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Maybe you meant the 70's?
The '80's were pretty much liberal AFAICR (in the rest of Europe), the UK has always had some "special rules", guess which country is yellow among all the green in this map?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_by_region

From:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_in_the_United_King...

>The UK has a markedly different tradition of pornography regulation from that found in most other Western countries, which legalised hardcore pornography during the 1960s and 1970s. By contrast the UK was almost the only liberal democracy not to do so.
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If the shortener is tied to a site than why is that risk any greater than the risk of the site itself being abandoned?
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seems like the message that is being sent is that workers that are remote are less valued than those that are sitting at a desk in corporate HQ. Reading some of the quotes from the remote workers seems to imply that as well. If that's true, it's an unfortunate reality from a company that even does studies in favor of remote work.
The trend is towards low/no growth, but it's not there yet because of the current growth in some developing countries as you mention.

People need to recognize that this is, currently, just a trend, and not yet a fact and certainly not a physical law. For example, large families are correlated with religious fundamentalism, which is rising. Could it rise to the point where the trend changes? It is possible.
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I'm curious why you wanted to shift your next job to .NET?

Money? Hedging it to be the future? Like the tech/languages/tools better?
But dark matter is theorized to he a particle that we haven't observed yet, which sounds like "matter" to me. The specific idea to fix up the discrepancies is, there are huge clouds of invisible particles. There are competing theories on what sort of particle they might be, but dark matter theories predict that these particles are out there.
10s is aimed for education.

There will be programming apps in the store.
>> the majority of people are adding value to society: plumbers, mechanics, pilots, engineers, most lawyers, some politicians

I agree with the rest of your comment, except for the above quote. The jobs you listed do not make up the majority. It's interesting that you only list trades and educated workers who earn above-average wages. A plumber can earn in one day of overcharged labour what it takes a worker in the service industry a week or longer. Pilots, engineers, lawyers, and politicians certainly do not belong as part of any definition of "majority".

The majority of jobs are in the service industry: fast food joints, real restaurants, retailers, etc. More than half of service industry jobs could vanish overnight, and consumers would get along just fine. These companies and jobs don't exist out of a necessity to serve society; they exist only because employees can be paid a tiny percentage of what they are worth (and in some cases being forced to live off food stamps), while the corporations rake in billions. These companies aim to make the easiest dollar possible, with no effort put into providing a service anyone actually needs. A job does not benefit society simply because a company manages to sustain itself by maximizing its own profits at the cost of taking advantage of employees.

If we could shut down every fast food joint (ex: McDonald's) and bottom-feeding retailers (ex: Walmart), and find positions for all those employees doing something more beneficial to society, that alone would make a huge difference. Those two companies are the tip of an enormous iceberg. These companies are not a "necessary evil", as if without them there would be no jobs. These corporations perpetuate the status quo to benefit themselves - society is an externality.

The capitalism we practice today will never improve upon this situation. The only incentive is for corporations to take the entire cake, offering services people think they want (they don't even really want them), rather than services people need. Things will never change without a major shift in the way we view economics. Perhaps if the next major plague takes out 50% of the population, we'll be forced to return to basics.
I can't tell - but, can the distributed-consensus portion of this be published as a library on crates.io? I...assume so, looking at the code structure.
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It's still a nontrivial observation that the equations can be corrected to account for reality most simply by adding a term for unseen matter (rather than some factor or some other mathematical operation).

Maybe the term doesn't have a straightforward physical explanation but there's a long history of introducing math without any corresponding mechanistic explanation---this is what gravity itself was until general relativity, nothing more than an inexplicable inverse-square attractive force.
I started being involved with Open Source in the early 00s.

For source code, people typically used CVS or (later) SVN. The repos were hosted by platforms like SourceForge, berliOS or Savannah, or on the projects' own servers.

Releases were tarballs hosted on servers. End users sometimes got software by downloading and compiling those, but there were already package managers and repositories. Before most people had Internet at home, at least in France, you could buy CDs with Linux packages at the press store.

Communication between developers typically happened on IRC for casual chat and through mailing lists (hosted with mailman) for serious stuff. Sometimes there were web forums to communicate with users. And conferences, of course. A lot of projects were developed by people who were physically close, for instance people who met at the same Linux Users Group.

Some projects used bugtrackers actively, some did not. It was mostly Bugzilla or Trac. That did not really change too much with GitHub.

The main difference in my mind is that forking was usually regarded as something bad. You would not fork a project and then send pull requests to fix issues.

For a simple fix, you would generate a patch and send it to the project's mailing list, where it would be discussed and eventually checked in by one of the owners. If you wanted to really engage with the project, you would become active in the community and eventually get commit rights.

I think what led to that change of model is: cheap branching in Git, GitHub as a platform with users account, and maybe Continuous Integration making it easier to validate patches.
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I don't feel like that's the case every time. Sometimes you make the right decision for the wrong reasons. Or your bad decisions, by way of luck, end up not hurting you.

Bill Gates, for example, initially declined IBM's approaches to build DOS for them. He declined, and referred them to Gary Kildall. IBM only came back to Gates because the deal with Kildall fell apart. There was no vision, skill, etc, in that sequence of events. Just luck. I imagine other highly successful people could point out similar stories in their past.

Gates likely would have been successful either way, but perhaps not to the same degree.
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I would say Google Code took over from Sourceforge before GitHub
I deslike C a lot, however it still is probably the only programming language with more market share than Java.

C design is driven by committee with deep respect for backwards compatibility, despite the inherent security flaws, the language differences between C11 and C89 are superficial.

Likewise, in spite of having Oracle at the helm, Java's design is driven by the JEP working group.

When the majority of the world depends on Java, cannot add language features just because they look cool.

C# moves fast because it mostly only Microsoft calling the shot, even if they are now taking input via Github.

We just saw Java politics recently with IBM and Red-Hat vetting jigsaw because it isn't a copy of OSGi.
I think it's incredibly naive to underestimate how much value GitHub provided by shifting the focus from users to developers and putting contribution front and center.

SourceForge was primarily a way to distribute software. While most software would be under some form of open source license you'd often also find plenty of projects that either weren't really open source or hosted their source code elsewhere. And when the source was on SF, the web interface for browsing it was unintuitive and unhelpful.

The most intuitive use of SF for non-maintainers was downloading releases and leaving comments. There was a separate space for filing issues but it was pretty much just another forum. And let's not forget that contributing code also meant you had to have experience with using SVN (or CVS, I think?) because learning that at the time felt even more daunting than git does now.

Before THAT you were mostly confined to sending patches to newsgroups or mailing lists as far as I recall. I open sourced a single project on SF and beyond that never really got into open source until GitHub made it painless and straightforward -- I doubt I'm the only one.
>I hope that if we can just hold off on the crazy orwellian plans and ideas long enough for the old cluster of people in high places to die (of old age)

The phenomenon has nothing much to do with "age". The old people running stuff today said the same thing for the "old timers" (Nixon etc) when they were young, and lots of them were themselves were 60s hippies, rebels, revolutionaries, etc when they were young.

See how they turned out?

It's not that new generations bring more liberal people, and not even that age changes you. It's power and interests that come into play. Which young persons don't have much, in the same way they don't have a seat in the senate. And when (a few) do, they can be as conservative/exploitive/etc as any 80 year old politician or CEO, etc.
I was shown a video by my father who owns a Cirrus of a parachuting plane on fire. It may have been the fatality. I believe the parachute works beautifully, but you have to make sure you use it correctly.
Thank you, this comment is uplifting and thought-provoking.
As long as money keeps flowing from the Pentagon to private contractors who cares? There hasn't been any other point to defense for a long time.
The original post was about frighteningly difficult problems. I think they meet that criterion.
Definitely. There is no potential for charter operations for a plane with no toilet. Many companies learned it the hard way trying to operate the Eclipse. With no charter market, plane is dead because there are never enough hobby pilots to buy it to pay back sunk costs. For low-range flights <600 miles where operating without toilet is feasible, helicopter works better.
Sunsite.

And new releases were announced on Freshmeat.
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"It will cause performance problems if you don't" , with only a gut feeling to back it up, and no actual testing.

I just ran into this response yesterday, and I ended up going over his head (unfortunately) and asked our DBAs for a recommendation. DBA solution worked faster than either of the previous two solutions. I still need to apologise for that one.
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I think you got caught up by the misnaming of 'dark matter'. It's better to think of it as 'transparent matter'. It's non-interacting, not like a Dyson sphere which would obviously be interacting e.g. from it blocking what's behind it even if it itself makes no emissions.
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Definitely true, and the lack of distinction drives me insane sometimes.

However, describe this distinction to the average executive and tell us how it goes. :-)
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Not the commenter, but guessing AFS = andrew file system.

This has been used for decades by a lot of the universities who were original internet consumers (MIT, Univ of Michigan, Carnegie Mellon, etc). In fact, it is still used by a lot of these universities and research institutions for data sharing and distributed computing, afaik.
The problem is just that human capital by itself does not facilitate economic growth. A look at the Soviet Union can show you that as well. The Soviets had a huge well educated population with fantastic mathematicians and everything you need to be successful, but the had almost no growth for 20 years.

I don't know a book specifically focusing on that issue, but any book on the history of economic development should have some discussion on this problem. There are good books both those that are more populist and the more academic ones. There is also the question do you want to focus on Development Economics specifically or general growth theory. One is more about how you can help somebody grow the other is more fundamentally about why growth happens.

I suggest you start view something more broad then just looking into education. A mooc like this: http://www.mruniversity.com/courses/development-economics-0

The list of books are very long. Something like "The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics" might be a starter. Once you get into the topic you can go in different direction. I am confident that I will also conclude that education by itself will not lead to sustained development.
I was with you until eBay! Unless something dramatically changed, eBay invented the shitty reseller business model when it began catering to power sellers and ignoring the multitude of scams in the market.
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Personally, I've transitioned to the library and local bookstore model for my book purchases.
> until Linux wrote "git" in the late 2000s

typo: it’s "Linus".
Sad how the last season ruined it. All characters lost their senses.
This is funny but dont get cocky because STEM is not immune. Think about abstract design patterns or something
Yes they say just that in the article

"Even if those numbers are a significant quality of life improvement, there’s plenty of work left for us to get to no visible delays due to the garbage collector. We have already a solid pipeline of improvements coming on our next releases."
What are you talking about?!

https://github.com/torvalds/linux

Linus just don't agree with GitHub's pull-requests, so he doesn't accept such that way.
1 dropped frame at 60fps is very noticeable?

confirm this via experiment?
again, thats what theoretical physicists do. Someone makes a weird observation and your theory is left with a hole. You try to plug it.

They don't preach these things. Physicists don't run around preaching unprovable holy grail theories. They just make something up. Out of nothing. Because its their job. They need to come up with falsifiable theories that can be verified in lab experiments.

In order to do so, they HAVE TO hypothesize something. They can't just say "err dark matter right?". They have to say "there could be a particle with these properties, a mass of roughly X, producing a cross-section of Y when bombarded with tau-leptons etc.". That's just the scientific method.

Any physicist who postulates particles does that from a position of "it probably doesn't exist". The same way when you measure something to be faster than the speed of light, you assume that a cable is broken.

Then some journalist comes around saying "lol paper says weird particle exists, scientists are whack". That's annoying. But it happens.

If journalists wrote about CS the way they write about physics, the next time someone loses 2 BTC from their wallet, they'd claim that thats hard evidence of quantum computers being invented by north korea. Hypothetically plausible but as outlandish as permissible by reality.
Children are expensive and time-consuming, because in our society we're expected to take care of them, and the standard for that is very high. In developing countries, the standard is much lower and children are able to help run the household, so they're incentivized to have more children. As the things that make a country 'developed' spread in developing countries, the equation starts to tip the other way...
For the same price, I think I would rather have an extra day and a half of vacation.
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I think the concerns of the "publishing industry" also apply to authors that self-publish on say, Amazon's CreateSpace.
>As an American who cherishes liberty and freedom, I'm shocked that anyone could support these laws in the UK. They are straight up Orwellian...

Well, those (liberty and freedom) are mostly cherished in lip service by most, and only when it comes to government.

Otherwise, few bat an eye that between them Google and Facebook (and perhaps 2-3 other players) control and have access to 90% of what people do on the internet. And that they also sleep with their government for their nation's interests.
>Why all of this?

It's about strategic positioning to control resource routes in anticipation of the coming resource wars that everyone pretends isn't going to happen. This while the Leo Strauss-ians like Kissinger and Brzezinski work hard to initiate cold-war 2.0 because the Middle East destablization program was simply a precursor to bigger more nasty conflicts, (which start economically) and most of this is arising due to the fact that technology has advanced so fast it altered the nation-states threat model and they don't know how to handle a kind of world where any lone-wolf actor could do devestating things. Hence a surveillance state of totalitarian dystopia is the only response they know that might be able to handle it except they don't really care about national security that much or they wouldn't be wasting taxpayer dollars on kickbacks to relatives around the beltway instead of fixing problems.

Africa is a war ground for precious minerals and metals (and some oil) and because the Chinese have been making big plays there the Americans want to balance out the power so they have a foothold when the minerals that go in that phone in your pocket become more scarce because China suddenly halted exports of theirs or something similar.

I spent some time in the Horn of Africa, and I can tell you I'd rather be in Iraq... at least Iraqi's pickup their dead bodies, and I never saw a 12 year old patrolling with an AK in Iraq either.

The point is that while you are right that we need to rethink how far we overextend our forces into foreign entanglements, there are other things at play here of which terrorism is only a part of and is often a byproduct of. We also need to consider how often such moves have resulted in blowback worse than the initial problem. I look all over the world and see problems that are blowback from our meddling in the first place. (Iran is a prime example of this. The Mullahs would have never come to power if we hadn't overthrown their gov for oil in the first place.)
Perhaps. But who is better equipped to decide: the individual or "society?"
I live in a Pacific Northwest suburb and they pretty much follow this convention to the letter. Probably has something to do with how recently everything here was built.
God this more than anything before has made me feel old.

Is GitHub that strongly associated with open source that alternate models for open source development are a mystery? Somehow that's really troubling to me in terms of the open source paradigm, even though I generally see GitHub as a very positive thing. I don't mean that as a criticism of the poster, just saying that it feels like maybe there's some room for more diversity and competition.

I think others have given pretty good descriptions of pre-GitHub models, so I'll leave that to them.
The best way to do it would be to funnel all communication with the engineers through the manager. This includes questions, ideas for new features, feedback from customers, and so on.

What you want to avoid is random people (and that includes higher ups) pinging the engineers directly. That can be incredibly distracting and can result in large decreases in productivity, not to mention higher likelihood of bugs and other problems as the engineer is kicked out of their "zone" and loses their concentration.

http://heeris.id.au/2013/this-is-why-you-shouldnt-interrupt-...
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I [too] don't think it's about bad wording, yet pure bad logic.

The article is positioned on the principle that was imagined based on wrong assumtions of other theory and which acceptance will dissmiss the other theory.

I'm not even being close to think of being positioned on a side there, but afaic one could easily take one in this subthread.

TL; DR yep, dark matter could be denied no matter of the state of its understanding - just bring the better explanation of those irregularities its existence explains!
>Whether we are supporting it or not remains to be seen.

After living quietly with 24/7 cctv monitoring, all kinds of anti-privacy laws, etc, it's not like it's a real nail-biting mystery this one...
Price discrimination, yeah. You make cheap versions of a product for people who are very price sensitive- that is, people without much money. You still make a profit, they get a version of the product they can afford.

I did this with math textbooks in college. You can buy "gray market" books, which are versions made for foreign markets but bought by resellers and reimported to the US. They're the same exact book, but printed without color, on cheap paper in a cheap binding. This was perfect for me, since they were also much cheaper than the US edition.

If anything, the discrimination was going the other way. The only way to get a cheap copy of the book was to buy it off the gray market- the punisher wouldn't sell the cheap editions inside the US.
GitHub launched in 2008. SourceForge added git support in 2009. That year delay surely contributed to GitHub taking over. Git was an absolute breath of fresh air after years of SVN (and CVS...)
Shhhh. You're not supposed to talk about Saudi and Israel bleeding us dry. What are you, an antisemite conspiracy theorist?
Two things. First, it is really troubling if Apple wants to impose a tax on transactions between app users. Tipping is used often in China (for example, in the form of "red envelopes" at Chinese New Year) and a 30% cut for Apple is simply incomprehensible and downright immoral. Second, the day that WeChat gets out of the App Store is the day that Apple becomes irrelevant in China. If the story is true, I am afraid somebody at Apple has not thought this thing through.
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This almost an exact duplicate:

http://cosmos.nautil.us/short/144/the-physicist-who-denies-t...

and original HN comments here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13743439

Do people not search Agolia before posting? Is it acceptable to repost things? (I'm not HN expert).