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I'll try to answer your baiting questions.

> Also, if it is completely OK for hardware design to be proprietary, why should it not be OK for software?

Personally I also have an issue with hardware designs being proprietary, but because we still have issues with software I prefer to spend my energy on the issue we've had better traction on.

> What is so special about it?

The big difference between hardware and software is that software can be in principle changed, modified and updated by the end user without too much hassle. Hardware cannot be practically modified (have you ever tried to modify a chip?). And hardware designs are useless to most users, because they'd need to have someone fab the components for them. However, every user has someone they know who knows how to program, and thus they can practically take advantage of the freedoms that they ought to have a right to.

> If you want to use Debian, for instance, you are pretty much forced to use "non-free" repositories (or a "non-free" Debian re-distribution) for your setup to be useful.

This is simply untrue. I use openSUSE Tumbleweed and have no issues with the proprietary repositories removed. I cannot comment on Debian, but I know a few people who use Debian without the universe repositories enabled. What precisely is "forcing" you to use non-free software? Maybe you should reconsider who you're blaming for that, and maybe try removing that proprietary garbage from your life.
It's been a few years that Terry Gilliam's Brazil movie got upgraded to 'mostly documentary' status. At the time, 1985, it seemed only a dark comedy / cautionary tale.

(Well, the caution against ugly tech seems to have worked. Architecture and policing, not so much.)
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The biggest brands don't have strategies like that, no none really do. Instead their advertising companies do, but none of those come up with advertising strategies like that.

In most cases the reality is this:

Some insight is used as the base for a new campaign (we found out that 20 out of 30 do x because of y) some times it's the brands themselves, or some new product is coming out and the brand needs to make customers aware of it, other times it's the agencies (for instance the planners) who pitch it to the brands.

Then that insight is presented to the creative team which then try to find a way to interpret it into som basic creative structure which is flexible enough to be used in different media and still specific enough to hold it all together.

Then that is presented back to the brands and if they like it, the team starts working on implementing it across the different media.

Sure there is theory, sure just like with identity work you can explain it theoretically like this. But in most cases the explanation is applied after the creation.

This is because you wont really come up with something unique (which is most creative companies primary aim) by simply following som rational process. There is always that last mile which is 100% based on intuition and experience.

I used to work at DDB.
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Then step up your disruption?
Property rights. The "free software" principle proclaims that software (possibly, among other things) should be "freed" from the possibility of being anyone's private property. (This also somehow gets mixed with this odd idea that software should be considered a form of "free speech".)
I wish Windows came with Firefox installed as the default browser as well and without Edge but I don't think it will happen. I believe if you build and deploy a platform you have the right to make your products the default as long as you don't block the freedom to change.
Yes! Pink has been shown to reduce aggression. I wonder if a referendum to make all law enforcement uniforms pink would be popular.
I agree. I was glad Lie to Me got cancelled.
>MS has focussed on using their desktop OS to collect data

If by "collect data" you mean the OS telemetry that's used to detect and report bugs, that's right. Thurott even mentions the telemetry in the article.

If you turned off Windows telemetry, MS has no way of knowing about any bugs you encountered. Those who don't vote, don't get to complain about the consequences of not voting.
It's strange that the Port of Oakland was the driver behind this. Port surveillance for a container port is completely different from policing a city. Nobody lives at the port. Only authorized people, and not that many of them, are supposed to be there. Surveillance is mostly about containers, not people.

There's something missing in this story.
Not a bad price for 802.11ac, 8GB RAM, an SSD, and a higher-end AMD APU. Considering that it's all that and only draws 4.5W, I'm very impressed.

Does anybody have any experience with the Mintbox Mini? Is it easy to upgrade, both in terms of hardware and software?
The point of the free software movement is not quality, it's user freedom. Would you prefer having an electronic heart implant that is proprietary and is "totally safe trust me", or is free software but isn't the best thing in the world to interface with. I know which I'd pick, and the same logic applies to everything else I rely on in my daily life.
And how many members of that family will EVER call the police to report anything short of a murder - if that - out of concern of being charged with it because they were convenient?

I'll throw in a relevant quote from this week's Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel article about the 20% decline in 911 calls over the year following news of a beating by off-duty officers: (http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/investigations/2016/09/29...)

"In the Jude study, researchers found data suggesting people withdraw from the system after an incident of police violence. Papachristos said the study shows that police violence and other misconduct hurts officers' ability to work with communities and may result in a deepening of so-called "legal cynicism" — the idea that police are either unable or unwilling to help — within communities. That dynamic can perpetuate crime and distrust."

The Harvard study in question: "Police Violence and Citizen Crime Reporting in the Black Community" https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3114813-Jude-911-Cal...

edit: rearranging URLs
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There are projects on Github collecting learning resources in Markdown documents. You can look at the number of stars and/or commit frequency to decide if it's a good resouce.

https://github.com/search?o=desc&q=learning+resources&ref=se...
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Infinitely more fun than this article is the taxonomy of time travel plots at SF Chronophysics. The whole site is worth a look around:

http://jbr.me.uk/chrono.html
Re your side note: That's how police forces almost everywhere in Europe are trained.
Try this synchronized sound version, which shifted the entire audio stream. (The one you linked to appeared to only start sync'd audio at the exact explosion moment.)

https://youtu.be/maRTEzlSBLk?t=1m8s

You can hear a distinct and odd metallic noise just before the explosion.
Zero knowledge proofs? Multiparty computation? These are the staples of theoretical crypto.
LOL. Just LOL.
I hate to be negative. But look at author. Look at his pictures.
He's got no clue what it really takes or what he is taking about.
Not bad advice, but not great.
I've spent 20 years building my physique (http://YouTube.com/simpleprogrammer) and I can tell you that no one has it "figured out."
I have learned one thing for sure though. Never trust someone who doesn't look much better than you do.
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on your first day at the gym, do the exersises without any weigt on, then on second day do them with half the weigt, or you will be so sore you dont want to go back. Your body will adapt quickly thoug, after ten sessions it will start to feel nice.
True. Now in Europe there's police going around with useless combat weapons, in case they need to shoot some poor electrical repair worker by mistake.
I don't think that your claim has been tested in court when it comes to code. This might be true for some kind of music or something, but I find it hard to believe that a court would agree that two people who have never met and have only communicated over the internet would have formed an implict contract allowing relicensing of a work several orders of magnitude larger than the contribution of the relicenser.

It's like claiming that someone shouting outside of a recording studio has the right to relicense the music created inside the recording studio. While it might be true, I'd want to see an actual legal case before claiming things that are that outlandish.

Not to mention that the GPL has been tested in court and has held. So there's that.
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Really? I've been trying Rider, and do prefer it to the alternatives, but it's still very unstable, and a lot of stuff is missing.
I too have been following Justin for a few months. Love the startup takeovers of his account. Justin if you're reading this please do more of them.

Also highly recommend following Mark Suster.
Yes, that sound is clearly audible in this better version with synchronized audio https://youtu.be/maRTEzlSBLk?t=1m8s
More social signaling than humor, I tend to think.
I love Robinhood. The idea of trading on credit gives me the heebie jeebies though.
I don't know... look at the bug report and the fix [1]. This does look like a bug in WiredTiger. It preallocates all of its cache, so it doesn't look like raw capacity problems. It looks like the internal MongoD issues pushed the problems downstream to the individual MongoS instances.

Comment from the author:

> We looked for an OOM in our logs but couldn't find it. Also, the log lines are from mongos nodes. Data nodes continues to run with severly reduced throughput.

[1] https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/WT-2924
> You have to build the habit of working out from now on for the rest of your life if you want the results to stay.

This. It's a lifestyle. There are no shortcuts or miracle plans. Just do it for fun and for the overall health benefits. The muscle will come as a nice side benefit.

> Although I've always been a "geek" I am into sports since high school

I've been also working out for 18 years now. It's odd that society still has this stereotype that the geek types don't do sports.

Funny anecdote: one of my best friends and training partner is an ex-professional olympic weightlifter (national team of my country). He's also very geeky and now that his elite sports life has ended is trying to launch web and mobile projects. Recently I have convinced him to start learning programming...
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No company that values its patents and will defend them in court, period.

(Because the way you phrased it implies this only holds for patent trolls).
Ok, let's say that those are. What's an important paper in either, so we can look at it more closely?
ULA has a 100% success rate. http://www.space.com/30738-united-launch-alliance-100th-rock...

Why does spacex have occasional failures? Do they run their experiments with customers cargos?

Note: I know nothing of the space industry.
People throw around the phrase "cognitive dissonance" lot, too loosely probably. But BSD folks who constantly tout the virtues of their license for the things that it allows downstream developers to do and then complain when someone actually exercises those options are the single best real world example of cognitive dissonance that I've ever encountered.
I don't know anything about fluid dynamics but I know something about shooting and being shot at. I agree with your comment. I would only add that rifle fire sound can be somewhat directional and depending on the temp, density, humidity, height above ground, and reflectivity of the ground much of the impulse can be dissipated or distorted.

Surely sensors would have picked up the impact a .50 makes. Although I don't know why one would need a .50. It's a heavy round with lots of drop and it's not like the rocket is armored. From what I've read of the relative fragility of rockets you could get by with a very small round in just the right spot.
Of course they are strong, but they are different sports. A powerlifter would never "cut" before a competition, for example. A bodybuilder doesn't just want to be big, he or she is after a very specific, balanced physique. A powerlifter wants to be strong in the 3 big lifts and doesn't care about any ratios, etc etc.
> Two subjects, one eats grass, one eats meat. Who grows more?

Once again it depends on the hormonal background. I only eat raw fruits and vegetables. I assure you that I have plenty of muscle, endurance and strength. All of these were built on this diet.

> Two subjects, one trains, one doesn't train. Who grows more?

All things held equal and constant, the one who trains. You are missing my point. If hormones are there, you will literally build muscles from raising a coffee cup a few times.

> Two subjects, one is hormonally-responsive, one isn't. Who grows more?

This misses the point. We are no discussing how to get hormones to change from one state to another. We are discussing two different stationary hormonal backgrounds.

> Two subjects, one is 8, one is 88. Who grows more?

Once again, hormonal background. 8 year old will not grow muscle. He will have more growth hormone, but not testosterone. The former is responsible for growth but in a different sense which is akin to restoration.

> Two subjects, one is tall, the other is short. Who grows more?

Completely irrelevant.
I partially agree here, but want to throw in the configuration aspect. In order for any database to be optimized of all workloads, it either has to adapt with minimal impact (something I haven't seen successfully implemented yet, but may only be a matter of time), or it has to be told how to behave (in other words, it has to be configured properly).

One of the things I like about the original MongoDB approach is that very little configuration was required to tune the database; instead you just configure the OS so the FS cache and scheduling best matches your workload. At first glance this may seem lazy, but kernel engineers have been solving this problem pretty well for years. Also, misconfiguring one or both systems results in a lot of confusion of the end-user; they must understand internals of an OS and DB, and make sure they don't conclict.

Implementing proper scheduling (not just IO, but CPU) isn't so much difficult as it is ensuring your end-users have the right tools to understand how configuring an application impacts performance vs. a kernel configuration. For example, conflicting trade-offs between the OS FS cache size and the DB's buffer cache size could easily result in a system using less than half of the available ram for useful purposes.

Anyway, I think your assessment is mostly spot on, except the part about closer source engines. I'm also not sure I totally agree with Postgres being much better than other database systems by default, but I do think it's a solid piece of software that does a good job with configuration values.

I've worked on 3 database systems in my career. One was closed source, and it was my least favorite. But that had more to do with the design decision to run in the JVM, which adds a 3rd level of configuration complexity...

Anyway, just my $0.02.
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Robinhood is great. I'm hoping they will go forward with a public API, and perhaps allow options trading soon.
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The proprietary "forks" are often not distributed as source, they're either internal forks, or simply part of a larger product. The difference is that proprietary forks of permissive code is often kept in sync with upstream and you only ever learn of its existence when they decide to contribute back patches. They typically have the courtesy of making those available under the original license terms for everyone to benefit from.
I think your post demonstrates my point. My user experience on the Mac has not been improved by a file system that hasn't been released yet. It hasn't been improved by developer APIs or obscure accessibility features I don't have a use for.

Perhaps I'm in the minority and the vast majority of Mac users are having a better experience today because they use those developer APIs and write CSS that needs obscure colors and use that unreleased file system daily, but I don't think that's the case.
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> Does this company have any 'official' relation to Paxos, the consensus protocol? This sounds like an incredibly unfortunate and potentially misleading name.

"Then they join the proud list of all the other poorly named companies in the bitcoin ecosystem including the likes of coinbase, blockchain, consensys, chain, decentral, 21, asicminer, ledger, bitcoin.com, and elliptic." - some other comment, i don't remember the source
you are so f'ing dumb it needs to be pointed out to you.

the commenter despises people who think differently than them, they cannot stand to be even living near them (49% of the population). Yet the same people criticize those who discriminate against others.

I merely questioned on whether they could even see the folly in their thinking, and YOUR RESPONSE WAS THAT KIND OF THINKING DOESN'T BELONG HERE. and you cant even recognize that.

WTF is wrong with you?
Yeah, I imagine it's unsafe because "git pull" implicitly creates a merge commit when it can't otherwise update, and your remote URL might now be pointing at a different history. Maybe github.com/someproject/somecode got replaced by a clean rewrite and you're actually looking for someproject/somecode-old. Maybe you were pointing at an unofficial git-svn import and now there's an official git migration. And so forth.

(Personally, I think the right way to address this is for "git pull" not to implicitly create merge commits...)
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Free software still maintains copyright, if that's what your referring to. However, you're mixing (as is common these days) property rights and other rights (such as copyright). Specifically, you probably intended to use the confusing term "intellectual property".

Software is not a physical thing, so it's not clear who is the "owner" of the work. If you buy a book, you are the owner of the book but are not the copyright holder. In a similar fashion, if you buy (or download) some software, you are the owner of the software but are not the copyright holder. So free software does not proclaim that ownership is evil, it just states that all users should have rights that people have had throughout history when it comes to similar intstructional works such as recipies.

Also the idea that software is a form of "free speech" does not come from the free software movement. I think you're getting confused, and would recommend reading the GNU website[1] to better understand precisely what free software refers to.

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
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That would be nice, but I don’t see how it would end well.

Their value is based on the intrinsic scarcity of homes in desirable locations. For existing land owners, either they sell out to developers and allow the land to realize its economic value, or they keep the land the same and eventually the bubble subsides. For various reasons, they tend to fight to keep the existing neighborhood character, which restricts the growth of the economy.

So, when the bubble collapses, the homes will be worth less. This will suck for people who bought a $40,000 home, that went up to $1,000,000 and then back down to something still more than $40,000. It will suck a lot for people who bought it at $1,000,000 and will lose all their home equity.

I think the proper solution would be to evolve the neighborhood over time, as the economy changes. The problem with that is you would have to start 60 years ago. As it is, we have small areas of market activity, and large areas of externally ossified neighborhoods that are internally gentrifying because the stuff on top of the land is not allowed to adapt to the economy.
It's not a meaningful category. They are all mobile phones, or smartphones if need be to distinguish there.

Which practices a monopolistic company can do, but is not allowed to, is written clearly in the article: Forcing/Paying other companies to pre-install its proprietary apps. A non-monopolistic company is allowed to do that.
A fine is given and then the company can respond by going to court.

It works like traffic law, you receive a fine and if you disagree then you can go to court.
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> I hear birds chirping. No rifles.

There's a very audible boom-like sound at 0:06.
>You act as if people should prioritize downloading security updates over actually being able to reliably use their computer.

That's because they quite obviously should. An unsecured machine quickly becomes part of a botnet for spamming or DDoS attacks and is, in legal terms, a nuisance; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuisance.

Neither the infrastructure nor law has quite caught up to penalize individuals for this yet but I wouldn't be surprised to it happen within the next few decades as legislators finally catch up with technology.
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So when exactly can we UK people use Robinhood?
OpenBSD team made that? You got a link?
your whole platform of logic is censor, silence, and segregate those who disagree with you, and you condemn those who you think do the same.
We're in agreement. I'm just offering another way to prevent the SIGTERMs, regardless of the cause of the slowdown.
Maybe it's just that I don't do much UI design stuff but it's perfect for what I do. I've made a few console applications with it and it's been great for all of that.
Think of it as acquiring technical debt. Can help you grow faster, but need to monitor it carefully to prevent eventual trouble.
The same could be said about anything if you draw the 'market' boundaries narrowly enough.

My local corner shop has a market share of 100% of the places I can buy things if I walk 30 seconds but that's hardly relevant when I can drive 10-15 minutes and have 4 different supermarkets at my disposal.
Apache 2.0:

> each Contributor hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in this section) patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise transfer the Work, where such license applies only to those patent claims licensable by such Contributor that are necessarily infringed by their Contribution(s) alone or by combination of their Contribution(s) with the Work to which such Contribution(s) was submitted.

GPLv3:

> Each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free patent license under the contributor's essential patent claims, to make, use, sell, offer for sale, import and otherwise run, modify and propagate the contents of its contributor version.

The two licenses are definitely not identical on patents, but both are pretty clear that they provide protection to users from developers, insofar as the original code and any modifications downstream were licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. You're right that there's no copyleft, but that doesn't reverse the direction of the patent grant.
Synchronized audio: https://youtu.be/maRTEzlSBLk?t=1m8s

A quieter sound just before explosion is audible in this video, although I don't know that I would call it a “bang.”