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It is a while that I think about monetizing open source.

Honestly, I do not believe that companies will pay to use open source software when they can just download it.

Developers will prefer to just download instead of waiting for the legal department and the budget approval.

On the other hand, if it was simpler to just download the code/executable and then pay later, without any hassles from the legal department it could be the standard way to use Open Source.

However, there is still the problem of what to sell.

A great idea could be to distribute the executable when it applies, thinking about golang, C/C++, any compiled language.
For languages that are interpreter you could distribute the ruby gem, or the python egg or the JS packet.

Now if we combine this mechanism with some rate-limiting and price structure.

Stuff like:

* 10€ for one time download of the current version.

* 50€ for one time download of any version forever, when a new version comes out you can download it too.

* 10€/month for 30 downloads/months of the current version

* 50€/month for 30 downloads/months of any version

* 100€/month for unlimited downloads.

... and so on.

This could already provide several benefits, and be enough for several projects.

However we could also go a little forward.

We could provide an incentive to the buyers to buy the software and that incentives could be to do not distribute the building instruction or the dependencies list as open source.

Of course it will be possible to reverse-engineer the build instructions or the dependencies, however, it will be so time-consuming that any sane actor will prefer to just pay a little fee.

Finally, we could provide, under a restrictive license, the above-mentioned build instruction to whoever wants to contribute to the code base in a non-automatic way.
Just send an email, ask for them, explain what you are going to do, promise to do not use them to by-pass the above restriction and you are ready to go.

In this way:

1. We maintain most of the code open.

2. There will be incentives to just pay for open source.

3. There will be a trade-off between new contributors and time/resource the current maintainer will be able to support the project. (I don't believe that somebody willing to dive into the complexity of an open source project to add features will be scared off by contacting the maintainer, explain to him what he wants to add, maybe wait his feedback, and finally get the build instructions. Honestly, I see mostly benefits in this project)

I would love to hear feedback about this idea.

So please share your thoughts and if you are interested in trying something like that feel free to contact me via email :)
One thing to keep in mind is population is a factor. Literally every single member of the House of Representatives is either a Democrat or a Republican. In the Senate there are 2 exceptions, Bernie Sanders and Angus King. The interesting thing is that Sanders and King represent Vermont and Maine respectively. Vermont has a population of 0.6million. Maine has a population of 1.3 million. They're the 2nd and 9th least populated states in the country. First past the post isn't awful with smaller populations. With a small population it's possible for people to get their message out without the resources of an enormous party, and similarly not get drowned out by the resources of said parties when running against them.

But as population sizes increase the resources of parties become critical. And as voters become more and more disconnected from their representatives, the value of having a symbol by your name becomes much more important than what you actually believe, and in some cases the former actually ends up redefining the latter. In any case the fact that nearly everybody at most all levels is a republican or democrat even though fewer people than ever actually identify as republican or democrat, is something that I would call very strong evidence of a systemic problem in our electoral system.
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The Fate of the West: The Battle to Save the World's Most Successful Political Idea.

This review claims it's the best book of 2017 and sums it well: https://www.amazon.com/gp/review/R24LMIB16JWMLC?ref_=glimp_1...
>Do you volunteer to be the one to inform business owners and small art house cinema operators that they're now forbidden to engage in any marketing of their goods and services, and all the media that the majority of their revenue is now illegal?

Actually, small business owners and small art house cinema operators would (or should) be delighted from such a change -- it means the films they play could get as much marketing revenue (0) as the blockbusters now advertised all across town.

This would TURN people towards the more quirky, smaller scale and generally the less able to advertise today, not the opposite...
To me all arabs/chinese/Japanese look the same as well. I asked an Indian friend and he said they are not similar.
If your definition of ownership is that the state can take things from you because it has the monopoly on power there’s a very sad message I have for you: It’s basically everywhere like that. Try not paying the taxes due on land and housing property in the US and see what happens.
I do a combination of the two which so far has not let me down
The situation was complex but the conclusion was ultimately pretty easy. It was obvious that Bush et al were completely making stuff up.

Note that Iraq did resist inspections and didn't fully cooperate, but inspectors did get in and inspected a lot, and this was ongoing when the Bush administration brought it to a halt with the invasion.
It seems fundamental that you're building artifacts for users. In user interface design there's no hard science, no falsification. An application that wins now might lose later when things have changed, and this can be based on fashion.

Of course, it has to work. But a sculpture has to "work" too in the sense that it shouldn't collapse. Structural integrity is only part of the goal. Similarly for programs.
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Didn't they break everything between versions 1 and 2? If that's "backwards compatible" I hate to think what their LTS would have looked like.
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It depends on the revisit time, spatial resolution, region of interest, cloud coverage and product type. For example Landsat 8 images the entire Earth every 16 days, Sentinel-2 revisit time is ~5 days with 2 satellites and MODIS provides daily data but at moderate spatial resolution (> 250m).
We expect both the spatial resolution and revisit time to improve as more companies are launching satellite constellations.
I enjoyed this BBC version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRxn3pDMCc4
1. Is not fixed on 11.1.

Edit: Please be clear it still is upcoming, and not 'had been upcoming when the bug was publicised'; so a simple big in a calculator app takes them exactly 2 releases to fix.
There's gold in there!
Keys are still easier to store and harder to confiscate than chunks of gold or fiat are. Can memorize them (worst case), store paper or tiny sd card in sock or shoe if afraid of it being confiscated or perhaps email it to you. Or tell part of it to different family members.
“I’m not a racist, but…”
Yes. Arguing for a Nordic system is effectively proposing massive middle class tax increases. Citizens in those countries typically are paying for their own services, not having them provided by the rich.
Funnily enough, critical theory is a liberal arts discipline!
The only UI that is too slow to respond on modern hardware is a UI which is so laden with shitware. There's absolutely no other reason for a UI to be too slow to respond to typing; whether it's a terminal application, a native application, or a browser GUI.

A GUI that changes what you've typed into some field (especially when you're not looking) is a prime example of UI dark patterns and shitware.
If two minds share the same brain, this means the brain is not the mind.
I think you've taken Gödel too far.
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For that money you can purchase several safe planes.
Heat pump takes energy from two sources, power grid and outside environment: air, landmass or water (there are even air+land models etc). Their energy output is always less than sum of sources, so their efficency is never over 100%. But as the ambient land/air/water heat is generally ”free” then we seem to get 3-500% economy. I have never even seen the technical/physical efficiency numbers for heat pumps as consumers do not care about this.
For those looking for an out-of-the-box web app platform for Clojure you can checkout Solvent:

http://www.codesolvent.com/static-assets/gif-studio/lang-tes...
True, the rich will still be rich, but the span contracts (lower Gini coefficient) By many statistics, this lower span correlates to a happier society.
It's also releveant that the author feels perfectly justified in making recourse to a hypothesis about history which far from easy to test: “The idea of genius elaborated during the Romantic Age (late 18th and 19th centuries) has done harm to education.”

Compared to what? Clearly he doesn’t know how to make a historical argument — perhaps he considers such arguments beneath him.
You're referencing a lot of stuff that I consider to be new problems. Apple didn't have so many problems before they introduced iOS, and especially before OS X.
Actually it's the opposite. If you don't control the currency, you end up with a ton of corruption.
> Later on, they had to filter certain IPs (also causing other websites to be unreachable). That was slightly more effective, but to this day the darknet, VPNs, and proxies still work both for TPB as well for piracy.

But what is the point behind your argument here? Does it make it any less of censorship just because it is not quite effective? That's like saying DRM implementations doesn't exist because DRM fundamentally can't work. Just because something can't work doesn't mean people won't attempt it and thus make life more difficult for everyone.
Ultimately censorship is the same, it is very hard to eradicate the information itself, there might always be some underground that preserves it, but it is still censorship if people who do not want the content disseminated succeed in making the content reach fewer people.

From a policy perspective, mandating censorship infrastructure to be built will eventually lead for uses of this infrastructure to be expanded, the UK has shown this. First it was CP, then piracy, then regular porn, then politically extreme content.
That may be the case for most or all land in the U.S., but it at least doesn't apply to musical instruments, couches, computers, and cars (except in some jurisdictions).

If the best I can do is pay the wealth tax only on real property, then that's what I would prefer.
I got a lot out of some very practical books, like The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Getting to Yes, The Tipping Point and The Peter Principle. I read a lot of good fiction in my youth, including books mentioned here, like Siddhartha, works by Heinlein and the Amber series.

There are a couple of books that had a big impact on me whose titles I long ago forgot. Periodically searching has not uncovered them.

One was a history of the deep south. Another was a book about about raising money for non profits.

I grew up in the deep south. Reading a history of it helped me understand my life and my country better. The second book had some pithy passages. One of my takeaways was "Don't say no for them." In other words, don't fail to ask because you assume the answer is no.

There were some other pithy, wise bits in the book that boil down to "If you really care about this project and the people it impacts, you need to get over being a thin skinned crybaby and keep at it in spite of repeatedly dealing with rejection, etc." I think the story was repeatedly told that someone would come to her all upset about something and she would say something like "I will put on my best therapist hat and tell you to get over it."

It was a surprising attitude to run into. The author was very practical. She also talked about the fact that she kept doing what she did because when things went well, there was no better feeling. I have done a lot of volunteer work in my life and there is a whole lot of touchy feely stuff that goes along with such work. This book was a breath of fresh air.
If this is the thread where we express our desires for their future, I myself would like to see them make movies or write books. Neurology would be good too, though!
1-2. I know the tests are administered to school children. But academic success in school translates to academic success later in life.

3. What makes you think that MIT would be more elite than elite universities in other countries? Talent follows a normal distribution and if PISA and TIMMS show that the American mean is below the average, the American elite must also be below the average. So, if the most gifted American students are admitted to MIT and the most gifted Singaporean students are admitted to the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), the latter university will contain the more gifted students. And if it is true, that you claim, that the quality of the education is dependent on the skill level of your peers, then NTU must be (much) better than MIT.

4. You can't measure creative thinking and the "Asians may be good at math, but they aren't creative" thing is a cliche.

I don't have anything against US schools or elite universities. Rather it would be you who have something against non-elite universities because you are claiming that you can't acquire the same education at other non-brand name universities. My claim is merely that one can excel at any university in any country as long as one puts in the time and effort. Especially when talking about math. You need a book, pen and paper and solitude and you're set.

I would be happy to put my money where my mouth is and run down to my local university with your hard calculus final. :)
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Coffee and bag geek

I'm a coffee geek, but i'm intrigued at the idea of being a bag geek. How does one geek out over bags? What are the cool things bag geeks know that ordinary people don't?
Due to komi, a go game cannot be drawn. That is, the 2nd player is awarded some number of points for the disadvantage of moving 2nd, and that number of points typically has a fractional 0.5 in it to break ties.

The most common komi values these days are 6.5 or 7.5, depending on ruleset.
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When I click the News tab on Google's results for Paradise Papers I mainly get coverage from British and Australian sources. I have a hard time finding any in the US.

Is this a Google filter (I'm in Europe)? Or related to the affiliations of the investigators? Or a time zone thing?
pytest all day
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nuclear weapons then religious governments.
If you want to bring freedom of speech into this as a legal concept, then it does protect “hate and fear”. Twitter is not bound by such legal requirements, but they do claim to allow open political discourse.
No, that would be at least be a somewhat defensible claim. Peterson literally says some men have crazy high motivation and women don't. It's not from this video.

I saw it when one of my co workers started sending my Peterson vids. God, I wish I never heard of this guy.

Okay, I made the mistake of watching the linked video. At one point he claims the old boys' club doesn't exist at law firms. I mean...where did the term come from?
"in upcoming iOS release"
To be a little more clear, in a language where static typing was mandatory, there would obviously be no need for dynamic type checking of those same types. But since Python's static typing is optional, dynamic type checking at runtime is not redundant.
If you don't like the power these companies have, leave their "services".

https://diasporafoundation.org

https://kolabnow.com
You might enjoy Ezra Pound's 'ABCs of Reading', which talks about reading the best examples available. The Odyssey and Illiad are certainly that. Also the Aeneid, the Divine Comedy, Beowulf...but sometimes there are acceptable translations and sometimes there aren't.

We are fortunate to have Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf which is always solid and occasionally makes you feel the raven's wings lowering over you. Guy Lee wrote a translation of Ovid's Amores which I unreservedly recommend. Clive James gave us the first translation of the Divine Comedy into English that catches the feel of the original. Urqhardt's Rabelais has been considered the English translation of choice for four hundred years.

But other works, like the Aeneid, languish. Fitzgerald's translation, unlike his Odyssey, is flat. CS Lewis translated a couple books fairly well, but I haven't seen the magic of the original in English yet.

Oddly, languages with smaller literary output, like Polish, often have better translations because translators are a much bigger deal, and certain translators have status equivalent to celebrity authors.
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How I manage my savings. Stop being broke every damn month
The IRS will happily impound your valueable instruments if you fail to pay taxes. Looks like the government still owns everything you call your own.
> I feel you should have more empathy for people that do not look like you.

Quite literally nobody has bright yellow skin. Emoji are not human beings, they are エモ → e-mo → emotion 字 → ji → characters (update: apparently I've been misled, but not in a way which changes my point, see reply below). The codepoints do not contain, have never contained, and will never contain a racial identity. They are an abstract representation of universal human emotions, just as generic as single-line ASCII emoticons.

Nobody's racial identity was represented by Unicode emoji faces to begin with, and certainly nobody any less than me.
You mean like spend a billion dollars buying and building a satellite imagery company and then liquidate it to a competitor for equity in their company?
Also of interest is algorithmic information theory. In both there are limits to that algotithms can do. There is the data processing inequality and Chaitin's incompleteness theorem.
The US has about 33,000 currently registered homebuilt aircraft. There’s a lot of them!

For some years when I was growing up, five homebuilt aircraft were built for every one traditionally manufactured general avaition aircraft.

Most of these were built from kits or from plans, but there are still crazy people who make their own designs. My absolute favorite is the impossible Facetmobile[1]

[1] http://www.facetmobile.com
I think this only works if your memory is sufficiently long term. My memory is very poor and I forget things quickly so I constantly find myself having to relearn things (for instance, relearning data structures and algorithms for interviews).
And as always, nothing is going to happen.
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I feel like there's a blindingly obvious characteristic of Finland/Scandinavian/Western European countries that the U.S. does not share.
1.4 TB of data. This is going to be a fun leak to watch unravel, especially in context of the all the political activity around Russian corruption.
As someone who has worked on dozens of major corporate apps on the App Store I can assure you that the first point is flat out wrong.

You always display something immediately (usually with placeholder images) and then make the network call.

In fact on OSX you are asked (and strongly encouraged by Apple) to supply a startup image which is displayed whilst the app is still loading.
It's fixed in 11.2 beta.
Perhaps literal "thoughtcrime" could become a reality some time soon.
I read nytimes is on the team (but has not published anything yet).

Edit: There you go https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/05/world/paradise-papers.htm...
Works where I live.
"...PMO has pulled up top officials of the DGCA - aviation regulator -- and asked them to follow a procedure to clear Yadav's project expeditiously. After several meetings between the DGCA and Yadav on Monday, the regulator said it would register his six-seater aircraft and would ensure its air-worthiness without any further delay."

More: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/transportation...
Conversely, i'd be interested to know how and why they're using Concourse for CD but not CI. My experience with Concourse taught me that it's model deals much better with CI, which is isolated from the rest of the world, than CD, which isn't. For CD it just became a very complicated way to run shell scripts.
I think actually you can. If you rewrite 75%? 80%? You can relicense it. Legally I think the law views that as new code not a modification. A lawyer may need to correct me but I seem to recall something like this.
Why I still use paper and pen when taking notes.
I find it hard to find any support for your claim that ancient Roman women would have generally been literate in Greek. Why don't you enlighten me if it's so obvious? Am I being lectured to "learn some history" by a guy claiming a translation into English might have happened before any Angles arrived in Britain?
It's been many years since I used RoR, suprised to see cancan en paperclip again :p
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I assume changing the PIN forces a FaceID reset?
I make notes for each project in a google doc, i.e. collecting material as if I was going to do a write-up or talk on the project. That makes it easier to set things aside for a while, and if you discover something by accident while you're not working on the project, you can make notes in the document to return to.
Its just means it can multitask
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The problem is, C-only codebases are pretty rare, even established ones adopt C++ (e.g. Darktable, which has a rather advanced C-only object system for UI and plugins). Especially in 'hot' topics like AI, where there may be place for pure C, but actually you'd more often use some low-level subset, like C with templates (very useful in writing image processing libraries). And no, I don't think it's reasonable to learn the modern C++ straight away, skipping C part: its abstractions are very leaky, you need to understand underlying resource management and type system.

If you don't plan to learn C++ later, okay, do use a modern version, but if this is a possibility, better start either in completely different language with more clear semantics (pascal was great, maybe some Go or Rust are good now), or the pure subset, which wouldn't add to later confusion but would allow to use more advanced abstractions as needed.

From my experience teaching software engineering to high school students which already passes their algorithms & programming courses, small differences in practices and/or semantics (svn commit vs git commit) is what kills learning progress.
While it's true that about 99% of people listed in the panama papers got off scott free... There were still some serious consequences for some... and those consequences might just be enough to deter.
That's the thing, though... it would only drift from your face if the face it was drifting too looked similarly enough to your own.
I don't know exactly how to find it, I am pretty sure I've heard that on TV some time ago.

However in Italy, for instance, the Legge 352/1993[1] says explicitly to use proper "containers" in order to favour the spores' spreading.

That's a generic normative then local authorities could rule other details on harvesting and selling them.

- [1] http://www.salute.gov.it/imgs/C_17_normativa_1787_allegato.p...
Could be a time zone thing or recent change where google return results based on your current location?

https://www.blog.google/products/search/making-search-result...

If you want results from US you can go to the google homepage > settings > search settings > region settings
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Is this called an article nowadays? There is no substance here.