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> However, today’s cloud providers have repeatedly violated this ethos by taking advantage of successful open source projects and repackaging them into competitive, proprietary service offerings.

Well, if that's the way you see it, then sure, go ahead and limit the software's use. But there are a lot of people, like myself on my OSS stuff, that do not feel like they're being taken advantage of when their software is used this way, otherwise I wouldn't put it out there. Granted I also disagree in many cases with copy left licenses. I don't want to engage in that debate here, but suffice to say some people want to control what you do once they transfer stuff to you and some don't. You see it a lot in non software these days too. We need a new term called "restrictionless software" or something similar so those of us with small companies don't need lawyers to share and share alike when each version of this type of clause comes out.

In the meantime, building a company out of charitable software work is probably hard, so I'm sure others' revenues off your stuff feels wrong. And it's hard to maintain a sense of freedom but still add pay-for features, so I sympathize with companies going this route.
I question the unspoken assumption that there should be an equitable split of male and female voices on the program. An alternative hypothesis is that the most interesting people skew male, or at least the ones willing to talk into a microphone. You have to at least consider this hypothesis before jumping to the conclusion of bias in the reporting.
Employees take risks. The earlier the startup, the bigger the risk. The risk may be different but it's still a risk.
If they're concerned about brand dilution via resale of "Redis"-as-a-Service RedisLabs could easily trademark the term Redis and prohibit its use in this way. This mechanism is much the same way Mozilla controls the Firefox trademarks. I do wish they hadn't made their Open Source licence a confusing mess and effectively proprietary for certain modules. That's their right, of course - as copyright holders. However, it's really unhelpful for the rest of the community. We're going to spend a lot of time trying to clarify for people who don't understand the implications of these toxic licence provisions why they make such components unacceptable.
but upgrade guide says its ok "talk things through" on the issues page, so I posted my solution there

https://github.com/avh4/elm-upgrade/issues/44
The article points out that as a (probably intentional, I think) side effect of the network neutrality appeal, it is no longer possible for the fire department to file a complaint about this with the FCC
I still remember the times when a 256K internet connection was not cheap, and ironically also "unlimited" in the sense that you could saturate it 24/7 for the whole month and no one could care less. Many weeks spent waiting for downloads to complete... some from P2P too.
>But many people have experiences that lead them to believe this to be the case.

translation: because that's what they were told by their parents when they were young
Remoting is SSH, but with much much MUCH more bulk (because it transfers full objects over the wire and uses SOAP as its wire protocol; see here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft...

Now that Windows 10 and above support native SSH with a somewhat-real pseudo terminal, we can probably just use SSH instead in the next year or two without having to pay Bitvise a ton of cash
It's really great that they released the code used for the research, though without the actual transcripts, e.g., dialogueByAct.tsv, it's hard to fully reproduce their findings.
If you read the article, it implies that people like Heroku and others offering hosted Redis is EXACTLY the kind of thing they are trying to prevent with this clause.

The thing is, the AGPL already existed for dealing with the whole "cloud vendors turning things effectively proprietary" issue.
This helps how?
Congrats!

And big thanks to developers and Valve who funded dxvk, vkd3d, esync and other Wine as well as Mesa work, while contributing everything in FOSS fashion. This benefits not just Steam users but all Linux gamers.
Your history is a little mixed up there. The original author of Turbo Pascal, and Chief Architect of Delphi, became the Lead Architect of C#. It’s not like Microsoft came out of nowhere and ate Borland’s lunch.
I can totally envision recruiters spamming candidates with the take-home exercises regardless of what the employers intended when drafting them up, in the interests of keeping a full queue of candidates+results on hand.

That's unfortunate, because I strongly prefer the take-home approach over in-person whiteboard exercises. Recruiters are often sleazy, that's really the crux of the problem IMHO.

Personally, I've always had a portfolio free software projects to point them at for review before any in-person interactions take place. I think that's probably the best defense for candidates in this scenario.
The FAQ at https://commonsclause.com says it was drafted by Heather Meeker.
> As an open source lawyer, this is definitely not an open source license in any meaningful sense…

TFA plainly says that it isn't, "at least not by the official definition set forth by the OSD."

> I'm sure you can make up another word other than "proprietary" to call it…

TFA also answers this:

> "Applying the Clause to an open source project will transition the project to 'source-available'."
The problem this license is trying to solve is a reasonable one: that cloud providers package up open source products as their own service and capture the majority of the value without adding much themselves.

This license might not be the best way around it but the issue should be addressed.
I was citing all the references to NCMEC that I could find.

I looked at some of the points that you mentioned specifically, and I stand by my position. I support Backpage publishing ads for prostitution, and I would draw the line at them in any way supporting underage prostitution or sex trafficking. I don't see anything here that tells me that Backpage did that.

If you would like me to refute any point in particular, let me know.

Just as an example of how I am reading things. You refer to:

#39 - A letter by attorney generals saying Backpage should stop accepting prostitution ads, with the claim that "ads trafficking children" are among them in a subordinate clause. It does even claim that Backpage ignored those ads, or encouraged them.

Things like #61, #67 or #78, re. the word filter: It's obviously controversial, but look, there are thousands of ads using words like "teen" or "lolita". None of them mean that actual children are involved. In fact, NCMEC said, quote "It is virtually impossible to determine how old the young women in these ads are without an in-depth criminal investigation. The pimps try to make the 15 year olds look 23".

They can filter those words silently, they can block them explicitly ("guiding traffickers about how to write their ads" they will say), or they can have them posted as-is. And they can choose which of those ads warrant a report because they look like actual trafficking, which apparently they did.

I mean, let's say you and me want to run a prostitution ad site like Backpage, you figure you could do it in a way that would not end up with you in the position Backpage is in right now?

#86, and #87, and #88 is interesting: First of all, the ad is deleted once it is pointed out on Backpage.com. And Backpagepics.com may well not be under the control of Backpage, as they say; they might not be able to do anything about it.

Now, reading this I did think that not bothering, on purpose, to respond to a mother who's child has been kidnapped is pretty awful behaviour (though it still doesn't proof they condoned trafficking).

However, the indictment doesn't quote Padilla here, it paraphrases. For all we know, he told the subordinate: Answer the email, but just so you know this, Backpagepics.com is not owned by us, in general we don't have a legal responsibility to deal with them. Or, maybe Padilla showed a gross lack of empathy here.

But think the government wouldn't blatantly misrepresent this email, while also not lying? Think again.

As I said, if you would like me to address a specific point, I am happy to.
I don’t understand your point here. I did mention in my comment that I was talking about the world's professing Christians. Do you have evidence that amongst the world's professing Christians the idea that the Earth is young but God created it to look old is mainstream? As far as I know this is a fringe idea but I haven’t been in tune with Christian thought for 15 years so things may have changed.
I used to be a heavy emacs user but decided to just learn vim because vi is practically available on everything whereas emacs isn't. The investment paid off big time. Unfortunately, I forgot my way around emacs, which can make it difficult on systems where emacs is the default EDITOR.
> Even the most restrictive FS licenses like GPL will not prevent me from selling consulting services around the product licensed under it.

At least this doesn't prevent buying those services. If I obtain the program from some party A, then A redistributed it to me. Then if I contract B to work on/with the software, B is not bound by the contract because they did not redistribute it to me. However, though I can pay B, neither of us can sell the enhancements though, if enhancements were made.

Moreover, I can't use the software to run any kind of business, because that's might be a product or service that arguably derives substantial value from the software.
So you're planning to bring a proprietary product to market, and make the code "shared source". There's nothing novel about that, and there are already licenses out there specifically for allowing "code available, but you can't redistribute". Using a faux "open source" license like "Apache + Commons Clause" is disingenuous, confusing, and irresponsible.
What do they say about that
Can you point me to the line in the license file that clearly demonstrates Redis is not open source?
https://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/unstable/COPYING
Are you happy with the voice? Would you be able to listen to it for 2-3 hours straight or would the computer voice become grating?
But morally ok.
What stronger rights do you think would move the needle in this kind of situation?
What everyone else has been doing is embedding Monaco (the barebones text editor component) into their shell. The shell implements things like searches, key bindings, a file explorer tree view, top menu, fake-console etc.

What the creator is saying is that he got the actual VSCode project running in the browser. This means that the vast plugin ecosystem will run inside the browser. I suppose he'd have replaced all the nodejs dependencies with browser versions; for example an "fs" module that keeps files in-memory (or maybe using indexeddb) etc.

Further down that tweet, he says that the code is very easy to get started with. That's been my experience looking at it briefly; VSCode just seems like it was written by a team with deep expertise in IDE-making and PLs.
Aw, man. We yelled at the Redis dev so often for poorly reimplementing distributed consensus algorithms that he switched to poorly reimplementing software licenses instead.
The appeal to authority is to whatever authority OSI, Debian, or FSF may have, not to legal authority. Licensing lawyers often know those definitions, or at least know of them. But they're terms of branding, terms of politics, not legal terms of art, and not strong trade or service marks.

Granted, I think it's safe to say Commons Clause wouldn't meet the old definitions you mentioned, or please the people who wrote them. But I don't think it's my place, as a lawyer, to tell coders what "open source" should mean.

As for the old definitions, I've consistently overestimated how much devs care. Frankly, I've overestimated definitions focusing on license terms as a general proposition. Partly as a result, I've reassessed how I channel those projects, and my desire to belong among those invested in them, through my practice. Clients assume what I say is legally grounded. My job is to hear them and help them. Not to cite them under someone else's client's PR program, or scare them straight with the hiss of a hot "proprietary" brand.
So along the lines of from each according to his ability to each according to his need then?
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I studied marketing law in Norway as part of marketing science before switching back to tech and then moving down under; Australian marketing law is very very relaxed compared to Norway.
I've always valued your voice on HN. Sorry that you're disheartened. I have no answers either.
This is the idea behind www.betfair.com (not the cryptocurrency/smart contract bit tho).
You may be confusing the actual definition of open source and the literal interpretation of the words "open source". Open source in the context of software doesn't just mean that the source code has been published.
It's not surprising that it works. It's pretty similar to how henry schein grew and kept its culture. They do the same thing in many ways, looking for compatible culture, during acquisitions as well.
Most of those developers "doing okay" are doing significantly worse than us SV and FAANG company engineers. I save more every year now than a good number of junior engineers take home in a year, and I'm a crappy average developer not even at FAANG with a much smaller total comp than their staff. There are a tiny, tiny number of SE jobs having more than 50% of my current salary (let alone equity and other benefits and perks) just about anywhere else that isn't also a hot tech/startup market (Austin, NY, Chicago).
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It seems like you're using "interesting" as an absolute metric, which I think is highly dubious for an aesthetic quality.

Another explanation is that interviewing people in positions of authority is unavoidable and those people are disproportionately male at present. But the point of this article is that they looked at the data and it didn't reveal what they expected.
Quantum machine learning presentation
GHEdit was released ~2 years ago: https://github.com/spiffcode/ghedit/blob/master/README.md
The distinction you're talking about is analog vs digital, as in mechanical linkages vs fly-by-wire, but it's a distinction with much difference as most systems are a mixture of both these days.

Either way, failure is not unique and can happen in either domain. There are plenty of examples of electronics failing and again it is strange to say that they don't. Silicon chips might not move but they are physical products that can overheat or short-circuit or just break.

Aircraft are much more critical than cars and the reason they have multiple completely redundant systems is precisely because things do fail all the time.
There's no reason we need to respect the artifice constructed post-facto by groups like the OSI. "Open-source" can and should be used in its common sense.

The OSI definition is the "common sense" of Open Source and has been for at least 20 years.
The definition of "reasonable person", in the LEGAL sense is average person.

I am not sure why you purposefully misinterpreted the legal definition of the words "reasonable person", according to the courts.
South pole - perfect place for constant solar power. Just raise it up a little bit.
yeah, that one seems off, and the interviewees one looks like a regression line should be flatter
Would agree with you that it's semi-mainstream. I grew up evangelical, and I heard that argument many times. Though it was never accepted doctrine nor preached. At least at my baptist church.

But there is one potentially fun part of this silly theology. While discussing this with a never-Christian friend of mine, we both had the epiphany there's an overlap between this doctrine and the "universe is a simulation" idea. Which really amused me.

Maybe, at least with believers of that sort, gnosticism will make a well-deserved comeback.
You don't have to write a replacement, just fork Redis and continue from there.
Wow, 45-90Mbps for $3k-$6k/mo.
I think we all need to meet in the middle. Men acting more like women and women acting more like men. I guess the question is where exactly is "the middle"?
Wrong journey, nobody's contemplated that. The idea is taking water from the Moon to space, rather than earth water to space at vastly greater fuel cost.
Survey of generative network algorithms
By using "significant numbers" alone, you're vulnerable to coordinated information suppression efforts (by state actors, for example).
When people are dying, focusing on property rights is just plain evil.
Indeed, the title is startingly misleading, but it's par for the course.

It seems that "Engineer", in the context of hiring, for anything YC-sponsored, means programmer. Even "Work at a Startup" was (and likely still is), exclusively for software engineers.

This is despite the fact that YC actually accepts/funds companies that aren't pure software plays.
It's almost as though science is a complex job that occasionally requires a lot of work.
The effect of loudness on perception is well-documented in several studies and used to much advantage by audiophile snake-oil peddlers.
There are several countries that run near 100% renewable. Most of them are getting their electricity from hydro dams though, rather than solar and wind.

Hydro dams have their own environmental concerns.
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Ditto, especially in combination with Python/Django, as used by Nextdoor. Ironically, they had already removed Celery from their stack a few years prior. https://engblog.nextdoor.com/nextdoor-taskworker-simple-effi...
It used to happen in a quite literal sense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convict_lease

The modern prison labor system varies from this in degree, but not really in kind. Inmates are still compelled to work in the US.
As engineer no 1 at an early stage startup, you don't need ths same skills that are needed at FAANG. I may be wrong, but you are constantly iterating and mostly building software that has a shelf life of may be 3-6 months. You are not building for reliability or scale. You are building mostly ad-hoc and to fulfil an immediate market need (which may or may not exist 2 months from now). Where as at FAANG you are by design building for reliability and scale from day 1. Very different skills.

I can't comment which skill is more valuable. They are somewhat orthogonal to each other right ? The better you get at software engineering the more process oriented you become. Hopefully an early startup gives you that kind of progression, but very unlikely, since the progression is directly correlated to the startup's scale and success.

If someone desires to put good software engineering into practice from day 1, then engineer #1 at an early stage startup is not the right choice.

This is all based on anecdotal experiences so am happy to stand corrected.
Yes, I hear that a lot: that I am valued. But it mostly doesn't translate to money. It mostly doesn't translate to Patreon supporters, tips, people hiring me to do paid writing, people hiring me to do resume work.

I need $150 to be okay-ish the rest of this month. It's not a huge sum. I'm failing to come up with it.

And any time I bitch about my financial problems, I'm told to basically shut up about it. Anytime I say sexism is part of why I remain poor, I'm told I'm wrong.

Etc. Ad nauseum.

I think I'm a contributor. When men contribute here, it eventually translates into money. But it mostly doesn't for me. And it seems to make zero difference how I try to approach that problem. It remains unbudging.

Edit: to be clear, the whole "I'm looking at starving for five days next week in spite of X, Y and Z accomplishments" is the crux of why I feel so negative at the moment.
That was my argument, before this article was published. The counter argument of course, is that it does sublimate (as water does from comets), but there's a vast amount (remains of a crashed comet, say); plus dust accumulating on the surface seals it fairly well over time. So I'm now guessing we're not talking "a few millimeters of water" as others have speculated, but really large amounts.
The hold music for Agoda.com is infuriating. They play an endless/seamless loop of "I don't want to wait in vain (for your love)" by Bob Marley.

For the first few minutes you think it's one looping song, but after 5-10 minutes of this exact song looping, by the time a customer service rep gets on the phone it's automatically an adversarial relationship.
Numerical Tours of Data Sciences
The Free plan is amazing. 25GB roaming outside of France, too.
It's not particularly new. One of my friends was giving this explanation, learned from her Baptist church, in the 1980s.
YC has moved "downstream"! Upstream is where things emerge and then they travel downstream.
My all time favorite is conspiracy theory is that the positions and angles of street inspection stickers on the backs of road signs are secretly driving directions to concentration camps for foreign UN soldiers to take people to.

I've known plenty of conspiracy theorists, on both sides of the political spectrum - black helicopters, chemtrails, faked moon landings, flat-earthers, NSA-records-your-phone calls-and-emails, white people were bred on an island by a professor named Jacob and are inherently evil as a result of the process, US government did OKC, US government did 9/11, Mossad did 9/11, JFK...

But I don't think the defining characteristic of these "believers" is not belief, but rather unbelief - a feeling that someone is lying to them. A lot of times they'll argue in the same evening for mutually contradictory conspiracy theories. Or will happily switch to a different theories about the moon landing as soon as I show some evidence against their first one. It's not at all about any one particular theory being true.

In end, perhaps it's a good thing to have a some percentage of the population be disposed to a little skepticism about those in power.
Yup, it (whatever pieces are now under this new clause, it isn't clear, may just be some modules) is no longer free software.
AWS elasticache
Gcp memorystore

Neither use redis name brand, but both offer a managed redis
I don't understand. Do you mean "listen to" as in "hear the opinion of" or as in "obey"?
Big companies do not like vague licenses. I work at a big tech company and I was specifically told to not use any software under the WTFPL license (Do What the Fuck You Want To Public License) [0] because it is not explicit.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL
If the vendor supplied such a system or provided the answer to your question, would you trust it? Why?

You always need independent researchers to verify vendor's claims.
I disagree with you on different grounds. Your points downthread about how it's not a risk are on the nose. No stigma for being part of a startup (the opposite) and even startup benefits are pretty great these days. This isn't ramen/buddies closet sort of work any more.

I'd say the reason you want a strong equity package is a question of alignment and incentive, though. Ideally this person is going to be a VP of Engineering for you someday if you scale up and on top of that needs to have architect + SRE + hacker + sysadmin skills. On top of that, you'll probably want them to make similar sacrifices that you (as the founder) are making to get the business off the ground. It shouldn't be founder equity, and maybe the standard 4 yr + cliff structure isn't right for it, but you probably want this person to have a substantial vested interest in the success of the company.