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While I respect the angst the author feels, this snippet ... "... allowing an entity like VMware to join, despite their many years long disrespect for the most basic principles of the FOSS Community (such as: Following the GPL and its copyleft principle), really is hard to understand and accept."

I think this presumes a different rationale on the part of the Linux foundation. The answer to the question "Here is some money, can I join?" is always yes. And with enough money it is "heck yes!"

And that leads to "I guess I was being overly naive :("

Which is yes, you were.

Why do politicians, managers, and ex-lovers all have to just "put their differences aside and move on." ? Because if you don't you can't make any progress even if the penultimate step here was one that hurt you badly.

The best way to score this is that VMWare is going to participate in a forum with others who can help guide them to a better compliance record. Both to understand why compliance is good, and to alleviate fears that VMWare might have that complying would leave them vulnerable. What they were before is in the past, now you have a way to work with them to move forward. Consider the alternative that they don't join, they continue to be huge FOSS scofflaws and continue to provide some sort of 'you don't really have to comply' example to others who might be uncomfortable with the GPL. When you look at it this way, it really is a good thing.
> > it's kinda taboo to say you wish you didn't have kids!

> I think any society that has thrived has had some variation of this cultural trait.

I think in a lot of societies, having kids doesn't quite restrict your options as much as modern American society - prior to this century, you'd likely still live surrounded by family and a community who could help you with a lot of the childcare.

You could drop the kids off at granddad's on the way to work, and not spend a significant portion of your income on daycare; in-laws could come and stay with you for awhile to help you get some sleep during those first few months; if you needed to do something during a weekend that you couldn't bring a kid to, you could drop the kid off at the neighbors'.
They are growing fast. They have decent margins. But where is the sustainable competitive advantage? Can somebody enlighten me?
For anyone that doesn't know how Instacart got into YC... "How Instacart Hacked YC":

https://techcrunch.com/2012/08/18/how-instacart-hacked-yc/
Training/retraining: Done arbitrarily, mostly locally, sometimes distribute. Done with either TensorFlow or Torch. We have a custom backend for it. Often times linked with Keras.

Inference: For our custom platform, we have our own framework (in progress). For other products where our hardware is unavailable, we will use either MXNet mobile or a custom framework on mobile frameworks. For deployments where we have the luxury of a cloud link, we will either use TensorFlow serving (with a custom backend once it's done) or Flask linked to TF/Caffe/Keras (also with a custom backend once it's done).
Their new datacenter is a mile long. It would be profitable to sell chips just for the one datacenter.
If you're in Manhattan Fresh Direct is the best choice IMO.
> It's just another decision with pros and cons.

I can understand why some people here are so sensitive about this particular topic. Anyways, no, it is definitely NOT the same as any of the decisions you mentioned above. Having another HUMAN BEING is a commitment of ginormous proportions. You are responsible for raising a kid, for being there when they need you the most, through teenage phase, and (luckily? hopefully?) have good relationship as adults. All the while, supporting them financially and emotionally until they land on their feet. And even then, the parental bonds of love and care are never truly severed...you are connected to that person for your whole life. Tell me one of those decisions you mention above that are similar to this. Its absolutely a huge decision, and all of this must NOT be discounted, especially when young people are attempting to make a decision.

Also, one more really really important point about all the decisions you stated is simply: you can choose to change your mind about a decision you make, but not so with children.

> It sounds like you don't want kids. That's cool, I'm glad you know what you want. But no need to hype up this decision to have kids or not as scary or some kind of albatross.

No, its not hype at all, as I've explained above. And despite all the cons I still have an open mind about it. But please don't try to convince people its all flowers and unicorns. Give them the pros and cons and let them make the decision.
What portions of Smart Contracts is there left to figure out?
How Instacart Hacked YC (2012)
Climate change has gone on since the birth of this planet's atmosphere. We have the term "Ice Age" as evidence of our knowledge that average temperatures have varied over time. The planet has been getting warmer for at least hundreds of years, having nothing to do with humans. We are adding to that, but we don't really clearly know exactly how much is due to human activity, nor do we know as well as we sometimes claim what that will lead to.

Humans are terrible about running around shrieking "The sky is falling!" News basically means bad news.

When the oil wells in Kuwait were set on fire, it was predicted that they would burn for years and be a global environmental catastrophe. When crack teams converged upon Kuwait, invented new techniques on the spot and put them out in six months, this did not get celebrated on par with the hand wringing that initially occurred. Y2K followed a similar pattern.

When things turn out okay, we consider that normal. When disaster gets averted, we often rewrite history and claim it was never a serious threat to begin with. Then we find some new thing to have conniptions about.

Climate change is real. Potential disaster due to climate change is also real. But we routinely overcome such problems and then are all Meh, no big afterwards.

"It's the end of the world as we know it -- and I feel fine."
WKWebView has JIT. In executes the JS in a different process than the hosted app; there the JIT lives, this special process is whitelisted to do JIT magic.
I beg to disagree. I don't consider myself a "lucky bastard", but I define my own job(s) and everything I do is fascinating, I learn new things all the time. I don't do boring stuff.

Sure, there are compromises (plenty of people make more money), and it took me a while to get to where I am, but it proves that it is possible and not through luck, but rather a well-thought through approach and careful strategic thinking.
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From my position, people should seek refuge in their region and eventually return home. The USA can always send aid in the form of workers, money, logistics, and more.
You are also not invited, nobody is invited. It was posted for comments and I gave mine.

My advice for you is to think clearly and objectively about what your thoughts are and how they are misaligned with mine.

I understand what you have been claiming but you have also been decrying other people for doing the same things you are doing. I am not here for a fight. I don't want you getting swelly eyed and emotional because then all logic and reasoning will shut down.

Men in this thread are mostly doing what I have done. And that's denounce the victim complex, to denounce the notion that women need to be handled with kid gloves, to denounce that anyone believes that it's fair for women to be unequal.

It's not about maintaining a status quo, that will never be the case- it's about shutting down this kind of rhetoric which does nothing to help women. It just makes them feel validated if they feel like victims or, worse, makes them feel like they're going to be systematically oppressed when it may be perfectly false to assert that.

I have worked for a long time, if someone told me I couldn't do something I would have that bias deeply ingrained in my head, if I were told people are likely to think less of me, I would assume them being critical of me or my ideas was them attacking me or oppressing me based on those things.

Where I have worked, where my friends have worked this is patently false, but of course maybe that's because I've only worked in a few companies across Northern Europe.
physical inventory, probably
Does the market care much about size? I thought there were lots of datacenters that reached their limits on power and cooling despite having floor space available for more racks.
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This thought process, i believe, suffers from viewing humanity too highly. What is the motive for an enormously advanced species annihilating humans/earth/our solar system? On the cosmic scale we are less than pests. Incapable of doing anything short of a slight radio "buzzing" to our most immediate galactic neighbors. This does no stand to change at any point in the immediate future.
They got physical storage on premise at grocery stores who are not going to give that to providers 2-> infinity. It's highly unlikely that anyone beyond the stores themselves will be able to compete, and they would struggle mightily.
> The 20-year-old chose Facebook Messenger as a home for the latest incarnation of his robot lawyer because of accessibility. “It works with almost every device, making it accessible to over a billion people,” he said.

That can't be the whole story... A web app could have been at least as accessible. I guess Facebook offers APIs that make developing this kind of application easier than looking for other frameworks or starting from scratch.
No, it's not. It's because React Native is a totally different technical solution.
My biggest gripes with them include what you just mentioned.

I usually order from them when I'm making a large meal with typically uncommon ingredients. Today I'm making Cuban — I needed Seville oranges for mojo, yuca, rice paper for turrón, etc. Instacart is a gamble for me, and the UI is frustrating.

I want to search for several items across stores and see which ones have them all. Instead I have to try stores one by one and see what's in stock. It's not enough to get me to stop using them, but it is annoying. But the really frustrating thing is when they claim a store has an item, but the shopper doesn't have much incentive to spend time looking for those hard-to-find but critical items. So lots of my orders have missing items which I then have to go out and find myself anyway.

Also bad is that many items are hard to order specific quantities of. Some common produce items are sold by the pound, when I really just need one two count (e.g., onions). Worse, some items are labeled "per unit" but when I order two, they're converted to a weight value and I get fewer than I ordered. Again necessitating a trip to the store.

I acknowledge that most people aren't making the kinds of meals I'm doing, and not suggesting they cater to my admittedly small market segment. But if they solved these problems, they would be amazing instead of "slightly worth it".
I've found Instacart to be prohibitively expensive. When in New York I've used Fresh Direct and have never felt that I was being over charged. I have never had an order with Instacart that made me thing the increase in price was worth it. I'm sure a lot of people like it but I'm having a hard time being one of them.
Personally I like diagrammatic programming, most often seen for signal processing workflows in VFX or audio synthesis. My favorite platform from a design pov is a robotics IDE now called Flowstone. It's based around ruby iirc; in an earlier version you could also write modules in C or assembler. http://www.dsprobotics.com/flowstone.html

There are upsides an downsides to this paradigm of course; one downside is that it's not obvious how to read control flows at first. On the upside, having all your functions available in modular form makes if far easier to explore and program using high-level concepts. What I hate about conventional programming is all the typing and having to remember all the function parameters, calling conventions etc., I want the computer to do that for me. Writing code in an IDE is about as enticing as making my own Lego bricks from scratch.
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Are you seriously claiming that GPLv3 could protect you from CIA ?
Would more frequent, smaller purchase trips be better or is the human traffic/congestion at the grocery store in NYC consistently just too much of a time drain to make that strategy reasonable?

-- EDIT --
I'm curious about others' grocery buying habits because I don't use Instacart.
That's why I said 2 copies :)

1) I have a second hard drive that has a copy of the files from the first drive (They are not raid and it makes saves mechanical errors). It isn't for restoring the OS but for saving the file. I did play with a dd backup solution on a second drive but that wasn't very practical. rsync was way more practical for my needs as a content maker.

2) I have a home server that uses Crashplan that sends the files to their server. This is my offsite backup. If I accidentally delete a file this is where I get my backup copy.
It must be really weird to work for Instacart. The shoppers spend the entire day in the supermarket, shopping for other people, waiting in the checkout line over and over again. The drivers are just sitting around in the grocery store parking lot most of the time. [0]

[0] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/02/instacart-workers_n...
Very difficult to avoid ISP intrusion since they are the ones allowing you access to the internet. As you've said already a VPN is the way to solve this but even that is still going to have its own problems related to privacy.
I would never trust a vpn provider, I would recommend you learn to setup your own vps box (linode, digitalocean, aws, etc) and run an ssh vpn through it. Then you have absolute confidence that your activities are not being monitored by the provider. But again there is an ISP giving your vps access to the net now which can monitor you, and if THEY try hard enough they can correlate your activities back to you.
For what it's worth, planning when you have kids is much harder than without.

You plan on going to bed at 10pm and getting up at 5:30 to train? Cool, but are you going to be in any shape to train when you're back awake at 11:30, 1:30, 2:00, 2:15, 4:30, and 5:15? Are you going to be in any shape to study and retain that knowledge when you spent four hours of your night walking around so your kid could sleep?

That gets better as they get older, but if you told me that "it just takes planning!" after I'd gotten two hours of sleep, you might have had to demonstrate some Jiu-Jitsu, because I'd very badly want to slap you.
I'm the CTO for a top 100 alexa site. I know how DNS works lol. I just didn't see that part of the site that explained that the content was hidden.
Yeah I totally agree - in no way should your company's software be dependent on the continued existence of my service. My thinking on this is that the service I'm offering needs to be sliced up into opt-in units - $X/month for the builder, cost-plus for hosting and scaling, gateway fee for ecommerce and so on. That way, companies that want to scale out can mix and match the offering as they choose. I am somewhat concerned that someone could build most of their app and then export the code and cancel, but as I'm still building out the MVP I'll leave that for later :)
"predation dominates the universe" -- if they're so advanced, with access to swathes of the universe, why would they bother hunting us?
"Just like aborigins from America flashing lights to european explorers." How can a species so advanced be compared to people on sailing ships?
Thanks everyone for the useful answers.

I'll go too: We have 20M customers with a history 1-1000 activities per customer, updated once daily. We do nightly runs of a collaborative filtering algo to produce per-customer suggested activities, and push this to a sql database. Business users can load recommendations for each customer from this db...
> While laws and contract terms are written in natural language, this is an AI-complete problem.

Beautiful way of putting it.

I want to take it one step further, however:

While laws and contracts are written for human consumption this will be a problem. In the same way that DRM is always going to have to allow for users to view video with analog eyeballs and hear sound with analog ears, if laws and contracts are to be sensible to humans, they must be written in something a lot like normal language. I always argue that legalese is something more than normal language, but the point is that even in this stance, the interpreter is still a human being with semantic judgment faculties, and not a compiler or run-time interpreter.

You know why I do not anticipate that this will ever come to pass? The people in power that write laws and enforce contracts are human beings.
Having worked for several European manufacturers, I can tell you the R&D division producing cars is small compared to the the aftermarket.

A few of the challenges:
- which parts to produce and when
- how many
- how to ensure there is stock everywhere (shipping is not an option on a large market, as it is too costly)
- how to make sure everybody knows how to mount the part
- how to guarantee that your official spare parts are used

Saying it is "hard to keep up with the demand" is a marketing way of saying "we are not good at manufacturing".

Like software, it is easier to design the right car than fixing it after. But fixing defects or accidents is a necessity that no good design can prevent.
To be fair, climate change will very likely create hundreds of millions if not billions of refugees fleeing north in the coming decades.
I hope you're right, as I believe competition is good for the consumer. But in this case I'm not sure I see it. I can understand Walmart wanting to buy Marc, but not at that price point for a company that is growing its burn rate.

Of course, I don't know the logistics and how Walmart's acquisition could effect their burn rate and their revenue stream. My point was specifically that Jet was spending money to acquire customers, but the customers (in my anecdotal experience) always went back to Amazon.
I see this article that cover's Linus's thoughts as an insightful counterpoint...

http://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvaldss-love-hate-relat...

Net-net, I struggle to get more worked up about GPL compliance than the author of the affected open source compliance.
I agree that there are plenty of differences between the technologies. But the investment comparison in the article seems accurate; a public Internet can be traced back before the 80s, and "early development" to the 60s. A public blockchain opened in 2009. Wasn't VC investment in the former comparatively late?
My favorite description of monads is "decorators for function composition". You write a chunk of code to compose functions in one place.

That turns out to be extremely useful in many cases.

Even so, I don't believe that monads are the only way to write good code.
Since this certainly won't happen, what's the point of your question?
Things can hardly get any more structured than with a formal description using an equally formal language. Read the formal semantics of any programming language (that happens to have one, like Standard ML), and you'll see why.

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@pron: Most humans only reason very sloppily, if they reason at all. I don't see any good reason to cater to the lowest common denominator.
> alleviate fears that VMWare might have that complying would leave them vulnerable

I don't think this is the case. VMware (and their lawyers) have studied the GPL and genuinely do not believe they are not complying with its requirements.

This isn't the typical "shady hardware vendor embeds modified busybox" situation where the (in this case alleged) lack of compliance is out of laziness, fear or ignorance.

[Disclaimer: as per my other comment, I used to work at VMware, and am inherently biased in that sense, although I also happen to agree with VMware on the whole ESXi/vmklinux situation.]
When using sklearn, I've seen a lot of folks just pickle the model and use that as the interchange format. I like the human-readable interchange format you are using better. I assume you just rolled your own. Why not something like PMML?
Honestly, this thing checks off almost every piece that people have said they hate about the new MacBook Pro. No USB-A ports, only 16GB of RAM max, low performance CPUs, shallow keyboard. I'm surprised anyone is giving it the time of day around here.
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In January I had every intention of picking up one of these. They are beautiful and seemed to have everything I wanted. But I took a moment to look again at alternatives and I'm glad I did. After doing some research it seemed clear that the HP Spectre x360 was actually the ultrabook to have.

I'm not sure how good Linux support is, but with a 512gb M.2 SSD, 16GB, a U series Kaby Lake processor, and better battery life than the XPS, it felt like a non issue. I have no problems running VS and my CentOS VMs.
I rarely go to store anymore for anything and find going to the grocery store so incredibly mind numbing and unpleasant that I would pay a premium to have groceries delivered. I also don't have a car so a service like this helps me get the food I need in the most convenient way possible without owning a big, expensive, depreciating object.

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I find this stance odd to say the least. I'd be happy to throw out copyright (and copyleft along with it) -- but to only enforce classical copyright, and not enforce copyleft? That's crazy.

Are you also advocating ignoring OS X license terms (ie: do you advocate running a bought copy of OS X in a vm on non-apple hardware to build iOS/OS X applications)? Pirate Microsoft Windows, SQL Server - or run Oracle databases without paying a license fee?

If not, I can't see how you can support not following the rather simple copyleft licenses. If a company don't want to leverage all the years of developer effort that is given away for free with the Linux kernel - they're free to invest the millions of dollars worth of work to write their own kernel. I mean, if a grad student could write the Linux kernel in the early 90s, surely VMware can write an OS kernel today?
Ok, so let's say hypothetically this takes off. Now you have an army of grocery getters, for every person in NYC that doesn't leave to get their own groceries. All this does is offset all of those issues, to the person delivering your food. I guess if that convenience is worth the crazy money you have to pay for it sure, but I'd just go out to eat at that point. Especially in NYC.
Well, it's sort of well-known that key Linux Foundation figures are openly against GPL enforcement, even in its most harmless forms such as those SFC does.
I just had a turbo replaced on my turbo diesel van at 225,000k (140,000 miles). Definitely not something I felt competent doing myself. Brakes, oil filters, etc I can do.

It remains to be seen if an electric motor will do half a million kilometres without maintenance, or will the insulation in the motor breakdown, bearings need replacing. There's still CV joints too, or other drive-chain related components.

I'm certainly hoping electric vehicles will have reduced maintenance requirements.
Aggressive rheumatoid arthritis could be one reason.