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I don't think my thoughts on topics are much needed. When I feel like they are needed, I can comment on current discussion.

Blogging is just putting your opinions out as fact with no way for readers to disagree. I prefer commenting.
Now, how 'bout them Apples err Macs?
Um, IIRC, weren't Zappos numbers in the trash even before this management crap?

Once the brick and mortar retailers started taking online returns, Zappos lost its biggest differentiator--its no hassle return policy--and had to eat the return cost of shipping.
This is a relatively useless contribution to the discussion. Given that there are obviously reasons why Linux has been successful while BSDs have seen less popular usage, it must be the case that Linux or its ecosystem offers features not found elsewhere.

Adding ZFS to Ubuntu is a benefit to everybody, and a smug, holier-than-thou attitude really does nothing to further the conversation about the technology.
Lots of people do exactly that. In fact, many companies even use software for which the licenses have lapsed or they never owned licenses in the first place. Sometimes it's by accident; in other cases it's a knowing acceptance of risk.
I'd love any advice I can get regarding how to scale the site etc. Email me on anmol@occasionaljunk.com
I know it seem silly to care about licensing in this case, since it's about GPL incompatibility between two free licenses. However, the problem here is the precedent that it sets. If ZFS distributed this way, in binary form linked to Linux, does not infringe Linux's copyleft, then this could open the doors for other kinds of proprietary blobs to grow on top of Linux. That is SFC's analysis,

Indeed, Conservancy believes this situation is one
battle in a larger proxy war by those who seek to
limit the scope of strong copyleft generally.

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/feb/25/zfs-and-linux/

I also fear about what Oracle could do, as they are copyright holders of parts of Linux (btrfs) and might decide to make things difficult for Canonical. Oracle has misused copyleft aggressively in the past, trying to strong-arm people into buying GPL exceptions for MySQL when they didn't need one, although in this case, they probably do have a good case for why a GPL exception would be necessary.
More likely they mean the opposite: that a statistically significant P value (by whatever threshold you decide to use) should not be used, by itself, to drive policy decisions. Internally, the effect size still matters. Externally, there are numerous other factors that should drive decisionmaking.
> But, that alone is significant enough to justify most intellectual property: patents, copyright, etc.

No, certainly not. Guaranteeing corporate profits are never a justifiable reason to restrict freedom of information so severely.

You do not need a patent on plastic forks to make money selling them. If there is demand, the floating price will be above the price of manufacture, and the economy is incentivized to meet that demand. If drug recipes were not patented, and there was demand for a drug, once the profit overcomes opportunity cost everyone in industry has incentive to start meeting the demand.

Plenty of arguments exist in this thread why you do not need private for-profit research to discover medicine - and why in many ways having such a system is counter-productive in the first place (the industry consistently refuses to consider anything as a product they cannot patent - and will actively harm people by not selling products they know work but that they cannot guarantee long-term monopoly on).
I have nothing of substance to say
I suspect they wanted to show off features, so they crammed as much code as possible into the smallest area possible and stripped out the white space.

IMO it'd be pretty nice with decent white space.
What're the legal requirements if Google chooses to make a "company town" - ie all the other benefits are included already, perhaps they'll start throwing in a 1BR apartment within spitting distance of the campus and a tram / peoplemover connection between the two. Would they still be required to meet the Section 8 / Affordable provisions if the units were only available to employees?
I always get excited when I start reading about IPv6. I was excited last year too. And the year before that. I guess I'll just keep waiting.
I thought that it is still largely unknown, how human reasoning actually works...
The most telling part, for me, is here:

> Everyone in the room was stunned, not least John Hamre, who had been sworn in as deputy secretary of defense at the end of July. Before then, Hamre had been the Pentagon’s comptroller, where he’d gone on a warpath to slash the military budget, especially the part secretly earmarked for the NSA. Through the 1980s, as a staffer for the Congressional Budget Office and the Senate Armed Services Committee, Hamre had grown to distrust the NSA: It was a dodgy outfit, way too covert, floating in the gray area between “military” and “intelligence” and evading the strictures on both. Hamre didn’t know anything about information warfare, and he didn’t care.

I say, bravo to the NSA for uncovering the vulnerability. But, the cynic in my wonders how long anyone over there had suspected this, but never acted on it until faced with the threat of having feed pulled from the trough. My prejudices lead me to think of government as tending towards the dysfunctional. So, I worry if the same sort of thing isn't going on right now.
I was not aware of this one but appreciate the recommendation! I've also been a follower of John Malone's over the years so this sounds like a very interesting read. Added to my list!
I think we should limit open source non-profits to a maximum of 3 buzzwords by announcement.
No, the state negotiates as low price as possible because the national health service is given a certain budget that they have to fit in.
The difference here is that in US your insurance company might say that they will pay 50% and you have to pay the remaining 50%. In Poland the national health service would never offer you such a deal. Either it's fully covered or it's not offered at all. Therefore companies are willing to lower their prices so that the government accepts their medicine at all, rather than having it rejected and not offered at any of the hospitals.

And the last time I checked the treatment with Glivec is a lot more expensive in US than it is here, so this system must be working at least partially.
This is what most of my friends who used to work in the games industry have done. It's not about the games for them anymore, it's about solving the problems. And they make significantly more money doing it elsewhere (one almost 4x as much).
One nice thing about things "coming to Ubuntu specifically" is that a lot of people get used to what Linux is "like" through Ubuntu. So when Ubuntu does something, people start looking for that thing whenever they use Linux generally. It generates demand, which pushes changes through.
Agreed on the second point, but no one (to my knowledge) is contending that Oracle's copyrights or patents are being violated.
Yeah, that's how I do it sometimes with other peoples code. But with my own code I much prefer using structs. Makes it much clearer to read and there is little implicit structure like with an ordered list. So my preferred way would look more like:

(let ((struct (my-get-decoded-time)))
(format t "Year: ~A~%Seconds: ~A" (time-year struct) (time-seconds struct)))

With the original multiple value return, if there were a bug and I were reviewing the code, I'd need to also review get-decoded-time and see what order the values are in. If instead it returned structured data, I could skip that step as the values are clear.

Lisp is still my favourite language. I generally rank languages by how much time/code I'm spending managing the language versus managing the problem I want to solve. Lisp is very good for that, very little cruft so it lets you focus directly on the problem at hand.
Can I pre-evoke Poe's Law?
Does FBI really need Apple’s Support, or its just an eyewash
This comment was immensely helpful. Thank you.
Quick hack: Breadboard VESA laptop stand
As a San Franciscan, I heartily approve. A lot of the conflict in San Francisco is driven not by people who work in the city, but by people who reluctantly commute to places like Mountain View. One study of corporate bus commuters said about half would rather live closer to work.

I think the next step is to create more urban life down there. I frequently hear of people who hate the commute but think the areas near their office might as well be in a desert.
You can't directly access the classNames of child components i.e. if the component is composed of an <h1> inside of a <div> (with <div> being the top-level component), you cannot directly set the className of the h1 if a prop doesn't exist to do so
This is basically what Pastwatch: Redemption by Orson Scott Card is about. Bit of sci-fi but that's the general gist - quite a nice read.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003H4I4KO/
Real useful
HomePlug AV network failover
Show HN: I made my first mobile app to track DIY projects
I would love to see this. Instead of network operators throttling bandwidth and/or re-compressing images, set a sane default and let the user have ultimate control.
Causes and Effects of Smog
This so much. Public transit doesn't stand a chance if it's not accompanied with sensible zoning that favors high density near the stations. Very often I was the only rider in my VTA lightrail on my commute to Intel, passing by block after block of office parking lots.
zsf?
I don't think that's a relevant comparison at all. What we have here is two open source technologies that have traditionally been kept from being used together because of specific clauses in their licenses, and some lawyers who have looked at it and are vouching that it's not a problem. That's far from ignoring the proprietary closed source, for-profit licensing of a product where it's very clear cut. The lawyers may be wrong, and it's probably a good idea for enterprise customers to steer clear, but the whole point is that there is some valid contention over whether the technologies can be used together. There is not valid contention over whether you can use Windows without a license.
Do you commonly find content-free insults to be an effective form of advocacy? I've used (Free|Open)BSD over the same time period and can point to specific areas which were better (e.g. NFS client stability) or worse (e.g. package management, video drivers) compared to Linux, and both would need to be mentioned in the context of specific versions. If you want to do anything more than make people dislike BSD fanboys, try stating something specific and be prepared to back your assertions up with evidence.
No, the licenses are not ignored. Both, the GPL and the CDDL require the source available for any copy of the resulting program distributed. In that spirit, there is no license violation. There is some disagreement to which extend linking programs under those licenses is technically possible. But the verdict is still out, whether this is a problem at all. But for the goals both licenses aim for - open source which stay open source, is not violated. This is not a company shipping a closed source executable based on modified sources. They are just shipping precompiled binaries based on available sources.
I'm not a lawyer or an expert on the CDDL, however it could be that the license incompatibility is one-way: maybe only the GPL rightsholders have reason to sue.
You might want to learn Common Lisp BEFORE you make statements about how a feature of the language is obsolete or not.
> It wouldn't have happened if the US didn't own Hawaii in 1941

Which is what I said, except I put it more honestly: it would not have happened had the US not invaded, overthrown and annexed Hawaii. The US 'owned' Hawaii the same way Hitler 'owned' the Sudetenland.

The point being the roots (ie, cause) of Pearl Harbor stretch back to 19th century US imperialism, throwing its weight around, and generally being in places it shouldn't have been.

> but the US takeover of Hawaii was not the causus belli for Pearl Harbor.

I didn't say it was a casus belli (no U), did I?
Amazon works quite well but from whatever I hear their work environment is not much fun. A profitable company can be a bad workplace. At least for the lower ranks.
Points 11 and 12 of the article contrast chat with email, along with various other minor references.
I spent every weekend for 2 months preparing. Best investment of time I've ever spent in my life.
This is incorrect, the profits are not taxed as capital gains, see my above post. Only time you get taxed on profits as capital gains is when you make the mistake and take distributions in excess of your basis in the company, basically a rookie mistake, and then you get taxed cap gains on the amount in excess, and it's a double tax :(
Do posts from signalvsnoise.com get a penalty or are they just always flagged? I'm asking cause this was just posted an hour ago, has 157 points/47 comments, and is already falling from the first page. And this seems like a pattern.
> There's this attitude, which I consider to be very selfish, that "I bought into Mountain View for how it currently looks, and I don't want it to change", all the while, these same residents bemoan the high prices of housing and everyone except techies being priced out.

Selfish is in the eye of the beholder. I have no dog in the SFBA prop value fight, but I've definitely seen people who have lived in communities for decades decide to forgo change. And if they're the majority of the community, that's their prerogative.
My graduate career in math
Rather damning indictment that plea bargaining is an improvement to the system for innocent people.
So they hopefully stop getting it.
Nope. Adding a legally licensed copy of ZFS to Ubuntu is a benefit to everybody. Oracle haven't seen fit to do that, and they're the only ones who can.

Sticking a hack-licensing-job into Ubuntu is damaging to the Linux ecosystem, certainly not a benefit.
They probably paid their lobbyists more to fight against the FCC over this.
Except the device they showed was clearly a Kinect 1.
I think it's safe to say there's a world of difference between license violations for a piece of software that's closed source, proprietary and sold for profit and a license incompatibility on two open source projects caused by a single clause in licenses that are otherwise compatible.

You may have the chops and cred to call someone stupid that wrote dtrace but I'd certainly hesitate before doing so myself.
This is the first instance though (that I know of) where such housing is being prepared for mid to high income individuals and not stuff like the Projects in the large cities that were subsidized housing for the economically challenged. Let's be real here, it's not cruel to say people with less disposable income make for less attractive homes.
The issue is that blocking projects via red tape doesn't require a majority at all. It only requires a very small vocal minority.
Super cute!

I wonder if there is a more common animal with "I" then the iguana...
Maybe Mozilla should concentrate on improving its browser instead of chasing fads.
great similar post on the Economist talking about the broader issue of distraction and over collaboration.

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21688872-fashion-maki...
Check Glassdoor, Payscale, etc for better data than that.
How is the pay at Zappos? How do you ever get promoted and/or get a raise? My cynical self suspects that this is the dream of company owners. The owner himself is safe in his position and the little guys have to constantly fight for relevance until they have been used up.

It seems it's probably a good workplace to start your career but I doubt it works for a long career.
Most camera raw image files (not RAW, since it's not an extension or a standard) are compressed, and have been for many years now. Some of them (notably the recent Sony standard ARW files, though it's a selectable option in some other brands) even use lossy compression for parts of the data. Yes, the files can take up a lot of space, but not nearly as much as a compressed 16-bit-per-channel RGB TIFF.
What's different with clojure
> However the requirement to sell twenty percent at below market value is simply going to pass that cost on to everyone else who cannot qualify for the lower priced housing. As in, everyone else pays more.

You say this as if it's a bad thing. It's not.
To play devil's advocate, protecting one's (likely) most significant investment is not selfish - it is reasonable. The fact that you do not like their actions doe snot make them any less reasonable and sane.
Though I doubt more flexible regulations and your stated "opportunity to
operate slightly outside the existing rules" will work, what about an
alternate path to achieve the same basic goal? Do you think something
like an improved and expedited (and inexpensive) method for challenging
outdated and/or bad regulations would work?
If they were thinking of the community they wouldn't be fighting the development of more housing to address the expensive housing they publicly moan about. I don't think it's a coincidence that as long as the housing prices stay sky high they're all sitting on incredibly valuable land. Selfish seems about the right word.
I noticed that thin fonts are not so thin on high DPI screens. Example: that font is more readable on my 9" 2500x1600 (approx) tablet than on my 1080p 15" laptop. Maybe they are designing for retina Macs.
i don't know if i've ever gained real insight into human behavior from reading the results of a contrived experiment.

Therein lies my problem. :-) I want to know more, but most sources are woefully unreliable.
Like putting stickers all over the bumper of your car, this is the most superficial and shallow and uninteresting way to shout to the world, "I am interesting! I have interests!"
So, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the license incompatibility related to shipping binaries of zfs? If a user chooses to compile locally from zfs sources, then the license issues don't apply, correct? So this is not an issue for, say, Gentoo, Funtoo, LFS, etc, and only an issue for Canonical because they are not interested in a mechanism that allows users to build packages from source, am I correct? I'm thinking something something along the lines of "Here is a tarball containing the sources and a container instance you can spin up. It leaves a .deb behind." What part of this am I missing?
If the population increases in an area, how else are you going to deal with it besides density, or simply telling them 'GO AWAY', which most economists agree is a terrible idea, given that adding people in highly productive areas is such a win.

Population density is generally very low in most of the US. It can go higher without too many problems.
There is a thing in the world called "petty injustice". It's when you get screwed a little bit. Entities like Verizon make a great deal of money on aggregate petty injustice. There is no legal recourse: things like this FTC investigation are (as you intimate) like the buzzing of a fly. A minor cost center (mostly legal fees). And even those minor bites are used to attack regulation as "bad for business". Class-action lawsuits are forbidden by virtually all contracts. The only real recourse is to switch carriers; however even that is not real because they all play by the same rules.

Computers are really the thing that make aggregate petty injustice a workable business model, because doing any computation millions of times with humans would cost far too much. This is one reason why dealing with the problem is actually a hacker/programmer moral imperative.

The last piece of the puzzle is why the FTC, SEC, etc. are so ineffective. These are the police of big business. Why are the police of individuals so harsh and powerful, but the police of business so weak and ineffective? I think it has to do with the politics of ignorance. There is no political pressure on the FTC to do it's job; it's too far removed from any elected official. No-one is going to pick the next president based on who they appoint as FTC chairman. One of the reasons is that the country is divided on regulation itself, which means that a large fraction of people, even the victims of petty injustice, would prefer that Verizon simply get away with it. These are the same people who would interpret a harsher penalty as an "anti-business" Obama/Democrat move, instead of simple enforcement of the law.

It's the 21st century and I think it's time that we enumerated some new rights in the face of unprecedented assaults on our freedoms. There needs to be the equivalent of a "fiduciary responsibility" for communications companies. People should not be allowed to give away their legal rights (the right to file class-action lawsuits). The justice system needs to be reformed, with technology and simplifying policies, to make it much faster and much much cheaper. (Not quite related to this case, but our personal devices that represent a very real extension of our minds should be absolutely protected from intrusion.)
It would if done, but it's not quite there yet.
Represent Data with Intelligent Use of the Coordinate System
You know Area 51, but just what in the world is Area 6?
Or they confirm the email address is live and they get lots more?

Standard advice for years has been don't unsub from email you haven't subbed to.
The comments agree -

http://dtrace.org/blogs/ahl/2016/03/07/big-news-for-zfs-on-l...
That's how democracy works, to prevent the tyranny of the majority.
> such as it's extremely hard to calculate priors.

I think you mean it is difficult to formulate priors? Typically, calculating a prior only involves sampling from a distribution.
Those who understand the Law of Rent know that artificially increasing supply is not a real solution to the problem. Rent is set by the differential between the locational value over and above the best available rent-free land.

The most effective policy for housing affordability is to exempt improvements from taxation and heavily tax the value of the land, thus encouraging idle speculators to sell it off cheap.
Unless you cannot, because you aren't in the allotted time window. Can distributions be treated as dividends?
Either "$10" or "10 [USD|AUD|etc]" are correct. It is unequivocally incorrect to use both symbols. use the first when it's clear in context what kind of dollar is being referred to, otherwise use the second.
I don't know if it's a cult. That's why I hedged my whole comment with "maybe I'm imagining this but...".

It's too early to say whether it works. There's a saying I'm trying to remember, something about 'you can only see the rocks at low tide'. Almost anything will look wonderful in good times, and it's easy to attribute that success to whatever you're doing at the time. It's not until bad times that its flaws become visible.

Zappos was built to its current state on a hierarchical structure. They haven't yet had its decentralized structure tested in any significant way. If Zappos hits a slump in sales for whatever reason, how will the organization respond? Will Holacracy survive a crisis like that? That's where you'll really see if it's a useful system to govern a company.
Fits in with the recent story “I've been working at Mozilla for many years, from peak to decline” (slashdot.org)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11230084

> We keep getting ridiculous thing after ridiculous thing. A lot of people opposed FirefoxOS vs getting back to the roots and attempting to do something about the web. FirefoxOS sounds like a nice concept, but everyone with a bit of a brain knew we had ZERO technical AND market chance.

> Then, when it sounded like we're ok killing that and doing things well again BOOM IoT. Same mistake only even worse!