skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For this use case, a one time payment model like the new Basecamp plan would make sense.
It might stink for you, but if you put it down in rational terms it's not actually much. If you start with a Micro it's costing you $5 a month, which (without knowing how much you charge per contract) is probably about 10 minutes work on one contract. 10 minutes of work for all the GitHub goodies.

We all want things to be cheaper, but sometimes you need to rationalise things off and realise whilst they emotionally look expensive, they're actually really not when you work out what the cost is to you in terms of work to cover it.

Put it this way, if you go to BitBucket (they're great as well! Highly recommended!) you'll save money, but lose the headline features of GH. For you this may or may not be a big problem. If you go down the self-hosted route (super valid!) then you've got a specific amount of admin time that needs to be put in per month by either a dev or sysadmin and that's more than likely to either cost the as much or more than GHs pricing.

Pricing is hard, but GitHub is pricing where GitHub needs it's prices to be.
Maybe be taxes. I assume Adobe is pumping Australian revenue to its Ireland unit while the US revenue goes through the main company. Maximize revenue overseas since the profit is taxed at a lower rate effective rate. Just a guess.

"The revenues generated by Adobe’s Irish unit represent 55 per cent of Adobe’s worldwide revenues of $4.2 billion in the year to the end of December 2nd 2011"

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2012/1012/122432...
Get this on Tot/i2p.

It'll never go down...
Yes, let's reward those who can navigate the bureaucracy better than those who can innovate, that'll definitely spur those garage tinkerers vs. corporate lawyers on permanent retainer.
Nice idea. Perhaps evolving this to include raw research data could be interesting... e.g. may I please have a) your research paper and b) the 20Gb of trial data you used to come to your conclusions. With this I'll run my own experiments, expanding on your trials and hopefully adding to the wealth of knowledge you so wonderfully kick started. Cheers.
If someone steals your phone then they have access to everything that the phone unlocks. Not practical.
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This is probably not something you'll hear the companies say themselves, but frequently the exchange rate between the US and other countries is set on a yearly or even long-term historical basis and not modified.

With the long term historical average of AUD-USD at around 65 cents, this can make software look outrageously overpriced. Given the relative size of the Australian market (2-4% sometimes) there is little incentive to change this methodology.
True enough, but I'm afraid that if the editors had the power, they would have nuked the question before the answers even got there.
IE and Firefox still exist.
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Yes, but just because there is one engine, doesn't mean there is one standard. Just like during IE's monopoly there were several versions of the browser to deal with (each with their own quirks), an engine monoculture (Webkit or otherwise) does not guarantee ease of development at all.

I agree that if there is to be a rendering engine monoculture, it might as well be open source, but that in itself guarantees nothing.
I agree and I wish I'd written this article myself. One of the great things about git compared to the version control systems of yesteryear is that it's lightweight enough and (with Github) discoverable enough to make many small repos a viable development pattern. I never liked the old giant-repo-for-all-the-code system, although I understand it's still popular at Google and many other large shops.

I think what really rankles is that it fires up my developer edge-case sense. Wait, so you mean I can have one repository of 100MB, but if I have two of 50MB that costs more? Bits are bits, so why are you punishing one particular factoring of my data vs another? That's like charging for S3 per top-level directory, or for iTunes by album. I feel like charging per repository makes you feel bad about making more repositories, which can often lead to feeling bad about good decisions.

Also, realistically, a cost per developer is so miniscule compared to the overall cost of that developer. The proportional cost per project is much higher, particularly if it's some skunkworks side-project and you're the one trying to explain why you should double how much you're paying github so that you can have a live coffee consumption dashboard for the break room.

It might be irrational, but it's the truth - we associate costs together in buckets, and Github is associating itself with the wrong bucket.
200 $ / month is indeed nothing. The problem is when you need more. Arguably, github enterprise follows exactly the model of price per collaborator.
Or the client can pay for it. I.e. add x$/mo to the maintenance cost for "code hosting" or whatever.
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Sure. Especially as from links there I'm aware that you are aware of other solutions. :)

So, a reliable, automated and anonymous (?) way to upload books/papers seems to be a must. Or do you have other plans?
The Gimp is a good alternative to pirating Photoshop, but people who pay $4k for Photoshop will not use the Gimp for free. Not now and probably not ever. It's just not at all comparable for professional use. Just like OpenOffice Calc vs. Excel.
It's probably generating "white noise" which covers the other noises. For example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUwEiMNhOCM
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Print is dying, or at least confirmation bias says so
You should use `humans.txt`. :)

http://humanstxt.org/
My line of thinking was that it takes X units of effort to implement feature Y. If two companies develop competing products, then 2X units of effort have been used to accomplish 1 feature Y.

If both of those companies are working on the same product, then it might follow that 2X units of effort would lead to the implementation of feature Y and feature Z. Or that feature Y is implemented in less time.
Good luck with emailing authors of papers which are 70 years old. In mathematics good results never outdate, so there is no rule of thumb "if it is still relevant, author must be still alive".
Thank you for the question.

We want to make sure that the pricing only increases in small steps. If you add one more user you should never go from $25 to $50.

We also have a free issue tracker, you don't have to pay for it. Jira prices are 4 times more expensive than BitBucket prices.

And of course there is the option to go self hosted easily in the future.

What do you think we can improve in the pricing of GitLab.com?
Whatever Opera do doesnt cause us to give up anything.
Why? how is competition better than collaboration?

webkit routinely gets breaking changes, it was never constrained because of compatibility concerns over non-standard features. Wouldn't having a load of developers in different environments, working on the same codebase actually accelerate innovation? Something could go from W3C/WHATWG draft to implementation in a matter of weeks, then we wouldn't have things like css3 gradients or flexbox syntax changing completely after years prefixed in the wild.
Also a fantastically epic display of the 2013 web experience from one of it's worst sides: in order to read this single quote from a Famous Guy(TM), I'm supposed to log in with Facebook. Yeah, right.

They even know this is weird and go to some length to "lubricate" the process by having an explanation pop up.

Fail.
It's hard to appreciate unless you get to hold one in your hand and play with it. The phones are exceptionally well made - not just robust but well crafted. The sound reproduction from the external speakers is pretty amazing too - I'd quite happily listen to music playing on it.

Disclosure: I work for Vertu.
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X > Y.

Whether you interpret it as X being expensive or Y being cheap, it is still the same: X is greater than Y.
Unless if there is some kind of a way to deactivate the phone when it's stolen. Problem with that though is, what if you don't notice it when the phone goes missing..? Giving the person that stole it ample time to get access to whatever it is they were targeting.
"witch-hunt".

Here's the thing: unlike witch-hunts of old, modern day witch-hunts do actually sometimes find witches.
Check out the ones in Tel Aviv tambien:

http://www.businessinsider.com/googles-offices-in-tel-aviv-2...
Or that, it is technically a per project expense.
Ask HN: Career advice for a 23 year-old
Hi HN,

I'm 23 years old, living in Belgium, and about to graduate with a master's degree in electrical engineering. It's a difficult time with lots of choices to make, and I'm not sure which path to take next. Some considerations:

- I feel like I'm too young to leave the student life and its freedoms completely behind.

- I'm ambitious and have good grades, but don't want to pursue a PhD.

- A year of travelling would be great, but my mother would get a heart attack when I tell her. And I guess it will make me look lazy on my resume.

- My ultimate day-dream is to launch a start-up and work and live on-campus for the next five years. Alas, it's not Stanford here.

- More realistically, a job in consulting would maybe be a good idea as a start. It would keep my options open. But should I look into management consulting or technology consulting? I think the latter will be a better fit with my studies and personality, but it's not as prestigious or ambitious as the first. Any advice here?

Oh, the choices! Thanks for your advice.

Bert
Right--I probably shouldn't have even mentioned anti-depressants; X-monoamine reuptake inhibitors don't have much at all to do with X-monoamine agonists in terms of effect.[1] I was mostly just trying to connect the discussion to something people would more commonly have actual experience with.

So, to reinforce the parent: serotonin syndrome is very dangerous for precisely that reason of "neurological gain" mentioned above--eventually when you turn gain up enough, you get clipping[2], and then you don't have a signal any more, you have a seizure. Surprisingly, it's very hard to do this with LSD--probably because of its differing pharmacodynamics from regular serotonin agonists--but it's a real risk of pretty much any other drug that affects serotonin at all, either in overdose, or in combination with other drugs, even ones you might not expect (the nicotine in cigarettes is an MAOI!)

But anyway, it's really a shame that we aren't each (legally) given the neurological equivalent of a "chemistry set" at some point in our lives, to adjust all the knobs on our own brains and learn the effects. Knowing what serotonin, dopamine, GABA, acetylcholine, etc. are in a clinical sense is one thing; but intuitively understanding that a feeling you're experiencing is the way it feels from the inside[3] when some monoamine or another happens to be at a certain level of concentration in your brain at the moment, is quite another.

[1] Though you'd be surprised what things are, in fact, reuptake inhibitors (what you classically think of as "therapeutic drugs") instead of agonists (what you clasically think of as "stimulants.") Cocaine, for example, is just a triple (serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine) reuptake inhibitor; basically, ADD medication + an SNRI anti-depressant. In another society without our history of race-discrimination-related drug bans, Coca Cola (the original stuff) might be the office-worker's morning stimulant of choice instead of coffee. :)

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipping_(audio)

[3] http://lesswrong.com/lw/no/how_an_algorithm_feels_from_insid...
Maybe I'm just weird, but I do this [send emails as todo items] pretty frequently (fire off quick instructions/reminders with "TODO:" prepended);

It's also something that I do indirectly via Google Now or Samsung Voice - launch it, say "Note to self - Fix a time with Patricia" or "Remind me to book train tickets". It sends an email to me with that content.
I think this is wrong. Australia ranks as the 2nd easiest country to start business, according to this site:
http://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings

It is $900 or more to incorporate a company. Starting a business can be much less, and can be done in a day.

In any case, this does not explain Adobe charging Australians $1000+ more on every sale of a certain package.
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One less rendering engine is very bad for a free and open internet. I suppose that there are at least there are still three viable ones left.
I am just trying out my little web app for syncing comments on HN with Disqus
Just trying out. I will launch the final version soon.
Shutters with an efficiency between 75% and 50% just look more natural, from my experience.

The stuff proposed in this papers made it into blockbuster VFX production renderers ca. 2005 (3Delight) and 2007 (Pixar's PhotorRealistic RenderMan).

There is no information available on what full CG features use this. However, when you look at a still frame that exhibits heavy motion blur in isolation, you can usually tell right away if a perfect of imperfect shutter model was used.
The latter looks smoother/more natural.

As far as VFX in live action films go: it makes sense to match the virtual shutter to the one of the camera that was used to shoot the footage the VFX need to be integrated with.

The high end offline rendering plug-in, my company produces, has a setting for this.
The default we use (and that most of our customers leave untouched, I believe) is 75% shutter efficiency.
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You say this and you don't give him a serious response.

>As someone with physics training I do not see physicists having this trouble

What is definitively known about mass besides E = mc^2 and the limited information we now about the Higgs Boson?

>Most the physicists I know use it often
I'm glad the physicists you know use it often. Why is it used so often? If it was known what matter and mass was there would be no need to discuss it.
I make sure my software my company creates and sells is more or less an equivalent price no matter where you buy it from. In the age of digital delivery, it seems the correct way to do it.
it's not about vim's infallibility - I consider vim ugly, weird, too powerful and ad the same time limited and I'm a ST user. I was just referring to the fact that by learning its keys and basic modal principles, you can afford not to learn 70% of the fucked-up keystrokes and menu driven functionality of other otherwise good editors or IDEs. Just learn the 30% that is really unique and useful (GUI stuff, advanced refactoring etc.) and "drive it like it's vim" for other features. This way it becomes like driving cars: 90% of car functionality is the same for all cars so I can jump into any car and drive it - maybe not for best safety and performance, but it works for me.
I work there as a engineer. The engineers sit in another office around the corner.
What do you mean, "possibly"?

Either you agree that Opera implemented standards as strictly as possible (really the only way when you your own rendering engine with such a small market share) while aiming for compatibility at the same time (which is implemented by copying certain quirks--and O isn't the only one that does that--as well as having a large database of popular sites that are fixed with bits of custom JS), or you disagree that Opera aimed and successfully did implement web standards (which is provably false).

Saying "possibly" makes it sound like you don't really know. Did you consider, while typing that remark about the downvotes (bad form, and doesn't add anything to the discussion, except for polarizing it even more), that it might actually be caused by your self-admitted lack of knowledge on the subject?

Sure thing, those people may be "Opera devotees", because those are the people that know what they're talking about maybe?

You claim that top post was "not actually an anti-Opera comment". What about your remark that "They'll continue to be the browser that nobody cares about"? That was you baiting all of those European and Russian Opera users, that you may or may not have noticed are also here on HN. If you had said "the browser nobody in the US actually cares about" then yes, I could not have disagreed. But this general claim is a tad ignorant, the global 1.3% market share is not at all geographically evenly spread, and goes up to 47% in certain countries. That's a long shot from saying nobody cares about it.

(BTW I may be an Opera devotee--a little bit less than I was a few years ago though--but I'm not downvoting you)
So would life be nothing more than universally good local viruses within the universe?
Why would they need an "excuse"? Pricing is only indirectly related to costs; doubly so with software, where gross profit margins are often higher than 90%. Why is this particular arbitrary price bad, while other arbitrary prices aren't? Sure they'd still make money if they charged the same, but so what?
Definitely agreed - I use BitBucket to store some private projects, which also means I don't pay them anything (yet). Seems not terribly profitable - I keep a backup elsewhere assuming Bitbucket will go down eventually from lack of funds!
Is it possible that the royalties Napster has to pay in the UK to PRS, PPL, etc. are higher then what they have to pay in the US to ASCAP, BMI, etc.?
That parable doesn't work very well when we're talking about someone working 40+ hours per week. If you can really live so well on $500 a month then just a year or two making actual market wage would be enough to finally do all the things this Mexican fisherman could do that the GP can't today.
Ask HN: What projects would you like to support with unlimited resources?
It doesn't matter if it's commercial or non-profit project.

These are mine:

Khan Academy (http://khanacademy.com/)

The Seasteading Institute (http://www.seasteading.org/)

Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/)

Udacity (https://www.udacity.com/)

Duolingo (http://duolingo.com/)

OpenBSD (http://www.openbsd.org/)
Cool! The free trial week really made it an easy decision for me to subscribe.
My bad, that was not linked to the original presentation, but to the single quote on a website for quotes. I wasn't aware they required login though, that's really bad and goes against what I think is greatest in the web (that is, apps that let you get using them without even identifiying yourself, and sign up only later if you want).

However your criticism is still spot on, since the website (changemakrs.com) is a fine example of great visual design following all latest trends of minimalistic and big type, as in the slides, but a poor example of usability design indeed. Thanks for the heads up, I'll refrain from linking quotes through them until it's made more accessible.
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Because it's more work to do. Instead of setting that up, you could be working on your product. The company I work for does the same - code is all hosted locally, emails were (until recently) hosted locally, document sharing too. It was cheap but every so often there'd be a problem and it'd go down for 15-30 minutes, which would cost a few £1000 in lost productivity.
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No, but it encourages other developers to do so, which will encourage other browser makers to do what Opera did. This is a massive step back for real standards as protocols, toward the bad old days of fake "standards" as implementations.
In all the pictures I did not spot anyone holding an iPad.
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I am not from the US but from what I understand "Occupy Wall Street" was a parade against, and not for, something. Am I wrong?
All browsers support document.all; see [1].

It is true that Opera tried to reverse engineer more of the IE DOM than most others, for example we were the only ones to have attachEvent and friends. But in recent years that caused problems with sites that made false equivalences like "has attachEvent -> must be IE" and so non-standard features were being actively removed.

It is also true that Opera has been heavily involved in the standards process; both in codifying the legacy and in more forward-looking initiatives to add novel functionality to the platform. For example Hixie was working at Opera when he started work on what became HTML5. Opera's Simon Pieters wrote a spec for CSS quirks mode [2]. We have also been involved in numerous other specs, and in the beginnings of the effort to produce a comprehensive vendor-neutral testsuite for web platform technologies.

[1] http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/...
[2] http://quirks.spec.whatwg.org/
Using the number of repositories for pricing is a ridiculous metric in many ways and for many reasons. What is the rationale behind it? Transparency?
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The Github enterprise version is unrealistically expensive.

We (a dutch 'embedded' software company of about 300 developers) currently use SVN for our version control. We use some tool, of which I forgot the name, to simplify managing repositories and permissions. This costs us a couple of hours per year in maintenance and support, and the tool cost somewhere around 1500 euro. Hours go for around 80 euro's here, so lets say 3.000 euro TCO per year.

For us having code in the cloud (read within reach of the US government) is not an option, our customers will not allow it. I believe our insurance will not even allow that. Also we need to have Ldap/Active Directory integration; Ldap is the only way we can effectively manage authorisation between a large amount of services.

Looking at all the alternatives, Atlassian Stash, Gitstack, etc. Github is by far the most expensive(75.000 per year). Right now, we have decided that setting up a Gitblit server ourselves, will be the most cost effective.

There is no way I can convince my boss that using Github will save us 60.000 euro per year.
No. There were rumours, and maybe something more than that (I know somebody whose hiring fell through because Opera went into the typical pre-acquisition "lockout mode", about a year ago), but in the end nothing happened.
Bits might be bits, but you aren't paying for storage. If you are, just get a 1TB hard disk for $50 and have more space than you'll ever need for repos.

You're paying for Github, and it's not priced by bits stored.
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They probably shouldn't have been allowed to buy Macromedia.
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I agree, it is not anonymous.

We created a version that is more suitable for Facebook - for people looking for serious relationships instead of casual encounters.

http://www.PairBuddy.com

We have got some good support in our beta launch.