to ask the same question on the HTML5 Game Devs Forums http://www.html5gamedevs.com/ . Lot of online game developers there and friendly too.
Processing streams. You have inputs, process what comes in, you have outputs. For example video encoding/decoding is a good utilization of FPGA.
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I'm most likley going to be down-voted into oblivion and called "anti-semetic" even though i'm half semitc.

A really serious question, why is it our job to continue to support Israel? They continue to humiliate John Kerry and Obama. It seems like a one sided deal. We continue to give them whatever they want. And we get absolutely nothing back in return.

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Edit: Hmm, I wonder why this post was shot down so fast.
It looks like this would imply the next phase will be twitter either killing off third party apps for good (seems like their MO) or creating a federated ad network to insert into these third party streams (they should have done this 4 years ago).
I think you would be hard-pressed to make your same argument in other neighborhoods:
Bed-Stuy? Crown Heights? Park Slope? Brooklyn heights? Boerum Hill? Clinton hill?

There were 1960s race riots in Bed-Stuy too.

In these places in prime Brooklyn what happened in the 1960s is divorced from the neighborhood's origins. Taking one unique case in Harlem and extrapolating it to gentrification all over NYC does not hold water. From my personal experience, it seems Harlem has seen the least amount of gentrification compared to these Brooklyn neighborhoods. If you were to take real-estate prices as a metric (you could choose others I'm sure), Brooklyn has far outpaced Harlem in the rate of change, especially in the last decade.
"Rich kids are out of reach of the law"

Why is that, I wonder? Most rich kids still don't have enough leverage to mess with a cop, do they? How rich are we talking?
How Magnets Produce Electricity (1954) [video]
Of course there is (that's how they're calculating the impressions figure in your analytics).
I'm shocked--shocked--that the Mossad would dare to spy on a foreign official.
" synthetics I'd say no unless there was a means to produce a quantity and quality of LSD or X akin to seeing the alcohol content written on a bottle of beer."

Trivial for your modern pharmaceutical organization. Also, LSD in particular has a huge ratio between it's normal dose and it's LD-50 - I did a bit of searching, and I couldn't actually find a case of someone having overdosed to the point of dying of LSD, so it's unclear to me what the LD50 is - but it's big - having a 10x overdose of LSD isn't going to kill you.

This is unlike caffeine of course, where I've personally had friends hospitalized for caffeine overdose, and there are certainly records of people having died from too much caffeine. People have died from drinking too much water as well.

Anyways, the entire idea behind legalization of things like LSD, THC, MDMA, Heroin, etc... is that you normalize the dosage, and reduce the number of fatalities resulting from poor quality control.
There is no practical difference. Yes, you clone and have the whole repository on the disk, but after a sparse checkout you only have to deal with the files you are interested in.

The only problem can be with Facebook-sized repositories, but I believe in modularizing that big of a system instead of storing everything in one vast repository.
At least 2 generalists, from then on specialists are better.
It mostly has to do with Congressional politics, and some electoral politics, too (with Florida being one of the largest swing states and having a significant bloc of pro-Israel voters). As long as politicians get elected by supporting Israel, that's what US policy will be... even if it's not in the nation's interest.
Please put links for these views to the top!
Very good point. It seems to be that they pump in millions to our politicians and get back billions. Millions to billions scheme that ends up causing us a world of headache.
github pages and heroku are free. i prefer github pages though. if you want a vps, DO is cheap ($5/month) or Ramnode($15/year)
Flagging spam:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1664764

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1006275
This overrides a feature that I've seen described as the 'flame war detector'. If I understand the feature correctly, stories with a high ratio of comments to votes get a large ranking penalty. They tend to vanish suddenly and irreversibly from the front page when they pass the threshold, because they'll keep getting comments from participants, but don't have much opportunity to get any more votes from newcomers.

For instance, the "Google tips off cops..." story is ranked 12 here, but has fallen to around 200 in the normal ranking.
People getting injured is a good argument against horseback riding, and climbing mount everest - but neither of those activities is illegal.

Shouldn't individuals be allowed to make informed choices regarding their activity, particularly if it does not harm those around them?

Driving a car is dangerous, and it kills many innocent people who aren't driving - but we haven't mandated mass transit because we believe in the freedom to move.
Anyone know what will happen to companies like Square that so heavily rely on the magstripe? How would square be able to capture chip and pin transactions? Because as far as I'm aware, the CC specifications require a separate hardware pin pad, (so a software keyboard can not be used to transmit the PIN)
You might wanna strip that affiliate link and btw HN doesn't support markdown.

GH Pages doesn't support Jekyll plugins and the repo is public. Heroku supports both Jekyll plugins and private hosting for free.
In general I have a feeling of unease using "free" services, but it is nice to not have to pay for what I think services are worth (e.g., I would value Gmail at $8/month, Google+ at $3/month, Twitter at $2/month, Facebook at $3/month, Blogger at $5/month).

One real value of Twitter, Google+, and Facebook is the quality of what people you are following post. The other (and larger for me) value is promoting my blog. Every time I write a new blog entry, I shamelessly promote it on social media.

This is probably a crazy idea, but I wouldn't mind if these services had "hybrid" paid services: Pay a relatively small monthly or yearly fee, still see just a few advertisements, but much fewer advertisements than the free versions that are more geared to my interests than those advertisements that might make more money for the companies providing the series.
All the while telling everyone why that shouldn't happen:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4529855
If you're designing for FPGAs, you're not a software developer.

I can think of a few uses for FPGA:

* Pedagogical. When I was an undergrad, I took a computer architecture course. We wired up a simple computer with breadboards and discrete logic. The computer was microcoded to execute a variant of a modern ISA. The computer was useless and slow, but you learned a lot about computer architecture. I think this exercises is properly done with FPGAs these days.

* High-speed VLSI design simulation. You can simulate large designs at partial speed in circuit with FPGAs before you fab. I have no personal experience with this, but I'm guessing big chip design companies like Intel buy a lot of FPGAs for this purpose.

* Interfacing to high-speed data interfaces. Say you're building a hardware board with SATA, HDMI, or a high-speed ADC, but the microprocessor on your board doesn't support that interface natively. You can use an FPGA to connect that interface to the rest of the system.

For example, bunnie's Novena laptop has an FPGA with a high-speed IO connector. He has connected this to a high-speed DAC to create a homemade oscilloscope.

* High-speed DSP. Modern FPGAs have distributed DSP blocks. For example, the Xilinx Artix-7 100T can do nearly 1TMAC/s. So if you want to do video or audio processing, an FPGA might be a good solution.

I briefly looked into building a board to combine two video streams into one with barrel distortion for the Oculus Rift. An FPGA is perfect for an application like this.