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> the socially anxious and introverted demographic with moderate to high levels of disposable income

I've began wondering if Silicon Valley is intentionally growing this demographic. If your customers need you because they are mentally unable to order food without you . . . well that's even better than a lifetime prescription of your medication or selling cigarettes.

It's twice as good if I can slowly train my customers to develop social anxiety by removing transactional interactions with minimum wage earners. That sort of interaction would traditionally service as a stepping stone in developing and maintaining social skills.

Add in social media which constantly has self-condemning memes about social anxiety, embarrassing moments, and so on; and you've got an extremely fertile ground for social anxiety.
At the same time, K8S team has been rapidly standardizing everything and turning it into a very modular system. etcd is pretty much a "done" project, but if it ever goes bad, it can easily be replaced.
I appreciated that when I worked with an oxy-acetylene setup. I'm sure that lesson was learned the hard way, several times.
Red Hat used to sell non-free software using the freemium model with Redhat Enterprise. Is that no longer the case?
WSO2 - an open source integration software company - is exclusively OSS. We will do $50M in sales this year with 80% of that subscriptions for on-premises open source software. We are the 6th largest OSS company by revenues. We'll probably jump up to 5th next year because of the RedHat acquisition of IBM.
OpenSuse still rocks it.
>The only other option is not to give them loans at all even if they put up a high down payment

This is exactly what happens - it's not easy to get a mortgage without a permanent status (that 0% of foreign students would have). A crazy downpayment would be requested upfront.
You see a problem with that, the banks might not given their risk models and a chance to make money on the loan. They have shown that they generally as good credit risks, it’s just that they have no idea where their money is coming from (a legal/moral problem vs. a business one).
Philip K Dick's Gather Yourselves Together had pretty banal dialogue
From my perspective, PayPal was always distracted by what it wanted to sell to consumers, which impacted what it offered to retailers.

All most merchants wanted was "let me accept credit cards with quick and easy setup, even if it's expensive." (Hence the success of Square, Stripe, etc.). All they needed to do was to offer a few APIs that acted like every other credit card gateway, and they'd be fine.

But instead, they went whole hog on telling consumers "you never need to give the retailer a card number." Now, I'm skeptical this was ever a huge selling point, but it means that any API they can ever offer will always be a nonstandard mess to work with because it means you're going to have to bounce users off your site to finish checkout.
Time to update the FreeBSD Handbook, I suppose:

https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17745
And how are PPAs fundamentally different from downloading a Windows installer from the Internet? If I download the installer from the maintainer's site, there's 0 risk (assuming HTTPS). And the site giving the PPA link is just as likely to be a phishing site as the the one serving some exe. Except browsers will sometimes warn on strange executables, whereas none do on misleading PPA links.
Please see my other reply for some details of some of the points.

> It demonstrably is production-ready. Massive companies use Java in production in enormous, complex, demanding deployments, and have been for decades.

It's true, it powers a good part of the Android ecosystem, and probably a lot of stuff we use everyday, but Google has massive ressources!

Given the momentum of Java, and with the rise of GPGU, Tensor DSPs, accelerated hardwares, containers stuff, Kubernetes or maybe even new programming paradigm around AI, will Java be able to keep up and find its way? What about Scala, Clojure, etc

This is only my point of view, but C and C++ still look more future proof for speed, and everything else in Python or Go is good enough. I understand many investments were made by many companies on the JVM and at least one of its language tho
> I support these scooters because they can reduce car usage, but they could have worked with the cities to make sure they were rolled out in a responsible way. But these companies must “disrupt,” right?

I understand what you're saying and agree that it should work that way in an ideal world.

But government bureaucracy moves incredibly slowly, especially for things they don't have very much incentive to do anything about. Imagine a business approaching a governing body and saying "I want to roll out electric scooters to the city!" They would probably get little more than a raised eyebrow and minimal progress over the course of years, not to mention they may simply choose to be lazy and reject it entirely.

When a business "disrupts", it might be inconvenient, but it actually provides incentive for the government to move.
All software companies do this. They use patents like cold ware nukes: if you sue us over your patents, we'll sue over ours, and nobody wins.

This is simply the inevitable result of western IP law.
Sun was helping open source before Linux existed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunsite
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I too find it strange that he couches this as a scientific study. A study of....himself.

Aside from starting an anecdotal conversation about happiness and money, there is no scientific merit here.
When I was working in China, the USA had no idea where my income was coming from either. I just declared my foreign bank accounts and filled in certain lines on my tax return, but that’s it. How could they know?
Obligatory link to one of the best rants ever presented against Oracle as an acquirer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=34m

"Do not fall into the trap... of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison... If you put your hand inside a lawnmower, it will get chopped off. The lawnmower doesn't care... The lawnmower doesn't want to kill open source. The lawnmower just can't think about open source. The lawnmower can't have empathy."
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If this kind of a split were happening it would be more accurate to describe it as the services group spinning off its product department.
Of course. I love what you guys are doing and I'm incredibly grateful for the existence of CE!
The United States imports 9% of our yearly crude from Saudi Arabia. More than three times as much comes from the polite, hockey-loving neighbors to the north. [1]

1: https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=727&t=6
You can apply the same thinking to zillions of companies marketing themselves. It is unfeasible and naive to promote auditing information. At the end you would be harming small companies who cannot afford auditing.
False dichotomy indeed. Right now I'm testing runit (on void linux) for my production machines. My experience since more than a year: Once it runs it runs, literally zero surprises so far.

The general volatility of systemd introduces so many unstable elements in your system, that it really makes you think if the added risk it is really worth the value it offers (even though I'm still not quiet sure what the value of systemd actually is).
So now you have to store each email that includes important information in a second place, so that you remember to include it in their onboarding. Why not just post it to the intranet in a well-known location in the first place?
You're the one purposefully misinterpreting. He obviously implied that just because an argument is from a climate science authority, it does not mean one should believe it. Same with war, nutrition, pharmaceuticals. You're just cherry picking which authorities are good and which ones are bad. Every time you've applied logical fallacies, they have been done so incorrectly. Your original comment attacked him for not having the proper credentials... You baited this, not him.
Oh, that's suuuuuper gross. Red Hat is pretty cool for open source but this can only mean one thing if IBM is going to suck blood from the stone.
Doing everything in chat is pure insanity. It's great for the day-to-day collaborating on projects... but it's all short-term memory. Are you going to be referencing a chat from 3 years ago?

We use an internal forum in addition to chat. Anything substantive goes in the forum. We'll regularly reference 5 year old posts.
Wouldn't the researchers entering this field be selected for thinking this? Their opinion seems less useful than, e.g., a position statement by an encompassing field.
Your reply was not thoughtful at all. All you're doing is pushing a belief without evidence. Where exactly is this bias hidden? Saying that you don't have it and others do should require some citation as well - and is incredibly self-righteous. I don't see anything wrong with criticizing SJWs in a political post by SJWs!
That isn't the point of legalization and decriminalization but that if the cure is worse than the disease keeping it illegal is irrational. Not saying that it is the case for money laundering but that is theoretically and counterintuitively possible.

The whole point is that it creates two money types - clean and dirty with extra steps involved and desire to spend their ill gotten gains which results in filtering processes which can drive other problems starting with it driving takeovers and inflating bubbles. It is perfectly possible that despite the harm this is still way preferable than treating all income as clean and tax admissions completely private for sake of right against self incrimination. Again not saying money laundering is right but that it may shockingly prove be better off for everybody if there is say a 25% tax dirty money conversion service. It is like the death penalty in heinous cases - it may be that a serial torture murderer really deserves to die but that the death penalty does more harm than good.
They can swim. What's the big deal about a little ice melting? It'll be good for their cardiovascular health.
1) It’s not that huge of a markup

2) For a larger group, consider the added cost of dining in - expectation of 18-20% tip, the wine (or other alcohol) is typically overpriced or there’s a $15-20 corkage fee per bottle. Transportation or parking is another potential expense.

3) Some foods lend themselves well to leftovers, so with marginal increase in price one might be buying a meal for the next day, too.

4) For family dining, this puts less pressure on kids and less stress on parents. Keeping the little rascals busy for 2+ hours that a typical dinner might last could get a tad hard.
Exactly, but the point was all of this is context dependent.

For example, if you are involved in a 3rd party bidding where you bid on some other network's impression, you'll have a deadline to respond with a bid. Let's say that deadline is 500ms (it's not). 100ms increase in median would lose _significant_ amount of impressions in that case.
Why are these things announced on Sunday? Microsoft acquiring Github was announced on Sunday too.
The same proponents of stronger voter ID laws are also the same people who are incomprehensibly paranoid about the notion of a national ID system.
I gave a whole presentation about this sort of thing some years back. These concepts very definitely are applicable to software design, especially programming languages.

For example,

a < b < c

What does it do?

Python:
a < b && b < c

C:
((a < b) ? 1 : 0) < c

D:
syntax error!

Instead of trying to better educate programmers and code design reviews to solve it, make it impossible for such to pass the compiler.
There's essentially no one saying there should be no identity verification, just like there's no meaningful voter impersonation fraud.

The complaint is the fairness of the burden to obtain acceptable ID, for voting. In Alabama, over a dozen driver's license office closures mean people in overwhelmingly black counties had a vastly high burden to obtain ID than people living in predominately white counties. There are all kinds of examples and variations on this theme. It's hardly any different than poll taxes, and literacy tests. They're just as blatantly racist as how photo ID rules are employed.

Using your logic of Puerto Rico, since the vast majority of the U.S. went without photo ID's for voting for over 200 years with no statistically meaningful voter fraud problems, we don't need such laws today either. Meanwhile a recent case in Texas, a non-citizen with stolen photo ID had been illegally voting in elections, which means photo ID's do not assure there's no fraud.

Anyway, people have a right to vote. It is not a privilege. And therefore the state cannot apply unreasonable burdens on people, which only serve to disenfranchise them from their right to vote.
Depends on the company, but this is the status quo in most. Some startups (including ours) now offer 10 years exercise period, but it's not common.
Yes, I'm also curious about these "hidden trackers". Couldn't find any info on what he meant by that.
True, but that's yet another reason as to why a mouse click for paste is a bad idea.
If IBM ever takes etcd in a direction that k8s does not like, the k8s fork of etcd will be the one that's relevant going forward.
That's alright, next you need to make the sequence normal so that it's never repeating

Another counter example: https://serprex.github.io/w/Ad%20nauseum%20ad%20nauseum

This is a story I started writing last year, it doesn't have rises & falls, just someone reminiscing on the way to the corner store for a bag of chips

If my writing doesn't count since it's just some random page on the internet, there's Bob Dylan's Tarantula, & he's won a Nobel for literature. You'll be forced to say "Every story has one these six basic plots, where a story must have a plot, & a plot must be composed of rises & falls" since anything that would go against that gets categorized as a "sub story" or "not part of the story"
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I had to mentally check the calendar to see if it was April 1. (Sadly, it is not.)
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I'm curious if they count television as storytelling here. If so, then the whole premise is demonstrably false; your standard soap opera will go beyond the stated one or two fortune-inflections in a single episode, let alone a season, let alone a series run.
Hopeful outcome of this, provided IBM realizes it is the student in this situation:

IBM's historical reputation coupled with Red Hat's proven success and products creates a serious competitor to Microsoft at the small-to-medium enterprise level. As Red Hat gains share, other corporate Linux flavors ride the rising tide, and Linux finally captures the long tail.

Further out, Microsoft transitions to being a device company a-la Apple. Bill Gates comes back to save the floundering company but insists that each device offer mechanized vaccinations, leading to skyrocketing prices and general shunning from the populace, which has gradually devolved into rabid anti-vaccination fervor. Microsoft fails, and is ultimately embraced, extended, and extinguished by IBM/Red Hat.
>Blacklisting only happens...

Now. The fact they do it at all is cause for concern.

50 cents says there is some terms you have to agree to that gives them the ability to blacklist for any reason.

Why would anybody want to buy a car where the primary and sometimes only source of filling it up can blacklist your car world wide.
Mindfulness in Plain English by Henepola Gunaratana[1] is a classic intro. Altho the free version at the link is called "rather dated" -- really, how "dated" can meditation instructions be? Anyway, I found that edition helpful.

[1] https://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/mpe.html
To be fair, there are AAA teams even in global services. I believe I worked with some guys from the Hong Kong team that were !@#$ing amazing? But they were supporting a major bank.

IBM in general seems fairly aware of who their best teams are, and you're probably not going to get one of those teams. (Unless you're a huge account and/or the project is in dire straits)
>I think the ability to solve a criminal act via the technique described is perfectly valid.

This would be true if laws were divine instruments of justice rather than poorly crafted, poorly-thought out instruments of social control crafted by the wealthy and powerful to control the poor and powerless. For example, we as a society are far, far better off not having "perfect" law enforcement in regards to drug laws. Solving every drug crime and prosecuting every "transgressor" would result in tens or hundreds of millions more destroyed lives and families, with absolutely no positive benefits to society. There are very good reasons to ensure that the power wielded by agents of the state is finite and limited, even (or especially) if it means that many "crimes" are not solved.
I would disagree that systemd got adopted because it had been already adopted, this is a circular reasoning.

From a distance it looks like politics and influence pushed for adoption of systemd, motivation behind this uncanny move and spread has been questioned making some wonder if this could be intended with a nefarious purpose in mind.
Rocket companies are so closely tied to countries that they are inherently national. The only substantial difference between a rocket and a ICBM is what you put at the top. To take SpaceX as an example, they are a "private" company, but

- They are only allowed to hire US citizens and permanent residents

- They are not allowed to export their technology

- They derive a substantial fraction of their income from US government contracts. Most of which can only be won by american companies.

- NASA shares substantial amounts of information with them.

- Also the reverse.

- (I'm pretty sure the list goes on)

China is relevant not just as a "go <country>" sense but it's about what technology this group has access to. The regulatory regime they are part of (how many people are they allowed to risk killing). The funding options they have. How this technology affects politics. Etc.
> Mostly because in the OS market there is enough competition that didn't exist back in the 1990's when RedHat was founded around the Linux kernel.

I'd disagree; the 90s had a lot more OS diversity in the for-profit sector than we see today.
This is the most positive comment I've seen in this thread. To the extent that the ensuing development effort finds bugs in container orchestration systems, creates new features, creates new abilities to manage services on "hybrid" private-cloud-plus-mainframe systems, helps to modernize old-school businesses that run infrastructure the global economy relies upon... this could actually be a very good thing for open source and future investment therein. Skepticism is healthy and warranted, but this could be a good match.
Colocation of mainframe and commodity compute is huge if they can pull it off.
yup- Onsite repair technicians are no problem when you company is paying $500K a year to support it.
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SAP files patents in the US.
I hadn’t thought about the multi PhD case.. I’ve never met one. I’d expect someone to do a post doc even if it’s far afield from their PhD.
Someone always has to jump into any vaguely health-related article and tout some absurd kind of fasting as a sure panacea, no matter the problem; it's like an unwritten law of HN. I'm surprised that nobody has suggested a classical eastern vegan diet yet, that's another good old chestnut.
Can you please explain for non-americans what's the actual problem with havinf ID in US? Is it like most people only have driver license and ones who don't have a car (because they are poor) don't need one or it's more complicated?

Where I'm from everybody is required by law to have one from the age of 14 and gets it for free for the first time. You just can't have anything done without id and tax identification code, so voting is just another place to show it. It's not even about technologies - my is handwritten with photo being glued on it.
Can't mention Oracle/Sun without linking to this amazing rant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&feature=youtu.be...
This is an HN black-bar-worthy event (given the OSS implications).

-- longtime CentOS/Fedora user
On the other hand it might mean the end for SystemD!

zing!
Oh yeah - the non-American ideal of punching people who disagree with you about foreign policy?
I really don't understand this. Redhat has been very profitable lately, what do they stand to gain from this? Why do they need cash so badly, what are they investing in?

Their success is so dependent on having management that understands how unique their business model is, I just can't understand why they'd be so desperate for cash that they'd risk screwing that up. Even if you have confidence that it's going to be fine for the next 5 years, what about 15 years from now? They've signed their soul away.
Isn’t that the traditional definition of a read barrier? E.g. a Baker read barrier is triggered when a field of object reference type is loaded from a heap object. It checks if the loaded pointer is in from space, and if so forwards the object.
Is it any different to car drivers (who "made the choice") killing pedestrians?

Advocating for scooter riders to be forced onto the road is absolutely advocating for more unnecessary deaths. Car vs. scooter is dramatically more lethal than scooter vs. walker. It really is clear cut.

If you are concerned by the way scooters are used on the footpath then advocate for more courteous scooter use.

There's no reason why people can't use scooters safely on the footpath. It might take people a while to learn how, but fundamentally scooters don't pose a significant risk to walkers the way cars do to scooters.
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On acquisitions, I can offer the anecdote of a friend working at a startup IBM purchased.

Things started with "IBM loves you, and pledges to stay hands off and help you do what you're already doing", continued to "We're going to replace a few management positions with folks from IBM" and "We're changing some benefits, titles, and procedures to better align with The IBM Way", and finally ended up with "You aren't meeting your sales targets, so we're going to overhaul your leadership."

Admittedly, this was a much smaller company than Red Hat. But they were profitable before being bought and had a respected product and growth.
It's definitely somewhat anti-left sentiments built into our culture/society through means such as mccarthyism and anti-communism, as well as purposeful lack of education. It's also our media and entertainment. These tactics can be further learned about in Chomsky's 'Manufacturing Consent'.
He does still have a regular (i.e. not the chairmanship) board seat though, "non-independent" like Nadella.
Make it possible for them to meet wherever they come from. "Decentralized" doesn't mean "disconnected"; I can use my Mastodon account to have conversations with people from tens, if not hundreds of different servers, each being able to see the full conversation anyway.
A strong hint is if you change the environment, and the problems suddenly disappear.

If the problems disappear slowly, it could have been the environment, but it also could be your personal growth. But if they disappear overnight...
Because we might score -1, -2 or worse if 2 or 3 busses went in the other direction before ours came, but if ours came first, we score 1. We get on the bus and thus don’t know if another one or more arrives first on our side.
No, RHEL isn't freemium. They sold you access to the source code. You also have the right to redistribute RHEL, which is how CentOS happened.

I understand they did threaten to terminate support if you redistributed, but they couldn't stop you from doing so if you so chose.
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