skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The incentive changes for this are so massive, nice "experiment" from an economics perspective.

1. penalizes OpenSource organizations that need a few private repos for password, server configuration or other things. Was 25$ before, now for example Doctrine with 48 collaborators it would be 394$. Even if just the admins have access to that repository.

2. penalizes collaboration, inviting every non-technical person in the company? 2-5 employees of the customer? not really. Will lead organizations to create a single "non-technical" user that everyone can use to comment on stuff. not to mention bots, especially since you need users for servers in more complex deployment scenarios.

3. rewards having many repos, small throw away stuff and generally will lead to "messy" repositories lying around everywhere that are committed on once or twice and never touched again. "Not having to think about another private repository", imho will produce technical debt for organizations.

4. users in many private orgs will need to pay or get paid for every organization each. I myself will be worth 45$ now for Github, being in private repositories of five different companies.

All in all, this just shows that Github does not care as much about open source anymore as it cares about Enterprise.

Btw: Mentioning the price jumps in repository usage of the old pricing is not really helpful. Consider a pricing that would be per repository (1$ for personal, 2$ for organizations) and doesnt have jumps and compare that to the new per using pricing. The new pricing only feels better for some, because you pay marginal costs for every single user instead of the old pricing where every 50 repositories you have to suddenly pay 100$ extra.

Edit: Forgot about bots, and deployment machine users (which even Github recommends for many scenarios)
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This is a remarkably poorly written article. Ignoring the absurd verbosity, which buries the facts behind a wall of words, some of it is just broken:

The current report released on Android market share growth is nothing, but rubbing salt in Apple’s wounds.
Yes, I know about this model but it wasn't made by Fielding and he made his positions pretty clear about what's RESTful and what's not.

I do agree that this model is a good set of steps to build better APIs but then, how do you call them? RESTful Level 1 API?

My point with this article is just to call API what they are (usually just HTTP APIs). I'm totally against the use of the REST buzzword these days since it doesn't mean much anymore: everyone has a different view on it.
We, humans, like powers of ten because of our ten fingers - when counting with the fingers, every time we reach a multiple of ten, we need to shift and start over.

So maybe others don't have ten fingers, and they prefer a different base for counting.

On the other side, powers of two are related to doubling/halving things - which should be a much more universal concept than shifting after ten.
It's his own money (~$20 billion) he plays with these days. So he kept the entire gain.
New Test by Deepest Galaxy Map Finds Einstein's Theory Stands True
Yeah, I dropped github years ago for bitbucket for my personal private repos. Can't beat free.

Their strategy worked because when I moved my employer off of SVN, a paid Bitbucket is where we went.
Merger Advice and Retail Trading
Never sanitize your inputs (2013)
teenagers contribute nothing to the GDP. we could ignore them completely and they'd still turn into reasonable adults at the same rate. How about making school curricula marginally more specialized and employing the smartest 5% in challenging internships? short of that I can't imagine anything moving the needle on teens.

Anybody who thinks aggressive movie ratings makes a difference to young people in 2016 shouldn't be considered safe to drive a car.
Is there evidence of active lobbying, ie making media do what they wouldn't do on their own of they pursued interests of their readers? Because this story in particular seems like an honest, interesting story by a good journalist.
Designing and implementing post-mortem stewardship at Facebook
Telegram also only shares unencrypted chats across multiple devices.
>Although that assumes that Fortune is reputable I guess

Indeed. I'm not sure how reputable can a site be with several thousand non-staff "external contributors" producing content.

I've never found anything original there and typically avoid it in search results.
Came up in a separate HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11674740
> "My belief is that we’re not going to get human-level abilities until we have systems that have the same number of parameters in them as the brain."

While that may be true, I find this compelling:

"The fundamental unit of biological information processing is the molecule, rather than any higher level structure like a neuron or a synapse; molecular level information processing evolved very early in the history of life."

http://www.softmachines.org/wordpress/?p=1558#more-1558

Edit: formatting
Couldn't agree more.
Business (the people who pay us to code) generally doesn't care about performance if it's "good enough to ship". Time to market, on the other hand, is a matter of life and death.
The trick is to ignore everything until the "duck typing" picture including the picture. Then to pay attention to the last four paragraps.
Ethereum: Swarm Incentive System [pdf]
He may well be right. If you say it often enough, eventually you will be.

2011:

>You’ve got to be myopic if you’re not at least concerned that there might be a major correction [1]

2013:

>Activist investor Carl Icahn on Monday said there was a chance the stock market could suffer a big decline, saying valuations are rich and earnings at many companies are fueled more by low borrowing costs than management's efforts to boost results [2]

2014:

>Carl Icahn says 'time to be cautious' on U.S. stocks [3]

>Carl Icahn Reiterates "We Are In A Major Asset Bubble" [4]

2015:

>Icahn warns of potential looming catastrophe...Icahn said he's "more hedged now than I've been in years." [4]

[1] https://next.ft.com/content/c9612302-4c09-11e0-82df-00144fea...

[2] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-investment-summit-icahn-id...

[3] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-investing-icahn-exclusive-...

[4] http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-12/carl-icahn-reiterat...

[5] http://www.cnbc.com/2015/09/27/-of-potential-looming-catastr...
If you don't have to support win32 platforms, I'd say go with Electron.

Other than that, features pretty similar.
To be fair, given the quality of the code from most Rails developers, the gems are more like turds than hairballs.
How about this headline:

Hillary's Nomination Signal an Oligarchy Doing Fine

(Hillary is all but nominated, I know)
What would you consider to be hassle-free?
This Is What Happens When You Re-Upload a YouTube Video 1,000 Times (2010)
> No newspaper including NYT has solved the economic puzzle of digital subscriptions bringing the type of money that 1990s paper classifieds + ads brought.

Now we're really getting to the heart of it: in an economic environment where growth is valued above all else, including actual value, publishers can't accept that they might have to make less money.

Honestly, though, I am highly skeptical that for-profit businesses controlling our media is even a good thing. Look at NPR, which is supported entirely by donations and grants: they don't make much money, and incidentally they do some of the best reporting I've come across.

Ultimately, I think the NYT and its ilk aren't "failing" at subscription models, they're failing because they can't compete with a myriad of more local news sources. It's hard to maintain a business when you have to send reporters to Cairo to report on Arab spring or to Tokyo to report on the Fukushima reactors, and local readers can get eyewitness reports from Redditors and Twitterers. It doesn't help that major news sources are increasingly untrustworthy and sensationalized. Ads are allowing them to delay the inevitable, but I think the end result will be decentralization. There's no reason for me to get my news about the Arab spring from the NYT when Al Jazeera has reporters who have been on the ground there for decades and have far more context; there's no reason for me to get my news about Fukushima from the NYT when I can read the English version of the Japan Times. News Aggregators make this easier. And incidentally, there are plenty of small news sources operating on subscription, pay-per-article, PWYW, donation, or other business models.
> Allwinner chips are lockdown-free even without this - you just need to hold down the right button/pin at poweron and the ROM bootloader goes into a mode that lets you load unsigned code over USB.

Side-loading unsigned 'ROM's/packages and gaining root are orthogonal concepts in Android: sometimes you want to obtain app-level root in the factory-installed OS - sideloading won't help with that (unless you are side-loading a rooted ROM, but that is not a given)
Also, I think gh has this now, but for a long time bitbucket was the only one that gave you the ability to prevent history changes on certain branches (I always do develop and master). If this had been available in gh we would not have seen those couple big projects accidentally force push develop.
Are you guys going through the nonprofit or the academics pricing?
Good point. I'll be controveraial and point out that there are parallels to Prop 8 in California here. And the immigration legislation in Arizona that was overturned.

Tell me that doesn't feed into the Trump candidacy.
Desktop processors generally have much higher single threaded performance. Thus apps can more often afford to take a performance hit on desktop than on mobile.
Facebook Capture the Flag is now open source. Learn to hack
It was painful to read. And I'm not sure how accurate, either. Losing market share is bad, obviously, but doesn't iOS still win the revenue share by a huge margin?
I don't get the point of that article apart of attract visits
Scan Firebird 3.0 one more time with PVS-Studio static code analyzer
I personally love ruby and rails and still find it to be extremely effective and adaptable to most web development tasks.

As people flee the platform a huge amount of opportunities are going to open up for that still enjoy the platform. I can't wait.
Actually I would put Ruby, Python and PHP and server side JS into the same category. Need something more performant, look at C or Java. JS has it's own niche on the front end, so you don't really have a choice there. Need concurrency, look at Erlang or GO.
Please do get HR involved. Please do not listen to the people here who are advising you to nuke the man from orbit, it's the only way. Doing that will only deepen the problem.

Seems to me that doing this would deepen one problem (...please do not use final solution/terrorist tactics. This only hurts women in the long run.) but I'm not sure it deepens the actual problem the poster from yesterday had (a potential lawsuit).
MM actually does go into a lot of detail (at least the first dozen times he was asked), and it's quite reasonable.
except Android devices trust Google keys
> In the future it might mean using (gulp) Java + WebAssembly

You know, after being out of the Java world for about ten years now, I'm starting to get the itch to use it again. I was one of those people that used to joke about programming in XML, but that's really just a layer of indirection which is often a good solution to a problem.

It's a very nice language, is fast, and has so far not been destroyed by Oracle. Plus JavaFX may be ugly, gut it is a cross platform GUI toolkit that works.
>It seems to me there is plenty of money to keep the internet going without advertising.

Curious how many seem to think money is literally the lifeblood that the internet runs on.

"Money" as we know it (i.e. the dollar) is a legacy centralized paper-based information system.

The internet is a decentralized/distributed electric information system.

The internet runs on electricity, not paper. Electricity is a renewable resource.
I very much think Trump is the exact same way. He knows a lot of business and his business, but he knows absolutely nothing about governance. That's not necessarily because he's a bad person, but because he's an extrovert and the type of extrovert who learns from experience and not from books. Evidence of the this is the violence at his rallies, when is the last time that happened to a Presidential candidate? I think the sort of policies he's going to push are going to lead to a lot of problems in the world for America in the long run. But it's very likely that he will be elected.

Also in terms of intelligence, getting a lot of money early in life and then making lots of small time investments in a lot of companies and having them turn into unicorns is not necessarily signs that you are super intelligent. You can just as likely just be lucky, and it be a case of survivor-ship bias.
Such things have been done. It's a matter of researching the people responsible and trying to figure out what they would respond to. Bring enough folks to the public outcry and maybe they will see your point. There are several movies that exist almost solely because of public outcry, so I would think it might be possible to get an official recording done.

Or run for office and work on legislation to change the law. But I seriously doubt you would make many friends in the entertainment industry if you try to change copyright law too much.
If you think topics such as #PoemYourLife and #1LineWed are newsworthy, you're welcome to it.
github, soon to be the next sourceforge
What a useless article...

>> "Just when we were discussing the ideas, which might help the Apple CEO Tim Cook to come out of the misery due to poor quarterly reports"

You mean the first report in something like 13 years not showing record growth?

>> "The current report released on Android market share growth is nothing, but rubbing salt in Apple’s wounds."

I think Apple's made it clear they don't care about market share. Market share != profit.
This also blocks me from using TextSecure/Signal, because they require Google Play Services at run-time.

I'm using a BlackBerry OS 10 device, which can run Android apps, and I even have Google Play running on it, but Google Play Services is stubbed for a large part on BB10, making some apps (such as Google Maps, Google Calendar, and Signal) impossible to use.

Why a security/privacy oriented application such as signals wants to bind so strongly with Google's services, I don't understand.
Little question the market has finally realized the Fed has no intention of raising interest rates, thus the huge dollar tumble since December. At this point more QE and negative interest rates in a year or two are far more likely than meaningful hikes. If the dollar hadn't fallen so much in the last five months, the stock market would be quite a bit lower already thanks to horrible corporate earnings.
Honestly when I read the title I thought GH switched their business model and offered free users the ability to start a private repo, but this is not the case.

If it is the case that I have to pay to have privacy on Github, then it imposes a privacy-rich versus privacy-poor dichotomy which I am uncomfortable with. Now I know as far as these things go (GH can be subject to National Security Letters), that GH is not really absolutely private. (Backdoors into people's 'secret' GISTS anyone?).

GH had an opportunity here to change their business model so that free users can avail of private repos, and GH could still manage to bring in revenue. GH primarily makes the bulk of their income from what I call 'stakeholder accounts'. That is; those companies who simply couldn't function correctly if GH didn't exist. It is in these stakeholders that there is a symbiotic relationship of revenue for GH, and value for the stakeholder(s).

There are very little lone private individuals who have that kind of symbiotic relationship, and so at least give these low income users the same equal rights of privacy as behemoth tech organizations. It makes sense.

In terms of how GH gets revenue from these users, there are countless other ways to do this instead of relying on the monolithic device of a premium subscription model. Offer paid licenses for their proprietary GH clients. (A one off payment of $20.00 for the GH Windows client is something I would actually pay money for)...
Why not? I would be curious to see how people tackle large, complex web software in an efficient way - that is with tools support, not by fighting against them and working around inadequacies.

Example: if the unit tests represent 50%+ of the code base, one is probably working around dynamic typing.

And here's some examples of complex software for comparison: image editor, digital audio workstation, CAD, video conferencing, computer vision & imaging, office suite, large games (think DeusEx, not minesweeper).

Not complex: almost anything CRUD
meh.
I don't see iOS disappearing anytime soon.

Sure, low to mid ranges phones are starting to have a great value proposal but Apple still have an huge brand to sell.
Many teenagers do work, others can be a massive drain on the economy. Wait, no everyone in the US is just like you never mind.
Bitcoin client for the browser, using WebRTC
8 Common Mistakes You Shoud Avoid Building Your App
FAQ Linked in the YouTube video is unavailable, here it is from the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20101018003811/http://www.ontolo...
> a single private repository to share passwords between admins

Please tell me you're kidding.
what is the beef with patio11 ? He has given my good comments on my posts over the years. That is how HN is designed.
Ask PWC to pay for the heels if they're a mandatory job requirement. As accountants, they should know that, under this assumption, they would be a legitimate expense.

They will refuse to pay.
The funny thing is that monthly living expenses (mortage + taxes) are less than our tiny apartment in NYC. Schools are great, which is why we moved, and cheap in context (compare $16k/yr in taxes to $36k+/yr for a 6yo in NYC private school).

Roads do have more potholes than I'd like, indeed expensive to fix/maintain. We do have walkways (this is not Atlanta/Midwest). One middle school, one high school, colleges are elsewhere (ie plenty). Loads of community/sports stuff (too much). Shopping nearby, but some requires a car (you get used to it). Note: it's actually a myth that the burbs have bad food (at least in relatively wealthy towns on the East Coast). Better than anything offered in my old home town in Holland (I do miss my 'patatje oorlog'). Obviously happy as a clam here. Don't think I could ever get used to living right next to my neighbors again ('rijtjeshuis')

Totally agree with you on the perception of risk. It's a shame. It wasn't always like that. I blame cell phones and helicopter parents.

PS I don't miss biking 10km in my rain suit (regenpak) Gezamenlijk afzien? ;-)
I think the issue stems from the fact that the thing you're likely to Google is "how to X in SQL", not "how to X in language Y SQL api".
The author leaves the business needs completely off the table, even though it would help his case. If you have a limited amount of time to launch your product in your current round of funding, and you want a framework that helps a small number of tech employees build working first generation critical features reasonably quickly, handle a large number of tasks not critical to the company's value proposition reasonably well, can be maintained and scaled on a variety of PaaS options well long enough until the company is profitable enough to move to the next phase of tech infrastructure, is Rails attractive software? I'm not an expert with it, and I don't even enjoy using it, but I believe it is.
And this is essentially the answer to the OP's question.
Reads like an odd mix of bot-generated text and something that's been run through Google Translate three too many times.
Interesting comment; I believe if you are going to implicate Cold Fusion, you also need to rope in PHP.

My first exposure to web programming was HTMLScript at my university in the mid 90s (now called MivaScript and is the language used to build the MivaMerchant product). Soon after, I switched to PHP 3, but I found that I preferred Miva.

I have not touched Miva in years after spending some time as a freelancer in the late 90s, but because it is tied to a successful niche e-commerce platform, the language survives. It is very similar to Cold Fusion minus the enterprise level database support.

I worked with CF for a time in the late 90s/00s (when it was still a product of Allaire) along side of ASP (pre .net), and I actually preferred it to both ASP and PHP - mainly because the mixing of mark up and DSL blocks seemed really unscalable.

PHP may have been seen as an evolution in web programming since it abstracted the mixing of logic and presentation a bit more than Miva or CF, but in retrospect I believe PHP was not an improvement. It made general web programming easier, but software maintenance is easier in languages like CF and Miva that embrace embedded mark up/logic.

The frameworks provided by Ruby, Python, Perl, and even TCL (among others) seem to have reached a point where only blurring the lines between client and server seem like the only logical paradigm change - and that's not to say it's an improvement.
It's times like this that I'm reminded that the world really needs more physicists.
While I can't speak for the entire team, this was a process that felt both intense and highly rewarding. It's often not easy for teams to find time to commit to working through a process like this, but internally, it feels like it's made a big difference in our momentum and confidence in the ways we're addressing customer feedback. It's a process that I'd highly recommend to any team that feels like they have an overwhelming backlog of improvements.