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Disclosure: I work for MongoDB. If you look at these two threads you'll find my comments in them, addressing similar concerns to those raised in this one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18229452
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18229013

To reiterate those comments, the SSPL only affects people who are offering the licensed software to the public as a service. This does not include any software that uses MongoDB as a component, even if it's a commercial SaaS offering itself. The FAQ we put out here makes that clear: https://www.mongodb.com/licensing/server-side-public-license.... 99.999% of MongoDB users are not affected by this license change.

People have expressed concerns that the 1) the FAQ is not the license, and 2) the language of the license does not make the intended responsibility clear enough. But it was drafted with that intention (and reviewed by outside counsel, with an eye towards being explicit without giving bad actors loopholes to exploit). Nonetheless, addressing those concerns is extremely important to us. This exact issue is being discussed on the OSI license approval mailing list, and we are considering very seriously all of the feedback.

The article anchoring this thread contains a lengthy discussion of copyright misuse and of impracticability. Those are also the subjects of discussion on the OSI mailing list, where Heather Meeker, writing on MongoDB's behalf, refutes claims that are similar to those made in the article. In particular, the SSPL is not trying to make people release substrate infrastructure, or adjacent tooling, under the SSPL. Consider the last line of section 13: "...all such that a user could run an instance of the service using the Service Source Code you make available." This means that as long as the Service Source Code you release is enough for anyone to run the service, you've fulfilled your obligation. As an example, you would not have to somehow be able to offer CircleCI under the SSPL (an impossibility), as long as your tooling that orchestrates its use is public, because anyone can use CircleCI.

It's our hope that these discussions will lead to an accepted understanding of the actual obligations of the SSPL. The only people we want to be in any way affected by it are those who are literally offering the licensed software as a service, and we want those people to release their management stack under the SSPL. Thanks for helping us with that.
> Specifically, it allows breaking digital rights management (DRM) and embedded software locks for “the maintenance of a device or system … in order to make it work in accordance with its original specifications” or for “the repair of a device or system … to a state of working in accordance with its original specifications.”

It would be interesting to know what "original specifications" means. How deep do these original specifications have to be adhered to? I'm sure DRM could be argued to be part of the spec at some level. I don't think this is quite the win Free Software Folks are looking for.
If you agree with neuroscience, this isn't a shock. Human behavior flows from the emotional, fight or flight, center of the brain known as the amygdala, to the "switchboard" called the prefrontal cortex. Where those signals go next depends on the kind of sensory input.

The amygdala can overpower our reasoning, even when we think we're being perfectly reasonable.

Hiding something can seem much more reasonable than preparing for unknown level of backlash.

IMO, thank our authoritarian culture which conditions us from childhood to push down on those "below us" to gain approval from those "above us". We lie, cheat, and steal to maintain that status quo.
Check out Waybar [0], it got tray support merged today, with a fix for Electron apps coming soon [1].

[0] https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar

[1] https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/issues/57
Arguably only a judge could give out appropriate punishment for the described action.
It is actually silly, because being “the only unpaid open source nosql” is a pretty good position to be in. It’s how MySQL became huge: by being “the only unpaid open source relational db” good enough for real work.

It’s not with licensing shenanigans that they’ll fix a monetization failure; in fact, it will likely backfire. It’s hard enough to push (A)GPL software in enterprise contexts, by making it even more awkward they are basically begging users to go away.
It's about time sexual degenerates are gotten rid of during recruitment phase.
Scientists discover first new species of crocodile in 85 years
And what kind of fringe benefits are minimum wage earners pulling? I hear Starbucks gives health insurance, for example, anyone else?
As far as I can remember the Elasticsearch test that Jespen made years ago showed at by that time it was a very, very bad db. It was good for indexing content but not for storage.
The author Russ Roberts runs the EconTalk podcast and is a well respected economist/journalist/thinker in the field, definitely worth reading for a fair assessment.

Here he presents a few studies that go against general economic consensus popularized mainly by Piketty in "Capital in the 21st century" and through papers/writing by Krugman, Saez, Zucman, Stiglitz, etc. that most of the economic gains in the past 100 years have gone to a concentrated few owners of capital.

Roberts highlights a few studies that use panel data (same people tracked over time) instead of cross-section data (snapshots of different populations at different times) and show that 70% of children from low-income households generally earn more than their parents, and usually end up with about 2x more income (only 33% of high-income children earn more than their parents.)

Another study looks at people age 35-40 in 1987 and then how they did when they were 55-60 in 2007. Median income was down for the top 5%, middle quintile was up 27%, and bottom quintile median income rose 100%.

Basically - absolute mobility (how much people gain over time) is still decently healthy today in percentage terms in the US, but relative mobility (how easy it is to move between classes) is widening and the wealthy in 1980 still have a much higher income on average than the poor in 1980.

Also, the poor in 2014 were actually worse off than the poor in the 1980s which Roberts attributes to poor people reporting less income in 2014, that there could be more poor immigrants in 2014 with less education, and that 2014 could be an unrepresentative year.

Personally I don't buy Robert's "glass half full" argument, but I appreciate him bringing some panel data into the discussion to temper the prevailing economic narrative.

I think if he looked at studies that include wealth and net worth panel data, not just income, that account for assets such as homes, the results would be much much different.
*EDIT: I think I misinterpreted your point, but I'm going to leave this because I think it's valid.

That probably contributes, however the reality is that most Americans (particularly below-average earners) are living paycheck to paycheck and therefore don't have opportunities to significantly contribute to savings. I suspect that the average American is far more affected by compound debt rather than compound savings.

Rather, I think that there are 2 main factors driving upward mobility of low-skill/replaceable/disposable workers:
1. Over time, some are able to break into industries where they can build a career instead of working dead-end minimum-wage jobs.
2. Many busted their asses so that their kids could get a good education. Their kids saw how hard their parents struggled and were motivated to pursue stable careers.
The contrast of the motto and what is revealed in this article is quite telling, IMHO.
This is great! The push by large companies to replace personal asset ownership with perpetual rent is worth fighting against.
If men and women are completely interchangeable, physically and psychologically, then this article makes a lot of sense.

But if women really do have something different (at least on average) to bring to the table, then this women really does add diversity.

The purpose of diversity is not quotas, but differences that work together and add something to the whole.
As a mechanical engineer, my interviewers had doubt that I knew any circuits and asked me to explain Darlington circuit, pull-up resistor etc, which I did and land me my first job. This is the first time I came to knew it was named after its inventor.
A similar approach was proposed here about a month ago: https://twitter.com/alexeyraspopov/status/104570630502400819...
This shows the contents of a tank (I think it's the oxygen tank as there's no transfer tube in the middle of the tank as it would be in the RP-1 tank (that's short for "rocket propellant-1" a sort of refined kerosine - and yeah, very imaginative name!)) sloshing around during SECO-1 (Second Engine Cut-off 1) during the CRS-4 mission.

https://youtu.be/7YkCh7uOw1Y?t=1442
> Richard Feynman was a brilliant man, but was utterly horrible to the women he worked with.

Absurd--where did you get that from?
It's not patentable...

And probably the physical nature of the powder makes it fundamentally different.
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The beauty of choice is that it goes both ways.
There are no risks from occasional use of psychedelics. There's tons of evidence (anecdotal and published) that psychedelics can be extremely helpful.

I hate to say this, but I think you can't really speak coherently about psychedelics unless you have personal, first-hand experience.
I don't know about switch emulation, but I know there was an Xbox emulation project that wanted to use it, and gave up. The reason was that Unicorn doesn't have paging working properly on x86. In refactoring Unicorn out of Qemu, it somehow got messed up, and as a result Unicorn isn't useful for full system 32 bit x86 yet. The Github issue is here: https://github.com/unicorn-engine/unicorn/issues/947

Perhaps it is better for other guest processors, but for x86 Unicorn still needs time to mature and get some critical problems fixed.
Also the only part of mongo that is limked is the driver, not tbe database product. All the drivers are licened under apache 2 license, which is permissive, and largly just demands preservation of copyrigths and trademarks. It does not mandate source distribution for derived (linked) products.
Anecdotal, but afaik Blizzard uses AWS for Overwatch in the US. A friend who works as a systems engineer told me they hit some ridiculous cap on an AWS region a few years back and it caused issues for a bit.
Based on “the maintenance of a device or system … in order to make it work in accordance with its original specifications” can I or can I not legally unlock a device to use a different OS/apps on it?
Announcing Mesosphere DC/OS 1.12
Any guesses on when we'll see the first AWS region in space? Would it make sense to have shared computing resources 'above the clouds' to facilitate science and engineering missions? Is there ever a point at which it is better to compute in space rather than blast the data back to earth(which incurs significant latency and potentially bandwidth)?
Well, most of those fall more under the more general umbrella of "strategy". Stellaris is 4x, Rimworld is a management sim, Banished is a city builder.

RTS is stuff like Starcraft/Warcraft, Age of Empires, C&C, Company of Heroes, Total Annihilation, Supreme Commander. I haven't played They Are Billions yet, but yeah, that looks like an RTS or really close to it. So maybe it's not quite dead, but hanging on by a thread! There's also Offworld Trading Company from a couple years ago which is RTS minus combat.
‘GDPR-US’ needed, says Apple's Tim Cook as he blasts “data industrial complex”
Really? What about when you purchase a bouquet of flowers? You’re essentially prizing the most asthetically pleasing plant sexual organs and giving them to your loved ones.

Equating plant behavior/parts with their animal equivalent would mean you live in a constant state of guilt and horror.
Spinning rockets are extremely hard to control due to precession/conservation of angular momentum. Any change in attitude would introduce a wobble. Unless you make your tanks spherical and rotating independently of the rocket motors on a gimbal you will have trouble with changing orientation and compensating for minor offsets of thrust.
I upvoted... Because I hope this was a joke with tounge planted firmly in cheek.
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There's a summary with links here:

https://galileospendulum.org/2014/07/13/the-problem-of-richa...

But he also describes a lot of his attitudes toward women in Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman, and by modern standards they would basically fall into the PUA/RedPill category.
QEMU supports PowerPC, but this appears not to.
We'll be bringing back some of the archives on our blog at https://medium.com/glitch, we just took a bunch of stuff offline during our renaming from Fog Creek to Glitch. Let us know if there's anything specific you're looking for and we'll try to get it back online sooner. Sorry for the hassle!
V8 wasn't originally based on llvm. If anything, it was based on Strongtalk. https://github.com/v8/v8/commit/43d26ecc3563a46f62a022403066...
I hear "weary" spoken so very rarely that I have no idea how it's pronounced here (Indiana). I can't even make up my mind how I pronounce it, but I'd wager it's almost, but not quite, indistinguishable from wary.
> I can tell the difference between 25 ms and 1 ms

Maybe you are fooling yourself.
>I don't know why anyone should feel entitled to economic growth if they didn't participate in it in any way.

Can we use this entitlement argument elsewhere? Would that be fair?

So, how would you feel if I restated this as:

>I don't know why anyone should feel entitled to economic benefits, if they don't contribute to the pool of economic benefits

Two issues I take with this:

1. Those incapable of contributing, such as the psychologically or physically unwell, must I guess just die

2. I could restate this further as "Returns from entitlement should correlate linearly with input to entitlement," that is, the more taxes in real dollars you pay, the more benefits you should get from the system, which I think is awful for many reasons.
"one of the scholars posits that the restorers tend to go for the most vivid and saturated versions of whichever colors they detect."

This makes a lot of sense, the artists who made the statue were likely more able at the coloring aspect than simply solid colors
https://codeincomplete.com/games/breakout/
My Fall-2018 Instagram Grid
groan

So when they write kW/hr, they mean kWh/h, which is kW, because they expect readers to be confused. But if that's the power of the machine, it shouldn't vary. Just like my car produces 70kW, not "7-70kW/hr depending on road conditions". This machine would run a max power all the time, wouldn't it?

> 25% improvement

Serves me right for trying to compute in my head. Qualitatively, it makes no difference, though: they claim a 100% improved efficiency over the competition, and they are nowhere close. The 25% difference may indeed be purely to scale; bigger machines (whether from this company or the hardware store) tend to be more efficient.
This has an unfortunate name-clash with eye-tracking software that's been previously featured on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=WebGazer
Two issues:

- Income levels indicate practical income that market is willing to pay, therefore claiming that unreported income boosts poor people's income is bogus. Unreported income going into poor peoples pockets will not exceed median levels. It may shift what is considered median, but I absolutely disagree that all of that money drastically changes the state of poorer people.

- Adding up poorer people gains and saying that their gains are 70%, while rich people's gain are 33% is also misleading. Wealth transfer and accumulation is totally ignored by this.

Wages have stagnated is a technically incorrect statement. If you take wealth accumulation, you'll have to change the tune... Wealthy people become wealthier, at a rate considerably higher than the average individual.

Just mere tax "optimization" options are way more readily available for rich people, than to poor people. According to Warren Buffet - his taxes are lower even in relative terms, than his own secretary's. Which makes an employee's wage growth of 70% not even close to 33% of a rich person's.
Not if jgit is already launched and sitting around waiting for commands.
You should have kept reading:

> The internet has made young people more aware of the world and, contrary to their parents and grandparents, many plan to leave the island to build lives on the mainland.
It can be much more sneaky than this.

You have an hypothesis, do an experiment, it fails. You mark the hypothesis false and move on, never putting the work into publishing it (why would you?).

At the same time, 19 other researchers have the same idea. Some 18 of them do the same as you, but one does the experiment and get a success. He will publish his work (why wouldn't he?), and it will be the only piece of literature available about the subject.

Where on this narrative did anybody do anything even remotely unethical?
Mongodb is like Marmite, half tbe world loves it, half hates it, go figure.
Pesticides in organic farming are also highly concentrated (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_farming#Pesticides), which would make them synthetic per your definition. Which is fine, but it means that from your perspective organic farming is non-existent.
On top of the studies within the article, there are other really interesting papers. Some time back I was searching information on the chiseling out of the middle class, and I found this paper [1]. And the paper does describe that chiseling out. In 1979 the middle class controlled 46% of all income, and the upper/rich classes controlled 30%. Today (as of 2014) the rich and upper class control 63% with the middle class left with 26%. There's even been a chiseling out of the middle class as a whole declining from 38.8% of society to 32% of society. That's where most media outlets leave it. It sounds grim.

But the eye opener is this. This is the change in the size of each economic group between 1979 and 2014 as a percent of the total population:

- Rich: 0.1% -> 1.8%

- Upper Middle Class: 12.9% -> 29.4%

- Middle Class: 38.8% -> 32%

- Lower Middle Class: 23.9% -> 17.1%

- Poor or Near-Poor: 24.3% -> 19.8%

Statistics like this are certainly subject to biased interpretation and 'massaging'. If one is curious about the source, wiki has a section on the political stance of the Urban Institute [2]. Though the paper itself is very transparent in their methodology and extremely readable. I found it all eye opening to the point that it literally changed my worldview. This change is only since 1979! We are doing something incredibly right from an economic point of view. I don't understand the media motivations in choosing to omit these crucial, and greatly encouraging, data when writing on this topic.

[1] - https://www.urban.org/research/publication/growing-size-and-...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_Institute#Political_stan...
I'd generally agree (CPU perf fine, GPU perf noticeably worse), but it's honestly fine for normal browser/editor use, even on my 4k@60Hz display. I do stuff like (digitally) sign documents and mild Inkscape/GIMP work. I wouldn't use it as a CAD machine.
So, according to this, the assumptions are:
1. NO NEW TAXES!!!!!
2. No safety nets! If you are out of jobs, you are ed.
3. Thou shall work 40hr a week.
4. Governments can only act for/against immigration.

All of which are, obviously, interesting. I mean, even today, people are asking "the rich" to pay more taxes. Even today, people are looking for way to help their fellow human beings (in US, the current fights are cheaper education and protection for pre-existing conditions).

So, imagine a future with higher taxes and basic income. In that case, the whole shebang about "competition for jobs" looks really different. I mean, if you are guaranteed livable income, low-skill jobs will be the first to go (surprised! Raise your hand if you like to scrub toilets for $7/hr). If you are guaranteed livable income, skill acquisition becomes much less risky.

But of course, read their lips: no new taxes (and thus no new social safety nets whatsoever; don't you know that if you bail out the poor, society will disintegrate into chaos?)
I just had my account locked with no warning or explanation. All 8 droplets were turned off. Account was unlocked 40 minutes later (also with no notification), and I could go in and turn droplets back on.

Over 2 hours later and still no response to my support ticket asking why and how it happened.

I'll be interested in the response I get. Unless there's a good reason why, or a plan to prevent the how from happening again, I'll be shifting anything critical away from DO, and go back to just using it for spinning things up to play with or test on.
https://github.com/citusdata/citus
Great idea to come into that space but it's going to be a tough battle.

For our company, we had to create our own status monitoring app (open source). It's been a while and I had a short amount of time to find one.

A few reason for why we built our own:

- almost no SaaS allow companies to make advanced (JSON) checks to the data returned by a status endpoint. For example, we have cron jobs running data imports. To verify that these are still running, a /status endpoint on our app returns the last data import date based on the data imported in the DB. If this delay gets bigger than a threshold then we fire an alert.

- we're in B2B. Our clients need to have access to a status page with the ability to download the list of incidents (for SLA & contractual purposes)

- we need 2 levels of status pages. One for customers and one for our internal teams with access to more monitors

- SaaS providers either give the ability to automatically monitor or to manually manage the status page. There is no ability to do both at the same time

- I wanted something simple. And advanced monitoring systems can definitely do the above, but it's ops hell to setup and maintain. I have other things to do.
This reads like research sponsored by a tobacco company showing that cigarettes are actually not that harmful.

I like how it frames the economy as this independent entity that we just sort of observe and hope for the best. Oh our divining rod produced these arbitrary statistics so the glass is half full guys!

In reality, though, the forces of human nature driving the economy don't change. Since the dawn of the surplus, there have always been a handful of kings and many serfs, and there probably always will be.
Italy Watchdog Issues Hefty Fine to Apple, Samsung
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This is such a thorny ugly issue to which there are really no right answers. It should be very clear that using a position of authority to coerce someone into a relationship of any kind is wrong. But at the same time it's pretty much impossible to prevent people from dating within the work place. You simply spend to much of your life there for it to be at all realistic. Many relationships end poorly, regardless of the obvious incompatibilities of these sorts of power dynamics. It's guaranteed to be a mess more often than not. I'm honestly not sure how you both given people the benefit of the doubt (innocent until proven guilty) while also ensuring that predators aren't allowed to abuse the people around them. Andy Rubin sounds like a sleazy guy. Paying him lots of money to go away seems like a no brainer move here from Google's perspective, but I'm not sure what else they could have done.
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Well there was the $3.2 billion dollar acquisition of a company whose products are complete garbage, but I guess the OP was referring to Fadell's notoriously rude behavior toward his subordinates.