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For me I see Matt as an dog trying to mark what is his and slapping GPL license on top of everything. If so I would like to see some of the woocommerce plugins released publicly as it falls under GPL
This is the most annoying misconception on the internet.
Better is relative to a utility function.
I would do that, if they would not inflict their rambling speaker-phone conference calls on me.

The root of the problem is trying to pack people into a room like sardines and expect them to get any work done. But forcing people to use substandard equipment doesn't help anything.
> If I see a woman I want to compliment, I have the freedom to compliment her.

If too many people everyday have the same idea for the same person, it may become unpleasant for that person, even if each individual approach was non-obtrusive. (It's like if you meet someone with a funny name: even though it's harmless to point it out or make a light joke about it, you generally abstain because you assume that maybe too many people are doing it already, so it may become tedious. Same thing for someone whose physical appearance is unusual.)

My point wasn't about what you are "free" to do -- of course you are probably free to say nice things to people unless they tell you to leave them alone. The question is about what it is polite to do. (It's a bit like what XKCD says about freedom of speech: https://xkcd.com/1357/)
What the hell is ETL and why should you care?
Very true. Automattic have heaps of closed source code to run their proprietary platform and they don't release that to the public, yet they demand it from others.

Mullenweg has a history of "do as I say not as I do" in regards to GPL, and to my mind it's a bit of sour grapes on his part.
Say you make a new kind of drug, the government is allowed to regulate it and prevent you from selling it. That doesn't oblige the government to compensate you for making something dangerous.
Here in the UK we have "planning permission" which is basically the same thing. Round our way it's been used recently e.g. to stop people extending their houses over their off-street parking, which would necessitate them parking on the road - if everyone did it the street would be impassable, so it's fair to enforce that no-one does it.
Ask HN: I fear I'll run out of work, what CS field should I specialize in?
Hello,

I'm still relatively young (30 y.o.) and will have to work for at least another 30 years if I live that long. My fear is that "easy" software development will become such a common skill that it will be paid much less and the competition will be more fierce.
A couple of examples are: Google training to 2M Indians to be android developers[1], all the bootcamps that have flourished everywhere, tech icons telling people they should learn how to code[2].
I'm currently a back-end developer doing mostly JavaEE and working with the common tools in that ecosystem. In the next 5 or so years I'd like to move to something more specialized but still relatively common that won't restrict me to a particular country.
HERE'S THE IMPORTANT BIT: assume I will be an average developer, responses such as "specialize in this niche because if you are a great developer you will never run out of work" will not help me. Please be specific and not too broad and mention if it requires a PhD. Thanks!

[1]http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-11/google-to-train-2-million-indian-developers-on-android-platform

[2]http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/27/tech/innovation/code-video-gates-zuckerberg/
That is amazing
How Much Longer Can Venezuela Go on Like This?
Seattle actually has some houseboats [1]. Not sure total numbers, but they are definitely a very small drop in the bucket compared to all other housing forms.

Probably more impactful in terms of population numbers is the similar "apartment block over water" which popped up in Seattle a few decades back and are still around. ~5 stories and over water is a lot more people than a row of houseboats.

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Floating+Homes+Association...
Magsafe was fundamentally flawed. It required a delicate thin and light power cable to work, which was subject to mechanical failure.
"But why not let us sell to friendly nations? We’ve had so much interest from countries like Japan, Korea, Qatar.”

1. Great examples? We never had a problem with any of them? Hell--sell it to China? We made everything there. Sell it to Russia--they love Trump!

2. There's inherent risks when working on anything that can be used against us.

3. If you don't like it; give up your citizenship, and move abroad?

4. This is getting old? The hubris of some rich guys? It's all about their inherent right to do whatever they want.

5. Want a safe bet? Do anything, but build a stealth potential battleship.

6. Learn to code? Be the next Apple? Take a world history course at your community college.
"This is a minimalistic JavaScript stack"

"ES6, Babel, Gulp, ESLint, React, Redux, Webpack, Immutable, Mocha, Chai, Sinon, and Flow"

brutal.
The great thing about React is that it's easy to reason about. Devs new to React can quickly come up to speed. When you start decorating React components like this, you're introducing magic and making React code less easy to reason about. I'm not saying that you should avoid this in all cases, but you should consider the pros and cons and be careful. It seems that decorators at the component class level provide a mechanism to bring back mixins for those who want to use ES6 React components with mixins.
FBI will figure it out
That's an impressive benchmark. On what hardware is it achieved?
> So you'd rather have 8 different standards? I know I love having to have a DVI, displayport, VGA, and HDMI adapter in my bag in order to have my bases covered for presentations.

If there are 8 different cable types I'd rather have 8 different connectors, yes. Remember going around the office asking to borrow a cable to charge your 'phone and having to figure out micro vs mini vs sony's weird thing vs apple's weird thing? It was a bit silly but at least having physically different connectors meant that you could tell whether a given cable would charge your phone or not. Now it sounds like that's no longer true.
Fiasco after fiasco - the opsec of the people involved is all terrible ...
I never got the appeal. I can type extremely fast on my MBP and would rather not carry around a keyboard. What would a mechanical keyboard offer me?

Seems to me the writer simply got bored of Apple and wants something less ubiquitous to evangelize.
>We either have a moral right to make exclusive use of natural resources or we do not.

Others don't have the obligation to protect what you think is your right. Imagine the value of your property rights, if neither law nor law enforcement would protect it.

>it's self-evident

If most people disagree with you, it's not self evident. No amount of sidestepping arguments of others and continued preaching is going to convince others. Essentially you are just stating your ideology and calling it self evident.

This is like abortion issue where minority of people asserts that fetus has rights but majority don't see it.
It's a false equivalence. Especially since the stealth isn't the only technology that they've developed, there's also the supercavitating pontoons (I guess they're pontoons), which would have an application for civilian watercraft as well.
It's not really a donation if it's not voluntary. Whether someone should be supported by the government is an interesting question but calling taxes and welfare donations is doublespeak.
By the time enough people notice or are willing to admit to themselves whats going on, its usually past the point of no return. It gets past the point where reasonable fixes and solutions can be applied.

Especially hard when there is a lot to loose.

Try convincing any manager in a large corp, with 2 kids about to head to college/a mortgage/family healthcare bills or some combo of those three to take a difficult decision and 90% of the time you will fail. Fact of life.

Over time I have come to the conclusion it really depends on the kind of leaders we prop up. Yes we prop them up. Every time we go along with whatever the empire needs defending justifications they come up with to do the next dumb thing.

While we like to believe we are lucky that Zuckerberg or Page&Brin landed up in the positions they did rather than a Larry Ellison controlling Google or Murdoch controlling Facebook. I think we just need higher expectations. I would rather support a Mark Shuttleworth or a Jimmy Wales, or even a Elon Musk.

The difference being they have clear stated visions for the future that doesn't just benefit them and their corp but everyone.

These days I actively work against people who I see working to strengthen their positions at the expense of others.
How can he find a market if he's prohibited from selling it even to US allies?
>With the increase in minimum wage, some people are paid more, but at the expense of some poor people

No, at the expense of profit margins.

>Certainly we could find a better way of handling things.

The only other more direct way to move money from profit margins to the minimum waged would be to raise taxes on profits and effect a direct money transfer. Something tells me that you're not a fan of that either.
Thank you for your feedback .. I will definitely look into these points.
You know whenever there is a bad press about Apple product they start to black list those reporting websites. Blacklisted company don't get any pre-released news or products for reviews. I wonder how many websites have been blacklisted.
You would be surprised how non obvious Legos actually are to people not familiar with them already.

This is akin to thinking doors are intrinsically intuitive. There is actually a ton of training that kids go through for that "intuition."
Would be interesting. I thought when the touch bar came out that it would go well with something like the Optimus Maximus keyboard (colour display in every key):

http://www.artlebedev.com/optimus/maximus/

That was fiendishly expensive though, so e-ink could be a good way to lower the price.
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Build your own? Its an ARM chip running a relative of SEL4. Would be an interesting project.
There are people whose labor is worth $20/hr+ who are desperate enough to accept 8.

"How much value do you bring in?" only puts a ceiling on pay negotiations. Desperation is what drives the actual number.

There are many, many more people like that which is why minimum wage rises almost always come straight out of profit margins:

http://www.nelp.org/content/uploads/2015/03/NELP-Big-Busines...

There is, of course, the matter of the vast amount of economic propaganda saying the opposite. That's driven by what economists call "incentives".
> It is completely irrational spending all this time on it, but it am really attached to that particular keyboard.

Nostalgia and/or emotional attachment aside, I think you can actually rationalize repairing it:

① Knowledge and skills. Repairing stuff increases your understanding of the things you use on a daily basis.

② Emotional reward. Successfully repairing something is simply satisfying.

③ Environmentalism. You manage to keep one more product functioning instead of consigning it to a landfill.

I am willing to bet that the time you sink into this project is mostly your down-time. If you weren't doing this, you might be watching Netflix, or playing a game, or reading a book — it is not lost time.
>Others don't have the obligation to protect what you think is your right.

True, but they also don't have a moral right to violate my rights.

If the government merely stopped protecting private property from aggressive seizure, that would be one thing. But thanks to "social democracy" (demagogic democracy), the government has become the primary instrument by which people aggressively seize the property of others.

>If most people disagree with you, it's not self evident.

I disagree that most people disagree with me. Most people do not consider the steps involved in money that someone earns going into their own bank account thanks to government intervention.

If they did consider it, I believe it would be self-evident to most what property rights are, and that violating them is an authoritarian infringement upon human rights.
I work remotely and one of my coworkers still manages to annoy everyone with her mechanical keyboard - whenever there's a Skype meeting, it overpowers what everyone is saying and she has to mute, then forgets to un-mute...
Why you should use a single repository for all your company’s projects
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> He supports heavy taxes on private property. Tax laws are based on violence

I didn't get the same impression watching the video. Do you have any references? As far as Law and Violence is concerned, I agree voilence to some degree may be involved. So what is your alternative? No Law every man/group for himself?

There is no such thing as No Law. Void will ne replaced with Natural Law in which powerful eliminates weak. If well reasoned Law is not present in society, Law of jungle will take over.

> People in a market generate income by trading something of value for currency that others freely give them

Something of value is the operative word here. From where "something of value" comes? There is no tax on exchanging valuable thoughts. We are only taking about financial trades which does impacts society.
Wealth deteriorates and has maintenance costs. Name an asset that one can hold billions of dollars in that doesn't have to be cleaned, guarded, repaired, or otherwise maintained.
Those are really sad photos.
A fuck ton in this case is probably less than an undergraduate (micro) biologist. Hardly a polymath unless he was producing new research in the field.
There's a very simple explanation for their behaviour, and the "yes you can/no you can't" approach.

They already have a contract for similar with one of the regulars - Northrop or Lockheed or whoever. The project isn't going too well but they're not about to concede defeat, although they came close a few years back. Once in production they'll want US allies to buy from the same supplier for interoperability and profitability reasons, so will block the sale of the "wrong" product.

I mean, it's the only rational explanation - otherwise it'd be a no brainier to buy his boat.
I don't why there is a perception that Art Schools have monopoly over creativity. Are mathematicians or scientist not creative?
Presumably in their preferred language, or with acceptable pseudocode?

I find that baffling, and I am self-taught and a very mediocre programmer. I'd barely even call myself a programmer as I've historically spent more time designing. I can't think of how they might be stumped by it?

Is it true even of programmers with experience/age on their side, likely to have encountered loads of real world challenges? I've gone back to read about it a couple of times since first hearing of it - swear I must be missing something?
This precisely - I smoked a mouse plugging it into the video port circa summer 1988.
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Reflections on REST API Design with Swagger. REST’s Accidental Complexity
This is true. I considered it worth that price, I can totally see why most would not.
Cynical me says why not sell it to Blackwater or Xi or whatever they call themselves today? Heck, get in touch with a drug cartel, have them set up a US corporation to buy the thing and walk away.

Alternatively, leave the boat and move to one of those countries and set up shop there.

I think the real lesson to be learned, never do spec work.
>Do you have any references?

http://taxfoundation.org/article/what-would-piketty-s-80-per...

>As far as Law and Violence is concerned, I agree voilence to some degree may be involved. So what is your alternative? No Law every man/group for himself?

The violence of Law should be applied exclusively against those who violate the human rights of others. It should not be used to take property from one group to give to another.

>Something of value is the operative word here. From where "something of value" comes?

I grab some clay, and create a nice figurine. You give me some sea shells in exchange for it. No one has a right to a share of my sea shells. If some group of people preaching "social democracy" violently assault me for refusing to hand over a share, they are the aggressors.

The social democracy advocates have done what Bastiat predicted:

>When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
>If they did consider it, I believe it would be self-evident to most what property rights are, and that violating them is an authoritarian infringement upon human rights.

So, you work on the assumption that me and most of the people you argue against are just misinformed and if you preach to them enough, this self evident universal morals is revealed to them?
Hmmm take issue with this one - http://uxmyths.com/post/99302792550/myth-33-mobile-users-are...

A key point in mobile app UX is being transactional. If you require any input from a user such as a signup form, design it in such a way that it can be done as quickly as possible e.g. in under 60 seconds. That's because that's how long you have until they are distracted by something more interesting. That would mean not asking users to provide 50 data points all at once but do it in stages over multiple sessions.
Thanks for the detailed reply. I'd assumed your source files were digital photos of artwork (e.g. 20 megapixel). I want to print some photos of Japanese wood block artwork, and there's an RNN implementation which apparently works well for doing 2x, 4x etc. upscaling: https://github.com/nagadomi/waifu2x
Tbh I really see this might happen. They have internationally widespread devices (unlike banks which don t usually operate in too many countries) they have superior technology, much easier for clients to use and also a better reputation than plenty of banks. Then the remaining issue is regulations, can they solve it? Would an european country back up < 100k deposits for Apple? :)
The WordPress-Editor-iOS GPL license should be invalid

If the license is invalid, then default copyright terms apply, which means nobody can use the editor at all. Remember that licenses - yes, even the GPL - grant rights, they don't take them away.
Replex: A scalable, highly available multi-index data store
>So, you work on the assumption that me and most of the people you argue against are just misinformed and if you preach to them enough, this self evident universal morals is revealed to them?

Yes, though I don't consider it preaching. I consider it informing.
Yes - thunderbolt 3 cables are required to support the full 100W of power. It sounds like there are only really four types of USB-C cable, at least for the time being - USB2, USB3 without power, USB3 with power and thunderbolt 3.
This is sorta unrelated, but related to engineering.

On my first day in college, the Dean of my Aerospace Engineering program and two other people came into my first huge classroom and said, "there are too many people in this program. Aerospace companies will not hire you. They will hire Electrical Engineers and Mechanical Engineers before they will hire you. If you have a chance, transfer to another program."

They were probably right. I transferred after a semester. Most of the people I know who graduated in Aerospace Engineering ended up writing software (without much training.)

I know people (very closely) who still have crushing debt from art school. And engineering school who can't pass the Professional Engineer test. And law school who can't pass the bar after multiple tries. I studied Electrical Engineering but now I just write software, which was probably my first love.

I can't recommend anything to you, but this article resonated with my experience. If you're really good, go for that thing. Don't pay someone a lot to tell you what you're already good at.
Sure. My mother and her partner had a 70' motor catamaran built in Chile.

Custom job - designed by marine architect and customer. Custom hull, and mostly off the shelf running gear, big Cummins in each hull etc. Passagemaker, goes anywhere other than ice pack, huge range - they did a Pacific crossing a few years back without a refuel.

It took a team of 20 on/off (they work on a dozen or so boats concurrently), lots of calls and meetings, and cost about $2.5m all said and done. One would assume the shipbuilder made a decent profit. IIRC it didn't require much tweaking after sea trials.

The materials tend to be the cheap bit, it's skilled labour and design that costs you.
Ugh, creepy. Reminds me of season 4 of "The Wire" (where people get killed by organized crime and the bodies hidden in abandoned houses).

There was a also a recent Planet Money episode on knocking down abandoned buildings: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/08/26/491490744/episo...
Because they handle private keys that is soldered to chip and can't be retrieved at all. Before sim cards there was something in the phones that can be easily reprogrammed and you always have to walk to your carrier office to "program" your phone. Swapping of sim cards is much easier.
At least one can change the SIM and can un-locked phones that dan be used all around the world and I can easily swap the SIM card. Why change it, it works great as intended and all software service solutions would mean a middle man is in the game - that would suck, right? (except you eant to be the middle man)
This was a hypothetical test scenario, it just proves he knows those stuff and we do not need to teach those to him. Perhaps he is weak in logically deciding what exactly needs to be tested but writing good tests doesn't come easy either. Many can fail in that given time constraint and other management pressure.
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You know if that happen then flip phone users will have hard time because network will promote only high end selective phones. SIM card gives you freedom of putting it in $25 or $640 phone and it works just fine. People with security, budget and privacy concern go for flip phones. Just like net neutrality, phone neutrality is a good thing. One should never be forced to purchase smart phone if he does not want it. A dumb phone just works fine for calling and text messaging.
I have never used internet on my phone and I will never be excited about it (3G 4G, 5G or anything). I carry my laptop everywhere I go and it serves my need well.

I must add you can find flip phones cheaper than cost of lightening cables.
Yes, security and flexibility.

1) Security: telco laws these days often require registration of accounts to your personal ID (i.e. no anonymous usage any more). How would a pure soft-SIM be able to fetch the data from the network?

2) Flexibility: SIM is pretty much standardized. This means a newcomer MVNO just has to issue SIM cards and the customer can use any kind of phone (or other interface, like a modem, a 2G/3G shield, ...) to use the network. And if a device breaks, then the SIM card usually stays intact and can be placed in a new device. Not sure how to securely do this with a soft-SIM.
True but libW also has custom licence relieving closed_binary from make-it-gpl requirement. Unless GPL forbids libW to be anything but GPL'd.
I'm surprised someone hasn't yet come up with the "tech solution" to this problem.

One way out of this for Sancoff is to have The Russians™ hack his computer system and "steal" all his secrets, they'd have to pay in Bitcoin or that other one that launched yesterday, what was it? Zcash.

Also, he could sell the rights to the movie in a couple of years. From his Russian hideout.