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Each LED technology has an optimal wavelength. The current tendency is to use blue LEDs and then make white light with phosphors so the development is mostly on the blue LED technologies.

The green problem is caused by the lack of a technology. So you end up with bluish/green coming down from the blue side and yellowish/green when going up from the red side. That prevents really efficient RGB LEDs and makes the inefficient phosphor based white LEDs competitive. If you ever see a RGB LCD backlight you will see that there are more green LEDs than red or blue LEDs.
> Say it were Signal instead of WhatsApp if you must. Is there any effect made by this attack?

This is what's known as a false dichotomy.

Both systems are as implemented not secure from this attack for the reason I just said.
This is way too expensive! Self-hosted GitLab is cheaper and has better uptime!

Not to mention, they should have made you pay only for users with commit rights!
we're in the same situation. I'm looking at at least a tenfold increase. All of a sudden self hosting a gitlab instance looks cost-efficient.
For the vast majority of users the repos use almost zero ressources except for some tiny amount of space - limiting the amount you can have is artificial. Many repositories is no different than facebooks mega repository pattern, but that is allowed, so why not give the customers what they want? If they want a "sustainable model" they'd have to set an upper limit on space and reqs/day.
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They basically use the hosted environment to get a better understanding of how their software runs at scale, so they can improve it.

It's all funded by enterprise licenses.
Funny. I just said the same thing before reading your comment.

Somehow that makes me feel better that at least, I'm on the right path.
>Replicating functioning of the brain, or some major subsystem of it, is no doubt going to require far more than just billions of parameters.

Maybe, but we shouldn't forget that computers do not suddenly lose their capability to function as exact, deterministic, programmable machines just because they happen to run an ANN.

What I mean is that there may be shortcuts to reduce the number of required nodes dramatically.

If you take the state of an ANN after it was trained to perform some specific task, you can ask the question whether there is a simpler function, i.e. one with much fewer parameters, that approximates the learned function.

Sort of like a human with the Occam's razor gene. I think the fact that the number of neurons does not correlate perfectly with intelligence in animals is an indication that there is room for optimization.
Not having a decent mentor. Self taught working as a solo developer. Don't know what I don't know. If I had someone to peer review code or bounce idea's off then I could have progressed a lot faster. If I could start again I would join a development team and learn from developers with a lot more experience.
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Also https://step-3.app.box.com/s/k77k28sy0bdpo2drg2sqrbjhht25k9a...
I am strongly considering moving to gitlab.
That's why providing the keys (or better: being able to supply my own) is essential.
SUN must like the scat names :) I used to use scat tool for debugging core files.
Good point. Also, before having 1 repository was a way to avoid higher bill. Now it'd require to have just 1 user which I doubt anyone will try to do.
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I guess KiCad is a good future proof solution for FOSS PCB design.

KiCad is now used intensively by CERN teams, and backup by them too.
http://www.ohwr.org/projects/cern-kicad/wiki

See the KiCad CERN roadmap (10. is about UI):
http://www.ohwr.org/projects/cern-kicad/wiki/WorkPackages
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that seems to be running the code, i'm interested in something showing assembly. i realize that i can run the commands myself but the gcc explorer is very interactive which i like.
Make "Epic Games" a personal account and add everyone as collabs and it's 7 bucks a month, down from 25?
Looks good, but can you take more time in the asciinema showcase? The typed variables section for example goes so fast that I can barely read the results, never mind get into the process behind it!

I've made a lot of use of the pause button, but it would be great to just be given a little more time to think.
Why use the derogaroty 'too cheap'? Maybe they are just not 'too stupid' to pay more than they have to.
Why does it happen so often that the technically weak languages get picked and become widely used? Why Javascript? Is there something about technical superiority that makes less business value?
But to me this makes sense - one naturally will have more repos than developers, and as it is costly to add a developer to your team, but adding a repo is a command line, then making cost a function of developers seems to align most software teams with githubs incentives.
Slow, sluggish, resource hungry and looks alien everywhere. Yeah right. Progress ... If there is one thing its done is lower standard for native applications everywhere.
Thank you for that link.

I remember reading the "care as in character" thing years ago and just boggling at it -- who on earth makes character start with care? (As a British person, I think the first syllable of character rhymes with cat. There isn't a word that sounds like that but ending in r.) So rather than settle the question for me, it just dug the hole deeper.

Listening to Kernighan, I can just about hear what that remark meant.

(I say char myself, like the fish)
I grew up accustomed to not paying for stuff because 1) it was free 2) I had no money.

Now with the quality of stuff going downway spiral and my dev salary allowing me to pay, I could be potentially paying for quality content if a good, seamless micropayments standard emerged.

I think ideal smooth, frictionless micropayments solution could be integrated on the browser level. It is hard a problem due to UX considerations, fraud (clickjacking) etc. but imagine this:

There's a UI control built-in with the browser that is a button like 'pay 0.05$ for this article' (amount and some payment metadata embedded in the HTML page). The payment method is controlled somehow by the browser. On Android it caould be maybe integrated with Play Store payments, which already allows me e.g. to add a fee to my ISP phone/internet invoice.

For security, the payments would not be instant, but require an interaction with a browser built-in special page that lists to whom you pay how much and make you verify/correct it ('will pay 0.30c to NYT for this and that article and 0.15c to WSJ for that, proceed?'). You will get a notification from browser once in a while.

With such model it is voluntary micropayments though which may not seduce big players though.
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Have been using Github for a community radio station, have been encouraging all staffers to use github accounts to file issues against our private repos, etc. The friendly policies for many collaborators have made this attractive, even though most users have rarely interacted with the repos, if at all.

Now each user for the private repo has a significant cost (pretty significant for a non-profit community radio station); looks like we'll have to rethink this whole Github thing.
Chinese espionage at work... I wonder how many foreign agencies can access my phone: USA, UK, China, Russia, ...
Finally! While as others point out this can work out more expensive the improvement is is that it scales as my company scales and doesn't act as a disincentive to developers spinning up new repos.
Agreed, and I have no inside info at all -- they'll probably fail even, but it seems like there's a gulf between cautious optimism and whatever is going on here. As for the SpaceX comparison, if they do indeed send a mission to Mars in 2018, it will have been 16 years since the company was first founded with Elon's intention to go to Mars and 10 years after they first achieved orbit.. Hard things take time!
We are reaching out to customers that are in unique situations such as the one you're mentioning here. If you have questions about how the pricing changes affect you, please don’t hesitate to contact support@github.com.
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I see absolutely no reason why one would pay GitHub for private repositories when there is Bitbucket, or much better alternative to GitHub altogether - GitLab.
All those private repos and no way to organize them :( Where are the namespaces/projects github?
Your comment sounds like pure marketing. Give us at least some arguments please.
Yup, works for me as well!
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I'm not sure, Bitbucket's price effectively is $1/user and Github's $9/user. I wouldn't expect organisations to move to Bitbucket either, as change is generally costly in terms of man-hour, but current price structure makes Bitbucket eight-fold cheaper.
> He only wants distribution via Google...

Untrue. He only wants distribution through channels that provide the same security assurances and deployment features that Google does through the Play Store. [0][1][2]

He's also quite open to replacing use of GCM with WebSockets or some equivalent tech, but if you don't use GCM, the replacement is likely going to significantly reduce battery life of phones on cell networks. [3][4]

> ...and even went as far to demand that free/libre Play-alternative F-droid removed their build of TextSecure.

That's because -in part- the F-droid project managers had (and -AFAIK, but I haven't checked in quite some time- continues to have) very serious issues in regards to their APK signing key handling procedures.

Signal is GPL'd. Anyone can take the code and do what they like with it, as long as it conforms with the license terms. However, it's very clear that Whisper Systems does not want people distributing Signal-branded builds on app distribution platforms that don't provide Whisper Systems the security guarantees and management tools that they need to get their jobs done.

In short, you're free to distribute custom builds of the Signal-Android, Signal-Desktop, TextSecure-Server, and Signal-iOS projects. However, it'd be nice of you to:

* Stand up an instance of the Signal server software on hardware you control, then point your builds of the Signal client software to your server.

* Rename the software that you're redistributing, make up your own logo, and make it abundantly clear that -while your work is based entirely on Signal's code- you're neither operating with the explicit support of Open Whisper Systems nor are you likely to be providing the same security guarantees that they are.

[0] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/127#...

[1] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/281#...

[2] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/127#...

[3] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/1000...

[4] (see the reply to) https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/127#...
A hypothesis has been put forward (no, not that CO2 has a warming effect: that's physical fact. It's the extent of that that is in question): no mathematical function has been found to fit the observed data. Fact! Conclusion: the situation is much more complex than we currently understand and does not support the horribly destructive policies which are very much in the interests of a clique of politicians and folk with dependent jobs.

You again use the word 'deny'. Bruno Giordano and Galileo would understand that word entirely. Giordano paid the price for that by being burnt alive and Galileo saw discretion as the better part of valour. We can see that the use of the word reveals this is a religious debate.
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>the main problem is the frequent 5 to 30 second pauses while it is doing....something.

Oh god I thought I was alone on this. I've been talking to various Firefox users and nobody was able to relate with me. I usually keep Firefox open 24/7 with around 20-30 tabs open (~6 or so pinned). Every time I am typing (like in a hangout popup window or in a HN comment) Firefox is micro-stuttering and freezing and it eats away some of the words I am typing and it becomes very frustrating. I ended up typing comments in vim and then copypasting because it was faster. It feels like typing in an SSH connection with high-latency.

Also when scrolling long pages (like reddit threads) the "view" takes a while to update so I end up scrolling down to a totally grey page which then updates with content over and over again. And don't make me talk about twitter taking ages and setting my CPU to 100% (one core) with loud as hell fan every time I click on "show 50 new tweets"...

I have 16GB of RAM and a 2-years old top-of-the-line (back then) i7 CPU on a laptop, I shouldn't be having these issues...
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I feel like this leads down a dangerous path of no signal-to-noise ratio and destroys your hope of finding relevant TODOs. Better to, as part of revisiting them, rewrite the comment to explain the de facto behaviour for yourself (and others) in future. If you're not going to do them, anyhow.
Yes, phone numbers are public enough that they are shared everywhere, but unique enough to lead to a single person not to speak of that persons movements. And "just use twilio" isn't a motivation for using phone numbers in the first place.

If he had said "the benefits of finding friends are greater than the privacy implications" or something like that there would at least been a case for a discussion, but now he's seemingly saying "oh, if you really care about privacy you could/should use a fake phone number".
> Please, use the right tool for the right job.

Which part of Electron makes it wrong?
> The "listen" button here pronounces the words with an American accent

I think that feature must be localised -- here it gives me a (female) voice with an English accent, and the two words sound quite different.
Honestly, I think JavaScript was just in the right place at the right time. If you haven't seen ES2016 yet though, it's really worth a look. Electron JavaScript isn't the jQuery crap of the 1990's. It's got destructuring assignment, classes, template strings, let / const, you name it...

https://github.com/lukehoban/es6features
As as webdeveloper, I am now starting to think about desktop applications, where I would have ignored the platform before.

It's not at all about how sexy a technology or framework is. I just think I can do a better job in a framework that's adapted to my skillset, instead of adapting myself to a new framework.
Ok, then that is the reason for the issues you see but you probably already knew.

Edit: removed lots of unnecessary text : )
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But, but... you get to run Facebook binaries on your desktop computer! Comes with a full access to everything, so it must be very exciting for at least one party involved.
The koan in question is Chinese, not Japanese; Japanese allows for the reading of old Chinese with Japanese readings, but Japanese people won't understand it without specific knowledge of how to read Japanized Chinese, so it's in a really weird place in general -- it's definitely not something I'd call a "Japanese word," though.
I keep my eye on Microsoft's Visual Studio Team Services. It has a bit of a clunky name and aimed more at enterprises but I think at some point they will position it as a competitor to GitHub. It's free for the first five developers, and no charge for "stakeholder" user accounts.

https://www.visualstudio.com/pricing/visual-studio-team-serv...

So 29 users would be $182/m (check my maths) and you'd pay nothing for the external collaborators (assuming they fit the "stakeholder" role ... no need access to the code).
As someone above said, they have achieved what Java/Swing set out to do in the 90s.
Why didn't you quote the full sentence:
"Electron has lowered the barrier to developing desktop applications, making it possible for developers to build cross-platform apps using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript"

I don't see anything wrong with that statement, Electron really lowered the barrier of entry by allowing using HTML, CSS and Javascript to build cross platform apps, before you had to learn a new language to make it happen (Swift, QT etc).

> "Please, use the right tool for the right job."

I would rather use a tool that I know and build something functional fast, than spending many months learning new language just to make my app cross platform and losing interest because of that.
Hanlon's razor applies here, but guising backdoors as programming/deployment errors gives plausible deniability.
Yes, they're actively screwing agencies and software houses.

When they introduced the new organization features, I smelled they were heading here, but I honestly thought that the "outside collaborator" concept was meant exactly for not billing this kind of rare users. Guess what, greediness has no limit.
> I might not be properly informed on this issue.

You're not. Here's an okay starting point into the discussion: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/282

Another thing to remember is that (IIRC) -for approximately forever- Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been a Linux distro that's composed almost entirely of Open Source software, but prohibits folks who receive the binaries from redistributing them.
Patents and sometimes books and old magazines. I like guns and I found "weird old gun concepts" book from local library.
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This is Tocqueville applied to open source: “That is why the desire for equality always becomes more insatiable as equality is greater”.

Making Signal open source is not enough; now they want to constrain Moxie in doing something he doesn’t want to do. As predicted by Tocqueville, this is the moment when the desire for equality gets in the way of liberty.
I started my career in a small software company that wrote Mac software (in the System 6.5, System 7 days). We had no dedicated support staff, so support calls were either handled by the sales staff or development. Talking directly to customers, hearing where they were having trouble, and learning what they wanted to do, was probably the single most valuable experience in my career. My first thought with any work became "How can I completely eliminate the possibility that I will end up having to support this?"

Of course, this backfired spectacularly a few years later at a different company, when a customer stopped paying a lucrative support contract because the software always "just works". I have decidedly mixed feelings about that!
Well... they were mostly know for GPL violations and less-than-propper support for everything they claimed (try reading the SoC spec for the A20. If you can find it. Other examples include GPS support, proprietary drivers without support, not releasing sources, etc.).

But apparently they stepped up their game. Even for debugging this is an odd one.
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> too cheap to pay for hosting

That's your view of companies that don't throw money at an over priced service with a history of ignoring customer requests? "too cheap".

I hear that's why Linus first wrote the Linux kernel back in the day - he was too cheap to buy a license for a commercial unix. /s
If you need to give Epic Games special treatment just because they have a huge amount of outside collaborators, then your pricing model is broken.

It would be more fair to charge $9/mo per organization member + $1/mo per active outside collaborator (somewhat similar to AWS CodeCommit) than to charge for every single active and inactive member and collaborator equally. Maybe throw in a 50% bulk discount for active outside collaborators over 1000.

This is not a "unique situation", it's how many organizations use GitHub (just on a smaller scale than Epic Games). As giovannibajo1 puts it[1], this change is very unfair to software houses. Giving Epic Games special treatment is only avoiding the issue.

If 5% of Epic Game's 90664 collaborators are active for a given month, then with my proposed pricing model it would now cost them ($9/organization member + ~$2766)/mo, instead of >$800k/mo. No special deals needed, and everyone (presumably) is happy.

This proposed pricing model also scales well for software houses that have have many active outside collaborators. For example, a company with 20 employees and 50% of 100 outside collaborators active in any given month would be charged $230/mo. With 50 employees and 50% of 500 outside collaborators active, it would be $700/mo.

This should also work well for large companies. 200 employees + 30% of 4000 outside contributors active = $2900/mo.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11673352
What made our small team choose BitBucket over GitHub was the consideration that having to pay for # repositories would force us (and about everyone) to organise code not based on development convenience, but on $ convenience, which means put everything in a few very big and messy repositories.
I think it's easy to argue about tools, but take a look at popular desktop apps these days: Slack, Atom, VSCode, Spotify, WhatsApp Desktop... they're all built on Electron or the Chromium Embedded Framework. It seems the community has spoken, and no longer considers Java / Qt the right tool for many jobs.
So what you're saying is - you know your new pricing is even more ridiculous than your old pricing, but you're willing to burn a little profit to keep big-name clients for the sake of PR.

Gotcha.
Just like websites. They'll never succeed. /s
France has free chopper rescues from, well anywhere, no questions asked (the line between uninformed decision and negligence can be pretty blurry especially if a lot of cash/criminal charges are floating around).

There are cases of inexperienced climbers (one I know from Poland) where reluctance to call chopper in critical situation due to worries of costs (plus losing the face) cost 3 young guys lives. Too many like these.

Chopper rescues in alps are in almost daily order (especially in winter in places like Vallee Blanche, best and longest of-piste in Europe). A friend of mine was rescued like this in Calanques next to Marseille after she broke her feet after climbing accident. Chopper was called due to inaccessible terrain, and she had a cool ride hanging from chopper by harness over Mediterranean sea.
it's better to have a slow app out for users than having no app at all.
Octopuses are so cool.

Because of their use of tools etc it helps us relate to them in a special way. They also help us realise we're not the only cool and capable creatures on earth. I love that about them.

Then you read about stuff like this! So cool.

Hail Octopuses!
If so, it was hidden in plain sight. Using /proc is not something that won't show up over a very short period of time. Especially if you call it sunxi_debug which will at least trigger my interest as an embedded developer.
This appears to be it:

https://www.ptsecurity.ru/upload/ptcom/SS7_WP_A4.ENG.0036.01...
> I'm getting downvotes and don't understand why. I'm seriously interested, can someone explain the reason?

Probably because your comment is of the form "Well, here's a ridiculously unlikely (as well as patently ridiculous) thing that I'm going to use as a counter to your argument."

Preemptive downvoter shield attempt: I'm deliberately taking a very uncharitable view of sandebert's comment in order to answer his question.
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> char: /keir/, /char/, /kar/, n.
The post says this about personal accounts: you can even invite a few collaborators. I can't find the exact definition of "a few", but I imagine it's less than 90657.