skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How to align activities with business goals
It there was a lot of heat down there we would know - there would be hot springs somewhere nearby.

For plastic to melt it would be hot enough to make steam, and we would see that.
I know right? If that hole could talk...
It's closer to hold'em than it is to a lottery.

But like both of those comparators it is certainly a gamble.
The reason why it works well for Autodesk and Adobe is the fact that they have a defacto monopoly in their fields. My boss doesn't like the fact that they have a subscription scheme but we have one for Adobe Cloud because there isn't another way. That is not the case for an IDE. I really like PyCharm and PHPStorm but I can (and also would) drop them in a heartbeat.

You will always find some (edge) case who can profit from these kind of schemes - an amateur photographer for example with Adobe CC or somebody who uses all the jetbrain tools - but there are a lot of cases that are a different and really don't have any benefits of using SAAS.

In Flanders we have a saying that goes a bit like this: "all small things makes on big thing". The personal problem that I have is that if I would add all those "inexpensive" subscriptions of services it will add up very fast to a point that it is becoming really expensive. I don't buy all software in a single month or can even wait for upgrading if an older version is good enough for me, with SAASS that is not the case.

But I have the same opinion that this race to convert all commercial software to SAAS will be beneficial for OSS alternatives. Personally I would even go as far as donating (or crowdfund) (for the same amount that I would give to jetbrains) to an OSS project, if that means that I would get an alternative that I don't need to "rent".
I think the important distinction you are missing is that smaller manufacturing process does not necessarily imply smaller photosites.
> Do you really think people haven't already thought of a dozen reasons why GPS beacons/synthetic DNA/blah blah etc wouldn't work?

Yes.

> Should we get some geologists in to comment on your issue tracker and propose solutions for your bugs?

Yes. And if they're wrong? So what? Is that bad?
So previously $119 would buy him infinite years.

And now $119 buys him a single year.

Sounds like a downgrade to me?
Tangentially related at best, but when I first visited Miami I kept thinking I had been there before. I had, sort of, in GTA: Vice City.
I don't agree that there's nothing in a free market that creates inequality. Thought experiment. Random walk dollars among a population of anonymous nodes representing people, starting from an exactly equal allocation. You will get a distribution curve of poor, average, and rich. Now add a "the rich get richer" bias factor where the dollar walk is no longer random, but has a probability proportional to the existing heap. Now you get inequality. More people are poor, but the richest of the rich hold nearly all the dollars. Add redistributive tax and you can pull the inequality down, but the jitter in the system always creates some of it.

I don't believe that the entirely of "the rich get richer" can be considered a distortion. It includes lawful things like improved access to investment. I also don't think that the "distortion" can be wished away; money is power over the use of resources, and thereby power over people. This includes the power to rig the law, assert monopolies, and control the machinery of the state, and always has done.
The MIPS and PowerPC folks were simply much better about writing release notes.
Separate Marketing Site from Web App in Light of Moz SEO Post?
There are already posts about strategies for building a marketing site separated from the web app already. They've suggested that the marketing site and the app be on different subdomains. These answers predate Moz's official stance on SEO for subdomains vs subdirectories. According to https://moz.com/community/q/moz-s-official-stance-on-subdomain-vs-subfolder-does-it-need-updating, creating a new subdomain isn't good for SEO.

I'm building a Rails web app, but I'm considering using Wordpress for the marketing site as a quick and easy way to manage things. Here's what I'm thinking: I'd want marketing pages (like www.mysite.com/ and www.mysite.com/blog) to be on Wordpress, but all others would be through the Rails app.

Knowing the updated SEO article, how should I be building marketing site? Is the old advice of using subdomains (like app.mysite.com for logged in functionality vs www.mysite.com for marketing) still relevant and produces good SEO? Does the logged in content even affect SEO and do I want that on the same subdomain? Should I have the web app on the top level domain and forward just the marketing pages to the Wordpress site, and is that good for SEO?
https://www.improvely.com -- marketing tools. "Solopreneur" seems to be a good search term for finding other examples, though I think it sounds silly.
For me, a lot of this stuff only comes through trial and error. It's not ideal, but I think over time, both the trials and errors improve in quality.

Basically as I work in the code, I see little things that could be easier or make the code clearer. Then sometimes I get ideas for big changes. Sometimes the changes make things worse, but that's why we have revision control right?

I think the same goes for drawing. Just get something on paper and look for small changes. As you make changes, eventually you might see a larger change.
I would like to encourage everybody that does not like the new licensing scheme of JetBrains to band together and produce either an open source product that is as polished so it can be used for free or, alternatively to take this apparently huge business opportunity and run with it.

I never quite understood what makes people that make 100's of thousands of dollars per year so cheap that they would balk at paying a few hundred $ for their main tool of choice.

Looking at a moderately tooled up wood or metalworking shop you'd be looking at a very large multiple for the main tools + accessories without a hope to make the kind of money we can make in software.
Context Tree Weighting and Rissanen Arithmetic Coding
My main IDE right now is VS12 but once a week I use Webstorm for like 2 hours. Does anyone knows a good alternative to it? Preferably an IDE not a TextEditor.
"I feel that the core IDE has degraded in quality over the past years because the releases were feature-driven, and I'd be happy to see IntelliJ refocus on quality instead of quantity."

I couldn't agree more. The latest versions have a ton of bugs that were not present before. Some of the IDEs are totally unusable for certain tasks like debugging. I don't think they will focus on fixing bugs and they haven't introduced any great features, IMO, in years.
NASA's 1975 Graphics Standards Manual
actually, the entry is manual, and to be honest the current entry mode can be pretty tedious, but improved ways are on development.
I think that debate is mostly being waged by people who don't want to accept that our existing models of disease are woefully simplistic. I find it mainly amusing because the previous battle similar to this was from people who thought nucleic acids couldn't be coding molecules while proteins could!

I was at UCSF when Prusiner was doing some of his best work on prions- it typically involved infecting mice and waiting 2 months to get a result that could be analyzed molecularly.

Anyway, this model system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungal_prion
is pretty well understood, and it's generally hoped that understanding its molecular behavior will go a long way to understanding mammalian prions.
Ask HN: Facebook LGBT discrimination help
I have a friend who is transsexual and is being discriminated against via Facebook. Someone reported their image as "showing a full breast", yet the most is shown is cleavage.

What are the proper channels to defend against this? How do they protect themselves against LGBT hatred and private reporting?

From Evelyn Stier( https://www.facebook.com/bjorn.thorrson ): "Due to Facebook controlling the lives and actions of women, and their greater hate for trans women, my ability to post for the next 24 hours has been taken away because of a rat in my friends list who said I was showing "a full female breast". My picture in my pin up dress was the one reported. There is no nipple showing, just my amazing ample cleavage which someone seems to be jealous of. I wont apologize for having great tits or wanting to dress how i want. If you have a problem with me then come and find me. We will settle this the natural way. If you need to contact me send me a message."
I don't know how people use their ides, but I have had no problems with eclipse and feel plenty productive with it.
Writing java code in my case. It has autocomplete and that's pretty much what I need... Great support with workspaces and multiple modules (I have about 50-100 "projects" in one workspace, and you can use filtered views also if needed).
An it has a faster more responsive UI and better fonts thanks to eclipse's SWT, java's UI-toolkit is sluggish and horrible fonts.
Also idea seemed to be indexing a whole lot of stuff the whole time... Eclipse just finds the stuff you need with no fuss indexing (it does indexing of course but it's barely noticeable)
Let's Build dispatch_queue
The reason is that we're capable of multiplication and comparison.

$240 per year / $200/hour = 1.2 hours that this thing needs to save me each year to be worth paying for. I don't think that I could rewrite ReSharper from scratch in that amount of time. I know from long use that it will save me that much time each year.

It's the simplest money I'll spend all year. It would be if my bill rate were a tenth of what it is.
Right. In an alternate world where you had to pay Intel $20/month or they'd brick your CPU, I'd expect their rate of improvements to be much lower.
I gotta say, this was decent press for Jetbeans, because I like subscription models and I skipped buying PHPStorm recently because I didn't want to pay a big price, but I'm pretty sure I'll subscribe at these prices.
Water sources for Kansas aren't surface waters but ground waters. Problem is that the recharge rate is far outstripped by current crops we're growing. Western Kansas will slowly turn into a desert due to this reality. The same goes for most of Oklahoma and Nebraska. These are the states which grow the wheat and corn that goes into your food stuffs. You think bread is expensive now wait until a gallon of fresh water costs more than a gallon of gas. Then you'll feel the pinch of Malthus' Curse.
So, let's say it is an interactive story.
It says I don't have webgl, but chrome://gpu says "WebGL: Hardware accelerated". Not the first time I've run into this.
The point the poster you responded to was making the point that Zuckerberg may be satisfied with just Facebook, whereas Larry and Sergey choose to pursue other ventures in addition to Google. The poster wasn't making a point about talent or luck.

Even with that, Zuckerberg isn't 100% focusing on the Facebook core product; look at the Connectivity Lab, for example.
It's really odd how the C# community took ReSharper to heart so easily and somewhat irreversibly. The amount of C# developers out there now that will literally turn down a job offer if ReSharper is not used at that shop. It is also the #1 complaint of even higher-end C# devs as to why they would never move to F#... because there is not ReSharper for it. Duh. It's sad they can't see that ReSharper is merely a symptom of a poor language; to work around all its flaws.
Biggest problem I have is the need for a live Internet connection. We do all our work in an offline dev environment.

Now trying to get some licensing server installed in an Enterprise environment is a PITA.
If my harpoon allows me to accelerate/decelerate at 10g for 1 minute, I'd gain 5.9km/s. This requires a tether that's 176km long. That would be a pretty long tether; that can take a lot of weight.

But lunar orbit insertion requires a delta-v of only 2km/s. Maybe one day, on the far side of the moon there will be a great magnetic hook that space ships will shoot their harpoon at in order to quickly insert into moon's orbit.
"How would you distinguish automated testing from TDD?"

I would consider the distinguishing characteristic of TDD is that you write the tests first. There's varying levels of strictness there from little more than that restriction, to varying levels of dogmatism on writing code that only makes the test pass.

I consider this a great way for a new programmer to learn how to really design code. In fact it's one of the only ways I know to practically teach design. However, once you have experience, the really dogmatic TDD involves writing simple tests, then writing code to pass the tests that you, in your experience, know will be driving yourself into a local optima that will not be able to carry the design. But when you lack that experience and knowledge, well, it's a great way to get it while learning a good dose of YAGNI. (Which I do not consider an absolute, but is something everybody needs to exercise.)

In contrast to "TDD" which I consider optional, automated testing has provided so much value to me in so many diverse parts of the stack that I consider it a no-brainer; it is a positive value to any project. The exceptions are things where the code is so not-amenable to testing that it is essentially untestable. Note this only applies to code written by someone else; if you wrote it, fix it to be testable. In particular, GUIs are a royal pain here. It is my belief this is not a fundamental attribute of GUIs, but a GUI not written to be testable is nigh untestable.

(And if you find it isn't bringing you value, you're probably doing it wrong. There are wrong ways to do it. Test code is real code; apply all the arts of refactoring, DRY, and learning from experience as you do to "real" code.)
> Polishing and bug fixes cost money, but nobody wants to pay for that.

You pay for that when you buy the product - it comes with a year of updates.
50% Increase in Year-Over-Year U.S. Startup Funding
Looking at the sensor under microscope the amount of photons received is determined more by the area of the pixel than the size of the features under that area:

http://petapixel.com/2013/02/12/what-a-dslrs-cmos-sensor-loo...

I'd still like to get a link in support of the claim of significant benefit of lithography process improvement to the sensor sensitivity, unless it's about the smallest sensors (as in mobile phones or smaller) and very high pixel count.
What will Apple announce next week?
​Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 beta is out
Many people are quite happy to pay for their tools, what they do not want is to be forced into a situation when it is pay for the tools this month or lose access to them.

Jetbrains could have avoided all this negative backslash by keeping the current licencing scheme in place and adding the subscription service as an option.

Again, think of it like buying a DVD over renting it on Netflix, most likely Netflix would be the cheaper option as with the exception of children's movies most movies/shows are not watched more than twice/thrice.

However we want to feel the ownership of something.

We do not want to be told that we must pay $5 for this exquisite hammer this month or be forced to go back to a 3 year old hammer.
Github repo: https://github.com/mixu/distsysbook
My money's on 69.

Rudy Rucker had some interesting conversations with Gödel about a deterministic universe in which (because time is illusory) backward time travel exists: http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2012/08/01/memories-of-kurt-g...
An Implementation of the Paper 'A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style'
I live in Cambridge, MA and I can't see any way that $10MM isn't enough to never worry about work again. At a first approximation, that's $300-350K in income without much risk of principal drawdown. It's surely enough for $250K in income (plus an inflation "raise" each year) forever.

If that's not enough to not worry about work, you might have lifestyle issues.

$1MM won't buy you a "really nice house" here, though, so I agree with you on that point, but it is still enough to not worry about housing if you choose "sufficient, not luxurious" level of housing.
I agree, such a phone would be awesome. It's a shame the Iridigm/Mirasol "butterfly wing" technology hasn't become viable after all these years (yield issues AIUI), because that would be almost as efficient with full color and contrast. Couldn't play games on it, sure, but everything else would be fine.
It's time for states to ban non-competition agreements
Look, I respect you greatly, but this is not something to be cavalier about just because the environmentalists act like it's the Great Revival and throw up too many hosannas for our liking. Ocean acidification is real, greenhouse and ocean thermal effects can't be explained away by sunspots and yes Virginia, there is such a thing as phenomenology in science, despite what people like Koonin might say.
I write homebrew formulae.
I have found http://deeplearning.net/tutorial/ to be very good. It uses Python and Theano.
You'll gain weight at half the rate.
Was that a "ls -l" joke? Would that have even worked on an MS-DOS machine? ;)
nethogs: bandwidth usage by process(Does not work with UDP!)

iptraf-ng: bandwidth usage by port.

lsof: list open files(including network files).
Because a modern coal plant can provide rock steady power at $.05/kwh, day in and day out. Yes, thorium, uranium, VOC's, and mercury suck. And the CO2 isn't exactly a benefit. But compared to the abject poverty, or even eternal "developing" status some countries acquire, it is probably a worthwhile investment, or at least should be given as an option. At least until solar becomes cheaper and we find a way to store energy for when it is needed. [EDIT] Because this isn't just about providing retail power to consumers, but commercial power to factors and industry, to generational wealth to pull whole societies out of poverty.

But asking the Congo to invest in massive solar farms when it can't afford cheap coal, is just cruel.

And Vietnam, China and many other countries see nuclear as the only sensible option. We only have about 3 billion years of fuel left (including thorium, but excluding the immeasurable amount of uranium that could be mined from Ocean water).
LMFAO that was so worth it, thank you for telling me about this. That's hysterical.
> I was a bit put off that statement though since I expect bug fixes as part of my original purchase price.

You should expect that. But when it comes time to purchase the upgrade, would you do it ONLY for future bugfixes? Or for new features?

Most people would upgrade only if there were new features, because otherwise they'll just use their older version with whatever bugs it has that might not even effect them. JetBrains is a business after all...
How to Install Android Apps on Windows 10 Mobile (Microsoft's Project Astoria)
you are probably right, the old town parts probably get lost in the largest map.

But as far as I know naples is not even a roman city, so I don't know what is going on there :)
Guess I'll try to port. IMHO Matlab is still the best thing I've seen for numerical analysis of differential equations.
Yeah, 'ship' means different things in different contexts. In the context of your original comment, node stable is getting arrow functions within a week of Chrome stable getting them.

In general, io.js has been very good at picking up stable V8 soon after it ships in Chrome. The exception was V8 4.3, which was not picked up because of API compatibility issues.

This is not a problem for Chrome because chrome doesn't expose the V8 C++ API to large body of third party module writers like Node does. It takes time to deal with some API changes.
Modern nuclear power plants have negligible environmental impact.

Yes, they should be built everywhere.
Pretty sure you could not work even in SF or NYC with $10M in the bank.
See also "I don't know anything about"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=GlcuV_Dojwg
Instead of having a billion dollar plan have an exit plan first, that's more impressive because you acknowledge failure head on. The chances of you failing are much greater than you even surviving 5 years. As a founder, you need to have an exit strategy that will be the least impactful to your team. Statistics Canada shows a huge failure rate folks. Everyone wants billions but everyone needs steady employement. http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/061.nsf/eng/02807.html
Iodine-123 maybe, but you'd have to make it on the spot.

The half-life is 13.22 hours, and it makes some detectable gamma rays.
Hopefully css doesn't need to be eradicated like flash today... It was great back in the days but now flash is the worst
Fair enough. Both of those interpretations are a very different message from "Look at the nice thing we did for you"... which was my point.
Moving to a subscription model for 1 thing is okay, perhaps 2, or even 3. But with every company gradually moving to subscription models, it is emptying out our wallets every month and removing more and more of our income to maintain the status quo.

From my own perspective, and I know this doesn't apply to all, but I cannot imagine I'm the only person with this viewpoint:

I'm sick of other developers saying things like: "You know what? For the amount developers earn, $X is a small price to pay." You're right, $X for a single piece of software is a small price. But when you add the cost of your MSDN license here, your JetBrains license there, your Xamarin university/license, O'Reilly Safari License, PluralSight license and countless other licenses and software purchases to do our jobs - all of which are gradually moving towards month-by-month subscription models with excessively large combined annual overheads, it cuts more and more into your budget... and not to forget that the income you make doesn't just pay for an ever revolving cycle of tools to maintain your competitiveness as these arguments seem to forget [unless you're still living in Mom's basement and all your income is expendable or can feed the endless software-as-a-service lifestyle]. It's also used to ensure that your kids get a good education so they can make their own valuable contributions to society; that you're able to live comfortably and not worry about where your next meal is coming from; that your family is safe and secure and well prepared for the unexpected; medical plans; retirement plans; mortgage; vehicle payments; the list goes on... all of which costs money - every month!

I'm growing tired of companies feeling like they can reach into my pocket month after month and take every spare penny for "services rendered." At what point will people turn around and say "Enough's enough! My money is mine!" I'm happy to buy products when they move me forward, but I hate paying monthly subscriptions on the off chance that you're going to continue provide updates that may or may not benefit me in the longer term.

As a company providing software, I'm not purchasing you as a service. I'm purchasing your product. When I work for a company that pays me every month, I'm selling myself to them as a service - to do their bidding and write the code they want. If I'm to pay for you as a service, then the money I'm paying you had better be providing what I need to do my job more effectively, just like if I pay a cleaner to come clean the house, I'm not paying for them to develop makeup products that benefit their other clients while I don't wear makeup. I want the option of buying the product that does help me do my job more effectively and then I'll hold on to the rest of my money and allocate it where that is the case.
Yeah, that's bullshit. I'd gladly pay for a maintenance release with only bug fixes considering the quality of the latest versions has tanked. I've already done it for the last two version of PHPStorm (each which has been more buggy than the previous with no great new features).
Some of the comments propose granting a perpetual license after 1 year of subscription. I would go for that.