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The only thing that makes proprietary software popular is the fact that proprietary software depends on more proprietary software.

If you use closed-source software, and you want a new feature, you must create entirely new software that is compatible with it, and usually that means hiring the same companies (who can read the original code) or hiring new "professionals" that have made themselves comfortable with the ecosystem.

Free software, on the other hand, allows the application of less software for the same amount of work. You can add features, and those who work with free software don't waste everyone's time with proprietary software if they can avoid it.

The US government is incredibly inefficient, especially in IT, and its solution thus far has been "throw more money at the problem". This is clearly a detrimental non-solution. Those of us with clear heads should be adamant that proprietary software does not belong in our government.
I think I must be the only person of my generation who didn't like Goldeneye. Everybody raves about it, but it was just a terrible FPS when compared to its contemporary PC FPS games. Console games always get a boost for getting 4 people in the room trash-talking each other, but in this case it wasn't enough of a boost to make up for mediocre gameplay.
The difference is back then it was OK to be political about American politics because it only affected Americans. Now technology touches every part of the world and information travels in seconds via social media.

There are a lot of software developers I used to respect and followed on Twitter whom I stopped following because I got sick of their American politics tweets. I'm sure it's the same dynamics with American celebrities tweeting about Donald Trump. Most of the world don't care about Donald Trump nor want to hear about some privileged rich Americans complaining about their politics.

They havre their own shit to worry about and don't have time to be force-fed all the American political propaganda.

I can understand individuals being political, but if you're an organization like Mozilla, you have a clear goal, and that is NOT left politics. They should aspire to be as neutral as they can.
It is too late to edit it. If I could, I'd change it to suggest they not be more verbose than absolutely needed. Put time and effort into writing it, as they will be putting time and effort int responding to it. That time can be used to ensure the grammar is acceptable, the questions clear, and the message as concise as it can reasonably be.

Given the popularity of this project, and all the media attention, I suspect they are fairly busy.

Like you, though past-tense, I loved having interested people contact me for more information. I didn't even mind if they were also my business competition. Sometimes, the projects I worked on had a public face and yet was great - but it sometimes reached the point where it was eating into my limited time.

I'm more than happy to share what I know, what I am doing, and how I got there. What I was doing was innovative and there was more business than we could reasonably handle. (I helped move traffic modeling to the computer age and would later expand into pedestrian traffic modeling.)
Dude.

You told me I am imature, because I proposed the theory, that in some(!) cases, it might be better for a suicidal person to just kill himself, instead of everyone around them as well. (I know cases, where persons literally think about the latter, those I referenced)

So what has that to do with psychopaths who take advantage of sensitive persons and possible drive them to death?!?

Not at all related for the sake of the original argument.

But by now I know your type of person well, self-declared enlighted ... high above the "
primitive species" below.
But unhappy, because the primitive people have the power and therefore drive the enlightened down out of jealously. Yeah, yeah, I know.

Well in that case, what do you think about a very low specimen who is so down, that he hinks about either killing himself, or other's? Save him under all costs and risk him later still killing "enlightened" people? Or accept him choosing to go on his own, now?
Why do you care anyway, he's just from a "low species"...
She went into NIE, did the two-year program, got the diploma, and then went on to do the four-year program to get the full degree.

Mind you, it isn't all sunshine and roses, since in return for the government paying for basically everything, she has to work more than a few years in the MOE public school system. Although they do get paid, you make much more money as a private tutor with credentials so people fresh from the degree program are always eager to get on out.

Regarding my Uncle, this is what he told me when I asked at the last CNY, but I can accept if he was off by a few thousand.
"Use of open source software has been declining..." is a clickbait headline that is a pretty minor part of the document. It should be no surprise that Oracle doesn't like open source and I don't think there's much benefit to getting into the mud on that topic.
No contract may take away a person's rights.
How would that be possible in position-independent code (which you need for ASLR and such)? You'd need to fetch some base address from memory, even if you can compute the offset from that.
Never underestimate the power of being able to goof around.

When I was a kid, I learned basic Unix commands using 'learn', a tutorial program that worked like this: you were presented a menu of concepts to learn from which you chose one. The program would then give you a textual overview of the concept and any associated commands; then, to test your knowledge, it would give you a goal (say, move a specified file into a specified directory, or edit a file) and drop you into a fake shell prompt.

The fake shell worked just like the real shell in most every way. You could mess around, delete files, destroy stuff, etc. When you thought you had finished the lesson you could type a command (I believe it was 'ready'), and the tutorial would then exit the fake shell and assess your progress. If you did not meet the goal, or you seriously messed up the fake environment, you would not pass the lesson but you could opt to be dropped into the fake shell, restored to the exact same state as when you first saw it, and try the lesson again.

Rapping newcomers on the knuckles for exploring is not how you win them over. Give them directed goals to accomplish, sure, but also give them a safe environment where it's practically impossible to seriously mess things up while exploring, so that they can satisfy that "what does this button do?" urge as they hunt for the solution.
Because Freedom Markets™?
Customer support is what makes proprietary software popular.
How much of a rounding error can there be when they say "3 billion" instead of "y'know what, it was all of them"?
I'm not worried about it working. I'm worried about the precedent, but I take solace in the remoteness of success. Trying to force an action to be taken by every ISP in the country without naming them in a suit, is very unlikely to be upheld. Comcast et al could voluntarily comply and users would probably have no basis to challenge them, but that seems unlikely given the floodgates it would open from other copyright owners.
For business/database apps Xamarin Forms can work really well.
Not sure why your comment got flagged. I think it's a valid question that deserves an informed answer.
I've always been a big proponent of self-driving cars, but only because I imagined them as fully autonomous. A fleet of self-driving cars that rely on being backed by, essentially, a call center, sounds like a nightmare.

"When Waymo tested in Phoenix earlier this year, drivers sometimes had to take over the wheel to prevent the cars from holding up traffic because it took too long for humans in the command center to answer the cars’ requests for help."
What does that lead to? Contempt of court?
Any non government entity storing data about me (PII and beyond) can only do so with my (revokable) permission and owes me my cut.
"we built a workflow that allowed one person to ruin the company."

that's one heckuva excuse, dude.
By the same token, "in stark contrast to many other nations in the world where legal residents, whether citizens or not, get the same care and treatment" above also generally does not apply to temporary workers, but does apply to permanent residents, in those other nations.
I tried a few "beginner" ones at random and none showed actual satellite imagery, just snippets of maps. (?)
So you do understand.
Except that it's not. The assertion made was that any empirical definition of consciousness that applies to humans would likewise apply to states. This is a straightforward claim.

If you dispute this claim then all you need to do is provide an empirical definition of consciousness that applies to humans but not states. I will note that defining "consciousness" as something like "the human experience" is vacuous and doesn't count.
Good point, although the report states 3 billion user accounts were breached but this doesn't mean 3 billion people. I am guessing the vast majority of accounts did not contain any sensitive information.

And maybe insurance isn't the right word; the risk should probably fall to the company holding the data, not a third party who would never be able to audit every single step to ensure there is no weak link.
While ironically being the most proven business model for free software.
Same machine and specs here. Bought it as a refurb in Jan 2013. Still happy after almost 5 years of constant use.

The only downside for me is the 128gb drive which limits my options when it comes to VMs.

Looking at what has come from Apple since this model, I haven't seen anything tempting. I'll run this one into the ground.

What would tempt me would be this machine again with 16gb ram and at least 256gb ssd. Retina and a newer CPU would be icing.
You come across as suggesting to someone they should self-terminate because it's better that way.
We didn't he and the GOP cheated their way in.
This reminds of a fairly well known online/offline service company that does not patch their production Windows servers at all. Their mode of defense is firewall. Apparently they has some servers/apps breaking when Windows servers were patched, so they do not patch their servers at all.
I even seen a designer specialized in creating beautiful ICO websites :)
I'd much rather they limited their donations to organizations with still-breathing warrant canaries (e.g. not RiseUp).

Maybe I'm cynical, but I think that non-profit organizations with dead national security warrant canaries cannot accomplish technical or social activism as effectively as they might have in the past.
I suspect just requiring people seeking credit to just have to come personally to a bank with a photo-ID, a pay-stub and have to confirm they have access to the postal address they have on their ID would solve it. This wouldn't by any means be foolproof (after all, half the highschool students in the US manage to get passable fake IDs), but the fact that it would increase the effort to open lines of credit, slow down the rate at which you could open new lines and increase the risk of getting arrested when you tried would, I think, shift the risk and reward balance on most scams to the extent that it wouldn't be worth it to the scammers anymore
oracle and open source? do i smell something here.
I've seen programmers get overruled by "product managers" in regards to handling email as it is intended to be handled.
Pretty sure it's the same across the world, really. Try getting your medical records expunged in Cuba or your search records expunged in China. I bet you have the same success as in the US.
The commentary doesn't specify, but what private sector use of OSS might be declining rapidly? Does this claim have any merit? It seems like almost all web stacks rely heavily on OSS, but coming from Oracle, I assume they could be talking about databases specifically. Would it be true to suggest use of OSS databases, e.g., MySQL, is declining?

Oracle positioning themselves against OSS is interesting, and might be telling. I would assume that a message to the govt that OSS is bad means that OSS is actually winning, and Oracle is more scared of open source than it is of other for-profit competition.

This is also in line with the government defining OSS as "commercial" software. From the government's perspective, the line isn't whether they paid money, it's more like whether the software comes with a license. http://dodcio.defense.gov/Open-Source-Software-FAQ/#Q:_Is_op...

I feel like that's where Oracle's commentary trips up a bit, because they're painting a picture of the fears of bad things that can happen when using OSS, without realizing the government already figured out that most of the implications and liabilities of any software come from the licensing, and not the dollar costs.
Yeah I genuinely would like an answer haha. I'm certainly not trying to start an argument I just don't know anyone personally who uses these designer languages (might be an unfair term) so I'm relatively uninformed.
> In neither of these cases did we find an issue more severe than Medium.

What does that mean?
That does sound sad. It could happen when your love becomes a profession and you are pressured to do things that keep you the job rather than make you happy. This is what I warn my son about. It may be a happier outcome if one just focuses on using one's skills to make the best living and keeping one's passion a hobby instead, except one may suffer excessively from FOMO (fear of missing out). I really don't know what the answer is. Everyone has to make their own choice.
The only way is to blur your analytics. Move out of Google/Facebook. Install Ad Nauseam extension to not just block tracking but click on everything in the background. This will ruin the information they gather about you with noise.

https://adnauseam.io/
Most people don't even think about the consequences until it's too late. It's a new kind of problem.
Not a lawyer but I worked for a different agency. The burden is incredibly high here because courts provide a considerable amount of 'deference' (See Chevron Deference or Chevron v NRDC) to agencies as long as they follow the rules of the Administrative Procedures Act and their interpretation of the law is not off the wall.
I believe most surgical steel is fine. I have a permanent retainer in my mouth and have no issues getting an MRI. The only problems would be if I need an MRI of my head, the metal could cause distortions in the image.

With that said, tell your doctor and more importantly tell the MRI tech about all possible metal in your body.
IRS Awards Equifax $7.25M Contract to Help 'Verify Taxpayer Identities'
This case was started when Google discovered that Uber's Spider prototype was identical to an early Google lidar. It now appears that they haven't been using it primarily, but your hypothetical smoking gun is literally the foundation of this case.
i don't think i'm explaining this well. I apologize for that.

i looked at your company. you and your cofounder had deep technical expertise in an area that was white-hot at the time (obviously not a perfect comp, but that was the year zynga ipo'ed on the strength of mobile gaming). so i am not surprised at all that you got into YC without any connections. im sure there are many deeply technical founders in "hot" areas such as AI, robotics, etc that are currently getting into YC without connections.

note: again, not a perfect comp, but they probably looked at you and thought that this has dropbox-like potential. also, perhaps you will disagree that the space was "white hot" based on your own personal experiences -- my rebuttal to this would be YC was probably ahead of the curve, as it usually is, as that space definitely became white hot if not around that time period, then shortly thereafter.

my point is that there are thousands of founders that apply every year to YC, who do not have PMF, prior exits, or obviously industry/technical knowledge in "hot" areas -- out of these folks, the ones that get in, i am guessing, had really good connections.

i honestly don't think i'm saying anything that outlandish. VCs don't even try to hide that you need to be connected with a "warm" intro to get their attention -- they make that publicly known. while there are always exceptions such as you and your cofounder, i don't think YC (which is for intents and purposes a VC with a better business model, a 3 month founder bootcamp, and afaict no LPs) is any different.
Does this mean sending a copy to literally every bank? Dozens of major ones? Or just banks which your parents have a relationship with? Is there a central authority for this sort of thing?
"and the problems Twilio have"

Care to expand on this? When I visited their site to find out what they offer, I immediately said to myself.. "So this is just a Twilio competitor".
> It still takes lot of expensive human work to select the good quality works and proofread /edit/ peer review them etc before it is fit for publishing in a decent journal

Good thing that almost all of that expensive effort is done by volunteer scientist editors and reviewers. I routinely see spelling errors and english errors (going against journal guidelines for British/US english) in scientific literature. I'm convinced publishers do as little proofing as possible.
It's not too surprising. The patient doesn't care what's being charged!

We'd see the same thing in other industries if market interference led to the customer not being price sensitive. Like higher ed.
That seems like an exercise in futility. These are, at their core, political/management issues. Getting coders involved and misleading them into believing their code will do something to counteract the incentives that cause such behavior is just going to lead to a lot of very frustrated coders.
Mozilla isn't neutral politically, though there isn't a specific political alignment that is endorsed. That is, it's issue-focused, rather than partisan.

We have a strongly-worded manifesto that lays out what we believe: https://www.mozilla.org/about/manifesto/

Mitchell Baker, the chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation, talking about how the current political environment in America might overlay that manifesto: https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2017/03/13/the-worldview-of-...

I'm an employee at Mozilla, though am trying to set personal politics aside to present public explanation of our institutional viewpoint.
Grass-fed beef promotes climate change
So a lot of chemicals act like estrogens in the body (i.e. many endocrine disruptors) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenoestrogen, they are absolutely in your water, it's really a question of dose. For example, the Xenoestrogen Bisphenol A is in the water, but water only account for 3% of your average bisphenol A exposure (plus it's in the air too, kicker).

But that's just technical details. The point is, without access to these articles a consumer cannot even make informed decisions on the most basic health choices.
There’s not really a reasonable continuous analog, IMO (unless you just want to see a single solid blob, like in your picture, but that hides all of the interesting part of the structure). But there are moiré-like patterns.

Check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhbuKbxJsk8 for some insight based on a related type of diagram (related to a single row at a time from the OP’s diagrams).
> Mind you, it isn't all sunshine and roses, since in return for the government paying for basically everything, she has to work more than a few years in the MOE public school system.

It should be noted that such "full-ride" scholarships are generally reserved for the top students in a cohort (scoring at least, I believe, AAB at A Level), and are not available to all citizens (as compared to EU citizens who enjoy heavily-subsidised tuition and student loans).

On the other hand, Singapore has a tuition grant available for all international students who are admitted into a public university [1], with the stipulation that they work for a Singapore company for at least three years after they graduate. (This is aimed at trying to get "smart" people to settle down in Singapore.)

Singapore's system heavily favours strong academic potential (the government's idea of "meritocracy" — which is starting to show its cracks [2]) over egalitarianism.

There are sadly no "student loan" schemes to allow for independent living.

[1] https://tgonline.moe.gov.sg/tgis/normal/studentViewTuitionGr...

[2] https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2017/09/28/dr-chee-soon-jua...
> My take is that people generally enjoy having "punching bags".

I don't think this is true for a person, but is regularly encouraged at the group level and higher. Particularly if the group has developed a hierachy.

Nations states do this a lot. Religion does this a lot. Corporations do it a lot.

I don't believe it's a truism of humans, but a truism of authoritarians and those with power.

Fear of death is an individuals core motivator. Understanding ones environment, and safe ways to utilize what's available in it to prevent death. Authoritarians have manipulated the people around them to prevent their death. Authoritarians want to keep that power, so they peddle propaganda to their followers to give them a justification to support them, not $VILLAINS_OF_THE_WEEK.
You can do whatever you want with your body. The law has no control over you ending it all. Do not resuscitate orders and the like are all yours to set, too. Make a will, tell your loved ones what your wishes are so they don't pull the plug prematurely.

My disagreement is with killing people. I particularly have a problem with killing people who do not wish to die by withholding care because they're no longer useful, too expensive, etc. This is the institutional murder that I'd like to avoid.

I'd prefer to err on the side of caution rather than make blanket "right to die" laws. Right to die laws a) expand like all laws do, and b) get misapplied in tragic ways.

The problem of euthanasia is thorny because abstract arguments in-favor are very dangerous. "I don't see any reason that they shouldn't also have the right to decide when to give that right up" is not very specific. I am therefore assuming you are a very dangerous, if well-meaning, person.
See my comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15386994

Emacs comes fairly close, but not close enough for me.

What I want is modularity to the extreme. I want to define an entire UI/UX as a user without running into roadblocks.

I have envisioned a set of default UIs that the user can simply override, or reference in their own UI. This way a new user is presented with a familiar editor, but can cleanly step away from defaults. No workarounds.

> I'd be rather interested in what you end up with.

My problem is that I care so much about planning ahead that I have started over several times. It would be very helpful for me to get feedback from others, and bounce ideas back and forth.

I am considering putting a serious effort into this project, since I am currently unemployed, and need to build a resume, etc.
F-35's are also single engine.
Oscar voters held a rare members-only meeting to discuss the Netflix problem
Qt or CopperSpice? If mobile is not a priority and native look and feel on desktop is essential then go for wxWidget.
Ultimate++ is another option.