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> An independent trust, the team argues, would be better equipped to make these decisions -- even if they allow other companies to collect personally identifiable data.

Why should anyone trust an "independent trust"? That trust will be staffed by humans, subject to all human failings and conflicts of interest.
No, the day wasn't over when I posted that.
Maybe to prevent insider deals during stock hours eg. traders already in the know of upcoming acquisitions minutes before others?
Having some proprietary code doesn't prevent companies from also making substantial contributions to open source in other areas.

... yes, but patents are not "proprietary code", in which case granting copyright is enough. If a private company contributes code I think it could even grant the copyright to an open organization, but still decide later to sue if the method/feature/function/etc is patented by them.

Not that I'd foresee IBM or any of the real players in the IT space attempting that anymore, I think most realize that alienating the F/OSS community isn't a viable strategy for a software services company in the long term.
When I was at IBM my laptop ran RedHat enterprise. Was the brightest spot in working for a miserable company like IBM. I miss that now that I am forced to use Windows 7.
Seattle - Google Maps often suggests taking 2 buses for a 1 bus trip - to goto Tacoma on the 594, instead of going down the hill and taking the 594, it recommends going to the bus tunnel and taking another bus for about a mile, then transferring to the 594.

But it shows stop locations and plans routes quite effectively. Using the 2 apps in tandem creates a workable solution.
I'm unable to see the full article (paywalled), but I'm not sure that making airline tickets like sports tickets is a great idea: for popular routes they would sell out shortly after they are available, and scalpers would hike up the prices to make a profit.
I was so hopeful for cmake in the early days, but have come to be a bit disappointed and avoid it everywhere I can. I shake my head in amazement at the project that spawned cmake (ITK, a medical imaging project) was using Tcl as an embedded scripting language (indeed, one of Tcl’s great features), then faced with needing a scripting language for their build system, decided to ad-hoc build one from scratch. Additionally (perhaps related), as a consumer of software that uses Cmake as its build infrastructure, I do not look fondly on the times I’ve had to debug what’s going on when the promised portability doesn’t work out on my systems. Perhaps it’d also be the same for an autotools build, or sufficiently complex vanilla Makefile, but Cmake does seem to a standout in my mind. This might be because I was so hopeful for it a dozen years ago, but I think the corner cases became too annoying because of their disappointing ad-hoc language, which was an avoidable mistake.

That all said, it’s still clearly managed to be important, and is indeed something the authors can be proud of, though I have personally come to find joy and good success in plain Makefiles.
Perhaps the infected teeth affected your sleep, making you toss and turn and hurt your back.
Maybe in SF. In the rest of USA is just Uber
I don't think the target audience is true Japanese candy connoisseurs; if anything, it's the opposite.

Many people are interested in trying out Japanese candy, the issue arises in knowing where to order from and what to order. Getting a subscription service to CandyJapan offloads the choosing to a credible service.

In addition to that, there's also the appeal of the surprise. Of course, this is of no benefit to you - you're simply buying this for other people. For people ordering this for themselves, however, it's kind of like being gifted something every month, an always welcome surprise.
They certainly do. But global warming isn't what's at issue here. Plenty of less drastic reforms (electric cars) offer the possibility of stopping global warming.

I challenge you to ride a bike for 20 minutes in rain gear during a Florida thunderstorm in July.
Kafka doesn’t seem to fit these plots. Most of his work is about conveying a mood or feeling.
Assuming RedHat was in a 'sell or die' situation[1] I'm glad it was IBM that stepped in rather than Oracle.

[1] I have no reason to believe that it was a dire situation at RedHat, I make the observation that companies that are meeting their goals and doing what they want, don't generally get acquired just because.
Is just a clever HN user thing. Delivery is common in USA too.
Manafort thought the same. And those UBS clients too.
Agreed. There has been a massive amount of tech consolidation happening lately. I assume as a result of all that overseas cash that got repatriated with the tax changes.
You're being rude.
In journalism/media school, we're taught "show, don't tell" in both our news and creative writing courses. You want to use detail to set the atmosphere/tone without flat out saying it.
There are periods of concentration and entrepreneurship. Part of the market maturity lifecycle. As a market gets more well established, competitors become less differentiated and start competing on cost which leads to consolidation. This creates openings for upstarts to disrupt or open new markets.
I'm in the FOSS community and I like systemd, so find some other dead horse to beat.
"Frankly, your post isn't relevant to this thread."

We're talking about the value of Phd's to high tech companies, so it's relevant.

Tell me how Facebook, AirBnB, Uber, Microsoft, Salesforce have materially gained from their R&D labs? They would be essentially the same companies without 'research style' R&D. Windows and MS Office do not require PhD's to design, though surely there are material contributions made by those who hold a PhD, but the more classical R&D aspects have not been hugely relevant.

For some silicon companies it's probably true, and possibly in the medical field, wherein clinical research etc. is essential part of the product approach ... but for most of Silicon Valley style companies - it's not.

Companies tend to hire lots of PhDs after they are rich and flush with cash - not the other way around.

"it's reasonable for a personal trainer to get a job as a doctor at a hospital"

No - you need to be a doctor to do 'doctoring'; training to be a doctor is 100% relevant to the practice of actually being a doctor. But you definitely do not need to be a doctor, or even have PhDs on staff to make companies or products that are material relevant to people's wellbeing or fitness.

PhD level, near pure R&D is not essential to the vast majority of even tech startups.

We're on HN, i.e. a Y Combinator site - an entity that is really at the nexus of early stage investment. Care to run down the list of YC investments and see which ones are based on some kind of materially relevant PhD level research - and that are also successful? Because unfortunately there are very few.

I know of one, off hand, Lyrebird - one of the more popularly significant investments that YC has made in AI, they make a really cool product that can take maybe a minute or so of your speech, and then re-create a text-to-voice simulator voice that sounds similar to the pre-recorded device. It's pretty cool, but not that great. It's been a while now, they have no real product that anyone cares about aside from it's novelty, they don't have any real revenue, and they probably won't.
Sadly, they will be acquired by some BigCo R&D shop and hopefully make some money for themselves. They are making great contributions to science, but they might as well be doing it out of U. Montreal from whence they came.

Most R&D done by BigCos is just a little more applied than such research done at Universities, but the results of such work benefit the commons as much as they do the companies anyhow. In a way, it's almost benevolent spending on the part of BigCo's, somewhere to park their cash, maintain prestige. It's important in the 'general' context, but often not very directly related to the bottom line of said companies.
First Github and now Redhat, is the world changing for the better or worse?
Programming FPGAs by Simon Monk and the Mojo v3 have been what I've been getting started with. It might be a little basic if you've been working in-depth with GPUs already, but the Mojo v3 is a great board to learn on - connects directly to your laptop via USB. It takes a lot of the magic out and makes it more like you're just programming an Arduino.
would recommend looking into writing a grammar, have that generate your AST, then do some transformations on the AST to generate code. you will save a lot of time.

I recently did that for a language that i made, via instaparse. the flexibility and speed i gained was very big. my language isn't Turing complete, but it has functions, lookup tables, and some pattern matching.
Focus on your own shit (2016)
Ubuntu switched to systemd from 16.04. You must be running 14.04. Ubuntu improved a lot in 4 years.
"If only my opponents surrendered, everything would be peaceful"

I think the far-left could equally do with some reflection. The far-right is not the only problem in today's politics.
Like, 8 years ago I got a Spartan 3E board and a book on VHDL programming that didn't exactly use the exact board I had. And that seemed to work -- you'd plug in via USB. I ran some Xilinx software on an EeePC. The act of learning was more about I/O to peripherals than just implementing algorithms on an FPGA.

So that's how my experience went. I don't know whether modern resources are more or less computation-heavy.
You already know what your life costs (per year). What your life is costing in real time is the interesting bit.

PS: I'm the most Anglo-Saxon Aussie you've seen, I just wanted to make use of the 'now.sh' domain.
Have you considered medication to treat the CFS? From what I've read, it seems like narcolepsy medication has had positive effects.
In fact, you probably noticed I tested most trending compilers and they are all bootstrapped this way. But none of them is 1.5GB before the compiled compiler is downloaded. My reaction was more about the unexpected overall size and process to get a basic Java compiler built from scratch. In all the above, the binary compiler can be automatically downloaded as part of the dependencies (from their own servers, not packaged for any distribution in particular), which make things simpler.

Edit : Maybe other compilers were lighter because I cloned with --depth 1 on git. I don't know the equivalent on mercurial, so it downloaded more than necessary
Also everything CoreOS-related.
What about PCLinuxOS, openSUSE, Mageia, Void, Nixos, Solus ?
Why would either of them need them?
But of course, MCAS ramps up sharply after viral illnesses, and, often, physical trauma.
At the time of its release, and the launch of certain titles like Metroid Prime: Hunters, and even Mario Kart DS, I was incredibly impressed with the DS’s graphics and performance considering its incredibly limited specs - 512kb texture cache and only 4MB of RAM. I understand it’s incredibly limited resolution and low-quality textures probably contributed to the ability to optimize the system and get such interesting performance out of it.

I truly enjoyed messing around with the home brew dev kits and loved putting my home made demos on my flash cart in high school, though I mostly stuck to 2D demos.

From what I understand, since the GPU is more akin to the GBA’s, and is a scanline-based renderer, does that mean it is more similar in its 3D architecture to, for instance, the Sega Saturn? (Incidentally, my other favourite system to write home brew for.)

The main differential, of course, it’s ability to display native triangles in addition to quads? (The Saturn literally did not have native 3D hardware as we understand it but literally drew thousands of scaled and transformed sprites as quads instead of the triangles we are used to today.)
well, that’s basically already happened. with its strict adherence to GNU, and with the truly phenomenal number of distros based on debian (especially if you include ubuntu derived distros, but ubuntu is so different these days that idk if it’s really the same any more?)
They've been competing with cloud providers for while already. Bluemix may not be very popular, but it seems to be growing https://console.bluemix.net/catalog/
Digilent has been making affordable FPGA Development kits using chips from multiple vendors for a long time.

I am sure you will find something suitable there.

https://store.digilentinc.com/fpga-development-boards-kits-f...
Yet those who dismiss it continue to dismiss the fact that their lifestyle, including and primarily dietary choices [1], is the leading contributor to their various health ailments and the reason they require life-long drugs that do nothing but suppress various symptoms to create a sense of sustained "good health". And those who do undertake fasting, both to rid themselves of "auto-immune diseases" and other such sciency sounding names, and as a preventative maintenance regimen, are the healthy ones.

the unwritten law of HN is quite the opposite - to immediately dismiss and blindly downvote any non-mainstream answers.

[1] By "dietary choices" above I refer to any diet that is not 100% organic fruits and vegetables and as little water as possible (you are meant to be getting the vast majority of your water intake from fruits, not stand-alone glasses of water).
You do realise that a lot of Linux kernel development is being done by for profit enterprises, don't you? None of these companies are doing this out of the goodness of their hearts, but because they have a vested interest. Linux is at the heart of possibly the majority of modern IT infrastructure.

Besides,IBM/RH are by not even the largest contributors. Intel does more than both of them combined, and then you have other heavyweights like Google who have an interest (notably through Android) in keeping the project going. Even if IBM were to pull out for some reason, there are more than enough others who could pick up the slack.
Are these types of boards suitable for developers, writing code that eventually will run in a production financial environment?
I only used tried-and-tested distros like Yggdrasil.
Thanks for mention this, it looks very interesting.
I witnessed a bike crash just last week (in Boston) where the convoy was biking (around ~30 kph I think) and some asshole opened his car's door without looking his surroundings, and the biker in the front bumped into the door and flew over her car. Luckily, the road was clear (so she wasn't crushed by a car) and she had a helmet. She was fine but she had a concussion. Clearly, if we were going at 25, the likelihood of she dying would be even lower, and if we were going 50, it would be significantly higher (her bike could break door's glass and she could have permanently injured herself).

I don't understand this whole thread. If you're biking in a city like Boston or SF early in the morning or around 5pm, you're trying to go office/home. What's the point of biking at 50 kph? This is not recreation. This is something I do every day and my highest priority is doing this as safe as possible. Similarly, would you drive significantly faster than speed limit with your car, because you arbitrarily think "it's not dangerous"? It's nice that you think bumping into things at 30/50 is not dangerous, I respectfully disagree and consider it absolutely dangerous and kindly invite you to stick to whatever speed limit you have in your city. People are just trying to get to their work or kids and be done with their days, please don't try to be Superman.
Parent is talking about bitcoin, where that is false. If they are assuming the average, then they're assuming something false.
Ask HN: How long did it take you to launch your side project or full product?
An often-repeated piece of business advice is to launch your software product as soon as possible, gain feedback from users, and then rapidly refine your product based on that feedback. There's also a counter view that cautions against launching obviously incomplete products or services too quickly.

How long did it take you to launch your side project or main product? And do you feel you launched at the right time? Or do you feel you launched too early or too late?
That’s a tough situation, I feel for you. Not implying this is the solution, but I’m curious if you’ve tried ketogenic diets/fasting? They induce mitochondrial biogenesis, and appear to affect immunity positively.

*edited spelling
Seattle, actually.
No the primary problem isn't selling votes. The primary problem is fabricating votes or people trying to destabilize an election by claiming they voted for someone else. If even 100 people come out and said their votes were changed what do we do? Re-run the election?

Just use paper ballots. This isn't that hard.
> would recommend looking into writing a grammar, have that generate your AST, then do some transformations on the AST to generate code. you will save a lot of time.

I had this thought, so I used a parser combinator (mpc) to generate the AST from the grammar and source file, then extract useful elements from the AST for codegen.
Source is open by the way: howmuchismylifecosting.now.sh/_src
I see a lot of companies asking how they can make use of AI/ML because they think they're supposed to. Aside from the sort of recommenders we've been doing forever, it's mostly just niche applications. ChatBots are already waning. I don't think we need all that many AI experts right now.
It's already too late to buy "before the market reacts". This is public information now, so it will be priced into the market price once the stock market opens.
Reasonable quality being portable. Having this compact is a boon!
So if you have years of developers hours n a Java project you throw it away and start over with cool new tech that may also be not cool when your port is done?

As long as the current code works, you can add new features and fixes to it, there is no reason to change. For new projects you should use teh best tool for the job.
I don't have any contacts with IBM business-wise, so my question might sound naive: Why 90% services revenue would be a problem? They have to fund these R&D and open source contributions somehow.
What has just happened??

Was there some behind-the-door takeover, from a friend to a friend? Or a pressure from investors like MS with Nokia? It just doesn't make any other sense...
This is the board I used for two courses in college and I thought it was pretty good. I wasn't limited at all, but my designs weren't anything too complicated.

https://store.digilentinc.com/nexys-4-artix-7-fpga-trainer-b...

In my reconfigurable computing course we used the Xilinx Zybo board which has a SoC on it which includes two Arm processors and an fpga (I think the new xilinx boards also have a gpu). This was really cool but I wouldn't recommend starting with it since the dynamic reconfiguring has a big learning curve in itself.

I actually don't know what a good way to learn is since I just followed my professors notes which was helpful, but I'm sure there are sources online to help. What I can say is that fpga development isn't the same as software development. You have to think differently when implementing designs since you're literally describing the circuitry instead of designing code that runs on pre-determined hardware. I used Xilinx Vivado Webpack (it's free) throughout my fpga usage.
Thanks for the reply. I think that a portable UI that gives everyone a native look & feel is still not a solved problem, even today.

Regarding your resource constraints - I'm guilty of assuming that it's all IBM's fault because Notes used the OS/2 keyboard shortcuts (they had a name for this standard which I forget). And not that Notes was developed by Iris, which was separate (other than funding) from Lotus. And was a relatively small firm. My apologies.
I use ninite.com to achieve the same thing with less pain. The downside of my approach will only be revealed if ninite.com for some reason goes dark or to the dark side. I hope it doesn't happen and that if it does happen I hear about in time to transition to your approach!
Sorry for the late reply! I forgot to check the reply of the thread.
I’m not used to the no notifcations.

You can send me info at jaimoon2005@gmail.com

We can continue the conversation there as well if you like .
> How do you avoid a sales tax by paying cash?

Simple: you just make a deal with someone saying that, if you pay cash, they won't report or charge the tax. Maybe you'll even pay them a bit more (but less than it would've cost you with the tax) to do so. With cash, how can you trace it?

But, a sales-tax based system is absolutely awful regardless; it does nothing but hurt those who can least afford it.
The rental and purchase markets are linked, but don’t necessarily need to be equal (cost of renting = cost of owning).

There is a ton of speculation happening in the hot markets so people will take the monthly loss in rent hoping that the equity gain will offset it.
At this point, Microsoft might as well do its own Debian-based distro. What would they need from Canonical, really? Experienced people? I suspect it'd be much cheaper to pull a Hejlsberg with them.
On the other hand, I live in San Diego, and cars act as menaces far more often than scooters when I'm around, probably at a 5:1 ratio. They do menace differently, but I do appreciate how much less dangerously the scooters do it. For example, when someone parks a scooter in a right of way, it's irksome. When someone parks an SUV in a right of way (too close to corner) it makes it dangerous to pull out of that intersection. When scooter riders act entitled to the sidewalk where I'm walking, I can easily bear off. When a driver acts entitled to the road where I'm biking, they often do it by riding only a few feet behind me while laying on the horn.

The scooters seem like better neighbors to me.
Amazin Amie
I'm surprised regulators don't force Tesla to rebrand the driver assistance package to a name that doesn't deceive drivers.
I dont trust mail in ballots because of the potemtial for spousal intimidation and fraud.
Chatbots need to go away faster - I've almost managed to punt on having to deal with them this cycle, if they get back into the trough of disillusionment soon, I'll be in the clear. Most people just want a super dumb dialog tree, but that's not sexy and whitepaper friendly.
https://www.npr.org/2014/10/29/359365276/on-superstorm-sandy...

The Red Cross is worse than many for profits. If a for-profit doesn’t deliver the goods, they don’t get paid: they are incentivized to do what their customers want. The Red Cross is incentivized to bring in donations even at the expense of their stated purpose. Look at the salary of the Red Cross CEO — a salary paid by tax deductible donations. Look at the corrupt nonsense engaged in by many universities. To suggest non-profits have any better or worse ethics than for profits is a vast over simplification. The Clinton Foundation even paid for Chelsea Clinton’s wedding as well as private jet transport by principles. Even Greenpeace’s leader was commuting by airplane.