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Could some kind of micropayment scheme help these projects make some money?

For web servers you might charge per request served. For text editors you might charge per unit time the editor is being used.

It'd be interesting if the maintainer could define an acceptable salary, and all "consumers" would just split the bill by proportion of their usage according to the kind of metrics mentioned above.

I would gladly pay such a bill if nearly all the money went straight to the developer, I could cap my contributions, and it was extremely easy to opt-in. Ideally the package manager would read some dotfile or ask me! The problem with projects like Bountysource is that people will never track down all the OSS projects they depend on and figure what would be a reasonable donation to give them. Too much agency is required of the user to achieve meaningful adoption.

Has anything like this been attempted?

Edit: clarifications ...
For a while I stuck with Atom because it had a slight edge with plugins, but Visual Studio Code has caught up for what I use(though the Vim plugin is still a bit behind, but good enough) so I made the switch.
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I think srcsets are a reasonably proxy for this. Serve extremely optimized images to mobile devices, and the full images to desktops.

It isn't perfect - you'll get some mobile devices on wifi that could have consumed the hero images and some desktop devices still on dial up, but it's still a lot better than doing nothing.
Progressive resources would help a lot here. We have progressive JPEGs and (I might be wrong) PNGs, you can set your UA to low-fi mode and it will only download the first layer of the JPEG.
They can't install anything on their computer, so no pidgin. Is it possible to use the web interface with Gtalk without having your personal email open?
I fail to recognise how 200 years of jail to a 53-years man can compensate damage to the US national security of that size.
> PHP isn't necessarily bad. But bad experiences mean I hate it.

It sounds like those experiences were the fault of the developers not some intrinsic issue with the language itself. (i.e. its not like say "i hate flash because its a security shit-fueled nightmare").

Either way, the system currently has an "install script" and aims to develop deb/rpm/etc packages to achieve the same result, which seems like it's what you want.
The DragonBoard 410c might suit you.

I see it for $75 at one of my usual suppliers.

It has a snapdragon 410 - 1.2Ghz, 1GB RAM, Bluetooth, WiFi, etc.

However, both of these are probably huge overkill for a quadcopter.

The problem you face is twofold:

* The quadcopter needs to react in real time, so you need a real time OS.

* Machine learning can use a huge amount of memory.

The usual way to solve this, is a simplified onboard system. Crash prevention and the like. Probably an Arduino or ESP8266.

Then, that communicates with a ML system on a laptop or the like, which does the hard work.
The African continent has deserts as well as millions of acres fertile land.

As with all ecosystems, deserts change over time. The fossil record shows, for example, that the Sahara desert once sustained aquatic animals and lush vegetation not present today.

It is environmentally prudent to avoid polluting all ecosystems whatever their appearance. Doing so ensures the longevity and continuation of all life on this planet, including that of humans.

EDIT: punctuation.
Are you comparing killing people and economic policies? And do they not have the right to establish their own policies?

Do you have sources for this claim? All I can remember is some financial crisis around 2009 which lead to economic downturn and austerity. I seem to remember this crisis originated in ... the US? You disagree?

And I hated SF, very happy in Groningen for some time now.
> Does SQLServer support parallel execution?

For a long time as far as I know?
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> I'd be very surprised if your industry really did use complete pseudocode and only elided error handling. On the other hand, you're sort of assuming in your conclusion that pseudocode is the "better way" for languages because that's what people use, but you're leaving out the initial bias. I would argue that if you made current industrial languages more like pseudocode, you'd probably do better, yes, but it's a local maximum derived from an assumption of what the end result will be.

Error handling was one example - I see concerns like serialization, permissions, transactionality commonly elided, and I look for better ways to handle them in programming languages as well.

> I would argue that academia is relevant because it's one of the few places where the ideas are more important than the executable. If the ideas are communicated clearly, then you've succeeded.

Maybe. That assumes that the successful papers (and successful academics) are those that communicate ideas clearly. I'm not convinced.

> the reality is that if you take the machine away, and focus on human-to-human communication, without any "industrial" bias (expectation of machine execution), then rigorious idea communication is almost always pictorial, visual, and ideographic.

Not my experience at all - if anything I'd say visual aspects tend to be a marker of less rigorous communcation.

> Fruthermore, the notations that people develop and have developed over time to communicate ideas never end up looking like mainstream programming languages. As people work with ideas, math notation is the quintessential notation for communicating human ideas rigorously.

Mathematics is one such notation; "legalese" is another, and philosophical terminology a third. I'm wary of generalising too much from mathematical notation alone.
> The plumber can't use "down time" to proactively solve future issues.

Oh, but he surely can, replacing a valve that is known for going to break in
near future for instance, or putting a different one with additional safety
features.

> A sysadmin does have a higher level of abstraction available to them.

Mainly because sysadmin works with immaterial things (software) (and some of
sysadmins also work with hardware).

Sysadmins really have similarities with plumbers.
Vim is simple. It's just no easy.
Net contributions are misleading. The members pay a fee according to their population and GDP. According to that, the UK is paying little.

What happens with those paid fees is complex, but agreed between the members. Roughly described:

* the fees go to the EU budget

* some of the fees are used to pay for EU administration

* some of the fees are used to pay for EU projects

* one big program is "Investment in depressed regions, EU-wide". The UK is not a big beneficiary of this program because fortunately its regions are relatively rich. Some regions are poor, and they do receive funds.

The reason why the UK is net contributor is because it is a rich country.

Its gross contribution is small, GDP and capita-wise.
You don't think they might be expecting to ramp production up during that time? >.>
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For what it's worth, Chapo's use of "Gray Wolves" is dripping with irony, and was coined with conscious and deliberate awareness of exactly what you're accusing it of.

The "real" Gray Wolves are the paramilitary youth wing of a Turkish ethnic-nationalist party.
... And then someone more familiar with, y'know, mathematics went and made one: http://nada.kth.se/~axelhu/mapthematics.pdf
> i feel that adding middleman organizations sap the margins

That may be, but the point is to keep coders coding. The overhead cost of delegating fund raising to another person who isn't committing code is worth it.

>, and also gives those middleman organizations that do the funding some measure of power that i feel is also undeserved.

I think that it's often very deserved if the organization is well managed. If programmers can keep their hands on keyboards instead of rattling a tin cup then I think it's a better solution than the dual license.
And there was also CoLinux, a linux kernel on top of windows, supersweet. http://www.colinux.org/
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PMs generally earn more than developers.

Top developers can sometimes earn more than PMs. Especially in SF/NYC where developer salaries are crazy high.
After the backup catastrophe postmortem, have they published anything about what they're doing differently now?

i.e. here's how we're handling Postgres WAL archiving and logical backups, Redis RDB/AOF backups, etc?
It's ten, followed by three decimal places of zeros, because that's obviously what makes sense in the context, right? /s
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In a pure push, how do you ask for data to be resent?

There's trade-offs either way. No way is "best"; it all depends on what you're doing. I communicate with equipment over TCP, that I have to poll. There's _no_ mechanism for push. You just work with what you have and do the very best you can.
As I was watching this video I thought about how much further along with self driving cars we could be if the data was open source. Sharing this type of information between companies would increase everyone's velocity and get us that much closer to real world driverless vehicles.

At some point the vehicles will have to talk to each other anyway (ie. car-to-car network), so we might as well formalize it.
150-200$ sounds like an official manufacturer's devboard, but for the maker market you shouldn't have to shell out more than 30$. What are these boards you've been looking at?
Average used car price in 2015 (US) was $16,800 [1].

So, I agree it will probably take a while for most people to be able to buy a (used) Tesla.

[1] http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2015/02/18/record-u...
>The idea that 'college isn't for everyone' is elitist. It really means that 'college isn't for the children of the working class, only those of the wealthy'.

I actually think you're right that it's elitist, but I don't think this "college is not for everyone" attitude is about money, but about intelligence and personality characteristics. These things happen to also correlate with "wealthy," for values of wealthy above "working class."

Some people just aren't going to be able to make it through college no matter how many resources you give them. And college as we do it now is not right for everyone either. For evidence of this, go to your local state run university and observe how many students are failing out of school because they prefer to smoke weed every day to studying. I think something like 70% of people I met in my freshman year failed out of school in this particular way. Free college wouldn't have helped them.
LDL Cholesterol & saturated fats improve the innate immune system which in turn envelops pathogens & cellular debris. When the innate immune system cant tackle the problem it put out markers which the Lymph nodes recognise and proliferate an adaptive immune system response but this can take a while which is why some colds & virus like flu can take hold quickly.

The brain is also the largest deposit of cholesterol in the body and cholesterol with the liver also makes our hormones starting with pregnenolone (sometimes called the mother of all hormones) as it gets converted into other hormones including oestrogen, testostorone, & the stress hormones.

Pregnenolone is a hormone which helps improve memories and brain plasticity as does Allopregnanolone.

So why do medical professionals still recommend cutting down on cholesterol when it affects the ability to learn quickly, whilst potentially increasing the chances of dementia later on life through a lifetime of inadequacy?

The solution to the heart disease risk is simply exercise, as some of the waste products from exercising muscles has a vasodilating effect on the circulatory system to improve blood flow, so anyone who studied ox-box lakes or fluid dynamics will know the faster the flow the less chance something block up a liquid flow, in this case innate immune system Foam cells which can stick to your arterial walls.

So why do the medical profession and Govt's put out information which can retard your ability to learn whilst not pushing home the importance of exercise when compared to the time and money spent pushing "solutions" which have quantifiable worse side effects, than exercise?

Are medical experts so bombarded with data in order to become expert, they cant see the wood from the trees leading them to reach the wrong conclusions like we see in this article?
It's been seven years. how much has changed?
We're both entitled to our opinions, but I've mentioned a couple of specific public (published) benchmarks for mine - do you have anything like that for yours?
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It was a regular fixture on student demos in Dublin about 10 years ago, never really saw it on British demos.
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Nobody in Britain wants to watch Canal Plus, so don't worry yourself about that.

Plenty of Europeans want to watch the BBC though.
Personally, I think it overly broad. If you can't narrow your ban beyond 7 countries you might want more actionable intelligence. I doubt many would question a ban on a specific country for a limited duration if there was intelligence that someone was planning on coming in from there.
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I'd go where all the cool kids are at and choose Medium. A lot of blogging is about community and reach, and Medium gives you a built-in community to work with. Their editor is pretty good too, and the limitations imposed by the platform make me spend more time writing and less time configuring plugins and fighting with third-party themes.

The only unfortunate bit about Medium is a large number of marketers using the platform. If I end up on a Medium page through a trusted source (HN, reddit, a friend, or one of the development newsletters I follow) the content is usually high quality, but Medium's own recommendations are filled with promotional or clickbait articles.
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Hydrogen doesn't really make much sense to me. It's hard to work with so if you've got a bunch of it laying around why not combine it with some CO2 frozen out of the air to form methane, something you can pack much more densely in tanks and which won't tend to leak through so many things? You'll produce CO2 when you burn it but no more than what went in to creating it in the first place. Some back of the envelope math says you're losing about 25% of the energy in the Sabatier process to do that but it makes all the transportation and storage of the fuel so much simpler.
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If there is one thing the religious right recognizes is religious fervor. To them Bill Nye and others are just another version of televangelist preaching guilt and a certain way to live to forestall apocalyptic doom.

As a whole the religious right would be a lot more receptive of people who talked like engineers rather than preachers. Elon Musk will likely do more for climate change by selling people a product than Bill Nye will. In fact I'd bet that Bill likely will do more to harm progress on the issue than advance it.
The one by my house in Seattle was REALLY good. And had a good selection of misc. robotics parts (even if at ridiculous prices). The one by my house in Portland is lighter in some areas but has more Pi/Arduino/etc. variations in stock.

In both stores it was at least three aisles worth of things like components, perf boards, various breakout kits, enclosures, etc.
I think it would be something like "sign up with us and we handle the sales, support, billing, and invoicing".

Lots of open source projects don't need to bring on a business partner, but they might benefit from something like this. Just like not everyone on Kickstarter would go out and raise money by themselves.
Yes. You are correct. I totally misunderstood the context.
If people want 32 bit pointers on 64 bit hardware they should pick the x32 ABI instead
Occasionally, bugs get fixed despite programs depending on those bugs. They do not guarantee complete bug-compatibility between releases, or even within the same release - to do so would imply they could never fix a bug without writing a new function for the bugfix and persuading all developers to use the new function and release an update, then convincing everyone to use the updated software, even when there's no known software which depended on the buggy function's behaviour.

It used to be that when Microsoft found that a specific program was getting in the way of a bugfix, they'd detect the program and perform the buggy behaviour, or they'd patch the software on-the-fly. I have no idea if they still do this.
Problem, especially in politics is that lies, misinformation and propaganda are often ment as facts, information and of interest to the public. The primary thing which defines what they are is ones political view.
Please. A shitty, low-paying, long-hour job with a great mission is still a shitty, low-paying, long-hour job.
Ironically, he should have just put the $ in Facebook, bitcoin, google, Amazon stock, make 2x+ his money and then just given the original $ back to the investors.
how much weight would a little css to make the text not full-width add to that page?
Ask HN: What should I do with 120,000 Sq. Ft in Butte America?
I have the ability to purchase a 120,000 Sq.Ft building in Butte, Montana that was formerly office space. The space is ripe with potential, but I also need to cover the ~$15,000-$20,000 monthly operating costs. So far we have a couple of code schools and local non-tech firms committed to using the space, but what else should/can we do? I should mention the space has a datacenter and we intend on bringing in a 10 Gbps connection to the building, and houses in Butte are highly affordable. Yes, there is a giant toxic mine near the city, but it's mostly contained ;)

# Some ideas we have tossed around: Hacker commune

* Accelerator

* Medical Marijuana growing facility (MT is a medical state)

* 24hr coffee shop on the first floor

* Corporate cabin offices (a la, Google buys a floor and
allows employees to work out of Butte. Why? So they can hike/climb/fish/mountain bike after work)

* Free offices to open source projects

* Partial *coin mining facility

What would you do with even a portion of the space?
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Is there a repeatable way to do that?
I'd like to see that math. Highly skeptical.
It's both. Note, I did say "do a better job for less money". As someone who is a bit of an introvert with bad hearing, I often dread simple interactions where there's a potential for confusion or a language barrier, so I love a self checkout or a touch screen ordering experience. Cheaper or not, this is usually a better experience for me.

Still, that doesn't solve the problem of how do people put food on the table? We can't all build and design machines.
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That need has been met by the x32 ABI for some time now, it combines some of the best parts of the x86_64 arch with the lower memory consumption of 32bit (still limited to 4gb max memory though)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X32_ABI
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I'm rapidly starting to question my use of mid-tier web services. Who else is operating like this? CI/CD, Staging, downtime playbooks, backup playbooks, all of this or any combination of it would have been a good idea. Folks, I just want to work without my tools failing so that I can go home and think about something else.
Should be all good again.

Updates:

Our Redis cluster is currently experiencing a split brain, we are looking into the problem

Split brain is fixed for Redis cluster we are currently investigating the cause

We're performing a hard restart of our Unicorns, this may lead to an increase in HTTP 500 errors

Deployment finished and (link: http://GitLab.com) GitLab.com is available again. Apologies for the bumpy ride.
Actually there is another avenue for Gpl software, although it's one fsf may not approve of. You sell copyright exceptions and effectively let a company buy a non-gpl cut of your code.

There are details, especially with large projects that have many contributors, but it is done.
they did not mention anything about Arch on 32-bit ARM. Still plenty of devices in the wild
> and still kind of are today

What are you referring to here?
Android apps can use native binaries. Replacing linux without breaking compatibility with apps is rather impossible (unless with some linux compatibility layer)
I just saw this video from 4 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_lfxPI5ObM

Does somebody know if there's a more recent one? It looked impressive even it's age.
> Not blaming Gitlab for bad practices or anything, i'm just curious.

On the contrary, the backup snafu was caused by a series of bad practices. If that's how backups are handled I wouldn't be surprised if the rest of the testing infrastructure has issues as well. Heck, I'd be surprised if it didn't!

Particularly because a solid testing infrastructure works in tandem with your backup processes by restoring recent backups.

Nothing tests new code better than running it on a production restore and nothing validates backups better than using them on a regular basis for testing.
> They are not forced to work in Foxconn, they choose to work in Foxconn in exchange of enough nutrition.

That's totally untrue. People who come from the country side can't change jobs like that, they need some kind of permit to change jobs and sometimes they are actually forced to work somewhere. The job market in China is clearly biased against the worker, there is no real freedom of work for a large amount of people in China. And you're not even talking about all the corruption going that make sure these people keep getting exploited and forced to work in these places.

> China is authoritarian country but it's not a totalitarian dictatorship

By all standards it is a dictatorship, with re-education camps, no freedom of speech, a secret police and summary executions. Just because they are capitalists doesn't change that. The fact is, in the west we don't care, provided we have our slaves that build cheap stuffs. We basically outsourced slavery and accepted it thanks to an effective PR and the corruption of our own governments. Things were different 10/15 years ago, back then, China had a different reputation.
running your status page from the same infrastructure is a really bad idea
So, stop using Windows. Using ancient, insecure, and unsupported (in 2020) software is not an option.
> The main benefit of WebAssembly is so that we can write code using our favorite languages

JavaScript is already common format that browser understands and there are implementations for a lot of languages translating them to JavaScript. So WebAssembly definitely is about performance, because using other languages is already solved problem.
I would think you could switch your average legacy ROR implementation to a newly coded system on just about any other platform and also come out way ahead on resource requirements.

For instance, they could have gone with .net and gotten nearly the same results AND had a stable of millions of devs to pull from.
It was back 5mins ago: https://twitter.com/gitlabstatus/status/829685770084548608
Arch Linux ARM is a separate project to Arch Linux.
hate to deliver a personal message, but you ask for it:

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Do you mind elaborating on this? Perhaps an example?
IMO, because you can use a RDB as a K/V store, but you can't use a K/V store as a RDB. And I have yet to personally work at a scale where a sharded RDB was incapable of handling the load.

The big relational DBs scale well (near-terabyte with thousands of queries per second) with little maintenance. They scale ridiculously well (terabyte+ with a million+ queries per second) with more maintenance. Most loads simply don't require the scale at which RDBs start to actually falter at.