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> Step 1: Copy github, but with features people want.

I hope you are not suggesting they implement a new Git hosting product, because that would be an extreme waste of time/money. Implementing the hosting logic/UI would probably chew up a year or two of development time. I don't know how long sourcegraph has been in development but this is what they are doing.

The smart thing to do in my mind is just build on top of Gogs/GitLab/Bitbucket/GitHub. You may want to focus mainly on Gogs/GitLab/Bitbucket instead though. And the reason why I say this is because I think the vast majority of GitHub/GitHub Enterprise customers are script related shops that develop in JavaScript, Ruby, etc.

> Step 3: Market place where people can hire programmers on demand to work on their project.

Unless you can draw an audience (millions of users) like GitHub/Stackoverflow, I wouldn't even ponder this. What I really think is a smart play is

https://www.starfighters.io/

which doesn't require millions of eyeballs. They just need to continually attract really bright university kids/seasoned programmers for this to be viable. This is definitely not monster.com, but if it works out, they are looking at a very comfortable lifestyle business.
If it's stolen and the museum decides to be public about it (again, if it's stolen), we would know. Math allows us to know this.
The issue with in-person customer interviews done by the founders themselves is that VERY few people will be honest enough with the founders to tell them their idea sucks.

While there is obviously value in in-person interactions, I would strongly recommend balancing it with some online interactions as well. People tend to be MUCH more honest about your idea if they know there is distance and a level of anonymity between you and them (see also: Show HN :-)

(Source: Worked in market research industry doing customer interviews and qualitative research for almost 15 years)
> reduction of power, well-being, and happiness

I love you, but this is not quite right. The goal is to addict the stakeholders to participation and then reduce their support as low as possible. Power, well-being, and happiness of stakeholders are parceled out in order to maximize addiction while minimizing resources spent.
The framework was not an independently monetized piece of work for Microsoft. One the .Net / J2EE battles were settled, there was no need to keep it closed source.
In the 80s you could argue that there was a mainstream OS choice in Apple vs DOS. Even so, outside of desktop publishing (remember that term?) Apple had little place. I was fairly unique with my Mac Plus when it came out (and proud of my 1Meg of RAM!). Nevertheless, all official biz correspondence has to be retyped in WordPerfect on the IBM machine.

In the 90s, aside from some niche use (artists and home) the Mac was done. I finally switched with Win 95. The only software that was (as far as I could tell) completely compatible between Apple and Win was Mathematica. By that I mean that if I wanted to collaborate electronically (with non-technical folks) I pretty much needed a Win system. So I got one.

And while I'm a huge fan of free s/w I still have to use office to collaborate with people who don't have strong tech skills and perhsps aren't too clever. Ever try to co-write a presentation or doc with someone using Win Office when you are using Libre Office? They just can't seem to keep themselves from formatting and it screws everything up.

So some prices have trended to zero, but there is a large discontinuity in the product set. Office 2003 has all the features I need, and I suspect that's true for most of us. So we are being coerced to upgrade by different means- the latest push is to rent the software so it can be continuously updatable. For all these things I don't need. And we are stuck in a tragedy of the commons situation: If I refuse to play along, I can't collaborate.
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GNU software is not necessarily free of cost. You can charge whatever you want for software under the GPL. So can anyone else who has a copy of it. In fact RMS himself made a living off of selling Emacs for many years.

The fact that you can't restrict redistribution means that it is is hard to keep the price high after you have distributed it once. It will tend to zero [0]. The consequence of that is that you have to charge for new work rather than copies of old work. Many people now make a good living doing that, though relatively few companies have figured out how to build a business model around it.

The reason competitors and innovation are not stifled in this model is that there is a market for new work. Organizations are willing to pay for new functionality -- or even new solutions altogether. You can see the kind of benefit that a company can get from developing free software when you see companies like Facebook being able to recruit new staff that are already trained in their internal tools (React).

Whether or not you could replicate this kind of success in another field is questionable. People are willing to pay for "upgrades" for free to play games. Are there people willing to pay to be the first to read the next chapter of the Harry Potter series, even if they could read it for free a week later? I suspect so, but I doubt you would maximise profits this way.

[0] I know of a few obscure GPLed products that are able to sell their source code because nobody is motivated to distribute it for free. It's rare, but it happens.
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I understood that price fixing could be prosecuted as a criminal matter, but I'm not sure what happened in this case, and whether a single case could result in both civil and criminal penalties.

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...

"The penalties for violating the Sherman Act can be severe. Although most enforcement actions are civil, the Sherman Act is also a criminal law, and individuals and businesses that violate it may be prosecuted by the Department of Justice. Criminal prosecutions are typically limited to intentional and clear violations such as when competitors fix prices or rig bids. The Sherman Act imposes criminal penalties of up to $100 million for a corporation and $1 million for an individual, along with up to 10 years in prison."
If race is just a description of a person, why does it matter that there only 36 blacks and 73 hispanics at Facebook?

Employment should be based on merit, not race. To say otherwise is........ racist.
You probably want to read the original case material before conjectring any further, which quotes extensively from emails at the highest levels of Apple and participating publishers.

Start with the opening presentation:

https://www.justice.gov/atr/case-document/file/486701/downlo...
There was an interesting Economist article [0] a few years back that suggested a better option might be "penalties that offset the benefits of crime" rather than ones that try to arbitrarily 'punish' the offender. You'd see much larger fines, but they wouldn't be so large as to cause additional, unexpected consequences. The tricky part is improving detection rates, which increases the risk of the action even setting aside the question of fine size.

Compared to cartel price-fixing, Verizon's UIDH insertion is actually much easier to detect. In fact, anyone can do so just by looking at their access logs. I think that, more than fine size, will be the primary reason that they won't try this again. That's not to say they won't play other games, however.

Anyhow, if you really want to change a particular behavior, class action suits offer a much more attractive option where they're possible. They don't really benefit the class members financially (they're not supposed to), but they are one hell of a big stick. And historically, a very effective one at that. Even when companies prevail, they tend to take notice and often change the behavior in question.

0. http://www.economist.com/node/21559315
Just in case anyone else got stuck in same matter, I got a reply here https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-go/issues/165#issuecomme....
A good guess using non-technical means would be $15-18M a year. I based this on the assumption that a customer doing less than $1M a month really isn't worth mentioning in the news or noteworthy. Also, Spotify did $1.2B last year.

P.S. Howdy David!
The 'fucking pleb' statement wasn't bad because of swearing it was for calling him a 'pleb'. For those that don't know, it's a derogatory term used by the upper class for the working class.

Also it turns out that the police officer lied about the whole thing.
A better analogy would be that it's the same way that building a glider got us closer to an A380.
As I understand it, the core problem is that when Apple price-matches, the 70/30 split between the publisher and Apple doesn't change. If the other retailer (e.g. Amazon) has the freedom to set their prices via the wholesale model, the publisher will start making less money in the iBookstore (and any other "agency MFN" retailers, which eventually included Nook as a willing participant) on any book that retailer chooses to discount, even though the publisher has no control over that price. To avoid this problem, each publisher has to switch all of their retailers to the agency model - giving up the extra money they make when a wholesale retailer charges their customer a discounted price but pays the publisher the full wholesale price in return for greater control over the prices the final customers pay.
I think this is strongly tied to the current fad have having every micro-library be "dependency free". I don't fully understand the appeal.

"Here's my tool that is superior because it has no dependencies. Will you make it your next dependency?"

I understand the appeal when you have a very small set of problems and ultimate flexibility, but this always ends up in a lot of duplication of effort and code (how many libraries have a denounce method, or other general utility method?)

Maybe to rephrase, I understand the benefits, I guess I just don't understand the persistence of the fad in the face all of the drawbacks.
Not just any Dev mindshare, but that mindshare that translates into hard dollars (monetized through some other means like Azure).
I'm curious: when would it make sense to use deblocus instead of Shadowsocks?
Thought it stood for Independent Contractor at first. Didn't think Google hired those.
If the studies were reversed I think my opinion would be the same. We don't know that much about ego depletion. If it exists or what's driving it.

I think it means ego depletion is much more fragile than we thought or is caused by some other phenomenon. I don't think this study means the thing we called ego depletion doesn't exist and is an artifact of publication bias and chance. It seems to me like there were just too many studies replicating it for that to be true.
A lot of threads here are focused on the miniscule fine, but the larger impact is that this is another case study that can be used in the next net neutrality debate. Verizon is giving evidence to the argument that they can't be trusted with network communications, evidence that will surely come back to bite them in the future.
Isn't the big allure of ETFs that you buy and hold for long time periods betting on the market rather than individual stocks and prices?
That makes sense. Thanks. Do you see anything saying they're doing this?
I know it was a honest mistake, but I would hate myself if I ignored an email from Don Knuth
> The only "reason" why temporary price dumping is bad, is if it is being done for the purpose of raising the price in the future.

> Amazon wins by having prices as low as possible, and beating everyone else at the cost cutting game.

Amazon wins by dumping, making it very unattractive and then keeping prices low/stabile but using its bargaining power and unchallenged distriubution network to negotiate lower prices than competitorsm, thus it does higher volume, pays less and controls distribution. This is not good for competition, because there is little keeping them in check.

So I think those ideas are "somewhat" at odds.

Price dumping is often embargoed (thou difficult to detect) because short term it is good for the consumer, but bad for the competition. The idea is that you gain control and then you can use that to either keep market share or to raise prices.

largely, dumping is unpredictable. It can backfire, thus great for the market, a competitor goes down and subsidizes many consumers with goods. Or it can buy repreive, in that short term they recover the losses but competitionb moves in, or they can get in at the beginning of a trend and prevent others from getting in.

China did this with solar panels for a while and effectively subsidized solar for the world. It is "good" for someone most of the time, it is usually unclear who.

In a scenario where the person dumping also owns most of the distribution of goods and the infrastructure running most applications, local delivery networks, and content distribution networks like streasming video, music and devices to consume biooks and other media, it isn't great. This goes for apple and amazon.
Here's how I console myself: if those old obstinate fools are actually poor leaders, they will make worse decisions as a result, and thus not be as effective at marginalizing error as they should be, so they will be unable to avoid the unforeseen things that will get them killed.
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It's for the same reason MSPs were a thing in the 90s. People simply don't want to screw with machines or the people who run them. Given Spotify's use case isn't that security sensitive, it makes perfect sense to let someone else worry about keeping your machines up.

In short, it's insurance.
Quantum cryptography is still applied in some places. Switzerland is using quantum crypto below lake Geneva using optic fiber. Recently, China announced a quantum crypto satellite program.
I like to tell interviewees that I'm an intern.
> Looking at the last month's Google Analytics

Which means you're ignoring the people that either block GA specifically or don't run javascript.

> how could you even possibly keep track of what system fonts they all have available?

You don't. That's why you design for em/ex/rem units, or use designs that don't care.

> are actually of better quality than most system fonts as well

That's personal opinion.

> but you get the same font everywhere

No, you don't. For example, I have a long list of entries like this in my ~/.fonts.conf

<match target="pattern" >
<test name="family" qual="any">
<string>Helvetica Neue</string>
</test>
<edit name="family" mode="assign_replace">
<string>Ubuntu</string>
</edit>
</match>

You also don't know if the CSS or webfont actually loaded - you shouldn't ignore network errors.
The value of the ETFs closely follow the value of the indices or securities that the fund was designed to track. It is therefore very important for the two securities to be as synchronized as possible, which is where (some forms of) HFT comes in.
Funding isn't really a barrier to that solution. In fact, it's part of the problem. Besides, I'd wager that most people who do great work don't make as much as they are worth, and so progress is the work of passionate partial-volunteers.
Amazon moved to an agency model for ebooks (where the publisher sets the price, and Amazon gets 30%) a few years back for this exact reason. So I think the answer to that is no. Amazon cannot sell an ebook at a loss because it doesn't set the price.
I should do a veggie dive at a local market here in southwest China and show you guys what you are missing variety wise. There are so many awesome ingredients here it's ridiculous! All the stuff everyone else has mentioned plus seaweed, ferns, rhizomes, various gingers, dried and fresh persimmons, pomegranate, Buddha's hand, fresh spices you can have ground on the spot, loads of tofus, many different types of eggs, greens and melons you've never seen, huge amounts of fresh nuts, adzuki beans (wild here for 1000s of years), marijuana seeds (wild here also), dozens of types of fresh rice and wheat-based noodles, at least a handful of types of mushrooms year-round and tens more in wild 'shroom season, fresh bamboo shoots, various bean pastes and sauces, etc. Mmm. Hungry. Must go eat.
"To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers." -Paul Klee
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It's a weird coincidence that I just began listening to a podcast he is regularly featured on, Hidden Brains from NPR. I wonder if he'll talk about these events at all. It could be a dark time for him.
I am also interested in knowing. Anyone working at Goog/FB can comment ?
MS SQL has the best GUI for administration of any database I've used, if that sort of thing is important to you. Hands down better than anything I've seen for a free database or even Oracle. In that sense you do get what you pay for. I'm not sure how they'd bring that to Linux other than maybe with Wine or other emulation layer.
Don't hold your breath. The EULA for SQL Server prohibits publishing benchmark results.

It's not completely self-serving. Back when magazines were made of paper, "DBMS Faceoff!" articles sold a lot of copy, and generated more heat than light. A DBMS is a complex beast, enough so that it's impossible to say if X is faster than Y for all workloads.
"The behaviour and methodology of researchers" is exactly that thing that will lead to the truths you seek. You're basically saying a bridge-builder needn't waste any time worrying about the engineering of boats.
> Jobs wanted to launch iBooks right now and was willing to cut corners to get what he wanted.

We should be precise here. Jobs preferred to cut legal corners with respect to the antitrust laws instead of cutting financial corners by directly competing with Amazon on price.

To me, this is exactly the sort of choice the legal system should punish, even if Jobs had been right about the merits of his hypothetical antitrust complaint against Amazon (which he almost certainly wasn't - Amazon has testified that the Kindle store was a sustainable business on its own, i.e. that the headline new bestseller discounts were more than covered by profits on backlist titles). The antitrust laws, like other laws, shouldn't have exceptions for "justified" vigilantes. That way lies chaos.
SFLC seem to think CDDL/GPL are ok:

https://softwarefreedom.org/resources/2016/linux-kernel-cddl...

Perhaps you are confusing them with SFC:

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/feb/25/zfs-and-linux/
I'm curious: How are the taxes between an S Corp and a single-person LLC any different? In both cases the income passes through to the owners, right?
Quantum crypto is a large field. One aspect is Quantum Key Distribution (QKD). It opened the door to the whole field of quantum computing (it was discovered before Shor's algorithm).

QKD allows you to distribute a one-time pad while only sharing an authentification key. It is (on paper, if you don't count experimental flaws) theoretically-secure, meaning you can't break it or man-in-the-middle attack it even if you have infinite computational power (with 1-epsilon probability, epsilon being as close to 0 as we decide). In practice, most QKD systems can be hacked through hardware flaws.
OP: this is really neat, but i'm curious - what was your motivation for creating something so similar to autolayout's first party visual format language?

https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta...
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If a single point of failure took down your entire network, then your solution wasn't engineered properly. Just because on provider messed up big time doesn't mean every other provider would. The hardwdare design/architecture can also be provided to you for free as part of the sales process, no extra service required.

As for hardware failures in general, you can afford to have some complete extra servers on hand doing nothing most of the time with the amount of money you'd save on renting bare metal instead of paying for cloud. Or if engineered properly, you'd be using all the machines at once but be able to afford to lose half of them, and failover automatically.

Yes, a cloud (bunch of VMs on a cluster) is going to be more reliable than a single machine, as you get hardware redundancy. But a cluster of machines with hardware redundancy is going to be much more reliable than a bunch of VMs on a cluster, as there's less complexity involved without the cloud stack, and thus fewer points of failure.
Here is the obligatory admiral ackbar link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F4qzPbcFiA

With that out of the way, I wonder if they will port their other software like Mcrosoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Office, various games, etcetera.
That was interesting and mirrors my own feelings/thoughts, thanks for sharing.
You think your computer might be compromised but you still trust your binaries and OS to operate as intended?
> How would you keep people from self-segregating[?]

I probably wouldn't. I'm not sure what to do about this except to avoid policies that force people to do so, or create incentives for coercion, if there are any policies of that kind left; e.g. redlining, de-facto segregation of public housing[1].

Maybe we could start with structural reform (that improves social mobility) in areas where the government has already intervened on behalf of powerful incumbents.

Here are a few examples that come to mind:

--”Right to work” laws. These arguably forbid private parties from making mutually agreeable concessions[2].

--Anti Whistle-blower laws. Texas passed a bill criminalizing the photographing of private land[3] after a drone operator photographed a meat packing plant dumping waste into the trinity river[4].

--Protectionist mandates of various kinds[5].

--State Civil Asset Forfeiture laws[6] create bad incentives for the police.

Thanks for the link, I didn't know about that and it's very interesting.

[1]http://prospect.org/article/public-housing-government-sponso...

[2] https://texasattorneygeneral.gov/agency/right-to-work-laws-i...

[3] http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/05/texas-lawmakers-give-fi...

[4] http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-02/privacy-and...

[5] http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/31/8694673/tesla-loses-fight-...

[6] http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/the-takeaway-texas-lax-ci...

Edit: How did I offend?
1 and 3 are really the same thing. If the complaint is that the frequentist test can't tell you anything if the assumed distribution wasn't the right one (which is what's happening if you would have done something different), consider the bayesian case. There one might argue you at least still have the probability of each hypothesis given the data. But that forgets that it is only the probability of each hypothesis given the data, given that those were the only possible hypotheses. And if you admit the possibility of their being other possible hypotheses, then these probabilities don't really tell you anything either.

Anyway, not sure if we're on the same page, but thanks for the discussion.
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Yep A sad example of this is the Making a Murderer show. Look at how screwed up the US judicial system is. Pretty sad when you read the offical case and then watch the show