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Here's my take since we're all weighing in and are all in different levels of shock: IBM needs Redhat to stay relevant. The way I think about it is in a few ways. 1) IBM's stock price has been tanking because I think they're not investing in new products but just cutting expenditures to meet stupid Wall-Street targets. But with the introduction of RedHat they get new "blood" as it were. Who knows, what if they make the CEO of RedHat the CEO of IBM a la Satya Nadella and Microsoft?

They have said that RedHat would remain an independent part of IBM as part of their cloud push. Let's take them at their word unless they prove us wrong. Also, if nothing else, this could give RedHat even more money to make ambitious bets -- perhaps we might see Power9 systems running Fedora soon?

In the end I think this is, on the whole, a good thing. Now, does MS buy Canonical?
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Microsoft has been doing a lot to rebuild itself as a cloud provider.

IBM has been doing a lot to go out of business.

Microsoft's first CEO is still chairman and helping lead the company even from the sidelines.

IBM is a floating raft of failed leadership.

Microsoft isn't trusted fully by the community but they are making inroads under their new CEO.

IBM has been firing its most senior people in an effort to slow its cash burn and to hire younger folks. IBM also claims it's also to bring on folks with more relevant skills to emerging technologies. I think there is a lawsuit about this.

Anyway, IBM has done nothing in recent years to show they are a true contender.

If the Redhat team is able to pull a Next here and assume leadership roles inside of IBM this could be stellar. Big Blue's formidable sales team and reputation with a great product line overseen by passionate people would be powerful.

If the IBM existing leadership team emerges as the winners here it will likely continue to fade into irrelevance.
Just using it as a big workstation. Firefox, Krita, LibreOffice. The software has improved to the point where it can realistically be a daily driver (that can also compile Firefox at -j24 on this octocore SMT-4 machine in about a half hour).
>> Ayn Rand explores a world where the rich value creators go on strike when people and the government “loot” and plumber their wealth

If the rich went on a strike today; within a couple of years, they'd all be replaced by a different batch of newly rich people and the economy would be right back where it was before... Then after maybe a few more years, the economy would be in a better shape than it has ever been.

For every rich person, there are hundreds of even more talented people just waiting for an opportunity to take their place.

There have been many cases in history where all the rich people in a country lost their wealth and then they were replaced by a completely new class of rich people; Germany after WW2, Russia after the collapse of the USSR...
See you in RHEL.
Plot structures are tools. All else being equal it's a good idea to pick a plot that's as simple as possible and hang the interesting stuff off that. The classic mistake of beginning writers is to go for complexity in plot and then spend their entire time serving that plot to the detriment of their characters.

That said, of course not every story fits into some basic set of plot outlines without some serious mental acrobatics. Plot isn't even necessary, what's necessary is getting inside people's heads. The classic plots (however they're formulated) are all good ways to do that but you can also do that with meandering unstructured prose, if you're good enough, though few people are and the further you get from universal tricks the more likely you are to run into serious disagreements over who writes really good nonconformist stories.

Maybe a good example is dialog. The beginner's mistake is to write as if people are listening and responding to what the other has said. e.g.

"Hey Joe, what's up?"

"Just whippin' up some breakfast."

versus

"Hey Joe, what's up?"

"Jesus, you look like shit. Want some breakfast?"

In the second example the reader fills in the blanks mentally. It creates engagement. Do that in the small throughout your book and few people will complain that you lack a plot. Easier said than done.

Plots are good. Use them. But they're not the whole, uh, story.
I respect the idea that paper is "unhackable" and that decentralized voting counts are less vulnerable to attack.

I've been thinking alot about Ranked-Choice Voting (RCV) and how to do an instant runoff with paper ballots at scale, notably for something like President. I suppose it's unlikely to occur, but in the instance of a national popular vote for president that results in a runoff, it is worth the extra time to go back through and count. After all, TV entertainment aside, there is no need to have results in same-day.
> the continued rise of school shootings in America

Contrary to popular belief, school shootings have been flat since the early 90s:

https://imgur.com/2uB0QdJ

Full report here:

https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2018/2018036.pdf
Vancouver sfh’s are down at least 10% now from their peak last year.

The slump has already started.
Thats useful for pasting many command lines though.
Ubuntu has a long way to go before they reach Red Hat levels of quality assurance.
I’ve been diagnosed with CFS. I had a diagnosis of Kawasaki disease, autoimmune vasculitis, at age 3. And reoccurring fevers and sore throats every three months (coresponds with lifecycle of EBV). Pneumonia and mono as a teenager. I’ve had a mild case of CFS for a little over six years that became more severe three years ago, both following mono infections. I’m unable to work without a recovery period that lasts for days. During a year long infection with the Epistein Barr Virus I lost my sense of smell, started losing my hearing, have problems with depth perception/driving, and the sustained focus required for reading. I lost my ability to do circuit analysis and BASH. I used to be a high level athlete and lost half my strength. I got very lucky and discovered that iodine can treat Epistein Barr Virus, otherwise the prognosis for a EBV infection of longer than 6 months (CAEBV) is death. The requirements to get disability in the United States for the disease of CFS basically requires a diagnosis of CAEBV plus a impossible to prove “subjective” criteria that basically guarantees you will have to go in front of a judge and be subjected to their opinion of the condition. When shopping for a lawyer I was refused to even have it on my application as a disabling condition despite it being listed in the social security “blue book.”

I’m also missing 10% of my mitochondrial DNA and have a gene which is the single largest risk factor for MS (also caused by EBV).

I lost my mind during the last infection.

The virus is interesting. It’s one of the most common viruses and has an ability to cause the body to “forget” adaptive immunity. It reproduces in response to low vitamin B12 levels or mitochondrial dysfunction.
The first amendment absolutely protects hateful speech. It doesn't protect threats.
They will put the Watson marketing department and the salespeople to work and cut off any meaningful tech. Sigh.
That's true, and that's why I said almost. But many popular languages have big companies behind, like Microsoft, Google or Apple. And we can find plenty of examples of unethical corporate tactics in all of them. But I think we should not restrict ourselves to languages like python or perl just because of hypothetical assumptions.
I don't dispute any of this. I think people may have lost the thread a little bit. The author's statement was

> No one cared what I was doing. Is this what it feels like to shop when you're not black?

The author does imply that all black people are eyed with suspicion when shopping, which is impossible to say but almost surely not true.

However the answer to the question can still be "yes" without giving in to the implication.
Seems like we could just solve the real problem by regulating ride sharing services such that they pay their drivers enough that they don't need to work dangerously long shifts in the first place.
sir, you make a good point. the world always changes. microsoft has changed, perhaps IBM has also. one who believes in sin and redemption perhaps should give IBM a chance.
Ha! The domain is what gave it away for me as well. Perhaps the HN title could be made more clear?
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That might be why its labeled a syndrome. In medicine, syndrome vs disease is exactly the distinction you're making.

Syndrome refers to a set of symptoms, whereas disease is both a definite pathological process plus a set of symptoms caused by it.
As soon as I heard this news, I was looking to invest in SUSE until I found out they were just bought by a private equity firm earlier this year.

What's going on with Linux providers? Is Amazon really just dominating the space?
tips Fedora
I worked for a company that used bluemix PAAS (cloudfoundry based back in 2016).
We were early adopters(customers), the service was not really stable at that time (but we were not in production yet) but it improved and ended up quite stable before we left for different reasons. I think I preferred (cost aside) their PAAS offering to some competitors like AWS beanstalk.
Wasn't this already well known from Kurt Vonnegut lectures?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP3c1h8v2ZQ
The following exert is from the https://archive.org/stream/faif-2.0/faif-2.0_djvu.txt. If you read above this paragraph its clear stallman did not for the purpose of his ego choose the ideology. Its the other way.

<BEGIN>
Already renowned for his work with Emacs, Stallman's
ability to match the output of an entire team of Symbolics program-
mers - a team that included more than a few legendary hackers itself
- still stands as one of the major human accomplishments of the In-
formation Age, or of any age for that matter. Dubbing it a "master
hack" and Stallman himself a "virtual John Henry of computer code,"
author Steven Levy notes that many of his Symbolics-employed rivals
had no choice but to pay their idealistic former comrade grudging re-
spect. Levy quotes Bill Gosper, a hacker who eventually went to work
for Symbolics in the company's Palo Alto office, expressing amazement
over Stallman's output during this period:

I can see something Stallman wrote, and I might decide it
was bad (probably not, but somebody could convince me
it was bad), and I would still say, "But wait a minute -
Stallman doesn't have anybody to argue with all night over
there. He's working alone! It's incredible anyone could do
this alone!" 16
<END>
Past history of voter ID is mostly intended to lower voter turnout especially among certain groups of people. Historically it's not really about detecting fraud. I find it hard to take people seriously who think it's really about fraud.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poll_taxes_in_the_United_State...
Agreed. For GE or P&G that have tons of vertically integrated moving parts and the complex accounting for it, I can intuitively understand that compliance and accounting would be huge and complex. But there are many billion dollar companies with a more streamlined and simple economic model, and the tools should exist to comply with the SEC as part of the normal workflow.
Your use of "of course" seems to imply that there's some statistical reason that the probability of the next bus being inbound vs outbound wouldn't be equal. Is there? If so, it seems like it must be a different reason than the one in the article. What am I missing...?
So you'd rather go back to Upstart or SysV? Really?
You want an SUV ala Suburban, or Crossover ala RAV4?

Supposedly Subaru will be bringing a plug in hybrid Crosstrek to market next year. If I wasn't too tall, only fitting in an Outback, that would be quite compelling IMO.
Sorry friend. That really doesn't seem likely.

If you somehow talked a company into paying for you to get a work permit for an internship, it would be challenging to get the government to approve it.

You would be better off working remotely and traveling through the USA at your own speed.
They have many (you might argue some are somewhat autist but there are):
https://developer.ibm.com/code/open/projects/

And they also do several contributions, e.g. openstack, linux kernel

I would agree that IBM is not pop enough and that their motivation is usually not based on ideals or a social contract.

EDIT: I forgot IBM Blockchain, which you might think it is not "core" just because the company is still divided between areas like services, consulting and hardware...

https://github.com/IBM-Blockchain
I think there’s a difference between mechanical sympathy and really knowing what’s going on mathematically.

IMO, parent is right. It’s going the way computing did. Ie most degree programmes basically teach you how to programme. Many degrees don’t even require maths anymore.

Hype drives demand drives hiring ,... and always at the top a bunch of guys that don’t know anything about ML at all :)
What's the alternative? All of the places I've worked that used Red Hat never explicitly looked at the Red Hat support timeline. They looked at their business, the software they used, the features they needed, and based their upgrade cycles around that. They'd only upgrade the major versions of their primary software when a project would benefit and skipped major updates that were problematic. At my current job they're only now upgrading from a 2016 piece of software to 2018, they're also straddling Cent 6.7 and Cent 7.2 and only making moderate progress.

Usually the reason for updating the OS is because new software doesn't run, there's a major feature needed, or supporting the old OS is too much trouble.

But it's not like it's any different on the Windows side. XP stuck around forever. At my previous job they had Win7 on workstations with little to no intention of updating to Win10. On the server side it was all over the place including Windows Server 2003.
If you sell food without a license, in some states you could go in jail.

So it's pretty different from getting a fine which UBER pays.
Yes. It will take some time but I'd take an exit package and find a new job.
If you reduce the demand part of the curve, the price goes down. If people feel like they have a chance of a decent life, because housing is more affordable they are less likely to use opioids. There is a reason why the epidemic is in the poor areas of america.
The main argument against what you say is that you believe that a bad idea will diseappear by itself if its in the open. Its not and theres thousands of examples to show that it can propagates and contaminate parts large chunks of society(historically: "gays are sicks", "blacks are not humans". More recently: "jews control the world" is making a surprising comeback in parts of europe).

Whereas when you silence it, it diseappear overnight and sometimes ots a good thing. I personally think the "hate speech" classification and ban on is a good thing. I dont agree full freedom of speech is a good thing.

I agree however that its stupid to associate too much killers with the ideology they claim to belong. They are just psychos / weirdos most of the time.
Where’s the history of IBM buying and sun setting companies? I don’t have the same prejudice towards IBM that I do for Oracle. But I’m not in a position to know.

I’m thinking RHEL’s support contracts will keep IBM from shuttering RHEL. An IBM branded RHEL would represent plenty of income.
In retrospect I'm surprised this didn't happen a long time ago. Good lucky RH brothers.
How to teach yourself ML in two easy steps

1) Have a strong knowledge of undergraduate mathematics, probability, statistics, numerics

2) read a book about machine learning
Mitochondrial dysfunction is present in the vast majority of people with the condition.
Just started a new job at Red Hat around a year ago. I kept thinking "this is too good to be true".

It was. Good luck everyone, massive layoffs, salary cuts, and destruction of benefits coming soon I bet.
> People who've already established lives in places like Raleigh may not find a comparable job so easily.

Gonna have to disagree here. Raleigh is not a tech backwater. There’s plenty of comparable work to be found in the area.
I would keep them. You get rental income, and they are likely to appreciate in the long term. They are paid off, so your expenses should be low. You can't liquidate them without paying taxes on the gains unless you use the money to buy more real estate, which seems to defeat the purpose.
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Also Atomic/CoreOS - this will probably be cut now, perhaps even before it is complete.

http://www.projectatomic.io/blog/2018/06/welcome-to-fedora-c...
A flat consumption tax would be regressive if the two extremes (rich vs. poor) would buy the same goods; but they don't. The very poor buy cheap food, the very rich buy diamonds and services ("dog walking", "garden design", "personal trainer"). Not to mention the two buying different kinds of habitation, in different locations, at very different price-points.
How do you know the houses are so much of his net worth?
Would anyone on HN care to explain to physics laymen what Gauge theory is about in the first place?
Yes, without question. Systemd provides me absolutely no benefit when running a server and adds considerable complexity and fragility in a critical component.

A traditional SysV init is just fine. Want orchestrated service invocation on startup? Run it from SysV init instead of replacing SysV init.

There is no need to conflate the "sysv rc system" with "sysv init." They are entirely separate things.
The fun thing is that IBM stock was already recently dropping.
This reminds me the bet in the bitcoin community [1]. If on average bitcoin blocks are produced every 10 minutes, and you learn that 5 minutes ago someone found a block, what is the average time you will wait for the next block? It turns out it's 10 minutes, not 5 minutes as you would intuitively think. (it's a memoryless process, so average expected time till block is always the same - 10 minutes - no matter how many blocks were recently found).

In other words, when you're waiting for bitcoin transaction to be confirmed and go to check how long ago the most recent block was produced, in order to estimate how soon the next one will come - you're doing it wrong. Even if previous block was found 9 minutes ago, you're average waiting time for the next block is still 10 minutes.

[1]. https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/7rs8ko/dr_craig_s_wrig...
I'm doing a PhD in Berlin, living in Kreuzberg and I can tell you far from all of the programmers that I know want to live here!

What makes Kreuzberg attractive for startups and a Google campus is that it's central and perfectly connected infrastructurewise. Most other regions like Schöneberg, parts of Friedrichshain, Prenzlauer Berg and maybe Moabit, are all harder to reach from some other regions, even though more start-up employees live there. You can see on the maps of rental e-scooters like Coup how during the day there is a lot of activity towards Kreuzberg whereas after work the district is basically empty of their scooters. Imho kreuzberg is too dirty for most startupers. I guess they don't want to see the heroin junkies of Kotti when they do their grocery shopping.

In general I liked the sentiment of the activists against placing a Campus in Kreuzberg. Nevertheless I didn't like much of their public attitude ("bullets for google") and some arguments seemed superficial ("other Google campuses have increased rents" idk about the causality and factor here). I wouldve liked a Google campus in Schöneberg for example, just as I liked the Google campus in Madrid. In Madrid it offered a nice environment for work, some interesting talks and I didn't feel like it was in an artsy district that suddenly gentrified and turned hip. This could've added something to Berlin, but meddling with the activist scene in Kreuzberg was a poor choice.
> Open Source, as adopted currently, is a flawed model that valors corporate protection more than end-user freedom.

I see your point, and I mostly agree.

I would like to differentiate between Open Source organizations - like Linux Foundation, Apache Foundation or Mozilla Foundation - and mixed organizations like Oracle (owns MySQL), RedHat (owns too many to list), etc.

The first ones represent the pure Open Source approach. Were the software and how it better serves humanity is their main concerns. The second ones are just business that see in Open Source and gratis (free as in beer) software a way to get a bigger user base and to kill any possibility of competitors from the bottom as new entries cannot compete as easily with products that you do not need to pay for.

Real Open Source foundations are fundamental for a functional global software industry. The other ones bring value, but they use Open Source projects as a weapon against competitors, not as something for the good of its users. And that ones are the ones that value corporate protection more than end-user freedom.
Every bus does have sensors - it's where the data in the post came from. OneBusAway shows the live location of your bus too.

The issue here is the deviation between empirical expected time and actual arrival time. Unhandled exceptions abound.
It's not about the money. it's about the principle. For example, where does the copyright lawsuit leave Apache Harmony legally, given that it's an "unauthorized" Java API implementation? Is the codebase's Apache license still valid? If not, what does that say about the GPL license of GNU/Linux, which is similarly an "unauthorized" reimplementation of proprietary Unix?
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And yet, most of the centralised places have shut down. I'm thinking of Maple and others, which I enjoyed using in NYC, and yet they are gone now.
No, it was just a joke, you know... but in fact I've checked and I'm already running upstart right now, as part of my Ubuntu LTS system. So really no need to "go back" :P
Deliveroo is not in DC
Big Scarlett
This is sad, Fedora has been my favourite distribution for a little while. Red Hat have been a good community player and it is a big loss for them to be gobbled up by IBM. What is the best alternative to Fedora and CentOS?
Did you expect this beforehand? I can imagine they try to show themselves as being innovative and stuff, and only after you join you get the company policy details on stuff like what you just mentioned.
WAS Liberty profile is still WAS, and is (mostly) open sourced as OpenLiberty.
I'm in The Netherlands so this might be a little different than SF where everyone capitalizes on the value of good developers. He opened with a salary that I'd consider average to slightly above average for a regular senior developer, in The Netherlands. I felt a bit cocky and thought if he's worth anything, he should be getting me jobs that pay more than I could get myself, so I countered him 50% above that. He was really hesitant and tried to talk me down, saying it would be difficult to find a job that pays that, saying my CV wasn't that impressive, I held on saying that a good hiring manager would see the value in my skills. Over ~3 months he came up with three leads, one of which ticked all three of my professional expertise boxes (ruby, devops and product ownership) and sounded really interesting to me, but I was pursuing other things at the time so turned it down.

I do agree that it very much feels like having an agent. I tell him what I can do, and what I want to make, and he goes out and find a job for me. I don't mind him taking a cut, if he finds jobs that I wouldn't find because I just go starry eyed from startup to startup.
If the deaths are being moved from scooter riders - who made the choice - to pedestrians - who didn't - then the scooter riders should stay in the road. In my opinion.

It's not as clear cut as you pretend.