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I don't see how free software misses that point. They offer that freedom but consider it is not enough and that closeness remains bad even if you see the source code.

I don't think RMS misunderstands the interest of open source, freewares or various other arrangement. He just states that free software is something more.
Our company implemented two rpc protocols(don't ask me why..)

One is based on json, one is modified thrift. The schemaless feature is among the many problems of json, but it's not the most annoying one. That would be binary support.

Imagine we need to make a upload/download storage service with json rpc...So as a rule of thumb, I would consider:

1. Web facing? json would do.

2. RPC? Pick protobuf or thrift or any protocol supporting native types including binary.
> late-Slashdot style trolling

Off topic but that ^^^ is exactly why, after 20 years, I finally gave up on Slashdot and then stumbled across HN and couldn't be happier. I have, in recent times, gone back for a visit just to see what it's like and... realised my decision to leave Slashdot was made probably 10 years later than it should have been.
Technology makes us depressed
I make money by being a software engineer. My work is to ensure customers have a wonderful experience with our product. But I despise technology.

This tech industry often just takes people’s data and market data with little privacy and security effort. We create softwares aim to capture people’s time awsy from being with real people.

I remember my priest once said during his sermon: “Technology is divding us as much as it is uniting us; we are so accessible that we have become inaccessible.”

Wherever I go, I see everyone busy occupied with their head down, looking their cell phone, as if life is feed on techology.

Sometimes at work I just message my colleagues via chat even though they might just be a seat or two away.

https://yeukhon.me

I am unfortunately too depressed to be a software engineer. A year ago today I was in psy ward. A year later I am on the verge of another psychotic breakdown.

I am ao coward to die. The person I thought would save me from misery is niw my nigtmare. Having a personality disorder and bipolar at the same time isn’t easy to get over.

I will end up in the psych ward soon. I know it.

I am yeukhon. I am an engineer, a EMT volunteer, and a student who wants to become a psychiatrist. But look at me: I am crazy.

I can help save others’ lives, but I feel hopeless and helpless.
I mixed them up when writing first comment. Don't take my issue with it, google trial of socrates either on wiki or on more historical sites. Read on thirty tyrants. Overthrown democracy for some months with help of Sparta, followed persecutions of opposition, then got overthrown back. This part of story is in most of them, only artistic ones limit themselves to the simple one.

Teritory is one thing, south and west. Freedom and property rights theories were developed and used to argume for slavery expansion and slavery itself. Freedom and destiny no matter what you are about to do, not just the big questions but also the smaller conflicts around.

Both sides of civil war said to fight for freedom too and the affair had huge number of deaths.
Apple must truly hate gaming, or suffer from a serious case of Not Invented Here with their Metal stuff. As if any serious gaming studio would target Metal which doesn't run on Windows.

In fact, they couldn't get their act together, keep with current versions, and as a result titles like Elite Dangerous were being shut down anyway. Reason: OpenGL stuck on an old version without support of compute shaders.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/424243-Importan...

https://support.frontier.co.uk/kb/faq.php?id=228
Any overhead coming from objc_msgSend is minuscule compared to the gains from things like better serialization of GPU-bound tasks and not having to synchronize repeatedly with the CPU.

If you're worried about refcounting, use ARC (which you have to with Swift anyway). First, the compiler is very smart about optimizing away retain/release/autorelease calls whenever it can. Second, when those calls do have to be made, they're implemented using vtables, and never hit objc_msgSend() in the first place.
What would you use on a walkabout machine exactly?
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That thing is going to f* up your lawn...
The GitHub founders spent 5 years entirely bootstrapped before taking any outside investment. IIRC, they spent the first 2 without any employees, doing all coding, sales, and evangelism themselves and making barely-pay-the-rent revenue. Their salary had they not started GitHub would've been roughly $300K/year. That's close to a million each in opportunity cost, with no obvious indication they'd be successful at the end. (They were themselves early employees of PowerShell, working for startup salaries until it was acquired by Microsoft. They chose not to continue working at Microsoft after the acquisition.)

Methinks you need to distinguish between startups like Theranos, Clinkle, or Juicero, where a well-connected and charismatic founder meets an investor who takes on all the risk and then they crash and burn spectacularly and nobody gets their money back, and a bootstrapped team of engineers that build a product millions of people want and then get handsomely rewarded 11 years later.
We can use something like "sounds like a sneezing nose" to sound gender neutral.
Skype for Business is really, really bad on MacOS. Half of the time i'm trying to use it, messages don't get sent with an error message. Sometimes they do get sent but i still get an error message.

Skype on MacOS tends to get stuck in some loop that eats my CPU. So does MS Excel. MS Excel also had other, very annoying issues in the not so distant past.

Sure, as a MacOS user i'm maybe not that important to MSFT, but the quality of some of their products is surprisingly low.
Sad that it's still not possible to change notification sound for apps at the OS level i.e. for apps that don't offer the functionality to change the sound.
Or you live in a place with, you know, weather.
MS was fined by EU for monopoly practices in 2008 and 2013. It is currently in a case against Spain when it made it harder to dual boot with Windows 8's UEFI systems.

The year is 2018 and Windows still ships with a single navigator, only supports NTFS and does not know that dual-boot is even a possibility.
Very well said. I predict this will work out.
It's not about the look of the car for BMW owners, it's just about the price tag and the name on the badge.
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But molten is for Vulkan (ie: not OpenGL) - and not 100% of Vulkan, AFAIK.
> Any activity that promotes the word “open” tends to extend the curtain that hides the ideas of the free software movement.

This is the end of one paragraph.

So...from whom is the curtain "hiding" these ideas? It must be from the audience for the conferences that have the word "open" in them.

That means that a substantial part of the audience does not consist of "open source advocates." At least not in the sense of people who heard the open source vs. free software debate and knowingly chose against free software. If that were the case, then RMS wouldn't be talking about the curtain "hiding" anything-- rather he'd be talking about "open" conferences merely serving the desires of people who know about free software but don't agree with it and instead chose open source.

Therefore-- one would think-- it's in the best interest of free software advocates to attend such conferences and communicate their message clearly and effectively to the substantial part of the audience who doesn't know about free software.

Who knows-- they could even play a prank by redefining open source to its literal meaning, then explaining it as a subset of the free software development process. That would put the onus on open source advocates to argue against open source as a subset of free software. But to do that they'd have to reference the very features of free software they wanted to ignore!

I think there was once a word for such playful cleverness...

Anyhow, on to the beginning of the next paragraph:

> Thus, free software activists are well advised to decline to work on an activity that calls itself “open.”

Hm, I can't seem to remember the word for that "playful cleverness." Well, it was from a long, long time ago...

Edit: clarification
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Hi,

I missed a few exit opportunities for health issues. I would like to ask for some help and advice.

I have an opensource library (AI, data, research..). It is technically sound and works, but needs a lot of polishing. Two of my competitors raised 8 figures. I raised around 6 figures on donations and consulting.

One of my users is startup that made big exit. I was early employee (sort of), but did not exercised my options for very stupid reasons.

I am not burned out or depressed, just beaten down by a long series of unfortunate events. Nasty divorce, chronic pain, moving countries... I need someone to listen to help untangle this mess. I am not looking for investment but can promise good story :-)
With that argument the Model 3s resale value should be "we give you 1000 Dollar extra if you take it from our hands. PLEASE?!"
Meh?

Basically no one is as into the markings on the Saturn V first stage as this guy, so I don't see how assuming his wife (if he is married) wouldn't be super into it is offensive.
We just need to wait for Toyota to release an EV capitalizing on the ~127mpgE of the Prius Prime, and kill everyone else for a little while.
Ask HN: Any developer who transitioned from Tech to Quant Trading?
As a developer what did it take for you to transition from Technology to Quantitative trading, and how does it compare to your life working in Technology?
What are the other costs associated with it? It costs the same to provide a building with electricity, water, sewage, etc, whether the building is privately worth $10,000 or $10,000,000.

Also, isn't that exactly the point of Prop 13? If I bought a house for $500k, and it's worth $5 million tomorrow, I'm liable for the tax increase whether or not the increase is affordable. I thought the point was to allow homeowners the luxury of limiting the insane tax increases to the points of sale, when value was realized.
How about fumbling with the air vents to adjust the air vents?
>Expecting am completely non-creepy version of Facebook is like expecting a completely non-controversial version of the government.

Strange comparison. We should remember that the difference between a government and a company is who owns them. Governments are owned by the people, and many times throughout history, it became obvious to the population that they could not trust a private company to manage their fancy new communication network. And so, they had their government do it, so that they would have a say. That’s what democracy is all about.

They aren’t new problems. Facebook provides communication, not friendship. The friend component is just a network address book of sorts, effectively no different from a phone number. If the phone company were allowed to replace phone numbers with references to a centralized lookup table, they would certainly do it. But it’s illegal, thanks to over a century full of public outcry and contentions just like these.
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I'm from Philly (currently in Seattle) and I'm mostly a backend developer. However, I'm open to fullstack as well.

My preferred languages are Java and GoLang. I have over 6 years of experience in backend development. If I don't know a programming language, I can definitely pick it up within a week. You name it and I'll do it :)

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Well, everything this does is enabled by the Spotify API. So there's nothing that I'm doing that Spotify can't do already.
The point of this app is to make more easily accessible, some of the lesser known features that Spotify has:

• Tuneable Attributes (such as Danceability and Acousticness) which you can adjust to get songs meeting those values
• Recommendations by multiple artists (which is something like a Radio, but for more than 1 artist)
• Algorithmically created playlists such as
- "The Pulse of [genre]"- containing music that is becoming popular but you probably never heard it before
- "Intro to [genre]" - an attempted algorithmical introduction to that specific genre
• Blends, which are one-time playlists created on the fly based on your listening history and a specific occasion like Workout, Reading, Commute, etc.

For example, did you know that Spotify has all these genres in its database: http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html
Well, after I found out, I was thinking how could I make it easier for people to find their favorite genres and through that, maybe some favorite songs.
So one of the features that Noiseblend has is discovery by genre, which collects your most listened genres and lays them in 3-card view so you can easily find one that you would really like to listen to.

By the way, Noiseblend is completely free, just check it out ^_^
Laptop stand [1] with good keyboard and Apple magic mouse has been great for me. I don't know if you would be able to carry that stand in your travels, I would try to find something foldable.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-DSN-01750-SL-Laptop-Stan...
I suppose that's true. Before Facebook I basically just talked to people over AIM and email lists. I remember setting my status on AIM so people would know how things were going. Initially creating a Facebook account did feel like just filling out your user profile in your AIM account so your friends can find information about you.

Perhaps someone was also mining the AIM data, but that would never have occurred to me to do. I doubt the tools to analyze and monetize it existed yet in any case. I'm not even sure the tools existed to monetize a social network when Facebook started.

It's a kind of weird conceptual leap to be honest, when compared to thinking about just selling ad space or perhaps targeting it based on people's interests.
Hi. What is this exactly? Skimming through the site didnt give me a clear detailed explanation.

Is it a programming api to chrome? As in:

host:~$ ./browserless-app example.com # will fetch an interact using js/DOM with the web @ url

Is this supposed to be used as a proxy between some random browser, a remote chrome browser and the http response? As in:

<IE/edge/safary script> page-load: ws.connect(ws://mybless-service/); this.html = ws.recv()</script>

Or is it more oriented to have a remote service which you can use to send commands to process and control browsing sessions? login to foobar.org; update this data. fetch something; return data/status too peer.

I'm really lost. A sugestion. I cant check 4 layers of subproject dependencies in orther to have a clear picture of what the thing does. An how it does it. I dont know if this is a node server running standalone (can I autodeploy this service in my server? Is this a saas?), or something you use in the client js. Or something you can access from the client side that internally connects to a websocket. Or even a mix of all this. A clear arquitectural design diagram helps IMO in this things:

- Layer A runs on yours/ours/both linux/$X server using Y framework

- Layer B Is a websocket service (standalone/saas) for clients to consume.

- Layer C is a browser client js API wrapper for the service.

- This is useful for this <full use case and run session of the example>

Dont get me wrong, this is not a hate comment. Is just a personal suggestion to help people not deeply invested in JS/node ecosystem. Maybe its me just being thick this morning and not getting it.

Thanks, it looks very cool anyway.
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ads (if I'm reading about gardening then show me an ad for potting soil or gloves)

That’s what genuinely baffles me. If I were a manager of a gardening company and I wanted to do targeted advertising I would just buy space in gardening themed publications. The idea of showing people my ads while they’re on other websites and not in a gardening mood anyway makes literally no sense. All this tracking and profiling ads zero value for the ad buyers, so why are they paying for it?
Can you explain in more, concrete terms (with examples) what you are saying?
It’s the successor to v.
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Elon doesn't really care about the stock price.

It's usefulness is when you want to raise capital by floating shares; but Elon will just do that a lower price by diluting ownership more.
> You’ve had a bachelor’s degree for three months. It cost $100,000 to earn, all before interest.

$100,000 well spent. Possibly the best article I've read in years.
Yeah, I have had (the automatic, time based) Do Not Disturb mode on my Samsungs for what seems like forever. And they also let me configure where notifications are sent very easily, per app.

As a parent I welcome screen time locks, because any improvement over the previous non-existing support for such things is surely welcome.

On Android I could install a lot of tools to manage the same thing, but iOS wouldn't let the same apps work to a satisfactory level.

But of course since Apple finally does this, it becomes newsworthy.
Do what tickles your fancy.
Again, I don't know what your line of argument here is. I'm not denying that there exist devout Christians in the U.S. military, including its leadership. But I believe the point tptacek was trying to make was that since Abu Ghraib, Hersh has been accused of imprecise, unsubstantiated reporting and assertions. What does General Boykin -- who retired in 2007 -- have to do with McRaven and McChrystal? If Hersh wanted to talk about Christians in the military, yes, I agree, Gen. Boykin sounds like a more obvious example. But that's not the interesting claim that Hersh made.
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There's no way a company would pay $7.5B for an acquisition and then let it run "independently". That's just not how it works. See e.g. Skype.
I run Linux on my personal laptop and server as well but my wife needs some Adobe tools unfortunately. Well I guess I'll just sit it out until security updates don't come anymore. Anyway, I think this was also my last Mac for these reasons:

* I hate it that I can't open them up anymore

* That butterfly keyboard

* it got even more expensive (for a 15") (What we got back (the touchbar) has no added value for me)

* Windows can run Adobe tools and now has a subsystem for Linux.

* The Dell XPS line approaches MacBook quality pretty well and can be opened and is well supported under Linux should Adobe start to support it (hey, we are talking something like 2023 here, one can hope an Adobe Snap will be available by then, I think Adobe would rather like the Linux ecosystem.)

As said, I'm still very happy with a 7 y/o mbp because I upgraded it step wise. Though to be honest, I feel computer land stagnates a bit now that we finally found a solution for the hdd bottleneck, still there is little to fix yourself if anything gives out.
[Non-Apple] people are annoyed because whenever Apple introduce features they've copied/amalgamated from others, they always manage to spin it like they are the ones who came up with these fantastic designs.
> As a consumer, not an ad tech guy, I don’t get digital advertising at all. It rarely if ever drives behavior on my part, and I just don’t see effective use of it. The most useful ads I see are the circulars in the newspaper that I seek out.

That's very different from my experience as a consumer. Nearly all of the ads I see are digital - I mean I look at the stuff in my physical mailbox long enough to sort (I'd happily pay the post office $100/yr to just block the 'bulk rate' and 'resident' email. Maybe more.) but I don't open up and look in them, even though they are local and usually contain discounts, just 'cause they are rarely what I'm looking for. (where I am, it's mostly fast food and off-brand tools, as far as I can tell. I mean, I do spend a fair amount on tools, but I usually either want a fancy tool, or just the exact right tool. I'm not really willing to wait for the pozi-drive #3 screwdriver I need to go on sale.)

What sorts of things to you seek out in the circular? and why do you check your physical mailbox rather than using a search engine?

I'm asking out of interest; I used to run a business and I used to buy advertising. Once, I even bought space on the conveyor belt dividers at the grocery store, that realtors use. (I looked for pictures, and all the pictures I have of it are terrible. ) To sell Virtual Private Servers. It was good for a laugh, and there was a little bit of attention, I mean, it was a grocery store in silicon valley. There is something really gratifying to the ego, from the perspective of a small business owner, about buying local physical advertising. But I'm not really convinced of it's effectiveness.

It didn't really occur to me to use mail... just 'cause I personally hate physical spam so much.

>I’m also getting bombarded with air conditioner ads from Amazon because I bought an air conditioner, from Amazon, a few weeks ago. For all of this big data and machine learning investments, they are trying to sell a man sitting in a 60 degree room another AC — which given the price and free shipping they probably lost money on.

I get this a lot, too. I mean, amazon knows I just bought that thing, right? I bought it from them. why do they keep serving me the ad? I'm wondering if a lot of it might be third parties trying to arbitrage google ads vs amazon affiliate rates, and those people might be able to see I'm looking for a thing, but not that I bought the thing.
It’s a wireframe emoji before it hits the render pupeline.
Leaf is my daily commuter. I inflated the tires to 42-44psi and got the extra mileage out of that. The recommended tire of 35psi is way too low too.
Same experience here - we run a docker instance of Chrome using tabs for multiple pages rather than multiple browsers, and they regularly run for days without issues. Of course their RAM usage gradually expands but it is easy enough to systematically stop & start the container, thanks to some built in error and fault handling to retry any requests which failed.

I can’t say I’ve seen one tab bring down the entire browser, but I’m sure thats feasible, but thanks to docker and the fault handling above, it’d restart the instance and be up within seconds.
The idea is ridiculous. The math men didn't overthrow the Mad Men. The Mad Men found that math is awesome, because it's a topic that your customers don't know. So they also have no way to figure out that the Mad Men don't know math either. They call the mathematicians "quants". Does that sound like respect to you? Is that how one speaks in public about one's overlord?
I'm into space stuff, and I could just feel his excitement in his words. It's always nice to see people really enjoying their hobby I think. If you have any level of OCD then this sort of article would appeal to you.