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Highly recommend against the latter, unless if you’re willing to do it for free. The glut of indie games in the past few years means that the average indie dev will get paid literally pennies per hour or less.

Do it for fun if you want, but doing it for the money will lead to heartbreak.
Wait, Free Software Foundation requires a CLA itself!

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.en.html
There was no standard to ignore since the whole feature set didn't exist. Firefox is not ignoring a standard by integrating Pocket to the address bar.
that's how competitions work....in your second part, some other people who can make the stuff cheaper will just come onto amazon's platform, preventing the price from going up.

If you're looking from a supplier side, yeah this business is bleak. But keep in mind someone will always accept a lower margin, run the same business more efficiently, or can produce your goods at a lower cost.

Just because you guys can't stay in the game, doesn't mean the game is broken. You got beat by open competition.
Google Starts to Monetize Voice with Paid Digital Goods
Ask HN: What salary to expect in London?
Hi, I'm from India working with one of the "Digital Transformation" consultancy. I have little more than ten years experience. I work with clients to help transform their legacy architecture. I work with some of the newer technology stacks ( think micro-services based, Java 8 , Spring Cloud, Node.js (hapi, loopback), Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines etc.,)

Right now I'm being offered a transfer to our London office. They are offering me around 47,000 pounds. I personally think this is less, but I don't have any figure to anchor on. Is this figure less or is it decent ? Should I negotiate for more ? What is considered a decent figure ?
We could probably improve the dimensions quite a bit if we used something other than granite for heat storage. Something that changes phase, like in those pocket warmers, would probably be more effective.
> How does that differ from movie and music press? It's pretty much the same situation - you have big blockbusters which are polished and ground down to be as widely appealing and as mildly offensive as possible. These blockbusters then get ridicoulous marketing spending which shoves them down the throat of as many average people as possible.

Limited personal experience, but: the music journalists I've known really loved music. Many were in their own bands. There was a certain amount of indie one-upmanship, there was also a deep appreciation and respect for the medium in general, even when faced with genres they didn't get on with. They also spent a hell of a lot of time on music, even when not on the clock. I don't get that sense from video game journalism at all; if anything several of them seem to wish they were movie critics. The depth of detailed technical knowledge just isn't there - music and film journalists throw light both on the techniques used to make music and film, and the process of production itself, in a way that video game reporting doesn't.
And as a result, ZeroMQ has a bizarre LGPLv3 license with supposed exceptions and claims it doesn't need commercial licensing as a result.
Redis background saving works like that too.

https://redis.io/topics/faq#background-saving-fails-with-a-f...
Could you please explain your comment? The link that you have provided explains that with the new Intel Xeon Scalable generation it is difficult to implement single-root PCI complex on typically available motherboards, while according to [1] "the new Intel® Xeon® W processors are based on the Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor microarchitecture". Therefore, Intel Xeon W would have the same problems for supporting single-root PCI complex as the Xeon Scalable mentioned in the link you have provided.

[1] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/xeon/xeon...
Yes, but now that version is quickly becoming stale, growing CVEs and perhaps becoming incompatible with the new upstream, with a community left in disarray that more often than not fails to support a fork.
Even if you don't sign a CLA, can't someone take an Apache/BSD/MIT-licensed work and make a closed source form of it? The license effectively just requires them to mention where the code came from. Whether you signed a CLA or not seems pretty irrelevant.

Apache says for example: "You may add Your own copyright statement to Your modifications and may provide additional or different license terms and conditions for use, reproduction, or distribution of Your modifications, or for any such Derivative Works as a whole [...]".

I think the OP's concern only applies to GPL software, which in my experience is pretty rare at this point.
Smoking is a weird analogy. I'd expect a better one to be something like "give it a generation and it will be as strange and morally suspect as a horse and buggy".

Or alternatively, maybe as strange as a motorcycle or vintage MG.
An Introduction to PyTorch for Deep Learning
Changing from BSD to proprietary does not invalidate any prior BSD license on work that has been published.

In such event, you can still distribute the existing source code, or fork the project in order for it to remain BSD-only.
Lost me at the first sentence. “One of the interesting things about capitalism is its failure results in value shifts among younger generations”

Oh I’m sorry, modern society is a failure eh?
what do you mean, nodejs or raspi?
I can only hope that the call for a union takes hold. Although I‘m not overly optimistic.
Take your damned upvote! You're right, but I can't edit it now to fix.
My understanding used to be that it's OK if one company has a natural monopoly, but it's not ok to leverage that monopoly to gain an unfair competitive advantage in a different area. That was the rationale for the antitrust suits against Microsoft in the 90s: being the natural OS monopoly was OK, but they couldn't leverage that position to be the natural browser monopoly, too (which they did anyway, but whether the sanctions against them worked is a separate topic).

So, I would think the same would apply here: it's ok that Amazon has won a monopoly as a retail channel, but starting to leverage that to sell their own goods should be against antitrust laws. However, it seems that in the last 2 decades the only thing that courts have considered is "is the price lower for the consumer", so most antitrust laws appear to have been eviscerated in any case.
So what is your point here? That there is no such thing as a "missing person"?
To have contributed under BSD means that you have contributed under a license that permits relicensing. To contribute under the "BSD license but secretly I'm not going to let you relicense" means that you have not in fact contributed under the BSD license in the first place, but your secret license.

If you want to contribute under your secret license, what it means is that you don't want to spend any time in the first place contributed to the BSD-licensed project. Make your changes and use them, but don't contribute them back. The BSD license permits this fully, including your ability to distribute and sell the resulting software, subject to the advertising clause as appropriate. So it's not like there's anything onerous about this idea.
> That is a bit circular to say developers like Apple because they like money, thus Apple is not truly liked for itself.

It's almost as if users patronize Comcast because they like internet access and Comcast is not truly liked for itself. It's almost as if drivers patronize the DMV because they like driving without being arrested and the DMV is not truly liked for itself.

There is a big difference between needing something and liking it.

> Apple was successful in building a platform because it's in house developers were capable of putting together something that was popolar with many people. They built on that to make more money by allowing other developers to use their platform.

But who are they to be allowing anything? GE makes a fine electrical distribution panel but that doesn't mean they get to decide what kind of lamp or microwave or laptop I can use with it.

> 1. Competency is not a moat. If Apple loses developers it's next product will not be so much better than competition that it's success will maintain against erosion.

Network effects are a moat. Apple had the first mover advantage, so they had the initial users and the developers follow the users. Then the users stay because the developers are there and the developers have no choice but to stay if they want access to those users.

The users could switch to Android -- most of them already have. But the developers can't make the remaining users move outside of some sufficiently large organized boycott, which are notoriously difficult to effectuate because of the coordination problem.

> 2. For all people talk about associating with necessary evils; when you associate with someone long enough, you begin to think they are not evil. Thus it seems reasonable to think developers do not hate Apple, if they work with Apple.

By this logic the most beloved entity in the country should be the IRS. And if people had to file four times a year instead of once they would like them even more.
Their argument is value is a moment to moment price and not a fundamental property.
As they say, not all open source is FOSS...

> Free and open source software licenses grant explicit freedoms to three groups: the maintainers, the users, and the contributors.

This is not the case of all open source licenses...

Wrong. FOSS = Free Open Source Software, which is really redundant, because all Open Source Software is Free Software. Open Source is essentially the marketing branch of Free Software. The Open Source Definition, and the Four Freedoms are basically the same thing. The only difference is that Open Source cares more about being practical, and Free Software is trying to save the world.

EDIT: I am always surprised by the number of people on HN who seem to not understand this. I know there has been a push the last 10 years or so against copyleft, and specifically the GPL. I didn't think it extended to forgetting what these words in our industry actually mean.
The Chinese are known to detain people indefinitely.

Hong Kong Booksellers are a great example[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causeway_Bay_Books_disappearan...
I won't contribute to any open source project with a CLA - which has been a shame for a few open source projects. I caught a serious security vulnerability in one project including them openly posting admin secrets - and privately contacted and let them know, appropriately - only to get back a response of "Can you sign our CLA and help us fix this?".

I politely told them I don't do CLAs. I checked a few weeks later and the passwords were still posted.
Well for one, it's not just the price -- I can't slap a million dollar price tag on my house and call it the value -- it's the price in a well functioning, liquid market. I.e. someone has to be willing to pay it.

Historically from time to time you do get these anomalies and bubbles where things get out of wack. The tulip bubble is a classic example, and BTC last year looked a lot like that too. I think the way to connect those prices back to value is that the price eventually (and not even that long from a historical perspective) got back in sync -- tulip bulbs eventually crashed and BTC has lost 50+% of it's value in the last year.

So I guess it's not to say price always == value for everything at every moment in time, but exceptions don't come around that often. Again, the Yudkowsky book explores when they do.

Related is this comment by Warren Buffett:

"I could improve your ultimate financial welfare by giving you a ticket with only 20 slots in it so that you had 20 punches—representing all the investments that you got to make in a lifetime. And once you’d punched through the card, you couldn’t make any more investments at all.

"Under those rules, you’d really think carefully about what you did and you’d be forced to load up on what you’d really thought about. So you’d do so much better."
No, but a gag order can prohibit you from saying something specifically with regard to national security issues.

So downvote away, but these documents do exist and these circumstances can and will happen.

In fact, everyone impacted by Aurora, were strictly under gag orders during the onset of that investigation too.
This approach would seem to negate the whole "convenience and simplicity" motivation behind using Amazon Prime.
Community Memory in 1973 appears to pre-date the article's 1979.
Very good subtle bragging, I applaud you sir.
Compaq ServerPro had HA ability with a hot spare server connected to the primary with automatic failover well before the Tandem acquisition.
> Whenever some disrupter comes into a market, you always see some people saying this "just you wait, they'll jack up the prices sky high any minute now!!" and it seems to happen rarely, if ever.

It's happening at Amazon. When they started, their prices were often much cheaper than physical retail. Now they're about the same, and sometimes outrageously higher.

> For example, there are plenty of small towns where Wal-mart was able to dominate and drive out small mom and pop retail shops. I've heard plenty of complaints about that, but I've never heard anyone say, "...and then after they drove out all the little shops, the prices went through the roof!!"

I doubt Wal-Mart makes pricing decisions like that at the store level, so your example doesn't really hold up.
My point is that it has been done, repeatedly, by many manufacturers over many years. You can find a YouTube channel called Dave2D, the guy reviews Windows and Mac laptops and always takes the cover off and shows upgrade options, most 15" laptops have RAM, SSD and Wi-Fi upgradeable. Until about a year ago, in 13" systems, the SSD AND Wi-Fi were also upgradeable but lately they've been soldering the Wi-Card onboard (it still is a standard form-factor and you could replace the Wi-Fi with another one using a hot air rework station).

The trackpad is unrelated to repairability. In my opinion, XPS 15 has a very good trackpad which closely matches MacBook's. My thinking about why MacBook's trackpads are better is that there are two reasons - one is that Apple holds some kind of patent on some kind of tech or way of making trackpads (they bought a manufacturer long ago), plus there's a problem with slow adoption of the new scrolling APIs by Windows app developers. All of the UWP apps are fine by default, but the older way of writing UI in Win32 apps leads to them not being able to retrofit the smooth scrolling into the apps. Even Windows Explorer's scrolling is quite bad in this regard compared to Finder.

This really is a personal question of whether it's fine for you to sacrifice some things for others. I know, I prefer to be able to replace the keyboard on the laptop myself with a $20 part instead of $150 part (and lots of hassle where you can permanently damage the Mac in the process), but some people would actually not care about that. What I adressed in the parent comment were the facts that there are in fact quite a number of laptops that are repairable and upgradeable right now on the market, and they've got little in terms of compromises built in.
I agree— though it’s perhaps worth mentioning that a fan on the phones was used for the SPEC2006 benchmarks:

> The performance measurement was run in a synthetic environment (read: bench fan cooling the phones) where we assured thermals wouldn’t be an issue for the 1-2 hours it takes to complete a full suite run.

Still darn impressive, as in the real world you won’t be doing anything with your phone that maxes out the SoC for 2 hours straight.
It's the same answer.
The idea is that the free market acts out its own price-discovery mechanism and assets are valued in relation to what speculators / investors are willing to pay for them.

This is an interesting segway into auction theory and Dutch vs English auctions in particular, if you are interested: https://mikebrandlyauctioneer.wordpress.com/2012/07/29/engli...
I read it all. You can't prove any of that as false. The article is a biased hit piece making allegations that are not provable.
In fact, it makes assertions that have been refuted already by other people who were in K's circle of friends and some who were not (devil's triangle).

BTW, I'm not asserting that it is impossible that reasonable people might listen to his testimony and think he was lying. Calling something "proof" is a very different thing.
Ok, it definitely happened.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/09/behind-trump...

Here's the 2016 results where older voters (65+) preferred Trump to Clinton. I also grew up in one of the biggest retirement communities in Florida and while anecdotal, many of them would tell me they were Democrats when they were younger and shifted right as they got older.

I would say, that as you get wealthier, you tend to want to protect that wealth. And older folks are wealthier than younger folks. That's my biggest guess.
> to go full Stallman and say that everything but GPL is evil.

Can you provide a quote where he says or implies such a thing?
It seems that this attack has already been described here, with exactly the same BMC chip: https://blog.eclypsium.com/2018/09/06/insecure-firmware-upda...
I think you are absolutely right about some limited circumstances that make them the only legal option. But the analogy that I keep making is to classic cars. A lot of them don't have the safety features that we expect today. It isn't uncommon for their owners to say things like "I'm only safe on roads that existed in 1960". It is obviously an exaggeration, but the point is that even today there are plenty of cars that are legal to operate but probably wouldn't be anyone's preference on a busy 70 MPH interstate.

At some point, human driven cars become novelties, just like that. There is no reason to ban them, but as you suggest, maybe there will be some HOV-like lanes where they don't really have access. Or even some time constraints (not during rush hour on some key roads, not in lower manhattan, etc).
Sure, it was better than average for its time. When I watch it today, I don't compare it to GI Joe or Power Rangers, I compare it to Gravity Falls and Adventure Time.
That’s a bizarre idea. If you don’t want people doing things the license allows, don’t contribute under that license. If you don’t want people relicensing your code without your specific permission, then the BSD license is not the one you want, and you shouldn’t contribute to projects that use it.
Author here. Thanks for writing up your thoughts.

>As they say, not all open source is FOSS

This isn't true - you mean "not all open source is copyleft".

>> Free and open source software licenses grant explicit freedoms to three groups: the maintainers, the users, and the contributors.

>This is not the case of all open source licenses

This is also not true. You should review the open source definition:

https://opensource.org/osd

>I am all-for the FOSS movement but there is no need to go full Stallman and say that everything but GPL is evil

I did not say that, nor do I believe it, nor is it really related.

>When I discover bugs in open-source projects during my day job (which is on a closed-source project), I will be much happier having those fixes merged upstream than having to maintain our own private fork.

This is definitely a valid position to hold, and I have signed CLAs on behalf of my employer before for this very reason. I suppose my article is targeted more at people contributing in their spare time, and to discourage maintainers from adopting a CLA in the first place.
When you offer the same technical possibilities, but coorporation free, that is enough difference to get a critical mass of people to join.

Signal for example still can't compete with WhatsApp on everything, but is good enough now to get some traction.
ooh, some economic philosophy. If bread is $2 today and $1 tomorrow was it overvalued? It depends on the frame of reference. You're comparing points to one another, so over-valued, under-valued, these terms require you to define the reference you're using.
>"It's hard to get out of a negative image people have."

I know it's a bit petty, but I'm still upset at the Sony BGM rootkit scandal. There are several other similar things, from different companies, that have my upset. Like I said... I know it's petty, but it really can be difficult to erase a negative image people have.

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> false. open source is literally just a friendlier name and otherwise rebranding of free software.

This is not how anyone I have ever talked to thinks about it. You are probably confusing Free Software[0] with open source software[1]. If you still hold your point we are arguing semantics and stating that your interpretation (a minority interpretation) is right and that most of the software industry and open source community is wrong.

> if you are contributing to FOSS qua FOSS, then you want it to remain FOSS

Not necessarily.

> note further the game theoretic implications: if a minority of projects use CLAs, it is possible to avoid contributing to such projects. If people are willing to contribute to such projects, then their number might expand. Those interested in the continuation of FOSS, which should be anyone, especially those interested in software development, should therefore be interested in not signing CLAs.

You're completely right. Important factor to be aware of as a contributor for sure.

[0]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
[1]: https://opensource.org/osd
Yup, probably the simplest objective metric to calculate is price-to-income ratio as a measure of "overvalued" in a given location.
What a delightful journey, thanks for sharing!
Maybe someone with better legal chops can explain this to me; how is the Internet Archive's internet arcade MAME stuff not considered piracy? I'm not saying I don't support it (I think data preservation is important, even if it involves "piracy"), but it seems like a huge legal headache to a lay-man.
I installed Windows 10 on my old Dell Vostro 1720 (purchased around 2010) with a new SSD. There was minimal intervention by me. Within 30-40 mins I had a usable functioning system, connected to the internet etc.

I kicked off Windows update in the background and it chugged away with no prompting. I will admit this took a while but only because the ISO I have is Windows 10 RTM from 2015. It would likely have been quicker with a more up-to-date ISO with a later build.

The thing is it all depends on the hardware. If you're using more esoteric kit then you're likely to have a few more speedbumps regardless of OS.
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This is not as glorified as it sound. 100 of thousands of students around the world build neural net from scratch as their homework. People please move on, spend your time somewhere else which is more productive. I coded neural network using c++ in 2009 as homework. But I never though about showing this to people.
But then why hasn't it been copied since ?
I don’t even know what to say when you claim that “The only people that can do this are the rich who are normally the ones causing droughts and destruction in the first place.”
I think it's time Bloomberg either puts up or shuts up. It's that simple.

Either they can show an xray of a motherboard showing the chip, and can further explain how it exfiltrates data, or their story is rumour and bullshit, and they should be culpable for Supermicro's stock drop.

It's just that simple, and I'm calling them on it.
I think the FSF gets a pass here, given that the GPL has explicit protections against the negative behaviors warned about in the article.
“Overvalued” is speculation about the future disguised as a factual statement about the present. The difference is whether the price will eventually come crashing back down. If it will, it’s overvalued, otherwise it’s just the new normal. Of course, that means you can’t make that distinction with any kind of certainty until long afterwards.