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This is rather normal, not pathological. Most companies like to file patents, definitely including startups. Where do you think their patents come from, if not from work their employees do? It's work that's worth paying for.

Having some proprietary code doesn't prevent companies from also making substantial contributions to open source in other areas.
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> stick your moped on the Caltrain/Bart.

Yea maybe . Ofcourse many things can be done. But GP's comment was being surprised about non discovery of mopeds in US.
I like the backstory idea - also gives me some things to think about in lieu of how to organize the references .. Thanks for your feedback!
Blockchain and the Internet of Things in the Industrial Sector [pdf]
Does this mean they will turn the super good red hat documentation in IBM style super useless documentation?
NixOS is interesting but certainly not the easiest migration, it's a very different way of administering your system. That said, this might be what I chose to do now.
fast.ai is known for extensive marketing here on HN.
I spoke of the ground being a stationary object (the most common one anyone will encounter, as I put it). I did in fact fall onto the ground.

Crashing into stationary objects is indeed a much greater danger than a fellow cyclist riding with a 10kph speed differential. That was my point, which you are now re-stating.

Hope that clears up any confusion!
I repeat my comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11274264

„A single book is enough to learn mathematics:
Riley, Hobson, Bence: Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering: A Comprehensive Guide
It has a whopping 1300 pages, but it has everything you need. And if that is not enough for you get
Cahill: Physical Mathematics
This will give you advanced topics like differential forms, path integrals, renormalization group, chaos and string theory.“
Hi Everyone, need some advice no upvote :/
>It seems like most of the private companies who act in the public's interest are newer ones that are either run by a founder, or still influenced by the original founders ideas from not long ago.

Have any examples of private companies who act in the public's interest? I can't think of any.
From buzzfeed “news”. The pot calling the kettle black.
They can cancel many projects that RedHat do as a general giving back to Linux. IBM wouldn't care.
Since this new market is just being created, it makes sense that a lot of companies will be shut down, in that search for the best business model.

One possible guess is: in this very competitive market it's really hard/expensive to get new customers. But here, UBER had a big advantage.

Also, customers aren't loyal. But in the case of UBER, even if those customers change a virtual restaurant brand, they're very likely to stay in the UBER app, and UBER may have some power to guide them.

And if many "virtual restaurants" share the same highly-efficient commercial kitchen, and aggregate their orders from suppliers - they still get most of the efficiencies of a large commercial kitchen.
Had a bit of a shock since one of those "Vancouver specials"[1] including the neighboring houses looked just like our old house, but thankfully the timeline doesn't match up at all. I'm unfortunately not surprised that this happens in the city.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_Special
Ah good point, make it based on usage.. your mileage counter says you went 100k miles this year, here is your 500k registration bill!

As for the charging @ home vs a supercharger(and the like) I agree with you, but the government is not known for always being wise or letting facts get in the way of something they want to do :) They understand a "Gas tax", so including EV chargers as part of the gas tax is easy to understand and easy to approve.
Thanks for mentioning GitLab. We would not have been able to grow as fast as we did without adopting an open core model. In the beginning we sold only support but companies tended to cancel their support contract after not needing it for a year. The margins on out self-hosted product are much better than on our SaaS product because of the hosting fees for free users.

An example of a pure free software business model is RedHat, they open source everything they make and that is working out for them https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18322772
Why do they need to sell it to begin with?
Red hat even has like 2000 patents
That sounds more like the ikea.com of food.

As I understand Etsy, you're ordering complete products
The one thing I see over and over and over again, in these articles and associated discussion, is failure to recognize the distinction between "ML research" and "applied ML". You always get people in the threads yelling "you can't do ML without graduate level knowledge of measure theory, real analysis, information theory, ..." and so on, ad infinitum. And that is very likely true for most ML research. But OTOH, you can absolutely take off the shelf libraries, the level of knowledge you would get from, say, taking Andrew Ng's Coursera class, and then create value for your company using ML. No measure theory or linear algebra needed.

And of course all this happens along a spectrum from "requires the least theory/math" to "requires the most theory/math". It's not a strictly binary dichotomy.

So is the person completing the fast.ai course going to be the inventor of the next great new NN training algorithm? Maybe not. Probably not, even. But are they going to be able to apply ML to solve real problems? Yeah, most likely.
Yup, since I switched to FreeBSD year or more ago it makes watching news like this much less stressful.
Your opinion on what people are qualified to speak about is irrelevant, according to your own logic.
Seriously the amount of Watson hype IBM is spinning is astounding. Recently went to a vendors sales presentation on IBM Rhapsody, and they are touting some sort of rudimentary interactive agent, as powered by 'Watson'.
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The problem (as an ex-IBMer) is that that friendlyness is only in parts of the company; much of IBM is open-source hostile.
I switched to Gentoo because of systemd. I switched to OpenBSD because Linus was recently 'compromised' and adopted the CoC (worse: it's the highly political Creator's Covenant version). Theo's philosophy is shut up and hack, much like the early Linus with the bonus of being security instead of performance oriented.

I'd love to see a Portage Prefix on OpenBSD, or Gentoo/kOpenBSD, effort start up again. Bringing Portage to OpenBSD (even if prefixed) would make a wonderful combination!
I remember that thinking from control theory classes, but I thought you use a Dirac delta as a hard shove.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impulse_response

(Actually, our control classes told us to do both to get a basic view of a system.)
> In 2017 I experienced softening rents first hand when I tried to find replacement tenants for my SF rental house at a similar rent of $9,000 a month.

That's more than I pay for a year for a 2bd apartment in downtown Phoenix...
Campbell has been more of an influence on genre fiction than Hollywood. Genre writers obsess about characterisation in a way that screen writers - at least the ones who get regular work - clearly don't.

I used to know a screen writer, and he described Hollywood writing as a theme park ride you watch on a screen. There are standard scenes that every action movie is supposed to have, usually delivered in a standard order, sometimes with standard dialog. There are optional scenes from the Generic Hollywood Scene Library Sorted By Genre that writers can add as needed. The rest is CGI, costumes, and camera moves.

And it's this way because it's what the middle of the bell curve pays for. Anything too clever or original or interesting or challenging may win awards and/or critical praise, but it's not what The Average Movie Ticket Buyer wants.

To add: the original research is pretty much useless, as others have pointed out. That doesn't mean someone who actually understands the industry couldn't codify the tropes and cliches and produce a Plot and Character Machine that generated commercially valuable output. There are quite a few steps from that to generating a filmable script, but even a relatively simple outliner that hit the spot would have real value.
Good news for Debian :)
>It is democracy itself they [The Republican Party] are opposed to, and will continue to amass power until bloodshed forces change.

So in your opinion, the solution to Republicans subverting democracy isn't well considered democratic action, but rather bloodshed? That seems rather anti-democratic.

>Proposing technical solutions assumes all players wish for fair elections. This is not the case.

So you can't think of any technical solutions that assume bad intentions on behalf of most of the involved actors? What about the protocol your browser used to send your comment to the servers that run this forum?
You know you can run your own kernel, right?
Have you been enjoying the morale nothings-on-fire-we-swear propoganda all-hands meetings? I was in IBM, software dev, for a year - just left around July. God help your soul.
IBM have a consistent, decades long history of acquiring superb firms and then mismanaging them into marketplace irrelevance.
Exposed Docker APIs Continue to Be Used for Cryptojacking
>If you want to open the door to deceiving spirits in your life

Care to elaborate?
>do you think non-profit corporations are in the same boat?

There are really bad non-profits, I've worked at them. However, endless search for endless profit by shareholders, CEO's, and executives is usually the cause of a loss of morals and ethics. I think it's nearly impossible for very large corporations making profits to do actual good for society except give us endless growth with products and services we really don't need. This doesn't mean a small local bakery taking in profits isn't doing the community good, but extremely large corporations don't benefit the same way.
Red Hat has contributed so much to open source projects. Even if you don't use their distribution, their contributions are present in countless initiatives and projects.
Can someone help me understand... What exactly do IBM and Oracle do? I assume they are mostly hired to build software and do software/hardware/networking/database services. How much of their business is government contracts? Everyone here is talking about how nobody enjoys hiring them but they are billion-dollar companies... I have never worked in the public sector nor at a conglomerate so I am unable to comprehend this.
Thank you, happy to read! I hope more people discover the beauty of OpenBSD. Sane defaults, security standards and developers. Can't be grateful enough for their work.
Rational Rose, Lotus
turning into? it was doomed from the start. this kind of issue was completely predictable.
Spot on. Note also that the person taking on that second PhD took up a spot that could have been useful for someone else. Odd duck indeed.
There is also the big difference that Sun was in the middle of transitioning to open source company (almost begrudgingly I think after everything else had failed), they weren't the great friend of open source they now are remembered as at their peak of their success. Sun still held significant amount of proprietary IP when they were acquired. In comparison RH has been open source from the get go, and pretty much everything they have is open source.
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then they buy you."
Totally agree. RHEL's support windows are FAR too long and result in more problems than they solve. Large businesses wait till the last minute to upgrade then realize that working through a minimum of 5 years (often 10) of changes is extremely hard. This means that you often run unsupported while everyone scrambles to fix all the changes introduced by the upgrade. Cannonical's 5 year support window is much more sensible.
I'm not the GP, but I'm guessing he means what he said. Being "under water" means that the debt is more than the house's value. So ignoring the various costs of bankruptcy, it would be better to just walk away and lose the current equity, then buy the same house at current market price.
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American homeowners are staying put for the longest stretches ever
So you're saying to just use SysV init to launch processes from inittab, and have one of those processes be a systemd/launchd clone that launches everything else. I mean, I guess that's a possible design, but at that point I would question whether using the SysV init program is really buying you anything.

In any case, most people wouldn't consider that design "SysV init". The SysV init ecosystem is built around rc files.
The BSDs are all open source and not tied to anyone. Since operating systems are literally key components of being free, this truly matters. Red Hat had too much of a grip on Linux (kernel), the userland and much more. systemd, while an atrocity on its own, has now become a requirement for certain userland software projects, which is heresy. So much for the tenet of a software program doing one thing well.
That hasn't been replicated yet, and even if it was it wouldn't prove that the cause isn't psychological.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S104327600...

"The exquisitely orchestrated adaptive response to stressors that challenge the homeostasis of the cell and organism involves important changes in mitochondrial function"
Can you put some numbers on that? How much money was transferred, in today's dollars?
Is such a course enough to be able to discern what data to best collect for this and that ML model?
TLAs I identify:

- AIX
- IBM
- R&D

To be interpreted:

- POWER*
- VAR
- CUoD
- HMC
- LPAR
- OpenPOWER

Conclusion: I'm not a sysadmin.
A good plan, for certain. In my experience very very few people follow this advice, myself definitely included.
Where's the source to Power 9 then?
It's a winner-take-all electoral system. I'm not getting my interests represented anyway. So not exactly sure why I should be upset about the accuracy with which I being denied that.

Sure it's not good. But it is just an enhancement of a greater wrong. I find most people don't want to deal with that issue at all and would prefer to believe the current system, as it is supposed to work, is the best way to do things.

It's a good system for those who are currently able to exploit it for their own gain. But that's always true everywhere.
In reflection, it’s a good idea. Consumer preferences are hard to gauge; there isn’t much of a feedback loop right now with restaurants beyond you either have business and are sustainable, or you don’t and lose it all. This is comparable to YouTube giving you different advertisements, but that these ads (restaurants) are really expensive to run and experiment with. Virtual restaurants essentially bring A/B testing from the digital realm to the physical one. They provide and shorten the feedback loop, lowering the cost of exploration by centralizing and by economies of scale; and resulting in greater exploitation (not in the economic sense but in the multi armed bandits framework).
Red hat has been owned by corporate execs, it's not owned by developers. Made 2.9 billion in 2017. Once that kind of money flows the big offers come from the oligarchs. There is no integrity in corporate business. If they get a big offer, they're going to sell. IBM in a proper world of business shouldn't exist, but patents keep them alive. We will need a new replacement to red hat, but I'm afraid the hyper reliance and patenting IBM will enforce will make this impossible.
IBM to Buy Red Hat for $33B in Its Biggest-Ever Acquisition
Now I wonder who will buy Canonical. If/when Shuttleworth will be tired of running it I assume it also will happen. Maybe Microsoft to continue their open-source hat-trick.
They were taken away from us around a year ago. They were very beneficial, but leadership said they 'were a waste of time'. Our team has suffered with communication and staying on track with problem issues since. Oh well though. I just keep doing the same work.
On the top of the front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18321884
Indeed. Canonical tried and failed, hard.
Wait, your car costs $10k/year?
WeatherUnderground was effectively shut down post-purchase. API signup is gone, etc. Terrible transition and no support for prior products.
Lots of things look like CFS on the surface, including depression. I expect there will turn out to be many distinct physical diseases responsible for what we call CFS, as well as simply depression. I remember first reading about CFS over a decade ago when most of the information available on the internet was on sufferers' blogs and forums and being struck by the prejudice against mental illness. There were a lot of comments to the effect that, "The doctors said it was all in my head, but then I learned that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a real disease! It totally changed my life knowing that I was sick and not crazy! I don't have to hate myself anymore." A lot of anger was directed at doctors who suggested psychological explanations. Even saying, "We can't find any physical cause, so maybe you should talk to a psychologist as well," (which sounds like a reasonable suggestion to me) was treated as a disrespectful, belittling, arrogant, and sexist. Which I suppose it was in many cases — there's certainly enough prejudice to go around. But for me as someone seeing a therapist for depression it certainly made me look at the people around me differently, having that unguarded glimpse into the revulsion that some people feel.
--nonet is also a necessity for security reasons. The downloaded XSLT stylesheets are not authenticated in any way.
What constitutes a type system? Do Python or Scheme have type systems?
The lack of money to do what? To spend?

Because that's what we call having money.
Thank you for a thoughtful take that's a little less cynical than mine.
Those 2 stroke engines have been banned for years
If we don’t do it, our competitors will. Do you want to live in a world where the Chinese and Russian governments have more power over your life than they do now?
Sure they can, but most public companies (absent places like Facebook, which IIRC has a setup which favours Zuckerberg heavily) are more susceptible to being forced to sell whether they want to or not.

Private companies (especially one's who aren't beholden to VCs or similar) have the option to say no, regardless of how much money they're offered.
I see you are being downvoted, but thank you for the TLDR. I didn’t care to read this person’s life story just to get to the point.
It is impossible to catch more than one inbound bus on any given occasion, whereas any number of outbound buses might pass.

BTW, on a slightly unrelated point, if there's no timetable, but the interval between buses is maintained reliably, the expected waiting time is uniformly distributed over that interval.

If you have to get a second bus, you need to convolve two of those two uniform distributions to find out the distribution of overall journey times. This is a trapezoidal distribution, which is just about analytically manageable.

But a journey with two transfers (3 buses in total) results in a likely overall time distributed according to a uniform distribution convolved with a trapezoidal distribution, which is a very weird non-smooth shape. You can see why people choose to model distributions with Gaussians, which are well-behaved (convolve two Gaussians, get another Gaussian). The Gaussian just lends itself ideally to recursive applications, hence recursive filtering (e.g. Kalman filters).
Why Unix has short command names
Voyager 2 May Soon Be Joining Its Twin in Interstellar Space
I feel you're right, which is why I'm surprised by the seemingly negative response to this news, and the overwhelmingly positive response from GitHub+Microsoft.

Some of the same conflicts of interest exist in both modern cases, notwithstanding, both have opposite contribution histories.

Am I missing something?
Just glad I jumped ship to FreeBSD a year ago. Sad that Ansible is involved in this though. We were just considering switching from Chef.
Is such a course enough to be able to discern what data to best collect for this and that ML model?

For any arbitrary range of values for $DATA_TO_COLLECT and $ML_MODEL? Maybe not. For many real world scenarios? I'd say yes. Heck, sometimes the data you have available simply "is what it is" and there is no question of "what data to best collect".

Let me also add re-iterate that learning to use ML is a continuum... and I would not posit that one could take Andrew's class, or the fast.ai class, and claim to be "done" with their ML education. To me either (or both) of those is just step one on a journey that could continue more or less forever (or until ASI comes along and enslaves the human race, ala The Matrix).

Personally I took Andrew's (original) Coursera course, but since then I've continued to study Linear Algebra and Calculus through other forums, have been working through several other ML books, and have a whole litany of stuff queued up to study, up to and including the aforementioned Measure Theory, Complex Analysis, etc. I definitely value that stuff, I just think you can accomplish some useful tasks before you get to that level.
When I was a teenager, I dressed like a metal fan.

Anytime I get in any shop, I had my own guard following me thinking I didn't noticed him or her.

So I started playing "How many times can we make the whole shop again and again" with them. I hade spare times back then !

But seriously, it was not something likable, and I guess when it happens not because you choosed a look, but because you're born with one tone of skin, it might be a nightmare.
It’s relevant because the underlying principles of not tarring vast populations with collective responsibility, or silencing entire categories of ideology, in response to the acts of a few extremists is completely abandoned by the left when they have something to gain from it.

If right-wing terrorists are treated differently by the US government, it is probably because there are not large organizations of them, nor are there groups of them overseas that we can engage militarily. When there have been large, organized right-wing terror groups like The Order and the Aryan Nations, they’ve been vigorously investigated and shut down in accordance with normal law enforcement.

Taking the further step of outlawing free expression or infringing upon the freedom of association—even when truly reprehensible ideologies are at issue—is not a step that any Western government has taken for any other terrorist threat.
On Extremist-Friendly Gab, Pittsburgh Shooting Suspect Aired His Hatred in Full
No, GNU devs should understand Unix beyond the GNU ecosystem. I'd be retired on my private planet if I had gotten a dime each time I ported Linux software (mostly the build system) to work on non-linux unixoid operating system.

To be fair: Nothing in GNUiverse teaches you interoperability; I too learned it the hard way when switching from Linux to BSD.
a little perplexed by the proliferation of non-IT, non-CS scientific posts here lately.
It's pretty much impossible to recall the raw data once it's out in the wild.