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I have to disagree with you on 1), benefits of this software kick in way better when you have large team, the price is too much for smaller teams, when you have large team you are happy to pay.

I think free for teams till 3 would be nice, I think pivotal was for long time resisting this and had to cave in, that is the only way I will start using it and be in position to recommend for team.
That's what a planetary climate is: an energy equilibrium. But if a forcing or feedback changes, the equilibrium will change.

The history of Earth's climate shows the limits of these changes, but that doesn't mean there are guard rails keeping us safe. It's just a reflection of the physical limits of the forcings and feedbacks. Our orbit only varies so much. Our axial tilt only wobbles so much. The sun's output only varies so much. The atmosphere can only hold so much water vapor at a given temperature. Etc.

If the sun suddenly doubled in brightness, I doubt you would expect the climate to still stay within that +/- 4C range, right? Well, atmospheric gases are also a forcing, one that we know we're changing. Granted--not at that level, but change is change. Models help us think about the sensitivity to that change, but the equilibrium must shift, somehow.

Anyway, the Earth's climate could stay well within that +/- 4C range, and the warming would still cause mankind a ton of trouble if it happens too fast. Remember that these are global average energy levels...it doesn't take much to raise sea level a troublesome amount, for example, especially since societies have built right at the water line all over the world.
Confidentiality and security. Sharing that level of information with outside organizations is just not possible in some situations. Regulated industries need to have full auditable control of all of their data and infrastructure, and a third party does not allow for that.

Even if it was possible for me, I still would not want that level of information out there with a third party. It increases the surface area for an attack, and puts the company at greater risk relying on an unknown level of security which there is no direct control over.
It's kind of funny, but MongoDB and node.js are a very natural pairing... very little disconnect.

Though I really like RethinkDB, the lack of automated failover handling is about the only concern left keeping me from them. Because of the tooling around it, I'm using ElasticSearch om my next project over both of them. I've also used Cassandra in the past, which was great in some cases, harder in others.

For the past couple years, I've tended to pair an SQL database with a key-value/document store depending on the needs. SQL is the canonical source, and saves are mirrored to the distributed database for wider reads. Most no-sql databases sacrifice parts of CAP/ACID in different ways, and can fit certain growth needs.

When you are faced with paying a over $30-50k/month (hardware, licenses, bandwidth, redundancy) just to host your sql database on hardware big enough to handle the load, or distribute... distribution becomes an option. For a company with under a million a year in gross revenue, spending $600/year for the database alone is not an option. Even for larger companies it's probably not the best idea.

There's something to be said for ease of configuration and administration in that mix.
I still haven't gotten it working in vim consistently enough to switch to the mac for development. When it does work, the lag makes it too slow, doesn't really allow for method discovery like intellisense, Ctags and omnicomplete still get better mileage for me.
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I really hope that JetBrains are working on a C# support for IntelliJ.

I'd buy the next version in a heartbeat if they offered it.
Guess it's time to design yourself a new website.
We've let the politicians mortgage our future for our present. It was bound to catch up with us eventually. Perhaps this will encourage those in Washington to figure out how to save money lest they all find themselves out of work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law ?

Actually, To Kill a Mockingbird perpetuates the idea that racist drunken white dads in the deep south in that era made false accusations and beat their daughters when their daughters hit on black men. Which is something that, you know, actually happened sometimes.
I've been an avid user of Leada for a few months now, and must say that the one-on-one time I receive with the founders is very helpful. It's a crisp and effective digital classroom at my fingertips. As a beginner, it has been a very manageable and powerful tool to an introduction of a whole new way of thinking.
> deterrence, air superiority

You're implying these things can actually get off the ground. For what American taxpayers are spending on this project, you better believe there better be some bang for that buck. And so far it's amounted to essentially nothing but more of the same companies getting away with pillage.
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Regular expressions are not the way to do syntax highlighting yet many of the popular editors do it this way. Create a super huge string in vim, textmate or sublime text and watch it blow up. Then try it in Xcode or Intellij and see that there is no problem. The reason for Xcode and Intellij's fast syntax highlighting is because these do not use regular expressions, they use a lexer. They're examining the text one character at a time with some amount of forward and backward looking state and building the syntax highlighting and smart completion/features that way. As long as your editor is using regular expressions for syntax highlighting this will be a problem for you.
"According to Ross, cancer patients receiving just a single dose of psilocybin experienced immediate and dramatic reductions in anxiety and depression, improvements that were sustained for at least six months."

You might have made it that far in the time it took you to count page downs.
I agree with you. I just think that those guys should take advantage of the voice that was given to them to fight for this cause. I don't see this happening.
This isn't particularly surprising, NW.js (previously called node-webkit) switched to IO.js as well.

Edit: to clarify, this is relevant because both Atom and NW.js use a webkit shell.
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In that case US unemployment is something like 10-15%, not the 5.6% number that's being heralded as a success.
Here is what worries me:

Right now, the complexity of regulations and procedures is kept in check by the inability for bureaucrats to manually execute them. Full automation might not lead to a simplification of how people interact with the government; it might just result in the ability to add even more regulation, beyond normal human capabilities.

We have a world where bureaucratic complexity means few people can navigate it, but we might just be growing a world where no one can navigate it without paying a lot of money to established software companies to do it for them.

Automation is good, but we shouldn't let it hide the need to simplify.
Yeah, I think the profit margins on software have really spoiled most people on HN. $28k a year from a bookstore is not bad. It could actually be a livable wage in many other parts of the US.
The carbon does not go free because it is bound up in some organic compound, almost always a hydrocarbon (which of course requires Hydrogen) and would still combust at 460 Celsius. Perhaps if this life-form lived exclusively in the upper atmosphere? Then it would just have the problem of getting anything but carbon, oxygen and nitrogen.
There are lots of profitable companies that hire low skilled workers at minimum wage. Given this fact it is not possible that your first sentence is true. Perhaps you meant something different.
I am all for research. But instead of putting into the title words "psychedelics" together with "exciting", I would prefer the article to be called for example "Psychedelics may help terminal cancer patients to die at peace".
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I run a ~15 person startup, and my first thought was "huh, that's reasonable." And didn't think anything else about it. Shit, we pay hundreds for glorified databases for ATS and several other products. I really think pricing it lower will just push you to a less-valuable userbase.
@joshowens, one more comment - the compilation is excellent, but for packages I think that (especially for a newcomer) it would be better to add a one sentence desc per package (especially as one do not need to start with learning all of them!) rather than providing 3 links (if one wish, one can easily jump from Atmosphere to GitHub).
First of all, it's not just opening up .NET. It's also many other cool things Microsoft has been doing: Linux on Azure, TypeScript, etc. etc.

Regarding .NET, it is likely it will benefit Microsoft significantly. First, because Microsoft would not do it without strong reasons. Second, we can guess at those reasons: Microsoft wants to grow its developer ecosystem. .NET has been limited due to being Windows-focused. Opening it up makes sense.

(Yes, Mono exists, but the .NET cross-platform experience still wasn't good enough. Not necessarily Mono's fault, but regardless, opening .NET can solve this (possibly at a cost to Mono).)
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There is more chance to see VS in OSX tan in Linux.
This is the cutest thing I've seen posted on HN in days. Keep it up, scamp. Stay positive :^)
I just think that they could take advantage of the voice that was given to them through the show.
Since I only have one GPU usually, I'm still waiting for the day I can do this:

using CUDA

# define a kernel
@kernel function kernel_vadd(a, b, c)
i = blockId_x() + (threadId_x()-1) * numBlocks_x()
c[i] = a[i] + b[i]
end

# create some data
dims = (3, 4)
a = round(rand(Float32, dims) * 100)
b = round(rand(Float32, dims) * 100)
c = Array(Float32, dims)

# execute!
@cuda kernel_vadd(CuIn(a), CuIn(b), CuOut(c))

# verify
@show a+b == c

i.e. no set up, no "cuda context" (whatever that is), and no tear down afterwards. I understand that manual memory management is almost necessary with this application, but it seems that most of it could be automated in the most common case of "I have a couple of large arrays and a few operations I want to perform."
I know it's only one of the points, but it's not true that ebooks are still "rapidly rising in popularity" - while they do seem to continue to become more popular, the trajectory has clearly slowed. It seems, generally speaking, that we're nearing if not already at a stable rate of ebook market share (on a revenue basis, at least w/r/t the US and UK markets, the only ones I can claim to watch closely.)

For point 1, while I don't have the data, I would be very surprised to find out that over the course of "decades" book sales (or even just print book sales) have "declined", especially given the rate of population growth. What has, 100%, happened is that sales have moved online, for the commodity reason you mentioned, and Amazon's inclination to deeply discount titles to gain market share (which they now are moving ever-so-steadily away from).
I've been pretty happy with mongodb overall for a few years now. It isn't always the best fit... but it's a very good fit for a lot of scenarios. Replication and sharding in mongodb is way easier to get started with than most databases, and the failover for replication is very good as well. Though understanding how it works is still advised. Such as not having more than X nodes voting for electing a leader in case of failover, etc.

That said, there are situations I'd be more inclined to reach for ElasticSearch, Cassandra or others. As soon as RethinkDB has it's automatic failover story in place, I'd put it above MongoDB though, slightly nicer developer interface, and admin is much nicer than others.

Then again, if PostgreSQL got replication with failover in the box, I'd probably use that far more.
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They released a DB with great hype that:

- had a global write lock.

- mmap was the extent of their io and memory management

- called rand() in in client to decide if it should report errors

- said a write was committed before even sending it out

- released benchmarks that measured how fast they could put data into local RAM, but compared it to real dB's

- lost data/corrupted on 32 bit builds and dismissed that as being by design

- is generally better off replaced by postgres but hyped by people that don't know any better

That's off the top of my head. I'm sure there are competent users and it makes sense in some cases but the general feeling is that it's over hyped for the little it is. Their early mistakes make people very cautious about trusting them with important data.

And by over hyped, I'm also taking about people that go on about how amazing it is to have a document store, but ignore the obvious idea of using pg and making a table consisting of (key, document) and using XML or JSON operators on top.

I might be totally wrong.
There's no real advantage - we currently have autopilot that's quite good, so you really have the best of both worlds - skilled humans plus useful computers. Hijacking is not that big a concern, and the cost of human pilots isn't that great (compared to fuel and capital costs).

Also, if you centralized things on the ground, you'd create a big target - come get 1000 planes with one hijacking.
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You said "Dirty Secret: Most people shouldn't go" the obvious inference being "avoid it because it won't be worth it to you."

I'm not confusing college with education. Statistically, college works to big benefits for people when they complete it. Statistically they make more money, hopefully doing meaningful work. No reason to tell others not to go. Tell people TO go and then give them best direction. I want people to go to college for the experience and learning and to get jobs so they contribute to society. I think college could be fast tracked. But I also think that's not in everyone's or the majority's best interest to fast track everything. Because some steps need time and honestly after working with plenty of people in their early 20's. I'd prefer them to be more mature.

There's things about college that you can measure and things you can't. Both are valuable. That's it. you might spend some time looking at how lucky you have been, and how maybe your luck isn't scalable and therefore you shouldn't tell everyone to toss out a system that works.
Great to hear! Glad we could help :)
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I think a better comparison would be instead of calling your sister fat, you tell her you are upset with her. The point I was making was practicing restraint. If you go around calling people 'fat' to insult them, you are obviously very child like and I don't think the analogy helps your point.
This was one of the stores I checked out when visited S.F., as my wife and I were plotting a move from the east coast to S.F. And while we ended up going in the other direction, I still think fondly of the S.F. culture, and Borderlands books was one of those places I visited that I felt would be a home. Shame to hear it's going.
I assume that is what the free trial is for. Which would be analogous to getting one free $50 sandwich to test out. Granted, there is the cost of switching from feeding your car a $5 sandwich to feeding it a $50 one considering the sandwich-to-gas converter has to learn how to eat each sandwich. (Is there a word for discussing a point using absurd analogies?)
I agree with (1) but maybe you don't mind to elaborate on (2) and what do they right?

The whole thread with all the upvotes and nobody telling us why exactly this new tool is so great feels strange to me.
> If we can automate simple manual labor, people will shift to different tasks

You aren't understanding the scenario, you're presuming there's always other tasks to switch to because you're presuming a labor based economy. This must change as AI will ensure there aren't other tasks to switch to, not enough for everyone anyway.

The scenario everyone else is discussing is what happens when there are more people than available jobs. That's the scenario you need to address; the answer is not just do another job.
Actually, what put the Christians and Romans on a collision course is not that Christians believed in a God that cared about belief as opposed to participation in public rituals, but that Christians believed rather strongly in a God that cared about participation in public rituals, and, particularly, that Christian belief conflicted with participation in the public rituals of the Roman state religion, which while it might not care about belief, did care very much about everyone subject to it participating in its public ritual.
This has nothing to do with minimum wage, and everything to do with running an unsuccessful business in the first place.

If you're clearing $3k in profit a year you have a very expensive hobby, not a viable business.

We can all be sad that a bookshop is closing, but the real culprit was a lack of sales and marketing savvy, and a lack of customer interest in the product/experience being offered.

Minimum wage may have thrown a few rocks onto the coffin, but it certainly didn't dig the grave.

There a lot of new booksellers making a living on Amazon. Some of them trade internationally. (I buy a steady stream of specialist titles from US sellers.)

If I wanted to buy from Borderlands, not only would I be paying far too much for every book in their list, I'd also be charged $25 for shipping.

Somehow everyone else in the world can ship me a book for less than half that. But Borderlands hasn't figured out how to.

That's where the fail is. Not in hand-wringing about having to pay staff an amount that still isn't close to a fair wage.
Serious question - looking at the graph, it looks like the disparity between U3 and U6 jumped quite a bit in 2009 and is just starting to get back the historical difference today. Do you think it was valid to be concerned about the disparity increasing by so much in 2009? That part does strike me as a little worrying, though it is coming back in line now, which seems good.
> didn't fully understand it and what it was good for

This is why I'm not a fan, its "sweet spot" , in my experience, is not very big and not very interesting. It requires a small data set where at least the indexes (but ideally the entire "working set") fits in memory on a single server, in which case it can get pretty good read throughput. But there are a lot of options that perform great in this use case, including just mysql or postgres. Maybe the flexibility of being schema-less is a win for some people, in which case great, I'm glad it's available as an option.

But when the company claims things like it's the best database for every use case, people are bound to use it wrong, get burned, and then hate it. Where I used it it had been the exact wrong choice to make, a data set bigger than ~2x a single server's memory (and growing) and with relatively high write throughput, and it was an absolute nightmare.
I'm trying to understand why you brought Leviathan Wakes into this. One of the authors of The Expanse is GMMR's assistant, as I understand it, but I'm not clear how either GMMR would affect The Expanse or how The Expanse would affect Game of Thrones.

I ask as a fan of The Expanse who has not jumped into GoT, and who wouldn't like to see The Expanse side-tracked because of it. Is there some piece of this relationship I'm not seeing, or is Ty Franck more involved in GoT writing than I would have expected?
In which I point and laugh at someone using a bookstore, in the year 2015, as evidence of effects of economic policy.

I mean really. A bookstore.

I eagerly await you finding a struggling video rental store. More evidence SF is full of socialists -- their damn minimum wage is making life hard for small business owners!
It's repulsive how people think "no pain no gain". I think that might be some of the resistance against sucralose. It's a free ride. Same for the attitude about addiction. It's viewed as intrinsically bad, instead of just evaluating it in context of benefits.
Aren't the forks the real threat for Microsoft in open sourcing Windows?
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I saw this, but wasn't sure it is very exciting.

Also, read the next sentence "The data are still being analyzed and have not yet been submitted to a journal for peer review, but the researchers expect to publish later this year".

And a little bit later "But it’s important to remember that the sample sizes are small.”

So, it's not even a conclusive result yet.
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I doubt the assumption of government bond yields raising back to 10%. I would rather bet on a scenario with ongoing low interest rates.
Yes, this "sequel" was apparently the original book she wrote before her book editor told her to focus on when Scout was a child (the flashbacks). And they just found the manuscript hidden in a box a few months ago apparently.
Well, I guess he was effectively demoted after Sundar's takeover of core products. You would expect some folks leaving after that reorg.
> Point being, the most common reason companies give for not releasing source for a project is that they have code from contractors that they aren't able to release. That shouldn't be the case with Windows.

There are probably some parts that won't make it like Pinball [old new thing] but it shouldn't be significant at all.

>> Hey everybody asking that the source code be released: The source code was licensed from another company. If you want the source code, you have to go ask them.

[old new thing] blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2012/12/18/10378851.aspx
Step 1: Create overreaching laws and sell them to the public with the word "terrorist".

Step 2: Evolve the definition of the world "terrorist" behind the scenes.

We are seeing similar word play in Canada as the word "terrorist" evolves into "radicalized". Of important utility to our government as they attempt to shift public perception of environmentalists over to "radical" or "extreme" due to the prominence of our oil industry. With success expect these sorts of labels to be slowly painted over our Native population in some old fashioned establishment racism.
You mentioned that they got rid of a lot of profile information ( for all we know, that person might simply be interested in having you Memento'ed ) (ie) Just delete all you stuff ( mails , foursquare checkins , instagram pics , facebook posts , last.fm scrobbles , open table reservations , evernote saved articles , pocket saved articles ).

This is not just a loss of your netflix password . It probably leaked a ton of information about you , your password pattern ! I bet you have the same password for atleast a few more services. You have to protect them .
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Thanks! Actually all that info is available in my HN bio.
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IMHO, it's the "open" part and less the "source" part. I believe a lot of projects were reluctant to jump on the Mono train because they expected it would be steamrolled (on purpose or just through sheer manpower) by the .NET. However, if everyone is building on top of the same CoreCLR, it's possible that fear might subside. I doubt it will ever go away because Microsoft will continue to keep some APIs close to the vest.

If it's possible to transpile either Java source or better Java class files to a CLR assembly, even some of the community momentum that Java has might turn into a benefit for .NET, too.