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> Please do cursory searches for data to backup what you imagine to be true.

This is pretty off-putting, especially given a few glaring factual errors in your own post.

>> Nurses make good money.

> On average, no.

NP average annual salary: 95,523 USD

PA average annual salary: 98,180 USD

RN average annual salary: 67,490 USD

IDK what "good money" means, but ALL of these are paid much better than average for their respective levels of education. And certainly, beat out e.g. what a fresh BA/BS would make at a place like Edward Jones or Bank of America. Hell, my first SE job offers were lower than the RN average, and I certainly felt like that was "good money"!

>> Comparing teachers and police officers to hedge fund guys is weird

> Weird is a strange way of saying "accurate".

Again, offputting.

Quants at hedge funds often have Ph.D.s in hard sciences from top universities. Comparing across vastly different pedigrees is no representative.

Why not compare apples to apples?

>> Education or law enforcement consultant/vendor/leader

> Whatever that means.

Yes again, offputting.

What I meant is this.

Leader: Superintendents rarely make less than $150,000 and make up to $N00,000 which, especially with CoL adjustments, is often better pay than the 200,000+ salary ranges typical for quants at hedge funds.

Vendor: And those are just the public sector jobs. A LOT of money is made in selling education products. Do you really think the CEO of Pearson is living in the poor house?

Just like literal bankers (people who sit in banks) are a very small fragment of what we think of as "banking", literal teachers are a very small fragment of people employed in education and literal police officers are a very small fragment of people employed in law enforcement.

> Google 'largest banks', and assume annual profit to be about 10-20% of their assets. Over 94% of farms in the US are family owned, so I don't know what you think you mean by farming companies. I don't need to guess, I know that there isn't a single farming-related company one that comes close to the banks in terms of profits, assets, or valuation.

This is super offputting because you're taking on an extremely condescending tone and haven't even bothered to do the research yourself.

Cargill, for example, is family owned and pulls in 114.7 _B_illion in revenue. (For reference, BoA, America's largest bank, pulls down 87.352 Billion in revenue.)

"Family owned" doesn't mean what you think it means in American farming. Many "family owned" argi businesses (including actual farms) are really freaking huge operations.

> This disturbing feudal system is mirrored across multiple industries.

Wait. This is literally exactly the point I was trying to make in my original comment. The feudal system also exists in banking and in lawyerings, and the top rung of the education hierarchy is doing extremely well while the lowest rung of banking or lawyering is barely scraping by. Maybe if you'd engaged politely with me instead of getting pissed off...
Aye yeah sorry it was a little joke.
For new code, don't Unity and the like already fulfill this role?
There's this application I've been writing and re-writing my whole career: I call it "some users design forms, other users fill out forms." It is hard to design the db as anything other than EAV. (You can push more or less of it into JSON columns, but there are tradeoffs.)

I have often wondered about pushing the customizability down a level though, like what the author does here, where each form creates a separate database table. It's too crazy for me, but it's tempting. And I have actually done it before where users' forms automatically generate individual tables in a separate flattened reporting database. It works really well for giving enterprise customers SQL access to an OLAP view of their data, even if I wouldn't use it for my source-of-truth OLTP structure. (Some day I'm going to write a blog post about that.)

Even just for derived reporting tables, you quickly discover all kinds of limits in your database: reserved words, max columns per table, max columns per query, number of foreign keys pointing at a central table, etc. I haven't hit anything fatal though (with Postgres).

Anyway, I'm excited to see that someone actually pulled this off, complete with Django models and migrations, even if it's just for fun.
Patent illustrations are a hilarious genre in general. If you like the drawings here, you’ll love this tumblr which features some true classics:

http://contextfreepatentart.tumblr.com

My favorite is the one where the couch potato has to get up and shout “McDonalds!” before the Orwellian, camera-equipped Smart TV will continue playing the violent program he is watching.
> It really sucks when companies are using your work to make money for themselves.

Why does that suck? It seems GPLv3 is for the envious and MIT and Apache for the free.

The four “freedoms” are fake freedoms. There is only one freedom; freedom from coercion.

How can someone claim their GPL icense gives me those four freedoms but not others? If some freedoms are restricted then it’s not free (libre) s/w.
"commons clause (as defined in commonsclause.com) "

That is subject to change so without a specific version number / date it is effectively useless as a guide.
Interesting analysis using online forums as a data source to determine that certain words are used more frequently by people exhibiting depression.

Here's a link to the full paper: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/216770261774707...
Great batch. I'm especially impressed by the hard tech companies that produce atoms.
But unfortunately, on demo day 1 there was a company that makes the world uglier and is supporting the massive ongoing trend of middle class and sometimes even upper class people imitating an aspect of the underclass.
On demo day 2, there was a shamelessly partisan company that makes the world worse. It wants to get more people to support a process that, contrary to entrepreneurship, brings out the worst in people who actively engage in that process.

May the companies from the S18 batch flourish, except those two.
It's all fun and games until someone gets a head-full of hot coffee.
> and they give you a (complex, hard to fake) badge

Unless they run out of those, then they just give you a paper card that you wear on some string or something.
Sensational click-baity title. You could have just said "IBM patents drone-delivery of coffee".
On one hand I admire RedisLabs for acknowledging what all major cloud vendors are doing... embracing and extending open source packages but not giving back enhancements.

On the other hand, the terms of "commons" are not in the spirit of the license and software they've built their business upon.

If in the end Salvatore Sanfilippo were getting funded by the licensing of commons modules, I'd be less concerned.
Well why doesn't this apply to JS? The python interpreter is running in the JS sandbox
It doesn't help that coconut oil legitimately has anti-fungal and anti-microbial properties that probably make it a benefit to foods that its added to, despite its possibly harmful lipid profile.

Perhaps that's the nuance that is missing in this debate that's needed. The shocker that foods can be simultaneously good and bad for you...
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Same in France. My plan is 1G/250M unlimited, as in unlimited. I could download at full speed all month long.

They rely on people like me taking the most expensive contract and knowing that nobody will ever max it out (rather running at sub percent levels of the pkan)
Just because average wealth has increased, doesn't mean life is better. Who is more poor: a farmer who lives in the middle of no where in a hut, but has fresh water, fruit trees, and a couple goats, or a person who works at McDonalds in the USA?

Those statistics would say the person in the hut is poorer of course, but I would disagree.
> although there is a non-nudity mod

I love this, never occurred to me that people might mod nudity out of a game instead of into it.
When I was contractor at IBM for a year I attended several sessions where the only task was to come up with ideas for patents. This looks exactly like the result of one of these sessions.
fastmail.com is good.
So it seems like the core issue they're trying to solve is Los Angeles's portfolio is too large to manage at a community bank[1], because it's too risky. And the solution is to create a single customer bank?

It would seem to me that the way to manage this is to either use the large size of the portfolio to demand concessions from commercial banks, or split up the banking needs over several banks -- although it's probably difficult to split over enough to be able to use the services of even the largest community banks. The article reports $101 Million on deposit with Wells Fargo at some point, that's just a huge amount; more than 1% of total assets for most credit unions (all except the top 7 [2])

[1] I'm going to use bank, when it could also be a credit union, since for most purposes they're interchangeable.

[2] https://www.mx.com/moneysummit/biggest-us-credit-unions-by-a...
Failure only because you disagree with the outcomes. Many of us supported Brexit and Trump. Democracy does not guarantee the outcome you want, and to believe that democracy has failed when it does not go your way means that you have a wrong idea of what democracy is and perhaps are anti-democratic.
Hey, just so you know, the link to your resume in the bio is misspelled, leading to a deadlink.
Not really. MS has (had) a very crappy image that they worked really hard to build during the early 2000s. That reputation stuck. And it doesn't help that most people are ignorant and are always willing to ignore an informed opinion over one that sounds cool.

MS and Windows 10 are still far behind Google in the data collection game. Especially since they put that privacy wizard front and center at the first setup.

But as I said, every second you spend defending Google and throwing shade at MS because it feels like the cool thing to do, Google adds another data collection item in their policy, hides yet another setting under 5 layers of options, and tricks you again into thinking that toggling a switch to off actually disables it.

It's not like they did exactly that for 10 years now to the point where they are by far the largest private data collection effort in the history of man kind.

And yes, I'm sure MS will follow suit. Why not? Google seems to be doing just fine.
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You've repeatedly violated the site guidelines in this thread. That will get you banned on HN—especially the way you've been abusing others. Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules from now on? The idea here is: if you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do.

You obviously have experience in this area that is great to share in a way people can learn from. But first it's necessary to be civil, as all users need to be here.
I still get surprises like starting to learn Google Cloud Functions and realizing that up until July of this year they only supported Python 2.

I have no idea why would a project of this caliber would start by using Python 2 instead of Python 3.

Edit: When I started reading about GCF, all docs said I could only use Python 2. Later I found that they seem to be on the way to change this. But still, I was very surprised that Python 2 was even an option to begin with.
Someone collected the employee patent bonus for this! We can clearly see that incentive is working.
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The GP sounds exactly like the "you don't need microservices for everything, you can have well built monoliths too", "not everything must be a single page app", or "not every datacenter should be replaced with a cloud one".

ES specifically has a large list of drawbacks, so not everybody should use it. It would be great if people could tell about how there are many changes of gray between "CRUD-only we forget everything that is not current" and ES, but in a hush to make a point people act like those are the only known possibilities.
> reciprocal licenses such as GPL, AGPL

Note: they are not reciprocal. They require passing on the freedoms. They are pay-it-forward, downstream licenses. If you get something back, it's incidental (though common).
No license can work where it isn't used, AGPL included. Redis has been licensed under BSD 3-clause since at least version 2.2[1].

[1] https://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/2.2/COPYING
Explain this particular sentence...Because a public bank is not a for-profit business, it can offer lower interest rates than private options, saving billions of dollars over time..

Where are the "savings"? This money was originally earning interest, not costing money.

And of course they need to incorporate the default rate on their loans, which would lower the overall return.

Overall, a very hand wavy plan.
I don't know about GNU, but OpenStreetMap has a licence where bits kick in if it's used externally, and it defines it as:

"“Publicly” – means to Persons other than You or under Your control by either more than 50% ownership or by the power to direct their activities (such as contracting with an independent consultant)."

So if you can tell someone to do something, they are internal. If you can't, then that's public.

https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/
Claiming you have "imposter syndrome" seems to be a popular way to convey modesty or self deprecation. I suspect that many people that claim to have it actually don't.
The idea that it's the "environmentalists' fault" is backwards though. Wildfires were poorly understood earlier in the century and it made sense to suppress them all. Environmentalists were advocating since the 20's for allowing controlled natural fires. It wasn't until some bad fires in the 80's when proper policies were finally put into place.

The consequences of bad forest management from earlier decades will still play out for a while longer, but now that the correct policies are in place, it will cease to become an excuse, while the consequences of climate change are only going to worsen. Forests have been increasingly drier and hotter. Logging activity has cut down the most fire resistant trees and replaced it with flammable young ones. Trump suggests to increase logging and blame the liberals. When politicians blame forest management from a century ago, it is an argument in bad faith, as a way to ignore the myriad impacts of climate change. We should be constantly improving our forest management, yes, but it's something already being worked on, while there is so much resistance to policies to reduce climate change.
Trolling...but not in their usual manner.
That's incredibly inaccurate. There are a number of different tools available to users, and even more available to instance admins and moderators.

Source: I'm a moderator on anticapitalist.party. AMA.
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Same thing for ergonomic keyboards - they can be a dangerous sign that you're focusing on the wrong thing, on micro-optimizations rather than on the root cause.

I disagree. It depends on the keyboard, of course. For example, the Microsoft Natural I had in the 90s was a complete POS that exacerbated my tendinitis. It was a cheap sliding-post keyboard. If your finger hit anywhere but dead-on, the resistance was tremendous.

A good mechanical keyboard will provide perfectly consistent resistance, which will be a huge improvement over a poorly designed, cheaper keyboard.

A more advanced option like the Kinesis or Ergodox completely eliminates many of the fundamental problems with traditional keyboards that create pain in the first place.
Publishing books is still largely proprietary. Yet that is not helping many individual writers or small publishers make much of a living.

Amazon on the other hand...
Please don't reply to a comment that broke the HN guidelines by breaking them yourself. That only makes this place worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> ... even Linux gets a fair amount from people whose main use motivating modifications is hosted use which does not require contributions (because it's GPL, not AGPL.)

I'm not aware of any Linux mods not being shared upstream (or at least intended to be eventually PRed to master), except maybe grsec? Please don't give them (AWS/Azure/Google) ideas; we might soon see eg. proprietary drivers for datacenter hardware or Docker/k8s-specific kernel mods. That's a case AGPL could've prevented (though again, I don't know of any proprietary kernel mods).

Hm, come to think of it, the possibility of security-piercing the kernel, then to offer the result as a Linux VM or worse, for hosting Docker-like containers, is concerning. One reason more to buy real VMs with a verifiable standard distro installed, rather than "containers" I guess.
You may want to look into media bias and the One America News Network. I suspect you haven't rethought your position at all, and rather parrot the position you see on the media you consume. Think outside the box.
An open source project can (and some do) require copyright assignment such that there is a single owner who can re-license at will. It's a fair thing to do: would-be contributors know this is happening and can choose to not participate.

I have no objection to owners taking a codebase proprietary. It doesn't change the fact that earlier versions stay open source and third parties (including the community) can still fork them if they want to. That's because have no objection to proprietary codebases to begin with, even though I appreciate open source, use open source, and prefer to make my code open source.

Open source is not an end for me, but a means to: a) establish/burnish the authors' reputations, b) benefit from third parties' contributions in-kind. Monetization is not so much dependent on whether a codebase is open source or proprietary, nor on its license, but on the codebase's value (to others) including the value of future development on that codebase.

Monetizing infrastructure software can be very difficult, especially when it is a commodity, but SQLite3 has succeeded at that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17819950
Agreed, but it certainly undermines the idea that coconut oil is absolutely terrible for you
It doesn't; it just lumps the federal and state incarceration rates together to draw its conclusion. From the FiveThirtyEight article:

> According to the Bureau of Prisons, there are 207,847 people incarcerated in federal prisons. Roughly half (48.6 percent) are in for drug offenses.

Additionally, the words "Bureau of Prisons" are actually a link to the same site GW150914 is citing (https://bop.gov/about/statistics/).
Ask HN: How easily could russian hackers manipulate a U.S. election?
What would they have to achieve this technically?
Seems plausible - I just couldn’t recall who was dominating embedded chips at the time
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The biggest manipulation scheme is what's going on with the establishment and their media getting 50% of the American populace, which typically believes that it is enlightened and beyond conspiracy, to believe in some some massive Russian influence and collusion conspiracy.
> requires reciprocity and prevents takeovers

GPL has neither of these qualities. GPL only requires pay-it-forward with reciprocity being incidental. GPL only prevents takeovers that require proprietization to be effective (which is some portion of takeovers, I'd agree)

Separately, the AGPL situation is obnoxious. AGPL does nothing wrong here. Corporations being anti-AGPL is bullshit (but is indeed all-too-widespread).
Regarding `avoid side-effects`, the amount of side-effects that are required for a typical real problem solving code base is quite reasonably measurable. For example, the number of network calls, DB calls, FileSystem read/writes are are measurable. Have you been able to reduce the `side-effects` significantly or have just become more aware of it?

When we started using ExpressJS (coming away from Java), there was a tremendous change. As soon as you begin to code in Javascript (say from Java/Ruby/Python world), async hits you. There is no escaping it. And the programmer faces a tax (every time when implementing async/await or generators), his/her awareness about side-effects (deliberately generalizing IO as side-effects) and they tend to be more careful with it.
>Then you GET to code in Tcl !
I don't care about Tcl but your enthusiasm is golden. Sort of why I write silly stuff in bash or in an esoteric manner; "Why" "Cause we can!!"
This is humorously illustrated in Antirez's blog post on this matter[1]: "We at Redis Labs are sorry for the confusion generated by the Creative Common page".

They really should've run the name by someone familiar with the copyright landscape.

[1] http://antirez.com/news/120
Licensing choices dont exist in a vacuum, they are made with a business climate in mind. I think many projects picked liberal licenses in a climate where the assumption was that you could make your money selling integration / consulting on top of the software. I think we are no longer living in that world. In this new cloudy world we need to find a way to fund the development of infrastructure software (databases / debuggers / libraries etc).
https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1997/spring/m...
I have no doubt that your kids will eventually appreciate what you're doing for them...I can't feel anything but sorrow over how necessary that this is thought(or is!) to be.
If you’re in a position to use armrests then you’re not sitting up straight

What an ignorant statement. It very obviously depends on the chair and body in question.
I don't know the details of this stuff, but with .net/mono is it even correct to call it emluation? It seems more like a compatability layer than emulation.
I don't know when was the last time you looked but AMD has mainline drivers now and have contributed a lot of general purpose code for other drivers to use.
Cloudflare seeing 4% to 7% increase in traffic month on month in Africa
I wonder if the time.time is the slow part there? Maybe worth doing a busy look for say 5 million iterations, timing that then doing the calculation for loops per second.
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Is Vicilook the solution for grassroot Networking. I came across this Tech Product that networks people found in a specific community at grassroot level and its so awesome.
Here is the actual portion of the GNU AGPLv3 that is relevant:

> Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, if you modify the Program, your modified version must prominently offer all users interacting with it remotely through a computer network (if your version supports such interaction) an opportunity to receive the Corresponding Source of your version by providing access to the Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge, through some standard or customary means of facilitating copying of software.

There are a few key things to note (I'm not a lawyer, but the idea of the GPL family of licenses is that they be written so that developers can also understand them):

* It only applies to people who have modified their version of the software, so if you just run code provided to you by someone else you don't need to give network users the source code.

* It uses the term "users" which would imply that if you state that someone external to your company is not permitted to use the service, they would not be considered a user (and thus you don't need to give them a copy of the source).
This. FOSS can be monetized by making it an investment rather than a product: offer services, let the software free then get paid for support and customized patches. This works, unless one wants to keep the money flowing while twiddling thumbs.
This reminds me of a Vonnegut short, Harrison Bergeron. [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron