skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, CC billing is a train wreck. I wanted to add a new employee but found that by switching to "team" billing, my own rate would jump up a lot. So now we just have separate accounts for each person.

But I'm beginning to think we might just set up a machine specifically for Adobe app use and just run a single account on it, then people use that machine when they need to use an Adobe app and have the files sync over Dropbox. It's horrible value for multiple employees to linearly increase the total paid when they use Photoshop or Illustrator occasionally.
I guess I was thinking of a site that the of entirety (or nearly all of) the 10/101ths of Reddit users which make up the theoretical strong feelers would move to.

As in order to attract most of them a single site would need to both be able to handle the traffic and have a broad appeal across subjects. Maintaining such a site with that much headroom for users with only their current user base to generate ad revenue I assume is problematic and I would be surprised if any single site currently could handle a mass migration like that (except maybe Tumblr which I have my doubts would appeal to this portion of the Reddit population).

So while a mass exodus could take place people would likely scatter to different sites, which might not make any single other site 'it' enough to attract the remaining masses. Or the exodus takes place over time, which I consider the likely situation, having seen the effective death of many internet communities prior to the beast which is Reddit.

If they leave over time Reddit doesn't need to ask what it should do when the 10 leaves, it needs to ask what it should do when the 10 starts to leave.( my guess would be they need to get them to stop leaving, or get others to step up and take their place as people that feel strongly about the site in its then state, or buy the site they are leaving to).
I thought that bucket was large too, but then I realized it is only used for color, not size. So size of county is a more granular measure for housing measure, if that's what you're looking for.

EDIT: I see, you're saying the areas are hard to compare. Good point!
The guy is not a marketer, hes a product guy at Heroku. He has over 15k karma and a member of HN for ~6 years. This is far from "some spammer decided to hijack a thread about a competitors product".
No— the coasts have substantially higher property values. A cartogram scaled by population is far less dramatically distorted:
http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0110/graphics/cartogram_3-l...
The big cities of Texas and the Great Lakes regions barely show up on the property value map.
Right, magnetars are neutron stars, which are produced during supernovae. So, what is it about this event that makes it unique (i.e. produce ultra-long GRB).

According to Wikipedia (thx tvmalsv!), ~10% of supernovae produce a Magnetar. However, the article states that only 1 in 10,000 - 100,000 supernovae will produce an UL-GRB.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetar

I see two options: 1) This was a star going nova, producing a Magnetar with a particularly strong magnetic field or 2) This was a Magnetar whose magnetic field decayed to the point that it caused a massive explosion/release of energy from the object.

Curious that they didn't explain this better, or perhaps I'm missing something obvious here.
12 New Ways to Make Sure You Never Go Broke
Smart bootstrapping is about turning your lack of resources into a competitive advantage. Peter Drucker says that there are two questions in business: question one is what business are you in, and question two is how is business? That's it. I would say there probably is a third question -- with all due respect to Mr. Drucker -- and that is how do you improve business.

He also said that all businesses are designed to bring in a customer and that can only be accomplished through marketing and innovation. These are the only two functions of business and everything else is an expense.

There is an interesting aspect of leverage that not one in a thousand business owners, CEOs or accountants ever recognize -- and those are the intangible assets. That means the advertising, marketing, good will, customer relationships, distribution channels and expertise that a company possesses -- and ways they could more effectively and productively use them to their advantage.To increase your income or rate of success in everything you do:

Read More: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/12-new-ways-make-sure-you-never-go-broke-jeremy-cohen?trk=prof-post
I know Gimp is always referenced as the "alternative" to Photoshop but I think it still suffers from a lot of usability issues. I've found Krita to be a much better replacement: https://krita.org/
Great work. Very cool. A progress indicator when the content is being parsed would be nice.
Hey, great! I've been using Heroku for a Node apps and was sad that deploying Go apps required a custom buildpack. I'll check it out!
> What's wrong with that?

SMH. Kids these days. It's rude is what it is.

At most you could say "there is another provider out there who announced GO support recently... google it".
A reasonable question

For me :-

* Excellent reliability (no unscheduled downtime in 6 years from 3 to at one point more than a dozen nodes)

* Excellent hardware - when I've benchmarked real production systems on Linode on a $/perf ratio beats DO hands down

* Excellent support - tickets are generally answered in under 30 minutes and staff are knowledgeable

* It just works(TM)

* Straightforward interface and pricing

* Rock solid network, like bulletproof

* I trust them (after 6 years of the above they have earned it)
Why? A wheel with less corners...
Image source is [1], and if you go to that domain [2] you'll see (~2200GMT 8 July anyway) "account suspended".

[1] http://cube.crider.co.uk/visualcube.php?size=400&pzl=3&bg=t&...
[2] http://crider.co.uk
Slightly objective performance comparison if you ask me. Obviously Vultr is going to say they're better than the competition.
No need to SHOUT to convey your message.

Indeed, I wasn't really trying to quote the article when I was talking about height, I just took a bad analogy on my own (certainly influenced by what I just read, but that's not the point). Sorry for the confusion.
I really don't get what you're talking about here. It's constructive for anyone that is looking for a free tier of Go hosting, which we know is at least one person.

Yes, I hate over the top marketing as much as anyone, but this isn't that.
E-mail is restricted to 100 mails per day. App engine doesn't provide any listed prices for paid accounts. What happens after 100 emails?
mk and Ninja (the target to which Kati compiles) appear to be almost equivalent to each other, except that mk has patterns ("here is how to compile any .c file into a .o file") and Ninja requires that each target be written explicitly ("here is how to compile foo.c into foo.o", once per file).

This is okay, because mk is meant to be written by humans and Ninja is meant to be a target for compilers like Kati and cmake.
The family of these materials are often referred to as chalcogenides (although strictly speaking they don't always include only metals from that periodic group). They've been investigated quite a bit for use in phase change memory if you have access to academic journals (I could probably root around later and see what's not behind a paywall).

The strange looking curve is really kind of two parts forward biasing/reverse biasing. Assuming you're starting from a virgin device you move along the curve where you're sweeping the voltage upwards but not really getting much increase in current (since there's no real channel yet). In these materials the mechanism is the establishment of little "fingers" of metal migrating and completing the circuit. As the "fingers" move forward you suddenly start seeing more and more current without increasing voltage (your effective resistance is dropping) and then jumps up as the connection is made. Eventually you sweep the voltage backwards. Something similar happens in the part of the AC curve in reverse.

There is a really good diagram in this paper: "Mechanism for resistive switching in chalcogenide-based electrochemical metallization memory cells" from Zhuge et al http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/adva/5/5/10.106...
the question though is how do you go about actually loading it? can it be done without patching the runtime, or without running some C based "bridge" that loads the shared object file? I'm talking about a plugin architecture, say, where I want to load an implementor of an interface from a .so file, etc.
Show HN: Dotstribute – Manage your dotfiles
Keep your dotfiles in a git directory and symlink them to your home folder. This makes it easy to manage your files as well as use them. Dotstribute automates this process.

https://github.com/ProfOak/dotstribute
Was that by memory or Google?
Robot performs prostate surgery inside an MRI, brain surgery is next
There's a small tech scene in Fort Collins, mostly focused on hardware. Intel, HP, AMD, Broadcom, Avago, LSI, and Microsoft come to mind. (Well, three of those are now one)

A small market like that is good and bad. There is no glut of engineers, so you aren't a cheap throwaway commodity, but options are fewer.

You could use Boulder/Denver/Longmont as your fallback. A sizeable commute, but that adds IBM, NASA, Western Digital, Xilinx, Avaya... and a host of startups.

The real startup scene in Fort Collins is probably microbreweries. Engineers of every type are starting microbreweries.
New Concurrency Features in C++14
Judging by those with Aspergers I know, they are as close to that as you'll get.

It leads to dysfunctional behaviors because people don't want to earnestly told that their face is ugly when they first meet someone and every time after that.

Honesty can be brutal.

This also leads to another issue: when the data is centralized like this, those who oversee it can never be held to the level of accountability they hold others to.
This seems to me the most important article the Economist published this month, or even this year. Not about the Greek crisis, you say ? Well, realistically, even if you read and understood all their coverage about that, it's not like you can do something about it. Better to enjoy this.
That's a good point. Though, if the enterprise I work in is representative (notwithstanding a singular anecdote not being data), the proportion of people that haven't heard of them is higher than those that have.
I often wonder why that is so.

Perhaps there is some real cost to changing your opinion. What is that cost, and how can it be lowered? Or raised, for that matter?
Yes, it's probably closer to functional programming than OOP, but I feel that strict functional programming doesn't adapt well to some use-cases, and there really needs to be a modular model involved as well. I think a new mainstream language would be best to be a hybrid of some sort.
Replying to my own post. As it is already frozen for editing.

Please note the sentence

> After the first visit when we learned about Mesa, we designed Modula-2 and its OS Lillith.

we is wrong! Stupid mobile autocorrection, it should be read he.
It also doesn't explain why the effects of sleep are so strong, when an instinct for watchful stillness would have been every bit as effective for that purpose.
Could not disagree more. I would NEVER run anything serious on Linode.

They have a long history of withholding information from customers in the face of security incidents and outages. The last time they were hacked I found out from Reddit that it happened and even when they bothered to tell me they failed to say (a) what actually happened or (b) what steps they took to prevent it occurring again. And many, many outages had information communicated on the IRC hours before website was updated.

It is the culture and professionalism that differentiates one VPS provider from another. Linode gets a massive thumbs down for me.
my goodness, I was reading through this entire thread and all I was thinking about is "How come no one is mentioning Azure".

I have tried Azure, AWS, and DO, and by far the most stable and usable one is Azure. I thought I was the only one who thought Azure was good...
Given a population of 310,000 and a sample size of 230 you would have 95% confidence that 91% +/- 7% of your userbase is in support of shutting down the subreddit with your numbers.

So yes, you can draw a conclusion of support from that. This is how polling works.
A white label uber like app for use by municipal taxi authorities.

There's no need to throw the baby (taxi regulation) out with the bath water (getting a taxi is usually inconvenient).
Maybe not the greatest music scene ever, but you are within spitting distance of Denver and Red Rocks.
What makes a tweet believable?
Agree, Microsoft would be a much better option, at least from my point of view. I understand that Xamarin mostly target enterprise devs, but I believe their ecosystem would benefit from a more active community. I'm also sure Microsoft's mobile app store would benefit from it.
> I seriously believe that any attempt to define FP will end in tears.

FP as a programming style to which a programmer may adhere to a greater or less degree is easy to define. FP as a binary is-or-is-not characteristic of programming languages is, well, a misguided concept. To the extent it makes sense to talk about FP -- or OOP, or any other style -- as a feature of a programming language, it is more in terms of the degree to, or better the particular manner in, which it facilitates that style of programming, rather than a binary descriptor.
The author might be making a valid point, but the visualization they chose doesn't match their thesis very well.

Think about it: if the homeowners in SF relent, approve massive housing projects, and decrease the average housing price of SF, then more people will now move into SF and its total real estate price (and hence the size of SF in their visualiztion) will increase.
Paywall - can anyone summarise?
Could you provide some details on this rather than just a naked link?
Yahoo SkyPhrase SDK: Making Apps Understand Natural Language
Cameron’s turd in the encryption punchbowl
I'd been thinking for a while that this would be nice: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9785575

TLDR: Extremely high-res virtual "windows" that you can run on a flatscreen mounted on your wall, so if you want it to feel like you have a live view from, say, the top of Mount Everest (right in your bedroom/living room/wherever), go right ahead.
This title seems (a bit) like blaming the stock exchange for insider trading.
Possibly the first-ever easter egg: a 1979 Atari game
Yes, I'm an engineer. :-(. I was going for a simple Google results look. I had something that I thought was nicer but Google wanted mobile ready pages so I made it sparse.
Actually, sales teams are also using this now as a replacement to Amex in certain cases. They love the fact that they do not have to wait days for their expenses to load into a third party expense mgmt solution and they never worry about receipts. They are done in seconds. It's not a solution for everyone, but some use it this way as it removes the time delay and friction which some value more so than other features.
This is super interesting - it seems like facebook's more likely to get away with it too because the people being ripped off are smaller independent YouTube Channels.

It seems like YouTube's main incentive to build out copyright infringement tools was all of the record labels that had songs being uploaded and re-uploaded on the platform.

I can see YouTube getting really aggressive in fighting FB on this legally, because they need to defend their own content providers before they move to Facebook (or start uploading to both facebook/youtube).
In NYC if you need a $1200 / mo 1BR apartment, sure Manhattan and north eastern Brooklyn aren't options but you still have places like Harlem, Queens, New Jersey, The Bronx, Staten Island all of which are under an hour commute from Manhattan (and with a rapid transit system that respects shift workers by running 24hrs a day).

NYC has also been adding high density (albeit market rate) housing stock by the tens of thousands each year since 2013 or so. NIMBY-ism in Bay Area communities tends to be opposed increased density of any sort, but for the most part in NYC it's focused more on the boundaries of low income housing areas.

East coast municipalities also have a lot more power to make mandates without the kind of broad community consensus that California cities have to abide by. So while residents can express opposition to a development plan and sometimes fight it in NYC, NIMBY advocates only carry weight when they're well equipped to battle city hall.

Basically my point is that it's kind of a stretch to draw a conclusion that the same patterns are applicable to both housing markets. The New York metro and the Bay Area metro are very different places with very different policies and political landscapes. New York's inflated housing market has more to do with legacy policies from the Bloomberg administration and real estate speculation than too few units and NIMBY attitudes, which are a much bigger problem in SF
“My Handheld’s Down”: How the Big Board Went Dark
https://angel.co/digitalocean

Jason sits on the board of DigitalOcean. :)
Show HN: Griffin – Generate 5000 static pages in ~8 seconds
Great papers from ICML, part two
Like usual, currently Facebook doesn't think they have much of a "problem" at all. It only becomes a problem if someone calls them out on it - probably in a court.
Yes. The next time some "What is the most promising technology?" thread pops up on reddit, you can safely post CRISPR.

Depending on how things go with the patent stuff and the technology itself, sooner or later this will absolutely transform our lives. We are looking at the incubation of a technology that may easily save millions of lives (over a long time frame).

Potential for misuse is near infinite though - imagine a privatized CRISPR inaccessible to the sub-$50 million/ year crowd.

The limitations of CRISPR really do appear to be few though. Lots of techniques and methods will be developed and figured out in the next years. It allows us near complete control over the most essential biology. And all that in vivo.

The road ahead is rough but I am confident that CRISPR can become the magic tool I just described. It will be black and white magic. Question is which will dominate?
I haven't had much to do with this in about 10 years, but back then weed growers (at least in Scandinavia) were already testing fluoros and LED's in addition to the traditional metal halide/HPS lights, and wavelength correlation to photosynthesis and flowering was known.
It sounds to me like part of the problem is that the people making popular videos don't share them on facebook themselves, which results in the modern internet native's primary reaction to media being unavailable in their preferred venue and at their preferred comfortability level: Piracy.

Sure, you can fight back by appealing to the public about facebook's evility, or by spending lots of resources in legal action. Or you can roll with the punches and figure out the myriad ways in which even the currently broken facebook system can work for you.
For me:

a) Average reliability - had numerous incidents at their London and Fremont DCs. And the complete inability to tell me what was happening in a timely manner was pretty unacceptable.

b) Average support - they will answer the simple questions very quickly. But anything reasonably complex they will actually not bother responding at all.
> I've been trying the Windows 10 betas on a fairly high-end Lumia (1520), and I just can't understand what Microsoft is doing. The entire system has apparently been rewritten using the "Universal" APIs (the same thing as Windows RT/10 basically).

It's worth noting that Windows Phone 10 (or whatever the current name is) is not being released alongside desktop Windows 10. It'll be released at least a few months later, so I would expect a lot more polish and cohesiveness moving forward.
PSA: Google is notorious for blatantly lying about App Engine availability. Today’s yellow alerts and red exes, on the uptime/status page, somehow always become yesterday's green checks.

(This was a first-hand source of frustration for the team I was working with a few years ago.)

You have been warned.
It is certainly a beautifully written article.
A small, unimportant rail station in Japan was the home of a very popular cat. Her popularity led to great tourist traffic and prosperity for the station, and she was eventually made vice president of the railway and given her own office (really!).
Ah, 90s web design, replete with a link urging the reader to "Join the Blue Ribbon Online Free Speech Campaign!"

I miss the old web.
I've used Apptentive for this and we had even better results. We get almost no reviews below 5 stars.
Yeah that's a good approach, thanks for the reply!
Didn't youtube start the same way?
Rust: A Type System You Didn't Know You Wanted
Most people here (including me) are not windows people, so Azure is obviously not going to be the first place we look to.

They have linux VMs which is cool, but still not sure I would pick them.
Is the Mojave Phone Booth Down?
Even the SMS seems to be not responding: 760-733-9969

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojave_phone_booth
It's an interesting database. Regarding closed source complaint, it's part of a false dilemma that keeps repeating unnecessarily: that one must choose open + free or closed + paid. Nonsense! You can have open source and proprietary licensing simultaneously. You can even let paying users extend it as Burroughs did for MCP OS in 60's. I go into more detail here [1] on various models of source sharing and security review implications (my focus).

So, he could patent any key technology, publish the implementation with copyright protection, give source/binaries to customers on condition they keep paying, let users extend it for internal use, and even let users submit such improvements for others to use.. His company continues to make money on the licensing in each of these cases. All of this has been done before. If anything, the real risk is on the users that the source license might change like what happen with QNX. It's why I advocate perpetual licenses for a given release at a given rate which are re-issued each year a client pays.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/05/friday_squid_...
The article touches on that:

> Maybe this is just a stage of development for online video platforms: grow first, then cover your legal bases. Some might even see poetic justice in the potential disruption of YouTube’s business by an upstart that plays a little faster and looser when it comes to copyright enforcement.
A well-known prior art of this idea -- and perhaps not even the first -- is Worldmapper at http://www.worldmapper.org/. "The world as you have never seen before" contains striking world maps with their areas proportional to measures like population (even the population in AD 1), income, aircraft flights, toy exports, nuclear weapons, languages, people killed by floods and 600 more.
I know, but I'm not sure CEO is a standard unit. Was/is Brenden Eich a "guy in the corner"? I have no idea because I've never worked with him.

Does the CEO of Mozilla perform any type of leadership role? I also don't know, as I've never worked there or been there while others were working.
It's issued under a Durbin exempt, commercial, prepaid BIN.
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Obviously, but no amount of high-density construction in Boulder will make it cheaper than equivalent accommodations in Bend (unless Bend gets a lot more expensive).

I'm not questioning your decision, but it's worth being realistic about what high-density construction could achieve.
Not sure this is the answer (I actually doubt it), but possibly because Make works poorly, and requires painful setup on Windows?