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So presumably the banks would have offered accounts that were as close as they could be to current accounts while still counting as savings accounts according to the regulators. The impact of the law would have depended on exactly how similar the regulations allow these saving accounts to be to current accounts.

I suspect most people would have moved their money to "savings" accounts and things would continue as before.
People learned from that only for media that they considered "art", and video games of that period were definitely not considered such.
> > I'm told by a lot of experts that this is a bad idea

> That probably means it's a good idea ;)

This is just pure contrarianism. Experts also say it's a bad idea not to have clean drinking water, reliable electricity, and seatbelts in cars.

And believe it or not, there is a huge amount of data on what kinds of policy in banking work and what don't, leading experts to conclusions like these. We're not talking about a few naysayers, either. The Swiss National Bank themselves, who will be put in charge of all lending if this is implemented, say this is a bad idea.
I couldn't care less about NixOS, as I'm a UNIX (IRIX, Solaris, illumos/SmartOS, HP-UX) guy and always will be. I run Solaris 10 and SmartOS on my infrastructure, before that I ran IRIX and HP-UX as well on it.
Art is already and has been for a long time a financial product. As well as old cars, or some wine brands, or original draw of a page of a Marvel book, and things we may not see as financial product.

For instance at a smaller scale I was into investing in perfect replica of light sabers and limited editions of them. They cost around $1000 and I hope to resell them in a few years for more. And if not I am still happy to have them so it’s not that much a loss.

The biggest benefit is depending of your country you can have tax benefits that you won’t have on profits with other more classic financial products.
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I have experience selling to companies and I’ve found that even when they realise they need and want to pay for a piece of software they have absolutely no clue how to figure out what it’s worth.

Consequently they engage in endless hardball negotiation and invite other suppliers to provide quotes (even when your offering uniquely meets all requirements).

In the end the challenge is to get customers comfortable that they’re paying a fair price for what they’re getting. That however is much easier to say than to do.
Why is it so hard for developers to make a full-time living selling their open-source software? Are the available options stacked against them?

Thousands of developers make money building products or services for clients using open source software. But what if you don't want to be a consultant and simply want to charge a business for using your open source product?

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) says that you can sell your free software by charging for distribution (for example via CD-ROMs). Physical media made sense in an era of dial-up modems and low-bandwidth connections, but no-one can realistically charge for distribution today - not least when so many projects are hosted for free on GitHub. See: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html

So what are the alternatives?

- There's the dual-licencing approach e.g. Red Hat. (Naturally doesn't work with permissive licences. Requires a strong copyleft licence like the GPL).

- The open core approach e.g. GitLab.

- There's also the option of charging for support only - I'm guessing this is an unattractive and unappealing option for many developers who'd much rather be building their product.

- Or there's the Kickstarter or Patreon approach which simply isn't a stable, sustainable long-term solution.

There have been some alternative licence approaches such as the Fair Source licence (fair.io). This is neither open source or closed source but allows developers to charge for their software.

The large market for Wordpress plugins is an interesting case study. Wordpress is published under the GPL v2, but many Wordpress plugins are not open source. No one polices this, but those plugin developers are selling their software to businesses who are willing to pay for the features of those plugins.

So who here in 2018 has made a success selling their open source software? Did you follow one of the models above? And who has struggled to make it work?
Corporate taxes include foreign companies which would otherwise extract money tax free from the US economy. Removing them is a terrible idea that increases the net US tax burden.

Further, the tax rate is less important than the fact capital can appreciate for 40 years without paying any taxes what so ever. Remember the robber barons accumulated vast wealth just fine in a time with extremely high personal income taxes. Those appreciated assets then pass on without ever being taxed at death.
The most recent online mob I can think of was started by a guy named Jeremy, attacking a girl for wearing a Chinese dress as "cultural appropriation". He didn't want anonymity; he revelled in being known as the instigator, even giving interviews to the press. So I don't think that anonymity is the real root cause of online mobbing.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-43947959

Jeremy by the way is an English name of Biblical origin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_(name)
Ask HN: Have you tried selling data as a service?
Many companies spend lots of money creating data. Have you had any experience with selling data as a service? If so, how did it go?
> I'm told by a lot of experts that this is a bad idea

> That probably means it's a good idea ;)

This is a really bad heuristic.

Going "full reserve" would drastically contract the money supply and have pretty severe effects on the real economy.
As you said if the library/framework provides deterministic computation, then it should not be a problem, I am not sure if it's already fixed in Tensorflow, but parallel computation and order of operations could all influence the reproducibility of the run, so sometimes you need to provide that in your code.

What Polyaxon provides, is a way to restart a run based on as many parameters collected, by default it will use same code based on the internal git commit, it will reuse the same configuration, same Dockerfile, and if provided, it will use same resources, CPU, GPU, and memory of the original run, if the experiment had a node selector, the restarted experiment will be as well scheduled on the same node.
I have been working productively as a systems software developer for 32 years. I do not have a degree; I'm a high-school dropout. I've built systems you've probably used, and/or may still be using.

The #1 technical lever I have found worth exploiting, worth far more than anything a university can provide, is the willingness to get the job done.

It hasn't mattered if I wrote CP/M code ISR's, PROGRESS 4GL modules, Unix daemons, Pascal, .. Java, C, C++, Objective-C, Lua, Swift, &etc. - through the thick of it all, the fact that I was willing to get the job done, no matter what, is what made the difference.

On the other end of this scale, is a bit of decadence.

From my particularly tainted point of view, the ideological basis of the current cultural norm of "university==well-paid job" is entirely decadent. People seem to have expectations that, because they're in a certain class, they don't have to work hard at developing other real life issues, and too many times I've seen the well-educated, well-connected, nevertheless incompetent developer fall to pieces under pressure. I am grateful for these guys, because they make my life easier.

Yet, those who are in this group, who haven't got a decadent ideal of their own worth, but rather get things done in computing, whatever it takes: great.

So its really not a matter of educated-enough. Its whether the will to perform is, through whatever means, inculcated - and then manifest by taking the actions to get the state of things, done.

Some of the best developers I've ever worked with, have come from utterly dire circumstances. Some of the worst, too. Likewise for the privileged, candied elite.

The one differentiator, truly, is the will of the individual. Computers, being machines of will, equalise us all that way.
For semi-related (?) work IBM did some research on photonics inside a CPU.
Yeah

>just 26 per cent supported plans to strip banks of their ability to “create” money
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It's just not a company's job to care about morality, only to optimise to maximise gain. It's the law's job.

Saying this is not taking sides or being "cynical" or "capitalistic". The point is if you want change you have to FIGHT to change laws and make them be enforced (through lawsuits / unions). It's always a power struggle and you'll stay on the weak side if you keep screaming "morality" at corporate entities and rely on their good will to enforce workers right... Saying otherwise is deluding other people and/or yourself of reality, but i guess it feels good to feel on "the right side" without actually doing anything.

source: many family members in unions who fought for their rights in france
Who's going to think a fork of Debian in 2018 is "limited to a few characters only"? Don't be ridiculous.
It's funny how cynics scoff when Americans take pride in being "free", as if the rest of the world has caught up to the US or even passed it in measures of freedom.

What recent experience tells us though is that, as is so often the case, the cynics are wrong and America really does benefit from having freedom of expression both written into the fundamental document of the nation - the Constitution - and ingrained in broader American culture.

Recent European attempts to crack down on internet content are very disturbing and would never be tolerated in America. These attempts must be rebuffed.
Progressive tax schemes more or less do this.

Deductions take them in the other direction, giving people with higher bracket income a larger benefit than people in lower tax brackets. Of course they are still paying more tax, but deducting $30,000 of mortgage interest from the 39.6% bracket is quite a bigger tax benefit than deducting $5,000 of mortgage interest from the 20% bracket.
> This is just pure contrarianism. Experts also say it's a bad idea not to have clean drinking water, reliable electricity, and seatbelts in cars.

Difference: There's scientific evidence for the experts opinion in all these cases. Economics? That's more or less just crystal ball reading with a scientific shim on the top.
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Ask HN: Today's Google doodle “Garden Gnomes” using 50% CPU when displayed?
Today's (10/06/2018) Google homepage doodle called "Celebrating Garden Gnomes" (https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-garden-gnomes) seems to be using about 50 to 70% CPU just when displayed on the homepage. I mean not clicked, not activated, just displaying the homepage. I experience the same behavior on latest Chrome, Firefox and Safari on macOS.

When the tab is not active (or closed), the CPU goes back to normal.

Does anyone else experience this?

50% percent CPU is extremely huge for a webpage, plus considering that it's a page we all use a lot, and by all I mean millions of people, plus considering that we didn't do anything to start it (I would be ok if the game/animation itself, when clicked, uses some resources, but this is just standby mode here).

How can we stop this craziness? Isn't anyone at Google thinking about the impact?
Steering around obstacles is not trivial to do safely. Indeed, when training new human drivers, they're taught not to steer around minor obstacles (e.g. not-large animals) at freeway speeds - to slow down and accept the impact if it happens, instead of swerving into opposite lane or a ditch on the other side, which has a lot of potential to kill people. Similarly, for many kinds of debris and garbage on the road, if you can't safely change the lane (or it's a single-lane road, where you can't go around at all if there's oncoming traffic), the safest approach is to just drive through the obstacle; possibly even if you could stop before it, which isn't always the case.
Most people loan money when they're younger

I think you mean borrow. Loan would be the opposite.

You're arguing that loans are useful. Nobody is arguing the opposite. Yes, loans are useful, but when the people making them have nothing at stake because they are creating the money from nothing, you get a lot of low quality lending to low quality investments that are unlikely to pay back (put another way, are bad investments).
Then go support Librem 5, Tinkerphones/OpenPhoenux, Pyra and other similar projects. Apple doesn't differ much from others like Google - at best it's just the friendliest of your enemies.
Well, perhaps there is a chance for us to learn from history, still, and quit assuming that there is One Way™ for human civilisation to proceed/progress.

Those who have the technical skill to go to Mars, are probably among the first examples of colonists/empire-builders who won't be trampling on the natives; a truly revolutionary moment for the human species in that regard. At least, one can hope ..
Indeed, rush hour in Mumbai isn't fun. Also in London the majority probably use public transport for what that's worth.
But I don't recognize that definition of "freedom of their users". It's an artificial construct made by RMS. There are various reasons why some people or companies don't open their source code. That choice should be respected. I also write a lot of closed source, because it was decided the source should be closed.
Why is it so hard for developers to make a full-time living selling their open-source software?

Do you really expect people to pay for something when they can get it for free?

Making software open source means you are either selling something complementary (hardware, other software, services) or else begging for crumbs.
Depends on where you work. I've been in shops where developers had a certain amount of money -- $500 or $1000 -- to buy whatever work-related tools they deemed to be helpful in getting their jobs done. Those tools could be software (Beyond Compare and ReSharper being popular ones) or hardware (monitors!) and up to that amount there were essentially no questions asked (the only caveat being if you spent on stuff that was not needed you risked ruining it for everyone else so you ran the risk of a getting a Code Red from the dev team if you wanted to spend wastefully). As much as companies spend on finding and keeping good developers, dropping $1k/each per year for things that make them happy is chump change.
It mentions iPhones but not iPads, which should be compatible with Galileo too.

However, it's not clear how Apple devices make the choice/switch of which system to use. They seem to be able to use Glonass too.
It's not actually. This book argues for the position that expert advice is wrong more often than not:

https://www.amazon.com/Wrong-us---Scientists-relationship-co...

The dubious reliability of much advice presented in the media as expert advice is one of the impending themes of our time. Expect skepticism about "experts" (defined as the sort of people who we tend to be told are experts when debating matters of politics, wealth or health) only to increase in the coming years.

The Swiss National Bank themselves, who will be put in charge of all lending if this is implemented, say this is a bad idea

The Overton window of acceptable thought in central banking is laughably narrow. Central bankers should really be the last people who are listened to on changes to how the monetary system works - they will always argue for minor changes to the status quo.
For me, having some open source on GitHub, bitbucket and launchpad, has been useful in few job interviews because it kind of helped to avoid the "coding exercise" and it was a good data point to prove I know how to use git and good development practices.

But that wasn't the main driver for me working on open source. I think it is a nice side effect, but it shouldn't be a requirement; and definitely GH is not your CV (specially when there's so much open source not in GH!).

That said, when I've been in a position that I could influence the hiring policy, I gave value to open source contributions because it did align with the ethos of the company.

I guess it may not be important depending on who's hiring, but it is always useful if it is there and what you see is good stuff.
This is awesome. I love reverse engineering software. There is something so magical about it. I once spent a whole summer reverse engineering crackmes but never moved to actual software hmm.
~2.7 milllion people die in the US each year. 40,000 vechile deaths means a little more than 1 in 70 deaths is from cars.

And every single one of them is a preventable tragedy.
No one is getting a pass. But the methods to tackle workers exploitation at Amazon or a big corporation is very different than tackling the abuse of daily wage workers in India that the OP of the comment talks about. In the former case, corporations and users of their products are solely responsible for the employment conditions and can be tackled by raising your voice. But in the latter case, the source of exploitation is decentralized. The sector is unorganized and it is very difficult to implement the law strictly, even if there is are strong laws to prevent such. So justifying the conditions of the employees in the former case by comparing it to that of latter doesn't make sense.
They don't even have the source for widely beloved games made by big companies
Can you list some reasons why please?
So what? You're making the classic erroneous assumption of believing more economic activity is inherently good.

A society that spends all its time and effort on bad investments like building statues and blowing them up again, is a society with a problem, yet by the metrics used by conventional economics, it'd be doing great! Full employment! Tons of production! GDP increasing!
It's based on the Konami code [0] a version of which made it into a mouldy peaches song [1]

[0] - http://contra.wikia.com/wiki/Konami_Code

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceV62E-c86g&t=92
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Yeah but that was very rewarding in its own way. Every line of code you wrote was your own and you really learned more that way. I'm currently going through the theory on Scratchapixel to see how OpenGL actually works.
Other people having it makes your collectible less valuable.
I’m curious about why this is being downvoted. It seems relevant afaict.
Yea no. ~55.3 million people die each year worldwide and ~1.3 million of them are from cars so that's 1 in 43 deaths are from cars.

That's one of the top killers anyway you slice it and every single one of those deaths is preventable.

PS: Truckers drive up to 3,000 miles per week * 48 weeks per year * 47 years (65-18) that's ~6.7 million miles. US death rate is ~1:88 million miles on average. So if they where as dangerous as average that's ~1 death per 13 truckers. However, they are safer than this and average less miles. Still, it's one of the most dangerous US jobs.
I think the target audience, is individuals or small teams who want to have an organized workflow, immutable and reproducible experiments with an organized and easy way to access logs and outputs.

The platform also provides a lot of automation to schedule concurrent experiments.

There are a couple of things that need to be polished to be used, notes on experiments, notification of finished experiments, especially if you are running hundreds of experiments.

Depending on how organized you are, many times you will end up with experiments that you did not know how you started, having a platform that takes care of that could be beneficial.

If you have already a cluster, for running your experiments you will most probably end up ssh-ing to the machine to check which experiments finished, probably in a screen, and their results and logs, Polyaxon simplifies that part as well.
As an indie dev of desktop software, I have grown tired of complaints that my products aren't free as in speech and beer. I now reply to such criticism by linking to this post: https://fman.io/blog/dear-comrade/
I agree, that isn't the justification. But I see it is hard to argue with RMS and his fans, since every response is essentially "Software freedom means this, and you are wrong if you think it means something else". If you think RMS is correct, that yes, from that viewpoint other people are not.
As someone that was part of an effort to do this in the early .com days, it is a lost hope trying to sell open source software to consumers.

While selling to enterprise can be made via consulting and training, most consumers just want a one time shot paying for their software.

Well, if you do that with commercial software, usually the only way to avoid paying is piracy.

In open source world, they can just go to another guy that is re-packaging your work and making it available for free, thus killing your source of income.

Which is the major reason most desktop software shops are going the store model, hoping that higher control will prevent that kind of workaround (which doesn't work with rooted devices anyway), or forcing consumers to migrate to a SaaS like in the good old timesharing days.

I might add that FOSS developers are the first to blame, as contrary to most professions, many go to great lenghts to avoid paying anything, while feeling entitled their costumers pay them.

I am overgeneralizing here, but you see it every time someone comes up with licensing changes as means to be able to keep working on the product that they love, right away the forum gets flooded with free beer alternatives and vocal complaints how everyone is going to migrate to something else.
Check who the author is though
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The problem as mentioned in [1], is that banks don't necessarily do productive credit creation. They can create money just for people to buy assets, and not to invest in research and development. I think that it is the main idea behind removing them the possibility to create money, so as to reduce loans which inflate assets and create crisis.

[1] https://professorwerner.org/shifting-from-central-planning-t...
Well, it's too late to buy or sell the move they just reported but do many people do that?
Let's look at your examples about Red Hat and GitLab. Managers pay for service contracts from those companies so they have a "throat to choke" if things go sideways so it's not simply their neck on the line. From a CIO's point of view, a service contract is an insurance policy against standing before the CEO or board and saying "I have nobody but myself to blame, I have nobody but my team to fix the issue -- and they don't know how." Typically it's a start-up or a company where the CEO/founders are driving the technical decisions where you find IT using CentOS, PostgreSQL, etc without a support contract... and when there's enough revenue or investors buying that "throat to choke" is part of due diligence in a growing business.
If your commute is on a straight enough road you could probably do it then using an ssh app on your phone. /s
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You bury them eventually, which is the pertinent consideration if you are worried about burning the bodies destroying evidence.

That people with higher status received better treatment wouldn't really impact assessing how advanced their technique was, it would just show it at its best (which is sort of the thing being assessed, what sort of outcomes did their knowledge enable).
I think the web library, if it supports SQLite, must manage the writes to that database. Django uses SQLite by default, but if you have it running on just one server, I would expect that Django coordinates the needed writes from all its simultaneous users in a queue or something, one at a time.
Qwant, Startpage, DuckDuckGo....
You are not limited to google. If they are annoying you, leave.