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Look, Slava and Mike are incredible guys and ridiculously smart. If Slava thinks "I wouldn't spend a dime of that money on IP" then you should do that for two reasons:

1) He's the original founder and should be respected out of courtesy.

2) He just gave you an amazing opportunity to not worry, so take it.

I explore more of my thoughts on Open Source license and the post-mortem on this just-released The Change Log podcast episode - https://changelog.com/podcast .

One of the things that we are doing is making sure to always license our code as MIT or ZLIB or Apache 2. This is a promise (and a legal one too) to developers that the ideals and values of Open Source will always be there, first and foremost. In fact, the license was determined by a community vote (see here: https://github.com/amark/gun/issues/17 ).

People have asked why others (like us) won't shut down in the same way Parse and Rethink have, I think the answer is simple:

5 billion new people are coming online by 2020 and the technical challenges of creating scalable systems still exists. So the opportunity is enormous and proportional to how scalable your system can be - which means decentralized tools will win out over time compared to their centralized alternatives.

Second, unlike attempts to sell support licenses or DBaaS or crippleware premium upgrades, we're taking the approach of partnering with developers/companies that build industry transformational product and solutions for governments and enterprises. We believe that if we can enable others to be able to create answers for the needs of large organizations, then we both can mutually benefit by creating revenue shared partnerships. This is already happening with several companies, and we're rolling out to a government (but I can't disclose who/what/how yet).

We think this will work, and it will pave the pathway for other Open Source vendors that a real business model can work, without any of the unfortunate alternatives strategies others have taken (open core crippleware, unlikely support licenses, struggling DBaaS). This creates the best "win-win-win" environment, where startups get to piggy back for free while governments and enterprises pay for the much needed technology solutions to handle the coming transformation.

What transformation am I talking about? Again, the 5B new people, the advent of IoT and every autonomous car or burrito delivery drone, and the demand for doing machine learning on the whole system, at a global scale - see this article on distributed machine learning with gun: http://myrighttocode.org/blog/artificial%20intelligence/part... .

This transformation won't succeed unless it can be built on top of truly Open technology, and that is why license is important.
Thanks for fact checking and helping prevent the spreading of misinformation to further an agenda.
Stop getting your talking points from Breitbart news: http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/01/30/sorry-mr-president-the-o...
This IPO is going to be incredibly interesting to track. Facebook and Instagram have been cloning Snapchat features as fast as they can, and Snow (Korean Snapchat) is growing rapidly in non-western markets.
My Fitbit won the prize for being the only hardware/software to blue screen my Windows computer in at least a decade. It actually took me a few hours to figure out what was happening because I never suspected simply plugging in that device could do it. Sure enough, after 5 minutes or less it would hard crash my computer. I promptly gave it away and will never buy another one. I read some Amazon reviews where people talked about being on their 8th Fitbit and decided they have a real problem.
I use acronyms, portmanteaus, and other plays on words to name things. Sometimes backronyms. I can't point to some of my recent ones, as they're still in progress.

While I was at NYMEX I built a system called NEON (Nymex Electronic Order Network). Followup projects followed the noble elements theme, sometimes with a forced backronym.

One project involved multi-lingual communication, so I tooke "chat", which is "cat" in french, then translated that to Japanese (Neko).

Basically just have fun with it, and don't stress.
Yes, this is an incident I still regret deeply. I probably think about it once a week. It's one of the reasons that I'm a bit different these days than I am back then; I didn't want this to happen ever again.
In case anyone's still here, I made a bookmarklet for it:

javascript:location.href='http://facebook.com/l.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.hr...

Make a bookmark with that, call it I'm from Facebook or something, and go to it when you hit a paywall.
The users of the counterfeit phones had no way of knowing the phone was fake and probably contained physical and software backdoors.

Crypto devices should brick themselves if they discover they've been tampered with.

It's a clear case of seller fraud and if you use a good marketplace (ie not the one starting with E) you can get a refund through the platform. And maybe get information to use in suing the seller.
You mean spatial dimensions. But space and time appear to be derivative notions anyway.

What really matters is the space of independent parameters (or, if truly independent parameters do not exist, then the truly fundamental ones). That would be really nice to figure out one day.
This is a huge step forward in react routing. I'm still on v3, but very excited to switch. I love that I don't have to separate my thinking about routes vs normal components.

Ex. If I want to lazy load a route vs something below the fold, I can use the same HOC for both.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle:

'However, there exist classical solutions to the Einstein equations that allow values of the entropy larger than those allowed by an area law, hence in principle larger than those of a black hole. These are the so-called "Wheeler's bags of gold". The existence of such solutions conflicts with the holographic interpretation, and their effects in a quantum theory of gravity including the holographic principle are not yet fully understood.'
I've had mine for more than a year and a half -- my charge hr hasn't failed yet. But my cousins' have, which leads me to wonder what if the issue is user-caused.
Is the commodity hardware that people watch Netflix on really going to generate any money mining bitcoins? Or are they just going to rack up an expensive electricity bill?
This is so basic. It's amazing how many projects fail to do this. A common one I've noticed is to have a news feed or blog roll right at the top of the front page. It makes lots of sense to everyone involved in the project but none to potential new users.
Thank you (and to everyone else in this thread) <3
Why? It doesn't seem to bear any kind of relevance either way.
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Nope that's just a misconception on how prices are set. Prices are set by what the seller believes most people will pay.

Why do you think housing is so expensive? Because land got more expensive to make? Because they forgot how to make bricks cheaply? Credit sets the ability to pay and this sets the price.
Looking for and being quite happy to get are two different things.

I'll happily take a 5x on any of my angel investments. I didn't go into them thinking that was the best possible (hoped for) case.

Getting 5x on all of them would be above my average.
My most reliable fit wearable so far has been my Wii U Fit Meter. It's about as smart as a Tamagotchi, but it gets the job done for me. Data xfer via IR instead of radio. CR2032 battery goes for a few months. I find it a clever balance of cheap tech and engineering trade-offs - very Nintendo in that regard.
"A doesn't hire workers who X" and "members of group Q are more likely to X" therefore "A discriminates against group Q"?
"Members of group R are more likely to X" doesn't enter into the equation?
Show HN: Go muxer with regular expressions
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Usenet was a different system entirely. It was an application layer broadcast mechanism. All of the content pushed to Usenet was replicated all across the world so people could locally access it. Fantastic system for distributing current information to thousands of people worldwide over slow backbone links. Unfortunately it was also fantastic for broadcasting advertising to the entire world for free, which is why Usenet for news is dead.
Will there be a way to prevent transitions when clicking on a link that isn't hooked into react router?
I don't follow developers, because of time. I tend to search for information I need, rather than follow someone and read what they have to say. If I did the latter I would be continuously distracted and overloaded with too many ideas to explore!
We was parse.com lovers for many years and we did a lot of projects.. After January 2016 we turned to firebase as new BaaS but you need to rewrite a lot of code and change the way you catch events and actions.
In November 2016 we discovered https://www.sashido.io and we tried all of their services and support.
Today we are happy client of SaShido dashboard, we can use all of parse.com github opensource sdk and SaShido is growing on new great options like liveQueries..
So we can say that "Parse.com is still alive in SaShido.io"!!
Good job guys!
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The education system does not teach how prices are set. This is leading to confusion on many levels. Of course if the education system did teach how the economy works in full I'm not sure the center would hold.
Yes. There are millions of US workers who have been displaced and recognize that all super-subsistence employers have left their area and none are forthcoming. They know they have to move away to find work, but where? If gainful work appeared in the most inhospitable place imaginable but paid a decent wage (the way coal mines in West Virginia used to do), they'd be gone in a shot.
Why what?

Why they can't start a start up?

Well then there are reasons hard to understand unless you understand the socio-economic context in which a lot of people grow up in India. Not the kind of ones who you see come to US universities for higher education.

But there are a lot of other exceptionally brilliant people who come from poor families, to whom any opportunity is precious. Parents come from poor families typically from rural setting having worked often in hard conditions all their lives and made unbelievable sacrifices so that their kids can get some decent education and a shot at working at regular job that pays well. The kind of poverty I'm describing doesn't exist in US, so it will be hard for you to understand. Its not the $40K/year working-at-walmart/McD poverty. Its way worse.

Now when you look at this from the beginning to the end. Such people have to work on whatever opportunity they get, at whatever costs. No matter how hard they have to work. No matter how many extra hours/day they have to put, No matter how many weekends they have to show up at work. None of it matters. Because its all an opportunity so rare people before you didn't get.

Which is why I find names like 'yes-men' or the kinds used in some parent posts in this thread offensive. Unfortunately there are a lot of upper middle class Indian who themselves don't understand this.

Some people just don't have the luxury to make decisions they way others have.

If you are in a position to afford education in a US university, or quit your job and work on a start up. Or quit your job and do something else because your boss asked to you put in extra hours at work. You are already in a very different plane of luxury and will likely not understand why its not easy for others to do the same.
I have a Garmin band and, at the 6 month mark, it's starting claiming I'm climbing 50 banks of stairs a day. So they're not perfect either.
While I'll grant you Chinese government officials are probably more educated and experienced than your average American ones, there is no justifying the pervasive political censorship in China.

The CIA is not responsible for suppressing the Tiananmen Square incident. Stop spreading bullshit.
I've had very good luck with Sashido.io as a replacement. I ported two of my apps over - migration was easy and very smooth + support and responsiveness were outstanding.
I agree. Skilled immigration doesn't have much of a downside for the US in my opinion, but immigrants do need to be free to decide what skills they choose to pursue, in response to market signals.

If silicon valley finds that people with the skills to become software developers prefer other fields, that's the market's answer. Forcing immigrants to work as software developers as a condition of living and working in the US is a horrible solution.

Immigrants must be free to participate in labor markets as they choose, without their options dictated to them by corporate "sponsors". Any attempts to "reform" this visa tat doesn't address this core issue (which in my opinion is also a basic human rights issue) is going to fail.

General skilled immigration would be good for the US, and I've love to see the H1B replaced with something that truly preserves the rights of the immigrant to choose his or her own path in life. If becoming a dev in the valley isn't part of that, well, that just means that skilled immigrants have found something higher value to do. Silicon valley can compete for them, just like everyone else, but I see no reason to interfere with the proper functioning of labor markets to make sure they get to hire on their own terms.

Maybe private offices, and less "young people are just smarter" gaffes would be a good place to start?
You can add .desktop files to .local/share/applications hust fine and the gnome registry is user-specific, not global.
They like to say that The Watchtower is the most read magazine in the world and that the second most distributed magazine in the world is Awake!, also published by the church
MLK's inner circle of most trusted associates included a photographer who was an FBI informant.

It may limit your choices for civil disobedience that breaks laws, but the only reasonable assumption is that if a state actor wants access to your information, they will get it. I suggest reading "This is an Uprising" which has a fantastic history of activism.
There cannot be a "flaw" in a sequence of statements which do not form a silogism. There is no flaw in your logic because there is no logic.
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To a degree that is what we are doing here. There are some technical difficulties there and we plan to write followup post on that as well. That being said having a visual representation of the navigation trail is very useful even if it's just to gain ability to jump few steps back rather than going step by step.
That's if the value of something was based on the value of the cost of it's parts. It is not.

A chair is made of wood. Should the chair cost what wood costs?
I really like the long arcs of today's top end TV. It's funny, I was thinking the other day that when I just want a short self-contained piece of entertainment, I reach for a movie. Which is a complete reversal from 15 to 20 years ago.

Also, have you watched any of the newer TV shows? They have astronomical budgets, better than some movies. And certainly better than 1980s TV. Knight Rider may have had practical car stunts, but it also had bad writing, bad acting, and bad directing. Modern TV has elevated all those things dramatically.
Greece. Argentina. Venezuela. It's a long list.
not yet but maybe in future.. There is bunch of summarizing project on github though.
It makes sense that the nature of management work (over-communicating) lends itself to physically connected open office areas. Of course, the other half of their job is getting out of the way of the producers. Could a manager answer a few questions I have?

Can you describe to me the difference between the nature of work that requires group creativity and individual focus (or rather, which employee roles fit more into one or the other)?

How much of each do the various roles of your employees spend their time on?

How much control (or influence) do your employees have over whether or not they are in an environment that suits their need for focus (and when that focus ends)?
Ask HN: Can you pick up COBOL and get a job doing it
Because I thought the jobs were more about the Mainframe tech behind it (CICS, JCL, etc...)

Sp how can any developer wanting to make those big $$$ but lacking a mainframe get into COBOL?
Do you have any nontoy examples of this? I.e. nontrivial apps in heavy use.
Scaphold (https://scaphold.io/) is a super neat BAAS built on GraphQL!
Sometimes yes! Wikipedia has a cool picture[1] of a 13-track (and hence 13-bit) Gray code encoder in the Gray Code article[2], which would have a resolution of ~.05 degrees.

1: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Gray_cod...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_code#Position_encoders
Not 100% sure of this, but I suspect they don't take orders from the judiciary, rather their superiors, which are part of the executive branch. So it's possible that their superiors haven't changed the orders or are doubling-down.

Now, that is _illegal_ of course, and morally reprehensible, but they could still be construed to be "following orders".
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You would end up with a very large grey code if you tried to do that. You could solve that by gearing it down (or repeating the code) and count revolutions, but more likely these days you'd use something like a hall-effect angle-position sensor [1]. The ones linked will give you an angle with 2^12 bits, or ~0.09° just by rotating a magnet next to the IC.

[1] http://www.allegromicro.com/en/Products/Magnetic-Linear-And-...
That sure wasn't one of the main reasons Parse failed! It is annoying though. Perhaps we should have taken over some similar term, like "golang".
Really cool picture of the B-Geary street car turning right off of Market St. en route to the Transbay terminal.
We're going to have a (free) official video course up on the router site here within the next few weeks.
> Back when there were blue collar jobs in Santa Clara County.

There still are.

If you don't think there are blue-collar jobs in Santa Clara county, please explain why restaurants, stores, construction companies, plumbing companies, etc. are able to exist.
proof? microsoft stock just beat expectations by every measure.
> When a movie pulls in ~1/2 has much as the previous film it's a sign.

A lot of missing context here. "Star Wars 8" has not been released, so if you're drawing effect of 7 on 8's performance, I'm not sure how you're doing it. Budget alone does not necessarily tell you expected gross.

Perhaps you were talking about Rogue One? There's a lot of context there that would temper any direct comparisons.
I agree completely. I have given a few talks, and it's always a great exercise. Still, I want to find some info behind the "engineering of teaching" I guess =)
You could very easily have created a free mLab account, migrated the data, and exported it from there...
I'm just calling a spade a spade.

People have legitimate grievances against the cab industry, I'm one of them, but that doesn't automatically legitimize what Uber is doing.
Isn't that more a Windows problem? An OS should never crash entirely because a device was plugged in. Fitbit probably should've caught that in testing though.
Step 1. Create an investment bank.
Step 2. Make a close relationship to the institution managing the IPO.
Step 3. Too late, the existing big banks get dibs.

They might be willing to sell you some scraps after the price has been run up into the stratosphere and all of the incumbents have made their profit.
Funny that you mention that the report writer becomes the person closest to understanding the business.

In my experience, the report writer many times is the developer on the team who drew the short straw. So you get this weird effect where the best way to learn the domain is to end up with the least desirable project work (from a dev perspective).
There have been two separate rulings, one of them says that detainees should be granted access to their lawyer.
> If you cut corners, it looks like Youtube crap.

I wonder where series like Louie and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia fit into this mix. They're pretty low budget and do look pretty Youtubey, especially the earlier seasons. But for some reason that doesn't detract from the quality of the show at all.

Do audiences actually need high production value if they have great acting, writing, directing?
You might be in a medical experiment and not even know it
In a perfectly competitive market, competition, in the long run, drives the market price down to the marginal cost of production and the traded quantity to the level at which that price is also the maximum price the market will bear.
What is the current economic model? I'm assuming it's capitalism.

How does the duplication of digital goods being free mean capitalism no longer makes sense?

Kickstarter is essentially risky lending and charity (you put in money and possibly get rewards which may not be commensurate with the money you put in).
The formula is pretty simple. "All good patriots are with me. Show yourself to be a good patriot by reporting enemy talk. When I'm in power, I will punish my enemies."
Consider also the Fenix 3 - it was plagued with software bugs when launched but the firmware is now stable and delivers what it says on the tin. You get a nice smartwatch and fitness tracker with GPS/GLONASS and good integration to other sensors (Bluetooth and ANT).

Plus, as the icing on the cake: you can easily get a week or more of use with a single charge, if you don't use the GPS.
Thanks for taking the time to respond.

Just a point: I try to be very careful to not generalize about groups of people with with charged language like "the left has demonized that approach", "despite academia's wishes", "supporting progressive cosmopolitan perspectives", and "victimhood culture". That actively separates people into for/against camps that I find very detrimental to effective discussion. If there's something in my post that smells that I'm doing so, I'd appreciate you pointing it out to me, because I actively work against it, not because I'm trying to hide anything, but because I don't think it accurately describes my beliefs.

You mention "the left has … suggested that if a demographic underperforms, it's inherently because of oppression rather than culture or biology." I agree, there are issues there. I've also seen a lot of arguments from just the other side as well: there can't be any oppression because any difference can be accounted for due to culture or biology. I think it's both, and when either side isn't willing to talk about both sides objectively, I'm very hesitant to get both of my arms cut off when I reach out.

One phrase that I used that I think may be construed as such would be "tribalism bias", which I believe I'm using in a neutral manner. To be honest, at this point I'm hesitant to even bring up things I've read because I'm afraid you'll consider it part of some suspicious academic agenda.

I don't consider myself on the side of the left or the right, though I have a visceral, negative response when I see people generalizing about either, even if there's some justification for it, as it poisons any discussion that might be had to bridge the two.

I'm sorry if this comes off as defensive. It definitely is. As I expressed in my initial comment, I think there are a lot of people who are gun-shy about talking about this. Perhaps you consider me too weak or sensitive in reacting this way. It's more of being incredibly reluctant to getting piled on from every side.
Pro tip they forgot to mention: if you expect to need a medieval castle at some point in the foreseeable future, build it now, while concrete's available and cheap (and while construction efforts don't involve impressing a quarter of the skilled laborers in the country).

And don't use reinforced concrete; steel, even stainless steel, rusts over time, and the goal is to have something still serviceable a millennium later with ordinary maintenance.
Why do I feel like this post is getting brigaded by Sashido?