skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Redistogo Price Increase (on Heroku)
Surprised and a little disheartened to see the cost of cloud infrastructure increasing in this case. I'm so used to Amazon decreasing end-user costs as their costs go down.

I'm wondering if its related to underestimating support costs, freeloaders in the Nano tier, or if it's an experiment in pricing elasticity.

Note: old prices (emphasized), via Google's cache, added to original email below.

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Dear Redistogo User,

We're contacting you to inform you of a price increase for the
Redistogo add-on. Effective today, the new monthly pricing will be
as follows:

Nano - free

Mini - $9 (up from $5)

Small - $39 (up from $25)

Medium - $169 (up from $110)

Large - $390 (up from $300)

Super - $1200 (up from $1000)

More details on features can be found at
http://addons.heroku.com/redistogo.

As an existing user your current pricing will remain for 30 days.
On August 24, 2012 your service plan will switch to the new pricing.

Best,

The Heroku Add-ons Team
Not necessarily. Sometimes the master key card opens the deadbolt as well.
10 tips for handling negative app reviews and feedback
Americans get wiser with age. Japanese are wise from the start
It's ok, I get "jolly" a lot.
The market is absolutely ruthless. It doesn't sugarcoat things for you or hold your hand.

Startups know this and act accordingly.

Large organizations do not necessarily know this or act accordingly. There are too many layers insulating people from reality. But they ability to scale processes and that's why they survive.

Steve pushed reality hard and got through more of those layers. And that organization can really execute as a result.

That was just one of his abilities.
It's an USAism to think that "growing up" mandates "repressing emotional outbursts".

In many parts of Europe it's expected that grown men have emotional outbursts. Repressing them gives the impression of rigrid and cold humans which you should not trust.
From the article:

> Jobs has become a Rorschach test, a screen onto which entrepreneurs and executives can project a justification of their own lives: choices they would have made anyway, difficult traits they already possess. “Everyone has their own private Steve Jobs,” Sutton says. “It usually tells you a lot about them—and little about Jobs.”

This isn't about Jobs being good or bad for the world. It's about his managerial legacy. Essentially, nearly every account of Jobs' life devolves into a hagiography, espousing subjectively his deeds, trying to fit them into a theology of sorts, which distorts generations of entrepreneurs' views of Jobs. Many misread him being great because he was an asshole, but overlook the fact that if he was right, it's because he was right that the product succeeded. Not because he was an asshole.
There has been a lot of interesting discussions on growth hacking here on HN lately. This article raises the important point that long term growth has to be the goal as opposed to increase in sign-ups or page views. Feeding the Internet troll, for example, may not always lead to long term growth.
I never had the impression that APM was anything "elite". It's a rank somewhere around the SWE-3 level of project management. I'm sure there are APMs who get great opportunities, just as there are SWE-2's and -3's that land on the best projects pretty randomly.

If you want to be a PM, Google probably isn't the best place for you, just as you probably wouldn't work for a steel company to write software.
First lesbian in space, apparently.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/23/sally-ride-first-am...

Unfortunate she felt she had to keep it to herself her whole life.

At the time she was applying, it might have disqualified her, security clearances weren't given since it was felt gays were exposed to blackmail. Plus Reagan era officials might not have viewed it as great PR.

[edit] Also a shame her partner of 27 years doesn't get the privileges of a spouse.
I don't know for sure, but judging from the sequence shots, looks like it scans a pixel column depending corresponding to the part of the movie. If it's scanning a frame halfway of the movie, it will scan the pixel column in the middle of the frame.
Its not clear to me how your last comment is related to the rest of your post.
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The idea is that the volume makes up for the tax - 100% CCs on file vs 4% is huge. Not the first thing you'd think of for supporting open-source, but something to consider.
This article had a ton of great minutia in it so thanks for that! Many times people gloss over the fine detail which is really the important stuff.

Question: Bringing in $3600 and only profiting $400; was the whole thing worth it in the end?
Good show; please expand the show notes. Would love to see links to everything mentioned.
I'm already on there from time to time (as a "consumer"). Likewise I am aware of the wonders of social coding... which existed before GitHub did. And all of this without a GitHub account. But, AFAIK, currently there is nothing I do on the GitHub site that would be enhanced by being logged in.

But the point is not how easy is it to sign up for a free GitHub account. The point is that it seems like an unnecessary requirement to tip someone on Gittip.
I'm not a big phone/tablet app user, so I'm ignorant about this: how does that work for new purchasers? Is there a way to say "anyone who buys this from date X on gets these additional purchases included free"?

For instance, if I buy Photoshop today, I get all the features. If I had bought the last version, I'd have an upgrade price to pay for the new features. In the in-app purchase world, does everyone always have to pay the original price + in-app purchase price? Do you just make the new base price lower (but with the low prices of apps in the first place, there's not room for many versions if you knock a buck off each one...)? And even that seems to still be new-user-unfriendly: I would be bummed if I bought an app for $1 and found out that the coolest features required another $3 in purchases, even if the app cost $4 when it first came out a couple of years ago (I probably don't even know that).
I listened to a talk by a game developer last week, and their thrust was exactly in this direction.

The app is free and revenue is made from in-app purchases.

The basic app is structured so that upgrades are infrequent, because of the time lag.

However, the app connects to back-end servers which contain much of the smarts of the app. Thus they can upgrade them whenever they like, without having to upgrade the app. Then can also introduce premium features to be sold with the existing in-app purchases.

How you achieve this in a non-game setting is a challenge, but I believe it is the key.
Heroku addon: https://addons.heroku.com/redistogo

RedisToGo homepage: http://redistogo.com/ (seems to still have the old pricing)
Exactly! It's the "how".
I dunno. I love Alien as much as the next guy, but there are a few times when you see the alien and think "that's just a thin person in an elaborate suit".
Save yourself a copy'n'paste:

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No, when you select "I don't know, I'll decide later", the account does stay pseudonymous. So there is a way out, it's just not easy, because you need to choose a "legit" reason for not using the real name (e.g. "my channel name is for a show or character"). You can't simply dismiss it permanently. I haven't been reminded yet, though.
Can you give us some examples of who has done this and how they avoided getting caught on Mechanical Turk? I've had legitimate HITs removed for apparently violating policy recently, so in my experience AWS is fairly vigilant in looking out for HITs that attempt to juice SEO or promote.

I guess it could work if you abstracted it enough so that it's not apparent to the worker, but it wouldn't be trivial to execute. Using VAs on Odesk might work better.
"Seriously? What is the point of limiting yourself to one OS and then gripping about some app X not running on your flavor."

Really. I think you are missing the point. It's kind of sad seeing a modern browser app not being able to run on multiple platforms.

In my optics it undermines the whole idea about creating browser apps. If files system hooks are the problem, let me just save online or via the browser api.

In the future, I'd like to be able to get some stuff done without having to spin up 5 OS'es.
The man who wore sanitary napkins
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In March, I emailed the CEO of Sparrow begging him to offer premium SaaS features on a subscription basis that integrated the functionality of "was my email opened?" services like Toutapp.com and automated follow up services like followup.cc into the email client.

http://mattmireles.com/post/27676258826/what-sparrow-could-h...

The market wants it. I still believe.
I like this, and I just signed up! Do you think tipping is something that GitHub might want to add as a core feature of their web site?
It's not clear to me that your example actually motivates a new technology. If these VMs all have IP addresses, then they can all talk to each other already -- no special subnet is needed. And unless this virtual subnet is performing VPN-style encryption, this virtual subnet does not provide any additional security or data isolation on top of what TCP/IP already provide (ie. you can only read data addressed to you unless you control the physical hardware and put it in promiscuous mode).

I'm not contradicting the idea that this technology is useful (obviously VMWare's acquisition speaks for itself), but I would like to see a motivating example that can't be accommodated with plain TCP/IP.
Compared to the Oklahoma bombing and the recent theater shooting, Norway probably didn't act all that different, but from reading the source, this is one of the comments that captured the essence of why/how Norway stands out:

"[]...What we Norwegians are afraid of is actually the situation you have in the US and UK either with Police or prosecutors with way too much power or CCTV cameras everywhere etc. We have been a peaceful society based on trust to each other for a long time, and intend to let that continue. I can only quote FDR: "The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself".
Stoltenberg actually had to come with that statement. As doing the "US style fixit" would have backfired on him politically. Popular demand is different here, and that is the true power of Norway."
This would be the only sane way to test this out, worst case your going to get done for defrauding yourself as apposed to something worse. Makes the defence more believable and obvious.
Synchronized, NSLock, pthread, OSSpinLock comparative performance
How many times are you willing to let a startup tear up your yard? Or are you referring to the proposals that government should force private companies to share the critical infrastructure they created at their own expense? I can't imagine that sitting very well with libertarians or people vehemently opposed to government monopolies.

The only way last mile utilities are going to be fair is if government steps in (correctly). To my mind, that means municipally laid and maintained last-mile fiber patched to the commercial provider of my choosing, but I expect that will remain a dream for a few decades, at least.
This is just silly. You can't say that you can pull the code from a public repository, and then claim it's private. If it's set up so you can pull the code, and you do so successfully, then it's by definition public. It's totally understandable that you're unfamiliar with how the the projects and dependencies are distributed. The Chromium projects are one of the largest and most complex codebases you're likely to encounter. However, it's all clearly documented and public, with numerous open source contributors. So, it's very disturbing that your first thought is not try and learn why, but rather to insinuate some irrational conspiracy theory.
That works if all the upgrade entails is the addittion of new features, but frequently news version are different than just features. They are frequently a rework of the UI or other core code (Apple's Logic 7->8 upgrade jumps to mind, as do most upgrades to 'large' software applications like MS Office.)
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Applying evolutionary theory to a computer programming event is a whole new kind of odd...
Could try www.newsmap.jp or www.newsola.com for an interesting visulization of Google News
Is there any evidence that this (that is, relatively democratic decision-making as described) is the case at most BigCos?
Netgear’s $39 Wi-Fi extender could be a mobile data saver
I disagreed with you in a previous thread, but I have another point to make.

I think the SaaS model applied to desktop software would run into some problems. I think people would react with hostility if their desktop software stopped working once they stopped paying a license fee, even though they may very well accept this model for browser-based apps.

I think the sparrow guys charged too little for their email client, personally. People will pay for beautiful and quality, productivity tools.
Fisker Command Center - a good example of bad software
Could Kickstarter be used to crowdfund journalism?
ok, what I said was based on something I heard Julian Assange said in an interview from about a year ago. Apparently he hasn't given any proof for his statement (namely, that Facebook has an interface for government intelligence to use). I tend to believe what Assange has to say, but who knows.
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I just googled male vs. female percentages of UK doctors. Looks like the ratio is roughly 40% female to 60% male. In what alternate reality is that "predominantly female"? This whole save-the-men hysteria is getting out of hand.
Google+ Hangouts Is A Platform, Not A Feature
You should build them. Why wait for a SuperMicro to get into the fray, when you could do it yourself.
I completely agree with you but I think you should read the following: http://sivers.org/obvious/
Certainly that's a motive too. And it's no secret that the government (in particular the NSA) has been amassing large swathes of data on what could be the entire population of the US.
Staying healthy while on the road
The less popular videos with smaller audiences (coding tutorials, science, academics, etc) have very civil discussions.
Native-looking native apps on any platform using mobile GWT and phonegap
Interested in any reviews HN users might have. I'm sitting on the fence with this one.
This would require some sort of single-sign-on, or capabilities system. Would love to see capabilities-based security for web services, actually. "Here is a token that grants permission to service X to perform action Y for duration Z." Can OpenID and ilk do this?

Anyway, apps that don't need security should be as you describe already.
A similar website: http://gun.io/open/
It is very American, but I think we get it from the English. They of the stiff upper lip.
Great to hear it's back, I've been missing it on my drives into work.
Top Gear's gender balance is specific to the studio audience. If you check you might notice that neither the contributors (presenters, production staff) nor the audience are anyway near as balanced so I don't really see your point.
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You're comment should be required reading for HNers. SUPPORT is critical even over "coolness and hype"

The fact that these other solutions MAY be better - your experience is with Balanced is going to be what sets them apart and gives them your business.

I'd be willing to bet that the Balanced folks have experience working as contractors. Contractor work is founded on features and capabilities, but their work is kept alive and well through the relationship and support they give their customers.

This is the failing of many "rock star" developers - you may have an incredible resume, but if you're an asshole who would want to work with you.
Interesting.

I may have to revise some of my opinions about Sparrow's sale. New data means new conclusions.
Is C/C++ worth it?
How long until some team, with an acqui-hire offer in hand from one of the big boys, opens a Kickstarter campaign to collect a 'community crowdsourced counteroffer'?
I agree, but I would also say that the title was trying to evoke the traditional meaning.
Buy stocks in weapons, private military, makers of silly hats and A&E hospitals.
> Is there any mathematics on defining what % of the dataset should be training vs. testing or is it left to the analyst (like with confidence intervals (95% hypothesis testing etc.))?

In my own field, Natural Language Processing (NLP), it is either up to the original creators of a dataset or you do your own split if there isn't one established already. I'll go with what I have learned for supervised learning.

In an ideal world all three sets; training, development (the Machine Learning people sometimes call this one verification if I remember correctly) and test should be infinitely large. Also, you should preferably not stratify or try to make the assignment anything but random (there are cases where this could be justified, but let's not go there just yet).

I personally go for a 3/6 train, 1/6 development and 2/6 test, but I have just as well seen 2/4, 1/4 and 1/4, etc. Training is essential, so it gets the biggest cut, testing is important too so it also gets a large chunk and development is the least important out of the three so it gets the smaller one. In short, train is for making sure your algorithm can learn something, development is in order to guide your development and not fool yourself, lastly, test is in order to be able to make claims that you state to other people (thus, it is pretty darn important).

I then use the train and development set when constructing the model, I do the write-up of most of my results and then generate the final results by running on the test set only once with the model that performed the best on development. What you usually see is a drop in performance, but this is expected since you have most likely overfitted the development set. Since the hyper parameters need to be adjusted as well I commonly do ten-fold cross-validation on the test set and use some variant of grid-search (read yesterday that this approach for hyper parameters is coming under fire as being naive, I need to have a look at what has been going on in ML for the last two years).
I have to agree with mrdmnd here.

I know the old saying about premature optimization, but avoiding premature optimization doesn't mean actively choosing slower code. It just seems like sloppy programming, IMO.
In my cohort of 12 individuals, 4 are male. This is not unusual unless you do surgery.

"Looking at the figures shows that the picture is unambiguous. Not only are women doctors to outnumber their male counterparts in the UK by 2017, in general practice this will happen in the next four years. Entry data from medical schools show that over the past four decades the number of men entering medicine has doubled whereas the number of women has increased 10-fold."

http://careers.bmj.com/careers/advice/view-article.html?id=2...
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Its so fucking hilarious and sad that "gays were exposed to blackmail" thus not given clearance when the highest positions in many intelligence agencies are held by gays.

Hoover, (hitlers SS lead - failing on name), and many others... not to mention the latest cabal in the US agencies who i will not name at this time.

This world is so fucking broken.
Disclosure: I am the OP on Quora who posted the question.
Isn't Microsoft using the SaaS model for desktop software like Office?
I think that the pattern of making software as easy to use as possible refers to the amount of work users need to put in _before_ they actually start doing what the product is intended for (e.g. entering personal information). However, the users should definitely be doing work when it comes to the content of the product, as the article states. I think that, for example, the amount of work people put into uploading and commenting on photos on Facebook was part of the reason the switch to Google+ wasn't as big as anticipated -- users had too much of an investment in FB already.
Would they only deny you a security clearance if your sexual orientation was a secret? It seems like it would be hard to blackmail someone who was publicly gay.
Exactly, what does the app do, exactly?

I read:
"We organize social media around a web of topics.
Want to organize your social presence?"

And I don't see the benefit for me as an user. Do I need an organized social presence? I don't feel the pain of not having one.
I don't believe that's true. Given many people still spend 4 - 10 hours a day in an email client it's not hard to believe they might pay 50 cents a day if it was a meaningfully better experience than a free app.
I think you are right for most pure-play desktop software, which is why desktop/mobile people should be looking for a service aspect to their apps: syncing between devices, backups, publishing, etc.

It's unfortunate, but the desktop model just doesn't pencil out in many places in todays world. That means that stuff will end up in the cloud and on the web, not because that's where it can be best implemented (I far prefer a good thick client over a good web app) but rather because that's where the economics force it. And users will end up being held ransom by a cloud service anyway.

It's a funny economics problem.
It's because of that nebulous "they". The "they" who said terrorists hate us for our freedom was George W. Bush, the erstwhile President. He has been out of office for three years now.
A bird in the hand is worth a crowd in the bush?
Windows 8 allows developers to build fully native apps using JS, HTML, & CSS
Paid upgrades are allright, but if they had a subscription model, that'd be even better. Imagine if you could just pay $5/month for Sparrow? If you live inside your email, that's $60/year well spent and for the developers it's a significant boost in $ generated.
Just ran this on my macbook pro core i7:

NSLock: 3.364240 sec
NSLock+IMP Cache: 2.772781 sec
pthread_mutex: 1.733382 sec
OSSpinlock: 0.323426 sec
@synchronized: 4.250744 sec
isMainThread: 0.373637 sec
myDummy++: 0.063998 sec

The last two are [NSThread isMainThread], and a simple increment of a static variable. And same test on the iPhone 4s:

NSLock: 21.619565 sec
NSLock+IMP Cache: 18.740027 sec
pthread_mutex: 11.585992 sec
OSSpinlock: 3.576578 sec
@synchronized: 28.453087 sec
isMainThread: 2.662025 sec
myDummy++: 0.634946 sec
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nailed it. period
I'd be interested in checking out your videos if you have a link lying around.
Why isn't there a GitHub for Marketers, Advertisers, or Product Peeps?
Not to be flip, and I'm a huge privacy guy, but all of that does matter less if you're not being mean to cats or throwing puppies off bridges. I imagine Google is cool with that. It's not like this is a free speech issue.
Interruption might be partly due to mismatch in visual cues. People look for non-verbal signs that a person stopped talking. Maybe those misfire because of cultural differences? If true, this should be especially pronounced in group conversations.
Had just unsubscribed to this, guess I'm adding it back in.
1. Israel is an ally of the US.
2. Intention matter.
3. So does governance.
4. Did you really compare North Korea to Israel, say they are comparable?

If Y there is no talking to you. Have a nice day.
I think you're right. It's really bazaar why Google hasnt implemented those features into Gmail, but if they were seamlessly integrated into Sparrow, I'd pay.