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What I think you're hinting at is that OSS shouldn't just be for the developers. People who are good at curating a community but don't write a line of code are super valuable. They should be seeking out OSS projects (and OSS project owners should be seeking them out).
The importance of all-age user testing and the UIButton Touch Area
The incentive for developers is that you don't write the same code twice.

Of course this applies to developers whose goal is to create software, as opposed to those whose goal is to bill hourly.
Are you sure? Many so-called "universal" bluray players can play SACDs.

I got a Denon one. I haven't played any SACD on it yet (I got it for bluray), though I guess I could easily find some at that video rental store (in Tokyo).
The craftsmanship is obviously different, but is it better? I hear the argument that modern houses are all going to be just awful in a few decades. Yet I heard the same argument in the 70's and 80's, and those houses seem to be aging just fine (aesthetic choices aside). A stick built house built in 1970 is 45 years old at this point!

Today's track houses have MUCH improved insulation, much stronger moisture barriers, and are much more efficient than even the nicest houses built 100 years ago.

I just don't believe that construction has regressed the way we all seem to think it has. Of course I type this from a 103 year old house which is awesome, but drafty :)
Wouldn't the authors of the software be able to sue if the licensee didn't fulfill their obligations? And wouldn't one of the civil remedies sought be to ban importation if the offending product into the country in question?

From my (not a lawyer) reading, it seems to suggest that the government can't forbid the sale of closed-source software.

Also, you don't need a license to use software, which is why the GPL is irrelevant to end users. But I can't see how someone choosing the use GPLed software is doing anything different than downloading the Torque 3d engine, etc. It's freely accessible, but you have to agree to some conditions to legally do certain things with it.
Is it actually the PM that's suggesting this? What's the significance of the group named at the bottom right of each proposal?

All the proposals I skimmed through seemed too sensible to be official government policies, even allowing for Canada being better than most.
The problem with the "survivor bias" argument is that it allows for a lazy denial of actual trends in things: sometimes stuff does get worse.

The same applies to "every generation thinks the next generation is horrible". That may or may not be true, but sometimes there are horrible generations.
That's because all of your ad impressions were being shown to Tarsnap users!

In all seriousness, I've had a lot of people say they keep seeing rsync ads on twitter and ask me if you're trying to poach my customers. I always tell them that you're a good guy and I'm sure you wouldn't do that.
They're going for the Ballmer Peak:

https://xkcd.com/323/
Sounds like a demand problem rather than a FreeBSD problem. I've heard the same about SELinux etc with them overly permissive by default due to user apathy. I'd say Linux is ahead of usability of these controls, even supported by vendors like Tresys. It's also ahead in terms of risky code/tools a major distribution will support vs a major BSD. So, comparisons are a moving target.

Fortunately, the best security approaches (HW-centric) are portable to both w/ FreeBSD getting most prototypes. You can already run capability-secure FreeBSD via Cambridge CHERI project. Criswell's people are doing lots of stuff with FreeBSD and maybe Linux:

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/

http://sva.cs.illinois.edu/pubs.html

Examples for Linux include these:

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10112006-2048...

https://web.archive.org/web/20120509155852/http://archives.e...

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1i_Zf52vJctMTA4YTI1MmUtNzdj...

That doesn't even include software-related techniques like microkernels, low TCB software, safe low-level languages, and automatic compiler transformations for security that neither are adopting. They're both low-medium assurance by my standards due to cultural refusal to apply what's proven to work. So, I already have predictions about tech-transfer of papers above to Linux/FreeBSD use at large. You can probably guess how optimistic I am. ;)
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You could say that about literally anything, at these prices investors should be able to find their own experts in the field to evaluate these kinds of things.

Almost none of the comments I saw on HN were positive about this, which should be more of a red flag than usual given that developers are their target audience.

But whatever, I have no sympathy for VCs who have no idea what they're doing.
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If anything I like it more because it makes it very clear what you are getting back. Whereas with "length" I would be heading to the docs to check what that means.
It doesn't seem to prevent other reasons for compelling source access. Simply not *as a condition ... sale in the territory".

So you can't (seemingly) require FOSS to access the market at all, but you could compel someone to reveal source for any number of other reasons.
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Here in Denver I see it all the time. I actually don't really notice it (a problem for them as so many competitors directly cloned them)... until that email receipt arrives.

It's not ubiquitous here, but it's certainly common.
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Oh yes that's quite the nasty bit of concrete.
Which means it is now :)
The document is the 'goals' set by the Liberal party to be achieved federally if they came to power (which they did!). Presumably suggested by the delegates of the provinces mentioned in 2014. There is no guarantee that the Liberals will actually meet these goals, however, they do have a straight-up majority to do whatever they want. So they have less excuses.
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"the" alternative... that's one of the biggest issues with the system (locked into two parties).
I've heard all this arguments and more a 1000 times, it's nothing new and usually based on emotions and opinions rather than any objective study.

1) Ads are useful for consumers as it leads to them solving their problem. Whether that's a discovering a new service or buying a product, they needed something and they got it. It's still ultimately their decision.

2) Do you know the best thing about digital ads? It's the data. These aren't billboards that are bought without any idea who's seeing them or giant print ads bought on ego, we can tell exactly who's clicking on what and what they do after all the way to purchase. It's not just money thrown around, it leads to real bottom line results. The ad industry is one of the biggest data-driven industries in the world, contrary to what many might think.

3) Not sure how you came to this conclusion. There is no such thing as the "ad economy"... it's just a business model and industry, not some major paradigm of society. It will always exist because it works and serves and need, and outside of the direct monetization, it's the best form of payment there is. It's quick, passive and requires no decision willpower and is the primary reason for so many websites and such a large open web. We wouldn't have nearly as many sources on the internet if it weren't for ads. The monopolies you mentioned exist in every industry because that's the most efficient way to scale and run a business, it's got nothing to do with ads specifically.

4) I don't get the last point - are you saying that article isn't worth anything? Why? because you don't like it? So you're the judge of good content? I'm not a fan of celeb news but it's a huge market and draw for readers online so who am I to judge? There are billions of people with their own interests and needs, nobody get's to just set the baseline here. Yes there are scams and fraudulent stuff and arguably 'low-quality' bits out there but this exists in every field and is a constant battle. It doesn't mean we devalue everything because of it.
Did you get a chance to prove it in the interview?
The human hippocampus is not sexually-dimorphic
Or you know... Bill Gates et al created a segment of the economy that didn't exist. Inflammatory language like "gobbled up" really annoys me.

It's not like all that Microsoft stock would be evenly distributed among the middle class if he had never come along.
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You accuse programs of cheating and then refuse to say what you think they are doing wrong:

"Haskell is just not that fast. So, in a sense, it cheats."

: that is not "pleasant", it's name-calling.

When you say other programs are "cheating-but-not-cheating"

: that is not "pleasant", it's name-calling.
Not a huge concern in most parts of Australia... Having high ceilings (and fans) is actually an advantage.
This who depend on contracts for their survival have many many other potential clients who make money through profit rather than taxation. I'm fine with solving tragedies of the commons more cheaply.
I think Android is also still a second class citizen when it comes to app development and if they can get some people who would have started with an iOS app to start with Flutter they might even the playing field.

Though that's probably not really worth that much since they're a close second, unlike everyone else.

It mostly sounds like they got sick of writing the same app twice internally though, which I could definitely see happening to people who just want to ship product and aren't platform partisans (it would be a bit weird to me for iOS partisans to go work at google?).
Except the long-term investors.

In any case, the predicted price before the IPO was exactly the IPO price. That's fair. If your view was that FB has a lot to grow and the IPO price is too low, you would buy it. If not, you wouldn't. Back then, nobody knew its price is first going down a lot, and then up even more.
Not all non-negotiable contacts are a a contract of adhesion. Stores will rarely negotiate (in N.A.), for example.

CoAs require a weaker party, who has no leverage, and it seemingly need to be for a necessity (as part of the "no choice but to agree").

The GPL is an offer, but in no way precludes authors from accepting other terms for use of their work.
I think part of the problem is that there are certain organizations that just operate like this. If they don't have an immediate result the immediate answer is to threaten to burn their bridges. I am sure many can say the same for the stuff that happens even when it's a fully closed-source commercial relationship.
Per capita GDP is a population scaled measurement of the size of the economy. Scaling wealth relative to that gives an indication of relative wealth, though it's by no means a perfect measure (but better than merely scaling relative to inflation).
I missed the first round of hype; was it originally all about 3D? Because that part definitely seemed crazy.
This could be evidence of the beginning of a balloon deflation rather than a bubble bursting.
Anyone actually have a CVE I can reference in talks to leadership so I can not look like a neckbeard security geek that's acting self-important?
There are also POWER systems available in the GCC compile farm, which is available for anyone to use on open source software.
Scuttlebutt I've heard. If a modern stick house built with plywood beams catches fire, the fire department will not try to save it because it's too dangerous to send a man up on the roof to cut access holes. This is because in a fire the glue in built up beams loses strength very quickly and the thing de-laminates.
I'm a german and i didn't get it. Which may in itself be an implicit joke about germans.
Seattle just elected a bike-friendly Council and invested $400M for safe streets
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I have to disagree with that. If you don't write a line of code, how are you supposed to actually understand what's going on? OSS projects are not simple Hello World applications here.
"the experiment also validated the core concept
that open-source micro-purchasing can work, and
it’s a thing we should try to do again"

This leap in logic seems entirely unsupportable. This was not a "purchase". It was a donation, very much within the long tradition of donations to open source projects.
There is a good example from YouTube, but it's not exactly it. https://www.scribd.com/doc/214802896/Botha-on-YouTube
Relax. Downvotes are the air we breathe. Besides, a quote alone doesn't merit upvoting. Someone else said it.
It's a bug in e10s mode, which is still a beta feature that you need to enable! If you want a stable browser, WTH are you enabling opt-in, explicitly unstable features?
There are websites online that recommend and rate charities by their efficacy or efficiency, and they'll have them grouped by topic. It doesn't matter, though. A thousand years from now, and in the millions of years thereafter, the wildlife and environment will be unaffected by your donation. But if you donated to a charity that helps out humans today, somebody's life will be improved.
That is a general accusation. It does not include any specific reference that would allow it to be understood or answered. Not helpful.
> We hang over each other’s heads, more and more heavily, self-appointed swords of Damocles waiting with baited breath to strike.

This is the key.

Twitter has a serious problem with abuse, and it's not the abuse that's usually talked about. At any point, anything you say -- no matter how anodyne -- can be ripped out of context by someone with malevolent goals and then used to trigger a global outrage storm. This has resulted in death threats or people even losing their jobs. I wouldn't post on Twitter any more than I'd take a shortcut through a dark alley in a bad neighborhood in the middle of the night. Why take the risk?
Sadly not surprised to read this...

Some thoughts:

Some projects that have active companies behind them clearly offer development work/support contracts that include modifications (Maybe "support" is easier to bill in an enterprise than external dev work?).

Is there potential for something similar for less cathedral-style projects? like a list with "the following developers have contributed to/a lot of experience using this project and are available for hire"?
turning the volume %50 down would yield 15 bits, not 8 bits, which would be discernible.
However you forgotten something.

Not all companies are big and not all have the time (even in free time) to help your project.

I know there are lots of companies who actually use your software and doing nothing.

However there are also lot's of small companies who started or started within 1-5 years and employ 1-5 people. Those actually need your libraries most but can't give too much back. Actually their time is lacking while they built their product. (I would like to contribute to a project but can't due to my restricted time. Currently we are 3 people and I'm teaching one, currently I hoped that he would share more of his free time in the open source world, but I don't believe he ever will..)

Also I know your library and I used it and I know that you've got a high quality of standard and that's the second thing you forgotten. Younger people don't like to take the bigger issue's, they are just not confident.
As I am in the projects I would like to fix a Bug I'm just too scary to make a bigger contribution. It's mostly the lack of my experience. Especially when it comes to testing. Nobody ever learned that to me, so I was and I am on my own by dealing with it.

What I also thought and why I'm doing it is raising issue's (hopefully not duplicating it) when a project has an issue. I'm also fixing Typo's if I find some. I didn't thought how much work it is for a small project. I thought I could get 'something' back which is better than nothing. However I was never one of those guys who stopped responding.

I also tried to fix some minor things in Django however somehow I got lost and had no time on those and our project moved away from Django which wasn't caused by Django more caused by the fact with our Python expertise.

Btw. I started to read HN afterwards so I was a complete 'noob' at the beginning of my career. And as I've read through your blogs I will certainly try to offer more time at projects my company is using and I'm also willing to share my thoughts on the company if we grow. At the moment we needing to handle our stuff, not enough money, not enough developers, not enough time.
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Mastering, especially modern mastering, compresses the bejesus out of the end product. Trust me, you do not want to listen to uncompressed recordings under real-world conditions. Details will be so quiet you can't hear them. It'll sound thin and dull. Most modern pop has maybe 5-6db of dynamic range. Really loose, open mastering will be 20db or so.

As someone who both records/mixes albums and a live-instrument musician, a live instrument in the room sounds utterly different than any recording. Not necessarily worse, just different. The pursuit of "accuracy" in audio playback is childish and naive. The sound of a recording is a function of technical limitations, compromises, and aesthetic decisions as much as it is a product of the raw source sounds. Don't make it sound accurate, make it sound GOOD! And that usually means a lot of compression, and often deliberate distortion.
I use them primarily to lessen the perceived-burden on the user when I ask them to share something.

For example, imagine you just checked-out on an eCommerce site, and a modal pops up:

"Thanks for your purchase, share it with your friends: [SuperLongLinkThatWontActuallyTakeYouVeryLongToCopyAndPasteButForSomeReasonSeemsLikeAPainInTheAssToDealWith]"

vs

"Thanks for your purchase, share it with your friends! [short.url]"

I'm actually asking them to do the same amount of work. But the first option seems like a bigger 'ask', so I default to the second one.
> IMO it's scary to hear Linus say that "security is just stupid bugs"

That may have been what you heard, but it's not what Torvalds said. He said that most of the security issues in the kernel were stupid bugs, not that 'security is just stupid bugs'.

It's also a myth that Torvalds doesn't care about security - he does, it's just that he doesn't think security is a layer of importance above all other issues. It's just something else in the pot along with all the other important things that go into making a quality product. For example, OpenBSD does 'security above all else', and they make a couple of fantastic products... but their disdain (hatred?) of regular users means their brand is nowhere near as widely spread.

Similarly, the linux kernel is in everything from tiny embedded single-function appliances to the world's most powerful supercomputers - excluding the desktop space, it's the most popular kernel anywhere, and that's largely due to Torvalds' priorities and governance. Claims of 'lack of vision' are hard to swallow.
The LINQ expression compiler also lets you generate expressions at runtime and compile them, it's an amazingly powerful feature: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb397951.aspx
If there is a fire the house is gone because the floor
joists will be ruined by the water to put the fire out.

Do you have more information on this? I've known about the increased direct risk from fire, but haven't seen anything about damage from temporary water contact.

The only information I can find doesn't seem to agree with this, although it doesn't specifically prove otherwise: www.woodbywy.com/document/tb-213
Snowden provided evidence that the US is using its military spy apparatus to track the interpersonal interactions and day-to-day relationships of US citizens, on an ongoing basis, without meaningful oversight. That's not intelligence gathering, it's intentionally spying on your own citizens in defiance of a constitutional prohibition on that very activity.
You couldn't possibly hire the bricklayer directly today. The bricklayer would be hired as a subcontractor by the general contractor who would apply a surcharge.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/facade

The article is using definition #1. I don't think the word is meant to imply anything beyond the literal, "the front of a building".
Still confused (I got a D in economics so help me out). Can you elaborate more?
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That sounds like a good idea, but community curation seems to be an even rarer skill-set than coding.
Misleading title, this is an update on the previous story:

"Tesla chief executive Elon Musk is warning that some new limits may be coming to the company's autopilot feature because of "some fairly crazy videos on YouTube" showing drivers behaving dangerously while the car is in control."
I'm curious... Do you have know the link for that?
Those who use those machines have standing to ask for the source code, as per the GPL.
> but sometimes there are horrible generations.

What do you mean?
I somewhat agree with you, but, a closer comparison would be that it is a 'better' corporate IRC. The comparison with ICQ, Yahoo Messenger and Skype does not really fit given that, at least for me, the biggest advantage is the tons of integrations with automated development tools etc. That wasn't really there for Skype, ICQ, Yahoo messenger, etc. It was possible with IRC, but a pain to maintain on your own and out of grasp for many other teams. Slack and HipChat make it a breeze. At our company we used to build our own integrations with IRC (using existing OSS bots, redmine plugins, etc) but ultimately it was a distraction. Moving to HipChat or Slack was liberating.
Not necessarily, but full-power vinyl grooves would cause all sorts of distortion and misbehavior for the very mechanical nature of cartridges and tonearms. Likewise, high frequencies would be so small they couldn't really be picked up.

Hence the RIAA curve, which is an eq curve applied to the mastering before put to vinyl that reduces the lows and exaggerates the highs. It is reversed by the phono preamp during playback.
That opens the question of expected lifetime of a house though. The interior might need to be ripped out and plumbing or sewage etc retrofitted, but in plenty of cases there is simply no reason why the foundation, framing, or other things can't be retained. Which, given the value of high quality timber, seems like a goal worth striving for, rather than disposable houses.
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> how are you supposed to actually understand what's going on?

By talking with developers of the project! All it takes is a few conversations to get an idea about the why/what/when/ about a project and understand enough of its internals to be able to articulate those same things to others.

Numerous other things can be done by people who don't write the actual code:

* Writing a great "Getting Started" guide

* Writing great conceptual documentation

* Acting as a community moderator and squashing vitriol

* Acting as a contact for companies needing work done on the project

* Keeping things like Github Issues fully tagged, organized, and traced back to from Pull Requests

That's just off the top of my head. There are likely many more things that an OSS project would value which someone who isn't writing code can do.
Bank buildings built before 1929 tend to be massive masonry structures with greek columns, marble, etc. Ones build later tend to be cracker boxes in strip malls.

My theory is that the older banks needed to impress their clients with stability, conservativeness, safety, responsibility, etc. After FDIC, customers looked to the government for that, and so banks no longer needed to spend the money on the building.

The massive, glittering vaults are sadly gone now, too. The money exists as data on a server somewhere, little need for a vault.
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